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Secret Invasion: X-Men Vol 1 4

Part of the 'Secret Invasion', and 'Manifest Destiny' events

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Secret Invasion: X-Men Vol 1 #4

Terry Dodson
Rachel Dodson
Justin Ponsor


Writers Mike Carey Pencilers Cary Nord Ma Sepulveda Inkers Cary Nord Ma Sepulveda Colourists Dave McCaig Letterers Chris Eliopoulos Editors Nick Lowe

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Secret Invasion: X-Men #3

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You did good today, people. You did what had to be done. Welcome home.

-- Cyclops

Appearing in the 1st StoryEdit

Featured Characters:

X-Men

Supporting Characters:

Villains:

Skrulls
- Commander H'Kurrek (Death)
- Fourth-Rank Engineer Ard'ran (First appearance), (Death)
- Lieutenant Jash (Death)
- Super-Skrulls
- other unnamed Skrull soldiers

Other Characters:

San Francisco residents

Locations:

San Francisco
- Graymalkin Industries
- Golden Gate Bridge

Items:

Cyclops' Visor

Vehicles:

Synopsis for the 1st StoryEdit

With his hostages rounded up, Commander H'kurrek summons his last remaining partial psychic to deliver a message to the X-Men: Surrender, or the hostages will be killed.

Cyclops decides they have no choice but deploy their doomsday weapon, a modified version of The Legacy Virus set up to kill Skrulls instead of mutants.

They surrender to the Skrulls and are immediately brought before the Commander. After some banter, an urgent report comes in regarding the Skrull transport ships crashing. It would seem that the first infected Skrulls were already dying.

Commander H'Kurrek

What have you done? What have you done?

Cyclops

We brought an infection' with us. Sprayed on our skin and our clothes. Every ship that carried an X-Man has been exposed. The Skrulls we met on the ground, too. And everyone they've touched or been close to since. Your officers and staff. Yourself, of course. As you can see, the effects are starting to work through. Everyone will be showing symptoms within the next hour or so. And two days after that they'll be dead.

Faced with bringing the plague back to his family, H'kurrek sounds the self-immolation of the entire fleet at San Francisco. The X-Men narrowly escape as the entire Skrull fleet is destroyed, preventing the virus from ever reaching any other Skrulls.

The city of San Francisco is released from the Alien's grasp, and the civilians are extremely grateful to the X-Men.