In the skies over Genosha, Magneto fights Mimic who can copy
the abilities of any mutant. Magneto claps an inhibitor collar from the museum
on him and Mimic plummets to the ground where Magneto beats him to death with a
metal post….
Inside the palace, Nuke fights his way through mutant guards
until he reaches Wanda in her bedroom; she awakens and, displaying powers for
the first time, she literally takes him apart….
Magneto rushes to the citadel to find Charles Xavier mortally
wounded by the Winter Soldier’s blade. Xavier pleads for mercy before dying in Magnus’
arms. Bucky reveals himself and he attacks Magneto with non-metallic knife and
gun; Magneto moves Captain America’s shield to block the bullets then hurls the
shield to decapitate Bucky. Polaris and Quicksilver arrive with a report of casualties
and Wanda shows up with the gravely wounded Sabretooth. Magneto holds Cap’s
shield and notes that it was once the symbol of high ideals but now merely
carries the colors of a doomed empire….
The White House is on lockdown, President Richard M. Nixon
and Vice President Bolivar Trask under guard by a mass of Secret Service
agents. Then Cap’s shield crashes through the window. Magneto and his army besiege
the White House, taking on the new non-metallic Sentinels. Trask, on his way to
the SHIELD Helicarrier, orders a nuclear strike on Genosha….