Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Wolverine and some of his students (Genesis, Glob Herman, Kid Omega, Oya) fly to Wakanda to help repair the damage done by Sub-Mariner in Avengers vs X-Men #8. But Storm warns them off just before an anti-aircraft beam tries to hit them. She explains that Wakanda is now at war with Atlantis, but also all mutants are not welcome there anymore. And her ex-husband Black Panther has declared Storm herself a wanted criminal.
Cyclops has been given a ruby quartz 'blindfold' to keep his eye-beams in, and is taken to a prison. He is told that this prison has been fitted with a new system which can detect a mutant activating his power, and deliver an electric shock. The governor demonstrates manually. (Cyclops still needs the blindfold, because his eye-beams would be emitted automatically without it.)
The governor says that they are expecting lots of mutant prisoners now that mutants are appearing again (since the end of AvsX). This wing of the prison has been set aside for mutants, but the control system means that they can be otherwise allowed to mix with non-mutants. They will be treated like ordinary prisoners - nothing special about them. And Cyclops isn't even the 1st mutant here. There's another unidentified guy in another cell.
Hope Summers is in Avengers Tower, burning a letter she says was from her mentor Cable telling her he left Utopia Island for parts unknown. Captain America and Scarlet Witch ask her what she wants to do now. She could join one of the Avengers teams. She could join SHIELD as a trainee. Or she could go to Wolverine's school. But she says she wants to be 'normal' now (after her role as Mutant Messiah), and go to a normal school.
Iron Man and Carol Danvers as the new Captain Marvel think they've tracked down Magneto. They're wearing no metal, so IM has non-ferrous armour. But they've missed him.
Cap visits Wolverine at the Jean Grey School. It seems that all the so-called Extinction Team, the leading group of Cyclops' Utopia-based X-Men, are wanted. (Well, not Hope, and also presumably not Storm.) Of the 5 who wielded the Phoenix Force, Cyclops and Emma Frost are in custody, Namor is hiding in Atlantis although they deny it, and Colossus and Magik are missing. But Danger and Magneto are wanted too because of their suspect pasts.
Steve Rogers is trying to heal the rift between humans and mutants, e.g. with his new mixed Avengers teams. He wants Logan to talk to Cyclops and get him to tell mutants, including all the new ones, to cooperate. Wolvie refuses because, especially since Cyclops murdered Prof X, he wouldn't be able to hold back from killing him. (He and Cap went to see Scott at the end of AvsX#12, but Cap was there then to restrain him.)
Cap also says that the government think someone's leaking info to the Extinction Team, helping keep them one step ahead of their hunters. As long as they are free, all mutants are suspect, including Logan's school staff and students.
So Logan does go to see Cyclops in prison.