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Not Forgotten: Part Two
New York City. One hour ago…
H.A.M.M.E.R. agent Jebediah Young watches while his colleague Alisanda Morales loads the incapacitated X-23 into a transport ship. Using the communications device in his ear, he patches through to Delta Team, who remain at the Sapien League warehouse. Young gives them the signal to dispose of the mutant and burn down the warehouse. He instructs them to leave no witnesses and no evidence—other than a genetic sample from the mutant girl.
Agents Ryan and Mick receive the orders. Mick, leering at the drug-addled Boom-Boom, asks if she heard the orders too. It’s all over, he tells her. Tabitha tells him to go to hell. Mick lifts her by the throat and pins her against the wall; who’s to say they shouldn’t have a little bit of fun first? “Kill you…” Tabitha mutters.
Agent Ryan turns his back on his accomplice and asks him to make it quick. A moment later, he hears a strange noise, followed by Mick gasping. Ryan turns back to Mick and Boom-Boom and tells Mick he should probably get undressed first. At this point, however, he notices a bowie knife protruding from the base of Mick’s neck—but fails to notice the looming figure approaching from his blindside. Mick, his blood splattered all over the wall and Tabitha’s face, utters a few final strained syllables. “Whoa…” Tabitha says.
Finally, Agent Ryan senses someone standing behind him. He turns and beholds the towering frame of James Proudstar, the X-Force member known as Warpath. He immediately goes into apology mode. He swears he never touched the girl—he would never do such a thing—and it wasn’t even his idea! He was just following orders, he pleads. He begs for Warpath to spare his life. James lowers himself to Agent Ryan’s eye level and pauses for a moment. “No,” he says.
He grabs the sniveling H.A.M.M.E.R. agent and hurls him through one of the large wooden doors inside the warehouse, impaling him on the loose, jagged boards. With both threats extinguished, James hurries over to Tabitha and gently lowers her to the floor. Is she okay? As she slips out of consciousness, she tells Jimmy she knew everything would be okay once she saw him. She then falls asleep in his arms.
At that moment, James receives an incoming message from Domino. Before they have a chance to clarify anything, however, a bright green light pours in through the warehouse windows. Warpath, fully aware of what this light entails, holds up his hand to protect his eyes.
The United Nations…
While the citizens of New York City run from the blinding, ever-expanding green light, Neena Thurman, a.k.a. Domino, runs in the opposite direction. She pushes her way through the surge of civilians, many of them anti-mutant protestors, in hopes of arriving at the source of the energy fluctuation in time to save the lives of her fellow mutants. Suddenly, she stops in her tracks.
“Are you gonna help, or just stare?” Wolverine asks. “These punks are heavy.” Archangel, standing next to Wolverine, holds the limp body of Julian Keller in his arms. The sleeping Surge and Elixir lay at his feet, their arms wrapped around each other.
Domino snaps out of her stupor. “I was expecting a little more tragedy,” she says. “What happened?” Wolverine explains that Elixir stepped up and burned the virus out of Hellion. He did the same to Surge, but her powers were already too amped up. To put it simply, she popped. Domino knows that already; she saw the light show. She asks if Wolverine stabbed her.
“Cute. But no. It was Keller,” Logan says. He tells her Hellion managed to funnel the blast into the sky using his telekinesis. After that, he passed out. Domino admits that isn’t bad for a junior X-Man. Archangel, meanwhile, insists they move out immediately. He can carry two of the kids, he says. Lucky for them, Domino has a safehouse nearby they can use to rendezvous with James. Wolverine notices Domino hasn’t mentioned X-23 and asks where she is.
Pennsylvania airspace. Now…
Inside the H.A.M.M.E.R. transport jet, Agent Morales sits and stares at the captive X-23. Although she had seen pictures of her before, they couldn’t prepare her for the realization that X-23 is, in fact, just a kid. Agent Young insists she isn’t a kid, but a weapon. Ali notices her starting to regain consciousness. Jebediah says it doesn’t matter, since they’re landing in five minutes.
On the ground, while the H.A.M.M.E.R. grunts carry X-23 out of the plane, Ali admits to Agent Young that she didn’t realize S.H.I.E.L.D. had such impressive resources. She’d be surprised, he tells her—and reminds her they aren’t S.H.I.E.L.D. “Right, H.A.M.M.E.R. I keep forgetting,” she says. Agent Young reveals that isn’t what he meant.
Suddenly, Agent Morales looks around the room and realizes she doesn’t recognize anything. What’s happening? What is this place? At that moment, the barely conscious X-23 lifts her head and beholds a pair of people she never wanted to see again. “Welcome to the Facility, Agent Morales,” says Adam Harkins. Behind him stands Kimura, X-23’s malicious former trainer, who offers Laura a hearty ‘welcome home’ while suggestively extending her tongue. X-23 glares at her, too horrified to say anything.
The Colorado Rocky Mountains…
Wolfsbane and Hrimhari, both in lupine forms, run from the three attacking Frost Giants through the snowy forests of Colorado. Hrimhari suddenly stops in his tracks, pivots to face the approaching monsters and shifts to his transitional form. The Wolf Prince urges his love, Rahne, to go. He will keep the giants at bay as long as possible.
The nearest Frost Giant strikes at Hrimhari with his massive spear. Dodging the attack, the Wolf Prince leaps onto the body of the spear and sprints up its diagonal surface. Before the giant has time to shake him off, Hrimhari arrives at the top of the spear, leaps at the Frost Giant’s face and slashes him across the eye.
From down below, Wolfsbane warns Hrimhari to watch out. He heeds her warning just in time to leap out of the way of the approaching axe-blow from another Frost Giant. The axe blade instead finds its target in the throat of the maimed Frost Giant. It gasps as the blood pours out of its throat. Hrimhari, meanwhile, leaps down to the snowy forest floor. He urges Rahne to flee. She refuses. She is through with running. She is no longer afraid of who or what she is—and she definitely won’t leave without Hrimhari. Very well then, Hrimhari says as they lock eyes with the two remaining Frost Giants. If that is what she wishes, then tonight, live or die, they fight together!
Salem Center. New York…
Fog rolls through the darkened cemetery in Salem Center. A figure illuminated only by moonlight approaches one of the headstones and lays his ashen hands on it. “This is the first, my master,” the deceased mutant Caliban says as he slumps over the headstone. Veins of techno-organic circuitry run through his body. Eliphas, the source of Caliban’s T/O virus infection, rolls back a sleeve as he approaches the grave. Behind him stands Selene’s young accomplice Kevin Ford, the former resident of Xavier’s School known as Wither.
“Now… it begins now,” Eli Bard says as he plunges his T/O virus infected arm into the grave of Douglas Ramsey.
Graymalkin Industries. San Francisco…
Cyclops watches from the observation deck as Beast makes tends to the three injured mutants in the medical ward. He asks Beast if they will be all right. None of them have even a mark on their bodies, Hank informs Cyclops. Additionally, Julian has reverted to his normal, angry self and is currently recovering in his room. Hank thinks Noriko will recover just fine. She’s exhausted and her body is depleted, but in time, she should be fine. As for Josh, however, Beast has no idea. After all, Josh can control his own body’s biology, which leaves Hank confused as to why he hasn’t yet recovered. He suspects Elixir is merely suffering from over-exertion. In the past, after all, Josh has lost consciousness after using his powers over their capacity. Regardless, he’s alive, and that’s a start.
Up on the observation deck, Cyclops breathes a sigh of relief and thanks god. “No. Not yet,” a voice says from behind. Before Scott has a chance to turn and face him, Wolverine lunges at him, grabs him by the torso and sends them both crashing through the glass of the observation deck’s window. Beast barks at them, but Cyclops assures him everything is okay. He speaks too soon, though. Wolverine leaps on top of him, pins him to the floor and unsheathes the outermost claws of his left hand around Scott’s neck. “It’s about as far from ‘okay’ as you can get, boss man,” Wolverine shouts in his face. “I told you to wait! You signed their death warrants without batting an eye! If either of them dies, it’s on you.”
“I know,” Cyclops says. Wolverine glares at him for a moment, then reaches down and helps him off the ground. He tells him that both Hope and Cable are alive. Not sure what he means by ‘Hope’, Cyclops asks for further clarification, but Logan interrupts. He claims things went a little south when Stryfe and Apocalypse arrived. Although it got messy, the girl emerged from it intact.
Cyclops asks him to slow down and back up a bit. Beast shares the same sentiments; are they saying they saw the baby? He asks how she was and if she exhibited any powers. Correcting him on two points, Wolverine first states she wasn’t a baby—she’s about nine years old, and second, he didn’t catch anything about her powers. However, Elixir might. The kid healed and said he knew what she was, but put himself into a coma saving their lives. If he wakes up, they can ask him.
With that, Wolverine walks out of the room. Cyclops asks where he’s going. “Laura’s missing,” Logan says. “So you better hope she’s okay too.”
In a meeting room, Warpath, Domino and Boom-Boom watch the news reports from the incident at the United Nations. The reporter states that no deaths were reported in the attack. Witnesses, meanwhile, blame the attack on a mutant girl seen at the site. In response, the general assembly plans to vote on the creation of Bolivar Trask’s Mutant Response Division immediately.
“That is a load of crap!!” Tabitha Smith shouts at the screen. James asks her to focus. “Focus? Do you even know who I am?” Boom-Boom snaps at him. Domino asks her to just tell them what happened. “Look, I was shopping, and the next thing I knew some Jason Voorhies looking chick was holding a gun to my head.” James asks if she heard anything, or smelled anything. “What? Do I look like a dog? You need to—wait,” Tabitha says. “I did. I mean, not smell… I remember… there was a girl. Some military guys. HATE… no, that’s not right. S.H.I.E.L.D. Some chick said ‘Division C’, I think. And then they took the girl.”
Domino eyes Wolverine as he enters the room. S.H.I.E.L.D. has no ‘Division C’, she says. Wolverine suggests they tell Warren to get ready and get the Cuckoos into Cerebra right away.
Location Unknown…
The noise of a chainsaw penetrates the darkness and the silence. X-23 opens her eyes and beholds the smiling, blood-spattered face of Kimura. “There’s my girl,” Kimura says. Laura looks at her with tears in her eyes and asks her to stop. “I missed you, too,” Kimura says.
On the ground, Laura’s left arm rests in a growing pool of blood. She hangs by her right arm from a chain. Kimura is so glad she is awake; she feared X-23 might miss the whole show! Once more, Laura asks her not to do this, but Kimura fires up the chain saw, licks her teeth, and tells X-23 she has been a bad girl.


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Not Forgotten: Part Three
A Facility base. Twenty minutes ago...
Agent Alisande Morales leans back in her chair and kicks her boot up onto the desk. Across from her sits Agent Jebediah Young, whom she gives a stern look. She just wants to get this straight: according to him, she's been kidnapped by a bunch of mad scientists who create biological weapons and sell their services to the highest bidder. "You infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.—"
"H.A.M.M.E.R.," he corrects.
"%@$& off," she replies. Continuing her recap, she says he infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. to get to her because she had a lead on one of his assassins, and now, he wants her to work for them? Pretty much, Agent Young tells her. She asks him a logical follow-up question: what on earth makes him think she would work for those people? She stayed on after Norman Osborn took over S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Young replies. Ali doesn't think that's quite in the same league as using a child to kill people.
Agent Young directs her attention toward the tall stack of files on the desk. This stack contains all the targets that this 'child' has killed, he says. It includes royalty, Mafia, drug lords, dictators, assassins and basically anyone worth killing for the right price. He pulls out his favorite of the files to show Ali: Dr. Sarah Kinney, X-23's maker—and mother. Kinney's own daughter killed her when she tried to help her escape the Facility, Agent Young explains. He asks Ali if it's sinking in yet; they can make the girl kill anyone, anywhere, at any time. When Agent Morales asks how they make her do so without any emotion or hesitation, Young explains that most of the time it only takes a verbal order. "But with special targets, like her mother," Agent Young says, "... well let's just say she's the gun, and we have the trigger. She truly is the perfect weapon."
Noticing a small stack of red files to Agent Young's right, Ali asks about those. If the girl is so perfect, who are those people? After commending Ali's keen perception, Agent Young explains that those three files contain X-23's only outstanding targets, whom he deems the ones who got away. The Facility doesn't like looses ends; they're bad for business. This brings him back to the proposition he made to Agent Morales. With her connections, he says, they can track down the three outstanding targets. He asks her to think of it as her interview for the Facility. Ali takes a wild guess: if she refuses, he'll kill her. Young grins at her; like he said earlier, she's a smart girl. Plus, her psych profile suggests a certain moral ambiguity. If it didn't, they wouldn't even be having this conversation. She doesn't like rules; that's why they chose her. "And yeah, if you say "no", I kill you," Agent Young adds.
Ali kicks her foot forward and thrusts the desk into Agent Young's torso. Before he can draw his gun, she grabs the back of his head and slams it against the table. He fires; she brings her elbow down on the back of his neck, causing his shot to miss. Unconscious, he tips over in his chair, but the stack of paper files already on the floor cushions his fall. Ali grabs his gun. "Let me think about it," she says as she cocks the weapon. She leaves the room to find X-23, leaving behind the red stack of X-23's outstanding targets—one of which includes Laura's cousin, Megan Kinney.
Now...
As she cuts into X-23's remaining arm with a chainsaw, Kimura asks her to repeat herself; she can't hear over the noise of the saw. Laura merely screams. Suddenly, however, a bullet strikes Kimura in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground. Behind her stands Agent Alisande Morales with a gun in her hand. Did she hear that?
Rushing over to the suspended X-23, Ali hopes she isn't too late. She asks Laura to hang in there. She's going to be okay, Ali says. As she removes her remaining arm from the shackles, Laura mutters that Kimura is not dead. Ali ignores her; she's bleeding out, which they need to stop. The delirious Laura cares only about escaping. The fact that she even still stands shocks Agent Morales; she just had her freaking arm removed. It's okay if she wants to rest for a minute, she tells Laura. Still, Laura reiterates that they need to leave. She refuses to leave without her arm, though. The Facility cannot have it. They would use it to create more.
X-23 picks the limp extremity up off the ground and holds the claws away from her body. Hoping she'll slow down, Ali reminds her she just suffered an incredible trauma. X-23 repeats what she said earlier: the Faciliy wants her genetic material. They want to make more of her. She must not let them. As Laura walks toward the door, leaving behind a trail of bloody boot-prints as she goes, Ali asks how she is still moving. Her shoulder isn't even healed; what exactly is she?
Just then, Kimura calls out to them from behind. They're not done, she says to X-23 as she lifts herself off the floor. Ali and Laura turn to face her, but only Ali's face shows surprised as Kimura once again wields the bloodied chainsaw. "No. @#$%. Way," she says.
Utopia...
In the med-lab, Surge, Hellion and Loa keep watch over their unconscious friend, Elixir, while behind them, in an observation room, Cyclops and Doctor Nemesis monitor his condition. Doctor Nemesis's best guess—an admitted stab in the dark—is that Elixir's DNA is rebooting itself. Whatever he did overwhelmed his system, and now he's doing something—likely recovering. He doesn't know for sure. His physiology is unlike any the doctor has ever seen—and that's saying something. Cyclops asks if he can wake him up; Josh has information they need. In response, Dr. Nemesis asks if Josh needs to survive long-term. If not, they will have a few more options. Cyclops doesn't want to risk the kid's life again—not if he doesn't have to. Good, Dr. Nemesis says. He worries that if he even looks at Elixir sideways, the two kids in there—Keller and Ashida—would tear him apart.
Nemesis asks Cyclops why he isn't asking these questions to Hank McCoy. Scott tells him it's complicated. At that point, Hellion approaches the glass and addresses Cyclops. He heard Wolverine say they couldn't find Laura. If she's been taken by the Sapien League, then Hellion needs to know. Logan is handling it, Scott tells him. Julian reminds him that the Sapien League was going to kill them. They're basically animals. They have to do something, he says. Cyclops reiterates: Logan will find her. Besides, he says, if someone has kidnapped X-23, then it isn't X-23 they need to worry about.
In Utopia's brig, Donald Pierce, one of the T/O Virus-infected agents of Bastion, monitors this exchange via the facility's security cameras. He reports it all back to Bastion, who assures him he is receiving the transmission. He orders Pierce to continue monitoring the Leper Queen's body. The Techno-Organic Virus within her has been modified to the extent that mutants should not have the ability to decode it—but, as always, the X-Men are unpredictable, Bastion says. Piece asks about the missing mutant girl. Bastion deems her inconsequential.
In addition to monitoring Pierce's transmission, Bastion observes the myriad transmissions he receives from his other agents. Each of his agents' facilities—Point San Pablo outside of San Francisco, the Alameda Naval Air Base east of the city, the Hodge Industries oil rig 20 miles to the southwest, San Francisco's Holy Cross Cemetery and the Bolinas Lagoon, located 12 miles north of the Marin Headlands—is in the process of constructing its own tall, helical, glass spire. Meanwhile, Pierce complains about his assignment. How much longer must he suffer this imprisonment? Bastion tells him he will remain for as long as they require it. Pierce explains he is in some kind of VR prison the X-Men call the Danger Room. Deeming this irrelevant, Bastion orders him to remain within the X-Men stronghold and to continue his transmissions until they send the signal. "$%@% machine," Pierce grumbles. "Transmitting."
Cerebra...
"What do you mean, 'she's not showing up'?" Wolverine asks the Cuckoos. They mean just that: they cannot detect her signal anywhere using Cerebra. Logan tells them to keep scanning. The Cuckoos respectfully remind him he has made them search for the past twenty-four hours; X-23 must be somewhere Cerebra can't find her. Technology does exist that blocks Cerebra, after all. Grumbling, Logan says that Laura wouldn't stop looking for any of them. Therefore, he refuses to stop looking for her. The Cuckoos object, but Logan silences them. The second they stop looking, he says, Laura is as good as dead.
The Cuckoo using the chair asks a logical question: what if Laura is already dead? What if that is why she is not showing up on Cerebra? Domino puts a gun to her head. "Let's try and keep a positive attitude, okay? Can we do that, Emma Lite?" she asks. "You know... before my gun 'accidentally' goes off and 'accidentally' shoots you in the head."
The Cuckoo stares at her and reveals she found Wolfsbane—much to everyone's surprise.
The Colorado Rocky Mountains…
The last remaining Frost Giant screams as Wolfsbane slashes open his throat. The mighty creature falls to the snow-covered forest floor and hits the ground with a thundering crash. Once defeated, Hrimhari and Wolfsbane survey the damage. The Frost Giants have long hunted the Wolf Clan of Asgard, Hrimhari says. However, he knew he and Rahne would be victorious this day. He felt it; it was not their destiny to die at the hands of these brutes. Their love is too strong, he tells Rahne.
Rahne, gradually shifting into her transitional form, turns to Hrimhari and tells him how glad she is that he was sure. She was fairly certain they were going to die a horrible death, she says with a smile. Hrimhari insists he would never let that happen to her. No matter what, he will always find a way to save—
Wolfsbane suddenly passes out. Hrimhari hurries over to her body, which lies unconscious in the snow.
New Orleans…
From atop her throne, Selene orders her men to bring in the next captive. Wither and Senyaka drag in a robed old woman and leave her at Selene’s feet. “Shaw knew of you, crone. Rumors,” Selene tells the elderly woman. “And my Caliban found you. Now… tell me what you see. Tell me my destiny.”
One of Selene’s men lifts the elderly woman’s head, revealing a gold mask that covers her face, including the eyes. From beneath her golden mask, Irene Adler, a.k.a. Destiny, lets loose a stream of tears.
A Facility base…
Agent Morales keeps her gun leveled at Kimura. “She’s bulletproof?” she asks X-23. Laura confirms she is; her impervious skin acts as a shield to her internal organs. Not even adamantium can cut her. Although she feels impact, she feels no pain. Morales isn’t excited to hear this news.
Kimura, meanwhile, glares at Ali Morales through the blood spatters on her eyelids. She has bad news for Morales: she backed the wrong horse. The Facility, she says, has rules, the most important of which is to not mess with Kimura. She tells Ali she’ll push her finger through her eye, and maybe scratch her name on Ali’s frontal lobe with her fingernail.
“She seems like kind of a bitch, too,” Agent Morales says to X-23, who agrees. Morales asks X-23 if she has any suggests. Laura tells her to run. When Morales asks for clarification, Laura shouts her orders instead. Go!
Agent Morales takes off running down the corridor; X-23 lingers behind for a moment. Once Kimura moves through the doorway and into the corridor, X-23 begins to run as well—carrying her severed arm in her right hand. Kimura claims the arm for herself; in fact, she claims all of Laura’s body. Agent Morales, passing through an open blast door up ahead, encourages Laura to hurry. Laura follows only a few steps behind. However, when she passes through the open doorway, she turns around to face the chainsaw-wielding Kimura. The Facility agent draws closer and closer. When she’s only a few steps from X-23’s position, Laura presses the switch on the wall that closes the blast door. The heavy piece of machinery comes crashing down on Kimura right as she passes through the doorway and pins her to the ground. To ensure she stays put, X-23 obliterates the control panel using the adamantium claw on her foot. She resumes her escape with Agent Morales, leaving the enraged Kimura pinned under the unmovable door. Kimura, however, has more tricks up her sleeve; she radios for backup and orders a full lockdown on the building.
The emergency lights suddenly turn on, bathing the facility and its occupants in red light. The alarm, meanwhile, sounds incessantly. Alisande and Laura continue their flight, clearing each corridor they encounter. Laura informs Ali that Facility guards are already armed and on their way; they have less than two minutes until their arrival. Ali asks how they get out of the building. Laura doesn’t know. She notices the blast doors closing, but Ali doesn’t care. She thought Laura grew up in this place; how could she not know how to escape? Laura explains that the Facility has many bases, and that she has never been in this one. She wonders, however, why Agent Morales, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., would have embarked on this mission before determining an escape route beforehand. “Are you @#$%$# kidding me?” Ali snaps.
“No, why would I do that?” Laura asks with full sincerity. Ali reminds her of what might have happened had she not arrived when she did. She cannot believe Laura’s giving her crap during a rescue attempt! “Why are you trying to save me?” X-23 asks.
Before Ali can answer her question, plant themselves in the corridor’s concrete walls. The women realize they are under attack. As a quartet of armed Facility agents rounds the corner at the end of the hallway, Agent Morales opens fire on them and orders Laura to flee while she provides cover. The two women escape through another blast door right as it closes, separating them—for the moment—from the Facility agents.
Laura informs Ali that she’s hurt. Ali, however, reminds Laura she is missing an arm. What the hell did they do to her? In lieu of answering, X-23 sabotages the control panel but states that the men will soon cut through the door. Trying to stay on the bright side, Ali declares that should provide them with five to seven minutes. Fewer, Laura replies.
They move through the nearby double doors and into a large, cavernous laboratory. As Ali examines these new surroundings, she realizes she doesn’t even know what the Facility is.
On the other side of the blast door, one of the Facility agents reports back to Kimura. The blast door’s controls are not responding, he says, but they’ve already summoned a torch crew. Kimura tells him to listen to her carefully: she needs them to get that door open right away. When the agent objects, Kimura interrupts him and tells him she is well aware that X-23 will most likely kill him and several of his men once the door opens. However, this is something he must accept. The Facility agent asks if they can negotiate. No, Kimura says; he just needs to stay alive long enough to keep X-23 busy until Kimura can arrive. If X-23 gets away and he is still alive, Kimura says, then she will tear off his head and feed it to him. The Facility agent tells Kimura he understands and ends the transmission. He curses once it ends.
Inside the lab, Laura and Ali discuss their plan of attack. Ali, while idly picking up a stray vial of yellow liquid she sees on the counter, informs Laura she only has three bullets left. That won’t be enough, Laura says. Suddenly, Agent Morales snaps at her. Since she’s been tracking X-23, she’s found over a hundred bodies with her little claw marks in them, not to mention the bodies that we so badly burned or blown up that she didn’t even know if she had found ten or fifty people. Did someone pay her to make that happen? Did the Facility make her kill them? Or did Laura just do it because she likes it? Ali really wants to know, because Laura seems capable of making her own decisions. She doesn’t care what Captain America said about her; a person only commits those kinds of crimes if there is some benefit to her. X-23 tells her she does not know what she’s talking about. Agent Morales asks if she massacred the Purifiers or not. If so, who ordered the hit? Averting her gaze, Laura admits to this.
She is about to tell Agent Morales who she works for when she spots the vial clutched in her hand. Don’t move, she tells Ali. When Ali asks why, Laura asks her about the vial in her hand. Where did she get it? Is she one of them?! In a threatening gesture, she unsheathes her claws and puts them in front of Ali’s face. Agent Morales draws her gun on Laura in response—and drops the vial. Laura watches in horror as it falls. Moving as fast as she can, she reaches for it and manages to catch it in the palm of her hand. She looks up only to find Ali’s gun still pointed in her face. Terrified, Ali asks what the hell Laura is doing, and begs her to just talk to her.
“The Facility created me to be a weapon,” X-23 tells her. “Killing was all I knew. I didn’t know how to say ‘no’. But if I ever did say no, they had a way to make me kill. A chemical trigger,” she says, indicating the vial of yellow liquid in her hand. “This is it.” She turns Ali’s attention to the large chemical vats in the laboratory, all clearly marked Trigger 42. “A lot of it.”


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Not Forgotten: Part Four
The Cerebra Chamber. Utopia…
The exhausted Stepford Cuckoos continue searching for X-23. Magik, more bored than exhausted, asks how long they need to remain in the room. Until they find her, the Cuckoos explain; very bad things will happen to them if they don’t.
At the bottom of Cerebro, Wolverine and Domino wait together. Wolverine passes the time by constantly unsheathing and sheathing one of his adamantium claws. Each time he releases the claw, it rips through his flesh and leaves a spattering of blood. Domino tells him that, from now on, the Cuckoos are going to crap themselves everything they see her and Logan. Wolverine considers this a good thing. Domino suggests they get away for awhile—and maybe relieve some tension. Surely the Cuckoos will call them if they find anything. Wolverine refuses. When Domino assures him it isn’t his fault, Wolverine responds that it is. Domino disagrees; Cyclops was the one who pulled Laura into this situation. Wolverine asks her if she seriously thinks he couldn’t have stopped it. Laura will be fine, Domino sighs. Logan reminds her that the kid has never been fine a day in her life. She’s never even had a life. He managed to get her in school, with other kids—and then he took it all away.
He continues mutilating his own flesh with his claw. SLIKT. SNIKT. SLIKT.
Domino reminds him that X-23 is sixteen years old; did Logan really think she’d listen to him? “That’s just it,” Wolverine answers. “She takes orders. From the bastards who made her, from Cyclops… from anyone. That’s what she does. But I’m the only one she actually listens to.” He reminds Domino that the kid is human, no matter how she acts; there is a limit to the amount of hell she can endure. Logan has seen it. He vows to find her and get her back—and when he does, things are going to change.
The Facility…
X-23 asks Agent Morales again: does she understand what she must do? Morales apologizes for her absentmindedness and claims she is ready, but a little fuzzy on X-23's role in the plan. Laura hands Morales two liquid-filled flasks with rags stuff in the top. On the floor between them lies Laura's severed arm, wrapped in a white cloth. Ali takes the flasks and steps backward into the cold unit, the door of which is adjacent to one of the facility's sprinkler control valves.
Outside the laboratory, the Facility’s torch crew continues cutting its way through the metal door.
X-23 tells Ali to stay inside the cold unit until she leaves. There are a lot of guards out there, Ali reminds her. Can she really handle them by herself? She doubts Laura could do it even with both her arms. Instead of answering, Laura kneels down and pulls the adamantium blades from her severed left arm, while Alisande watches in horror. What is she doing?!? X-23 stands back up and hands the blades to Ali, warning her to be careful. They're sharp, after all. Ali just looks at the blades in confusion; what the hell does Laura want her to do with them? "If I survive, I will need them. But if I don't," X-23 says, "you will." She tells Agent Morales to get inside, despite her warning that she's going to be sick. As X-23 closes the door, she thanks Agent Morales for trying to help her.
The door shuts. Through the small glass window, Alisande Morales watches as X-23 bows her head, drops a flaming flask of volatile chemicals over her severed arm and waits for her enemies to arrive. They won’t be long; the molten incisions of the blow torches near the final corner of the rectangular incision.
Outside the lab, beneath the blast door, the pinned and bloody Kimura shouts orders to her subordinates. If they don't get her out from beneath the door in 60 seconds, she vows to start shooting. Her smoking handgun and the nearby soldier lying on the ground, however, indicate she's already begun. Suddenly, the facility's sprinklers activate in response to the fire X-23 started in the lab. As green-tinged liquid begins pouring down on her face, Kimura puts in a call to her subordinate Ryan and asks what the hell is happening. Agent Ryan explains the targets are still held up in Section 28. Kimura asks what is burning. Ryan doesn't know; he assumes Agent Morales and X-23 must have triggered the fire alarm. He claims it doesn't matter, though, as they will be inside the lab in two minutes. Suddenly growing worried, Kimura asks what they keep inside Section 28. "Hi, Agent Kimura," another Facility agent says, interrupting the conversation. "This is Mill—"
"If you finish that sentence I'm going to open your personal file and kill everyone I find with your last name," Kimura snaps. "Now tell me what's inside that #^&%@*$ lab!" The terrified agent lists off the chemicals it holds: Sarin gas, Ricin Vapor, Ricin Powder, Tetrodotoxin solution, Compound 1080, Trigger Scent, Amatoxin oil, mercury... "Trigger Scent?" Kimura interrupts, her eyes widening. She suddenly orders her men to stop. However, she's too late; they finish cutting their way through the door just as Kimura gives her new orders. They ask her to repeat, and although she once again commands them to not open the door, the more pertinent noise they hear is the unsheathing of X-23's adamantium claws.
Laura bolts out of the newly made doorway and slices her way through the heads of the Trigger Scent-soaked Facility agents in the hallway. She glides over the canopy they create, leaving behind a path of severed craniums. After she clears the first cluster of enemies, she hits the ground and rests in the gathering pool of water for a moment. The Trigger Scent permeating the hallway once again activates her nose. Laura looks up and beholds yet another battalion of soldiers, each one of them aglow with the chemical that sends her into a berserker rage. The squad leader orders his worried men to kill her, but he's too late; X-23 springs to her feet and slices her way first through their heads. She takes a few rounds of rifle fire, but her massacre continues otherwise unabated. Dropping to the floor, X-23 swings her adamantium-tipped foot in a roundhouse arc that separates the guards from their feet. More men approach. X-23, her eyes red with murder, screams and confronts them too, sending torrents of blood to mix with the chemical slurry coating the corridor floor.
Angel's Aerie. The Colorado Rocky Mountains...
Light from the full moon pours in through the gaping hole in Warren Worthington's roof. He asks aloud what the hell happened to his house. Warpath is pretty sure it wasn't the wind. He asks Warren if he plans on going all ‘Fourth Horseman’ on him. Archangel says he just might; does Warpath have any idea what repairing this place will cost him? "I grew up on a reservation, jackass," Warpath tells him. "In a trailer. So forgive me if I don't get too misty for you." He crouches down and searches for clues. The snow, however, has covered everything, including tracks and scents. If Wolfsbane is there somewhere, they're going to have to search for her.
Suddenly, a large, furry beast leaps in through the hole in the ceiling and lands on the creaky hardwood floor. Archangel and Warpath turn to face the intruder, instinctively readying their weapons. Instead of a threat, they behold a weeping, bare-skinned, muscular boy holding the unconscious Rahne Sinclair in his arms. He asks if they're the X-Men, and says he needs their help; he seeks the one called Elixir. Warren and James are too shocked to respond.
The Facility...
After the noise outside settles down, Agent Morales unlatches the door and slowly opens it. X-23's adamantium blades rest safely in her boot strap, while in her hands, she carries her explosive chemical vial and her handgun. Ali urges herself to keep moving, but the scene she sees in the hallway stops her in her tracks. Everywhere she looks, she sees the blood-soaked bodies of dead Facility soldiers.
Elsewhere in the facility, Dr. Adam Harkins maintains contact with Kimura from his computer. She reports back on X-23’s activities throughout the building. When she informs Harkins that the girl has flooded the water tanks with Trigger Scent, he asks her to shut up and find her before she loses her again. Kimura tries to warn him again of the danger, but after Harkins assures her he is already flooding the system, he orders her to quit screwing around and search for the girl.
A scream from outside his office catches Adam’s attention. He fears X-23 has arrived. The body of a Facility agent hurled into his office’s bulletproof glass confirms this impending danger. However, the glass does not break, and for a protracted moment, Harkins just stares at the crack. He calls out to Kimura for help.
Unfortunately for him, X-23 arrives before Kimura. She comes crashing through the reinforced glass, her blood-soaked claws leading the way. Harkins falls back into the wall and stares into X-23’s crimson-colored eyes. Please stay away, he begs, cowering pathetically against the wall.
Laura’s murderous rage dies down. She stares at Harkins and instead of seeing a man soaked in Trigger Scent, she sees a regular guy; flushing out the sprinkler system did the trick. Laura even seems to take his pleas for mercy to heart. However, a familiar smell enters the air and gets her attention. Before she has time to react, the butt of a handgun comes slamming down on the back of her head. She falls to the ground.
“The sprinkler earns you a gold star, X. I’ll pin it on your coffin,” Kimura says to X-23, who regards her in disbelief. Harkins, meanwhile, asks Kimura what took her so long—and what happened to X-23’s arm. He told her to get him a blood sample, Kimura says. Harkins reminds her he wanted a pure gene sample, not a dismembered limb. Besides, the girl can still be a valuable commodity once she’s been mind-wiped. “No,” Kimura says. “She can’t.” She fires two rounds into Laura’s legs.
Harkins thrusts his gold-tipped cane under Kimura’s chin and tells her he has had enough. Does he need to remind her of the permanent nerve damage and limp he has because of her? Kimura insists that wasn’t her fault; it was Emma Frost’s. Harkins doesn’t care. He reminds Kimura she serves the Facility, and therefore must do what he says, even when it comes to X-23. Right now, he wants her back in the white room—and he wants her in one piece.
Kimura stares at him for a moment—then refuses. X-23 has already killed three Facility heads, she says; she must die. Harkins asks what she means by three. He begins to tell Kimura her figure isn’t correct, and that X-23 has only killed two Facility heads, but before he can finish his thought, Kimura puts a bullet in his brain.
Turning to X-23, Kimura tells her that she really liked Harkins. “He was a sadistic $%@# who loved money, monsters and torture,” Kimura says. “But he doesn’t know you like I do.” Laura tries to explain herself, but Kimura interrupts her. She. Broke. The. Rules. For that, Kimura is going to scramble her brain—and then she’s going to eat it. She puts her gun to Laura’s head.
At that moment, Agent Morales bursts into the lab, gets Kimura’s attention and hurls the flaming flask at the back of her head. It hits Kimura and sends her tumbling into the computer, totally ablaze. Ali grabs Laura and tells her they need to move, but Laura reminds her that the fire won’t kill Kimura; it won’t even hurt her. It will keep her busy, Ali says—at least long enough for them to escape.
Meanwhile, Kimura screams out in a mixture of fury and pain. She can’t see, for the fire has seared her eyes. She continues screaming out to X-23, but the collapse of the roof silences her.
Ali hoists Laura’s arm over her shoulder and helps her off the ground. As she leads her away from the fire, she tells her they don’t have much time; she’s been busy.
In the fuel reserves, a flaming Erlenmeyer flask rests on the ground near a tipped-over barrel of flammable liquid. The pool slowly spreads toward the flame.
Near the Facility’s natural gas lines, another flask sits alight.
In the weapons and explosives storage room, a burning, rag-stuffed flask sits on the countertop next to a dozen live grenades.
Meanwhile, in the Facility’s exit corridor, Agent Morales makes one last flaming flask airborne as she and X-23 rush toward the exit. The fire burns behind them, spreading flames throughout the hallway. The two women rush outside just as the entire Facility erupts in a ball of flame.
And, on Utopia, the Cuckoos finally get lock on X-23’s signature.
Back at the Facility, Agent Morales and X-23 lie amidst the flaming wreckage. Doing her best to ignore the pain, Ali sits up, looks over at Laura and asks about the Facility people. Are there more of them? There are, Laura tells her. In that case, Ali vows to go back to S.H.I.E.L.D. and clear Laura’s record. She wants to erase every file they have on her.
Their moment is interrupted when Kimura calls them over the radio. Although she’s still on fire, she lets Laura know that she is never going to stop—never. She swears she’ll find Morales, Laura’s little X-Men classmates, her telekinetic boyfriend, and that she’ll kill them all. She vows to kill everything Laura loves—and the first person on her list is Megan. “Do you hear me? That little bitch is @#$%ing dead!” Kimura screams.
The transmission ends. “What a psycho,” Ali says with a grin on her face. Laura doesn’t think so; after all, Kimura’s right. She won’t ever stop, and there’s nothing Laura can do. She falls to her knees and begins to bawl. There’s nothing she can do about it!! Ali kneels down next to her and puts her arm around her shoulder. “It’s okay… it’s okay,” she assures her, while in the distance, the Facility burns.
Domino isn’t so sure things are okay. She says as much as she puts her gun to Agent Morales’s head. While Domino asks X-23 to move away, Wolverine tells Agent Morales she has one second to start talking. Laura stands up and tells them she’s ready to go now. Wolverine asks if she’s okay; she repeats that she’s ready to go. He asks about the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Laura tells him that Agent Morales is her friend.
Turning to X-23, Ali hands her back her adamantium claws and claims she can help her. Laura refuses her help; she can’t anyway. Besides, right now, all Laura wants to do is go home. Alisande Morales watches as X-23, Wolverine, Domino and Magik disappear into Magik’s stepping discs. She’s left standing alone, one woman silhouetted against the hellish flames of the Facility.
Prologue. New Orleans…
A blond-haired boy examines his hand, focusing primarily on the Techno-Organic circuitry running through it. It’s in his neck, his face—even his eyes. From his point of view, he sees the world in repeating binary code, interspersed with a simple command: 01010OBEY01010…
Suddenly, the door to the darkened room opens. “Boy,” a figure says to him. Cypher, the blond-haired teenager in the yellow and black uniform once worn by Charles Xavier’s New Mutants, turns to face the figures standing shrouded in the doorway. “It’s time.”


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Necrosha: Chapter Two
Monsanto, Portugal...
Inside an ocean-side villa, Telford Porter coughs—more like hacks, actually. His three mistresses cower behind the bed-sheets and ask if he is okay. Telford, hacking up another glob of blood, insists he is going to be fine. He just needs a second to recover. Time-travel sickness and all, he says. It'll go away in a minute. He then doubles over again and vomits up even more blood up on the floor.
His head looks like it's about to explode, one of the mortified women tells him. Sitting up, Telford realizes what this means: Elixir wasn't bluffing. He actually gave him brain cancer. "I'm going to die," Telford mutters. Then, he does what he does best: vanishes.
The Vanisher instantaneously reappears on Utopia, the X-Men's floating base off the coast of San Francisco. He fails to realize he is teleporting right into the middle of a full-scale attack on the island—and right in front of a scythe-wielding facsimile of Death. "You #$%^ are going to heal me right now or—" Telford threatens before sensing the monster immediately behind him. He turns in time to scream. As Death brings its scythe toward the Vanisher's neck, however, Cyclops pegs him in the leg with an optic blast, knocking him off balance mere moments before the weapon would have lopped off his head.
The Vanisher takes a look around the room and bears witness to what can only be described as chaos. "Nice of you to finally join us, Porter!" his teammate Domino says as she unloads rounds from her handgun into the resurrected Hellions.
"Domino? Are we dead?" Telford asks her. Although she tells him they are not, she adds that he will be if he doesn't get up and help them. Dumbstruck, the Vanisher can’t even budge. Cyclops echoes Domino's sentiment when he orders the Vanisher to grab Emma and take her to safety. "...is Elixir in a safe place?" Telford asks in response.
Elsewhere, the residents of Utopia fight for their lives against the hordes of Selene's resurrected minions. In the infirmary, X-23 and Doctor Nemesis defend the unconscious Elixir from the attacking Maria Callasantos, a.k.a. Feral. In the hallway, Colossus trades blows with Louis Hamilton, a.k.a. Stonewall, while Martin Fletcher, a.k.a. Super Sabre, sneaks up from behind to aid his former Freedom Force ally. Rogue, meanwhile, dodges a blow from the enormous Edward Pasternak, a.k.a. Tower. More tragically, Iceman defends himself from the incessant attacks of his former Champions teammate Laynia Sergeievna Petrovna, a.k.a. Darkstar. Psylocke and Dazzler, meanwhile, unleash their fullest attacks against Hurricane, Deadbolt and Spyne, despite having no idea who they are. Elsewhere on the floating island, Hellion puts up a telekinetic shield that saves the lives of his teammates Surge and Prodigy from the inferno thrust at them by Rusty Collins, a.k.a Firefist.
Outside, on the surface of the floating meteor, Archangel performs a similar feat when he uses his metallic wings to shield Hrimhari, Warpath and Wolfsbane from Pyro's attack. Amidst the searing heat of Pyro's flames, Warpath has just one question: isn't Pyro dead? "That's what I thought too, yeah?" Pyro laughs. "Went out like a hero and everything. So much for that. Guess I'm back to killing X—"
The butt of Warpath's bowie knife strikes Pyro in the head, knocking him off-balance and halting his fiery furnace. Archangel follows this up by thrusting his wings toward the attackers and showering them in his wing fletchettes. Pyro is still dead, Archangel says; he can feel it. He asks why they are there. Because their queen wants him—and all of the X-Men—to suffer, Pyro says. Berzerker, his fists pulsing with electricity, calls dibs on Cyclops. Whatever, Pyro says. Kill 'em all.
Warpath looks at their enemies with unease. He thinks the guy with the mohawk and the dragon were Morlocks—but he swears they were dead. They were, Archangel tells him—and they're about to be dead again. Hrimhari insists they protect Rahne. Get her inside, then, Warpath says; he and Archangel can deal with the undead. He commands him to go as he and Archangel lunge toward Berzerker, Scaleface, Pyro and Maggott. Hrimhari grabs the unconscious Wolfsebane and flees—with Scaleface in pursuit.
Hammer Bay. Genosha...
Eli Bard groans. When Selene asks him what is wrong, he claims it is nothing. However, Wither suspects he is lying. Of course he is, Selene says. It is Eli Bard's nature to hide his weakness. Turning to her servant, she asks again—and promises it will be the last time she asks. There is something wrong with the one the X-Men call Cypher, Bard says. Cypher isn't under his control anymore. "I guess failure is your style, Bard," Wither jokes. Selene tells Wither that is enough. Angered, she calmly states she had very specific plans for the Ramsey boy. She instructs Bard to send Emma Frost's children to retrieve him.
Utopia...
Jetstream continues pushing Wolverine into the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere. Enraged, Wolverine tells him he's going to hack his head off and see if it grows back. Selene was right, Jetstream says. The X-Men deserve this! The Hellions were just kids and the X-Men let them die! Wolverine admits he liked Jetstream a lot better when he was dead.
Suddenly, Jetstream halts his argument with Logan. "Yes, my Queen," he says. Letting go of Wolverine, he propels himself back toward the island. "I hope this hurts, you old bastard," Jetstream says as Wolverine begins his lengthy, helpless plunge toward the ocean. Logan just stares downward at what awaits him—and curses.
Meanwhile, inside Asteroid M, Cyclops and Domino continue fending off the Hellions. The Hellions abruptly cease their attack. However, if Cyclops doesn’t mind, Domino would like to keep shooting at them. Roulette, meanwhile, announces to her peers there has been a change of plans and hurls a bad-luck disc at Cyclops. Domino leaps toward him and pushes him out of the way, but once they pick themselves back up, the Hellions have already left.
Confounded, Vanisher asks what that was about, and who those people were. "Those were my students, Mister Porter," Emma Frost says. "They came to kill me."
"...well, you must have been a hell of a teacher," Telford answers.
Cyke orders Domino to follow the Hellions; he'll have X-23 meet her on the way. However, another familiar voice tells Scott he just can't let him do that. Cyclops turns around and, to his horror, beholds his deceased teammate Sean Cassidy, a.k.a. Banshee, hovering menacingly in the air. Banshee unleashes one of his signature screams, pummeling Cyclops, Domino, Emma and the Vanisher with an onslaught of deafening sound waves. They clutch their ears in a pitiful gesture of defense, but it is to no avail. They try to speak to one another, but their words get lost in the high-decibel attack. Thankfully, the Vanisher teleports the four of them out of the room before things turn even worse. VT!
After the four X-Men vanish, Sean Cassidy regains control of his consciousness. The natural color seeps back into his eyes and he realizes where he is, and whom he just encountered. "Lord... what's happening to me? Scott... Emma...I'm sorry," Banshee says. "I'm—damn ye, Cassidy... fight this! Ye can fight—" But he cannot. The Transmode Virus in his body regains control, and Sean Cassidy is once again lost to the influence of Selene and Eli Bard.
Elsewhere, Vanisher and the X-Men reappear in a safe location. VT! "Was that—was that Sean Cassidy?!" the Vanisher asks. "What the hell is going on?" If that was Banshee, he must've been under control, Cyclops states. Emma agrees—and she thinks she knows by whom. She brought back Emma's former students, she brought back Banshee... no matter how hard they come at the X-Men, she knows they won't want to hurt them back in kind. Domino doubts what they want will be a problem, considering how their undead friends have been handling them so far.
Cyclops reaches out mentally to the Stepford Cuckoos, who ask via telepathy if it's happening again. Are their sisters coming back? Is Jean coming back? Cyclops doesn't know, but right now, he needs them. Their only priority is to get to Cerebra, he says. They need to find a woman named Selene.
Meanwhile, in a dark bedroom, a young girl wearing a nightgown and a blindfold stands in the shadows, counting down from three. When she reaches one, James Proudstar crashes through the ceiling, flooding the room with light. Proudstar picks himself up and looks around his new surroundings. He tells the girl in the corner, Blindfold, that she needs to get away immediately. "Yes, thank you, I will," Blindfold says. "I have a message for Cyclops, please. I am going to give it to him now." She pauses. "Warpath—she saw your brother. He waits for you."
Blindfold departs, leaving Warpath to consider her cryptic words. Almost right away, however, a new arrival breaks his concentration when she calls out to him. Warpath turns and beholds his former lover Gloria Dolores Munoz, a.k.a. Risque, wielding one of her threatening decompression disks. If he ever cared about her, Risque says, then he needs to run.
James shudders at the sight of her. She's dead; they told him she died. Gloria doesn't deny this. However, she reveals a man named Bard brought her back. Warpath curses upon hearing this name once again. Continuing, Risque tells Warpath Selene wants them all to suffer—and once again pleads with him to run! No longer in control of herself, she hurls her gravity disc at James, who just barely dives out of its way.
Outside, Archangel stands encircled by Pyro, Berzerker and Maggott. They threaten to tear off his wings; it wouldn't be the first time that happened, would it? As Pyro prepares to scorch him, Warren vaults himself into the air and out of reach of his attackers. "Enough!" he declares as he looks down on his enemies. "You were judged once, and were found wanting. Weak and unworthy of life. Now you face Death once again, and you will fare no better." With that, Archangel unleashes the power of his metallic wings on his assailants. His attack is swift, bloody and lethal, dismembering each one of his foes. "Only the strong survive," he says as he beholds the blood and carnage.
"Well, that's bad news for you, mate," a voice says, "...because I feel pretty #@$% strong!" In horror, Archangel watches as Pyro's torso and limbs reassemble themselves with the help of Selene's magic and the T/O Virus.
Elsewhere, Hrimhari continues to flee with the unconscious Wolfsbane in his arms. His escape brings them up through a sewer inside of Utopia. Once the hatch opens, Hrimhari bolts through and crashes onto the floor, followed immediately by the gaping, reptilian jaws of Scaleface. The undead mutants vows they will not escape her grasp as she pulls her considerable bulk through the opening. Her claws gouge paths out of the metal surface of the floor. Hrimhari is unfazed; he has faced bigger dragons than her. However, the opening restricts her passage.
Wolfsbane, meanwhile, whimpers in his arms. It hurts, she cries. Hrimhari begs her to hold on; they have almost reached the one her people call Elixir. Hrimhari just needs to find him. To help, Rahne tells him that Elixir smells like honey. If they can just find the X-Men, they'll find Elixir.
From across the room, a man points a gun at Wolfsbane and Hrimhari. "I'm going to kill them," Doctor Nemesis says. When his accomplice, X-23, tells him no, Nemesis asks why he shouldn't. The other wolf girl got away, he reminds her. To make up for it, he's shooting these two. X-23 informs him these two smell different—alive—and that she knows one of them. Her name is Rahne Sinclair; they're not allowed to kill her.
Dr. Nemesis approaches the two wolf people with trepidation. Upon observing the ailing Rahne, he asks what happened to her, as she doesn't appear injured. Hrimhari does not know. He just knows that Rahne told him to find the one called Elixir, whose scent he traced to this location. "Well, I've got bad news for you, werewolf," Dr. Nemesis says. "Golden Boy isn't helping anyone." He directs his attention to a nearby operating table, on which lies the unconscious, gold-skinned Joshua Foley.
Rahne, now resting on the adjacent operating table, howls in pain. At that moment, Vanisher materializes in the room and asks to see Elixir. Before he can explain why, however, he asks a more pressing question: what's with all the wolf people?
Meanwhile, in Utopia's brig, the Donald Pierce struggles to speak, let alone breathe, while the recently resurrected Harry Leland crushes him deeper and deeper into the floor. Leland tells the former Hellion the Black Queen's message is death. Behind them, the similarly undead Shinobi Shaw strangles his shackled father Sebastian and bids him adieu.
Before these two minions of Selene's can complete their assignment, however, Danger—the sentient warden of Utopia's prison—identifies the mutant signature responsible for her present condition and enacts the appropriate counter-measures. She manages to free herself from Leland's crushing gravity attack and fire an energy beam at Shinobi Shaw, severing his forearms from his hands. Sebastian Shaw is now free. Danger stands up and faces the intruders in her brig. Identifying them as hosts of the Techno-Organic Virus, she declares her targets still viable.
Hammer Bay. Genosha...
Under cover of fog and darkness, Selene gives Eli Bard the command. He is to do what he has promised her. Eli Bard kneels down in the mud and unrolls his sleeve, revealing his T/O-infected arm. Everything he's done over all these centuries, he has done for Selene—and he will not fail her now. He plunges his hand into the ground. The T/O circuitry immediately spreads like fire, surging through the ground and toward its future hosts. It sends rock, dirt and mud into the air as it goes. Selene grins. "Can you feel it, my children?" she asks. "Souls."
Washington, D.C. Bastion's headquarters...
Bastion's mainframe announces the detection of deceased mutant life-signs. His servants—William Stryker, Graydon Creed and Stephen Lang—ask what is happening. Bastion tells them plainly that the mutant population is increasing. The system, meanwhile, states the names of the identifiable resurrected: Graves, Andrew; Kath, Katu; Unuscione, Angelo; Andrews, Marcus; Esperanza, Gianna and Everett, Mortimer, among many others. Bastion’s men ask where this is occurring. Genosha, he tells them.
Utopia...
"Mister Summers?" the Cuckoos say. "You may want to see this." Within the visual interface of Cerebra, they monitor the ongoing resurrection of the millions of mutants who died on Genosha. They can hear the mutants returning to life, the Cuckoos state. They’re scared and don't understand what's happening. They hurt—they're in great pain. The Cuckoos can feel them, but there are too many. Wincing, the Three-in-One turn away and cut themselves off from the live feed of Cerebra as the mutant population rises. RESURRECTION EVENT UNDERWAY, the screen reads. TARGET GENOSHA: POPULATION 763: RISING. POPULATION: 80,000... 829,002... 1,100,146... 1,652,106.
Cyclops, meanwhile watches this live feed from his computer monitor. As the individual lights on Genosha multiply and converge into one blinding beacon, he mutters just one phrase: "Dear God."


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Necrosha…
“What a waste,” Selene says as she surveys the desolate landscape of the island formerly known as Genosha. Her disciples have no grasp of the power contained in a human soul. To consume it is to have an experience unlike any other; it is pure ecstasy. The soul of mutant, however, is even better. It’s different; it’s somewhere between human and god. According to Selene, a mutant soul holds a thousand times more power than that of an ordinary mortal.
As Eli Bard’s Techno-Organic Virus network proliferates throughout Genosha and reactivates its dead, Selene licks her lips in anticipation. Sixteen million mutants died on this island, she says. She felt it happen. Human-made machines ripped through the island, destroying all these souls—and all this power. Selene will not abide such waste.
One of the resurrected mutants crawls out of the ground and faces Selene. A black headband ties back her dark hair, which bears the same hue as her clothes. Selene asks the girl her name. “What difference does it make?” Ellie Phimister, aka Negasonic Teenage Warhead, responds. “I’ll be dead again soon.”
Taking account of her newly resurrected flock, Selene senses something wrong. They have no powers, she observes. She can feel them like memories, but their mutant gifts are gone. What happened? An undead mutant before her bows his head and asks what’s happening to him. Why is he alive? He remembers dying.
Wither, answering Selene’s question, replies that M-Day happened. Mortis agrees; while no one knows why, most of mutantkind lost their powers on that day. This doesn’t make sense, though; these people died before M-Day. Regardless, Selene states she can still sense the power of mutants on the island. After she asks her undead servant Caliban to relay what he knows, he reports the presence of a million active mutants—more than enough energy for Selene to rebuild her empire. She orders Caliban to find her an architect; her slaves have a city to build.
Utopia…
The X-Men do their best to remain amongst the living. In Utopia’s brig, Danger and her prisoner Sebastian Shaw neutralize the threat posed by Harry Leland and Sebastian’s son Shinobi. As he ruptures Shinobi’s head with a blow of kinetic energy, Sebastian tells his son he was always a disappointment. On the surface, Colossus, Sunspot and Cannonball cut through Stonewall and Super Sabre in an attempt to reach Cyclops. Inside the facility, Husk, with the aid of Rockslide and Trance, staves off the undead specters of her old friends from Generation X, Skin and Synch. Elsewhere, Blindfold stays out of Tower’s way, Namor tries to make ground against Sienna Blaze and Magneto makes quick work out of the undead hordes of Warpath’s resurrected Apache tribe.
Warpath, meanwhile, climbs back ashore Utopia after being thrown into the water. He vows to cut their freaking heads off and then set them on fire. If that doesn’t work, he has another backup plan. Before he can state what that is, however, an explosion inside the island facilities diverts his attention. In that moment of negligence, he is ambushed by Mellencamp and Risque.
The reanimated mutants strike him down. As Warpath looks up, he urges Risque not to do this. “I told you James, please,” Gloria says, wielding a deadly gravity disc, “…I can’t stop. I can’t stop. You have to run.”  Mellencamp tells her to shut up; once the Apache is dead, he’ll gut her too.
Suddenly, Archangel swoops in, grabs Warpath’s arm and flies him to safety—dismembering Mellencamp with one of his metal wings in the process. As Archangel carries James, the Apache fills him in on what he’s learned. Eli Bard and Selene are responsible for this. They dug up Caliban, his tribe and his brother, and he can’t help them. Archangel adds that he cannot kill them, either—and believe him, he’s tried.
In the med lab, meanwhile, Wolfsbane howls in agony. While Hrimhari holds her down on the operating table, Dr. Nemesis whips up a little sedative cocktail to put her at ease—for a week or two. After he injects it into her neck, the unconscious Rahne instantly reverts to her human form while X-23, Nemesis, Vanisher and Hrimhari watch. The Vanisher suggests to Nemesis that he work on his sedative, although Nemesis insists this is not his doing.
Something seems amiss with Rahne. Although she lies unconscious, her arms cradle her heavily bruised abdominal area. Furious, Hrimhari asks Nemesis what he just did. “Calm down, Lassie,” Dr. Nemesis says. He pulls out a CT scanner and surveys Rahne’s body. What he finds gives him pause. When Hrimhari asks what is wrong, Nemesis reveals Rahne is pregnant—and whatever is inside her is neither human nor mutant. Worse, it’s killing her.
Stunned, Hrimhari runs away. When Nemesis asks where he’s going, the Vanisher says that, honestly, he would’ve done the same thing.
Necrosha…
Selene orders Senyaka to take the builders with him. She wants her city raised by the next sunrise. When Wither asks if that is even possible, Selene reminds him Caliban found her builders; if their power isn’t enough, she has sixteen million slaves waiting to serve her. Of course, they will be rewarded, she says; they will have the honor of sacrificing their newfound lives in order to transform Selene into a goddess.
As Selene walks away with the rest of her Inner Circle, she reminds Eliphas that he will prepare the blood ritual, as he did in Rome. Together they will cull the souls, she says, and she will transcend this mortal form. Eliphas grins and narrows his eyes. This is all he ever wanted, he says: to make his queen happy. He is truly grateful. A devilish grin spreads across Selene’s face. She orders Eliphas to bring her blade to her so that she can prepare the spell. Eli’s eyes widen. “The blade…” he says. Suspicious, Wither looks to him and asks if that is going to be a problem. “No,” Eliphas replies. “All will be ready for you my queen.” As he says this, his eyes drift toward another member of Selene’s Inner Circle—the teleporter Blink.
Utopia…
The anguished Hrimhari howls at the night sky. When he runs out of breath, he takes a break and howls again. This ritual continues until a figure appears out of the darkness and approaches him. “Wolf Prince,” she says, “…your cry was heard. But you made a grave mistake in calling me here.” Hrimhari turns and faces the one he summoned—Hela, the Asgardian goddess of death.
Necrosha…
While the slaves toil building Selene’s citadel, Eli Bard seeks out Blink in private—although he doesn’t get too far from Wither’s prying eyes. Bard tells Blink he must speak with her; it’s about their queen. When Blink grants him permission to speak, Eliphas relays his story. He was the first one chosen to help Selene fulfill her destiny, but their plans were discovered and Selene’s ascension delayed. Because of this, he was cast out and cut off from her. He spent centuries trying to find a way to help their queen finish her journey. He finally found a way in the Techno-Organic Virus. Blink states she is familiar with it. Continuing, Eliphas states what he made possible on Genosha was accomplished because of the mutant Caliban, whom he discovered among a tribe of dead Apache. When he pulled them from the ground, however, something happened. He was attacked—not by the dead, but by spirits. These spirits guarded the Apache, and even with all his power, Bard could not hurt them. He was armed with a weapon that could, though: Selene’s blade. Eliphas plunged it deep into the neck of one of the animals, halting the attack. Before he could remove the blade, however, the creature escaped.
Glaring at Bard, Blink asks if she heard him correctly; he lost the blade? Eliphas insists that isn’t so. He went back for the blade later, but discovered someone else had reached the burial site before him: the X-Man Warpath. He stole the blade, but with Blink’s help, Eliphas could recover it. However, they must act quickly—and discretely.
Blink narrows her eyes. After a moment, she consents, reaches out and touches Bard’s shoulder. They vanish in a BLINK!
Instantaneously, they reappear in another location—but not where Bard expected. To his horror, he finds himself in Selene’s throne room on Necrosha. “My queen!” Blink yells. “Bard doesn’t have the blade. The X-Men do. He asked me to deceive you. He asked me to help him retrieve the blade before you discovered his deceit.”
Selene keeps her calm, but glares at Eliphas with a truly chilling look. Slowly, she sits up from her throne and descends the dais, walking toward her duplicitous apostle. After all these centuries, not a thing has changed, she says to Bard. She asks how this is possible. Bard remains silent. Selene then calls out for Wither and, when he arrives, asks him to take Eliphas and the rest of her Coven to the X-Men. She commands them to find the blade and kill all who stand in her way. If the X-Men don’t have the blade, they are to leave Eliphas among the dead. Wither grins at these orders. “As you wish,” he says.
Utopia…
An explosion propels three X-Men through the air, but Cyclops orders them to keep firing. His own optic blast does no good against the undead Darkstar, however, as she easily diverts it sideways with a wave of her hand. Dazzler and Domino provide cover for him while he checks with the rest of his X-Men. Domino tells him he has five minutes.
Madison Jeffries reports to Cyclops that his machines detect at least 30 of these undead mutants in the island-wide attack. Cyclops asks if he can interface with them; they’re Techno-Organic. He’s already tried, but it’s too alien, Madison says.
Nearby, former Alpha Flight member Diamond Lil tends to Iceman, whose duel with Darkstar took too much out of him. “The blonde did a number on him, eh?” Diamond Lil says. Meanwhile, Dust and Mercury comfort Emma Frost, who remains shaken after her encounter with her former students, the Hellions. Although she claims nothing at all is wrong with her, she cannot stand.
“We’re losing this,” Domino says to Cyclops. He agrees. Regardless, he orders Dazzler to take Emma to and Iceman to safety, along with the kids. He and Domino will buy them some time. They move on three. Crouching behind their cover object, Cyke and Domino begin their countdown while their reanimated allies Bolt, Firefist and Darkstar, smiling deviously, draw nearer.
They don’t finish their countdown; instead, Wolverine, Archangel and Warpath arrive and start slicing the T/O zombies into pieces. Wolverine impales Rusty Collins through the chest with his claws, Archangel severs Darkstar’s torso from her legs and Warpath decapitates Bolt. Springing into action, Cyclops fires a steady optic blast at Darkstar’s upper half to prevent her from reforming. Dazzler provides some cover fire; however, she cannot help but notice the change in Warren’s appearance and wings. Now is not the time to explain, he tells her. Warpath, meanwhile, continues hacking away at Firefist and Bolt. The undead mutants apologize for what they have done. Warpath accepts their apologies; it’s not their fault, he says.
Cyclops, Domino and Wolverine regroup. “It’s Selene. Selene and Bard,” Logan reports. Cyke knows. His people are going to fall back to the Atlantean column, where they can form a plan. “Unless your plan is a %@$# nuclear bomb, good luck. ‘Cuz nothing we’ve got is doing jack,” Logan says.
Suddenly, a bright pink light appears in the corridor, temporarily blinding the X-Men. BLINK! Cyclops and X-Force turn toward the source and see standing before them Mortis, Senyaka, Eli Bard, Blink and Wither—the five members of Selene’s Inner Circle. Although most of them hesitate to speak, Domino says the words on everyone’s mind. “…oh, @#$%.”
2nd story:
The future…
Cable sleeps on the cold concrete floor. Suddenly, his eyes snap open and he looks around in alarm. He can’t believe he fell asleep! As he sits up, he peers across the meager campfire at his charge, Hope. Is everything okay?
Hope, who is obviously tired, tells him everything is fine. He can relax; it’s all under control. She advises him to go back to sleep, as he has had a rough couple of days. He deserves the rest, she says as she wipes some blood off her hunting knife.
Refusing to rest, Cable says he should have let Hope know he was feeling drowsy. They could have traded off night watch. Hope, narrowing her eyes, asks if he thinks she doesn’t know that by now, after all these years. Assuming he’s hungry, Hope picks up a disgusting rat-thing she found earlier and prepares to cook it for him over the fire. Cable looks at her with trepidation at first, but then smiles; now that she puts it that way, fried rat sounds great.
Hope skewers the freshly killed rat with a sharp campfire stick. She vows to deliver a similar fate to anyone who dare come near them. Cable, dropping his smile, doubts she would get very far with that stick against Bishop. Don’t forget that, he advises her. Until they see a body, they have to assume Bishop is still out there somewhere.
Hope, however, wishes the jerk would attack them again. Don’t get cocky, Cable says. He reminds her that killing a rat and killing a human are two different things. Bishop came close to punching his ticket many times. “If Bishop ever hurt you, I’d find him. And hurt him worse,” Hope says. As she speaks, the reflection of the campfire in her eyes takes the unmistakable shape of a fiery bird. “I’d come back from the dead to hurt him.”
Soothing his tone a bit, Cable asks Hope to listen. She urges him not to worry; she knows right from wrong. She’d only kill if it were absolutely necessary. “And I’d only kill for you, Nathan,” she adds with a smile on her face.
She should get some sleep, Cable suggests. They have a lot to do tomorrow. Hope rests her eyelids and clears a spot for herself on the concrete floor beside the fire in their bombed-out shelter. When he tells her to sleep well, Hope says she will—but asks him to wake her up if anything good happens. “I will,” Cable says.
Just outside their camping spot, three mutated wolves lie dead and bloodied on the ground, victims of Hope’s protective instincts.


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Untitled (1st story)<br> Undeadpool (2nd story)
1st story:
“We’re doing this quick and clean,” Wolverine says to the rest of X-Force as he crouches in the doorframe of the in-flight jet. “I’ll call you if I need you.” Warpath smiles and tells him he brought cards to pass the time. “Smart man,” Wolverine says. He then leaps out of the jet. His descent carries him toward HYDRA Base 2994. Not using a parachute, he torpedoes through the roof of one of the base’s warehouses.
Inside, two HYDRA guards sit at a lunch table. One of the men, between bites of his meal, asks his colleague if he hears something. The other HYDRA agent answers that all he can hear is the chewing of his food--which, he adds, is extremely unpleasant. Undeterred, the first agent says that he swears he heard something. Before they have time to reach a conclusion, however, the ceiling caves in and Wolverine crash-lands on their table.
They pull their guns on the intruder, but neither their aim nor their reaction time can trounce Wolverine. The masked hero leaps into the air, over their gunfire, and plants his boot on one HYDRA agent’s face. The other, he renders incapacitated with a karate chop to the neck. With both guards subdued, Logan begins his interrogation. Presenting a photo, he asks the agent where the man in the picture is. The agent, gasping for air, answers that he’s in Section Seventeen.
Shortly thereafter, in the darkened corridors of Section Seventeen, Wolverine waits in suspension on the ceiling, held upright by his own strength. Keep it quick, keep it clean, he reminds himself. No killing--no claws until I find the one I’m looking for. A lone HYDRA agent passes beneath him, at which point Wolverine releases his grip and drops on the man. Instantly, he knocks him unconscious, and removes his mask so he can match it to the picture he has. No such luck; this agent is not his target.
Wolverine once again returns to the shadows, leaving the unconscious agent in the hallway. Before long, three other agents of HYDRA stumble upon their incapacitated peer. They decide to sound the alarm, as security has obviously been breached. Before they ca,, however, Wolverine, his eyes glowing red, emerges from the shadows and beats the three of them to a pulp. After unmasking each of them and confirming they are not his target, he leaves the sector.
He is compelled to fight another trio of HYDRA agents, but this group manages to actually use their guns, thus blowing Wolverine’s discrete operation. So much for quick and clean, he grumbles. Further spoiling his mission, he accidentally kills one of the men with a blow to the neck. Oh jeez, there goes the ‘no killing’, he murmurs. He only hopes that man was not his target.
At that moment, a burly agent of HYDRA enters the room--without a mask. Wolverine pulls out his digital photo and instantly matches the portrait with the blond-haired man before him. “Boy, am I happy to see you,” Wolverine tells him. Before the man can speak more than two words, Wolverine beats him unconscious. With him subdued, he injects something into his neck. He needs him alive, he says--but not awake.
Wolverine throws the unconscious man over his right shoulder and prepares to exit the facility. His escape route, however, leads him to a long walkway suspended over a gaping chasm--and at the other end stands a fresh squadron of HYDRA goons. Great, Logan says. One of the HYDRA agents demands he release the agent and stand down at once; they are authorized to use whatever means necessary to subdue him.
Realizing that running is not an option, Wolverine temporarily takes shelter behind some heavy doors to evade the barrage of bullets. He doesn’t suppose they’d be willing to give him a pass on this one, he asks. Non-compliant, the agents tell him this is his last warning. “I know you’re not exactly an organization that recognizes the importance of the individual,” Wolverine tells them, “but your guns aren’t going to do much to me--and this guy,” he adds, referring to the agent over his shoulder. The HYDRA agents see his logic and order a cease-fire.
Logan comments that this turn of events is unexpected, but not unwelcome. He then unsheathes his claws and charges toward the squad of HYDRA agents. They’re in for a world of hurt, Wolverine threatens as he approaches them with his left-hand claws bared. The HYDRA agents try to subdue him, but without the option of using their guns, they fail to thwart Logan’s advance. He’s not leaving without this guy, he growls as he cuts his way through the soldiers. He was told to bring him in and he aims to do so. However, he adds, they didn’t say anything about him having bruises!
Wolverine begins flinging the HYDRA agents over the edge of the rail and into the gaping abyss beneath the walkway. Keep it coming, he tells the flailing guards; there’s more than enough to go around! With all the men thrown to their certain deaths, Logan continues with his exit, now dragging the unconscious HYDRA agent by the neck of his uniform. He’s definitely going to feel that in the morning, he tells the unconscious man; serves him right for being so damn heavy.
He enters the elevator at the end of the walkway and drags his mark inside. He’s at least grateful they got rid of the stairs. Once inside the elevator, he presses his destination floor and waits. When the door opens on the sixteenth floor, Wolverine finds himself facing another battalion of HYDRA agents. He begins to tell them the elevator is full. They respond by firing on him. After enduring their first round of bullets, Wolverine, now dripping blood, marches toward them through the elevator door with his claws presented. “Sit tight, bub!” he tells his unconscious mark as he leaves the elevator.
As Wolverine rips through the masses of HYDRA agents, he thinks to himself that he could have just stayed on the elevator. However, these guys were asking for it. They continue riddling Wolverine with bullets, but, ever persistent, he proceeds to slice them to death. Eventually, after dispatching all of his foes, he returns to the elevator, even bloodier than when he left. He’d better be worth it, he grumbles to the unconscious blond man. He then pulls out his radio and tells the rest of X-Force that he will be on the roof in ninety seconds. Be there, he adds--and tell Cyclops they’re on their way.
X-Force retrieves him on the roof shortly thereafter, and they depart in their jet.
Sometime later, they land on the roof of the St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. Wolverine, Warpath, Wolfsbane and X-23 escort their shackled prisoner to their destination. He barks at them as they go, claiming they’ve made a terrible mistake that they will come to regret very soon; he assures them of this. Smirking, Wolverine reminds the man he’s HYDRA--cut off one limb and two grow back in its place. He’s been replaced by now, Wolverine tells the prisoner--he won’t be missed.
They arrive at their destination: a large hospital bedroom. Cyclops stands by the bed of an unconscious child. Across the bed sits a grieving woman. Nice job, Cyclops tells Wolverine. The prisoner, meanwhile, recognizes the woman and calls out her name, Cassandra. What is she doing there? he asks. What’s happening?
“Tod Kaufman,” Cyclops answers, “you have a daughter... and she is very sick.” Elaborating, Cyke explains to Tod that his daughter has contracted a rare blood disease, and if she doesn’t receive a bone marrow transplant, she will die. They’ve hacked into HYDRA’s records and confirmed he is a compatible donor. If his daughter doesn’t get what she needs, Cyclops emphasizes, she will be dead in a matter of days.
Tod asks why they didn’t just tell him. Enraged, Cassandra tells Tod that she didn’t want him to know--and that she didn’t want her daughter to know that her father is a monster and a terrorist. Besides, she adds, he never would have accepted her once he learned what she was.
At this point, Tod takes a better look at his daughter. He sees that her pink skin is covered with scales and barbs. His daughter is a mutant, he realizes. Cyclops reminds him that his daughter is also fighting for her life. She needs his help; they just need a small sample from him so they can synthesize what they need. Grinning, Wolverine encourages Tod to not think about it too hard; they took him to the well and they can sure as hell make him drink.
Suddenly, the outer wall of the hospital explodes inward, spraying the room with shrapnel and broken glass. No one is injured, but X-Force realizes that HYDRA has tracked them somehow. They pull out their weapons in preparation for a fight. Things are about to get ugly, Wolverine says as he stands alert in the presence of the intruders. Where the wall once stood, a battalion of HYDRA agents stands with guns bared. Behind them, an aircraft hovers in place, its guns locked on the mutants. The agents demand that X-Force stand down and release Kaufman at once!
Cyclops urges his people to not do anything stupid. Laughing, Kaufman claims that the only stupid thing would be to try to keep him there. Wolverine, turning to the men of HYDRA, asks if they honestly think any of them will make it out of there alive. Agent Kaufman asks him to not insult his intelligence. He knows he doesn’t want a fight in this room, with his very fragile daughter clinging to life. There is too much at stake, he adds.
Angered, Cyclops asks how they found him so quickly. Agent Kaufman informs him that his blood is laced with an isotope HYDRA can use to track him--which should put to rest the question of how HYDRA found him and instead make them wonder why they went through all the trouble of rescuing him. “Generals don’t always wear bigger hats,” Kaufman says. “Now, unless you want to put this girl and her poor mother in harm’s way--I suggest you allow me to be on my way.”
Wolverine asks about his daughter; is he seriously just going to let her die? Agent Kaufman is silent for a moment. Then, with his shackles released, he turns to Wolverine and says that he’s afraid he doesn’t have time to give him a proper sample. He holds out his arm in emphasis. For a moment, Wolverine gives him a puzzled look, then realizes what he is actually saying. Cassandra, meanwhile, looks stunned. Kaufman tells Logan he has about three seconds before he changes his mind.
Taking advantage of the offer, Wolverine leaps forward and slashes off Kaufman’s outstretched arm. The severed limb falls to the floor. Fighting off the pain, Kaufman grips his injured limb and, through gritted teeth, jokes that he isn’t sure his mantra will apply in this case. Just before he leaves, Tod tells Cassandra that their time together was wonderful, and that she should have told him about their daughter. Through her tears, Cassandra apologizes to Tod. The agents of HYDRA then board him on their helicarrier and take him home.
With Tod gone, Cassandra leans over her unconscious daughter and kisses her on the cheek. She’s going to be okay, she says. Wolverine, meanwhile, looks to the departing HYDRA aircraft. He cannot help but find Tod’s act admirable. “Damn,” he says. “That’s hardcore.”
2nd story:
Xavier’s School for Gifted Children... several years ago...
Magneto, Emma Frost and Selene stand in the remains of Xavier’s School with the setting sun at their backs. They watch as Sebastian Shaw, who just moments before lost his membership in the Hellfire Club, walks away. Selene remarks that this is an interesting development. Their numbers are reduced even further, she says. She wonders who will be their new Black King.
Magneto asks if they even need another in their Inner Circle. The fewer who rule, after all, the less the power must be shared among them. He proposes instead that he function as both Black King and White King--a Gray King, if they will. Those who see the world in terms of black and white, of good and evil, he says, are destined for disappointment and destruction.
Telepathically, Emma Frost informs him that the New Mutants, who are imprisoned nearby, somehow know about the Hellfire Club’s connection with Magma. It is as Emma suspected. Cut off from the school that trained them, and suspecting the Hellfire Club of villainy, Emma assumes the New Mutants will no doubt go to Nova Roma in a valiant attempt to stop the club and save their friend. Their efforts, she tells Magneto, will weaken Selene for them, and soon--there will be only one Queen, just as there is now only one King.
Selene scowls in silence.
Utopia. Now.
Inside the island headquarters of the X-Men known as Utopia, Deadpool sits alone. “Help, help! Oh please, somebody save me!!” he exclaims in a high-pitched voice. “Never fear, buxom and open-minded Miss Young! I will save you,” he says in response to his own outcry. “Eek! A mutant! I hate and fear you, but am at the same time inappropriately attracted to you, he answers using the first voice.
On the bed, Deadpool’s arsenal of pistols, assault rifles, shotguns and rocket launchers lie in disarray. A Spider-Man stuffed animal slumps up against the bed. Deadpool is sitting in a chair at a desk, playing with two Fantastic Four action figures. He continues acting out his playful fantasy. “Why would you save me, a flexible gymnast-slash-flight attendant, but still only-human woman?” he asks using his female voice. “Because that’s what heroes do, ma’am,” he responds in his own voice. “My name’s Deadpool. I’m an X-Man. Sworn to protect a world that wants to make sweet love to me. And give me money,” he says. “And candy. Now let’s--”
Suddenly, Wade hears a scream from the hallway. He pokes his head through the heavy, mechanical door and asks if that was a happy scream, or an ‘oh god, please help me’ scream--because he wants to be involved either way. His question is answered by the sight of the young mutant girl Loa lying injured on the floor. She asks Deadpool for help. In response, he picks her up--but grumbles that she got blood on his new costume.
Slightly bewildered, Loa identifies the man carrying her as Deadpool, and asks if he was in her bedroom. “No, Alani Ryan, aka Loa, I wasn’t! And I didn’t read your diary, either,” he adds. Loa begs him for help. In response, Deadpool comments that she’s kind of young, but that’s okay. Ignoring him, Loa states that the island is under attack; they’re everywhere, she says.
Deadpool comments that this sounds awesome. He asks who’s attacking. Before she can answer, three looming figures appear in the hallway and ask Loa if she really thought she could run. They are Delgado, Cortez, and Mellencamp--all Acolytes, and all deceased. “We asked you a question,” Cortez forcefully reminds Loa. “Where is the Gray King? Where is Magneto?”
Deadpool asks them to slow down for a moment; they’re after Magneto? If that’s the case, then he’s in. “Let’s go get that bastard!” Loa is as surprised at this response as the Acolytes are. Confused, Cortez asks Deadpool who he even is. Loa, meanwhile, whispers to Wade that Magneto is one of them now; he joined the X-Men. “What? That’s @!$#!^%. I don’t believe that for a second,” Deadpool replies. Loa reminds him that Magneto has been living there for weeks. “Even after that %$@# with Jean?” Deadpool asks. When Loa confirms, he again persists in his denial, adding that what she says is crazy talk. “Guys, hold up a sec,” he tells the undead Acolytes. Busting out his cellphone, he begins making a call and tells them he’s going to clear things up right away.
Elsewhere on Utopia, Cyclops, while fighting against the undead Hellions with Domino and Emma Frost at his side, feels his cellphone vibrating. Domino asks him what the noise is; he answers that it’s his fine. She asks if he’s kidding.
In the middle of firing an optic blast, Cyclops answers the call. “Deadpool! I told you never to call--” he says. Deadpool asks Cyclops if he knew Magneto was on their island, and that he’s telling people he joined the X-Men.
In response, Cyke asks Deadpool if he is on the island. “What? No! Maybe,” he answers. Cyke tells him there’s no time for this; Wade needs to get out there and help. Wade enthusiastically tells him that of course he wants to help; that’s what they do as heroes! One question, though: does he have time to wash his costume? Annoyed, Cyclops tells him to just get out there and help, but adds one rule: no killing. Some of these people are their friends, after all.
Back in the hallway, Cortez orders Mellencamp and Delgado to bring him the idiot Deadpool’s head. Maybe that will loosen Loa’s tongue, he adds. Deadpool, closing his phone, acknowledges Cyke’s no-killing mandate. He wasn’t going to anyway, he says; heroes don’t kill--much.
As he draws his samurai sword, Loa asks him what he intends to do. “Don’t worry, kid. Wolverine uses his claws all the time without hurting people. Me and Logan, we’re professionals,” Deadpool remarks. “Trust me... I’ve got this.”
Delgado approaches, and Deadpool lops off his arm. “Whoops,” he says. Loa wonders if that’s all he has to say after cutting off the guy’s entire arm. Concerned, Deadpool asks Delgado if he’s okay, or if he needs a hug. He’s sure he can get that stitched up, he adds; they’ve got people there who can do it. As he speaks, however, the severed limb begins growing Techno-Organic tentacles that seek out the rest of the body and bind it back in place. As the arm reattaches to Delgado, both Deadpool and Loa recoil in disgust.
Enraged, Delgado lurches forward, telling Deadpool that he’s about to become a dead man. Wade then thrusts his samurai sword through Delgado’s chin and out the back of his head. “Dammit! Okay, that’s not my fault!” Wade cried. “He fell into my sword!!”
Loa begins to freak out at the sight of Delgado’s murdered corpse. He killed him! “No! Okay, maybe. But here’s the deal,” Deadpool says, “I need you to take the hit for this one. I’m kind of on probation...” In response to Loa’s astonishment at this request, Wade tells her to just say she went into a berserker rage--or, better yet, say she got possessed! Besides, she’s young and cutesy, so they won’t get mad at her.
While Deapool pleads with Loa, Delgado rises behind him menacingly, his face now repaired. Loa tries to alert Deadpool, but he interprets what she says as confirmation that she will take the fall. Finally, she calls him an idiot and tells him to turn around. He does, and stands face to face with Mellencamp, Cortez and Delgado, the latter of whom now hold Deadpool’s samurai sword. They can’t die, Deadpool realizes. A tear streams down his face. He takes off running, abandoning Loa to her fate with the three undead Acolytes.
Cortez grabs Loa by the throat and hoists her into the air. Magneto deserves what is coming to him, Fabian tells the girl. Even if Selene didn’t want him dead, he would have this coming. Pleading, Loa begs Cortez to not make her hurt him. Amused, Cortez asks how should could hurt someone like him. Behind him, the reptilian Mellencamp chuckles that they certainly don’t make X-Men like they used to.
“Wait!” Deadpool cries from down the hallway. Now bearing his entire arsenal of guns and rocket launchers, he stands ready to confront the Acolytes. “The X-Men are here to save you, confused mutant teenager!”
Annoyed, Cortez asks his minions if one of them could just kill him already. Deadpool blows off his head before he can finish his sentence. With that, Delgado and Mellencamp leap toward him in attack. “To me, my guns!” Deadpool shouts. As he begins firing at them, Loa calls out to him. Wade assures her everything is all cool. They can’t die; he’s just subduing them with lethal force. He’ll be done in five minutes, he says.
Twenty minutes pass. Deadpool, beaten into submission, lies on the floor while Cortez and Delgado drag him around by his arms. “Just so you guys know, I think Magneto’s an #$@!%, too. I was only shooting at you to impress... what’d you call her? Selena? I freaking love... whatever her name is. So... bygones?”
Undeterred, Mellencamp leaps at Wade to attack. Before he can strike, however, Loa, appearing practically out of nowhere, leaps through Mellancamp and converts his body into dust using her mutant disintegration power. He falls to the floor, a pile of ashes.
Deadpool stands confused for a moment. Oh man, he says; is Cyclops ever going to be pissed at her. He said no killing! Loa, clearly surprised, reminds Deadpool that he specifically said they couldn’t be killed!
“Doesn’t matter. You’re @#*%!#. Big time,” Cortez says. Terrified, Loa asks Wade what they’re going to do. Wade, grabbing her by her shirt and shorts, hoists her into the air and tells her to get ready. She asks what he’s doing, to which he replies that he’s not doing anything; he’s a hero. She’s the one, however, who is going all Killamanjaro on these guy! With that, he launches her toward Cortez. She passes through him, disintegrating his corporal form.
After dispatching the remaining Acolytes, Deadpool puts in one last call to Cyclops. “Cyke? Yeah, it’s Wade. I just wanted to let you know, I didn’t kill anyone. But Loa has seriously flipped out! I think she needs some more ‘Danger Room’ time...”