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The Heart of Animals
“The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm” - William Harvey De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis (1682) dedication to King Charles.
Montana, Wolverine a.k.a. Logan peers across some bush and sees a grizzly bear heading towards a camping ground. He hoped at least the bear would be quiet with his foraging so as not to wake the nearby campers, but the bear is a noisy eater. ‘Dad! There’s some animal rummaging around in the garbage!’ a young man calls out as he gets out of his tent to investigate, but in the dark of the night, he can’t see properly and assumes the animal to be a raccoon. ‘For pity’s sake, Harry, it’s only garbage. It’s not like we need it’ the young man’s mother points out as she and Harry exit their tent. ‘You want it tracking around in here, Selma? Dennis, shoo it away’ Harry tells his son. Harry moves forward, ‘Gowan! Get outta here -’ Dennis calls out, but the grizzly stands up, and Dennis looks scared: ‘Cripes! Dad! It’s a grizzly!’ he exclaims.
Selma stands with a young woman, and tells Dennis to get away from it. ‘Uh…uh…okay, Yogi. Just…just take what you want’ Dennis calls out, while Harry goes to his car and reaches for his gun. He tells his son for get out of the way and give him a clear shot, when suddenly, ‘That, buddy, is exactly what you don’t need’ Wolverine announces as he slices his way through a tree. Who- who?’ someone calls out, while Wolverine introduces himself and tells the campers that the bear is just as spooked by them as they are by him. He adds that if they just kept to themselves, then it’s likely the bear would have gone on his way.
Wolverine tells the campers that if he let them take a shot at the grizzly, then, given the grizzly weighs about half a ton and moves at speeds of over thirty miles per hour, the little gun would probably have just angered him. ‘The only thing more dangerous than angering a grizzly…is getting me annoyed!’ Wolverine warns the campers, when suddenly, the bear vanishes. ‘What the blazes!?’ Wolverine cries. One of the campers asks whether the bear has gone, to which Wolverine replies ‘Oh, he’s more than gone. He’s vanished into thin air’. Wolverine frowns and decides that this means his little expedition to Montana wasn’t a washout after all, as the reports he has been hearing are true - something is causing animals to just disappear.
Meanwhile, Namor the Sub-Mariner dives up out of the Mediterranean sea. ‘FAWH! Humans would consider the notion of bathing in sewage to be utterly revolting. How nauseatingly ironic, then, that they think nothing of inflicting such a fate on the creatures of the sea…by befouling the waters of the Earth’ the Prince of Atlantis remarks. He adds that the true irony is that the humans don’t understand the simple truth - that they think they endanger the Earth, but they do not, as it may take centuries for the planet to recover from this abuse, but it will recover. However, with their disregard for the environment, humankind will have wiped themselves out long before that happens. ‘The planet will survive…but humanity will not’ Namor states.
Namor sees a family of monk seals swimming nearby, and realizes that they look somewhat sickened by the odious waters. Namor recalls that the ancient Greeks held that monk seals were protected by Poseidon, and decides that that being the case, he can do no less. ‘Follow me, my friends. I know of cleaner waters to lead you to, where you can…eh?’ Namor calls out, surprised when he turns back to the seals to discover that they have vanished. ‘By Neptune’s trident!’ he gasps.
In Africa, Ka-Zar and Shanna are sitting on the veranda of a large house. Shanna is reading a book, and Ka-Zar is having a drink, while wearing only a pair of briefs. Suddenly, there is a loud BLAM and they leap to their feet. ‘Did you hear that?’ Shanna asks. ‘Gunshots!’ Ka-Zar exclaims. Shanna agrees, and points out that this is far off the interstate, so they don’t get many cars backfiring here. Rushing out into the savannah, Ka-Zar tells Shanna that it is not something to be joking over, and Shanna replies that she isn’t joking, that she is running. And need I point out…I’m running faster than you’ she adds. They soon reach a clearing, where two poachers are aiming their rifles at a rhinoceros. ‘Man, I’ve seen blind men who can shoot better than you. One side and let me show you how it’s done’ one of the poachers tells his companion. But, before he can shoot, Ka-Zar and Shanna both lunge at them, knocking their weapons out of their hands.
‘You’re the one who’s done, my friend. You should have stuck to poaching eggs!’ Ka-Zar tells them, while Shanna points out that rhinos are protected by the law, and that they are the law’s long arm. Ka-Zar moves towards the rhino and tells it to head back to its momma. ‘And take that highly valued horn with you’ he adds, when suddenly, the rhino vanishes. ‘Did I just see what I thought I didn’t see?’ Shanna asks. ‘You mean a rhino that wasn’t when it when it was a moment ago?’ Ka-Zar asks. Shanna declares that there is something happening here, and Ka-Zar adds that whatever it is isn’t clear. He asks Shanna if she still talks occasionally with Dr Coral Mollison, that friend of hers in the organization that monitors illegal wildlife trade, and suggests that now might be a good time to ring her up.
Inside a communications room, Wolverine examines some monitors and decides that this is no big trick for the tracking hardware that his teammates, the X-Men, have at their disposal, before he discovers something on one of the screens. ‘I knew that any sort of ray capable of zapping a full-grown grizzly out from under my nose would have to leave a radiation trace. And there it is’ Wolverine tells himself, before deciding to track it back to its origin.
Undersea, some fish, a turtle, a dolphin and an eel appear before Namor, who commands the to take him to the place where their fellow sea creatures have been transported, if they know of it.
Shanna sits at a video-monitor, while Ka-Zar and his prehistoric tiger, Zabu, stand nearby. Dr Coral Mollison is on-screen and tells Shanna that it is weird she called her, since she was going to consult with her on this. Coral reveals that they had a report from a low-flying plane cruising over an uncharted Pacific Island, north of New Guinea and south of the Caroline Islands. She adds that the pilot said it was the most bizarre thing he had ever seen - several endangered species, that normally exist in wildly different environments all on the one island.
Soon, a high-tech boat has pulled up at the edge of a lagoon, nestled in the uncharted island in the Pacific. Examining her surroundings, Shanna decides that Coral was certainly on target, and adds that she always is. ‘This place is right up our alley’ Ka-Zar tells his partner. Shanna agrees, and remarks that it is like an annex of the Savage Land. A pink bird flies down in front of Shanna, who tells Ka-Zar that she forgets the birds name, but would swear that it was reported extinct. ‘Hold it. There’s something in the brush…’ Ka-Zar calls out, when suddenly, Wolverine emerges from the shrubs. ‘Can’t pull anything over on you, huh, Ka-Zar?’ Wolverine remarks. ‘Pleasure as always, Shanna’ he adds.
Shanna tells Wolverine to keep his distance, and Ka-Zar warns him to prove that he has nothing to do with the endangered animal gulag. ‘You can’t be serious’ Wolverine replies. ‘What I can’t be is someone who takes anything for granted…least of all your presence here’ Ka-Zar declares. Suddenly, ‘So, my finny subjects were not in error after all!’ the Sub-Mariner exclaims as he leaps from the water. ‘Oh joy. The only guy I know who wears less than you’ Wolverine mutters to Ka-Zar, who asks if that is supposed to be funny. Striding onto the island, the Sub-Mariner announces that this is a coincidence he cannot ignore: ‘Three humans renowned for their hunting prowess…on an island that would serve as a true challenge for those who would hunt the last of a species’ he declares.
‘You know something, Namor? You’re the second guy in as many minutes to insult me…when all I’m trying to do is help. I think you got too much water on the brain’ Wolverine replies. ‘You will not take that insulting tone with me’ Namor warns Wolverine, who asks him if he would like to add injury to the insult. ‘Get over here, you fin-headed Fred Astaire’ Wolverine calls out, lashing out with his claws, but the Sub-Mariner dodges the attack. Wolverine warns him that he could have filleted him just then if he had wanted. ‘Doesn’t the fact that I didn’t tell you something’ Wolverine asks. ‘It tells me that you’re insufferably overconfident!’ the Sub-Mariner retorts.
As small animals start to gather near Shanna and Ka-Zar, the jungle warrior declares that this is ridiculous, and pointless. ‘Obligatory’ Shanna adds. ‘Yes! Exactly right!’ Ka-Zar agrees. Wolverine rolls to safety just as the Sub-Mariner brings a powerful fist down, smashing it into a rock instead of the X-Man. ‘This idiocy has to stop before someone gets -’ Shanna calls out, but before she can say “hurt”, some small stones fly up from where the Sub-Mariner slammed his fist, and one of them strikes Shanna in the head. Ka-Zar calls out to his lover, and rushes over, pulling the Sub-Mariner away from Wolverine, he shouts ‘Enough!’. As Zabu lunges against Wolverine, the Sub-Mariner looks at Ka-Zar who is pulling him back and asks ‘You dare stay the fist of the Avenging Son? Are you mad?’, to which Ka-Zar replies that he is beyond mad - he is incensed. ‘We should be working together, and instead -’ Ka-Zar begins as a platypus rushes past them.
A voice interrupts Ka-Zar, as a white-haired man calls out ‘Instead you are behaving exactly as people have always behaved…obsessed with their own petty squabbles and limited outlooks! How utterly, pathetically predictable!’ the man, dressed in a blue pants and a purple shirt, with a purple cloak declares. ‘Who are you?’ Namor enquires, though the stranger says the same thing, and tells them that even their questions are predictable. ‘Hopefully, my answers will be less so’ he remarks, while Ka-Zar is holding Shanna, who is rubbing her head. ‘Bring your woman, Blond Hair. Aside from a likely headache, she appears uninjured’ the mysterious man tells Ka-Zar.
‘I do not appreciate your imperious manner’ the Sub-Mariner tells the man as he, Wolverine, Ka-Zar, Shanna and Zabu all follow him. ‘Why? Too similar to your own?’ the man asks he leads them through the jungle. ‘That’s a big touché there, Namor’ Wolverine remarks. All four suddenly look shocked, as they approach a high-tech facility in the middle of the jungle. The man explains that it is time home, and reveals that the name of this island is Castillo. ‘I hope you like it, although ultimately it makes no difference if you do or not’ he adds. Animals walk around the outside of the strange building, and as they enter, the man explains that he has left his true name back with the rest of humankind, and tells them that they can call him the Conservator.
Animals are in various tanks, cages and domes, as the Conservator states that for too long he bore silent witness as mankind destroyed its environment and its neighbors in nature. ‘Laws were either too little, too late or ignored entirely’ he points out, stating that he decided to use his resources to create a place where he is a law unto himself. The Conservator remarks that this “New Eden” that he has constructed gives safe haven to those species on the verge of extinction - thanks to humanity hunting them down, or obliterating their former natural environments. The heroes all look concerned, while the Conservator boasts that the madness stops at the shores of Castillo.
‘Unfortunately…you must stop here as well’ the Conservator announces as he presses a button, and beams of energy trap the heroes. Wolverine, the Sub-Mariner and Zabu are all held individually, while Ka-Zar and Shanna are behind the same set of energy beams. ’What’re you, crazy?’ Ka-Zar asks, while Shanna declares that this is an outrage. ’Never ask the villains if they’re crazy, dear. It just irritates them’ Shanna mutters, while the Sub-Mariner tells the Conservator that he cannot think to simply keep them here forever.  ‘Forever? Of course not. Eventually, you’ll die’ the Conservator points out. Wolverine tells the Conservator that whatever his intentions, he is going about this all wrong.
Suddenly, a large red beast can be seen through a small window - or, at least part of its red face and eye can be - as the Conservator replies ‘So you claim’ and points out that he hears no complaints from the animals. Suddenly, the large red creature bursts through the side of the building and roars - it is a red tyrannosaurs rex - Devil Dinosaur. ‘What the devil?’ Conservator gasps as he leaps for safety, before Devil Dinosaur starts kicking his legs against the equipment in the room and thrashing his tail about. ‘Stop it! You’re destroying everything!’ the Conservator exclaims. The destruction causes the energy beams to vanish, and the heroes are freed. Wolverine watches as Devil Dinosaur stomps out of the room, and Ka-Zar explains that Devil Dinosaur came here in response to Zabu’s summons. ‘Thank heavens Zabu is multi-lingual’ Shanna remarks.
Ka-Zar asks the Conservator if he is okay, to which the old man, fallen to the ground, asks ‘What do you care of it?’, to which Ka-Zar tells him that they are more than he does - about people - and about animals. ‘Impossible’ the Conservator declares. ‘Possible. And true’ Shanna tells him, explaining that while he is being a control freak and spiriting animals away, they are there fighting not only for the animals’ right to live, but to live in a world that welcomes them instead of hides them. Shanna tells the Conservator that hiding and running solves nothing, and that if he really cared about animals, he would be out there educating people. He would be fighting for the glory and health of the bio-sphere instead of creating an insular monument to his own ego. ‘If you really cared…that’s what you’d be doing…don’t you agree?’ Shanna asks.
Later, Ka-Zar and Shanna are dressed formally and stand behind the Conservator, now wearing a suit, as he signs a document, and states that he is signing over his island, Castillo, to the authorities as a wildlife resort. Speaking at a World Wildlife Fund conference, and explains that he hopes to create a living, public memorial of what this world had once been - a blend of animal two-and-four-legged co-existing with nature instead of savaging it. ‘Let all who visit Castillo take with them a reminder of things past…and a warning of what they must be again, if we hope to survive to the 21st Century and beyond’.
Sometime later, back in Africa, Wolverine, Namor, Ka-Zar, Shanna and Zabu walk alongside each other, and Namor tells Ka-Zar that he has a truly impressive estate, and that he may take pride in it. ‘May I? You’re too kind, Namor’ Ka-Zar replies, while Shanna remarks that in addition to being proud, they also have to constantly be watching out for - ‘Safaris?’ Wolverine asks. ‘Like the one I hear a half mile east?’ he adds. ‘Ohhh, here we go again! Come on!’ someone remarks. The heroes rush off , and as they get closer, they hear someone shout ‘I got ‘em right in my sights!’ as someone else exclaims ‘Hurry! Shoot! Shoot!’ But, as they approach a clearing, where a river flows, they find a lioness and her three cubs lapping water out of the river, and two photographers filming them. ‘Ahem…false alarm, guys’ Ka-Zar smiles. Shanna points out that technically they are trespassing, but tells her male companions that they shouldn’t interrupt them just yet, as she wouldn’t want to spoil their photo opportunity. Wolverine and the Sub-Mariner smile, as Wolverine asks ‘Get the picture?’


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McLaren Park, San Francisco: The sun is setting over the city, as two cyclists come to a stop in the park. One of them tells the other that it is getting dark, to which the second replies ‘So what? We need to pre-ride the course before tomorrow’s race’. The first cyclist picks up his bike and announces that he is going to run this section. The second cyclist agrees that this is where she always loses time, and picks up her bike as well. They run along a path, unaware that a man wearing a hooded sweater is lurking behind a large tree. He holds in his hand a very large knife, which gleams in the setting sun.
The next morning, a police cordon has been placed in part of the park, as officers go about their business, civilians gather around to see what is going on. Medics have arrived on scene, including a man in a hooded sweater. ‘Yeah, I know. They were cut in pieces’ an officer tells a cyclist, who replies: ‘No, not cut. Butchered. I work in a restaurant and it looked like a real butcher carved them up like a hog’. Wolverine a.k.a. Logan approaches the police cordon and calls out to the medic, asking him what is going on, as it looks like a damn circus. The bald man greets Logan and explains that it is the annual urban outlaw cyclo-cross cross-dress bike race, and this year, someone rolled over two dead bodies.
Looking at the body laid out on a gurney, covered by a sheet, Logan asks the medic for a look. ‘You still owe me for that last scent ID case and I might be able to help out’ Wolverine reminds the medic. The doctor replies that he knows Logan’s nose has been a huge help a few times, but he can’t show him here. He asks him to come by the morgue later. The doctor reveals to Logan that the killer took both men’s legs and their major organs. Logan announces that he thinks he knows someone who can help, and tells the doctor that he will see him later. He turns and walks past a reporter, who is speaking into a camera, and states that the city is a powder keg and police fear that the protests at City Hall may erupt into rioting if the Bay Area Butcher is not caught soon. ‘Guess I better hurry’ Logan remarks to himself.
Soon, at a restaurant called Incanto, the chef announces that he needs to fabricate the pig in front of him, and asks for 45 minutes. ‘You got it, boss. Drinks on you if you can’t finish on time!’ one of his staff replies. ‘Ha-ha, you wish!’ the chef replies in the kitchen of the busy restaurant. Shortly: ‘Fifteen minutes left. You’re not going to make it, chef’ someone goads as the chef is slicing a knife into a large piece of meat. ‘Talking to me isn’t going to slow me down. Drinks will be on you tonight’ the chef replies.
Logan enters the restaurant and is greeted by a woman who recognizes him. Logan greets her back, and asks if Chris is around. Tatiana explains that he is prepping in the kitchen, and tells Logan to go in, as she is sure he would love to see him.
‘Impressive!’ Logan smiles as he enters the kitchen, where the chef puts his glasses back on and stands over the piece of meat. He smiles back and thanks Logan, adding that he just needs one more cut and then he is off to marinate. He takes a knife-sharpener and starts using it on a large butcher knife, before asking Logan what it will be today. Logan tells Chris that he is not here to eat, rather, he is here for his expertise.
Soon, Logan and Chris arrive at the morgue, and Chris remarks that he feels bad about leaving the restaurant, but he thinks Tatiana and his crew can handle it for a bit. ‘I’m sure they can’ Logan replies, reminding Chris that the people of San Francisco need him here. ‘I’ll help if I can’ Chris replies. Entering the morgue, they find two bodies laid out on examination tables, and the bald doctor standing over them. ‘What the #$&%?!’ Chris the chef asks. The doctor frowns and asks Logan what a celebrity chef is doing in his morgue, to which Wolverine replies that he has a hunch. ‘I’m the best there is at what I do, he’s the best at what he does. If these people were actually butchered like a hog, he’ll know’ Logan explains.
Chris vomits in a trash can, and drops to the ground. Logan tells him to get it together, as he needs answers.
Logan reminds Chris that he knows meat cuts like no one else, and asks him to do him a favor and look at the bodies and tell him what he sees. ‘C’mon, Logan. What do you need me for? You know a hell of a lot about meat and butchery, too’ Chris points out. ‘Sure do, been doing it for decades’ Logan replies, explaining that he wants to be certain about the details in the cuts, that there is no time for error. ‘Just take a look, would you?’ Logan asks. ‘Okay, okay, but we better get another garbage can in here’ Chris sighs. He turns to one of the bodies, ‘So, this is one of the victims?’ he asks. ‘Wow, you’re a regular crime-solving genius’ the doc mutters. ‘I’m going to ignore that’ Chris replies, before looking at the dismembered body of the first cyclist and announces that these are definitely a butcher’s cuts. ‘Look at how the leg was cut off above the butt, just like you would a hog’s hind leg’.
He continues, pointing out hat the leg was removed at the ball joint, an alerts them to the slash marks on the bone - meaning that with tears like this in the meat, whoever did this must have been using a dull knife. Chris rubs his head and mutters that this is so nasty, he thinks he might be sick again. ‘It’s not over yet. Hold it together, kid’ Logan asks him, putting a hand on his shoulder. The medic smirks and cleans his glasses, ‘For a guy who harvests animals, you sure are a baby’. Chris points a finger and replies ‘I bet you’re a vegetarian’. Logan laughs, ‘He can smell you a mile away. I guess what they say about you veg-heads is true’ Logan tells the medic, who just frowns.
Chris the chef turns his attention to the female victim and reports that her forearms and legs are cut off, her entire back is gone, so whoever the murderer is, they were definitely in a hurry, as the cuts are sloppy, but consistent with being butchered. ‘That narrows down the suspects to either a real butcher or a trained chef’ Logan points out. ‘What’s wrong? You going to toss your cookies again?’ the doc smirks. Chris goes over to him and looks him in the eye: ‘You think eating a vegetarian diet is good for you? Have you looked in the mirror lately? You look dead yourself! Do you sleep in one of these? Which one is yours?’ he asks, referring to the small cupboards where the deceased are kept. ‘Let yourselves out when you’re done’ the doc tells Wolverine, before taking his leave.
Chris grins and tells Wolverine that he is sorry, but he couldn’t resist. Logan points out that all of them have the same MO - their hearts, livers and kidneys are all missing. Chris notices two burn marks behind the ears on the woman, and asks Logan if the same marks are on the others as well. Logan checks the man, and tells Chris that it looks like it. ‘Good catch’ he adds. Chris adjusts his glasses and announces that the marks are from a stunning wand, which means the murderer is stunning them first, just like at a slaughterhouse. ‘This killer definitely has a plan’ Wolverine frowns.
Soon, Logan and Chris are in Chris’s car, as the radio announcer calls out ‘And here you go, my chickadees, today’s number one requested song by Frightened by Gauchos “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”, the reeeeee-mix!’ Logan smiles at Chris and tells him that the only good version of that tune was done by ol’ Blue Eyes. ‘Plus, I need to hear what’s going on in the city’ he points out, as he readjusts the car stereo until he finds a channel reporting the news. The announcer states that, in local news, suspicious activity has been reported near the Blue Bottle at Mint Plaza, where a hooded figure with a knife was seen running through the street. Logan frowns and asks Chris if he is up for a field trip. ‘Oui’ Chris replies in French, adding ‘While we’re there, can we stop at that food truck that received 3.5 stars? That’s unheard of for a food truck’ Chris explains, adding that he has to see what is up with this guy.
Elsewhere, ‘Oh good, you’re awake’ a voice states inside an empty warehouse. A woman with two marks on her upper neck, under her ear, looks up and sees steel beams criss-crossing above, and a bald man standing over her, with a knife and a knife-sharpener in his hands. He wears a butcher’s apron, and tells her that she is so pretty, so fit, so perfect - like the girls who wouldn’t talk to him back in high school. ‘In fact, nobody noticed me in high school. But it got even worse once I got sick’. He paces around the table that the naked woman is tied to. ‘Imagine having all the hair on your body fall off, your fingerprints disappear, your natural aroma gone forever. I was invisible - until I learned to cook. Then people knew the name Bay Area Butcher’ he declares, holding the knife towards her.
He suddenly grabs her by her face, and the trapped woman goes wide-eyed with fear. ‘Unfortunately, human just isn’t good enough anymore. To create the next culinary masterpiece, I need a higher life form. A predator stronger than man’ he explains, adding that, fortunately, that portion of his plan has already been set in motion, and blood splatters everywhere as he starts to cut the woman.
Back in the car, Chris tells Logan that this is the area, but he doesn’t see anything. Logan instructs Chris to pull over so they can take a look around. They get out of the car, ‘You smell that?’ Logan asks. ‘Smell what’ Chris shrugs his shoulders as they walk down an alleyway littered with trash. ‘Something’s under here’ Logan announces as he makes his way towards a large box, and lifting it up, finds a woman’s body. ’Same as before’ Logan remarks as Chris checks the body, and tells him that this is different, that it looks like he took his time. ‘I think he might be getting better at this’ Chris explains.
Logan suggests that they really need to catch a break before this nut job kills again and the city erupts. Chris points at some food wrappers and supposes that they could be from a fast food stop. He asks Logan if he thinks there is a connection. Logan replies that he doesn’t know, but that perhaps one of the guys working in the trucks has seen something. He adds that he is hungry, and informs Chris that they will tip off the cops on the way. They take some of the wrappers and head down out of the alley, as Chris tells Logan that he doesn’t know how he can be hungry right now. ‘A man’s gotta eat…’ Logan replies.
Soon, civilians go about their business down a busy sidewalk as Logan and Chris stand in front of a food truck, showing the wrappers to the worker inside, who tells them ‘Nope, sorry’. Another food truck, and the worker announces that they don’t recognize the wrapper. A third food truck, where Logan knows the man working there, and greets him as Hector. ‘Hola, senor Logan. How are you? The regular, si?’ Hector replies. ‘You know it, Hector’ Logan tells him, before asking how the family are. Hector informs Logan that they are good, but that business has been slow at night, as people are scared. Logan hands Hector the wrappers and asks him if he knows who uses them. ‘That’s some pretty fancy stuff’ Hector comments, before telling Logan to check with the new guy, that he is kind of rude, but he is just stressed and not prepared. ‘Why’s he so busy?’ Logan asks as he and Chris look at the new guy’s food truck parked nearby, to which Hector replies ‘That’s what a 3.5 star review and lots of Twitter followers gets you’.
‘&#$%! He’s closed’ Chris complains as he and Logan walk over, and find the many other people standing there are not being served. ‘That’s the good review blues for you’ Chris frowns when he sees a sign on the food truck that says “sorry we’re out of food”. ‘Hey bub, open up. Got some questions for you’ Logan calls out as he thumps his fist on the truck. ‘Sorry, we’re closed. Try again tomorrow’ the person inside replies without making an appearance. Logan decides that something isn’t right, as he is not getting a scent off the guy inside. The food truck then drives off. Logan tells Christ that they could follow him, and although it might not be anything, they have to make sure.
Keeping a safe distance behind the new food truck, Logan and Chris listen to another report on the news which states that another body was discovered, but that the police still aren’t releasing the name of any suspects. ‘This better not be a wild good chase’ Logan remarks, while the announcer continues, informing listeners that may fear recently reported acts of vandalism allegedly perpetrated by protesters near City Hall may escalate into fill-blown riots, and the National Guard have been called in as reinforcements by the Governor. They park as the food truck pulls up into a run-down industrial area. A security barrier raising so that the food truck can pass through into the ruined grounds. ‘Well, that seems sketchy. It stinks here, too’ Logan comments. ‘Yeah, it’s interfering with my sense of smell’ Chris remarks. Logan tells Chris that they are in for a long night, to which Chris replies that long nights are part of the job, and taking out his mobile phone, announces that he better call home.
The next morning, the sun rises over the city, and Chris tells Logan that nothing his happening here, and he has to go. ‘What about catching this psycho?’ Logan asks his friend. ‘I’m not a hero. I don’t have super-powers like you’ Chris replies, to which Logan points out that you don’t need super-powers to be a hero - you just need to care. Chris hangs his head and replies that he does care - about his family, his restaurant and his life, which it is time that he got back to. Logan gets out of Chris’s car and tells him that he is disappointed, but that he gets it. ‘Take care of that family. And watch your back’ Logan tells his friend, who then drives off, while Wolverine decides ‘Screw this, I’m going in’. He enters the ruined grounds, walks past some sort of large tank, possibly for storing water, and is still unable to catch the scent of the guy he is after. He sees more of those wrappers scattered on the ground, and squats down to pick one up - when he is electrocuted in the back of the neck by a cattle-prod. Logan collapses to the ground, as the Bay Area Butcher stands over him.
Shortly, a now shirtless Logan is strapped to a table, a bright light placed above him, as the Bay Area Butcher stands over him, large butcher’s knife in his hand. ‘Ah, the famous Wolverine’. He adds that it is funny, he was just about to go hunting for a mutant. ‘Imagine how pleasantly surprised I was to have one of my prey find me. Must be my lucky day’ he smiles, bringing the knife close to his own face. ‘That’s about to change’ Logan replies. ‘I don’t think you are in a position of stop me’ the Bay Area Butcher points out, before shoving the knife through a section of Wolverine’s stomach. Logan cries out in pain, and the Bay Area Butcher brings a small piece of Logan’s flesh to his mouth, ‘Delicious, and thanks to your healing factor, I’ll never have to hunt again’ he declares. Blood seeps from Logan’s wound, before the Bay Area Butcher shoves the cattle prod into Logan’s neck, and Logan recoils in distress. ‘Pity, seems to my plan to trap mutants off the streets wasn’t needed after all. Seems like a waste of time. I guess I’ll have to find something else to fill the void. Nighty-nighty’ the villain states.
In the meantime, Chris is still in his car, and on his mobile phone to his wife, asking her how everything went with the restaurant, and how Easton is. ‘We’re fine, busy, but both proud of you for helping the city’ Chris’s wife replies as she holds the phone between her ear and shoulder while prepping some food in the kitchen. ‘We miss you, Daddy’ Easton calls out as he leans against the counter. Chris’s wife asks him how it went with Logan, and Chris replies ‘Not so good’. His wife inquires as to what happened, and Chris frowns, before suddenly driving down an off-ramp and assuring her that he will tell her later, as there is something he has to do. ‘Be careful’ his wife says.
Soon, Chris pulls up at the area where he left Wolverine. He makes his way through the seemingly abandoned grounds, and coming to one building with broken windows, spies Wolverine tied to the table. ‘#&$%. Never should have left’ Chris tells himself. He makes his way inside, and with a screwdriver starts to pull the ropes away from Logan, while quietly telling him to wake up - when suddenly, Chris screams as the Bay Area Butcher comes up behind him and slashes him across his back with the large butcher’s knife. Chris falls forward against a table where other knives are laid out, and knocks it as he falls to the ground. A knife-sharpener falls off the table and Chris grabs it, using it to deflect the butcher’s knife as the Bay Area Butcher comes in for a second attack.
Chris gets to his feet and backs away, as the Bay Area Butcher boasts that this is the greatest day ever, as he even gets to take out the competition. His knife gleans as rays of sunlight shine into the warehouse. ‘But just to be sure…’ the Bay Area Butcher remarks, before Logan exclaims ‘Looks like you’re about to get your just desserts’ as he pops his claws and slices one of the Bay Area Butcher’s knives with ease. Logan tells Chris to get out of here, while the Bay Area Butcher looks upset, and stares at the handle of the knife, declaring that it was his second favorite blade. He moves forward and shoves his other knife through Wolverine’s stomach, and as Logan drops to his knees, the Bay Area Butcher prepares to bring a meat clever down on Logan - who quickly raises his claws, ‘Ain’t gonna be that easy, bub’ Logan declares as the clever is locked into Logan’s claws.
Logan lashes out at the Butcher, who retaliates by grabbing Logan by his hair, and preparing to bring yet another knife towards the hero - but once more, Logan’s claws clash against the knife, shattering it. Logan retracts his claws and punches the Bay Area Butcher in the face, knocking out a tooth, and knocking him to the ground. ‘Looks like it’s going to be a while before you eat anyone else’ Logan remarks as he stares down at the Butcher’s twisted body. ‘See, kid, you don’t need powers to be a hero’ Logan tells Chris, who walks up beside him.
Later, Logan is in the kitchen at Chris’s restaurant, slicing some food with his claws, he concentrates hard, as Chris goes over to him and thanks him for helping him prep. Holding his wounded arm, Chris adds that it might be awhile, as he doesn’t heal like Logan. ‘No problem. You know, this is harder work than I thought. I think I’d rather tackle the Danger Room on its highest setting’ Logan replies. Tatiana goes over to Logan and tells him that it is break time. She puts a plate of food down in front of him and points out that she knows he likes the duck breast and giblets. ‘This should make all that hard work worth it’ she adds. Logan eyes up the plate and replies ‘Sure does. Smells great!’ Chris holds up a newspaper with a photo of the two of them, and the headline “Bay Area Butcher Caught”. Chris smiles and tells Logan that he does good work. ‘You too. Couldn’t have done it without you’ Logan replies, before skewering the duck breast on a claw and starts to eat it.
Meantime, in prison, the Bay Area Butcher sits slumped on the bed in his cell. ‘Indeed’ he mutters, as someone from another cell cries out ‘Check out the fresh meat!’


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Killing Wolverine Made Simple (1st story)<br> Disturbing Consequences (2nd story)
First Story:
In Logan’s thoughts:
The snow falls as Wolverine a.k.a. Logan trudges across a barren landscape. He has been shot, stabbed and cut. Beaten, blown up and tortured. He has had things done to him so awful they don’t even have names for them. He falls to the snow, and his claws burst forth. He arches back in agony, and realizes that there is one sure way to kill him though - metal poisoning, before collapsing face-first into the snow.
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‘Are you serious?’ Hope Abbott a.k.a. Trance calls out from where she is tied to a chair, while Wolverine is chained to the floor. ‘Do I look like I’m making a joke, girl?’ Logan snarls at the young mutant. ‘You wanted to know, so I’m telling you. Take away my powers, I’m dead. The metal in my bones, it’ll kill me’ Logan explains, adding that he has been pretty close that way a time or two, and that it feels like someone coated your skeleton with gunpowder and then lit a match. ‘Ugh’ Trance, one of the Xavier Institute Students, mutters, adding that she takes it back - she doesn’t want to know. Blood pools around the floor where Wolverine is chained, he recalls that he came to save the kidnapped mutant, and tells her that he just got started.
45 Minutes ago:
The students were all sent home when the school was shut down. Sitting at the dinner table at the Abbott residence, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Hope looks at the food on her fork, while her father tells her ‘I thought they were supposed to cure you’. ‘Dad… please…’ Hope begins. ‘School for freaks…’ her father declares.
None of the students were particularly happy about being sent home. ‘You’re not going to let it happen again, do you understand me, Hope? That… that thing you do’ Hope’s mother exclaims. ‘I won’t, I promise’ Hope replies. ‘That thing? You mean the ghost that shoots out of her, that thing that gave me a heart attack?’ Hope’s father needles, adding that he almost died.
The Abbott family are unaware that Wolverine is outside on their driveway, crouched behind their black car. Logan recalls that a few days back, Blindfold starts talking, and make them think that a few of the students could be in danger - more danger - as they weren’t exactly safe before. Logan knows that there is a pair called Nanny and Orphan Maker, that they kidnap kids and kill the parents - Nanny’s special way of “saving” them. Apparently, they are back, and Trance’s name came up. Logan thinks to himself that in Trance’s case, Nanny may be doing her a favor. ‘I said I was sorry!’ Hope can be heard shouting inside at her parents. Logan has been outside for twelve hours now, listening to Hope’s parents - they are real pieces of work. ‘I might save Nanny the trip if she doesn’t show up soon’ he decides.
Suddenly, it begins to rain. ‘This is crap. Blindfold’s half crazy, this was a bum tip and -’ Logan thinks to himself, when suddenly, he picks up a scent, ‘Aw hell -’ he mutters to himself, before the Abbott home explodes.
In Logan’s thoughts:
Wolverine is in a rage - claws barred, he lunges towards Cyclops, who is armed with a sword. The White Queen, Beast, Rogue and Nightcrawler lay motionless nearby. Logan’s bones are laced with adamantium and can’t be cut. There is no normal wound he can’t heal from. But there are ways. If you have a magic sword, made of the right metal - and take his head off - that will do it, as Cyclops demonstrates.
40 minutes ago:
Hope stands amongst the flames and calls out to her parents - seeing them lying on the ground. She goes over to her father, ‘Please be okay, please…’ she prays. ‘Daddy, please, talk to me, I’m sorry…’ Hope tells him, when suddenly, a voice calls out ‘You’re better off without him. Your dad was mean’. It is the Orphan Maker, armed with a very large weapon. His purple and black armor protecting him from the flames. ‘Oh, God… please… don’t hurt us…’ Hope pleads, before asking ‘Who are you?’ The Orphan Maker’s visual receptors show the notes “Mommy: Kill. Daddy: Kill. Lost Girl: Save”. The Orphan Maker introduces himself as Peter, and explains that he is here to save Hope. ‘You can be my friend. Nanny says all the lost girls and boys should be friends’ Peter tells her, adding that he just has to quick kill her parents. ‘NO!’ Hope scrams, holding onto her father.
Suddenly, it is Orphan Maker who screams, as Logan leaps into the flaming room and slashes at the Orphan Maker’s battle suit. Then, everything goes to hell.
In Logan’s thoughts:
He is in a park, night has fallen, as he fights a Nimrod. Big giant purple robots, sounds stupid. The Nimrod has Angel by his throat, so Logan lunges towards the Nimrod. Energy and tech that no-one would believe - it can burn right down to the bone. Then it burns the bone - there is no coming back from that, as Logan lunges at the Nimrod, who releases a beam of intense energy.
35 minutes ago:
Logan knows that apparently there is a brainwashed mutant kid in the Orphan Maker armor, or an adult that thinks he is a kid - Logan isn’t sure which. ‘Get away!’ Orphan Maker calls out as he swats Logan aside with ease. Logan crashes into the wall, and now, he really doesn’t care who is inside the armor. Logan moves forward and tells Trance to get up, but Trance is in awe of the Orphan Maker, and won’t leave her parents. The Orphan Maker aims his weapon at Wolverine, who turns to the wall he crashed into and sees a gas-fueled hot water tank now exposed thanks to the hole in the wall. He knows that this means he is about to get show and blown up. ‘#%$@!’ he thinks to himself.
‘Nanny says no adults aloud!’ Orphan Maker shouts as he fires his weapon, which sends shard of energy striking Logan and the hot water tank - causing another massive explosion which sends Logan careening into the air. Logan lands on the ground, his body in flames, while a voice can be heard over a communicator: ‘Peter…Peter, are you okay? What happened, boy? Peter, are you there?’ the concerned voice calls out. ‘I’m here, Nanny’ Orphan Maker responds, standing over Logan’s body, he aims his weapon at his face. Orphan Maker reports that he has Hope here, but that there was a problem. ‘And now I have to kill Wolverine’ Orphan Maker announces. ‘What? Peter, no!’ Nanny replies, explaining that they can use Wolverine. She instructs Peter to leave the parents, to just bring Wolverine and the girl to her right now.
Hope looks at Logan, tears in her eyes, as Orphan Maker asks Nanny if she is sure, as Wolverine hurt him - hurt him bad. ‘I think he needs to be punished’ Orphan Maker declares. Over the communicator, Nanny tells Peter to do as she says, while Wolverine looks at the weapon pressed against his face, ‘Explosive round though the eye, right into the brain. Not sure if that would have done the job’. He is glad he doesn’t have to find out.
20 minutes ago:
Inside Nanny’s ship, Logan asks Hope if there is any particular reason she hasn’t used her powers to go get help. Hope points out that she doesn’t know where the X-Men are. ‘And you’re here, right? You’ll save us’ she finishes. ‘Are you $%@#ing kidding me?’ Logan shouts. ‘In case you didn’t notice, Abbott, I just got my ass handed to me. And I’m chained to the damn floor! What do you want me to do, chew my way out?’ he snarls. ‘Yeah, but… but you’re Wolverine. I mean, we all heard the stories. You’re like… invulnerable and invincible! You’ll save us’ Hope insists. Logan tells her that he hates to burst her bubble, but that he can be hurt, and he can sure as hell be killed. ‘So you’d better get off your butt and get us out of here’ he tells her. ‘Whatever… you’re Wolverine! How can you be killed?’ Hope asks suspiciously. ‘Where do you want me to begin?’ Wolverine replies.
He starts to describe to Hope other ways in which he can be killed - by being shot into the sun - Magneto almost did it, and he cold feel his flesh boiling off - no way to survive that. And reality benders- they can turn him inside out and smear him across the landscape in the blink of an eye. Or some idiot can go back in time and make sure he never even existed by eliminating his parents. ‘Get a big magnet or something. Stick me on the bottom of the ocean and keep me there. Eventually I’ll die’ Logan tells Hope, who replies ‘Okay, you can stop telling me now’. Logan adds that he has not even gotten to the weird stuff. ‘There’s a million ways you could off me. But what’s about to happen is the nastiest’ he adds.
Logan continues, ‘See, this armoured nut called Nanny is gonna come in here and turn me into a kid. She’s going to de-age my body, probably to about thirteen years old’. Trance tells Logan that will not be so bad, ‘You’ll still have powers, right?’ she asks. ‘Sure. Problem is, the metal on my bones won’t de-age’ Logan explains, telling Trance that it will burst through his skin, dislodge his organs - and even if he lives through that, then he will start to heal, and his skin will grow apart from his bones, maybe even through them. His brain will be too small, it will roll around in his skull. ‘Stop…just stop, I’m going to barf’ Hope replies, scrunching up her face. ‘You’re making all this up’ she adds.
‘I wish. But you could save both of us, if you’d just man up and get us out of here!’ Logan tells Hope. ‘I can’t!’ Trance exclaims. Wolverine reminds her that Cyclops has this whole big speech about having what it takes to be an X-Man and asks her if she slept through it. ‘Are you an X-Man or not?’ he asks her. ‘Not! I’m not!’ Trance exclaims, gritting her teeth, before asking ‘Oh, God, are they really going to kill you?’ when suddenly, Orphan Maker enters this part of the ship, accompanied by the small egg-shaped, bizarre Nanny. ‘No, no, no. This won’t do at all!’ Nanny calls out. ‘Peter, Wolverine is far, far too old. Let’s do something about that, shall we?’ she suggests. ‘…Nononono…’ Trance utters. Logan gives her some credit - she has been through some bad stuff at the Institutet. But there was always someone else around to step up - Trance never had to. So now she is going to see what she is made of.
‘WOLVERINE!’ Trance screams as she slips into her energy state form, leaving her physical body, this energy form darts around the ship, ‘No! Naughty girl!’ Nanny calls out, while Trance breaks the chains that keep Wolverine down. ‘Time to see if she’s ready’ Logan thinks to himself as he breaks free. ‘Can we go now, please?’ Trance asks. ‘Sure. But we go through them’ Logan replies, releasing his claws as he turns to Nanny and Orphan Maker. Nanny announces that this is unacceptable, and instructs Peter to punish them both. ‘Start with the girl’ she tells him. ‘Yes, Nanny’ Orphan Maker replies as he fires his weapon towards Trance’s body. Logan thinks that her astral power is “nifty” but it does leave her body vulnerable. ‘No! My body!’ Trance’s astral form exclaims. ‘Now I’m gonna get shot again’ Logan thinks to himself as he rushes towards Trance’s body and gets between the energy bullets.
‘The mean man isn’t playing fair, Nanny. I need to use bigger bullets’ Orphan Maker announces. ‘You need to shut up and die’ Logan snarls as he lunges forward, while Orphan Maker cries out to Nanny. Logan’s claws strike down the right hand side of Peter’s armor. He realizes that the armor is thick, as his claws don’t even touch whoever is inside. He keeps cutting, but Orphan Maker shouts ‘NO!’ and fires a weapon into Logan’s stomach. Logan falls backwards, and Orphan Maker releases more energy bullets. Logan is getting torn apart, but he has to do something quick. He sees Trance’s astral form, a look of horror across her face. Logan realizes that this is it for her, and have gives her the chance - her own moment of truth - always an easy choice on paper.
But, all the blood, the noise, the bullets, the smell of it all is right in her face. In real life, this is not such an easy choice. Trance chokes. She wants to help Logan, but she can’t - not yet. Logan is done doing the teacher thing, he lunges back and shoves his claws into Orphan Maker’s neck. Peter’s face is exposed from the broken armor, and he cries out in agony as he falls backwards. ‘Peter, NO!’ Nanny exclaims as she fires a blast of energy at Logan, knocking him back. ‘Nanny, it hurts…’ Peter utters as Nanny helps him away, leaving a trail of blood behind them. Wolverine hopes that with any luck, Orphan Maker will bleed out, then he can catch up to Nanny and take care of her. But Logan isn’t known for his luck. As Nanny and Orphan Maker escape the ship in a small jet, leaving Logan and Trance to plummet to the ground.
‘What’s happening?’ Trance’s physical form calls out as she and Logan start sliding across the floor as the round ship is knocked off balance. ‘Oh, now you talk. Where the hell were you a few minutes ago when I was getting shot to death?’ Logan asks. ‘Are we going to crash?’ Trance calls out. Logan tells her not to worry, as it should be too bad. Suddenly, a recorded message announces that the self-destruct sequence has been initiated, and begins a ten-second countdown. ‘That, on the other hand is a problem!’ Logan exclaims as he holds onto Trance’s physical body, while her astral form hovers beside him. ‘Are you serious? I can do this. I can do this!’ Trance’s astral form calls out as she flies over to the self-destruct bomb, and disables it with her astral form. ‘She did it, alright…she disabled the bomb’ Logan thinks to himself.
But they still crash. The round ship bobs up and down in a lake, while Logan and Trance’s body are washed to the shore. ‘I totally saved us! Maybe I can do this!’ Trance’s astral form calls out. Logan sits up and points out that, for the record, he would have survived the crash and the bomb, but her body would not have. ‘Whatever! I saved you, and you know it!’ Trance’s astral form boasts as she flies around him. ‘Are you forgetting the part where you were going to let me die’ Logan asks. ‘Do I get my own costume?’ Trance enquires. ‘You’d better hope we get picked up fast’ Wolverine warns Trance. ‘Why?’ Trance’s astral form asks. ‘So someone can stop me from killing you’ Logan replies as he turns his claws to her physical form. Logan then thinks to himself: ‘There’s a million ways I can be killed. But there’s never one around when you need it!’
Second Story:
A snow-ski speeds across an icy terrain. ‘Disturbing consequences, they said. They send me down here to Antarctica. I’m roughly 220 klicks south / southeast of the Beardmore Glacier, checking out a secret research facility that abruptly severed all communication about ten days ago’ the man on snow-ski thinks to himself as snow blasts into the air due to the force of the vehicle. He is wearing a snowsuit, and recalls that he was told that they suspect the extreme isolation and cabin fever might have caused some, so they called in a favor, and said he was the only one for the job. But he thinks there is a lot more they are not telling him. He speeds off the edge of a cliff, and lands safely on the ground below, continuing to speed across the whiteness.
He couldn’t come in by chopper, and compromise the whole secret part of “secret research facility”. He has been on the snow-sled for over nine hours, and is relieved that it is not the standard issue sled, for it “purrs” at close to 200 miles per hour, is invisible to sonar radar, and has a heated seat. It also knows the way, as GPS is taking him right to it. Although he doesn’t know what he is heading into, so he gets off the sled, deciding it is best to go in stealthy and quiet-like. He steps into the snow and starts to remove the snow suit. He has been dying to peel it off since he started, revealing his yellow and blue costume underneath. He is Wolverine a.k.a. Logan of the X-Men.
Logan locates the door to the secret research facility, and makes his way through the complex. The place is a mess, furniture and equipment scattered throughout. The power is out, and that includes the heat. He wonders if perhaps he shouldn’t have shucked his snowsuit so soon, but it isn’t too bad for him, as his mutant metabolism reduces the cold’s effects. Logan sniffs the air and doesn’t pick up a scent of people, food, anything like that. ‘If they’re all dead, the low temp’d preserve them, keep them from turning’ he knows. He continues on, there is no sign of anyone - but somebody had a little “roid rage”.
Logan wasn’t told what it was they were researching, but looking at the equipment, decides that they were taking samples of the glacial ice, deep core cross-sections. He wonders why that would be so secret. ‘Minerals? Fossils? Or maybe they pulled something outta the ice that they shouldn’t have?’ Logan decides, before he picks up a scent, but is unsure of what it is - it’s acrid, like chemical, or kerosene. He turns around and sees a figure lumbering towards him. The figure growls, and attacks Logan with a pick-axe. Logan drops to the floor, then kicks up, knocking the attacker back. ‘What the hell is this?’ Logan asks himself, as the attacker growls again, and, as some light shines down on the attacker, Logan sees a man, his body deformed, and eyes glowing orange.
Logan picks up a large glass tube and hurls it at the attacker, knocking him backwards and rendering him unconscious. ‘Out. But what the hell is it?’ Logan asks himself, supposing that it is probably one of the researchers, while wondering what they got into. He realizes that the attacker is burning up with fever, but its scent is so alien, so bizarre, and its pheromones are like nothing human, not even animal - the attacker then gets up and throws the glass tube at Logan, who shatters it with his razor-sharp claws. Logan races out of the room, and seals the door behind him, trapping the strange man inside. He clutches at the door, unable to escape.
Logan rushes through a corridor, deciding that there is nothing human left in that anymore, and that some kind of parasite, virus, has cleaned him out, and realizes that whatever got him probably made him kill all the others, or infected them too. He wonders where they are, as he should be able to smell the decay - when suddenly, the tunnel leads to an opening in a cave that acts as an exit to the snow - and Logan gets his answer, as he finds the bodies slumped all over the ground. ‘That’s why they’ve been kept back here on ice, frozen after that virus or whatever it is killed them’ Logan realizes.
Logan steps out of the cave and into the cold, with a loud wind that roars around him as he approaches the drill site. A large drill-crane is surrounded by several large holes in the ice. Logan decides that this must be where they took their samples from, here in their own backyard. He wonders if they knew what it was, and supposes that they didn’t, but they must have known something was here, as they set up camp right next to it so they wouldn’t have to travel far and jeopardize the “secret”. Going over to one of the large holes, Logan wonders how aeep they had to go to pull up that little bit of hell. He can’t even see the bottom.
Suddenly, the deformed man lunges towards Logan, he knew that the door wouldn’t hold this thing forever. But at least now he has somewhere to go with him. The man strikes Logan, and they both plummet down the hole. Logan tries to twist as they fall, so that the man takes the brunt of the impact - a strange bile slobbers from the man’s mouth onto Wolverine’s face, and, as they fall, the man is suddenly, skewered on a piece of equipment part way down the hole. ‘Oh, this is gonna -’ Logan thinks to himself as he shoves his claws into the ice-wall, and screams in agony. He starts to climb up the wall by shoving one set of claws in and then the other, until he finally reaches the equipment, and sees the man’s body, with a large spike through it.
Logan recalls being told that he is the only man for the job, which is why was sent - because they knew what they were dealing with - some kind of virus, but only able to infect one person at a time, and it went through all of them. This guy was the last, which is why he was sent here. Logan continues to climb up, realizing that he had to make sure the place was secure and all the techs were dead, and that the virus is destroyed. He had to contract the bug and rely on his mutant healing factor to burn the thing right out - kill it for good. ‘Slimy weasels’ Logan thinks to himself, realizing that it wasn’t a bad plan. Logan’s skin starts to deform like the man’s, and his eyes glow orange. He roars as he continues to pull himself towards the surface.
As he reaches the snow, the virus is gone. Logan beat it. He can feel that it has been destroyed, and he pulls himself from the hole. The last part is to clean up. He starts tossing the bodies down one of the holes, and sets them on fire. Smoke billows into the sky, and Logan decides ‘So what if somebody flies by, sees the smoke, comes down to investigate, finds the installation?’ and as he walks away, decides that it wasn’t his secret.


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Unfinished Business
They call me Mr. X. It’s as good a name as any, I suppose, since my birth name is now meaningless. Because, truth be told, I wasn’t truly born until that fateful day. The day I met her (when he was a young boy). As she lay there dying (after being hit by a car), my mind, as it was put to me, “opened.” And with her final breath, all her thoughts, her dreams… everything she desired, everything she thought, everything she feared… were now mine. I sucked it all out of her like yolk from an egg. And I was truly alive for the first time.
It was a feeling I would spend the rest of my days trying to recapture. And so, I trained myself to become the world’s greatest killing machine. And with my secret ability, honed over the years to the point where I could actually see the moves of others before they made them, I became exactly that. Neither human, nor super human could defeat me.
That is, until he came along. Wolverine. A mutant warrior blessed with a healing factor as impressive as his fabled adamantium claws. He had a reputation for being the “best there is.” But after our first encounter, I laid those rumors to rest. The second time we met, we faced off in the infamous bloodsports of Madripoor. And for the first time ever, due in large part to my inability to cope with his berserker rage, the unthinkable happened. I lost. I’ve never lost. And I must admit; I’m having trouble with it.
Sitting in a chair, Mr. X slices his arm with his sword. He then proceeds to block Wolverine’s claw strike with his sword with ease. As he does, he calls Wolverine pathetic. Slicing him with his sword X tells him that he could hear him a mile away. When Wolverine gives him a roundhouse kick, X blocks it and says roundhouse kick, so damned predictable. Then a pedestrian left hook. Followed by him choking the %#*$ out of him.
After killing Wolverine, X drops him to the ground and yells at him that he’s pathetic. Sitting back in the chair, X remarks that some people might say he’s obsessed Maybe those people are onto something. Inside X’s warehouse are a multitude of “Wolverine’s” in various stages of complete defeat. But of course, that’s only if obsession is a bad thing. And who’s to say that it is? After all, didn’t obsession drive him to become what he is today? Didn’t it allow him to refocus his thoughts over the past few months? To stop using his special ability as a crutch? To re-train himself to block out unnecessary thoughts in order to combat the savage mind?
After X presses a button, six wolverines enter the warehouse and immediately go after him. As he battles them, all X sees is Wolverine fighting him. Once he soundly defeats them all, Mr. X carves an X into his arm and says “I’m ready.”
Standing in a bank line, a plain-clothes Logan asks what the hell is taking so long. He swears, as many people as he’s killed in his life, sometimes he thinks it’s a miracle he hasn’t killed more. He means, a %$*@# hour he’s been waiting in this line. Just then, Logan sees two men carrying weapons tells everyone not to make a %$*@# move. This is a stick-up.
Walking up to the men, Logan tells them to just calm down. He knows what’ll do the trick. He’s got a joke. One of the men points his gun at Logan’s head and tells him that he’s gonna make his face a joke when he fills it full of holes. Now back the %@*$# up. His partner says to him to let him tell it. He wants to hear what kind of joke was worth him losin’ his life over. Logan says ok, so one day, two stupid-ass bank robbers walk into the wrooong bank…
Readying their weapons, the bank robbers ask is that so. Popping his claws, Logan slices their weapons into pieces and deftly takes them out in short order. Once he does, he tells them yeah, that’s so. The teller proceeds to throw her hands in the air and tells Logan to take it all, just don’t hurt her. Pulling out his Avengers identification card, Logan tells her to calm down. He’s with the Avengers. Just then, Logan smells someone behind him and wheels around. Standing there, a man leaves a package for Mr. Logan and rushes off. Looking down at the package, Logan says aww crap when he sees that it’s from Mr. X.
Departing the bank, Logan opens up the note from Mr. X and reads what it says. “Dear worthy opponent. It has been some time since we last met. Miss me? I’m quite certain you do not as I am equally certain you will not accept another invitation to fight.” Logan remarks that he’s got that right. He has no reason to. X lost, he won. Deal with it, bub. Continuing to read the note, it says “Which is why I have taken certain assurances to guarantee a return engagement. Look in the box.”
Opening up the box, Logan is shocked when he sees a severed woman’s head inside it wearing a Wolverine mask. Logan continues to read the note. “I tell you now, you will not recognize this head. The woman it once belonged to was no one of any particular importance. Well, unless you consider the fact that she taught a kindergarten class I am currently holding hostage important. The time you receive my gift, will determine whether or not you can save her class. Hope to see you soon. Yours faithfully, Mr. X.”
Crumpling up the note in anger, Logan speeds to the school where Mr. X is holding the children hostage. When he walks in, X greets him and tells him “Hello James.” It’s so good of him to join them. Looking around, Logan sees that all of the kids are tied up and wearing Wolverine masks. There is also gasoline all over the floor and X is holding a match. Popping his claws, Logan tells X that if he harms one hair on their heads and he swear he’ll…
X asks him what, identify the bodies? He then holds the match closer to one of the kids’ heads and tells Logan to back off before the children have themselves the best school cookout they’ll ever have. When Logan retracts his claws, X thanks him and tells him that if he truly wants to save the children, if he truly wants to save all the children, he will target next, then give him what he wants. Otherwise, well, maybe the next school he’ll pay a visit to is his. He heard San Francisco is lovely at this time of year.
After looking at the kids, the match, and the gasoline, Logan concedes and tells X that he’s got it. Dousing the flame, X proceeds to tell Logan that he has made him very happy. He then tells him that he’ll leave him to see the children home. He just needs to be at the Museum of Natural History at midnight in the halls of the warriors. He’ll be waiting anxiously.
That night, Logan walks into the Museum of Natural History wearing his yellow and blue uniform. As he does, he remarks that X scares him. Not the main. Ain’t a man alive he’s afraid of, but what he sees in him. And that’s himself. He’s him with no filter. With his dark side unchecked, free. Entering the hall of warriors, Logan can tell that X is there. He’s not exactly sure where, but he’s in the room. He’s maskin’ his scent but he can still…
Just then, Logan spins around and destroys an arrow that comes flying at the back of his head. Clapping, Mr. X tells him bravo. He had to make sure he hadn’t lost his touch. He can assure him that he hasn’t. With that, Mr. X rushes at Logan with a sword. For quite some time, X and Logan violently trade blows, each giving as good as they get.
During the battle, Logan thinks to himself that he’s been here before. Every move he makes, X anticipates and he’s already waitin’ with a counter. After X jams two swords into Logan’s gut, Logan angrily calls him a motherless piece of… and leaps at him. As Logan pins him to the ground, X laughs and tells him that’s it. Give him the beast inside him. Let him come out and play.
Just then, Logan steps back from X and thinks to himself no. He’s playin’ right into his hands. These last few months, X must’ve been trainin’ himself for this, learned to counter his berserker rage. Ain’t Logan the man he’s after. He wants to slay the beast that beat him. Which means if he goes berserk, he gives X exactly what he wants. Wait a sec, that’s it. That’s what he wants. What he wants.
Enraged, X asks Logan what is this and punches him across the face. Picking himself up off the ground, Logan replies this is him not fighting anymore. After X asks “excuse me,” Logan tells him that it just hit him. X acts like he’s got the upper hand here, but really it’s him who’s holdin’ all the cards. He has what he wants. He has nothin’. X asks him is that so? His school, he’ll…
Logan asks him he’ll do what? Hunt ‘em down, kill ‘em? And then what? He comes after him, lookin’ for revenge, right? But the best way he figures it, the best way to do that, the worst thing he can do to him is never fight him again. So in other words, he harms one hair on a mutant’s head and he makes Nelson Mandela look like $%@*# Rambo. X tells Logan that he’s bluffing. Logan asks is he? Can he afford to find out? Grabbing an axe, X calls Logan a sonofa, he’ll make him fight him.
Once he brings the axe down onto Logan’s neck, Logan laughs at him and tells him that’ll grow back. Pulling down a hook, X asks that he’s laughing at him? He’ll give him something to laugh at. With that, X slashes Logan across the face, taking out his right eye. Logan’s response is so what? Takes a little longer, but that grows back too. Enraged, X takes the hook and slams it into Logan’s crotch. When he does, Logan yells out in pain and falls to the ground. He then tells X that was a good one but guess what? That heals up too. Which is good for him, because he needs him alive. Otherwise, he’ll never know if he can truly beat the one man that defeated him. Accept it, X, he’s powerless there.
Dropping the hook, X tells him that he can’t do this. Bandaging up his eye, Logan tells X that it’s already done. As Wolverine walks away, he remarks that it’s kinda apropos their last fight bein’ there, with all the old war relics which now include X himself.
As Mr. X sits on his knees and is extremely distraught in his warehouse, the phone rings. Answering it, X tells the person on the other end of the line that he’s not in the mood. The person on the other end replies so he’s heard. They then asks that it’s this latest business with Wolverine, isn’t it? X answers that just happened, how did they…
The person on the other end, Norman Osborn, informs him that it’s his business to know. He then tells Mr. X that he has something that might take his mind off of things, something where his unique talents could be of some use. Osborn then asks Mr. X what he knows about a group called the Thunderbolts.


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Born in Blood: part 1
Wolverine stands alone on a beautiful mountain hill. There, he is testing the new sword he received, and it suits him fine. He reminisces that he used to think he was the best there is at what he does. Now, it turned out that he is actually the worst. However, Logan realizes he can’t change that. So, he is going to use this new sword. After safely stashing the sword into his belt, Logan promises to himself that he is going to use this sword to make everyone pay for the ones pay for the terrible things they did to him.
SHIELD Command Center, at an unknown location…
Dum-Dum Dugan stares quietly in front of him, before speaking to a woman on a video-phone. Addressing her as Madam Secretary, he asks how he can be of service. Stern faced, she demands answers. Cold and hard facts.
Dugan admits that there aren’t any “hard facts.” And, he adds, with Wolverine dropping in and out of the grid so sporadically, there isn’t much hope SHIELD will have at any time soon. The secretary warns Dugan not to give her this nonsense. She is fully aware that SHIELD is holding back information on her, and promises she’ll make them pay for this once she finds out what this information actually is. Dugan asks the secretary whether, if she discovers anything, will she be a dear and pass it along. The cabinet secretary’s only response is a scowl.
Ignoring Dugan, she warns him that he should be more mindful of his current situation. Dugan angrily defends that he knows exactly what his “situation” is. He knows he got handed this stupid nonsense because he’s got years into this to know the stakes and just enough of a profile to make a profitable scapegoat if this whole mess goes to hell in a handbasket. Which, Dugan even more angrily shouts, it already has! The secretary is pleased to hear that at least Dugan understands the situation. She wants him to understand the following thing as well: she is a very powerful woman. She could make some calls on Dugan’s behalf, and perhaps even get him out of this mess. But, before she does anything, the Secretary needs to know that there will be a… reciprocation. Dugan wants to know what that is supposed to mean. After all, the president has full protection. The secretary defends that she isn’t talking about the president.
On that very moment, the video-phone goes out. Dugan believes that she hang up on him. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. On that very moment, the alarm signal goes off in the entire base! One of the female agents comes to inform Dugan that they’ve got a situation. The White House communication devices are down… across the board! They are completely blacked out!
Elsewhere, in the sewers…
After having sliced through the communication devices with his claws, Wolverine continues his journey through the tunnels.
At the White House...
The alarm goes off at the White House, and the secret serice quickly lead the president to safety. Hearing the commotion, the secretary comes to check out what’s going on, but only find the secret service pushing her out of the way while trying to evacuate the president. After being left all alone, the secretary starts to panic, and wonders what’s going to happen to her.
SHIELD Command Center…
When Dugan demands to know where the president is now, an agent reports that the secret service is moving the president toward Exit Designation: Scorpio, and should arrive there in about six seconds. Dugan goes to check out his other agents, who are at their computers trying to pinpoint the president. Dugan wants to know how many agents SHIELD has on the move at the White House. There are two squads inbound. The Baltimore unit is mobilizing as they speak. SHIELD also has an aircraft en route for extraction in about eight seconds.
Another agent comes to inform Dugan that the secret service reports that Scorpio is impassable! They are proceeding to the secondary possibility. However, another agent cuts in, alerting that aircraft is reporting communication failures, and that they are flying blind! As Dugan and the others take this in, another agent informs Dugan that Norad is reporting what looks like an incoming cruise missile. And that cruise is heading straight towards the White House itself!
Dugan wants that thing shot down, however the agents shamefully report that they can’t do that. The cruise is too low, and too close. Dugan demands to know how this happened. An agent explains that it looks like the cruise was fired underwater, somewhere in Chesapeake Bay. When Dugan wants to know how close the cruise is, the agent reports that the cruise is already there. Cursing aloud in rage, Dugan throwing his earpiece against the wall, smashing it. Suddenly, an agent reports that they are reading a negative impac. The missile appears to have malfunctioned, and landed in the yard near the White House. The mansion itself is completely safe and intact.
The many SHIELD agents and Dugan are speechless, and the agents cheer for the victory. A serious Dugan orders them all to shut up immediately, and the agents to as told. Dugan wants to know what this was all about. A warning? A show of force? An agent reports that a nuke squad has been deployed to dismantle the missile ETA twenty-two minutes. All SHIELD personnel are being pulled back from the site and are cordoning off the area. Dugan thinks about it for a while, and realizes the true plan. Wolverine got them again. When the agents don’t know what Dugan is talking about, Dugan reveals hat he means that the president wasn’t the target.
At the White House…
The cabinet secretary walks through the deserted White House hallways, and calls out to check if anyone is still there. To her surprise and horror, Wolverine arrives from behind a corner! It’s just the two of them now, he tells her.
SHIELD Command Center…
The agents want to know if the missile was just a decoy. Dugan admits he thinks so. He believes that Wolverine did it so that SHIELD would pull back and give him time to operate. The agents want to know about the equipment malfunctions aboard SHIELD’s aircraft. Is Wolverine was responsible for those as well? Dugan confirms that’s possible, but explains that it’s also possible there are other players on the board. The agents don’t know what Dugan is talking about.
At the White House…
The crashed missile starts to crack open, and a metal foot steps out of it.
Wolverine angrily grabs the US secretary by her hair, and smashes her head into the wall! When he demands to know who she’s taking orders from these days, she defends it’s from the president of the United States. Wolverine snikts out his claws and threatens the secretary with them. He demands to know who she takes her real orders from. Suddenly, an explosion sound is heard. A crying secretary mentions to Logan that people were prepared for this, and she isn’t helpless.
On that very moment, a Shiva robot crashes through a wall! Wolverine recalls that the robot was build to track down and neutralize rogue agents of the Weapon X program. These things are pretty near indestructible and the robots don’t quit until they’ve done their job. The secretary notices the Shiva robot stalling, and orders it to kill Wolverine. However, instead of doing as ordered, Shiva kills the secretary! Wolverine admits that he didn’t see that coming, and apparently, neither did the Secretary. He believes that whoever sent Shiva knew that he was coming for this woman, so they silenced her.
Wolverine takes out his sword, and starts fighting Shiva. Logan knew that the secretary was somebody’s mole. He recognized the code matrix she was using in her speeches. He believes she must have been a lot higher up the food chain than he assumed, or the mysterious attackers wouldn’t be risking this kind of exposure. Either that, or all this was a trap. They used the secretary as bait to lure him here, isolated the site, and send in their heavy hitter. Logan jokes that, next time, these people better send in something else than a tin robot, because that isn’t going to work anymore. This isn’t like the old days. This is a new day, and Logan is packing a whole new kind of heat.
After dodging all of Shiva’s blasts, Wolverine uses his sword to cut the robot in half, and destroys it. He spits on the remains and then walks towards a door, leading to the Lincoln Bedroom. Entering, he examines a wall, which he quickly slices through using his claws. Behind it, an old, wooden door is revealed. Logan opens it, and walks into a dark tunnel.
SHIELD Command Center…
A four-star general debriefs Dugan about the current situation. The secretary is completely fried up, and dead as can be, the general tells Dugan. He’s got one cruise missile, whose origins are unknown, sticking out of the White House lawn. He’s got one robot samurai, whose origins are also unknown to him, lying in two pieces in the hall outside the Oval Office. And in the center of this whole mess, the general has Wolverine running around, completely off the chain. And no one seems to know why or what he is after. Also, the General believes, the reason why no one knows what Wolverine is up to because every time anyone gets close to finding out, Logan always manages to slip away from them! So, the general’s question is this: what are Dugan and SHIELD doing at the Command Center, because it doesn’t look like they are solving the situation.
In response, Dugan defends that they are simply playing the cards they are dealt with. They don’t know who fired that missile. They don’t know why Wolverine was at the White House. All they know is that Logan has got his memories back, and is really ticked off. If they are going to have any chance of gaining the initiative, Dugan mentions that he’s going to need authorization to station SHIELD agents in all possible quarters.
The general believes that Wolverine knows SHIELD completely from the in and outside. Any further involvement at this point would be considered a liability. Wolverine has played SHIELD like a fiddle, time and again. And the general believes Dugan knows this. He doesn’t want to offend his old friend Dum-Dum, but the general mentions he and his companions are going to take matters into their own hands. From here on in, it’s every man for himself.
Meanwhile, at the US Embassy in Santiago, Chile…
Security agents take an elevator down to the labs. There, scientist confirm to them they are good to go. A noise is heard through the chamber and, a minute later, the agents inform their new audience that they aren’t going to B.S. him. They’ll just give him the facts and he can make the decision by himself. Simply put: the country needs him. A new threat has emerged, and the state doesn’t know how to handle it. The soldiers are in danger.
The mysterious person, almost breathless, is determined to get their boys out of danger. The agents confirm that’s exactly what they’ve got to do, and why they need him. They want to know if he’ll accept the assignment.
Nuke steps out of his stasis tank, and demands to have a red pill!


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Born in Blood: part 2
Washington, DC.
Outside the White House the police hold back a crowd, gawking at a crane removing the ICBM impaled in the lawn. Inside the White House itself, the president himself is in a disturbing meeting.
He jokes that he’s just a country boy, but he isn’t a dumb country boy, so he wants a present general to repeat what he just said, so it makes some kind of sense to him. The general claims that’s just it: the situation doesn’t make sense. He explains that, by the looks of it, Wolverine wasn’t after the president or the secretary of state. In the general’s opinion, it looks like Wolverine was trying to protect her.
Another advisor, Trevor, wants to cut in, but the president asks him to wait, as he wants to hear this. Trevor disregards, explaining that they don’t have time trying to decipher Wolverine’s exact intentions. Trevor believes that Logan’s actions have told them everything they need to know. He believes that every minute they spend there wringing their hands is another minute that they’ve given Wolverine to plan his next attack. He is confident that there will be a “next attack” and that even more will follow until Logan gets his revenge. Trevor defends that isn’t just his “opinion”… it’s a fact.
Turning away from the group, the president bemoans that he shouldn’t even have to deal with this situation, because it isn’t his problem. He inherited it. Trevor promises that the president inherited the solution to the problem as well. The astounded general begins to ask the president to what Trevor is referring, but the president instead waves him off in mid-sentence.
After thinking about it for a moment, the president has made a decision and informs Trevor that he won’t be signing anything. Hearing this, Trevor rejoins that the president doesn’t have to… his verbal command will be sufficient. The president continues to stare out of the Oval Office window for a while, until the ICBM which had been impaled on the While House lawn is rolled by. Clenching his decision, he tells Trevor to pull the trigger, much to the general’s displeasure. Trevor simply smiles.
US Embassy, Santiago, Chile. Sublevel 9…
A security agent hangs up the phone, and asks a scientist if “he” is ready. The scientist claims that he is; he has been ready his entire life. Standing before them is Nuke, bare-chested, wearing green military pants and sporting monitors taped to his torso and arms.
The security agent clarifies that he means whether Nuke is physically ready. The scientist replies with an “absolutely,” and asks the agent if he remembers the show “the Six Million Dollar Man.” Well, now the agent gets to meet the one hundred and thirty million dollar man in Nuke. He explains they’ve been fine-tuning Nuke’s body, adding and updating his onboard cybernetics for over twenty years. At this point, Nuke is barely even human anymore. To make a long story short, if Nuke isn’t ready for action now, he’ll never be. The scientist just wants to run one last diagnostic on Nuke’s pump.
When the agent wants to know what the scientist means by “pump,” the scientist reveals that it’s a remote-controlled hydraulic pump. They got rid of the pills Nuke used to take, as they were just clumsy. Now, essentially, the guy has two hearts: one that pumps blood and one that pumps control agents into that blood. The agent wants to know if the scientist means “drugs” when he says “control.” Is this how he gets him tuned up? The scientist denies that, correcting that this is how they calm Nuke down. He explains that Nuke never needed amphetamines or similar drugs to “tune him up”. The red pills Nuke used to take were just placebos. Surprised, the agent wants to know what makes Nuke do… what he does.
Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, 1968…
Tied up on a wall in a tunnel, and only wearing his Army pants, a young man – one day known as “Nuke” – receives painful electrical shocks. Two even more youthful Viet Cong stand at the car batteries supplying the electricity. A voice shouts to them in Vietnamese that it’s enough, as now it will be his turn. Holding his blade in his hand nd a snarl on his face, Logan is ready for action!
Logan walks over to the scared American soldier, telling him in English that there will be “no V.C.”. One of the two young Vietnamese soldiers says to the other that it’s obvious that their prisoner isn’t a Vietnamese citizen, so why did Logan said that? The other soldier thinks that perhaps they should observe Logan’s technique before asking any more questions.
Nearby, Logan cuts through the America’s body, and he screams horribly loud. Almost breathless, the youthful Nuke manages to mumble something… “Simpson… Major… Seven-Seven-Zero-Three-One…” His countenance still grim, Logan tells “Frank” to shut up, because he doesn’t even exist.
Frank is surprised that Logan knows him. Logan sure does. He knows Frank. But he bets that Frank doesn’t even remember him, and is confident that Frank surely won’t remember him after he’s done with him, either. Frank tries to say something, but Logan holds his hand in front of Nuke’s mouth. Logan explains that the two soldiers standing behind him think he’s a Russian advisor. Logan claims he really is that, but he’s a lot of other things as well.
Holding his covered-with-blood knife closer to Frank’s face, Logan mocks the poor guy that he isn’t a lot of things. He’s just one thing. And, since Frank’s memory is so bad, Logan suggests that he’ll give him a reminder to make sure Frank will never forget what that one thing is. Again proudly saying “No V.C.” Logan cuts through Frank’s body, and blood spurts around the room.
Brooklyn, New York. Present time…
Sitting in his apartment, Wolverine has placed half a dozen television sets and several radios in a circle around himself. Logan himself meditates in the middle, kneeling on a may and the Marumasa sword held out before him. As all the TVs play the news, Logan is lost in through, as he remembers that he has done a lot of bad things in his life. More than most folks have. But that’s because he has lived longer than most folks do. He knows that’s not an excuse, and neither is the fact that he wasn’t in control of his own mind for most of the time. Because no matter what, he still did all those bad things.
He did them all over and over again, and for that, he’ll be eternally damned. Both in this world and in the next… if he ever gets there. Logan jokes to himself that there has to be an eleventh Commandment saying “Though shalt not be like Logan. Logan smiles at this thought for a moment, before quickly returning to a somber countenance.
Bowing before his outstretch Muramasa sword, Logan believes that there is no redemption for him. But there is… revenge. And all he needs is a sign, or a scent… anything… and he’ll follow it back to the men who played him. And when that time comes, he’s going to start cutting.
J. Edgar Hoover Building. Washington, DC…
The president speaks via video-phone with the leader of the scientists, who are examining the remains of the Shiva robot. The lead scientist there can’t explain what happened to the robot; they can only tell the President what happened. The president jokes that’s at least a start.
The scientist explains that, essentially, Shiva wasn’t “cut”… it was spliced at the molecular level. That’s what they know so far. What they can’t figure out is how this was accomplished, especially with all the density of the robot’s outer hull. They are working on a theory, however, that the instrument used might be some sort of plasma form, but that, in and of itself, wouldn’t make any kind of conventional sense to him because…
The president wants to interrupt the scientist right there. He introduces the scientist to the Silver Samurai and puts him through to the scientist’s monitor. He explains that the Samurai is standing at the Edo Castle in Japan and is the head of the prime minister of Japan’s personal security cadre, and was present during Wolverine’s attack in Tokyo. The president then asks the Samurai to explain to Dr. Redford what he was explaining to him earlier.
The Samurai reveals that Shiva was spliced by the fabled Muramasa blade, which is… the ultimate weapon. Redford finds that hard to believe, but the Samurai reminds Redford that the evidence lies right in front of him. He also tells Redford, as a learned man, not to dishonor himself through forced ignorance.
The president asks the Samurai how knows about all this, and why he’s telling them this now. The Samurai admits that he didn’t tell anyone because, for centuries, it has been the distinguished honor of his family to act as keepers of the secrets of the old world. Logan knew this, and so sought him out… finding him in Tokyo. Logan wanted to know if anyone else knew about the existence of the Muramasa blade. And, as it is both the Samurai’s honor and duty to do so, he refused to answer Logan’s queries.
However, Wolverine would not accept this refusal and cut off the Samurai’s hand. Therefore, to save face and to preserve the honor of his ancestors, the Samurai instead provided Logan with information that he wasn’t bound by oath to keep hidden. In exchange, Logan spared the Samurai’s life and, for that, he is now in Logan’s debt. Which leads the Samurai to the president’s second question: he is telling him all this because Logan wanted him to. Logan wants the president to know that… he is coming.
Quietly and desperately, the president realizes that this is a bad situation. He believes they need to recall this mission and set up a new plan. Trevor is sorry for it, but that’s impossible. The mission is already underway.
Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam…
Nuke jumps out of a helicopter and lands in an open field of the jungle. He activates a time bomb, and coldly yet quietly stares in front of him.
Vietnam, 1968…
Logan has cut across Frank’s entire face in the pattern of a reversed American flag. As it bleeds badly, Frank himself is unconscious. Sweating himself from the task, Logan thinks aloud that this will do. Feeling a bit thirsty, Logan decides to drink something. But, he’s out of beer so he’ll have to go topside. Logan promises the boys he’ll return soon and that they can have some fun. As Logan leaves, the soldiers are anxious to give Frank Simpson some more electrical shocks.
As he hears Frank scream, Logan opens the hatch from the tunnel and makes it back into the jungle. He is putting on a United States uniform when an old Vietnamese woman comes across him. Frightened, she says, “No, Vee-See,” displaying that she has no weapons. Logan smiles evilly and tells the “mama-san” to keep saying that. Picking up his backpack, Logan walks into the jungle.
Back at the tunnel, the two boys can’t get enough of torturing Frank. They give him another shock, but after that Frank doesn’t seem to move anymore and the two wonder if he’s dead. With electricity still coursing through his body, Frank manages to move his neck closer to one of the boy’s heads and bites his ear! The boy too receives a powerful shock, causing him to collapse. The second youth sticks a knife into Frank, but receives a shock in the process through the metal blade.
As the youth collapses, his weight pulls on the wires leading to the car batteries, disconnecting them. At the same time, a furious Frank summons strength and manages to break loose! Frank takes the knife out of his side and sticks it into the head of another soldier, who has come to investigate the commotion.
More soldiers arrive, but Frank takes the gun from one of the soldiers he killed and opens life. Some time later, an explosion rocks the tunnel, with smoke emerging from the trapdoor! Some time later, Frank emerges from it alive, though changed. While his eyes are filled with rage, his hands are filled with guns. A bandolier of hand grenades is strapped to his chest, with two rocket launchers strapped to his back.
Some frightened villagers see the imposing American soldier and shout, “No Vee-See,” upon seeing him. Frank’s face is expressionless for a few moments, until his eyes widen with rage. Frank then expresses that rage with actions, as he murders out the entire village!
Standing on a hill nearby, Logan uses his binoculars to look at the massacre in the village, proud at the work Frank delivers.
Brooklyn, Present time…
Still at his apartment, Wolverine remembers that, at first, he just was the Army’s attack dog. But as the years went on, they found a better use for him: dog handler. He implanted triggers, stripped away men’s humanity. He wound them up so tight that those men would act without thinking or questioning. After that, all those men needed was a direction, just like Logan is looking for now.
One of the interviews shown on TV grabs Logan’s attention. It’s about the Vietnamese village of Lai Chi. Once again, Fox news is receiving word that, during the night, a small Vietnamese village was the site of a brutal attack by parties unknown at this time. The reporter mentions that as some of his older viewers may remember, this is the same village where in 1968, during the Vietnamese War, American soldiers slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians in what became known as the “Lai Chi massacre.”
Logan admits that he was hoping to intercept a player in the field and then follow the tracks back to their handler, and eventually to the handler’s handler. Obviously, those people saw his plan coming. But they are just giving Logan what he wants. These people are pushing him to expose himself, and they’ll keep pushing until he does that, not caring about the body count. Logan realizes that, if he doesn’t act, all the blood that’s spilled will be on his hands. And he can’t take that. Logan stands up, picks up his sword and leaves.
The White House…
Trevor and the others leave the president’s room. In the hallways, Trevor receives a phone call on his mobile and tells the others that he will catch up. When he answers it, te caller asks if the line is secure, and Trevor promises that it is. Trevor also promises that he did everything the caller asked – everything. He still can’t believe the news channels went for it. The caller states that what is relevant is whether or not Logan “went for it.”
Trevor guesses that the caller is right. He asks if he’s done, or if there’s anything more the caller needs. The caller is certain that he will find something. Trevor mentions he’ll be happy to help out where he can. The caller makes it clear that Trevor will help him, whether it makes him happy or not. That’s because, the caller quips, Trevor belongs to him. From now until the day he dies.
The caller asks what made Trevor think he would be any different from the rest. He can’t have possibly believed that he would show him mercy. He mentions that there are those who have done far more to help his cause than Trevor has. There are those who have given him everything – even their very souls. And he didn’t show them mercy.
Trevor panics and prays to god. The caller jokes that he isn’t god. He claims that there is no god, at least not here on Earth. But there are angels… and devils. The caller claims that he controls them both.
Vietnam, present day…
Nuke stands on a hill, and overlooks the massacre at the village he’s responsible for. He stares in front of him, when he suddenly notices that the wind is getting stronger.
Vietnam, the past…
Frank remembers a time from the past, when he was also standing in this jungle doing exactly the same thing. A helicopter also flew over, and Logan, wearing his Army uniform, approached him.
Vietnam, present day…
History repeats itself, and a helicopter lands. Wolverine steps out of it, and asks Frank if he remembers him.