Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box #[nn]

In "Ghost Box," the X-Men adjust to their new San Francisco base when Storm arrives unexpectedly—fresh from Wakanda, bored and eager to assess the team’s methods under T'Challa’s sponsorship through Mutantes Sans Frontieres. With the team now in street clothes to blend in, they’re called to a bizarre crime scene: a body burned beyond recognition, its strange genetic signature and cryptic notebooks pointing to Chaparanga Beach, the forgotten graveyard of starships.

In "Ghost Box Part Two," the X-Men close in on a mysterious killer at a derelict spaceship near Chapanga Beach, where he's been constructing a device he calls the Ghost Box. As tensions rise during a fierce confrontation, Cyclops makes a brutal call to destroy the ship with Storm’s lightning—leaving her shaken by the cost of the decision, even as the man survives, choosing silence over answers and whispering only of "the Annex."

In "Ghost Box Part Three," the X-Men confront the mystery of a strange device retrieved from Chapanga Beach, leading them to Agent Brand and the revelation of the Ghost Box—a tool for crossing into parallel worlds. With coordinates pointing to the forbidden Dead Five Miles in China, the team ventures into a region where nothing can be detected, only to uncover a hidden sanctuary where mutants believed lost on M-Day may still linger.

In "Agent X-13's Report on the Emergency Annexation of Earth-616," a chilling alternate path unfolds as the field agent's mission takes a deadly turn—targeting Cyclops instead of Wolverine. With the X-Men shattered and Earth-616 overrun by Deathlok-class Security units resembling Sentinels, including one bearing Magneto’s likeness, the cost of conquest is catastrophic. Yet, for Agent X-13, the outcome is just another report, not a reckoning.

In a Victorian-era steampunk world, Miss Emma Frost of New Portsmouth Bay leads the X Society from her grand mansion, navigating a reality where mutants are both revered and reviled. When a mysterious burning body draws the team into a deadly pursuit, a tragic accident involving Agent X-13 and Logan’s claws ends in a fatal dirigible crash, turning public opinion against them overnight. Now under siege by mechanical sentinels and desperate for a way forward, Frost contemplates a bold new path—possibly even a future with Scott, if she can find a way to escape the weight of her legacy.

In the aftermath of a fractured team and a shattered world, Scott Summers—once Cyclops—wakes alone in a ruined mansion, haunted not by enemies but by memories. With no allies left and the weight of his choices pressing down, he must confront the ghosts of who he was before the world ended.

In the aftermath of a prolonged annexation, Hisako leads a fragile journey toward a rumored evacuation point, accompanied by a fractured Hank McCoy and a Logan bound to a wheelchair—his once-mighty body now a cage of warped adamantium. The weight of survival presses hard as they move through a world that no longer remembers what it meant to be free.