Storm & The Brotherhood of Mutants#2(2023)

Year 100 An opening splash page details the happenings since Year 10. The Sinister Council's Red Diamond Empire is at war with the Interstellar Compact, an alliance of the remaining galactic powers. The Compact is led by Orbis Stellaris. Storm and the Brotherhood fight both sides to free everyone from Sinister's influence and to avenge the destruction of Arakko . Another insurgent cell, Freedom Force, managed to transmit the location of the Compact's mobile command post to Arakko Base, the Brotherhood's starship and headquarters. A starship named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananke Ananke] approaches Arakko Base and provides the security code. Noh-Varr, suspicious, asks for the upcoming security code - which has not been generated - and the respondent successfully provides the code. It is Destiny, who enters the ship and recounts past events. In a flashback, Mystique leaves to fight as a rebel with her Freedom Force against the Sinisters and Destiny begs her to stay back, but Mystique doesn't want to be hemmed in and be “a keepsake in (Destiny's) vault”. Destiny laments that Mystique died fighting for freedom and that simply being together was enough for Destiny, but not for Mystique. Storm arrives and they trade barbs before Storm asks why she's there. Destiny recounts that they once offered Storm a chance to end the timeline, but instead they stole the Moira lab, as Destiny wanted the timeline to continue since it was the timeline in which Mystique lived the longest, but now that Mystique was dead, Destiny wants to kill Moira and reset everything. The Brotherhood dispatch attack ships and arrive at the Death Sphere. The Death Sphere is Orbis Stellaris' planet-sized sphere that now houses the World Farm. Within the World Farm, the enslaved civilization known as the Progenitors process massive amounts of information to help Orbis Stellaris achieve dominionhood. Orbis Stellaris is alerted to the incoming attack and at first assumes it is the Red Diamond Empire. Orbis is dumbfounded at the small scale of the Brotherhood's attack forces. He dispatches all of their fighter craft to take on the Brotherhood's ships. On the main ship, Khora of the Burning Heart boosts Destiny's precognitive powers to help determine what course of action they should take to achieve victory. Destiny sees them winning the battle, hears Storm give the order to destroy the Moira lab, the euphoria of victory, and then senses darkness, meaning the timeline ends with them having won. The specific maneuvering instructions that lead to victory are telepathically sent to the Brotherhood. As Jon Ironfire receives his instructions, Mother Righteous appears to him as a “daydream”. She asks him if he has any regrets or anything he'd do differently, and he confesses that he made a mistake during the Genesis War that still haunts him, but as penance for that mistake he has faith in “the Storm” now. Observing the remarkable maneuvering, Obris knows Destiny is helping out. The Brotherhood's ships infiltrate the Death Sphere by entering the hatch that Orbis' star fighters are leaving from. Since Orbis dispatched all his fighter craft, they are unopposed inside. Noh-varr tells Storm that their Black Hole Torpedo is aimed at the World Farm and ready to go. As Storm tells him to fire the weapon, Destiny whispers to the now-dead Mystique “until next time”. Suddenly, a blade splits Destiny's head in two down the middle. Khora killed Destiny and the darkness that Destiny foresaw earlier was not the timeline resetting, but rather her death. Khora wonders if Destiny had a contingency plan. The whole plan to destroy the World Farm was a ruse, and Noh-varr disarms the torpedo. Noh-varr has doubts about not destroying the Moira lab since “this reality is hell”. Storm counters that their reality still supports hope and that they cannot justify murdering an entire universe. Cable, knowing they are trapped in the Death Sphere, asks what the next step is in her plan. Khora amplifies Storm's powers - “powers beyond powers” that she is “heir to” - and Storm rends time and space to create a wormhole. The Brotherhood and the World Farm (and the Moira lab) leave through the wormhole. Orbis mourns the loss of all the computational power of the World Farm and the Progenitors. A Skrull crew member asks him if something can be done, and he says “something can always be done” and orders the ship's computer to switch off life support. Back with the Brotherhood and their captured World Farm, Ganna asks about the Progenitors inside the World Farm, and Cable responds that an electromagnetic pulse can wipe their current orders and without a leader, they would simply maintain their artificial planets. Ironfire asks Khora if Storm is listening and Khora responds that Storm is dead, with the creation of the wormhole overwhelming her.