XM #46] What happened to the missing government scientists and how was Onslaught involved?
Mystery: Senator Kelly led a group of operatives into a farm complex that was more than it seemed. In truth, the complex was housing fifteen scientists who were busy trying to augment Sentinels. However, thirty-seven minutes earlier the entire complex shut down and the scientists were missing. After Kellys group arrived, the power returned, and the computer monitors were filled with one word: Onslaught. Resolution: In Uncanny X-Men #333, Phoenix and Gambit secretly attended a meeting between many world leaders regarding the mutant crisis and Operation: Zero Tolerance, an initiative to end the global mutant threat. Zero Tolerances enigmatic leader, Bastion, revealed that the missing scientists were all found, though none of them had any memory of working on the Sentinel project and had no memory of the last six months, including the time that they were missing. It would later be revealed during the Onslaught crossover that Onslaught planned on using Sentinels to take over New York City.
