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Originally Posted by bmorr

thanks havok. whats was up with the kid gladiator being surrounded by the avengers in the WATXM cover.

Wolverine has been hiding himself with Beast made Psy-shields. Rachel is the X-Men's mind tracker now and she was able to track wolverine because he couldn't stop thinking about killing Cyclops. Rachel tries to reason with Wolverine to give up hope while Namor, Iceman, Kid Gladiator and Angel wait in ambush outside. Rachel actually tells Wolverine not to make it harder than it has to be and he goes all "snikt" on her to remind her who she's talking to. Rachel gets tossed out of the place they were in and Namor yells for the X-Men to attack and Wolverine yells "Avengers Assemble", fights ensue.

Kid Gladiator punches Giant Man in the eye, asks Spider-woman (who's using her pheromones) if she's flirting with him which makes her feel creepy, tries to pick up Thor's Hammer to no avail and takes out quicksilver. Then he questions whether or not there are any Avengers worth his time and sees Wolverine behind him. He seems to be beating Wolverine into a bloody pulp begging him to pop his claws to make it fun, only to find out Wolverine was just waiting for an opening to strike him in a vulnerable area for Strontians, as Wolverine explains how he's pretty much trained to kill everything that walks...including Strontians, and what he is really trying to say is that he should've stayed in school. Lol, I liked that sequence of events.

In between that there's a few panels of a flashback between Cyclops and Rachel with her saying she's uncomfortable hunting her friends and Cyclops sounding remarkably like his son Cable back when he was all Jesus like in the Cable and Deadpool series. Which left me wondering if Cyke is controlling members of Wolverine's school with the Phoenix force.

In any case Rachel finds hope, and as was previously stated, she lets her go and tells her that if finding the Phoenix is her destiny and that's what she wants then to go do it. She lies to Cyclops about letting hope go and claims she didn't even know if she was there and right when Cyclops grew suspicious of her story...Gladiator shows up declaring that the Phoenix dies today! End story.