The X-Men learn that in Tōhoku, the U-Men have been kidnapping mutants in order to harvest their organs to create countermeasures against mutant-kind. They find themselves attacked by the U-Men's robots, but are able to destroy them. At an abandoned hospital, they find a mutant boy, who transforms into a monster and Cyclops reluctantly kills him to save his friends. They manage to locate the laboratory where Hisako is being kept along with Emma Frost, a woman who Cyclops remembers was psioncally present with Jean during his battle with the Dark Phoenix.