
X-Necrosha, not only being a plague - I mean...play on Genosha's name, was one heck of bangin' start to this X-Men crossover. For those of you that do not know, X-Necrosha is the story of long time X-Men foe Selene, making her move to destroy the people that she felt destroyed her. Her ancient lover, Eli Bard is backing her with an undead army of mutants that he resurrects using the stolen Techno-Virus from Bastion. Selene starts things off by attacking various X-Teams on the new headquarters of Utopia. She shows great strategic skills by sending the (un)dead team of Hellions to confront Emma Frost. They catch her off guard and attempt to attack her but Cyclops, Domino, and Wolverine jump in to help. Wolverine makes an attempt to end it fast by stabbing a Hellion but the impaling has no effect and Wolvy is knocked into the ocean thus, taking a big player off the board early. The same strategy is used when the resurrected Cypher uses his past with Magma to infiltrate her room and sneak attack her. Another battle highlighted is the resurrected Pyro and Berserker taking on Warpath and Archangel. The story ends with Selene and her Inner Circle stepping on the shores of Hammer Bay, Genosha with the idea of resurrecting the dead.
The second story features the resurrection of Cypher and how he was able to infiltrate into the New Mutants quarters. Not a bad preview story but the real action is in New Mutants #6, the first part of Necrosha in that book, where Cypher attacks Magma and beats her severely and then takes on the rest of the New Mutants. Karma is eventually able to take control of her teammates and throw Cypher off the edge. However, the newly returned from space Warlock is there to catch him and brings him back to the flat where Cypher awakens and attacks him. Check this issue out for some GREAT inner monolouge by Cypher.
The third part of Necrosha is quite boring and is best avoided IMO. But if you do check it out it features a boring story with the resurrected Destiny revealing stuff to Selene...yada..yada..yada...(yes, I thought it was that boring) then revealing as of yet unknown information to Bllindfold on Utopia. The real action for the X-Men:Legacy part of this crossover starts in issue #231, when Rogue, Gambit, Colossus, Magneto, and others band together to fight back.