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...badly injured Rusty's aid.

Scott orders Warren and Jean to transport their injured ward back to X-Factor Headquarters with Skids' help, while he, Bobby, and Hank remain in the tunnels to search for Artie.

But in the distance...

...immediate acceptance has never been guaranteed by anyone he's met; even Rusty rejected the boy for his appearance early into his appearances.

But in the Tunnels Artie finds what might have been a family for him if not for the deadly costs of mutant division.

The two teams...

...for the boy's innocence.

With knowledge that the Marauders have already started to take the Morlock Tunnels, Artie's search for Rusty comes packaged with a sense of deadly stakes.

But his arrival there–especially following his rejection by Hodge–is heartwarming. For Artie...

...protect Freedom Force from the crowd's attack.

The irony, of course, is that their flexibility in protecting "good" mutants would exclude their own allies in the X-Men from the protection all the same.

The duplicity of their "act" as mutant hunters leaves their hands tied...

...the Hellfire Club to preserve the lives of mutants, rather than commit evil.

But their alignment with "humanity" over their species–not dissimilar from Raven's choice in consigning the Brotherhood to Val Cooper as the Freedom Force–means that mutant survival is assigned a...

...of marginalization (race, religion, the ability to "pass") than the privileged, demonstrably WASP-y Original Five, X-Factor is able to commit to the illusion of Xavier's dream.

That insistence in the dream closes them off to any alternative–that, for example, Magneto is at...

...XF #9 continues in the aftermath of the fight as Rusty and Skids try again to make an escape.

The great flaw of X-Factor–their stubbornness–was written into the cast by design of the book's creation.

Unlike the X-Men, whose identities intersect moreso with other forms...

...the troubles ahead, then X-Factor (almost fittingly) doubles down on the warning by proving the costs of mutant division and the instincts of its characters to look outside their species for protection.

Following up on last issue's near-capture of Rusty by Freedom Force...

...hits her hard and knocks her down. She hasn't escaped the Marauders, but lead them to the exact place they wanted to go.

"Too bad", one Marauder laments, she was "alone".
But where she's going, she won't be for very long.

And so, the Mutant Massacre begins.

Ororo offers her support to Logan's choice to stop Rachel from killing Selene, but warns that should he plan to do so again without her authorization again, he should leave now.

She asks not just for unity, but obedience. Logan promises it to the end of the line.