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7 the Hard Way: Conclusion
In an undisclosed location, Romulus tells Ruby Thursday that he wants to know everything about Wolverine’s plan. When Ruby asks to know what’s in it for her, Romulus tells her everything. Ruby then asks so he’s the guy Wolverine is so freaked about. She then asks him if he’s so powerful, how come she’s never heard of him. Romulus answers that he’s powerful because she’s never heard of him. Placing her hand on Romulus’ cheek, she says ooh a man of mystery. She likes.
Romulus says to her to tell him what he wants to know and he’ll make her dreams come true. Ruby then asks what happens if she doesn’t give him what he wants. Will he make her nightmares come true? Grabbing hold of her arm, Romulus states she doesn’t have nightmares but her daughter does – every night.
The next day, Ruby Thursday meets Wolverine in an abandoned building. When she enters, Wolverine proceeds to ask her where she’s been. Ruby tells him getting her hair done and then asks where everyone else is. Wolverine replies that they’ll be there later. He wanted to talk to her alone. When Ruby asks about what, Wolverine says he thinks she knows what. Offering her a seat on a nearby crate, Wolverine tells Ruby to sit down and relax.
Sitting down, Wolverine asks Ruby where she’s been and asks her to tell him the truth. After Ruby says she was visiting a friend, Wolverine asks her a known associate, she knows better than that. Ruby tells him it was a friend who owed her money. Wolverine says so not really a friend. Ruby answers no, not really and then asks Wolverine if he has any more questions. When Wolverine asks what her friend’s name is, Ruby tells him she’s not gonna say. Wolverine asks why not and Ruby answers because she doesn’t think they’d appreciate an X-Man showing up on their doorstep, asking about her. Wolverine states that she seems awfully concerned about somebody that ain’t really her friend. Ruby says what concerns her is that they didn’t have the money they owed her. She convinced them to go get it. Wolverine asks and she doesn’t want him interfering. Ruby tells him emphatically that she does not.
After Wolverine asks her if she needs money, Ruby says to him that she just got unexpectedly busted out of prison. Her personal finances are in disarray. Wolverine asks if he used that against her. When Ruby answers who, Wolverine tells her that he thinks she knows who. He asks her if Romulus has approached her and Ruby answers no. Sniffing her, Wolverine notices that there’s no telltale flush o’ sweat, no skip in the heartbeat, nothin’. Ruby’s body is a mass of organic circuitry, more machine than anything else. Truth or lie, he can’t tell the difference. He wonders if she knows that. Just then, Ruby extends a bunch of tentacles from her head and attacks Wolverine. When she does, he thinks to himself, “Nope. Guess not.”
With Ruby’s tentacles wrapped around his neck, Wolverine exclaims to her that she sold him out. Ruby replies that she did what she had to do. Slicing some of the tentacles with his claws, Wolverine states that what she had to do was rot in that prison he got her out of. Ruby angrily asks that he thinks she owes him. Think again. With that, Ruby tosses some projectiles from her head into Wolverine’s gut. Removing her coat, Ruby tells Wolverine there’s only one person in the whole world that she owes anything to and it’s not him.
As Ruby continues her assault on Wolverine, he thinks to himself that Romulus found somethin’, by the sound of it, someone, to use against her. He doesn’t know what it is but it’s pretty damn clear she’s willin’ to do anything to protect ‘em. Guess what? So is he.
After getting slammed up against the wall with great force, Wolverine asks Ruby if that’s all she has. Unleashing a blast from her head directly at Wolverine and then wrapping her tentacles around his neck, Ruby calls him a stubby little dirt bag and asks him why he involved him in this. Slicing her tentacles again, Wolverine thinks to himself that he’s sorry. He had to, he has his own to protect. Leaping at Ruby, Wolverine slashes her and wounds her. Standing before her, Wolverine tells her whatever he, Romulus, promised her he’d do or not do is a lie. Once he has what he wants from her, she’s expendable. Standing up, Ruby says well then, she guesses she has nothing to lose. With that, she jams her tentacles straight through Wolverine’s gut.
Ruby proceeds to tell Wolverine that this isn’t her first time around the block. She knows how this works. She can take care of herself. As his stomach begins to heal, Wolverine thinks to himself that he knows she can. He just hopes she can take care of whoever it is she’s fightin’ for, too. Good luck, she’s gonna need it.
Just then, Cloak arrives with Skaar, Bruce Banner and the Silver Samurai in tow. Turning around, Ruby asks four guys against one girl? Sounds like her kinda party. With that, Wolverine yells out cover just before Ruby unleashes a bunch of projectiles against the new participants in the battle. Noticing that Skaar was blocking her projectiles from meeting Bruce, Ruby mentions how cute. She then asks them if they are together then. As Skaar leaps at her, Ruby dodges his attack and remarks that she wasn’t judging them. Cracking her in the head with a karate chop, Bruce tells her she is making him, Skaar, angry though. She won’t like him when he’s angry. Raising up her hand and making it glow, Ruby tells Bruce “you’re outta your league, pencil-pusher.” Bruce remarks he knows that, he was just distracting her.
Just then, Silver Samurai comes up behind Ruby and slices her across the back. After deftly dodging her counter-attack, a barbed tentacle, Silver Samurai is told he can put his sword away. He, Skaar, has her. Wolverine yells out to Skaar that she’s charging up again and to get rid of her. At that moment, Skaar tosses Ruby into Cloak who transports her back to the Raft prison much to Ruby’s dismay.
Standing up with Bruce’s assistance, Wolverine thinks to himself that puttin’ Ruby back in prison means she’s no longer a loose end. Romulus won’t waste time on her. Especially since he’s gonna be puttin’ all his resources towards him. Wolverine then informs his surprised rag-tag team that Romulus knows his plan, Ruby spilled. He adds that Romulus is gonna move fast. He already has a head start on him. He’s gonna isolate every element an’ either negate it or turn it against him. Once he’s cut him off from everything, he’s gonna hit him with everything he’s got. He’s gonna miss by a $%&*#’ mile. Shocked, Bruce asks what. Wolverine informs him this was all a setup, a red herring. He put it up for sale an’ Romulus bought every single bit of it. Bruce asks so this whole plan of his… Wolverine replies that it wasn’t his plan at all, actually. When Bruce asks whose plan it was, Wolverine tells him that he goes by the name The Answer.
The next day, in the Bronx, Wolverine enters an apartment where a man with a solemn look on his face tells him he’s sorry. Wolverine says to him that he knew Ruby could be trusted, that she’d betray him. The Answer tells him yes, it’s… what she does. Wolverine says but he let him go ahead anyway. The Answer replies because he loves her, because he wants them to be together again. He had to get her out of that prison. He tells Wolverine that he was the answer. As Wolverine starts to walk away, The Answer tells him again that he’s sorry. He just doesn’t know what it’s like loving someone who is incapable of loving you back. Stopping in his tracks and turning around, Wolverine thinks to himself “yeah, he does.”
Standing atop of the building, Wolverine thinks to himself that The Answer’s plan was a bust – Romulus knows everything. He’ll use every resource he has to armor himself against it. Smiling, he knows that means he has the bastard right where he wants him. See, The Answer was only the first person he went to. He had a backup. An’ boy, did he deliver. Romulus knows him too well. Anything he coulda come up with, he’d have seen comin’ an’ figured out a way to use it against him an’ for himself. In order for him to play Romulus outta position, he needed a plan that was so outside the box that nobody could have figured it out. The Answer’s plan was good but this guy’s was better. After Wolverine enters another apartment, Deadpool triumphantly tells him that he told him it’d work.


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Reckoning: Prologue
In San Francisco, at the Tenderloin, Logan sits on his bed and looks through a satchel full of letters written by him to her. He needs to remember, he needs to… Glancing over at a bottle of Old Panther alcohol, Logan tells him there’s no more runnin’, you gotta do this. But he can’t do it alone. Destroying the shot glass with his claws, Logan calls up Nightcrawler and asks him if he can meet him somewhere. Kurt immediately agrees to do so and asks where. Logan tells him it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s private.
A while later, Logan and Kurt find are on the roof of the Cliff House restaurant. Logan says to Kurt damn elf, how’d he… Kurt answers that he called in a favor. Speaking of which… Logan tells him there’s somethin’ he needs to confess. If he would he’d like him to hear it. Kurt informs him he’s not a priest. Logan says he’s a friend, that’s better. Looking out at the sun setting, Kurt asks if it’s bad. Remembering back when he impaled Mariko Yashida on his claws, Logan tells Kurt yeah, it’s bad.
Logan mentions to Kurt there was a woman, Mariko Yashida. Does he remember her? Kurt says of course. She was to be his Logan’s wife. He remembers when he first met her. Logan replies him too. The earth moved. After saving her from an earthquake, he was in love. He didn’t even say goodbye to her when the X-Men left Japan. He didn’t want to. They kept in touch through letters – a first for him. For some reason, he was able to say a helluva lot more in writin’ than he could by talkin’.
Eventually, he told her he loved her. Eventually, she told him she loved him too. An’ then the letter stopped. ‘Bout a month later, his letters started coming back unopened. He got on a plane and went to Japan. What he found out was that Mariko had gotten married. It didn’t matter that she didn’t love him, or that he beat her. She’d done it out of a sense of duty to her father Lord Shingen. Shingen had used her to repay some debt he’d racked up, an’ was usin’ his family’s name to build a highly profitable criminal empire. The shame of it all had nearly broken Mariko’s heart. So he went to work with a vengeance. Somebody (Yukio) else got the husband, he took care of Shingen personally. But that didn’t stop him from getting’ between them. ‘Cause of what her father did, an’ the deals he’d made.
Mariko’s family, the Clan Yashida had become bound to the Japanese underworld. Until those bonds were broken, their wedding was off. As matriarch of her family, the task o’ breakin’ the Clan free of its association with the Yakuza fell upon her an’ her alone. He tried to change her mind but she told him that if she is to remain true to her sense of honor, she must undertake the task herself. She said that if he loved her, more importantly, if he respected her, he will let her do so. There was nothin’ he could do, but he couldn’t just stand by an’ do nothin’. So he left.
Kurt proceeds to ask Logan if he wishes he had not. Logan answers every day an’ night. Kurt points out that Mariko asked him… Logan says she asked him to let her regain her family’s honors on her terms rather ‘n his. An’ he couldn’t handle that. Selfishness – that’s why he left. It’s the same reason he went back, years later uninvited. It’s the same reason he killed her. Shocked, Kurt asks if this is what he came to him to confess. Logan says yes, if he’ll still hear it. After a brief moment, Kurt puts his hand on Logan’s shoulder and tells him of course he will.
Logan continues that for years, Mariko had been tryin’ to divest her family’s holdings in the Japanese underworld. She refused to go to war with the Yakuza for her family’s freedom, ‘cause that’d only lead to more bloodshed. Instead, she used political means. It wasn’t gettin’ her anywhere until Matsuo Tsurayaba of the Hand finally came to the table with an offer. As a means o’ levelin’ the playing field, the Hand would use its resources to break Clan Yashida free of its obligations to the Yakuza. It was a risky deal but one that Mariko was willin’ to make ‘cause it meant she could finally be with him.
But, there was a price to be paid in blood. Matsuo wanted one of Mariko’s fingers. He said it was a ceremonial gesture but he knew better. He’d taken somethin’ from Tsurayaba, his right hand, and he wanted to get even? He wanted to get more ‘n even, he wanted revenge. The blade was poisoned with blowfish toxin. It was quick and painful. When he got to her he didn’t know what to do. After taking her to the chapel as she had requested, Mariko asked that he kill her.
Logan explains that all the woman he’s ever loved have been taken from him. An’ he’s been powerless to stop it. He didn’t want it to happen again. That’s why he killed her. Kurt proceeds to tell Logan that what he did was not murder. It was mercy, she had been poisoned. Logan states that he could‘a saved ‘er somehow. He’s saved others from worse countless times. Kurt tries to tell him he can’t… but Logan stops him. He says to him dammit, he said he’d listen to him, so listen. He didn’t do it for her, he did it for him. He did it so that their love would last forever. So that he’d never have to watch it die.
Kurt then asks Logan if it has ever occurred to him that she may have felt the same way. Turning around, Logan asks “what?” Kurt tells him to forgive him for being blunt but she was going to die anyway. Be it from poison, old age or any number of reasons. All of which are immune to him. Pointing a finger at Kurt, Logan says he gets what he’s sayin’ but that ain’t it. He was lookin’ into her eyes when he did it. She didn’t wanna die. Kurt tells him that he doesn’t think he is “getting it” his friend.
As Logan tells him he has to go, Kurt states that she died on her terms rather than his and he cannot handle that. Logan thanks him for listening and starts to leave. Kurt asks him so now he is leaving and Logan tells him yeah. Teleporting in front of him, Kurt says not without saying goodbye he’s not. After shaking hands and sharing a hug, the two good friends part each other’s company and wish each other luck.
Standing on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Logan thinks to himself that a little luck wouldn’t hurt, considerin’ what he’s about to do an’ who he’s bringin’ with him. Logan then tells Daken it’s time and asks them if they’re ready. Daken, wearing a white suit, replies that he’s in luck, his schedule just opened up.


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Reckoning: Part Two
In Ankara, Wolverine stands over the fallen body of Daken with the Muramasa blade jammed into his chest. One of the on-lookers calls Romulus and tells him h-he killed him. Romulus asks him who killed whom? Be clear. The man answers the… the one with the sword… he just stabbed the one with the Mohawk in the middle of the café.
Romulus tells the man to describe the sword. The man says it’s a… y’know, a samurai sword but shorter. Watching the happenings on a video screen, Romulus quietly remarks that this wasn’t part of Wolverine’s plan. The man then tells Romulus that when he agreed to keep an eye on the Mohawk guy, he didn’t expect…
Just then, Romulus mentions that he hears sirens. The man confirms that they’re there. Anyway, like he was saying… Romulus cuts the man off and asks if Wolverine is gone. When the man asks “who,” Romulus tells him the man who stabbed the other man. The man looks over and says yes, he is gone. Romulus then tells the man that they’re going to load the body into an ambulance. He wants him to follow it. The man says no way man, he’s done. Romulus tells him he’s done when he says he’s done.
In his car, looking at a picture of his wife and kids, the man follows the ambulance and when he sees it turning off and heading to Gazi instead of Haceteppe, informs Romulus of such. Romulus tells him he’s done well. The man asks s-so that’s it, he’s done? Romulus tells him yes just before a van slams into him, causing a giant explosion.
In the ambulance, the medic in the passenger seat tells the driver to turn around. When the driver asks what about the man in the back, the medic tells him that he’s beyond their help, they must go back. Perched atop a nearby building, Logan, in his blue and yellow costume, asks everybody if they’re ready. As soon as Romulus is out in the open, they go. Just then, as Romulus makes his way towards the ambulance where Daken is being held, Skaar explodes from within the ambulance. Taking a step backwards, Romulus utters “Skaar…” Skaar asks him why he looks so surprised.
Six days ago, in Iceland, Skaar was cooking his meal over a fire out in the woods. As he did, he asks the man behind him if he is going to speak or just stand there in the shadows. Emerging from the shadows, Romulus asks Skaar if he knows who he is. Skaar tells him yes and asks Romulus if he knows who he is. Romulus tells Skaar that he does. He knows all about him. More importantly, he knows what he wants, and how to get it. Skaar tells him what he wants doesn’t exist. Romulus states that it doesn’t exist yet.
The Hulk was the result of an accident, Romulus continues. Accidents happen all the time. And he’s usually the cause. Skaar says that others have tried to recreate him and have failed. Romulus replies they didn’t know what he knows. Skaar proceeds to ask Romulus what he knows. Romulus tells him that he knows he’s working with Wolverine. His plan is inspired, he’ll give him that. It’s not what he would have done. Skaar remarks that he thinks that’s the point. Romulus says yes.
He then says to Skaar there’s a reason why he’s compelled, driven, to test himself against his father, the Hulk rather than Banner. Does he know what that is? After Skaar answers yes, Romulus tells him so does he, because he feels the same way about Wolverine. His desire to battle Wolverine to the death is unmatched, no one wants it more than him. But his approach, this scheme of his – smoke and mirrors, sleight of hand. It’s unworthy; it’s not how their kind settles things. Skaar asks “our kind?” Romulus answers predators. When the dominant male lion has grown too old or infirm to lead the pride, the other males tear him to pieces and then turn on each other. The surviving male then kills all the other male cubs, even his own. That is how it must be. That is what this world has forgotten. There must be blood. There must be brutality. And at the battle’s end, there must be only one left standing. He tells Skaar “help me and I will help you.”
Now, in Ankara, Wolverine is watching what is going on between Skaar and Romulus from a rooftop with Cloak standing next to him. Wolverine mutters son of a… Cloak asks what he, Skaar, is waiting for. He was just supposed to grab him and… Wolverine tells Cloak to be ready to abort mission.
On the ground, Skaar tells Romulus there’s a reason why he’s driven to test himself against the Hulk, rather than Banner. Does he know what that reason is? It’s because he’s already Banner’s equal and more. Peering at Romulus, he asks him if he really thinks he could manipulate him like some weak-minded fool. After Romulus answers yes, a missile is fired at Skaar from a nearby building top.
Looking over in that direction, Wolverine recognizes the men firing the shot as Kurds. Immediately he knows Romulus is gonna turn this place into a $%?@#* horror show. He must a bribed ‘em, promised ‘em somethin’. Cloak asks why and Wolverine says for the body count an’ to pull him outta position. Romulus knows he won’t stand by an’ let civilians get hurt. Cloak states and neither will he. Wolverine tells him no. He needs him to contain Skaar.
Facing off against the Kurds, Skaar goes to destroy them but is stopped by Cloak. Skaar exclaims they thought they could… Cloak cuts him off and says they thought they could but they were wrong. He’s shown them that by knocking them all down with great ease. Just then, one of the Kurds presses a detonator and blows himself up along with the building they were on top of. Standing on the street, Wolverine sees the flames shooting from the building.
At that moment, he is approached by Romulus who tells him to make a choice. Come to him or go to them. As Wolverine runs off towards the citizens, Romulus remarks “disgusting.” Standing behind him, Daken agrees. Romulus starts to ask Daken how but realizes that it was a fake blade. Daken tells him no, the blade was real; it just wasn’t the Muramasa blade. Romulus says he should’ve seen that, it’s exactly… Daken cuts him off and says what he would’ve expected him to do. He adds that he knows he’s playing him, right? He’s playing all of them.
Rushing into the burning building, Wolverine tells the man inside that he has to get outta there, the place is gonna come down. The man tells him no. His sons are still in the… Just as soon as Wolverine ushers the man out of the building, the gas line explodes. Turning around, Wolverine sees Skaar exiting the building carrying the man’s sons. The family reunited, Wolverine asks Skaar where Cloak is at.
Daken tells Romulus this ingenious “plan” of Wolverine’s is a ploy. Romulus asks to what end. Daken asks that he really doesn’t know. He asks Romulus where all his power comes from. He’s going to expose him. He’s going to show the world the face of the monster that hides in the darkness. At first, they’ll recoil in fear because he’s exactly what they thought he’d be. And then, they’ll get over it. Because he’s exactly what they thought he’d be. Romulus says if he does that, Daken will have nothing to inherit. He’ll just be another one of them. Daken replies he knows. That’s why he’s going to help him.
With that, Daken and Romulus turn around to face off against Wolverine and Skaar.


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Reckoning: Part Four
At the Howlett estate, near Alberta, Canada, Logan stands in front of the gates with an injured Romulus behind him and Cloak standing nearby. Holding the broken Muramasa blade in his hand, he thinks to himself that his name is James Howlett and this is where he was born. This is also where he died. His name is Wolverine. Now, it’s Romulus’ turn to die.
Wolverine thinks about chopping Romulus’ head off but decides it’s not gonna be that easy or that quick. When Romulus asks him what he’s waiting for, Logan tells him that he’s waitin’ for him to die. An’ he’s gonna keep waitin’ ‘til he does. Peering at him, Romulus tells him it’ll be a long wait. Logan retorts that it’ll be longer for him. Looking around, Romulus asks where he is. Logan tells him the Darkforce Dimension. This is his kingdom now. This is where he’ll die.
As Romulus attempts to flee, Logan asks him if he’s lookin’ for a place to hide. He can go ahead and try. There’s plenty o’ shadows an’ nothin’ else. Romulus angrily tells Wolverine this will not be the end of him. Daken will… Logan cuts him off and tells him he’ll deal with Daken when he gets back.
Exiting the Darkforce Dimension housed inside Cloak’s cloak, Logan informs Cloak he stays there for as long as it takes and to tell no one, ever. Cloak agrees and asks if they are done there yet. Logan answers not yet.
Entering the estate alone, Logan knows there’s one last thing he has to do. An’ he has to do it alone. Revenge. It’s what he’s been after for over a century. It’s been the only constant in his life, the one thing that he’s held to, to keep him going. His greatest desire. His fondest wish. His biggest lie. The days o’ him lustin’ for vengeance, thirstin’ for the blood o’ those who’ve made him what he is are over. Is there a part o’ him that wishes he coulda seen where that path ended? Yeah, an’ there always will be. But he’s learned somethin’. He learned it from Romulus. That path never ends. It just goes on, and on, into the darkness, into nothingness. Revenge ain’t gonna get him what he wants, what he needs. But there is somethin’ that will.
Out loud, Logan states that he’s a victim. And what happened to him is not his fault. Looking up at the estate before him, he says “I forgive you. I forgive myself.” Exiting the estate, Logan tells Cloak there’s one last thing he’s gonna ask of him. Take him to his son.
Two days later, in Budapest, Logan finds Daken walking through the grounds of a castle. Logan proceeds to tell him that Romulus is gone and that he can stop looking. Daken searches Logan’s face for a lie but he doesn’t find it. Daken remarks and now Logan is there for him. Emerging from the shadows with the Muramasa blade in hand, Logan tells him yes. Peering at him, Daken remarks that it’s about time. As they charge towards each other, Logan thinks to himself that he’s been waitin’ a long time for this. Waitin’ an’ preparin’.
Months earlier, in Japan, Logan trained with the Silver Samurai. Samurai told him that his skill with a blade is nearly flawless but his weakness lies in his head and his heart. When he allows his rage to take over, his balance is destroyed – the balance in his mind, the balance in his heart. He tells Logan to fight for what he loves, not for what he hates.
As Logan begins his battle against Daken, he notices that Silver Samurai’s lessons serve him well. He blocks, he counters, he keeps it down. He wears Daken down but he doesn’t go for the kill. Daken is his son an’ as much as Daken hates him, he Logan loves him. When Daken pops his inside claw made out of adamantium and connects with the Muramasa blade, two equal forces of destruction, born from the same source, collide with apocalyptic force. Logan knew from the day he found out his son lived it would end this way. Both combatants feel the effects of the blast.
Making his way over towards where Daken is laying, Logan recalls that unlike him, Daken’s claws are anchored to bone instead of adamantium. That’s convenient. Picking up the sword, Daken angrily says to Logan that he can’t do it. He’s a coward, afraid of his own shadow. He may have killed Romulus, but he’ll never be able to…
Logan cuts him off and states that he never said he killed him. He said he was gone. Daken exclaims that he’ll find him. He’ll find him and he’ll kill him, just like he’s going to kill him. Leaning down, Logan tells Daken “Son? That just ain’t gonna happen.” With that, Logan jams his claws into Daken’s chest. As Daken lies on the ground, bleeding, Logan tells himself not to lose it. Keep it together for just a little while longer. He knows what he has to do. He has to finish this.
In the woods outside the Howlett estate, Logan sits on the ground in front of an empty gravesite. He says that Romulus’ reign is over. It dies with him; he won’t live on through him. An’ he won’t live on through his son. The Muramasa blade was forged from the hate Romulus planted in his soul. Hate that he’s carried with him for over a century. Tossing it into the empty grave, he states that he truly wishes he could’ve saved Daken, turned him away from the path o’ destruction an’ despair that he’s walked for so long. But in the end, he left him with no choice. Eventually, he would’ve found Romulus an’ he would’ve killed him. An’ him. An’ with nobody standin’ in his way, he would’ve become Romulus. So maybe he did save him by makin’ that impossible when he ripped the claws made out of the Muramasa blade out of Daken’s forearms. Logan then states that Daken will never be Romulus an’ he’ll never be him.


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What I Do: Part One
Up in British Columbia, Canada, Logan stands in the woods wearing plain clothes. Looking into the woods, he thinks to himself that everybody’s life moves in a circle. A circle that eventually comes ‘round to where it began. Most folks don’t realize that. Most folks die before they get to where they started from. He ain’t most folks. So there he is. Right back where it started.
He can’t say how many times he’s repeated his cycle. Back when he ran with the wolves as a child, when he first met Silver Fox, when Mariko Yashida died in his arms, and when Magneto pulled the adamantium out of his body. But he can say this, it’s over. Slicing a tree down with his claws, Logan says it’s time to begin a new cycle, a new life. One that he can control. One that he can live with. It’s time to let go of the past. It’s time to create something new. Something of his own. Standing in front of his cabin, Logan works on preparing the log he sliced down.
As he does so, a voice behind him tells him it’s nice and cozy. Sheathing his claws, Logan asks Nick Fury what he’s doing there. Fury tells him that he was about to ask him the same thing. Pointing over to the cabin, Logan says it’s kinda obvious what he’s doing, ain’t it. Fury replies sure it is, he’s hiding. When Logan begins to say “if he was hidin’,” Fury cuts him off and states that he was about to say “you’d never find me,” right? But then he thought better of it. Logan tells him that assumptions can be dangerous. Fury answers that he knows but he assumes there’s a bottle of hooch in that tent.
That night, in front of the campfire, Logan and Fury share a bottle of alcohol. While they do, Logan asks Fury why he’s there. Fury tells him that he wanted to ask him about a couple of things. When Logan asks what, Fury says like why he’s not working with him. Logan tells him his plate’s full. Fury asks if he’s talkin’ about X-Force. Logan says he’s talkin’ about everything. Fury asks Logan what about a part-time gig. He’s got some up-and-comers who’d just love to… Logan cuts him off and asks Fury that he wants him to work for him? Thanks, but no thanks. He’s doin’ his own thing now. Fury says all right, then.
After a few moments of silence, Logan tells Fury that he doesn’t believe for a second he came all the way there to offer him a job he knew he wouldn’t take so why’d he really come there. Fury tells him that he didn’t think Logan would wanna be alone. Logan says he came there to be alone. Fury adds especially today. Turning towards Fury, Logan asks what’s so special about today. Fury asks him is he serious; it’s his birthday.
That night, Logan awakens from his sleep in a cold sweat. Popping the claws on his right hand, Logan exits his tent and sniffs the air. As he calls out Nick’s name, he sees footprints leading out of the campsite and into the woods. While he makes his way into the woods, Logan asks himself if this is real. He can’t smell anything. Is he dreaming? Hearing a snapping sound, Logan turns around. Nick’s dead. He killed him. When he sees Nick’s bloodied body tossed into the snow before his feet, a voice asks him if he likes it. He’s sorry he didn’t have time to wrap it but it’s the thought that counts, right? With that, Logan sees that the voice belongs to Sabretooth.
Shocked, Logan falls back into the snow. He tells him no. He’s not real. He killed him. This is just the programming, the Weapon X conditioning. Tryin’ to reassert itself. This isn’t real. As Sabretooth attacks him and slashes Logan across the throat, he asks him “was it ever?”
Just then, Logan finds himself in his bed and is confused. He tells himself to relax and breath. He’s just goin’ through programming withdrawals. He has to stay strong. He’s been goin’ through the same repeated motions for almost a century but he has to stop and not let it take him again. He needs to keep fighting but wonders aloud what he’s fighting for. Ripping through the tent, Sabretooth tells him it’s because it’s what he does. Continuing his vicious assault on Logan, Sabretooth says it’s what he is. It’s all he is. He’s the only part o’ him that’s real. Everything else is just a dream. With that, Logan is lying face down in the snow, beaten and bloodied.
At that moment, Bando Saburo appears and tells Logan to get up. He is not a dog. He does not sleep on the ground like a dog. He is a man and this will be his home. But first, he must build it. Standing up, Logan tells Bando that he will do his best. Carrying a torch, Sabretooth tells Logan no he won’t. He’ll do what he always does and Sabretooth will do what he always does.
Enraged, Logan attacks Sabretooth and yells at him that he won’t let him take this away from him. Slashing away at Sabretooth, Logan exclaims not again. He won’t be controlled. Once he chops Sabretooth’s head off, the head tells him he already is and he always will be. Standing up, Logan is surrounded by a number of Bando’s followers. Turning around, Logan sees Itsu and begs her to forgive him. A skeletal Itsu replies that he cannot, she is dead.
As Logan unleashes his frustration and roars like an animal, a voice from the shadows, in fact Romulus, asks him when he is going to stop believing their lies. He is not a man. He never was. He knows what he is. And so does he. He then tells Logan to follow him into the darkness. Growling Romulus’ name, Logan rushes into the woods. There, he finds his son Daken, who tells him that this is the father he’s always wanted. Facing his son, Logan tells him that he shouldn’t be there. Daken replies that he agrees. He’s spent enough time in the dark, hidden away. Decades. Waiting.
After Logan says “too dangerous…” Daken laughs. He then asks Logan if he thinks that world of his threatens him. It’s not even real. It’s a lie, passed on from one generation of weaklings to the next. Logan tells him no. Daken is too dangerous. Slashing away at Daken, Logan growls that he’s the besst there iss at what he does. And what he does issn’t pretty! With that, Logan stabs Daken in the chest. In reality, however, it’s Nick Fury.


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(first story) What I Do: Conclusion
(2nd story) And the End is Always Near
(first story)
Up in British Columbia, Canada, standing over the bloodied Nick Fury, Logan wonders how many times. How many times has he come out of a berserker rage, his hands covered in blood, not knowin’ whose it is? Or why he’s done what he’s done? When will it end? When will he be able to get past all those years o’ programmin’ an’ conditionin’? When will he finally break this cycle he’s been stuck in for more’n a damn century? An’ how many more o’ his friends are gonna hafta die before it happens?
He tells himself to stop. Feelin’ sorry for himself, not for what he’s done is part o’ the cycle too. He can’t run away, he has to run toward it. He did this, he’s the one who has to make it right. With that, Logan stabs Fury in the chest with a syringe Fury had in his pocket. Ever since Nick told him it was his birthday, the old programmin’s been back hard. He’s been seein’ things. Things from his past, things he buried long ago come back to haunt him.
At that moment, Seraph walks out of the woods and calls Logan pathetic. Logan says to her that she told him to… Cutting him off, Seraph asks “hack away like a butcher?” Logan replies no, but… Again Seraph cuts him off and tells him that he did what he wanted to do. He did what was easy for him and he’s using her as an excuse. Hanging his head, Logan tells her he… he’s not. Seraph responds yes he does, he always does.
Raising his head, Logan sees Seraph flanked by Janice Hollenbeck, Itsu, Rose, and Janet. Rose steps up and tells Logan that he has to let them go. Logan tells her he can’t, he still loves her. He still loves all of them. Itsu adds that they are but memories. Logan agrees – memories of the happiest moments of his life. Janet asks him if he really believes that. She then asks him what his memory is of her. What does she think of when he hears her name? When Logan thinks of Janet, his memory flashes back to when Silas Burr killed her. Silver Fox then asks him if he sees now. How many times must she die? Mariko Yashida asks how many times he is going to kill her.
Logan’s memory then reverts back to when he held Mariko in his arms as she died. At that moment, Logan’s memory reverts back to Jasmine Falls and Itsu. Emerging from her dwelling, Itsu tells him that he cannot come there anymore. Logan pleads with her and tells her this is all he has but Itsu walks away from him and tells him it is not enough and it never will be. Death did not define her, nor should it him.
Just then, Logan finds himself at the fire by Nick Fury’s side. When Fury coughs, Logan tells him welcome back. Fury responds that he’d say the same thing and by the way, #%$& you. After Logan asks him if he’s okay, Fury tells him he will be eventually. Logan then asks him what that stuff was in the syringe anyhow. Fury tells him don’t ask. After a brief period of silence, Fury says that it was from him. It was a bio strain they cultivated, a partial clone of his DNA for emergency use only. When Logan asks him how they got it, Fury tells him how does he think they got it. Gritting his teeth, Logan replies Weapon X.
Fury then asks Logan if he’s ever considered how many others are alive because of what he is, what he’s done? Looking out into the woods, Logan answers not often. Mostly he thinks about the ones he did it to. All the lives he took away for nothin’. An’ that’s what keeps him goin’. Fury asks him a need to atone? That’s all he’s got? Ain’t enough, never will be.
Just then, Silver Fox asks him “now do you see?” Logan asks her why she keeps asking him that. He’s seen everything she’s shown him. What is he missing? Just then, Dagger arrives and tells him everything. He’s missing everything. Running off, Logan exclaims no, he can’t go back there. He’s not ready for this. Enveloping him in his cape, Cloak tells him yes he is.
Once inside Cloak’s cape, Romulus tells Logan to go ahead and run. He knows it’s comin’ an’ he knows he can’t stop it. Sooner or later, he’s gonna have to face it. Sooner or later, he’s gonna have to face him. Halting in his tracks, Logan comes face to face with Romulus. When he does, Romulus asks him if that feels better – facin’ his enemy head-on, rather’n turnin’ his back an’ runnin’ like a coward. Confident, Logan answers yes, it does. Facing the oncoming train, Logan states that he sees now – no more running. With that, the train passes through Logan’s body and slams into Romulus behind him.
Finding himself back in Canada, Logan hears Fury mention that he feels like he got hit by a freight train. Helping his friend up, Logan quips “you an’ me both, pal.” Fury then tells Logan that he looks different. Handing Nick a cup of coffee, Logan remarks that he is different. Fury says for the better, he hopes. Logan replies him too. Pointing over at his unfinished cabin, Logan asks Fury if he knows anybody in the market for a fixer-upper. After Fury asks him that he’s not saying, Logan answers no. He’s got too much to do. Fury asks him like what. Logan replies honestly, he doesn’t know. He’s been on the same path for so long, he’s kinda… Fury finishes his thought for him – lost track of where he started from. Logan says yeah and then asks Fury what he does now. Fury tells him that’s up to him.
Thinking to himself, Logan says Fury doesn’t know how right he is. For so long, it wasn’t up to him. Even after Professor X blocked his memories, the programmin’ Romulus had beaten into him was still there, festerin’ under the surface, affectin’ his every decision. An’ in the absence o’ his real memories, he clung to it. He didn’t realize that until just now. With the help from the loves of his life.
Even when he got his memories back, he focused on nothin’ but the negative aspects o’ his past. Everything an’ anyone he’s ever done wrong. He thought he was doin’ it so that he could focus it, use it; for revenge. But the fact o’ the matter is that he’s been doin’ it his whole life. An’ when it wasn’t ‘cause of a need for revenge, it was ‘cause that’s what Romulus taught him to do. He taught him to feel guilty for what he is. He taught him that he could only love the things he could never have. An’ he taught him that salvation was somethin’ forever outta his reach.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. His past is somethin’ that was never under his control but his future… Well, his future isn’t somethin’ that he’s ever thought about until now. He’s done a helluva lot more bad with his life than good but he has a lot more livin’ to do. He ain’t dyin’ anytime soon so maybe there’s a chance. The odds are against him but if there’s anybody that can pull it off, it’s him. His name is Wolverine. He’s the best there is at what he does.
(second story)
In an alley, Logan finds Hope and tells her that everybody’s lookin’ fer her, again. Hope asks so they sent him to find her? Logan tells her nope. He told ‘em he doesn’t care where the hell she is. After Hope asks why he’s there, Logan answers because this is his spot. As he opens up a bottle of alcohol, Logan asks her what she’s doin’ there anyway. She’s got a perfectly good bed back on Utopia. Hope states that it’s too soft and that she’s just more comfortable there. She then asks Logan if she can have a sip from his bottle. When Logan tells her no, she asks if it’s because she’s not old enough. Logan tells her it’s because he don’t feel like sharin’ and then tells her to get the hell out.
Grabbing her bag and starting to leave, Hope says that she thought of all people, he would understand. When Logan asks understand what, she replies what she’s… All the people are counting on her to do something that she… that she doesn’t know how to do. That she doesn’t know she can do. Her whole life, she’s been taught to look out for herself. Nathan never taught her how to…
Cutting her off, Logan tells her to stop right there. Is she sayin’ this terrible problem she has is Cable’s fault? Hanging her head, Hope tells him no and says “Sometimes. I… I’m sorry.” Taking a sip from his bottle, Logan says she’s right about that. With that, Hope punches him across the face, breaking his bottle and challenges him to a fight.
Chuckling, Logan tells Hope that she’s the one leavin’. Hope tells him to make her. Logan says big talk fer a little girl. Hope shoots back that she isn’t a little girl. Logan tells her she sure as hell actin’ like one, sittin’ there feelin’ sorry for herself. Hope says uh-huh and then asks Logan what he’s doing there. Pulling out another bottle, Logan asks isn’t it obvious? He’s celebratin’. Hope asks that he’s celebrating in an alley, behind a dumpster? Logan remarks hard to believe, ain’t it? Him, livin’ the dream. Putting her hand to her head, Hope tells Logan she doesn’t understand him at all. Logan comments that’s a shocker.
Taking a swig from his bottle, Logan tells Hope that he used to be afraid o’ the future too. After Hope asks that now he’s not, Logan tells her yup. Now he thinks he’s just afraid o’ her. Hope says to her that she… she would never do anything to hurt him… Logan tells her that she never could do anything to hurt him. He doesn’t believe in her. Sitting next to Logan, Hope says that makes two of them. She then asks him what she is to do. If she knew how to give them the future they wanted, she would. But, she doesn’t know how. How does she change something that hasn’t happened yet? How do you change the future?
 Logan tells her to get her head outta her ass. Everything she does changes the future, the future’s always changin’. But the past, the past is set in stone. Hope tells him that’s not true. She’s jumped back and forth through time, a lot. Logan says yeah, an’ what changed. After Hope asks if he means in the past, Logan tells her no, he means in her. Hope tells him that she doesn’t understand what he’s asking her. Standing up, Logan tells her that maybe someday she will, someday in the future.
Seeing him start to leave, Hope asks Logan where he’s going. Leaving the bottle of alcohol behind, Logan tells her none o’ her business. Hope calls out to him that she thought this was his spot. Logan replies so did he but it ain’t. Not anymore.


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They’ll bet on anything in Vegas. A large bald man sits on one side of the table, a smaller, wide-eyed man sitting across from him, slumped forward. The bald man folds his arms. Other men are gathered in the room, while piles and piles of money sit at either end of the table. A man in a grey suit holds a revolver in his hands, ‘Now we will have some fun, yes? All you bastards get your bets in, okay?’ he calls out. He is Russian, and smiles as he places the revolver down on the table. When you add the Russian mob into the mix and anything goes. ‘Six chambers, one bullet. Good luck, gentlemen!’ he grins wickedly.
‘Right now I just sit and watch. Any man has the right to pick his own poison’ a man sitting amongst the crowd of men thinks to himself. The others stare blankly at the two men sitting at the table. ‘No more bets. Here we go’ the Russian mobster calls out. ‘Oh…God’ the smaller man utters as he raises the revolver to his head, and closes his eyes as he pulls the trigger - but there is only a click, and he places the revolver back on the table. ‘A hundred on this trigger pull! Someone calls out. ‘Done’ the mobster replies. The bald man picks the revolver up and looks at it, before calmly raising it to his head and pulling the trigger, but there is once again only a click. He puts it back down on the table in front of the anxious man, who looks at the weapon in shock as he picks it up once again.
‘Pull the trigger, my friend. No quitting once you start’ the Russian orders. ‘Oh… God… please’ the man utters, his eyes even wider than earlier. ‘Here we go’ someone in the crowd remarks, holding some money. ‘He’s crapping his pants’ another man declares. The scared man pulls the trigger, and the revolver fires, he is blown backwards off his chair. ‘What a show! Let’s get the next challenger in here’ the Russian calls out while two other men pull the scared man’s body away.
‘That’s me’ a man in the crowd thinks to himself, standing up, he walks past other men and as he approaches the table, Logan a.k.a. Wolverine thinks to himself that he had to poke his nose in a lot of dark corners, shake down some shady characters to find his way into this room. ‘Just so I could find this guy’ Logan tells himself as he sits down across from the bald man, who stares back, blankly. Logan stares at him, while the Russia holds the revolver up, ‘A single shot. We all know the rules, yes? Let it begin’.
‘Wait’ Logan calls out. ‘My friend, if you back out now, you’ll never leave this room alive’ the mobster points out. Logan announces that he doesn’t want to back out, he just wants another bullet in the gun. ‘Another bullet? This is unusual. Okay with you, my friend?’ the mobster asks the bald man, who stares at Logan, before smiling and replying ‘Okay’. The Russian smiles and declares that they have truly never seen such competitors, and loads the second bullet into the revolver. He hands it to Logan, stating that the challenger has the honor of going first. ‘We keep going until somebody’s dead. No matter what’ Logan remarks. ‘Those are the rules’ the bald man responds.
Logan pulls the trigger, but the revolver just clicks. He hands it across the table to the bald man, who picks it ups and places it to his temple - he pulls the trigger, but the same thing happens, it merely clicks. Logan can smell the tension and expectation in the room as he takes the revolver back. Up this close, the man across from him smells raw and powerful. Until now, Logan has only been able to get a trace of the scent from the guy across from him. Two weeks on the road. A whiff here and there. Logan pulls the trigger - and is blasted backwards off his chair. ‘He asked for two bullets but only needed one, eh? Come on guys, get this corpse out of here before it starts to stink’ the mobster calls out, while the bald man remains expressionless. Two men start to pull Logan up. ‘Heavy bastard’ one of them remarks. ‘Yeah’ the other agrees, before Logan starts to cough.
‘Christ, this joker ain’t dead!’ one of the men exclaims, dropping him. ‘Impossible’ the other remarks. The bald man doesn’t even flinch. Logan climbs back onto his seat, with the bald man staring at him, and the Russian mobster looking slightly uneasy. Logan admits to himself that that did not feel so hot. There is a ringing in his head, and he busted and eardrum, but it will heal. ‘That one’s all used up’ he calls out as he pulls the bullet from his head. The bald man stares at Logan, who hands the revolver over to him. ‘Your turn Logan points out.
The bald man puts the revolver to his head. Logan frowns at him while the crowd watch in anticipation. Logan narrows his eyes, as does the bald man, who suddenly pulls the trigger, and is blown sideways off his chair, brain splattered all around. ‘Jesus, now I’ve seen everything’ someone remarks, turning away. ‘I don’t even know how to bet on this anymore’ another smiles. The mobster steps forward, ‘This is a first my friends. Did we promise you action or did we promise you action?’ he adds that they will be talking about this one for a long time to come, when suddenly, a hand reaches up to the table, and the bald man gets up. ‘This show isn’t over. Not by a long shot’ Logan realizes.
The men watch in awe, while Logan is the only one in the room that has a clue. For the Russian mobsters, the whole world just turned upside down. The bald man’s form begins to grow bigger, stretching his clothes to ripping, his hands form claws. ‘The spectators are about to become participants’ Wolverine tells himself as he sits calmly in his seat, while the mobsters in the room pull out their weapons. The bald man now looks like some sort of demon, blue skin, a mouth full of jagged teeth, large ears. ‘Play time’s over, gentlemen’ he calls out in a strange voice. ‘A monster!’ someone calls out. ‘Blast it back to Hell’ another declares as they all open fire on the strange being, who starts slamming their heads into the wall. He moves quick and is onto his next, crushing his head in his hand, he makes his way through them all with ease, leaving the room soaked in blood.
‘Your turn, pipsqueak’ he calls out to Logan. ‘Don’t you even want to know who I am, what I’m doing here?’ Logan asks. The monster replies that he knows plenty, explaining that he has a rear-mirror in his brain and that Logan has been filling it up some Oklahoma. ‘I feel you back there like a little fuzzy shadow’ he declares. Calmly, Logan tells the monster that he made a mistake killing that Creek Indian Chief, as his brother was a medicine man, and pointed him in this direction. The monster replies that the old chief had the sight. ‘Knew what I was. I couldn’t let him blab. He’d have every two-bit demon hunter and wannabe exorcist on my ass’ he explains. ‘Instead, you got me’ Logan jokes. ‘Yeah, I got you’ the demon mutters. ‘Lucky me!’ he shouts as he lunges forward, knocking the table into Wolverine, who flips backwards, and unsheathes his claws.
‘I see you have laws of your own. Those for show or are they sharp like mine?’ the demon asks. ‘Let’s find out’ Logan jokes, as he slices off the monster’s right arm, but the monster manages to shove its own claws into Logan’s chest, drawing blood. ‘You mist as well forget it, you can’t hurt me’ the demon declares, picking up his severed arm, he reveals that they are not made of the same stuff. ‘Hack and slash all you want. I always humpy-dumpty myself back together again’ he explains, placing his arm against his wound, it re-attaches itself. ‘That’s a good magic trick. Let me give it a try’ Wolverine snarls as he pulls his shirt off, and displays his won healing power, as the bloody claw wounds heal up immediately. The monster is shocked. The monster also doesn’t like being shown up - he is used to holding all the cards.
Logan knows that the monster is all blind rage and muscle, that he can’t believe he is not feasting on Logan’s still beating heart yet, just some puny human. The demon starts to make a getaway, but Logan slashes at it’s body. First its stomach, then its left arm, then its right foot. He is not so much fighting, as he is whittling. ‘Say goodnight, humpty-dumpty’ Logan snarls as he raises his deadly claws to the demon’s face, then decapitates him. The demon is still able to speak: ‘Ill get you for this, jackass! I’ll put myself back together, and then there won’t be enough of you left to fill a thimble!’ he threatens Logan, who just tells him to shut up. Logan starts picking up the demon’s body parts, knowing that he has to make sure he puts each piece of the demon into a separate sack so he doesn’t melt back together. It could be worse, though, he could be the poor sap with a mop who has to clean up all the bodies and blood in this room.
Later, Logan is in his jeep, the whole trip takes nearly a week as he tours the Southwest, dropping a leg down a gully in one location, and disposing of the rose down a hole in another location. The demon’s head sits on the passenger seat of Logan’s jeep. He starts off with threats, but changes his tune when he realizes that Logan is spreading his parts around. He has probably never been this far from his arms and legs before. ‘You can’t do this, man. Look I know people, okay? I can get you money, women, you like women, right?’ the demon asks. ‘You’re getting on my nerves, head’ Logan snarls.
The demon’s panic becomes pathetic, Logan figured them for tougher. ‘This ain’t right! I’m begging you. You’re the hero, ain’t you? Then have mercy. Don’t leave me spread around. Have mercy!’ the demon pleads. Logan stops the jeep and takes the head on foot now, crossing dangerous cliffs and ravines. ‘Mercy. I’m surprised the word doesn’t burn the demon’s tongue’ he thinks to himself, while wondering where the mercy was for the old man and the butchered people back on the Indian reservation. ‘You can’t just toss me into a hole! It might be a thousand years before anyone finds me. It’s cruel and unusual!’ the demon head calls out. Coming to a stop at the bottom of a gully, Logan sees a cave entrance and tells the demon that it is a little unusual. ‘What’s cruel is that I’m going to face you toward the wall’ he remarks, deciding that he withholds mercy from the merciless - it is his job.


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Saudade
A flag with a drawing of a mermaid blows in the wind. Three bullets are fired through the flag, tearing it, while some local youths rush about over a broken down car. Litter is strewn across the ground. One of the youths takes off, ‘C’mon, Mexer! Don’t be going weird on us now!’ one of the others demands. ‘Not with a death squad on our asses!’ the youth calls back. Gang members with balaclavas over their faces run down the beach, dodging boxes and tables that are dotted about. ‘Ha! I love the way they yelp when ya nail them!’ one of the gangsters exclaims. ‘Don’t look back!’ one of the youths tells his friends. ‘Make ‘em dance the “Death Twitch Samba”!’ one of the gangsters decides as they continue in their pursuit.
At that moment, a crane at a construction site lowers a motorcycle towards the ground, where Logan a.k.a. Wolverine of the X-Men is leaning against some scaffolding, taking a phone call from Professor Charles Xavier, who tells him that they knew from Cerebro that he is still in Brazil. ‘So I thought -’ the Professor begins, while Wolverine tells Charles to give him a break, reminding him that he is supposed to be on vacation here in Fort Aleza. Charles tells Logan that he wouldn’t ask if it wasn’t important, ‘And coming from Cerebro, an anomaly like this -’ Xavier begins, while Wolverine suddenly notices that his motorcycle has touched down - and something is wrong. ‘I gotta go, Xavier -’ he quickly declares, before shouting ‘Hey - HEY!’ and rushing over to his motorcycle, which the three youths are checking it out.
‘Get yer meat hooks off my scoot!’ Logan warns them. One of the youths pulls a small knife towards Logan and says something in his native tongue that translates to calling Logan a crazy American. ‘Ain’t crazy, and ain’t American. Canuck and proud. You boys need a lift, you got it… but I got the keys and I do the driving, see?’ Logan tells the boys, holding the keys.
Suddenly, one of the youths raises his hand, his eyes go wide, and energy swirls around, as Wolverine, a forklift and various other objects at the construction site are lifted into the air. Wolverine is surprised and drops the keys. ‘What the hell -?’ he calls out, while one of the youths grabs the keys.
‘Lil punks are gonna -’ Wolverine begins as he falls to the ground, but he is left disorientated and cannot get up. One of the youths says something in their native tongue, before the three of them climb onto the motorcycle and speed away. ‘Bite - me!’ one of the youths exclaims.
However, the gang from earlier has arrived on seen, and they see Wolverine keeled over and rush over to him. ‘Hell! The little pricks ripped that guy off for his bike!’ one of them exclaims. Another utters an expletive as he looks around, while one of the gang goes over to Wolverine and asks him if he is okay. ‘I’ll live’ Logan mutters. Another of gangster pulls out a gun, ‘Those little dirt-bags are going to be so sorry!’ he snarls. A small pick-up pulls up, ‘Move over, I’m driving!’ the gang member with the gun declares, and they speed off, ’Do you copy? They’re on a motorcycle. South exit gate 3. You know the drill’ one of them radios.
Logan gets to his feet, ’Man-O-man… I’ve felt better after a bender and a bar fight’ he thinks to himself, realizing that kid was a mutant, with a kick like a psionic mule. ‘Guess I gotta go look now…’ Logan decides and runs off.
Meanwhile, on the Sercipe Heights, a large mansion is surrounded by tended gardens, and a long line of locals stand at the doorway. In the foyer, attendants monitor the line, and usher people in, one at a time. A woman enters a large room, where a man with long hair sits at a chair. ‘Welcome. You may leave it in the bowl’ he instructs. The woman approaches a table and places an envelope into a bowl already overflowing with other envelopes. The man, dressed in flowing white clothes, rubs his chin and tells the woman that there is no need to say a word. ‘I am, after all, He Who Knows. His eyes narrow and he begins to say ‘Nothing too serious, I see -’, when suddenly, he goes wide-eyed and convulses, and huddles over, clutching his head.
‘Get her out! It’s happening again!’ one of the attendants declares, rushing over. The attendants help “He Who Knows” up to his feet as he instructs them to get him to his bed. The woman is led out, while “He Who Knows” lays on his bed, ‘It’s him again! He used his power!’ he declares, before ordering his attendants to find him that mutant.
At that moment, Logan trudges through the run-down village, ‘Good thing I do my own oil changes… BP 10W60 has a distinctive bouquet’ Logan remarks to himself, adding that so does the paint on a BSA. Logan sees his motorcycle lying on a sidewalk, the gangsters standing nearby. ‘You guys wanna step away from my scoot… like now?’ Logan suggests. ‘Mind your own business’ one of the gangsters replies, suggesting to Logan that he get lost. ‘Lighten up, Jorge’ one of the other gangsters suggests. ‘He’s not the one who needs to lighten up’ Logan declares, when he sees the other gangsters down a nearby alleyway, beating up the three youths. ‘What kinda creep beats on kids?’ Logan asks. ‘They’re scum. Look, you got your bike back… so get on it and ride, Americano’ one of the thugs suggests, when suddenly, Wolverine punches him in the face. ‘That’s Canuck, to you, loser!’ Logan snarls.
‘You’re dead!’ the other thug warns Logan, raising a gun towards him. Logan swiftly slices the gun into three pieces with his claws. ‘Not yet, bub’ Logan declares as he elbows the thug in his face, leaving two gangsters lying on the sidewalk, Logan gets onto his motorcycle. ‘The little bastard was packing a shank!’ one of the gangsters down the alleyway calls out as he holds one of the thugs by his neck, the other two thugs taking hold of the other two youths. ‘Wanna see it disappear, punk?’ the gangster threatens, holding the knife to the boy, when suddenly, Wolverine’s motorcycle whirls as he enters the alleyway, knocking the first thug down, then the second, and the third. ‘Move!’ Logan orders the youths. ‘Hop on, dammit!’ he tells them. They don’t move, and don’t hop onto the motorcycle. ‘You waiting around to die, or what?’ Logan asks them. They stare back, before getting onto the motorcycle with him.
But as Logan starts to drive out of the alleyway, one of the thugs reaches up - only for Logan to kick him in the face, knocking him backwards. On the main street though, the other two thugs have gathered themselves. ‘Get the pickup, damn!’ one of them calls out, firing his gun after Wolverine, the bullets landing in Logan’s back as he shields the three youngsters. ‘What are you waiting for?’ the gangster called Jorge asks his comrade. ‘Chill’ the other man tells him. ‘No way!’ Jorge exclaims. ‘We gotta run him down and -’ Jorge begins, but his fellow gangster interrupts him, ‘With what?’ he asks, motioning to the pickup, which has claw marks across the now deflated tired.
Shortly, Logan and the three youths are at the beach, where others are playing music, drinking and having fun. ‘Hey, Logan… you sure you’re not hurt?’ one of the youths asks, picking up Logan’s jacket with the bullet holes in it. ‘Healing is one of the things I’m best at’ Logan replies as he puts some money into a candle that is floating on the water. ‘Yes… among other talents, right?’ the youth asks. ‘You wanna talk about yours, kid?’ Logan asks. ‘Not yet’ the boy replies, before telling Logan that he could pass for a descendant of one of the Portuguese colonials. Someone hands Logan a bottle of beer, while Logan asks ‘They the ones with all the dough in this country? He checks out a woman who is dancing nearby. ‘Yeah, you don’t know what it’s like here… you don’t know what it’s like to be an outsider and have nothing’ one of the boys tells Logan.
‘Wanna bet?’ Logan replies, while still looking at the woman. ‘I was the kid who flunked “plays well with others”…’ Logan reveals. The woman goes over to Logan and holds her hands out, wanting him to dance with her. Logan stands up, and announces that he had everything taken away from him more times than he can count. ‘But I know that even if you live in the dumps… the carnival still comes to town.’
Logan smiles as he dances with the woman. She looks into Logan’s eyes, then suddenly places a chain with a mermaid pendant attached to it around Logan’s neck. Logan holds the mermaid and looks at it - but when he looks back up to the woman, she has vanished. Logan smiles, then stretches his arms, ‘Stop and smell the cotton candy, Logan’ he tells himself. ‘Hey, Logan! You look happy, you get lucky?’ one of the boys calls out as Logan walks towards them. Logan takes another beer and replies ‘Good guys don’t tell’.
Wolverine asks the youths if they have a place to crash, explaining that he is beat, and not too picky, either. ‘Come on!’ one of them exclaims. ‘We’ll show you our palace’ the boy calls out as the three of them rush towards an overcrowded old bus that pulls up. Logan climbs onto the bus as it takes off, ‘A palace? All right’ he tells them. The boys and Logan climb onto the roof, as one of them tells Logan that he was found in a dumpster where he was born, that his mom died giving birth, and she might have been twelve, and they just took her away with the trash. ‘So I was screwed from day one, another orphan on the street’. He adds that he got his first gun when he was seven. ‘Didn’t take no more $&%#’ he boasts. ‘A wild one, huh?’ Logan asks, before remarking that he was like that once. The boy tells Logan that he knows. ‘I can smell it on you. You’re just like us’ he tells him. ‘There’s something else we have in common…’ the boy begins. ‘I think I know what you mean’ Logan replies.
‘Mutantes?’ the boy asks. ‘Bingo. Me, I’m harder to kill than most’ Logan replies, while motioning to his jacket filled with bullet holes. Logan tells the boy know he knows a mutant who can shoot lasers from his eyes and another who can teleport. ‘We all need to stick together, you know?’ he explains, before telling the boy that he has something special. ‘I think ya know that’ Logan adds. The boy looks at his hands and reveals that it just started a few months back, and that he doesn’t have a lot of control over it. ‘I know a place where you can learn. Interested?’ Logan asks. The boy replies that he is, before telling Logan that right now, they have to take him to their home.
Soon, they are all inside a small shack, two candles light up the inside, as two of the boys sleep in bunk beds, while Logan lies on a mattress on the floor, across from the young mutant, who asks ‘To Westchester? In the States? How could I go that far away? My place is here with my friends’. He looks at his friends and tells Logan that God gave him this power to protect them from the squads. ‘How can I leave them?’ he asks. Logan smiles and tells the young mutant that he already has the soul of a hero. ‘Irado!’ the boy exclaims.
Some time later, a noise can be heard in between Wolverine’s light snoring. The noise gets louder and louder, startling Logan, who picks up a small communicator. ‘Professor?’ he asks as he sees Charles Xavier on the small screen. ‘You never called me back, Logan’ the Professor points out. Logan rubs his head and replies that things got a little crazy here, before telling Charles that he thinks he has found the mutant Cerebro turned up. ‘You found one, but not the one I meant…the other one has a got a huge aura, a particularly nasty one’ Charles reveals. Logan yawns, then squints as he walks out of the shack and is assaulted by the sunlight streaming down. ‘Oh great. Another evil mutant’ Logan mutters as he walks towards the beach, and asks Charles to text him the mutant’s location and then he will check him out, after he has had a dip and trimmed his bikini line. Charles doesn’t reply. ‘Waste of a good joke’ Logan smiles, removing his clothes, he gets into the water and starts to swim.
Shortly, Logan gets out of the water and puts his clothes back on. ‘That was some swim you just took!’ a voice calls out. Logan looks across and sees the three youths carrying fruit. ‘You must’ve gone a mile out and back!’ one of the boys declares, before asking Logan if he wants some breakfast. ‘We even paid for it’ one of the other boys assures Logan, when suddenly, the noise of roaring motors can be heard as two vehicles speed onto the beach, frightening the boys who drop their fruit and start to run. They are surrounded as many gangsters emerge from the vehicles. ‘Too many of them! We’ve got no chance at all!’ one of the boys calls out. Logan tells him that it is okay. ‘The ol’ Canuckle-head is down to drop a six-pack of kick ass!’ he boasts, unsheathing his claws.
‘It’s the Canadian!’ one of the gangsters shouts out as he hits Logan with the pickup. ‘I think we just kill you now…Chupacabra!’ one of the gangsters declares, as several of them line up and start firing their weapons at Logan, who is riddled with bullets. ‘Logan!’ the young mutant boy exclaims, using his powers he knocks the gangsters backwards by forcing their truck into the air. A furious Logan gets to his feet then leaps into the air, onto the pickup, he starts slashing about with his claws at the gangsters. Down on the beach, however, one of the gangsters kicks the young mutant over. ‘Dumb move, pink! Your new pal sticks out!’ Other gangsters move in towards the truck which has since fallen back to the beach, while Wolverine continues to tear it apart. The gangster stands on the boy’s arm, and the boy cries out in pain. The gangster then kicks him in the head.
‘We gonna kill you a lot, scumbag!’ one of the thugs declares as they continue to fire their guns at Wolverine. ‘We’re taking the kid’ one of the gangsters calls out as he throws the mutant boy over his shoulder. ‘You know what to do’ he tells his comrades, as one of them fires a bullet into one of the other youngsters. ‘The man only wants Mexer - you lose!’ another thug declares, kicking the other boy in his stomach. ‘Hey…’ an old man calls out as he approaches the thugs. ‘You got something to say?’ one of the thugs asks, raising his weapon. ‘No! Nothing! I’m going’ the man replies. ‘I know what this loser needs!’ another of the thugs calls out as they look down at Wolverine bullet-hole covered body. ‘A burst for the road!’ the thug exclaims as he fires another bullet into Wolverine, before telling his comrades to clean the mess up and make it tidy.
‘Here’s a cell for your collection’ one of the gangsters remarks, handing Wolverine’s communicator to his friend. ‘You’re not putting that oozing meat in my car!’ one of the gangsters calls out. Why can’t we just dump him in the pickup?’ another asks. ‘Somebody will strip it down for parts by sundown, anyway’ one of the others remarks, motioning to the pickup which Wolverine has torn to pieces. The thugs tie a rope around Wolverine’s feet, and connect it to the truck, which then takes off, dragging his badly injured body behind it while they continue to shoot at him. ‘Good shot!’ one of them exclaims. ‘Hey, watch this!’ the driver calls out as he starts swerving on the road, causing Logan’s body to bang into the Cliffside. The driver swerves again, and Wolverine’s body swings out over the edge of the lower cliff, over the sea. ‘Sleep with the fishes, gringo!’ one of the thugs declares, as he suddenly cuts the rope with his knife, and Logan’s body falls into the ocean.
Logan’s body sinks in the water. The mermaid pendant around Logan’s neck suddenly starts to glow, and a real mermaid swims towards Logan. She reaches out for the pendant, then wraps herself around Wolverine. She is fixated on the pendant, and her long tongue latches onto it, before she kisses Logan, and they both begin to glow.
Meantime, back in the mansion on Sercipe Heights, a woman screams, ‘Almost there’ “He Who Knows” tells her as he places his fingers on her stomach, stating that he can feel it. ‘It’s really a nexus of negative energy’ he tells her when suddenly, ‘Got it!’ he announces as he holds up a tumor and tells her that it has been excised and she is healed. He puts the tumor into a bowl and declares that his mortal hands were guided by God himself. He turns to the woman’s husband and tells him that he can take her home, that there will be little pain. The man helps his wife up, while “He Who Knows” remarks that it is the advantage of  his method - the official medical world does not recognize his way, ‘But they are the ones who mix up medicine with money’ he adds.
“He Who Knows” tells the man that his wife shouldn’t walk, and asks him if he has a car. The man replies that they don’t, that a neighbor dropped them off, and they have to get the train to Sentao. “He Who Knows” turns to one of his attendants, and instructs him to drive the good people to Fortaleza Station. ‘You are too kind. We can’t thank you enough, Sir’ the man replies. ‘You are a true saint sent from Heaven to walk the Earth’ the man adds. “Hw Who Knows” replies that he is just a humble servant doing God’s will. ‘All this that I do, is not work to me…it is pure pleasure’ he assures the man as he and his wife leave the room, while the line of people waiting to see the healer grows. One of the attendants asks if he should send in the next patient, but “He Who Knows” tells him ‘No…go and find me the most corrupt of them’.
At that moment, Wolverine’s naked body washes up on the beach, fully healed from the injuries he sustained earlier. ‘Hurt. But. I’m. Still. Kicking’ he tells himself as he rubs his head, then pops his claws. He gets up, the tattered mermaid flag blowing in front of him.
Back at the mansion, two of “He Who Knows’” associates bring a boy with a sack over his head towards their boss. ‘You should thank me, Mexer’ “He Who Knows” remarks as he removes the sack from Mexer’s head. ‘Through me, your sins are forgiven, and -’ “He Who Knows” begins, before Mexer smack his head against his captor’s. Mexer’s mouth is taped shut, and his hands are tied behind his back - but he starts to run. “He Who Knows” rubs his face, while his associates rush after Mexer - who comes to a stop when a large man steps in front of him, and picks the boy up by his face. ‘You are bathed…in the blood of the lamb. Now, you have more than life, you have a chance’ “He Who Knows” tells Mexer, who struggles to break free. “He Who Knows” places his hands on Mexer’s face, and tells him that he has the chance to serve God by helping him to comfort his penitents. ‘What better future could there be?’ “He Who Knows” enquires, while the boy goes wide-eyed and energy darts around him.
Logan finds a payphone, but he has no change. ‘But I’ve got adamantium’ he declares as he shoves a claw into the money-slot. There is a noise, and Logan quickly retracts his claw. A woman walks past him and smiles, checking Logan out - he is only wearing the remains of the tattered flag around his waist. ‘Logan? How are you doing?’ Charles Xavier asks back in Westchester. ‘Been worse’ Logan replies casually. Charles tells Logan that they feared the worst when he fell of Cerebro’s grid. ‘I was assembling a team to find you -’ Charles begins, before explaining that Logan’s avatar suddenly reappeared. ‘Yeah, some idiots thought they could do to me what even Magneto couldn’t manage’ Logan mutters, before telling the Professor that they are evil scum, kid-killers, and worse - but that he has a line on one of them, as long as Charles can pinpoint his X-phone. ‘To the centimeter, Logan. Why?’ Charles replies. ‘Just a hunch’ Logan replies.
Shortly, Logan is inside a very fancy house and wearing a green suit, ‘Nothing I hate worse than a trophy hunter’ Logan remarks to himself as he looks through a cabinet of mobile phones. ‘Looks like the mooks who stuff the heads of things they don’t eat’ he adds, while deciding that e knows what he would like to cut off this creep, as he takes back his phone. Logan wonders what the big picture is here, how it all fits together. He is relieved to have his phone back, and puts it in his pocket, when suddenly one of the thugs shouts ‘YOU!’ as they enter the house. ‘Yeah, me…’ Logan replies as he rushes after the thug who turns to run. ‘Ain’t it a bitch when you shoot a mook, drag him behind a truck, throw him off a cliff…and he still don’t stay dead? Sucks, don’t it’ Logan remarks as he grabs the thug, and breaks his fingers.
‘I figure…you at least owe me this suit’ Logan tells the thug as he throws him into a table, knocking it and everything on it over. ‘No Harley Logo, but it’s okay’ Logan adds. The thug reaches up for a gun, while Wolverine sniffs the air. ‘Crapped yourself, huh?’ he asks. The thug mutters something in his native tongue, ‘Say what?’ Logan replies, standing on the man’s broken fingers. However, the man gathers himself enough to raise the gun and aim it at Logan. ‘These bad boys are less than one millimeter thick - but they happen to be solid adamantium!’ he declares, before grabbing the thug by the neck and asking him where Mexer is. The thug spits in Logan’s face. Logan releases one claw and shoves it into the man’s stomach, ‘I asked nicely’ he snarls, announcing that now he gets down to being not so nice.
Logan warns the thug that he isn’t fooling around and asks him if he can say “peritonitis”. He assures the thug that nothing too important has been punctured, but points out that that can change. He shoves the man up against a wall, ‘Wait!’ the thug pleads, before assuring Logan that they didn’t do Mexer like they did the others, and reveals that it was on orders from Kuhrra Daizonest. ‘Who’s that? Your boss?’ Logan enquires. ‘No! A miraculous healer! A mystic!’ the thug claims, explaining that sometimes, he asks them to find a particular parasite, and in exchange, he cures all of their loved ones. Logan raises three claws to the thug’s face, ‘You ain’t got a heart to love, bupkis, so… adios!’ Logan calls out as he brings the claws down to the thug, when suddenly, ‘Papa?’ a voice calls out. Two young children stare in horror. Wolverine sees them and utters an expletive. He retracts his claws and lets the thug fall to the floor. He tells the children that their daddy had an accident, and suggests they call an ambulance. ‘And don’t let him drink anything’ Logan adds as he leaves the house.
Soon, Logan leans on the door of a convertible car, steering it, while a brick has been placed on the accelerator as the car speeds towards some iron-bar gates - Logan leaps from the car as the gates are smashed open. Inside, “He Who Knows” sits up in bed, and sees a bright orange light out his window. ‘The light of God’ he utters. ‘He has sent me a new sinner. A most powerful one’ the healer tells himself. Logan lands on the ground, furious, ‘I want Khurra Daizonest!’ he roars as people camped out nearby stare in horror. ‘He’s gotta answer!’ Logan Logan declares as he gets to his feet and pops his claws. ‘It’s a dead man! I saw him die!’ one of the gangsters calls out. ‘No! a demon from hell!’ another exclaims. ‘Satan sends him to kill our saviour!’ a woman declares, pointing at Logan. ‘Stop him!’ another woman calls out as she grabs Logan by the arm. ‘God help us!’ the first woman adds as she leaps onto Logan’s back.
More and more locals grab onto Wolverine, who tells them that he has no beef with any of them except the main man. “He Who Knows” approaches the locals attacking Wolverine, and tells his penitents to let him go. ‘Cough up the kid, bub - ‘ Logan orders as he runs towards his opponent. ‘The deviant sinner child is beyond your reach’ “He Who Knows” replies as he kicks Logan in the face. ‘He is happy…with his God’ “He Who Knows” explains as he reaches into Wolverine’s skin and starts to pull muscle from Logan’s arm. Logan is surprised, and forces the muscle back into his arm, he then lunges at his opponent, ‘Your powers lit up Cerebro’s chips, bub… but I ain’t impressed!’ Logan snarls as he takes a swipe at “He Who Knows”, but he is swift and dodges Logan’s attack.
Logan lunges again, and this time, marks his foe’s face. “He Who Knows” touches his face, ‘It’s not a power, but a gift! A gift from God to save the righteous…and punish the ungodly!’ he declares as he kicks Logan again, keeping him back, but at the same time, reaches into Logan’s leg, and pulls out some more muscle. Logan cries out in agony, while “He Who Knows” tells Wolverine that his little friend now has the honor of serving God. Logan falls to the ground and tries to put his muscle back in his leg, while asking ‘What’s that supposed to mean, dirt-wad?’, and as “He Who Knows” touches Wolverine’s chest and starts to pull his muscle, he tells him that he will find out soon enough. Logan is agony once more.
‘I am going to take away your tortured soul, and -’ “He Who Knows” begins, before Logan raises his claws and shoves them through his enemy’s arm. ‘GAAA!’ the mad healer calls out, clutching his arm. ‘You dare to -?’ he snaps, while Logan gets to his feet, ‘I’m just getting warmed up, bub’ he warns him. ‘I wa prepared to be merciful to the pathetic animal… but now… you are going to suffer like the damned!’ he warns Wolverine, moving towards him once more. Logan tries to get out of his way, but the villain is swift, and digs his hands into Logan’s back, pulling more muscle. ‘You will feel the pain of all your sins…retribution is at hand, and it will be -’ “He Who Knows” calls out, as he reaches for Wolverine’s chest - but a perplexed look falls across his face, as Logan has shoved a set of claws through his enemy’s chest.
Logan lifts “He Who Knows” up, and tells him that the “ripping out the heart trick” doesn’t work so hot with adamantium rib cages. ‘I could take out yours in one stroke though, ‘ Logan explains, adding that “He Who Knows” could heal himself just as he continues to rip, but that would use up all of his power. ‘And you’re already looking kinda ill, bub’ Logan points out, suggesting his opponent is on the express elevator straight to hell. ‘So why don’t you get with the program? Tell me what you did with the kid’ Wolverine declares. ‘You tell me…and I’ll cut you a deal’ he offers, as “He Who Knows” continues to try and heal himself, but Logan’s claws are lodged firmly through his body.
‘I’m putting the answer in your head’ “He Who Knows” utters, before telling Logan ‘Now you know…you must - must -’, but his voice cus out. ‘What?’ Logan asks. ‘You have to -’ the villain begins, wide-eyed, the blood pouring from his chest has increased, and an instant later, his body goes limp. Logan lets “He Who Knows” fall from his claws and onto the ground, while the locals stand around and watch. ‘Asshole’ Logan mutters as he walks away.
Sometime later, a jeep moves through the rain, across muddy makeshift roads, until Logan stops and gets out, staring down over the edge of the ground, to some sort of quarry below, where hundreds of people are going about their business in the rain - carrying sacks, using tools against the rocks. Logan starts to make enquiries with some of them, but they all appear confused - until one of them points Logan towards the person he has come seeking. Logan goes over to Mexer and touches him on the back as he hacks away at some rocks. Mexer turns, he appears dazed and confused.
Later still, Wolverine is back at the Xavier Institute, in the hangar bay, several young mutant students sitting before him, he tells them that the evil mutant burned out Mexer’s brain, but that he didn’t quite kill it, as he couldn’t kill Mexer’s soul. Mexer is standing nearby dressed in janitor overalls, a blank expression on his face as he washes the X-Jet with a sponge and water. ‘And he sold what he thought was an empty husk to bosses of the Serra Pelade Gold Mines’ Logan explains, telling the students that he had to go medieval some of those mooks, and Professor Xavier was happy to offer Mexer a place here. (Actually, the Professor and Logan argued about it). Logan tells the students that any of them could have been in the same fix, but that they were lucky to be born in the right place. ‘So stop messing around and make yer powers count for something’ he warns them. ‘Or else…I’ll have to rain on your parade!’ he adds, raising his arms like a monster, the kids turn and run away from him.
‘Lo-loooohgan. Be nice’ Mexer calls out. ‘Not all the time, Mexer’ Logan smiles, before turning and walking out of the hangar. ‘Not all the time’ he says once again, as he looks around the grounds of the Xavier Institute. Leaves fall from the trees, before a voice calls out ‘I know that look, Logan… it means something’s gnawing at you inside’ Jean Grey tells her dear friend as she flies over to him. Logan tells Jean that there is no keeping anything from her. ‘Nothing in my heart, at least’ he adds, before telling Jean that sometimes he has this feeling - a longing, yearning maybe, for something that was lost - or maybe doesn’t even exist. Images flash through his mind - of training Mexer to use his powers, of spending time with him at a pub, or battling Sabretooth and Omega Red, of telling Mexer off, and throwing him over his shoulder. Jean watches Logan intently, as Logan tells her that the Brazilians have a word for it - saudade.


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Wolverine, dressed in his black leather costume, stands amongst the ruins of old buildings with his claws unsheathed. He stares out across a jagged alien landscape where giant stone outcrops rise above him. Along these outcrops hundreds of humanoid creatures stare back at him. Although they are far in the distance, Wolverine can see that they are not human. Instead, their bodies are made up of a mesh of black organs that twist and contort to form a humanoid shape. The creatures have no real face; instead they have a white mask with two eyeholes in it.
(New York City, earlier…)
Wolverine is walking through a park and makes his way up some stone steps. As he gets to the top, he sees a young girl stood in front of him. She’s has long black hair and is dressed in a simple red and pink checked dress. He ignores her and walks past but she calls out his name. She asks if he’s the Wolverine and he asks what it is to her. She tells him her name is Fusa and her people need his help. She explains that her people are being killed off and only he can save them. Confused, he asks what she’s talking about but she ignores him and tells him to take her hand. Warily, he takes her outstretched hand. As he takes hold of it, he hears a click sound and the world around him starts to blur.
Even more confused, he can only watch as the blur envelopes him. He starts to let go of Fusa’s hand but she tells him not to let go during the transfer. It’s too late though and he is separated from her and is drawn towards a bright light. Fusa materializes in a ruined room surrounded by other people. She is now wearing black leather from her neck down. A heavily armored man hunched in the corner asks if she lost him and she replies that it was somewhere in the transfer but she’s sure he crossed over with her. Another person speaks up, a young girl with white hair wearing a blue and white jumpsuit. Indicating to a boy who looks exactly like her, she tells Fusa that Yaa sense something on this side. Yaa tells her that something humanoid near the Shikishiro River still lives. He thinks. Fusa picks up on the last bit and seems worried.
Elsewhere, Wolverine materializes above a concrete slope. He falls and lands on the slope and begins to slide down it. He manages to stop himself catapulting off the narrow ledge at the bottom. As he gets to his feet, he looks out to see a barren landscape before him. In the distance, he sees ruined concrete constructs rise up out of the parched earth. He appears to be stood on a dam-like structure. An enormous chasm that probably once contained water stretches out before him.
He begins to make his way up the slope to the top of the dam. At the top, he sees that the other side of the dam holds much of the same landscape. The sun is now setting over the empty world, making the sky and earth reddish orange in color. Wolverine can only wonder where the hell he is.
Before he can muse on it for too long, he hears a sound behind him. Something comes bouncing down the dam from higher up. He sees it’s a sphere-like device with small tendrils coming from it. It comes to a stop a little way away from him and then clicks. He looks on as the device opens up and energy starts to swirl around it. The sphere glows red and rises into the air. The energy starts to take on a solid form and grows in ferocity. Wolverine unsheathes his claws as a giant humanoid form takes shape. The sphere is now placed in the chest of a being that is seemingly made from flesh and metal. It’s black body towers over Wolverine and he looks at its white mask-like face to see two blue glowing eyes come from behind the eyeholes.
As it finishes forming, it almost looks as if it’s grinning at him. The creature then swings its arm and sends Wolverine flying through the air. He lands a little way off so the creature jumps up to close the distance. It lands behind him and readies for another attack. It swings its arm but Wolverine slices it off with his claws. The creature attacks again and this time Wolverine chops it clean in half at the waist. It collapses on the floor but, before he can react, it starts to reform again. Tendrils come out from both halves of the body and link together. They pull tightly and start to rejoin. The red orb within the body creates more tendrils and uses them to lift the top half of the body onto the bottom half. Wolverine stares at the scene and rhetorically comments that it has to be kidding him.


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Wolverine: Son of Canada
In Vancouver, the heart of Canada’s British Columbia, the magnificent city now finds itself caught in a strange and ferocious weather pattern. The source of the disturbance is a bizarre energy portal which rips through the skies above the metropolis. From the alien portal, the gamma-irradiated brute known as the Hulk appears. Next to him emerge Spider-Man and Wolverine as well. They land in a street, poised to fight.
Spider-Man says he was hot on the trail of the Green Goblin when suddenly a ball of energy appeared and now he is here. He looks around and asks the others where he is. He spots a building with the sign “Greco Unlimited” on it, but must again asks where he is and who brought them there… and why. Hulk says he doesn’t like this place, something feels bad. Wolverine says it’s not the place and he tells them it’s British Colombia. Spider-Man is startled that he is in Canada. As the portal and the storm rage over them, Wolverine tells him to look up. He says that’s where they came from and that’s where they are going to find answers.
Hulk grabs Wolverine and Spider-Man and says he will take them there and smash whatever is doing this. Spider-Man says that wasn’t what Wolverine was suggesting but Hulk leaps towards the portal in the sky. Spider-Man says maybe they should come up with a plan and look before they leap. He says he has a bad feeling about this and fires a web behind him. They enter the portal and see a giant black sphere with Captain America, Silver Surfer, the Thing, Storm and Thor all stuck to the outside of it by its dark energy.
The tendrils of dark energy start to seek the three heroes out and Wolverine slashes at them with his claws. He says they have got to free the others by cutting them loose. Wolverine continues to slash at the energy with his claws but Spider-Man tells him it’s not working. He says it’s the distortion field that exists between their dimension and the Negative Zone. They are out of their element, he continues, and suggests the Hulk pulls them back up the web line he shot earlier. They manage to get back through the portal but now find themselves in a snowy forest. They see a large wooden house in the distance and Wolverine says they are at the Banff Springs Hotel in Calgary. Spider-Man jokes that Wolverine is their little genetically enhanced tour guide.
Spider-Man looks up at the portal and says he hates to tell them but they have company. The tendrils of dark energy whip down towards them through the portal. Hulk picks up a chunk of ice and says he will smash the energy and then pull apart whoever is sending it after them. Wolverine, slashing at the tendrils, says it won’t be that easy. Spider-Man tells him to hang on a minute and points out that Hulk might have a point. The energy is coming from somewhere or someone, so maybe it’s attached to someone. Wolverine gets what he is saying and guesses it’s their direct link to whoever is behind all of it. He shouts to the Hulk to grab one of the tendrils and pull.
When one of the energy tendrils attacks Hulk, he grabs hold of it and pulls hard, and in doing so manages to yank a dark energy creature from out of the portal. The creature lands on the ground in front of them and says they have found the darkforce. It tells them it won’t do them any good, as the darkforce’s master will defeat them and conquer their realm. It’s already too late, as the transmission has begun. The creature tells them to heed the coming of Blastaar and then leaps back through the portal. Spider-Man notes aloud that Blastaar is the tyrannical ruler of the Negative Zone and he’s a real heavyweight. They will have their work cut out for them. With that, the three heroes leap back into the portal.
(CN Tower, Ontario )
The heroes exit the portal and find themselves at the top of the world’s tallest building. Wolverine tells Spider-Man not to admire the view for too long. They somehow beat the darkforce through the portal but it’s already on its way and it brought some buddies. They look up to the portal above them to see three darkforce creatures hurtling towards them. One of the creatures tells them that resistance is futile and it’s time to join their compatriots. Wolverine slashes at one of the creatures and asks why they would do that. Is it so Blastaar can launch another attack on their dimension? The creature says that Blastaar has learnt from his past mistakes and that his defeats were due to Earth’s heroes. So this time he is taking them out of the battle first. Spider-Man summarizes that Blastaar sent the energy portals to the most powerful heroes on the planet to engulf them and transport them to the distortion field. But somehow they were the wild cards.
Spider-Man looks around him and sees all the satellite dishes on top of the tower and guesses that they are being used as transmitters. Blastaar is sending the energies around the world and opening up the portals which he will probably use to transport his armies through. Hulk shouts that he will smash it so there won’t be any armies or Blastaar. Spider-Man yells for him to stop. He says he thinks he can use it to get to their main transmitter. If they destroy the other satellites without taking out the main transmitter, then they’ve lost. But if they take them all out at once… Wolverine realizes what he’s suggesting and calls him a genius.
As Hulk grabs them both and leaps towards the portal, Spider-Man creates a web line back through the portal so they can get out again. He says that, as long as they keep the line connected to Earth, they can go to the distortion field and free the rest of the heroes. Wolverine thanks him and says he will take it from here. He thinks if they free one of the heroes, they should possess enough power to free the rest. That one would be the Silver Surfer.
Wolverine slashes at the tendrils binding the Surfer down and frees him. The Surfer thanks him and crackles with energy. He summons his board and then tells the rest of them to stand back whilst he summons the power cosmic. With a concentrates blast, he shoots the darkforce orb and destroys it, freeing the rest of the heroes. Thor thanks the Surfer and says Blastaar has gone too far. There will be a heavy price to pay for attacking the god of thunder. Storm tells him to calm down as there is far more at stake than personal vengeance. Captain America agrees with Storm. He suggests they split up to take out the rest of the transmitters before Blastaar can unleash his inter-dimensional invasion force across the planet. Ecstatically, the Thing shouts his catchphrase, “It’s clobberin’ time.”
With those words, the battle to save the planet commences. With the information provided by Wolverine, Spider-Man and the Hulk, the heroes blanket the Canadian landscape looking for the transmitters. Captain America and the Thing engage a hoard of darkforcers guarding one of the alien devices in front of the parliament building in Ottawa, while in Quebec Storm uses her lightning to destroy another transmitter. Meanwhile in Nova Scotia, the Silver Surfer uses his power cosmic to blast yet another transmitter.
The final showdown takes place in front of Cabot Tower beneath Signal Hill in Newfoundland. At the site of the main transmitter, Blastaar gathers his army of darkforcers for one final push onto Earth to complete his long sought-after conquest, but Earth’s mightiest heroes have other ideas. As Blastaar exits the portal, he sees Wolverine and his team waiting for him. Wolverine unsheathes his claws and says as his buddy Puck used to say… “let’s do this.” Together, Storm, Thor and the Silver Surfer use their powers to destroy the main transmitter in a huge explosion. As the final portal fades from existence, the Earth is saved again. As the heroes revel in their victory Spider-Man asks Wolverine if he knows Puck and wonders if he still pals around with Alpha Flight. Wolverine tells him maybe and Spider-Man asks him if he has their number, because it’s a long web swing back to New York from there.