These issues begin to explain the whole deal with the Tryps, who run Singularity Investigations. They’re all the same person, but from different stages of life. So there’s really only one Damian Tryp. We also learn that Damian tried to adopt Jamie Madrox back when he was a lad, but his parents decided to send Jamie to Professor X instead. And so Tryp killed Jamie’s parents.
Dr. Buchanan, a scientist working for SI on nefarious projects, sees the X-Factor press conference, where Madrox announces that they will protect any mutant who doesn’t want to register with the government, and decides to go to them for help.
At the X-Factor house, Madrox gets drunk and one of his drunk dupes has sex with both Monet and Siryn. As he is piecing it all together, he’s concerned about what will happen when the ladies find out that he was with both of them on the same night.
He didn’t have sex with Layla, though, because she’s saving herself for their wedding night.
I love this book.
Dr. Buchanan arrives and asks for help, and Strong Guy protects him…But Guido is being mind-controlled by Tryp, so he kills him.
Still mind-controlled, Guido attacks his team-mates until Quicksilver puts him down. They decide to steal Buchanan’s records from Singularity Investigations’ lab, where they are intercepted by Tryp who tells them that they’re fighting for the wrong side and because of what they are doing they will cause a war between the mutants. While that’s going on, though, one of Madrox’s dupes dons a suicide vest and blows up himself, Tryp, and SI’s base.
Tryp’s earlier selves are dead and only Tryp Senior remains. He now realizes that the prophecies he has seen are not as he thought–they relate to Layla. And he tells her so, psychically…
…While she is pouring milk.
The covers to these issues connect.
