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You want me. You want me so much that it bores me. Admit it...and we can go on from there.
Appearing in "Of Leather & Lace"
Featured Characters:
- Generation X
- Banshee
- Chamber
- Husk
- Jubilee
- Mondo (clone) (First appearance) (Joins Team)
- Penance (Monet St. Croix)
- Skin
- Synch
- White Queen
Supporting Characters:
- Cordelia Frost
- Leech (Cameo)
- Moira MacTaggert (On a TV or computer screen)
- Artie Maddicks (Cameo)
- Mondo
Adversaries:
- Black Tom Cassidy (disguised as Arthur Barrington)
- Hellfire Club
- unnamed soldiers
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Marvel Universe
- United States of America
- Massachusetts
- Boston
- Boston Harbor
- Hellfire Club Mansion
- Quincy Market
- Snow Valley
- Boston
- Massachusetts
- United States of America
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Of Leather & Lace"
At the Hellfire Club’s Boston chapter, Cordelia Frost demands Shinobi Shaw make her the Club’s new White Queen in exchange for having captured Mondo. Amused, Shaw refuses but has her show him Mondo unconscious in a stasis tube, anyway. Just then, armed troops burst in and activate a hologram of their employer Barrington. He tells Shaw they will be taking Mondo, and Shaw lets them, infuriating Cordelia. Days later at Xavier’s School, Banshee and the White Queen are watching Jubilee and Penance play in the swimming pool when Penance suddenly has a seizure. The Queen telepathically sedates Penance, and Banshee says they will figure out what afflicts her, but Jubilee is not reassured. Skin answers the front doorbell and meets a crying Cordelia who has come looking for the White Queen, her estranged sister. At a dock on Boston Harbor, Barrington’s troops are moving Mondo’s stasis tube when the liquid inside it drains out and Mondo vanishes. Using his shapeshifting mutant powers, he re-forms from the liquid and escapes. Back at the school, Cordelia meets the White Queen in the Biosphere and tearfully embraces her. Realizing Cordelia is up to something, the Queen tells her to leave until she asks for help rescuing Mondo. At Quincy Market in Boston, a naked Mondo steals some clothes, but the store vendor catches him. Barrington’s troops appear and open fire, claiming to be federal agents. Having telepathically tracked Mondo, the White Queen arrives nearby with Cordelia, Husk, Jubilee, and Synch. In the School infirmary, Banshee finds Chamber visiting Penance and calls his girlfriend Dr. Moira MacTaggert for advice on how to treat her. At Quincy Market, Generation X demands Barrington’s troops let Mondo go, but they refuse and open fire. Husk morphs into a stone form and shields Jubilee and Synch from the shots. Back in the infirmary, Moira explains via video call that Penance’s skin has contracted so tightly, it is causing her muscles to atrophy. Moira then chastises Banshee for not visiting her, and they argue about her infection with the Legacy Virus. In Boston, a gunshot hits the gas tank of a nearby car, triggering an explosion that knocks out Husk. Enraged, Mondo brawls with Barrington’s troops. Monitoring the fight remotely, Barrington orders them to abort. The White Queen telepathically makes them point their guns at each other, but they quickly teleport away. Later, after the team returns to Xavier’s School, the Queen calls out Cordelia for her scheming and tells her to stay away. Mondo has decided to enroll at the school and, unaware of Cordelia’s plot, cheerfully hugs her goodbye and sees her off in a taxi.
Appearing in "The Very Personal and Very Private Journal of Monet Saint Croix"
Featured Characters:
- Generation X
- Banshee (Image only)
- Chamber (Image only)
- Husk (Image only)
- Jubilee (Image only)
- M ("Monet St. Croix")
- Penance (Monet St. Croix) (Image only)
- Skin
- Synch (Image only)
- White Queen (Image only)
Supporting Characters:
- Gateway (Image only)
- Cartier St. Croix (Image only)
- Gayle Cord-Becker (Image only)
Adversaries:
Locations:
Items:
- M's journal
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Very Personal and Very Private Journal of Monet Saint Croix"
Skin is helping M pack up the Generation X girls’ belongings for their move out of the White Queen’s quarters to their new quarters in the school’s science building. After M leaves to transport a box of stuff, Skin stumbles upon her diary and decides to read it. In it, he finds surreal drawings of her family, childlike observations on the rest of the team, and cryptic comments on Gateway, Emplate, and Penance. When M returns, Skin hurriedly closes the diary, rambles nervously, and claims he needs to go study. Once he leaves, she realizes he read her diary but thinks he is not clever enough to figure her family’s secret.
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in:
- Generation X Classic vol. 2 trade paperback (2013);
- Generation X Epic Collection vol. 2: Emplate's Revenge trade paperback (2022).
Trivia
- The unnamed troops who kidnap Mondo wear uniforms similar to those worn by Team X, the black ops squad which once included Wolverine as a member. Team X's boss was Maj. Arthur Barrington. However, as revealed in Generation X #61, the Barrington who appears in this issue is actually Black Tom Cassidy in disguise, pursuing his own agenda. The real Barrington appears in Maverick.
- Moira MacTaggert's infection with the Legacy Virus was made public in X-Men Prime #1.
- Chamber accidentally blew up the girls' dormitory with his powers when Husk tried to kiss him in Generation X #6.
- In M's diary, she comments on the events of Uncanny X-Men #316 and Generation X #1-2.
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