—Rahne Sinclair...you "dinnae 'spect" me to talk like a "wee lass" my whole life did you? I've changed.
Appearing in "The Ties that Bind (Part 3)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Avalanche (Dominikos Petrakis)
- Surge (Nori Ashida) (First appearance as Surge)
Other Characters:
- Xavier Institute student body
- Aero (Melody Guthrie) (Cameo)
- Mercury (Cessily Kincaid) (Cameo)
- Viskid (Adrian Defoe) (Cameo)
- Caput (Abraham Verne) (Cameo)
- Gelatin (Carlo Brewster) (Cameo)
- Longneck (William Hanover) (Cameo)
- Skywalker (Cameo)
- Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro) (Cameo)
- Various other students
- Click
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
- The Avengers (Mentioned)
- New Mutants (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Cerebra (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Ties that Bind (Part 3)"
Avalanche was attacking Manhattan when a woman in a motorcycle helmet intervened. As a result, Havok and Nightcrawler opted to stand down.
At the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, Dani was teaching history and Laurie failed to answer a question. After class, Laurie invited Josh to lunch and sat down with Sofia and David. Julian, who was watching from a distance, used his powers to move away Josh's chair, causing him to fall to the ground. In response, Sofia used her wind powers to spill Julian's food on his sweater. David revealed that the X-Men had picked up one of Dani's former teammates and brought her to Xavier's. Moments later, Rahne, the woman on the motorcycle who attacked Avalanche, arrived and was greeted by Xi'an and Dani.
Josh, Laurie, Sofia, and David arrived at Grind Stone. Laurie, Sofia, and David entered and saw that Luna was not there, hearing that she had an "accident", while Josh saw the same girl he, Julian, and Santo had previously seen outside of Xavier's gates. His fellow students rushed outside, claiming that there was "trouble" with Luna before the girl disappeared.
The students rushed back to Xavier's and alerted Xi'an and Dani about Luna being hurt in a power surge. Josh explained that he met a seemingly scared girl with electrokinesis who accidentally hurt Luna. Dani and Xi'an insisted on handling the scared girl themselves, rejecting Josh's offer of help. However, Rahne went to Josh's and David's dorm and invited them to join her in handling the girl themselves. Josh accepted, although David was reluctant. The former also invited Sofia and Laurie, much to his roommate's protest. Laurie heard Josh compliment Rahne and appeared jealous, so Sofia used her wind powers to dispel her pheromones.
They went to the outskirts of the Salem Center, where they learned from a homeless mutant that the girl's nickname was "Surge", where to find her, and that she was planning to buy pills from a man named Click. Once they saw her acquiring the pills, Sofia used her powers to stop her from taking them, believing that taking them would make her explode, although they quickly learned that taking them does the opposite.