X-Men - First Class vol 2 #7 - Marvel

I liked this story. As I like this series overall. But, this particular issue seemed like a set-up, really, for some future story. I don't know if it'll be in this book, or one of the regular X-titles, but the menace that they faced here, I think, will definitely be back. Last issue, somehow, everyone lost their powers. Just like somebody turned off a light switch. Some were happy, some were sad, but all of them were confused. Shortly after that, the school was attacked by nothing short of a platoon of Sentinels. It looked like the end. But they gained renewed hope when Scott destroyed one with nothing but his wits. But one Sentinel is a lot different than 99 of them. So it really looked overwhelming. That is until the Sentinels looked in the building, and since are X-men are now de-powered, didn't find the mutant cell they were looking for. So they left. But before they left, they had gathered some information from Cerebro which told them where to find Wanda and Pietro. Which then became their next destination. Being the heroes that they are, the X-men and the Professor immediately jumped in the jet to try to intercept them. They didn't make it, but on the way there their powers came back on. But now, they were hyper-charged, or evolved or something. Basically they were all at their maximum potential. Anyways, long story short, they used these powers to beat the Sentinels, saved Wanda and Pietro, and then went back to the school to find this alien organism that was out behind it, and had caused all of this to happen. Basically it took there X-gene in them and devolved it back to it's preliminary stages. It then evolved it to it's maximum potential. Like it was rebuilding it or something. That's what caused the fluctuations in their powers. The Professor learned that it had come from this asteroid that was flying through our galaxy, so basically he had to find a way to send it back. If he didn't, it probably would've done the same thing to every species on Earth, trying to fix them. He does that, but the story ends with it drifting in space. So, I think, it'll probably be back. Anyways, it was an interesting story by Jeff Parker and Roger Cruz. And that's the neat thing about having this series set in our team's early history. They can introduce us to stuff . . back then . . and then when it pops up in current story, they have a self written explanation. Kind of like retro-active continuity. It's pretty smart, when you think about it.