Generation X

Emma mentally forces Banshee to fight her, fearing another team loss like the Hellions. Man-Thing rescues Howard and the kids from Black Tom's clutches. Howard sets Black Tom's wooden form ablaze to save Artie, Leech, and Franklin. Black Tom reveals the captured Gen X team members are wooden constructs while Penance slices him in half. Bastion rescues then captures Jubilee. Emma confronts Black Tom at the plant-infested school. The real Gen X team emerges from an ocean pod, alive but stranded.