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No Goats, No Glory
Westchester County, New York. It is game day. A Pik ‘n’ Pay store has a closed sign up on the door. Only one purple car remains in the parking lot. A raccoon scuttles past with a large cookie. One of the staff speaks over the store intercom, announcing that the store is now closed. They thank customers for shopping and asks them to bring their purchases to the front checkout.
‘I can’t read any of this. What is that, “cat treats”? That’s a mistake’ Angelica Jones a.k.a. Firestar remarks as she reads off a shopping list. Bobby “Iceman” Drake tells her that it is not a mistake, it is Broo - he likes the ones with the chewy middle. ‘They’re actually pretty good’ he remarks. ‘And this… what…”pop”? I don’t…’ Angelica begins. Bobby explains that it is soda for Northstar. ‘I keep telling him but you know… Canadian’.
Angelica reads the next item: “Beer. Many”, to which Bobby points out that it is Logan, and suggests to Angelica that she get something with a fancy name, so Logan will take it personally.
Angelica sees “chopsticks” on the list and remarks that it looks like Nightcrawler’s scrawl. ‘That doesn’t make any sense, how can he…’ she begins, to which Bobby tells her that he thinks Dr McCoy needs to tie up some orchids. ‘Oh, okay. Because I can’t imagine. And Bobby -’ Angelica begins, before another announcement can be heard: ‘We’re closed. That means you, aisle five!’ Holding a large ham, Angelica calls out to Bobby, who tells her that it is just a giant ham and that it is not game day without sammiches. ‘Go team!’ he jokes as he puts some paper towels into the shopping cart.
Angelica tells Bobby that she doesn’t understand everybody’s TV sports obsession. ‘Spend enough weekends stuck in Westchester at the Jean Grey School for Lower Earnings and you will’ Bobby jokes.
A young employee with a broom approaches Bobby and Angelica and informs them that he is supposed to tell them they are kind of closed now. ‘I always forget something. I don’t know why I volunteered to do the snack run’ Angelica mutters as she pushes the cart off in another direction. ‘You’re a people pleaser! And you’re detail orientated! And you’re the only one with a clean driving record!’ Bobby rattles down, adding that Wolverine won’t lend anyone else his cars anymore. ‘And it’s fun! We’re like the mom and dad in Oliver Twist, in charge of an adorable clan of urchins!’
When they make their way to the checkout, Angelica tells Bobby that it was a rhetorical question and asks him if he actually ever read Oliver Twist. ‘It wasn’t phrased as a question, Angelica. And I know it’s about eating… so, duh’ Bobby replies as he puts the groceries on the conveyor. ‘Then why did you answer if - oh, shoot!’ Angelica mutters, she announces that they forgot the ice. The man operating the checkout tells her to pick it up outside and asks how many bags she wants. ‘Hey! Ice! Me! I got it covered!’ Bobby points out. ‘Nobody is going to want to put that in their drinks’ Angelica replies, to which Bobby promises that it will be upper body ice only.
As Angelica pushes the cart out of the store, she apologizes to the operator for holding him up, and thanks him for being so patient. ‘Do us all a favor and order online next time. We got a big delivery radius and discount ‘cause you work at some kinda school, right’ the operator replies. Holding two bags of ice, Bobby mutters that he still thinks it is a waste of money.
‘Wow. That sun is bright’ Angelica declares, looking up at the sky, while Bobby remarks that he can’t believe this place isn’t open twenty-four hours. ‘This is America! Land of the free! Home of the never closed!’ he jokes. Suddenly, the brightness of the sun disappears. ‘Where’d the sun go?’ Angelica asks. ‘Do I look like an astrophysicist? Or was that a rhetorical question phrased as an actual question this time?’ Bobby asks as he loads the ice into the trunk of the car. Angelica starts lifting the bags of groceries into the trunk and tells Bobby that it was really weird, but she is distracted when she notices something in one of the bags: ‘Bobby, you said you’d stop putting stuff in the cart that wasn’t on the list!’ Angelica scolds him.
‘Look, I don’t know what it’s like in Lady Land but I’m living with a bunch of toilet paper stealers!’ Bobby replies. ‘It’s not toilet paper’ Angelica replies, staring into the cart. ‘Okay, look, I know it probably seems like an awful lot of cheez whip but it is ever so delicious and nobody ever buys it because stupid health and - what is that in our cart?’ Bobby exclaims. Angelica smiles and reaches into the cart, ‘Don’t touch it!’ Bobby yells at her. ‘Awww, Bobby, come on… it’s a baby!’ Angelica replies a she pulls the baby out.
Bobby frowns and wonders where it comes from and what it wants. ‘To not have been abandoned, I expect’ Angelica replies as she looks into the baby’s eyes.
Suddenly: ‘Drop it, sister!’ a voice calls out - ‘Spider-Man!’ Angelica exclaims as Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man swings down towards them. ‘I’d put that down if I were you’ Spider-Man warns Angelica. Bobby ices up and exclaims that he knew it - it’s a baby bomb! Spider-Man stands next to Angelica and instructs her to give it to him, and then nobody is going to get hurt. ‘I’ve been chasing that thing all day!’ he adds.
‘Who chases a baby? It can’t even walk! You’re both nuts!’ Angelica declares, holding the baby close. Spider-Man announces that he has been all over town looking for that thing - and by town, he means state. He tells Iceman and Firestar that he can get by without skyscrapers but that when the high tension wires go and all that is left is shrubs and lamp posts, well, he realizes he should have driven. ‘Gimme the baby’ he exclaims, before turning to Bobby and asking him how he is doing. ‘Why the cold shoulder?’ he asks. ‘You know’ Bobby frowns. ‘Pal, let it go. It’s not good for your chakra alignment. I was mind-swapped with a super villain. I wasn’t myself. Angie forgives me, right? Angie?’ Spider-Man calls out, but Firestar has moved away from the men and is in a telephone box nearby. ‘Hello, I’d like to -’ she begins, before Spider-Man fires a web towards her and yanks the phone both away. Firestar screams and covers the baby, then turns to Spider-Man and shouts ‘My phone battery was dead! And that was my last quarter!’
‘See! You’re not cut out for parenthood. I bet you don’t have Kleenex, mints or a juice box, either!’ Spider-Man tells Firestar as he walks over to her. Firestar explains that she was calling Child Services, as this baby needs the authorities. ‘I’m not giving it to you!’ she adds. Spider-Man tells Angelica that there is something she should know. ‘What?’ she asks. ‘It’s not human’ Spider-Man announces. ‘Shut. Up’ Angelica declares. Spider-Man suggests that she poke it, then she will see. Angelica tells him that she can’t, and adds that it looks like it is going to cry. ‘We can’t give a nonhuman baby to a bunch of humans. It never turns out well’ Angelica points out. ‘Oh, let me do -’ Spider-Man begins, when suddenly, there is a bright light, ‘Yow!’ Angelica calls out, shielding her eyes. ‘Dang!’ Spider-Man exclaims, and suddenly, ‘WHOA!’ Iceman shouts as the baby flies towards him. It has large wings and appears somewhat alien in its appearance. ‘Get off me!’ Bobby declares as he falls to the ground, dropping the packet of biscuits he was holding.
Angelica picks the squawking baby up. ‘What did you do to it?’ she asks Bobby, who leans against the car and rubs the back of his head. ‘Me? Me? It’s the one crying acid!’ he replies, before looking at the car and exclaiming hat Wolverine is going to kill them. ‘How do we make it stop?’ Firestar asks, while Bobby covers the car in ice. Bobby gives the alien baby the packet of biscuits and it sits on the ground, eating them. ’Nice call, Bobby’ Spider-Man remarks. ’Yeah, well, I wouldn’t expect you to think of how to make someone else happy’ Bobby replies, while Firestar remarks that it can’t be good for the baby - those things are full of chemicals and sugar. ’You forgot “joy”!’ Bobby remarks. Spider-Man looks at his wrist and announces that it is less than an hour to kick off. He fires some webbing at the back of the baby, and then swings upwards, dragging the alien behind him. ‘Kick off?’ Bobby asks. ‘He wouldn’t dare’ Angelica remarks.
They take off after Spider-Man, Iceman on an ice-sled, and Firestar flying alongside, now in her costume. ‘You sure? I know he says he’s not still taken over by a super villain, but it kinda fit him like a glove, know what I mean?’ Bobby remarks. ‘What’s that say about the fact that you’re kind of an idiot most of the time?’ Angelica asks. ‘Yeah, but no gloves, Firestar…no gloves’ Bobby replies. ‘That’s not your baby!’ Iceman calls out as they close in on Spider-Man. ‘It’s not yours, either! That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you!’ Spider-Man calls back. ‘But I know how to make it happy!’ Iceman boasts, when suddenly, his ice-sled forms in front of Spider-Man, who is about to swing right into it. ‘Oh no!’ Firestar calls out, blasting a microwave energy ball forward, it melts through the ice-sled, enabling the baby to sing through it, Spider-Man signals Firestar, before he crashes into the ice-sled.
Firestar grabs the baby, whose wings are restrained by webbing, and suggests to Spider-Man that he tell her what is going on. ‘There’s been a kidnapping!’ Spider-Man declares. ‘I know that’ Firestar replies. ‘Not the kid, you ding dong! I was doing a friend a favor!’ Spider-Man calls out, revealing that he left for ten minutes - actually, a couple of hours - and when he gets back, he finds that thing sucking on an energy drink that he doesn’t think it paid for. ‘Someone’s got Ding Dongs?’ Iceman asks. Firestar tells the baby that it really shouldn’t drink that stuff, as the caffeine alone has been shown to have deleterious effects - not to mention the potential for insulin spikes and migraines. ‘It’s an unregulated industry!’ she exclaims, patting the baby on its back, burping it. ‘So, kidnapping. Isn’t that right, shnook’ Iceman remarks.
‘Look, professor, I don’t know if that baby is some kind of changeling left behind by the fairies or what, but I do know it wasn’t there when I left and it’s the only thing I’ve got to trade!’ Spider-Man exclaims, hanging from the ice-sled. ‘Trade for what?’ one of the two mutants asks. ‘Let’s just call him a VIP okay? God, have you always been this nosey?’ Spider-Man replies. Bobby holds some snack bar towards the baby, ‘Want some?’ he asks. ‘Bobby, what are you -’ Angelica begins, while the baby burps once more. Suddenly, it burps again, and this time, a huge burst of fire is emitted from the baby’s mouth. ‘Goodness!’ Firestar exclaims, holding the baby away from her. ‘Point it away from me!’ Iceman exclaims as he dodges the flames. ‘I told you to stop feeding it junk!’ Angelica scolds Bobby. ‘I did! I was going to!’ Bobby replies. Angelica hands the baby to Bobby, ‘Here. You hold it. Cool it down,. Pat its bum. Reassure it’, and adds that it’s not the baby’s fault, poor thing. Bobby looks a little surprised as he holds the baby, while Angelica points a finger at Spider-Man, who is now free from the melted ice-sled, and shivering. ‘And you! All that jostling! No wonder its stomach was upset’. She then asks him what he means by “VIP”, ‘Like Ban Ki-Moon?’ she enquires. ‘Not exactly’ Iceman responds.
Elsewhere, several adult aliens with similar appearances to the baby gather around a goat, which munches into some cables. The aliens speak to each other in their native tongue, while trying to remove the cables from the goat, as their space ship is in orbit around Earth.
‘A goat?’ Firestar frowns. ‘It’s a symbol’ Spider-Man replies. ‘Who cares? It’s an even-toed ungulate that likes to climb and eat garbage - just like someone else I know’ Firestar remarks, pointing at Iceman. Spider-Man tells her that the whole state is watching, and that game today and the mascot is missing. Bobby sniffs the baby alien, while Spider-Man asks Firestar if nobody cares why they were spending the school’s operating budget on a celebratory feast for the game of which said goat is the mascot of it. Firestar tells Spider-Man that he lost control of that sentence. ’I know. I know’ Spider-Man replies, throwing his hands to his head, he explains that he told a friend he would baby-sit the goat until game time, and he had it under heavy security and it was mistaken for an important earthling, which it is. ‘I don’t believe you. I don’t believe you have friends’ Angelica declares. Bobby holds the baby away from him and tells the others that he thinks it needs changing. Bobby starts to pull the diaper back, when suddenly, ‘NO!’ Firestar screams. ‘Don’t open that space diaper!’ Spider-Man shouts, and Bobby swears as a green energy explodes around them.
When the energy clears, Bobby’s ice-form has a few holes in it. ‘Whose baby is this?’ he shouts, before remarking that they can stop referring to it as “it”. ‘Meaning what?’ Angelica asks. ‘Meaning it’s a boy. It’s got a thingy’ Bobby announces. Angelica tells him that he doesn’t know anything about this species and that he has no right to impose their stupid gender constructs on an alien race. Spider-Man creates a web-papoose to carry the baby on his back and suggests to the alien baby that they go find its real parents. ‘Hurry up, if you’re coming along!’ he calls out to Bobby and Angelica as he swings off. Following on an ice-sled, Bobby declares that he is not going to give it one of those either / or names like Chris. ‘Or Bobby? It’s not a stray dog! You’re not keeping it!’ Angelica points out. Bobby tells her that she is just jealous because it likes him better. ‘Really? How’s your face doing?’ Angelica replies.
Meanwhile, at the Central Park Zoo, the alien space ship descends over the penguin enclosure. Visitors to the zoo gather around, while Bobby, Angelica and Peter arrive on scene. ‘Citizens of New York! Do not panic! The penguin building is still open! And there are new ducks in the bird enclosure! Don’t let this ruin your day!’ Bobby calls out. Angelica asks Spider-Man if Central Park Zoo is his idea of top security, to which Spider-Man tells everyone to hide in plain sight, as it is the oldest trick in the book. ‘You ever think about how Central Park kind of stands out from the air, like a giant landing pad?’ Firestar asks, enquiring how the species makeup of this area is significantly different than the rest of Manhattan. ‘You ever notice how hindsight is twenty-twenty?’ Spider-Man calls back, adding that he also may have forgotten to take off its super-sparkly special mascot collar.
Spider-Man hands the baby to Iceman and as the space ship platform opens, the aliens appear with the goat. ‘I’ll go negotiate. It’ll be like that time we got Angie out of North Korea’ he remarks. ‘I was never in North Korea!’ Firestar exclaims. ‘That’s what you say…but I wasn’t talking about you’ Spider-Man replies. Spider-Man steps onto the platform, and asks the aliens to hand over the goat and then they will get the baby back. ‘There will be no negotiation’ he adds, remarking that they will not sweeten the deal, will not respond to threats. ‘Don’t even think about it’. One of the alien says something in its native language, before Spider-Man calls out ‘Man of ice! Woman of fire! Bring me the baby!’ However, the baby clings to Bobby’s neck, as if it doesn’t want to leave him. ‘What have you been doing?’ Angelica asks Bobby, who replies ‘Nothing! Much’.
Spider-Man takes the cable wrapped around the goat’s neck, but the alien doesn’t want to let go. ‘Uh, Bobby? Now would be a good time. Like right now’ Spider-Man calls out. ‘You’ve been feeding it junk food! I warned you!’ Angelica exclaims. ‘Bobby tells her that he wanted it to be happy, and now it likes him. ‘It likes high fructose corn syrup and red dye number 5!’ Angelica mutters. ‘Who doesn’t?’ Bobby asks. ‘Guys!’ Spider-Man calls out to his friends, while Angelica points out that they will never get rid of it now. ‘Back off, aliens!’ Firestar declares as she fires a blast of microwave energy towards the aliens. Spider-Man sees a boy standing nearby and tells him that he needs his back of chips. The boy is holding a packet of chips and asks ‘Me?’ before throwing it towards Spider-Man, ‘It’s gonna be high and inside’ the boy calls out. This causes the alien to fly out of Bobby’s arms and grab the packet of chips - landing in the arms of one of the aliens, who looks down, lovingly at the alien. The baby alien looks back, content. ‘Man, I love little league!’ someone calls out.
Later, at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning: ‘Fire the ref!’ someone calls out. ‘Aw, maaan!’ someone else complains, while another asks if anyone has seen the pool sheet. ‘C’mon, guys! You promised you’d use the coasters!’ someone else remarks. The announcer on the sports game states that the clock is ticking down, they are going to have to get something going if they have any chance of making the last conference spot. ‘Wait, wait. There’s a commotion on the field…is that the missing goat? It is! This could turn it all around for them! This could be just the ray of hope they need, not to mention a free time-out!’ the announcer declares.
‘I thought you said you had the key’ Bobby mutters as he and Angelica stand at the front door of the school, shopping bags in hand. ‘It doesn’t take a key, but I could use another hand if you wouldn’t’ -’ Angelica begins, when suddenly, ‘Where have you two been?’ Wolverine asks as he opens the door. ‘Logan!’ Angelica exclaims. ‘Thanks, pal!’ Bobby, once more in his human form, declares. ‘Don’t ask’ Angelica tells Logan as she walks inside. Logan tells her that it is part of his job to ask questions, before enquiring as to how the car is. ‘Not a scratch on it!’ Bobby tells him, before reminding him that he is always telling the students that there is no such thing as a bad question. ‘You might wanna rethink that’ he suggests.
Wolverine sniffs the air and asks ‘What is that smell?’ Angelica asks Bobby where the ice came from, and he tells her not to worry, that it is totally legit. Angelica remarks that she keeps feeling like they have forgotten something, while Wolverine goes over to his car, dripping in ice and water, he pops his claws. ‘Angie, I always feel that way but I usually ignore it’ Bobby tells her. Wolverine opens the trunk of his car, and swears as green energy explodes.


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World War Wendigo! Part 1
Fifty-two hours ago, at CC&E Meat Co., Ontario, Canada: ‘You’re being paranoid! I never touched her!’ one of the factory workers tells his colleague. ‘So I’m being paranoid, huh, Eddie? Then why did Sheila tell me you’ve been seeing her behind my back for months?’ another man asks, pointing his finger at Eddie. The younger man, Eddie, tells his colleague, Rick, that he doesn’t know why Sheila said that, ‘Because you know, it’s not -’ Eddie begins, before Rick shouts ‘LIAR!’ and punches Eddie in the face, knocking him backwards, Eddie’s head strikes a table - and his neck snaps. Blood starts to seep down off the table, ‘Get up! I said get up, you son of a - Eddie?’ Rick asks.
Blood starts to pool around Eddie’s head, and Rick exclaims ‘No no no no!’, before dragging the younger man’s body across the floor, leaving a trail of blood behind, he hoists Eddie’s body up and shoves it into a mincer - boots and all, cracking and crunching Eddie’s body, the “meat-mix” pours out the other end into a large trolley of other meat.
Now, in Ottawa, Canada:
A fist knocks on a cabin door, and Heather McNeil Hudson a.k.a. Vindicator opens the door. ‘Logan?’ she asks, surprised when she sees Wolverine a.k.a. Logan on the front porch. ‘Logan!’ Heather exclaims, embracing her old friend. ‘Hey, easy. Nice to see you too, Heather’ Logan tells her. Heather remarks that she is really glad Logan is here. ‘I can tell’ Logan replies, before a phone starts to ring. ‘Wait, just… stay right there. I have to -’ Heather begins, reaching into her pocket, but Wolverine tells her not to bother, as it is his. He looks at the phone, an image of Iceman on the screen, and remarks that being in charge is not all it has cracked up to be. ‘Take a few days for yourself and everybody starts to fall apart’. He adds that Kitty Pryde was right when she called them “X-Babies”. Logan looks up from his phone. ‘Heather?’ he asks, and follows her inside, where Heather is staring at her phone.
‘You want to tell me what’s going on? You’re wound up so tight you’re ‘bout to snap’ Logan points out. Heather assures him that she is fine, but Logan tells her that she knows better than to try and lie to him. ‘It’s nothing, I promise’ Heather declares. ‘Are you aware of how many telepaths I know? You can either tell me what’s got you so upset, or I’m gonna have someone else do it’ Logan informs her.
Heather peers out over her glasses and tells Logan that it is James, that he went on a run for Department H, and she hasn’t heard from him in two days. ‘He didn’t call to check in. He’s not answering his phone…’ her voice trails off. Logan asks Heather why she hasn’t suited up and gone after him, to which Heather explains that they had a fight - a bad one - and that even if everything was fine, she is not sure he would come back this time.
Logan smiles and tells Heather that there is two things they can do here - either Mac is in trouble and they go get him, or he is being an idiot and they go beat some sense into him. ‘Either way, you’re in luck, because look who brought his party dress’ Logan jokes as he holds up his new costume.
Meanwhile, at the Jean Grey School in Westchester, New York:
‘KURT!’ shouts Colossus a.k.a. Piotr Rasputin as he embraces his old friend. ‘Urg! Peter! Crushing me!’ Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner gasps, wide-eyed. ‘Sorry’ Colossus smiles as he releases Kurt. ‘Do not worry, mein freund. I have more ribs where those came from’ Kurt assures his friend, rubbing his side. ‘I cannot believe this! You are alive!’ Colossus smiles. ‘Really? You really cannot believe it? Did I not attend your funeral?’ Kurt points out. ‘Well… yes, I… but you were dead! Recently!’ Piotr points out, rubbing the back of his neck. ‘So were you’ Kurt reminds him. ‘And my sister’ Piotr remarks. ‘And Scott. And Jean and Jean again. And -’ Kurt begins, to which Piotr suggests that perhaps some things are better left unquestioned.
‘So! I heard you were a wanted murderer and fugitive! How exciting! Are you still painting, too?’ Kurt asks. ‘Well -’ Colossus begins, before he sees Ororo “Storm” Munroe approach. ‘Welcome home, little brother’ Storm tells Colossus, before asking Kurt if he has seen Logan.
Ororo begins to question other X-Men and students as to whether they have seen Wolverine. ‘No, and frankly I’m offended that you think I would care where he was’ Jean-Paul “Northstar” Beaubier tells her as he and Megan Gwynn a.k.a. Pixie soar though the sky. ‘Look! I’m flying upside down! Can you do that, Mr Beaubier? Because I totally can!’ Pixie exclaims.
‘No idea, and I know what you’re thinking. And the answer is no. I’m too young’ Quentin Quire tells Storm, while Rockslide asks ‘Wait wait wait… Logan? Is he the guy with the claws?
Angelica “Firestar” Jones is tending to a horse in the stables and reports that she tries to avoid Wolverine in the morning because of the yelling - and the smell.
Henry McCoy a.k.a. the Beast ins hanging upside down in one of his laboratories and reports that he hasn’t seen Logan. ‘But if you see Logan please tell him I’d like to run some more tests’. He reveals that Reed Richards and he have had some thoughts about potentially restoring his healing factor - and reducing his personal aromas.
‘What? No! No, absolutely not, I mean, of course not. I didn’t see him leave. What? No, not leave, I mean I didn’t see him at all. If I saw him leave I would have said something because no, that’s just ridiculous! What was the question?’ Bobby “Iceman” Drake babbles as his Danger Room training session comes to an end.
‘Did I not tell each and every person at the school that Wolverine cannot leave without me knowing about it, Bobby?’ Storm asks. ‘Yes, you did’ Bobby replies. ‘You know how vulnerable he is’ Storm points out. ‘Yes’ Bobby frowns. ‘So, then tell me. Where did he go?’ Storm asks. ‘Canada’ Bobby reveals. ‘ROBERT!’ Storm shouts, asking if Wolverine has ever gone to Canada without being nearly killed. ‘Yes?’ Bobby replies. ‘The answer is NO! Why would you let him do that?’ Storm asks, shaking a finger at Bobby.
‘Okay, one - I forgot, so I don’t see how this is my fault. And b) he was really crabby and I think would have actually killed me if I tried to stop him’ Bobby announces. Bobby informs Storm that he has been trying to call Wolverine all morning, but that he is not picking up. ‘Which leads me to believe that he’s totally fine, and is being really, really cautious’ he grins. Storm covers her face, ‘I cannot believe Professor Xavier chose you to be an X-Man’ she mutters. ‘I know, right’ Bobby agrees cheerfully.
Meantime, Forrest, Canada:
The sky has darkened, a blaze of energy lights up the sky, as Heather, in her green and white Vindicator costume, touches down where Wolverine has pulled up outside some shops on his motorcycle. ‘Since when does Mac handle missing persons reports?’ Wolverine asks. Heather explains that it was somebody’s cousin - someone related to a higher up at Department H, who called in the favor. ‘And you believed that?’ Logan asks. Heather folds her arms and declares that Mac wasn’t in the mood for Q&A. ‘Like I said… we’ve had a rough year’. She adds that she think more than anything, James wanted the space. ‘Yeah, he always was kind of a jerk when it came to that’ Logan points out. ‘Look who’s talking’ Heather remarks, and as they start to walk the streets, she asks Logan where everyone is. ‘Gone’ he replies. ‘But I can smell him’ Logan announces, adding that Heather and Mac’s suits smell like burnt ozone. ‘He touched down…right over there’ Logan reports.
 ‘Where are you going?’ Heather calls out. ‘He came this way’ Logan tells her. ‘Why? Logan, what happened here?’ Heather asks. Logan remarks that there are no fresh scents, that the way this place is, is the way that Mac found it. ‘Oh my God’ Heather utters, holding herself. ‘Darlin’…God’s got nothing to do with this’ Wolverine declares. He reaches for a door handle, just as Guardian did, ‘He saw it. Went in. Ready. Suit fired up, you can smell the adrenaline. The burning’ Wolverine announces, supposing that Mac might have seen something or heard something. ‘Is he alive?’ Heather asks. ‘There’s blood…’ Logan reports. ‘Logan, is he alive?’ Heather declares. Logan frowns, and adds that there is a lot of blood. Guardian entered the building, and heard a growl. ‘No!’ Logan declares, going wide-eyed. He pulls his mask over his face and informs Heather that they are getting out of here, now. ‘What?’ Heather asks. ‘NOW!’ Logan shouts. Heather asks him to wait, and what is wrong - to tell her what happened. As Guardian came across a room full of bones, Wolverine puts his hand across Heather’s mouth and tells her to fly out of here as fast as she can - to get Alpha Flight, get the X-Men - get everyone. ‘Logan -’ Heather begins, while in the past, Guardian was confronted by a Wendigo!
At the Jean Grey School, ‘What do you mean you can’t find Logan?’ Storm asks Rachel Grey, who sits at Cerebra. ‘I, uh… you know. Canada’s kind of a big place’ Rachel replies as she continues her psychic search. ’Don’t think I won’t replace you with your teenage mother, Rachel’ Storm threatens. Rachel then announces that she has got him. ’Thank the Maker’ Storm utters. ’Hang on…’ Rachel begins, to which Storm asks if he is still alive. ’He is, but something’s wrong…’ Rachel replies.
Back in Canada, Vindicator soars through a dense forest, ’Pick up… come on, Eugene… pick up’ she utters into her communicator.
And, on a bedside table, a mobile phone with the image of Heather on screen starts ringing. ’Don’t even think about it’ a voice calls out.
’PUCK!’ Heather screams as she flies forward, urgently looking back over her shoulder.
In the darkened bedroom, Eugene Milton Judd a.k.a. Puck picks up his mobile phone, ‘It’s Heather buzzing’ he states. ‘Again? You know I love her, but hasn’t she cried on your shoulder enough?’ the voice asks. ‘She’s had a rough year’ Puck reminds the other person in the room, as the phone continues to buzz.
‘Eugene! I need Alpha Flight in Forrest, Ontario! Right now!’ Heather screams.
‘I’ll call her back’ Puck tells the woman lying in bed. ‘My hero’ replies Elizabeth Twoyoungmen a.k.a. Talisman, as Heather hears Puck’s voicemail. ‘Puck! Puck!’ she calls out.
Suddenly, something slams into Vindicator, she moans, and then something grabs her leg. ‘GET BACK!’ she shouts, before firing a blast of energy at the huge Wendigo that looms over her in the darkened forest. ‘Move, Heather…move’ she tells herself, when suddenly, another Wendigo comes up behind her and bites down on her leg, causing her to scream. ‘No no no…’ Heather utters, blasting her second attacker with an energy surge, But, the first Wendigo then clamps its huge fingers down on Vindicator’s head, causing her to scream. And then, the Wendigos start to pull - one in each direction.
‘Tell me what’s happening!’ Storm demands. Rachel doesn’t answer her. ‘Rachel…what’s wrong with Logan?’ Storm asks. Rachel announces that she thinks Logan is scared. ‘What? Logan doesn’t get scared. Ever’ Storm remarks, before instructing Rachel to have Northstar prep a Blackbird - ‘We’re going to Canada’ she announces, adding that she prays they reach him in time.
‘HEATHER!’ Wolverine roars after hearing his dear friend scream. He pops his claws and rushes through the forest, when suddenly, thrashing forward in front of him is a horde of raging Wendigos!


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Turkana County, Kenya:
‘HEEEELLPPP!’ a young woman screams as she and another girl race barefoot across the barren ground, chased by wild dogs as a figure rises from the dust behind them. ‘You should not have come back, Abuya!’ the armored figure calls out as it lumbers towards the woman, who leap over a gully running between two pieces of land. The dogs follow, as does the looming figure, who raises a very large axe. ‘You bloodline is anathema here!’ ‘No! Plea-’ one of the women begins, before the figure swings his axe, and decapitates her. The other woman, who has fallen to the ground, screams, while one of the strange dogs is beside her. The figure emerges from the dust, ‘I am MERUDA!’ he booms, as the dogs appear to be made out of sand, they shift into winged demons. Energy crackles around Meruda and his heavily-armored body. He boasts that he is vengeance and death, and looking down at the one remaining woman, tells her that she is his.
The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning:
‘So what are we looking at?’ Wolverine a.k.a. Logan demands as several of the X-Men have gathered in a communications room. The Beast a.k.a. Dr Hank McCoy examines some reports and announces that there is a new elemental who calls himself Meruda. The Beast informs his teammates that he has cross-checked all the reports matching his skill-set from the date of the first murder - there are scores of beheadings and dismemberments - limbs and vital organs removed and many of the attacks focus on Ororo’s mother’s tribe - or on anyone who gets in the way.
Ororo “Storm” Munroe frowns, while Wolverine asks if it could be a tribal vendetta. ‘Possibly’ the Beast replies, suggesting that if Meruda suddenly found himself inhumanely powerful, he might start settling old scores. Bobby “Iceman” Drake, Warren Worthington a.k.a. Angel, Angelica “Firestar” Jones, the alien Warbird and Rachel Grey are also in the room, when Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner teleports in.
‘What’s going on, ‘Ro?’ Kurt asks his friend. Ororo hangs her head and informs him that her aunt phoned, and that her cousin, Abuya, has been abducted and her friend was dismembered - her heart was cut out. ‘Gott im Himmel…! We have to get her back!’ Kurt gasps. Ororo asks Hank if Meruda is a mutant, to which Hank replies that he could be, but more likely an Inhuman based on the date his abilities activated. Wolverine declares that, either way, he is everything they stand against - murder and mutilation are terrorism, pure and simple. ‘I say we go in now - and we go in hard’ Wolverine adds. Storm tells him that she appreciates the thought, but points out that they can’t all go. Warbird asks about T’challa, whether he could assist, but Storm informs her that their marriage is over, and she doesn’t want his help. ‘This is my family, what’s left of it…’ her voice trails off. ‘And you’re our family. Your problems are our problems’ Kurt tells his friend, putting a hand on her shoulder. Wolverine cracks his knuckles and announces that Jean-Paul, Rachel, Warbird and Angel will stay here, while the rest of them are going with Storm. ‘Let’s show this punk what he’s dealing with’.
Later, the X-Men’s jet has landed in Turkana County. Wolverine and Storm are outside, assessing their surroundings, and inside, Nightcrawler remarks that he didn’t even know Storm had a cousin. ‘To be honest, I thought her family died in Cairo’ he adds, pointing out that Storm doesn’t talk about them much. The Beast explains that Storm tries to protect them, hide them from scrutiny, so this is her worst nightmare. ‘She does seem quiet…colder, somehow’ Kurt adds. The Beast remarks that he knows this mood, and adds that he would not like to be the guy that did this when they find him. ‘If we find him’ Firestar points out. ‘Oh, we’ll find him…Logan’s the best there is’ the Beast declares.
‘What was Abuya doing out here anyway?’ Wolverine asks Storm, who explains that she was getting in touch with her roots. ‘I did a similar thing when I was young. I walked from Cairo to the heart of Africa, trying to find myself’, before asking Wolverine if he has had any luck. ‘Ain’t a matter of luck’ Logan replies, pointing out that you can’t miss the scent of blood with fear - or the tracks that this creep leaves. He points to some blood on the sand and informs Storm that Meruda chased Abuya through here, bringing her down over there, and cutting the other girl’s heart out where she fell, before carrying Abuya off in that direction. Logan radios into the X-Jet and instructs Hank to start scanning those craters fifty miles west of here. ‘Will do’ Hank replies. When some locals approach the X-Men, Wolverine alerts Storm: ‘Heads up. Here comes your fan club’. ‘Ororo… great goddess of the storm…our crops wither and our cattle hunger. We humbly beg you -’ one of them begins, severa l goats behind them, one of them holds a knife to one of the goats, while another of the locals gets down to their knees.
‘Ah… thank you… but please get up. I’m not that person anymore! No - no sacrifice. I’ll bring rain. I promise. don’t worry’ Storm assures them.
Inside the jet, Hank reports that he is getting something - there is a lot of geothermal interference, but it looks like a gathering of some kind. ‘In an old volcano? Geez… super villains are so predictable’ Iceman mutters.
Back outside, an elderly woman coughs in front of Storm. ‘Can I help you?’ Storm asks. ‘The Wind Goddess… the deadly stand storms… they’ll come again. This is tough country…’ she begins, before Wolverine tells Storm to move it. ‘Er… yes. Yes, it is…I’m sorry…I must go’ Storm tells the old woman, turning from her. ‘The gods give and they take… it’s nothing to do with you’ the old woman utters, before the X-Jet rumbles skyward. Wolverine instructs Hank and Kurt to hang back, to cloak the ship and take a covering position, while the rest of them go in quietly and scope around.
And, inside the volcano: ‘MERUDA! MERUDA!’ some people chant, while bones, body parts and weapons are laid out on a pentagram, and Meruda stands on some raised rocks. ‘Brothers in metal - hear me!’ he calls back to them. ‘You were all I had before the gods blessed me with these powers - before I emerged reborn from the cocoon of metamorphosis. When my tribe were wiped out you took me in. And the bonds we formed made us stronger - they empowered us to forge a new order!’ he declares.
‘Um, I got the rhino horn you wanted, Meruda. I’ll just put it over here with the other body parts…’ a man explains as he does so.
‘With blood and bone, I call upon the dark gods!’ Meruda shouts. ‘ARISE! ARISE!’ the locals gathered chant, when suddenly, ‘Oops! Knocked over a few candles, sorry!’ the man in the pentagram exclaims.
‘How dare you interrupt the summoning ceremony!’ Meruda shouts angrily, casting energy towards the man, who falls to the ground. Sand creatures rise, and Meruda instructs them to take this snivelling imbecile away, and bring forth the soul sacrifice. ‘Come, Fenech the Foul! Come Yakuba the Bloodless! With the spirit of this girl, I command…’ Meruda begins, while, on the ridge of the volcano, Storm, Wolverine, Firestar and Iceman peer down. ‘Oh, God! Abuya!’ Firestar utters. Monitoring the situation inside the X-Jet, ‘Oh my stars!’ the Beast gasps. ‘Do something!’ Nightcrawler tells him as the power levels on the monitor rise significantly. ‘We can’t risk an eruption!’ the Beast exclaims.
‘Arise - Gawa, Lord of the Undead!’ Meruda beckons, and as Abuya lies in the middle of the pentagram, energy rises from her, ‘Arise and feast on the murderous witch! Feast on Ororo Munroe!’ A hideous creature, Gawa, Lord of the Undead, rises. It’s body has several tentacles for legs, and gaping teeth-filled mouths on its shoulders. Several arms carry weapons. Its eyes, blank and white. ‘$&#%! He lured us in!’ Wolverine exclaims. ‘He wanted me here!’ Storm gasps. Wolverine instructs Storm to stay back, and orders Nightcrawler to get Abuya. Iceman moves into action on his ice-sled, encasing one of Gawa’s hands in ice, while Wolverine leaps at the horrid creature and shoves his claws into its flesh, and Firestar starts blasting it with her microwave energy, exclaiming ‘Magic! I hate magic! What the hell do we do against magic?’ As Nightcrawler teleports in and grabs Abuya, Wolverine tells Firestar that it still has to move, so just slow it down and keep it away from Storm. ‘Yeah, easier said than done!’ Firestar mutters.
As Nightcrawler teleports back into the X-Jet with Abuya, the autopilot is activated. ‘Is she still alive?’ Kurt asks Hank, who checks her and radios Storm, informing her that Abuya’s body is cold, but his guess is that her spirit still lives - in that monstrosity. He adds that if her spirit doesn’t return soon, then there is nothing anyone can do for her. The X-Jet hovers in the air, near the volcano, as Firestar flies upwards, closer to Gawa’s face and declares ‘Urgh! The stench of this thing…it’s like a chemical weapon’. Storm sees Meruda flee the volcano and radios the Beast, asking if they take Meruda down, whether Abuya’s spirit will flow back. ‘Yes! That could work…’ the Beast supposes. ‘Then he’s mine! If Meruda wants war…I’ll give him war!’ Storm announces as she flies off after him. ‘But -?’ Firestar begins. Wolverine tells Angelica to let her go, as she can handle it.
‘Going somewhere, Meruda?’ Storm asks, lightning crackling around her clenched fists as she swoops down closer to him. ‘Yes…to more familiar ground - recognize it, yet? From your great trek across Africa?’ Meruda calls back as a sandstorm engulfs them, and he creatures more sand demons and weapons of sand which he hurls towards Storm. Her vision clouded by the sand storm, Ororo slams into a large rock face. ‘Uhh… why lead me here?’ she asks when she gathers herself. ‘Because this is where they died!’ Meruda calls back. ‘Who died?’ Storm asks, the sand starting to clear around her. ‘Who? My family - my tribe - you killed them, Storm!’ Meruda exclaims. ‘I didn’t -’ Storm begins, but Meruda shouts ‘I watched!’ The sand bursts forth, wrapping around Storm, as Meruda declares that the sand weeps with his memories. ‘So you may see what I witnessed - all those years ago!’ he exclaims.
Storm sees herself as a girl, watching as T’Challa was captured. She sees a girl who struggled to do the right thing - with no idea of her power. She tells this to Meruda who shouts ‘Liar! You summoned a wind or a sand storm to save your little friend… which grew so powerful that it tore the flesh from his family’s bones - from his sister - from his tribe. ‘How do you think it felt? Sand ripping eyes from sockets - like a thousand knives, red with blood!’ Meruda exclaims. He tells Storm that she was to blame, and that the gods have empowered him to take vengeance, to emerge from their nurturing mists and take a life for every lie. ‘NO! I was twelve! I didn’t know!’ Storm shouts, casting the sands from her, but Meruda tells her that she didn’t care, that she was lost in herself. ‘Let me teach you how it feels, Storm… to die like that!’ he roars, casting more sand towards her. Storm screams.
Back at the volcano: ‘This thing is unstoppable!’ Firestar calls out as she continues to blast Gawa with her microwave energies. ‘It’s shielded by magic - so regular weapon’s ain’t gonna -’ Wolverine begins, before Gawa shoves one of its swords into his shoulder, and Wolverine starts to fall. ‘NOOO! Damn it to hell!’ the Beast exclaims as he leaps from the X-Jet, forcing himself downwards, he grabs Wolverine before he can hit the ground, and they land on one of Gawa’s tentacles. Hank tells Logan to keep still. ‘If the creature is enchanted…then I bet its weapons are too’ he supposes as he takes the large sword stuck in Wolverine’s shoulder and tosses it upwards - where it strikes Gawa in its side, causing the creature to roar. ‘Yes! They can penetrate its shield - they can hurt it!’ the Beast declares. Firestar, Wolverine and the Beast all take one of the large swords from the pentagram, and Firestar alerts everyone to the fact that the creature is heading towards Ororo. ‘Then pick up those machetes - and bring it down!’ Wolverine exclaims.
‘You’ve run enough, Storm!’ Meruda declares as Storm starts to fumble through the air. ‘Stay close - and suffer!’ Meruda tells her as he attempts to strike her with energy. But Storm gathers herself, ‘Run? I flew here to end this…’ she points out, retaliating by sending a lightning blast towards Meruda, which clashes with his energy blasts. ‘You conjure wind and lightning like a special effect, Meruda - but you don’t understand the weather! This is my domain!’ Storm boasts. Sand demons appear alongside Meruda as Storm falls back against some rocks, Meruda warns her that he is stronger than her, as his ancestors’ pain gives him power. ‘You don’t understand!’ Storm calls back. They move towards each other, the sand demons alongside Meruda, while cloud forms around Storm, images of some of her earlier looks appear including her white 90’s costume, her punk costume and her Asgardian costume. ‘All elementals yield to the power of Gaia - a power you cannot hope to control! Surrender now - before this tempest you’ve conjured consumes you!’ Storm suggests.
‘Ha! Gaia? That jezebel! She bows before me on trembling knee! For I am vengeance - I am death!’ Meruda exclaims. Energy strikes Storm, blood gushes from her head. ‘Ah, poor Storm. Lost in the anguish of defeat?’ Meruda gloats. ‘No…I am not anguish. I am rage!’ Storm retorts, rising, arms outstretched, ‘I am the gathering tempest - I am the howling wind - the roar of rain - the voice of thunder!’ she shouts. Wind rushes around her, lightning crackles in spectacular display: ‘I am STORM - Ororo Munroe - Windrider - Weather Witch - goddess of these lands - and you… you are NOTHING!’ Meruda falls backwards, ‘Argh - my lightning - I’m losing contr-’ Meruda begins, as his own red lightning strikes him, and he falls out of the sky, and lands in some water. Crocodiles see him and swim towards him.
‘Keep stabbing! It’s going - down’ Wolverine tells the others as he shoves one of the large weapons into Gawa’s chest. The horrid creature then collapses. ‘Thank God’ someone calls out, while, in the X-Jet, the Beast announces that the spell is broken, and Abuya gasps for air as she wakes.
‘Abuya!’ Storm calls out as she returns to the others, who are gathered near the water. ‘Ororo!’ Abuya utters as the Beast holds her. He puts her down as Storm and Abuya embrace. ‘I owe you my life!’ Abuya tells Storm. ‘Ah, sweet Abuya. You’re safe! Thank the goddess!’ Storm declares. ‘So…Meruda thought you killed his tribe?’ the Beast asks. ‘Yes…there was a fatal storm here, the day I saved T’Challa. It’s always haunted me’ Storm explains. The Beast tells Storm that she doesn’t know they are connected and points out that her powers were just developing. ‘Your physiology hadn’t adapted. Controlling the weather is incredibly complex - it took years to fully master’ he reminds her. ‘I get what you’re saying, but I can’t let it go. I just can’t’ Storm responds. Kurt reminds her that she has saved countless lives, no one could have done more. Storm looks away from her friends, gazing skyward, she tells him that she knows they mean well, but that she made a promise. ‘Would you give me a moment??’ she asks. ‘Sure. Whatever you need, ‘Ro’ Logan replies.
The world soaks… a gentle rain, at one with nature, just enough to sate the scorched earth, the crops, the cattle. The locals wave goodbye to Storm as she takes to the sky, rain pouring down over them. Storm comes to a stop on a rock cliff, a cool breeze caresses her skin, lightning fading with distance - thunder chasing the edge of this nightmare away. ‘It’s not true’ a voice calls out. ‘What?’ Storm gasps, turning, she sees the old woman standing on the rocks. ‘Meruda’s story. The wind… the deadly sand storms… they came regularly back then. They’ll come again. This is tough country, the gods give - and they take… nothing to do with you’ she tells Storm, adding that Meruda just needed someone to blame. ‘How do you know?’ Storm asks. ‘…I was there!’ the old woman exclaims. ‘You were…what?’ Storm gasps. ‘You heard… but did you listen?’ the old woman replies, as she vanishes.
Storm stands on a ridge and overlooks the savannah before her. A herd of elephants moves before her. The sun sets in glorious display. She thinks that the clouds dissipate and the wind calms, mergence gently with surrounding weather. The pressure lifts. ‘They called me a goddess here, but that was never the whole story’ Storm thinks to herself, recalling that she was also a girl, trying to find her way, trying to do the right thing - and some things never change.


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World War Wendigo! Part 2
Forrest, Canada, 42 hours after the initial outbreak. The sun is slowly rising into a star-filled sky, as a young girl stands on the roof of her house in a now abandoned neighborhood. When the screaming started, she hid, just like her parents told her. But her parents never came back. ‘Please please please see me… help me!’ Amber shouts, waving her arms about as she sees a jet approach through the sky. She waited and waited but help never came. But finally, she heard the plane, and that meant help was here. ‘Help…’ Amber utters, before gasping ‘Oh, no’ as the plane screeches and moves low into the neighborhood. Amber races back through the window into her house, screaming as the jet slams into her house. She hasn’t cried since she realized her parents were dead. She doesn’t cry now, mostly because she doesn’t want to - but because she knows it will attract the monsters - and as the jet with a large “X” on the tail explodes into flames, Amber knows that no one is coming to save her.
(One hour earlier)
Inside the X-Jet, Storm a.k.a. Ororo Munroe pilots the craft and asks Rachel Grey if there is any luck with Logan. ‘No’ Rachel replies, adding that there is too much psychic spill, and she can’t make out anything but screams - a lot of them. ‘Why would a town be screaming?’ Jean-Paul “Northstar” Beaubier asks as he hovers, arms-folded, inside the jet. Rachel tells Northstar that she doesn’t know, and explains that it is more like animals howling. ‘Please. Try not to be too helpful’ Northstar snipes.
‘Does he always fly when he flies? I mean, inside a jet, not outside, obviously he flies when he’s flying by himself. I mean -’ Angelica “Firestar” Jones remarks Bobby “Iceman” Drake bangs on the bathroom door as he tries to pull it open and tells Firestar to forget about Northstar and help him with the door. ‘It’s like someone locked it from the inside’ he complains. ‘Ugh, you should have gone before we left’ Firestar tells him. ‘I did!’ Bobby replies, adding that he thought, ‘Hey, the X-Jet has a bathroom, too, I can just pee in there!’
Seated nearby are Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner and Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin. As Colossus stares silently forward, Kurt asks his dear friend if he is all right. ‘Da’ Piotr replies. Kurt tells him that it is good to see that despite is time in X-Force, he is still a terrible liar. Colossus does not respond, so Nightcrawler adds ‘You said your powers had become unreliable… are you worried?’ Colossus replies that he doesn’t worry for himself, but for the first time in his life, he worries for Logan.
(50 minutes ago)
Forrest, Canada: ‘Come on! Come on!’ Logan a.k.a. Wolverine growls as he slices his way through several Wendigo who lunge towards him - but one of the Wendigo grab him and slams him into a wall. Blood drips down as Logan hit’s the ground, ‘…on second thought…back the hell off…’ Logan mutters. A Wendigo growls and leaps towards Wolverine, when suddenly, there is a burst of energy that knocks the creature aside. Logan gets to his feet and looks confused. ‘Eh, Logan…’ a voice calls out. ‘You gotta be kidding me’ Logan snarls at seeing two of his old friends standing before him. ‘…I bet you’re happy to see us, Eh?’ Eugene Judd a.k.a. Puck asks as he stands on one of the fallen Wendigo, and energy crackles around Elizabeth “Talisman” Twoyoungmen, who is wearing her recent Omega Flight costume.
(40 minutes ago)
Brandon, Canada, 9.24 miles from Forrest, civilians race out of their cars and run for their lives down a busy street, as a reporter announces that there are reports coming in of attacks reaching as far as Brandon.
(35 minutes ago)
Several Wendigos race through that once busy street, as the reporter tells listeners that if they are in the city of Brandon or one of the outlying communities, they are urged to head south.
(30 minutes ago)
A barricade has been erected at the perimeter of the affected areas to aid in the evacuation process, as large trucks, police cars and military officers are in position. The reporter states that up-to-the-minute reports show no signs of danger at those checkpoints.
(25 minutes ago)
‘Incoming!’ a soldier shouts as he sees civilians rushing to the barricade, followed by many savage Wendigos.
(20 minutes ago)
At St. Vincent, Minnesota, the US/Canadian Border, troops on the US soil are ready as civilians approach the border. ‘For those of you headed to the US border, be prepared for heavy delays’ the reporter announces. One of the officers orders men on top of the wall every five feet. ‘If anyone touches that barrier you are to shoot first and ask -’
(15 minutes ago)
The reporter reveals that the US government has sent its own military forces to guard against the spread of the outbreak. Captain America and Thor approach one of the commanding officers, and Thor calls out ‘Clear a path for these people, or Thor, God of Thunder will!’ He reminds the soldier that he is tasked with saving innocent lives, not sacrificing them. ‘No chance. I only take orders from the US Military!’ the soldier replies. ‘Get your priorities straight, soldier!’ Captain America calls out.
(10 minutes ago)
The reporter announces that an update on Brandon is coming in, as the officer tells Captain America that his orders are to keep this threat on the Canadian side of the border at all costs. ‘Those people aren’t a threat and their only chance at staying that way is us. Now open that blockade!’ Captain America orders. ‘Yes, Sir!’ the officer replies.
(5 minutes ago)
Brandon, Canada, flames sweep through the city, and the reporter announces that Brandon has been overrun. ‘We repeat… Brandon has been overrun…’.
(4 minutes ago)
Inside the X-Jet, the X-Men listen as the reporter announces that Forrest and Brandon have both been lost. ‘If you can hear this report, head south…your best chance to escape that threat’. As the heroes look at a holographic projection of a map, Firestar covers her mouth in shock. ‘Oh my God… what happened there? They’ve been overrun by what?’ she asks, before Storm informs her teammates that they have company, and as she looks out the side window of the X-Jet, she sees a military fighter plane. ‘Unidentified craft, you are in a no-fly zone!’ the pilot announces. ‘We are here to help with the current situ-’ Storm radios back, but the pilot instructs her to gain altitude and return to her point of origin immediately. ‘Please, you don’t understand, we’re -’ Storm begins, as the pilot tells her that he knows who she is, and explains that he is trying to save her life. ‘You’re flying too low, you have to pull up, he urges. ‘Do you hear me? Pull up!’ he shouts,
(3 minutes ago)
A Wendigo leaps onto the fighter craft and smashes open the windshield, while the pilot ejects from the craft, into the air, the aircraft is set on fire and starts to plummet to the forest below. ‘No no no no!’ Firestar exclaims. ‘Kurt, the pilot -’ Colossus calls out. ‘I see him’ Kurt replies as he teleports out of the X-Jet. However, in the meantime, a Wendigo has leapt into the air and grabs the pilot, who releases himself from the parachute, and starts to free-fall to the forest.
(2 minutes ago)
Several Wendigo rampage through the forest, as the X-Jet flies very low. The creatures see the jet and start to howl - but the X-Jet pulls up, and inside, Storm asks Rachel if they are clear. ‘There’s so many of them…’ Rachel replies. ‘Are we clear?’ Storm asks again, raising her voice.
(1 minute ago)
Nightcrawler teleports back into the X-Jet, with the screaming pilot. Kurt tells the pilot not to be alarmed. ‘You are quite…safe?’ he asks, before an alarm starts to sound - on the underside of the X-Jet, a Wendigo has managed to grab hold and starts to tear apart the underside of the jet. ‘Now I have to pee’ Firestar mutters. ‘Yeah… I just went’ Bobby tells her. ‘Here we go again’ Kurt remarks, while the pilot continues to scream. ‘Storm…’ Rachel calls out. ‘Let me guess. We were not all clear’ Storm replies.
(Now)
Amber peers out the window, ‘See me… please… please, help me…’ she utters as she stands on the roof of her home as the X-Jet plummets towards it. ‘It’s not working!’ Firestar exclaims. ‘Thank you for stating the obvious’ Northstar mutters as they are both forced against the roof of the jet as it propels downwards. ‘FIRESTAR!’ Iceman calls out. ‘This better not be about the bathroom, Bobby!’ Angelica snaps. ‘It’s not! I have an idea, I need your help! I think I can -’ Bobby begins, as the jet strikes low across two of the rooftops, before exploding in a burst of flames. But, from the fire, a large iceberg can be seen - hissing against the flames, inside it, the X-Men and the pilot are safe - and as Firestar melts the ice around them, they gasp for breath. ‘Everyone okay?’ Firestar asks. ‘Breathing! Breathing is good!’ Rachel mutters.
Storm goes over to Bobby and tells him that she now understands why Charles made him an X-Man. ‘Thanks’ Bobby smiles, before Storm informs everyone that they need to look for survivors. ‘I… I don’t think there are any’ Rachel announces. She reports that everyone is gone or dead.
‘Oh no. Storm… we’re in trouble!’ Rachel exclaims, and an instant later, several growling noises can be heard as the X-Men and the pilot are surrounded. ‘Can someone please tell me what this is?’ Firestar calls out. ‘This is why we stay out of Canada’ Storm replies ‘Wendigo!’ The creatures lunge forward. Storm, Northstar, Firestar and Rachel take flight and battle the Wendigo from above, while Nightcrawler teleports about, Colossus engages them on the ground and Iceman rides on an ice-sled. ‘Keep them back! Do not let them touch you!’ Storm tells her teammates as she casts forth a bolt of lighting that strikes one of the creatures.
‘Holy crap! Did all of Canada go Cannibal? I thought there was only ever one or two of these things!’ Iceman remarks as he blasts one of the Wendigo with ice. ‘Canadians eat people?’ Firestar enquires. ‘They do now’ Northstar, a Canadian himself, replies as she speeds through the air, knocking two Wendigo down. Nightcrawler grabs the pilot and pulls him to safety, while suggesting that something has happened, for no one incident could cause the Wendigo curse to spread like this. Colossus raises his arms and points out that they are being overrun. ‘Perhaps we should survive first, and delve into the mystery later, da?’ he suggests. ‘I missed this… did you?’ Nightcrawler asks. ‘Not really’ Colossus responds.
Firestar screams as a Wendigo pursues her - but a blast of powerful magical energy comes to her aid. ‘Is this what normally happens? Firestar asks, as the Wendigo that was struck suddenly reverts to human form. ‘No. no it is not’ Storm replies, before a voice calls out ‘Normal went out the window a while ago, Jones’. The X-Men turn to see Wolverine standing with Puck and Talisman. He explains that, lucky for them, Talisman can get normal back with some magic. ‘A crap load of it to be precise’ Puck adds. ‘Logan…are you -’ Storm begins, but Logan tells her not to worry about it. ‘I’m just peachy’ he claims. Wolverine then informs his teammates what the situation is. ‘I’ve been fighting these things for as long as I can remember. The Wendigo are as strong as the Hulk but way nastier’. Logan explains that it is all to do with some kinda magic curse - if you eat human flesh on Canadian soil, you turn into one of them. He adds that he doesn’t know what happened or why, but an entire town turned, and everyone that got scratched or bit, they turned, too.
Logan points out that these are men, women and children, every one of them innocent people and they are going to tear their way through Canada unless they are stopped. Wolverine continues: ‘Police, military, super heroes…none of it’s going to mean anything against this. Talisman’s our best shot. All we have to do is hold these monsters back until she’s done’ Logan explains. ‘Piece of cake…’ Iceman remarks, while Talisman reports that she has found a powerful counter spell to the curse some time ago, during another infestation - nothing of this scale, but that in theory, it should work. ‘Only one way to find out’ Puck points out. Talisman levitates and energy swirls around her. ‘Should we hold hands or something?’ someone calls out. ‘If it makes you feel better’ Talisman replies. Storm asks the young sorcereress how long this is going to take, to which Talisman explains that it is magic, not science, so it will take as long as it takes.
The heroes form a circle around Talisman, and Nightcrawler remarks ‘Let’s hope it takes less time than a hundred Wendigo earting us all, ja?’ He then calls over to Logan, asking him if he thinks they are that lucky, when suddenly, Wolverine collapses. ‘Goddess!’ Storm gasps, as a brilliant light surrounds Talisman, who announces that it is happening, she can feel it working. ‘The spell is -’ she begins, when suddenly, she gasps, and goes wide-eyed, gasping for air as blood spurts from her mouth, Wolverine howls - he has been transformed into a Wendigo and his claws are lodge through Talisman’s stomach. ‘Logan…’ Storm utters as she, the X-Men and Puck look on in horror….


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World War Wendigo! Part 3
Forrest, Canada, where Jean-Paul, “Northstar” Beaubier, the mutant hero and member of the X-Men lies in a crater, a young girl is lying with him. They are about to be eaten by some foul-smelling monster, and several thoughts pass through his head. He thinks of his husband, Kyle. He thinks of the reasons he left Canada. How occasionally he misses his sister and of the things he has done and seen in his time with the X-Men. But above all else, the one thing that runs through his head over and over as he waits to die - is that this is so incredibly beneath him.
(Twenty minutes earlier)
‘Ahhhh! Burning me! Fire fire fire fire fire fire! Call 911! Call 911!’ Santo Vaccarro a.k.a. Rockslide shouts as he emerges from the flaming X-Jet. ‘Oh, right. I’m fireproof. I knew that’ he grins, looking up he sees several of the X-Men battling the savage, deadly Wendigo that are currently plaguing Canada. ‘you were in the bathroom this whole time?’ Bobby “Iceman” Drake shouts as he rides an ice-sled through the Wendigo, Northstar is with him, while Angelica “Firestar” Jones hovers nearby. ‘What? No! Maybe…’ Rockslide mutters. ‘Don’t just stand there, hit something!’ Ororo “Storm” Munroe orders as she fries a Wendigo with a lightning bolt. ‘Yes, Ma’am!’ Rockslide exclaims as he punches one of the Wendigo, sending it careening through the air. Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin tries to hold back Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, who has been transformed into one of the Wendigo, but he calls out to Firestar, telling her that his is too strong. Angelica looks over and declares ‘I can’t hurt him, that’s Wolverine! What do we do!’
Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner and Eugene Judd a.k.a. Puck turn to the trouble, as Rachel Grey lies on the ground at Wolverine-Wendigo’s feet. ‘Kuuuuurt’ Rachel calls out. ;’You rang, fraulein?’ Kurt asks as he teleports onto Wolverine-Wendigo, grabs him, and teleports away. ‘Always with the dramatic exit’ Rachel mutters.
2.2 miles away, Kurt re-materializes high in the air and tells Wolverine to aim for the creek, as he drops him. Wolverine-Wendigo looks back up at Kurt, confused, before Kurt teleports back amongst the X-Men. ‘How much time, Kurt?’ Storm enquires. ‘That depends. How fast can Wolverine run 2.2 miles?’ Nightcrawler responds. ‘If you keep believing these monsters are still people, Wagner, then you’re going to be dead again sooner than that’ Northstar exclaims.
‘Guys! Look! There’s a kid on that roof!’ Firestar cries. ‘Kurt!’ Storm declares, and Kurt teleports - but as Kurt arrives on the rooftop, where a Wendigo looms over the girl, Northstar has already sped to the rooftop and picked the girl up. ‘What are you doing?’ Nightcrawler asks as Northstar casts a burst of light towards the Wendigo to confuse it. ‘You can run. I can run and fight’ Northstar points out. ‘But Storm said -’ Nightcrawler begins. ‘I’ve got the girl, You take him’ Northstar snaps as he speeds off through the air. ‘Okay…’ Kurt mutters, turning to the growling Wendigo.
Meanwhile, on the US / Canada Border, where Iron Man, Captain America and Thor are on hand to supervise the influx of Canadians into the States. ‘This is distasteful… it feels like defeat’ Thor announces. ‘They’re civilians, Thor. They fight will be on us soon enough’ Iron Man points out. ‘Sir, here are the latest satellite images’ someone radios into Iron Man. ‘Yell me we’re the red dots’ Iron Man replies. ‘I’m afraid not, Sir’ the voice responds, while on the ground, Captain America directs the civilians. Iron Man calls out to Cap, informing him that they are about to be completely overrun. ‘How long, Iron Man?’ Captain America asks, looking up. ‘Now-ish’ Iron Man replies, as a howling can be heard - ‘WEENNNDDIGOOO!’ and they turn to see the horde of bloodthirsty Wendigo racing towards the border. Civilians rush for safety, while Captain America tosses his shield and tells his teammates that they have to hold the line, that they have to give these people time.
‘Thor, you wanted a fight? Here it is!’ Cap exclaims. ‘HAVE AT THEE!’ Thor booms as he strikes several Wendigo with his mighty hammer. Cap slams his shield into a Wendigo, while Iron Man fires several repulsor blasts and points out that he hasn’t been in as many wars as Cap, but that this seems bad. He adds that Manifold is still moving people out up north, so it is just the three of them here. Cap points out that the Wendigo curse is mystical, so they need a mystic to fight them. ‘Where is Strange?’  Iron Man replies that Strange isn’t responding, that it is like his line is dead.
And, in the Sanctum Sanctorum of Dr Stephen Strange in Greenwich Village, New York, the Sorcerer Supreme appears frozen, his mouth wide open, as a book hovers before him, green energy linking him to the book, while strange symbols fly about him.
Back in Canada, Northstar has escaped the crater, and holds the girl in his arms as he darts through the trees, tossing bursts of light at the pursuing horror. Northstar tells himself that he has never cared for children, as they are loud, obnoxious and generally smell, but that upon seeing this one in danger, he found himself racing to her, despite knowing that Nightcrawler was already there. ‘What is the matter with me?’ Jean-Paul wonders. More bursts of light, as the girl clings to him, Jean-Paul decides that she is holding up remarkably well, given everyone she has ever loved has most likely turned into flesh-eating monsters. He adds that no doubt due to his presence, the girl has utter faith in his ability to save her. Jean-Paul wonders what his sister would say if she could see him now. ‘Suddenly he screams, as one of the Wendigo grabs him by his feet. The sudden halt causes Amber, the girl, to be flung from Jean-Paul’s arms. Free of the Wendigo’s brief grasp, however, Northstar speeds forward and grabs the girl before one of the Wendigo can snatch her - only he pays for this as the Wendigo slams its fist into his back, forcing Wolverine to the ground.
‘Ow…’ Northstar utters as he looks up, and the Wendigo roars at him, as blood trickles out of his nose - suddenly, there is a glow - and the Wendigo is gone. ‘Oh…I was just thinking of you’ Northstar remarks, as standing over him are four of his former teammates from Alpha Flight - James MacDonald Hudson a.k.a. Guardian, whose torn battle suit glows with energy from blasting the Wendigo away, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora, Northstar’s twin sister, who tells him that he is embarrassing himself. ‘This is beneath us’ she remarks. Walter Langkowski a.k.a. Sasquatch crouches behind Aurora, while the goddess Narya a.k.a. Snowbird hovers above.
‘I thought you said don’t hurt them!’ Firestar exclaims as she and Storm fly back-to back, and Storm casts several lightning bolts down at the Wendigo below. ‘I’ve amended that to “Don’t kill them”. These are innocent people -’ Storm begins. ‘That all ate human flesh?’ Firestar points out. Storm ignores the newest member of the X-Men and tells her to create a wall to separate the Wendigo from them. Iceman darts about on an ice-sled, escaping any Wendigo who try to grab him, and he tells Colossus that he asks Colossus if he is glad he is back on the team. ‘Yes, honestly, X-Force was…complicated. This I understand. This I can fight’ Colossus replies as he grabs the fist of one of the Wendigo who tries to attack him. Nearby, ‘Hang on, baby. Hang on…’ Puck tells Elizabeth “Talisman” Twoyoungmen who was moments ago stabbed through the stomach by Wolverine after he transformed into a Wendigo. ‘…the wound of the mountain where shadow rests eternal’ Talisman utters.
‘We have to get her out of her!’ Puck calls out. ‘We’re working on it, just let us - oh, no. He’s back. I can feel him. He’s right behind -’ Rachel Grey warns. ‘Behind who?’ Rockslide asks, as the Wolverine-Wendigo leaps towards him and slices his face into pieces with his claws. ‘Hey! What are you… ow!’ Rockslide declares. ‘Peter! Get ready!’ Nightcrawler calls out as he teleports behind Wolverine. ‘Santo? You okay, big guy? Do you need, uh… some glue or something?’ Iceman asks as he slides over to the many pieces of Rockslide laying scattered on the ground. ‘Nur! Ram na okay!’ Rockslide replies. ‘Fastball Special?’ Colossus asks as he grabs the Wolverine-Wendigo by his tail. ‘You read my mind’ Kurt replies as he teleports around Wolverine-Wendigo. As Colossus flings the transformed Wolverine high into the air. ‘That was extremely satisfying’ Colossus smiles. ‘We’ll have to find Logan at some point, you realize’ Kurt remarks as he looks to the star-covered sky. ‘I’m sure he will find us soon enough’ Colossus replies. ‘As the X-Men’s pyrrhic victories go…this ranks high’ Storm tells her friends.
As Firestar’s wall of fire surrounds the X-Men, Iceman asks ‘Did you see all of them? I mean, you turn into a Wendigo by eating people right? Canada always seems so quiet, then BAM! Cannibals!’ Iceman jokes, while Rockslide has put his face back onto his body and asks ‘Is my face on crooked?’ Storm turns to her former Uncanny X-Force teammate, Puck, and asks him how Talisman is, pointing out that she may be the only hope they have for curing Logan and the rest of these people. Rachel reports that Talisman is not good, and explains that she has shut down her pain receptors, but that she is still going to bleed out if they don’t do something soon. ‘Travel to the wound of the mountain where shadow rests eternal. There you will find him’ Talisman utters. ‘What is she saying?’ Storm asks. ‘Travel to the wound of the mountain…’ Talisman repeats, while Rachel tells everyone to hang on, as she enters Talisman’s mind, ‘A cave…an entrance to the spirit realm…’ Talisman explains. ‘Do something!’ Puck shouts, waving his fist at Storm.
Storm turns to Firestar and tells her that she must cauterize Talisman’s wounds. ‘You can’t be serious’ Firestar replies. ‘She’s dying, Angelica’ Storm replies. Angelica creates a small flame and leans closer to Talisman, muttering that she is having second thoughts about this whole X-Men thing. ‘You’re going to do fine’ Storm assures her. ‘I might throw up’ Firestar replies. Storm adds that she will be right be her side the while time - also throwing up. ‘I will not throw up’ Colossus thinks to himself as he, Kurt, Bobby and Santo stand together and hearing a hissing sound as Firestar touches Talisman’s wounds. ‘I will not throw up in front of the ladies’ Nightcrawler thinks to himself. ‘I’m seriously going to throw up’ Bobby tells himself, while Rockslide starts to dry heave. ‘Make it stop!’ he calls out. Storm looks at Puck and asks him what happened. ‘I got a call from Heather…I didn’t take it’ Puck reveals, adding that when he finally got her message, Heather was in trouble, and he could barely hear her over the noise - and she did not answer when he called back.
‘So many of the creatures… how could this be happening?’ Storm wonders, when suddenly, a large, hairy figure looms over Rockslide and replies ‘The story is fascinating, but quite disturbing’ ‘AAAH! Orange Wendigo!’ Rockslide yells - but Storm tells him that is enough. ‘They’re friends. They’re Alpha Flight!’ Storm declares as Guardian, Aurora, Sasquatch and Snowbird arrive, with Northstar, who is still carrying Amber. Storm approaches Guardian and asks him what has happened. Guardian tells Storm that they have lost count of how many towns have fallen, but that they think Forrest was ground zero. ‘How does one Wendigo create and outbreak like this?’ Northstar enquires. ‘That’s just it, Jean-Paul…it wasn’t just one’ Guardian replies, revealing that from what Shaman has been able to piece together, a meat packing plant distrusted tainted meat across the region. ‘Tainted?’ someone asks. ‘A man was murdered. The killer tried to hide the evidence by grinding up the body…well, you can imagine the rest’ Guardian explains. ‘Oh my God’ Firestar utters. ‘It happens with rats all the time’ Iceman jokes. ‘Bobby!’ Firestar exclaims. ‘What? You’ve never had a hotdog?’ Iceman asks.
Rachel stands over Puck who is crouched beside Talisman and informs Guardian that by the time the X-Men got here, the town was already gone. ‘Talisman was able to cure them…’ Puck begins, as Rachel adds that she said it was temporary, that they had to find the source - the cave. ‘Hundreds of people were turned… they quickly became thousands. Towns are being evacuated’ Sasquatch reports. Snowbird adds that they have heard the Avengers are on the border assisting the effort. ‘Awesome’ Rockslide utters, looking up at Snowbird who hovers above him. Sasquatch remarks that at this rate of transmission, the Wendigo will overtake most of the province by week’s end - and by the end of the month, Canada will fall.
As Cap, Iron Man and Thor continue to battle Wendigo at the US / Canada Border, Storm asks ‘So what you are saying…everybody on the planet is going to turn into a Wendigo?’ to which Guardian points out ‘You’ve seen their strength and speed…at these numbers, not even the Avengers can stop them’ He adds that containment isn’t an option, and that the only thing working, while Sasquatch announces that the only thing working in their favor is the nature of the curse itself - as it is only effective on Canadian soil, as Captain America discovers when one of the Wendigo crosses the border, and collapses before him, reverting to human form.
Shortly, inside another aircraft, Guardian announces ‘Here’s the plan. The cave Talisman was talking about Sasquatch knows where it is. We send Northstar and Aurora to the Border with Talisman and the girl’. And so, Northstar, with Amber on his back, and carrying Puck, flies from the jet, while Aurora flies alongside him carrying Talisman. ‘They told me your were married, Jean-Paul…no one said anything about a child’ Jeanne-Marie exclaims. ‘Quiet’ Northstar tells his sister. As Guardian, Snowbird and Firestar fly alongside the jet, inside, Sasquatch pilots and reports that the rest of them will fight this at the source. ‘So, Walter…how is it you know where this cave is?’ Nightcrawler asks. ‘I can feel it talking to me’ Sasquatch reveals. ‘Come again?’ Iceman asks. ‘The cry of the Wendigo…I can feel it. It wants me to bite. To tear. To kill…’ Sasquatch utters. ‘Wunderbarr’ Nightcrawler mutters, while Iceman exclaims that if it is okay with everyone, he is going to hang out in back.
Outside, Firestar contacts Storm via communicator, ‘Are you seeing this?’ she asks. ‘I’m guessing this is it’ Firestar remarks as she flies alongside Snowbird and Guardian to a brilliant energy that rises up through the forest. Snowbird declares that the gates to the spirit realm have been torn wide open, and there is power here beyond the Wendigo. ‘Snowbird agrees…this is it’ Firestar announces. As the heroes hover near the brilliant energy, someone reports that there is another problem - Wendigo - and a lot of them. Indeed, on the ground around the energy, dozens of Wendigo have gathered. ‘I can feel them…’ Sasquatch remarks. ‘Sasquatch seems…unreliable’ Colossus points out. ‘I take it we’re altering the plan?’ Nightcrawler asks. ‘Yes. But you’re not going to like it’ Storm replies.
An instant later, Colossus and Sasquatch drop from the jet and land with a mighty BOOOM! On the forest floor. ‘Storm was right. I do not like this’ Colossus mutters as he and Sasquatch engage the Wendigo. ‘Ja, but at least you can’t get bitten! Or scratched!’ Nightcrawler points out as he teleports in rapid succession, kicking several Wendigo in the process. Rachel reports that team “bait” is doing their job, the Wendigo are following them. ‘Sotrm, Guardian…you’ve got your opening!’ Rachel calls out. Storm, Iceman and Rockslide leap from the jet to join Snowbird, Guardian and Firestar, as the six heroes drop to the forest floor and walk towards the brilliant energy. ‘Once more, into the breach!’ Storm exclaims, and as she walks alongside Guardian, asks him if he has any idea what to expect. ‘Nothing good’ Mac tells her. ‘That’s what I thought’ Storm remarks.
And, as Nightcrawler and Colossus are seen continuing to battle the Wendigo, Northstar, Aurora and their “passengers” are just moments away from arriving at the US / Canada Border. In the Spirit Realm, Storm, Snowbird, Guardian and Rockslide are nearly waist-deep in a thick blanket of snow, while Firestar flies behind them and Iceman rides an ice-sled, everyone shielding themselves from the cold that blankets them. And somewhere, a creature grins, ‘Soon, my children…soon we will feed on an entire world!’


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World War Wendigo! Part 4
Canadian soil, five minutes from the US Border, where Thor and Iron Man of the Avengers are doing their best to keep the approaching Wendigo at bay. ‘The last of the pack is heading your way, Cap - it’s on you and the twins now’ Iron Man radios to Captain America. ‘They claim not to be of Alfheim, but I sense it within them. That, and the arrogance’ Thor remarks about the twins. Lightning crackles, and the Wendigo howl. Nearby, ‘Understood, Iron Man’ Jean-Paul “Northstar” Beaubier reports back to Iron Man. ‘Am I to understand that we are bait?’ Northstar’s twin sister, Jeanne-Marie a.k.a. Aurora asks, unimpressed. ‘Do you understand now many lives are at stake here, sister?’ Jean-Paul replies. ‘Of course, but do you understand how badly these animals smell?’ Jean-Marie responds.
At another nearby location, Captain America tells the twins to ease up, as they need to keep the Wendigo interested and not lose them, as he rushes forward, a horde of Wendigo pursuing him. ‘Qui ne cet idiot pense qu’il parle de?’ Aurora can be heard asking over the communicator. ‘I speak French, Aurora’ Cap replies, before Northstar informs him that the Wendigo are right on them. ‘ We’re almost there, Northstar’ Cap responds, and as Northstar and Aurora arrive in a clearing, Cap is right behind them. ‘… get ready!’ he calls out to the twins.
‘Move, Rogers!’ Northstar shouts, as they arrive on United States soil and the Wendigo all suddenly revert to naked human forms. ‘Hmph. These savages could have at least put clothes on’ Aurora mutters as she and Northstar watch as emergency services arrive to assist. ‘They were attacked by cannibalistic monsters, Jeanne-Marie’ Northstar points out. ‘And?’ Aurora asks. ‘How I’ve missed you, sister’ Jean-Paul mutters.
At that moment, Thor and Iron Man appear overhead, and Thor reports that driving the beasts across the border is effective. ‘This curse truly only has power on Canadian soil’ Thor points out. Iron Man remarks that he can’t see the White House being too happy with this plan. ‘It’s a crisis. We’ll apologize later’ Cap declares, before announcing that they should get back out there, as according to Northstar, the X-Men are trying to stop the attack at the source. ‘Until then, we have to save as many lives as we can’ Cap adds, before turning to Northstar and asking if there is any word on Talisman. Northstar replies that there isn’t, before Aurora enquires as to how many Wendigo there are. Cap reports that flybys are estimating tens of thousands - and spreading. Can announces that this is, at most, a stopgap. The twins head towards one of the military tents set up nearby, as Northstar declares that Storm will succeed, for she is too stubborn to accept failure. Cap remarks that he heard Logan was turned into one of them, and asks if he could be here. ‘Wolverine? No, Captain… you know him as well as I. He’s still out there… hunting’ Northstar replies.
The Canadian wilderness, where a Wendigo with adamantium claws sniffs, then licks the blood that emerges from the wounds on his hands. The Wendigo is a transformed Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, and he opens his mouth and shouts ‘WEDNDIGOOOO!’ before roaring, which resonates through the dense forest.
Elsewhere in the forest, at the entrance to the Spirit Realm, where Piotr “Colossus” Rasputin, Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner and Rachel Grey of the X-Men, along with Dr Walter “Sasquatch” Langkowski of Alpha Flight are battling more Wendigo. ‘Enough!’ Colossus exclaims as he slams his fists into the side of the head of one of the Wendigo. ‘Temper, temper, Piotr’ Kurt remarks as he teleports beneath one of the Wendigo. ‘Their howling is driving me mad’ Colossus declares. ‘I like that you’re angry about the noise and not the impending death’ Kurt remarks. Sasquatch has two of the Wendigo wrapped in headlock, as Rachel hovers before him, telekinetically lifting some large stones, Sasquatch asks her ‘How confident…are you…Miss Summers…regarding accuracy?’ ‘Pretty confident’ Rachel replies as she slams the large stones forward, into the Wendigo, knocking them backwards. ‘How long was that?’ Sasquatch asks. ‘By my count, seven minutes. And it’s Grey now’ Rachel responds. ‘That’s five minutes shorter than the last wave’ Colossus points out, before asking Kurt how far away he is dropping them. ‘Two miles, maybe a little more. I can’t keep this up forever’ Kurt replies as he teleports alongside Colossus. ‘Then let us hope the others are almost done’ Colossus declares.
The Spirit Realm, where three of the X-Men - Ororo “Storm” Munroe, Bobby “Iceman” Drake, Angelica “Firestar” Jones and the student, Santo Vaccarro a.k.a. Rockslide, trudge through the knee-deep snow, alongside James MacDonald Hudson a.k.a. Guardian, of Alpha Flight. ‘Are we there yet?’ Rockslide complains. ‘You just have to shut up now, Rockslide. For real’ Iceman mutters. ‘This is a lot of walking’ Firestar points out, to which Storm reminds her that she glows when she flies. ‘Do you really want to let everything that dwells here know where you are?’ Storm enquires. ‘I wasn’t complaining’ Angelia replies. ‘It sounded like complaining’ Iceman tells his friend, while an ookpik that was circling the group from above descends upon them. ‘BIRD!’ Rockslide exclaims as the snowy owl gives way to its true form, the beautiful goddess Narya a.k.a. Snowbird of Alpha Flight. ‘Something is terribly wrong’ Narya announces. ‘What is it?’ Guardian asks her. Snowbird announces that the balance of power has shifted in the Spirit Realm. ‘Goddess…’ Storm gasps, as she and the others look on in horror as the Great Beast called Tundra appears before them, under attack by a horde of Wendigo. ‘The Great Beasts are at war!’ Snowbird exclaims.
‘This is the last time I do a favor for Department H’ Guardian mutters. ‘You really should know better by now’ Storm agrees, before asking why this is happening. ‘Tanaraq’ Snowbird replies. The six heroes see Kolomaq turn one of the Wendigo to ice as others skulk nearby. Several wolf-like creatures flight alongside Kolomaq, as Snowbird explains that it is the spread of the Wendigo curse, and the Great Beasts Tanaraq has tapped into his power - with every life infected, his strength grows. Snowbird continues, revealing that Tanaraq is using this new infusion of power to overthrow the other Great Beasts - even the mighty Tundra will not be able to withstand this assault for long. The Wendigo attack Kolomaq’s familiars - the wolf-like creatures, before several of them grab Kolomaq, and Snowbird declares that there is no balance here.
Suddenly, a large chunk of the ground falls away, and the wolf-like creatures howl as they fall into nothingness. ‘Is it not better to have one of these Beasts than a legion?’ Storm asks. ‘For every incursion the Great Beasts make into our world, their own infighting prevents a hundred more’ Snowbird explains. She adds that given the spread of the Wendigo on Earth, Tanaraq’s power will soon eclipse them all, even together. ‘This is horrible!’ Firestar exclaims. ‘Geez, the Wendigo are killing them’ Iceman points out, as they see the Kolomaq taken down by the Wendigo. ‘The Spirit Realm will not be enough for him. Once the Great Beasts fall, Earth will be next’ Snowbird announces, as they look out over the icy land before them and see the Wendigo drag the bodies of the two fallen Great Beasts along after them.
With the Wendigo gone, the heroes step down from the ledge they were standing on and walk amongst the fallen wolf-like creatures. The X-Men listen as Snowbird tells them that the limitations of the Wendigo curse will only hold for so long against Tanaraq’s power. ‘Wait, what do you mean?’ Firestar asks, while Iceman looks at the fallen creatures and asks ‘What are these things?’ A tear falls down Snowbird’s face as she looks at the creatures and announces that they are called Shilohs, mystic offspring of the Great Beasts, however they hold no darkness, and exist solely to love their makers. ‘Poor little guys…’ Bobby remarks as he crouches down beside one of them. ‘They never had a chance against… whatever those things were’. Suddenly, as Bobby puts his hand on one of the Shilohs, it opens its eyes, ‘What the -?’ Bobby gasps, before the Shiloh leaps up at him and starts licking his ice-form. ‘Okay, okay, that’s enough! No more kisses. We’re done. Okay - ew! No! Not in my mouth! Not. Ever. Please Stop. Please. Wasn’t this thing dead just a second ago?’ Bobby asks as he falls backwards.
‘It’s a zombie, man. Shoot it in the head’ Rockslide declares. ‘They’re kind of cute, I guess’ Firestar remarks, while Snowbird explains to Iceman that the coldness within him has revived the Shilohs. ‘Kinda figured that one out myself’ Bobby replies. ‘Down boy! Get down!’ he tells the Shiloh, before Snowbird instructs him to freeze them - all of them. As the Shiloh sits on Bobby’s shoulders, Bobby frowns and declares ‘We’re not going to talk about this when we get back, okay?’ But as he uses his power over the other Shilohs, nothing happens. ‘Why didn’t it work?’ Iceman asks. ‘Because you suck’ Rockslide suggests. ‘Wait, I think one’s -’ Firestar begins. ‘Oh’ Bobby utters ‘WAAAH!’ Firestar screams as the other Shilohs all get to their feet. Storm tells everyone that they need to keep moving. ‘Bobby just brought all those…things back to life’ Firestar points out. ‘would that he could back home’ Storm replies, before raising her voice and informing Iceman that they are leaving. ‘Okay, I’m coming! I’ll uh…be right there. Can someone help me?’ Iceman calls out as the Shilohs gather around him. Snowbird takes flight as the others follow on the ground. ‘We head in the direction of the fallen gods, we find them, we find Tanaraq’ Storm announces. ‘Hey, guys! Wait up!’ Iceman exclaims.
Back at the US / Canada Border, Elizabeth “Talisman” Twoyoungmen lies hooked up to life support in one of the military tents, bandages wrapped around her waist are splattered with blood from here she was skewered by the Wolverine-Wendigo. ‘This is all my fault’ Eugene Milton Judd a.k.a. Puck utters as he stands at her side. Northstar and Aurora stand solemnly and listen as Puck reports that when Heather called, Elizabeth asked him not to pick up the phone, as she just wanted it to be them, no one else. ‘Nobody ever wanted that before. She just wanted to be with me’ Puck explains. ‘Why did I pick up the phone?’ he utters. A doctor and a soldier stand nearby as Northstar announces that Department H is going to airlift Talisman to a hospital in New York, and they have room for one more person in the chopper. Northstar suggests to Puck that he should go, as his is the only face Talisman will want looking down at her when she wakes up. ‘But -’ Puck begins. ‘Go with her. She needs you’ Northstar points out.
Northstar and Aurora watch as paramedics carry Talisman out of the ten, with Puck at her side. ‘Better she die than end up with him. Disgusting’ Aurora declares. ‘What is wrong with you?’ Northstar asks his sister. ‘Oh, don’t be so sensitive’ Aurora retorts, before turning and walking away, she announces that she is leaving. ‘Aurora -’ Northstar calls out after his sister. Suddenly, ‘Water. Please…I need water’ a patient in another bed calls out. Northstar goes over to him and holds a bottle of water over to the man. ‘You’re heroes, right? Super heroes?’ the man asks. ‘Some of us’ Northstar mutters, as the man reports that his daughter is still out there, explaining that her mother got bit, and then he did, and now their daughter is all alone. ‘You have to help her’ he declares. ‘Under normal circumstances I would, but these are about as far from normal as it gets’ Northstar explains.
‘Please! Her name is Amber. She’s just nin-’ the man begins. ‘Stop. Did you say Amber?’ Northstar interrupts. ‘Yes… Amber Barton’ the man replies. Northstar speeds away, and returns an instant later, carrying the girl. ‘Amber!?’ the man gasps. ‘Daddy!’ Amber exclaims. Northstar puts the girl into the arms of her father. ‘Such a touching moment’ Jeanne-Marie mutters as she watches what transpires. ‘Should we remind them that her mother is probably dead?’ Aurora snaps. ‘Shut up’ Northstar tells his sister. Aurora frowns: ‘Look at you, helping families and coddling children. You should have been -’ she begins, as Northstar cuts her off: ‘An only child?’ he asks. ‘A social worker’ Aurora declares. ‘If you can be a super hero, I suppose anything is possible’ Northstar replies, before suggesting that Aurora comes with him, as being bait seems to be the only thing she is good at.
Back at the entrance to the Spirit Realm, lightning crackles, and more Wendigo have returned. ‘This…isn’t…accomplishing…anything!’ Sasquatch exclaims as he holds back one of the Wendigo. Rachel telekinetically knocks some of the Wendigo back and declares that Sasquatch is right. She points out that Kurt is exhausted and her brain is on fire - they can’t keep this up forever. But Colossus announces that they can’t stop, as the others are counting on them. Suddenly, there is a howling, and the Wendigo look around, nervously. ‘What are they doing?’ Nightcrawler asks as he stops teleporting. ‘I think…they’re scared’ Rachel explains. The Wendigo then all turn and run away. ‘That seems bad’ Kurt remarks. Colossus agrees, and Sasquatch sniffs the air: ‘It’s him’ he calls out. ‘Wolverine’ Sasquatch declares as the Wolverine-Wendigo emerges from behind some trees. ‘Should we run?’ Rachel asks. ‘Yes’ Sasquatch utters. ‘Maybe’ Colossus calls out. But Nightcrawler announces that they will stand their ground - and the rest is up to their friends inside.
Storm, Guardian, Iceman, Snowbird, Firestar and Rockslide take cover on a small ledge that overlooks a large pit, where Tanaraq, the Conqueror of Beasts stands proudly, and dozens of Wendigo dance about. The rest of the Great Beasts are all chained to large rocks. Kariooq the Corrupter, Tundra the Land Beast, Ranaq the Devourer, Somon the Artificer, Tolomaq the Fire Beast and Kolomaq, the Beast of Snows. As the heroes watch in horror, a voice suddenly calls out to them: ‘Outsiders! Come out of the shadows…or I will have my shadows drag you out!’ Iceman is suddenly knocked aside by several of the Shilohs. ‘Bobby?’ Firestar asks, turning to him. Tanaraq addresses Narya, telling her to surrender to her fate, as it is one of her own making. Snowbird flies off the ledge and hovers before Tanaraq. ‘Great and powerful Tanaraq, I -’ she begins, to which Tanaraq tells her not to insult him. ‘Always lying. Always pretending to be higher begins while denying the “Beasts” their rightful attributes, which you falsely claim as your own’ Tanaraq tells her.

Tanaraq continues, remarking thw man willingly destroys the world that mistakenly birthed it, but fights against all others that would see that world restored. ‘You would rather live in a grave dug by your own hands than allow the “lesser” creatures to have a true chance at survival’ Tanaraq adds. Snowbird tells him that he is wrong. ‘Am I?’ Tanaraq replies, asking Snowbird to tell her that she has come solely to save the lives of his fellow Beasts - to free them and allow them the chance to someday march on her fragile world again. Snowbird does not respond. ‘No? You cannot because you would slit their throats yourself if you believed it would protect your precious mortal race’. Snowbird suddenly kneels before Tanaraq and looking up at him, tells him that this power is not his to take, as it will destroy both worlds, not just hers.
‘Your kind chose to eat the flesh and blood of your brothers and sisters and with each filthy mouthful gave their lives to me willingly. It is only mine to possess’ Tanaraq exclaims, announcing that he will bring balance to this realm, but the heroes’ intrusion has widened his appetite for order. ‘You’ve shown me the limitations of the Wendigo only encourage man’s desire for cruelty, cannibalism and self-preservation. Let the Wendigo grow without limits. Without restraint. Just as your kind has for far too long’ Tanaraq declares. ‘No! You can’t!’ Storm exclaims as she drops down alongside Snowbird. ‘Foolish mortal…it is already done!’
And back on Earth, Northstar and Aurora turn back to the military tent as they hear a horrid howling. ‘No’ Jean-Paul utters, and inside the tent, Amber Barton screams, ‘Daddy! NOOOOO!’ as her father transforms into a Wendigo and looms over her….