Recaps

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.

Miles discovered a hidden force of Dusk Knights beneath the Dusk Church while Emma Frost arranged separate meetings with him and Anna’s group. Emma revealed White Court’s ties to Vespera and challenged Miles to explain why he believed he could defeat the Black Spirit King.

• Callisto told Anna, Quentin, and Hisako Ichiki that Emma Frost would meet them in two hours but would not see Miles yet.
• Miles investigated the Dusk Church and sensed about a hundred Dusk Knights hidden in a vast chamber beneath it.
• Emma Frost contacted Miles through a woman, revealed she had been tracking him, and invited him to a private meeting at the Old Commodity Exchange’s clock tower.
• Emma Frost met Anna, Quentin, and Hisako Ichiki alongside Kandela, the Dusk Church’s bishop and White Court’s church affairs officer, and proposed seeking a peaceful resolution with Vespera over Ororo.
• Emma Frost told Anna’s group she would take them to see the Black Spirit King, then met Miles separately and admitted that negotiating with Vespera would not work.
• Emma Frost asked Miles what gave him confidence that he could defeat the Black Spirit King.

As Oasis prepared to evacuate, Cable left to pursue his own plans while Think Tank’s body continued to succumb to Feirotus. In the White Court, Miles investigated Feirotus and Nathaniel’s work, but the cult found him through Feirotus, allowing Kandela to locate him.

• Lorna organized Oasis’s evacuation and told Cable that the settlement would meet him again within a week; Cable left without giving up on rescuing Ororo.
• Cable learned from Daniel that Feirotus was corroding Think Tank’s life-support systems and planned to travel to the White Court to meet Miles and the others.
• Miles told Emma Frost that understanding Feirotus and the Black Spirit King was essential to rescuing Ororo, and Emma directed him to Nathaniel’s hidden base in Lakeport.
• Kandela demanded that Anna, Quentin, and Hisako Ichiki submit to the Black Spirit King, then asked Emma Frost where Miles was; Emma denied knowing his location.
• Emma Frost warned Miles to hide after sensing that Kandela had learned something, but a Dusk Church priest spotted him and invoked the Gospel of Feirotus, overwhelming his mind and dispelling his concealment.
• Kandela returned to the Dusk Church, opened her eyes, and declared that she had found Miles.

Miles fought his way through White Court after the Dusk Church tracked him, but Bishop Kandela suppressed his mutant powers before he unleashed the Phoenix Brand and escaped. He later reached an abandoned Essex warehouse, where Emma Frost revealed she had been watching his fight as a test of whether he could challenge the ruler on Vespera’s throne.

• Miles used Telekinetic Binding and Psychic Invasion on a red-robed priest, learning that Kandela and the Cult’s personnel were gathering in White Court.
• Miles fled toward the railway station, where Kandela stopped him, suppressed his mutant abilities, and overpowered him with Telekinesis.
• Miles activated the Phoenix Avatar and blasted Kandela, then escaped while she regenerated from her injuries and ordered the Priests to search White Court.
• Miles hid in the Harbor District as the Phoenix Brand cleared some of the rust and partially restored his suppressed powers.
• Miles entered an abandoned Essex Biotech warehouse and found Emma Frost, who said she had observed his fight with Kandela as a test of his potential.

Miles discovered that Aurora survived within the Sentinel Prime network and learned that Nathaniel's Rebirth Project resurrected the Black Spirit King at the University of Kansas Hospital. Meanwhile, Kandela defeated Anna, Hisako Ichiki, and Quentin, leaving Quentin captive as Miles uncovered the project's location.

• Quentin sensed Miles was in danger, and he, Anna, and Hisako Ichiki set out for the Dusk Church after hearing that Kandela had attacked the station platform.
• Kandela fought Anna, corroded her steel arm with Feirotus's Touch, stripped Hisako Ichiki of her powers, and captured Quentin.
• Miles and Emma Frost examined a Sentinel Prime head in Nathaniel's underground laboratory, and Miles accessed its data core.
• The Prime Model's records showed that Aurora had survived by hiding within its network, but she awakened after the Black Spirit King's defeat.
• Miles told Emma Frost that Nathaniel's Rebirth Project had resurrected the Black Spirit King at the University of Kansas Hospital.