we are hummingbirds who are just not going to move
The future is just as bad as it looked from the other side. To most of X-Force -- which, for the moment, includes Cypher -- it looks worse. Swarms of Nimrods and Sentinels are everywhere they look. A wall behind them contains Wanted posters for most of the X-men, all of whom are marked slain. Two Master Mold Sentinels dominate the landscape, silhouetted against a sky that they look big enough to hold up.
Added to that, they have no way back to their own time, even if their mission is successful.
It is a daunting, terrifying task set before them, to be sure.
But X has never had patience with whining. Or insurmountable odds.
Which is why, in the face of fear and terror and assertions that they are all doomed, there is no hope of saving anything, she just shakes her head.
Once.
And over the top of Warren repeating They've killed us all! and someone else asking don't you understand what this world means?--
"It means we have to kill them all. And then go back. To the past. To stop it from ever happening again."
Even as she says it X knows it is not really that simple. But those are the mission objectives. For her.
Now.
It is only sensible to make that clear.
And something about the way she says that gets the rest of them moving again. Through the city, through discovery and intervention by the Sentinel squads, through combat and death and last-minute saves --
They make their way to the Master Mold.
And then they buy Cypher the time to destroy them. It's a long battle, arduous and fierce, and they are a much more damaged and bedraggled squad when all is said and done. But no one is dead.
Except for the robots.
Now they just have to get back.
The portal that brought them here is well on its way to closing. It is also hostile to living flesh.
X tests it. Just to be sure.
The smell of charred flesh will be lingering in that spot for hours, if not days.
But Cable, looking pained and tired and unexpectedly triumphant, has a plan.
It only calls for one sacrifice.
Hope is never going to forgive him.
Added to that, they have no way back to their own time, even if their mission is successful.
It is a daunting, terrifying task set before them, to be sure.
But X has never had patience with whining. Or insurmountable odds.
Which is why, in the face of fear and terror and assertions that they are all doomed, there is no hope of saving anything, she just shakes her head.
Once.
And over the top of Warren repeating They've killed us all! and someone else asking don't you understand what this world means?--
"It means we have to kill them all. And then go back. To the past. To stop it from ever happening again."
Even as she says it X knows it is not really that simple. But those are the mission objectives. For her.
Now.
It is only sensible to make that clear.
And something about the way she says that gets the rest of them moving again. Through the city, through discovery and intervention by the Sentinel squads, through combat and death and last-minute saves --
They make their way to the Master Mold.
And then they buy Cypher the time to destroy them. It's a long battle, arduous and fierce, and they are a much more damaged and bedraggled squad when all is said and done. But no one is dead.
Except for the robots.
Now they just have to get back.
The portal that brought them here is well on its way to closing. It is also hostile to living flesh.
X tests it. Just to be sure.
The smell of charred flesh will be lingering in that spot for hours, if not days.
But Cable, looking pained and tired and unexpectedly triumphant, has a plan.
It only calls for one sacrifice.
Hope is never going to forgive him.