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 * Issue 08 - 'Graduation Day' **




 * Plot**

The New X-Men, transported into the future by a future version of Billy, have only minutes to prepare a defense before a sentient version of the Danger Room called Danger arrives to kill that time period's X-Men as well as the team from their own time period. Within minutes, Danger arrives just as future Billy predicted. Before she can attack, the seniors enact their plan of setting off an electromagneic blast. Danger is weakened and collapses for a moment. When she rises, she says, “I cannot use your weaknesses to defeat you, but I can take the forms of those who can!" Her form seems to dissolve into a metallic puddle. She then reforms into eight bodies that reshape into recognizable forms: Angel, Beast, Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Wolverine! A great battle breaks out, and the seniors are forced to fight their own teachers! It is a brutal fight, but Danger's eight forms are finally defeated. Danger is no more. The group then witnesses the X-Men fly to New York City to assist the Avengers in their fight against Victorious. Future Billy tells them that Victorious will be defeated by the combined might of the two teams - the timeline is secure. The group is sent back to present day, where future Billy unfreezes everyone (including the students and teachers at the mansion, as well as the Brotherhood of Mutants). One of the frozen students is Bastienne's girlfriend Jessica (head girl of the school). It turns out that future Billy has brought them back just before the return of the true X-Men, who were off-world on a mission. The X-Men, along with Angel, Nightcrawler, and X-23, meet with the group to hear the story of what they missed while they were gone. They say that the seniors did a great job, considering the circumstances, and proclaim them graduates. They also have one last offer: a new mutant school called Academy X will be opening on the west coast, and if the seniors want the job, they can have it. Will the seniors become teachers at their own mutant school? The decision is theirs, and the future looks bright.

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