He was confronted by Magneto and his team of X-Men who were trying to free the mutants under his control, and Exodus claimed he had been trying to build Magneto an army to consolidate mutant power in the wake of the Terrigen threat through terrorism. Magneto defeated him and had him sealed up in Xorn's temple to be used as a fail-safe in case the threat towards mutants reached its peak. Exodus was later awakened off-panel and befriended the young mutant Elixir, with both mutants coming to Magneto's rescue shortly after he suffered a fatal injury in battle with Psylocke. After extending a halfhearted offer to Magneto to come with them, Exodus teleported himself and Elixir away to parts unknown.