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The Dark Angel Saga, chapter one: Journey to the Age of Apocalypse
‘Nightcrawler. Cable. Jean - too many bright days marred by funerals. I ain’t gonna lose Warren, too. No matter what he’s done’ Wolverine a.k.a. Logan thinks to himself from inside the laboratory of the mischievous Dark Beast from the Age of Apocalypse. ‘Bellies aflutter with anticipation? Mine is, oh, joy. The Age of Apocalypse awaits!’ the Dark Beast exclaims as he uses his equipment open a portal to his world. Wolverine watches the Dark Beast, reminding himself that he has a “thing” that can separate Warren from the devil inside him, and so X-Force is going to get that “thing” - no matter where it is. Betsy “Psylocke” Braddock, Fantomex and Wade “Deadpool” Wilson stand alongside Wolverine as Betsy announces that she has scanned the Dark Beast’s mind and what he says is true. ‘Even so, there’ no way to look before the leap’ Betsy points out as the portal whirls before them.
Logan tells himself that time is short, that every passing minute the darkness inside Warren grows stronger, making his friend the new Apocalypse. Fantomex asks his teammates if they have informed Mr McCoy of how offensively they will murder him if he pulls the proverbial “fast one” on them. ‘Logan did’ Betsy announces, while Wolverine watches his friend, realizing that she is acting hard, but she is shaken and in denial about the stakes. The Dark Beast tells X-Force to trust him or not, but if they want to save their friend, the Life Seed is the only solution. He informs them that once though, they must move quickly, as the portal will disappear in three hours.
‘A time limit? No way that goes sideways on us’ Deadpool mutters, but the Dark Beast assures everyone that is ample time to gather the Life Seed and return. ‘Ten bucks says this is a stupid idea. Anyone?’ Deadpool asks, but Wolverine tells him to pack it in, before asking Betsy if everyone is linked. ‘All but Fantomex who refuses to lower his dampening plates’ Betsy replies. ‘What a jerk he is’ Fantomex mutters, ‘I still don’t trust that guy’ he adds, before X-Force and the Dark Beast enter the portal to the Age of Apocalypse.
As the heroes and the Dark Beast arrive in this other world, the stench hits Wolverine - he feels like he is back in the WWII camps, there is death in the air and lots of it. The Dark Beast holds a laptop computer in his hands and announces that according to his data, the city is sparsely populated. ‘This ain’t no city - it’s a graveyard’ Wolverine declares. Dark Beast remarks that it appears since the death of Apocalypse, the world’s new superintendent has done some human “spring cleaning”, before announcing that he needs to get high to try and see his lab. ‘We need to get high to see your lab?’ Fantomex asks as they follow the Dark Beast down a dirty street, unaware that they are being followed by a scrawny young man.
The Dark Beast bounds up the fire escape stairs on the outside of an apartment building, and X-Force follow him, while Deadpool asks his teammates if they remember the time when Warren went bat-ass crazy and started killing people to cover up for X-Force. No one answers, so Deadpool continues, declaring that they had to spring psycho-Hank McCoy from prison so he could take them to his home dimension in “butthole town”, so they could run around looking for a magic seed. ‘Ahhh, those were good-good times, right?’ Deadpool asks. As the quintet reaches the top of the apartment building, they look over the city - a polluted sky hangs like a dark blanket over the city. Fires burn from building ruins. Blimps aim spotlights down upon the city, where most buildings are in ruins. A large tower stands in the center of the city, and above it, an asteroid floats, with a mini-city on it. A blue light shines down upon the asteroid.
‘Look at this. Ione of you asses owes me ten dollars!’ Deadpool declares. Fantomex reminds him that no one took him up on his bet, while the Dark Beast motions outwards and announces that his lab is in that building, but the place is filthy with Sentinels, so stealth is advised. ’Let’s go!’ he announces. Betsy turns to Logan, waiting for his order, but the Dark Beast declares that Logan is not running this show. ’If you want to save poor Warren, you’ll follow me!’ the Dark Beast exclaims as he leaps off the rooftop. X-Force drop down afterwards, with Wolverine thinking ’This is what happens in a world without Chuck Xavier. This is what happens when Apocalypse ascends. This is what happens when we fail’, before declaring that it is not like they have any options, so they have to follow the Dark Beast. However, the heroes are still being followed.
Nearby in the city, a line of humans has formed, while being monitored by guards - Master Akkaba. ‘Get your food and get back to work!’ one of the armored Akkaba declares. ‘Shuffle your old human bones inside or I will aid you, woman!’ another orders. The woman asks the Master Akkaba to forgive her, explaining that this will be her first meal in days. ‘Doing my best -’ she begins, but the Master Akkaba tells her that hger best is wasting his time, and calling her “gene-trash” he kicks her to the ground. Suddenly, ‘It’s because she’s just an old woman. Wanna see if my best makes the cut?’ Wolverine asks as he and the others stand ready. An instant later, the Master Akkaba all lie motionless, presumably dead, on the dirty ground.
Wolverine asks if there is any ID on the old-lady-beating chumps he just dropped, while Deadpool looks inside the building and exclaims ‘Hey! They’re giving away free soup!’ The Dark Beast explains that he is unfamiliar with the new management, to which Fantomex remarks’ Quite understated’ before asking the Dark Beast if he is certain this is his lab. But McCoy replies that he said he was unfamiliar with the new management, and declares that the landscape is still his design, as he enters a code on a security pad, a door opens, and a brain floating in a globe appears before them. ‘Welcome home, Dr McCoy’ the brain announces. The Dark Beast addresses the brain as Dimitri and asks if there have been any visitors.
Dimitri replies that the laboratory has not been accessed since McCoy’s last visit, five thousand and six days ago. ‘Nice digs. Guess brain-in-a-jar makes a crap house sitter’ Deadpool jokes as X-Force make their way down a flight of stairs. The Dark Beast tells the mutants that there is no need for nervous mockery, and assures them that they are quite safe in his company. Betsy telepathically informs Wolverine that their “host” has picked up o0n their anxiety, to which Wolverine’s thoughts reply ‘We’re vulnerable here, Bets. No bravado can hide it’. The Dark Beast stops by a photograph mounted to his wall: ‘Ahh, the ol’ crew. We had the rule of the roost for decades until Magneto and a small band of idiots undermined it’ he remarks as he stares at the poster.
‘Is that -’ Betsy begins, ‘Scott and Alex Summers were loyal servants of Apocalypse. Answers the nurture-nature debate’ McCoy remarks, adding that they died when Apocalypse was killed, and reveals that spies informed him Sinister made a failed bid for power soon after. ‘But then my scouts disappeared’ McCoy explains. Deadpool stands in front of the large photograph and shouts ‘Oh, hey, I’m sorry, you must have us mistaken for people who care about your stupid fake world’s history’ before informing the Dark Beast that he is wasting his time and wasting his money. ‘And my mind is on my money and my money is on my mind!’ Deadpool adds.
The Dark Beast turns and walks towards a large console, and mockingly replying ‘Yes. Of the various parties currently having their time wasted, it is yours I am most concerned with, Mr Wilson’. The Dark Beast begins tapping away at the console - with both his fingers and toes - and informs X-Force that what they are about to see is the seed planted on barren worlds by Celestial gardeners to grow new life. He adds that it was acquired from a Celestial gardener so treacherous that Apocalypse called to Earth and killed. ‘I give you…the Celestial Life Seed’ the Dark Beast announces as a drawer opens - and the Life Seed is revealed, held securely in the drawer.
Suddenly, there is a bamf, as Nightcrawler appears in the Dark Beast’s lab! He thinks McCoy for showing him the item they desire and Nightcrawler tells McCoy that if it is important enough for him to return after all this time, ‘I would like to ensure you do not obtain it!’ Nightcrawler adds as he picks up the Life Seed, and holds his sword at McCoy’s throat. ‘Kurt Darkholme, you slippery idiot. How have you survived this long?’ McCoy remarks as he grabs the sword, sending an electrical surge through it, which knocks Nightcrawler backwards.
‘Enough!’ Wolverine exclaims as he shoves his elbow into McCoy’s face. But Logan realizes that he has overreacted and almost killed their ticket home. Wolverine looks at Nightcrawler and tells him that they are not on McCoy’s side of the fence. ‘Y-you’re dead…I-it cannot be!’ he gasps. But for Wolverine, seeing his friend alive is like a mule kick to the gut. ‘I was thinking the same thing…if you’ll listen to me, I can -’ Wolverine begins, but Nightcrawler gets confused when he sees Logan’s hand in tact. Wolverine tells himself to keep his emotions in control, that he cannot afford to get distracted. ‘You are not my friend!’ Nightcrawler exclaims, before bounding away from Wolverine, and teleporting away, with the Life Seed.
‘Find him!’ McCoy shouts, telling X-Force that they have no idea how difficult that seed will be to replace. ‘Quiet. He can only teleport so far’ Betsy replies as she begins a psionic scan, she then telepathically informs wolverine that Nightcrawler is out on the street. Wolverine’s thoughts ask Betsy to stay here and keep nasty McCoy under wraps, as he is their only way out of this pit. Wolverine races up the stairs, with Deadpool and Fantomex following him. ‘Wade, scout from the windows. Le Pew, the rooftops’ Wolverine orders. ‘Because you’re such an O.G.?’ Deadpool asks.
As Logan emerges on the street, he picks up Nightcrawler’s brimstone stench down the way - and another scent, too. ‘No!’ Logan thinks to himself, but it’s too late, ‘Well, whadda we got here…’ the Age of Apocalypse Sabretooth snarls as he lunges at Wolverine, and draws blood as his claws slash across Wolverine’s stomach. ‘…a dumb runt ain’t got the brains to stay dead!’ Sabretooth declares. ‘Creed’ Logan mutters as he drops to his knees and blood trickles out of his mouth. ‘Nice of ‘em to install memories in that fraud clone brain’ Sabretooth snarls. Wolverine coughs up more blood and mutters that he has not got time for this tussle. ‘Well this tussle’s got time for you!’ Sabretooth declares as he once again lunges at Wolverine, who shouts ‘Listen!’ and slashes his adamantium claws through Sabretooth’s arm. Wolverine informs Sabretooth that he is not who he thinks. ‘But I will gut you if you keep pushing me -’ Wolverine begins, until he is knocked over by the insane Wild Child, who shrieks ‘Kill you! Kill you! Me kill! Kill McCoy’s devil!’
Up on the roof, Nightcrawler climbs up and sees Deadpool standing before him. ‘Heya, Kurt. I need to get that seed thing you took. It’s important’ Deadpool announces. ‘Dead Man Wade, did McCoy tell you who killed the man you were cloned from?’ Nightcrawler asks, before announcing ‘I did. Wanna know how I did it?’ he asks, examining the Life Seed, before teleporting up behind Deadpool, and landing on his back. ‘Please don’t’ Deadpool exclaims. “Please?” Nightcrawler mocks as he teleports Deadpool’s head only. ‘Manners are so disingenuous. I’d prefer your true feelings’ Nightcrawler declares, but he is shocked when the head - and body - vanish. Down below, Deadpool and Fantomex race down an alley, the Life Seed in Deadpool’s hand. Wade asks Fantomex how long the misdirection will last. ‘Not long. I’d wager it has already - ended?’ Fantomex replies as Nightcrawler teleports alongside them, and shoves his sword through Deadpool’s head.
Meanwhile, ‘Die, pig, die!’ Wild Child exclaims as he begins slashing Wolverine’s back, drawing blood. Logan realizes that Wild Child is shredding muscle faster than he can heal it. But as he stares Sabretooth down, Wolverine knows that if he turns to face Wild Child, Sabretooth will eviscerate him. Logan tells himself that he has one shot, and needs to get his opponents lined up right. They are, so Logan elbows wild Child in the face, knocking him back, before shoving his claws through Sabretooth’s chest. Logan forces Creed to the ground, ‘Always such a damn tough guy, Creed. So tough you always end up dead’ Wolverine declares as he holds Creed down, and his claws loom over him.
Suddenly though, ‘Stop!’ Betsy shouts, taking psychic possession of Wolverine, preventing him from killing Creed. Betsy rushes towards Wolverine, announcing that she recognizes him, and explains that this Creed is very different to the Victor Creed that Wolverine knows. ‘B-Braddock…’ Creed gasps, linked to Betsy psionically.
Nearby, Fantomex has engaged Nightcrawler in battle and exclaims ‘I sense my companions have true feelings for you’. Still clutching the Life Seed, Nightcrawler replies that McCoy must have planted memories that they were all great friends. ‘No. Not you and me’ Fantomex replies as he punches Nightcrawler in the face, causing him to drop the Life Seed - however with Deadpool incapacitated, the Life Seed bounces across the road - and lands at the feet of Sunfire, who picks it up. ‘This is the item McCoy returns for?’ he asks, before taking flight and announcing that he will destroy it.
‘Please - do not do that!’ Fantomex calls out, while Nightcrawler suggests to Sunfire that they see what the others think. ‘They will think I am right’ Sunfire replies as he throws the Life Seed out ahead of himself in the air - and unleashes a massive burst of energy in an attempt to destroy it. ‘They will thank my for my prudence’ Sunfire announces. ‘No!’ gasps Psylocke as she and the others look up at the explosion overhead. Psylocke tells Creed that he and his lot of reactionary idiots have just sentenced her world to death. ‘She ain’t lying. That was the key to stopping a new Apocalypse’ Wolverine adds. Suddenly, a portal appears and the Dark Beast exclaims ‘Much more than that, actually…but that would be telling. I’m going now. Have a terrible life here’ he tells X-Force, asking them to apologize to Deadpool for him, for further wasting his time.
When the portal closes behind the Dark Beast, Betsy exclaims ‘You fools just stranded us here!’. Sunfire asks if he should bathe the frauds in atomic flame, but Sabretooth tells him to take it easy. ‘My brain hurts’ Deadpool mutters as Fantomex helps him towards the others. Sabretooth tells Sunfire that the “frauds” may be telling the truth. ‘I know the bird. Long story. Some sex’ he declares. But Sunfire points out that regardless of their motives, the “frauds” were still being used. ‘I stand by my choice’ he announces. But Sabretooth explains that these may be genuine idiots who were genuinely duped by McCoy. ‘Pop your mouth off again and it’ll take more than Braddock to stop me’ Wolverine warns Sabretooth, who replies ‘Some frail act you got there, boy’.
‘Don’t know a damn thing. Posse of babes with soft, pink bellies’ Sabretooth declares. ‘Victor, you presumptuous ass! You have no idea what I’ve been though since we last met!’ Betsy exclaims. Creed tells Betsy that since her chum McCoy left her here, they have got lots of time to get reacquainted. ‘Not if we stay here. Those Sentinels overhead are being deployed!’ Nightcrawler announces as he looks upwards, adding that it is time to go home.
‘…and we came here in hopes of acquiring the Life Seed…to stop Warren from being consumed by the heir of Apocalypse’ Wolverine explains inside the submarine that makes its way to an undersea complex. The rest of X-Force, as well as Sabretooth, Wild Child, Nightcrawler and Sunfire are inside the submarine as Sunfire announces that there is no stopping Apocalypse, as he is reborn time and time again. ‘The vile fate that has befallen us is what awaits you. Make no mistake’ Sunfire adds. ‘Give it a rest, Sally Sad Song’ Creed orders. ‘You crapped the bed on this one. Smearing it in ain’t gonna cover it up’ Creed adds.
Betsy looks at Fantomex and tells him that she appreciates him coming. ‘I know you and Warren aren’t close - it’s a sign of character you would risk so much to aid him’ Betsy adds. ‘Come now. You know I’m not doing this for Warren, Elisabeth’ Fantomex replies. ‘You’ve seen dark times. You have my sympathies. We too have lost many close to us’ Nightcrawler tells Wolverine, who replies that there is plenty of heartache to go around. Anxiously, Sunfire offers his apologies to the “frauds”, telling them that he believed them to be tools of McCoy. He adds that they cannot be too careful, as there is much at stake and there are too few of them. ‘Yeah. We know the feeling. I take my hat off to ya for your choice hideout’ Wolverine replies as he gazes out the window, adding that it does not get much more fortified than Atlantis.
As they approach the complex, Wolverine reminds himself that Betsy insists this Creed is a good man, which may be true. But it doesn’t lessen the instinct to cut Sabretooth in half. Logan tells himself that hate like that runs deep, and reason does not turn it off. As the submarine docks inside a hangar bay, X-Force and the Age of Apocalypse mutants walk through the bay, and into a tubular corridor, Logan tells himself that reason doesn’t turn off his feelings for Nightcrawler, either. ‘Welcome to the last free city on Earth. If you are hungry -’ Sunfire begins, but Wolverine replies that they are not hungry, they are edgy. ‘Need to find us a way back home’ he declares. Nightcrawler announces that if there is a way, the boss will know, and Wolverine thinks that Nightcrawler’s voice takes him back to good times, reminds him how far away they are now.
Logan informs everyone that in the world they come from, Xavier never died, that it never gets this bad. ‘Yet, from the looks of things, the ascension and dominion of Apocalypse is inevitable in all dimensions’ Nightcrawler points out. Hearing Nightcrawler hurts Wolverine like almost nothing else. Nightcrawler enters a code on a security panel and remarks ‘They aren’t expecting us. I wanted to address this situation…in person’, before declaring ‘Allow me to introduce you to our leader’. Wolverine watches Nightcrawler and thinks to himself that the only other person who could tear him up this bad is Jean. And yet, as the door slides open, Wolverine sees a wheelchair-bound Magneto - and Jean Grey! ‘Logan?’ a surprised Jean asks as she drops her wine glass, which shatters as it hit’s the ground….


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The Dark Angel Saga, chapter two: Interruptions
The Age of Apocalypse reality, specifically down under the ocean, in New Atlantis. Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, not of this reality, stands on an observation deck and looks out at the water and recalls that when he first joined up with the X-Men, the entire squad gave him the pariah treatment, as to them, he was a killer, an animal. But not to Jean, as she saw something in him, a piece of herself she had kept hidden, a piece she could not hide with Logan around - and everybody noticed.
 Logan drinks from a bottle of alcohol as he remembers that Cyclops definitely noticed, as he was with Jean - that was just how it was. How it always was. If Wolverine got too close to her, Cyclops or Archangel would make sure he knew that Jean was too good for him. ‘And she was’ Logan tells himself, but he knows that didn’t change the looks Jean would give  him- sent him a different kind of feral. Logan remembers that Jean died in his arms, and tells himself that he misses her every single day since.
‘As I miss my husband, Logan’ a voice inside Wolverine’s head calls out. Logan glances sideways to the Jean Grey of this reality and tells her that his Jean was not so casual about strolling through other people’s heads. ‘How did things turn out for her?’ Jean asks. Logan detects an electric charge between the two of them, but realizes this Jean is hiding it. ‘Handmade by God to afflict me’ Logan tells himself. Jean Grey leans against the railing next to Wolverine and tells him that her husband has been dead for nearly ten years now, and that it never got easier, losing him. ‘Get’s harder every day’ she explains. They both stare out into the water before them as Jean explains that before Cyclops died, they both made a promise to Erik, to help his resistance - no matter the price. ‘Our world collapsed. Erik’s spine was crushed when he failed to save his son’s life. I was left to prop up the remaining X-Men’ Jean reveals.
‘And now, in our darkest hour - in you walk’ Jean remarks. Logan tells her that it is not any easier for him, seeing her, or seeing what has gone on here for her. Logan turns and looks at her as he tells that she may not be his Jeannie, but that she has her heart. ‘I’m sorry for this. Sorry you’ve had to live through it’ Logan adds. ‘Sorry. Yes’ Jean remarks, adding that she combed through his thoughts and saw Charles Xavier, saw how he helped him. ‘Yeah. Chuck did right by me’ Logan replies. Jean glances sideways as she tells Logan that she saw how much Charles cared, and what a different world it is with him in it. ‘Without Xavier, Apocalypse was free to spread his darkness, free to propel our world into endless conflict’ Jean tells Logan, before revealing that they defeated Apocalypse, and almost negated their entire world, but they did it, and Mr Sinister after him. ‘We never gave an inch’ she exclaims.
‘Who caused all of this then?’ Wolverine asks. Jean hesitates and remains silent, before replying ‘Something worse’. Jean explains that things were better for a time, before that ship landed in the middle of Manhattan. She tells Wolverine that Logan - her Logan - and a squad of X-Men gathered to go kill whoever was inside it. She begins to cry as she explains that she did not go with him, as she thought it was a mistake, their number too few. ‘None returned’ she announces. ‘He should’ve waited till he had manpower. That ain’t on you, Jeannie’ Logan tells her, but Jean replies that it is, and tells him that she has been in his head, seen his memories. ‘You know what the Dark Phoenix can do’ she declares. Jean hangs her head and remarks that she has that inside her - the Phoenix Force - that she could have helped save her Wolverine.
‘You go on, sit there thinking that way - see what it’ll get you’ Wolverine tells Jean, while telling himself that he wants to hold her - to comfort her - but he knows it is not appropriate, as he is promised to another woman. Logan tells Jean that he is sorry for her lot, but that he has his own problems. ‘I need to get back home, darling’ he adds. But Jean’s scent is like morphine to him, and it surges through him, dominating his senses. Logan explains to Jean that it is his squad’s responsibility to make sure none of this happens back home. ‘Here we are stuck, no way back….’ he begins. Jean touches his arm and asks ‘How bad would that be? If you were stuck here…with me’. But Logan brushes her hands away, ‘Jeannie - I ain’t your Logan…’ he remarks.
Jean replies that she doesn’t care. ‘My God’ Logan tells himself, as Jean touches his face - they move closer together, their faces near each other, ‘Jean Grey’ Wolverine thinks to himself as they kiss. Suddenly though, Jean goes wide-eyed and pulls away. ‘Oh - oh God’ she utters. ‘You’re right. We shouldn’t’ Wolverine declares. ‘Million reasons we shouldn’t -’ Wolverine begins, but Jean replies ‘No…just one’ Jean utters as she looks upwards, behind Wolverine, to where a massive Sentinel stands in the water, next to the observation booth. ‘Sort of thing you see a lot of in my line of work’ Wolverine thinks to himself, although he cannot remember one showing up at a less opportune moment. ‘Stand still!’ Jean tells Logan as the Sentinel smashes through the observation booth, which begins to fill with water. ‘I’ll protect you!’ Jean tells Logan as she telekinetically lifts herself into the air, while the Sentinel announces ‘Target designate: Jean Grey, resistance leader. Affiliation: X-Men’.
Logan tells himself that there is not a hint of irony in Jean’s voice, realizing that she has seen ugliness, and is used to throwing herself in front of it to protect those she loves. Logan calls out to Jean, informing her that it is not usual for him to let other people tussle in his stead. ‘It isn’t for concern of your competency…’ Jean replies, while the Sentinel attempts to apprehend her. ‘I can simply get it done faster’ Jean boasts as she casts forth energy at the Sentinel, knocking it backwards. Jean drops back down onto the platform and tells Wolverine that they have to close off the atrium or it will flood the city. ‘Get a lot of those?’ Wolverine asks. Jean replies that this is the first and that it is likely to be a scout. ‘Meaning…?’ Wolverine asks. ‘They know we’re here’ Jean declares.
Soon, Wolverine follows Jean and this reality’s Nightcrawler down a corridor, as Nightcrawler asks ‘So, after years of being safely hidden here, Sentinels have discovered us, confidentially, right after the arrival of these strangers?’ ‘I’d be thinking the same thing, Elf’ Wolverine remarks, to which Jean assures Nightcrawler that she has scoured his mind, and that Wolverine is not the threat. Nightcrawler suggests that it could be false memories, pointing out that they don’t know what they are up against. Jean stands in front of a door and replies ‘No, but we know they’re on their way here. We have no time for internal strife’ before asking Nightcrawler if he called for the meeting. ‘They’re waiting inside’ Nightcrawler replies, and as the doors slide open, a dozen others are waiting in the room.
From Wolverine’s world, Betsy “Psylocke” Braddock, Wade “Deadpool” Wilson and the enigmatic Fantomex, while natives to this reality include Gambit, Magneto, Rogue, Sabretooth, Wild Child, Sunfire, Iceman, the Silver Samurai and a young woman with dark hair and exotic features. Everyone stares at Wolverine, while the mysterious young woman announces’ Thank you for gracing us with your presence’. A strange being in red and purple armor with short arms and legs and a massive head sits near her, as she reports that at 0800 hours today their home was scouted by a Sentinel. She announces that soon an army of Sentinels, likely accompanied by the Black Legion, will come to annihilate them, and remarks that they are left with only one option - to attack them first.
The young woman continues, revealing that the Akkaba chatter they have intercepted has referred to their enemy as the “Heir of Apocalypse”, and explains that the object their new companions sought may hold the key to their salvation. ’A Life Seed may be our only solution’ she announces, before motioning to the strange being behind her and introducing him as MODOK, and revealing that he has tested samples of the Seed that was destroyed. ‘The DNA strands are inversely disproportionate to those of Apocalypse - the seed of his antithesis’ she adds. Fantomex explains that McCoy said that he acquired the Life Seed from a Celestial gardener that came to Earth and was killed by Apocalypse. Motioning to a monitor, which depicts a massive being lying motionless in a jungle, the young woman reports that MODOK has discovered the Celestial and detected Life Seeds within it.
Fantomex announces that they will take a team in EVA, borrow two Life Seeds from the not-so-jolly giant and be home in time for tea. ‘Or post-Apocalypse rations or whatever you have lying around. Rancid Folgers, whatever’ Fantomex adds. The young woman continues, remarking that McCoy, knowing that Psylocke would detect if he were lying, told them the truth about the seed, though he clearly desired it for his own purposes and had plans of a double-cross upon its acquisition, the Life Seed is the key to killing Apocalypse. Logan waves a hand in front of the blank-looking MODOK and remarks ‘Sounds like a lot of conjecture’ before asking if they trust MODOK with their lives. Sitting in his wheelchair, Magneto replies that the MODOK has no free will of its own, that it is merely a flawed clone of Charles Xavier’s brain connected to Cerebro and housed in a vessel that can protect itself - in this case, a MODOK. ‘Yeah…that ain’t helping set my mind at ease’ Wolverine replies.
‘We sort of glazed over something here…this Life Seed, it’ll kill him?’ Deadpool asks. ‘Are we talking about killing Warren?’ he enquires, referring to Archangel. Wolverine and Betsy look at each other in silence. Sunfire asks how, once they have gathered the seeds, they get the doppelgangers back to their home. The young woman points to Iceman and announces that he has that covered. Reclining on a bed of ice, Iceman explains that he had MODOK locate a dude named Gateway, and that is file indicates he has the power, with the right push, to jump them back home. Betsy announces that she can inform Gateway where to send them, as she has given him locations via telepathy for years. ‘He’s your only chance…but you’re not going to like where he is. He’s locked within the Akkaba prison known as The Sky’ the young woman announces.
An image of the floating prison, The Sky, appears on a monitor, and Jean Grey declares ‘Then that’s where we’re going’, and announces that Fantomex will take one team to get the seeds, while she leads another to the black tower to rescue Gateway. ‘The Sentinels will soon be upon us. Say goodbye to this place - we leave in an hour’ Jean tells her team, before turning to leave the room, ordering everyone to reconvene tomorrow at the remains of the Mansion. ‘Just another day in hell’ Wolverine thinks to himself as he watches Jean leave, while the mysterious young woman approaches him, pointing out that they had not been introduced. ‘Hmmm?’ Wolverine replies, before extending his hand, they shake hands as he introduces himself, and the young woman calls herself Kirika.
‘You look familiar…your scent…’ Logan replies, to which Kirika suggests he may have known her mother, Mariko Yashida. ‘And my father…’ her voice trails off, as she turns from Wolverine, telling him that it is good to have him with them. ‘See there, Mariko? The daughter we never had. Too much to process’ Wolverine thinks to himself, frowning. Sabretooth sneaks up behind Wolverine and declares that he doesn’t care what the others say. ‘You better hope I don’t find out Sentinels tracked you here, frail’ he warns him. ‘Don’t matter what world you’re from, Creed. You’ll always be an idiot’ Logan replies before he walks away.
‘Elisabeth. Given the desperate situation we now find ourselves in, perhaps…’ Fantomex calls out to Betsy as he follows her down a corridor. ‘Another time’ Betsy calls back. But Fantomex replies that he doesn’t feel like being avoided or barked at anymore. ‘You’re being rude’ he tells Betsy, grabbing her by the arm. ‘With good reason’ Betsy replies. ‘Really? This? Still?’ Fantomex asks, declaring that he did the right thing, that the boy had been indoctrinated and would have grown into the monster Apocalypse. ‘We’ll never know’ Betsy points out.
‘What we do know is that Archangel, the creature under your way, has’ Fantomex declares. Wide-eyed, Betsy replies ‘You can’t possibly blame me -’, to which Fantomex asks her what it is that they are doing here, and answers his own question by telling Betsy that they are trying to undo her mess. ‘We are trying to save your beau, because under your ever-so-diligent watch it appears that death has taken him over’ Fantomex declares. This angers Betsy, who shouts ‘How dare you?’ and calls Fantomex an insensitive bastard. ‘The man I love is in desperate need of help and you blame me?’
Narrowing his eyes, Fantomex tells Betsy that is all Archangel has ever needed from her - help. Fantomex apologizes to Betsy if this is an inconvenient moment for her to hear the truth, and tells her that she doesn’t love Warren Worthington. ‘You love being needed’ he tells her, before walking away. However the conversation is not over, as Betsy calls out to him, ‘Come back here - we’re not through!’ she calls after him, telling Fantomex that he has no idea what she and Warren have been through. ‘You smug son of a bitch - look at me when I talk to you!’ Betsy shrieks as she punches Fantomex, knocking him backwards, and drawing blood.
Fantomex rubs his face while Betsy declares that she and Warren have fought through these incredible circumstances because of their love. ‘He’s everything to me!’ she shouts. ‘Punch and scream - you cannot deny there is fire between us, Elisabeth’ Fantomex tells her. Fantomex turns to Betsy and tells her that she sees the hollowness in Warren’s eyes. ‘There is no warmth’ he remarks, but Betsy just tells him to shut up. Fantomex’s mask is raised up over his nose and he looks at Betsy, ‘The man you loved is long gone…’ he begins. ‘Don’t…’ Betsy replies. ‘But I am here’ Fantomex tells her - and an instant later, they kiss. But Betsy pulls away, desperately tortured, she turns from Fantomex and announces that she will not give up on Warren.
Later, EVA and a Sentinel-turned-transport fly side by side across the water, and inside EVA, Fantomex asks his companions - Rogue, Gambit and Sunfire - if they are 100% on this plan. ‘I still have misgivings, but it appears I am not to be heard’ EVA replies. Inside the Sentinel, Wolverine, Betsy, Deadpool and the others listen to Fantomex via a communicator, as Fantomex remarks ‘Should evens conspire against our return…everyone knows how much we care for one another’. Betsy doesn’t look at the monitor, wanting to avoid Fantomex, while Wolverine calls back ‘Happy hunting, LePew. Don’t botch it’. Wolverine then turns to Kirika, who is strapping up her wrists and tells her that she is making it too tight. ‘Hand it over, kiddo’ he tells her, before declaring ‘You’re a vision. Got a strong spirit, like your mother. Awful glad we got to meet, Kirika. You just can’t know how much’.
‘In your world…did you love her…my mother?’ Kirika asks. Wolverine replies that he loved her to the heavens, adding that she was one of the great loves in a long line. ‘You got all the stuff that made her shine’ Wolverine tells Kirika, before the Silver Samurai tells them to be quiet and be prepared, as they have arrived. The Sentinel descends on a platform atop The Sky. Magneto announces that he is misaligning the processors of these Sentinels, who will see them all as sentry guards. ’It is a demanding undertaking. Your haste would be appreciated’ Magneto informs everyone, while the Sentinels manning the towers on The Sky go about their business.
Jean Grey leaves the Sentinel in a blaze of flaming power, her costume transformed from green to red, while she carries her teammates Iceman, Nightcrawler, Sabretooth, Wild Child and Kirika, as well as Wolverine, Betsy and Deadpool, down onto the platform. Logan reminds himself that Warren is back home in a jail cell, waiting, transforming. ‘Even if we pull this off - get what we need - get home - I don’t know if any of us has what it takes to pull the trigger on him’. Jean telepathically informs everyone that Silver Samurai will guard Magneto, who is vulnerable while concentrating. As they enter the building, she warns everyone that they must be swift, and most of all quiet. Jean adds that Gateway is housed deep within and that they do not want to upset the monsters housed in this foul place.
Logan tells himself that he doesn’t know what they are walking into. ‘Too much on the line for spotty vision’ he adds. Deadpool apologizes to everyone in advance, explaining that he gets a little gassy before suicide missions. The team’s silence tells Wolverine that this is not good. ‘No guards’ he points out. Jean explains that none are needed, as the cages which line the corridors are impregnable - the prison itself is a Mastermold Sentinel. The mutants walk along a corridor, and Deadpool asks the natives of this reality if they get Axe Body Spray here. ‘What about ABBA? Jay Leno? Man, if you were spared that guy, I’d say you got the better end of the dimension stick’ Deadpool adds, while Nightcrawler tells him to stop.
Walking slightly ahead of the others, Wolverine calls out to Jean and remarks ‘I was thinking. This world…it’s lost. There ain’t no turning it back around’. Jean tells Wolverine that she is not sure she shares his pessimistic appraisal. ‘Share it or not, it’s the truth’ Logan replies, before declaring that if they pull this mission off, there is no reason for her to stay here. ‘You and yours can just come back with us’ Wolverine announces. Jean looks at Logan and tells him that she has seen it in his head and that it is a much nicer place. Suddenly, ‘I’m about to put somebody’s head in a much nicer place!’ a voice from above booms as a massive being drops down towards the mutants.
‘No…’ Iceman whispers as they look up, but it is too late to move, ‘Looks like it’s your lucky day, Drake!’ the obese, being laughs as he lands on Iceman, the others are knocked back by the resulting force of the landing. ‘Black Legion is here. Which means this is likely a trap, some sort of real bad luck fer you donkeys’ the Blob snarls, as he is flanked by his teammates - Grimm Chamber, White Cloak, Zombie Sentry, Iron Ghost, Orange Hulk, Demon-Ock, Manphibian and Beta Red. ‘We cannot win - they are beyond us! Run!’ Nightcrawler urges everyone. They do so, and run from the Black Legion, while Wolverine picks up another scent. ‘Can’t be right…’ he tells himself.
‘We’ll never make it out f here!’ Kirika calls out, but Wolverine tells her that Gateway can jump them all out, once they get to him everything will be fine. Suddenly, a massive flare of energy strikes Kirika, and a voice calls out ‘He’s lying’. The blast of energy subsides and Kirika’s body is lying on the floor - or what is left of it, that is. Adamantium claws stick up from her remains, as this reality’s Logan - Weapon X - stands over her. Gateway is hanging behind him, and Weapon X, with a large “A” on his belt shouts ‘Things’re gonna be awful, pumpkin!’


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The Dark Angel Saga, chapter three: My World Won’t Stop Without You
‘No, thank you, Wolverine. I don’t think I will join your X-clan. I appreciate the invite, but I’m having visions of being trapped in the belly of a Celestial Gardener - surrounded by strangers from a parallel dimension - hunting for the origin of life. An exhausting expedition I’d just as soon avoid. Ah, how things could’ve been were I not a terrible dolt’ Fantomex thinks to himself as he pilots EVA through an army of Celestial drones inside the Age of Apocalypse. The Celestial drones are managing to break through EVA, Accompanying Fantomex are three natives of this reality - Rogue, Sunfire and Gambit. ‘They just keep coming! They can’t be stopped!’ Rogue exclaims as she punches a drone backwards.
‘Bah! Fight them with heart or we will be overrun!’ Sunfire declares as he unleashes a burst of flaming energy. Gambit charges a playing card with kinetic energy and informs Fantomex that they cannot hold these things back much longer. ‘Suggestions?’ he asks. ‘Guns instead of playing cards’ Fantomex replies as he turns and fires a weapon at a Celestial drone which reaches for Gambit. Fantomex returns to controlling EVA and remarks that he is sure Gambit thought those playing cards were a cute idea. “Oh, look at a me, I’m such a roguish anti-hero, I toss around playing cards” Fantomex mocks, while offering to wager that Gambit has an eight ball tattooed somewhere, too. ‘Gallows humor, mon ami? Can we die in peace without suffering your performance?’ Gambit asks.
EVA moves into the Celestial, and announces that the Life Seed has been detected. ‘If I absorb more damage without time to heal…’ EVA announces, while one drone inside the Celestial utters something indecipherable. Fantomex tells himself that his travelling companions glean intimate secrets about each other, while the sexual tension between Rogue and Gambit was apparent before they left New Atlantis. Fantomex realizes that both are now waiting to see just how damned they are before unburdening themselves. The drone blasts EVA, who announces that rear gravity inversion maw is shattered. ‘I can no longer maintain gravity’ EVA states. ‘Rogue, there are things I must tell you -’ Gambit begins, to which Rogue informs him that he can tell her tonight from the safety of camp, as they are not dead yet.
Fantomex asks EVA that if she must crash, can she direct them towards the Life Seed, before wondering ‘Ah, what is this…fear? Reminds me how infrequently I feel it. Some part of my realizing the truth…that these Celestial drones will overtake us’. EVA plummets downwards, and Fantomex points out that these bruised souls are risking their lives to help them. ‘Please do not let them down!’ Fantomex declares. EVA replies that she will strive to smash into the location of Fantomex’s choosing without detonating or killing too many of their guests. EVA lands an instant later, and informs everyone that the Life Seed is in the chamber beneath her. ‘Let’s not dillydally’ she tells them.
Rogue helps Fantomex up, while Fantomex replies ‘Dillydally? Dear, you crack me up?’ before asking EVA if she can repair. EVA replies that she will need time. ‘Then you will have it!’ Sunfire declares as he takes to the air to challenge a Celestial drone. Rogue remarks that, for once, she is glad for Sunfire’s bottomless confidence. Fantomex sees some sort of control panel and climbs down towards it, while Gambit asks him if his French accent is fake. Fantomex explains that the virtual France he was raised in had imperfect programming. ‘Still more dignified than your mutt Creole, yes?’ Fantomex asks.
Rogue hovers by Sunfire who is still challenging the Celestial drone. Rogue remarks that they cannot take it down, but that they can buy Fantomex and Gambit some time. Sunfire tells her not to dampen his performance with her desperation, while he releases more flame at the drone. Standing before the control panel, Gambit asks Fantomex if he knows how to access Celestial technology. Fantomex replies that before seeing it, he would have said no, but that it is identical to the technology that he has used in The World. ‘A mystery for another time’ he decides as he presses his hand against a panel and suggests they get the Life Seed and go.
Suddenly, the drone strikes at Sunfire, knocking him back. ‘Quickly - tell it to give us another’ Gambit tells Fantomex as he attempts to press the control again. ‘No such luck. There is only the one’ Fantomex replies. As Rogue falls down next to them, and Fantomex mutters ‘Our situation did require another complication to be completely bolloxed’. The drone drops down beside them, ‘And another still’ Fantomex exclaims. Gambit shuffles his deck of cards and tells Fantomex and Rogue to go. ‘There is not defeating these things’ he points out. ‘No! We can -’ Rogue begins, but Gambit interrupts her and tells her to be the sensible one for once in her life. Rogue begins to protest once more, but Fantomex tells her that Gambit is right. ‘No other way we’re getting out of here’ he agrees.
Rogue grabs Fantomex and takes flight, while calling out to Gambit, telling him to hold the drone off and that they will be back for him. Gambit tells her that there is no time for delusions. ‘I will note leave this place’ he concedes, telling Rogue to get home and make something good from all of this. ‘So. Here we are. Standing against a terrible beast to save the true love of my life…there are worse ways to die’ Gambit declares as he releases the deck of kinetically charged cards at the drone, causing a massive explosion. Inside the escaping EVA, Rogue and Sunfire look down at the explosion. ‘Oh God…’ Rogue utters. Sunfire is annoyed: ‘We allow our friend to perish while fleeing like cowards?’ he asks. Rogue tells him that they are doing what they came here to do and points out that Gambit gave them the time to do it. Covering his face, Sunfire boasts that he would have stood in Gambit’s place, taken the burden of sacrifice. Wide-eyed as EVA approaches several more drones, Fantomex tells Sunfire that is good news, as he might get that chance!
Meantime, in The Sky, the prison that hovers over Manhattan, Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, Betsy “Psylocke” Braddock and Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool are in danger, as they, along with this reality’s X-Men, have come to find the teleporter, Gateway. Wolverine holds the bones of the daughter he never had. Her charred remains dominating his senses. A flat note plays in his head and everything goes red - before Wolverine goes berserk, and spins around, attacking his counterpart from this reality, known as Weapon X.  Nearby, ‘Kill them all - hold nothing back - the Black Legion must fall!’ Jean Grey orders as she attacks the Orange Hulk. The Blob begins biting chunks out of Wild Child’s arms, while Sabretooth slashes at the Blob’s obese body. ‘Let ‘im go, fat boy!’ Sabretooth warns him.
The Blob flings Wild Child away and slams Sabretooth’s face into the ground, ‘Don’t never stand between me and a meal, stink-pits!’ Blob warns Sabretooth. Weapon X releases a burst of energy from his arm and declares ‘Understand your situation - I am evolved beyond Apocalypse. Leave now or I’ll kill you all’. Wolverine’s thoughts race through his mind - he wants to cut off Weapon X’s head, tear out his jugular and drink the blood. ‘Murderer!’ Wolveirne shouts. Deadpool and this reality’s Nightcrawler come to his aid. ‘In thirty minutes or carnage is free!’ Deadpool remarks.
In the Sentinel that the X-Men converted into their transport, Magneto informs the Silver Samurai that he can no longer hear Jean Grey’s thoughts. The Silver Samurai realizes that the Sentinels stationed on The Sky are turning their attention towards them. ‘They’re aware of our presence!’ Silver Samurai declares. Magneto is shocked when they no longer respond to his commands, and announces that they have stumbled into a trap, as one of the Sentinels attacks them.
Weapon X wraps his one hand around Deadpool’s neck and tells him that there is nothing to be gained from killing him and his friends. ‘Submit and go home’ he commands. Deadpool replies that is reasonable and is totally down for it. ‘But you just killed your daughter. And she’s also the daughter of our Wolverine, sort of, and he’s our boss so that sort of clinches -’ Deadpool is cut short from finishing his sentence when Weapon X throws him into Nightcrawler. ‘You weren’t born of this world - but I will bury you here!’ he boasts.
Wolverine rushes towards Weapon X, when suddenly, everyone stops as a voice resonates through the heads. It is Jean Grey, who hovers over them in a blaze of fiery energy. Weapon X stares up at her and remarks ‘Look at ya. Took control of all of ‘em. Effortless, too, ain’t it? My God I’ve missed you’ he tells her, before asking her to listen to him for a second to give them time to catch up. ‘Listen to you who sent men to slaughter Rogue’s son? Listen to you executioner of billions of humans? Listen to you who brutally murdered my family, my friends!?’ Jean asks, angrily. ‘I had no choice’ Weapon X claims. He points out that if evolution didn’t move forward, the Celestials would have deemed their world a failure, they would have ended them, which is just part of what they do. ‘I ascended to save everything - to save you’.
‘Ascended? Into what? Another Apocalypse? Another mass murderer?’ Jean asks. Weapon X replies that he serves a natural cosmic force for evolution. ‘There is no right, no wrong. Manmade concepts just don’t apply’ Weapon X explains. He adds that he clears the dead branches to make room for healthier stock. ‘You are not the man I loved!’ Jean shouts. ‘I’ve taken a few steps above him’ Weapon X replies, adding that the Celestials did not intend for humanity to be the final stage. ‘Humanity has to go’ he declares. He reveals that the culling is almost done, that humanity is all but wiped out. ‘There is no undoing it’ he claims. ‘But with your power. The power of Phoenix, our world might be reborn’ Weapon X tells Jean. ‘Help me rebuild’ he asks her, extending his hand.
Jean drops down to the ground and slowly walks towards him as he says ‘Save your friends. End this way. We can be together’. Jean drops the Phoenix energy, and reaches out to him, convinced. But she frowns, and turns away. ‘No’ she declares, before powering up once more, and releasing energy that flows over Weapon X. ‘I will not rebuild life atop a graveyard of your making!’ she tells Weapon X. But Weapon X forces himself through the energy, ‘You will change your mind. Trust me!’ he declares as he smacks Jean in the head, knocking her out. He picks her up, and a teleport signal begins, while Weapon X calls out to the others, telling them that it is time to choose - either they are part of building the new world, or they will be demolished with the old.
Soon, Weapon X arrives back at his complex. ‘Welcome home. Your splendor graces us all’ a stone-like figure resembling Storm calls out. Carrying Jean Grey still, Weapon X addresses the stone-like figure as Orordius and reminds her that she knows he is not a fan of that “royal” talk. He tells Orordius to ready the Death Seed, announcing that his bride is ready to join them.
Back inside The Sky, Wolverine, Betsy, Fantomex, Sabretooth, Wild Child and Nightcrawler become surrounded by the rest of the Black Legion. ‘We ain’t gonna leave Jeannie with that son of a bitch’ Wolverine declares. Nightcrawler agrees and asks what they are going to do. ‘First, kill these people. Second, we go get Jeannie. Third…you’re all coming back home with us!’ Wolverine announces, as the heroes engage the Black Legion in combat. But as this happens, Iceman, who survived being squashed by the Blob, races from The Sky, ‘This wasn’t part of the deal. Deal is lopsided enough - but this…I’m outa here!’ he announces as he jumps from The Sky, and rises away on an ice-sled.
Wolverine finds Gateway and tells him that they need his help. ‘You got a couple of portals in you?’ he asks. ‘I…I’ll try…’ Gateway replies. Wolverine’s thoughts call out to Betsy, who tells him that she will be right with him. Suddenly, the Blob races towards an outer wall, telepathically possessed by Betsy, he shouts ‘Oh, no! I’m not in control of my sexy body! Do your worst, telepath! Ain’t nothing can hurt -’ but he runs straight through the wall, and off the side of The Sky. Betsy kicks Iron Ghost in the face, while Sabretooth takes on Beta Red. Wolverine’s thoughts call out to Betsy, reminding her that this is not their fight. ‘Jean’s in trouble. You and Creed get over here - we’re leaving’ he tells her.
Betsy tells her former Exiles teammate that Gateway is conscious and that Jean needs them. ‘Come’ Betsy calls out. ‘Gutting me one last pig’ Sabretooth tells her as he slices up Beta Red. They arrive at the hole in the wall that the Blob caused, and Nightcrawler asks ‘Does hopeless mean the same thing in your world? Because this plan, it is hopeless’. Suddenly, a voice calls out ‘Not entirely. Perhaps I can help to choose a more cheerful adjective?’ Wolverine stares at the new arrival and remarks ‘Was wondering’ if you’d show’.
At his base, Weapon X stands over Jean Grey, who lies motionless on a table. He is about to stab her with the Death Seed, and declares ‘I’m sorry, but this will hurt, Jeannie’. Suddenly, ‘Long as we’re spreading around hurt…I got some to share!’ Wolverine exclaims as a portal opens and he, Betsy, Deadpool, Nightcrawler, Sabretooth and Wild Child drop down, courtesy of Gateway. ‘Hot Wolverine-on-Wolverine action!’ Deadpool exclaims.
Everyone attacks in a predictable fashion. At a snail’s pace to Weapon X’ss eyes. The moment sticks in time. As Wolverine lunges at Weapon X, who stops his attack with enough time to give him a wink. Betsy deals with Orordius, putting her to sleep, while Nightcrawler teleports towards Weapon X, his sword ready - only Weapon X knows where he will arrive before Nightcrawler even teleports - and he slices him apart with his claws, while his other arm turns to Deadpool. Someone screams for Deadpool to move, but it is too late. ‘Holy sh-’ Deadpool begins, before his head is blasted apart. ‘He lacks the time to react’ Weapon X tells himself, before Betsy moves on to stage three, taking command of his mind. ‘You will stop this - NOW!’ Betsy orders, but her plan fails, and she is knocked aside as Weapon X breaks free from her control.
Wolverine picks up Jean and tries to shake her to consciousness, telling her that they are in trouble. Weapon X sees that Wolverine has his back turned to him, thinking Jean can save them. He unleashes a burst of energy from his arm, while thinking to himself that Jean cannot save them, as the energy strikes Wolverine. Weapon X turns to Orordius and asks where his wife is. Orordius replies that she revived, and Jean was gone. She offers to scan the base, pointing out that they cannot have gotten far. ‘Enough!’ Weapon X shouts, punching Orordius in the face so hard that her jaw breaks off. But it is not Orordius who falls to the floor, it is Fantomex. ‘End this duplicity’ Weapon X commands. ‘Broken through misdirection’ Fantomex explains as he adjusts his jaw.
Under Betsy’s telepathic thrall, Gateway opens a portal, and Wolverine prepares to help Jean into it. ‘Stop! You can’t have her - she’s mine!’ Weapon X shouts. ‘Not anymore, Bub. Ain’t how this goes down’ Wolverine tells him, while his thoughts reach out to Betsy, telling her that it is time to go, and asking where the others are. ‘On their way’ Betsy replies, and on cue, Sunfire and Rogue race towards Weapon X. ‘Betrayer! Suffer your retribution at the atomic hands of Sunfire!’ he booms. ‘I can’t believe it was you, Logan. You’ve broken my heart, angel’ Rogue tells Weapon X, who claims that he has saved their world from Celestial judgement. ‘Saved you all!’ he shouts.
Betsy turns to Fantomex who is helping Nightcrawler and asks him ‘What are you doing? You have the Life Seeds! Use one on him!’ Fantomex replies that there was only one seed, so if they use it now, they will not have one to use on Warren. Jean has revived and tells Wolverine to take the seed, to save his world. Wolverine tells her that he will not leave her stranded with this, not after all she has been through. ‘Listen to me - this is our fight. I can see what you’d sacrifice for me, but -’ Jean begins, however Wolverine interrupts her, ‘No way in hell are we leaving you alone while we have the thing that can drop this chump!’ Wolverine declares. ‘Take that son of a bitch down!’ Logan orders, to which Fantomex, holding the Life Seed, tells him that his emotions are clouding his judgment. Betsy tells Logan that if this is what Warren is becoming, they cannot afford to give away the cure.
‘She is mine - you do not get her!’ Weapon X declares as he shoves his claws into Sunfire’s chest. Power radiates around Jean Grey as she tells Wolverine that his gesture is very noble, but that it is not his fault. She lifts the four interlopers into the air, while Wolverine tells her to put her down. ‘Don’t you dare make this call for me!’ he declares. Jean tells him that she will not leave her world to what her husband has become. Weapon X tosses Nightcrawler aside and moves towards Rogue as he shouts ‘Jean is my bride - my death! You will not take her from!’ Jean tells Wolverine that she can hear his teammates’ true desires, explaining that they want to go back and save his world. ‘So do you’ she adds.
But Wolverine replies’ No! I won’t let you die again! I’m not going to abandon you, Jeannie!’ Jean looks away as she tells Wolverine that he is going to abandon her because she is not his Jeannie. ‘I’m his’ she adds, staring at Weapon X. ‘NO!’ Logan shouts, while Jean bids him goodbye, as she uses her power to tear apart the fabric of space and time. Everything goes white, and Jean can be heard whispering ‘Save your world….
An instant later, X-Force are returned to the headquarters in their true reality. ‘No! Son of a bitch! All we’ve been through - everything - for nothing’ Wolverine utters. Suddenly, ‘Not for nothing…you brought me the Life Seed!’ Warren Worthington III a.k.a. Archangel declares as he stands over X-Force, his appearance hidden in shadows, but what can be seen, he has clearly changed. At his side is a large armored being, and McCoy, the Dark Beast. Behind them are the Final Horsemen….


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Thunder for the Next World
The North pole, yesterday:
Archangel and the Dark Beast make their way through the icy wilderness. “The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go awry and leave us nothing but grief and pain for promised joy,” McCoy quotes. They are neither men nor mice, Archangel points out. They are mutants. Their plan, surefire! McCoy points out his confidence has no limits. He will make a marvelous successor to the throne of Apocalypse. En Sabah Nur always chose well, in this world, in any. Worthington’s mind provided nutritive soil, Archangel agrees. He lands.
McCoy asks about his cohorts whom McCoy sent to acquire the Life Seed. Are they the only ones aware of Archangel’s ascension? Archangel confirms.
McCoy opens a portal in the icy wilderness. He had been convinced Akkaba was far too splintered to regain momentum in this world. Yet it is happening. They will usher in the age of Apocalypse! No, Apocalypse is dead, Archangel replies as they enter the underground kingdom of Clan Akkaba. The Age of Archangel will be vastly superior. They will usher in true Utopia, and promptly. There will be no period of darkness. No time spent slowly hunting and slaughtering humanity.
They are secure in his good hands, Dark Beast replies smoothly. Archangel orders him not address him in platitudes. Groveling is dangerous, feeding his ego while McCoy grows resentful of him. They are brothers in this work! As they move forward, walking past the Final Horsemen, Archangel stresses that McCoy owes him only his honest impressions. A new era indeed, McCoy admits.
Ozymandias bids Archangel welcome as lord and master of the seven seeds and savior of the chosen. Of all the Deaths they planted, he is pleased it was he who rose. Archangel warns Ozymandias that, if he continues to address him in that manner, he will be dismissed! He has served far too long to grovel. He is to dole out respect only when he feels it in his heart. He has held this family together for a long time. His future holds more than placating another tyrant!
Ozymandias leads them to a chamber. Is the boy inside? Archangel asks and tells Oymandias to wait outside.
In the chamber sits a painfully thin young woman. Autumn Rolfson who served Apocalypse as Famine when Warren Worthington was Death. Archangel asks if he can see him. Hesitantly, Autumn asks that he won’t hurt him. Could he if he desired to? Archangel asks. If he is what he believes, nothing on this earth can hurt Autumn’s son.
As Autumn gets up, she explains that she kept him hidden from Apocalypse. She feared he would see the boy as a threat and kill him. Archangel tells her she was right to be afraid. But no longer.
Out of the chamber steps a huge, burning being, dressed in a protective suit, though he is only a boy. He kneels in front of Archangel and promises to serve him in any way. He asks him not to punish his mom for hiding him. Archangel kindly tells him that by concealing him, his mother has changed the fate of the world for the better!
The present:
And so now in Cavern–X, X-Force, just returned from the Age of Apocalypse reality stands facing their old teammate, as well as his Final Horsemen, Dark Beast and the boy, Genocide.
They don’t look like they are just going to hand over the Life Seed, Archangel observes. Fantomex asks him to forgive the lack of deference. They may be a tad cranky. That dump Warren sent them to was a bum-out Deadpool adds.
Silently, Wolverine is in telepathic contact with Psylocke, warning her they always knew this might happen and trained for it. Is she ready? She hesitates. After all they’ve been through, how can they just kill Warren?
Fantomex points a gun at Archangel, asking him to forgive the discourteous silence. He assumes they are having a telepathic debate on the merits of killing him. They shouldn’t try, Archangel states. Fantomex surprisingly agrees because Archangel has already won. He has what he wants. He spectacularly defeated them, acquired the Life Seed and left them far too frazzled to seek retribution.
It hasn’t hit yet, Archangel states cryptically. It will, Dark Beast replies. A moment later, Fantomex screams in pain. Archangel explains they have developed a counter measure to his misdirection. His reality-skewing echoed back to his brains creating feedback. Fantomex calls him a son of a bitch. Calmly, Archangel points out he hasn’t used any incendiary language. Why escalate things?
It’s what he does best! Wolverine shouts as he claws at Archangel. Genocide lets loose an energy blast that incinerates all the flesh on Wolverine’s right side.
Archangel tells them Genocide overreacted and suggests they avoid further complications. Kneeling besides Wolverine, Psylocke turns off his pain. She calls Archangel a son of a bitch. How could he do this? Archangel reminds her Wolverine went for his throat.
Drawing his sword, Deadpool asks why they are still talking to him. Archangel sics Famine on him. The elderly man begins to drum and Deadpool sinks down in agony, feeling like diarrhea made of sadness and anger. Kate Moss earns every penny! he wheezes.
Archangel turns to Fantomex, who is still on the ground, demanding the Life Seed before this escalates. Fantomex replies he fought his way into a Celestial, watched a man explode to buy him retreat, but Little Lord Worthington ever so politely demands he share his new toy. Something he should know first: His cobbler didn’t armor the center of his boot. He stabs Archangel through the shoe.
He never liked him! Archangel snarls and lets loose some of his flechettes. He orders his team to bring X-Force to their knees and reminds them Elizabeth is not to be harmed.
Psylocke somersaults behind War and slices through his tendon with her sword. He goes down. Seeing McCoy hurrying towards her, she figures that, despite Archangel’s orders, he will try to kill her, then plead accident after the fact. She figures out how he’ll attack, then shreds his arm with her sword, leaving his swipe ineffective.
Still standing above Fantomex, Archangel announces that, in this perceived competition between them, Fantomex was the only one engaged in it. But he will have the last word. Fantomex weakly suggests he shut up then.
Betsy has the possibility to strike Archangel but, with McCoy coming at her, she has a time window. She strikes but purposefully misses inches from his heart… from ending this. McCoy reaches her but Archangel orders him not to injure her. She is important.
Very sweet, Fantomex remarks. He doesn’t imagine he’ll extend the same courtesy to him. He is pretty special too. There is no future for him, he is told.
Not too far away, Deathlock informs Deadpool that their enemies have taken the World. Way to guard it, Deadpool mocks. Way to guard Warren! Way to guard the base! There were too many, Deathlock adds. They all came at once. Deadpool jokes that would be too easy, even for him.
Death threatens them with every disease known to man. He’s one of the jerks that came and tag-teamed their cyborg? Deadpool asks. And he’s carrying every disease? He throws a smoke grenade at him. These key parties have rules, Buster Brown! They did not have a party, Deathlock feels forced to explain. And George Michael was just using the rest stop, he is told.
Archangel orders his team to stop X-Force, but nevertheless the team takes the opportunity of the smokescreen to run with Deadpool carrying Wolverine and Betsy dragging Fantomex. Psylocke tells Fantomex to get EVA ready for immediate evac. Get her ready? he coughs. What is she – a VW Beetle? He spits her out. She’s ready. No pushing necessary.
Deathlock follows them, announcing his tachyon transmitter is reporting 98.2% certainty of mass casualties scenario from every future. They must refocus their attack. Archangel is a madman. If they do not stop him, he will slaughter thousands of innocents today.
Betsy drags him aboard. She agrees he is right. Fantomex tells her they are leaving. They are beaten. Logan’s near death. They are leaving now. She’s not, Psylocke replies and jumps out of the ship to land in front of Archangel. Should he be flattered? he asks smiling. She’s not giving up on him, she announces.
EVA lands somewhere far away. Genocide’s radiation threatens to overload Logan’s healing factor, EVA warns. Deadpool asks Fantomex for suggestions. He is not next in line for command, comes the reply. He’s not even last. He’s seriously considering dropping them all in the wood and going home. Deathlok reminds him his home was destroyed. He has other homes.
Deathlok repeats that, unless they drastically deviate from this path, countless innocents will likely die within the hour. Fantomex tells him to call Scott Summers or the Avengers. The three of them can’t possibly be the best solution at hand. Deadpool imagines the scenario. So they call the Avengers – two mercenary assassins and a killer robot from the future and ask them to come help them kill Warren Worthington who has become Apocalypse because Fantomex shot a young boy in the head due to their also being a clandestine squad of murderers led by Wolverine, who is half-incinerated and can’t confirm any of it. Damn him, Fantomex swears at Logan, leaving him to clean up his messes.
Archangel and his group have returned to Akkaba metropolis under the North Pole. He tells Betsy not to try and pry into his thoughts. They are well guarded. He has grown into something more than what he was. She has recently heard someone else say that, she replies. Someone evil. A subjective concept, he replies. Evil is having Dark Beast send your friends to die – she presses, sending her to die. Archangel points out that he was manipulating them into acquiring the Life Seed. He had faith they would succeed. McCoy was to inflict no injury on her. That’s the problem when you work with psychopaths, she replies, calling him Warren, they tend to do bad things.
He orders her not to call him by that name. He is Archangel now… accept it!  She touches his cheek, refusing to accept that. She’s here to save him from that lie. She knows the man she loves is still in there. He is, he agrees, but he has changed forever. They went through hell for him, she reminds him. His friends and she are trying to save him. This isn’t some mistake, Archangel announces. This is his evolution!
Into what? Apocalypse? she asks. The world they just escaped from… She saw what the world would be like if he succeeds – it is a nightmare. Their world has been distorted, he announces, much like the one she just returned from. Its natural course has been interfered with. He must rectify that. The reality-bending witch Wanda Maximoff said “no more mutants” and their people were devastated. Reduced to less than 200 planetwide. In that moment, the natural evolution intended for this world was shattered. He intends to set this all right… He’s going to reset evolution.
McCoy contacts him, telling him to meet him at the Tabula Rasa site. Archangel orders Pestilence to return Betsy to her quarters. Ignoring Betsy’s questions and pleading, he flies off.
Later, he carries Genocide across a countryside until they reach a small town. He promises the boy that they are fulfilling his father’s work. Doing the bidding of the same Celestial lords their ancestors have served for eons. They are from a long line of cosmic overseers.
They land in the town center of Beaver Lake. Archangel explains that, according to McCoy, this is the best spot. A small boy walks up to them, excitedly asking if they are superheroes. He used to be, Archangel tells him smiling. But the idea no longer holds meaning to him. He tells the boy to go back to his mother and tell her he loves her.
Something wrong? Genocide asks him. No, Archangel assures him. Flying upwards, he orders Genocide to proceed. While the small boy still believes everything is going to be okay, Genocide detonates the entire town around him.
In her chamber, Betsy waits. In his lab, McCoy studies the Life Seed and elsewhere Fantomex looks at the slowly healing Wolverine.


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Tabula Rasa
Akkaba Metropolis, deep under the North Pole.
Psylocke has been confined to quarters. Her jailer, Pestilence, a woman dressed like a geisha, assures her he – referring to Archangel – has a beautiful dream. He will bring about a healthy world where they will be queens and kings. Betsy informs her she sounds super-crazy.
Undeterred, Pestilence continues he loves Psylocke. He only wants her prosperity. If that’s the case, Betsy asks, why does she feel like something terrible is happening?
At the site of what used to be the small town of Beaver Lake before Genocide obliterated it, stand Archangel, Genocide, the Dark Beast and the rest of the Final Horsemen. This is perfect! McCoy enthuses. All preparations meet with his exact specifications. Tabula Rasa, as promised, Archangel agrees. To write upon with their own evolution, McCoy adds and plants the Life Seed in the ground.
He’s assuring Genocide he is making them all very proud. Is he ready for the next step? He orders Death to enlarge the World.
In Akkaba, Pestilence assures Betsy how fortunate she is to have drawn his eye. He is the hand of the universe. Sounds like the sort of cultish nonsense a brainwash victim spews out to rationalize evil, Betsy remarks. Pestilence continues undeterred that he is the architect of their future.
In Tabula Rasa, the artificial environment of the World is enlarged. As they begin to enter, Archangel asks if this experiment won’t spend the Life Seed. It would take seeding an entire planet to drain it completely, McCoy assures him. They will just use a dash of its energies and the World’s time manipulation engines are good for several uses.
Inside is frozen chaos. McCoy tells Archangel to relax. This is going to work. And they are sure these time engines are powerful enough to affect the world outside? Archangel asks. His calculations are flawless, Dark Beast assures him. All time is happening at once. They will simply open the World and fast forward to view a new frame within a radius of their choosing.
They fly towards a statue in whose eye is a locked door. That’s when things get interesting, and it all awaits them behind that door.
In a hidden part of the World, Fantomex’ ally, Ultimaton, watches the intruders but doesn’t leave the laboratory, he is intent on protecting the experiment.
Genocide asks if they will age and die too. McCoy explains they are entering a chamber protected by a membrane of true time and these birds consume any artificial time that seeps in. Time here will remain consistent with their place in the universe. Only a day will pass for them. He orders Genocide to plug into the moment-engine and he will open the World.
In Akkaba, Pestilence explains that obedience isn’t a negative attribute. No relationship can work without one dominant and one submissive. There is comfort in serving. There is strength in knowing one’s place.
From her used plate, Betsy grabs the knife and attacks the other woman, thanking her for suppressing the stereotype. She kicks her in the face. And her contribution to feminism in general. A stream of insects is loosed from Pestilence’s mouth. She orders them to feast on Psylocke, but leave her alive!  Betsy grabs her parasol and stuffs it into Pestilence’s mouth.
She uses the chance to run outside and straight into the AoA Blob. If it ain’t sister fancy-ass done and threw him three miles from the sky! he leers. Felt just like this! He hits her hard.
In the World, Dark Beast and Archangel excitedly watch as it begins. Archangel orders McCoy to walk him through the process.
30 million years of evolution will pass in the confines of Tabula Rasa while only 24 hours pass within the World. The Life Seed charging the soil provides battery power necessary to spark life which grows before their eyes. 15 million years later, mammals are the first to rise dominant. The large flourishing amphibians are their food source.
15 million years after that the amphibians have developed stone tools. Their frontal lobes grow. Culture changes at a greater speed. They have begun burying their dead and developing sophisticated hunting techniques.
But that is not all that has grown. Tabula Rasa is a sphere, ten miles in diameter. That includes all underneath the ground. As the sun sets the underground civilization rises. These night people conquer and transform everything to their suiting in five million short years.
Another fifteen million years pass. Sentient tapeworms rise from the deep water and soon dominate all. The return of the sun drives these night creatures back underground. The amphibians take the world. They see the sun rise for the first time ever and will forever worship the sun as the salvation of their people. Because every night from here on out things get bad.
Is this what they can expect when they reseed all of Earth? Archangel asks. It will be different. Each evolutionary line is a precious snowflake. Archangel admits it’s beautiful. McCoy suggests they go see it for themselves.
In the meantime, EVA has detected the World engines and announces they will be on site in a minute. He’s sure there won’t be anything bad there, Deadpool agrees. Deathlok asks Fantomex if the bullet he is loading into his gun is sentient. One of a set made from the conscious skin of a malevolent mutant, is the reply. Bring enough to share? Deadpool asks munching. It’s his last one, comes the reply, and is Wade eating his cheesy cham-chams? He is. Wade also informs them unnecessarily that when he gets real anxious, l’il Wade pulls up to hide inside big Wade. That’s happening now.
Well, Fantomex admits, if ever there was a time to set aside his feelings about Wade and fire with a motivational speech, now would be it. Go on, he is told. No, he just thought he should do it. He’s not capable of telling him he is a tremendous fighter and that they’ll prevent whatever mischief Mr. Worthington has decided. Too bad, Wade remarks. Would have been a real sweet moment between them. Yes, anyway here they are. Bigger question being, Wade remarks, what is here?
EVA explains what should be here. Beaver Lake, Montana, population 3069. Yet she’s detecting this jungle is over one hundred and twenty millions years old. She lands and Deadpool, Fantomex and Deathlok get out. Danzig’s old time croon “not of this world” playing on a loop, Fantomex announces while Deathlok remarks this ecosystem developed completely independent from their own. All life tied to a living current in the ground. Hey look, that monkey’s got a green butthole! Deadpool shares his observation.
Deathlok assumes no creature born here would survive outside the alien jungle. What happened to the people in the town? Fantomex wonders. Probably eaten by the giant mosquitoes, Deadpool suggests while Deathlok decides they are dead. Nothing of the previous inhabitants remains here. Fantomex summarizes that Warren used the World and the Life Seed to do this, to kill thousands of people, with tools Fantomex let slip from his grasp. Deadpool reasonably points out they all know Archangel lost his mind. It ain’t on Fantomex to kill him.
Archangel lands in front of Deadpool. They shouldn’t have come here. Fantomex goes for his throat and throws them both off the ledge. If there was any hope of saving him, of salvaging Warren Worthington, he spent it here, he shouts, calling him a bloodthirsty son of a bitch. They land in the  dwelling of a few primitive natives.
Deadpool suggests they split those two up, when Death and Famine come flying in. Deathlok decides to give temporary control of his body to the original psychopathic personality who fires at the Horsemen’s flying carpet. Death boasts that they pose no threat to him. Calmly, Deathlok informs him he is wrong.
Further below, Archangel announces in a conversational tone that there will be no mercy offered. He attacks with his flechettes.
Deathlok’s psychopath personality disembowels Death and even his disease attack doesn’t phase Deathlok as his body is already dead. Welcome to the club, he tells Death and strikes.
Stepping on Fantomex’s arm, Archangel asks what gives him such an endless supply of confidence? A bullet that can’t miss its target, is the reply. Fantomex shoots up in the air. It seems it has, Archangel mocks, but the bullet return and grazes his head.
Fantomex is disappointed it didn’t kill him. He doesn’t think anything can kill him, Archangel remarks.
Genocide attacks Fantomex, telling Archangel not to waste his time with this rat. Rising up, Archangel tells Fantomex to burn with the old world. Fantomex flees from Genocide’s blasts.
He meets up with EVA. Deadpool is sitting outside, munching something local. Figured he’d drop the ball, Deadpool greets him. What did he accomplish today? Fantomex asks him sharply. They killed Death and caught Famine, is the reply. They? Fantomex asks. Deathlok did, Wade admits. Fantomex suggests they extract his master’s location. That’s what he said, Wade agrees. Deathlok just smiled. He guesses his psychopath host is back in control, He offered to pry Archangel’s location out of old Jeb. He ain’t for crap at guarding a base, but he’s willing to bet he is a pretty fine torturer.
Inside, Deathlok demands answers and Famine announces he ain’t willing to tell him. He doesn’t expect him to willingly betray his friends, is the reply. In fact, he prefers unwilling…
Outside San Francisco, under the Dreaming Celestial, Archangel meets McCoy. Sanjar is dead, Archangel informs him. So he must choose his heir before they move forward, McCoy announces. Every Apocalypse must have his Death…
Archangel flies the two of them upward towards the opening in the Celestial’s helmet. Will the Celestials understand what they mean to accomplish? he asks. Not entirely, McCoy assumes, though they will be pleased with the results. It’s why they were forced to acquire a Life Seed from another dimension, to avoid their detection.
Archangel announces the Dreaming Celestial summoned them and they enter. A voice speaks to Archangel who announces he serves evolution. The Death Seed will empower his guardian to watch over him. It will grow the next Apocalypse, once he has faded. It is his duty as all before him to safeguard the blossoming of progress by protecting it from weaker more populous species.
The Dreaming Celestial speaks and Archangel replies he has a plan to accomplish his charge and his success is assured.
In Tabula Rasa, Wade muses one of the fruits tastes like jock-itch. Fantomex tells him he needs the calories. Deathlok joins them. The prisoner cracked. They are in an Akkaba city under the North Pole.
Seeing the blood, Fantomex remarks disinterested that he has upset many of the basic tenets of the Geneva Conventions here. He can only hope his trial is fair, Deathlok replies. Even Deadpool admits to some disgust. Deathlok tells them to stop the cute routine. His AI seems intent on helping them, which means he doesn’t have a choice. As long as they keep him cutting and gutting, he is happy. Their cyborg has gone Ted Bundy on them, Fantomex sighs. This is getting better by the minute.
What’s the plan, boss? Wade asks. Denying he is the boss, Fantomex explains he believes Warren intends to do the same to the planet what he did to this place, and it is up to them to stop him.
In the Dreaming Celestial, Archangel gets the Death Seed. He must now choose his guardian and successor, he announces. On whom will he bestow it? McCoy asks. The choice is simple, is the reply. There is only one candidate.
And in Akkaba, Psylocke waits…


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No Such Thing
In his bedroom in Akkaba, Archangel awakes in human form. The “Former” dreamed again and reverted him to his shape. A lovely bird with clipped wings. The dream is a ghost, the recollection of a dead child, still pining for his “true love.” He turns back to Archangel’s shape.
Next to him in bed, Pestilence awakes and calls his name. He orders her to collect herself. It is time.
Outside, McCoy and Ozymandias await him, telling him everything is ready.
Archangel figures he is not moved by low mythology such as love. He has seen the universal truth. He knows for certain there is no such thing.
Outside Akkaba, several guards talk, figuring there is some concern among some with the severity of their mission. He’s going to make them all rulers of a new world. As Norse gods to Vikings. Wiping out the unenlightened human race might seem an evil chore, simply imagine them as Neanderthals, one guard suggests, his back to the others, unaware that Deadpool, Deathlock and Fantomex have taken them out. There are occasions where even cold-blooded murder is merciful. Good to hear, Fantomex agrees, his gun pointed at him, he couldn’t agree more.
Inside EVA, Famine has broken free and walks up towards the unconscious Logan. EVA addresses him and is glad that Deathlok hasn’t killed him. He touches her and gives her bio-auditory cancer. Everything explodes. Famine tells the unconscious Logan to burn in hell as his children did, then walks away from the conflagration.
Archangel visits Psylocke, who is now in a prison cell. He apologizes but her outburst yesterday forced his hand. He doesn’t want her to miss this, he hints as he opens the cell. Play nice. Only until he gives her a reason to give up hope, she warns. Once she sees Warren Worthington is lost, she moves towards mean.
The three X-Force members observe that Archangel’s people are preparing the World. Fantomex tells Deathlok to go demolish it. He will need a map. Deathlok points out he downloaded the World’s current blueprint after Fantomex refused to let him destroy it. No one likes “I told you so,” Fantomex replies. He and Wade will infiltrate Ship and kill Warren.
As they scale the wall, Wade asks what this kooky alien world in Montana was. Fantomex replies that Warren and his unsavory friends are going to do that to the entire planet. Scorch it. Reseed it. They believe they’ll be worshipped as gods by the new species that rises up in humanity’s place.
He gets the allure, Deadpool muses. He never wanted to be God, but he used to try talking to him. He invited him to his home, lured him into his house. Thought they had a personal connection but he was liar. His bundle and harmonica should have clued him in. Harmonica? Fantomex asks. Homeless guy living in his cellar. They had a system… it worked for them until it didn’t. He forgot he was talking to a moron, Fantomex sighs. God or not, Deadpool reminisces, that enchanting drifter made the most mind-blowing stew out of night rain, potatoes and depression.
Sounds delish, the AoA Blob announces as he drops in on Fantomex. Dishing out depression is the business he’s in. Exactly the sort of thing McCoy brought him here to share.
He tries to grab Deadpool, who asks if he landed on Fantomex or is he in him. The Blob remarks Fantomex is having a ba-ad time. Let’s leave it at that.
Keistering dudes against their will? Deadpool states. He will never get an action figure with that power. “Hey kids”, he shouts, “do you love fat hairy men with bad can? You’ll love “new Blob.” He can fit three X-Men in his kung fu can! Human suppository not included.”
He doesn’t notice in time he is out of bullets, having been too busy shooting off his mouth.  Blob grabs him, intending to eat him. This reminds him of a joke, Deadpool announces. What kind of soldier doesn’t need bullets? The kind that’s always shooting his mouth off. He grabs his sword and pierces the Blob’s tongue.
Free again, he crouches down, asking if Fantomex can hear him. Fantomex gurgles in despair. That wasn’t the murghle of a happy man, Deadpool figures.
That moment on a roof above, Famine begins his drumming, affecting the Blob, who immediately begins losing weight. As skinfolds hang loose, Deadpool remarks a bra is a tough decision in any man’s life but he doesn’t see any other option for him.
Famine has turned against his teammate because Wolverine, who was woken up by the fire, forced him to. Famine reminds him of his promise not to kill him. Wolverine agrees, cutting off his arms instead.
Elsewhere in the complex, Psylocke reminds Archangels she still loves him. He points out her love for Warren protected Archangel, allowing him to grow in the soil of Warren’s subconscious. Does it cause her pain to know he manipulated her? That her love was the reason he was allowed to hide and thrive?
Betsy announces their love will bring him back to her. He sighs exasperated. She sounds like Xavier. Obsolete, disrespected Charles Xavier, father of children who abandoned and ignored his dream as soon as they were faced with the harsh difficulties of maintaining it in the face of adversity.
She still fights for his dream! Betsy protests. No, he tells her, she kills people. Ironically, if she had followed Xavier’s principles, there would be no X-Force, no clandestine hit squad helping him to kill in secret. Each murder brought Archangel one step closer to domination of Warren. Without X-Force, he wouldn’t have been able to acquire this! He shows her the Life Seed.
Betsy muses she wants to go home… to forget this. She knows part of him wants it too. Were things so good? he asks. She always romanticises the past as soon as the future begins to hit her. What does he want the Life Seed for? she asks, He promises it’s not a bad thing and decides to show her.
In the meantime, Fantomex has freed himself and drops into the water. Kicking Famine off the roof, Wolverine orders Fantomex to wash and shut down the World. He will take care of Worthingon.
Elsewhere, Archangel announces that the World rises and the citizens of Akkaba rejoice. They and their ancestors have waited hundreds of years for the new age---
What has he done to her son?! an angry Autumn Rolfson interrupts him. She orders him to call it off. He’s not going to make her son into a monster! Genocide is performing the position of his namesake, Archangel informs her. His name is William! she shouts, pointing a gun at Archangel. He reminds her he is the blood heir of Apocalypse. He’s not like him, she bawls, he’s just a boy. He promisedher he wouldn’t lead him down that path. Archangel cuts her apart with his wings. He only promised he would serve evolution. Die, knowing she has raised a great hero.
Furious, Betsy calls him a son of bitch. He explains she could have swerved the boy’s thinking from serving evolution. And Betsy realizes he sounds like Apocalypse. He agrees. There is a reason for that. He is the Apocalypse.
Fantomex dives up from the icy water, deciding this was the worst thing that could happen to him today. Compared to that, from here on out, no matter what else happens, it’s all going to be a strawberry cakewalk.
He couldn’t have picked a worse time to say that, Deadpool realizes as the Age of Apocalypse Iceman grabs him in an ice fist. The giant iceform explains the man says all he has to do to live in his paradise is kill them. Prepare to face the true unbridled power of the sinister Iceman! How about he just calls him Ballhog the betrayer? Fantomex suggests.
Wolverine telepathically contacts Psylocke, who is still arguing with Archangel. Wolverine informs her that Archangel wiped out an entire town, killing thousands. If they don’t stop him, he’ll do it to the entire damn planet! If she gets a shot to put him down, do it!
Betsy grabs a gun and fires at Archangel. She’s sorry, she states. Don’t be, he tells her after deflecting the shots with his wings. She’s revealed the warrior he was waiting for… revealed his bride!
In the World, an impatient McCoy explains to Genocide that the doom fountain will exponentially multiply his internal furnace. Plug in. Discharge. Cause genocide. Have nap time.
Elsewhere in the World, Ultimaton and his sleeping charge still remain hidden…
Singing a nonsensical song, Deadpool attacks the giant Iceman, cutting his iceslide. Iceman mocks: A lone dolt and a sword against the harnessed fury of an ice elemental! Seems like the polite thing would be not to rub it in, Deadpool suggests. Iceman freezes him. Horrified, Fantomex watches him shatter from the cold.
Archangel carries Psylocke to an altar-like slab where Pestilence already stands waiting. Archangel remarks his host has felt deeply bonded to Psylocke since the first time they met. A fateful evening in the Hellfire Club. She was there with her idiot bull of a brother. He can remember Warren’s life. He understands their bond. He wouldn’t do anything to his heir because he understands such a bond must go both ways. Together they will rule tomorrow, Archangel and his Queen Death!
Wade is in millions of pieces dropped across his ice lava lake, Iceman tells the running Fantomex. Dead in a pool. Get it? As Fantomex flees, his second brain begins to dictate the recent mistakes in ascending order of severity. Number one: having ever left the World. Fact: if he hadn’t left the World, he’d never have been brought to the attention of the X-natives. Young master Worthington wouldn’t have learned of its existence.
Desperately, he frees his weapon while giant Iceman begins to grab at him.
Number two: motivations hinging on an unrequited attraction to Elizabeth Braddock. Without which he would see this is an untenable conflict and would flee! Brain II suggests perhaps he should listen to it now, take his exit from the battle. And for the first time in many months, he listens as he calls EVA to his side. Should she open fire? EVA asks. He tells her to save her energy. They are leaving!
Deathlok threatens the Dark Beast, ordering him to tell Genocide to step away from the big-boom machine. McCoy complies. But War attacks Deathlok from behind.
Via tachyon transmission Deathlok communicates with future Deathloks from various timelines. No future has replied back in hours… there is only silence. No future… no life… only War.
Seeing EVA fly up, Wolverine swears: perfect time to go yellow, le Pew! He should have seen this… He is attacked by the giant Iceman who informs him he isn’t going to ruin this for him. Not after all he’s been through. He saw his home dimension! They fought and fought against this, and all they did was die! Everyone he loved. Everything that ever mattered to him – dead. He’s owed some luck! And he is about to get some! Wolverine tells him and jumps towards him.
Archangel has laid Betsy on her stomach and begins to push the Death Seed into her back. She is the true and only… His queen. His Death!
With the threat of Deathlok removed, Genocide is getting ready. Onward to the experiment! McCoy announces. The end of all life on Earth!
In EVA, Fantomex sits despairing…