From the pages of ASTONISHING X-MEN! Colossus has returned from the dead, only to find his relatives are being killed in his homeland! Peter must travel to Russia to face a shadowy villain whose origin lies in Peter’s past. Will this foe lead Colossus down the path of darkness and will defeating him cost Peter his soul?!

Colossus is working on dealing with the aftermath of his imprisonment, while someone in his native country is killing off the descendants of an old leader of the Russian Revolution.