[Note: The events in this story are also depicted, from other perspectives, in the story in ALPHA FLIGHT Vol. 2 #9.]The phone answering machine at the Xavier Institute records calls from Kurt Wagner, Margaret Stone of the Department of Education, and Jean Grey while the X-Men are out. On the road to , is on his motorcycle, transporting Sauron, who is bound in a burlap sack, to drop him off with someone better equipped to handle the reptilian menace. Without warning, a jet swoops down above them, causing them to skid. picks Sauron up off the pavement and they continue down the road. In , Rogue visits Dr. Agee, a scientist who claims to have “cured” his mutant sister. Dr. Agee takes a sample of Rogue’s DNA and she leaves. At the Summers’ cabin outside , , Scott Summers and Jean Grey...