Crossover Details

Year of Crossover: 1994-1995

Issues: Cable (2nd series) #20, The Uncanny X-Men #319-321, X-Factor #109,

X-Men (2nd series) #40-41

Read Order:

Prologue - Uncanny X-Men #319

Part 1 - X-Factor #109

Part 2 - Uncanny X-Men #320

Part 3 - X-Men #40

Part 4 - Uncanny X-Men #321

Part 5 - Cable #20

Part 6 - X-Men #41

Characters: Legion, Professor X, Magneto, Gabrielle Haller, Bishop, Storm, Iceman, Psylocke, Angel, Beast, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Gambit, Rogue, Cable, Domino, Havok, Forge, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Val Cooper, Apocalypse, Mystique, Avalanche, Destiny, Lilandra, Jahf, The Watchers

Followed By: Age of Apocalypse

A Son's Revenge

David Haller (Legion), son of Charles Xavier (Professor X) and Israeli diplomat Gabrielle Haller, had spent many years of his schizophrenic life in a coma following a battle between the Shadow King, who had possessed David, and the X-Men. Suddenly, David awoke, his fractured mind healed into one single personality with one single goal -- to help his father achieve his goals of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. David targeted Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto) as his father's true adversary in achieving his dream. His solution was to travel back in time approximately 20 years and murder Magneto before he adopted his anti-human policies and became Professor X's enemy.

Battle For The Past

A team of X-Men, consisting of Jean Grey, Storm, Iceman, Bishop, and Psylocke, went to Israel in order to stop Legion, who had destroyed everything the Israeli army had thrown at him. In the ensuing battle, Storm realized Legion's plan, but only after Bishop was knocked unconscious attempting to absorb some of Legion's powers. Storm ordered Psylocke to mind-link to Bishop, who still possessed some of Legion's chronal energy, causing the X-Men (with the exception of Jean Grey, who had telekinetically anchored herself) to teleport along with Legion. Before she passed out, though, Jean was able to contact Professor X and the rest of the X-Men in order to alert them to Legion's plan.

Back In Time

The four X-Men and Legion arrived safely in the past, though the time travel erased all five of the mutants' memories. Legion arrived at the hospital at which both Xavier and Magneto, both young and friends, work. Following a touch from Magneto, Legion experienced a psychic backlash that caused him to project visions of Magneto's past. Magneto gets angry and storms out and Legion apologizes, but this energy started to awaken Legion's memory. In the present, Jean Grey, Professor X, and Cable pooled their energies and sent Cable back in time to alert the four time-stranded X-Men, who had got jobs working at the docks. Cable appeared to them and, although they didn't recognize him, Bishop though he looked familiar and touched him, causing the temporal energy surrounding Cable to reach the others, awakening their memories as well.

Battle For The Future

Legion, disguised as his father, Xavier, appears to Gabrielle Haller at the hospital. He seduced her, started to kiss her, and told her not to call him Xavier tonight. At a docks, Xavier gets a psychic warning, alerting him that something is wrong with Gaby. With Magneto in tow, he ran to the hospital to find Gaby disheveled, on the floor, clothes torn. Suddenly, Legion appeared behind the two men and threatened Magneto that he is going to die. The X-Men, memories restored, quickly rushed to the scene of the fight, only to find Magneto and Legion locked in battle high above in the sky. Bishop and Iceman work on controlling the damage, while Storm and Psylocke attempted to find Xavier. Iceman, who found himself much more powerful secondary to losing his mental power blocks in the time travel, tried to defeat Legion, but to no avail. Legion grabbed the defeated Magneto and started to deliver his murderous blow, but at the last moment, Xavier threw himself in the way of the blast, killing himself instantly, but saving the life of his friend in the process. With Xavier's death, Legion would have never been born and he promptly disappears from existence. Iceman, Psylocke, and Storm disappear as well, since they wouldn't have followed the non-existent Legion. Only Bishop remained, due to the fact that he was a time traveler and, therefore, a chronal anomaly in the first place. Magneto, defeated but alive, was left to cradle the lifeless body of his friend, Charles Xavier.