Despite all you did to me...the experiments...the manipulation...you failed. You tried to use the love that exists in us all to reach inside me...and take what you wanted. However, I did the same. For I touched something deep, deep within you. 
- —Faye Livingstone
Appearing in "A Sinister Heart"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Faye Livingstone (Only appearance; dies)[1] (Flashback and main story)
Adversaries:
- Genesis (Tyler Dayspring)
- Dark Riders
Mr. Sinister 
(Flashback and main story)- Mr. Sinister's "gnomes" (Single appearance)[1]
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Marvel Universe
- United States of America
- California
- Los Angeles
- Hollywood Hills (Flashback and main story)
- San Diego
- Los Angeles
- New York
- California
- United States of America
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "A Sinister Heart"
At a nursing home in San Diego, a woman named Faye Livingstone disappears from her wheelchair. In the Catskill Mountains, Beast bounds through the forest then jumps in a river. Sitting on the shore, Phoenix applauds him, and they discuss the bond the original five X-Men share. Back in San Diego, a nurse escorts a man named Essex to Faye’s room but finds her missing. Genesis appears, reveals Essex is Mr. Sinister in disguise, kills the nurse, and demands to know why Sinister visits Faye once a year. Sinister drops his disguise and attacks, but Genesis presents his henchmen the Dark Riders with Faye as their hostage. Genesis has de-aged her via genetic manipulation, tells Sinister they will speak again, and teleports away with her and the Riders. Faye recalls meeting Sinister in 1930s Los Angeles at a party he threw at his Hollywood Hills mansion. They danced and slept together, but later that night, she followed him to his basement lab and saw his macabre experiments. At Beast’s cabin in the Catskills, Phoenix goes to bed while Beast steps out on the porch and muses about his love life. The Dark Riders attack, demanding Phoenix, and she comes outside to fight them with Beast. She fends off an assault by Lifeforce, but the Riders still manage to teleport her away. Phoenix telepathically links with Beast, and he takes off in the X-Men’s Blackbird jet to follow her trail. Later, she finds herself captive in the ruins of Sinister’s Hollywood Hills mansion as Genesis boasts he will use Faye to destroy Sinister. Phoenix telekinetically breaks free and moves to rescue Faye, but Sinister stops her. Faye remembers Sinister telling her she carried the mutant gene, holding her captive for weeks, and experimenting on her until, one night, he let her escape. Outside, Beast arrives, but a horde of genetically engineered gnomes swarms him as he enters the mansion. Inside, Genesis orders Phoenix to link Faye’s mind with Sinister’s, convinced doing so will break Sinister’s will. Phoenix refuses, but Sinister tells her to go ahead just as Beast enters. Phoenix wants to take Faye and leave, but Beast sees the expression on Sinister’s face and convinces her to play along. Phoenix creates the link, and Sinister and Faye dance as they did the night they met. Faye tells him she never married nor had any children for him to exploit. Realizing he fell in love with her, she kisses him then dies in his arms. Dismissing the experience as delusions, Sinister hands her corpse to Beast. Genesis concedes defeat and teleports away. Once Beast and Phoenix leave with Faye’s body, Sinister blows up the mansion. Watching nearby, Genesis tells Harddrive he took measure of Sinister’s character. The next morning in the Catskills, Archangel and Cyclops arrive at Beast’s cabin. Beast takes Archangel fishing so Cyclops and Phoenix can spend some time alone together.
Appearing in "Words"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Locations:
- Marvel Universe
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Westchester County, New York (Only in flashback)
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Words"
At a rural post office in Scotland, Psylocke’s twin brother Britanic waits as the scatterbrained postmaster searches through a pile of mail for a letter she sent him. Once the postmaster finds it and hands it over, Britanic walks outside and reads it on a nearby dock. In the letter, Psylocke says she has fallen in love with Archangel and recounts going with him to a county fair. In-between visiting a photo booth, kissing, and eating cotton candy, they discussed their feelings for each other and the similar traumas they have experienced. While they rode a Ferris wheel, Archangel expressed uncertainty about their relationship, citing other X-Men’s failed romances. The wheel broke down so, rather than wait for it to be fixed, Archangel spread his wings, took flight, and carried Psylocke away. As they flew over the countryside, she reflected on how he helped her through her identity crisis with Revanche. Realizing how much she and Archangel truly care for each other, Psylocke writes that she has finally learned how to love. Uplifted by her letter, Britanic affirms the risk of love is worth it and flies away.
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in the X-Men: The Road to Onslaught vol. 1 trade paperback published in 2014.
Trivia
- Psylocke and Revanche discovered their bodies had been swapped by The Hand and Spiral in X-Men Vol 2 #31-32.