02x04 - Red Dawn

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NARRATOR:
Previously onX-Men...

MAN 1: Mutant lover!

MAN 2: Send out the muties,
or we’ll burn them out!

I’m just
an ordinary
mutant!

I don’t have
any special powers.

ALL: No more mutants!
No more mutants!

No more mutants!

Why do you hate us?
What did
we ever do to you?

You were born.

What do you think
of your
final resting place?

(SCREAMING)

When I’m through with you,
your mind
will never recover.

I’ll risk it.

I wouldn’t,
if I were you.

(ROARING)

WOLVERINE:
The X-Men can help you!

XAVIER: What is this place?

MAGNETO: It’s called
the Savage Land.

Hold on!

We’re going to
make it.

(BOTH SCREAMING)

(XAVIER COUGHING)

Wherever we are
and whoever
brought us here,

we’re not going to
be able to leave
the way we came.

(SCREECHING)

MAGNETO: I shall never
understand you, Charles.

In what way?

Your life would be
infinitely easier
if mine were to end,

yet you saved me.

I do not yearn
for an easy life, Magneto,
only a just one.

I would take
little satisfaction
in your death.

Get to the other side
of the geyser!

Keep the geyser
between us!

What are you doing?
Isn’t he angry
enough already?

I don’t want him
to leave!

What?

Patience, Charles.
All things come
to those who wait.

Come and get us,
you overgrown lizard!

(ROARING)

I may not have
my mutant powers,
Charles,

but I shall not die easily.

(GENERAL SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN)

(ALARM SOUNDING)

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

(GASPS)

(ALARM BLARING)

OMEGA RED:
The leaders were weak.

They restrained me once
and lost the empire.

Now they have
brought me back,

a living w*apon
they once
had grown to fear.

The empire shall live.

They shall not.

Where is she?
Something has gone wrong!

Nothing has
gone wrong, General.

Darkstar?

Omega Red has been released
from his bondage.

The first stage
of the takeover
is complete.

The republic’s capital
has fallen.

So it begins,
comrades!

Soon these pathetic
sovereign nations

will be returned
where they belong,
to Mother Russia.

We shall restore
our beloved
Soviet Union!

You say this is
for the good
of the people.

For this,
you risk using
a living w*apon,

one you could not
control before.

For the sake
of my countrymen,
I hope you are right.

JUBILEE:
It’s bad enough
being left behind,

but they never leave
anything to eat!

What the heck?

"Destroy all Mutants"?

With the Friends of Humanity,
who needs enemies?

(MEN LAUGHING)

STOREKEEPER:
No! Don’t! Please!

(MEN LAUGHING)

We don’t want
mutant lovers
in our town,

so we’re
moving you out!

MAN 1: Get out!

Try picking on someone
your own size!

Ha! Like you?

Yeah. Like me!

(GRUNTS)

She’s a mutant!
Get her!

(MEN SHOUTING)

(JUBILEE GROANS)

We’re gonna
see you beg, mutant!

Did I hear you desire
to see mutant?

We are to play catch?

MAN 1: Get me out of here.

MAN 2: Let’s get out of here!

You two
are all right?

Thanks to my old pal,
Colossus!

Lucky you happened
to be passing by.

Not luck.
I was on my way
to your mansion.

I need the X-Men’s help.

No one’s home.

Where is Xavier?

We don’t know.

Cyclops is in charge now.

He’s in Washington,
with Jean and Beast

testifying before Congress
on the mutant question.

Terrible things
are happening in my
newly freed homeland.

My people are being driven
from their homes

by armies led by
an evil monster,

someone called Omega Red!

I know the X-Men
will help you as soon
as they return.

I cannot wait!
My family, all my world
is in danger.

I must go now, alone!

Not alone!

"Hi! Gone to Black Sea
with Colossus to stop some guy
named Omega Red.

"Dinner’s in the freezer.
Have a nice day. Jubilee."

There! Let’s go
kick some butt!

JUBILEE: Sit back
and leave
the driving to us!

I never knew
you were a pilot.

JUBLIEE: Oops.

Hey! I’ve logged
over 300 hours

in the simulator.

Look out!

(JUBILEE EXCLAIMS)

(HORN BLARING)

JUBILEE: The Professor
keeps telling me
I have great reflexes.

COLOSSUS: This was
the capital of my country,
so recently freed.

This is awful!
All the people
are gone!

I must find
my family!

(PEOPLE SHOUTING)

PRESIDENT: We must resist!

Help must be on the way.

OMEGA RED:
There will be no help!

PRESIDENT: You...
You can’t come in here.

This Parliament
is...

Officially dissolved!

(SHOUTING)

Your country
no longer exists,

so it has no need
for leaders.

DARKSTAR: Stop!

We were instructed
only to exile
the Parliament.

Instructed!

The people instruct me!

In this chaos of disunion,
the people are frightened.

They demand a return
to the iron hand
of a true ruler!

My iron hand!

Oh, no!

Mother! Illyana!

This was
your farm?

It was my home.

Life was hard,
but we were a family.

(MAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

COLOSSUS: Illyana!

COLOSSUS: In those days,
the government
was suspicious

of any damage
to their equipment.

Many were branded
wreckers or disloyal.

I, a mutant, took the blame.

I left my home, my country,

rather than bring the wrath
of the government
upon my family.

Now look at this.

ILLYANA: Piotr!

Illyana!

Illyana,
you are safe!

I hid when
the soldiers came.

Why do they do this?

Do not fear, little sister.
I will free our friends
and our family!

I hope the guys
got my note.

Omega Red.

ILLYANA:
The soldiers brought
our people here.

I will
free them, now!

Piotr! Wait!

Give me back
my family!

(GRUNTS)

(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)

(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)

I thought you might
need some help.

OMEGA RED: Mutant!

Surrender or this one
is finished!

COLOSSUS: Illyana!

No!

Fool!
You cannot stop me!

WOLVERINE:
I can, you stinking octopus.

Just like last time!

Wolverine!

I heard some fools
thawed you out,

so I’m here
to put you back on ice!

Let me reintroduce you
to my coils!

Illyana?
Are you all right?

Yes, Piotr.
But you must help the one
who saved me.

(SCREAMS)

You are weaker
than ever, Wolverine.

You are too old
for fighting.

Goodbye, little man.

Get everyone
out of here. Now!

Illyana!

Mama! Papa!
You are safe!

Let’s save the reunion
for later. Come on.

I don’t
need your help.

Of course not.
But you are guest
in my country.

It is good manners.

(GRUNTS)

They cannot prevent
my nation’s destiny.

Thanks, kid.
I’m okay now.

Wolverine, you know
this madman?

I tangled with Omega Red
before either
of you were born.

The Soviets created him.

Red’s got his own plans
for this country,

and worst of all,
nothing hurts him.

COLOSSUS:
You defeated him!

WOLVERINE:
Slowed him down.

And I got lucky.

Then we will
get lucky again!

(BLACKBIRDWHOOSHING)

JUBILEE: The Blackbird!

What kept
you guys?

We’d have been here sooner,
but someone
trashed your note.

You left without
permission, Jubilee.

You have endangered
yourself and others.

But Colossus and his people
need our help!

WOLVERINE:
The kid’s right.

Omega Red’s trying to
grab back all the countries
the Soviet Union let go.

If we don’t stop him here,
we might not
get another chance.

OMEGA RED: It begins.

The rebirth
of the greatest empire
on Earth.

DARKSTAR: That is not
what was promised!

The towns are in ruins.
The inhabitants
who survive have fled.

The general’s victory
is hollow.

I fight for the empire
they gave away!

The people cry out
for order!

What have we let loose
upon the world?

Follow me.

With the help of
the X-Men, we will take
back our country!

Colossus!
Look out!

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)

COLOSSUS:
Get out of my country!

ROGUE: Come on, fellas.
Come out and be sociable.

Well, that’s more like it.

Who are you?

Darkstar. A pawn of
the old general’s!

No longer.

I have seen what
their ultimate w*apon
has done to our people.

Omega Red must be stopped.

Then let’s do it!

Whirlwind, deliver them!

(WIND WHOOSHING)

(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)

(GROANS)

Wolverine
has brought allies.

(GAMBIT GRUNTS)

Let him go!

One mutant or 100,

they shall all bow
before the great
Soviet Empire.

Where’d you come from,
you tin squid!

You are the strongest
of Wolverine’s
mutant friends.

I want you all to see
that none are safe
from my tentacles.

You’re mine, Red!

Forgot about
my Carbonadium armor,
didn’t you?

Well, you scratch my back,
and I’ll scratch yours!

(WEAKLY) I won’t let you.

(GROANS)

Our country is through
with empires, Omega Red.

(GROANING)

For 25 years
they imprisoned me.

No!

They were right to fear me.

(GRUNTING)
You will be stopped.

I cannot be.
I shall not be.

Mutant! You command the winds.
Do you also command the cold?

Yes.

The deepest cold
held Omega Red prisoner.

Perhaps it can
still stop him.

What?

No!

Forces of nature’s cold,
freeze!

Witch!

Fools! When will you...

(OMEGA RED GRUNTING)

COLOSSUS: Storm!
Your cold hurt him! Now!
With all your strength!

Ice, winds, storms!

No, not again.

For another lifetime.

Do not stop!
Take us both!

I shall not...

Be gone!

(GRUNTING)

Piotr!
You’ve done it!

You’ve stopped him!

COLOSSUS:
Yes, Illyana.

We are free.

For now.

Soon it will be
as it was!

DARKSTAR:
It will never again
be as it was.

Your army has been defeated,

and your monster has been
returned to the ice
from which he came.

A new day has dawned.
Your night
of terror is over.

With Omega Red back on ice,
why don’t you
come back with us?

Thank you, my friend,
but this is my home.

We must rebuild
what Omega Red destroyed.

At least come and visit.
I can fly you over.

Well, perhaps.

Piotr, is the terror
really over?

Yes.
Thanks to such friends
as the X-Men.