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Return of the King - part 1
(the Louvre, Paris)
The setting is surreal: visitors are running in panic from imaginary, giant wasps while Brotherhood members, Mastermind and Multiple Man, are chatting and leisurely strolling through the museum halls. Multiple Man is holding a small video camera, filming the goings-on. So, what is Mastermind making them see, he asks. Spiders?
Wasps, Mastermind explains. Aren't spiders are delicacy in France? That's frogs, Multiple Man corrects him. Oh, and frogs are so much less disgusting than spiders, are they, Mastermind sneers. And besides, why is Multiple Man playing around with his video camera, when he is supposed to steal paintings for Magneto? Isn't that the whole point of this exercise? They are joined by a double of Multiple Man with a painting. He reminds Mastermind that he can do several things at once.
Curious, Mastermind wants to know what his upper limits in creating doubles is. About 27 to 28, he replies, before he starts to get real bad déjà vu. He cheerfully adds that last year he pulled off a protest march single-handed - split his consciousness over so many bodies that it took him a month just to write his name again. Changing the subject, he asks if Mastermind really managed to escape from a major SHIELD black ops assault by creating an illusion in which they'd thought they'd nicked him. After the Brooklyn Bridge thing, Mastermind verifies. By the time Captain America realized what was happening, Mastermind was already in a Greyhound bus halfway down to Florida.
So, Multiple Man wants to know, his powers can make people look different, right? Because there's this Aborigine mutant back at the base that has the hots for him. Could Mastermind make her look like the Scarlet Witch or Gwyneth Paltrow? Well, yes, Mastermind replies, but ethically speaking... Sabretooth who awaits them in their shuttle tells him to "screw ethics". What kind of anti-human terrorist is he anyway? And did they get all the painting on the list? Then they'd better return to the base.
(Washington D.C, the White House:)
Agents in Sentinel-looking armor are shooting at targets made to look like the original Brotherhood members, watched by Nick Fury and the vice-president. Cheney sarcastically states that the President won't have much to worry about, provided Magneto attacks them with an army of cardboard cut-outs.
Those new Sentinels are sixty of his best SHIELD agents, Fury defends the men. Each one has enough firepower in his armor to take out an entire fleet of the old Sentinel models. Plus, each of the weapons are made of a special non-conductive polymer, so Magneto won't be able to control them. This time they're going to hand him his purple ass. But is it really safe to bring the president back so soon, Cheney asks, after the way he was humiliated last time. With respect to the late General Ross, that happened before he was in charge of national security, Fury replies. This time, the White House is going to be a virtual fortress.
What about the satellites that will enable them to detect mutants, Cheney asks. Stark should have them ready in a matter of days, Fury calms him, but he also stresses that this mutant-locator will only be used to flush out mutant terror groups as opposed to mutants in general. They don't want to attack everyone with an X-gene, just Brotherhood affiliates. And the X-Men, of course, Cheney adds. If Xavier hadn't lied to them, they wouldn't be in this situation now. Did Fury hear about the raid at the Louvre? Four hundred and eight priceless works of art stolen. 62 thefts within four weeks, Fury replies. Is it possible that Magneto might be shifting his priorities away from world domination, Cheney wonders. Is he perhaps only out to make himself a fortune this time? Fury laughs mirthlessly. He hadn?t realized Cheney had such a keen sense of humor, he states.
(Glasgow Central Station, Scotland)
Moira MacTaggert walks through the station, enters a public restroom, a certain stall and activates a signal with her watch. As the secret door in the back of the stall opens, she mumbles angrily that she wonders if Charles could have possibly devised a more undignified way to get into this safehouse. She is greeted by a group of mutant children, begging for treats. Moira hands them sweets, fashion and scifi magazines. Her colleague, Dr. Knox, asks her if she also managed to steal any Temazapan at the university. No, the closest she could manage was some Prozac, Moira apologizes. They'll just have to think of something else, she concludes. Her priority is to look after sick mutants, but they need to get proactive before the satellite the US government is building will finish things for them.
One of the children addresses Moira. There's an emergency call from Germany on the scrambler-phone. It's Nightcrawler. He introduces himself to Moira and explains that Xavier had given him her number in case of an emergency. It is essential he speak to Xavier at the earliest opportunity. Moira wishes she could help, but the X-Men went offline a few days ago, and no one knows their status at the moment.
Are they dead, Kurt asks. They only know for certain that Cyclops seems to be dead, but as for the others - anything's possible. Kurt exclaims "My God!" in German. While phoning with Moira, he's, at the same time, leading the German police on a merry carchase. He tells Moira that the German intelligence wishes to question him on his past dealings with the X-Men. Nothing he wasn't trained to handle, though. Calmly driving through the blockage and evading the agents' shots he asks Moira if the contact address Xavier gave him is still valid. Glasgow is a three-days drive. He'll make it in two. Slightly appalled, Moira mumbles to herself that it's scary how quick you can learn English from television these days.
(the Citadel: the Brotherhood's secret Arctic headquarters)
Sabretooth asks Forge - an Indian mutant with a cybernetic leg and goth tattoos - who's tinkering on some kind of huge gadget, how the secret weapon is coming along. Forge tells him to take it easy. He so psyched about this project, he hasn't slept in almost two weeks. This is going to be his masterpiece, he enthuses.
What is he building anyway, Sabretooth wants to know. Some kind of death-ray? Forge scoffs at the thought. No, it's an amplifier to boost Magneto's innate powers by a factor of five thousand percent. If he pulls this off, Magneto promised to give him Canada. And that's supposed to be an incentive? Sabretoth states disgustedly and radios Blob: how did his rescue mission go? Did he get those five kids out?
Yes, though somewhat hurt, Blob admits. The next raids are a super-strong Down Syndrome kid in the Southern Ukraine and a solar powered girl in East Timor. Sabretooth answers that it ticks him off that they are wasting their time stealing paintings, while the US government locks up their brothers in Guantanamo Bay. What's the alternative? Blob asks. Attack Camp X-Factor without having the numbers and get captured? Sabretooth still harps on the art objects Magneto is having them steal: paintings, original movie prints, first editions of the sci-fi novels he loved as a kid - Magneto never struck him as nostalgic before. Maybe he just doesn't want to risk losing the few good things Homo Sapiens ever created in the coming war, Blob suggests.
Sabretooth is distracted by a teenager carrying the painting "le Chateau des Pyrénées" (the Pyrenean Castle) by René Magritte. The painting shows a castle on top of a flying egg-shaped rock. The kid explains that this was Magneto's favorite painting. Sabretooth replies that Magneto is more sentimental than they realized. Incidentally, did the kid see that chick Multiple Man is hanging out with? Doesn't she look exactly like Gwyneth Paltrow?
A view from the outside explains Sabretooth?s surprise. Magneto's citadel rests on a flying egg-shaped rock - like the castle in the Magritte painting.
(Earth orbit)
Two astronauts of the space shuttle Valiant are working on the construction of the mutant detection satellites on behalf of Stark International and the government. They are being hailed by the ground crew on Earth who are amused that the two astronauts currently refuse to speak with each other: one of them - Cunningham - got to speak to the president on the phone and now his colleague feels snubbed. Their colleagues on Earth good-naturedly suggest they make up - space can be awfully lonely if you're not speaking to fifty percent of the population...
The astronauts suddenly have other problems, as suddenly Magneto (without any visible means of life support) majestically floats above the shuttle. Broadcasting an electromagnetic frequency, he tells them not to be scared. He isn't here to hurt them - just to take apart this awful mutant tracker. He wonders what the people on the ground must be thinking of them: sending them to risk their lives and do their dirty work while they get rich of it. Why do they risk everything for a system that undervalues them so much?
 While the scientists on Earth listen in with horror one of the astronauts begs Magneto to please let him send a last message home to his family. He has no illusions about Magneto sparing their lives. Magneto tells him they misunderstand. He is only here to close down the electronics and disable the satellite. He is not interested in their inconsequential lives. Realization dawns on the astronauts: if he closes down electronics - how will they get back to Earth - let alone into the shuttle? Like he said, Magneto answers, inconsequential. With that offhand death-sentence, he flies away, announcing that he has business to attend to.


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Return of the King - part 2
Downtown Chicago: detonations shock the city. Several mutants are driving away from the disaster zone. One of them, a blonde female, asks the others to turn on the radio. The DJ’s going to say something funny in thirty-five seconds. What’s really funny, one of them adds, is watching all those little “dung ticks” scurry around. Too bad they didn’t have a bigger bomb to kill them all.
They notice that a tall man in a trench coat with a cap drawn deep into his face stands in the middle of the road, apparently not caring that they are coming right at him. Suddenly, the psychic shouts that they’ll be eating pavement in six seconds. As the car ploughs into the unmoving man, it crashes and three mutants fall out, propelled by the crash and landing hard on the pavement. Colossus didn’t even budge and radios Iceman that he found the car. The situation is well in hand. The other mutants shout to get out of the car but, suddenly, they and the car find themselves high up in the air on one of Iceman’s ice-slides. The info was dead on, Iceman announces to Wolverine: Neither of those guys are leapers or fliers, just like he predicted. They are trapped. How are thins going at Lincoln Park Zoo? Did Wolverine find the jumpjet they were heading for? Well, Wolverine replies, exiting the jet, he just hopes the pilot has a secret mutant power for reassembling faces …
He then radios Storm asking her if she can handle damage control on her own. Storm sits cross-legged, high in the air, and focuses on creating a limited rainstorm to extinguish the fire of the detonation over those city blocks. Do the others think that people will like them again if they catch those creeps? she wonders. Firemen and bystanders look up and see her do her stuff. Colossus optimistically announces that this little episode is the X-Men’s first step on the road to salvation.
Stamford Connecticut. A middle-aged couple and their young son are listening to the news of the X-Men’s latest exploits: The news-reporter announces that the police first believed the assault on Chicago’s biggest credit union was caused by both teams in response to the arrest of Charles Xavier. However, their latest information suggests that the X-Men actually captured the Brotherhood members in the hope of claiming amnesty against further SHIELD arrests. General Nick Fury refuses to accept this plea for amnesty, though. The war on terror will continue until the X-Men and the Brotherhood both are captured. The family calls them a bunch of backstabbing freaks, turning on their own at the first sign of trouble. They just hope that the president won’t cut a deal with them.
Well, so much for that idea, Kitty Pryde sighs. She, Jean and Beast are sitting on the family’s spare couch, with Jean clouding the humans’ perception so they don’t notice their presence. Beast tells Kitty they have to keep trying. The only way the humans will ever trust them again is if they are the ones to bring in Magneto. Kitty tells him that she wished they had a decent work-base. She can see how their safe-houses are compromised, but they could hole up with Storm’s old friends in Harlem … Staying with this family without them knowing is creepy. She feels like a Peeping Tom. All that matter is that they have two spare bedrooms and are not linked to the X-Men in any fashion, Beast explains.
Kitty turns to the dejected Jean, who has kept silent throughout their exchange, and asks if she is okay. Jean first brushes off her concern, but then tearfully admits she is anything but OK. She’s been a mess since the Phoenix thing happened. Worse, she feels the Phoenix still within her, telling her things about the others she doesn’t want to know, like what really happened between Wolverine and Cyclops in the Savage Land. Kitty was there, too. Does she think it is possible Wolverine let Cyclops die so he could be with Jean?
Camp X-Factor, Cuba:
Here, SHIELD houses and contains suspects in the war on genetic terrorism. Accompanied by armed SHIELD agents, Nick Fury addresses the Xavier, who is strapped down and unable to move. Fury apologizes for the mind-blockers, but it’s the only way they feel safe around a telepath of Xavier’s calibre. He informs him why they believe that he is working with Magneto - basically because he lied to them about having killed Magneto. They now believe that he was in league with him from the beginning. Xavier scoffs. That’s ridiculous and Fury knows it. He tried to rehabilitate Magneto himself, because handing him over to SHIELD would have been an automatic death sentence. Like the one Magneto issued on all those civilians who died in his terror attacks since? Fury retorts. Three thousand people would still be alive, if Xavier hadn’t lied to them. Doesn’t he feel guilty?
What does he want, Xavier asks. An address for Magneto and the X-Men, Fury demands. Well, he has neither, Xavier claims. Fury doesn’t buy that, but his psychics can’t look into Xavier’s powerful mind. And the Brotherhood booby-trapped their agents with a thought-virus that destroys any mind interfacing with theirs. But they have other options, he states and lets SHIELD agents bring in the captured Nightcrawler. <>
Kurt assures Xavier that SHIELD treated him well, but he has no idea for how much longer he can keep their telepaths at bay. Nightcrawler obviously knows where the X-Men’s safehouses are, because he was heading towards one, Fury deduces. If Xavier tells him where the X-Men are right now, though, he’ll do everything in his power to protect them, he promises. Xavier turns away. He will no betray his students. They are the only hope either of their species has left. His choice, Fury shrugs and leaves.
Chicago: twenty seconds after one of them pulled a gun on Wolverine, he is standing on top of a crowd of very injured soldiers.
Later, back “home,” sitting at the kitchen table over a world map, the other X-Men take in the news incredulously. How many troops did he hospitalize? About fifty or sixty, Wolverine estimates, guzzling down his beer. Great, Beast sighs, they are doing everything in their power to prove to the world they are the good guys and Wolverine carves up fifty to sixty public servants. Why don’t they all just send off for some Brotherhood of Mutants baseball caps and be done with it?
Jean coolly remarks that that’s the problem with wild animals. Let them into your home and sooner or later someone gets scratched. Wolverine tells her to give it rest with those not-so-subtle hints about his killing Cyclops. He knows she’s going through a rough patch. This isn’t a rough patch, she replies, She’s looking past his funny psychic defences with the Phoenix Force. She knows he’s not evil, but twisted by all the horror he suffered. He believes that violence will always solve his problem. No surprise that he used violence to eliminate the competition for her affections. Wolverine tells her to stop flattering herself. Iceman asks both of them to give it a rest. They have enough enemies right now without tearing into each other. They’ll see, Jean states sullenly.
Colossus suddenly jumps up startled, as the mother walks past them to get some cereal from the cupboard. With an embarrassed, grin he tells Kitty to give him a break. He isn’t immune to the occasional fright. The lights go out and on again. Before them stands Magneto, dryly stating “quite understandable, Colossus.”
Iceman automatically attacks, shooting an ice-spear towards their foe, which passes straight through him. He’s not really here, Magneto explains. He’s a hologram, so they cannot hurt each other. How did he find them? Beast demands. Actually, he didn’t, Magneto explains. He just instructed the Brotherhood’s resident genius to create a means of contacting them, wherever they were. He introduces them to the mutant in question - Forge - and enthuses that the young man may be the most impressive mutant he ever encountered. Imagine being able to build anything you can think of. Imagine being able to build anything a master of magnetism can think of …
A doomsday weapon, Beast deduces grimly. Naturally, Magneto agrees. But he didn’t come to threaten them. He came to extend them the same courtesy he just extended to his wayward children… a final chance to join the winning side. He blames Charles and his mental manipulations for their past misunderstandings. How else to explain a group of mutant outcasts that fights to save a world that hates them? They won’t find his citadel. Look at what happed to Xavier’s peaceful approach. Should they blow up people instead, Jean scoffs. Those bombings were merely a smokescreen for his actual master plan, Magneto hints. The world is a cherry, ripe to be plucked, thanks to a device Forge has built for him, Magneto states and asks them once more to change sides. Wolverine is about to give a very rude answer, but Magneto cuts him off and tells them to consider his proposal. They have seven days, he announces as the hologram fades.


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Return of the King - part 3
the Savage Land, four weeks ago:
In the upheaval and conflagration that follows their battle with the computer mind, Cyclops falls into an opening chasm, just managing to hold onto the edge with one hand. Absurdly calm, given his predicament, he tells the frightened Kitty Pryde to relax. He's in little danger here, he just needs someone to help him up. Wolverine orders Kitty to find a clear exit; he has Cyke covered. Scott has faith in Wolverine. Logan may be acting like a lunatic at times but, when the chips are down, he can be counted on. Professor Xavier was right again, he states as he reaches for Logan's hand. Put two guys who hate each other together into a bad situation together and, sooner or later, the one will end up saving the other's life. Wolverine sneaks a look behind to see whether Kitty's gone. He then tells Cyclops to "guess again," drops him down the chasm and leaves.
Cyclops finds himself lying on the ground of the chasm with several broken bones - both his right arm and his left leg are twisted in an unnatural shape. On the first day, he believes, for a fraction of a second, that this whole thing is a dream and that he is lying in his bed. But then he tastes the blood and feels the pain between his shoulder blades and numbness in his hips. Opening his eyes and seeing the shape he's in, he cries out in horror. Then, his analytical skill takes over. He tells himself to remain calm - he must not go into shock. A crisis can only be fought with logic. Analyze the facts, he tells himself while he shouts "Wolverine" in despair. He repeats mantra-like: "there is no such thing as a hopeless situation." Eventually, he blacks out from the pain.
Austin, Texas:
A MacDonald?'s restaurant half a mile above one of eight US deep-cover SHIELD intelligence stations; Iceman sits in the restaurant, Marvel Girl waits in the car outside and Shadowcat has snuck down into the SHIELD station. Seeing a SHIELD agent pass by her, she nervously asks Bobby, via their communicator, whether he is absolutely certain that he has nixed all the cameras in the place. For the eighteenth time, he whispers, he's frozen every camera, heat-sensor and silent alarm in the complex. Jean is telepathically feeding him psychic images from all 29 cleaning staff and they know the place like the back of their brooms. Jean telepathically adds that she is feeding Kitty computer skills from the personnel the same way. There's nothing to worry about, she calms the younger girl. She just needs to find out if SHIELD knows more about Magneto's hidden Citadel than they are publicly saying.
Kitty phases into a room with computer consoles and tells the others that she wonders whether the best way out of this wouldn't be admitting Magneto was right. He's not the one throwing mutants in jail, is he? Shouldn?t they at least discuss the idea that they might have joined the wrong side? Bobby angrily replies he can't believe this crap. Suppose they go over, what then? Ask Magneto to spare their families and friends? What about everyone else when he launches his big attack?
Kitty has, in the meantime, accessed the computer files and comes back with bad news. Apart from the fact that the Brotherhood travels around the world and saves troubled mutants, the government knows even less than the X-Men do.
The Savage Land, day two.
Cyclops spends the morning alternating between shouting for help and giving his lungs a rest. Realistically, he knows nobody's around. The steady tick from his father's old army watch is the only thing to help him tell the time, as he sees no sunlight. It's probably all that keeps him sane. Mentally, he counts all injuries he's aware of, believing they come down to eight broken bones, three lost teeth, one collapsed lung and fourteen cuts. Nothing fatal. He promises himself not to die and wonders why Wolverine did this to him. Cyclops thought he loved the X-Men. Then, it hits him as he fantasizes about Jean getting closer to Wolverine. Sarcastically, he congratulates himself. He just turned the back on his girlfriend's greatest admirer.
Downtown Los Angeles:
Wolverine is slicing and dicing up the members of the American cell of the Brotherhood of Mutants. Colossus stands behind a fruit vendor and asks if his teammate needs any help. He feels a little stupid just standing here. Wolvie tells him to use his imagination. Roll up a car into a ball or something. That's what he's always doing, Colossus sighs. Incidentally, he states, as he reaches for a car and starts crunching it into a ball, he doesn't believe this terrible rumor about Wolverine harming Cyclops in the Savage Land. He believes Wolverine has too much integrity to murder a teammate over something as petty as a woman. And while they are on the subject of opening up their hearts... Wolverine cuts him off and tells him to not even think about it. But Colossus insists that they are facing their greatest challenge and may not even be here five days from now. He doesn't want to die with any regrets, and it's healthier to air one's little secrets instead of keeping the bottled up. No, Wolverine replies as he finishes the last Brotherhood member. Keeping them bottled up is a lot healthier. Standing there with a crunched car on his shoulder Colossus states that this would probably not be a good time to mention the "fastball special" move he thought up last night.
The Savage Land, day twelve:
Cyclops keeps himself from starving by munching on every kind of grub and insect he can reach. It took him ninety minutes to bite into his first centipede. Now he's wolfing them down.
Day twenty-six:
 Scott becomes aware that he's starting to hallucinate. Either that or Scooby Doo's trapped down there with him. As a bundle of rocks and pebbles sprout tiny legs and start dancing over his forehead he fears that he might be losing his grip.
He grabs his X-Men communicator that's useless that far down. He tries to keep himself busy by running through timetables, lists of US presidents, anything; Holding onto the hope that his friends will come looking for him sooner or later. Why aren't they coming, he wonders and has a fantasy of Wolverine slyly comforting a desolate Jean. He'll come home to Jean, Scott swears to himself, unaware that a group of strangers - apparently mutants as they are levitating the rocks around them - are nearing the hole. They find him, dig a tunnel to him and identify him as a mutant.
San Diego:
The X-wing is hanging over the San Diego sky. Beast sits on the wing and Storm joins him, asking him why he switched off the cloak. He admits that, for once, he wanted to remind himself of what it is like not to hide. He wanted to see a sunset. She asks if he had any luck finding Magneto. None. Not much he can do while this Forge character builds radar-invisible headquarters and such. Not to mention the doomsday weapon, Ororo adds. Beast asks her to change the subject, but continues himself. Here, they are hiding from the government and, 48 hours from now, might be the end of Homo Sapiens and what's going through his head? That, for the first time since they got together, he can be absolutely certain that Charles Xavier isn't manipulating them. Meaning also that, for the first time, he can ask this question without any hidden feelings of Paranoia: does a tiny part of her still love him? Shedding a tear, Ororo admits that she honestly never stopped.
Camp X-Factor, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba:
Charles Xavier and Nightcrawler are in cells next to each other. Xavier tells the boy not to feel guilty. It's not his fault the SHIELD telepaths intruded into his mind. His Weapon X training wasn't enough. But his weakness led them to Moira MacTaggert and the sick mutant children she was hiding in Scotland, the boy insists. Now they are going to be captured as well. That's true but they can do nothing about that. And, on the bright side, some of those children were very sick. Now, at least they can get the medical attention they so desperately needed, Xavier replies. But they are going to be incarcerated now.
Xavier again tells Kurt to focus on the positive side. Look at him. They've blocked his telepathic powers, but they also locked him up with 43 young mutants who didn't want to know him before and turned him down flat. Now they have to listen to his philosophies 24 hours a day. But now it's all down to his X-Men, Nightcrawler states. What if they don't find Magneto's secret citadel? Oh, they'll find him, Xavier dismisses that thought. After all, he trained them for that. Everything happens for a reason, so Kurt should sit back and save his energy for the big moment of glory he's been plotting for him.
Day thirty-one:
Lying in a medical station Scott Summers thinks to himself that for the first time in God-knows-how-long he gets a lucky break. It's unclear whether he?d still think that if he knew that he's been saved by the Brotherhood and is now in Magneto's headquarters?


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Return of the King - part 4
Magneto’s secret citadel at the North Pole:
Magneto stands on a balcony, addressing the hundreds of mutants standing on the ground below him. By midnight this night, everyone standing there will be all that’s left of Earth’s entire population, Magneto states. It’s quite exhilarating he enthuses, like the Christian book of Genesis, played in reverse. He descends the stairs, where he finds Sabretooth and other mutants counting pairs of different animal species.
He feels sorry for the animals, Sabretooth complains. The people can go hang as far as he is concerned but what did cats and dogs ever do to deserve to suffer? Regrettable but unavoidable, the master of magnetism replies. Still, a healthy male and female of each species is being preserved in the Ark project for breeding purposes. Well, he’d rather have some extra pigs in there than some snot-nosed human scum eating up their food supply, Sabretooth complains and shoots two human prisoners among the animals a filthy look. Magneto explains that Miss Klein – the woman – is one of the forward-thinking humans on the planet and young Travis - the male -is their most perfect physical specimen. He’s not so monstrous to obliterate an entire species when two healthy young mammals can be fed and cared for quite affordably…
As the two men take a walk through the citadel, Magneto admits that he’d trade them all in an instant for all those poor brother mutants still missing. Those prisoners in Camp X-Factor are their first concern, naturally, but he weeps for all those sickly youths Moira MacTaggert is hiding. And his own children – despite their squabbles, one must never underestimate a father’s power to forgive. It breaks his heart to think that they chose to die with the lowly human trash rather than rule beside him. Sabretooth is less sad about the twins’ fate. Pietro and Wanda knew the score when they started taking calls from the Ultimates.
 The young inventor, Forge, calls out to them and asks Magneto if he could have a second. He wasn’t aware that Magneto was planning to do with that power amplifier he built for him. He was thinking he’d just blow some things up and terrorize people for a while. But he didn’t expect a big plan to reverse the world’s magnetic poles and extinguish all living beings. Forge’s problem is that he is still clinging to some prepubescent notion that he is human, Magneto explains. He has to transcend these old-world beliefs. He isn’t having second thoughts, is he? Of course not, Forge quickly claims. Good, Magneto announces as they stand before Forge’s power amplifier, because the coming race has little time for the faint of heart.
In the Citadel’s infirmary, two members of the infirmary staff discuss the situation. One of them believes that they are going too far. Taking a stand against their persecutors is one thing, but obliterating an entire species? What’s the alternative? his colleague asks. It’s “us or them” and he’s heavily into self-preservation. But there are five hundred mutants on this rock, the first man continues. They could fight the humans instead of obliterating them. Five hundred against six billion, the others scoff. What kinds of odds are these? He knows what the other man is going through – he also has people he likes out there, but he has to remember that threats to the status quo have a habit of disappearing. Besides, there’s nothing they can do about it now. So, they should get back to work and run through the details of the John Doe they picked up.
Mutant one-eighteen, the first man starts, found in a Savage Land ravine, both starved and dehydrated. Patient has yet to be identified, but is possible one of the Brotherhood people who survived the Sentinel attack way back when. The second man sees the patient for the first time. Incredulously, he asks whether his colleague really doesn’t recognize this traitor? It’s… Before he can say “Cyclops,” the patient’s optic blast hits him. A nurse or doctor, standing near him, warns him that she’ll burn his head of his shoulders if he makes another step. Not now that he knows where she’s standing, he replies and blasts her as well. The first staff member lies on the ground and reaches for his glasses. Cyclops, dressed only in his tightie whities, grabs him by the shirt and tells him that he is going to be his eyes till he finds himself another ruby-quartz visor. Where is he supposed to take him, the panicked man asks. “Magneto, moron. Where do you think?” the X-Man replies.
The citadel, 0200 hours:
The mutants are gathered around Forge’s amplifier machine, as Magneto stands on the platform within it. He reaches out with his magnetic powers, shouting how incredible this feeling is. It’s like a pocket calculator being transformed into a super computer. The amplification is allowing him to touch things so far beyond his usual reach, even he begins to tremble at the thought of what he may be capable of. Just for fun, he’s erasing videotapes in Japan and whipping up a magnetic storm off the coast of Hawaii. He tells his followers to close their eyes if what he is about to do is too much for them, but there is really nothing for them to fear. The rest of the world should be quaking. Do they now regret all their taunts and their intolerance towards homo superior? he wonders, while cracks open on the streets of major cities.
In the meantime, Brotherhood members attack camp X-Factor and take out the SHIELD agents. A leader tells the others they have two minutes to release the prisoners, then they are teleporting back to base. Xavier, in his cell, asks Nightcrawler if he knows what’s happening - he can’t see a thing. Same for him, Nightcrawler replies. He hears screaming and shooting - it sounds like a rescue operation. Compliments of the Brotherhood of Mutants, a rescuer replies as he and another prop up the paralysed Xavier. They didn’t think the Brotherhood would leave them to die with the lowly human cockroaches, did they?
Magneto – perceiving all this – urges Xavier to take the man’s hand and let bygones be bygones. Charles was too good a friend to him once to end up brushed away with nature’s detritus. Their argument ends with this obsolete species. Together, they can build the world they once dreamed of.
Magneto reaches across the contours of the planet covering all continents as with a hand and now intends to squeeze the fist tumbling the world into chaos. As if on cue, Magneto is hit in the back by Cyclops’ optic blast. He falls to the ground and momentarily loses his concentration. The mutants are incredulous, mumbling they thought Cyclops was supposed to be dead. They thought wrong, Cyclops – still holding the doctor - announces. Now they’d better step away from that machine before someone gets hurt. Yeah, someone spelled C-Y-C-L-O-P-S Sabretooth announces grimly. Magneto, still crouching, orders Sabretooth to leave the boy alone. What harm can he do without his visor after all? He can’t see a thing. He’s just a tragic little blind boy striking out for a lost cause against impossible odds. Has Charles broken down his independent thought to the point where it really seemed a good idea to tackle them all alone? As Cyclops smirks Magneto asks what’s so funny. Cyclops holds up his x-communicator and asks who said he was alone?
As Magneto tries to take in the consequences of that statement, the X-jet rams the citadel breaking right through the wall to them. Magneto shouts at his followers to get up and fight! What’s the matter with them? He thinks they know when they are outclassed, Iceman announces, as he freezes everything in the citadel. Even as Magneto orders Blob to take point and all others to take battle formation, the other X-Men attack, making short work of Magneto’s shocked followers.
Magneto babbles to himself, blaming himself for not simply killing Cyclops and finish it while standing around, preening. Above him, Storm tells him to shut up and repeatedly hits him with lightning. Cyclops finds he can suddenly see with his eyes closed. A neat little telepathic trick, Miss Grey? he asks. Jean hugs her boyfriend and suggests that, now that he knows where the creeps are standing, he could hit them with some optic blasts. Cyclops complies and orders Kitty to trash the power amplifier and Jean to take out every Brotherhood mind she can get a hold of.
Sabretooth tells Wolverine, who is rushing towards him, that he’s wasting his time. He’s bigger, stronger and can heal any wound Wolverine could possibly inflict with those “sissy, little claws.” “Well, let’s see how long this takes to grow back,” Wolverine replies and decapitates his foe with one strike.
Magneto finally manages to throw up a magnetic shield against Storm’s attack and shouts “enough,” then attacks her in turn hurling metal objects at her. He puts on his helmet, while Cyclops orders Jean to create a forcefield. No, no forcefield Magneto states. This ends here. He’s had enough of this idiocy! With a gesture, he plays with gravity, swirling the X-Men around. He then rushes onto the amplifier’s platform, angrily asking what’s the matter with the X-Men anyway? Had they been around two million years ago they’d probably have sided with the primates against the dawn of humanity. He scares away Kitty, who’s been trying to sabotage the machine. He’s quite away of her sabotage, Magneto states, just as he is aware of those air force jets approaching.
That said, Forge’s machine will only manage one final act of power-amplification but he’s already decided where it will create the most havoc… What is he doing, Cyclops demands. Destabilizing the core of a nuclear reactor a little north of Miami, Magneto replies. No matter what happens now, the East Coast of America has just been given her death sentence…


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Rainbow Falls Generating Plant, Miami:
A huge mushroom cloud replaces what once was one of Miami’s power plants. Everything at ground zero is decimated.
Magneto’s Lair, the Arctic Circle:
With the X-Men down for the count, Magneto gloats about his last-ditch effort to get back at the humans. He lets them know that before Kitty could shut down the machine that was amplifying his powers, he was able to create a nuclear meltdown in Miami. He boasts about giving the U.S. its very own Chernobyl.
A Squadron of Stealth Bombers comes into view and they start dropping bombs on Magneto’s base. Unfortunately for them his magnetic shield deflects the brunt of their attack. Magneto puts his focus back on the X-Men. He wants them all dead.
He starts off with Wolverine because of his adamantium-laced skeleton. He magnetically lifts him in the air and threatens to remove the metal clean off his bones. Kitty yells out for Magneto to stop, but he’s not deterred. He reminds her of what an animal Wolverine really is. He asks Kitty if she has any idea of how many people he’s killed in the past. Wolverine snarls, "...I killed one less guy than I shoulda, dirt-bag..." Magneto lifts his arm into the air and stretches Wolverine’s body into a painful position.
Nearby, Colossus strains against Magneto’s hold. He tries with all his might to get up off the ground.
Magneto further berates Wolverine, calling him an idiot and a traitor. He left the Brotherhood so he could be with Jean Grey and even left Cyclops to die just so he could be with her. He calls Wolvie a fool and tightens the strain on him. Wolverine cries out in agony once more.
Colossus is crawling on the ground, inching closer and closer to the master of magnetism. Magneto notices this and laughs. After all, what chance does someone whose body is composed of organic steel have against him? Magneto does a double-take as he realizes that Colossus is actually resisting his power. Piotr manages to pick himself up from the ground. A wide-eyed Magneto stands there hurling insults, confused by what’s happening. Colossus rears up and delivers a powerful right-handed jab to Mags’ midsection. He then brings around his left for a devastating head shot.
During Colossus’ attack, Magneto’s hold on the other X-Men dissipates. Wolverine falls to the ground and the other X-Men look up in shock as their teammate pummels their most feared enemy.
The reason behind Colossus’ rage is made apparent when he tells Magneto that nobody lays a hand on Wolverine. He gives him a good ol’ right-handed uppercut that sends Mags flying backwards in a heap.
Rainbow Falls, Generating Plant (three minutes after impact):
People are panicking as the blast flies forward. Professor Xavier, Nightcrawler, Rogue and some others (presumably former Brotherhood members) come to the rescue, riding on the backs of Sentinels. The Professor mindlinks with everyone in the area and updates them on the situation. He puts Nightcrawler in charge of evacuation and Rogue in charge of containing the damage from the nuclear reactor. ‘Crawler starts porting out everyone he can find.
Back at Magneto’s lair, Cyclops issues out an attack command, and the X-Men follow suit. Jean’s attack comes first as she blasts Magneto up in the air. Iceman is next and ices Magneto up into a wall. Cyclops follows with an optic blast and tells Storm to keep the wind flow on him. He wants to keep Mags off his feet until Jean is ready. Cyke tells Magneto that it’s over and that Jean is going to create him a new personality.
Magneto lies at the base of his tower, crumpled and defeated. He tells the X-Men about a movie he once saw that reminded him of this very situation. The movie was called "The Thing from another World."
Up above, one of the Stealth Bombers loses control. The pilot ejects, while the front of the plane takes on a bluish magnetic hue.
Mags continues his story about the movie. In it, the creature is surrounded by humans and knows it has no chance of escaping. He asks them if they realize what he’s getting at. Jean tells him no and he tells them that the movie taught him that it’s better to die than to finish your life in a cage.
The runaway Stealth Bomber continues its course straight into Magneto’s citadel. It crashes through the glass shell and blows up everything inside. Some of Magneto’s people stand around in shock as they watch the place go up in flames.
Inside, however, Jean erected two telekinetic shields to protect them from the blast. Beast and Magneto occupy one of the shields. The rest of the X-Men smile as Hank prepares to kick some magnetic butt. They’re interrupted by a telepathic call from the Professor. He tells them that things are getting out of hand in Florida and that they need help containing the reactor.
At ground zero, Nightcrawler continues to teleport people to safety. Rogue uses some telekinetic powers she’s absorbed to keep the radiation contained with the help of other psychics. The Professor asks her how much longer she can hold on. She tells him five to ten minutes. He tells her not to worry and increases her abilities by a factor of nine. He then tells Cyclops that he needs someone else down there. Cyclops acknowledges the Professor’s message, but has no idea how to get anyone over there. They’re thousands of miles away from Florida.
Storm suggests that Nightcrawler port her over there and she could possibly contain it in a cyclone. Cyclops tells her that Nightcrawler can only teleport a maximum of two miles. Iceman suggests he could try freezing the entire place. He’s not sure if he could do it, but it’s worth a shot. Cyclops reiterates the fact that Nightcrawler can only port two miles at a time. Their main problem right now is finding a way to get there in time.
Jean feels woozy, then mumbles "Oh no… Not again…" as she gets a sudden surge of power. She realizes what it is just before it takes over. Like a comet, she takes off in the sky. The rest of the X-Men are left to wonder what has just happened.
Back in Miami, Jean comes soaring in. She slams directly into the ground. Charles telepathically lets everyone know that the comet was one of his students, and that said student is their best chance of survival for the moment. Suddenly, the ground around the reactor rises up into the air. Charles Xavier is shocked beyond belief. Jean Grey managed to lift several square miles of earth directly off the ground.
Back in the Arctic, the X-Men stand in silence as Wolverine and Cyclops come face to face. Wolverine says, "Well, Cyclops. I’m guessing an apology on my part ain’t exactly gonna cut it here, huh?" With one hand on his new ruby quartz shades, Cyclops responds, "You know something, Wolverine? I figure you’re right..."


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Return of the King - part 6
In Miami, Jean takes care of the power plant problem by atomizing it. A large black cloud fills the sky over the humans and Sentinels.
Back at the North Pole, Scott and Logan prepare to face off. They circle about while the rest of the X-Men watch. Wolverine tries to get Cyclops to back off a bit, but it doesn’t work. He then admits to the rest of the team that he did try to kill Cyke to get Jean, and he warns them not to interfere in their fight. He tells them that he deserves what he gets. Wolverine’s face flashes across Cyclops’ visor. Cyke unleashes a powerful blast, which knocks Wolvie down for the count.
Back in Miami, Professor X and Nightcrawler discuss the ramifications of Jean’s actions. The Professor worries about what may have happened to her mind from the tremendous exertion. Jean hears him and tells him not to worry. Charles isn’t totally calmed and tells everyone to stay back. Jean tells him to calm down, explaining that she’s in control of the Phoenix abilities now.
She lands back on the ground with her fellow mutants. Rogue alerts them to the fact that the humans look like they’re ready to start trouble with them. The Professor orders everyone to form a circle around Jean so she can create a psychic shield around them. Surprisingly, they’re mistaken. Instead, the humans start to cheer the mutants for saving them. Jean is unsure how to cope with this new-found friendliness.
The next day it’s all in the news. The X-Men are on the covers of the New York Times, Time magazine, Newsweek and the National Enquirer. They’re reported to have taken down Magneto and turned him over to the Ultimates. A few people are interviewed, including a shadowed figure with pointy ears and white hair who claims the whole thing is a big conspiracy for the coming race wars. Professor Xavier also reports in that Wolverine is no longer affiliated with the Xavier Institute.
In Washington D.C., President Bush holds a meeting with his top advisors. Included in on the meeting are Tony Stark and Nick Fury. The President is unsure of what to do, now that the X-Men have stopped Magneto and saved Florida. Nick and Tony try to convince him to take it easy on them. In fact, Tony has brought a report with him detailing a way out of the genetic war that America seems to have gotten itself involved in. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have some reservations about the plan, which include a distinction between the Brotherhood and the X-Men and a complete exoneration for Charles Xavier. Fury points out that it’s more of a compromise. The X-Men will be brought into the Federal budget and put under S.H.I.E.L.D. jurisdiction.
The President isn’t sure where he’s going with this. Tony further explains, stating that with his plan they could have a hand-picked group of politicians and thinkers influencing the syllabus of the next generation of super-soldiers. With more and more mutants being born every month, this would be a great way to start cultivating them. Rumsfeld starts to disagree again, but Bush tells him to be quiet. Fury leaves them with one last thought, “Do you really think it’s smart to alienate these kids when they might be the only thing keeping us alive at some point?” The President’s cabinet is speechless.
Later. At the Xavier Institute for Gifted Children, it’s the grand reopening and all the students’ parents are invited. Inside, it’s a semi-formal party. Nightcrawler makes the rounds offering champagne to everyone. Nightcrawler ‘ports near Bobby and Kitty, and Iceman asks him for a drink. Kurt tells him “No”, of course.
Nearby, Charles meets with Rogue’s parents. Rogue’s mom thanks him for convincing S.H.I.E.L.D. into releasing her daughter. He assures her that it wasn’t too tough, considering she was a minor and at one point forced into the Weapon X program. With that out of the way, Rogue’s dad voices his doubts over what good it would do to have Rogue at the Institute. He tells Professor X about how Rogue put one of the boys from back home in a coma. Charles tells him that that’s the reason he built the institute; to turn curses into blessings. Nightcrawler ‘ports in with some desserts. He offers to fill Rogue’s parents in on why the academy would be a good place for their daughter.
Next up for Charles is Professor Braddock. Xavier shakes Braddock’s hand and tells him that he often thinks about him, his wife and departed daughter. Moira tells Charles to keep the discussion light, as they’re having a party. Professor Braddock tells Moira not to worry, as his daughter has returned and has accompanied him to the party. It turned out that Betsy’s consciousness, upon death, went into the body of a comatose woman named Kwannon. Betsy’s mind took over as Kwannon’s spirit moved on. Moira is shocked with disbelief. Professor Braddock continues on, explaining that Betsy is back with the British arm of S.H.I.E.L.D. She’s currently working on the British version of the Ultimates. Charles in intrigued and Professor Braddock offers to explain it further.
Colossus, overhearing the discussion, walks over to Betsy and apologizes for killing her in Berlin. Betsy tells him not to worry, as the “death experience” was the most fascinating experience she’s ever had.
Meanwhile, Tony Stark is chatting it up with Ororo and Jean. He’s in the middle of telling them the story of his battle with the Hulk. He stops mid-sentence and verifies that Storm is over the age of eighteen. He'd hate wasting his time here… Once assured, he continues his story, much to the dismay of an eavesdropping Hank McCoy.
Beast walks over to Colossus and asks him if he’s seen Cyclops. It turns out that Fury once served with Cyke’s dad in the Gulf War and wants to speak with him. Peter informs Hank that Scott left to head into town to pick something up for Jean. He comments that he might be uncomfortable on “Parents’ Day” without having any parents. Hank agrees with Peter, as his parents rejected him when they found out he was a mutant.
Colossus asks Beast what he means. Beast further explains that his parents wouldn’t be caught dead here. Peter is surprised as he was just talking to Hank’s parents a bit earlier. And speak of the devil, Mr. and Mrs. McCoy call out his name. They coddle all over him, much to Hank’s amazement. His parents explain how they’re writing a book about how it was to raise their mutant son. In fact, they have a three book deal and the movie rights are currently being negotiated. They then apologize for how they treated him in the past, which caused him to run away from home. They hope to show him how open-minded and liberal they’ve become. Henry is very sarcastic about their newfound love and tells them of his girlfriend. They act all happy, but are taken aback when they meet Storm. She acts all gushy and hugs them both, calling them mom and dad. Hank gives her a thumbs up and she gives him one back.
Outside, on the Institute’s helipad, Peter’s family is dropped off (courtesy of S.H.I.E.L.D.). He wraps them up in his arms. Jean, who is outside, comments on how it’s great that the military would do such a nice thing. She believes that that’s the kind of stuff that the army should be doing all the time; nice stuff. Thor pokes fun at her suggestion, but Jean asks him why not. After all they’re public servants. She’s sure that if Americans were polled, they would rather have Uncle Sam mowing their lawn instead of toting machine guns around.
Thor changes the subject and asks Jean how she’s doing. She tells him that she’s never felt better in her life. She says that the whole Phoenix thing was insane. She believes it to have been a manifestation created by her being unable to deal with her immense powers. Thor tells her to be careful anyway. Not everything can be explained with rational viewpoints. Jean wants to know what he means by that. He tells her that if he were trying to possess someone he would try to convince the host that he didn’t exist. He tells her to be careful, as there are more things in Heaven and Earth that even Charles Xavier doesn’t understand.
Later on that evening in the emptied banquet hall, General Nick Fury and Professor Charles Xavier have a meeting. Xavier asks Fury how Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are doing. Fury asks him if he really expected those two to show up to the party after his X-Men just hospitalized their dad. Fury changes the subject by mentioning the blue fur all over his jacket that he got from his conversations with Beast. Xavier asks him if he’s trying to recruit him to the Ultimates. Nick tells him not to worry, he won’t be recruited until after he graduates from the Institute.
Nick tells him that he respects what the school is doing for mutants and the fact they’ve brought the school under federal control has nothing to do with them wanting to destroy what he’s built. Charles tells him that that’s a ridiculous statement and that he would never have believed that. It’s just as dumb to say that he engineered the whole Magneto catastrophe just to gain access to the U.S. military. Fury tells him they live in paranoid times and Charles agrees. Xavier leaves Fury by the window and takes his cat, Mystique, for some dinner.


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story
 A writer describes how Magneto is being held prisoner in a plastic cage in the bowels of the Ultimates’ headquarters, the Triskelion. He is a bogeyman, stripped of all potency as long as all his visitors followed a golden rule: no metal objects. Until one day, one of the cleaning staff was so stupid as to lie about the steel pin in his leg. Magneto uses it to kill everybody in the room and free himself. Next, he skewers and slices Captain America (during his lunch hour) for some of his threats against Magneto earlier. The writer gleefully describes how Magneto murders the other Ultimates before turning his attention to the wide world outside. Majestically, he strides through the streets, turning every metal object into a weapon against humanity. Within a day, Magneto has levelled everything, sparing only a terrified America, frightened into obedience. Xavier and his X-Men apologize, admitting that he was right all along, while Magneto presides over his perfect little world in what used to be the White House.
Reality
Magneto sits in a large, see-through plastic prison suspended in the air, equipped only with the most necessary objects, none of them metal, of course. In his hands, he holds the letter with the story, scribbled in childish handwriting, addressed “to the Master.” A plexiglas tunnel is attached to the prison and Charles Xavier is wheeled in. Some guards respectfully inform Magneto over intercom that he has a visitor. If he’d like them to send him away, like the others, he need just say the word. Magneto looks up at the surveillance camera, telling them to let Xavier in. Unlike the others, he tends to be interesting on occasion.
A guard wheels Xavier – in a specially manufactured plastic wheelchair – in and the leaves. “Here we are again, Erik,” Xavier states. Magneto, keeping his back turned to him and his eyes glued on his fan mail, repeats coolly, “Yes, Charles. Here we are again.”
Xavier notices the mail, stating that Erik is certainly getting a lot of fan mail from those charitable Homo sapiens. Heartening that even a genocidal super-terrorist receives the occasional note of comfort as he faces his darkest hour. Taking off his reading glasses, Magneto points out that these are more than warm wishes. He’s got everything from anti-human fiction to marriage proposals. They say that the amount of attention one receives in jail is in direct proportion to the crimes one committed. What kind of species celebrates an attack on their own body, he rants and adds bitterly that Charles must be very proud to have helped them against him.
He never said that humanity was perfect, Xavier replies calmly, just that they deserved their chance to live. Putting on his glasses again, Magneto replies coolly that this is where he and Charles will always remain poles apart. Xavier changes the subject trying to make some small talk inquiring how they are treating Erik. Magneto bitterly replies that he’d be living like a pig if he had committed fraud. But a death toll in the thousands and the system treats you like royalty. With black humor, he adds that, allegedly, the Hulk is being kept in another of these holding cells. He hasn’t seen him so far, but he hopes they might exchange Christmas cards this year. Xaviert tells him with genuine emotion that he is sorry it came to this. Not as sorry as he is, Magneto shoots back.
A snowy wilderness somewhere in Canada:
Wolverine, dressed in leathers and furs, attacks a wild grizzly. Suddenly, a voice interrupts the fight, remarking dryly that there is a perfectly good restaurant fifteen miles down the road. “What do you want, Cyclops?” Wolverine asks after having finished the grizzly. Is he back for a rematch? He proceeds to tear into the raw meat with his teeth. Looking at the spectacle in front of him, Cyclops points out that what went on between them before wasn’t exactly a fight. More like Cyclops cutting loose with his optic blast and Wolverine going down like a ninepin. So, Wolverine asks, is he saying that he’d have deserved to get a few licks in before hitting the deck? Cyclops reminds Wolverine of what he did, trying to kill him in order to have a chance with Jean, and asks whether Logan thinks that he deserved what he got there. Only every cut and bruise, his former teammate snarls. But what does Scott want here anyway? Isn’t enough to have kicked him off the team? Does he really have to track him down after all these months and reopen those wounds? That’s not why he’s here, Cyclops states and surprisingly adds that he wants to apologize.
Magneto’s cell:
Magneto needles Charles that he has now completely sold out, but to him that was always obvious. He prefers to think of it as a compromise, Charles replies patiently. Magneto points out that he’s signed up his children to an organization which was hunting them down only a few months ago. A tad hypocritical, no? What’s the difference between Xavier’s institute and Weapon X now anyway? More comfortable sleeping arrangements? The old school tie?
Xavier accuses him of being facetious. No, Magneto replies. He’s telling him as his oldest friend that he has made the most terrible miscalculation. He appreciates that Xavier is trying to infiltrate their most prized inner sanctum, but he has taken the game too far this time. Charles will never change them.
Coldy addressing Magneto as “Mister Lensherr,” Charles reminds him that they are not alone here, before this conversation gets any more frank. Magneto looks up at the surveillance camera and surprisingly apologizes. Xavier returns to their discussion, claiming that he is willing to accept a human board of supervisors for his next stage of mutant integration. It’s a small price to pay for an end to hostilities and Fury assured him that the school would have first refusal over any mutants they arrested. He prefers the idea of mutual coexistence. And he’s talking to the president about equal rights in the workplace and at least one positive mutant character in a number of popular television shows.
Finally getting up and looking at Xavier, Magneto gently mocks him: if human evolution had been placed in his hands, they’d still all be swimming in the sea, eh? What does Xavier really want here, anyway? Gloating never seemed to be his style…
He’s here, because he’s a utopian, Xavier explains. He wants to set the world to rights and won’t be satisfied until his old best friend is rehabilitated with the rest of his followers. He can read Erik’s mind and knows how unhappy he really is. And, what’s more, he knows the source of his unhappiness is his estrangement from his children. They’re both waiting outside, he states surprisingly and Quicksilver in particular is eager to make amends. Should he invite them in? Magneto is flustered for the first time. He protests that he regards Scarlet With and Quicksilver as the most treacherous little toads that ever walked the Earth. Their only decent contribution to the world was almost killing their feeble-minded mother during childbirth. Oh, Xavier replies. So Erik regards them as weak human-loving traitors for fraternizing with the Ultimates? That’s precisely why he cannot bear to see them, Magneto agrees. And this has nothing to do with the fact that the twins remind him of that passionate affair he had with their ordinary, human mother, Charles asks with a smirk.
Magneto gives him a cold look and asks him to go. Xavier insists that an interspecies romance isn’t anything to be ashamed of and doesn’t make him less of a mutant. Isabelle was a beautiful, intelligent woman and he’d be surprised if a little part of Erik didn’t still love her. Well, he’d be surprised, Magneto continues his old spiel, because those monkeys don’t even smell right and its their biological instinct to replace them. He calls out for a guard. With a smile, Charles reminds him that his biological instincts used to be quite different in those days.
Canada:
Wolverine incredulously asks Cyclops why he should want to apologize to him. What has he to be sorry about? Acting like a caveman instead of the leader of a post-human cell, the X-Men’s leader replies. The Professor’s whole idea is to have his X-Men take his pacifist ideals out into the world and teach everyone that they don’t have to play by the old rules. But what’s the first thing he does when someone crosses him? He goes all alpha male and kicks the crap out of him. Sounds logical to him, Wolverine states dryly. But what did it accomplish, Scott asks. Driving the most dangerous mutant back into isolation? That’s the way Wolverine was before they met him. All that progress shot to hell, just so Cyclops could look tough in front of his friends. So what is he saying, Wolverine asks. He’s saying, Cyclops replies, that Wolverine should come back to the school and finish his rehabilitation. Is he nuts or just trying to score brownie points with Xavier, Wolverine scoffs, as he turns away. Ok, a little pacifist thinking is going to pull up his average, Cyclops admits, but he genuinely believes that alienating Wolverine now is bound to mean trouble for the future. He doesn’t want them to end up like Xavier and Magneto.
The others would be sleeping with knives under their pillows if he moved back in, Wolverine states, still not convinced. They’ve been doing that ever since Wolverine moved into the mansion in the first place, Cyclops replies. Besides, they took a vote on the matter and it was unanimous.
Wolverine still refuses, insisting he is not like the others. The folks at Weapon X wiped all that nice human stuff out of his mind. He’s just good for killing. He’s too screwed up to be an X-Man. That’s precisely why he should come back, Cyclops insists. But, he adds, he wanted to talk about something else with him. The promise the Professor made Wolverine when he said he’d do his best to help him find out more about jus past. He pulls out a wedding ring and hands it to Wolverine. Logan curiously stares at the inscription reading “To James with all my love”.
It’s his wedding ring, Cyclops explains. SHIELD is already cross-referencing that name with World War Two intel they received from Captain America. He doesn’t want to build Wolverine’s hopes up, but this looks like their best chance of finding out who he was before those psychopaths got their hands on him Wolverine shakes his head. This is nuts. Who was he married to? Only one way to find out, Cyclops replies and calls in the X-Wing.
Magneto’s prison:
His back turned again, Magneto asks the guard to remove Xavier. He has become a profound irritation. Unfazed, Xavier tells him that he has hit a nerve and that they can work together on these emotions and ideas in the coming months. He sees such goodness in Erik’s heart and believes, with a little guidance, he could be capable of something spectacular. Oh, and what makes him think he’s even going to look up from his correspondence next time Charles graces him with his presence, Magneto inquires. Yes, all that scintillating Homo sapiens conversation should be enough for anyone, Xavier sarcastically agrees. Excellent point, Magneto admits. Besides, they will have to talk if Xavier is gong to represent Magneto at his upcoming trial, Xavier adds. Did he know that they’re trying to find a committee to discuss a foolproof way of executing Magneto? Erik states that he feels flattered. Yes, he thought so, Xavier replies and tells him au revoir.
Before he’s wheeled out, Magneto asks him, seemingly disinterested, whether Quicksilver ever recovered from that injuries Magneto gave him. Actually, he made excellent recovery, Charles replies. His accelerated system had him back n his feet inside a few months. Why does he ask? No reason, Magneto replies curtly. Xavier smiles. He waits at the door surrounded by two guards, while Captain America enters, cracking whether Magneto has been in the neighborhood long. Annoyed, Magneto tells him that wasn’t funny the first three hundred times. Xavier addresses the guards (whose name tags read Mark Millar and Adam Kubert), thanking them for their assistance, telling them he trusts they’ll forget that little outburst from Magneto earlier. It was quite unhelpful and not at all worth remembering. As they can imagine, it’s already been erased from the tapes-. The door closes.


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Blockbuster - part 1
A pretty, casually dressed blonde enters a shabby-looking diner. She checks out the only other guest sitting at one at the tables and then turns to the barkeeper, asking for a cup of coffee to go; decaf. She turns to the sole other guest, sipping his coffee. She knows him, doesn’t she, she asks. He’s famous. One of the X-Men, right? “Yup,” is Wolverine’s monosyllabic reply.
The girl, apparently not recognizing a brush-off, enthuses that this is pretty cool. No reply. She wishes she was famous, she insists and turns towards him, whispering: is he on a secret mission, or something? Is he… He’s eating lunch?, he cuts her off. Not offended, the girl laughs. And tells him a moment later that she is going to buy him that lunch. Why, he asks. The hell of it, she replies. She insists over his protests and gives the barkeeper an intent look as she passes the note to him. He reads something, stares and quietly leaves. The young woman tells Logan, it was cool to meet him and leaves as well. Outside, she speaks into a cell phone, stating that his I.D. is confirmed. It’s a go.
Logan turns towards the counter asking if he can have some… He realizes the man is gone; he is all alone. He moves the shades apart a bit, peeking through the window. Three identical white vans adorned with flowers and the colorful logo “De-Doo Diaper” are parked opposite the Diner. The van’s doors slide open and, suddenly, armed men fire at the diner. Wolverine is hit multiple times. Believing their goal accomplished, the unseen gunmen stop and the vans quickly drive off.
Curious onlookers close in on the diner, peeking through the destroyed windows. Among them is the blonde from before. “Visual I.D?” somebody asks her over the phone. That’s a big donut she tells them, a code apparently meaning that Wolverine is not to be found. The voice tells her to get out. Locals are en route.
Peter Parker aka Spider-Man is swinging home, wondering about he next level of absurdity in his life. He has to study for test PSAT’s now. A practice test to a test. Even though he’s been having straight A’s all his life. Shouldn’t all A’s be a free pass to college? He becomes calmer as he thinks about his girlfriend, Mary Jane, and the fact that they are back together again. He stealthily enters the abandoned building where he stashes his stuff and changes into civilian clothes, thinking to himself that either way he is too busy for this PSAT’s stuff. He has to put in more hours for his job at the Daily Bugle, as he’s broke due to always making web fluid, which he then has to waste on some losers trying to rob an armored car in broad daylight. What he’d really like to do is slap his webshooters down on the table and tell the PSAT people “Hey, I invented these. Now can I just go to any school I want?”
He goes home and enters the backroom where he stashes the computer and other of his stuff. Suddenly, he hears a noise from a corner. He looks and amid the junk suddenly sees a leg. A badly injured Wolverine sits in the shadow and says, “boo!”
Peter screams and automatically shoots his webs at Wolverine. The he grabs the next heavy objects at hand, first throwing his chair at him then whacking him with a broom. All the while he shouts, demanding to know who he is. Is he working for Norman Osborne? SHIELD? Does he think he can just come into his life? Wolverine slices through the web with his claws and says, “kid, calm down.” Peter stops, his arms in mid-air. He’s finally recognized the man. What happened to him, he asks horrified. And how does he know where Peter lives? Is he dying? Wolverine asks him again to calm down. Peter almost gets sick as he gets a good look at Wolverine.
Logan explains that he got tagged in Brooklyn and had nowhere else to go. Who did this, Peter wants to know. He doesn’t know yet, Wolverine admits. How did he know where he lives, Peter asks again. He followed him home the first time they met, Wolverine explains, the talking clearly being a strain on him. Peter doesn’t buy it at first and babbles on until Wolverine tells him he needs his help. Peter offers to swing to the hospital but Wolverine refuses. He can heal overnight. He just needs a blanket and a beer. Beer, Peter asks? You don’t have any Beer? Wolverine asks and passes out.
At that moment, Peter’s girlfriend Mary Jane Watson storms in, complaining that she caught her mother reading her e-mails. Suddenly, she takes in the sight before her, Peter crouching in front of the horribly injured man in the corner and faints. Peter catches her.
Wolverine finally comes to, with Peter and MJ waiting in front of him. Don’t they have school, he asks. It’s Saturday, Peter explains. Logan has been asleep two days. MJ offers him some Matzoh ball soup. Wolverine thanks her and Peter mentions that they had to do a “spasmo Three’s Company” number so they could keep Logan hidden from his aunt. So did they find that beer, Logan hopes. No luck, though MJ offers that her mom might have a wine cooler. Wine coolers and Matzoh Balls, Wolverine asks incredulously.
He catches MJ staring at him and tells her it’s impolite. Unfazed, MJ asks about his powers, being amazed and somewhat disgusted. Plus, she tells him, he smells like a wet dog. She asks Peter to call her when this is over and leaves. Peter nervously asks Logan if he could leave now. Wolverine admits it was crap of him to do that to Peter, he owes him... Good, Peter replies, so if he could leave now. Wolverine suddenly listens intently to something only he can hear and turns to the small window on the other side of the room. On the other side of the street he sees three white vans with the logo “Doo-Dee Diaper” “I might end up owing you more than one,” he tells Peter somberly.


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Blockbuster - part 2
The three Diaper Service trucks containing Wolverine’s mysterious attackers have parked across the Parker home. They scan the house and read Logan’s vital scans. The blonde named Tara who fronted the attack on Wolverine a couple of days ago asks whose house this is and the two men brief her: the home belonged to the deceased Ben Parker and now his wife, May, and nephew, Peter, live there alone. Just a woman and a kid. What’s Logan doing in there, Tara demands to know impatiently. One of the men suggests they blow the house and make it look like the water heater exploded. The woman brushes him off, still wondering what he’d be doing in the middle of Queens. Maybe they are relatives, the man suggests. He doesn’t have any relatives, Tara insists. An X-Men front? Must be one hell of a front then. She has the whole Parker megilah in front of her. Couldn’t be more typical boring Queens baloney if you tried to make it up. One of the men points to the screen: Logan isn’t moving. Maybe he’s still unconscious. It’s Tara’s call… She doesn’t like it, she admits. Two days of nothing, and suddenly… Queens.
While she still ponders the matter, Logan watches the trucks from the cellar window and points them out to Peter Parker: those are the people who carved him up. “Oh, my God,” Peter exclaims. Why are diaper delivery men trying to kill him? Was that a joke, Wolverine asks. “Kinda,” Peter admits. “Don’t,” the mutant tells him curtly. It’s how he deals with life, Peter defends himself and he doesn’t know what’s going on– Neither does he, Wolverine admits. He just knows they are military Black Ops, but whose military? And if they followed him here, that means he’s officially being tracked. Hunted. Not a thing he takes kindly to.
Well, Peter interrupts, while changing into his Spider-Man outfit, them attacking here at his house, where he lives, is not a good thing. And it will certainly not help him in his ongoing efforts to keep his identity as Spider-Man a secret. Will Peter help him out of here, Wolverine asks. He wants Wolverine out of here, Peter replies. Does he need to put on his little costume to do it, Wolverine mocks. Hey, does he make fun of Logan’s hair? Peter retorts. Wolverine gives him a serious look and warns the boy that he is going to do something that might upset him. But Peter has to go with it, just get Wolverine the hell out of there as fast as he can, okay? He’s not exactly easy to upset, Peter snaps, donning his mask. Wolverine unsheathes his claws and rams them into his own throat. Predictably, Peter is rather upset, screaming “Aaghh! Oh my God!!” as he catches the falling man.
One man in the truck is flabbergasted; Wolverine’s vitals just disappeared. Tara angrily screams “no.” But then the vitals appear again onscreen, but right on top of the truck. Suddenly, the truck topples and is thrown on its side. Tara is the first one to get her bearings back. She draws her gun, kicks open the door and looks for the attacker. Nobody; until she looks up and sees Spider-Man carrying Wolverine and swinging the hell out of there. One of the men asks what happened. Tara orders him to be quiet. They notice a group of scared kids staring at them from the other side of the road. Angrily, Tara tells one of the men to call Fred with the truck. She’s calling it a Delta Nine. What are they going to do, he asks. Regroup! she snaps.
Elsewhere, in front of the diner that was ruined in the shootout two days ago. Its owner sits on the front door sniffing. Logan approaches him, asking angrily if he’d forgotten to leave a tip? Anxiously, the man gets up, spilling his coffee. So, Logan, demands, closing in, where did he go when the parade started? He couldn’t help notice how conveniently he ran just before it all blew up. How did he know, he asks while holding his claws to the other man’s throat. Spider-Man chimes in, suggesting he’d better answer Wolverine’s questions. He’s not as nice as he looks. Wolverine glares at him. Sorry, Spidey apologizes.
Wolverine holds one of his claws up to the barkeeper’s nostrils. Finally, the man finds the strength to speak. He doesn’t have anything against him, he assures Wolverine. He was just cooperating. What else was he supposed to do? Did he think he was going to let them blow up his diner? This was his life. He just knows that this girl came in who insisted she buy Wolverine lunch and handed him a dollar bill with a note attached to it which read: “This man is a mutant terrorist. We are an FBI task force. Please leave ASAP.” So he complied. And afterwards he called the FBI to see if they were going to pay for what they did to his life and nobody knows what he’s talking about. So now Wolverine is fine and his life is over!!
Wolverine unsheathes his claws and tells him to run away.
He seems lost in thought when Spidey asks that he is not actually a mutant terrorist, right? Not that he’s insinuating that Wolverine has the kind of personality that could be mistaken for that of a mutant terrorist, but if he were a mutant terrorist on the run from the FBI, would he even tell Spidey? Wolverine curtly tells him that he can go home now. Oh yeah, Spidey replies sarcastically, he can go back to his house where they left the FBI Diaper Force. And who brought the FBI there again? He forgot. They aren’t FBI, Logan states. It’s a military Op. And they were off Parker’s street in thirty seconds. Like they never were there. And they are tracking Wolverine, Peter asks. How? Logan thinks. They have his Weapon X file, he decides.
Does he know what he’s talking about, the clueless teenager asks. Yeah, Wolverine replies, as he gets moving. Good for him, Peter states, but if he finds out that he’s suckered Peter into a new reality show, he swears to God… He’s not going home is he, Wolverine asks. He doesn’t really want him to, Peter retorts. Where to now? Cash in a favor, Wolvie replies. The X-Men? Isn’t he one of them? Wolverine looks away ashamed and just states not the X-Men. Why not? If he’s coming, he should come, Wolverine replies as he jumps to the next rooftop.
A roomy Soho loft, where Natasha Romanov sits meditating Natasha, Wolverine’s voice comes as he lets himself in over the balcony; he needs her help. He apologizes for the intrusion. Pretty funny she tells him, he being apologetic. He again asks her for help, as she looks at him sullenly and assures her it’s him. That’s what she thought until he just said it, she smirks. He only said it because he knows how ex-intelligence Black Ops SHIELD agents think. How long were they a couple, Natasha asks, testing him. He’d say five days, she probably say seven. How did they meet, she asks. He just smiles. Why did they split? They found out about the “real us.” No, Natasha sharply replies. She found out that he was using her to get information on— Like he said Logan interjects— the real them. And look at them now, Natasha states with a shrug. Look at you now, Logan tells her. The Black Widow. Nick Fury’s secret weapon. Look at you now, Natasha repeats. Famous and infamous.
She takes up the issue of Newsweek with the X-Men article. The world-famous X-Men, making the world a better place for human and mutantkind alike. If the X-Men were a boyband, Logan would be the dark brooding one. Apparently, Xavier never heard of a history check. And neither did Nick Fury, Logan retorts. How else would a spy without a country find herself a part of his superhero PR machine called…? The Ultimates, she replies. The Ultimate what? he asks. Ultimate Ultimates, she replies, getting annoyed, and continues that it is a very fine idea and- He cuts her off: it’s just PR and politics and beneath her, but that’s not why he came here. Right, she agrees, he came her asking for her help by insulting her.
He continues telling her about the situation. How his followers are Black Ops and used ammo that left no shrapnel and claimed to be Feds. Well, she knows nothing about it, she tells him with a raised eyebrow. Does her boss? Natasha plays dumb first, but then admits she doesn’t know and if he did he wouldn’t tell her. But she is the Ultimate Black Widow now, he mocks. If there’s a secret op to get Wolverine, it wouldn’t be a secret if Fury asked the Black Widow to tell Wolverine, now would it, she snaps.
They glare at each other coldly. Spidey, getting nervous, chimes in asking if they are done being cryptic because he’s freezing. Then go home, Logan tells him. Does he have an intern now, Natasha demands. Getting a good look at her, Spidey protests. He recognizes her and she owes him eighty dollars. Ignoring him, Natasha tells Logan about her conclusion. He knew she had nothing to do with this. He came here to see if the Black Op would attack him at her home. If they did it meant they had nothing to do with the Ultimates or Fury. She orders him to get out.
Spidey tells Logan that he saved the Widow once and then she poisoned him and stole his webshooters. Those cost money. Wolverine ignores him as well. The Widow tells Logan if Fury wanted him dead, Captain America would have broken his jaw and Thor would have cracked the rest of him in half. She tells him to take his sidekick and get out or she will call Fury.
Outside on the roof, Spidey tells Wolverine that he doesn’t like her. Bus she must be the hottest girl he’s ever seen and he has cable. Wolverine agrees on both counts. Spidey asks if he is using his “mutantness” to see of they have been here. Yup, and they haven’t. So, Spidey tells him, he has a Spider-Sense. A what? A warning sense that buzzes and warns him of danger. What good does that do him, Wolverine snaps. It’s why he’s sticking around, Spidey explains. He can warn Logan before anything bad is about to happen to him. Wolverine’s head suddenly jerks around. He senses something. Suddenly, a missile moves towards him at incredible speed and hits Logan right in the chest. He falls. Spidey exclaims, “My God,” as he sees the explosion several buildings away to where the missile’s impact carried Wolverine.


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Blockbuster - part 3
Spider-Man and Wolverine are standing on a roof talking. So engrossed are they in their conversation that they notice only too late that a rocket is closing in on them. It hits Wolverine full tilt, taking him with it across the roof into the air. Wolverine unsheathes his claws and cuts at the thing as it hurls him through a wall and almost against a huge pillar. At the last moment, though, he gets off a split second before it explodes. He is still close enough to be caught in the shockwave, though.
Back on the roof, Spidey still is shocked. He was so sure his Spidey-sense would warn him. Now, belatedly, it goes off as two choppers are nearing. They open fire on him. Screaming like a girl, Spidey jumps off the roof and tries to sing away, all the while muttering that now he knows why nobody takes him seriously: he’s the hero that screams like a girl. He screams again, trying to avoid the choppers. He realizes he’s totally out of his depth here. Suddenly, one of the rotors cuts through the webbing line he was holding onto. The boy falls straight through a window. He lands hard on the floor just before a teenager. Unimpressed, the girl offers him a pop-tart. He stares out of the window – it’s a conflagration out there, specifically in the builiding Logan disappeared into. Spidey jumps out, shouting Logan’s name and tries to near the building. As he catches fire, though, he swings back, cursing himself for his stupidity. Sadly, he stares at the fire, still shouting Logan’s name and wondering what to do. Panicked he swings away.
In a back alley, Loan stands, watching the kid but not calling out to him. Badly hurt, he sits down on some steps, recalling the events that led to this. He recalls the blonde in the diner playing the admiring groupie, telling him how cool it must be for him to be famous and whether he was on a secret mission or something. Suddenly, voices rudely break him out of his reverie. Three punks looking for trouble. “Yo freak, the circus leave you behind?” one of them starts. Without a word, Wolverine unsheathes his claws. Smartly, the punks make a run for it. Logan gets up, claws still unsheathed. He smells something – or someone. A man in the shadows suddenly asks if he is to blame for that warehouse explosion. And, before he lies, he should remember that he looks and smells incredibly guilty.
“the hell are you?” Logan rasps. This is Hell’s Kitchen, the man in the red suit replies. He asks the questions her. He smells like a wet dog, he continues. Who is he? You smell like an old book, Logan retorts. What is he? Daredevil corrects himself. A mutant. You? Logan replies curtly. Daredevil doesn’t answer and replies with a question of his own. Is he being pursued? Yeah... Military? Anti-mutant terrorist? Logan has no idea. Daredevil points out that those people seem unconcerned that this is a city where innocents live. Then again, he has no idea who Logan truly is. Are they gonna have a problem? Logan asks. They’re here, Daredevil tells him and melts back into the shadows. Logan looks around and sees cars approaching. All right, this is it, he decides. Someone’s talking or someone’ bleeding. He turns around again, asking Daredevil if this goofy outfit of his is just for show or… The Man without Fear is no longer there. The cars brake, surrounding Wolverine. Angrily, he snarls at them to come on. He wants to finish this.
The blonde called Tara by her colleagues gets out of the car – armed and wearing body armor. “Yo, Logan,” she taunts. That is his name right? His reeeeal name. Or did someone give him that name? Name him like a mangy mutt dog? The others get out as well, armed to their teeth. In berserker mode, Wolverine attacks while the men open fire.
Tara shouts at them to cease fire. Logan looks around. Everybody’s still standing. Adamantium alloy deflective body armor, Tara explains. Prototype. Prototype? one of the men asks nervously. It worked, didn’t it, she snaps. This is an American city with American civilians. They’re going o have to wrap this up fast.
Who are they, Wolverine demands with clenched teeth. “Quiet, doggy” Tara orders. She cocks her gun and shoots right in his face. The impact makes him drop, but the bullet nevertheless doesn’t get through his Adamantium-enforced skull.
Adamantium bullets, Tara states, her gun still smoking. Expensive as hell, she only has a few. So can an Adamantium bullet fired point blank pierce an Adamantium skull and finally put him out of his misery? No? How about this one? She fires again. Or this one? Again. Or this one? Again.
She now sits on his chest. Angrily, she asks whether he really has no idea who they are. Amazing, But guess what? She doesn’t care if he knows who she is or not. They’re not like him. They don’t need to be know or famous. Seems like these days you don’t even have to be human to be famous. You can be an animal dressed up as human and you can be famous. Everything he’s done in his hellish life, all the people he killed whose names he doesn’t even remember and now he wants to be famous? And can look her in the eye and don’t even know who they are? Good. Let him live with it, she shouts and presses the gun right against his forehead. She intends to fire again, only to suddenly have a Billy cub be thrown at her temple. As she shouts in pain, a voice announces that he has heard enough. As the Billy club returns to Daredevil’s outstretched hand, he orders them to get out of his kitchen.


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Blockbuster - part 4
Somewhere in the dreamscape.
Wandering through dark alleyways Jean Grey is calling out for her teammate Wolverine. Following a weak cry for help Jean finally finds him lying on the ground and badly hurt. She looks at him in horror and shared agony as the Phoenix raptor flares around her and he once more begs her to help.
Reality:
Jean sits at the breakfast table spaced-out and collapses. As the other X-Men gather around her, she asks if anyone has heard from Wolverine. She thinks he might be in trouble…
Hell’s Kitchen:
Wolverine is in trouble. Lying on the ground, deeply wounded with several Adamantium bullets almost having found the way though his skull. The mystery woman who wants him dead is kneeling above him, ready to fire another shot. Neither she nor her men seem particularly impressed by Hell’s Kitchen’s hero, Daredevil, who has just told them to leave. People live here, he tells them and adds that they are going to put down their guns or he’ll put them down. Tara warns him to back off. This is government business. That man is a mutant who is wanted for murder. Daredevil interrupts her explanation. He knows she’s lying.
The men cock their guns but, before the first shot can fall, Spider-Man swings in. Tara orders her men to fan out. Daredevil angrily calls Spidey an idiot and covers him as the bullets start flying. Both of them take cover behind one of the agents’ van and Spidey uses his webbing to drag Wolverine over to them.
Daredevil tells them that they’ll have to get way from the van. “You go first,” Sundance, Spidey suggests sarcastically. Daredevil doesn’t get the reference, but tells him that the van is going to explode. He grabs Wolverine and moves away while Spidey jumps up high, only to be caught in the shockwave of the explosion.
‘My tush is now singed,’ he complains as he joins Daredevil and the still exhausted Wolverine in a back alley. He hopes they are both happy now, he babbles on, only to ask again what is going on. Daredevil curtly tells him to be quiet, while Wolverine digs the Adamantium bullets out of his forehead much to Spidey’s disgust. Once he has burrowed them out, the wounds instantly start healing.
That was the single most disgusting thing he’s ever seen, the boy complains… ‘and he has cable’ Wolverine completes the line beating Spidey to it. What are they talking about, Daredevil inquires. Didn’t he see it, Spidey, who perches on the wall a bit above Daredevil, asks. The other man just asks him to please not sit on his head.
Addressing Spidey, Wolverine is amazed that he came back and thanks him for it. Spidey once again complains about getting shot at all the time whenever he hangs with Wolverine. And these people, Daredevil adds, referring to the mystery agents, have no problem shooting up a city like this, with no care about the innocent bystanders. Wolverine takes a good look at the disaster area around them and wonders where the police are. Welcome to Hell’s Kitchen, Daredevil replies sardonically and then goes on to explain that this probably all seems like a drug tiff to someone not looking and that kind of thing goes on here every weekend.
Spider-Man is about to make another quip but Daredevil asks him to be quiet. They’re still here, Wolverine states and Daredevil agrees. How does he know, Spidey wants to know. Can he see them? There are seven, Daredevil reveals. They are talking on walkie-talkies. They’re using code words for mission scenarios and they are arguing about whether they should regroup or try another day. They’re low on ammo. But back-up’s coming.
For what it’s worth, he’s sorry about this, Wolverine tells them. He has to take this out of the city, Daredevil demands. He didn’t bring it, the X-Man shoots back. Why doesn’t he calls the X-Men, Spidey interjects. He’s an X-Man? DD asks. The hairy one, Spidey explains.
Wolverine asks what the agents are saying now. They’re on radio silence, DD informs him. Whispering. They really hate Wolverine. He can really hear them whispering from over there? Spidey asks incredulously. Not with Spider-Man shouting in his ear, Daredevil deadpans. Spidey sulks and Wolverine decides that he has had it. It’s time for him and that broad -- She’s the leader, Daredevil states, and she’s heading towards the roof. The others are running in another direction. Wolverine asks Spider-Man to get him up there. He and the road are gong to have some words.
The woman called Tara orders the men to fan out and hit the Rocco 7 rendezvous point.
With her guns drawn, she climbs up a fire ladder to a roof, only to find Wolverine expecting her, claws unsheathed. She fires at him and misses while he drags her over by her hair and throws her to the ground hard. Perching over her, he threatens her with his claws, demanding answers. Who is she? Full of hate, she spits that she’s gonna kill him. A moment later, she shouts into his face that she is his wife!
One moment of surprise and she uses it to hit Logan in the face, wildy snarling that she will kill him. Why is she doing this, he asks. Who is she? Standing a bit back Spider-Man nervously suggests she answer him.
Last chance, Wolverine threatens. Okay, she says. Please, no – she’s his sister! His mother! His cousin! Calling him an animal, she shouts that she’ll never tell! He’ll never know. She wouldn’t give him the satisfaction. Does he think that she isn’t ready to die? That she’s scared? She would love nothing more than for him to kill her right here. She dares him to do it, shouting that she has trained for this her whole life! Why him? he demands. She just tells him to die.
About to snap, Wolverine screams and apparently wants to kill her. Spider-Man begs him not to do it. Suddenly, helicopters close in and flare at them. Wolverine looks up for a split-second, and the woman uses the distraction to hit him and run for it. The choppers start strafing the roof. Spidey saves himself with a jump, while Wolverine once again gets hit. Tara jumps up and grabs hold of the ladder one of her men throws at her. She makes her escape while the two heroes helplessly watch.
Breaking the silence, Spidey states that, if Logan isn’t going to ask her out, he is.
Sinking to his knees, Wolverine moans in pain and Spidey has had it. He’s got to get him to a hospital. Why is he punishing himself like this? That’s the way he works, Wolverine replies. He’s got this. Did he ever think that if he didn’t have this healing ability he wouldn’t be so prone to end up like this, Spidey points out. Daredevil interrupts their interplay, informing them that, two blocks away, an old woman got shot in the leg because of all of this. He’ll take care of it, but Spidey has to get Wolverine out of the city. Now!
Spider-Man turns back to Wolverine, asking him why he doesn’t involve the X-Men. Does he know who Charles Xavier is, Wolverine asks. Xavier’s going to create a better world and Wolverine doesn’t know many people like that. He’s done some really bad things and that’s just the things he knows about. There’s an entire lifetime of things that he doesn’t know about. But he’s got to take responsibility for what he did, whatever it may be. He doesn’t think Xavier deserves having to deal with that. Xavier took him in on a lie and Wolverine has done nothing to earn what Xavier gave him.
Wolverine moans in agony, still insisting that he is not going to involve the Professor. Spidey holds him as he falls, telling him that Wolverine is probably going to be pretty mad at him when he wakes up. Because, before, when he couldn’t find him, he made a call… Suddenly a light shines and the other X-Men emerge from the X-plane.