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‘You can flame on in here, it’s okay. We totally Johnny-proofed this thing’ the Fantastic Four members known as the Thing remarks to Liz Allen, a.k.a. Firestar of the X-Men. ‘What?’ Liz retorts. ‘No. I’m good. Thanks’ she tells him, before asking him if he fly’s this thing a lot. ‘Nope. Kinda my first time’ the Thing replies. ‘So basically, we’re all going to die’ Firestar replies, to which the Thing reminds her that Reed is in trouble, so can’t afford to die until he rescues him from the future. ‘And that’s why we need these “Pym Particles”?’ Firestar asks. ‘Bingo!’ the Thing replies.
The aircraft arrives outside a much larger vessel, and the four heroes inside - Wolverine, Firestar, Thing and a somewhat different Shadowcat, get ready for the next part of the plan, while the Thing remarks that the Invisible Woman needs the Pym Particles to get Reed’s time machine going after the X-Men’s future teammates “El-Trained” the Baxter Building. ‘Right here, Logan’ the odd Shadowcat remarks. ‘Gotcha, Kitty!’ Logan a.k.a. Wolverine replies as he tosses Kitty upwards, and she phases into the larger ship. Firestar tells the Thing that he is a good friend, to which he replies ‘Nah. Just a misplaced linebacker with a soft spot for me nerdy counterparts’.
Wolverine tells them to cut the chit-chat as he uses his adamantium claws to enter the larger vessel, which just happens to be the SHIELD Helicarrier, situated over the North Atlantic Ocean. ‘This is where it gets tricky’ Logan remarks while the others follow him through the hole. The future Shadowcat, carrying her now dead teammates’ shield, remarks that Liz has been avoiding her. ‘I’m sorry. It’s just…what do I call you? “Future Kitty”?’ Firestar asks. ‘Only if you want me to call you “Yesterday’s Liz”’ Kitty replies. ‘You two know each other?’ asks the Thing, to which Firestar explains that they went to school together. ‘Class of twenty years ago’ Kitty adds.
‘Here we go. All vents lead to here!’ Wolverine announces as the quartet stand beneath a group of large fans. The Thing asks Logan if he thinks he can sniff out the Pym Particles, to which Logan replies ‘I can do you one better, Stonehenge…I just caught a whiff of Hank Pym’. A moment later, Kitty fires some webbing at several SHIELD security agents, knocking them out, while Firestar blasts another couple with her power. Then, the door to Pym’s room is knocked open by the Thing. ‘Hi’ he exclaims.
Later, at the Baxter Building, home of the Fantastic Four in New York City, Wolverine, Firestar, the Thing and the future Kitty have returned and stand with Jean Grey, Iceman, Rogue of the X-Men, and the Invisible Woman and Human Torch of the Fantastic Four, along with the Phoenix of the future. The Invisible Woman uses the Pym Particles and announces ‘It worked. Power is being restored to temporal thrashers. The head of the future Wolverine Sentinel announces that systems seem to check out on his end. ‘Reed would be proud’ Susan Storm a.k.a. the Invisible Woman remarks, before the future Shadowcat asks if it worked and if they can all get back. ‘Absolutely’ Susan tells her. ‘Except for the “we” part she adds as she holds a gun to the future Kitty.
Iceman a.k.a. Bobby Drake, freezes the future Kitty’s hand so she cannot fire any webbing at anyone. ‘I thought we had a deal. What are you guys doing?’ the future Kitty asks. ‘You tried to kill Reed. What, do you think we’re idiots just because we don’t have flying cars?’ Johnny Storm a.k.a. the Human Torch remarks. ‘Um…dude…’ the Thing mutters. ‘I meant flying cars in general’ Johnny replies. Jean comes face to face with the future Phoenix - Franklin Richards - who tells her that she has a draw at best. ‘I just pulled the mask off my dead boyfriend. You really think I’m losing to the guy who brought him here?’ Jean snaps back.
‘Et tu, Rogue?’ the Wolverine Sentinel head asks. ‘I see you so much as process me in the wrong way and you’re the real Wolverine’s new ashtray’ Rogue replies. The future Kitty asks Susan to be rational about this, to which Susan replies that she doesn’t remember getting a vote on the plan to kill Reed. ‘We did what we had to do. Our people were being wiped out systematically!’ the future Kitty exclaims. ‘None of us live in a perfect world. That doesn’t mean you can kill innocent people!’ Susan snaps back. Rogue tells her that Reed is far from innocent, and adds that neither is Susan for that matter.
The Wolverine Sentinel head suggests that they might be able to use that to their advantage. ‘If Richards can’t be killed, maybe they can help us un-create our future’ he remarks. ‘How?’ Susan asks. Franklin explains that most of their comrades are locked up in a prison inside the N-Zone. ‘We’re the last rebels in a world run by a despot!’ he adds. ‘So you need help in a prison break and the overthrow of a despot?’ the Human Torch asks. ‘Why didn’t you just say that in the first place? That’s the thing we do!’ the Thing exclaims. Kitty announces that it is complicated. ‘Complicated how?’ Susan asks. ‘The despot is Susan Richards!’ comes the answer, causing Susan to go wide-eyed.
Meanwhile, twenty years from now in this very location…’Well, are you going to say anything?’ the apparent despot, Susan Richards asks as she stands before the kidnapped past version of Reed Richards. ‘I don’t think there’s a word. And I know a lot of words!’ Reed replies as he stands before the future Fantastic Four - Susan, Namor, Firestar and someone in bulky armor. ‘Well, spit a few out. See what happens’ Susan tells him. ‘You’re still drop-dead gorgeous’ Reed replies. ‘That’s a good start’ Susan remarks.
Reed remarks that Susan is all that seems familiar. Motioning to Firestar, he remarks ‘I assume she’s not Johnny with a new life choice?’. ‘No’ Susan replies. ‘Johnny’s not with us anymore’ she announces. ‘You mean…’ Reed begins, before Namor interrupts ‘She means he’s dead’ Namor declares. ‘You, I recognize. You so much as mention Johnny’s name and I’ll bury you in a watery…’ Reed begins, until the armored figure grabs Reed and tells him to take it easy, as they are all friends here. ‘Some of us are still charter members’ he adds. ‘I know that voice. It’s not Tony Stark!’ Reed exclaims, before the helmet is removed. ‘Ben?’ Reed asks. ‘In the flesh’ Ben Grimm - the Thing - replies. ‘You’re…’ Reed exclaims, shocked that his friend has a human appearance once more. ‘Did I…’ Reed begins to ask. ‘Yeah. You did. Course it took you long enough!’ Ben replies. Reed just smiles, ‘I did it!’ he exclaims, thankful that he managed to turn his best friend back into a human.
Reed asks the future Susan why the X-Men came to kill him, to which Susan replies that the X-Men are terrorists, and while most of them are locked up, a few remain on the fringe. ‘The fringe of what?’ Reed asks. Susan explains that twenty years ago, the world fell apart, and the X-Men blame her for it, and wanted to kill Reed. ‘And we need your help to level the playing field’ she remarks. ‘Help? How?’ Reed replies. ‘What you did for Ben…you’re going to do the same for everyone on Earth’ Susan replies. ‘We’re going to eliminate the mutant problem once and for all!’ she announces.
Back to the present, ‘We have one shot at this…so pay attention’ Susan exclaims, before announcing that Johnny, the Thing, Firestar, Iceman and the future Kitty will head back into the future, at the Baxter Building, where they will look out for Reed, or at the very least, for future members of themselves, while she, Jean, Wolverine, Rogue, Phoenix of the future and the Sentinel head will go into the N-Zone, where Phoenix will guide them to the prison. ‘Apparently I’ve got some reverse engineering in my future’ Susan remarks, adding that the plan is simple: ‘Get Reed. Free the prisoners. Save the future. Get out’.
Johnny, the Thing, Firestar, Iceman and the future Kitty arrive in the future and stare up at the Baxter Building, before Johnny is taken aback at a nearby statue in memoriam of himself.
The Invisible Woman’s squad arrives at the N-Zone prison, and Franklin creates a map of the prison as best as they discerned. ‘What is it about the N-Zone and pyramids?’ Susan asks, motioning to Franklin’s fire-map. ‘You tell me. You built the place’ Franklin retorts. Susan points out that there are only three sides of the prison to protect, which makes a plan just like the one they are going to hatch easier to defend against. ‘So I guess we put all our effort into one side’ Susan announces. ‘You guess?’ Jean asks. ‘It’s an educated guess’ Susan tells the powerful X-Man.
Wolverine turns to the Wolverine Sentinel head, which Rogue carries, and asks ‘How do we dust your fellow Elvis impersonators? Decapitation as well?’ Logan remarks. ‘Clearly, that’s ineffective, given we’re having this conversation’ the Sentinel replies. ‘Try to imagine I wanted to make you shut up for good’ Logan tells the Sentinel head, who replies ‘Our strength is in our spines’. Suddenly, Jean motions upwards: ‘And…umm…what do we do about him?’ she asks as a winged being flies towards them, flanked by an army. ‘That guy. There’ she adds. ‘Nihil. I hate that guy!’ Susan exclaims.
Back in the future, Grimm, Benjamin. Full Clearance the computer announces as the Thing and the others enter the Baxter Building. ‘Still got it!’ Ben exclaims. ‘Yeah, that’s cuz you’re still alive!’ Johnny snaps. ‘Yeah, sorry about that, dude’ Bobby tells Johnny, while the Thing announces that the fourteenth floor is their main hangout. ‘I wonder if the Wii is still set up’ he adds, before asking Firestar if she plays video games. ‘Not so much’ Liz replies. Johnny walks over to Ben, ‘Hitting on Liz?’ he asks. ‘This isn’t some kind of you-secretly-love-me-power-transference thing, it is?’ Johnny asks. ‘I hate you’ the Thing replies.
‘We got incoming!’ Iceman announces as he sees the Fantastic Four of this time around the corner. ‘I think that’s me!’ Liz whispers as she sees her future self. ‘Geez. Which should I be angrier at? That the replaced me with Namor? Or with a girl!’ the Human Torch mutters, while Thing exclaims ‘And that’s me. Or Iron-Me’ before asking where Reed and Sue are. ‘Probably went into the labs in the back. Some things never change’ Johnny remarks, while Shadowcat points out that one of the three should lead them to Reed, and suggests they divide and conquer what they have here. Kitty tells the Thing and Firestar to go after their future selves, while she, Franklin and Johnny take on “Prince Caspian Sea”. Johnny asks Kitty why she gets to pick the teams, to which Shadowcat replies ‘Because I’m the adult. And I said so’.
In one of the labs, Susan and the past Reed stand before a massive device, and Susan tells Reed that this is the most fantastic of all his inventions. ‘Did I give it a good name?’ Reed asks. ‘You just called it “the promise”’ Susan replies. ‘Good name’ Reed exclaims, before Susan tells him that he used the machine once on Ben, and then disappeared forever, and they haven’t got it working since then. ‘So. Namor, huh?’ Reed remarks as he examines the device. ‘Really? You’re really going to go there?’ Susan asks. ‘I’m not going anywhere. Not anymore, apparently’ Reed adds. The future Susan puts her hands on Reed’s back, then rests her head against him, telling him that she thinks about him every nano-day. ‘Good’ Reed replies, before Susan asks if he can get it working. ‘For you? I can do anything’ Reed replies, smiling as he turns his head to look at Susan.
Meanwhile, in the N-Zone, ‘Didn’t we kill you? Blow your head off? Like, a long, long time ago?’ Susan asks Nihil, while the others are all surrounded by Nihil’s army. ‘Things aren’t always what they seem in the N-Zone. Especially since that prison went up!’ Nihil replies, to which Rogue boasts that they are here to take care of that place, and remarks that the Invisible Woman built the prison. ‘Not yet she hasn’t!’ Nihil retorts. The Wolverine Sentinel head points out that this Susan has the same brain in here, to which Nihil replies ‘But this is Sue before it all happened’.
What does that mean? What happened?’ Susan demands. ‘You were a different person…before you lost Johnny’ Nihil explains. ‘How do you know so much about me?’ Susan asks. Nihil explains that not too long ago, he loved Susan more than anything on every Earth. ‘Heck, I probably still do!’ Nihil replies before taking off his mask - revealing the future Reed Richards underneath!
Back to the future, where the future Firestar says to the Thing ‘Just say it. Seriously. Save me the half an hour before you open up!’, while putting a hand on his armored shoulder. ‘Fine…’ Ben mutters, before declaring that Sue is going crazy. ‘She is crazy!’ he exclaims ‘Then tell her’ Firestar suggests. ‘How exactly?’ Ben asks. Liz suggests that, for starters he could flash those beautiful blue eyes of his. ‘What girl can resist those?’ she asks as she pulls up his helmet. ‘Crazy driven bitter-about-life-and-loss scientist girl, for one’ Ben replies. ‘Good. More for me’ Liz declares, before they kiss. ‘Okay, then’ the past Firestar remarks uncomfortably. ‘Yeah’ the past Thing adds, before they reveal themselves. ‘Um…hi’ Firestar says to her future self. ‘Really hate to break up the most awkward moment of my life. But we got something in common…’ the past Thing declares.
Nearby, the past Johnny asks ‘What’s up with the sneak and creep? Why don’t we just kick Namor’s fishy tail?’. Kitty points out that they need to know where Reed is, and that Namor doesn’t seem the spill-his-guts type. ‘We can waterboard him’ Iceman suggests, ‘Kidding’ he adds. In the nearby room where Namor stands, he is speaking to someone, ‘Congratulations. You’ve just volunteered for a groundbreaking project’ he declares. ‘Poor soul’ Kitty whispers, before the “volunteer” is thrown into view - ‘Um…guys…I think that’s me!’ Bobby exclaims, before rushing to the other room with Kitty and Johnny hot on his icy heels - only the door slams shut before they can enter!
Inside the room, the past Reed holds onto a device, ‘Okay, here goes’ he exclaims, while Namor and Iceman look at him. ‘I think I got the essence of the machine down to this handheld version. ‘A tiny promise, if you will’ the past Reed remarks as he points the device at the future Iceman, who suddenly appears in his human form. ‘What did you do to me?’ Bobby asks. ‘Yeah…what did you do to me?’ the younger Iceman demands as he and the others break into the room. A battle ensues with Iceman and the Human Torch taking on the future Namor, and Kitty heading towards Susan. ‘Reed!’ Johnny calls out to his friend, whom the future Susan places inside an invisible bubble, and pushes Reed and herself into another room. ‘Where are we going?’ Reed asks. ‘We’re needed elsewhere’ Susan retorts.
Back in the other room, the Firestars’ and Things’ arrive. ‘So. Her, huh? We could do worse’ the past Thing remarks to his future counterpart, referring of course to Firestar. ‘Oh, we have’ the future Thing replies. ‘Do you still…um…say it?’ the past Ben asks. ‘What? Oh yeah. Of course’ the future Ben replies, understanding what his past counterpart is referring to. ‘Cool’ the past Ben replies, before both Things, in unison, shout ‘It’s clobberin’ time!’ and smash Namor in the face. ’He’s cute. Who knew there was a Clooney up in all that?’ the past Firestar remarks while she and her future counterpart tear up the room with flame.  ‘I hate to break it to myself, sweetie, but you did’ the future Liz smiles. ‘Really?’ the past Liz asks. ‘You don’t even know…’ the future Liz tells her.
Back in the N-Zone, Susan watches the future Reed reach behind himself to grab something, and Susan remarks that she hasn’t seen him struggle to reach anything since their accident. ‘Your powers are gone’ she remarks. Reed explains that it is a casualty of the accident that reverted Ben, and took out himself, Cyclops and Steve Rogers, amongst others. ‘So you decided to reinvent yourself as Nihil?’ Susan asks. Reed replies that it seemed the best way to win over the natives after he was dumped in the N-Zone by his Susan. ‘Reed?’ Susan asks. ‘Yeah?’ Reed replies. ‘What happened to us?’ Susan wants to know as she sits down by Reed.
‘Which of the twenty years should I start with?’ Reed replies, to which Susan suggests ‘The one where we aren’t together forever’. Reed replies ‘I figured he would have told you’ to which Susan asks ‘Who?’. Reed calls out to Franklin, and asks him to come over. ‘Yes, sir’ Franklin replies, before Reed tells him to say hello to his mother, and motions at Susan, who gets to her feet. Reed tells the past Susan that she is going to be tested soon, to which Susan replies ‘Then we’ll stop it. Together. You and me. Like we always do’.
But the future Reed tells Susan that there are some things that even they cannot stop. ‘They called it “The Ultimatum”’ he reveals, adding that they were defined by how they dealt with it. ‘We?’ Susan asks. ‘You, specifically. Your passion. It’s what makes you amazing, you just need to learn to…’ Reed is then cut off, by Wolverine, who is standing with Jean and Rogue as Rogue puts the Wolverine Sentinel head in Wolverine’s backpack. ‘You guys ready?’ Logan calls out. ‘Cuz it’s game time!’ he announces.
Susan remarks that the future her’s security designs are most likely based on Reed’s, which means they will be hit hard and fast. ‘We gotta be faster!’ she announces as she, the future Reed, Wolverine, Jean, Rogue and Franklin storm one side of the N-Zone prison, where they are greeted by a horde of Wolverine Sentinels. ‘And we have to hit even harder!’ Susan exclaims as the battle breaks out. ‘It’s so much like my dreams, it’s scary’ Rogue remarks to Wolverine, who tells her to keep her head about her. ‘Banshee or not, you can barely keep up with one of me’ he points out. ‘They just keep coming!’ Rogue declares, to which the Wolverine Sentinel head remarks ‘That’s the point’, while the real Logan declares that they cannot keep this up forever. ‘Is there a master switch for these guys?’ he asks as he slices through another. ‘Hmmm…maybe there is’ the Wolverine Sentinel head announces, while Susan calls out to the future Reed, urgently, as one of the Wolverine Sentinel’s lunges at him.
Nearby, Jean and Franklin fly close together, both surrounded by the Phoenix Raptor. ‘You’re good’ Jean tells Franklin, who replies that he is following her lead, and asks her if she has had this a while. ‘Longer than I’d like’ Jean replies, explaining that she is not entirely comfortable with all this power. ‘You just got to feel it. Let it flow through you - it’s the only way to handle so much power’ Jean tells Franklin as she destroys several dozen of the Wolverine Sentinels with ease. ‘Thanks. That will come in handy…when I have your Phoenix power as well!’ Franklin exclaims as he begins to draw Jean’s power out of her. ‘What are you doing?’ Jean gasps as she collapses to the ground. ‘Taking what’s rightfully ours!’ Franklin exclaims.
Franklin tells Jean that she never embraced the full power of the Phoenix, and therefore she doesn’t deserve it. ‘You were the traitor!’ Susan gasps as she and the future Reed drop down beside Franklin, while Jean lies unconscious on the ground. Reed asks Franklin why he would do this to them, to which Franklin replies that he is sorry, ‘But I guess I’m just a momma’s boy!’ he boasts as a door opens, and the future Susan, his mother, stands there, with Namor behind her, and the past Reed in her arms, unconscious.
‘A valiant effort. But it’s over!’ the future Susan announces. ‘You don’t have to do this’ the past Susan tells her(self). ‘I’m afraid I do. This tiny rebellion ends now!’ the future Susan declares, ‘Or your boyfriend dies’ she threatens her past self, as Namor stands there, one of his powerful hands around the past Reed’s throat. As this happens, the future Susan doesn’t notice Wolverine, Rogue and the Wolverine Sentinel head enter the prison behind them.
Inside, Rogue clutches the Wolverine Sentinel head, who reveals that, since he came to be, there has been the rumor of the one called the Master Mold. ‘Master Mold? What the hell is that?’ Logan asks. The Sentinel head explains that it is a central nervous system. ‘Somehow, it allows machines like me to act like…’ the head is interrupted by Logan who declares ‘An animal like me’. The Wolverine Sentinel head asks the real Wolverine how he knew that, to which Logan replies ‘I can smell him. Or should I say…I can smell me!’ he reveals as he breaks into another room, where his future self is strung up to various wires. ‘My God!’ Rogue exclaims, while Wolverine remarks that he thought he’d be much older. ‘Heck, I look much younger here’ he adds, while Rogue points out that he is trying to say something. The words are garbled, but Wolverine listens closely to his future self, before telling Rogue to get out of the room. Rogue takes the Sentinel head and turns to leave, before Wolverine shoves his claws up through the middle of his future self.
Outside, Franklin announces that the Sentinels have gone offline, and motions to the mass of Wolverine Sentinels that have collapsed nearby. ‘That’s impossible!’ the future Susan gasps. ‘Well it’s happening’ her son adds. ‘No matter, Franklin’ Susan replies. ‘Yes, mother?’ Franklin asks, before the future Invisible Woman orders him to kill them all. ‘What?’ Franklin asks. ‘They all need to die’ Susan exclaims, before Johnny calls out to his sister’s future self. ‘What about me, Sue?’ he asks. ‘Are you going to kill me too? Do I get to die again?’ he asks. ‘Johnny’ Susan remarks as she lays eyes upon the past version of her brother. ‘I saw that statue. You know the first thing I thought? At least it was me. And not Sue. Someone was paying attention’ Johnny announces, before asking if it is his fault.
‘No…’ the future Susan replies, beginning to cry. ‘Because I died, because I messed up somehow. You became this. And this world exists’ Johnny remarks. ‘No. It’s me. If I could take it all back…’ Susan begins, before the past Reed, now free of Namor, exclaims ‘Funny you should say that’ as he blasts the future Susan and Franklin with a device. The past Reed rushes over to his Susan, while the future Reed tends to his. Suddenly, countless heroes emerge from the N-Zone prison. The future Spider-Man sees the future Kitty, ‘Oh, man, that’s where those were!’ he exclaims as Kitty hands him his web-blasters. ‘Thanks for holding onto them while I was in the clink!’ he tells her. ‘Goofball’ Kitty replies.
The future Thing tells his past self to ‘Hang in there’. ‘For how long?’ Ben asks. ‘Just hang in there’ the future Ben replies. ‘I’m so sorry for…’ the past Susan begins to say to Kitty, who holds up the Wolverine Sentinel head and replies ‘It’s not you. Not yet. And you gave us a fighting chance. Thanks’. Susan looks at the future Shadowcat and says nothing, before announcing to the others ‘Let’s go home’.
Soon, Wolverine, Jean, Iceman, Rogue, Firestar, Reed, Susan, Johnny and the Thing emerge through the time device in the Baxter Building, returned to their true time. Reed and Susan smile at each other, while Firestar waves to the Thing. ‘Well, that happened…’ Logan mutters as Jean and Susan shake hands, while the X-Men begin to leave. ‘So…’ Ben remarks to Liz. ‘Yeah’ Liz replies while both Bobby and Johnny frown. Ben smiles as he remarks that Reed has told him there are a million futures. ‘No. Yeah. It’s…I’ll see you around, Ben’ Liz replies as she takes her leave, only for Johnny to step in front of her. ‘So. I’ll call you? Maybe a movie next week?’ he asks. ‘Yeah. Sounds good, Johnny’ Liz replies, causing a dejected Thing to close his eyes and hang his head.
Later, in Westchester County, New York, Xavier’s School for Gifted Children. ‘Are you avoiding me again?’ Rogue asks as she approaches Wolverine who is lounging under a tree while the sun sets in the distance. ‘Just avoiding life’ Logan replies. Rogue asks Logan if they are going to talk about this, about her using Banshee. ‘You gonna use it again?’ Logan asks. ‘No’ Rogue replies, to which Logan tells her they are square. ‘Logan…’ Rogue begins, but Wolverine interrupts, ‘It’s my baggage. Got my monogram on it. I don’t want anyone else carrying it. You get it?’ Logan tells Rogue.
Rogue replies that she understands, and asks Logan if they are good. ‘Good? Far as I can tell, we’re lovers’ Logan replies. ‘We are so not!’ Rogue retorts, to which Logan tells her that she must either have a thing for him or a thing for robots. ‘I know a guy who knows a guy who knows Ultron’ Logan jokes. Rogue rests on the other side of the tree and tells Wolverine that she is glad there is only one of him. ‘Me too, kid’ Logan replies.
Back at the Baxter Building, in one of Reed’s labs, Susan sits on Reeds’ knees and tells him that the future him told her they have tough times ahead. ‘So it seemed, huh?’ Reed replies, before Susan asks ‘What if I’m destined to become her?’. Reed assures her that there is no way that will happen. ‘There’s always a way. You always say that!’ Susan smiles. Reed tells Susan that she has the sweetest heart he has ever encountered and a brain that serves it pretty well. ‘And in case I don’t tell you enough, you’re kinda my hero’ Reed whispers, moving his lips closer to Susan’s. ‘It could still happen’ Susan points out. ‘Not a chance. So long as you have me’ Reed assures her. ‘And we’re going to be together forever!’ he adds, their lips almost pressed together.
Susan gets up and walks across the lab, telling Reed that he looks kinda hot with a beard. ‘So I hope you’re right’ she adds as she leaves the room. Reed stretches his arm across the room and opens a drawer, where he pulls out a small ring box, and brings it closer to him, where he opens the box, revealing a diamond ring. ‘I know I am!’ Reed exclaims….


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An ordinary waiting line of people at the subway. An old couple is arguing about mutants. The woman called mutants “muties” and the man defends that it is a racist term. The woman doesn’t want to believe him, because she doesn’t think that mutants are even a race. The woman gets angrier and says that, when you put mutants into a group, they should be given rights but isn’t sure what those rights should be.
The man tries to make the woman lower her voice. Wolverine, standing next to them in civilian clothes, cuts into the conversation. He says that the scariest thing about mutants is that they look just like you and me. They might even be standing right next to you and you wouldn’t even know it.
It’s quiet for a while, even when the train arrives. The couple stares at Wolverine, who tells them to take another train. They agree, and Wolverine wants to step aboard. He stops and turns around. He smells something… Sabretooth!
Sabretooth steps forward and is guarded by several government agents. Sabretooth jokingly congratulates Logan on the nice hat, making Wolverine angrier, as he snikts his claws out. The couple now realizes that Wolverine is a mutant and panic.
Wolverine strikes out at Sabretooth and puts his claws right through his stomach! The guards fight back, but Wolverine can easily knock them out without withdrawing his attention from Sabretooth, who while bleeding falls on the ground. Wolverine runs for it and makes it on the train, which departs.
Sabretooth gets up, and so do the agents. They look at the train leaving. Sabretooth takes off his long coat and looks at his wound perpetually healing. The old couple barfs. Sabretooth doesn’t let it get his attention and jumps on the railroad tracks, and runs, following the train.
Meanwhile, outside, a group of street punks break into a shop. They steal a guitar and some jewelry for their girlfriends, who aren’t impressed. They tell the boys to put it back before the cops show, but they don’t want to. They should have, because they are about to get a beating from… Spider-Man!
The young super-hero stands on a wall and looks down upon the gangsters. He makes various jokes about them. He jumps down and starts fighting. The punks fight back, but Spidey easily defeats the boys. He goes over to the girls, who shout at Spider-Man to don’t hurt them and call him a mutant. Spidey can’t believe that he’s actually being called a mutie and throws some webbing into the punks’ faces, and leaves the crime scene.
Sabretooth makes it to the train and breaks in, but Wolverine is already gone. He carefully looks around and catches his scent. Sabretooth jumps off the train again and follows it.
At the same time, Spider-Man webslings through town. He can’t believe that people actually think that he’s a mutant, since he knows he isn’t. Spidey had enough troubles already, and now he’s got to worry about being a mutant too? People just love to be ignorant, he thinks.
Meanwhile, Wolverine is having an upsetting conversation on the phone. He knows that the one he talks to is surprised to hear him. He angrily asks how they keep finding him. He says that he doesn’t want to hear that, but confirms that the line is secured. The man on the other side of the phone says something, but Logan can’t believe that either and asks since when. Wolverine tells the person that he promised that he would…
Wolverine tells the guy on the phone that he’s coming for him, and then he’s going to find out who’s pulling his strings and then he’s going to find the guys who’s pulling his strings until it’s over. That’s right, he says. He listens for a while, and angrily shouts that he doesn’t care about Magneto or about the Weapon X Project. He tells the person that he wants him to find him a safe harbor. And he better has one for him when he calls back, because if he can’t have a life of his own, Logan says, neither will the other guy!
Spider-Man is still web slinging and still wondering about whether he’s a mutant or not. He almost slips, but safely catches a wall to stick on. He decides to rest a little and looks down, where he sees that Wolverine. And Sabretooth and the agents have caught up on him. Spidey overhears their conversation.
Sabretooth asks Logan what his plan is. Live free among the humans? The humans who hate him? Logan jokes that he’ll do fine once they get to know him better. Sabretooth doesn’t believe that, and tells Logan that when those people will get to know him they’ll string him up, just for being mutant scum. Spidey overhears that and can’t believe that he’s actually dealing with real-life mutants.
Sabretooth tells Logan that his employers in the United States government would like to have a word with him. But Logan doesn’t want to go, because he doesn’t work for anyone any more. Sabretooth begs to differ. Wolverine tells his enemy that he can beg all he wants, since that’s what he’s best at, for as far as Logan can remember.
Sabretooth gets angry. Sabretooth calms down and tells Logan that he’s got a choice: either way he comes all nice back to the Project, or Sabretooth will bring him back into tiny pieces. The Project wants Logan back because they have invested a lot in him. Logan says he has done the same. That’s fine by Sabretooth, and he commands the guards to shoot Logan in the head.
Spidey hears that and his spider sense goes off, and he wonders what to do. The guards open fire, but Logan jumps right in the middle of them and punches Sabretooth away. Spidey keeps staring, while Wolverine keeps pushing Sabretooth, until they fall off the rooftop and land in the middle of the street. The agents look at the action and realize how bad this is. Spidey follows them down.
Wolverine snikts his claws open and stands victorious over Sabretooth. Logan tells Creed that he’s lucky that there are kids around. Curious bystanders gather around to have a closer look on the mutants. Sabretooth isn’t interested and slices Wolverine open, using his claws. Wolverine, though badly injured, fights back, while the bystanders all realize that mutants actually exist.
Sabretooth brutally slams Wolverine against a wall. Logan lies defeated, and Sabretooth calmly walks over him. Spider-Man still doesn’t know if he should help out, since he heard that they are from the government.
Sabretooth picks Logan up by his head, though he regrets that he should be even doing this. He tells Logan that he could have been one of the greats. Sabretooth knows that if Logan would be living among humans, they would look him up in a cage for sure and throw peanuts at him like an animal at the zoo. Wolverine doesn’t say anything, so Sabretooth gives Logan a punch on the head. He does that several times, but then suddenly gets hold back by… a web?!
Spider-Man enters and kicks Sabretooth in his face. He notices a kid standing too close and, in fear that she might get hurt, Spidey quickly grabs the child and brings her into safety. The bystanders are all astonished by Spider-Man’s presence.
Wolverine gets up again and fights Sabretooth. Spidey tries to cool them off, but fails to. Wolverine finishes it off by throwing Sabretooth against a building. Cops arrive and try to make their way through the crowd. Some of the bystanders don’t believe that the fight is real and think that it’s a movie stunt or something.
But other people panic and think that Spider-Man’s a mutant too and throw bottles and bricks at his head, and at Wolverine as well. He tells them all to back off since he doesn’t want any trouble. The people freeze for a while, looking at the claws and don’t know what to do.
Spider-Man builds a huge web over the crowd so that they can’t hurt him anymore. The agents also make their way through and point their guns at Logan, ordering him to stand down. Spidey takes their guns away and asks the agents who they are. Sabretooth gets up and wants to kill Spider-Man.
The cops finally get through the crowd and tell everyone to go home. They panic when they see Wolverine and Sabretooth fighting and want to arrest them. The agents tell the cops to stand down as they can handle it, but the cops don’t believe them and ask for backup.
Spidey has had enough and picks Wolverine up and swings away. The cops open fire but miss. Sabretooth and the agents, disappointed, watch their enemy leaving.
Wolverine tells Spidey to put him down, so Spidey drops him off on a roof. He sees Logan’s bruises and wants to take him to a hospital but Logan doesn’t want to. He tells Spidey to give him some space. Spidey does and looks at the wounds healing. Spidey thinks that he’s going to throw up in his own mask.
Spider-Man starts to ask Wolverine several questions. He asks Logan if he’s a mutant, which he confirms. Spidey asks who those agents are. Logan jokes since he doesn’t want to tell. He quickly sniffs at Spidey and asks how old he is. Spidey lies that he’s 26 years old. Logan of course doesn’t believe that. Spidey again asks Logan who the agents are, but Logan replies that he’s got to go. Spidey tells Logan to relax, since he’s only trying to help him out.
Wolverine asks Spidey why. For all Spider-Man knows, he could be the bad guy. Spidey doesn’t believe that and makes several jokes about that. Logan thanks Logan for the lift and wants to leave. Spidey tells him to hold, because he still has some questions. Spidey asks Logan if he’s truly the bad guy. Logan says that he doesn’t know. Spidey asks about the agents, and if they are mutant terrorists. He skips that question, and tells Logan that he thinks he’s a mutant too.
Logan answers Spidey that he isn’t; he can tell. Spidey wants to know how. Logan asks Spidey if people call him mutie. Not until today, he answers. Logan asks Spidey if government representatives are trying to kill him. Spidey denies that too. Logan asks Spidey if he knows how he got his powers. Spidey confirms. Than, Logan tells Spider-Man, he is not a mutant. Oh…
Wolverine wants to leave, but wants to give Spidey some advice first. “The outfit,” he says… Spidey stands proudly… “It’s you,” Wolverine finishes. Spidey thanks Logan for the compliment and looks at Logan jumping off the rough. Spider-Man takes his mask off and thinks that Logan is cool.
Next day at school, Peter has done his hair just like Logan’s. His classmates joke about it and call Peter names. But this time, Peter doesn’t let it happen to him and tells them to put a cork in it, “bub.” He proudly goes over to his table, where he sits alone and has some lunch. Happy about the remark, he takes a bite from his sandwich, but everyone throws their food at his head! “Bon appetite… bub!” they say. Everyone laughs at Peter, who does nothing about it.


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Peter Parker’s Day Off
Getting ready for work, May Parker asks her nephew, Peter, whether he has his lunch money, is all packed and is heading for his job at the Bugle afterwards. Peter answers evasively, telling her his schedule is screwed. He promises to call her and, touched, May confides that it is nice to have such a responsible young man for a nephew. A colleague at work told her that her son was skipping school sometimes and she didn’t even know it. Really, Peter asks wide-eyed. Satisfied, May drives off.
Peter heads outside, takes a careful look around to check whether anybody’s there and then uses his spider powers to crawl up walls and jump from rooftop to rooftop, taking a short cut to his goal, which is decidedly not school. Four teenagers and a car await him: his girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson, her best friend, Liz Allen, eccentric, brash new student Gwen Stacy and one of the school jocks called Kong, with whom Peter has had a difficult relationship of late.
MJ waves at Peter, telling the others she knew he’d come. She greets Peter with a peck on the cheek, telling him this is a big step for him being all rebellious and stuff. Peter looks daggers at Kong, asking what he’s doing there MJ explains that Liz brought him along. Kong starts to say, “hey, man,” and Gwen interjects that she’s personally been assured that Kong knows how to behave around human beings. Peter still hesitates. Kong decides to leave and Liz tries to stop him. Peter tells him to stay. He’ll go to school instead. MJ’s protests that it’s Senior Skip Day and nobody’s going to be at school. Finally, Gwen shouts at them to “get in the #$@%%ing car. Speechless the others obey.
A little later as they drive into Manhattan, their troubles are forgotten. Excited, they throw around ideas on what to visit: the MOMA, Times Square, a piercing parlour? The sky is the limit.
Naturally, they end up at a Mall. As, apparently, does every other senior skipping school. “We suck,” MJ announces frustrated. Kong enthuses that this isn’t their mall, it’s a totally different one. They’re all the same, Peter replies exasperated. Then where’s the Orange Julius, Kong asks. All the others point into the same direction, smirking. Fine, Kong admits, but he’s really hungry. Gwen tells him he has ten minutes to feed his face and then they are leaving. Kong is happy, while Mary Jane is still frustrated. They have absolutely no imagination, she announces.
While she and Peter wait in a line for Pizza, MJ asks him whether he’d like to ditch the others later on. Laying on the charm, she suggest this would be a perfect day for him to take her swinging around. Peter refuses point-blank. MJ sulks and tells him he stinks. He replies that he told her not to ask him. She would do it if roles were reversed, she complains. Peter starts with a nasty retort, but breaks off as he sees a familiar face in the crowd: Wolverine, accompanied by several other X-Men in civilian clothes. Wolverine hasn’t noticed Peter yet, so he drags MJ after him to the table hoping that things will stay that way.
The X.Men, in the meantime, are going through exactly the same reactions as the younger teens. Jean wonders frustrated if they have nothing better to do than end up at the mall on their free day, while Henry enthusiastically announces that this is a totally different mall. And so it goes…
Wolverine, however, catches a glimpse of Peter nervously hurrying away. He doesn’t recognize the face, having never seen Spider-Man out of costume, but after a moment he realizes from where he knows the scent. With a grin, he asks the others if they want to have some fun.
At the table, Marx Jane asks Peter what this was about and he tells her he’ll explain later while wolfing down a big slice of pizza. Kong asks the others if they ever noticed that everyone working at Orange Julius is shaped like a pear. And what is he shaped as, Liz asks sarcastically. The Kingpin, he retorts.
Peter asks what they plan to do after this. He and Mary wanted to go to the Museum of Metropolitan Art. They really should, Mary adds, to be all sophisticated and stuff. “Ugh,” is Kong’s reaction. He thought they were going to stand outside MTV’s! Gwen cracks a joke and then admits that she’s not totally opposed to this whole cultural sophistication thingy. But she wants to go to the Village afterwards.
The kids still plan while the X-Men close in on them from behind. Suddenly, Logan addresses Peter asking him how’s it shaking. Long time no see, he says with a grin. Peter just stammers out an “Oh my God.” Suspicious, Gwen asks who Peter’s friend is. Sitting down beside the mortified boy, Logan, who now knows his name, asks Peter to introduce him. The others stare and Peter still doesn’t utter a word. Wolverine finally explains that he is Peter’s distant cousin, Logan. They don’t see each other much, so he isn’t surprised Peter hasn’t mentioned him.
Kong is trying to high-five Logan, who just reacts with a bored look. The other X-Men finally take mercy on Peter suggesting to Logan they leave. Wolverine, however, is having way too much fun for that. Taking Peter into a headlock and ruffling his hair, he tells the kids that he hadn’t seen Peter since that time they had in Times Square. Didn’t they just have the best time ever, he asks the mortified boy.
Trying to strike up a conversation with the others, MJ asks Jean where they go to school. Upstate and Westchester, Jean answers, keeping to replies as short as possible. Liz is scrutinizing the strangers while the others talk noticing Scott’s visor, Wolverine’s scarred knuckles, Beasts’ blue hair, their overall oddness. “Are you guys mutants?” she finally blurts out. Everybody just silently stares at her for a moment, then Cyclops simply states “yes.”
Liz’s eyes widen and she runs away. Gwen recalls that she mentioned having an uncle who’s a mutant. Kong, whose forehead is getting sweaty, asks the X-Men that they must get that reaction a lot, don’ they? Scott tells Wolverine that playtime is over. Logan gets up whispering “twenty-six, huh?” at Peter.
Gwen, though, suddenly asks them to wait. They don’t get to meet people like them every day, so can she ask them something? First, she doesn’t know how to formulate her questions, then she simply starts firing away. Do they really have superhuman powers, she wants to know. Yes, Cyclops simply answers, despite Jean’s nervous look. All of them? Gwen asks. “Yeah.” Different ones? Another “yes.” Kong is getting excited. What kinds of powers? Cyclops tells them that if he were to take off his visor or lose it, his forceblast would destroy the entire court and he couldn’t do anything about it. Gwen tells him that sucks. Another “yeah.”
. So, did he ever kill anyone with them? No, Storm answers decidedly. Does that go for all of them, Gwen drills. Wolverine evasively tells her the world’s a complicated place.
 Kong’s turn. Do mutants hate humans, because they are not like them? Of course, not, Beast protests. They don’t? Because that’s what he heard, Kong insists. Well, they don’t, Jean snaps, annoyed. Huh, Kong mutters and incongruously asks if they want some Corn Dog. Gwen asks if their parents are mutants. No, Storm answers, but some mutants have kids who aren’t mutants as well. It’s sort of a big grab bag. Do their parents know, MJ asks. Some do, some don’t, Jean answers. Kinda like being gay, Kong interjects, only if your parents can handle it. Maybe, Beast agrees.
Do they wish that they weren’t mutants, Gwen asks, that they were normal. The X-Men look at each other, clearly at a loss. Scott starts replying telling her there’s no easy answer. Jean interrupts: it doesn’t matter what they wish. This is the way things are. Thinking about “what ifs” is kind of a waste of time.
Storm tells her that the professor is calling them. Jean acknowledges that but once more turns to the kids, telling them she understands where they are coming from with their questions. But it doesn’t matter; you just have to learn to play the hand you are dealt. What else can people do? Whine about what you wish you had? This is the only thing she knows to be good advice: If people don’t get you or hate you because they don’t understand you, is it your problem or theirs?
Logan tells Peter he’ll see him around and Gwen blurts out a final question: are they afraid of history repeating itself, that things might get so out of control that… She breaks off embarrassed. Scott spells it out. Are they afraid of the government finally deciding to round them all up for good? Absolutely. And with a final seeya, they leave.
Pandemonium breaks out at the table. The others asks Peter if his cousin is really a mutant. This was so cool. MJ tells Gwen she was pretty cool with those question, but did she see Jean’s earrings? And Kong reminds the others, striking a victory pose, that he told them the mall was cool.


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Ultimate Nightmare - chapter 1
(1904)
In Russia, two men armed with rifles and carrying packs tread through the Tungus River Valley in Tunguska. Suddenly, both men look up at the sky when a hole literally bursts open in it. A blinding red light bursts through - and a huge blast strikes the Tungus River Valley. Whatever it is rips through the forest, tearing up trees, cabins and the two men, before ending in a giant mushroom-like cloud finale, leaving a gaping crater in the middle of the Valley.
(1927)
Twenty-three years later, two men get out of their army trucks, arriving at Ground Zero. Grigori tells Vladimir that this is where it all happened and reminds him that they are the first outsiders to walk here in twenty-three years. Vladimir tells Grigori that he is still not convinced, causing Grigori to ask him if the Evenk shaman frightened him. As the two men walk over Ground Zero, Vladimir reminds Grigori that all the reports they read of the area said the ground was poisoned and that people get sick here, adding that it was the reason the Evenk tribal chief sealed the area.
Grigori tells Vladimir that the chief sealed the area because he thought there was some bad magic here, and tells him it is not the same thing. Vladimir starts to tell Grigori that the tribal chief used the only vocabulary he had to describe something outside his experience, but Grigori cuts him off, announcing that he can see something. ’My God!’ ’What is that?’
(2004)
 A teenage girl lies in front of the television in her living room when the reception starts to go fuzzy. ‘Yo! Something wrong with the telly!’ she calls out. From the kitchen, comes the reply: ‘I’ve told you a million times, my name isn’t “Yo”, I’m your mother, and I don’t fix televisions. ‘I’m missing the Posh Spice video!’ the girl snaps back. The girl’s mother walks into the sitting room and tells her daughter she ought to thank them, adding that although she may not be “with it” anymore, she doesn’t think white girls from North London say “Yo”.
The mother suggests to her daughter that she changes the channel, or perhaps that the cable box is up the spout again. ‘Oh, thanks, dude,’ the girl mumbles before her mother offers to give Uncle Ray a call as he might now how to fix it. The girl reminds her mother that it was Uncle Ray who spilled beer in it in the first place. The mother declares that MTV Europe is rubbish and exclaims that she likes VH-1. The girl mumbles that she would as she is ‘like a hundred years old’. Suddenly, something comes onto the television.
(On television screen)
Space.
A blinding red light over a small civilization.
A close-up of an eye watching the strange occurrence.
Dozens of long necked near-humanoid creatures, all fixated on the light, starring up at it.
Space.
Space.
A tear falls from an eye, which has the reflection of the world being torn apart.
A force rips through the small city.
Destroying civilization.
Tearing the long necked beings apart.
(Reality)
The girl tells her mother that it is horrible, while the mother suggests it must be the heavy-music channel and mumbles that they should not show things like that during the day. From the television comes a loud EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE sound, the girl blocks her ears, telling her mother that it sounds like babies. ‘God, it’s like the sound of babies dying!’ the mother exclaims.
(On televisions and all forms of visual communication all over the world)
The world is ripped in half, a red force tearing through it.
Its gone, but a long rope-like bluish-green thread with a nose floats in space, glowing orange.
(Reality)
All over the world, people are stopped in their tracks as they stare in awe at what they see on large outdoor screens, televisions, computers, even cellular phones. The image of the eye with the tear streaming from it is shown again. The screeching sound still resonates, when suddenly other words are heard:
No
No escape
No escape
It comes
And there’s no escape
All the stars go out
(On televisions and all forms of visual communication all over the world)
The red force rips through the reality.
Directly through the middle of the planet.
Then there is nothing.
Black and white images appear on screen - the tear stricken eye.
The deformed body of the long necked being.
Bodies littered across whatever is left of the world.
Then words:
You are already dead
It comes and you are all dead
We are all dead
Listen
There is only death for you
There is only small life
Then there is this
We he I send this tell this warn this
There is only horror now
There is only death now
(Reality)
A red glow emanates from a computer. The man in front of it is horror-stricken. He puts his hands up to his mouth at what he sees. ‘Aaron? It is time for the beer!’ cries someone pounding at his door. ‘Beer is good. Its like a food group and stuff!’ yells another man, who manages to get the door open. Someone tells Chad that he hit it too hard, to which Chad smiles and declares that he doesn’t know his own strength, that he is Hercules. Walking into Aaron’s apartment, they hear water running and think it is the bath, though it sounds as if it is overflowing. Chad declares that it is Aaron so no way would it be the bath.
But walking into the bathroom, the bath is indeed overflowing - blood-red, and the men scream at the sight of Aaron.
Elsewhere, two people gape up at three other people, strung from trees, ropes tied around their necks as if they had been lynched - or did it themselves.
Four girls hold hands on the sidewalk of a busy road, crying, simultaneously they step onto the road - right in front of a very large truck.
The Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester, home of the X-Men. Jean Grey a.k.a Marvel Girl wakes up - her green eyes wide with horror. She telepathically calls to the Professor, who replies that he is in the library. Putting on her robe, Jean leaves her bedroom and joins Charles Xavier in the library. As she enters, the wheelchair bound Professor informs her that he dreamt it too, adding that he thinks every psychic on Earth had the same dream, and that he has never experienced anything like it. In his hands he holds the psychic power amplifier called Cerebro and tells Jean that he is going to use it to locate the source of the signal.
Jean tells Charles that it felt as if someone was playing to her a recording. Xavier agrees, and believes that although the sequence was surreal, it had the authentic terror of direct experience, so he does not believe it is an artificial construct. Jean asks if it is an attack, but as Charles puts Cerebro on he tells her he thinks it is a cry for help. He tells Jean to imagine a traumatized teen who is X-Factor positive and who is emerging into full-blown Homo Sapiens Novus. The teen may be trying to communicate what they have experienced, but filtered through the fantasies they have evolved to cope.
Charles explains that they could be visual metaphors for loneliness and abuse, young, scared and the most powerful broadcast telepath they have ever encountered. He discovers the source of the trouble, and removing Cerebro, Charles tells Jean to wake up Logan and Peter, for they have a rescue mission to mount.
Meanwhile, at the Triskelion, the New York City base of the U.S. Superhuman Defense Initiative. General Nick Fury sits at one end of a table in a darkened room, with two members of the super human team known as the Ultimates: Captain America and the Black Widow. Fury tells them that obviously they have to find the perpetrator and force them to cease and desist, with extreme prejudice if necessary. He reminds Steve and Natasha that they are in the third day of the broadcasts now and stuff is starting to happen, the things are starting to get to people.
Fury declares that eight times in the past twenty-four hours the broadcast has broken over all TV and radio channels, and in every language on Earth. ‘How does that work?’ He reveals that they are hacking into the phone network and that the internet is a mess. He informs Cap and Natasha that he has his orders that whoever is broadcasting this needs to be stamped on and that they have been cleared to go in. ‘That is the end of the good news’.
He informs Steve and the Widow that the transmission is coming from the Tunguska region of Russia. ‘Which is kinda like Siberia without the nice parts’. He declares that he did not go through a Cold War to have a massively destabilizing terrorist communications attack emerge from Russia. Fury calms down and informs his team that they have been requested to go in gently and quietly, as they do not want to upset Mr. Putin. Fury exclaims that Putin said he doesn’t know anything, and has approved a small exploratory force, but nothing more.
The handsome Captain America asks if ‘this is it?’, to which Fury replies that it is the two of them, and the Black Widow as he wants a Russian speaker - Natasha cuts in and tells Fury that she then gets to hear more about how he got to put Yankee foot to Russian backside and pulled the Berlin Wall down with his bare teeth. Fury ignores her and reveals that there will be one more operative joining them. As Captain America gets up from the table to get a cell phone, he asks if it is Tony, for Tony is the brains.
Fury agrees, but points out that Tony is useless in a firefight unless he is piloting Iron Man, but he doesn’t have clearance for the hundred-man support crew that Iron Man needs to fly. Steve points out that Tony is a science guy and so they will need a science guy. Fury tells Steve that he likes Tony and thinks he is a friendly little freak of nature, but believes that one day he will pull his weak sister act at the wrong moment and is going to get capped. ‘Then we’ll be without a double-brained freak of nature’.
Captain America hands Fury the mobile phone as Fury reveals he keeps others on the payroll, one of whom did a tour in the army and who is a techno-weirdo like Tony, but who travels light and knows how to use a gun. Cap asks where he is, and Fury reveals that according to geolocation he is in the Amazon.
The Amazon, a young man takes a phone out of his bag when he hears it ring, upon answering it, he confirms that he is Sam Wilson, before discovering that they want him to hold - even though they called him on his sat phone in the middle of Pygmy country. A moment later, General Fury speaks to him as Sam informs him that he is in the middle of no where… ‘but the GPS right, right’. Sam tells the General that he has been on the trail for a week now, but when Fury tells him something, Sam replies that he is ‘cool with being briefed en route’. He asks Fury how quickly he can get someone out to him, but then soon tells Fury that he thought he lost the helicopter.
Sam tells Fury that if he has a GPS fix on him then to pick him up from his current location, adding that he has everything he needs right with him. Fury tells Sam that he will be picked up in four hours, to which Sam comments that he then has time to scout the area for later - Fury cuts him off, to which Sam just replies ‘yes sir’. All this while, Sam has been strapping something onto his clothes, he straps something around his waist - a pair of wings - and then jumps off the top of a cliff.


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Ultimate Nightmare - chapter 2
The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, where this morning, Professor Charles Xavier and three of his students - Logan a.k.a. “Wolverine”, Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin and Jean Grey a.k.a. “Marvel Girl” - sit around a table in the kitchen and discuss the destination of their next assignment. ‘Tunguska? How would you put? Tunguska is the outback,’ Colossus declares about the part of his native Russia they will be journeying to. Peter reveals that Tunguska was only lightly populated even before the explosion, and he thinks that some of the tribes that are still there even catch their own food still.
Jean asks if they do not even have tractors and  Peter informs his friends that the whole area was sealed off by an Evenk shaman, who was chief for fifty years because he believed the area to be enchanted. He adds that if someone deep in the Tunguskan forest, in an Evenk tribe has gone full-blown, then there is going to be no coping mechanism for them. He thinks that the best thing that could happen to this person is that the they might be seen as the local version of a cunning-man or wise-woman.
Xavier points out that the tone of the broadcast has been suggesting that “the best” is not happening, and reveals that he has placed the source of the signal against global positioning and has now got a location accurate to a square mile. Fingers pressed together, Charles informs the three founding X-Men to prepare the X-Jet for launch, as whoever this poor soul is, he wants them brought back to the Institute. He exclaims that they deserve more than, at best, being able to tell people where the good fish are. He adds that like Piotr pointed out, the best case is unlucky. ‘Rescue this poor dreamer, my X-Men!’
Elsewhere, a helicopter hovers while someone radios back to base, revealing that they have arrived at the site but that there is no sign of Wilson. Someone interrupts the transmission and asks the pilot to hold the chopper still. A soldier in the helicopter asks who it is, ‘This is Wilson’ comes the reply, before asking him again to hold the chopper still, or else he will fly right into the blades on approach. The soldiers asks Sam Wilson where he is, and in reply, Sam tells him to look down and step back. ‘My God!’ cries the soldier as he sees Sam Wilson hovering beneath the chopper by means of his high-tech wings. ‘Hell, yes!’ exclaims Sam as he swoops up into the helicopter. Once aboard, he retracts his wings into the backpack device they are stored in, and the helicopter flies off to its next destination - a big floating ship, S.H.I.E.L.D. Highspeed Helicruiser number 23. As the helicopter docks the ship from beneath, it looks like a tiny ant compared to the whale-like (in size comparison) ship.
Meanwhile, Marvel Girl, Colossus and Wolverine are aboard the X-Jet, flying towards Russia. Jean asks Peter if he has ever been to Tunguska, and her handsome teammate replies that he hasn’t, adding that it is strange ground. Peter asks Jean if she knows that something exploded over Tunguska a hundred years ago. Jean informs him that she has heard of it, but sitting in the back of the jet, Wolverine remarks that he hasn’t and asks what exploded. Colossus reveals that no one knows, though there are freaks in Moscow who say it was a spaceship, ‘our version of the people who put tinfoil in their hats to keep the alien mind beams out’.
Seriously though, Colossus informs Jean and Logan that when something blew up over Tunguska, a hundred square miles of forest were flattened. He adds that the shockwave was felt in London, and for months afterwards there was an aurora borealis over half the world at night. He points out that it also took twenty years to get an expedition out there.
Peter reveals that people claim the forest grew back wrong, that trees and plants were different, and that there is now a heavy level of mutation in the natural world, which is why people don’t talk about it. ‘No one wants to be too interested in mutation you know’. ‘Oh, I know,’ mutters Jean. Playing a hand-held electronic game, Wolverine loses, ‘Ah, Hell,’ he snarls. Colossus explains that whatever exploded went off like a nuke and threw radiation everywhere. He thinks that a few generations later a mutant broadcasting out of Tunguska would not be out the realm of possibility.
Wolverine declares that that is not what is bugging him. Jean asks him what is bugging him, before saying ‘I mean, everything bugs you. But what’s bugging you right this second?’ Logan says that what it is bugging him is that they are not geniuses, so whatever the three of them can figure out, someone else can figure out. As he shoves a claw through his electronic game, he smiles and tells his friends that what bugs him is that there is no way in hell the three of them are the only ones taking a trip to the countryside.
Inside the huge S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicruiser, a solider leads Sam Wilson to the bridge. Sam asks if Fury is there, and the soldier informs him Fury is waiting for him with the Captain. ‘The Captain?’ asks Sam. As Sam enters the bridge, Fury turns to him and tells him it is good to see him again. Sam salutes Nick Fury and cries ‘Sir!’ Fury smiles and tells Sam that he hates to be the one to break it to him, but he left the army. Sam replies it is a force of habit. Nick tells Sam he is a good boy, before introducing Sam to the rest of the team on the mission, Black Widow, the team’s Russian specialist and he supposes Sam has already heard of Captain America. Sam salutes the Captain who tells him to stand at ease and asks him why he left the armed forces. Sam reveals that he thought he had more to do in the outside world. ‘Mm-hmm,’ mumbles Captain America.
Fury suggests they get down to business, as he wants Sam’s take on it, and asks him if ops brought him up to speed. Sam replies that the ops people put the TV footage onto his phone and asks how widespread this incident is. Fury reveals to him that it is worldwide and that people are starting to freak out. Sam declares that one couldn’t design a better psychological warfare if they tried, to which Fury asks him if that is what he thinks it is. Sam tells him that that is why he thinks S.H.I.E.L.D. is mobilized.
Sam then proclaims that he doesn’t think it is psychological warfare, but that he thinks the effect is purely accidental. He turns to Black Widow and asks her if he has to call her that. Natasha turns to Fury, who informs Sam he is not cleared for real names. Sam excuses himself and declares that if he is on a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicruiser for a black ops mission into the middle of Russia then he thinks he is cleared for whatever he pleases. Fury frowns at Sam, who then adds ’Sir’. Black Widow smiles and tells Sam her name is Natasha. Calling her by her real name, Sam asks her if she thinks the Russian secret services have the funding for a stunt like this, to which Natasha replies ’No’.
Sam agrees, and points out that at the height of the Cold War, the Soviets were limited to short-range radio and microwave transmission. He turns to Fury and asks him whether or not on the best day of their lives, the United States could take control of every communications device on Earth. ’We’re working on it,’ replies Fury. Sam asks if anyone has talked to a psychic about this, to which Fury reveals that S.H.I.E.L.D. psi-division has been shut down. Sam asks if they are ignoring the possibility that someone in the middle of nowhere has technology that no one has ever heard of, and Fury replies ’Right’. Taking notes, Sam asks if the Russian president Putin is acting like he has no idea as to what is going on, to which Fury again, replies ’Right’.
Glancing at Natasha, Sam declares that the Tunguskan taiga is no-man’s land and adds that the Russians can barely keep their space-launch bases open, so he thinks that what is happening is from outside the box. Natasha smiles again and tells Sam that she thinks it is important to keep in mind that Russian intelligence has always been boxes within boxes, so therefore it is entirely possible that Putin doesn’t know about this because he was never supposed to know.
Sam tells Natasha that she may be right, but that he believes Putin, before declaring that this is not a psi war, at least not a deliberate one. Sam explains that what interests him is that these take the form of messages from the dead, which is kind of why he was in the Amazon. He informs the others that in the Amazon there are people called ayahuasqueros, who are like tribal doctors, mystics and medicine men. He explains that they take this stuff called ayahuasco, an awful muck which they brew up out of vines. The stuff is a psychedelic substance, and they use it to hallucinate all over the place, but it is their believe that the visions they see are actually another dimension.
Sam continues, explaining that when you ask the medicine men why they take it, they claim that it is for working with the ancestors. This makes them necronauts - they travel in the place of the dead and what they bring back are messages from the afterlife. Sam declares that this is what these messages could be, messages from the afterlife. “The dead have made real-time contact with the living through prime-time TV”, Sam jokes that that is a good headline. ‘The dead appear on American TV all the time. I’ve seen game shows,’ exclaims Natasha.
Captain America tells Sam that he was told he was a scientist-type and asks what he was doing in the jungle with the loincloth brigade. Sam asks if he calls him “Captain”, to which Captain America tells him “Cap” is fine. Sam explains that people are all machines, whose parts are made out of water and meat and minerals, but really they are all walking pieces of engineering. He adds that in fact everything is a machine, plants even. He explains that when people eat plants, they get rid of what they don’t need and plug the parts they do need into their machine.
He asks what of the possibility that these jungle drugs are machines that one can ride. Sam points out that he is on a S.H.I.E.L.D retainer so if he comes up with anything good, S.H.I.E.L.D. gets a crack at it. Sam declares that he has seen dead soldiers and asks ‘what if I could make a chemical machine that brought them back’. ‘Call me Steve’ declares Cap.
(On television screen)
Space.
A blinding red light over a small civilization.
A close-up of an eye watching the strange occurrence.
Dozens of long necked near-humanoid creatures, all fixated on the light, starring up at it.
Space.
A tear falls from an eye, which shows the reflection of the world being torn apart.
A force rips through the small city.
Destroying civilization.
Tearing the long necked beings apart.
Some orange-blue rope like thing in space.
(Reality)
A soldier comes up to Fury and informs him that they have the long-range geophysics results on the target area, and tells him that it is not good. Fury asks to see them, and as he reads them he points out to the others that this is a ground-zero region in low-level resistivity, the basic shape of the area. He motions to the high-powered scan, revealing what is underneath Tunguska. The soldier suggests it is an underground complex, and Cap asks if there is a way in. The soldier replies that there appear to be several entrances and they are approaching it from the South, which will bring them right over one. But that it gets worse.
The soldier displays another scan, this one of twenty meters under the complex, with some new features visible. Fury asks what they are, and the soldier tells him they got a radiological take, so the best guess is that they are nuclear landmines. Fury declares that he has never heard of such a thing, to which the soldier points out that the British developed one in the 1950’s, so it is entirely possible that the Russians obtained the specs for it. Natasha agrees, pointing out that Russia owned British Intelligence in the fifties and asks what the trigger is.
The soldier suggests that, assuming the power packs on the trigger mechanisms have not rotted out, then it is probably a primitive form of radio frequency ID. The soldier informs Fury that the ops team is advising radio silence when they go in, just in case their radios accidentally trigger nuclear landmines. ‘Terrific’ mutters Fury before walking away from the others, ordering all findings to be transmitted back to the Triskelion, the chopper to be prepared. ‘Saddle up, boys and girls’.
In the X-jet, Jean asks the boys if they see any settlements and adding that they are pretty far North, offers to fly further South if need be. Logan is running the cams, and suddenly asks Jean if she can put them down anywhere around here. Jean asks Logan what he sees, to which he replies ‘A bunker’.
The giant flying ship lets loose a helicopter from beneath it. When the helicopter lands, Fury, Cap, Natasha and Sam all step onto Tunguskan soil. Arriving at the bunker, they come to a large door. Sam asks if he should get some specialists to blow it, but Natasha asks to take a look at it first, and points out that the control pad on it looks old. Sam thinks it is 1980’s at best, and that it is currently not powered, so it will take a minute to get open. Natasha asks if it is not powered how are “they” getting in and out. Sam points out that they’re not, for if it is unpowered, then there is no one in here. ‘Which is kind of interesting, isn’t it?’
Natasha tells Sam that if this was a Soviet government asset then things start to make sense, for when things collapsed, people stopped getting paid and left their stations, so it is possible that the entire staff just locked up the complex and went home. Sam starts playing with the wires on the key-pad and Natasha asks if it is a two-digit code. Sam replies that this is old and typical Russia, if she doesn’t mind him saying. ‘An 80’s keypad stuck on a 60’s computer system. Take two things that work and nail them together’. Sam enters 99 to Commit and Return to confirm, and the great giant doors open. Fury and Cap enter the complex with Black Widow and the Falcon.
The X-Men have meanwhile landed on the opposite side of the complex, and Colossus asks them if they are sure it is through here. Jean reminds him that they didn’t see any settlements as they flew over, so whoever it is that is broadcasting is doing it from in here. Colossus asks if they want him to get the door, but Jean smiles and informs him that she is in a mood to do it herself. ‘Keeping mutants in a hole…’ she snaps as she uses her incredible telekinesis to rip open the large doors. Logan and Piotr just look nervously at each other. ‘Feel better?’ asks Logan. ‘Not even slightly. Let’s go’, Jean replies as the three X-Men enter the complex.


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Ultimate Nightmare - chapter 3
Tunguska, Russia, where General Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D, Captain America and the Black Widow of the Ultimates and the freelancer known as the Falcon are currently investigating strange going-ons. ‘1927’ is etched into the wall of the bunker that the quartet are searching, and Sam ‘Falcon’ Wilson suggests it might be the year that the building was started. Native to Russia, Natasha Romanova a.k.a. the Black Widow agrees, but suspects that something like this to be kept secret, even in Russia, for so long must pre-date Stalin’s spies, the Cheka. Fury motions to a table with books and papers on it and asks Sam and Natasha if they want to take a look at them.
Natasha pauses before revealing that she is bothered by the date etched into the wall. Captain America admits he is too, and supposes that if there was a military application to whatever is in here, then it would have surely been used during the war. Picking up a large book, Natasha points out that the nuclear mines beneath them are post-World War Two, therefore they might not have known what they had until it was too late. She flicks through the book to find a final entry and asks Sam for some light. Sam holds a glo-stick out in front of Natasha who reads over the final entry, revealing that the staff didn’t get paid here for six months around 1994, so they literally locked up and left.
Captain America scowls and declares that he knew a lot of Russians, and he could never imagine them doing that. Natasha tells Cap that he missed sixty years of disappointments - sixty years of the State telling its citizens that it would look after them, but leaving them no choice but to look after themselves. Fury orders the others to keep moving and tells Natasha to take the book and keep reading. Cap leads the way through the dark passages when suddenly he asks if that smell is what he thinks it is. Fury mutters that he can’t smell much aside from…his voice trails off when he shines a torch into a corner and asks if that isn’t what he thinks it is. Cap confirms what he thinks it is, and affirms that it is droppings.
Elsewhere in the sprawling complex are three members of the X-Men, a group of mutants. Colossus, Marvel Girl and Wolverine were sent to Tunguska by their leader, Charles Xavier who suspects that a powerful mutant is being held against their will. The three X-Men walk through the dark corridors as Jean ”Marvel Girl“ Grey mutters that she cannot believe none of them thought to bring flashlights. Wolverine a.k.a. Logan declares that he can see just fine. ‘Bully for you,’ mumbles Jean.
Suddenly Wolverine tells his ex-lover and the man who is possibly his closest friend to ‘Hold on’, and they watch as he picks up a stick, ties a rag around it and scrapes one of his adamantinum claws along the concrete floor, causing enough friction to create a small flame, enabling him to create a fire-torch. ‘Better?’ asks Logan. ‘Not really, no’ replies Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin. Looking around the chamber, Jean wonders how many people have lived here and for how long. Logan tells Jean that that is not the question - the real question being how many people died here.
Meanwhile, Fury suddenly tells everyone to ‘Hold it!’ and he and Natasha stand ready with guns. Natasha asks him if he sees something, to which Fury motions over to the corner of the chamber. Sitting in the corner is a humanoid, wearing filthy clothing and its long dirty hair covers its face and hangs down its body. ‘Ha ha heh,’ the creature laughs. ‘Hey comrade, stand up,’ Captain America shouts. Natasha tells Steve that the being is not going to be able to understand him, so she speaks to him in Russian, ‘We’re not going to hurt you, this is a rescue mission, please stand up’.
Suddenly, the creature disappears. Startled, Sam asks where it went, but Captain America sees him and tells Sam to stay cool, as the mysterious being is hovering just beside him. ‘Ha ha heh. Ha ha heh’. The creature starts foaming at the mouth as Cap lines his target up and asks Natasha to tell him to put his hands on his head or else he is going to take him down. Natasha points out that there is something on the beings head and asks the others if they can see it. ‘Ha ha heh’. The quartet watch as the horn on the creature begins to glow. The light emitted enables them to see the creatures mouth of jagged teeth, and Cap raises his shield to protect everyone as a blast of energy comes their way.
The glow fills the room as everyone raises their weapons to the target. The creature makes a hideous noise before everyone begins shooting at him. Cap is knocked aside by a blast from the beings horn. Natasha calls out to Cap as Fury orders the Falcon to cover Cap. Sam informs the General that the bullets are not hitting their target, before pointing out that it seems to need to take a breath in between discharges, so he has a better idea. Natasha realizes what Sam is going to do, but Sam tells her to be cool, when just as the creature begins to discharge more energy.
As Sam presses a button on his belt, Natasha points out that the ceilings are a little low for him to go flapping off, and that the creature does not look overly impressed with wings. Sam steps forward with his wings outstretched and uses them to wound the creature at his stomach, causing the creature to fall backwards and huddle into himself. ‘Actually, I take that back,’ declares Natasha as she tells Sam he obviously made an impression on him - or in him at least.
Fury tells Natasha that they can now see if bullets work on him, and the two begin firing at the fallen being. The creature no longer huddles into itself, but lies sprawled across the cobblestone floor. Captain America tells Sam he did some nice work, to which Sam tells the others he needs some light. Someone asks ’what for’, to which Sam informs the others he is carrying enough tools to do a rough autopsy, and just as well, as he wants to take a better look at this guy.
Sam declares that the guy is ’forty if he’s a day, you know’, pointing out that there are signs of starvation in the beings past, that he must have had a rough life. Sam tears the horn with a scalpel and asks the others if they see what he is looking at. Cap asks if it is metal, and Sam confirms that the horn was bolted onto the beings skull, the hole drilled through his forehead, with wire fed through his brain, the skin then grew back over the horn.
Fury decides that they should get him back to the Helicruiser for a better look, but when he calls to the Helicruiser via his communicator, the only thing he hears is part of the recording that has been playing all over the world. …no escape…it comes and there is no escape…. Fury frowns and tells his team that as they are too close to the source it is blanketing the radio spectrum. ‘We’re cut off,’ he declares.
Elsewhere, the X-Men come to the end of the road as their tunnel is blocked by a huge pile of debris. Colossus wonders if the complex is so old that it is just starting to collapse in on itself and supposes that it would go some way towards explaining their missing mutants panic - trapped underground in a structure that is giving way. Logan touches the debris and declares that the missing mutant may be trapped, but that this is not a structural collapse, it was put here. Peter looks at Jean and asks her what she wants to do.
The teams resident psychic informs her friends that the noise is getting stronger, so she doesn’t want to waste any more time, therefore, they go through. Logan looks back and asks who it is that wants to move the mess. ‘The big metal guy? The moves-stuff-with-her-mind chick? Oh, let me guess’ Logan turns back to the obstruction and tells the others that if the junk turns out to be load-bearing then he is not digging himself out from under the roof. ‘You people make me sick’ he jokes before mocking them: “Wolverine, don’t kill that guy!“, “Wolverine, save our useless butts but be nice about it!“ “Wolverine, dig through a tunnel so we don’t break our nails!“
Logan unsheathes his deadly claws again: ”Wolverine, use your special cut-through-anything claws to save us from having to actually do work!“.Suddenly, his claws clang against something hard enough to make him go ‘Owww!’ Standing before Wolverine, Jean and Colossus is a large being covered in some sort of armor. Logan realizes that it was not a blockage, but a nest as the large creature picks him up by his neck and throws him back into his teammates. ‘I believe it is time I did some work!’ exclaims Colossus as he leaps forward at the creature, and speaks to him in Russian.
Colossus tells his opponent that he firstly thought him to be a robot, but now that he can smell him knows he is a man - a man with robot parts bolted onto him. Colossus uses his incredible strength to smash away at the creature, pointing out that he rusts, for his human body parts sweat into the metal and corrodes it. He wonders if the creature nested to stay dry and wait. Colossus motions towards a pile of skeletons and asks if they were his prey, before telling him that they came to find a victim, not monsters, when the creature knocks him aside.
The half man-half robot stands over Colossus, but the handsome X-Man tells the creature that it is too old, too ruined, and that if he hits him again then they will fall through the floor - ‘you wont survive the fall!’ Colossus shouts at him. But the being doesn’t listen, it smashes Colossus, causing the floor to collapse beneath them, sending the three X-Men and the creature plummeting downwards, along with hundreds of bones, as the X-Men land in a pit, they look around, and as several long-haired beings approach them, Colossus adds that they might not survive either.


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Ultimate Nightmare - chapter 4
Deep within the cavernous compound in Tunguska, Russia, General Nick Fury of SHIELD, Captain American and the Black Widow of the Ultimates and Sam Wilson stand ready for any more troubles that they may encounter. Reading the log book that they found, Natasha Romanova a.k.a. the Black Widow informs Captain America that this is all his fault. Steve Rogers asks Natasha what she means, and she informs Cap that she finally found the relevant entries, that this is all because of him. She explains that the effort was expanded down here post World War II, and that whatever hit Tunguska, she thinks that words are being made up in this book, but that whatever it was, was biochemical in nature.
Sam Wilson asks if a device caused the Tunguska event, and Black Widow explains that apparently it was a recording device, and that after the war they learned how to partially disassemble it. Natasha tells Cap that they were terrified of him, even though he was lost by then. She explains that Russia was terrified of him because as an American super soldier, he reinvented ground war - it was the last thing they expected. Natasha adds that there were no guarantees that America wouldn’t rediscover how to make more of him either, so a cold-war battle was begun to fight a soldier who no longer existed. ‘The whole time you were asleep in the ice, these people were at war with you’.
Black Widow supposes that with the artifact they had and were pulling it apart, they discovered that they could implant pieces of it into guinea pigs. ’Put one thing that works on to another thing that works…’ ’exactly’. Natasha tells Cap that the beings that fill this place are his Russian cousins, medical jokes kept underground for everyone’s safety, adding that they were implanted with radio devices monitored by nuclear landmines set to explode if they leave the area. ’These are Russian super soldiers, Captain. You can hear them screaming’.
Elsewhere in the sprawling complex, three members of the mutant X-Men - Wolverine, Jean Grey and Piotr Rasputin have fallen deeper into the catacombs. Jean mutters that she figures this could have gone better as Wolverine unsheathes his claws and declares that the beings they see before them are not mutants, that they are ugly, screwed up, weird looking freaks, but not mutants. In his native Russian, Colossus tells the creatures to remains where they are. Jean asks Colossus what he is doing, but Colossus asks her to give him a second. Colossus approaches the creatures and informs them that they are a rescue team, who are here to help. He states that there is a psychic here who has been calling out, and boasts that they can get them all out of here.
A large greenish creature with glowing eyes asks Peter if he is Russian, and when he replies that he is, the green creature states that there is no Soviet Union any more, and asks Colossus where he is from. Colossus informs the creature that they are part of an international rescue effort, neither military nor governmental. Colossus asks the being to help them understand what has happened here and to find everyone trapped in this place. The creature seems rather surprised and asks Colossus if they are here to help. Colossus replies that they are, and the green being declares that it has been so long, that finally there is kindness in this place, finally a good Russian boy here to help them.
But when the green creature picks Colossus up in his large hands, he calls him ‘A lying feces-parasite from your mother’s burst intestines’ and begins to crush Colossus. ‘Okay. Plan B: Smack the life clean out of their weird-looking bodies’ declares Colossus as he transforms himself into organic-steel and bursts out of the creatures grip. ‘Well, it’s about damn time!’ exclaims Wolverine as he dives towards a group of the creatures.
Cap, Natasha, Fury and Sam Wilson keep trudging through the complex when they come to some sort of prison area. A creature with dozens of hands shoves its hands through the dirt floor and attacks the quartet. Sam uses his Falcon wings to fly onto one of the high walkways and shoots at the creature from up high, while the others shoot at it from down low. When the shooting finally stops, Sam declares that the worst part of it was that he saw a couple dozen hands but only one head.
Fury states that the worst thing is that they are not there yet, and wonders how much more of this they are going to have to contend with. Natasha reminds Fury that the scientists were down here a long time - long enough to make a hell of a lot of mistakes. Mistakes too big to kill, mistakes so bad they could do nothing but lock them up. Natasha tells Cap that in a funny kind of a way, it is all his fault. ‘But perhaps you have to be Russian to appreciate the humor’. Cap just mumbles ‘Mm’
Meanwhile, the X-Men are all facing off against the creatures as Jean declares that this is all wrong. Logan asks Jean if she is squeamish all of a sudden, but Jean, who suddenly flares up with her Phoenix power, tells Logan to shut up, and ‘like having a three-figure personal body count makes you clever or something’. Logan tells Jean that this is what the guys they are fighting wanted, as it is what they were made for. ‘I’m just better at it than they were’. Angrily, Jean says to Logan ‘Yeah, and I’m better at actually doing the job than you are, so shut your mouth before I shut it for you - I’m finishing this now’.
Jean flies up above everyone else and power surges around her. Colossus asks her if she is doing that, and declares that he doesn’t know if he wants her to be doing that. Jean then uses her awesome powers to rip a hole through the middle of the large room, causing all of the creatures to fall down into it. When the dust settles, Jean tells her friends that they have come this far, that they are going to get to the center of this thing and find out what is going on. Jean asks the guys if they can imagine if those…things…had kids, and what they would have done to them.
Jean suggests that there is no reason a mutant child could not have been conceived here, and asks her teammates to imagine growing up in this place. ‘A baby in an underground world of monsters’. She tells the guys that they have only been down here an hour, but that she is going crazy. She tells them she doesn’t want to think about years of this being all she knew. Logan notices that there is blood coming out of one of Jean’s ear’s and tells her that she must have burst some blood vessels because she is pushing her telekinesis too far. Jean just tells Logan to quit looking for things to prove his damn manhood and help her find a kid who wont stop screaming in her head. She declares that every second it gets louder and more desperate, and it is not stopping.
Cap tells Natasha that there is one thing he doesn’t get, for she is a Russian Super soldier too. Natasha informs Cap that there were at least four different programs - that she knew of - to develop a super-soldier, and obviously one she didn’t know about. ‘Boxes within boxes’. Cap turns to Sam and asks him how they are doing. Sam replies that they are a hundred meters or so from the central space, and that according to the scans, the central space is vaulted, reaching right up to the topsoil level, and suggests that inside, they will have a better chance of restoring radio contact.
Cap sees movement ahead and tells his allies that they have another inmate. ‘Well, gee, I guess we could negotiate’ says Fury mockingly, before exclaiming ‘No, we could just kill him’ - and everyone begins firing at the super soldier in front of them - until he speaks - ‘No, you could not American’. Cap points out that that is the first time one of them have spoken coherently, Fury suggests that it is prison hierarchy, that there is always going to be one tough guy who gets enough food and keeps it together. ‘And there’s always a good reason why that guy’s in prison in the first place’. replies Cap.
Torches aimed at the Russian super soldier, he informs them that, in the English term, he is the Trustee. Motioning to Cap, he asks him who he is. ‘Captain America’ replies Cap with gritted teeth. The Super soldier reveals that the good workers of this place once said to him that they make him great because one day he will get to meet Captain America. ‘Finally’. He declares that he has waited, and guarded the means of production like a good worker, and finally Captain America has come to him. ‘I always knew you would come. I have considered our fight for many decades. There is music in this. Do you understand Captain? Great music’. The Super soldier smiles as he re-tells how he told the workers that he has no shield, and they told him they cannot replicate Captain America’s shield.
‘So I made my own’ the Super soldier declares as he steps into the light. Fury tells Cap that they should run this up the flagpole and see who salutes it, that they should just shoot him and keep on going. But Cap replies ‘No’ and tells Fury, Wilson and Natasha to breach the door and finish the mission, and putting down his gun, he declares that he knew Russian soldiers during the war, that they were good men who made horrible painful sacrifices to defend their people. ‘And to see them turn into people who make monsters and keep them underground on top of a minefield - to see people like you, proudly complicit in this nightmare…’ Cap’s voice trails off before telling “Captain Russia” that he will give him his fight.
Raising his shield, Cap tells his Russian counterpart that he may have been waiting forty years for him to come and beat the blood out of him, so it is rude of him not to oblige. Fury ushers Natasha and Wilson towards the door as Cap and the Super soldier slowly approach each other. ‘I have had forty years to plan this battle, Captain’ the Super soldier says, to which Cap replies ‘And it’s going to take five minutes to plant you in the dirt’.
With great ease, Marvel Girl rips apart a mighty brick wall, and Logan tells her to tone it down, pointing out that she is ripping herself up. ‘Oh, what do you care?’ snaps Jean. Logan is surprised - ‘huh?’ Jean tells him that she said ‘What do you care?’ and reminds him that he is the guy who confessed to being hired to kill the Professor - after she let him go to bed with her. ‘So really, shut up with anything that sounds like you care. Because you don’t’. ‘No one cares. Nothing matters’ No escape’ declares Jean, before blood starts to come out of her eyes, ‘It comes and there’s no escape, all the stars go out’.
Logan points out to Colossus that the closer they are getting to this thing, this kid or whatever it is, the worse Jean is getting. Colossus declares that he has lost his sense of direction and asks ‘which way?’ Logan point to the door and tells Piotr to take it down, but when Logan reaches to Jean, she declares ‘We are all dead - don’t touch me you make me sick’. Colossus kicks the huge door down, and sees that it is lit inside the room, wondering where the power is coming from he suddenly stands shocked - ‘What is that?’ Logan looks easily shocked, as Jean floats up above them, and trance-like states ‘Nothing…no escape…all die here…my nightmare…’.