(Exposition Time!)
As the team leaves the facility behind, three figures watch from a copse of trees on a hill along the road back to town.
The German lowers his binoculars.
"Scheiße. They have Citrinitas as well.""Worry not Nigredo, she is resourceful enough to avoid revealing anything until she can escape," the cloaked man beside him responds.
"Uhh... and Albedo?" the giant Russian asks dumbly.
"He has partaken of the Elixir and part of my flesh has become of his flesh. He will return to us eventually, one way or another. Until then, let us proceed as planned," the cloaked man says. He looks back to the distant X-Men. "My homunculus wasn't sacrificed for nothing. I promise you that, dear X-Men."
"And I have all the time in the world."
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And that's a wrap.)