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It's the series that redefined the X-Men for the 21st century! Now, relive Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Eisner award-winning ASTONISHING X-MEN in an entirely new way! The acclaimed "Gifted" storyline starts right here!
In this episode, the X-Men confront the deadly Ord, Kitty Pryde faces off with Emma Frost and the mutant "cure" divides the team!
Cyclops pays a visit to Nick Fury while the debate over the mutant “cure” brings Wolverine and Beast claw-to-claw!
The X-Men storm Benetech and you’ll never believe what Kitty finds in the basement! Plus, with the team away, Ord invades the Xavier Institute!
Colossus returns as the X-Men go to war with Ord and the power behind the “mutant cure”!
Ord makes his final move to take down mutantkind and only the combined powers of S.H.I.E.L.D., S.W.O.R.D. and the X-Men can stop him!
"Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous" features X-Men members Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Colossus and Kitty Pryde. As the group are trying to protect civilians from a huge monster with help from the Fantastic Four, a mutant teenager named Wing attending the School for Gifted Mutants is depressed because he was "cured" of his special abilities. Wing is standing on a cliff, wondering if it would return his power.
Fellow student Hisako Ichiki (Armor) talks to her friend Wing to not jump off the cliff because he could end up dead. Now that he is cured, he has no reason to stay at the school and can go back home. But then Hisako starts to dare him to jump and sure enough, Wing jumps to his death.
As the X-Men return back home, Hisako starts to panic as Wing has gone missing and other students are also other young mutant psychics can no longer feel him around. Suddenly, trouble arises and Kitty Pryde has all the students go into the danger room to protect themselves.
Meanwhile, not far away is a badly damaged Sentinel that has been kept by a farmer and reawakened. Still deadly, the Sentinel begins to crawl and is now wanting to destroy the X-Men. But who is controlling it?
As the children are huddled inside the danger room, Kitty is shocked to see all the students scared of their discovery. Wing is laying in the ground dead but automatically, Wing is reanimated and brought back to life. The Danger Room has now achieved intelligence and is now threatening to kill all the children inside the Danger Room.
The X-Men must now try to find a way to break into the Danger Room and destroy it before it kills anyone. But the sentient Danger Room has a plant of its own and that is to kill all X-Men.
In the present day, Emma Frost is forced to confront the deal she made so long ago with Cassandra Nova, even as she was sending the Mega-Sentinels to destroy Genosha. In exchange for saving her, by bestowing the secondary mutation of Emma’s diamond form, Cassandra would gain Emma as a plant within Xavier’s group, even though Emma would not remember it until Cassandra allowed it. Now that that time has come, Emma stands with Cassandra, Sebastian Shaw, Ellie Phimister and the one who has brought them all together, the cloaked Perfection, who informs Emma that her game will be first. Elsewhere in the Institute, Logan trains the remaining students in combat himself, since the Danger Room is no longer a high-tech training facility. Meanwhile, Beast and Cyclops each try to lose themselves in their work, shunning the company of others. Miles away, SHIELD Director Hill meets has Special Agent Brand of SWORD meet her at the SHIELD helicarrier, though the meeting is useless. Brand refuses to submit to an administrative lease and storms off the carrier, rocketing to SWORD’s orbital space station, the Peak, where she is informed that they have news. Back at the Institute, Kitty is still unsure of her relationship with Piotr, after a romantic dream of the two of them, which leads into a horrific nightmare of her father, she is even more confused. However, after building up enough courage, Kitty finds herself visiting Piotr in his room and rambling about their relationship, until he defines it once and for all with a passionate kiss. Having witnessed this via her telepathy, Emma intends a little seduction of her own and tries to prompt Scott to their bed. Engrossed in paperwork, he rebukes her, so she uses her powers to wear his “favorite outfit,” the exact form of his former wife in her green Phoenix costume.
In the past, Scott Summers and Phoenix are concluding a romantic getaway at a remote desert location. As they prepare to return, Phoenix realizes the gift she his given Scott, in that using her telekinesis to hold back his optic blasts has given him a chance to see the world without his ruby-quartz lenses. It has also temporarily given him a chance to relinquish the control he so carefully monitors every moment. In the present, the current Scott Summers looks upon the visage of Phoenix again, though he knows that it is only a mental projection of Emma’s. Emma turns Scott’s anger at this around, using it to demonstrate his obsession with self-control, which comes from a seminal moment as a boy, who swore to never lose control. Through a mental trip through his own past and through a nightmarish place called the Bug Room, Emma allows Scott to relinquish control and disables his powers, though leaving him in a catatonic state in the process. Elsewhere in the Institute, Kitty and Piotr finally consummate their relationship, though not without incident, as Kitty accidentally phases though the floor of her room and into the living room below. The next morning, they are greeted by Logan in the kitchen, who immediately senses their awkwardness and tells them that it’s “’Bout time.” Below them in his lab, the Beast greets whom he believes to be Emma – though to his astonishment, it is not. It is his nightmare, Cassandra Nova. Meanwhile, in orbit, Special Agent Brandt and her comrades at SWORD have received notification from the Breakworld that they have determined exactly which X-Man is supposed to lead to their destruction.
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