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Marvel Voices: X-Men #1 - "The Man With No Shame" (2023)

Roberto da Costa and Kobak Never-Held

Marvel Voices: X-Men Annual #1 (2023) MARVEL

Everyone at Arakko are tense since Genesis (Apocalypse's wife) came along and manipulated half of the council to her side, Storm and the remaining Arakki Council members are in the room trying to figure out what to do. Kobak Never Held and Lodus Logos are arguing until Sunspot comes into the room looking battered and disheveled. Sunspot informs Storm and the Arakki mutants about the murders at the Hellfire Gala such as Frenzy, Dazzler, Jubilee, Prodigy and mainly, his best friend, Cannonball. Sunspot claims that everyone at the Gala is dead. He also mentions Jean Grey and he believes Cyclops is dead too because the X-Treehouse is on fire. He presumes Captain America might be dead as well. However, Sunspot wasn't there and he only heard the rumors about it while he was on earth at a secret meeting. He tells her about having to resist Xavier and almost being forced through a gate. Storm realizes that this was all orchestrated by Orchis for both the downfall of Krakoa and Arakko at the same time. Xilo says Genesis has Sobunar at her side and that the people will listen to him. If they oppose Genesis it will cause a civil war. Xilo asks Storm what they should do and after a pause, she declares that they have to go to war.

Cue to battle at the Valley of the Fallen where the Arakki mutants are having a civil war. Nova the non-mutant human rocket is leading the charge, calling out war commands and maneuvers on the aerial mutants. Sunspot joins him in the air and Nova tells him that this site is the choke point of the Western front. Suddenly, in the distance, they see a new character rocketing at them, Orrdon the Omega Rocket. Nova says he'll plow through their forces like a bullet if they don't head him off, but Sunspot notices he's flying over Isca's territory. Orrdon boasts he's "fully invulnerable while blasting" until he gets an unexpected arrow up into his mouth and out the top of his head. Isca, holding her bow, watches him continue to rocket out of sight and he plummets to his death. When Nova and Sunspot get surrounded by Genesis' aerial Arakki mutants, Storm comes in to blow them away before summoning her lightning to strike at the statues of Genesis and Apocalypse to block more of Genesis' army from coming through.