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Good Cop / Bad Cop Part: One
A detective by the name of Lester Brown stands inside an apartment room. Brown is drinking from a flask of alcohol, as he surveys the destruction around him and the blood-soaked floor. Walking out of the room, he stumbles over to a nearby door and knocks. A man opens the door, as Lester calls out that he is NYPD and that the occupants should open up.
The man inside the room tells Lester that he didn’t see nothing then slams the door shut. Lester curses and walks down the hall, commenting in a loud voice that everyone there is either too stupid or too scared to talk to him. Just then, Lester sees a young boy named Juwan and he proceeds to question him. Before Lester can make it to the boy, the child races down some nearby steps, dropping his groceries as he runs. Lester calls out that he is NYPD and the boy should stop. Pursuing the child down the steps, Lester accidentally trips over his own feet and collides with the child. Juwan cries out that Lester hurt his leg, as the two of them lay sprawled out at the bottom of the stairs.
Suddenly a feminine voice his heard up the stairs, commenting on how Lester did not just do what he did! Lester pulls out his badge and tells her that he is with the NYPD. The woman named Tawanda tells Lester to shut up and asks Juwan if he is okay. He tells her that he is okay and Lester interrupts, saying that he would like to speak to her son. Tawanda reels back towards Lester and tells him that he is fourteen and he does not need to talk to him about anything. Lester tells Tawanda that he needs to speak to her son about the shooting that occurred here. Pointing a finger towards his face, she tells him that there are a number of shootings in this area, but her son has nothing to do with any of them. Lester asks Tawanda why her son ran, then? Screaming at Lester, she tells him that he is the “po-leece” and that is why he was scared.
Lester points to his badge and tells her that he is an Internal Affairs detective and he is investigating the shooting of a man named Elijah Snow by a narcotics officer. Tawanda asks if he is talking about “No-Show” and Lester confirms her question. She asks him why he wants to know, so he can screw over his friends or his people? Lester tells her that he is trying to do his job. Tawanda tells her son to come with him and the two of them head up the stairs. Lester hands her his card and she asks if it has his badge number on it. He tells her that it is on there. She tells him that No-Show got what he deserved. Lester tells her that her idea is not the way the system should work. Tawanda finishes their conversation by telling asking him where is the system doesn’t work that way?
Lester gets into his car, just as his cell phone begins to go off. He answers that call and it is his chief, calling to try and figure out where Lester is. He tells him that he is canvassing the scene of the Snow case a second time and found some interesting leads. Continuing on after he hears his chief’s reply, Lester asks why they have closed the Snow case, even though he didn’t finish his inestigatio…He’s not able to finish as his chief apparently interrupts. Straightening his rear view mirror, Lester tells his chief that he understands and then hangs up the phone. Getting out of the car, Lester states that a man named Mclawry will not get away with his actions this time. Lester walks into a store named Bernie’s Liquor and comes out with a brown bag, containing a container of alcohol.
Later the next day, a police officer taps on the window of Lester’s car and tells him to get up and move, because he is parked in a space that has been sectioned off just for police vehicles. Lester flashes his badge and tells the officer that he is a police officer too. The police officer walks off, complaining that he is really just a friggin’ drunk. On the steps of the police station, Tawanda is seen walking into the base, unnoticed by Lester.
Inside the police station, Tawanda hassles the desk clerk about yesterday’s police brutality of her son at the hands of Detective Lester Brown. She tells him that he brutalized her son and she demands to talk to someone. Just then, Lester walks in and she focuses her rage on him. She tells him that her son’s knee is swollen up and she has no time to take her kid to the hospital. Lester begs her to lower her voice and let the two of them discuss her complaints somewhere else. The detectives nearby watch, as Lester is blasted by Tawanda, but one lone officer with red hair grins at the event, as he puts on his jacket.
Tawanda tells Lester that he wants to get her alone so he can intimidate her with his badge and gun, just like he tried to with her son. He tells her that she is wrong and begs her to listen as she storms out of the precinct, complaining that he is as crooked as the officer he is after. Lester places his fingers to his forehead, as if he has a headache. Just then, a male gentleman calls out his name and demands that Lester go to the office, now! Two officers by the name of Murphy and McLawry talk about how Mclawry’s shadow may have finally gone over the deep end. McLawry tells Murphy that he is not worried, because he knows he has done nothing wrong. He tells Murphy that he is headed out to eat something and pick up his dry cleaning so he might be awhile. Picking up a file, Murphy looks towards the departing McLawry and questions, “Dry Cleaning?”
Inside his office, the chief berates Lester for causing such a scene to happen in his station. He tells Lester that he knows he was probably drinking when the accident occurred in Snow’s complex, so he cannot say the woman was not lying. He tells Lester that Scott McLawry’s case is over and he will be found innocent. He tells Lester not to go near Tawanda or her son ever again or he is through working with the NYPD I.A. Division. Lester gets up to leave the room and his chief asks him if he hates all police officers like he hates himself.
Walking by the desks crowded with Detectives, Lester tells Murphy to tell his partner, McLawry, that he wants to talk to him. Murphy tells Lester that he can ask him himself, when he gets back from getting his dry cleaning. Murphy finishes by saying how odd it is to find a dry cleaner open on a Sunday. Lester’s eyes widen, in hatred, as he realizes what Murphy is hinting at.
Rushing to Tawanda’s apartment room, he finds it in shambles. Sinking to the ground, he says that he is too late. Racing outside, he questions the friends that are hanging out together. Placing his hands on one of the members, he asks if there was a big cop with red hair leaving here moments earlier. The punk tells Lester to let him go and a big, black kid punches Lester in the side, while another punk tells the big kid named Lo-lo to get him. From behind the kids, a shadowy figure asks the kids if that is all they have. Another punk pulls a pistol from his holster and asks if the stranger wants some of that too? Smiling, Logan tells them that it is exactly what he wants.
Lester wakes up in his car, blood soaked, as he drives away from the shadowy figure of Logan, with Lester commenting that he blew it.
Later that night, Lester sits in a bar, drinking, as a server brings him another glass. She tells him that it is from the gentleman at the bar, because he said it looked like he could use another. Looking towards the bar, Lester sees McLawry sitting and smiling back at him. Lester walks up to the bar and tells McLawry that he is not through with him yet. McLawry tells Lester that everyone knows he shot Snow in the back out of self-defense. Lester tells him that he is not talking about Snow; he is talking about the boy he had killed earlier named Juwan Barnes. McLawry stands to his feet, towering above Lester. He tells begins to comment back, but Lester does not let him. Lester asks him if he killed Tawanda too? Lester tells McLawry that he is going to stop him one day and he will prove that he cannot hide being a murderer by his badge.
McLawry grabs Lester by the collar and whispers to him that he will need luck in trying. He releases Lester and screams at him to leave him alone, because Lester seems inebriated. Lester leaves and McLawry takes his seat once more. A voice is heard from behind McLawry that asks him if he is going to drink Lester’s unfinished drink? McLawry tells Logan that he does not drink bourbon. Logan picks the cup up and tells McLawry that it is good, because it leaves more for him.


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Good Cop / Bad Cop. Part Two
Inside the Chief of Police’s office, a female investigator tells Detective Lester Brown that Tawanda Barnes, the woman who came in there yesterday and publicly threatened to bring him up on charges never showed up for work last night. A co-worker went to her apartment; saw that the door had been kicked in and that there were signs of a struggle. Neither she, nor her son Juwan, were home – they seem to have disappeared.
She then asks him if he can tell them where he was last night. With a busted, swollen eye, Lester informs them that he was at Sullivan’s. The female investigator inquires if he was drinking. Lester admitted that he was, but just one. A male investigator asks what happened after. Lester tells him that he went home and passed out. The female investigator asks that he passed out after one drink? Did anybody see him at home? Lester replies that he buzzed his neighbor to let him in, he had lost his keys. The female investigator says because he was drunk.
The male investigator asks if anybody saw him at Sullivan’s. With his head lowered, Lester tells them McLawry. The male investigator asks Detective “McLawry?” He then asks the Chief of Police if he is the same one that they are investigating for the Elijah Snow shooting. The Chief tells him he was, they cleared it this morning, it was a good shoot. The female investigator remarks that she is glad to hear it and then asks Lester what happened to his face. Lester informs her that he got jumped by some gangbangers. She tells him that they didn’t see a report on that.
When Lester doesn’t reply, the investigators start to leave and tell him that they’ll be right back. As they leave, the Chief informs Lester that he is suspended pending investigation and that he’ll need his gun and badge. As Lester tells him that he doesn’t have his gun, the investigators stop in their tracks.
The male investigator proceeds to ask Lester where it is. When Lester tells him he doesn’t know, the investigator asks him if he lost it like he lost his keys. Enraged, Lester yells at him that if he’s gonna charge him, then just do it. The male investigator asks charge him with what? The only thing they know for sure is that he went to their apartment last night after the episode in the station house. Which, he has to admit, looks kinda bad.
Lester yells that McLawry knew about Juwan and his mom, he overheard what she said when she came in. He went to their apartment to warn them that they may be in danger. The female investigator asks that he thought they might be in danger… from McLawry? She asks why McLawry would be out to get them for pressing charges against him? Lester tells her that Juwan Barnes was a potential witness against McLawry in the Snow shooting. The female investigator replies that his boss just said the shooting was good, if he had a witness who was saying otherwise…
Lester tells her that’s why McLawry killed the boy and his mom so they’d never get a chance to say otherwise. He killed them to cover his tracks, he knows it! The male investigator asks so they’re dead, he knows that for sure? Then does he mind telling them where the bodies are? Picking his head up out of his hands, Lester tells them that he doesn’t know. The male investigator informs him that’s too bad.
As the two investigators leave for the second time, they tell him that they’ll be in touch and that he knows the drill. In the meantime, how about finding that gun for them? As the investigators walk through the police station and Lester exits the Chief’s office, McLawry stands there with a smug look on his face. His buddy, Detective Murphy comes up to him and says that he just heard that I.A. cleared him of the shooting. He then points over to Lester and asks him if he can believe it. Grabbing his coat, McLawry invites Murphy along for a drink, he feels like celebrating.
At Martinez’s bar, McLawry tells Murphy to tell the bartender to get them another round, he needs to hit the can. While he is washing his face and hands at the sink, a man standing at the urinal asks him how it feels. Turning around, McLawry asks how does what feel? The man says to him gettin’ away with it. McLawry remarks nice try and asks the man what piece-of-crap rag he writes for. The man, Logan in disguise, asks him that he doesn’t remember him? He brought him a drink last night. It was about an hour or so after he shot the kid, about four hours after he shot his mom, about eight days after he shot their neighbor through the belly and watched him bleed out on the floor.
Enraged, McLawry grabs Logan by the jacket collar and asks him what he know about it. Logan informs him that he knows everything. Just then, Murphy enters the restroom and tells McLawry that the bar is outta Jager. Pushing him past him, Logan exits the restroom. When he does, Murphy asks McLawry what that was about. Exiting the restroom, McLawry tells him nobody and that he has to go. Once he leaves, Murphy remarks yeah, right and asks if he has more “laundry” to do.
Outside the bar, Logan stretches and sniffs the air and flashes a half-smile. Stopping at the entrance-way to an alley, Logan asks if he should bother puttin’ his hands up. The answer comes from a heavy object smashing Logan across the back of his head. Dragging him through the alleyway, McLawry ties Logan up and puts him the trunk of his car. After a long drive into the deep woods away from civilization, McLawry stops the car. Opening up the trunk, McLawry says to him that it’s time for some answers.
Putting Logan on the ground, McLawry starts to fish around in the trunk. Logan asks if he brought him out there just to talk. Brandishing a shovel, McLawry asks him what he thinks. Logan tells him that he thinks he’s a coward and a murderer. Cracking him across the face with the shovel, McLawry asks that he’s a coward? Every day, he’s out there on the street, puttin’ his butt on the line. If it wasn’t for cops like him, no one could live in this city. An’ if he’s gotta kill a few drug-dealing scumbags like “No-Show” Snow along the way, then that’s just the way it’s gotta be.
Bloodied, Logan tells him nice speech and asks him if that’s the same one he gave to Juwan Barnes before he killed him. Walking back over to the car, McLawry states yeah, he killed that kid, him and his mom, both. Then he buried them out there, where no one would find them. It was the hardest thing he ever had to do but it had to be done. Logan tells him to not bother lyin’ to him. He doesn’t know why he killed Snow an’ he don’t care but he knows it wasn’t self-defense. The place reeked of the kinda fear you only get when you beg for your life. The boy, Juwan, he knew what he did, that’s why he killed him. And then he killed his mother just to pad the job. He can play it noble all he wants but he’s nothin’ but a murderous scumbag who’s too scared to own up to it.
Walking over to Logan, carrying a pistol, McLawry tells him how about that, he guess he does know everything after all. He then tells him congratulations and shoots him point-blank in the temple. As he drives away, Logan escapes from his shallow grave thanks to the use of his adamantium claws and tells him “congratulations” back at him.
At Sullivan’s bar, the waitress asks Lester Brown if he wants a Bourbon on the rocks, same as usual? Lester looks up at her and tells her no, he doesn’t drink, not anymore. After a while of sitting by himself, the waitress comes back around and hands him a Bourbon on the rocks. Drinking his coffee, Lester tells her that he didn’t order it. The waitress informs him that the guy at the bar sent it over. He said that he looked like he needed it. Looking over at the bar, Lester doesn’t see anybody. The waitress states that he must’ve left. Walking over to the bar, Lester sees a package that contains his gun and a map. Ecstatic, Lester rushes out of the bar. As he does, he remarks that he got him this time, McLawry.
When Logan exits the restroom, the waitress tells him that he cleans up real nice, to which Logan thanks her. She then tells him that she thought he left. That guy he bought the drink for took off; guess he didn’t want it. Drinking it down, Logan tells her good, more for him.


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(1st story) Wolverine Goes to Hell: Part 1
(2nd story) Scorched Earth: Chapter One / Last Stand of the Silver Samurai
(1st story)
Three weeks ago, at the First Kestrel Baptist church, John Wraith tells Logan there are two kinds of hell. There’s the one down there with the Devil and the fire and all that mess. And there’s one up here, the one they make for themselves. Now he may not know much about the first one, and hopes not to learn any time soon, but he knows plenty about the second. He tells Logan that he reckons he does too. Logan tells him that hell’s always come easy. But then he’s had plenty of eager teachers along the way. Same as Wraith.
Wraith replies that they’ve both been used and abused their fair share, that’s true. But at the end of the day, they ain’t victims. It wasn’t no government scientist who made them into weapons. They was already cocked and loaded, just waiting for somebody to come along and pull the trigger. If it hadn’t been Weapon X, they woulda found somebody else. They’re killers. That’s what they’ll always be. A bad man can’t change who he is, not deep down. He can’t ever shake that darkness, not truly. But can he choose how to carry it, can’t he? Look how far they’ve come. Look at all the good he’s done. But there’s still that darkness always creeping back in, ain’t there? He knows who can help with that.
Logan asks when does it get easier, that’s all he wants to know. Wraith tells him it don’t. It never gets easier. It’ll only get harder the longer he goes. Devil don’t want men like them to change. He liked them just the way they were. The harder you try to change, to walk right, the more he’ll test ya, the more trials he’ll put in your path. He then tells Logan that his road ain’t never gonna be a safe one. He ain’t never gonna win out over tragedy and sin, no matter how long he lives. But the trying, that’s what matters most. That’s what makes men into something greater than themselves – hero, samurai, whatever you wanna call it. Look what it made him. His old ways took everything from him. Damn near took his life, back when their old friend Sabretooth decided to strangle him and leave him for dead. But for reasons known only to him, the good Lord saw fit to save him. He was a Wraith in more than just name. Now here he is, on solid rock at last.
Just then, two older women walk by the church, wave to Pastor Wraith, and tell him it was a lovely sermon last week. Wraith thanks them and asks them to save some of those muscadines for him. When the women leave, Logan remarks “Pastor Wraith.” Gotta say he never saw that one coming. Wraith quips kinda like Logan the Avenger then, huh? Logan states that a lotta folks in his line of work are talking about this being the dawning of a new age. With Osborn beat and the old Avengers back together, they think that everything’s right with the world again, that it’s all blue skies from here on out. He’s too old to fall for that. He’s seen the worm turn too many times. He then says that things have changed. Even he has to admit. He has a good woman now. He has a home in Utopia with the X-Men. For the first time in his life, part of him wants to have hope, wants to believe… and that scares him. He can carry the darkness, he’s gotten used to that. It’s the hope he can’t handle.
Wraith tells him that faith and hope are fragile things. And Logan’s will be tested, he promises him. He then asks him what he is really afraid of – that faith being broken or being rewarded?
Now. Pastor Wraith stands at his pulpit and begins to preach. He tells his congregation “And it shall pass in that day that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison… And after many days shall they be visited.”
As he continues to preach, Wraith notices that Logan is late. He’s been their every week for the past month. He wonders what’s… Just then, a man rushes in carrying a bloody woman. He calls out to Pastor Wraith that it… it came outta nowhere and just… just cut through their house like it was nothing. They ran but Judy… oh God. He thinks she’s dead… It was coming after them through the woods. They’ve gotta… they’ve gotta run or it’ll kill them. It’ll kill them all. Oh God… God, what was that thing? After seeing the claw marks on the woman’s arm, Wraith tells his congregation to lock the door behind him and that no one goes outside.
Making his way to the shed behind the church, Wraith opens the door to reveal an arsenal. Grabbing a rifle, Wraith thinks to himself that he always thought it’d be Sabretooth who’d come after him, or maybe Maverick (he never liked that guy), or any one of a dozen other guys. But life’s just full or surprises. Pushing a button, Wraith activates the security system and arms the perimeter defenses. Once he does, the mines begin to explode, one after another. He’s not even trying to avoid them. He wants him to know he’s coming. He always knew this day would come. He always knew someone from his past would one day come calling. He just never thought it’d be him.
Entering the woods, Wraith remarks that he’s locked and loaded with 200 thirty-aught-six armor-piercing rounds. All with depleted uranium cores and incendiary tips. But against him, he might as well be tossing dandelions. He has to lure him to the river, get him in the water, make him…
Just then, a figure rushes by him. Opening fire, Wraith gives chase. He doesn’t call out Logan’s name. He doesn’t stop to ask why. “Did you have a bad day, old friend? Why’d you finally snap?” He doesn’t give a damn right now. He just evades and fires. He just runs and prays.
At that moment, Wraith is suddenly knocked off his feet. On the ground, Wraith states that he never saw him move. He then notices his arms are pinned and there’s no one around. What the hell is going on? Seeing a man standing over him wearing a black cloak, Wraith tells him that he’s not gonna beg, if that’s what he’s waiting for. At that moment, the man in the cloak’s eyes light up and Wraith is suddenly covered by bugs and snakes. As he is, Wraith remarks “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil. For thou art with me.” When the man in the cloak leaves him, Wraith begins to scream.
Back at the church, the congregation inside hear Pastor Wraith scream. They decide that they have to get out there and help him but they find themselves unable to. The door is locked. One of them replies that it can’t be, not from the outside. The man tells them that the door won’t budge.
Outside, the man in the cloak walks up to the church and spews some sort of goo on the stairs. When he does, it immediately catches fire and starts to burn the church. As the congregation inside screams for help, Wraith appears and tackles the man in the cloak from behind. He tells him “Make it stop, you bastard, or I swear to god he’ll kill him with my bare…” Just then, the man in the cloak pops his claws and rapidly stabs Wraith in the gut four times. After he does, the man in the cloak asks Wraith if he feels that. That’s what it feels like to be abandoned by God.
Falling to the ground, Wraith asks the man in the cloak that he’s not Logan, is he. The man in the cloak asks “What are we?” They’re surprised at him. They thought he’d know them right off. Maybe he just needs a closer look. Removing the hood of his cloak, the man asks Wraith to tell them what he sees. With his dying breath, Wraith answers that he sees hell as Hellverine stands over him.
At the San Francisco Post, Melita Garner’s boss asks her what the e.t.a. is on her story. After Melita replies that she needs five minutes, her boss tells her that he needs a new reporter. One who can finish stories on time. Muttering under her breath, Melita says that they’re gonna need a new editor after her boyfriend (Logan) stabs him in the face.
Just then, the elevator opens and a guard falls of it, dead; with a blade sticking out of his head. Emerging from the elevator, Gunhawk tells his companions Saw Fist, Fire Knives, Shadow S. and Cannon Foot to spread out and find the woman. Plodding along, Cannon Foot tells them that she’s this way; he can smell her. Looking over her cubicle wall, Melita asks “what the hell?”
Firing his weapon into the air, Gunhawk tells everybody within ear shot to listen to him well if they don’t want to die today. They are not there to kill them all. Just one of them. She’ll know who she is. If she comes forward now, the rest of them will be spared. Getting into her bag, Melita knows that they’re there for her. Upon reaching Melita’s cubicle, Cannon Foot calls out to the others that he found her. Before he can get to her, Melita fires on him with a weapon she pulls out of her bag.
A few weeks ago, Logan laid out a Skrull sonic disruptor, a Kree laser baton, Shi’ar military-grade pepper spray, an interstellar cell phone he stole from S.W.O.R.D., some sort of mystical doohickey he won off Dr. Strange in poker, and vibranium brass knuckles out on the bed. Melita tells him impressive and asks who they belong to. Logan tells her they are hers as of now. He’ll teach her how to use them and she’ll carry them with her at all times, just in case. When Melita asks in case of what, Logan tells her to hope she never finds out.
As Melita runs down the hall, Shadow S. gives chase and tells her there’s nowhere to run. Her man’s not coming to save her. In fact, he’s the reason she’s gonna die. Just then, a masked individual on a motorcycle crashes into the building. After Shadow S. uses one of the spiked balls attached to her mask to damage the driver’s helmet, the driver slams her into the wall. Pointing her weapon at the motorcycle driver, Melita tells them to stay the hell away from her. Whoever she is, she’s not…
Removing their helmet, the driver tells her that if she wants to die, stay there. But if she wants to save herself and save Logan, then get onto the bike and come with her. The motorcycle driver, Mystique, adds that she’s there to help. Once Melita gets on the back of the bike, Mystique drives out of the window and speeds off down the street.
After she does, Gunhawk contacts command and informs their boss that they lost her and that she had help from Mystique. Their boss, an old man, tells Gunhawk copy that and informs him to proceed to his next target. Once the old man hangs up with Gunhawk, one of the eight people around him, a young lady, points out that Mystique has betrayed them. This puts everything in jeopardy. When the old man tells her no worries, the lady states that she could alert the others. The old man asks what they could do exactly. None of them can stop what’s already in motion.
He adds that they have all waited patiently for this moment, some of them for many, many years. No one will take it from them now. When the time is right, Mystique and the Garner woman will be dealt with, just as planned. But for now, they have all the targets they need. Looking onto his desk, the old man peruses papers with images of John Wraith, Silver Samurai, Tyger Tiger, Yukio, Amiko, Cyclops, Jubilee, X-23, Daken, Maverick/Agent Zero, Rogue, and the Sons of the Tiger (Bob Diamond, Lin Sun, and Abe Brown).
Driving down the road, Melita tells Mystique that she knows who she is, she knows all about her. Where is she taking her? Mystique tells her to relax. If she wanted her dead, she would’ve never known she was there. Melita asks who the people were back there and Mystique answers that they are people who hate her boyfriend even more than she does. After Melita asks what happened, where he is, Mystique tells her that’s not an easy question to answer. Does she mean where’s his body or where’s his soul? Melita asks what in god’s name is she talking about. Where is he? Where the hell is Logan?
In hell, the Devil tells Logan, who is being held by a bunch of demons, that he’s been doing this job for a very long time. It seems like forever most days, it really does. Truth be told, there’s not much at all that excites him anymore. He’s raped and maimed and tortured in every way anyone could ever possibly imagine. And plenty of others that no one but him could’ve ever dreamed up. He’s plumbed the depths of human suffering, so many times now that it’s become meaningless, does he understand? Even the most grotesque and depraved acts grow monotonous after a time. It’s difficult to get the same joy from them that he once did. It truly is. But with him, his newest little worm, with him he’s hoping that will all be different. With him, he plans on enjoying himself.
(2nd story)
The Clan Yashida ancestral compound – Miyago Prefecture, Japan
As the buildings behind him burn, the Silver Samurai retreats with a sword sticking in his gut. As a young man, he stood for foolish things. Greed and ambition, selfishness, hatred. He was a bastard in every sense of the world. As he grew older, he became more enlightened. He learned to embrace the family he’d never known, to be a leader. He learned to walk a more honorable path. The warriors behind him exclaim “he’s finished.” Another gives the order to burn the rest of the buildings, desecrate the graves, kill anyone they find.
Since he began to walk a honorable path, Silver Samurai has been fighting to stand for tradition, loyalty, and honor unto death. He’s been fighting to stand for something greater than himself. Now, tonight, with his world in flames all around him, he’s just trying to stand. With that, the Silver Samurai pulls the sword out of his gut, turns to face the warriors behind him and defiantly them that no one will disturb the graves of his family. Not while he yet lives.
Turning to face his foes, Silver Samurai sees a Black Samurai, of a sort he’s never seen. They came in the night, quiet as a spring rain, deadly as a tsunami. Their armor and weapons, all variants of his own. And the way they fight, as if they know his every move by heart. How long have they been watching him? They fight as a unit that has trained together for years. Whatever their plan, it has been long in the making. The Black Samurai leader calls Silver Samurai a fool. Clan Yashida is finished, the place will be ash, as will he.
Gritting his teeth, Silver Samurai asks him who sent them. The Hand? Viper? Tell him who else he should kill once he’s finished with them children. The leader informs him they are soldiers of the Red Right Hand. They seek vengeance in their name. As for who is to blame for all of this, he will see himself soon enough in the bowels of hell. The leader then gives the order to his fellow warriors to kill the dog. Tossing one of his energy sabers into the leader, killing him, Silver Samurai tells the others they heard the man. He is but a dog. Come kill him.
Engaging the rest of the warriors in battle, the Silver Samurai states that his name is Kenuichio Harada. He has been a villain, a savior, a master, and a slave. He has stolen and he has sacrificed. He has loved and he has sinned. He has bled and he has shed the blood of others. As the warriors continue to slash away at him with their swords and others pelt him with arrows, Harada fights valiantly. He remarks that he knows not what he will be in the next life. Whether an eagle or an ant, it matters not. All he knows is that death is not the end. It never is, not for anyone. His journey will continue, no matter what happens there tonight. He will carry on. Clan Yashida will carry on. The stronghold had stood for over five hundred years. Yet it was only ever wood and stone. The spirit is what made it strong – the spirit of the Yashida, the spirit of the Silver Samurai. Though all the world may crumble and hell consume the seas, that spirit will yet endure.
After killing the rest of the warriors, Harada weakly makes his way over to the grave of his sister, Mariko Yashida. As he does, he states that apparently dying feels much like living. There is pain and moments of blinding clarity. Everything happens slowly at first, and then pours through your hands like water. He will miss the smell of cherry blossoms, the feel of cold steel, the taste of well water, so cold it makes your teeth ache. Kneeling in front of Mariko’s grave, Harada tells her he will see her soon. His son. He will miss his so…


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(1st story) Wolverine Goes to Hell: Part 2
 Scorched Earth: Chapter Two: Amiko’s Story
(1st story)
In Hell… there’s no sun. No sky at all. Nothing to orient yourself by. Nothing to mark the passage of time. Logan has no idea how long he’s been there. Hours. Days. Years. He’s not sure those words even have meaning for him anymore. He still has what looks like flesh, but there’s no heart beating in his chest. No air in his lungs. The blood in his veins is cold and dead. Yet, he still feels hunger. Still thirst. Still longs for a sleep he knows will never come. He still hurts. That’s all you ever really do in this place. You hurt.
At that moment, Logan engages in battle with a number of ninjas. As he does, he mentions that they keep coming. Wave after wave of them. He also notices that his wounds aren’t healing as fast as usual. His claws are bone. No adamantium. No powers. No way out. He focuses on the pain and tries to block out everything else. The chorus of screams from all around. The cries of the damned. After defeating the final ninja, Logan hears the laughter.
Looking behind him, Logan sees the Devil, who asks him how fares his newest plaything. Does he grow weary? Has the soul-crushing gravity of his predicament sunk in yet? Is he ready to beg to be defiled in the basest manner imaginable, if it will only but ease his suffering? If so, his master will heal him now. He would also accept a heartfelt scream of agony. Either that or they may continue. He has no shortage of eager combatants for him to face. He was a busy one in life after all, wasn’t he, hairy lump of mucus. He always did his part to keep them well-stocked with souls down there, and for that he assures him he is eternally grateful. Those poor, murdered wretches he sent there though, they remain something less than grateful. Many have been waiting a very long time to demonstrate their ungratefulness to him in rather drawn-out excruciating detail.
The Devil then asks Logan what he says. Is he ready to meet more of these admirers of his, or shall they find some other use for him. Popping his bone claws, Logan tells him what does he think – keep ‘em comin’ bub. The Devil tells him he was sincerely hoping he would say that. He does so like to savor the plucky ones.
As the Devil laughs, Logan states that he’s in hell. He is in hell and the Devil is laughing at him. And everyone he ever killed is there waiting for him. Waiting to tear him apart. He doesn’t know how to process that information. He doesn’t know how to react. All he can do is what he did in life.
With that, Logan leaps towards the nearby Hydra agents and proceeds to slice their heads off. Continuing his attack against soldiers and Hellfire Club guards, Logan notices that they keep coming – the faces from his past. Some he doesn’t even remember. Others are all too familiar. Just then, Omega Red wraps one of his coils around Logan’s neck. Red proceeds to tell him that now he will suffer as he has suffered. He will strip the flesh from his bones, every morning, from now until forever. He will make him eat his own entrails and beg him for more. He will bathe in a fountain of his blood.
Struggling against Red’s grip, Logan thinks to himself that he shouldn’t even be there. He’s not even dead. Flipping Red over and jamming his claws into his chest, Logan remarks then again, he’s always known it would come to this. At first, he tries to shout above the din as they fight. He screams something about how they’ll never break him. No matter who they trot out. No matter how many. But his words fall flat. His sins, at long last, have all caught up with him.
As his foes – McLeish, various Adamantium Men, Cyber, Xorn, Shingen, and Ogun, amongst others – swarm Logan, they eventually take him down. As they drag him to the Devil’s feet, the Devil says to him that he thought he knew pain before he came there, little dog-man. He assures him, he did not. Nor did he know the depravity or debasement. These are all things he will teach him. If he insists on being a stubborn student, that is fine. He has dealt with many such souls in his time. Men who swore themselves they could hold out. Who vowed to break free or even rule this place themselves. They came from all different eras. Kings and warlords and would-be world conquerors. Does he know what he does to men like that? The same thing he does to all who come there. He breaks them. Pulling on a chain, the Devil shows Logan a very obedient Sabretooth attached to it sitting at his feet.
Out on the open road, Melita Garner rides on the back of Mystique’s motorcycle. When they stop outside a diner, Melita asks Mystique that she’s telling her Logan’s in hell. Does she mean like hell, hell? Like a devil with a pitchfork hell? Mystique asks her if there is some other sort of hell she’s not aware of. She adds that it’s Logan’s soul that’s trapped in hell. His body is still on Earth, though it’s under the control of others.
Enraged, Melita angrily asks Mystique how she knows this. Whatever’s going on there, she’s somehow a part of it, isn’t she. Mystique tells her they don’t have time for this right now. If she wants to save her precious little boyfriend, she needs to shut up and do what she says. When Melita pulls her cell phone out of her pocket, Mystique asks her what she is doing. Melita informs her that she doesn’t believe a word that comes out of her stupid blue mouth. She’s calling the X-Men. Grabbing hold of the phone, Mystique tells her no X-Men. She doesn’t mix well with X-Men. And they can’t help them now anyway. Not with this.
Melita calls Mystique a lying, murdering sack of #$@* who admits to wanting her boyfriend dead. Pardon her if she doesn’t take her word at face value. Looking through her phone, Melita states that Logan gave her numbers to call in case of an emergency, and she’s calling one. Mystique warns her that if she calls the X-Men, she can count her out. Melita tells her to shut up. They aren’t all X-Men.
In Japan, Yukio’s phone rings. Answering it, Yukio tells the person on the other end to speak. Melita says um… yes. Would this be Yukio? Yukio asks her who she is and how she got this number. Melita tells her they have a mutual friend. One who needs their help. Yukio states Logan. She’s his new woman, isn’t she? She’s the reason he won’t sleep with her anymore. Melita adds that he told her she could be trusted. Will she help her? Yukio remarks that Logan always made a habit of falling for helpless females. She attempted repeatedly to cure him of that. Melita replies please…
Yukio tells her fine. Tell her what has happened, helpless American female. As Melita tells Yukio this is gonna sound crazy…, Yukio hears a floorboard creak behind her and narrowly misses being slashed with a set of claws. Hearing the commotion, Melita asks Yukio what that was. Defending herself, Yukio delivers a swift kick to her unknown cloaked assailant. Upon seeing her assailant’s face – Hellverine – a shocked Yukio asks “Logan?” Listening to the phone, Melita recognizes that Logan is there.
Mystique says to tell Yukio to run. Unable to hear the voice on the phone, Yukio rushes over to grab her katana from the nearby wall. As she does, she tells “Logan” that she doesn’t know what’s come over him. Perhaps the sight of his own blood will snap him out of…
Just then, Hellverine waves his hand and levitates Yukio into the air, slamming her head against the ceiling and then bringing her down to his level, choking the life out of her as she does so. Holding her neck, Yukio weakly asks him what he is doing. Upon seeing his claws, Yukio says no… With that, Hellverine jams his claws directly into Yukio’s chest. Holding them there, Hellverine tells Yukio that she is a murderer and a harlot and she will now spend every moment of eternity being defiled by the muck-beasts ever spewed from the deepest, steaming bowels of the abyss. Yukio responds by spitting blood in his face and telling him he can kiss her entire ass… Tossing her away, Hellverine tells her not to lose that feistiness, harlot. His brothers in the pit will enjoy stabbing it out of her.
Hearing Melita calling out Yukio’s name over the phone, Hellverine picks it up and informs her she’s dead. When Melita asks the person on the other end if it’s Logan, Hellverine tells her not anymore. After hanging up the phone, Melita says oh my god… Mystique tells her she told her. Melita proceeds to ask her what the hell was that thing. What do they do? Mystique says to her that they wait. Melita asks wait? Wait for who? What the hell are they… Hearing motorcycle engines, Melita turns around. Mystique tells her “them.” At that moment, Melita and Mystique see Daimon Hellstrom and two Ghost Riders (Johnny Blaze and Daniel Ketch). Daimon then asks Mystique what seems to be the trouble.
In Hell, Logan falls to his knees in front of the Devil. When he does, the Devil asks him if he’s ready to scream for him now, bub. Logan weakly tells him to keep ‘em comin’… The Devil tells him that he is a stubborn little tumor of a man. Pain means nothing to him, does it. Something tells him they could keep this up indefinitely. But thought he is renowned for many thing, patience has never been one of them. He’ll be taking that scream from him now. Bring her out.
Just then, Logan looks up to see Mariko Yashida being flown in by the Devil’s minions. Upon seeing Logan, Mariko says not him too. Running his finger across Mariko’s face, the Devil says he does so enjoy reuniting lost loves. They always longed to be together forever, didn’t they? Well now here they are. Logan angrily asks what she is doing there. The Devil informs him that Mariko Yashida was the head of yakuza crime family. Where else would he expect her to be? He then thanks Logan for helping send her his way. She has proven to be a most delectable little treat.
Logan tells the Devil he’ll do whatever he wants, just don’t hurt her. The Devil asks hurt her? Is he some base villain who would drag out his former fiancée just to maim and torture her in front of him? He insults him. He’s not going to harm a hair on the woman’s precious little head. He merely wants dear sweet Mariko to show him what she’s learned in her time there with them. The Devil tells Mariko, if she pleases.
As Mariko makes her way towards Logan who is being held by two of the Devil’s minions, another minion gives her a stick with a barbed wire chain attached to the end of it. Logan implores her not to, but Mariko tells him she’s sorry, she has to. With that, Mariko begins to whip Logan repeatedly. As she does, she cries and begs Logan to give in. Eventually, Logan screams out in pain. Once he does, the Devil begins to laugh.
As the sound of Logan’s screams permeate the underworld, a shadowy man tells Puck that it’s a damn shame. He was hopin’ he’d hold out longer than that. Puck tells him that it’s just one scream. Doesn’t mean they’ve broken him. The man says he better hope not. If he breaks, that’s it, the whole damn plan is finished. The longer he can hold out, the better chance they got. Puck asks of getting out? The man tells Puck that’s what he wants, not him. After Puck asks him what he wants, the man smiles and says just a moment of the boy’s time, that’s all. The man then asks Puck that he doesn’t trust him much, does he? Puck tells him no, he doesn’t. And once Logan finds out who he is, he won’t trust him either. The man states that he don’t reckon he’s got much choice. Boy ain’t got too many friends down there. Making his way towards Logan, Puck says he’s got him. That’ll have to be enough. Now let’s get to work.
(2nd story)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. When I was little, my mom got killed by a dragon. I got adopted by a mutant super-hero named Wolverine. You know, the guy with the claws who does the stabbing. Since then, I’ve been raised by samurai and ninjas and all sorts of other totally normal people. And from what they tell me, I’m supposedly destined to someday become the mystical protector of all of Japan. Sounds like a pretty crazy life, right? So tell me one thing then… Why am I always so #@%* bored? Why does it always feel like the world has forgotten me. Like it’s never going to be my time. Like my story, my real story is waiting to get started.
Coming home from school, Amiko enters Yukio’s home and tells her that she’ll be in her room. She is greeted by Hellverine, standing over Yukio’s bleeding body. He tells her Amiko Kobayashi – just the girl he wanted to see. With a shocked look on her face, Amiko asks Logan what the hell. Yukio tries to tell her to run but Hellverine says to her that the girl just got here. No reason for her to run off yet. He then tells Amiko that her father has returned and to come and give them a kiss.
Grabbing a sword off the wall, Amiko asks that he’s being mind-controlled. Really? Again? Facing off against him, Hellverine laughs and tells her not exactly. Slashing him across the chest with the sword, Amiko tells him that’s for all the birthdays he’s missed. Kicking him in the face, that’s for all the promises he’s broken. Slashing him again, is just for the hell of it. Laughing, Hellverine destroys Amiko’s sword with a slash of his claws and proceeds to tell her it’s funny she should mention hell. Her daddy’s been busy, as she’ll soon see for herself when she joins him there.
Jamming a sword through Hellverine’s back, Yukio tells him to get away from her daughter you son of a bitch. Turning around unfazed, Hellverine says how touching. He thinks he’s going to cry, right after he butchers and eats them. Yukio tells Amiko to come over to her. When she does, Hellverine tells them there is nowhere they can run that they can’t find them. They are hellbound, both of them. Bought and paid for. They will join their friends in the bowels of the abyss. Mariko Yashida, Kenuichio Harada, and Logan. They have Logan to thank.
With that, Amiko and Yukio leap out of window and land with a thud onto the train car below. As they do, Amiko says that all her life she’s been waiting, feeling like the days and years going by were nothing but prologue, waiting for the real story to start. Tonight it did. But it’s not at all what she expected. Comforting Yukio, begging her to wake up, she states that her name is Amiko Kobayashi and this is the beginning of her story.


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(1st story) Wolverine Goes to Hell: Part 3
(2nd story) Scorched Earth: Chapter Three: Old Wounds
(1st story)
As Logan is viciously beaten by Sabretooth, he thinks to himself that it’s already getting hard to remember a time before this, when he knew something other than pain. Sometimes he thinks maybe that other life was just a dream. That he’s always been right there. That he’s never known anything other than this. But then he remembers the things he misses. Canadian sunsets. The smell of rain on the wind. The crack of pads in the fall. Melita’s touch. Cold beer.
He clings to those memories. He focuses on what he’s gonna do when he gets out of here. The people he’s gonna kill. The ones who sent him there. Mystique and whoever the hell those others were. He thinks about cutting into them. Again and again. Hacking them up until they’re dead. Dead and gone. Looking up at Creed, Logan tells him that it looks like he finally found his place in life. The Devil’s errand boy fits him to a T. He guesses him cutting his head off was the best thing that ever happened to him, huh?
When Creed growls at Logan, the Devil appears and tells Creed that Logan is right. He is his errand boy and he loves to serve him, doesn’t he? Looking back at the Devil and then Logan, Creed lets out a guttural growl. The Devil calls his name again and Creed makes his way over to sit at the feet of the devil. Patting his head, the Devil tells Creed good boy and then informs Logan that he’s going to train him to do that. Logan replies not likely.
The Devil then informs Logan that he enjoyed his screams from before. It was truly heartfelt, he could tell. He knows a heartfelt scream when he hears it. He would love to hear more now, if he would be so kind as to indulge him. As a couple of the Devil’s minions grab hold of Logan, the Devil tells him that if it will help set the mood, he could parade out more of his dead loved ones. They’ve quite a few of them down there. Defiantly, Logan tells the Devil he doesn’t frighten him. The Devil responds that he can see thatLogan is either a very stubborn man or very stupid man, he doesn’t know which. He seems confident in his ability to endure whatever form of torture or abuse he might throw at him. But he fails to understand one thing. There are fates down there way worse than anything he’s faced up to this point. Allow him to demonstrate. With that, he orders his minions to fetch their newest friend.
Once the minions return, Logan sees that they have Harada, the Silver Samurai, in tow. The Devil informs Logan that the Silver Samurai has only recently joined them. He’s been getting acquainted with the denizens of the flesh trenches, hasn’t he, maggot? Logan asks Harada what happened. Why is he there? When the Devil tells him to speak worm, Harada says it’s because of Logan. They’re killing everyone because of him. They’re…
Before he can finish his thought, the Devil lops his head off with a giant sword. Picking up the severed head, the Devil tells him sorry and to please continue. Harada’s head says killing… killing everyone… At that moment, the Devil says you don’t say and proceeds to bring down his sword on the rest of Harada’s body, destroying it. The Devil then turns to Logan and tells him that if he thinks it’s bad being there now, try spending eternity like this. Tossing Harada’s head over his shoulder like it is a piece of garbage, the Devil informs Logan that his sword is a Soulcutter. For the wounds it makes, there is no such thing as healing, ever. Pointing it at Logan’s face, he says that he will either break him or he will chop his soul into chunks and scatter them from one corner of Hell to the next. What’s it going to be? When Logan responds by spitting in the Devil’s face, the Devil becomes enraged and chops Logan’s ear off with the sword.
Turning to his minions, the Devil tells them to feed Logan’s ear to something and then nail their friend to the wall. Let him think things over for say, a few thousand years. As the minions carry him away, Logan yells to the Devil that he doesn’t scare him. Whatever he has, he can take. Bring it on! Watching Logan being carried away, the Devil remarks that the little fool has no idea. Harada’s head utters everyone… they’re killing everyone…
On Earth, Daken battles members of the Red Right Hand, while in another location Amiko comforts the severely injured Yukio on top of a train. Outside the San Francisco Post office building a reporter says that at least two men are dead after a group of unknown assailants stormed the building earlier that day. In Japan, the Silver Samurai has died at the gravesite of Mariko Yashida while in another location, John Wraith lies on the ground as his church burns behind him. At the Sons of the Tiger Fighting Academy, agents of the Red Right Hand storm the building. In Mardripoor, Shadow S., Gunhawk, Fire Knives, Saw Fist, and Cannon Foot arrive via plane. In another location, Maverick is hunted down by additional agents of the Red Right Hand. All the while, Hellverine smiles at the deadly proceedings that are occurring.
At Avengers Mansion, Spider-Man answers the phone when Melita Garner calls. He asks her “wait, who’s this again?” Wolverine’s girlfriend? Right. Good one. And he’s Howard the Duck. With that, he hangs up on her. Looking down at the phone, Melita states that the stupid twerp hung up on her. Mystique then informs her that whoever she’s calling can’t help. She told her, she’s going to have to trust her. Melita says she’ll understand if she’s a bit reluctant to do that.
At that moment, Daimon Hellstrom asks if this is where it happened. Mystique informs him and the two Ghost Riders present there was a truck there. They lured Logan into the back. That’s where they stole his soul. When Melita angrily asks her how exactly they lured him there, Mystique says she’s sure she can guess the answer to that. Melita asks she did it, didn’t she. Mystique tells her she’s known her boyfriend a helluva lot longer than she has. Believe her, she has more than enough reasons for hating him. When some very powerful people approached her and offered the chance to get back at him, she took it. Yes. She set Logan up. Yes, she helped send him to Hell. And whatever he’s going through down there, he guarantees her, he deserves every bit of it. But she won’t be a part of this anymore. She can’t. When Melita asks why exactly that is, Mystique hangs her head and says she has her reasons.
Kneeling down on the ground nearby, Hellstrom informs Melita that she’s telling the truth, about this place at least. This was most definitely the site of a spiritual abduction. The place is still dripping with demonic residue. Melita asks him how they do this. How do they rescue Logan? Hellstrom asks does she mean how do they break her boyfriend’s soul out of an impenetrable super-prison designed by the Devil himself. They don’t. But if they can exorcise the demons that have possessed his body, it should open the door for his soul to climb back in.
Melita responds then let’s get started. Hellstrom asks her if she loves this man. When Melita asks what, Hellstrom asks her if she loves Logan. As Melita stammers with her response, Hellstrom tells her that he wants her to understand what she’s risking here. If they fail in this, if they trip up anywhere along the way, they could all be looking at an eternity’s worth of agony beyond imagining. Is she willing to risk that for him?
In Hell, Wolverine is nailed to a wooden X with nails in his wrists and feet. All around him are bodies of others attached to other wooden X’s, all of them in various forms of decomposition. Sneaking up, a voice tells Logan that he’s gotta say – he’s looked better. Seeing Puck standing there, Logan weakly says his name. Puck informs him that it is him. They’re a long way from Alpha Flight, eh? When Logan asks him what he’s doing there, Puck says that he doesn’t know about him but he was never much for Sunday school. He’s thinking now that was a bad idea.
When Logan then asks Puck to save Mariko, Puck says to Logan that all of Hell is watching him right now. If he wants to get out of there, help him, help Mariko, then he has to keep fighting. Every demon down there is just waiting to make a run at the throne. Every time he stands up to the big man, every time he defies him, the whole place moves a little closer to bubbling over. He’ll do what he can to help him. Just don’t let him break him. No matter what, don’t let him break him. With that, Puck slinks off into the darkness.
With renewed vigor, Logan rips free from his bonds and proceeds to attack the demons around him. Once he does, the souls stuck in Hell begin to chant “fight, fight, fight!” Making his way over to where Logan was being held, the Devil asks what the hell is happening. What’s gotten everyone so riled? When he sees Logan battling the demons, the Devil peers at him.
As Mystique, Hellstrom, the Ghost Riders, and Melita make their way up the stairs of a church, Hellstrom asks Melita if she’s sure about this. Melita answers that she is. Hellstrom adds that no matter what happens, it’s bound to be unpleasant. Is she certain she’s ready for that? Melita answers dammit, just do it already. Just save him! Entering the church, Hellstrom says fine, she was warned. Hellstrom remarks that he has the church and he has his Ghost Riders. All he’s missing now is the poor possessed victim. So any ideas where this wretch might be?
Aboard Utopia, Hellverine, donning Wolverine’s yellow and blue uniform, enters the compound. As he passes by Rogue and Hope playing chess, Rogue asks Logan how it’s going. When Logan passes by them without saying a word, Hope asks if he’s always that friendly. Rogue tells her she should see him when he’s hung over.
Entering Logan’s quarters, Hellverine sees that the room is sparsely decorated. Seeing Logan’s personal effects in boxes over in the corner, Hellverine points his finger at them and says burn. Before flames emerge from his finger, Kitty Pryde walks in wearing her space helmet. Upon seeing Logan she says she didn’t know he was around and asks if he’s got a minute. When “Logan” turns to face her, Kitty tells him that just because she’s wearing a big funky spacesuit, that’s no reason to stare. It’s her, Kitty. Remember? Earth to Logan? She then asks him what’s wrong with his eyes.
In Hell, the Devil orders Logan and the demons to stop fighting. Brandishing his Soulcutter sword, the Devil tells Logan this ends now. “You end now, little man.” Facing him Logan tells the Devil talk is cheap, bub. Show me. At that moment, the two combatants leap at each other, ready to lock in fierce battle.
Back on Utopia, Hellverine knocks Kitty away with a backfist. As he begins to stalk her, Kitty asks him what the hell’s gotten into him. Laughing, Hellverine tells her exactly. Before he can attack Kitty, Hellverine is knocked away by Colossus who tells him that he doesn’t know what’s come over him, but he must fight to regain his senses before someone gets hurt.
(2nd story)
Watching the agents of the Red Right Hand attacking Logan’s friends and loved ones, and watching Hellverine battle Colossus, the old man who is the leader states all of them. His friends, his loved ones, everyone he holds dear. They must all suffer. Just as they have.
Behind the old man stands a group of people from all walks of life. As the group watches one of the monitors, they see a report where it states that two men are dead after a group of unknown assailants stormed the San Francisco Post earlier that day. Both victims, they believe, were building security guards. One of the followers, a woman puts her hand to her mouth and says oh my god.
Another, a man wearing overalls and a hat angrily says security guards dammit, what the hell went wrong? The old man explains the their mongrels were a bit overzealous it appears. They’ve been training for this moment for a very long time. The man says this ain’t right. Killing innocent victims makes them no better than him they’re there to punish. The lady agrees. This wasn’t part of the plan. The old man turns around and tells them the plan was to make him suffer. To make his life hell in every way imaginable. And that is exactly what they are doing.
Is he sorry that two innocent men have died? Of course he is. But would he kill them again, right now, if it would bring him justice for what he’s lost, for what all of them have lost? In a heartbeat. Them and a hundred more. He has worked his entire life for this moment. He looks at the images on the screens and he feels joy in his heart. And so should them, all of them. They should be ashamed of themselves if they don’t. He never said what they were doing there would be easy. They all knew the stakes. They all signed in blood, did they not? Only through their sacrifice has this moment been possible. And only if they continue to stand together will they ultimately realize their true goal. Anyone who’s lost their nerve, anyone who’s no longer willing to fulfill their obligation, please, by all means, feel free to leave. Allow him to show them the exit.
With that, the old man pulls a handgun out of his jacket and shows all of his followers. When they all look the other way, the old man asks no one? Are they sure? Putting his gun away he says splendid. They should enjoy this moment as they should… in solidarity. As he departs the room, he tells them to excuse him, he needs some air. Under his breath he says before they all make him vomit.
Outside in the courtyard, where there are a number of Wolverine statues in various states of duress, the old man calls the individuals inside weak-willed fools. He won’t let them derail his plans. Not when he’s so close. Opening his pocket watch, he tells the picture inside that he wishes he could see it, father. The moment when it finally unfolds. When he realizes just what it is he’s done to him. It’s going to be glorious, just like he’s always promised him, just like he’s always dreamed.


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(1st story) Wolverine Goes to Hell: Part 4
 Scorched Earth: Chapter Four: Last Call
(1st story)
In Hell, Logan remarks that he’s always wanted to believe. Always envied them that had faith. In eternal rewards. In heavens and higher powers. Faith’s just never come natural to him. From an early age, the world seemed to be showing him there wasn’t no such thing as a grand plan. No such thing as ultimate truth. When he was a boy, he found out the man he’d always thought was his father, wasn’t. And the man who was, well… he was the first man he ever killed. Such events don’t tend to lead a boy to believing in God. Not even so’s to curse him.
Since then, he’s seen the world many times over. He’s been brainwashed and used. Hated and feared. Plagued by tragedy and regret. But he still ain’t seen nothing that would make him believe. Until now. Now he looks around him, and he has no choice but to believe. But not in no heaven or glorious eternal reward. No, he believes in Hell. Continuing his attack on the Devil, Logan adds that he believes in pain and suffering and misery. He believes in hate and rage. In the spilling of blood. In retribution. Damnation. He believes. Oh yes, he does. He believes with all his heart.
After getting a few swipes of his Soulcutter sword on Logan, the Devil stands over Logan and tells him that he understands him not. He is not so sly or clever after all, is he. He is instead, quite simply, an ignorant jackass? Too simple-minded to even realize the full extent of what’s befallen him. Does he have any idea why he’s here? Or the magnitude of the mess he’s left behind in the world above. He thinks he can prove something to him simply by being obstinate. Yet all he has managed to prove is his own insignificance. He is an insignificant speck of excrement to be scraped from the bottom of his sole and flicked away into nothingness.
As he brings his sword down for the final blow, the Devil tells him that he shall scrape him now, goodbye. Holding up his bloody claws, Logan states that he guesses this speck did prove one thing – even the devil can bleed. Touching his neck, the Devil surprisingly asks what? Impossible! That’s… no…
For a moment, the Devil turns around to see the demons of Hell circling. Once the Devil turns back to face Logan, Logan tells him he’s right about one thing. He can be an ignorant jackass. But it don’t take no genius to see that he ain’t the one with something to prove there. The Devil begins to call him an arrogant… but Logan cuts him off and asks him “You got another round in ya, hoss? I know I do.” At that moment, Logan leaps up and attacks the Devil again.
Nearby, Puck’s mysterious associate tells him this is it. They’re all watching now, every demon in every circle of Hell. They can all sense his weakness. The whole damn place is at the tipping point. Puck says good, let’s get to tipping this over. After the unknown associate asks Puck if he’s sure he knows what to do, Puck tells him not to worry about him. He’ll bring the chaos, soon as the time is right. He just follows through on his end. The associate says he’ll keep fanning the flames, best as he can.
As Puck heads off, he says yeah, and playing his own secret angle too, no doubt. Just know that whatever sort of aftermath he’s hoping for, Logan he won’t be around for it. Soon as this place boils over, they’re gone. Once Puck has left, the associate asks gone? Gone where, ya stupid runt. Once you been down there as long as him, you’ll realize ain’t nothing up there to go back to.
On Earth, on Utopia, Hellverine lunges at Colossus and takes a swipe at him. When he does, his claws clang off the Russian’s metal chest. Backhanding Hellverine away, Colossus tells his friend Logan that he doesn’t want to hurt him. Whatever came over him, he must fight it. Hellverine proceeds to ask Colossus that he doesn’t know much about demons, does he. He then asks him where that hell-tease of a sister he has. He bets she could enlighten him.
Grabbing him by the throat, Colossus lifts him off the ground and tells him not to speak of his sister. Smiling, Hellverine tells Colossus that after he’s killed him, he’s going to lay with his sister on a bed of his viscera. How does he like the sound of that? At that moment, Colossus slams Hellverine on the ground and then picks him up and tosses him through the roof and outside the compound. Once he does, Kitty Pryde says whoa. Turning to her, Colossus tells Kitty to go and get Scott. Kitty replies that she doesn’t wanna leave him alone with that… that… Colossus implores her to do so. He’ll be fine.
Before Kitty even has a chance to leave, Hellverine returns and tackles Colossus with great force. When he does, they crash through the floor and into another corridor where Iceman and Angel are congregating. As he stands over the fallen Colossus, Hellverine points out that he sees blood. Where there’s blood, there are soft red squishy parts. It’s time to open him up and have a look at him.
Before Hellverine can jam his claws into Colossus, Kitty proceeds to kick him in the back of the head. Colossus weakly tries to warn Bobby and Warren to stay back, but they do not listen to his pleas. After tossing Kitty away with ease, Hellverine turns his attention to Bobby and spews fire out of his mouth and onto Bobby’s ice form. Standing in front of him, Angel starts to ask Logan what he is doing. Hellverine gives him no response and appears to phase through him, leaving Angel’s eyes bloody.
Making his way over to a weakened Colossus, Hellverine tells him when he took this body, he made a pact. He swore to kill everything his friend Logan had ever loved. What does he think about that? Colossus answers that he thinks whatever he is; it is an abomination against his friend. Smiling, Hellverine thanks him and then tells him that it’s time to die now. At that moment, Hellverine viciously begins to attack Colossus with no refrain.
In Hell, Logan continues his fight against the Devil. As he does, he thinks to himself that the worst part of Hell isn’t the pain. Pain is pain. Pain he can live with. It’s the shame. Every time he closes his eyes, it’s the shame he sees. The shame that threatens to drown him. He sees his own regrets. He sees the ghosts of people he killed who didn’t deserve to die. He sees the faces of the children he was never there for. Daken and others he doesn’t even recognize. He sees the endless parade of his sins. And even as he fights, he can’t help but feel… he deserves this pain and suffering, this torture and torment. He deserves Hell. He deserves it all.
Standing over Logan, the Devil tells him that he thought he could stand against him, you pathetic little wart of a man. No one defies the great red dragon. He is the Morningstar. He is the lord of the pit. He is the god of the end of all things. Grabbing hold of him, the Devil tells him that he casts him out, now and forever, James Howlett, son of curs, king of fools, lord of all jackasses. He condemns his soul to the depths of oblivion from now until the end of time.
Before the Devil can finish Logan off, he hears a large commotion behind him. Turning around, the Devil is consumed by a number of demons who converge on him. Fighting them off, the Devil calls them traitorous vermin. They dare defy their master? He will see them all boiled in their own stinking blood for this. Impudent fools, he will have their wretched hides. All of them, do they hear him? He is the rightful ruler there. He alones the fit to wield the sword. There would be no Hell without him. They would all still be lapdogs in heaven if it wasn’t for him.
As he orders them to stand down and go back to their holes or suffer the eternal consequences, Logan picks up some bones off of the ground, leaps on the Devil’s back, and proceeds to pin the Devil up against a wall as his demons watch on.
On Utopia, Colossus weakly tells “Logan” to fight this. He can win. Hellverine points out that he still has hope. How quaint. Let’s see how long it takes him to carve it out of him. With that, Hellverine jams his claws into Colossus’ chest. Before he can do any further damage, a Ghost Rider appears on his motorcycle with Mystique on the back. After hooking him with a large hook attached to a chain, the Ghost Rider and Mystique begin to drag Hellverine off and away from Utopia. Once they have departed, Cyclops looks around and sees the devastation. Kitty is crying as she comforts Colossus who is bleeding from his chest, and Kavita Rao and other X-Men doctors tend to Iceman and Angel.
In Hell, the demons fight over the sword. After the Devil orders them to unhand his sword, he calls Creed a worthless mutt and tells him to get over there and free his master. Snarling, Creed instead begins to attack the Devil. Across the way, one of the demons grabs hold of the sword and claims to be the new lord of Hell. At that moment, Puck tosses a rock at his head and tells him he doesn’t think so. He then asks the demons what you get when you take every murderer who ever lived and put them all in one place. One hell of a badass army, that’s what. Attacking the demons, Puck calls out to his army and tells them charge. Charge or be damned forever.
As Logan watches on, a voice behind him asks him if he’s thinking of joining the fun, he wishes he wouldn’t. He didn’t pull all this off just so he could go and get his damn soul torn to shreds. He did it so they could have a moment alone. He just wants to talk, man to man, father to son.
(2nd story)
In Madripoor, when violent offenders come up for sentencing, they’re given a choice. They can either serve their sentence in one of the island nation’s many jails, all famous for being among the crudest and most barbaric prisons in the world or they can take a job at a local establishment currently operated by the island’s ruler. Almost all of them choose jail.
Sleeping in an overcrowded, rat-infested hotel of a prison while surrounded by murderers and cutthroats may be dangerous, they all say, but working as a bouncer at the Princess Bar… well that’s downright crazy. The ones who do take the job are the real psychopaths, the sadists and the butchers. The inhuman monsters who thirst for violence and delight in pain. Every night when the factories let out in Lowtown and the bar fills to the rafters with drunken bruisers and knife-wielding harlots and all manner of shiftless, sleazy thugs, the bouncers at the Princess Bar clench their fists and pray for war. And every night their prayers are answered.
Yet every morning, the bar will still be standing. Never once in all those years of brawls and bloodshed and savage beatings has there been a morning when they couldn’t simply drag out the bodies and mop up the blood and do it all over again. Never in all those years have the bouncers at the Princess Bar faced a threat they couldn’t handle. Until about five minutes ago.
They’re called the Mongrels – Gunhawk, Cannonfoot, Sawfist, Shadowstalker and Fire Knives. After having already disposed of some of the bouncers, Gunhawk points his guns at the remaining bouncers and tells them if he were them, he believes he’d clock out early and call it a night, while he was still upright and conscious and in possession of all my bodily fluids. One of the bouncers tells him to go to hell, American dog licker. They picked the wrong bar to make their trouble in. Firing his guns at them, Gunhawk says no, actually they picked the right bar. And he’s Canadian. Grabbing hold of a jar of alcohol, Gunhawk leaps over the bar and tells the others to do what they want with them. He’ll find what they’re looking for.
Just then, Cannonfoot drops a stone ball on his curved shoe and flings it through the stomach of one of the bouncers. Speaking in Spanish, Sawfist kills another. Draining the blood from another of the bouncers with her fingers, Shadowstalker tells him to give her just one kiss and she promises to kill him quick. After killing other bouncers, Fire Knives recites the nursery rhyme the “Itsy Bitsy Spider.” The Mongrels are agents of the Red Right Hand. They are marauders on a mission of vengeance, precise motivations as yet unclear.
Slicing through a back door, Gunhawk enters and is confronted by Tyger Tiger. Pointing her gun at him, Tyger tells him to put his guns on the floor or he’ll die where he stands. Gunhawk says that’s one idea. Here’s another. She moves outta the way and lets him have what’s behind the door situated behind her and him and his friends don’t squeeze the guts outta her entire crap-ass little country. How does that sound? Tyger tells him he has no idea what lies behind the door or the fury that will rain down upon him if he disturbs it.
Gunhawk replies actually, he knows exactly what lies behind the door – a bunch of trinkets and doodads and photos and such. Things a man might gather over the years when he’s forgotten his whole life story and is trying to piece it together, little by little. Things he might hide away, so that no one knows what a hopelessly pathetic romantic he really is. With a concerned look on her face, Tyger says he knows. That must mean… he’s… Moving her out of the way, Gunhawk tells her no, not dead, just burning in hell.
Entering the room, Tyger informs Gunhawk there’s nothing of value there. Not to anyone but him. She then asks him why he’s there. What does he intend to do with the place. Gunhawk says he intends to burn it, this and everything else in the world that means anything at all to him. Tyger tells him he will kill him for this. His rage will know no bounds. Gunhawk asks does she really think so. Does she mean just because he made his life a living hell and burned his whole world down around him? Good. Now he knows how he feels. After torching the room, Gunhawk tells Tyger to tell Logan that he’ll be waiting.


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(1st story) Wolverine Goes to Hell: Part 5 of 5
(2nd story) Scorched Earth: Conclusion: How It Started
(1st Story)
There’s always screaming. And the scent of burning flesh. And from all around, an endless amount of blood. The ground is a thick bloody muck. The air rough and jagged, like breathing in shards of glass. Every day there are new torments and tortures. Sometimes they boil you in the river until you think your eyeballs are going to melt out of your skull. Other times they drag you down into the deepest of caves, so cold your blood freezes into icicles as it’s spilled. Sometimes they make you watch an endless parade of your own sins and regrets. Your failed loves. Your friends you couldn’t save.
Other times they lock you in a seclusion so complete, you become convinced you’ll be alone for the rest of eternity. Then there are the meat gardens and the fields of submission. The gore bogs and child kennels. The forests of steaming viscera. The flesh feasts and scream choirs. The pig-faced fly keepers. The pub babies. The skin sculptors with their switchblade tongues and corkscrew fingers. The lepers who lug the face-sacks filled with rats. The sad little girl with the pliers and the basket of fingernails. The women who give birth to rabid dogs. The men who put the maggots inside you. There are the things the demons do to you, the tortures both physical and mental. And also the things you do to each other.
Omega Red comes by routinely to spritz himself with his blood, like a lady at a perfume counter. Ogun and Shingen take turns cutting him open and stomping on the things that fall out. White Ghost unleashes streams of well-placed bullets and barely decipherable profanities. Sabretooth festoons the walls with his innards. All the torture and torment, all these things he expected to find in hell. But this… This just never occurred to him.
Standing in front of Logan, Thomas Logan tells him “hello, son.” Thomas proceeds to tell James that he’s waited a long time for this moment. Ever since, well… Ever since he gutted him with them claws a’ his. Defiantly, Logan tells the man in front of him that he’s not his father. Thomas tells him to look at him. He knows that he is. Logan says to him that he killed the only father he ever knew, John Howlett. Thomas remarks that man was raising him to be a soft and pampered little turd. But that ain’t who he is, is he? He showed him that. Hell, he showed the whole world. When he first sent him down there, all he could think about was revenge. All that kept him going was the hope he’d see him again, and get his chance to pay him back.
But then over the years, he started to see the evidence of the man he’d become. He heard the stories from all them poor saps he sent down there. And by god, there sure been a lotta stories. He realized he couldn’t be mad at him, not for what he done to him. It was his fault, for not seeing him for what he is. He’s a Logan. Through and through. There’s generations of Logans down there, and every one of ‘em walked that same path, but none of ‘em ever walked it the way he did. All of this, he made happen. Just so they could have this moment. Just so he could finally tell him, face to face. He’s proud of him, he truly is.
Back on Earth, one of the Ghost Riders with Mystique on the back of his motorcycle drags Hellverine behind him via a chain. After Mystique mentions to the Ghost Rider that they have to get him to the church, the Ghost Rider tells her not to think, just because his skull’s on fire, that there’s not a brain inside. Shut up and let him drive. Jamming his claws into the street, Hellverine is able to put the brakes on and pulls the motorcycle to a screeching halt.
Standing over the fallen Mystique and Ghost Rider, Hellverine says to them a bony little slave of heaven and a duplicitous blue-skinned sow with a can of mace. This is almost insulting it’s so pathetic. Spraying him with the can, Mystique says to him that he can tell her, jackass, if it tastes like mace to him or holy water. After Hellverine is sprayed with the holy water, the Ghost Rider joins the fray and punches him and follows up with a headbutt. As he does, he says to his foe that the things of hell always talk a good fight but he’s yet to see one of them back it up. Lopping off the Ghost Rider’s head with his claws, Hellverine asks him how that is for backing it up, you arrogant bundle of bones.
Tossing the flaming head at Mystique, Hellverine asks her if she has any more holy water up her sleeve or maybe a crucifix to wave around. Stabbing Mystique in the chest, he continues that Logan could never quite bring himself to kill him. Looks like they freed him of that particular compunction. Standing over the fallen Mystique, Hellverine tells her that they are not the Logan she knew. They are an improvement in every conceivable way. If she would wish perhaps to weep or soil herself, he suggests she does it quickly. Weakly, Mystique tells him that he may be stronger and faster than Logan, she’ll give him that. But he’s still just as stupid.
With that, the other Ghost Rider arrives on the scene, grabs hold of Logan’s ankle and drags him into a church. After he tosses Hellverine into the church, he ends up on the ground in front of Daimon Hellstrom. Hellstrom proceeds to tell the demon that he knows the deal, it’s time to send his ass back home.
In Hell, Logan tells his father that he can’t believe he’s saying this. Thomas tells him to believe it. He’s done more for their family than he ever could’ve imagined. He’s made theirs a name to be feared and respected. He’s made him proud. He just wanted him to know that. Looking down at the ground, Logan remarks that he doesn’t know what to say. Before he can say anything else, Puck calls out to him and tells him to get off his ass. They need him out there. Tapping his hand on his son’s shoulder, Thomas tells him not to say anything. Just go be the man he was born to be. With that, Logan rushes to join the fray.
During the battle, Sabretooth manages to grab hold of the Soulcutter sword. Once he does, he exclaims to everybody to kneel before him. Just then, Logan arrives on the scene and proceeds to kick him in the back. As he does, he says to him so he’s the new devil, huh. And he’s still the guy who kicks him in the ass. Just then, Sabretooth rushes towards Logan. After a vicious, albeit brief battle, Logan is able to grasp hold of the Soulcutter. Standing over Creed, Logan tells him that the sword is a Soulcutter. For the wounds it makes, there is no such thing as healing. Ever. With that, Logan severs Creed’s head from his body and walks away.
Once the Devil and Puck see that Logan now bears the sword, they both say no. Thomas Logan, his father, however, is pleased. Just then, the demons in Hell all kneel before the holder of the sword, the new lord of Hell.
On Earth, Hellverine is encased in chains by the two Ghost Riders, one sans a head. He proceeds to snarl that they will all burn in the fires of hell. He swears by the horns of the beast. They will boil in a river of blood with the souls of their mothers and scream themselves raw for a billion years. Do they hear him? All of them will burn. Reading a spell out of a book, Hellstrom tells the unclean spirit that he casts him out and all his legions, all his congregations of the kingdom. He who commands him is Hellstrom, son of Satan, heir to the abyss. He charges him solemnly under unholy penalty, be uprooted and put to flight. In nomine dei nostri satanas luciferi excels! Begone, you impious lackeys. You ambushers and inbred hellspawn. Return this flesh to its rightful owner. Return to him his mind and strength. Return to him his immortal soul.
In Hell, Thomas makes his way over to his son and tells him he’s done it. Hell is his. Theirs. Now, they’ll rule them all… together. After peering angrily over his shoulder at his father, Logan proceeds to toss the sword into the crowd, much to the dismay of his father. After calling him an idiot and a damn fool, Thomas continues that he had it all and he threw it away. He calls him a pathetic little coward and tells him that he’s no son of his. Slashing his father across his face with his claws, Logan says damn right and walks away. As he does, Thomas calls out to him that he’s a bastard. He adds that he should’ve killed him the day he was born, you worthless runt. He should’ve bashed his brains out on the floor. He would’ve been doing the world a favor. He then tells Logan that he’ll be back there someday and he’ll be right there waiting. Does he hear him? He’ll be back!
Surrounded by a bunch of demons, Puck tells them to come on, you buncha dog-faced bums. There’s plenty of him to go around. What are they waiting for? Just then, Logan joins the fray and whips one of the demons with a barbed wire whip. Once he does, Puck tells him that it’s ‘bout damn time. After Logan asks him if he’s ready to get outta there, Puck asks him if one-legged ducks swim in circles. Let’s go. As they begin to engage the demons in battle, Puck mentions to Logan that he maybe coulda held on to that sword for a bit longer. Logan quips now he tells him. Puck then points out to Logan that he’s going the wrong way. They gotta head for the closest wall and climb like crazy. Logan says not yet. He has one more thing to see first.
Making his way over to Mariko Yashida, who is stuck behind vines with needles on them, Logan tells her that he’s gonna get her outta there; they’re leaving. Mariko tells him that she wishes him speed on his journey but she cannot come with him. After Logan tells her not to be crazy, he’s not leaving without her, Mariko tells him yes he is. She had her time. They had their time, precious as it was. There’s nothing for her to go back to now. Perhaps someday, in another life, she’ll have a chance to redeem herself. Until then, she is where she belongs. Logan begins to protest but Mariko tells him that he still has a life to live. Please, go live it. And if he should remember her, all she asks is that he remembers her as she was. Not as she is now. Please, just do her that honor. After touching her hand, Mariko begs him to go and to not look back.
As Logan and Puck begin to scale the walls, Logan asks his diminutive friend what they do now. After Puck tells him they climb, Logan asks what then. Puck answers damned if he knows. He’s making this up as he goes. He, Logan, still has a body to go back to at least. His probably ain’t looking so good right about now. As they continue to climb, the people in the walls call out to them to help them, take them with them.
Just then, one of them grabs hold of Puck’s ankle and pulls him back into the pit. For a moment, Logan stops and turns towards his fallen friend but Puck tells him to keep going. Once Puck lands, he is able to gain control of the sword and in doing so, becomes the new ruler of Hell. Watching Logan make his way out of hell, the Devil remarks that he’ll come crawling back. Yes, he will once the Red Right Hand is through with him. He’ll come crawling right back to him.
Continuing to scale the wall, Logan thinks to himself about the man down there who called himself his father. He can’t shake the feeling that he’s right. That he is every bit his son – a killer, a beast, a walking, talking tragedy. A Logan – through and through. He’s there in hell in part because he was wronged, because someone tricked him, sent him there before his time. But he’s also there because he deserves to be. Part of him knows he deserves to be down there with the sinners, with the worst of the worst. Doesn’t matter how many times he saves the world from Galactus or Kang the Conqueror or anybody else. Seems like more killer than hero. More destroyer than savior. Someday he knows, he’ll be coming back there for good, and he can accept that. He can live without hope and without any chance at salvation. So long as he gets just one little thing in return – revenge. Against them that sent him there. That attacked his loved ones. Against every last damn one of ‘em. He deserves hell ‘cause all he ever been good at is killin’ folks. And that’s what he’s coming back to do. You hear me, you buncha cowards? I’m coming for you. Whoever the hell you are, I’m coming…
Just then, Logan sees a bright light at the top of Hell and he finds himself back in his body at the church. Looking at his steaming body, Melita Garner asks Hellstrom if it worked. Hellstrom states that something has happened, yes. He could sense a soul returning. Leaning down, Melita calls out to Logan and says to him that if he’s in there, say something. In a rush, Logan leaps up from his kneeling position and rushes out of the church. Hellstrom states that Logan’s mind is still in turmoil, don’t let him get away. As Hellstrom, the two Ghost Riders (one reattaching his head), Melita Garner and Mystique exit the church, they are confronted by Cyclops, who is flanked by Emma Frost, Magneto and Namor. Cyclops proceeds to say that he doesn’t know what the hell’s happening there but it ends now. After Melina mentions to Mystique that she thought this was about to be over, Mystique tells her she doesn’t understand, this is just the beginning. Simultaneously, on a monitor, the old man leader of the Red Right Hand smiles at what has transpired.
(2nd Story)
They were meeting for drinks. Logan saw her waving from across the street. His blood quickened. There was something in the way she, Melita Garner, smiled though. And he was just starting to get that ache in his bones, the one he gets right before things go bad, when… When Melita was accosted by a group of thugs, he knew instantly what it was. What it had to be. Someone coming after his girlfriend to get to him. Just like he’d always feared. No matter who they were, no matter how many, he knew right away, he’d have to kill them all.
Popping his claws, Logan rushes forward. He’d have to wipe them out in such a way that it’d send a message to anyone else out there even considering coming after her. Do this and he will end you, as completely and utterly as anyone can. He knew he’d have to make that point, right there and now. He’d have to put the fear of god into them all. Only they had plans of their own and god wasn’t part of the deal.
Reaching the van, Logan makes his way inside it and discovers a bunch of dead bodies and Melita standing behind an old man wearing a cloak. Just then, the old man says that at long last, it begins. As Logan begins to slash the walls of the van, the old man recites from a book and says from the blood of his sacrifice, come forth, ye gods of the pit. Ye spawn of the abyss. In nomine dei nostri satanas luciferi excelsi. Come forth, ye sons of the unholy. Ye knights of the fallen. Come forth, ye despoilers of souls. Come forth! Come forth and claim thy tribute of flesh.
Just then, a flame emerges from the old man’s book and engulfs Logan. Logan yells out in pain and exclaims get! Out! Of my damn head! The old man tells him that there’s no use in fighting. At long last, his infernal reward awaits. Don’t worry, they’ll take good care of his body while he’s gone. With a solemn look on his face, Logan tells Melita that whatever happens, he’s sorry. Melita tells him not yet he isn’t. But he will be soon enough. Just then, Melita reveals her true form – Mystique! Enraged, Logan tells them that he will kill them all for this. He’ll kill them all.
In a flash, Logan is replaced by Hellverine. Hellverine informs the old man and Mystique that it’s done. He’s falling now. The body is theirs. The old man tells him to enjoy it, his brothers from below. But see that he fulfills his end of his agreement. Hellverine tells the old man not to worry. They will play his games. They will squash his maggots for him. Just know that in the end, he will conquer all.
As Hellverine disappears with a “bamf,” Mystique tells the old man that it won’t work. Not even hell will contain that man. He will find a way out. And he will come for him, he can count on it. The old man says to her that he would be disappointed if he didn’t. What she witnessed there today was not the endgame in his quest for vengeance, not in the least. Having Logan roasted in the fires of hell, that’s merely a sweet little appetizer. Just wait until she sees the main course.