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The mansion just barely avoids devolving into chaos as the assembled X-Men and New Mutants try to make sense of the elder team's sudden transformation.

Worst of all, it seems that the shift is progressive: it isn't just that the heroes have changed, it's that they're changing...

...and that monster sure loves the ratings a dramatic mess tend to bring in.

Our Annual opens with an extended, if not expected, Danger Room sequence; but with a snap of his fingers, Mojo–observing by way of Betsy's eyes–interrupts the whole thing by teleporting Longshot and...

...the potential and promise robbed by Larry's death; Rahne, however, turns to rage.

Hunting his bullies down to the mall, the lupine mutant bears her claws to prepare an attack before Sam and Dani show up to take her home.

But that's the thing–in all of their respective...

...has provided them each with.

Kitty, driven by her guilt over the coldness of her final words to Larry, suits up to sneak into the boy's room and learn about him, crushed as she realizes that he was a mutant like her all along.

Kitty weeps not only from her guilt, but of...

...himself against the gravity of this loss; another mutant child dead with him helpless to have prevented it.

The issue follows the rest of the team as they try to wrap their minds around Larry's death–each response revealing the clear privilege the protections found family...

...that leaves the boy truly without sense of way out; and no matter the "what ifs" or "if onlys", Larry–like too many in the world convinced of the reality of their worst fear–takes his own life.

Erik delivers the news to his students as directly as possible, likely steeling...

...very existence confirms Larry's worst fears for what awaits him as he comes into his mutant identity in a world that hates him.

That angst leaves him with guards up against the one family that might accept him–after a joke-in-poor-taste fails to land, the New Mutants leave...

...in-universe version of the types of symbolic threats–from epithets spray painted on lockers to picketing cults outside of a queer boy's funeral to nooses left in garages–that marginalized folks content with every. single. day.

The X-Factor threat is terrifying because its...

...Larry's later attempts to remain "closeted" by hiding behind mutant-phobic humor. In a lot of ways, it feels like the boy never had a chance; his introduction to the New Mutants too late to undo the years of hatred against him and fear inside him.

New Mutants #45 continues...

...on Brightwind's back, but not without being unintentionally seen by a boy standing outside of the dance alone.

Larry Bodine enters the book in isolation; even before he encounters anti-mutant harassment, he's "othered" by the others and the secret he's terrified they...