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Coyote Crossing - part 5
(Cerveza Fria, El Paso)
After returning to Cerveza Fria with a crying baby girl, the bar’s owner, Nestor, takes the lead and asks Angel to fetch some diapers and formula from down the street. Cassie is a little concerned that the baby is still crying, but Nestor tells her that the baby’s cold, hungry and scared. He has three children of his own and this is what babies do; they cry. It’s a hard thing, being born, he adds before offering the child to Cassie to hold. She puts her arms out and backs away, replying that she doesn’t do babies.
She turns and sees Wolverine standing on the balcony, alone and looking into the street below. He appears lost in his thoughts. Despite being the consummate tough guy, Logan is also pretty sensitive to things like this and the past day has been rough. He drinks from a beer bottle, as Nestor and Cassie watch him, not really knowing what to do. “Talk to him,” Nestor quietly urges.
Cassie edges onto the balcony. Logan is leaning over it, dressed in jeans and a vest with a small crate of beer at his feet. “So hey,” she says warily, “You gonna tell me what happened with Rojas?” Logan replies that she’s dead and asks if she thinks Rojas would have given her the baby if she was still alive. Cassie asks if he killed her, but Logan turns to her and tells her to go to hell. Cassie pauses before repeating her question. He responds by asking if she thinks he did. Cassie doesn’t respond.
Logan asks why she’s following him; why doesn’t she just leave him alone. She says she’s been asking herself the same question. She’s never seen a man like him before. She’s not sure really; she wanted to find out more, find out what kind of man he was. “Not much of a man at all,” Logan answers dejectedly. Cassie needs to know if he killed Rojas. Logan replies that he might as well have.
(flashback, the Rojas estate, New Mexico)
Wolverine returns across the river and finds Rojas in agony, sitting on the floor and clutching the back of the sofa. She was already in labor when he first found her and it must have started right after he left. That’s twenty of hours of labor Rojas has endured. He grabs some towels and hot water and tries to help her. Although the baby comes out, Rojas dies from her exertions.
(present)
As Angel arrives with the supplies in a brown paper bag, Cassie assures Logan that he couldn’t have known she was going into labor. It’s not his fault. He replies that Rojas was alone. There was no one to help her, not a guard left. They were either dead or they’d run. That was his fault. He pinches his eyes, as he recalls the event before repeating that he’s not much of a man at all.
Cassie begins to head back inside, but stops at the doorway. She turns and tells Logan that this isn’t about being a mutant or anything like that. Whatever war he’s fighting with himself, she doesn’t know how it started. She doesn’t know why he believes about himself whatever it is he believes. She also doesn’t understand why he named himself after a monster, instead of a man of honor. Whatever his reasons for returning to Rojas’s villa, he saved the life of an innocent. She has no time for animals. When he decides he’s a man, he knows where to find her. With that, she leaves him alone with his thoughts.
Once she’s gone, Logan makes his way inside, where Nestor is feeding the baby some formula. She is now dressed and enjoying her first drink. Nestor asks what they’re going to do with her and Logan replies that he can keep her; he doesn’t mind. Nestor says his wife might. He already has three of his own, and a fourth one he doesn’t need. Logan heads to the fridge for more beer and asks if he looks like someone who knows anything about babies? No, Nestor replies, but is giving her to the state his solution? Logan slams the fridge door shut. “Dammit!” he cries. He gently takes the child from Nestor and looks at her. “What’re we gonna do with you, huh?”
(The Rojas estate, New Mexico)
Logan returns to the house, only to find the place is being looted. Paintings, stereo equipment, a grandfather clock and carpets all find their way onto someone’s truck. He enters the building and asks a guy what’s going on. He replies that the witch that used to live there is dead, that’s what’s going on. His friend replies that she won’t need these things anymore, but they do.
He climbs the staircase, passing a couple of guys ripping even the toilet from the floor. Making his way into the bedroom, he finds a guy rifling through the drawers. Logan orders him to get out but the guy says he’s working this room and he should find one of his own. He faces Logan and pulls out a large knife, throwing his booty to the floor. Logan tells him that if comes at him with that sticker, he’s gonna be breathing through a new hole. You don’t scare me, he replies. Then you’re stupid, is Logan’s response.
The man lunges at him with the knife but Logan shoves his arm away while popping the claws on his right hand. He slices the man’s knife into several pieces and, along with it, several of the guy’s fingers. “Told you,” he says as the man clutches his hand to his stomach and leaves the room in pain. This is uncharacteristic, even for Wolverine, but he’s in no mood for games. He picks up a framed photograph and removes the picture from the frame. In it, he sees Rojas, another woman and an older man. A letter falls to the floor and he finds it is addressed to Rojas, but it has the senders address on the back. Maria Murillo, 4388 W. Oak, Evanston, Illinois 60201.
(El Paso)
Logan returns to Cerveza Fria and shows Nestor the letter, as Angel looks after the baby. Nestor tells him that the one on the right is Rojas. Yeah, Wolverine replies, about ten years ago. The guy in the middle is her father and the other one is her sister, Maria. “You got all that from a photograph?” asks Nestor, impressed. He says it’s written on the back. There was a letter wedged in the back of the frame from her sister in Illinois. If there’s a family for the kid, he adds, he’s looking at it. Nestor asks him what happens if the sister doesn’t want the baby. Logan has no idea.
(Evanston, later)
The town of Evanston is experiencing a bout of snow. Maria and her two children climb into their 4x4 and head off on the school run, which allows Wolverine to use one of his claws to prize open a window and climb inside their house. He takes a look around and sees Rojas in one of the photographs on the wall. He then finds a couple of degree certificates on the wall, possibly belonging to the two sisters. The car then returns and Maria gets out, picks up her paper and heads up her pathway while reading it. “Maria Murillo,” says a stranger’s voice. She is shocked, but Logan assures her that he didn’t mean to scare her. His name is Logan and he’d like to talk to her. “About what?” she asks. Your sister, he replies, he’s afraid she’s dead. Maria’s face drops upon hearing the news.
She invites him in for coffee and Logan seats himself at the kitchen table. She asks if he’s the law, to which he replies that he isn’t. She always thought it would be the law who told her she was dead. She always thought it would be the law that killed her; or her competition. Logan asks if she knows how her sister made her money. Yes, Maria replies and tells him that she used to send her cashiers checks. She doesn’t know if her sister wanted her to launder them or if she thought she needed it. You never spent it? Logan asks. Never, Maria replies.
She explains that there is a stack of them in her desk. She’d have returned them, but her sister would have taken that as an opening. She’d have tried to talk to her, to convince her. She could never take no for an answer. She pours the coffee and sits across from Logan. She asks who killed her and Logan informs her that she died giving birth. Maria doesn’t know what to say.
Logan tells her that she has a niece. She’s being cared for now, but it won’t last. She’s going to end up a ward of the state unless someone comes forward; unless some family comes forward. Maria closes her eyes, as Logan continues to tell her that he knows she has a husband and two kids. She has a life, but this is her sister’s child; her family. Whatever her sister was, the child is without stain and needs a family to love her. He says that maybe she could put those checks to good use; make something right out of everything her sister did wrong. Logan’s argument is very persuasive and Maria holds her forehead, thinking about her sister and Logan’s suggestion. She finally says that she has a family and needs to speak with them about it.
(El Paso, later)
The 4x4 and Logan’s bike are parked outside the Cerveza Fria. The Murillo family are gathered in the bar area as Logan brings Maria’s niece to them, flanked on either side by Nestor and Angel, who carries a bag of baby items. Maria smiles and asks if he gave her a name. No, Logan replies, they never knew what to call her. Maria cradles the baby in her arms and decides to call her Angelica. It was her mother’s name. Her husband also smiles and the two children take a look at their new baby sister. Soon, the family depart and the baby looks back at Logan, as she is carried to the car. Nestor tells him it was the right thing to do, what a man would do. Come on, he says, he’ll buy him a drink and toast Angelica’s health. Logan says next time and heads for his bike. Next time.
(Oregon, later)
There is a knock on the door and Cassie Lathrop peers through the spy hole to find Wolverine standing in the rain outside, soaked through to the skin. She opens the door and says she guesses he’d better come inside. They look at each other without another word and Cassie closes the door behind them.


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Dreams
(Portland, Oregon)
Wolverine sleeps contentedly in Cassie Lathrop’s bed, as she gingerly tiptoes over to where he rests. “Sleep well,” she whispers in his ear, but Logan is already dreaming.
(Wolverine’s dream)
A red and gold bird sits on a branch, as lightning strikes through Logan’s dream. “Kill me. Kill me again. Kill me, please,” says a woman with ruby red lips. Wolverine slices his way out of a black cowl and discards his clothes. He stands naked over dozens of dead soldiers lying in a snow-covered forest, claws extended. The woman is gone. “Nice work!” says the red and gold bird, before flying away through the forest. Wolverine follows at pace, as the bird tells him he looks a little thirsty.
Wolverine finds himself sitting in a small rowing boat, fishing, and telling Nightcrawler not to scare the fish. Logan looks free and contented. Holding onto his line underwater, Kurt replies that they’re already scared. The fish are shown to have human faces, frightened of the great mutant hunter? Wolverine looks to the sky, as lighting continues to strike. A storm’s coming. Nightcrawler surfaces and tells Logan that they should get off the water. The red and gold bird suddenly sweeps past and grabs Logan’s hat before flying to shore. Logan calls after her, “That’s mine!” Kurt ends up back in the water as the boat rocks.
Logan gets back to shore and enters a wooden cabin, where a strange man in a checked suit sits at the table. Yukio, dressed in traditional Japanese garb, is making chilli on a stove and tells him he should change for dinner. “Black Tie,” adds the stranger; they’re civilized folk here. The naked Wolverine rifles through his wardrobe and picks out a suit. A pair of eyes stares out at him from the dark recesses of the wardrobe. His old Wolverine masks and favored hat sit neatly on the shelf. His yellow and black costume hangs besides other garments. He picks out a dinner jacket, seeing a distorted reflection of himself staring right back at him. He growls at this doppelganger.
Sitting down for chilli, Logan asks who the stranger is. Yukio doesn’t reply but tells him she loves him. He can kill her later. Okay, replies Logan. He finds himself unable to reach his food but the stranger enjoys it. He grows larger and larger until he dwarfs Logan, asking, “Aren’t you hungry?”
Wolverine is naked once again, eating the flesh of a newly caught deer. With blood seeping down his chin, his bestial nature has once more provided him with nourishment. He stops and sees a small black cat staring at him. It approaches, climbs onto the deer and sticks its tongue out, playfully. Wolverine smiles. He finds himself back in bed, holding the cat above him. It leaps away as he wakes up.
A tap on the window attracts his attention. It’s the little red and gold bird and it asks if he’s thirsty. He is still asleep. He dons his old brown and gold Wolverine outfit, the one he wore during much of his time in Madripoor. He visits a club where Rogue is tending the bar. She has an X-Men symbol tattooed on her left shoulder. She offers him a beer, which he gladly takes. Behind him, security staff hassle the customers, while Logan seems oblivious to the chaos around him. He’s used to this kind of thing. Rogue asks him why he drinks so much sugar. He replies that it’s because it always hurts. “Don’t I know it,” she replies. He takes a swig and toasts a woman sitting near him.
He then tells Rogue that, during prohibition, he ran booze down from Canada along the eastern seaboard. “You and Capone,” states Rogue. He says that he never met him. They’d cross the border in upstate New York, make deliveries in Buffalo and the on down, into the city. One winter, it was so cold that the beer froze in the barrels. He reaches into a beer cooler as Rogue stands facing one of the security men, who has a gun aimed at her head. “You don’t say. That’s cold,” she replies. Logan bites the cap of the bottle and continues drinking. Rogue slides a matchbox with a gun painted on it over to Logan. The man says this is for him.
He looks up at Rogue and sees that her right eye is all busted up. He asks what happened, and she tells him that the man beats him. “Beat him back,” Logan advises, but she says it ain’t that easy. Logan is fiercely protective of his friends. He gets off his chair and wanders over to the guy, who passed on the matches. Flicking the matchbox at him, he tells him he ain’t interested. “Snikt,” the man says. Wolverine squares up to him and asks if he hit her. “Snakt,” the man says. Logan grabs him and warns him to stop but he continues to talk gibberish. Logan punches him in the face and it crumbles like a broken jigsaw.
They are now both outside, with the man in pieces and Wolverine back in the red checked shirt; the one he ripped off at the dream’s outset. He looks innocently at the red and gold bird sitting on a branch. “I didn’t hit him that hard,” he insists. The bird flies away. Wolverine finds himself in another bar called The Box; the one he met Kurt in recently. The barman is a mutant, with one eye. Logan asks who he has to kill to get a drink around here. The bird replies that she got here first. Logan says his money is as green as hers. The barman feeds the bird and Wolverine turns his head. He covers his eyes. “Ah! Dammit, why’s it so…”
“Bright, are you?” a man asks. He is wearing a top hat and Wolverine is back in his dinner suit. The other Wolverine doppelganger begins to smash his through the wooden cabin’s walls, with fire in his eyes. Logan leans over a table and tells the man sitting behind it, wearing a baseball cap, that it hurts his eyes. That’s why he has two, the man replies. “Two?” queries Logan. The man apologizes. He meant to say six. “Six of one,” the second Wolverine snarls. The first Wolverine says he never thought of that and thanks the man. Mariko Yashida makes the bed as he speaks, but the second Wolverine is closing on her.
The man in the baseball cap departs, as Logan, now back in his red checked shirt, looks over at Mariko. She drops her dress to reveal her naked shoulders, but the other Wolverine reaches for her and drags her to the newly made hole in the wall. She is frightened, as she is held by the second Wolverine’s strong arms. She is being taken away from him again, by himself. Logan puts his face next to his. “Heather,” the second Wolverine shouts. “Yukio,” he replies. “Rose!” comes the response. “Gotcha. Snikt,” says the doppelganger, who then plunges his claws into the now naked chest of the real Wolverine. He can’t feel a thing, but his foe knows this. “How about this,” the doppelganger replies and raises his claws above his head. The first Wolverine opens his arms wide and says he still can’t feel nothing, blood dripping from the blades. His foe says he hasn’t finished, but Logan leaves, and says, “Maybe later.” “You forgot one!” the second Wolverine calls after him.
Heading outside into the snow, Logan again finds the red and gold bird sitting on a branch. As Logan approaches it, she flies away and once again he follows, tracking her through the woods. This is where he came in to this dream. When he comes across a clearing, he finds Jean Grey, naked on the ground. She looks at him, and says, “I’m cold. Make me warm.” He stands beside her and replies that he has no heat. Jean places her hand on his chest and begins to talk gently to him. She moves from ear to ear, kissing and nibbling as she explains the workings of a pulverized coal burner. As she finishes, they embrace and kiss, seen by the watchful eye of the red and gold bird. The snow around them has melted with the heat of their exchange.
They finally stop kissing and she continues to talk to him, while a group of suited men, looking like government agents encircle them. She says that the first known record of the Phoenix is in Herodotus’ account of Egypt. It describes a red-gold bird the size of an eagle that returned every 500 years to bury its parent, whose ashes were embalmed in a ball of sweet-smelling myrrh. She breaks off and asks if he’s even listening to her. He replies that the Chinese Phoenix is called Feng Hwang. “I knew you weren’t listening,” Jean says, as the men carry him away. “You never listen.” They put a black cowl over his head as they take him away.
Wolverine finds himself in a dank and dirty cell, naked. “Snikt, snakt, snitk-snakt
paddy whack, give a dog a bone,” taunts an unseen man who places a bowl of milk before him. He’s not an animal!
(reality)
Wolverine has woken up and he heads downstairs, where Cassie is pouring him a coffee. She asks how he slept, and whether he had any dreams.  Logan takes the coffee and sits down to read the paper. “No,” he replies.


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Return of the Native - part 1
370 KM NNE, Vancouver, BC:
In the Canadian wilderness, a bear hunts for salmon in the Okanagan valley. As the bear catches a fish and prepares to eat, he hears a crack, and roars with rage as he sees a hairy beast approach. The beast swats the bear, and the bear lurches away in pain. The creature takes the fish and wanders back into the wilderness.
As all this happens, Sabretooth and two associates, Bowen and Peary, watch the creature from afar. Bowen complains that he can’t see anything, to which Sabretooth replies, “You don’t have my eyes.” Peary moves forward to line up a shot, but Sabretooth grabs her and tells her not to move again until he says so, lest he pop the eyes out of her pretty head. Sabretooth rushes into the woods, and Bowen checks to see if Peary is okay. Peary complains that the sooner they bag the Native, the sooner Creed will be out of their lives. Sabretooth hears this and sneaks up behind, telling them to stay quiet and stop whining. As Sabretooth leads the two to a clearing for an open shot, the Native continues to eat. Sabretooth gives the order, and Bowen and Peary fire their tranquilizer guns. The Native howls, and collapses from the serum. Sabretooth tells the group to ready the restraints, and they cross the river on foot, with Bowen complaining about the cold. As the two try to clap the restraints on the Native, they are surprised that it isn’t an animal. It wakes up suddenly, eviscerating both of them. Sabretooth rushes to attack, but is met by a fury of claws, ripping his face open. The Native knocks Creed down, and circles for the kill. As Sabretooth prepares to attack again, the Native slices him viciously and knocks him out. The Native runs into the woods again. Creed wakes up some time later, and claims, with a grin, “This is gonna be harder than I thought.”
Portland, OR:
Wolverine quietly wakes up in Cassie Lathrop’s bed, and leaves in the middle of the night on his motorcycle. He speeds through the Interstate in Oregon toward Montana, but a deer is standing on the highway, and Logan is thrown from the bike into a tree in an attempt to swerve out of the way. Logan picks the branches out of his flesh and gets up, but his bike is badly damaged. He pulls out a cigar from his pocket, but it is squashed. He begins the 35 mile walk to the nearest station.
Seattle, WA:
An executive berates Creed for reporting that he completely failed his mission. Sabretooth says that he found the creature, and that is what he was paid for. Sabretooth accuses the man of sending him into the wild with two “company humps” without the whole briefing. “That thing of yours almost killed me!” Victor screams. The man says that it takes more than a few scratches to kill him, at which Creed erupts: “That’s not the point!” The two men stare each other down. Another man walks into the room, and tells Victor that the man, Mr. Willoughby, misspoke. Peary and Bowen were expendable, and Victor’s information that the Native is alive and thriving is valuable. The man tells Willoughby to pay Creed. The man goes on to say that it wasn’t the success he was looking for: he wants the Native captured. Now, he says, it will be much harder to capture it. He tells Creed that he is still the best man for the job, to which Creed replies: “Nah. I can find someone better.”
Montana:
Wolverine orders coffee and pie at a diner. He listens to two old men talking about Bigfoot at the bar. One man insists that he’s seen Bigfoot and believes him to be a mutant, back in Canada in 1992. The other old man laughs it off. Wolverine catches a scent, as Sabretooth walks into the restaurant.
 Sabretooth goads Wolverine: “I knew they served roadkill in here… but I didn’t think they’d serve roadkill in here.” Sabretooth eats Logan’s pie, calling him “American” for getting the apple pie. Victor asks Wolverine is he’s too scared of him to talk. Victor asks Logan if he has anything to say to his old pal Victor. Logan does: “Start running.” Sabretooth says that he’s never run from anything in his life, and Wolverine won’t be the one to change it. They stare each other down, and Victor finally laughs. He reaches into his coat, and Wolverine draws his claws under the table. Sabretooth pulls out a file folder, saying that it will interest Logan. The envelope is labeled “TOP SECRET: Soft Vector Weapon Deployment.” The file is a description of the Native, complete with photos. It is apparently a failed Weapon X experiment. Sabretooth tells him that the Native is the “one that got away.”
“The hunt is on.”


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Return of the Native - part 3
Pacific Northwest:
Sabretooth sniffs around by the riverbank, looking for an indication of either Wolverine or the elusive Native. He picks up a stained rock and licks it, immediately tasting Wolverine’s blood. Creed wanders deeper into the forest, following a visible trail of blood, as it appears that Wolverine was cut deep. Creed follows the trail and finds claw marks in trees matching Logan’s claws, and clumps of hair from the Native. Sabretooth’s radio goes off, and Willoughby looks for a check up from his field agent. Sabretooth tells Willoughby not to bother him again. Willoughby persists in knowing where the Native is, but Sabretooth says not to call again – he’ll be in touch.
Elsewhere, in the cavern that the Native calls home, she and Wolverine wake up after their night of passion. Native playfully tries to tickle and kiss Wolverine, but Wolverine panics out of his sleep and grabs her, telling her that he doesn’t like to be touched when he doesn’t see it coming. Wolverine tells her that they have to leave right away, because Creed is using Logan to get to her. Native doesn’t listen, and keeps trying to kiss Logan. Logan gets up angrily and tells her “no more.” Wolverine puts his jeans back on and walks over to the Native’s cave paintings, and gestures to the painting of the people breaking out of the glass test tubes. Logan tells her that the people ho did that to her are coming back to take her away. Logan stares at the painting some more, and says that he can’t remember any of it – or if that is even him. The Native walks outside and waves for Wolverine to follow.
Wolverine asks where to, but suddenly, a bullet goes through Native’s spine. Before Wolverine can figure out what just happened, a bulled hits him in the face. Both of them fall to the ground, immobile and disoriented. Sabretooth tells them that it was far too easy – all he had to do was pick where to put the bullets. Sabretooth says that the injury won’t kill him, but it will buy him enough time to get the Native back to the LZ (loading zone). Sabretooth says that he believes in insurance, and aims the gun at Logan’s head, but before he can pull the trigger, the Native snaps her claws right into Creed’s groin. Creed screams in pain, and immediately, another set of claws goes straight into his head. Creed staggers away in pain, blind, as the Native rushes to Logan’s aid. Logan is still trying to heal from his spinal injury, and the Native waits while he gets his legs together again. As he finally heals, the Native continues walking up the mountain. Logan says not to do that, as they need to go back down and stop Sabretooth before he can come back with help. Native refuses to listen, and continues her march up the mountain.
Elsewhere, Creed sits down, continuing to howl in pain as his eye are taking too long to heal. Willoughby radios him again, looking for a report. Sabretooth flips out, telling Willoughby that he is on it, and to give it a rest for once. Willoughby asks if they got away. Sabretooth tells Willoughby “bite me.” Creed insists that they were lucky, but Willoughby isn’t willing to tolerate any more excuses. Sabretooth threatens Willoughby for his attitude, but Willoughby terminates Creed’s contract and says that the professionals will take over from here. He says that Logan’s and Creed’s days are over, but the Native is the way of the future. Creed snaps the radio into pieces, and walks away, muttering that she isn’t much of a future if she’s dead.
Wolverine and Native continue their climb, with Wolverine clueless about the destination. Wolverine asks if she even understands him. She touches his face gently, and he knows that she does. Finally, they come to a small cabin on the mountain, and Wolverine begins getting lost in thought, as he realizes he knows this place. He opens the door, and they enter. Logan recognizes the smell. He looks around, finding some books and old tools and furniture, realizing that he’s been here before… and so has she. Native tries to say something, and Wolverine rushes to understand:
“…s’om… …s’home… …home…”


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Return of the Native - part 4
McChord Air Force Base, Washington:
The men associated with the mysterious Murray and Willoughby of Weapon X gather on Willoughby’s private jet, announcing that they have a GPS location for Sabretooth’s last known whereabouts. Willoughby pulls out an envelope containing a satellite photograph of the Native, which was taken 18 minutes ago. Murray asks if she is still under surveillance, and Willoughby says that the Glasseye has another 68 minutes of tracking time.  Murray tells him to mobilize all the retrieval teams and prepare for complete mutant suppression detail. Murray says to get “Vapor” in position for reprogramming. He also says to make sure that everyone knows they want the female alive. As for Creed and Logan, they are to be killed.
Wilderness, near Vancouver:
Sabretooth is furious at being humiliated by the Native. He climbs the mountain toward where the Native and Logan were last seen. He mutters about how smug Willoughby will be when he finds his little prize dead. Sabretooth hears a sound, and looks above him to find half a dozen attack helicopters flying overhead in Logan’s direction. Sabretooth curses them all.
On the mountain in the abandoned cabin they found, Logan and the Native struggle to figure out where they are. Logan asks if she said that they were home, and she says yes, “Logan home!” Logan flips out because he can’t remember, and smashes a table. Native draws her claws and shakes them at Wolverine, but he calms down.
 They both hear a sound outside, but before they can do anything, several armed guards are surrounding the cabin, and one group quickly breaks the door open and throws a gas grenade in. Before they can get their masks on, however, the grenades come rolling back out, and knock out the men standing right close to the door.
 Wolverine walks out calmly, asking “Who’s next?” and immediately, a guard walks up to him and tries shooting, but Logan calmly guts him and throws the corpse aside without making eye contact. Logan calls for the girl, and sees her standing around the corner of the house, and asks if she’s okay.
Before they can do anything else, though, a helicopter comes screeching right for them. The helicopter blares over the loudspeaker that the Native is their property, and if he surrenders her, he will be free to go. Logan smiles, and tells the Native to run for the trees and not to come back until it is all over. She starts to run, and the lead chopper orders them all to open fire. Logan starts running towards the helicopter with his claws drawn.
 As they all continue to fire, no one can see exactly what is happening, as there is too much debris. Out of nowhere, Logan emerges from the fire, and the chopper radios to Mr. Murray that he is trying to fight. Murray orders the retrieval teams to go. Logan uses his berserker rage to dive into the lead chopper and blow it up with his claws, Logan climbs out of the wreckage, again asking “Who’s next?”
Another chopper opens fire on Logan, but Logan runs at it again, this time, however, Logan slashes the tail, causing it to crash. As Logan struggles to get out of the second wreckage, he sees a team loading the Native into another helicopter. Logan screams at them to put her down, and chases them, but just as Logan is about to jump into the chopper, the men use a cable weapon to pump a massive continuous charge of electricity into Logan’s body, seemingly killing him.
That night, Sabretooth gets to the place where Logan is lying.  He laughs at Wolverine’s misfortune, and kicks him to get up. Creed says that Logan is getting slow in his old age. Logan says that he’s fast enough for Creed. Sabretooth replies that they’ll figure that out later – after they get his puppy back.


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Return of the Native - part 5
The Workshop, Montana:
The helicopters from the extraction mission arrive at a run-down looking ranch in northern Montana, fresh from obtaining the Native in British Columbia. An attractive yet devious woman, clad in red leather, steps out from one helicopter to examine the unconscious mutant. One of the mercenary team leaders from Weapon X asks the woman, a doctor named Vapor, how long it will take to process the Native. Vapor replies that it will probably take the better part of a week, but the captain asks her to hurry it along, as there are already potential buyers who want to see the Native. Vapor smiles sadistically, and tells the unconscious girl that they are going to have a lot of fun together.
Canadian wilderness:
Sabretooth continues to follow Logan around the mountain and the dead carcasses of various mercenaries, insisting that they need to work together to infiltrate the Weapon X Workshop and get the Native back. Creed tells Wolverine that they have no choice in the matter – Logan’s sense of honor and responsibility tells him that he has to go after the Native, and Sabretooth wants to go to Montana to make Willoughby and Murray pay for their actions. Logan remains silent, furious at the events of the day. Wolverine sniffs around the bodies of the soldiers he killed earlier in the day while defending the Native, and finds a map on one of the bodies. Sabretooth ridicules him for being stupid – no secret compound is going to be on a map. Logan storms off into the woods, continuing to ignore Creed. Sabretooth calls out after him, insisting that the Workshop was built well after Logan’s time, and so he will never find it on his own. Logan doesn’t listen.
The Workshop:
A group of armed guards leads the shackled Native into a decontamination chamber, and throws her on the floor. Vapor speaks over the intercom, telling the poor frightened girl that she should relax, and imagine how pretty she’ll be once she’s clean. A mist fills the room, and Vapor warns Native not to get it in her eyes – it stings. Native falls over, in pain, as she is cleaned off by the decontamination showers.
Wilderness:
Sabretooth tells Logan that they’re lucky Creed brought a ride with him – otherwise they’d have to steal a vehicle, and Creed would want to kill the driver, but Logan would cry about it and offer to pay for it. Logan continues to ignore Creed with a look of intensity on his face. Wolverine sniffs under the Hummer, and finds a bomb. He tears it out and disarms it, while Sabretooth screams that Murray and Willoughby were planning to double-cross him all along. Creed says that he is going to get them both, as Logan takes the keys and begins driving them both toward Montana. Sabretooth continues to mutter about getting revenge on the two Weapon directors.
The Workshop:
The Native slowly awakes from her drugged stupor, only to see Vapor standing above her with a large syringe complete with a massive dose of sedatives. Vapor warns Native that it will only hurt for a moment – a normal dose wouldn’t have any effect, but she is using enough to knock out the Hulk on account of the girl’s healing factor. Native coasts into a deep sleep, as Vapor pulls out the surgical utensils. As Vapor begins to operate, Willoughby and Murray stand above the operating theatre, commenting that Native looks remarkable, considering how long she had been in the wilderness. Mr. Willoughby stammers in reply, unable to choke out his response, until Murray demands it from him. Murray says that the signal from Creed’s vehicle died 97 minutes ago – the resulting explosion should have been enough to kill him. Murray chastises Willoughby for being a fool:
“It takes more than a bomb to kill these… things…”
With Native on the operating table, Vapor dons a radiation suit and brings in a container of radioactive material, from which she draws a small glowing pellet, and places it in Native’s body.  Murray enters the room, and tells Vapor that he doesn’t want the girl dead until the “harvest” is complete. Vapor replies that the pellet is keeping her immune system busy by fighting off the radiation poisoning so that it cannot fight the probing of surgery. Vapor says that they will finish collecting all of Native’s eggs by morning, and at that point, Murray can decide whether to leave the pellet in the girl, or keep her alive.  Vapor looks into a microscope and laughs. Murray asks what is so funny, and Vapor gives him an interesting revelation: Native is pregnant.
Canadian border area:
Sabretooth continues to harass the silent Wolverine. Creed tells Logan that he knows the runt is thinking that ol’ Creed is about to double-cross him, and that he’s only waiting to figure out a way to screw Logan.  Creed knows that Logan isn’t stupid, after all, he’s already tried to screw Logan once. Sabretooth laughs and tells Wolverine not to think so hard about such things, and focus on the task at hand – because if you worry all the time, it’s like bringing an umbrella wherever you go – just in case it rains. Sabretooth looks for a response from Logan, but Wolverine keeps his eyes on the road and pays no attention. Sabretooth stares at him in frustration, and continues that Willoughby and Murray are “users,: that they use people and have no sense of loyalty or trust. They told Creed that he was old and no longer useful. Creed says that they will be shocked to see Sabretooth and Wolverine coming at them together.
Later, the two mutants arrive at the gate of a run-down ranch in Montana, and Creed says that they are close – the compound is maybe a mile from the gate. Creed steps out of the Hummer, and moves to open the gate and disable the security. Sabretooth tells Logan that he can take care of them both, and Logan continues to stare out the window, ignoring Creed. Sabretooth opens the gate, muttering: “You’re welcome… jerk.”
Creed disables the sensors around the gate, and turns back to the vehicle, saying “no problem.” Creed mutters that he can’t wait to show Willoughby his own spine. Creed shouts at Wolverine to hurry up, but freezes in his tracks, as Logan hits the gas, and pins Creed underneath the vehicle, snapping his spine. Creed howls in pain, mumbling more threats to Logan. Logan gets out of the vehicle calmly, and pops his adamantium claws. Logan lays it out for Sabretooth, plain and simple:
“We’re not allies, Creed. Never have been. Never will be. “
Wolverine slams the claws into Sabretooth’s skull, knocking him out.
Inside the compound, Vapor continues the operation, preparing to extract the eggs from Native’s body. She does so, and moves them to a storage container, asking:
”Which came first… the chicken, or the egg?”


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Return of the Native - part 7: Last Rites
New York City: twenty-six minutes ago - In the wee hours of the morning, at a closed bar called "The Box," a young lady reads a magazine from behind the bar. A priest enters, and pulls his hair back to reveal that he has no pupils. It is Nightcrawler, and he removes his image inducer device and sits down at the bar. The girl, unafraid, asks if he is either rich or illiterate - the "closed" sign is posted at the door. Kurt asks the girl if Logan has called yet. She says no, and asks if he is late, as she didn't even find out what he wanted. Kurt replies that Wolverine promised to show up by dawn, and he had asked for someone to read last rites.
Montana, two days ago - Sabretooth stalks Logan and the Native through the bush yet again, this time looking to finish business once and for all with the girl as Wolverine leads her back toward civilization. Creed sniffs his way around, back out through the gates of the Workshop.
Meanwhile, the mutant couple ahead stops for a moment as the Native pulls a salmon out of the river. Logan agrees that they should stop for the night as it is getting dark. They settle in for a nap, and Logan asks Native if what Vapor was saying is true - that Native is pregnant. Native looks at Logan and smiles, holding his face in her hands. She tells Wolverine to go home and leave her. Logan says that he isn't going to abandon her, because Weapon X will send more people to get her. He knows, because his personal Weapon X saga has never ended. Wolverine asks her to come back with him to a place in New York, where the X-Men will protect and care for her. Native smiles sadly at Logan, insisting that she doesn't belong there. Wolverine continues that they can keep her safe, but suddenly, Logan realizes that there's no one there to talk to. He turns around and curses, as Native has ditched him somehow. He begins to search.
Sabretooth is waiting for him in a small clearing. Wolverine pops his claws and prepares to fight, but this time, Creed isn't interested in toying with Logan. Creed lunges, and Wolverine demands to know where Native went. Sabretooth replies that she went west, but that he will take care of her. Logan erupts with rage, and starts fighting back. As Logan gets a claw in Creed's shoulder, he demands to know what happened to the girl. Sabretooth screams at Logan to shut up about her. Creed tells him that she's gone. He flips Logan off of him, and slashes his chest open. Sabretooth ridicules him, asking if he intended to settle down with that "thing" and raise a family. Sabretooth lays into Wolverine fiercely, pushing Logan into a tree. He tells her that she's a "damn animal," with no place in the world, just like the two of them. Creed tells him that they both know what she needs - but Logan is too weak to give it to her. He tears out Logan's throat and leaves his body in the dirt. Sabretooth licks himself clean, and tells him: "I'm not, runt. I'm not."
The next day, Logan wakes up struggling to breathe, as his healing factor kicks in and replaces his destroyed arteries and trachea, then realizes that he has lost a lot of time, and begins sprinting in Sabretooth's direction.
Elsewhere, the Native continues her run, finding the destroyed cabin that she and Wolverine stayed in briefly. She stays silent, and sits down on the edge of a cliff to think. Sabretooth approaches from behind, telling her to jump and make it easy for him. Of course, Sabretooth says, that won't do the trick. He tells her that it has to be like this - he can't let her leave alive, or he's going to be useless. Creed takes an almost apologetic tone, as if to repent for what he feels he must do. He lets Native pop her claws, and then lunges at her. Creed gets slashed and stabbed hard, but ultimately, he prrves the stronger of the two, as he grabs her arms and breaks them, throwing her down to the ground, helpless. The girl tries to fight back, but it is too late, and Creed literally tears her apart, effectively killing her.
Later that day, Logan follows the trail of Creed's scent, finding the dismembered corpse of his one-time lover, with a note written in her blood:
I did you a favor runt - you can thank me later
Wolverine pulls back, in tears.
New York City, now - Nightcrawler finishes a drink, and tells the bartender, Jo, about Wolverine. She thinks that he's a cold-hearted killing machine, but Kurt explains that the only cold, hard things in Logan are his claws and bones - the rest is just a man who tries to do the right thing. At that moment, Wolverine enters the bar dripping wet with the Native's lifeless body draped over his arms. With tears in his eyes, he tells Kurt, his closest friend, that she needs a priest.


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Enemy of the State - part 2
S.H.I.E.L.D. carrier - South Atlantic Ocean - Without thinking, the S.H.I.E.L.D. security detail raises its guns at Wolverine and opens fire. Wolverine hears his own conscience in the back of his head, telling him that these people are innocent, and only reacting to duty - but that doesn't prevent him from tearing through each one of them.
 As the commander begins to panic, Elektra reminds him that she warned them not to fire. Wolverine is frightened and mortified of what he is doing, but can't control himself. A second voice in his head insists that he keep going, in the name of HYDRA.
 The S.H.I.E.L.D. commander begs Elektra to jump in and help, but she insists that she has to wait, as she will only get one chance to stop Wolverine. She finally moves, and in a flurry of red leather, she draws her sai and plunges them through Wolverine's shoulders, causing his arms to lock and his body to fall numb.  Wolverine is grateful that Elektra stopped him, but is unable to respond to her questions or even growl in pain, as HYDRA's control over his mind is complete. The voice in his head chastises Elektra as a traitor to the cause, while reminding him that they have been fighting for one hundred and fifteen seconds now - long enough for Plan B to activate.
A massive explosion rocks the ship, killing most of the remaining crew below decks.  Elektra is knocked off of Wolverine's back, setting him free again. Logan tears through her sai, hoping that she'll find a way to escape before he's forced to kill her. Elektra laughs at Logan, and uses the broken pieces of her daggers to stab through his neck. Wolverine starts to worry that he'll fail in his mission, and wonders where the payoff of the explosion is. It comes - the ship starts to split in two, and water begins flooding the deck. Elektra is washed away from Wolverine, and the mutant swims free.
Above, most of the senior officers make it to safety, jumping into the lifeboats. Elektra and Wolverine are trapped underneath the hull. Logan swims to safety above water, escaping the piles of corpses littering the hallways. Elektra nearly gets caught in the pile, but manages to pull herself free and find an air pocket. Before Logan leaves, the HYDRA voice kicks in and forces him to lock the door that would allow Elektra to escape. His conscience is mortified at what he is doing, but he is forced to lock the hatch, hoping that she will find another way out. He disappears through a hull breach, finding a pack of great white sharks beginning to gnaw on the crewmen. Logan begins tearing into the sharks so that he can escape. Meanwhile, Elektra finds a radiation containment suit with an air supply, allowing her time to breathe and find another way out.
Later, S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopters arrive to evacuate the survivors. Elektra warns the acting commander that security has been breached. An investigation proves her correct: Wolverine managed to download all U.S. security files before escaping the ship. Elektra says that S.H.I.E.L.D. didn't find Wolverine; rather, Wolverine found them.
Manhattan, 24 hours later - Aboard a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, Col. Nick Fury briefs his senior staff on existing information. When asked if Wolverine could be dead, Fury replies that there is no chance of that - He has been in contact with the X-Men, and Emma Frost has reported Wolverine's brainwaves somewhere nearby, but is unable to pinpoint a location. Fury introduces Elektra, and lets his crew know that she is a specialist in the terrorist ninja organization "The Hand," the co-plotters of this crime along with HYDRA and the Brotherhood. Elektra informs them all that the Hand rules it's victims by first killing them, then bringing them back to life with their rituals. After this, the victims do as they're told. Elektra says that this turns them into a form of zombie - and this is EXACTLY what happened to Wolverine. Fury brings up some more files on the viewscreen, this time from the bust made in Minneapolis a few days earlier. As it turns out, the superhumans on HYDRA's list weren't targeted for assassination, they were targeted for Hand reanimation. Fury orders that all costumed operatives be put on high alert, and all civilian staff of super-hero bases be evacuated. An officer advises Fury that the President is already being shipped to the Helicarrier for safety.
Aside, Elektra smiles grimly, telling Fury that this whole incident can be referred to as "karma" - if you turn a man into the ultimate living weapon, you can't complain if someone else gets their hands on the trigger. Fury scowls at Elektra. At that moment, Air Force One arrives on board, giving Fury cause for a smile.
Xavier Institute, Westchester - In the mansion's sitting room, Kitty Pryde tells all of the children that they must sleep there for the night. The kids moan and complain, but Kitty says that they can't leave while the security systems are on. She promises them that Emma will put them all to sleep by 10 o'clock. Kitty returns to her bedroom, where Storm is packing her belongings. Kitty leans against a wall, looking at an altar she made for Peter. She hopes that her prayers for Wolverine's return work as well as they did for Colossus.
Baxter Building, Manhattan - Two employees of the Fantastic Four have packed up their belongings at the end of the night, but are wondering why they have to evacuate, as they figure that a building containing four superheroes should be a safe place. They talk about their experiences in the Four's employment - one of them jokes that he threw up the first time he saw Reed Richards curled into a rubber ball. The other complains that the monster they're hiding from can't be as bad as the orange Thing upstairs. As they talk, they notice the Invisible Woman walking by, as a trail of water is dragged in by transparent footprints.
In the security room, Thing checks the locations of the team and of Franklin and Valeria, and once satisfied, activates a forcefield which contains the Baxter Building. Nothing will be able to leave or enter until S.H.I.E.L.D. gives clearance.
Unfortunately for them, Wolverine is already hiding in the ventilation system above.
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Enemy of the State - part 3
Wolverine is under the control of Hydra and has infiltrated the ventilation systems of the Baxter Building, home of the Fantastic Four. He looks down into the garage workspace where Johnny Storm AKA The Human Torch is working on a classic car. He makes several calls to the women he is currently dating to explain that SHIELD has ordered a lockdown of the Baxter Building and to cancel his dates. Naturally, they each think that he is dating her exclusively.
As Wolverine observes the youngest member of the Fantastic Four he notes that the team has a security system that only three people on the planet could infiltrate. The Thing arrives to ask the Torch to rub some cream on his back. Johnny says to have Sue do it since he feels uncomfortable with that sort of thing. Wolverine notes that the Thing is big but he’s taken him down before.
At Hydra’s secret lair, The Gorgon wonders why Wolverine has not struck yet. An advisor assures him that Wolverine is doing reconnaissance and waiting for the proper moment to strike. The Gorgon is anxious and wonders if perhaps the upgrades that Hydra installed are malfunctioning. The advisor tells The Gorgon to relax and that everything is working properly.
Wolverine notes that the upgrades implanted in him have set the security monitors to reply the last twenty minutes, giving him a nineteen-minute window to complete his mission.
Wolverine’s true personality asserts itself momentarily and protests based on the fact that Reed Richards is a friend. Hydra’s programming kicks in to subvert these thoughts. Wolverine recalls the process through which Hydra and the Hand murdered him and then resurrected him as an assassin. He remembers that they are targeting superhumans with the intent of administering the same process on those he strikes down. Their plan is to create their own army of superhuman assassins. Baron Strucker is present at the conversion of Wolverine and orders The Gorgon to lean on those portions of Logan’s personality that lend themselves to his tasks as an assassin for Hydra. Hydra’s programming continues to suppress Logan’s natural heroism to continue their plan to target Mister Fantastic.
In his lab, Reed Richards is inside a “think tank” full of magenta liquid. His elastic body is shaped into a ball. His wife Susan Richards AKA The Invisible Woman interrupts him. She reminds him that it is time for him to read their children a bedtime story. He tries to get out of it since he is in the middle of a project but she notes that he hasn’t see their son Franklin in two days. Reed says he will do it via the intercom, which he has programmed with the ability to interact with others using his personality traits and image as well as viable answers to millions of questions. This way, he can continue his work with Tony Stark and Hank Pym while the children get their story.
Sue wonders if he uses this device to appease her when he’s too busy. Reed says directly that there’s no way she would know, much to Sue’s chagrin. As she leaves the lab, Wolverine thinks to himself that she’s the only one who makes him nervous given her powerful force fields.
Reed is “meeting” with Dr. Henry Pym and Tony Stark in a top-secret area of “non-space” that the trio of geniuses uses to discuss their latest projects and inventions. All three are linked in via sophisticated cyber-suits. They are discussing a terraformer device that Reed is perfecting with plans to use in Africa. Tony and Hank discuss the international, political and environmental impacts of the device and wonder how the UN has reacted. Reed says they’re looking at five years of trials.
 As Reed explains that it took him 48 hours to develop this and what an ordeal it can be, a security alarm sounds indicating that their cyber-space is being hacked. Reed commands Tony and Hank to disconnect and then gives the word to the rest of the Fantastic Four that he has picked up Wolverine’s gene signature in the data room.
Reed gives the order to subdue Logan using maximum force with property damage an acceptable to get the job done. As Ben hears this, he picks up the classic car Johnny was working on and hurls it through the wall into the data room.
The Human Torch flames on and grabs Wolverine by the wrists, burning through flesh and urging the errant X-Man to give up. Wolverine has already had sufficient time to hack into the FF’s mainframe and initiates a security protocol to douse Johnny’s flames. Foam sprays from the walls and cover the Torch as Logan’s commands activate the Baxter Building’s systems. He pops his claws and grabs the Torch as he tells him he should have taken him out while he had the chance.
 The Thing attacks with an “earth-shaker”, slamming his stone-like fists into the ground, which opens up beneath Wolverine. Logan and Johnny fall to the room below and the Thing jumps down in pursuit. He tells Logan he’ll knock out all his teeth if he’s hurt the Torch.
Wolverine has landed in an observation room where Reed monitors various timelines, experiments and dimensions. He thinks to himself that the Thing is playing for keeps and he should just let the big guy subdue him and it would all be over.
The Thing rips some cabling from the ground and lashes out at Logan. Logan thinks about how Hydra did the same thing to him that Weapon X did and tries to fight it. He realizes this has put him right back to the mental mess he was before Xavier helped him. Again, the Hydra conditioning tries to counter these rebellious thoughts.
Wolverine continues to fight and finally manages to connect, sinking his claws into the Thing’s shoulder. As he does this, the security protocols in this area activate and target Wolverine and his Hydra-inspired thoughts reprimand him for not re-writing the security systems to ignore his presence.
Meanwhile, the Invisible Woman has sent her children twenty minutes into the future to keep them safe from the conflict. As Wolverine fights off robotic drones, his Hydra programming kicks in, detailing the futility of such resistance and Hydra’s ultimate goal to use the world’s heroes to undermine the world’s governments and institutions for their own gain.
Mister Fantastic arrives to confront Wolverine. Reed envelops Logan in his elastic body, hoping to contain the X-Man until SHIELD arrives to help set things right with him. Wolverine mentally requests a jump from Hydra command, unwilling to give up against Richards. The Gorgon notes that they can only move him sixty feet, which the tech advisor assures him, will be enough.
Wolverine is teleported remotely and emerges in an outer hallway where he is attacked by more guard drones. He suddenly freezes up as he feels his lungs freeze up. He catches the scent of Christian Dior perfume and realizes that the Invisible Woman is responsible. He switches to infrared sight as Sue explains that what he’s feeling is a pair of her force fields resting inside his lungs. She explains that if he doesn’t stop what he’s doing, she’ll double their size. She lets him know in no uncertain terms that she doesn’t care if he’s sick or mind-controlled; no one enters her home and threatens her family. She then turns his optic nerves invisible and renders him effectively blind.
Realizing he’s been effectively trapped, Wolverine mentally orders Hydra to scratch the original plan and shoot for a specific spot nearby. An explosion rocks the corridor, sending the Invisible Woman to the ground and breaking her concentration. Sue looks up to see Wolverine clinging to a small Hydra shuttlecraft, which is zooming away from the Baxter Building.
The Human Torch pursues Wolverine who is still having trouble seeing. Despite this, he dives from the shuttlecraft and attacks the Torch in mid-air. He makes a mental note that Hydra got what they came for already as he collides with Johnny Storm. Wolverine drives the two to the ground near a gas station as his own flesh burns away. The gas station explodes into flames.
Sometime later, emergency crews are dealing with the fire. They discover a survivor who identifies himself as the Human Torch. He’s been badly burned so they load him into an ambulance. As they do so, claws pop out of the bandaged form. At the site of the fire, the remaining members of the Fantastic Four are told by the fire chief that the Torch has just been loaded into an ambulance. As they receive this news, the true Human Torch emerges from the fire. Realizing that the medical team has been duped, the chief calls in to dispatch and is told that ambulance is still on standby. The ambulance is now empty, its crew incapacitated.
In the Hydra base surrounded by monitors with the faces of Earth’s heroes on them, the technical advisor reviews the mission. He orders that AIM be notified that they now have the disc with Reed Richards’ most radical ideas and they want these ideas developed into weapons immediately. He orders the Hand to step up their plans and wants ten more superhumans converted into assassins within a week. He then commands his agents to find Wolverine and bring him in for his next mission: an assault on Tony Stark and the heart of the US banking industry.
 He notes that he wants this all in motion immediately since Hydra’s secret bankroller arrives at midnight and he wants this all in order for her arrival. He finally is fully revealed as Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker himself!


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Enemy of the State - part 4
Colonel Nick Fury and Elektra Natchios are surveying the site of Wolverine’s latest assault: Stark International in New York. As they walk amidst the rubble, a SHIELD agent informs them that Wolverine has killed Spider-Man and they have just unearthed his body. He goes on to explain that Wolverine attacked Stark International with a hundred Hydra agents. Within fourteen minutes, they had slaughtered Stark’s security forces, stolen various data files and destroyed all the current defense projects Stark was working on for the US government.
Fury asks where Iron Man was and the agent notes that he was in Helsinki on business. He adds that Spider-Man showed up but was overwhelmed by the forces led by Wolverine and that his guts were hanging out as a result of his efforts.
 The agent states that after the battle, Wolverine was seen petting a dog and smiling as if nothing had happened. Fury asks if Wolverine was in costume, which he was. SHIELD’s profilers suggest that this is being done for the added psychological impact.
Fury wonders why Spider-Man was operating on his own since he ordered that all New York’s “capes” work in pairs until the situation with Wolverine was resolved. At that moment, a SHIELD paramedic calls Fury over to Spider-Man’s body. She reports that they did their best to save him but that even he had given up. Fury looks down at the body and says that it isn’t Spider-Man but one of the Slingers. Elektra identifies him as The Hornet. Fury looks down at him and comments that the guy dies in the line of fire and no one even gets his name right. Behind Fury, Elektra unsheathes her sword and offers to handle the decapitation. Fury is initially taken aback by this suggestion until Elektra reminds him that they are dealing with the Hand and that part of their intent is to resurrect and brainwash the heroes they manage to kill. Fury and his agents reluctantly stand back as Elektra beheads the Hornet’s corpse.
Back in her posh hotel room, Elektra is working out. She notes that she has been hired by SHIELD at an exorbitant rate to assist in bringing in Wolverine. It has now been five weeks since he was resurrected and turned by Hydra and he’s made eighteen significant strikes. She has been tracking these attacks as well as other Hydra strikes against Earth’s heroes. The alliance between Hydra, the Hand and the Dawn of the White Light is an effort by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker to maintain control of Hydra. As she completes her workout, room service arrives with twelve different meals. When the room service staff asks how many places to set, Elektra comments that it’s just her but she hasn’t decided what she wants yet.
Elektra continues her mental review of the case. She describes Elsbeth Von Strucker, the Baron’s third wife and the fourth wealthiest person on the planet. She notes that until three weeks earlier, SHIELD didn’t even know she existed. Rumor has it that Elsbeth is one hundred and seventy-five years old and has been the lover of several kings and US presidents. She has also been funding Hydra since 1957. Other noteworthy facts include the fact that she’s a Satanist, a chess genius and the financial force behind some of the world’s largest corporations.
Elektra moves to the window of her suite and steps out onto the snowy balcony despite the fact that she is only wearing a sports bra and workout “briefs”. She leaps from the balcony and bounces off of a power line, using the momentum to launch herself onto a nearby rooftop. As she somersaults agilely to a nearby perch, she thinks about what Baron von Strucker is trying to accomplish. He is using Wolverine and his plans to convert other superheroes into an army of assassins as a last ditch effort to retain control of Hydra. She notes that SHIELD counts 4,700 superheroes in the US currently. Even if Hydra only manages to acquire and turn five or ten percent of the current active heroes they would be a considerable threat.  This would be especially true if they got even one or two heavy hitters. She notes that Wolverine alone has half the world’s security agencies on red alert.
Elektra pauses on a ledge and without turning around says to the legion of Hand ninjas behind her that they may as well attack her now. The Hand ninjas advance and Elektra cracks the ice beneath her hand and sends a fistful of shards towards her attackers. One of the ninjas note that she is barefoot, half-naked and unarmed as Elektra pries loose a pipe to use as a weapon. She wades into the crowd of ninjas, quickly snatching up the sword of the first one who falls. She cuts off limbs and hands; thinking to herself that she stills gets sentimental when fighting her perennial foes. She decimates the group of ninjas in a matter of minutes, their green blood dripping from her body. She then contacts Nick Fury to let him know that the Hand is aware of her presence and alliance with SHIELD and that she has just devised three perfect plans for capturing Wolverine.
Meanwhile at the Xavier Institute, SHIELD guards monitor the gates. Inside, Kitty Pryde chases after Emma Frost having just seen the news of Wolverine’s latest attacks. Kitty notes that there were forty or fifty casualties but no fatalities. She is also thankful that the media is keeping Logan’s name out of their reports at SHIELD’s insistence. Ever the cynic, Emma insists it is not to protect Logan’s reputation or those of mutants, but to cover up SHIELD’s own inability to handle the situation.  Kitty changes the subject by asking Emma about The Gorgon whom she has reportedly met. Emma notes that he dated a friend of hers in Japan when he was only twelve and her friend was in her late thirties. Emma says that he was a lunatic even then and completely anti-life. She asks Kitty if she’s heard the story of how he joined the Hand. When Kitty says she hasn’t, Emma replies that she’s lucky. At this point, Kitty realizes that Emma has been speaking telepathically and asks why. When Emma tells her it is just a touch of laryngitis, Kitty sarcastically suggests that Emma might want to consider wearing a bit more.
Emma leads Kitty into the Cerebra chamber where she has assembled the surviving Stepford Cuckoos and several other students. She explains to Kitty that Elektra has devised an idea for getting around the Hand’s mystical block that is preventing SHIELD and the X-Men from learning Wolverine’s whereabouts. The plan is simple, use Cerebra to amplify the powers of all of the psychics and precogs at the Xavier Institute in an effort to learn where Wolverine will strike next.
In Washington DC, servants in the home of Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker are cleaning up after a gathering. The only ones who remain are the Gorgon, the Baron himself and his wife Elsbeth. The Baron sits playing the piano as Elsbeth flirts with the Gorgon. He thinks to himself that she has ignored him all evening and refused to touch him even though they have not seen each other in months. He recounts a bit about their party, which include the ritual sacrifice of children. Through it all, she has snubbed him while pursuing his young mutant bodyguard. Elsbeth laughs openly when she hears of the Baron’s plans involving Wolverine. She accuses him of being dated in his methods, seeking to undermine systems and governments instead of dedicating himself to cleansing the world of all life, as is the current fashion. The Baron argues that this is the most successful Hydra campaign in decades. She counters that Satan has sent mutants to assist them in ushering in the apocalypse and restoring the planet to a pure and lifeless state. She walks away making it clear that she is heading upstairs to bed…with The Gorgon. She asks the Baron to play some Wagner since it helps her to relax while making love.
In New York, Captain America’s shield bounces off a wall before striking several Hydra agents and then returning to his waiting grasp. He reports in to Nick Fury that he and his partner, the Falcon have cleared out another Hydra cell. This time they were using a Girl Scout Hall as their hideout. Fury sends in some clean-up crews, noting to Cap that Hydra has increased activity to the point where their forces are spread dangerously thin. He also mentions that they can’t risk sending in “capes” for fear that Hydra and the Hand will get a hold of them. The Falcon suggests that they continue to keep the “big guns” under lock and key while the street level heroes clean out Hydra’s operations.
 Cap asks if there’s anything further regarding Wolverine. Fury reports that he blew up three banks and a credit union, killed half a dozen police officers in the process and released a gas bomb on a naval liner in a single afternoon. The odd thing, noted Fury, was that he also stopped an attempted sexual assault. Fury wonders what his motives are here; committing heinous terrorist attacks but still stopping crime as well. Cap responds that it sounds as if Logan is trying to fight Hydra’s conditioning. Fury responds that he is trying hard enough. He has just received reports of an arson at the IRS complex in Manhattan and Emma’s team of psychics have predicted a major act of terrorism on American soil using one of the devices stolen from Reed Richard’s database. Cap’s communications signal cuts out as the power in Manhattan blinks out. Wolverine detonated a minor EM pulse and sent SHIELD a 30-second warning along with a message. He wants a “big-name partner”.
As Colonel Fury wonders what that means, a team of Hand ninjas leap across another snowy rooftop. They drop down onto the roof of Matt Murdock’s brownstone in Hell’s Kitchen. Inside, Matt is asleep on the couch in his Daredevil costume sans the mask. The ninjas move in noiselessly. Wolverine recalls what the Black Widow once shared with him about Daredevil. Wolverine knows that Daredevil is blind but can hear a pin drop from a block away and that his team of Hand ninjas has to be quieter than that to get the drop on him. Matt’s eyes open as Wolverine presses his gloved fist to the side of his face. Logan asks where his guards are and wonders if SHIELD thinks that Hydra’s only after superheroes with big, noisy powers. He makes it clear that they aren’t and that the Hand has been after Daredevil for a long, long time.


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Enemy of the State - part 5
Wolverine straddles Daredevil, his fists held against his face at the chin and temple. He says that he’d normally give Daredevil a moment to say a final prayer before popping his claws, but that he isn’t that sweet anymore. Wolverine recounts Daredevil’s abilities and his deep history with the Hand. Given his power levels, he’s not the most obvious target for the Hand and Hydra’s current efforts. But his long history with the Hand makes him the perfect choice. As Wolverine pops his claws, a target can be seen on the window.
On a rooftop across the street, Elektra and a team of SHIELD agents have Murdock’s apartment staked out. Elektra commands a SHIELD agent to call for all the back-up SHIELD can muster now that Wolverine has taken the bait. She aims her rifle and shoots into the window of Matt Murdock’s apartment. Wolverine is surprised by the gunshot, giving Daredevil a moment to react. He kicks Wolverine off of him and into a glass wall. Wolverine thinks to himself that this must be the work of Elektra just as they anticipated. Wolverine notes that while Daredevil himself has moved on after Elektra to date other women, Elektra has only really fallen in love the one time.
Daredevil leaps over his couch, turning it over to provide cover from the volley of arrows that the Hand ninjas let fly. He then uses the couch as a battering ram, driving it into the crowd of ninjas. He grabs a sword and wades into the sea of ninjas. As Daredevil makes short work of the ninjas, Wolverine wonders how Murdock has managed to get so much romantic action over the years.
Across the street, Elektra is shocked that she missed her target. As it fully registers, a voice from behind expresses her thoughts. It is the Gorgon who mentions to her the last time she missed a shot, when she aimed for the right eye of a drug kingpin and hits his left instead. Without fully turning around, Elektra shoots at the Gorgon.
 He leaps through the rain of bullets, chopping down SHIELD agents with his sword as he advances towards Elektra. The Gorgon warns Elektra to shield her thoughts more thoroughly, he can “see” her fear and the images of Daredevil and her father’s death in her mind.
 Elektra orders the remaining SHIELD agents to fire. The Gorgon spins his swords in front of him and deflects the bullets.
 He then skewers two SHIELD agents before informing Elektra that SHIELD is stretched too thin guarding the “heavy hitters” and that it will be eighteen minutes before help will arrive. He warns Elektra to close her eyes as he removes his glasses. His eyes glow a bizarre yellowish-green and the SHIELD agents flanking Elektra turn to stone.
 He replaces his sunglasses and notes to Elektra that she is not here merely for the exorbitant fee she is being paid by SHIELD. He encourages her to settle her “unfinished business” with Hydra and the Hand right here and now. He tosses her one of his swords and drops the other.
Inside Daredevil’s apartment Wolverine rises and advances as Daredevil finishes off the ninjas. Logan thinks to himself that SHIELD has it all wrong. It’s the street level heroes who have the sharpest skills. Without immense powers to protect them, they have to be the best in order to stay alive in this business.
 Daredevil flings his billy club at Wolverine and misses by a few inches. It hits a ninja in the face and rebounds to hit another before returning to Daredevil’s waiting hands. He then hurls it again and takes out another pair of ninjas as he urges Wolverine to break free of Hydra’s brainwashing. He charges Wolverine and they both break through a door and roll down a flight of stairs into Daredevil’s workout room.
Wolverine thinks to himself that it’s Daredevil who is deluded, preaching justice in the courts by day and playing vigilante at night.
 Murdock warns Wolverine that the place will be crawling with SHIELD agents in a matter of minutes. Wolverine’s Hydra programming kicks in to quell Logan’s most minor thoughts of hope that SHIELD might help.
 Daredevil takes out another pair of ninjas with a couple of screwdrivers just as Wolverine lunges at him with his claws. Daredevil catches Wolverine by the wrists, again urging him to shake off the brainwashing from Hydra.
 Wolverine’s Hydra-inspired thoughts mock Daredevil, suggesting that the reason he never got asked to join any of the big league teams is that he’s handicapped and the butt of other heroes’ private jokes. Wolverine kicks Daredevil away and finally connects with his claws, ripping into Daredevil’s stomach.
 Daredevil falls back but manages to grab a heavy hand weight, which he brings down across the bridge of Wolverine’s nose. Wolverine is dazed and falls backwards onto the blade of a katana.
Meanwhile, Elektra presses her attack against the Gorgon who easily evades her strike. She launches a series of acrobatic maneuvers and slashes at the Gorgon, but he easily sidesteps them all.
The Gorgon comments on how fun this has been but that time is running out. Finally, he catches her sword in his gloved hand and bites down on it, breaking it into several pieces. Elektra looks shocked and lunges with the remaining piece of sword in her hand. He attacks Elektra, catching her first with a kick to the stomach followed by a punch to her kidneys. He does a chop on each wrist before catching her with a “clothesline” maneuver and driving her down onto the snowy rooftop.
He comments that the Baroness von Strucker is pleased and that she has promised him leadership of Hydra if her husband fails in this gambit. He notes that they plan to use Reed Richards’ stolen device to make man as free as he was before birth. He then delivers a final series of blows that render Elektra unconscious.
Daredevil is shocked and concerned to see Wolverine with a sword slicing through his back and out of his stomach. The shock and pain help to clear Wolverine’s mind, much to the dismay of the Baron and Baroness Von Strucker who are remotely observing the entire operation.
 Baron Von Strucker contacts his technicians to pull Wolverine out of there. Using the moment of clarity, Wolverine gives a message to Daredevil to deliver to Nick Fury. He tells him they’re going after “potus” tomorrow night and that Wolverine is being sent to take him out. He confirms that Hydra has allied with the Hand and the mutants of the Dawn of the White Light and that Strucker and his new wife are behind it all.  Logan tells him that they’re going to use Richards’ device and that they have to believe how sorry he is about all of this. He adds that he did his best to make sure they didn’t get their hands on another hero tonight. Daredevil is confused and says that they didn’t succeed since he managed to defeat Wolverine. Wolverine shakes his head and explains that Daredevil was merely the bait.
At that moment, Wolverine is teleported away. The von Struckers are relieved to know that their pawn is safely back at base. The Baron comments on the Gorgon’s success at attaining his target and confirms their plan to use Wolverine against “potus” tomorrow evening. For a brief moment, Elsbeth is confused until remembering that “potus” is an acronym for President of the United States.
Daredevil makes his way upstairs, clutching his wounded abdomen. He surveys the damage and runs his hand across the windowpane that was shattered by Elektra’s gunshot. He wonders if it was Elektra.
Elsewhere, Elektra lies naked on a dais with a white cloth draped over her body. A handful of Hand ninjas watch anxiously as a Hand mystic hovers over her lifeless body in preparation for the arcane ritual that will resurrect her as their latest pawn.


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Enemy of the State - part 6
Kitty Pryde hovers above the courtyard of the Xavier Institute in her pajamas. The courtyard is filled with armed SHIELD agents. Kitty phases into one of the mansion’s living rooms where her roommate Rachel Grey AKA Marvel Girl is watching television. Kitty informs Rachel that the SHIELD agent that she likes is on duty again. Rachel tells Kitty that she touched his mind earlier and learned he had a girlfriend and baby. The two X-Women agree that most men are creeps.
Kitty asks why Rachel is still up and she explains that the Institute’s students are keyed up over the situation with Wolverine and that their dreams were keeping her awake. Kitty brings up that Hydra and the Hand have snagged Elektra and turned her as they did Wolverine. Rachel tells Kitty that the SHIELD agent said that this was the rationale behind the increased security detail at the Xavier Institute. Kitty reminds Rachel that it’s the President they’re after. Rachel says that she thinks that the President will be safe with all the super-heroes they’ve flown in to protect him. Kitty cynically suggests that maybe that means they’re the ones who should be worried. With that said, Shadowcat heads up to bed by phase-walking through the ceiling.
Once she is gone, Rachel tells an unseen party that he can turn visible again. It’s Wolverine who has been present and cloaked the entire time. Wolverine reminds Rachel of the deal: she does exactly what he says and he won’t activate the terra-former he stole from Reed Richards. If he did so, it would clear the surrounding area and kill all those within a given radius, including everyone at the Institute.
 Wolverine drags Rachel by the neck and pulls her forcibly to the Cerebra chamber.  As he goes, his Hydra programming echoes in his mind and commends him on his performance so far but chides him for feeling sorry for himself. He also notes that Rachel looks a lot like her mother.
Wolverine uses his Hydra implants to bypass Cerebra’s codes and re-calibrate the system to accept Rachel as a user. Wolverine tells Rachel that the plan is for her to kill the President telepathically using Cerebra. She tries to protest and Wolverine reminds her that half a million people will die if he sets off the terra-former.
In Washington, Captain America and Nick Fury are in the Oval Office with the President. A SHIELD agent reports that Hydra has snagged another superhuman, a 14-year-old from Iowa with invisibility powers. The President says there’re only six minutes left to the midnight deadline and feels assured that nothing will happen. Captain America disagrees and thinks that Wolverine is coming.
Rachel is now hooked into Cerebra but tries to remind Logan that he was once one of the good guys and that protecting the students at the Institute was his job, too. Wolverine tells her that she’s good but no Jean Grey and not to play games with him.
 Meanwhile, Iron Man is flying over Washington, DC scanning for any signs of a threat to the President. He comes up with nothing.
 As Rachel activates Cerebra, Wolverine’s dual consciousness is arguing over the young telepath. His Hydra programmed personality is ogling Rachel and once again comparing her to Jean. Wolverine’s true psyche protests and warns his “Hydra persona” not to touch her.
Rachel confirms that she has locked onto her target and Wolverine tells her to give him a nice, big brain hemorrhage. Wolverine’s Hydra conditioning continues to go on about Rachel and the pheromones she gives off when Wolverine’s around. Logan tries to silence the programming in his mind, which goes on to make lustful comments about Kitty and Storm.
This provides enough of a distraction for Rachel to act. Much to his surprise, the terra-former instantly disassembles in Wolverine’s hands.  Wolverine wonders how she managed to take apart such a complex machine so quickly. Rachel explains that she used Cerebra to contact Reed Richards and telepathically gain the understanding necessary to disassemble the device without detonating it.
Rachel removes the Cerebra helmet as Logan unsheathes his claws. She lashes out with her telekinetic powers sending Wolverine crashing through the door to the Cerebra chamber. Rachel emerges from the chamber, the Phoenix symbol over her left eye glowing menacingly. She telepathically alerts the other X-Men to Wolverine’s presence.
At Hydra’s headquarters, Baron Von Strucker orders a technician to get Wolverine out of there. His wife, Elsbeth watches with apparent derision.
 Wolverine is teleported away from Rachel to another floor where he is spotted by Northstar and a group of students. He continues to teleport throughout the Institute and Rachel tracks him telepathically by reading the reactions of those who encounter him. Wolverine goes to the hangar and fires up the Blackbird. He pilots it through the heart of the Institute, nearly colliding with Rachel, Cyclops and Emma Frost. The Blackbird tears through the roof of the mansion and flies into the neighboring woods.
The X-Men assemble and pursue Wolverine. Storm drops the temperature in the woods to make it less comfortable for Wolverine. Logan stops the Blackbird and flees on foot.
 At Hydra’s base, Elsbeth wonders how many jaunts they have left to help in getting Wolverine out of there. Baron Strucker assures her that Logan will escape.
Wolverine’s dual psyches continue to war against each other as he is hunted by the X-Men. Northstar leads a group of flying students in the search, though only tenth grade and above are allowed to participate.
The X-Men, students and SHIELD agents fan out to scour the woods. Wolverine takes out two SHIELD agents and draws the attention of Emma Frost. Havok is the nearest to Wolverine and unleashes a plasma burst that destroys the tree Logan was hiding behind. Logan advances and slices through Havok’s mid-section with his claws. The Beast tackles Wolverine who manages to subdue him in a single move. Wolverine smells Rogue and Gambit advancing as well as others and teleports again.
Iron Man and Captain America arrive to join the hunt. Northstar notes to Kitty that it is as if they are hunting Magneto. He comments on how changed Wolverine is. Kitty reminds him that Logan has been brainwashed and to just stay cool about things because the students are looking to them to gauge how to react to all this.
 As Kitty tries to reassure Jean-Paul, Wolverine lunges at her. She phases at the last moment and Wolverine passes through her and collides with Northstar. He slams Jean-Paul into a tree and pops his claws directly into Northstar’s chest.
 Kitty hits Wolverine over the head with a thick branch. Cyclops then arrives and pummels Logan with a full-force optic blast. The X-Men advance and Wolverine uses his final “jump” to teleport away.
 He is badly hurt and needs time to recover. He thinks to himself that he wished he had never tried to help that kid in Japan in the first place. He mumbles that he needs to get himself together. At that moment, Captain America slams his shield down on Logan’s head, driving him down into the mud.
Captain America calls for a SHIELD team get Wolverine secured and cleaned up. Falcon is present and gives Captain America “props” for taking Wolverine down. The casualty reports indicate that Wolverine killed eight more SHIELD agents and injured four more. Havok has serious wounds but will survive. Northstar was not so lucky. The X-Men gather around as paramedics arrive. Kitty says it’s no use, that Northstar is dead. She is horrified at what Wolverine has done.
At Hydra’s base, Elsbeth demands that her husband Wolfgang step down as leader of Hydra. She assures him that his contributions will be remembered and that Elektra will succeed where Wolverine failed. He bows before the Gorgon who is installed as the new leader of Hydra.
On the SHIELD helicarrier, Nick Fury and Captain America watch as medical teams monitor Wolverine and keep him sedated. Fury notes that they considered killing him, but that he might have valuable intel. Plus, it wasn’t fully his fault. Cap notes that Wolverine never seems to get a break. Fury notes that they’re in for a world of trouble now that Hydra is being led by the fanatics on the fringe. Cap wonders if SHIELD has a plan and Fury smiles as he looks down at Wolverine and notes that they have their “little killing machine” back.


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Agent of SHIELD - part 1
(Flashback - Akamatu, Japan – 18 Months Earlier):
The Gorgon is shown running through a forest in Akamatu, Japan. He is blindfolded and armed with a katana. The narration relates the following details of the Gorgon’s origins:
From an early age, Tomi Shishido was not your average child. He said his first words at two weeks, could walk at three months and was reading and writing by his first birthday. He was an accomplished painter by age four and composed an opera at age six. This is also the age when he first attempted suicide. At age 13, he created a mathematical formula that proved the existence of God and manifested the mutant ability to turn people to stone just by looking at them. The media dubbed him “The Gorgon”. Shortly after, he ran a mutant death-cult called the Dawn of the White Light, which made terrorist attacks throughout Japan. It was at age eighteen that he sought out the Hand.
As the Gorgon enters the densely forested area, Hand ninjas descend from the treetops and attack him. Even blindfolded, he manages to handily defeat them all. After doing so, he makes his way to a small chapel. Inside, two Hand masters confer about the unusual young man. The senior master believes that he is the one prophesied to bring them “eternal death”.  His inferior wonders why The Gorgon does not merely use his mutant power to turn his foes into stone. The master notes that he wants to prove he can best them with his eyes closed.
The Gorgon enters the Hand sanctuary and is surprised at how immense it is inside. The Gorgon kneels before the Hand master and offers to serve the Hand. The master asks if his plan was to impress them by slaying their guards. The Gorgon boldly states that he is worth a thousand of them. The Hand masters ask if he is ruthless enough to be of use to them. He shares with them that he killed his entire family and his only real friend prior to seeking them out. The Hand master then questions whether such an ambitious young man would prove dedicated to the Hand. To prove his dedication, The Gorgon draws his katana and kills himself with it. His dying words: “Resurrect me.”
(The Present - Fussen, Germany ):
Atop a medieval-style chateau, The Gorgon looks out over the land with his arms wrapped around his lover, Elsbeth von Strucker. The pair discuss The Gorgon’s phenomenal rise to power to become head of both the Hand and Hydra, all within eighteen months. He notes that titles mean little and results are important. He mentions that they have lost Wolverine. Elsbeth counters this by mentioning that in the seventy-two hours since he assumed control of Hydra and executed her husband, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, Hydra has added Elektra and numerous other superhumans to their agents. She adds that the Sickly Ones have high hopes for him and have awaited his arrival for almost four billion years.
(New York):
The media has yet to release any official information about the abduction of superhumans by the Hand and Hydra.  In an alleyway behind St. Mary’s church, Johnny Ohnn AKA The Spot is about to meet an old colleague, Jalome Beacher AKA Slyde. The Spot is second-guessing his decision to venture out after SHILED issued warnings to all super-powered criminals to be cautious and travel in pairs due to Hydra’s recent actions. He mentions that Knickknack and Leapfrog were among those captured by Hydra and the Hand. When he teleports inside the church, The Spot sees Elektra and several Hand ninjas standing over Slyde’s dead body. Elektra, clad in a black version of her normal costume, throws a pair of blades at the Spot. Adding Slyde and the Spot brings Hydra’s total number of “capes” captured up to 24 in the past day alone.
Meanwhile at NYU Medical Center, a handful of X-Men and a SHIELD team are standing watch over the body of Northstar. Dani Moonstar, Polaris and Iceman are on watch and discussing the current state of things with the coroner. He has been ordered by SHIELD to cut off Northstar’s head to prevent him from being resurrected by the Hand. Iceman expresses that he isn’t comfortable with this and Lorna notes that he’s being cremated. The coroner notes that they’ve already wasted time trying to contact Northstar’s family and that in this case, normal rules of etiquette don’t apply.
Iceman notes that he and Jean-Paul weren’t the best of friends and Dani mentions that Iceman was asked to read a prayer in Northstar’s will. Lorna chimes in that Jean-Paul talked about Bobby all the time. Iceman is still shocked that it was Wolverine who killed their teammate.
 As the small group of mutants discuss this, a flash of light erupts in the room heralding the arrival of Elektra and three Hand ninjas. Before they can begin to react, Elektra has taken down Dani and Polaris and killed the coroner. Iceman tries to nail her with a blast of ice, but she dodges and leaps onto the table where Northstar’s body rests. In another flash of light, she and the ninjas disappear with Northstar.
Nick Fury receives the report of Northstar’s abduction while aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier. It is noted that Hydra has grabbed forty-one superhumans in the last week; four heroes and thirty-seven villains. The agents present wonder why they’ve changed targets and Fury says it’s because villains are less organized and easy to pick off one by one. Fury pauses to get an update from the team attempting to undo Wolverine’s brainwashing.
In the lab, Wolverine is hooked up to hundreds of tubes and monitoring devices. A team of technicians note that they are running 50,000 mental simulations a minute and Logan appears to be responding. Another team of agents notes that the anesthetic has to be precisely calibrated to compensate for his healing factor. As the two agents discuss Wolverine’s diagnostics, one mentions that the physician in charge, Dr. Weinberg was once a minor league super-villain called the Rabble Rouser who faced off against the Human Torch. Apparently, Weinberg broke the Torch’s jaw, which the techs find pretty cool. Weinberg interrupts them and asks them to at least be polite enough to talk about him quietly. The techs apologize and one realizes that he set Wolverine’s anesthetic too low. As he tries to correct this, Logan lunges forward and claws the guy. They call for guards, but in moments Wolverine has killed the whole medical team including Weinberg.
SHIELD agents scramble to contain Wolverine. He makes it to where Fury is issuing commands to shoot to kill. He claws his way through numerous SHIELD agents and then gets to Fury. He pops his claws into Fury’s chest. As he does so, his Hydra programming commends him on such a major hit. Wolverine looks around, his heart racing from the berserker rage that has overtaken him. He notes a scent that isn’t right and approaches a wounded female agent. She tells him to just get it over with. He refuses and says he can’t kill her because she is three months pregnant. She seems surprised by the news.
As Wolverine hesitates momentarily, Doctor Weinberg steps out into the corridor and expresses that he is pleased with this progress. Logan is surprised and notes that he’s pretty certain he killed this guy a few minutes earlier. Weinberg explains that Logan just took part in a virtual reality simulation designed to reverse Hydra’s mental conditioning. This same program has been running millions of times over the last three days. Weinberg notes that this is the first time he has spared the pregnant agent and that this is a sign of true progress in restoring his true personality. Weinberg then commences a new sequence of simulations, starting back at the technicians’ earlier comments about the required dosage for Logan’s anesthetic.
Fury receives the report that Logan is making progress and that Weinberg hopes to have him ready for active duty in twelve to eighteen hours. Fury is pleased, but still concerned with the data coming in about superhuman abductions. He notes that between sixty and seventy villains have already been tapped by Hydra. As he ponders what the Gorgon is up to, a technician reports that they are being hacked. The perpetrator has gone for the helicarrier’s defense systems and dropped their shields. A satellite imaging system shows a mass of flying objects heading towards the helicarrier. As the onslaught draws nearer, they realized that they are not missiles at all. They are superhumans. Those who can’t fly on their own are equipped with rocket boots and they are all carrying mechanical devices, likely some kind of explosive. There are at least sixty altogether and Elektra, Northstar and Slyde lead the charge. Fury gives the call for all agents to respond because they are in serious trouble.