Seeking their missing comrade, Angel, Cyclops and Marvel Girl (aided by Candy Southern) have traced Angel to a derelict freighter in the middle of the ocean. Fighting their way aboard though, they don't find any trace of him... but they do find, Avia, the bird-girl he befriended in the Savage Land. The mysterious Krueger knows of Warren's fate though... and the other X-Men will share it soon enough.
The Beast and Professor X, however, have encountered a functional sentinel in suburban Illinois. Even more strangely, the mutant-hunting machine seems to obey the commands of little Ashley Martin, a young mutant girl. But can even her power keep a Sentinel from it's primary directive to destory all mutants?
