Stars: Wolverine, Xavier, Cyclops
Appears: Shadowcat, Jean, Rogue, Xavier, Magma, Nightcrawler, Spyke, Cyclops, Mystique, Scarlet Witch, Avalanche, Toad, Blob, Quicksilver, Boom Boom, Iceman, Cannonball, Beast, Storm, Sabertooth
Cameos: Berzerker, Multiple, Wolfsbane, Jubilee, Sunspot, Gambit, Pyro, Colossus, Magneto
 

Summary

Wolverine and Sabertooth are fighting in the sewers. Wolverine is trapped in a green substance and Sabertooth takes off. Trask and his soldiers show up and one of them tell him that the other mutant got away. Seems that there was some kind of magnetic interference and they lost him. Trask tells them to call off the search.

At the Institute, Jean is working on Cerebro. She tells Xavier that she's lost Wolverine's signal. Xavier gets mad and tells her that they're never going to be able to find Magneto. Jean freaks out and gets upset, Xavier calms her down and tells her that it wasn't really her fault. They keep looking. In the sewer, Beast and Storm search for Wolverine. They find traces of Wolverine and Magneto.

Mystique shows up at the Brotherhood house and tells them that Wolverine's been abducted by Magneto. She questions Quicksilver about Magneto's whereabouts, but he says that he has no idea. No one can believe that Magneto has actually snatched Wolverine, and Mystique says that she's not sure what he's up to, but he's forced her to make her move.

The next day Xavier is running the X-Men and New Mutants through a session in the Danger Room. They're all being picked off rather quickly. The X-Kids are up against Magneto and they're sort of hiding out not sure what to do. Xavier yells at Cyke and tells him to make a move or turn over command to Jean. Cyke decides to rush Magneto, but the plan fails miserably and all of the kids are tagged. Xavier is furious and goes really hard on them. Cyke asks him why he's being that way and Xavier says that he wanted to see if they were ready to face Magneto. Cyke says he thinks that they are ready, but Xavier scoffs and says that they couldn't even handle the Brotherhood.

Xavier goes on to say that the New Mutants are not ready and he's forced to bolster the X-Men's ranks. He tells them to welcome their new team mates and the Brotherhood walk in. The X-Men are mad, questioning why they have to team up with the Brotherhood. Avalanche tells them that they obviously need a new team leader and Cyke tells him that he can have the job. Cyke leaves. Jean tries to go after him, but Xavier stops her and says to let him go. He orders the X-Men and Brotherhood into the Danger Room to train and tells Jean that they need to get back to Cerebro to continue the search.

Wolverine is shipped into a military like compound. Trask tells him that he learned about mutants while working with SHIELD. He calls mutants a menace and says that someone has to do something to ensure the survival of the human species. He says that he needs Wolverine to "assist" him in an experiment to help level the playing field. At the institute, Jean is able to locate Wolverine using Cerebro. Xavier tells her to gather the teams.

As the teams are loading up into the jets, Mystique is shown in the mansion's control room. She sets the defense systems up to self destruct and starts it out on Defcon 4. In the jets, Storm and Xavier argue over whether or not to wait for Scott. They end up leaving without him. As the jets fly off, the mansion goes into lockdown. The New Mutants try to escape, but only Magma is able to get out, the rest are trapped inside.

Outside the mansion's systems turn on Magma. Boom Boom shows up and they get away in Lance's jeep. They meet up with Cyclops and as they head back to the mansion, Boom Boom tells him about Mystique being back in charge of the Brotherhood. Cyke figures out that something isn't quite right about Mystique being back, the X-men and Brotherhood teaming up, and the mansion suddenly going crazy.

Meanwhile, Wolverine is put up against Trask's new weapon designed to destroy mutants, the Sentinel (a huge robot). Wolverine has to go on the run as the Sentinel blasts away at him. He tries to slash the Sentinel's wiring, but it flings him away. It blasts him again and knocks him out.

Scott, Tab, and Amara make their way back into the mansion by the "back way" while the New Mutants are on the run inside from the mansion's defenses. The self destruct sequence takes over and the countdown begins.

In the city, Magneto's travel sphere touch down in the center of some large warehouses. Gambit, Colossus, Pyro, Sabertooth and Magneto stop out. Meanwhile, the Sentinel picks up the unconscious Wolverine and prepares to fire...
(Continued in Day of Reckoning II)