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Ultimate X: Origins – Chapter Three: Who or What is Derek Morgan?
My dad used to say: “Joe, no good deed goes unpunished.” Funny thing for a twenty-four year veteran of the Chicago police department to say… but my dad always was a funny guy. I was six days out of the police academy. On the seventh day, he used his push so we could ride together. He wanted to show me the streets through his eyes. That was his way. We rolled up at the projects. He looked this way and that and then, almost like he had a gift for it, he pointed his fat, stubby thumb toward an alley. He was halfway out of the car when I heard him say, “call it in:” It was a drug thing that had gone down wrong. Two crack addicts tried to rip off this deal. We identified ourselves as police officers. But it didn’t matter. The guns came out. My father was shot three times in the chest.
A rainy night in Chicago. A young blonde chased by a thug desperately cries for help. From the rooftops red eyes watch and a winged figure springs into action and grabs the thugs and flies away with him.
 A police car stops next to the woman. Officers Morgan and Jaurez. Joe Morgan tries to calm the blonde. Jaurez looks up and sees something and runs to give chase.
 Up in the air, the winged figure, a young African-American man, holds the screaming thug, threatening to drop him if he keeps flip-flopping around, and neither of them wants that!
I held my dad in my arms and prayed to God to give him the strength he’d need to hold on until the ambulance got there. It was the last time I would ever ask God for anything.
The man lands on a rooftop while still dangling the thug over the edge. He tells him to stay out of the neighborhood… And give him his wallet. Reluctantly, the man hands it over.
 That moment, Jaurez is on the rooftop and demands he let go of that man. Is she sure she wants him to do that from way up here? he asks. Oh God, he’s one of them! Jaurez exclaims. People talk ‘bout how there’s a Guardian looking out for these streets…. But turns out all he is a-- The young man suggests she put down the gun and he put down the guy. He’s under arrest! she states. Wrong call, he remarks and the tops of his sharp wings hit her.
At his funeral the pastor called us cops “the angels of Chicago.”
 I almost laughed. My father was a good man, but he wasn’t any angel. Everybody wonders why I didn’t quit after a day like that. To be honest, it’s because of a day like that that I’d never quit. This city will always need looking after, all cities do. But not by any “angels. It’s on us to look out for ourselves.
In the meantime, Joe Morgan has called an ambulance and suggests the girl be listed as Jane Doe. His colleagues ask if he’s sure. Everyone knows she’s the mayor’s--
He hears a gunshot and worries about his partner. He and his colleagues run up the stairs to find her bruised but okay. She whispers to Joe she knows what the Guardian is. He sighs, he can’t wait to see how they write this up.
He returns home to his pregnant wife, Lynn, who is watching the news about the girl that was saved, the mayor’s daughter. From outside and above the young Guardian watches them. He lands on the fire escape, climbs into an empty room and takes off his jacket. He can eavesdrop on his brother and sister-in-law talking about the “Guardian.”
I agreed to be legal guardian for my kid brother. Our mom took off after he was born. For a guy who prides himself on thinking things through, maybe I hadn’t thought this one all the way.
Lynn states he’s a hero. He saved the mayor’s daughter. That’s not how things work, he replies. This guy is either incredibly lucky or just plain stupid. This is the kind of thing that makes cops look bad. If they can’t handle the job… every badge in the city is going to be gunning for him!
If our dad were alive, my brother never would have dropped out of high school. And now this, the baby… the apartment is small enough as it is.
The boy concentrates and is clearly in pain as his wings retract into his back.
I don’t have the heart to ask him to leave…
Lynn and Joe hear a moan. They rush into his brother’s room and find Derek lying on the floor. What happened? Joe demands. He must have fallen out of bed, Derek replies. Joe points out he’s soaked to the bone. Where has he been? Got his share of the rent, Derek replies and holds out a bundle of notes. No job, out all night…. How did he get it? Joe wants to know. He got it, okay? Derek snaps back, no big deal! When is he going to do something with his life? Joe demands. When is he going to stop pretending he’s dad? the boy shouts back. Joe steps out. Lynn offers to dry Derek’s clothes.
…and I’m not sure I have the strength to put up with him if he stays… I didn’t tell Lynn what was really worrying me. With the baby coming she had enough on her mind. Truth is Jaurez got up close to that “guardian”. He was a mutant. Mutants have to turn themselves in or they will be shot on sight.
In the meantime, a train heads to Chicago. On it is Jean Grey, still disguised as Karen Grant, who is reading the article about the Guardian. Sleeping, his head resting on her shoulder, is Jimmy Hudson. When he wakes up, he automatically peeks at her décolleté. Jean telepathically orders him to get up in a not too friendly way. What the hell is wrong with her ? he demands. Coldly she informs him she is not his girlfriend. She is not even his friend. When he looks at her she is just someone he works with on a very dangerous job and that’s it.
 He’s a sixteen year old guy, he whispers. If she doesn’t like what’s going on in his head, which he wasn’t ever going to do anything about, stay out of his head! Why did she even agree to do this with him anyway?
 Because she knows now she can’t run forever, she whispers back. They’re going to find them, SHIELD. The FBI. The Brotherhood. Enough of them have already been hurt
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A week after the incident with the mayor’s daughter word came down from the tops. The use of deadly force had been approved in the apprehension of the “winged vigilante”.
In the apartment, Derk helps Lynn with the laundry, telling her she shouldn’t be carrying heavy stuff like that. Lynn admits that sometimes he is the sweetest young man… and other times he’s that jerk who is always fighting with her husband, he finishes. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t like cops. Lynn tells him she knows he’s going to think she’s taking Joe’s side, but Derek dropped out of school and still hasn’t got a job. He sleeps all day and is out all night and somehow like magic he has the rent. She’s totally taken his side, he tells her. What if she has? Lynn demands, Joe’s a good man. He never said he wasn’t Derek admits.
 Lynn points out when she put his things in the dryer she looked at his coat. The seams in the back… they’re all open. He must have caught on something, ripped it, Derek claims. Lynn states the stitching is gone, removed. Back in highschool before she started dating his brother… They used to cut open the seam in the jacket. So when they went shoplifting they’d slip whatever they took down in between the lining. Even if they got caught, the store would look in their pockets and come up empty.
Smiling Derek tries to picture Lynn stealing. They were young and stupid, she points out. Brother or not, he lives with a cop. If he has a secret it’s only a matter of time before Joe finds out the truth. He’ll do his own laundry from now on, he announces and walks away.
They didn’t want the guy caught. Big expensive trial where he could be played up as a hero. They wanted him dead. And I was pretty sure they didn’t even know he was a mutant… yet. We stationed sharpshooter on the tops of the buildings around the city. And waited.
Suddenly, Joe is swept away into the air by the Guardian The cops dare not shoot for fear of hitting Joe. Derek reveals himself to his brother, explaining he just wants to talk. Joe never listens to him at home and he didn’t know what else to do. This is why he dropped out of school. The wings, when they grow, hurt so much… He’s trying to help people, be more like him and dad…
I think about the baby. Lynn, my life. I can’t let Derek…
Joe aims his gun at Derek and orders him to take them down. They’ll do it his way and everything will be all right. He’s gonna arrest him?! Derek asks, incredulous. It’s the law! Joe shouts. &%$& the law! Derek shouts back and they grapple for the gun which goes off.
From below, Jean and Jimmy see them both fall. Jean orders him to go. Can’t she catch him with that thing she does? Jimmy asks Telekinetically, she corrects him. Only if she warned the dozen or so SWAT guys to see it. She’ll guide him where to meet up. Derek and Joe land in the water. Now fetch! Jimmy jumps. He dives in and gets the bleeding Derek.
Joe, in the meantime, is saved by a police boat and dragged aboard. Jean addresses him telepathically, searching for some answers.
After I hit the water… a lot of what happened was just a blur….
Derek wakes up after Jean and Jimmy have treated his arm. Jimmy explains he got shot, she sewed him up. He suggests he listen to Karen. They are mutants like him. Jean sternly announces they haven’t got much time. Derek’s brother knows who he is now. She can fix it… so he doesn’t, but that should be Derek’s call.
His brother won’t give him up, Derek exclaims. She read his mind, Jean replies. He wants to turn Derek over to SHIELD and let them sort it out. Those wings. Through no fault of his own, they’ve determined what he is in life but he gets to choose how he wants to live it. Starting now! Either Joe forgets about Derek or Derek forgets about them…
We trolled the river for days but came up with nothing. Conventional thinking was the wings weighed him down. At least that’s what I put in my report. I got lucky surviving at all. Made me appreciate everything I have even more. Even Derek got it together. He’s in Cincinnati of all places working construction. I miss my Dad. But given how life’s turned out… maybe I do have an angel looking out for me after all.
The three stand on a rooftop opposite the Morgans’ apartment. What does Joe think happened? Derek asks. He never saw the winged man’s face, Jean explains. Two months ago, a friend from high school got Derek a job in Cincinnati. They had a good last night together before he left.
Seeing his brother and Lynn happy together, Derek figures he made the right choice. One thing still bothers him. How did they even find him? They have help, Jean reveals cryptically. When the time is right she will let them know. Where to now? Derek asks. Now… they’re going to Disneyland, Jean whimsically announces.


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Ultimate X: Origins – Chapter Four: Whatever happened to Liz Allen?
I never planned on telling Liz who her father was. I told Liz I only wanted her to be happy. But the truth? The truth is I didn’t want to have to explain myself to her.
Costa Verde High School, Orange county, California:
Liz Allen and two other stylish girls her age walk the corridors to the cafeteria. She can’t believe that Nick asked Liz to go to Cabo for Spring break, her red-headed friend exclaims. She knows, right? Liz agrees. She means who knows if she’ll even be interested in him by then? India? The other girl, Sasha, asks if she thinks he’ll take her to the One & Only. She saw it on TMZ. TMZ is so over, Liz lectures her. The vice principal orders them to get to class. It’s like uh, lunch, the red-head informs him dismissively.
Inside the cafeteria, the three girls stop, disgusted at the sight of a crowd surrounding and cheering at an obese boy, Teddy, wolfing down dozens of burgers, twenty-four by now, to be exact.
I grew up in Palmday, California, right next to “Nothing to do, California.” One night, it was maybe seventeen years ago, the circus came to town.
A sickly-looking boy in black clothes records Teddy’s performance on his cell phone. Her life literally sucks, Liz sighs dramatically. “Hi sis,” Teddy greets her and she begs him not to call her that.
That’s where I first met Frank. I was not an unattractive girl. I’d lie to think Liz gets her looks from me. And yes, Frank was enormous even back then.
Teddy burps and Liz shouts it’s no wonder nobody likes him, before storming off. They were just having fun, Teddy says almost apologetically while his friend tells him to forget her, she’s just another Costa Verde bee-yatch. He throws a burger after Liz, hitting instead vice-principal Dillard, who orders the two boys into his office.
I went back to see him night after night. On the fifth night and a couple of cocktails, I felt the earth move.
A little later, Liz tries to be excused for the rest of the day, as it’s her time of the month. That would make the third time of the month this month, the secretary points out amused. In the nearby office, Dillard criticizes Evan and Teddy for their behavior. What happened to him? he asks Teddy. When he first transferred here, it seemed like he had his head on straight. Joined the football team. He was more like his sister. Now, what kind of future does he imagine for himself?
The two boys chuckle and nudge each other. Has he seen that show “Man Versus Food?” That guy actually gets paid to eat stuff. He should totally have his own reality show, Evan tells Teddy. They could film it themselves and put it on YouTube. Dillard shouts at Teddy not to let this piece of white trash drag him down to his level. Dude, not cool, Teddy replies. Dillard suspends both of them for a week.
Nine months later, Liz was born. I thought I’d never hear from Frank. It’s not like the circus comes to town every day. If I was stupid enough to get pregnant I had to be smart enough to deal with it.
Later, at Liz Allen’s home in Costa Verde, a spacious villa with a pool and its own tennis court, where Liz and her mother are currently training. Liz informs her mother that Teddy was kicked out of school. Her mother decides to let things cool and talk to the vice principal on Monday. He seems like a reasonable man. Does she have any idea how humiliating this is for her, Liz whines. He’s her brother, her mother reminds her. He’s gross! Liz replies forcefully. She can’t even have people over because he lives here.
Teddy stands at the window of his room, eavesdropping to what the two women are discussing in the court below. Evan is at the video game console, telling him it’s his turn. Teddy just looks hurt.
But much to my surprise, Frank called out of the blue. He took the news really well. Wanted to be involved. Frank even offered to take Liz off my hands entirely. Which I would have considered if it hadn’t been for Magneto.
In the court, Ms Allen tells Liz she is no better or worse than Teddy is. And they both have the same father. Like she has to remind her! Liz scoffs. The Blob? How drunk was she? Her mother slaps her. Liz doesn’t seem to mind while she drives off in her BMW every morning, she snaps. After all that happened, he provided for them, she reminds her daughter. As long as Teddy was part of the deal. In a small voice, Liz agrees, but she hates him.
Evan calls out Teddy. They get what they deserve, he tells him.
We were living in New York by then. Just me and little Lizzy. When out of the dark came a man white hair, piercing eyes and a cape. He told me the truth about Frank and what it meant about Liz. “Mutant.” It wasn’t the first time I‘d heard the word, but the way he said it, he made me feel small. He convinced me that it was better for Liz not to know. We agreed that her father could visit her as her Uncle Frank. Then we waited years to see if she was one of them.
A motel outside Disneyland, Anaheim, California:
Derek Morgan and Jimmy Hudson are waiting inside the motel room until Karen Grant aka Jean Grey returns with groceries. Angrily, Jean berates Jimmy for opening the door. He knew it was her, he defends himself. That’s not the point, she shoots back.
Derek intervenes. They are all just going a little stir crazy, living out of Greyhound buses and Super 8 motels. The X-Men had jets and a mansion! They were rock stars. They are not the X-Men, Jean replies forcefully. The X-Men are dead! All of them…
Jimmy changes the subject by suggesting they sneak into the park. It’s late. Catch a couple of rides on Space Mountain. Jean tells them they are not her to go on rides or be rockstars. One mistake, just one, that’s all it takes. And they are either taken in or shot down!
Whatever it is they are waiting for, Derek asks. Any idea how much longer? Soon, Jean promises.
Imagine looking out your front door one night and seeing your only daughter frightened and all alone. Crying her eyes out. Without her clothes. On fire…
One week later at school:
A footballer, Nick, is flirting with Liz in the cafeteria when Evan and Teddy come in. Teddy asks if they can bum a ride home with her. Liz rolls her eyes and Nick calls him ‘tubby’ and orders him to get lost. What’s up with him, Teddy asks. They used to be friends. Then he quit the team so he could be with his new girlfriend here, Nick refers to Evan. Hey, Nick! Evan replies and reaches for his backpack to produce a gun. “You’re a realllllly funny guy!” What’s he doing? Teddy asks. Evan points the gun, at Nick and the others. Nobody’s laughing now, he states. Vice-principal Dillard orders him to give him that gun. Instead, Evan shoots him.
Her mutant powers had… activated. Things fell apart very quickly after that. Magneto showed up. Then the X-Men. And for some reason Spider-Man. They all wanted Liz to pick a side. Instead, she ran away. I was left alone without my baby girl.
Outside the school, the situation is soon reported and Jean and the gang learn about this as well.
Everything changed again after New York. That tidal wave when Frank died. I’d heard on the news what Frank did to that woman. The Wasp. Terrible. Horrible. I don’t even want to think about it. I’m not defending him… but … he’d been listening to Magneto for so long. You hear about these suicide bombers. Going into crowded markets and buses where families… children… Things you’d never believe a person would do… and yet… I’m not excusing what Frank did. It’s just the man I knew wasn’t a “mutant terrorist.” I never knew the Blob.
While still holding the students in check, Evan admires the filmed scene on a phone. Check it out, dude, he tells Teddy. They’re on TV! Teddy asks him to put down the gun and just chill. The other boy refuses. The gun makes him “the Man.” Teddy walks towards him, announcing he can’t let him hurt anybody else. Evan fires at him. The bullets bounce off Teddy’s flesh without hurting him. It tickles, he states surprised. “You’re a…” Liz begins.
He’s a mutant! They’ll kill them all! other students panic and begin to run while Evan comically protests he’s not like Teddy. He’s not one of them. He next sees the news on his iPhone where it is announced that two mutants are responsible for the shooting at Costa Verde High. He’s not a mutant! he screams. What’s wrong with being a mutant? Liz asks and flames on, revealing her Firestar form.
What’s that old expression? When one door closes another one opens. That’s when Liz turned up back home again. She knew everything had changed. Being… what she was… now it was against the law. She said it herself, she had no place else to go. I knew we had to move again. Hide, just disappear…
Liz’s friends are taken aback. Liz scoffs. They are more afraid of her and Teddy than this idiot, she refers to Evan, and they didn’t do anything! Suddenly, Evan finds himself as defender of the others as he orders them out. He’ll hold the mutants off until the cops get there. She doesn’t think so, Liz replies and begins to melt the weapon. The next moment, there is an explosion and the blaze spreads out.
The morning we had the house all placed, a registered letter arrived. Frank had lived up to his word. There was a life insurance policy that would take care of me and Lizzy forever and ever. All we had to do was find Frank’s other child, Theodore, and we could live happily ever after. Teddy had grown up in foster homes. He didn’t know anything about his mother or his father.
The police try to establish some order. Liz’s mother stares at the blaze heartbroken.
Inside, Liz tells Teddy they need to get out. That moment, Jean, Derek and Jimmy appear in front of them. “Come with us if you want to live,” Jean announces. She did not just say that, Derek mutters. Yeah, she did, Jimmy replies.
From the moment I saw Teddy, all I could see was Frank. But we took the money and moved back to California. Only this time it wasn’t Palmdale. This time we’d be in Orange County. Every day the boy seemed to get bigger. Every week the grocery bill doubled.
Liz recognizes Jean from Xavier’s school. She doesn’t want to go back there, she shouts. Not after what happened! There is no school, Jean replies. There isn’t any of that life left. They are being hunted now but they are here to keep them safe and help those like them. Liz would rather run away like before. Jimmy points out that if they could find her… Jean threatens she could make them come with them…
Suddenly, someone joins them at superspeed. That would not make her better than his father, Magneto, Quicksilver announces.
Liz couldn’t stand Teddy. He “creeped her out.” She insisted it was because he reminded her of Frank. I think it was because with Teddy in the house Liz couldn’t forget what she was.
Teddy happily announces he knows him. He’s one of the Ultimates! Quicksilver replies he was and knew Teddy’s dad too. If he’ll join him, he’ll show him how he can have a better life!
She thought he was dead, Jean states angrily. The same could be said about her, he retorts. He sees she is gathering them. They aren’t so different… They don’t have anything in common! she spits.
People always ask how I could live in California. As if we have earthquakes every day. But if they knew what I really had to be afraid of… they’d ask me how I could ever be their mother. We don’t get to pick out kids. Mostly anyway. But it is our job to raise them. To protect them. If we do our jobs right, they’ll grow up and leave us to be on their own.
Jean turns to Liz and Teddy, telling them SHIELD is here, the government. They are going to take them into custody or worse. They have to decide now. It sucks, Jimmy announces, but it’ll be okay. Liz smiles and powers down, then walks over to them, announcing that she’ll go, but she doesn’t want to be a hero.
Teddy stays behind and takes Quicksilver’s hand. He isn’t coming with them? Liz asks. Who is she kidding? he asks. Up until an hour ago, she thought he was gross. She wasn’t any different from Nick or any of them. Evan might have been wrong… but he was kind right. Wait! she asks half-heartedly but Quicksilver takes them both away as Liz looks after them.
I’m Liz Allen’s mother. I accepted the responsibility of bringing her into this world. I didn’t know who or what her father was but, even when I did, I stuck it out. Despite the life we shared and love I have for her, I’ll probably never get to see my daughter again…


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Ultimate X: Origins – Chapter Five: What is Ultimate X?
“The Path of the righteous man and defender is beset on all sides by the iniquity of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.” I’ve always liked that quote and not for the reason most people think. Most people think that it’s from the Bible, Ezekiel 25:17. They’re sure of it.
Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Jimmy Hudson is trying to score some beer but the vendor isn’t fooled and demands some ID. When Jimmy can’t produce it, the man tells him to get lost. Angrily, Jimmy almost unsheathes his claws but gets a hold of his temper and leaves the shop.
Outside, a man addresses him and asks if he needs someone to buy beer for him. Couldja? Jimmy asks brightly and offers money. He doesn’t want his money, Sabretooth replies and knocks him to the ground. He wants his life!
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my line of work… most people are wrong. It’s not from the Bible at all. Oh, there’s a little of 25:17 in there when you get to the end of the whole speech. But that first part? About “the righteous man?” Sonny Chiba. In a 1976 martial arts film called “Karate Chiba.” Good flick.
Sabretooth claws away at the boy. Doesn’t know much about him and his old man, Sabretooth states. Nobody wanted Wolverine dead more than him and he got to that party too late. But when he heard he had a kid, claws and all, he just had to smell it for himself.
Hope he got a good last whiff, Jimmy snarls and strikes Sabretooth’s face with his own claws, ‘cause now it’s gonna be impossible without a nose! Sabretooth instinctively drops Jimmy and holds the remains of his nose.
Why would anybody believe something that you can so easily prove isn’t true? Because the truth is hard. And if you tell a “falsehood” enough – I’m not even going to call it a lie – it can become the truth. Trust me. It’s the business I’m in.
Sabretooth states Jimmy that is nowhere near as good as he was on his worst day. But he can’t be looking in his rearview mirror waiting for him to get better. He gets ready for the killing strike, but is suddenly gone in the blink of an eye. Jimmy, heavily bleeding, falls unconscious.
Woke up one morning to find that our government made it okay to hunt mutants. Because – and here comes the “truth” – all mutants are terrorists. Forget about all the good the X-Men had done. Or the sacrifices they’d made. Remember… “…beset on all sides by the iniquity of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.”
Magneto was the straw that broke the camel’s back. “Playing God” with a reenactment of the great flood will do that. In doing so, he decimated the mutant population.
Route 22 hotel, New Jersey. Jean Grey aka Karen Grant and her group have gathered Jimmy. Karen bandages him and tells him he is not going to die on her watch. A panicked Liz Allen asks why he doesn’t heal. Karen admits she doesn’t know why. Derek Morgan suggests they go after Sabretooth. Get to him before he gets to them! Liz panics she doesn’t want to die like that.
Enough! Karen orders telepathically. Liz is thinking about running, Karen states. She can see it in her head. Then get out of her head, Liz retorts. She is giving her the creeps! Karen explains they have to stay strong and together. It’s how they stay safe. How are they safe when this can happen? Derek shouts. Karen reminds him that Jimmy broke curfew. He went out alone. This is what happens.
They go after Sabretooth, that puts them in Pietro’s crosshairs. He’s got Mystique on his side as well. They aren’t ready for that. So they just get a pass? Derek asks. She didn’t say that. But they are going to need a lot more than his wings and Liz’s fire. A lot more.
There’s maybe a couple of handfuls of mutants left. Maybe. All I knew was… they were going to need help.
Wearing a hooded jacket, Karen goes to the city shelter. Telepathically she addresses one of the soup kitchen volunteers. “You’re a hard man to find, Dr. Banner.” He replies in thoughts that he doesn’t want to be found. She knows the feeling. Jean, isn’t it? he asks. “Karen,” she corrects him. Jean is in the past. Some of them don’t have the luxury of burying the past, Banner points out. Is that why the world’s leading authority on gamma radiation now spends his life hiding in a homeless shelter in the shadow of the Triskelion? She takes her tray to a table and eats.
Banner replies that sometimes he is almost grateful for how hated and feared mutants are. Maybe someday everyone’ll forget about the Hulk. Karen offers something better. A chance for the Hulk to be seen as a hero. Banner points out that he can’t control the Hulk. She’ll handle that, Karen promises. Why him? Mutants have always looked after mutant business. How can he be sure he is not a mutant? she asks. Think about their origin and tell her she’s wrong.
How did she find him? Karen promises she’ll give him everything he needs to know if he does something for her first.
Magneto’s self-righteous path hinged on the belief that mutants were the next rung up on the evolutionary ladder. “Homo-superior.” One small problem. There was no such thing. We made our own monsters. I was there.
Torch’s Bar, Brooklyn, New York. Sabretooth sits there downing shots. Someone behind him announces he is in his seat. Snarling, Sabretooth turns around, announcing he picked the wrong guy on the wrong night. Tell him about it, the Hulk replies with a grin.
In an effort to duplicate the Super-Soldier program, whose sole gift was Captain America, we manipulated mankind’s genetic code. That’s how mutants came to be.
The Hulk hits Sabretooth so hard he flies through the wall. Hulk. Smash. He leers.
Mutants weren’t born. They were built in a lab by some very smart men creating a legacy that rivaled the boys who came up with the atomic bomb.
Continuing the beating, the Hulks remarks that it’s different when you’re on the receiving end. When you’re the little guy. He threatens to mess Sabretooth up so bad it won’t matter what healing factor he has. He continues the beating. More? he asks Karen. More, she agrees telepathically. “My kinda girl,” he grins. He then gets ready to bring down both fists as hard as he can and tells Sabretooth to remember he brought this on himself.
Before his fists connect, Sabretooth has disappeared at superspeed, but this time Quicksilver is stopped by a telekinetic forcefield. There’s no running away, Karen, flanked by Derek and Liz, tells him. It’s not going to be as easy this time. No it’s not, Quicksilver agrees. His people, a heavily armed Mystique and Teddy as the new Blob, are there as well.
Charles Xavier saw the hope mutants could inspire… Magneto saw the fear. They’re both dead now. Some say “victims of,” others say “martyrs to” their own beliefs. But their children live on.
Derek urges they finish this now. Karen warns Pietro he is not going to win this. Pietro tells her to tell her people to stay down and he’ll do the same. Mystique announces she has the kill shot, referring to the Hulk. She’s got squat! the Hulk boasts.
Karen wonders why Pietro would leave himself vulnerable to her without Magneto’s helmet. Because he knew it would come to this, he smiles. He wanted her to see how vulnerable they are.
Derek claims he’s lying, they went after Jimmy. Mystique assures him that, if they wanted them dead, they’d be. Not gonna happen, the Hulk boasts.
Liz asks Teddy why he is dressed like that, referring to his military fatigues. He suggests she come to him and find out. He’s the hero now! Is that what he’s told them? Karen asks Quicksilver. That the Brotherhood are the good guys now? There are no more good guys, Pietro retorts. Can’t she see that? They fought that war and lost. There are so few mutants left, they shouldn’t be fighting each other. Tell that to Jimmy Hudson! Karen shoots back. Pietro agrees that what Sabretooth did was unsanctioned and unwarranted. And if Victor had a jaw left, Pietro would have him apologize. Jimmy isn’t dead. Karen has her “eye for an eye.”
Karen’s eyes flare with energy as she threatens if they come at her again or anyone under her protection, she will kill every last one of them. The Brotherhood takes up Sabretooth. Now which one of them sounds like his father? Quicksilver asks mildly.
Is she just going to let them go? Derek protests. Why? Because tonight, this one time, Pietro was right, she admits.
The war that began with a lie is very real… as if the truth never mattered.
Back in the motel, Jimmy regains consciousness and asks what he missed. It stopped raining, the Hulk informs him. Jimmy panics. Karen informs him the Hulk is with them. Derek shrugs. Right, the Hulk is with them, Jimmy repeats, incredulous. The Hulk adds that they made a deal. He plays enforcer for Karen’s kids and she tells him everything. Starting with how they found him. They have help, she replies. From who? Derek presses. No more secrets! She was supposed to meet him now anyway, she agrees.
So we each have our role to play. Even me, Nick Fury.
Nick Fury enters the motel. Not sure how he feels about the “no more secrets” thing. He’s out! the Hulk announces. SHIELD will be onto them. This isn’t about SHIELD! Fury explains. He took this on his own because it’s the right thing to do. And from what Jean – Karen – has told him, that’s what all of them are here for. He is not happy about being the former director of the nation’s top security force. Or what this government’s policy on mutants is at the moment. So, if they want to leave or have a big boo-hoo fest because he’s involved, go ahead, but remember: They are here tonight and most likely alive because he’s been part of the solution and not part of the problem!
He’s right, Karen admits, smiling. She may not like the guy but he does tend to be right.
Oddly enough, it was Wolverine who came up with the whole idea. If the world was going to come to an end – and it did for him – he wanted there to be a plan “B”.
They are not a team, Karen announces. There is no school, no uniforms. There will be no X-Men. They will train and learn in the field. As long as the mutant registration act is enforced, anyone with a gift is in jeopardy. Some won’t want to join them. Some will need to be rescued. And some don’t even now they need their help yet. The world is now a very complicated place. Fortunately, they have help. Fury gets them the intel that will keep them one step ahead of the government. But they don’t work for him. They make their own rules, which means, if they get caught, they’re on their own!
Maybe it was because he knew he had a son out there. When you got a kid you tend to care about tomorrow.
Karen continues that they won’t limit themselves to mutants. If Captain America needs their help, they’ll be there. They can go where others can’t. Where others won’t. They don’t have borders. They’ll change identities as needed. They are here to fight for anyone who can’t. A righteous force!
Isn’t that what they called the X-Men, when they first showed up? “The Tomorrow People?”
The world may not know them or even want them, Karen continues, but they are here to make up for the past and bring about a better future.
Wundagore, halfway around the world.
Pietro informs Sabretooth that he got lucky. With what they have to accomplish, they need all the luck they can get, and he won’t have it wasted on any more of this foolishness! Does he need to remind him how clear their mission is? The US government has declared war on mutants. They are seeking a “cure” – a way to take their gifts away from them! This has to be stopped!
What about the Hulk? Sabretooth demands. Or even “Karen?” The Brotherhood might be right, but they got the power! “So do we”, Pietro replies with a smile and holds his hand out to a woman in red who joins him. His sister, the Scarlet Witch, has returned to them. Soon, very soon, she promises, the world will learn what they can do is unstoppable…
Now let’s see what tomorrow brings…


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The Tomorrow People - part 1
Sentinels attack Los Angeles searching and killing all the persons with mutant genes. This action of the government happens after Magneto, a man that can control the magnetic field of the Earth, and his Brotherhood of Mutants explode a bomb in Capitol Hill and goes to television to say that they, the Homo Superior, will decimate the human kind and replace it. Meanwhile, in San Diego, a man with huge feet and hands is watching TV in a bar when another customer starts picking on him. He tries not to get in a fight, but he has no choice than defend himself and knock the other guy out. But he is the one to get a shotgun pointed to his head, just because he is a mutant. When he leaves a girl makes him an offer that he can't refuse.
 In Athens, Texas, the same girl enters a police squad and, using her powers, makes the deputy think that she's a Federal Agent and makes him take her to Ororo Munroe, a car thief that, after being caught by the sheriff, started a lightning storm. She quickly gets her out of there.
Finally, on New York dockside a Russian mafian gets nailed while exchanging a nuke and has to reveal his ability to turn his body into organic steel. While Piotr Rasputin is waiting for the Sentinels to get him, he is invited by the girl to join the X-Men.
In Salem Center, a reformed school, the group gets together and they are introduced to Scott Summers, also known as Cyclops. Scott asks the other classmates for their nicknames and Ororo introduces herself as Storm, Piotr as Colossus, Henry McCoy as Beast and Jean Grey as Marvel Girl. They go to meet the Professor and are surprised to see that he can talk thru their minds.  When Colossus asks how Professor X found him, he introduces Cerebro, a device he and he former friend, Magneto, created to amplify the Professor powers and lets him find humans with the mutants gene. He uses it again and finds the location of a boy, Bobby Drake that ran away from home scared that his parents might get hurt when the Sentinels discovered that he's a mutant. He sends his X-Men to Times Square to find the kid. But when Beast discovers him, Sentinels attack them. Beast rescues Bobby before any harm is done but
they have to fight the Sentinels. While Cyclops gives orders and Beast runs thru the buildings with Bobby, Storm creates a lightning storm and hits 3 sentinels, impressing Cyclops, but she faints. Beast destroys two more using their guns against themselves and Colossus destroys what was left of a half destroyed Sentinel, but he is hit by the only one standing. Cyclops distracts him and he's grabbed, but easily dispatches the Sentinel. While
Marvel Girl stops Cyclops fall, the Sentinel is about to some watchers, but Bobby saves the day by freezing it, earning the nickname Iceman from Beast. Surprisingly, the persons they saved start hitting them and they have to run for it.
In the Savage Land, Magneto sees the TV report about the group of mutants that saved the humans and says that his old friend Charles is behind it. Quicksilver, Magneto's son says that the armdealers arrived and Magneto goes to them. We discover here that the nuke Colossus was exchanging was bought by Magneto, but when they lost the nuke, Magneto uses his power to remove the peacemaker the man has thru his chest and making him an example to
everyone. Finally, he decides to assassinate Charles, and says that the best person to do this is Wolverine...


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The Tomorrow People - part 2 : The Enemy Within
As Wolverine arrives at JFK International, his contact with the Brotherhood of Mutants East Coast Cell tells him that he can count on them, as Wolverine replies that he doesn't need them for the task. The kid tells him that it will be dificult to kill a guy that can read your thoughts as they are being spied at by some militaries. As Wolverine senses them, they shoot at both him and the boy. When they stop, the boy is dead and "Wolverine's down".Near the Statue of Liberty, at three hundred miles an hour, Jean Grey and
Henry McCoy are testing their new arsenal, the Blackbird. As Marvel Girl flies it, Beast is outside checking  the cloaking device. Marvel Girl and Beast start talking about her relationship with Scott Summers, she states that he has been trying to get the courage to ask her out to a movie for a year and a half. When Beast says he's amazed that the "guy that can lobotomize a sentinel single-handedly fumbles his lines in the presence of a skinny little seventeen-year-old redhead", she replies that, without having to read Beast's mind, she can tell he's in love with Storm and jealous of Colossus because of their relationship.Professor X calls his X-Men by telepathy and tells them he has an assignment for them. He wants them to go rescue a mutant he recently found being taken by military convoy to Canada. As Cyclops asks who the mutant is, Prof. X says that, because of all the memory implants, he can't determinate the person, but he thinks it is Wolverine. Jean and Scott freak out as Storm and the others don't know who he is. Cyclops explains he's the most dangerous killer in the world, and that the only proof he exists is a blurred image from the Gulf War. He was a member of a black ops unit that used mutants from which he escaped eighteen months ago. Professor X asks Iceman if he
wants to go on the mission, being with them for just some weeks but Iceman replies that the X-Men were there for him, so he will be there for Wolverine. They depart.
We see Wolverine's convoy in Syracuse, near New York, where Wolverine wakes up to see a old friend of his, Colonel John Wraith, leader of the Weapon X Program. As they talk, Wraith mentions his mind being erased again. Then, the X-Men arrive and a battle begins. Storm blows most of the convoy away, as Cyclops, Marvel Girl and Iceman fight the remaining soldiers and Beast and Colossus go get Wolverine out of the truck. Colossus tries to bend the adamantium bars, but he can't, so Beast starts to decypher the code. When he opens it, Wolverine goes after Wraith, who has escaped, and the group follows him. When they get to him, Jean has to stop Wolverine from killing Wraith by telekinetically moving him out of the way.
Meanwhile, in the Savage Land, Magneto says that he's the one that tipped Wraith off about Wolverine's presence, because it would be too obvious if Wolverine was to ring Xaviers' doorbell, so he made them rescue the man that's going to kill their mentor. He says that with Xavier aside, they can concentrate on more important tasks, as we see a holographic image of the White House.


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The Tomorrow People - part 3 : Warzone
While the Sentinels search New York for mutants, Ororo, Piotr and Bobby are taking a break and talking about the School and their new comrades. Piotr says that he's starting to like the school. He talks about Scott who is a bit intense sometimes, but "he's surprisingly funny once he drops all barriers" and "who couldn't like a telepath that fires dirty jokes to your head when Prof. X is being serious". At last, Ororo talks about Wolverine, who none of them have got to know yet, because of the way he looks at them. Colossus remarks that it's problably his Black Ops training and that if something was fishy about him, Prof. X would be the first to know about it.
Surprisingly, when we turn the page, we see Marvel Girl calling all the X-Men, as Wolverine is murdering Cyclops. He uses Cyclops optic blasts to shoot Jean, and they he breaks Cyke's neck. Beast tries to "persuade" Wolverine to stop, but he is killed too. As the other X-Men appear, Wolverine rips through them. Professor X makes a sarcastic remark and Wolverine looks to him. The scene fades and we see Logan, Jean, Scott, Prof. Xavier and Henry in the new Danger Room, where Wolverine was training. Prof. X remarks that he is surprised that Wolverine stayed with them so long and Cyclops asks why is that. Wolverine, remembering his conversation with Magneto, simply replies "The scenery, bub, the scenery" while looking to Jean.
Iceman enters the room and asks them if any of them as seen the news. It looks like the daughter of the President was kidnapped and that Magneto is responsible. In a television broadcast, he says that if any other mutant is killed by a sentinel, the girl will also be.The team is happy that the Sentinel Program is stopped, but they don't think that this is the best way to do it, so they decide to go rescue her, Wolverine decides to tag along.
In Croatia, the X-Men prepare themselves to rescue the girl. In a house, the Brotherhood is waiting for their transport to the Savage Land to arrive. The foundations of the house start to rumble with a little help of Colossus. Beast enters the house, grabs the girl and leaves using one of Iceman's ice slides directly to a car driven by Cyclops. As they drive away, Quicksilver uses his hyperspeed to remove the car keys and stop them. Cyclops blasts him away and tries to out run him, Wolverine appears and, after a little talk, slashes him.
Toad uses his jump to stop Cyclops and Storm, but while he is trying to do the same to Iceman he is frozen. Storm finishes him with her "trusty old size eights". Iceman realizes the girl is gone, and while Cyclops starts to get preocupied, Wolverine tells him that he has the girl. While escaping Scarlet Witch's hex bolts, he and Marvel Girl telepatically prepare the escape route, which is Wolverine jumping a cliff and Marvel Girl getting him airborne and into the Blackbird. They succeed, even though the car Wolverine used landed upside-down in the Blackbird's hangar. In that time, Colossus sees Magneto arrive and Cyclops gives the order to leave the place before anyone gets hurt. Storm says that it is too late and that Beast is dead...


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The Tomorrow People - part 4 : Betrayal
Cyclops, startled by the news that Storm told him last issue, asks her for the confirmation. As Storm replies, Cyclops is hit by a shot from a Croatian sniper. Iceman freakes out, but, as Cyclops himself says, "Why do you thing God created Kevlar?", he unleashes one of his optic blasts to destroy the enemy truck. Colossus tries to help Storm and Beast, while Cyke and Iceman try to reach them. unnexpected help arrives in the form of a train that falls above the Croatians as Magneto and his school help secure Beast's body and the rest of the X-Team.
Scarlet Witch asks his father why didn't Wolverine use this opportunity to kill the professor. Magneto replies that if Wolverine is "Holding off on a kill just means there's a woman he's trying to get into bed first".
At the Institute, Jean Grey and Prof. X are trying to rescue Beast by performing a new type of surgery that's still being tested by a Seattle bio-tech team in animals. Cyclops tells them that he tried to phone Hank's mom to tell her what happened and she didn't even take the call.
In the end of the surgery, Wolverine talks with Jean about Hank's condition, Scott's reaction and her feelings for him. Eventually, they kiss as Cyke sees thru the window. He gets his stuff packed and goes to Prof. X to tell him that he decided to leave the school. After some talk, both vocal and telephatically, Scott storms out the mansion and goes to the Savage Land, where he is greeted by Magneto.


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The Tomorrow People - part 5 : Killing Fields
In Britain, the Big Ben, Parliament and MI6 explode from the bombs the Brotherhood has planted. While the local police tries to save the inocent, Cyclops, in command of the Blackbird reprehends Quicksilver for giving a warning of fifteen minutes and setting the timers for only three. We see the Brotherhood unfold themselves from Mastermind's great disguises. Cyclops replies that this was a bloodless operation as Wanda tries to persuade Scott to leave Pietro alone. They leave quickly back to the Savage Land.
In Washington D.C., Logan is sitting in a hotel (and by the looks of it, an expensive one) bed waiting for Jean to contact Cyke, because she thinks that she has something to do with his early departure. When she is unnable to do so, she joins him under the sheets.
At the White House, Prof. X, Beast, Colossus, Storm and Iceman are in a meeting with the presindent to make a peace conference for humans and mutants. The presindent says that while the sentinels will be disabled, they still have a last mission. The secret services discovered the whereabouts of the Savage Land by the landing of the Blackbird. The NATO chiefs of staff have already decided to go with the attack. Prof. X asks the presindent if he realizes that provoking Magneto like this threatens the life of every man, woman and child of this estire planet and the presindent just answers "that's a chance we just have to take".
Sentinels sprout from the ground and go to the Savage Land, where Cyke is talking with Magneto about the mission and the last one replies that Pietro thinks that, by killing people, his father will like him more, but that it's just the contrary. He lectures Scott about the genocides that his family was exposed to, and that they (the mutants) have to take the world from those ways and rectify that. Scott says that he'll never going to kill for Magneto, that replies that he would not ask such a thing. They talk about the recital that Scarlet Witch will read that night, and the use of the Epsilon-Omega language that Magneto is trying to teach to every mutant. An unusual request comes from Magneto: he wants Cyclops to address him as father if Quicksilver is around.
Quicksilver is with Scarlet Witch talking about the way his father treats him, when he sees the Sentinels arrival and their attack on the Savage Land mutants. As he, Cyclops and the others try to rescue the others, Magneto gets mad and flies above the ground, where he commands all Sentinels to kill anyone without mutant genes. He says that he's going to kill a hundred thousand humans per each mutant dead by this attack. When Cyke tells him, that he thought Magneto wanted to teach the human race, not exterminate it, Magneto replies "Humanity isn't going to die tonight, Cyclops. Just America." He speeds away with all the Sentinels behind him, as Cyclops predicts the end of all. Pietro tries to calm him, but Cyclops tells him to drop dead and, holding him X-Men comm-link, says "Professor X, This is Cyclops. We've got a situation here, sir".


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The Tomorrow People - part 6 : Invasion
As Magneto flies to Washington DC with his contigent of Sentinels, Logan tells Jean his real purpose to enter the X-Men. He explains her that he came to kill Xavier, but fell for his big idea. By the looks of it (Jean is commanding a candlestick telekinetically to shove it up his...) she didn't buy the idea, but his mentally disturbed by Prof. X's warning to all Washington about the incoming Sentinels. He says that he and his X-Men will try to do everything they can to protect them.
At the Savage Land, Cyclops is leaving but Wanda and Pietro warn him that he can't stop Magneto. Quicksilver says that he isn't fast enough, and Cyke replies that he isn't, but Quicksliver is. He tells him to stand up against his father.
At Washington, the Sentinels attack, Jean Grey is commanding the operations, while helping Bobby and Ororo deal with the Sentinels. Hank and Piotr are on crowd control. As Colossus is fighting a Sentinel, Marvel Girl psy-bolts another and Ororo summons a ball-lightning, Wolverine appears in scene to help Xavier.  In front of the White House, Magneto warns the
world that "the creature regarded as the most powerful man alive just licked my boots clean" and that they have to obey him, or become mutant food-stuffs. He then sends a car towards the president, but the car splits apart before hiting him. Prof. X arrives at the scene and a furious Magneto shoves him off his wheelchair.
Meanwhile, Beast his rescuing a kid while being attacked by Sentinels, until Iceman freezes them. Magneto gets a load of guns that the security officers have and points them to Xavier. He asks if Prof. X has any last words, but the reply is "I have my suspicions that you've just uttered yours" as Wolverine stabs him in his back. Magneto asks him what is he doing, and Wolverine tells him that Xavier showed him the best option for the Humans-Mutants conflict. Magneto throws him a tube thru his back and activates every nuclear missile on the world. Quicksilver arrives at the scene and goes toward his father to try and stop him. When he removes his father thought-proof helmet, Charles enters his mind and makes him a super magnet, attracting all the metal pieces and body parts of the Sentinels and surrounding him with them. Finally, the ball of metal explodes in with a brilliant light.
Back at the institute, Cyclops is back again, Wolverine is leaving to handle some unfinished
business elsewhere ("Don't look so disappointed, Mr. Summers"), and he and Professor Charles go to the mansion garden to have a little drink. Xavier tells him that PHASE ONE of his master plan went well, but "PHASE TWO promises to be a lot more interesting".


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Return to Weapon X - part 1
Alarm lights go off and security guards, search hounds and guards on snowmobiles run out of the facility. It's obvious they're looking for something. An unknown mutant with three fingers on each hand, three toes on each foot and a pointy tail is running away. One of the guards with a snowmobile spots the mutant and starts shooting at him but misses. Then, the mutant suddenly jumps right into the guard's face and pushes him of his snowmobile, stealing it from him. The mutant picks up the Guard's gun and shoots at the other guards, killing them. At the facility, Dr. Cornelius and his crew are watching. The Dr. commands that Kurt must be brought back alive, even though he has killed three of their colleagues. He also commands only to shoot to wound, not to kill. Dr. Cornelius can't believe this is the same German boy who was wetting his bed only a few months ago. Kurt is riding on the stolen snowmobile and heads toward a cliff! He jumps off the cliff, and he uses his teleportation ability, disappearing. The guards believe he committed suicide and climb down the cliff, to find Kurt's body. Once on the ground, Kurt reappears from his teleport, still riding at full speed. A helicopter arrives with Colonel Wraith in it. Wraith angrily reminds his men that "Nightcrawler" is a teleporter. Cornelius orders Wraith not to shoot, but he does and hits Kurt in his shoulder, who falls off his snowmobile. Wraith lands the helicopter and congratulates Kurt for escaping. He tells him that he is the very first mutant since Wolverine to have got this far outside. He also noticed that when Kurt teleports, it takes a lot out of him, so probably wouldn't have got any farther. Kurt stares sadly at the night sky and sees a plane. Wraith says not to even think about trying to teleport to the plane, because he would shoot it down, with no thought for the passengers. Wraith kicks Kurt and orders his men to burn the soles of his feet and torture the girl in the next cell who sings for him every night. Wraith smiles, lights up a congratulatory cigar, and his shoulder patch is brought into view. It says "S.H.I.E.L.D."
New York, Arizona. Wolverine looks over the former headquarters of Weapon X which has been fully destroyed. He's talking to Professor X telepathically. Xavier can't believe this is the 3rd address that has been shut down, in the 6 weeks since they have started their search. Xavier believes that the President has kept his word and shut Weapon X down by himself but Logan thinks differently, most of NATO's bases would still be available to Wraith's program. Xavier shudders as he thinks of the program that is the antithesis of his whole dream, and empathises with Wolverine. Logan then gets a memory flash, one where he lies on a surgery table and doctors put something in his stomach. Logan says that this is the only memory he has got left.
Back at the Institute, Jean is giving Beast a check-up. Hank wonders why Xavier left his name on the sign outside the school, but Jean says that thanks to the Professor's powers, outsiders see a chapterhouse of Jehovah's Witnesses. They discuss there absent team-mates. Iceman is visiting his parents, Colossus, Cyclops and Storm, are in Japan being interviewed on a talk show as part of Xavier's media plan, and Wolverine, whom Jean says she doesn't ever want to see after Xavier helps his out with his Weapon X problems.
Meanwhile in Tokyo, Cyclops, Storm and Colossus are the guest in a live talk show. Colossus is talking with the host and explains why humanity shouldn't discriminate against mutants, and that the X-Men are in Japan to prove that not all mutants are pure evil. When they leave the show, Storm teases Peter that he can speak English very well, since he's only been in America for '10 minutes'.
Peter explains that he was smuggled into America when he was 9. Once outside the studio, the group is surprised to see half of Japan waiting for their autographs. Colossus signs autographs , and a girl takes of a glove and touches Colossus' armoured skin. Cyclops' can't handle it anymore and summons up the Blackbird plane, who beams the team up. Storm notices that Colossus's skin looks a bit dulled and asks if everything is OK. Peter believes he is fine, and maybe is more jet-lagged then he thought he was.
Back at Finland, we see the Weapon X agent, Rogue passing new info to Colonel Wraith. By touching Colossus' skin, she has now learned everything about the X-Men and the location of their school. Wraith orders Rogue to come back to their headquarters. Rogue asks to Wraith if they are pleased enough to not break her arms and legs when she returns, but Wraith tells her that it depends on how bored they get. Wraith is happy that Weapon X will be able to increase their members and get some payback aswell ...


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Return to Weapon X - part 2: First Strike
Wolverine and Cyclops pay a visit to the New York chapter of the Russian Mafia. Seeing Wolverine with his extended claws outside, one of the mobsters draws his gun and tells the others to call Boris. At that moment, Cyclops destroys the door with his optic blast and the mobsters run.
In another room, Boris is busying himself with a female companion. Both are rather surprised when Wolverine kicks in the door and throws one of Boris? men inside. Boris draws a gun from under his pillow, aims at Wolverine and announces that Peter Rasputin belongs to him. It was the Russian Mafia who saved him from a Siberian firing squad, after all, not the X-Men. If Peter won't come back, his family will be killed. Unimpressed, Wolverine lights a cigar and before the Russian can fire he slices through his gun, telling him that now they'll renegotiate the terms of Peter's contract.
A little later, driving home again, Scott muses that Xavier won't be too happy about them using their powers to threaten ordinary people. Wolverine couldn't care less. Colossus had a problem he was too frightened to even talk about and now said-problem is going to send his mother a weekly fruit basket. The way he sees it, they were just looking after their own.
Is that why Logan's moving on tonight, Cyclops asks. Tired of playing by Xavier's rules? It has more to do with the X-Men sleeping with knives under their pillows as long as he is around Logan replies. Xavier is the most decent guy he ever met and his school is about the first thing he's actually believed in. But he doesn't want to cause them any more trouble, so he'll go looking for Weapon X on his own. If he needs help, he should call, Cyclops insists. They have to look after their own, after all.
In upstate New York, citizens are treated to a rare sight - a young girl flying high in the air. Storm's using her winds to stay aloft, before crash-landing in the lake, witnessed by Henry McCoy who shakes his head at this display. Ororo's on a high; this is better than riding a Harley Fatboy, she announces. He has to try it with her! Hank passes - at least until she's perfected her landing technique. Handing her his jacket, he asks whether they weren't actually supposed to study algebra? Who cares, Ororo answers. Can't they just make out instead? Hank admits he still doesn't quite believe that. What does a gorgeous girl want with a fat guy like him? In the past, girls used to play pranks on him. Ororo tells him to chill and stop putting her on a pedestal. She's only human and being with him is the most fun she's ever had without getting herself arrested. They kiss.
Later, at Xavier's school, the Drakes bring back Iceman after a short vacation. Xavier telepathically informs Jean that there's a problem. Apparently, in order to impress a girl at his mother's birthday party, Bobby spilled the beans on the X-Men. Xavier considers erasing that conversation from both their minds but is worried about the ethical implications. What's her opinion on the matter? Bobby knew what he was doing, she replies. She doesn't like it either but there are too many people who hate them for their address to become public knowledge. Xavier agrees and erases the conversation from Bobby's (and presumably the girl's) mind, regretting that it is impossible for Bobby to have a normal life. Jean inquires if Xavier is still "on-mind" and asks whether she was being unreasonable when she called Wolverine a "boorish lowlife" and hoped he'd burn in a thousand hells.
In the Gym, Colossus is bench pressing in his armored form, watched by Iceman who wishes that he were more like Wolverine. You don't see the professor making him take exams! Well, Colossus replies, you can't really see him filling out job applications either, can you? At least the professor thinks that they can be reintegrated into society. Neither of them is aware that helicopters are closing in on the mansion grounds.
Bobby enthuses about how cool it is that Wolverine can come and go without anybody seeing him. What else do people get taught in black-ops, he wonders. The recklessness of bugging five hundred pound Russians, when they are bench pressing? Colossus suggests. Anyway, how did things go with his old girlfriend? What girlfriend, Bobby wonders.
Soldiers silently exit the choppers via ropes. One of them gives the order to kill the lights and aim for the kitchen. They have to take down the psychics first. Jean and Xavier wonder what is happening as the lights go out in the kitchen. Cyclops sees the red laser dot markings on them and shouts for them to hit the floor. Too late, as they are hit. The entire mansion is under fire.
Outside, the order is given to release the Juggernaut. There are explosions all over the mansion and Juggernaut quickly takes out Colossus. Another explosion hits Storm and Beast. Sabretooth enters the living room to find that Storm still has some fight in her. Quickly he hits her over the head with a stick. Beast angrily attacks, shouting for him to get away from her. Sabretooth takes him out by hitting him with his elbow right in the face.
Colonel Wraith watches from outside. A soldier tells him that the boys are having the time of their lives but the kid with the optic blasts is being a real pain in the backside, as he's still defending himself from the kitchen. Intelligence figured Cyclops would go down last, Wraith replies. He's protective about the others, but they'll soon kick that out of him. Nightcrawler teleports in behind Cyclops, snatches away his visor and hits the momentarily disoriented X-Man with a frying pan.
Wraith radios Sabretooth and asks whether he has found Wolverine yet. Negative, the mutant replies. Wolverine hasn't been in the building for ninety minutes at least; his scent is cold. Sabretooth interrupts Wraith's rant. Something weird is going on inside the hall, as if the environment were being manipulated. Suddenly, he and the soldiers are freezing. Iceman walks down the stairway, telling Wraith to back off or he'll freeze everyone's eyeballs.
Wraith radios Rogue, who touches the unconscious Jean. Having absorbed her telepathy she then enters Bobby's mind and makes him relive the appendix operation he had last years minus the anaesthetic. While the soldiers take out the boy who's in agony, Wrath is angry that Wolverine got away. He wanted to pay him back for the scar he gave him. Sabretooth chimes in, swearing they'll get him. Of course they will, Wraith agrees, or Sabretooth can spend another six months as crash-test dummy for NASA.
As the solders drag the unconscious Xavier out, Wraith notices that some joker painted an eight onto the side of his head. Shaking his head at their crude sense of humor, Wraith lifts the unconscious form of Xavier up and tells him he just wishes Xavier could see how all his hopes and dreams are going up in smoke. There's a war going on and the X-Men have just joined the competition.


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Return to Weapon X - part 3: No Safe Haven
Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD, is being lowered down from the SHIELD orbital HQ to Delhi.
Incongruously, appearing as though he were floating and impeccably dressed, Fury asks SHIELD via their radio contact whether they know of any good Indian restaurants around here. Agent Crowley, somewhat taken aback, suggests two restaurants that both take American Express. Nick pops a special wad of chewing gum into his mouth and tells the agents to book him dinner for one, if it is on company account – make that dinner for two, just in case he bumps into any American-friendly Hindu girls.
Having landed in the middle of Delhi, Nick compliments the tech-division on theses Para-shoes he used to glide down but could they use Caporicci or Gucci next time, please? Wearing Armani on a shoot-to-kill mission is just asking for bad karma. He inquires whether the button-camera is working while he enters a temple like building. He is greeted by a cross-legged Yogi, who welcomes him to Birla Temple and asks him why he came coming. Is he in search of inner peace? No, Nick replies and puts on his sunglasses. Actually he’s come in search of an illegal genetics operation in violation of the Superhuman Test-Ban Treaty.
Suddenly Nick finds himself surrounded by heavily armed temple acolytes who mock him as an “unarmed man”. Reaching for his sunglasses, he replies that “unarmed” is a relative term these days. His sunglasses glow with a blinding light and a moment later everyone except for him is quite dead.
Nick asks SHIELD for the necessary telemetry: what have they found? They answer that, according to PSI-division, the missing mutant DNA is a mile beneath him. He can activate the door mechanism by pulling Ganesha’s trunk. As he does so, a huge trapdoor opens revealing stairs. Nick grabs two guns and races downstairs, noticing how advanced theses tunnels are. This faction isn’t just experimenting on mutant embryos, they seem to be military and on the verge of superhuman status.
Noticing someone coming around the corner, he asks SHIELD to feed him fifteen seconds of intangiblity He phases into the wall while SHIELD tells him that due to budget cuts they can only grant him nine seconds. Nick exits on the other side of the wall and ends up in a nest of armed soldiers who open fire on him. Nick shouts ”invisible,” while SHIELD reminds him that the budget allows him only three seconds of invisibility. Three seconds prove all he needs to finish them.
The only man left standing, Nick asks SHIELD to identify the corpses – at least four of Interpol’s most wanted and two fundamentalists from last year’s airplane hijack, it turns out. Incidentally, control reminds him, he hasn’t forgotten that his strawberry boom gum is programmed to activate after two hundred chews, right? Nick spits the gum a t the security door and it explodes. Gazing at what lies behind it, Nick exclaims “oh my god” and orders a dozen heavily-armed agents down. They’ve got to torch this dump. Nick breaks off mid-sentence as SHIELD loses contact.
At the Weapon X HQ in Finland, SHIELD Commander General Ross discusses Fury’s fate with Colonel Wraith. All they know is that Fury must have been neutralized and in the subsequent 24 hours the entire faculty was moved one step closer to the Kashmir border and they’ll sell every secret in Fury’s brain. Not exactly SHIELD’s finest hour, Wraith gloats. No, Ross admits, that’s why he’s talking with him. They want Fury back, the mission completed and the man behind this Indian genome thing on SHIELD’s payroll by midnight.
Well, ordinarily he’d moan and bitch about their lack of manpower Wraith replies but they’ve just gotten some talented new recruits and he shows Ross the X-Men undergoing training and endurance tests. Ross is horrified. Do they want to risk their secret operations by kidnapping mutants who are on a first name basis with the president? That only goes for Xavier, Wraith points out and him they already shot. Too dangerous with his psychic powers … and anyway, what were they supposed to do? Create a SHIELD response unit from a 14-year old teleporter, a human Juggernaut, a Marilyn Manson fan with a killing touch and a poor man’s Wolverine? This comment that doesn’t go down well with the present Sabretooth.
Even under present arrangements, that wouldn’t be enough, Wraith stresses, if not for Dr. Cornelius little surgical makeovers. Ross wants to know what Cornelius is just doing on the operating table. Modifying the Beast, Wraith explains, to maximize his strength and agility… nothing too gruesome. Wraith stresses that with all the political correctness on Capitol Hill people seem to forget why Weapon X was founded in the first place – to fight fire with fire.
Ross admits that this will at least mean they have Wolverine – their best agent - back, right? Wraith is caught red-handed. Embarrassed, he has to admit that Wolverine is the only one they didn’t catch. Ross leaves in a huff and tells Wraith to free Fury. He misses intelligent conversation.
In the meantime, the X-Men and the other Weapon X prisoners find themselves in a row of clinical cells, seemingly open to the hallway, except for an energy barrier. Juggernaut and Rogue who are sharing one cell remark loudly that they ought to complain to Wraith for making them look at those turncoats all day. Colossus starts arguing with them: how dare they call the X-Men turncoats, when it was them who helped capture the X-Men? Rogue and Juggernaut shoot back that if it hadn’t be for the X-Men stopping Magneto, they could all be sipping milk and honey in Magneto’s promised land now.
Storm tells the to get a grip on reality - that madman was about to eliminate an entire species, remember? Only so he could replace it with something better, Juggernaut replies. If only they knew about the blueprints he’d put together or the ten mutant commandments tattooed on his back. Cyclops knows what he’s talking about, right? Magneto’s Savage Land utopia must have been more fun than rotting here for the rest of his life. That won’t happen, Cyclops replies cockily. Discounting the fact that he’s already worked up three potential escape plans, he reminds them that Professor X struck a deal with the Oval Office. Juggernaut calls him naïve. These black-op units are budgeted way above presidential clearance so the president doesn’t have a clue about this operation.
Jean tells Scott not to let them bait him, as she concentrates on their sleeping cellmate Nightcrawler, a kid younger than any of them, who only speaks German. Jean bypasses the language problem by conducting a pre-verbal thought-exchange. Nightcrawler is astonished: all of a sudden he and Jean find themselves in an idyllic Bavarian landscape. The happiest memory of his she found, Jean explains and, incidentally, he shouldn’t worry about picturing her in her underwear. The others do it all the time. Kurt is ecstatic. All that time in that horrible place and nobody ever tried to communicate with him. Well, he can talk with her as often as he likes now, Jean comforts him, but first she’d like to fill him in on the escape plan she and Scott have been concocting.
Scott tells her to be quiet in the real world; someone’s coming. Sabretooth walks ahead, followed by two guards dragging in Beast, who, after Cornelius’ work on him, is now completely covered in blue fur and is more bestial-looking than ever. The guards toss him in Storm’s cell and Juggernaut tells the others they must be really proud now of saving the human race. Idiots.
Later, several helicopters are on their way to India. In one of them are Sabretooth, Beast, who’s still horribly embarrassed by his new look, Iceman and Colossus, as well as several heavily guarded arms. Sabretooth debriefs them: Fury is being transported to Nepal where his secrets are to be sold. It’s their mission to intercept the kidnappers and bring Fury back alive. Just in case anybody considers escaping, they have all been fitted with bug-sized neural implants. Since they are all such heroes, should they try anything, the teammate they are closest to will buy it. Colossus intercepts: Where are the rest of their teammates? Finishing Fury’s assignment, of course, Sabretooth replies.
At the Weapon X HQ Dr Cornelius asks Wraith why he told Ross that Xavier is dead. He’s rather uncomfortable about lying to his employers, especially when they are expert in psychological torture and pioneering surveillance tactics. Because those reformers intend to shut Weapon X down, Wraith explains. Charles Xavier is the ace on their sleeves, he adds, while putting on the helmet of a Cerebro-like device. In the meantime, they’ll use Xavier’s equipment to track down those Brotherhood freaks, starting with their friend with the adamantium claws.
Somewhere else, where it is bitterly cold, Wolverine stands clad in some sort of leathers and furs, surrounded by snowstorm and thinks.


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Return to Weapon X - part 4: In the Heart of Darkness
(India)
Drafted against their will by the Weapon X program, one team of X-Men, consisting of Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Storm and Nightcrawler, is to infiltrate a terrorist base in India. Storm cracks a joke about the cold. Wraith orders them from the Weapon X base to have Nightcrawler circumvent security and for Storm to create some diversion while Nightcrawler teleports on in. On cue, Storm crates a heavy rainstorm, while Kurt teleports into the compound and presses the open button. The guards are surprised as the door slides open and Cyclops apologizes before he uses a low-impact optic blast to knock them out. As Wraith mocks his boy-scout ethics, Marvel Girl retorts that perhaps Cyclops doesn't take as much pleasure in hurting people as Wraith seems to do. Six months from now, she is going to find that sentiment as hilarious as he does, Wraith promises her, while Dr. Cornelius informs him that the Beta-team are an estimated three minutes from the train Nick Fury's being held prisoner in.
Inside the train, Fury's captors awake him and threaten him about what lies ahead. How does he feel knowing that soon every secret in his head will be used by his hated opposition? That he will be subjected to such intense torture that every second will seem like an hour? That pretty much sums up two of his last three marriages, Nick retorts wrily. His old acquaintances on the other side of the border will enjoy his sense of humor, the terrorist states, while he calmly sips his tea. After all, what fun is there in breaking a man already broken?
Neither of them is aware that the other X-Men team, equipped with jet-packs, is closing in on the train from above. Iceman takes out the two helicopters accompanying the train by freezing the controls and forcing them to crash-land. Colossus is ordered to land on the tracks and stop the train by himself. They don't even know if he has the kind of strength and stamina to survive this, he protests. That's a risk Wraith is prepared to take, though. However, it turns out that Colossus is quite stronger than the onrushing train as he stops it in his tracks.
Wraith radios Beast, telling him that he hopes that he adapted to those surgical enhancements Dr Cornelius gave him. Because his girlfriend is going to lose one digit for every scratch they'll find on Fury's face. While Beast deftly grabs Fury - with his feet, no less - and flies him away from the train, he threatens to kill Wraith, should he touch Storm. Wraith is unimpressed. Beast had better get it into his head that his big brain means nothing to them. One step out of line and they'll detonate his skull.
In the meantime, Cyclops and Nightcrawler of the other team notify Dr Cornelius: they have reached the nerve center of the operation and believe they are standing in front of the thing that Fury was so excited about. Through the badge, Cornelius receives the picture and tells Cyclops they were expecting this. The amorphous creature in the tank in front of them consists of 57 different varieties of mutant gene spliced together - the biggest threat to the peace process this region has ever seen. Catching it at its incubation stage should make it easier to kill the creature.
Cyclops admits he is bothered by this. He thought they were sabotaging a tech-weapon, not a living creature. The creature has 22 hearts and no recognizable brainwaves - it is no more human than Cyclops is, Wraith replies, so they had better pull the plug. Nightcrawler calls out "look out!" in German and pushes Cyclops to the ground, before he gets hit by the guards' shots. Instead, they hit the tank freeing the creature that intends to attack the two young men. Cyclops shouts at Kurt to get them out, while Kurt shouts in German for Scott to hit the detonator. While neither speaks the other's language both of them get the idea and Kurt teleports them away before they get hit by the detonation.
Outside, Cyclops complains to Wraith: how come nobody ever taught Kurt some basic English? Because they couldn't be bothered, Wraith shoots back and then contacts Jean and Storm: What's the situation with the brain behind this little operation? What did he have to say regarding their job offer? In the lab, Jean asks the Doctor and he seems to be interested in working for SHIELD. However, Wraith interjects, there has been a change of plan: The boys with the calculators decided they're not interested in the good doctor after all, so the new order is to terminate him and Jean is to do the honors. Jean refuses horrified. Wraith replies that 85 percent of new recruits say the same in her position, hence they have developed a clever little back-up initiative.
They are joined by the boys who have received a fake distress signal. Suddenly Cyclops collapses in agony. Wraith explains that Jean either kills the doctor within the next fifteen seconds or they will detonate the sub-cranial homing-device in Cyclops' head. Her best friend or a stranger who is a war criminal anyway. Scott shouts for Jean not to do it. Why is he doing this? Jean exclaims. Because there isn't much of a point having an elite army of killers if they are all operating on PG-13 morality, Wraith cheerfully explains. The doctor addresses Jean and tells her his name is Atul Pandya. He tells her about his wife and children, his character quirks and hobbies, desperately trying to make her see that he is a human being like her friend. Wraith is counting down and Jean does the only thing she can. She stammers out that she is sorry to the dead scientist on the floor while Wraith smirks that there is hope for her yet.
(Weapon X headquarters, Finland)
Back in their cell, Scott is trying to comfort the desolate Jean. In the cell opposite to theirs, Juggernaut asks Rogue to please stop spying on them hugging. This is creepier than the time he caught her kissing herself in the mirror.
In another cell, a dejected Bobby Drake announces that they are going to die here, right? Peter doesn't have to pretend to him. These people are going to keep using them until they die and then they are just going to catch another bunch of mutants and do the same thing all over again. They're going to die in the middle of nowhere and no one will know!
Colossus touches the crying boy's shoulder and reminds him of Wolverine: how he was abused and tortured and treated like an animal by Weapon X. He was happy for the first time in his life among the X-Men. And now his only friends have been kidnapped by the people he despises. So, does Bobby really think that there is even a remote possibility that Wolverine won't come for them? Iceman sounds slightly more hopeful as he asks Peter if he really thinks so? He'd bet Dollars against Rubles on it, the Russian earnestly replies.
In that case, Sabretooth, who just entered the cellblock, interjects, he'd better never hit Vegas with Colossus, because their St. Petersburg people captured Wolverine six hours ago. They found him frozen in a snowdrift with a plastic bag in his hand and hit him with enough Napalm to hold off the Viet Cong, he explains, while guards drag the unconscious, badly injured Wolverine inside. So, are they feeling stupid?
Upstairs, Wraith tells Cornelius that he is starting to enjoy their job again. Saving Fury, recapturing Wolverine, their new talent. They're on the cusp of a golden age here. Cornelius asks him if he is in some kind of psychotic denial. SHIELD's cutting their budget and reinvests in conventional military forces. According to a leak in accounting, SHIELD intends to stop the Weapon X project. Wraith scoffs: they are sitting on a collection of teenagers with the power to change the world. So why should they accept a gutless decision from some old guy with a colostomy bag? After all, he states, as he and Cornelius enter a certain lab, they have a world-class expert on changing people's minds on the company books, right, Charlie-boy?
Professor Xavier, who is strapped into and hooked to a Cerebro-like device replies, "think big, Doctor. SHIELD could be anything you want it to be."


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Return to Weapon X - part 5: Sins of the Past
(Kuwait, during Operation Desert Storm:)
A convoy of American truck is hit by Iraqi snipers shooting at them from the hills. A few soldiers return fire. One of them – Nick Fury AKA “November Foxtrot” – radios his superior – John Wraith and asks for help: they are surrounded by ten to fifteen locals five hundred miles south of Al Basran. They require immediate ground and air cover. On the other side Wraith scoffs. Ground and air cover because of some half-stared Iraqi snipers? Is he joking? Negative, Fury replies. It’s not the Iraqis that are the concern but the fact that they just shelled the Adamantium cage they were carrying Weapon X in.
At that moment, the truck Fury was using for cover is hit and explodes. The snipers close in on the inferno intent to make sure that the soldiers are dead and to see if there is anything valuable for them to pilfer. They wonder what was in the now open cage. Lifestock? Oh sure, one of the men – Omar – scoffs; these American special units have really made a name for themselves transporting cows and sheep. Suddenly, they hear the noise “snikt” and something – someone - is coming closer. The men wonder – that sounded like someone unsheathing a sword or knife, unaware that their colleagues re already dead. One of the men realizes something is wrong and tells the others to grab their rifles. As no answer is coming, he looks around. His friends are dead and a naked man with claws is standing above one of the corpses. After the naked man spits out something bloody, the Iraqi swears and does the smart thing: he runs for his life.
Wolverine sniffs – someone is still alive; it’s the heavily injured Fury, who snarls that he should have known that holding his breath wouldn’t be enough. Wolverine smelled the blood, that’s what they trained him for after all. He’s not afraid of dying, Fury states defiantly, but could Wolverine do him the favor and focus his attack below the neckline? Identifying his corpse, minus the eye, is going to be hard enough for his mother.
At the camp, Wraith is desperately radioing another division: do they have any sign of Weapon X or November Foxtrot? Negative, the reply comes. Fury’s entire division is strewn about the area along with fourteen dead Iraqis but neither Weapon X nor November Foxtrot are anywhere in the vicinity. It’s been seventeen hours. They probably have no chance of either recapturing the mutie or seeing November Foxtrot alive, the soldier states. Well. Losing a highly decorated officer is tragic, Wraith spits out, but misplacing a unique killing machine is a career breaker. So they are to resume their search. All their hides are on the line right now.
Another solider enters the tent, shouting that they’ve found Wolverine. The men step out and cannot believe the sight in front of them. Wolverine is walking towards them, carrying the injured Fury on his back. Wraith orders everybody back and not to look Wolverine in the eye. That thing has been programmed to kill any human it sees, he shouts and shoots Wolverine. The others put Fury who is actually still conscious on a stretcher, while Wraith orders that someone should put the monster back into its Adamantium cage.
(New York City, last night)
Nick Fury is back in his luxurious Manhattan penthouse. Ordering his computer to fix a drink, he checks his phone messages. After the sixty-plus messages from telesales, religious organizations and girls he promised to call back are erased, three messages are left. In the first message, the caller states, “Nick, it’s me. Listen carefully. I don’t have much time here…”
(Weapon X HQ, Finland)
It’s the middle of night, while her cellmates are asleep, Jean addresses Wolverine, who is in the cell next to hers and apologizes. After six weeks in this horrible place, she finally understands why he hated people as much as he did. The fact that he could still embrace the Professor’s dream, after years of being tortured in this place, not to mention that came back to try and save them, shows that he has more hope and strength of character than anyone she’s met and she’s sorry for giving him such a hard time. She just wanted to tell him that before they are brainwashed or killed. Sorry. Well, she shouldn’t be, Wolverine smirks, because everything’s going exactly to plan.
(Upstairs)
Wraith radios General Ross, head of SHIELD, interrupting a strategy session of his with several other high-ranking SHIELD members. Is the rumor that SHIELD intends to phase out the Weapon X program within the next two years true, Wraith wants to know. Ross is angry. They are in the middle of an international situation here. Wraith doesn’t give up though and reminds Ross that he has two hundred and fifty people with mortgages and families here. He’d like a straight answer.
All right, Ross gives in, Weapon X will be phased out in that timeframe. During this period, every mutant under Wraith’s command will be rehoused, retrained and compensated for their time in captivity. All employees will have the option of voluntary redundancy or a guaranteed job within the organization. So nobody’s getting shortchanged. Except for the public, Wraith points out. More mutants are popping up every day and not all of these creatures are particularly fond of humans. Granted, the Sentinel-initiative may have been a stupid, knee-jerk idea but isn’t SHIELD in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater here? Close down Weapon X and who is going to save the world the next time some lunatic with the wrong genes decides to play football with the president’s head? Spider-man?
Provision have been made, Ross curtly replies. Is he referring to the Super Soldier program, Wraith demands. Those freaks haven’t had a result since 1942. Ross is starting to lose patience and coolly repeats that provisions have been made. What about the Brotherhood, Wraith, who’s clearly on a roll, demands. Does Ross really think SHIELD is ready for them when the resurface? Well, he doubts it.
Ross interrupts him. He sees a mess of cables and part of a helmet behind Wraith and asks what that “thing” behind him is. That’s hardly a nice way to describe a gentleman with a serious disability, Wraith sneers. As Ross fiddles with the controls to get a better picture on the screen, Wraith introduces the man strapped to the device behind him. Professor Charles Xavier – and that Cerebro helmet enhances his powers up to one thousand times…
Ross orders his people to evacuate the building. He needn’t bother, Wraith sneers. The windows and doors are already sealed. They have covered every conceivable base. What is he hoping to accomplish, Ross shouts. Oh, Seizing control of SHIELD, taking a tough line against mutants again and making sure the world is safe for his two little daughters back home. It’s humans against mutants and he didn’t spend billons of years evolving so some idiot like the general could come along and screw everything up. With those words something in the room detonates.
(the Netherlands:)
Sabretooth has arranged for the chained Wolverine to be transported here, somewhere into the lonely snowy woods. The soldiers are preparing what looks like a barbecue. Sabretooth shows Wolverine what they intend to burn: the classified SHIELD file including all information on Wolverine –all the things Logan no longer remembers. From his first day of school up until when they dragged him to Weapon X, Sabretooth claims and strikes a match. There’s even a picture of his father in there, he sneers and lights the file.
Wolverine breaks free and angrily runs towards Sabretooth but the soldiers shoot him in the back and he falls. Sabretooth states that he hates Wolverine. Hated him ever since he waltzed in there with powers like his and fooled everyone into thinking he was the top dog. The only laughs he remembers were when he offed Wolverine’s wife and his ugly little kid, he confides. That’s a lie, Wolverine exclaims. Perhaps, but that’s something he’ll never know Sabretooth sneers. Nevertheless, unexpectedly Wolverine grins.
At the HQ Dr. Cornelius notifies Wraith. He has found something irregular in the scans from the medical they gave Wolverine when they thawed him out. The x-ray shows an abnormality in his large intestine. Wraith takes a good look at it and identifies it as a tracking device.
In the woods, Sabretooth has had enough of Wolverine’s snickering. Either he tells him what’s so funny or he’ll detonate the implant in his skull. He’s just thinking about what his old cronies in the Brotherhood of Mutants are going to do to Sabretooth, Wolverine replies.
At the Weapon X HQ, suddenly, the power is cut, meaning that the cells are open. The mutants leave their cells walking towards the soldiers. One soldier who is clearly frightened out of his wits threatens that he’ll detonate their neural implants if they take another step.
“Not when they aren’t in their heads anymore,” a voice announces from behind them
The soldiers turn around to see the Brotherhood of Mutants standing behind them, with the Scarlet Witch holding the implants in her hand. “Abracadabra.”