Volume 1 The team is seen living a fairly peaceful life in the Battlezone called
Westchester. The baron of this region is Senator
Robert Kelly. He has little difficulty since most of the villains were wiped out in a previous war and the remaining villains were sent to "Bureau of Super-Powers" run by
Cassandra Nova for rehabilitation. After a rogue
Sentinel attack the X-Men are invited to the facility to learn about process. The X-Men are then put into the virtual training pods, but were really sent into the
astral plane, since Nova was possessed by the
Shadow King. The team is saved by
Jubilee, who Nova did not consider a big enough threat and did not put into the VR pod and by the X-Force, who assault the facility. Xavier is able to repel the Shadow King and the X-Men save Kelly, but a mega-Sentinel is released against the X-Mansion. The X-Men and X-Force combine to defeat the machine before it causes too much damage.
Volume 2 The World is a Vampire The
Upstarts, a group of evil
mutants, are playing a game to find who can hurt the X-Men the most. The
Von Strucker twins make their play by tricking
The People's Protectorate to attack the X-Men, who come to the mansion hunting
Maverick. Unbeknownst to them, Maverick was hired by the twins, and released a computer virus named
Darkhold into Cerebro. The Von Strucker twins then release Alpha Red, the vampire son of
Dracula, who had been experimented on by the Soviets to become a super-soldier and trapped fifty years prior. The escaped vampire converts Jubilee, Maverick, and most of the other students, People's Protectorate, and X-Men into vampires. The computer virus in Cerebro converts vampire DNA to remove their weakness against sunlight.
Dead Girl, immune to the vampires, uses Cerebro to remove the virus and deletes the vampiric DNA. During these events,
Cyclops and
Jean Grey are on vacation in
Anchorage, Alaska, but are teleported to the future by Rachel Summers. This dystopian future is ruled by
Mister Sinister while
Apocalypse is conquering the galaxy. Rachel tells them she needs their help to defeat Sinister, but it turns out she was helping Sinister harvest their genes to create
Nathan Summers in order to defeat Apocalypse. In the end, Rachel is racked with guilt and kills Sinister, but drains the last of her
Phoenix Force, so Cyclops and Jean are teleported back and Nathan stays with
Blaquesmith.
Lilapalooza Lila Cheney is performing a concert with
The Toadies and
The Flaming Lips to create peace between humans and mutants, with the X-Men as security.
Death's Head comes to collect a bounty on Lila, and at the same time
Fabian Cortez appears and overcharges Lila's teleporting powers, causing her to take the X-Men to a distant planet inhabited by the
Brood. After a fight with the Brood, the X-Men realize they are mutant outcasts from the rest of the Brood hive and protect them from
Gladiator and the
Shi'ar. During the battle the X-Men steal the Shi'ar ship and return to Earth. Meanwhile, Apocalypse and a group of mutant villains appear at the concert and suggest a truce. Cable and the X-Force appear and fight, but Professor X realizes that Apocalypse's intentions are semi-altruistic. He plans to convert all humans into mutants and take over the world, so he can defeat the
Celestial Exodus. Cyclops and Jean Grey return from the future with the Darkhold. Professor X decides to use it to convert every human into a mutant only if humankind agrees. In the
denouement, humankind overwhelmingly agrees to help and Professor X uses the Darkhold to convert everyone into a mutant. Now with every person on Earth super-powered, they all press the attacks against Exodus. ==See also==