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X-Factor (1st series) #144
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Marrow survived being stabbed in the heart by Storm, as besides her rapid bone growth a second heart was part of her mutant gifts.
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| | Author : Peter Luzifer and Monolith | Last Modified : Aug 24, 2004 |
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BIOGRAPHY - Page 2
When the mutant-hating country of Genosha began attacking mutants in the United States, Wolverine led his companions to the island itself to stop them. In the streets, the trio ran into Rictor and Boom-Boom, a pair of  New Mutants who were among the first captured and had escaped the full Mutate bonding process, but had been rendered powerless. Jubilee was assigned to safeguard them, while Wolverine and Psylocke tried to invade the citadel of the Genoshan Magistrates, only to end up captured as well, just like most members of the New Mutants, X-Factor and other former members of the X-Men. While Jubilee and Boom-Boom didn’t go along that well, due to their somewhat similar attitudes, the three youngsters managed to avoid capture several times and eventually made their own way into the Genoshan citadel to joined up with the other X-teams for the final showdown against Cameron Hodge, the villain behind Genosha’s recent attacks. [X-Tinction Agenda]
Back in the United States, the X-Men were reformed under Storm's command with Wolverine, Psylocke and Jubilee as members, along with Forge, Gambit and Banshee. Though Jubilee was the youngest member, she was a valuable asset when the team was teleported off Earth to the Shi'ar Empire by Lila Cheney. There, the X-Men were reunited with their long-lost mentor, Charles Xavier. Jubilee and Gambit, who had never met the man before, were suspicious of his motives – with good reason, for it turned out that he had been replaced by a Warskrull imposter. Jubilee ended up captured and replaced as well, though eventually the X-Men came through an exposed the Warskrulls who had infiltrated the Shi’Ar empire. [Uncanny X-Men #273-277]
When Xavier and the X-Men returned to Earth, they found that a supreme telepath known as the Shadow King had taken over the Muir Island Research Facility and taken over the mind of the residents there. Most X-Men were  captured when they arrived on the island, while Xavier freed the Shadow King's other puppet, Colossus, from the King's control and also enlisted the help of both X-Factor and SHIELD. The remaining X-Men and X-Factor attacked the island residents a second time and managed to free them, eventually they could defeat the Shadow King as well, by disrupting his connection to the physical world. During the conflict, Jubilee was forced to fight Wolverine herself, and the pair of them had a difficult time getting past it. Logan even asked her to quit the X-Men after that, but she refused and stayed on board, in spite of his request. [Uncanny X-Men #278-280, X-Factor #69-70]
Although she was not intended to accompany the X-Men on any missions, Jubilee became a consistent ally of the Blue Strike Force, the squad Wolverine and Psylocke had ended up on, following the roster shake-up made by X-Factor's return.  When Wolverine was kidnapped by operatives of the hand, Jubilee argued with Cyclops and Xavier that she should take part in the rescue mission, for she had previously encountered the ninja organization. To her surprise, she found Psylocke vouching for her, despite the hard times she had given the telepath before. The X-Men found the likes of Omega Red, Sabretooth and Maverick involved in the situation as well, but they came through and freed their comrade. [X-Men (2nd series) #4-7]
Jubilee would often accompany Wolverine on his nightly strolls through New York City but, when he didn’t want her around one evening, she knew something was up. She secretly followed him to a motel, only to find Jean Grey coming out of his room, only partially dressed. However, it was actually Mystique (Logan had known it was her all along), who needed his help in a cosmic crisis called The Crunch Conundrum. Spiral, who Mystique actually had tried to run from, explained that the Crunch was the opposite of the Big Bang – the one started the universe, the other would end it. While the three unwitting allies tried to stop this event, Jubilee found herself kidnapped by Mojo, who tried to make her his slave, telling her that Logan would surely die if she didn’t accept. Jubilee didn’t trust the obese foe, though, and Logan’s group managed to survive on their own. The crisis avoided, the various characters were returned from Citadel at the End of Time, where most of the conflict had taken place, only Jubilee found herself rematerializing in Japan along with Wolverine’s bike, where she was arrested for driving without a license. [Wolverine (2nd series) #51-53]
When Wolverine and Gambit traveled to Tokyo to bail her out, they immediately got caught in a local war between the Hand, Japanese Yakuza and Clan Yashida. It became even more complicated when former X-Man, Sunfire, and one of the surviving Reavers, Cylla Markham, got involved as well. Jubilee was almost killed by a hired assassin of the Hand, but eventually ended up in the care of Yukio.  She didn’t know what to make of the strange woman who had aided the X-Men several times in the past and, when Yukio correctly guessed that the teenager had a big crush on Logan, Jubilee acted somewhat jealous towards her. However, upon learning of Mariko Yashida, Logan’s true love, Jubilee accepted Yukio and started working together with her to take out Cylla. In the meantime, though, while the heroes were busy fighting, Mariko was poisoned by Matsuo Tsurayaba, the leader of the Hand. Logan sat by her grave for days, not moving, and Jubilee only partially managed to get him out of his grief. She began to realize that, while they trusted each other with their lives, there was still a lot about Logan she didn’t know. [Wolverine (2nd series) #55-57, 60]
Afterwards, Jubilee was also around when the X-Men encountered the Brood and Mojo, but around then it was finally decided that she was simply too young and inexperienced to continue going out on dangerous missions with the team, so Jubilation was resigned to mansion status to concentrate more on her studies. [X-Men (2nd series) #13] During the X-Cutioner’s Song, a conflict caused by Professor Xavier being almost assassinated during a public speech by someone who seemed to be Cable, the various X-teams pooled their resources to bring in the villain. As some clues pointed to Stryfe and the MLF, it was Jubilee of all people to point out that nobody knew what Stryfe looked like and that he could actually be Cable in disguise – startling everyone present with this deduction, although at the time nobody knew how close to the truth she was, for Stryfe turned out to be Cable’s clone. [Uncanny X-Men #295]
 When Professor Xavier temporarily regained the use of his legs as an after effect of being cured from a techno-organic virus, he and Jubilee spent some bonding time. The youngster convinced Xavier that he should try out rollerblading at least once, and then deliberately made him crash into a pond of water on the Xavier Estate. That night, Jubilee came to realize that the Professor was more than a stiff guy making the rules and the two of them enjoyed their time together, until his legs became limp again. Jubilee didn’t know the right words to offer him help in getting back to his wheelchair, until she realized that there was no need for any words at all - it just needed doing. [Uncanny X-Men #297]
When Jubilee accompanied Logan on a reconnaissance mission to the old Reavers base in Australia, their presence triggered one of the damaged Sentinel’s repair sequence. The reactivated robot’s attack interacted with Gateway’s teleportation vortex and Jubilee found herself transported into the past, to her parents’ day, shortly before they died. Jubilee tried to warn them not to drive into town, when, suddenly, the door bell rang, two hired killers by the names Reno and Molokai waiting outside. Jubilee learned that her parents‘ death was no accident at all; it was only faked to look like one.  As she couldn’t imagine what her parents might have done to deserve such a fate, she assumed the killers must have got the wrong couple and actually been after the Lees living next door. Back in the present, Jubilee wanted to track down and kill the two thugs, and Logan even encouraged her. Soon, they found Reno and Molokai in Los Angeles but, having the pair at her mercy, Jubilation found that she couldn’t go through with it. Logan applauded her; actually he knew she wouldn’t become a killer, but he had wanted her to discover that for herself. At least, she got her own kind of revenge. [Wolverine (2nd series) #72-74]
Jubilee was truly making a home among the X-Men, creating a real family for herself as she began interacting with several other people besides Wolverine. When Colossus's sister, Illyana, was brought to the mansion from Russia after her parents were killed,  Jubilee took a liking to her, though she constantly called the child "Little Pimple." Before long, it was discovered that the girl had not only contracted the Legacy Virus, but that she was in the final stages of the disease. Jubilee stayed at her bedside and would read stories to her, just like Kitty Pryde, who visited as soon as she received the news. At first, Jubilee was somewhat jealous of Kitty, her being a former “sidekick“ of Logan as well, but, seeing how deeply they both cared for Illyana, she overcame that stage pretty soon. Regardless, Illyana succumbed to the virus within the matter of days and Jubilee took her death worse than anyone but Colossus. [X-Men (2nd series) #17-19, Uncanny X-Men #302-303]
A few weeks later, Wolverine encountered Magneto, who magnetically pulled the adamantium in Logan's skeleton out through his pores. The feral X-Man nearly died during the encounter and, afterwards, was only a shadow of his former self.  It was also discovered that his metal claws were not implants, as always believed, but that there were bone claws underneath the metal. Logan temporarily left the X-Men to find some answers and to properly heal, and he explained himself in a letter to Jubilee. He also left her his favorite cowboy hat, knowing of the intense emotional anguish his departure would cause in her. [Wolverine (2nd series) #75]
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