One of the significant events of this books is the first appearance of Archangel. Also we see what can make Dr. Hank McCoy purposely fall down in a public hallway and cry. Apocalypse attacks New York.

This event follows three X teams. X-Factor, experience the above listed issues. Uncanny X-Men search for the de-powered Storm who is searching for the man she loves, Forge, to get her powers back. Wolverine leads a team to find her and they are followed by Freedom Force (a group of criminals) empowered with a warrant for their arrest. An inter-dimensional attack on earth takes place in Dallas when Freedom Force attempts to serve the warrant.

The final X-team is the New Mutants with a fairly unrelated story about a mutant they discover and try to help.

There are crossover issues from (grey) Hulk (who fights Wolverine), Daredevil (who deals with the effects of Apoc's NYC attack) and Captain America (who fights of of Apoc's four horsemen). Powerpack gets involved in the attack on NYC and get infected by Pestilence (of of the four horsemen) but heal each other, and FF4 participate in a ticker tape parade for X-Factor after repelling the NYC attack and help deal with Dr. Doom.

Overall it was a good collection though the New Mutants were not closely tied to the main story. ( )