Ultimate X-Men: Hellfire & Brimstone Part 2
Issue: #22
Writer: Mark Millar
Pencils: Adam Kubert
Inker: Danny Miki
Colors: Dave Stewart

In Pakistan, the new Brotherhood of Mutants has taken it upon themselves to deactivate all nuclear weapons within the country. Claiming that the organization has become a disgrace since Magneto was killed, Toad, Mastermind, Rogue, Juggernaut, and Sabretooth, left the team. Left with only the Blob, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have recruited several new members, including Sumatran, a half-rhinocerous mutant, and Prosimian, a half-ape mutant among others. After the affair, Quicksilver records a message to the public explaining his intentions to the world: to clean up the world that homo superior will soon inherit. In another part of their base, Prosimian expresses his frustration with the current direction of The Brotherhood to his fellow halfbreed mutants, known as Animal Evolutionaries. The rest of the Evolutionaries agree, and slowly a feeling dissention begins to brew.

At the mansion a full month has passed since Jean's hallucinatory relapse. Charles has given Jean a full bill of health, but she is still worried. Charles asks her not to worry about herself, but to worry about Beast, who has fallen into depression over his break up with Ororo and Bobby's injury. She also warns Jean not to play games with Wolverine's emotions, as he is taking her relationship with Soctt very badly. In the Map Room, Cyclops is reviewing the topography of the Savage Land. Xavier has nominated Cyclops and Colossus to venture into the Savage Land to find out what happened to a military operation that was sent to gather information which has lost contact with the Pentagon. Kitty joins him and discusses the idea of using "Shadowcat" as her codename. Cyclops tells her she'd be better off focusing on her school work rather than adventuring.

Wolverine, who has been drinking, joins the two and begins to taunt Cyclops regarding his relationship with Jean. Kitty begs them to back off, but having been pushed over the edge, Cyclops pulls back and punches Wolverine in the face, sending him spiraling to the floor. Cyclops sends Kitty to get the Professor in order to calm them down. The two exchange blows and Cyclops blasts Wolverine through a wall. Logan's claws spring out and he lunges at Scott, but he freezes in the air and falls to the ground, halted by Professor Xavier. He places the two in cerebral detention for the night. Just then, Kitty calls for the Professor, as Jean is on the floor, seemingly in the middle of another hallucinatory fit.

Submitted By: Rob