Of course he’s aware that it’s a trap, but steps into it anyway, supremely confident that will once again easily crush the X-Men. When he arrives, he finds the lights out and Nanny malfunctioning. Magneto is in his rebuilt Asteroid M base and busy at evil schemes when he receives an alert of a minor malfunction at his Antarctic base. Although she’s successfully fooled Nanny, Storm is reduced to tears of frustration by the wasted exertion and the prospect of starting all over. She convinces the robot that she’s just upset that her headdress fell off and so Nanny puts it back in place. Nanny returns and Storm fears she’ll discover the lockpicks. Grasping one with her teeth, she sets to work unlocking the chair.Īs she works, she recalls how, after her parents were killed, a near-infant Ororo was brought before the master thief of Cairo, who trained her to be an expert thief even as a child (and hence, she is able to circumvent some of the inhibitions Magneto’s chair places on her.) But Storm gets so caught up in her reveries, she accidentally drops her pick. Shaking off her headdress, she exposes a set of lockpicks she keeps within it. Storm, however, has been keeping track of Nanny’s movements and her scheduled routine and enacts an escape plan. Magneto's robot Nanny dotes over them in a patronizing manner, feeding them as they were infants. In Magneto's Antarctic base, the X-Men are still locked in the restraint chairs that reduce their motor functions to be those of small children. Lilandra tries to reassure him, but Xavier remains pensive. However Professor Xavier is disturbed that he has lost his telepathic rapport with the X-Men for over a week. On the Greek isle of Kirinos, Lilandra muses that she’s enjoyed the “primitive” world called Earth, mainly because of Charles. Cheever laments that Magneto’s longtime enemies the X-Men seem to have vanished off the face of the Earth. Six hours later, BBC news reporter John Cheever reports that the base has been utterly destroyed. He turns his wrath on them and brings the filming to an abrupt end. Magneto attacks a research facility in Australia while a news camera team attempts to film it.

Trapped in Antarctica! by Nel Yomtov