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Lies
Winter in Chicago. Kitty Pryde is just coming back from a bout of iceskating (still wearing her pink and black skating outfit). Last week, her teammate and boyfriend, Peter Rasputin aka Colossus, broke up with her. He’d met someone he loved more. Kitty was in Chicago at her Dad’s place the next day.
She muses that she’s stayed in her room mostly, not that her Dad noticed. He was hardly ever home. This morning though she finally ran out of tears. She decided she’d try out the skates her father gave her for Chanukah. She hadn’t skated in ages. It showed, but it felt wonderful.
She decides to head to her father’s bank and surprise him. Maybe they can go out for dinner. Parked nearby she spots a luxurious limousine. Must be pretty important people, Kitty figures. She hopes it’s good news. According to Mom’s letter things have been pretty rough for her Dad lately. She’s probably just one more hassle he doesn’t need. She walks up the steps, figuring she might be acting like a spoiled, selfish baby but he’s her Dad! Who else is she supposed to turn to? Where else is she supposed to go to, if not home?
She finds the door locked, the bank’s closed. It’s past office hours. She checks her surroundings. As the coast in clear she simply phases inside and almost runs into the night guard, who luckily had his back turned to her. She is relieved none of her teammates, especially not Wolverine, saw her being this careless. She’d never hear the end of it.
Cheerily, she greets the guard and tells him she is looking for her dad. He’s in conference he tells her, wondering how she got in. Kitty giggles, recalling the look on Mister Case’s face.
She waits outside the conference room, noting that the building is deserted. Her father must have sent everyone else home early. Could those people be feds? No, Kitty decides. Bank examiners don’t drive mile-long limos.
She hears voices from the conference room yelling. She tries to eavesdrop and hears snippets of conversation, none about to make her feel easier. There is talk about discrepancies in bank accounts, her father replying he has already explained. The first voice begins that, while such altruistic behavior is to be admired, it cannot be condoned. Their proposition is most reasonable. He won’t do it! Pryde shouts. Consider the alternative, he is told. They can’t force him, he replies. Then there is the sound of someone being hit.
“Dad!” Kitty shouts out loud and bangs against the door, demanding to be let in. A tall muscular Japanese man opens the door. Kitty runs past him while he asks if he should remove her. Of the other three strangers inside a black-suited man with a thin moustache, also Japanese, tells Shumai to allow her in. Mr. Pryde understands their position. The decision is now his. But won’t he introduce them to his charming daughter? Kitty asks her father if he is all right. She heard an argument. Carmen Pryde shouts at the speaker, a man named Ogun, to leave her out of this.
Out of what? Kitty presses. Just business, Carmen tries to calm her. She’s come at a very bad time. Kitty notices his cheek is red and figures the creep by the door did it. If she hadn’t yelled, they’d have beaten her Dad up. Who are they? What has she barged into?
Carmen introduces the men as representatives of the corporation that recently purchased the bank. But the bank’s been family-owned for generations, Kitty thinks. Ever since Dad’s great-grandpa founded it. Selling it must have broken her father’s heart. That explains why he’s been so distracted and upset. He wouldn’t have done this if he had any choice. Things must have gotten really awful.
“Hi!” she says weakly to the large man, Mr. Shumai, the bodyguard, two westerners, Mr. Delano and Mr. Walsh, part of the North American management team and Mr. Ogun, from the main office.
It’s a very great pleasure to make her acquaintance, the smoking Ogun tells Kitty. She bets, Kitty thinks, but his looks make her uncomfortable. Suddenly, she remembers how scared she was the first time she met Wolverine. Without a word being said, she knew instinctively what he was. Ogun’s the same.
Carmen explains that the gentlemen want him to meet with the head of the corporation. Kitty replies she doesn’t mind waiting. They can go out to dinner afterwards. At that, the men begin to laugh. Kitty wonders what the reason for their hilarity is and Carmen points out the chairman lives in Japan. He sent his private jet to fly him out there tonight. He’ll be gone a week, maybe longer.
Maybe forever, Kitty thinks. Those guys are dangerous. She wonders what to do. Carmen suggests she return to Xavier’s school. She considers it, as she could then involve the X-Men, but decides against it. Until she knows more, it’s better this stays in the family. Does she have to? she pleads.
Ogun suddenly suggests Kitty could accompany Carmen. Shigematsu-san, his esteemed employer, is very fond of children. That sounds great, Kitty replies enthusiastically, but Carmen cuts her off. He forbids it. Strictly he tells her his decision is final. Gentler, he apologizes for snapping at her. He’s got a lot on his mind and is on a real short fuse these days. He asks her to do as he says. He’ll explain later.
Kitty agrees. He hands her a note for the housekeeper plus money. Her cab fare for the airport. Can she handle the change in flight reservations? She’s a big girl, she replies and can take care of herself. And of him, she thinks.
Carmen says goodbye and leaves with the men. She watches their black limo leave, wondering if Ogun and his bosses are Yakuza, Japanese gangsters, trying to infiltrate and take over legitimate businesses like their American counterparts. If that’s the case, her father was trying to protect them both, by making sure they wouldn’t take her hostage. But what if it’s all her imagination?
She takes a taxi and orders it to go to the airport. Traffic’s lousy, the cabbie gets lost, so by the time Kitty reaches the right terminal her father’s plane is already airborne. She finds an early evening Japanese Airlines 747 nonstop from Chicago to Tokyo. She phases into a modular luggage container. Instead of loading bags one by one, the ground crew piles them into these modules and then rolls the entire container into the luggage bay.
A sudden jerk a long while later tells her the plane is moving and almost buries her in cases. Whoever packed this module didn’t do a very good job, she thinks. Things get worse after takeoff as the cases settle at the rear of the 747 during its climb. To avoid being crushed, she has to phase, but at the same time has to be really careful to avoid phasing not only through the baggage but the aircraft’s hull as well. Cautiously, she slips into the passenger cabin.
The flight isn’t crowded, so Kitty huddles up in a seat in a remote corner of the coach cabin and tries to sleep. Eventually, a stewardess gently shakes her awake and asks for her boarding pass. Kitty admits she doesn’t have one. The stewardess thought so. She doesn’t remember anyone with her distinct outfit entering. Does Kitty have a passport or ID? No. The stewardess asks how and why she got aboard? Some sort of school prank? Kitty is about to burst out with her problem, but then doesn’t and agrees it was on a dare. The stewardess reports her to the captain, but is pretty nice to Kitty on the while trip.
Late afternoon, they finally land at Anrita, Tokyo’s international airport. Kitty is told to stay in her seat until the rest of the passengers have disembarked at which point she will be turned over to the police.
With attention elsewhere, Kitty phases down and outside the hull, scaring the ground crew. She runs away and hides, telling herself to wear sensible clothes next time.
She catches a bus to Tokyo. Phasing into the bus, she bumps into a man who strictly chides her. Kitty replies and apologizes in polite, fluent Japanese. Thankfully, Professor Xavier taught all of the X-Men Japanese before they visited the country. As she disembarks, she wishes she’d paid more attention when they toured the city. She’s forgotten how huge and crowded Tokyo is. She wonders if there is a general alarm out for her. She has no idea how to start looking for her dad. Then she recalls that Ogun mentioned that his boss’ name is Shigemtasu. Assuming the company’s in his own name, she can get its address from information. She learns that the main office is in the Otemachi district, near Tokyo Station, which is only a few blocks away.
Soon, Kitty finds herself impressed by the size of the office building but it’s after working hours. The building is locked. It’s getting dark too and the clouds are looking really nasty. She isn’t dressed for rain. She isn’t dressed for much of anything. She rifles through her belongings, finding only four bucks and change. And two and a half sticks of gum make for a lousy dinner. The rain starts and she decides she needs cover.
If she turns to their friend, Lady Mariko, she’ll call the professor. She decides to hide out in Shigematsu’s skyscraper. She airwalks up to the higher level offices just as the thunderstorm starts. The storm reminds her of Ororo. She and Illyana are her best friends. The way she’s been acting lately she sure doesn’t deserve them. Tired from the jetlag, she sinks down on a couch and falls asleep.
Unfortunately she is awoken by a screaming cleaning lady. Before Kitty can explain herself, a security guard comes in and immediately goes for his gun and fires at her.
Kitty runs towards the shattering window and jumps, realizing that with that kind of paranoia those people must be crooks.
The guard believes he hit her and momentum threw her out of the window. He tells the woman he’ll alert command.
Downstairs in the torrential downpour, Kitty angrily finds she left her skates and her hat behind. And since the alarm’s been sounded she can’t get to them. Once her dad sees the skates or someone reads the nametag in them, they’ll know it was her. With goons swarming across the plaza, probably looking for a body, she decides to put some distance between them and her.
Kitty already sniffles, sure to get a cold. She decides she needs a place to stay, decent clothes and some food and that takes money. She phases inside a bank, battling with herself whether she should reach inside the storage bin of the ATM machine. But that’s stealing. No, only borrowing, she persuades herself. She’ll give it back. She wouldn’t consider it, if she weren’t desperate.
She takes the money, but the next moment an alarm goes off. Frightened, she drops the money and runs outside where the police are already waiting, ready to arrest her. Like an amateur, she panics. She can’t bear the thought of being caught and the professor and the X-Men finding out what she has done. So she runs.
One cop chases her into a dead end but then she phases into the ground, leaving the cop to believe he’s been dealing with a ghost. Kitty solidifies downstairs and lands in the cold waters of a sewer. She lets the stinking waters carry her along.
Later, sunrise. Kitty cowers in a doorway, miserable and freezing, feeling rotten, not just because she’s coming down with a cold but because she is a thief like her father. The reasons don’t matter. They still stole. And they both got caught. She had a small fortune in her hands. But she was too spooked by the alarm, and the police and dropped it. She wishes she’d never eavesdropped at her dad’s office. If only she’d done as she was told. She coughs and sniffles, realizing she’s got a fever. What she wouldn’t give for some of Peter’s special cuddles, except what made them special was the fact that they loved each other. That isn’t true anymore. She wants to go home. She wants her friends. She walks towards a payphone and places a collect call to Xavier’s School.
At Xavier’s the phone rings and it’s Wolverine who answers. When he hears from the operator that Kitty is calling from Tokyo he demands to know what’s going on. Ashamed, Kitty puts down the receiver. She’s too embarrassed to speak with him.
While Wolverine is puzzled, Kitty finds things can still get worse as she sees her face on a TV screen and learns that the police is looking for her for the attempted robbery last night. The camera in the teller booth took her picture.
She decides to give herself up. But first she’d better explain the mess to her dad. She wonders if she’ll go to jail. She phases inside Shigematsu’s office building. She wonders whether Professor X will fire her from the X-Men for this, then tells herself to slow down. She realizes her fever is rising as she reaches Shigematsu’s executive suite. She hopes her father will show up soon.
As the door opens, she phases into the next room. Among the men are an elderly Japanese man, dressed in traditional clothing, Shigematsu-san himself and Carmen Pryde. After some pleasantries, Shigematsu states that he hopes Pryde understands their arrangement. In return for appropriate remuneration, they will “launder” funds from their illicit operation through Pryde’s bank and from there channel them into legitimate investments, agreed? With a sad face, Pryde agrees. Horrified, Kitty shouts her father’s name.


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Terror
Horrified, Kitty Pryde calls out her father’s name. She followed him halfway around the world to Tokyo, because she thought he was in trouble and wanted to help. Instead, she learns that he is a crook. Startled himself, he cries out “Kitty.”
Who is this gaijin child? Shigematsu-san demands. How did she have access to this building, much less this office? She’s his daughter, Carmen Pryde states apologetically. He dislikes skulkers and spies, Shigematsu states displeased. Hardly an auspicious beginning for their relationship. He wants to learn what she knows and has heard. He orders his men to seize her.
Three men get ready to grab Kitty over Carmen’s protest. Despite the flu, Kitty is still a match for them. She tosses an office chair at them to keep them off-balance, then jumps over it and into Shigematsu which gives her a clear run for the door. She runs past her father without a word or even a look.
The one man who kept out of the fight and watched it with interest, Ogun, helps Shigematsu up. In Japanese, the old man angrily demands why Ogun didn’t stop her. Ogun coolly reminds him he isn’t his bodyguard and Shigematsu should not make the mistake of addressing him as such. Shigematsu apologizes, even deferentially calls him Ogun-Sama, but the girl must be found, he continues. Ogun promises to deal with her. In fact he may consider her life full payment for all services Ogun has rendered him.
Kitty Pryde, that is all? Shigematsu asks surprised. By all means, take her with his blessing! Ogun bows his head a fraction, thanking the oyabun.
While not understanding the conversation, Pryde heard Kitty’s name. He tries to attack Ogun, demanding to learn what they said. Ogun easily sidesteps him, then twists his arm. Coolly, he tells him that his child is as one dead. She is Ogun’s now and lost to Pryde forever. Seek her out, interfere in any way, by accident or design and his destruction will be as terrible as it is certain. Do they understand each other? Yes, Pryde whimpers.
Kitty, in the meantime, makes tracks by phasing down the skyscraper as fast as she can, not bothering to hide herself. She bets there will be some crazy stories told over dinner tonight. She wishes she was in a mood to enjoy them herself. She wishes she’d never come to this city.
She finds the lobby crawling with guards and phases down again into the sewers. She decides the only place to hide she has is with Lady Mariko. Now she only has to reach her. But with her fever, she has a hard time just staying on her feet.
She stifles a sneeze which makes here feel like she’s just been punched in the throat. Try as she might, she can’t catch a decent breath. Unsure what to do, she hesitates. The next moment, a man wearing a demon mask drops down in front of her and blows powder in her face. Kitty goes out like a light and drops to the ground.
JFK international airport, New York, Logan walks through the airport’s metal gate. He explains that he has metal implants in his bones which the sensors are reacting to. Medical certification is in his passport. The custom officer agrees. Is he traveling to Tokyo for business or pleasure? Business, he replies curtly.
Kitty finds herself standing in darkness. Anybody home? she asks. A light switches on, only illuminating her. Thanks, she states. She finds she can’t move a muscle from the neck down. So long as she’s paralyzed, she doesn’t dare phase. She’d drop straight down into the floor and be stuck there till she suffocates. Where is she?
She hears a whizzing nose from the darkness. She wants to be brave but screams anyway. Suddenly, a ninja wearing the demon mask jumps in front of her, wielding a katana. He slashes both sleeves of her skating dress, then vanishes back into the darkness. Hey! she protests. This is her favorite outfit. Leave it alone! Leave her alone! she thinks.
What is he gonna do next? she thinks nervously. Maybe he doesn’t speak English. She tries Japanese, asking who he is and why she’s here. She cries no, as he appears again in front of her, his blade going for her throat. But it stops even as it touches her skin. She finds she can no longer speak, or utter any sound. Somehow the ninja’s blade struck her numb.
Her mind’s racing as she looks behind her where he’s disappeared to. Steel touches her legs as light as a feather and she drops to her knees.
Awful as this is, her imagination makes it worse, all the horrible things she’s seen and read and heard rear up in her head, and she expects them to happen to her, so that in a crazy sort of way when he actually makes his move, cutting off her long hair, and this doesn’t turn out to be as bad as she feared, she finds herself almost grateful.
He’s taking her apart piece by piece. She can’t hear or feel or move or speak. He slashes apart the back of her dress. He’s reduced her to eyes that have nothing to see but darkness and a mind convinced of its own destruction.
She bites her lip helplessly as she thinks of her parents. None of them will ever know how she died. She tells herself to stay strong through all the fear, wondering if it will hurt, silently crying for Professor Xavier to save her. The Ninja raises his sword and brings it down. It stops a hair’s breadth from Kitty’s head.
She should be dead. Perhaps in a sense she is. She doesn’t know how long she lies there. Time loses any meaning. All she can see, all she is aware of is the light. She can’t close her eyes or look away. It becomes the core of her universe, the focus of her existence, until he takes its place to cast her down.
And suddenly, impossibly her world is brand new again. Kitty is only an infant. Ogun orders her to match his martial art moves.  The child is clumsy but following his orders tries again and again.
He begins teaching her using weapons such as shuriken, but again she is not good enough, though she slowly gets better, then the bo staff and the sai.
Becoming a little older, Kitty discovers her phasing power and tries to sneak up on Ogun. He senses her approach and swings his blade around. She phases under him and makes faces at him. As she tries to grab him though, actually he grabs her with his feet and tosses her down.
Time passes and Kitty, now a young woman, has mastered the fighting art. She now can battle Ogun with a katana and when his size and advantage and experience enable him to get past her guard she is ready, phasing through a killing strike. Calling her musume-san – daughter – Ogun tells her he is proud of her.
He orders her one last time to match his movements, this time with the sword. Both their movements match precisely as they act in perfect sync. Each movement brings them closer, form, thoughts, realities flowing together, until at last, in reality there is only Kitty. Wearing a ninja outfit, she gets up, sheathes the word, picks up the demon mask and dons it.
Tokyo, Shigematsu’s skyscraper. Everything is dark, the lights don’t work. His bodyguards draw their guns. Seeing movement at the desk they point their guns there. Evenin’ gents, comes a voice from the desk and somebody lights a smoke there. Shigematsu orders his men to remove the intruder and they fire. They hit an empty chair.
Claws unsheathed and speedily, Wolverine takes care of the guards, leaving only Shigematsu and the women at his side. Not the most hospitable of welcomes, he observes, but then their boss knows as much about common courtesy as he does about honor. He tells the women to leave. Shigematsu-san and he got private business to discuss.
Instead, one woman jumps at him while the other uses her hairpins as throwing weapons. They too are bodyguards. Wolverine quickly takes them out.
Who is he? Shigematsu asks nervously. The wrong person to have as your enemy, comes the reply. And Shigematsu finally recognizes him. What does he want? he asks. Kitty Pryde, comes the reply. Who? he asks. Wolverine orders him not to blow smoke at him. The youngster is considered family by him and Lady Yashida. He understands what that means? Harm her, he’ll answer to them.
He does not have her, Shigematsu admits. Get her! Logan orders. That may prove difficult… Wolverine holds his claws under Shigematsu’s chin. He will do his best, he promises, and sits down to make a phone call. Fine, as long as he succeeds, Logan states.
In a traditional home, Ogun receives the call. He notices Shigematsu sounds strained. He is told there are… complications regarding their arrangement. Wolverine? How… unfortunate. He tells Shigematsu he must attend to some pressing duties. This will not take long.
He muses on Logan and how he thought, hoped, their paths would never again cross. Yet now their meeting seems inevitable almost ordained from the start. The wheel turns. All are bound to it.
He shoves aside a door. A small figure dressed in dark clothing and a demon mask kneels on the ground, katana and short sword beside her on the ground. Is she ready? he asks her. She agrees. He gives the order to kill her. On that order, ninjas with different weapons enter the room from different directions. The small figure rakes out all of them without even having to unsheathe the sword.
When the last Ninja manages to use his weapon to hold down the sword and attacks her directly she phases through the attack of the scythe. She solidifies to kick him, then draws the blade, intent on killing him. Ogun stops the lethal strike with his own sword. He tells her the exercise is ended and tells his ninja Matsuo to be grateful for his life.
Kitty takes off the mask. She did well? she asks, He calls her a true daughter of the demon. Better in fact than he was at her age. He orders her to make herself presentable, then join him in his study.
Ogun returns to the phone, thanking Shigematsu for waiting. He tells him to arrange a meeting for tomorrow evening. The girl will be there.
Ogun thinks that he would prefer to wait before confronting Kitty with her past. But perhaps this is for the best. Wolverine is her teammate and friend. He will prove the ultimate test of his conditioning. It should hold. He should mean nothing to her.
He looks at a picture, showing himself and Logan as friends, sharing a traditional Japanese meal. How strange, he muses, are the ways of fate. Kitty’s is what he originally had in mind for Logan.
Kitty joins him. Ogun explains he has an enemy, a gaijin. If not stopped he will seek his life. He wishes her to deal with him. With a self-assured smile, Kitty tells him not trouble himself over the foreign devil. He is as good as dead!


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Death
Night time in Tokyo. Wolverine stands atop a temple roof, smoking a cigar and reminiscing how much he hates cities. He’s a creature of the wild. Yet, paradoxically, he loves this structured land, this city…
A shady figure sneaks up on him. She attacks with a kick. Wolverine whirls around and counters her attack. She throws blades at him. He blocks them with his claws. They wrestle until Wolverine puts his hand under her chin. He need only pop his claws… Gotcha, he announces. In return, Yukio kisses him.
Later she hugs him. He remarks that coming from downwind as she did, he couldn’t spot her scent. That was her intent. She wanted to surprise him. He warns her that a crazy stunt like that could have gotten her killed. She takes his cigar, inhales and blows the smoke in his face. The risk is what makes the game exciting!
How did she know he was in Japan, much less where to find him? he demands. She has sources, she replies evasively. She missed him. Why, when she knows nothing can come out of it? he demands. Consider her a cock-eyed optimist, Yukio jokes. She will never understand what he sees in Mariko Yashida. She thinks he does? Logan replies. Of all the women in creation she’s the last he would have expected to love, much less love him in return. But she’s the one… More fool he, Yukio sulks.
Logan changes the subject. He is here because of business. Kitty Pryde’s over her head in trouble. She stowed away on a J.A.L. flight outta Chicago, he doesn’t know why yet, then tangled with a local crimelord named Shigematsu. Last night she tried to heist a bank cash machine.
Yukio claps her hands in appreciation. There’s hope for the child yet! she announces. With her powers she’d make a splendid thief!
Logan continues that Kitty’s being held as hostage in some Yakuza caper. He arranged for her to be released tonight at this temple.
Does he trust Shigematsu? Yukio inquires. Nope, comes the reply, but it’s worth the try. Leave the Oyabun to her, Yukio suggests. If he’s planning any treachery, she’ll find out. Logan appreciates her offer. Take care! she calls as a goodbye. Always do, darlin’ he replies, she’s the crazy one.
Yukio dives head first from the roof. She has but one life, she cries. She means to enjoy every second. If that makes her “crazy,” so be it. Sounds good to him, Logan calls after her, thinking he used to be the same. He didn’t ask to change, but can’t deny it either.
He swings down and to the ground, wondering what brought Kitty here, anyway. And why did she act like such an amateur? He thought he taught her better than that. She had to have a reason that made her act impulsively, from the gut and heart. Something personal, real close to home. Something she doesn’t want the X-Men involved in. Else she would have called them for this, at the start.
He wonders why this temple was specified for the meet. He’s always loved its garden. The elegant simplicity of the patterns formed by the arrangement of rocks and stones - creating harmony from diversity, order from chaos – a man’s spirit, it is said, can be shaped the same way. He’s tried from the first trip to these islands longer ago than he cares to remember and always failed.
His musings are interrupted by a stinkbomb that lands next to him. He can’t get the stench out oh his nostrils. His enhanced sense of smell is utterly neutralized.
The next moment, an arrow almost hits him. He’s got some nerve calling the kid an amateur, he realizes. A novice right out of trade school wouldn’t have been so careless.
His healing factor can handle the arrows that struck its mark and the dulled senses but it will take time. He breaks off the arrow in his calf.
When he hears a whizzing noise, he unsheathes his claws and fends off the shuriken. He’s a sitting duck in the courtyard, he realizes and climbs up a tree to the roof. He has no idea what the odds are. How many he is up against. Whoever they are they are keeping their distance. Meaning they know how to fight him.
He uses the lull in fighting to pull the arrow out of his calf. He’s been stupid enough for one night, he tells himself. If he were assigned the job of killing him, what would be his next move? He figures it out one split-second before the ninja hits, a small shape with a demon mask.
Wolverine finds his foe is very good, losing one set of tiger claws but managing to draw blood. Getting the other claw costs Wolverine a hammer kick to the gut, followed by a throat strike that would’ve stunned a normal man. That brings the ninja close right where Wolverine wanted him. He strikes with both clawed arms, and impossibly misses the ninja. The ninja somersaults when Logan attacks, meaning his momentum makes him fall off the roof.
Logan realizes he can barely move. His nerves feel dipped in acid. He wants to howl like a mad dog. He’s thinking as fast and clear as ever but the messages are taking longer to get to the rest of his body. Either the arrows or the claws were coated with poison.
He runs through the temple’s window and into the open street, realizing he mustn’t make another mistake… or he’s dead! Won’t be long before he’s paralyzed, he realizes. No illusions about what happens if the ninja finds him then. He has to go to ground, hide somewhere and give his body a chance to heal!
He hides in a back alley behind a dumpster, covering himself with old papers and garbage. Mentally, he apologizes to Kitty. She deserved better!
Yukio, in the ,meantime has broken into Shigematsu’s office building and finds no one home She figures Wolverine must have scared the oyabun when he paid him a visit last night, so he skipped town.
She pours herself a glass of brandy, then hears a snore coming from the guest room. In it she finds a drunk American, sleeping in an armchair. She identifies him by the name on his briefcase as Carmen Pryde. She is disgusted that such a noble child has such a sorry wreck for a father.
Suddenly, somebody grabs and lifts her from behind. It’s Shigematsu’s renegade sumo wrester bodyguard Shumai, who promises he will dispose of her as he would of any other piece of garbage by throwing her away. He promises she will fly like a bird before hitting the ground, not murder at all, simply an accident….
As he carries her to the window, Yukio doesn’t try to break his grip. Instead, she attacks vulnerable spots like his ears and eyes. Once she’s broken free, she uses a judo throw that propels him out of the window. He barely holds on to the edge of the window sill.
Shumai begs Yukio to help him. She reminds him he meant that fate for her. She is not sure how long she can hold him and demands info: Where is the girl? What girl? he plays dumb. Bye, she threatens. Panicked, he shouts that Shigematsu-san gave her to the ronin, Ogun.
The Ogun, she wonders. Why? Ogun asked for Kitty as payment in full for all the services her has rendered Shigematsu-san. He knows no more and pleads to be pulled up. He has lost his grip and only Yukio is holding him up. Would Ogun give Kitty Pryde up if asked? she asks. His master would not be so great a fool as to try, he replies.
Wolverine is walking into an ambush then, she realizes. Shigematsu never intended to honor his word. She decides Shumai has earned his life and drags him up.
That moment, the barely-awake, hung-over Carmen Pryde appears at the window, asking what is going on. Using him as distraction Shumai pushes Yukio off the sill.
Yukio holds fast to him. Carmen balances onto the sill to help. Instead, Shumai throws him into Yukio, making sure both of them fall.
Carmen screams horrified, whereas Yukio laughs and tells him to savor the experience while it lasts. She holds fast to him and manages to grab hold of some window cleaner’s scaffolding. Their momentum makes it come loose and they crash through a window. They land inside an office.
Carmen is sick. “Later!” Yukio tells him and drags him up. The alarms go off. They are needed elsewhere, she orders while vowing she will have her vengeance on Shumai eventually.
Elsewhere, Wolverine’s ninja attacker closes in on the back alley where Logan hid. However, Wolverine is no longer there. He got better and waits for the ninja, hidden on a nearby roof.
The ninja realizes he’s being followed and tries to lose Wolverine in the crowd of Tokyo station. Right play, except that Wolverine has the ninja’s scent now and follows.
The ninja uses several weapons to attack but this time Wolverine manages to keep him off, though he keeps missing his foe. Something doesn’t add up.
As his quarry runs down the subway, Wolverine realizes it’s a girl. According to her scent, only one person she could be. But she’s fighting on his level. No one that young could! It took him more than a lifetime.
He gets on the roof of the train the ninja is on. Too many flaming questions, he figures, and he won’t get the answers sitting on his duff. The ninja throws a flashbomb and, before Wolverine can reach her, she’s gone. He figures she has to have ducked inside the train. Doors are locked, windows sealed, he figures as he crashes through it. How did she do it? Easy, he admits to himself, for someone who can phase through objects like a ghost.
Yukio and Carmen in a car have heard of the fight on the police radio alert. She orders Carmen to follow her in the car as best as he can while she jumps out. She warns him not to get so much as a smudge on her beauty.
Wolverine and the ninja are jumping from train to train above or under them. The idea is to push the girl to her limits, chase her until she drops. He wants her alive, now more than ever.
Yukio, in the meantime, has almost caught up. Carmen shouts a warning – a train. The Shinkansen, the bullet train with a top speed of over 200 km/h.
Both of them cross the tracks at the last moment, getting caught up in the train’s pressure. Wolverine makes sure to land on his feet. The fall made the ninja lose her mask. And though he knew the truth, seeing the ninja’s face revealed as Kitty’s still shocks him. Enough to give her time to run him straight through with her sword.


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A rainy mountain road. An agitated Carmen Pryde asks the driver, Yukio, where they are. They’ve been driving for hours! Where are they headed? Why is she going so fast? Is she trying to kill them? Answer me, curse you! Carmen screams from the backseat.
Next to him is an unconscious, badly hurt Wolverine. Next to Yukio is a tied-up, unconscious Kitty. No answer comes.
Her friend Wolverine is in pretty bad shape, he continues. He’s too pale. He’s lost a lot of blood; he doesn’t think the bandages they improvised are doing any good. He needs a doctor or a hospital, he pleads. They should return to Tokyo! Without proper care he won’t last the night.
Yukio finally speaks. He dies, she replies threateningly, so does Carmen. Instead of being cowed, he shouts that he is through being scared. He wants some answers! What have they done with his daughter? Why is she tied up?
Yukio finally brakes in the middle of the road. She drags Pryde out, and shouts she has had enough of him. His arrogance, his stupidity, his fear and most his mouth! She will endure no more! She slams him against the car. More than once he has made her regret saving his miserable carcass! If she didn’t need an extra pair of hands, she’d have dumped him long ago! She may do so yet. He’s pushed her to the limit, so he is to do as he is told without question or complaints, or else! Does she make herself clear? Yes, he moans.
As they turn to the car, they just witness Kitty freeing herself and phasing outside to run. Yukio inwardly swears. The drugs should have kept her out for hours, but Kitty’s mutant metabolism burned them out too fast. But she still isn’t wholly recovered. Yukio follows.
She doesn’t want to hurt Kitty, even after what she did to her beloved Logan-chan. It wasn’t her fault, Yukio thinks to herself as she grapples Kitty. If anyone’s to blame, it’s her idiot father and the renegade ronin Ogun who possessed her.
She recalls seeing the girl standing triumphantly over the stabbed Wolverine.
Present:
Kitty strikes Yukio’s face with her flat hand. Yukio reminds herself she is still fighting with Ogun’s skill.
Past:
Yukio and Carmen Pryde saw Kitty standing over the injured Logan, causing Carmen to exclaim: what has she done.
Present:
They fight near a precipice. Yukio realizes she cannot fight fair.
Past:
Yukio quickly threw her spikes at Kitty before the girl thought to phase.
Present:
Yuki trusts her luck, leaps off the cliff, trusting the gale wind to return her which it does, enabling her to kick Kitty in the face.
Past:
Kitty fell as the spikes were covered with a powerful sedative.
Present:
Taking Kitty out, Yukio wonders if it would be more merciful to kill her and put her out of her misery. She’s heard stories of this kind of ninjutsu magic. It is said that a soul once tainted by it can never again be free. Nevertheless, she drags Kitty back to the car.
As the sun rises, they arrive at Ousanmyaki, the mountain spine of northern Honshu, itself the main island of Japan, the stronghold of Clan Yashida. It’s where Wolverine recovered during his last trip.
Yukio carries the unconscious Kitty inside. Wolverine drags himself up. Carmen is amazed to see him alive. When he tries to help, Wolverine brushes him aside.
Kitty dreams of Ogun who is both man and demon. Who takes her innocent soul and reshapes it in his own twisted image. She awakes from her nightmare. Mornin’, Wolverine greets her. Relieved, she hugs him tight. She gushes that she had the most awful nightmare. It seemed so real. It was, he replies and grimacing asks her to ease off. He’s feeling a bit tender.
What is he saying? she demands. He orders her to face the truth. It’s her only hope. See things as they are, no matter how much they hurt. She recalls. She and Logan… fought. She remembers. It was her. And yet it wasn’t. She had a blade and when she thrust it home into his heart she was so glad, she sobs.
A little later, she is calmer and she apologizes for being such a baby. For… everything. Nothing to forgive, he tells her, he understands. And he figures the least she is entitled to is a good cry.
He gets a plate with fresh sushi. How ‘bout breakfast? She’s not hungry, she tells him. Suit herself, he shrugs and begins to eat. What brought her out here anyway? Last any of them heard, she was safe at home in Chicago.
She wishes she’d stayed there, she replies. Him too. She swallows, that looks real good and finally begins to eat too. She tells him how her dad’s involved with a crimelord, a Yakuza oyabun named Shigematsu. She thought he was being forced into it. She wanted to help.
Why go it alone? he asks, drowning some Sake. It was a family matter, comes the reply. She wanted to keep it private. Especially if he turned out to be a real crook, which he did. How could he?
Logan advises her not to judge until she gets all the evidence. Where does Ogun fit into this? He was Shigematsu’s chief goon or something. He said she’d been given to him as payment in full for his services. Why? What does he want from her?
Logan remarks Ogun had her the better part of a week. What happened? She’s not sure. Those memories are all hazy and jumbled up. He talks like he knows Ogun. He was his sensei Wolverine replies. He taught him just about everything he knows.
It’s funny, Kitty muses. They look about the same age. From the moment they met, Ogun reminded her of Logan and scared her as much as he used to, yet Ogun seems much older. He knows, Wolverine replies. There’s a story people tell of the greatest swordsman in Japanese history, Myamoto Musashi…
Wolverine’s story:
One fine morning, in those younger days when he still wore steel instead of a wooden sword, Musashi came to a bridge, only to find his path blocked by another samurai. Musashi said that the way is only wide enough for one. It is only fitting that the lesser man step aside to let the better one pass.
Ogun agreed. So, if Musashi would be so kind as to do so, then he would be on his way. Musashi bowed, telling him it seems they have a difference of opinion… that only their blades can settle.  Ogun agreed, also bowing.
And as one with blinding speed two gleaming katanas leapt from the lacquered scabbards. For one minute, the men stood poised, their eyes locked and then they sheathed their steel, bowed and went their separate ways, never to cross paths again.
Present:
Kitty doesn’t get it. Logan explains that the eye contact was the duel. When each took full measure of his foe and realized that the other was his equal in every respect and further, that this was a battle that neither of them could win. The conflict resolved, there was no need to actually cross swords.
Is he trying to tell her her Ogun is the same guy? she wonders. That he’s immortal? No one knows quite for sure, Logan replies.
Then he orders her to get dressed and meet him outside. It’s a traditional Japanese garden. Without any further instructions he hands her a rake and tells her to take an hour. And do what? she asks. Anything she likes, comes the reply and he leaves.
Inside the house, he sinks down in exhaustion. Yukio angrily reminds him it’s been barely a day since Kitty cut him to ribbons. He’s insane to be out of bed. It’s got to be done, Logan insists. If he doesn’t act at once, it’ll be too late. It already is, she replies bluntly, but he is too blind to see. If the stories told about Ogun are even only half-true, his hooks are sunk so deeply into Kitty she will never be free. He has to try, Logan insists, for his sake as much as hers. He is aware of the fact that his body needs rest, but Kitty needs him more.
Leaning on a stick, he walks outside again after an hour. He finds Kitty meditating on a rock in the middle of the garden. What does he think of her handiworks? she asks him. Not too shabby, huh? You tell me, he demands. She thought she just did. He strictly orders her to look. She realizes that she’s created a perfect zen garden. The kind of garden a zen master spends a lifetime crafting, in mind as much as substance. But not a teenager from Chicago, she realizes. She wouldn’t… shouldn’t know how to begin. What did Ogun do to her?
Magic, he replies, or some form of psi-power. He imprinted his psyche on her, created a sort of psychic clone of himself inside her skull… eventually it will overwhelm Kitty’s personality completely. She’ll have the features of Kitty Pryde, will be able to mimic her perfectly, but at heart she will be Ogun. This process is forbidden knowledge, only the most gifted or cursed of Ninja masters were reputed capable of such things and that only in legend. But he said Ogun was a figure out of legend, she remembers.
Later in a shrine at the house:
Kitty pleads she wants to go home. Professor Xavier is the most powerful telepath there is. He can put things right. Erase Ogun’s influence. Maybe, comes the reply. He then tells her Ogun will keep coming for her till he gets her or is beaten. If she runs away to Charley, it doesn’t matter if the cure is successful. She’ll never be as strong again. She’ll always be dependant on Xavier. Always subconsciously turn to him when things get rough. Ogun will have broken her spirit, crippled her fundamental self in a way that will never heal. He sounds like he’s speaking from experience. And he has the scars to prove it, comes the reply.
He hands her the sword lying before him. He explains it is the Honor Sword of Clan Yashida. Forged 800 years ago by the supreme swordsmith Masamune. This sacred blade represent everything that is best and most noble in the family and the samurai, the lord’s champion, who wields it. He wants her to hold it up at arm’s length for as long as she can.
After a few minutes, Kitty drops it in exhaustion. How many hours? she asks. Not even five minutes, he tells her. What’s the point? she asks. To hold it until she is told to stop without effort or strain. Impossible, she replies. If that’s what she believes, then it always will be. Give her a break, she snorts. He’s too tall and too ugly to be Yoda.
Next morning, they are up before dawn hiking along the ridge behind the house. The water looks lovely, Kitty observes, looking down. This high in the mountains it must be bitter cold, though. Logan suggests she find out herself and pushes her down. He takes off his clothes except for a loincloth and joins her in the water.
It’s the first good look Kitty gets of him since their duel. Ashamed, she realizes she did that to him. Ogun using her body, he corrects her, then orders her to quit babbling and swim.
Days pass. They both grow stronger. Kitty stops having nightmares about Ogun or at least stops telling him about it, but there’s still a long way to go. Try as she might, she can’t hold the sword. Wolverine wonders if she ever will. Maybe Yukio was right, he fears. But if she is, what then? He won’t let Ogun have Kitty.
Yukio breaks him out of his musing, telling him there’s a phone call by Professor Xavier. Wolverine is curt as usual, telling him it was deliberate they haven’t been easy to find. No, he won’t explain. It’s a private matter.
Xavier replies he’ll respect Wolverine’s judgment for now. However, there have been some serious developments here, involving both the X-Men and Logan’s former colleagues in Alpha Flight. He relates that Storm was ambushed by federal agents. She was struck by some form of energy weapon which stripped her of all her powers.
He fears the news from Canada is worse. His friend James MacDonald Hudson – Guardian – is dead. Logan unsheathes his claws. He doesn’t hear the details. He walks outside, throwing away his stick. He was little more than an animal when Jamie found him. He owes him his life, his humanity! He was like his brother but he’s dead. He can’t do anything for him or Storm and if he leaves he’ll lose Kitty too. He doesn’t like it but he has no choice. Doesn’t make him hurt any less, as he howls till his voice cracks and his eyes burn hot with tears.
The next morning, they jog in the snow. Kitty tries to tell him she’s sorry. He curtly orders her to change the subject. She cried too, she replies. Storm was her friend! She’s tough, she’ll survive, comes the reply. Some weather, Kitty changes the subject. Yukio says it’s snowing all over the world. Some sort of magic thing to do with Thor. It’s awful cold, snowing harder too. Maybe they better head back?
Road will take them home eventually, comes the reply. As long as they can see it, Kitty replies. Why is she doing this anyway? Training for the next Olympics? Stronger the body, stronger the mind and spirit, comes the reply. Ogun caught her when she was weak and sick. To give her a prayer against him, she’s gotta be in top shape… the best she’s ever been.
She falls back. Suppose even after all that, she loses? If she’s got breath to talk, they ain’t running fast enough, he replies and runs faster. Slavedriver! she shouts. He tells her she can quit any time. It’s nothing to him.
Kitty falls and asks for a hand. She’s got two of her own, he replies. Her ankle’s twisted, she insists. She’s hurt. No, she’s not! He refuses to help. She can’t go on, Kitty whines. Then don’t! he tells her. She’ll freeze here, she shouts, she’ll die! Then get up! She can’t! Kitty insists. She won’t, he replies. Her choice. Live or die. Struggle or surrender. Maybe it’s better this way. Just close her eyes and go to sleep, a quick clean finish rather than a lifetime spent scared stiff that Ogun will come after her…
It’s not fair! Kitty shouts and hits the ground with her fists. Never is, he agrees. Not for Storm, not for Jamie, what made her think, things would be different for her? The trick is taking the hand one’s dealt and winning anyway. It’s a decision only she can make. The most important she’ll ever face, the only one that matters. He runs on, ignoring her cries.
He reaches the compound where Carmen and Yukio are waiting. Where is his daughter? Carmen demands. She fell, Wolverine replies. And he left her? he shouts. In this blizzard she’ll die!
Wolverine falls into Yukio’s arms. A harsh decision, she states. She’ll get the snow-cat, she tells Pryde. They’ll find her. That won’t be necessary, comes Kitty’s voice as she stumbles in without looking at Logan.
Later in the bath, Kitty finally is warm again. The first few steps after she got up she hated him. But she understands now Wolverine is honing and shaping her for real the way Ogun did with his mind games. Except that at every stage Logan allows her the luxury of choice. Ogun forced her. This she does or not because she wants to. Succeed or fail, at least she’s made the decision to try.
She gets out of the bath and throws on a robe. She heads for the sword. All those other times she was making a big effort to hold the sword. Why not simply do it?
And she does. All night. Yukio though fears that no matter how strong Kitty is she is still a child, no match for Ogun.
Kitty holds the sword for a night, a whole day and then till night falls again. Then she gets up and leaves it at the sleeping Wolverine’s bedside. She’s won, she realizes. But she’s lost as well.
Agarashima airport:
Kitty is about to board a flight to New York. This time tomorrow, she figures, she’ll be with the X-Men and with luck the prof will be able to work one of his patented minor miracles. Yukio was right. Kitty gave it her best shot. She is maybe the best she’ll ever be. And that isn’t good enough. She knows that now.
Or… is she just scared? Is this the sensible, logical decision or is she running away? Like she did when Peter and she broke up, when she learned the “truth” about her dad. He was at Yashida house but she hasn’t said a word to him. He cared, wanted to help, but she didn’t.
So what if the X-Men can protect her from Ogun? How does she hide from herself? The important thing isn’t erasing Ogun’s influence, it’s facing him and through him her fear of him. That’s what has to be beaten and there’s only one place and way to do it. She changes her direction, instead heading for the flight to Tokyo.


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Tokyo, the corporate headquarters of Shigematsu Industries, on Seigikahara Plaza, in the Otemachu district. Heiji Shigematsu, oyabun of one of the larger Yakuza outfits, screams in terror when a ninja phases up through his desk and shouts Boo. The ninja solidifies on the desk and throws down his chair, warning Shigematsu that surely he has not forgotten no place is safe from a ninja. And thanks to him she’s been trained by the best.
He realizes now who the ninja is. Kitty Pryde. She tells him she’s here to make him an offer he can’t refuse, just like in the movies. Leave Carmen Pryde alone. Return control of his bank to him… with no strings attached and never ever bother him or his family again, or she’ll be back and she won’t be anywhere near so nice.
She phases through the shocked man, through the floor, slipping through the walls she walks on air, high above the streets. She takes off her mask and smiles, remembering the look on Shigematsu’s face when she popped out of his desk.
She forgets to concentrate for a moment and begins to fall. Luckily, she’s high up enough to catch herself before she hits anything. Kitty chides herself. Professor Xavier and Wolverine taught her better than that. Act this stupidly against Ogun and her troubles will be over forever.
She saw Wolverine a few nights ago up north, when she said goodbye. She wishes she could see the Prof and the other X-Men, too. Especially Ororo. And her Mom and her dad too. She misses them so. There’s so much to say. But she can’t and probably never will, so instead she dances through the sky like a wraith, graceful as the wind, poetry in motion, beauty personified, secure in the knowledge that no one’s around to prove she is not.
Hey! she suddenly shouts when lights blind her, coming from a Tokyo Police helicopter. The men are astonished as Kitty playfully curtseys to them and waves goodbye before dropping though a building’s roof and the ground. Phasing out of her ninja costume along the way, leaving it embedded in a building and the ground itself, not even beginning to brake until she’s well below street level in a station of the Tokyo subway’s Ginza line.
It’s so late in the evening, no one’s there to see her arrive. She finds the Japanese treat their system a whole lot better than they do the “El” in Chicago or the subway in New York.
She enters a public bathroom and puts on eye make-up in lieu of a mask. She is now dressed in a dark blue tight jacket and boots and light blue leggings and gloves along with a scarf.  She enters a subway car.
Staring at her reflection in the window, she doesn’t even recognize herself. She hasn’t worn her hair this short since she was a baby. She tried a wig this length weeks ago and hated it. Cutting it was another decision Ogun made for her. She was his doll… a plaything child he would mould into his image. Tonight she’ll find out if he succeeded. She wishes she’d stayed at home and left her dad to a fate he probably deserved.
Why stop there though? she wonders. if she’d never joined the X-Men, she wouldn’t be in this mess. Would it have been so bad to live a normal life? Is it too late to try? Go to college, meet some guy, have 2.4 kids, live happily ever after… That’s what lots of other women do, why not her?
Except normal people don’t skydance. She can’t give that up. Even without any superpowers, she’ll never settle for what society or her parents expect of her. She’s not a Kitty anymore, much as she wishes differently. She’s grown up. She’s a Cat. And she likes the shadows a whole lot more than the daylight.
She breathes on the window pane and begins to draw with her finger. Shadowcat, she decides. She likes it. It suits her better than Ariel or Sprite, that’s for sure.
She begins to draw Wolverine, thinking Shadowcat is who she is and this is the life she chooses to lead, for as long as it lasts. Then, Wolvie will have to avenge her.
Back at the stronghold of Clan Yashida, Wolverine stands on the balcony. Yukio joins him, asking him to come to bed before he catches death. He survived worse, he gruffly informs her. Snuggling up to him, she replies that the day will come when he won’t! Logan reminds her that she is called the Wild One, the devil-may-care ronin who dances with death for the sheer joy of it. If he asked, would she change that nature, give up being who and what she is? Seriously she replies that she can’t. Then why expect different from him?
The weather’s become as screwy as they are, he continues. Look at the snow. It is supposed to be summer. It’s the same all over, she replies. Perhaps the dawn of a new ice age. He notes she’s shivering. He is a mutant and can handle the cold. She’s fine, Yukio assures him. Merely human she may be, but she’s a survivor.
An agitated Carmen Pryde joins them, angrily asking what Wolverine has done with his daughter. Where is Kitty? Gone, Logan replies curtly. Where? Carmen shouts. Logan replies he called Xavier’s. She isn’t there. That means she went after Ogun. He let her? Carmen shouts in disbelief and orders him to bring her back.
Yukio grabs him and snarls he is trying her patience. Take the hint and leave them alone while he is still able! This time though, Carmen doesn’t back down. While he talks more politely to her, he reminds them that they know what that monster can do. Kitty is their friend. She’s his child. He begs them to save her.
Such parental solicitude rings hollow, Yukio mocks, from the man who delivered her into the demon’s hands in the first place. He tried to protect her, Carmen replies. What kind of man does she think he is? Why, no man at all, she retorts, as she lets go. Kitty is the world to him, Carmen insists. He’d die before he’d see her hurt.
That won’t be necessary, Logan finally interferes. Yukio? he asks. She informs him that the blizzard’s broken and the airstrip’s been plowed. The plane’s ready whenever he is.
What does she mean? Carmen asks. Where is he going? Where does he think? Wolverine replies.
Tokyo, the upper class Meguro district, a skyscraper penthouse that serves as the official residence of the Damyo, the supreme lord of clan Yashida, whenever she’s in town. Mariko Yashida enters the penthouse, shouting if Akiko’s home and apologizing for being so late. Office business lasted forever.
The young girl hugs her happily. Mariko takes off her uncomfortable high-heeled shoes and asks if Akiko has eaten. Akiko assures she has and done her homework. Mariko praises her and asks her to tell her about her day while she relaxes in the tub.
Lying on the ground next to the bath, Akiko asks why Mariko wears the shoes if they hurt her. Mariko explains that they revere their ancient traditions. Many men still look down on women, but she is daimyo. There is no one to take her place. She has become a part of their world and must therefore act and dress in a certain way. To rule effectively she must have the respect and loyalty of her subordinates, which must be earned anew every day. She must prove herself stronger, harder braver in all things. She must be more of a true man than they. And because she is her father’s daughter, she has proven herself better than anyone dreamed. Enough of her, how was school? she asks the girl.
Akiko gushes about her day, her friend Tamsin and a boy she met. Wistfully Mariko wonder if she ever had so much fun at Akiko’s age, then chides herself for these thoughts. She isn’t that much older.
Suddenly, she hears an odd sound and shushes the girl. She throws on a robe and orders Aki to stay back while she looks. Calling Mariko haha-san, Akiko grabs her robe’s hem and begs her not to leave. Mariko is touched that she called her mother and assures the girl she has nothing to fear. She carries her back to the bath, reminding herself it’s only been a few months since Akiko was orphaned. She doesn’t see the human shape in the dark and convinces herself the noise was nothing.
Later, aboard a Yashida private business jet are Wolverine, Yukio and Carmen Pryde. The Captain announces they’ll be landing soon at Tokyo’s Haneda airport. Yukio orders Carmen to leave her man be. Carmen orders back to leave him be. He’ll take his chances.
Brave talk, Wolverine remarks, smoking and not even turning around. He doesn’t think much of him, does he? Carmen asks. Nope, comes the honest reply. He’s not ashamed of what he did in Deerfield, Carmen insists. When the recession hit, he saw people he’d known his entire life, good, decent, hardworking families, being chewed up by forces over which they had no control. He couldn’t stand that. He refused to be a part of it, so he and his bank tried to help.
Lotta good he did, Logan points out. For some of them yes! A whole lot! Carmen retorts. But he got caught, Wolverine remarks. The economy didn’t get better, Carmen insists, there was too much need. Tough break! Logan spits. Maybe that’s true. In the beginning, Carmen acted from the purest of motives, good for him. But when things went sour and he signed with Shigematsu, knowing what he was, when the choice was him or disgrace and jail, that choice was to save his own skin. Not quite so noble, eh? His decision. Now he’s got to learn to live with the consequences.
He never meant for Kitty to get involved, Carmen pleads. What did he expect? Wolverine ask with a nasty smirk. She’s his daughter. She loves him. More, she believed in him. She ain’t a born cynic like him and Yukio. She figured her father to be the victim. It never entered her head he could be one of the villains. She assumed her old man would be at least as tough and brave as she. But Pryde let her down, all the way.
Carmen sinks down in despair. Why is she in Tokyo? Why didn’t she go home? Logan cured her, didn’t he? Ain’t that simple, comes the reply. The kid figures she has to prove herself that she’s free by confronting her demon – Ogun - face to face. If she’s right, he’ll probably kill her. If she’s wrong and Ogun takes her again, Wolverine will.
Yukio addresses him in Japanese. He barely speaks of Ogun, but from the way he does, she senses he means a great deal. Yup, Logan agrees. Ogun taught him everything… if there’s a man alive, he’d have chosen to be father, brother, best friend… it was him. Despite that, for what he’s done to Kitty and may yet do… he’ll kill Ogun? Yukio asks. Or he will me, comes the reply.
The Yashida residence at night:
Ogun, in his ninja costume with demon mask, stealthily enters Mariko’s penthouse, her sleeping chamber. He raises his katana and brings it down forcefully to sever her head. But to his surprise she phases through the blow. Kitty who posed as Mariko phases through Ogun as easily as she did through his blade. She put herself in his shoes, figuring his next move to draw her out would also be one of punishing Wolverine for his interference, an attack on his fiancée Mariko.
She moves behind him, grabs his arm and throws him over her shoulder. However, in midair, he regains his bearings and lands elegantly. Kitty runs towards him, sword drawn. Ogun draws his own blade and fends off the blow.
Without missing a step, she keeps going, phases through Ogun and the wall behind him. In the other room, she quickly gets rid of the kimono and tosses it at Ogun, who is hot on her heels. She hits him, then cries out in pain, as he is wearing body armor. She hurt her hand more than him.
Before she can hit him again, he throws a flashbomb at the ground, briefly blinding her. Her eyes clear almost immediately but by that time Ogun is gone. Uh-oh.
Coming from a place she cannot pinpoint, Ogun’s voice asks her if she would challenge him. She decides to phase through the round. Calling her Musume-san, Ogun orders her to yield. He has no wish to do her harm. It would be akin to hurting himself.
How does he keep finding her, she wonders. Wherever she goes, he goes there too. She tells herself to stop. She’s letting him spook her. That’s what he wants. For her to panic and that terror to do his job for him.
As she phases again, she hears his voice telling her she cannot escape. The penthouse is under complete electronic surveillance. He is pleased that she made her entrance undetected. She has learned well, but he is also certain Mariko and the girl are still within the building. He will find them. Then, if Kitty will not serve him, Wolverine’s foster daughter Akiko will take her place.
No! Kitty cries out and is attacked the next moment by a laughing Ogun. She dodges the next blow by rolling around on the ground. He praises her. He could not have executed that evasion better himself.
What a crock, she figures. Most of her ninja combat skills came from the psychic template of himself Ogun imposed on her. They are pretty much gone now. All she has to fall back on are her powers and the skills Wolvie taught her.
She kicks away his staff. Ogun tosses shuriken at her forcing her to phase. She knows they are no threat but cannot help flinching, leaving Ogun the opportunity to disappear again. If she didn’t know better, she’d swear he could phase too. Or are the legends true, she wonders. Ogun’s supposed to be immortal. Suppose that makes him magic? He could even be a real ghost.
She admits to herself that Ogun doesn’t scare her half as much as what she tried to do to him. If he hadn’t blocked the sword… Has she become like him? She doesn’t want to kill!
Suddenly, she hears a startled female scream of agony. Believing it to be Mariko, she phases through the ground to the room where she has hidden Mariko and Akiko, only to find the two frightened but alive. Akiko especially tells Mariko Kitty frightens her. Is she a demon too? Kitty swears. Ogun faked Marirko’s voice and she fell for it!
At that moment, Ogun comes crashing through the window, tossing shuriken. Kitty shoves Mariko and Akiko aside, but one of the shuriken injures her leg. Despite the pain, Kitty phases the three of them outside. Kitty orders them to run. She will try to hold him off as long as she can. Mariko throws her a farewell look which betrays he true feelings. She fears both she and Kitty are doomed.
For Kitty, it is an effort to even stand. A sniff of the shuriken tells her why. It’s coated with a drug.
Ogun enters the room, telling her not to be afraid. He merely desired to prevent any further phasing. Her cause is hopeless. She won’t give up, Kitty insists. As she wishes, he replies and tackles her. The momentum takes them through window to a scaffolding.  Ogun takes them up the roof. Kitty keeps on fighting, even though her cause is hopeless.
On the roof, Ogun orders her to yield, warning her he shall not ask again. No, Kitty snarls. Infuriated, he strikes her several times. She is on the roof’s edge, sixty stories up. He reminds her that thanks to his drug she is trapped. She cannot phase and without her power, should she fall, it will be to her death. But the hand that takes her life, may grant it as well. She was his once, bound to him body and soul. Be so again, he urges her. He offers immortality, power beyond her wildest dreams if she yields to his will.
No, she replies in a small voice and he is astonished that she could resist. He holds a blade to her throat. Nevertheless, Kitty smiles. She is not the girl he brainwashed. In some ways, she is no longer a girl at all. That Kitty is no more and he has no powers over a Shadowcat. She may be beaten but she will never surrender.
Then, honored foe, though it breaks his heart, her days are ended. He gets ready for the killing stroke. I wouldn’t do that, bub, if I were you, Wolverine warns him suddenly.


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Honor
Just as Ogun was about to kill Kitty Pryde, the newly-christened Shadowcat, Wolverine announced his presence, warning Ogun he wouldn’t do that if he were him.
So the pupil at last thinks himself equal to the master, Ogun observes and takes off his demon mask. Yup, Wolverine replies and jumps closer. Kitty tells him not to and he orders her to stay out of this.
As he and Ogun face off, Wolverine remembers the story he told Kitty about the day Ogun met Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest swordsman in Japanese history on a bridge too narrow for both men to cross together. The lesser samurai would have to give way to let his better pass. But neither stepped aside. Instead, they drew swords. For one minute, they stood with eyes locked, each taking the full measure of his foe, realizing at last, that they were in all respect equals. The test of will had been their duel, wherein they learned this was a battle neither could win. And so they sheathed their blades and went their separate ways.
Now it’s Wolverine’s turn. He’s not so lucky. Ogun puts his demon mask on a gain and with a cry runs to attack. Wolverine unsheathes his claws and runs to meet his foe, who easily dodges at the last moment.
More than once, Wolverine is sure he has him. And each time, with contemptuous ease, Ogun proves him wrong. Finally, Ogun draws first blood.  Triumphantly, he announces that, as good as Logan has become, he will always be his better.
Seeing his point, Logan flees jumping off the roof’s edge, hoping that Ogun will no longer consider Kitty a threat and instead follow him. All the while, he is aware that if he is wrong he’s killed her.
Ogun indeed follows Logan, telling Kitty he will return with her champion’s head. He trusts she will wait. Fleeing, hiding, will no more save her than him!
Kitty looks over the roof’s edge but both of them are gone. Inwardly, she curses Wolverine. It was hard enough facing her own death. She can’t bear to have his on her conscience as well. But what can she do? When she was in tip-top shape, Ogun made mincemeat of her. Now she’s so weak that she can barely stand much less fight.
Suddenly, she hears a car pulling up in front of the building. Inside are Yukio and Carmen Pryde. Mariko and Akiko come running out of the building. They quickly exchange facts while Carmen demands to know if Kitty is okay.
Yukio tells Mariko all that happened. Suddenly, a grenade flies toward them and Carmen manages to push the women aside before they are hit. The perpetrator turns out to be Shumai, Shigematsu’s bodyguard, who announces that his master wishes the Yashida woman slain. With her eliminated, he will be left as the pre-eminent ruler of the Yakuza clans, absolute crimelord of Japan. The gaijin pig, Pryde was to be spared, but accidents happen…
Not while she has breath to stop him! Yukio swears. He was hoping for that, seeing as he looks most forward to her death, Shumai replies.
Peering down, Kitty sees them. She wonders how to reach them. Ogun drugged her during the fight so she couldn’t phase but she doesn’t feel as groggy anymore. She tests her power by phasing through the retaining wall, but when she tries to walk on air she falls. However, she manages to concentrate and slow her descent. She falls through Shumai distracting him enough for Yukio to kick him.
Carmen calls out to Kitty, wondering how anyone could survive a fall like that. Practice makes perfect! Kitty jokes and asks Yukio if she needs a hand fighting the bodyguard. She’s doing fine the ronin assures her and easily and precisely takes out the villain.
Kitty airwalks up, telling the others she has unfinished business. Carmen warns her she hasn’t got a prayer against Ogun. Kitty replies that Wolverine risked everything for her. She owes him the same chance.
Wolverine tried to lose himself in a crowd in a Pachinko Parlor. Didn’t quite work out. Ogun tosses him through the parlor’s window. When the parlor’s owner draws a gun out and aims it at Wolverine Ogun pulls it away, reminding him that guns are illegal in their land. He fires the weapon at Wolverine, musing one might almost think they are in the Wild West.
Wolverine hides behind a wall and tries to surprise Ogun, who immediately fires the gun at him. Logan realizes that Ogun set him up. Injured, he tries to enter an elevator, realizing that another well-placed shot might kayo him long enough for Ogun to finish the job. Ogun attempts to fire the gun again to find it is empty. Wolverine figures he knew and was just trying to rattle him. He throws Shuriken after Logan who gets into the elevator cabin.
Alone inside, Wolverine sags down as his body succumbs to first stage shock.
Meanwhile, Ogun cuts the elevator’s cables holding the counterweights. The car drops like a runaway rocket. Logan punches the emergency stop and the brakes hold, though the strain tears the steel cables like paper. It’s only a matter of seconds before the car starts falling again.
Logan gets out of the car and holds onto a girder, watching the car drop down. He gets out at the top floor. As good a place as any for a last stand,  he figures.
Somewhere in the streets, Yukio wonders where Pryde has disappeared to, calling him a fool. Mariko defends him, stating he has gone, not fled. Angrily, Yukio decides he can save his own butt for now on. Mariko demands why Yukio is so harsh towards Pryde, who is not an evil man. He deserves better. He deserves exactly what she is going to give him, Yukio replies rudely, noting! Then she orders Mariko and Akiko to come. They have a safehouse to find.
Carmen Pryde, in the meantime, is pitying himself, wondering what he has done to deserve this. Then he orders himself to stop the sob story. He made a choice, now he hasn’t got the guts to live with it. What brought him here doesn’t matter. The important thing is what he does next. He thinks of Kitty, who will probably die, trying to fulfill her obligation to Wolverine. He wishes he had a fraction of her courage.
May he help him? a guard at the American embassy asks. Nobody can, Carmen replies, it’s something only he can do. The guard is understandably confused. Carmen asks to speak to someone from the justice department, and a treasury officer as well. He’d like to report a crime.
Kitty, in the meantime, still walks on air trying to find Wolverine. She is completely exhausted though. She barely manages to reach the scaffolding of a skyscraper before she solidifies. She is too weak to pull herself up. When a hand grabs her, she hopes it’s Wolverine only to find it is Ogun, who praises her courage and persistence as he throws her to the ground. She is the perfect choice as his disciple!
She slides toward Wolverine, who angrily asks her what she is doing here. Why didn’t she stay away like he told her to? She couldn’t she insists. She doesn’t care how mad he is. He just didn’t want her to die, he tells her clearly as Ogun steps closer to the two exhausted heroes. Not here, not like this, he tells her as he cradles her.
He’s giving up? she asks horrified. He’s facing reality he tells her. He couldn’t beat Ogun when they first met. He can’t now. She doesn’t want to die! she shouts. She thought she could face it when she first confronted Ogun, that she wouldn’t be afraid, but she was lying to herself. She was so happy when he appeared. She thought she was saved. Wolverine apologizes. Don’t give her “sorry,” Kitty orders, give her life!
That is quite beyond his powers, Ogun states. He, however, offers immortality! He stretches out his hand. If she places her soul into his care, they shall view eternity together!
Wolverine unsheathes his claws, ordering him to leave her be. Ogun refuses as he draws his sword. He offers life on his terms or not at all!
The two of them run toward each other. Ogun stabs Wolverine in the side. Wolverine manages to slice through his katana.
Their eyes meet, their wills cross for the last time. Wolverine smiles and goes berserk. No longer thinking, no longer feeling any pain, he just attacks.
Kitty watches frightened. Wolverine realizes that Ogun fights with all his heart and demon’s soul but, from the last moment their eyes met, they both knew he was beaten. That test of will was the real battle and Wolverine had won! Still fighting wildly, Wolverines shrugs off all off Ogun’s attacks, finally he has him pressed to a girder and disarmed. With his claws, he tears off Ogun’s demon mask.
Wolverine calls out to Kitty, telling her Ogun is hers! This is the moment she’s earned. His sword lies there. She can kill him if she wishes.
She doesn’t notice Wolverine is speaking Japanese. She moves like quicksilver lightning as she takes up the weapon, sure, deadly and full of grace. She strikes but stops the blow right above Ogun’s head. Crying, she drops the weapon and admits she couldn’t do it.
Belated, she realizes Wolverine did this deliberately. He goaded her into an attack. She had to be sure, he tells her, and so did he. That Kitty wouldn’t kill, not ever? she asks. Maybe, given the need, he concedes. But not a beaten man, a helpless one, a foe who’d surrendered. That’s Ogun’s way. An execution like that would have tipped the scales inside Kitty. Made her in the fundamental core of her being just like Ogun. He’d have won, she realizes. It was very close. She wanted to so much! What if she had… he sheathes his claws. Oh, she realizes.
She needed a real victory he tells her. Irrefutable proof that she was still herself. This was it. Let’s go home. But Ogun? she asks. He’s history, he tells her.
Unnoticed, Ogun reaches for his sword and runs toward Kitty who has her back turned to him. Logan notices and orders Kitty to phase. Wolverine reaches straight through her and slices Ogun’s heart while Ogun’s sword strike only goes skindeep. Ogun falls and dies.
Wolverine mourns, calling him sensei and chichi-san as he holds Ogun’s mask. Kitty realizes he knew Ogun would attack. The immortal ninja had been beaten, Wolverine explains, he wasn’t the best anymore. He’d hoped Ogun wouldn’t. He respected him. Loved him like a son. Whatever he is today a lot of it is because of Ogun. How could he have been so blind not to see what he truly was? Or perhaps, he continues in Japanese, perhaps he was simply afraid. And was it Ogun he feared or himself? The man hadn’t a prayer. It took the animal, the psycho killer to bring him down. Whose victory is this? he wonders. Ogun is dead but he’s face to face with his true self. He stares at the demon mask.
That’s right, Kitty agrees, but not the way he thinks. Logan was young when he and Ogun met. And in the years since he changed. Ogun stayed the same. There’s Logan’s edge. It would have been safe to keep his beast in its cage and let Ogun cut him to ribbons but he let it loose, made a choice, knowing the risks. He unleashed his demon but kept it under control. When he could have, should have and really wanted to kill him he didn’t to give Kitty her chance for salvation. He risked his life when he didn’t have to. He risked his soul for her. By any standard that is the hallmark of a man.
Logan crushes the mask, deciding that both of them won this night. He empties the dust over Ogun’s corpse and the two of them leave.
Mariko squares things with the police and, from them, they learn where Carmen Pryde has gone. When he leaves the embassy Kitty, Logan, Yukio, Akiko and Mariko are already waiting for him.
Carmen is happy to see they are still alive. He tells them that he informed federal agents, telling them everything he knew about Shigematsu’s American operation. With a little luck, he may have put him out of business. He didn’t cut any deals or ask for immunity. There’s a fair chance he’ll be arrested as soon as he steps off the plane. But he finds the thought of jail doesn’t scare him as much as it used to. He’s through as a banker. He’s lost that, no matter what but at least his conscience is clear. He doesn’t know how Kitty feels about that or him. If she hates him for all that’s happened, he’ll understand.
Sometimes he is so dumb! she tells him and hugs him. She is proud of him. The next moment, she shouts that a happy ending deserves a celebration. Logan knows just the place. Yukio tells them she’ll pass walking away and telling Kitty to remember her to Storm.
Looking after her, Mariko remarks to Logan Yukio loves him so much. But he loves Mariko, comes the reply. Jokingly, he asks Akiko if she likes what she sees in her foster father. It’s been quite a while since they last met and she was banged up. Kitty draws the stunned girl aside, telling her not to let him fluster her. He only looks tough.
They walk to Shapiro’s, an American ice cream parlor. Logan muses to Mariko that it’s strange for him suddenly being a family man instead of a loner.
Kitty finds herself rather surprised that Mr. Shapiro is a Yiddish-speaking Japanese gentleman.
In the meantime, Logan suggests to Mariko they finally make their relationship official. Mariko refuses. She will not marry until she has proved herself worthy of him.
Changing the subject, she asks if Kitty will ever be the girl she was again. No, he tells her, but her soul is still hers. It’s like a deadly illness which almost killed her but she got better. As for how she’s doing he suggests she see for herself. Kitty is about to happily wulf down a giant cup of ice cream, much to Akiko’s shock.


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The Calling
Muir Island, off the coast of Scotland. Home to Moira MacTaggert’s research center and headquarters of Excalibur. Kitty Pryde and her lover, Wisdom, are taking a walk outside. Kitty bluntly observes that Pete’s been a jerk lately. Is he to take that as constructive criticism, Pete asks, holding her hands, or should he be reeling in shame, his ego in tatters? He just went from “sort of” to “full blown” Kitty warns him. He can redeem himself by swearing off those nasty cigs. Sounds like blackmail, Pete complains. More like extortion, she playfully corrects him.
They are about to kiss when an aircraft flights straight above them. Pete tosses Kitty down, covering her. As the aircraft lands, Pete identifies it as a SHIELD orca class, Mark III, assault helicopter. What’s it doing on Muir? Kitty wonders as they both run towards the center and the landing aircraft. They have no jurisdiction there.
Fellow Excalibur member Colossus is wondering the same thing as he asks his teammate, Meggan, whether they radioed ahead for landing authorization. Not a peep, Meggan replies. They even flew in under radio cloaking with infrared suppression active. If it’s an assault helicopter, where are the weapon pods? Kitty wonders. Pete explains that this one has been modified. It’s a command chopper.
Douglock and Wolfsbane run outside, wondering who is stepping from the hatch. It’s not Nick Fury, Rahne insists. The man introduces himself as G.W. Bridge, acting commander of SHIELD. Now which one of the miserable mutants is Katherine Pryde?
Colossus steps up, demanding to know by what authority SHIELD violates restricted airspace without permission. Why shouldn’t he just pick up their aircraft and heave it into the surf? Bridge turns to one of his men, and asks who the “obstreperous fellow” is. They all work with Moira MacTaggert, don’t they? He isn’t infected, is he? Scanning Colossus with a small device, Agent Levie announces he is clean.
Colossus is getting ticked off and demands they leave. Considering this a threat, Agent Brown pulls a gun on him, threatening that he is dead meat if he even…. Colossus considers this a challenge rather but, before anything can happen, Kitty steps between them, reminding her teammate that SHIELD are the good guys, even if they are a bit rude. She identifies herself to Bridge and asks him what his problem is.
Looking her over, he remarks that she looks younger in her dossier photo. He gets to the point. They have a problem with the helicarrier computer system. It seems that the machine has decided on its own not to recognize any user code or palm print recognition scans others than Kitty’s.
He goes on to explain that the on-board computer handles navigation, target tracking, avionics regulation, life-support, weapons and even keeps track of supplies. The life-support is automatic as well as the fly-by-wire avionics and navigation suites. They do not seem to be affected… yet. But if a situation arises where they need to go into battle they are up the creek. They are asking Kitty to come aboard the helicarrier and assist them in tracking down the glitch in the best interest of international security and world peace. She will be granted temporary agent status and would be carried on the roster as a tech trainee intern.
Wisdom has had enough. He interrupts, shouting that Kitty is not going to get herself embroiled in the nefarious doings of transom peekers, envelope steamers and door kickers. SHIELD is an international group of over-armed control freaks who suffer from a deficiency in childhood toilet training.
Bridge orders Agent Levine to scan him. They are informed of Pete Wisdom’s background as former agent of the British intelligence sub-group Black Air. He is no James Bond, but he’s no Kim Philby either. It takes a transom peeker to know one, Bridge remarks to Wisdom and orders him to back off. Wisdom angrily replies there’s no way Kitty’ going to be a bloody SHIELD agent. Kitty snarls that that’s her decision to make. Since when does he have power of attorney here? When does she start? she asks Bridge. If she can get packed in ten minutes, they have a supersonic transport standing by at Lockerbie, he replies.
Kitty meets her teammates’ doubtful stares with the explanation that she needs to broaden her horizon and this might be a good experience. Besides she just needs to get off the island for a while. As she walks inside, Wisdom runs after her. What about him? he demands. That’s the person who seems to be paramount in his thoughts all the time, Kitty snaps, how about her for a change? She doesn’t know what’s she’s getting into, he shouts. Maybe, she replies coolly, but she knows what she’s getting out of.
Six hours later Kitty gets out of a Manhattan cab in front of the Citicorp building. The driver tells her to go into the G.O.P. Jeans outlet in the Arcade, pick out a pair of stonewashed jeans, take them into fitting room 12 and not to touch the walls. She didn’t even know Republicans s wore dungarees, Kitty jokes feebly as she enters the shop. She hopes she has time to look up Logan while she is in New York. She heard he’s living in the East Village.
The shop assistant tries to talk her out of trying the jeans on in room 12; it is the smallest. Kitty insists on the room and asks if she should know a secret handshake or something? Nod-nod, wink-wink. If she does anything weird in there, she’s calling the police the assistant warns her unnerved.
Kitty is barely inside when the room begins to move – a high-speed elevator. She steps outside to see a full room full of SHIELD agents. She is greeted by one of them as “Katherine Pryde, Special Agent intern.” He asks her to step this way, and she isn’t afraid of heights, is she? Not that she knows of, why? Just asking, he replies as they step aboard the Heli-carrier where she is expected by acting SHIELD commander Dum-Dum Dugan and his Execute Officer Countess Valentina.
Kitty wonders why the loudspeakers are playing “Ride of the Valkyries” at top volume and Dugan explains that the computer controls the loudspeaker system. Valentina tells her not to complain. Last night it was Marilyn Manson for seven hours straight.
They ask her to log in on the computer console and take a crack at turning down the volume. Kitty asks if it is dual palm print and voice recognition. Valentina agrees, adding that a retinal scan and mapped file photo comparison are the back-up. Kitty logs on. The computer recognizes her and just like that the music stops. A young agent Kitty’s age comes running, excitedly stating that the access blocking to the computer has been lifted. Calling him Rigby, Dugan suggests he thank their newest intern Kitty Pryde and introduces Kitty to their artificial intelligence hotshot Rigby Fallon. With that, Dugan and Valentina give orders to resupply the Helicarrier.
Kitty realizes that all they needed her for was to put her hand on that thing to unlock it. Dugan tells her to back off. A lowly intern doesn’t give lip to a special director. Angrily, Kitty threatens to walk out right now. Valentina points out that she signed on for an open-ended internship. If she leaves this vessel without authorization, she is a deserter. Besides, they don’t know if the fix on the computer is temporary or not.
Kitty is spoiling for a fight, but Rigby steps between the women and drags Kitty away, suggesting he show her the computer section. On the way there, Kitty complains about feeling used. Rigby suggests she cut them some slack. They’re old and have a different world view. Being a special agent intern in the Helicarrier is the coolest internship she could ever hope to get. It sure beats running a courier and delivering mail at some boring corporate headquarters. Somewhat mollified, Kitty agrees.
He leads her to the digital domain, the nerve center of the largest manmade object capable of sustained hover. She’s impressed, but can you play Quake on it? Rigby replies that it can compute trajectories along an infinite curve, extrapolate conflict scenarios in true 3-D, and solve the Sunday Times crossword puzzle in 1.23573 seconds… the mainframe is a series of Super Cray computers locked behind this blast door. A lot of Ram, huh? Kitty asks mockingly. Very funny, he remarks before pointing out that even the vector intersect program is up and running again. That must be very nice for the vectors, Kitty remarks. When he is taken aback by her comment, Kitty backs off and thanks him for chilling things out with Valentina and Dugan.
Later, Kitty has her uniform and the Heli-carrier is getting ready to disembark. It’s amazing this thing can fly, she muses. Logically it can’t, an agent replies, but then neither can a bumblebee. Some things are just beyond the rules of nature.
Chewing some sugarbombs, Rigby regretfully announces it’s time to get to work. He’ll start off by running a diagnostics program to try to track down what went wrong prevent it from happening again. Kitty asks whether this shouldn’t be handled by an expert technician. Does an intern like Rigby have the authority to do something like that. Amused, another agent replies that Rigby may be an intern and newbie as far as SHIELD is concerned but he got his masters from M.I.T. when he was seventeen. He wrote half of the programs that run the Helicarrier.
Rigby shows Kitty a program he starts, calling it his digital doctor. It should get right to the heart of the bug wherever it is and root it right out. It should, a voice comes from the computer, but it won’t… not as long as he is in control.
A face hidden beneath a Japanese red demon masks appears and Kitty recognizes him as Ogun. The mystic ninja master who once tried to take over her soul and make her his slave for eternity, but she thought he was dead. A hologram of Ogun appears behind them and he announces that death has no meaning on his plane of existence. Although he was once cheated out of his eternal slave, his perfect acolyte, his special daughter, he now has the means to rectify that. Lately, he has occupied the corporeal husk of Lady Deathstrike, an enhanced cyborg, and experiencing that gave him a taste for inhabiting a cyber-consciousness. He planned all this to lure her here? Kitty realizes. How astute, he replies mockingly.
On the bridge the SHIELD staff realizes the helm is not responding. The pilot tries to go to auxiliary systems, but nothing works and suddenly, sharply the Helicarrier is going down.
Kitty asks Ogun why he is involving all those innocents. This is between the two of them. Because he can, Ogun replies. As Rigby works the computer, Ogun mocks that his efforts to crash and reboot are quite futile. As futile as any attempt Kitty might make to forestall her destiny. The hologram changes shape to look like Kitty and he makes a phonecall… to Wolverine.
Kitty tries to warn Wolverine but he doesn’t hear, as Ogun’s Kitty tells him she is in town for the day and wants to see him.  Can they meet on the Brooklyn Bridge in half an hour? And can he wear his costume? Anything she says, he replies. A little later in his uniform he gets on his motorbike for their meeting.
Furious, Kitty threatens that she beat Ogun once before and she’s going to do it again. He urges her to get angry. Her rage is taking over, overwhelming her. That is the key to his victory. No way! she shouts and tries to attack.