- US Delegate: Five armed satellites disappear in a two-month period. And now the shuttle! And you tell me your people know nothing about it!
- Russian Delegate: What about our missing aerospace scientists? I suppose we took them also!
- US Delegate: Your stolen scientists were all mutants, know what I mean? Perhaps you sold them into Genoshan slavery?
- Genoshan Delegate: The Republic of Free Genosha objects strenuously to the use of the term "slavery!" Mutant powers are a resource to be managed like any other.
- [Magneto comes crashing in through the ceiling]
- Magneto: The mutant race will no longer be managed, Mr. Delegate.
- [the Genoshan delegate attempts to escape but Magneto seals the door]
- Magneto: You will all remain seated until I have finished. Ladies, gentlemen, you have been chosen to witness the announcement of a momentous event in the history of our planet. The liberation of mutantkind has begun.
- Magneto: Too long have we suffered under the oppression of humankind. I have witnessed firsthand the barbarous treatment of mutants on your wretched little island. I will not allow this madness to continue! We have seen communities torn apart by the jealous hatred of our mutant gifts. Roving mobs of vigilantes seek out the infirm among us. Some mutants conceal their true power, living a charade of normality, while their spirit suffocates. Others have gone into hiding beneath your cities, huddling in the darkness like rats. There are those who have tried nobly to enlighten their human brethren, to strive for freedom and equality for all men. Their efforts have been repaid with brutality and hatred. The missing mutant scientists and I have built a mutants-only asteroid. Where any mutant may live apart from humanity, free from its cruelty. The first exodus will begin in 24 hours near Genosha. Thereafter, mutants who wish to join us shall gather at designated pick-up points, once the first pilgrims are settled. My mission is peaceful. Any intervention would make it otherwise. The decision is yours.
- Gambit: Byron Calley, running off with Magneto. What you think they doing up there?
- Beast: Much as I am doing right now, I suppose. Magneto had access to the advanced technology he found in the Savage Land. No doubt they're adapting it to their own uses, as we are adapting the Shi'ar devices to achieve Earth orbit.
- Gambit: But what for? These mutants are scientists, not soldiers. Why they join up with Magneto?
- Rogue: I reckon they got tired of getting beat up and treated like dirt. Still no reason to pack up and leave.
- Gambit: I don't know, chere. We stay here fighting all the time, things don't get much better.
- Beast: Gambit's point has a certain validity. Despite our most earnest efforts, we seem to spend more time fighting for our lives than for mutant rights.
- Rogue: You thinking about moseying skyward?
- Gambit: Just thinking out loud, chere. You know Gambit follow you anywhere.
- Amelia Voght: I don't believe it!
- Professor Charles Xavier: Amelia?
- Amelia Voght: We have nothing to say to each other.
- Professor Charles Xavier: Amelia, please.
- Amelia Voght: Nothing.
- [storms off]
- Beast: Of all mutants on Earth, I certainly did not expect to see her here.
- Professor Charles Xavier: Mr. President, any hostile action now against Magneto could start a nuclear holocaust.
- Senator Robert Kelly: Don't you think I know that? But people are scared and angry, and they expect me to act. Professor, Magneto's got missiles up there. He says they're defensive. But how can I take that chance?
- Professor Charles Xavier: I know Magneto. He won't lie to me. If I can speak with him, I'm certain we'll find a peaceful solution.
- Senator Robert Kelly: All right, we'll play it your way for now. I won't call in the military. You've got 12 hours.
- Gambit: Starting to get interesting up here. What's with the Professor and that redhead? Gambit get the feeling they got a history.
- Beast: Very observant. Her name is Amelia Voght. They met in a hospital in India. Xavier was bitter and frustrated. The Professor had just lost the use of his legs battling Magneto, and Amelia was his nurse. Amelia refused to let the Professor give in to self pity. In time, they fell in love. When Xavier returned to America, Amelia went with him. In the end, it was the Professor's dream that drove them apart. Amelia hated being a mutant. She wanted the Professor to live a private, sheltered life with her. She told Charles that there wasn't room in his life for both her and the X-Men. When she left, it was as if a part of Charles had been destroyed. He sealed away his emotions and lived only for his X-Men. His dream became his entire world. He never saw Amelia, never spoke of her again.
- Gambit: Till today.
- Professor Charles Xavier: Amelia.
- Amelia Voght: What do you want?
- Professor Charles Xavier: It has been a long time.
- Amelia Voght: [chuckles humorlessly] Is that the best you can do?
- Professor Charles Xavier: Amelia, please, listen to...
- Amelia Voght: What are you doing here? I get a chance at a new life, so you want to screw this one up for me, too?
- Professor Charles Xavier: I didn't ruin your life. I wanted to make our lives, the lives of all mutants, better.
- Amelia Voght: Well, I got news for you, Charlie. You failed. Your X-Men's fight for mutant rights has made it impossible for mutants to live quietly anywhere on Earth. Magneto may have built Asteroid M, but you made it necessary.
- Professor Charles Xavier: Is this the life you want, Amelia? Sealed in a floating prison, like an insect in a jar?
- Amelia Voght: You're right. It's not fair. I don't think we have anything more to discuss.
- Magneto: Well, Mr. Cortez. To what do I owe this visit?
- Fabian Cortez: You don't seem surprised, Lord Magneto.
- Magneto: Certainly not.
- [magnetically pins Cortez to the wall]
- Magneto: It was you who launched the warhead. You are a reckless young fool!
- Fabian Cortez: Coward! You let flat-scan humans eat at your table!
- Magneto: I rule here! I will not tolerate your endangering my asteroid.
- Fabian Cortez: I renounce you!
- Magneto: You renounce me?
- Fabian Cortez: Return! You are unfit to lead!
- Magneto: My powers. I can't even
- Fabian Cortez: You exhausted your power on Genosha, old man. I have sustained you and I can destroy you! You don't have enough power to hold your own molecules together.
- [walks out of Magneto's quarters]
- Fabian Cortez: Soon you will fade away into nothing!
- [seals the door]
- Fabian Cortez: You will serve our cause much better as a martyr.
- [jettisons Magneto's quarters]
- [last lines]
- Fabian Cortez: Help!
- Beast: This way!
- [Gambit and Beast rush to Cortez]
- Fabian Cortez: Help! Help! Traitors! They have destroyed our beloved Magneto.
- [More mutants arrive on the scene]
- Amelia Voght: Charles! What have you done?
- Professor Charles Xavier: What do you mean?
- Beast: When we arrived here, we saw only Cortez!
- Fabian Cortez: Liars! I saw them jettison the chamber!
- [angry mutants surround the Professor, Beast and Gambit]
- Fabian Cortez: Assassins!
- Gambit: Gambit think we're outnumbered.
- Fabian Cortez: Vengeance for our lost Lord Magneto!