X-Men Legacy #233 - Marvel

Last issue a group of X-Men had gone to Muir island at the request of Blindfold. It appears that she had got some information from Destiny. However, Destiny, at the time, was being controlled by Proteus. With all the manipulations and such by Selene and Eli Bard, Proteus has kind of been re-awoken. He was never really gone, as he's a being of pure energy . . energy can't be destroyed. But he had somehow kind of blocked himself off from reality. A self imprisonment, if you will. Anyways, now that he's back, of course he wants to take some revenge on the X-Men. The last issue ended with Magneto taking off into space with a hunk of Earth with he and Proteus, in Blindfold's body. Meanwhile, back on the island, Proteus has splintered off his essence and put it in each of the other X-Men's bodies, and left Rogue there to fight all of her team-mates. She's knows that they're actually Proteus, but . . they're still her team-mates. Luckily, before that happened, she absorbed Psylock's powers. So she ends up using her soul-sword to break the connection between each of her team-mates and Proteus. But the real battle is fought between Proteus and Magneto. Basically, Magneto finds a way to use Proteus' own powers against him. 'You're made out of energy. Close enough to . . the electro-magnetic spectrum . . for me to recognize and . . adapt.' And when he finally disperses him, he explains that he made a subtle change to Proteus' energy matrix which made him unstable. In the process, he was able to save Blindfold. Betsy asks, 'Where is Proteus now? And how do we know he won't come back?' To which Magneto simply replies, 'We don't. We know that he will.' After all this, Destiny knows that she's going to have to go back to Necrosha. She can only resist Selene's call for so long. But before she leaves there's a touching moment between her and Rogue, and then her and Blindfold. She gives them both some cryptic clues about the future. And then everyone heads back to Utopia. This was another small chapter in the bigger storyline . . this time, Necrosha. I thought that it was interesting, and probably something that would've had to be dealt with sooner or later. And I thought Mike Carey and Clay Mann did a good job of doing just that. I also enjoyed watching Magneto fighting alongside of the X-Men. I don't know how long this will last, or if he's even telling the truth. There may still be some alterior motives that we don't know about. But . . I'm going to enjoy it while I can. I think Magneto belongs with the X-Men.