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Rot: Part 3
Inside Dr. Rot’s compound, Rot asks aloud where his manners are. He’s going to introduce him to his family. Pointing to his captive, he tells everybody this is Logan. He’s sure they feel like they know him already; he’s talked so much about him. He then begins to introduce Logan to the rest of his family. He already knows Nurse Fester and Charlie (Chainsaws) and he met Baylee Ann just a little bit ago. Tater, too, but he can’t say he made a good first impression. But it pleases to introduce him his dear, dear mother and this fine gentleman is his great-great-grandfather Atremus Nicodemus Rottwell. His work was such a huge influence on his life and career. They’re all so happy that he’s there.
Just then, Baylee Ann angrily asks Rot why he’s wasting time playing nice with him. They’ve got to make him pay. He’s got to pay for what he did to poor Tater (ripping his guts apart). Pulling out her knife, Baylee exclaims with a wild look on her face that if Rot don’t make him bleed for what he done, she will. Stopping Baylee, Rot says to Logan “ugh, sisters, amirite?” She’s not his real sister, of course. That little daddy’s girl wasn’t worth the fat and gristle she was born with. But Baylee there, she’s the sister he always wanted. He put her personality together himself. Her willfulness, of course, is just proof that he did his job too well. She’s right though. He can’t go around killing family members, not even extended family members like Tater. But first, he wants to show him around a bit.
After loading Logan’s chair onto a hand truck, Rot tells him that once upon a time, his family was regarded, in certain murderous circles, with a great deal of respect. But the world is cruel, and it tried to strip his family name, his family legacy, away from him. They tried to sterilize and homogenize him. But Logan knows how that feels, doesn’t he? They are so much alike, yin and yang, caught in each other’s orbits. It’s like their souls are conjoined. So he’s sure he’ll be happy to hear that the worm is turning, so to speak. He’ll be with them as the Rottwells rise again. And this is the vehicle of their ascension, he says, showing off a gigantic contraption filled with brains, – the new and improved god brain machine. Patent pending.
What he did at Dunwich; that was just child’s play. It was but the preamble to this, his masterpiece. When he thinks about what he was able to accomplish with a mere prototype and compare it with what he’ll be able to do now, well he just gets gooseflesh, doesn’t he? Enraged, Logan clenches his fists but only blood trickles out. Upon seeing this, Rot asks him that he’s trying to pop those wonderful claws of his, isn’t he? Well, it’s no use, really. He has no idea what those fiends at Weapon X put inside his skull, does he? It’s admirable work, actually. It’s as if they staged that brain of his for the day he’d dig down into his inner workings. They put a code in his skull that would make sure he played well with others. Reading a large scroll of paper that shows Logan’s brain-wave activity, Rot states that it’s all there in black and white. And he cracked the code. Now… on to the business of what he did to Tater. The ranks, after all, must be replenished. Shall they begin?
After their plane lands on a tiny air-strip in California, Melita Garner asks Special Agent Dennis Wells, so this is what people mean by “back of beyond.” And idea where they go from here? Wells tells her the Rottwells have been off-the-grid for years. But nobody’s that far off the grid. They know where to start at least. They’ll find a nice, quiet place for her to wait it out, and…
Cutting him off, Melita tells him oh no. This is a ride-along. She’s coming with him. After Wells tells her that’s not a good idea, Melita replies that she didn’t say it was a good idea, but that doesn’t change anything. She’s been to hell and back, literally. She can handle whatever they find out there in the backwoods. Wells says all right, all right. But don’t make him regret this. His guess is GPS isn’t going to do them much good out there. Let’s see about asking the locals for directions. Finding a man working on an engine in a shed, Wells walks up to him and tells him they’re looking for the Rottwell estate. He wondered if he might…
Looking up from his work, the man answers that if they’re looking for them Rottwells, all they gotta do is follow their nose. When Melita starts to ask follow their…, the man remarks that the place stinks like an open grave. Entering their vehicle, Wells asks Melita if she still thinks she can handle this. Melita replies that is she were him, she’d worry less about her, and more about the potential for dueling banjoes in this neck of the woods.
Inside one of the rooms at the Rottwell complex, Dr. Rot has Logan strapped to a table and hooked up to a number of wires and machines. As Logan screams out in pain, Rot tells him that’s it, let it all out. Rebirth is supposed to hurt. Turning towards his mother, Rot asks her to give him another jolt. When she does, Logan flashes back to when he was being infused with the adamantium back at the Weapon X facility. Excitedly, Rot asks this mother to hit him again. When she does, Logan flashes back to when he was out in the snowy woods. Gritting his teeth, Logan says “ggkkkg k-kill y-y-you.” Holding his hand out to Nurse Fester, Rot asks aloud if he wonders when Michelangelo finished the Sistine Chapel if he wanted to tear it down and start over again. It had to keep him up at night. If he could do it all over again, would he change anything? Would he improve on the original? Taking a bent metal hanger from Nurse Fester, Rot leans down and tells Logan that’s one of the reasons he likes him so much. He’s his Sistine Chapel.
As he jams the hanger up Logan’s nose, Rot states that no matter how much work he does on him, he’s always a blank canvas when he returns. It’s such a creativity boost. Take his flesh puppets, for example. He took samples when they last worked together. He yanked little bits of gray matter right out through his nose. His science, Logan’s regenerative qualities, together they gave birth to something that’s not existed since the days of primordial ooze. He’s gained so much from collecting these little samples, but what is it what he’s lost? Perhaps he should think about that while that brain of his stitches itself back together. Leaving Logan a bloody mess on the table, Rot says that’s enough for today, he suspects. Let him get some rest.
Sometime later, Logan awakens on a stone floor, surrounded by a number of dead bodies with the tops of their heads lopped off and their brains removed. Logan realizes that, whatever they did to him, it’s starting to wear off. His head is clearing. His muscles are working. But he still feels like he belongs down here among the dead. So does Dr. Rot. He has choices to make. Get clear, get to safety, find help or stay, stay and kill them all. Seems pretty cut-and-dry to him.
Ascending the stairs, Logan slices through the metal door with ease and steps out into the hallway. He begins to wonder who’s first when he suddenly notices Charlie Chainsaws. A mountain of a man, strong as an ox, “hands” that can mince you to potted meat. Exclaiming “you’ll do,” Logan proceeds to stab Charlie in the chest, and in short order, lop off his head. Continuing down the hall, Logan happens upon a room where he hears Dr. Rot talking to his great-great-granddad, telling him he’s going to make him proud. He promises. He can’t wait for him to see what he’s been planning. Dozens of operatives… dozens of kills… in dozens of cities across the U.S. His fishers of men working day and night fueling the new god brain machine. And what it’s capable of, oh what it’s capable of! He’ll be strong again.
Just then, Logan bursts into the room and sees Dr. Rot, Mrs. Rottwell, and Atremus inside wearing masks. Bursting into the room, Logan exclaims cut off the head of the snake, kill him, kill them all. After he has slaughtered everybody in the room, Logan remarks that’s it, it’s ov…
Just then, Logan hears a scream behind him. Heading towards another door, Logan says it can’t be. He knows that voice. Doesn’t he? Rot’s been messing with his head, playing havoc with his senses. Inside the room, Logan sees Melita Garner being held at knife-point by Nurse Fester. Surrounded by a number of flesh puppets, Fester tells Logan to stay back or she’ll cut her pretty face off.
At that moment, Logan winces in pain when it feels like an iced blade stabbing through his skull. The flesh puppets are reading his thoughts, changing, into Scott, Jeanie, Kitty, Hank and Chuck. Trying to confuse him. Slashing through them, Logan exclaims that they aren’t real. He has to fight through it. See them for what they are. As he slaughters the inhabitants of the room, Logan notices that the walls are covered in blood, in words, trying to tell him something. Sweet words, sweet as a lullaby from mama. He can’t make it out. When Melita proceeds to ask Wolverine if he’s… Taking her in his arms, Logan tells her he is now and proceeds to kiss her. As he does, he states that this feels right but something’s wrong.
From a nearby control room, Dr. Rot asks Charlie Chainsaws, Mrs. Rottwell, Atremus Rottwell, and Nurse Fester isn’t that just the sweetest? Everything’s coming along nicely. The Weapon X programming, combined with his own special techniques have breached his mental defenses. Rot then proceeds to ask Tater how he feels. Better he hopes, more like himself. Stopping his embrace with Baylee Ann, Logan looks up at the camera and says yesssss. Better. Rot replies good, that’s very good because he needs him to get to work. They’ve got interlopers (Wells, Melita Garner, and a number F.B.I. agents) coming to crash their little family reunion right this very second. He wants him out there among them, doing what he does best. Murder them. Murder every last one of them.


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Rot: Part 4
Inside his compound, Dr. Rot sits on the couch next to his great-great-grandpa and the carcass of Tater. Rot turns to his great-great-grandpa and tells him that he’s worked so hard coordinating the harvest, the long night, with all his subjects across the country. All so he could heal him and make him whole again. He wishes he could read his mind as easily as he can the rest of the mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers. He wishes he knew if he approved of his work, if he’s proud of him. But the mind of a true genius is too enigmatic even to him, he supposes. He’ll tell him one thing though. He’ll be confounded if he’ll let a bunch of duly appointed government agents ruin next year’s family reunion. They’ll see soon enough. They’ll see what happens when you cross a Rottwell.
Outside the compound, the F.B.I. agents continue their investigation of the grounds. Upon reaching a door, one of the agents asks his partner if he heard some… Before he can utter another word, Charlie Chainsaws bursts through the door of the shed and slices off the agent’s arm. When the agent screams out in pain, a nearby agent on the other side of the compound yells out to his colleague Clayton what’s going on over there.
Just then, Baylee Ann, sitting on a porch swing asks the agents if they wanna play. With that, the sounds of two shotgun blasts are heard. Inside a nearby barn, Nurse Fester and Dr. Rot’s mom have taken agent Dennis Wells to the ground. As Fester holds him tight, Dr. Rot’s mom tells him to keep still. This struggling is getting them nowhere. Wells is able to kick Rot’s mom away as Fester tells him they’re only trying to help him. Holding up a syringe, Rot’s mom says yes, help and proceeds to jam the syringe into Wells neck.
On the outside of the complex grounds, Melita Garner stands next to the cars and laments her position. She reminds herself to do what she was told. Stay there. Let the F.B.I. do their work. Turning towards the car, Melita calls Logan a piece of #&$%. God, she wishes he was there…
Just then, Melita looks up to see Logan perched on the car in front of her. When she calls out his name, “Logan” tells her not hardly. That ol’ boy is dead and gone. Ain’t nobody there but her and Tater. Leaping off the car, “Tater/Logan” grabs hold of Melita and tells her to hold still, he wants to pull her real close and tight, stare into them big, brown eyes, smell her breath gone bloody and full of fear, as he yanks her guts out by the handful. Pushing her hand in “Tater/Logan’s” face, Melita says she gets it, he’s not Logan. He’s definitely not the man he came looking for. He may have unbreakable bones, but he’s got soft bits, too and he protects them.
With that, Melita delivers a swift kick to “Tater/Logan’s” crotch, which drops him to his knees. As Melita runs into the woods, she remarks that she has to admit, that felt pretty good. Calling out to her, “Tater/Logan” tells her that she can run, but it ain’t gonna do her a bit of good. She can’t never run far enough or fast enough to get away from him. Rushing through the woods, “Tater/Logan” calls out to Melita that she’s gonna catch her, she ain’t gonna get away from him. He’s gonna skin her and give her sweaty hide to his girl as a nightie. With a wild look in his eyes, “Tater/Logan”continues to repeat the mantra in his head – “dream a dream of pretty prey, and blood red as rage.”
Eventually, Melita runs face first into Charlie Chainsaws chest, which stops her in her tracks. Punching Melita in the face, Baylee Ann asks Tater what’s taking him so long. Everybody else is done. Just finish her off already. As Baylee Ann holds Melita down, Melita calls out Logan’s name. Baylee proceeds to tell her that ain’t his name skank. And he’s gonna cut her tongue out just for calling him that. Holding his knife up, Logan repeats his mantra but begins to remember things from his past – the original X-Men, Sentinels, the Weapon X project and suddenly drops his knife.
As he jams his claws in Baylee Ann’s gut, Baylee asks “T-Tater?” As the bloodied Charlie Chainsaws lies slumped over, Logan proceeds to tell Baylee that her boyfriend’s dead. He doesn’t know who “Baylee Ann” was before Dr. Rot programmed her to become ten kinds of murderous psycho. But she wouldn’t have given him a chance to save her. He didn’t have a choice. Dr. Rot didn’t give him one. That’s one more thing he owes him for. Walking up to him, Melita says to Logan that he’s him again. He told her what happened with Dr. Rot, how he blacked out. She remembered and she brought help… As she talks, Logan looks at her with a blank stare and then, without saying a word, turns and leaves.
Inside the barn, Rot’s mom and Nurse Fester have chained Dennis Wells up. Looking at him, Rot’s mom excitedly asks what they are going to do with him now. It would be a shame to spoil those good looks of his. Fester says maybe Dr. Rot would benefit from having a mole in the F.B.I., maybe… Entering the barn, Logan tells them that maybe they better hope the good doctor’s as good sewing up gut wounds as he is ripping the brains out of people. With that, Logan rushes towards the two ladies with reckless abandon, claws at the ready.
In his workshop, Dr. Rot examines a brain and wonders aloud why it’s taking so long. Delicate operations such as these leave no room for lollygagging. Leaning down and speaking into a microphone, Rot calls out to Mama and Nurse Fester to report in. When he gets no response, he asks for Charlie and Baylee Ann.
Just then, Rot turns around, sees Logan behind him and asks “Tater?” Holding Rot’s great-great-grandpa by the throat, Logan asks Rot why he doesn’t call for him. He brought him along for him. After Logan tosses the old man’s corpse to the ground, Rot clears his throat and remarks that he sees Logan’s programming didn’t take as successfully as he thought. Well, at first you don’t succeed. Rot then peers at Logan and says “dream a dream of pretty prey, and blood red as rage.”
Unfazed, Logan tells him to try again. When Rot repeats “dream a dream of pretty prey, and blood red as rage,” Logan grabs him by the collar, pops a single claw on his opposite hand and tells him again. As Rot starts to repeat the mantra for a third time, he stops and says to Logan that he found his way out. He navigated the maze. He twisted the trigger phrase, turned it back on itself, didn’t he? How? What did he use? How did he anchor himself…? Logan tells him no more. They both knew this is a long time coming.
Just then, Logan is attacked by a horde of Dr. Rot’s flesh-puppets, the same ones that were grown from bits of Logan’s brain that Rot ripped out through his nostrils. As Logan rips the flesh-puppets apart, Rot excitedly asks if he knows what this means. Logan’s healing factor goes beyond the physical. He broke through years of programming. He broke through some of his best work. They’re made for each other. But can he heal what he slices and dices himself? He has no idea what he’s destroying. What he’s killing he’ll never get back. Flesh-puppets, pulled from his skull, mapped memories made flesh, they’re part of him. Reaching Rot’s brain machine, he grabs hold of one of the brains and tells Logan to stay back of he’ll…
Jamming his claws into Rot’s gut, Logan asks he’ll what? Scream? Bleed out? Clutching Logan, Rot tells him there… there are more… trigger phrases… Weapon X implanted dozens of them… buried them deep. He saw them… scattered across the landscape of his mind like rotting stumps. Ha. Enraged, Logan tells him enough. His “family” is dead. He killed them. And he wants ot to understand something. This is him. Not Weapon X. Not the berserker. Not whatever murderer he tried to turn him into. He’s calm. Rational. He killed him. With that, Logan lops Rot’s head off.
And then he let the whole place burn. Carrying Agent Wells away from the blazing inferno towards Melita, Logan tells him that he’ll live. Handing Wells over to her, he tells her that once the drugs wear off, he’s sure he’ll figure out what really happened there. If he wants to talk to him, he can find him at his school. Taking possession of Wells, Melita asks Logan shouldn’t they talk? Logan tells her he doesn’t know what to say. Melita replies that she knows things are weird, but… what’s wrong? Turning around, Logan puts his hand up to her face and informs her that he doesn’t remember who she is.
Back at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Logan walks the halls. As he does, he thinks to himself that he’s home. Surrounded by his students, his friends, his family. But it’s not over. He can’t let his guard down, he can’t relax. If Dr. Rot was telling the truth, and that’s a big if, his brain is like a land mine. If anyone out there knows the other triggers he mentioned, they could turn him into…
Looking at a picture of the first team of X-Men he joined, Logan says he almost said, “something he’s not.” But that’s not entirely true. Truth is, he only thought he knew who he was. Now he’s not so sure. Now more than ever, his memories… they’re spotty. Dr. Rot wasn’t just yanking his brains out through his nostrils. He was yanking out his past. His brain healed, but it healed clean. There are memories, ideas, dreams, that are just gone. He doesn’t know how deep the wounds run. He doesn’t know how much is gone. He doesn’t know when, if they’ll ever return. Some of the students he remembers, others are just a blur to him. There’s no way for him to know what exactly is missing until he runs across it. But he’s certain those things he’s forgotten are gonna come back with a vengeance and bite him in the ass.
Somewhere out near Dr. Rot’s compound, Nurse Fester turns the crank on a machine as she tries to hold her guts into her stomach. As the brain machine fires up, a body falls from the contraption. Picking himself up out of the muck, Dr. Rot tells his great-great-granddad that he’s so sorry he couldn’t bring him back but he promises he’ll make him, and their family proud. First things first… let’s dig up everything we can find on the Weapon X program.


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Sometime in the past…..
Logan remembers a time since past. One night, inside a seedy bar, he sits at the bar enjoying his drinks while he looks around. He remembered the place smelled. And he’s the guy who’d know. Couple years back, they’d banned smoking inside o’ places like this. On the last legal night, the smokers chaining through packs with a vengeance, the non-smokers pictured the next day’s bar like a field full ‘a daisies, finally free of the clouds and filth.
Joke was on them when the smoke was gone but the bars all smelt worse than ever before. What no one’d realized was that the smell from those filthy clouds o’ death hid a lot underneath. In this place, it woulda hid where the guy blacked out on the pool table and pissed himself. Woulda hid where the sorority gal’s body decided it was no longer a one-way trip for cheap champagne. For a guy like him, it didn’t hide much. He has senses sharper’n a pack o’ dogs. He smelled cold sweat. He smelled hormones from people too drunk to be picky anymore. And he smelled fear.
Barely turning around, Logan grits his teeth and asks Josh Foley why he’s there. They called him Elixir, back when they were on X-Force together. Back when they were all one team. He had the power to heal, just not himself.
The bartender gruffly asks Josh (calling him kid) what he thinks this is. Logan remarks that he just asked him that. Josh tells Logan that he doesn’t know. He just wants to see him tick. After Logan asks that so, the bartender angrily shakes his finger in Josh’s face and tells him they don’t serve no kids in there. Grabbing the bartender’s hand, Logan sternly tells him don’t serve ‘im. But he keeps shouting near his face and he’ll spoil his relaxation. And he’s a real bad guy to spend time with when he’s tense. Once Logan lets the bartender’s hand go, Josh tells him he’s sorry. He just wants to talk to his friend. He won’t drink and he won’t cause any trouble. Handing him some money, he tells him here’s his tip just for letting him use the seat. He guesses he probably wants to bring his friend more moonshine or whatever.
Logan recalls that Josh reminded him of what he was. Or maybe what he’s trying not to be. When Logan asked Josh what’s on his mind, Josh told him he guesses he figures he’s about as far from what he wants to be as one can get. No offense. He’s probably killed more people than he went to high school with. Downing his alcohol, Logan replies that it ‘pends on the high school. Josh adds that Logan makes jokes. About people whose lives he’s ended. He should hate him. Why doesn’t he hate him? Logan replies that he doesn’t know. He’s not always his own biggest fan.
Josh says he wants to understand him. Is that weird? When Logan asks how he plans to make that happen, Josh answers that he doesn’t know. He only got as far as staring at the back of his head, so far. When the bartender starts opening up another bottle, Logan gives him a menacing look. Pointing over at a young, attractive red-haired woman, the bartender informs Logan that the lady bought another round. Logan recalls that the whole night was full’a wrong turns. Getting up from his seat, Logan grabs the new bottle of alcohol, straightens his hat, and tells Josh that the back o’ his head might have to do for now.
Seemed like they sat right there for days and then somewhere else. As Logan sits in a room next to a bed with the young woman, she says to him that he didn’t ask her why she sent that bottle over. Logan tells her that mama always said he had nice eyes. Figured it was that or she’d poisoned the bottle. When the young woman points out that he drank it anyway, Logan tells her that her mama also told him he’d only get a couple chances at romance in this life. He figured this might be the last, but it might be the best. After he gives her a kiss on the cheek, the young woman says that he’s is a mutant that can’t be killed. Logan calls her sugar and tells her not to spoil it. His senses told him what she was from the minute she walked in that bar. He knew she ain’t hidin’ under them clothes for the sake o’ vanity.
Shocked, the young woman asks how could he… he knew? Logan tells her that he knew she was there for business. He hoped business’d wait. When the young woman asks him how, why would he want to be with something like her, Logan tells her cause what he’s hidin’ underneath is prob’ly worse. With that, the two lovers embrace. Sometime later, the young woman with shiny stony skin all over her back asks Logan if he’s awake. Logan tells her he’s there. The young woman proceeds to tell Logan she’s sorry. Logan tells her to say her piece. Tell him what she’s there for. The young woman says she doesn’t know anymore. She doesn’t want him to go away. Logan asks but? The young woman tells him there’s something terrible she came there to tell him about. And he’s a man who puts an end to terrible things.
Maybe I saw it all coming. But me and Slim changing roles, maybe I didn’t wanna believe. I didn’t figure he had it in him. Maybe I just hoped he was better. During a training session with a young mutant, Cyclops blasts a floating orb. When he tells the young mutant to do the same, he says he can’t. Pointing his finger at him, Scott tells him lesson one – he’s the one who tells him when he can’t. Right now, breath deep, aim and destroy.
Walking up, Logan laments leave it to the X-folk to take alien tech and try to shoot at it with lasers. Blasting the orb, Scott states that the Shi’ar designed these spheres for target practice. They’re built to be invulnerable to damage. Scott then proceeds to ask Logan what he needs. When Logan tells him he needs a day, Scott replies that he has a day coming up at the end of the month. Til then, they’re knee deep in… situations. He can’t spare anyone, least of all him. Walking away, Logan tells him sorry, Slim. He needs this day. Those situations’ll keep ‘til tomorrow. He can’t go creepin’ in the dark for him til then.
Clenching his fists, Scott starts to tell Logan this isn’t the place for that kind of… Stopping mid-sentence, Scott asks Logan what this is about. After Logan tells him it ain’t the place for that either, Scott unleashes an optic blast and destroys the training sphere. Maybe Logan hoped he wasn’t like him.
As Logan makes his way through a hallway, Josh comes up behind him and tells him that he wants to come with him. Logan says this ain’t official business and it ain’t his kinda field trip. It’s a private affair and he ain’t gonna like how he gets his satisfaction. Sit this one out. Josh says he won’t tell anyone about this, it’s gotta be real bad if even X-Force can’t know anything about it. Josh adds that he wants to see this part of things. He wants to see the worst in him. He wants to understand. Turning towards him, Logan says if he wants to get himself killed, he get right to it. He ain’t his daddy. Just so long as he stays out of his wake. With that, Logan dons his yellow and brown costume, hops a bike and takes off down the road with Josh in tow.
Sometime later, Logan and Josh, dressed in their X-Force costumes, find themselves in a barren area. Looking around, Josh asks where they are. Logan informs him the Salton Sea. She said it’d be about there the alarms would kick in. Noticing some creatures watching them intently, Josh asks Logan what they are. Mutants they didn’t know about? Logan says they ain’t mutants anymore. A few who got caught in the wrong state when everyone’s powers went away. They’re stuck this way. These guys were Morlocks. Mutants with physical manifestations that made ‘em feel they had to hide from the world. Now they’re powerless, hidin’ even from that. Now they call themselves the Dregs. When two of the large creatures approach Josh and Logan, Josh asks what do they do – run? Logan tells him no, kid. They never run. At that moment, Logan pops his claws.
When Logan finds himself face to face with one of the creatures that looks like a spider, Josh tells him not to hurt the creature. He’s probably more scared of him. After the creature slashes him across the chest, Logan tells Josh he’s sorry but he doesn’t like the way he expresses his fears. With that, Logan slices one of the creatures arm off. Jamming his other arm into Logan’s chest, the creature tells him he can feel his spine against his wrist. Does it tickle? Logan says lemme show you and proceeds to slice the creatures head off.
Just then, a very large creature approaches the duo. Upon seeing him, Josh tells Logan to get out of there. This doesn’t have to keep getting worse… Standing up to face the creature, Logan tells him to go ‘head and take the first shot. After the creature tells him what a gentleman, he punches Logan with great force. Smashing up against a tree, Logan feels his head fill with noise, his insides fill with blood. Looking down at his fist, the creature tells Logan that he has hard bones but the rest of him breaks. It takes Logan a second to think of anything at all that’s not the organs crushed inside of him; takes less than that to decide to take that arm away from him. But he’s faster than he looks.
Punching Logan to the ground again, the creature asks him how the healing comes X-boy. He stitching up pretty good? Ripping off a nearby tree branch, the creature pins Logan to a nearby tree with his hand around his neck and asks him how does one kill a thing like him. Silver bullet? Stake through the heart? Touching the creature on the elbow, Josh tells him “you don’t.” No one ever kills him. As the creature falls to the ground, frothing at the mouth, Logan recalls that he said Josh heals. But it can go the other way. Making his way over to Logan, Josh offers to heal him. Logan tells him no, picks up the broken tree branch, says he’s feelin’ better already and jams it into the creature, killing him. It never sat right. To help him out, Josh had to hurt someone else. Wasn’t natural to him, but everything gets easier.
Entering one of the buildings, Logan and Josh see a number of individuals inside. Logan tells Josh there’s nothing he can do here. Looking over at a woman covered in sores with octopus legs, Josh asks how he knows that. Making his way over to her, Josh asks her what happened there. The woman answers that they lost their powers. Little by little, they get weak. Only the Russian helps. Only the Russian tries to make them whole again. But she is too far gone. Even his touch only leaves her cold. When Josh asks “what Russian?” the woman tells him that he helps everyone. He helps them get their powers back.
Josh tells her he’s going to try to help her. Don’t be scared. The woman states that she is at peace. Nothing scares her anymore. When Josh squeezes the woman’s hand, he begins to feel ill and sores appear on his body. The woman tells him that he cannot help her. He is ill. The Russian will make him better. Logan asks Josh if he’s all right. He looks like his insides are fightin’ to get out. Josh remarks that it doesn’t work. And he feels like… he feels nauseous now. Logan says he told him he can’t fix this mess. All they can do is end it. Josh defiantly states that he can’t just leave her… all these people in this state. He then says “you do what you do. And I do this.” Turning towards another Morlock, Josh holds out his hand and tells him it’s okay. He’s there to help. When he does, however, he starts to feel ill again and exclaims no, this isn’t right. Picking Josh up, Logan tells him it ain’t his fault. Helping him down the hall, he asks him if he ever heard of a mutant getting sick from losing their powers. There’s something else going on there.
From a room down the hall, a man wearing a long trench-coat asks if anyone can hear him. He’s spent all this time within his head; he scarcely knows the sound of his own voice. Turning around to face Logan, the man points out that Logan is the same. He is old and dry and he is young and unchanged. Upon recognizing the man as Meltdown, Logan pops his claws. Meltdown greets him hello and asks if he’s there to kill him again. Josh asks “Meltdown?” What’s his thing, starting fires or something? Logan replies that he’s a nuclear reactor. The last time he saw him, a lot of years ago… he almost killed a city. Almost killed him too, and Alex Summers. Meltdown says yes, Logan had a different friend then. Hello, new friend. Remembering back, Logan snarls that he swore he saw him die.
Meltdown remarks yes, he saw it too. His sight, his memories and mind… dissipated. And then ceased to be. Where his life was, now was only silence. But then with time, his eyes reopened in Siberian desert. He was born again. But in the sand, he was reborn to nothing. No energy around to feed him, old and dying like a joke. From that first day, he felt measureless pain. He envisioned his death as one might a wedding. He fantasized. In his sickness, he discovered something that allowed him to live, but in shame, he could steal the life of tiny things; of lizards, of birds. Every life sent him one more kilometer. Eventually, in America, in the subway, he would steal the lives of rats. Stealing everything they were, to gain minutes. He stumbled weeks below New York, dying every day a few minutes less. Until he learned there was more below the world than rodents.
Just then, the young woman with whom Logan had relations with earlier walks in and states that Meltdown found the Morlocks, the Dregs and her. Turning around, Logan says “Eva.” Meltdown says to her that she came back to him. He thought that he had lost her. Eva continues that they’d all lost their abilities at the wrong time. They were all deformed, desperate. Till they all lost their powers, she’d change into this dark liquid stone and it was perfect. She felt immaculate. No one could hurt her. No one else could be what she was. And then one day she’s changing back and right in the middle, something happens.
Not just to her. All over, people can’t do the things they used to do. There’s a guy that looked just like a dragon. He could fly, he spoke fire… it sounds scary but he was magnificent. He was flying when that day came and he fell out of the sky. Broke his legs, his spine, he was powerless even to change back to human form. They didn’t even turn him away at the hospital. They evacuated, they thought they were under attack. His heart stopped before they could shoot him. Internal trauma, she guesses. He was seventeen. There were more that died. Some in their bodies that couldn’t support themselves without the strength or abilities they were made for. Those that didn’t die, when he found them, all he saw was desperation. He promised to heal them, to give them back their powers. He used his radioactivity to kick start mutation like setting their cells on fire so he could drain them at their brightest. She helped him lie to them. He took to her, treating her like the queen of this festering mess. Making them steal anything they wanted in exchange for him “saving their lives.” One lie leads to another. Most of the lies she told herself. She was happy. She thought she’d be alone forever and then… So she pretended she didn’t know they were all getting sick as he claimed to be making them better.
Meltdown puts his hands on Eva’s shoulders and tells her they gave them hope. They were sad and scared and they gave them purpose; they took away their insecurities. Gritting her teeth, Eva exclaims they took away their lives. Pulling away from Meltdown, Eva adds that they were decomposing on a cellular level, their bodies riddled with this sort of cancer… He told them it was their bodies reacting to the loss of their abilities. Said they needed more treatment. The more they died, the more they killed them… The more he spoke the sounds of emergency, the more he told them they had no time to lose. And she fed into it. She rationalized to them, she talked them out of all their doubts so she could keep on bleeding them inch by inch so she could keep what she had, she held their hand and she talked them out of living. She brought Logan there to end this. Looking out the window with glowing eyes, Meltdown remarks by all means, let them end it.
At that moment, Meltdown uses his powers to suck the life-forces out of the Morlocks on his compound. As he does, he tells them he’s sorry, his little helpers, but he has many more kilometers to go today. After Eva tells him what is happening, Logan leaps into action and begins to hack and slash away at Meltdown. Gaining size, Meltdown knocks Logan to the ground and tells him that it’s like old times. He couldn’t hurt him then, does he remember? It was his friend who had to hurt him. But his friend isn’t here.
Walking up to Meltdown, Josh states that he’s there. Those people, he’s never seen such trust in anyone as he saw they had for him. A parasite who made them pay him to kill them all. He understands now. As Josh uses his powers, Meltdown begins to grow in size. Josh proceeds to tell Logan that he understands where rage comes from. And what it feels like to want to kill… to want to stop a person forever. Logan tells Josh that he’s nuclear. He lets him blow and everyone dies for miles. Josh continues with his powers but then it all stops. As Meltdown grows to immense size, Logan tells Josh to snap out of it. This ain’t him, think about what’s about to happen.
When Logan grabs his arm, Josh tells him to take his hand off of him. Once Logan lets go, he falls to his knees. Josh asks him if he can feel it. That’s what he felt when he tried to heal them. That’s what they’ve got inside of them. Logan tells him there’s something wrong with his head. This cancer they have inside them, it’s made him sick. Push it back. Looking on, Eva says she’s sorry and starts to run away. Stopping her, Josh tells her that she doesn’t get to escape this.
As Josh holds Eva close, Meltdown says he knows the look on Josh’s face, the power of death, the total power over everyone around him. It is glorious. He never thought he would see it in someone else. Josh tells him he doesn’t want it. At that moment, Meltdown shrinks to a severely weakened state. Meltdown then asks Josh what he did with his power. Josh informs him that he gave it all back. All that sickness he spread, now it’s his. Standing amidst the burning room, Logan mentions to Josh that he coulda killed him. There ain’t ten men in the world he’d say that to. Lowering his head, Josh tells him that he doesn’t want to be a killer again. As he walks away, Logan turns towards Meltdown with his claws at the ready.
Later, outside the burning building, Eva states that she doesn’t deserve to survive this. Let her stay. Logan tells her they all have shame for things they’ve done. He has more than most. Josh says and yet he keeps on. How does he keep going, knowing what he knows? What he’s done? Logan replies that he doesn’t know any better than he does what makes him tick. He fights every day with what he has inside. And every night he goes to bed regretting all the things he’s done wrong in this world. And when he wakes up, he decides today to try and do things right.


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Sabretooth Reborn. Chapter One: Out of the Darkness
New York City, weeks ago…
Scaling up the side of a tall building using his claws, Wolverine tells the man shackled at the top, Cloak, that he wants him to know this wind is killing him and his cape thing isn’t helping.
Always wanted to go up to the top of the Empire State Building but this ain’t how I pictured it. The kid’s name is Cloak. Has the ability to pull things, people, in and out of something called the Darkness Dimension. He’s pretty good at what he does. Me? I’m Wolverine. I’m the best at what I do. And right now, that’s gonna be getting us down from up here.
As Wolverine frees Cloak from the chains shackling him, Cloak weakly tells him that he… has… Dagger… When Wolverine asks who has her, Cloak collapses into Wolverine and tells him “Sabretooth.” Wolverine is surprised to hear this, and that momentary hesitation causes him to be unable to grab hold of the post and the two heroes plummet towards the ground below. As they begin their free-fall, Wolverine exclaims that’s not possible. Cloaks asks that he’s never… heard of anyone… coming back from the dead?
I’m sure everyone has heard the story that if you drop a penny off the top of the Empire State Building. On impact it would cut through a city bus like butter and continue so far into the street it’d hit a subway train. A penny. I may have adamantium bones, but even I don’t think I could survive a fall from this height.
Wolverine tells Cloak that they’ve got only one chance, maybe. He’s got to teleport them out of there. Weakly, Cloak tells him that he can’t… nothing… left. Grabbing hold of Cloak’s hand, Wolverine tells him to listen to him. This isn’t about whether or not they’re going to be chuck wagon in about nine seconds. This is about Dagger. The girl he cares about more than himself. Which is fine. But if he doesn’t suck it up, right now, and teleport them exactly where he’s going to tell him, she’s dead. Because, if Sabretooth is alive, he’s in the “killing-pretty-girls” business. Just then, Cloak teleports them…
...to Canada. Shoveling up the dirt and snow, Wolverine mentions to Cloak that he wanted to leave him for the wolves. But he got convinced there are enough psychopaths out there who would try and bring him back to life if they could find his body. Weakly, Cloak reminds Wolverine that he said they’d go after Dagger. Wolverine responds that they will. Right after he makes sure he’s there.
Upon seeing Sabretooth’s dead body and severed head, Wolverine picks up the head and holds it in his hands. When Cloak asks him how he can touch that, the smell, Wolverine tells him that it’s an improvement over when he was alive. The smell. Something about it didn’t add up even when I killed him.
Tossing the head to the ground, Wolverine again asks Cloak who took Dagger. Cloak tells him Sabretooth. He came at them, so fast, told him that if he didn’t… if he didn’t release Romulus from the Darkness Dimension, he would kill her. Looking at him, Wolverine says to Cloak “tell me you didn’t.” After Cloak replies that he was going to kill her, Wolverine says you stupid… you let Romulus out? And they still kept his girl, beat him within an inch of his life, so he’d call him for help. They didn’t want her, they didn’t want him. That’s why he’s still alive. So he could bring Wolverine to them. And they knew he’d come there first.
Just then, a scream permeates through the air. When it does, Cloak remarks that’s Dagger. Immediately, Wolverine runs off into the snow towards the direction of the scream. One way or another, if it involves Sabretooth it always comes back here. Silver Fox’s house. Where we lived… and she died. Murdered by Sabretooth. Haven’t been up here in a while. Haven’t had any reason to come after I buried Sabretooth. It’s been rebuilt. And not by me.
Kicking the door of the cabin open, Wolverine sees Romulus holding Dagger by the throat. After he yells at Romulus to let her go, Romulus tells him that he should be thanking him. He wanted to kill her right off the top. Old habits and all that. As he tosses Dagger aside, Romulus adds that he saw the possibilities in looking at it another way. Like he always does. Wolverine tells Cloak to get Dagger out of there and then proceeds to pop his claws and tell Romulus that he comes onto his land, in this house, there’s only one possibility – he’s gonna die!
Just then, Wolverine attacks Romulus. Romulus claims to be thousands of years old. Thinks he’s immortal. Claims a lot of things, about his past. Thought I had this handled. I was wrong. Gotta fix that.
As the battle makes its way out into the snow and the cabin burns to the ground, Romulus tells Wolverine if only killing him were that easy. Nearby, Dagger tries to convince Cloak to help Wolverine out. Cloak tells her that he only has enough to get them out of there. Wolverine yells at Cloak to go. He came there for her and now he has her. Seeing them rush away, Wolverine turns his attention back to Romulus. Once he does, Romulus is able to knock him away. As he does, he tells Wolverine that now the distractions are gone, he can have his full attention. Picking himself up off the ground, Wolverine grabs hold of a wooden post and cracks Romulus across the face with it. While he does, he asks Romulus who he is working with, why he came back, what the hell he wants. Grabbing hold of Romulus’ head, Wolverine holds his claws to his neck and says to him to tell him the truth or he swears he’ll cut his head clean off.
After slamming his head back into Wolverine’s jaw, Romulus asks him how much time he has spent in the Darkness Dimension. Connecting with a back-fist, Romulus asks a second or two while that child transported you here or there. He has no idea how time works in that place. It’s a tedium beyond even the tedium of immortality on earth. So he had a very long time to think about them while he had him locked away. Slashing Romulus across the face, Wolverine replies that it sounded like he wasted some valuable alone time. Grabbing Wolverine’s arm, Romulus snaps his wrist, calls him an ungrateful whelp and proceeds to kick him in the gut. As he does, Romulus tells Wolverine the things they could’ve accomplished together – riches, women, power. As Romulus holds Wolverine by the throat, Wolverine breathlessly tells him there’s nothing he has that he would ever want. Romulus tells him as always, that’s where he is… wrongurkkk!
Just then, Romulus is stabbed from behind by an unnamed red-haired woman brandishing a sword. The woman tells Logan that won’t keep him down for long. Looking at her, Logan wonders who? Head’s all banged around… is that… Jean…? The woman looks at Logan and asks him that he’s going to pass out, isn’t he. Okay, do that. Heal up. You’re going to need it. But before you go, there’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Taking Logan in her arms, the woman kisses him and whispers in his ear “The answers you seek are at the Weapon X facility. But hurry, he’ll know I told you.”
When I woke up, she was gone. Romulus as well. Never seen her before. That kiss… even with my screwed-up memory, I’d remember. Her accent. Italian with a hint of Japanese. That I have heard before… “The Weapon X facility,” is what she whispered. “That’s where you’ll find the answers.” This hellish place…left it in flames the last time I visited. Nothing stays buried. A long time ago I was held prisoner here. Tested. Trained. Tortured. From what I remember… Romulus was part of all that. Claimed he knew more about the mutant gene than Sinister, Magneto and Xavier combined.
Entering the compound, Wolverine sees a number of containment tubes, all housing Sabretooth in various forms. Genetics. That’s what this has been about all along. Some people called the Weapon X program Canada’s version of the American super-soldier program. One way, we got Captain America. In my nightmares, we’d get this. Romulus could start a war with an unstoppable army.
Popping his claws, Wolverine remarks that he burned this place to the ground once, now he has to do it twice. Looking at all of the containment tubes, Logan remarks that there must be dozens of them. Just then, Logan hears a voice behind him who tells him only one is the real deal. After Logan exclaims “Sabretooth,” Sabretooth states that he’s back, runt. Just in time to see him die!


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Sabretooth Reborn. Chapter Two: Nightmare in Red
Ever had one of those recurring nightmares? Some people dream about being in a plane crash. Or drowning. Or gettin’ buried alive. One thing they all have in common… you always wake up before you die. Now imagine… that very same nightmare… only now you’re awake. That nightmare is my life. Times a hundred. The total psycho I’m fighting is Victor Creed. Sabretooth. He should be dead. It’s not just something I want or he deserves. He actually, truly, in fact, should be dead. I should know, I chopped off his head with a mystical blade that made it impossible for him to return from the grave. As dumb as that sounds, it’s exactly what happened. But… even then… my gut knew something was wrong. I remember thinking…”Sabretooth’s scent… it’s different. I’m fighting the beast.” Should’ve listened to my gut. The “Sabretooth” I killed was a DNA replicant. A bio-engineered duplicate of the worst of mutant kind.
Inside the Weapon X facility, located in the Canadian north woods, Logan and Creed engage in vicious battle. Creed tells Logan that he’s actually missed the runt. All the time he was… away… he was training… learning… making himself smarter ‘til they met again. Logan replies that’s funny. The only thing he’s interested in learning is how to make sure he stays dead.
As their battle continues, a number of Sabretooth clones emerge from their containment tubes and join in on the fray. Seeing Logan pinned to the ground, Creed tells him that it’s not so easy when there’s dozens of him. Defiantly, Logan tells him there’s just more of him to kill. Walking away, Creed tells him good luck with that. If he survives tonight, he’ll finish the job all by himself tomorrow. Eventually, Logan emerges from the dog-pile and runs after Creed.
Can’t let that maniac back out into the world again. This has Romulus written all over it. Always claimed he knew more about genetics than Xavier or Magneto. Judging from what he accomplished here, he could be right. That doesn’t sit well with me at all. Odds are Vic is headed back to him. Gotta get to the air, look for tracks.
Once outside the facility, Logan notices that Creed is gone and immediately heads towards his aircraft. Turning on the jets, Logan is able to take out some of the clones with the fire that emits from the back of the aircraft. After taking off, Logan notices that a number of Sabretooth clones have clung to his transport. I was hoping for easy. Sabretooth is never easy. He’s messy. Covered in blood. And everything ends in death.
As Logan pilots his aircraft through the sky, some of the clones fall off while others are able to punch through the cockpit. Piloting the plane towards the Weapon X compound, Logan tells the clones to “remember this, you little bastards… you brought this on yourselves.” Logan then proceeds to crash the aircraft into the Weapon X compound, causing it to go up in flames.
Years. Years and years I’ve been at war with Creed. Been told we’re brothers. Related. Whatever. Now Romulus is in the mix. How does it all tie together? Where does it all end?
Emerging from the fiery wreckage, a wounded Logan falls to his knees. Just then, as he is about to get attacked by Sabretooth clones on fire, a female voice from behind tells him to get his head down. When he does, the red-haired stranger kills the clones who were about to kill Logan. I know that voice. Her accent… Italian with a hint of Japanese. A mysterious redhead who happens to save my Canadian bacon. I hate mysteries… but I do likes me a redhead.
Tossing Logan a sword with Japanese writing on it, the woman asks Logan how long it will take to heal that handsome face back up again. Catching the sword, Logan tells her long enough. He’d thank her if he knew who he was thanking. Did she say something about a handsome face? As they stand back to back, the woman asks Logan if he’s ready. Logan quips that he was just about to ask her the same thing. Facing off against the clones, Logan tells the woman that it’s a nice blade she tossed him. The woman states that it was a… gift. From a long time ago.
Logan asks here that she doesn’t mind losing it then. When the woman asks why, Logan says she didn’t say “no” and proceeds to throw the sword into the fuselage of the plane which explodes. Getting up off the snow, the woman and Logan see an oncoming helicopter. As the woman tells Logan that’s their ride, Logan tells her to wait. The woman says there’s no time. Creed has a pretty good headstart. Ugh. For a gal I don’t know, she sure knows an awful lot.
Inside the helicopter, Logan watches the Weapon X compound burn and states that it can’t burn down often enough. Turning towards the mysterious woman, Logan asks her if she thinks they got them all. The woman answers that he’ll know soon, won’t he? Logan says he guesses. Either Sabretooth’ll want to deal with it… The woman finishes his thought for him… or Romulus will. Her accent. Only one other person I know has that same odd mix.
Just then, Logan grabs the woman’s arm and asks her who the hell she is. Turning around, the woman says that not a lot of men live after they lay a hand on her. But… he always was the exception to every rule. Pulling her hand away from her sword, the woman passionately kisses Logan. Breaking their embrace, Logan pops two of his outside claws and places them under the woman’s chin. He then tells her that on “three,” either the truth of her brain comes out. One. Two.
The woman proceeds to tell Logan that she wishes it were this easy. Logan tells her uh-huh. She does know what comes after “two.” The woman states that he’s the one who wants to play games. Not her. Pulling away his claws, Logan tells the woman that he’s listening. The woman introduces herself as Remus. As in “Romulus and.” She needs a favor that will help both of them. She wants him to kill her twin brother. If this is a nightmare now would be a perfect time to wake up…


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Sabretooth Reborn. Chapter Three: Remus
Lies. If there’s been one constant in my life… aside from beer and my weakness for redheads… it’s that my life has been a cesspool of secrets and lies. Tonight is no exception. Including the redhead. But there comes a time… even when you’re a mutant super hero… where you have to take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
Two minutes ago, in a helicopter above the Canadian Rockies, the mysterious redhead informs Logan that her name is Remus. As in “Romulus and.” She needs a favor that will help both of them. She wants him to kill his twin brother. When Logan asks her why he should believe her, Remus replies because it’s the truth. Popping his claws, Logan lunges towards Remus and tells her that he’s not a big fan of her family; how about he kills her instead? Remus says twice in about as many days she’s saved his life. Doesn’t that count for anything? Logan responds that Romulus has done nothin’ but play him. This smacks of another one of his games.
As she delivers a knee to Logan’s gut, Remus tells him that she has answers about Romulus, Sabretooth and every lie he’s ever been told. If he wants to toss all that away… just remember, she did ask nicely. With that, Remus delivers an elbow to the back of Logan’s head and knocks him out of the helicopter.
She’s got skills, I’ll give her that. Reminds me a bit of Elektra. Only the accent isn’t Greek. Hers is more Italian with a hint of Japanese. Only one other person sounds like that. Romulus. As he falls out of the helicopter, Logan jams his claws into the side of it, grabs Remus by the leg and pulls her out to join him so they can continue their discussion. When he does, Remus begins to fall to the ground but the pilot banks the chopper back around and she’s back on him with her arm wrapped around his neck. Logan tells her that if he lets go, he’ll survive.
Remus says maybe and then asks how he knows she won’t as well. She’s been around a long time. A very long time… With that, Remus pops a single claw that emerges from under her wrist and jams it into Logan’s arm. When she does, Logan loses her grip and the two of them plummet towards the ground below.
Picking himself up off the snowy ground, Logan tells Remus that, earlier tonight, he was thinkin’ how much he enjoyed that kiss she laid on him. But now, all he wants to do is kill…
Looking at Remus and seeing the skin torn away from the right side of her body, exposing the metal underneath, Logan asks “what the hell?!” Looking down at her arm, Remus remarks that she hit some rocks on the way in. Give her a moment and he can finish that thought. Like she said, she’s been around a long time. Noticing that her skin has already grown back, Logan remarks that she has a healing factor. Remus adds “among other things.” Peering at Logan, Remus says he really doesn’t remember, does he. The things they did to him at Weapon X. Logan tells her to make him smarter.
When Remus says “quod sum eris,” Logan replies “I am what you will be.” Latin. Romulus’ go-to phrase. That he’d be like him someday. Remus asks Logan if that is what he thinks it means. Her brother and her watched as entire civilizations were built and then were destroyed. The Hunnic Empire, Roman, Greek, the Third Reich. Each opportunity taken from glory to wasteland. The common denominator was that humans were the architects. But what if there were only mutants?
Logan says “a master race.” Magneto and Apocalypse chased that dragon. It ends badly. Remus tells Logan that his healing factor is both a blessing and a curse. Everyone he ever loved will die off long before him. Logan says to tell him something he doesn’t know. Remus states that there’s so much Logan doesn’t know. So much Romulus didn’t want him to remember. So much Logan agreed to…
Popping his claws, Logan angrily asks Remus what he wants with Sabretooth. Remus calmly asks if he’s going to let it out. What does he call it? His “berserker rage” he desperately wants to suppress? Or is that his true self? Logan says lies. Like all that nonsense about Homo-lupus. That there was a different species of mutants descended from wolves – the lupine.
Remus smiles and says she hopes he didn’t believe any of that. Does he recall the state he was in at the time? He had just gotten his memories back… some, not all evidently… and he wanted him to sniff out the truth. That’s what he does, isn’t it? A mystery! Why does the feral gene seem to replicate itself more often in mutants? Why not flight, telepathy? Romulus wasn’t looking for a new species. He was looking to create one. The bones he found in the elephant graveyard in Wakanda. Does he think he left them there by mistake? They were to throw him off and they did. He’d been mining there, looking for as much of it as possible. When Logan asks vibranium, Remus says as part of a new adamantium. For a new age, their age. Romulus doesn’t want him dead. He wants him by his side. With that, Logan tells Remus to take him to Romulus.
The Amalfi Coast – Italy. Remus says this place is thousands of years old. Originally built by her brother. Not that I believe any of that. No way to approach from land, air or by sea without him knowing. Probably worked out well once upon a time. Got a different way to travel now. Appearing in the main hall of the mansion with Dagger and Remus in tow thanks to Cloak, Logan reminds them that they all have personal reasons for being there. But that’s how you get killed. Cloak and Dagger are good kids… but that’s what they are: kids. Cloak’s a teleporter. I couldn’t get in without him and he wouldn’t go without her. Now I gotta make sure they get back alive.
Turning towards his compatriots, Logan tells them that he’s going first. Just then, Logan starts running down the hall. He’s got his scent. They’ll know when to come and not before.
I lied. I didn’t just get his scent. I got both of them. Sabretooth is here too. Dropping down from the ceiling, Creed tells Logan that he can’t say he’s surprised. He’d follow a “red” into hell if she were pretty enough. Particularly that one. Looks like I hit the two-for-one special on kill shots tonight. Rushing towards Creed with his claws extended, Logan tells him that he doesn’t need some gal he just met to give him a reason to come after him.
Creed asks “just met…?” He doesn’t remember? Well, that changes things. Slamming Logan’s head into the wall, Creed states that he comes back “from the dead” and he’s the smarter one? Head-butting Creed, Logan tells him that as usual, he has no idea what he’s talkin’ about. And the nice part about it is he doesn’t care. Without further ado, Logan continues his assault on Creed. Have to let go… let the rage take me. Picture all the women… friends and worse… he’s attacked or worse. Psylocke, Boomer, Feral, Dagger, Silver Fox. My eyesight goes… blood red. To stop a monster I gotta become one. With that, Logan slashes away at Creed, slams him around, and jams his claws through his chin.
Entering a nearby room, Logan sees a containment tube with Romulus inside. Takes a moment to pull myself in. Get my bearings. The chemicals, the stench. Like fire in my head. He’s built a Weapon X tank here. In his home. Wired himself in. Yanking Romulus out of the tank, Logan angrily tells him the insanity has to stop. Whatever it takes to kill him, he’s goin’ there now. After Logan slashes him across the face, Romulus fires back with a kick to his chest and tells him that he is forever… a disappointment. “Quod sum eris.” “I am what you will be.”
Upon seeing the metal under Romulus’ skin, Logan tells him that he’s spent too much time in that bathwater. All these years, his dealings with the Weapon X program was for this? To become a cheap imitation of him? As he pops four metal claws out of his skin on each of his hands, Romulus tells Logan that he always thought small. Logan had him change his memories. Made him out to be the tortured test subject. His search for the truth has brought him back to the biggest lie he ever told himself. The Weapon X program was, is, and always will be Logan’s idea.
Lies. All lies. Then… why do I have this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach… that he’s telling me the truth?!


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Sabretooth Reborn. Chapter Four: Revolution
“I’m Wolverine. And I’m the best there is at what I do.” I can’t remember the first time I ever said that. Much less thought it. Takes a special kind of arrogance to come up with that. Or believe in it. Unless, of course… it’s the truth. Half the problem with claimin’ you’re the best at anything is you’re settin’ yourself up for everybody to take a shot at knocking you down. Killers like Sabretooth have made a’ living outta comin’ at me. The latest test case is Romulus. Even put himself into the same agonizing process I went through years ago at Weapon X. Starting with having adamantium forcefully grafted to my bones. If nothing else, Romulus is a master of lies. Now, he claims that the Weapon X Project, where I was tortured, brainwashed, and twisted into what I am today, was somehow my own doing.
In Italy, Logan pops his claws and tells Romulus that he’s insane. Popping his own claws, Romulus replies “quod sum eris.” “I am what you will be.” Complete with adamantium claws. Rushing towards Romulus, Logan says what a waste of perfectly good adamantium. Moving forth to attack Logan, Romulus asks Logan what bothers him more. That he’s successful in this quest or that it was all his idea in the first place? Slashing Romulus across the face, Logan retorts that what bothers him is that he’s still alive and tonight they’re gonna end that. Romulus states that he really doesn’t want that to happen or he would’ve done it years ago.
Picking himself up off the ground, and watching Logan and Romulus go at it, Creed states that the smell of blood really gets him going. Grabbing Romulus by his hair, Logan jams his claws into Romulus’ chest and says let’s see how he does without a heart to keep him standing.
Romulus tells him that’s it, let the berserker rage out. His civilized self was never more than a façade. Just then, Creed comes up behind Logan and punches him in the back while Romulus punches him in the face. Holding Logan at bay, Creed tells Romulus to do it now, tear his head off. Logan says how about they tear off each other’s heads and do the world a favor. Romulus informs Creed that he has something far more painful in mind. They’re not going to kill him. They’re going to make him remember. Jamming his claws into the side of Logan’s face, Romulus utters “quod sum eris…”
@#$%. Somehow, Romulus claw dug into my head and out pops this… memory. Long time ago… in Canada… only I’m in with Romulus, Creed, and that’s Remus. Why don’t I remember any of this? Standing on a nearby cliff, Romulus points down to the building below them and introduces his team to the Weapon X facility. It’s theirs for the taking and improving upon. Just then, four individuals with powers appear before them. One of the individuals with the appearance of a wolf tells them to stop. By orders of Department H, they are trespassing on government property.
Electrode, Savage, Bayonet, and Black Wolf. Department H?! I… seen files on this bunch. Before Alpha Flight. Whatever happened to this team… was marked classified. Why? Upon hearing Black Wolf threaten them, Creed says ain’t that cute, their animal talks. Romulus remarks so does theirs and tells Logan to clear a path. Using his sword, Logan slices through the four men with ease. Oh. …the best there is at what I do…
 Romulus says that in case there was ever any doubt… Victor… the Canadians were kind enough to provide them with a super-soldier program. They just don’t know that they’ve brought their own Steve Rogers. Imagine… using Logan’s DNA as their blueprint… the empire they can build. A revolution in evolution. Turning to Remus, Logan gives her his sword with the Japanese writing on it and tells her that he wants her to have it as a gift. When Remus asks isn’t he going to need it, Logan tells her not if this goes sideways. Remus proceeds to ask him why go through with it then. Logan tells her what good is an empire if you’ve got nobody to share it with. Just then, Romulus tells Logan that through the gates is his future. Logan says “quod sum eris.” Romulus tells him yes, my friend. They hope to be lucky enough to become what he will be…
…Ughn…back in the present. Have to keep my head straight. Romulus is a liar… a manipulator… Whatever he’s done to Sabretooth, I can’t let that happen to me. Picking himself up off the ground, Logan says “quod sum eris.” He proceeds to tell Romulus that he took the time to look that up. It’s Latin, he’ll give him that. But it’s not a call to arms. Or the battle cry of some decorated Roman general. It’s on a grave marker, a tombstone. “I am what you will be.” The last laugh from a rotted corpse. Popping his claws, Logan defiantly states “I ain’t dead yet.” I’m better than Romulus. Better than both of them. And I brought help.
Just then, Cloak appears with Dagger and Remus in tow. Turning around, Romulus notices Remus while Creed recognizes the Cloak and Dagger brats. Next time he says they kill someone, they kill someone. Hitting Creed with her light power, Dagger tells him these “brats” are going to kick his ass. He’ll think long and hard before coming at either of them again.
Facing Remus, Romulus asks “et tu sister?” Remus answers that she’s finishing what she should’ve done years ago. Romulus says that he’s so much more than what he was back then. He’s taken the best from both Sabretooth and Wolverine.
Lashing out at Creed, Cloak angrily tells him that he doesn’t care what he did to him but he’ll never lay a hand on Dagger again. Firing back with a punch to Cloak’s jaw, Creed asks him if he thinks sidin’ with Logan gives him any cred. He’ll kill his little girlfriend and make him watch.
Slashing Remus across the face, Romulus tells her that she could’ve shared the future, this revolution. Instead, she let her emotions take her like always. Jumping into the fray, Logan slashes Romulus and thanks Red for bringing the cavalry. Remus says she thought he could use a moment to breath. Logan tells her she thought right.
As he starts to envelop Creed with his cape, Cloak tells him there’s a darkness inside him that rivals his. Let’s bring that out, let him show him what he fears the most…
Continuing his assault on Romulus, Logan says to him that he claims to be like thousands of years old. Watched empires fall. Take a good look. His is about to… Just then, Creed punches Logan while holding a device in his hand. As he does, he tells him that there was a time he would’ve fought this one out. Never would’ve thought of having a “plan B” before. He hits this switch on the device and they all go boom in three… two… Turning to Cloak, Logan tells him to take anybody he can out… now! As Romulus calls out to Creed “no,” a large explosion occurs and Romulus, Creed and Logan are blasted out of the wreckage and into the water below.
All at once, everything goes sideways. Even in all this crazy, I think I spotted Sabretooth still up top. Can’t let that @#$% escape. As he swims to the surface and after Creed, something grabs his leg. Romulus. The more evil of two evils. If I can’t have one I’ll have the other. As strong as Romulus is, he hasn’t had enough time to adjust to all that new adamantium in his body. The weight of it alone. Underwater? All the healing factor in the world, you still gotta breath. I’d like to think Creed hasn’t gotten smart enough to set Romulus up to take the fall…
Saturday, somewhere in the South Pacific… I’ve come to appreciate that being with a woman who has amassed a large fortune through hundreds of years ain’t half bad. But I’m not kiddin’ myself. This could be over tomorrow. I’m glad it didn’t end with the girl being dead and me gettin’ drunk for weeks on end… Romulus is being held at the Raft. He’s not going anywhere for a long time. And worse, he knows it. I guess my being an Avenger has some perks. Took Ty (Cloak) and Tandy (Dagger) with us. Not sure how Cloak’s dealin’ in an SPF 45 world. The kid did good. Pulled the ladies out just before the house fell down. They talk about headin’ to New York. Hope they can keep their heads on straight. Sabretooth is alive and out there. And smarter I guess from all of this. He’ll come for me. That much I’m sure. Whether or not any of what Romulus told me is true, I can’t worry about that right now. That was the past. I have to live in the future. Until a situation presents it otherwise… Remus’ kiss… I remember that much now.
Suddenly, I’m back in the tank. Weapon X. All I know… this was years ago. Seeing Logan in the tank, Remus asks Romulus can’t he let him out now. Turning her back to her, Romulus informs her that this is for the best. When Remus replies that it isn’t for her, Romulus tells her it’s what he wants. Remus says that, in his frame of mind, Logan doesn’t know what he wants. Let him out or she will go. Romulus tells her to be careful of what she does next. Her, more so than anyone, knows that matters of the heart have no place in what they are building.
Remus asks what good is an empire if there’s no one to share it with. With that, she bids her brother good-bye and leaves. Once she does, Romulus turns to the Professor and orders him to go deep. He’s to remember none of this. Take it all, particularly his sister.
A memory. Or a false memory planted there. Maybe I’ll never know for sure. What the hell…I deserve a happy ending. Standing in the ocean, Logan holds Remus as they engage in a passionate embrace.


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Covenant: Part One
At the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning in Westchester, New York, Logan sits in an office with Melita Garner. He tells her that they should start at the beginning. Who is she again? With a dejected look on her face, Melita tells him they’ve gone over this a dozen times. It’s not helping, is it?
Logan says he doesn’t know. He keeps hoping that if they keep going over this, it’ll shake something loose, trigger some memory. But this isn’t like amnesia. He doesn’t think this is something he can just remember. The memories, they just aren’t there. They’re gone. Her face, her voice, her scent, they’re all new to him like he only saw her for the first time a few weeks ago. Melita states that’s just what every girl wants to hear from her ex. And don’t think this means she’s taking him back, either. Logan remarks that he knows he should remember her. What’s more, he wishes he could. But Dr. Rot made sure that’s not gonna happen. Ripped out pieces of his brain, carved her and God knows who or what else, right out of his skull. Healing factor stitched the tissue back together, but the memories are gone. When Melita begins to say that she doesn’t understand, Logan tells her to wait, pops his claws and proceeds to tell her there’s someone here.
Just then, a holographic image of a young blonde haired woman tells Logan hello and that she’s terribly sorry to interrupt like this but they need to talk. Shocked, Logan asks “Vanessa?” With her arms crossed, Melita says of course he remembers her. Whoever the hell she is. Logan tells Melita that he’s sorry and that it might be best if she took off. They can pick this up again later. Making her way to the door, Melita angrily tells Logan sure. Whatever he says, just whatever and proceeds to slam the door.
Once Melita has left, Vanessa gives Logan her apologies. She hopes this visit isn’t going to exacerbate any domestic problems he might be having. Logan replies that, now she mentions it, he was just gonna comment on how exacerbated he’s feeling. He then asks her what she wants. He thought she was dead. Vanessa tells him no, she’s still fighting the good fight. Of course, the years have not been as kind to her as they have been to him. What he sees there is the product of a mobile holographic projector outfitted with all the visual, audio, olfactory and gustation sensors a girl could want. What’s left of her body is stored in several petri dishes and kept alive through some of Victor’s best work.
Logan asks her that she never did know when to give up the ghost, did she? Vanessa answers not while there’s work to be done. She then tells him he should have one of those beers he’s been craving. And not one of those domestics he keeps in his public bar. When Logan asks her what she… Vanessa cuts him off and asks him who he’s trying to fool. She hears the hum of a hidden refrigeration unit, and she can see the scratch marks on the corner of the desk. Her guess is he uses it to pop bottle caps. She’d be surprised if he didn’t have a private supply of rare microbrews. A Shi’ar pale ale, perhaps?
After calling her a busybody, Logan pulls out a beer, takes a swig, and asks her what about the rest of her friends. What about the Covenant? Vanessa informs him that most of them have proved as resilient or resourceful as he might expect. Ulysses is no longer with us, as she’s sure he knows. But the rest are managing in their own way. They have not, however, been working together. They departed ways decades ago. Logan asks retired, huh? Living the quiet life? Vanessa says until recently, she supposes. When Logan asks what changed, Vanessa tells him that she suspects he already knows the answer to that. They’ve found her. The Dreaming Maiden is stirring again.
Logan recalls a memory from 1934 when he was in Marrakech. Entering a temple, Logan said to himself no way, bub. No way is he gonna just walk in there without a bit of trouble. Is he? Just then, Logan is attacked by a number of individuals – men, women, and creature alike. As they do, they exclaim that those who would harm the Dreaming Maiden must die. When Logan begins to fight back, poison darts are shot into his neck and back. Continuing to fight, Logan asks that they’re trying to poison him? Slashing him in the back with one of their serrated fans, one of his attackers tells him they were born to protect the Maiden. They will stop him by any means.
In short time, Logan finishes off the rest of his attacker, ascends the steps and enters the Dreaming Maiden’s chamber. When the Maiden asks who he is and if he’s come there to rescue her, Logan brandishes his dagger and tells her not quite.
As they walk outside, Vanessa confides to Logan that she often disagreed with her colleagues. Killing the girl never sat well with her. Logan quips what d’you know. There must be a bit of heart soaking in those petri dishes back home, huh? Vanessa replies that he of all people should know that sometimes sacrifices must be made for the greater good. Logan says yeah and she should know that it’s awfully easy to trap yourself with that kind of reasoning. You do what’s right for the “greater good” long enough, you can’t help but wonder if all those “sacrifices” just make you a stone-cold killer.
Vanessa tells him that they need to speak frankly. He realizes she’ always known what really happened with the girl. She’s one of the greatest detectives who’s ever lived. Of course she knows the truth. She simply chose to look the other way as he double-crossed them. Logan asks that if she’s so smart, she knows why he doesn’t want to get involved. So why doesn’t she help her now. Vanessa replies that she’s afraid her current physical condition is… limiting. But he’s right, she does know why he’s hesitating. Some sacrifices are more difficult than others. However, whether she’s forgiven his actions or not… the Dreaming Maiden needs his help again. The others are already looking for her. He knows how ruthless they (the Covenant - Wyatt Crowley, Vanessa Baker, Jefferson Chambers, The Menace, Murderous Lion, and Ulysses Bloodstone) can be… especially now… especially in desperation. When Logan asks how she found her, Vanessa tells him they’re dreaming again, even her. They’re all dreaming again. Has he not… Gritting his teeth, Logan tells her that he doesn’t have time to sleep, how is he supposed to have time to dream?
At the Isle of Sombra off the coast of Morocco, Logan enters a cave. As he does, he knows he’s too late. He knew it as soon as he set foot on the island. If the Maiden is communicating with the Covenant, if she’s reaching out in their dreams, there’s a good chance they know where to find her. They’ll know where he hid her all those years ago. They beat him there, found her already. But if they just want her dead, where’s the body? Now the question is, who got here first and who’s there with him now. Popping his claws, Logan spins around and sees Elsa Bloodstone standing there. When he asks why daddy’s little girl is doing sneaking around there, Elsa tells him that, first of all, she suspects he bloody well knows why she’s there. Second of all, when he says “daddy’s little girl,” she gets the impression he’s looking at her like some trollop you might find in the pages of a girlie magazine. And third, he smells like a brewery. Logan tells her to hold that thought, looks like they’ve got company. Just then, a horde of attackers descends on their location.
In New York City, Melita sits on her couch and says “whatever.” Way to revert to eighth grade. It’s three in the morning and there’s still a half bottle of wine left. What to do… what to do… Pouring the wine, she remarks that it looks like she’ll be calling in sick today. As she takes a sip, Vanessa appears behind her and tells her good morning. She was hoping she’d still be awake. Angrily, Melita asks her how she got in there. More importantly, what the hell is she doing there? Rushing towards her, Melita passes through the hologram and lands face-first on the couch. Vanessa proceeds to tell her that she’s afraid neither of them has time for lengthy explanations. She’ll save the answer to her first question for a more leisurely time. As to her second question… her name is Vanessa Baker. And she’s there because Logan needs her help. After Melita asks what she means, what’s wrong, Vanessa tells her that she’s afraid he has embarked on a dark path. Indeed, a path she set him on. But she believes she has a role to play as well and that…that warrants an explanation. Perhaps she’d like to finisher her wine while they chat. Trust her, she’ll need it.
In Morocco, one of the attackers tells Logan that the Dreaming Maiden has been claimed by their master. Their instructions are to kill anyone else who might seek her out. Claws at the ready, Logan tells them that it sounds like a party to him. Elsa mentions to Logan that she doesn’t like this. She doesn’t enjoy fighting humans. Logan tells her to breathe easy then. Unless he’s mistaken, these fellas are the Twelve Horrors, disciples of Murderous Lion. They study a form of Kung Fu so forbidden that it is said to bring about physical transformations in its practitioners. Strictly speaking, they started out as humans, but they’re something… different now.
Smiling, Elsa states that’ll do and the two of them begin to fight the transformed, mutated attackers. As they do, Logan thinks to himself that. if Murderous Lion is leaving a kill squad for anyone who comes looking for the Maiden, it means the Covenant is more fractured than Vanessa let on. The Covenant’s not a group to be trifled with. But if they’ve gone to war with each other, if they’re using the Dreaming Maiden as some sort of pawn, they’re potentially more dangerous than ever. The Twelve Horrors aren’t pushovers but when you’ve been at the game as long as he and Bloodstone, you make it look easy. But if he’s going head-to-head with the rest of the Covenant, it’s going to get much worse. He’s not dragging the X-Men into the Covenant’s crosshairs, not if he can help it. This is a fight he started long ago. He’s gonna finish it. But, hey, if a famous monster hunter makes this scrap her business, well it’s nice to know he’s got somebody with some know-how on his side.
After the Twelve Horrors have been defeated, Logan mentions to Elsa that he’s got a pretty good idea where to look next – the Valley of Gates. If they’re gonna save the girl, that’s where they need to be. Elsa asks “save” and proceeds to point her rifle at Logan’s face. She tells him she’s sorry but she’s not trying to save her. Her father’s work is not finished. The Dreaming Maiden must die. With that, Elsa shoots Logan in the face at point-blank range and leaves him lying on the ground, his face smoldering from the blast. As he lies on the ground, Logan tells himself that he should’ve seen that coming.


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Covenant: Part Two
At the Valley of Gates, Logan stands amidst the rubble and recants that trusting a pretty face, especially the pretty face of a monster hunter, always gets him in trouble. By the time his gunshot wound knitted itself back together, Elsa Bloodstone had a decent head start on him; enough of a lead, anyway, to get herself halfway across the world and into plenty of trouble.
People once thought this valley was a stepping stone to countless other worlds. They were right, too. More than a few “learned” men and women crossed through the gates to lord-knows-where. Maybe they found paradise; or a better world at least. Maybe they found an endless nightmare. The problem is: the route home isn’t always as easy to follow from the other side. Most of the people who went through the gates never came back. Like spirits on a crooked path, they simply got… lost. Still, despite the dangers, powerful men fought over the valley. They nearly tore the place to the ground, but in the end, one man claimed lordship of the area – Murderous Lion.
Just then, Murderous Lion appears, standing over an unconscious Elsa Bloodstone and tells Wolverine that he thought he was spending his days playing super hero, teaching children, and hopping from the bed of one concubine to the next. He did not expect to see him there. Snarling, Logan retorts funny, he didn’t think he’d see him again, either. Last he heard, he had gotten himself killed. Lion replies that death is a technicality, he can assure him. When Logan tells him that the Covenant types sure have a problem staying dead, Lion leaps at him and says “Let’s see how you manage it!”
As they engage in battle, Logan states that, walking dead man or not, Murderous Lion is one of the best fighters in the world. Case in point, it looks like he dropped Elsa Bloodstone without breaking a sweat. She’s no pushover, but she shouldn’t have come there alone. She should’ve waited for him instead of blasting him in the face with a shotgun. But the girl’s hard-headed like her old man, so he doubts this little setback will teach her a lesson. Amidst their battle, Murderous Lion is able to wrap his long hair around Logan’s neck. Once he is able to slice the hair further away from his neck, it starts to engulf Logan’s face. Dropping to his knees, he notices that the hair is alive, stronger than steel cable. It’s smothering him… constricting… He has to get free. There’s no time for finesse. With that, Logan uses his claws and slices the hair away from his face.
Now free, Logan leaps at Lion. As he does, Lion says interesting. Logan has had some training since they last met. Delivering an elbow to Logan’s gut, Lion points out that he still has some gaps in his style. Connecting with another blow to Logan’s face, Lion remarks that either his anger is getting in the way of his teachings or… Just then, Lion emits a powerful blast from his chest that knocks Logan back and into the nearby rubble. Landing awkwardly, Logan knows that Lion is right. He should know how to counter his more mundane attacks if not the spiritual mumbo jumbo. Master Po’s lessons prepared him for this kind of fight.
Leaping at Logan, Lion tells him that he shouldn’t have tried to hide the Dreaming Maiden from them. Such a transgression cannot go unpunished. Dodging Lion’s attack, Logan remarks that there are bits and pieces of his training that simply aren’t with him anymore. Just another example of something Dr. Rot took from him. So, he’ll have to rely on instinct, let the animal take over, let the killer cut loose. There’s no heart beating inside Murderous Lion’s chest. But there’s something inside him, something keeping him on his feet. Jamming his fist into Lion’s chest cavity, Logan says, whatever it is, let’s see how well it works once it’s shredded. After a number of slashes inside his chest, Murderous Lion falls to the ground. Standing over him, Logan knows that chances are, Murderous Lion’s not gonna play dead for long. And as much as he would like beating the snot out of him again, he doesn’t plan on being around for round two. It’s time to find what he came for and get gone.
Helping Elsa Bloodstone to her feet, Logan tells her that they have some business to discuss. As they walk, Elsa tells Logan that she knew he’d be all right. It was nothing personal. Gritting his teeth, Logan tells her that he can’t say the same about her. But they’ll see how the rest of the day plays out. First things first… Logan knows that only a couple of gates still stand in the valley. And he’s guessing Murderous Lion hid the Dreaming Maiden in one of them. Reaching one of the gates, Logan tells Elsa that the odds of picking the right path ain’t awful. The odds of making it back – about the same as usual.
At the New York Public Library, in the Karmahe collection, Melita Garner looks around at the multitude of books around her. Just then, the librarian wheels a cart in full of books. He proceeds to tell her that she made a most unusual request, and most interesting. There are references to the so-called Covenant scattered across dozens of texts, dating back more than a century. And references to the interests of the group can be found in many older texts as well. He’s afraid she has her work cut out for her, many long hours ahead. Perhaps he should bring her coffee.
After he heads down the hall, Vanessa tells Melita that, if she doesn’t mind her saying so, this seems to be a tremendous waste of time. She could tell her virtually anything she wanted to know about her associates. Peering over at her, Melita tells her of course. She means, she’s been such a wealth of information so far. Vanessa tells Melita that there is a right time and a wrong time to divulge information. The wrong time, obviously, is while she is still hung-over from all the wine she drank last night while she is still fretting over her station, or lack thereof, in Logan’s memories. Melita replies that the whole withholding information as a show of force doesn’t do much for her, especially while her friend is, in her own words, in trouble. Besides, she’ll trust anything she finds on her own more than anything she’ll tell her. But if she wants to spill what she knows, be her guest. She may take it with a grain of salt, but you never know. She might like the sound of her voice as much as she does. Vanessa points her walking stick to the books and tells Melita to please dig in. She’s there should she stumble across anything she doesn’t understand. Under her breath, Melita says “Gee… think you could try to hide your sarcasm?”
Elsewhere, Elsa jams her foot into another adversary’s face and asks Logan how many more of the blokes she needs to pummel. Finishing off another adversary nearby, Logan tells her that he’d say she’s just about done. Unless, of course, they’re waiting to spring some sort of death trap on them. That’d really spice up his day. As they continue their way through the building, Elsa mentions to Logan that she’s surprised he brought her with him. After what she did… Logan tells her that she’s there because he liked her old man. He was always a sensible guy. He’s hoping that he can talk some of that sensibility back into her thick skull. Elsa then asks about the Dreaming Maiden. He knows how dangerous she is, doesn’t he. Why didn’t he kill her when he had the chance?
Just then, they enter a room and see a statue of the Dreaming Maiden standing there. Upon seeing her, Logan remarks that it’s funny. He doesn’t remember her being there all those years ago. But if she wants to meet her, now’s her chance. There she is. Now tell him… does she look like a monster to her? Elsa replies that he of all people should know, monsters come in all shapes and sizes.
Back in 1934, in Marrakech, Logan entered the Dreaming Maiden’s sanctuary. When the Maiden saw Logan brandishing a knife, she asked him if he has come to kill her. Born so recently into this world, is she to be murdered tonight? Is his the last face she will see? Dropping his head, Logan replies that’s the gist of it. The Maiden then remarks that she supposes it is as good a face as any and sits down on the ground. Resigned to her fate, the Maiden asks Logan to tell her why she must die. What has she done to deserve death? Once she sees Logan’s hand shaking, she turns to face Logan and mentions it and tells Logan that he might be a killer, but he’s not looking for a victim. He’s looking for a reason to spare her.
Looking into her eyes, Logan says damn and proceeds to drop the knife. Grabbing the Maiden’s arm, Logan tells her to come on, they’ve gotta move now. He may not know why she’s been marked for assassination, but one thing’s for sure: they’re both dead if the Covenant finds out he’s double-crossed them.
In the New York public library, Melita continues to pour through books as Vanessa looks on behind her. Putting her hands to her head, Melita remarks that he wasn’t kidding about this taking forever, was he? Talk about a needle in a haystack. She’s a real reporter, not some hack for the Inquisitor. There are bits and pieces sprinkled throughout the books, but most of it is a bunch of golden dawn bull… Placing her arm through the pile of books, Vanessa tells Melita to try this one – the leather one, third from the right, page 262, she believes. Opening up the book, Melita reads aloud – “The Covenant… gathered at the urging of… preparing for the arrival of… the Maiden, whose dreams would summon…” Looking up at Vanessa, Melita asks her if she’s kidding her.
Upon seeing the statue of the Dreaming Maiden, Elsa asks that’s her. This is the thing he couldn’t destroy all those years ago. Logan tells her she’s not stupid. She knows not everything is as easy as it seems. For example, tell him this… her father was one of the best monster-killers in the business. Why would he need him to do his dirty work? Her old man had a conscience. So did he. Once. Pointing her rifle at the statue, Elsa says in other words, her father let doubt get the better of him, and he hesitated. This creature’s existence puts all the world at risk, and he hesitated. She won’t make the same mistake.
Logan tells her he doesn’t know what her father told her, but he’s betting he didn’t give him the whole story. She thinks the Maiden’s a monster – fine. But it doesn’t look like she’s going anywhere, does it? That buys them time to figure out why Murderous Lion went from wanting her assassinated to wanting her decorating his garden. Popping his claws, Logan tells Elsa that he’d tell her to put that hog leg away, but she’s gonna need it.
Just then, Elsa and Logan turn around to see a bunch of robotic creatures coming towards them. The head robot then informs units 2 through 6 to initiate retrieval protocols, secure the statue. As Logan begins to attack the robots, he recalls that Jefferson Chambers was the Covenant’s resident psychopath in a lab coat. This kind of technology reeks of his handiwork. Although it looks like he’s made some upgrades since his days of stovepipes and clockwork gears. Chambers liked to use human flesh and blood as the foundation for his creations. Some trick of the mad scientist trade he’s picked up in his travels. They’re like Deathloks, only even less human. Murderlocks. These robots are built for killing though, not extraction. That little bit of confusion in their programming might be the only thing that keeps them alive. For whatever reason, the individual Covenant members want the Maiden for themselves. They want her alive. Something’s changed. He’s caught in the middle of a life-and-death game of keep-away… that’s business as usual.
Continuing to battle the robots, Logan tells Elsa that they’re trying to take her. They can sort everything out later, but for now keep them away from the Maiden. Firing her weapon at the robots, Elsa asks what it bloody looks like she’s doing. Nobody is taking the statue anywhere until she gets some answers.
Leaping on top of one of the robots, Logan yells out “I know you’re watching, Chambers!” He knows he’s listening. But the Maiden is under his protection. He’ll rip up every one of his little toys before he lets him have her. What does he say to that, you little freak? Just then, the robot says “de-to-nate” and proceeds to explode, knocking Logan to the ground in a heap. After seeing Logan hitting the ground, Elsa calls out to Chambers and tells him she knows he can hear her. Her father always said the Dreaming Maiden had to die. What changed? Tell her what… Before she can finish her thought, Elsa is shot and falls to the ground next to Logan’s prone body.