House of X #1 through Powers of X #6

Complete listed story — includes the ending

House of X #1

On Krakoa, Professor X stands over golden pods that birth full-grown mutants whom he welcomes into the world.

Over the course of several weeks, mutants have planted exotic flowers across the world and as far away as Mars. At the Jerusalem Habitat, ambassadors from several nations meet where one of these flowers has in two weeks grown to engulf a building. Magneto and the Stepford Cuckoos greet them and give them a tour.

In Westchester, Marvel Girl leads a group of young mutants through a portal to Krakoa, where Cypher and Sage are establishing the technological backend of a new mutant habitat.

Miles from the surface of the Sun, a coalition of humanity's intelligence agencies and scientists have formed Orchis: a last defense for Homo sapiens against mutants. There they are constructing a Mothermold on their space station.

At the Damage Control Contested Storage, Mystique, Sabretooth, and Toad break in to retrieve some data and are intercepted by the Fantastic Four. Mystique and Toad escape, but Sabretooth is captured and moments later Cyclops arrives to take him into custody: he explains that all mutants have global amnesty from human law and will be taken to Krakoa. Mister Fantastic finds this unacceptable and rather than fight, Cyclops acquiesces and extends an invitation to Krakoa to Franklin Richards.

The two criminals that escaped have teleported to Krakoa, where Magneto has explained to several of Earth's nations that mutantkind is now a new nation: they are sovereign and will not accept any demands or even negotiations with humanity.

House of X #2

When she was 13 years old, Moira fell ill with an unnaturally high fever. Unbeknownst to her or anyone else, this was in fact her mutant power manifesting. Moira would go through life as an ordinary person, marrying, having children, and eventually dying peacefully at the age of 74. It was only now that her mutation made itself known, as Moira was reborn, reliving her life again with all her memories of her previous life intact.

In her second life, Moira was careful not to reveal her true nature, instead simply playing along and allowing her parents to push her into a life of academia, where she might learn more about her true nature. After watching Charles Xavier, an acquaintance from Oxford University, announce to the world on television that he was a mutant, Moira began to believe that she herself was a mutant, and traveled to America to meet with him. While crossing the Atlantic, her plane crashed, and she died.

In her third life, Moira re-aligned to focus on genetics and anthropology, and actively sought Xavier out in Oxford. By now however, she had developed a distaste for her abilities, and found Xavier arrogant and off-putting. She dedicated herself to developing a cure for mutations, but before she could use it on others or herself, she was intercepted by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Destiny, the leader of the Brotherhood and a mutant with precognitive powers, warned Moira against ever moving against mutants. She told Moira that she would be keeping an eye on her and would kill her again and again should she ever try to move against mutants. She also warned Moira that she was not immortal, but would live at most 11 lives, depending on her choices. After making her case to Moira, she orders Pyro to burn her to death.

In her fourth life, Moira decided to dedicate herself to the mutant cause, and fell in love with Xavier. She co-founded the X-Men with him and together they led them for years, until they and their fellow X-Men were killed by the Sentinels.

In her fifth life, Moira took a more aggressive approach, running away from home at the age of 13 to find Xavier as early as possible. She allowed him to read her mind, revealing the knowledge she had accumulated over her first four lives. Radicalized by the experience, Xavier gathered a legion of mutants and built the city of Faraway as a mutant sanctuary. Once again however, their dream was killed by the Sentinels, who killed Moira during an attack on Faraway.

Her sixth life was not disclosed.

In her seventh life, Moira decided to eradicate the Trask bloodline, hoping that killing anyone related to the inventor of the Sentinels would prevent them from emerging. She learned however that the emergence of the Sentinels is inevitable, and that someone else would simply be the first to create them instead. Moira was killed after discovering a Master Mold.

In her eighth life, Moira rejected Xavier, and instead sought out Magneto. After revealing what she knew to him, he conquered the United States of America in the War of M, but he was eventually stopped by a coalition of mutant and non-mutant heroes. Moira died while trying to escape prison.

In her ninth life, Moira turned to Apocalypse. She awoke him early, in the belief that only he could ensure mutantkind's survival. They and their First Horsemen waged a war on humanity and the Sentinels, but eventually, Moira died once again.

In her tenth and current life, Moira once again sought Xavier out at Oxford. She opened her mind to him again, and revealed all she knew.

House of X #3

In Observation, Cyclops informs Professor X and Magneto that he has assembled a team in order to attack the Mother Mold facility orbiting the Sun. Cyclops the briefs the team, composed of Wolverine, Husk, Archangel, Monet St. Croix, Marvel Girl, Nightcrawler, and Mystique on their mission, and they take off from the Summer House.

In the superhuman prison known as Project Achilles, a trial is being held for Sabretooth. The trial is interrupted by Emma Frost, who presents the judge with a pardon from the U.S. Supreme Court, along with all requisite paperwork, as the U.S. government has agreed to a general amnesty for all mutants on American soil, in anticipation of Krakoa becoming a sovereign nation. Despite the protests of the human officials at the court, Emma and Sabretooth are allowed to walk free and return to Krakoa.

On the Orchis Forge, where the Mother Mold is being constructed, the human scientists detect that the X-Men are inbound. Nightcrawler is sent in for recon and encounters the chief scientist and Omega Sentinel. Omega Sentinel deduces that the X-Men plan to attack the control collars in order to send the Mother Mold hurtling into the Sun. The X-Men dock onto the station and begin drilling their way in. Realizing that their only hope of defeating the X-Men is an asymmetrical response, Erasmus, the chief of security, sets off a bomb, killing himself and destroying the X-Men's vessel.

House of X #4

On Krakoa, Professor X and Magneto contact Marvel Girl in order to keep tabs on the mission from Observation. Jean reveals that Archangel and Husk were killed in the explosion set off by Erasmus, while Wolverine and Nightcrawler were injured. Deciding that they still need to finish the mission at any cost, Nightcrawler teleports Cyclops, Wolverine, and Mystique to strategic locations inside the station in order to destroy the control collars, with Nightcrawler himself taking the last one while Jean and Monet stay on the ship in order to maintain contact with Krakoa.

Wolverine and Nightcrawler are successful in destroying their collars, but the ship is boarded by Orchis forces. Monet puts Jean into an escape pod and fires her away, staying onboard in order to cover her escape and buy her time. She transforms into her Penance form and begins fighting the humans. Cyclops finds and disengages his control collar, but Mystique, having gotten turned around, is intercepted just as she finds hers, and is killed as Doctor Gregor opens a hatch into space.

Desperate, the humans power-on the Mother Mold, despite not knowing whether it will be sane or not. Xavier tells them to do whatever it takes to stop it. Wolverine and Nightcrawler volunteer to head to the final switch, which is now in a vacuum. Nightcrawler teleports Wolverine onto the collar before being instantly evaporated by the Sun, while Wolverine's healing factor buys him enough time to carve through it before he too is evaporated, as the now online Mother Mold hurtles into the Sun while raving maniacally via an Olympian allegory that the machines have found both man and mutant guilty and will destroy them both.

With the mission complete, Cyclops tries to find a space suit in order to get to Jean's pod so that they can try and make their way home; however, he is intercepted by Doctor Gregor, who shoots and kills him. The Sentinel drones that were mining on Mercury, and thus could not reach the station in time to stop the X-Men, finally arrive, intercept Jean's pod, and kill her. As his proteges have seemingly all died at the hands of humans once again, Xavier cries and vows "no more."

House of X #5

While conversing with his daughter Polaris, Magneto muses that it was when they abandoned hunting and gathering and instead claimed a place of their own that humans "took off" as a species. He points this out as the one good thing humanity has taught mutantkind; the need for society. In order to bolster their numbers, the Krakoan mutants have been resurrecting deceased mutants through a process developed by the Five.

First, Goldballs uses his power to create eggs, which is what his "gold balls" were all along. The eggs are then made viable by Proteus' reality-warping powers. The preserved DNA of a deceased mutant is injected into the egg, and Elixir uses his powers to kick-start the process of cellular replication. With the egg now fully viable, Tempus uses her power of time-acceleration to mature the egg and the mutant inside into a finished state, resembling their status at their physical peak or when they died. The process is overseen by Hope Summers, who uses her powers to boost the other four and to enable them to operate in unison.

Finally, Professor X transfers a stored copy of the deceased mutant's mind and essence into the re-grown body. Through this process, the eight mutants killed in the destruction of the Mother Mold are resurrected, and presented to the adoring Krakoan masses by Storm.

At the United Nations, the vote to recognize Krakoa as an independent mutant homeland is passed, in no small part through Emma Frost's efforts in telepathically coercing the Russian ambassador. Xavier telepathically lets Emma know that he knows what she's done, and thanks her for it.

Two days later, a cohort of villainous mutants, former foes of the X-Men, led by Apocalypse arrive on Krakoa, in response to Xavier's offer of amnesty. Apocalypse reveals to the X-Men that he is familiar with Krakoa, as he once fought a war there before the world knew anything about mutants. He tells them that for centuries he has fostered war and conflicts in the hopes that mutantdom would assert its dominance over the world, and declares that the mutants, in creating Krakoa, have now finally become what he wanted them to be. On behalf of himself, and all the other mutants following him, he agrees to submit to all the laws of Krakoa and to work in service of mutantkind.

House of X #6

One month ago, Professor X, Moira and Magneto launch their plan to establish Krakoa as a mutant homeland. Magneto vows all the disagreements and conflicts he has ever had with Xavier will end today, as Xavier uses Cerebro to send a telepathic message to every human on Earth; he tells them of the three miracle drugs Krakoa has created, and offers them to humanity in exchange for the independence of Krakoa and a universal pardon for all mutants accused of crimes.

In the present, the Quiet Council of Krakoa convenes for the first time. Composed of Xavier, Magneto, Apocalypse, Exodus, Mister Sinister, Marvel Girl, Storm, the Black King, the White Queen, Nightcrawler, plus Mystique, and presided over by Cypher and Krakoa. Their first order of business is to try Sabretooth for killing several guards while on a mission, and in the process, establish the core laws of Krakoa; to continually make more mutants, to murder no human, and to respect the sacred land of Krakoa. For breaking these laws, Sabretooth is banished, to be held in stasis deep inside Krakoa, until an opportunity arises for him to redeem himself.

With the business of the court concluded, the mutants of Krakoa hold a great party in the Carousel to celebrate their new nation.

Powers of X #1

Powers of X, increasing in scale and complexity. X0 - Year One, the Dream. X1 - Year Ten, The World. X2 - Year One Hundred, the War. X3 - Year One Thousand, the Ascension.

X0
Charles Xavier is walking through a fair. He is enjoying himself on a beautiful day, sitting down on a bench to people-watch. Here, he is approached by a young woman, Moira Kinross, who makes cryptic remarks about a fortune-teller. As the conversation goes on, Xavier mentions a beautiful dream he had, which he is trying to work out in his head, so it can be a story he can tell people. Moira remarks that a dream ceases to be a dream once it becomes real.

Xavier realizes that something is not quite right about this, so Moira asks him to read her mind. Puzzled, he complies, but is surprised by what he finds...

X1
Mystique emerges from a Krakoan gateway onto Krakoa accompanied by Toad. Telling Toad that he is off the clock now, she carries on alone to the House of M, where she meets Magneto. She tells him that her partner, Sabretooth, was captured during the heist, but she got the target - a memory stick. She will hand it over, but says her demands have increased. Xavier steps into view, and counters that they will ask more of her in return. Mystique mocks his seeming lack of humanitarianism. Xavier merely says that he is building a world safe for mutants, and that everyone will owe something to live there...

X2
The war between the mutants and the Man-Machine Supremacy has gone on for years. A four-person squad of X-Men, consisting of three products of Mister Sinister's mutant breeding program - Rasputin IV, an unnamed Cardinal, and Percival - as well as one defector from the Ascendancy's black brain program - Cylobel - are on a mission to extract something from the Nexus in the Northern Territory. Their mission has been discovered, leading to the death of Percival. The Cardinal plants a Krakoan seed to be the exfil point, but Cylobel is captured alive and Rasputin struggles to free her. Additional forces arrive, and Cylobel demands that Rasputin leave her behind to complete the mission. Anguished, Rasputin retreats.

There is a description of Mister Sinister's mutant breeding program which he ran from the Sinister Breeding Pits on Mars. The mutant leaders would only endorse the program because constant fighting made it difficult for mutants to find the time to have children. The program lasted through four iterations:

The first generation were designed to be divergent copies of a singular DNA source with an uncompromised X-Gene. They were the fodder that were trained until the age of 16 when they would be sent to defend Krakoa, which fell 30 years later.
The second generation marked the beginning of the "Chimera" process. They had DNA comprised of two separate X-Genes resulting in a mutant with the predictable power set of both of the sourced mutants.
The third generation produced mutants with amalgamated DNA featuring up to five X-Genes. These generations were universally successful against the Man-Machine Supremacy.
However, this generation had a 10% failure rate. These failures, with nonthreatening powers and pacifist dispositions, rejected individuality and refused names, thus collectively were called "Cardinal."
The fourth generation suffered a systematic failure and were produced with a corrupted hive mind that was responsible for the destruction of Krakoa and 40% of the mutant generation. They committed mass-suicide, collapsed Mars, the Sinister Breeding Pits, and themselves into a self-singularity.

It was also mentioned that Mister Sinister was executed by the Man-Machine Supremacy after defecting.

Cylobel is taken to the Human-Machine Monolith, to stand before Nimrod the Lesser. Nimrod, recognizing her as a black brain, offers a faux-apology: Black brains like her were created by the Man-Machine Ascendancy to serve a purpose, but so many proved defective by defecting to join mutantkind. Her very defective existence is a mark of the Supremacy's failure, and his tribute to that failure - her - will be to ensure that no-one like her is allowed to survive.

The Supremacy wants to question Cylobel for information, but she is resistant to torture, and thanks to her status as a black brain, she is immune to telepathic reading. So, the Supremacy is forced to follow Nimrod's suggestion, which makes him briefly giddy. Nimrod orders that Cylobel be placed into a device of his construction - a coffin-sized tube of femtofluid, where she will drown as her body and mind will be rendered down as data, which, once the process is completed after an unknowable length of time, can be turned into a database to help the Supremacy win the war against the X-Men.

There is a description of the Sentinel mutant breeding camps called the SalCen Khennil where they were used to breed mutants that were intended to fight other mutants. The first version of the program aimed to produce Hounds, fearsome man-hunting wretches who would evoke disgust and pity in the targets. This was a failure because the Hounds proved too psychologically submissive to be viable agents. The second version of the program aimed to produce black brains - infiltration agents, immune to telepathy, who could be inserted into mutant groups, and would then betray them to the Ascendancy. This too was deemed a failure, as the agents programmed to betray would very frequently betray the Ascendancy instead. The SalCen Khennil was destroyed 10 years ago, along with "all their biological and research material."

Emerging on Krakoa - now on Asteroid K - the Cardinal apologizes to Rasputin IV, saying that, as a Cardinal, he is psychologically incapable of violence. Rasputin is inclined to hate him in the moment, but they have a mission to complete. The rest of the X-Men, including an aging War, are there for her to speak of the successful extraction of the target item, at the cost of Percival and Cylobel. War says they need to take it to "the Old Man..."

There is a description of mutant demographic data:

With the deaths of Percival & Cylobel, the mutant population of Asteroid K is 8.
The majority of the mutant population lives on Benevolence, a converted transit station located on the fringe of Shi'ar space which serves as a buffer between the Shi'ar Empire and the wildness of the Brood breeding territory. The mutant population there is around 8,000.
The Shi'ar homeworld of Chandilar has a mutant colony of just under 2,000 souls, by a treaty with the Shi'ar Empire. Most of them are used as warrior stock for the Imperial Guard. Currently, there are six mutants that serve as superguardians while 57 are under the subguardian classification.

X3
The Librarian laments that the minds in the database are beginning to fade to digital decay. Nimrod the Lesser has given way to Nimrod the Greater, who admits that the database was not meant to survive for so long. The database was intended as a tactical advantage to let the Supremacy win the war, but the world changed so much that the war became unnecessary. Homo sapiens and its subspecies are over and past, but a habitat is maintained in the Nexus, a sealed biosphere containing some preserved mutants living wild in a pristine wilderness. A museum piece, to prick the curiosity of younger minds. To give them a sense of wonder at the long story of life on Earth - and to give an idea of the horror that could ensue if such creatures ever ruled Earth again...

Powers of X #2

In the early days of the X-Men, Professor X and Moira McTaggert visit Magneto on his island base in the Bermuda Triangle. Xavier has come to mend fences with Magneto, and despite initially mistrusting him, Magneto agrees to open his mind to them. Moira reveals her true nature to him, giving Magneto a glimpse into her previous lives. Seeing the many ways in which he has failed, Magneto agrees to Xavier and Moira's proposal; a long-term plan to guarantee the future of mutantkind.

In the present, Magneto and Xavier show Cyclops the plans to the Mother Mold, a Master Mold that creates other Master Molds. They believe that the Mother Mold will usher in a new generation of Sentinels and that this is when Nimrod emerges. They order a strike on the Mother Mold, which is on a station orbiting the Sun, and Cyclops leaves to assemble a team.

100 years in the future, a Cardinal and Rasputin return successful from their mission, having retrieved an indexing machine which will allow them to know the location of key machine intel. Krakoa manages to successfully de-crypt the index, revealing the location. War points out that the information is useless, since they would have to hold off the Sentinels in order to access the interface, which would in turn be a suicide mission, but Apocalypse assures them that they will succeed, as he will personally lead them.

1000 years in the future, the Librarian and Nimrod have been successful in their plan. In order to prove their value to the higher civilizations in the universe, they create a collective intelligence called the Nimbus, which transforms Nibiru into a Worldmind. The Worldmind is found by the Phalanx who successfully consume it and come to Earth to find its creators. They ask them what it is they seek, and they answer "ascension," wishing to be absorbed into the Phalanx collective.

Powers of X #3

As the Church of Ascendancy, dedicated to the worship of the machines, is hosting a sermon at the Temple of Concordance, the X-Men arrive and attack. Omega Sentinel watches from the Human-Machine Monolith and tries to convince Nimrod the Lesser of the need to investigate, but he refuses, dismissing the attack as meaningless. Omega heads off alone to confront the X-Men where she and her squadron of Sentinels gain the upper head, prompting Rasputin IV to remove Death's mask, unleashing the black hole contained within his head, killing both the remaining X-Men and the Sentinels.

Meanwhile, Apocalypse leads War and Famine into an old machine databank in order to retrieve an information crystal. They are successful in finding it, but are intercepted by Nimrod. Famine opens a portal for them to retreat through, and Apocalypse stays behind to buy them time. War and Famine escape, with Apocalypse seemingly succumbing to Nimrod. Back in the safety of Asteroid K, War releases Mother Akkaba, also known as Moira Kinross, from her stasis. He presents her with the information crystal, force-feeding the information into her mind. As per Apocalypse's request, and with Moira's consent, War then kills Moira, in order for her to start over again, now armed with the knowledge of exactly when in time Nimrod emerges.

Powers of X #4

Powers of X, increasing in scale and complexity. X0 - Year One, the Dream. X1 - Year Ten, The World. X2 - Year One Hundred, the War. X3 - Year One Thousand, the Ascension.

X0
Professor X and Magneto travel to Bar Sinister in order to seek an audience with Mr. Sinister. Having become aware of Sinister's work in cataloguing the world's DNA, the pair ask him to prioritize creating a comprehensive database of all mutant DNA, offering to help him acquire samples that would otherwise be difficult for him to find, including their own. Sinister is uninterested, having already experimented with introducing the mutant gene into his own genetic structure and finding the results unsatisfactory, but is suddenly killed by one of his clones, the one with a mutant gene. The clone assumes his position as "lead" Sinister and agrees to their plan. Xavier has Sinister begin the work, and uses his powers to make him forget their agreement until the day he allows him to remember.

X1
Xavier and Cypher travel to the mutant island of Krakoa. After some effort, Xavier has succeeded in establishing a telepathic connection with Krakoa, which has furthered relations between Krakoa and mutantkind. Xavier's connection to Krakoa allows them to communicate in a rudimentary fashion, but Cypher's powers allow him to quickly decipher Krakoa's language, and to act as a translator, as Krakoa begins telling them a story; in ancient times, Krakoa was one half of a land known as Okkara. One day, Okkara was torn asunder by a creature wielding the Twilight Sword. From the chasm came the "enemy", who threatened to consume the entire world, if they had not been stopped by the first mutant. Using his immense powers, he sealed the breach, and set his four to sentinel the enemy's home, permanently separating Krakoa from its other half. Xavier telepathically transmits his plans for Krakoa to Cypher, who sets to work designing an interface that will allow other mutants to communicate with Krakoa directly, without his aid. He asks Xavier for a year to finish his work.

X3
Having summoned the Phalanx, the first of the Elders communicates with them. He presents them with his "seer-self", a machine vessel which the Phalanx consume. He asks them to repeat a sequence known only to him, which they do, and then asks if this solution is satisfactory to them, whereupon the Phalanx begin processing the situation. Having witnessed this, the Librarian asks what just happened. His companion explains that the Phalanx are the forerunners of a galactic empire believed to have dominion over the entirety of the known universe. The Phalanx have the ability to integrate any machine intelligence into its collective, and if that intelligence is found worthy, it will eventually be subsumed into the empire. However, the process does not work on biological entities. In order to get around this, the Man-Machine Ascendancy will copy themselves over to empty host machine vessels that the Phalanx can absorb. As they await whether or not the Phalanx will find this solution satisfactory, the Phalanx consumes two of the other Elders.

Powers of X #5

In the past, Professor X approaches Forge in order to realize his project of copying over mutant minds through Cerebro. Forge is initially skeptical, asserting that the means required to make those modifications do not exist on Earth. After Xavier reveals that he can solve the two biggest problems; energy supply and storage space, through Shi'ar technology, Forge agrees to build the modified Cerebro.

Shortly before the founding of Krakoa, Magneto and Xavier contact Emma Frost, asking for her aid in their plan of establishing a new mutant homeland. Emma initially dismisses the idea, claiming that Magneto in particular should know better, due to the Genoshan genocide. The pair eventually convince her, and reveal that they need the aid of the Hellfire Corporation to distribute the miracle drugs that will buy mutantkind its homeland. In exchange, they offer her a 50 year contract of exclusive distribution rights in addition to two seats on the twelve-person council that will govern Krakoa. They also ask that Emma recruit Sebastian Shaw for them, believing that while Emma can handle trade and negotiations with countries with whom Krakoa will have official relationships, Sebastian Shaw will be best equipped to deal with countries and parties that reject mutantkind's offer. Emma agrees to their terms, on the condition that she receive three seats on the council.

With everything in order, Xavier sends out a telepathic call to all of Earth's mutants, including various adversaries of the X-Men, offering them a place on Krakoa. One of the mutants who is offered a place on Krakoa is King Namor of Atlantis. Namor rejects the offer, believing that Xavier's front of mutant supremacy is disingenuous, and tells him to return when he really means it.

In the far future, the Phalanx have agreed to the offer presented to them by the denizens of Earth, but kill the First of the Elders. Nimrod the Greater hints that the Phalanx serve even greater masters, a collective of machine-minds so massive and dense that they have collapsed into black holes, and whose collective intellect and power is indistinguishable from that of what human stories describe as God. The Phalanx serve their masters by converting matter into energy, and having accepted the offer, they will now absorb the collective intellect of Earth, but also consume the entire planet, killing everyone on it.

Powers of X #6

Before the founding of the X-Men, during her first meeting with Xavier, Moira asks him to read her mind, revealing to him the knowledge she has accumulated during her many lives.

A thousand years into the future, the Librarian enters the Preserve, a zoo of sorts housing near-extinct species, among them mutants. Fending off an attack from some of the mutants, the Librarian encounters Logan and Moira. Logan and Moria, trapped in the Preserve, have been doing their best to rally the mutants within to overthrow their overlords. The Librarian informs them that they have contacted the Phalanx, and that tomorrow they will be absorbed by them, only for their Phalanx to in turn merge with a god intellect; a Dominion.

The Librarian has arranged for Moira to be sent off-world, since he is aware that if Moira dies the timeline will reset, and thus the Librarian's intelligence will not be carried on; however, if he is absorbed into the Dominion he will exist beyond space and time and would thus have knowledge of Moira even if she were to die and reset the timeline. The Librarian reveals that he is having doubts about this however, because he is uncertain if existence as a portion of a divine intelligence is better than continuing to exist as he does. He muses over the inevitability of mutantkind's situation; that they were doomed to go extinct as he, a genetically engineered post-human, represents Homo sapiens mastering both technology and biology, rendering natural evolution obsolete. Before he can finish his musings, he is killed by Logan.

Now armed with the knowledge that humankind will merely use the machines to buy themselves time to become something greater, a true threat to mutants, Moira asks Logan to kill her. He does so, ending her sixth life.

Back in the current timeline, during her first meeting with Xavier, she reveals to him that mutants always lose. She tells him that this time she means for all mutants to unite, and that she will have to break him of his hope and idealism.

As the years go by, Moira keeps a journal detailing her attempts at shaping the three foremost leaders of mutantkind, with whom she has aligned herself in her previous lives; Xavier, Magneto, and Apocalypse. Moira's journal entries conclude with her and Xavier losing Magneto as an ally and her faking her own death.

In the present, one day before the first meeting of the Quiet Council, Moira is visited by Xavier and Magneto. They discuss the members of the Council, and Moira warns them not to fulfill their promise to Mystique; that they resurrect her dead lover, Destiny, in exchange for her cooperation. Moira tells them that there can be no precogs on Krakoa, since they will see the truth Moira has endeavored to keep secret; that mutantkind always loses. Magneto and X ask her to trust them, declaring that mutantkind has always lost until now, but that things are different because they now stand united as a result of her efforts to change them into what they needed to be in order to survive.