When we left off last time, Jean had just announced she was going to have to leave forever. This is because her parents decided that since she had graduated, it was weird that she never left the school, and that she should probably go to college. She is enrolling at Metro College. Scott and Warren drop her off at her new school (with much angst), and go on their way. On to our villain! A dude who has named himself the Locust has decided to make big bugs to eat crops and terrorize upstate NY. The X-Men go out to stop the Locust, he escapes. Coincidentally, Jean, while eating with a fellow student at Metro, sees a bunch of students making fun of an ex-professor named August Hopper who had crazy ideas about bugs. Wonder if this is related. Jean comes back for the weekend, and tells Xavier about Hopper. They discover he wants to make big bugs to prove that they could happen so he could save the world with his pesticides. Xavier uses his new legs to try to pretend to be a hermit to tell him the evils of his ways. It doesn't really work. They then save him from his own bugs, he throws away his machines and turns himself in.
X-tra Notes: Xavier acting like a wise old hermit from another age to try to convince him to stop is so bizarre and disconnected from anything. I feel like he just wanted to use his mechanolegs.
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