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Pandora’s Box, a sister ship to the Peak, is overrun by the Brood and Abigail Brand is taken captive. She had led a rescue mission there after the captive Brood Queen escaped captivity but was captured herself and infected by the Brood. Hank, not knowing her status, leads his own rescue mission, enlisting his old friends in the X-Men and Lockheed from the Peak, who has an emotional reunion with Kitty. The team heads to Pandora’s Box and they enter the craft. They encounter no resistance, but, as they move through the ship, they find many dead bodies. They finally discover Abigail and some of the crew alive but are informed that they have been infected. Hank knows that their scientists have developed the means to separate the Brood larva from their host body, but the machinery that is necessary for this process is outside in another part of the ship. The team goes in search of it and soon finds it. Unfortunately, this is an ambush and they are attacked by the Brood. They manage to get the equipment to safety and make their way to their own ship. Once inside, Hank asks Abigail to ask the Peak to blast Pandora’s Box as soon as they are clear. Abigail removes her shades revealing the change is already taking place. “I’m sorry,” she sighs, “But I can’t let that happen.”