In Catalyst’s secret island fortress, Cypher, the cybernetically enhanced A.I.M. commander who has commandeered the base, proceeds to download Catalyst’s Access program in her data banks. The program will enable her access to any available cyberspace. Meanwhile, after they successfully escape the primary control chamber, Sabretooth and Mystique decide to split up: the former is assigned to destroy Catalyst’s program by any means necessary, whereas the latter will pursue Catalyst himself before he flees the island. In a short time, Cypher realizes the program has been rigged by Catalyst, thus making it impossible for her to download it. Still, she decides to activate the program anyway, hoping it will plunge the world into chaos to the advantage of A.I.M. Sabretooth intervenes. After a brief fight, Cypher has a proposition for him: she will allow him to destroy the program in exchange for allowing her to leave. Sabretooth complies and demolishes the program.
Meanwhile, just as Catalyst is about to escape the island, Mystique startles him by appearing before him in the guise of the late Destiny. Terrified to see the face of the woman who almost killed him once, Catalyst falls off the cliff and becomes sustenance for the piranhas in the moat below. Subsequently, Sabretooth and Mystique evacuate the self-destroying bunker. Before Sabretooth can flee, Raven reveals she has poisoned him with an odorless gas. Only she knows the antidote, which she will not reveal unless he puts his restraining collar back on and follows her obediently back to the X-Factor. Much to his chagrin, Creed is forced to comply.

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