Moments like this, I start to agree with Rogue. The world hates us so much, the hell with it. Who needs the X-Men, anyway? 
Appearing in "Now, It Begins!"
Featured Characters:
- X-Men (Main story and flashback)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (Main story and flashback)
- Storm (Ororo Munroe) (Main story and flashback)
- Thunderbird (Neal Shaara) (Main story and flashback)
- Psylocke (Betsy Braddock) (Main story and flashback)
- Bishop (Lucas Bishop) (Main story and flashback)
- Rogue (Main story and flashback)
- Sage (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Vargas ⏵ (First appearance)
- Thais ⏵ (First appearance)
- Thaiis (First appearance)
- Action Force
- Unnamed agents
- Diego Sandoval (First appearance)
- Maria Pilar Cortez (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Destiny (Irene Adler) (Only in flashback) (Origin revealed)
- Mystique (Raven Darkhölme) (Only in flashback)
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Mentioned)
- X-Men (Only in recap)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Only in recap)
- Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) (Only in recap)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Only in recap)
- Jean Grey-Summers (Only in recap)
- Angel (Warren Worthington III) (Only in recap)
- Iceman (Bobby Drake) (Only in recap)
- Banshee (Sean Cassidy) (Only in recap)
- Sprite (Kitty Pryde) (Only in recap)
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (Only in recap)
- Phoenix (Jean Grey) (Only in recap)
- Gambit (Remy LeBeau) (Only in recap)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
- Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) (Mentioned)
- Australian National Police (Mentioned)
- Interpol (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- Spain
- Europe
- Valencia
- El Miguelete
- Melia Plaza (First appearance)
- Beneath Los Torres de Serranos (First appearance)
- Guardia Civil HQ (First appearance)
- Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (Mentioned)
- El Hemisférico (Mentioned)
- Madrid (Mentioned)
- Valencia
- Austria (Only in flashback)
- Lyon, France (Mentioned)
- Europe
- East Atlantic (Only in flashback)
- North America (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Only in flashback)
- Mississippi (Only in flashback)
- Caldecott County (Only in flashback)
- Mystique's house (Only in flashback)
- Caldecott County (Only in flashback)
- New York (Only in recap)
- Westchester County (Only in recap)
- North Salem (Only in recap)
- Salem Center (Only in recap)
- Graymalkin Lane (Only in recap)
- Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (Only in recap)
- Graymalkin Lane (Only in recap)
- Salem Center (Only in recap)
- North Salem (Only in recap)
- Westchester County (Only in recap)
- Mississippi (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Only in flashback)
- India (Mentioned)
- Australia (Mentioned)
- Canberra (Mentioned)
- Spain
Items:
- X-Uniforms
- Cybernetic Sunglasses (Main story and flashback)
- Wolverine's Suit (Only in recap)
- Destiny's Diaries (Main story and flashback)
- Volume 3 (Only in flashback)
- Unidentified volume
- Storm's ruby
- Cyclops' Visor (Only in recap)
Vehicles:
- X-Treme X-Men's yacht (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Now, It Begins!"
The X-Men are in Valencia, Spain, where they all get attacked by the local guardia forces. Rogue is shot into the sea, while Storm, Bishop, Beast, Psylocke and Thunderbird are caught; only Sage manages to escape. The Deputy Minister of Justice arrives at the high tech base of the guardia where she is met by the commanding officer. He tells her about the testing and dagnostics they are performing on the X-Men team. Meanwhile Vargas and his henchmen kill some local police who are hoping of capturing Rogue when she washes ashore. The rest of the team wake up to find themselves in a maze and after a short battle fall through a hole in the floor.
