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X-Men: Deadly Genesis 3 Writer: Ed Brubaker Penciler: Trevor Hairsine Finishes: Scott Hanna & Nelson Penciler & inker (back-up story): Pete Woods Colorist: Val Staples Colorist (back-up story): Brad Anderson Letterer: Dave Lanphear Letterer (back-up story): Dave Sharpe Assist. Editor: Nathan Cosby Editor: Mark Panniccia Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Date: March 2006

Logan calls Hank to tell him about the Blackbird ramming into the commuter jet. The airport a disaster area, and they're afraid Sean may be dead. Logan warns him that the government is going to get involved, but it's too late. The Sentinels are closing in and announce that the Institute is under lockdown. Beast ask Logan and Kurt to investigate and find whatever Sean was transporting that cost him his life.

Scott and Rachel are still imprisoned in the industrial type building. Rachel realizes something is wrong and is able to think more clearly. Whatever their captor did to her is wearing off. Scott asks if her telepathy is working and if she can reach Emma, but the mysterious villain interrupts them. He tells them that Rachel is feeling exactly what he wants her to feel. He releases her and she drops to the floor. Scott shouts at him to leave her alone, but the villain replies that he isn't going to hurt her since he needs her. Scott angrily shouts back that she's just a kid, but the villain scoffs at him that they were all once children. He warns Scott that if he doesn't shut up, he will hurt Rachel. Scott quietly glares at him, seething. The villain warns Ray not to try anything. He grabs her face with his glowing hand, and she groans in agony.

At the Xavier Institute, the X-Men are surrounded by armed O*N*E soldiers as they argue with a commander about the Blackbird. Alex goes upstairs and see a flashback vision of Xavier talking to his father, Christopher Summers (the Starjammer, Corsair). Xavier tells Corsair that he knows he's Scott and Alex's father, but they decide not to tell them. Corsair and Xavier fade away as Lorna enters. Alex asks if it's happening to her. But it's not just him. Bobby and Peter are also seeing visions of their past.

Meanwhile, Scott angrily questions what the villain is doing to Rachel and yells at him to leave her alone. The villain is continuing to blast her with energy as he's holding onto her head, and she groans in pain.

Back at the Institute, Emma continues to argue with the O*N*E officials. Kitty calms the situation by showing them the missing plane report she filed the previous day when she realized that the Blackbird was missing. Emma keeps telling off the O*N*E officer. Hank says that it's a good thing at least Kitty kept her head. Emma agrees that he was acting stupidly, but claims it's because she's on edge. She tells them someone has been going through her mind for the last hour and she believes it's Rachel.

At the airport, Wolverine and Nightcrawler go through the flaming wreckage of the two planes. They don't find any trace of Scott or Rachel and realize that the Blackbird was being remote controlled. They also find Sean's body in the Blackbird's wreckage.

The mysterious villain continues to zap Rachel with energy coming from his hand, as she groans in pain. He stops, and commends her, saying she might give the original Marvel Girls some competition. Ray turns, and shouts at him for mind-raping her, and tries to attack him. He blasts her in retaliation as Scott protests. The villain throws Ray across the room where the walls chain her again. Scott angrily shouts that he promised not to hurt her, but the villain retorts that Ray was the one that started it and she's not helpless. He tells Scott to remind Rachel when she wakes up that he isn't finished with her and that she should try to stay on his good side.

At the airport, Wolverine and Nightcrawler continue to go through the wreckage, while avoiding soldiers who are searching for them. They discover the briefcase that Sean was carrying which is conveniently labeled MUIR ISLAND.

Rachel starts to wake up, and groggily asks Scott what happened. Scott replies proudly that she make a move on their captor, and nearly connected. Scott thinks it surprised him, considering the condition Rachel was in. and tells her that Jean would have done the same thing. Rachel has a massive headache, but recalls that the villain was using her to read the other X-Men's minds, looking for something. She was able to get into their captor's head while he was in her, and found an old severed mental link to Professor Xavier. She thinks that he must have been trained by the Professor.

At the Institute, Hank examines the tape that was in the briefcase that Logan and Kurt recovered from the crash site. He's able to repair it enough to get it to play, and sees Moira's video journal. In it, she says that Xavier came to her for help when his X-Men went missing, so she gave him her "own", which caused some children to be killed.

The back-up story reveals the origin of Sway.