03x17 - The Juggernaut Returns

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NARRATOR:
Previously onX-Men...

JUBILEE: Who's that?

The Juggernaut.

[GRUNTS]

I'm trying
to att*ck his mind,
but I can't get through.

His helmet protects
his mind from probes.

Is this supposed to hurt?

Just wait. (GRUNTS)

You had it easy.
You were the good one.

But now I am the strongest,

and I will destroy you
and you pathetic X-Men.

JUGGERNAUT:
I've been here for one reason.

My do-gooder half-brother.

Huh?

(SCREAMING)

Whoa.

I didn't think
anybody could do
that to Juggernaut.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

(EUGENE EXCLAIMING)

EUGENE: I knew it! (LAUGHS)

The legends are true.

(GROANING)

They laughed at me.

But you're real,
and you're mine.

March 29th.
Eugene Torbett Widerspahn.

Location,
Cave of Cyttorak!

(COUGHING)

I am holding the fabled
Tablet of Cyttorak.

(LAUGHING)

The power of the ages!

Legend
has it that Cyttorak
endowed his faithful

with unearthly,
mystical powers!

Virtual immortality!

(THUMPING)

"Whosoever touches
the ruby..." The ruby!

Oh, my gosh! Where is it?

It won't work
without the ruby!

Where is it?

(GASPS)

MAN: Oh, my God!

(SCREAMING)

I'm gonna make you
pay for this,
Charles!

ALL: Oh, my God!

It's time to
come out and play.

(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

Who says
you can never find
a cab when you need one?

Have CD sell all
the Citycab stock.

(SIREN BLARING)

You don't mind, do you, pal?
I'm late for a family reunion.

(SCREAMING)

(CAR ENGINE REVVING)

Come back with my cab,
you stinking mutant!

I'm not a mutant!

(POLICE SIRENS WAILING)

But I know
where one lives.

(CAR BRAKES SCREECHING)

XAVIER:
Beast, you are
needed, immediately.

BEAST:
What happened, Professor?

The Juggernaut has returned.

Given our limited numbers, we
shall need an inventive
strategy

with which to dissuade
Cain from his aggression.

Yes.
And we shall
need it soon.

Here's Juggy!

(EUGENE LAUGHING)

I found it!

The power of the ages!

Hear me, X-Men!

I need you in
the w*r Room
immediately.

X-Men, come in. Over.

X-Men. X-Men!

Cerebro,
why can we
not contact...

(expl*si*n)

Hey, Charlie!
Why don't you
come when I call?

I'm hurt.

Charlie, hope you don't mind.

I let myself in.

(LAUGHING)

Come out, come out,
wherever you are!

Hey! That was fun!

Cain,
I do not understand
your hunger to hurt me.

Quit hiding, you chicken!

Get out here,
and fight me
like a man!

(ROARING)

Talk to me, Cain.

I'm not gonna fall for
stupid carnival tricks!

XAVIER:
Why have you always
been compelled to hurt me?

You know why!

BEAST: Perhaps I would
provide a worthy surrogate,

if you insist on
destroying someone.

(GROANS)

Cain!

(CRASHING)

Come on.

EUGENE: "Whosoever
possesses the sacred gem...

shall
prepare himself
to receive the power

of the crimson
bands of Cyttorak!

Read these words,
and go from this place...

a human juggernaut!"

JUGGERNAUT:
Hey! Knock it off!

What are you doing to me?

I am doing nothing!

Beast, where are you?

Professor.

(SCREAMING)

My powers!

No!

Professor,
what happened
to the Juggernaut?

I'm not certain.

But I know this.
He's scared to death!

What is happening,
Professor?

Beast,
is anybody hurt?

The Juggernaut
is trapped beneath
the collapsed ceiling.

The Professor
insists we free him.

Are you crazy?

In a second he's
gonna be knocking us
around like play toys!

Cain Marko cannot.

Something
absorbed his powers.

My brother is
pleading for help.
I can sense his mind.

Well, I say, let him plead.

After
all the misery
he's caused us.

That is not your
decision to make!

I'm not asking,
I'm telling you.

Help him now!

BEAST:
He was somewhere
in this vicinity.

Over here!

(GROANING)

(MACHINES BEEPING)

His vital signs
are weak, Professor.

He is losing
strength rapidly.

Without his Juggernaut
healing powers,

Cain will not survive.

Then his powers
must be restored.

You got to be kidding.

He has sworn
to destroy you.

Professor, consider
what you are saying.

Do you think I
don't know that?

His very
existence tears at me.
But he's still my brother,

and I must do everything
in my power to save him.

Contact Cyclops
and Wolverine
in the Blackbird.

Tell them to search
near the Cyttorak ruins

for the sacred ruby
and the new Juggernaut.

I doubt he'll
be hard to find.

CYCLOPS: He wants what?

Give me one good reason
why we should help the
Juggernaut!

He is also
Professor Xavier's brother.

I don't believe
what I'm hearing.

Help the Juggernaut?

We're gonna save
the Juggernaut's
sorry life.

And don't bother telling me
you don't like it.

I don't like it.

(YELLING)

I'm big! Wow!

(CHUCKLING)

And these muscles!

I'm a hunk!

Oh, the girls are
gonna go nuts!

Any change?

His condition is
declining.

This helmet's bigger
than my last apartment!

(COUGHING)

(EXCLAIMS)

(SCREAMING)

A probe of his
mind may reveal
a way to help him.

I'm afraid you're right.

Cain, it is Charles.

-Get out!
-You are dying.

Let me help you.

Never!

This is great. I've never had
a brother to ride with before.

(GROANING)

Get this.
We're not brothers.

We're stepbrothers.

And I'm gonna step on
you every chance I get.

(GASPS) Why?
I didn't do anything to you.

Cain, leave him alone.

Charles,
are you all right?

Yeah, I'm OK.
I think Cain was just
trying to help me get down.

Charles,
go up to the house
and get ready for dinner, hmm?

Cain and I have to
have a talk. Alone.

You fool!
I told you to
be nice to the kid.

If his mother dumps me,
we'll be out all that
money.

(KURT GROANS)

I have
to get rid of you fast,
or you'll mess up my plans.

What plans?

Sorry I'm late.
I was packing.

Where are you going?

What's it to you?

Boarding school.
But you just got here.

Oh, yeah. Sorry about before.

It's all right.

He'll be back
before you know it.

It's a good school, and this
way there's less of a burden
on your mother.

Isn't my mother getting well?

Why, sure.
She's getting
better all the time.

(GROANING)

I see her.
She's very ill.

There, there.
You're imagining things.

Your mom is fine.

Charles is having
one of his headaches.

Take him to bed
and call the doctor.

JUGGERNAUT, TELEPATHICALLY:
My father sent me away
because of you.

XAVIER:
But that is not true.

JUGGERNAUT: Yes, it is.

How long do I have to
stay at that dumb school?

Until you learn to be nice to
that sickly little geek,
Xavier.

His mother
isn't going to be
around much longer.

If you cause trouble,
you could blow the
whole deal.

(LAUGHING)

JUGGERNAUT, TELEPATHICALLY:
My old man
was a real piece of work.

XAVIER: It isn't true.

What did you learn?

More than I bargained for.

My stepfather married my
mother for her wealth.
She loved him.

He never cared for her or me.

How very sad.

The sins of the father.

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)

(THUMPING)

Say,
what's a nice girl like you
doing with a face like this?

(MAN SCREAMING)

When you could be with me!

Get a grip, freak!

No, no,
no, no, look!
I'm a big sh*t!

Really! See?
And I'm smart, too!

And, well, not in
practical things.

(GROANS)
Why doesn't
she like me?

Maybe
she talked
to my mother.

WOLVERINE:
Want some pointers?

Women like guys
to be themselves.

We can help you
get back that way.

Never!

(GROANING)

Looks like
we're gonna have to
do this the hard way.

Now you're talking.

(DANCE MUSIC PLAYING)

You don't have to
make it that hard.

(GROANS)

WOLVERINE: Got it!

Hey!
Bring that back!

Hey!
How do you
know about me?

(SCREAMING)

Professor,
we have the ruby.

BEAST: And not
a moment too soon.

XAVIER, TELEPATHICALLY: Cain,
recall the day you returned
from boarding school.

XAVIER: Why didn't you ever
visit us during the summer?

I had better
things to do.

(GROANING)

CAIN: Father won't
let me come home.

He likes Charles
better than me.

Cain, Father doesn't
like me more than you.

How did you know
what I was thinking?

You read my mind!

You're a mutie!

I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to.
Please, don't tell anyone.

Mutie! Mutie! Mutie!

XAVIER: Cain,
I was too young
to control my powers.

Can you forgive me?

JUGGERNAUT:
Forgive you?
You're still doing it!

Messing around
where you don't belong!

I made sure
everyone hated you.

Mutie! Mutie! Mutie!

Even Sondra!

(JUGGERNAUT LAUGHING)

What happened?

I thought I was
over all of this.

But I was so young,
and it hurt so much.

Professor...

Do not ask me to
forgive my brother.

Cain is nothing
but a sadistic bully.

He deserves no sympathy
from anyone.

I would not.

I ask only that you
should understand him.

You have taught us not to
let the past control our
hearts.

Tell Beast I shall
be with him shortly.

And thank you.

(TELEPATHICALLY)
Brother, we must talk.
I will meet you in our mind.

The X-Men
have brought
the Ruby of Cyttorak

to give you
back your powers,
to save your life.

Hah. What's in it for you?

The satisfaction of knowing
I saved your life.

That changes nothing.

I'll always be
your living nightmare.

That is my burden to bear.

I don't care.

Can't you get that
through your thick
skull?

Perhaps one day you will.

Whosoever
possesses the sacred
gem shall prepare himself

to receive the power of
the crimson bands of
Cyttorak.

More music!
More dancing!

Read these words,

and go
from this place
a human juggernaut.

Don't let it...
Stop?

(SCREAMS)

(COUGHING)

What happened?

Are you OK?

Oh. Thank you!

(SCREAMING)

Well?

Nobody's
ever gonna mess
with my powers again!

Make your move, tough guy.

Another time, short stuff.

When I'm in the mood.

ROGUE:
I see it and
I don't believe it.

-Do we follow?
-No, Scott.

He chose not to
continue his att*ck.

I believe that is
his way of saying,
"Thank you."

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)