XM #71, 73] Who was the mysterious man approaching Sebastian Shaw and what did he want?
Mystery: After Operation: Zero Tolerance and his own battle against Cable and the mysterious Harbinger, Sebastian Shaw was contacted by a mysterious unseen man with the ability to stop the flow of time. This man gave Shaw a manila envelope with an Egyptian seal on it, and the contents shocked Shaw. Later, Shaw made some cryptic comments to Fitzroy that none of them would exist one year later. Later that night Sebastian accepted the deal that the mysterious man proposed and he was that his new life was going to begin. Thoughts: The Egyptian emblem hints that this may have to deal with Apocalypse, but there was no direct proof of this. As Sebastian still lives, clearly whatever was going to happen that made him make such comments to Fitzroy never occurred. The mysterious man was never seen again, and this plot was not touched upon since then.
