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Logan Dies part 4
(flashback, Ypres, Belgium, April 22, 1915)
Logan has a pistol aimed at his head, held by his own hand. A voice tells him to do it, and end the anguish of his mortal existence. Logan turns to see Azrael standing there in his long red cloak. He can’t believe it. He thought he’d killed him. Azrael tells him that he defeated him in combat. The ennui that Logan has been feeling since their encounter; the despair that has him putting a gun to his own head – they are the result, the punishment for defying the natural order of things. Logan hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about. Azrael tells him that they are not finished. “Then let’s finish it,” replies Logan as he charges Azrael.
Logan lunges but Azrael appears to simply step aside. “Don’t embarrass yourself,” he advises. He informs Logan that he is a singular combatant, and because he defeated him on this plane of existence, he cannot vanquish Logan there. But their time will come. He vanishes, leaving Logan to receive some ribbing from a fellow soldier who asks if he’s getting enough sleep on the floor. He should gear up, he tells Logan. The Bosch won’t kill themselves.
(ninety-three years later, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan)
Logan walks into a toy store and asks the assistant, in Japanese, that he’s looking for ninjas. She replies that they don’t have those kinds of toys, but she can recommend a store two stops from there on the Jr. Yamanote Line. He replies that he’s not looking for the toy. The store is a front for the ninja brotherhood known as the Hand. He snikts three claws and says that they might help. In an instant, he is surrounded by ninjas wearing red. “Yeah,” he grins. “There we go.”
As bystanders make a quick exit, Wolverine goes to work on the ninjas, slicing and dicing his way through them all until only one is left alive to talk. He tells his captive that if he tells him what he wants to know, he’ll let him end his life with honor. Dr. Strange has hooked Logan up with a doohickey called a Treskara, which takes an image straight from his mind and displays it like a hologram. He informs the ninja that the woman shown is a high priestess in his order. He wants a name. He warns the ninja that he hasn’t got all day. The ninja informs him that she is Phaedra. Logan notes that it’s a Greek name yet she has Japanese ancestry. She must have a heckuva interesting family.
The ninja adds that she is gone from the order. “Dead?” asks Logan. He replies that she disappeared off to pursue her own path. Logan holds the ninja’s sword to his throat and says that he’s real interested in finding that path. The ninja says that no one knows where she is. She’s defected and joined a new order calling itself Scimitar. Logan lowers the sword and turns away. The ninja kneels and asks if that’s sufficient. Logan says that it is, and tosses him the sword. As he departs, the ninja takes his own life.
As Logan walks through the neon lit streets, he thinks it’s funny how some things just fall into place. He hadn’t given much thought to why Scimitar had gone to so much trouble to take him out. There was the bait in Iraq and the image-induced helicarrier. When you’re someone like Wolverine, you get used to people trying to kill you, but this makes sense.
He thinks about how Phaedra was there when the Hand killed him. She was the engine behind the whole thing. Ever since, he’s not been completely the same. She wasn’t alone, either. Shogun was with her. He remembers him in the temple. However, it looks like he’s also with Scimitar these days, just like Phaedra. He guesses the two of them went over together. If she goes where he does, then all he has to do to find her is find him. There are still a few questions left to ask, not the least of which is what are Phaedra and Shogun doing with the Hand - the outfit that brought him back to life? How did they end up with Scimitar who is trying to kill him?
Logan loves mysteries. He can usually solve a problem by beating the snot outta somebody. However, this calls for a different approach. Shogun could be anywhere in the world, so he has a needle/haystack situation. He decides to make use of his assets. Before he was an Avenger and before he was an X-Man, he was a spook. He still has a few friends left in the trade, and a few former friends.
He visits the home of Shiori Masakuma, the former lover of Asano Kimura, who was also a friend. She works for Naikaku Joho Chosashitsu, or Naicho for short – Japan’s intelligence agency. He died, and she blames him. The blame is not entirely misplaced. She slaps him hard across the face, only to find an adamantium-laced skull hurts. He informs her that he’s looking for Shogun who works for Scimitar. She replies that Scimitar is well on its way to turning Al Qaeda and Hydra into punch lines.
She informs Logan that Shogun is in Japan. He does what he’s told and goes where he’s told, and Scimitar’s base of operations is in Tokyo. Logan asks where. Shiori replies that if Naicho knew that, doesn’t he think they’d take them out? But, she adds, SIGINT and street buzz confirms it. They’re nearby. Logan tells her that he’s had a run-in with them and they’ve got access to industrial grade image-inducer tech. They could be anywhere.
Logan departs via the window, and she asks where he’s heading. He won’t tell her, because if he does, she’ll follow him and risk getting hurt. He owes it to Asano. He dons his costume and heads out of the city. Tokyo has over thirty million people in it; the world’s largest metropolis. There’s only one place uninhabitable enough to hide a facility as big as Scimitar’s has to be.
He reaches Mount Fuji and recognizes the image-inducer tech. He approaches a wall and reaches out. Bingo. He walks right through the fake wall and into their base - confirmed by the symbol of a scimitar on the walls. He appreciates the old-school feeling of people who carve their hideout into a volcano, and remembers to put in heating and cooling vents. The place is big, but after a while, Logan discovers Shogun who sits meditating.
The last time he and Shogun fought, Shogun ended up killing him. For real. He hopes that Shogun wakes from his trance so he can savor delivering some payback. He isn’t disappointed. Shogun stands and turns as Wolverine attacks. He’s fast, but unlike last time, Logan is prepared for him. He has a surprise in store. As they get in close to each other, Wolverine snaps a small bomb to his chest and dives for cover. Shogun looks down a split second before the bomb explodes. Shogun dies instantly.
Logan then makes his way to the bedroom and finds Phaedra in bed. He places a hand over her mouth so she doesn’t speak when she wakes up. Once she is out of bed and robed, he removes his mask and tells her that he wouldn’t want to wake her boyfriend. He apologizes for not being dead as she might expect. She replies that she’s a patient woman. He tells her that threats like that would sound better if he hadn’t come back from the worst she and her boy Shogun could throw at him.
Logan tells her that he knows who he is, and he knows her, too. What he doesn’t know, and the fact that he doesn’t is the only reason she is still sucking air, is why Scimitar went to so much trouble to take him out. Phaedra replies that it’s the simplest of reasons… vengeance. Logan says he’s never even met her. She says that he owes a debt of honor to be paid in blood, but not to her. He asks who, then. She tells him it’s one he has killed. He can’t be that surprised, as she resurrected him, after all.
Wolverine replies that he’s killed his fair share of souls, so could she narrow it down? She asks him to look around. Does he see anything familiar? Logan does, and his blood turns to frost. He sees the Yashida family seal. “Mariko…” he whispers. “No gaijin. Not Mariko,” comes a reply from the bedroom. “Her father! And for killing me, for killing my daughter, this time your death will be permanent.”


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Logan Dies: Soul Survivor part 5
(flashback)
Wolverine fights Lord Shingen, the father of his beloved Mariko. He has forced Mariko to marry another Yakuza and humiliated Wolverine in the process. Logan has come looking to get payback for both. He gets it, killing Lord Shingen with his adamantium claws.
(present)
Lord Shingen, back in the land of the living, attacks Wolverine as Phaedra looks on. She is the one who brought Shingen back to life; the same woman who, once upon a time, brought Wolverine back to life, too. Years ago, during the First World War, Logan killed a guy who turned out to be the Angel of Death. You get a prize for doing that kind of thing. It’s a chance to free your soul from the afterlife. All he has to do is kill the Angel of Death again and again and again. If you win, you get your body back on Earth, which usually means your soul will be trapped in a corpse. Fortunately, Logan has himself a healing factor.
Over the years, his healing factor has gotten quicker, while the afterlife fighting’s been getting harder. Lately, it’s been getting real hard. It’s hard to the point where each time he and the Angel of Death throw down it’s almost been his last. The fight with Shingen continues as Logan thinks about all of this, yet his fighting instincts take care of defending himself against Lord Shingen.
Logan’s soul has been trapped in the afterlife, courtesy of Shingen and his girlfriend, Phaedra. He came to Tokyo to find out why and how. How’d they know what it would take to kill him? How’d they know that if his heart was broken, as in when Amir was killed, he wouldn’t be able to fight for his soul? Shingen manages to slice Logan across the face with his sword which takes out his right eye. Logan groans in agony, but comes back quickly and places his fist under Shingle’s chin. “Hey bub…” he quips. “Maybe next time, you’ll wear a face mask.” He pops his claws and Shingen drops to the carpet.
Phaedra tells Logan that the answer to how they knew is obvious. Her talent is to rekindle the flame of life - to bring the dead back the living. She doesn’t do that without making the acquaintance of the Angel of Death. Azrael walks up behind her and comes into the light. “Hello James,” he says, coldly. Logan didn’t realize that angels hooked up with mortals. Azrael replies that they do what they must.
Logan starts running towards him, asking why he, out of curiosity, is so flamin’ special. Is it because he’s the only guy to kick his ass? Azrael replies no. He’s not the only man to best him, though angels are not above vengeance. Nor are they immune to envy. He informs Logan that he’s taken too many lives; more than his share. It’s more than any mortal should. Logan crouches as he reaches Azrael and asks if he’s gonna slap his hand. Is that it?
Azrael replies that he told him that their time would come. Logan pushes upwards, hard, and smashes Azrael in the face. “You also told me you couldn’t beat me here on my turf,” says Logan. Azrael responds with an elbow to Wolverine’s face and informs him that it might be true, but that was when Logan was in full possession of his soul. That is no longer the case. Logan rubs his jaw. He would think he’d have an inkling or two if his soul was in trouble. Azrael informs him that he does, and he has, but he hasn’t needed them. He asks if Logan hasn’t wondered why he’s despaired since the Gorgon killed him. Hasn’t he wondered why lately, it’s been so difficult to defeat him? Hasn’t he wondered how it is that he finally defeated him?
Logan guesses that it Phaedra’s doing and he is correct. Azrael explains that when she brought Logan back, the Hand took control of him. As they continue to fight, Logan replies that he got control back, but Azrael tells him that he only thought he did. He thought his friends undid the brainwashing? It’s a concept Azrael scoffs at. He tells Logan that Phaedra kept a piece of his soul. She returned part of it to his mortal coil and kept a fraction for herself. That’s how she retained control. It’s what has made him weak.
As the two men continue their dance, Logan quips that he just thought he was losing a few pounds. What did she do with the piece of his soul, anyway? Shogun appears beside Azrael. “What do you think?” asks Azrael. Logan realizes that shogun is the missing piece of his soul. It must be the part without any fashion sense, he figures. Azrael warns him to stand down. He is outnumbered. “And then what?” Logan replies. Azrael tells him that he will pay the debt to the afterlife that he’s owed since Belgium nearly a century ago. He can take some comfort in knowing that a part of his soul is remaining on Earth.
Logan looks at Phaedra. “As her toy? Don’t think so, bub,” he remarks. Azrael says it’s not a choice. Logan replies that there are two things here. First, there is always a choice. Second, it’s really annoying that he keeps calling him James. “The name’s Logan.” Wolverine pops all six claws and attacks, literally fighting for his life.
The funny thing about fighting, though, is that it’s better than second nature for Logan. It’s first nature. He takes on both Azrael and Shogun, using the instincts and reflexes that years of training have provided him with. This means that while he is fighting, he can think about other things, like why Azrael and Phaedra appear to be on the same side on this. If his killing people ticks Azrael off so much, her bringing him back has to be more of a slap in the face.
Why doesn’t he go after her? He can only think of one possible reason. He can’t. It stands to reason that, if the lady can cheat death, she can keep the Angel of Death at bay. This gives him the opening he needs. He grabs Azrael’s sword out of his hand as his grip loosens for a moment, and swiftly uses it to decapitate and dismember Shogun. His body parts fall to the floor, inert. Standing over the body, Logan asks why they don’t just take a moment. He holds the sword at Phaedra’s throat, and Azrael asks what he is proposing.
Logan says that Azrael can get his soul back together and make him whole, right? He figures it’s not within his power to take Phaedra off the board. Phaedra’s shows concern when she realizes where he might be going with this. Azrael replies that he is correct. Logan tells him that the deal is this. He puts his Humpty-Dumpty Soul back together again, and he’ll take care of the chick who’s been undoing all of his work. Azrael replies that for the magnitude of such a thing to happen, their other arrangement would have to be made moot. Fine, replies Logan. Next time he buys the farm he buys it for keeps. Azrael tells him they have a bargain.
Logan turns to Phaedra and assures her that it’s nothing personal. Well… a little personal. Phaedra asks him to wait. She reminds him that she brought Mariko’s father back. It’s a simple matter to bring Mariko back as well. She can reunite them. He can hold his true love in his arms again. Is there any price he would not pay to do that? Logan pauses before replying, “No there isn’t. But Mariko’s not the kinda person I am. She’s better’n me in every possible way. That’s why I love her. And she’d never want to come back if it meant letting someone like you live. Sorry darlin’.” He plunges the sword into Phaedra, killing her.
(minutes later)
Wolverine rushes through the compound. The alarms sounds, and Logan thinks Shingen’s Scimitar buddies sure took their sweet time waking up to the fact that their boss was in trouble. He is soon faced with several armed Scimitar guards. Thanks to Azrael, he’s now playing for all the marbles. No eternal soul. Healing factor’s not what it’s been in years. Higher stakes. Higher risks. This must be why the adrenaline surging through his body makes him feel like he hasn’t for almost a century. As his claws become covered in blood, he smiles to himself. ‘Feels good.’
(epilogue)
Lord Shingen slowly awakens next to Shogun’s body. He takes a look at the mess and stands up. He reaches down and picks up the face mask.
“Everything  dies, baby. That’s a fact. But, maybe everything that dies, someday comes back.” - Bruce Springsteen.


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Get Mystique part 1
(1921, the Sonoran Desert, Mexico)
A blood-splattered Logan lies on the floor of a hot jail cell in a tiny white-walled Mexican prison. A guard repeats his request for Logan to get up by smacking him in the face with his rifle butt. Logan rouses and wipes the fresh blood from his mouth. “No breakfast for me,” he quips. “Thanks fellas. Think I’d rather sleep in.” The guard orders him to get up and he is led out of the jail and into the sunshine.
He is led to a post where he is tied up and blindfolded. A female stranger asks if he was arrested just for stinking to high heaven, or does he have other crimes worse than that? Logan tells her that he’s afraid so. He’s what they call the lowest of the low. “You’re a murderer?” she asks. Logan replies that he’s worse. He’s a horse thief. He enquires as to why she is there. She informs him that her crime’s quite simple. She was born with the wrong color skin.
Logan asks if she’s black, but Mystique tells him that she’s a tad more exotic than that. Because she’s different and has abilities that they can’t understand, these ignorant peasants figure her for some kind of witch. But, she is merely what she is. She adds that whether it was God or the Devil that made her this way, she chooses not to give a damn. Logan laughs and she asks why he does so. “Oh, nothin’ darlin’. Just fancy meeting you here is all,” he replies.
The guards take aim. Mystique tells Logan that he doesn’t seem too worried for someone who’s about to die. She’s hoping this means he has an ace up his sleeve. With an order from their superior, several shots are fired by the guards.
(present, the Safed Koh Mountains, Afghanistan)
Mystique, disguised as Wolverine and sporting his yellow and blue outfit, stalks her way through the region and comes across a small village. Finding two young boys who are collecting firewood, she orders one of the boys to tell her where Mystique is. She asks him not to bother lying, because her rotten stench is all over the place. She snikts her claws to show she is serious, and the boy begins to sweat. Mystique then grabs him by his shirt and shouts at him. “Where the hell is Mystique!”
The boy probably doesn’t understand English, but he gets the picture. Mystique drops him and walks off. She reckons that whatever she’s paying them to hide her, it isn’t worth their lives. She can promise them that. She’s spent three days chasing Mystique across this godforsaken country, and this ends here one way or the other. At least, that’s what she’d like them to think.
Villagers scatter as she approaches. She orders them to tell her where Mystique is or she’ll tear the place apart. She pretends to sniff the air and fixes her gaze on a woman wearing a white garment. She walks right up to her. “Hello Raven,” she says.  She asks if she really thought she could hide from her, or that she’d just give up after what she did. The woman’s fellow villagers protest at her rough handling, but she warns them to back off. The woman ain’t who she says she is. She pulls back her left arm with her claws drawn. “Here, Raven. Why don’t we just show ‘em…” A moment later and the woman is pouring with blood. Mystique tells her that she’s waited a long time to do that, and it was definitely worth the wait.
More protests come from the villagers as the woman falls backwards. Mystique, still disguised as Wolverine, insists that she isn’t who they think she is. She’s a flamin’ blue-skinned traitor. She asks them to watch and they’ll see her change. Moments go by and the woman passes away. Her body doesn’t change at all. Mystique takes a good look at her. She then looks up and says that Mystique is there somewhere. They have five minutes to turn her over, or they’ll be needing a lot more graves.
(three days earlier, Muir Island)
Cyclops looks out over the sea. Logan approaches him and says that he knows why he asked to see him. In all the excitement, Mystique slipped away. He’s gonna tell him to take X-Force and go after her. Scott turns and tells him that after she betrayed them, he can bet his ass he is. Logan assures him that he’ll go and get her, but he has to do it alone.
Scott asks him if that’s really wise. He and Mystique have a long history, though Scott admits he doesn’t know all the details. Logan doesn’t think this is the time to fill in the blanks. Scott leans forward a little and asks if he understands that he’s not asking him to bring her in… not breathing at least. Logan replies that they understand each other completely. Scott asks if he needs anything, but Logan replies that he’s good. Scott then asks how he’ll find her. She could be anywhere in the world impersonating God knows who. Logan asks if he’s joking. “Give me nine hours.”
(eight-and-a-half hours later, Tehran, Iran)
People are praying in a Mosque. Wolverine enters and walks up to an old man with a long white beard. “How about you and me step outside, Raven?” he asks, menacingly. The man protests but Wolverine grabs his beard and tells him that he speaks Farsi well. Good for her. He warns her that they both know how this is gonna end. There’s no need to involve the other worshippers. As he speaks, several of them approach and somehow manage to separate the pair of them. Wolverine warns Mystique that the harder she makes this, the worse it’s gonna be for her.
Mystique takes off into the daylight and transforms into her normal form as she runs. Once clear of the building she presses a remote control and the Mosque explodes in a fiery ball. “Gonna have to do better than that, old-timer,” she cries as she sprints away. Inside, Wolverine manages to stand up and get himself clear of the fallen masonry. He grabs one man who is still burning and carries him to safety. The explosion has taken it out of him. Bystanders flee the scene which allows Mystique to make her escape. Wolverine is now more determined than ever that he and Mystique are going to have themselves a little talk.
(1921)
Logan stands over several guards, all of whom are either dead or unconscious. Mystique removes her blindfold. “Oh, goodness gracious… an ace up your sleeve, indeed,” she gasps. She notices the healing bullet wounds and the knife buried deep into his thigh. She asks if it hurts. “Yeah,” comes the reply. Mystique tells him that she appreciates his timely intervention, but how’d he know that she’d be able to untie herself before they started shooting? Logan replies that he didn’t. He begins to walk away, and Mystique asks where he’s going. “The nearest bar,” he replies.
Mystique follows him into the desert and informs him that she knows a place he’ll like in Nogale that has Mescal. She introduces herself as Raven and asks if he has a name. He replies that his name is Logan. She asks if they could walk together for a while. When Logan asks her what they have to talk about, Mystique says that maybe they could talk about the fact that they met in the middle of nowhere: her with her blue skin and he with his… whatever. She asks if he’s ever been to Kansas City. She’s got a group of friends there she’d like him to meet. “You never know,” she adds, “This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” Logan replies that she’s buying the Mescal.
(present, the Safed Koh Mountains, Afghanistan)
Wolverine storms through the desert, and thinks back to those times. Maybe he should have known way back then, when they first met, that this is how things were bound to play out between them. He’s been chasing her for three days now, from Tehran into Afghanistan; across the desert and into the mountains. By day, through dust storms and 120-degree heat, by night through winds that blow down from the Hindu Kush which are so cold they make his bones ache. No food, no sleep, no mercy. He knows that the old girl is crafty. He’ll give her that. She’s managed to stay one step ahead of him this whole time, but now it looks like he’s finally going to catch up. That means her time is about to run out.
Walking around a bend in the path, he comes across the woman in white lying dead on the ground, with three puncture wounds adorning her blood-soaked garment. Damn it to hell, he thinks. He snikts his claws and tells her to come out. “Raven, you hear me? Come and get me, you hypocrite bastard.”
Nearby, villagers are grabbing rifles from the wall. They believe he has killed her. Wolverine makes his way to an alley for a quick breather. His popped claws clean as a whistle. At the opposite end of the alley, Mystique stands there with blood dripping from her fake claws. The villagers cock their weapons. Wolverine promises to make it quick, but she tells him he’ll have to make it some other time. “Bebakhshid! Hey, infidel,” comes a voice from behind him. “You said we’d be needing a lot more graves, but I don’t know…” Wolverine turns to see several guns pointed at him. “I think we’ll be needing just one.” Wolverine damns Mystique once again.


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Get Mystique part 2
(1921, Kansas City, United States of America)
The city is generally known as the Paris of the Plains, but Mystique calls it a grifter’s dream. She chats to Logan, who is dressed smartly in a striped suit and hat. She informs him that the cops and judges are all on the take, which leaves them to ply their trade unmolested. Downtown, she has Big Pearl and Pete the Pygmy working the trolleys. The way they fleece the fat cats sure is a sight to see. Pearl wears a big dress under which Pete hides. When he gets the opportunity, he pops out from under it and pickpockets the unsuspecting commuters.
In the North End, she adds, Honeypot May is pinching pocketbooks from Johns and biting the diamonds off their tiepins. In the West Bottom, she has Six-Fingered Soapy dealing three card monte and One Eyed Ande running the glim-dropper scam, as well as every other bit of bunko he can imagine being worked. She spent three years putting together her team of swindlers, and he can trust her in that they might look like freaks, but every single one of them is the best there is at what they do. Nearby, Logan sees Six-Fingered Soapy paying cards with two punters. He tells Mystique, or Raven as he calls her, that he doesn’t deal cards, pick pockets or turn tricks. What exactly does she need him for?
“Son of a bitch,” shouts one of the punters, angrily. He grabs Soapy by the right arm and tells his friend that he knew it. He’s a damn cheater. Dirty freak has too many fingers. His companion pulls out a knife and tells his friend to hold him still. He’ll remedy that. Logan intervenes and warns the guys to let Soapy go but they tell him to mind his own business. “I said… let him go!” Logan reiterates.
The knifeman leaps from his feet and tries to stab Logan, but he holds his hand out and the knife slides through the palm and out the other side. The guy lets go of it and Logan looks back at him, unimpressed. He then removes the knife to their astonishment and the knifeman pulls out a gun. “Shoot him, Jeb, ‘fore he kills us both!” says his friend. He shoots Logan point blank, but Logan slices three of his fingers off with the knife, forcing him to drop the weapon.
The guy grabs his hand in agony as Logan orders his friend to collect the guy’s fingers and get outta there. He warns them not to return. “Does that answer your question?” asks Mystique. Soapy thanks Logan before realizing he’s been shot in the gut. Logan asks him not to have a conniption. It ain’t the first time he’s been shot. God knows it won’t be his last.
(present, the Safed Koh Mountains, Afghanistan)
Wolverine is dragged by his feet by two of the gunmen that have just shot him. He’s been shot many times before, but he never gets used to it. It doesn’t matter how tough you might think you are, you don’t ever get used to being shot to hell. The two men toss him down into a ravine.
(ten minutes earlier)
Mystique has successfully framed Logan for the murder of a local woman and her fellow villagers shoot Wolverine, a lot, with their machine guns. He can’t blame them for this after what Mystique did, but it means he has to take his lumps, and concentrate on counting every one of the bullets so he’ll know exactly how much payback Mystique has got coming.
(present)
As he lies in the ravine, recovering slowly now his healing factor isn’t what it used to be, he thinks about how, whoever it was that coined the old saying, ‘Whatever don’t kill you, only makes you stronger,’ ain’t never been shot in the face with a double-barreled shotgun. He wakes up feeling like 200 pounds of arthritic hamburger. His nerve endings fire back to life in explosions of tiny needles. Trying to move only makes it worse as he feels bullets grinding against bone. Metal on metal. Gunpowder, blood and bile.
His lungs take time to recover so it’s hard for him to catch his breath as he gets up. It’s times like this that he actually feels his age. He cold just lay there until the healing’s all done, daydreaming about playing linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers or living life as a nameless farmer in Poughkeepsie. But, as usual, he has place to go and people to kill. He has to pick up Mystique’s trail before it grows cold.
(two days later, the Green Zone Café, Baghdad)
Wolverine enters the café, in costume, and finds mostly soldiers dotted around the place. He sniffs the air and walks to the bar, ordering a bottle of the strongest stuff the barman has and two glasses.  He then takes them to a table where a nun is seated. “Hiya Raven,” he says, “How ‘bout I buy ya a drink?” Mystique says sure. Why not? Logan takes a seat and pours the drinks
Mystique hopes he isn’t looking to start any trouble. She and the boys were certainly not looking for trouble. Logan sees a group of young boys behind her, seemingly in her care. Mystique asks him what could be more innocent than a nun and her orphans. Logan tells her she is a despicable old wench. She puts the glass to her lips. “Here’s to old friends, Logan.” Wolverine takes a sip. “And to settling old scores.” They both knock back the liquor, and Wolverine coughs up a bullet. He tells Mystique that it’s just one more thing he owes her for.
Mystique tells him that she’s not ashamed of what she’s done. She’d do it all again in a heartbeat, but who the hell is he to judge her anyway? Wolverine replies that she betrayed the X-Men and it’s his job to ensure she pays. She reminds him that it’s not the first time she’s betrayed his precious X-Men. Why did he wait so long until now to start taking it personally? He pours himself another shot and tells her that she knows how it’s going to play. He can’t kill her there and she can’t hide from him. Why don’t they step outside and get this over with? He promises to make it quick for old times’ sake. Mystique snarls that she can keep up this little chase forever. Can he? Don’t the Avengers need help saving the world? Or maybe one of the other half-dozen groups he runs with? Wolverine replies that the world can take care of itself for a spell.
She stands up and finishes her drink, pauses, and then slaps him across the face hard. “How dare you get fresh with me, you filthy beast?” she snaps. She rushes from the café with the children in tow and Wolverine gets up to follow. As he heads for the door, a big guy steps between them and warns him to leave the sister be. Wolverine tells him that he knows it seems like he’s doing the right thing, but can he please tell him he’s a really bad guy at heart? Does he beat his kids, cheat at cards, kick stray dogs? He wants something to work with so he doesn’t feel so bad when he kicks his ass. The guy replies that the only thing he’s hurting are his nostrils. He thought the rag-heads smelled bad. A racial slur is all Logan needs. One second later, the big guy is defenestrated.
Outside, one of the orphans asks ‘Sister Betty’ if she saw that. Mystique wastes no time in smashing the window of a parked truck and climbing into the front seat. She transforms into her normal blue self and offers a piece of advice to her young charges. “It’s a tough world out there. Learn to adapt, and most importantly… never trust anybody.”
(1921, Kansas City)
It’s pouring with rain and forks of lightning rock the city. Logan and Mystique are in an apartment and Mystique tells him that it’s hard to trust people. She knows. They both learned a long time ago to never trust anybody. That was the only way to survive. But, he’s safe there, with her. He replies that there ain’t no such thing as safe. Not in his experience. She says that there is. It’s called safety in numbers. He’s been there two weeks already. Maybe he should start to give them a chance. This could be his family. Her crew toast to another good day’s take as she adds that this could be their family.
Logan pulls away from her touch and tells her he doesn’t think so. Raven says she is offering him a chance to belong to something greater than himself, but he asks how. By swindling nickels and dimes? Mystique grins as she informs him she has something much bigger than that, but she needs him to pull it off. She tries to persuade him that opportunities like this don’t come along very often. They can do great things together. As they embrace, she asks him to trust her on this.
(the present, somewhere along the Iraqi border with Syria)
Senator Brickman rubs his fingers along Mistress Zahira’s thigh. He tells her that he’s been all over the country, and she is the only thing left in the whole godforsaken place that doesn’t turn his stomach. With all the damn meetings they have scheduled for him, did she think he wasn’t coming for her this time? She replies that she was counting on it. Everybody knows he can’t resist paying her a visit when he’s in town.
He stands and removes his red shirt, telling Zahira that he wants to do some more of the crazy positions like last time. She lifts her legs and grabs him by the neck, pulls him down onto the bed, and uses her strength to suffocate him. “Whassamatter, lover?” she smiles. “Was this not what you had in mind?” She then transforms into Mystique and asks if that was good for him. A voice from outside calls for the senator and she transforms into him. The soldier asks if everything’s all right. She straightens her tie and replies that she feels like a million bucks. How about him? He replies that they’re ready to roll out whenever he’s ready. She asks what he could do without them. “You boys are sure a lifesaver.”
(two hours later)
Wolverine follows Mystique’s trail. As soon as he heard about the senator’s visit, he knew what her next move would be. He finds Brickman, dead under the bed, and figures he was a mite too slow. He reckons Mystique thinks she can scare him off by putting a platoon of marines between them, and it’s true that her tricks have saved her so far. But, this time he has a few tricks of his own.
(the next day, the Iraqi Province of Al Anbar)
In the mountains, Wolverine approaches a cave where four men are standing guard. They rush towards him and aim their weapons. Logan places his hands behind his head and informs them that he is there to see Mordad. They can tell him it’s the infidel that saved his ass from the Russians in ’86. “Tell him I’m calling in a favor,” he adds.


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Get Mystique part 3
(1921, Kansas City, United States of America)
It’s evening, and Logan takes a stroll through the city with Mystique. They arrive at the Federal Reserve Bank and Mystique asks him what he thinks about it. Logan replies that it’s a Federal Reserve Bank, and she wants to rob it with a gang of two-bit grifters and circus freaks. She’s off her rocker. Mystique tells him that there’s an awful lot of money inside. Does he know what that would buy them? Freedom. Freedom from the daily grind. No more of these plebs and their petty hassles. They could get their own place upstate.
As she speaks, Logan notices a copper approaching. Mystique grabs him and asks him to pull her closer. She then puts her lips to his and kisses him; shifting his hand onto her butt. The copper walks past, and nonchalantly tells them to take it off the street. Mystique offers her apologies. “You have a good evening now,” she adds. Once he is out of earshot, Mystique asks Logan what it is that scares him. It’s not this job. She reckons that it’s the thought that they might actually pull it off. The idea of settling down - now that really scares him. Logan turns and wanders off. He tells Raven that if she wants to do it then they should just do it, but she can’t blame him when the whole thing blows up in their faces.
(present, the Iraqi Province of Al Anbar)
Logan is sat in an old beaten up red car in the desert. Watching from the rocks above is a group of Mordad’s men. They find this ridiculous. One asks why they are sitting there waiting for the infidel? If he wants to die, then he’ll just go and shoot him and have done with it. His boss asks him to sit down. He admits that he could sooner shoot down the moon than kill the man. He was there in ’85 when the Russians tried sending men into the mountains by the truckload. By the time the war was finished, all of Afghanistan was littered with their bones, and Logan yet lived. He informs them that Logan feels no pain and shows no mercy. Above all else, he cannot be stopped. So, they will sit there like he asked and hope that when he gets what the wants, he will leave them be. They might live to serve Allah another day.
Sitting in the car and wearing a blue bandana, Wolverine thinks about his healing factor. He thinks it’s funny that, just because you have a healing factor, you don’t feel pain. Unfortunately, that’s never been the case. He feels every gunshot, stabbing, beating and other bit of damage that’s been done to him over the years. He’s felt it all. Worse than that is when his body starts to knit itself back together. Growing new flesh and nerve endings… you can’t imagine the agony. Then, of course, there is the constant ache that comes from having a skeleton laced with adamantium. That ain’t no picnic, either. Over the years, he’s tried everything to deal with the pain: acupuncture, Hindu meditation, Atlantean water therapy, alien painkillers. Nothing helps. Eventually, he just had to accept the simple fact… it hurts like hell being him. He sits upright and presses the trigger linked to a massive bomb on the passenger seat. The explosion rips him apart, the car and everything around it.
(the day before)
Wolverine is in Mordad’s cave. Guards stand outside in the shadows, ensuring they get their privacy. They are enjoying a smoke together, when Mordad asks him if he really wants them to help him blow himself up. This seems a strange way to pay him back for saving his life all those years ago. Logan reminds him that it won’t kill him. He just needs to look dead, that’s all. “You are hunting someone, yes?” asks Mordad. A lot has changed over the years since they fought together, he adds, but some things never change. Logan is still a hunter of men. “And you?” enquires Logan.
Mordad replies that during the war against the Russians, the Americans called him a freedom fighter. Now, they call him an insurgent and a terrorist, but he is still fighting the same old fight. Wolverine asks his old friend to listen to him. He says that if anyone is harmed while he is helping him or if any American soldier gets even as much as a flesh wound, then he promises to return, and rectify the mistake he made by saving his life. Mordad laughs. He tells Logan its’ great to see him again. Would he like more tea before he blasts him to hell?
(present)
Mordad and three of his men wearing police uniforms carry Logan’s ‘corpse’ in a body bag to the gates of a military compound. American soldiers order them to halt and one asks them what they have. Logan was given enough C-4 to charbroil himself. Mordad’s men then used stolen police ID’s to get him to the security gate and hand him over to the military. “Suicide bomber, needs to be identified,” Mordad informs them. One of the soldiers takes a look and figures the body is fresh from the oven. They’ll take it from there. Mordad and his men depart, leaving Logan’s body to be carried inside the compound. Logan’s plan is going well. He is now inside the heart of Baghdad’s military and diplomatic headquarters, and one step closer to Mystique.
(sometime later)
The body bag is in a morgue alongside other body bags. No one is around, so Logan snikts his claws and rips his way out. He then sits upright and growls. His body is only semi-healed and he must be in agony. Mystique, pretending to be Senator Brickman, is in her quarters and doing up her fly when she smells something strange, like burning.
She turns a corner and sees Wolverine standing there; his flesh slowly knitting itself back together. He doesn’t look happy to see her. She asks him how he got in there. Logan grins and tells her that you fight enough ninjas, you start to pick up a few of their tricks. She ought to know better than anyone about hiding in pain sight. She warns him that there are armed men outside her door. Is it worth killing American soldiers just to get his hands on her? “You tell me, Raven,” he replies. “Is it worth pissing away your dignity, hiding behind innocents… just to avoid facing me?” She replies that they don’t get to be their age without knowing when to pick and choose their battles.
Logan edges his way towards her, and says that the Mystique he knew never ran from a fight. She was a lot of things for sure; a thief, an assassin, back-stabber, betrayer, piss-poor mother, terrorist, whore… but never a bald-faced coward. Mystique tells him that this is his X-Men psych training, right? This is how they teach him to goad his opponent into a fight. Logan asks if it’s working. Mystique grabs a chair and replies, “Not a bit.”
She then attacks Logan with the chair, but he slices it apart with his claws. She uses the two legs as weapons, but they are ineffectual against the metal. Mystique delivers a kick to Wolverine’s torso and then stabs him in the hand with one of the broken legs. He slashes at her chest and draws blood. Mystique knows this is a battle she cannot win. She looks at the doorway and Logan warns her not to do it. She ignores him and exits the room, informing the soldiers guarding her door that it’s time for them to earn their keep. She informs them that there’s a guy in her office. She’s pretty sure he’s Al Qaeda. The soldiers enter the room and aim their guns at Logan, warning him to drop the weapons and put his hands above his head. Logan tells them that he’s sorry for what’s about to happen, and they shouldn’t let it shake their self-confidence. Moments later, gunshots are heard as Mystique makes her escape.
(soon)
Two soldiers are outside, with one reading Play Pen magazine while the other checks under the hood of a Jeep. The guy with the magazine tells his colleague that he’d give anything to have five minutes alone with the scantily clad model on the page. “Five minutes,” comes a female voice. “Surely we can do better than that. The soldier’s jaws drop as they look up and see the model they are checking out standing right before them in a tiny red bikini. She approaches them slowly. “I don’t know about you guys, but I like it kinda… rough.”
She kicks the guy with the magazine in the face and delivers a solid right cross to his friend’s jaw. She then grabs him by his shirt and asks if the truck is fixed. He replies that it still revs a little high and leaks coolant, but… Mystique throws him to the ground. It’s good enough for her. She climbs in and drives away, leaving the soldiers thinking that Miss December just stole their truck.
Back inside, Wolverine has overcome the two brave soldiers and runs after Mystique. He damns her. She’s not getting away this time. At least the soldier’s will get away with swollen jaws and sore gonads. It’s Mystique who’s got the real hurt coming. She’s screwed him over for the very last time. She’s going to die. She’s had it coming for years.
(1921, Kansas City)
Mystique, disguised as a mustachioed man, punches the bank guard and orders everybody down on the floor. She warns them to close their yaps or they’ll start squirting metal. This is a robbery! An employee is shocked. “But Mr. Butterworth… you’re the bank president.” Mystique turns to him and says she knows. Ain’t it a gas? She calls down towards the safe room and asks Soapy how it’s going. Soapy has a drill, and replies it’ll be six minutes.
Outside, Logan is with One-Eyed Ande, both dressed as bank guards. Ande wonders if they’ve finished the job yet. Does Logan think they’ll be rich by now? As Logan tells him to shut up, Mystique exits the bank carrying a bag of cash. She transforms into her feminine form and asks how they’re doing. She explains that the bag contains the wallets and watches she took of the bank’s employees. Soapy’ll have the vault open any minute now. She asks him to relax. They’re almost home.
As she speaks, they hear sirens nearby and closing in. “What the hell was that?” asks Ande. Logan figures Soapy must have opened the vault. They should get a move on. Mystique makes a quick exit, unseen by Logan or Ande. “Damn it!” exclaims Logan. Inside the bank, Soapy shouts into the main room that he’s opened the safe. “Easy Street, here I come.” As he opens the vault, he finds four police officers standing inside it, all armed. “Not so fast, freak,” says their boss.
(present, somewhere outside Baghdad)
Mystique has pulled the truck to a halt. She is annoyed that Logan called her a coward. She sorts herself out, talking to herself. She’s not ashamed of anything she’s done, and she’s certainly got nothing to hide. She grabs two really big guns and grins. “You want me Logan,” she asks, rhetorically, “Well, I’m here in all my glory. Come and get me.”


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Get Mystique (Conclusion)
(1921, Kansas Federal Reserve Bank)
The cops have shown up and Six-Fingered Soapy finds himself trapped within the bank’s vault. Understandably nervous, he jokes with them, asking who’d like to go for a sarsaparilla with him. He’s buying. The lead mustachioed cop replies by informing him that he’s one of the scumbag grifters who’ve been chiseling the good people of this city with his fakeloo and his flimflam. He calls Soapy a scumbag and tells him he’s under arrest.
Soapy asks if they can come to some sort of arrangement, but the cop tells his boys that it looks like Soapy’s making a break for it. Soapy doesn’t understand until it’s too late. There is no intention to arrest him at all. The cops open fire, putting several bullets into Soapy who has little or no chance of survival.
Outside, Logan is with One-Eyed Ande and they hear the gunshots ring out. Ande realizes that it’s a set-up. They’ve got to get outta there. Logan heads inside and Ande asks where the hell he’s going. “After that bitch,” comes the response. “You’re crazy,” adds Ande, as Logan makes his way inside the bank. When he reaches the main banking area, he sees Pete the Pygmy and Big Pearl taking gunfire. Pete the Pygmy is wounded and falls to the floor, but Big Pearl tells him to snap out of it. They have to take it to these scumbums. When he fails to reply, she takes matters into her own hands. Standing up, she screams and starts to blast away with a pistol in one hand and a machine gun in the other. Bullets dart in both directions. As Logan watches the action, the cops who just murdered Soapy appear behind him. “Hey there fella,” their boss says. “Welcome to the party.”
(the present, the Syrian Desert, Iraq)
It’s fairly dark, and Wolverine is on his stomach, sneaking around underneath army trucks. He sees the words ‘Come and get me Logan’ painted on to the side of a personnel carrier. He’s coming as fast as he can under the circumstances. Unseen by Logan, Mystique aims her night sight at him and fires her rifle. A bullet strikes him in the shoulder. Logan grunts with pain, before rolling over to try and reach safety. Several bullets strike the dirt behind him as he reaches cover. As he steadies himself, he looks up to see a Claymore Mine. The words ‘Front towards enemy’ are clearly seen by Logan a moment before the bomb explodes in his face.
Nearby, Mystique smiles to herself. She wants Wolverine to bleed if he wants her so badly. She loads up a rocket-propelled grenade onto her gun and fires. Another explosion rocks Wolverine, and Mystique wastes no time in pulling the pin from a grenade and tossing that towards him, too. Despite the searing heat and the concussive effects of the artillery, Wolverine tears his way towards her position; his clothes ripped to shreds and his skin starting to bleed. More shots ring out as he emerges from the smoke and flames, but they fail to stop him as he lunges for Mystique.
Wolverine slashes with his claws and tears the rifle apart. Mystique swings the remaining part of the weapon and whacks him in the jaw with it. It doesn’t do much damage, and Wolverine slashes her across the stomach. Logan taunts her, asking if she isn’t going to do the bit where she changes into all his old girlfriends to try and throw him off. “No, Logan…” she snarls, “I’m just gonna kill you.”
Mystique plunges a knife into Wolverine’s ribs and he slashes her back in retaliation. The dagger is slashed across his throat, but Logan bites Mystique’s arm before she has time to get it clear. The dagger connects again before the claws slices through Mystique’s left arm. Dagger and claws drip red with blood, as the viciousness ceases for a moment.
Wolverine orders her to get up so they can finish this. Mystique, still naked, replies that she fully intends to. Does he think she’s never killed anyone with a healing factor? First, though, she thinks he ought to admit to himself what this is really all about. Logan tells her that she knows damn well what it’s all about. Mystique asks if he wants revenge for her betraying the X-Men for what… the fourth or fifth time. Is that it? He came all this way to kill her over that? She answers the question herself. “No. You came here to find out why?
She continues to theorize that he came to Iraq to find out why she never embraced their friendship; why she’s never settled down and become a reservation Indian like him. The way she sees it, the X-Men offered him his one last shot at redemption, and he seized it. She’s never failed to spit it back in their faces. That must eat at him in a way he can’t even acknowledge.
Mystique adds that she’s used the X-Men when she’s needed to, but they’ve never been a family to her. As much as Logan wants it to be true, they’ll never be his family either. People like them don’t put down roots and play nice. She betrays the X-Men because it’s in her nature to do so. One day, whether he wishes to admit it or not, he will do the same damn thing. He’ll turn his back on them because that’s who he is. Logan becomes increasingly angry with her. She surreptitiously reaches into a fold in the skin on her back and pulls out a pistol. She tells him not to act so offended. After all, they both know he’s done it before.
Wolverine finally snaps and launches himself at her, claws out. As he plunges his claws through her torso, gouging her flesh out the other side of her body, she shoots him in the face with the pistol. Wolverine goes down hard, and Mystique drops to the floor after vomiting over Logan’s face.
(1921, Kansas)
Logan faces the cops, but he needn’t be afraid. He’s on their side. The boss tells his men to stand down. Their fun’s over. Logan informs them that Raven got away, but the guy tells him to buzz off. He’s done his part. Logan reminds him that she was their leader and they let her escape. He replies that they still have a pretty good haul for one night. The bodies of Mystique’s crew are being hauled away by the cops as he then tells Logan that when Raven comes around to kill him for selling her out, he can give them a jingle and they’ll try and swing by. For now, he can vamoose, while he’s still feeling benevolent.
Before Logan departs, the cop pries a wad of cash from the dead hand of one of Mystique’s crew and offers it to Logan. Without a word, but with a look that implies that this wasn’t how it was meant to go down, he takes the cash and disappears into the night.
(later)
A train makes its way through a snow-covered landscape. Logan runs after it and leaps on board, hiding away in one of the seemingly empty carriages. He senses someone behind him and turns to see Mystique standing there. “Leaving Kansas so soon?” she asks. She asks him to ease up. She’s not looking for trouble. He can believe it or not, but she isn’t even angry with him. He made a smart play by selling them out and she can’t fault him for that. It’s a shame everybody else had to die, but they’re all adults there, right?
Logan replies that he wouldn’t have had to sell nobody out if she’s been paying off the cops like she was supposed to be doing. It’s just one of her many lies, like when she met him in Mexico. That wasn’t just an accident. She’s been playing him the entire time. “Oh, have I?” she replies with a glint in her fiery eyes. Logan grimaces at her. All her talk about family and settling down, and about how this heist was gonna buy them freedom… that was the biggest lie of all. She would have sold him out too. He just beat her to the punch, that’s all. “Maybe so,” replies Raven, “But I guess we’ll never know for sure.”
She adds that it’s a small world for people like them. She doesn’t know about him, but she plans on living a long time. Their paths are bound to cross again at some point, and she hopes this won’t be a problem between them. She’s willing to let bygones be bygones. What does he say? Logan turns and looks out of the carriage. “Fine,” he replies, “But I’m not sleeping in the same…” His sentence is cut short as Mystique kicks him hard in the back, sending Logan toppling from the train to land unceremoniously in the snow beyond.
(present, Iraq)
Logan begins to stir. He asks himself what it’s like being braindead. No one’s ever asked him that, but if they did, he sure could give them an answer. It ain’t like nothing. No thoughts, no dreams, no senses, no nothing. Right before Mystique’s bullet blasted up through his face and shattered against the inside of his skull (and damned if he won’t be sneezing the shrapnel out for weeks), he had just one single solitary thought on his mind. Once his noggin finally knits itself back together, he will kill Mystique.
(soon)
Logan follows Mystique’s trail of blood into the desert. She is in serious trouble and bleeding badly from her wounds. Logan has her pistol and when he reaches her, he tells her this is goodbye. She looks up at him and calls him a hypocrite. Who is he to judge? Logan replies that he’s not like her. He wants her to die knowing that. He admits he’s made a few mistakes, and a lot of those involved somebody dying that shouldn’t have. But, he adds, he spends every moment of every day now trying to make up for those mistakes. She’s just kept on making the same ones. Mystique tells him to go to hell.
Logan then drops the pistol beside her and she asks what that’s for. Logan replies that he’s gonna leave now and walk to the nearest payphone. He’ll call his friends and they will come and get him. She… she is gonna lie there by herself and die. None of her friends and none of her children will come to save her. No one. While she’s crawling around out there, slowly bleeding out, she will just think about who she is and what she’s done with her life. She’ll figure out what the pistol’s for.
He turns to leave and Mystique damns him as she coughs up some blood. “I’ll see you in hell, Logan!” she cries. “You hear me, you bastard!” Logan keeps on walking.


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Old Man Logan part 1
Nobody knows what happened when the heroes fell. All that is known is that they disappeared and evil triumphed and the bad guys have been calling the shots ever since. What happened to Wolverine is the biggest mystery of all. Some say they hurt him like no one ever hurt before. Others say he just grew tired of the fighting and retired to a simpler life. Either way, he hasn’t raised his voice or popped his claws in close to fifty years. His old friends would barely recognize him now.
(Sacramento, California, the future)
Logan returns home on horseback - home being a ramshackle smallholding in the desert, powered it seems by solar panels on the rooftop. As he rides, he remembers being in costume, battered and beaten; left for dead on a rail track. His son, Scotty, brings him out of his daydream. He informs his pa that the tractor is broken again. He tried his best to patch it up but it requires a new engine. Logan replies that unless he’s got some magic beans, he doesn’t know how they’re gonna get one. His son asks what they’re gonna do. “Some heavy-liftin’ I guess,” reckons his father.
He explains that Abe Donovan said he would give him twenty bucks for the pigs. He told him they were clean, but he just wouldn’t take the risk after last time. Logan’s wife, Maureen, appears, and says she can’t blame Abe. How many did he lose? Five hundred? She asks what they’re going to do. Logan says he’ll think of something.
(supper)
In the kitchen, Maureen informs her husband that Jolene from the market offered thirty-eight bucks for the X-Box. She said she’d make it an even forty if they threw in the long-life battery. Logan is insistent that they are not selling the children’s toys. She says that it was just an idea. The rent is due in two days and they’ve got nothing else worth selling. Besides, she adds, the kids know how tight things are. Scotty assures his pa that he doesn’t mind. They hardly have time to play with it anyway. Logan once again states that they are not selling the children’s toys.
Jade, his daughter, mentions that her friend Becky’s mom was saying he used to be a super hero. She said he was in some kinda team before the bad guys took over. Is that true? she asks. Maureen glances at him, and Logan replies that she can tell Becky’s mom that there’s no such thing as super heroes, and asks for the bread rolls.
(outside)
Logan is leaning on the old fence looking into the sunset. Maureen joins him and assures him that jade meant no harm. It’s only natural for a child to be curious about what her father used to do. He shouldn’t be angry with her. She’s just a little girl. Logan replies that it’s not the baby he’s angry with. It’s himself. How could he let things get so bad? She knows what will happen when they don’t make rent. Look what happened to the family over the ridge.
Maureen reminds him that they missed three payments. This is the first time they’ve missed in over twenty years. Logan doesn’t think it will matter. They can’t look weak in front of Doom and the Kingpin and al the other landlords. They have to punish people. Maureen asks him to tell them that they will pay double next month. She’s sure they’ll understand. They can be reasonable when they want to be. Logan looks her in the eyes. “These are Bruce Banner’s grandchildren, Maureen. They don’t do reasonable.”
(two days later)
Scotty is sitting on the porch loading bullets into a shotgun. Logan appears and asks him to put the gun away. Scotty says it’s okay. Nobody will see it. He’ll just keep it close in case those goons give them trouble. Logan tells him that the only way that will happen is if they see his damn gun. Scotty stands and turns away. “I was only trying to help, for ****’s sake.” Logan warns him to watch his language and stop cussin’ him. Maureen calls over to Logan. The Hulk Gang has arrived.
The three members of the Hulk Gang, all green and scary-looking arrive in one of the Fantastic Four’s old Fantasticars. The lone female is clutching a small green baby to her bosom as she and Logan exchange greetings. She then remembers that he doesn’t like people calling him by his old name anymore. Is it Mister Wolverine he goes by these days? “Logan’s fine,” he replies. She smiles as she points out that Wolverine died the night the bad guys beat their asses. How forgetful of her. She cuts to the chase. They know he doesn’t have this month’s rent which is why her brothers are there today. Has he met Otis and Charlie? “Once or twice,” he replies.
Miss banner explains that what with him being a bad-ass all those years ago, they were worried that this might turn nasty. Of course, she tried to explain that he’s a pacifist now, but he knows what brothers are like. The larger of the two who looks like his father, asks him if he is ready to take his punishment, or do they have to flatten his crappy little farm. Logan pauses, and the other brother asks if he’s deaf. Is he ready to take his beating? Inside his head, Logan pops his claws and slices his claws right across the larger brother’s stomach. His wife screams and cradles Jade as blood splatters everywhere. In reality, Logan doesn’t respond.
“Well?” asks the big guy, prodding Logan in his chest. Logan closes his eyes and sys he’s ready to take his beating. The big guy punches his in the head, burying Logan’s face in the mud. The smaller brother chips in and they whip Logan’s behind. Miss Banner wonders how the hell they messed him up so bad that he won’t even defend himself. Scotty then appears brandishing the shotgun. He cocks the weapon and warns them to get their hands off his ‘pa. The brothers turn and grin. They warn him that he should be glad they have a sense of humor. As they climb back into the Fantasticar, they ask for double next month or everybody dies. As the craft takes off, Scotty rushes to his father’s side.
(an old friend pays a visit)
Logan is in bed nursing his severe injuries. Hawkeye is visiting, and he reckons it doesn’t look too bad to him. “That’s because you’re blind, Hawkeye,” replies Logan. Clint points out that Logan’s healing factor ain’t what it used to be, but it still knows how to piece him back together. That said, a punctured lung is the least of his worries if he doesn’t find the Hulk Gang’s money. He got any nest eggs tucked away? Logan looks down and asks what he thinks. Clint thinks he’s in a lot of trouble. The only question is, what is he going to do about it?
Logan says that if Clint’s talking about fighting, he ain’t interested. He will never raise his fists again. Clint knows that. They kicked their butts when there were hundreds of them. What chance would they have now? His days of fighting super-villains are behind him. This is more of a business proposition. Logan asks what kind of business. Clint tells him it’s a delivery job. “Is it legal?” enquires Logan. Clint smiles, as if an old Avenger would ever break the law…
He explains that he needs to get a package to the east coast inside two weeks. Driving there himself is impossible. He needs a navigator and he’s willing to pay him five hundred dollars for his troubles. “That’s an awful lot of dough, Wolverine, and an awful lot of rent. What do you say?” Logan replies that his name is Logan. “Sure it is,” says Clint.
(next morning)
Logan says goodbye to his family. Maureen asks if he’s sure he wants to go through with this. New Babylon’s hardly the nicest place, never mind what he’ll face getting there. Logan holds her hand and asks what choice he has. Besides, it’s just a couple of weeks each way and it will set them up for a long time. He places a hand on his daughter’s shoulder and asks Scotty to look after his mother and sister. He asks Jade to behave herself. She hugs him tightly. “I love you baby girl,” he sighs. Clint is sitting in the vehicle, and Logan asks what the hell he’s doing in the driving seat. Clint replies that it’s his car. Logan’s job is to read the map and nudge him if he spots any pot holes.
As Logan climbs in, he asks if it’s really the Spider-Mobile. Clint explains that it was built by Johnny Storm himself. He customized it, assisted by one of his ex-wives. He tells Logan to fasten his seatbelt as the mules got a hell of a kick. He presses the accelerator and the car zooms away into the desert. Logan realizes that it’s fast, and Clint informs him that it has to be if they’re gonna cross the four kingdoms. He asks him to turn on the sat-nav and tell him if they’re heading in the right direction. A map of North America pops up on screen and Logan tells him they’re one mile down; three thousand to go. Clint grins from ear to ear. “Awesome,” he replies, “Get ready for the ride of your life.”


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Old Man Logan part 2
(the future)
Logan and Hawkeye are in a Northern California desert, heading for New Babylon on the far side of the country. Many other travelers, using various types of transport, mill around as Hawkeye drives past slowly leaving a cloud of dust behind him. Logan doesn’t like the fact that they’re not exactly keeping a low profile, but Clint laughs it off. He reckons the Spider-Buggy loves the attention, and besides, with Wolverine as his wing man, who’s gonna mess with him? Logan reiterates that he ain’t that guy no more, but Clint thinks that he isn’t as harmless as people believe. He reckons he can still smell the animal inside him.
The car races into the desert, and Logan’s eyes open wide as he notices a huge drop in front of them. He warns Clint that they’re heading for a cliff, but Clint smiles and asks him to relax. The Spider-Buggy rockets into the air and Clint’s mouth erupts into a broad grin. Logan looks terrified, but the car lands several meters below safely. Clint turns to Logan and informs him that the Spider-Buggy can take her share of knocks.
Before long, they arrive in what remains of the once glorious San Francisco. It’s night time and the place is derelict. Logan asks Clint exactly what the cargo is that they’re taking to New Babylon. Clint asks him not to enquire about those kinds of things. He doesn’t need reminding how far he’s fallen.
Logan glances at the dashboard and gasps. Clint asks what the problem is. Logan replies that, according to the sat-nav, they’re already in San Francisco, but strangely there is nothing around for miles. Clint reckons it’s not the first thing in the car not to work, but Logan says it’s working fine. They’re right in the heart of Union Square and facing Market Street. “What the hell’s going on?
The headlights reveal the answer. Digging around in the dirt is a group of Moloids. Clint informs Logan that they’re the underground race that the Mole Man found. The little yellow guys go blind in the light, and some folks reckon they’re the planet’s immune system. They were resting down there for millions of years, but the moment the human population numbered eight billion people, the planet released the Moloids to thin them out. He heard that they’d been feeding in Europe and Asia. This is the first he’s seen of an American attack. “They can sink entire cities?” asks Logan. Clint informs him that they can take them right beneath the ground.
Logan takes a snap light and uses it to illuminate the inside of an empty building. Clint asks what he’s doing. Logan replies that he’s just checking to see whether there are any survivors. There must have been a whole lotta people living there before this. “Smell anything?” asks Clint. Logan tells him that they’re all dead. Clint reckons this is just what they need; more stuff to worry about. Thank God he’s got his big bad Wolverine for protection. “The name’s Logan, Hawkeye,” Logan reiterates. Clint turns to him and replies that he forgot. He’s just a simple farmer helping him out for some rent money, right? He reminds Logan that his wife and kids are back in Sacramento. He doesn’t have to pretend anymore.
Before Logan can get annoyed at Clint’s topic of conversation, Logan spots a gang of Ghost Riders approaching. They ride bikes with flaming wheels and swing chains with nasty looking hooks on the end. Each sports a Punisher jacket. One kicks Hawkeye as he rides past, and Clint tells Logan to keep them away from the Buggy. They can’t touch his cargo. Logan sprints towards the Spider-Buggy, but one of the Riders lasso’s him with his chain. It wraps itself around Logan’s knees and brings him crashing into the dirt.
The Rider walks over to him and asks him what the matter is. “Stand up!” He hooks Logan’s coat and another slashes the back of his neck with a two-pronged claw. The first Rider asks what the hell’s wrong with him. Logan raises his eyes up to meet the Rider’s own and states defiantly that he will never hurt another living soul. He can do what he wants, but he refuses to strike back. The second guy smashes him over the head with a spiked mace and another downs him with a spear. They start to rifle through the buggy’s trunk, hoping that it contains the drugs that the blind courier is shipping east.
As one speaks, an arrow hits him on the back of the head and comes out through his nostril. “That’s right, bitches,” says Hawkeye. “Just keep making noises.” Several more arrows find their targets and the gang is wiped out in seconds. Logan asks him what he’s done. Clint asks him not to start. He’s pissed with him as it is. He can’t believe Logan has become a pacifist. Logan stands up and replies that he’s been trying to tell him this since Sacramento. Clint knows that perfectly well, but he didn’t think he meant it. “What the hell did they do to you, man?”
(flashback)
Wolverine is being attacked by Apocalypse, Mister Sinister and Wild Child, with Omega Red’s tentacle wrapped around his throat for good measure.
(present)
“They broke me, bub,” replies Logan. “Only reason I’m still alive.”
(later)
The Spider-Buggy rolls up in Hammer Falls, Nevada, the city formerly known as Las Vegas. They are still talking about the old times. Clint says that sometimes he feels insulted that they didn’t kill him - like he was insignificant. Thor and Cap and Tony Stark were all targeted and taken down inside the first few hours, but the bad guys basically ignored him. He wonders if he’s because he used to be one of them, or because they thought him some kind of joke. Logan saw how much butt he can still kick, even with the glaucoma.
Logan calls him a regular badass. He wonders where all the crowds came from. The place is buzzing. Clint informs him that Hammer Falls is just up ahead. It’s the place where the Absorbing Man and Magneto finished off their great white hope. Has he never been this far before? Logan replies that he hasn’t been here in fifty years.
Clint informs him that this is where people come to pray that the super heroes will return, like in the old days where they’d rise from the dead in some cool new costume. Logan knows that ain’t gonna happen, and Clint knows this too, but there’s no point telling them. The human spirit dies without a hope in their coffee.
Logan asks who’s in charge of the place. Is it still under Banner’s jurisdiction? Clint tells him that the Kingpin is in charge here. The Hulk’s just got California. Logan looks around and notices trinkets and dolls everywhere. He asks what the deal is. Clint says that the Kingpin turns a blind eye when there’s money to be made. Hammer Falls is the number one tourist attraction in America. They drive around a corner and Logan sees what the fuss is all about. There, surrounded by a crowd of genuflecting worshippers, lies Thor’s enchanted hammer, Mjolnir.
A robot approaches their vehicle. It’s Ultron Eight, and it is pleased to see Clint. It asks if he got the message from Tonya. Clint replies that they’re just passing through. He and his friend are heading for New Babylon. They’ve only stopped for a coke and some fries. Ultron can’t believe its luck. It informs Clint that Tonya’s over in the garage. Logan asks Clint who Tonya is. He replies that it’s his ex-wife number three. Did he never tell him about this one? She’s Peter Parker’s youngest daughter… really great sense of humor.
(moments later, Tonya’s garage)
The trio enter the garage and are greeted by Tonya. She dispenses with the formalities and gets straight to the point. She tells Clint that it was only a matter of time; him filling her head with all that nonsense. “Excuse me?” he replies, not knowing what she’s talking about. Tonya informs him that Ashley and her friends formed a super-team. They said they didn’t like the way the Kingpin ran the place and they were heading north to take the big man down. Ultron adds that they were all captured, and word is that he plans to execute them in the morning.
Tonya asks him why he couldn’t tell her drug-dealer stories. At least that way she’d be earning a living. Logan doesn’t understand, and he asks Clint who they’re talking about here. Clint replies that they’re talking about Ashley… their daughter.


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Old Man Logan part 3
(the future)
Logan and Hawkeye have traveled from Sacramento in what used to be called California, to Hammer Falls, the new name for Las Vegas. They have hooked up with Clint’s ex-wife, Tonya, and her robot employee, Ultron Eight.
Clint tells Tonya that he never pegged Ashley as the super hero type, but she replies that this is because he walked away when she was three months old. Ultron Eight is the only father she ever knew. Ultron asks her not to start any trouble, but she continues to have a dig at Clint. She asks what he means anyway. Her grandfather was Spider-Man and her dad was an Avenger. Being a super hero is hardwired into her DNA.
She always struck Clint as an evil badass type. She never seemed especially altruistic. Tonya is amazed they’re even having this conversation. Their daughter is about to be executed by the Kingpin. Is he gonna help her or just allow her to die? Clint assures her that he’s not a complete dirtbag.
“Speak for yourself,” adds Logan. Clint asks what he means. Logan tells him that he was hired as his map reader. He ain’t getting dragged into one of his stupid adventures. Clint asks if he’s kidding him. His daughter’s about to die and he’s arguing about the contract? Logan reminds him that the deal was, he would help him get to New Babylon. He ain’t going up against the Kingpin. It’s bad enough he has him running drugs for him. Clint looks down and tells Logan that he’ll pay double. He needs help to clear his debts, right? He helps him save his daughter and he’ll double his money. Logan remains stubborn, and says he still ain’t fighting.
All Clint wants is for him to read the friggin’ map. Scout’s honor. Logan says fine, so long as he knows the deal. He’d rather die than pop his claws again. Clint reckons he can fight his own battles. They should make a move. The Kingpin lives in Salt Lake City and that’s already a twelve-hour drive away. Ultron Eight hands an X-Men key fob to Logan before he leaves. “For luck, sir,” he says.
(flashback)
The key fob brings back an old memory. Logan recalls kneeling before a moving train, bloody and battered, just before it’s about to hit him.
(present, Cedar City, Utah)
As they drive through the rocky hills, Clint tells Logan that he knows the schedule was tight, but Salt Lake City is still on the way. He swears this won’t take long. He’ll be back in time to pay his landlords. Logan turns to him and says they’re both in this for their kids. They’re only doing what they have to. Clint can’t believe that she’s actually out there calling herself a super hero. It’s insane in this climate. He’s gotta be honest with Logan: he’s proud.
As they approach the town, they discover that only a few buildings are visible. Most are buried up to their rooftops in earth. They find a guy clinging to a church steeple and Logan calls up to him and asks if he’s okay. The guy looks terrified. He tells them that Moloids swallowed the whole town. He climbed to the highest point, but everybody else… they just went under. Clint tells his passenger that there’s nothing they can do there. Ashley needs them more than he does.
(later, Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City)
The Kingpin makes an announcement to the crowd. He introduces them to Daredevil and the Punisher, two of the super heroes who waltzed into town to save everyone from the Kingpin of Crime - namely himself. What they seemed to forget is that they were going after one of the most evil badasses in all creation. He’s the man who killed Magneto, after all. Do they remember Magneto, he asks, rhetorically. He got the place after the super hero holocaust he engineered with Doctor Doom and the president and all the other bigwigs. However, the man made one stupid mistake. “Bitch got old.”
In the center of the pitch, Daredevil and the Punisher are chained to a large stake. Matt Murdock wants to know what he’s done with Ashley. The Kingpin rises from his throne and asks if he means his skinny ringleader. He has something nasty lined up for her. They get off light. The two heroes turn to see two hungry velociraptors about to pounce. The crowd goes wild as the creatures make short work of their shackled victims. One of the Kingpin’s guards says he can’t believe those punks went after him. The Kingpin says that he likes a little blood-letting every now and then. It reminds everyone who is top dog.
Watching from a nearby rooftop through a pair of binoculars, Logan sees the Kingpin leave the stadium to a rock star’s reception. What’s the matter with these people, he wonders. The guy’s a psychopath. Clint reckons that it just shows how bad things were under Magneto. The Kingpin’s a street fighter; a man of the people. He worked his way up from nothing and folks respect that. Plus, he keeps them entertained.
Logan sees that Ashley is locked up in the customized Wal-Mart across the street. His binoculars come with an infrared capability, and he sees maybe fifty bodies in there. Each one is armed to the teeth.  Good thing Clint has a genius plan. Logan asks him to make sure it doesn’t involve him. He’s already told him he won’t be a party to violence. Clint asks ‘powder-puff’ to relax. All he has to do is drive.
(Ashley’s cell)
Two guards stand outside the cell which has a row of vertical laser beams preventing Ashley from escaping. One of the guards tells Ashley that he doesn’t understand why she’s so angry. She should try living for a week in Doom’s quarter. His colleague adds that the Kingpin looks after them. All he asks in return is a little loyalty. The first one reckons it must be in her blood… her dad being Hawkeye, and her grandfather Peter Parker and all. But, what the hell was she thinking? She and her friends were gonna save everyone? Ashley doesn’t respond. It’s like she knows help is on the way.
Meanwhile, Logan drives the Spider-Buggy across the side of an adjacent building. Clint reckons they need to reach two hundred if they’re to make it. Logan asks if this genius plan of his would involve smashing through the walls and killing everybody. “Yep,” replies Hawkeye. Logan says that ain’t genius. Clint replies that it is if it works.
Once up to speed, the buggy takes off and launches itself towards the building where Ashley is being held. Debris is scattered onto the crowd below. The buggy crasher through the wall and Ashley hears the commotion. “That’ll be dad,” she states, calmly.
As soon as the buggy comes to a halt, Clint leaps from the vehicle and swings into action, taking the first guy down with a sword slash to the head. Their voices alert Clint to their position. He takes the second one out with a slash to the stomach and the third receives a fatal blow as Clint’s sword goes right through to the other side. A fourth is decapitated and a fifth is stabbed through the head, despite hiding behind a table.
Clint calls to Ashley and asks where the control panel is. She informs him that it’s thirty-one inches to the left of her voice. Clint grabs his bow and arrows, shoots another guy through the head and puts another arrow into the panel. The laser beams disappear and Ashley emerges from her cell, grabbing a shotgun. The Kingpin barges in and asks what the hell’s going on. Ashley brings the shotgun over her shoulder and replies that he’s just made his first big mistake. The swung shotgun takes his head clean off. Clint asks if that was as messy as it sounded. “Worse,” replies his daughter, as she clonks him on the head.
Clint drops to the ground and he asks her what she’s doing. Ashley tells him that she’ doing what she came here to do - seize control of the Kingpin’s quarter. Clint thought she came here to free everybody. Guards stand by, doing nothing, as Ashley tells her father that she killed the Kingpin like he killed Magneto. Now it’s time to show these boys what their new boss is made of. She raises the shotgun over her head, preparing to bring it down hard on her father, but watching from the next room, still sat in the Spider-Buggy, is Logan. He grabs the steering wheel tight, damning Clint to hell for making him do this.


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Old Man Logan part 4
(Fisk Lake City)
Ashley prepares to batter her father, Clint Barton, but fortunately for the blind archer, help is on its way. Logan accelerates the Spider-Buggy to high speed as Clint tells his daughter that she doesn’t have to do this. Ashley replies that she’s doing it because she wants to. Before she strikes, the buggy comes crashing through the window, catching everyone by surprise. Logan leans out of the vehicle and grabs Clint by the arm, dragging him to safety. As the buggy exits through the opposite wall and into the building, he pulls Clint into the car and asks him to stay inside and keep his head down.
A security guard sees them coming but, by the time he’s pulled his weapon out and ordered them to stop, the Spider-Buggy is already crashing out of the other side of the building. Glass shatters and falls to the ground as the buggy drops all the way to the surface. The suspension holds out and the buggy lands on its wheels. “Jesus, Logan,” gasps Clint. Logan replies that he has a nice kid there. Clint tells him to just shut up and drive. Logan does as he is asked and heads out into the desert.
Ashley watches them disappear through the hole in the wall. She turns to the two thugs standing beside her and asks what they’re doing just standing around. “Get after them!” she orders, and they rush out through the door.
As the buggy heads into the desert, Logan checks the mirror and can’t believe what he’s seeing. Clint asks what it is. Logan informs him that they are being pursued by what appears to be at least fifty cars, and they’re gaining fast. He thinks that there are guys on dinosaurs, too. Where the hell do they get dinosaurs?” he wonders. Clint informs him that they’re imports from the Savage Land. The Mid-West is covered with them. Clint feels a rumbling and thinks they must be right behind them. Logan says it’s not them. It’s an earthquake!
The road begins to open up underneath them, and the Spider-Buggy descends into a deep, dark crevice. The pursuing vehicles and dinosaurs follow, helpless to change direction quickly enough. Logan calls for Clint to strap himself in quickly. The crevice is deep. This is gonna hurt.
(two hours later)
A snap light is broken and a green glow pierces the darkness. Logan looks around at the rubble. He reckons they’ve just been mugged by the Moloids. He wonders how long he was out. He feels like he popped a couple of joints, but doesn’t remember anything. He asks Clint if he’s okay. Swinging the light in Clint’s direction, he sees several faces staring back at him. It’s not a pretty sight. Several Moloids are crouched over the mutilated bodies of their pursuers. All are dead, and in the process of being devoured.
Logan waves the stick and the Moloids shrink into the darkness. Clint’s tells Logan that it’s okay. He’s alive but upside down, strapped into the Spider-Buggy. He informs Logan that he should use his light-stick. It blinds ‘em as their eyes aren’t used to the light. They won’t be able to see a thing. He adds that the Moloids have been scratching at the car for hours trying to get in. He heard people screaming, and asks Logan what happened. Logan asks him to take it easy. He has his back. He grabs a twisted metal fender and uses it to get the buggy upright.
Clint hears something and asks Logan what it is. Logan turns to see several Moloids approaching. He swings the metallic fender at them and they disappear back into the blackness. Logan jumps into the driver’s seat and tells Clint that he’s gonna put the headlights on. He warns Clint that he can smell what’s up ahead, and it ain’t too pretty.  Clint realizes what’s happened. The Moloids have eaten those who were after them? “Yup,” comes Logan’s succinct reply.
The headlights snap on and the Moloids feast is shown in its full nasty glory. Clint asks Logan what he’s going to do. They could be hundreds of feet underground… maybe even thousands. Logan reminds Clint that they have Parker’s old car. It does whatever a spider can. He accelerates and the car climbs the crevice’s wall and onto the surface.
(later, Paste Pot Creek, Wyoming)
Clint and Logan drive across the wasteland, past herds of free-roaming dinosaurs. Logan asks how many of them there are. Clint reckons that there are hundreds. They were all the rage a few years ago, but expensive to keep. A lot of ‘em got dumped. He thinks that Logan will be fine as long as he wears the spray he gave him.
(later still, Electroville)
The buggy passes a massive skeleton lying on the ground. “What the hell is that?” exclaims Logan. Clint replies that if it’s a huge skyscraper lying on top of a huge big guy, that’ll be the Baxter Building. The guy underneath it is Loki. Logan missed a hell of a fight that night.
(South Dakota)
The buggy passes through the mountains, watched from a distance by a Venom symbiote. They two men chat. Clint says he always wonders what happened to Reed and Sue. They know what happened to Ben and Johnny, but Reed and Sue are still a mystery. Somebody said Kang beat them up and dumped them in the time stream, but they heard this third-hand from the Shocker, of all people. Logan wonders if they’ll come back some day and save the world like in the old days. Clint reckons that it’s a little late for that. The buggy passes Mount Rushmore, now with the added sculptured face of the Red Skull next to Abraham Lincoln.
(Des Moines, Idaho)
The two men stop at a small diner named Millar’s, which sits underneath an old water tower. Several other vehicles are parked outside. They enter and grab a drink at the bar. Logan asks Clint if he’s still shook up about Ashley. Clint tells him that he was the first thing she ever saw; the first human being she ever laid eyes on. How much of an honor is that? He says that he’s helped so many people leave this world over the years, it was so damn cool to watch someone arrive. “How the hell did I screw things up so bad?” he wonders. He turns to Logan and tells him that at least he seems a little like his old self. “That’s what I’m afraid of,” replies Logan. Clint asks what he means. Logan says he knows what he means.
(flashback)
A bloody and battered Wolverine stands over the fresh corpses of Lady Deathstrike, Mister Sinister and Omega Red. He spits blood from his mouth and closes his eyes, reflecting on what just happened.
(present)
Logan says that he isn’t that guy anymore. He loves his wife and kids and he loves the little life they’ve carved out for themselves. He’s doing this job so that they can make rent. Clint has got to believe that. He isn’t excited about death anymore. Clint asks him to take it easy. Nobody said he was.
Nearby, two men are looking in their direction, and one of them walks over to Clint and Logan and says, “Well, excuse us, ladies. I didn’t realize tonight was…” Before he finishes his sentence, Logan is out of his seat and on the guy. He pushes him to the floor and places his fist underneath the man’s chin. He asks him to go ahead. “Just try to make a joke!” Clint shouts at Logan to stop, so Logan storms out of the bar. Clint follows and asks what happened. What did they do to him? Logan pauses for a moment before turning to Clint. He asks him to sit down, and he’ll tell him.


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Old Man Logan: Part 5
(present)
You wanna know what happened? You wanna know why I haven’t popped my claws in fifty years? Well, it all goes back to the night the villains got their act together. Like all their stupid stories...
(past)
Fifty years ago at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters in Westchester, New York, Logan was with Jubilee when a number of distress calls came through. Jubilee informed him that they were coming from the Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., Fantastic Four, Wakanda, just about everywhere. She’s trying to call them back but all she’s getting is a high-pitched noise. When she asks Logan his thoughts, he tells her they need to get out of there now.
At that moment, a blast goes off that knocks Jubilee out. Uncovering himself from the rubble, Logan is told no, he needed to get out of there twenty minutes ago. Turning around, Wolverine sees the combined forces of Stryfe, Doctor Octopus, Shocker, Klaw and Mister Hyde. Stryfe tells him hello, this is the big one. Before Logan can react, he finds himself slammed backwards by one of Doctor Octopus’ tentacles. Stryfe then asks Logan if he knows how many super-villains there are for every super-hero out there – twenty, fifty? It was only a matter of time before someone recognized all that latent talent.
In other sections of the mansion, villains such as Ultron, Absorbing Man, Bullseye, Scorpion, Blob, Silver Samurai, Green Goblin and Mister Sinister burst through the walls. One of the other students tells the other residents to hit the evacuation tunnels like they’ve done a million times in training.
As Logan is still being held by Doctor Octopus’ tentacles, Stryfe continues that they got their greatest minds together and worked the whole thing out. The best people on their side for the best people on theirs, this is the end little man. At that moment, Logan proceeds to break free from Doctor Octopus’ grasp and jams his claws through Octopus’ and Klaw’s neck, killing them. After slashing and killing Mister Hyde, he slashes Stryfe across the face and tells him not on his watch “bub.”
Coming up behind Trapster and the Green Goblin who are cornering a few of the students, Logan viciously kills Trapster and then Silver Samurai and Green Goblin. As he does, he calls out to Cyclops and Storm and asks where the hell everybody is. The students tell him that nobody knows. They’ve been missing since the alarms went off. They then ask him what they should do. Logan tells them to get outta there and don’t look back no matter what they hear. After killing the Blob, Logan is attacked by a number of villains – Sabretooth, Mister Sinister, Lady Deathstrike, Scorpion, Omega Red, Shocker and Absorbing Man. As they attack him, Logan takes them all out viciously and without remorse.
(present)
Logan recalls that Bullseye was the last to die. They fought for close to ninety minutes but the bastard just wouldn’t go down. All they did was take chunks outta one another. Even with his knives in his back, all he could think about was what was goin’ on out there. What they’d done to the other super-heroes and what he’d do to the kids if he didn’t seize his chance.
(past)
With that, Logan jams his clawed fist into Bullseye’s chest, killing him. As Bullseye lies on the ground dying, he looks up at Logan and asks him to please stop and why is he doing this? He’s supposed to be their friend. Logan wonders huh? Just then, a mysterious figure appears behind Logan and tells him oh dear. Looking down, Logan sees the figure of Bullseye turn into Jubilee. The figure behind him asks Logan if he really thought he could do this alone, take down forty super-villains? Talk about delusions of grandeur. But his friends, people who would hesitate, that’s a different matter entirely. The figure introduces himself as Mysterio, the master of illusions.
As he leaves, he thanks Logan on behalf of the criminal community. Looking in front of him, Logan is shocked to see the dead bodies of Gambit, Havok, Iceman, Cannonball, Psylocke, Colossus, Beast, Storm, Longshot, Nightcrawler, Forge, Polaris and Cyclops.
(present)
At a campfire, Hawkeye asks Logan if he murdered the X-Men? Logan replies that he stabbed every one of ‘em, right through the heart. But he didn’t know it was them. Mysterio made ‘em look and feel and even smell different. He swears to god that he had no idea. Hawkeye asks him what happened then. Logan tells him who knows. All he remembers was walkin’ through the woods and the trees, sobbin’ an’ cryin’. It could’a been days, it could’a been weeks. All that sticks in his head was the leaves bein’ wet and the taste o’ blood in his mouth and the animals. The animals were so scared o’ him. The battle o’ Vegas, that final showdown between the heroes an’ the bad guys, it didn’t even register. They broke him so bad he couldn’t even think. All he wanted was to hurt himself. Pay a price for what he’d done. So he waited on a freight train an’ killed Wolverine dead.
Hawkeye remarks that a train couldn’t kill him, not with his healing factor. Logan tells him no, but it hurt an’ sometimes that’s enough. Remembering when the train ran over his head, Logan says to Hawkeye to try and tell him that Wolverine didn’t deserve to die. Just tell him that he’s been a fool to hide his claws for fifty years. Hawkeye tells him that he wouldn’t dare. Logan adds that he’s a farmer now and that his hands don’t do nuthin’ ‘cept tend the land. So don’t even think about askin’ him to fight again. He will never hurt another livin’ soul. Hawkeye tells him that it’s his call.
The next day at Dwight’s toll, a young kid by the name of Dwight wearing Ant-Man’s headgear stands in the middle of the road and tells Hawkeye and Logan that they need to pay eighty cents to cross the river of he will sic the ants on them. When Logan asks if this is a joke, Dwight tells him eighty cents or the road ends there. He has a million little friends to back him up. All they waitin’ on is Dwight to give the word. As Hawkeye gives Dwight his eighty cents, he tells him to stay outta trouble. Dwight thanks him and tells Mister Barton to have a good day. As they cross the bridge, Logan asks Hawkeye if Dwight was serious. Hawkeye tells him that Dwight’s always serious and that was eighty cents well spent. Underneath the bridge, it is littered with skeletons and wrecked vehicles.
In Doom’s Head, Illinois, Hawkeye and Logan drive past some dinosaurs. While they do, Hawkeye says to Logan that story he told him about what happened in Westchester, he’s sorry for making him do this. If he’d known what he’d been through… Logan cuts him off and tells him to forget about it. The past only hurts if they let it catch up with them.
Just then, a Venom-Tyrannosaurus Rex appears and chases after them.