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What Goes Around…
Enraged, Wolverine begins to slash away at everything in sight while he holds onto Silver Fox’s medicine bag. He and the others had come to Aldo Ferro’s island fortress outside of Seattle to talk… but he had to go and turn himself into a monster tree and gobble up Silver Fox!
He yells out to Ferro to bring her back or they’ll trash his whole island. Sabretooth leaps into action and agrees with Wolverine. They should trash it anyway; they need some action goin’ there. As the destruction continues, Wolverine calls out to Silver Fox, asking where she is. Maverick stands idly by and reminds them both what they’re there to do. If they can’t track down what’s messing with all of their aging-suppression factors, they’re all in a world of hurt…
John Wraith cuts him off and tells him not be such a wet blanket. He should lighten up and kick out some jams, participate in the willing destruction of private property. As he shoots one of the computers he adds that he’s sure Ferro didn’t build the spiral computer complex under his fortress for the public good. Maverick tells Wraith that he expected this from Wolverine and Sabretooth, but he thought he had more control.
Continuing to shoot his gun, Wraith informs him that they want Aldo Ferro, old El Topo himself, to come out and play, don’t they? He asks Maverick if he can think of any better way than trashing the genetic decoding computer he set up to learn the secret of age suppression from their DNA. He recommends that he get with the program. Maverick responds that he sees, it’s a means to a logical end. Shooting the computers himself he asks if that is satisfactory. Wolverine, continuing to smash things up, answers that they have to let him know they’re busting up his toys.
At the top of the spiral, Professor Xavier and Jean Grey, with spikes coming out of their faces, are standing behind Jubilee. Jubilee calls out to the crew below that they’ll never believe who just showed up. It’s Professor Xavier and Jean. She and informs Xavier that it’s too noisy down there. She asks him why doesn’t he just psi hello to them? When she turns around, “Xavier” and “Jean” have hidden their spikes. “Xavier tells Jubilee that he’d rather not, so Jubilee tells him to have it his way. There’s no way she can reach them by voice, it sounds like they’re wrecking all that computer stuff on the ramps. “Xavier” and “Jean’s” spikes return and they get a look of fear in their faces. They exclaim wrecking? Stop it!!! When Jubilee turns around she finds them both gone.
Down below, Aldo Ferro reforms and asks Wolverine, Sabretooth, Wraith and Maverick if they know what they’re doing? They’re destroying the work of a lifetime! Wolverine tells him why doesn’t he stay in one shape, howsabout pickin’ one his mother would recognize? Ferro transforms into the form of a man covered completely in metal. He asks if that is better – is it a format that they can deal with? He tells them that is the real him, the true face of Psi-Borg.
Once Ferro changes into his new form, Maverick shoots him in the head with a direct shot. After it does nothing, Maverick tells Wolverine that he hit him right between the eyes with an armor-piercing slug and it bounced off. To this, Wolverine quips that he must not have put enough English on it. He then tells Maverick to step aside and let a fella who’s the best at what he does, thrash some adamantium upside his head. When Wolverine charges Psi-Borg and tackles him, they morph through the wall itself. Wolverine mentions to him that is how he oozes outta the woodwork, part o’ the wall is some kind o’ illusion. Psi-Borg replies that the elevator behind it is not, nor is the psi-beam and proceeds to blast him with one. Outside the elevator, Sabretooth and Maverick pound on the elevator door but find it shut. Wraith tells them to stand back; he’ll slap a charge on it.
Inside the elevator, Psi-Borg kicks Wolverine in the face and tells him that he’s the real prize he wanted all along. He wants him upstairs, in his lab, where he can get a closer look at his DNA. Wolverine angrily asks him that he wants to take him upstairs and take him apart? He challenges him to see who does the takin’ apart around there. With that, he charges Psi-Borg. Borg proceeds to shoot him with his psi-beam and tells him that those are hollow threats. His psi-grip is too strong; his superior brain won’t allow him to cut him.
Wolverine battles past the psi-beam and slices through the roof of the elevator and slices the counter-weight cables. Borg points out to Wolverine that was a useless gesture. His body armor will protect him from the fall. Wolverine answers not if he slashes it off. He points out to Borg that he was thinkin’ about fallin’ and took his concentration off his psi-grip. On the main floor, Maverick notices that the elevator is coming back down. Wraith tells him that he already set the timer on the explosive charge.
When the elevator flies past them, Sabretooth mentions that Wolverine and Psi-Borg just tumbled out o’ the elevator down on the lowest level. Once Wraith’s charge goes off and blows off the elevator door, he orders the rest of his crew down the shaft cable. As they proceed down the cable shaft, Wraith points out to Maverick that he was supposed to be protecting this creep. Maverick tells him that he was just doing his job, but now, he’s looking out for number one.
At the bottom of the elevator shaft, Wraith, Sabretooth and Maverick find themselves in a snow-filled location. Wraith asks what is this winter wonderland… Sabretooth tells him that it’s another time an’ another place. As Psi-Borg continues his assault on Wolverine, he tells Sabretooth that he knows this place, he knows it too well. He then asks Wolverine isn’t that right.
Suddenly, Wolverine notices they are in front of a cabin, the cabin he shared with Silver Fox. They both thought Sabretooth had killed her there. Borg replies that they all know that she didn’t die back then, don’t they. But if she didn’t die, what was the great traumatic event that was used as the catalyst in the implanting of their false memories? He asks Wolverine if he ever wondered what was inside Silver Fox’s medicine pouch. Wolverine continues his assault and tells Borg that he can’t keep up his concentration long enough, he’s gonna slip and he’s gonna get him. Borg answers sure but, right now, let’s burn the pouch away and take a look. When the pouch is burned away, a tooth falls into Wolverine’s hand. Borg tells him that Sabretooth’s words were “that uppity squaw said no, and she knocked out his tooth.” Upon hearing that, Wolverine yells out nooooooo!!
While Psi-Borg deals with Wolverine, Wraith gives the order to rush him now, while he’s straining to hold Wolverine back. Borg asks him why do they assume that he is so easily distracted. He unleashes his psi-beams on them all and asks them don’t they remember how he fried their brains with their own horrible memory implants? He tells them that none of them has ever felt the full power of his psi-beam until now. He tells them if they think they’ve ever seen pain and terror, they haven’t seen anything yet. He is the beginning and the end of hurt and horror because he’s the guy who gave them all their worst, most terrifying memory implants. He did it for the Professor and, in return, he was supposed to get the same age-suppression factor that all of them had, but he cheated him.
So, he continues, he had to work it out on his own. He asks if they know how many combinations and permutations he had to sift through. How much easier it would have been to have a steady supply of tissue samples. But they were all so well hidden, or inaccessible the only solution was to make them all search for him. Wolverine leaps towards Borg and tells him that he slipped up, they’re goin’ to slash city. Borg tells him wrong, he’s only going where he wants him to go, or when. When Wolverine reaches him, he flies right through Borg and into the cabin… where he finds a smiling Silver Fox waiting for him.
Now “in the cabin,” Wolverine is no longer in his uniform. He asks Silver Fox what is she… Silver Fox stops him and gives him a big hug. She tells him did he think she would forget what day this is? In his mind, Wolverine knows this is a fake. It’s an illusion of Psi-Borg’s beaming into his skull. He knows it, and he don’t care because it’s so sweet. These were the best moments of his life, and he wants them any way he can get them.
Just then, Silver Fox breaks off their embrace and tells him that he needs to go get lost for an hour so she can get his surprise together. As she ushers him out the door, Logan protests but Silver Fox implores him to give her one hour and she promises him he’ll have a birthday he won’t forget. Outside Logan thinks birthday… birthday! He rushes to the door and begins to bang on it, begging to be let back in. He tells Silver Fox that he can’t leave her alone, not on his birthday. This is the day, the day…
Psi-Borg asks Wolverine what happened on his birthday. Wolverine, back in his costume, tells him that it didn’t happen. Silver Fox is alive today so she couldn’t have been killed by Sabretooth – it was all a lie. He says to Psi-Borg that it was a memory implant made up by him. Psi-Borg informs him that’s about the size of it. An implant, just like bad dreams his other buddies are having. Maverick getting his head crushed, Wraith strapped to the back of a missile, and Sabretooth getting up close and personal with a saw in a sawmill.
Wolverine approaches Psi-Borg and says that all the good times he had with Silver Fox in that cabin, all the lovin’ he had with Silver Fox in that cabin, that was all a lie!! Psi-Borg tells him of course not and asks him why would he waste his time making up all that smarmy tripe? All he ever made up and implanted was the bad stuff. Wolverine asks him that it was true, it was real? As Psi-Borg transforms his body into a tree, he tells Wolverine that it had to be real, or else the pain wouldn’t have been deep enough. He then connects with a blast to his head and asks if that could be it. The common factor that he didn’t share, the intensity of the pain? That must be it, the way physical trauma triggers the adrenals – perhaps there is a mutation that is triggered by psychic pain.
Now convinced, Psi-Borg proceeds to blast Sabretooth with a psi-beam and tells him to get up, he has work for him in the cabin. As Sabretooth busts his way into the cabin, Psi-Borg shoots Wolverine with a psi-beam and tells him to get up, he wants him to watch this very carefully.
Up above, Jubilee hears a thump behind her. She asks if that is Professor X, if he and Jean decided to come back and… She turns around and notices Shiva standing there. She asks him what he is still doing in one piece and how many of them are there. Shiva replies that he is legion. He is capable of regenerating individual modules from damaged components. He then explains that his neutralization program has reprioritized itself. His primary target is now Vole. He informs Jubilee that she will direct Shiva to Vole or Shiva will inflict serious tissue damage. Jubilee asks Vole? Oh, he means Ferro. She tells Shiva that he calls himself Psi-Borg now and that he’s down in the basement, waaaay down there. Shiva answers that he doesn’t see… Jubilee takes that moment to kick Shiva in the back and knock him over the side.
Down below, Psi-Borg orders Wolverine to watch and see what Sabretooth is doing to Silver Fox. Wolverine struggles and tells him no. All the while, he can hear Silver Fox screaming for his help and Sabretooth telling her that he will teach her to say no, “ya uppity squaw.” Plummeting towards the basement, Shiva indicates that visual scan of possible targets do not match the primary target, but voice scan is a positive match – target, code-name Vole is confirmed. Within seconds, Shiva barrels into Psi-Borg. When he does, Wolverine is free of the psi-beam. He calls out to Sabretooth that he’s his!! Just then, he leaps at Sabretooth and slices him open. Sabretooth, bleeding, exits the cabin while Wolverine checks on a prone Silver Fox.
Outside the cabin, Psi-Borg’s armor is damaged and Shiva is laying on the ground next to him. He proceeds to blast Sabretooth with a psi-beam and calls out to him to ignore his own pain and come help him. Sabretooth complies and notices that in his true form, he is old and shriveled. Transforming into a tree, Psi-Borg informs him that his mind is strong and that he has many forms.
As he runs towards the tree, Sabretooth tells it that he is ripped open. The tree replies that he can help him, just come to him. When he does, the tree wraps his branches around him and engulfs him. The tree then proceeds to shrink down to just a twig with a pod attached. Exiting the cabin, Wolverine asks where Sabretooth is. Maverick informs him that the tree ate him and then shriveled down to the little twig he sees before him and this pod. When Maverick crunches the pod, a tooth is all that is in his hand.


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State of Grace!
There are times when a plain-vanilla danger room workout just don’t cut the mustard. Sometimes you just gotta strap on the virtual reality gear and rock an’ roll with interactive 3-D. Sometimes you wanna’ reach out an’ do more’n just touch someone. Gotta throw down heavy. Gotta extrude adamantium and go to claw-city.
As Wolverine places the virtual reality helmet over his head, he tells Chuck to do it, crank it up to “10” and let the microchips fall where they may. From the control center, Professor Charles Xavier tells Wolverine that he still has grave reservations about this. The purpose of the Danger Room isn’t to act out childish revenge fantasies. This is analogous to taping a photo of an enemy on a dart board.
At that moment, Jubilee interrupts. When Xavier asks her what it is, she tells him that she sure is sorry that Wolvie isn’t a superior human being who can work out his problems internally like he can. Isn’t it a crying shame that he has to resort to kicking over garbage cans and punching brick walls like the rest of them cerebrally under-developed homo-inferiors? She adds that it must be really terrific to have that much control over his emotions, but she guesses that’s what comes with all that brain-power. Xavier gives her a dirty look and tells Cyclops and Jean Grey to start the simulation.
Inside the simulation, Logan enters the cabin he used to share with Silver Fox all those years ago. As he does, he notices that Charlie’s been working on the program, it looks a lot realer than last time. When he calls out for Silver Fox, he hears Sabretooth tell him that he’s too late. Logan notices that Silver Fox is lying prone on the floor, while Sabretooth tells him that she was an uppity squaw; she said no.
Inside the control room, Jean Grey angrily asks Cyclops if that was necessary. Cyclops replies that Wolverine provided that snippet of dialogue himself. Logan pops his claws and rushes at Sabretooth, telling him that he’s dead. He continues his assault on Sabretooth, giving as good as he gets. Noticing the brutality, Xavier asks why Wolverine would want to do it this way. Why did he want to feel it? Jubilee answers that it’s like punching that brick wall. Cyclops says right. You know it’s going to hurt… Jean finishes his thought and says you do it anyway.
During the struggle, Sabretooth tells Logan some hero he is, he couldn’t even save the woman he loves. He calls him worthless! Jean points out that wasn’t programmed in and asks what’s happening. Xavier informs her that the virtual reality program feeds on active input and extrapolates, it makes for realistic confrontations – perhaps too realistic. As Sabretooth continues to punch and kick Logan, he mentions to him that he says he has big holes in his memory and asks how about that. Maybe he don’t want to remember some o’ that stuff ‘cause it wasn’t so pretty. Maybe he wasn’t as good an’ noble as he wants to believe. Maybe there’s a mission or two that he wished never happened like the Terry Adams kill.
Logan yells out no, he didn’t! Sabretooth punches him and tells him that he was gonna do it. It was his shot. They sent him out with a suitcase full o’ hardware to do a job o’ wet-work on Terry Adams and he went. Logan tells him that they scrubbed the mission, they called him back. Having seen enough, Xavier says that this has gone too far and to terminate the simulation. Standing alone in the Danger Room, Wolverine says that he didn’t do it… he was recalled… it wasn’t his shot…
Later, in a less-than-savory bar in Salem Center, Logan is brought back to reality when a rough-looking gentleman tells him that it’s his shot. The man asks him if he’s gonna take his shot, or is he gonna keep starin’ off into dreamland? He then tells Logan that it’s his last shot; he has to call the pocket. Logan tells the bartender Sean to send a bracer down the plank. Sean answers one boiler-maker comin’ up and sends it down the bar. Taking a swig of the drink, Logan calls out eight ball in the right corner. When he hits the shot, he tells the man to pay up. He believes he put a yard on the game when it was lookin’ his way.
The man is joined by four of his friends and answers that he believes he’s been hustled. Logan replies that he musta took his smart-pills today. He then tells the man howsabout a game o’ punch for punch, double or nothin’. He tells the man that he can go first but that he gets to pick where the punches go. Whoever’s left standin’ picks up the pot. The man asks that he gets firsties? Logan tells him yeah and he can even wear brass knucks if he has ‘em. The man replies that he does and tosses another c-note on the plank. He then asks Logan where he wants it. Logan points to his forehead and tells him that he wants it dead center in the ol’ canucklehead. He then reminds the man to remember, he gets to punch him in the middle o’ his mug next.
The man laughs and puts his brass-knuckles on. He then punches Logan with all of his force. Logan stumbles backwards but does not fall. Proceeding to fix his face he tells the man th’cuse him. He godda wewocade his jaw an’ puth his eyeball bag in plathe. As the man looks at him in fear, Logan asks him if he’s ready. A voice then says to him that he doesn’t really want to do that, does he? Logan turns to see Jean Grey standing there. She asks him wouldn’t he rather talk? The man that punched Logan starts to back out of the exit and tells him that why don’t he talk to the nice lady and call the bet off they had. Better still, let’s just say he, Logan, won.
Sitting at a table, Jean points out to Logan that he has a healing factor, not a pain-damping factor. That must have been excruciating. Logan tells her not really, not like the hurt inside. Jean dampens a cloth and begins to wipe Logan’s brow. She asks if this is how he masks his pain, by getting some street hood to make him hurt? Is this how he deals with his anger, by taking it out on a stranger? Logan tells her that’s the problem. He just don’t know about his pain any longer. Stuff that he thought he had worked out comes right back and the wound gets opened up again. Now, he finds out that a lot o’ the hurt he thought he had lived through was lies implanted in his head just to mess with his memory. What’s worse is findin’ out that most o’ the joy he was holdin’ on to like a life-raft wasn’t nothin’ but a fake, too.
Jean asks that she supposes life isn’t rough for anybody else but Logan. Logan tells her nah, he ain’t feelin’ sorry for himself but excuse him if he is a little bummed-out right that second. Jean asks him what can she say. She tells him that he’s a hero in every sense of the word and a lot of grief always comes with that accolade. Logan asks grief, she has to be kiddin’. He’s seen the death o’ every person he ever loved, includin’ her. He was holdin’ Mariko as she was dyin’ an’ she asked him… she pleaded with him to… she was in so much pain.
Pushing his eye back in, he tells Jean to find Silver Fox alive after all this time, and see her die again… He’s not sayin’ his grief is any worse than anybody else’s or his pain is felt any deeper, he’s just sayin’ that most other folks can look back in their memories and know that most of it really happened – all the good times. You look back on that stuff and it makes you smile. It might not make you forget the bad times and the hurt, but it sure takes the edge off some.
Continuing, Logan looks at Jean with his fixed eye and tells her that when other folks get physically torn up, they got a scar or a limp or somethin’ that don’t quite work anymore. They can show ya somethin’ an’ say, “I got that at Anzio or Berkeley or on Highway 9.” He just goes off in a corner an’ nurses a beer. That’s all it takes. The time it takes to down a single brew an’ he’s all knitted back together again. He asks what the sense o’ his body healin’ itself over and over again if the hurt he got inside just festers? Jean asks him if he wants her to go with him tomorrow. As Logan walks away, he tells her no, that’s somethin’ just between him an’ Silver Fox.
The next morning, Logan arrives at a church. He asks the father what does he mean that the burial’s been cancelled and what is this about the remains bein’ prepared for air freight? The father tells him that all he knows it that a one-eyed brick wall with S.H.I.E.L.D. I.D. came by that morning with all this federal paperwork. Logan snatches the papers out of his hand and asks what business is it o’ Nick Fury’s.
At that moment, a helicopter lands behind them. Logan turns and tells Fury that he had better have a good explanation for this. Fury tells him that he’s just following orders. He adds that he never thought he’d see the day when he oversaw a full dress S.H.I.E.L.D. funeral cortege for a Hydra big shot. His pal must have a lot o’ push at the main office. Logan asks his pal?
Just then, John Wraith exits the helicopter and tells Logan that let’s just say he called in a few big markers. Logan tells him to butt out and take the good Colonel with him, this here’s private. Wraith tells him that Salem Center didn’t mean a thing to her, that she would have wanted to be laid to rest in a place where she was happy. Logan looks at him puzzled when Wraith tells him that he found it. He found the cabin.
Later, Logan is blindfolded wearing his yellow and blue costume on the helicopter. Wraith tells Logan that he knew the information was somewhere in the records, it was just a question of finding it and shaking it loose. The info comes with a few strings attached. The site is classified so he can’t know where it is, that’s the deal. When Logan asks him why he is doing this, Wraith tells him that he owes him a large one for Terry Adams. Logan tells him that he can’t remember to which Wraith informs him that he can’t forget.
Much later, they arrive at the location according to Navsat. Logan points out that he doesn’t see anything. Wraith tells him that the navigation satellite’s accurate to within a few yards, it’s there all right. As Wraith digs around in the bushes he tells Logan that it’s just overgrown. Logan tells Wraith to stand aside and uses his claws to slice the bushes away. Standing in front of the cabin, Wraith tells Logan that he thinks that he wants to do this alone. Logan thanks him.
On the helicopter, Fury orders the honor guard and the burial detail to assemble. When Silver Fox’s casket is brought out of the helicopter, Logan tells Fury to leave her, to lay her down and clear out of there. He don’t want her put in the ground by strangers. Fury tells him that they can’t leave him out there in the middle o’ nowhere, how is he gonna get back? Logan asks him if he thinks he gets lost in the woods. He then yells at Fury and tells him to just leave him a shovel and get movin’.
Once Fury and the helicopter leaves, Logan goes up to the cabin. He realizes that it’s real. It actually happened. All the good stuff was real. As he starts to dig Silver Fox’s grave, he notices that the ground is just as flinty and rocky as it ever was. When he was diggin’ their well, he thought it was gonna take him a month o’ Sundays just to get down to the damp. Maybe it’s the scent of the mountain laurel or the sound o’ the spade dingin’ rocks, a piece o’ memory comes rollin’ over him like sunlight bustin’ through the clouds. He remembers when Silver Fox fetched him a bucket of water from the stream. He recalls that the water wasn’t just cold, it was sweet. Life was sweet. The sun was turnin’ her face to gold and when she smiled at him there were rainbows in her eyes. He remembers telling Silver Fox that he with this could be forever. Just her an’ him, an’ the sunset, the wildflowers, an’ the breeze carryin’ the tang o’ mountain laurel. Silver Fox told him not to be silly, nothing lasts forever. Everything has it’s time and their time is now.
In the present, Logan cuts off the door to the cabin into the size of a grave-marker. Before he leaves he tells Silver Fox goodbye. He’ll be back to visit ever spring - when the wild-flowers are bloomin’ and the wind’s in the laurel, he’ll be back.


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Prophecy
As a plain-clothed Wolverine stands in the snow outside a building named Prophecy, flanked by the Beatles and Janis Joplin, he recognizes that he is in Ottawa. The last time he saw the dump, he was drownin’ in rotgut… pretzels in his eyebrows – the whole soggy bit. But that wasn’t too long ago… if last summer was the summer o’ love, maybe this is the winter o’ his discontent. The Tet offensive is still goin’ on an’ the Mets ain’t won the pennant yet. He wonders if it’s really been four years since JFK got taken out.
Inside the building is a sign that reads the Prophecy house rules are “No target practice in rooms,” No wounding of firing range personnel,” “No second chance,” and “No feeling sorry for yourself.” A man sits in the middle of the room watching a TV with “I Love Lucy” being shown. Richard Nixon is also there as well as other men. Walking up to the front desk, Wolverine tells the man that he’s fallen and he can’t get up. The man tells him that is their mission brother - to provide shelter to the fallen and to go where no man has gone before. As he speaks, he points to a stained glass image of Captain James T. Kirk and First Officer Mr. Spock.
Wolverine ignores him and begins his ascent of the stairs. The man mopping the floors asks him if he knows him and if he was “evah up in the see-erra-mah-estra down Cuber way.” Wolverine tells him that he’s goin’ up to #23. At the front desk, the Prophecy house rules have been changed to include “No alcohol,” “No smoking,” No visitors,” and “No profanity.” The clerk calls Wolverine a poor soul and mentions that he must have been speaking in tongues.
He asks what he meant by room #23. They don’t have a #23. Archie Bunker says there used ta be, back when Reverend Mike ran the place. All the rooms wuz numbered fer his favorite Psalms. Up on the next floor, a man tells Wolverine that hell is comin’ and that Prophecy is part o’ the apocalypse. That’s when they gets th’ big surprise, tha’s when they fin’ out all th’ secrets.
Back in Salem Center in New York at the X-Mansion, Jean Grey asks what happened in Wolverine’s room and wonders aloud who destroyed it. Colossus points out the claw marks, Wolverine must have done this himself but why. Why would he destroy everything he owned? Cyclops offers up that maybe he was trying to destroy his past. Professor Charles Xavier informs them all that on the contrary, he suspects his past caught up with him and consumed him. He says that Wolverine is not denying the past, he is obliterating the present by visiting the phantoms of the past. Jubilee asks how he knew this. Xavier tells her that it’s his fault, he tampered with his mind. He asked him to… he never asked him for anything before… he…
In Ottawa, the man from the Prophecy asks Logan why he came back. Logan informs him that he wuz playin’ pinball and an angel started whisperin’ secrets in his ear. When he asks the man if he has a crowbar on him, the man transforms into a puppet and gives him one. The puppet asks “pinball?” Logan begins to use the crowbar and peels up the floorboards. He tells the puppet that he was down at the Auger Inn, down in Salem Center – a nice place – level pool table, good sides on the juke and fresh sawdust on the floor. Logan recounts that he was playing pinball when he noticed that the ball didn’t look right. It looked like him!
One of the ladies on the machine asks him if he knows where he goes if he falls down the chute. Below him, the chute of the pinball machine has the words “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.” Logan cries out no and hears the maniacal laughing of two red-haired women. When he comes to from playing the pinball machine known as Diablo, it is broken. The owner of the bar tells him that he’s payin’ for that. Logan doesn’t hear him. He only hears the voice of a blonde-haired angel telling him that it doesn’t have to be this way. He just has to resolve things with Terry Adams.
Back in Salem Center, Xavier informs the X-Men gathered around him that he was working in the psi-lab when Wolverine appeared at the door. He told him how he buried Silver Fox with his own hands and how he walked two hundred miles through the woods to get to a place where he could hitch a ride to the next bus station. He had a long time to think on that walk and he decided that he wanted a favor from him. Logan asked him to go inside his head and make things right.
Xavier didn’t want to do it. He doesn’t know which memories are the real ones. It would be as if he were trying to put together a jig-saw puzzle without knowing what the picture was. Logan told him that he didn’t want the deluxe job, he just wants the blocks taken away, he wants to see what’s been hidden. Xavier told him that he couldn’t do it because of the risks. Logan then asked him if ever tried to remember something and just couldn’t. Ya know, ya wrack yer brains for hours and it’s just out o’ reach, like an itch in the middle o’ your back. Logan informed him that half his life is like that, and asks him to give him a break.
In Ottawa, Logan tells the angel that he can’t remember anything about Terry Adams. The angel tells him that it will come to him like the score on the machine. The score – 23. As the angel begins to sing “Yea, though I walk…” Logan looks down at his handiwork and mentions that the last board just won’t level out. A voice from behind asks him to let her help him. Logan turns to see a dead woman beginning to decompose that resembles Janice. He asks her didn’t something happen in Berlin, something terrible? Janice tells him that hasn’t happened yet and assists Logan in breaking the last board in the floor with the crowbar.
In the hole in the floor Logan notices a large stash of money and guns. Janice mentions to Logan that is some stash he has there. Logan asks her what happened to the wino. Janice tells him that he died, doesn’t he remember? He spat and keeled over. Picking up the guns, Janice adds that he doesn’t need these things; he’d never get them through customs. Besides, isn’t he integrally packing these days with some built-in hardware? She then rises up a wallet and notices that he has a Federal Air Marshall’s badge – that will get him anywhere he wants to go. She adds that he also has I.D. cards for every major security agency in the world with blank expiration dates. K.G.B., C.I.A., GRU, M15, even Shin Beth. She also finds U.N. peace-keeping force credentials, a diplomatic pouch, bundles of Swiss Francs, and piles of Kruger Rands.
Holding up a briefcase, she mentions that it’s a mission cache – the goodies he’ll need to whack out ol’ Terry Adams. Janice then notices that Logan is looking out of sorts. She tells him that he better get with the program and that he’d better snap out of it. At that moment, Logan wakes up and wonders where he is. He’s supposed to be on a mission. He asks what he is doing there. He then realizes where he is. He’s at the X-Mansion. He lives there. It can’t be, it’s gotta be an elaborate implant. They’re tryin’ to throw him off, tryin’ to sabotage his mission. He can’t let this stop him. He has to get to his cache. He has to carry out his mission. He has to take out Terry Adams!
At the X-Mansion, Xavier tells the X-Men that, in all the years he’s known Logan, this was the first time he had asked anything of him. He gave in. He tried to unblock the locked away memory of this Terry Adams. They were already in the psi-lab and Xavier proceeded to strap Logan down and slathered electrolyte gel on his temples and did the same to himself. Xavier knew he couldn’t simply reach in and take away the memory blocks. He had to enter Wolverine’s subconscious himself. He had to step into his worst nightmare. A spiked, tentacled world of pain, stinging, burning, exploding.
Amidst enigmatic, horrific phantasms he had to locate the core of Wolverine’s self. He found it just beyond a monstrous fanged tree – a tree nursing a litter of radiators. He called out to Logan to remember Terry Adams. Logan snaps and screams Terry Adams and rips apart his room. The angel whispers Terry Adams to him. All he hears is Terry Adams…
In Ottawa, two men knock on room #23. They ask what is going on in there and that he can’t tear the room apart. The one man tells the Rev to stand back; he’ll bust the door down. When he does they find a large hole in the floorboard littered with guns. The men wonder where he went and decide to call the Mounties after finding all of the guns.
In Los Angeles, in front of John Wraith’s house, Storm informs Wraith that they have reached an impasse. Terry Adams does not exist as far as the C.I.A., F.B.I., and N.S.A. is concerned and she does not believe they are withholding information. They believe that Wolverine thinks that he is in the past, on a mission to kill this Terry Adams and they have to stop him. She asks Wraith for his help. Wraith tells her that he would if he could but all he knows is the code-name same as her. Terry Adams. It was an ultra-hush job. Magna sub-rosa, need to know and all that jive. He does know that the mission was scrubbed and Terry Adams got a rain check. Entering his cabin, he shoots a target and tells Storm that the guys who know are Sabretooth and Maverick. Sabe was back-up and Ricko was the control.
One week later, at the X-Mansion, Jubilee is taking a shower. As she does, she mockingly thinks that some help Wraith was. Like Sabretooth and Maverick have their numbers listed in the phone book. That tip they got from the Mounties sure didn’t amount to much either. All that told them was that Wolvy had the papers to go anywhere. How can they…
Her thoughts are interrupted when Jean Grey pops her head in and tells her that one of the aliases on the fake I.D.s found at the Prophecy turned up on a flight to Pakistan. The Swiss Francs matching the cache series were used to buy a train ticket from Afghanistan to Kazakh. He’s making his way to Russia – they found him. Upon hearing the news Jubilee is ecstatic.
Somewhere in the former Kazakh S.S.R., two soldiers witness Logan exiting the train. One of the soldiers informs the other, Yuri, that there is only one passenger. Yuri replies to his partner Ahmed that it’s not worth wasting bullets. Ahmed laments that the pickings were much better when they were in K.G.B. Yuri replies when there was a K.G.B. Democracy, he spits on it. How can border guards like them make living in democracy? Ahmed notices that there is a goat, some freight… Wait, the passenger is dressed like an American.
On the bus, along with a driver and a goat, Logan thinks to himself that there are too many people messin’ with his brain. He’s got memory implants on his memory implants. He can’t let that stop him from carryin’ on his mission whatever it is. He’s gotta keep the world safe. That’s his job. That’s what he does.
At that moment, Elvis, John F. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and an unnamed astronaut simultaneously tell him that he’s the best at what he does. Logan thanks them. He couldn’t have said it any better himself. The angel comes to him and tells him not to be so smug. This mission is not going to be a piece of cake. Logan jokes angel food? The angel tells him that he’s going to have to make things right with Terry Adams. Logan asks how he does that. The angel tells him that he has to kill him. Logan asks kill Terry Adams? The angel tells him not to be silly, he knows what she means. Logan tells her that he was just testin’.
Their conversation is cut short when three tanks roll up on the bus. The order comes out for the bus to halt. They order that papers, identification, travel documents and bags are to be opened for inspection. Logan mentions that it looks like they’re bein’ rousted by the K.G.B. border patrol. When the soldiers enter, the bus the driver asks “yes?” but is gunned down immediately. The soldiers order the rest of the passengers to put their hands up. The angel tells Logan that he had better do something.
Logan steps up and asks the soldiers that they want papers? He shows them Glavnoe Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie. Military intelligence and tells them that they’re internal security boys are answerable to them. The soldiers laugh and blast him with their rifles. With Logan down, the soldiers begin to take his articles of clothing. Putting on Logan’s hat, Yuri asks Ahmed if he likes. He looks like John Wayne with it on. He will keep hat, Ahmed can have boots. Ahmed replies that he keep jeans too. Many dollars in pocket, they split dollars. He asks Yuri if he wants the jockey shorts. Yuri tells him no and asks if there are more American dollars in bag. Ahmed tells him no, just funny colored underwear. Yuri tells him to leave it.
As they get in their tank and drive off, Logan’s yellow and blue costume is tossed onto his prone body.


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Epsilon Red
Standing outside the steel door, Logan wonders if it is really 1968 and if he is really in the Russian space center at Tyuratam. Tyuratam – the place they used to call Terry Adams. He asks the blonde lady with him who or what is behind the door. The lady informs him that it is his father, the Soviet super astronaut, the man he was sent to kill.
Just then, the door explodes before Logan and before him stands a blonde haired man with many appendages coming out of the back of his suit. On the end of the appendages are a rotary saw, a claw, a screwdriver, and a blowtorch. Upon seeing Logan he tells him, “you, after all these years.” Logan replies that he doesn’t know him from Adamski, Tovarich, but if he’s itchin’ for a throw-down, he’s ready. The man tells him that he doesn’t understand and uses his appendages to wrap Logan up.
The lady tells Logan that he must know him, he’s Epsilon Red. Logan struggles against Epsilon’s attack and asks him if that name is supposed to ring a bell. He then slashes Epsilon’s appendages, he tells him that all he knows is that this is Terry Adams and he’s supposed to waste the main attraction there. He informs Epsilon that looks like him. Epsilon takes that opportunity to take off back inside the building. As he does, he tells Logan that he’s got it all wrong. Logan answers wrong or not, he’s got a job to do and… The lady tells him to make sure that he keeps track of the time.
Before Logan takes the time to figure out what that means, he takes off down the hall. As he does, he notices the things around him. He wonders how they ever got Gagarin in orbit with all of the vacuum tube technology. Before he can get much further, Epsilon Red leaps towards him. Logan mentions to him that was a fast change and that it looks like he dug in the closet and found an old suit. Epsilon asks him what all of the hallucinations are and calls him a capitalist assassin. As they begin to slash and swing at each other, Epsilon asks Logan if the imperialist warmongers sent a madman to murder him. Logan tells him that he ain’t crazy, as long as the year is 1968. Epsilon confirms that of course it is. Logan replies that he was just checkin’.
When Logan goes to slash at Epsilon, a voice calls out “stop, don’t kill him!” Before Logan can stop his slice, he calls out that it was too late, he couldn’t stop the cut. The next sight he sees is Epsilon Red holding his wife in his arms. Logan asks what he has done and if she is… Epsilon removes his suit and tells Logan that it his wife endured a shallow wound, nothing that will harm the baby. He tells Logan to leave her be and take his life and spare his wife and unborn child. Logan notices that Epsilon begins to swell up. He points out to Epsilon that his armor is a containment suit.
Epsilon’s wife confirms that and explains that it had a vacuum inside. She adds that they changed him so that he could easily be a genetically engineered astronaut in every sense of the phase. He was altered so that the nothingness of space could be his natural habitat and the surface of the earth full of pressure and dense gases, was as deadly to him as the depths of the oceans are to them. Epsilon confirms everything his wife said and that even now, his body bloats and his cells rupture. He asks him if he knows what it is to not to be able to feel the wind and sun, to not be able to touch his wife. He tells Logan to end it, to do him a favor and fulfill his own mission. Epsilon’s wife stands between her husband and Logan and tells Logan not to listen to him. There’s still hope, there has to be. They can find a way to reverse the process. At that moment, Logan puts his head in his hands and screams. He yells out that he can’t go through this, not again.
Logan then composes himself and asks what he just said – “again?” He wonders aloud what he was thinking. He then notices Epsilon Red stands before him yet again, wearing his red containment suit. When he asks him what is going on, Epsilon informs Wolverine that he was remembering. He was remembering things long forgotten, or deliberately blocked. He’s returned after all this time and they’ve tampered with his memories. He tells Logan that he’s in a time slip but he will explain more about that later. He asks him if he knew that his daughter, Elena, was born the very day that he came to kill him. Logan questions him how he knew about his memory. Epsilon inquires how he thinks he controls his appendages. The first prerequisite of a DNA-altered astronaut candidate was psi-talent. He then asks Logan if he would like to know more about himself.
Aboard the Blackbird, Iceman informs Psylocke, Colossus, Jubilee and Cyclops that getting across the North Pole and most of Russia was a snap but, now that they’re approaching Tyuratam, they’re being hit with the full spectrum of sensor beams and probes. Psylocke tells Bobby that she is switching on full cloaking and all electronic countermeasures. Cyclops tells her good move and that he is cutting engine speed down to foil infrared sensors.
Iceman then tells them all to hold on. Something’s coming through on the radio and code-breaking computer. It’s a countdown – they’re preparing for a major launch. That’s why the security is all beefed up. Jubilee tells them that they have to get there before Wolvie… She then asks if there is anyway to speed the Blackbird up without being detected. Iceman informs her that he thinks he may have a way.
In Tyuratam, Epsilon Red informs Logan that he had just taken a stroll through the corridors of his mind and asks him if his name is Logan. That is how he thinks of himself – just Logan. He tells him that his brain is clogged with false memory implants and total blocks. There are implants on top of implants and so much memory tampering that there is now permanent scarring and intermittent firing of synapses. For instance, he tells Logan that he thinks that it is 1968 and he is there to pre-empt the Soviet manned moon shot and to prevent his, Epsilon’s, chance to walk on the moon. Holding up a picture of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, he tells Logan that in July 1969 Armstrong did it and that his project became low priority.
Outside at the mission control tower, base security informs a guard stationed at the space shuttle that sensors show an intruder in the old discontinued projects bunker. They have a visual. The guard asks for a direct feed. When he gets it, base security asks him if the swift-tuttle intercept now compromised. They ask if they are scrubbing. The guard informs him that the countdown proceeds uninterrupted. It’s just that old dinosaur, Epsilon Red and his crazy daughter. He then directs a security team to be dispatched to the bunker.
Inside the bunker, Epsilon Red mentions to Logan that he knows the great shining truth when he sees it. The truth has the power to counteract the misfires and short-circuits that are causing his present time slip. He then recommends to Logan that he open his mind to a probe. Allow the blocks and implants to be excised. Free his memory from the shackles of illusion and repression. Let him show him what really happened back in 1968. Logan tells him that he’s game, he wants to see.
In his mind, Logan remembers having his rifle pointed at Epsilon Red. Epsilon’s pregnant wife proceeded to stand between them and beg him not to kill him. Epsilon told him to ignore her and to do his job. Just then, rifle fire comes raining in the bunker. The source, Sabretooth, comes bursting in through a window. He tells Logan that the cavalry just showed up. Logan proceeds to ask him what he is doing there. Sabretooth replies that he just fought his way past elite KGB border guards and internal security teams to deliver an abort mission to him. Logan asks what? Sabretooth tells him that the orders came all the way from the top o’ the food chain. He is not to whack Epsilon Red. The commie space-man gets a reprieve and they jam out o’ there. He then tells Logan to move it, he’ll cover him. As Logan takes off out of the bunker, Epsilon Red calls out to him to come back there, he can’t leave him like that.
In reality, Epsilon Red asks Logan if he has seen enough and if he knows it for the truth. Logan admits that was a shocker. He knows it was the truth and informs Epsilon that he wants more, he wants the blocks removed. Epsilon tells him that it won’t restore what has been erased and there are some blocks that were put there by his own sub-conscious to prevent him from going insane. Those can’t be removed. He then warns him that it’s going to hurt. Logan tells him that it’s not like a little thing like pain is gonna bother him. He tells Epsilon to do it.
When he does, Logan screams in pain. His memories give way to fire, pain, blood, burning, ripping! Back to when he first became Wolverine and when he was turned into the animal that he is. He remembers Silver Fox and her begging Logan to not leave her there. Of Sabretooth beating him when he was a young man. Of the tree. Not the tree! He knew Epsilon said it would hurt, but he never thought it would be this bad. It’s like every molecule o’ him is screamin’ and the whole universe is white hot like the heart of a Bessemer furnace until everything is burnt away to ashes and the wind comes howlin’ in. A wind like the great mother o’ gales, northern cold, fierce and cleansin’ leavin’ him starin’ into a light like he’s never seen before. Like he’s gazin’ into the stark cold brilliance o’ reality.
In time, Logan is brought back to reality. Epsilon Red apologizes to him. He informs Logan that there are blocks that are immovable and impervious to the cleansing fires. Logan tells him that he’s shown him more than he’s ever seen before. A lot o’ it ain’t nice, but he thanks him for it. He then tells him that he wishes there was somethin’ he could do for him, short o’ puttin’ out his lights. Epsilon tells him that he can help him go home.
Before Logan can answer, a bunch of guards come crashing into the bunker. They tell Epsilon that he’s not going anywhere and call him an outdated freak. In fact, he’s going nowhere forever. They then raise their weapons up and point them at Epsilon Red. Logan pops his claws and tells them that they must think they rate mighty high on the bad-o-meter but guess what? Logan then leaps into action and slices his claws in their direction. Logan tells them that they’re messin’ with someone who’s off the scale.
The guards mention that their attacker moved so fast they couldn’t track him. They then notice that he is behind them. When the order is given to gun him down, their rifles fall apart after being slashed. Logan then asks Epsilon what it was about goin’ home. Epsilon points into the night sky and the stars. He tells Logan it is up there, the only place he can be free.
Later, the Blackbird races towards Tyuratam. They notice that it is still counting down for a dawn launch. Cyclops tells Iceman to keep cooling the engine heat vents; it’s giving them more speed than they could normally eke out without tripping the infrared detectors. Iceman replies that service is his specialty. He then points out that Logan is down near the fence. Noticing the Blackbird land, Logan mentions that that was a pleasant surprise. Here he thought he was gonna hafta hoof it all the way back to Salem Center.
With the X-Men gathered around him, they all watch the space shuttle take off. Jubilee tells him that they were worried about him. Logan answers that was real nice o’ her but what say they take care o’ this socializin’ on the way home. Aboard the Blackbird, Colossus tells Logan that he should warn him. They are making a short stop on the way back. Logan asks if it is someplace pleasant. Colossus informs him yes. Siberia is very nice this time of year. Jubilee then puts her arms around Logan and asks him if he… Logan informs her that he did not, he just helped somebody go home is all.
Up in space, Epsilon Red emerges from his shuttle into space, where he is happiest.
In Tyuratam mission control, a guard mentions to Elena that she let him come storming in there and permitted him to force him to remove the real payload so her demented father could go off on his space cruise to the asteroid belt. He then asks her, with her amazing psi-talents, pretend that it was her father who was tinkering with the American mutants brain. He asks why she, Elena Ivanovna, let him see the truth of what happened in 1968. Elena replies that she didn’t let him see the whole truth. She didn’t let him see what happened after he left. She didn’t let him see what happened with Sabretooth.
Back then, after Logan ran out, Epsilon Red mentions to Sabretooth that he seems like a different sort than his friend – harder, colder. He asks him if perhaps he will do him the favor of ending his existence. Sabretooth tells him, “nah, you want it too bad.” “But he know a way to really bum him out.” With that, he shoots and kills Epsilon Red’s wife in cold-blood. Elena tells the guard that she was born by caesarian section even as her mother died. What he got out of all this was information. When she went into Logan’s brain to remove the blocks, she did a personal perusal. She now has clues to the whereabouts of Sabretooth. When she finds him, he will surely die.


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Induction in the Savage Land
As the Blackbird lands in the Savage Land, Jubilee, Rogue and Wolverine exit carrying heavy cases. Jubilee immediately begins to complain and asks if they can at least turn the Blackbird’s landing lights on. She’s tripping over her own feet. She also asks what is inside the cases – they weigh a ton. Rogue tells her to hush. They have to do it in the dark because their mission is a secret. Wolverine adds that the joker they’re lookin’ for isn’t supposed to know that they’re lookin’ for him.
As the Blackbird takes off on its own, Jubilee asks that, if he was alive, do they think he couldn’t tell that a hunk of metal as a big as a jet landed in his backyard? She mentions to Rogue that she knows him pretty good. Does she really think… Rogue cuts her off and tells her that she’s not in the mood to discuss it with a snippety minor. Wolverine informs them both that they’d best reconnoiter. The sun won’t be comin’ up for fifteen minutes and who knows what’s out there in the dark. With that, Wolverine lights his cigar.
At that moment, a large Tyrannosaurus Rex attacks them much to the surprise of Jubilee. Wolverine mentions that it must’ve sneaked up on him downwind. Jubilee takes the initiative and begins to unleash her fireworks power. Jubilee asks Wolverine and Rogue why they don’t do something super-powered. Wolverine asks Rogue if she wants first dibs. Rogue admits that she does.
As she takes flight and punches the T-Rex she mentions that the last time she was down there, you could say she was at a disadvantage. The T-Rex replies to her punch by smacking her with his tail. Seeing that, Wolverine heads to the back of the T-Rex while Jubilee yells at him to come back there. Wolverine tells her that he has to put an end to this. Jubilee asks why can’t he deal with him from this side, this is the side with all the teeth. Wolverine then sinks his claws into the T-Rex which causes it to run off into the forest.
As the T-Rex disappears into the woods, Wolverine says that he can go stomp on Tokyo with that big mouth. He then asks Rogue if she is okay to which she replies that she’s as good as she “evah felt after bouncin’ off a tree.” Wolverine asks if anybody has any damage. Jubilee tells him that only dinosaur slobber. Wolverine opens up a case and tells them both that he shoulda opened that case first – perimeter and diversions. Inside the case are computer games, CDs, and a Forge-built portable force-field generator. No sooner does he set the settings for a hundred feet diameter and twenty feet high, does a Triceratops crash into the invisible barrier protecting them. Protected from the outside world Wolverine tells Rogue to press the engage button on the shelter and environment case which encompasses them in an inflatable geodesic dome.
With that done, Rogue begins to unpack the communications and instrumentation case. Wolverine recommends that they check in with Professor Xavier first. Rogue does so and informs Xavier that they are on site and setting up their base. After they assemble the magnetic anomaly detection equipment, they’ll be ready to begin their search. Xavier tells her to remember that their mission is not to confront and engage. They are just investigating the rumors that their quarry may still be alive. He adds that he was hesitant to send her in light of her previous encounter with the object of the search - - squawk - - ause he fe - - squeee - - motional dis – pop!
As the transmission ends abruptly, Rogue begins to tell Xavier that she can handle it but doesn’t get the chance to. Wolverine informs her that electronic communications don’t work so hot in the Savage Land. Rogue tells him that she remembers and takes off into the sky. She tells them that she is goin’ to mosey on up to ten thousand feet and run an aerial scan for those ol’ magnetic anomalies. When she leaves, Jubilee asks Wolverine if they are gonna do the ground search. Wolverine tells her that he’s gonna go sniff around but she’s gonna stay home and guard the fort. Jubilee begins to protest but Wolverine tells her to do that English assignment like she’s supposed to.
With Wolverine and Rogue gone, Jubilee takes to her studying. Reading her book she complains that the book is almost as boring as Silas Marner. She adds that she doesn’t get it. She’s halfway through and he hasn’t done any magic tricks yet. As she looks outside, she tells the T-Rexs that are trying to get in the protective bubble to not get their hopes yet. They’re not getting their slimy claws on her as long as Forge’s force field generator is chugging away.
Just then one of the machines begins to make a strange humming noise. Jubilee begins to panic until she realizes that it was just normal operating noise. She looks into the sky and notices some buzzards. She mentions that they have a looong wait before she’s an hors d’oevure. Going back to concentrating on her book she reads the passage “Barkus is willin….” As she reads, it she wonders what that is supposed to mean.
Deeper in the jungle, Wolverine is runnin’ free. At least, as free as he can be when he has a job to do. The main thing is, he doesn’t have all them false memory implants clutterin’ up his brain anymore. He knows what his past really is now an’ he can deal with it. Now if only… Before he can continue his thought, he catches the whiff of Savage Land barbarians and more. He realizes that it’s a big group, a war party. They are movin’ quickly, but the scent is confusin’. Somethin’s not right. There’s more than the fall people there.
Looking into the clearing, Wolverine recognizes that his sniffer wasn’t wrong - mutates are part of the war party as well. Some o’ the ugliest, nastiest mutates o’ them all. Barbarus, Amphibious, an’ even Equilibrious with his hoo-doo eyes. He notices that they’ve captured two o’ the fall people. Wolverine then also notices that there’s all sorts o‘ different barbarians down there. They’re all usually feudin’ with each other and with the mutates. Somethin’ or somebody has united ‘em. Maybe that somebody is the fella they’re searchin’ for.
In another part of the jungle, Rogue thinks to herself that she knows that Professor Xavier was just bein’ concerned and he was right. There are so many dang conflicting emotions still rattlin’ around inside o’ her. Maybe she should’ve disqualified herself from the mission. After all, her eyes are still sensitive t’light. Maybe… She is cut off in her thoughts when her transmitter goes off. It tells her that a magnetic anomaly with intensity level nine bearing zero-zero. Rogue realizes that is right below her. She also notices that whatever it is, it’s hidden under a triple canopy jungle and it’s powerful enough to push her anomaly readin’ clean off the scanner.
Reaching her destination she is shocked. It must be one o’ the ancient citadels. Ka-Zar told her about the mysterious ruins but she never imagined ‘em to be that big. There’s room enough to swing a cat in there. Entering the building, she notices that the readin’ is strongest inside. She finds the source, whatever it is. She hopes it isn’t a case o’ somebody leavin’ their toaster plugged in a millennium ago. Rubbing her finger on the machine, she discovers that it’s clean like somebody’s been workin’ on it while everything around it is still covered in dust. She wonders if it could be the thing generating a wave anomaly.
Just then, Brainchild asks her “wave anomaly?” What does she know about wave anomalies? Looking in his eyes, Rogue realizes that he has lost his mind. Brainchild tells her that only he, the positive pole of the universe, the primal flux, as it were can make one and he’s not there, is he. He asks Rogue if he is there. When Rogue asks him what he is raving about, Brainchild tells her that she knows. While he has her distracted, Gaza comes up behind her and smacks her in the back of the head with a club. Brainchild then tells Gaza to strap her into the genetic transformer.
Back at camp, Jubilee continues to read her book and listen to her walkman. She reads that Steerforth shows up again. She wonders if he lives in the alternate universe of amazing coincidences or what. Hearing the T-Rex continue to poke and claw away at the bubble, she mentions to it that he really has an appetite worked up for Jubilee au jus, doesn’t he? She informs razor-mouth that it’s not going to happen. This is a Forge-built force field and that means it’s virtually impreg… impregnia… not-get-through-able. It’s sheer energy, so he can’t climb it. You would have to be a mutant kangaroo to hop over it. The only way you could get at her would be if he could fly.
Just then, Jubilee is swooped up by a warrior riding a Pterosaur. She thinks to herself that if her pafs worked on the Tyrannosaurs, they should work on this one. The warrior aims his spear at Jubilee and tells her that if she startles the soarer, he may drop her and she doesn’t want him to do that.
In another area of the Savage Land, Wolverine follows the war party to some sort of temple or throne room. He wonders who gets to plunk his butt down on the cold slab. Wolverine then smells that the mob is gettin’ ugly, the stench o’ blood-lust. The warriors untie the fall people they captured and try to hold him still. One of the warriors calls out to the others that they will make fitting adornments for his throne once they’ve been separated from their filthy bodies.
Before it gets to that, Wolverine makes his presence known and tells them to hold on, he can’t let them do that. One of the warriors calls him an intruder and orders his fellow warriors to get him; he is violating the sanctity of his hall. Wolverine pops his claws and tells him that’s too bad. He offers for them to invite ol’ capital “H” himself down for the brouhaha an’ maybe he’ll carve his apology across his face! With that, Wolverine begins to hack and slash away with complete and utter disregard.
High above somewhere, Jubilee is being carried by the warrior riding his steed. Jubilee asks him how they can discuss this. She asks if they are in a totally non-negotiable situation there. She then asks if she at least gets any frequent-flier miles. The warrior recommends that she not do anything the soarer wouldn’t like or he will… Jubilee cuts him off and tells him that she knows. He’ll do something she won’t like. She asks that they at least tell her when she can open up her eyes again.
At that moment, the soarer drops Jubilee off into a hole in a cave. As she gets up, she notices that she was just tossed in and left. Heading towards the entrance to the cave she figures that there must be some way out of there. Before she can realize, she finds herself clinging to the ledge in something that resembles a village. She calls out for somebody to help her and to get her down from there. From afar, some more warriors witness her plight.
In a building located deep within the Savage Land, Rogue wakes up and recognizes that somebody put a serious hurtin’ on her head and put some serious chains on her too. Rogue mentions that little, bitty links like them can’t… She stops in her tracks when she notices that a mark in the dust on the shelf has a familiar look to it like she could almost picture the shape o’ whatever was set down there. Brainchild informs her to not strain her feeble intellect on useless conjecture. There is no help for her in the dust.
Rogue shoots back by telling him that he is the feeb. She adds that she can snap the pathetic shackles faster’n a hog can chew corn. Brainchild tells her that he believes she can, that is why the chains are rigged to the genetic transformer. One broken link, and she will be devolved back to her primordial origins. Invertebrate, inchoate, viscous. He tells her that she won’t break free and that he’ll give her to him. He’ll be so pleased. A real mutant, not a mutate like Gaza and him. He might even reward him. Rogue asks who this “he” he is jabberin’ about. Is it…
Brainchild immediately holds his hands to his ears and tells her not to utter his name – it is forbidden. There are blocks. He has seen and he has forgotten but he has been in the presence. He feels that in his bones. Gaza, who cannot see, heard his voice and now is stricken dumb. It was not meant for them to know for certain at this time but he did leave his sign. Brainchild points over to a large fist statue poking out of the ground. Around the fist are cords of metal. Brainchild informs Rogue that it was molded out of ferrous metal wrung from the veins deep within the bowels of the earth – sculpted by forces unimaginable. Rogue mentions to him that the mark in the dust was made by a helmet. Brainchild tells her that he lives to which Rogue replies “Oh, Lord.”
Back at the temple, Wolverine continues to battle Barbarus, Amphibious and Equilibrious. Equilibrious takes the lead and tells Barbarus to hold Wolverine and pin his arms so Amphibious can cave in his skull and he can confound him with his dizzying waves of vertigo. Wolverine points out that it sounds like they’ve been taking teamwork lessons. While he flings Barbarus over his back and into Amphibious, who in turn knocks into Equilibrious, he asks them who their tutor is. Anybody he knows? He then tells them that he’s had it with buttin’ heads with the hired help. He wants the head honcho. He orders them to tell the boss-man that Wolverine is there to bust heads and take names.
From behind him, a voice tells him as he wishes. Wolverine turns to find Sauron standing before him. Covering his hands are sharp metal claws. He challenges Wolverine to do battle with him for he is lord of this domain. He is Sauron and his power is risen again. He has united the mutates and the barbarians and soon the fall people shall be his thrall. He tells Wolverine to tremble before him as he mete outs his doom. Wolverine responds the only way he knows how. He charges Sauron and tells him to see how them shiny new claws o’ his stacks up against adamantium.


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On the floor of the chasm in Sauron’s citadel, Wolverine thinks to himself. This was supposed to be a real piece o’ cake mission. Ol’ Charles Xavier said “take Rogue and Jubilee, mosey on down to the Savage Land and root around – see if you can find out if anything suspicious has been happenin’ lately.” Didn’t get any specific than that, but he was worried. And Charlie Xavier don’t worry easy. Don’t ruffle no feathers he said. Don’t make no waves – easy for him to say. He’s snug in his anti-gray barca-lounger back in Salem Center and he’s stuck in Sauron’s basement while his barbarian buddies stampede a herd o’ dinosaurs down on his face. This is after Sauron hamstrings him, throws him in this fire-chasm and buries him in boulders. Good thing his mutant healin’ power is still workin’ at all – even in low gear, it sure does help in this damage control department.
As the dinosaurs continue to plummet into the chasm, Wolverine slashes them and calls out to Sauron to keep sendin’ down Barney’s big brothers; he’s slicin’ himself up a lizard meat stairway. Up above, Barbarus points out to Sauron that Wolverine is piling them up and climbing out on them. Amphibius adds for him to do something. Sauron takes the advice and orders one of the warriors riding a dinosaur to stop and turn them around. The warrior replies stop them? This is a stampede. They can barely keep them all running in the same direction.
Outside the citadel, Rogue follows the parade of dinosaurs. Rogue wonders why would someone want t’stampede a whole mess o’ dinosaurs inside a citadel. An’ how many do they expect to cram in there. This has got to be worth a quick peek. As Rogue flies into the citadel, Equilibrius notices her and calls out to the other warriors that another outlander mutant has arrived – Rogue. He gives the order to slay her before she can help the other one. Rogue thinks aloud that what tells her that “other one” is Wolverine. Same thing that tells her he’s at the bottom o’ that pit getting rained on by big lizards. She then realizes that there are too many spears to dodge, she has to get some altitude. She needs a little breather to formulate a plan. When she flies into the rafters, she comes face to face with Sauron. Sauron tells her that his earth-bound minions cannot pursue her into the rafters, but he can.
Below, in the citadel, the warrior “leading” the stampede thinks to himself that he can’t stop the stampede; he can’t even keep themselves from being swept over the edge. In the chasm, Wolverine wonders what’s goin’ on down there. They’re throwin’ the whole kitchen sink full o’ extincto-sauruses at him. No sweat! Adamantium keeps an edge better than a Ginsu. An’ he’s still the best at what he… In an instant, a dinosaur chomps down on him with his razor-sharp teeth.
Up in the rafters, Rogue tells Sauron that she can outfly him any day. She don’t have to move air with big ol’ leather flaps. Sauron replies that her particular mutant talent does make her more elusive than Wolverine. When he is able to finally connect with a slash to her face, he tells her that unfortunately she doesn’t possess his healing factor. As Rogue falls, she thinks to herself that she got too darn cocky for her own good. She realizes that she has to break her fall somehow but not with her head. It’s too late, as she falls on a metal rafter on her head, seemingly knocking her out.
When Sauron converges on her to make the final killing blow he tells Rogue that she is weak. She has no chance against one such as him. Just then, Rogue pops up and clocks Sauron. When she does, she tells him that she was just playin’ possum an’ she figured she could sucker him in for a Sunday punch. When she connects, Sauron goes flying through some rafters.
With Sauron taken care of for the time being, Rogue calls down to Wolverine and asks him if he’s all right down there. Wolverine tells her not so hot. It’s a regular chomp-o-rama down there. But he’s about had it with this bunch. At that moment, he uses his claws to slash away at the dinosaurs that are having him as Thanksgiving dinner. He tells Rogue that he’s about to quit this pop-stand. He aims to kick butt and take names. No more of this “Mr. nice-guy” garbage. Using the back of a tyrannosaurus, he finally makes his way out of the chasm. On the floor of the citadel, he asks the warriors what they’re gapin’ at – have they never seen a man takin’ care o’ business? After killing another dinosaur he faces them and asks who’s next. After witnessing Wolverine’s rage, the warriors take off. Wolverine is a little disappointed – he was just getting’ warmed up.
Up in the rafters, Sauron begins to stir again. He tells Rogue that punch has earned her a measured dose of pain. A quick and merciful death will not be hers, perhaps a studied and careful flaying? Rogue answers that he ain’t skinned her yet, an’ it’ll be a cold day in Baghdad before he does. Sauron tells her that they’ll see about that. As they collide violently, Rogue tells him he can bet they will. When the dust settles, Sauron stands over Rogue’s body. He tells her now it’s time for…
Interrupting, Wolverine asks “For what, beak-face?” and grabs him from behind. He then points out that he’s not as boastful now, is he? Wolverine then takes Sauron over to the chasm and holds him over it. He tells Sauron to give him one good reason not to throw his scaley butt to the pit dinos. Sauron answers that he’ll kill him. He’ll… Wolverine wonders if he skims him down there like a Frisbee, would they jump up and… Rogue cuts him off and tells him not to do it. Wolverine points out to her that Sauron was gettin’ set to peel the pelt from her. Rogue tells him jus’ the same, they can’t lower themselves to his level. She adds maybe there’s a way to deal with Sauron by helpin’ him. Wolverine asks her that she thinks they can make a deal with the likes o’ this. He tells her she must be dreamin’ and reminds her that they got a job to do down there for ol’ Charlie.
Rogue informs him that she hasn’t forgotten. It’s all the same thing. They can help Sauron and carry out their mission all in the same place. She adds that it’s too dang hard to explain, just trust her. Wolverine tells her that she is trusted and tosses Sauron down. He tells him to call off his pack o’ yahoos and face the music. Sauron replies that he believes they can agree to agree. Yes, compromise and rational argument are the rule of the day. He then tells his minions to depart the citadel and let the outlanders do what they will. With his minions gone, Sauron asks Rogue and Wolverine what was all this about helping him. Wolverine answers that whatever it is that Rogue has got planned for him, she can do just as will with him unconscious. With that said, he punches Sauron out cold.
Later, in another part of the Savage Land, Brainchild continues to tell Gaza that they need to be prepared. When Rogue comes back, they have to have the advantage. Gaza asks what the plan is. Are they going to… Brainchild cuts him off and tells him to be quiet – she’s back. Gaza asks where. Up on a ledge high above, Rogue tells them both that she thought she told them to behave until she got back. Brainchild answers that it is apparent that her previous victory was due to blind luck. Between his superior intellect and Gaza’s brute strength, they are more than a match for…
From behind them, a voice tells them that they left somethin’ outta that equation, namely him. Wolverine continues that Rogue already went upside their heads today all by herself. As he tosses Sauron onto the floor below, he asks them if they are seriously entertainin’ the fantasy o’ tacklin’ him an’ her together. Brainchild freaks out and recognizes who the voice is coming from. Gaza recommends to Brainchild to just say the word, he’s not afraid of him. Brainchild tells him that he would if he could see the look in his eye.
Rogue then asks Brainchild how well that big ol’ machine of his works in reverse. Brainchild asks his genetic transformer? It can only return a subject to a previously attained level of advancement. It cannot extrapolate and make something more advanced than it originally was. After all, it was created to revert organisms to their genetic roots. At that moment, Sauron gets up and tries to fly away. As he does he tells them that he knows what they’re planning to do and he won’t let them… Wolverine proceeds to grab Sauron by the tail and slam him against the wall. He tells him they made a deal and orders Gaza to strap him down. Gaza is hesitant but Brainchild confirms the order.
As Sauron is being strapped in, Wolverine tells him that they’re gonna fix him up, make him all better. He’s gonna be human again. While the transformer begins to cycle up, Sauron calls them all hypocrites, self-righteous hypocrites. Sauron asks that they call themselves heroes and would kill him in cold blood? Rogue tells him that they’re transformin’ him back into Dr. Karl Lykos; they’re helping him. Sauron tells her wrong. They’re helping Lykos, but they’re killing Sauron. They are two separate entities. He is not Lykos in another body; he is Sauron and, although he is not afraid of taking that great step into external oblivion, he does not welcome it.
Brainchild calls out that he lies, the stink of fear is on him. He adds that Sauron has all the memories of Lykos. Lykos the psychologist, Lykos the hypnotherapist. He warns that he is twisting their minds with wily words. Sauron answers that Brainchild is the liar. He asks Rogue wasn’t it him who was planning to use the genetic transformer on her. He asks her how it felt when it was aimed at her. Did it feel like it was going to help her? Did it? Rogue then asks him what are they supposed to do. Let him go? Let him go back to conquering the Savage Land?
Sauron answers yes. Somebody is going to be doing it at any given time. It is the natural order down there. There are no farmers or herbivores in the Savage Land. Every creature there is a predator, a carnivore, a hunter. That’s why they call it the Savage Land. Turn him into a puling human again. Meddle, like the self-righteous outsiders that they are. Then what next? Are they going to turn them into lawyers, tax-collectors, and drug dealers? That’s what they have in civilization, and they have none of them there.
Upon hearing that, Wolverine walks up to him, pops his claws, raises his fist up, and slices Sauron free. He then tells him to get his act in the wind ‘fore he changes his mind. With Sauron gone, Wolverine turns his attention to the metal statue of a fist. He tells Rogue that Charlie told them not to make waves and the statue is what they really came there lookin’ for, anyway. It’s rock solid evidence. Proof o’ the existence o’… Just then, Brainchild and Gaza run away. As they do, Brainchild calls out nooooo, they musn’t say it, they can’t even listen to it – his name has been blocked. Rogue tells them to come back there but Wolverine tells her to let ‘em go. What were they gonna do, read ‘em the riot act?
Above the citadel, a sensor scan locks onto the two subjects fleeing the citadel. Reading: mutates – identification match-up against known templates. Sort is running – it is Brainchild and Gaza. They have a positive scan I.D. on Wolverine and Rogue inside the citadel and a location fix. The request is made for a data-feed to the targeting computer. The information is given that the cutting angle is computed and the cyber-model withstood the stress analysis: structure will not collapse with arc segment excised. Wolverine and Rogue are clear of beam path. The laser then cycles and fires, blowing a hole in the citadel.
The blast comes from the Blackbird and the two pilots – Storm and Bishop. Storm announces to Wolverine and Rogue to stand by for boarding ramp deployment. Rogue mentions to Wolverine that she’ll bet that’s Bishop with her drivin’ – he’s a big ‘un for flashy entrances. Wolverine indicates that he’s a big one, period. When Bishop exits the Blackbird, Rogue informs him that they’ve got a couple o’ garage sale finds to throw in the back seat. Bishop answers that he picked them up on the first scanner analysis. Professor Xavier is going to be very interested in both of the artifacts. They may have a weight problem with the fist, but…
Wolverine cuts him off and asks him how he did he know they might be needin’ some help, an’ how did he know they were in this neck o’ the woods. Bishop informs him that the good professor was concerned about their lack or radio communication and that their long-range monitoring system also detected a malfunction in their force-field generator. The consensus was that a reconnaissance was in order. Immediately up on their arrival, the sensors detected what seemed to be a melee of pterodactyl riders. In fact, it proved to be a riotous celebration, a revelry unlike any he had previously witnessed. The focus of all that jubilation turned out to be none other than their own, aptly named Jubilee. He adds that there is little that transpires in the Savage Land that is unseen by the pterodactyl riders.
Once aboard the Blackbird, Wolverine asks Bishop that the pterodactyl riders told her that him and Rogue were in the ancient citadel? Sorta like prehistoric spy-planes. He then asks what all the deal was about the party. What was the occasion? Jubilee tells Bishop not to tell him. Bishop replies that it was an engagement party. They were rewarding their young hero with a choice spouse. Wolverine asks that she left the groom at the altar, did she. Bishop corrects him – bride. It seems that Jubilee’s newfound friends were rather mistaken about her gender.
Jubilee warns them that they better not laugh, no snickering either. She adds that she definitely has to do something about her wardrobe. Storm then turns and asks Wolverine what he thinks of the evidence they found. Wolverine tells her enough to know there’s a storm brewin’ and the X-Men are right in the middle o’ it.


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Omnia Mutantur
As Logan sits by himself, he thinks about where he is. It’s an ancient temple built into a wooded hillside on the outskirts o’ Tokyo. They built it out o’ wood ‘cause it was a place to reflect on the impermanence o’ the material world. It’s a haven o’ serenity just a tram ride away from the busiest urban center in the world. It’s the place Mariko and he had planned on for their weddin’.
From behind Logan a voice calls to him and says that she knew he’d come there on this day to light incense in her memory. The voice belongs to Yukio and she mentions that it is the anniversary of Mariko’s death and all. She adds that he’s come a long way to make a gesture that nobody else would care about. She then tells Logan that he has the makings of a bodhisattva. Walking toward Yukio, Logan informs her that there’s too much blood and bad karma on his hands for that. Besides, she knew he’d be there. Yukio tells him so did others and warns Logan not to go down the stairs, they’re waiting on him. Logan tells her that he’s trying to make peace with his past and he can’t do that by runnin’ away from it. With that, he takes the sword out of its holder on his back and tosses it behind him. He then asks Yukio to watch it for him.
As Logan walks down the stairs, he is watched by ninjas from the Hand. Logan says out loud that it’s a beautiful day. The birds are singin’ in the eucalyptus. The breeze carries the scent o’ pine and jasmine – it’s a good day to die. The ninjas use their bolos to trap both of Logan’s arms and tell him that it is good that he is resigned to his fate. Logan tells them that he wasn’t talkin’ about him. The ninjas say to him that it is his arrogance that has sealed his fate. They ask if he thought he could get away with maiming a master of the hand. They tell him that his life is theirs now. Logan responds by popping his bone claws and telling them that they have to take it first and he ain’t makin’ that easy. With that, he uses his strength to fling the ninjas restraining him away.
In the tussle, he is cut on the forehead by one of the ninjas behind him. Upon realizing it, Logan angrily challenges them to come on and get this over with. At that time, Yukio sneaks up behind one of the ninjas and asks if the ninjas of the Hand are so inept that they would slay the wrong man. The ninja asks his attacker who she is and what she wants. Yukio introduces herself and tells him that she is a friend, a free agent. She asks aren’t the Hand guys not supposed to be charged with bringing the head of Logan. And is this Logan not possessed of adamantium claws and a mutant healing factor? The ninja says of course, that is well known. Yukio tells him that this poor fellow has claws of bone and continues to bleed. She says that perhaps this is a ploy to draw ninjas away from the protective circle of their master, perhaps the real Logan wants the death of Matsuo to be personal.
As the ninjas disperse, they tell Yukio that they know of her – the female ronin with the man’s name, they will not forget this favor. With the ninjas gone, Logan tells her that he didn’t need that. Yukio tells him that she thinks maybe he did. She just returned from America where she spent some time with Storm. She had an exciting little adventure, one she’ll have to tell him about sometime. In addition, Storm told her the whole story.
In Tokyo, Logan makes his way to Yukio’s place. When he sees it he mentions that she still has the same ol’ place. Yukio says who can afford to move. Once inside, she says to him that it’s a little pathetic. All the adventures, the fast life and this is all she has. Logan tells her that he has a little bit stashed away with Landau, Luckman and Lake. Maybe he can help her out. Yukio tells him that she doesn’t need anything more than that. It’s not as if she had a family to look after. She tells him that’s his money and to keep it for a rainy day. Logan tells her that he don’t know how many days he got left, rainy or otherwise. That’s sort of the reason for his trip – to say good-byes and set things straight. Yukio replies that he doesn’t make things right by coming into her home with all this glumness. She tells him to pour her some drinks and they’ll sing a few songs and tell lies about all the good times they had. With that said, Yukio embraces Logan in a hug.
In a remote section of Canada, Bloodscream, wearing a hat and coat, drives a truck down the road. When the purloined conveyance can delve no deeper into the tangled wood, the forest redolent with bygone savories, he takes off on foot. He senses that the aura of ancient magick is there. The revenants of mystic skeins, unravel’d twixt the birches like unto the pagan sorcery that unmade the humanity in him and left him to live this pale parody of life.
Sniffing the air, he catches another scent there. It is most intriguing, wafting from the pile of Indian bones before him. There is mouldy death and something out of place in time there amongst the bones of forgotten aborigines. In the pile of bones he finds the body of a girl-child. She is fair and unspoilt by decay whilst all around her is fallen to dust. Holding her up he notices the fabric of her pinafore hath been woven of synthetic thread yet the mound hath lain undisturbed for centuries. He then realizes that the girl is an automaton – a simulacrum of clockwork and captive ethers. He wonders how it can be, perhaps the answer lies within the little mannequin.
With that, Bloodscream drags her through the snow by her leg to the truck where he hooks her up with jumper cables. As he does, he mentions that ‘tis truly the spark of life in this instance. With this introduction, may the dormant rise and take on the semblance of divine animation. When the power hits the girl she wakes up with a jolt. She calls out howy smoke! She sees a twuck and realizes that her battewies have been wecharged. She asks what year it is. Bloodscream informs her that it is nineteen hundred and ninety four. The girl replies good gwief, thwee hundwed years have gone by since they put themselves to system sleep.
Digesting her tale, Bloodscream mutters “android time travelers,” to which the girl says that’s wight. She introduces herself as Elsie Dee and asks him if he knows a Mr. Wogan, who caws himself Wolverwine. Bloodscream tells her verily. In fact, they are quite a bit more than passing acquaintances. He then tells Elsie that she can call him Mr. Bloodscream.
Shortly, Elsie takes off running through the forest with Bloodscream in tow. She tells him to come on, they have to dig Albert out of the buwial mound and jump start him. Bloodscream asks who? Elsie tells him that he’s a Pierce-built andwoid, like she is. She named him after Einstein after she souped up his wogic and memowy. Bloodscream questions that he is a savant automation? Before long, Elsie finds Albert and hooks the jumper cables to him. She mentions that he is none the worse for wear despite the howwible time with Siksika when they set him on fire and made him wun the gauntwet. Looking at him, Bloodscream says that he hath a singularly horrific countenance. Elsie angrily asks howiffic and asks what that means – he wooks just wike Wogan.
Once Albert awakens and runs a bio-scan *bzt* spectrographic analysis of exhalation-carbon dating of skeletal tissue *bzt* voice stress/blink rate/twitch factor *bzt* raw data processing. When he is done he tells Elsie that, despite outward appearances, *bzt* the one before them is not human. Elsie looks at Bloodscream and says that he wies like a wug. Bloodscream tells them to sooth and puts his arms around both Albert and Elsie Dee. He tells them a dissembler he is, verily for is he not one of the persecuted and hounded, just as thy friend Logan is. Is he not, as he is a mutant?
On Muir Island, Zoe Culloden tells Moira McTaggert, Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler that she is determined to do something positive for Logan whether he wants it or not. In fact, as an agent of Landau, Luckman and Lake, it is her job to see to his future. Moira tells her that he may not ha’e one. The test results were nae good. His condition and immune system are deteriorating and there seems to be a physical regression to some ancient gene-memory.
Zoe tells them what’s why she’s going now; she may have some leads that might help Logan. Kitty asks why she didn’t tell Logan. He’s gone off to Japan to do Lord-knows-what. There are all those Hand ninjas with grudges against him and the Silver Samurai and… Zoe tells her that he didn’t go to pick a fight, he went back to make sure his ward was being taken care of. Kitty then asks how he is going to find her again when he leaves Japan. Zoe tells her that she gave him her card. With that, she loads her car onto the arriving helicopter and takes off, much to Kitty’s chagrin.
On the streets of Tokyo, three young girls walk down the street from school. One of the girls talks about one of the other girls in their group and says why they have to put up with going to school with her, a lower-class orphan is beyond her, it’s disgraceful. The other girl agrees, it’s almost as bad as a foreigner. The tall girl then says to the orphan that is some fairy tale about her mother getting crushed by a falling building that was toppled by a giant dragon and asks if she is sure she isn’t really the bamboo princess in disguise. The shorter girl says princess and scoffs. She adds that is about as believable as that mysterious samurai protector of hers.
The orphan has finally heard enough and yells at them, telling them that it is true, she saw him, she remembers. He had armor, it was orange and brown and he had hair on his arms like a gaijin. The taller girl says hairy arms, maybe it was an ape. Maybe it was King Kong. Both of the girls begin to laugh hysterically. The orphan tells them to shut up and kicks the tall girl in the shin. The taller girl then tells the shorter girl, Nobu, to hold the orphan so she can teach her some respect. Nobu tells the taller girl, Teru, to teach her good.
Just then, Logan shows up and tells the two girls to stop. When the girls run away, Logan offers his hand to the orphan and asks her if they hurt her and if she needs help. The orphan tells him to get away from her. She tells him that he can’t help her, nobody can help her. As she runs away, Logan stands there, dejected.
Later, outside a restaurant, the orphan’s mother grabs her by the ear and berates her for what she has done to her school uniform and calls her an ungrateful brat. She asks her if she knows how much those things cost. The dad, who is in the process of waxing his BMW, yells at her for fighting with her betters again. That she was so overcome with envy of the other girls because they are so much better than her. He tells her that she has to show more humility. He then adds that after all she, Amiko, is just a…
Just then Logan asks that she is ‘just a what?” The dad asks him what he wants and who he is. Logan gives him his card. Looking over the card, the dad reads Zhio-ay Cu-ro-dan, Randau, Ruckman and Rake. The mom recognizes Randau and Ruckman as the ones who sign the checks for the upkeep of the brat. The dad asks what kind of name is Zoe. Logan tells him that it is the Scottish spelling of Zoe. He then tells them that he is there to interview the child and inspect her living quarters on behalf of her benefactor, Mr. Logan. The father says he wants to see her room, come follow him. Logan mentions that they didn’t know the “small business” they owned was a nomi-ya, a drinking shop.
Once in their dwelling, Logan mentions that they certainly have a lot of consumer goods. The father says they have more in storage. They used to sell luggage, but who can travel anymore? He then points to a small room and tells him that is where the brat sleeps. Looking around the room, Logan sees that it is very small and only has a bed in it. The father says that it is too good for her, if he asks him. Logan tells him that he is required to interview the child. The father leaves Amiko with him and tells him that he has five minutes, she has chores.
Once they are alone, Logan tells Amiko that he wants her to know that her benefactor did not know about this. They thought she was being cared for by a nice family. Amiko hangs her head and says the good samurai knows but he is far away and can’t come himself. She remembers that he promised her mother that he would always take care of her and she saw it in his eyes that he told the truth. Running her hand over the drawing she did of the samurai, she says that he is very busy saving many other people from fierce dragons but someday he will send a fierce ninja to punish the horrible people and take her away to a nice place.
At that moment, the father stepped in and said oooooh – he’s so scared. He tells the gaijin that time is up and to get out of there and never come back again. Logan turns to him and says that he’s been pocketing Amiko’s money every month. He’s going to get her taken away from him and put in a decent home. The father says that the gaijin thinks he can come there and buy little Japanese orphans. He can try messing with their social services system. Her money is tied up in a special trust that pays out to them. There’s no way he can take her away from them or stop them from getting her money. He then begins to laugh and tells Logan to beat it, before he calls the cops.
Later that night, Amiko’s step-father and step-mother are watching a movie with ninjas on their big screen television while drinking frozen margaritas and sitting on their reclining vibro loungers. While they do, Logan climbs into Amiko’s room wearing his yellow and blue costume and a mask. Amiko notices him as a ninja and asks if he is there to come and rescue her. Logan tells her to keep it quiet, he has to cover all the bases first. With that, he calls out loudly that now, the low-born dogs must face the wrath of the Hand. The father turns to the mother and says that sounded like somebody was right behind them. The mother replies that the home theater sound system was worth every yen they paid for it.
Behind them, Logan is holding Amiko and tells them that this is no video soundtrack. He says that the child was under the secret protection of the Hand, and they have displeased them greatly. She will no longer be under their care. Amiko tells them that she told them the good samurai was going to send a ninja to rescue her. The father and mother raise and arm themselves with a golf club and a ski rod, respectively. The father says that’s no ninja mask; it’s a pair of pantyhose. He adds that he’s no ninja and especially not one of the Hand. He’s just that stupid gaijin with underwear on his head.
The mother tells her husband, Tosh, to whack him, knock his block off. Logan, using his sword, slashes the air and calmly walks past them. Once past them, their weapons fall apart, as well as the glasses they were holding in their hands much to their surprise. Logan recommends that they think abut immigrating to someplace like Peru.
Still later that evening, Logan and Amiko have made their way to Yukio’s place. Logan says to Yukio that he made her a promise and he ain’t been all that good at keepin’ it all this time. He tells her that a kid needs a parent, not a trust fund. He tried to set it straight, but he don’t know if he’s gonna be around to see it through. He knows it’s a lot to ask o’ anybody he knows, but he can set it up with Landau, Luckman and Lake so there won’t be any financial burden. When Yukio doesn’t respond, Logan says that even if she can find her some real nice folks… Yukio tells him that even if she could, which she can’t, the child welfare authorities would never permit a ronin like her to…
Just then, the door opens and the Silver Samurai enters. He says that the child welfare authorities are petty bureaucrats who are easily bought by one as powerful as the Obayun of the Yashida Clan. Yukio asks Logan what the Samurai is doing there. The Samurai replies that a bargain has been made and now, terms must be met. Logan tosses his sword to the Samurai. Upon catching it, the Silver Samurai exclaims that, at last, the honor sword is restored to the Yashida Clan. Logan tells him that’s right Harada-san and that he is now honor-bound by it to see to the welfare of the child. As Yukio hugs Amiko, she tells Logan that she will raise her as if she were her own, she promises. Logan gives Amiko a kiss and walks out the door. As he does, he says to Yukio that he knows she will; he knows she will.