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And...Actual Powers of X #6 Spoilers
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The first few pages are just a reprint of the Moira/Xavier meeting scene from Powers of X #1...but now...there be SPOILERS...
X^3: The Librarian enters the Preserve and is attacked by...mutants? Because the Librarian? He isn't a mutant. None of these blue-skinned people are mutants...Hickman tricked us into thinking mutants were ascending in this timeline, but they aren't...."humans" are...if you re-read the end of Powers of X #1 this is all right there
The Earth is now ruled by "homo navissima"...post-humans who have integrated their systems with machine which allows them to be absorbed by the Phalanx. Yes...mutants lost the war because mutants always lose...mutants are not the next evolutionary step for humans...and they never will be. In this timeline, mutants are nearly extinct except for a few...including Wolverine...and Moira...
The Librarian is aware that Ascension will be happening tomorrow...so he needs to send Moira off planet...because if Moira dies in the Ascension, then the Phalanx won't reach the Dominion and Godhood won't be achieved...but the Librarian is having seconds thought about post-humanity's Ascension...
...he wants Moira to convince him that she could prevent humans from ever reaching Ascension in another life if she was given the chance, but at this rate...it's purely an inevitability for humans to reach this point...a cycle that never ends...
So it's revealed to Moira that machines are not the real enemy of mutants...humans are, and humans always will be...humans just use the machine to buy themselves more time. In the end...the Librarian is not convinced that Moira could do anything to prevent this and he takes his offer back...but Wolverine kills him. Then...Wolverine tells Moira "This is what I do." and kills her.
...and so ended the sixth life of Moira X.
Back in X^0, showing Xavier all of her lives has basically...broken Xavier. Moira tells Xavier that mutants always lose, but this is their last shot to do something. She tells him that in all of her lives of knowing him, he is always the same...he never changes...but this is by no means a compliment...because this means she will have to break him. She tells him he's been dreaming the wrong dream and it's time to wake up
The day before the first council meeting...Xavier and Magneto meet with Moira and tell about who is on the council and why. Mystique agreed to join if they bring Destiny back...Moira says this cannot happen...ever...there can be no precogs on Krakoa...ever ever ever. Destiny knows that Moira's death ends all of this. Xavier repeatedly tells her "we know" but Xavier and Magneto (obviously) haven't been the best at listening to her these past ten years...this obviously really freaks Moira out...
Because the truth that can never be revealed to the X-Men is...this is all built on a lie. Mutants are not the inheritors of Earth, humans are...and the humans always win. Xavier and Magneto are also confident enough that this time it will all be different because they're so awesome...they tell Moira that what SHE'S BUILT is incredible, but it's time for her to hand over the reigns and let them finish her work...
We then get a reprint of the last few pages of House of X #6...where Magneto says "Just look at what we have made." Yes. We. Meaning him and Charles. Not Moira...hum. Magneto tells Xavier that if humanity threatens them, he will make them pay. Xavier warns that if Magneto keeps this up, he’s sure to elicit a response from them. Magneto dares them to try...and Xavier agrees...”Let them try and stop us this time”...
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