Chapter Summaries

Miles learned that the Dusk Legion was coming to Greymalkin to capture him and chose to enter the out-of-control Danger Room to investigate the Black Spirit King's past. Ororo agreed to let him go with Anna and the others while preparing the Institute and community for an attack, and Cable revealed that Oasis might not help.

• Cable told Miles that the Dusk Legion would reach Greymalkin in twenty hours and that the Black Spirit King had ordered the Cult to capture the other Miles Zero.
• Nightcrawler and Ororo confronted Cable, who explained that he had come to take Miles somewhere safe, but Miles questioned the plan and asked to enter the Danger Room for information about the Black Spirit King.
• Miles explained to Ororo that he wanted to understand why the Black Spirit King had abandoned the people who cared about him, and Ororo permitted him to enter the Danger Room with Anna and the others for twelve hours.
• Ororo ordered Cable to contact Oasis and began preparing for the possibility that the Dusk Legion would threaten the Institute and nearby community.
• Cable told Ororo that Oasis was in Colorado but warned that Lorna Dane had said they did not want to be drawn into conflicts with the outside world.

Exodus led the Dusk Legion toward Greymalkin to capture Miles Zero, while Miles and his allies entered the Danger Room and found themselves inside a simulation of Alkali Lake Dam. The apparent simulation ended with a girl greeting Miles as “other me” after taking control of the experience.

• Exodus learned that Nathan Summers was likely to appear at Greymalkin and rallied the Dusk Legion through a prayer that strengthened Feirotus and his own power.
• Miles, Quentin, Rogue, and Hisako Ichiki entered the sealed Danger Room as the school prepared to evacuate and sought additional help against the approaching Dusk Legion.
• The group appeared in a cell at Alkali Lake Dam, where Miles recognized the base from the Black Spirit King's origins and took control of its electronic systems.
• Miles searched the base for a younger Miles Zero but found no trace of him, while young Ororo and Nightcrawler attacked the group.
• A girl revealed that she had controlled the apparent reality and greeted Miles as her other self, while Miles lost control of the base's devices.

Miles discovered that the Danger Room had created a consciousness using Miles Zero’s data, then returned to the Negative Zone to stop Uodo from consuming the factory. After defeating Uodo, he learned Aurora did not remember telling him to find the Black Spirit King.

• Miles and the X-Men fought the Danger Room consciousness, which appeared as young versions of familiar Mutants and claimed it was arranging training for fun.
• Miles used the Eternal Crystal Shard to open a rift from the Danger Room scenario to the Negative Zone.
• Miles found Uodo consuming the Negative Zone Factory and used his electronic control powers to hold it back while Aurora defended the central core.
• Miles equipped the Psypoint Armor: Archon Platform and stripped Uodo’s consciousness from the factory, reducing it to a small black metal core.
• Aurora explained that Uodo had reappeared after Miles’s last visit and reported the factory damage; Miles told her to stay in the Negative Zone while he handled the trouble outside.
• Miles asked Aurora why she had previously told him to find the Black Spirit King, but Aurora denied ever giving him that instruction.

Miles and his allies fought the Danger Room’s simulated X-Men after Professor X launched a lethal psychic attack. Miles unleashed the Phoenix Brand to overwhelm Jean Grey, but Magneto trapped him in steel; Rogue redirected Storm’s lightning into Professor X, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Miles and Hisako Ichiki found Quentin and Rogue in an underground warehouse, where Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Wolverine, Lady Deathstrike, Magneto, and Professor X confronted them.
• Professor X attacked the group’s minds, and Miles shielded Quentin, Rogue, and Hisako before trying to negotiate by revealing Feirotus’s corrosion.
• Professor X refused to stop the battle, and the simulated X-Men attacked as Hisako protected Miles, Quentin, and Rogue with her Psionic Armor.
• Miles activated the Phoenix Brand, defeated Jean Grey’s simulated Phoenix power, and charged at Professor X, but Magneto trapped him inside a crushing steel prison.
• Rogue seized control of Storm’s lightning and redirected it into Professor X while Miles remained trapped.

Miles and his allies defeated Magneto and the other opponents in the Danger Room simulation, only for Magneto to move them into a new battle at Alcatraz Island. Meanwhile, Nightcrawler failed to secure Oasis’s help against the Dusk Legion, but Forge joined him on the way back; Ruth then warned that Exodus was teleporting the Legion directly to Greymalkin, where a vast rusted ship began emerging from a portal.

• Miles broke through Magneto’s magnetic barrier with Phoenix Flame and psionic energy, while Rogue, Quire, and Hisako defeated their opponents.
• Miles and Quire failed to find the boundaries of the Danger Room simulation, and Magneto transported everyone to a recreation of the Battle of Alcatraz Island.
• Nightcrawler asked Lorna Dane to help the Xavier Institute against Exodus and the Dusk Legion, but Lorna refused and offered only to shelter fleeing civilians.
• Forge told Nightcrawler that he had found purpose at Oasis, then chose to return to the Institute with him.
• Ruth received an oracle warning that Exodus would teleport the Dusk Expeditionary Army to Greymalkin, and she alerted Cable through telepathic communication.
• Cable told Ororo to halt the evacuation and prepare to fight as a rusted ship emerged through a vast Space-Time Portal above Greymalkin.

As Ororo refused Exodus’s demand to surrender Miles Zero and Nathan Summers, she ordered the Xavier Institute to prepare for battle. Inside the Danger Room simulation, Miles unleashed the Feirotus corruption to disrupt the Sentinel army, then met Zero, who challenged him to a fight and revealed the Black Spirit King’s Electromagnetic Manipulation.

• Exodus emerged above Greymalkin aboard the Leviathan and demanded that the Xavier Institute hand over Miles Zero and Nathan Summers.
• Ororo rejected Exodus’s demand, declared that the institute would not abandon Miles or Nathan, and sent the X-Men to defend the institute while civilians evacuated.
• Miles and the others fought waves of Sentinels in the simulated ruins, and the Sentinel Robot explained how Miles Zero had lost Aurora during an anti-mutant operation.
• After Hisako Ichiki was badly hurt, Miles used the Phoenix Brand to destroy her attacker, then spread Feirotus corruption that caused the Sentinels to malfunction.
• Miles met Zero in the Danger Room and agreed to fight him, but Zero revealed his Electromagnetic Manipulation and tore Miles’s Adamantium spear from his hand.

Miles fought Zero in the Danger Room, discovered how to perceive the real system beneath its simulations, and took control of the corrupted facility. After Miles extracted Zero’s consciousness and the others awoke, a powerful psychic presence and an explosion outside the Danger Room revealed a new crisis at the institute.

• Zero used electromagnetic manipulation to attack Miles, who fought back with the Psypoint Core and Hawkeye’s combat instincts but was overwhelmed by Zero’s magnetic control.
• As Zero disrupted Miles’s bioelectrical signals, Miles learned to perceive the electromagnetic signals beneath the Danger Room’s simulated world and reached its reality layer.
• Miles broke through the simulation, awakened in the real Danger Room, and used Electronic Signal Manipulation to seize its central permissions and shut down its defenses.
• Miles extracted Zero’s consciousness into his mental world, and Zero accepted that Miles had completed his training.
• Anna, Quentin, and Hisako Ichiki woke up, but Miles discovered the Psypoint Core had been corroded and rendered unusable.
• An explosion shook the underground facility, and Miles sensed fear, anger, murderous intent, and a powerful psychic force enveloping the institute.

The Dusk Legion attacked the Xavier Institute, overwhelming its defenders as Exodus defeated Ororo and captured her. Cable and the X-Men learned that Miles Zero and three others were in the Danger Room, but Exodus overheard their plan and descended toward them.

• Dusk Knights attacked the Institute while Joanna Cargill fought Colossus and Carmella Unuscione and Omega Red overwhelmed Bobby; Victor was wounded and Bobby was captured before Cable forced Carmella to release him.
• Cable fought the Dusk Knights until Domino and Warpath arrived, while Exodus used the Cult's faith to strengthen his psychic power and overpower Ororo.
• Nightcrawler and Daniel Eagle joined the defenders, and Cable used telepathy to explain that Gateway had opened a passage to the Cellar base, though the Institute's defenders could not evacuate everyone.
• Cable learned that Miles Zero and the other three were still in the Danger Room and called for it to be opened, but Exodus overheard their psychic conversation.
• Exodus defeated Ororo, captured her aboard the Leviathan, and plunged toward the battlefield as Cable raised his shield to face him.

Exodus attacked the Xavier Institute and demanded that Nathan Summers surrender Miles Zero, while the mutants evacuated students through an underground passage. The rescue group fought its way toward Cable’s gateway as the Black Spirit King contacted Miles through the Dusk Knights and invited him to Daskoro.

• Exodus overwhelmed the battlefield, revealed that he had defeated Ororo Munroe, and demanded Nathan Summers and Miles Zero; Cable unleashed his full telekinetic power to hold Exodus back while Domino and Bobby led the evacuees underground.
• Carmella Unuscione, Omega Red, and the Dusk Knights cornered the evacuees in the passage, but Rogue and Quentin Quire arrived with lightning and psionic attacks, and Miles halted the Dusk Knights by manipulating their electronic signals.
• The Black Spirit King spoke through a Dusk Knight, invited Miles to the royal court in Daskoro, and offered to stop the attack if Miles agreed; Bobby froze the speaking knight and urged Miles not to sacrifice himself.
• Nightcrawler told the group that Cable had prepared a long-distance gateway and was fighting Exodus, while Miles confirmed that more people remained outside and used his power to stall the Dusk Knights ahead.
• Quentin and Rogue opened a path through the enemy, and Bobby shielded the wounded as the group rushed deeper underground; Colossus and Hisako Ichiki held Joanna back while a psionic rocket-propelled grenade struck her.

Miles and the others reached Gateway’s portal, but Exodus destroyed it and captured them. As Miles’s corruption revealed Exodus’s connection to Feirotus, Nightcrawler infiltrated the Leviathan and found Cable imprisoned beside the still-living Sky Knight, Nazca.

• Bobby told Miles that Exodus had brought the Dusk Legion to the Institute, defeated Ororo, and forced the Resistance Army to evacuate through Gateway’s portal.
• Miles realized Cable was fighting Exodus while his body collapsed and the Scarlet Sentinel symbiote threatened him, then led the group toward the gateway.
• Exodus tore the warehouse out of the ground and collapsed Gateway’s portal, trapping Miles and the others before him.
• Miles and Quentin attacked Exodus psychically while their allies joined the fight; Miles used mind control against Joanna and Arcady as the Dusk Knights arrived.
• Exodus seized Miles and said His Majesty wished to see him, but Miles’s rust-red corruption revealed that Exodus was tied to Feirotus’s power.
• Nightcrawler teleported aboard the Leviathan, found Cable imprisoned and unconscious, and recognized the rust-red knight guarding him as Nazca.

Miles learned that Exodus’s power depended on Feirotus and lured him into the Danger Room, where his connection to the entity was cut off and he became vulnerable. As Miles chose to evacuate the wounded rather than risk killing Exodus, Nightcrawler freed Cable aboard the Leviathan Warship and prepared to find Ororo.

• Exodus overpowered Miles’s controlled allies and Quentin and Bobby, but Rogue seized him and began absorbing his power before Feirotus’s visions overwhelmed her and Exodus restrained her.
• Miles showed Exodus a psychic memory of Feirotus’s physical form and persuaded him to follow in exchange for answers about the Black Spirit King, then led him into the Danger Room and trapped him there.
• Nightcrawler fought Nazca aboard the Leviathan Warship, teleported them both outside, returned injured, and freed Cable from his shackles.
• Cable told Nightcrawler that Exodus lifted the warship with telekinesis and that the cultists’ faith kept it airborne when Exodus was absent.
• Miles revealed to Exodus that he did not know Feirotus’s true history, and the Danger Room cut Exodus off from Feirotus while showing him an illusion of the entity.
• Miles decided to prioritize evacuating the academy’s wounded rather than attack Exodus, believing he could defeat him the next time they met.

Miles trapped Exodus in the Danger Room and worked with Cable and Gateway to reopen an evacuation portal, but Exodus escaped and attacked the warehouse. Bobby unleashed his full power to cover the evacuation, leaving himself trapped with the enemies, while Nightcrawler found Ororo aboard the Leviathan Warship and was ambushed by Nazca.

• Quentin realized Miles planned to trap Exodus in the Danger Room, and Miles returned to the warehouse after cutting off the Dusk Knights’ connection to Exodus.
• Miles and Cable contacted Gateway, who helped stabilize a portal so the wounded and civilians could evacuate, but Exodus soon broke free and ordered the Dusk Legion to attack.
• As the last people escaped, Exodus seized Miles with telekinesis and destabilized the portal, so Bobby transformed into ice and froze the enemies to give everyone time to flee.
• Bobby trapped the enemies and himself within the frozen academy after Quentin, Colossus, and the others escaped through the gateway.
• Nightcrawler found the wounded Ororo aboard the Leviathan Warship, but Nazca stabbed and knocked him unconscious.

After the academy’s evacuation, Miles recovered at the Cellar and learned that Bobby, Kurt, and Ororo had not returned. The Resistance Army prepared to move the survivors to Oasis, while Cable brought Miles to meet Think Tank, who revealed that he was an incomplete clone of Miles Zero created by Mr. Sinister.

• Miles woke in the Cellar infirmary after fourteen hours unconscious, and Soraya told him that Victor was out of danger, Anna remained unconscious, and Bobby had stayed behind.
• Miles reassured Soraya that fighting to protect others did not make her weak, then went with Hisako to meet Cable and the Resistance Army leaders.
• Cable told Miles that Kurt had failed to rescue Ororo and remained aboard the warship, while the Dusk Legion was returning to Vespera and the Cellar had to be evacuated.
• Cable and Forge explained that the survivors would be moved secretly to Oasis, and Miles described how the Danger Room had weakened Exodus by severing his connection to the Cult’s faith.
• Cable took Miles to the Silent Well, where Think Tank revealed through a psychic link that he was an incomplete clone of Miles Zero created by Mr. Sinister, Nathaniel Essex.

Miles met Think Tank, learned about the secret plan involving Nathaniel and the Black Spirit King, and discovered that Think Tank could hear the Feirotus Cult's prayers but had never heard one from the Black Spirit King. After Miles and Cable discussed investigating Nathaniel's past and seeking treatment for Cable, the Black Spirit King ordered a public trial and execution for Ororo, Kurt, and other prisoners on Dusk Memorial Day, expecting Miles to come to Vespera.

• Miles opened the sealed box, and Think Tank used electromagnetic control to stop Uodo's psionic attack and lock the core's consciousness away.
• Think Tank and Cable explained that Nathaniel's secret plan involved the Black Spirit King's return and Think Tank's creation, while Think Tank used the Feirotus Cult's faith network to gather intelligence.
• Think Tank warned Miles that he had never heard the Black Spirit King pray to Feirotus, and Miles agreed to help investigate Nathaniel's past at the White Court.
• Cable revealed that Virion, a data-life virus created by the Black Spirit King, had irreversibly bonded with and corrupted much of his body; he planned to seek treatment at Oasis while the resistance relocated and prepared to rescue Ororo.
• Exodus reported his failure to capture Miles to the Black Spirit King and questioned why Miles opposed them despite receiving Feirotus's blessing.
• The Black Spirit King ordered Exodus to announce a public trial and execution for Ororo, Kurt, and other prisoners in Daskoro Square on Dusk Memorial Day, one month later.

After learning that the Black Spirit King planned to publicly execute Ororo and the other captured resistance fighters on Dusk Memorial Day, the group prepared to seek allies and plan a rescue. Miles, Quentin, Hisako Ichiki, and Rogue headed toward the White Court, while Cable and Forge planned to approach Oasis and rebuild Think Tank’s life-support system.

• Cable told the group that Vespera would execute Ororo, Kurt, and other captured resistance fighters in Daskoro Square on Dusk Memorial Day, in just over twenty days.
• Miles and the others discussed the strength of Vespera’s defenses and decided they needed allies from Oasis and the White Court before confronting the Black Spirit King and Exodus.
• Miles proposed using Think Tank to control a simplified Danger Room that might resist Feirotus’s interference and counter Exodus, while Cable and Forge planned to take Think Tank and the academy’s civilians to Oasis.
• Miles chose to seek an alliance with the White Queen and investigate Mr. Sinister; Quentin and Hisako Ichiki joined him, while Colossus escorted the wounded and children toward Oasis and David Alleyne stayed with the Resistance Army.
• Miles and Quentin told Rogue about Ororo’s planned execution, and Rogue insisted on joining their trip to negotiate with Emma Frost at the White Court.

Miles traveled toward the White Court with Rogue and their companions, while Gateway confirmed he could open one final portal if absolutely necessary. Near Phoenix Valley, Miles used a Scarlet Sentinel to investigate Jean Grey’s battlefield and discovered signs that another Phoenix had fought her.

• Miles met the recovering Gateway, who signaled that he could open one more portal with Miles’s help, and Miles promised to save that option for a desperate situation.
• Cable, Forge, and the Institute’s civilians headed toward Oasis as Miles’s group continued toward the White Court.
• Rogue reunited with Callisto, who arranged train seats and warned that Emma Frost would demand something valuable before helping rescue Ororo.
• Miles sensed Phoenix Valley from the train, then projected his mind into a Scarlet Sentinel to investigate the battlefield.
• Miles found Phoenix and Feirotus traces in the valley and realized Jean Grey had apparently been defeated by another Phoenix.

Cable brought the Resistance Army’s civilians and wounded to Oasis and asked Lorna to form an alliance and help restore his injuries, while Miles arrived in Chicago and began investigating Nathaniel Essex. Miles’s search led him to Caliban, whose reaction to a question about Betsy Braddock revealed that she was connected to the mystery.

• Cable met Lorna outside Grand River Valley, explained that most of his convoy were civilians and wounded people, and asked Oasis to ally with the Resistance Army to rescue Ororo.
• Lorna agreed to discuss the alliance with Oasis’s representatives and offered to introduce Cable to Joshua for treatment; Cable encountered Victor Creed, who said he had no idea where Logan was.
• After the Steam Train reached Chicago, Miles left Anna, Hisako, and Quentin to investigate Nathaniel Essex, using his psychic ability to hide in the crowd.
• Miles learned about the White Court and sensed Emma Frost monitoring psychic activity, then withdrew his Telepathy before she could identify him.
• Miles used a tattooed Gang member’s eyes to approach Caliban in a tavern and asked about Nathaniel Essex, then asked where Betsy Braddock was; Caliban’s expression changed.

Miles discovered that Psylocke had returned to this universe through consciousness projection into Kwannon, and learned how the two had once exchanged bodies and now shared control. Psylocke also told him that the Sorcerer Supreme had died fighting Feirotus after Kaecilius summoned it with the stolen Book of Psionics, leaving Miles to confront the news that the main universe had reached a dangerous turning point.

• At the Seaship Tavern, Caliban questioned a tattooed man controlled by Miles, but the psychic connection suddenly ended and the man wondered why he was there.
• Betsy Braddock, acting through Kwannon, ambushed Miles by the lake, and Miles fought back until he restrained her with Neural Interference.
• Betsy recognized Miles as her boss, explained that her consciousness had descended into Kwannon, and described how she had once projected into a younger Betsy on Earth X2 during the War of Kangs.
• Betsy explained that she and Kwannon had made peace and could switch consciousnesses, and that Kwannon had attacked Miles because she thought he was a threat.
• Betsy told Miles that Doctor Strange had reported the Sorcerer Supreme's death after Kaecilius summoned Feirotus with the stolen Book of Psionics, and Miles was stunned by the news.

Miles learned from Psylocke that Nathaniel had collaborated with the Black Spirit King's followers on a secret project before the Dusk War, and he theorized that they had cloned the Black Spirit King. As Miles planned to investigate Nathaniel and meet Emma Frost, Kandela warned Emma that Dusk Memorial Day was twenty-five days away.

• Miles learned that Psylocke could remain projected for only a few days and bargained for her help by promising her a favor.
• Psylocke relayed that Nathaniel had worked with the Black Spirit King's followers on a secret project, and Miles theorized they had cloned the Black Spirit King and restored his consciousness in a new body.
• Miles asked Psylocke to have Caliban compile Nathaniel's suspected locations and decided to seek information from Emma Frost while keeping Psylocke's involvement secret.
• Psylocke warned Miles to watch out for Kandela, the Dusk Church's bishop.
• Callisto briefed Emma Frost about Anna, Quentin, and Miles Zero, and Emma arranged to meet them the following evening.
• Kandela entered Emma's office and warned her to keep a level head with Dusk Memorial Day twenty-five days away.

Lorna weighed whether Oasis should join Cable’s effort to rescue Ororo and eventually chose to evacuate instead. After John and Augustus tried to restrain her, Lorna broke free and dealt with the internal uprising before telling Cable her decision.

• Lorna convened Oasis’s council to discuss the Resistance Army’s request to join the rescue of Ororo, who was about to be publicly executed in Daskoro.
• John, Thomas Jones, and Raven opposed joining the war, while Warren, Cecilia Reyes, and Daniel supported it, leaving Lorna to make the deciding choice.
• After the council dispersed, Raven urged Lorna to trust her own judgment, and Lorna left to announce her decision.
• John and Augustus used Augustus’s power to suppress Lorna and gathered mutants to force Cable’s group out of Oasis, but Lorna broke free and pinned them with magnetic force.
• When Cable returned, Lorna told him that Oasis would evacuate.