Beast/McCoy was appointed he new UN Ambassador (Logan: "Way to go, furball!") by the President.Angel flew freely above he Golden Gate Bridge and a city park.Magneto was living life as an ordinary human, playing chess in a SF park.There were hints that he was regenerating his mutant powers when he telepathically caused a metal chess piece to slightly tremble.General Zod discovered a second Soviet astronaut, and commented: "What a fragile sort of life form this is," before snapping his lifeline and floating him away.These thoughts caused him to be distracted from his scholastic studies and he failed his medical exams.At that ironic moment when both boys face each other on the battlefield, and at the instant hat Tod dies of wounds, a bullet strikes Duke - he falls down next o the body of his friend.