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Damaging Evidence, part 2
‘Poor little Punisher. We got you running scared. Could take you out with one pull of the trigger, Frankie…but the fat man has other ideas at the moment’ the Kingpin’s Sniper thinks to himself as he peers through his target on his rifle, having Frank Castle a.k.a. the Punisher in sight.
The Punisher is in disguise as he walks through a police cordon.  He knows that someone has been impersonating him and killing innocents - innocents he fights to protect. He decides that a first-hand look at the scene may provide a clue, and thanks to the Police ID that his companion Microchip manufactured, he should be able to get through without a problem. He hasn’t been to this part of town before, and raises his ID badge, ‘Detective Fort’ he introduces himself to an officer, ‘In ya go’ the officer replies, ushering “Detective Fort” through the crowd of civilians that have gathered behind the barrier. The Punisher makes his way into an apartment block, in one room, bullet-holes line the wall, the furniture lies tossed about. He decides that investigators have probably removed any evidence already, but hopes that he will get lucky. He does, as he finds a nine millimeter shell, the same as he uses. Returning to his blue van, he also knows that it is the same as half the hoods in town use. ‘The beginning of his nightmare!’ Sniper thinks to himself as he watches the Punisher drive away.
At the same time, Logan a.k.a. Wolverine, pokes his head out of a cab window, it is tough for him to sort out the trail, so many strong overwhelming scents in town. Suddenly, he finds it, there is no mistaking it, his scent is all over this scene. Logan gets out of the cab and goes over to the police cordon, deciding that the scent seems to fresh for an eighteen hour old crime, and realizes that the street cleaner must have wiped out the trail. Logan looks around and tries to memorize the Punisher’s vehicle scent. But he is better at organic smells than mechanical ones. Logan lights a cigar and decides that he will have to wait for the Punisher to be spotted again, and then pick up the trail. ‘That’d better be soon if he is responsible for this mess’ Logan tells himself.
Meanwhile, uptown, in the Kingpin’s tower, ‘This way, Sniper’ the blonde woman called Arranger leads Sniper towards the Kingpin, who is sitting at a table playing a game of chess with his computer. ‘Yeah, I know’ Sniper replies, before addressing the Kingpin as Mr Fisk and telling him that he is charged up and ready to go. ‘King’s knight takes your pawn’ the Kingpin calls out. Sniper announces that he just found out that it was the Punisher who he was shooting at in that storm down in Mexico, and adds that if he had known, he would have made sure the Punisher was down for the count. ‘My former platoon leader’s left me with a ton of scar tissue’ he adds. ‘Hmmm. Good move’ the Kingpin tells the computer, ignoring Sniper. ‘Thank you, sir’ the computer replies.
Sniper’s scarred face can be seen clearly, as he boasts ‘I know that slippery *#%&# as well as I know myself. I know how he feels - what he thinks. That makes him predictable to me. I’m ready to nail his hide’ Sniper adds. Kingpin reports that Damage has shown great instability at the clinic, and informs Sniper that he is to shadow Damage’s moves and immediately report any unauthorized activity. ‘He’s going to take care of the Punisher’ Kingpin casually reports, before telling the computer that his queen’s rook takes pawn. ‘WHAT?’ Sniper gasps. ‘You can’t mean that! He’s mine! Punisher’s mine! I owe him more than you’ll ever know!’ Sniper complains. Without looking at Sniper, the Kingpin tells him that he will do nothing to the Punisher or Damage without his direct order. ‘I’m going to break the Punisher before I have him put out of his misery’ Kingpin adds. Holding up a gold ring, the Kingpin tosses it to Sniper and tells him that he does not tolerate disobedience. Sniper grabs the ring and frowns, ‘Understand?’ the Kingpin adds.
Later, the Punisher invades another Kingpin-supplied crack den and shoots down everyone inside. He has planned this to the last detail. The legitimate family who lives in the apartment above has gone to Mass up the street this evening time, so no innocents are around. One drug-gang member emerges from behind a wall and opens fire, but the Punisher spins and around, shooting him in the chest. However, outside, watching from a nearby rooftop, someone wearing the same trench coat as the Punisher watches the attack from a safe distance. Inside, another man fires a gun at the Punisher, who think to himself ‘Only the guilty. Only the punished…and those soon to be’ as he guns the man down. Another emerges from where he is hiding in a fireplace, but the Punisher turns and smacks him in the head with his gun. ‘So young and totally unredeemable’ Frank thinks to himself. ‘Unsalvageable. That’s what I tell myself. The evidence favors that conclusion’ he decides, while someone has him in sight.
Blood splatters as the Punisher punches his opponent. He tells himself that the exceptions are so rare to be virtually non-existent, and wonders ‘What if this one would’ve straightened out?’ He realizes that he is starting to think too much. He leaves, making his way back to his blue van, ‘Did they have children who will miss them - like the wise guy in Mexico?’ he wonders, before deciding that they would have been lousy fathers anyway.
A handful of hours later, Frank sit’s a computer desk and watches a news report on the television, where the announcer reports that the top stories on the New York Midnight News is that a transit system strike is averted at the last minute, before showing exclusive footage of the Punisher’s raid last night - a raid that once again left innocent bystanders dead or wounded. He looks shocked, and turns the volume up, as the announcer reports that on an anonymous tip, they sent a camera crew to the scene last night, but were too late to catch most of the action in the downstairs crack den. Frank sees himself on the screen as the announcer stats that they managed to get this exclusive footage of the Punisher gunning down what proved to be an innocent family living on the second floor. The announcer adds that funeral arrangements have been made for the day after tomorrow.
‘This is impossible. Has to be an impostor. Has to be’ Frank thinks to himself. He checks his costume and finds one of the gloves torn, and blood splattered. He wishes that Micro wasn’t off on a buying trip, as he could have used his input. Frank wonders if he has lost it - killing people during blackouts? ‘No. it can’t be’ he tells himself. The announcer continues, stating that the bodies will be laid to rest at King’s Cemetery in Brooklyn after a morning ceremony. He rubs his head, and reminds himself that he protects the innocent, so deduces that it must be someone trying to screw with his mind - but why? How?
Back at the police cordon, Logan examines the surroundings. He is unable to get closer like he would wish, but he decides he should be able to pick up what he needs from where he is. Logan knows that the Punisher was here, his scent is all over the place, but he drove off again, no real trail to follow. He picks up another familiar scent, also from the site of the previous massacre. Logan decides that it is an odd smell. He wonders if it belongs to a detective visiting the crime sites, but maybe not. Following the scent, he comes to a stop, supposing that whoever it was must have been dropped off and picked up in a car, but carries on around the building, just in case he gets any more clues. Logan does not see the Sniper on a building across the road, watching him. Sniper reports in to the Kingpin, ‘It’s a short guy who needs a new barber, boss’ Sniper declares, before transmitting the image.
‘Computer says he’s…Wolverine. What is one of the X-Men doing here?’ Arranger asks as she sits at the computer console and examines the photograph that Sniper transmitted through. The Kingpin replies that Wolverine cannot be allowed to interfere, but that they don’t want to do anything that might bring his teammates into this. The Kingpin goes over to the console and tells Arranger and Sniper, via communicator, that Wolverine has to be taken out of the picture in a way that won’t damage him or leave a trail for his heightened senses to track back to their operation. Sniper informs the Kingpin that it looks like he is walking the perimeter looking for clues, and that he should have a clear shot from the next roof on Wolverine’s way back. ‘You’ll be sent everything you need’ the Kingpin responds.
Soon: ‘What, no tip?’ someone asks after showing the Sniper to the top of a nearby building roof. ‘Got your tip right here’ Sniper responds as he raises a knife, and slices the man’s throat. He falls to the ground, blood pouring from his neck. Sniper readies his weapon and thinks to himself that babysitting and protecting Damage’s backside was not part of the job description. ‘The Punisher should be mine - not some street punk merged with a toaster’. He realizes the wind is starting to gust, meaning a tough competition for such a projectile, and, with Logan’s back turned down the alleyway, Sniper fires - and an instant later, Logan is struck in the back of his right leg. He realizes that he has been injected with drugs, but looking at the projectile, sees that it didn’t hit squarely, only a partial dose got in. But it’s still powerful, and as Logan pulls the projectile out, he drops to the ground, seemingly unconscious.
‘Fat cheapskate! Why’d he send me Old Spice?’ Sniper thinks to himself, before dragging Wolverine into his van, realizing that it makes sense, as it covers his smell with a scent that half the men in the city wear. ‘Little runt is heavier than he looks’ Sniper tells himself as he struggles with Logan’s motionless body, but once inside the van, hooks him up to an IV, constantly dripping the tranquilizer into Logan’s body so that his healing factor won’t have a chance to shake it off. Sniper remarks that this van has been scrubbed clean of any scent that can lead Wolverine to them. ‘I’ll drive you to a deserted warehouse and leave you to finish your nap’ he states.
A few minutes later, ‘After we’ve finished our business, you’ll wake up without a clue to who it was that took you out of the game’ Sniper remarks as he opens the door to the van. ‘Bye!’ he calls out then slams the door, leaving Logan inside the van, inside the warehouse. Logan struggles, and in doing so, pulls the tube out of the IV.
At a warehouse transformed into an indoor shooting range, Punisher sits at a table, ‘Nightmares await whether I’m awake or asleep’ he realizes. He goes to his van and loads some weapons. He knows he will lose it if he sits around here thinking about it - he needs action - to put another dent in Kingpin’s drug network. He arrives at a neighborhood built alongside a toxic disposal plant, and aims a powerful weapon at one of the buildings, firing, an explosion ensues, he knows that it will take out the sentry and the door. He starts firing inside, taking out another drug gang. Windows in the building are shot at, and locals playing a ball game in the street turn their attention to the building. More bullets are fired, this time on the of the drug gang member starts firing into the sheet - so Punisher reloads his weapon and then takes his opponent out at the legs.
He stands over his “victim”, and decides to let him live - that will hurt him for the rest of his miserable life. The drug gang member screams and clutches his wound, but as the Punisher goes outside, he sees a local who has been shot. A woman kneels over him and shouts ‘John! Oh my God! John! He’s dead’, while the Punisher looks down, concerned.
At that moment, Logan is still inside the van, and tries to get into the front seat.
A second van speeds onto the street, and the Punisher thinks to himself ‘Now to do some damage’, shouting at the civilians that have gathered he tells them that no one gets out alive. He then fires at several people, at close range.
In the van, Logan hears a news report, ‘And that’s it for this half hour. We’ll bring you more on our late breaking story involving a shoot-out with the Punisher’ he hears the radio announcer state, before suddenly, he manages to hot wire the van.
‘Got one. That should do the trick - Ivy League boy’  the Punisher - not the Punisher, but Damage in disguise - reports into the Kingpin and Arranger, who asks for the information on his drivers license, as they will use their connections in law enforcement to wipe his record clean. Damage knows that he has to leave before the cops and media show up, as the news hounds will have a field day with this - “Punisher kills upstanding citizen in indiscriminate raid. Victim had no police record”.
Suddenly, Damage feels someone tap on his shoulder. ‘Huh?’ he asks. ‘Okay, bub - your stink’s all over this crime…you ain’t no cop looking for clues and you sure ain’t the Punisher’ Wolverine snarls as he pops his claws. Sniper sees the encounter and thinks that he should call it in - but realizes that if Wolverine delays or kills Damage, the Kingpin will have no choice but ti assign the hit on the Punisher to him. He knows that if the Punisher isn’t dead by tomorrow morning, the Kingpin has to hand over a fortune to the Reavers for Damage’s cyborg technology. ‘Smart man. Bye bye’ Damage replies , but Logan tells him that the answer is no, and takes a swipe.
‘Don’t know who you are, but...I’m always happy to blow away a do-gooder’ Damage declares as he smacks Wolverine in the face. Sniper decides that while Damage and Wolverine “dance” he will look up his old lieutenant, thinking that he knows right where he will be. Logan is slammed into a wire fence, ‘Tough bug, eh?’ Damage remarks, going over to the fallen Logan, he tells him that it will be fun to squash him. Logan looks up, and leaps forward, slicing across Damage’s chest. ‘You *#%*#%!’ he exclaims, before reading another weapon, ‘FRY!’ he shouts, as he activates the flamethrower. Wolverine removes his civilian clothing, his costume underneath as he moves down the alleyway. Flames engulf the alleyway and Damage tells Wolverine ‘Hiding in the dark? There is no dark for me!’ as he activates his infra-red sensor, and sees Logan ahead. ‘Your heat image gives you away…let’s cool you down with some ventilation’ he declares as he starts to fire more bullets towards Wolverine….


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Damaging Evidence, part 3
‘I got built-in infrared vision on call, Wolverine. Your heat gives away your position. Time to DIE, mutant’ the cyborg called Damage, wearing the Punisher’s costume, calls out as he walks through flames to get to Wolverine a.k.a. Logan - and he unleashes a barrage of bullets towards the mutant hero, striking him in the arms and shoulders. ‘Let’s see just how tough you are, runt!’ Damage retorts as Logan falls over. ‘Ditto’ Logan snarls as he looks up at Damage who moves in closer, then Logan sinks all six of his adamantium claws into Damage’s body. ‘Very little in there that’s flesh and blood, little man… but I am full of “juice”!’ Damage exclaims as he points out that Wolverines’ claws make perfect electrical conductors, and an instant later, electrical charges course through Logan’s body. Wolverine cries out in pain, but holds his ground.
‘Get off me!’ Damage shouts before shoving his knee into Logan’s face as he tries to push Logan away from him. ‘Overdone piece…of #$%&’ Damage declares as he continues to push Logan away. ‘GET OFF!’ he booms, before Logan reaches up and slashes his claws across Damage’s chest, tearing out a large number of cables and wires. While Damage tries to hold his innards together, Logan gets a chance to crawl away. ‘Now that hurt’ Damage mutters. However, someone else is watching the battle through a target, and sees Damage get to his feet. ‘#$%&!’ Sniper utters, holding his gun ready, he knows that one slug in what is left of Damage’s brain might do the trick at this point, but realizes that Kingpin would know about it.
Logan takes cover and finds a weapon. He knows that his wounds are going to take more than a few hours to mend, but the lunatic can’t get away. The weapon is a grenade launcher which fell out of Damage when Logan gutted him. Still holding his innards together, Damage wonders how he is going to kill the Punisher like this. Suddenly, as the fire spreads around him, Damage sees Logan appear before him. ‘What? What are you made of, runt?’ Damage calls out. ‘Heavy metal, bub’ Logan replies as he shoves the grenade launcher back into Damage’s stomach, telling him that he wants to return something to him. ‘Oh’ Damage utters when he sees the grenade launcher sticking out of him, and an instant later, it launches a grenade, sending Damage sprawling backwards. ‘Bastard almost took me… with him… have to rest…’ Logan utters as he drops to the ground.
‘Have to…’ Logan begins, but looks up, and sees Damage standing over him, ‘Now I’m really ticked!’ Damage calls out. ‘…fight some more…’ Logan mutters, getting to his feet, he shoves his claws into Damage’s stomach, despite the fact that he Logan is low on energy. ‘You won’t take another…’ Damage begins as a cyborg hand reaches out and grabs Wolverine around his neck. ‘…breath?’ Damage utters, as Logan knows that there is only one way to make sure Damage doesn’t get away - ‘Take him with me’ he tells himself as they continue to battle in the toxic chemical warehouse. Logan forces Damage down towards a vat of chemicals, ‘I’m stuck!’ Damage calls out as he cannot break free from Logan.
Wolverine pushes Damage’s head into the vat of chemicals, and the cyborg struggles for breath. Logan holds his opponent under, despite Damage thrashing about to break free. One of Damage’s arms is stuck through Logan’s body, but Logan maintains control, and eventually, Damage stops moving - but so does Logan. Sniper continues to watch them, ‘Beautiful! Just beautiful!’ he thinks to himself, before deciding that he has to find Frank.
Shortly, at a cemetery, ‘I knew he’d be here’ Sniper thinks to himself as he watches Frank Castle a.k.a. the Punisher standing away from a funeral that is taking place in the cemetery. ‘Had to come to the services for the crack house raid victims - even if part of him believes he didn’t kill them…’ Sniper thinks to himself, deciding that the Punisher is so predictable, that he has such a soft spot of “innocent” victims, especially the kids. Sniper is perched in a nearby tree and has a good view of the cemetery. He decides that here is a perfect opportunity to drive the Punisher even more nuts before he ends his torment. Suddenly, the priest at the funeral is shot in the head and falls backwards. ‘God Almighty!’ a woman calls out as the mourners start to panic and run around. ‘Get down!’ the Punisher orders as he goes over to them and pulls out a weapon.
‘It’s him! The one who killed my sister! He’s going to kill us all!’ one of the mourners calls out. ‘Down, I said! There’s an assassin loose!’ the Punisher declares as another person is shot in the head. Several mourners take shelter behind gravestones, ‘Oh’ the man who accused the Punisher mutters, before being shot in the head. ‘where the #$%& is he?’ the Punisher calls out as he looks around, unable to locate the assassin. He sees another man shot in the back of the head, ‘No more!’ the Punisher shouts. ‘No more’ he thinks to himself as he sees a boy cowering behind one of the gravestones. ‘NO MORE!’ the Punisher roars, trying to get the assassin’s attention. ‘This is the best! First I’ll nail the brat, then Mr Castle joins his family’ Sniper grins, before firing a bullet, which narrowly misses Punisher and the boy.
‘Get on the other side and stay down! MOVE!’ Punisher instructs the boy, who replies that he can’t move. He screams as another bullet is fired and lodges into a gravestone. ‘Come here…I’ll shield you’ the Punisher calls out to the boy, helping him. The Punisher turns around and fires several quick shots in the direction the last bullet came from, and one of them strikes the Sniper, who falls from the tree, dropping his weapon which breaks as he hits the ground. ’No more fooling around’ Sniper thinks to himself.  Punisher tells himself that there is only one man he knows who can shoot like that - but he is dead - or will be again. Punisher opens fire once more, but realizes that he almost shot a mourner. He stops reacting, and tells himself that he has to think.
‘Yo, Frankie!’ the Sniper calls out as he holds a gun to a woman’s face. ‘It is him’ the Punisher tells himself. ‘It’s been him all along - shooting bystanders at the crack house raids’ the Punisher realizes. The move closer together, ‘You’ve been trailing me - killing bystanders after the drug raids’ the Punisher remarks. ‘Got news for you, Lieutenant. I may be a deceptive son of a *!@*! but I’ve never lied outright to you. You know that’ Sniper replies, assuring the Punisher that he didn’t off those folks at the crack house, that it was someone else, someone he knows. ‘Someone we both know!’ he adds, suggesting to the Punisher that he take a look in a mirror. The Punisher wonders if it is true, ‘Was it me after all? Blackouts where I’m out of control?’ he wonders.
‘He must be lying… but I know he’s not. Though he is being devious’ the Punisher thinks to himself, while Sniper calls out ‘Before I do you, I’m going to kill either that kid or this woman. You get to pick. Resist and I kill you all’ Sniper grins wickedly, while the woman he holds has started crying. The boy hides behind a gravestone, while Sniper asks ‘Who’ll be the first to die, Frankie?’ The Punisher knows that Sniper gets his thrills from confrontation and killing, and shouts ‘You!’ as he moves quickly into a dive, then a roll, and holds out a knife, deciding that it is as confrontational as it gets. ‘What do I get?’ Frank asks himself as he shoves the knife into Sniper’s side. ‘A bit of vindication, a slice of vengeance…or perhaps to pay the ultimate price for my sins - my failures’ he decides. The woman screams and starts to run away, while Sniper smiles, ‘No way’ he utters, before falling backwards into an open grave.
Another woman goes over to the boy, while Punisher stands at the edge of the grave, as Sniper tells him ‘Good work, Frank…but I get the…last laugh…you know I didn’t kill those people at…the crack houses’. Sniper points out that there are plenty of others out there for the Punisher’s hide. He coughs, while revealing that a buddy of the Punisher’s just brought it trying to stop them. ‘Find his body… the chemical dump… next to your last bust’ Sniper informs Punisher as he continues to cough and grow weak. ‘Micro? He’s the only friend Sniper would know of’ Frank thinks to himself, before dropping down into the grave, ‘WHO?’ he demands. ‘Who’d you kill? Who else is after me?’ Punisher asks. ‘Look…in the mirror…’ is all Sniper utters. ‘ARRRGH!’ a frustrated Punisher shouts, before climbing out of the grave, ‘Another showdown between the top guns. Did the good guy win?’ he asks himself. ‘I pray so’ he adds, before the boy walks over to the Punisher and thanks him. ‘That was worth a lot’ Frank thinks to himself as he touches the boy’s head.
A hectic drive later, the Punisher arrives at the chemical warehouse, ‘Not Micro. Wolverine’ he tells himself as he sees Logan’s body in the vat of chemicals. Suddenly, Logan stirs, and tries to break out of the vat. ‘Here’ the Punisher calls out, pulling Logan from the chemicals. ‘The real one, eh?’ Logan remarks as he pulls up Damage’s body. ‘Huh?’ the Punisher replies, confused. ‘Give me a hand getting off the hook?’ Logan asks, his chest still with Damage’s arm stuck through it. ‘Better leverage if you do it. It’ll be neater’ Logan explains. ‘This is going to hurt you a lot more than it’s going to hurt me’ the Punisher points out, before pulling Logan away from Damage. ‘ARGH!’ Logan screams, but, free from Damage, he thanks the Punisher. Logan pulls out a cigarette, and Punisher lights it for him. ‘Look at his face’ Logan tells Frank.
Logan sits down, and the Punisher gives him his trench coat. ‘Like looking in a mirror, eh?’ Logan remarks. ‘Yeah. A mirror. Any idea who he is?’ the Punisher asks, standing over Damage’s body. ‘I was hoping you would’ Logan replies. Suddenly, ‘YOU!’ Damage calls out as his eyes open and he stares up at the Punisher. ‘Kill you!’ Damage declares. ‘Jeez!’ the Punisher calls out, before kicking Damage backwards, and throwing the lighter towards him - they both drop into the vat of chemicals. ‘YOU!’ Damage booms, before the vat explodes, with Damage inside it.
The Punisher and Wolverine walk away from the explosion, with Frank asking Logan if there is anyone who could tell them who is behind all of this. Logan replies that he knows it was someone rich enough to buy cyborg technology from the Reavers. ‘So many out to get me besides the Reavers - Doom, Kingpin, half a dozen South American drug lords…’ the Punisher remarks. Logan assures him that the next time he tangles with the Reavers, he will find out more, while adding ‘At least I found out it wasn’t you killing the civilian bystanders’. ‘The Kingpin?’ Frank wonders, before asking Logan why he traveled halfway around the world to help him. Logan replies that he can “read” folks pretty well, and points out that they have similarities - treading an unsteady line in their quest to do good. He adds that it is tough to balance instinct with intellect at times. ‘You can return the favor if it looks like I’ve ever lost sight of the line’ Logan remarks, and Frank tells him that he will.
‘It took some time to locate Damage, Sir. The implanted transmitter had been…”damaged”’ explains the Arranger to the Kingpin. ‘So it’s true. Punisher is still alive - and I’m out two top and expensive assassins’ the Kingpin remarks as he sits at table, a chessboard on it. He points out that he still has to pay Pierce off, before telling the computer that the queen’s knight takes the king’s rook. The Arranger suggests that they could send Pierce Damage’s head, as it is still recognizable as the Punisher, for the chemicals in the pit had a preserving quality. ‘No. I must be good to my word to stay in business. Deceiving Pierce would be more damaging than paying up’ Kingpin tells the Arranger, before the computer announces ‘King’s bishop takes pawn. Checkmate. I win’, and an instant later, the Kingpin hurls the table, chessboard and computer out the top-story window of his high-rise building.
And elsewhere, Donald Pierce stands over a security scanning device. ‘Scan complete. No explosives or contaminants above acceptable levels’ the scanner informs him. ‘Now let’s see what the Kingpin of crime has sent’ Pierce remarks, before opening the box, he finds a head inside - and an envelope. ‘He won!’ Pierce remarks, before opening the envelope and pulls out a check for fifty million dollars made out to the Reavers - for the purpose of “damages”. There is a note on Fisk International letterhead, which tells Pierce that the attached check is for five times their agreed price, and that he should accept it as commission to rebuild the cyborg whose remains are enclosed in chemical and cryogenic suspended animation.
‘Ah, Kingpin, thank you for your generous offer’ Pierce remarks before going over to a console and contacting the Kingpin, telling him that he accepts the offer, but points out that he didn’t give him much to work with. ‘What went wrong?’ Pierce enquires. Kingpin’s voice can be heard over the communicator, reporting that there was a wild card, and X-Man named Wolverine. ‘We had him incapacitated at one point. I now wish we had damned caution and killed the animal’, before asking Pierce how his own problem-solving is going. ‘Wolverine?’ Pierce asks nervously. There is silence, before the Kingpin calls out to Pierce - ‘Are you there?’ but he gets no response.
Some time later, the Punisher knows that the Kingpin and the Reavers are all gone, and he had little to do their demise. ‘That red clown, Daredevil, took down the fat man. All the battles in the war, and what have I accomplished?’ he asks himself. ‘Tough to tell how the world would have been different without my efforts. Tough at all’, and decides that he has to stop thinking too much, as it isn’t healthy.


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Tomorrow Never Learns: chapter three – True Believers
Flashback:The Jean Grey School:Storm’s class:Evan Sabahnur holds a report on the topic ‘are you special?’ He suggests the search for what makes them unique begins by what they share. Let them compare Mr. Logan’s genetic ability to regenerate from injury to Ms. Munroe’s ability to psionically control the atmosphere. Is it possible that his subconscious plays hairstylist the same way as her mind forms a tempest? Guiding his power with a precision genetics cannot? Following the blueprint of a deep-rooted self-image building him into who he truly desires to...
The worst mutation is ears! Quentin Quire shouts. The answer is ‘yes, man!’ He can’t take this! Apocalypse is supposed to bring the end times, not the times that won’t end! Sit it. Shut it, Storm orders him.
Storm returns to Evan’s theory. If content and self-image are all that divides them, then of what context are the differences?
Present;Storm lies injured on the ground, trying to fend off Faithful John’s psionic attack. She finds strength in her memories, then attacks him with lightning, warning him this is his last chance to surrender. To this, Faithful John warns he will never surrender. A moment later, Wolverine has gotten his second wind and attacks, but a Bamf has teleported John away.
Storm tells Wolverine, who is still on the ground, that that man knew of her life as if he had studied it. Logan points out that he probably did. He claims to be an Askani monk - future warriors and enemies of Apocalypse. With their Bamf out and their comm destroyed, Faithful John has covered all his bases. Wish he could say the same, Wolverine mutters. He recalls how X-Force murdered a young Apocalypse. He swore it would never happen again. He knows the Phoenix Corps nuts have Quire. They know his fate. He turns out to be an X-Man. If he’s gotta choose between ’em—
Storm helps him up and orders him to think. Even if they were fast enough to catch John, she still could not leave him in this condition. Yet knowing this, he baited them. Why? Someone is attempting to use his guilt to draw them into a battle they cannot win. For now, they must trust Doop and the students to protect Evan. No matter what they fear these children may become, they must fight for their right to choose.
Quentin awakes in an elegantly furnished white room. Above his head is a bust of his future self. The room is also decorated with pictures of several Phoenix incarnations (Jean Grey, Cyclops, Rachel Grey and Hope Summers). A graffito across the wall reads Dork Phony.
So, Edan Younge, Quentin remarks. The Phoenix Corporation. He bets Prince loves his catalogue. So what’s his plan? Keep him here until he cracks and gives in to his little Manson cult? Till he feels the beat of the rhythm of the night? Forget about the worries on his mind? Only do two days in prison: Day you get in and the day you burn it down!
Sorrowfully, Younge complains about the ideas that dreadful school has put into his head. He is no prisoner. This is Quentin’s head they are in, after all. That’s supposed to make him feel better? Quentin asks. There’s Oompa Loompas in here. Walking ahead, Younge muses Quentin reminds him of himself. What it was like to be so out of touch. So lost in his own desires and fears. He doesn’t possess his psychic powers but, thanks to the teachings of the Askani…
Quentin stops in front of a door named Black Bug Room. He walks in to find Logan, a mirror held in front of him by Quentin. Logan assures him he has come a long way. He’s proud to hand him the reins.
Shocked, Quentin leaves and shuts the door behind him. Younge assures him he is only here because Quentin wants him to be. All he’s done is walk through an open door (which he does).
The Jean Grey School:Some students are sitting outside, while Doop is on the phone with his agent. Eye-Boy is the first to see something amiss in the distance – Faithful John coming closer. He suggests they head inside.
Doop and Krakaoa attack John but, with the help of the Bamfs, he takes both out. Shouting the Bamfs have “gone Cujo,” the kids run inside.
Quentin’s mindscape:Edan Younge takes an exhausted Quentin up the stairs of a pyramid-like building. Quentin remembers it but the memory is off. This is her memory, Younge explains. A tiny part of the Phoenix that touched Quentin. This is a sacred place. Here they died to fan her flames… to be reborn in her service. Here and on countless altars across the universe they prayed, never knowing that what they searched had always been with them.
She was there at the beginning of all things. Their universe was forged in the cosmic fire that was the Phoenix… but as all was shattered and flung through darkness, so was she. Spread far and wide across this universe, she settled into the essence of all that is. Her spark is imprisoned in all of them. Evolution is the answer to that call. The search for one who can wield her flame. Who might burn away the cage of this existence and make her whole again.
Good stuff, “L. Ron,” Quentin mocks, but there’s one big hole he forgot to plug: The Avengers killed the Phoenix Force. Stake right through the heart. He walks toward a portal and suggests using a cheat code next time.
They return to the White Room. Edan assures Quentin he knows he is afraid, but he is the next Phoenix. Alone, the power will consume him. He’s seen how quickly humanity will rally behind Younge when the Phoenix rises. He can make them follow Quentin.
Quentin aims his psychic gun at Younge. If he’s gonna be a hack, at least be a memorable one. Introduce his evil dad. His long lost leather-clad twin with a mullet and eyes as hard as his abs. Seriously, make with something other than looped fart noises, or get out of his damned way!
Younge dissolves the gun with a touch and assures him he is not the one in his way. Quentin has been beguiled, neutered by the comforts of those whose time passed them by years ago. He needs the flame. He needs to be reborn!
That moment, with crackling thunder, Storm enters the room. Wolverine goes for Younge’s throat, as he announces that Jean Grey, the real Phoenix, was a good friend of theirs. He doesn’t like him forging her signature; about as much as his dancing bear deciding to play judge, jury and executioner on one of his kids. Why should he not do the same to Younge?
Telepathically, Younge tells Quentin, violence is all they have to teach him. All he has to do is open his eyes. Quentin telepathically takes Logan out, or rather is forced to by Younge, and Quentin gets a glimpse of Logan’s attitude to him and future Quire.
Younge warns him he knows what happens if he returns to that school, namely having to eventually confront and kill Evan / Apocalypse. Through how many sets of eyes must Quentin see it to believe it?
Quentin telepathically attacks Younge and informs him he should have quit while he was ahead. No one tells him who to be. Or what to do.
He takes a Bamf to teleport out, while Storm helps up Wolverine. The shock has made Younge turn old. Furious, he orders his sexy, killer nuns to kill the two X-Men.
In front of the Jean Grey School, Faithful John has calmed down Krakoa. He looks at the Jean Grey statue and vows that by her grace this will all be over soon.
Inside, the kids debate what to do. Armor advises caution. Angrily, Idie retorts she told her they’d come for them. She’s sorry if Hisako is not ready, but she is. Evan has silently joined them and listens.
Faithful John turns calmly around to see Oya, Hellion and Rockslide ready to confront him. Angrily, Rockslide demands to know who the hell he thinks he is. He replies he is Faithful John Break-Sky, hot knife of the Askani, servant of the Phoenix. And once long ago, he too was one of them.
While Rockslide and Hellion make fun of him, Idie points out he has chosen a strange way to come home, hurting their friends, scaring innocent children..
Innocent? He’s afraid not. She’s revealed herself as quite the opposite, he replies. Standing here as Wolverine’s soldiers, they become complicit in his crimes. They choose to turn willfully from the truth to deny that among them walks a demon. He attacks them telepathically, showing them images of Evan as Apocalypse.
Inside the school, Evan shares those images……as do the other kids…… as does Quentin, somewhere in the mountains, where he sinks down in the snow.


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Tomorrow Never Learns: chapter four – In the Land of the Blind…
Outside the New Xavier School:An explosion tosses several of the students out. Walking up to young Cyclops, Goldballs enthuses that he lived through his first attack on the school. Calling him ‘man,’ Scott wonders where the others are. Goldballs takes offense at Scott forgetting his name as he helps him up. He wore a nametag for two weeks!
The attacker, a mocking Quentin Quire, joins them, displaying psionic Wolverine-like claws. He “stabs” Cyclops in the eyes. Goldballs panics. Quentin assures him he doesn’t want to fight him. In fact, they need to talk. Goldballs has to tell him how he manages to stay so simple in the midst of all this straining, clingy angst. It’s his gold balls, right? Does he ever swim in them like Scrooge McD—
That moment, X-23 and Marvel Girl join them. Jean orders Quentin to explain himself, while X-23 attacks, which Quentin admits turns him on. He creates psionic flowers and a card for her. While Laura is overwhelmed, he romances Jean with a kiss. Soon, she doesn’t resist.
Reality:Watching Quintin in the psionic illusion they trapped him in, the Stepford Cuckoos express their disgust. Adult Cyclops joins them, announcing they’ve seen enough. Enough to know that nothing has changed. Let’s see what kind of a mess Logan has made now…
The Jean Grey School:Faithful John has shown the students still standing the future of Genesis, how he will become the evil Apocalypse. Oya refuses to believe it. She won’t let John hurt him! Hellion tries to hold her back. The two argue whether what they saw and felt was real.
Rockslide lifts Hellion up. Angrily, he demands what the hell is wrong with Julian. Hellion apologizes but they saw what Evan becomes. So he wants to kill him? Rockslide demands. Julian hits him with his bionic hands. He doesn’t want to, but he has to do something! He puts him down and turns toward Oya.
The other students watch from inside and Faithful John orders the Bamfs to find the boy. They teleport in and the kids run.
Back at the Phoenix Corporation, Storm and Wolverine fight their way through Younge’s disciples but find they are too many. Storm decides they must return to the school. Wolverine replies this doesn’t feel right. Those nutjobs haven’t got their hearts in stopping them. He ain’t buying this song and dance. There’s but one reason someone wants the Phoenix: power.
Edan Younge enters a room. His face reflected in a blade, he looks old.
Even if he is right, the school is still in danger, Storm reminds Wolverine. Logan isn’t proud to admit it, but he was ready to leave Quire to those freaks. But they saw how afraid he was. If Younge can do that, then maybe he can really bring the Phoenix back. Here and now he’s hurt and weak – they may not get this shot again. Leave him to deal with that.
Storm doesn’t want to leave him behind in his condition. He gives her a kiss and tells her she is the strongest person he knows. Storm flies back toward the school.
Back at the school, or more precisely in the World (which is in a room at the school):Genesis sits in a cell. He tells Fantomex it’s just not possible. He could never do the things Faithful John claims he will do. Fantomex told him, if he came here, they’d be safe, that he’d figure out a way to help him. He won’t be able to keep him here. They can’t just hide! They are his friends! Family! This is cowardice!
Fantomex tries to calm him. He admits he has done a lot of bad things, even when he was trying to protect Evan, but at least here in the World time is on their side.
Outside, a beaten Rockslide barely manages to get up and begs Hellion not to do this. He reminds him they are supposed to be X-Men. Clenching his fists, Julian retorts they are supposed to be friends!
Faithful John slams Idie to the ground. He has given her every chance, he announces, but he can no longer allow sentimentality to stay his hand. The Apocalypse must not rise. That moment, the ground rumbles and Armor comes forth, grabbing him with her psionic armor’s fist. However, one of the controlled Bamfs teleports her out of her armor.
The Phoenix Corporation:Wolverine has taken out Edan Younge’s servants but he lies exhausted on the ground. Is that all he has? he pants. Younge steps toward him, a golden blade in his hand. After all he has seen in this world, Logan has no idea how refreshing it is when reality exceeds the tale. He has indeed become all he pretended to be. Getting up, Wolverine threatens when he’s done a tall tale is all Younge will be…
Younge shows him the blade. Does he remember this? The blade of the Phoenix Wing. It recalls him, knows his story well. Once, in a different time, in a different form, their fates were entwined. Wolverine once carried it as the Phoenix Gun. Within it, the psychic echo of the Phoenix song. The holy word of Askani scripture. Dare to cut deeply enough and he would be reborn, would come to see the great truth about the fate of the universe… a fate only the Phoenix has the power to rewrite.
Power to do a hundred times the damage he’d pin on Evan, Logan groans. On his would-be Apocalypse. He can’t really think this fire and brimstone covers his stench. Or that Quire’s ever gonna buy needing him to hold the Phoenix’s reins. Right now, he’s looking to talk ‘cause he realizes, if he kills Wolverine, Quire will never give him what he wants.
Such keen eyes he has even now, Younge mocks, but does he really think his silly little school affords him nobility?
Energy flares from the blade as Younge continues. In Logan burns a bright hatred, a self-loathing too terrible to die. Does he know why he still fights? Why he will always fight? Because after all he has done, hope is all he has left. Is there anything he wouldn’t do to see his sins atoned for? To witness it all given meaning? Like him he has travelled too far. Given too much to see this stand for nothing.
Younge turns young again, his troops stand restored as he announces tomorrow is all he has left and he will do whatever it takes to see it.
At the new Xavier School, Quire is still prisoner, lying on a table as the Stepford Cuckoos carefully monitor him. Quire protests to Cyclops that he comes to him for help and now he and the Olsens of the Corn are giving him the third degree?
In his mindscape, Cyclops warns him, if he gives him any more crap, he will toss him right back into whatever this mess is. He is clearly confused by Quentin’s recent memories. Quentin retorts Cyclops doesn’t get to judge his memories when Cyclops’ read like “50 Shades of Jean Grey.” This mess is a hustle. A scam. Edan Younge thinks he can sell humanity on the Phoenix. Get them to think that, if they buy in, they’ll have nothing to fear the next time it rises. But the Phoenix is dead, Cyclops points out. Like that’s ever stopped anyone from selling anything, Quentin scoffs.
Cyclops doesn’t buy that this is what has shaken Quentin up. It’s what he saw, Quentin admits.
Quentin’s narration / Younge’s memories:He saw Younge’s psyche as he burned – it was old… ancient. He could read history in ever wrinkle. He has this insane Askani bible that fell through cracks in time. The Phoenix Blade. With it, he’s learned to catch tiny sparks of the Phoenix. To be reborn. At the expense of others.
Reality:He thought Future Quentin was just trying to scare him. But Younge, the Phoenix Corps… it’s all happening… like he said. Younge wants to save Quentin. To stop Apocalypse… kill Evan now. So when Quentin is the Phoenix, he won’t have to.
He doesn’t expect Cyclops to believe him. But he is the only guy Quentin knows who partied with both Apocalypse and the Phoenix and walked away from it. How does he do this? How does he stop Younge and Faithful John?
Cyclops asks him what he wants. Does he expect him to comfort him? Does he even have ears? Quentin shouts. Didn’t he just say that?
Cyclops explains Apocalypse is one of their deadliest enemies. He has evolved, become a genetic imperative, a mechanism beyond death. What possessed him was but a shadow of that and it still shattered him. Evan is a part of Apocalypse grown from the whole. Perhaps Logan is right. Without demons to prey on him, he might more easily overcome it. But everyone has demons.
He once thought that breaking Apocalypse’s hold was a great victory, that it taught him who he was. That he could handle everything. But the Phoenix isn’t some adversary that can be reckoned with or an impulse that can be denied. Next to it he was nothing. All his hopes and dreams, his plans, everything was meaningless. The harder he pushed back, the worse it got. All he wanted was to be himself again. And now, every day is a fight to be. He’s still got this gnawing. He knows none of this should have been about him or what he wants and the reason he failed is because he let it be.
The Jean Grey School:A Bamf controlled by Faithful John enters a study and tries to grab the World. Before he can, another hand covers it. It’s quite the precious stone he set his eyes upon, but he’s sorry, Fantomex announces. This one belongs to him…


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Tomorrow Never Learns: chapter five – Chekhov’s Gun
West Texas, a broken truck. The driver and many of Edan Younge’s people lie motionless. Doop cradles the injured driver, who mutters the moment he saw the blue gremlins drop him out of the sky he knew he’d reached the end of the line. Doop gently tries to get him to drink something, as Sparky, the driver, continues his tale. He was running from trouble. Who’da thunk it’d be a magical sky booger that would make him finally face up to it? Doop can’t drive Sugar Mama on account he got no feet. But there’s something in the trailer that might get him home to his kids. When he does, take that sonuva’s beard for him. Make you a rug as soft as heaven from it. You curl up in it like the arms of a lover of our choosin’ and you let one rip for old Sparky.
Soon, Doop is on the motorbike Sparky left him, a tiger at his back.
Outside the Jean Grey School, the students are still suffering from Faithful John’s attack. Hellion is traumatized by the vision they shared of Evan becoming Apocalypse and killing everyone. Rockslide tries to assure him that Evan is their friend and wouldn’t do this.
Idie Okonkwo supports Hisako, who has been teleported out of her psychic armor by Faithful John’s brainwashed Bamf, something that shouldn’t have been possible.
Armor telepathically contacts Eye Boy via Martha Johanson’s telepathy. Eye Boy explains that Martha is using Cerebra to hide them from Faithful John and keep them in contact, but he hasn’t found either Evan or Doop and Enduque can’t get the Danger Room to…
At that moment, Glob Herman screams after touching the Danger Room controls. Hisako tells him to have Manuel keep at it. What about Nature Girl? Hesitating, Trevor replies that she can do what Hisako wants, but should she?
In the school’s atrium, Faithful John steps over Hisako’s psychic armor and announces that Fantomex cannot hide from him. His secret is well told.
Flashback:X-Force was confronting a young clone of Apocalypse and Archangel told the boy he would grow up to hurt millions of people. However, he found he didn’t have it in him to kill or harm the boy. Psylocke and Wolverine were convinced that decision was right, that they could raise and rehabilitate the boy. But then Fantomex shot him.
Present:No, Fantomex decides. No more running.
Behind Faithful John, Genesis closes in.
At the HQ of the Phoenix Corporation, Edan Younge asks his prisoner Wolverine if he will ever find the courage to give up. When the Phoenix died, he thought that he might a t last. But the years had finally shown him his vanity. Revealed that life’s secret grace, its only certainty is its insignificance. Once this young Apocalypse, Evan Sabahnur, might well have come to understand that. Perhaps he could have given over gracefully to the whims of a universe beyond his control but Wolverine gave him hope. He must not grow to challenge the Phoenix. Theirs is a rivalry that will doom them all.
The tortured Logan calls him insane. By setting the Phoenix against him, he is creating the thing he wants to destroy. Is there any other way? Younge asks calmly.
Enter Cyclops, blasting the wall apart.
He’s got to give it to Younge, Quentin Quire announces, he had his brains twisted like spaghetti night at the snake ranch. But thanks to DJ Glowstick here he’s seen the light. Thinking cap strapped on tight? he asks, ‘cause here they go!
He shows them his ideas mentally. If point A is them in the here and now and point B is the future where Quentin / Phoenix kills Evan / Apocalypse, then how in hell does Evan destroy Faithful John’s farther flung future at point C? Likely answer: point B never happens. He never kills Evan. Someone is lying and they both know who. It’s not Evan or Apocalypse that’s the problem here, it’s the Phoenix.
At the school, Faithful John mockingly confronts Fantomex, asking if the feeble illusion is all he has left. Fantomex realizes John wants Evan to see him broken. He wants the guilt to make him quit. He jumps over John’s head. He attacks realizing that, if he runs now, Evan always will.
John escapes his attack by teleporting away with his Bamf to behind Fantomex. Fantomex aims his gun at him and John goads him to show the children who he is. Fantomex decides that today he is not Jean-Phillipe, Fantomex or Weapon XIII. Today he is a father. He pulls the trigger, showing there is no bullet in the chamber. He dodges John’s blow, slices off his metal arm and dives for the World.
John is then fired at by Eye Boy. Outside, Armor gives Nature Girl the order and, on her silent command, a flock of birds attacks Faithful John. John is distracted trying to control the birds telepathically. Fantomex carries Eye Boy out and Oya comes in with an ice hammer, with which she hits John in the face.
At the Phoenix Corps, the cultists worship Cyclops as “holy father” and “partner” of the Phoenix, which amuses him. Logan tells him if the Phoenix is behind this, Quentin can’t… Can’t what? Cyclops demands. At 13, Quentin nearly wrestled the school from Xavier himself, remember? He was one of the most dangerous mutants alive, even without its help.
In the meantime, the Bamfs have teleported Quentin and Edan Younge back to the school in front of Beast’s lab. Quentin order Edan to take him to his future self. Anything screwy and he jumps in front of a bus. And makes sure Quentin doesn’t see the future.
Cyclops reminds that Wolverine Quentin is his student. It’s a choice he makes every day. Deep down, he trusts Logan. Isn’t it time he trusts him back?
The Bamf teleports back and Logan addresses him as Chuckles. He really named that Bamf after Xavier? Cyclops asks. Maggott was taken, comes the reply
The cultists seem more hostile. Cyclops tells Logan to go ahead; he has something to see to here.
At the school, the students tell John to give up. He refuses. That moment, Storm fries him with a lightning bolt. Chuckles, in the meantime, teleports Wolverine. He protests that isn’t McCoy’s lab. Chuckles jumps to Idie and teleports her away.
Still under attack by Storm, John tells her his body is the least of his weapons. Fantomex realizes what he’s doing. John has telepathically taken over the prisoners in the World, who are now looking to kill Evan.
In the lab, Idie sees an energy field, presumably of a time machine, where Chuckles has led her.
Logan rushes in, warning her she doesn’t want to do this. She apologizes but it’s the questions that scare her, not the answers. She steps into the light.


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No Future? – part 1
A cluttered office in San Francisco:Investigative journalist Melita Garner is currently on the phone with Daily Bugle journalist Ben Urich, telling him an anecdote of how she spent two weeks in the Savage Land, running from all kinds of creatures. When she finally found Ka-Zar, he looked her in the eye and asked: “He’s the short one, right?”
Seriously, she complains. “A living history of the Wolverine?” What the hell was she thinking? Where does she even start? The beginning usually works for him, Ben jokes. She accuses him of not being any help. Ben reminds her he told her to quit the Bugle to work on this book. The day she and Logan broke up, should have been the last she thought of that hairball. Take it from him, digging around in these people’s lives is a good way to get buried.
Outside Melita’s apartment, several cyber samurai have gathered. To the members of the Red Right Hand, their leader announces that tonight they begin the first strike of their bloody swath of revenge against Wolverine.
Before he can finish his sentence, he is hit by a thrown billy-club and falls down. Before his brothers can understand what happened, a figure in dark red land among them.
Inside the apartment, Melita goes through her mail while Ben speaks on.
Outside, the man in red quickly goes through the wannabe ninjas and soon, with a cocky grin, Daredevil is finally the only left standing.
Ben tells Melita to stop going through the past. The man she knew, whoever he was, he is different now. Melita opens a large envelope from the legal office of McDuffie and Murdock. Inside is a cease and desist letter. Her time is coming, Ben promises her.
Meanwhile, at the Jean Grey School, Hisako Ichiki’s psychic armor still stands unmoving, ever since she had been separated from it by Faithful John. It’s no use, she laments to Iceman. Her powers are really gone! She is finished! Bobby tries to cheer her up: next to meeting their future selves, temporary powerlessness is about as textbook X-Men as it comes. But she’s never met her future self, Hisako points out puzzled. She could be in his shoes, he comforts her, creating a little statue of his bearded future self. Apparently, he grows up and rides the rails as Frosty the Snow-bo here. He promises this is not the end of the trail for her. What doesn’t kill ya, makes you stronger!
Inside his office, a beaten up Wolverine tells himself he can do this and steps outside into the hallway, where lots of students are chatting.
Broo, back from the fieldtrip to outer space, runs through the hallways to be in time for class. He is early. Genesis is already there and asks how things were. Spectacular! Broo gushes and asks about things here. Confusing, Evan admits. Broo keeps on gushing while a bored Kid Gladiator joins them, but finally Broo notices that, not only Quentin and Idie aren’t there, but that aside from the three of them and Storm the classroom is completely empty.
Outside, Glob Herman sits in the grass with Idie and several Bamfs. Glob reiterates Idie’s plan. They just do what they want and dare the X-Men to throw them out, which they can’t. He never would have run with those Hellfire jerks if he had known she was a freakin’ genius. So what now? Whatever they want, she replies bored. It is not like any of it matters.
Sometime later, Melita sits in the office of McDuffie and Murdock, asking what this is about a cease and desist letter. Can he even fathom what she’s been through for the book? She’s been on a guided tour of Mojoworld Studios! She went to a Brazilian steakhouse with Sabretooth!
Matt points out that he is just a messenger. Logan feels this is the only way to protect… Protect her? “Don’t you dare, Daredevil!” she snaps. She thought he was better than that, better than the other masked idiots who only believe in their own mythos!
She throws the letter at him and he catches it effortlessly. Melita explains why the book is so important. Gunslingers don’t die old, she stresses. His enemies think Logan’s powers are all they had to fear. Some of them want to kill him just because they see him as a cartoon. A monster. They have to show them – remind him that he is more than that. She knows the man behind the mask He has done a lot of good. Maybe also a lot of bad, but either way he still has a lot more to offer the world than claws. Matt listens attentively, checking her heartbeat which remains even and calm. She is speaking the truth.
Later, outside the school, Broo is looking for Idie. He hugs her happily and gushes how lonely it was in space without her, then he sees her facial expression, like she is trying to hold back tears.
That moment, Storm lands in front of them, announcing she needs to talk with Idie. She asks Broo to give them a moment. Broo makes excuses but Ide asks him to stay. She has nothing to hide. Storm tells her she is concerned. That recklessness isn’t like her. Idie retorts, she doesn’t think Storm is in any position to know what’s “like her.” She’s hurt people, she continues. A lot more than some of the people the X-Men have fought in the past. And yet Idie gets to stay here as one of them, while the others fight and scrape for everything they’ve got. Why? What makes her so special?
Storm is at a loss for words as Idie asks if Logan and she when they look at Idie think they see a little bit of themselves. Have they never stopped to consider that might be the problem?
Storm begins that she doesn’t know what Idie saw in the future that has her so shocked. Quentin and her saw how it ends, Idie snaps and shakes off Storm’s hand. She walks away as she announces that nothing they do here can change that. They can’t punish her any worse than that. Storm and Broo helplessly look after her.
Later that night in San Francisco, Wolverine and Daredevil are fighting Hand Ninjas in a temple where said ninjas are about to summon something terrible. Unimpressed, Logan announces they got a demon of their own, referring to Doop who comes flying in and pushes the cultists into the fiery pit.
Logan tells Daredevil that he is fine, or was until DD gave him that guilt trip about Melita. Daredevil stresses that Logan is his client, so he will do what he asks. But he agrees with Melita.
Wolverine tells him to take a look at the cult. He hurt them so bad they climbed outta hell for revenge. Does he really think his side of the story will stop folks like that? Does he need any more evidence that she is wrong? Anyway, the other thing he asked him about. For the school— He put that in order, Daredevil replies.
Logan hears the unspoken ‘but.’ Daredevil replies that, just because Logan isn’t the man he was doesn’t mean his life is over. He’s putting things in order just in case, Logan insists but DD can hear from his heartbeat that he is lying.
Logan orders him to stop looking like that. That lie detector of his is wrong – he’s wrong. Daredevil states he has lost more loved ones than he can count. He can’t live his life in fear.
They are distracted when a screaming Doop comes flying out of the demon pit again. Told him, Logan gloats.
Back at the school in the kitchen, a drunk Fantomex and a Bamf are fighting over a whiskey bottle. Having won, Fantomex downs even more of the alcohol, triumphantly announcing whiskey is for men, not rats. And which are the French again? Storm asks wryly. Oh, the fun police, Fantomex sighs. He surrenders, he assures her in mock fear.
Isn’t he going to offer her a drink, Jean-Philippe? Storm asks. Or should she call him Cluster? Fantomex? Just who is he pretending to be today? There’s just the two of them here in the moonlight, Fantomex flirts. Does it really matter? Around these children? More than anything, she replies coldly. Just because Fantomex saved them from Faithful John, because he is finally here for Evan, that doesn’t excuse the deeds of a man who has robbed and killed for nothing.
Fair play, he admits. But perhaps he could mount a defense if he knew his judge. Warrior? Thief? Queen? Goddess? They can’t all wash away the past with the wave of a hand. See, the “World” he was built in was a factory for men like Wolverine. Aside from the décor, it wasn’t all that different from this place, if you get down to it. Although they didn’t hang their history on the walls, he refers to the team photos. Gone was gone. At his best, Logan had few great equals. No he’s far from that. These walls only ever stood because deep down – be they friend or foe – they feared the Wolverine. Who will they fear now?
Later:Sitting in a San Francisco bar, Wolverine calls Storm and assures her everything is fine. He’s been thinking and there are things he’s never said… He never thought he had to. They gotta do this while they still have time. Before it slips through their fingers. Would she have dinner with him?


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No Future? – part 2
The World:Dressed in a sharp suit, Logan waits impatiently next to a finely set table. He’s early, says Storm, wearing a gown observes as she lands. If there’s anything he’s learned, it’s to never keep a lady waiting, he replies smoothly.
Storm is amazed at the lovely background. When Fantomex talks about the World, it seems so horrible. It was, he tells her, it can be. He explains that time works differently here. For every minute back home, they’ve got hours, days. It’s the evolutionary wild frontier. If the place was built to do anything, it’s change. He took her on a date inside a petri dish, she jokes. How romantic. She assures him he’s given her the best gift she could have asked for. He’s given them time.
Meanwhile outside at the Jean Grey School, Hisako Ichiki gets more and more frustrated as her suit of psychic armor simply does not obey her. Her power can’t be gone! she rages and hits the armor, which suddenly falls apart.
World time, seven days:Logan and Storm have spent a week together without any conflict. That’s about to change as a weapon suddenly stabs between them and they find themselves surrounded by an army. A moment later, a dart hits Wolverine in the neck.
Sometime later, Logan awakes to an alien face. Angrily, he unsheathes his claws and asks for Storm. Calling him “Tenth Man,” the stranger tells him to take it easy. The toxin still has a hold on him. When Logan doesn’t understand, the other man paints an X onto the wall. He is the Tenth Man. Logan still asks where Storm is. And his britches, he adds after he notices he is naked. The other Azuth promises him he needn’t want for Storm or his britches Together they shall craft britches of victory. Logan grumbles he is on a date.
Cue for Storm to enter in a skimpy, warrior queen outfit. The War King must be stopped, she announces. She explains he is a conqueror, born from the ruins of Weapon Plus. A weed Fantomex forgot to uproot. But those folks weren’t there last time he… a whole civilization developed while Frenchie was passed out on the kitchen floor, he realizes. Yes, Storm agrees. And if they don’t stop the War King, the time engines that allow this growth will soon be his. Who knows what monsters will grow here? Wolverine protests weakly. They are X-Men, Storm replies decisively. For them, this is romance.
World Time: eleven days:A horrified Azuth watches how the War King beats the life out of Logan. He is God! he boasts. Funny, Logan retorts, most of the gods he knows throw thunderbolts. As if on cue, Storm’s lightning hits and kills the War King.
World Time: Three months later:Storm is now ruling queen, deciding among her subjects’ squabbles. Logan tries to tell Azuth that’s not why they are here. They tried to escape from this kind of life. Azuth lectures the “Tenth Man” there is no escaping from life.
Later in their bedroom, Storm admits she is worrying about the children at home. Yes, time has slowed to a crawl but it hasn’t stopped. They needed this space to heal, but what if they have chosen the wrong time to leave? Logan wonders when it comes to their timing why it has always seemed wrong.
Later, Logan visits Azuth. He remarks that there was hate for Azuth in the War King’s voice. A contempt he knows only too well. He demands the truth. Why is Azuth so scared of running this place? Who was the War King to him? Azuth reveals that the War King came to him as a child, desperate for learning. He had such hopes for him. But he was too tired and broken. His rage overtook him and he cast him out. He cannot fail again. Logan reminds Azuth that he told him there is no escape from life. But as long as you don’t quit, you ain’t beat.
Five months in:Logan is doing some wood gathering and shoos away some kids trying to steal his stuff. Moments later, a giant monster hunts them all. The creature chases Logan to the edge of an abyss. Logan looks down. Then Storm comes to the rescue, chasing the monster away with her powers. She raises Logan up into the air with her then asks, he wasn’t really thinking of jumping? He retorts that there are worse things than falling.
Nine months:Logan is building a cabin for them while Storm is fishing on the ,lake. Her fishing rod breaks. It has caught a giant sea monster. Storm takes care of it but, in its maws, she finds a fob watch.
World Time, one year:Storm looks at the fob watch. Logan apologizes. She asks him for what. Sorry it took him so long, them so long to get here, he clarifies. That it took him so long to get over Jean. That he had to get so close to the end to realize what’s been in front of him all the time. To finally see her. She takes his hand.
She means so much to him, he continues. The warrior at his back. The lover in his arms. The friend at his side. He’s sorry that he can’t stop time forever. Or ease her mind about what is to come. Sorry the world they gotta live in is out there.
Storm replies the time they spent here was a great adventure. But a thousand years wouldn’t change what they are. They cannot halt the march of time.
So they return. Logan goes to his office. Storm joins Armor to help her with her problems, and in the World Azoth has built the James Logan Howlett School of the World.


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Tomorrow Never Learns: chapter six – A Fate Far Worse
The Jean Grey school - the future:The graveyard:Several old and wrinkly Bamfs hang around. Quentin Quire and Idie Okonkwo have just arrived here from the present. Quentin tries to apologize to Idie, telling her he made a mistake, but she ignores his words and hits him. The only mistake anyone made was thinking he changed, she states coolly and demands to know what this is all about.
A naked, old Bamf stands in front of Quentin, who moans he thought they put pants on these things. What sicko decided to let these Bamfs crawl around all wrinkly again? He’s unbelievable! Idie scoffs. He just can’t be straight with her. She should have known better than believe he wanted her help…
He asks her to listen. This isn’t him. Not this him. It’s the jerk he grows up to be. The Phoenix. He sent Mr. Younge to kill Evan to save Quentin.…
Idie replies that doesn’t make any sense. They met the X-Men from that future. Quentin is one of them, right? she asks Edan Younge, who explains the future isn’t set in amber. It flows ever toward a tomorrow if its own.
When they met, young Quire tried to change his fate… to change the man he will become… and he has.
The Phoenix effect explodes from the school, courtesy of the adult Quentin Quire inside Logan’s office.
The present:The Jean Grey School:The students gather around the beaten Faithful John, wondering if Storm killed him.
Holding the World, Fantomex tells Storm to stop worrying. All is in hand. Very much in hand indeed.
Faithful John’s mind has taken over the minds of the monstrous prisoners inside the World. He tells Genesis to stop hiding and promises him death. Evan replies he isn’t hiding but John should be.
The future:In the office of the headmaster, Idie, Quentin and future Logan confront future Quentin, Edan Young at his side. Old Logan tells him this has to stop, unsheathing his claws. Unimpressed grown Quire wonders why he ever dug him up. He attacks him with Phoenix fire, then tells the shocked kids that, if they are lucky, the claws come out quickly and straight at you. Not like with Evan.
Oh that’s right… they don’t know about Evan. Oldest story there is, really: Build a boy up, give him something to fight for, to believe in and, when he begins to doubt you… to question the rules… you treat him like he’s the one broken. Evan had finally decided to go his own way and they couldn’t allow it. So, after all the years of being the black sheep, of having Evan’s every success magnify his failures, Phoenix Quire was the only one they could turn to to stop Evan. And only Idie stood between them.
And that’s why he killed Apocalypse? his younger self asks unimpressed. He died just to prop up his wounded little ego. Older Quire grimly replies there is no killing Apocalypse. The line of Celestial succession assures that. At his side, Idie became Death, his heir. He could not kill him without dooming her. But he could still be stopped. Caged by Cerebra. Trapped within his own mind. He sent Evan home to Kansas.
His defeat made Quire a hero. The Phoenix risen from the ashes. He finally belonged… or thought he did, until he saw his younger self and all the things he let slip through his hands.
Looking back changed him. Gave a voice to his fears. He could finally see it all. What was, what will be. He saw Evan awaken as Apocalypse. Saw Faithful John set out for his vengeance, Edan Younge on his quest for meaning. He saw that nothing he’d done could change what would come. At least not yet.
So he manipulated them? Young Quentin asks. Crafted this byzantine plot to teach him a lesson? No way! He’s got enough baggage in his life. He ain’t carrying his crap as well. The things he did are on him. That’s right! his future self shouts. He did all this to save them. He tried talking to Quentin, warn him of what lay ahead. But he just had to make him show him!
The present:In the World, Genesis battles all the possessed villains. Show him who he is, Faithful John demands. Actually, though things are not as they seem.
Evan and Fantomex watch the battle from some distance. How long must this go on? Evan asks Fantomex, who replies that’s up to him. Time within the World is his to command. Before he acted, he studied his battle with Faithful John a thousand times over. He led him to believe his gift of illusions still waned. Lured him here, trapped him within his own sick revenge fantasies. He admits he was wrong before: They don’t have to give in to being the monster others say they are. He hugs Evan. They can beat them without raising a hand. All they have to do is believe.
The future:Surrounded by Phoenix fire, future Quire shouts at Quentin that he will end this cycle. If Quentin won’t, the Phoenix will! Old Wolverine grabs Quentin and shoves him aside before his older self blasts him. Logan tells Quentin that the only reason they are still alive is because there is still a part of Quentin inside him and wants to be stopped. He unsheathes his claws. Either Quentin Quire dies here and now, or the Phoenix ends it all.
Idie steps toward adult Quire and tells him he could have done this long ago. Torn it all apart whenever he wanted. But he didn’t because it’s not what he wants. He tried, future Quentin replies. But it’s never been about what he wants. It’s this place… these people. His hands close around her throat. None of them have ever known what he needs.
With a scream of rage, old Wolverine attacks and is telekinetically swatted away. In the meantime, the Bamf on his shoulder gets the dagger and brings it to younger Quentin. This blade jumpstarted Younge, he recalls and wonders what it would do to one destined to wield the Phoenix. Will he burn or will he rise from the ashes? He gets ready to impale himself. Adult Quire shouts ‘no’ and shoves him aside. “It has to be me,” he announces. He has to remember it’s his second chance. Second chance! Quentin scoffs and threatens him with psychic Wolverine claws. It’s an expiration date!
That moment, Wolverine impales Quire from behind with real claws. Burn! Quire screams as he casts them away. They will all burn! He is fire and life incar… At that moment, Idie is teleported in front of him and she buries the dagger in his chest. It was about her, he mutters as he falls. She announces he’s wrong. She doesn’t think it ever was.
The present: The World:Faithful Johns is now also a prisoner here. He warns Fantomex it would be wiser to kill him. They have no hope of holding him here for long. Perhaps, Fantomex agrees amiably. But time runs differently in the World. It may yet change both their minds. He leaves the cell, telling someone else “he’s all yours.”
Doop comes in with a big pair of scissors.
Things at the Jean Grey School turn more or less back to normal. Storm is concerned, though, as she tells her fellow teachers and some older students, like Armor and Anole. Evan seems totally unfazed. Quentin and Idie have returned safely, using the future X-Men’s time cube, but Idie hasn’t stepped a foot in her classes since. And Quire… Logan groans. Just one damn faculty meeting without “and Quire!”  Anole explains he made an inquiry into the purchase of Phoenix Corps’ remaining holdings. It seems the mysterious disappearance of its CEO Edan Younge has shed light on a rather peculiar shift in power. Logan n begs him not to say it.
Outside:A helicopter is waiting for Quentin. A uniformed woman asks him about his destination. Quentin doesn’t care. Just get him the hell out of here.
Logan looks after the ascending chopper. He doesn’t even know what’s happening anymore. Boy puts them through all that, only to inherit a billion dollars. And what can he do? Chase him and haul him back screaming? What’s gonna change? Maybe Younge is right. Maybe it is his fault. Maybe he’s doomed all those kids. Storm holds him. Whatever tomorrow holds, it’s not just about him anymore.


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No Future? – conclusion
At the Hellfire Club in NYC, a big party is underway. Most of the guests are dressed as X-Men or mutant villains. One of the civilian guests, Tony Stark, is offered a million dollar worth glass of cold icewater, fresh from the highest peaks of Jotunheim. Compliments of the house. Stark declines. What Asgardians call water is so high-proof others call it fuel source. The barkeeper replies he told the boss that but he insisted on one last course. He then informs Stark that was his last call and has him thrown out. Outside, Stark mutters that he never realized how astronomical his dry cleaning bill was before he sobered up.
He is expected by Wolverine, who thanks him for doing this. After some wisecracks, Tony tells Logan he was right. He managed to charm an invitation off one of the more impressionable young ladies in line. He refers to the costumed youngsters standing in a long line outside. The NYC branch of the Hellfire Club is definitely owned and operated by the Phoenix Corp and Quentin Quire is definitely its White King. The invitation is to Quentin Quire’s 17th birthday. Anyway, there is a spectacular Spider-Woman at the bar whom he promised a late night falafel… So let’s drag that punk Quire out by his ear before the food trucks closes, Tony suggests.
Wolverine tells him that Quire is an omega level telepath. They can’t risk him mind-controlling Iron Man just because he’ cranky. Besides he ain’t here to bring Quire home. He’s here to deliver one last push. He puts on a Magneto helmet to divert mind control and walks towards the entrance.
Two bouncers, both dressed as Sabretooth, do their job of letting people in – or not – while discussing why Wolverine doesn’t have metal teeth and whether or not he is going to come, after Quire banned him from the party. While they discuss Wolverine’s current weakened state and whether or not they just threw out Maggott, they don’t notice that they let in the real Wolverine wearing the Magneto helmet.
The dancefloor is full of young people. For a moment, Logan believes he sees his student Evan Sabahnur. He makes his way through the crowd to find him, but he isn’t there, after all. Instead, nearby he sees Idie Okonkwo. He runs after her, to no avail. Then he sees Storm. He snarls and grabs her by the throat, Enough head games! What does she want with Quire? he asks, calling her Raven. Mystique turns to her true form and admits she wants nothing from the boy. She only wants to see him make Logan squirm. She kicks him and he tries to slash her but she dodges. On his back, she dislodges the helmet as she realizes he is using it to protect himself from Quire’s telepathy. The bouncers notice him and gang up on him.
Mystique walks upstairs to see Quentin looking down, seemingly disinterested. She tells him she is impressed. It is rare to see someone reach their full potential. Rarer still to see Logan played so masterfully. She moves closer to him and reveals she could feel Quentin down there. Creeping around the edges of all those minds. Very, very naughty. Just what was he doing in their heads? Eavesdropping? Trying to remember what it was like to be a real boy? He can’t hide up here in his gilded cage forever. Sooner or later, he is going to have to face Logan himself. Just so, he knows, she is pulling for Quire.
Downstairs, two of the guards are itching to finish Logan without his powers. However, as one of the guards hits him and breaks his hand, they realize that his bones are still adamantium-reinforced, powers or not. Logan dispatches of them but is exhausted. The party guests see his weakened state and use their cell phones to record and post this. Logan lashes out at them before they are paralyzed, after which a telepathic voice tells him, if he has something to say to him, to tell him!
Say it! Quire orders as he walks down the stairs. Unsure, Logan tells him he didn’t come to preach. He’s worried.
Quentin takes a cellphone from one of the frozen guests who shot a pic of Logan. Right,,. he mocks. He is worried about him. He doesn’t know if Logan has looked into the mirror lately, but compared to him Quentin looks like seventy-six billion bucks.
As an exhausted Logan sinks down, Quentin asks him what exactly he is worried about. Phoenix Corp made him rich. He tosses a bundle of notes into the air and burns them. Does he think he doesn’t know why he is really here? That he hasn’t given that peeping Spider-Tom Logan sent around the “full Monty” on purpose? That he couldn’t smell the body scent on Tony Stark a thousand miles away? He and his little Avenger pals are worried all right! Worried that he has come to his senses!
Logan tells him enough. He ain’t got nothing to prove to him. He knows what Quentin could do if he wants. He knows why he doesn’t. Quentin scoffs that he doesn’t know anything. He’s only here because it hurt his ego to think he failed at one of his little projects. No need to worry. He can confirm.it. He ruined Quentin’s life! Quentin went to the future. He met the little hero Logan tried to make of him. He saw the things he put in his skull tear him apart. He saw himself die! He shares what he saw with Logan. All this pushing and this prodding! Can’t he see what just being around him does?
Logan gets up and admits Quentin may be right. Maybe the blame for all his troubles lies at Logan’s feet. But he ain’t never been afraid of nothing. Dying least of all. Does he know why he always runs? Why he can’t stand being in the school? It’s because he cares. He care so much he can’t take it! He’s terrified of losing it. He puts his hand on Quentin’s shoulder. Of being alone again. They all face death. Some of them a hell of a lot more than they should. But he can’t be too scared to live.
Quentin slaps away his hand and rhetorically repeats Logan thinks he is scared? He tells him to look around. Does he recognize the faces? he asks, referring to the X-Men cosplayers. All the people Logan failed?
He controls them to attack Logan, who tries to defend himself without hurting the people. Logan tells him he’s made his point. He wins. The attacks stop. Quire states he is an omega level mutant billionaire with knowledge of the future. He could destroy Logan or anyone he wants at any time he chooses. But he’s not like him. He’s not Xavier. He’s not Magneto. Not Jean Grey or those idiot Summers brothers. The stupid quips, the defanged catchphrases. All the time he’s just let him see exactly what he wanted. Logan is wrong. Quire doesn’t win. He touches his t-shirt. And the writing “YOU LOSE” appears on it. Get it? he asks.
Disgusted, he turns away and orders Logan to get the hell out of his club.


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Wolverine is Dead
The Jean Grey School:Standing outside, Storm looks at a fob watch, waiting for somebody or something.
Melita Garner sits in the kitchen, waiting until she is greeted by Hank McCoy, who introduces himself. Melita points out they met about a dozen times. Hank apologizes. Logan introduced him to a lot of people over the years. She’s sure, Melita mutters, looking at the gathering storm clouds outside. She’s become something of an expert on Logan’s many faces of late.
Hank realizes she is talking about her book on Wolverine. She tells him that her on the record answer is she is honoring Logan’s wishes. Hank interrupts he is aware of Logan’s concerns and the cease and desist order he sent her. Personally, he finds it fascinating and a truly touching gesture, but who is he to suggest she should break the law? Or to suggest such a book might be of special use in a closed environment? An academic one, for example.
She asks if he is going for glib or coy here. Hank spells it out. She wants to show the world who Wolverine was, right? He can’t speak for the world, but he can speak for these children. He shows her a hologram space in the atrium Logan created to honor their dead. Curating that space is never easy. Choosing what story to tell… and in his case it’s nigh impossible. Which version of Logan do they honor here? Will it inspire the students? Will it warn them? Their doors are open to her, he addresses Melita. Whatever she needs is hers. They need her to finish his story. He asks her to please help them tell it.
Melita looks at the hologram then agrees. And what better time than now. She asks Hank what he most remembers about him. Hank is nonplussed. If he knew how to summarize Logan, he’d have her job. Logan was… was well-meaning, he stammers.
Iceman slides in to join them and snarks she knows all that. He was a headache! A ten alarm migraine! He quips that half the time he only stayed here out of fear Logan was going to stab one of the kids and cost them their insurance. Henry protests weakly. Bobby cuts him off. Melita didn’t come all this way for them to dance around the truth. Isn’t it clear they all thought he was amazing? They followed him here, after all.
But sometimes, Iceman continues, it was like living with a runaway wheat thrasher. Remember that Thanksgiving when he tried to deep-fry that bird he caught in the Savage Land? The Pterodactylus, Henry recalls with a grin. Oh that smell! Bobby laughs. He never knew what burning feathers smelled like before Logan.
Henry recalls the time with the karaoke machine when covered with Bamfs Logan was slaughtering “Everybody Hurt Sometimes.” That wistful faraway look in his eyes! he gasps, like he was stuck in traffic. Bobby sinks to his knees laughing.
Rachel Grey joins them and cautiously asks if they are okay. Bobby asks her to do her Logan impression. When he thought she was reading minds to cheat at poker. Rachel grumbles “damn Summers… no integrity! Make me look like a damn fool! Grr. Boohoo snickety snik.”
Bobby reminds them how paranoid he used to get. Like there were ninjas everywhere. They become wistful as Bobby admits he already misses the hell outta him.
Later, Melita joins Hisako Ichiki aka Armor in a lab where she is trying to rebuild her psychic armor. Hisako tries to politely brush her off. Melita tells her they can talk when she is ready and is about to leave. Hisako asks her to wait. She tells her that Logan really did believe in this place. Some of the others might tell her it’s a joke or that he built it out of guilt. He knew that mutantkind needed him to be more than their sword. They needed a shield. Interview ended, she returns to her work.
When asked what he remembers most about Logan, Eye-Boy admits he was kind of confusing. He recalls all his sides and suggests maybe he was kind of confused.
When Melita passes Logan’s office, Fantomex is inside and offers her some answers and whatever of Logan’s whiskey he has managed to liberate from the Bamfs. Melita remarks that all the killing he did as a member of X-Force seems to be his only bond to Logan. Yet here he sits now, a “teacher.”
Downing some whiskey, Fantomex remarks she herself knows the seductive power of the man’s labored snorting and grunting. She was once romanced by Logan, oui? Undeterred, she continues, Logan asked him back into Evan’s life and so he came? After everything that’s happened between them?
Rhetorically, he asks her if she knows loss well. But what does she know of theft? He is quite the expert on the subject. In his own way, so was her beloved Logan. A theft is very different than a loss. It is an invasion. It makes one become hard inside, fearful, angry. It will make some of them do anything to regain what they have lost to fill the holes in their soul. He holds up the tiny World. Logan had convinced himself that such pain could be squelched. He challenged Fantomex to do the same. To be better and he only came here to remind him that he is not. He leaves.
In the cafeteria, Kid Gladiator, Glob Herman and another boy speculate on the identity of the villain who finally brought Wolverine down, while Melita wants a talk with Evan Sabahnur aka Genesis. Evan asks if she believes her book will change the world’s opinion on Logan. She isn’t sure. It might be silly to even try. Evan disagrees. He believes they have to change the world.
Melita is about to reply when there is an announcement that the cafeteria is now the Danger Room. The session begins. The kids have to fight and Genesis focuses on getting Melita out through a hole onto the roof. Melita demands if that was a class. What the hell was wrong with Logan?! Evan muses they are mutants. A danger room exam is next to nothing to what expects them in the real world. Logan wanted them to adapt to that world. No one was better at that than him but, once the world made its mind up about him, there was nothing he could do to stop it or change it. Maybe Mr. Logan was wrong and it is the world that needs to change.
At a quiet moment, Melita asks Idie Okonkwo what she most remembers about Logan. Idie isn’t sure how to answer. She recalls a day when they were taking a class photo and Logan had to drag Quentin Quire to join and threatened to carve a smile on his face while choking him. Quentin spat he’d rather be dead. Logan gave the order to do this before he loses what’s left of his mind.
Idie recalls them fighting Sentinels, Brood and an evil circus. When he came back from an attack, he heard the kids laughing, figuring they just wanted to relax on Youtube. When he entered the room, the kids were actually practicing their powers. Idie asked if he had been the victim of another ninja attack. Does he need some help? With a smile, he told her everything was all right.
Melita finds Broo doing engineering work and accuses him of being distracted. Dr. McCoy is worried about him. He’s been working nonstop since… Broo points out energy must be put to use. He pressed a button and they are surrounded by a holographic image of the cosmos. Amidst the stars flies a Starshark and in it are the Brood.
He explains they are predators. Among them, he is the weakest. He changes the surroundings to a snowy wilderness. Once, he thought himself doomed. He was an outcast among them. And then he met Mr. Logan and found hope he’d make peace with lesser parts of his nature. That he might be and do better. Science tells them that the possibilities of the multiverse are endless. The man they knew is gone. But his energy is still out there, changing… growing… still doing what he does best.
Melita takes a break in the patio, drinking a coffee. Soon she finds herself surrounded by hopeful Bamfs demanding whiskey. They teleport her away and she finds herself expected by Nightcrawler, who welcomes her to Harry’s Hideaway, the first church of James Logan Howlett. He introduces her to some of the regulars, who are some of Logan’s dearest friends. They asked him tonight to lead them in a very special communion. Together, they drink to Logan.
Later, she sits outside, talking to her cam recorder. She still has to talk to Quire, which isn’t going to be easy. But that’s not even the big one. That moment, she is addressed by Storm, who announces it is time they talked…


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Alpha & Omega – Part 1
The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning:Ms. Grey will do nicely, Rachel informs him coolly and reminds him his Psychwar 101 class started 90 seconds ago. He knows, he‘s listening in, he replies telepathically. Besides, he should be teaching that class. Psychwar 101? Maybe when he was six years old, he could have learned something there. Along with some basic manners apparently, Rachel bristles and orders him to class. Now!
Staring at the window, Quentin calls all of them peasants. They wouldn’t know a psychwar if it kicked their ass. Speaking of which… He hasn’t forgotten him, he thinks about Logan. Quentin may have helped him save the school and all, so he could play hero to the masses. Coolest dude in the room, right? But hero or no hero, no one embarrasses Quentin Quire like he did. No one locks him up like some political prisoner.
Logan looks up as though sensing Quentin’s rage. Quentin bares his teeth in a snarl-like smile. “Not even you,” he states coldly.
Broo addressed him, he was sent to tell him he is holding up class. Does he like games? Quentin asks him. Who doesn’t? Broo replies confused. Indeed, Quentin replies. Tell them he’s sick. Doubled over. He’s going back to bed and they can try him again in the morning. Broo runs off. So let’s play a game, Quentin decides. Outside, Hisako and Logan are still sparring. Suddenly, Hisako falls…
The Construct:
… and gets up. She and Logan are both dressed in ragtag wear. What the hell is he doing? she demands. Let her up!
They find themselves in a steampunk kind of city. What’s the matter with him? Hisako continues her rant. Hands to himself! No time to argue, Logan tells her. They gotta get moving. It’ll be night soon.
Reality:did it! Quentin shouts triumphantly. It worked! The Construct is running. And it’s perfection! They want to talk to him about psychwar?
And there’s that. He looks outside the window to the unconscious bodies of Logan and Hisako. Swearing, Quentin runs outside. He tells himself to keep it together to both run the Construct and keep up an illusion. Pull this off, he’ll be able to run his own ticket. He knows he’s better than the other psychics here, so prove it!
He apologizes to Hisako’s unmoving body and puts her in the cellar. It’s really not about her, he tells her. A day off of school, a nice sleep-in. Catch up on her beauty rest or whatever. He’s really doing her a favor. All of them. It’s time for the students to flex a little muscle around here… fight the powers. Is he right? Yeah that’s a shot at you, Neanderthal. Deal with it, he tells nobody in particular.
Next, he slowly moves the incredibly heavy Logan and manages to hide him in the nearby garden shed which he secures with a padlock.
The Construct:Reality:In the Construct:
Hisako tries to support the injured Logan as they walk through the rain into the direction of the safehouse. He asks how she took that hit and survived. How did he? she retorts. They both have unanswered questions… She leaves him leaning against a car as she buys them something to eat.
Suddenly, a man holds a gun to Logan’s head. Addressing him by his name, he announces Logan is bleeding on his car. Hisako asks him not to. He’s been hurt! She’s just trying to take him home! Logan is strangely calm, sure it will be ok.
Reality:
Now he’s getting into the spirit! Quentin grins. He might still have an impenetrable skull, but how will he like taking damage with his healing factor way down!
The Construct:
The other man fires his gun and Logan slumps down.
Reality:
Quentin plops down on his bed, grinning.
The Construct:
Hisako has taken Logan to the safehouse and eats some soup. The roof in the shabby room leaks.
Reality:
In Logan’s body, a rudimental personality is focused on Quire, ordering him to get out of his head. So driven, Logan’s body tries to get out of the shed.