Slym is right, Nate. It's necessary for you to disguise yourself because there are many people who fear and hate what they don't understand. But there will come a day, I promise, when you'll be accepted-- respected-- for who and what you are. 

—Redd Dayspring

Appearing in "Tenure"

Featured Characters:

• Slym Dayspring (Scott summers) (First appearance as Slym Dayspring) (Main story and recap)
• Redd Dayspring (Jean Grey) (First appearance as Redd Dayspring) (Main story and recap)
• Nathan Dayspring (Main story and recap)

Supporting Characters:

• Mother Askani (Rachel Summers) (Main story and recap)
• Prior Turrin

Antagonists:

• Ch'Vayre
• Stryfe
• Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) (First appearance)
• Bolt (First appearance)
• Marl (First appearance)
• Unnamed Vanguard member

Other Characters:

• Magal (First appearance)
• X-Men (Referenced)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Mutants (Main story and recap)
• Cyborgs (Main story and recap)

Locations:

• Earth-4935
  • Earth
    • Apocalypse's citadel
    • Crestcoast (First appearance)
• Earth-616 (Only in recap)
  • Earth (Only in recap)
    • Atlantic Ocean (Only in recap)
      • Caribbean Sea (Only in recap)
        • Saint Barthélemy (Only in recap)

Items:

• Techno-Organic Virus
• Ruby-Quartz Sunglasses (Only in recap)

Synopsis for "Tenure"

Five years after being pulled into the future by Mother Askani, Jean and Scott have assumed the names Slym and Redd Dayspring and they have begun a pilgrimage of sorts to a city called Crestcoast. Along the way they run into a stranger who overhears them speaking a suspicious olde English dialect and this stranger goes on his way to Crestcoast.

Meanwhile, Stryfe has begun his tutelage to focus his powers. He destroys a part of Apocalypse's citadel and Ch'Vayre chastises him. Apocalypse steps in and coddles the young boy. He tells Stryfe that he is to be his host and will be Apocalypse's heir.

Finally in Crestcoast, Redd, Slym and Nathan gather at the city gates. Some of Apocalypse's guards, Marl and Bolt see them walking to the gates and decide to start a fight with them. The stranger that they had met before warns the guards that they are lying about their allegiance to Apocalypse and this only causes the guards to get more angry. Slym readies to fight them when Prior Turrin comes forward and announces that they are guests and should be allowed entrance. The guards comply with his request of safe passage for the outsiders and allow them entrance to the city. They complain about having already primed their powers to use them and Turrin suggests they use them on the other stranger. Inside the city, Turrin announces to Redd and Slym that he has gotten their package they had forwarded to him there. As they walk through the city many dead bodies line the streets.

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See Also

• 8 image(s) from Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix Vol 1 2
• 5 reprint(s) of Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix Vol 1 2

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