Essential X-Men #15

In "Utopia (Part 1)," Simon Trask leads a violent march on San Francisco, inciting chaos by provoking young mutants into attacking his Humanity Now followers. As tensions explode between humans and mutants, Cyclops struggles to maintain order—only to be framed and forced to flee when Norman Osborn dispatches the Dark Avengers to crush the uprising. With Emma Frost caught between loyalty and ambition, and Professor X confronting the students he once taught, the fragile peace of the mutant sanctuary begins to unravel.

In "Suppressing Fire (Part 1 of 2)," Rogue, Gambit, and Danger plunge into the chaos of the San Francisco mutant riots, where the city's streets become a battleground of conflicting ideologies and escalating violence. As Rogue faces off against the newly arrived Moonstone [Dark Ms. Marvel], she barely escapes with her life, only to find herself drawn into a brutal clash with Ares—where a desperate touch could mean the difference between survival and surrender.

In "Utopia (Part 2)," Norman Osborn’s engineered X-Men, led by Emma Frost and guided by a deceiving "Professor X" — actually Mystique — stand at the center of a fractured mutant world. As Simon Trask awakens and begins spreading sentinel-infected technology, chaos erupts when Hellion, Match, Sunspot, Adam X, Avalanche, Meld, and Lorelei ignite a riot, forcing Osborn’s team into their first test. Meanwhile, Cyclops and the others watch from the Marin compound, caught between strategy and the growing threat of a war they may not survive.