While escaping the police and wanted for murder, Cyclops has run into the Living Pharaoh, the man he has been accused of murdering. The Pharaoh claims that he is immortal and attempts to destroy Cyclops by channeling his powers through an Ankh weapon. As the two mutants battle, the other X-Men are scouring the city, trying to find Cyclops before the police do. Marvel Girl picks up Scott's location with her mental powers and the X-Men speed toward their leader in their jet-car. However, the battle between Cyclops and the Living Pharaoh ends with the Pharaoh easily defeating Cyclops and knocking the mutant hero unconscious.

Carried away by the Pharaoh's men, Cyclops has a special skin tight hood put over his head and is placed in a trunk and smuggled aboard a plane to Egypt through New York's JFK airport. In flight, Cyclops is allowed out of the trunk and is told that he is being taken to Egypt and left alone in the cargo hold. Hearing a faint knocking sound, Cyclops realizes his brother Alex is trapped within an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus and is being smuggled out of the country as well. Detecting Scott's thoughts on the airplane, the X-Men chase after the plane but are shot out of the sky by the Living Pharaoh. The X-Men barley avoids a crash landing in the ocean by Angel's quick thinking. Stuck afloat in the water, the X-Men watch as the plane flies away, Jean vowing to find out where Scott's abductors are going.

Arriving in Egypt, the Pharaoh takes Cyclops and Alex to his pyramid headquarters where he leaves the two to drown in a room that is slowly filling with water. Cyclops manages to use his visor to smash open the sarcophagus, freeing Alex. Alex in turn helps remove the hood from Cyclops' face allowing him to use his optic blasts to free them. Attacking the Pharaoh and his men, the two brothers are soon aided by the arriving X-Men who help turn the battle in the hero’s favor. In the battle, the Pharaoh gains the high ground and attempts to use his ankh against the X-Men when suddenly Alex fires energy bolts from his hands that shatters the Pharaoh's weapon, sending him toppling off the top of the pyramid. Saved from a nasty fall by the Angel, the defeated Pharaoh orders his minions to flee the scene until he summons for them again.

Allowing the Pharaoh's men to escape, the X-Men are shocked to realize that Scott's brother Alex is also a mutant.

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