Secret Invasion: X-Men Vol 1 4

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Secret Invasion: X-Men Vol 1 #4
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Cover Date	January, 2009
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Joe Quesada

1st story
Writer(s)	Mike Carey
Penciler(s)	Cary Nord Ma Sepulveda
Inker(s)	Cary Nord Ma Sepulveda
Letterer(s)	Chris Eliopoulos
Editor(s)	Nick Lowe

 You did good today, people. You did what had to be done. Welcome home. 

—Cyclops

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

• X-Men
  • Angel (Warren Worthington III)
  • Armor (Hisako Ichiki)
  • Anole (Victor Borkowski)
  •  Beast (Hank McCoy) 
  • Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)
  • Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)
  • Cyclops (Scott Summers)
  • Dani Moonstar
  • Emma Frost
  • Graymalkin
  • Iceman (Bobby Drake)
  • Magma (Amara Aquilla)
  • Mercury (Cessily Kincaid)
  • Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
  • Pixie (Megan Gwynn)
  • Prodigy (David Alleyne)
  • Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro)
  • Stepford Cuckoos
    • Celeste Cuckoo
    • Phoebe Cuckoo
    • Mindee Cuckoo
  • Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)
  • Warpath (James Proudstar)
  • X-23

Supporting Characters:

• 
  

Antagonists:

• Skrulls
  • Skrull Imperial Starfleet
  • Commander H'Kurrek (Death)
  • Fourth-Rank Engineer Ard'ran (Only appearance; dies)
  • Lieutenant Jash (Death)
  • Super-Skrulls
  • Jora'thrll (Mentioned)
  • other unnamed Skrull soldiers

Other Characters:

• San Francisco residents

Races and Species:

• 
  

Locations:

• Earth
  • United States of America
    • California
      • San Francisco
      • Marin County
        • Graymalkin Industries
      • San Francisco Bay
        • Golden Gate Bridge

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor
• Legacy Virus
• Beam-Cannon Emplacement

Vehicles:

• Skrull Dreadnought Tsurud-Vor (Destroyed)
• Skrull Mecha
  • Gun Platform

Synopsis for 1st story

With his hostages rounded up, Commander H'kurrek summons his last remaining partial psychic to deliver a message to the X-Men: Surrender, or the hostages will be killed.

Cyclops decides they have no choice but deploy their doomsday weapon, a modified version of The Legacy Virus set up to kill Skrulls instead of mutants.

They surrender to the Skrulls and are immediately brought before the Commander. After some banter, an urgent report comes in regarding the Skrull transport ships crashing. It would seem that the first infected Skrulls were already dying.

Commander H'Kurrek

What have you done? What have you done?

Cyclops

We brought an infection with us. Sprayed on our skin and our clothes. Every ship that carried an X-Man has been exposed. The Skrulls we met on the ground, too. And everyone they've touched or been close to since. Your officers and staff. Yourself, of course. As you can see, the effects are starting to work through. Everyone will be showing symptoms within the next hour or so. And two days after that they'll be dead.

Faced with bringing the plague back to his family, H'kurrek sounds the self-immolation of the entire fleet at San Francisco. The X-Men narrowly escape as the entire Skrull fleet is destroyed, preventing the virus from ever reaching any other Skrulls.

The city of San Francisco is released from the alien's grasp, and the citizens are extremely grateful to the X-Men.

See Also

• 6 image(s) from Secret Invasion: X-Men Vol 1 4

Links and References

• plot summary at uncannyxmen.net

Footnotes

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