"I'd die to protect any one of 'em. But that's all I know how to do. It's not like I've done 'em much good here. Kitty was paranoid about the end of the world an' all I did was make it worse. Kurt's still relyin' on that watch of his, even though I heard he'd abandoned it before he came back. As for Rogue... hell, she's off dating someone worse'n Magneto. I ain't been any help to the lot of them."

He wasn't a leader. Nowhere had that become more obvious than Luceti. He worked best as Xavier's hound. Someone that could do the tasks given to him. He was the best at what he did, sure. But what he did wasn't much.