The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix (1994)

Scott and Jean Summers are enjoying their honeymoon on the beaches of Saint Barts when their essences are expelled from their bodies. They wake up in a bizarre world, now inhabiting unrecognizable bodies. The pair finds themselves inside a vast complex, whose residents have all been ruthlessly massacred. About to be assaulted by a number of warriors dressed in outlandish outfits, they are rescued by Mother Askani, an elderly woman who wields significant psionic energy – and who Jean recognizes as an aged Rachel Summers. Before Rachel can explain further, she is attacked by one of Apocalypse’s fearsome Prelates, Ch’vayre. Ch’vayre is surprised to find her alive, as he thought her to be among the first casualties of the attack of Apocalypse’s forces here, in the headquarters of the Clan Askani. Jean cuts in, intent on rescuing Rachel, but discovers she has no powers in this new body. Thanks to Scott stunning Ch’vayre with a gun, Scott and Jean escape with the extremely drained and fatigued Rachel.

Rachel reveals to them that, after she switched places with Captain Britain in the timestream, she ended up here, 2000 years into the future, in a world ruled with an iron fist by the despotic Apocalypse, where humans and whoever else resistant to his rule, can be killed at any moment. As a form of resistance, Rachel founded the Clan Askani. In fact, it was she who sent one of the Askani warriors in the past to pull baby Nathan Summers – Cyclops’ son – into the future, after realizing Apocalypse sought to capture Nathan and use him as the perfect vessel to house his essence. With the baby already infected with Apocalypse’s Techno-Virus, Rachel and the Askani also created a healthy clone of Nathan as a failsafe, hoping that one day Rachel and a cured Nathan would overthrow Apocalypse. However, with Rachel now over a hundred years old and with only faint residues of the Phoenix Force in her, this does not seem to be the case anymore. Additionally, once Apocalypse found out Nathan was in this timeline, he ordered the Askani headquarters to be attacked. That’s why Rachel plucked Scott and Jean from their time and into this era, reckoning them their last hope. Since their original bodies wouldn’t survive the time jump, she placed their minds in bodies cloned from their descendants and genetically similar to their original ones. Finally, Rachel also restores Scott and Jean’s powers, albeit variations of them. With her strength finally giving out, she plunges into a coma. Just then, Ch’vayre and his soldiers return to the Askani stronghold, looking for the two “humans” who opposed him. He reveals he has captured the child they want so much – baby Nathan – and proposes a quid pro quo: he will hand him over to them in exchange for Mother Askani.

Scott and Jean burst forth from their hiding places and engage Ch’vayre. After a battle, they manage to escape with both Nathan and the comatose Rachel. Ch’vayre vows that this is not over.

May 1994

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