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Abigail Brand has been infected with a Brood larva. However, due to her half-alien physiology, she is able to withstand the transformation longer than a normal human. Unfortunately, her fellow S.W.O.R.D. agents aren’t so lucky and the X-Men are forced to kill them before they can do any damage. Abigail manages to persuade the X-Men that killing the Brood is a bad idea, so Beast comes up with an idea which means they won’t have to exterminate the Brood race. He and the X-Men get themselves caught by the Brood and impregnated with larva before escaping. Hank hopes to extract the larva back on the Peak and teach the young Brood human traits such as compassion, teamwork and how to coexist. Abigail says there’s no need. She informs him about a young Broodling elsewhere on the ship. Maybe it could do the work for them. The team heads off and finds the young Broodling out of its stasis pod. Unfortunately, their escape is slowed down when the Broodqueen and her soldiers appear. He queen informs Kitty that they are stronger and more fertile than the Brood they are used to. The X-Men begin to transform and Kitty finds herself all alone. She is thrown out of the airlock by Colossus on the Broodqueen’s command but is saved by Lockheed, who has returned to save the day, despite earlier saying that he wouldn’t.