The X-Men are divided, split across the world. In the small suburban town of Durfee, Illinois the Professor and Beast find themselves confronted by Ashley Martin, a young girl with immense control over non-living matter... to the point that even a mutant-hunting sentinel was forced to obey her. But now, in the ruin left when it determined that she was a mutant, her anger is turned on Professor X for bringing this misery into her life.
Iceman, Havok and Lorna have returned from the Savage Land, but find the mansion empty. That's because the rest of the X-Men, and Warren's girlfriend Candy Southern are prisoners of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. And thanks to Mastermind's illusions, they don't know whether the enemies they face are real or not!
