WARNING: The following contains spoilers for X-Force #3 by Benjamin Percy, Joshua Cassara, Guru-eFX, VC's Joe Caramagna and Tom Muller, on sale Wednesday, Dec. 11.
If things weren't bad enough for the X-Men following the assassination of Charles Xavier in X-Force #1, the cast of the Dawn of X series is missing one of its key members. It may not have gotten a lot of attention with everyone focused on Xavier's death, but Domino went missing while trying to infiltrate a mysterious evil organization that has it out for mutants.
The final pages of X-Force #2 showed Domino being held in a stasis tube after being experimented on. Parts of her skin and body have been carved off and blended into the skin of the assassins who attacked Krakoa. An autopsy by Sage, Dr. Cecelia Reyes and Black Tom Cassidy reveals the attackers have oversized adrenal glands, fingers lacking prints, a skeletal system protected by reinforced periosteum and an extra bone in their forearm as a concealed weapon. This is how the X-Men discover the killers were identified as Domino, and thus allowed to enter Krakoa.
We start to get a better understanding of what is done to Domino in a preview of X-Force #3. The tracking party of Wolverine and Kid Omega are the ones to find Domino, while also being overrun by an attacking swarm of de-skinned creatures. While Wolverine ponders the merits of the "Murder No Man" Krakoan commandment, Quentin Quire uses the moment to harp on this being an example of how Professor X's weakness will never allow a Krakoan society to work. During the disagreement, Wolverine rescues a severely carved up Domino from her container.
Domino's wounds are even worse than initially feared. Her entire right side of the body is missing its white skin, but to make matters worse, Domino's right eyeball is also missing. The X-Man is known for her very timely luck-probability powers, but she will need much more than luck to recover from these wounds. It's a miracle that she is even still alive after being treated like a lab rat.
Wolverine tells Kid Omega that Charles Xavier knows exactly what humans are capable of, which is the same thing that mutants are capable of -- the very best and worst. The X-Men are an example of mutants doing the right things for the right reasons, and they won't let their new status quo change that. Now, the X-Men need to find a way to successfully bring Xavier back to life, even though he was a main component of the mutant resurrection machine by cataloging the psychic imprint of each mutant's mind with Cerebro.