At Cassidy Keep, Black Tom manages to take down Iceman, leaving Nightcrawler as the only free X-Man, while the others are slowly drained of their energies. Nightcrawler tries to reason with Black Tom, and manages to free Stacy X, while Black Tom loses control over Iceman. Stacy uses her power on Black Tom, and while he is distracted, Wolverine, Archangel, Monet and Juggernaut are able to free themselves. Archangel’s appearance somehow loses its blue hue. Iceman attacks Black Tom with a powerful surge of ice, before Black Tom begins to tear the island apart. The X-Men and Juggernaut try to escape, luckily for them, an X-jet with Professor X onboard has arrived. The X-Men and Monet make their way into the jet, but Juggernaut is knocked into the water by Black Tom. However, Samuel Pare, the young mutant Xavier has picked up from Canada, dives into the water and rescues the Juggernaut. With everyone safe, Xavier offers Juggernaut to return to the Xavier Institute to recover for as long as he needs. This surprises the X-Men, and Juggernaut accepts. The beginnings of a bond are also formed between Juggernaut and Sammy Pare. Meantime, nurse Annie Ghazikhanian says her goodbyes to the mute Havok, who had been her patient for the past year. She reveals her feelings to him, which Cyclops overhears when he arrives to collect his brother. As he departs, Annie tells him that Havok will need someone to look after him.

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