| Cast - 
Jesse Bedlam
Cannonball
Domino
Archie Fogg
Magneto
Meltdown
Moonstar
Quicksilver
Warpath
Pete Wisdom
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X-Force 95
Magnetic Distraction
 Creators
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Writer: Jim Francis Moore
Artists: Jim Cheung, Nelson DeCastro
Inkers: Mark Morales, Rod Ramos, Rob Stull
Colorist: Marie Javins
Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos
Editor: Jason Liebig
Editor-in-chief: Bob Harras
Date Published -
October 1999
Cover -
Magneto vs. X-Force (Cannonball, Domino, Meltdown, Moonstar, Jesse Bedlam, Sunspot,
Warpath)
By: Jim Cheung
Plot -
After infiltrating Genosha, X-Force and Pete Wisdom have taken a CPU from within a
Genoshan complex. Now, the team is attacked by the Genoshan security and caught in the
midsts of a bloody civil war. The team manages to break free, while Pete Wisdom reveals
the true nature of the CPU. Truly a cybernetic brain, the CPU was the brain of a scientist
and Wisdom's friend Archie Fogg, who died when his consiousness was sifted into the
computer. However, the CPU was sent through space and mysterious reappeared, falling from
the sky and crashing into Genoshan waters. Wisdom used the memory boxes to lure X-Force to
Genosha to help him free his friend. However, their escape route is cut off by Genosha's
ruler, Magneto himself. Also, to make matters worse, most of the team has history with
Magneto, because once, he was the headmaster of the New Mutants, the team that came before
X-Force. Meanwhile, in the Genoshan power plant, Domino and Jesse make their to the
generator. Jesse gets used to using the martial arts skills he got from a memory box from
Delphi. But when Jesse tries to take some pills, Domino stops him, believing the pills to
be drugs. Jesse comes clean: the drugs prevent his powers from driving him insane. Back on
the battlefield, X-Force confronts their former teacher, but the master of magnetism wants
nothing to do with them. He lashes out, while Warpath makes an escape with Archie's brain.
To save Wisdom's life, Moonstar pours her quantum energy into Magneto's EM field,
disrupting it and pausing the tyrant for a moment, However, the power overwhelms her, and
Magneto turns the power back on her. Knowing their losing, Cannonball signals Domino and
Jesse to go to Plan B: disrupt the entire island's power, shutting it down. Magneto is
pulled away from the confrontation, when his Acolytes tell him that the magistrates are
trying to overthrow their defenses. In the sewers below, Warpath tries to make his escape,
but he is stopped by Quicksilver. However, Quicksilver listens long enough to understand
why Magneto can't be allowed to have Archie's brain. With help from Quicksilver, the team
makes their escape, this time using the island's technology to give Archie a new body.
Pete Wisdom then completes his part of the bargain, giving Cannonball another memory box,
this one proving whose memory it is: that of his uncle Luke, who may have helped
Cannonball's father commit murder! |