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Back in Japan: Part 1
In Westchester, at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Kitty Pryde angrily leads Quentin Quire down the hall by his ear. As she does, she tells him just wait until the headmaster hears about this. Upon reaching Logan’s door, she finds a note taped to it that says “Gone to Japan!”
Chapter One: Welcome Back, Gaijin.
Sitting on a plane, surrounded by Japanese businessmen, Logan remarks that they’re still somewhere over the Pacific when he gets tired of waiting. Once he gets up to use the bathroom, the flight attendant heads down the aisle and passes out swords to everyone.
Inside the bathroom, Logan knows that it shouldn’t be long now. As gas seeps through the vents, he states that he knew there was something funny about this flight as soon as he stepped on board. Something tells him after this, Avengers ID or not, it’s gonna be a helluva long time before anybody lets him on another plane. Slicing the door open with his claws, Logan finds himself face to face with ninjas wearing gas masks. Rushing into battle, Logan says just once you’d think he could come to Japan without being attacked by a bunch of damn ninjas. Ah, who is he kidding, this is better than the in-flight movie.
Hours later, the plane lands in Japan. When it does, Logan exits it, leaving the dead ninjas behind him.
Chapter Two: Secret of the Silver Samurai.
Standing at the Miyago Prefecture, Clan Yashida ancestral compound, Logan stands solemnly in front of a gravestone. Just then, a voice from behind tells him they buried him where he fell. The Silver Samurai died defending this place. As you can see, he wasn’t entirely successful. They suppose they’ve all lost something of late. Seeing Yukio in a wheelchair, Logan tells her he doesn’t know what to say, except he’s sorry. This was all his fault. Yukio says the ones who orchestrated all of this, who burned these buildings, who killed the Silver Samurai, who took her legs, the ones who called themselves the Red Right Hand… they are dead, yes? Gritting his teeth, Logan answers yes. Rolling away, Yukio asks then what is there to whine about? Come, they have much to discuss.
As they walk, Yukio says to Logan that he’s come back because of the war, she imagines. With Silver Samurai’s death leaving Clan Yashida leaderless, it was only a matter of time before the vultures began circling. The Hand and the Yakuza have proven to be the fattest of those vultures. For many years, there has been a balance of power between the gangsters and the disciples of the beast. Those days, she’s afraid, are finished. Word is, the Hand have assassinated boss Takenaka, supreme godfather of the Yamaguchi-Gumi, largest of the Yakuza. War is inevitable.
Logan says not if he can help it. He just has to find out who’s pulling the strings and how they wanna die. Yukio replies oh Logan, ever the big American, come to save them lowly Orientals from themselves. When Logan notes that he’s Canadian, Yukio replies “same difference.” Reaching a secured vault, Yukio opens it and shows Logan its insides. Yukio tells him to behold the ancestral fortunes of Clan Yashida, the secret treasure of the Silver Samurai.
Logan tells her impressive. He assumes she knows they’re being followed. Yukio tells him she’s paralyzed, not deaf. They’re Yakuza. Opening the vault was the surest way to draw them out. When Logan asks if they’re there just for the money, Yukio says no. There’s something else…
Just then, Logan is shot in the back with a bazooka, flinging him towards the Silver Samurai’s grave. One of the Yakuza sees Logan reaching for the sword and says sword versus bullets and bazookas. That’s a sucker’s bet, gaijin. Logan says he likes his odds. At the vault, one of the Yakuza calls Yukio a gimp and tells her that she knows why they’re there. Give them what they want, and they promise not to make her life any more miserable than it already is. Pulling out her own sword, Yukio tells him she’ll remind him that he said that in about 90 seconds… once they’re all looking up at her.
82 seconds later, Yukio mentions to Logan that it always puts her in the mood. When Logan asks what’s that, Yukio tells him killing a bunch of fools who deserves to die. Yukio then asks Logan what does he say? Once around the block for old time’s sake? She still has some feeling below the waist. When Logan declines, she tells him fine, your loss.
Logan mentions that Yukio said the treasure wasn’t the only thing they were after. Yukio says no, they were hoping to find a clue. Logan asks a clue to what. Yukio replies to the identity of Harada’s heir. She’s read his will. The Silver Samurai had a son. Logan remarks that this is gonna be uglier than he thought. Does she know where to find this kid? Yukio says she’s got a pretty good idea, but she’s hesitant to tell him. After Logan asks why that is, Yukio says because it answers another question he hasn’t even had the guts to ask her yet…
Chapter Three: Young Ronin in Love.
Sitting in a van outside a building, a young man asks Amiko where she is and proceeds to ask her if she’s ready for this. Amiko tells him no, but let’s do it anyway. The young man calls Amiko babe and tells her she better get suited up. Amiko tells the young man, Shin(gen) that she still doesn’t even understand what they’re doing there. Shin tells her it’s simple: They’re breaking into the most sophisticated corporate laboratory in all of Tokyo. A lab with secrets so coveted they allegedly use assassins as security guards. They’ll have to navigate through security systems so cutting edge that the rest of the world won’t have them for another 15 years. All so they can steal something so dangerous and unstable that if used improperly, the ambulance will have to gather up their remains with a sponge.
Amiko asks why exactly she is helping him do this crazy and highly illegal thing. Shin tells her because she’s his girlfriend. And she has to admit, this beats the hell out of dinner and a movie. Placing the helmet on his head and using suction cups to climb the wall, Shin tells Amiko that the helmet works. That’s promising. Amiko remarks that she thought he said he tested that thing. Shin answers that he ran some computer simulations. And she’ll be happy to know he was explosively decapitated in only 32% of them. Following closely behind, Amiko says dinner and a movie wouldn’t be so bad every once in a while.
Inside the building, Amiko asks Shin how it’s coming. Shin tells her he’s just disabled something called a “full body liquefier.” Now if he can just keep them alive another hour and a half… they’ll be a third of the way there. Amiko points out this is ridiculous, this is taking way too long. Shin states that he’s circumventing their systems three at a time. Give him a little credit, would she? Seeing light-bending incubators, Shin wonders aloud what in the world would they be growing in those? When some creatures come through the wall, Amiko says she think she can guess. Turning around, Shin sees the invisible four-armed techno-organic wall ninjas. Of course. He wants one.
Amiko remarks that she knows this fighting style. He (Shin) didn’t tell her the Hand was involved in this. Shin says they own the building. Did he forget to mention that? Shin then asks Amiko if she would like a laser sword or some nuclear-powered nunchucks. Fighting the wall ninjas with her fighting skill, Amiko says to Shin him and his damn gadgets. Just find whatever the hell it is they came there for. And pray to God her father never finds out about any of this.
Grabbing the power source, Shin flies out the window. Outside, Shin excitedly exclaims they did it. With this power source, he can finish his suit and then they can…Amiko, hang on tight, baby. He seems to have lost steering control of his boot jets. They better… Amiko! After seeing Amiko being absorbed into the wall by the techno ninjas, Shin yells nooooo!!
Chapter Four: Same old snikt.
In various locations around Japan, Logan takes out a number of members of the Japanese underground. Eventually, Logan finally finds someone who is willing to talk. He tells him either he starts talkin’ or he starts stabbin’. What’s it gonna be?
The man tells him he’ll talk, just please… please don’t hurt him. When Logan tells him to talk faster, the man says he hears… he hears a lotta crazy things. War… war’s about to explode. He hears the Yakuza has an army a million strong and more money than God. But the Hand can bring people back from the dead. He hears somebody threw boss Takenaka out of an airplane. He hears the Silver Samurai had a bastard.
Logan asks who’s pulling the strings. Who wants war? The man tells him they all do. And they’ll all be there tomorrow, some little town in Iwate Prefecture. He heard something about a temple, a big meeting, everybody getting together to talk peace. As if there was any chance of that. People are gonna have to die, no way around it. Lots and lots of people. Just please, not him. He told him what he wanted. Okay? He told him all he knows. Please don’t pop the claws. Logan says all right and promptly, a distinctive snikt is heard. Screaming, the man calls Logan a lying #$&*@. Logan tells him not to be a baby. He only popped two.
Chapter Five: Cooking with Sabretooth.
Inside a whorehouse, a young lady tells the four men that he will see them now. Once inside the private room, the man asks the four what he can do for them. One of the men in business suits tells him they’ve been sent to make him a business proposal. The man says that’s funny. Last he checked, he and the Yakuza wasn’t exactly on the same side.
The Yakuza leader says one million dollars in cash. Someone will be waiting for him with the money, exactly twelve hours from now in the Los Angeles International airport. The man asks L.A.? But he was just starting to like it there. This Kobe beef is sure somethin’. And there is the little matter of the meeting planned for tomorrow. His boss would sure be sore if he missed that. The Yakuza say that is the deal. There is no negotiating. What is his answer? The man says well… he reckons they’ll just have to wait and find out tomorrow, won’t they?
Pointing their weapons at the man sitting at the table with a whole dead cow laying on it, the Yakuza tell him that is not good enough. The man, Sabretooth, asks them are they sure they ain’t hungry? There’s plenty for everybody. Just carve off whatever they like. He doesn’t know about them, but he likes his rare.
In short time, an older, white-haired woman steps into the room and asks Creed if he needs anything else. Creed says no thank ya, momma. He does believe he’s full. Tell him somethin’ though… how long has been coming there? The woman answers as long as momma been there. Very long time. Creed says in all that time, he bets he has ran up quite a tab, huh. The woman says he know momma had to mention it. Grabbing the old woman in a tender embrace, Creed tells her to grab three of her finest honeys and a couple dozen beers and meet him in the Jacuzzi to settle up. When the older woman asks Creed if he means it, he tells her yeah, ain’t she heard? He’s about to be a millionaire. The woman tells Creed that he hates to break it to him, but that not gonna cover it. With the dead Yakuza strewn around them in the room, Creed asks really? Damn. Better make it two honeys then.
Chapter Six: Last day on the farm.
The next day, at Iwate Prefecture, a limo pulls up and a young man in a business suit steps out. Bowing, he tells the farmer good morning. The farmer replies good morning and says he appears lost. The man remarks perhaps so, he is looking for Shirato-San. When the farmer replies that is he, the young man says then it would appear that his not so lost after all. He imagines he can guess why he has come.
Shirato says he’s sorry, but he’s afraid he can’t. The young man says he has come to talk business. They share the same employer. Shirato says he is afraid he is mistaken. He is a farmer. He owns this place himself. The young man replies he sees. He is, of course, an extremely and cautious man. He expected no less. It is a most tremendous honor to meet him. He must admit that he never dared believe men like him still existed. It does his heart good to see that he does. Shirato says he’s sorry… he still doesn’t understand. The man says invisibility. Their kind used to cherish that, did they not? There was a time, they were all like ghosts. When Shirato asks their kind, the man says he will play along for as long as he likes. He is referring of course to ninjas.
Shirato says ninjas. He must be joking. The young man says in the old days, when they killed a man, he never even knew they were there. No one did. Their methods were so painstakingly refined as to be imperceptible. They committed entire massacres that remained invisible. Wiped whole towns off the map, and no one ever knew. Now, what are they? Lazy, misguided, foolishly enamored of the west and their endless cavalcade of men in ridiculous costumes. They even have a bloated American gangster, the Kingpin, as their figurehead. He’s sure it must disgust him even more than it does him. If a customer today wishes to procure their services, what exactly do they have to offer him? Well, sir, we can have a dozen men in robes and masks jump through the window with swords and throwing stars. Or they can have two dozen men in robes and masks jump through the window with swords and throwing stars. As much as it pains him to admit, they have become a joke, a sad cliché. But they together will begin to change that, starting today. Won’t they?
Shirato stammers that he… he doesn’t know who he thinks he is, but he’s afraid he must ask him to… Cutting him off, the man gets a stern look on his face and tells Shirato that he was stationed there 45 years ago, told to settle down, build a life and wait. Wait for a day that may never come. The young man introduces himself as Azuma Goda, director of the Tokyo branch of the Hand. And it is his honor to inform him that his day has finally arrived. Nearby, Shirato’s wife and son ask him if everything is all right. Goda proceeds to tell Shirato that he hopes this talk has satisfied his cautious nature, as he is afraid he can wait no longer. He must now ask that he show him his true face.
In short time, Shirato’s wife and son are dead as they walk to a nearby building. Goda tells Shirato that… was truly inspiring. He is as amazing as he was led to believe. He has no doubts his preparations will prove to be satisfactory. Shirato informs Goda that he has detailed maps of everything in a ten mile radius. Every hill and valley, every home, files on every resident or visitor for the last 50 years, both living and dead. Goda tells Shirato their target is a temple. Opening a gate, revealing a semi, Shirato says he knows the place. He has dug tunnels that will take him right to it. When the semi is opened, a number of ninjas shrouded in black leap out.
As they do, Goda tells Shirato perfect, he has done well. Shirato asks if this fulfills his duty to the Hand. Goda says if he so wishes it. Shirato tells him that he must hear him say it. As Shirato bows, Goda tells him his duty has been fulfilled. Shirato says thank you. While the ninjas leap into the tunnel that had been dug, Goda remarks what a great day to be a ninja. On the farm, Shirato kills himself by jamming his sword into his chest and dies next to his wife and son.
Chapter Seven: Welcome to the Temple of the Fist.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles International airport, members of the Yakuza inform their contacts in Japan that it’s done. Sabretooth is there and just walked away with the money. When the person in Japan asks if they’re sure it was him, the Yakuza says yes sir. There’s no mistaking the face.
In Japan, at the temple in Iwate Prefecture, members of the Yakuza sit in a circle. One of them remarks that the animal Sabretooth is being dealt with. If the Hand have the guts to dare show themselves there today, which he doubts, they simply shoot them very man times in their stupid ninja faces, dump their bodies in the sea and go back to the business of running this country however the hell they please. He trusts there are no objections to that.
Just then, Azuma Goda walks past the horde of Yakuza outside and opens the doors to the temple. He apologizes for being late. He hopes they haven’t started without him. When one of the Yakuza asks him who the hell he is, Goda introduces himself and adds that he will be representing the Hand today. Another member of the Yakuza informs him they don’t talk to lackeys. Where is Wilson Fisk? Goda says somewhere stuffing his face would be his guess. He’s the man they want to talk to. He’s the man who had boss Takenaka tossed out of his airplane, in midair. He’s the one responsible for starting this entire little war. Now are there any more questions or shall they get started?
As Logan makes his way down the road on his motorcycle towards the temple, he is seen by Yakuza members. They wonder aloud what the hell this guy thinks he’s doing. Doesn’t he know a Yakuza roadblock when he sees one? Upon reaching the cars, Logan pops his claws and, in short time, destroys the roadblock with ease. Continuing down the road, Logan is suddenly stopped by cords strung between two trees across the road. Once Logan’s motorcycle is destroyed and he is caught in the cords, Creed emerges from behind a tree and tells him he knows this is gonna sound crazy, but someone swore up and down that it was true. They told him he was a school teacher now. A school teacher! Now what the hell kinda class would he be qualified to teach. “1001 ways to get your ass beat, with Professor Jimbo Canucklehead.” Heh, always a pleasure, runt. With that, Creed, wearing a jetpack, takes off into the sky.
Once in the air, Creed contacts Goda and informs him that the schoolmarm’s been Wile E. Coyote’d. He is airborne and en route. He’ll be there in thirty seconds. Goda calmly tells him to take his time. Just then, Logan leaps onto Creed’s back. As Logan fights Creed mid-air, he tells him that he’s gonna wish he’d stayed dead. Creed shoots back that he’s gonna wish he’d stayed in hell. As they continue to fight, they crash into a nearby cliff, jostling the jetpack loose and they tumble to the ground below, fighting the whole way.
Inside the temple, a member of the Yakuza tells Goda that, whoever he is, he must be the worst ninja ever. He then informs his fellow Yakuza to kill him and mail his bits to Wilson Fisk. Goda remarks that he rather likes his bits where they are, if they don’t mind. Hello? His bits have just been threatened. That should be their cue. At that moment, a number of Hand ninjas emerge from the ground below and begin to attack the Yakuza. As they do, Goda exclaims to them to with their swords. Death to the Yakuza! And may their wounds open the way to the future. Long live the Hand!
As the battle rages on, Creed and Logan plummet into the temple. In the insanity that ensues, one of the Yakuza leaders calls out for reinforcements in the form of sky Yakuza. While Yakuza parachute in, Creed and Logan continue their vicious fight. Upon seeing Creed, one of the Yakuza leaders asks how he is there. He’s supposed to be in Los Angeles. Another says he thought he was supposed to be dead. Still another orders his followers to kill the ninja bastards. Kill every last damn one!
Surrounding Goda, two Hand ninjas tell him they should get him to safety. Goda tells them not to be ridiculous. He’s not going anywhere. Their guest of honor hasn’t even shown up yet. Turning to a captive Amiko, he asks her has he? Amiko tells him her dad is totally going to kill him. Goda replies that it’s not her father he’s interested in. Just then, an explosion occurs. When it does, Goda says this should be their man now. Coming face to face with Shingen, Goda states that he was hoping her boyfriend might show, though he wasn’t expecting such an outlandish get-up. The day’s just full of surprises, isn’t it? But then…he supposes he should expect nothing less from the son of the Silver Samurai.
In Los Angeles, “Sabretooth” pulls out a phone and leaves Victor Creed a message that says they figured he was busy. Just wanted to let them know, they’ve got the money and they’re heading his way now. Same some for me… lover. As they walk through the airport, “Sabretooth” morphs into their actual form – Mystique!


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Back in Japan: Part 2
Chapter Eight: Just another day in Japan.
Hordes of ninja assassins battling an army of Yakuza gangsters, tearing apart a once peaceful Buddhist temple. A man in a high-tech samurai costume swinging glowing swords. The air thick with death rattles and guttural curses, the ground wet with blood, much of it my own. Someone with claws trying to tear my face off. In other words…nothin’ I ain’t used to.
As Wolverine continues to fight Sabretooth, Azuma Goda watches Shingen Harada (the Silver Samurai) tear through his Hand ninjas. He says impressive. It’s almost a shame they have to kill him. Notice he said almost. Why isn’t he dead yet? Just then, Amiko yells out to Shin to run. They’re going to kill him.
Upon hearing Amiko’s voice, Logan looks over in her direction. When he does, Sabretooth slashes him across the back and tells him that it’s best he keep his head in the game, runt. When Creed leaps at Logan, Logan asks him if he knows the big difference between them. The reason he’s always gonna beat him. After dodging Creed’s strike and jamming his claws in his back, his face, and then his throat, Logan tells him that he’s actually has something worth fightin’ for.
Watching Shin continue to take care of the ninjas with ease, Amiko tells Goda that his ninjas suck. Goda calmly thanks her for that thoroughly insightful criticism. But need he remind her, he cares absolutely nothing about her in any way whatsoever. She is there only as bait for her boyfriend. If she were to die screaming right this very second, it would make no difference whatsoever to him. Wrapping the chain holding her wrists together around Goda’s neck, Amiko tells him right back at ya, bub. As Shin rushes over towards her, he tells Amiko that they need to get outta there. Amiko replies yeah, just one more minute. At that moment, Logan runs over and tells Shin to get the hell away from his daughter. When he tackles Shin to the ground, Amiko calls him a big dumb idiot.
Amidst the battle, the Yakuza leaders remark that the ninja scum are falling in droves. It’s time to pour it on, send in wave two. Another quips ninja-Yakuza war… bah. This isn’t a war, it’s a massacre. Pulling Amiko off of Goda, Creed tells her hands off the boss man, he still owes him money. Barely able to talk, Goda tells Creed he hasn’t… he hasn’t earned it yet. Get them out of there. Turning around, Creed sees what wave two is – Yakuza thugs on crotch-rockets, armed with chainsaws. He’s starting to see why Logan likes this place so much. With that, Creed tears through and kills two of them.
Chapter Nine: Ladies and Gentlemen…the all-new Silver Samurai!
Flying out the window, Logan and Shin land on the front lawn of the temple. Logan proceeds to tell him that he never shoulda dragged his daughter into this, pal. Shin retorts that she’s not his daughter, and he’s not his pal. Logan asks yeah, what is he to him then, bub? Shin tells him his name is Shingen Harada. His friends call him Shin. But he can call him the Silver Samurai. As they engage in battle, Logan tells him that he can’t just put on a costume and call himself a samurai. Doesn’t matter who his daddy was. Shin fires back that he loves that he’s getting a lecture on his own culture from an American. When Logan corrects that he’s a Canadian, Shin says that’s even worse.
After punching Logan away into a nearby tree with ease, Shin tells him to go back to Canada. Nobody needs him there. least of all Amiko. Throwing a log at Shin, Logan says what nobody needs is another smart-ass kid putting people in danger, playing a man’s game he’s got no business playing. When Logan gets close, Shin fries him with a blast and tells him he doesn’t know, he thinks he’s playing it pretty good. Flying, Shin grabs Logan in mid-air. When he does, he asks him where he thinks his father was while his mother was dying of cancer. Probably off fighting him, or trying to rob some stupid bank. Where he wasn’t, was by her side. But he was.
How about when the kids in the orphanage took their turns kicking him down the stairs. Where was his father then? Or when he made his first battle suit from an old microwave, three bicycle chains, and a bag of rusty old nails… and put every last one of those little bastards in traction for a month. He grew up a long time ago with no damn help from him or anyone else. Shin then pins Logan to a tree with a sword through his gut and then blows him up with a large blast.
As Shin walks away triumphantly, a badly damaged Logan walks away from the explosion and proceeds to slice Shin across the back with the sword. He then tells him that he may think he’s all growed up… but he still has some growin’ yet to do, junior. Pulling back his sword from Logan, Shin tells him that he’ll avoid the obvious short joke and just tell him to go @#$% himself.
Chapter Ten: Ninjas = 1. Yakuza = 0.
Just then, the doors to the temple open and Goda leads a cadre of Hand ninjas out. He tells them to forget the girl, referring to Amiko. It’s the samurai they want. When some dust is blown in Amiko’s face, she cries out in pain. Hearing her call out, Logan (who is beginning to heal) begins to rush towards her. Shin does as well. When Shin gets close, Logan knocks him into the ground and tells him to find himself a new line of work and a new girlfriend.
Grabbing hold of Amiko, Logan begins to slice through the ninjas. As they do, Amiko begins to cry and asks where Shin is. Logan tells her gettin’ the hell outta there if he’s got any sense. Picking himself up off the ground, Shin says “okay, dad.” Now he sees why he always wanted to kill that guy. Shin then looks up to see Creed standing over him, holding a chainsaw. Amiko sees that Sabretooth is there and tells Logan that they can’t just leave Shin to fight Creed. A fully healed Logan says damn it and tells her to wait right there.
Across the grounds of the temple, members of the Yakuza point their guns at the ninjas of the Hand. With Shin in the clutches of Creed, Goda tells the Yakuza that he suggests they go and bury their dead now. While they still have someone left to do the digging. When the order is given to kill them, the Yakuza begin to fire upon the Hand. Their bullets do not meet their intended target however, when they disappear into thin air. As Amiko yells out noooooo and cries profusely, members of the Yakuza state that they hate ninjas. Logan then drives off on his motorcycle, with Amiko in tow.
Chapter Eleven: Ninja in a coma.
As Logan, Yukio and Amiko enter a hospital, Amiko reminds Logan that they need to find Shin. Logan tells her they will but Amiko states that if they don’t find him, the Hand will kill him. After Logan says he won’t let that happen, Amiko says “so he says.” But he’s the guy who let them take him in the first place. Logan answers that he was busy saving her life. Amiko shoots back that she doesn’t need him to save her. She never has. Logan tells her that, if she wants him to find her boyfriend, let him do his job.
Entering a hospital room, Amiko sees a man lying in a bed, connected to a breathing apparatus and asks Logan who he is. Logan tells her this is the guy who’s gonna tell them where to find the Hand. Reading his chart, Yukio adds that his name is Mamoru Tsuruoka. According to this, he’s been in a coma… for five years. Leaning over him, Logan asks “five years, huh?” Then he oughtta have plenty to say. Popping a single claw, Logan adds that he just has to give him the proper motivation.
After Logan cuts the breathing tube, Amiko and Yukio are in shock and a number of nurses rush into the room. They point out that Mamoru’s vital signs are off-line. Get the crash cart! With Logan standing in their way, the nurses tell him to move or this man will die. Logan calmly says no. He doesn’t think he will. Yukio looks at Logan and tells him this is barbaric. Just then, Mamoru pops up in his bed, calls Logan an insufferable bastard and that he’s going to kill him for this.
Shortly, on a rooftop, Logan and Mamoru face off against each other, swords in the air. As they continue to stare at each other, Amiko mentions to Yukio that she thought she said they were gonna fight each other. After Yukio says they are, Amiko remarks that they haven’t even moved for 15 minutes. Yukio tells her, if she believes that, then she simply is not watching. Just then, Mamoru drops his sword and says that’s impossible. Bowing to Mamoru, Logan tells him that was a splendid battle. Shocked, Mamoru says Logan just killed him. Logan adds in only 487 moves. Mamoru says but he’s never killed him. Logan states that in “Mamoru defense,” he has been lying in a bed for five years.
Angrily pointing his finger at Logan, Mamoru tells him not to remind him. He just cost him five years of work. When Logan asks who the target was, Mamoru tells him someone at the hospital has been secretly murdering coma patients. He was hired by the families of the deceased to find them and deliver justice. And he was getting close. Another two years or so and he would have most certainly uncovered them. Logan offers his apologies and adds that, when he’s done with his business, he promises he’ll help him with his.
Mamoru asks what business that is and Logan tells him he needs to find the Hand. Mamoru rhetorically asks that he came to an old man who’s pretending to be in a coma for five years to do so? Logan replies that he’s the only ninja he knows that’ll talk to him. Mamoru says the Hand are not ninja. They are the cheapest of imitations; pretenders, slandering a once proud art. Logan says all he needs to know is where to find them. Mamoru responds that, like the rats they are, the Hand have always preferred to hide in the darkness. They have used many caves over the years. But none more so than the Yoshimi Hyakuana tombs.
Bowing, Logan thanks Mamoru and tells him he is a fine and honorable man. For a ninja. Mamoru bows back and tells Logan that he is at least slightly less insufferable and embarrassingly ignorant than the average gaijin. As Logan begins to walk away, Mamoru tells him to be warned. Rats they may be, but even rats can be dangerous when one invades their lair.
Chapter Twelve: In the clutches of the Hand.
In the underground lair of the Hand, Goda has Shingen Harada tied to a chair on a rock, surrounded by figures in cloaks and holding torches. Goda proceeds to tell Shin that he could always just kill him. As usual, that was his first instinct. But then he thought… why not give him the chance to make things easier? As the son of the Silver Samurai, he is the sole heir to Clan Yashida. Even if her were to kill him, let’s say, by stuffing him full of flesh-eating beetles, he would still have a problem. He would still have a war to wage against the Yakuza for full control of the Japanese underworld.
After Goda places one of the beetles inside his neck, Shin begins to scream. Goda remarks that he knows it’s quite the conundrum. Though perhaps there’s a simpler solution. He then tells him to go ahead and finish screaming. They’ll talk more when he’s done.
Outside the cave, Logan (in his yellow and blue uniform) tells Yukio this is it. Before entering the cave, he asks Yukio that she was sure Amiko was unconscious when they left. Yukio replies that she gassed her bedroom. She won’t be up for hours. Logan suggests they then grab the boy and go. Watching from a nearby tree, Amiko (dressed in stealth) whispers “duh” – like she doesn’t have a gas mask in her bedroom.
Once Logan and Yukio enter the cave, a ninja wearing a mask tells his cohorts they’re there. They’ve come for the boy. Creed replies yeah, partly, he guesses. But mostly just to kill every last damn one of them. The ninja wearing the mask states then they are fools. For only fools would dare enter the cave of the mind ninjas.
Flanked by a number of mind ninjas, Creed remarks that he sure likes the sound of that. Also present, Mystique says the only sounds she wants to hear are the screams of the man who killed her. One of the mind ninjas says “then let the blood orgy begin!”


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Back in Japan: Part 3
Chapter Thirteen: Still in Hell
The last thing Logan remembers, he was in Japan, invading the secret cave headquarters of the Hand. He was about to be attacked by ninjas, and now he finds himself washed upon a beach somewhere. A very strange beach. Blood foams on the waves. The water is so cold it burns. And the sky is… the sky is…  Just then, Logan realizes where he is – hell.
Passing by the new arrivals, Satan asks the new arrivals in hell what’s the matter. Is the water too cold? Don’t worry; he and his demons will get them warmed back up. Seeing Logan, Satan stops and tells him hello, James and asks him if he enjoyed his swim. When Logan replies that this can’t be, Satan tells him, by all means, to take his time. This is, after all, his favorite part. Logan asks that he’s… he’s still in hell.
Satan says and there it is – the look of infernal realization. It’s moments like this that make him glad he lost the war for heaven. He tells Logan that he’s confused. The waters of the sea of atrophy will do that to a soul. Floating in their murky depths, one dreams that he has escaped the confines of hell, outwitted that bumbling Satan and returned to some semblance of a normal life. Only then to wash up on the black shore and realize, with absolute and utter despair, that he’s been in hell all along.
Logan tells Satan he doesn’t believe him. Is he saying everything these last few months were all a dream? Satan tells him well, no… Not quite everything. Turning around, Logan comes face to face with his dead children – Cannon Foot, Gunhawk, Fire Knives, Saw Fist, and Shadow Stalker (the Mongrels) who promptly attack him.
Chapter Fourteen: Into the Cave of the Mind Ninjas
In the cave of the mind ninjas, Yukio, in her wheelchair, sings her swords around, fighting off the ninjas. As she does, she implores Logan to wake up. The mind ninjas inform her that her friend is in their clutches. His head is now their plaything. By the time they slide their blades into his heart and end his madness, he will be absolutely begging them for death. She is apparently ninja herself, or at least half a ninja. She has no doubt developed immunity to their toxins. Thus she shall be spared the taste of their madness. She shall taste instead their steel; many, many times.
As Logan lays on the ground in the fetal position, Yukio continues to fight off the mind ninjas. While she does, she thinks to herself that there are two kinds of ninja in the world. The ones you see wearing the cute little masks and costumes, who talk a lot, who love to tell you all about the horrible things they’re supposedly going to do to you. And the ones you never see or hear at all, except perhaps in one last little fleeting glimpse. Right before you realize they’ve killed you. Her name is Yukio. After using a diversion attack and escaping, Yukio says she’ll leave you to decide for yourself which kind of ninja she is.
Hiding behind a nearby rock while Sabretooth gives the order to the Hand ninjas to find her, Yukio says to herself – invade the secret, centuries-old underground lair of Japan’s most fanatical army of assassins. Rescue the Silver Samurai. Kill every ninja they find. It seemed like such a simple plan. If nothing else, at least she knows Amiko is safe at home.
Watching Amiko making her way through the caves via a monitor, a captive Shin Harada sees her and says “oh God, no.” Azuma Goda tells Harada that he’s got quite a girlfriend. So… shall they stand there together and watch her get sliced into meaty ribbons by his kill-crazed ninja horde? Or is the Silver Samurai ready to listen to reason? Enraged, Harada yells at Goda that he swears to him that if he hurts her, he’ll… Cutting him off, Goda calmly tells him yes, yes. He’s sure he’ll perform all manner of suitably gruesome acts upon each of his bodily cavities. But he’s not interested in his chest-thumping. What he wants is an answer to his simplest of questions. Is he ready to become one of the richest, most powerful men in this country? Harada replies that what he’s asking, he can’t… he… Goda says fair enough. Meaty ribbons it is.
As she makes her way through the cave, Amiko states that her name is Amiko Kobayashi. When she was a baby, her mother was killed by a dragon and she was adopted by Wolverine and mostly raised by Yukio, his ninja ex-girlfriend. Her boyfriend is the son of the Silver Samurai. In other words, she’s used to people trying to kill her.
Just then, Amiko is overcome by gas. Holding her arm up to her face, Amiko calls out to the ninjas to come out and face her. At that moment, Amiko comes face to face with a large dragon. It’s the dragon that killed her mother and ruined her life. Ever since she was a baby, she’s always hoped and prayed that someday it’d come back. Enraged, Amiko readies her sword and lunges at the beast.
Chapter Fifteen: Out comes the Berserker
As Logan continues to be attacked by the Mongrels, he wonders if this is real. Has he been in hell this entire time? He can’t think straight. Every time he starts to, it feels almost like… like someone’s shooting him in the face.
Back in reality, Mystique shoots Logan in the face. When she follows up with a kick to his face, Creed tells her that her shootin’ him in the face is seriously one of the sexiest things she’s ever seen. Mystique asks if wants to see sexy, get her a caulk gun, a jug of ammonia, a stainless steel fish scaler and three minutes alone with loverboy there, and she’ll show him sexy.
Removing their gas masks, Creed says to Mystique that being brought back from the dead made her feisty. He likes it. Mystique says Logan killed her. Nobody’s ever killed her before. Creed says sooner or later, they all kill each other. No reason to take it personal. Mystique replies that when he wakes up, she wants every square inch of his hide on fire with as much misery as she can possibly imagine. How’s that for personal? Creed asks who says he’ll wake up. The toxins of the Hand are no joke. Developed over the course of several centuries by the wickedest minds in Japan, designed to trap even the strongest of foes inside a maze of their own memories. It takes a fella of particularly robust mental aptitude to ever think his way out. Now since when is that how she’d describe their old pal Logan there?
Mystique says either way, she’ll be ready. Creed tells her that she doesn’t have to do it like this. Mystique states that the Hand says the ritual that brought her back from the dead only strengthened her powers. This seems like as good a way as any to test that out. Don’t worry, she promises not to enjoy it too much. After Creed tells her just so she knows, she ain’t got nothin’ to prove to him, they engage in a passionate embrace.
Continuing to be torn apart by his children, the Mongrels, Logan wonders what it says about his life that he’s actually starting to wonder. Maybe he really has been in hell all this time. There’s only one way to be sure.
A few days earlier, Rachel Grey and Logan communicated with each other telepathically. After Rachel tells him that his mind is a mess, Logan replies “tell me about it.” Rachel continues that most minds are like a very limited series of caves and secret rooms. With the proper training, it’s usually possible to block those doorways and keep out intruders. His mind looks like the eastern front at the height of trench warfare. There are still old Weapon X tunnels that haven’t been filled in. And who the hell is Dr. Rot? It’s no wonder he’s so susceptible to mind-control.
Logan asks how they keep it from happening again. Rachel responds that they could train every day, fill in as many of those tunnels as they can, build up his fortifications as much as possible, but… it would still take years to make his mind anything close to impregnable. If someone wants in, they’re going to get in. What he needs to think about is how to fight back once they’re in there. Logan says there is a way, but it’s not without risks of its own. After Rachel asks what way that is, Logan tells her that it’s not just intruders they have to worry about when it comes to protecting his mind. There’s also the native population. Rachel proceeds to tell him that she’s telling him this as both his friend and his psychic self-defense instructor… sometimes it’s okay to go a little berserk.
In hell, the Mongrels continue to tear apart Logan. As they do, he remarks that he can’t kill his own children again. Looking over, he says he can’t, but he can. Just then, Logan disappears. When he resurfaces, the Mongrels wonder why Logan looks so different. In a berserker rage, Logan lashes out at the Mongrels in hell, and in reality – the mind ninjas.
In another section of the cave, Amiko gets flung up against the wall by the dragon she’s fighting. Wiping the blood away from her mouth, Amiko thinks to herself that she’s going to die. She’s fighting a dragon with a sword and she’s going to die. She’s hacked at its head; she’s stabbed it in the heart. There’s just no killing this thing. As it moves in for the kill, she feels its breath, smells its stench, hears its hearts pounding. Wait a second… since when does a dragon have more than one heart?
Using a shard of the broken cave wall, Amiko jams it into the dragon’s claw. Once she does, she realizes that the dragon she is fighting is in reality a bunch of ninjas inside a dragon suit. Enraged, Amiko deduces that she must’ve been drugged. Ninjas aren’t dragons. Ninjas she can kill in her sleep. Just then, Shin Harada swoops in, grabs hold of Amiko and they depart the cavern together. Upon seeing her boyfriend, Amiko says she thought she was there rescuing him. Shin tells her the Hand doesn’t care about him anymore. They’re too busy dying.
Alongside Yukio, Logan brutally kills the ninjas before him. Yukio proceeds to tell him that it’s about time he woke up. What’s the plan now? When Logan simply replies “kill, burn,” Yukio states that she likes that plan.
As Goda makes his way towards Creed, one of his followers tells him that the Wolverine has murdered his way into the inner sanctum. He is burning the homes of their great-great grandfathers. He has violated the temple of the beast. What shall they do? Goda says be massacred, most likely. The whole lot of them. Now if they’ll excuse him… Equipping himself with a jetpack, Goda and Creed escape the cavern.
Chapter Sixteen: The Turning of the Worm
After killing the ninjas, Yukio mentions to Logan that there’s no sign of the samurai boy. Logan states that he escaped with Amiko. Yukio asks that Amiko was there? Is he sure? Looking over at Yukio, Logan thinks to himself that when he thought he was in hell, he was under the influence of the Red Right Hand. He wasn’t in his right mind. But now… God help him, now he knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s going berserk. With that, Logan walks over to Yukio and embraces her passionately.
On the grounds of the Clan Yashida ancestral compound, Shin makes his way to the vault of the Harada family. As he slices the door open, Amiko asks him what’s going on. Shin tells her nor more running. No more hiding. It’s time he claimed what’s rightfully his. Entering the vault, Harada remarks that the treasure of the Silver Samurai belongs to him now, as does Clan Yashida. From behind, Goda tells him that perhaps he should rephrase that. Turning around with a jerk, Amiko says oh my god. Shin tells her that he’s so sorry. With Creed flanking him from behind, Goda says it all belongs to them now.
Inside the cavern, Yukio rides in on a horse. Calling out to Logan, she tells him that she’s sorry she missed the fight. Would they believe they have horses down there? Hello? Anybody? Wait… Why does it smell like… like there was more than just killing going on in there.
Exiting the cavern, “Yukio” begins to transform back into her natural form – Mystique. As she does, she remarks that worked out better than she could’ve hoped. She wanted to see if her powers were strong enough to fool even Logan’s senses, to test them up close and personal. Looking at the video on her phone of her and Logan engaged in a passionate embrace, Mystique remarks that she’d say she’s done that. Her name is Raven Darkholme. She just made love to the man who killed her. But she promises, she’s not done screwing him just yet.
In New York, Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime, is handed a photo of Azuma Goda. When he states that he never heard of him, his associate tells him that he’s the head of the Tokyo branch of the Hand. Fisk says he was the head of the Tokyo branch. He never authorized this war with the Yakuza. Kill him and all who stand with him. His associate tells him that, with all due respect, if they send an army of their Hand ninjas after his Hand ninjas, they could have a civil war on their hands. Fisk says then don’t send ninjas. God knows there are plenty of other killers around. Just use somebody good.
Sometime later, in the Tokyo airport, Lord Deathstrike arrives, carrying a briefcase.
Back at the vault of the Silver Samurai, Amiko smacks Shin across the face and runs off. As she runs off, Creed tells Shin to forget her; they’ll get him another one. Smiling, Goda replies that there’ll be women enough for all of them, but first, they’ve got work to do. As of now, the Hand in Japan is officially dead. Long live the Hand.
Meanwhile, inside the cavern, Logan burns everyone and everything inside.


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Back in Japan: Part 4
Chapter Seventeen: No More Ninjas
In an abandoned alley in Tokyo, the leader of a group of ninjas informs his comrades that they are all that’s left; the last of all their kind in Tokyo. They are the last of the ninja. Their five-hundred-year-old branch of the Hand is no more.
They have been betrayed by their leaders, he continues. Abandoned. And now they are hunted by the gaijin called Wolverine. He has defiled their caves, burned their ancient temples, murdered their brothers and sisters, stolen their children and turned them over to the police. It is up to them now to carry on the legacy of their ancestors. By sword. By shadow. By blood. They must not allow the Hand to disappear into history. Though all else crumbles, the way of the beast must endure. Let them pray and beseech the lord of the darkness for his unholy guidance, and for the strength to slaughter their enemies.
As they prepare to depart the alley, one of the ninjas states that he has a better idea. How about they just skip the prayin’ and cut to the slaughter. With that, the ninja reveals himself to be Wolverine, who summarily slices the ninjas to pieces.
At Azuma Goda’s complex, Sabretooth informs Goda that Wolverine has killed every last little shuriken-tossin’ one of them. He killed the last herd this morning, apparently while they were holding some kind of prayer meeting. The Hand of Tokyo is officially finished. Taking a sip of his drink, Goda says at last. No more fools running around in ridiculous costumes, daring to call themselves ninja. No more bowing to the whims of a fool like Wilson Fisk. Now the real work can begin.
Creed points out that Goda has just stood by and watched his whole big karate army get run down and gutted. Mind telling him where they go from there? When Goda asks who the scariest villains are in the world, Creed answers him, for one; maybe Dr. Doom and that big purple guy who eats planets (Galactus). Goda tells him wrong. The scariest villains are the ones you’ve never heard of. The ones who live solely in the shadows. Whose names you never read in the papers. Faces you never see. But who control and exploit every single facet of your life, from your mother’s teat to your sleep with the maggots. There is great power in invisibility. That is the art of ninjitsu. That is the true way of the Hand. So we had to butcher the bloated old swine that his Hand had become, so that they could bring it back as something bigger, something stronger.
Goda then asks Creed that he knows about coming back from the dead, doesn’t he? Though in his case, he managed to come back to be…pretty much the exact same thing he was before. Unlike him, though, the Hand will be marvelously transformed by its death, a transformation, he suspects that is already underway. Assuming their new friend hasn’t lost his nerve.
Chapter Eighteen: Forgive me, Father
As they drive down the road on their motorcycles, Shingen Harada tells Mystique that he can’t do this. Mystique reminds him that they’re a bunch of bloated old Yakuza bosses. He’s got armor and big glowing swords. It’ll be easy. When Shin replies that he’s not a murderer, Mystique tells him not to give her that. She saw the way he cut apart those ninjas back in the cave. And she knew his father, so she knows what sort of blood flows through his veins. And also, need she remind him, he doesn’t have a damn choice. Either he does it on his own, or she kills him and takes his form and does it for him. So really either way he looks at it, he’s gonna kill every single person inside that room.
Later, at the meeting, one of the leaders of the Yakuza remarks that this meeting is called to order. They the heads of the most prominent Yakuza in Japan are gathered there today to recognize Shingen Harada, son of the Silver Samurai, who has officially made claim to Clan Yashida, by right of birth. If there are any objections to this matter, state your case now.
One of the other leaders pipes up and states that he for one needs more than just words. He needs to see with his own eyes that this baby-faced Harada has the guts to run his own clan. As they all know, their little war with the Hand has dragged on for far too long. The heads of the other East Asian organizations have called them to task and charged them with putting a swift end to this entire fiasco once and for all. Their newest friend, if he truly is their friend, should be willing to do this for them. Once he brings him the head of Azuma Goda, the upstart ninja bastard who started this war, then he will know Shingen Harada is a samurai in more than just name. And he will have his vote.
When Shin replies that he is not a murderer, the leaders of the Yakuza begin to laugh out loud and tell him that he is in the wrong room, little samurai. Pressing a button on his watch, Shin angrily tells them maybe he is or maybe they are. As he transforms into his Silver Samurai armor, one of the Yakuza leaders tells him that he is an arrogant fool, just like his father. He wouldn’t dare… Just then, Shin unleashes a blast that kills all of the Yakuza leaders in the room.
Once finished, Mystique morphs from her disguise as a bodyguard and tells Shin that they’re gonna have to toughen him up. She can tell he’s crying under there. Shin proceeds to inform Mystique that his dad told him about her. He said he could never decide if she was a piece of @%$# or not. As he flies out the window alone, Shin tells Mystique that he’s glad to see she finally figured it out.
Chapter Nineteen: The Day I Became Invisible
At Goda’s complex, Creed tells Goda that the boy’ll do his part. Mystique’ll make sure of that. Goda states that the Tokyo Hand is devastated. The Yakuza bosses dead. Harada is his puppet. All is as he planned. Now, at last, they can begin to gather his army.
After Goda hands Creed a piece of paper, Creed remarks that there looks to be about a dozen names on it. Where he comes from, there’s usually a good bit more than that in an army. Goda says those are the names of the Hand’s most secretive assassins. Thirteen ninjas who have been embedded throughout Japan, some for so many years they have been all but forgotten. They will activate every single one of them. And they will be all they army they shall ever need.
There is a man in Osaka who builds deadly viruses out of the air, folding diseased molecules like one folds paper into origami. There is a woman in Higashiosaka whose very flesh is deadly to the touch. To look at her for long is to sear one’s eyes. They are hardened masters of invisibility and murder, every single one. Together they will be the new face of the Hand. A face only the dead or the dying will ever see. His dear friend Wolverine will be the first. And soon after they’ve killed the unkillable and dragged his bloody remains through the corridors of power, he will wake one glorious morning to find he suddenly has a monopoly on the very act of murder itself throughout the Eastern hemisphere. And yet no one knows his name.
When Creed says that it sounds like he has all the angles covered, Goda replies yes, all but one. He himself must become invisible. And there is only one way to do that. Isn’t there, dear Sabretooth? Creed replies only one that he knows of and it certainly ain’t a pleasant one.
Later that night, Goda stands out on his balcony, enjoying the view when a scantily clad young lady staggers out of the house, snuggles up to Goda and begs him to come back into the garden. There are still many succulent fruits he has yet to taste. Goda tells her that he’ll be right there. He’s just enjoying the night air for a moment. Go and keep the other ladies company. He would hate to waste a beautiful night like this. Just then, Goda is shot in the forehead by a sniper bullet and he falls to the ground in a heap.
As the shooter, Lord Deathstrike, makes his way onto the balcony to check on his target, he is suddenly kicked by Goda who turns out to be Mystique in disguise. Mystique asks Deathstrike if he’s surprised. She figured he’d go for a headshot. That’s why she simply moved most of her brain down into her neck. Luckily you don’t need much to play a man like Goda. Shall they?
As Mystique and Deathstrike begin to engage each other in battle, Goda, from inside the complex watching on a monitor, angrily asks Creed what the hell she is doing. Why is she fighting back? He was supposed to die. Creed replies that it looks like that can still be arranged. Looking at another monitor, Goda sees Wolverine and asks what the hell he is doing there. How in the world could he have possibly found them? Smirking, Creed says huh. Just lucky he guesses.
At the Clan Yashida compound, Shin lands on the ground. When he does, Amiko emerges from the shadows and tells him congratulations. He’s officially the king *&#@ of bastard town. Shin asks Amiko to let him… Before he can finish, however, Amiko responds by kicking him in the head. Shin states that he deserved that. But let him explain. Taking a swipe at him with her sword which he ducks, Amiko asks him explain to her how he sold his soul to the Hand? The same guys who almost killed her? No thanks. Guess she shouldn’t be surprised really. He was never a very good boyfriend. Shin asks and she was always perfect he guesses, Wolverine’s innocent little daughter. Amiko tells him that she’s already unfriended him on Facebook. Now she’s going to stab him in the face. In case he can’t tell, this is her breaking up with him.
Throughout Goda’s complex, Goda angrily accuses Creed that he did this. He sold him out. To Wolverine! Creed tells him that’s one way of looking at it. Another might be to say he never really gave much of a damn about him in the first place. When Goda starts to call Creed an ungrateful…, Creed slaps him across the face. As he does, he tells Goda he had himself a humdinger of a plan. And so far it’s been running like clockwork. But he was dead wrong about just two little things. Being invisible is good, you see, but you don’t ever wanna be too invisible. ‘Cause then the people around you might start to forget just exactly what they ever needed you for in the first place.
As Creed begins to walk away, Goda calls him a stupid dog-faced sonuva… Creed continues that the other thing he was wrong about... was him. He didn’t go through these last few months just to come back as the same old fella he was before. Even he has gotta admit, Goda states, that fella was pretty dog-gone badass. He came back for something bigger, a whole helluva lot bigger. So he guesses this is where they part ways. Wolverine’ll be along any minute now to kill him. And just so he knows, being stabbed with them claws a’ his, it hurts like holy hell. But congratulations, he wanted to be invisible. He definitely will be now. After Goda grabs hold of a nearby pistol and sword, Creed takes off in his jet-pack, just as Wolverine arrives on the rooftop.
Falling from the roof, Lord Deathstrike and Mystique continue their battle. Using her powers to sprout wings and bird claws, Mystique slashes Deathstrike across the face and proceeds to tell him that is for the last time they met. Before the battle can commence any further, Creed hovers overhead and tells Raven to remember why they’re there. They don’t wanna kill nobody. They’re just looking to make some friends.
At the Clan Yashida compound, Amiko and Shin continue their battle. Amiko proceeds to tell Shin that she can’t believe she ever dated a guy who hits like him. Shin angrily replies you little… He’s the Silver Samurai. The head of Clan Yashida. He killed a dozen Yakuza today. You don’t get to talk to him like that just because they used to make out. Leaping backwards, Amiko says God, don’t remind her. Shin tells Amiko that she shouldn’t have come there. He’s not a boy anymore. This is a man’s game and he’s playing, and her daddy Wolverine isn’t around to save her. Amiko says he’s right, but he forgot about her mom. Just then, Yukio arrives in a helicopter and opens fire on Shin.
Back on the roof of Goda’s compound, Wolverine attacks Goda and, eventually, kills him. Once he does, he remarks “God, I love this country.”
Later, at Yukio’s apartment, she tells a crying Amiko not to worry, there’ll be other guys. Amiko tells her she doesn’t want a new boyfriend. She just wants to kill her old one. As Logan attempts to contact Melita Garner, he is unable to do so. In New York, Melita chooses not to answer her phone after receiving pictures of Logan and Yukio having sex. Back in Japan, Yukio says to Logan boyfriend trouble. She’ll get over it. They always do. Logan says no, not always.
In an undisclosed location, a meeting is called to order of the assembled heads of the East Asian families, tongs and syndicates are there to address the aftermath of the Hand/Yakuza war. Who has come to represent Tokyo? Just then, Creed enters the room, flanked by Shingen Harada, Mystique and Lord Deathstrike, and states that’d be him. When the question arises who he is, Creed tells him he’s nobody really. He’s what ya might call invisible. With that, Deathstrike, Mystique and Shin attack the inhabitants of the room. With the carnage complete, Creed leans back in a chair and remarks “Sabretooth, invisible king of all Asia…” Heh, he likes the sounda that.
Back in Yukio’s apartment, Logan mentions to Yukio that he can’t help thinking he’s missing something. After Yukio says Creed got away, Logan replies that Creed always gets away. But if he knows him, this was all one big joke, just an excuse to have some laughs and spill some blood. He can’t help but wonder what he accomplished there. Yukio points out that he wiped out the Hand in Tokyo. He won the war.
Glancing at Amiko’s closed door, Logan asks did he? Yukio says some battles, unfortunately, last forever. Logan states that he has a school back in the States; if Amiko ever gets too much for her to handle… Yukio says he could just come back to visit more often. Logan says this is Japan, he’ll always be back.
Preparing to leave, Logan tells Yukio to take care of herself. Before he ultimately departs, Amiko bursts out of her room and says she just heard on the police radio… there’s a robbery at a bank in Shibuya… So… you know… she was just wondering… Does he have to leave so soon?
Later, Wolverine, Amiko and Yukio are all geared up and teaming up to handle the robbery on the streets of Tokyo.


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One More Round
In the Lowtown section of Madripoor, a driver pulls up to a dilapidated building and asks his cloaked passengers if they’re sure this is the right place. This is the most dangerous neighborhood in all of Madripoor. One of the cloaked figures replies this is exactly the place. Just let them out here.
The driver remarks like he said before, he’s gonna have to charge them extra, on account of… the danger and all. When the other cloaked figure reaches into his cloak, the first cloaked individual tells their dear brother no. Allow them to pay the fare. Their driver is correct after all. This has been an exceedingly dangerous journey, for him most especially. Just then, the driver is killed when a set of long fingernails pierces his neck from behind. Exiting the car, the cloaked figure remarks that they are absolutely famished. There had better be actual food at this party and not just peanuts and potato chips. And they do so hope they aren’t overdressed.
Removing their cloaks, the cloaked figures are revealed to be Lady and Lord Deathstrike. As the car explodes behind them, Lady Deathstrike states that one never knows what to wear to these sorts of things. Reaching the door, Lady Deathstrike tells the guards that she and Lord Deathstrike are there.
Entering the party, Victor Creed tells them he’s glad they made it. He knows their business interests in the past haven’t always been exactly what you’d call… compatible. Lady Deathstrike replies that the Deathstrikes count among their many talents the ability to separate business from pleasure. Creed says there ain’t no need for that tonight. ‘Cause he expects they’ll be indulgin’ in plenty of both.
Sitting atop a building, David North points his gun to his head and is preparing to pull the trigger when his phone rings. When he picks it up, he discovers that the voice on the other end of the line belongs to Logan. Logan proceeds to tell him that there’s a party tonight, somewhere in Madripoor. He’s betting he knows the kinda party he means. He needs to know exactly where.
When he gets no answer, Logan calls out Maverick’s name. North tells him that he’s, uh… he’s a bit busy right now. Could he call him back in about five minutes? When Logan tells North to put the gun down, North asks what gun. Logan replies the one he has pointed at his head. North answers that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He just… him and Agent Jacks are about to get married. He remembers Agent Jacks, right? Form their little adventure with the Adamantium Men. He broke her outta the jail that Norman Osborn had thrown her in. Just uh… just yesterday, and now him and her, they’re gonna… see, they…
Logan tells North of course he remembers Agent Jacks. He had her released from prison months ago. Last he heard, she was living in Tangier with some guy not named him. Put down the gun. North tells Logan that he doesn’t understand… he’s done… Oh God… He’s done awful things. He’s lied to him. He’s… Cutting him off, Logan tells Maverick to listen to him. Just because he calls him asking for info, that doesn’t mean he’s an idiot. He knows exactly who he is and everything he’s ever done. But nobody gets off that easy. ‘Specially not people he still needs something from. So put down the damn gun and do your damn job. And tell him where to find this damn party.
Back in Madripoor, Creed and Mystique look around at those gathered – Tiger Shark, Roughhouse, Bloodscream, Madcap, Sauron, Nitro, Wild Child, amongst others. Mystique tells Creed that Dr. Doom sends his regrets. Wilson Fisk couldn’t make it either but she believes he did send a gift. Creed says yeah, a box of cobras. Mystique replies that one can never have enough of those. Creed says even without them two blowhards, it’s not a bad turnout. Especially for one of his parties. Use to be, nobody but Wild Child would show up. Mystique remarks that she supposes being the newfound secret assassin lord of the entire Eastern Hemisphere has its perks. Shall they mingle? Creed retorts after you, sweet cheeks.
During the party, Shingen Harada says to Daken that he just saw him double dip that veggie stick. That’s totally disgusting. Peering back at him, Daken asks him how he would like those swords shoved in his eye holes. In another area, a very large rotund man introduces Jade Claw to the new White Queen (Wilhelmina Kensington). When Jade Claw says you’ve got to be kidding me, Wilhelmina asks her if she’d like to pet her penguin. Near the food table, Lady Deathstrike tells Soulstriker that she suggest he find someone else to hit on before she slices off what few appendages he has left. Without the use of either of his hands, Soulstriker asks her if she thinks she could at least feed him one of those sandwiches.
As Creed and Mystique walk through the party, Creed tells her to look at them. Any one of them would kill him at the drop of a hat. That’s the only reason they’re there. To size him up, look for an opening. Mystique tells Creed welcome to the top. He best get used to everyone he meets wanting to kill him. Creed states that he knows at least one thing that’s got the power to bring them all together. Just then, Creed thanks everybody for coming and tells them to make themselves at home. There’s food and beer and people to beat up. The murder games will be startin’ soon enough. But to kick things off right, he’d like to propose a toast. Here’s to that furry little runt they all love to hate. Here’s to Wolverine. Wherever the hell he may be.
Meanwhile, just outside Creed’s party, a doctor clad in bloody rags tells the bouncers that he swears he’s supposed to be in there. When the bouncers ask him what his name is again, the doctor introduces himself as Dr. Algernon J. Rotwell. His patients calls him Dr. Rot. Grabbing hold of one of the bouncer’s heads, Dr. Rot remarks that he has a lovely skull. Would he mind if he took a look inside it sometime? When the other bouncer says he’s not on the list, Dr. Rot states that there must be some mistake. He assures them he is quite infamous. Why, he once took a bunch of brains and made a…
Before he can finish, the bouncer pushes him away. In short time, a man walks up to the door wearing a suit and a cowboy hat. When the stranger asks if this is the party, the bouncer asks him what his name is. The stranger replies Snikt. Perusing his list, the bouncer states that there’s no Snikt on the list. The stranger replies maybe he’s not spelling it right. Here, let him help him. With that, the stranger (Logan) pops his claws with a snikt and presses them up to the bouncer’s face.
Somewhere in the Pacific, a flying luxury car lands on the beach of an island. Running out of the jungle, an older man exclaims that it’s about damn time. He’s the one they’re looking for. He’s the CEO of Blackguard. They sure took their sweet time rescuing him. Let’s go. He’s got business that needs attending to and people who are long overdue to die, starting with that little bastard Wolverine. When he gets his hands on him he’s gonna…
Just then, the old man is shot in the head. When three members of Strikeforce X emerge from the jungle, the shooter calls the old man annoying and adds that he can’t believe they lived there with him for all these months. He then tells them not to worry; they can put their claws away. He’s not there to kill them. His name is Kade Kilgore, Black King of the Hellfire Club. He’s there to offer them a job. One of the men asks Kilgore how he found them. Kilgore answers by looking. Apparently nobody else gave much of a damn about searching for them, even though they’re all that’s left of the one-time Strikeforce X, Blackguard’s adamantium-boned corporate super-soldiers. Looks to him like they’ve managed to stay in relatively good shape out there. Laser claws in good working order. How many of them are left? When they reply “just what you see,” Kilgore states that he’s got good news and bad news. The good news is, they’re hired as of right now, all of them, to be his personal bodyguards. The bad news is there’s only room in the car for two of them. He’ll leave it up to them to decide which two that should be. Just then, as Kade Kilgore and his associate Maximilian von Katzenelnbogen look on as the three members of Strikeforce X brutally attack each other.
Back in Madripoor, Wolverine (in his blue and yellow costume) throws one of the bouncers through the front door. Entering the building, he asks the villains inside what they’re all just standing around for. He thought this was a party. Smiling, Creed replies that it is now. With that, Wolverine engages the room in battle.
In the Canadian wilderness, a large mountain man (Dog Logan) makes his way through the snow to his isolated wood cabin. Once inside the cabin, he mounts his weapon up on the wall amongst the others, drops his kill on the table and skins it with a laser knife. After cooking it for a while over a fire, he takes a bite out of the meat and says mmm. That’s some good wolverine. Good enough for now at least. All around him on the walls of the cabin are articles about Wolverine’s new school in upstate New York – Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
In Madripoor, Wolverine continues to battle the villains attending Creed’s party. Amongst those he battles include Wild Child, Lady Deathstrike, Lord Deathstrike, Silver Samurai (Shingen Harada), Daken and Mystique.
In New York City, in an underground parking garage, Melita Garner walks up to the three women gathered and asks the stereotypical darkened parking deck? Seriously? They couldn’t have maybe done this in a sushi bar instead? The woman, Seraph replies that she hopes she hasn’t called her there just to tell her how to do her job.
Melita tells Seraph not to be coy. She knows why she’s there. For the record, she dumped him. Not the other way around. Seraph asks her if she got tired of all that hair clogging her shower drain. Melita states that she still loves him, but some men were just never meant to be monogamous. Seraph asks and it took her until now to figure that out about Logan? She thought she was supposed to be a reporter. The Daily Bugle must have lowered its already abysmal standards.
When Melita then says she wants in, Seraph asks her in what. Melita replies in everything they do. She knows they can use her. Seraph states what they do is play a dangerous game of freelance international espionage where the only rules are: kill the other people first and always get paid up front. Is she sure she’s up for something like that? Melita answers that she dated Wolverine for thirteen months. She thinks she can handle it.
Scoffing at her, Lynx tells her to join the club. Melita says she thought that’s what she was doing. Unless there’s another group somewhere made up entirely of Wolverine’s ex-girlfriends. Seraph says nope, just them. She then congratulates Melita for officially being one of Seraph’s Angels (Lynx, Seraph, and Cassie Lathrop). Her first assignment is to provide them with one last little bit of vitally important information. Did he ever accidentally call her by any of their names in bed?
In Tokyo, Yukio asks Amiko where she thinks she’s going. Amiko replies that police are reporting a public brawl at a furry bar in Kabukicho. She’s gonna go kick some anthropomorphic perverts in the face. Yukio reminds her not just the face. She needs to work more on her body shots. Amiko replies yes, ninja mother.
In hell, Thomas Logan stands surrounded by the Mongrels (Cannon Foot, Gunhawk, Fire Knives, Saw Fist and Shadow Stalker) and exclaims that he still can’t believe he’s got grandkids. He’ll be damned. That son of his was always a helluva disappointment, but it’s nice to see he’s at least been carrying on the family name. When Gunhawk asks what this place is, Thomas tells him this is hell. This is where all Logans go when they die.
In San Francisco, below the streets of Chinatown, Fat Cobra (the new Black Dragon) presides over his loyal followers.
Back in Madripoor, Wolverine finishes off the last of his villains and proceeds to turn his attention to Creed. As they battle, Logan tells Creed that he’s sorry to crash his party but when he heard about his little shindig here it got him thinking ‘bout how he used to look him up once a year and beat his ass just to show him he could. Does he remember that? He sure does. It’s been a rough couple years for him, but that’s no excuse to go forgettin’ old friends and special traditions. That’s why he had to drop by today, just to tell him to his face happy birthday. From his old pal Wolverine. He’ll leave them to their party now. See him again next year. With that, Wolverine leaves the party, his foes bloody and beaten.
Later, at a bar, the bartender asks Logan if he’d like to start a tab. Logan answers that he sure would. Enjoying his first beer, Logan thinks to himself a cold beer in his gullet, football on the TV, Sabretooth’s blood on his hands. Loud drunk guys playing pool, probably gonna start a fight later. When the bartender asks Logan if he can get him anything else, Logan flashes a smile and asks what else is there.


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Rot: Part 1
In New York City, the Bronx, two detectives investigate a murder scene. The female detective, Lieutenant Granger remarks to her partner, Hicks, that this isn’t happening. Tell her that this isn’t happening. Hicks tells her that the Feds are on their way. Doesn’t get any more real than that. And if the Feds are on the scene, it won’t take long for the press to piece this together.
Granger says St. Louis, Charlotte, Ft. Lauderdale… Taking a sip of his coffee, Hicks adds Houston too. At least that’s what he heard. Granger says “and now New York.” Taking a look at the murder victims, Hicks states that it looks like they’re in the middle of a nationwide killing spree. Granger says this isn’t just a killing spree, this is a harvest. Lying on the ground before them are three men with the tops of their heads sliced off and their brains removed.
Just then, a police officer walks up to Granger and informs her they have a witness. When Granger asks a witness, the police officer tells her yes. Pointing to a window up above, the cop says that he saw everything from right up there. He says he can I.D. the killer.
Inside the building, a young boy draws pictures on his bed that is adorned with Spider-Man sheets. Quietly, Granger remarks that he’s just a kid. God. No child should be exposed to something like that. Hicks says times are changing; kids grow up fast. Shooting him a stern look, Granger asks Hicks what the hell is wrong with him. As Hicks begins to defend himself, a police woman holds up the young boy’s drawing and tells Granger that she might want to take a look at this. He drew a picture, a picture of the murderer. Looking at the picture of Wolverine, Granger asks how long before the Feds get there to take over. Because no matter how soon they get there, it won’t be soon enough.
In a seedy bar outside Dunwich, California, a young waitress calls Logan “sweetheart” and asks him if he wants another. Logan tells her he probably shouldn’t. He’s got work to do tonight. Walking towards the bar, the waitress tells Logan that between them, this stuff’s so watered down, one more won’t make a difference. Besides, she can just look at him and tell. He hasn’t had nearly enough. Walking back with the beer, she proceeds to ask Logan that he ain’t from around here, is he? Looking over at the young waitress, Logan sees her with her neck sliced and the bartender dead. The waitress snaps him out of his trance when she asks if he heard her. Where’s he from? Where’s home? Logan asks her that’s the million dollar question, huh? Trust him, though. The answer’s not worth the price. Smiling at him, the waitress states that she’s a girl who just loves a mystery. Does he have a place to stay tonight? Downing the beer in one gulp, Logan tells her no but he’s got places to be. After giving the young woman his hat, Logan leaves the bar.
Outside, Logan remarks that it’s hard to resist a girl with that much charm and sass. But it’s never been all that safe for normal folks to be around him. Now… more than ever… he has to be alone. Contrary to popular belief, he hasn’t forgotten what he is. X-Man, Avenger, student, teacher, hero, weapon… Opening up the trunk of his car, Logan looks at his yellow and blue costume and a six pack of beer. Balancing all of the conflicting aspects of his life has never been a cakewalk. But now, now there’s blood on his hands, blood he doesn’t remember spilling. He’s been blacking out, waking up in strange places, unsure how he got there, covered in gore and stinking of death. Someone’s winding him up like a toy, sending him out like their own personal murder-doll. He knows who’s responsible. He just has to find him. And if you’re gonna look for the devil, you might as well start in hell.
In short time, Logan enters the abandoned building known as Dunwich Sanatorium. Once he enters, Logan’s heightened senses tell him “he” hasn’t been there for a long while. The churning in his gut tells him the place is still crawling with old ghosts. Coming back there, it feels like he’s tearing open painful wounds. People came there, people were sent there in hopes that they could get better. But all this place ever did was turn its patients inside out. And his healing factor’s useless against this kind of hurt.
During the best of times, Dunwich Sanatorium churned out hitmen and assassins for gangsters and corrupt government officials. Then, new “management” took over and it went from bad to nightmarish. He spent a few weeks “in residence” after the whole operation went south. They used psychic munitions to incapacitate him. They strip-mined his brain, tried to turn him into their plaything. That didn’t work out so well for them. He’s spent his whole life playing this game of hide-and-seek with his past. Trying to remember, forcing himself to forget. But this place haunts him. And lately he can feel it calling to him like a master whistling for a hound. No, not the place. It’s “him.” He’s calling for him, guiding him back to his side. And along the way… What’s real? What’s hallucination? Either way, until he breaks whatever hold he has over him, he’s a danger to those around him. He’s on his own.
As he looks through some files, Logan catches a whiff of a scent and looks up to see a horde of grotesque creatures making their way towards him. Turning to face them, Logan asks that they let him guess. They were left behind as parting gifts for anyone who might come snooping around. Well, he guesses he should open his presents. With that, Logan pops his claws and begins to tear into the creatures. Logan notices that they are silent as sheet phantoms, smell masked by the stink of the asylum. They almost got the drop on him… almost. The blood of the creatures stings his eyes, fries the hairs from his nostrils, bubbles on his skin like a chemical burn. These things ain’t alive in the strictest sense. Putting them down is a mercy. The irony doesn’t escape him. He came there to stop the senseless killing, but he’s at it again. But at least he’s in control. And, ironic or not, he’ll do what must be done to protect.
As Logan kills a group of the creatures, one of them manages to slice his neck with a blade. Dropping to his knees and clutching his throat, Logan looks up to see that the creatures are shape-changers. He sees them taking on the forms of friends (Psylocke), students (Oya), and enemies (Omega Red). That helps explain the migraine he’s had since walking through the door. Somehow, they’re plucking images from his mind, trying to rattle him. Killing shape-shifters is old hat to him. In short time, Logan has dispatched all of the creatures. With a wild look in his eyes, Logan remarks that these… these things weren’t intended as a trap, but as a message. He knows he’s coming. He’s waiting for him. He thinks he’s ready. But ain’t nobody ready for the kind of vengeance he’s bringing.
In Westchester, New York, at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Rachel Summers tells Kitty that, wherever Wolverine is, he doesn’t want to be found. None of them stood a chance of physically tracking him, but it looks like his psychic barriers are holding, too. Kitty replies they ought to. She helped create them, Kitty reminds Rachel, but she doesn’t understand why he would just leave. Rachel remarks that it’s not like this is the first time he’s gone walkabout. Kitty says yeah, but the school’s barely up and running. He didn’t even leave a note. Something’s wrong.
Just then, Oya rushes up to them and tells Kitty that there are some people there to see her. When Kitty asks who, Oya rushes off and tells her that she didn’t ask but they kind of looked official. As Kitty starts making her way towards the front door, Rachel stops her and tells her she knows why they’re there. Reaching the front door, Kitty introduces herself and Rachel to the three visitors. Reaching for his I.D., one of the visitors apologizes for bothering them at the start of their school day. Kitty stops him and tells him that his identification’s not necessary. She knows who he is. Special Agent Dennis Wells, right? Flanked by Granger and Hicks, Wells tells her that’s a neat trick. He’s guessing, then, that she knows why he’s there. Kitty replies that she’s afraid so, he thinks their school’s headmaster is a murderer.
As a bloody Logan exits the Dunwich Sanitorium, a man watches him via a camera attached to a brain with mechanical legs. The man sees Logan and says ah, Logan, his dear patient X. Maybe they should have left well enough alone, hmm? They could have just forgotten about one another and let bygones be bygones. But he’s too much of a predator. And, him, he loves his work far too much to ever give up on such a specimen. Besides, where’s the fun in live-and-let-live?
Inside a safe house, Dr. Rottwell tells Nurse Fester that he’s seen enough. Noticing that Logan is carrying the file on Algernon Rottwell, Dr. Rot tells Nurse Fester that she can turn the monitor off. There’s so much work to do, so many cats to herd, and now they have to make ready for company. No time to watch the boob-tube. After all, you know what they say… TV rots your brain.


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Rot: Part 2
In Westchester, New York, at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Kitty Pryde offers to show Agent Dennis Wells around the school. But she can assure him that Wolverine, Logan, isn’t there. He’s a very busy man, as she’s sure he knows. Wells replies yes, he’s a member of the X-Men and the Avengers, the Headmaster of this school, and he’s involved in a number of… private ventures. He has no desire to waste anyone’s time. But maybe she could give him a clue as to where he might be right now.
Smiling, Kitty answers that obviously, they’d like to assist in any way they can. Mentally, Kitty reaches out to Rachel for assistance. She tells her that they need to buy themselves a little time to figure this out. They need alibis. Rachel asks leading a rebellion in outer space, being held prisoner by the Hand in Madripoor, judging a Wolverine cosplay contest in Japan? Turning to Wells, Kitty asks him if he’s ever heard of the Microverse. Holding up his hand, Wells stops her and states that he knows she wants to protect her friend. He can appreciate that. He can also appreciate that she could probably manipulate his thoughts in such a way that he’d believe whatever she’s telling him but she’s chosen not to do so. Try to understand what he’s dealing with there. Detectives Granger and Hicks have uncovered evidence that might connect their school’s Headmaster to multiple murders. And if he is involved, he could be a danger to everyone around him including them and their students.
Rachel replies that Logan would never hurt the kids. Wells says he hopes she’s right. But he doesn’t have to be a mind reader to see that they’re not so sure themselves. If they think of anything that might help, if they hear from Logan, he’d like them to give him a call. As Wells, Granger, and Hicks all depart the school grounds, Rachel asks Kitty this is bad, isn’t it. Kitty replies it’s bad and asks Rachel where he, Wolverine, is.
Standing in front of a dilapidated house, Logan remarks that, enhanced senses aside, he’s one hell of a tracker. One of the best in the business. And it ain’t always about putting an ear to the ground or looking for snapped twigs in the brush. Sometimes, it’s about going back to the beginning – back to where it all started. This is where Dr. Rot was born. Only, according to the files he snagged at Dunwich, his birth name isn’t Rottwell. He was born Bentley Newton, and he grew up right there in the heart of suburban America. This might have been a nice neighborhood once upon a time, the kind of place families go to flourish away from the hustle and bustle. Now, it stinks of mildew and decay. He’d be willing to bet the houses play home to as many squatters as people struggling to make their mortgage payments.
As he enters the house, Logan states that this place isn’t dead yet, but it’s getting there. Live long enough with an overactive sense of smell and you’re gonna encounter some horrible odors. In a memory clogged with Morlock cities, Reaver flesh factories, and Brood backsides, the stink of this place ranks among the worst. It smells like…
Just then, Logan happens upon an old man sitting in a chair. Weakly, the man asks Logan “you… you’re looking… looking for him… looking for my son… aren’t you? Please… please tell me… tell me you’re here to find him. Tell me you want to kill him.” Looking around, Logan asks the man where he is. The old man says “He… he was my flesh… my blood… but he was never my child. He had a sickness inside him. He couldn’t shake his Rottwell heritage… He had too much of his mother in him. He was the creature… he had always been… He couldn’t… couldn’t be anything else. He… changed his name… became… one of them… After… I signed the papers… and put him away… I thought I would never see him again. But he came back… came back for me… and left me here for you.”
In shock, Logan notices the back of the old man’s head had been sliced off, his brain removed and wires leading to one of Rot’s little toys – a brain machine. Logan realizes this is a setup, just like Dunwich. Dr. Rot is leaving a message for him, leading him along, chumming the waters. After Logan asks the man where he can find Rot, the old man tells him “I’ll tell… you… but promise me… promise you won’t let me… won’t let me like this.” Logan again asks where and then the familiar sound “snikt” is heard.
In New York City, Agent Dennis Wells, flanked by Detectives Granger and Hicks, thanks Melita Garner for meeting with them on such short notice. Melita replies that she didn’t realize she had much of a choice. Of course, she might be a little happier to be there if she knew what this was all about. Wells tells her he’s sure she can respect why they can’t give her many details. This case isn’t something they want the media exploiting just yet. And he’s sure she wouldn’t want her boyfriend… Melita cuts him off and tells him ex-boyfriend. Hicks proceeds to ask if they aren’t seeing each other, they she shouldn’t have a problem dropping a dime on him, right? Unless, of course, the two of them are still doing the booty-call thing.
Peering at him, Melita asks what the hell’s is wrong with you people. If they think she’d be willing to help, even if she did know anything, they’re sorely mistaken. Stepping up, Hicks asks Melita to try to ignore her partner and to take a look at this drawing. Showing it to her, Hicks states that it was drawn by a child, a child who witnessed a murder. Looking at the crayon drawing of Wolverine, Melita sighs and tells them that it’s not that she doesn’t want to help them. If she knew where Logan was, she’d tell them… maybe. But she barely knew where to find him when they were dating.
Making his way over close to Melita, Wells quietly tells her this is strictly off the record. In recent weeks, they have been investigating a series of particularly brutal murders, murders involving the extraction of the brain. Similar murders occurred a few months ago, in San Francisco, while Wolverine was living in the area. Now, these killings seem to be starting up again, only on a nationwide scale, and Wolverine may be their primary suspect. He’d like to make this as easy on him and the people he cares about as possible. But if she doesn’t know anything that might help them, they’ll be on their way. Just then Melita tells them to wait and says the name – Dr. Rot.
Outside a large mansion that is falling apart, with barbed wire surrounding the grounds and a number of abandoned vehicles littering the front lawn, Wolverine hides in the trees nearby. As he does, he remarks that this is where Dr. Rot scurried off to after he gutted him. Home sweet ancestral home. He’s been holed up there, biding his time, dreaming up new nightmares. A normal person might’ve been put off by evisceration, might’ve looked into another line of work. But having his insides spilled only seems to have made Dr. Rot worse. He should’ve hunted him down, finished the job, when he had the chance. He’s there now, though. He’ll correct his mistake. He’ll slip down there and kill every…
Just then, Wolverine hears a voice coming from a young attractive woman who says “well, would you look at this. Looks like they found them a trespasser, cousin.” Flanked by a shorter skinny bald man and Charlie Chainsaws, the young man says ain’t he a funny-looking little thing. All snarls and growls and pokey little pig-stickers. He’d reckon he means to cut them to chunks, Baylee Ann. Baylee Ann then asks if she can she keep him. Leaping into battle, Wolverine remarks that he recognizes one of them – Charlie Chainsaws, one of Dr. Rot’s creations. The other two are unknown quantities, but he’ll sort all that out after he’s cut them down. Once Wolverine turns his attention to Baylee Ann, she blasts him in the face with a flame-ball. Excitedly, the bald man exclaims oooooo-eee Baylee Ann. She sure didn’t do his good looks no favors. On all fours on the ground, Wolverine thinks to himself that the severe pain and loss of his right eye is threatening to push him over the edge. He can’t let that happen. He’s there to stay in control, not lose it.
Just then, the bald man leaps on Wolverine’s back and continuously stabs him with his knives. Baylee Ann tells Tater no fair, she tagged him. She should get first slice. Tater tells her don’t you worry none now. Didn’t she hear what Algernon said about this ‘ol boy? They can cut him again and again and he’ll just keep coming back for more. Leaning down, Tater asks Wolverine ain’t that r…
Before he can finish his thought, Wolverine slams his head back, breaking Tater’s nose. As Wolverine begins to fight back, he thinks to himself that they’re playing games with him. Dr. Rot is playing games with him. He should’ve heard them sneaking up behind him, should’ve smelled them. They’ve masked their presence somehow. They think they can trap him, kill him. They’re wrong. After knocking Tater and Baylee Ann to the ground, Wolverine assesses his situation. He’s blind in one eye. Agony is overwhelming reason. He needs his healin’ factor to kick in. He needs to get his bearings. Just then, Charlie Chainsaws comes up behind him and jams his chainsaws into Wolverine’s side. Lashing out in pain, Wolverine breaks one of Charlie’s chainsaws and rushes off deeper into the forest. Watching him, Tater screams to his teammates not to let him get away.
Running through the woods, Wolverine notices that his eye is growing back but his stomach is turned inside-out. He needs to get clear and heal. He needs to run, give them something to hunt. Following Wolverine into the woods, Tater tells Baylee Ann and Charlie to go around and try to head him off. That ol’ boy ain’t gonna get far and they can make a bit of sport outta him once he drives him their way, quite a bit of sport indeed.
Following the tracks of Wolverine’s blood, Tater follows it to the base of a tree where he finds his knives laying there. Up in the tree, Wolverine thinks to himself that like he said, tracking, hunting, isn’t always about putting your ear to the ground or looking for broken twigs or matted underbrush. Those things can lead you right into a snare if your prey is cunning. With that, Wolverine descends on Tater from above and begins to rip him to shreds with his claws. Perched over Tater’s bloody body, Wolverine remarks that some people deserve to die. But some deserve to live, too. Because the longer they live, the longer they can be made to suffer.
Coughing up blood, Tater begins to quietly speak. When Wolverine moves his head closer, Tater utters “dream a dream of pretty prey, and blood red as rage.” Once he does, Wolverine freezes in his tracks. Eventually, Baylee Ann and Charlie make their way over to Tater. Upon seeing Tater’s bloody body lying on the ground, Baylee drops to her knees, covers her mouth and says look what he’s done to you. With tears streaming down her eyes, Baylee looks menacingly at Wolverine and says to him “look what you’ve done.” But Tater spoke those magic words before he gasped his last, didn’t he? He’s quiet as one of her dolls. Not so tough at all.
Sometime later, Wolverine awakens to find himself strapped to a chair and Dr. Rot calling him Logan, James, Wolverine and Weapon X. Rot calls him a poor creature and says he has no idea who or what he is, does he. But don’t fret; he’s going to help him. He’s going to remind him who he is. After all, he’s part of his family now. Or he soon will be. Shall they begin? As Rot speaks, various members of his distorted family – Baylee Ann, Charlie Chainsaws, Tater, Nurse Fester, Atremus Nicodemus Rottwell, Mrs. Rotwell, and a number of his brain machines.