X-Men V2

Weapon Twelve

Trapped in the Channel Tunnel, the surviving members of the Paris X-Corporation strike team fight for their lives. Under the power of the being known as Weapon XII, the very train passengers they were sent to rescue, now possessed, have begun a relentless assault against the band of mutants.

Meanwhile, in his flying saucer, which he reveals to be his mutation, Fantomex flies Phoenix and Xavier to the tunnel’s entrance. Along the way, he informs the two X-Men of the nature of Weapon XII; it is a mind with bacterial properties, infecting his enemies until they become him. The three mutants arrive on the scene and, through Phoenix’s telepathy, hold Weapon XII’s thralls so that the strike team can escape. Their colleagues freed, Fantomex and Phoenix enter the tunnel to confront the rogue mutant. As Fantomex makes his way deep into the tunnel, Xavier uses his telepathy to peer inside and confront Weapon XII mind to mind. Along with his mental assault, Xavier sends in a wave of Madroxes under his command. With their enemy distracted, Fantomex makes his way to its former containment pod and activates the "kill switch,” ending both the threat and life of Weapon XII. The threat now ended, Phoenix comes to a startling revelation after gaining a chance to peer into Fantomex’s mind. Fantomex’s current identity is totally fabricated. His true past is that of being the latest of the Weapon Plus program; he is the former designee Weapon XIII. Faced with allowing him to go free or turn him over to the authorities, Phoenix allows Fantomex to escape through the tunnel and into the world at large.

The crisis now passed, Xavier and his X-Men confront the arriving military who offer a deal; they will tell the world that the X-Men have assisted in the saving of passengers from a biological weapons accident in the Eurotunnel in exchange for the X-Men’s verification of the story. Despite the death of their teammate, Darkstar, Xavier accepts; it is a grim cost in order to continue to operate under the watchful eyes of the authorities whose intolerance they are trying to change.

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