Magneto is at a loss as to how to help his unresponsive daughter, the Scarlet Witch, and sends for Xavier to help. Dark Beast and the Magistrates are raiding an old supply cache when they are attacked by a mysterious assailant who slaughters the humans. Xavier and Callisto find a group of children who have survived on their own since the destruction of Hammer Bay but they are sickly and Xavier wants McCoy to give them medical help. The Dark Beast needs a doctor himself, however, as he has been cut to pieces by an old acquaintance.