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Creators:
Plot:Scott LobdellPenciller:Joe Madureira
Inkers:Green/Townsend
Colorist:Steve Buccellato
The Astonishing X-Men 1: Enter now...The Age of Apocalypse
"BLINK!With that, a huge fireball at the center of which is Sunfire bursts out of the portal, and the team is forced to pool their efforts to put him out. As they try to figure out what kind of combat circumstances would force Blink and Sunfire to teleport out of battle into the mansion, a prelate of Apocalypse sticks his head through the portal!
After this chaos clears up, the team learns from Sunfire that the cullings of innocent humans were continuing despite a treaty between the humans and Apocalypse. At the head of this killing spree: Holocaust! Blink, Rogue, Sabretooth, Morph, Sunfire, and Wild Child go on assignment to stop the killing. As they prepare to depart, there is an interesting scene with Blink, Rogue and Gambit. Gambit and the married-to-Magneto Rogue have an almost romantic scene on the balcony, which Blink interrupts by bringing out Rogue and Magneto's baby, Charles. Gambit and Blink exchange hostilities afterwards. Apparently, Clarice feels that Gambit is a threat to her 'x-tended family' which centers around Magneto and Rogue, but she is still uncharacteristically hostile towards the cajun. Unfortunately this plot did not develop further... More insidious than this scene, however, is a cut scene in which we learn that Blink's portal has allowed the detection of the X-Men's base... by Apocalypse! Go forward to Astonishing X-Men 2 Go backwards to X-Men: Alpha. Go back to the chronology.
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Not wanting to devote a whole issue to things coming
through
the portal, our heroine decides to close it. With a characteristic eye flash,
the portal
closes, halving
the unfortunate prelate.