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Park Life
Two men wearing balaclavas flee on a motor bike with a case full of stolen organs. The one not driving fires a gun at the air shouting: “die bug! Dieeeee!”Panicked, he tells his partner Zekey that he dodged. He can’t see him anymore! What sorta freak can dodge shocker tech?Over his partner’s protest, Zekey steers the bike into the park. He tells him to relax. He got this idea reading Spidey-Stans. His partner protests, him reading the fan site is a serious conflict of interest. Zekey points out that there’s more to him than stealing organs for the mad science market, okay? Point is, whichever web-slinger is chasing them, he is still a web-slinger – meaning he needs the buildings for his webs. All they gotta do is dodge the park weirdoes and they are clear.He has barely finished speaking when the Spider-Man, who has been giving chase, teleports in front of them and quickly attacks them. The men are off their bikes lying on the ground.“Pardon me,” the Spider-Man hanging from a tree with his tail opines. “Entschuldigung.” English is not his first language and he is still working on the pithy one-liners in crime fighting. He is thinking it would be a very funny moment to say: “you need to practice your parking, pal.”The man doesn’t react and Spider-Man tries to explain, because they are in a park and their bike is in a tree instead of a proper parking spot. One word, multiple meanings, ja? A homonym. If he wishes, they may now engage in snappy banter.The man grabs his weapon and fires at him, shouting “die, freak!”Spider-Man teleports away and cuts the weapon apart with what seems to be a glowing energy sword.That ain’t fair! the man stammers stupidly. Spideystans didn’t mention no glowy spooky sword! Where even did that come fro… Having lost all playfulness, the Spider-Man hits him and tells him to mind his own business. He dematerializes the sword, then turns to the box with the stolen organs, which are still frozen. Lives saved, hardened criminals defeated. Not a bad day’s work. Busy busy, doing good, he seems to try and convince himself.Suddenly, he is addressed by a group of four indigent people, who are curious about him. He’s the new Spidey, isn’t he? They’ve seen him in the papers, a big, bearded man remarks. Some sort of devil on a redemptive journey, that’s the prevailing thought, a skinny black man opines. Not often you get a Spidey with an occult angle, the first man continues. People love that *+/&. Spider-Man hesitantly thanks them.The first guy asks for an interview (and some money), when Spider-Man notices a poorly dressed elderly woman who seems confused as she is asking where her baby is.Suddenly, a Stark Sentinel shines its light on them and announces it detects mutant pheromones. Spider-Man orders them away; he will handle this. Instead, the first guy shouts at the Sentinel that they are only indigents and non-mutant heroes here. Then he asks it for twenty dollars.Undeterred, the Sentinel begins to scan them. Spider-Man orders them away - this is going to get ugly, but a voice whispers in his ear, they’ve got this.And indeed, the Sentinel decides they are not mutants, wishes them a good evening and leaves. Spider-Man notices the woman is gone as well.The others call her Sad Suzy and state she comes and goes. She is obsessed with the Treehouse. Maybe she is a secret mutie lover.The voice from before – seeming to come from a little bamf demon - orders him to look at the Treehouse, the X-Men’s former HQ.Spidey tells his fans that he needs to take the organs to a hospital. And remember, when danger strikes, you can count on your friendly neighborhood Spinnenmann! He teleports away.Spinnen what now? one of them asks. They decide that name’s not going to stick. Hellcrawler, one of them suggests.Later:In a citadel in the park, over a pizza of doubtful quality, Nightcrawler relates the events to the real Spider-Man including his quips. Somewhat half-heartedly, he announces that he was born for this.Spider-Man asks about the astral cutlass. That’s a mutant thing, right? Actually, it’s a “my adoptive mother is an evil sorceress who utilized my crisis of faith to turn my innate optimism into a magical weapon, then tried to steal it” thing, Kurt replies…Choosing to ignore that statement, Spider-Man continues, since they are talking about mutant stuff, what is his long-term plan? Cause Kurt was pretty clear when he first showed up here: Spare super suits… hiding in plain sight… helping his people from the shadows… clearing his name…Kurt glumly looks away, recalling the murders he was forced to commit when he was out of control and how it damaged Krakoa. It wasn’t him, he states glumly, or at least he wasn’t him.Spidey decides that he doesn’t knows what of the crazy stuff being said about mutants is true, but he knows Kurt. He doesn’t have to prove he is a good person. If he needs help? He has his back.The astral bamf only Kurt sees suggests he ought to tell him. All his friends, his people exiled God knows where, probably to the grave. And now there’s Sentinels in the park and ‘mutant’ is a dirty word Plus ca change, right?Spider-Man notes his spider-sense is tingling, and he doesn’t think it’s just because of Kurt’s pizza. Is he okay? Kurt replies that he left Krakoa to be among ordinary people. He thanks him for the spare suit, but he is doing what he needs to be doing… helping people one at a time.An Orchis lab:A scientist with a moustache and a manbun, Dr. Wilson Travers Jr., walks to the side of his superior – Adrian Toomes aka the Vulture who is currently perusing data on Nightcrawler. Their scientists are 97 percent sure that the new Spider-Man is Nightcrawler which, of course, raises the question why the Sentinels didn’t react to him. Cretinous machines chasing cretinous monsters! Toomes curses. He weeps for society.Travers suggests that Wagner wasn’t at the Hellfire Gala. He may not know about “Ultimate-X.” Any mutant discovered at large will result in the immediate death of ten baseline humans, Toomes quotes the edict. Travers suggests Modeling Division believes, if they performed a decimation, then signaled to Wagner that he was to blame, there is a 65 percent chance, he will turn himself in. Or he’d vanish back into the shadows, comes the skeptical reply. Toomes studies his drugged prisoner Feral, then complains about how the mutants gave them their cast-offs, but not their true discovery – resurrection.He shocks Feral with an electric needle. Modeling Division doesn’t know #&/%! he states bluntly. That’s why Devo hired him to head the Hound Program.A moment later, Feral goes ballistic with pain and tears loose. She shoves everyone out of the way as she runs. Travers asks Toomes if he is okay, addressing him as Vulture. Toomes angrily corrects him: “Vulture” was a petty criminal with nothing to contribute to the prosperity and dignity of the human race.Using his costume, he flies up. He can call him Director Vulture!He slams into Feral and takes her down. Vulture orders Travers to amp up the nerve-shredders on all their guests. As for their incognito friend; Travers is missing the important point: The Sentinels didn’t pick up his X-gene. He is invisible to their sensors? Travers stammers. But those were developed by Nimrod himself! Send a sex toy-looking robot to do an engineer’s job, Toomes mutters sullenly. They need to know how he is doing it! The Hounds aren’t ready yet, so let’s do a little outsourcing…The next morning in Central Park, Kurt enjoys the sunrise, the beautiful women jogging and the pizza which managed to become even tastier when cold.He notices a man with a knife threatening a young woman, puts on his mask and jumps into action. With a snikt sound, the man produces another knife. Classic sound effect, Spider-Man remarks. Want another? He teleports and kicks him in the face.The man is down for the old. He notices that he saw those clothes on the confused homeless lady the other day.The girl chooses that moment to throw herself at him. She states she is a big fan and asks if all people in his demon dimension have that accent. And what else can he do with the tail? For once he is at a loss for words.Suddenly, the girl shouts a warning as the mugger attacks him from behind. Kurt teleports out of the way again.A moment later, the pendant the girl wears around her neck starts to beep. She explains it is her mutant alarm. Orchis sells them for a few dollars. Pheromones or something. She suspects the guy on the ground. Kurt tries to make his excuses That moment, the half unconscious man on the ground shifts into Mystique and the girl hysterically shouts for help.Still out of it, Mystique mutters, where is her baby. Kurt grabs her and teleports away with her.A plane with a group of mercenaries is flying towards La Guardia.Via comm, their leader informs them their employer claims to have waived problems with weapons at customs, but they shouldn’t get sloppy. She orders them to place any high explosives and foreign currencies into nullchests and store them at the bulkheads. Same goes for exotic European literature, she admonishes one employee who begins stashing away a am called filles et fromage. Americans are weird about that stuff. On arrival at customs, Redsergeant Kremer will do the talking.Copy that, a heavyset bald man replies. And if they ask business or pleasure? Business, he is told. They are mercenaries. It is always business. He replies, she can’t tell him she is not looking forward to this. These animals walking among them while poisoning them with their drugs. He is told they all lost people to their drugs, but they are professionals. They don’t let their emotions cloud their judgment, especially when they have the taint of xenophobia.Kremer asks if she isn’t joining them on the tarmac and is told she wishes to review the files Orchis sent through. What’s her read on the target? he asks. A challenge, she replies. Teleportation, agility, surface adhesion, ability to turn invisible in low light.Did she watch the footage from the murders? he demands. This thing is a freaking monster! His boss points out that the latest images are lacking in horns. Something is off. Frankly, when she is looking at the case file of Nightcrawler, the only thing her instincts tell her is that he is cute. Flying on her own glider, Silver Sable finishes the call.


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Blue Streak
Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler aka currently Spider-Man looks at the woman he believes to be his mother, Mystique, dressed as an indigent and currently not quite sane, as she switches from person to person. He was blue, she recalls. Lack of oxygen, the doctor said. But she held him against her skin and became her true self. She couldn’t help it. He was so perfect.She turns to her true form, takes out a knife and demands, where is he? What did he do to her baby?!Kurt reminds her they have been through this. She keeps getting confused, then runs off. She sobs that she left him. Something Irene said. Why can’t she remember?Kurt corrects her: Destiny wasn’t part of his birth. He reminds her of what he knows of the story. She was posing as the wife of Count Wagner. She had an affair with the villain Azazel…He was blue, she repeats, blue like her, but… she went back for something in the castle… she left him!He tells her she is mixing things up. He is about to take off his mask and touches her shoulder, causing her to hit him hard. She calls him a disgusting creature, helping the humans and orders him not to meddle in mutant matters!He asks her to wait and calls her “meine mutter,” but she has already fled.He teleports atop a pavilion and sulks. The astral bamf appears next to him and mocks, mutant matters are none of his problems, right? Kurt tells him to #*%& off. The bamf mocks that maybe he isn’t a mutant anymore. He is suddenly invisible to the mutie detectors… And he seems in no mood to investigate. Kurt orders him to shut up.A voice from below observes that talking to himself is the first sign of madness and calls him by his name. Then she had best throw him in a padded cell - he is seeing angels! he retorts. The other person laughs and asks if he wants some company. From her always! He takes off his mask and asks if she wishes to be alone. It is rare to see Dagger without Cloak.Dagger looks down and he realizes he said something wrong and apologizes. She reveals they had a fight and he teleported away to sulk. But her costume isn’t great for the subway and the Stark Sentinels don’t make things easier. They stopped her a few times because of false readings: “Mutant detected.”How humiliating, Kurt replies coldly. That’s not what she meant, she chides him. They’ve been X-adjacent their whole lives! They are not okay with what’s going on. It’s just, what if they’ve pulled that *#%& on Cloak. He is not good at diffusing confrontation. Enough moaning, she decides and asks how he has been. Spidey said he’s been following some muggers all week.The astral bamf only Kurt sees sarcastically suggests he fill her in on what Xavier did to mutantkind or tell her about his mom. He figures that she resisted Xavier’s push and it broke her mind. Tell her it’s a mutant thing.Instead, Kurt tells Tandy that it’s a local thing. It’s fine. He will keep an eye out for Cloak. Tandy leaves and suggests he come by to the Jarvis Lounge sometime. No one there will rat him out to Orchis. And she wants to see what happens, when he tries flirting with Jessica.He pulls on his mask. Local stuff, he repeats. No big deal.Except, a moment later, the Rhino crashes into him.The Rhino was sent by Orchis, currently supported by Silver Sable International.As Nightcrawler battles the Rhino, he is being observed by several members of the Wild Pack, as well as Dr. Travers, working for the Vulture from inside a truck. They note that Nightcrawler is trying to protect civilians on the one hand, but was responsible for murdering several world leaders on the other. Silver Sable orders them to stow the chatter and asks Travers for Rhino’s status. A-plus, he replies and tells them they should consider themselves lucky, Mr. Toomes okayed the deployment of such a valuable Orchis asset. They were under the impression Silver Sable International didn’t need any inside help finishing the…Skip it, manbun, Silver Sable, who stands behind him, orders. He wouldn’t need her if his organization was half as slick as he pretends. The Rhino she knows is an intellectual subnormal, masquerading as a sentient life form. She doesn’t know what insanity makes them think he is suddenly capable of following orders, but his people begged her to field-test him. They believe the target will be unable to resist a threat to the public.Outside, Nightcrawler teleports out of the blows’ way.Silver Sable orders Travers to skip the attitude and direct the idiot to the target section. One of her team points out that Nightcrawler seems to focus on trying to remove a certain piece of tech from the Rhino’s gear. Sable immediately realizes it looks the same as the one Nightcrawler wore during his murder spree… Mind-control technology is illegal, Silver Sable informs Travers. Their rate just went up by another zero. Call it an amorality fee. Traver stammers his assent and warns her not to let Nightcrawler remove that tech. He orders the team to take the shot. He turns silent when Silver Sable holds her gun to his head. Two zeroes? he suggests weakly.Coldly, she warns him not to order her people. This is first contact. They probe. They surveil. They test. No more. Only an amateur rushes to closure. Orchis is clearly incapable of fieldwork. She orders him to transfer control of Rhino to her suit immediately. Another voice announces that he is down and inside the effect zone. It orders to trigger the dome.Silver Sable sharply protests that Redsergant Kremer does not have the authority and to belay the order. Travers points out her mic is on silent.Outside, around Nightcrawler, five pylons appear and they form an energy field he cannot teleport through. Four people in Power Rangers style uniforms with helmets fire at him. The fifth, Silver Sable, races out of the truck to join them.From further back, Kremer, who has led the attack, deploys a snare that traps Nightcrawler on the ground. Silver Sable berates him, but he interjects that she was right. The plasma field neutralized his powers, like she suggested.While he rants that a subhuman like that isn’t worth the effort, their backs are turned on Nightcrawler, who manifests his Hope Sword and cuts himself free. After that, Kremer gets a well-deserved kick to the face. Silver Sable dodges his blow, while noting the magic sword. That wasn’t in his file. He tries to flee, but she drags him close by his tail and unmasks him.A magical, disappearing sword and a surprisingly soft tail, she remarks, while she lies on the ground and aims a gun at him. What a day for surprises, Mr. Wagner.Within the van, Travers relaxes. However, his cameras cannot see what is going on in the plasma field, as Nightcrawler pleads with Silver Sable, assuring her he is not her enemy. She retorts that her organization doesn’t have enemies, only profits, and orders him to stay down. She warns him that he has been hit by at least one tranquilizer and cannot teleport through her energy dome. Nightcrawler tries to tell her something but can’t get a word in edgewise, as she theorizes he seems to have a fast metabolism. Again she warns him to stay down. Instead, he pulls her aside, before the Rhino comes crashing down into her.He teleports them somewhere dark. She asks where they are. He thinks it is an old subway. She notes he can see in the dark and clearly did his homework, since he could teleport under her dome. He replies he didn’t know what was underneath. It was a leap of faith. Kind of his signature move. She states there is a lamp on her helmet. He realizes she cannot activate it without letting go of him or her gun. He decides to get her helmet off and notes her accent is Symkarian. He visited there during his circus days.Actually, he continues, he had a formative moment there as a teenager. He was hiding in the woods – gawkers, lynch mobs, the usual. He hid a lot in his youth, actually. One night he came to a place in the forest, a soft slope above the trees like the thigh of some sleeping giantess. And he sat there just before dawn, watching a flock of starlings. Thousands moving as one, a vast and unknowable space. A living thing, made of living things. And he wept and, just when he felt he could endure no more beauty or awe, the sun rose. He describes the singular beauty of the moment and how he felt for the first time that in the deepest tides of its living heart the world is good.He switches on the helmet’s light. Sable stands opposite him, still holding both tail and gun. She orders him not to move. Some detonation from above sweeps them both off their feet. Silver Sable leans down and kisses him, then apologizes. They hear a booming noise from above, and Kurt observes that kissing instead of killing doesn’t warrant an apology. She replies, it is unprofessional.Kurt notices the sound getting closer while Sable babbles she isn’t getting paid to kill him. They want him alive. She mumbles, he has a perfect neck. Addressing herself as Silvija, she orders herself to focus. She accuses him of doing some mutant thing with pheromones.Kurt tells her the name is beautiful and that isn’t one of his powers.Redsergant Kremer tries to reach her via a bad comms connection and she explains that the device Rhino is wearing is hurting him. They damaged the control apparatus.That moment, Rhino howling in pain breaks through the wall. Sable tells Nightcrawler to leave. Her team won’t get paid if he gets flattened too. He suggests he could manage two people again. What happened to feeling drowsy? she demands. He replies that he recovers his stamina quickly. It’s a mutant thing.Getting closer, she asks where he would take her. Where wouldn’t he? he sighs, but alas he didn’t mean her. He jumps onto Rhino’s back, then teleports high into the air with him and, as they fall, he tries to wedge off the mind control device, hoping it could be proof. The psychic Bamf tells him nobody cares.When they get closer to the ground, Kurt swears and teleports away. Leaving the Rhino to land on the Orchis van.Kremer shouts down the hole to Silver Sable, who admits to herself this may be a more challenging job than she thought.


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The Apocalypse Solution, chapter one
‘Why did the nickel jump off the building but the dime didn’t?’ the mercenary called Deadpool, wearing a white and black x-uniform asks as he stands on a large statue, which has green colored water pouring from the statue’s mouth into a pool below. ‘Dime had more cents’ Deadpool answers his own joke as he dives into the pool, “riding” the waterfall down, swords ready. ‘Down! Down! Down dives our hero into the menacing green mist! Selflessly risking life and limb for those who fear, nay, loathe him!’ Deadpool continues.
He lands on a platform below and looks around at the strange complex, with various large statues, all with the green water pouring down, and strange symbols on the walls. Deadpool remarks that this seems like the sort of place you would find a horde of super-charged scoundrel-types. ‘Glowy-power-handed, razor-clawed, teeth clenchers out to spoil our hero’s assignment’. Deadpool begins running across some stepping stones in the water. ‘What do I get instead?’ he mutters, before coming to a doorway. He pauses and looks at the gargoyle-statue on the top of the door. ‘Hmmh. No sense of villain fortress feng shui’ Deadpool remarks as he enters the doorway.
Emerging in another part of the complex, Deadpool approaches what appears to be a large fortress. Several buildings of various sizes surrounding a massive black tower, with a purple globe at the top of it. Green waterfalls spill down the side of surrounding square cliffs. ‘Okay, now that’s what I’m talking about. Ominous fortress of impending doom! Inspires dread. Sets a tone’ he exclaims, before firing a weapon that has a retractable cable on it, which pulls him towards the top of the black tower. ‘What manner of evil lies within Citadel de Creepsville, ponders our hero?’ he jokes.
‘Puckering in my posterior - a warning perhaps? Has the valiant champion’s tuchus developed precognition?’ Deadpool tells himself, before landing at an entrance way on the citadel. ‘It’s all right, pinky - think of the bank account. She doesn’t aspirate what I do to keep her fed’ Deadpool remarks as he crawls along the small space. ‘What manner of decrepit villain has out handsome hero…stumbled upon…’ Deadpool’s voice trails off as he gazes down to the chamber below - and what he sees is a sight to behold.
Four people stand around a small coffin-like chamber, which has several cables connected to several devices around the room. ‘All for you, our father’ one of the people exclaim. ‘All for you, our father’ another remarks, before the other two do the same. A woman steps forward, ‘I offer all willingly!’ she booms - before two of the men shoves deadly weapons into her stomach. She falls to the floor, and blood pools around her - while the eyes on the image decorated on the coffin suddenly light up - and the coffin opens - smoke pours from it - as a small figure emerges.
‘Hey - okay - wow - I found the place. It’s him. No doubt. Not the terrible ska band, but as in “no doubt I’m sure it’s him”. No, I’m deadly sober. Really. Mostly. Hold on. I hear something -’ Deadpool radios to someone, before spinning around - where he sees some sort of beast-like creature loom over him ‘Ah, dammit -’ Deadpool mutters, before the creature hits him in the head with an axe.
In Psylocke’s Dream:
Betsy “Psylocke” Braddock walks through the Morlock tunnels beneath Manhattan. Bodies of slain Morlocks line the sewers, and a voice cries out in pain: ‘Don’t! Don’t do this! I’m rich…I’ll give you anything! Anything you - no! No - YYERARGHH!’ Betsy rounds a corner - where she finds Angel, pinned to the wall with harpoons through his wings - and Archangel hovering before him. ‘Please…Betsy…help me!’ Warren Worthington III calls out. ‘I’m all broken…and he’s going to take me…erase me…’ Warren calls out. ‘Don’t listen to this naïve infant’s gibberish’ Archangel declares. ‘I’m fixing him. For his own good…just wait - I’ll fix you too!’ Archangel exclaims as he unleashes his razor sharp wings at Betsy.
Reality:
Betsy sits up in bed with a gasp. She gets out of the bed she shares with Warren, and puts a robe on. ‘Bad dream?’ Warren asks, sitting up. ‘N-no…it was nothing’ Betsy replies. ‘Sure. Okay, Bets. We’ll lie to each other. Best foundation to rebuild a relationship’ Warren replies, before getting out of bed. Betsy gazes out a window and informs Warren that, occasionally, in deep sleep, she dream walks. ‘End up in a bad neighborhood?’ Warren asks. ‘Was it him?’ Betsy tells Warren that he doesn’t frighten her. ‘Yeah, well, the bastard does frighten me’ Warren replies, before putting some shorts on and standing up.
‘Even after all our work?’ Psylocke asks. Warren tells her not to get him wrong, as she has helped him a lot. ‘But being able to control the transformation isn’t the same as controlling Archangel’ he explains. ‘He’s buried so far down, rooted in like a bloodthirsty tick. If I were to remove him…it would fracture your mind irreversibly’ Betsy tells Warren, who puts a hand on her arm, telling her that he knows, and that what she has accomplished is remarkable.
‘I wish I could do more…’ Betsy declares as she walks away from Warren. Angel tells Betsy that he has X-Force for the rest. ‘Helps me make sense of it anyway’ he tells her, adding that there are evil things out there that demand Archangel’s brand of resolution. ‘If I can use him to help ensure the survival of our family - I’m at peace with my situation’ he explains. ‘And Scott?’ Psylocke asks. ‘He wants to think things are different. So we let him’ Warren replies. ‘We do the work. Keep everyone safe. Buy Scotty a clean conscience’. Warren adds that he needs to know Betsy can keep him in control out there - stop Archangel from going too far.
Betsy puts a hand on Angel’s face and tells him that she can temper Archangel, reduce his influence, increasing Warren’s own, enabling him to be more present when he transforms. ‘But only when you’re around?’ Warren asks. ‘Literal ball and chain. To be so dependent on someone, so entangled…it doesn’t worry you?’ Warren adds. ‘Not in the slightest. It merely requires I trust my feelings. But that’s not what you’re truly afraid of…is it?’ Betsy asks, while Warren look out the window at the moon shining down on them.
Suddenly, an alarm sounds, ‘Saved by the bell’ Betsy remarks. ‘Expecting a call?’ she asks Warren, who goes over to the computer and informs her that only one person has this code. ‘Probably just drunk again…’ he adds, before reading the message. ‘Everything okay?’ Betsy asks. ‘Hmmm? Yeah…just surprised is all. I never really expected him to find anything’ Warren replies. Betsy’s butterfly signature appears as she tells Warren that he is lying. ‘You don’t need to. I’d be frightened as well’ she remarks. ‘I’m not frightened’ Warren assures her. Betsy turns from him, ‘Mm-hmm. Best possible foundation to build a relationship on. I’ll go get dressed for work’ she announces.
Meanwhile, gliding down the side of the Tower of London is the mercenary called Fantomex. He thinks to himself that a man can only go so long without his poison, that it is the denial of pleasure that leads to the cancer. He grabs a window ledge, and swings himself around. ‘It’s the repression of desire that leads to the crime’ he tells himself as he crashes through the window. ‘So I skip the middleman’ he thinks to himself. ‘Allowing myself the crime in the first place’. Fantomex manipulates two guards that approach him, by telling them that he is a termite inspector and that they can go on a break. Mind controlled, they walk past him. ‘Power of misdirection. Highly recommended’ Fantomex tells himself, before tapping into a keyboard, while contacting EVA - ‘The lock, if you would be so kind’ he remarks.
The door to a vault springs open. ‘Gads’ Fantomex mutters as he sees Wolverine a.k.a. Logan leaning against a table inside the vault. ‘You lose. You owe me one case of cognac’ Logan tells his companion. ‘Henri IV Dudognon Heritage to be specific’ Logan adds. ‘Dudognon is two million dollars a bottle! How does someone like you even know of such a thing!’ Fantomex exclaims. ‘Google’ Logan mutters. Fantomex replies that a bet is a bet, and that the bottle of cognac will be delivered tomorrow. ‘And I sincerely hope you choke on it’ he adds. Logan informs Fantomex that he is not going to drink it. ‘I’m a Molson man’ he remarks, explaining that he is going to use it to shine his claws, and maybe disinfect the commode back home.
‘Diabolical…you truly are the best there is at what you do’ Fantomex tells Wolverine, adding that “wealth” is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. ‘C’mon, Hemingway. Got a call for a secret rendezvous’ Logan announces. ‘It’s Ben Franklin, you philistine’ Fantomex corrects Logan. ‘Who is?’ Logan asks. ‘The quote’ Fantomex tells him. ‘Sounds like Hemingway’ Logan replies. ‘It isn’t!’ Fantomex exclaims while Logan walks away from him. ‘You don’t go put those Crown Jewels back you can ask ‘em yourself’ Logan warns Fantomex.
Shortly, EVA soars across a stretch of water, after picking up the others without so much as a hello, or so Fantomex thinks to himself. ‘My X-Force debriefing consisted of a single name. Halfway across the Atlantic before anyone says another word’ he adds. Inside EVA, Wolverine, now dressed in his black and white X-Force costume, sits alongside Archangel and Betsy, and remarks to Archangel: ‘Gotta tell ya, flyboy - when you give bad news, you don’t mess about’.
‘Nothing is certain yet’ Archangel states. ‘But we’re marching in on red alert?’ Fantomex asks as he pilots EVA. ‘You wouldn’t be so flippant if you knew what he did to Warren’ Betsy exclaims. ‘Don’t be so sure. I find flippancy the appropriate reaction in most cases’ Fantomex replies. ‘Show some empathy. We’ve all suffered at the hands of evil manipulators’ Betsy exclaims. ‘Or so we assume’ Archangel remarks, suggesting that Fantomex let Betsy probe past his dampening plates so they can see what is going on behind the curtain.
Fantomex looks back at Betsy and exclaims ‘Perhaps Betsy and I could probe each other. I’m game for some “behind the curtain” whenever you are, dear’. Unimpressed, Betsy tells Fantomex to save the lewd comments. Calling him a charmer, she explains that she is involved. ‘Why do you think I made the comment?’ Fantomex asks. ‘Hmmh’ Archangel mutters, while Fantomex notes that the beautiful Betsy oversells her indifference, and the schizophrenic - Archangel - takes note.
Logan approaches Warren and tells him that he knows he called for the unit, ‘But I can’t let you run this job solo’ Logan adds. ‘It’s too personal. You understand?’ Warren looks away as he replies ‘First Betsy…now you. The wings are under my control’ he declares. ‘Yeah? Which one of you? Co-captains. Checks and balances. If we’re about to scrap with who you say…’ Logan’s voice trails off. ‘No, you’re right. I’m emotionally invested. We need to be absolutely certain neither of us becomes...compromised’ Warren declares. ‘And we agree that if it comes to that - it gets dealt with’ Logan exclaims.
Wolverine returns to his seat, while Betsy remarks ‘I can’t help but wonder, is this smart? Just the four of us?’ Logan tells Betsy that there are no four people he would rather have by his side. ‘None that are still breathing’ he adds, before EVA announces that they have arrived. ‘There’s nothing here’ Psylocke exclaims. Fantomex thinks to himself that Eva is piped in, keeping tabs, feeding him team vitals. The benefit of an external nervous system that doubles as a transport. Fantomex exclaims that Betsy is right, that he is picking up nothing. ‘It’s under those mountains’ Warren announces.
Archangel tells Fantomex not to scan for what is there, but for what is not there. ‘Ultraviolet feed through a radio frequency’ he suggests. ‘There it is!’ Fantomex exclaims, while noting that heart rates are all over the moon and adrenaline levels are off the chart. ‘Cut tension with a machete. Serve with brie de meaux’ he tells himself. ‘You’re a tomb raider, no? Find us a way inside. My operative is on short time’ Warren orders Fantomex. ‘Now if this monster lies within, what are our odds of killing him?’ Fantomex asks. Warren just frowns.
Soon, Archangel flies down the side of the green water pouring from the mouth of a large statue, while Fantomex glides down on a miniaturized EVA. ‘Alright. We go in cold and fast with everything we’ve got’ Logan orders. ‘Don’t hold back. We do this or we die trying’ Archangel exclaims. Fantomex notes that there is no jovial sense of adventure, no camaraderie to overcome the tension. ‘I didn’t see that last bit there in my contract’ he remarks in reference to Archangel’s comment. ‘This is not the X-Men’ Fantomex reminds himself. ‘This is something quite different’.
Wolverine and Betsy land on the ground below, while Archangel soars around the chamber, announcing that he has seen these markings before. ‘Your “operative” was here. His stink is all over the place’ Wolverine snarls. ‘Something else…’ Logan adds as he runs toward the door up ahead with a large statue resting on it. ‘The man’s got a reputation as a tracker…so when he attacks a statue…chances are that statue has it coming’ Fantomex thinks to himself as Logan growls as he lunges at the statue over the door. The statues eyes light up as it drops its axe forward, also growling.
Logan claws the statue - before it plunges its axe into Logan’s shoulder. ‘Bloodshed, horror, gore, loss…’ Logan exclaims. ‘He’s possessed!’ Archangel shouts, ordering Betsy and Fantomex to take the creature down while he subdues Wolverine. ‘Murder, fire wraith!’ Logan exclaims as he lunges at Archangel, green plasma gushing from his wound. ‘Sleep giant! Your rest -’ Betsy begins as she plunges her psychic knife into the creature’s head - only for Betsy to also become possessed. ‘All life is an extension of the universe - all war is made through life to serve the universe - war is life - fire is the only solution!’ the possessed Betsy declares.
‘Now that’s grade A crazy talk!’ Fantomex declares as he lunges at Betsy, pushing her to the ground. He notes that her hair smells like jasmine. Fantomex holds her for a heartbeat too long, and the scent ignites an idea in his second brain. Fantomex holds Betsy as she reveals ‘His mind…a hollow room encompassed by sorrow, echoing an unquenchable lust to conquer an endless desire for more -’ ‘Okay. Good. That helps’ Fantomex replies, before Betsy passes out.
Fantomex turns around and looks at the creature looming over him. ‘The girl - look at her. She’s the one!’ Fantomex exclaims, while the creature raises its axe - ‘Hrmm?’ he asks, before suddenly exploding. ‘W-what did you do?’ Betsy asks as she gets up. ‘You said he was full up of gruesome thoughts so I misdirected his feelings, made him believe he’d fallen in love with you’ Fantomex explains. ‘It didn’t agree with him’ Fantomex points out.
Nearby, ‘Slaughter, consume, destroy, infect!’ the possessed Wolverine snarls as he looms over Archangel. ‘Don’t make me kill you!’ Warren shouts, his razor sharp wings ready to defend him. ‘The monster’s axe contaminates with the cold thirst for war’ Betsy explains as she shoves her psi-knife through Wolverine’s head. ‘Allow me to release it’ she declares. ‘Thirty seconds from start to finish’ Fantomex tells himself. ‘Logan?’ Betsy asks. ‘Fine. Tasted that poison before’ Wolverine replies as he gets to his feet. ‘Let’s move’ Archangel suggests.
Elsewhere, strange beings stand over Deadpool, who is strapped to a table, his mask cut open slightly, revealing his wound. ‘Weapon Plus went outside the hyper-nova discipline for this specimen’ one of the scientists exclaims. ‘Look into the formations. The quarks are organized, rhythmic’ the other declares. From where he is strapped to the table, Deadpool exclaims ‘Rhythmic quarks? Finally an explanation for my love of contemporary salsa beat!’ He begins to sing a song - ‘Miami Sound Machine? Hello!’ he exclaims, referring to the song. Suddenly, the two scientists drop to the ground as razor sharp wings lodge in their backs.
The mutants move down to free Deadpool, with Archangel exclaiming ‘Where is he, moron? Is he near?’ ‘Nice to see you too, angry-pants-the-screamy-boss’ Deadpool replies. ‘All that technology and they didn’t think to gag him?’ Wolverine asks, while Fantomex announces that EVA has just informed him that this giant celestial spacecraft is powering for a matter jump. ‘Any foreign bodies will be dematerialized. It’s time to go!’ he declares.
‘Hey, it’s the fellas who killed that pretty robe lady. Lemme ask you gents a question’ Deadpool declares as they run down a corridor. ‘How do you kill a circus?’ he asks, drawing his two swords. ‘Go for the juggler!’ he exclaims as he slices two of the approaching warriors in half. ‘Operative collected. Omega level monster defeated’ Fantomex thinks to himself, while Deadpool jokes that he always brings down the house. The five approach a large window and jump into it, shattering glass everywhere as they drop down to where EVA is waiting. ‘I’d confess to a sense of relief…but this is just the beginning’ Fantomex thinks to himself as EVA collects Wolverine, Betsy, Fantomex and Deadpool, while Archangel flies alongside as an explosion ensues behind them.
The heroes land nearby and watch the explosion, while Wolverine asks Archangel ‘How long have you known?’ Warren reveals that he has had Deadpool hunting down leads for over a year. ‘We learned that Akkaba had discovered the means to resurrect him. To marry all he was in a new frame’ Archangel announces, adding that he never imagined they would actually manage it. ‘But there’s no mistaking that ship. And that was war we brawled with in there. The Last Horsemen have been awoken. His final disciples. Should all others fail’ Archangel declares.
‘So this is it. The mongrel son of a bitch is making his final push’ Deadpool exclaims. ‘The game is on - probably has been for some time. Which means we’re already out of time. God, as my witness, Logan, one way or another, no matter what the cost…I’m going to kill Apocalypse’ Archangel announces.
And meanwhile, inside the citadel, a horrid creature stands guard over a door. A man holding a drum stands alongside him, while an elderly woman approaches them. ‘Good morning, boys’ the old woman remarks, before the doors open. ‘There he is’ she exclaims as she approaches the boy sitting on the floor, toys and books scattered around him. ‘It’s time for your lessons’ the old woman announces. The boy, dressed in a suit, looks at her with his red eyes, and smiles with his blue lips….


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The Apocalypse Solution, chapter two
Danger Room scenario:
‘Get ‘im off!’ Wolverine snarls while the villain Holocaust presses him to the ground. Archangel soars by, knocking Holocaust aside, while Deadpool kicks the villain for good measure. ‘What, like give him a lap dance? Show him a dirty movie? Best friend style massage?’ Deadpool suggests. Standing nearby, over two motionless warriors, while countless skeletons line the corridor, Fantomex suggests that if Deadpool is through ingratiating himself via repartee, they should get moving. Down the other end of the corridor is Psylocke, who stands watching something. Wolverine tells her that they have gotta keep moving, as time is short.
Psylocke thinks to herself that she has seen bad things. Things the weight of which never left. She uses them to coax herself out of bed each day - to ensure she never sees their like again. Standing in front of a cage filled with weakened, starved prisoners, Psylocke tells herself that the smell is unbearable - but she forces herself to stay and look and to etch in her mind what will happen should they fail. ‘Bets?’ Wolverine calls out. ‘How could anyone do this?’ Psylocke asks, looking straight ahead still. ‘Humans are pests eroding the foundation of homo superior. He wants ‘em exterminated. Flash Darwinism’ Wolverine replies. ‘What say we go stop ‘im?’ Wolverine suggests as he turns and walks back down the corridor. Psylocke tells herself to remember this, and use it to reinforce what will happen - if they fail to kill Apocalypse.
‘Master, Lord of All, our defenses are -’ a voice remarks as a warrior attempts to contact Apocalypse, who sits on his throne. ‘As expected’ the uber-mutant remarks. ‘I appreciate your prompt arrival’ he tells X-Force as they burst into his chamber, knocking his door down. ‘Punctuality is the politeness of kings’ Fantomex remarks, aiming a gun at Apocalypse. ‘No talk. Put the cur down!’ Wolverine orders, while Psylocke thinks to herself that there are so few of the now - and the threats continue to grow. ‘All according to script’ Apocalypse remarks, raising his hand - and Archangel swoops forward - decapitating Fantomex and cutting Deadpool in two with his razor sharp wings.
‘No!’ Wolverine shouts, while Psylocke thinks to herself ‘The threats infect us. The infiltrate the best among us’ and she leaps towards Archangel. ‘It was always going to be this way’ Archangel states, before unleashing a barrage of razor-sharp feather-knives at Wolverine. ‘We must be prepared to deal with them. No matter the cost’ Psylocke tells herself as she shoves a dagger into his chest. ‘It hurts the same every time’ Psylocke tells herself as Archangel falls to her feet. ‘I’m impressed, Psylocke’ Apocalypse remarks from his throne. ‘No amount of repetition dulls the pain of killing someone. Especially someone you love’.
Reality:
‘What’s this? What’s going on?’ Warren Worthington III a.k.a. Angel a.k.a. Archangel asks as he sees the Danger Room scenario play out. ’Betsy killed you’ Wolverine a.k.a. Logan explains as the scenario around them fades away. ‘Did a pretty sharp job of it, too. Stabbed you right in the heart’ Wade “Deadpool” Wilson points out. Hands on hips, the handsome Warren asks Betsy “Psylocke” Braddock why she was training to kill him. ‘Warren…’ Betsy begins, her hair covering her eyes so she doesn’t have to look at him. ‘That’s on me, goldenrod’ Wolverine announces, getting up.
‘Set your fancy new Danger Room to see what happens should those razor sharp wings Apocalypse gave you turn unfriendly’ Wolverine explains. ‘Instilling in the team I can’t be trusted’ Angel replies. Logan tells Warren that it is nothing personal. ‘Getting Betsy cozy doing the necessary business to any of us. She’s got the power to flick our switches. Repetition should make the actual act easier…should it come down to it. Just a test’ Wolverine explains. ‘Glad to see she passed’ Warren mutters as he turns from the others. Wolverine tells everyone that recess is over, that they need to do it again. Betsy watches Warren walk away.
Meanwhile, at the Caln Akkaba stronghold ship, an old woman stands over the young boy with blue lips and red eyes. ‘Repeat the lesson’ she tells him. ‘There is a natural point in all evolution when an environment’s prevailing species will encroach upon all other, weaker, beings. Total dominance is a reasonable reward for a species’ ascension. Xavier’s toads have twisted this natural order. They have sequestered those most deserving, locked them away, and convinced them it is for they protection. Tyrants’. He adds that their alliance is to the world of homo sapiens.
‘Good’ the old woman tells him, before asking him ‘Who are you?’ ‘I…I am…’ the boy replies, rubbing his head, confused. The old woman tells him to take his time, as he knows this. ‘I am the savior!’ the boy exclaims suddenly. ‘The first mutant resurrected to turn my people onto the true path. As I liberated my people from pharaohs, I must unshackle and rebuild the mutant race’ he declares. Motioning to a recording of X-Force, the old woman tells the boy that the worshippers of X will come to kill him. ‘I threaten their grip on power’ the boy boasts.
The old woman asks him ‘For what do you prepare? What is your birthright?’ and tells him not to be ashamed, to speak the truth. ‘I - I will usher in…the salvation of homo superior…I will being about the Age of Apocalypse’ the boy replies, while watching from a room overhead, a figure remarks ‘Yes. Yes you will’.
Meanwhile, at Cavern-X, in Sedona, Arizona, deep inside the cave within a mountain, Warren and Logan walk down a corridor. ‘Some digs you put together here, Warren’ Wolverine remarks. They pass photographs of various X-Men line-ups as Angel explains that it is a time capsule, really. ‘In case we’re ever wiped out, there’d be a reminder to the future of our struggles, who we were…’ Angel’s voice trails off. ‘And that we had some awfully rich friends’ Wolverine remarks.
Warren asks Logan why he excluded him from today’s Danger Room session. ‘You know why’ Logan tells him. ‘You don’t trust me?’ Warren asks. ‘I trust one of you’ Logan tells him. Logan pauses as they pass a photograph of he and Nightcrawler dressed in baseball gear. Warren tells him that if they are going to run this together, they cannot have secrets. ‘I’ll file my reports in triplicate’ Logan replies, before they continue walking again. ‘I’ve been thinking -’ Logan begins, ‘Never too late to try new things’ Warren tells him. Logan explains that, going over their plan of attack, a lot could go wrong swinging at Apocalypse with no back up.
‘No back up’ Angel tells him, pointing out that Cyclops carried the weight of X-Force for too long, and now it is their turn. ‘These jobs need doing, and we’re going to shoulder them so the others don’t have to’ Angel tells Logan, who jokes ‘Listen to you, lieutenant mean-mouth von badass. Very authoritative’. They move into another part of the complex, where a large Sentinel head decorates the ceiling, and various costumes and headgear line the room, while a statue of a Brood creature stands nearby.
Warren remarks that Cavern-X should also remain a secret - a base of operations outside of Utopia. ‘In case the city is ever compromised’ Wolverine points out. Warren adds that he likes the privacy. ‘Look out Betsy, I’m falling in love with your flyboy’ Wolverine jokes, to which Angel suggests they don’t pick floral patterns until after they save the world. Logan asks if they are any closer to a location, to which Angel replies that the ship jumped and didn’t leave a trail, just a huge crater. He adds that Fantomex has been using Cable’s blood samples to track the ship’s celestial technology, so it is only a matter of time now.
Nearby, ‘This show sucks’ Deadpool mutters, his mask raised above his mouth as he eats some candy and drinks something from a can. ‘Not a show. Research’ Fantomex replies. ‘This research sucks’ Deadpool declares. Fantomex sighs, before asking Wade what he is doing here. ‘I dunno. Watching research’ Fantomex replies. ‘No, why are you here? With this outfit, working on the side of the angels - money?’ Fantomex asks. ‘Yep. That’s it. The money. What about you?’ Deadpool replies. ‘The money. Naturally’ Fantomex explains.
Logan and Angel enter the monitor room. ‘You ding-dongs find anything?’ Logan asks. ‘Yes. Pop Rocks and coke - not a real hazard’ Deadpool replies, while Fantomex announces that he has found where they moved to. ‘Well, we found it. I’ve been helping’ Wade boasts. Motioning to some space suits, Wolverine asks them what they are for. Fantomex explains that he had EVA prepare them for their mission. ‘Our mission?’ Logan asks. ‘We’re going to the moon, Alice!’ Deadpool exclaims, motioning at a monitor depicting the moon.
Soon, Warren finds Betsy kneeling on a mat, looking out the window, a sword at her side. Warren tells her to gear up, as Apocalypse has been found. ‘Yes, I know. We should speak first’ Betsy replies, telling Warren that he is still upset. Warren turns away from Betsy and declares that there is no time for upset, not with what they are about to face. Betsy asks Angel if he knows why she came here, to which Warren replies ‘To help me keep Archangel in check’. Betsy tells Warren that is one reason. ‘After we lost Kurt…I was so absolutely numb. I didn’t have anything left to give it. Such deep hopelessness. An unending avalanche and us at the bottom of it, digging - forever’.
Angel tells Betsy that it takes a toll. ‘I sat for days, searching for the last time I felt human. The last time anything felt real’ Betsy declares as she approaches Angel. ‘Only you came to mind’ she announces, touching Angel’s face. They clasp hands as Betsy remarks that Warren struggles incessantly against the demon Apocalypse planted in his soul. ‘But I have a profound knowledge of you - Archangel is not you’ Betsy declares. She smiles as she assures Warren that Apocalypse will not manipulate him again. ‘We will turn his own devil against him’ she remarks.
Betsy tells Angel that he is going to use Archangel to make sure this monster never gets a chance to hurt another person. ‘I’m with you…’ she begins as they kiss passionately. ‘To the very end’ Betsy concludes, telepathically. Warren smiles and Betsy turns from him, telling him not to just stand there awestruck by his terrific luck in women. ‘Let’s go kill this son of a bitch’ she exclaims.
EVA takes off for space, as Betsy tells herself that, for years, Warren has helped hold the X-Men together, quietly serving in whatever capacity asked, and when the time came to kill for his family - he did not hesitate, knocking full well it would offer Archangel opportunity to take him. ‘Shouldn’t need to tell any of you what we’re walking into is as heavy as it gets’ Wolverine remarks. ‘Do it anyway - for dramatic effect’ Deadpool exclaims. Betsy finishes putting her space suit on, Archangel stands nearby and Fantomex pilots EVA as Logan declares that their target is well guarded and down deep, squirreled away under the moon’s Blue Area. Logan declares that the best scenario is that they get Betsy in there and she destroys Apocalypse’s mind. ‘But each of us knows how to effectively exterminate this target’ Logan reminds his teammates.
‘Should the opportunity present itself and you not falter’ Archangel exclaims. ‘Ain’t no one faltering, Tony Robbins’ Wolverine replies. Betsy informs everyone that she will keep them telepathically linked, except for Fantomex, who refuses to remove his dampening plates, lest she witnesses the perversion within. ‘The Blue Area has its own atmosphere’ Betsy points out, to which Wolverine remarks that the atmosphere might be poisoned, so the helmets are a precaution. Betsy tells herself that they now face a most terrible threat, but she knows that for Warren this mission is much more - it is a test - the results of which will define ownership of his soul. ‘Ugly bit of business here. Just keep in mind what happens if we fail’ Wolverine remarks, before looking at the Blue Area of the moon below them and announcing that they are on site.
Suddenly, Betsy clutches her head and screams. ‘He’s here…’ she whispers. ‘Who?’ Warren asks. ‘War’ Betsy reveals as a large minotaur-like behemoth lunges towards EVA - and rips EVA open with his large axe. ‘His mind reeks. A vile embodiment of all manmade suffering. Something different this time -’ Betsy thinks to herself as everyone lunges from War. ‘GHRAHH - EVA - seal that breach! Re-pressurize!’ Fantomex exclaims urgently. ‘All war is made through life to serve the universe - war is life - fire is the only solution’ EVA replies, causing Fantomex to clutch his head and scream.
EVA crashes down towards the Blue Area of the moon. ‘Slow motion. Fantomex screams in agony. Logan scrambles. No manual controls. We’re out of options’ Betsy thinks to herself, before EVA crashes into one of the complexes below. ‘Fire is the only solution’ EVA repeats over and over. ‘Quickly. Disconnect Fantomex before he’s infected!’ Betsy calls out. Wolverine moves towards Fantomex, who is slumped over in his chair, remarking that EVA is screaming in his head, that he can’t get through the other side of it.
Deadpool suggests that, given the situation, he can hold back his criticism on the in-flight entertainment, but that he wants to issue an official complaint about that landing. ‘Logan!’ Warren shouts. Logan tells Warren to get the others out of here, while War looms over them, ready to strike his axe once more. ‘No hope…no way out…’ Fantomex utters. Archangel grabs Betsy and Deadpool and flies them to safety, while Betsy remarks that EVA’s pain is reverberating in her head. As War strikes down, Archangel tells Betsy to sever EVA’s connection to Fantomex, otherwise he will be useless to them.
Logan manages to get Fantomex to safety, but Fantomex exclaims ‘She’s gone…can’t hear her anymore…she’s just gone…’. Wolverine tells Fantomex to hold tight, that he will get him out of here. Deadpool rushes towards War, as Wolverine shouts ‘Hold him back, Wade!’ Deadpool jokes that he was once held back. ‘First grade. Terrible trauma’. Warren and Betsy notice a figure standing on a cliff nearby - an old man carrying a drum. ‘What the hell is that?’ Warren asks. ‘His mind - such anger, such disgust’ Betsy replies, before telepathically informing Warren that the man is a Horseman and that there are others surrounding them.
‘Then he will die’ Archangel declares as he soars towards the Horseman, telling Betsy to keep everyone linked, and to aid the others with War, while he deals to this one. Betsy warns Warren to be careful, as the Horseman is standing outside the Blue Area’s atmosphere. The Horseman begins tapping his drum - and suddenly, Warren clutches his stomach - before plummeting to the ground behind the Horseman dressed in Civil War attire. ‘Argh…ahh…kaa..’ Warren utters, clutching his stomach still, as he begins to wither away. ‘Warren! Warren, are you there?’ Betsy calls out telepathically, while the Horseman - Famine - walks towards Archangel.
‘War - hood - good God ya’ll - what is it good for?’ Deadpool sings as he darts around War, dodging the behemoth’s axe. ‘Absolutely nothing - say it again’ he continues singing, while firing energy weapons at War, only for War to kicks Fantomex far across the Blue Area. Deadpool bounces along the moon surface: ‘Ouch-crap-damn-ass-ass-damn-crap-ass-huh?’ he utters, before coming to a stop at the feet of a Japanese geisha. ‘Hello, pretty moon lady’ Deadpool utters, gazing up at the woman.
Deadpool leaps to his feet, and raises a sword: ‘I’m going to be up-front here. I find you extremely attractive’ Deadpool declares. ‘How about we forgo the hostility and go on a date? Little getting to know ya? Love. House. Kids…’ suddenly, the Geisha’s mouth opens extraordinarily wide - and from it pour dozens of beetles, which swarm out of Pestilence - and onto Deadpool, ‘You totally misunderstood my proposal - Hey! Get ‘em off! Get ‘em off!’ Deadpool cries out as he tries to swat the beetles away.
At that moment, Wolverine raises War over his head. ‘Got a plan. Low gravity’ Logan tells Fantomex, who exclaims ‘Understood’ and throws a grenade, which causes an explosion, knocking War away from them. ‘One down’ Logan remarks. ‘Maybe not’ Betsy tells him. ‘You gotta be kidding me…’ Fantomex exclaims. ‘…he’s got a magic carpet!’ The heroes turn and look at War, who is rushing towards them, following the fourth Horseman - Death - who sits on a flying carpet.
‘Fools! Did you think you could simply walk in an kill Apocalypse? You have no concept of what you now face!’ Death calls out. He raises a hand and declares ‘Bubonic consumption. Black Death. Pox’ - and the heroes begin to groan and scream, before falling to the ground. The Horsemen gather around, as Death exclaims ‘Effortless. Know your executioners, whores of Xavier! Know that you die at the hands of the…FINAL HORSEMEN!’
Inside the fortress, the man called Ozymandias stands beside the boy with blue lips and exclaims ‘Your Horsemen have subdued these weak and most unworthy assassins…how would you like them killed, master?’


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The Apocalypse Solution, chapter three
Flashback, Rome, 281:
His name is Decimus Furius. He is a young man who sits on a cobbled street, head down, hands up, begging. His father, a famous philosopher, was forced to commit suicide because his ideas were seen to have a corrupting influence on the youth. His mother followed suit soon after, leaving Decimus penniless and homeless. As he slowly starved to death in a dank alleyway, Decimus transformed into his mutant self. Naturally, the human rabble attempted to kill him - but with his bull-like form, he slaughtered dozens until he was finally brought down.
After years in prison, he was offered freedom provided he achieve status in the arena. With his axe, he brutally disassembled any set against him in the arena. He came to the attention of one man - one mutant - in particular. ‘He is worshipped. Thought to be the Dark God Minotaur’ Ozymandias told his master as they observed Decimus after battle, several scantly clad women fawning over him. ‘The living embodiment of war deserves no less’ Apocalypse replied.
Flashback, Gettysburg, 1893:
His name is Jeb Lee. He was a Confederate spy, marching the battlefields of this American Civil War, disguised as a union drummer. But after the war, Jeb made a mistake by returning home. Confederate townsfolk found him, found his union dress, and thinking him a traitor, they burned his family alive. The mental duress unleashed his latent mutant gift. Apocalypse and Ozymandias watch Jeb Lee as he marches across the land, and through his drum he transmit’s a bioauditory cancer - a living sound that feeds on the flesh of all who hear it. He marches from battle to battle, this cold-faced agent of doom, killing all in his wake. ‘He is my famine. Collect him’ Apocalypse ordered.
Flashback, Kumamoto, 1833:
The young woman smiles as she sits on the floor. Her name is Ichisumi, and she suffers from acute inferiority complex. Another young woman raises her hand to the man that walks past them. Ichisumi was jealous of the more beautiful geishas around her, and found herself left behind by the men who could afford erudite female companions. Ichisumi was the daughter of a proud samurai who did not mask his displeasure at the girl’s many failings. The first manifestation of her power was extraordinary. Fueled by her repressed rage and the disapproval of her father - Ichisumi set loose her swarm of yume beetles to disfigure all the other women in her village. She would leave none to outshine her as the beetles flew from her mouth.
Apocalypse and Ozymandias found her, lying on the ground, her beetles crawling all over her, as Ozymandias explained to Apocalypse that the wish was granted, more wholly than Ichisumi knew, as the beetles ravaged hundreds of women before returning to her with the maddening memories of each mutilation. ‘Beautiful pestilence’ Apocalypse replied.
Flashback, Persia, 325:
When Persia was invaded by Arabs from Bahrain, it was King Shapur II who brought the war back to them, seizing much of Arabia and making them vassal states to the Persian empire. The King fathered two sons with his wife, and another in secret with a servant - Sanjar Javeed: bastard son of a king beloved for his generosity, compassion and strength - and unable to show any to the boy. The king’s hypocrisy drove his illegitimate son mad.
Sanjar stole rare treasures from his father to give as gifts to the townspeople. He hoped he might absorb the attention and love he felt owed to him as his birthright. But unbeknownst to Sanjar, his mutant powers had blossomed - he developed an ailment aura, the power to transmit a spectrum of terminal diseases depending on what variety of metal he touches.
As Sanjar passed a lamp to a civilian, the virus spread - engulfing all within his reach as Apocalypse and Ozymandias stood by and watched. ‘His gifts spread death through the kingdom’ Ozymandias announced, adding that as King Shapur II expired from Sanjar’s curse, he finally did acknowledge the boy, speaking to him only once, to label him “The Seraph of Death”. ‘Apt title. Collect him. Make preparations, Ozymandias…these are my Final Horsemen. To be awoken only when all other approaches have failed. When the world is mired in weakness born of the false optimism that providence will improve for humanity. When this disadvantage is prevalent, then it is time to separate wheat from the chaff. Beginning the Age of Apocalypse’.
Present, Space, Now:
Apocalypse’s Final Horsemen stand over the withered bodies of members of X-Force - Wolverine a.k.a. Logan, Betsy “Psylocke” Braddock and the enigmatic Fantomex. ‘Ozymandias, we await our Lord’s wishes. Dead or alive?’ Death calls out. Betsy telepathically informs Logan that she has seen their minds, and informs him that the Persian is Death and has flooded each of them with ailments transmitted via his metal rings. Wolverine’s thoughts tells Betsy that he will cut the rings off, and asks her to keep digging to find any weakness that she can.
Inside Ship, Ozymandias asks Apocalypse - reduced to childhood - what his instructions are. ‘I - I don’t know…’ the boy replies. The elderly woman stands nearby, while Ozymandias tells him that the mutants are weak and have failed in their bid to assassinate him. ‘We should kill them’ Ozymandias suggests. ‘Kill? No, I - I don’t want to kill anyone…’ the boy exclaims. Ozymandias tells Ship to power up and be prepared should they need to swiftly retreat. ‘Never underestimate Xavier’s cronies’ he declares. The old woman announces that the gravity transference initiator has been activated and that they have teleportation capability in two minutes.
Ozymandias walks away from the boy Apocalypse and announces to the Horseman ‘Your Lord has judged these assailants too feeble to linger. Only the strong may survive. Kill them all’.
Back outside, Death smiles and his deadly virus energies swirl about as he exclaims ‘I see you, little rodent - biding time, hopeful your healing factor will deal with the multitude of diseases I have showered upon you. You vainly struggle against the inevitable!’ Wolverine lunges at Death and shoves him backwards, ‘Old habit!’ he exclaims. Wolverine knows that Betsy is in his mind, and she wishes him good luck. ‘She thinks I’ll need it’ he tells himself as he and Death tumble down a small rock face. Betsy is smart and tells Wolverine to calm down. Logan decides it was dumb of him to lean to his feral side. ‘C’mon, chatty. Pay or play’ Logan calls out.
Wolverine and Death both get to their feet, several feet away from each other. Death announces that, in his youth, proficiency with a blade was the difference between life and death. ‘Today ain’t gonna be much difference!’ Logan exclaims as he strikes forward - but his claws do not slice off Death’s fingers - the claws instead clang against a small dagger.
Betsy tells Fantomex that she needs to get inside his head, and asks him to turn off his dampening plates. ‘Hardly the time for prying’ Fantomex coughs up his response. ‘Do as I tell you!’ Betsy orders, before Famine begins drumming his drum. Fantomex’s thoughts tell Betsy that the drum has had no affect on him, to which Betsy explains that she turned off Fantomex’s ears, switching to psychic communication to keep him safe from Famine’s bio-sonic consumption. Betsy tells Fantomex that she cannot heal their ailments, but she can disconnect their peripheral and nociceptor nerves. ‘Turning off the pain…thank you…’ Fantomex replies. Betsy tells him that it buys them a minute, but not to delude himself, as their bodies are dying rapidly. Betsy begins to get up, only for War to shout ‘LIE DOWN!’ and punch her in the face, knocking her back. ‘BETSY!’  Fantomex calls out.
As Death’s blade makes an incision in Logan’s stomach, it gets Wolverine’s attention. ‘Trained - but the boy ain’t seasoned’ Logan thinks to himself as his claws move up to block Death’s next attack. ‘Teach him all sorts of lessons’ Logan decides, as he shoves his claws into Death’s stomach. Death grabs Logan’s hand, remarking that Wolverine indulges himself in egocentric fantasies of supremacy. Wolverine realizes that he was a fool - that Death wanted him close, as Death transmits his ailment aura through metal - and Wolverine is full of metal. Logan screams as Death transmits to him ever terminal disease that has ever befallen man. They surge in succession to short circuit and overwhelm Logan’s immune system. ‘Evolution prevails’ Death remarks.
Nearby, Fantomex rushes after War, who walks towards a door, dragging Betsy along behind him. In fifty-three seconds, they are decimated. In fifty-five seconds, his spleen explodes. At least that’s how it plays out in his mind. He is kicked back by Pestilence, so Fantomex changes the scene, forcing the Horseman to see what she wants to see. She begins to drop her beetles onto Fantomex, until he appears as her father, as that is what Fantomex wants her to see. ‘You are a failure, Ichisumi’ he calls out. ‘Father! I stand before you a proud warrior…’ Ichisumi replies, bowing before her “father”.
‘You stand before me as a sycophantic pawn!’ comes the reply. ‘You have dishonored me for the last time’ Ichisumi’s “father” tells her as he smacks her in the face, knocking her to the ground. Fantomex stands over her, hands on hips, he declares ‘Surely you see the inherent comedy in this reversal of circumstances. I suppose it’s funnier if you aren’t the one with the broken jaw’.
Nearby, Wade “Deadpool” Wilson crawls across the lunar landscape. ‘My name is Detective JimJam McLanternjaw. Was on route to a sunburn when she showed up. Kinda dame leads to a funeral…some good bad trouble. Tells me a dingo ate her baby. This daddy-o ain’t in the dingo baby-eating business. But, I am in the sexy-lady-touching-my-body business. Whenever a sexy lady wants to make that the business I am in’ Fantomex thinks to himself, babbling in his mind as he crawls closer to Warren “Archangel” Worthington III. ‘Wade?’ Warren coughs. Deadpool tells himself that the right chump takes the wrong job. ‘Few leads went south, dropped me down that rabbit hole. Rabbit had teeth. Biting teeth. Thumping legs. Lazy eye fry cook at the ho-jos was lying. Swore he didn’t know - but that eye was too lazy to be telling the truth. So lazy’ Deadpool thinks to himself.
Deadpool opens a pouch on his belt and a Deadpool-mask-tent pops up. Deadpool proceeds to drag the badly wounded Archangel to the tent. Wade crouches beside him, and exclaims ‘Elbow grease, and an elbow to lazy eye, the mook gave up the plot. “Head to the moon and you’ll find the cheese” he tells me -’ Wade babbles, Warren tells Wade that whatever he is saying, he has to shut up. ‘This Aitkens Diet, Warren? You know the weight’ll come back as soon as you reintroduce carbs, right?’ Deadpool jokes. ‘No more crazy…focus…help me…’ Warren coughs. ‘Whoa - okay, man said no crazy. Not to be crazy. Crazy said okay to not be. Food, right? Yes. Get him some food…’ Wade mumbles, while Warren begins to choke. ‘HA! Score one for the belt of pouches!’ Wade calls out as he holds up a can of soda and some fizzy candies. He opens both, and begins to pour them into Warren’s mouth. ‘I know, I know. Sugar isn’t on you diet’ Deadpool jokes.
Back outside the tent, ‘I have spent decades waiting and preparing for this’ Death announces as Wolverine falls backwards. Logan knows that he is inundated with disease, his healing factor is overloaded and begins to shut down. ‘Geek had it all planned out’ Logan realizes. Death calls out that the moment to prove his strength, to claim his rightful station. ‘I will be made a king - as is my birthright!’ he booms. Wolverine desperately crawls towards Death. But cancer fills his lungs. He pushes forward. His airway is choked with pus, but still he crawls. Logan suffers a massive coronary and his words lose meaning as dementia sets in. He has a stroke, followed by a seizure, yet still he crawls. His vision is shot, as cataracts develop, and he contracts lupus. But still he crawls towards Death, he shouts ‘Be honoured. En Saba Nur prizes your death, you who were offered so much. Come - scoot me like a pig…crawl to your death!’
Inside, War approaches the Ship-citadel, massive axe in one hand, he still drags Betsy behind him. He reaches a large set of doors, with two guards standing outside it. ‘Ummm, sir, perhaps we should check with Ozymandias?’ one of them asks, and the other adds he doesn’t believe they are supposed to allow any of the X-Men through. War blows his nose, covering the guards in snot. ‘Yes, sir, forgive me. I’m sure it’s fine’ the guard replies nervously.
Outside, Death pulls Wolverine closer towards him, telling him to pass into darkness. ‘Your only failing was the strength of your opponent. Go now to tell your -’, but Death stops himself mid-sentence, as Wolverine is revealed to by Pestilence. ‘No! Ichisumi! Forgive me!’ Death calls out as the wounded Horseman lies in his arms.
Nearby, Fantomex helps Wolverine across the surface, telling him that he could not maintain the misdirection, and now Death knows that he swapped Wolverine. Fantomex asks Logan what the plan of retreat is, explaining that EVA is infected and demolished. ‘No…no retreat. Do this or die…’ Logan chokes out, adding that this is the only chance they will get, and tells Fantomex to remember the target. ‘There is no win here, you stubborn badger! We’re all dying! You’re dying! I’ve never seen you -’ Fantomex exclaims, while Wolverine, covered in all sorts of nasties, explains that as he gets clear from Death, the disease fades, before asking Fantomex to catch him up. ‘Where we at?’ he asks. ‘A bad place’ Fantomex replies.
Nearby, Famine enters Ship, followed by Death, who hovers on a magic carpet, carrying Pestilence. Ozymandias informs them that they are leaving, and tells Death that he has failed and that he will never have Wolverine in such proximity again. ‘Had you fathered any information on the illusionist they would all be dead’ Death replies. Ozymandias explains that Lord Apocalypse left no memorandum on him. ‘We must endeavor to resolve this oversight’ he adds.
Fantomex sees the Horsemen enter the Ship, and informs Wolverine that is where Betsy was took. ’Can’t move fast enough - leave me - get to Bets -’ Wolverine tells him, but Fantomex puts Logan over his shoulder and rushes to the quickly closing portal. ’No-no-no. You aren’t getting out of this that easy. You threw this party - you’re helping clean up’ Fantomex tells him.
Inside, Betsy comes to, she moans, and rubs her head. She tells herself that her brain is bruised and raw, so she dare not strain for a scan. She notices silk on her legs and the smell of burning sage, so she knows there is no scan needed to know that her situation has changed for the unexpected. ’It is good you live’ War remarks as he sits nearby. He tells Betsy that he could have crushed her head if he so desired. ’I do want to kill you. Yet you are the one. I can’t ignore it. The man said it. And then…it was true’ War declares.
War tells Betsy that he loves her, that it nearly destroyed him, and that he spent days collecting himself, but the thought of her gave him impetus. ’Misdirection works too well. Jean-Phillipe, you son of a…’ Betsy thinks to herself, referring to Fantomex by his alias. Betsy stands up before War and tells him that she, too feels this conflicting urge. ’We are enemies, yet we both desire the natural, inevitable domination of homo superior’ War declares that no one will ever mistreat him, never again. ’No one will ever hurt you, Decimus. Not anymore’ Betsy assures him. ’My name…you know it, my true name…’ War replies.
 Betsy touches War’s chin, telling him that if she were to return his affections, she would need to know the ugliness in him that she perceived before - ‘Has faded’ Decimus assures her. ‘Now, again in your company, the thirst for war has faded’ he adds. ‘Then your mind is no longer guarded by it’ Betsy declares, before shoving a psychic-knife into War’s brain.
Elsewhere in Ship, the elderly woman leads the boy Apocalypse down past some guards, while Ozymandias’ voice is heard over the communicator, announcing that they are teleport jumping in sixty seconds. ‘We are preparing to leap, your Lordship. Secure yourself in the jumpseat’ the old woman announces. ‘Yeah, okay’ the boy Apocalypse replies, while the count-down continues. ‘Ship will, there always be people trying to kill me?’ Apocalypse asks. ‘Yes’ the old woman tells him, and as she walks away she adds that it will be easier to manage them once he rules the world.
Wolverine and Fantomex make their way down a spiral staircase, and Fantomex announces that the communicator line is blocked, that there is no connection with Betsy and no way to let the others know the party is moving. ‘Last I saw, Warren was in rough shape’ Logan replies. ‘He has Deadpool to aid him’ Fantomex points out. ‘What kind of odds does that give him?’ Logan asks. ‘Not amazing ones. It was a joke’ Fantomex explains. ‘Jokes? Does that mean you’re feeling better?’ Wolverine asks him. Fantomex replies that it does, and that once they are clear of Death, he could feel his strength return. He adds that he does not look forward to a rematch.
‘I do!’ Wolverine exclaims. ‘Very butch’ Fantomex remarks, before telling Wolverine that there is the same low buzzing sound as before. ‘They’re teleporting!’ he shouts as he and Logan make their way to another door. ‘Dammed place is coming down around our ears!’ Logan exclaims, while Fantomex asks if it is too late to decline his invitation to join X-Force. ‘Too late for a lot of things…’ Logan remarks as the ceiling begins to cave in on them.
Outside, under the tent, Deadpool asks Warren if he feels that. ‘Like an earthquake. Or moonquake, I guess…Warren? Warren?’ Deadpool calls out when he gets no response from the motionless Archangel.
Inside, Ozymandias announces that they teleport jump in five seconds, and counts down, while the Apocalypse boy plays with some figurines. A door suddenly slides open, and Apocalypse looks up nervously. ‘S-Ship?’ he calls out. ‘Teleport jump initiated’ announces Ozymandias, while standing before Apocalypse is a very angry, katana-wielding Betsy….


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The Apocalypse Solution, chapter four
The surface of the moon. ‘Ghaa -!’ Wolverine a.k.a. Logan exclaims as he breaks through some rubble, gasping for breath. ‘C’mon! Where the hell are you at!’ Logan calls out as he begins tossing the rubble aside, searching for his X-Force teammate Fantomex a.k.a. “Jean-Phillipe”. Suddenly, one of Fantomex’s hand reaches up through the rubble, and Wolverine pulls him free. ‘Snap to, Spooky! Listen up!’ Logan calls out. ‘Hmmm…I’m up, I’m up’ Fantomex replies, before asking where they are. Logan tells him that Ship is about to teleport and Betsy is trapped inside. Logan asks Fantomex to misdirect Ship and make it think it has already teleported. ‘You follow me, you faux French son of a bitch? Do it now!’ Logan booms.
‘The condescension is unnecessary’ Fantomex replies as he raises his hand. ‘Can’t hurt’ Logan tells him, and as the massive citadel still remains before them, Fantomex exclaims that it seems to have worked. ‘This vessel as a living brain. How did you know?’ Fantomex asks. Logan replies that he gambled on the fact that this ship must be some kind of clone of another one he has had dealings with. ‘Disappointing. I thought me sentient vessel was unique’ Fantomex remarks, referring to EVA. ‘Nothing about you is all that unique’ Logan remarks. ‘Always the nurturing motivator’ Fantomex exclaims. ‘You’re a fine dancer, your ass doesn’t look fat in those pants and people really like you’ Wolverine mocks. ‘You didn’t mention how smart I am’ Fantomex points out as they approach the entrance to the ship. ‘Nope’ Wolverine mutters.
Elsewhere on the moon, ‘C’mon, eat’ Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool tells the badly injured Archangel a.k.a. Warren Worthington III, from within the Deadpool-tent that Wade put up for the two of them to recover in. Deadpool holds some food to Warren’s lips. ‘Don’t make me chew it for you, baby bird. Please, God, don’t make me do that’ Wade exclaims as he pushes the food into Warren’s mouth. ‘That’s right. There you go. Nom-nom. Mama’s got her boy’s supper. Make him big and strong’ Deadpool prattles on. Wearily, Warren asks Wade where he got this from. ‘If I tell you, do you promise to keep eating?’ Wade asks as he slices another piece of his arm off with a knife.
Inside, the ship, Ozymandias looks at the old woman - the ship - and asks ‘What the hell is wrong with you? Jump! Now!’ he exclaims. ‘Matter transfer to the next stronghold!’ ‘Order completed. We are arrived at Neptune station’ the old woman replies. ‘No! We -’ Ozymandias begins to reply, before ship announces that there is a more urgent matter. ‘We have an intruder in -’ she begins, to which Ozymandias declares that he knows they have intruder, before ordering one of the servants to disconnect Ship’s intelligence. ‘But Lord, I nnnnee-’ the old woman begins, before she fades away.
Ozymandias asks the bird-headed servant how long a manual override of the matter drive will take. The servant replies that it will take four minutes, so Ozymandias orders her to get to it. Ozymandias contacts some warriors stationed elsewhere in Ship and informs them that the idiot Ship is malfunctioned, and they are immobilized. ‘Expect Xavier’s whores to be upon you soon’ he warns the warriors. The warrior replies that they are in the central corridor and can relocate to any area of the ship with haste. The warrior informs Ozymandias that no one has attempted to enter as of yet, and that if they do, they are more than ready for them.
‘I enjoy hyperbole as much as the next guy - but ain’t no one buying that song, chump!’ Logan exclaims as he drops down from above, claws outstretched. ‘Hmm, I was almost convinced’ Fantomex remarks as he drops down after Logan, firing his weapon at the warriors. ‘Which is why I left “brains” off your “pros” list’ Wolverine jokes as he skewers one of the Clan Akkaba. Logan growls as he slices one of the ropes holding the platform in mid-air. ‘Says the man cutting the support cables’ Fantomex remarks as everyone falls off. ‘Dare I insinuate you erred?’ Fantomex asks Logan as he fires his weapon at warriors falling around him. ‘Wouldn’t recommend it’ Logan replies.
Fantomex tells himself that the estimated time to impact is four seconds, and the number of targets remaining is five. He shots one of them, bringing the targets down to four. Wolverine gets skewered by a bid-faced warrior, calling him a “race traitor, swine”. Fantomex takes out another warrior, while Logan tells the warrior that it is not about race, while the warrior uses some sort of electrocuting device on Logan, which strips the flesh from his arm. Fantomex takes out another warrior, deciding to leave the last four his scruffy-little badger-friend with the delicate ego. ‘I’m an equal opportunity killer’ Logan declares as he takes the bird-face warrior out.
Fantomex lands on the ground, ‘Gads! Evil fodder types eagerly springing towards certain demise. How gauche’ he exclaims as more Clan Akkaba warriors race towards him. Fantomex spins around and puts his hands on the ground, while Wolverine runs towards him, ‘Ya never know - might just be - this is the band of faceless goons that finally takes us out!’ Logan declares as Fantomex hurls him towards the warriors - whom he promptly slices and dices with his razor-sharp adamantium claws, adding ‘But I wouldn’t bet on it’. Logan points out that it is bad to happen, ‘So don’t give up’ he tells the warriors, when suddenly, Fantomex notices a stream of beetles racing towards Logan. He calls out to his teammate, but Fantomex cannot act, as he gets tied up.
Logan drops to his knees, ‘Off - get ‘em the hell off!’ he shouts as the beetles crawl all over him, and he tears to get them off - but they enter his mouth, and Logan drops to the floor with a thud. Gunk pours out of one of Logan’s eye sockets, while Fantomex lies motionless beside him - and three of Apocalypse’s Final Horsemen stand over them. Death calls Pestilence his beloved and tells her to savor this memory, as her beetles have devoured the brains of a man long thought impossible to kill. Pestilence tells Death that it was overly simple and that the victory holds no great satisfaction.
Death remarks that not all accomplishments must be hard-won to have great significance. ‘Inform Ozymandias these two trespassers have been overcome and we set out to hunt the other -’ he begins, before a voice announces ‘Enjoy your stay’. ‘What? Who is there?’ Death calls out. ‘Forgive me…the misdirection hasn’t ended yet’ the voice remarks. ‘There. Now you can see’ EVA remarks as Death, Pestilence and Famine find themselves transported to another planet. ‘Hell! That damned illusionist has painted us another lie!’ Death exclaims. EVA hovers over them, informing the Final Horsemen that the planet is inhabitable, but she is afraid that the indigenous life is less than cordial. ‘Best of luck’ she adds.
Back on the moon, Wolverine asks Fantomex if it worked. Fantomex replies that EVA has deposited them on a planet far, far away. ‘Tell your flying nervous system I owe her a drink’ Logan remarks as he holds Fantomex up, as Fantomex reveals that he has never attempted misdirection of such magnitude, or for so long. ‘You waiting for a gold star? We ain’t outta the woods yet. War’s still rattling around somewhere’ Logan points out as he puts Fantomex on his back and begins to carry him down the corridor. But Fantomex explains that for EVA to be free of War’s influence, War must be out of commission.
Fantomex supposes that Betsy took the monster down and severed his connection. ‘That ol’ gal’s the real deal’ Wolverine remarks. ‘Indeed she is’ Fantomex agrees, while Wolverine declares that it is time for Apocalypse. ‘Given our condition, that shouldn’t prove too arduous a task’ Fantomex remarks. ‘I like the optimism’ Logan tells him. ‘Did I fail to sell the sarcasm?’ Fantomex asks.
In the control room, Ozymandias examines the situation, and exclaims that the Horsemen simply allowed that ship to take them. ‘How?’ he asks, before demanding to know where War is. ‘I’m surrounded by incompetence!’ Ozymandias declares, before one of the servants calls out to him, announcing that one of Xavier’s assassins has infiltrated Lord Apocalypse’s chamber. Ozymandias looks at a monitor and sees Betsy “Psylocke” Braddock standing in Apocalypse’s chamber. Ozymandias asks if Apocalypse is alive, to which the servant replies that with ship’s intelligence down, she cannot tell. ‘Damn fool! I never should have left his side!’ Ozymandias declares, taking a sword.
Suddenly, ‘Hey, mister. Have you seen our dog? Bad breath, adamantium claws, a bit mangy…’ Deadpool declares as he and Archangel enter the room, and Warren proceeds to release several deadly wing-knives at Ozymandias, which strike him down. Archangel picks up Deadpool and they fly through the complex, with Warren thinking to himself that the closer they get to their target, the louder the monster rages within him. Although Betsy’s influence has kept Archangel reduced to background noise, he is still there - plotting.
Deadpool tells Warren that they should team up al the time. ‘You’re the perfect foil to my joker - like the Chuck D and Flava Flav of the super hero set!’ Deadpool exclaims. Warren tells himself that Archangel tells him tyo strike down his friends, listing efficient ways to do it, repeating the same command - “rejoin your master”. But Warren will not. Instead, he plans to destroy Apocalypse. Warren and Wade drop down alongside Logan and Fantomex. ‘Hey, look, it’s Grumpy Guy and the Snotty Elitist!’ Deadpool exclaims. Wolverine asks Archangel if his feathers still have that paralysing neurotoxin on them, to which Warren replies they do. Logan grabs a feather and shoves it into Deadpool’s upper lip. ‘Ready?’ Logan asks. ‘None of us are ready for this’ Archangel declares as he uses his wings to slice open the door to Apocalypse’s chamber.
The door falls down, and inside, the heroes find Betsy and the boy Apocalypse. Everyone looks at Betsy, who suddenly raises her katana and announces ‘You will not touch a single hair on this child’s head’. She adds that anyone who tries will have to go through her. ‘Okay, Betts…ease down’ Wolverine calls out. Archangel adds that whether Apocalypse is man or child, if they allow him to live, the result will be the same. Betsy points out that it doesn’t have to be, as he is still a child, and they can train him. She lowers her sword, while Archangel declares that this is not an innocent child, but a blood-thirsty murderer.
‘No. He is a child, Warren. A mutant child. If we kill the boy for what he one day might do, what does that make us?’ Betsy asks. ‘Heroes who stopped the Armageddon that thing will one day cause’ Warren exclaims, pointing at the boy. Betsy asks him how he can be so certain about that, to which Archangel declares that Akkaba made this doe-eyed child to deceive them. ‘Believe me!’ Warren exclaims. He adds that no nurturing will cleanse this beast’s nature, that there is no rehabilitating that thing.
‘Would you not extend him the same clemency that we afforded you? Should we have killed you once you became infected by Archangel?’ Betsy asks. The voice in Warren’s head cries out to him, telling him to serve his master, to kill the assassins. ‘No’ Warren thinks back. But the voice tells him to kill them all to protect his master. ‘No. Kill the boy. While I have the strength’ Warren replies. ‘You’ll regret this as long as you live!’ Betsy exclaims as she lunges at Warren, her katana clanging against Warren’s wings, while a couple of wing-knives land at the boy Apocalypse’s feet. Warren growls, before reaching out to punch Betsy, who dodges him. ‘Damn you, Warren!’ Betsy exclaims.
Wolverine stands and stares at the boy, while Betsy declares ‘I will not allow this!’ as she leaps over Warren’s wings which reach out to slice her. ‘I’m not asking!’ Warren declares, while the voice in his head tells him to kill them. But ‘Kill Apocalypse’ is what Warren tells himself, before calling out to Wolverine: ‘Logan - do it! Now!’ he exclaims. Deadpool and Fantomex look on as Wolverine unsheathes his claws, and the boy begins to cry.
‘STOP!’ Betsy screams, kicking Warren in the head, Warren falls to the floor, and Betsy stands over him, ready to bring her katana down upon him. ‘Stop right now, or I’ll…’ she begins. ‘You’ll what? Kill me to save him?’ Warren asks. Betsy closes her eyes, while Wolverine exclaims ‘Enough. Betsy’s right. We shouldn’t do this. Logan helps Warren off the floor, and Warren remarks that he agrees, they shouldn’t - ‘But we must!’ he exclaims as he spins around, whis wings striking Wolverine and Betsy, knocking them over.
Archangel strides towards the boy, exclaiming ‘I know what’s inside you. You put a piece of it in me. You will grow to hurt millions of people’. Warren looms over the boy, who swears that he won’t. ‘You can’t help yourself. You are Apocalypse’ Warren exclaims, before growling, as he prepares to strike - before suddenly dropping to his knees and exclaiming that he can’t. Warren covers his face and declares ‘Gold help us all. I can’t do it’. Betsy comes up and puts her arms around him, telling him that they understand, they all understand.
Wolverine announces that it is the right move, that they will bring the boy back with them and train him best they can - BLAM - there is a gunshot, and Logan, Warren and Betsy spin around to find the boy Apocalypse lying on the blood, his head smouldering after the gun shot, and blood seeping around him - while Fantomex stands nearby, his gun still smouldering. Wolverine, Archangel and Betsy all look at Fantomex in varying states of expression.
Suddenly, the floor rumbles underneath them, and they are knocked over as a voice announces ‘Teleport jump in twenty seconds’. Fantomex informs his colleagues that EVA has informed him that the ship is repaired and he cannot stop it from teleporting again. ‘Time to go!’ he declares. Betsy looks back and glares at Fantomex, who stands over the boy Apocalypse’s body, before closing the boy’s eyes.
A short time later, EVA departs from the moon, and inside, X-Force sit in silence. Fantomex stares straight ahead as he pilots EVA, while Deadpool rubs his head, confused. Wolverine hangs his head, while Archangel covers his face with his hands, and Betsy looks away to her left. No one speaks as X-Force return to Earth.