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Wolverine is on the floor, being devoured by scatter parasites. It isn’t pretty. Monark Starstalker and Paradox stand over him, explaining what is happening to him. They inform him that he is being colonized by the parasites which are rewriting his nervous system. He will have a hive soon so they have to get them out before he tries and colonizes them. And, before he dies. It will hurt. It may even kill him, but it will definitely hurt.
Logan screams as the bugs wriggle about his body. Monark tells his partner that the bugs are mating in his lungs and they are hatching already. He asks Paradox to get ready to kill him in case it doesn’t work. Paradox asks if Wolverine can be killed. Monark replies that if it doesn’t work and he can’t be killed, could Paradox kill him? Ulysses joins with Monark and they try to kill the bugs. As they concentrate hard, Monark’s physical body begins to discorporate and he explains that they’re getting ahead of the birth cycle, taking them apart faster than they can reproduce. He tells Paradox that Ulysses is diverting its systems to the disassembly so his own system is losing integrity.
Monark’s body soon disappears completely, but Logan’s seems comparatively calm. The bugs have been killed and he expels them orally from his body with a loud “guuuuhhggg.” Ulysses flies into Monark’s empty cloak and its own head appears where Monark’s was. He updates its central nervous system and re-establishes Monark’s integrity. Once complete, Paradox gives it a hug, relieved that they all survived. Logan manages to sit up, exhausted but himself.
(meanwhile, on Utopia)
Cyclops asks Emma Frost if there’s any good news. Emma is attached to Cerebra and is being watched on a large screen. She replies that it depends on what he considers good news. As Dazzler babbles to no one in particular about what happened prior to Logan departing, Beast asks Emma if she’s concentrating in there. Emma asks him if he knows that the helmet has an unpleasant odor. It’s the odor of all the sweaty psychics who have ever been plugged into it. However, it’s not a distraction; it’s an incentive to concentrate and get her #### head out of the contraption. She adds that she can smell Cassandra Nova, so she doesn’t intend to let her mind drift until she can take a shower and wash her from her hair.
Hank tells her that the readouts don’t seem to show what they’re looking for. Scott finally gets a chance to speak and says that by ‘good news,’ he means that their most dangerous and deadly team mate is not out of his mind and on a murderous rampage. Emma replies that, as far as she can tell, Logan is quite himself and at peace. Hank tells Emma that he thinks they should clarify that statement. Emma then admits that she can’t find him. Hank adds that Logan’s x-gene isn’t registering anywhere. Dazzler says Logan can’t die, but Hank tells her he didn’t say he was dead. There are three options. One, he’s not on Earth. Two, he’s being hidden from them and three, the infection that attacked his DNA may be more subtle than they allowed for. While the most obvious damage it inflicted to Logan’s genome has healed, it’s possible that deeper structural changes have taken place. Maybe they can’t find Logan because he is no longer Logan.
(elsewhere)
Back on Earth, Logan is driving along a back road with Ulysses and Paradox his passengers. Logan admits that he feels weird. Paradox reckons it’s probably the nanites that got trapped in his healing tissues. However, he’s sure that if they’re separated from the cloud long enough they will change. Ulysses explains in more detail. When fragmented, it explains, Technos group nanotool cloud components are designed to spontaneously reconfigure. Isolated component clusters will build new systems, gradually maturing, self-generating unique nanotools adapted to their current environment. Logan asks if the bird just said he has a robot growing inside of him. Paradox replies that if you prune away the technobabble, that’s pretty much what he’s left with. But, he adds, it should be adaptive, not hostile.
Logan grimaces and wonders how adaptive it will feel when his healing factor gets all over it. Paradox tells him he seems to be missing out what ‘adaptive’ implies. Logan thinks about it a second and understands. The nanites are adapting to his healing factor. Ulysses informs them that, in a hostile environment like Wolverine’s body, nanatool components will assimilate rather than engage. Logan understands this to mean that the tiny robots are disguising themselves as tiny parts of him. Ulysses adds that those adapting components will use local materials as they reconfigure. Logan reckons the bird is starting to get on his nerves. Paradox asks him to imagine if the bird housed his lover’s nervous system and personality. Talk about irritating.
As Logan drives through the desert, Paradox reckons they should have brought the Scatter’s shuttle. Logan reminds him that he almost crashed it twice getting back to his wheels. Paradox finds his mode of transport quaint. Perhaps they could finish the last leg of their journey via horse and carriage? Logan wonders when Monark will get his head back so he can hear someone besides Paradox and the bird. Ulysses states that the Starstalker peripheral has been updated and reboot has commenced.
Ulysses then says, “Collision,” just as Logan sees someone materialize in the road. It’s Contagion, and as the car reaches him, he smashes the hood with his cane. The car crumples to a shuddering halt. Both Paradox and Wolverine are propelled head first through the windscreen and Ulysses comes smashing through the roof. Contagions grins maniacally as the car is torn apart. The car’s former inhabitants are thrown towards a tree. Wolverine snikts his claws and slices whilst Paradox transforms into his muscular alter ego. The tree is toast.
“Now, where were we,” grins Contagion. He approaches Paradox and explains that, of course, he was refining his viruses. They’ve given him new powers including invisibility and super strength. He wonders who Paradox is. Contagion rolls up his sleeves, displaying bulging veins and he readies himself. “Give me your best shot,” he boasts. Paradox looks back at Contagion and turns around quickly, hurling Wolverine towards the white-suited weirdo. Unfortunately, the fastball special doesn’t work as Contagion smashes him in the face as he flies towards him. He tells Wolverine that it was good of him to remember the ‘no claws’ rule. Paradox then climbs from the dirt and stomps towards Contagion, but he makes himself immovable like the Blob and Paradox simply crashes into him before falling backwards.
Contagion seems pleased with his victory, but he senses Ulysses in the air above him. Ulysses plummets towards him and sinks its talons into Contagion’s back, drawing blood. Logan tries to warn the bird but it’s too late. He knows that Contagion’s blood will infect everything. “Not if he burns first,” replies Paradox, now back to his usual slender form. He thinks that his Mercurian form was hot enough to burn a technocrotic infection so it’ll burn him to a crisp.
He places his hands on Contagion’s chin and his hands glow red hot. Yet, Contagion simply says it’s funny he should mention technocrotic infections. His skin begins to change from flesh to Mercurian. Ulysses’ body becomes infected with the technocrotic virus and falls away and Paradox’s physical features begin to melt. He appears to age quickly. As Paradox falls to the ground, Contagion spits on his face… something horrible to be sure.
Wolverine stands up behind him and has his claws extended. Contagion warns him not to stab him, explaining that he has refined the Corruptor’s formula and distilled it into his own sweat. Didn’t Logan recognize the sensation when he struck him? Logan replies that now he mentions it, yeah. Contagion says he owes it all to Logan and he’ll tell him why. But first, it’s time to laugh. Does Logan mind? “Go ahead,” replies Logan. Contagion looks to the skies and lets out a nefarious laugh as he revels in his own misguided genius.


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'I was what you'd calll a very special child' the man called Winsor – known as Contagion – remarks as he pinches the bridge of his nose. He opens his eyes, 'Even compared to my siblings' he adds. He smiles and covers his mouth, realizing that he knows why he is suddenly feeling reminiscent. 'Not to worry, I'll let you in on the joke' he declares as he stands next to a dirty, blood-stained wall. 'My siblings, indeed. The relationships were rather more complicated than that' he adds. Using his cane to help him walk along the wall, he passes a mass of arms and legs that have been melded together and states that his family tree was a mess of crossbred flowers. 'Moldered fruit' he adds as he walks past the costume of Monark Starstalker, and the broken bird Ulysses. 'Inedible nuts' Contagion scowls as he passes Madcap who is stuck to the wall, a rotting mass covering his feet, hands and face. 'Grafted limbs' Contagion adds as he looks down at where Scavenger is also stuck to the wall, upside down his body intertwined with that of Vic Slaughter's. 'Wormed' Contagion remarks as he passes Suicide, whose body has been sliced in half, and both halves of his body are stuck to the wall with the same rotting mess.
The horrors continue as Contagion points at Yi Yang, who is chained to the wall, with roaches running all over her body. 'Termite infested' Contagion declares. 'Heartwood-rotted' he adds as he passes Immortalis, who is also chained to the wall, with something covering his head. 'Poisonous' Contagion smiles as he continues along the wall to where the blue-skinned Corruptor is chained, with tubes hooked up to his body, extending own to buckets at his feet. 'Overgrown' Contagion adds as he passes Marjorie Brink, who is crouched against the wall, chained also, several books at her feet, she scribbles furiously, pages falling around her. 'Roots withered' Contagion scowls as he passes Harry Sykes, who is chained with his arms overhead, and looking rather out of it. 'But you know how it is' Contagion remarks as he looks back down the filthy room at his prisoners. 'The shackles of family' he declares, remembering being much younger, a deep-sea like glass helmet around his head, and looking at his various mutated siblings who were chained to a wall. 'They simply cannot be broken' Contagion smiles as he sits down on Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, who is stuck on all fours. 'Nor can they be outgrown' Contagion adds as he reaches down at touches the swelling brain of Flip, who is stuck on the floor next to Wolverine and who drools back: 'I hate you, Dad'.
'Of course you do; another link in the great chain of father and son traditions' Contagion points out, announcing that he did not know his own father, but he had a potent father figure upon whom to fixate. 'We all did' he remarks. 'My brothers and sisters and I. We shared the same great man' Contagion declares, closing his eyes, the memories flood back to him:
Flashback images, narrated in the present by Contagion
'Our uncle' Contagion states. 'What hopes he had for us all' He recalls being chained alongside his mutated siblings, the glass dome over his head. 'Hopes that high – only children can so thoroughly disappoint them' Contagion remarks, recalling their uncle standing over them in the shadows, then an explosion, and he turned to see the skeletal remains of his siblings. 'Ah, the tiny traumas of childhood' he murmurs, while remembering how he reached out for one of the bones of his siblings, touched it and picked it off the remains. 'The lessons they teach. How they linger. Indelible'. Using the stub of bone fragment, the young Winsor etched the following words into the wall: 'The Best Survive”. Contagion adds that the traumas of childhood shape values and beliefs, more surely than the hand of destiny, and reveals that their uncle believed the world could be a better place.
Several dozen of the mutated siblings studied in a vast library, for their uncle bred them to be better, to discover kernals of strength and ingenuity in their infirmity, while Contagion recalls that their uncle discovered his own profound inner excellence only when his outward fineness had been marked, and he sought to find in them, his state wards, similar diamonds in the rough. Contagion remembers standing at a counter, vials and potions around him as he performed scientific experiments as a child, while a painting of their uncle loomed behind him – Dr Victor Von Doom! Contagion remembers that he and his siblings were to be sharp stones to help cut the world into the shape their uncle knew would suit it best, and recalls that for himslef, his DNA was such a clutered mess of inbred faults, it is a miracle he survived to term. 'What possible utility he could have seen in me is a mystery' Contagion remarks, as he recalls his birth, lying in a pool of birthing fluids, while all around the room, hospital staff lie dead on the floor. 'Then again, I admit, not immodestly, that I showed some sllight promise at a young age'. He was placed in an incubator, and it took some time to see how his potential might be safely exploited.
Time passed, and with several years' intense study in virology, combined with a course in non-traditional metaphysics suffused in disciplinary meditation, not only did Winsor gain sufficient control of his own biology to contain his rampant infectiousness, he also opened his inward gazing third eye and was able to focus its attention on the challenge of learning to manipulate his wonderful sickness. He began to share it with others, giving the sickness to his siblings. 'Giving. Is there any greater pleasure?' he asks, recalling how in the library his siblings would clutch at their throats, cover their mouths and keel over. 'Well, certainly there is. Seeing the results of all one's hard labors come to fruition, for instance' Contagion remarks, while remembering his siblings all lying dead around him. 'Isn't it odd how success only makes one dream of greater success?' Contagion asks. 'That was only one of the many invaluable lessons I learned from my uncle' he declares, while recalling the library walls crumble around him, enabling him to enter the township, where the civilians collapsed as he walked past them. 'The one that seized my imagination in the end was the thought that one person might strive to remake the entire world. And that rather than serving another's vision, one might serve their own' Contagion declares, while remembering the buildings in the town crumble to rubble. Winsor stood amongst the now decayed town, amongst rubble, dead people and animals, as the trees and land around him started to rot. 'And re-create the world in their own image' he declares.
Present
 Still sitting on Wolverine's back, Contagion says 'Insert a horribly dangerous betrayal of my uncle, a more than fortuitous disappearance by same, many years of research and planning, and that just about brings us up to then present'. He adds that things are working out almost exactly as he always planned. He looks over at his prisoners and explains that having recruited a team of eminent self-healers, he infected each with a number of custom-designed viruses, and harvesting the antibodies each developed to fight off the infections, then reinforcing them with more robust versions of the original viruses and so on. Those who can listen and go wide-eyed, as Contagion declares that each of them have unique healing factors, biological and chemical, supernatural and metaphysical, or simply too bizarre to understand. 'Allowing me to distill a virus that will kill anything on Earth, Heaven or Hell!' he grins, his third eye opening on his forehead. He points upwards, and adds that only space and stars are left to be dealt with.
Contagion touches his son's large brain and remarks that he found his son's immune system especially pliable, and infected him with a virus that hypertrophied his neurological tissues, while using a viral mutation of technarchy cells to repattern his brain as a receptor for similar “life” forms. 'Easier than it sounds, actually' Contagion boasts. 'I hate you, Dad' Flip states once more. Contagion strokes Flip's face and tells him that he has ample reason, but not to harp on it, or he will be less inclined to cure him before the weight of his brain collapses in on itself. Contagion then launches into another tale about the past:
Flashback images, narrated in the present by Contagion
Winsor leans over a high-tech console and reads something on one of the screens, while a scientist and a security officer lie dead on the floor. He knew that the Technocratic existed, it was far more labor-intensive to secretly cross his uncle's border, gain access to a Latverian sub-space communications array and make an arrangement with a Shi'ar dealer in proscribed materials. But she came promptly, served as an excellent extraterrestrial test subject, and her space craft, just one hut over, would act as a fine delivery device. Winsor examined the techno-virus, while the Shi'ar woman clutched at her eyes.
And, finally, Winsor procured an adaptive healer – Wolverine. He used this place as bait to draw Logan close enough for capture and manipulation. While people watched on, a naked Wolverine battled the beastly Griz, as dozens of rats clambered over him. Wolverine was then infected over and over with every possible variation of Contagion's core virus that he could imagine, knowing that the antibody he would develop in response would give Winsor the key to his new virus, as Yi Yang, Scavenger and Marjorie Brink perfomed diabolical experiments on Logan's body.
Present
'Which is where things got interesting, yes? When you scampered off with my antibody still inside your hide' Winsor remarks, pointing his finger at Wolverine's face.
Flashback images, narrated in the present by Contagion
Contagion met the Corrupter, which is when it became evident to him that he had become capable of infecting virtually anyone with viruses as complex as his knowledge and self-discipline would allow him to construct, but he could not infect himself, until Wolverine said the magic words “Brew a new virus. Something that eats all the bad stuff in your DNA. Heal yourself”. Contagion took that as a clear enough command, and under the influence of the Corrupter serum and Wolverine's command, he overcame a mental block that kept him from infecting himself. He then created a virus that healed his DNA by eating the flaws that limited the range of viruses he could create.
Present
Motioning to his prisoners, Contagion declares that after which, taking his minions back in hand was simple enough, as eas sending dear Driver Reese with an infection that would only fully activate with Wolverine's DNA in close proximity. 'Which connects her to me. And I asusmed you'd follow the trail to come here' Contagion explains. He touches Wolverine's head, 'And here you are' he concludes. 'Yep. And I already know how I'm gonna kill you and everything' Wolverine replies. 'Good for you. Oh, look!' Contagion exclaims, as he transforms one of his fingers into a long spike, and waving it in front of Wolverine's face as he continues to sit on Logan's back, the madman explains that he has infecged himself again, but rather than increasing the density of his muscle tissues to make him hugely strong, massive and fast, this one is making his tissues pliable, giving him subtle control over molecular forms. He states that he is creating microscopic pipettes inside, tipping them with viral molecules that will attract Wolverine's antibodies. The sharp spike pricks Wolverine's face, drawing blood. 'Ahhhh, there it is. An antibody that can fight off the many infections that have taken you to to the edge of death. Well into that kingdom for most anyone else'.
Contagion raises the spike to eye level and looks at the blood on the tip. 'Negative template for a virus that incorporates all things natural, unnatural, Technecrotic and truly dead. I can see it already, Logan. And do you know what it looks like?' Contagion asks, announcing that it looks like the future – it looks like him, all the universe will soon looke like him. 'So pretty' he declares, when suddenly, Monark Starstalker and his bird, Ulysses have re-formed, and appear whole once more. 'I am a technos nanotool. A highly adaptive nanological artificial intelligence with multiple backups. And I can do many cool things' Monark Starstalker boasts as he points his sword towards Contagion. 'Including that long and pointy trick' Monark declares, as his sworc extends, annd pierces the shocked Contagion's chest. Monark Starstalker adds that his nanites are cool in many other ways, like the way they can reconfigure in hostile environments and mimic aggressive elements. Blood seeps along the sword, while a tech-pattern forms on Contagion's chest. Monark Starstalker then tells Contagion that until the nanites subvert and incorporate them, like they are doing inside his body now. 'It's one thing to infect humans, mutants, machines and aliens. It's another to infect an interdimensional-technology hive mind' Monark Starstalker points out.
Monark Starstalker moves closer to Contagion and still attached to the sword, lifts him up off of Wolverine. He informs his ally Wolverine that his nanites have broadcast a protocol to the ones still in his own system, and they will disassemble the suggestant virus that Contagion hits him with. 'Thanks, I really want to kill him' Wolverine replies. 'Yes. There's a line forming now' Monark Starstalker adds as he points at Contagion and tells him that he is going to unresolve his hand, put inside his head and plant a grenade in his forebrain. 'Which is what you get for #### up my lover' he tells the madman. 'What have you? Did you not? Don't you?' Contagion replies, grinning. 'Spit it out fast, I'm about to blow your mind' Monark Starstalker warns Contagion, who replies 'Did you listen to nothing I was saying? I can infect devils and angels. Robots are not a problem' he declares, as tendrils spill from his chest into the tech-molecules Monark Starstalker is emitting. Monark looks shocked, and he recoils, as the virus wraps itself around his sword.
Suddenly:'Hey, Bub. Know what makes me happiest?' Wolverine asks as he shoves both sets of claws through Contagion's chest, and holds the villain overhead. 'I'm happy to be doing what I want to do. I'm really happy you got full control of your diseases and I can cut you as much as I want. I'm even happier you got some healing now so I can cut you over and over'. Wolverine adds that he is happiest Monark Starstalker didn't kill him before it was his turn to take a crack. Wolverine then pulls his arms outwards, seemingly shredding Contagion as blood and guts pours over Wolverine. But Contagion fall to the ground, his body restored, grinning, he exclaims that it is going to take much more than one crack to kill him. Suddenly, there is an explosion, and a wall is busted open. 'Goody. May we try to kill you next?' a voice calls out from the new opening, where Emma Frost, Dazzler, Cyclops and the Beast, all wearing protective face masks, stand. The X-Men have arrived!


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'Are you sure it's him?' Cyclops a.k.a. Scott Summers asks from inside an X-Jet. 'There is an oddly restrained quality to his thoughts, but it seems to be Logan' Emma Frost replies as she sits next to Cyclops, a gun in her hands. Henry McCoy a.k.a. The Beast reports that he is reading the same x-gene that suddenly appeared on Cerebra, while Alison “Dazzler” Blaire exclaims that if they have to fight Wolverine she is going to puke all over her costume. Cyclops tells Hank that the reading was skewed, and if they go down there, they have to be sure. The Beast replies that it is the closest thing to Logan that they have seen since he ran off, and it is down below. Emma turns to Alison and declares 'The nice thing about fighting Logan, dear, is that you can always count on him feeling guilty later about annyone he kills. Anyone he kills whom he likes'. 'Can you feel me hating you right now, Emma? Because these are my 'I-hate-Emma thoughts' Dazzler replies. 'And the other readings?' Cycops asks. The Beast announces that they are some very strange biological and tech scans, but no other x-genes. 'There is something very twisted indeed down there, love. It should be dealt with' Emma remarks. 'What I love most about being an X-Man is the banter' Dazzler mutters.
'Consensus: Is it this Winsor / Contagion Logan tangled with?' Cyclops enquires. The Beast puts a mask on over his mouth and replies that it seems likely, and lacking proper biohazard, he thinks they should all wear the masks. Emma yawns, and tells Henry that she agrees, but that diamonds don't breathe. 'I breathe. I breathe and I eat and I drink and I do all kinds of things associated with living that I want to keep on doing' Dazzler snaps. 'Stations. We're going in' Cyclops reports.
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Emma, Cyclops, Dazzler and the Beast stand amongst the rubble of a wall that they have just shot down and stare into the filthy room where Contagion is sprawled on the floor, and Wolverine, with very bloody claws, leans over him. Monark Starstalker is a few feet away, gathering himself, while Contagion's “Unkillables” and other prisoners line the walls. 'I'm confused by the masks, did someone suggest a costume party was taking place?' Contagion enquires. 'Looking at you, I'm guessingbad guy. Count of three to surrender, bad guy' Cyclops calls out as he touches his optic visor. 'Looking at you, I'm guessing X-Men. Wonderful. I've concoted many wonderful things just on the off-chance you might follow Logan here' Contagion announces. 'Run!' Wolverine calls out to his teammates as he shoves his claws into Contagion's chest. But the madman stands up and grabs Wolverine's throat, 'Nonsense, they just got here' he points out. 'X-Men, deploy. Wolverine! Incoming!' Cyclops calls out as he and the others drop into the room. Cyclops unleashes an optic blast, which slams into Contagion, sending he and Wolverine crashing into the wall. The Beast roars as he leaps towards Contagion, who responds by shoving Wolverine off of him, causing the men to slam into each other mid-air. The Beast howls as Wolverine's claws embed themselves into his lower leg. 'Did you know, Logan? That the most common opportunistic infection that follows Feline Immunodeficiency Disease is Toxoplasmosis?' Contagion asks as Wolverine and the Beast land in a corner, and they look at the blood pouring out of the Beast's wound.
Contagion points out that Wolverine is currently a carrier for a terrific lot of both of the diseases. 'Do maintain, Logan. Pattern baldness never killed anyone' Emma tells Logan as she approaches Contagion in her diamond form. 'I, on the other hand, have killed more than occasionally' Emma informs Contagion. 'Flawless' Contagion replies as he gets to his feet. Emma responds by slamming her hands into Contagion's ears, causing him to scream and drop to his knees. 'I don't expect that you can hear me, but I'm going to kick you until you say something about giving up' Emma remarks as she kicks the madman. 'Sorry, didn't catch that. But is there something in your eye?' Contagion responds, as he points to Emma's eye, where a black mass has started to form – and quickly spreads onto her face. Contagion declares that it is a degenerative carbon disorder. He announces that it is an infection that turns diamond to coal. 'My poetic side coming out' he grins as he stands up, while a horrified Emma looks at her now coal-black body. Contagion turns to Cyclops and warns him to mind his aim, as the lady is quite brittle at the moment.
Suddenly, Logan stirs, and moves towards Contagion, his claws ready to pierce the madman's head – but Contagion grabs Wolverine by his wrists, and declares that he has infected Wolverine in every manner he could imagine, and that doing it again would be boring. 'But these lovely friends of yours, I want to play with them. And you are under-foot'. Contagion then hurls Wolverine out through the gaping hole in the wall, 'Go away!' he tells him, as Logan lands in a nearby car. 'Now, where were -' Contagion smiles, before Emma kicks him in the head. She has returned to her human form, and appears to be healed from Contagion's attack. 'Sicky man, you were safter when my brain was diamond. Let's take a peek inside yours now, and see what dreadful memories I can make you relive' Emma suggests as she stands over Contagion who hunches over, however, Emma appears to be having some trouble. Contagion looks back up at her and laughs hysterically and declares that he made his thoughts contagious. 'She's – oh, my. She's thinking like me! And she can't stop!' Contagion exclaims, pointing at Emma, he adds that his thoughts have gone viral in her head, killing her thoughts to make room for themselves.
Suddenly, Cyclops appears standing over Contagion's head. 'Think about this' he exclaims as he fires a close range optic blast directly at Contagion's head, forcing the madman to be submerged in the dirt floor. At the same time outside, Wolverine opens his eyes: 'I'm missing something' he decides, and opens the trunk of the car. 'That's more like it' he tells himself. Back inside, Cyclops has crouched down beside Emma and tells her to break out of this by changing herself into diamond. 'Those eyes of yours...what exactlty are they?' Contagion asks as he sits up, unharmed by Cyclops's optic blast. 'Lenses that calibrate lasers shooting from your brain? Foci of hellfire? Dimensional gates admitting alien energies?' he asks. 'Such a mystery' he remarks. Contagion stands up and declares that it seems ridiculous ruby quartz should block any of those, but there it is. 'Fungal quartz, growing over your eyes and back into your brain. Imagine using a blasgt of kinetic force in light wave form as a conduit for infection. I did. And it worked' Contagion remarks as Scott lift's his visor, revealing the fungus that has now grown over his eyes.
The Beast, Emma and Cyclops all lay at Contagion's feet in their current wasted states. Contagion lifts his arms and exclaims that it is a shame he can't infect the entire universe like this, one customized virus after another, as composition is one of his strengths. 'Compose this, ###' Dazzler exclaims as she fires colorful beams of solid light directly at Contagion, the light so intense it rips his chest apart. 'Look, it's not like I don't know what people think of me. “Light weight”. Cannonball draws bigger props than I do' Dazzler declares, adding that it's also not like she is invisibiel. 'Still, there you are...giving a bwah-ha-ha victory speech with me right over there. Like I'm some joke. An afterthought'. As Contagion stands up, his body closes itself up from the light penetration, Dazzler suddenly finds strange numbers climbing up her body, and blue tendrils wrap around her wrists. 'No' Contagion tells her, announcing that he has thought about her a great deal, and reveala that he owns her entire catalogue on vinyl. 'And wondered, as I listened “A blindness virus? Deafness? Occlusion of all senses”? And then, inspiration! A synesthesia virus'. Contagion explains that it is difficult to manifest a coherent light show when you are tasting everything you hear and smelling everything you see. 'Speaking of crossed-creative circuits. Your rap album was an absolutely muddle' Contagion tells Dazzler, as she clutches her stomach and vomits all over the place before falling to the ground.
Contagion raises his arms once again and tells the X-Men that if they are quite done now, he could use a moment to concentrate on his masterwork. 'If you'd all attack at once rather than one at a time, I would be done by now' he points out. 'About that. My fault. I told them we couldn't take you. Said they should tease it out. Keep you occupied' Wolverine announces as he drops back into the filthy room, wearing his brown and yellow costume. 'Odd. That I don't remember you saying anything like that' Contagion comments. 'Probably because I said it in my head when Emma tickled my brain to see if I was me' Wolverine points out. 'Mission accomplished, Logan. I was occupied. And you did what in the meanwhile? Call the Avengers?' Contagion asks. Wolverine picks up Contagion's cane, 'No. Just got myself dressed proper. Nice cane, by the way' he calls out as he fires something from the cane, which strikes Contagion in his chest. Wolverine leaps towards the madman, 'Honestly. Wasn't my idea' he tells him as he shoves his claws into Contagion's shoulders. 'Keeping you busy so you couldn't finish your super virus, that's too subtle for me' Logan adds. 'This mastermind who advised you die one by one. I must know who it is' Contagion declares.
'I hate you, Dad' a voice calls out. It's Flip, who is now standing up, holding his enormous brain up with his hands. 'For obvious reasons' Flip adds, before explaining that when Logan's hot friend told him they were nearby, he told them what to do. 'If you'd been even a tiny bit less of a #### I probably would have let them all die'. Flip reveals that he grew psychic neural paths months ago, reading people's minds kept him from going insane with boredom. 'I've known forever that you never planned to cure me. Just can't wait to watch my head go splat' Flip tells his father, adding that he used the time to alter the structure of the Technarchy mutation receptor that his father gave him, and turned it into a broadcast antenna. He explains that he can send a self-destruct signal to all the Technecrotic virals within a mile of here. 'Which should really #### your #### upp, seeing as you've incorporated it into every virus you've made lately'. The Unkillables have all turned to listen to Flip. 'Your healing restraints. Insectivrals. Corruptor variants' Flip points out. 'X-Gene cutoms' Flip adds as the X-Men all get to their feet, healed of the viruses they were given. 'Extraterrestrial exotics' Flip remarks, as Monark Starstalker rushes over to his lover, the man called Paradox, whose body has reformed, while the bird Ulysses hovers over them. 'And your own healing virus' Flip points out, as black gunk starts to seep from Contagion's eyes, nose and mouth.
'You heard the kid' Wolverine declares as he grabs Contagion by his throat, but Marjorie Brink stands up: 'No!' she exclaims, revealing that Contagion has compelled her to record his every word and action for months, and she knows, right now, that Contagion is relinquishing control of his genome. 'Cut him and it will kill everything for miles around' she points out. Contagion grins, more of the black gunk seeps from his eyes, nose and mouth, and he declares 'Button. Button, who is in control of the button? Poor Logan, whatever will you do to make the world safe from me?' he grins. Contagion reaches out to try and grab Wolverine, whose blood-covered claws are inches from Contagion's face now. Monark Starstalker has freed the Unkillables who are all now restored from the nasty viruses that Contagion infected them with, and they all move closer to the madman, gathering around he and Wolverine. 'Remember when I told you how I was gonna kill you, Winsor? Well, Flip helped me to share that idea with some friends of yours'. Wolverine pushes Contagion to the ground, and the madman backs up against a wall. 'See, we've taken all you have. Every infection you can muster. Whatever you got – we think we can swallow it' Wolverine declares as he and the Unkillables all grin.
But Contagion points out that they will only release him into the atmosphere, the groundwater. 'I am a biohazard. Vile and deathful!' he exclaims. Wolverine asks the Corruptor if he wants to do his part, and the blue-skinned man responds by exclaiming 'Contain yourself, ###!' as he throws one of the buckets of gunk that he was connected to at Contagion's face, causing the villain to recoil against the wall. 'Geez, what the hell?' Wolverine asks. Marjorie Brink explains that it is a fungus, virally absorbent and and organic containment shell. 'Long as it works' Wolverine remarks. 'It should' she assures him. 'My people?' Wolverine asks, turning to Monark Starstalker, who informs him that the other X-Men are alive and healing, but that they are not as robust as everyone else. 'Just as long as they're out cold for this' Wolverine remarks, before asking any of the Unkillables if they want out. 'I'm damned already' Suicide, whose body is no longer severed in two, points out. 'It is too delectable' Yi Yang replies. Harry Sikes declares that he has a bone to pick, to which Vic Slaughter points out that Contagion is kind of skinny. Scavanger exclaims that he can feel how bad he wants this, while Immortalis reports that he will bear the price of this good dead. 'Experience is knowledge' Marjorie Brink decides, while Madcap grins and points out that if there was a national holiday for crazy, it would be today. 'I'll carve the holiday roast' Wolverine announces as he bears down on the fearful Contagion, claws at the ready, while Flip watches, 'Love you, Dad' he remarks.
And soon, the Unkillables stand around, while Wolverine, Monark Starstalker and Paradox stand before them. Flip lies on the ground nearby. Harry Sikes points out that this crew is pure poison, but that they all did their bit here, and for that, they are asking for consideration. 'I wasn't public enemy number one fer nothing. I was the brains' he boasts. He announces that he is taling about taking these misfits into freelance problem solving, and between he and Marjorie, he thinks they can keep them in line. 'Not saying they're a heart of gold crew, but they need a hard head to keep 'em off the street' he adds. 'Mercenaries' Wolverine replies. 'Problem solvers' Harry Sikes corrects him. 'Legal and above board' Wolverine tells him. 'Hey, let's not make promises we can't keep. But no waves. Helpful is what we want to be. Just for a price'. Wolverine sees the angle, and tells Harry and Marjorie to keep it helpful. 'I hear otherwise...well I got no love for that bunch' he reminds them. 'Sure. One shared meal only wins so much good will' Harry admits. Wolverine turns to Monark and Paradox and asks them if they are in on this madness. 'We fly them out of here and keep the Shi'ar ship. After that -' Monark begins, to which Paradox concludes 'We like it here. We just blend into the general weird here'.
The Unkillables all turn and leave through the hole in the wall, while Wolverine stands over Flip. 'That ain't gonna turn out well for anyone anywhere' Wolverine remarks. 'My turn?' Flip asks. Wolverine squats down beside Flip and asks him if he is sure about this. 'We could still -' Logan begins, but Flip interrupts him: 'Would you just? I mean, my head is going to, anyway. And I helped kill my dad pretty much. So will you just?' he asks. 'Suire, kid' Wolverine replies, before unleashing his claws.
Shortly, Wolverine pilots the X-Jet, while his teammates are still sleeping off the recent trauma to their bodies.

Days later, Scott, Emma, Hank and Alison have all recovered, and observe Wolverine on a monitor. 'He just let them all go?' Scott asks. 'He said they did their bit' Hank explains. 'What the hell does that mean?' Scott asks. 'Scott, Love, you don't want to know' Emma tells him. 'Did you peek in his?' Scott asks. Emma confirms that she did, and that she won't show him. 'You can't bully me into showing you. And no, you couldn't handle it' she adds. Emma starts to leave the lab, and calls back 'Suffice to say, he is our Wolverine, whether we want him or not'. 'Fine' Scott mutters, before asking Hank if he has anything to add. Hank motions to some data on the screen and confirms that it is Logan, but that the damage done by these infections is profound, and his healing factor greatly reduced, and there is no saying if the reduction is temporary or permanent. 'How greatly reduced?' Scott enquires. Hank explains that at present levels, he does not want to shoot Logan more than once or twice, for fear of kill him.
Scott and Hank start to walk out of the lab, and Alison frowns as they leave. 'And then there are these cross-dimensional nanites' Hank points out. 'Dangerous?' Scott asks. Hank tells him that he doesn't think so, and that there aren't many of them, and given a little time and sleep, he believes he can neutralize them. Scott asks Hank if he can do anything about his headache, reminding him that ruby quartz fungus grew into his brain and it still hurts. 'Take an aspirin. I'm regrowing an entire pelt. Imagine, for a moment, the itching I'll endure for the next month'. Alison touches the image of Wolverine sleeping that is projected on the screen. 'G'night, Logan' she remarks, before turning the monitor off.
And in his bed, Wolverine is asleep, while his mind thinks about that every seven years thing – where every seven years your body replaces all its cells. 'I get a new me just about every time I'm in a bad scrape' he realizes. 'And every one of me does the same thing, lives the same way. Spends all his time looking backwards. Dwelling on what was. Digging at old wounds. Settling old scores'. An “old” Wolverine is purged from Logan's body. Stares at the refreshed Logan, and then vanishes. 'Always ending up the same guy at the end of the day' Wolverine tells himself. 'Like when you wake from a nightmare, but you're still in the mightmare, and you do it over and over'. He wakes, panicked, then lies back on the bed. 'Till something forces you to wake up for real'.
'I think I'm finally awake. Mean, all this weird this last week, if that don't wake a man up, nothing will' Wolverine remarks. 'Uh-huh' Dazzler replies, sitting on her bed, while Wolverine sits at the end of it a few feet away. 'So you thought you'd dash over and sneak into my room to tell me' she asks. Wolverine points out that he knocked. 'I didn't answer' Alison reminds him. But Wolverine tells her that he could smell that she was awake. 'So you picked the lock?' Dazzler asks. They stare at each other, before Dazzler turns the lights off and tells Logan that he better move forward. 'Yeah, that's the plan' Wolverine replies as he leans towards Dazzler.


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Canada, a snowy night…
A guy named George steps out of his bar and places some heavy boxes on his truck. Two rather drunken townspeople ask George to where he is bringing the boxes. When George says that they are addressed to a place out by River Road, one of the drunken guys asks George if he is going to see “the old weirdo.” George denies that the man he is going to see is crazy, defending that the man is just like you and me. George says that he isn’t giving the man anything and that they’ve got a deal, revealing that that man is responsible for getting most of the pelts in this town.
The guy says that he heard the man George is going to is a mutant. The friend of the guy asks why he would care; because he heard that his friend’s cousin Tiffany is a mutant as well. The guy gets angry and denies that his cousin is a mutant, claiming that she just has a glandular problem. The other guy mocks that Tiffany looks like a whale and they should put her back into the ocean where she belongs. George drives away, telling the other two guys that he will be back around 6 o’ clock. The guys are curious and ask George how long he has been delivering stuff to this man. “Since I was eleven,” a serious looking George replies as he drives away.
The Canadian woods…
A deer graze through the grasses, looking for food. They notice that they are not alone and are being spied upon. As the deer panics and runs away, an aged and angry Wolverine jumps out of the bushes and chases the deer! Wolverine snikts his claws out and jumps at the deer, ready to kill it. The deer jumps away and Wolverine drops with his face into the snow. Routed, Wolverine gets up and decides to let the deer go.
When he tries to pull his claws back in, however, it works, but as Logan does that he suffers a small amount of pain. He is getting old. Logan mumbles in another voice why he doesn’t answer him. Wolverine replies that he’s got nothing to say. He walks through the woods and from up a high hill looks at the beautiful landscape.
The voice in Wolverine’s head tells him that he suffers from arthritis, like all people do when they get old. The voice reminds Logan that his body has suffered a lot of insults. The voice asks Logan if he is afraid of what is going to happen to him and if he is afraid to suffer. To live for yet another century? Wolverine answers that he doesn’t care and walks back to his cabin, where George is waiting for him.
George happily tells “Mr. Logan” that he brought the fishing lure Logan ordered. Logan thanks George and enters his cabin. Wolverine mumbles and wonders why he doesn’t ask George if he has been followed. George overhears that comment and confirms that only Jeff and Danny were drinking in front of his store, but Logan doesn’t need to worry about those two idiots because they already know where Logan lives because they saw him when they were hunting for weasels.
Wolverine asks George if he wants something from him, but reminds the guy that he doesn’t have any money to tip him. George recalls that he has been delivering stuff to Logan for fifty years now, and so far Logan has never tipped him before - so he isn’t going to ask for it now. George says that he knows Logan doesn’t like to talk, and can understand that after what happened to him, but George has something to hand over to Logan: a letter!
A surprised Wolverine takes the letter and asks George if he is sure that he wasn’t followed. George tells Wolverine that he knows that he is always careful. Wolverine reads the letter and can’t believe what it says. George asks what the word is. “Someone I know died,” Wolverine answers.
Some time later, on a rainy day…
Wolverine attends the funeral of his old enemy, Victor Creed. A priest reads the last words for the once-vicious mutant, recalling that Creed indeed was a villain, but in the end grew to know and love Jesus in his later years. And that it was on that moment that Creed cast away the sadness of earlier days and found himself alive for the very first time. Wolverine and George take a look around at the many people who attended the funeral and recognize some former villains. But they remain silent, as the priest remembers how much charity work Victor did and how much he loved animals. Hearing that, a tear falls from Wolverine’s eyes and he remembers the many fights he and Sabretooth had.
George notices Wolverine’s tear and asks Logan if the man who died was a friend of his. Wolverine denies that and calls Creed an animal. Wolverine tells George that Sabretooth hurt a lot of people and knows that he only found God because he was afraid of dying. Wolverine believes that he shouldn’t have come to the funeral, but he did it because he always thought that there was some kind of connection between him and Sabretooth. That, after all was said and done, he would somehow found out that he and Creed were tied together. Wolverine finds it sad that all those years are wasted on them trying to kill each other. And it’s even sadder to Wolverine that, in the end, it doesn’t mean anything.
A female attorney approaches Wolverine and George. She introduces herself as Emily Rand and says that she used to work for Sabretooth and says that Creed spoke often of Logan before he died. Wolverine hopes that none of it was good. Emily says that she is aware of the fact that Logan and Creed had their differences but, even so, Creed indicated a respect for Logan above anyone else. Emily says that Creed felt saddened that Logan insisted on living in the ancient past. Emily hands over Logan a letter with a crest on it, as instructed to her by Victor Creed himself, and then she walks away. Wolverine smells at the letter and hesitates whether to open it or not.
A few minutes later, George drives Wolverine back home. While he sleeps, Logan has several flash-backs to the time Weapon X scientist put the Adamantium on his body. Logan remembers how he overheard the scientist say that he wouldn’t even remember anything of his past before this, not even his own name. Wolverine next hears one of the scientists ask what his name was before the experiment. Another scientist says that it was “Logan” and injects Logan with something. The remembering of this pain causes Logan to wake up from his dream, screaming.
George stops the truck and tells Logan that he has been talking during his sleep. Logan gets out of the truck and opens a giant fence and orders George to stay with the truck. George doesn’t want to and follows Logan inside. George asks Logan why he had to bring him halfway across Alberta, but Logan’s speed increases and George is unable to keep up to the old man. Once George finds Wolverine again, he stares in astonishing when they both see a gigantic mansion!
Logan enters the mansion and comes into a big living room. He talks into his other voice again, telling himself that he shouldn’t have come there and that he doesn’t really want all this. Logan says, in his other voice, that all this are ghosts from the past and that he should go home and to wait for his time. George follows Logan and asks him what’s wrong. George takes a look around the room and recognizes the same crest above the fireplace as the one who stood on the letter!
Wolverine smells around and George asks where they are. Logan tells George to be quiet and warns him that they might be watching. Wolverine runs again using his full speed. George follows him and finds Logan standing in front of a grave, which reads – John Howlett, beloved son, lost before his time. 1885 – 1897. On the grave lays a red book. Logan picks it up and smells on it. George asks what the book means. Logan knows that the book is Japanese and explains to George that he used to live in this region a long time ago. But Logan also knows that whoever left the book knows too much about him.
George is as surprised as Wolverine is. Wolverine tells George that he owes him an explanation for driving him so far, but doesn’t know if George is going to understand it. Logan asks George if he ever wished for anything in his life. George says he has a little one: he dreams about a happy ending for his life, where he can sail on a river in a boat and smoking a nice cigar.
Wolverine explains to George that this estate used to belong to the family Howlett. He continues that, a couple of centuries ago, there was a tragedy: the children all died, one after another. Wolverine says that the banks took this place over and, before you knew it, the place got abandoned. No one wanted to buy the estate. All of the money went missing. George asks what happened to the Howletts. Wolverine says that he is the only member of the family left. There is only one problem, he adds: he has no memory of that time. Wolverine knows that he was born there, thanks to the small pieces of the past he discovered over the past years. But Logan knows that they are just stories he heard, and says that for all he knows he might as well be from Mars.
All of this doesn’t make any sense to George and he asks Logan why he has no memories of this life. Wolverine explains that’s because he is a mutant, and that part of his mutation is his healing factor. Logan has discovered that whenever something bad happens to him and he doesn’t want to remember it, his healing factor completely erases that event out of his memory. Logan tells George that’s all he ever wanted: to connect with the person he was. Wolverine continues to say that a long time ago – he thinks it was after he left this estate – someone did a very bad thing to him. He snikts out his claws, and tells George that he suspects the ones responsible for his claws are their own people: people who worked for the Canadian government. All Wolverine remembers is a name: Weapon X.
George can’t believe anyone would do such a horrible thing. Logan tells George that he still doesn’t get what’s happening here. Wolverine knows that someone wanted that he came here and knew that he was capable of detecting a scent that was over two hundred years old. Wolverine says that that smell is the smell of everything he has lost along the way. Logan gets angry and throws the book on the ground, realizing that Weapon X has never left and had Sabretooth involved for all these years. Wolverine now realizes that Weapon X has been watching him all this time and had just been waiting for the right time. He thinks that Weapon X is probably watching him right now. Wolverine grabs George by his throat, suspecting George that he could be an agent of Weapon X as well, for all he knows.
George tries to calm Logan down, not knowing what he’s talking about. Wolverine puts George down and looks around. “Weapon X, man,” Wolverine says, “They are everywhere…”


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Vancouver, Canada…
Wolverine and his friend, George, sit at the docks. George asks what they are doing there. A suspicious Wolverine tells George to just keep his eyes wide open and his mouth shut. Wolverine knows that the people watching them are professionals and they have got to be ready for everything. George doesn’t believe all the Weapon X “nonsense” Logan told him about earlier. Wolverine again asks George to keep his mouth shut. Or, is George trying to give away their position on purpose?
George calls all of this paranoia. He believes that no one could be interested in a couple of old guys like themselves. George wouldn’t even know who would even be interested in Wolverine these days, seeing how he is living in the woods and has grown half nuts, seeing things that aren’t there. George and Wolverine walk away on separate routes, with George saying that he couldn’t believe it when Wolverine accused him of being a secret again, not when they’ve known each other since George was a little kid.
Wolverine stops by a boat with Japanese markings on it. George notices Logan stopping and walks over to him. George asks Logan what he is doing now, but Logan just answers that he has got to go. But Logan comforts George that he was right and does trust him. Logan calls George a good kid and he knows that he hasn’t been nice to him for the past few years. Wolverine asks George to do something important and to go back to his cabin.
When George refuses to leave him behind, Logan says he knows that his attackers are serious people and doesn’t want to put George in any more danger than he already is. But George really needs to do that for Logan. George doesn’t believe that Logan is actually serious about this.
Wolverine asks his friend to think about his magazines. Logan says that one of them isn’t the kind he would actually read. Wolverine promises George that, when he opens that magazine, there will be a message inside it. He explains that it’s an old safeguard of him. Logan tells George that the less he knows, the better of he’ll be. George believes that they best head back to town and rest a little, believing that things will look more clearer in the day.
Wolverine shouts that they won’t, and tells George that his attackers want him to believe that he has grown insane. Logan knows that he has got to jump aboard this ship when his enemies least expect it. Wolverine goes, and tells George to look into the magazines and promises to be in touch.
(Three weeks later)
Logan has already spent some time on the ship and has taken on a job as food chef. While he prepares some fish, two sailors talk behind his back, calling him names. Meanwhile, Wolverine himself talks into his other voice again. He mumbles to himself that he shouldn’t have come here. The voice tells Logan that he is too old now for these kind of errands. And the voice also asks Wolverine how he can believe that Weapon X was real in the first place. Wolverine, back in his normal voice, says that he isn’t crazy and knows that the evil group existed. The voice tells Wolverine that of course he is crazy. The voice tells Logan that he is two hundred years old now and has stowed away on a boat. And for what?
The ship harbors and Wolverine takes a look at the magnificence that is Japan. The voice tells Logan to face it: this isn’t his world.
Wolverine enters Tokyo and looks around a bit. He hitchhikes on a truck and makes it to the town Torikana. He walks over to a library and the friendly clerk greets him, asking if she can be of service. Logan asks the woman if she has the book “Ghost of Japan – the Lost Rituals of Kanaguri.” Ms. Tanaka says that’s an unusual volume and is only borrowed out to locals only. She explains that they’ve got a lot of outsiders who consider it nothing to keep a book for their own purposes. Wolverine understands.
And yet, he follows, it seems that a copy of this particular book is missing. Logan admits that he checked Tanaka’s loan tags but he is unable to locate the name of the borrower. Logan asks Tanaka if she would be kind enough to inform this person, if he or she would return soon, that they mistakenly left the book in his position. Logan tells the woman his name, and says that they can contact him if they have any further question. Logan stops talking and places the book back in the shelves.
Mrs. Tanaka isn’t impressed and says that they’ve had countless of American reporters sniffing around the same story. She explains that the Kanaguri Cult became defunct over twelve hundred years ago, if they ever existed at all. Nobody knows for sure. Mrs. Tanaka notices that Logan doesn’t seem to understand it. She mocks that everything Japanese is alien to him. And yet, Logan seems to fit his “homogenous” culture all for the sake of a story. Tanaka tells Logan that he can better go home, because he won’t find anything here that can feed his fantasies. Wolverine walks out, but tells Mrs. Tanaka that he remembers her great-grandfather: Yoshiro Tanaka. And he recalls saying Yoshiro saying the same thing to him when Logan first met the man.
George has made it back to Wolverine’s cabin. He searches through the magazines like Logan told him to. There’s a lot of biker magazines, so George starts to wonder what he’s looking for. He stumbles upon a wine magazine, and George knows that this is the one.
Later that night, Wolverine sees cult monks kidnapping a young teenage girl, wanting to sacrifice her. Wolverine drops in just in time to stop it. The cult leader wants Logan dead so his followers start attacking. Wolverine defeats them all and sends the young girl walking, while he starts talking to the cult leader.
Wolverine asks about their boss. The leader says his name is Kitsunebi, something Logan didn’t even know. Wolverine wants to know where he is, and also why Weapon X brought him there. Logan wants to know the name of every man who is after him! The cult leader gets shot from above. Wolverine runs out and finds the young girl shot as well. Wolverine tries to find the shooter, but nobody is there.
George has searched through the magazine and has found the message which reads “George – sorry about the port. Good stuff in the cellar. 277ZH4-JK4. Logan”. George enters the password in a computer and reads another message, one from Wolverine as well. The message reads that if George reads this message, he already knows where Logan is, and that Logan needs George to send him some stuff out of the old steamer trunk at the foot of the wall. The further instructions are there as well and, when George has filled up the list, the rest will be his. George opens a box and finds it filled with lots of money!
Wolverine finds himself at the snowy Hirgana-San mountain, just beyond Torikana. Wolverine finds a statue and knows a lot about its history. But that’s not important for now. Logan kneels, and waits patiently.
Suddenly, he gets attacked by a faster-than-the-eye enemy! The enemy slashes Wolverine a few times. Logan gets up and snikts out his claws, ready for action. The unseen enemy strikes again, this time it looks like it’s fatal for Wolverine! The enemy reveals himself in spirit-form, and tells Logan that he wants him to know what he could have killed Logan anytime he wanted in the past two hundred years. The enemy teleports away, leaving a bleeding Wolverine behind.
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While his brother hugs him, Wolverine thinks. But in his other voice, it tells Logan that he has spent a lifetime chasing this dream. A lifetime… only to find he was there every step of the way. Logan’s brother, John Howlett. The voice tells Logan that John and he are a couple of dead hearts, colliding after a two-century run-up. The voice knows that John could have saved Logan the trouble. Two hundred years of blindly searching for a connection to his shadowy past. The voice knows that Logan wants to hate his brother for this. But it also knows that Logan can’t.
Logan tells John that they told him that he died when he was a baby. John knows that. He says that a lot can happen to a couple of old geezers like them. That there are so many secrets about him that nobody knows. But John promises James that he wants to tell him all of them. But first, John has something for his brother. Logan looks surprised. John hands him over a picture of… their mother! And Elizabeth is holding Logan like a just-born baby.
Wolverine realizes that he’s looking at his mother, but can’t remember what happened to her. John reveals that the picture was taken a few days after she returned from the hospital. John remembers their father actually pointing the camera at her, just below a willow tree near a pond with geese in it. John tells Wolverine that their mother loved him. But unfortunately, things did not go well for the woman. Logan gets sad. He wants to know everything. John promises James that he will, but first he has one more thing to show him first.
Logan, still bleeding, asks John to wait for him. They descend many stairs. Along the way, John confesses that he has watched Logan for many years. John knows that James was wounded very deeply by a lot of people. But he tells James that he wasn’t always as alone as he thought he was. They enter a lab. John claims to have felt the same things Logan did. That he has been to the same dark places and knows how much it hurts. They go deeper into the lab. John stops, and shows Logan the container he was in when Weapon X placed the Adamantium skeleton into his body.
Wolverine asks John where he got it. John claims to have helped build it, in a way. John says tells Logan that the dreams he has been having are a residual effect of his immersion in this tank. John knows this because he has the same dreams. But he wants James to understand that Weapon X doesn’t exist anymore. That he and John are the only ones who remain. Logan can’t believe that.
John explains that the tank is a relic of a bygone age. A time when he and James were circus freaks and their own government was their ringmaster. John says that the experiments failed. He reveals that Weapon X was closed down over a hundred years ago, and the men went responsible went home, cashed their big, fat government pension checks, grew old and died. Logan feels that it was all for nothing. He remembers the Adamantium feed. He gets out of control and destroys the tank, and cries over what has been done to him. John tells his brother to calm down, as it happened over a decade ago.
Logan asks John how he found out about this. John says because they did it to him, too. John tells James that he managed to dodge the full force of the trauma because he can’t remember. That his version of their healing factor forces his mind to forget the trauma. And in a way, John envies Logan. John explains that the tank was James’ womb for a while. And that he died the day he emerged from it and was reborn. But John himself died the day he was born.
John remembers that their father was a camera buff for a time. Back in those days, one had to stand in place for two minutes while the film exposed on the plate. John remembers how their mother always chided their father about it, but in a good-natured sort of way. They seemed so happy and young; the world outside their cocoon seemed so far away. John remembers touring their new estate and seeing the builders on the scaffolding and not quite comprehending at all. As John understood it, he was getting a new playground. That same day, his parents informed him that he was going to have a new brother or sister to share with.
John saw their father as a cheerful individual, if a little short on awareness of his surroundings. His father was a mean old buzzard; always circling the place looking for something to pick at. The Old Man had made a fortune in copper and he used that fact to bully them all whenever he visited. John thinks that would have been the way of it. They would have lived and died and no one would have been any the wiser. But then James came along.
John says that their mother suffered greatly with melancholy after James was born. She would never let John hold James or play with. But John was curious. Almost compelled to make James’ acquaintance, as tiny as he was. John found it to be so very strange to be near little James. He couldn’t explain it, but he felt like James was just like him. James even smelled like his kind. But something else happened to John that afternoon.
All of the strange feelings he had been having began to well up inside him. He found her mother giving her fancy to the gardener! John began to tremble with anger. More than anger. Something else. He was covered with a kind of manic euphoria. John remembers confronting his mother by the maze that stood under her bedroom balcony. And the next thing John knew, there was a terrible scream and a flash of light. And blood. Bone claws merged from under the skin of his hands!
The rest remains a blur to John. He remembers the servants running out of the vestibule. One of the women fainted. But there was a stable hand named Charlie. His hands were big, like a grizzly bear’s paws. The Old Man was there, too. He told John’s father to listen carefully to him. He told his son that what happened could never be known to anyone. Not if he wanted to continue in the “circles” to which he had become accustomed. The Old Man promised to take care of John, to give him the very best medicine available. He gave his word. John’s father agreed.
John remembers his state of agitation began to subside. He remembers being taken away in a carriage and later on get locked up in a dungeon. But nobody ever explained why. The days passed in that cursed pit. John didn’t hear from his parents at all. He was certain that they would come and find him when word got out where he had been taken. But no one came. And the days became weeks, and the weeks became years. And eventually John wouldn’t remember how or when he had come to the place.
But he found out to have been put in a lunatic house. Doctors would visit him daily and ask him questions. John explains that, in those days, lunatic asylums were a place to store the social embarrassments and the dead-before-their-timers. Eventually, every lost soul blended into every other lost soul. John and the other inmates decayed in that place, like rotten meat. Every one of John and the other inmates, sane or insane, knew it: once one would come in the asylum, you hardly ever stood a chance of getting out.
John was the first, although in his mental state he had no understanding of it. The doctors explained to him that there had been an injustice, that he had been betrayed. That they were the only ones he could trust. They simply referred to John as “X.” When John was well enough, they began the tests and the questions, like: what did John see and feel? How did he come by of the abilities he had? John accepted it all and began to evolve. And then, one day, they asked John one question too many. He fought back, realizing the potential of his powers, and killing all of the security guards in his wake. And so, John left the program.
Logan tells John that he could have come and told him. He wants to know why John didn’t do that. John tells his brother that he’s lucky to be still alive! John tells James that he would have killed him for what they did to him. He would have killed Logan’s children and their parents and the Old Man too, if Logan wouldn’t have done it for him. Logan jokes and tells John to relax, as he was just along for the ride. John explains that he simply couldn’t do it. He says that he and James are the same man. John has grown to respect Logan over the years. He says that they even crossed paths many times before, but James simply doesn’t remember it.
Logan asks if John took those memories away, to make him forget. John says no and reveals that Logan’s healing factor did that for him. John explains that the reason why Logan doesn’t remember is because his genetic mutation won’t allow it; which John describes as yet another gift from their loving mother. Oh, and he continues to tell Logan; there is an anger in him and Logan shouldn’t deny it. John says that their wonderful family wasn’t so bloody wonderful after all. They abandoned the both of them and lied. John tells Logan that everyone lied to him. Even his mentor, Professor Xavier.
What?! Logan says. Xavier lied? How, he asks. With a serious look, John explains that Xavier knew about him but wanted Logan for himself. John says that Xavier played Logan against him, and he never knew it was happening. John says that a man can’t accept his brother’s hand or friendship if he doesn’t know his brother exists. And because of that, John decided to make Logan the offer one more time: join him and he will give Logan all the pieces he had been missing, all the pieces he ever wanted to make himself complete.
Logan wants to know in what he has to join his brother. John is surprised that James doesn’t remember it: this is the payoff. They walk away from the lab, and John explains that this is a journey. A voyage that he and James have been on since the beginning. And for the sake of a few insignificant lives, a few hundred gambling palaces Logan always denied him. John says that was Xavier’s handiwork: he brainwashed Logan to make him forget about his own brother.
Logan doesn’t know what John is talking about. John knows that he’s going to fast, but he has waited two hundred years for James to come back to him. And James still needs to get his bearings. John opens a door and widely spreads his arms. John explains to Logan that it’s them both against the world, just like it always has been.
They arrive back at the mountaintop in front of a statue. John prepares his magic while Logan meditates. He wonders why “you” didn’t tell him. The voice tells Logan that he wouldn’t have understood it. Angry, Logan asks the voice why? Because everyone’s brain is inferior to his? Logan’s breath materializes into a body. It’s the body of the voice, and it tells Logan that he didn’t mean it that way. The voice needs to see Logan and explain it to him. Logan asks the voice to wait, but it won’t. The voice changes into a projection of… Professor Charles Xavier!
Xavier begs Logan to understand his position. Xavier tells Logan that he didn’t lie to him, but could never tell him the truth. Logan doesn’t believe that. All he knows for sure is that Xavier lied to him for all this time. Xavier says that it’s never as simple as that. Logan doesn’t buy that and tells Xavier what he thinks. He think that Xavier is so amazed at how clever he is that even though he is dead, he still figures the rest of them are just around for the scenery.
Wolverine tells Xavier to get lost and go be with the other dead people. Logan is through with him. Xavier explains to Logan that he’s bond to him and can’t abandon him just like that. He can’t just leave him just for the sake of his brother. Xavier thinks it’s just a hollow offer and that John can’t really give him what he says. Logan confidently tells Xavier that he has made up his mind, just like it was two hundred years ago and Xavier can’t change it. Xavier, almost vanishing, tries to make Logan understand that this life isn’t for him: he’s too old and has come to far for this. Xavier doesn’t want to see Logan lose all that just for the sake of a brother he never knew. Logan thinks and Xavier vanishes.
John approaches Logan and asks him to whom he was talking. “Myself,” Logan answers. Logan stares at a statue, and John says he knows that Logan likes places like these. He remembers when Logan first claimed to become a Buddhist, just to impress a girl in a bar in Saigon. But in some ways, John thinks it helps to calm the turmoil. John asks James what his decision is. Logan still doubts. John tries to convince him by telling he can give James himself back, plus the world.
Logan has heard enough. John stands triumphantly on the edge of the mountain, and says he never doubted his brother. Logan sneaks up on John and snikts his claws in his back, and John falls down. Logan looks at him, and confidently says: “Not James. My name is Logan.”


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Rescue workers are looking for John’s body, but only find some blood. They realize the man never stood a chance. They report back to their captain, who orders them to continue searching the north side for now, just in case. He orders the rest of his crew to the surveillance post, as they are still missing both John Howlett’s body and that of an old monk. The police officers think that’s useless, as nobody could survive a fall like that. The officers try to convince their captain, as if Howlett would have survived the fall, he surely would have died instantly seeing how cold it is. They enter a temple, on which left side an X-Plane is parked. Once inside, they find Wolverine sitting on a chair, mumbling that his brother didn’t die.
The captain wants to know why Logan is so sure about that, since he told them he pushed John off the cliff by himself and that no one could survive such a fall. The light goes on in the dark room, and Logan corrects that he said “no one normal” could survive it. He takes a look around the room, and notices John’s many followers getting arrested, and him being surrounded by people wearing X-Men costumes.
The captain informs Logan that his X-Men organization in American asked them to allow their representatives, who Logan now sees, to help investigate the case. Logan corrects the captain that the X-Men aren’t his organization. Sarin introduces himself to Logan, and apologizes to have to do this to the legendary mutant they hear so much about at campus. They argue about Logan not wanting to cooperate. That’s fine by Sarin, who orders his teammate Karin to enter his mind instead. Karin asks Logan that, if John has survived, he would have any idea where he might have went. Logan denies that.
Some time later, the X-Men representatives have taken Logan back to the JFK airport in New York. Logan mocks how much the X-Men have changed since his day. Logan asks them to stop, since he’s got to pee. The two allow Logan to go. In the bathroom, he meets up with George. George brought everything he asked him to. They say goodbye, without telling where Logan got the things from and what they are.
Meanwhile, the representatives get impatient and suspect something’s wrong. They find the bathroom empty. Logan has escaped on another plane, where he has a discussion with Charles Xavier’s spirit. Xavier’s upset that Logan lied to the X-Men, and never game them a chance. Logan says he didn’t have too, because they were too busy shooting at him for twenty years. Xavier still believes Logan should have told them what he knows. Logan gets angry, and shouts at Xavier that if he’s so worried he should come back and tell the X-Men everything by himself. Xavier explains that he can’t ever return, since that would mean the end of everything. The stewardess of the plane asks Logan to sit back, as they have arrived in Las Vegas.
The X-Men representatives managed to catch George, but fail to get much information from the man, despite Karin’s telepathy probes. The only thing the X-Men find out is that George has known Logan since he was a kid and brings him things to his cabin. The only thing that they find suspicious about George is some immigration stuff, but that’s it. He’s going to walk. But the X-Men representatives are certain that Wolverine is out there somewhere. And so is his brother.
In Vegas, Logan enters a bar. He gets some information from a girl named Shirley. Logan gets bothered by a motor gang looking for trouble. Logan snikts his claws open, and the gang falls back. They aren’t going to argue with a mutie. Logan’s glad they see it his way, and asks them where his brother is. They fake that they don’t know, but Logan can smell that they are lying. His brother really has been here. The entire bar gets furious at Logan and they attack him. It goes on for a while, but Logan manages to defeat them all. They panic and run away. There’s one guy left. Logan smashes the gun’s head on the jukebox a few times, and the man tells him that John is at his place, namely the Medieval, next to the old Bellagio.
Wolverine walks out of the bar. His hands are bleeding thanks to the claws, and he’s hurt. He realizes that he’s getting too old for this. At his casino, John gets informed that Logan is coming after him, and that he already killed five of his Ratpack crew. John isn’t scared, as he is confident enough that he can handle him. They walk to the computer room. John explains to his partner that he knows Logan intimately, but admits that he is no brother of his. However, he continues, nothing they aim to accomplish will be of any consequence unless John will go through Logan first. Logan has made that point very clear to him. John’s partner won’t allow him to face Logan, since once they have activated their device, Logan will die anyway.
John, with glowing red eyes, angrily curses that Logan won’t die. He’ll never die. Not until he runs into someone better. John’s partner doesn’t see the point. John knows that, and instead orders him to inform his men that this is something he has specifically to do. And Logan understands that. John is tired of ducking and diving. Tired of hiding his true face. He says that, in a way, Logan’s pushing is inevitable. John refuses to miss this moment, not when they have so much to gain. He asks his partner to tell Johnson that he is coming to fetch some things from the vault. Plus, John demands from his partner, Fowler, to let Logan come from him. John enters the elevator and leaves.
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Wolverine enters John’s casino, unaware that he’s being watched by his security guards. Logan walks to a lift, which brings him to the top. But that’s just what the guards want him to do.
Suddenly, Logan drops out of sight from the guards, but they still see him moving to his target on their monitors, so they don’t think something’s wrong. John and his partner are also watching Logan moving to them, and are pleased that Logan is as predictable as ever. John wants to move over to action, and can’t wait to see the look on Logan’s face once he sees that they were waiting for him. Little do they realize that Logan has taped a carton figure of himself on the lift’s window, so that the guards think he’s still inside, and Logan himself hangs underneath the lift.
He jumps down, and kills some of the guards. He breaks through a fence, and enters a lab of some sorts. Meanwhile, John was already waiting for the lift, and thinks he’s still dealing with the actual Logan. John gets in the lift, and realizes that the joke’s on him. In the lab, Wolverine sneaks up on some scientists, who are standing in front of a holding tank. John realizes where Wolverine must be and sends out his guards to permanently deal with him.
The guards enter the lab, but Wolverine kills them all. John’s partner wants to open the door for John, so that he can stop him. But John tells him not to, as he wants the element of surprise. Instead, John uses his power and phases through the lab’s wall. Wolverine seems to recognize the tank and wants to destroy it. John confronts Logan and tells him that’s a huge mistake to make. Logan demands his brother to explain it to him. John says that this is an opportunity and won’t fight him. He just wants Logan to listen to him. If Logan would blow the machine up, it would destroy Nevada and Logan would be responsible for the biggest hostile takeover in the history of the stock market. John says that Logan will be holding the big liberation for mutants in his hands: no more asylums, no more registrations towards the humans. Logan smiles, and tells John that’s the difference between them: while John has been trying to be God, Logan has been working for him hoping that he’ll have a place to live when it’s his time. And John doesn’t deserve liberation.
John activates his powers and starts attacking Logan. The guards want to help their master, but one of them recalls that their master Howlett wanted to take Logan alone. Logan slams John down and calls him a liar. He knows that it never was about freedom, and just about money. John claims otherwise, but Logan slaps him in the face. John gets angry as he knows that Logan too is no saint. John fights back and kicks Logan away and restrains him. John remembers that it was Logan that killed Xavier, and that he doesn’t want the other X-Men to know. And that Logan also doesn’t know how to explain what he did to Rose.
Logan doesn’t believe his ears. John smiles, and tells Logan to pull away like he always does, and to all those children he abandoned. John calls Logan a worthless son, brother and father! Logan wants to know what John knows about them. John doesn’t know which one Logan means: the one who became an accountant? John wants to know what they would do when they are reunited with Logan, and find out that he never loved the mother and left them because he was disappointed at them because neither her or the kid were mutants?
Logan fights John again, and finds it a shame that he seems to have all the answers, but not what he really wants. John isn’t impressed, and calls Logan’s relatives targets. John gets away from Logan, using his powers. John agrees to wait, if that’s what Logan wants him to do. John informs Logan that he’s got a great choice to make, but doesn’t even realize what that choice is. Wolverine doesn’t agree. He bets that John doesn’t know that the unit holds an “Ecstasy” trigger, circa 2023. Logan explains that it’s a suitcase bomb designed by Holzer Enterprises in Austria with private funding. As a matter of fact, Logan continues, he has defused two of those triggers. Now, they can’t trigger a detonation if the circuit board breaks, and they’re very fragile.
John doesn’t believe that Logan would dare do that. Logan smiles, and says that the units are rare and almost unaccounted for. He guesses that John has the last one. John won’t lie to his brother and admits that he holds the cards. But he’s just delaying things. John claims that he can have another control device manufactured in three points, at which point Logan will be dead. Or, John adds, Logan can make a better decision and join him. Logan won’t kill people.
John explains that they would give the people a week to evacuate the city. Bang goes Las Vegas, he says, and bang goes to U.S. economy. And then they would be there to pick up the pieces. John asks Logan if he doesn’t see what he’s going to give up. But Logan really doesn’t, and says “nope.” John has heard enough and orders his men to shoot Logan. He doesn’t even care what gets hit in between; he just wants to see Wolverine’s dead body.
Wolverine escapes the guards and makes it to the elevator. He makes it back to the lift and wants to go down with it, but John has followed Logan and jumps into the lift. They fight, and John snikts his claws out too! He slashes Logan with them, so angry that he’ll kill all of Logan’s surviving friends and family for this. Furious, Logan gets up and fights back. But it’s still not enough to bring his brother down. John uses his powers and, with an enhanced punch, blows Logan out of the cliff. But, Logan manages to hold himself on the lift’s door so he won’t fall.
Logan climbs back up, and notices his brother changing into a huge demon. John asks Logan if he realizes what he has thrown away. John claims to have all the answers Logan searched for his entire life. John knows about Rose. He knows what happened to Dog. He also knows about Jean Grey and the reason Sabretooth choose to let Logan live that time in Chicago. He knows why Wolverine has left the X-Men and he knows about the son Logan didn’t even knew he had him, the one son with the latent mutant abilities similar to their powers.
Wolverine thinks that John is lying, but John tells Logan that he’ll now never know the answer, because he’ll be dead. John only hopes that, when he goes to visit his son, he’ll accept him as his father! Logan still doesn’t believe it. John tells James that it was all for nothing, and blew away his one chance. John says that, in five minutes, they’ll be down at the base of the cable lift and Logan will be gone. John can make his way out of the fall since he’s a survivor. John explains that when he’ll be questioned about the death, his people will manufacture another trigger, and blow up Las Vegas post bail. James will die, John says, and he won’t even know why he has been calling himself “Logan” for all these many years.
John strikes out at Logan with his claws. Logan ducks away, and John’s claws get stuck in the electrical wires! The lift drops down, and so do both John and Logan. They’re seen by the crowd below them. They land in the woods on top of each other, and Logan has accidentally impaled his claws through John’s stomach! With his final words, John says that he is glad that it happened this way. But he wants Logan to know that he had gotten more time to tell him about Rose. Logan screams. He can’t believe this! John says that he was always proud of his little brother Logan, and dies.
It’s starts to rain. Logan holds his now dead brother in his arms, while behind him lots of people with guns and a helicopter show up. But Wolverine doesn’t even care.


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(1st story) Falling
(2nd story) Brace for Impact
(3rd story) The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
(1st story)
As Logan falls into a chasm of nothingness, he recalls how he got there. He remembers a flash and now he’s falling. Wait… what just happened? Just then, a vision flashes of Logan as a young child stabbing Thomas Logan in the chest, while his mother, Elizabeth Howlett, telling him he’s not Thomas’ son. He’s a monster, an animal! Continuing his descent, Logan says to himself that he can’t think straight. Where is he? Where did those people go – Mystique and the others? What did they do? More flashes – Logan killing Mariko Yashida, a bunch of Hellfire guards, a solider during one of the wars he fought in. More falling – falling through endless darkness. What in the hell is happening to him?
At that moment, Logan bounces off of something solid that felt like rock. He tries to grab hold and hang on but it burns and it’s slick. Even in the darkness, he can tell it’s blood. If there’s one thing he knows, it’s blood. Rock and blood and darkness and silence. Stone cold silence all around. The first voice cuts him like a knife. It tells him they’re waiting for him below. When Logan asks what, the voice tells him they’re waiting. All of them. Everyone. So many. So many. He’s been a very busy boy. Logan recalls all of the Weapon X guards he killed, the men he killed while with X-Force, the Adamantium men he killed, and Xorn. The voice adds that they’re all waiting for him below. All of them. Logan should know; he’s the one who killed them.
Logan asks them where he is. How does he stop this? The voices ask him “stop the falling?” No, no, no. The falling is the good part. Enjoy the falling while it lasts. It’s once he hits bottom, that’s when the screaming starts. Once he hits bottom, he’ll be just like them. They tell him “he’s” going to break him. He breaks everyone. When Logan asks who, the voices ask him who does he think (the Devil). He will only break him, but the others… they will do far worse. The others, they’re waiting. So eager. Hit bottom. No way back up. Breaks everyone. Like them. Damned.
Logan grits his teeth, tells them no, and is able to grasp hold of the rock ledge. As he tries to pull himself back up, a young child holding a severed head tells him that he has to keep falling, brother. When Logan asks what the hell, the child tells him all the way to the bottom. They’re all waiting at the bottom. He’s waiting. He’s been waiting a very long time to see him again. A very long time.
As Logan grabs hold of the thorns, the severed head tells him that he heard the boy. He best get to fallin’, all the way to the bottom. When the severed head is revealed to be that of Sabretooth, he tells Logan that’s where they’re all waiting. Just then, Sabretooth bites his hand which causes Logan to lose his grip and fall into the dark chasm below.
(2nd story)
Sitting in a restaurant, a plain-clothes Daken thinks to himself that, some days, it takes every bit of self-control that he possesses to not just wade into them, cutting and gouging until he’s completely soaked in their blood. Other days, he just wants to grab one of them. Just to smash some face against a rock until it collapses into itself. But today? Today he’s going to make one of them his friend, a local patron at the same restaurant.
After locking one of the waitresses in a closet, Laura Kinney (X-23) says just one. All it takes is one man. The man – Detlef Metzger. He is a German-born, naturalized U.S. citizen, a bio-engineer and a former junior research scientist for the Weapon X program. Bio-enhancement is his specialty. Every government wants him. Two hours ago, he was awarded seven billion dollars from weapons contractors. It will be the old program, all over again. More girls, more boys will be caged, altered, forced to be weapons. She will not let that happen.
As she takes a bottle of Moet out to Detlef and his companions who are celebrating, Daken remarks that it’s happening. Three years ago, Detlef Metzger came into the possession of Dr. Zander Rice’s private journals. Now deceased, also late of the Weapon X program. In addition to the journals, Metzger gained something else – something Dr. Rice never had: a single vial of Wolverine’s blood.
Reaching Dr. Metzger’s table, Laura tells him good evening. After telling her good evening back, Metzger asks her if he knows her. Laura tells him in a way, yes. Perhaps she should introduce herself. She’s the person that’s about to save his life. Just then, members of the U.S. Military converge onto the restaurant and order everybody to get down. As Metzger starts to do so, the commander of the brigade tells Dr. Metzger not him. Frightened, Metzger looks up and asks the man who he is. The man introduces himself as Malcolm Colcord. Offering his hand, he tells Metzger that he’s coming with him.
Running up a flight of stairs that leads to the roof, Daken says it’s impossible. How could Colcord have… Climbing a ladder to the roof, Laura asks …recognized her. She should have assumed that if she was looking for him… Reaching the roof, Daken says …someone else could be, too. Looking out at the street and seeing Metzger being led into a government vehicle, Laura states this new security will be problematic, but… Watching the same event from another rooftop, Daken says …not impossible to overcome. He just needs to bide his time, wait for the perfect opportunity. Just then, Daken and Laura notice each other watching the same events transpire.
(3rd story)
Flying above northern Arizona, E.V.A. informs her inhabitants, Wolverine and Fantomex, that their E.T.A. to Cavern X is two minutes. Wolverine proceeds to ask Fantomex that if E.V.A.’s a part of him, why is she always yappin’? Fantomex replies by asking how uncouth would it be if they were to carry on private conversations in the company of others. Wolverine tells him that fake mom taught him good manners. Fantomex states that the best liars are always exceedingly courteous people. Wolverine says the best liars probably don’t brag about being the best liars. Fantomex adds unless it is to misdirect with duplicitous forthrightness. Wolverine says yeah, he reckons that Fantomex lies pretty good. Fantomex tells him given his nature.
Continuing, Fantomex states he was puzzled as to why Wolverine requested his presence within his bloody little illuminati. After Wolverine tells him that it’s because he fit the profile, Fantomex says yes. He was created to be the devil-may-care, international, super-spy with a worldly distingue that the ladies love. He was literally made for the work. Wolverine tells him yeah, he’s a real dandy of an assassin, but that ain’t the main thing. When Fantomex asks pray tell, Wolverine says he’s a man without purpose. Opening a beer, Fantomex tells Wolverine that he has a purpose. Wolverine says he’s hunting for a purpose.
Fantomex remarks that’s still a purpose. Wolverine points out to him that Weapon Plus let him escape, programmed him to read “Fantomas,” rob museums, watch “Danger: Diabolik” and kill. All preordained. He knows what it’s like to have his history tampered with. That’s why he wanted to help him find the truth about his past. Fantomex says altruism is counter to his nature, he’s a mercenary. Wolverine points out that if he was a mercenary, he’d have sold what he knows about him. Fantomex answers yes… so in not attempting to kill him by selling his personal secrets to Doctor Doom, he earned his trust. He then quips that the X-Men have a skewed sense of things.
Wolverine then asks Fantomex why he spends so much time stealing. Fantomex tells him that he steals for adventure, for adrenaline, for sex, for sport… Wolverine tells him no, he steals to keep his mind off of what they made him for – killing. But he is what they made him to be. Ain’t no man can fight against who he is forever. Trust him. They made Fantomex to kill mutants, the kid-friendly super hero face of a new band of Sentinels. He has killin’ in that nanoblood of his. He asks that it’s a constant struggle to ignore them tiny little cybernetic sirens, ain’t it? That’s what X-Force is for. Good people who got that same ugly in ‘em. Can’t get the ugly out. So they point it at the kind of places it’ll do the world some good.
At that moment, E.V.A. lands and Angel and Psylocke welcome them to Cavern-X, a headquarters that has a large Sentinel head looking over them. Upon seeing Psylocke, Fantomex proceeds to tell Miss Braddock that she looks spectacular. Betsy tells him to save it, Jean-Phillipe. Fantomex replies that he’s afraid it’s hardwired in. He’s the devil-may-care, international, super-spy with a worldly distingue that the ladies love. When he sees Angel putting his arm around Betsy, Fantomex mutters just not the good ones.
At that moment, Angel invites them to have sandwiches he just made. As they sit down and begin to eat the sandwiches, Fantomex tells them that he’s a vegetarian and asks if they have any meatless options. Wolverine says speakin’ of meatless, where’s the degenerate? Angel tells him he’s been keeping him busy till they need him. He’s in Egypt, chasing ghosts.
In Egypt, Deadpool, in a black and white costume, stands in the desert heat. As he does, he says note to self, add Gold Bond medicated powder to pouch assortment. Okay, so… according to the creepy homeless dude whacked out on poppies who was playing air keyboard for the imaginary alleyway “Wham!” reunion, this is the spot. He seemed reliable enough.
Just then, three individuals appear. One of them is a lady with a headdress on and the other two are males with bird heads. The lady calls Deadpool a fool and tells him he seeks his own demise. Deadpool says that doesn’t sound right and then proceeds to ask them if any of them freaks know if this is the hidden entrance to the big super villain hideout. Leaping into action, Deadpool makes short work of his three foes. While he does, he asks the pigeon lady what happened to the love they shared. This breakup is probably for the best though; mom always said pigeons carry diseases. Once he has the ladies staff, Deadpool exclaims Jimmy-Jim-Jam-Shimmy-Da-Doo! There’s the entrance. Guess he just needed a magic cane to see it – classic mistake.
Back at Cavern-X, Fantomex tells Angel that this is a gigantic monument to his own life he built there. Must be nice to be rich. Warren asks him isn’t he rich? Doesn’t he have his own museum? Fantomex tells him it’s different when he does it. He then asks if this is what X-Force does. Eats delicious sandwiches in a world that hates and fears them? Much edgier than he imagined.  Seriously, what do they do now? Wolverine tells him nothin’. They go about their lives, keep their eyes open, and wait till they find a threat nasty enough to require them. At that moment, Deadpool enters the cave in Egypt.