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Okay, this is the synopsis:
The issue starts off with a Shi'Ar ship containing Empress Lilandra and her Imperial Guardians racing to Earth in an attempt to warn the X-Men and the rest of the planet of the coming Shi'Ar warships - but Cassandra manages to stop them - a Guardsman called Smasher is sent by Lilandra to fly to earth on his own to warn them. Cassandra destroys the ship.
At the school, Emma announces the new student dictated 'ciriculum' to the students. Jean and Scott discuss these changes, and have a brief philosophical debate - Scott defends his beliefs, but is ultimately shot down by Jean, who believes he is being insensitive and not thinking of the Professor, who is dying. The group have a meeting in which the Cassandra situation is discussed.
Henry explains that Charles managed to get into his mind while he was in a coma and commandeered his body to go to the morgue and alert the others that he was inside of Cassandra's body.
Jean explains that Cassandra trapped Charles inside of her brain's right hemisphere, and that she and Emma brought him back to awareness.
It is then explained that Cassandra was born without a body, and that Charles was never aware of her existence. She is a being of living emotional energy, and that in her mind, the entire universe is the womb, and only her and Charles exist. Her motive is to kill Charles for the mastery of the universe that she perceives. All of the events since 114 are explained as being parts of her plan to soften up the X-Men before she comes to deliver the deathblow with the Shi'Ar fleet.
Making matters worse, Cassandra has booby-trapped her own body with a motor-neuron disease (could that be what she injected herself with in 115?), and Charles will be a vegetable within four days, and dead by the end of the week. Charles has instructed Jean to meet with the world's media to announce his Mutant Rights Charter. Scott heads off to Tibet to find Xorn, who apparently has healing powers.
Henry and Jean have an emotional conversation, Henry is terrified of Cassandra and she has exacerbated his depression - Jean consoles him, and he gets back to work on trying to save Charles.
Finally, Smasher falls from the sky into a farm and announces the coming of the Shi'Ar fleet to a bunch of cows.
I think it's the best issue so far, and I think Imperial is going to get a lot better... I'm really excited to see how this plays out. It's a real shame that Frank isn't doing the next three, cos his art really gave this issue a great epic feel...
The one thing that baffled me:
Logan to Jean, with green goo on his hand after touching the Professor on his deathbed:
"What's all that bug stuff on him?"
Jean: "He grew that shell around our own life support system."
Wha-what?
Also, if Cassandra was born with no body, then where the hell did she get the body that Charles is in, that has his own DNA? |
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