Written by Grant Morrison. Art by Igor Kordeyu
Cyclops has left on a desperation mission to recruit the enigmatic Xorn but Cassandra Nova is one step ahead, and the two may not leave Tibet alive! Meanwhile, Professor Xavier's mad twin has dispatched the Imperial Guard on a horriffic mission: Destroy all mutants!
* 1st appearance of members of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard: Blimp, Fader, G-Type, Neosaurus, Plutonia, Schism