I don't care about Charles Xavier, or Magneto, or even Hope. I am looking at the savior of mutantkind, right here, right now. 
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Emma Frost (Main story and flashback)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
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- Beast (Hank McCoy) (Only in flashback)
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- Unidentified Cuckoo
Other Characters:
- Psylocke (Betsy Braddock) (Mentioned)
- Jean Grey (Mentioned)
- X-Force (Vision or hallucination)
- X-23 (Laura Kinney) (Vision or hallucination)
- Warpath (James Proudstar) (Vision or hallucination)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Vision or hallucination)
- Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) (Vision or hallucination)
- Domino (Neena Thurman) (Vision or hallucination)
- Elixir (Josh Foley) (Vision or hallucination)
- Sentinel head (Vision or hallucination)
- Purifiers (Vision or hallucination)
- Black King (Sebastian Shaw) (Vision or hallucination)
- Storm (Ororo Munroe) (Vision or hallucination)
- Colossus (PEter Rasputin) (Vision or hallucination)
- Tony Stark (Vision or hallucination)
- Namor McKenzie (Vision or hallucination)
- Human Council (Vision or hallucination)
- Bastion (Vision or hallucination)
- Right (Vision or hallucination)
- Sapien League (Vision or hallucination)
- Leper Queen (Vision or hallucination)
- Hellion (Julian Keller) (Vision or hallucination)
- Surge (Noriko Ashida) (Vision or hallucination)
- Boom-Boom (Tabby Smith) (Vision or hallucination)
- Hellions (Vision or hallucination)
- Tarot (Marie-Ange Colbert) (Vision or hallucination)
- Beef (Buford Wilson) (Vision or hallucination)
- Bevatron (Fabian Marechal-Julbin) (Vision or hallucination)
- Roulette (Jennifer Stavros) (Vision or hallucination)
- Jetstream (Haroun al-Rashid) (Vision or hallucination)
- Sarah Kinney (Vision or hallucination)(Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Wither (Kevin Ford) (Vision or hallucination)
- Adrienne Frost (Vision or hallucination)
- Cable (Nathan Summers) (Vision or hallucination)
- Nathan Summers (Stryfe) (Nathan Summers) (Vision or hallucination)
- Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) (Vision or hallucination)
- Bishop (Lucas Bishop) (Vision or hallucination)
- Hope Summers (Vision or hallucination)
- Cabal (Vision or hallucination)
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- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Vision or hallucination)
- Loki Laufeyson (Vision or hallucination)
- Hood (Parker Robbins) (Vision or hallucination)
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- Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) (Mentioned)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
- Magneto (Max Eisenhardt) (Mentioned)
- X-Men (Only in flashforward)
- Angel (Warren Worthington III) (Only in flashforward)
- Mirage (Dani Moonstar) (Only in flashforward)
- Dark Avengers (Only in flashforward)
- Hawkeye (Lester) (Only in flashforward)
- Ares (Only in flashforward)
- Sentry (Bob Reynolds) (Only in flashforward)
- Dark X-Men (Only in flashforward)
- Weapon Omega (Michael Pointer) (Only in flashforward)
Races and Species:
- Sentinels (Vision or hallucination)
- Humans (Vision or hallucination)
- Mutant Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Vision or hallucination)
- Frost Giants (Vision or hallucination)
- Cyborgs (Vision or hallucination)
- Olympians (Only in flashforward)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- California (Main story and flashback)
- San Francisco (Main story and flashback)
- San Francisco Bay (Main story and flashback)
- Marin County (Main story and flashback)
- Marin Headlands (Main story and flashback)
- Graymalkin Industries (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Warpath's Knives (Vision or hallucination)
- Surge's Gauntlets (Vision or hallucination)
- Apocalypse's Celestial Armor (Vision or hallucination)
- Doctor Doom's Armor (Vision or hallucination)
- Dormammu's Hood (Vision or hallucination)
- Iron Patriot Armor Model 1 (Only in flashforward)
Synopsis for 1st story
Both Scott and Emma are restless. The latter gets out of bed and stares out the window, remembering Beast's concern over the secrets they're keeping. Scott decides that it's time they "talk." Emma, however, pushes him away.
In the morning, Pixie, Armor, and Prodigy find Scott lying on the couch. They ask him if he has seen Emma, becauses she missed her class and her room is very quiet. In a panic, Scott quickly rushes there and finds a note stating that Emma has left to "kill" a man. Shocked, he alerts the Cuckoos to start searching for her. When he opens the door, he finds Emma standing there, having not gone through with her plan. They both decide to open up to each other. Going into Scott's mind, she sees the secrets locked inside his black box. He shows her that he reestablished X-Force as a black ops team to stay ahead of their enemies. However, things got out of hand as old enemies began to return from the dead, subsequently injuring, both mentally and physically, members of X-Force. He even endangered the lives of Hellion, Surge, and Boom Boom.
Emma, in turn, reveals her fling with Namor, her pattern of driving away her former students, and her association with Osborn's Cabal.
Opening up to each other has enabled both Scott and Emma to reconcile; they both promise to keep no more secrets.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
- Takes place prior to Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1 and during Uncanny X-Men #512.