The X-Men elicit the help of a fellow mutant, Banshee, and launch an attempt to save Lilandra. Bet when they arrive at the site, the X-Men are stopped in their tracks by the Gladiator. Faced with a foe unlike any they've seen before, the X-Men are soon overpowered, but not before the Phoenix comes to their aid!

A Shi'ar emissary, Erik the Red, violently takes over the Eagle One space station. The X-Men race into space to save the astronauts on board and battle Erik the Red. But on the way back to Earth, an energy wave collides with their aircraft. With no other options, Jean takes matters into her own hands and pilots the plane while shielding the rest of the X-Men, exposing herself to the Phoenix Force!

Jean Grey, using the Phoenix's powers, transports all the X-Men to Lilandra's ship where the Empress has hidden the M'Kraan Crystal. While there, a group of super-powered beings named the Starjammers attack and steal the M'Kraan Crystal in order to use it to get close enough to D'Ken to assassinate him. But when the Starjammers set their plan into motion, D'Ken gains possession of the Crystal and unleashes its terrible power.

Yuriko's alien discovery, a Shi'ar vessel, turns out to be a prison cell containing a voracious, gaseous prisoner, the M'Kraan Spirit Drinker. It immediately sucks life out of Yuriko and her cohorts, the Reavers, and turns its attention to the X-Men. The X-Men must change their strategy to defeat an enemy they can't touch.

D'Ken gets pulled into the M'Kraan Crystal, and becomes one with the universe inside it. Now with unlimited power, D'Ken has become and unstoppable force. With the help of the Starjammers, the X-Men hold nothing back in a fight to defeat D'Ken. Overpowered by their foe, the X-Men face their final moments, but are saved by Jean Grey and the Phoenix!

When Wolverine's former love, a Japanese woman named Yuriko, stumbles into the Morlock tunnels, she discovers that an alien treasure is burried somewhere in the area. She lures Wolverine and the X-Men into the tunnels with hopes that she can use their abilities to uncover the treasure.

Upon touchdown in the Savage Land, the X-Men lose all their mutant skills and are immediately captured by Sinister's Nasty Boys. Wolverine escapes and teams up with native Ka-Zar. The two travel to the citadel in an attempt to free the X-Men and Shanna.

Archangel has become obsessed with destroying Apocalypse, who he blames for ruining his life. Meanwhile, Beast has developed a new device that could contain Apocalypse and allow the X-Men to finally defeat him. Will Beast's device work? Will Archangel become an ally for the X-Men? Or will Archangel's hunger for revenge cause the destruction of both himself and the X-Men at Apocalypse's hands? Find out NOW!

Xavier and Magneto are held captive by Mister Sinister and are used as bait to the lure the X-Men into an ambush at the Savage Land Castle. After capturing the X-Men, Sinister unfolds a plan to use their genetic material to modify Magneto's lowly band of 'mutates' into more powerful and deadly mutants.

An alien, Mojo, kidnaps and casts the X-Men as his latest all galaxy television hit. He uses his psychic powers to pit them against one another on a far distant planet. But when the superstar of Mojoworld, Longshot, betrays the television tycoon and frees the X-Men, they must trust that the luck of Longshot can get them home safely.

Former X-Man Bobby 'Iceman' Drake is caught breaking into a top-secret government installation. The X-Men are notified of the incident, free him and bring him back to the X-Mansion. While there, the X-Men discover that Iceman's longtime girlfriend, Lorna Dane was kidnapped. Unsure of what Iceman will do next, the X-Men place him in a temporary holding cell before he causes any more damage. Iceman breaks out of his restraints and goes back to the government installation to search for Lorna. What he finds will change him forever.

Beast falls in love with Carly, a blind patient of his. The two are kept apart by Carly's father who looks down upon the mutant race. But when the Friends of Humanity (an anti-mutant organization) kidnaps Carly, her father turns to Beast who must now risk his life to try and save her.

Sauron, a shape-shifting mutant, kidnaps Storm and brings her to the Savage Land in order to feed from her mutant energy. Separated from the rest of the X-Men, Storm is encouraged by Sauron to free her inner tempest of energy, awakening Garokk!

When Mystique forces Rogue to revisit her own past, Rogue's overpowering flashbacks cause her to relive the encounter with Ms. Marvel and drive her from the X-Men. Rogue struggles with Ms. Marvel's thoughts which are trapped in her mind and the two battle it out on the psychic plane.

Garokk fuses with the island's volcano and the surging planetary force below it, bringing the island to the edge of destruction. Realizing his mistake, Sauron engages Garokk in battle and eventually manages to absorb Garokk's immense power. Will the X-Men allow Sauron to defeat Garokk and risk losing Storm? Or Will Garokk's might be too much for Sauron and the X-Men?

Cable comes to the present to stop Bishop and save his own future world. But after a one-sided fight against Bishop and the X-Men, Cable realizes that they might be too powerful to handle on his own. Looking for an alternative, Cable looks into the X-Men's history and discovers that Logan's healing factor may be the key to saving the future.

It's 3999 AD. in New York City and Nate Summers, also known as Cable is leading a war against Apocalypse and his forces. But when a timestorm appears, Cable discovers that the past is being altered by the mutant known as Bishop and that these alterations will cause the destruction of the mutant race.

When the X-Men confront Phoenix and ask it to give up Jean's body, Phoenix vows to destroy the team. To re-energize, she flies up through the D'Bari Star System, passing a very surprised Shi'ar Star Cruiser crew. As they watch in horror, she feeds upon and destroys an entire star system. To defend space life as they know it, the Shi'ar empress Lilandra decrees that Phoenix/Jean Grey must die.

As Professor X and Emma Frost battle for psychic control of Jean, the Inner Circle members quarrel over how to dispose of their prisoners, the X-Men. But it isn't long before the Phoenix realizes that it has been duped by the Inner Circle and vows to unleash its fury on the world!

Gambit is forced to return to his southern roots by an ancient tithe, an old family feud and the kidnapping of his brother, Bobby. Bella Donna of the Assassin's Guild uses the kidnapping to lure Gambit into her clutches and force him into completing the aborted marriage. Fortunately for Gambit, the rest of the X-Men follow him back to the bayou; with Gambit's help they successfully confront the Assassins at the designated place and time and expose their deception.

Vindicator and Alpha Flight capture Wolverine and demand to know the secret of his Adamantium skeleton. As Vindicator runs tests on Wolverine to try and replicate his indestructible skeleton, the members of Alpha Flight realize that the experiments are going too far and fight to release him. With an enraged Wolverine freed, Vindicator and Alpha Flight are in for a fight they will never forget.