Synopsis:
Gambit's wife arrives and informs him of trouble with the Assassin's Guild in New Orleans. The X-Men travel there only to find the Assassins have been infected by the Brood. Ghost Rider, who preceded them there, has also been infected by the evil aliens. After breaking Ghost Rider free of his alien parasite, he and the X-Men take on the Brood and their Queen in trying to save the remains of the Thieves Guild from certain death.