| Description: The
members of Generation X prepare for the school
dance. Jubilee and Paige go shopping for dresses
and discuss the relationship between Sean &
Emma. Meanwhile no-one has the guts to ask Monet
out, Skin bemoans his single status to Leech and
Artie while Emplate walks, unnoticed, around them
and Ev and Jono try on tux's. Later the team
gather in the Danger room for a workout as they
battle a simulation of Krakoa, the living island,
and try to rescue holographic X-Men. When the
simulation ends it turns out that Iceman (aka
Robert Drake) has come to teach a class at the
Academy on accounting. Jubilee asks Sean when he's
going to invite Emma to the dance who gets
annoyed and announces that she's going with
Iceman. That night they all go to the dance and
everyone's surprised when Angelo and Monet turn
up together. Another surprise is when Ev sees
Emplate walking around. Angelo and Jono provide a
distraction by pretending to fight, and Jubilee
sets off the sprinklers causing the human
students to leave the hall. The team attack
Emplate but they realise that he's after Penance
and they split up. Iceman, Synch, Chamber & M
go and protect Penance from Emplate's followers.
When they arrive back at Proudstar Hall Banshee,
Husk, Jubilee and Skin are under Emplate's
control. Synch angers Jubilee until she breaks
free from Emplate's control. She lashes out with
her powers causing a huge explosion which
destroys Proudstar Hall and ends the battle with
Emplate. Everyone had been under an ice-dome of
Iceman's creation when the blast occurred and are
unharmed except for Penance. When the dust clears
Nicole and Claudette appear, free from the
Penance form. Emplate and the Penance body are
taken to the med-lab. Later that night Penance
awakens and burrows her way out of the med-lab. Comments: Ok.
Downside - Jubilee blows up an entire building
consequently defeating Emplate and freeing the
twins from the Penance body and absolutely no-one
mentions it afterwards. The girl saves the day
and no-one even acknowledges it, unbelievable. It
would have been nicer if this issue was just
about the characters with no explosions or
baddies. Also, at the end, Claudette and Nicole
are smiling at Monet while talking to her.
Claudette is autistic, shouldn't she look
detached at least? Upside - The art done by Chris
Renaud is quite good, except for the Claudette
thing, and his Monet is great. Penance is once
again a mysterious character now that the twins
have been freed from her body.
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