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...before storming off and leaving Warren alone with his mistakes, as the story cuts back to the tunnels for its final pages.
Unlike modern events that remain fairly isolated from ongoing threads, XF #10 brings Apocalypse back to advance his assembly of his Four Horseman...
...in keeping her head in the sand for the sake of a taste of "normalcy" after her resurrection.
But more than any other character in XF #10, Warren is punished for his missteps as Candy arrives, catching the two mutants in warm embrace.
Candy gives Jean a piece of her mind...
...characterized by near-missed reunions that just miss farce and head directly into frustrating territory.
But all the same, those misses–between the boys and X-Factor, or X-Factor and the X-Men–add to the helplessness of the event; the feeling of watching a horror movie and...
...just in time for the entire façade to fall down around them.
Trish Tilby breaks the news of known-mutant Warren's funding of X-Factor, and with the rouse up, Candy Southern takes off for New York to handle damage control for her beau's business dealings.
...will come throughout the issue.
Unlike UXM, X-Factor divides its time between the Massacre below and the overdue social destruction of X-Factor as speared by Freedom Force.
Reader surrogate extraordinaire Skids makes clear that the concept of X-Factor is absolutely stupid...
...and destruction of the Mutant Massacre, and his work in this issue goes a long way to prove that sentiment.
If there was hope that the shock-value of UXM #211 would prepare readers for another view of the Morlocks' grim fate, it's shattered by Walt's casual but stunning...
...the Marauders neck.
Kitty survives, but finds herself unable to unphase. The team is seriously wounded, and even those who aren't will always have scars of this day.
Ororo tells Logan to remain behind; she needs only one Marauder to interrogate. The rest, she notes, are his.
Piotr stands between Harpoon and more murder, but when the former tries to take advantage of Rogue's invulnerability, he impales Kitty with an energy harpoon.
Brought to a new peak of rage, Piotr grabs the spinning Riptide by the throat, pausing for a moment before snapping...
It isn't just that the X-Men have arrived to find the Tunnels littered with dead bodies, but that even present, they are unable to fully stop the Marauders path of destruction.
Riptide lets loose again, and more Morlocks fall in death around our heroes as the man laughs.
...Scalphunter to justice and escapes to rescue Piotr.
The other X-Men are almost felled by a stray optic blast from Cyclops–the first of many times the two ill-fated teams will almost cross paths–and Logan takes note of a familiar, if not impossible, scent in the darkness.