Hellion is pissed that Emma is screwing with his life again. His parents don't want him. The X-men left him behind. And he attacks Magneto to try and join up with the Brotherhood or at least have someone to fight.

Anole is dealing with life back in a small-town with his family after being trained for war by the X-men and realizes how far behind the rest of his classmates he really is and has a convo with Northstar, the other prominently gay X-man in the X-universe.

Nezhno (the Wakandan Kid, or Vibranium Boy, they never gave him a name) goes back to Wakanda and realizes that he is an outsider there and how much he now misses his X-family.

Scalphunter (the clone of a clone of a clone of a murdering hillbilly) works in a tiny diner in the middle of nowhere and finds God with the help of an image-induced super-annoying Nightcrawler who was apparently there to kill him.

Surprises: Cannonball's story wasn't the best, and I love Mr. Guthrie. His story was great, just abrupt. The whole story of his attacking other citizens in his small Kentucky town made me think more and more that he could work in his own ongoing. There is enough about Sam and his family to be explored, as well as his being the only living External. The best story of the bunch would have to be Anole's story. The character most people loved in New X-Men gets what could be called a heartwarming story through the caring hands of Skottie Young. The creators have never made his sexuality a hot button issue, and that continues here. He's gay, so what? His life is completely screwed up by being an X-Man, and there is nothing he can do about that. So he leaves home, and knocks out Northstar before he can.

Nezhno's story, Hellion's story, Scalphunter's, Cannonball's, all the stories deal with being an outsider now. You've been trained for a war and now there isn't a war and now you're not needed. The people you thought would love you (Nezhno at Wakanda) no longer want you, and the people who did are no longer there.

The strangest part of this issue was Nightcrawler telling Scalphunter he was there to kill him. Last time I checked Nightcrawler, Kurt, was a very very religious person. He was very strongly rooted in his roots of God. And by god, he wouldn't go killing a man in cold blood just because he's the clone of a clone. That's what Wolverine does.

There was a lot of good here. Everything was very abrupt and short. I just can't wait to see what happens next. And Jamie McKelvie needs his own ongoing. His art on the Scalphunter story is very Frank Cho meets John Cassaday meets Steve McNiven, and if that's not a murderer's row of artists to have a similar vibe to, I sure as hell couldn't suggest many better. Get him a book with a lead time and I guarantee his art would sell anything. Including, perhaps, a Cannonball ongoing?