
It is revealed that the collar placed on the Dark Professor X actually killed him. Shadow-X team up with New Excalibur to fight their common foe, Albion. Then New Excalibur start to interrogate the Shadow-X about what was happening between them and Lionheart. New Excalibur and Shadow-X both try to stop Lionheart, but they are too busy with their opponent team to be successful and she escapes. New Excalibur is short-handed because of Nocturne's recent stroke and Sage infiltrating Albion's ranks, but they are able to effectively work as a team and successfully take down Shadow-X. Lionheart then threatens the rest of Shadow-X, but this fight is interrupted by the immediate arrival of the New Excalibur team. However, as Dark Professor X tried to take control Lionheart revealed Albion knew of their treachery and placed a device to stop his mind control and then placed a collar on Dark Professor Xavier to trap the Shadow King in Professor X and killed them both.
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They then tried to take control of Lionheart during a mission to free Dark Professor X. The rest of the team then ally themselves with Black Air, Albion, and Lionheart. When they were brought to Earth-616 the Dark Professor Xavier tried to bring Nocturne, Marvel Girl, and Shadowcat under his control, but he was defeated by them, with help from Sage, and later placed in Crossmore prison. The Shadow King took control of the Professor Xavier of their reality and then was able to subvert all of the X-Men to serve him. They are from an alternate dimension and were brought to the mainstream Marvel dimension during the events of Decimation. It refers to the fact that the team was created and controlled by the Shadow King - the Shadow King's "Shadow X"-Men. How this name came about is unexplained, and prior to this the team was called the Dark X-Men by fans, reviews, and even the Marvel preview descriptions. They are not officially given a name until New Excalibur #19 where they are referred to as Shadow-X in the "Previously." section and by Juggernaut on the final page of the issue. All of their costumes are the colors of black and red. The characters only appeared in New Excalibur. Shadow-X (also known as the Dark X-Men) is a supervillain group appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Lionheart and Shadow-X stand behind Albion
