Appearing in "Betrayal!"
Featured Characters:
- X-Men
- The Shroud (Kitty Pryde)
- The Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
- Iceman (Bobby Drake)
- Rogue (Marian Carlyle) (Main story and flashback)
- Jimmy Hudson
Supporting Characters:
- Valerie Cooper
- Quicksilver
- President of the United States
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Professor X illusion (Only in flashback)
- Oracle of Change
- Many unnamed mutants
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Synopsis for "Betrayal!"
Rogue checks on Reverend Stryker and discovers that Kitty's hit killed him. Kitty readies to attack Rogue as well, for her betrayal, but the Nimrod Model Sentinels attack them and the other mutants. When they are about to unleash their full attack which would normally kill everyone in the vicinity, Kitty gets the idea to have everyone hold on to her and the attack phases through all of them, except for one unfortunate young mutant who didn't make it to her in time. After the attack the Sentinels fly off in search of other targets.
Back in the Morlock Tunnels Kitty confronts Rogue about her betrayal but Rogue reveals that she had a plan to get Stryker to trust her enough to allow her to touch him when he attempts to "heal" her. She was going to take his ability and use it on him, rendering him powerless. She also states that she was told by god that they need to go to the S.E.A.R. Suddenly, they are interrupted by an apparition of a man calling himself the Oracle of Change, telling them to come to Tian, formerly known as the S.E.A.R.. Rogue reveals that the man she was referring to as god, the man who told her about Tian and how to take down Stryker, was none other than Charles Xavier, who visited her in a church three weeks prior.
Solicit Synopsis
- The New X-Men make their valiant last stand against Stryker!
- Valerie Cooper struggles to fight back Quicksilver’s growing influence on the President.
- The Nimrod Sentinels make their move, exacting a deadly toll on mutantkind.
Notes
- During the last half of this issue, Johhny Storm and Bobby Drake have each others hair color.