In "Meanwhile", Agent Brand leads a rescue mission to the Pandora's Box, a space station where some of the universe's most dangerous experiments are conducted. Only one person has been retrieved from the station, but he leaves Brand for dead. As a result, Beast recruits Storm, Colossus, Kitty Pryde and Lockheed to rescue her. The team find Brand and members of S.W.O.R.D. still alive, but they tell them they have been infected by the Brood, who the station's scientists had been trying to extract larvae without killing the host.