Description: Picking
up exactly where the last issue left off, we find
Banshee overpowered by the girl Penance who has
effectively denied him the use of his mutant
abilities by putting her razor sharp fingers into
his mouth. Banshee kicks Penance away from him.
Husk regains consciousness, uses her husking
power to become stone and attacks Penance. As
they fight Penance slashes Husk across the arm.
Banshee ends it by generating a sonic blast which
Penance uses to burrow underground. Meanwhile a
woman called Cordelia congratules a man called
Mondo on rescuing children by using his powers.
The scene switches back to the Academy and to
Synch and Jubilee who are trying to find Banshee
and Husk with help from Skin, over com-links.
Skin tells them that they're on top of Banshee
and Husk but they are nowhere to be seen. Jubilee
uses her powers to light up the surrounding area,
revealing Penance in the shadows. Penance attacks
Synch and Jubilee, Ev synchs with Penance ti
create a 'force field' around himself. Penance
suddenly disappears and Banshee erupts from an
underground cave carrying Husk in his arms. He
sends Ev back to the school with Husk while he
tracks Penance. Jubilee heads off on her own,
also trying to track the girl. Meanwhile,
someplace else, the assassin who attempted to
kill Cartier St. Croix in the last issue,
explains his failure to 'Nanny'. Returning to the
Massachusetts Academy, Penances runs, literally,
into M and the White Queen. Emma attempts to
probe the girl's mind but receives, instead, a
psionic backlash knocking her off her feet. M
begins to help Penance stand up but Banshee
appears and generates a sonic wave that forces
the two apart, explaining that Penance's skin
could have cut Monet. Penance disappears once
again. Jubilee makes her way through the woodss
contemplating when Gateway delivered herself and
Penance to the X-Men, she sees a bizarre light in
the shadows. It is Chamber, Penances approaches
him ready to attack. He stretches out his hand to
her, trusting that she won't hurt him. She stops,
also trusting him. Banshee, Jubilee, M and the
White Queen approach the two and they all return
to the Academy. Three days later Skin visits Husk
in the med-centre where she is still recovering
from injuries incurred during her fight with
Penance. Skin brings a scrabble board and the two
bicker, it ends with him suggesting that they
should try something a little more physical.
Paige quickly squashes this idea. Comments:
Great art. This issue is more action, less
character interaction but is still an
entertaining read.
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