 Injured and rendered powerless, he struggles into town only to discover his friend is missing and the town is caught in the grips of a criminal mutant group called the Children of the Shadow.The group hunts him down, seeing he is vulnerable because they have temporarily removed his powers and he is opposing them.As they try to make an example out of Cyclops his words get others to help and he recovers his powers from the healing aid of one of them, along with some other mutants Cyclops defeats them.