San Francisco Mayor Sadie Sinclair
is drafting a public statement about the Juggernaut crisis (actually
Juggernaut, possessed by Kuurth, Breaker of Stone crisis) when Scott “Cyclops” Summers finally returns her call to
explain what the X-Men are doing. Emma Frost draws the Mayor into a psychic
conference room where Scott explains who Juggernaut is, now enhanced by the
magic hammer, and their usual means of defeating him, psychic attacks once they
remove his protective helmet. Sinclair is concerned about collateral damage
among Kuurth’s newly gathered followers. Emma exerts some mental pressure via
Cerebra, causing Kuurth’s followers to desert him. Kuurth reacts with a shock
wave destroying a fleet of police cars as his herald announces that mind
control is one of the greatest sins and Juggernaut will kill his followers
rather than let that continue….
Cyclops takes Cecilia Reyes out to
the I-580, telling her to use her force field to keep the mob following Juggy
safe. Cyclops tells Juggernaut they are here to stop him, pausing to punch out
the herald. Cyclops unleashes a blast at Kuurth as a distraction; Kitty Pryde
brings Colossus up from beneath the ground to grab Juggy from behind but he is
tossed off. Iceman freezes Juggy’s helmet but he is repulsed. Colossus throws a
punch and is punched back, hurling him away—but there is now a crack in his
helmet. Not enough for psychic penetration. Magneto confronts Juggy who hurls
the hammer at him; Magneto is shocked that his metal influencing powers have no
effect on the hammer; Kitty Pryde must come to his rescue….
In the psychic conference room,
Emma mocks the X-Men’s efforts so far. Scott assures the Mayor they have over
100 mutants on call. The Mayor asks why they aren’t employing them; Scott
responds that half of them are children but the real problem is that if they
go in en masse, they would only be killing their own and so far Juggernaut
hasn’t killed anyone. So he moves on to Plan 2, not Plan B which implies they
have only 26 plans. So Cyclops issues orders through Emma….
As the backup team attacks
Juggernaut, Hope Summers is called in. She absorbs the powers of multiple mutants
and assaults Juggernaut, quickly tearing his helmet off before he knocks her
out. Emma Frost unleashes a psychic attack on Juggy—and her brain is
fried. The herald enters the psychic conference room where he tells them they
cannot stop the Juggernaut. He tells Sinclair that she can only save her city
by driving out or killing the mutants. He tells Scott that he can only save his
people by taking them out of the city and allowing Juggernaut to destroy the
human population. Then Juggy’s giant foot clomps down upon them, ejecting them
from the conference room. Kuurth continues toward the city while Emma is in
mental shock….