Dates
- Cover date
- [August] 2005
- On sale
- August 31, 2005
- Pages
- 660
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #6 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- 2nd printing
Second Edition
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
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Stories
- The Spiral Path · 22 pages
Rachel Summers becomes Phoenix. The Brotherhood becomes the government sanctioned Freedom Force. Freedom Force trounces the X-Men and arrests Magneto.
- Home Is Where the Heart Is · 64 pages
Loki captures Storm. The Enchantress almost captures the New Mutants, but Magik teleports the rest of them away, where they each individually have life-changing adventures. Eventually they reunite, defeat the Enchantress, and set out to rescue Storm.
- There's No Place Like Home · 48 pages
The X-Men travel to Asgard to free the New Mutants and Storm from Loki's enchantments.
- The Trial of Magneto · 40 pages
Cyclops and Storm return to the team. Fenris disrupts the Trial of Magneto. Maddie goes into labor. Xavier is injured and taken into space. Magneto joins the X-Men!
- Duel · 22 pages
Cyclops and Storm duel for leadership of the X-Men. Cyclops leaves the team. Maddie's baby is Nathan Christopher Summers (later Cable). Xavier is stuck in space indefinitely.
- X-Men, I've Gone to Kill the Beyonder · 25 pages
Rachel vs. the Beyonder Round 1.
- Crossroads · 23 pages
Rachel versus the Beyonder, round 2. Rachel steals all the life in the universe to confront the Beyonder, but then changes her mind.
- What Happened to Nightcrawler? · 23 pages
- Wounded Wolf · 22 pages
Lady Deathstrike cybers out at Spiral's Body Shoppe. Katie Power is Christmas caroling when she finds a feral Wolverine being pursued by Lady Deathstrike and the Reavers.
- Freedom Is a Four-Letter Word · 22 pages
The X-Men are hanging out with Lindsay and Jessica in San Francisco when they are attacked by Freedom Force who wants to arrest them. The X-Men are soundly defeated but the SFPD shows up and Lieutenant Morrel tells Freedom Force to get lost. Unfortunately, due to damages from the battle, the X-Men are also asked to leave the city. Rachel decides to tell Cyclops that she is his daughter from the future.
- Ghosts · 24 pages
Rachel is having nightmares about Wolverine killing her. Rachel goes after Selene, and Wolverine guts her before she can kill the Black Queen.
- Retribution · 22 pages
The X-Men take Wolverine to task for using his claws on Rachel (she was trying to kill Selene). When the wounded Rachel discovers another of Selene's victims, she takes it out on Wolverine for not letting her complete her task by throwing him in front of a subway train. Kitty saves him. The X-Men and Hellfire Club race to catch up with Phoenix but Nimrod gets in the way.
- Salvation · 22 pages
It's all-out war between the X-Men and the Hellfire Club against Nimrod. Rachel Summers leaves with Spiral for the Body Shoppe.
- The Morning After · 23 pages
The Marauders begin their Mutant Massacre. Malice possesses Dazzler. Nightcrawler is beaten by a mob. Magneto is offered a seat in the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle.
- Spots! · 23 pages
X-Factor rescues Rusty from Freedom Force. The Mutant Massacre begins in the Morlock tunnels.
- Massacre (Uncanny X-Men #211) · 22 pages
The Marauders cut a path of death through the Morlock tunnels as the X-Men try to stop them. Colossus kills.
- Falling Angel! · 24 pages
After a pitched battle with the Marauders in the Morlock tunnels, Angel's wings are pierced by Harpoon.
- Bloody Sunday · 22 pages
The X-Men return to the school from their battle in the Alley, with casualties. Magik brings Moira to help. the New Mutants try to help, but just get in the way. Karma's siblings are kidnapped. Magus attacks the New Mutants, and Magik teleports them away.
- The Gift of Death · 23 pages
Thor returns to Midgard and tries to pick up the pieces of his life there. After a rousing afternoon with his boss's children, he is warned by his old allies, the Frogs, that something is amiss underground. Venturing into the Morlock tunnels, Thor happens across the Marauders killing the former X-Man, Angel.
- Whose Power--? · 24 pages
When Franklin accidentally contacts Leech and discovers that mutants are being massacred, Power Pack goes to rescue their friend Leech.
- The Last Run · 22 pages
Wolverine makes his way through Sabretooth to bring the Healer back to the mansion to tend the wounded. Nightcrawler, Kitty and Colossus are critically injured and taken out of action. The Morlock tunnels are purged.
- Fires of the Night · 22 pages
Thor tries to protect the quickly dying Angel from the Marauders. Balder resurrects Odin's second Raven. Kevin and Mick are welcomed into Volstagg's family. With his arm already broken by Blockbuster, Thor is cursed with brittle bones by Hela. After the massacre is over, Thor cleanses the Morlock tunnels with fire.
- Redemption! · 23 pages
X-Factor tries to save a group of untrusting Morlocks from the Marauders, but the group leaves their rescuers and runs up against the police instead. Boom Boom quits stealing for the Vanisher. Doctors tell Cyclops and Jean that Angel's wings will have to be amputated.
- Psylocke · 22 pages
Sabretooth invades the mansion and Wolverine and Psylocke have to stop him. Psylocke joins the team.