- [Bastion returns to his hideout to confront Val for releasing Magneto]
- Bastion: You just had to let the dog out. Do you understand the futility of your bleeding heart, of fighting the future?
- Val Cooper: You're a monster.
- Bastion: I was born this way.
- [Bastion forms metal restraints around Val]
- Val Cooper: You know, in Genosha, I felt a lot of things. Pain, grief, admiration for those who fought, despite the odds. But you know what the oddest thing was? No one seemed shocked or surprised. Not even me. Yes, I was scared, but really, I just had the most profound sense of déjà vu. As if past, present, and future didn't matter and never had. Because we always end up in the same ugly place. Thing is, Magneto knows us better than Charles ever did. Knows we know better. That most of us experience tragedies like Genosha as a bit of déjà vu before getting on with our day. But the scariest thing about Genosha wasn't the death or the chaos. It was a thought. The only sane thought you can have when being chased by giant robots that were built to crush you. Magneto was right.
- Wolverine: Magneto actually did it.
- Morph: What? Saved our hides?
- Wolverine: No. Declared war. Where's the Professor when you need him?
- [a spaceship suddenly crashes on the X-Mansion. Wolverine and Morph rush to the wreckage and discover Professor X]
- Professor X: I hope that I'm not too late.
- [Wolverine sheaths his claws as Professor X sends a telepathic signal]
- Professor X: To me, my X-Men.
- Jubilee: Come on, Roberto. You have a trust fund, and I have good taste. I think we both could use some retail therapy.
- Bastion: You sound like a dinosaur fretting the fate of an asteroid before impact.
- Val Cooper: I'm more concerned you're the asteroid, Bastion.
- Female Prime: Why resist the inevitable?
- Wolverine: Lady, I got six reasons why!
- Nightcrawler: No, mein Freund. Nine!
- [Rose Gilberti opens the door of her son's childhood bedroom, only to catch Cyclops; Jean; and Cable inside, looking back at her in reflex.]
- Rose: [unfazed, warmly] Do you have children?
- [She enters the premises.]
- Rose: He was a hard pregnancy; Sebastion... nearly lost him.
- [Rose walks past the trio.]
- Rose: It's important to cherish every second with your child. They grow up so fast.
- [Rose brings out a painting from under her son's bed. She lays it out on the mattress for her guests to see.]
- Rose: Here... Let me show you his best one; painted it when he was sixteen.
- [Cyclops, Jean, and Cable inch closer to the bed and examine the painting, which depicts a melee of anguished mutants being engulfed in apocalyptic flames while Sentinels ominously lord over them.]
- Rose: ''The Final Dream'', he called it.
- [They look perplexed at what they have seen. Rose steps away from their line of sight.]
- Rose: Like all good art...
- [Without warning, Rose uncontrollably contorts in pain. The sound of her snapping bones alerts Cyclops; Jean; and Cable, who all turn around and watch in horror, as Rose reveals herself to be a Prime Sentinel.]
- Rose: [leers at them with menacingly glee] ... it... imitates... LIFE.
- Bastion (young): Mom? Will I ever be normal?
- [Rose holds Sebastion's face and looks at him assuringly with a comforting smile.]
- Rose: [calmly] You ARE normal. You're my son!
- [Overwhelmed with emotions, Sebastion's eyes glisten with tears. They embrace.]