(X-Men Manifest Destiny Tie-In)
 
Written by
Joss Whedon
Art by
Jeremy Haun
"The superstar team of Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi take the X-Men to the ""Second Stage""! ""Messiah Complex"" pulled the X-Men team together, ""Divided We Stand"" tore them apart. Now the X-Men are back to business -- with a new look, a new base of operations, and a mystery to solve that will take them into previously uncharted territory and test them to their core. It all starts on a spaceship hovering 300 hundred feet above the twisted wreckage of Chaparanga Beach. Its sole inhabitant: the mysterious Subject X. Five minutes -- just five minutes is all he needs, all he’s asking for. Can the X-Men afford to give it to him?"