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Previously on X-Men...

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To reiterate for those
just returning to us.

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Regardless of your stance
on recent world events...

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Oh, my.

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... the images you are about
to see may be disturbing.

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I draw its fire away from the gardens.

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Save as many as you can.

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We shall not live our days wondering
if we could've saved more.

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The name's Gambit, mon ami.

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Remember it.

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Sugar. I can't feel you.

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Get out of my home, you damn demon!

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Is this death?

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Shi'ar fools, surren...

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Don't move! Stay where you are!

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Hands up!

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Surrender?

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No, just perish.

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Stand, Kree.

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This pigeon shall not thwart the will
of the Supreme Intelligence.

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Victory for the Imperial Guard!

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A Pyrrhic victory.

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The Kree do not...

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Be honored to fall at my feet, Ronan,

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for you shall be memorialized
as the corpse upon which I posed.

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A true Kree bows to no one.

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Thank you, Gladiator.

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Ronan dear,

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tell me where the Supreme
Intelligence has fled,

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or your forces shall suffer.

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Save them, Ronan.

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All you need to do is...

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A million pardons, your Highness.

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- You dare interrupt my glorious moment?
- Oh.

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It's your sister, The Empress.

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Oh, joy.

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Why didn't you say so?

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My dearest sister is
always of utmost priority.

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Greetings, Shi'ar.

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One year ago, we offered
the skills of our mighty healers

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to a Terran man on the verge of death.

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No ordinary Terran,

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this man helped spare
the entire universe

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from the madness of my brother, D'ken,

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as well as the galactic hunger
of the Phoenix.

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And now, in his greatest feat yet,

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this man has unlocked
the secrets to my heart.

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Hmm.

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So I, Empress Lilandra,

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stand before this High Council,

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and before you, my loyal people,

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with joyous news in times of war,

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for your Empress is to be married,

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and our empire shall
welcome a new emperor.

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Professor Charles Xavier.

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To the might and glory of the Imperium.

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Hmm.

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I pray our act of performative jingoism

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erased any concerns over my heritage?

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Do not fret.

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My subjects trust me when I say
you are no mere Terran, Charles.

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Well, on Earth, newlyweds whisk
off to some faraway island

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to celebrate their love.

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And how far would my
hopeless romantic see us go?

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Dare I assume a sandy
beach on Earth itself?

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Perhaps an empress could even
spend a portion of her time

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ruling the galaxy from
my little corner of it?

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My handsome emperor has much to learn,

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about masking his manipulations.

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You wish to return
to your children, don't you?

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Merely visit.

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See their faces.

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Yet families often mimic black holes.

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Visit and risk being stuck in its
ever-spiraling vacuum of dramas.

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This is especially true
with your students.

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Mmm, didn't your brother
nearly destroy the universe

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with the M'kraan Crystal?

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You should message them.

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Use a holo-globe.

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Invite them to the wedding.

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Unless you fear they'll think
you've abandoned them.

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You've earned a life
of your own, Charles.

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And I need you.

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Once we crush the Kree,

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an educator such as you
can teach them our ways.

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Do as you did on Earth.

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Play the role of the peacemaker.

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Wasn't aware my X-Men and
I were playing make-believe.

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Much like my legs
in this armor's exoskeleton.

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All ruling is make-believe.

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I pretend to be perfect,

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as my subjects would never love
the woman beneath the armor.

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Not like you do.

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Never pretend with me.

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Will you at least consider Earth?

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I will.

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But I remind you, Charles,

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the virtue of a teacher lies
in showing their students

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how to walk on their own.

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True.

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But only if he is sure

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there are no more lessons
he can teach them.

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You must drink.

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Why bother?

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He's a liar.

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Traitor.

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Cost you everything.

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He was trying to help me.

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A tawdry romance of guilt and shame.

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How many have suffered his gifts?

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How many made slaves?

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Your bite is a sort
of demonic infection.

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Once the venom reaches his heart...

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Leave him.

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Don't play martyr.

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You will not break me.

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But I can fix you.

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Forge made his bed.

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Let him die in it.

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All lives deserve saving.

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Even his.

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You go for help, but there
is no pill for my poison.

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Let him die.

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Look the other way. Watch.

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Get used to it.

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You're not an X-Man anymore.

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Well, where did that get you?

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Kissing the hand that beats you?

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I do not fear death.

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I know. That's why
you rush to play dead.

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You fear living.

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As you said to Jean,

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"I have wondered what it
would be like to be human".

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It is a tempting daydream.

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I... I was so tired.

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Is that why you fear your power,

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sought refuge with this monotone family?

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Enough! Let me out!

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Let me out!

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Look at your family.

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Who you follow.

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I was wrong.

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Forge didn't rob your gifts.

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- You had already renounced them.
- No! Please!

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I cannot breathe.

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Sham!

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You turned your back
on these paths long ago.

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Lord of chaos!

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Weaver of lies,

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I tear your thread and break your loom.

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Depart to the desert, demon.

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Depart, and be gone.

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Mom practiced desert magic.

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Some of it sunk in,

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despite my best efforts.

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Careful. Your shoulder.

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Well, give it to me straight.

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You need a better bedside face, Doc.

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Its bite is magical.

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Perhaps your mother's
book holds an answer.

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She wrote about a cacti,

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the midnight cholla.

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Grows in nearby caves.

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Doesn't need sunlight.

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Its aloe is powerful magic medicine.

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I can show you the way.

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You are too weak. Tell me where to go.

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I don't have much time, Ororo.

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If this nastiness gets worse
while you're gone,

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I don't wanna be alone.

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Then we ride together, my love.

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The Empress, Lilandra Neramani,

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and her Royal Consort.

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Your man speaks as if I am your pet.

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Hmm. Not an entirely
displeasing thought.

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Hush now, beloved. You may bark later.

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Your Majesty,

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I have known you since
you were but a hatchling

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and wish only for your happiness.

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But given our war with the Kree,

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and how it's divided even we Shi'ar,

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is a royal wedding...

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Gladiator and his Guard fill my ears
with news of coming victory.

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Yes, but we have been trapped
in so much change,

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some yearn for the stable comfort
of what is familiar for sameness.

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Araki sugars his words, my sister.

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Your consort was born on
the wrong side of the stars.

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He is Terran.

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Gentle sister, heed my throne.

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A throne that is bound to more
than the whims of your heart.

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A union with the Terran

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would bind the Shi'ar into alliance
with his inferior home world.

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I respect you speaking the
quiet part out loud, Deathbird,

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so let's speak plainly.

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Your Empress and I decide alliances

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as well as which world we call home.

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Chandilar is home.

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Our throne world.

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- Of course, Lord Chancellor.
- I merely meant...

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Spoke the quiet part out loud?

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Xavier would see his Milky Way ghetto
become our new throne world.

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You are twisting my words.

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High Council, for the
sake of the empire,

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I must invoke the Rite of M'Dashaa.

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Terran, the rite requires...

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A non-Shi'ar pass a test of loyalty
in order to wed a royal.

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I finished that volume my
second day here, Deathbird.

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Not any mere test, Terran.

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A challenge of my own choosing.

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Then choose.

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To ensure we are protected
from your Terran ties,

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you must renounce Earth and
erase all memory of your life there.

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Charles is a formidable psychic.

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His mind will not be easily scrubbed.

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Luckily, we Shi'ar bow to a ruler
of equal psychic power.

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Charles Xavier must purge
all memories of Earth,

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and you, dear sister,
must be the one to do it.

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Sharra and K'ythri.

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Our highest gods.

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Mmm. Once enemies, then forced to marry

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to bring harmony to the universe.

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And here I thought
the Shi'ar looked down on art

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as a sign of insanity and deviance.

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In most cases.

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But the union of Sharra and K'ythri

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is at the core of our principles.

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To bind various cultures into one

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for the sake of galactic
peace and harmony.

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How Rudyard Kipling of you.

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I do not know this Kipling.

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- A Terran?
- Yes.

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One possessed of many burdens.

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None real.

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Much like your myth.

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What is united if one half must be
erased for the sake of the whole?

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Idealism is also a sign of insanity.

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You know, I have a very old
and very dear friend on Earth

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who would agree with you.

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Wise, for a Terran.

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Yes.

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His name is Magnus.

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And I wish to remember him.

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You've made your decision, then?

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Forgive me.

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I do so love to think.

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Do you love me, Charles?

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A silly question.

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Even you know Deathbird's
challenge goes too far.

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On Earth, you fought tirelessly
to be tolerated

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and were nearly killed for it.

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Why remember?

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Why not let go?

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Start anew.

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If you refuse, they won't
let us be together.

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Not unless I forfeit my throne,

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which is exactly Deathbird's design.

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Imagine the chaos

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that my sister would unleash
across the galaxy as ruler.

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It would rival that of my mad brother.

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You saved my life.

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Gave me a home, a new future.

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Your devotion is beyond measure.

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Perhaps it is time to show you mine.

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There. That's it.

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Snowsnake Tower.

267
00:16:47,242 --> 00:16:50,442
Union forces stored weapons
here during the Civil War.

268
00:16:51,950 --> 00:16:54,925
It was actually built during
the Plains War decades earlier,

269
00:16:55,325 --> 00:16:56,508
by colonists.

270
00:16:56,908 --> 00:16:59,362
Those wars exterminated your people.

271
00:16:59,367 --> 00:17:01,372
Why let them build such a thing

272
00:17:01,377 --> 00:17:03,612
into the very foundations of your land?

273
00:17:03,617 --> 00:17:05,570
Well, they said that
they were here to help.

274
00:17:05,575 --> 00:17:07,425
Sort of like how I came to you.

275
00:17:09,075 --> 00:17:12,358
I heard The Adversary
telling you to let me die.

276
00:17:13,325 --> 00:17:16,817
I'm so sorry, Ororo, for deceiving you.

277
00:17:17,658 --> 00:17:19,300
For drawing the Adversary.

278
00:17:19,825 --> 00:17:22,658
Hush. The demon was not your doing.

279
00:17:23,242 --> 00:17:26,092
A big, evil owl that feeds
on anger and self-loathing?

280
00:17:26,908 --> 00:17:28,570
Call me chum in the water.

281
00:17:28,575 --> 00:17:30,358
Then I am chum, too.

282
00:17:30,867 --> 00:17:34,487
Before I lost my gifts,
I told a friend, my sister,

283
00:17:34,492 --> 00:17:37,175
that I often wondered about being human.

284
00:17:37,742 --> 00:17:40,400
I confessed this as if to console her.

285
00:17:40,950 --> 00:17:43,112
No matter how many I saved,

286
00:17:43,117 --> 00:17:47,133
my mutant gifts inspired twice
as much hate in humanity.

287
00:17:47,700 --> 00:17:51,575
In a way, your machine
failing is a blessing.

288
00:17:52,158 --> 00:17:53,817
I am better this way.

289
00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:57,153
Growing up,

290
00:17:57,158 --> 00:17:59,153
I always heard how the worst weapon used

291
00:17:59,158 --> 00:18:01,758
by the Europeans was
not bullets or blankets,

292
00:18:02,158 --> 00:18:04,737
but a white lie that
they could make us...

293
00:18:08,533 --> 00:18:10,325
The cactus grows in darkness.

294
00:18:10,808 --> 00:18:11,904
Where?

295
00:18:11,909 --> 00:18:13,492
That's why I came.

296
00:18:13,992 --> 00:18:16,758
I know how you feel about tight spaces.

297
00:18:23,825 --> 00:18:25,300
Charles Xavier,

298
00:18:25,783 --> 00:18:30,633
do you stand in our circle
to complete the Rite of M'Dashaa?

299
00:18:31,408 --> 00:18:32,408
I do.

300
00:18:34,617 --> 00:18:37,487
And do you renounce
all memories of Earth?

301
00:18:37,492 --> 00:18:38,925
Of your life there?

302
00:18:39,408 --> 00:18:40,492
I do.

303
00:18:41,075 --> 00:18:42,650
And of your X-Men?

304
00:18:48,408 --> 00:18:51,958
Xavier, do you renounce your X-Men?

305
00:18:52,867 --> 00:18:53,903
See?

306
00:18:53,908 --> 00:18:55,775
He hesitates.

307
00:19:00,492 --> 00:19:02,825
He insults all Shi'ar.

308
00:19:03,867 --> 00:19:06,117
This was exactly my fear.

309
00:19:06,950 --> 00:19:10,112
What you ask of him is no small burden.

310
00:19:10,117 --> 00:19:12,195
He seeks to ally us with Earth.

311
00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,525
My God, you are dramatic.

312
00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,603
How can we entrust our mighty empire,

313
00:19:17,608 --> 00:19:19,778
which has endured for eons,

314
00:19:19,783 --> 00:19:22,195
to a ruler descended of simians?

315
00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,237
Have our blood mixed
with his inferior freak fluids?

316
00:19:26,242 --> 00:19:27,570
Indeed.

317
00:19:27,575 --> 00:19:31,445
This Xavier is not even a pure Terran.

318
00:19:31,450 --> 00:19:33,362
A lower caste.

319
00:19:33,367 --> 00:19:34,612
A mutant.

320
00:19:34,617 --> 00:19:39,150
My sister, like my brother
D'ken, has gone mad.

321
00:19:40,283 --> 00:19:43,903
Renounce her before her lovesick
lunacy destroys us all.

322
00:19:43,908 --> 00:19:44,987
Sedition.

323
00:19:44,992 --> 00:19:47,653
Gladiator, arrest this
treacherous vulture

324
00:19:47,658 --> 00:19:50,112
and any who dare to stand with her.

325
00:19:56,283 --> 00:19:57,833
By Sharra!

326
00:20:14,783 --> 00:20:16,112
Charles!

327
00:20:16,117 --> 00:20:17,717
Lilandra, behind you!

328
00:20:25,533 --> 00:20:28,742
- Hmm.
- No, not this way.

329
00:20:29,325 --> 00:20:31,658
I have forgotten my greatest gift.

330
00:20:33,283 --> 00:20:34,283
Hear me.

331
00:20:34,742 --> 00:20:37,867
Class is now in session.

332
00:20:48,242 --> 00:20:50,528
What is this? What have you done?

333
00:20:50,533 --> 00:20:54,117
Gladiator, please raise your hand
if you have a question.

334
00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:57,737
To answer, I have used
my vast psychic abilities

335
00:20:57,742 --> 00:20:59,692
to draw us into the astral plane.

336
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:01,837
Now, pay attention.

337
00:21:01,842 --> 00:21:04,008
It is time for today's lesson.

338
00:21:27,575 --> 00:21:28,617
Oh!

339
00:21:33,867 --> 00:21:35,950
You had to be the bigger woman.

340
00:21:36,533 --> 00:21:39,075
Had to save him, be above it.

341
00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:40,800
Now look at you.

342
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:42,200
No!

343
00:21:42,617 --> 00:21:44,653
Forge destroyed you!

344
00:21:44,658 --> 00:21:45,737
Yes.

345
00:21:45,742 --> 00:21:47,200
Yes, let me taste.

346
00:21:47,825 --> 00:21:49,825
Ooh, yummy!

347
00:21:50,325 --> 00:21:53,217
Fear poached in self-loathing.

348
00:21:53,825 --> 00:21:56,695
More! The high road, Storm.

349
00:21:56,700 --> 00:22:01,520
Last stop, you, pancaked
by the pressure of existing.

350
00:22:01,525 --> 00:22:03,528
How unfair.

351
00:22:03,533 --> 00:22:04,937
Yes. There.

352
00:22:04,942 --> 00:22:08,658
Yes! Always beg to be saved.

353
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,790
Submit, and I will save you

354
00:22:11,795 --> 00:22:14,783
and let you live your tempting daydream.

355
00:22:19,617 --> 00:22:22,358
No, you demon.

356
00:22:24,492 --> 00:22:26,362
Not a daydream.

357
00:22:33,325 --> 00:22:35,320
The X-Cutioner's neutralizer

358
00:22:35,325 --> 00:22:38,592
was not the only weapon
tamping down my gifts.

359
00:22:40,742 --> 00:22:42,217
There was that lie.

360
00:22:42,783 --> 00:22:44,383
And I believed it.

361
00:22:44,825 --> 00:22:46,133
Be warned.

362
00:22:46,658 --> 00:22:47,842
Be smart.

363
00:22:48,242 --> 00:22:49,987
Believe the lie.

364
00:22:49,992 --> 00:22:51,758
Deny your power.

365
00:22:52,325 --> 00:22:57,650
Play dead, or humanity will thunder
down upon you and your kind.

366
00:22:58,033 --> 00:23:02,092
You all are an echo of who I am.

367
00:23:09,825 --> 00:23:13,092
So let them thunder,

368
00:23:13,533 --> 00:23:16,650
for I am lightning!

369
00:24:28,408 --> 00:24:30,903
Strange, to feel grateful.

370
00:24:30,908 --> 00:24:32,317
Towards the demon?

371
00:24:32,717 --> 00:24:36,217
What are demons, but reflections
of our fears and shame?

372
00:24:36,575 --> 00:24:39,258
Things we bury within us,

373
00:24:39,658 --> 00:24:41,570
hide from loved ones,

374
00:24:41,575 --> 00:24:43,570
even as they poison our hearts...

375
00:24:44,742 --> 00:24:49,992
... until we finally heal our
adversary by embracing it.

376
00:24:51,450 --> 00:24:53,925
There. It's starting to heal.

377
00:24:56,075 --> 00:24:57,075
So, what now?

378
00:24:57,950 --> 00:24:59,862
You've been given a second chance.

379
00:24:59,867 --> 00:25:02,820
Should we whisk away
to some tropical island?

380
00:25:02,825 --> 00:25:06,258
Not an entirely unpleasant idea.

381
00:25:07,325 --> 00:25:09,778
Nations refusing to allow mutants

382
00:25:09,783 --> 00:25:12,403
displaced by the brutal
attack on Genosha

383
00:25:12,408 --> 00:25:14,528
to return to their home countries.

384
00:25:14,533 --> 00:25:16,237
This, as rumors swirl...

385
00:25:16,242 --> 00:25:18,570
... that Genosha is the opening salvo

386
00:25:18,575 --> 00:25:21,403
in the long-feared evolutionary war

387
00:25:21,408 --> 00:25:23,570
between humans and mutants

388
00:25:23,575 --> 00:25:25,945
that the late Professor
Charles Xavier...

389
00:25:25,950 --> 00:25:27,925
Let's talk about power.

390
00:25:28,367 --> 00:25:29,700
Real power.

391
00:25:30,283 --> 00:25:34,112
Who can tell me from where the
Shi'ar Imperium draws its might?

392
00:25:34,117 --> 00:25:38,575
From the crushed skulls that house
inferior minds such as yours.

393
00:25:39,158 --> 00:25:41,542
Demerits. Raise your hand.

394
00:25:43,867 --> 00:25:47,112
The power of your empire is, in truth,

395
00:25:47,117 --> 00:25:49,325
a harvest of stolen worlds.

396
00:25:50,008 --> 00:25:53,695
Younger cultures that, had
they not been tilled to death,

397
00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:56,617
would now be empires rivaling your own.

398
00:25:57,033 --> 00:25:59,820
Fearing this, you strike at the knees

399
00:25:59,825 --> 00:26:02,150
and claim you can help them walk again.

400
00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:04,700
But only if they assimilate.

401
00:26:05,117 --> 00:26:06,117
Submit.

402
00:26:06,533 --> 00:26:08,950
Which brings us to this conclusion.

403
00:26:09,533 --> 00:26:13,425
The Shi'ar empire is a snake oil racket.

404
00:26:14,325 --> 00:26:17,278
Even you Terrans claim,
"Might is right".

405
00:26:17,283 --> 00:26:19,570
The rhyme that sells the lie.

406
00:26:19,575 --> 00:26:22,987
That we must pillage worth
from one another.

407
00:26:22,992 --> 00:26:26,862
That for me to be more,
you must be less.

408
00:26:26,867 --> 00:26:29,675
Your existence against mine because...

409
00:26:30,367 --> 00:26:31,487
Why?

410
00:26:31,492 --> 00:26:34,570
Says who? Who made up these silly rules?

411
00:26:34,575 --> 00:26:36,258
We did, beloved.

412
00:26:36,742 --> 00:26:37,925
Playing make-believe.

413
00:26:38,325 --> 00:26:40,153
Even if we were to agree,

414
00:26:40,158 --> 00:26:43,253
your idealism would confuse our people.

415
00:26:43,258 --> 00:26:45,458
They might even call it nonsense.

416
00:26:46,992 --> 00:26:48,425
Want to know a secret?

417
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,650
Coexistence is messy.

418
00:26:52,150 --> 00:26:54,192
Thus, my love for education,

419
00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:56,028
for my X-Men.

420
00:26:56,033 --> 00:26:59,883
Their heroism teaches a lesson
we mustn't forget.

421
00:27:00,450 --> 00:27:03,253
That the universe is very old,

422
00:27:03,258 --> 00:27:06,050
and all of us, very young.

423
00:27:06,450 --> 00:27:08,550
Born of ancient stardust,

424
00:27:09,158 --> 00:27:11,442
and all children of the atom.

425
00:27:18,825 --> 00:27:19,825
Heavens, no!

426
00:27:26,517 --> 00:27:27,517
Gambit?

427
00:27:30,408 --> 00:27:32,653
No!

428
00:27:32,658 --> 00:27:35,592
They were dancing,
drinking wine, making love!

429
00:27:35,967 --> 00:27:37,237
Oh, my children!

430
00:27:37,242 --> 00:27:39,775
My children of the atom, destroyed!

431
00:27:40,533 --> 00:27:41,733
No!

432
00:27:46,492 --> 00:27:48,175
Charles!

433
00:27:50,642 --> 00:27:51,862
Beloved.

434
00:27:51,867 --> 00:27:53,425
What in the stars?

435
00:27:54,367 --> 00:27:56,820
I must return to Earth immediately.

436
00:27:56,825 --> 00:27:59,987
But we've nearly convinced the council.

437
00:27:59,992 --> 00:28:01,237
It doesn't matter!

438
00:28:01,242 --> 00:28:04,800
While I cowered in the cosmos,
the unthinkable has happened.

439
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:06,670
Charles, if you leave,

440
00:28:06,675 --> 00:28:09,675
you will prove my sister
right about your kind.

441
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,420
If that should end
our star-crossed affair,

442
00:28:14,425 --> 00:28:15,550
so be it.

443
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,817
I will not abandon my kind.

444
00:28:22,908 --> 00:28:26,733
It is time I return to my X-Men.

445
00:28:37,158 --> 00:28:38,487
I did what you asked.

446
00:28:38,492 --> 00:28:41,442
I gave you my DNA to access Master Mold.

447
00:28:46,408 --> 00:28:47,783
Kill me, please,

448
00:28:48,283 --> 00:28:49,742
for what happened in Genosha.

449
00:28:50,325 --> 00:28:52,778
I beg you.

450
00:28:52,783 --> 00:28:55,520
Don't take all the blame, Bolivar,

451
00:28:55,525 --> 00:28:57,570
and don't fret the future.

452
00:28:57,575 --> 00:29:02,612
Why, Genosha was merely
the beginning of a prologue, now past.

453
00:29:02,617 --> 00:29:04,625
You have nothing to fear,

454
00:29:04,908 --> 00:29:08,967
so long as you place
your faith in Sinister.

455
00:29:17,875 --> 00:29:25,375
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