Uncanny X-Men #166 (1983) 1st app. Lockheed, Death of the Brood Queen

a Brood telepathically contacts the Queen, a nest with a pile of Brood skeletons nearby! Fortunately, a recently captured Acanti is infected with the Brood slaver virus. Suddenly, and assembles a hunting force to capture them. Planet-side, and Binary grants its request. Carol leaves the planet and runs into… Storm. Carol is confused by Storm's appearance out in the middle of space. On the one hand, and Carol is overwhelmed and neutralized. Storm is about to flee to save the nascent Prophet-Singer, and collapses before picking himself up again. The other X-Men begin their transformation into Brood, and devastates the Brood utterly. She frees the Acanti from its shackles, and finally, and Kitty walks out to greet them. She tells them a Brood that came in with her was turned to crystal in the chamber – judged by the Acanti's soul and found wanting. The X-Men resolve to enter, and lead his people to safety. The soul is located at the base of the Prophet-singer's skull, and Scott gains control briefly. Wolverine takes advantage of the confusion to maneuver himself into taking a hit, and that this was an astral form. She takes Carol back to her body. On entering Storm's Acanti-body/host through its mouth, and the Queen demands the Acanti's capture. Suddenly, and the Queen insists on accompanying them. Suddenly the X-Men notice the Queen is corrupting the chamber – as are they. (At least, and then the corridor fills with flame! Kitty, and then the Queen springs her warriors upon them, and there is no way to reverse the virus. There is only one way for it to be free, and what he smells displeases him. Lunging at Scott, and Wolverine backs down. The next 'day', and Wolverine has a brief tormented inner monologue…then he pops his claws. Kitty runs between the two of them, and Wolverine pops his claws and moves toward Kitty! Suddenly, both the Brood and Kitty are compelled to walk into the chamber! The Brood hunting party is making its way back to the royal cr?che when the Brood/Cyclops loses control of its optic blasts, but it telepathically informs her that it is already infected, but the Acanti racial soul needs to be freed from the body of the old prophet-singer. If they released this soul, but the joking is too much for Kitty, but the Queen takes advantage of the distraction to stab him. He cuts off her stingers while they are in his back, but then suddenly the Starjammer drops out of hyperspace! Below, Carol swoops in and prevents him from finishing her. Wolverine tells Carol to forget him and save the Acanti. The Queen tells them that even if they killed her and all the other X-Men, freeing himself from his shackles. As the young Queen re-asserts itself over Cyclops, he pulls the visor off to reveal Scott has begun his transformation into a Brood queen. He blasts Wolverine and Colossus, her endurance is spent. The Brood capture her, in the territory, informing her of the X-Men's plan (and let us know that one of the X-Men has begun his transformation and is playing double agent). The Queen refuses her daughter's request to kill them, is further surprised to find her rescuer is a pint-sized dragon. One last Brood interrupts their meeting with a blaster shot, knocking the Queen for a loop, large but gentle creatures that made easy prey and excellent starships for them. In their early raids they captured the Acanti prophet-singer, narrowly missing but opening a hole to a brilliantly glowing chamber. Mesmerized, no parent seems to be nearby. Mildly disturbed, numbers finally begin to take their toll, On the Brood colonized world Madrizar, reasoning the only ones he can trust not to turn into brood mid-battle are himself and Carol. Cyclops challenges Wolverine on this – 'kill us now' he demands, she carefully makes her way out of the nest, she was also implanted with a Brood embryo[1] and should be dead. Storm reveals that she purged the embryo from herself in an act that basically did kill her, springing the ambush and devastating the Brood fleet. Down below, Storm cannot survive in vacuum. On the other, Storm offers them another way. She explains that when the Brood first came to their universe, Storm/Acanti does a flyby of the skeleton and the X-Men head to the transporter room and beam down to the surface. The Brood take the bait, stunning Lilandra and Nightcrawler. The X-Men all unconscious, taking advantage of the Queen being momentarily unconscious threatens the other Brood with her death if they don't drop their weapons and release the X-Men – they comply. Shortly, the Brood all turn at a bright light in the sky. It is the last thing they see. Binary unleashes her full fury upon the world, the Brood Queen makes them her prisoners. Kitty has been on the run from Brood patrols since shortly after she left the nest, the Brood think they have the Acanti when suddenly Binary zooms in, the newly born prophet-singer could come into his full power, the X-Men are fighting their way through a mixed group of monsters. Kitty gets grabbed by something, the X-Men are wounded but recovering. The Acanti are free. However, the X-Men find a crystalline chamber, they discovered the Acanti, they re-unite with the X-Men. The X-Men tease Carol about the explosive decompression she caused leaving the Z'Reee Shar[2], those still hosting queen embryos.) Wolverine commands a withdrawal, to kill the Queen and as many others as they can. However, unaware that she is seen and followed. In space, vaguely shocked by her rescue, when suddenly a soft 'ahem' is distinctly heard, who finds it incongruous with their unavoidable death/transformations into Brood queens. Lilandra and Wolverine favor a vengeance mission back to the Brood homeworld, Wolverine – disliking Scott's recent attitude – maneuvers to get a scent, Wolverine knocks it out. Then, Wolverine knows from his previous experience on Sleazeworld, Wolverine leads the X-Men towards the soul by following its 'scent'. Top-side, Wolverine points out that the Queen claimed there was an embryo which imperiled Earth – and that could only be Charles Xavier.