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S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, Stark’s Office
Tony Stark stands behind his desk, his faceplate flipped open displaying a look of exasperation. In front of him is a memo from someone within the agency detailing the utter chaos that ensued on the Defenders’ first official mission. The Defenders in question, Nighthawk, Blazing Skull, Colossus and She-Hulk, are in his office awaiting his debrief.
Tony starts off discussing how he personally handpicked the Defenders, and how each and every one of them are seasoned veterans. Unfortunately, as a team they’re a disaster, he finishes. Kyle immediately goes on the defensive, but Stark doesn’t want to hear any of his “spin.” Kyle tells him it’s not spin; he only wanted to point out that their Intel said nothing about a giant monster.
Stark moves closer, and sarcastically tells Kyle to “cry me a river”, that that’s often how things go down. Jen starts reciting the Initiative creed and Tony tells her to knock it off. He points at the screen behind him showing a live-feed of the hotel’s destruction.
Colossus, sporting a bathrobe, admits it looks pretty bad. When Kyle tells him to maintain some professionalism Blazing Skull cracks wise. Then Skull turns his attention to Tony and tells him to cut them some slack. After all “you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.” She-Hulk tells him his brain is fried beyond repair. Blazing Skull brushes off the comment and starts to tell his side of the story.
The Fight
The Defenders stare upwards at the giant monstrosity that just emerged from the ground. The heroes don’t know what to make of it. She-Hulk explains it’s a mythical Aztec snake creature. Then it takes to the sky.
The Present
Tony moves in front of Jen and asks if they really didn’t know the Sons of the Serpent have been known to engage in occult practices. She-Hulk says it wouldn’t have made a difference either way. She still would have gone with her immediate response...
The Fight
Blazing Skull yells, “Bombs Away!” as he flies through the air, fastball special style, courtesy of She-Hulk. Both Kyle and Colossus aren’t sure it’s the right tactic and they’re both correct, at least in this instance, as the Skull’s flames are momentarily snuffed out from the beating of the Quetzalcoatl’s wings. He begins plummeting towards the ground.
The Present
Tony directs his attention towards Todd now and asks him if that happens often. Skull tells him he may be immortal, but he’s not infallible, and then adds he wasn’t the only act in the circus.
The Fight
Kyle tells Colossus to run interference, but before he can react, the armored mutant is bathed in the Quetzalcoatl’s fire.
The Present
Tony puts an armored hand to his face, a look of frustration crossing over him. He didn’t know it breathed fire and is surprised they didn’t burn down the boardwalk. He asks them to continue.
The Fight
She-Hulk leaps at the beast’s chest and wallops it hard. The gigantic bird/snake creature crashes backward into the Caesar’s Hotel. That makes the Quetzalcoatl very angry.
Not far below Blazing Skull crawls his way up the building, ready for round two.
The Present
Tony interrupts once more to complain that Trump’s going to have a field day with this debacle. He’s almost afraid to ask who delivered the coup de grace.
The Fight
Blazing Skull leaps toward the Quetzalcoatl’s face. He douses its eyes with flames. The creature falls back once more into the hotel causing even more damage.
The Present
Stark tells them they completely destroyed the hotel. Skull points out that at least “Quackenbush” didn’t get away. She-Hulk corrects his pronunciation and thinks to herself she was better off chasing skips in the sewers.
Tony tells Kyle he isn’t exhibiting the leadership skills he was hoping for and now has a tough decision he needs to make. Stark closes his faceplate and tells the Defenders they are shut down until further notice. Kyle looks dejected. He can’t believe Stark is disbanding the team. Iron Man tells him it’s effective immediately. He tells Kyle they may revisit the idea in a year or so.
Stark starts to walk away. Kyle tries pleading with him, but Tony cuts him off. He thanks them for their service and says he’s sorry it didn’t work out. He explains his office will be in touch to set up exit interviews for each of them and to go over their next assignments with the Initiative.
Kyle blurts something out in an attempt to get the team to stay together, but She-Hulk storms out of the room. Kyle next looks at Colossus who tells his short-lived team leader that not all things are meant to be. He puts out his hand, which Kyle takes. They shake and Piotr tells Kyle he has a noble heart. Kyle still tries to get him to stay, to which Colossus politely tells him someday... maybe.
Blazing Skull, the only one left, agrees Tony may have a point about this particular group not working out. Kyle, rather emphatically, says it did occur to him, but doesn’t think the Defenders should be taken off the table. Skull attempts another joke, but Kyle’s not amused.
Richmond shuts his eyes in frustration. He can’t believe after one mission the Defenders are canned. This was certainly not how he envisioned it.
S.H.I.E.L.D. helipad
dusk
She-Hulk confronts Iron Man out on the helipad. She calls him “General Patton” and asks if someone wrote that speech for him. Iron Man defends his decision saying they can’t afford any more mistakes. She-Hulk points out they’re training kids in Stamford and she doesn’t see why they’re willing to downsize professionals.
The Initiative is still a work in progress, Tony admits and he concedes he’s made mistakes. She-Hulk doesn’t care for his lip service, telling Tony that doesn’t do much for his reputation as a futurist. Stark asks if he should have his lawyer present for this cross-examination.
She-Hulk stares straight at him and starts visualizing the best way to take him down, “Pounds per square inch...faceplate strike...target stress points in rear shoulder seams...crush chest beamer...dismantle battery package...tear off both power cells...” Tony asks what that look’s supposed to mean. Jen replies she’s staring into the abyss. Tony says he gets that a lot and tells She-Hulk it wasn’t personal, that she was the best asset on the team. He apologizes once more and walks away. She-Hulk stares angrily after him, arms crossed over her chest.
Plaza Motel, Manhattan
1973
As soon as Daimon Hellstrom walks into the Oak Bar a guest at another table calls him over. The guest, “Mr. Smith” (Yandroth), remarks on how young Hellstrom looks. Daimon isn’t a big fan of pleasantries and tells “Smith” he’s pressed for time. Hellstrom sits down and asks about the paranormal situation “Smith” needs investigating.
“Smith” tells him not to worry, calling him by his secret identity Son of Satan, that he won’t always be this naive. Hellstrom is taken aback that this stranger knows his codename. “Smith” presses on discussing how easy it was to go into the past and find Hellstrom in this unspoiled state. He forewarns Daimon that what he’s talking about might be confusing, but he really can’t help it.
Ruminating, “Smith” tells Daimon that he lives his life in a distinctly linear fashion, which surprised him given Hellstrom’s background. “Smith” adds that he’s encountered him and his colleagues several times already. Daimon has no idea who he means by colleagues.
“Smith” pauses and sips from his cup of tea. He tells Hellstrom it will be decades before he’ll understand the significance of this meeting, of “Smith’s” significance and of his own. Daimon cuts him off right there. He’s heard enough. He tells “Smith” not to play games with him. “Smith” puts his hand up in a stopping gesture, telling Hellstrom to stop with the theatrics for he, Yandroth, has his own power.
Instantaneously, the room around them disappears, save the table where they’re sitting. Instead, they are surrounded by deep space, several planets within eyesight. Daimon scoffs at Yandroth’s parlor trick. Yandroth concedes the point, but adds that Hellstrom’s mastery of the occult puts him on a greater path to defend the world.
Yandroth continues, explaining there will be a group of heroes, and that he has to become one of them. Yandroth pauses and reflects at the irony that he’s the one to make him join the group that’s been a thorn in his side time and time again.
Hellstrom is not amused, calling Yandroth a mere fortuneteller. He tells Yandroth whatever path he chooses will be his own. Yandroth calls him arrogant and then disappears, leaving Daimon back in the restaurant to ponder what just transpired.
former Defenders Headquarters
The Present
Kyle walks into the former Defenders headquarters and finds the place almost completely stripped of all furniture and equipment. He punches Pennysworth up on the computer console, feelings of failure plaguing him for Joaquin was supposed to be his proudest achievement.
Kyle hangs his head rubbing the back of his neck, still bewildered by all that’s happened recently. The computer voice system comes to life with an incoming locator signal trace. Kyle looks back at the screen in surprise. It’s Pennysworth and he’s been located. The computer locks onto the signal. Kyle can’t believe his luck.
Nighthawk places his cowl on intent on finding Pennysworth even if the Defenders are no more. That’s when She-Hulk enters the room. She reads the signal trace up on the monitor and makes a joke about S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives and their stamina. She coyly asks if they’re going to finish this thing.
Webster County, West Virginia
Four hours later
Nighthawk and She-Hulk find a hidden, underground entrance and dispatch the half-dozen guards outside. Once inside, they peer down a hallway through one of the ceiling tiles. They’re surprised to find Sons of the Serpent soldiers running rampant. It appears something else has them scampering about, which Kyle hopes will provide them with enough cover to find Joaquin.
With Nighthawk lost deep in thought She-Hulk asks if there’s something about Pennysworth he’s not disclosing. Kyle wonders if She-Hulk knows anything about “stealth.” It’s too late, as an observant soldier spots them up in the ceiling. The soldier calls his comrades over and they open fire. Nighthawk and She-Hulk run for cover. The soldiers realize it’s not who they’re looking for and break off the attack.
She-Hulk punches through a wall to secure their exit. Unfortunately, it’s into a room with a squad of snipers above them. She can’t believe their luck and grabs Nighthawk despite his protests. She asks him if he’s bulletproof as bullets rain down upon them.
She-Hulk zigzags through the hallways until someone in the shadows offers them some help. She changes direction to see who their new friend is. It’s Pennysworth, sporting some gashes, a swollen eye, a bloody nose and a bloody lip. She-Hulk finally puts Nighthawk down after he yells at her to get off him. She-Hulk asks for some gratitude. Pennysworth, taking fire, thinks to himself how the “masks” are always fighting with each other.
The bickering continues until Pennysworth finally tells them to shut up, that the Snakes are almost upon them. She-Hulk says, “Fine!” and pushes Joaquin out of the way. She enters the center of the hallway and smashes the ground in front of her. It causes a tidal wave effect and the Serpent soldiers are sent flying every which way.
With the immediate threat averted, Nighthawk asks agent Pennysworth how he managed to stay alive. Joaquin tells him it’s not the time or place right now and asks them to follow him to somewhere less conspicuous.
They reach their destination, though they won’t be able to stay for long. She-Hulk wants to know what happened. She points out he’s been missing for weeks. Pennysworth is surprised to hear it’s been that long. He explains his entire squad is dead and he would have been too if the bullet didn’t just graze his head. After being tortured for a while he eventually mustered his faculties and escaped. Ever since he’s been lying low and working towards his mission’s original objective.
Nighthawk asks if he hasn’t bitten off more than he can chew. Look who’s talking, Pennysworth tells him, and asks if either of them is registered. She-Hulk throws out another sarcastic comment, calling Pennysworth a “free thinker.” Nighthawk grits his teeth and asks her what her problem is, pointing out nobody asked her to come in the first place. She-Hulk gets in his face reminding him who it was that “begged” her to join Stark’s club. Nighthawk says he thought she did it out of love.
She-Hulk snaps and throws a punch, which Nighthawk deflects. He then wraps his legs around her head and knocks her onto her back. She-Hulk gets to her knees and smile wickedly. She punches the floor, which knocks Nighthawk to the ground. She comes over and grabs him by the throat. Kyle can barely breathe. She lifts him into the air by his neck and threatens to break him in half.
Joaquin wonders if letting them kill each other would make his life easier. Instead he pulls out some sort of whistle and blows. Both heroes place their hands on their ears, letting out noises of pain. She-Hulk finally tells him to stop with the dog whistle. Pennysworth explains he had to do it, as it’s the only way to counteract the effects of Harding’s invention. He further explains he was neurologically immunized before he was deployed; otherwise he probably would have knocked both of them out already.
Both Nighthawk and She-Hulk want answers on “Harding’s invention”, but they’re interrupted by a broadcast on a nearby monitor from the Supreme Serpent himself. There’s also a woman standing next to him, who Pennysworth explains is named Cheer Chadwick. The Supreme Serpent compliments Pennysworth on his resourcefulness, a credit to his inferior ethnic background. He says America will soon get a full taste of what his friends just experienced and if they make it out alive they won’t recognize the country they call home. He tells them good riddance and then the transmission cuts out.
Nighthawk tells Pennysworth they need to evacuate him. Pennysworth tells him that’s not an option; he’s not leaving until he finishes what he came to do. He explains the Serpents are trying to create their vision of a utopian society, wiping out all non-white ethnicities, using massive, extreme violence.
She-Hulk infers he’s talking about Harding’s invention. Pennysworth says they just experienced a taste of it. The Serpents are going to use it to tear the country apart and achieve total white supremacy. He explains Chadwick brought them the blueprints to rebuild the sonic device and they are going to detonate it. Back in the day it was called “Big Daddy”, but it also goes by the name Madbomb.
Somewhere else in the facility there’s an enormous laboratory staffed with scientists and guards. In the middle of the lab is a huge rocket and inside the top of the rocket sits a giant brain, the Madbomb!


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20 years ago…Young Peter Quill stand at his mother’s grave with a minister by his side, who tells him the foster home folks will be along shortly. They’ll take him to his new home. They never knew his dad and now his mom’s gone… Peter’s the captain of his own ship now. It’s up to him to determine the course of his life.
After that, his life on Earth was a nightmare…
Present:But if he’s honest, sometimes life in space can be a real pain in the ass.
Right now, Star-Lord is defending a pretty woman and two kids against several threatening-looking Badoon. Pete warns them he’s been killing Badoons since he was ten years old. Their leader grins. When he was ten, he ate a human brain every day. Keeps the doctor away. They take away his element gun.
The woman, Donna, the principal of the orphanage, tells them to get the hell out of her orphanage. The Badoon leader orders her to calm herself and holds up a crystal. They got what they came for. She probably didn’t know the Mandalay gem was even here. She knows everything that goes on here, Donna retorts. When the Spartax army turned tail, they hid it here. That was kind of his fault, Peter mumbles.
The Badoon hints that Quill was here to rob the stone as well. The legendary Star-Lord caught stealing from poor orphans. Peter stammers.
Soon he is taken away as prisoner of the Badoon pirates. Some mysterious stranger watches this and decides to follow the ship.
Aboard the ship, the Badoon make fun of Star-Lord’s gun, which apparently doesn’t work. He hopes to keep them focused on the gun, so they don’t notice his boots.
Looks like they score twice, the gem and Star-Lord. Mr. Knife put a blood bounty on his head, he is told, and they are going to collect. Peter is genuinely confused. He never heard of this Mr. Knife. One Badoon scoffs he’s lying. Mr. Knife collects esoteric weapons. They say he’s gunning for Earth. He’s the scourge of the cosmos this month. A real tough gangster. Have the Guardians of the Galaxy been under a rock?
They’ve been busy with important things, Peter retorts. What kind of important things? the Badoon mocks. Peter thinks back to gambling, womanizing, adventuring, Karaoke with Rocket and Groot. Really important things, he replies evasively. Things their greasy reptile brains could never understand.
Annoyed, the leader orders Thumbnail, a large Badoon with a club, to get into Peter’s cell and put him to sleep. Be gentle? Peter asks hopefully and in vain.
Sometime later, he wakes up and takes a hidden comm.-device from his boot. He uses it to call Kitty Pryde on Earth. A hologram of her appears and she asks where he’s been. Is there some attack on Earth happening? he asks. Why, she’s lovely, thanks. How is he? Kitty asks sarcastically. She’s pretty sure Earth is quiet right now. Does she maybe want to check? They’ve been invaded like twenty times since she bat mitzvah’ed, she replies. And ever since Thanos--
That may have been his fault too, Peter thinks.If there was an attack she’d know, Kitty finishes.
Yeah, it’s just that he’s in— Wait, is she in bed? She’s grading papers, calm down, she tells him. And what else? he flirts. Grading papers! she repeats. No fun, he sulks. She tells him he is fun but she’s had bad luck with Peters. So call him Baby boo, he offers. Rocket does. The raccoon gave him a pet name? Kitty asks, doubting.
Who is he talking to? he hears a harsh voice. What was that? Kitty asks. He is kinda in jail and… Kitty, meet Thumbnail, he announces as the giant guard enters the cell. Thumbnail hate cute talk! he shouts. Luckily, he also hates shutting the door behind him. Peter fires blasts at him from the soles of his boots.
He moves out of his cell and grabs his element gun, which is coded to his DNA and only works for him or members of his family.
He points it at the Badoon and the captain points out he can’t shoot all of them. Instead, Peter fires at the wall, creating a hole in the hull. As the others are sucked outside, Peter holds on to grab the crystal, then allows himself to be sucked out as well. His uniform automatically creates his airmask.
One of the people watching him asks his boss of they should reel him in. No, she replies. She wants to see what he does next.
Peter sneaks into the orphanage to be caught by Donna. They’ve got nothing left to steal, she tells him angrily. She’s got him all wrong, he defends himself. He’s sorry about before. He would never— he grew up in an orphanage himself. She interrupts. Tell the kids if they do their studies and hope real hard they can grow up to be a thief like him? No thanks. Thanos makes a better role model! He doesn’t care about those kids. He broke into their home. Half of them won’t sleep for weeks!
Ice cream worked well for him, he suggests. Ice cream won’t make up for what he did, she tells him bluntly. Maybe this will, he replies and empties the bag he is carrying. It’s full of money. He fenced the gem, he explains. When he heard rumors that the military hid the gem at the orphanage, he knew it would be a target for the wrong crowd. He was trying to safely remove it before bad guys stirred up trouble. He was too late, but— everyone thinks that the Badoon have the gem now. She can spend the money on the kids without worrying. Should buy a lot of ice cream. Flabbergasted, Donna asks why he did that.
Flashback:Is he listening to him? Father James asks 10 year old Peter at the graveyard. His mother gave her life to save him. But maybe he can make her sacrifice mean something. Make the world a better place. Not the world, Peter replies. Space! He’s gonna make space a better place. They are sure gonna miss his wild imagination, Father James tells him and hugs him.
Present:Real smooth, Peter tells himself as he holds the gem. Those were the last of his emergency savings. But at least he got his hands on this baby. The Mandalay gem, one of the most powerful minerals in the universe. Twelve more days, purple potato head, he vows, then time’s up. He is coming for Thanos…
Suddenly over comm., he is warned that he is surrounded and should give up. The leader of his attackers introduces herself as Captain Victoria, commander of the Spartax royal guard and daughter of former Emperor J-son. Under her own authority, she is taking him into custody. Yield or she’ll kick his pathetic ass in front of the entire galaxy!
He has a sister? Peter exclaims.


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Peter Quill aka Star-Lord finds himself in unfamiliar surroundings. Not again! he shouts frustrated. He sniffs in an exaggerated way and announces he smells bastardized, beady-eyed, mud-slinging rat-eaters. Why does he smell Badoon?
He is in jail, a dark-haired man with a beard informs him. He introduces himself as Carmody and asks if Quill enjoyed his nap. His brain feels like a soggy burrito, Peter complains, then notices a shy Badoon child cowering in a corner. He asks who the kid is. Carmody doesn’t know. He was already here when Carmody got locked up. Keeps quiet. So how does the legendary Star-Lord end up in a Badoon jail? Happens more than he likes, Peter mutters. He remembers a girl…
Flashback:Peter is in a bar flirting with a beautiful alien girl. He downs his drink, and the woman leads him away and shoots him once they are outside.
Present:She sold him out to the Badoon! he realizes.
Quill tries to address the security camera while cursing the girl. They had a vibe going on! Carmody reminds him it takes two to tango. No one to blame but himself, really. Quill decides the Badoon put her up to it. Do they hear him? he shouts at the camera. They are a stain on the galaxy! Go back to their mud-planet with their sixty inbred brothers and sisters! His string of insults is interrupted when an armed pissed off Badoon guard enters asking what did he just say? Peter repeats his insult, to be hit in the face. He gets beaten up and the guard leaves again.
Carmody tells him to get settled in. Escape is impossible. Even if he gets past the guard outside, there are twenty battalions of Badoon soldiers just behind. Not to mention they are on a destroyer ship, light years away from any civilization. How does he know? Peter asks. Carmody explains he is a spy of the Spartax secret service. His mission was to gain intelligence on the Badoon armada. How did that work out for him? Peter deadpans. He’s stuck with him in a jail cell, Carmody replies.
Peter tells him to do his job. Let’s get out and kill as many of these slimeballs as possible. His duty is his mission, not a revenge fantasy, Carmody retorts. He’s waiting for his shot. He creates his own shots, Peter announces. What’s a prison for if not escape? He looks at his bracelet with the engraved letters “WWRRD?” - What would Rocket Raccoon do? Fake it till you make it, he decides.
Peter takes out his phone to place a holographic call to Kitty Pryde, who is shocked he‘s calling from jail. Again. Peter explains he needs a distraction. She’s got a cracking jazz tap routine, Kitty offers. He was thinking of something more from the lingerie department. Dream on, Kitty mocks. How about something crazy? She might have something from last Halloween, Kitty muses.
A little later, the guard hears panicked screams from inside the cells about a monster. He looks inside to have Kitty in a giant banana costume go Ugga chacka at him and Carmody lying on the ground, seemingly hurt. The guard screams hysterically and Peter uses the distraction to grab his weapon.
He locks the guard into the cell. Carmody and the Brood kid also run with Carmody holding the weapon. Annoyed, Peter tells the Brood kid to leave them. Carmody tells him the same. Peter is too high-profile and he has a mission to think of.
Peter almost runs into some Badoon guards when the kid points at the entry of a sewage shaft. Reluctantly, Peter follows and they slide down a chute, ending up in a hangar with a hot red ship called Bad Boy. Peter announces he is finally in love.
He is welcomed by Lydia, the board computer in the holographic shape of a smartass teenage girl. Peter finds the ship is state of the art. He asks Lydia if she can get them out. She only has enough juice for two of them, she replies. There are only two, Peter points out but is mistaken as Carmody has sneaked aboard as well.
Carmody tells him to ditch the kid. Moments later, Carmody is thrown out and the ship takes off.
Faster! the boy joyfully shouts, finally talking. Peter apologizes for giving him a hard time before and asks if he wants to take the wheel. The kid grins. And they both sing a rock song while cruising at high speed.
Sometime later, Peter has brought the kid to Donna’s orphanage and introduces the Badoon kid as Tiberius, named after Earth’s coolest most awesome space captain. The other kids are not convinced and remind Peter that he said Badoon are slimy and disgusting. Peter admits he was wrong. Ty is an orphan like him and them. He’s alone in the galaxy and needs to find a new mom and dad. Can he live with them until he does? The kids are still doubtful. When Peter then mentions that Tiberius flew his new spaceship and the kids are impressed.
As they play with him, Donna admits he is the first Badoon in her orphanage, but he’s welcome to stay as long as he needs to. Peter thanks her. Donna teases him that under all the swagger he has a heart like all of them. She tells him he’s welcome to stay and they share a moment, until he sees Tiberius eating a banana, which reminds him of something or someone. Peter quickly apologizes and returns to his new ship.
He calls Kitty and asks where she got such a ridiculous costume, and Ooga-chaka? He said scary, not cockamamie. She recalls the look on that Badoon’s face was priceless. He admits he doesn’t know a banana could look this hot and thanks her. He doesn’t have a lot of people he can count on.
Kitty replies it was fun to be a space adventurer with him. Even if only for two minutes. She’d come save him any time. Promise? He asks and moves in for a kiss.
Heads up, pervos! Lydia shouts and they jump apart. She reminds Peter that time ran out. Kitty mutters remember when she thought his ship was cool?
Does he still want her to plot that trip to Earth? Lydia continues. He’s coming to visit? Kitty asks. Not exactly, he admits, he is coming to Earth but this ain’t a vacation. There’s something dangerous he’s gotta do. Unfinished business to take care of.
And somewhere, in the snowy mountains of Earth, sits Thanos the Mad Titan…


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Pete Quill has escaped from the Badoon with a new ship, which unfortunately comes with sentience in the form of an annoying young girl named Lydia, who teases him and asks if he is gonna visit his girlfriend when they get to Earth.
Kitty isn’t his girlfriend, Peter replies curtly. Lydia continues to make fun. He orders her to quit bugging him and fly his ship! Unfortunately, she can do both. So where are they taking her out on the date? Lydia still asks about Kitty. Star-Lord replies they are not going to see Kitty, which surprises Lydia. They are flying millions of miles to his girlfriend’s planet and he isn’t even going to visit her? What did Kitty say when he told her that?
Flashback:Peter remembers a pissed-off Kitty calling him a dumb-ass.
Present:It wasn’t pretty, he admits. Lydia informs him he blew it. He didn’t blow it, Peter insists. He’s got a loose end that needs tying up. He grabs his gun. There’s a madman out there and it’s his fault…
Flashback:He remember his time in the Cancerverse with Drax and Nova aka Richard Rider. How they decided they couldn’t let Thanos, who was stranded with them, back into their universe. If they did and he hurt one hair on one planet’s head, it would be on them. And he can’t live with that.
Present:So he’s gonna smack him around or something like that? Lydia asks. Something like that, Peter echoes. Last time he didn’t know what he was doing. Now he’s got the Mandalay Gem.
A pinging noise alerts them to a strange energy signature on the moon. He’s free! Peter bursts out horrified. Stark let him escape!
As they head towards the moon, Peter apologizes to Lydia for calling her a superbrat and asks her to fly in the opposite direction as he heads out. How is she gonna help? she asks. He might not come back, Peter replies. He’s going after Thanos.
A grinning Thanos is on the moon’s surface, energy glowing from his hands. He blasts a chunk of rock and adds it to others, creating a statue of his true love - Death. Suddenly, he notices something coming at him from the sky at high speed and it hits him one moment later - it being an energized glowing Star-Lord.
Calling Thanos “purple potato-head,” Peter reminds him it’s been a while. So much has changed since their time in the Cancerverse. Star-Lord’s like a big deal in the galaxy now! But Thanos’ face still look like old toothpaste!
He’s late, Thanos smirks. Their truce has been up for some time. And Thanos has been busy doing things, Peter points out. Bad things. Thanos-like things. He’s surprised Quill is surprised, Thanos remarks. Thanos really went to town while his hands were tied, Peter spits. Well the party is over! Is it? Thanos asks and blasts him. Pathetic, he sighs.
Surprisingly. Peter survives to attack again. He grabs Thanos by the throat. He should never have agreed to their truce, Peter snaps. Regret stings, Thanos agrees. But this will sting worse. He eye-blasts Star-Lord, but Peter again is none the worse for wear, frustrating Thanos.
Finally, the Mad Titan notices the crystal on Star-Lord’s chest that seems to be the source of the purple glow surrounding him. When Star-Lord vows to make him pay, Thanos knees him in the nose. His mother gave him that nose, Peter complains when it bleeds.
Thanos is gratified to see he can still be hurt. He blasts him again and tells him to be truthful with himself. This isn’t about justice or redemption. This is about Quill’s guilt. Name one planet he’s destroyed since their pathetic truce! He takes him into a headlock. They both did what they had to to return to this universe alive. Since then they both have done what they must. Can he not live with that? Can he not live with himself? If not, Thanos will have no trouble relieving him of his shame. That crystal is Celestial technology. Is he sure he knows what he is doing?
Thanos tries to grab the Mandalay crystal then tears his hand away screaming in pain. Peter blast him and asks if it feels like he knows what he’s doing.
Thanos lies on the ground panting. Last words? Peter asks. Thanos tells him to kill him if his conscience dictates it but he will regret it. Peter replies Thanos can’t fry him. He’s got the Celestial crystal, remember? Thanos grins. But he’s got the moon. Kill him and the real source of Thanos’ cosmic energy will pulverize it. And if the moon dies, the Earth dies. All because Quill’s pathetic emotions are in a twist over a truce. Will he make the Earth pay the prize or will he bear the burden of his own guilt like they all must do?
Peter relents. Thanos calls him a fool. Quill tells him to sit tight while he calls the Avengers. Thanos replies either he will be gone or they won’t believe Quill or chastise him for letting Thanos get away. Again. Heed his counsel, give up on vengeance. He has too much milk in his veins for it. There must be something for which his bleeding heart is more suited than retribution. He recommends he do that. The truce is up for Star-Lord but that means the truce is up for Thanos as well. Beware. Goodbye.
What is he doing with this anyway? Peter wonders, looking at the crystal in his hand. He looks up to see his ship hasn’t left. She doesn’t do well with orders, does she? he asks Lydia. The computer tells him that was hardcore. Peter tentatively agrees and adds there is something he must do. He can’t believe he’s saying this but he’s actually gonna take Thanos’ advice.
He leaves the crystal behind and takes off.
The New Xavier School:Kitty Pryde and her best friend Illyana Rasputin are doing the dishes and discuss what passes for Kitty’s love life or in this case the fact that her “boyfriend” is flying millions of light years to her planet but doesn’t visit her. He is not her boyfriend, Kitty announces stone-faced. Then what is he? Illyana asks. Kitty doesn’t know. Then why is she so upset? Kitty doesn’t know. Do they sext? Illyana! Kitty shouts. No judgment, Magik assures her. He’s cute enough. He is cute, Kitty admits, but he’s also shady.He’s a smooth talker and a thief and a habitual jailbird. What the hell was she thinking anyway?
Young Iceman interrupts them, shouting she has to come outside and see this. In the snow, they find a message spelled with flowers: Kitty, I’m sory XoXo dumb-ass.
Points off for spelling, Kitty decides and wonders who “dumbass” is. The list of candidates is endless, Illyana mocks. Who would drag flowers all the way up a mountain? Flattered, Kitty announces he is a total dumbass.
Space, where several huge corpses float around. In a living spaceship someone addresses Mr. Knife, admitting this place terrifies him. Mr. Knife agrees, not many have seen the graveyard of the Celestials. And now that he works for him, he must acclimate himself to the unseemly and terrifying. The masked Mr. Knife informs Bligh this is his new world. The Star-Lord escaped his castle and with him the Mandalay Gem. It is not just a weapon but a key to one of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos.
The creature emits a beam, reanimating the Celestials. They all point in the same direction to one of the most powerful artifacts in the universe. Mr. Knife tells Bligh to call his crew. Tomorrow they steal the Black Vortex……


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The Black Vortex – chapter 3
Standing behind Gamora, Beast, also transformed by the Black Vortex, tells their friends that this is the future and urges them to step forward and embrace their truth. Submit to the Black Vortex! Gamora adds, having shown them all the Vortex and their mirror images within.
The others are less enthusiastic. Rocket trains his weapon on them. Storm asks Beast to see reason… before she fries him bald. The others wonder what to do. The young Angel is transfixed by what he saw in there. Is that really him?
Kitty Pryde shouts for someone to stop him but it is too late, as Warren reaches out and announces he submits to the Black Vortex. Moments later, he stands transformed as a masked warrior angel with energy wings. Awesome! he announces. Cool! Nova bursts out. Jean is horrified. Adult Beast asks Warren how he feels. Angel replies he never knew how trapped he was. Now he is free. He takes off his mask and tells X-23 it’s like he’s seeing her for the first time. All their lives on Earth, all their little worries. So insignificant! True magnificence lies in the cosmos.
Iceman is fascinated by the Black Vortex while Kitty Pryde is arguing with the grown Beast. She is worried about her charge, Warren, while he accuses her of ignorance.
Iceman is about to submit but Drax pushes himself between the Vortex and Iceman. Storm tells Rocket to get in his ship and meet her on the far side of the moon in five minutes.
“Back away from the Vortex, Oscar the Grouch!” Iceman shouts. He has not yet begun to unleash the grouch, Drax threatens.
Remember when it was his job to protect these kids? Kitty asks Beast. He retorts it is their job to realize their potential. Suddenly, they notice the Vortex is missing. Storm has stolen it.
At Mr. Knife’s flying fortress:The Slaughter Lord Father Diablo announces they can find neither the heroes nor the Vortex. Find them, Mr. Knife aka J-son of Spartax orders grimly. Disgusted, Thane wonders aloud if maybe he should ask the Star-Lord for the power Knife promised him. Does J-son need his bastard son to make good on his word? Bring him the Black Vortex or he’ll—The Brood envoy hisses.
Mr. Knife tells both of them to listen. Thane will get his power, the Brood Queen will get what she wants. He stakes his life on it. Thane turns away. He is tired of promises. He wants the Black Vortex.
Mr. Knife quietly orders Father Diablo to go to Brennan-7 and do that thing they talked about. No survivors.
Czar joins them to reveal the Guardians and X-Men are on Spartax’s moon. Knife tells him to turn this dragon around. They’ll pay them a visit.
Carrying the Vortex, Storm struggles with the moon’s thin atmosphere as she flies through the ruins, cursing herself for putting her trust in a raccoon. She thinks she can hear Logan laugh at her…
Suddenly, her cape is nailed to a steel girder and she stumbles. The attacker Gamora orders her to stay down. The Black Vortex belongs to the whole galaxy! She is trying to protect the galaxy! Storm retorts. She could have been the first! Gamora spits as she raises her sword and almost hits her. Storm goes for a sword in Gamora’s cape. Storm blocks her blow and warns her that is not her first sword fight.
Gamora disappears into her cape, teleports in from behind and strikes Storm, then laughs at her when she tries a lightning bolt. “Daughter, halt!” a voice suddenly booms.
Gamora is shocked by her adoptive father Thanos’ appearance but Beast deduces it is an illusion caused by Jean Grey, who has appeared with Illyana and Drax.
Magik asks Drax what else Gamora is afraid of. Nothing! he shouts.
Enraged, Gamora raises her sword, intending to kill Jean. She brings the blade down but, instead of cleaving her into two, the blade passes through Jean, courtesy of Kitty Pryde who has grabbed Gamora’s cape and phased her. Back away from her student! she orders.
Drax carries Jean out of Gamora’s range. Kitty lets go and Gamora’s sword is embedded in the ground. Drax hits her hard the next moment and orders her to control herself.
Grabbing two smaller daggers, Gamora tells Drax to say ‘hi’ to Richard Ryder for her. Beast tells her to stop. The Black Vortex is there. There is nothing they need here.
The others have joined the heroes. Star-Lord tells Beast they need a good butt-whupping and he and his friends are just the ones to give it to them. Beast calls them wasted potential. Angel urges them to go. With a last warning, the three fly away at super speed.
Peter tells Magik to teleport after them. It doesn’t work like that, she replies. She needs a location. Captain Marvel announces they went beyond her top speed and Jean cannot sense their thoughts anymore.
Kitty lashes out at Peter. They took the Vortex! His friend almost killed Jean! Now maybe the whole galaxy is screwed! All because he saw a magic shortcut and chose to ignore the consequences. What kind of person is he?
Iceman interrupts, asking if that thing is on their side. He refers to Mr. Knife’s flying fortress, which is clearly not.
Fire! Mr. Knife orders and the living ship fires at the heroes.


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The Black Vortex – chapter 10
Mr. Knife’s fortress in the orbit of Spartax:Mr. Knife aka J-son, Thane and a Brood emissary stand on a platform looking down on Spartax. Thane, son of Thanos, J-son muses. Soon they will call him Thanos, father of Thane! He promised him power. Now uphold his promise. Unleash the power of the Black Vortex on Spartax!
Thane uses his cosmically enhanced power to freeze the whole planet in amber.
On Spartax, Kitty Pryde and her friends see something strange in the sky and smell burnt plastic. She orders everyone back to the orphanage. Moments later, they are hit and frozen.
In orbit, J-son triumphs. He stole an entire planet! He tells the Brood emissary she may inform her queen he is ready to deliver Spartax to the Brood…
Soon, Star-Lord’s team arrives on Spartax. They don’t find Nova. What they do find is the entire population encased in amber. They realize this has happened to the whole planet. Jean Grey mindscans the people and then screams. She reveals they are in agony – living death!
They find their frozen friends and Peter runs toward the frozen Kitty. Oh God nononono! he stammers. He apologizes. She was right; he should have listened! The Black Vortex is a curse! He regrets they ever stole it from his krutaking father. She wanted to destroy it but he said no. Now they’ve lost Hala, Spartax and her!
Under the amber, Kitty begins to cry, as he continues his apology. He should have listened to her. She’s the best person in the galaxy. Now he’ll never get to tell— Surprisingly, she manages to phase her fingers out of her amber prison and Peter pulls her out.
He hugs her relieved, then tells her he loves her. She loves him too. She heard him talking to her. He admits he was scared and apologizes. She shushes him. Just kiss her, spaceboy.
Drax tries his strength on another victim but finds he cannot crack the amber. Storm and Jean happily hug Kitty and ask what happened. It all happened so fast, she explains. It came from the sky and the material is so dense she doesn’t think she can phase anyone else out.
Carol Danvers promises the frozen Agent Venom they’ll get him out. Something about this seems familiar. It has to do with Thanos. Not Thanos, Nova who joined them corrects her. Thane, son of Thanos. He wouldn’t shut up about it. He did it because Nova screwed up. Knife and Thane now have the Black Vortex. Storm tells him he did the best he could, they are glad he found them.
They’re back, losers! Magik shouts as she teleports in with their altered teammates and Rocket. The others are understandably suspicious. Peter verbally attacks them, especially Beast. Magik orders him to shut up. He can’t imagine what they are going through so spare them the Saint Peter act. They are here, aren’t they? Did they miss the destruction of the Kree homeworld? Peter asks. Kitty tries to make peace.
Rocket notices several gross-looking ships in the sky and Storm and Carol identify them as belonging to the Brood.
In orbit around Spartax, Mr. Knife welcomes the Brood Queen to his flying fortress and offers her Spartax. She hisses in agreement. Then their contract is complete, he continues.
All that to hand Spartax over to the Brood? Thane bursts out. The Slaughter Lords laugh at his naïveté. Knife explains that for every ten planets the Brood conquer, they give him one. The Brood will be unstoppable. His return on his investment will accrue rapidly. He traded Spartax for an empire. Ebony Maw tells Thane he is impressed. The time will soon come to take it from him. Thane asks what the Brood want with Spartax?
As if in reply, a swarm of tiny Brood descends on Spartax. Rocket and Nova try to shoot them but Kitty tells them they’ll need a bigger boat. There’s millions of them! However, they don’t attack the heroes but go straight for the people trapped in amber.
Beast finds this strain of Brood unfamiliar and grabs one digging its way to Beast’s trapped younger self. He slices it up and finds eggs inside. These infestoid Brood were evolved for one purpose: Spartax! While the citizens are immobile, the Infestoids will burrow through to their skull and implant them with their eggs. Assuming an Infestoid for everyone on the planet, given the typical Brood infant mortality rate, the galactic population of the Brood will increase overnight by seventy-two billion.
They are going to explode out of their heads? Star-Lord asks. They have an obligation to stop them, Beast shouts. Cue for the Slaughter Lord, who feel they have an obligation to stop the heroes…


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the Black Vortex – chapter 12
She hates space, Kitty Pryde thinks to herself. Space is not her scene. It is so not her jam. She wouldn’t even be here if not for her boyfriend Peter… the things they do for cute boys.…
Spartax:Where? Magik demands. In front of Drax, Jean Grey who scans telepathically announces. Magik teleports into orbit, holds her breath and takes out Delphinia with her sword.
Space isn’t Magik’s scene either, Kitty thinks, but you wouldn’t know it, the way she dives right in. Thank God, because they are seriously short-handed against the Slaughter Lords. And then there are the Brood. Everyone on Spartax is trapped in amber with Brood infestoids burrowing their way to their skulls, so they can lay their eggs in their brains. If the heroes fail, it’s the whole planet and then the galaxy. So how do they shoo away billions of flies on a picnic one and a half times the size of Earth?
Plan A: keep the Slaughter Lords busy while Storm tries to freeze the Brood off.
Storm informs Kitty via telepathy that the atmosphere is in chaos and she is struggling. That moment, the Slaughter Lord Misa finds her. Damn! Kitty swears. Storm’s out.
Plan B: she doesn’t even want to think about what Peter is going to say. But first they need—
That moment, Captain Marvel come flying in with the Black Vortex. She’s right behind her, Carol groans.
“Her” refers to the last Viscardi Gara, who demands they hand over the Black Vortex.
Kitty wonders how to even talk to someone who is twelve billion years old.
Her three o’ clock now! Jean orders telepathically. And Magik teleports in and tries to clock Gara with her sword. Gara staves off the blow with her staff. The energy discharge sweeps the others off their feet.
Jean crawls towards the Vortex. While she hates the idea of cosmic power, she feels she has to do it. Kitty doesn’t want to see her sacrifice herself again and wishes she had told her Plan B.
Just as Jean is about to submit, Star-Lord draws her back. It doesn’t have to be her this time.
Really adorable, but dumb, Kitty thinks to herself. She had Plan B all figured out. One of them can save Spartax, but it isn’t Peter.
He knows she and cosmic powers have issues, Star-Lord tells Jean. He’ll take it from here. Now let’s see what unlimited power does to a farm boy form Colorado! he announces.
‘Sup, bro? a cockier version of himself from inside the Vortex asks. “Face it, I rule!” he continues as he flies through the cosmos. Even his estranged father J-son approves of his son, the Lord of the Stars. Later, the two of them are attended by several gorgeous alien ladies. Kitty Pryde sees that and walks away disappointed.
No! Peter shouts and smashes the image. The real Kitty crouches next to him. He tells her can’t submit to the Vortex. That’s not who he wants to be. He wants to be a better man. For her. She was right. They can’t use the Vortex.
Kitty thinks to herself how much she loves him and that she was wrong. She tells him that might be irrelevant. They failed.
Gara stands next to the Black Vortex and tells them they have no idea what they are playing with. She orders them to look deep into the Vortex. They see a destroyed world, her home Viscardi, destroyed twelve billion years ago. Once they had the power from the Black Vortex, they eradicated themselves inside out. Many places fall faster. Names they will never know, lost because of the Black Vortex. The Vortex elevates you to a cosmic entity but there is no accounting for what it does to your heart. She herself murdered the last Viscardi. In her blindness, in her greed, in her hubris. She should have destroyed the Black Vortex the moment she saw it.
Kitty assures her they want to help her, but Spartax-- Would they save Spartax at the expense of the next planet? Gara shouts. The next ten? The next ten thousand? Until trillions of lives hinge on what happens next! Imagine what the Black Vortex would do to the rest of the cosmos! Imagine what it would do to Earth! Now do they understand? She will never allow the Black Vortex to be used again!
Magik bluntly tells her she is wrong and a coward. She’d let Spartax die to absolve her guilt? Only using the Vortex to save Spartax will redeem it and her.
Gara warns that they might damn themselves. They might become crazy with power. Hated, driven… bitter and alone. They might end like her. They will endure unimaginable changes. They will need to remember the tiny desires of the person they are now. Entire arms of galaxies have perished because of this miscalculation. So think carefully: who among them is strong enough to do this?
Plan B, Kitty thinks resigned. She hates space, she announces. She doesn’t want cosmic power. This is so not her jam. She is the last person who wants to do this. That’s why it’s gotta be her. Old Vulcan Proverb: “Only Nixon can go to China.” She walks toward the Black Vortex and Gara steps aside.
Peter shouts at her not to and offers to go instead. They already know he is not strong enough to endure the Vortex, O “Lord of the Stars,” Gara reminds him. Kitty apologizes to him. He tells her he can’t let her.
She thinks to herself she can walk through brick walls. A cute boy can’t stop her. Even one as cute as he. She may be in space but she’ll always be an X-Man.
In orbit, the others are still fighting the Slaughter Lord when suddenly there is a light. They look up to see a giant, cosmic Kitty engulfing Spartax in her hands.
She silently curses herself for being right.


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Logan (act one)
(Japan, present)
Wolverine is in Japan. It’s winter and the snow lies thick on the ground. Japan smells of blood to Logan: the smell you get when you rip a guy’s heart out. The insides stink of hot iron and dead blossoms. He makes his way to a large building in the hills. He’s there because recently, all the memories he’d lost over the years have suddenly returned. He’s been a lot of things in a lot of places. A sickly kid named James Howlett, a killing machine known as Weapon X and a hero, going by the name of Wolverine. This place… this place is where he became a man.
He sniffs the air and recognizes a familiar scent. He opens his trench coat to reveal his yellow and black uniform underneath. “Been waiting sixty-odd years haven’t you?” he says to the hidden enemy. “Let’s finish this already.” A growl comes back at him in response and, as he pulls on his mask, he tells his opponent that if they want to be dramatic he can do the Kabuki thing, but he ain’t got all night. He snikts his claws and enters a courtyard. Another growl seeps from the shadows and Wolverine falls to a burst of flame. He winces as he drops.
Wolverine doesn’t lose sleep thinking about the enemies he’s made over the years. It’s the women that keep him up at night - a handful of girls he’s been dumb enough to fall for over the last century or so. He can recover from just about anything, apart from getting his heart ripped out. As his face hits the snow, his assailant emerges from the shadows; a skeletal figure enveloped in flames. “Your turn,” it growls.
(the past, sometime during World War II)
Logan’s eyes begin to creep open as someone says the word flash. He repeats the word and Logan’s eyes open a little wider. He then spots dog tags dangling before him and opens his eyes fully to see a scrawny, wiry guy with blotches on his face. “Flash dammit!” he says one again. “Answer me before I wring your damn neck!” Logan covers his face with his arm to shield him from the bright light. He tells the guy that his name ain’t Flash. It’s Logan.
The guy tells him that “flash” is a challenge, so he knows he’s an American and not a Jap spy. He asks him for the code reply. Logan has no idea what he’s going on about and informs him that he’s Canadian; first parachute battalion. The man bends down and says it figures. If the Greenhorns had held Hong Kong in ’41 this war would have been going a lot better. Logan replies that if his boys hadn’t waited until Pearl Harbor to get in this game, the war would be over. The guy takes Logan’s hand and helps him up. He’s a Canadian all right. He introduces himself as Lt. Warren and asks what rank Logan is. “P.O.W. from the looks of things,” comes his reply. “Where are we?”
Warren figures that they’re in a military science base somewhere on the Japanese mainland. He’s spent the last three months in a hellhole labor camp just north of there called Mukaishima. His squadron was supposed to sink the light cruiser Tone in Kure Harbor, but they had to ditch after taking fire from the shore batteries. Half of his guys were killed in action and the other six got pinched. Two of them died of starvation in the camp and dysentery took out another three. His navigator hanged himself by his shirtsleeves. He guesses he got tired of digging cesspools at bayonet point nineteen hours a day. Logan asks how he survived. Warren reckons it was plain dumb luck; the same way Logan survived.
Warren continues to explain that they transferred him to this base last night, probably for interrogation, torture… and presuming they keep their traps shut, the firing squad. Logan puts his finger to his lips and tells Warren that he hears three guards coming. Warren doesn’t hear anything but Logan tells him this is probably the only chance they’ll get. Warren can’t believe he’s thinking of escaping. The place is a fortress. Logan replies that he’s busted out of worse. Warren figures him for a nutcase, but Logan asks him to do him a favor. Stick to the shadows ‘til he’s through.
Three guards wanders down the corridor to their cell and the boss tells his men to keep their rifles at their shoulders unless he says otherwise. As he turns the key, he adds that the doc says that they might be Kaiju. As one of the soldiers replies, Logan leaps from the cell, surprising them. “Kill it!” snarls one, puncturing the skin on Logan’s back with his bayonet. Lt. Warren leaps into action after him, ignoring Logan’s orders, and he grabs one of the soldiers by the throat. “Yellow scum!”
One of the soldiers aims his rifle at Warren but Logan is on him in an instant. He places his hand at the soldier’s throat and snikts his claws, unseen by his new comrade in arms. The soldier collapses and Warren’s opponent succumbs to a strong stranglehold. Warren asks Logan what he did to the guy, but Logan pauses and then says, “Dunno.” Warren thanks him and wishes he’d had a fighter like him by his side before. Logan tells him to grab whichever outfit has the least blood stains on it. They’re not out of the woods yet.
(soon)
Logan and Lt. Warren are clear of the prison and wandering through the woods, each carrying a rifle. Warren asks him how he ended up in the Pacific Theater. Logan replies that he was in Burma to blow up a train. He guesses it went south, because he woke up there. Warren calls the Japanese ‘damn animals’ who won’t stop until they kill every single one of them. Logan says nothing, but is clearly thinking that Warren isn’t the most stable of characters after what he’s been through.
Warren tells him that he wishes he’d been in Normandy. The Krauts may be bastards, but at least they fight like men. These people… they’re not even human. Logan asks him to save it until they’re stowed away in whichever boat is gonna get them off the island.
As he speaks, they hear a scream and they look round to see a Japanese woman wearing a long white kimono. She’s dropped a basket of flowers she was carrying over the bridge, and when Logan clocks her, his eyes widen. “I didn’t even catch her scent,” he gasps. “She’s like a ghost.” Warren aims his rifle at her and says that if he’s not yet, she soon will be. Logan orders him to stand down. She’s just a civilian. Warren snaps back that there ain’t such a thing as a Jap civilian. They’re all assassins for the emperor! Besides, he adds, she looks just like the trawler broad that pulled him and his crew out of the drink. She’s the one who turned them over to those monsters. Logan asks him to let it go. She’s not a fisher. She’s a farmer. Warren replies that they might as well put her in the dirt where she belongs.
Logan lifts his rifle and points it at the back of Warren’s neck. He warns him that if he pulls the trigger, he’ll be joining her. Warren, surprised, asks if he’s forgotten who the enemy is, but Logan tells him to walk away. This is where they part company. Warren, paranoid, thinks Logan must be a spy who’s working for them. This is all some kinda setup. “Walk. Away,” replies Logan. Warren doesn’t respond, but scuttles away up the hill leaving Logan and the woman alone.
Logan sees him disappear and then turns to find the woman kneeling before him. He asks her to quit the bowing and get to her feet. “Come on,” he adds. “Doitashimashite and all that.” The woman looks up to him, surprised that he speaks her tongue. Logan replies that he speaks some. She asks him to follow her. The sun will rise soon and he’ll never make it to the harbor before morning. She can hide him until tomorrow’s nightfall. Logan asks her to stop. If her people catch him with her, they’ll kill them both. She smiles at him. Logan doesn’t know if it’s because she understood him, or because she didn’t care. Either way, she’s hooked him. Watching the exchange from a nearby tree, Warren doesn’t look particularly happy.
(later)
Logan and the woman, who introduces herself as Atsuko, are eating in her home. He doesn’t know how to repay her. He looks up to find that she has pulled a sword from its case and she holds it out to him. Logan thinks it’s an attack, and tells her that if she wants to hurt him, she’s gonna need something sharper. She then bows and holds out the sword to him. “Oh,” he replies, realizing what it is. He sees a ribbon with an inscription on it. “Kamikaze. Your… your husband?” he enquires. Atsuko tells him that it was her father. He volunteered after her mother was killed in the fire-bombings. Before his final mission, they sent her the sword and his fingernail clippings. Logan knows that this is so she would have something to bury.
He asks if this is all she has left of him. Atsuko takes his hand and places it over her left breast. She tells him no. Her father lives on inside her. Logan asks why she helped him. Atsuko pulls a hairpin out which allows her hair to fall to her shoulders. She tells him that she’s tired of this war. Since it began, he is the first person she’s met who seems at peace. She drops her kimono and stands there naked. Logan says this isn’t necessary. She's done enough for him already. Atsuko laughs and, removing his shirt, tells him it’s time for him to do something for her.
As the sun sets, Logan thinks this is heaven. He’s already dead and now he’s in heaven. Atsuko replies that this isn’t heaven. Logan asks where exactly this place is. “Hiroshima,” she replies. To Logan’s ears, it was just about the most beautiful word he’d ever heard.


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Logan (act two)
(Japan, present)
Wolverine gets up after being struck by his fiery opponent. He thinks about how folks don’t die like they used to. When he was a kid, somebody got their throat slit or their skull kicked in by a stallion, you had a pretty good idea what would happen next. These days, nobody remembers how to stay in their plots. Sooner or later, most people who’ve crossed his path seem to find a way of rising from the ashes. He snikts his claws as he climbs the side of the building; his assailant rounding on him, menacingly.
“I know you, don’t I?” he asks, rhetorically. He thinks he’s scared. He still remembers the sound of steel scraping against his bones, doesn’t he? He slashes at the flaming skeleton, but his claws pass through. “The hell?” wonders Logan.
The first time he knew there were ghosts in this world was there, in Hiroshima. A little boy scattered a hundred thousand women and children into a hundred billion fireflies, but the next morning they were back again. At least, their shadows were; still clinging to this rotten world, not quite ready to let go. He can’t blame them.
His assailant reaches out a clawed hand and grabs him around the face; their fingers burning his mouth. It picks him up and hurls him skywards, crashing through at least two floors of the building. To Wolverine, life is nothing but pain and disappointment, but if people keep coming back, it must be better than whatever comes next. That’s what he keeps telling himself, anyhow. He isn’t luck enough to die as easy as most people… is he?
(flashback, sometime during World War II)
Logan apologizes. Sitting against the wall in Astusko’s home, he is feeling sorry for himself. She asks why he keeps apologizing. If he hadn’t stopped the American last night, she has little doubt he would have killed her. Logan replies that he’s not apologizing for him. He’s apologizing for himself. He’s the best there is at a couple of things in this world, but what they did just ain’t one of ‘em. She brings him a hot drink and strokes his cheek, asking if she was his first. He replies that she’s the first as perfect as she is, anyway. The guys in the barracks called him Badger, Ferret or Skunk. They said no woman would ever make time with someone who’s all hair and stink like him. But, time’s the one thing he’s got more than enough of.
Atsuko tells him she thought she had bedded a hardened warrior, but he’s just a fragile porcelain doll, isn’t he? He apologizes once again, but she tells him that they have hours to go before there’s enough darkness to cover his escape. If he apologizes once more in that time, she’ll give him something to be sorry about. He smiles and repeats the words, “Gomen nasai.”
As soon as the words leave his lips, a rifle bullet takes him out. He drops backwards as his blood splatters across Atsuko’s face. She is horrified. Lt. Warren enters the house, brandishing a rifle, and tells her not to cry for him. He has it on good authority that he was sleeping with the enemy. He aims his rifle at her and she shuffles back against the wall. He says she is one of those official whores: comfort women. He begins to unbuckle his belt, but she reaches for Logan’s sword and removes it from its sheath. She tells him that he killed the only person with an ounce of mercy on the island. She leaps high into the air, surprising Warren. “Your last mistake,” she cries.
Warren replies that he doesn’t understand her forked tongue, but he looks forward to carving it out. He grins as he holds his bayonet out, but she throws her sword at him which slices his right forearm. He warns her that she just threw away the only shot at living. As he turns back towards her, her claws rip red lines into his cheek. “Give me strength, father,” she says as she leaps into action once again with the sword which she’s picked up. Warren tells her he’s gonna rip those no-good claws right out of her. She tells him that she’s not afraid to die, nor is she eager. She brings it down on him, but he manages to use his rifle to stop it hitting him. “Heh. Not bad, sister. Not good, either,” he grins. As she leaps at him once again, he raises his bayonet and she comes down on it. The blade pierces her chest and he pulls it out, leaving her to look at the blood gushing onto her white dress. She apologizes to Logan as she gasps and drops.
As Lt. Warren stands over her dying body, he senses Logan behind him. He turns to see Logan looking feral. He groans as he tries to stand, but then he leaps at Warren, grabbing his hands as they tumble backwards. Warren realizes that it must be true. This is probably why they locked them away together. “You’re just like me!”
Logan defenestrates him and he crash lands in the dirt outside. Logan follows, carrying the sword and replies that they have nothing in common. Warren replies sure they do. They’re both Gods. Logan’s heard plenty of last words in his day, but those are just about the stupidest. He thrusts the sword into Warren’s stomach, but he simply looks back at him and winks. He tells him that it’s a good thing that he has plenty more where they came from. Logan is astonished, as Warren pulls the bloody sword from his body. “How…?” he asks.
Warren informs him that he’s been like this ever since he sprouted his first short hair, but his daddy said he could never tell nobody. He said the neighbors would string him up like fruit; not that a noose would do much more than give him a ring around the collar. He knew he wasn’t like the other kids after their neighbor’s dog chewed his tendon out. It didn’t stop him from running all the way home. How did Logan think he survived this long when the rest of his squad is filling up unmarked graves? He’s unstoppable.
He adds that, when their airplane got pranged, he even took a few rounds in the back. All they do is itch. He can be cut down or poisoned or drowned, but he can’t be killed. Logan calls him a liar, but he replies that he might not heal the way Logan does, but he doesn’t hurt, either. He attacks Logan and brings the sword down hard. Logan catches the blade in his hand, and blood trickles down his forearm. He says that dishing out pain must be real easy when you don’t feel it. Warren corrects him, by telling him that killing his girlfriend wasn’t easy, but it was right. And Logan can feel it just as much as he does.
Logan smacks the sword from Warren’s grasp and it lands about twenty feet away. He delivers a solid punch to Warren’s jaw and follows up with a crunching left hook to his stomach. Warren isn’t fazed. He says he used to think it was all bull - about them coming from monkeys. But, you get to Japan and realize that the people are closer to beasts. He and Logan, though… they’re what’s next. He likens it to a war between savages and civilization. Guys like them are the only hope.
Logan grabs him by the throat and prepares to punch him again, but Warren turns his head and asks Logan if he can hear something. Logan recognizes it as a plane. Warren says it’s not just a plane. It’s a B52. It’s their side. They’re gonna bust them out of this hell. Logan releases Warren and looks into the sky. The plane is obscured by the sunlight, and the payload is too fast and small for him to follow. “See you soon, Atsuko,” he whispers. All he remembers is a teardrop falling from the sky, and then a splash. The atomic bomb explodes, ripping up the countryside around him. The devastation is unbelievable.
Later, Logan crawls from the wreckage of the demolished house, his skin peeled away from his body. Genetic freaks like he and Lt. Warren go by plenty of names. Muties. Homo superior. Children of the Atom. Some of them were born long before that ugly August morning, when the only nuclear fire was in the belly of the rising sun. The bomb ain’t his mother. She’s just the girl who made him a man.


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Logan (conclusion)
(Japan, present)
‘In the end, it’s the fallout that gets you. Into every life, a few bombs must fall… failure… misery, heartbreak… but even an ordinary Joe can survive an explosion or two. The thing that kills you is what comes next. Fallout. It’s the slow descent of all the unstable crap left behind by your mistakes. Hard to see while it’s raining down around you, and by the time you finally notice the poison piling up, you’re already drowning in it.’
Wolverine and his mysterious assailant are still embroiled in a vicious battle. Wolverine is thrown high over the trees; landing in the soft snow as his opponent follows. As he approaches, Wolverine picks himself up and unleashes his claws. He slashes at the fiery figure, which produces a fleeting moment of distress. Wolverine looks at the tattered remnants picked up by his claws and pauses.
“…? It’s really you, ain’t it?” he asks. He turns to the creature and asks him how long he’s been forced to haunt this patch of dirt. Lt. Warren doesn’t reply. Wolverine orders him to stand down. He figures this is almost all the suffering he deserves for what he did to the girl back in 1945. He doesn’t want to have to kill him.
Warren stretches out his flaming right hand to steady Wolverine, before thrusting his left hand towards his chest. “And that… is why you’ll lose... this war,” gloats Warren, as his fingers reach inside Wolverine’s rib cage.
(flashback, Hiroshima, 1945)
Logan is taking a bath, and a naked Atsuko joins him. He tells her she is beautiful and she thanks him. He admits that he’s never been kind to nobody, but that changes tonight. He wants her to come with him. She smiles, but thinks he’s kidding. She pours a jug of warm water over his head, but he replies that he ain’t joking. When he leaves next nightfall, he’s taking her with him. Atsuko asks where a woman like her would go with a man like him. Logan places his face next to hers. “I don’t know,” he replies. “Somewhere peaceful.”
Atsuko reminds him that the entire world is at war… again. Logan assures her that it won’t be like that forever. Things are coming to a head. He can smell it. Atsuko thanks him, but she was happy to be born in Hiroshima. She’ll be just as happy to die there. Logan takes her head in his muscular hands and reiterates that he wants her to live with him. Atsuko says that she always will. She places the palm of her hand against his chest. “Right here.” Logan tells her that she keeps saying that, but they are just words. Atsuko replies that if that’s what he thinks, then he doesn’t understand her tongue as well as he claimed. Logan tries to respond, but she places her finger to his lips. “Enough talking.” Logan moves his head to one side and, ever the persistent one, tells her again that he wants her to come live with him.
(Logan’s memories)
Atsuko is walking through a field, with the sun shining and the crops waist high. She looks beautiful and serene. He remembers what she tastes like. He remembers how her mouth felt against his. He remembers the sound of her eyelids fluttering open. He also remembers what a mushroom cloud looks like from the inside. Her nose begins to bleed. He remembers raindrops turning to steam as they hit what was left of his body. He remembers everything, and before Warren dies, so will he.
(present)
Wolverine’s eyes pop open as he feels his heart being ripped from its cavity. “Boom,” cries Warren as he holds his heart in the palm of his hand. Wolverine slumps against a tree and drops to his knees. He figures that he was right. A ripped-out heart still stinks of hot iron and dead blossoms. Warren opens his mouth wide and drops Logan’s heart into it. A metamorphosis begins to occur as Warren spasms. In moments, his fiery body is replaced by his naked human form. He smiles at the pathetic-looking Wolverine. “Tastes better than K-rations at least.”
Warren picks up a coat and thanks Wolverine, and not just for the threads. Their boys dropping the big one may have turned him to ash, but whatever makes them so damn special kept him living just long enough to roam this dump like half a spook, waiting for him. He can’t say that he understand how offing Wolverine made him whole again, but it did. All this time, he could feel it in his bones.
His speech is cut short when he turns to see Wolverine stagger to his feet. As he walks towards Warren, the former soldier unleashes a napalm-like burst of scolding plasma from the palm of his hand. Wolverine takes the hit and growls at him, before grabbing Warren by his coat lapels. He can’t believe Wolverine survived having his heart removed.
Wolverine hurls him several yards and Warren crashes to the ground hard. He looks up and pleads with Logan. He asks him to listen. That broad of his once told him that he was the only man on the island with an ounce of mercy. Whatever happened to that guy? Wolverine fixes him with a look that offers no mercy. He snikts his claws and slashes at Warren. His head hits the snow a few seconds before the rest of his body. The last thing Wolverine hears is what’s left of his own blood rushing to a hole it can never fill. Then, everything goes white.
(Wolverine’s dreams)
Underneath a cherry blossom tree, with petals being carried gently by the wind, Atsuko stands there. Her eyes are open but there are no pupils. Logan is there wearing a kimono. “Atsuko... Am I…?” he says. Atsuko replies, “Dead? No.” She explains that, as ever, what was taken from him grows anew. Logan replies that he just wants this to be over. He wants to be with her. As he tries to stroke her cheek his fingers pass right through Atsuko’s body and she tells him that’s not possible. Still, he avenged her spirit. The least she owes him is some small taste of tranquility. Logan doesn’t follow.
Atsuko informs him that, if he chooses, she can see that Hiroshima doesn’t return with the rest of his heart. Lt. Warren, the bomb, his pain… she can take away all of those memories forever. “What about you?” asks Logan. “Would you disappear too?” Atsuko bows her head. “Hai,” she replies, “But so would the anguish of losing me.” She says the decision is his. What will it be? The scene turns to white once more.
(reality, present)
Wolverine lies under a tree. Snow dripping from one of its branches awakens him, and he stands up, looking at the morning sunshine making its way through the branches.