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Old Man Logan: Part 6
In Doom’s Head, Illinois, Logan and Hawkeye are riding in the Spider-Buggy and being chased by a Venom-Tyrannosaurus Rex hybrid. Upon hearing Logan curse, Hawkeye asks him what the hell is going on. Concentrating on the road, Logan exclaims that he doesn’t know. It’s a T-Rex with Venom’s face or somethin’. Does it really friggin’ matter? Hawkeye mentions that he must have bonded with one of the Savage Land dinosaurs. They haven’t got a chance. Logan asks him if he would just shut up an’ start blowin’ holes in him please and activates the double-headed machine-gun in the back of the buggy.
As Hawkeye starts to fire upon the Venom T-Rex, in an undisclosed location, a blonde-haired lady informs her followers that it’s Logan, she’d recognized him anywhere. He’s got Hawkeye with him and they’re both being chased by that alien thing that was always annoying Spider-Man. She then orders them to send Black Bolt. If memory serves, the symbiote was very sensitive to sound.
As Hawkeye continues to fire upon the Venom T-Rex, Logan asks him if he’s knocked it on its ass yet. Hawkeye replies ‘I’m blind, you idiot. You tell me!’ After Logan tells Hawkeye that he’s useless, Logan sees a bald man wearing all black and carrying a cane walk out in front of him. Swerving the buggy, Logan flips it over and crashes. Just then, the man whispers the word ‘stop.’ When he does, the T-Rex is knocked back and, a moment later, lies unmoving, the Venom symbiote shredded and scattered on the desert.
Picking himself up, Logan wonders in amazement what just happened. Hawkeye then asks if somebody would mind telling him what just happened there. After the man in black holds his finger up to his mouth, the three of them are teleported to another location.
The location is known as the Forbidden Quarter. Upon their arrival, a young looking blonde-haired lady walks up to them and greets them. She adds that she hopes they’ll forgive Black Bolt’s lack of explanation but he’s a man of few words she’s afraid. She then introduces herself as Emma Frost and welcomes them to the Forbidden Quarter.
Shocked, Logan asks Emma? Enraged, Hawkeye tells her that they know who she is sweet-cheeks. They just wanna know why she kidnapped them and their six hundred dollar automobile. Emma replies that, first, the Spider-Mobile didn’t cost him, Hawkeye, anything. He won it playing cards with the Mandarin twenty years ago and even then he was cheating with a plant and an earpiece. Secondly, he hasn’t been kidnapped. He’s been rescued and this car he’s so worried about is being repaired by their technicians. She tells him don’t bite the hand that feeds him. They’re his first good news since he started this adventure.
Logan replies that he doesn’t get it, how come she’s still so young. Emma informs him that she’s the most powerful psychic in the world; he sees what she wants him to see. Even this place they’re in isn’t quite as pretty as it looks. While they put on fresh clothes brought to them by Emma’s followers, Logan asks where they are at. Emma tells him the last place on Earth where their once great race can live without the fear of persecution. They’re not the future anymore, didn’t he hear? When Logan asks her what she means, Emma tells him that those theories about them being the next stage in human evolution were simply that she’s afraid – just theories. There are twenty of them now and not a single mutant born in close to forty years. They’re a blip, nothing more than a brief genetic anomaly.
Hawkeye replies boo hoo, maybe they’d feel sorry for her if she hadn’t sold them down the river. Emma asks what he’s talking about and Hawkeye tells her that she knows exactly what he’s talking about. Emma defiantly tells him that she’s a survivor. Marrying her husband saved a lot of lives. Hawkeye tells her not to give him that, she had Black Bolt on her side. Emma responds and they had Loki and Dormammu and Magneto. Should she continue, they simply forged a pact in the interests of their species. Hawkeye replies “whatever.” Emma asks him that it’s still in him, isn’t it? This super-hero thing, deep down he hasn’t changed at all. She then tells him that she knows what’s in the box. Looking in her direction, Hawkeye tells her ‘Well, let’s just hope you can still keep a secret, skank.’
Outside, Emma’s technicians push the Spider-Buggy out of the garage and inform Miss Frost that they fixed it and that it’s operational again. Emma replies excellent and asks them to show their visitors the eastern exit. Turning her attention to Logan, Emma asks him if he ever found that peace he always craved. The life he’s built for himself in California, is he happy with his wife and children? Did he finally find contentment? When Logan replies that she’s the mind-reader, Emma tells him congratulations then. As Hawkeye and Logan drive out of the Forbidden Quarter, the man known as Doctor Doom watches them from a nearby building.
Reaching Osborn County, Ohio, Logan asks Hawkeye what Emma was talking about back there. What is he carrying in the case? Hawkeye simply tells him to mind his own business. Asked if it’s drugs, Hawkeye tells Logan that he said mind his own business. Near Pym Falls, Connecticut, Logan mentions to Hawkeye that they’re only twenty minutes from Pym Falls and asks that’s the entrance to New Babylon. He then mentions that he wonders why they called it Pym Falls. Hawkeye tells him to keep his eyes on the road, he’ll find out soon enough. At that moment, Logan sees what he’s talking about. Henry Pym’s skeleton, in Giant-Man form, lies perpendicularly across the road, creating a tunnel of sorts.
Once the duo reaches New Babylon, Logan is shocked and surprised at what he sees. It is a run-down version of New York City, complete with busy streets, billboards, hookers, winos and even a gigantic statue of the Red Skull holding the Avengers in a clenched fist. Hawkeye tells him it’s New Babylon, where anything can happen. As they continue to drive through the city, Hawkeye asks Logan if he can be frank with him. This trip they just made wasn’t what he thought. That drug-running thing was just a cover story. Reaching their destination, Logan tells him that he better not be ripping him off. If he goes back home without that cash, the Hulk’s gang’s eatin’ his kids for breakfast.
Hawkeye tells him to Logan remarks and an ex-super-villain. Hawkeye asks him if he could shut up. He’ll get his cash, the guys they’re meeting got money to burn. He just wanted to give him a heads-up before they made contact. He thought he’d be glad he wasn’t running drugs this time. When Logan tells him that he is glad, Hawkeye tells him to smile then for @%$’s sake.
Entering a building, Hawkeye asks out loud if anybody’s seen the fat man around there. Standing up, a man wearing a suit and a Hitler-style moustache tells Hawkeye that he’s so pleased to see him. They heard he got killed back in Utah; they thought he’d never make it. Hawkeye tells the man, Tobias, that it was nothing they couldn’t handle. They got blown off course for a couple of days but the merchandise is as safe as houses. As Hawkeye puts the case on the desk, Tobias takes a look at the merchandise. Hawkeye tells him that it’s ninety-nine vials of super-soldier serum for the ninety-nine members of his rebel alliance.
After Logan surprisingly asks “what?,” Hawkeye informs him that Tobias is the front-man for a super-team being put together and his contacts on the west coast are only too pleased to lend a hand. Tobias tells Hawkeye that it’s beautiful. This is all they need. The villains are dead or divided or fat, this is all they need to start the next Avengers team.
Taking a seat, Hawkeye informs Tobias that he’s afraid there’s still some tiny little small-print they haven’t spoken about. Tobias replies not a problem and asks him how much he needs. Hawkeye tells him it’s not money, not for him anyway. All he’s after is a cast-iron assurance. He wants a place on this super-team and a vial of the super-serum. When one of Tobias’ men asks if this is a joke, Hawkeye states that the Red Skull killed his friends. When they’re going down, he wants a piece of them. Now either he counts him in or the deal is off. Tobias asks once an Avenger, always an Avenger, huh? He then tells him that it’s a deal; he’s got his place on the team. Ecstatic, Hawkeye tells him awesome. He has no idea how much this means to him. He feels like he felt when they first made him an Avenger. Just to have someone believe in him like this…
When he sees one of Tobias’ men raise his rifle up, Logan calls out ‘Hawkeye?’ Just then, the man unloads his rifle upon Logan, knocking him to the ground. Hearing the gunfire, Hawkeye asks what the hell and is promptly shot in the chest by Tobias. Standing over him, Tobias tells Hawkeye that the men around him are undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. agents – he just walked into a sting. One of the agents informs Hawkeye that there is no super-team, no rebel alliance. Tobias then asks him if he really thought the president wouldn’t know every conversation that goes down in this town.
Clutching his chest, Hawkeye asks him what he wants him to do – beg? Does he think because he’s old and blind he’s gonna give him that satisfaction? With his empty eyes, Hawkeye looks at Tobias and tells him to do his worst. Expressionless, Tobias tells him okay and proceeds to shoot Hawkeye in the head, killing him.


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Old Man Logan: Part 7
50 years earlier, the Red Skull happened upon Captain America lying amongst the rubble of the destroyed U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. As he gets closer he asks Captain what he is whispering, a prayer? He tells them that there is no God there today, just him. Looking at the destruction, Skull ponders why they didn’t think of this years ago. He knew they couldn’t beat them if he ever got them organized.
Turning to Captain America, the Skull tells him that what they’re going to do next is carve up his beloved country among all their chief lieutenants. The Abomination wants California, Doom wants the bible-belt, and Magneto wants Las Vegas for some godforsaken reason. He then asks him who he thinks gets the White House. As for the rest of the world, who’d want it now? While a tear starts to run down Captain America’s face, Skull tells him not to get upset it’ll be all over soon and closes his eyes.
Now, in New Babylon, the White House is adorned with Nazi flags and a statue of the Red Skull saluting. Inside, the Red Skull wears Captain America’s uniform and stares into his trophy case. In it, he sees Captain America’s shield, Iron Man’s armor, Silver Surfer’s surfboard, Thor’s helmet, Spider-Man’s mask, Dr. Strange’s cloak, Cyclops visor, Vision’s head, the Thing’s arm, and Beast’s head, among other of his numerous trophies from fallen heroes.
He laments that, even now, he’d beat him. Even as an old man he’s still strong. The Red Skull then tells his associate Heinz that his wife thinks he’s morbid but he considers Captain America’s uniform the most glorious of all their prizes. The ancients wore the skin of their fallen foes. Why shouldn’t he be allowed his eccentricities? Heinz doesn’t answer but instead informs Skull that Tobias and the S.H.I.E.L.D. team have the corpses he requested. Should he tell them he’s unavailable? Without turning around, Skull replies ‘just send them in.’
Once Tobias and his men enter the room with two corpses and a briefcase in hand, Skull asks if that is the super-soldier serum that had everyone so excited. All that trouble over one little box. Tobias replies that he has to understand that Captain America rising from the dead is a very potent myth for Americans. Skull states that he’s not coming back this time. One of Tobias’ men asks if all the things around them are for real. Skull informs him that they are. This is his trophy room, where he comes when he needs to make decisions. What better place for inspiration than there among the corpses of his enemies? Tobias states that he still can’t believe he’s got Hawkeye in there. Skull agrees, he never really rated him either but credit where it’s due. It would seem churlish now not to stack him with the Parkers and the Starks.
He then asks Tobias how many more are out there, how many other would-be heroes holding meetings in their basements. Tobias tells him nothing they can’t handle. Opening a briefcase of money, Skull informs Tobias that he has done well and to keep the money he was using to flush them out and to have some fun with it. Just then, one of the men calls out that there is something wrong with the accomplice. Skull says of course there is, they riddled him with bullets. The man states no, his wounds are disappearing. He’s…
Before the man can finish his sentence, Logan awakens and proceeds to kick the man below the belt. After quickly taking down Tobias’ other guard, Heinz and then Tobias himself, Logan tells Skull that he’s goin’ down. Skull replies that this is an unexpected surprise. He thought he walked the path of the righteous man these days. Is this because they killed his little friend? Without answering, Logan attacks the Skull. The Red Skull proceeds to pound Logan with everything he has and eventually tosses him into his trophy case. As he does so, he tells Logan that he’s not just out of shape; he won’t even pop his adamantium claws anymore. What did they do to him?
The next punch from the Skull sends Logan crashing where Cap’s shield is housed. Picking up the Black Blade, the Skull utters the word automatic locks. When he does, it shields the two of them off from the rest of the building. Raising the blade, Skull tells Logan that he should have stayed in whatever hole he crawled into. At least that way he could have died in his bed. As soon as he brings the blade down with all of his force, Logan blocks it with Captain America’s shield. Skull exclaims no and Logan proceeds to beat the Skull into submission with the shield. Eventually, he knocks the Skull down to the ground and stands over him, prepared to deliver the killing blow. The Red Skull tells him not to make him laugh, he doesn’t have the guts. With that, Logan brings the shield down on the Skull’s neck, decapitating him.
While the Red Skull’s security works on opening up the door, Logan thinks out loud that he can’t let the kids down and that he’s gotta find something to fight ‘em with. Just then, he sees Iron Man’s armor. Donning it, Logan is able to blast the surprised security guards. Grabbing hold of the briefcase filled with money, Logan uses Iron Man’s armor to blast out of the roof of the White House and steers towards California. Unfortunately, the fuel rods run out of power and Logan crash lands in the desert 500 miles from home, Sacramento. Once he lands, Logan is found by two men, one of them named Silas, who head over to him in an attempt to steal the armor he is wearing. Before they can, Logan takes out the men and makes his way home.
Thirty-six hours later, Logan makes it home. His neighbor, Donovan stands with a solemn look in front of Logan’s house. Carrying the case, Logan says to him to tell ‘em he got it. Tell Maureen he got the money an’ they don’t have to worry about the Hulk Gang no more. When Donovan lowers his head, Logan asks him what’s wrong. Where are his wife an’ kids? What the hell is goin’ on? Donovan informs him that the Hulk Gang already been for their money. Logan asks him what he’s talkin’ about, they got two more weeks. Donovan says they said they got bored. Opening the door to his house, Logan finds his wife and two kids murdered.
Donovan tells Logan not to go doin’ somethin’ stupid. They’ll only take it out on the rest of them an’ he ain’t the man he used to be. He can honor his family by grievin’ and givin’ those kids a good Christian burial. He knows they’re always there for him. But he has to promise them he will not go lookin’ for revenge in those hills, does he understand? Again, Donovan asks Logan? Logan replies that his name isn’t Logan bub and pops his claws – it’s Wolverine.


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1st story: A Mile in my Moccasins: Part 1
2nd story: One-Percenter: Part 1
First Story:
Sunday morning, Logan is woken from his slumber on a park bench by a local cop. When the cop tells him that he’s got to get up and move, Logan asks him if he knows where he can get some eggs. Four eggs and three cups of coffee later, Logan is battling the Juggernaut. On Monday, he joins the rest of his New Avengers teammates to take on the Serpent Society in an unnamed tropical location. On Tuesday, he teams up with the Punisher and Ghost Rider to take on Black Talon and his zombie followers. Wednesday – he and X-Force battle Purifiers. Thursday, he’s with Cyclops against Mystique. When Cyclops asks him that he thought he killed that woman, Logan remarks that he thought he did. On Friday, he teams up with Spider-Man to face a horde of Hydra agents. Saturday is a day of relaxation and Logan spends it with some young ladies outside the Golden Grasshopper, a bar in Bangkok.
The next Sunday, Logan helps Ice-Man in stopping a couple of thugs from robbing a bank. Before Ice-Man can say much more, Logan is gone. On Tuesday, he’s fighting Cyber, trying to figure out where Romulus is. Thursday, another team-up, this time it’s with Deadpool against a bunch of M.O.D.O.K. On Saturday, he’s in the Golden Grizzly bar in Northern Siberia.
Sunday, he helps Thor take down a monster. Monday, he’s fighting the Red Hulk. Wednesday, Logan is tired but takes in a poker game with the Thing and his other fellow heroes. On Saturday, Logan is in another bar and learns of the formation of Norman Osborn’s team of Avengers. Later that Saturday, Logan kills a Hellfire guard. On Sunday, he meditates in peace. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are much of the same – full of battles where he is shot, stabbed and blown up.
On Sunday, Logan is in Japan. After another bloody battle, Logan wipes the blood off his claws when Yukio comes up to him and asks him if he’s all right, he seems distracted. Logan tells her it’s nothing, he’s just tired. Snuggling up next to him, Yukio seductively replies that the best thing for being tired is bed rest.
3 a.m. on Monday morning, Yukio finds Logan leaving her bed and heading off. When she asks that he’s off so soon, Logan replies that he has lots to do. Yukio tells him judging by what she sees on TV and reads in the paper, he always has lots to do these days. Logan says he reckons he does. Yukio then asks him why he is doing this, running himself ragged all the time like this. What is he running from, what is he trying to prove? There are easier ways to kill yourself.
Bowing her head, Yukio states that she’s no expert or anything but she thinks this might be what a nervous breakdown looks like. When she receives no response Yukio looks up and finds Logan gone. She states that she used to think it’d be thrilling to be him for a day but now she wouldn’t do it if you paid her.
Out on the streets, Logan is driving a motorcycle, heading off for another adventure.
Second Story:
In a small-town, Logan is riding his motorcycle when he is pulled over by a policeman. Looking at his ID, he asks Mr. Claremont if this is his current address. Logan admits that it is. The cop mentions that San Francisco is a long way from here and asks him what brings him to these parts. Logan tells him that he’s just passin’ through on his way home. He had to go to New York to take care o’ some personal business. The cop asks him if that’s so and then before he can say anything else, a biker gang arrives.
Stopping, the leader of the gang says to the cop, Dennis, that he sincerely hopes he doesn’t think he’s gonna write this man a citation. ‘Cause that abomination o’ engineerin’ he’s ridin’ on aside, he’s with them. An’ as he knows, they police their own around there so how ‘bout he just goes an’ makes sure the donut store ain’t bein’ robbed. As the cop turns to leave, Logan asks the leader, Horror-Show, how it’s goin’. Horror-Show replies down-hill, same as always.
In Horror-Show’s bar, Logan and he have a few drinks and proceed to talk. Logan says to him that he’s kiddin’, right? Horror-Show tells him nope. He kicked the booze, the dope, an’ his skanky ol’ wife to the curb almost eleven years ago now. He says to him not to tell him that he ain’t slowed down some, he doesn’t look a day older or no more worse off than the last time he saw him. What, twenty years ago, thirty? Logan replies somethin’ like that and asks how his boy is doin’.
Horror-Show answers that Shelly an’ him had two boys together. Eric, the oldest, the one he’s askin’ about, he died when he was sixteen. Their second boy, Henry Junior, is still around but he doesn’t know for how much longer. When Logan asks if he’s sick, Horror-Show tells him that’s one way o’ puttin’ it. The bible says in Ezekial that a son will not be punished for the sins of his father, nor the father for the sins of his son. Now, that may be true in the next life, but in this one. $#@%, that’s just a damn lie. He used to blame Junior’s mama for the way he turned out, but since she died…
Logan asks that Shelly’s dead? Horror-Show replies yeah, she died a couple years ago. But they were done long ‘fore then. She didn’t exactly agree with his change in lifestyle. Logan asks that he didn’t exactly “kick her to the curb” then. Horror-Show says nah, he got him there. When the supply ran out, so did she an’ Junior went with her. She shacked up with a fella down south o’ there, from another club – the New Saints. He was their cooker, so she held tight to him right up ‘til the end. When Logan asks if she over-dosed, Horror-Show tells him ‘course she did. An’ when her old man found her, he goes an’ puts the sawed-off into his mouth and paints the ceilin’ of their trailer with what little brains he had left. He told Junior he could come home and stay with him but… Logan finishes his sentence for him – ‘but he’d have to give up the habit.’ Horror-Show says yup, his house, his rules.
Just then, Ram comes in and yells out Horror-Show’s name. Getting up, Horror-Show says to him that he know he told him ‘bout usin’ his inside voice when it comes to addressin’ him in his club. Ram states that the New Saints just declared war on his club. Hotbox an’ Level are dead an’ it was Junior who done it. He then yells out the name of their biker gang – ‘Burnin’ Sons!’ Put one in the chamber an’ grab yer axe-handles, they’re ridin’ south.
Horror-Show exclaims no, they aint’. Declaration has to be unanimous among the three lords an’ he, Ram, ain’t but one o’ them. Ram points out that War-Horse is with him on this. War-Horse remarks that they killed their brothers. Blood for blood, that’s their code. Horror-Show asks if anybody saw this happen. War-Horse tells him yeah, Level’s ol’ lady. Horror-Show asks where she’s at. War-Horse informs him that she’s at her mama’s house, prob’ly drunker’n hell an’ cryin’ her eyes out. Horror-Show agrees an’ says that she’s prob’ly hotter to spill New Saint’s blood right now than he, Ram, is which is why he ain’t gonna talk to her ‘til tomorrow when she’s cooled off some. That’s his say, so if anybody cares to challenge it, make it known here an’ now.
Logan recalls that the first time he met Horror-Show, he was locked up for beatin’ the livin’ $%@# outta four state troopers at the same time. Looks to him like he ain’t the only one remembers what Henry “Horror-Show” McLaury is capable o’ doin’, once he gets good an’ riled. Evidently though, Ram ain’t one of ‘em.
Ram speaks up and says that he reckons they all know the real reason he’s draggin’ his feet on this, Junior may be his son, but he ain’t a Burnin’ Son, not no more. He’s a New Saint. He’s asked a lot of them these past few years, givin’ up the cookin’ an’ all, but they’ve gone along with it, outta respect. If he wants to keep that respect, he better start livin’ up to the code – blood for blood. Horror-Show responds by punching Ram in the jaw. Picking himself up off the ground, Ram goes to grab for his gun. As he does, Logan tells him that he wouldn’t an’ he shouldn’t. Ram didn’t.
Outside the bar, Henry mentions “blood for blood,” and says that he figures there’s more’n one way to interpret that, doesn’t he? When Logan says he reckons, Henry tells him that there ain’t a single doubt in his mind that Junior done what they say he done, he’s meaner’n a snake and twice as dangerous. But that’s ‘cause the boy’s been addicted to dope since the day he was born. It ain’t his fault, the way he’s turned out; it’s his. Standing up, Logan tells Henry to let him look into this for him, maybe he can straighten it out without him losin’ face in front of his club. Shocked, Henry asks him why he would wanna go an’ get himself involved in this damn mess. Logan tells him to just let him do this, he’ll let him know what he finds out. As he walks off, Logan thinks that maybe, just maybe, he can do for Henry’s son what he couldn’t do for his own.
Later, Logan approaches a young lady drinking outside and asks her if she’s Level’s ol’ lady. Seeing the strange man, she asks him who the hell he is. Logan introduces himself and tells her that he came to talk to her about what happened tonight. The lady asks him if Ram sent him. Logan tells her no, Horror-Show did. Holding out his hand he tells her that he’ll take a drink o’ that drink she has. The lady tells her no he won’t and for him to get his sorry ass off o’ her mama’s property too. She ain’t got nothin’ to say to him or Horror-Show.
Scratching his chin, Logan asks that she would have somethin’ to say if Ram had sent him? Just then, gun shots ring out and Level’s widow is shot dead by a man on a bike. Contacting Horror-Show, he tells him that he needs to know where he can find Junior.


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1st story: One-Percenter: Part 2
2nd story: A Mile in my Moccasins: Part 2
First Story:
The next morning, Horror-Show sits at a table surrounded by members of his biker gang, the Burnin’ Sons, specifically Ram and Warhorse. Ram informs him that Level’s ol’ lady is dead, her brains were blown out all over the front porch. Horror asks if she did it ‘erself. Ram tells Warhorse to tell Horror what he saw. Warhorse states that Level’s trailer ain’t but a quarter-mile up the road from his, was about one-thirty or so when he heard the shot. Ram tells him to tell Horror what he seen, now what he heard. Warhorse says that, after he heard the shot, he went out to the porch to see what was goin’ on. He heard a bike comin’ down the road and the rider was wearin’ New Sons colors. Horror asks if he got a look at the rider. Warhorse replies that he couldn’t see his face, just… Ram cuts him off and exclaims to Horror that it was Junior, his boy, finishin’ what he started against them. Horror looks at him and tells him that he don’t know that for sure. Ram admits that he’s right, he don’t. Maybe it was some other member o’ the Sons. Don’t matter, amounts to the same thing. They’re at war an’ he’s the only one ain’t got the guts to fight it.
Just then, Logan walks in, sits down at the bar and says there ain’t a need for no war. Ram gets up from his seat and asks the stranger why that is. Logan finishes his drink and tells him ‘cause Junior’s dead. He then looks over at Horror and thinks to himself sorry, some folks just can’t be saved. When Ram asks how, Logan asks ‘does it matter?’ Leaping from his seat, Horror punches him across the face and tells him that it does to him. Continuing to pound on him, he tells him that he trusted him and when he asked him where to find ‘im, he told him. An’ then he killed ‘im. With that, Horror shoots Logan four times with his hand-gun from close range.
As he does so, Logan thinks to himself that he didn’t; even though he deserved it. Earlier that night, Logan had Junior tied up while he was interrogating him. Junior angrily said to him so the stupid bitch is dead? Boo hoo, wasn’t him. Logan says he knows but somebody sure wanted it to look like it. Junior says yeah, just like it looked like he was the one who wasted Level. Thinking to himself that’s what he thought, he asks Junior what’s goin’ on between him an’ Ram. Junior smiles and tells him ‘business, man.’ Logan recalls that the Burnin’ Sons don’t deal – Horror-Show’s rules. Obviously Ram had other ideas. But to stay in business, he had to go outside the club – to Junior.
Junior states that they had a good thing goin’. He dealt Ram under the table with pops none the wiser. Then he stepped on it an’ passed it on. But he got greedy an’ stupid. He was limitin’ his supply; he didn’t want pops to know what was up. If he found out, there goes his best customer. Logan asks where the girl fits in. Junior tells him that Ram was sellin’ it, she was doin’ it. She was doin’ him too. When Logan asks if Level knew, Junior tells him nah but he was strung out too so who knows. An who cares, damn tweakers.
Looking at Junior, Logan pieces it together. Ram wasn’t bein’ stupid, he was bein’ smart. Only way the Burnin’ Sons would ever get back into the drug game was if Horror-Show was outta the way. Ram made it look like Junior killed Level, hopin’ it would trigger a call to war, which he knew Horror-Show wouldn’t back, ‘cause that meant killin’ his own son. Takin’ the girl out killed two birds with one stone, it got rid of a liability, an’ it forced the issue even harder. With the whole club against him, Horror-Show would have to either step down or be forced out; or he’d be killed. Either way, ram would take over an’ it’d be back to business as usual.
Junior pleads with him to let him go. He’ll make the same deal with him. Hell, he helps him take out Ram an’ he’ll better it. Logan tells him that he ain’t interested. Junior asks him what the hell he means he ain’t… He’ll warn him if he thinks he’s gonna get away with killin’ him, he don’t know nothin’ ‘bout his dad. Grabbing him by the throat, Logan tells him that he knows his dad a helluva lot better’n he thinks. Letting go of Junior’s neck, he tells him that he was the one who asked him to help him. Junior shoots back that he doesn’t want no #%$@in’ help.
Looking into Junior’s eyes, Logan has seen that look before – in his own son’s eyes. And that’s when it hit him, the plain simple brutal truth, some folks just can’t be saved. Walking away from him, Logan tells Junior that come mornin’ he’ll be dead an’ livin’ somewhere far away from there – understand? Junior tells him yeah, he understands. Logan then tells him that, if he ever comes back, it better be ‘cause he’s ready to change. Like Horror-Show, Logan thinks, like him. Otherwise, he’ll come back too.
Waking up in the woods, Logan hears the sounds of dogs and the police. Making his way out, Logan thinks to himself that, if he didn’t know any better, he’d think that Horror-Show’d forgotten how to hide a body so it’d never be found. But it’s obvious that he wasn’t hidden at all, somebody wanted him to bed found – dead. With a traceable bullet lodged right in his heart. An’ he knows just who that somebody is.
At a local gas station, Ram enters a men’s room. After a few moments, he doesn’t exit, but Logan does with blood on his shirt and claws. Hopping on a motorcycle, Logan makes his way out of town.
Second Story:
On Monday, Wolverine joins Spider-Man and the new Captain America in taking on the Wrecking Crew – Wrecker, Thunderball, and Piledriver. On Tuesday, Peter Parker is eating some snacks and lying on his couch while he watches on T.V. footage from San Francisco that shows Wolverine and Cyclops in action against the… On Wednesday, Parker is taking photographs at the scene of a slaughter where police have no leads in the massacre of an anti-mutant gang reportedly responsible for several recent hate crimes in the area. Looking around, Parker sees Wolverine’s claw-marks on a nearby wall.
On Friday, Spider-Man makes his way to a local bar. As he does so, he thinks to himself that he’s dead and that he is so totally going to kill him for this. Opening the door, he thinks Oh God, oh God, oh God. He then tells himself to get a grip; he can do this. He fought Firelord before, gone toe-to-toe with the Juggernaut and punched the Hulk into orbit. He’s just a grumpy little Canadian, he fought Firelord! Turning around, Logan stares at him and then turns his attention back to his beer.
Sitting down next to him, Spidey tells Logan to stop him if he’s heard this one before. Spider-Man and Wolverine walk into a bar and… Logan cuts him off and tells him to stop. Looking at the menu, Parker asks Logan if he wants to split some chili cheese fries, he’s hungry enough to eat the south end of a northbound rhino. Logan snarls at him and proceeds to ask him what the hell he is doing there. When the bartender comes up, Parker asks him for a Shirley Temple with extra cherries. The bartender tells him that no freaks are allowed in there and tells him to hit the bricks. Pointing to Logan, Parker replies that he’s with him. Downing his beer, Logan says no, he’s not. Parker informs him he’s just there to talk. When Logan asks what the hell they have to talk about, Parker says about how he’s trying to kill himself. Logan snarls at him and then tells the bartender, Earl, to give them a minute.
Once alone, Parker tells Logan that he’s just going to come right out and say it. He sees what he’s doing to himself and it’s not healthy. He’s in like eight different teams right now. He’s changing costumes like a Britney Spears’ backup dancer. He’s running himself ragged. He looks at all that and he sees a man who’s not comfortable in his own skin. A man who has to keep moving, has to stay busy, because he’s terrified of stopping and having to be alone with his own thoughts for even a minute. Logan tells him that he was doing fine being alone five minutes ago. Parker tells him that he knows he probably thinks he’s just the coolest, funniest, most together super hero he’s ever met but he’s had more than his share of tragedy to deal with, believe him. He knows what that’s like, he’s been there and he can tell him from experience, this isn’t the way to handle it. This kinda pace will only get him killed.
Finishing off his next beer, Logan asks him if he’s finished. Parker starts to tell him no but Logan grabs him by the back of the costume and drags him to the front door. As he is being drug, Parker mentions that he hasn’t gotten his chili cheese fries yet. When Logan tells him he can get them to go, Parker asks him if he’s ever tried eating while web-slinging. It’s not a pretty sight. Once they reach the front door, Parker frees himself from Logan’s grip and tells him to hold on, he hasn’t said his piece. Popping the claws on his left hand, Logan tells him yes he has. Parker replies great, here comes the snikety-snikt and the stabbin’ now, right? Very mature, he came there to help and this is how he…
Logan cuts him off and tells him that he didn’t ask for his damn help! Just then, three men wearing ski-masks enter the bar in an attempt to rob it. When they see Spider-Man and Wolverine standing there, one of the men tells his friends that next time, he picks the bar.
Thirty seconds later, the three men are beaten and wrapped up in webbing. Logan turns to the patrons of the bar and tells them that anybody who doesn’t wanna talk to the cops better call it a night. With that, the bar clears out. Making his way to the door, Parker states that this has certainly been as fun as a barrel of chimps on Xanax. He guesses he should be leaving too. Before he does, Logan tells him that he was right.
Turning around, Parker asks what and Logan tells him that he was right about everything. He is afraid to be alone with his own thoughts and of his memories. Used to be, he couldn’t remember anything about his past. Then one day a few months ago, it all came back to him. All the lives he’s ruined, the lives he’s taken. All the horrible things he’s done, all the things he wish had stayed forgotten. As his eye tears up a bit, Logan adds that he found out he had a son too. And he’s so much like him, it hurts just to look at him. He knows nothing he can do can change the past and no matter how many different super teams he joins, it can never make up for all those old sins. But he’s gotta try. Even if it kills him, he’s gotta try.
Parker is silent for a bit and then asks Logan if he’d like to go get some sushi and reminisce about the good old days for a while. He then asks him if he remembers that time the Beyonder came to Earth with the jheri curl and the white leather… At that moment, the phone rings and Earl tells Logan that Cyclops is on the phone for him. Logan says to him to let him know that he’s on his way. Parker tries to stop him but Logan tells him that he’s gotta go. Before he does, he thanks him. As he leaves, Parker replies yeah, he’ll see him around. With that, Logan leaves the bar and walks down the street alone.


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Old Man Logan: Conclusion (Part 8)
At the Hulk Gang’s watering hole, Rufus tells his brother Woody that he’s still ticked off Pappy Banner wouldn’t let them eat those kids. They looked delicious. Woody replies that it wasn’t snack time and that pappy took them there to send that old fool Logan a message. Rufus states that his wife’s dead body would ‘a been enough, little redheads taste like bacon. The least he could ‘a done is let them eat one. Woody tells him to shut up and clean his damned blood-stains. Beau and Luke got the video workin’ an’ Billy-Bob found two Jim Belushi movies. There’s one where he’s a cop an’ his partner’s a dog. It looks pretty damn hilarious.
As he talks, Rufus disappears into the water. Turning around, Woody calls out to Rufus and, when he doesn’t answer, tells him that he doesn’t need to sulk just because he was yellin’ at him. Just then, the chopped up pieces of Rufus float to the surface. When Woody says Rufus, Wolverine emerged from the water and viciously kills Woody.
At Sonny Stark’s bar, Eustace, holding a severed arm laughs at his cousin Elrod. Sometimes he just can’t believe what a retard he is. Stealin’ their Gameboy he can understand, but what the hell kinda pleasure does a grown man get from a little girl’s doll? Elrod tells him that he likes Raggedy Ann. She’s pretty. He then tells Eustace to smell the doll’s face, you can still smell the baby-milk. Luke remarks that this is too messed up even for him and tells the bartender to give him five more beers. His boys an’ he are out celebratin’ a job well done. Sweating, the bartender tells him whatever he says, just don’t cause any trouble. Peering at him with crazy eyes, Luke tells him to c’mon, is this a face that’s gonna start trouble?
Just then, the lights go out in the bar. After a loud crash is heard and a window breaks out, Luke is grabbed from his seat. Amidst the panic, Elrod is able to find a flashlight. When he flashes it in the direction of where Luke was sitting, he finds Wolverine on top of him with his claws pierced through Luke’s skull and a crazed look in his eyes. Before Eustace and Elrod can do anything, Wolverine is on them.
At Heff’s mansion, the Hulk Gang’s vehicle is parked outside. Inside, the mansion, three members of the Hulk Gang is getting dressed while a number of young ladies rest. The leader, Beau thanks the old lady in charge of the mansion fer her hospitality. He also tells her to be sure t’ thank the ladies once they all regain consciousness. The old lady replies her pleasure. Just be sure to tell his pappy what a good time him and his boys had an’ maybe he’ll knock a little off their rent this month. As they begin to make their way down the stairs, she asks him what they were out celebratin’. Beau tells her to trust him, she don’t wanna know. Outside, Wolverine, wearing a long leather jacket and a hat stands in front of the Hulk Gang’s vehicle while all the other vehicles around him lie in ruins and tells Beau “try me.”
At Banner’s lair, Bobbi-Jo and Banner are in a cave overlooking a number of mobile homes down below. Bobbi-Jo, holding a baby, proceeds to ask “pappy” if he thinks he’s gonna come there. Even though there’s so many of them? Does he think he’s gonna come there lookin’ for revenge. Banner replies that that they killed his wife and children and laid them out like they was a damn finger-buffet. She can bet her ass he’s comin’ there.
Just then, the Hulk Gang’s vehicle flies through the trailer homes, killing a number of the Hulk’s people. Hearing the destruction, Banner states that he’s missed these fights. Once some of his people begin to stand up, they see Beau chained to the vehicle with something in his mouth. They begin to wonder what it is but before, they can ponder much further, the explosive in his mouth detonates and kills more of them. At that moment, Wolverine arrives and tells the survivors no more games, no more talking. He’s just there to kill them. With that, he begins to slash and hack the Hulk’s people into pieces with his claws. After he has killed all of them, Bobbi-Jo leaps towards him. With a swipe of his claws, Wolverine decapitates her.
Standing in front of the cave, Wolverine calls Banner a coward and to get out there and face him. Making his way out of the cave, a skinny old man asks Wolverine to be quiet. He’s going to wake the baby. Just then, Banner punches Wolverine and knocks him backwards into a trailer. Once Wolverine gets up, Banner leaps after him and says that it’s just like old times. It’s been years since he had something good to smash. A lot of folks say that he went mad, that the radiation sickness did something to his brain. But who else was he gonna mate with besides his first cousin? Jenny She-Hulk was the only woman out there who could take the damn pace. He told his boys they had to make an example of him but the honest truth was he wanted his old Wolverine back. He got bored being a landlord, bored being a super villain. He needed someone cool to kill to make him feel alive again.
After kicking Wolverine in the chest, Banner picks up a cow and tosses it at him. Slashing the cow in half once it reaches him, Wolverine yells at Banner to shut up. As he continues to hack away at Banner, he tells him that this isn’t a joke. This isn’t another one of those stupid fights; this is where it ends you redneck son of a bitch. With that, Wolverine jams his claws through Banner’s chest. He then tells him that’s for his wife and kids. Back-handing Wolverine away, Banner calls him an idiot. He shouldn’t have made him angry; people piss themselves when he gets angry. Suddenly, the old man transforms into the monstrous Hulk and chomps down on Wolverine’s body.
Twelve hours later, Billy-Bob arrives at Banner’s cave, sees the destruction, and calls out to pappy Banner. He calls out to him that he’s his grandson, Beau’s oldest boy. He went to his friend’s to fetch those Jim Belushi movies an’ when he got back the whole crew was dead. Entering the cave, he asks Banner if Wolverine really did all this. Did one man really kill there entire family? Banner replies that he did but he fought him and beat him and made him his supper. He isn’t gonna be hurting them anymore. Billy-Bob stammers b-but he’s wiped them all out. Far as he can see, the Hulk Gang’s just them now.
Banner tells him not to forget little baby Bruce, his favorite. But they are all they need to keep this thing going. Once they grab themselves some women from Heff’s old place they can start the whole thing over. His super-power is surviving. Don’t he get it? The atomic blast, the rise of the super-villains, staying alive in a world without hope... Billy-Bob proceeds to ask Banner if he’s okay, he doesn’t look so good. Sweating, Banner replies that he’s fine. He’s just had this weird cramp the last couple a’ hours and...
Just then, the monstrous Banner doubles over in pain grabbing his guts and falls over. Billy-Bob asks him did he say he ate Wolverine. Banner tells him y-yeah, no big deal. They’ve been snacking on their own foes for years. Billy-Bob states that none of ‘em had healing factors. Banner laments that he’s gotta be kiddin’ him. No sooner does he finish his thought, Wolverine slices out of Banner’s skin, killing him. Looking down at Banner, he asks what’s the matter, was it somethin’ he ate?
Turning his attention to Billy-Bob, he tells him to give him his pants, boots and coat and he might live a little longer. Billy-Bob immediately complies and tells him not to hurt him an’ to stay away from baby Bruce. Wolverine proceeds to ask him what makes him think he’s gonna leave the baby. The Hulk robbed him of his family, only fair he should take away his.
At Logan’s ranch, one month later, Logan knees before three graves and places personal effects before them, including his daughter’s Raggedy Ann doll. Abe says to him that everybody loved Maureen and that those kids were beautiful. Logan replies the best. Abe asks that it’s good he got their little toys back too, huh. Logan tells him that it’s somethin’. Abe then asks him if he’s sure he’s ready to walk away and leave all this behind. Logan replies that all he has there are memories an’ he can take those wherever he goes. His wife an’ babies don’t live there no more.
The townspeople gathered ask him if he’s really goin’ out there to take ‘em down. Is he really gonna bring the law back to this country? Logan says why not, he’s got nuthin’ better to do. They tell him that he realizes it’s impossible, right? Logan responds that a friend told him there was no such word. They ask him who that might be. Logan tells them that it was the same man who taught him to forgive himself. Besides, he got a little partner to help him out an’ there’s poetic justice to Bruce Banner Junior bein’ the first guy on his new team.
Putting a pack on his back that carries baby Bruce, Logan asks him if he’s comfy back there. Mounting his horse, Abe tells Logan that things have changed and calls him a silly old fool. This ain’t a world for super-teams and big, grand plans. All he’s gonna do is get himself killed. As he starts away from the ranch, Logan says they killed him fifty years ago, and he got better. He figures he’s kept his head down long enough. With that, Logan makes his way towards the sunset.


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Graymalkin, 2AM. In the private quarters of Scott “Cyclops” Summers and Emma Frost a.k.a. the White Queen. Both lie in their bed, away from each other, staring into the night; Emma with eyes wide open, Scott with a big frown on his face. Suddenly, Emma sits up in bed, before getting out and going over to the window, where she stands and stares. Scott sits up and watches her. His thoughts dart back to a conversation with their teammate, Hank McCoy a.k.a. the Beast: ‘Lots of secrets filling these halls nowadays, Scott. More than normal for people like us. Logan leading a gang off to god-knows-where. Blood-stained clothes in the laundry. To say nothing of what you’ve been up to, Miss Frost. When I get back we’re having it all out. Do you hear me? These secrets will kill us!’
Scott walks over to Emma and puts his arms around her. Emma touches his hand. ‘Emma, I -’ Scott begins, before Emma quickly exclaims ‘Don’t.’ Scott tells Emma that Hank was right. ‘Scott, please stop…’ Emma replies. ‘No, Emma, we need to talk. And not just for the sake of the others. We need to do this for us. Because -’ Scott begins, before Emma pushes him back: ‘I said stop!’ she exclaims. ‘I’m not going to do this now, Scott. Not for you. Not for anyone!’ Emma declares. ‘So if you want to have your little heart-to-heart with Henry, then by all means do. Just leave me out of it!’
Scott hangs his head, while Emma narrows her eyes: ‘Are we clear?’ she snaps. Scott looks at Emma, before clenching a fist and turning around and leaving their room – slamming the door behind him as he goes. Emma hangs her head. ‘I’m sorry…’ she whispers, tears falling from her eyes.
Sun rises over Marin County, where inside one of the living areas, three of the X-Men students have gathered. ‘That couch looks really uncomfortable. You should come stuff with us!’ Pixie exclaims. ‘Subtle’ Armor tells her, before asking Cyclops if everything is okay. ‘You’ve um, been sleeping on the couch a lot,’ she remarks. Cyclops looks up at Armor, Prodigy and Pixie and tells them that everything is fine, before asking if there is something he can help them with. Prodigy informs Cyclops that they are looking for Miss Frost, as she missed her morning training session with the students. ‘She never misses class,’ he exclaims, to which Cyclops asks ‘Did you try her room?’ ‘Don’t you mean your room?’ Armor asks him, while Pixie explains that nobody answered. Cyclops calls out to Emma through his mind, but gets no response.
‘Emma? Are you -?’ Scott calls out as he enters their room. But Emma isn’t there. He finds a note on the bedside table and reads it quickly. ‘No!’ he gasps, before dropping the note and running from the room. HE calls out to the Cuckoos, using his thoughts to order them to Cerebro immediately. As the note lands on the floor, part of it can be made out: Emma has gone to kill a man and does not imagine surviving the encounter.
Scott storms through Graymalkin, past two of the Cuckoos, telling them to contact Psylocke, as he wants all of the scanning for Emma. ‘Mister Summers -’ Phoebe begins, but Scott tells her to do it. He soon approaches Loa and Trance. ‘Move!’ he shouts. ‘Mister Summers - what?’ Loa asks. ‘Where’s Miss Frost?’ Scott demands. ‘I saw her go out the front door,’ Trance tells him. Scott grabs the door handle, while his thoughts reach out to Emma: ‘Emma…Emma, answer me, dammit!’ However, as Scott opens the door, he finds Emma standing there on the porch, a suitcase at her feet.
‘I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t leave without telling you face-to-face’ Emma announces. ‘Scott… I’ve done something exceedingly horrible, and you deserve to know -’ she begins, but Scott tells her to stop. ‘I have to tell you something first, but not here.’
Soon, they are in Cerebra. ‘How intimate,’ Emma mutters. ‘It’s psi-shielded,’ Scott reminds her, before asking her to read his mind. ‘Will you just listen to me?’ Emma asks him. ‘After we’re inside. Emma, please,’ Scott replies. With that, they find themselves inside Scott‘s mind, Scott now in uniform. Emma tells her lover that he is being incredibly frustrating. ‘I am trying to be open with you. Do you realize how hard that is for me?’ she asks him. ‘Come on,’ Scott tells her as he leads her through his mind.
‘I have tried so hard to not be who I was. Who it is second nature for me to be’ Emma exclaims. ‘Emma, I know. But you have to understand… I’m not who I was anymore either,’ Scott declares. They stand outside a door with a large red X on it. ‘How is this about you again? You didn’t even read my letter, did you?’ Emma asks. ‘I read enough of it to know you didn’t think you were coming back. That’s all I needed to know,’ Scott tells her, before opening the door, telling Emma that he could not let this end hiding things from her. ‘I don’t want there to be secrets between us anymore’ Scott declares.
‘You know I can’t open it’ Emma reminds Scott. ‘I know. That’s why I’m going to open it for you,’ Scott replies, crouching beside the small black box. ‘Honestly, Scott… I don’t care what’s inside. Whatever secret’s you’re keeping about Jean, they don’t matter to me anymore,’ Emma replies. ‘Something is happening, and you have to know the truth. What I’ve done… I’m going to show you everything. But please know, no matter what, I -’ Emma begins. ‘I know you do, Emma. I know,’ Scott replies as he slowly opens the black box. ‘You never have to tell me that. This is about what I have to tell you,’ Scott replies as images and thoughts begin to spiral around them.
(Shown with flashback images, narrated by Cyclops and the White Queen)
Scott tells Emma that after Cable left with the baby, and after Charles was shot, he knew what he had to do. ‘I went against everything I believed in. Everything I was taught. Everything I know about right and wrong. But I did it anyway,’ Scott declares. Cyclops explains that Wolverine knew what he was asking, and knew what had to be done. ‘He thought he was helping me stay clean. Keeping the blood off my hands. But he knew we were crossing a line, both of us. That there was no going back.’ Scott explains that he had to keep the X-Men alive until hope came back. ‘And strategically, this was the only way I knew how. So I formed X-Force. And I told Wolverine to take his team and to kill. To kill the enemy before they could kill us!’
Emma tells Cyclops that when he first met her with the Hellfire Club, he saw her true colors. ‘White, ironically,’ Scott and Emma watch Emma’s past self torture Storm. The Black King stands and watches smugly, while two naked men are imprisoned in cages hanging from the ceiling. ‘This is where I first hurt you. I helped push Jean Grey into becoming the Dark Phoenix,’ Emma declares. Emma tells Cyclops that everyone thinks she shares his bed because she is manipulating him somehow. ‘They believe that I couldn’t possibly feel genuine emotion for you. And they pity you because they know you’re being used. Played with, like a toy for my amusement.’ Emma adds that she has given people many reasons to believe this. ‘Part of Toy Stark doesn’t respect you because of me. He is not the only one’ Emma announces, referring to the Sub-Mariner.
Cyclops reveals to the White Queen that X-Force’s missions spiraled out of control. ‘What was once simple, because complicated. Our targets multiplied. X-Men – our friends – were hurt. Damaged deeply in ways I couldn’t have predicted. But it was too late to help them. Because as hurt as they were… I needed them. We all need them to keep fighting.’ Scott tells Emma that he told himself it was for the greater good. ‘Because of X-Force, I think of things like genocide. I think of how I can use the worst of what we’ve faced as a weapon against our enemies.’ Cyclops declares that this is who he is now. ‘And when three of our kind were kidnapped’ Scott begins, referring to the capture of Hellion, Boom-Boom and Surge, ‘I kept it secret because their lives had to be risked to ensure Hope was protected.’
‘No…’ Emma tells him. ‘I claim to be a teacher. I say I would die for my students… but this is what I have done to them!’ she exclaims, referring firstly to her first students, her prized students, the Hellions. ‘Then, after I say I’ve changed, I torture a girl who more than any, needed my help,’ Emma reminds Scott. She explains that in an effort to protect the other children, she tried to drive X-23 away by using her most painful memories against her. ‘But even though Laura stayed… Wither did not. And what’s worse, I allowed him to go… to disappear without a trace because I felt that he too was a danger to the others.’ Emma tells Scott that this is how she treats her students, and why she murdered her sister. ‘I tell myself I’m doing it for the children. But I know the real reason. It’s who I am. It’s who I always have been. It’s who I always will be. The children are just an excuse. A reason I say aloud to keep myself believing that there is more to me than there really is.’
Cyclops tells Emma that after looking for Cable and Hope for months, the Beast finds them. ‘I don’t ask him to bring them back. I tell X-Force to go after them… to go after Bishop.’ Cyclops declares that once more he makes X-Force go to war for him, even with the lives of their students on the line. ‘Logan tells me to wait. To send someone else. But I can’t. I can’t ask the X-Men to commit murder!’ Cyclops exclaims that if the X-Men cross the lines X-Force has, if they do what he has forced X-Force to do, there will be nothing left to save when this war is over. ‘The dream will truly be dead.’
Emma stares at Cyclops as she tells him that the dream is dead because she killed it. ‘I haven’t changed. I know this because Norman Osborn came to me. Not Magneto. Not Shaw. Not Sinister. Me.’ Emma tells Cyclops that Osborn wanted her to join his Cabal. ‘He knew I would fit right in. And he was right. Osborn had taken over the world, and I knew it. I knew it and I didn’t tell you. I sold all of mutantkind for my place at his table.’
(Reality / Present)
Cyclops and the White Queen return to reality. They hold hands and press their heads together. ‘I’m sorr-’ Emma begins, while Cyclops tells her that he loves her. ‘But you saw what I -’ Emma exclaims. I don’t care about Stark, or Namor. Those men don’t know you, Emma… They never did, not like I do,’ Cyclops exclaims. ‘But Osborn’s Cabal…’ Emma exclaims. ‘Do you really think I’d believe you would join them willingly?’ Scott asks, exclaiming that Emma joined them to save the X-Men. ‘You’re willing to do anything to save mutantkind, just like you’d do anything to save your students.’
Cyclops tells Emma that is who she is, whereas he betrayed everything he was. ‘No. You’re wrong. You may think you’re a murderer, or a criminal… but you’re not’ Emma exclaims, as Scott pulls her towards him. ‘The things I’ve done… Charles would -’ Scott begins, before Emma announces that she doesn’t care about Charles Xavier, or Magneto, or even Hope. ‘I am looking at the savoir of mutantkind, right here, right now.’ Emma tells Scott that he is the only one keeping mutantkind alive. ‘You are the one that will lead us into the future. Every mutant on the planet is going to owe Scott Summers their lives’ Emma exclaims. ‘Emma…’ Scott begins, but Emma tells Scott that he is wrong about her reasons. ‘Through all of this… everything I’ve done… my biggest fear was losing you’ she declares.
With that, Emma reveals that she was going to kill Osborn. ‘That’s what my note said. That I would be killed trying’. Emma touches Scott’s face as she tells him that she preferred death to having Scott believing she betrayed him. ‘I’ve been holding this in for so long…’ she exclaims. Scott tells Emma that he trusts her - with his life - with all of their lives. ‘I told myself that I was keeping everything from you to give you plausible deniability. But that was a lie. I kept the truth from you because I thought I’d lose you over it,’ Scott exclaims.
‘Hardly. Never once have I doubted you. Never once has my trust in you been less than absolute,’ Emma replies. Scott tells her that he knows that when all this is said and done, they will be cast out. ‘By the X-Men, by the Avengers… by everyone!’ Emma replies that she doesn’t care. ‘Are you sure?’ Scott asks her. ‘Just shut up and kiss me!’ Emma exclaims. Scott leans down and kisses Emma passionately. ‘I guess I should have told you sooner,’ Scott whispers as they pause. ‘And I, you’ Emma replies. ‘No more secrets?’ Scott asks. ‘No more secrets’ Emma agrees. ‘Do you trust me?’ Scott asks. ‘Forever’ Emma replies.


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Journey to the Center of the Goblin – part one (1st story)
A Girl Called Hope – part two (2nd story)
1st story:
I am an X-Man, a young redhaired, freckled man says, his eyes empty. His statement is chorused by a crowd of people, all with the same glazed look in their eyes as they shuffle straight onward. Please, listen to me, a desperate policeman orders them. They’ve got to stop walking! If they don’t stop, they’ll die! He is all that’s between the crowd and a cliff leading straight down.
Suddenly, though, the people seem to awaken and look around confused. Thank God! the cop moans in relief, as the confused people (one a woman dressed only in a towel) quickly leave.
The incident is reported in the news. They were like sleepwalkers who suddenly woke up, the anchorman reports, adding that the people have no memory of what they did or why they claimed to be X-Men.
In a special HQ in New York City, a special group is watching the report with varying levels of interest.
There’s Norman Osborn (The banality of evil. Glass Onion). He is displeased. The people have been repeating “X-Men.” A name he should own. This is the third such incident in two weeks but the first that’s made the news. He wants them, his X-Men, to check it out.
Well, if he thinks, one of them answers undecided. Mimic (Copies mutant powers. Nowhere Man).
By contrast the man next to him is bubbling. Omega ( Sucks mutant powers. Helter Skelter). No, he’s an X-Man. Like with, they know, Spartacus? Okay, sorry in that movie--
They get it, the only woman present interrupts him. Mystique (Shapeshifter. Eleanor Rigby).
He’d be so much better without  a mouth, the last person present remarks about Omega as he skillfully peels an apple. An hour’s surgery and then just mmph mmmph mhp. Although he’d probably make that annoying too. Dark Beast (He’s a monster. Help).
What he doesn’t get, the evil Dr. McCoy continues, is why Osborn wishes to use him “in the field” rather than as a biologist. He has no interest in pretending to be a hero or a villain.
He isn’t asking him to fight super-powered battles, Osborn clarifies. In fact, surveys show that’s what the public hate the most. No, this will be a scientific investigation of a phenomenon that, if repeated, could damage their brand. A goodwill visit to the quiet little town of Burton, California. They shake some hands, indicate they are on it. Leave behind a chamber of commerce who feel that those nice young mutant fellows are obviously capable of policing themselves.
He leaves the room, the meeting finished. Mystique follows, switching from her default blue-skinned form to that of a beautiful young redheaded woman.
She isn’t sure about those three as an ops team, she remarks about her teammates. Right now if they are making a stand about mutants handling mutant problems they are all they’ve got, Osborn points out. He’d be interested to hear—Oh. He breaks off as he turns around and now recognizes her “look.” Is that going to be Mystique’s sapiens sapiens form now? Yes, Mystique replies. Nobody can prove Jean Grey is dead. And this would really annoy… several people who have made her suffer for their cause.
She actually does “evil” sometimes, doesn’t she? Osborn remarks somewhat interested. Like some sort of… vengeful… mother… goddess… but, whatever… he returns to the subject at discussion. He was going to ask what she made of her teammates…
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McCoy is the most stable one, Mystique summarizes. In purely functional terms, he is entirely sane. Which is scary in itself. But he gets bored. She’s afraid he might do something extreme, just to keep himself entertained.
Beast works on separated brain kept alive in tanks. He thanks his frightened assistant Bleaker for bringing him tea. He’s got a good head on his shoulders (currently).
Pointer, well. Mystique pauses.
Strapped into a chair, Pointer babbles that he is past the guilt. He is working for his karma now. Making up for it all. That is why he doesn’t want to be called Weapon anything. Only--
Engage Omega machine, one of the scientists orders. Pointer begins to glow. He has to absorb power from other mutants. But the more he takes, the more random he… He’s sorry! he shouts. He can’t help what he’s doing or saying. He’s going to start-- He begins singing. I love you baby! And if it’s quite all right…!
Pointer varies, Mystique decides.
Rankin is a depressive. She really does feel for him. But though Dr. Sofen says he’s ready, she worries.
While a bored Karla Sofen writes something on a note pad, Calvin Rankin sits crouched, trying to describe his problem. It’s like… like he knows there’s some great doom waiting for him. It’s not grand and operatic. It’s tawdry and cruel and… just the end. For him. As a moral person.
And sometimes he wants to fight it so much. He has a glimpse of how people free of depression must feel. Looking ahead to something. He tries to be this good person… and sometimes…. he doesn’t see the point of moving from his chair. Know what he means?
Hmm? Sofen asks absent-mindedly. Of course. She’s going to write him a prescription.
She worries that Sofen doesn’t particularly care, Mystique finishes.
Present:
And as for him, their sponsor. she turns to Osborn. McCoy doesn’t care who he works for. The other two seem to buy Norman is a reformed villain seeking order in the mutant community. She grins as she grabs his arm. Only he and she know what their deal is. She respects a man who fears her reputation enough to put a collar on her. She grins as he actually flinches at her touch. She whispers into his ear. He knows he has power over her, so suddenly he treats her like they are playing at being colleagues at… Wal-Mart. She is absolutely intrigued by what’s going on in his head. But he has to know that won’t stop her. When the times comes. With that parting shot she walks off.
Later, their jet lands in Burton, California. Dressed in matching costumes, the four exit the jet to begin their goodwill mission. Omega apologizes to Beast for being boring earlier, oblivious that his prattling is annoying McCoy even more.
Mystique, still as Jean Grey, with a simplified Mystique outfit – informs the others that the mayor wanted a civic delegation to go with them. But frankly, she didn’t want them to hear these conversations. When they get to the hospital could they at least try to be--?
She was about to say “normal,” right? Cal asks. Yes, she moans, but then she realized she’s with the three of them.
In the hospital, they visit one of the possession victims named Jack Fenner. With a smile, Raven asks him how he is doing. He is fine, Fenner replies. He keeps saying he is ready to go home. Just a few cuts and… What’s with the costumes? Are they Avengers?
McCoy sprays a green mist into his face. This will make him answer truthfully. Enraged, Mystique shouts they had no reason to think he wouldn’t. Or that he would, McCoy retorts, can they get on? The mice he has waiting at home won’t dissect themselves. Yet.
Cal informs them that the spaced out Fenner may have been calling himself an X-Man but he is not a mutant. Omega announces he is not getting anything either. That’s just confirmation.
Enough! Mystique orders and addresses Fenner. What can he remember about the word “X-Man?” He… he remembers, Fenner mutters.
But there’s lot of other useful stuff he does for this team, Omega mutters.
Suddenly, Jack Fenner’s eyes turn glazed and he becomes agitated. He remembers! he shouts. They are the X-Men! They are the X-Men! He’s Henry McCoy! he shouts, pointing  at the evil Beast who remarks that his reputation precedes him. Mimic touches his head confused while Omega looks at his hands which are beginning to glow with energy. It’s like he’s suddenly become a mutant, Mimic moans. He’s copying a power off him. He thinks… he thinks he can--
It’s huge! Omega shouts. It’s so, so…
He can see into the future! Mimic screams. He knows they are going to--!
He can’t stop himself! a brightly-glowing Omega shouts. He’s going to exploode! With those words he bursts upwards through the hospital roof, adding a muttered sorry.
Beast wonders where that power level is coming from. So much for the PR mission, Mystique sighs and orders Cal after him. He groans and buries his face in his hands, overcome by precognitive powers, seeing his own future… everything he feared - -everything he deserves! It’s all going to come true… It’s all… Vera…
Mimic’s precognitive flash:
In the future, Cal sees himself married to his onetime girlfriend, Vera Cantor. They both sit on the couch, holding their baby. Cal marvels at his child. He never thought he could have this. Another life to care about instead of his. To give everything to…
Suddenly, he holds his head, sensing something. The next moment, optic beams burst forth from his eyes killing Vera and the baby.
Present:
Mystique shakes Mimic, ordering him to focus. They need him to get up there, mimic whatever power this is and bring Omega back here. He thinks swiftly would be good, Beast adds. He doesn’t think Omega is quite… on message.
Omega flies up in front of a news helicopter and grabs the front of it. Hello, good evening and welcome. He’s gone on holiday by mistake. Sorry. What he’s trying to say is his mind is going, time is fleeting, normal service will be resumed--
-- Maybe never!
He falls straight down.
Inventory of items destroyed by Omega: #1: Public library (sorry)p>
Within the hospital Mystique again addresses Mimic. Why bother? he moans. No matter what he does he knows what waiting for him. Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? McCoy suggests and sprays a substance in his face, a different one this time. Uppers, teeth-chatteres. Power enhancers, out of his mind yodeling gung ho certainty… and a pinch of ginseng.
Mimic’s eyes glow reads as with a berserker scream he flies off to attack Omega. The NFL’s loss is his gain, McCoy gloats. Or maybe he should approach them again…
Furious, Mystique shouts that their problem was having one psycho in the field. Now they have two! Now do try to look on the bright side, he suggests.
In the library, Omega blasts the shelves and books, still ranting. Take that, Jemima Puddleduck! I never particularly liked, you, Anne of Green Gables! If that is your real name! He’s really sorry, he mumbles, this is so embarrassing.
The next moment, Mimic, still incoherent, hits him. Thank you! Omega replies.
Inventory of items destroyed by Omega: #2: statue of beloved former mayor and his dog (sorry)
In the hospital, McCoy and Mystique critically stare at the patient who is unconscious again. It’s something to do with him, McCoy summarizes. He’s radiating power to those two. Energy powers and precognition, Mystique agrees. But he doesn’t seem in control. It’s like something is using him as a channel.
Oh well. McCoy takes out a syringe. If they really want to put an end to this… Mystique tells him no. He’ll just fall asleep, McCoy tells her comfortingly. Well, and then die, he adds, but give him credit for at least trying to soften the blow. No, she orders sharply. This has become the opposite of a goodwill mission. Osborn has made a bomb out of her, does he get it? No amount of horrifying shape-changer yoga can change that. He can make her explode!
Erm, Mystique? McCoy looks at energy glowing brightly behind her. That could possibly do so also. He is referring to the energy that comes crackling out of the lying patient.
We’re tuning in… getting there… remember what an individual is like… familiar faces… Oh, yes, I know them.
The energy begins to assume rough human shape. He addresses McCoy, he knows him from home... And you, he addresses Mystique, still looking like Jean Grey. Mother it’s been so long…
“Mother?” she asks confused. She doesn’t know what he is. He thinks he does, McCoy suddenly admits, clearly frightened. Oh, this is not good.
He’ll try to bring himself together for a moment, the being replies. Ah, yes, yes. And before them stands Nathan Grey, X-Man Nearly Omnipotent. Sun King.
Please help him, he pleads. He’s trying to get home.
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In a dark and damp warehouse, Hope, now a preteen, looks around anxiously. She can’t let him find her, is her all-consuming though. She hears a noise in front of her, only to have Cable come up behind her a moment later. Gotcha. Aah! Hope shouts out as Cable wrestles her to the ground.
Her enemy will try to distract her, just like he did, Cable informs her. Don’t let him, he orders. Be aware of your surroundings. That means every--
Okay, okay, she gets it, Hope calls out annoyed. No, she doesn’t get it, Cable replies strictly. Take that old boiler over there, for instance... What about it? Hope asks and looks at it. Cable uses that opportunity to attack and drop her again. She looks up at him furious.
Staying focused is the key, Cable continues his speech. Don’t allow herself to be lulled into seeing what her opponent wants her to see.
Resentfully she recalls all the speeches day in day out. Didn’t know he was her opponent, she sulks. He doesn’t know what to say. She gets it, she states. Never let her guard down. Now will he leave her alone?
No, he won’t, Cable replies. He can’t. Because the man who is hunting her won’t. Not until she’s dead. He knows this is tedious but it is necessary. It’s what will keep her alive. Understand?
He never cuts her any slack, she thinks. Never gives her a “good job” or “attagirl” – nothing. She looks at him sulking. He’ll take that as a “yes.”
Doesn’t he know that’s all she wants, she wonders.
Later, Cable calls her, telling her it’s time they got rolling. He looks into the darkened room, seeing her in sitting in the shadow with her back to him. He walks closer, telling her he knows he’s been hard on her. Walking closer still, he sees it’s only a deception, some objects made to look like her.
The next moment, the real Hope attacks from the shadows, kicking him in the face. When he says nothing, she explains she was trying to make him see what she wanted him to see. Right, he replies, cleaning the blood off his face.
He looks away. And then she catches him. Just for a moment, even though he tries to hide it, a quick smile. And she realizes that, in his own weird way, Nathan does encourage her. She just has to be quick enough to catch it.


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Journey to the Center of the Goblin – part two
Mystique (Shapeshifter – Ruby Tuesday) – currently still in the shape of Jean Grey - and the “Dark Beast” (bestial biologist. The Midnight Rambler) - the sociopath Hank Mc Coy from another reality – both look in surprise and horror at the being that has materialized himself in front of them. Nathan Grey, X-Man (near omnipotent. Jumping Jack Flash).
Reaching out for “Jean,” Nate calls her “Mom.”  It’s him, Nate! He’s trying to get home! She has to know… that man standing there, that’s not the real Henry Mc Coy. And he won’t suffer him to live!
Using the power he currently has at his disposal, Nate begins attacking McCoy. Mystique shouts “no!” Confused, Nate turns to her. He had her fooled? How is that even … possible? Why has she got psychic baffles up against him?
Mystique stalls, telling him the world has changed so much. He doesn’t know how much, does he? No, but, mom… he begins to protest. She interrupts him. She doesn’t even know if that’s the real him. She can’t trust what she sees. No yet. Please, tell her… all that’s been going on… all these people saying his name… what is that? She holds his shoulder.
He tried to stop anyone getting hurt, Nate replies. He needs to find a way—oh! He sinks down -- a way to be one person again. He extended too much energy. And he’s still using it up too fast, just being here. He begins to turn back to energy.
Mystique asks him to stay with her. He can’t make it this time, but, mom, he assures her, he’s really Nate. He will make it back. But until he does, don’t trust... With that, he disappears.
Thanks for her concern, McCoy remarks sarcastically. Helping him up, Mystique replies she just saved his life. An omega level mutant, McCoy muses, a living god, returning to the world of mortals. He doesn’t know about the Civil War, Mystique muses, the Skrulls, Osborn… And does she know what else is going to happen? McCoy asks. Right now? The power that the other two are feeding on has just cut out.
The “other two,” Omega (drains mutant powers. Tumbling Dice) and Mimic (mimics mutant powers, You can’t always get what you want): Both are high up in the air fighting each other with stolen mutant power that suddenly disappears, Cut off, Omega falls screaming. Mimic tries to catch him, but too late.
inventory of items destroyed by Omega: ‘3 memorial bandstand and sundial
And soon they are gathered at HAMMER HQ, addressed by Norman Osborn (our title star, we’ll get to that. A man of wealth and taste). Well, Norman muses, that worked out on the credit side. The town believed their story about an alien force possessing people. It took over Omega. He beat it. They’re going to build statues of them. Xavier, Summers, they lived for this moment, but he’s got it. But! To business! Who is this X-Man?
He’s from the same alternate reality as Dr McCoy. He styles himself as a mutant shaman identifying entirely with that cause. Which would normally make Norman keen to bring him onboard, however… precognition, telepathy, telekinesis, energy manipulation on a vast scale… a certain unpredictability… a certain wildness of thought… and a Summers, too… He could go one-on one with the Sentry which has always been how he judges who’s too dangerous to play on their team.
He slams their file on Nate Grey shut. He thinks this man’s dangerous extremism would make him set himself against the order they are building… in about a nanosecond. So the best way he can contribute to their cause is from inside the Omega machine… where his work would be highly satisfying.
New mission, ladies and gentlemen, work out where he’s next going to appear, stake it out and capture their first omega level threat.
Michael Pointer storms out and Mystique follows, asking him to wait. This is ridiculous, he huffs. Osborn wants them to do that? He’s got far too much faith in them. Well, Mystique points out he is out of his mind. But doesn’t he think X-Man is, well… impressive? Doesn’t he think he offers them all some new alternatives? Doing this gets them closer to him, to communicate with—Oh no, Michael withdraws. This is her testing his loyalty, doing that agent provocateur thing… and he doesn’t mean lingerie… Oh, there they go, mental picture—
Listen, outside of the missions he thinks she’d better just not talk to him, okay? He hurries away.
Later, Mystique goes to Mimic’s room to talk. Impressive, whatever, Cal shrugs as he gets himself a beer. What will be will be. Oh no, Mystique recalls. While he was mimicking X-Man’s power he said he saw the future. What he feared, what he “deserved”… No, no, he cries. She’s asking if he’ll keep it together in the mission? Of course he will. He doesn’t need McCoy to keep dosing him with that stuff – for which if he ever cares enough, he will hurt McCoy, by the way, no, he can go through the motions, to where he knows this is going. His future is only a problem for him. And that’s sll she cares about, right? Mystique looks at him concerned.
In McCoy’s lab, Beast thanks his frightened assistant Beaker and orders him to insert those electrodes he gave him later. So, he asks the team, how do they find a mental voice? His own psychic powers get a vague impression of him, Mimic remarks, not enough. They need a group of psychics, McCoy announces. HAMMER has gathered such a group, only, and he knows they will find this hard to believe coming from him, he find the way they go about things a little… extreme.
So, a little later at HAMMER psi-divison:
They are led through the rooms by Dr. Jarl, their leader. All of the psychics including Jarl are wearing purple robes adorned with odd symbols. Several of them crouch in the tunnels, meditating. Jarl explains that while Osborn handled the mutant and superhero problem, he gave him free rein to deal with the matter of PSI.
He tells Omega not to worry. None of these people are mutants. He wasn’t, Michael replies, then sheepishly admits that he was.
Jarl continues that he took former psychic supervillains, criminals, mystics, even fortune tellers and amateurs, and they said to them: “For those of you with powers, the free world is over. Let us do what true seekers have always done. Let us accept that truth. Let us embrace it. Let us find a new way to exist that goes beyond the individual.”
He leads them to their goal, a giant floating brain made up of psychics. Now what is it they want his brain to do?
Elsewhere, on a plane of swirling light and energy:
Nate is suddenly aware again. In the mindscape of humanity. He knows his name. He’s in great pain. But he embraces it. it will make him real. He knows something is wrong. In the waking world of physics and time. It feels like his mother’s in danger. So: everything that hurts is him. Everything that does not, is not. He was his people’s greatest hope. He will be again. He is coming back into the world and he will not give in.
Back in the PSI-division’s lab, McCoy examines one psychic woman standing a bit aside from the others. She is conscious, somewhere in there, but with no will of her own.
Mystique walks with Jarl and explains they want a scan of the entire human unconscious… Indeed? he asks with raised eyebrows. Interesting. He will focus his brain. McCoy leads the psychic girl away, seeing that she isn’t needed.
This is hell, Omega mutters. Why does he keep saying that? Mimic asks. Look at what’s in front of them, Omega orders, pointing at the “brain” that’s now glowing. They’ve taken something which used to be about science and adventure and magic and romance and made people submit to the point where it’s all about what this one guy wants. Is he talking about … Osborn? Mimic asks. What?
No! Omega replies. That’s just the government choosing someone to lead the project. If he doesn’t work out, they’ll appoint someone else. He means, it used to be Tony Stark, right? And who is he to judge what the democratic process does? Most of the time he’s drunk on mutant power. Driving under the influence. Making people laugh. “Look at the silly drunken man. I wonder if he’s about to kill someone…”
Again he points at the brain. This is hell and he’s in it. And he’s going to report this to Mr Osborn because he honestly thinks that he’ll do something to stop it. Yeah, that’s it. He’ll report it. If he remember! he adds in a sad small voice.
Dr. Jarl begins to focus the brain and in the unconscious Nate notices the psychic energy strand sent out. He grabs it.
Horrified, Jarls notices Nate’s taking power from his brain. All his power - and he cannot disconnect!
Nate pulls and Jarl passes out. As do all the psychics. The brain falls apart.
He drained them all, Mystique states. Can he do that? she wants to ask McCoy, to find he is no longer there. They run toward his lab. Mimic asks Mystique that she thinks X-Man could do it, doesn’t she? That he could stop her from being a walking bomb. Oh, suddenly he has curiosity about the future? she snaps. Yes, and isn’t that great, he replies sarcastically. It is she replies. Someone she cared for very much used to live under exactly the same burden he does now. She wishes she was here to give him lessons.
Omega hesitantly remarks they are in front of the right room. But what’s the smell? Like a butcher’s shop. With a bloodied labcoat, McCoy peers out and tells them to either stand there and continue their soap opera or come in. Don’t tell him what’s going on. He knows better than they do. That’s why he came here. Mind the… pieces of human, he tells them.
The psychic’s corpse lies discarded on the ground of the bloodstained lab. Watch this, he orders them, pointing to the brain he’s keeping alive. Mystique orders Mimic and Omega to be quiet before they can say anything. It was just a sapiens sapiens.
McCoy explains he wanted to watch what was happening from the inside of the human unconscious and he needed a psychic’s brain to do it. He warns them it makes disturbing viewing.
As the brain is activated, they see the view from the unconscious on a screen. Nate sees everything that happened recently. What have they done? he asks seeing the events of the Superhero Civil War and World War Hulk… the Skrull Invasion. What have they done?!
…And finally Osborn’s rise to power… his Avengers and Thunderbolts… his fighting the X-Men… his own team of X-Men… Osborn standing there, smirking. What have you done?! a furious Nate Grey snarls.


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Journey to the Center of the Goblin – part three
Avengers Tower, the current HQ of HAMMER is under attack by the newly returned Nate Grey aka X-Man (vastly powerful mutant shaman. The Man with the Child in his Eyes).
He just created a new body for himself out of stolen psychic energy. Leaving dozens of unconscious psychics in his wake. He could have appeared inside the building but he wanted to make an entrance. So he smashes his way int. He didn’t stop to ask for help. It didn’t occur to him that he might need any.
He’s an omega-level mutant with a conscience which can be disconcerting. He lands among the panicked personnel and scans them. He tells one woman that he is dividing the just from the unjust. That UNICEF job she is considering, go do it! She runs away.
Okay he’s been briefed about him, a voice comes from behind him. Venom (Alien goo wrapped around a crunchy human killer. Hammer Horror). The monster adds he can’t say he remembers much. But he’ll save him time with “just” or “unjust.” I’m just me.
He’s here? a woman learns in another part of the building. Mystique (shapeshifter. Mother stands for Comfort). He waited until they got here. Maybe that’s no coincidence. They’ll rendezvous with the Avengers and intercept.
As she takes the lead to he elevator Omega (absorbs mutant energy Pulling out the Pin) asks her to wait. They’ve seen how powerful Grey is. Is he afraid? Mystique asks. Not of X-Man, comes the explanation by Mimic (Mimics mutant powers Don’t push your foot on the heartbrake). Of what absorbing X-Man’s power will do to him. They should let Mimic try first. He’s foreseen that X-Man won’t kill him and … he wants to use his precognitive power. To see more.
And then there is the final member, the so called “Dark Beast” (Furry psycho biologist The Kick Inside) who announces with concern that he doesn’t think any of them have good reason to rush into a superhero battle. Should they just go to the sidelines and see who’s winning?
Currently, Venom is trying to swallow Nate, finding he is not quite solid. That moment, Nate has found something in Venom’s brain. Remember how it was when he froze? Remember it now psychosomatically! Venom passes out, leaving only his human self.
Excellent for a first time player, comes a new comer’s voice. But now just look at your end-of-the-level bosses! It’s the Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn in armor. Big stripey Lie). Next to him Ares (Your actual god of war. Love and Anger), Hawkeye (actually Bullseye. He never misses. Heads, we’re dancing), the Sentry (a vast fragile power. Be Kind to my Mistakes), Ms. Marvel (really Moonstone. A psycho psychiatrist with superpowers. In the warm room) and Daken (son of Wolverine. An architect’s dream). Together they are the “Dark Avengers” (Osborn’s enforcers. Them Heavy People).
Nate bows mockingly. So very impressive, so very earnest! He doesn’t know why he’s even bothering! Clearly he’s going to get his butt kicked. But there’s one thing he doesn’t understand. He looks up at the Sentry, addressing him by his given name “Bob.” What is he doing with these guys? Back in the day he and Nate were partners, weren’t they?
He… he knew him? the Sentry asks confused. He didn’t forget him? What is he talking about? Nate asks. They called them “X-Man and the Sentry.” They fought the Brood, Galactus, the rogue Thor… the Void…
Confused, the Sentry flies off. Okay, Osborn admits, they knew Grey was clever. “Clever” be damned! Nate scoffs. He just told him the truth! Listen! He turns to all of the Avengers. Osborn has ruined this world. He’s forced mutants into exile. And he made Nate believe his mother was still alive. He doesn’t get away. But the rest of them… join with him against Osborn now! Or suffer the consequences!
Just listen to him! Ares announces with a broad grin. He lovesit. Grey might offer him a challenge. Osborn orders him to wait. You wait, the god of war retorts as he leads the attack. He intends to enjoy himself!
Osborn’s X-Men watch the fight from some distance. What is he thinking? Mystique asks Mimic. That he was an X-Man once, he replies darkly. Yes, McCoy agrees, that’s his greatest power (referring to Nate). To make people lose their common sense.
They need to be seen to be involved, Mystique decides. Mimic suggests he stands a chance of copying Grey’s power set. If he uses it against him just long enough to see what he needs to --
Guys, Omega suddenly moans as his powers go wild. I’m walking backwards for Christmas! Ying tong idle ay po!
Ms. Marvel, Daken and Ares all attack. Nate remarks Daken’s pheromone effect is interesting but he has sampled every chemical. He suggests Karla should fight someone with superstrength and speed as she has, but the attack of a god, he can’t find anything to counter Ares he states as he tries to hold back the wargod’s axe. He’s war personified, on every plane. In every future, too. Flattery will get him nowhere, Ares replies. Either fight or...
Doe a deer, a female deer! comes Omega’s voice as he flies toward them. Both of them look dumbstruck as he flies in between them (apologizing). Nate is momentarily stunned. Hawkeye intends to use that opportunity. No, Mimic shouts and fires the knife out of Bullseye’s hand with his optic blast. He flies toward Nate and tries to copy his power.
He wants to see, Nate realizes. Well then, see! He takes Cal onto another level of perception. They are between moments. They see the others as overlying images. Nate warns Cal not to touch them, not unless he’s tuned in, it takes practice. This is one of his three hundred ways of seeing, where he walks to gain wisdom.
Their future, Mimic asks hesitantly. Can it be changed? Sometimes, Nate replies, cryptically. Sometimes not. Either way, there’s always hope. The four of them are interesting. They are like a… chaotic pinball machine. They might help with what he’s going to do next. Or they might—
There he is! Ares shouts as he joins them. Hiding amongst time! He’s really impressed. Still, that doesn’t limit him!
Nate is thrown backward, passing Ms. Marvel’s image. The combat takes place out of time in the Planck length between moments. Nate is thrown though Karla Sofen’s history. She loses a memory from an afternoon in a garden.
Ares almost hits Nate with his axe. And a tribe in New Guinea tells tales of how the war god is fighting the new man. And how you can see in the stars that the war god is winning.
Ares grabs Nate by the throat. Nate’s eye glows as he reaches out to Mimic, telling him that soon he’ll have to decide, to start living! But for now, get back to normal time.
Back in reality, Mimic holds the unconscious Nate. He didn’t’ see! he complains.
Ares stands nearby triumphantly. Dismissively, he thanks Mimic for keeping Nate distracted. Vaguely.
Mimic helps up Omega while McCoy warns everyone to be careful. Grey is currently not made of normal matter. He looks solid enough, Iron Patriot replies as he kneels down next to the unconscious Nate. But point taken. Can they still get him into the Omega machine?
Nate seems to explode, with Osborn caught in the explosion. Ms. Marvel asks him if he is all right. He’s fine, he assures her, somewhat shaken. But Nathan Grey… His sensors say that was him dying.
They look at the smoking remnants of Nate’s corpse.
Nate’s remains are transported away and the Avengers leave. In a poor mood, Mystique walks away.
Alone in his office Osborn curiously stares at his hand, then gingerly touches his head. With a satisfied grin, he sits down, wondering where to start.
He is told Mystique wants to see him and lets her in. Amazing view, he greets her and asks what he can do for--? She has a list, comes the reply. She wants the explosive removed from her nervous system. She wants a jet with room for two and flight clearance for anywhere. And after that, she wants him to exhibit a complete lack of interest in her affairs.
Why ever should he give her that? he asks. Because, she tells him, she is an expert in people pretending to be other people and she’s still wearing her psychic baffler so she feels quite safe. And she thinks his relative stealth right now means he needs to keep what he’s done secret, Nate!
With this, Osborn’s left eye begins to glow…