Generation X #4

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Synopsis

The issue begins with Banshee taking half the students (M, Jubilee, Skin, and Synch) into Maine. Their vehicle is stopped by police who ask Banshee why they’re in Maine. Jubilee says they’re on a field trip to look at maple trees. The police tell Banshee that the bridge up ahead is closed so they have to take a detour. As they head off, M tells Banshee that she studied topographical maps of the area before they left and there’s no bridge nearby.Meanwhile in a small town in Maine, the local mustachioed sheriff is using a megaphone to tell someone in a school named Eliot to let the hostages go. Inside the school we see Eliot, a teacher and some random kids. Eliot is apparently a mutant, whose power is looking kind of like Quasimodo but is apparently he is a student at the school, or at least wants to be. From the conversation he has with the teacher we learn that the school board didn’t want Eliot to attend school in spite of the teacher’s support.Changing venues again, we see what the students who did not go to look at maple trees are up to. Penance, is in the school’s biosphere looking at butterflies. Chamber comes out and gives her a plate of apple slices. Paige, meanwhile, is spying on all of this a control room, but is caught by Emma Frost. Emma Frost kind of laughs the whole thing off and tells her that Paige reminds her of herself when she was younger. Paige wonders if that was supposed to be a compliment or a warning.Back in Maine a mysterious figure in an ice cream truck is receiving orders from another mysterious figure on a blurry monitor that the first mysterious figure refers to as “Nanny.” Banshee and the Generation X kids have, in the meanwhile, arrived on the scene and knocked out some cop. Jubilee goes down to the crowd gathered by the school and asks some grungy-looking guy what’s going on. The guy tells her that there’s a “monster boy” inside the school. Being Jubilee, instead of going back to Banshee to tell him what’s going...