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[Storm] Previously on X-Men...
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To reiterate
for those just returning to us.
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Regardless of your stance
on recent world events...
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Oh, my.
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...the images you are about to see
may be disturbing.
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[Magneto] I draw its fire
away from the gardens.
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Save as many as you can.
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We shall not live our days wondering
if we could've saved more.
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[grunts]
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[Gambit] The name's Gambit, mon ami.
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Remember it.
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[crying] Sugar. I can't feel you.
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[growling]
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Get out of my home, you damn demon!
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[Forge grunts]
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[Forge yells]
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[Storm] Is this death?
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[♪ theme music playing]
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{\an8}[♪ exciting music playing]
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{\an8}Shi'ar fools, surren--
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{\an8}- [alarm blaring]
- [groans]
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[all yelling]
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[soldier] Don't move! Stay where you are!
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Hands up!
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- [Deathbird] Surrender?
- [groans]
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No, just perish.
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Stand, Kree.
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This pigeon shall not thwart the will
of the Supreme Intelligence.
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[all yelling]
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Victory for the Imperial Guard!
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[grunts]
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[yelling]
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[yelling shakily]
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[Ronan] A Pyrrhic victory.
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The Kree do not...
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[grunts]
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Be honored to fall at my feet, Ronan,
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for you shall be memorialized
as the corpse upon which I posed.
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A true Kree bows to no one.
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[grunts]
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Thank you, Gladiator.
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Ronan dear,
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tell me where
the Supreme Intelligence has fled,
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or your forces shall suffer.
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Save them, Ronan.
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All you need to do is...
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[messenger]
A million pardons, your Highness.
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- You dare interrupt my glorious moment?
- Oh.
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It's your sister, The Empress.
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Oh, joy.
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- Why didn't you say so?
- [grunts]
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My dearest sister
is always of utmost priority.
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Greetings, Shi'ar.
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One year ago, we offered the skills
of our mighty healers
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to a Terran man on the verge of death.
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No ordinary Terran,
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this man helped spare the entire universe
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from the madness of my brother, D'ken,
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as well as the galactic hunger
of the Phoenix.
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And now, in his greatest feat yet,
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this man has unlocked
the secrets to my heart.
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[Araki] Hmm.
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So I, Empress Lilandra,
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stand before this High Council,
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and before you, my loyal people,
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with joyous news in times of war,
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for your Empress is to be married,
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and our empire
shall welcome a new emperor.
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Professor Charles Xavier.
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[all murmuring]
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To the might and glory of the Imperium.
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Hmm.
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I pray our act of performative jingoism
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erased any concerns over my heritage?
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[Lilandra] Do not fret.
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My subjects trust me when I say
you are no mere Terran, Charles.
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Well, on Earth, newlyweds whisk off
to some faraway island
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to celebrate their love.
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And how far
would my hopeless romantic see us go?
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Dare I assume
a sandy beach on Earth itself?
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Perhaps an empress
could even spend a portion of her time
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ruling the galaxy
from my little corner of it?
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My handsome emperor has much to learn,
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about masking his manipulations.
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You wish to return
to your children, don't you?
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Merely visit.
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See their faces.
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Yet families often mimic black holes.
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Visit and risk being stuck
in its ever-spiraling vacuum of dramas.
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This is especially true
with your students.
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[Professor X] Mmm, didn't your brother
nearly destroy the universe
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with the M'kraan Crystal?
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You should message them.
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Use a holo-globe.
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Invite them to the wedding.
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Unless you fear
they'll think you've abandoned them.
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You've earned a life of your own, Charles.
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And I need you.
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Once we crush the Kree,
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an educator such as you
can teach them our ways.
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Do as you did on Earth.
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Play the role of the peacemaker.
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Wasn't aware my X-Men
and I were playing make-believe.
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Much like my legs
in this armor's exoskeleton.
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All ruling is make-believe.
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I pretend to be perfect,
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as my subjects would never love the woman
beneath the armor.
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Not like you do.
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Never pretend with me.
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Will you at least consider Earth?
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[Lilandra] I will.
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But I remind you, Charles,
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the virtue of a teacher lies
in showing their students
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how to walk on their own.
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True.
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But only if he is sure
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there are no more lessons
he can teach them.
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[Forge groans]
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You must drink.
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- [The Adversary] Why bother?
- [Forge groans]
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He's a liar.
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Traitor.
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Cost you everything.
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He was trying to help me.
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A tawdry romance of guilt and shame.
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How many have suffered his gifts?
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How many made slaves?
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[Storm] Your bite is
a sort of demonic infection.
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Once the venom reaches his heart...
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[The Adversary] Leave him.
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Don't play martyr.
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You will not break me.
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But I can fix you.
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Forge made his bed.
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Let him die in it.
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All lives deserve saving.
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Even his.
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[grunting]
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[The Adversary] You go for help,
but there is no pill for my poison.
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Let him die.
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Look the other way. Watch.
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Get used to it.
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You're not an X-Man anymore.
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Well, where did that get you?
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Kissing the hand that beats you?
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[exclaims]
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[yelling]
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I do not fear death.
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I know. That's why you rush to play dead.
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You fear living.
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As you said to Jean,
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"I have wondered
what it would be like to be human."
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It is a tempting daydream.
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I... I was so tired.
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Is that why you fear your power,
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sought refuge with this monotone family?
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Enough! Let me out!
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Let me out!
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Look at your family.
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Who you follow.
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I was wrong.
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Forge didn't rob your gifts.
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- You had already renounced them.
- No! Please!
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I cannot breathe.
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[The Adversary] Sham!
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You turned your back
on these paths long ago.
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Lord of chaos!
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Weaver of lies,
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I tear your thread and break your loom.
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Depart to the desert, demon.
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Depart, and be gone.
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[breathing heavily]
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[screeching]
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[groans]
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Mom practiced desert magic.
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Some of it sunk in,
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despite my best efforts.
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[Storm] Careful. Your shoulder.
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Well, give it to me straight.
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You need a better bedside face, Doc.
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Its bite is magical.
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Perhaps your mother's book
holds an answer.
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[Forge] She wrote about a cacti,
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the midnight cholla.
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Grows in nearby caves.
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Doesn't need sunlight.
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Its aloe is powerful magic medicine.
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I can show you the way.
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You are too weak. Tell me where to go.
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I don't have much time, Ororo.
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If this nastiness gets worse
while you're gone,
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I don't wanna be alone.
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Then we ride together, my love.
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[announcer]
The Empress, Lilandra Neramani,
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and her Royal Consort.
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- [playing fanfare]
- [crowd cheering]
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Your man speaks as if I am your pet.
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Hmm. Not an entirely displeasing thought.
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Hush now, beloved. You may bark later.
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[clears throat] Your Majesty,
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I have known you
since you were but a hatchling
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and wish only for your happiness.
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But given our war with the Kree,
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and how it's divided even we Shi'ar,
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is a royal wedding...
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Gladiator and his Guard
fill my ears with news of coming victory.
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Yes, but we have been trapped
in so much change,
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some yearn for the stable comfort
of what is familiar for sameness.
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Araki sugars his words, my sister.
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Your consort was born
on the wrong side of the stars.
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He is Terran.
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Gentle sister, heed my throne.
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A throne that is bound
to more than the whims of your heart.
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A union with the Terran
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would bind the Shi'ar into alliance
with his inferior home world.
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I respect you speaking
the quiet part out loud, Deathbird,
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so let's speak plainly.
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Your Empress and I decide alliances
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as well as which world we call home.
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[Araki] Chandilar is home.
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Our throne world.
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- Of course, Lord Chancellor.
- I merely meant...
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[Deathbird] Spoke the quiet part out loud?
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Xavier would see his Milky Way ghetto
become our new throne world.
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You are twisting my words.
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High Council, for the sake of the empire,
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I must invoke the Rite of M'Dashaa.
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[all gasping]
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Terran, the rite requires...
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A non-Shi'ar pass a test of loyalty
in order to wed a royal.
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I finished that volume
my second day here, Deathbird.
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Not any mere test, Terran.
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A challenge of my own choosing.
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[Professor X] Then choose.
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[Deathbird] To ensure we are protected
from your Terran ties,
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you must renounce Earth
and erase all memory of your life there.
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[all gasp]
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Charles is a formidable psychic.
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His mind will not be easily scrubbed.
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Luckily, we Shi'ar bow to a ruler
of equal psychic power.
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Charles Xavier
must purge all memories of Earth,
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and you, dear sister,
must be the one to do it.
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[crowd murmuring]
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[Gladiator] Sharra and K'ythri.
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Our highest gods.
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Mmm. Once enemies, then forced to marry
to bring harmony to the universe.
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And here I thought
the Shi'ar looked down on art
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as a sign of insanity and deviance.
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In most cases.
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But the union of Sharra and K'ythri
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is at the core of our principles.
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To bind various cultures into one
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for the sake of galactic peace
and harmony.
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How Rudyard Kipling of you.
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I do not know this Kipling.
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- A Terran?
- Yes.
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One possessed of many burdens.
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None real.
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Much like your myth.
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What is united if one half must be erased
for the sake of the whole?
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Idealism is also a sign of insanity.
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[chuckles softly]
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00:15:15,750 --> 00:15:20,333
You know, I have a very old
and very dear friend on Earth
264
00:15:20,333 --> 00:15:21,666
who would agree with you.
265
00:15:21,666 --> 00:15:23,083
Wise, for a Terran.
266
00:15:23,666 --> 00:15:24,708
Yes.
267
00:15:24,708 --> 00:15:26,375
His name is Magnus.
268
00:15:26,375 --> 00:15:28,000
And I wish to remember him.
269
00:15:28,500 --> 00:15:30,250
[Lilandra]
You've made your decision, then?
270
00:15:33,166 --> 00:15:34,166
Forgive me.
271
00:15:34,625 --> 00:15:36,708
I do so love to think.
272
00:15:36,708 --> 00:15:38,916
Do you love me, Charles?
273
00:15:40,083 --> 00:15:41,166
A silly question.
274
00:15:41,791 --> 00:15:45,041
Even you know Deathbird's challenge
goes too far.
275
00:15:45,958 --> 00:15:48,666
On Earth, you fought tirelessly
to be tolerated
276
00:15:48,666 --> 00:15:50,500
and were nearly killed for it.
277
00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:51,708
Why remember?
278
00:15:51,708 --> 00:15:53,375
Why not let go?
279
00:15:53,375 --> 00:15:54,458
Start anew.
280
00:15:54,833 --> 00:15:58,125
If you refuse,
they won't let us be together.
281
00:15:58,833 --> 00:16:00,541
Not unless I forfeit my throne,
282
00:16:00,541 --> 00:16:02,958
which is exactly Deathbird's design.
283
00:16:03,458 --> 00:16:05,083
Imagine the chaos
284
00:16:05,083 --> 00:16:08,958
that my sister would unleash
across the galaxy as ruler.
285
00:16:08,958 --> 00:16:11,291
It would rival that of my mad brother.
286
00:16:15,208 --> 00:16:16,666
You saved my life.
287
00:16:17,541 --> 00:16:20,208
Gave me a home, a new future.
288
00:16:20,833 --> 00:16:23,041
Your devotion is beyond measure.
289
00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:29,166
Perhaps it is time to show you mine.
290
00:16:37,583 --> 00:16:39,833
[groans] There. That's it.
291
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,291
Snowsnake Tower.
292
00:16:47,375 --> 00:16:50,375
Union forces stored weapons here
during the Civil War.
293
00:16:52,083 --> 00:16:54,958
It was actually built during
the Plains War decades earlier,
294
00:16:55,458 --> 00:16:56,541
by colonists.
295
00:16:57,041 --> 00:16:59,500
Those wars exterminated your people.
296
00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:03,750
Why let them build such a thing
into the very foundations of your land?
297
00:17:03,750 --> 00:17:05,708
Well, they said
that they were here to help.
298
00:17:05,708 --> 00:17:07,458
Sort of like how I came to you.
299
00:17:09,208 --> 00:17:12,291
I heard The Adversary
telling you to let me die.
300
00:17:13,458 --> 00:17:16,750
[sighs] I'm so sorry, Ororo,
for deceiving you.
301
00:17:17,791 --> 00:17:19,333
For drawing the Adversary.
302
00:17:19,958 --> 00:17:22,791
Hush. The demon was not your doing.
303
00:17:23,375 --> 00:17:26,125
A big, evil owl that feeds on anger
and self-loathing?
304
00:17:27,041 --> 00:17:28,708
Call me chum in the water.
305
00:17:28,708 --> 00:17:30,291
Then I am chum, too.
306
00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,625
Before I lost my gifts,
I told a friend, my sister,
307
00:17:34,625 --> 00:17:37,208
that I often wondered about being human.
308
00:17:37,875 --> 00:17:40,333
I confessed this as if to console her.
309
00:17:41,083 --> 00:17:43,250
No matter how many I saved,
310
00:17:43,250 --> 00:17:47,166
my mutant gifts inspired
twice as much hate in humanity.
311
00:17:47,833 --> 00:17:51,708
In a way, your machine failing
is a blessing.
312
00:17:52,291 --> 00:17:53,750
I am better this way.
313
00:17:56,208 --> 00:17:57,291
Growing up,
314
00:17:57,291 --> 00:17:59,291
I always heard how the worst weapon used
315
00:17:59,291 --> 00:18:01,791
by the Europeans
was not bullets or blankets,
316
00:18:02,291 --> 00:18:04,541
but a white lie that they could make us...
317
00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:06,375
[coughing]
318
00:18:08,666 --> 00:18:10,458
The cactus grows in darkness.
319
00:18:11,041 --> 00:18:12,041
Where?
320
00:18:12,041 --> 00:18:13,625
That's why I came.
321
00:18:14,125 --> 00:18:16,791
I know how you feel about tight spaces.
322
00:18:17,583 --> 00:18:20,000
[♪ eerie music playing]
323
00:18:23,958 --> 00:18:25,333
Charles Xavier,
324
00:18:25,916 --> 00:18:30,666
do you stand in our circle
to complete the Rite of M'Dashaa?
325
00:18:31,541 --> 00:18:32,541
I do.
326
00:18:34,750 --> 00:18:37,625
And do you renounce all memories of Earth?
327
00:18:37,625 --> 00:18:38,958
Of your life there?
328
00:18:39,541 --> 00:18:40,625
I do.
329
00:18:41,208 --> 00:18:42,583
And of your X-Men?
330
00:18:48,541 --> 00:18:51,791
Xavier, do you renounce your X-Men?
331
00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:54,041
[Deathbird] See?
332
00:18:54,041 --> 00:18:55,708
He hesitates.
333
00:19:00,625 --> 00:19:02,958
He insults all Shi'ar.
334
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,250
This was exactly my fear.
335
00:19:07,083 --> 00:19:10,250
What you ask of him is no small burden.
336
00:19:10,250 --> 00:19:12,333
He seeks to ally us with Earth.
337
00:19:12,333 --> 00:19:14,458
My God, you are dramatic.
338
00:19:15,333 --> 00:19:17,541
How can we entrust our mighty empire,
339
00:19:17,541 --> 00:19:19,916
which has endured for eons,
340
00:19:19,916 --> 00:19:22,333
to a ruler descended of simians?
341
00:19:22,333 --> 00:19:26,375
Have our blood mixed
with his inferior freak fluids?
342
00:19:26,375 --> 00:19:27,708
Indeed.
343
00:19:27,708 --> 00:19:31,583
This Xavier is not even a pure Terran.
344
00:19:31,583 --> 00:19:33,500
A lower caste.
345
00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:34,750
A mutant.
346
00:19:34,750 --> 00:19:39,083
My sister, like my brother D'ken,
has gone mad.
347
00:19:40,416 --> 00:19:44,041
Renounce her before her lovesick lunacy
destroys us all.
348
00:19:44,041 --> 00:19:45,125
Sedition.
349
00:19:45,125 --> 00:19:47,791
Gladiator, arrest this treacherous vulture
350
00:19:47,791 --> 00:19:50,250
and any who dare to stand with her.
351
00:19:50,250 --> 00:19:51,458
[yells]
352
00:19:53,916 --> 00:19:54,916
[grunts]
353
00:19:56,416 --> 00:19:57,666
[soldier] By Sharra!
354
00:20:02,958 --> 00:20:04,416
[all yelling]
355
00:20:05,541 --> 00:20:06,791
[device powers up]
356
00:20:10,166 --> 00:20:11,375
[all yell]
357
00:20:14,916 --> 00:20:16,250
- [grunts]
- Charles!
358
00:20:16,250 --> 00:20:17,750
Lilandra, behind you!
359
00:20:18,416 --> 00:20:19,708
[both grunting]
360
00:20:25,666 --> 00:20:28,875
- Hmm.
- [Professor X] No, not this way.
361
00:20:29,458 --> 00:20:31,791
I have forgotten my greatest gift.
362
00:20:33,416 --> 00:20:34,416
Hear me.
363
00:20:34,875 --> 00:20:38,000
Class is now in session.
364
00:20:38,875 --> 00:20:39,958
[gasps]
365
00:20:41,833 --> 00:20:43,083
[all gasp]
366
00:20:48,375 --> 00:20:50,666
What is this? What have you done?
367
00:20:50,666 --> 00:20:54,250
Gladiator, please raise your hand
if you have a question.
368
00:20:54,833 --> 00:20:57,875
To answer, I have used
my vast psychic abilities
369
00:20:57,875 --> 00:20:59,625
to draw us into the astral plane.
370
00:21:00,333 --> 00:21:01,875
Now, pay attention.
371
00:21:01,875 --> 00:21:04,041
It is time for today's lesson.
372
00:21:05,458 --> 00:21:07,583
[♪ mysterious music playing]
373
00:21:27,708 --> 00:21:28,750
Oh!
374
00:21:29,458 --> 00:21:31,125
[panting]
375
00:21:32,125 --> 00:21:34,000
[The Adversary growling]
376
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,083
You had to be the bigger woman.
377
00:21:36,666 --> 00:21:39,208
Had to save him, be above it.
378
00:21:39,833 --> 00:21:40,833
Now look at you.
379
00:21:41,333 --> 00:21:42,333
No!
380
00:21:42,750 --> 00:21:44,541
Forge destroyed you!
381
00:21:44,791 --> 00:21:45,875
[The Adversary] Yes.
382
00:21:45,875 --> 00:21:47,333
Yes, let me taste.
383
00:21:47,958 --> 00:21:49,958
Ooh, yummy!
384
00:21:50,458 --> 00:21:53,250
Fear poached in self-loathing.
385
00:21:53,958 --> 00:21:56,833
More! The high road, Storm.
386
00:21:56,833 --> 00:22:01,458
Last stop, you, pancaked
by the pressure of existing.
387
00:22:01,458 --> 00:22:03,666
- [whimpering]
- How unfair.
388
00:22:03,666 --> 00:22:04,875
Yes. There.
389
00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:08,791
[gasps] Yes! Always beg to be saved.
390
00:22:09,333 --> 00:22:14,916
Submit, and I will save you
and let you live your tempting daydream.
391
00:22:19,750 --> 00:22:22,291
[Storm] No, you demon.
392
00:22:24,625 --> 00:22:26,500
Not a daydream.
393
00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:28,333
[stones rumbling]
394
00:22:33,458 --> 00:22:35,458
The X-Cutioner's neutralizer
395
00:22:35,458 --> 00:22:38,625
was not the only weapon
tamping down my gifts.
396
00:22:40,875 --> 00:22:42,250
There was that lie.
397
00:22:42,916 --> 00:22:44,416
And I believed it.
398
00:22:44,958 --> 00:22:46,166
Be warned.
399
00:22:46,791 --> 00:22:47,875
Be smart.
400
00:22:48,375 --> 00:22:50,125
Believe the lie.
401
00:22:50,125 --> 00:22:51,791
Deny your power.
402
00:22:52,458 --> 00:22:57,583
Play dead, or humanity
will thunder down upon you and your kind.
403
00:22:58,166 --> 00:23:02,125
[Storm] You all are an echo of who I am.
404
00:23:02,708 --> 00:23:04,625
[thunder rumbling]
405
00:23:04,791 --> 00:23:07,208
[♪ exciting music playing]
406
00:23:07,916 --> 00:23:09,958
[growling]
407
00:23:09,958 --> 00:23:13,125
[Storm] So let them thunder,
408
00:23:13,666 --> 00:23:16,583
for I am lightning!
409
00:23:33,833 --> 00:23:35,416
[rumbling in distance]
410
00:24:03,708 --> 00:24:05,500
[laughs]
411
00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:06,666
[sighs]
412
00:24:26,916 --> 00:24:28,541
[rumbling echoing]
413
00:24:28,541 --> 00:24:31,041
[Storm] Strange, to feel grateful.
414
00:24:31,041 --> 00:24:32,250
Towards the demon?
415
00:24:32,750 --> 00:24:36,250
What are demons,
but reflections of our fears and shame?
416
00:24:36,708 --> 00:24:39,291
- [groans]
- [Storm] Things we bury within us,
417
00:24:39,791 --> 00:24:41,708
hide from loved ones,
418
00:24:41,708 --> 00:24:43,583
even as they poison our hearts...
419
00:24:43,708 --> 00:24:44,875
[winces]
420
00:24:44,875 --> 00:24:50,125
...until we finally heal
our adversary by embracing it.
421
00:24:51,583 --> 00:24:53,958
There. It's starting to heal.
422
00:24:56,208 --> 00:24:57,208
So, what now?
423
00:24:58,083 --> 00:25:00,000
You've been given a second chance.
424
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,958
Should we whisk away
to some tropical island?
425
00:25:02,958 --> 00:25:06,291
Not an entirely unpleasant idea.
426
00:25:07,458 --> 00:25:09,916
Nations refusing to allow mutants
427
00:25:09,916 --> 00:25:12,541
displaced by the brutal attack on Genosha
428
00:25:12,541 --> 00:25:14,666
to return to their home countries.
429
00:25:14,666 --> 00:25:16,375
This, as rumors swirl...
430
00:25:16,375 --> 00:25:18,708
- [gasps]
- ...that Genosha is the opening salvo
431
00:25:18,708 --> 00:25:21,541
in the long-feared evolutionary war
432
00:25:21,541 --> 00:25:23,708
between humans and mutants
433
00:25:23,708 --> 00:25:26,083
that the late Professor Charles Xavier...
434
00:25:26,083 --> 00:25:27,958
Let's talk about power.
435
00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:29,833
Real power.
436
00:25:30,416 --> 00:25:34,250
Who can tell me from where
the Shi'ar Imperium draws its might?
437
00:25:34,250 --> 00:25:38,708
From the crushed skulls
that house inferior minds such as yours.
438
00:25:39,291 --> 00:25:41,375
[Professor X] Demerits. Raise your hand.
439
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,125
[groans]
440
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,250
The power of your empire is, in truth,
441
00:25:47,250 --> 00:25:49,458
a harvest of stolen worlds.
442
00:25:50,041 --> 00:25:53,833
Younger cultures
that, had they not been tilled to death,
443
00:25:53,833 --> 00:25:56,750
would now be empires rivaling your own.
444
00:25:57,166 --> 00:25:59,958
Fearing this, you strike at the knees
445
00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:02,083
and claim you can help them walk again.
446
00:26:02,833 --> 00:26:04,833
But only if they assimilate.
447
00:26:05,250 --> 00:26:06,250
Submit.
448
00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:09,083
Which brings us to this conclusion.
449
00:26:09,666 --> 00:26:13,458
The Shi'ar empire is a snake oil racket.
450
00:26:14,458 --> 00:26:17,416
Even you Terrans claim, "Might is right."
451
00:26:17,416 --> 00:26:19,708
[Professor X scoffs]
The rhyme that sells the lie.
452
00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:23,125
That we must pillage worth
from one another.
453
00:26:23,125 --> 00:26:27,000
That for me to be more, you must be less.
454
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,708
Your existence against mine because...
455
00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:31,625
Why?
456
00:26:31,625 --> 00:26:34,708
Says who? Who made up these silly rules?
457
00:26:34,708 --> 00:26:36,291
We did, beloved.
458
00:26:36,875 --> 00:26:37,958
Playing make-believe.
459
00:26:38,458 --> 00:26:40,291
Even if we were to agree,
460
00:26:40,291 --> 00:26:43,291
your idealism would confuse our people.
461
00:26:43,291 --> 00:26:45,291
They might even call it nonsense.
462
00:26:47,125 --> 00:26:48,458
Want to know a secret?
463
00:26:49,333 --> 00:26:51,583
Coexistence is messy.
464
00:26:52,083 --> 00:26:54,125
Thus, my love for education,
465
00:26:54,833 --> 00:26:56,166
for my X-Men.
466
00:26:56,166 --> 00:26:59,916
Their heroism teaches a lesson
we mustn't forget.
467
00:27:00,583 --> 00:27:03,291
That the universe is very old,
468
00:27:03,291 --> 00:27:06,083
and all of us, very young.
469
00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:08,583
Born of ancient stardust,
470
00:27:09,291 --> 00:27:11,375
and all children of the atom.
471
00:27:18,958 --> 00:27:19,958
Heavens, no!
472
00:27:20,333 --> 00:27:22,416
[♪ dramatic music playing]
473
00:27:26,750 --> 00:27:27,750
Gambit?
474
00:27:30,541 --> 00:27:32,791
No!
475
00:27:32,791 --> 00:27:35,625
They were dancing,
drinking wine, making love!
476
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,375
Oh, my children!
477
00:27:37,375 --> 00:27:39,708
My children of the atom, destroyed!
478
00:27:40,666 --> 00:27:41,666
No!
479
00:27:42,291 --> 00:27:43,541
[screams]
480
00:27:46,625 --> 00:27:48,208
Charles! [breathing heavily]
481
00:27:50,875 --> 00:27:52,000
Beloved.
482
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,458
What in the stars?
483
00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:56,958
[shakily]
I must return to Earth immediately.
484
00:27:56,958 --> 00:28:00,125
But we've nearly convinced the council.
485
00:28:00,125 --> 00:28:01,375
It doesn't matter!
486
00:28:01,375 --> 00:28:04,833
While I cowered in the cosmos,
the unthinkable has happened.
487
00:28:05,333 --> 00:28:06,708
Charles, if you leave,
488
00:28:06,708 --> 00:28:09,708
you will prove my sister right
about your kind.
489
00:28:11,333 --> 00:28:14,458
If that should end
our star-crossed affair,
490
00:28:14,458 --> 00:28:15,583
so be it.
491
00:28:16,333 --> 00:28:18,750
I will not abandon my kind.
492
00:28:23,041 --> 00:28:26,666
It is time I return to my X-Men.
493
00:28:33,375 --> 00:28:35,083
[panting]
494
00:28:37,291 --> 00:28:38,625
I did what you asked.
495
00:28:38,625 --> 00:28:41,375
I gave you my DNA to access Master Mold.
496
00:28:42,333 --> 00:28:43,333
[grunts]
497
00:28:44,375 --> 00:28:45,708
[sobbing]
498
00:28:46,541 --> 00:28:47,916
Kill me, please,
499
00:28:48,416 --> 00:28:49,875
for what happened in Genosha.
500
00:28:50,458 --> 00:28:52,750
- [shushing]
- [Bolivar] I beg you.
501
00:28:52,916 --> 00:28:55,458
[man] Don't take all the blame, Bolivar,
502
00:28:55,458 --> 00:28:57,708
and don't fret the future.
503
00:28:57,708 --> 00:29:02,750
Why, Genosha was merely
the beginning of a prologue, now past.
504
00:29:02,750 --> 00:29:04,458
You have nothing to fear,
505
00:29:05,041 --> 00:29:09,000
so long as you place your faith
in Sinister.
506
00:29:09,666 --> 00:29:12,375
[laughs maniacally]
507
00:29:14,708 --> 00:29:18,000
{\an8}[♪ closing instrumental music playing]