Isolated by white, blanketing snows, a house built to showcase luxury contains, in its heart, a nightmare. Before Rom arrives upon the scene, the Hybrid works his subtle machinations to use and subvert the women before him. They are like no other women, each in her own way. There is one way they are each women, and that is the wicked purpose for which Hybrid begins his subjugation. Each have fled the scene of an attempt to free the male consortium of their group. The blue-skinned woman, who could truly appear to be anyone, calls herself Mystique, leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. On this occasion, it would be correct to call them the Sisterhood. Hybrid affects her first. His ploy? He is victim of a mind-touch not of his own device, which he accuses Mystique of initiating. Here she gains the common knowledge: they have all fought the X-Men before, and consider them active enemies. The X-Men team unites and protects humans and mutants alike, with a dream of peace based o...