While they attack the Brood, the team becomes infected and gradually mutate into the Brood themselves. The only exception being Kitty Pryde, still in her intangible state. The team also find another unnamed Brood teenager, who became an outcast due to his compassion for mammals. Eventually, the X-Men are able to regain their human memories mid-battle and eliminate the Brood Queens. The Brood are given the option to go home, which they accept. The Brood teenager accompanies the X-Men to S.W.O.R.D's headquarters and observes the new Brood larvae that have been extracted by the infected X-Men. He remarks that with no ties to the hive-mind and the Brood Queen, the future Brood under the S.W.O.R.D.’s care have a bright future. Storm then states that it is now up to him to look after the new Broodlings, and that if he were ever to come to Earth, he would have a place on the X-Men.