1 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,160 Why can't I move? 2 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:45,680 Come wake up, Carl. 3 00:01:46,220 --> 00:01:47,500 Something's going on outside. 4 00:01:48,020 --> 00:01:50,280 Beast, see if everyone else is okay. 5 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,020 The rest of us, let's go. 6 00:01:52,740 --> 00:01:53,740 Outside? 7 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:57,400 Oh, wow. 8 00:01:57,860 --> 00:01:59,580 Who put on the laser show? 9 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,580 Something's kind of spooky about all this. 10 00:02:02,820 --> 00:02:04,960 The elements are out of balance. 11 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,780 Our world is under siege. 12 00:02:10,380 --> 00:02:12,420 I don't believe it. 13 00:02:13,130 --> 00:02:14,490 That's right, runt. 14 00:02:15,150 --> 00:02:17,530 Ain't life just special? 15 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:22,610 All 16 00:02:22,610 --> 00:02:30,530 right. 17 00:02:30,850 --> 00:02:31,990 Who's out there? 18 00:02:32,210 --> 00:02:35,110 Come out now and you won't get hurt. 19 00:02:52,330 --> 00:02:53,330 What really is this? 20 00:02:53,550 --> 00:02:54,550 No. 21 00:02:54,970 --> 00:02:55,970 Please? 22 00:02:56,950 --> 00:02:58,230 He's gone! 23 00:02:59,910 --> 00:03:02,810 No. Scott, help me! 24 00:03:03,090 --> 00:03:04,670 Here to join her? 25 00:03:06,190 --> 00:03:08,770 I must save them. 26 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:28,460 Gone? Hank, what's he talking about? Why can't we wake him from his nightmare? 27 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:31,520 How could a slight concussion do all this? 28 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:34,780 This is an unaccountable biological condition. 29 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,840 The professor appears to be in no physical pain, yet he is weakening 30 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,640 As with the most powerful hypnosis, his mind is telling him that he is gravely 31 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,460 hurt. Are you saying that something can manipulate Xavier's mind? 32 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,980 He's the most powerful psychic on Earth. 33 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,960 Jean, can't you contact him telepathically? I've tried. I can't get 34 00:03:57,260 --> 00:03:58,138 Oh, Jean. 35 00:03:58,140 --> 00:03:59,140 Scott. 36 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:05,300 Jubilee. I couldn't save them. Beast, those readings are getting worse. 37 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,500 Professor. Charles, can you hear us? 38 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,000 I... I know this place. 39 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:19,860 Charles, you finally decided to join us. How lovely. 40 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:21,260 Mother. 41 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:23,860 Is this a dream? 42 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:26,040 How can you be here? 43 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:27,760 Where am I? 44 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:29,840 This is your home, Charles. 45 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:31,200 Don't you remember? 46 00:04:31,940 --> 00:04:33,500 Yes, of course. 47 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,200 But it has been so long. 48 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:39,380 And I have missed you so much. 49 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,660 Yes, my darling boy. 50 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:43,960 I've missed you as well. 51 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:46,280 But now we can be together. 52 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:52,300 Forever. After I lost you, I thought I would... 53 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,420 Never see you again. But what about my X -Men? 54 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:57,080 Don't worry, Charles. 55 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,680 They're here, too. 56 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:01,180 She's right, Professor. 57 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:08,480 Scott! I do not believe it. That life of contention and strife is behind us now, 58 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:10,120 Charles. Storm! 59 00:05:11,780 --> 00:05:15,380 Yeah, Professor, and this place is great. No sentinel. 60 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,260 You are all so real. 61 00:05:18,820 --> 00:05:21,380 Yet, yet how can this be? 62 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:23,220 It's up to you, Chuck. 63 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:25,900 You don't have to worry about us anymore. 64 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:27,540 Let it go. 65 00:05:27,780 --> 00:05:29,200 I don't know. 66 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,860 To be with you, all of you. 67 00:05:33,140 --> 00:05:34,400 No struggle? 68 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,940 It would be so easy. 69 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:38,920 Yeah. 70 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,200 I feel so light. 71 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:42,700 So free. 72 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:44,080 Let go. 73 00:05:44,620 --> 00:05:47,100 The universe will be you. 74 00:05:51,950 --> 00:05:53,590 His readings are dropping again. 75 00:05:53,890 --> 00:05:56,450 Beast, you're a doctor. Do something. 76 00:05:56,910 --> 00:05:58,050 We're losing him. 77 00:05:58,350 --> 00:06:00,930 Gene, try your psychic powers again. 78 00:06:01,470 --> 00:06:03,370 Professor, we need you. 79 00:06:03,850 --> 00:06:06,910 Don't give up. Speak to me, please. 80 00:06:07,650 --> 00:06:08,910 Please. Please. 81 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:16,570 We need you. We need you. We need you. That sounds like Gene. 82 00:06:17,650 --> 00:06:19,510 But where is she? 83 00:06:19,980 --> 00:06:21,400 Ignore her. 84 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,860 Come to me, child. 85 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:28,860 Professor! Come to me. Professor! 86 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:31,040 And find rest. 87 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,260 I know you. 88 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:34,880 But how? 89 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,200 You don't. You can. 90 00:06:38,460 --> 00:06:41,580 But I must remember. 91 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:43,560 A small bag, please. 92 00:06:46,460 --> 00:06:49,040 What in the world? 93 00:06:55,470 --> 00:06:56,850 A little imp. 94 00:07:04,370 --> 00:07:08,010 All right, little one, hand me back my wallet. 95 00:07:12,270 --> 00:07:13,730 Well done, sir. 96 00:07:14,170 --> 00:07:15,370 Who are you? 97 00:07:15,670 --> 00:07:21,790 I have not met another with psychic power such as my own. Join me at my 98 00:07:21,790 --> 00:07:23,610 the restaurant behind you. 99 00:07:24,590 --> 00:07:25,590 That is the one. 100 00:07:26,090 --> 00:07:27,630 I beg of you, sir. 101 00:07:28,050 --> 00:07:29,050 Come in. 102 00:07:30,030 --> 00:07:33,530 So, you do not approve of the way I do business? 103 00:07:34,190 --> 00:07:38,350 Using children to steal? No, I do not agree with that. 104 00:07:38,650 --> 00:07:40,430 The little brat thought you were human. 105 00:07:40,870 --> 00:07:43,790 Normally, I would not steal from a fellow mutant. 106 00:07:44,170 --> 00:07:47,590 A thief is a thief, no matter the victim. 107 00:07:48,090 --> 00:07:49,370 I must disagree. 108 00:07:49,990 --> 00:07:53,210 Non -mutants are hopelessly stupid creatures. 109 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,560 They deserve our most egregious exploitation. 110 00:07:56,900 --> 00:07:59,620 Why am I reliving these memories? 111 00:08:01,020 --> 00:08:03,520 You are the Shadow King. 112 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,920 We met 20 years ago. 113 00:08:20,270 --> 00:08:23,070 from the astral plane where the greater telepath goes. 114 00:08:26,490 --> 00:08:31,570 I battled to save Storm and all the children of Cairo from this madman. 115 00:08:31,830 --> 00:08:34,289 I proved to be the stronger of two. 116 00:08:34,789 --> 00:08:40,090 And I've kept you there all this time, using my psychic powers. 117 00:08:40,370 --> 00:08:45,390 I was young. I had never met a mutant who possessed such merciless cruelty as 118 00:08:45,390 --> 00:08:46,390 the Shadow King. 119 00:08:46,570 --> 00:08:48,570 I knew the human race. 120 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:51,240 must be protected from such creatures. 121 00:09:10,860 --> 00:09:14,100 So, I formed the X -Men. 122 00:09:21,870 --> 00:09:28,430 Individuals dedicated the belief that mutant and human can and must coexist. 123 00:09:38,530 --> 00:09:41,370 No, they are gone. 124 00:09:41,750 --> 00:09:44,830 And your dream has been destroyed. 125 00:09:46,350 --> 00:09:49,430 There are no more X -Men. 126 00:09:50,250 --> 00:09:51,770 It can't be true! 127 00:09:52,130 --> 00:09:56,050 I just saw them! In your world, you saw them destroyed. 128 00:09:56,770 --> 00:10:00,730 If you would like to see your lost loved ones again, come to me. 129 00:10:01,470 --> 00:10:02,470 Let go. 130 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,600 It defies all my medical experience. 131 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,120 He is flipping once more. 132 00:10:24,100 --> 00:10:25,300 Don't leave us! 133 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:27,900 Professor, where are you? 134 00:10:28,340 --> 00:10:31,860 Gene, I am here, on the astral plane. 135 00:10:32,140 --> 00:10:33,640 Can't you sense me? 136 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:39,500 The Shadow King has been manipulating my mind, luring me away from you. 137 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,260 Yes, you are right, Charles. 138 00:10:42,780 --> 00:10:45,920 You are on the edge of mortal surrender. 139 00:10:46,750 --> 00:10:49,310 And it is too late to resist me now. 140 00:10:49,630 --> 00:10:52,970 Your mental powers are depleted. 141 00:10:53,330 --> 00:11:00,190 Never! I shall leave this prison as you enter it. Your mind held me 142 00:11:00,190 --> 00:11:01,109 locked here. 143 00:11:01,110 --> 00:11:07,050 But that innocent blow to your head weakened your hold on me, permitting me 144 00:11:07,050 --> 00:11:12,970 escape. I will not allow it. Help me! 145 00:11:13,370 --> 00:11:19,740 Hank, he spoke to me. He asked... For help! What sort of help? I can't tell, 146 00:11:19,740 --> 00:11:22,320 he seems to be in a desperate struggle with someone. 147 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:25,240 How can we fight what we can't see? 148 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:27,400 Jean? Professor! 149 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:29,020 Raise him gently. 150 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:34,380 We were so worried. We thought we'd lost you. 151 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,120 Yes, but now I'm back. 152 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:07,480 I'd be somebody's idea of a joke. 153 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:10,900 You're the joke, hairball! 154 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,240 Who's there? I know I heard something. 155 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,680 Someone please stop this! 156 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:22,480 Professor! 157 00:12:23,740 --> 00:12:26,060 I'm responsible for this! 158 00:12:26,340 --> 00:12:27,340 No. 159 00:12:35,630 --> 00:12:36,429 Not them. 160 00:12:36,430 --> 00:12:37,790 It cannot be. 161 00:12:39,090 --> 00:12:40,630 There's a security breach. 162 00:12:41,310 --> 00:12:43,850 Everybody, report in. What's happening? 163 00:12:51,410 --> 00:12:53,690 Wolverine? Let me go! 164 00:12:54,130 --> 00:12:55,130 Jubilee! 165 00:12:55,750 --> 00:12:56,750 Storm! 166 00:12:57,870 --> 00:13:01,310 Do not get to me! 167 00:13:01,730 --> 00:13:04,490 The alarms have come from the sleeping area. 168 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:09,160 But strangely, there is no physical evidence of intrusion or danger there. 169 00:13:10,420 --> 00:13:11,420 That's odd. 170 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:16,120 There is a foreign life form reading in this room. 171 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,540 Foreign life form? 172 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:26,560 Think of me instead as the new proprietor of this imperfect vessel. 173 00:13:29,940 --> 00:13:32,600 Just wait! 174 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,320 What's going on? 175 00:13:41,220 --> 00:13:43,280 Professor? Anybody? 176 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:44,880 Who? 177 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:52,940 What have you done with Xavier? 178 00:13:53,460 --> 00:13:56,000 Only what he once did to me. 179 00:13:56,660 --> 00:14:02,960 For more than 20 years, I was exiled in a cold, harmless prison. 180 00:14:03,420 --> 00:14:04,420 Today! 181 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,280 I repaid the favor to the man who put me there. 182 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:12,120 You're not going to believe the weird dream I just had. 183 00:14:13,620 --> 00:14:15,180 They were not dreams. 184 00:14:15,380 --> 00:14:18,460 The Shadow King has been attacking our minds. 185 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:23,500 Storm, little Aurora, how I've missed you. 186 00:14:29,060 --> 00:14:31,960 It's only one of his illusions. Don't be afraid. 187 00:14:32,730 --> 00:14:37,570 It will do you no good to contact him, Jean Grey. He is mine now. 188 00:14:38,070 --> 00:14:39,070 Come on, Professor. 189 00:14:39,350 --> 00:14:40,329 Come on. 190 00:14:40,330 --> 00:14:42,350 Professor, I know what to do. 191 00:14:49,970 --> 00:14:50,970 Jean, 192 00:14:56,810 --> 00:15:00,330 if we fail, we shall both be stranded here. 193 00:15:00,550 --> 00:15:02,090 We will not fail, Professor. 194 00:15:02,650 --> 00:15:04,310 You have taught me too well. 195 00:15:04,570 --> 00:15:06,270 I pray you are right. 196 00:15:06,530 --> 00:15:13,110 My only hope is that our two minds are powerful enough to set me free. I say we 197 00:15:13,110 --> 00:15:14,950 do a Shadow King -ectomy. 198 00:15:16,430 --> 00:15:17,730 Are you crazy? 199 00:15:18,070 --> 00:15:19,130 Just put him away. 200 00:15:19,530 --> 00:15:23,810 Although any assault would weaken the Shadow King, it would also permanently 201 00:15:23,810 --> 00:15:25,910 damage Professor Xavier's body. 202 00:15:26,210 --> 00:15:28,590 The ultimate protection, gentlemen. 203 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,800 A beloved hostage that never leaves my side. 204 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:41,800 No! 205 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:45,560 I know what you are doing, Xavier. 206 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:48,600 I will not let it happen! 207 00:15:51,020 --> 00:15:53,360 It is up to Jean and the Professor now. 208 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:57,900 As the struggle begins on the astral plane, we can only wait. 209 00:15:58,380 --> 00:15:59,380 And hope. 210 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,600 You're a fool to confront me, Gene. 211 00:16:03,820 --> 00:16:05,700 Even with Xavier's help. 212 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:10,400 Your little student cannot protect you. Perhaps he may console you in your 213 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,040 lifelong imprisonment. 214 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:21,100 Now I shall make both of you feel the cold helplessness of astral plane exile. 215 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:22,760 The endless void. 216 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:24,760 No touch. No taste. 217 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,800 Not living, but never at rest. 218 00:16:31,580 --> 00:16:33,680 Gene, stay with me. 219 00:16:34,780 --> 00:16:36,640 I understand, Professor. 220 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,280 When we are done here, I shall emerge in your world, Charles. 221 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,700 Using your body to spread chaos. 222 00:16:46,060 --> 00:16:52,480 Throughout a planet you long to heal, you shall be forever frozen in 223 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:57,080 Fight him, Pete! 224 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:05,119 No! Fight him! Use your mind! 225 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:07,160 Not this time! 226 00:17:51,370 --> 00:17:52,890 Focus all your power. 227 00:17:53,130 --> 00:17:54,130 No! 228 00:17:54,290 --> 00:17:56,710 You cannot deny me. 229 00:17:57,150 --> 00:17:59,890 He's too strong. 230 00:18:00,550 --> 00:18:02,630 Stay with me, teen. 231 00:18:03,090 --> 00:18:05,090 Forget all we can do it. 232 00:18:11,130 --> 00:18:17,870 If I must go back, Xavier, I will not go alone. 233 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:38,040 Thank you. 234 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,160 It's done. 235 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,840 Now let's go home. 236 00:18:46,540 --> 00:18:48,560 I hope that's good news. 237 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:51,420 I can hardly believe it. 238 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:53,840 I think we are home. 239 00:18:54,340 --> 00:18:55,540 Excellent news. 240 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:00,980 Scott. That's right, sweetheart. 241 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:02,280 I've got you. 242 00:19:02,460 --> 00:19:03,460 Everybody's safe. 243 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,400 I'd sure like to know what the heck. 244 00:19:06,620 --> 00:19:07,620 Just happened. 245 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:13,280 Wolverine, the Shadow King just reminded us that it is only through eternal 246 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,480 vigilance that destructive powers such as his are kept at bay. 247 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,520 A moment's weakness and he will return. 248 00:19:20,860 --> 00:19:24,420 Yet, he also gave me a priceless gift. 249 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,020 Gift? Yes. 250 00:19:26,620 --> 00:19:33,620 He forced me to think through why I formed the X -Men and why we fight 251 00:19:33,620 --> 00:19:36,160 for our ideals and for each other. 252 00:19:36,540 --> 00:19:42,880 In short why I live for that I will always be grateful 253 00:20:10,580 --> 00:20:11,580 Thank you.