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Wolverine has been dropped into the Dam and wakes up, freaked out! Realizing the mess he is in, Logan recalls Amiko stabbing him with her poisonous sais. Logan grabs on an edge before falling down the waterfall. He snikts his claws open and tries to use them to help him up, but the water is too strong and Logan has the hardest time to safe himself. Suddenly, an arm grabs him, and pulls him up. It’s Amiko!
Amiko jokes that Logan is heavier than he looks. Logan wants to know why Amiko rescues him, as she was just trying to kill him. Or does she want to try it again? Amiko denies that, as it truly is her plan to rescue Logan. She knew that his healing factor could handle her poison. Amiko is surprised to learn that Amiko does love him. Amiko doesn’t respond, but thinks to the matter at hand: Shinobi Shaw’s deadly machine must be destroyed.
Meanwhile, Jubilee is getting impatient, as they haven’t heard from Logan for awhile. Magneto isn’t listening to her and he apologizes for it, but his thoughts were with his daughter. Magneto decides to go in. Jubilee tries to hold Magneto back and reminds him of the deal they had. Magneto promises to keep it but, if Logan failed to rescue Wanda, the least he can do is try it by himself. Magneto knows that Shaw and his goons are expecting him, but he doesn’t have a choice: Wanda is his child and the only thing he has left to be proud of. Jubilee understands, but wants to go with him.
Inside the Dam, Amiko leads Wolverine passed the guards as fast as she can. Logan asks her to wait, as he’s got so many things to ask her, but she suggests they do that another time. They duck, as Zemo and his Thunderbolts arrive in helicopters. Logan is surprised to find Zemo here, as he thought he was a thug of the Sentinels. Zemo goes inside the building, where Shaw is waiting for him. He informs the guards that he knows that Shaw loves defeated X-Men, so Zemo hunted the two last remaining ones down and arrested them. The guards climb aboard the helicopter, where they find Leech and Synch unconscious, with power dampening collars on!
They order them to wake up and move along. Wolverine has seen enough, and jumps to action and starts fighting the guards. He quickly takes them out, and uses one of his claws to release Synch and Leech from the collars. Amiko warns that they haven’t got any more time left, which is fine by Logan and tells her to lead away.
Somewhere else in the huge complex, Zemo greets both Shaw and Betsy. They tell Zemo he’s just in time, but he doesn’t know for what. Shaw jokes that the Sentinel High Council are wondering the same thing. Zemo hates being commanded by those robots. Shaw suggests that they better start with their plan then. But then, everything around them starts to shake.
It’s Magneto! He warns them that, if they release Wanda now, he’ll grant them a quick death, but otherwise their deaths will be slow and painful. Magneto turns his head around, and notices a screaming Wanda trapped inside Shaw’s machine. He gets furious, and shouts at Shaw that he’ll send him to hell!
He starts fighting and Betsy begins to panic. Shaw tells her to hold up for a few more minutes, as their computerized defense could be starting up any second now. Suddenly, Magneto screams! Shaw explains that he expected Magneto to drop in some day, so he installed some magnetic generators in all of the walls of the entire complex, and they create a force field on the same wave as Magneto’s mutant energies. And the best part is that Magneto will remain trapped for as long as he’s using his powers. And if he doesn’t use them, Magneto will still be vulnerable to Shaw’s strength.
Jubilee has jumped inside one of the soldier’s battle suits, and snuck past the combatants in the hope to shut down the machine. But Betsy realizes something’s wrong, and strikes in Jubilee’s back with her psychic knife! Betsy recognizes her former teammate, but does nothing but smile in an evil way. Shaw orders Betsy not to waste any more time, and to just kill Jubilee. Zemo agrees and laughs, as he always likes it when he can see an X-Man get killed.
Suddenly, Zemo gets struck by… a psychic knife?! He falls down, and Synch is revealed as the culprit. He has synched Betsy’s powers and just used them on Zemo instead. Betsy smiles, as she knows that Everett might copy her powers, but he hasn’t the skills to use them. Leech shows up, and touches Betsy’s arm, using his powers to shut down hers. Jubilee finishes the battle by throwing some fireworks at Betsy, knocking her out as a payback for betraying them.
Shaw shouts at the X-Men that they won’t leave this place alive. Wolverine and Amiko arrive and jump from the air vents down, not agreeing with Shaw. Logan jokes that he likes the idea of the good guys winning for a change. Amiko tells Logan he can have Betsy, as she’s already getting up after Jubilee’s attack. That’s fine by Wolverine, and he lands before Betsy. She confesses to Logan that she isn’t the shy girl any more that once fought as his side, and that she’s now in a body of a fully trained ninja and confident she can now handle Logan. He smiles, and knocks Betsy out with one single punch!
Logan moves towards Wanda, planning to set her free. Wanda notices Shaw sneaking up on Logan, and warns him. Shaw activates his powers and wants to strike Logan with them, but Amiko jumps between them, and gets hit instead! Shaw finds Amiko’s sacrifice a bit awkward and feel sorry, as she could have been his queen, but for the rest doesn’t care much if Midnight dies before her time. Wolverine notices that this is the second time Amiko saved his life today, and won’t let her sacrifice be in vain. He slices the machine’s control panel in pieces, and Wanda is released. Logan safely catches her in his arms.
Shaw shouts at Logan, calling him and his friends idiots, as he could have ended the tyranny of the Sentinels! Logan mocks that he prefers the Sentinels over Shaw any day. Suddenly, Shaw gets struck by a magnetic attack! It’s Magneto! Amiko has disrupted Shaw’s magnetic force field, so now he’s free again and can help out in the battle. Wanda is confused, and asks Logan if she’s really seeing her father. Logan confirms. With little breath left, Wanda asks Logan to tell her dad that he should never give up.
With the last strength she has, Wanda uses her Hex powers to fully destroy Shinobi’s machine. The entire Dam starts to break apart, and Logan thinks it’s best they leave. He grabs Amiko, who’s still alive. Logan doesn’t know who she really is, but won’t leave her behind. Shaw manages to open teleportation portals and escapes through them. Magneto asks Logan to take Wanda as well, as he wants to go after Shaw first.
Magneto finds Shaw still inside the Dam, and wants to make him pay for what he did to Wanda. Shaw defends that Magneto shouldn’t talk to him like that, as Magneto is the most hated and wanted man on the planet, and killing him won’t make people forgive his sins. Shinobi lets Magneto attack him, thinking that, without using his powers, he’s invulnerable. Magneto calls Shaw a fool, as even Shaw’s body is being kept together by electromagnetic forces, which Magnus controls. Magneto uses these skills to rip Shaw’s body apart and kills the man! But then, destiny strikes, and a heavy brick fall on Magneto’s body, and he collapses. He asks for Wanda.
Wolverine and the others find Zemo’s helicopters. Jubilee thinks they are perfect to use for their escape, and uses her powers to take out Zemo’s Thunderbolts. Leech has brought Betsy like Logan asked, but doesn’t understand why they have to take her. Logan remembers that Betsy used to be one of them, and won’t be left behind. Everyone steps inside the helicopter, and Wanda asks where her father is. Logan promises to go find him. Jubilee doesn’t understand why Logan made that promises, but he shouts that he has to do it, and orders the others to leave, now!
Logan goes back inside the Dam, and soon finds Magneto. He moves the brick, but the damage is bad. Magneto calls Logan a fool for coming back for him, but Logan shouts he didn’t. He did it all for Wanda. Suddenly, the Dam breaks apart and the untold gallons of water slide inside, trapping both Wolverine and Magneto.
The others notice the Dam breaking, and fear that Logan and Magneto are goners. However, Magneto has gathered all the strength he had left to create a magnetic force field around them, and transported him and Logan safely outside. But, Magneto is in a great deal of pain and can hardly keep himself together. Jubilee opens the helicopter’s door, and helps both men inside.
A few days later, everyone takes some time off to recover in Emma’s mansion. Magneto is stuck in a wheelchair and visits his daughter. He explains that his legs are crippled and that he will never walk again. But still, Magneto feels like a reborn man. He remembers that there were so many things he wanted to share with Wanda and her lost brother. Magneto admits that he never told them how proud he was of them and at the great choices in their lives they made. He feels sorry for not telling much.
Wanda tells her dad that he shouldn’t be stuck in the past. Magneto was who he was. She knows that, sometimes, you can start over and make a difference. She knows Magneto can do it. For her. Wanda touches Magneto’s face, and dies.
At the same time, Amiko meets up with a meditating Wolverine in the biosphere. Logan knows he’ll never forget Amiko’s scent. He wants to know if Amiko has come to tell her why she wanted him to believe her dead for all those years. Amiko realizes that Logan has earned to know the truth. Amiko explains that, sometimes as a kid, she was the victim of Logan’s enemies. Logan knows that, and admits that was the sole reason why he asked the Silver Samurai to protect her. Amiko understands but, a few years after that, the Samurai became emperor, and a danger as well. He thought it was safer that everyone believed Amiko to be dead. Everyone… including Logan.
Logan admits that the plan worked, as he was devastated when he heard about it. He wants to know how Amiko got stranded here. Amiko explains that she got tutored from the best warriors from the empire and they only knew her as Midnight. She wanted to become as good as Logan. And one day, the Samurai heard about Shaw and his machines. He told her to infiltrate in Shaw’s army and destroy them from within. She apologizes for lying. Logan admits that when he heard that Amiko was dead, something also died within him. And now, he’s just glad to have her back.
Emma, Synch and Leech are with Emma, and ask her about Betsy’s situation. Emma has discovered that Betsy has been hit hard. She has also spoken to her brother, Brian, and he’ll take her back to England until Betsy’s back to her former self. Wolverine asks Jubilee if she needs any more people in her rebel group. If so, he knows the perfect candidate: Amiko. Amiko explains that she has fulfilled her duties to the Japanese Empire, and would love to help out in the battle against the Sentinels. Logan mentions that Amiko isn’t a mutant, which might be handy.
Magneto enters as well, and explains that he wants to stay as well – if the group wants to have him. He explains that is Wanda’s final wish. Emma smiles, joking that miracles still happen. Logan welcomes Magnus in the group and wants him to remember that he volunteered by himself, because Logan is full aware that they’ll have a busy time coming!


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Debt of Death
US Air Force base at Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, at 6:12 AM, the sun rises into an orange-colored sky. Soldiers go about their business. One soldier gets into their jet, and, looking up, sees something moving towards the base in the sky. The soldier goes wide-eyed, and starts to fire from his jet, as whatever is approaching from the sky does the same, striking down others on the base. Soldiers move into position, but bombs are dropped on the air force base, and explosions follow. The vessels seen in the sky land - not jets, but giant robots. A siren sounds, and an instant later, the entire army bass is blown up.
Night time, elsewhere, else when Ninjas sneak into a house in the dead of night. Photographs are on the wall, one of a pilot. The ninjas look around, while outside, more scale the house, and others take out police officers who park nearby. In a bedroom, an elderly man rouses, as a ninja enters the room. Elsewhere in the house, a boy climbs down a trapdoor in the floor, when suddenly, someone call out to him, addressing him as Kanaye. He looks up and sees Kiku, and ask her why she is not asleep. ‘I heard you. Where are you going?’ the girl asks.
Back in the bedroom, the old main aims a pistol at the ninjas, ‘Tell Murata this is just another nail in his coffin’, while the woman next to him wakes, ‘Kenichi? What is it…?’ she calls out, before two bullets are fired. Kanaye and Kiku hear the bullets as thy huddle under the floorboards, with Kanaye telling Kiku to shush.
At a busy airport, Wolverine a.k.a. Logan makes his way past the busy people when suddenly, ‘Are you Logan?’ someone calls out. ‘Who wants to know?’ Logan replies, turning to a man in a trench coat who is accompanied by police officers. The man holds up a badge and introduces himself as Inspector Mori, and remarks that Superintendent General Nakadi spoke very highly of Logan. ‘I’m afraid I have bad news’ he then announces.
Soon, the arrive at the home, the bedroom has blood splattered across the walls and on the bed sheets. Inspector Mori informs Logan that they suspect Hioshi Murata, the Yakuza Oyabun. He explains that a trial is going on now against Murata for human trafficking and prostitution, but that several key witnesses were killed. And there went your case’ Logan remarks. ‘Yes, that’s why this makes no sense’ Inspector Mora points out. Logan tells Mora that Nakadi is very purposeful, and analytical, that he does not act emotionally. ‘He thought there was a leak in his inner circle. He wanted my help protecting his witnesses’ Logan adds. Mora looks at his watch and tells Logan that he is sorry he came all this way.
Logan looks at the photographs on the wall and tells Mora that Kenichi was shot down in 1942, spent the rest or the war in some R&D facility “babysitting lab coats”. Logan adds that Kenichi couldn’t wait to retire and take the police inspector’s job. ‘I was pretty wild then -’ Logan recalls, before announcing that there were two others living here. Mora tells him that it was the Superintendent General’s son and daughter, but that they are missing. Once again, Mora tells Logan that he is sorry he came all this way. Logan kneels down and examines the floor, finding the trapdoor, he turns and tells Mora that he will stay and see this through, if he doesn’t mind.
The SHIELD Helicarrier, where several strange pod-like ships are released from the sprawling vessel. ‘My stabilizers are pulling right’ one SHIELD pilot reports. ‘The onboard won’t stop making a beeping sound’ another remarks. ‘That’s your Gameboy, braniac’ another jokes. ‘I got a game. Fifty says I’m high, man’ a fourth declares, while another exclaims that he will take a piece of that action, until Nick Fury, Director of SHIELD, tells them to calm down, adding that SHIELD didn’t shell out a hundred million of Uncle Sam’s money for each of these things so that they could lose their pay check.
Shortly, the SHIELD pod-ships arrive at a location where the large robots are still attacking. ‘How many did the eyes say there were?’ Colonel Fury enquires. One of the other officers informs him that there are eight left, as four blew themselves up at Ginowan. Fury tells his officers to keep it tight and watch their backs. The robots destroy everything in sight, while the SHIELD jets fire at them. ‘Those boys down there need us’ Fury tells his men. Suddenly, the large robots take flight. ‘Holy!’ one of the SHIELD officers gasps. ‘They’re fast’ another points out. ‘Watch out guys!’ one of them tells his comrades, while Fury orders his men to hold their formation, as the robots fly close to them.
‘You have one on your tail’ Fury warns one of his men. ‘Break hard and dive toward ten’ he adds, before one of the robots takes out one of the SHIELD pods. Then another, but one of the officers manages to fire on one of the robots. ‘I need help!’ one of the officers calls out. ‘Watch your backs’ Fury tells everyone, before he loses the rest of his men. Two robots remain unaccounted for, and an instant later, the facility below explodes.
Meantime, rain pours down as Kanaye and Kiku sit in a restaurant. Kiku asks her brother why he won’t tell her what is happening, and who would do this to their mother and father. ‘Dammit, Kiku, I said I don’ty know anymore than you do!’ Kanaye replies, before Logan enters and calls out to him. Kanaye spins around, surprised, but Logan tells him to relax and explains that he is an old friend of his father’s. Logan introduces himself, and Kayane remarks that he remembers reading in his father’s journals about Logan, and that his father thought Logan was strong, that he has power. ‘I do okay. Well enough to get whoever did this to your folks’ Logan assures him, taking a seat at the table, as Kayane tells Logan that there was a man father was prosecuting, a Yakuza, Murata. ‘His case had fallen apart’ Logan explains.
Kayane announces that his father had more evidence, that he overheard him on the phone saying something like “We got him”. Sipping a drink, Kayane tells Logan that his father was very excited. ‘I didn’t hear that’ Kiku remarks, to which her brother explains that it was after she went to bed. Logan tells the children that he will take it from here, and suggests that they get the two of them somewhere safe.
Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier, Fury has returned, and rain pours down outside, as a man in a brown suit tells Fury that the robots are WWII technology. ‘Son, you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. There’s nothing that quick today, Giovanni, let alone in the Forties’ Fury points out. ‘There was npthing like the A-Bomb until ‘45, Colonel Fury’ Giovanni replies, pointing to a slide of an explosion. Several other men are seated in the room, as Giovanni remarks ‘Shinpu Okubetsu Kogeki Tai robots. They were called Kamikaze Robots’ and adds that they are programmed to lock on to a target, in the case of this morning’s attack, their air forces, which were devastating the imperial navy. ‘Their gyroscopic system is light years beyond anything we have even now’.
Giovanni announces that according to Japanese intelligence, only a hundred rolled off the line when the war ended and the program was shut down. ‘In the wake of Hiroshima, the robots were locked in an underground facility and forgotten. Hi clicks through some slides which appear on a screen and states that a week ago, the facility was broken into and all the robots are missing. ‘Eleven personnel from the facility are still alive. All have alibis. But there is one man…’
Shortly, Fury, Giovanni and Mora are in the home of Kenichi, as Mora informs Firy and Giovanni that last night, Kenichi and his wife were assassinated and his son and daughter are missing, perhaps kidnapped. ‘Our number one suspect is Hiroshi Murata, a Yakuza’ Mora reveals, before asking Fury if he thinks there is a connection. Fury thanks Inspector Mora and tells him that they will contact his captain. He and Giovanni exit the house, ‘Coincidence?’ Giovanni asks Fury, ‘Not hardly’ Fury remarks, before telling him to look into this Yakuza angle, anything or anybody out of the place, he wants picked up. Fury declares that they have to find these things before the technology is replicated or sold. ‘We’ve seen a dozen of these things at work. I don’t want to know what ten thousand could do’ Fury declares.
Elsewhere, inside a men’s room, ‘Yakuza talk, talk, talk. Drink sake. Talk. Make pee pee. Talk’ a man lying on the floor utters. Three other bodies are scattered about. Mirrors are broken and blood is spilled all across the floor. ‘Recently, no talk. Ryu listen extra real hard. Big things happening’ the one conscious man tells Logan who stands and pours a drink. He adds that Oyabun Murata made a big score and everyone is very scared, but it will be over tomorrow night, and Kyodai, Shatei plan a big party. ‘More sake?’ Logan asks. ‘Thank you’ the man replies, before Wolverine asks him why Murata had Kenichi Nakadai killed. ‘It’s not the Superintendent Murata want dead. It was the other one - the son’ the man reveals. ‘Kanaye’ he declares.
At an apartment, the rain continues to pour down outside, and inside, an elderly man and woman are looking after Kiku. Canary birds fly around the room, as Kiku informs Logan that Kanaye ran out after he left, that he said he would be back. ‘Do you think he went after Oyabun Murata?’ she asks. The elderly man tells Logan that he was prepared to defend with his life the young ones that he brought, but that he never thought the boy would run out. ‘I had not the strength to stop him’ he adds. ‘Unlike you, I am not what I once was’ he points out. Logan calls the man Masao-Sensei and tells him that it isn’t his fault, and adds that there is more going on here than he first thought.
Elsewhere, Kanaye is in a phone booth, someone over the phone tells him that it is all a misunderstanding. ‘I’ve never tried to sell you out, Mr Murata. I never would do that’ Kanaye replies. In his office, Murata agrees that Kanaye has always been forthcoming with him as his father’s unreasonable vendetta. ‘Why would I be upset with you?’ he asks, before announcing that he will send a limo and they will talk. He adds that the redhead that Kanaye likes is here. ‘I am at the gardens’ Kanaye replies. The young man puts the phone down, and races through the rain towards the Tokyo International Airport terminal. Murata turns to his associate, Takashi and tells him that this is a disaster, that he has put his fate in the hands of a junkie. ‘If he is not dead tonight, there will be hell to pay’. Takashi replies that they have been able to modify the system with modern chips and software, facial recognition and satellite feeds. He adds that they can now be programmed with more subtlety, toward specific targets - even individual targets.
A strange craft hovers over the brightly lit city of Tokyo, while the rain continues to pour down. ‘This is Red Eye Oh-Four to Central. We’ve got a hit on Kanaye Nakadai at Narita Airport’ someone reports. ‘Copy, Oh-Four. Units on their way’ comes the response. ‘You may want to send plenty of backup. We’re picking up someone new. Could be a problem…’ the person inside the craft reports.
Down in the airport, Kanaye looks around nervously, while an announcer reports that flight 504 to Hong Kong is now boarding. Logan suddenly grabs Kanaye and pulls him aside, telling him that they have to talk. ‘Logan-san?’ Kanaye gasps, surprised. Logan pushes Kanaye up against a wall and tells him ‘I owe your dad my life. Be straight and I’ll keep you safe. You were the assassins’ target. Why?’ Kanaye remains silent, so Logan leans in closer and warns him not to lie to him, as he will know. Suddenly, ‘Wolverine!’ a voice calls out. Several agents appear behind Wolverine, as one of them informs him that Colonel Fury would like to invite him to the Helicarrier for a drink - both of them. ‘Cripes’ Logan mutters, before asking Kanaye if he likes heights.
Shortly, inside the Helicarrier, Logan has his feet up on a coffee table as he sits across from Fury. Files are spread out on the table, and Fury tells Logan that the boy is bad news, that he has a weakness for coke and girls and he is up to his armpits in debt to every two-bit gangster in Tokyo. ‘I have a debt, too, Fury. I told the kid not to say a word. I know how you government boys work’ Logan responds. Fury rubs his temples and tells Logan that in case he is unaware, they have a situation. ‘Screw your situation’ Logan replies as he sips a drink. ‘Tell that to the four hundred dead soldiers in Okinawa’ Fury declares, explaining that they think the boy helped Murata steal a dangerous weapon that his pal Kenichi helped to develop.
Logan pours himself another drink, and tells Fury to get Kanaye in here and stop wasting time. ‘The kid’s under my protection’ Logan tells Fury, adding that if there is any questioning to be done, he will be the one to do it. ‘Then you’d better get me information I can use, shrimp’ Fury replies, before ordering an associate to bring the kid down, but suddenly, everyone is knocked off balance, as the Helicarrier is tossed about in the air. ‘Sir, it’s the robots…they’ve breached the hull’ a SHIELD officer announces.
Down a corridor, ‘Move! Fall back!’ a SHIELD officer tells his comrades as they fire weapons at some robots who have entered. ‘More coming up this way!’ another calls out as he looks around. Suddenly, someone fires a larger weapon down the corridor, and the robots seemingly explode. It is Fury, who remarks that there is not much room to maneuver in here. ‘Sir…I think you made it mad’ an officer replies as one robot emerges from the flames and lumbers towards them.
Inside a holding room, ‘Let me free!’ Kanaye exclaims, slamming his cuffed fists against the table. Two agents are in the room with him, and they can hear the rapid gunfire outside. ‘I’m a sitting duck here!’ Kanaye adds. ‘Shut up! Just shut up! Here’s two hundred men between you and -’ one of the officers replies, before a robot forces its way into the room, and starts firing, however Kanaye quickly dives under the table - then, there is the familiar SNIKT sound, as Logan appears and slices off the robot’s head. ‘No crying, son. Time to be a man’ Wolverine tells Kanaye, helping him up, while one of the SHIELD officers protests, ‘You can’t -’ he calls out to Wolverine, who replies that if his hunch is right, the sooner he gets this kid out of here, the better off they will all be.
Free of his cuffs, Kanaye rubs his wrists and thanks Logan for coming for him. ‘Don’t thank me, kid. Before we’re through you may be begging for those robots back’ Logan replies as he opens a hatch, and sees robots in the sky, with SHIELD craft defending the Helicarrier. Suddenly, a powerful blast strikes the side of the Helicarrier, and Kanaye falls from the hatch. ‘Help!’ he calls out as Wolverine manages to grab him, then he leaps from the hatch, telling the boy that it is definitely him that they are after. ‘They’ll take down this whole ship to do it. We won’t allow that, will we?’ Logan remarks, while Kanaye just screams as they start to free-fall. Logan pulls Kanaya onto his back, and the robots start to fly towards them. ‘Here they come!’ Kanaye calls out. Logan tells him to hang on tight, as he needs his hands free. He pops his claws, and shoves them into a robot that flies over them. ‘And don’t shout in my ear’ Logan adds. Kanaye slips, but manages to regain his hold. He screams, but Logan tells him to shut up, as the robot starts to make a noise. Logan then starts hacking away at the robot, splitting it in two, just as the lower part of the robot explodes.
Logan is still connected to the top half, as it now plummets downwards. Other robots start to open fire, and Logan tells Kanaye to get ready to bail. ‘Now!’ he exclaims, as they both let go, and fall into the water below, just in time, as the other robots’ gunfire strikes the remains of the first robot, causing it to explode. The robots them leave, and Logan bursts from the water with Kanaye in his arms.
Later, back on the mainland, ‘Takashi! Takashi! The news is reporting the harbor’s on fire! Is this what you call “in control”?’ Murata asks as he storms into a room, only to find Takashi dead on the floor. Logan sits in a seat and Kanaye stands at his side. ‘Who the hell are you?’ Murata asks. ‘I’m a friend of Superintendent Nakada’s’ Logan replies, adding that the word is, the Shinpu Robots are locked onto his friend’s son here, and that he is the one who can make them stop. ‘You think I had anything to do with that? You are crazy’ Murata replies, while suggesting to Wolverine that he run, as an army of his men will be here in seconds.
‘Hypothetically speaking, say you did wire these things to come after Kanaye. And say I told you if that happened I would open you up like a fish. Would you stop them?’ Logan asks. ‘Hypothetically, yes’ Murata replies, folding his arms, adding that he wouldn’t be able to, as once programmed they would act independently until their mission was complete - no remote signal, nothing to trace them back to him. ‘Hypothetically’ he smirks. Logan pops a single claw, and suggests they get on with the fish part. Murata looks nervous and steps back, ‘You blame me for your friend’s death?’ he asks. ‘He is the one responsible’ Murata declares, looking at Kanaye. ‘That’s ridiculous!’ Kanaye exclaims. ‘You believe the word of a junkie?’ Murata asks Logan, explaining that he has been selling information on his father’s investigations for years - to pay gambling debts.
Murata continues, announcing that he knew his father’s witch-hunt was going to reveal him, that he was going to be shamed, disinherited. ‘He comes to me. He wants to hire assassins to kill his own family. Then his secrets are safe, and he inherits everything’ Murata explains, while asking Kanaye how he will pay for this, as he is in debt and assassins are expensive. ‘I have something very valuable, he says. Priceless. A weapon I read about in my father’s journal…’ Murata remarks, quoting Kanaye, who suddenly ducks down, and picks up the fallen Takashi’s gun. ‘LIES!’ he shouts. ‘Liar!’ he declares, aiming the weapon at Murata. ‘Boy’ Logan turns around. Sweat pouring down his face, Kanaye declares that it is not true.
Logan takes the weapon from Kanaye and tells him that he can hear his heart racing, he can smell the sweat on his palms. Kanaye drops to his kneels and starts crying, apologizing, he admits that he was so scared. Logan turns to Murata, ‘You, of course, hired the ninja and kept the robots. They got out of control and attacked the bases. You sent them after Kanaye to cover your tracks’ Logan tells him, while, some figures can be seen flying towards the house. ‘I am a businessman. He killed his own family!’ Murata replies. ‘He’s my friend’s son. I can’t harm him’ Logan points out.
Kanaye gets to his feet and thanks Logan. ‘I told you not to thank me, son. I’ve also lost my taste for protecting you’ Logan replies. Suddenly, a familiar siren-like sound is heard, and Kanaye sees the robots flying towards the house. Kanaye goes wide-eyed with fear, and, and instant later, the robots open fire, and the house explodes.
Later, Fury and Giovanni stand on the edge of the burning remains of the house. Giovanni remarks that he can’t say he is sorry to see Kanaye get it, as two of those suckers were on his tail and just self-destructed. ‘That Logan fellow, though. He saved the Helicarrier, and his tip paid off…Taggart’s team recovered the remaining robots being loaded onto a Chinese freighter’ Giovanni reports, before asking Fury what he wants to put in the report about Wolverine. ‘I mean, nothing could’ve survived that’. Fury smiles and tells Giovanni that he doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about, that by the time he sorts through this mess, Wolverine will be on some beach getting the R&R that slackers like Giovanni only dream about.
But, instead, Wolverine is at Masao-Senei’s home, his head hanging, as the elderly woman sits next to Kiku, who is crying after receiving the news of her brother’s death. Masao-Senesi stands with his hands on his hips, while canaries fly around the room, singing….


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Doombringer
In a Northern temple’s main chamber…
Priests and their followers light the entire chamber with their torches. They realize they have to hurry up, because they need to stop time. If they don’t stop it soon, there will be no time left! They explain that everything must be precise, especially the arrangement of the light, the thickness and scent of vapors, as well as the pitch of vibrations. The leader orders his followers to hurry up again.
In the Southern temple’s main chamber…
Monks sit down in front of a green glowing crystal. They believe it’s time. They think the world’s energies flow at their peak currently, and mention that their crystal, which is suspended for nine days, is finally still. This makes them certain that the time is now.
The Temple-Fortress complex of Tangkor Marat. One thousand years ago…
Armies are fighting among each other. One army wants to hold its enemies back, proudly shouting that they must defeat their opponents no matter what, even if it means the end of time. Their foes simply cannot be permitted to summon the Doombringer! The opposing army shouts that their foes must be stopped as well, defending that this world shall be ended, and that the Doombringer shall lead them to rule in hell forever!
Northern temple…
Someone shouts to begin right now. Drums boom. Horns blare. And flames mesh.
Southern temple…
Someone shouts to begin right now. The crystal glows even brighter. The gong is struck. The crystal vibrates. And the air congeals. The monks realize they have been victorious, as they can see a portal opening itself. A red-clawed hand starts coming through. The monks shout that the walker between worlds has finally come, and will bring doom!
Northern temple…
The priests can see the skies turning red. They realize it’s working. They believe that soon, time itself will be suspended, preventing the Doombringer from crossing over this world. Their plan will only require a little more time and everything will be frozen.
Southern temple…
As the gong is struck again, the monks freeze and the hand gets frozen stuck in the portal.
Northern temple…
Whatever magic or science has been worked, it already fades again, leaving its workers also frozen, at the moment of their success.
Outside…
In the area temple between the two temples, opposing factions have not quite clashed. The battle stops. Leaping warriors and loosed arrows defy gravity, suspended in time as well. And so, Tangkor Marat will remain… for almost a millennium.
Tangkor Malat, nearly a thousand years later…
A loud rumble is heard. A soldier, standing on some stairs and holding his arrows ready, falls down. He gets revived. Noticing his fellow man, the warrior realizes they have failed and that the others have succeeded. They have halted time, forestalling apocalypse and thwarting hell! He runs away, hoping to find help.
Madripoor island, six years later…
The world thinks that the X-Men are dead. Instead, Wolverine finds himself hiding out in Lowtown’s Princess Bar and calls himself “Patch.” He figures that’s the right thing to do in the world of today. He defends that death is how he actually feels right now. At least ever since Lady Mariko called of their wedding. He knows that sorrow like he feels like now can’t be drowned, and a mutant wolverine like himself can’t get drunk anyway, at least not in the way Logan likes to. He can’t get comatose either, or even numb because of his healing factor.
Logan stares at some guys holding an arm contest. One guy wins and breaks his opponent’s arm. Confident, he declares that he offers fifty dollars, certain that nobody in this bar can defeat him. Logan stands up and takes the bet. The guy laughs at the fact how short Logan actually is, and agrees to the match. They go sit on a table, and the entire bar is interested in the outcome. Logan quickly finishes it and slams the guy’s arm down. The guy gets upset, claiming he wasn’t ready and won’t pay. He even takes out a gun! Wolverine isn’t impressed. He snikts out his claws, joking that they are the best kind of weapon.
The guy doesn’t know what the claws are. Logan explains that his claws are laced with adamantium and can cut through anything. The guy doesn’t think that includes his gun. And in any case, for Logan to be able to cut anything, he has to get near the gun. And the guy won’t let him. So, he quickly fires into Logan! With the bullet just barely missing Logan’s heart, he pulls it out of his chest and drops it on the ground. He feels lucky that his ribs are laced with adamantium as well, almost like everything else in his body. His healing factor already starts kicking in, helping Logan recover.
The guy freaks out seeing Logan not dying, and fires again. Logan survives all of the blasts, and takes out all of the bullets and even eats one, to show off. He slices the guy’s gun apart and knocks him out. He points his attention to the other bar thugs, asking if anyone else wants a round. They don’t want to, claiming they were about to leave.
Logan smells something. Mariko and her bodyguards enter the room. They greet. Mariko admits that she needs Logan to obtain information for her, and maybe he even has to prevent the world from ending. Logan promises he’ll do anything to help Mariko out and offers her a chair so she can explain what this is all about.
Mariko explains that a man came to her recently. He requested an audience with the head of the Clan Yashida, to which he professed allegiance. Mariko didn’t recognize the man. Logan wants to know if Mariko believes the man lied to her. She doesn’t. The man knew too much about the Clan’s customs and code of honor, and yet his knowledge was out of date. He wore the ancient armor of a samurai archer, and he said it had taken him months to reach her, from “the mainland,” where the man had left elite warriors of their Clan. Mariko was in disbelief after hearing the words “frozen in battle” and “time had been suspended.”
The man asked her to lead a force to their rescue, but she couldn’t fully understand the warrior. His dialect was Archaic, plus he began to babble, apparently overwhelmed by all he’d seen in the past few months. The warrior had never seen planes, cars or even electric lights. Thinking the warrior to be mad, Mariko had him sent away. He screamed that she was betraying the Clan Yashida, that he would get help from others to “finish what had been started but suspended.”
But now, Mariko isn’t so sure if the warrior was mad. Much of what he said is confirmed by ancient lore, which is always assumed was mere myth, but there is more. Logan wants to hear all about it. Mariko reveals that a thousand years ago, near the first millennium, certain mystics felt they could prevent prophesied doom only by “halting time.” Others supposedly argued that the end of this world should be hastened, that we might pass on to the next world. It is not know which side Clan Yashida ultimately supported, but some “experiment” was conducted, which was either an attempt to prevent apocalypse by stopping time, or to bring about doom by some other means. Or perhaps both. Mariko defends that their histories are unclear.
Mariko has discovered that the histories do say that, whatever happened, it was influenced by “mysterious others.” Logan wants to know who those people are. Mariko doesn’t know that. But, in some records, those people are described as “Elementals.” In other accounts, they are called “Emissaries from the invisible world around us.” Logan believes they are talking about another dimension. Mariko doesn’t know what that means but she believes that, whoever these enigmatic “messengers” were, they came at night, cloaked in black, feeding “secret knowledge of certain arts” to chosen sages and mystics.
This sounds to Logan like these people were being manipulated, maybe even controlled, like pawns in some unknown game, with their world as the chessboard. Mariko asks Logan if he’s aware of this “millennial doom.” Logan believes it’s the same thing people fear with the year 2000 so nearby. He asks Mariko if her Clan ever cared about the Gregorian calendar a thousand years ago. Mariko reveals that they didn’t, but they thought the end of the world might be brought about by barbarians. Logan believes that must mean people like him. People who did care about the calendar turning to 1000 A.D. Mariko confirms that. And, she adds, the prophecies may have become self-fulfilling. Logan mentions that the world didn’t end.
Mariko realizes that. But, she corrects, at least most of the world didn’t end. The archer claimed that something “worked,” if only on a limited scale and only within a certain “sphere.” And if time did end, then so too did the world end, at least for those within that limited sphere. Logan wants to know where all this supposedly happened. Mariko explains that, according to the myths of history of Clan Yashida, a mysterious experiment was conducted at Tangkor Marat, an ancient temple complex said to be located in present-day Thailand.
Logan realizes that’s a whole lot of jungle. He asks Mariko if she knows where this place is exactly. Mariko doesn’t, but remembers that the ancient archer – if that’s what the man really was – does know it, and she believes that if this man has gone to others of Clan Yashida as he vowed, then these people also know. Logan realizes that, by that, Mariko knows that people who are loyal to her brother, the Silver Samurai, know about it. Logan remembers that there is no love spilled between him and the Samurai, especially not after Keniuchio received the “honor sword,” which should have been Logan’s had Mariko not called of their wedding.
Logan asks Mariko if she came to him asking for help because she doesn’t want to oppose her brother. Hesitant, Mariko admits that the relationship between her and her brother have delicately balanced. But she knows that Logan can oppose him, as he has done it in the past. Logan also realizes that Mariko is confident he won’t kill her brother, because of his past feelings for her. Mariko defends that whatever her brother has done, he still remains part of her family.
Logan tells Mariko that she’s asking a lot. She reminds her that the only thing that’s standing between him and her are her obligations to the Clan. Mariko mentions to Logan that he knows how she feels about her Clan’s recent history. And now, she must know the truth about her clan’s more distant history. She must know if she has been further dishonored, and carries even more shame than she is aware of.
Logan finds it unlikely that nobody has stumbled on a frozen temple for about ten thousand years. Mariko admits that she has asked herself that very same question. It seems that archeologists discover a new site every ninety days on average, and a major one at least once a year. And there are many more sites still waiting to be found. Logan takes off his eye patch, and smiles that he meant it when he said he’ll do anything for Mariko. Logan admits to himself that he wants to take Mariko into his arms right now. Now more than ever. But the only thing he gets is a polite bow of respect from a distance. He keeps his thoughts for himself.
Mariko mentions that she’ll await Logan’s report when he comes back at her home in Japan, where she shall be in his debt. As he watches M’iko leave, Logan reminds himself that she’ll always be in his heart, no matter how far she’ll walk away. He isn’t sure what he’s getting into, but he believes it’s time to call in the help of a friend who flies a plane.
Some time later, in Aragashima…
The temple is situated in the northern Japanese prefecture of Miyago, which is the ancestral seat of Clan Yashida. As Logan climbs up the temple, he realizes there won’t be a welcome mat for him. Once on top of the temple, Logan climbs on a balcony and finds a group of ninja’s waiting for him. He’s ready for the battle, but a voice demands that everyone stops.
It’s the Silver Samurai. Ken asks Logan if he came back for his sword. Wolverine defends that, until Mariko agrees that she’s fit to marry him, the sword doesn’t hold any honor to him. The Samurai believes that this gives him a reason to thwart his sister’s love. Logan thinks the Samurai will do that by making sure Mariko will feel ashamed. He’ll probably also do it by keeping Clan Yashida dirty and getting mixed up in Yakuza activities. The Samurai wants to know why Logan came there.
Wolverine admits he came looking for the archer, hoping he drew a map so he could find the temple faster. The Samurai withdraws his sword, revealing he just got home from visiting the city, only to find twenty of his men disobediently missing. Logan asks the Samurai if he told his boys not to go to Thailand. The Samurai admits, defending that if doom was averted a thousand years ago, he doesn’t see why they should change the situation now. The Samurai claims he knows this world, and its pleasures. Logan defends that, before pleasure, there’s the business of punishing those twenty curs.
The Samurai thinks that those men think they will find something to make themselves wealthy, but he himself believes they could find something to make everyone dead. Logan makes a deal with the Samurai that if he hands Logan the archer’s map so he can travel to Thailand with special transportation, he’ll help the Samurai punish his men. This sounds like a perfect clue for a truce, if only until they manage to save the world.
A few moments later, the Samurai has put on his armor. Logan brings him to his plane. The Samurai isn’t impressed and can’t believe that Logan calls this his “special transportation.” Logan introduces the Samurai to his pilot, Archie Corrigan, and mentions they aren’t enemies right now. In that case, Archie is pleased to meet the Samurai, at least for now. The Samurai tells Logan he deceived him. Logan admits that things aren’t as good as the Samurai’s map but, since they are all there, they’d better take off. Besides, he mentions, Archie’s an ace pilot, and the best at what he does, just like Logan is.
Hours later…
As they fly above the Thailand jungle, Archie notices a clearing point below and points it to Logan and the Samurai. It’s the closest landing spot’s according to the map’s coordinates and it’s situated in about seventeen miles. Logan is confident that they’ll find it. Archie promises he’ll be waiting and mentions that the coordinates are coming up. Logan notices that there is nothing below them but trees. The Samurai corrects that only the site itself is frozen, and not the area around it. Logan realizes that the trees have been growing a thousand years, hiding Trangkor Marat under a dense canopy. That explains why the place has never been found.
Logan and the Samurai jump out of the plane. Logan notices that he got out first, but he believes the weight of the Samurai’s armor will mean he’ll hit the ground before him. The Samurai does, and because of his parachute, Logan gets hung up in the trees. He snikts out his claws and cuts himself loose. The Samurai notices that the trees are still green, but some have been cut recently. Wolverine believes that must mean the Samurai’s boys must have arrived before they did, so he thinks it’s time to go punish them. The Samurai adds that they’ll go save the world as well. Logan smiles and agrees.
They scout the jungle, and arrive in front of a huge golden temple with lots of warriors frozen in mid-air! The Samurai is amazed by it. Wolverine admits that, of all the weirdness he has seen in this life, this is definitely the weirdest. It’s Tangkor Marat frozen in time, the very instant before a clash between opposing warriors. But Logan wonders if time will freeze as well once they set foot in the area. The Samurai tells Logan to go first and he’ll follow right behind. He even promises to pull him back out once he starts to freeze. Logan doesn’t think so, mentioning that the Samurai’s arm could get stuck along the way and the left of his body remain motionless until he dies.
Samurai admits he hadn’t thought of that. Logan tells the guy to stay put, and in case his butt does freeze along the way, the Samurai can kiss it goodbye – though hopefully not literally. He can run away right away should it happen, and warn Archie to contact the X-Men, or at least hoist a cold one to his memory. The Samurai promises to do that, and Logan moves closer to the temple.
There is a static charge around the temple and an ozone smell as well, but still Logan is able to move around freely. He notices that the time-freeze is still in effect, but it’s only affecting what was there when it originally happened. Logan notices arrows hanging in mid-air, and finds it funny to see them looking like this and not hitting or killing anyone. He does notice a warrior who was hit by an arrow a thousand years ago. His blood is still wet, though just not flowing. The body is warm but not rigor mortis. The guy just died, but a thousand years ago in the past. And he still isn’t falling.
Logan finds that weird, but calls out to the Samurai that it’s safe to join him. The Samurai does so. Logan smells something, but the smell is like nothing he smelled before – and he tracked everything. The Samurai claims not to smell anything. Logan smirks that’s because the Samurai doesn’t have his senses. Logan recognizes the scent as alien, coming from inside the temple. They enter the temple, and find the monks with the frozen portal they opened, and the purple hand still reaching through it.
Logan realizes the portal must be an opening to another dimension. The Samurai believes it’s probably where those “messengers in black” came from, the ones described in the histories of his Clan. He also believes that the dark samurais outside, and the mystic monks they can see there, are ancient members of the Clan Yashida, attempting to open the way for an invasion in Earth’s reality. Either way, Logan isn’t eager to see the rest of that creature. It looks big… and nasty. The Samurai reaches for his sword, telling Logan that if the creature can bleed, it can fall as well. Logan just hopes the creature will never move, and suggests they continue their scouting.
They find more warriors frozen. Logan believes that, if Clan Yashida was defending this temple, they were the bad guys. It’s just like Mariko fears, and that they were opening that portal right when the other faction froze time. The Samurai mentions that the renegade twenty of his men could be in the other temple they can see right now.
And they are. The Samurai’s former loyal soldiers open fire on the frozen bodies. It’s point blank, yet the frozen warriors do not fall. Their leader explains the warriors are still frozen in time, but the bullets are still in their bodies. He believes that, if the ancient archer was right about the necessary sonic weapons, the warriors will drop and die when the reverse recording is played. He orders his men to activate their equipment, which is a sonic device. A loud noise is heard. The portal starts opening again, and the shot warriors fall down and die! Time has resumed its normal course.
The remaining warriors start fighting each other again, and Wolverine and the Silver Samurai stand right in the middle of the battle! The Samurai realizes what has happened, and that they are too late and that the renegades were successful. The warriors realize that the Doombringer has been loosed and think that Wolverine is the demon. Their leader orders him killed.
Wolverine defends himself, but due to the warriors ancient dialect, he can’t understand what they are saying. The Samurai can, and translate the leader’s words for Logan. Logan mocks that he has been called many things, but “a demon” takes the cake. He smiles that the word “Doombringer” might not be too far off though, as he’d be happy to put some of these warriors out of their misery. Except, he won’t. Logan grabs one of the warriors by his throat, and notices that all of the warriors are getting older by the minute!
Not much later, all of the warriors are dropping dead like flies. They die because of old age. The Samurai recognizes one of the warriors as the ancient warrior who came to his sister, begging for help, and later to his home to steal twenty of his men. The archer has already released the actual Doombringer, only so that he can rule by his side. But the Doombringer isn’t interested in that, and eats the archer!
Wolverine notices that the archer was also aging, but wonders why it only happens now, because he has been free for six months. The Samurai suspects that’s because time was still suspended when he was running around the world looking for help, but that isn’t the case anymore.
Wolverine and the Samurai rush back to the temple where the portal was. They notice that the crystal is still there but swinging around, and the hand that stuck through the portal is gone. But the portal is still open. The hand comes through it again, and Logan panics. The Samurai realizes that the suspended crystal’s vibrations must be stopped. Logan slashes the crystal into pieces, and the portal closes with the hand being cut off. Wolverine thinks they saved the day.
The Samurai denies that, suspecting that they only prevented a second Doombringer from stepping through that portal. He believes that the first one did get out, to meet the ancient archer who freed it. They find the archer’s body. The Samurai finds it sad that someone wanted to be a king in hell. Logan believes the archer got in hell, but not in the way he hoped he would. The Samurai fears what’s going to happen if the Doombringer will reach a city, or figure out how to reopen that portal. Wolverine agrees. But he’s confident that, if the first creature is anything like the second, it can bleed. The Samurai likes that direct plan.
Logan suggests that they better split up and find this thing before it gets too far. The Samurai agrees, as he doesn’t want the creature to be captured by his renegade men. Logan makes it to the roof, and stares in front of him. He finds no trace of the Doombringer, except for clouds of dusts coming from the now deceased ancient warriors. He believes that, if the Doombringer hasn’t already escaped to the jungle, it’s probably hiding somewhere here in Tangkor Marat. Or maybe in the other temple. And the other temple is where the Samurai was heading. As he finds nothing in his temple, Logan decides to go to the Samurai’s temple.
The Samurai has been reunited with his men. He orders them, by the name of Clan Yashida, to lower their weapons. The warriors ignore the Samurai, claiming he has entered a land where his orders mean nothing. Logan finds the Samurai, and observes from a distance. The Samurai tries to explain that the Doombringer will destroy the Earth, so the warriors will not be able to spend their promised wealth. The warriors believe differently, as they’ll be able to spend it in hell. They want to fight, but Wolverine intervenes and jumps in the middle. He explains that he only counted ten of the Samurai’s twenty renegade men. The Samurai already realized that, and also that the other warriors must be trying to capture the Doombringer inside the temple.
The warriors angrily notice that the Samurai is working together with the gaijin, Wolverine. The Samurai tries to explain that, though he and Logan’s paths are mostly different, they are the same now and have a truce. The warriors can’t have this, and open fire on their two adversaries. Though the Samurai gets hit three times by the bullets, he still stands and both he and Wolverine waste no time to kill all of the warriors. The Samurai is hurt and can hardly stand. Wolverine promises he’ll finish the job alone and will come back for the Samurai.
Wolverine enters the temple, but it’s empty. He finds the other ten warriors though, but they are all dead. Suddenly, a skull gets thrown nearby him. Logan looks up, and believes he found his enemy. It’s the Doombringer! And the alien is even uglier than Logan feared it would be. A heavy battle follows. Though Logan realizes his bones can’t be crushed, he can still bleed just like anyone else. Both the Doombringer and Wolverine share some heavy punches with each other. Wolverine’s uniform gets mostly torn apart, and he can’t take much more.
He decides to let go of his berserker rage, realizing that’s the only way he’ll be able to defeat the Doombringer. Logan does so, and fights with the beast in him no longer in control. But the Doombringer still stands, and Wolverine starts to faint. He can only hope he’ll get some help, but doesn’t think it’s likely. But help does come, in the form of… the Silver Samurai! The Samurai sticks his sword right through the Doombringer’s stomach, and he starts to bleed and roar. The Samurai tells Logan to finish the job. Logan, slowly starting to get back to normal, agrees with that. He shares the last few slashes, and eventually the Doombringer dies thanks to his powerful claws.
The Samurai wants to know if they truly succeeded. Wolverine believes they did: the portal is closed, time unstuck, and the Doombringer is dead. He believes they truly did succeed. The Samurai believes that the world will live on then. Wolverine agrees, though realizes that some other apocalypse will follow some day no matter what. Wolverine helps the Samurai out of his heavy armor, so he can recover a bit faster. The Samurai, almost without breath, asks Logan if he’ll live, despite the wounds he has. Logan isn’t sure, and neither is the Samurai about his condition. The two leave, and Logan has a final look at Tangkor Marat, hoping the beautiful place won’t be discovered for over another thousand years.
Wolverine and the Samurai start wandering through the jungle, hoping they’ll be able to reach Archie’s plane before the Samurai starts loosing too much blood. Logan luckily already feels better thanks to his healing factor, but the Samurai claims he doesn’t. Logan carries the Samurai for the rest of the way. He even takes a brief moment to rest before continuing on. Eventually, he finds Archie waiting for them at the exact spot the guy said he would. Wolverine tells Archie to step on it, and head for the nearest hospital so that the Samurai’s wounds can be taken care of. The Samurai thanks Logan for this, and mentions he’s in his debt now. He also wants to know how he can repay him for this. Wolverine claims that’s easy: he just wants to ease the Samurai’s sister’s mind.
It’s another two days before Logan finally gets to see Mariko, but he manages to find her at her home. He hands her a white Chrysanthemum flower, which he took from Tangkor Marat before they left. Wolverine explains everything to Mariko what happened, even though it’s hard to believe. Mariko mentions that her brother will recover, but refuses to explain to her if their Clan was really involved in the way she and Logan feared they were.
Logan lies that the Clan were actually the good guys, trying to prevent an apocalypse from happening. Logan realizes this doesn’t change anything between him and Mariko. He still understands her sense of honor, but simply can’t agree with it. Mariko and Logan take goodbye from another, with Logan concluding that Mariko can call in his help anytime.
As Logan leaves, he reminds himself that he only lied to Mariko to ease her mind, and also because she wasn’t at Tangkor Marat a thousand years ago, so she actually didn’t do anything wrong. He lied because he loves her and doesn’t want to see her ashamed for the mistakes of others. Mariko watches Logan leave, and says to herself that even if Wolverine will live forever, he’ll never learn how to lie.