Issue+88+-+'Seraph'


 * Issue 88 - 'Seraph' **




 * Plot **

The Phoenix Force – a cosmic force of destruction – has returned. The Avengers and X-Men have clashed over its intended host, Academy X professor and eXalt Dagan Lightfoot. The Avengers wanted to stop the unprepared mutant girl from merging with the Phoenix while the X-Men trained her so they could use the Phoenix to make the world a better place for mutants. The eXalts were caught in the middle. But when the Phoenix Force arrived, Tony Stark blasted it with his Phoenix Buster armor splitting it into five shards. Each shard found a mutant host: Scott “Cyclops” Summers (X-Men leader), Ororo “Storm” Munroe (X-Men member), Heather “Lifeguard” Cameron (CEO of X-Corporation: Los Angeles and eXalt ally), Dane “Panzer” Lightfoot (former eXalt and Academy X headmaster), and Samantha “Phantasma” Stone (eXalts leader). There isn’t one Phoenix host now – there are five! The Phoenix Five levitate into the air, glowing with immeasurable power. Is the danger over, or have things gone from bad to worse?... In the week and a half before the Phoenix Five were created, eXalt Liam “Primal” Stonecrow traveled to New Mexico to seek advice from his people, the Apache. He met with the Apache elders. Beyond the dire warning that the Phoenix Force had destroyed several planets on its way to Earth, they had no further insight. They knew of another option, but it was risky. One Apache group, the Mescalero, knew of seven communities in the Land of Ever Summer. One of them, called the “Under-City”, was the crossroads where lost spirits were called. Liam could go on a spirit quest to the Under-City with the help of the elders. But if his trek was unsuccessful he could become a lost spirit himself. Liam agreed to the risk. After a days-long ritual, Liam’s spirit left his body in astral form and traveled the space between life and death. He followed the subtle pull the Under-City exerted on all lost spirits until he reached the fabled refuge. It resembled a run-down neighborhood in a sprawling metropolis, but it was made up of dwellings whose architecture came from cultures across the world and from all different time periods. A rickety shack from medieval China sat next to a hut from an African tribe which sat next to a FEMA tent from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It was people by orphans and castaways from every time and every place. And standing in the middle of the main street – mostly a dirt road, but showing evidence of broken pavement and occasional cobblestones – was Dog Brother. He seemed to be some kind of Asian warrior, perhaps a samurai or assassin. A pack of stray dogs formed a semi-circle behind him and his followers peeked out of buildings along the road. He sensed Liam’s tie to the world of the living – his connection to the Apache elders allowing him to return from this land between life and death. As ruler of Under-City, he demanded to know why Liam had come. Liam explained how he sought knowledge of the Phoenix Force he couldn’t find in the present day. Even in the Under-City, Dog Brother had heard of the coming of the Phoenix. He gestured for Liam to follow and brought him to an old man. The ancient sage had been in Under-City for time immemorial, somehow resisting the call that even the spirits between life and death must eventually heed. The sage produced a brittle, time-worn scroll about a warrior from centuries past called Fongji Wu. Also called “Fongji the Silent”, “The Crimson Heart”, and “The Dragon’s Fist”, Fongji repelled the “Phoenix of Life and Death” and prevented the “Celestial Rebirth of Earth” and stopped the “Collapse of the Seven Capital Cities.” Liam realized Fongji had been the Iron Fist of her day and her mystical knowledge had allowed her to stop the Phoenix. As the sage could offer him nothing more and since Liam heard the voice of his daughter Jasmine calling for him, he left the underworld. Even in astral form he realized the short trip to Under-City had actually taken over a week in the real world. But more pressing was Jasmine’s call for help. After the Avengers had attacked Utopia, Academy X’s Board of Trustees voted to move the students to Avengers Academy for safekeeping. But the Academy X students were trying to escape and a school-wide brawl had broken out! Liam emerged from astral form at Avengers Academy to witness a battle between the Academy X and the Avengers Academy students. The Avengers students were joined by the Avengers Academy staff who were trying to stop the mutant kids from leaving to help Dagan. The Phoenix Force was visible like a second sun on the horizon and the battle between the Avengers and X-Men was about to begin! Liam joined the battle on the side of the Avengers Academy teachers. He tried to convince the Academy X students that they were safer on the west coast. But a number of Avengers Academy students joined the Academy X kids, feeling it wasn’t right to keep them prisoner. The teachers, including Tigra, Hercules, and X-23, were defeated, and Liam was knocked out! When he came to he overheard Tigra telling the Academy X kids they could help Dagan if they wished, as she didn’t feel right locking them up. About two-thirds of the Academy X kids, along with one-third of the Avengers Academy students and Liam, were transported by Julie “Lightspeed” Power. The former member of the Power Pack transported everyone to Xavier’s school, where the great battle between the Avengers and the X-Men had just ended with the creation of the Phoenix Five… Cyclops, levitating at the head of the Phoenix Five, tells the heroes across the battlefield that the Phoenix Five will use their power to change the world for the better. Captain America, now revived after Sam knocked him out, tells Scott he can’t possibly control such immense power. The X-Men leader says, “Just watch us.” The Phoenix Five then split off to fly in different directions – all but Samantha. She had been communicating through a mental link to the other Phoenix Five. They each agreed to head to a different part of the world: Dane vowed to help in North and South America, Scott wanted to address a surge of anti-mutant hysteria in Europe and Asia, Storm wanted to return to Africa, and Heather planned to head for her homeland of Australia. Scott urged Samantha to continue her work of creating a mutant haven on Utopia. Samantha remains above the battlefield, indecisive. David approaches Captain America and yells at the Avengers team leader. He says, “Everything that happens from now on is all your fault!”, referring to the actions the Avengers had taken to attempt to prevent Dagan from merging with the Phoenix Force, including their raid on Utopia. Steve ignores the verbal barb and instead assists his injured allies. Mac joins Cap to help Hawkeye, drawing from his own energy to assist the fallen Avenger. Steve thanks Mac, saying now is the time to plan the best course for the future instead of lobbing petty recriminations. While Mac is helping the Avengers, Carom is busy salvaging what he can of Tony’s destroyed Iron Man armor (both the drone he damaged and the Phoenix Buster armor). He teleports the remnants back to his bosses at Hellfire Club: Tokyo. Bastienne finds Black Panther, who is watching his wife Storm fly away. She offers the Wakandan King her condolences about how his wife has changed into one of the Phoenix Five. T’Challa bitterly says that she had begun to change even before her transformation into a Phoenix. Bastienne asks T’Challa his advice on what she should do. Now that she’s merged with the goddess Bastet, should she return to Wakanda to help her followers there, or should she remain with her people on Utopia and cultivate her followers on the west coast? As T’Challa is the head priest of Bastet, she wants his guidance. T’Challa says he doesn’t have the wisdom to advise a goddess and leaves the choice to her. Finally Samantha approaches the group. Before she can speak, Carom says she now has the power to bring her husband, Matt, back to life. Sam killed her husband when she accidentally drew upon the Phoenix Force’s power and caused a fiery explosion. While Carom meant the advice to help Sam, it’s obvious the mention of her spouse’s death brings her pain. She wordlessly flies west. Dagan watches her go with a guilty look. She admits that she’d been training with the X-Men in another dimension (as the eXalts had planned), but the power of the Phoenix called out to her across the dimensional boundaries. She used her mutant powers to gain the ability to open a portal back to Earth. But as the Phoenix Force reached out for her, she panicked and worried she couldn’t control it. She gave into her fear and rejected the Phoenix Force – though maybe, as she rejected the Phoenix, it rejected her, too. The conflict gave Tony Stark time to attack with his Phoenix Buster armor. If it wasn’t for her, maybe Sam wouldn’t have become one of the Phoenix Five. Mac tries to console Dagan. He tells her there’s nothing wrong to saying no to power if you don’t think you’re ready. Dagan seems unconvinced. But there’s nothing more to do at the site of the battle. The Avengers and X-Men have collected their fallen and are heading home to lick their wounds and plan their next steps. Carom opens a portal. The eXalts usher their students through the portal and return to Academy X. The students are brought inside the half-reconstructed school. The students’ rooms were undamaged so they will have a place to stay for the night. The classrooms underneath the dorm area are also intact, meaning students can still take final exams next week, though that announcement doesn’t bring a lot of cheer. Most of the damage is in the common area and the staff rooms on the second floor above. David and Bastienne’s rooms were destroyed by Sam’s Phoenix-powered explosion. Fortunately David’s son Davan was with Dane’s mother in the Midwest. Bastienne is still grieving over the loss of items owned by her deceased wife, Jessica, however. Carom suggests that Sam now has the power to rebuild the school and maybe even return the lost keepsakes lost by David and Bastienne. Bastienne says they wouldn’t be the same, though, and David says Sam needs to learn how to control her new powers first. Carom opens a portal to Avengers Academy to retrieve the one third of the student body that chose not to get involved in the battle between the Avengers and the X-Men. Hank “Ant-Man” McCoy, the Avengers Academy Headmaster, has already returned the school’s missing students and staff members through his microverse technology. Hercules slaps Carom on the shoulder, nearly knocking the teleporter over. He congratulates the eXalt on the yeoman’s job he’s done training the mutant students. Not since his battle against the Argonauts has he had so many skilled combatants attacking him at once. He offers to buy Carom a mead so they can discuss the great battles they’ve fought, and Carom awkwardly agrees before bringing the remaining Academy X students to Utopia. Academy X Headmaster Mac holds an assembly to discuss recent events. He assures students that Sam is still their professor and friend and that she won’t do anything with her new powers to harm them. Students return to their rooms for the night. The Academy X staff begins to discuss the possibilities of Sam’s power. Bailey overhears Carom saying that Sam can use her power to remove threats to Utopia, including the Kree artificial intelligence residing below Academy X called Plex. As a half-Kree, Bailey has bonded with Plex and has a mental link with the AI. He tells Plex about Sam’s recent change and warns it to leave Sam alone. Plex agrees. Moments later a fireball is visible in the eastern sky streaking towards Utopia. It’s Samantha. Students see the fiery Phoenix glowing around her and leave their rooms to witness her approach the school. She hovers over the building and reaches out towards the section damaged by the explosion. Construction materials begin flying through the air. Through her telepathy and Phoenix powers she reshapes each piece to fit perfectly. In just a few minutes the entire process is over. The damaged section of Academy X has been rebuilt like new. The students watch in awe of Samantha’s display of godlike power. Sam lands in front of the school. Mac is the first to approach. He asks how she’s doing. She admits she’s not sure. Liam and his daughter, Jasmine, step forward to hug her. Sam appreciates the gesture. Bastienne tells the students to go back to their rooms – they have finals to study for, though they’ll be open book. Once everyone leaves David tells Sam her children are still with the Morlocks. Sam immediately flies to San Francisco. She heads for one of the Morlock tunnel entrances and sends a message through the signal pipes. Several Morlocks respond. They lead her down an abandoned subway access tunnel through man-made passages and past several security checkpoints that could be locked or collapsed to defend the colony. Sam can effortlessly sense dozens of minds nearby. Besides empowering her telekinesis, her telepathy is also boosted by the shard of the Phoenix Force inside her. She notices a few dozen Morlocks are missing, however. She reaches the central cavern of the colony and is reunited with her children. Twins Alex (“Serenity”) and Kurt (“Indigo”) happily embrace their mother despite the aura of power around her, but Jessie (“Sapphire”) is a bit standoffish. After hugging her children, Sam asks the Morlock elder where Matt has been buried. The elder is leery about telling her, as he has been put to rest according to their customs, but he is aware of her great power. He eventually leads Sam to the community’s compost piles. One of them is used to bury the dead members of the community. Food for the animals kept by the colony is grown there. Sam can sense Matt’s presence in the compost pile as there is an energy aura around him due to his death from the Phoenix Force. She taps into that energy and uses it to resurrect Matt. He rises from the compost pile, naked, but living once more. When the Phoenix energy fades, he seems normal except that his pupils are in the shape of phoenixes and his scars have all been healed. Matt embraces his wife and children. Sam apologizes profusely for what she did but Matt doesn’t remember his death. He says it’s okay because he knows it was an accident. Empowered by her successful use of Phoenix Force energy, Sam then manipulates the compost piles to promote growth and re-powers the colony’s generators. Affecting living material is more difficult, but she’s also able to promote healing among the Morlock sick and injured. Soon Sam returns to Utopia with Matt and the kids. The eXalts are waiting for her. Carom immediately tells her that he knew she could bring Matt back. Mac hugs Matt and tells him that he’s missed him and everyone shares the sentiment. When Carom asks Sam what she’s going to do with her power next, she says she doesn’t know. David says that’s okay – less is better for now. Sam says she’s worried about Scott. When he communicated with the Phoenix Five right after they were empowered, he told the group to use their powers to change the world. She’s frightened of his intentions. David tells Sam she should be scared of Scott. He’s dangerous now. The group wonders what the other Phoenix Five are up to. Dane has claimed the western hemisphere. Since he recently came from Muspelheim, where their lost teammate Billy was stranded, perhaps he could bring Billy back? Sam says she could try to find Billy. She wishes she could bring Bastienne’s dead wife Jessica back to life like Matt, but cannot do so. She could only bring Matt back because he was suffused with Phoenix energy when he was killed. David says Sam should resist using her powers for now if possible until she has a chance to learn to control them. As they head inside, David notices Agape (Academy X Board of Trustees member and former eXalt, but also thrall of a vampire in San Francisco) watching from a distance. He approaches her and bluntly asks why she’s still there. She says she came to help after the Avengers attack. David says that danger is over and she can leave. Mac tries to smooth the situation over and says she’s welcome to stay if she wishes. Agape says she’ll leave in the morning if she isn’t wanted. Bastienne tells her to stay in touch. Next Carom approaches Sam to ask a question. He wants to know if she can use her Phoenix powers to prevent Plex’s mental influence. Plex has been blocking most psychic communication to and from the island. Sam says she doesn’t want to tangle with Plex at the moment. Sam then has some alone time with Matt after the kids are put to bed. She’s worried the Phoenix Force has changed her doesn’t know what to do with the power. Matt says he trusts her. She’s handled having extraordinary powers for years and he knows she’ll use the same good judgment in using her new powers. Before bed Sam mentally contacts Evan. He’s halfway across the world in Egypt but she has no trouble contacting him. Evan is thrilled to hear she’s alive but he won’t be returning to Academy X. He’s following his own path and needs alone time. On Saturday Carom once again approaches Sam about Plex. He says his concern about the AI’s mental powers is because Plex has been using them to control Alice, Carom’s girlfriend. Sam agrees to talk to Plex. She’s able to easily establish a psychic link to the AI despite the powerful shielding around Asteroid M below Utopia. Plex is very deferential. He agrees not to control Alice again and says he’ll contact Sam instead if he needs to communicate with the surface. Mac checks in with the Stone family to see how they’re doing. Sam says she’s going to look into how she can use her powers to help Utopia. She telekinetically destroys the blight beginning to afflict some of the island’s crops. Liam’s daughter Jasmine is thrilled to see Sam help the school’s farm and helps grow the crops she healed. Sam then uses her powers to boost the immune systems of the animals in the pens near the school. She also reaches out to the cats on the island and is surprised to find twice as many as expected. There are nearly five dozen across Utopia. In addition to the new kittens, apparently many in New Genosha have adopted cats or brought more to the island. When Sam tries to contact them, however, she’s surprised that they begin hissing at her. It seems another has influence with them and they don’t like the intrusion (perhaps Bastienne?)… Later in the day Neil Shaara, X-Corporation: Los Angeles’ manager of New Genosha, calls Mac. He says he’s now acting CEO of X-Corp: LA in Heather’s absence. Neal seems upset that Heather didn’t come to him after becoming one of the Phoenix Five (as they are dating). He says former Academy X student Rafé (who was Heather’s bodyguard and was once engaged to Bastienne’s sister Georgie, though he recently slept with Bastienne) will be taking over as New Genosha’s manager. Neal also says that Heather had fast-tracked two people from the next wave of New Genosha immigrants: Crystal and Aiden. They’ll be arriving next week. Neal is unaware that Crystal is Mac’s ex and Aiden is his son. Elsewhere in New Genosha, Bailey organizes a movie night as part of his campaign for mayor. He uses a projector from the municipal building and projects a movie onto a large sheet in one of the fields. That night Bastienne watches news coverage of the Phoenix Five’s activities. In just one day they’ve brought energy, food, and water to poor areas across the world. Meanwhile Sam runs into Mac. He is researching how restore his lost abilities. Sam says she’s pretty sure she can recharge his powers. Mac thanks her, but says he needs to find the problem and solution for himself. He says he’d ask her for help if he was in dire need, though. Liam also sees Sam. He can sense that the Phoenix has not only merged with her body but changed her spirit as well. David is concerned with how eager Carom is to use Sam’s Phoenix powers. He sends Carom an e-mail about Jean’s time as the “Dark Phoenix” after she lost control of the Phoenix Force. Jean killed many, including the death of an entire planet. Carom deletes the e-mail, unread. David gives Carom a printout of the e-mail to read. Carom opens a portal to an active volcano and disposes of it. David is frustrated and gives up. On Sunday the eXalts have a meeting during training time to discuss the Phoenix Five situation. Ruth, reserve eXalt and precognitive mutant, doesn’t speak, but instead shares a vision with the team. They see a conversation between Scott and Professor X. Xavier says the world is afraid of the Phoenix Five. Scott says the Phoenix Five are using their powers to make the world a better place and the populace will thank them. He says he’s made Xavier’s dream a reality. Xavier is worried about Scott’s arrogance. The eXalts share his concerns. David says Mac needs to re-establish his relationship with the Avengers. Mac was a reserve Avenger until he refused to give them Dagan, but he’s still the eXalt with the best relationship with the super-hero team. Mac says he’s heard the Avengers are concerned about the Phoenix Five. He likens it to Superman and Lex Luthor’s conflict from DC Comics. Bastienne says they shouldn’t use comic book examples to deal with reality. Mac says it fits, however: Lex Luthor doesn’t trust Superman because he’s one bad day away from becoming ruler of the world. The Phoenix Five likewise have the capacity to become tyrants. Liam says he doesn’t see a reason to distrust the Phoenix Five. So far they’ve used their powers for good. They can’t judge them for crimes they haven’t committed. Liam then shares what he learned from his trip to the Under-City. Bailey asks if he will be running for mayor of New Genosha. He says he has another position in mind. He tells the story of how Wicked (one of Utopia’s federal agents) allowed him to contact his dead wife. He now has her legal knowledge and can take over as Utopia’s Attorney General. Sam suddenly recalls that the former Attorney General, Evangeline Whedon, is in a coma in San Francisco after being caught in a Mutant Revolutionary Front bombing. She mentally reaches out to Evangeline and brings her out of the coma. Evangeline is understandably alarmed to find she has lost months of her life. She tells Sam she’d like to resign her position and send time with family. Mac appoints Liam as Utopia’s Attorney General. Sam, Bastienne, and Ruth (Utopia’s legislators) agree. The group then has a discussion about Sam’s powers. David says Sam should reassume leadership of the eXalt to show the Phoenix Five are doing good in the world. Sam agrees, though she’s still nervous about her abilities. Dagan looks guilty – it should have been her that became the Phoenix Force’s host. Mac sends Sam an e-mail that night to tell her he’s available to listen whenever she needs someone to talk to. Sam’s teammate Bastienne is frustrated (and perhaps jealous), however, because Sam has tremendous powers but isn’t doing anything with them. Meanwhile Bastienne has merged with a goddess but has a fraction of her former powers and can’t help those praying to her. At bedtime that night Sam is contacted by Scott. He shares all the incredible things the Phoenix Five have been doing and urges Sam to do more with her powers. Final exams begin on Monday. The Phoenix Five are still the main news story worldwide. Carom begins sending Sam the articles about the Phoenix Five’s activities in hopes she’ll begin using her powers more. Mac reaches out to Captain America but is transferred to a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Mac asks the agent to tell Steve that he’s keeping an eye on Sam. Bailey begins a community garden in New Genosha and addresses the residents’ hopes and fears about Sam’s powers. Bastienne finds time to travel to San Francisco to meet with Deacon Graves of the Santa Muerte church that worships her. She gets an invitation to visit Rafé in New Genosha but guesses he is looking for a rendezvous and turns him down. Mac brings a welcome present to Crystal and turns down her offer to thank him physically. At the Tuesday staff meeting, Sam asks Ruth what Utopia needs. Ruth says they more space for additional immigrants. They also need a way to make money, like aquafarming. The staff agrees with those priorities. David says the goal should be for Utopia to be large enough to house all of the mutants living in the United States (estimates suggest around 50,000) and their families. But he says Sam should wait until after graduation to attempt anything drastic. The end of the school year approaches. David discusses post-graduation plans with his team’s seniors, Shaun and Shiloh. Shaun is considering community college near his family and Shiloh has already been accepted to a four-year university. David asks Shiloh if she’ll use her reactive evolution power to test Sam’s Phoenix abilities. Shiloh declines. Carom checks in with Madison, a student who’d been using her mutant ability to get drunk. He’s been mentoring her. She says she’s doing better and is even dating one of the Avengers Academy students. Carom says he’ll use his teleportation powers to enable them to go on dates. Bastienne is also looking for Carom’s help. She asks Carom if he’s ever been to Wakanda. She’s hoping to travel there over the summer. Carom says the closest he’s been is Egypt. Coincidentally, Evan contacts Bastienne from Egypt. He’s checking in as she asked and says he’s doing fine. Bastienne says she may be headed there soon. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">On Friday the winner of the team competition (the Ardents) is awarded a special field trip. Carom takes them on a world tour – visiting the Great Wall of China in the morning, the Great Pyramid of Giza before lunch, a meal in Paris, an afternoon in Rome, visiting Chichen Itza and the Sydney Opera House, and more. The kids are excited for the expedition. At several places they visit, they see signs of Phoenix Five activity. Cyclops has restored crumbling sections of the Great Wall, Heather has brought water to the Outback west of Sydney, Dane has helped the indigenous people of Mexico, and so on. During the trip Christine sends a text message to David. She says the MRF’s big plan is ready. They need his help to attack a gathering of an anti-mutant religious group in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon. He doesn’t need to kill anyone – just create a distraction by attacking the church while Christine plants the bomb. David agrees. That night Mac’s research pays off. He realizes he needs to recharge the artifact he’s bonded with that’s the source of his powers (the Ruby Scarab). The Orb of Ra could do it, but it’s in his father Doctor Strange’s possession. He begins looking into other options. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Saturday morning is graduation. Graduates include Combat Club Captain and Head Girl Carrie, long-time student Dondre (the last student that knew some of the eXalts from their time at Xavier’s), “bug girl” Erica, Native American Shiloh, Filipino student Tani, reserve eXalts Ethan and Mercy, Avengers Academy transfer students Kevin and Jimmy, and former Academy M students Pedro, Robin, and Shaun. While the Academy X staff mingles with friends and family of the graduates, David slips away to play his part in the MRF plan. He dons his “Erik the Red” costume and attacks the church housing the anti-mutant gathering. S.H.I.E.L.D. agents from across the city respond. David realizes they were handling security at a large demonstration downtown. A judge will soon make a ruling about whether Prop X (which requires mutant registration) should be suspended while its legality is argued in court. Pro-Prop X protestors line one side of the street while anti-Prop X protestors line the other. Suddenly a series of explosives erupt from one end of the pro-Prop X block to the other end. Dozens are instantly killed and hundreds more are injured, many dying. Sam senses the attack and hurries to the scene. As she passes, fires go out, smoke disperses, buildings piece themselves back together, and bleeding slows. She can’t quite heal the injured, but the dying are stabilized. Sam can also sense six nearby MRF members: teammate David, cell leader and former Academy X student Christine, another former student Rodrigo, a mutant called Knightsabre, a Morlock named Troll that hundreds of years old, and a mentalist she can sense somewhere nearby but can’t read. She ignores David and the mentalist that somehow has the power to block a member of the Phoenix Five. She finds the other four mutants responsible for the attack and pulls them out of buildings or underground hiding places. Then she senses something else that’s troubling – around three or four dozen Morlocks are underground near the scene of the attack. They were the ones that planted the bombs! Why are the Morlocks in league with the MRF?... <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">On Sunday, Sam is contacted mentally by Scott again. He invites her to visit the United Nations building in New York City on Monday. Some of the Phoenix Five will be attending to make an announcement before the countries of the world – there will be no more war. Sam is shocked by Scott’s audacity. He can’t take away everyone’s free will. Scott says ending war is far more important than letting people have the freedom to kill their fellow men. Sam shares Scott’s plan with her teammates. Bastienne, as Secretary of State, vows to be there. On Monday Scott, Heather, and Dane appear before the general assembly and outlaw war…
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