1 00:00:00,909 --> 00:00:02,630 Previously on X -Men. 2 00:00:02,830 --> 00:00:07,550 To reiterate for those just returning to us, regardless of your stance on recent 3 00:00:07,550 --> 00:00:12,090 world events, the images you are about to see may be disturbing. 4 00:00:17,010 --> 00:00:19,230 I draw its fire away from the gardens. 5 00:00:19,590 --> 00:00:23,830 Save as many as you can. We shall not live our days wondering if we could have 6 00:00:23,830 --> 00:00:24,830 saved more. 7 00:00:27,950 --> 00:00:28,950 Remains gathered. 8 00:00:29,370 --> 00:00:31,070 Gonna be. Remember it. 9 00:00:32,590 --> 00:00:35,270 Sugar, I can't feel you. 10 00:00:39,090 --> 00:00:41,850 Get out of my home, you damn demon! 11 00:00:45,550 --> 00:00:46,550 Death? 12 00:02:27,910 --> 00:02:29,050 We are fools. 13 00:02:29,430 --> 00:02:30,430 Surrender. 14 00:02:36,670 --> 00:02:38,730 Don't move. Stay where you are. 15 00:02:39,010 --> 00:02:40,130 Hands up. 16 00:02:41,170 --> 00:02:42,170 Surrender? 17 00:02:42,890 --> 00:02:45,370 No, just perish. 18 00:02:46,350 --> 00:02:52,930 Stand free. This pigeon shall not thwart the will of the supreme intelligence. 19 00:03:02,470 --> 00:03:04,970 Victory for the Imperial Guard! 20 00:03:07,190 --> 00:03:08,190 Ah! 21 00:03:09,010 --> 00:03:10,010 Ah! 22 00:03:13,070 --> 00:03:14,650 Ah! Ah! 23 00:03:15,010 --> 00:03:16,790 Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! 24 00:03:19,250 --> 00:03:21,050 Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! 25 00:03:21,290 --> 00:03:22,290 Ah! 26 00:03:22,970 --> 00:03:27,810 Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Be honored to fall at my feet, Rowan, for 27 00:03:27,810 --> 00:03:31,430 you shall be memorialized as the corpse upon which I posed. 28 00:03:32,060 --> 00:03:34,520 The true Kree bows to no one. 29 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:42,040 Thank you, gladiator. 30 00:03:42,580 --> 00:03:43,580 Ronan, dear. 31 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,440 Tell me where the supreme intelligence has fled. 32 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,180 Or your forces shall suffer. 33 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,180 Save them, Ronan. 34 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,800 All you need to do is... A million pardons, your highness. 35 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:00,620 You dare interrupt. 36 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:04,860 My glorious moment. Oh, it's your sister, the Empress. 37 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:06,400 Oh, joy. 38 00:04:06,780 --> 00:04:08,300 Why didn't you say so? 39 00:04:09,660 --> 00:04:14,360 My dearest sister is always of utmost priority. 40 00:04:18,380 --> 00:04:19,640 Greetings, Shi 'ar. 41 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:26,180 One year ago, we offered the skills of our mighty healers to a Terran man on 42 00:04:26,180 --> 00:04:27,300 verge of death. 43 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:39,040 No ordinary Terran. This man helped spare the entire universe from the 44 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:44,020 of my brother Daken, as well as the galactic hunger of the Phoenix. 45 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:50,800 And now, in his greatest feat yet, this man has 46 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,700 unmarked the secrets to my heart. 47 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,880 So I, Empress Lalandra, stand before this High Council, and before you. 48 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:07,780 my loyal people with joyous news in times of war for your empress is to be 49 00:05:07,780 --> 00:05:12,400 married and our empire shall welcome a new emperor 50 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:20,840 professor 51 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:23,580 charles xavier 52 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,680 Through the might and glory of the Imperium. 53 00:05:44,620 --> 00:05:51,440 I pray our act of performative jingoism 54 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,060 erased any concerns over my heritage. 55 00:05:55,260 --> 00:05:56,520 Do not fret. 56 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:01,120 My subjects trust me when I say you are no mere Terran, Charles. 57 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,640 On Earth, newlyweds whisk off to some faraway island to celebrate their love. 58 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,140 And how far would my hopeless romantic see us go? 59 00:06:11,860 --> 00:06:14,900 Dare I assume a sandy beach on Earth itself? 60 00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:20,300 Perhaps an empress could even spend a portion of her time ruling the galaxy 61 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:21,460 my little corner of it. 62 00:06:22,940 --> 00:06:27,400 My handsome emperor has much to learn about masking his manipulations. 63 00:06:28,140 --> 00:06:31,360 You wish to return to your children, don't you? 64 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,480 Nearly visit. See their faces. 65 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,700 Yet, families often mimic black holes. 66 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,400 Visit and risk being stuck in its ever -spiraling vacuum of dramas. 67 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:45,920 This is especially true with your students. 68 00:06:46,780 --> 00:06:51,120 Didn't your brother nearly destroy the universe with the Emkron crystal? 69 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,360 You should message them. 70 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:57,240 Use a hologlobe. 71 00:06:58,240 --> 00:06:59,680 Invite them to the wedding. 72 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,360 Unless you fear they'll think you've abandoned them. 73 00:07:07,140 --> 00:07:11,300 You've earned a life of your own, Charles, and I need you. 74 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:16,700 Once we crush the Kree, an educator such as you can teach them our ways. 75 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,400 Do as you did on Earth. 76 00:07:19,620 --> 00:07:21,780 Play the role of the peacemaker. 77 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:25,520 I wasn't aware my X -Men and I were playing make -believe. 78 00:07:26,220 --> 00:07:29,500 Much like my legs in this armor's exoskeleton. 79 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,140 All ruling is make -believe. 80 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:37,220 I pretend to be perfect, as my subjects would never love the woman beneath the 81 00:07:37,220 --> 00:07:39,120 armor. Not like you do. 82 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,220 Never pretend with me. 83 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,220 Will you at least consider Earth? 84 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:45,520 I will. 85 00:07:45,860 --> 00:07:51,060 But I remind you, Charles, the virtue of a teacher lies in showing their 86 00:07:51,060 --> 00:07:53,500 students how to walk on their own. 87 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:59,360 True. But only if he is sure there are no more lessons he can teach them. 88 00:08:05,250 --> 00:08:07,070 You must drink. 89 00:08:08,190 --> 00:08:09,670 Why bother? 90 00:08:11,110 --> 00:08:12,890 Liar. Traitor. 91 00:08:13,150 --> 00:08:14,850 Cost you everything. 92 00:08:15,430 --> 00:08:17,690 He was trying to help me. 93 00:08:17,930 --> 00:08:20,950 A tawdry romance of guilt and shame. 94 00:08:21,310 --> 00:08:25,290 How many have suffered his gifts? How many made slaves? 95 00:08:25,870 --> 00:08:28,310 Your bite is a sort of demonic infection. 96 00:08:28,770 --> 00:08:32,669 Once the venom reaches his heart, leave him. 97 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:34,820 Play martyr. 98 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,580 You will not break me. But I can fix you. 99 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,400 Forge made his bed. 100 00:08:41,700 --> 00:08:43,000 Let him die in it. 101 00:08:43,220 --> 00:08:46,100 All lives deserve saving. Even his. 102 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:00,140 Go for help. But there is no pill for my poison. 103 00:09:00,860 --> 00:09:02,100 Let him die. 104 00:09:03,370 --> 00:09:04,370 the other way. 105 00:09:04,450 --> 00:09:06,830 Watch. Get used to it. 106 00:09:07,070 --> 00:09:09,030 You're not an X -Man anymore. 107 00:09:09,590 --> 00:09:13,370 Where did that get you? Hitting the hand that beat you? 108 00:09:18,030 --> 00:09:22,810 I do not fear death. 109 00:09:23,150 --> 00:09:24,150 I know. 110 00:09:24,410 --> 00:09:26,390 It's why you rushed to play dead. 111 00:09:26,630 --> 00:09:28,850 You fear living. 112 00:09:29,490 --> 00:09:30,910 As you said to Jean. 113 00:09:31,370 --> 00:09:36,690 I have wondered what it would be like to be human. It is a tempting daydream. 114 00:09:37,150 --> 00:09:40,690 I... I was so tired. 115 00:09:41,430 --> 00:09:46,590 Is that why you fear your power? Thought refuge with this monotone family? 116 00:09:46,970 --> 00:09:49,610 Enough! Let me out! Let me out! 117 00:09:50,130 --> 00:09:51,790 Look at your family. 118 00:09:52,090 --> 00:09:53,370 You follow. 119 00:09:53,710 --> 00:09:54,830 I was wrong. 120 00:09:55,370 --> 00:09:57,090 Forge didn't rob your gifts. 121 00:09:57,850 --> 00:09:57,930 I 122 00:09:57,930 --> 00:10:13,110 tear 123 00:10:13,110 --> 00:10:19,810 your thread and break their loom. 124 00:10:19,870 --> 00:10:21,850 Depart to the desert, demons. 125 00:10:22,550 --> 00:10:24,530 Depart and be gone. 126 00:10:42,310 --> 00:10:44,650 Mom practiced desert magic. 127 00:10:45,630 --> 00:10:48,950 Some of it sunk in, despite my best efforts. 128 00:10:49,170 --> 00:10:51,070 Careful. Your shoulder. 129 00:10:52,090 --> 00:10:53,510 I'll get it to be straight. 130 00:10:54,950 --> 00:10:57,350 You need a better bedside face, Doc. 131 00:10:59,870 --> 00:11:01,330 It's bite is magical. 132 00:11:01,570 --> 00:11:05,410 Perhaps your mother's book holds an answer. She wrote about a cacti. 133 00:11:05,730 --> 00:11:07,190 The midnight challah. 134 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:09,420 Grows in nearby caves. 135 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:11,100 Doesn't need sunlight. 136 00:11:11,820 --> 00:11:14,180 It's aloe. It's powerful magic medicine. 137 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:19,040 I can show you the way. You are too weak. Tell me where to go. 138 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:20,960 I don't have much time, Aurora. 139 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:26,000 If this nastiness gets worse while you're gone, I don't want to be alone. 140 00:11:26,460 --> 00:11:29,460 Then we ride together, my love. 141 00:11:34,340 --> 00:11:35,480 The Empress! 142 00:11:36,110 --> 00:11:40,170 Lilandra Nirmany and her royal consort. 143 00:11:43,810 --> 00:11:46,490 Your man speaks as if I am your parent. 144 00:11:47,830 --> 00:11:50,210 Not an entirely displeasing thought. 145 00:11:50,530 --> 00:11:51,530 Hush now, beloved. 146 00:11:51,830 --> 00:11:53,010 You may bark later. 147 00:12:05,450 --> 00:12:10,330 Your Majesty, I have known you since you were but a hatchling and wish only for 148 00:12:10,330 --> 00:12:11,249 your happiness. 149 00:12:11,250 --> 00:12:17,810 But given our war with the Kree and how it's divided even we Shia, is 150 00:12:17,810 --> 00:12:22,610 a royal wedding... Gladiator and his guard fill my ears with news of coming 151 00:12:22,610 --> 00:12:27,950 victory. Yes, but we have been trapped in so much change. 152 00:12:28,430 --> 00:12:32,410 Some yearn for the stable comfort of what is familiar. 153 00:12:33,180 --> 00:12:34,440 For sameness. 154 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:37,100 Araki sugars his words, my sister. 155 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:46,560 Your consort was born on the wrong side of the stars. 156 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:48,900 He is Terran. 157 00:12:49,140 --> 00:12:55,040 Gentle sister, heed my throne. A throne that is bound to more than the whims of 158 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:55,879 your heart. 159 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:00,420 A union with the Terran would bind the Shi 'ar into alliance with his inferior 160 00:13:00,420 --> 00:13:05,970 homeworld. I respect you speaking the quiet part out loud, Deathbird. So let's 161 00:13:05,970 --> 00:13:06,970 speak plainly. 162 00:13:07,090 --> 00:13:11,970 Your Empress and I decide alliances, as well as which world we call home. 163 00:13:12,690 --> 00:13:15,630 Chandelary's home. Our throne world. 164 00:13:16,030 --> 00:13:17,550 Of course, Lord Chancellor. 165 00:13:17,870 --> 00:13:20,290 I merely meant... Spoke the quiet part out loud. 166 00:13:20,710 --> 00:13:24,890 Xavier would see his Milky Way ghetto become our new throne world. 167 00:13:25,150 --> 00:13:27,170 You are twisting my words. 168 00:13:27,530 --> 00:13:30,070 High Council, for the sake of the Empire. 169 00:13:30,650 --> 00:13:32,690 I must invoke the rite of Amdasha. 170 00:13:34,990 --> 00:13:40,790 Terran, the rite requires... Anon Shi 'ar pass a test of loyalty in order to 171 00:13:40,790 --> 00:13:41,469 a royal. 172 00:13:41,470 --> 00:13:44,690 I finish that volume my second day here, Deathbird. 173 00:13:44,950 --> 00:13:48,990 Not any mere test, Terran. A challenge of my own choosing. 174 00:13:49,290 --> 00:13:50,450 Then choose. 175 00:13:50,690 --> 00:13:56,390 To ensure we are protected from your Terran ties, you must renounce Earth and 176 00:13:56,390 --> 00:13:58,610 erase all memory of your life there. 177 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:02,560 Charles is a formidable psychic. 178 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:08,100 His mind will not be easily scrubbed. Luckily, we Shi 'ar bow to a ruler of 179 00:14:08,100 --> 00:14:09,140 equal psychic power. 180 00:14:09,740 --> 00:14:15,340 Charles Xavier must purge all memories of Earth, and you, dear sister, must be 181 00:14:15,340 --> 00:14:16,860 the one to do it. 182 00:14:32,010 --> 00:14:33,150 Our highest gods. 183 00:14:33,490 --> 00:14:37,270 Once enemies, then forced to marry to bring harmony to the universe. 184 00:14:37,850 --> 00:14:41,810 Here I thought the Shi 'ar looked down on art as a sign of insanity and 185 00:14:41,810 --> 00:14:42,810 deviance. 186 00:14:43,610 --> 00:14:48,350 In most cases. But the union of Shara and Kithri is at the core of our 187 00:14:48,350 --> 00:14:53,670 principles. To bind various cultures into one for the sake of galactic peace 188 00:14:53,670 --> 00:14:56,790 harmony. How Rudyard Kipling of you. 189 00:14:57,090 --> 00:14:58,670 I do not know this Kipling. 190 00:14:58,870 --> 00:15:00,930 A Terran? Yes. 191 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,120 One possessed of many burdens, none real. 192 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:05,780 Much like your myth. 193 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:10,620 What is united if one half must be erased for the sake of the whole? 194 00:15:11,180 --> 00:15:13,620 Idealism is also a sign of insanity. 195 00:15:15,380 --> 00:15:21,080 You know, I have a very old and very dear friend on Earth who would agree 196 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:22,740 you. Wise for a Terran. 197 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,880 Yes. His name is Magnus, and I wish to remember him. 198 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:29,880 You've made your decision, then. 199 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Forgive me. 200 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:36,200 I do so love to think. 201 00:15:36,460 --> 00:15:38,520 Do you love me, Charles? 202 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:40,640 A silly question. 203 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,460 Even you know Deathbird's challenge goes too far. 204 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:50,100 On Earth, you fought tirelessly to be tolerated and were nearly killed for it. 205 00:15:50,140 --> 00:15:51,220 Why remember? 206 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:52,660 Why not let go? 207 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:53,980 Start anew. 208 00:15:54,300 --> 00:15:57,820 If you refuse, they won't let us be together. 209 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,620 Not unless I forfeit my throne, which is exactly Deathbird's design. 210 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:08,300 Imagine the chaos that my sister would unleash across the galaxy as ruler. 211 00:16:08,580 --> 00:16:10,880 It would rival that of my mad brother. 212 00:16:14,540 --> 00:16:16,400 You saved my life. 213 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,920 Gave me a home, a new future. 214 00:16:20,260 --> 00:16:22,880 Your devotion is beyond measure. 215 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,000 Perhaps it is time to show you mine. 216 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:39,540 There, that's it. 217 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:41,800 No snake power. 218 00:16:46,860 --> 00:16:50,040 Union forces stored weapons here during the Civil War. 219 00:16:51,540 --> 00:16:54,680 It was actually built during the Plains War decades earlier. 220 00:16:55,310 --> 00:16:56,310 By colonists. 221 00:16:56,730 --> 00:17:01,530 Those wars exterminated your people. Why let them build such a thing into the 222 00:17:01,530 --> 00:17:03,350 very foundations of your land? 223 00:17:03,710 --> 00:17:05,270 And I said that they were here to help. 224 00:17:05,490 --> 00:17:07,069 Sort of like how I came to you. 225 00:17:08,810 --> 00:17:12,030 I heard the adversary telling you to let me die. 226 00:17:13,450 --> 00:17:14,730 I'm so sorry, Aurora. 227 00:17:15,290 --> 00:17:16,490 For deceiving you. 228 00:17:17,270 --> 00:17:18,790 For drawing the adversary. 229 00:17:19,869 --> 00:17:22,210 Hush. The demon was not your doing. 230 00:17:22,970 --> 00:17:25,869 A big evil owl that feeds on anger and self -loathing? 231 00:17:26,550 --> 00:17:27,950 Call me chum in the water. 232 00:17:28,369 --> 00:17:29,990 Then I am chum too. 233 00:17:30,710 --> 00:17:36,030 Before I lost my gifts, I told a friend, my sister, that I often wondered about 234 00:17:36,030 --> 00:17:37,030 being human. 235 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:40,110 I confessed this as if to console her. 236 00:17:40,550 --> 00:17:46,290 No matter how many I saved, my mutant gifts inspired twice as much hate in 237 00:17:46,290 --> 00:17:51,130 humanity. In a way, your machine failing is a blessing. 238 00:17:52,060 --> 00:17:53,500 I am better this way. 239 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:00,500 Growing up, I always heard how the worst weapon used by the Europeans was not 240 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:04,920 bullets or blankets, but a white lie that they could make us fear. 241 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:09,960 The cactus grows in darkness. 242 00:18:10,700 --> 00:18:11,700 Where? 243 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,180 That's why I came. 244 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,240 I know how you feel about tight spaces. 245 00:18:23,689 --> 00:18:30,230 Charles Xavier, do you stand in our circle to complete the rite of M. Dasha? 246 00:18:31,150 --> 00:18:32,150 I do. 247 00:18:34,270 --> 00:18:38,630 And do you renounce all memories of Earth, of your life there? 248 00:18:39,110 --> 00:18:40,110 I do. 249 00:18:40,530 --> 00:18:42,170 And of your X -Men? 250 00:18:48,330 --> 00:18:51,670 Xavier, do you renounce your X -Men? 251 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:55,520 See? He hesitates. 252 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,340 He insults all Shiar. 253 00:19:03,660 --> 00:19:05,940 This was exactly my fear. 254 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,680 What you ask of him is no small burden. 255 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:11,800 He seeks to ally us with Earth. 256 00:19:12,140 --> 00:19:14,000 My God, you are dramatic. 257 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:20,520 How can we entrust our mighty empire, which has endured for eons, to a ruler 258 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:21,860 descended of simians? 259 00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:25,800 Have our blood mixed with his inferior freak fluids. 260 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:32,740 Indeed, this Xavier is not even a pure Terran. A lower caste. 261 00:19:33,380 --> 00:19:34,380 A mutant. 262 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,740 My sister, like my brother Daken, has gone mad. 263 00:19:40,060 --> 00:19:44,700 Renounce her before her lovesick lunacy destroys us all. Sedition. 264 00:19:45,020 --> 00:19:49,840 Gladiator. Arrest this treacherous vulture and any who dare to stand with 265 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:51,120 Hooray! 266 00:20:33,180 --> 00:20:37,360 Here. Class is now in session. 267 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,220 What is this? What have you done? 268 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,740 Gladiator, please raise your hand if you have a question. 269 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:58,960 To answer, I have used my vast psychic abilities to draw us into the astral 270 00:20:58,960 --> 00:20:59,960 plane. 271 00:21:00,140 --> 00:21:03,700 Now pay attention. It is time for today's lesson. 272 00:21:33,770 --> 00:21:35,630 You had to be the bigger woman. 273 00:21:35,990 --> 00:21:38,930 Had to save him, be above it. 274 00:21:39,390 --> 00:21:40,690 Now look at you. 275 00:21:41,030 --> 00:21:42,030 No. 276 00:21:42,310 --> 00:21:44,190 Forge destroyed you. 277 00:21:46,690 --> 00:21:48,630 Oh, yummy. 278 00:21:49,950 --> 00:21:53,090 Fear poached itself loathing. 279 00:21:53,510 --> 00:21:56,050 The high road storm. 280 00:21:56,330 --> 00:21:57,850 Last stop. 281 00:21:58,230 --> 00:22:01,230 You, pancaked by the pressure of existing. 282 00:22:01,710 --> 00:22:02,990 How I fear. 283 00:22:04,330 --> 00:22:07,350 They are cast all the way back there. 284 00:22:08,190 --> 00:22:14,450 And I will save you and let you live your heavenly daydream. 285 00:22:19,290 --> 00:22:21,850 No, you demon. 286 00:22:23,950 --> 00:22:25,850 It's a daydream. 287 00:22:33,740 --> 00:22:38,280 Cutioner's neutralizer was not the only weapon tamping down my gifts. 288 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:44,220 There was that lie, and I believed it. 289 00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:45,780 Be warned. 290 00:22:46,060 --> 00:22:47,400 Be smart. 291 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,500 Believe the lie. 292 00:22:49,860 --> 00:22:51,520 Deny your power. 293 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:58,580 Lay dead, or humanity will thunder down upon you and your kind. You all 294 00:22:58,580 --> 00:23:01,480 are an echo of who I am. 295 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:15,780 Let them thunder, for I am lightning! 296 00:24:28,490 --> 00:24:30,750 Strange to feel grateful. 297 00:24:31,030 --> 00:24:32,070 Towards the demon? 298 00:24:32,370 --> 00:24:36,030 What are demons but reflections of our fears and shame? 299 00:24:36,550 --> 00:24:43,170 Things we bury within us, hide from loved ones, even as they poison our 300 00:24:43,170 --> 00:24:44,170 hearts. 301 00:24:44,450 --> 00:24:50,010 Until we finally heal our adversary by embracing it. 302 00:24:51,150 --> 00:24:53,650 There, it's starting to heal. 303 00:24:55,450 --> 00:24:56,670 So what now? 304 00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:59,260 You've been given a second chance. 305 00:24:59,460 --> 00:25:02,520 Should we whisk away to some tropical island? 306 00:25:02,820 --> 00:25:05,720 Not an entirely unpleasant idea. 307 00:25:07,060 --> 00:25:12,460 Nations refusing to allow mutants displaced by the brutal attack on 308 00:25:12,460 --> 00:25:14,160 return to their home countries. 309 00:25:14,460 --> 00:25:19,740 This, as rumors swirl, that Genosha is the opening salvo in the long -feared 310 00:25:19,740 --> 00:25:23,180 evolutionary war between humans and mutants. 311 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,520 Let's talk about power. 312 00:25:28,020 --> 00:25:29,300 Real power. 313 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,880 Who can tell me from where the Shi 'ar Imperium draws its might? 314 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,100 From the Kirk skulls that house inferior minds such as yours. 315 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,360 Demerits, raise your hand. 316 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:49,140 The power of your empire is in truth a harvest of stolen worlds. 317 00:25:49,820 --> 00:25:55,280 Younger cultures that, had they not been tilled to death, would now be empires 318 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:56,400 rivaling your own. 319 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,820 Fearing this, you strike at the knees and claim you can help them walk again. 320 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,620 But only if they assimilate. 321 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:08,560 Submit. Which brings us to this conclusion. 322 00:26:08,980 --> 00:26:13,060 The Shi 'ar Empire is a snake oil racket. 323 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,200 Even you Terrans claim might is right. 324 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,240 The rhyme that sells the lie. 325 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:25,860 That we must... Pillage worth from one another. That for me to be more, you 326 00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:30,620 be less. Your existence against mine because... Why? 327 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,140 Says who? Who made up these silly rules? 328 00:26:34,580 --> 00:26:35,880 We did, beloved. 329 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,820 Playing make -believe. 330 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:42,800 Even if we were to agree, your idealism would confuse our people. 331 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:44,660 They might even call it nonsense. 332 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,060 Want to know a secret? 333 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:51,360 Coexistence is messy. 334 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:53,640 Thus my love for education. 335 00:26:54,180 --> 00:26:59,560 For my X -Men. Their heroism teaches a lesson we mustn't forget. 336 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:02,580 That the universe is very old. 337 00:27:02,780 --> 00:27:05,560 And all of us, very young. 338 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,280 Born of ancient stardust. 339 00:27:08,620 --> 00:27:11,160 And all children of the atom. 340 00:27:54,730 --> 00:27:56,210 I must return to Earth immediately. 341 00:27:56,690 --> 00:27:59,230 But we've nearly convinced the Council. 342 00:27:59,690 --> 00:28:00,870 It doesn't matter. 343 00:28:01,070 --> 00:28:04,750 While I cowered in the cosmos, the unthinkable has happened. 344 00:28:04,970 --> 00:28:09,410 Charles, if you leave, you will prove my sister right about your kind. 345 00:28:10,630 --> 00:28:15,230 If that should end our star -crossed affair, so be it. 346 00:28:15,730 --> 00:28:18,430 I will not abandon my kind. 347 00:28:22,350 --> 00:28:23,530 It is time. 348 00:28:24,090 --> 00:28:26,250 I return to my X -Men. 349 00:28:33,770 --> 00:28:40,630 I did what you asked. I gave you my DNA to excess master 350 00:28:40,630 --> 00:28:41,630 mold. 351 00:28:43,930 --> 00:28:47,490 Kill me, please. 352 00:28:47,890 --> 00:28:49,590 For what happened in Genosha. 353 00:28:51,110 --> 00:28:52,490 I beg you. 354 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,160 Don't take all the blame, beloved, and don't fret the future. 355 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:02,040 Why, Genosha was merely the beginning of a prologue, now past. 356 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:08,820 You have nothing to fear, so long as you place your faith in Sinister.