While in the astral plane, it is revealed that the Shadow King had lured the X-Men as a psychic game with the late Charles Xavier, whose mind he had kidnapped when he died. The Shadow King intends to use The X-Men as vessels to escape into the real world. Beast also reveals himself to be Mystique, who also wants to stop The Shadow King. Initially, The Shadow King is able to escape using the bodies of Old Man Logan and Gambit, who attack and also spread his psychic hold onto the citizens of London. Angel is forced to turn into Archangel to deal with his possessed teammates. As they fight, the British military are brought on board, and consider attacking both the X-Men and as well as the possessed citizens by dropping a bomb into the area.