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Bedazzled
Alison Blaire, the disco superstar also known as the Dazzler, walks back to her dressing room after another successful concert. Her friend Artie tells her she rocked and gives her a high-five; Dazzler returns the gesture in-kind, telling Artie that when he’s right, he’s right. Dazzler’s manager, Kathleen, agrees with Artie’s assessment; she definitely performed at her peak. She assumes Alison is pumped about next Sunday.
Alison sounds confused for a moment; is she supposed to do something next Sunday? “Oh! Right! Only the Mega Bowl halftime show in Philadelphia!” Dazzler says. “First disco act to ever play the Mega Bowl,” she reminds Kathleen. Her manager tells Alison this performance is exactly what she needs. It should get her the critical attention she needs to remake herself once disco goes out of style. Dazzler tells Kathleen to bite her tongue. As she opens the door to her dressing room, she reminds Kathleen that disco will never…
What Alison sees when she opens the door shuts her up mid-sentence. Scrawled across the opposing wall of her dressing room in big, red letters is the word DIE!
Westchester, New York…
Professor X tries to get the story straight. Someone wrote the word ‘DIE’ in Dazzler’s dressing room? Painted it, Alison says, correcting him. Her manager Kathleen figures it was simply someone who hates her act. However, Alison knows something that Kathleen doesn’t know—something Xavier knows as well: Alison Blaire is a mutant. She thinks the perpetrator might have been someone else who knows this, like the Hellfire Club. Although Professor X doesn’t think firing a warning shot across their bow is exactly the Hellfire Club’s M.O., he does concede that someone connected to the club following his or her own agenda might be responsible. Alison strokes her chin; they did smack around a lot of guards. One of them could be seeking payback. Just to be safe, Professor X recommends Alison remain at the mansion for a few weeks.
“Alison Blaire doesn’t run from threats!” Dazzler snaps.
At this moment, Wolverine enters the room, dressed in a hockey jersey and holding a bottle of beer. “Who’s Alison Blaire?” he asks.
“I am, Wolverine!” Alison responds.
“You’re Wolverine?” Logan asks.
“No, I’m Alison Blaire!” Dazzler snaps back. Wolverine tells her to make up her mind. Enraged, Alison asks Xavier why Logan is even there. After he reminds her he lives at the mansion, Logan asks why she is there. Gently laughing, Xavier tells Alison that it takes a while to adjust to Wolverine’s sense of humor. Fortunately, during her stay at the mansion, she’ll have plenty of opportunity to do so.
Both Alison and Logan are taken aback by this statement. Xavier clarifies; someone has expressed an interest in exterminating Dazzler, he says. “Maybe they heard her sing,” Logan suggests. Dazzler glares at him, but Logan defends himself. “Aretha Franklin ain’t losing any sleep. I’m just sayin’,” he says.
Getting back on topic, Professor X tells Wolverine he’d like for him to accompany Dazzler and keep an eye on her until they can determine the nature of the threat. Dazzler objects; ten minutes with Wolverine, and she’ll kill herself! Logan tells her not to worry. He has someone in mind—who he suspects will be more enthused about the assignment—to act as a buffer.
Upon hearing the news of her latest assignment, Kitty Pryde flips down the hallway in jubilation. Her friend and current resident of Xavier’s School, Theresa Rourke Cassidy, asks why she’s so excited. Kitty grabs her by the shoulders. She’s going to be Dazzler’s bodyguard at the Mega Bowl! Terry cannot believe it; she’s going to be the bodyguard for Dazzler? The singer? At the Mega Bowl? She gets to go backstage and everything? She asks Kitty if the professor assigned her. Yes, Kitty tells her. Suddenly, Theresa wants in on the deal. She tears off toward Xavier’s office. Right away, Kitty’s gleeful expression shifts to one of dismay. No—this is her gig, she thinks! Siryn doesn’t get to horn in on her gig! No way!
Unfortunately for Kitty, Siryn ends up getting the gig as well. That Sunday, they head to Philadelphia on Dazzler’s tour bus, the outside of which bears a full-size decal of Dazzler’s likeness. Inside the bus, Kitty sits with her knees curled up to her chest, her face a portrait of misery. Siryn, however, exhibits nothing but excitement. This is awesome, she tells Kitty! Isn’t this awesome?! “Totally,” Kitty says insincerely.
As Terry stands up, Kitty stands up alongside her and gives her the score. She’s with the X-Men, but Terry’s just visiting. She’s fought alongside Dazzler; Terry hasn’t. Therefore, she tells Terry she must follow her lead, remain in the background and act as her backup. Understand? Sure, the smiling Theresa says. She understands.
Meanwhile, in the front of the bus, Kathleen finishes up a phone call and gives Dazzler some bad news. They don’t have to stop in Trenton and pick up Danielle; she’s got strep throat and can barely speak. Terrific, Dazzler says. Wolverine, who sits across the aisle from Alison, cannot help but overhearing. He asks about Danielle; who is she? Ali asks if he even cares. No, not really, Logan says, returning to his magazine. Kathleen chimes in and tells Logan that Danielle is one of Dazzler’s two backup singers. That’s too bad, Logan says; Dazzler needs the help. Annoyed, Alison asks Logan what his problem is with her. “I think ya use the light show angle to distract from deficiencies in your voice,” Logan tells her. “Aretha don’t need lights. I’m just sayin’.”
Suddenly, Theresa appears right behind Dazzler’s seat and asks if she heard correctly; did she lose a backup singer? Yes, Dazzler says.
Enraged, Kitty storms toward the front of the bus, phasing through the seats she passes. She swears she’ll kill Terry; what part of ‘follow her lead’ was unclear?
At the front of the bus, Terry informs Dazzler she sings a little, and she’s told she has a pretty good voice. Alison smiles and tells her to hit her with her best shot. As Terry prepares to sing, Kitty lunges at her, declaring no one’s hitting anyone with anything. However, before she can reach Terry, the young, red-haired mutant begins singing the opening lines of “Amazing Grace.”
Oh my God, Kitty thinks to herself. Terry’s voice is so beautiful, so pure. Kitty knew Terry had that sonic scream and could knock down buildings, but she had no idea she could do this as well. Terry’s singing affects not just Kitty, but everyone else on the bus. They watch her in wonder; Dazzler even begins singing along toward the end.
When she finishes, applause erupts from a most unexpected source: Wolverine. “Now that’s singin’. Perfect harmony. Aretha would approve,” he says. With the audition over, Dazzler welcomes Theresa Cassidy to showbiz—much to Kitty’s chagrin.
Later, while preparing the stage for the halftime show, Logan asks Kitty which team she’s rooting for. She asks what he means. Logan clarifies; it’s the Sea-Eagles versus the Colossal. Which team does she think will win? Colossal, Kitty tells him. When Logan asks why, she explains that sea eagles are birds and colossal means gigantic—and big stuff can crush birds. Sweat drips down her face as she hauls yet another cart loaded with heavy sound equipment across the turf. Logan could help her carry this stuff, she says. “Sorry. Gotta keep my hands free,” he says with a smile on his face. “Never know when I gotta leap into action.”
“You’re enjoying this way too much!” Kitty yells after him as he walks away. It’s so unfair, she tells herself. The professor handpicked her for this mission. She was supposed to run interference between Dazzler and Wolverine because of their personality conflicts. Now, however, Terry has become best friends with Dazzler just because she sang one freaking hymn, while Logan’s done a total one-eighty. Where has this left Kitty? As a fifth wheel—just like always.
After the sound check ends, Kathleen calls out to Alison and tells her to clear out, get into costume and wait for her big moment. “Yeah, I hear there’s gonna be a football game here,” Alison says from the stage. Wolverine asks Dazzler which team looks good to her. “Sea-Eagles by six points,” Alison says with confidence. Wolverine rolls his eyes. She’s kidding, right? The Sea-Eagles may have the best defense in the league, but when compared to the offensive stats of the Colossal…
Theresa interjects, adding that the Sea-Eagles have been on a tear the past four weeks; they’re a young team and they’re hungry. She asks Kitty to back her up on this, but Kitty just glares at her from the turf. You were supposed to back me up, she thinks. She marches away, stating that she thinks the Sea-Eagles are going to scratch out the eyes of the Colossal. Dazzler comments on the kid’s interesting pick system after she leaves. Logan adds that it’s actually pretty flexible.
While the football game progresses, Kitty lingers around in the backstage area, feeling sorry for herself while she watches Dazzler talking with her backup singers. What is she even doing there? Why is she even with the X-Men? They all have powers like weather control, super-strength and metal claws—and then there’s her, who can phase through stuff. Yippee.
Kathleen sidles up to Kitty and asks how Dazzler’s doing. Kitty thinks she’s doing fine. Good, Kathleen says, adding that she has a lot wrapped up in Alison. Kitty asks what she means. Being Dazzler’s manager has become her whole life, Kathleen admits. She used to have a boyfriend, hobbies and a whole other existence. Now, her life is just Dazzler, twenty-four-seven. Kitty asks if she resents her for it. At first, Kathleen acts like such a thing is unfathomable, but then she admits that sometimes, maybe she resents Dazzler—just a little. It’s so easy to resent people, after all. “Yeah, I know” Kitty says, shooting a jealous glance at Siryn, who seems to be enjoying her time as a member of Dazzler’s inner circle.
The game reaches halftime. After the announcers review the standings of the two teams—of which the Colossal is emerging the lopsided victor—they announce the halftime show with the spectacular disco Dazzler. Meanwhile, inside the stadium, Dazzler and her entourage walk toward the arena. Kitty Pryde mopes in the back of the crowd. Logan approaches and tells her to move it; she’s supposed to be on station toward the back of the stage. Kitty tells him that between him and Siryn, they should have Dazzler covered. Kitty isn’t even sure why she’s needed.
Wolverine elbows her in the shoulder. While Kitty cries out in pain, Logan tells her to get her head in the game. In this game, if her head’s not in it, then she can lose the game and her head before she knows it. Kitty insists her head is in the game! If that’s the case, then she needs to start acting like it, Logan says. He tells her to act like an X-Man instead of a sulking teenager. If she can’t do that, then she’s of no use to anyone. Not to herself—and certainly not to him. He leaves her behind to soothe her bruised arm.
The halftime show begins. The announcer draws the crowd’s attention to the stage in the center of the field, atop of which stands the honey they’ve all been waiting for—Dazzler! Dressed in her white jumpsuit, platform shoes, disco-ball necklace and blue face-paint, Dazzler holds her mic in one hand and waves to the crowd with the other. Siryn and the other backup singer stand behind her in anticipation of the big moment.
Meanwhile, Logan speaks into his headset and asks Kitty what she can see from her position behind the stage. Kitty, looking at the crowd through a pair of binoculars, tells Logan she doesn’t see anything unusual. Maybe the whole thing was just a prank—or an inside job. Logan asks what she means by that. As Kitty begins to explain, something in the crowd catches her attention. She sees a scowling man in a turtleneck sweater and a trench-coat moving through the crowd toward the stage. Not only does he look really out of place, Kitty observes, but he’s also wearing sunglasses at night. Suddenly, the man reaches inside the left breast-pocket of his trench-coat. Kitty thinks he’s going for a gun. She tells Logan to shield his eyes while she switches communication channels.
Changing over to Theresa’s channel, Kitty orders her to amplify her vocals during Dazzler’s light show. The audience doesn’t realize Dazzler takes sound and channels it into the pyrotechnics, creating them herself with her mutant power. Siryn amps her vocals just as Dazzler unleashes one of her light displays; the crowds thinks it’s all special effects. However, Dazzler didn’t expect Siryn to jack up the decibel level. The sudden burst in sound energy provides way more power to Dazzler’s light burst than she expects—or can control. She accidentally unleashes a blinding pulse of light from her left hand.
With the crowd flash-blinded, Kitty darts out from her hiding place behind the stage and phases through both the stage and the crowd. The burst of light not only blinds Dazzler’s audience at the concert, but also everyone watching on television. Nevertheless, Kitty, her back turned to Dazzler, moves through the crowd in search of the potential gunman. She finally happens upon him and grabs his hand before he can withdraw it from his coat. The man tells her to get away. When he reaches out to push her, however, he sees his hand pass right through her body. What kind of freak is she?!
“My kinda freak,” Wolverine says, appearing from the man’s blindside. He pops his three claws under his chin. Kitty tells Logan to be careful; the man was acting suspiciously— and he’s wearing sunglasses! The supposed gunman claims he has an eye infection. Kitty reaches into his jacket. If that’s so, she says, then how does he explain this—video camera? To her surprise, the device she thought assumed was a gun is none other than a handheld camcorder. The man says he was simply making his own recording. Who are they, the copyright police? As a matter of fact, they are, Wolverine says as he grabs the guy by the collar. “This telecast is copyrighted for the private use of its audience. Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without consent is prohibited. You got consent?” The man fearfully admits he does not. “Then knock it off,” Logan says. The bootlegger gives his compliance.
After the disastrous halftime show ends, Kathleen meets her star backstage. “Effects malfunction. At least it didn’t involve wardrobe,” she groans. Irate, Dazzler marches past her, throwing her hand up in frustration. The network had to cut to a commercial and the switchboard lit up with people complaining they were half-blinded by the show! Kitty sulks after them, whimpering that she thought someone was trying to kill Dazzler. When Kathleen asks if the man was trying to kill her, Kitty has to admit he wasn’t. So, they still don’t know who threatened Alison, and on top of that, the network is angry with them.
“Oh, I have an idea who’s threatening her,” Kitty says. “You!” She points a finger at Kathleen, who seems taken aback. Kathleen asks how she came up with that theory; Wolverine would like to know that too. Getting in Kathleen’s face, Kitty tells her she resents Dazzler because she’s consumed her life! So, to get back at her, she’s decided to terrorize her! Kathleen calls this accusation crazy—not crazy like a fox, but crazy like a nut. Finally having had enough, Dazzler turns away from her quarreling helpers and tells them she’s had enough! She’s going back to her bus and crawling into her seat, where she hopes she can forget she ever had anything to do with any of them.
“Disco sucks!” someone yells. Suddenly, a cream pie hits Dazzler square in the face. Surprisingly, Kathleen identifies the attacker as Tommy, her ex-boyfriend. What is he doing there?! While Wolverine pins Tommy to the wall, Tommy explains that Kathleen dumped him because all she cared about was boosting Dazzler’s career. He had to get revenge! He even warned them it was coming!
Suddenly, everything clicks together. Wolverine asks Tommy if he’s the one who wrote ‘DIE’ on the wall. Tommy claims he wrote ‘PIE’, not ‘DIE’! It sure looked like a ‘D’, Kathleen says! Tommy claims he ran out of room and he was in a hurry. They can sue him, he says.
Meanwhile, the pie pan finally drops from Alison’s face. “Told you she was involved,’ Kitty says to her. “That counts for something, right?” Dazzler glares at her and, through the cream pie filling covering her face, bares her teeth. Kitty covers her face and looks away in humiliation.
Later, back at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Kitty buries her head with a pillow. She feels like such an idiot. Wolverine asks how she figures that. Kitty elaborates, saying she was jealous of Terry and felt like Logan thought she was worthless. Her determination to prove just how much she was needed screwed up her judgment. She did dumb things, made bad calls. Plus, she got so distracted that she let Tommy get to Dazzler! What if he had thrown acid, or anthrax?
Terry, who sits at the foot of Kitty’s bed, tells Kitty she should have just said something to her. They could have worked through it; stewing about never does anyone any good. “No kidding,” Kitty says.
Wolverine suddenly rips the pillow off her head. Yeah, she made some mistakes; it’s called the learning curve. Next time, she won’t make them; it’s as simple as that. As for the pie guy, he tells her not to sweat it. Kitty might have been distracted, but Logan wasn’t. He smelled the cream pie and knew it wasn’t anything dangerous. Suddenly, Kitty and Terry perk up and look at Logan. He could have stopped the pie-thrower, but didn’t? “Yeah,” Logan says with a smile on his face. The girls ask why not. “‘Cause disco really does suck. I’m just sayin’.”


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Two Wongs
Manhattan…
Wolverine and Kitty Pryde stand amongst the crowd at a political rally for prospective New York Senator Benjamin Wong. Logan acknowledges that this Benjamin Wong guy is good. He can see why Kitty thinks so highly of him. It's not just that Wong knows what to say; it's that he knows how to say it. He's been all over New York State looking for votes, and the speech he's giving is his stump speech. He must've said it a hundred times. Somehow, though, it comes across like this is the first time he has even spoken these words. Wong's got the crowd completely on his side. He's cool, confident and self-assured. That's probably because he hasn't seen me yet, Logan thinks.
Suddenly, for a brief moment, his eyes meet Wong's, and Wong's eyes widen. Ah. There we go, Logan thinks. Nice to know I leave an impression. Wolverine, dressed in a white tuxedo with a black bowtie and wearing an eye-patch, winks at Wong and casually salutes him with his left hand.
Wong struggles to recover from the shock without anyone noticing. "Uhm... and by sending me to the Senate," he says to the audience, "you can be sure that someone who represents your interests, your concerns... is going to be watching out for you."
Back in the audience, Kitty tells Logan she knew he was wrong; Wong didn't recognize him. Logan says he did for a moment; he just covered it well. He just can't admit he's wrong, Kitty says, any more than he can admit how ridiculous he looks with that patch over his eye. Logan sneers at her; no one said she had to come along. In fact, he seems to recall telling her how her not being there would be better. Kitty rolls her eyes. "Seriously. All you need is a parrot and a peg leg."
Logan turns away. Not that it's any of her business, he says, but there's a whole country where all one has to do to spook people is mention the name "Patch". Kitty asks what country that is. Madripoor, Logan answers. Kitty's never heard of it. Perhaps not, Logan thinks—but he knows someone who has: Benjamin Wong.
Some time ago...
"Benjamin! What are you doing here!" an adult man yells at Benjamin. "You were supposed to wait in the office!" The young Benjamin apologizes to his father and claims he just wanted to help. Before he can reprimand him, however, the lights in the warehouse go out, shrouding both of them in darkness. They don't know what happened. However, one of Mr. Wong's colleagues asserts that it’s got to be Patch. He shines his flashlight at Mr. Wong. Mr. Wong disagrees; there is no way Patch would have made it past the perimeter guards. After ordering his subordinate to quit shining that flashlight in his face, he claims he doesn't care about the reputation of this "Patch". He is the real power in Madripoor, not Patch—not some interloper! He vows to make Patch regret the day he set foot in low town.
As he begins telling his men to turn the lights back on, however, he hears an agonized scream coming from the distance reaches of the warehouse. He asks who, or what, it was. Assuming it was one of their own, and fearing the wrath of Patch, Mr. Wong's subordinate grows very worried and flees. He shoves his flashlight into Mr. Wong's arms and tells him to just take it; he isn't paying him enough anyway.
Mr. Wong screams out to the man as he runs, but it is to no avail. He is left alone in the darkness with just his young son. He vows to deal with Patch himself; no way is he going to run from some sawed-off foreigner. After ordering Benjamin to hide between the crates and to not come out until he tells him, Mr. Wong sets off to face Patch. Calling out into the darkened warehouse, he asks Patch if he will face him, or just snipe from his hiding place like an animal.
Suddenly, Mr. Wong catches a glimpse of Patch and fires his gun. Patch puts an end to him with a quick SNIKT of his claws. As Mr. Wong lay dying, Patch tells him he's finished. His business deals are slimy, even for Madripoor. More than that, though, he hurt some of Patch's friends—and one just doesn't walk away from that.
Meanwhile, little Benjamin Wong peers out through the space between the crates to see a man in a white tuxedo with adamantium claws standing over the lifeless body of his father.
Present day...
"So you know Benjamin Wong?" Kitty asks Logan as the sun sets over Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters in Westchester, New York. "When did you meet him?" Logan merely tells her he met Wong as a kid. He adds that he has no business running for Senate; he’s a bad egg. If he was just kid, Kitty asks, how can Logan be sure it’s him? Logan tells her his name is Wong, like his old man, and he’s the spitting image of him. Kitty asks if he’s kidding; he’s got to be kidding.
“Yeah, that’s me. A joke a minute,” Logan says as he sips his beer. Kitty tells him there have got to be a billion guys named Wong. Still, Logan insists it’s him. Kitty asks if he’s seen him since he was a kid. No, Logan tells her. If that’s the case, then how could he possibly know Wong is a bad egg? “Because his father was,” Logan tells her. “Like father, like son.” When Kitty informs him that saying is actually a cliché, he asks what that matters. Kitty, her arms folded, tells Logan he thinks he knows everything. He doesn’t think so; he just knows more than her. He takes another sip of his beer.
Refusing to give up, Kitty points at the image on the television and claims Benjamin Wong is a great man. She’s watched him, she’s read up on him—she basically knows him. Logan reminds her she knows what Wong wants her to know. When Kitty counters that the press hasn’t said anything about any transgressions, Logan interrupts her and says Wong’s family can keep their history under wraps. People say he would make a good President some day, Kitty responds. “You know what I say? The sins of the father are visited on the son.” Kitty reminds him this is another cliché. Logan tells her that just because it’s something she hears a lot doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Benjamin Wong is the kid he met years ago, and he will go bad. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Enraged, Kitty gets off the couch and, as she phases through the wall, tells Logan to blow it out his ear. “Like I don’t hear that a lot,” he says.
The next day…
Benjamin Wong returns to his office, where his secretary, Jennifer, asks how his meeting went. He tells her it went fine. Jennifer begins to remind him of his evening's appointment, but Benjamin interrupts her and tells her to cancel them. She asks if he means to reschedule. He doesn't care at the moment. They can tell the people he's supposed to meet that he's sick or something. As he slams the door on his bodyguards and his secretary, Jennifer rolls her eyes; Benjamin looks like he's just seen a ghost.
Inside his office, Benjamin stands still for a moment and rubs his temple. It can't be, he sighs. At that moment, Patch—the man he saw in the crowd—emerges like a ghost from the wall. Behind him comes his young, female accomplice, who wears a black and yellow uniform with a cowl. Sorry about this, the girl says. She introduces herself to Mr. Wong as "Kitty"—at least that's her name this week. Does that work for him? Benjamin stutters for a moment, but Kitty changes the subject. She's a big fan of his and tells him she wishes she were old enough to vote for him. Turning to Logan, she begins another introduction, but Benjamin makes it clear he knows the man when he calls him by the name "Patch". Kitty seems surprised; does Benjamin really know him?
Wong asks Kitty what they're doing inside his office. Patch turns the question around on him by asking what his big plan is. Wong takes offense to this insinuation. He assures Logan his plan is to represent the great state of New York in the U.S. Senate. "Save it for the rubes, Benjy," Logan tells him. Angered, Wong tells Patch he doesn't know how he came to be there or how it's even possible that he looks exactly the same as he did decades ago. However, he does know two things: his name is Benjamin, not Benjy, and he is going to be New York's next Senator. Despite whatever Patch may think he knows of his family's history, he is a law-abiding American Citizen with neither criminal record nor intent. Lastly, they can leave his office the same way they entered—immediately.
As Kitty phases Logan back out through the wall, she apologizes to Wong for her friend's behavior. He's not really a people person, she says. She tells Benjamin she'll see him—in a watching-him-on-TV way, not in a weird, stalker way.
After they leave, Wong stares at the blank wall for a moment.
Later, on the ride home in Logan's Jeep, Logan asks Kitty when she intends to start talking to him again. It's not that he minds the silent treatment; it's just that he wants to know if he should turn on the radio. He totally embarrassed her in front of Wong, Kitty says. True, but Logan reminds her she wore a mask; Wong would never know. "That's not the point! And will you take off that stupid patch? It's a dumb disguise," Kitty tells him. He asks if she'd prefer yellow spandex. "Of course!" she snaps. "Who wouldn't?" Kitty is about to make another point when Wolverine tells her to be quiet. She asks if he wants her to shut up because she's just a girl. No, Logan says—they're being followed.
Sure enough, the headlights of an approaching vehicle fill the rearview mirrors. Kitty turns around to get a better look, thus alerting their tail they seem them. In response, the stalkers fire a gas grenade through Logan's back window and into the cab of the Jeep. Before Logan can even tell Kitty to get it out of the vehicle, she picks it up, phases it through the roof and lobs it back at the convertible vehicle following them. Guided by Kitty's superlative aim, the smoking grenade clears the windshield and falls into the open interior of the sports car, blinding both men. They lose control of the car and crash into a rock embankment. Fortunately, there isn't much traffic around and the stalkers don't take anyone else with them.
"Who were those guys?" Kitty asks Logan after resolving the crisis. He asks who she thinks they were? They rattle the cages at Wong's headquarters, and the next thing they know, this happens. "Post hoc ergo propter hoc!" Kitty retorts. When Logan asks what she means, she claims he thinks that just because something happened after something else, the first thing caused it. Most of the time, she says, that isn't true.
Suddenly, a semi-truck slams into the side of the Jeep and sends it careening off the road. They crash into some nearby boulders. The truck, meanwhile, comes to a screeching halt, and after it stops, the freight door of the trailer opens and out jump three hooded agents armed with flamethrowers. They intend to burn everything and leave nothing for anyone to find. After all, Mr. Wong says this Patch guy is so slippery he's practically a ghost. As they approach the overturned jeep, one of the men suggests they make him into a real ghost. At that moment, however, Patch emerges from the rear and slashes open one of their fuel tanks with his adamantium claws. It spills flammable fluid everywhere.
As Logan attacks, he recalls that it wasn't very challenging escaping the car crash; Kitty simply phased them both through the bottom before the vehicle landed and upturned. It wasn't very high on the list of challenges they've faced. He almost feels sorry for Wong's men—as they have no idea what they're facing. It's time to give them a clue.
"Hi. Name's Patch," he tells them. "Hear you're looking for me." The agents turn their flamethrowers on him. However, the one with the spilt fuel tank orders them to stand down; if they use their weapons, they all die! Logan grabs one of these men by the collar and asks if they forgot he was a ghost. It won't make no nevermind to him, he says. If they don't tell him exactly what he wants to know, he vows to spark his lighter—and they'll all be ghosts together. The terrified man is shaking too hard to notice that Logan's lighter is actually a roll of breath mints.
Back at Mr. Wong's office, the security guard monitoring the control station informs Wong that the truck has returned; he's watching it pull into Loading Bay C at that very moment. Wong orders the man to have the agents come up to his office immediately. They can even take his private elevator.
On the screen, the three green-garbed, hooded agents exit the vehicle and head for the elevator. The elevator takes them to a private office. With the lights off, the only thing illuminating the robed figure in the center of the room is the moonlight. The steam from his cup of tea slowly drifts into the ether. This man, Wong, welcomes them back. He assumes they had no trouble tracking their targets. After all, the moment Patch made his presence known in that office, his time was limited. He asks them to tell him everything; he owes Patch for—
One of the men suddenly pulls back his hood and reveals a snarling face topped with a thick head of black hair and adorned with an eyep-atch. "See, now, I'm a guy who collects his debts in person instead of sending flunkies," Logan says. He pushes aside the captive guard he forced to lead him to Wong's office. Logan tells him to get lost; his business is with his... boss?
The realization suddenly hits Logan. The voice—and more importantly, the scent—are not from Benjamin Wong the politician, but from Wong's father. Incredible, the elderly Wong says. When he heard from his son that Patch hadn't aged a day, he assumed he was exaggerating. As it turns out, he was correct. As he draws a gun, he tells Logan to have no fear; he intends to ensure that aging will no longer be an issue for him. He explains to Patch that his friends in research & development built him the gun he now holds in his hand. It's a laser, just like in the video games, he says. Unless Patch thinks he's faster than light, he's dead.
Patch freely admits he isn't faster than light. As for Wong's trigger finger, Patch is willing to take those odds. Very well, Wong says. Better he die fighting than as a stationary target.
At that moment, Benjamin Wong opens the office door to the sight of his father aiming a laser gun at Patch. What are they doing?!? He orders his father to put the gun down right away! "He'll destroy you, boy! Just as he tried to destroy me! I only survived by a miracle," Wong Senior shouts. Logan steps forward and grips the sides of Wong's wheelchair. He tells him he didn't survive because of a miracle; he survived because his son was watching. Things would've ended differently if Benjy hadn't been there. That just the way it goes.
Kitty suddenly asks if this is the guy who ran them off the road. Upon hearing this, Benjamin grows outraged and barks at his father. They had an agreement! Wong Senior tells him he did what he felt was necessary, but Benjamin doesn't care. He wanted a clean campaign, a new life and nothing that whiffed of criminality. That's what his father promised him, for both their sakes. Wong Senior calmly tells his son he doesn't understand the world, but Benjamin disagrees. He understands the world, all right—he just doesn't understand his father. He's done trying. He's dishonored them both for the last time. After he returns from escorting Patch and Kitty out of the building, Wong Senior had better be gone.
The elevator...
Logan stands with his arms folded while Kitty leans against the opposite wall. Benjamin stands in the middle and stares straight ahead. "Quite the little scene back there," Logan says to him. Benjamin tells him he wasn't endeavoring to perform a scene. "So that wasn't all performed for my benefit to cover your own tracks?" Logan asks. Benjamin assures him it was not.
Kitty, meanwhile, throws up her arms and asks Patch to knock it off. "The kid there wants to believe in you," Logan says. "Maybe kids should be allowed to believe in good things, occasionally, don't you think?" Benjamin agrees; they should, every once in a while.
They arrive at their stop. The doors open and Logan and Kitty step out of the elevator. As they leave, Logan wishes Benjamin luck with his campaign. "And just so you know," he adds, "I'll be keeping my eye on you." The door slams shut.


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Identity Crisis
Kitty Pryde stares at her reflection in the pool of water surrounding the fountain at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngster. Who am I? She doesn't have an answer to that question, which shouldn't be a big deal. She's a teenager; that's when she's supposed to be sorting it all out. However, although she hates to brag, most teenagers aren't geniuses—and most aren't mutants who can phase through solid objects like ghosts, either. Most teens who are genius mutants aren't members of the X-Men and therefore always wondering when some new person is going to come after them.
Kitty continues running her finger through the stagnant water. So caught up is she in her own reflection that she doesn't sense the figure approaching behind her—not until she sees his reflection right behind hers, that is. The man lunges at her, but Kitty leaps up into the air and phases right through him. "Oh no you don't," she says. After passing through his body, she kicks him in the back and knocks him into the fountain.
Assuming a defensive stance, Kitty asks the man who he is and what he wants. However, she almost immediately recognizes him as Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man. "What tipped you off?" Madrox asks as he and his newly formed dupe pick themselves up out of fountain. Water runs down their identical, green-and-yellow power-containment suits. After introducing herself, Kitty explains she read about him in the professor's mutant database; he creates duplicates upon impact. Madrox is honored she chose to read his file of all people's. However, Kitty quickly deflates his ego by telling him she actually read them all. Madrox has a hard time believing this; there must be hundreds of mutants in those files, he says. Kitty tells him it was more like a few thousand—but who's counting?
She looks at the Multiple Man for a moment. Although he's no Colossus, she admits he's cute. She asks what he's doing in Westchester; he's supposed to be out on Muir Island. Jamie claims he's looking for himself. "Kind of a whole Jack Kerouac, On the Road, soul-searching thing?" Kitty asks. Madrox has no idea who that is. He clarifies that he meant it literally; he's looking for a dupe. Kitty asks why he can't just make more. That isn't the point, Madrox tells her. When she insists she still doesn't understand, Madrox explains he's looking for a runaway dupe.
Inside the school's kitchen, Wolverine asks Madrox what he means by a runaway dupe. How does that even work? Madrox explains they had an invasion on Muir Island that he helped repel. "Good for you," Logan says as he makes his sandwich. Madrox elaborates, adding that one of his dupes grabbed a boat and headed for the mainland during the invasion. Logan asks if that sort of thing happens a lot; Madrox claims it never had before. He neither knows nor cares why his dupes chose to act up all of the sudden. Logan would care if he were him; if his powers are going haywire, he should know why. They're not going haywire, Jamie claims. He thinks it was just a fluke. "Whatever. So what makes you think he's here?" Logan asks as he cuts his sandwich. Jamie doesn't know for sure; he was hoping he could use the place as his headquarters while he monitored mutant activity in the United States.
"I might have to stay a few weeks—maybe months—if that's okay with…" Madrox says, pausing mid-sentence as something in the corner of the room catches his eye, "…you." He recoils. At the other end of the kitchen stands Kitty Pryde and... Jamie Madrox. At the table in the middle, Logan looks up at the new arrival, notes how awkward it is, and reaches for his sandwich.
Kitty tries to defuse the situation before it gets out of control. They obviously have themselves a situation and need to determine which of them is the original and which is the duplicate. Before she can state the next step of her plan, however, the Madrox on the other end of the kitchen grabs a knife from the butcher block, waves it in Kitty's direction and, with a look of terror on his face, begs her to keep that guy away from him.
Logan thinks the whole 'who's the dupe' ship just sailed. Assuming the guy wasn't looking for a headquarters as much as he was a hideout, he asks Madrox to take care of the situation. Madrox gladly consents; he just needs to touch the guy and absorb him. However, the knife-brandishing dupe resists. What they want to do is murder; don't they understand that? He wants to live his own life! He's entitled to do that just as much as they are! He warns them to keep back. Wolverine asks just what he plans to do. For starters, he's armed with a butter knife. He can't stab a guy with a butter knife; it's ridiculous.
"Not to mention Treyf," Kitty says. "Because, y'know, mixing dairy and meat—" Logan gets Kitty’s joke and tells her to shut up. The Madrox dupe, meanwhile, admits waving the knife was a bonehead move. He sets it back in the rack. However, he begs them to just listen for a moment; he'd like five minutes to plead his case. As he speaks, Kitty cannot help but notice how desperate—and sad—he sounds. It just doesn't seem fair somehow, she thinks. Madrox Prime seems to disagree; he tells his runaway dupe that he doesn't have a case. He's not even a real person; he's just an extension of the Prime Madrox, and the Prime Madrox doesn't want any copies of himself running free. If that's the case, the dupe responds, then he chose a pretty lousy power to have. Madrox-Prime insists he never chose this power! The dupe, for that matter, never asked to be called into existence! However, now that he's there, he doesn't want to lose that existence. He asks if that's so wrong. Madrox-Prime, reaching out to reabsorb the renegade copy, says it isn't about right and wrong.
As he places his hand to the dupe's chest, however, nothing happens—at least not what he expected. His hand actually passes through the dupe's body and comes out the other side, as if the dupe were a ghost. At that moment, Kitty speaks. "I have an idea. Let's make it about right and wrong," she says. The stupefied Madrox-Prime realizes she has just phased his dupe into intangibility. "See, I just love hearing how someone who lives and breathes and talks isn't a person," she snaps. "Because deciding someone isn't a person and deserving of all the protections a person should have... that's exactly the kind of hatred the X-Men face every day just for being mutants." With her hand still clamped to the dupe's wrist, she drifts closer to the kitchen window.
Madrox-Prime is stunned; is she really comparing him to anti-mutant bigots? Logan also takes umbrage at the comparison. It isn't at all like that, he says. "No. Of course not. It's never at all like that," Kitty replies. "Every time it's different. Which is why it keeps happening again and again. Well, not this time. Not on my watch." She gently pushes the intangible dupe through the mansion wall and follows him a moment later. After she leaves, Logan just rolls his eyes. Not on her watch, he sighs. Terrific.
Outside, Kitty Pryde and the Madrox dupe make a dash for the woods surrounding Xavier's School. As they run, the dupe explains he thought he had more time and that he had no idea Madrox was so close. He can't sense Madrox-Prime, but Madrox-Prime can sense him. Kitty tells him not to worry; it's okay. The Madrox dupe disagrees. It's actually a million yards from okay, he says. He gets her to stop running for a moment and places his hands on her shoulders. He tells her she's sweet and noble, but she's also just a kid. He can't drag her into this. Kitty informs him that kids grow up fast in the X-Men—and that nobody dragged her into this. She got herself into this. Fine, the dupe says, but now she needs to get herself out. That's not going to happen, Kitty replies. She informs him that a Manhattan-bound train leaves from the nearby station in just ten minutes. If they run, they can make it.
Once Kitty turns her back, however, the Madrox dupe cracks her across the back of the neck with the edge of his hand. She loses consciousness. Madrox catches her in his arms as she falls and gently lays her on the ground. He can't let her come along, he says to the unconscious girl. As he kisses her on the forehead, he apologizes but tells her he can't get her into any more trouble than he has already. However, he wants to thank her for taking his side. However this turns out, she has no idea how much that meant to him; she made him feel like a person. The Madrox dupe takes off running, leaving the unconscious Kitty on the sunny, forest floor.
She stirs awake some time later. When her eyes open, the first person she sees standing over her is Jamie Madrox. She asks why he did that—but immediately realizes she is talking to the wrong Madrox. Logan appears by his side and asked where the dupe went. Kitty says he's in her purse. "Yeah, this is exactly the time to get cute with me," Logan replies. Madrox asks Logan if he can't just track the guy's scent. "How? He smells just like you," Logan answers. Kitty, rubbing her forehead, states she may have told the dupe he could catch a city-bound train. Great, Logan says; he could get off anywhere. Madrox-Prime disagrees. His dupe will head into Manhattan and put even more distance between them. After all, that's what he would do. Logan tells him to grab his car and go after the guy, but Madrox tells him he had to take a cab to Westchester because he doesn't drive. Gritting his teeth, Logan offers to give him a ride—and Kitty enthusiastically chimes in that she's coming too. "No flippin' way," Logan sneers.
Shortly thereafter, Logan, Madrox and Kitty head toward New York City in Logan's GT 500. "Well, you certainly told her off. Laid down the law. Showed her who's boss," Madrox says to Logan while he drives. Logan asks if he wants to get out and walk. "I'm just sayin'," Madrox says. Logan knows what he's just saying and he wants him to stuff it. Kitty phased into the car; he could have wasted an hour arguing with her or they could have just hit the road. She may be aggravating, but she's also great at going where she's not wanted—which is useful in a fight, but it stinks in real life.
"You know I'm sitting right here, right?" Kitty says from the backseat. Unfortunately, yeah, Logan knows. Madrox takes his turn barking at her. This is all her fault, he says. If she had just let him— "Let you what? Kill him?" Kitty asks. Madrox claims it isn't killing him. The guy is a part of him. He's like a toenail clipping—or hair! If his hair started begging not to be cut, how seriously would she take it? If his hair started talking it would be pretty coolm Kitty says. Madrox begins to tell her that isn't the point—but then admits that would indeed be pretty cool.
Still hoping to make her point, Kitty compares the situation to an old saying: if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. Jamie's asking her to look at someone who walks like a person, talks like a person and who seems so much like a person that even Logan, with his hyper-senses, couldn't distinguish them from each other. How can he say that that guy isn't a person? How is Kitty supposed to believe that? How is she supposed to say that this guy is less deserving of life than the guy sitting in front of her in the car—just because he was there first? She just doesn't understand; why can't he leave him alone?
While they talk, the Madrox dupe wanders around in Central Park, enjoying the day. He feeds the ducks in the pond. Because of the conspicuous, full-body suit he wears, he attracts the confused look of a young boy. The boy, however, waves at him and runs off with his mother. The Madrox dupe continues on his way.
Back in the car, Madrox-Prime explains to Kitty that he can't let the dupe alone because he's responsible for him. Doesn't she see that? What if the dupe does something wrong—something criminal? What if he turns to the dark side? It could happen; he wouldn't be the first hero to go off the rails. Any sins this guy commits—anyone he hurts—would be laid at Madrox's doorstep. If he developed this power to disobey his creator and run off, who knows what else he's capable of doing? Right now, he could be doing anything to anybody.
At that moment, the Madrox dupe wanders into an open field in the park, peels off his hood, lifts his head skyward and smiles at the sun.
In the car, Kitty sums up what he thinks Madrox is saying: he doesn't trust the dupe. Exactly, Madrox says. "But he's you. So you don't trust yourself," Kitty rebuts. Madrox almost agrees with her, but then realizes what she's saying. That's not what he meant, he shouts; she's twisting it! Kitty asks him if he even knows himself. Incredulous, Madrox begs Wolverine to ask her to knock it off. Wolverine, however, is kind of interested in hearing the answer. Madrox frantically insists he knows himself—as well as anyone can. Logan thinks that might be the problem. When Madrox asks what that means, Logan explains that maybe a guy with his particular skill set needs to know himself better than anyone can. In fact, maybe the guy who knows himself the best is the guy who admits he knows nothing—and then does something about it. He asks if Madrox understands. He doesn't. Scrunching his face, he tells Logan his dupe is somewhere on the West Side. He just wants to get this over with.
Their search takes them late into the night and brings them to 54th and Broadway, where they encounter a guy selling bootlegged movie scripts on the sidewalk. These movies aren't even in theaters yet, the vendor loudly proclaims! Logan approaches the punkish man and asks where he got these scripts. Sources, the guy blithely tells him. He asks if Logan also wants videos; he's got those too. Some of them are rough-cuts of films months away from release. Unsheathing his claws, Logan gets in the guy's face and asks if he wants rough cuts; if he does, Logan has some rough cuts for him. He slices the papers in the man's hand to shreds. If people want to see movies, Wolverine says, they should respect copyright laws, wait until they're in the theaters, pay their admission and judge the final product! Anything else is just insulting and unfair to movie-makers! He asks the bootlegger if he understands; from behind clenched eyes, he claims he does.
Wolverine, Kitty and Madrox leave the bootlegger on 54th and Broadway with a broken table and a pile of worthless, shredded papers. As they walk away, Kitty asks if he feels better having gotten that off his chest. She has no idea, Logan says.
Meanwhile, the Madrox dupe spots them from the other side of the intersection. Immediately growing worried, he begins to run for his life. He tries to hail a taxi before they spot him. However, a frantic, blonde-haired woman grabs him by the arm and, thinking he's a superhero because of his unusual attire, begs for his help. She says her name is Maddie. Madrox assumes she wants an autograph and tells her he doesn't have the time. Maddie, however, insists she doesn't want an autograph. There's a fire, she says! There's a fire, and her little sister Elise is still inside! She tried to get but she couldn't, and the fire-truck hasn't arrived yet. She begs him to help.
For a moment, Madrox stands torn. The taxi driver asks where he wants to go, but in the distance, he sees the apartment building burning. Maddie begs for him to help; he's a superhero and superheroes help people!
The Madrox dupe doesn't waste any more time formulating his decision. He runs over to the burning building, charges inside and finds the young Elise cowering under a table in the middle of the burning kitchen. When he finds her, he takes her in his arms. However, at that moment, a burning beam snaps and comes crashing toward them. The Madrox dupe manages to push Elise out of the way in time—but the burning beam smashes into his back. He falls to the floor, pinned under its weight.
Elise looks toward her rescuer with grief. However, Kitty Pryde soon phases into the room, grabs her by the waist and begins to phase her out of the building. Elise insists they go back for the man, but Kitty swears he will be all right; help is on the way.
At that moment, Logan slices his way through the bars on the window and comes leaping into the burning kitchen. Kitty tells him where he can find the Madrox dupe and begs him to do something, regardless of his personal feelings on the matter. "Shut up, Pryde. He's a hero, or tried t'be, at least. That's good enough for me."
After what seems like forever, sirens begin sounding in the distance. They should arrive in just a few minutes—but unfortunately, the dupe doesn't have minutes. Madrox-Prime approaches his mortally wounded duplicate and covers him with a blanket. He assures him the girl he saved is fine. The dupe says he tried; Madrox tells him that's the best any person can do. "Is that... what I am now?" the dupe asks. Madrox doesn't hesitate to confirm his question. "Guess... better late... than never," the dupe says. "You're a good man, Jamie Madrox. I'd be honored... to shake your hand." With his dying act, he reaches out and places his hand inside Madrox's grip.
The paramedics finally arrive and charge into the room. They heard there was a man dying, they shout. Madrox stands, turns to them and tells them they heard wrong. Behind him, amidst the rubble where his dupe used to lie, there lies nothing but a blanket.
Later. Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters…
A sullen Jamie Madrox admits to Kitty and Wolverine that they were right; he knows nothing. He knows nothing about himself or about the world. He's been sheltered his whole life; he doesn't know squat about anything. Kitty tells him he's being kind of hard on himself. "So what?" Logan asks her. "Let him. Question is, Madrox: what're you gonna do about it?"
"This," Madrox says. He punches the wall four times, producing four dupes. He tells them to go out into the world, learn stuff and then come back to him so he can learn what they've learned. He was a lot of not knowing to make up for.
"What if one of us doesn't want to return?" one of the dupes asks. "What if I want to change my name to... I don't know... John Maddox and live my own life?" Madrox merely says he'll deal with that if and when the time comes.
After the dupes leave, Kitty asks if he's still a little bit worried about what they might do. Frankly, he tells her, he's figuring they'll do what any of them does: the best they can.
Outside, one of Madrox's dupes peels off his hood, looks toward the sun—and smiles.


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Discreet Invasion Part 1
The alarm clock reads 6:59. A minute later, the digital numbers roll over to 7:00, activating the device’s purpose: to wake its master. Six beeps later, a tired hand reaches over and moves through the machine like a ghost in search of the button that silences the noise. The ghostly hand finds its target.
With her signal to wake, Kitty Pryde sits up in bed, stretches her arms and yawns. After scratching her neck, she trudges into the bathroom, where she continues her morning routine with a shower. She reaches through the curtain to grab her towel upon finishing.
Her next task: brushing her hair. She manages to flatten her curls and make her hair nice and straight. Upon finishing, she heads to her window and lifts her blinds in order to let in the light of day. Kitty is so immersed in her drowsiness, however, that she fails to notice the expected sunlight doesn’t shine in the window at all. In fact, the scenery outside the window—clusters of unfamiliar stars amid the blackness of space—resembles something one might see on an intergalactic voyage.
A moment later, this realization dawns on Kitty and she darts back to the window to confirm what she thinks she saw. She confirms it—and it’s not good. She is in outer space. “Professor!” she screams from aboard the unfamiliar spacecraft.
Kitty moves away from the window and puts her back to the wall in order to regain her composure. She tells herself to calm down; there’s no use screaming for the Professor. After all, he’s a telepath; he can read her thoughts. And besides, she adds, in space, no one can hear you scream.
Deciding to analyze the situation methodically, Kitty grabs herself a glass of water as she runs through the possible scenarios in her head. The first possibility: is she really even in outer space? Could this be some sort of hallucination or holograph? To test this possibility, she phases the bottom half of the water glass through the wall of the house—which might be more appropriately called the hull of the ship. As soon as the bottom half of the glass emerges in the exterior, the water freezes solid. Kitty stomach sinks as she looks at the frozen glass; as far as she can tell, this means she’s doomed.
Get a grip, Pryde, she tells herself as she tosses the glass. You’ve been kidnapped by aliens. Deal with it. Ask yourself: what would Wolverine do?
Elsewhere, Wolverine screams. Torrents of electricity pour through his body, which is restrained to what appears to be a torture device. Despite the immense pain coursing through his nerves, he tells his tormentors that it’s going to take more than that—way more.
His captor acquiesces and presses a button, stopping the contraption. Wolverine’s head slumps toward his chest. The alien tormentor asks if he’s had enough; Wolverine, barely able to speak, claims to be just getting warmed up. “Warmed up, you say?” his captor—a Skrull—asks. He makes a fist and engulfs it with flames. “Would this be warm enough for you?”
Wolverine eyes his captor menacingly. He begins to threaten nasty things to the Skrull once he escapes—but the Skrull interrupts. ‘When’ he gets out of there? That’s an unreasonably optimistic assessment of his future. At least he has a future, Wolverine rebuffs; that’s more than he can say for the Skrull. Again, the Skrull tells him that is very self-confident talk, especially for one who is bonded to a wall—bonded with adamantium, to boot. He hopes Wolverine appreciates the irony. Logan tells him he’ll prefer the irony of putting the Super Skrull down for the count—or watching as one of his teammates does the job for him.
The Skrull sneers. Wolverine’s teammates, the X-Men, are already five parsecs away, back on planet Earth—and the distance between them is growing exponentially. Besides, the X-Men are unaware that Logan has been spirited away; certainly they will search the Earth before they even begin thinking of looking elsewhere. However, if it makes him feel any better, Wolverine is not entirely alone on this voyage. Turning his attention toward the video monitor, he indicates the holding cell of Katherine Pryde, who desperately searches for a way out of her room.
While Kitty pulls on her doorknob, the Skrull narrates to Logan. They arranged for him to have some company, he continues. After all, humans are social creatures. So, they selected a female of his species while transporting him from his domicile: a specimen young and inexperienced enough so as to not pose a threat.
On the screen, Kitty tries phasing her hand through the door. It responds by sending a surge of electricity through her body, knocking her to the floor. Meanwhile, the Skrull elaborates on the situation to Wolverine. Creating a hard-light replica of Kitty’s domicile to make her feel at home was no great challenge, he says. The Skrulls then surrounded it with a molecular-variance field that shifts whenever she tries to use her intriguing phase power. He deems it a useful ability—one that will serve the Skrull empire in ways he cannot imagine, once they find a way to duplicate it.
“You ain’t gonna be able to hold her any more’n you can hold me,” Wolverine says. “So, whatever this is all about…”
“’This?’” the Super Skrull asks.
“Yeah. ‘This’. You want to fill me in?” Wolverine asks. The Skrull sneers. Does Wolverine really mean to trick him into laying out for his benefit, step-by-step, the entire long-range plans of his people—all for the benefit of him having valuable information while the Skrull benefits only by hearing himself talk?  He laughs; he doesn’t think that’s going to happen. He instructs Wolverine to be content with the knowledge that they will experiment upon him thoroughly, and that those experiments will likewise benefit the Skrull people. And, when they’re done with him, he says, gesturing toward the monitor displaying Kitty’s room, they will start on…
He pauses; Kitty doesn’t appear to be in the room. Where is she? Where did she go? Enraged, he turns back to the captive Wolverine and asks where she went. “I got her stashed in my socks,” Logan responds. When the Skrull presses the matter, Wolverine says he heard him but doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do about it. They’ve got him captive, after all!
The Super Skrull sounds the alarm. As his troops rush to cell block A-5, he orders them to spread out and find the Earth girl. Logan, meanwhile, lets out a sly grin. “Go get ‘em, kid,” he mutters.
The Skrulls storm into Kitty’s makeshift bedroom. The squad leader orders his associate, Kr’lt, to remain in the corridor to keep watch. Unluckily for the Skrulls, they find no signs of Kitty in the bedroom. They begin to scour it. As one of the Skrulls leans down to search under the bed, another posits that Kitty must have discovered a way to phase through the wall. Suddenly, Kitty pops her head out of the bed. “Actually, not yet,” she says in response to the Skrull’s supposition.
They frantically scream for their colleague to close the door, but Kitty is too quick for them; she phases through the Skrulls standing in her way and leaps into the hallway just as the massive door slams shut. Before she has a chance to get on her feet, however, the Skrull standing watch in the hallway aims his gun at her and orders her to surrender; she’s not going anywhere, he says. Maybe not, Kitty retorts—but he is. She grabs him by the shirt and thrusts him into the electrified wall. The resulting shock renders him unconscious. Kitty figured the same thing that zapped her every time she tried to escape her prison was still active—and if it could hurt her, it could hurt the Skrulls too. She figured right.
She begins the next step of her escape. As it happens, however, her attempt to flee brings her into the middle of a long corridor surrounded on both ends by two squads of Skrulls. They tell her to freeze and set their guns to stun mode. Kitty remains motionless; she has to time this just right. Just as the Skrulls, she phases and the stun rays pass right through her—and into the Skrull forces on either side. Piece o’cake, she chuckles.
Kitty sets out to find out where she is, how she got there and, most importantly, how to get home. It doesn’t take her long to run into a familiar face in the expansive corridors of the Skrull ship. “Well, well… fancy runnin’ into you here,” the familiar, rugged voice of Wolverine says. Kitty gasps in relief at the site of him. She asks if the rest of the team is nearby as well, but he regrettably informs her that it’s just the two of them—and that, for a little while, he worried it might just be her left. He still feels kind of woozy, he says.
While taking his arm over her shoulder for support, Kitty asks who these guys are; she’s been studying up on mutants, not aliens. Wolverine informs her they’re called Skrulls—and that he got smacked around pretty good by one of their Super-Skrulls, who has all the powers of the Fantastic Four. Kitty seems surprised that Wolverine got away from him in one piece, at which point he reminds her he’s fought the Fantastic Four. Does she really believe some two-bit imitator could best him? He just needs another minute before his healing factor gets up to speed.
They continue down the darkened hallway, with Kitty helping Logan every step of the way. She asks if he’s sure he’s going to be all right. “Me? Yeah,” he says. “You, on the other hand—you’re going to be far from all right.” Kitty moans and collapses to the floor. As ‘Wolverine’ stands over her unconscious body, he remarks that her educational priorities were backward; otherwise she would have known about the star-spanning race known as the Skrulls and their ability to change shape. ‘Wolverine’ shifts back into his true form of a purple-suited, green-faced Skrull. In his right hand, he holds the glowing neural inhibitor he used to knock out Kitty Pryde.
“Back away from her,” a voice says from behind. The Skrull furrows his brow in surprise.
“Khn’nr?” he asks. “You startled me. I swear, that impersonation of yours gets better everyday. Soon you’ll fool yourself.” Again, the voice demands he back away from the girl. The Skrull, growing annoyed, no longer finds this amusing. The voice, however, states that he still finds it amusing.
The Skrull turns around in time to realize the identity of the person in the hallway is in fact genuine. However, it’s too late for him. Just as the realization dawns on him, a blast of energy hits the Skrull and knocks him unconscious. Comforting to know that no matter how much the Skrulls chance their appearance, their overconfidence and stupidity remain consistent, the shadowy attacker says.
Elsewhere, Wolverine—still strapped to the torture table—refuses to comply with his captors. The Super-Skrull torturing him asks what he’s doing; trying to twist his hands around? What purpose will that serve? He’ll see, Logan tells him. In defiance, the Super-Skrull raises his rocky fist and thrusts it toward Logan’s chest. He groans. The Super-Skrull, meanwhile, declares he’s going to enjoy getting some measure of vengeance for the aggravation Logan’s race has caused his kind.
Wolverine lifts his head and glares at his captor. He’s got his powers backward, he tells him; he may have the Thing’s looks, but he punches like the Invisible Girl.
Angered, the Skrull scowls. He tells Wolverine that he believes he thinks he’s still going to survive this encounter—still going to escape. “To do so would be a feat that would truly make me marvel,” the Super-Skrull says.
“Actually,” a third voice in the room says, “…it would make him marvel.” Both the Super-Skrull and Wolverine turn their heads and see the new arrivals: Kitty Pryde, standing arms-crossed next to Captain Marvel.
“That’s Captain Marvel to you,” Captain Marvel says, his wrist-bands glowing with the energy he intends to unleash on his alien nemesis.


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Discreet Invasion Conclusion
Wolverine, standing strapped to a table, commends the Skrulls on their clever use of adamantium cuffs. It’s crafty to keep him bound against the wall using the same material from which his claws are made, he thinks. However, if the Skrulls were smarter, they would have made the cuffs fit over the end of his hands. He supposes they wanted to study his claws, specifically how they come in and out of his hand. That curiosity is going to cost them: they may have made the cuffs out of adamantium, but Wolverine wagers the rest of the rig is made from Skrullium, or whatever element it is they use to build their ships. And that, he thinks, he can cut his way through.
As Wolverine pops his claws and forces them through the Skrullium, he tells himself he had better do this fast; he’d hate for the fight to be over before he got a few licks in.
Meanwhile, in the fight to which he refers, Captain Marvel and the Super-Skrull stand at an apparent impasse. Kitty Pryde stands beside Captain Marvel, resting her hand on his shoulder—thus extending to him her powers of intangibility. The Super-Skrull sneers. Is this what the mighty Captain Marvel has fallen to? Depending on a child to protect him?
Mar-Vell glares at him. “You dragged me into this fight, ‘Super-Skrull’, he says. “I don’t see where you get to complain about how I choose to fight it. She has a warrior’s heart, Kl’rt. Certainly she should be commended for that rather than condemned.”
The Super-Skrull takes umbrage at his sworn enemy referring to him by his real name—as if they are somehow friends. As for the girl’s supposedly courageous heart, he’s sure it’s admirable—and looks forward to keeping it as a trophy.
Kitty chooses this time to speak. “First of all,” she says, “…ewww. Second, how do you plan to do that when you can’t touch me? Third: again…ewww.”
The Super-Skrull, standing with his hands behind his back, congratulates the girl: she’s outsmarted him. As he speaks, however, he amasses a sphere of energy between his hands. Wolverine sees this in time to warn Kitty to shut her eyes. Kitty, however, doesn’t react in time to follow his advice.
The Super-Skrull hits her with a blast of dazzling light. Mar-Vell manages to shield his own. Temporarily blinded, Kitty looks around the room in horror—and fruitlessly. She scolds herself for her stupidity: she’s light years away from home, facing off against a super-powered alien, and now is when she chooses to get overconfident? What is she supposed to do now that she can’t see?
Taking the opportunity to attack his unprotected opponent, the Super-Skrull lunges. He vows to destroy Mar-Vell as he strikes him across the chin with his rocky, fiery hand. The attack sends Captain Marvel barreling into the room’s rear wall. Kl’rt charges at his downed opponent. He’s spend too much time among the humans, he mocks. It’s made him weak!
Wolverine addresses the Skrull from behind. “‘Scuse me,” he says, smashing the insides of his fists into the Super-Skrull’s ears. “Does this look weak to you?” The Skrull, his pliable face visibly smashed inward, answers that it does appear somewhat weak. He counters the attack by binding Wolverine inside of an invisible force field, effectively immobilizing him—and painfully so. He follows this attack with a left hook across Logan’s face, powered of course by his matchless physical strength. He needs to realize, he tells Wolverine, that he’s playing far above the level he should be at! It’s going to cost him, he adds.
Pulling his arm back to enhance his strength, the Super-Skrull thrusts his fist forward to deliver the coup de grace, straight to Wolverine’s face. He is surprised to see his fist pass through his opponent’s head as if he were a ghost. Stunned, he looks down and sees Kitty Pryde resting her hand on his ankle. She may not be at his level, she says, but she’s good at moving up fast. He blinded her, he shouts! True, Kitty counters—but then he kept talking and making it easy to find him and render him intangible. She smirks.
Now recovered from the earlier blow, Captain Marvel rises to his feet and tells Kitty not to worry; the Super-Skrull is his. Once Kitty realizes he is certain of this, she releases her grip on the super-powered alien, depriving him of his intangibility. Mar-Vell instantly follows this up by firing a plasma blast at the menacing creature.
With the Super-Skrull preoccupied, Wolverine focuses on getting Kitty to safety. Although she claims to be fine, the fact that she cannot see puts her squarely in the ‘not fine’ department. He asks her to unbind his cuffs; they’re slowing him down, he says. When she asks about the Captain’s status, Logan tells her not to worry. “He’s got him in hand.”
Nearby, Kl’rt chokes Mar-Vell in a stranglehold. “This is the end for you, Kree!” he shouts. Captain Marvel, however, objects to the idea that anything has an end. There is no end to anything, he retorts: not life, not death…nothing. Everything is part of a cosmos so vast that even trying to comprehend it can drive one mad.
As if powered by his convictions, Captain Marvel overcomes the strength of the Super-Skrull, grabs him by his wrists and spreads his arms apart, rendering him helpless. His eyes and his Nega Bands grow brightly. Sensing doubt on the part of his opponent, Mar-Vell asks the Skrull to look into his eyes if he doesn’t believe him. He asks him to gaze into the face of cosmic awareness—into the infinity of it all. Try to grasp how much is undreamt in his Skrull philosophy, Mar-Vell commands. He tells the Skrull to observe the vastness of everything that was, is, and will ever be—and allows him to comprehend just how miniscule his place is in all of that. This, he says, should grant the Skrull insight into just how pathetic he truly is. As the Super-Skrull takes in this bombardment, his eyes roll back in his head.
Elsewhere, as Wolverine and Kitty Pryde limp their way to safety, Logan declares that he likes Mar-Vell’s style.
The Super-Skrull, meanwhile, throws back his head, presses his hands to his pulsating cranium, arches his back—and screams for Captain Marvel to get out of his head. Sensing this reprieve will only be temporary, Mar-Vell goes to Kitty and Wolverine and urges them to grab a shuttle from the launch bay and get control of the ship. Their controls are thought-responsive, he informs them; they should guide them home. This all sounds good to Wolverine, with the minor exception of him not knowing where to find the launch bay. Mar-Vell grants him this knowledge with a mere touch to his forehead. As the Super-Skrull recovers, Mar-Vell once again urges his companions to go. A moment later, he finds himself embroiled in yet another duel with the menacing alien.
Wolverine carries the helpless Kitty Pryde through the expansive corridors of the Skrull ship on the way to the escape pods. As they move, Kitty complains that she should be able to carry her own weight. Logan reminds her that being part of a team means carrying each other’s weight. Suddenly, he stops and gasps. Kitty asks what he sees, to which he responds by asking her to phase them both down through the floor. She won’t know when to stop them, she exclaims! What if she phases them both out into space? In response, Wolverine merely asks if he trusts her. With her life, she says. In that case, he responds, she needs to phase them down immediately.
As they drift through the floor, a sextet of angry Skrulls charges at them from the rear. Captain Marvel meets them head-on and knocks them to the ground with a mighty punch.
Below, Wolverine and Kitty Pryde drift peacefully down into the launch pad. He instructs her to stop phasing once they reach their destination. With her sight starting to recover, Kitty asks Logan to set her down; things may still be a little blurry, but it’s nothing she can’t handle. As she gazes around the room, she reminds Logan that they still don’t know why the Skrulls captured them. “Close-up study,” Wolverine replies. “Guess is they’re planning to seed the world with duplicates of us. Best kind of invasion is one that’s done in secret. Where you don’t know about it until it’s—”
A perfect duplicate of Wolverine lunges out of the shadows and tackles the real Wolverine to the floor. “—too late?” Wolverine says, finishing his thought with confusion. As he grapples with the imposter, he scolds himself for not sensing the duplicate earlier; he must’ve masked his presence somehow.
Shocked by the imposter, Kitty screams Wolverine’s name. Both versions respond by telling her he’s kind of busy at the moment. “Hey! Knock that off!” they both say to each other as they fight. “You knock it off!” they both say again. One Wolverine pins the other to the ground and tries to force an adamantium claw through the other’s head. The subordinate Wolverine pushes him off, however, and extends his claws. They lock blades. Wolverine commends his duplicate’s claws for standing up to his own. The other Wolverine tells him he took the words right out of his mouth. Good, he retorts, ‘cause he plans on knocking the teeth out of his.
Kitty, still utterly confused, asks Wolverine what she should do. While he fights for his life, he tells her to grab a ship and go; this ain’t her fight. “He’s ri—hey! Stop stealing my lines!” the other Logan snaps.
Suddenly, Captain Marvel comes crashing through a newfound hole in the ceiling. The Super-Skrull follows closely behind, enveloped in flames. They must end this now, he shouts! He declares he will first dispatch Mar-Vell and then see just how much punishment Wolverine’s healing factor can withstand.
“Oh no you won’t!” an enraged Kitty Pryde shouts. She charges at the immolated Super-Skrull and, after shifting to her intangible form, forces both him and herself out of the hull of the ship and into the vastness of space. She immediately regrets her decision: although the Skrull’s flames die out, Kitty finds herself adrift in the deadly void. The Super-Skrull cackles; her bravery outweighs her experience, he says as he creates a protective force field around himself. Out of respect for that, he vows to make her demise swift, rather than letting her succumb to the vacuum of space. He grabs her by the throat.
Before he can snuff out her life, however, a bolt of plasma hits him in the chest and forces him even farther away from the shift. Ordering him to spare her his mercy, Captain Marvel arrives at Kitty’s side, grabs her in his arms and eases her into his personal protective shield. With surprise, Kitty gasps that she can now breathe. Mar-Vell informs her that the protective shield around him will safeguard her against the ravages of space as well. He flies her back over to the ship. He will attend to the Super-Skrull, he says. As for her, he wishes her to live a long life of bravery. With that, he eases her back through the hull of the ship and into its life-sustaining interior.
That was too close, Kitty thinks to herself as she returns to the ship. Wolverine constantly reminds her to always remember her surroundings, yet she still forgets. Hopefully this will drive that lesson home permanently.
Once she fully assesses the room, her eyes grow wide with horror. She sees one Wolverine crouching atop the other, unconscious one; how is she supposed to know which is which. “Relax. It’s me,” the victorious Wolverine says. Kitty asks him to prove it. “You’re a dork,” he replies. That’s good enough for her, but Logan continues. “And I hate disco.” Again, Kitty tells him that’s enough, but Logan refuses to drop it. “Also, you got a crush on Colossus, but you think no one’s noticed—” Walking away, the frustrated Kitty tells him he had her at dork. Can they please go now?
As they depart from the Skrull ship in the escape pod, Kitty asks Logan if he thinks Captain Marvel will be okay. What if the Skrull ship comes after him? What if it comes after them? Before she can finish her line of questioning, however, a massive eruption occurs far behind them, obliterating the Skrull ship from orbit. At the center of the nova rests Captain Marvel, who basks in the explosion of energy. Kitty tells Logan he can ignore her question.
Back on Earth, near the X-Mansion in Westchester, New York, the X-Men declare they officially have a situation on their hands. As they head out into the field, Colossus reports that Professor X says they cannot find any trace of either Kitty or Wolverine using Cerebro. Perhaps they are in some sort of shielded hideout, Cyclops supposes. Or, Storm suggests, maybe someone stole their mutant powers, thus preventing them from registering as mutants. Nightcrawler, hating to suggest the obvious, reminds his teammates that Cerebro only detects living mutants. What if they are no longer..?
Cyclops refuses to consider that. He’d rather believe they were kidnapped by aliens before he accepted the possibility they were dead. At that very moment, Colossus points upward toward the sky and shouts that something is incoming. The projectile plummets toward the surface of the Earth and crashes violently into a nearby forest.
The X-Men rush to the crash site; Cyclops reminds them to be ready for anything. To their collective surprise, however, Wolverine and Sprite emerge from the flames, relatively unscathed. “Hi. We got kidnapped by aliens,” she says.
“You just have to be right about everything, don’t you,” Nightcrawler says to Cyclops. Meanwhile, Wolverine and Kitty nonchalantly shake off their return and head back to the mansion. She sarcastically commends Logan on his landing; he reminds her that any landing one walks away from is a good one. She reminds him that they’re only walking away alive because he’s indestructible and she phased upon impact.
As the duo walk home, Storm asks her teammates what just happened. Cyclops has no clue. Wolverine and Kitty continue to bicker, however. She’s starting to with he were the imposter; he might be nicer to her. That, Wolverine says, is exactly how she would know he’s a fake.


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The Last Word
As the terrified X-Man Kitty Pryde clutches the sturdy base of an oak tree in the forest, she reassures herself that this isn’t happening. It just can’t be happening. With her back to the tree, she rests momentarily with all of her senses on high-alert. Her eyes shift to the left and to the right. She sees nothing. She doesn’t hear him, either—but then again, she wouldn’t, would she? No one ever hears him, except, of course, for one sound…
SNIKT! Kitty’s eyes widen with horror. He’s found her. Without further hesitation, she takes off running, with her former mentor Wolverine in hot pursuit. Of all the ways she thought she would buy it, this was never one of them. While tearing through the woods, she makes the mistake of glancing behind her shoulder to get a glimpse of her pursuer. This moment of misdirected attention proves costly: Kitty fails to see the approaching ledge in time. She trips over a rock near the top of the bluff, loses balance, and cartwheels down the slope, into the rapidly moving creek at the bottom.
When she gathers herself and returns to the surface of the water, she looks upward and sees the menacing figure of Wolverine silhouetted against the blinding sun. “There you are! This would go quicker if you just kept still,” he says. Kitty, fighting for each breath amidst the turbulent water, just cannot believe how quickly everything fell apart. Less than an hour ago, she was so confident—so sure of herself.
An hour earlier…
Katheryne Pryde, the mutant X-Man known as Sprite, forms the perfect picture of confidence as she waits in the Danger Room. Dressed in her standard black-and-yellow X-Men uniform and cowl, she stands upright with her clenched fists on her hips, which she cocks to the side. Up above, in the control room, Professor X asks if she’s ready. She assures him she is.
Wolverine and Colossus stand behind the Professor with their arms folded while he gives detailed exercise instructions to his young protégé. Not only will the Danger Room obstacles come at her more quickly this time, he says, but there will also be controlled sonic bursts to distract her and disrupt her phasing ability. This doesn’t faze Kitty at all; she tells him she’s good to go.
“Twenty bucks says she nails it in under thirty seconds,” Wolverine says to Colossus. Colossus tells his tovarisch that he has a deal. With that, Professor X initiates the exercise.
Sprite dashes forward into the obstacle-filled room. She charges through an array of high-powered lasers—none of which can touch her because of her intangibility. She then catapults over an eruption of fire and slips through a giant metal hammer that tries to smash her into the ground. Even with a hundred things coming at her at once, none of it makes a difference. She never loses focus; she’s totally in the zone. The next obstacle, a field of circular saws cutting in all directions, poses no threat either. In fact, Kitty never has any doubt that she’d reach the other side of the room. She arrives at her destination and slams her fist into the button, effectively—and successfully—ending the exercise.
In the control room, Piotr Rasputin grumbles as he hands over the twenty dollars he owes Logan. Never again is he betting against Kitty, he says. Logan asks if he’s willing to accept a double or nothing bet. Without hesitation, Piotr accepts.
With the exercise ended, Kitty returns to the Danger Room and asks the Professor how she did—although she has no doubt about his answer. He knows this, and she knows this; she just wants to hear him say it. She passed with flying colors, he tells her. Colossus tells the Professor he’ll have to step up his game if he wants to provide her with any sort of challenge. Professor X agrees.
Down below, after being excused, Kitty exits the room and enters the hallway, where she encounters her friend Siryn. Theresa asks how she did; Kitty tells her she nailed it. “Excellent,” Siryn says while giving her a high-five. Kitty smirks and claims it was no problem.
I was so smug… so full of myself, Kitty later recalls. And then…it all went off the rails.
She peels back her cowl as she passes by an old portrait of the original X-Men with the mentor. Suddenly, an explosion of light rips through the whole school. It knocks Kitty on her back, stunning her. She lies unconscious for an unknowable period of time, only to awake on the hallway floor across from the unconscious Siryn. Alarmed, Kitty rushes to her side and tries to nudge her awake. Terry shows no reaction at all.
Out of nowhere, a booming voice echoes through the hallway. “So. It appears I missed one. I do not believe we have been introduced,” it says. Kitty turns around and beholds the giant, mental projection of the face of Magneto, the villainous Master of Magnetism. After introducing himself, the menacing projection says the approaching reckoning has been long in coming. Until now, he says, his mental powers were second only to those of Charles Xavier. Now, he claims, he has managed to exceed them. Since Kitty is but a child, he will give her a chance to avoid the X-Men’s fate; if she leaves now, and forgets all she has seen there, no harm will befall her.
Defiant, Kitty tells Magneto to forget it; they’re her team! Magneto asks if that is her last word on the matter. She affirms that it is. “Very well. Let you never forget,” Magneto says, “…the last word. Remember…the last word.”
Out of the apparition appears the silhouette of Wolverine. Initially, Kitty greets him with relief. His body language quickly reveals his less-than-friendly intentions, however. With an expression of disbelief, Kitty watches as Wolverine unsheathes his claws. “You’re not getting out of this,” he snarls.
Sprite throws up her hands; she begs Wolverine to listen. Magneto must be doing something to him, she says. This is something he can fight! “No, it isn’t,” Wolverine responds.
She runs. She figures she can phase through the wall and put some distance between her and the berserker X-Man. Things don’t work out that way, however; she smashes as full-speed into the wall at the end of the corridor. With her head suddenly swimming, she tries to compose herself, but the realization that Magneto has somehow shut down her phasing power makes this composure hard to find. In fact, it makes her a sitting duck.
Wolverine corners her. “This is gonna hurt for real,” he threatens. With the time he wastes speaking to her, however, he grants Kitty Pryde enough of a window to escape again. She shoves a table aside and darts down the hallway. He could have closed the distance between them and cut her down before she made it three feet, Kitty thinks as she flees. She deduces that this means Logan must be fighting whatever it is Magneto is doing to him. Maybe he’s slowing himself down—giving her time to get away.
Arriving in the library, she frantically searches the bookshelf for the one secret book that acts as a handle to a hidden door. Finding it, she pulls it and activates the secret elevator. Kitty dashes inside and desperately starts mashing the elevator’s buttons. The door, however, seemingly takes forever to close, while Kitty’s demented attacker draws closer and closer with each passing moment. She screams and smashes her fist against the control again. The door slams shut. Wolverine, however, lunges forward and inserts his adamantium claws between the doors, allowing him to pry them apart with ease.
With the doors shoved aside, Wolverine stares into the open elevator shaft. Kitty has already descended. This doesn’t stop him. He glances downward then takes a flying leap toward the moving box. Hitting its ceiling with a THUNK, he shoves his adamantium claws through the hull and toward the frightened girl trapped within.
The elevator doors open, and Kitty rushes into the corridor. She has a plan that she wishes will work.
After tearing through the roof of the elevator, Wolverine descends into the abandoned car and stares out of the open door into the sterile, darkened hallway. He sees nothing. However, follows his nose toward the source of the only scent he detects: that of Kitty Pryde. His hunt brings him around a corner, where he discovers the true culprit: Kitty’s abandoned uniform boots. She’s tricked him. At that moment, he hears the familiar PING! of the elevator and turns around in time to see Kitty closing its doors.
Inside the elevator, Kitty takes a moment to compose herself. The little trick with her boots bought her mere seconds, but it was enough. When she returns to the first floor of the mansion, she searches desperately for anyone who can help her—but finds the rest of the X-Men—Nightcrawler, Colossus and Storm—out cold. She has no idea what Magneto did to them. However, she has a pretty clear idea of what Wolverine will do to her.
As if on cue, Wolverine appears at the top of the stairs and once again charges at Katheryne. She resumes her flight. This time, she darts out the front door of the mansion. She realizes that heading toward the nearby woods is the worst possible decision—after all, no one loses Wolverine in a forest—but with the other cut off, the forest represents her only choice. It is only a matter of time before she trips up and tumbles down the ravine into the creek. “There you are,” Wolverine tells her as the water carries her away. “This would go quicker if  you just kept still.”
Present…
Downstream, Kitty’s hand breaches the surface of the water and grabs for the nearest object it can find—any object, for that matter. Fortunately, she grabs hold of a snag jutting out into the stream and pulls herself out of the water. She fights the turbid river and drags herself ashore, fighting for breath the entire way. She has little time to recover before she once again hears the familiar SNIKT sound that signifies her former mentor turned assailant.
Perfect, she groans as she eyes the familiar shadow lurking in the canopy of the trees. Wolverine lunges at her. “Time to do you in!” he shouts. Kitty, however, grabs a nearby branch and swings it in Logan’s direction, timing it just right to break the branch across his face. The motion diverts the thrust of his claws enough to spare her life. Taking advantage of this momentary respite, Kitty forces herself off the ground and assumes her fighting stance. “Have a taste for danger?” Wolverine snarls, caressing his jaw.
Kitty, standing with the remnants of the branch clutched in her hands, reminds Wolverine that she has learned a lot from him since arriving at the mansion—the most important of which is to not give up. Ever. Wolverine unsheathes his claws and begins to circle around her. “Yeah, well,” he says,” there’s some other things for which you’ll just have to make room.”
Something about her mentor’s delivery arouses Kitty’s suspicion. Why is he talking like that? Logan doesn’t understand, so she clarifies. His syntax is weird, she says. And he keeps emphasizing words at the ends of his sentences. She recalls the series of odd sentences he’s uttered since first attacking her after her encounter with the projection of Magneto: “the last word…you’re not getting out of this…no, it isn’t…this is gonna hurt for real…get back hear, you…there you are…this would go quicker if you would just keep still…time to do you in…have a taste for danger…for which you’ll just have to make room!”
Triumphantly, Kitty throws up her arms. “Professor! I get it!!!” she shouts, dropping her branch. Although Wolverine charges at her with his claws outstretched, Kitty doesn’t react. In fact, she pivots toward him and shoves her finger in his face. He knows where he can stick those claws, she snaps. She tells him to knock it off; they’re done. Turning toward the sky, she begins shouting—presumably at Professor X—that she broke his code. The key is the last word, she says. First Magneto said it, followed by Wolverine. It was for emphasis, she realizes, because that was the key to the rest of the puzzle: the last word of every sentence Wolverine spoke. “This. Isn’t. Real. You. Are. Still. In…” Kitty repeats. Her surroundings melt away, revealing the familiar construct of the X-Mansion’s notorious training facility. “…Danger Room,” Kitty says, finishing. It was all hologram technology, making her think she was in other places.
In the control room above, Professor X confirms her logical deduction. Continuing, Kitty infers that he used his telepathy to make her believe she lost her phasing power. Their lives aren’t as simple as walking into a room knowing what danger awaits them, Professor X tells his pupil. Their enemies will find insidious ways to trick and trap them. Sometimes, their powers will be useless—even Kitty’s powers. Professor X believed it was necessary to see how she functioned using only her wits: to see if she could work through a problem while believing her life was in danger.
“And—?” she asks. Professor X tells her she obviously succeeded. Kitty assumes that means the test is over; Wolverine, however, corrects her. The test ain’t ever over, he says. If she hasn’t learned that, then she’s learned nothing.
Dumbstruck, Kitty assures Logan he would be amazed at what she’s learned. He smiles; he thinks she’s probably right. With that, Kitty departs, using her neglected phasing ability to run through the Danger Room’s wall. The jubilant Wolverine, meanwhile, turns toward the control room and tells his buddy, Piotr, that he now owes him forty bucks. Piort Rasputin sighs. He’ll never bet against Kitty Pryde again—for real this time.