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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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[♪ Exciting music playing]
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Shi'ar fools, surren...
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-[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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You know, I have a very old
and very dear friend on Earth
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who would agree with you.
265
00:15:24,750 --> 00:15:26,083
Wise, for a Terran.
266
00:15:26,667 --> 00:15:27,708
Yes.
267
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His name is Magnus.
268
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And I wish to remember him.
269
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[Lilandra]
You've made your decision, then?
270
00:15:36,167 --> 00:15:37,167
Forgive me.
271
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I do so love to think.
272
00:15:39,792 --> 00:15:41,917
Do you love me, Charles?
273
00:15:43,083 --> 00:15:44,167
A silly question.
274
00:15:44,792 --> 00:15:48,042
Even you know Deathbird's challenge
goes too far.
275
00:15:48,958 --> 00:15:51,667
On Earth, you fought tirelessly
to be tolerated
276
00:15:51,750 --> 00:15:53,500
and were nearly killed for it.
277
00:15:53,583 --> 00:15:54,708
Why remember?
278
00:15:54,792 --> 00:15:56,375
Why not let go?
279
00:15:56,458 --> 00:15:57,458
Start anew.
280
00:15:57,833 --> 00:16:01,125
If you refuse,
they won't let us be together.
281
00:16:01,833 --> 00:16:03,542
Not unless I forfeit my throne,
282
00:16:03,625 --> 00:16:05,958
which is exactly Deathbird's design.
283
00:16:06,458 --> 00:16:08,083
Imagine the chaos
284
00:16:08,167 --> 00:16:11,958
that my sister would unleash
across the galaxy as ruler.
285
00:16:12,042 --> 00:16:14,292
It would rival that of my mad brother.
286
00:16:18,208 --> 00:16:19,667
You saved my life.
287
00:16:20,542 --> 00:16:23,208
Gave me a home, a new future.
288
00:16:23,833 --> 00:16:26,042
Your devotion is beyond measure.
289
00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:32,167
Perhaps it is time to show you mine.
290
00:16:40,583 --> 00:16:42,833
[groans] There. That's it.
291
00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,292
Snowsnake Tower.
292
00:16:50,375 --> 00:16:53,375
Union forces stored weapons here
during the Civil War.
293
00:16:55,083 --> 00:16:57,958
It was actually built during
the Plains War decades earlier,
294
00:16:58,458 --> 00:16:59,542
by colonists.
295
00:17:00,042 --> 00:17:02,500
Those wars exterminated your people.
296
00:17:02,583 --> 00:17:06,750
Why let them build such a thing
into the very foundations of your land?
297
00:17:06,833 --> 00:17:08,708
Well, they said
that they were here to help.
298
00:17:08,792 --> 00:17:10,458
Sort of like how I came to you.
299
00:17:12,208 --> 00:17:15,292
I heard The Adversary
telling you to let me die.
300
00:17:16,458 --> 00:17:19,750
[sighs] I'm so sorry, Ororo,
for deceiving you.
301
00:17:20,792 --> 00:17:22,333
For drawing the Adversary.
302
00:17:22,958 --> 00:17:25,792
Hush. The demon was not your doing.
303
00:17:26,375 --> 00:17:29,125
A big, evil owl that feeds on anger
and self-loathing?
304
00:17:30,042 --> 00:17:31,708
Call me chum in the water.
305
00:17:31,792 --> 00:17:33,292
Then I am chum, too.
306
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,625
Before I lost my gifts,
I told a friend, my sister,
307
00:17:37,708 --> 00:17:40,208
that I often wondered about being human.
308
00:17:40,875 --> 00:17:43,333
I confessed this as if to console her.
309
00:17:44,083 --> 00:17:46,250
No matter how many I saved,
310
00:17:46,333 --> 00:17:50,167
my mutant gifts inspired
twice as much hate in humanity.
311
00:17:50,833 --> 00:17:54,708
In a way, your machine failing
is a blessing.
312
00:17:55,292 --> 00:17:56,750
I am better this way.
313
00:17:59,208 --> 00:18:00,292
Growing up,
314
00:18:00,375 --> 00:18:02,292
I always heard how the worst weapon used
315
00:18:02,375 --> 00:18:04,792
by the Europeans
was not bullets or blankets,
316
00:18:05,292 --> 00:18:07,542
but a white lie that they could make us...
317
00:18:07,875 --> 00:18:09,375
[coughing]
318
00:18:11,667 --> 00:18:13,458
The cactus grows in darkness.
319
00:18:14,042 --> 00:18:15,042
Where?
320
00:18:15,125 --> 00:18:16,625
That's why I came.
321
00:18:17,125 --> 00:18:19,792
I know how you feel about tight spaces.
322
00:18:20,583 --> 00:18:23,000
[♪ Eerie music playing]
323
00:18:26,958 --> 00:18:28,333
Charles Xavier,
324
00:18:28,917 --> 00:18:33,667
do you stand in our circle
to complete the Rite of M'Dashaa?
325
00:18:34,542 --> 00:18:35,542
I do.
326
00:18:37,750 --> 00:18:40,625
And do you renounce all memories of Earth?
327
00:18:40,708 --> 00:18:41,958
Of your life there?
328
00:18:42,542 --> 00:18:43,625
I do.
329
00:18:44,208 --> 00:18:45,583
And of your X-Men?
330
00:18:51,542 --> 00:18:54,792
Xavier, do you renounce your X-Men?
331
00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,042
[Deathbird] See?
332
00:18:57,125 --> 00:18:58,708
He hesitates.
333
00:19:03,625 --> 00:19:05,958
He insults all Shi'ar.
334
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,250
This was exactly my fear.
335
00:19:10,083 --> 00:19:13,250
What you ask of him is no small burden.
336
00:19:13,333 --> 00:19:15,333
He seeks to ally us with Earth.
337
00:19:15,417 --> 00:19:17,458
My God, you are dramatic.
338
00:19:18,333 --> 00:19:20,542
How can we entrust our mighty empire,
339
00:19:20,625 --> 00:19:22,917
which has endured for eons,
340
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,333
to a ruler descended of simians?
341
00:19:25,417 --> 00:19:29,375
Have our blood mixed
with his inferior freak fluids?
342
00:19:29,458 --> 00:19:30,708
Indeed.
343
00:19:30,792 --> 00:19:34,583
This Xavier is not even a pure Terran.
344
00:19:34,667 --> 00:19:36,500
A lower caste.
345
00:19:36,583 --> 00:19:37,750
A mutant.
346
00:19:37,833 --> 00:19:42,083
My sister, like my brother D'ken,
has gone mad.
347
00:19:43,417 --> 00:19:47,042
Renounce her before her lovesick lunacy
destroys us all.
348
00:19:47,125 --> 00:19:48,125
Sedition.
349
00:19:48,208 --> 00:19:50,792
Gladiator, arrest this treacherous vulture
350
00:19:50,875 --> 00:19:53,250
and any who dare to stand with her.
351
00:19:53,333 --> 00:19:54,458
[yells]
352
00:19:56,917 --> 00:19:57,917
[grunts]
353
00:19:59,417 --> 00:20:00,667
[soldier] By Sharra!
354
00:20:05,958 --> 00:20:07,417
[all yelling]
355
00:20:08,542 --> 00:20:09,792
[device powers up]
356
00:20:13,167 --> 00:20:14,375
[all yell]
357
00:20:17,917 --> 00:20:19,250
- [grunts]
- Charles!
358
00:20:19,333 --> 00:20:20,750
Lilandra, behind you!
359
00:20:21,417 --> 00:20:22,708
[both grunting]
360
00:20:28,667 --> 00:20:31,875
- Hmm.
- [Professor X] No, not this way.
361
00:20:32,458 --> 00:20:34,792
I have forgotten my greatest gift.
362
00:20:36,417 --> 00:20:37,417
Hear me.
363
00:20:37,875 --> 00:20:41,000
Class is now in session.
364
00:20:41,875 --> 00:20:42,958
[gasps]
365
00:20:44,833 --> 00:20:46,083
[all gasp]
366
00:20:51,375 --> 00:20:53,667
What is this? What have you done?
367
00:20:53,750 --> 00:20:57,250
Gladiator, please raise your hand
if you have a question.
368
00:20:57,833 --> 00:21:00,875
To answer, I have used
my vast psychic abilities
369
00:21:00,958 --> 00:21:02,625
to draw us into the astral plane.
370
00:21:03,333 --> 00:21:04,875
Now, pay attention.
371
00:21:04,958 --> 00:21:07,042
It is time for today's lesson.
372
00:21:08,458 --> 00:21:10,583
[♪ Mysterious music playing]
373
00:21:30,708 --> 00:21:31,750
Oh!
374
00:21:32,458 --> 00:21:34,125
[panting]
375
00:21:35,125 --> 00:21:37,000
[The Adversary growling]
376
00:21:37,083 --> 00:21:39,083
You had to be the bigger woman.
377
00:21:39,667 --> 00:21:42,208
Had to save him, be above it.
378
00:21:42,833 --> 00:21:43,833
Now look at you.
379
00:21:44,333 --> 00:21:45,333
No!
380
00:21:45,750 --> 00:21:47,542
Forge destroyed you!
381
00:21:47,792 --> 00:21:48,875
[The Adversary] Yes.
382
00:21:48,958 --> 00:21:50,333
Yes, let me taste.
383
00:21:50,958 --> 00:21:52,958
Ooh, yummy!
384
00:21:53,458 --> 00:21:56,250
Fear poached in self-loathing.
385
00:21:56,958 --> 00:21:59,833
More! The high road, Storm.
386
00:21:59,917 --> 00:22:04,458
Last stop, you, pancaked
by the pressure of existing.
387
00:22:04,542 --> 00:22:06,667
- [whimpering]
- How unfair.
388
00:22:06,750 --> 00:22:07,875
Yes. There.
389
00:22:07,958 --> 00:22:11,792
[gasps] Yes! Always beg to be saved.
390
00:22:12,333 --> 00:22:17,917
Submit, and I will save you
and let you live your tempting daydream.
391
00:22:22,750 --> 00:22:25,292
[Storm] No, you demon.
392
00:22:27,625 --> 00:22:29,500
Not a daydream.
393
00:22:29,583 --> 00:22:31,333
[stones rumbling]
394
00:22:36,458 --> 00:22:38,458
The X-Cutioner's neutralizer
395
00:22:38,542 --> 00:22:41,625
was not the only weapon
tamping down my gifts.
396
00:22:43,875 --> 00:22:45,250
There was that lie.
397
00:22:45,917 --> 00:22:47,417
And I believed it.
398
00:22:47,958 --> 00:22:49,167
Be warned.
399
00:22:49,792 --> 00:22:50,875
Be smart.
400
00:22:51,375 --> 00:22:53,125
Believe the lie.
401
00:22:53,208 --> 00:22:54,792
Deny your power.
402
00:22:55,458 --> 00:23:00,583
Play dead, or humanity
will thunder down upon you and your kind.
403
00:23:01,167 --> 00:23:05,125
[Storm] You all are an echo of who I am.
404
00:23:05,708 --> 00:23:07,625
[thunder rumbling]
405
00:23:07,792 --> 00:23:10,208
[♪ Exciting music playing]
406
00:23:10,917 --> 00:23:12,958
[growling]
407
00:23:13,042 --> 00:23:16,125
[Storm] So let them thunder,
408
00:23:16,667 --> 00:23:19,583
for I am lightning!
409
00:23:36,833 --> 00:23:38,417
[rumbling in distance]
410
00:24:06,708 --> 00:24:08,500
[laughs]
411
00:24:08,583 --> 00:24:09,667
[sighs]
412
00:24:29,917 --> 00:24:31,542
[rumbling echoing]
413
00:24:31,625 --> 00:24:34,042
[Storm] Strange, to feel grateful.
414
00:24:34,125 --> 00:24:35,250
Towards the demon?
415
00:24:35,750 --> 00:24:39,250
What are demons,
but reflections of our fears and shame?
416
00:24:39,708 --> 00:24:42,292
- [groans]
- [Storm] Things we bury within us,
417
00:24:42,792 --> 00:24:44,708
hide from loved ones,
418
00:24:44,792 --> 00:24:46,583
even as they poison our hearts...
419
00:24:46,708 --> 00:24:47,875
[winces]
420
00:24:47,958 --> 00:24:53,125
Until we finally heal
our adversary by embracing it.
421
00:24:54,583 --> 00:24:56,958
There. It's starting to heal.
422
00:24:59,208 --> 00:25:00,208
So, what now?
423
00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:03,000
You've been given a second chance.
424
00:25:03,083 --> 00:25:05,958
Should we whisk away
to some tropical island?
425
00:25:06,042 --> 00:25:09,292
Not an entirely unpleasant idea.
426
00:25:10,458 --> 00:25:12,917
Nations refusing to allow mutants
427
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,542
displaced by the brutal attack on Genosha
428
00:25:15,625 --> 00:25:17,667
to return to their home countries.
429
00:25:17,750 --> 00:25:19,375
This, as rumors swirl...
430
00:25:19,458 --> 00:25:21,708
- [gasps]
- that Genosha is the opening salvo
431
00:25:21,792 --> 00:25:24,542
in the long-feared evolutionary war
432
00:25:24,625 --> 00:25:26,708
between humans and mutants
433
00:25:26,792 --> 00:25:29,083
that the late Professor Charles Xavier...
434
00:25:29,167 --> 00:25:30,958
Let's talk about power.
435
00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:32,833
Real power.
436
00:25:33,417 --> 00:25:37,250
Who can tell me from where
the Shi'ar Imperium draws its might?
437
00:25:37,333 --> 00:25:41,708
From the crushed skulls
that house inferior minds such as yours.
438
00:25:42,292 --> 00:25:44,375
[Professor X] Demerits. Raise your hand.
439
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,125
[groans]
440
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,250
The power of your empire is, in truth,
441
00:25:50,333 --> 00:25:52,458
a harvest of stolen worlds.
442
00:25:53,042 --> 00:25:56,833
Younger cultures
that, had they not been tilled to death,
443
00:25:56,917 --> 00:25:59,750
would now be empires rivaling your own.
444
00:26:00,167 --> 00:26:02,958
Fearing this, you strike at the knees
445
00:26:03,042 --> 00:26:05,083
and claim you can help them walk again.
446
00:26:05,833 --> 00:26:07,833
But only if they assimilate.
447
00:26:08,250 --> 00:26:09,250
Submit.
448
00:26:09,667 --> 00:26:12,083
Which brings us to this conclusion.
449
00:26:12,667 --> 00:26:16,458
The Shi'ar empire is a snake oil racket.
450
00:26:17,458 --> 00:26:20,417
Even you Terrans claim, "Might is right."
451
00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:22,708
[Professor X scoffs]
The rhyme that sells the lie.
452
00:26:22,792 --> 00:26:26,125
That we must pillage worth
from one another.
453
00:26:26,208 --> 00:26:30,000
That for me to be more, you must be less.
454
00:26:30,083 --> 00:26:32,708
Your existence against mine because...
455
00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:34,625
Why?
456
00:26:34,708 --> 00:26:37,708
Says who? Who made up these silly rules?
457
00:26:37,792 --> 00:26:39,292
We did, beloved.
458
00:26:39,875 --> 00:26:40,958
Playing make-believe.
459
00:26:41,458 --> 00:26:43,292
Even if we were to agree,
460
00:26:43,375 --> 00:26:46,292
your idealism would confuse our people.
461
00:26:46,375 --> 00:26:48,292
They might even call it nonsense.
462
00:26:50,125 --> 00:26:51,458
Want to know a secret?
463
00:26:52,333 --> 00:26:54,583
Coexistence is messy.
464
00:26:55,083 --> 00:26:57,125
Thus, my love for education,
465
00:26:57,833 --> 00:26:59,167
for my X-Men.
466
00:26:59,250 --> 00:27:02,917
Their heroism teaches a lesson
we mustn't forget.
467
00:27:03,583 --> 00:27:06,292
That the universe is very old,
468
00:27:06,375 --> 00:27:09,083
and all of us, very young.
469
00:27:09,583 --> 00:27:11,583
Born of ancient stardust,
470
00:27:12,292 --> 00:27:14,375
and all children of the atom.
471
00:27:21,958 --> 00:27:22,958
Heavens, no!
472
00:27:23,333 --> 00:27:25,417
[♪ Dramatic music playing]
473
00:27:29,750 --> 00:27:30,750
Gambit?
474
00:27:33,542 --> 00:27:34,542
No!
475
00:27:34,625 --> 00:27:35,792
No!
476
00:27:35,875 --> 00:27:38,625
They were dancing,
drinking wine, making love!
477
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,375
Oh, my children!
478
00:27:40,458 --> 00:27:42,708
My children of the atom, destroyed!
479
00:27:43,667 --> 00:27:44,667
No!
480
00:27:45,292 --> 00:27:46,542
[screams]
481
00:27:49,625 --> 00:27:51,208
Charles! [breathing heavily]
482
00:27:53,875 --> 00:27:55,000
Beloved.
483
00:27:55,083 --> 00:27:56,458
What in the stars?
484
00:27:57,500 --> 00:27:59,958
[shakily]
I must return to Earth immediately.
485
00:28:00,042 --> 00:28:03,125
But we've nearly convinced the council.
486
00:28:03,208 --> 00:28:04,375
It doesn't matter!
487
00:28:04,458 --> 00:28:07,833
While I cowered in the cosmos,
the unthinkable has happened.
488
00:28:08,333 --> 00:28:09,708
Charles, if you leave,
489
00:28:09,792 --> 00:28:12,708
you will prove my sister right
about your kind.
490
00:28:14,333 --> 00:28:17,458
If that should end
our star-crossed affair,
491
00:28:17,542 --> 00:28:18,583
so be it.
492
00:28:19,333 --> 00:28:21,750
I will not abandon my kind.
493
00:28:26,042 --> 00:28:29,667
It is time I return to my X-Men.
494
00:28:36,375 --> 00:28:38,083
[panting]
495
00:28:40,292 --> 00:28:41,625
I did what you asked.
496
00:28:41,708 --> 00:28:44,375
I gave you my DNA to access Master Mold.
497
00:28:45,333 --> 00:28:46,333
[grunts]
498
00:28:47,375 --> 00:28:48,708
[sobbing]
499
00:28:49,542 --> 00:28:50,917
Kill me, please,
500
00:28:51,417 --> 00:28:52,875
for what happened in Genosha.
501
00:28:53,458 --> 00:28:55,750
- [shushing]
- [Bolivar] I beg you.
502
00:28:55,917 --> 00:28:58,458
[man] Don't take all the blame, Bolivar,
503
00:28:58,542 --> 00:29:00,708
and don't fret the future.
504
00:29:00,792 --> 00:29:05,750
Why, Genosha was merely
the beginning of a prologue, now past.
505
00:29:05,833 --> 00:29:07,458
You have nothing to fear,
506
00:29:08,042 --> 00:29:12,000
so long as you place your faith
in Sinister.
507
00:29:12,667 --> 00:29:15,375
[laughs maniacally]
508
00:29:17,708 --> 00:29:21,000
[♪ Closing instrumental music playing]