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 * Issue 04 - 'Fight for Your Right' **




 * Plot**

On the following Saturday, the team meets to choose a combat leader. Mustang outperforms Panzer in the Danger Room and is elected. This conflict, combined with the two of them fighting over one of the students (Meghan, a female prefect) causes tension between the two. Panzer leaves to attend a meeting with the local police chief. Meanwhile, there is some argument about leadership, and Prism becomes agitated. At that moment, Iceman arrives. He apologizes for being out of touch earlier and says he will help the seniors run the school. Ruth says he is an omega-level mutant (the most powerful in the world - only a handful exist!), and there is one other omega-level at the mansion, but she won’t say who it is. While the seniors are taking Iceman to the medlab to look at the comatose students, however, they notice someone is in the room with Cerebro. Inside, they find that Panzer, who recently returned, was actually Mystique in disguise! Mystique has taken the lone psychic at the school hostage (Liam, an 8th grader) and was forcing him to use Cerebro without success. Iceman tells everyone to let Mystique go or Panzer (who has been kidnapped) might be killed. Mystique threatens to shoot Liam in the head. Lucius creates an illusion of Liam to take his place while Mystique is distracted, and she shoots the illusion! She is then able to escape. The group tracks Mystique back to her sewer lair, and encounter the Brotherhood of Mutants (with Mystique, Burner, The Blob, Toad, Avalanche, and Sabretooth). There is a vicious battle, and while the group is able to recover Dane, they are not able to stop The Blob. They manage to escape, but not before Iceman is revealed to be an illusion unconsciously created by Lucius. Lucius, due to his Asperger's condition, hates conflict. He created Iceman unconsciously so someone would take charge and the seniors would stop fighting. While Iceman was there, no one actually touched him except for Lucius, who wanted him to be real. Back at the mansion, the students discover a press conference is featuring Iceman, who says that the seniors (minus Ruth) are the "New X-Men". Phantasma notices a Traveler in the background, creating the illusion of the false Iceman. Why do the Travelers seem to want the seniors to be X-Men?...

**Next:** Issue 05 - 'Smokin' in the Boys' Room' **Previous:** Issue 03 - 'Hot for Teacher'