Magneto lures the X-Men out in the dumbest way possible: a rubber mask on Toad so he can pretend to be a mutant track and field star, who the X-Men try to rescue from a mob. They sniff it out, but it is too late, Magneto captures Angel and takes him to their base Asteroid M (My man you can build a space station on a whim, do you really need to also rule humans to make mutants safe?). As they torture him, the X-Men follow Toad back to a magnetic ship, get to Asteroid M, save Angel, blow up a lot of the place... and again we have the "Wanda and Quicksilver aren't REALLY evil, Wanda just has a stupid concept of owing Magneto for not letting her get burned at the stake" for a bit. Oh also, surprise ending: Xavier had his powers the whole time! It was all a test. A very dangerous test in which one of his students was kidnapped by a terrorist organization and tortured and he lifted no finger to try to help. Wow, what a good teacher!
X-tra Notes: This is an ongoing thing with Xavier, in which he fails to tell people critical information, or hides information on purpose for dumb as fuck reasons.
I feel like it says a lot about the educational system in the 60s that Xavier could do all this shit and everyone was like "Oh yeah, this is within the realm of Reasonable Mentor/Teacher Behavior" with a straight face.
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