Their train arrives. GAMBIT taps MARROW. She wakes. They stand.
GAMBIT: We take you to our friend. She’ll help you out. She’s a human, but she’s helped mutants before. She’ll be waiting for us.
ROGUE: I could always go back to school. I used to go to a private school just for mutants, but after what I did to Bobby…
GAMBIT: Now don’t you fret. Wasn’t your fault.
ROGUE: I still feel him inside of me. That coldness. The ice. The memories. It didn’t use to be this strong. I feel so out of control.
GAMBIT: Our friend will help you, chere.
ROGUE looks into his eyes and smiles. They step in to the train.
STORM and LOGAN arrive.
LOGAN: Look familiar?
STORM: I’ll check the ticket booth.
LOGAN: Don’t bother. (He sniffs the air) She’s close.
GAMBIT, MARROW, and ROGUE are in the train now. LOGAN and STORM step in. LOGAN sees ROGUE and heads right to her.
STORM: Logan, wait!
LOGAN ignores her and heads towards ROGUE.
ROGUE: Logan?
LOGAN: You can’t keep running, kid.
ROGUE: I can do whatever I like, Logan. And I’m not a kid anymore.
LOGAN: Rogue, you don’t even know these people.
GAMBIT takes out a deck of cards.
GAMBIT: Why don’t you leave the little gal alone?
LOGAN: I’m not leaving her with you.
GAMBIT: Tell you what. Let’s play a little game. You pick a card. I pick a card. Whoever gets the highest one gets Rogue.
STORM: Logan, we don’t have time for games.
MARROW: We don’t have time for you.
MARROW takes off her jacket. She grows bones from out of her back. People on the train scream and run away. LOGAN takes a card from GAMBIT. It sparks up.
LOGAN: Shit.
LOGAN gets blown out of the train.
STORM: Logan!
MARROW throws the bones at STORM. STORM dashes out of the train in the nick of time. MARROW chases after her.
MARROW follows STORM. GAMBIT follows LOGAN who is quickly recovering.
GAMBIT: Hey, murname!
LOGAN turns around. GAMBIT charges up a card and throws it at LOGAN. LOGAN is knocked across the room. GAMBIT charges up another card and proceeds to throw it, but LOGAN slashes the card with his claws before it can explode.
Meanwhile, STORM and MARROW are in an intense battle. They finally meet at a stand off.
STORM: It’s nice to see you again too, Sarah.
MARROW: The name’s Marrow.
STORM: You’ve grown up.
MARROW: You’re old.
STORM: What do you want with Rogue?
MARROW: We’re bringing her to an old friend of yours.
STORM: Magneto?
MARROW: Wrong. Guess again.
They fight again. MARROW manages to hit STORM. She falls off the balcony and lands on top of GAMBIT, knocking him unconscious. LOGAN, who just got knocked over again, stands up and walks over.
LOGAN: Bout time you shut that gumbo up.
STORM: Logan, the train!
The train begins to leave. ROGUE looks out the window at them.
LOGAN and STORM in the car. LOGAN is driving very fast as usual.
LOGAN: Who were those people and what did they want with Rogue?
STORM: One of them, the young woman, I knew her a long time ago when she was just a kid. Her real name is Sarah, but she goes by Marrow. The other one…I’ve never seen him before. He sounded Cajun.
LOGAN: But, what do they want with Rogue?
STORM: I don’t know. Something tells me Magneto is behind this.
LOGAN: It’s possible, but Magneto isn’t the only bad guy out there.
STORM’s phone rings.
STORM: It’s Moira.
LOGAN: Moira?
STORM: (Answers the phone) Moira? Hi, how are you?
A shot of MOIRA standing over XAVIER’S body.
MOIRA: Well, I don’t know where to start. You see I’m standing over what looks to be one of my brain dead patients, but the voice that is now speaking to me is Charles.
STORM: It sounds like Charles?
MOIRA: No, Ororo, it is Charles.
STORM is shocked.
STORM: We’ll be there right away.
STORM hangs up the phone. She is overcome.
LOGAN: What is it?
STORM: We have to go to Muir Island right now.
Quick cut to ROGUE getting off the train in Ohio. She looks around the station. She takes a seat on one of the benches and waits.
MOIRA’s home on Muir Island. She is leading STORM and LOGAN to XAVIER.
MORIA: At first he only took over the psyche, but in the last few hours he’s recomposed the entire body to look exactly like his former self.
They enter the room. XAVIER is resting in bed. STORM enters in tears and runs to hug him. LOGAN follows behind.
STORM: Is it really you?
XAVIER: Yes, it’s me, my dear. I’m so happy to see you. Both of you.
He looks at LOGAN and smiles.
STORM: But, how is it possible?
XAVIER: The mind is capable of many things. Though Jean destroyed my body, my mind stayed alive. It has taken me a long time to rebuild myself.
LOGAN: If someone with your abilities can do that, do you think it’s possible for someone like…
XAVIER: Jean? I think it’s very possible. In fact someone has already made the first step towards helping her with that. The same for our friend, Scott.
STORM: Scott? What do you mean?
XAVIER: I’ll need to return to the mansion first before I am able to fully explain myself.
SINISTER is in his secret laboratory. Standing next to him is his assistant, EMMA FROST. There are two bodies, one female, one male, lying on tables with several wires attached to the head. The bodies appear lifeless. EMMA is uses her powers to try and locate the minds of JEAN and SCOTT.
EMMA FROST: This isn’t going to work.
SINISTER: Don’t tell me that.
EMMA FROST: I can’t find them.
SINISTER: Emma, don’t do this to me. After all my work!
EMMA FROST: I’m sorry. I’m trying as hard as I can.
SINISTER: Try harder.
The computer beeps.
COMPUTER: Visitors approaching gate. Authorization complete.
A screen lights up showing GAMBIT and MARROW with four mutants behind them (Ms. Marvel, Sunfire, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver).
SINISTER: Excellent. We have our specimens.
EMMA FROST: Sinister! I know what I need to find them! I need Cerebro.
At the mansion. The XAVIER is in the subbasement heading towards Cerebro with LOGAN and STORM. KITTY, COLOSSUS, and ANGEL step out of the danger room and sees him.
KITTY: Professor?
XAVIER: Hello, my friends.
KITTY: How is it possible? You’re alive!
XAVIER: The mind doesn’t quit that easily.
KITTY runs to hug him. XAVIER takes a glance at ANGEL.
XAVIER: I see we have some new pupils. You’ve done well in my absence, Storm.
ANGEL: Warren Worthington, sir. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
XAVIER: The pleasures all mine. And where’s Bobby and Rogue?
Everyone looks at one another not knowing what to say, but XAVIER already knows what’s going on.
XAVIER: Bring me to him.
BOBBY is lying in the medical room, still unconscious. STORM and LOGAN follow him in. The others return to the danger room. The XAVIER proceeds to read BOBBY’s mind. The XAVIER sees the bar scene all over again and gets a glance at GAMBIT and MARROW.
LOGAN: Anything?
XAVIER: I’m afraid Bobby isn’t going to be able to give me all the information I’m looking for. I’ll need cerebro instead.
A message alert pops up showing a EMMA FROST outside the mansion front gate.
LOGAN: Who’s the Barbie doll?
STORM: Oh great. Just what we need.
XAVIER gives the permission for the gates to be opened.
LOGAN: Who is she?
XAVIER: A former pupil of mine. Emma Frost, also known as the White Queen. Her powers are similar to mine, but limited. A few years ago she manifested a secondary mutation that turns her skin into organic diamond.
LOGAN: Why’d she leave the school?
STORM: You can ask her that yourself. She’ll give you plenty of reasons.
XAVIER: I hope you two will make our guest feel welcome. I’ll be up momentarily. I need to use cerebro first.
EMMA FROST is waiting in XAVIER’S office. STORM and LOGAN enter. EMMA doesn’t have to turn around to know who it is.
EMMA: Ororo Monroe.
STORM: Emma.
EMMA: And you must be Logan? Well, Xavier sure knows how to pick his students.
LOGAN: He sure does.
STORM: What do you want, Emma?
EMMA: I need to borrow cerebro.
STORM: May I ask why?
EMMA: You know I don’t like to share my personal life, but if you insist I need to locate a couple of old friends.
STORM: Who?
EMMA: No one important.
STORM: Well, I’m sorry, but the Professor is using cerebro right now.
EMMA: The Professor? I thought he—
XAVIER is in the midst of cerebro. He’s trying to locate ROGUE, but repeated echoes of JEAN keeping blocking his path.
JEAN: Professor, help us!
XAVIER: Jean?
JEAN: Scott and I…we need you.
XAVIER: Jean!
Back to EMMA.
EMMA: He’s alive? Oh, that does present a problem.
LOGAN: What do you mean?
EMMA: Nothing.
STORM: There’s something you’re not telling us, Emma.
The sounds of an explosion are heard from downstairs. EMMA, LOGAN, and STORM make their way downstairs. KITTY, COLOSSUS, and ANGEL are helping XAVIER out of cerebro. The whole room has been destroyed. COLOSSUS carries XAVIER out.
STORM: What happened?
XAVIER: I was trying to locate Rogue, but Jean she…she kept calling for me.
LOGAN: Jean?
XAVIER: Her psyche is still strong. And she’s keeping Scott’s psyche alive as well. Isn’t that right, Emma?
Everyone turns and stares at EMMA.
EMMA: Well, I guess since cerebro has been smashed to pieces I won’t be needed any longer.
EMMA starts to leave. KITTY phases through her and turns around and faces her. LOGAN grabs EMMA’S arm.
LOGAN: Sorry, Barbie.
XAVIER: Let go of her, Logan.
LOGAN releases his grip.
XAVIER: Emma, it’s been a long time.
EMMA: Yes, a long time.
XAVIER: We have a lot of catching up to do.