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The Hunted: Part Five - Conclusion
Red. All I see is freakin’ red. I’d like t’ think this wall just another dream, only try as I might t’ wish otherwise I know it ain’t. Decipherin’ dreams have become a big part a’ my life these last few months. Tryin’ t’ figure out what’s real an’ what’s not. Like me, Wolverine, killin’ that Senator fer instance. Was that somethin’ that just woke me up in the dead of night or did I really do it? The general public, S.H.I.E.L.D. – hell, maybe even my teammates in the X-Men certainly seem t’ think so an’ with my mug plastered all over TV doin’ the deed, it’s certainly hard to argue.
So I wound up in a super-human lock-up called the Cage as a result where his mysterious “friend” tipped me off to the identity a’ the lowlives behind this and I lost an’ eye t’ boot. But believe it or not, that ain’t even the best part. The best part comes when my “old pal” Sabretooth busts me out of jail an’ brings me here – to the Weapon X program. No, this ain’t a dream, it’s a freakin’ nightmare. Weapon X, the place that started it all – the experiments, the adamantium bones, the claws, the memory implants; all in an effort t’ make me their personal killin’ machine. ‘Course I had other ideas. But seein’ as all that was years ago, how come I find myself here again?
Retrained to a table wearing a metal helmet that covers the top part of his head and eyes and covered in wires and tubes, Wolverine begins to wake up. One of the doctors monitoring his situation informs his boss that subject: Experiment X is awakening. The man in the shadows tells him that he can see that, he’s not blind.
Defiantly, Wolverine tells him that he will be if he doesn’t let him outta there. Or if he’s hurt the Beast, where is he, an’ where’s Sabretooth, that dirty sonufa… The man in the shadows tells him ‘relax Experiment X,’ the Beast is within this facility, having his injuries treated. Sabretooth on the other hand, is otherwise occupied. Wolverine replies to correct him if he’s wrong but didn’t he wipe out all o’ them clowns and their freakin’ Weapon X program a while back? The man in the shadows tells him that he did. But they brought the band back together again, a new and improved version for the new millennium, if you will.
Wolverine says that he guesses that makes him the bandleader. The man tells him something like that. The people there call him the Director; it’s as good a name as any to describe him he imagines. Wolverine says that he has a better one fer him – dead man. The Director remarks that was amusing, as much so as the helmet has now become. Asking someone to remove it, he states that he thinks that it’s lost its sense of nostalgia by now. When the helmet is removed from Wolverine’s head, it reveals more wires leading into his empty eye-socket. The Director says much better and asks Wolverine to please excuse the device in his eye. They’ve taken this opportunity to monitor his regenerative powers as he grows it back. He hopes he doesn’t mind.
Wolverine asks him who he’s kiddin’, he’s gonna do it anyway, whether he likes it or not. The Director tells him point well taken. Walking out of the shadows he asks him that he doesn’t remember him, does he? No, why should he, he supposes. He’s as insignificant to him now as he was then.
(flashback)
Fresh out of the army, I was a young handsome soldier who thought he had the whole world awaiting him. Oh, how naïve I was. So naïve, in fact, that I actually had the audacity to be excited when I received my orders – guarding an installation that housed a joint U.S./Canada top-secret project. I needn’t tell you what the name of that project was. Mind you, I had no knowledge whatsoever as to the nature of the program itself. I was far too low on the totem pole to be privy to any information of such importance. However, the secrets of what lay behind those gates I patrolled would be uncovered soon enough, whether I wanted them revealed to me or not. I was only a few short days on the job when it happened. You should remember, it was the day you escaped.
You busted out of the facility like a bat out of hell, cutting and slashing everything and everyone in sight. Nothing could stop you – except you, I imagine. And you sure weren’t going to, at least not until you had butchered every living thing in your wake. Everything that is, except me. Perhaps it was the absolute terror you sensed within me, the way I shook as you approached, the way I lost all bodily control. Whatever it was, you had something special in mind for me even though I posed no threat to you in the least. You started cutting me to ribbons. The body at first, then the face – oh, how you focused on the face. Slash, after slash, after slash, after slash. God, how I prayed you would stop, but you just kept at it, howling like a mad animal.
Then, without warning, your bloodlust had finally been satisfied and you left me for dead. Only, miraculously, I didn’t die. Frozen in the Canadian winter, bleeding from every part of my body, still I refused to allow your despicable act to extinguish my life. Lucky for me, I was found hours later. The men who found me became ill at the living massacre my face had become. But at least I was alive. Lucky me.
(present)
Thinking to himself, Wolverine doesn’t remember doin’ what he said he did but Lord knows that don’t mean it didn’t happen. He then tells the Director that he may have gotten a bum deal when he carved up his face but maybe it’s cause a’ the bum deal he got after what was done t’ him in that place t’ begin with. When he busted out, he was more animal than man, looking t’ lash out at anythin’ in his way, includin’ him, he guesses. The Director says to him so that’s his rationale? A man who was just a soldier following orders, that’s all – no one of any consequence – he deserved to be brutalized? He deserved to have his wife leave with his children because they couldn’t stomach to look at him? He deserved this? With that, the Director steps out of the shadows and shows a shocked Wolverine his face.
In New York City at the Millennium hotel, Maverick knocks on John Wraith’s hotel room door. After Wraith answers the door, Maverick tells him that he called, he came. Is this about what he thinks it’s about? Wraith tells him that he’s afraid so. Maverick replies cripes, if what he’s told him is true. If the old Weapon X program has decided to round up all its old members and Wolvie was just the first. Appearing from behind the corner, Sabretooth tells North there ain’t no “ifs” about it, that old train’s pulled in again an’ him an’ Wraith are along fer the ride.
Back at the Weapon X facility, the Director tells Wolverine that it’s ironic, isn’t it? His associate Sabretooth had a similar reaction to his appearance when they brought him back into the fold. Wolverine thinks to himself that’s a puss even ol’ Vic would have to back up from, he did some number on this guy. The Director says to him that he bets he’s wondering why he didn’t get any reconstructive surgery. Wolverine replies that the thought did cross his mind. The Director tells him that it did cross the minds of the doctors who treated him as well. They thought he was insane, and perhaps he was.
For a while, he permitted them to repair some of the nerve damage he’d inflicted to his body, he would not allow them to alter his face. For a face so badly damaged, what help is medical science anyway? Could they give him back the eye he took from him, the cheekbone that was pulped beyond all recognition? Could they fix it so he had anything that even remotely resembled a human face? Of course not, so instead it would serve as a constant reminder of what he did to him.
At first, as he began the long road back to regaining his career he was no more than an outcast – placed in a secluded office away from prying eyes and queasy stomachs. But that would soon change. Eventually, as his obsession elevated him through the ranks, the military bigwigs could no longer ignore what had been his ultimate goal all along – the renewal of the Weapon X program. Let’s face it, with mutant affairs the way they are today, how could they not support a program that utilized these potential enemies as weapons?
After what happened with Magneto in Genosha, Senator Kelly being assassinated, even those sympathetic to the mutant cause had to admit the battle lines had been drawn. His plan was approved, the clincher being the different approach they’d take this time. Instead of kidnapping mutants against their will, they’d offer them their only chance of salvation by working with them. Wolverine asks so they’re basically askin’ mutants t’ become collaborators against their own kind? T’save their hides from the inevitable war between man and mutant? Figures Sabretooth was the first t’ sign up for that. The Director tells him actually, Sabretooth wasn’t their first recruit, he was. Those dreams he’s been having about killing, some of them weren’t dreams at all – he killed for them.
Out in the hallway at the Weapon X compound, one of the guards mentions to the other that he can’t stomach looking at the guy. Just the other day in fact, when he was briefing them he thought he was gonna lose his lunch right there. His fellow guard tells him he knows but recommends that he keep that to himself. If he hears him talk like that… The guard says don’t get him wrong, he really admires the guy. Picking himself up like that after what those damned muties did to him. And what he’s got planned for them, oh boy. Just then, the Shiver Man emerges through the wall. When he does, one of the guards asks what the hell that is. After shooting them both with his handguns and morphing back into the wall, the Shiver Man tells them redemption.
Back in New York, North yells at Wraith for selling him out. Wraith replies that he’s a company man, he always knew that. Besides, aligning himself with this new outfit was in his best interests. His too, he’ll see. He’s just sorry it had to go down like this. North tells him he’s sorry too and proceeds to grab Wraith around the neck and sticks a gun in his side. He then asks him if he thinks he can pull a fade-out before he pulls the trigger, he’s betting no.
At that moment, Creed tells North to hold on a second, it ain’t like that. The new Weapon X wants t’ bring him into the fold too, just like they’ve done with him an’ John. Wraith says he’s right. It’d be like before with Team X only higher stakes. Trust him on this, the government’s not fooling around this time. They’ve already wiped out anybody who’s ever been associated with the old program so be happy they still think they can be of some use to them. Creed tells North to join or not join, either ways fine by him. ‘Cause they may have sent Wraith t’ make him the offer but they sent him in case he says no.
Wraith tells Creed that he’s not helping and says to Mav the he’s seen what they have planned. And believe him, he has no idea how far they’re willing to go. Recruiting assets into the program is only phase one. When phase two rolls around, he promises him, he won’t want to be a mutant who’s not onboard. They’re giving him a chance to save himself, to be on the winning side for a change. Maverick replies that he intends to be and shoots his gun. When he does, it clips Wrath and hits Creed in the gut.
Picking himself up off the ground, Creed tells Maverick that was stupid, very stupid; the hard way it is then. Leaping at Maverick, Creed drives his claws into Maverick, slams him into the wall and tells him that he never could make a good decision, even when the cold hard facts were starin’ him right in the face. The shame fer him is that this decision is a fatal one. With that, Creed throws Maverick through the window.
At the Weapon X facility, Wolverine emphatically asks the Director what he means he killed fer him. What did they do t’ him? When he gets free from there, he guarantees him there’s gonna be more killin’. Only this time, he ain’t gonna like his choices. The Director scolds him and asks if that’s any way to talk to his new benefactor. Now if he’ll allow him to continue:
When they started the new program, they wanted a clean slate. They returned to the original Weapon X installation to see what they could retrieve, such as files on prior members that needed to be eliminated, and the like. But they never dreamed they’d be so fortunate. They managed to retrieve his mental implants; the way the original program was able to control him. By reactivating them, they brought him in under their control. They now had the perfect sleeper agent, someone they could point at the fat they needed trimmed.
At first, they merely used him as a hound, to sniff out those various ex-members who had grown expendable. They did most of the work themselves, the car bombings, the drive-by shootings and so forth. The dreams he was having, as well as his increased violent behavior were an aftereffect of these events, his mind’s way of coping with what he had done. But now they come to Senator Drexel Walsh. That was a whole different kettle of fish altogether. There was a high-ranking protected government official who they had learned was going to snitch on the original program and that was something they simply could not allow to happen.
They opted to send him in personally for this job, but something went wrong. The shock to his system over actually committing murder for them disabled his implants. He was in a fog, and he failed to complete his assignment and destroy all the surveillance equipment in the area. Unsure of what he had done, he went on the run. And worst of all, try as they might, they could not bring him back. He was lost to them and they needed some way to reel him back in. Arriving on the scene, Brent Jackson says that’s where he came in. The Director says to Logan that he believes he knows him.
In New York, Creed looks out the broken window and wonders what the hell – where’s the big freakin’ splat? Up above him, North asks if he’s looking for him. Dropping a grenade, he tells him that maybe this will help him with that splat he was talking about. Once Creed is knocked backwards, North says so long and calls him a poor excuse for a human being. He then asks himself what now? He needs to bust Wolvie out for starters. Of course, first there’s the matter of finding out where Weapon X stashed him. Just then, Creed grabs him by the ankle and asks ‘lookin’ fer me?’
At the Weapon X facility, Logan calls Jackson a lousy piece o’ garbage and says that he was workin’ fer Weapon X the entire time. Jackson smugly replies guilty as charged. The Director states that Agent Jackson has been their mole within S.H.I.E.L.D. for some time. When his, Wolverine’s, implants disengaged, he positioned himself to lead the team to capture him. Jackson says that by then, the whole affair was too public. He couldn’t just march him back there. They had to send him to the Cage first for appearance’s sake. Then, once they were able to acquire that facility’s access codes, they got Sabes to bust him out and voila!
The Director adds and, now that he’s back, it’s just a simple procedure to reestablish his mental connection to them. However, they can do without the memory implants if he agrees to join them on his own. An aware operative is always much better to work with. Logan defiantly says ‘yeah, like that’s gonna happen.’ The Director tells him to hear him out first. He stated earlier that they ask mutants to betray their race just to save their own skins – not so. They’re offering much more than that. Mutants with disfigurements (Chamber, Marrow, and Nightcrawler), mutants who can’t control their own powers (Rogue), mutants who want to enhance their own powers (Toad), even non-mutants looking to find themselves (Deadpool), they offer help for all of them there.
Logan replies gee, this place is a regular Willie Wonka an’ the Chocolate Factory. The Director states in a way. Take him, Wolverine, for example. He is now a fugitive from the law and they have the ability to sweep that away, see that someone else takes the fall. Logan replies that he’s been a fugitive practically his whole life, ain’t nothin’ new t’ him. The Director tells him to wait, that’s just the beginning. He told him they recovered his original memory implants. But what if he told him that’s not all they recovered? What if they told him they were able to restore his memory, his real memory? No longer would he wonder who he is, where he come from, or even his own name.
Just then, an image of a young farmboy, a young red-haired girl, and another young boy flashes in the mind of the Director. What if he told him that from what they learned from these implants, they were able to control his rages? No more constantly wrestling with the demon inside. He could now live his life as a normal man. Logan says he’s gotta say it’s interestin’ but so’s this, bub. What if he told him when he gets outta there, he’s gonna carve up his face so bad this time, he’ll be able to suck it up through a straw? And what if he told him, Agent Jackson, that he’s gonna take this pair of adamantium claws and stick ‘em right up his…
The Director yells at him “enough!” and asks doesn’t he ever tire of these unnecessary violent outbursts? Thankfully, they won’t have to hear them for much longer. The Director then tells Dr. Duncan and Dr. Zira to prepare Logan for re-implantation. As they place the apparatus over Logan’s head, he thinks to himself that he hates bein’ this freakin’ helpless. He can’t do anythin’ to stop ‘em, an’ that means they’ll have him again – body an’ soul.
In New York, Maverick proceeds to shoot Creed with his gun. As he does, he says to him that they are titanium bullets he’s hitting him with after blowing him up. How is he still standing? Creed tells him that it’s all courtesy a’ the program. A little nip here, a little tuck there. Like givin’ him his adamantium skeleton back and kickin’ his healin’ factor up a notch. An’ that’s only part a’ what they gave him.
With that, Creed slashes Maverick, picks him up by the neck and slams him to the ground. Maverick tells Creed that in all this talk about his powers, he seems to have forgotten about him and proceeds to blast Creed in the face with a hand blast. As Creed begins to rock backwards, Maverick tells him that he remembers, doesn’t he? He has the ability to turn kinetic energy into concussive blasts from his hands. And that’s plenty enough for him. Blasting Creed again, Maverick tells him that he and Wraith can talk until they’re blue in the face but he’d never go back to those monsters at Weapon X for a few touch-ups. Not to mention sell out his own people like he’s done. He makes him sick.
Standing over a downed Creed, Maverick tells him that, just so he knows, he’s going to kill him now and calls him traitorous piece of… Before he can do so, Creed hops up and jams his fist directly into Maverick’s chest and tells him ‘do tell.’ Raising him up, Creed tells him to do him a favor – save the “sellin’ out yer people” speeches fer the Xaviers and Magnetos o’ the world. The only “people” he’s ever been concerned with is him! Speakin’ o’ which, he never finished tellin’ him what else the program gave him – carte blanche t’ kill anyone an’ anythin’ he sees fit. Can he believe it? He can kill a school bus full o’ kids an’ the government just sweeps it under the rug. An’ costumed yahoos like the X-Men an’ Avengers can’t do squat about it. Boy, is he gonna have some fun.
He then tells Maverick that it ain’t too late fer him t’ reconsider. The program can put him back together, even after somethin’ like this. He’s givin’ him a last chance. Spitting in Creed’s face, Maverick tells him to go to hell. After throwing Maverick off the building and he crashes to the ground below, Creed laughs and tells him eventually.
At the Weapon X facility, Doctor Duncan informs the Director that the new implants are still integrating. The process should be complete in… Just then, the implant integrating machine is blown to pieces by the Shiver Man who appears out of nowhere and begins to fire his guns. Realizing the situation, the Director calls the control room and orders them to send troops to that area immediately. Groggy, Logan recognizes the Shiver Man and wonders “what?”
The Shiver Man informs him that he trailed Jackson there for Fury, learned what they did to him. He is innocent, they are not. Thanks to the Shiver Man, a naked Logan discovers that he phased him outta the restraints. He begins to wonder what his deal is but decides whatever it is, he’s just glad he’s on his side this time.
On the radio, the Director informs the control room that Experiment X is free and that they must teleport him out of there at once. Logan hears his call and lunges at him with his claws. Unfortunately for him, the control room is able to teleport the Director out of there at the last second and Logan’s claws meet nothing but air. After missing, Logan decides all that means is that he’s gonna have a tougher time findin’ him and slashes through the door. When he does, he finds himself faced with a number of Weapon X troops.
Logan immediately gets behind the wall for cover as the troops open fire. As the Shiver Man stands in front of the gunfire, Logan tells him that he wants him do somethin’ fer him. He wants him to go and find where they’re keepin’ the Beast, he’ll handle this.
Back in New York, Creed enters back into the hotel room to find that Wraith is still alive. Wraith tells him that he won’t be for... much longer unless… have to help him… call the program… they can still… fix him up. Looking at him, Creed tells him that Maverick had a point about him. He’s too much of a mystery, always were. Nobody knows where he really stands after the chips fall. When Creed grabs his face, Wraith asks him what he’s saying. Creed replies that he’s sayin’ this. Sure, he hooked up with Weapon X but the truth a’ the matter is, he ain’t as hooked in as they might think. He has some plans a’ his own an’ he don’t need a “company man” around screwing things up.
With that, Creed crushes Wraith’s larynx. Picking up a radio headset, the person on the other end asks him what his status is. Creed tells him not good. Things got a little messy. Wraith is dead an’ Maverick… The person on the other end tells him there’s not time for that now, they’re ‘porting him back to homebase because they’ve got a situation there.
At the Weapon X facility, Logan is mowing through the Weapon X troops very easily. While he does, one of the troops tells the Director via his communicator that they’re getting massacred; he fights like nothing he’s ever seen. Just then, Logan kills the soldier and picks up his communicator. The Director asks if Criden is there, to which Logan tells him it ain’t Criden and that he wants him t’ know he’s all finished dicin’ up his little foot soldiers there an’ he’s comin’ fer him next.
Slumping to his knees, the Director tells the control room to prepare teleportation transport for all members to the nearest installation and to begin the self-destruct sequence. Running down the corridor, Logan hears that the self-destruct sequence has been activated and that it will do so in four minutes. He realizes that he’s gotta get outta there but that he can’t leave without Beast. Up ahead, he sees the exit and sees something start to materialize in his path – Creed?
Standing before him, Creed tells Logan “well, well, well. Look who they finally let out t’ play.” As Logan and Creed begin their battle, Logan knows there ain’t no words. With them, there never has to be. They’ve danced this brutal ballet too many times before. Flip sides a’ the same coin, they are. Each already knowing what the others thinkin’ before he does it. Nope, no need fer words – just violence. During their battle, it is brutal, neither one giving an inch or taking one. Slash after slash, punch after punch, kick after kick, and stab after stab.
Eventually, Logan senses that there’s somethin’ different about him this time. Call it a cockiness, no, more than that – it’s a certainty he has. Maybe it stems from the fact that while he had the X-Men to back him up all these years, now he’s got the whole flamin’ government. He figures he’s one-upped him again. But no, it’s even more than that. He’s stronger, faster, more durable, better. Every time Logan thinks he has the upper hand, Creed fights back and beats him unmercifully. After punching and slashing Logan numerous times, Creed picks him up over his head and drops him down over his knee, severely injuring his back. At that point, Logan isn’t sure he can take him. An’ the kicker is, he knows it too.
Just before Sabretooth delivers the killing blow, the Shiver Man shows up with Hank McCoy in tow and shoots Creed in the back. The Shiver Man then informs Wolverine that, in his words, he’ll handle this. Looking at him, Logan thinks to himself that he’ll handle this? Who does he think he…? Decision time – does he stand there arguin’ with creepy while the clock is tickin’ or does he… He decides no, there ain’t much of a decision at all. And as much as he hates duckin’ outta a fight, any fight fer that matter, but especially one with Creed, he’s the one who got McCoy into this mess an’ it’s his responsibility t’ get him out.
At the last second, Logan is able to grab Hank and gets out of the complex before it explodes. As he does, the Shiver Man confronts Creed and tells him that his day of judgment is at hand. Outside, Logan figures that’s it and then sees the Shiver Man emerging out of the flames. Watching him pass by, Logan asks him what happened in there and what happened to Sabretooth. The Shiver Man doesn’t respond, only walks by in silence.
Several days later, Logan is having a beer with Nick Fury in a local bar. Wearing a patch over his eye, Logan tells Fury that he doesn’t know what t’ say. First, his man Shiv winds up savin’ his hide an’ now he’s usin’ his S.H.I.E.L.D. connections t’ make ‘em look in another direction with this murder rap. If he didn’t know better, he’d think he was becomin’ a decent human bein’. Fury tells him to keep it down, he’s gonna ruin his rep.
Seriously though, there is a downside an’ a major one at that. By coverin’ up his involvement in the assassination, he’s coverin’ up Weapon X’s involvement as well. Logan replies that they’ve got them in a no-win situation. He’d be more than willin’ to take the fall if it only meant exposin’ the program, but that also means exposin’ that the assassin was a mutant an’ that may be far worse for mutantkind than any damage Weapon X could do. So, they’ll get away with it, with turnin’ him into a murderer an’ he’s gotta live with that.
Fury says no more than he has to live with Jackson slippin’ through his fingers. There’s nothin’ more he’d like more than to bring down that smug dirtbag and his Weapon X program but he can’t. That damned program has clearance from the President himself an’ for what he hears, they’ve got his ear even more than S.H.I.E.L.D. does these days. But rest assured, he will find a way eventually. In the meantime, word to the wise, this war between man an’ mutant is going to get ugly real fast – so watch your back. Logan tells him that it ain’t his back he has to worry about, it’s theirs.
Watching them on monitors, Jackson asks the Director if he thinks the implants took. The Director tells him that only time will tell and not to be concerned. This situation was but a minor setback in the grand scheme of things and it cannot derail what they have already so carefully orchestrated. Wolverine may have been a pet project of his for obvious personal reasons, but he was just the beginning…


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Blood Sport: Part 1
Riding on a plane, Logan, wearing an eye patch and smoking a cigar, proceeds to read a newspaper article with the headline “Mutant Senator Slay Tape a Hoax.” As he does, he thinks to himself that, if there’s one thing ya can say about Nick Fury, it’s that he’s a man of his word. He said he’d use his connections in S.H.I.E.L.D. to make the murder rap against him go away an’ that’s exactly what he did. Shame he couldn’t use those same connections t’ bring down the dirtbags who made him do the deed, the Weapon X program, but…
Just then, a stewardess comes up to him and informs him that this is a non-smoking flight. As he puts out his cigar, Logan says it’s all right, he’s thinkin’ a’ quittin’ anyway. Seeing him sneer, the stewardess tells him that she’s sorry for the inconvenience Mr.? Logan replies that his name is Patch. When the stewardess leaves him alone, he thinks to himself yeah, Patch. He hasn’t used that name in a long time. But what the hell, when in Rome. Madripoor’s a far cry from Rome though. ‘Cept fer that whole feedin’ people t’ the lions thing of course.
Looking out the window, Logan sees a demonic face poppin’ up in the clouds. He wonders what the freak it means. Is it some connection t’ why he’s going back t’ his ol’ stompin’ grounds in the first place? Logan guesses that anythin’s possible at this point. Who’d a thought lookin’ through the X-Men’s mail would put him on this place fer instance. His good buddy, Beast, who was still recoverin’ from the stabbin’ he suffered from their stay in the Cage had asked him t’ look out fer his latest issue a’ “Science and Skateboarding.” Somethin’ about Tony Hawk an’ Steven Hawkings battlin’ for the title a’ “Hawk” – whatever.
An’ then it caught his eye (his good eye he should say) – a letter addressed t’ him. He was surprised. Outside a’ his foster daughter Amiko, nobody usually bothers writin’ t’ him. It was from his mysterious “friend” telling him that he is in debt to him since he helped Logan with his recent incident with the new Weapon X program. Since he owes him, he asks that he enter in the yearly Bloodsport contest in Madripoor. He will know him when he sees him, he is the reigning champion. Logan figured that he didn’t owe “a friend” a damned thing since his info didn’t help him all that much but he couldn’t help curiosity get the best a’ him.
Walking through the airport terminal, Logan finds himself in Madripoor once again. Where, especially with his “wife” Viper runnin’ the underworld, danger’s gonna be waitin’ fer him ‘round every corner. Just then, a man puts his arm on Logan’s shoulder. Grabbing it and twisting the man’s arm behind him, Logan asks him if he can help him with something. The man calls out in pain and sarcastically asks if the flight ran out of peanuts or something, he was just trying to say hello.
Logan replies so is he and asks the man who he is. The man tells him his name is Jae Lo. They sent him there to be his assistant to the Bloodsport, every contestant get one. He then asks if he can have his arm back now. Logan lets him go and they get into Jae Lo’s vehicle. Inside, Logan says to him that he might want t’ think about changin’ his…
Jae asks his name, so not associated with American singer with big butt, he thinking about it one-eye. Jae then asks Logan if he needs anything. He can get him whatever he wants. Weapons, drugs, even girl to love him long time. Logan replies that he’s not interested. Jae asks is he sure, the Foxy Den used to be old Princess Bar, lots of nice girls in there now. Logan remembers that he lost a lot a’ good friends in a massacre at the Princess Bar. An’ now it’s a strip club. Ah well, maybe just one drink, to toast the ol’ gang. Yeah, that’s it.
Eventually, the duo pulls up to a restaurant. When they get out of the vehicle, Jae tells one-eye that they have arrived. Logan asks where “here” is and warns Lo that he better not have any funny ideas in mind. Jae tells him that he drinks too much coffee, he’s too tense. He’s taking him to one he’s come to see. Walking into the restaurant, Logan expects to see “a friend” but sees instead Viper wearing a rather revealing dress. Logan asks that she’s “a friend?” Viper replies a friend? She may be his wife, but no one has ever mistaken them for friends. Speaking of which, they never did get around to actually consummating their marriage, did they? Logan tells her that’s ‘cause he ain’t into catchin’ diseases.
Laughing, Viper says to him charming and adds that his healing factor should be able to compensate. Snuggling up close to him, Viper says that maybe it’s more than that, maybe he’s just afraid he doesn’t have what it takes. Maybe he’s not “the best there is” after all. Grabbing her by the hair, Logan tells her that he hates to burst her bubble but he ain’t ever had any trouble in that department.
Just then, Viper’s bodyguards ready their rifles and point them directly at Logan. Popping his claws, Logan tells them that they really don’t wanna go there. Calmly, Viper states that they’re all friends there, there’s no need for gunplay. Letting Viper go, Logan says to her that if she ain’t “a friend,” then how come he’s there? Viper informs him that she doesn’t know why he keeps going on about this “friend” business but he’s there to compete in the tournament. As Madripoor’s leading crime-lord, it is her honor to oversee the Bloodsport. She adds that having already met this year’s crop of contestants, not to mention their reigning champion; she fears that he’ll make him a widow before long.
Storming out, Logan asks Lo who the champ is. Jae informs him that he’s a tough customer. Nobody even know his name, just call him champ ‘cause he win every year. If he the one he’s looking for, better for him, he look for somebody else.
The next day, Logan finds himself in a large arena with a number of observers present, including Justin Timberlake and Chris Kirkpatrick from N’Sync. Logan recognizes that there’s not an empty seat in the house. As much as they like t’ think they’ve come a long way as civilized people, one thing sure ain’t changed. People still want their fill a’ blood. There’s fourteen contestants from around the world all too willin’ t’ give it to them, except fer him. Had he not thought this “friend” might possibly pose a threat t’ him or the X-Men, he’d be nowhere near these sorry slimebags. The first round provides an’ interestin’ mix a’ opponents an’ matchups. Headhunter (a large man wearing a mask and carrying a sword) versus Oddball (the new and improved version) is a brutal one with the Headhunter winning by killing Oddball. Gamecock versus Puma is quick with Puma winning – the outcome was never in question.
Cat versus Taskmaster was a bit more evenly matched. The Taskmaster wins in the end but doesn’t kill Cat. He only does so for money. In the match-up of Zaran versus Razorfist, the victor is Zaran. In a strap match, Anaconda beats Forearm by snapping his neck. In the battle of Eel versus Toad in a tank full of water, the Toad wins by electrocuting the Eel. Logan quickly discovers that all the combatants are there fer one thing an’ one thing only. They want the mantle a’ bein’ the greatest fighter in the world an’ they’ll do anythin’ t’ get it.
Now, it’s Logan’s turn. They put him in a “cylinder match” against some speedster foe of Spider-Man’s – a mook by the name a’ Speed Demon. As they start their battle, the Speed Demon introduces a new addition to his arsenal – throwing blades. On the receiving end of them, Logan sees that there are so many flyin’ at him, so fast, that he can’t possibly stop ‘em all. Makes ya wonder why he didn’t add them sooner. There’s a certain strategy t’ fightin’ speedsters. Sure, they’re gonna get their shots in. The key is lastin’ long enough t’ figure out where they’re gonna pop up next.
In time, Logan is able to connect with an elbow to Speed Demon’s throat, which puts him down. It doesn’t last long though and the Speed Demon recovers rather quickly. Running around the cylinder at high speed, the Speed Demon creates a vortex which sucks all of the air out of Logan’s lungs and raises him off of the floor. Even though he can’t breath, Logan has a plan. Taking some of the blades that fell on the ground, he tosses ‘em into the vortex t’ whirl around. Eventually, one of them catches up to Speed Demon and catches him in the neck. Falling to the ground and bleeding, Speed Demon begins to freak out over all of the blood around him. Logan tells him ‘quit yer whinin’ crybaby an’ take yer medicine like a man.’ With that, he punches the Speed Demon and knocks him out. As the crowd calls out for him to kill him, Logan tells them that it ain’t gonna happen, he doesn’t kill just ‘cause a crowd a’ degenerates tells him to.
Logan decides that, since his match fer round two don’t come till later, he figures he might as well size up some a’ these jokers in the meantime. The first match of round two is Taskmaster versus Zaran. Logan faced Zaran before but all he knows about Taskmaster is what he’s heard an’ none of it’s good. During the match, Taskmaster shoots a number of arrows in the direction of Zaran. As he does, he tells him that there’s nothing against him, but the way he figures it, winning this tournament’s gonna boost his price as a super-villain trainer so he can understand why he has ta get him outta his way. Knocking away the arrows with relative ease and back towards their original owner, Zaran recommends that he find a new line of work. Blocking his own arrows with his shield, Taskmaster brandishes a billy club and tosses it at Zaran, knocking him out and winning the match.
As Logan watches Anaconda getting her throat slashed by Puma, he can’t say he gave her much of a chance t’ beat Puma, at least not this Puma. As far as he knew, Puma was a noble warrior but there ain’t too noble ‘bout him now. He’s savage, utterly ruthless an’ in his bracket. But he can’t look ahead t’ Puma, not when he’s got his own bout comin’ up with the newly mutated Toad.
This ain’t the mousy, insecure Toad he’s fought before. This one’s got a swagger to him. Cocky enough t’ prove t’ the world he ain’t a joke no more so he has to use that overconfidence against him. While they battle in a cage stacked on top of another, Toad tells Logan that he’s been lookin’ forward to this battle and the chance to demonstrate how his paltry agilities now stack up against the augmented, terrible Toad. Before Logan can attack first, Toad delivers a kick to Logan’s face and retreats through a hole in the cage and into the bottom cage. When Logan gives chase and reaches the floor of the bottom cage, Toad spits a sticky green substance into his face. Peeling it from his skin with his claws, Logan tells Toad that was disgusting. Toad replies that he’s sorry he doesn’t approve, perhaps this ability will be more to his liking.
Logan observes Toad puffin’ up like a bullfrog and unleashes it, blowin’ him across the cage. Didn’t know he could do that. Just then, Toad uses his tongue on Logan and wraps it around him. Logan feels that he’s tryin’ t’ crush the life outta him like he did the Eel. Only problem fer him though, the Eel didn’t have adamantium claws. Cutting the Toad’s tongue, Logan frees himself and grabs hold of the rest of his tongue and slams him into the cage, winning the match. As he walks away, he tells the Toad that he guesses he’s a little less “terrible” now.
Out of the second round, Logan realizes that there are just two more rounds left of the tournament. But first, he finally gets to find out who “a friend” is ‘cause the champ’s up next. He got a bye in the first round on account a’ “champion’s privilege” – whatever that is. But now he’s gotta face that nasty Headhunter guy in a “curtain match. Shortly after the Headhunter enters the curtain brandishing a sword, a loud chopping sound is heard. Logan wonders what that sound was and sees that the curtain’s already risin’. When it rises, he sees that the Headhunter’s head has been cut clean off. Now he can see who’s responsible – him, Mister X. With disdain, he wonders why it had t’ be him.


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Bloodsport - part 2
In the crowd, Justin Timberlake celebrates with all of the other rowdy fans in attendance and asks Chris Kirkpatrick if he saw that. Dude just popped that guys head off like a pimple. Chris replies that this sure as hell beats the Grammys.
Peering at the man who beheaded Headhunter, Logan thinks to himself that he doesn’t know what ticks him off more. All the yahoos in the crowd screamin’ fer blood like it’s the last days of the freakin’ Roman Empire or that “a friend,” the guy who not only tipped him off during the Weapon X fiasco but also who he came t’ face when he entered this damn Bloodsport turns out t’ be one a’ the sorriest excuses fer a human being he’s ever met. Not t’ mention one o’ the deadliest, the mysterious serial killer Mr. X. First time he tangled with him, he fought fer the right t’ be called “the best there is.”
No question about it, he handed him his lunch. They’d soon lock horns again, right after he filled him in on his sick code a’ conduct fer murder an’ offered him a chance t’ become one a’ his “killer elite.” Like that was ever gonna happen. But since that fight ended inconclusively, he guesses that lurin’ him there was his way a’ finishin’ what they started. He’s more than happy t’ oblige.
As Logan goes to the stage, Jae Lo asks him where he’s going. He’s not going to do anything rash, is he? Leaping onto the stage, Logan is stopped by one of the ring personnel who tell him that he can’t just… Grabbing the man by the throat, Logan tells him that he wouldn’t dream of it, bub.
Accepting his robe from Blok, Mr. X mentions to him that it took nearly 3.51 seconds to defeat Headhunter, he fears he may be losing his touch. Walking over, Viper tells him that if he calls that losing his touch, he’d hate to see him when he’s on his game. Kissing her hand, X tells Madame Viper that he sees his beauty has not diminished since their last encounter. Viper states that he’s charming as always but he wouldn’t be trying to influence the judge, would he? X informs her that his championship is assured with or without her help. Just then, a loud crash is heard. Turning around, Mr. X points out to Viper that the main course, a mutual friend of theirs, has come to say hello – Wolverine.
Walking up to Mr. X, Logan tells him that he doesn’t know what game he’s playin’ there. Mr. X says that it’s the only “game” he plays, is the only one he’s ever played, that of life and death. Popping his claws, Logan says that it seems that he’s played that game a few times himself. He then adds that if any of his goons inch any closer, three in the neck will see to it their “game” ends here an’ now. Mr. X says that is highly improbable but tells his men to hold back anyway. Logan then tells X that he has news fer him, he ain’t waitin’ fer no stupid match but he does have to know somethin’ before he tears him apart. Why did he tip him off?
X tells him that he has his reasons. For one thing, he was given credit for a crime he did not commit. It isn’t in good taste for artistes such as themselves to have their “stats” padded for them. And no, begin mind-controlled doesn’t count. Shocked, Logan asks him how he… X finishes his thought for him. Know? Let’s just say a man who has committed the amount of carnage that he has does not avoid incarceration without a few choice connections within the government. Connections that informed him Weapon X had targeted the same prize he had, forcing him to intercede. He then tells Logan that he is his to deal with and his alone. But while he can appreciate his exuberance in resolving this unfinished business of theirs, they need to save it for the ring. Or they could begin now, but he cannot guarantee the safety of the innocents around them.
Walking away, Logan knows that X means what he says and that he’s gonna have to wait. Putting her hand on X’s shoulder, Viper tells him that ticking off that little runt definitely gives him points in her book. Now if he can only knock him off in the Bloodsport… Mr. X tells her that he doesn’t believe he heard her correctly, did she say “if?”
Just then, Blok begins to act strangely and a spirit leaves his mouth and transfers over to Jae Lo. After witnessing what had just happened, X remarks that was most interesting and unexpected. It does shed light on a few questionable moments however. He then tells Viper that she shouldn’t concern herself with Wolverine. He’d say she presently has much bigger concerns on her docket. Viper asks bigger concerns, did she miss something? Jae Lo replies yes, he’d say she most definitely did.
Logan wants to kill X so bad he can taste it but he has to put that away fer now, Puma’s next on his plate in an electric cage match. Giving him some water, Jae Lo tells Logan that he is good luck for him; he brings water to quench his thirst. Drinking it, Logan replies that it would ‘a been better if he’d brought him a beer. Entering the cage, Logan tells the man before him, Thomas Fireheart, that it seems t’ him he heard that he was a noble man of honor. Fireheart informs him that times change, the puma inside him has grown stronger, more controlling nastier. Transforming into the Puma, he adds that it forces him to do things like entering this contest, all to quench its insatiable appetite for blood!
While he battles the Puma, Logan sees that he’s very fast and just as vicious. He gutted him before he even had a chance t’ raise his claws. After slashing the Puma, he sees that he just keeps comin’ and wonders if he reminds him a’ anyone he knows (Sabretooth)? Just then, he doesn’t feel quite right, he suddenly feels woozy – he’s been drugged. He’s gonna need a little time fer his healin’ factor t’ flush it out whatever it is, but he ain’t gonna get that time. He’s in trouble there an’ Puma knows it. He’s takin’ advantage a’ the situation, goin’ fer the kill right there an’ now. He’s hittin’ him with everything he’s got.
Logan realizes that he’s gotta play his cards right. Fer once, he’s the one with all his marbles intact an’ it’s his opponent who’s lost control. He has to use that, let him keep slashin’ him, make him think he’s hurt more than he is. An’ while he’s thinkin’ that, thinkin’ he’s got him right where he wants him, he shows him how wrong he is. As the Puma leaps at Logan to deliver the final blow, he ducks and his attacker is shocked by the electric fence. Standing over his fallen foe, Logan realizes that he got lucky. If not fer the electric fence, this outcome might a’ been different.
When Logan is announced as the winner, the drugs have just about flushed themselves out of his system. Just in time too, ‘cause it don’t take a Reed Richards t’ figure out who slipped him that mickey. Rushing out of the cage, Logan grabs Jae Lo by the collar and says to him that he set him up and asks him who made him do it – Puma, X? Jae Lo stammers that he hurts his feelings. Logan tells him that after every answer he doesn’t like…
Jae replies that more than just feelings get hurt, he catches his drift. He then tells Logan not to be mad. Gambling odds are in his favor, he had to bet the long shot. A major player gave him poison to slip him, tasteless to his senses, but strong enough to affect even him. Logan thinks to himself a major player? Looking up at Viper, he has a hunch that “major player” is sittin’ up in the sky box right now an’ he just happens t’ be married t’ her.
The following contest is Taskmaster versus the Champion (Mr. X) in a standard steel cage match. The first one out of the cage and onto the floor wins. Watching the match, Logan thinks to himself that this should be interestin’. Taskmaster ain’t no pushover. His photographic reflexes let him mimic the moves a’ any fighter he’s seen, includin’ the likes of Shang-Chi, Hawkeye, Iron Fist and even Captain America himself.
Once the bell rings, Taskmaster can’t believe Mr. X that he’s treating him like he’s nothing and blowing kisses to the crowd. Taking advantage, Taskmaster tries to sneak attack Mr. X. As he does so, Mr. X tells him such poor sportsmanship and proceeds to toss him to the ground. Taking a swing, Taskmaster tells him like he cares and to stay still. This little move he learned from the Man Without Fear himself. When he misses, X tells him that he’ll have to do better than that. Undeterred, Taskmaster takes a swing at X with his shield, a move he learned from Captain America himself. Missing again, X says to him that he says the names of these men as if they’re supposed to mean something to him. He’s fought the finest fighters in the world; did he honestly think he’d be impressed with tactics he learned from men sporting pretty colored underwear? Mister X then clocks Taskmaster with a solid uppercut.
Continuing to watch the battle, Logan sees that X is doin’ the same thing t’ Taskmaster that he did t’ him – anticipatin’ every move he makes before he actually makes it. How the hell does he do it?
Pulling out his bow and arrows, Taskmaster tells him that he’s got his “impressed” right here and shoots them at X. Catching them, X tells him that this is really getting boring and snaps them as if they were twigs. Seeing that, Taskmaster says that he’s had just about enough. All he has to do is get out of the cage to win. So if he shoots up to the top with his billy club, the match is in the bag. Now it’s just a matter of getting down to…
Turning around, he sees Mr. X standing there right next to him. He exclaims that this is impossible. Scaling the cage so fast, no one is that good. As X picks him up over his head and tosses him back into the cage below, Taskmaster exclaims that this can’t be happening to him, He’s fought the Avengers, Earth’s mightiest heroes. Reaching the floor next to the cage, X is declared the winner by the referee who stops the match. X asks that he’s stopping the match? The referee says yes, he’s out of the cage which means he’s won. X tells him not yet he hasn’t, he’s still to get his kill. The referee says he’s sorry but the match is over. X asks him that he would deny him what he has earned? The referee defiantly tells him that the rules clearly state…
Before he can finish his thought, X grabs him in a reverse choke-hold, tells him that was a foolish decision and proceeds to kill him. When the referee drops dead, Mr. X states that he is never denied his kill and this time he’ll do just fine.
As the announcement is made to the Bloodsport fans in attendance that this is the match that they’ve been waiting for, Logan thinks to himself that they’re not the only ones. The ring announcer states that that the championship bout is a four corners match where the first man to find the championship belt in one of the four boxes in the ring wins. What’s in the other boxes? That’s for their contestants to find out.
Stepping up to Logan, X tells him that this is his last chance. Bow down to his superior skills and he shall let him live. They could kill together. Logan tells him fat chance and goes to punch him. When Mr. X blocks him time after time, Logan says to himself here we go again. No matter what he does, he’s got an answer fer it. Wishes he could say the same.
Punching Logan across the face, X tells him that he so does hope he’s going to put on a better show than this. The fans did pay good money after all. With Logan knocked down for a stretch, X reaches the first box and discovers a pair of nunchucks, a personal favorite of his. Seeing what X has found, Logan decides that this ain’t good. X is a master of nearly every weapon known t’ man, so he needs him with weapons like he needs a hole in his head.
After X delivers another elbow to Logan’s head, Logan thinks to himself that he wanted a piece a’ this guy in the worst way. So, what’s that they say ‘bout bein’ careful what ya wish for? Making his way over to box #2, X finds a sai and proceeds to toss it at Logan. Dodging it, Logan realizes that his offense has been so ineffective that he’s forced t’ play defense. The only thing is, that gives X the opportunity t’ get t’ the next box and bust out with nasty surprise number three – a flail. Logan realizes that he can’t let him cut loose with that thing and lunges himself at him tackling him. As X rolls with the blow and turns it around into a choke hold with the chain from the flail, Logan wonders what he has to do t’ beat this guy.
Underneath the ring, Taskmaster readies an arrow and shoots it through the ring above him stating that if he can’t win the title, then nobody can. Inside the cage, Logan gets out of the way thanks to his senses but so did X. He anticipated that just like he’s been anticipatin’ everything else. As the cage begins to engulf in flames, Logan wonders how X could have sensed it.
Just then it hits him – X is telepathic. An’ now that he thinks of it, the story he told him about how he first became obsessed with death, he’s heard it before with Jean Grey. Jean’s powers were activated when a girl died in her mind. The same thing happened with X an’ that woman. But with no Professor Xavier around to pick up the pieces, X went nuts. It all makes sense now. Good fighters always think four to five moves ahead an’ if X can see those moves ahead a’ time, he has a tremendous advantage.
Now that he knows how X is doin’ it, what can he do about it? The only time he’s ever seemed t’ get t’ X was when he lost control, went berserk. An’ that’s ‘cause even he don’t know his next move when he’s like that. Does he do it, does he consciously let loose the demon he’s kept bottled up all these years? He decides to do it and begins to psyche himself up by thinkin’ a Weapon X and Mariko dyin’.
Enraged, Logan tells a shocked X that he knows his secret. Facing off against X, Logan starts to feel the animal beginning to take control. X is probably a limited telepath. He ain’t figured out what he’s doin’ yet. But even if he did, he can’t do jack about it ‘cause he’s there. Slashing away at X, it’s all instincts now. X tries to come back but it doesn’t matter – it’s too late. Slashing X again, he knocks him back into the fourth box which knocks it loose.
As it drops down, the box smashes open and reveals the belt. Picking it up, X has won, he’s defeated him once again. Logan angrily tells him yeah, he’s won, now here’s his prize. Just as he prepares to jam his claws into X’s head, Blok steps in front of X, blocking Logan’s path. Logan tells him t’ get out of the way, it ain’t him he’s after. When Blok refuses to move, Logan tells him t’ have it his way and prepares to attack. However, before he can, the fire makes the floor collapse sending them down to the level below. Standing up, Logan discovers again that, as usual, X and Blok are already gone.
Later, Logan is packing up and preparing to go home. He hated havin’ t’ do that, purposely lettin’ himself go like he did but X left him little choice. Worst part is, this was a one trick pony an’ he knows it. The next time he tries the same thing, X’ll be ready fer it.
At that moment, Viper rushes into the room and calls out his name. Popping his claws, Logan states well if it ain’t Lucrezia Borgia. Viper says to him never mind that now, she needs his help. Turning his back to her, Logan tells her that she has some never comin’ t’ him after she poisoned him like that. Viper says to him not to dismiss her so fast until he knows what this is about. When Logan tells her he’s all ears, Viper informs him that he’s back – Ogun is back. Shocked, Logan stops what he is doing and turns around.


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Blood Sport: Part 3
Logan remembers that night in Kanaziwa like it was yesterday. He’d been there just a few short weeks actually, trainin’ under the tutelage a’ the man who had become his sensei, Lord Ogun. He was still sort a’ green in them days. He had yet t’ learn what his true nature was fer one thing, never mind that a’ his sensei. But little did he know that night he was about t’ get a crash course as far as the latter was concerned. Even in that short time, he had come to discover that Lord Ogun had his fair share a’ enemies, t’ say the least. So, the fact that a fistful a’ ninjas showed up that night lookin’ fer his blood wasn’t all that surprisin’.
What was surprisin’ however, was the man they cleared a path for – Lord Ugama Hana. One o’ the nastiest crimelords Japan’s ever seen. Him an’ Ogun got into it right off the bat, goin’ back an’ forth ‘bout some ancient wrong Ogun had committed that Hana now demanded satisfaction for. Didn’t much now who was right or wrong, didn’t much care neither. All he knew was that they had come fer his mentor an’ they’d have to go through him to get him. But Ogun squawked, said it was a “blood feud” between him an’ Hana an’ was t’ be treated as such. He told him t’ stand down. Understandin’ what a blood feud meant to a samurai, he respected his mentor’s wishes, knowin’ full well the responsibility t’ avenge him would land squarely on his shoulders should Ogun fall that day.
Yet, even he couldn’t have realized at the time how silly the notion a’ Ogun fallin’ in battle actually was. He had never seen anythin’ like it – the way he cut through those ninjas virtually unscathed. He certainly didn’t need his help or anyone else’s, fer that matter. Hell, he probably would’ve just gotten in the way.
Ogun then turned his attention to Hana, who obviously wasn’t nearly as impressed with his prowess as was Logan. They battled fer what seemed like forever, neither man gainin’ quarter, neither man succumbin’ to the skills a’ the other. That is, until Ogun did something most unexpected and dropped his sword. He taunted Hana, sayin’ how he had grown weary a’ their battle. He demanded Hana kill him, if he really had the nerve t’ do it. It’s what he was there for anyway, wasn’t it?
Hana, not a man to look a gift horse in the mouth, happily obliged and stabbed Ogun through the gut with his sword. Ogun was done fer – that strike most certainly would ‘a killed any man alive. It was tense, really, waitin’ there. Waitin’ fer him t’ keel over an’ breath his last. But instead, he did somethin’ he’ll remember fer the rest a’ his days. His eyes turned red an’ he laughed. As he unbelievably pulled the sword from his gut, he couldn’t even tell ya who looked on with more disbelief – him or Lord Hana.
All he can tell ya was Hana wanted no part ‘a Ogun from that point on. He backed up, callin’ on his gods for help as Ogun advanced. But apparently, his cries fell on deaf ears ‘cause with a quick slash ‘a Hana’s own honor sword and that was all she wrote, Hana’s head was chopped off.
Logan remembers he stood there fer a few minutes, still soakin’ in all he’d just witnessed. Finally, he snapped outta it long enough t’ ask Ogun if he was okay. Ogun just looked down at the wound in his gut an’ smiled. “This?” he said, “This is nothing. Nothing but a state of mind, much in the same way death itself is.” His smile grew broader as he went on, how he was beyond conventional moral concepts. How he spit at the four winds, how he laughed at the moon an’ the stars, how he routinely mocked the gods themselves an’ especially how even death herself was no match fer him. He went on braggin’ that night an’ Logan went on listenin’, takin’ it as no more than a warrior’s boast. Still he couldn’t explain what he had seen that day.
Just like he can’t explain what’s happenin’ now. Ogun is back. An’ considerin’ he’s seen him die more times than he can count, maybe his old sensei knows somethin’ the rest of us don’t. Even after all these years, even after he found out how freakin’ evil he actually was, he ain’t ever been able t’ get a handle on what he truly is – a demon, a ghost, or a god? Well, whatever the hell he is, he’s currently runnin’ amok in the Madripoor underworld. Which is why his “wife” an’ reignin’ underworld kingpin, Viper, brought Ogun’s return t’ his notice.
As they walk down the street together, Logan mentions to Viper that they’d attract a lot less attention if she wasn’t marchin’ down the streets with a drawn laser pistol. Viper replies that she absolutely refuses to be caught napping. Remember what she said, Ogun has the ability to jump from body to body. He could be anyone at any time, even him. Logan says yeah but reminds her to remember what he said – no killin’ unless absolutely necessary. Keep in mind these people he possesses ain’t t’ blame fer his actions. Oh, an in case she forgets already, when this is all over with, she best remember their other agreement. Viper says yes, yes and asks how many times he’s going to keep reminding her of it. Logan says as many times as it takes t’ get it through that twisted evil skull a’ hers.
Entering the Foxy Den, the former Princess Bar, Logan sees that Viper wasn’t pullin’ his leg about this though, Ogun’s been busy. Seeing a giant brawl amongst the patrons, Logan sees that Ogun’s possessions have been breedin’ so much dissension among Viper’s goons, they’re all at each other’s throats. Trouble is, not even his enhanced senses can tell him who he… Wait
a sec, that man with the glowin’ eyes, that’s gotta be him. The man with the glowing eyes looks over at Logan and says to him ‘look who’s finally come to pay respects to his old master. Quite a piece of handiwork, eh? Although, he is certain he’ll be pleased to know that he’s just begun. With that, “Ogun” runs out the back door.
Giving chase, Logan says to himself that if Ogun makes it to the marketplace, an’ wouldn’t ya know it, he does. Logan proceeds to scan the crowd fer a scent but what’s the use? Chances are he’s already…
Just then, Logan is hit in the back with a knife. It’s good placement with the knife; Ogun sure ain’t lost his touch. Question is though, who’s he gonna pop into next? Turning around, Logan sees an old lady tending a seafood market. She asks Logan what’s the matter. Have the skills he taught him eroded so much than an old woman now gives him pause? Viper immediately draws her weapon and tells Logan to keep the old cow busy; she’s got a nice, clean shot. Just as she pulls the trigger, Logan grabs her arm and knocks the shot off course.
As he is attacked by the old woman, Logan thinks to himself freakin’ Viper. Havin’ t’ stop her insanity left Ogun an opening an’ when ya got Ogun’s skills, no matter what body he’s in, that’s all it takes. After “Ogun” attempts to slash Viper across the stomach with “his” knife, he tells Logan that his role-reversal amuses him. Imagine him, the savage, now having to stop someone else from killing – how deliciously ironic. Taking the advantage, Logan grabs the old woman in a full-nelson and thinks to himself that it has been ironic so far. ‘Cause without knowin’ any other means a’ stoppin’ Ogun, he just hopes Viper’s way ain’t gonna win out in the end.
Just then, the old woman asks what is happening. Logan realizes that he musta jumped again. As a man smacks Logan in the back of the knee with his stick, Ogun asks Logan isn’t it frustrating, now knowing where he might strike next? At that moment, Viper leaps into action, smacks the man in the back of the head with her gun and says to him or where the butt of her gun might strike next, for that matter.
When the man falls down to the ground, Viper asks Logan if it’s over. Logan tells her that, judgin’ by the laughter in the air, safe money says no. Just then, they begin to get pelted in the back of the head with fruits. Behind them, the people say to them “were it only that simple.” Logan sees this and deduces that he’s leapin’ so fast from person t’ person that it’s like he’s got a link t’ the whole blasted crowd. Viper tells Ogun that it’s simpler than he might imagine. Especially when one adheres to the old credo, kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out. Punching her out, Logan tells Viper that was her second warnin’ an’ her last.
As the crowd makes their way towards Logan and Viper, Ogun says to them that while he does so hate to break up this lover’s quarrel, he does believe he’d find learning where he’s been all this time much more relevant, wouldn’t he agree? After their last encounter, whether he was aware of it or not, he ended up in the body of a woman he was briefly acquainted with – Helen Bach. Unfortunately, he soon found her weak frame to be an inadequate vessel to house a warrior of his caliber. Thus began a quest that found him bouncing from host body to host body, all in an effort to find an appropriate candidate.
Then, one day, he found it in the person of the individual he refers to as Mr. X, a man who could see an opponent’s moves before he made them. How could he resist such a worthy host? And yet, that selfsame telepathy which made X such a formidable adversary in the first place proved to be his undoing in the end, for he drove him out. His entry thwarted, he was left with little choice but to inhabit his henchman Blok. And so he remained, even during his first meeting with the massive bodyguard, staying dormant for reasons of his own. But later, through X’s machinations, he was given the chance to reunite with him again there in Madripoor. He could not resist, transferring his essence to one of Viper’s men.
Logan recalls that that explains why he saw demonic faces whenever Blok was around, must’ve actually been Ogun’s presence he was sensin’ all along. Running away, Ogun tells Logan that after all this time, they still have much unfinished business between them. Meet him at the docks tonight and he will learn once and for all why he will forever be the student and he, forever his master.
Later that night, Logan makes his way to the dock. He senses that there ain’t a soul around, probably why Ogun picked there, he’s through playin’ games. No innocent bystanders t’ get in the way. Nobody fer him t’ bounce in an’ out of, just them. Reaching the end of the dock, Logan sees Viper standing there with her back to him. Putting his hand on her shoulder, he asks her what in blazes she is doing there. He told her not to come, this is between him and Ogun.
As Viper turns around with red eyes, indicating that she has been possessed by Ogun, “she” tells Logan as it always has been. Ogun adds that it seems he still has much to teach him. He should have learned by now that samurai might is never a substitute for ninja deception. It is no accident that he chose this moment to make his presence known and not when he last encountered him as Blok. For now, with the Weapon X mind control which protected him gone, he is free to enter the host body he groomed himself for all those years ago.
Shooting Logan in the shoulder, Ogun leaves Viper and transfers himself over to Logan. Kicking Viper in the chin, Ogun states that once he’s disposed of his filthy wife, he will use his body to take her place as lord of the Madripoor underworld as he planned the moment he arrived there. It will serve him well as… as… eh? Something is… Logan’s mind is too fragmented, too bestial. How can he stand it? The horrors he’s endured, it’s too much, he can’t remain.
Leaving Logan’s body, Ogun makes his way to the only option he has, his wife Viper. Logan remarks that, if Ogun thinks he’s safe, if he figures since he wasn’t willin’ t’ take innocent lives before, he certainly won’t off his own wife now. He figured wrong. With that, Logan stabs Viper through the gut with his claws. As Viper grabs her stomach, Ogun says that the wounds in this host are too severe. Can’t stay there, can’t enter Logan, no! He will not let it end this way, he will not – NO! While Ogun drifts off into the night sky, Logan says that he guesses ol’ death was a match fer him after all.
Turning his attention to Viper, she says that she asks him… for help fighting Ogun… and he guts her? Logan replies that he left him little choice. Besides, he did help – he’s gone, ain’t he? Weakly, Viper tells him to not be snide, this changes everything. She’s not honoring their other agreement. Logan says to her so she won’t be agreein’ t’ their divorce after all? Gee, an here he was all set t’ get a doctor t’ fix her up. It seems t’ him that she still has a shot t’ pull through, maybe. But if she’s gonna be that way…
Viper tells Logan okay, he wins. His debt to her is paid, he’s got the divorce, just get her to the damn doctor. But mark her words, if it takes her ‘til the end of time, she will see him dead for this, does she hear him? Dead! Walking away, Logan tells her that she best get in line now cuz it’s a long one.


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The Watch (1st story)
Red Snow (2nd story)
(1st Story)In New York City, the city that never sleeps, three homeless men have convened around a fire. They begin to discuss how they got where they are. One of them says that he used to own one of those dot.com companies and they can probably guess how that turned out. He adds that he misses driving in limos, eating in the best restaurants, and flying around the world. He did it all but now… Putting his hand on the man’s shoulder, another tells him that he hears him. It’s tough enough gettin’ adjusted to this as it is, it must be ten times harder for him. He doubts anybody’s all that disappointed he wound up there; he used to work for the IRS.
As they begin to laugh, they suddenly stop when they hear a loud crash. Turning around, they wonder what the sound was. The man that used to work for the IRS tells his two friends to relax. It was probably just a rat. One of the others say to him that he doesn’t know, has he been followin’ the news lately? IRS quips yeah, he always catches it on his big screen TV. His buddy tells him that he’s serious. Homeless people have been disappearin’ without a trace for weeks now. Dot com adds that he’s right. He heard the same thing and nobody knows why. IRS states that of course nobody knows. Probably ‘cause they ain’t even looked. Ya think anybody gives a hoot if some hobos go missing? Puh-leeze. He wouldn’t be surprised if it’s all part of that damn “quality of life” program.
After another crash is heard, two of the men prepare to leave but IRS tells them to sit down. He’s never heard anything so ridiculous in all his life. So, if it makes the girls feel any better, he’ll go check it out himself. As IRS walks off into the darkness, Dot com tells him better him than them. Before long, IRS’ severed arm is tossed back at them from the darkness. The other two men begin to freak out when but, before they can leave, something emerges from the shadows, instilling absolute fear into the men.
The next morning, a young man is driving his fancy car through New York traffic. While he’s talking on his cell phone, an older African American homeless man comes up to him and tells him that he’s going to get his windows all spiffed up for him mighty quick; he doesn’t have to worry. Perturbed, the man hangs up the phone and yells at the homeless man to get away from his damn car. The homeless man replies that he didn’t mean anything by it; he’s just trying to make a buck is all. The man asks by filthing up his car and proceeds to grab the homeless man by the collar and punches him.
As he knocks him to the ground, the homeless man’s watch flies off of his wrist. He then tells him that he’s so sick of having to deal with homeless trash like him every time he comes to the damn city. The homeless man says to him that he’s sorry but the other man tells him that “they” are on the train, in front of restaurants, in the park, and now they’re dirtying up his car. Calling the homeless man a waste of life, the man angrily asks the homeless man if he has any idea how much that car costs.
Just then, Logan arrives on the scene, grabs the man’s wrist and pins him up against his car. As he does, he tells him to go ahead and fill him in. The man informs Logan that he has no beef with him, just with… Logan asks the old man? Go ahead and say it. Say he was beatin’ up on an old man. The man says to Logan that he knows how it is with the homeless. He just got his car cleaned and he… Punching his fist through the window, Logan asks him ‘does he mean this car?’ Rearing back, the man goes and punches Logan in the face. When he does, he breaks his hand and proceeds to ask Logan what the hell his head is made of. Logan tells him “adamantium” and then rips the steering wheel out of the man’s car and tosses it at him.
Making his way over to the homeless man, Logan asks him if he’s doing okay. The homeless man states that he’s fine and thanks Logan. As they walk away, the man laments over the damage to his car. The homeless man remarks to Logan some world they live in. It’s a crying shame when people treat their material possessions better than each other. Logan replies that he can say that again. The homeless man adds that ‘course some material possessions are worth possessin’ more than others. Picking up his watch, he says that it was his pappy’s and his pappy’s before him. He planned on giving it to his own son, but ya know. He don’t want nothing to do with him on account a’ how he turned out. He ain’t never thought ‘bout sellin’ it though, not even when things got tough. He kept it for him all these years, just in case he finds it in his heart to take it.
Logan says to him no offense, but if things ain’t tough for him now, then what the hell are they. The homeless man tells him that it ain’t so bad. He gets by squeegieing windows. It ain’t like back in the days when the booze had its hooks in him somethin’ fierce. Logan offers him some money for a room, some food, but the homeless man tells him there’ll be none of that. He ain’t one to be accepting handouts. ‘Sides, he don’t need no room. The shelter there is ‘bout the closest thing he has to a home. Logan tries to get a word in but the homeless man tells him thanks anyway, he’ll be seein’ him. Walking away, Logan utters damn.
The next day, Logan makes his way back to the homeless shelter. It’s been buggin’ the hell outta him all night. He doesn’t care what the old man said, he’s gettin’ his help whether he likes it or not. Entering the shelter, he says to the young lady working there that there was an old man he brought in there yesterday… The lady says to him that the shelter is upstairs; she’ll be with him in just a sec. Once he enters the room full of cots, Logan thinks to himself that’s funny. He ain’t there; he can’t sense him.
Coming up behind him, the lady asks Logan if it was Squeegie Man he was looking for. Logan asks Squeegie? He thinks so. She then tells him that she hasn’t seen him since last night, he must’ve left already. Logan states that he doesn’t think so, not after he went on how this was his home an’ everythin’. She tells him that they do that sometimes, pick up and leave for whatever reason. It happens all the time. She then tells him not to take her word for it and points the cot he used to sleep in. Looking over the cot, Logan sees that it looks like Squeegie Man is gone alright. It makes no sense. Lifting up the pillow, Logan sees Squeegie Man’s watch. That settles it, no way he’d leave this behind. Somethin’s up an’ it ain’t just a missin’ old man either. He’s pickin’ up a familiar scent yet somehow different at the same time. The lady then asks Logan if he found what he was looking for. Clutching the watch, Logan tells her ya might say that.
That night, at the shelter, Bloodscream enters the shelter hidden in the dark. When he does so, Bloodscream mentions that there is something else here, a presence he had not sensed in quite some time. Lighting a match, Logan tells Bloodscream yeah, he missed him too. Pulling out his swords, Bloodscream tells Wolverine that his appearance is unwelcome there and shall surely not deter him from his task. Logan asks him what that might be. Snatchin’ up old homeless folks, that’s low even for him. As they battle, Bloodscream tells Logan that ‘tis no concern of his. Logan replies that he begs to differ. Slashing away, he asks that he thought he was pretty slick, didn’t he. Countin’ on bein’ able t’ swipe people no one would either notice or care if they went missin’. But then again, he didn’t count on him.
With that, Logan slams his boot into Bloodscream’s face. Picking himself up off the floor, Bloodscream tells Wolverine that was a costly error but his kick hath felled him towards his salvation. Reaching out and grabbing two homeless men, Bloodscream asks if he has forgotten his power to siphon the very life’s blood from humans and turn them into zombies to do his bidding. As the zombies begin to attack Logan, Bloodscream bids him farewell. He’s certain his compatriots shall keep him entertained whilst he’s gone.
Slashing away at the zombies, Logan notices that no matter how many pieces he cuts them into, they just keep comin’. He hates doin’ the whole claws routine on ‘em but the poor suckers died the second Bloodscream touched ‘em. Any human aspect of them is long gone by now. An’ meanwhile, ol’ Whitey’s free t’ make his escape. That scenario alone seems fishy t’ him. Bloodscream’s a pseudo-vampire, one who’s been tryin’ t’ kill him fer years. Somewhere along the line he got it into his sick head that his “immortal” blood could free him from the curse that makes him the monster he is. But instead a’ tryin’ t’ spill the blood like he usually does, he hightails it outta there the first chance he gets. Which tells him somethin’ bigger than him is goin’ on there. Somethin’ he’d rather he didn’t find out.
In a building across town, a man in the shadows lifts Bloodscream by his neck off the ground. While he does, he tells him that he sickens him. He knows of his interest in Wolverine, yet he ‘as chosen to flee like a coward instead of bringin’ ‘im to him. Choking, Bloodscream tells him that he thought it best not to risk him uncovering their plans. The man tells him that he thought wrong. He cannot stop them. Au contraire, he can be of use to them, of use to him. Bloodscream tells the man to unhand him; he will not endure this treatment any longer. Releasing Bloodscream, the man informs him that he will endure what he sees fit for him to endure. The moment he tied himself to the spell that originally turned him into a faux vampire is the moment he belonged to him. Yet because he is merciful, he will give him a chance to redeem himself this night and he ‘as just the ‘elp he might need in mind.
At Ravencroft Institute, Bloodscream enters and kills two guards in cold blood. After doing so, he makes his way into the institute and enters a padded cell where a man is locked up in a straight jacket. When Bloodscream puts his hand on the man’s head, the man tells him that he knows what he wants. He wants him again, doesn’t he? Bloodscream informs him that a call has gone out for his services and with but a touch of his hand, he shalt have no other choice but to heed. Tearing apart his own straight jacket, the man continues to transform his appearance and states he doesn’t want to be him again. He doesn’t want to be Vermin!
The next night, Logan walks the New York streets looking for the old guy. After he hit all the usual homeless haunts, he still doesn’t have so much as a scent on Squeegie Man. Passing a nearby building, he catches a scent fer the second time in as many days, one he doesn’t much care fer – Bloodscream. As Bloodscream attacks Logan with his sword and Logan blocks his attack, he says to him well met. Bloody Francis Drake could not have done much finer. Logan asks that he ain’t gonna go on again ‘bout how he used t’ sail with him, is he? Departing around the corner, Bloodscream apologizes for boring him. Allow him to make things a bit more exciting. Giving chase, Logan comes face to face with more a’ Bloodscream’s answer t’ “Night of the Living Dead.” Slicing through the zombies, Logan realizes that this is just the prelims. Whatever it is Bloodscream’s got in store fer him, it’s waitin’ fer him in the sewers. With that, Logan leaps into the sewers.
Once he reaches the ground, Logan calls out to Bloodscream that he might as well come out. He picked up his scent, so he knows he’s down there. Logan then recognizes that Bloodscream ain’t the only one, somethin’s behind him. Just then, Vermin emerges and attacks him. Logan doesn’t know how he’s mixed up in all this but he seems t’ recall the nasty rat mook; he used t’ tangle with Spider-Man. While in combat with Vermin, Bloodscream takes the advantage and stabs Logan in the shoulder with his sword.
Using Vermin’s weight against him, Logan knocks Vermin into Bloodscream and mentions to him that he finally came outta hidin’, figured the odds were in his favor? Good, he likes it that way. At that moment, Bloodscream and Vermin begin to laugh. Confused, Logan asks if he misses something. Vermin hisses that he’d ssssay sssso. He doesn’t think he truly underssstands jusssst how much the odssss don’t favor him. With that, Logan is attacked by hundreds of rats, all under Vermin’s control.
While Logan attempts to knock the hording rats away from him, Bloodscream and Vermin attack him. As they do, Bloodscream tells Logan not to take it personal. For these doings are not entirely of his design. ‘Tis a new master he is forced to serve, one who wishes to see Wolverine dead. Logan says he sees. So they are really just swell guys at heart, aren’t they? Slashing out with his claws, Logan slices off Bloodscream’s right hand and proceeds to tell him not to take it personal. Dropping to his knees, Bloodscream calls Logan an impudent wretch; he’ll have his heart for this!
Logan then rushes towards the sword and grabs hold of it. Once he has it, Logan mentions that he used t’ be sort a’ handy with these back in the day. Armed, Logan thinks to himself that this sword might be just what the doctor ordered. Slashing Vermin with it, Logan sees that it works fine on Vermin and while Bloodscream can’t be harmed with metal forged from mortal man…
Standing before Bloodscream, Logan asks him if he forged this sword himself. While Bloodscream begins to stammer, Logan says he thought so and slashes him across the chest. Undeterred, Bloodscream raises his other sword and calls Logan a scraggly dog and that he’ll swim in his blood when he’s through with him. He’ll… After he slices off Bloodscream’s left hand, Logan quips that he’ll lose his other hand.
At that moment, Vermin comes out of his haze and says that he feelssss different. Bloodscream then yells out to Logan and asks him what has he done. Without his hands, he cannot control the beast. With that, Vermin begins to attack Bloodscream and tells him that he will make him pay for bringing back the beast. Logan replies that’s too bad. Maybe, now he’ll be more willing t’ fill him in on… Just then, Logan witnesses Bloodscream and Vermin disappear before his very eyes. Without ‘em, there goes his chance a’ gettin’ t’ the bottom a’ this mess.
Three days later, Logan thinks to himself that he has searched high an’ low an’ nothing to show fer it. No Bloodscream, no Vermin, an’ no Squeegie Man either. He hates t’ admit it, but it looks like he failed the old-timer. But there is one least thing he can do. Knocking on a young man’s door, Logan introduces himself as a friend a’ his father’s an’ he’s sorry t’ have t’ tell him this, but it looks like he may have passed on. Holding out Squeegie Man’s watch, he informs the man that he wanted him to have this. Holding the watch, the young man shakes Logan’s hand and tells him thanks, but no thanks. His old man was enough of an embarrassment to him as it was. He’d rather not have anything that reminds him of him.
Perturbed, Logan growls to the young man that he’s gonna take the watch. It meant somethin’ to his father an’ it means somethin’ t’ him. An’ he best believe it should mean somethin’ t’ him. As he walks away, Logan adds that some material possessions are worth possessin’ more than others an’ this is one a’ them.
Epilogue: In an abandoned building, a shadowy figure reminds Bloodscream and Vermin that he told them to keep ‘im under control, n’est ce pas. Bloodscream replies that he cannot. He fears ‘tis his touch which tamed the beast and without his hands… Sighing, the shadowy figure grabs Vermin by the throat and asks if he must do everything himself. He then tells the primitive creature to look into his eyes, for he, Mauvais, is his master now. Although he’s not sure why he even bothers, they both failed in bringing him Wolverine and, as a sorcerer whose powers are derived from ‘uman flesh, the special properties of Wolverine’s would ‘ave served him well in the task that lies ahead.
Bloodscream asks if they are still going ahead with the plan. Mauvais replies oui, but he is afraid he will just ‘ave to make due with the nourishment at ‘and. Turning around, Mauvais is surrounded by the dead bodies of a number of homeless men and women.
(2nd Story)40,000 years ago, a spacecraft crashed into Earth, releasing a number of “eggs.” By chance, one of them landed in a quarry of rocks.
40 years ago, two men are out hunting. The older man mentions to the younger man, Michael, that he thought he said he got the beast, where is he? Michael replies that it’s out there somewhere. The older man then says to Michael that he wants him to appoint him sheriff of his town? First he takes his daughter, then he wants a job. Now he expects him to track his kill?
Michael tells the older man, Thomas, to please be quiet. He hit the bear all right, it’s out there. Thomas replies that of course he’s out there. He adds that he hopes his grandson, Peter, is a better woodsman than he’s proven to be. Maybe he’ll get lucky and take after the Grants. Thomas then tells Michael to watch for him. If he’s in that stand of trees like he thinks he is, they have him cornered. He’ll be angry and unpredictable so…
Just then, an enraged gigantic brown bear emerges. Two rifle shots later from Thomas and the bear falls off the cliff and onto the rocks below. Michael then asks Thomas if he saw that; the bear fell right down the crevasse. Thomas states like he said, “unpredictable.” Looking down into the crevasse he adds that the bear looks dead but wonders what that is next to it. It looks like… Michael finishes his thought for him – an egg.
Today, Logan rides his motorcycle in the direction of the town of Holly. About a week ago, he heard from an ol’ friend of his, Gus. Fella owns a bed and breakfast in a small town outside o’ Medicine Hat. He says he’s foldin’ up shop and headin’ to his sister’s place in Vancouver. He said something wasn’t right, sounded spooked pretty bad. Then his sister, Gert, calls him and says that Gus ain’t showed at her place yet and told him that she had a bad feeling. Reaching the destroyed bed and breakfast, Logan sniffs the empty rifle shells and believes that he thinks she’s onto something. You couldn’t find more obvious signs of foul play this side of a hockey game. He guesses he should start at the top.
Making his way to the police station, the policeman tells Logan again. His fath…, er, the sheriff is out on a call. Maybe he should just move on. Besides, Gus left town a couple of weeks ago. Logan states that he spoke with Gus not three days ago and he was still in town. He was just out to his place and it was burnt to the ground… Grabbing his rifle and pointing it at Logan, the policeman tells him that he doesn’t care why he’s there or what he wants but he’s an officer of the law and he wants him out of the station house in three seconds.
Upon leaving the station house, Logan thinks to himself that ol’ boy is shook up by something and it ain’t him, so he cut him some slack. ‘Sides, he can find his pop on his own. Scents are like fingerprints and the good sheriff left his all over the place in there. That means if the wind works with him, he can pick it up out of there and follow that signature scent like a radio beacon right to the source. But first, he has to see where that gnarly funk is coming from. It lingers in the air like a misting o’ the worst puke you’ve ever been unfortunate t’ get wind of. It makes it tough to pick up anythin’ else.
Entering a boarded up church, Logan says that it smells like somethin’ very bad, but somehow familiar. Tossing a piece of rubble down a pit, Logan wonders what happened there. At that moment, a priest emerges from the shadows and tells Logan that there’s nothing down there anymore. He then introduces himself as Father Braun and says not to have any fear; the beast has gone on his way. Logan asks what it was; it smells like hell down there, beg his pardon. Braun replies that actually, it is a demon straight from the depths of the inferno. The people of this town have been led astray. They held services and worshipped the shackled fiend like a god. When he arrived there two weeks ago, he found an entire town sunken in darkness and now they must face judgment for he has unleashed hell upon them for their transgressions and… Logan asks that he means t’ tell him that he turned a horrible thing like that loose? What would he go and do that for?
Leaving the church, Logan asks Braun that he said that the town patriarch, Thomas Grant, had everybody worshipping some sorta’ monster or ‘demon’ for the better part o’ 40 years – why would anyone listen to a nut job like that? Braun remarks that, when he met the sinister fellow, he too witnessed his strange charisma. But he saw through it. He recognized him for what he truly was and, from what he has been able to piece together, he not only founded the town but he sired most of the residents. He’s quite mad, he can assure him.
When Logan asks about the rest of the town, Braun tells him that they are dead for the most part. He’d been trying to save their souls since he first arrived but they wouldn’t hear of it. They were lost forever. In fact, two nights ago they came to the lodge at which he was staying. They wanted his head and when the proprietor wouldn’t let them at him, they shot him and burned down his establishment.
Immediately, Logan knows that it was Gus. Braun tells him that he’s sorry but fear not for Gus’ soul. He was doing the Lord’s work and thanks to his sacrifice, he managed to escape. But those heathens will not be so lucky in the end. In the dead of night, he unchained the beast and unleashed him upon those who had turned away from the Lord. The unspeakable horror rose from the pit, free at long last. It visited hell’s wrath upon all those who had contributed to its captivity those many years. Logan asks about the deputy back at the station. He seemed fine to him, maybe a little paranoid, but… Braun remarks that is indeed curious. The sheriff and his son never seemed to involve themselves in anything. Not the beast, not the fire, nor prevention of his friend’s murder – nothing. They behave like ghosts.
Logan replies that he don’t get it yet either. But he can smell where the thing is and he thinks the sheriff is there too, up the road. Braun says ah yes. The road leads towards the Grant’s manor house. Soon, the demon will finish its work and it will then fall upon him to send it back to the bloated bowels of hell. But let it finish its task first. Logan asks that he’s a mite blood thirsty for a man o’ the cloth, ain’t he? They can’t just let it go and slaughter any more people, no matter what they did.
At the Grant Manor house, Logan informs Braun that it might get pretty dicey in there. Maybe he should leave this to a professional. Brandishing a sword, Braun tells Logan that he is a professional; he and his sword are an instrument of the Lord. Inside the house, Logan and Braun discover the dead bodies of the sheriff and his wife. Upon seeing them, Logan says to Braun that by settin’ this thing free, he’s responsible for the deaths of these people. He better pray that it can be stopped. Braun responds that he forgets. These are the selfsame people that killed his friend. Either by action or omission, they are accountable. The sheriff and his wife were guilty and now they have paid.
Just then, Braun and Logan hear screams of NOOOOO and a loud roar emanating from upstairs. Once they get upstairs and see a monstrous mutated bear with sores and a number of eyes covering its body, Logan knew that the scent he picked up in town was a Plodex. It is an alien creature that mimics the characteristics of whatever it absorbs. One of ‘em used to run with Alpha Flight – Marrina. She was a lot easier on the eyes and nose than this creature here, a lot…
Just then, the old man in the room, Thomas, pleads with his grandson, Peter, to shoot the thing. Peter replies that he’s the one who wanted this thing around. He should let it tear him apart for how he treated him and dad. Now dad’s dead and he’s next. What does he think of the town’s god now? Taking a shot at the creature, Peter tells his grandfather that they can die together. Jamming his sword in the bear, Braun tells the deputy to redeem himself. With a mighty swat of its paw, the creature knocks both Braun and Peter away.
Facing off against the monster, Logan tells it that he’s sorry he’s gotta put it down, but it’s just way too ugly to live. After the creature cracks Logan in the face and bloodies him, Logan proceeds to pop his claws and viciously attacks the bear. After killing the bear, Logan thinks to himself so much for not-so-gentle Ben and realizes that the fire is spreading fast. He also notices that it looks like Braun and Deputy Pete are in a bad way. He could also use a drink and wonders if Father Braun has a nip o’ the Irish on him.
While he carries Braun and Peter out of the burning house, Logan lets the house burn. He’d burn the whole stinkin’ town if he thought it’d do Gus any good. The grandfather’s dead, but he’ll have to drop the deputy and Braun off at the hospital. Then he’ll have to take care of the bad news in the morning.
The next morning, Logan calls Gert and tells her the bad news. He then tells her that Gus went out on the side o’ the angels, protectin’ a priest of all things. With his mission over, Logan heads on back down the road on his motorcycle.