SET UP: Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Colossus disband Excalibur, and set out for the U.S. They are attacked by a bunch of asses calling themselves the X-Men. Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Corbau, a friend of the X-Men's, is kidnapped by some asses calling themselves the X-Men. And the real X-Men (Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, and Marrow) get beaten up by some asses calling themselves the X-Men. While it appears thier new opponents are being lead by Professor X, it is later revieled that thier foe (unknown to them) is Cerebro, thier mutant detecting device. Wait... WHAT? Anyway, the X-Men defeat thier new enemies, whom are just energy-based beings, anyway.
Fast forward a few months. The X-Men are called in by S.H.I.E.L.D. to deal with Pyro, who -suffering from the Legacy virus- has lost control of his powers and is blurting out Xavier's name. The X-Men decide this would be a good timeas any to find thier missing mentor. The X-Men borrow a cerebro-like device from Muir Island to find Chuck, which, after pointing out TWO locations, explodes. (Interesting note: after ONSLAUGHT, Chuck tried using cerebro to see if he came up, and it said he no longer exsisted, whereafter he deleted all information about him from it's memory banks. Talk about screwed up continuity!). So the X-Men split up to find him...
STORY: Half the team (Colossus, Gambit, Storm, and Rogue) head to Russia, only to find a little girl named Nina who Chuck had freed from OPERATION: Zero Tolerance. They also found a nasty robot that kicked thier butts but good. Meanwhile, Wolverine, Marrow, Shadowcat, and Nightcrawler go to Alcatraz prison, only to find Charlie holin up with the new Brotherhood of Mutants, including the Toad, Post, Mimic, and the Blob. Apparently, they're on the run from Cerebro, which has been given life. The Mutants stop fighting eachother when they're attacked by a Cerebrite, and they get beaten like rag dolls. Kitty Runs off with the Prof, phasing thru walls, while the the others try to hold the cerebrite off. The cerebrite zaps Kitty and Toad, to which Xavier says he sensed they'd been teleported to Cerebro, not killed (Waaaiiiittt... i thought he lost his powers...). Nightcrawler, injured, teleports into the X-Mens new toy, the Aora jet, and sees the other X-men get teleported away. He takes off to Russia to find the other four X-Men...
Cerebro, having captured Xavier and Nina (who can apparently re-activate Chuck's powers), gloats out his master plan: To bond with Xavier so he can scan and catologe every man, woman, and child on Earth. "Scan" as in "torture" and "Catologe" as in "Keep unconcious in a cocoon". Not good... So the remaining X-Men (Nightcrawler, Storm, Gambit, Rogue, and Colossus) track the other X-Men and try to save them. Xavier realizes that he needs his powers to save the X-Men (and the world), so he has Nina re-activate his powers, which allows him to de-activate the cerebrites regeneration protocols and fool Cerebro while the other X-Men free themselves. Cerebro, despite being pounded into mush, has still sent his "nano-probes" accross the east coast, which will allow him to catologe everyone anyway. Xavier links with Cerebro and convinces him that humans are individuals, not just gene paterns. Cerebro surrenders, and self-destructs.
RAMIFICATIONS: Well, Chuck's back with the X-Men with his powers, and that's about it, for now (Unless there's still more cerebrites out there...)
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