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Things that go bump in the night!
Recalling recent events, Logan hopped a ride up to the Canadian arctic research station for a nice quiet visit with James and Heather Hudson, aka Guardian and Vindicator. He never reckoned on bein’ barricaded in a dry freezer with a pack o’ wild things clawin’ at the door. He never reckoned things would go this bad.
Inside the freezer, Heather informs the crew that Simpson is going into deep shock and that she needs to be medivaced out of there. That means making a dash for the satellite bounce transmitter out in the main lab where those creatures are still gnawing on poor Sverdrup. James, in his Guardian suit, says that Wolverine and he will make the foray and that Harry Tabeshaw and DeLong will “hold the fort.” He then asks Logan if he’s ready. Putting his cigarette out in between his fingers, Logan tells Jimmy let’s do it.
As they rush into the main lab area, Logan and James are confronted by a number of critters akin to the Hunter in Darkness. Each of them – three hundred pounds o’ nasty with claws and teeth that don’t stop. They would’ve stayed frozen in the ice up there if humans hadn’t messed up the ozone layer by usin’ too much hair spray and deodorant. Ain’t modern technology wonderful?
James inquires as to why the Hunters hate them so much. Logan replies they don’t care about them one way or the other, just like they don’t care about the pig they slice their bacon off of. Rushing towards two of the Hunters Logan determines that he can’t blame them either. It’s their job to try to eat them; it’s his job to stay uneaten. In short time, James has reached the transmitter and tells Logan that he has it. He calls out to head back to the dry freeze.
At that moment, a multitude more Hunters descend upon their location. James wonders where they are all coming from while Logan mentions that there’s too many – they have to cut down the odds. He then yells out to Harry to cover them; they’re comin’ in low. From inside the dry freeze, Harry tells DeLong that he heard Logan and gives him the order to lay down a field of fire at head height. DeLong mentions that they have to re-barricade the door. Harry says not until their guys are safe back inside.
Once Logan and James make their way into the freezer, Harry immediately closes the door. One of the Hunters is able to lodge his arm in the door, thus preventing it from closing fully. Harry fixes that by unloading his gun into the arm, eventually shooting the hand off of the Hunter. As it falls to the floor, Harry tells James that he better start calling for help. Heather adds that there’s one problem. Even if they get the radio working and get a call out, nobody’s going to be able to fly in the weather. She finishes by saying that she thinks it’s going to be a long night.
Before long, Heather informs the rest of the crew that Simpson has died. Logan walks over to her and tells Heather that he will handle it. However, DeLong coldly announces that the rest of them will be joining her if they don’t get the radio hooked into the power line ASAP. James sarcastically says to DeLong that he’s not a big one for compassion, is he? Harry pipes in that he doesn’t understand this. He was always sure that the Hunter in Darkness that he tracked down for Parvenu was the last of its kind. He’s never seen any other spoor of a familiar beast. It’s almost as if the creatures were displaced in time.
James asks DeLong, the team biologist, what he thinks of what Harry just said. DeLong says the creatures are pack hunters, that’s for certain. They cooperate toward a common goal. James asks that they have a mercenary then, a leader they can try to neutralize. DeLong replies there are a number of possibilities. Could be the most aggressive male, that’s the biological imperative, but… James asks but what. DeLong says that humans deviated from that primary imperative. The physically strongest doesn’t lead the pack among Homo sapiens. If that’s the case there, they’re in deep…
Before DeLong can finish his thought, the pack of the Hunters, led by an older looking one, cuts the generator line. DeLong finishes his thought that if they defer judgment to the oldest and wisest, they may be able to accumulate lore and develop strategy. Logan quips that’s not good. He then tells the others that he’s goin’ out there. If the can make it to the loading suit… James pipes in and says that he’s going to go with him. Logan tells him no way. Somebody has to stay there and be in charge, that’s his job. He then says that the creatures out there can’t see very good. They hunt at night, have good sniffers, and some sort o’ infrared vision to detect body heat. He then hands James some flares and some thermite and says they might get them confused enough to miss his rush for the loading suit. Heather brings out part of Simpson’s thermal suit and puts the jacket on Logan.
She tells him that if he wears it, he may dispel his own heat signature. DeLong mentions that Sverdrup got wasted in seconds with that loading suit on, what makes him think he has a better chance. Logan tells him that Sverdrup didn’t have his reflexes and to unbolt the door and get ready to cover him. Once the door opens, James, Heather, Harry, and DeLong cover Logan as he rushes out into the waiting hordes of Hunters. As he tears at the over-grown hyenas, Hunters, he tells them to get outta his way for the ol’ canuckle-head is comin’ through. Nearing the suit, he hopes that the batteries aren’t dead in it.
Hundreds of miles to the south, Bloodscream, Albert, and Elsie Dee are running over the Canadian countryside. Elsie tells Albert to use his internal twansmitters and modems to tap into government data bases. They need an update on Wogan, pwonto. Albert tells her that he’s getting an *bzt* update from a satellite bounce right now and that all communications with the *bzt* research station have been shut down by *bzt* weather. Bloodscream calls out to Elsie that her pace is beyond even his endurance. He is no android as they art. Elsie says to him that he’s a mutant, isn’t he? Bloodscream replies that he is. A shape shifter he is, not a font of unlimited power. He tells her she hast run him to his limit.
Elsie then tells Albert that they have to stop and let Mr. Bwoodscweam west and asks if he can scan the howizon up ahead. Albert powers up for *bzt* long-range scan and runs infrared and *bzt* spectrographic narrow field scans. He discovers that there are very familiar *bzt* readings out there – match pheromones – yes, they have a *bzt* match. He then adds that it is *bzt* impossible. He went *bzt* back in time with them. He was trapped in the *bzt* eighteenth century, he couldn’t still be *bzt* alive. Hearing the news, Elsie gets excited and exclaims puppy is there. Of course he could still be awive. He wasn’t human and he certainly wasn’t a wegular wun-of-the-mill wolf or anything. Maybe Forge was able to…
From behind her, Bloodscream thinks to himself that a living thing that hasn’t survived these long ages. The pagan necromancer Dagoo, who cursed him with his nether-life and the need for blood – his formula for the sorcerous potion included the blood of a man who ageth not. Perchance, a substitution might suffice to alter the effect – the blood of a beast that ageth not. Before he can ponder that thought further, Elsie tells him wet’s go and takes off running. As they run, she says that Mr. Bwoodscweam has to warn Mr. Wogan about his tewwible illness and tell him how to save himself.
As they continue to run, Bloodscream asks Elsie what the circumstances were of their temporal displacement. Elsie indicates that it was all because of the skeweton with the adamantium cwaws. Albert, puppy, and her found it in a Siksika buwial mound, and it tested out to be over two-hundwed years old. Spiwal and Mystique danced in fwom the future wooking for a cwuise missile to help save Mr. Wogan at the end of time, the Cwunch. So, they gave Spiwal the missile in exchange for sending them back in time to wescue Mr. Wogan in the past but they awwived in the middle of a big bwouhaha to say the weast. After Albert wan the gauntwet and got made war chief, there wasn’t an awful wot weft to do.
Hearing the tale, Bloodscream tells her that surely she hast omitted a goodly part of the tale. Elsie tells him to wook, she’s just skipping to the part about puppy. They wooked evewywhere for Mr. Wogan, so they could wescue him from whatever howwible fate it was that caused his skeweton to be in that buwial mound but they never, ever found him. They weally and twuly searched high and low for Mr. Wogan. But the more they used their sensors, the more they depweted their battewies. They were appwoaching the time when they would have to turn back and put themselves to system sleep but puppy wouldn’t give up. She thinks there’s a special bond between puppy and Mr. Wogan that they awen’t pwivy to. One day, they wan into a whole pack of cweatures just wike puppy and he weft with them.
Bloodscream asks if they art certain the beastie is the very same one. Albert indicates the pheromone signature is *bzt* as exact as a fingerprint. The beastie is the *bzt* Hunter in Darkness, all right.
Back at the complex, Logan is able to get to the loading suit and equip himself with it. As he begins to move with it on, he mentions that it sure ain’t adamantium but it’ll have to do. Inside the complex, DeLong tells James that the contraption moves like pig iron in mud and that his friend is going to wind up like Sverdrup. James responds that he wouldn’t count Wolverine out too soon he’s always been the type of fighter who gets his “legs” back in the final round. Outside, Logan proceeds to tear through the various Hunters. He thinks to himself that he ain’t no scientific boxer. He copped his throw-down chops from Shingen. He said “master technique, become one with the weapon, but always let the animal loose for the fight.” Logan knows that he never got the technique part down but he sure never had any trouble lettin’ the animal loose. Once he tears through most of the Hunters, he lets loose a guttural howl.
At that moment, he realizes that it’s time for the main event, time to trot out the biggest and the baddest or maybe the oldest. When the Hunter appears before Logan, he notices that the Hunter is ancient. Logan sees that this is one that’s got this far by sheer strength o’ mean. Logan silently remarks that so has he… and so pops his claws. When he does, the Hunter hears the claws and begins to sniff. The old Hunter lets out a howl and Logan figures out that the Hunter recognizes him, just like he knows him to be the Hunter in Darkness. Logan wonders how he got so old so fast and if he is rememberin’ back to that time when they first crossed paths. It was back in that long ago lost time, when he was runnin’ wild in the forest, his mind just a red blur o’ pain. Back before he met the Hudsons? It was just another animal sufferin’ in the night, another mean little life about to fade out in the cold. Back when Logan encountered the Hunter caught in a bear-trap. He then opened up the trap and set the Hunter free, saving his life. Back in present time, all of the Hunters have left.
James explains that the old one lit out and the others just followed him and he wonders why. Logan, shedding the suit, says maybe he remembered somethin’. DeLong raises his rifle and says that he’ll give him something to remember. Just then, Logan punches him out cold and tells him he doesn’t think so. He then asks Harry about a ride to which Harry says as soon as they weld his oleo strut.
Far to the south, Albert informs Elsie that Logan is *bzt* gone. He is traveling *bzt* by air. Elsie says that they’ll just have to keep twying until they find him and asks what about puppy. Albert tells them that he has gone and *bzt* covered his trail. He and his kind *bzt* have removed themselves from their ken. Bloodscream then yells out that all is lost. If Logan travels by air, they cannot warn him in time. Albert then scans for his *bzt* homing beacon and ultimately finds it. Elsie says to Albert that he found their stealth bomber. Spiwal and Mystique must have secweted it for them. Albert informs her that it is *bzt* hidden well, it is sitting on the *bzt* bottom of *bzt* Hudson Bay.
The next morning, Harry’s plane lands in the forest near the mountains. Logan told her he’d come back there every year at springtime. He’s a little late this time around. Funny how he forgot how beautiful it is up there this time o’ year. He keeps thinkin’ o’ this piece of country as a place o’ death and the truth is, it’s just overflowin’ with life. “Ain’t no place to be sad.” That’s what Harry Tabeshaw said. He said, “The ghosts of those you love are tormented by your tears.” In the spirit world, they walk with the wind. Harry asked him, “How would he like it if somebody came to call on him and all they did was beat their chest.” He also told him to sing his spirit song for her. Logan told him that he didn’t know the words but Harry replied “ain’t got no words, you just open your heart and let it flow out.”
Kneeling in front of Silver Fox’s grave, Logan realizes that Harry is right. He shouldn’t be sad remembering these things. These are memories that make his heart soar like an eagle in the August sky. He hears her laughing and the half-remembered smell of her passes by, just out o’ reach. Standing there, looking to the sky, Logan recalls that those were days of sunshine.


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Showdown in Lowtown!
In the Lowtown of Madripoor in the wee hours, Logan asks Gambit what gives. He didn’t make this side-trip on the way home to Salem Center just to pass the time o’ day. Gambit replies they need to talk about Sabretooth an’ what he’s doin’ at Xavier’s. Logan tells him there’s nothin’ to talk about. He oughta just take him out fishin’ one dark night and lose him. Now, he don’t have ta tell him there’s a mess o’ right unsavory characters habituatin’ the joint they’re goin’ into.
Just then, Logan tells Gambit to hold it. Standing outside the Princess Bar, Gambit mentions that the “Princess” be a lot quieter that he remembers. Logan tells him that’s what’s wrong, the joint should be jumpin’. He can tell there’s folks inside, but they’re keepin’ real still. Gambit asks “ambusquer?” to which Logan says yes. They go in on three. One – two – three! With that, Gambit and Logan jump through the front window of the bar and proceed to knock over a table that had a cake. The cake read “Welcome back Logan.” As they land in a heap, Gambit says they did some dat overreaction stuff, hah. Logan replies you might say that.
From behind the bar, many of Logan’s old acquaintances yell out surprise, welcome back. O’Donnell tells Logan that was some entrance and that he knows they don’t generally start busting up the furniture until dawn, but hey, it’s his party. Picking himself up off the floor, Logan introduces a friend o’ his from Salem Center… Before he can finish his sentence, many of the ladies present greet Remy LeBeau. Gambit looks towards Logan and tells him that he’s no etranger ‘round there, leastways not to les belles de la nuit.
Just then, a short, rather unattractive lady comes up behinds Logan and gives him a big hug. She tells him to congratulate her; she retired from Landau Luckman and Lake. Logan recognizes her as Rose and says that she looks like she’s been metamorphin’ again. He mentions that she was runnin’ LL&L’s operation in Hong Kong the last time he saw her. Rose tells him things change except for him. She cashed her annuity and bought the dump (bar) from O’Donnell. About time too, her bailiwick was being taken over by a young blood, a protégé of old man Chang, no less. As Rose leads him across the bar floor and lift a few with old friends, Logan says that he’s met her – Zoe Culloden. Looking at a painting of a young, very attractive lady hanging on the wall he mentions that is some piece o’ work. Rose asks him if he remembers when she posed for that painting, time flies, don’t it?
At the bar, O’Donnell calls out to the bartender to pour Logan a double of Laphroaig single malt and to make it neat with water on the side. Archie Corrigan tells him that he got his telegram from Tibet and that a check arrived from C. Xavier this morning. He adds that his man Harry Tabeshaw is now the owner of a Grade A used Douglas DC-3 Dakota. Logan recognizes them both and says that it’s good to see the two of them. He needs to talk to both of them about…
Before he can finish, Police chief Tai tells him cheers Mr. Patch. Logan turns and tells Tai that he don’t use that moniker anymore, to which Tai replies that he’s quite aware of that. After all, ‘twas he who alerted his cohorts to his imminent arrival. Their joy at the return of their prodigal peregrinator was quite touching. Logan says that he bets General Coy and the Prince weren’t exactly tickled when he dropped a dime on them, huh? Tai responds by telling him to excuse him. He has to remind Mr. LeBeau that they frown on certain of his more felonious activities and that their penal code has no provisions for caning, only for summary execution. At that moment, Tyger Tiger tells Logan they are playing a tango and proceeds to drag him onto the dance floor. When he attempts to greet her, she tells him no talking, just dance.
From above, two ninjas from the Hand watch the festivities below. One of them tells his fellow ninja, Kuro Ryu, that she debases herself with the gaijin dog and that they should slay her as well. Kuro tells his partner, Shiro Tora, that Tyger Tiger is the head of Madripoor’s most powerful crime family and that their masters in the Hand will not approve. Shiro says they will bide their time and when they separate, they will kill the dog Logan. Kuro says laser directed plasma bolts through the top of the head, a clean and quiet death.
A voice behind them tells them that it will be unlike his, which is going to be messy and loud. Kuro turns and calls out interloper. Shiro tells him no energy weapons and to take him out silently. With that, they fling throwing stars in the interloper’s direction. The interloper tells them that they just sacrificed speed and accuracy for stealth and that’s a loser’s trade-off. The interloper then blasts both of them with his weapon which knocks them backwards.
As they fall back, they crash through the glass skylight behind them and down into the Princess Bar. The patrons inside look up and say it’s a bird, it’s a plane. Logan replies, while continuing to dance, that it sure ain’t George Reeves. He then pops his claws and slices each of the ninjas dead without missing a dance move. Over near the bar, Gambit, who is surrounded by ladies, calls out bravo. Magnifique. He adds that even Fred Astaire couldn’t have done that. One of his lady friends says of course not. Fred Astaire didn’t have claws.
At that moment, Logan grabs Gambit and tells LeBeau it’s time to go. The two ninjas were cold meat before they came through the skylight. Gambit tells him that maybe he got a guardian angel up dere or maybe his enemies are fallin’ out among themselves. On the roof, Logan tells him that would make his day to see Cyber and Sabretooth do the downtown stomp on each other but it ain’t just happenin’. Picking up a board, Logan sniffs it. He says that his sniffer ain’t what it used to be but even so he can tell that someone who knows what he’s doin’ about scent and particle suppression has been at work up there, somebody bein’ real careful. Gambit replies then it would have to be someone he would recognize. Logan tells him yeah, how about that and if he’s supposed to be on his side, then why is he doin’ the downwind lurk.
From a building across the way, an unknown man is looking at Logan and Gambit through binoculars.
As they continue, Logan mentions to Gambit that he is behavin’ like the way ol’ Sabretooth used to when they was steppin’ over the fence bein’ bad for Uncle Sugar. Gambit says oh, he would be tres curieux to hear anything about Sabretooth. Logan tells him that it sounds like his hate runs deep and that he musta hurt him bad. With that, Logan proceeds to tell Gambit a story to freeze his craw.
(Logan’s tale)
It was he, Sabretooth (called Creed back then), and Maverick. They were on another hairy mission and it had turned into a Class “A” cluster foul-up. Creed calls out to his teammates that they are compromised to the max. Maverick says that he’s not telling them anything they don’t know. He then tells Logan the info they just heisted is too important and that one of them has to make it back, no matter what. Logan replies that he hears him.
Continuing to shoot down the hallway, Creed asks Mav what he was saying. Is he gonna hold the bad guys off right there and buy his escape with his bod? Maverick says that he was thinking maybe their chances are better if they split up and take three different routes out. That would also split up the pursuit… Logan cuts him off and tells him that he don’t buy it. They’re a team, they trained as a team, and they fight as a team – they should stick together. Creed starts to tell Logan that he is such a when he is knocked out by a blast.
As Logan checks on Creed, Maverick tells him that he’s dead and that they have to get out of there. Logan says that Creed is still kickin’ but he ain’t getting outta there on his own power. Maverick raises his weapon, readies it and says that he’s afraid he knows their codes and extraction sites; they can’t afford to leave him there alive. Logan pushes his gun away and asks him who died and made him chief o’ triage. Putting Creed on his back, Logan says like he said, they’re a team and they bring back their own. Taking off down the hallway, Creed tells Logan that he’s insane. Creed would’ve left him in a flash. Logan says yeah, but he ain’t Creed, is he?
At the last second, Logan is able to grab Maverick just before he almost falls over a ledge. Across the ledge is a bridge that looks none to stable. Upon seeing it, Maverick asks Logan if he believes the catwalk will get them out of there. Logan says it had better because he ain’t too partial to blastin’ their way back through that crowd behind them. Just then, Creed wakes up and says that he’s ain’t crossing the rinky-dink bridge and proceeds to shoot it down. Logan yells at him and asks him if he knows what he just did. Creed said yeah, he just saved their lucky butts. He then calls them losers and tells them they were gonna get them all aced. Runnin’ across the bridge was exactly what they expected them to do. They gotta do what they don’t expect and that’s take back the initiative.
With that, Creed takes off back down the hallway and shoots their attackers. As he does, he asks Logan and Maverick if they’re gonna follow him or are they jus’ gonna curl up an’ die in place. Maverick follows and says that they don’t leave them much choice. Logan adds that he oughta… Creed tells him that he wants to, but he ain’t gonna ‘cause now, they need his firepower. As he continues to shoot he says that he may bust a gut laughin’ if he don’t bleed outta it first.
(present)
Completing his tale, Logan tells Remy that what he’s sayin’ is that Sabretooth’s got his uses. He’s got the sheer guts and total lack o’ fear to try some nigh impossible things and pull ‘em off. He got them all outta that scrape, but he only did it to save his own neck. Remy asks him if he t’inks dat ol’ Sabretooth is gonna help them out. Is dat what he is sayin’? Logan says ol’ Mr. Creed wouldn’t spit in his face if his nose was on fire; he just ain’t no team player. Logan adds that he thinks ol’ Charlie X has gone off the deep end bringin’ that sack o’ trouble into the mansion. Remy responds yeah, he knows lots ‘bout dat team player stuff. They thought he was wit’ them all de way, but turns out maybe he got his own row to hoe. He then asks Logan if his personal agenda is more important than the X-Men. Logan snarls at him and tells him to watch his lip.
Before he can say anything further, he pushes Remy out of the way and tells him to get down. At that moment, a blast occurs on the rooftop. Gambit immediately recognizes it as an energy weapon and asks Logan if he saw dat laser spotting beam. Logan tells him on the next roof. Looking over at the next building they see the shooter, wearing a cape, leap towards another rooftop. Logan tells Gambit to shake a leg, their attacker is makin’ for the docks. Gambit tells him they’ll catch him up right quick.
Before long, Gambit and Logan have made it to the docks. He mentions to Logan that they almost have him. Logan replies that “almost” only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Almost on cue, their attacker tosses two grenades in their direction. When they land, Gambit says they ain’t no frags – they’re gas. Logan says naaa, just smoke. In all of the smoke, Gambit says that he can’t see nutttin’ and that their attacker gone get away sure ‘nuff. Logan replies not unless he’s doublin’ back.
In the cover of smoke, Gambit is knocked out by a crack from the attacker’s gun. Upon hearing the attack, Logan pops his claws and tells the attacker that he shoulda’ just slunk away in the smoke. Now, he has to mess with the ol’ canuckle-cutter and he’s still the best at what he does. With that, Logan starts to hack away at their attacker. As he does, he tells him let’s see what he looks like under the cape an’ cowl, he hopes he ain’t no psycho millionaire with a utility belt.
Before long, Logan recognizes their assailant as Maverick and asks what… Maverick tells him that he’s not what he used to be, but then who is in these bitter times. He adds that his adamantium would have opened him up clean to the spine. Maverick then tells Logan so much for idle chitchat and challenges him to get down. He tells Logan that he had best go for it, before hot leptons start burning through his sinus cavities. Logan answers he don’t think so. Just then, Gambit’s playing cards fly in and create a blast that knocks Maverick backwards. Gambit tells Logan that if he ain’t goin’ take him out, to leave him to him, he’ll… Logan informs Remy to back off; he has this under control.
Perched on the side of a building’s roof, Maverick points his gun at Logan. Logan begins to climb up the roof and tells him that the weight is on him and he’s comin’. He says to Maverick that he had best start shootin’ if he’s a mind to ‘cause he’s gonna dodge the first few and he can take a half dozen solid hits ‘fore he goes down to his knees but he knows that won’t stop him. He’d just crawl and, when he couldn’t crawl no more, he’d just slither along like some mean ol’ diamondback ‘til he was lookin’ him dead in the eye straight down into his heart. Once he reaches Maverick, he slices the gun out of his hand and says to him that he ain’t pullin’ the trigger on him. He adds that he was holdin’ back, he wasn’t tryin’ to kill them, he was trying to get them to kill him. Logan then asks him why. Maverick says why, he’ll tell him why.
He’ll show him why, Maverick responds. With that, Maverick removes his faceplate and shows Logan and Remy his face. He tells them it’s not a pretty sight. It is what happens in the middle stages of a Legacy Virus infection. In the final stages, he wouldn’t even be able to get around. Putting his faceplate back on, he says that it’s not a way for a man to die, is it. He has no wish to lie around and wait to rot away. Logan angrily grabs Maverick by the collar and says to him that he decided to get him to do his dirty work. He adds thanks a bunch, he ain’t got enough ugly luggage to carry around with him. Maverick replies that he went through all the “stages” – depression, anger, denial, acceptance. Everything the experts tell one to expect.
Logan lets go off him as Maverick continues. At first, he thought he should just go out and track down the primo villains of their time and let the chips fall. Go out with a bang, do the world some good. But he didn’t want to go out like that. Not blown away by some megalomaniac low life with pretensions towards world-class evil, he wanted a warrior’s death. He wanted to be sent to Valhalla by somebody he respected. Logan asks him what is he, a Viking funeral director? He asks Maverick if he wants to go out like a man, you gotta take the long walk into darkness just the same as if you was goin’ to the hardware store. You just do your job. You don’t drop out and… Maverick proceeds to walk away and says yeah, just like he’s been doing. He then tells Logan that he’s right of course. One must get on with what’s left of one’s life – make it count. He adds that perhaps Logan should be taking his own advice. Once Maverick has left, Gambit tells Logan to not let him get to him; he’s just hittin’ him back. Logan says yeah, but he’s doin’ what he meant t’do, he’s hittin’ home.


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It’s D-D-Deadpool, Folks!
Back in Canada, Wolverine promised James Hudson he would stop over in San Francisco and check up on a kid named Kane for him. Kane is supposed to be another Weapon X, but Logan isn’t impressed by that. He arrives at a theater, and takes a look at a splintered door. Something tells him trouble was there. Logan takes off his civilian clothes so he’s in his X-Men uniform, and decides to take a closer look inside.
Suddenly, someone fires on him! It’s Deadpool! Wade asks Logan if he wouldn’t happen to know where shiny arms took off with his ex-squeeze, Vanessa. Wade promises that, if Logan tells him, he’ll make it quick and put him out of his interminable misery. Since Logan doesn’t take requests from bigmouth upstarts, and wouldn’t even stomp out Wade’s face would it be on fire, let alone rat out Kane and Vanessa, he rather prepares from some good old action!
He unsheathes his claws and, while Deadpool continues shooting at Logan, he finds an opening and manages to stick his claws right into Wade’s stomach! But Wade doesn’t even feel the claws, and quickly gets up again. Logan asks his adversary if his name wouldn’t be Deadpool. Wade confirms. Logan jokes that it kind of rhymes with Dead-fool. Wade isn’t impressed, and tries to joke back at Wolverine’s codename, but… louver screen? Hoover spleen? Nothing rhymes on the stupid name.
Logan notices that Wade sure has a smart lip, and warns him to better keep it quiet or else someone might slice off his tongue. Logan again manages to hit Deadpool with his claws, but once again Wade isn’t hurt. He mentions to Logan that he’s got a healing factor, which works quite fine. Unlike some others he has hurt about. Deadpool laughs, and kicks Logan in his face. His nose starts to bleed. Wade triumphs, and takes out his swords to finish the job. Wolverine, however, won’t give up. He threatens Wade that he’s going to need his healing factor, because he just maxed out his tolerance level!
Deadpool impressively jumps high, and swings his sword around. He sarcastically feels bad since he made old Wolvy-wiggums all upset. He tells Logan to wait until he slices and dices up his face, now that will make his day all bad for sure. Wolverine jumps at Deadpool again, and asks the merc what his beef is with Kane. Logan is certain that nobody wants the kid dead bad enough so they would pay Deadpool to finish the job. Thanks to his quick reactions, Logan is faster than Wade and manages to kick him in the face. Logan demands an answer to his question.
Deadpool jokes that he has been rendered speechless by the sheer ease with which he suckered Logan, so he could find an opening to stick his swords right through Wolverine’s stomach! When Wolverine starts to bleed, Wade pulls his swords out of Logan’s stomach, and asks the man if he can sing “I left my heart and lungs in San Francisco!” Wade lands, and puts his swords back in the pockets on his back. He notices a framed picture of the Grand Guignol theater and notices Kane and Vanessa standing on it. Wade wonders why he didn’t notice the picture earlier, and takes off, leaving a heavily wounded Wolverine bleeding behind.
Meanwhile, at the theater, Kane surprisingly recognizes his love, Copycat, and holds up… her mechanic head?! Vanessa asks if this isn’t what Kane wanted. Kane answers that it isn’t, but… He asks his boss if he can try the act again. Kane’s boss informs him that they need to feel his emotions. They simply need to find Garrison's motivation. Kane goes behind the curtains, where Copycat was working on the lights. He sadly whispers to Vanessa that he isn’t cut out for this. Vanessa wonders if this is what Kane learned back in Weapon X… to be a quitter?
The stage manager decides to call it a day, and takes off with the other actors. Kane apologizes, but doesn’t think that acting is something for him. Vanessa disagrees. She explains that Kane’s role is easy: his character has so overcome by jealousy because of the depth of his infatuation, which go as deep as Garrison’ real feelings for Vanessa. They kiss.
Copycat recalls Garrison that they came to this city to start a new life, and she is confident that they will make it. Vanessa thinks that Kane just needs to get in touch with his emotions, and suggests that they start working on the scene. She explains that Kane’s character has gone through an emotional trauma. She mentions that Kane can’t just put on the external face of it. He has to let it shine internally and sleep out through his skin. Kane suddenly freaks out, and recognizes someone. Vanessa thinks Kane was acting and calls it brilliant, as it almost gave her the creeps. Kane turns her head, and tells Vanessa that he wasn’t acting. He has seen… Deadpool!
Meanwhile, Wolverine is starting to recover. He quotes that, if he had taken a beating like that a few months ago, he surely would have been a goner. But lucky for him, his healing factor is finally starting to work again after Magneto ripped out his adamantium skeleton out of his body. He crawls up, and wishes that the healing would go a little faster. He takes a look at the picture Deadpool was looking at earlier. Logan tries to take a close look at the picture, but he still can’t get the strength back in his legs and almost faints again, and slams his face into the picture.
He manages to stand up again though, and recognizes Copycat on the picture, and that she’s with a band of actors now. Logan realizes he can’t go out on the streets again wearing his uniform, but luckily there’s a kimono hanging around, so he wears that over his uniform instead. He jumps in the middle of the street, and a cab driver manages to barely stop his car! Logan gets in and apologizes for the brutal stop, but needed to be certain the driver would stop for him. The chauffeur says its nothing, as he has been driving cabs in San Francisco for twenty years now, and has picked up a whole lot of weirder people than Logan. He asks where he should drive to: the hospital or the Grand Guignol. Logan orders the chauffeur to drive to the second suggestion, and that he’d best step on it.
Deadpool jumps to action, and calls Kane an idiot: who did he think it would be: Siskel & Ebert? Wade jokes that he hopes Kane’s fighting skills are on the same level as his lousy acting performance, since he doesn’t want to go through too much trouble slicing him! Kane gets into uniform, and warns Deadpool that acting may not come easy to him, but he was born to fight, and you may say that Weapon X improved him a little. Kane prevents Deadpool from sticking his sword in him by punching him away, and warns Wade to get out of their lives, as he’s got nothing to do with them. Deadpool believes otherwise. He wants Kane dead, since he won’t let him go away that easily by stealing away Wade’s girl Vanessa from him!
Copycat has heard enough, and brutally kicks Deadpool several times, and shouts at him that he’s got a lot of nerve calling her his girl. She doesn’t even let Kane call her that, and he is… She stops talking. Wade tries to hit Vanessa with his sword, and finishes her sentence by asking if Kane is the significant other. Kane confirms, among other things too.
Back at the cab, the chauffeur tries to tell Logan that he’s an actor as well, but rather enjoys driving around in his cab on the road. Logan tells the chauffeur that they’ve all got their own things going on, including him. The chauffeur asks Logan if the kimono is his uniform. Logan corrects that his wearing his real uniform beneath the kimono, and shows it to the chauffeur. He’s impressed by it, but Logan wants the car mirror. He notices that his wounds have already healed. This sure is a surprise. But this also means, that… Logan’s healing factor is kicking back in!
Kane starts to fight Deadpool, and tries to make the merc understand that whatever it is that used to be between the merc and Vanessa is ancient history, just like the lives they used to live. Kane mentions that they are trying to start over, and won’t let Deadpool ruin that. Wade escapes Kane’s final punch, and calls him a bigger idiot that he thought he was, if Kane thinks he can run away for the rest of his life. Deadpool jumps up in the sky, and the theater’s spotlights bright lights make Kane unable to see anything. That was Wade’s sarcastic intention, and he jumps back down, kicking Kane in the process.
At the same time, Logan’s cab has lost its breaks, after many years of activity. The chauffeur apologizes, and doesn’t think they’re even going to make it at Logan’s destination. They drive at full speed through the streets, and the people on it barely manage to jump into safety. The chauffeur does think he can manage to make a safe stop at a garage that’s a few blocks away, but not without skillfully theft maneuvering and hitting the emergency brake. Wolverine refuses to wait that long. He slices the cab’s door apart, and tells the chauffeur to come by the theater if he wants him to pay for the damages. Logan slides down the road on the cab’s door, not thinking that skateboarding can be that hard.
Meanwhile, Deadpool has managed to defeat Kane. He’s ready to slice Kane’s head off, similar to the way a chef prepares food in a Japanese steak house. Vanessa gets up, and starts fighting again. But Wade won’t let her stop him, and kicks brutally kicks Vanessa against a wall! Kane tries to get up again and defend his love. Deadpool notices that Kane really seems to love her, and that he would do anything for her. Deadpool suggests a choice: he throws both his swords away, and gives Kane the choice to stop the sword that’s coming to his own head, or the sword heading towards Copycat’s heart?
Suddenly, Wolverine bursts through the theater door like a runaway freight train, realizing he’s got half a second to register what’s going on and decide a course of action. Logan realizes he doesn’t have a choice. Logan manages to stop the sword aiming at Vanessa by punching it away with his claws, and Kane pushes the sword away aiming at him. Deadpool’s other sword goes right through Kane’s own hand instead! But luckily, his healing factor kicks in and the wounds quickly heal.
This upsets Deadpool. Kane should have been dead. But, life is tough. Wolverine kicks Wade down, ready for payback time. Logan throws Wade’s swords back at him, and mentions that his healing factor is working perfectly now, too. Logan notices how quiet Wade is, and thinks he doesn’t have anything left to say. Wade doesn’t think so: he’s got one more thing to say: grenade! He throws a grenade in Wolverine’s direction, and it explodes!
When the smoke clears a few minutes later, Deadpool is already gone. Wolverine stays for a while, and helps Kane and Vanessa clean up their digs and sleeps on their couch until the morning. At dawn, Kane and Vanessa join Logan for a walk and head to his bike. Logan recalls that he used to be like the two lovebirds: trying to find his way, thinking he could make it on his own. But then, he found some people who were just like him, and they understood him. They cared.
And all of a sudden, Logan had a place to call “home.” But sometimes, he forgets. It happens. He gets too wounded up in himself and loses track of the fact that, when you stop participating, you are just like the tree in the forest: the one that nobody hears when it falls. Logan tells the kids that he’s going home now, and hopes that Kane and Vanessa can work it out and have a good life.
Vanessa is still a little angry that Kane blocked the sword aiming at his head and didn’t rescue her. Logan explains that he did the right thing. Because, if Kane would have been dead, he wouldn’t have been able to help her out at all. Logan is confident that Kane would have stopped the sword that was aiming at her, but the other one would have split his skull. And, who was going to be left to stop Deadpool should that have happened?
Vanessa recalls that Logan was there. Yeah, Wolverine confirms while driving away, but what would have happened if he had caught a cab with good brakes? As she watches Wolverine leaving, Vanessa wonders about that possibility.


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(1st story) Lair of the N’Garai
(2nd story) What the Cat Dragged In
(1st Story)Prowling the woods in his yellow and blue costume, Logan realizes that somethin’ ain’t right. He may be losin’ it in some ways but the woods around the Xavier Institute are his ol’ stompin’ grounds and he can feel it in his bones when it ain’t right around there. Finding a slab of stone in the middle of the woods, Logan knows that’s not right in spades. It’s the Cairn and it ain’t even supposed to be there.
Somethin’ evil came through that thing one night, somethin’ from a whole ‘nother reality. It gave the X-Men all a run for the money until Storm smashed it with lightning. But it came back. And somethin’ came through it one Christmas Eve and almost got Kitty. Charles Xavier had them break it up and scatter the pieces but there it is – back again.
Studying a footprint on the ground, Logan knows that somethin’ bad has sure come through it. As Logan follows the tracks, he notices that it ain’t even botherin’ to cover its tracks. It ain’t trackin’ or stalkin’, it’s makin’ a beeline straight for its prey. It’s a thing bent on killin’ and it’s headin’ towards some folks who mean a whole lot to him – the X-Men. He can’t let that happen, no way. Not while the ol’ canuckle-head is on the case.
Popping his bone claws, Logan leaps at the N’Garai demon. While he does, he tells it that it just won the ugliness prize, now he gets to die and feed worms. Reaching the demon, Logan punches his claws through what he hopes is somethin’ vital but mister ugly has got the same idea and proceeds to slash Logan across the chest. When Logan doesn’t fall to the ground dead, he can tell the demon is surprised. The demon figured he put him down for the count. Logan then says to the demon that he didn’t know ‘bout his healin’ factor, did he?
Inside the institute – home to the X-Men, a beleaguered group of young people who have been blessed with abilities far exceeding those of “normal” humans and cursed with the responsibility of protecting a world that often resents their existence. While they work on the Blackbird, Nightcrawler accidentally drops a wrench on Beast’s head. Kurt apologizes and states that his concentration is not what it should be for Blackbird hydraulic system maintenance. McCoy replies that it’s lucky for him that it wasn’t a ball-peen hammer.
On the other side of the room, Psylocke and Boom Boom stand nearby, while Professor Charles Xavier looks over a computer monitor. Noticing that Boomer seems distracted as well, he tells her to go over and help Bishop with the circuit testers. Making her way over there, Tabby mentions to Bishop that it’s a tough break for Kurt. He came all the way back there to log in some quality time with his old bud in his time of need and the Wolvster would be rather out in the woods chasing rabbits. If you ask her, she doesn’t know why he wants to spend time with that creep. After all, look what he did to Sabretooth and all.
Bishop tells her that there are men in who walk among them who strive to be better each day, who place the needs of their friends above their own and who face their own fears straight ahead, unflinching. It does the rest of them good to be in their company when they allow it. Irritated, Tabby walks away and says to Bishop “who asked him anyway?” Dropping down from the Blackbird, Kurt is surprised to hear Tabby defending Sabretooth. He then asks what is going on in the mansion. They should be outside looking for their friend. Hank tells him to take it easy. He of all people should know that Wolverine will deal with his problems in his own way. He’ll come to them when he’s ready.
Kurt begins to ask what happens if that is too late… but is interrupted when the main security alarm goes off. Tapping away at his computer, Xavier informs them that something tripped a motion detector in sector five. After Psylocke points out that’s right on the edge of the woods, Xavier adds that he’s getting wild readings on the other sensors and that he’s going to see about traversing a video-cam for a computer-enhanced visual. Hank remarks that it’s probably just Logan while Kurt seems concerned.
In the woods around the mansion, Logan continues to battle the N’Garai demon. As it runs off, Logan asks it s’matter bub, he can dish it out pretty good but he guesses he just can’t take it. Ripping off his mask, Logan rushes after the demon.
Meanwhile, Psylocke looks over the monitor and points out the tree line but states that there’s nobody there. Xavier replies that he’s still getting sensor readings. It’s moving deeper into the woods. Bishop asks couldn’t it be Logan like Beast said? Xavier says that he has already reset the sensors to exclude Logan’s particular parameters. Whatever it is, it isn’t even a carbon-cycle life-form and it’s big. It seems to be traveling at a good clip and it just disappeared off the sensor in quadrant A-14.
As he talks, the demon disappears into the Cairn with Logan giving chase and entering as well. Xavier then mentions that for a moment he sensed an almost familiar presence but it vanished. He then asks Psylocke if she can give it a look too just in case he missed something. Psylocke replies the world’s most powerful telepath missing something? Doubtful, but if he insists… With that, Betsy Braddock reaches out with her mind using the telepathic ability that is her birthright, mentally searching the grounds of the estate for evidence of any threat. After a while, she replies that she senses nothing, not even Logan.
At that moment, Kurt teleports to section 5 quadrant A-14 of the estate grounds. There he sees the Cairn and at first thinks that he should teleport back and… Looking at the ground, Kurt stops his thought mid-sentence when he sees the footsteps of the N’Garai. He notices that it came through and then went back but there are other footprints as well – those belonging to Wolverine. He deduces that his friend Logan has followed the N’Garai back through the Cairn. He wonders what he was thinking. He should go back for help but it will take time for the others to get back there. They can’t travel instantaneously like he and every second may count. With that, Kurt enters into the Cairn. It was concern for Wolverine that brought Kurt Wagner to the Xavier Institute. And it is that same friendship, a bond forged by two outsiders which causes him to leap into the unknown.
Once Kurt reaches the realm of the N’Garai, he sees Logan viciously battling a horde of N’Garai demons. Kurt informs Logan that he will help him but is smacked away by one of the demons for his effort. Picking himself up, Kurt states that it’s not wise to backhand him, not while he can teleport behind him. As he does, Kurt covers the demon’s eyes and Logan kills it with a claw stab to its chest. With that one dead, Kurt focuses on the one behind Logan and teleports over to knock it off balance. When the demon begins to stumble, Logan kills that one too.
Just then, the other two N’Garai demons run off. Kurt then puts his hand on Logan’s shoulder and points out to him that the survivors have fled and that it’s like the old days. They were some team, ja? Turning around, Logan growls at Kurt with wild eyes and takes a slash at him. Teleporting out of the way at the last second, Kurt asks Logan doesn’t he know him? Holding his head, Logan asks “elf?” Kurt replies, “Ja, elf.” Falling to the ground, Logan informs him that he’s hurtin’, they got him bad. Rushing over to his friend, Kurt takes a look at his wounds. Shocked, he exclaims that he can see bone and… Standing up, Logan tells him that it ain’t nothin’, it’s already knittin’ back together. Sure hurts like all blue blazes though. Kurt says that they have to go back and warn Professor Xavier and the rest. Logan tells him there’s no way back. Only thing left to do is track down all the ugly dudes and got to claw city on ‘em. He hopes he brought a six-pack o’ butt-kick with him.
Deeper into the lair, the two surviving demons tell their master, a larger winged demon what has just happened. The larger demon asks them so he has dared to kill his scouts and enter his domain, the clawed one and the blue teleporter. Friends of the eyeless one who roused him before the time of his awakening, but the others are not with them. The metal-skinned warrior and the female who summons wind and lightning and the young female who defeated the last champion he sent against them. Do those two alone think to thwart Kierrok, the shatterer of souls? Do they truly believe they can prevent that which has been prophesized that which he has awaited since times of old? For now is the time of his resurrection – the end times, when his legions will claim dominion over their world in his name.
As Logan and Kurt continue their way through the lair of the N’Garai, Kurt says to Logan that he doesn’t even really want to go back. He would rather stay there and revel in the carnage. Logan tells him not to go gettin’ morally superior on him, he does what he has to do. He kills what he has to kill. He don’t exactly feel good about it, but he sure ain’t cryin’ in his beer. Kurt says to him to stop and listen to him, blast it. He came all the way from Muir Island, can’t he see how worried he is?
Angrily, Logan turns around and says oh is he? He worried that he’s gonna blow his cool and claw up some so-called innocent yahoo. He worried that he might rip apart some psychotic dirt-bag bad-guy who may not be quite as formidable as him, huh? Kurt attempts to interject but Logan cuts him off and asks him that might just upset his nice sensibilities o’ fair play, right? Make them look real bad, huh? He then tells him that there ain’t no such thing as a fair fight. Ya win ‘cause you’re better, tougher and meaner than the other guy. Kurt attempt to warn Logan to look behind him but Logan ignores him and says to him that the other guy don’t know that you’re better, tougher and meaner. He thinks he’s better, tougher and meaner. That’s why he’s trying to stop your clock.
At that moment, a horde of N’Garai demons leap towards Kurt and Logan. As Kurt yells out Logan’s name, Logan turns around and proceeds to stab the leaping demon in the chest. He then asks elf whatsamatter? Is he worried about the ugly losers behind them? He tells him not to be. No matter what they think of him now they know there ain’t nobody they’d rather have with him in a dark alley.
While Logan continues to slash and hack away at the demons, Kurt remarks that it is obvious that it is not his friends who fear he is losing control, it is him. It would be easy to stay there and let his animal instincts take over. No need to think, or to feel – just act. Logan tells him that he feels. He feels himself slippin’ away bit by bit till all that’s left is maybe what he really is – a killing machine. Kurt tells Logan that is not true. Logan asks that he ain’t got the stomach for it; and then tells him to deal with it, he is.
Kurt begins to ask him if this is what he calls deal… but stops and asks Logan what he is doing. Giving chase to the retreating demons, Logan says to him didn’t his mama teach him to finish what he starts? When the demons make their way back to Kierrok and again inform him of what happened, he is shocked that they have failed. They tell him he is unstoppable but after he proves them wrong, they will find new definitions for pain.
Just then, Logan and Kurt hear what they believe to be a freight train from hell. In actuality, it is Kierrok whom Kurt immediately recognizes. Logan states that he remembers this geek; he ripped him pretty good back then, now it’s up to him to rip him better. Kurt puts his arms around Logan and attempts to tell him that this fight wins them nothing. They must find the portal and make sure it’s sealed. Pushing Kurt away, Logan says to him that he hears him but first things first and leaps towards Kierrok.
Immediately, Kierrok grabs Logan’s arm and begins to slash away at him. While he does, he tells Logan that when last they met the advantage of place was his. He was out of his environment but there, in his realm, where the living corridors replenish him, he is invincible. After he slashes away at Logan repeatedly, leaving him a bloody mess, Kierrok turns his attention to Kurt and tells him to join his friend in the darkling plain of death. Kurt tells him nein and being to teleport out of Kierrok’s reach. Kierrok says to him that his tricks will not save him there. He is master of life and death in this world as he will soon be in his. Leaping up and jamming his claws into Kierrok’s chest, Logan asks master of life and death, huh. Well, he sure ain’t doin’ such a hot job o’ makin’ him dead.
Kurt then calls out to Logan that they cannot allow him to pass through to earth. Going after Kierrok again, Logan says to him that he doesn’t think he knows that, he thinks he’s letting the ugly jerk get past him? Kierrok tells Logan that he is a sturdy creature but asks how well he can stand being lacerated, mangled and eviscerated and slashes Logan across the chest again. As Logan falls to the ground clutching his chest, Kurt says to him that even he cannot take much more punishment and says to him to stand back and allow him to… Logan cuts him off and says that he can’t do it. Kierrok has a scent o’ his blood an’ he has a taste o’ his. He then tells Kurt to leave him there. Kurt tells him no but Logan says to him to listen to him. He can hold ‘im off, he has to go ahead and find the portal and be ready ta…
Just then, Kierrok comes down with his fist and pounds Logan into the ground. Realizing the situation, Kurt knows that Logan is right. The portal must be sealed but he will not leave Logan in this place, even if it means the end of him. Surprised, Kierrok states that it cannot be, he rises. Emerging from the murky water, Logan tells him that’s right bub and says that he’s goin’ down. Logan knows that he has to finish this chump and follow Kurt. Seein’ the look in his eyes, like he was lookin’ at some animal, he can’t let him down. With that, Logan leaps up and slashes Kierrok across the face.
Clutching his chest in pain, Kierrok tells his demon minions to go forth into the world of men and wreck havoc and prepare the way for the great transmigration of their kind. Leave those two to Kierrok. Kurt then calls out to Logan that they’re going to attack the institute. Logan replies then they gotta head ‘em off at the pass and the duo leap out of the Cairn. As they do, Logan remarks to Kurt that it’s just like the old days. He sets ‘em up and he does the ol’ slice an’ dice. Within moments, two of the demons have been killed.
Inside the institute where several tense minutes have passed since Nightcrawler’s disappearance, Psylocke informs Xavier that there’s still nothing out there. Xavier says he knows, he doesn’t sense anything either. Bishop mentions that nothing is registering on the electronic alarm system. Boomer then asks where Kurt went off to while Beast asks about Logan. Just then, the intruder alarm sounds. When it does, Xavier announces that he’s detecting a psionic presence, one that he’s sensed before, a vial race that poses a threat to their very world – the N’Garai. They’ve somehow brought back the Cairn, the doorway between their dimensions. If they don’t stop them, close the Cairn once and for all, they are the only line of defense – the N’Garai must be stopped.
While the X-Men rush off, Boomer mentions that it’s not enough the whole world hates them, not they’ve got a bunch of interdimensional demons to deal with. Beast informs her they’re a universe-class evil and they’re not discriminating between humans and mutants.
Around the Cairn, Logan takes out the last of the demons. Turning towards Kurt, he tells him that he’s goin’ back through; he’s got business to finish with Kierrok. Kurt tells him that he will not allow him to do this, to give in to his bloodlust. Kurt adds that if he goes back through the Cairn, he will be forsaking their friendship and for what – to kill every demon in that dimension? Appearing in the Cairn, Kierrok tells them that’s true and he won’t allow it. That is why he had his minions lure them through the Cairn back to Earth. He has inflicted severe damage to his horde and defended his pathetic world for the moment. But make no mistake, this plane will be his. After all, their existence is fleeting while he has an eternity. Be warned. With that, Kierrok disappears, taking the Cairn with it. When it does, a giant explosion occurs which knocks Logan and Kurt backwards.
A little later, Psylocke and the X-Men find Nightcrawler coming to consciousness. When they ask him what happened there, Kurt tells them that Logan can tell them the whole story, he was… Beast replies that he’s nowhere to be found. Bishop then asks what happened to the demons. Kurt informs him that they’re gone, at least for now. He then tells the X-Men that they should have seen him. His best friend was like a savage. Nothing he said had any effect on him. He was worse than when he first joined the X-Men, almost more animal than man. He asks what they can do to help him, what if he doesn’t change back.
Wandering through the woods with a crazed look on his face, Logan thinks to himself that Kurt was right. He did want to go back an’ if it wasn’t for him, he would have. Those people back there, specifically Kurt, mean everythin’ ta him. Been ta the wall and back fer them and them fer him. But he doesn’t know how much longer he can fight this regression. It’s only a mater o’ time before that howlin’ redness in the back o’ his head – the killin’ rage – takes over. An’ he ain’t scared of it no more.
(2nd Story)On an uncommonly quiet night at the Xavier Institute, inside all is calm but outside something wild prowls the grounds. Drawn by the shrieking metal impact and the scent of blood, it stalks a dying soldier. The stench of rotting flesh fills the predator’s nostrils. The soldier is not dying from the wounds received in his aircraft crash, but from disease. Coming upon the soldier, Logan recognizes him as Maverick. Reaching out towards Logan, Maverick tells him that he’s next.
In a secret location on the Canadian-American border, a maskless and shackled Wade Wilson, known otherwise to the world as Deadpool, calls out in pain as he is being stuck with a large needle emanating from a large machine. The scientists overseeing the procedure inform him that he suffers for a great cause. His constantly-regenerating metabolism may be the key to preventing untold suffering among all humanity. Wilson calls them a bunch o’ third-rate Jonas Salks and that they’d think even they would figure if there was anything in this bag o’ bones that’d cure the Legacy Virus, he would have marketed it to the hilt. The scientist replies very amusing but his kind owes a debt to humans for the plague they’ve brought upon them. As they again stick him with a needle, they tell him to think on that, mercenary, and ask himself “who will mourn me?”
Inside the Institute, Beast mentions to Maverick that it’s been 42 hours and that it’s about time he came around. He was beginning to doubt his own prognosis. He has healed remarkably, though the Legacy Virus has eroded his healing factor he received during the Weapon X program. He’s afraid Wolverine is not fairing well either. Without the adamantium, he’s mutating, almost feral now. On the bright side, there’s mocha ice cream in the freezer.
Covering his face with his hands, Maverick exclaims that he needs his faceplate. Beast tells him that he can assure him that he’s quite familiar with the terrible ravages of the Legacy Virus and that he has nothing to hide there, he’s among friends. Standing up, Maverick asks Beast where he can find Logan. Beast tells him that he spends all his time outside these days prowling the grounds. He then warns him that he’s in no condition to… Maverick cuts him off and continues to walk out the door, thanking Beast for everything.
As Maverick stands outside overlooking a lake, breeze and birdsong mask the undercurrent of chaos which threatens the X-Men’s very existence. Maverick has known Wolverine a long time. Since before the X-Men were a twinkle in Charles Xavier’s eye. And he knows the best way to find Wolverine is to let Wolverine find him. Coming upon him, Logan says to Maverick that the last time he saw him; he was lookin’ for someone to punch his ticket. His answer’s still no.
Maverick asks him that he thinks he nearly died getting there just so he could finish him off? Logan replies that he guesses not and states that he better tell him why he is there. He’s runnin’ short on patience these days. Maverick can tell Logan’s keeping his distance. He has to wonder if he’s afraid of his own, savage self, or of catching the Legacy Virus. He should know better. Logan’s a friend. But knowing you’re going to die, that does strange things to a man’s psyche.
Maverick proceeds to tell Logan that he cam there to warn him. He was at his Manhattan safehouse when they came for him. Even at his best, there may have been too many of them. It was time to go but their field leader got him good and tore through his armor with the claws on his extending arm before the doors to the speed lift shut on his arm. He hit the roof for dustoff. When they first hit him, one of them said he was the perfect guinea pig. A mutant with a healing factor taken from Logan’s DNA template, then infected with the Legacy Virus. They already have Deadpool. It follows that he, Logan, is next on the list. He doesn’t know where they’ve got the mouthy little merc, but wherever he is, he’s willing to bet he’s in pain.
On the Canadian-American border, Doctor Westergaard leads a number of individuals through her facility. One of the men, Mr. Tucci, asks her if she has actually found the cure. Westergaard replies that they believe they are close, very close. And whoever actually has the cure has power. Tucci states salvation to the highest bidder, eh. Westergaard informs him that they are information brokers. Compassion is bad for business. They are in the process of acquiring several test subjects, the study of which will help them achieve their goal. They have already begun testing subject “A.”
Behind the armored door, Slayback is playing tic-tac-toe on Wade’s chest. As he wins again, he mentions to Wilson that he’s a poor, unlucky sod. He’s went and lost again. Wilson tells him, Terraterton, to c’mon old pal, he’s just getting warmed up. What say they play best three outta five? When Westergaard enters with her guests, Wilson tells Slayback to check it out, it’s the cast of “ER.”
Seeing what is happening, Westergaard asks Slayback what is going on there. When Slayback tells her that it’s just a friendly little game, Westergaard tells him to get out. She then orders Doctor Chadwick to begin the marrow withdrawal immediately. Wilson replies yeah, by all means do some more “tests.” If there’s on thing he knows, it’s pain, he’s been livin’ with it a long time. He then tells them to remember that he gives just as good as he gets.
In the woods around the Xavier Institute, Logan tells Maverick that Wilson’s a psycho, a stone killer. They don’t owe him a thing. Maverick replies maybe, but they aren’t about to give up and they’re next. Logan says let ‘em come, let ‘em do their worst. Maverick asks so what if they do produce a cure. They’ll hold the world hostage, pick and choose who they sell it to. He adds that he’s already dying. If Wade Wilson is the cure for what’s killing him, doesn’t he think it’d be easy for him to just let them have it? After what they went through in the past, they can’t just sit there and do nothing while somebody else, anybody else, is put through the same kind of torture.
He then tells Logan that he doesn’t know what in blazes has happened to him and that he can prowl out there in the woods all he wants but he thinks he’s still a man. He leaves Deadpool to rot and he’s proving maybe he is an animal. Logan says that they don’t even know where Deadpool’s being kept. Maverick tells him so they call in some markers.
Looking up at Maverick, Logan thinks to himself that part o’ him doesn’t give a damn and the freedom of not carin’ is temptin’. But Maverick is right about his humanity. That’s good to know. Lady he once knew told him a friend is someone who knew your own personal song and is there to sing it for you when you forget it. Now his friend is dyin’, slowin’ down with the virus. That could be dangerous but he needs this mission. He needs to know he can still do it, can still live. Worst part is he can smell the death on him. He misses him already and he ain’t even gone. Maverick then tells him that it’s time to move soldier.
Forty-eight hours later on the Canadian border, Logan and Maverick are suited up and prepared for battle. Logan recalls that Maverick an’ him were part of a team once, a good one. Trained to know by instinct what the others would do next. Some lessons you just can’t learn. Maverick’s illness slows them up some but they compensate automatically, no talkin’. Maverick has enough connections in the right places so findin’ the place wasn’t a problem.
Meanwhile, the deeper into the base they get without settin’ off any alarms, the better. They are able to take out the first bunch of guards with stealth but when they blow the door offa the lab, it brings a platoon a’ high-priced cannon fodder. That’s just fine with Logan. Entering the lab, Maverick tells Deadpool that vacation’s over and asks if he’s ready to get back to work. Wilson tells them that he’s touched they remembered his birthday. Now if they’ll just get him down, he’s got some candles he’d like to blow out.
While Logan frees Wilson from his shackles, he tells him not to start gettin’ smart on them. He doesn’t want him to regret comin’ in there after him. Now free, Wilson says that he wouldn’t dream of it and calls Logan amigo. After Logan tells him that he ain’t his amigo, Wilson takes out one of the guards with his shackles and remarks that someone got up on the wrong side o’ the crib today. He then pardons himself while he slips into something more comfortable and pulls out his mask. Maverick tells him that he’s got his back. He adds that the morons they’re fighting haven’t even figured out who they’re fighting yet. Otherwise, they’d realize his body absorbs kinetic energy. In his mind, he knows that he’s talking a good game but with the virus in his system, there’s only so much energy he can absorb. A few more shots and he might not make it out of there.
At that moment, Westergaard appears and tells the three men that it’s the end of the line and that they’ve made her job considerably easier. They will be free to leave once certain tests have been run. She’ll try to make them as painless as possible. Wilson replies “yeah right” and leaps towards the oncoming guards. As he does, he mentions that he feels like Butch and Sundance when they’re in Bolivia at the end of the movie. To this, Maverick points out that Butch and Sundance die at the end of the movie. Wilson asks Maverick if he’s slowing down in his old age. Maverick replies that he’s dying actually but not today. Slashing Wilson across the back, Slayback exclaims that’s where they’re wrong. Today’s a beautiful day to die. Logan replies that maybe so but they ain’t gonna be the ones doin’ the dyin’. With that, Logan engages Slayback in battle.
Seeing what is happening, Westergaard calls out for the computer security override and engages essential salvage and self-destruct. When the computer asks for the password, Westergaard says “humanity.” The self-destruct is then engaged and the alarm begins to sound. Maverick tells Wilson to get up, Logan needs them. Wilson replies that he doesn’t know, he seems to be doing pretty well on his own. Hearing the alarm, Slayback states that they wouldn’t…
Logan tells him to never mind the music, just keep dancin’. Grabbing Logan around the neck, Slayback tells him to come a little close then. He’s got to go now before the whole place blows up but he thinks he’ll take his head for his trophy case. Shooting Slayback in the back, Maverick tells him that he doesn’t think so. Logan then tells him that it’s time to get out of there before they get fried. In a weakened state, Maverick can barely move. Wilson proceeds to tell him that he really is out of shape. Maverick says that the Legacy Virus will do that to a man.
Wilson says so he wasn’t kidding about that dying stuff? Maverick replies that not everything’s a joke to which Wilson apologizes. Hearing the structure beginning to crumble around them, Logan looks at the window near them and says that they’re not going to make it unless… Wilson says no way and to tell him that he’s not thinkin’ of doin’ a Great Lougainis down the falls. Logan asks him what’s the matter, is he all talk. Wilson asks if he’s sayin’ he doesn’t have the guts papa Smurf. As they leap out the window and tumble down the falls, Logan tells mouth that when they hit bottom, he’ll open him up and then they’ll see how much guts he has.
Logan recalls that it’s a long drop to the lake. Maverick’s ability to absorb the kinetic energy o’ the impact saves his life. Even then, he had to stop him from drownin’. Once he and Maverick get on the shore, G.W. Bridge orders them to freeze. Logan mentions to him that he and his S.H.I.E.L.D. boys are a little late to the party, ain’t he. With Westergaard in custody, Bridge tells Wolverine that cleaning up his mess isn’t his idea of a party. They just cost him weeks of work. They’ve got no evidence, no Slayback, and no Deadpool. He then tells his agents to fan out and promises them a week’s furlough to the agents who bring him that pair of ugly maniacs.
Maverick quietly says to Logan that they’ll never find Wilson and asks what now. What if Deadpool was the key to a cure? Logan says that as much as he can’t stand the sight o’ the little mercenary twerp, he ain’t a monster. He’ll do the right thing. An’ if he don’t, he’ll hut him down himself.
Three days later, the Beast received a refrigerated package of blood and cell samples from a W. Wilson, no return address. After looking at them, Beast tells Maverick that there’s no cure there and apologizes. Logan follows Maverick outside and tells him that this ain’t the end. With Hank and the Muir Island crew on the job, they’re bound to have a cure soon. Maverick tells him that it may come too late for him, but he’s not going to give up hope. He doesn’t know if he can be a soldier anymore, but he knows he can still hold his own. Whatever time he has, he’s going to spend hunting down answers. Finding a cure if there’s one out there, no matter what it takes.
Listening to him speak, Logan thinks to himself that Maverick’s a good friend and that he’s proud to know him. He prays they’ll find a cure for him, for all o’ them. Seems this mission gave them both somethin’. He guesses that loyalty and friendship are pretty primal fundamental parts o’ bein’ human. Could be havin’ friends around, people who’d lay it on the line for his, is the only thing keepin’ him from becomin’ completely savage. He hates to think what he’d do without ‘em.


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… Bump in the Night
In Scotland, Logan recalls that he got the news that his old sparrin’ partner Cyber broke out o’ the Hoosegow in Scotland or that maybe someone sprung him on purpose. As he sniffs around, he figures the one good thing about goin’ feral is the ol’ sniffer is sharper than it’s ever been and it’s tellin’ him Cyber did have help. He just has to find out who.
When he gets up to the top of the building, he tells Jean Grey that he’s ready to blow the pop stand and tells her to come in high and steady. Just then, he leaps and grabs hold of the passing aircraft. Inside, Jean psychically asks him if he wants to climb inside. Logan tells her that it’s too cramped and airless inside and that he’s better out there, in the wind. He then asks her to head on over to the next stop. Jean tells him to have it his way and asks if he found anything pertinent in the dungeon. Logan replies the scent o’ Cyber and traces o’ forces beyond his power. Somebody or somethin’ sprung him. Somethin’ that could knock down a cell door that was designed by S.H.I.E.L.D. itself to keep Cyber locked up tight.
In short time, the two of them reach a part of the city where a building appears to have had the top half of it cut off at an angle. A nearby stone statue has the same features. Jean asks Logan if he is sure this is the right place; she thought it was supposed to be a six story building. Leaping off the aircraft and into the severed top half of the building, Logan tells her it is, or at least it used to be when he met Zoe Culloden there. He adds that whatever did this was unleashin’ weaponry you can’t pick up on the surplus market.
He then asks where is it, it’s gotta be around there someplace. Every office o’ Landau, Luckman and Lake (LLL) had one. As he begins to sift through the wreckage, Jean lands the aircraft, exits it and asks him one what. She tells Logan that he’s got to calm down and tell her what he is searching for. At that moment, Logan finds a door marked WC and asks Jean to help him get it upright. As she helps Logan raise the door up, she asks “This?” She’d hope that every office had one or better yet two. Logan tells her it’s not what she thinks. He saw old Chang go through a door like that once in lowtown Madripoor.
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As Logan punched a man into the office of LLL, Chang says to him that their offices aren’t a prize ring. Logan ignores the comment and informs Chang that he needs that package he left with him for safekeeping and fifty grand in hundreds. Not looking up from his desk, Chang tells him that he doesn’t suppose it can wait until he finishes his report. Logan informs him not hardly. Chang sighs, puts down his pen and remarks that he now understands why the principals refer to him as a high-maintenance client.
Pulling a gun out of his desk drawer, he goes through a door marked private and says he’ll be back in due time. Once he has left, Logan thinks to himself that door don’t lead outside. He wonders where Chang went to and looks through the keyhole of the door marked private. On the other side, he recalls that was the first time he saw one of the doors marked WC. Ol’ Chang couldn’ta been inside more’n thirty seconds but when he came back out, his clothes were a mess, he had a two-day stubble on his chin and he had a different weapon than when he left.
(present)
Jean replies okay, so he found the door to a “rest room” and once upon a time in his mysterious past, he saw the Madripoor agent of LLL come out of one looking a tad disheveled. Maybe they were using it for storage, maybe it got a little dusty in there. Logan tells her c’mon, she knows more about this stuff than most. As he opens the door he says a lot of time passed for Chang than it did for him. The WC don’t stand for “water closet,” it stands for “warp chamber.” Grabbing Jean’s hand he begins to enter the door and asks her if she’s ready for this. Jean tells him of course. The question is, is he? Logan informs her only after he finds out where this takes them or “when.”
As they reach another door, Jean mentions that the dimensional shift is fading and they’re making reality contact. When they reach the next room, Jean looks around and sees a bunch of people lying dead on the floor and says that it looks like someone’s been there. Logan adds that they did a bad number on the staff while they were at it. He mentions that the poor jokers put up quite a fight though. Just then, Logan catches a scent in the air and tells Jean that somethin’s still in there with them behind the desk.
With that, Logan slices the desk in half to reveal a boy wielding two guns. Jean yells at Logan that she’s not reading any hostile thoughts; he’s just a boy. When the boy hears the name, Logan he says that he’s “da one da Expediter is all het up about. He goes on to tell Logan cheese Louise, he thot he wuz dat gaslight frail what put da whammy on Mr. Ramavishnu and Miss Kierkegaard.” He then introduces himself as da office boy, Emmet. Emmet then asks Logan who “da snapper” is; she’s a peach. Logan informs him that her name is Ms. Grey to him and offers him a word to the wise – he better watch what he thinks about her. Emmet replies okey-dokey. He then tells them now dat da reinforcements are there, they can read da riot act to da gaslight frail.
As all three of them enter through another door, Logan asks him how they know they’re on his side. Emmet tells him da Expediter sez dat Logan is jake and dat’s copacetic with him. Stepping through the doorway, Emmet warns them to watcher step, dis is a principal’s office. In the office, Logan asks if the “gaslight frail” killed Mr. Landau too. Emmet asks rub out Mr. Landau, get real. He’s a principal, ain’t like either of them. Making their way over to another door, Emmet asks them didn’t da Expediter fill them in on all dis. Logan answers that he don’t know what… As they enter through the next door, Emmet tells them to shhhh, they gotta do dis on da Q.T. if they wanna bushwhack Chimera and douse her lamps. Jean asks Chimera, like the monster in Greek legend… Emmet tells her “woise, she’s….”
As soon as Logan makes his way through the door, it slams shut. Before him stands a blonde-haired lady wearing a mask and a tight black body-suit. She is looking at a large display screen that shows what looks to be Wolverine in a highly feral state. The lady says to Logan that they don’t need the other two do they… now that the subject himself has deigned to honor them with his presence. Logan asks her, the subject o’ what? The lady replies of such an exquisitely thorough investigation resulting in the stunning 3-D extrapolation of his regression. She adds that the Expediter does such good work; it would thrill them to no end to suck out the Expediter’s spine but there is a contract and the fulfillment thereof is contingent on the delivery of this data. Quite a bonus for delivery of the subject himself in an inanimate state, of course.
Logan replies that it ain’t gonna happen. Talking to her hand, the lady mocks, “Awwww, widdle Wogan doesn’t wanna pway.” Her “hand” – moving in the shape of a puppet-like mouth – tells her, “Thuck out hith thpine, Chimera.” In mock reply, Chimera tells her hand that they mustn’t rush things. No, no, no! Popping his claws, Logan tells her that he thinks she’s missing all the hotels from her Monopoly set an’ that’s too bad, ‘cause he has a lot of questions. ‘Bout Landau, Luckman and Lake, ‘bout Cyber that she’s gonna have to answer. Chimera turns and says oh my goodness and asks Logan if that is murderous intent they see flashing in his eyes. She asks how far down the dark road to a pure bestial state has he gone. Chimera adds that good thing for them that LLL set up psi-shields on their security doors or his lady friend might be in there being utterly appalled at his behavior.
Holding out her hand, Chimera says to Logan that he’s not going to make this difficult for them, is he? She then tells him to be a nice little beastie-thing and come to Chimera and offer them his throat. Logan angrily replies that she’s the one who ain’t quite human and asks her what happened to Cyber. Chimera looks at her hand again and tells it that he “weaves them no wecourse” and that he is poking his nose where it doesn’t belong. The “hand” says “wet’s thwash him.”
Just then, Chimera yells out thrash, thrash and burn and emits an extremely large being of energy in the form of a dragon. To himself, Logan says it’s a sock-puppet from hell with eyes like open furnace doors, teeth like daggers of white fire. When the dragon being grabs Logan in its jaws, Logan begins to hurt past redline, clean off the scale. As he collapses, Chimera’s other hand “says” thave thome for them. Chimera tells it they’ll let them clean up but right now, they must let the psychic poisons do their work. Once Chimera pulls back her “dragon,” she tells her hand good job and it thanks her. Chimera tells her hand it is quite welcome, stands over Logan, holds out her other hand and tells it it’s their turn to…
Interrupting, Logan slams his claws into Chimera’s hand and tells her wrong; it’s her turn to hurt. Leaping in pain and holding on to the wall above, Chimera screams. Logan says to her that she can dish it out, but she sure can’t take it. As she disappears, Chimera tells him they’ll meet again and, next time, she won’t be trying to take him alive.
At that moment, Logan hears a loud explosion behind him and sees Jean and Emmet blasting through the door. Jean tells him they got through as fast as they could while Emmet says they hadda recharge da hardware. He then says, “Willya lookit dat, it’s da Expediter.” From another teleportation chamber, Logan recognizes the Expediter as Zoe Culloden. He asks her what’s goin’ on and what’s happened there? Zoe tells him there’s no time to explain and hands him a package. She tells him that he’ll just have to trust her, like he’s always trusted LLL to manager his affairs. The package she just gave him will explain everything and tells them to hurry – she’s sending them both back on a sidereal time-slip.
Once they have left, Emmet asks Zoe if the package is gonna explain everything or if it is another trap. Zoe tells him that Logan is a warrior born. She could not tell him of Genesis and what the madman had planned for him but at least she may have given him a fighting chance. Emmet asks “Fighting chance? Against what Genesis is gonna do?” Don’t make him laugh.


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Waking up, the first thing Logan is aware of is pain. Pain on the level of a white hot railroad spike being pounded through his forehead with a nine pound sledgehammer. His eyeballs feel like they’ve been sandpapered. His tongue, like it’s been dipped in battery acid. His guts are churning like a Maytag on the rinse cycle. Groggily, he guesses he must have had one rip-snorter of a rockin’ good time last night, except he can’t remember any of it. It’s called a blackout and for most folks it means it’s time to check into a good twelve-point program. For the ol’ canuckle-head, it’s probably another side-effect o’ his feral regression brought on by the removal o’ his adamantium.
Picking himself up, he hopes he didn’t mess up too bad and wonders if he really wants to open his peepers. When he does, it’s worse than he could have imagined. On the ground he sees Archie Corrigan lying on his back and O’Donnell lying facedown on the ground. Logan determines that he must be in Madripoor, in the Princess Bar. Surveying all of the bodies strewn all over the bar, Logan wonders what happened there. It looks like a freight train full o’ butt-kick rolled through with no brakes. Heading over to Archie, he tells him to snap out of it and clue in ol’ Mr. Patch. When he gets closer to him, he discovers that he’s dead as is O’Donnell. They’re both ripped and shredded by claws. Popping his own claws, Logan finds them covered with blood.
When he sees his own claws, Logan cries out who did this, why can’t he remember? He recalls that he was in Edinburgh with Jean and no… They went through that warp chamber door in Zoe Culloden’s office and ended up in another dimension at a branch office of Landau, Luckman and Lake. Zoe was there and she was called the Expediter and she had some kid named Emmet with her and she warped them back to Rockefeller Center. There he said to Jean ain’t this a kick in the head, guess they gotta cash in their return tickets. Jean asked him isn’t he going to open the package that the Expediter gave him. Logan says that he thought he’d save it for his birthday. Jean tells him that it might be important. When he opened up the packet, there wasn’t much in it but a folded-up piece o’ paper with a key inside. He was just about to read what was on the paper when everything faded to black.
In the Princess Bar, Logan holds his head and cries out. He did read the paper and he can’t remember anything since. He determines that he needs to get outta there and find somebody who can tell him… As he goes to leave, he stumbles and eventually trips over one of the dead bodies. When he does, he figures he must really be losin’ it if he’s trippin’ over stiffs. Falling flat on his face, Rose tells him in a weak voice that he can say that again. Time was, he could cover the floor with bodies, blood and beer and never lose his balance. Surprised, Logan exclaims that she’s alive?
Rose says to him he calls this living. She thought she was hitting easy street when she took her annuity from Landau, Luckman and Lake and bought the ol’ Princess Bar from O’Donnell but all she got coming through the door are hard cases just like him. A smile and a kiss and that thousand yard look in the eye that goes all the way to blackout city. She don’t forget anything though. They had some times in the bad ol’ days, didn’t they? Logan asks her if he did this. Rose replies he was a pistol, a pistol and a firecracker…
With Rose dead, Logan stumbles out of the bar. He mentions he sure could use a stogie, too bad he quit. Putting his hand in his pocket, he pulls out the piece of paper and the key. As soon as he pulled it out of his pocket, Police Chief Tai grabs it out of his hand to use it as material evidence. While the other cops of Madripoor point their guns at Logan, Tai says to Logan that he sincerely hopes he will not be resisting arrest. Logan replies that maybe the hoosegow is the best place for him, put him away somewhere he can’t hurt anybody else. Hearing that, Tai informs his sergeant that he wants the prisoner manacled and chained to the wall in the maximum security cell.
Later, as he sits in his prison chained to the wall, Logan sees that it’s come down to this, he can’t trust himself anymore. He should have gone back to Canada with Jimmy and Heather. If anybody could get a handle on what’s been happenin’ to him, James McDonald Hudson can. Maybe he could find a way for him to shut down his hearin’ so’s he could get some rest. His ears are so sensitive lately, he can just about hear right through solid walls. He can hear Tai on the phone telling his contact he’s alive. He knows it’s hard to believe, but they have witnessed his amazing powers of recuperation many times before.
Tai informs the person on the other end of the line that he is locked up downstairs. He adds that he thinks he will send his entire force out on patrol for about an hour and asks if that is enough time. He is also going out for a walk himself, down into lowtown, where he can establish an alibi.
In Logan’s prison, a voice tells him he was set up. Looking up, Logan sees a talking rat that informs him that everybody is trying to set him up. It’s his boss who’s gonna nail him, ‘cause he’s the baddest of the bunch. Logan replies oh great, a talking rat. Now he’s got hallucinations on top of blackouts. The rat says to him that he don’t remember Dirt Nap from New York; he’s mortified. Logan remembers and angrily recalls that he’s the shape shifter, the one who absorbed the kid. As Logan slices the pipe above him, Dirt Nap tells him that he was quite yummy too. He hasn’t absorbed him completely yet, so he just might be able to get him back if he can figure out how. Scurrying into a hole, Dirt Nap tells Logan he’ll be seein’ him, after he goes over the edge, that is.
Just then, Logan catches the whiff of jasmine and eucalyptus and recognizes it to belong to Tyger Tiger. Tossing a box through the prison bars, Tyger tells him she is returning something he left in her keeping a long time ago. She thought he might want it back along with what he might call a practical gift. If she had the time, she would have baked it into a cake. Blowing him a kiss, she bids him goodnight. Opening up the box, Logan finds one of his old yellow and blue costumes and a hacksaw. He begins to tell Tyger that maybe he shouldn’t be runnin’ around free, maybe he’s supposed to be locked up. Stopping himself, Logan wonders what he’s sayin’. After all he went through with Gambit in England, he has to have more faith in himself. He knows he couldn’t have killed his friends! As he begins to work on slicing the chain off of his arm, he determines that to complete the job it might take a good ten hours.
Up near the entrance to the prison itself, Prince Baran tells Tai that General Coy and he shall remember this favor. Coy says “some favor.” Tai is getting a nice wad of Swiss Francs for taking a convenient constitutional. Walking away, Tai tells them they have an hour and to use it well. As Baran and Coy lead their crew of thugs down the stairs of the prison, Coy says that Mr. Patch will soon regret he ever returned to Madripoor. Baran says that he was supposed to have regretted it with finality back at the Princess Bar. Coy informs him that no human could have survived the rocket grenade they hit him with but somehow Patch managed to…
When they open up the door to his prison, Logan is wearing his mask and the bottom half of his costume while still chained to the wall. Coy points out that their adversary is dressed for the occasion. Seeing that he wasn’t able to get the shirt on past the chain, he says it’s a topological problem. Baran cuts in and says so much for the idle chit-chat, let them proceed with the nasty little chore. At that moment, Coy calls for Imak and Ivan to come to the front and center.
When Imak and Ivan step up, both of them are wearing claws on each hand, manufactured to look like what Logan has. Baran informs them that Logan is to have a painful and lingering death and for them to finish the job they started in that disreputable lowtown saloon. Ivan tells him to consider him sliced and diced. Looking at the claws they are wearing, Logan says that explains the claw marks at the Princess; they were the ones who ripped up his friends.
Ivan confirms that yeah, they done all o’ them geeks. He adds that it’s almost not very sportin’, him all chained up and all. Logan tells him that can be fixed and starts to pull his arm out of the chain. As he does he says the manacles weren’t meant to restrain anybody with a mutant healin’ factor. Seeing that, Imak says that he’s scrapin’ the meat right off his hand. Ivan asks can’t he feel no pain? Licking his wounds, Logan tells them that it hurts like all blue blazes but he can take it. Question is, can they?
As Imak and Ivan rush towards Logan, they tell him that pain don’t mean nothin’ when he’s dead, an’ that’s what he’s gonna be. Popping his claws, Logan tells them they have guts and proceeds to slice them both across the stomach. As he does, he tells them it’s too bad they’re all over the floor. Stumbling over to the doorway, Ivan begs Baran and Coy to help him. Baran tells him to have the decency to die like a man and to stop dripping blood on his shirt.
Just then, Coy suggests that they beat a hasty retreat. As he stands on Imka’s head, Logan puts on the rest of his uniform and informs Coy there ain’t no retreat fast enough to shake him. He then tells him and the Prince that they got some serious payback comin’. Hearing that, Baran tells the rest of his thugs that the time for finesse is over and that he wants Patch’s skull for a foot-rest. When one of the thugs asks if they get a bonus for this, Baran tells them all five hundred thousand Swiss Francs to the man who brings down Patch. Coy adds a bullet in the head to any man who turns and runs.
As the thugs converge on Logan, he takes them out as fast as they can attack him. While he does, he thinks to himself that in some half-remembered former life, he might have trotted out a quip about employee incentives or some nasty crack about their group life insurance being paid up. But it ain’t like that no more. The red rage in him is an animal thing. This is the real reason for anger. It’s that curtain o’ blood in front o’ his eyes and the molten lava pumpin’ through his veins. It’s that roarin’ sound in his ears that ain’t nothin’ but himself howlin’. This is the real reason for anger, to rev yourself up for killing!!
Once Logan has killed all of Baran and Coy’s thugs, he turns his attention to Baran and Coy themselves. Logan says to himself – look at them. They were so haughty before, so sure o’ themselves. Look at them now; they have the animal fear o’ him. But they are the ones who have sold their own humanity for gold and bearer bonds. As they run up the stairs, Coy calls out it was all the Prince’s idea and proceeds to shoot him in the back of the head, killing him. Standing before Logan, Coy tells Logan that Baran is dead, he shot him for him. Pointing his pistol at Logan, he tells him to not come any closer.
At that moment, a shot rings out and Coy falls to the ground, dead. From behind him, Tyger Tiger is sitting in a car and tells Logan to get in. She decided to provide him with a… how do you call it, a “getaway car.” Jumping into the car, Logan mentions to Tyger that things aren’t right there, the Prince an’ Coy were never this blood-thirsty. It’s almost like someone was makin’ ‘em hurt people he knew. He then asks her where’d all the blood come from on the hood. Tyger tells him there was an unfortunate and fatal road accident, Police Chief Tai was jaywalking just as her gas pedal got stuck.
As they drive away, Tyger tells him that Tai had some interesting artifacts in his pocket, a key and a piece of paper with an address on it. Reading the piece of paper, Logan sees that it says 23 Hotel Way, Lowtown Madripoor. Logan replies it’s the street of the drunken god, he knows the address. It was the regional office of Landau, Luckman and Lake (LL&L). Pulling up to the wreckage, Tyger says “was” is certainly the correct tense and inquires as to what transpired there. Logan tells her that she’s lookin’ at the handiwork of Bloodscream and Roughhouse. LL&L handled his business affairs in the old days. Mr. Chang, the local manager, and he went back a long way. But things have changed since then. Tyger asks what happened to Mr. Chang. Logan informs her he was in the building when they did this.
At that moment, Logan finds what he’s looking for, a solitary door standing in all of the wreckage. Tyger asks that’s what he came to look for? He came halfway around the world to find a bathroom door? Logan tells her that a lady who’s been keepin’ close tabs on him for a long time gave him that key. He thinks she gave it to him to help him find out what’s really happenin’ to him. As he unlocks the door, Logan tells Tyger that W.C. doesn’t stand for water closet, it stand for warp chamber.
Opening the door, Tyger is surprised by the bright light. Logan tells her it’s the light of a million tomorrows. Before he enters the doorway, he turns and returns the kiss to Tyger that she blew to him through the bars. He adds that he trusts she’ll take care of Rose, Archie and O’Donnell for him. He’s got to take care o’ some business, and he has a feelin’ nothin’s gonna be the same after this.
Just then, Zoe appears before him and tells him that’s a consequence of being trapped in the wheel of entropy. Logan recognizes her and tells her that it’s time she told him what’s goin’ on and who’s behind all this. Zoe tells him to come with her, and learn his fate!