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The Greenhouse
(A week ago)Upstate New York, where Logan a.k.a. Wolverine makes his way through a forest, beams of light are shone through the dense forest thanks to Stark Sentinels who pursue the resourceful mutant. Wolverine has been on the run since the Hellfire Gala, trying to fight Orchis from the shadows – but he thinks he has come to the end. He stops at the edge of a cliff face – beams of light glowing around him. He knows all of the mutants were dead or exiled and that he is about to join them. Then suddenly, a ship appears above him. 'Going our way?' Sage smiles from within the ship.(Now)The North Pole, where X-Force, or some version of it, has endured. The Bluebird left those Sentinels in the dust before they could so much as catch X-Force in the spotlights. But what is this team anymore. As must, as a team, alone and hunted at the edge of the world. If Krakoa was the dream, then X-Force was the guard dog at the door that allowed such peaceful sleep. Now, those who are left are just trying to survive this nightmare. Wolverine leads the way through the snow, and behind him is Sage. Wolverine turns to her and tells her that this seems about right. 'How we looking?' he asks her. Sage begins scanning the area, while the other members of X-Force gather around. They are Piotr Rasputin a.k.a. Colossus, Arkady Rossovich a.k.a. Omega Red, Quentin Quire a.k.a. Kid Omega, Neena Thurman a.k.a. Domino and another Wolverine, this one Logan's clone/daughter, Laura Kinney.'If we're determining a hidden location based on perilously low temperatures, magnetic confusion, distance from civilization and a strategically rugged perimeter... then yes, this will do' Sage announces. 'I say we keep walking until we find coconut trees and white sand beaches' Quentin jokes, to which Laura tells him to shut up. Sage touches her earpiece and radios Black Tom Cassidy, informing him that they are ready for him. 'Coast is clear then, eh?' Black Tom asks from beneath the icy wasteland, where he is in a pod, Krakoan in nature. 'Quite the opposite. The storm should camouflage your movement' Sage reports, and a moment later, the Krakoan construct rises up through the ice and snow, until a building appears. 'I've pinged you our location' Sage adds. 'And here we come' Black Tom replies.Wolverine turns to Quentin and asks him if he has been scanning, like he asked him to. 'We need to know how many other mutants are out there' Wolverine announces. Quentin assures that he is trying, but that ever since he came back from the future, his powers aren't quite there, as if something is off. 'Figure your $#%& out, and send out a telepathic beacon. The survivors need to know where to find refuge – and you're the only way we can reach out directly without Orchis picking up on us' Wolverine snarls, annoyed.Suddenly: 'Here he comes' Sage announces, as the large pod with Black Tom within begins moving across the ice and  snow. 'You might want to cover your bits and pieces, because we're about to burrow in and throw up some rubbish' Black Tom tells his teammates, as the pod slams down into the ice and snow, creating a small seismic wave which unsettles the team. A large crater can be seen, and then from it, Krakoan vines writhe up and bury themselves into the landscape.X-Force watch on in awe. They have been on the run since the Hellfire Gala. Now that they have all reconnected, they decided that it is time they dug in and took a stand. Black Tom modifies the flora of the mobile base to create something more permanent and rooted. A greenhouse keeps things alive – in cold times and dead times. That's what this will be, Wolverine decides. Their Greenhouse. 'Sure, it'll need some interior decorating and the like...but it's a start' Black Tom calls out as the others make their way into their new home. Wolverine glances back and sees that Quentin is still outside. He rushes over to Quentin and asks him what is wrong. 'Phoebe...' Quentin utters, shocked, before he collapses.Later, in the medical bay, Black Tom stands over Quentin who lays on an examination table. 'I don't know what the hell's wrong with him. Before he fainted, he was complaining about his powers not being up to snuff' Wolverine remarks. Black Tom puts a hand on Quentin's head and remarks that they are all a bit of a blunder right now. 'Finding our way back as we are' he adds, suggesting that “Wee Pinkie” needs some rest – and a dose of the loves. But inside his mind, Quentin sees the Stepford Cuckoos under attack from Nimrod and then Moira MacTaggert.Later, in the control room, Black Tom sits on a chair which connects him to the Greenhouse, while Sage taps away at various monitors. She swears, and then complains that decrypting the data from Beast's mobile base is going to take months. 'Going to dig deep into the Beastie's files to keep Beastie from doing more Beastie things' Black Tom jokes. Sage ignores that comment and asks Black Tom how he is doing, and whether the security perimeter is coming together. Tom tells Sage that with the screaming winds and hollering cold, they can't maintain much of a sporous radar, but that he has got a ticklish network of vines and roots spreading outward a few kilometers, and they are already registering movement. 'What kind of movement?' Sage asks. Black Tom reports that somebody is coming, or more than someone – somebodies. 'Could be military. Could be Orchis. Could be anybodies' Tom declares.Outside, in the freezing cold, three cloaked figures move from an ice cave and trudge across the frozen wasteland, towards the Greenhouse. But as they get closer, Domino and Laura Kinney suddenly burst forth from the snow: 'Whoever you are, stand the $%&* down!' Domino calls out, aiming her weapons at the cloaked figures. 'Whoa, whoa, whoa!' one of the cloaked figures responds. 'You're not used to cold-weather hunting, are you?' they add. They remove their hoods – it's Akihiro a.k.a. Fang. 'Smelled you fifty yards back' he tells his “sister” Laura. 'Akihiro?' Laura gasps. 'You're %$#^&*!# alive?' she gasps. 'I'm %$#^&*!# alive' Fang responds. With him are his Alpha Flight teammates, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier a.k.a. Aurora, who is also his partner, and her brother Jean-Paul Beaubier a.k.a. Northstar. Akihiro and Laura embrace, and Akihiro tells her that he got hit by the telepathic beacon. 'Was hoping like hell it was real' he adds, to which Laura asks him how he got here so fast.'Well, Canada's not so far away, and I had some help. We came in for the final slow approach... but Northstar and Aurora have got some wheels on them' Akihiro jokes, referring to the twins' enhanced speed, while Northstar and Aurora grab Domino, Akihiro and Laura, and speed towards the Greenhouse. Seconds later, at the Greenhouse, Laura and Domino look troubled. 'You look chilled. Have a hot cocoa? I just made it fresh' Northstar remarks as he hands a mug to Laura. 'Are you going to puke?' Aurora asks Laura, before telling her that a lot of people puke. 'G-force will do that to you'.Later: 'I know you're there' Colossus calls out to Domino as he tends to a garden within the Greenhouse. 'So you might as well come out' Colossus suggests. Domino apologizes as she steps into the light, and tells Colossus that he seemed so at peace, she didn't want to interrupt him. Colossus brushes some soil from his hands, and gets to his feet, telling Domino that she isn't wrong. 'Getting my hands dirty is the only way to clean out my brain, it feels like. I don't think about anything else. Just the plants' Colossus announces. 'For someone whose brain was torn in two for several years... I can understand how that must feel like good medicine' Domino responds. 'I'm -' Colossus begins as he switches to his steel form. 'Piotr – what are you doing?' Domino asks, shocked. Colossus apologizes and quickly switches back to his human form, and explains that he is feeling so defensive around everyone. 'Especially you' he admits.Colossus hangs his head as he asks Domino 'You still haven't decided what to do with me, have you?' to which Domino replies 'No... but we haven't really decided what to do with ourselves, either'. Colossus reaches down for a plant and tells Domino that there is no way for him to apologize enough or take back the harm that he did, so he will just do what simple thing he can. 'Grow us food to eat' he explains. 'To be frank... you're going to have to do better than that' Domino suggests. 'What else can I do?' Colossus asks as he looks over at Domino. 'I don't know – just give us some information?' she proposes. She turns and walks away, reminding Colossus that he was on the Quiet Council – he must know something that can help them.In the medical bay, Logan looks over at the motionless Quentin and tells him that he did not mean to come down so hard on him before. 'Anyway... if you could wake up, that'd be great' Logan remarks, before turning and walking away, adding 'We need you.' Quentin appears to smile, while his mind rages with an image of Moira attacking the Stepford Cuckoos once more, and suddenly, he gasps as he wakes up. 'I'm coming' Quentin declares as he makes his way out of the med bay.Outside the Greenhouse, night has fallen. Omega Red sits beside a firee in the snow, keeping watch. Suddenly, Quentin flies out of the Greenhouse in a telekinetic fury. Omega Red looks up as Quentin disappears into the night, while Sage contacts him and asks 'What the hell was that' to wich Omega Red replies 'It was the little #$%&. He's awake and in a hurry'.Sage contacts Quentin, who flies over the icy wasteland. 'Please report. What are you doing?' she asks him. 'Gotta go check on something' Quentin responds. Sage asks him if he is aware how dangerous it is for him to simply fly off like this. 'If you get picked up by any radar or satellite feeds, you could compromise all of us' Sage warns him. Quentin just smirks and tells Sage to relax. 'You're talking to an Omega' he boasts, explaining that he has sent out a temporary jamming singal. 'Orchis is using tech we don't -' Sage begins, before Quentin cuts her off, 'Blah, blah, blah. Going silent' he mutters as he continues on his journey.Soon, Quentin arrives at Mykines, the site of the deadly Hellfire Gala. 'I'm the Omega. I'm the Omega. I'm the Omega' Quentin tells himself over and over again, while he sees visions of the Stepford Cuckoo, Phoebe, under attack. 'I'm the Omega!' Quentin shouts as he easily moves some rubble from the ruined island with his telekinesis, and under the rubble – he finds Phoebe, in her diamond form. 'I'm here. I heard you. I felt you' Quentin calls out as he grabs Phoebe and picks her up. He tells her that he knows she is a long way from okay, but assures her he will bring her home. 'Everything's going to be -' Quentin begins, when suddenly, 'Oh, $#%&' he utters as a Stark Sentinel descends from above.'Aren't you going to say something?' Akihiro asks Wolverine as they start to walk out of the Greenhouse. 'Like what?' Wolverine responds. 'Like “I'm glad you're okay”?' Akihiro suggests. Wolverine looks over at his son and tells him 'I'm glad you're okay. I am'. He explains that he is a little distracted right now, and that he thinks there is a part of him that knew Akihiro would be okay. 'You tough $#%&' Logan adds. Akihiro smiles, before he and his father arrive outside and see some twenty mutants gathered in the snow. Some huddle around a fire where Omega Red and Laura stand with them. 'What are we going to do with them all?' Akihiro asks. 'Protect them' Wolverine responds. 'Everybody – get your asses into a single-file line. We're going to -' Wolverine begins, before Colossus calls out to him, informing him that he needs to talk to him. 'Not now' Wolverine responds. 'It's about Sabretooth' Colossus frowns.'I don't know what this %$&^*#! guy's going on about, but take care of this, would you? We need a record of everyone showing up at our doorstep' Wolverine tells Akihiro. 'Case you didn't notice, I'm a little busy, and -' Wolverine begins to tell Colossus, when suddenly, Quentin Quire crashes into snow. 'Kid?' Wolverine asks. 'Kid, what happened?' Wolverine exclaims as he helps Quentin to his feet, while Phoebe is still in her diamond form. 'It's...not safe out there' Quentin utters. 'No. No, it ain't. That's why we got to look after each other' Logan declares as he, Akihiro, Laura and Quentin hug, unaware that they are being watched through a target – some distance away, Dr. Henry McCoy a.k.a. the Beast aims his weapon towards the mutants while remarking to himself 'It's good to see you're all alive. For now'.


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Game Recognizes Game
The Greenhouse, the hidden North Pole base of X-Force. It's the dead of night, and standing outside next to a fire as the snow falls around him is Arkady Rossovich a.k.a. Omega Red. He's in the sights of Dr. Henry McCoy a.k.a. the Beast, who aims his rifle and then opens fire. Something strikes Omega Red, and some sort of Krakoan flora begins to cover Omega Red's body. Omega Red has no time to react, and he collapses to the ground, while the Beast walks past him and sneaks into the greenhouse. He passes through a warehouse where some food has been cultivated and stored, and continues down deeper into the building. He stops himself and hides in the shadows as the Beaubier Twins, Jean-Paul and Jeanne-Marie a.k.a. Northstar and Aurora, respectively, walk past him, but they don't see him. The Beast continues off in another direction, eventually arriving at Sage's control room, where he starts tapping away at the console.At that moment, in the mess hall, Black Tom Cassidy sits across from Sage and tells her that it goes without saying that he likes the veg, but that doesn't mean he likes a ploopy lukewarm veg stew with no salties or peps. 'You know what we could use?' he asks. 'Mmmhn?' Sage replies, unbothered, while wiping her glasses. 'A mutant with five-star, white-linen culinary powers – that's what we could use' Tom suggests, before he asks Sage if she is all right. 'Too much staring at the screens?' he queries. 'You're dreaming about better food. I'm dreaming about a nice stiff drink' Sage responds, to which Tom asks her if there is anything he can do. 'No. I mean, you could save mutantkind from the brink of extinction, that would be great. Might relieve a little of my stress' Sage suggests. 'On it. In fact, should have that done within the hour' Black Tom jokes. 'Thanks...' Sage responds, when suddenly, several alerts begin pinging around her. '$#%&!' Sage exclaims, concerned. 'What's wrong?' Tom asks, as he follows Sage when she gets up and starts to run through the Greenhouse.'X-Force, this is Sage. All units report. He's back! Beast is back!' Sage warns everyone via her comm-link. 'Got to the control room!' Sage tells Tom, who asks her where she is going. 'Don't worry about me – just go!' Sage retorts. A moment later, Tom is joined by Neena Thurman a.k.a. Domino, Piotr Rasputin a.k.a. Colossus and two Wolverines – Logan and Laura. '$#%& is going on?' Logan asks. 'That!' Black Tom exclaims as the group finds themselves confronted by the Beast, who is wearing a monstrous Krakoan suit of armor. 'BEAST! Stand down or we'll cut you down!' Logan warns his former teammate, while his claws are at the ready. 'It's good to see you, too, friends' the Beast grins wickedly. 'Try to stay alive' the Beast suggests to them as he releases some sort of green energy blast, knocking X-Force backwards. 'Mutantkind is depending on us' the Beast declares while using the Krakoan armor to fly upwards, he breaks through the roof of the Greenhouse, and flies out into the night.In another part of the complex, 'What are you doing in here?' Wolverine asks Sage as he finds her sitting in what appears to be an ammunition storage chamber, with a door to another room. 'He's gone?' Sage asks, ignoring the question. 'He's gone. Didn't put up much of a fight' Wolverine replies. 'That's because he was staging a heist' Sage explains. Logan informs her that the Beast stole a war suit of Krakoan flora. 'Starter kit for a new mobile base is my guess' Logan supposes. 'Be glad that's all he got' Sage mutters. 'What are you hiding, Sage?' Logan asks, to which Sage replies 'A No-Place tumor'. She puts her hand on a panel and then opens the door behind her while telling Logan that he is going to be pissed. 'But we salvaged the wreckage of his HQ... I kept one of his clones' Sage announces, revealing a clone of the Beast inside a stasis chamber.Shortly, X-Force are gathered around a conference table. 'No' Logan declares. 'I haven't even -' Sage begins, to which Logan tells her that he knows what she is going to say, and that the answer is a no. 'And your alternative is – what? To hunt him down yourself?' Sage asks. 'Bet your ass' Logan snarls as he pops his claws. 'With respect, that strategy has repeatedly failed' Sage responds, before telling X-Force that she wants all of them to hear her out on a rather unconventional proposal. Various images flash up on monitors that hover around the room, as Sage tells her teammates that she could list off all the upsetting transgressions from Beast's history: MGH. Legacy Virus. Threnody. His alignment with the Inhumans, and the Illuminati. 'I could keep going, taking note of everything that followed his appointment as X-Force's director of intelligence' Sage adds, before listing off the genocide of Terra Verde, the telefloronic space prison, the poisoning of Jeff Bannister's daughter, and the assassination – and rebirth – of Wolverine.'There's more. Some of it has affected you all. And in every case, he has escaped prosecution, slipping between our fingers like water' Sage declares. Logan stands up and tells her that this is a bad idea. 'I've run a million predictive algorithms, and it turns out that... the best way to stop the Beast... is Beast' Sage smiles.Soon, the entire team gathers in Sage's No-Place and everyone looks up at the Beast in the stasis tube. 'Is this sketchy? This feels sketchy' Quentin Quire remarks. 'This is sketchy' Domino tells him. Sage tells everyone that she won't argue with them, but they need to hear her out. Sage taps away at the console and tells the others that whether this was accidental or intentional, she can't say, but that the file was from a longtime ago, when the Beast was a member of the New Defenders. 'I didn't know him then. Some of you did' Sage adds. Colossus remarks that he remembers the Beast was committed to mutant rights, and that he seemed happy. 'He was then who he is now' Logan snarls. 'You bring this $#%& online, and we've got twice the trouble' Logan adds, to which Sage tells him that she shouldn't have to point out the hypocrisy of him feeling that way. 'Or should I call you Weapon X?' she asks.As the stasis fluid starts to drain away within the tank, Logan tells Sage to preach all she wants, before offering her a reminder that he kiled Beast before. 'And he'd booby-trapped his own body to attack everything in its kill zone' Logan adds. The Beast clone opens his eyes, and the tank opens, as Logan tells Sage that whatever version of Hank walks out of that tank, he is going directly under lock and key until they know more. Sage raises a gun and tells Logan that she agrees with him, while ordering everyone to assume a defensive position. Everyone readies themselves, while Quentin jokes 'New furball versus old furball. Personally, I dig it'. Sage calls out to Hank, and moves closer to the tank, despite Logan warning her to hold back. 'Hank, if you can hear me, I know you don't recognize my voice, but – I'm a friend!' Sage calls out as the Beast clone emerges from the steam of the stasis tank and knocks Sage backwards.'What did I tell you?' Logan exclaims, as Domino fires a blast from her Krakoan weapons towards the Beast, while Black Tom forms some plant-claws and Quentin creates some telekinetic claws as they ready themselves to fight. The Beast clone lunges at the group and smacks Quentin in the face, knocking him backwards into Black Tom. Logan attempts to get the Beast, but he misses and falls to the ground. 'No, don't hurt him!' Sage calls out as Colossus rushes towards the Beast clone, but the clone just uses Colossus' body to leverage himself up into the air, and clinging to a Krakoan vine, he dodges Laura when she lunges at him. The Beast clone then drops down and and kicks Omega Red backwards, while Sage calls to him once more, and tells him that he is disorientated because he doesn't know where or where he is. 'This is a different time!' she exclaims. The Beast stops leaping about and looks down at X-Force as they regroup. 'Our time! We brought you here to help us!' Sage explains. 'Will you help us, please?' she asks, looking up at him. 'Oh my stars and garters...' the Beast utters.A short time later, the Beast is placed behind bars, and Black Tom keeps watch. 'You're telling me Krakoa was a nation? Where all of us – even Mystique – lived?' the Beast asks. 'Aye. But if you ask Logan, he calls it a country club more than a country. 'The mutants were a dominant force, a sovereign society?' the Beast queries as he begins pacing back and forth in the cell. 'Aye, I keep telling you, and you keep telling me back like an answer's a question' Black Tom remarks. '[It's all just so fascinating. Fascinating, I tell you' the Beast utters. 'Aye, aye, aye. Blah, blah, blah' Black Tom mutters, uninterested. The Beast asks Black Tom if he knows what is particularly edifying – that this shows all his good work on mutant rights has come to fruition. 'Well, the fruit's a bit sour these days, I'd say' Black Tom suggests.Excited, the Beast leaps up and clings to the bars, announcing that there is so much to celebrate, so much to learn, before admitting that it pains him to hear himself referred to as a war criminal. 'What happened to me?' he asks. 'That's what the X-Forcers want to know as well, and you'll be chatting plenty' Tom responds. 'Once I answer these questions...will they dispose of me?' the Beast asks. Yawning, Tom tells him that if they think he is a knockoff of bad Beastie, then it would probably make good sense.'Can I ask you something?' the Beast begins. Yawning again, Tom tells him that he has already asked so many things. 'How do you interact with the Krakoan biotech?' the Beast queries. 'Oh... it's just like moving a muscle, suppose you could say. I think it... and it does it' Tom reveals as he closes his eyes. 'What about the others? Surely you're not the only one who can interface with the tech?' the Beast asks. 'All of the X-Forcers... have... access...' Tom mumbles as he dozes off to sleep.The Beast places a hand on one of the Krakoan bars, and calls out 'Request access: Beast. Open cell' and with that, the Krakoan fauna parts, and the Beast escapes his cell.The Beast begins accessing the computer system, various screens flicker before him. He believes it was Nathaniel Hawthorne who said “We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream... it may be so the moment after death”. The Beast decides that this feels very much like a troubled dream that he hopes to wait from. So he waits to wake. Or he waits for the death the world or his fellow mutants wish to offer him. Thankfully, he is a quick study, because this organic interface took him a moment to master. He accesses the data drives in the hopes of finding some answers, requesting every file with “Beast” or “Hank McCoy” as the author or subject – and suddenly, he goes wide-eyed, and a tear falls down his face. 'Oh, Hank...' he gasps, before he runs out into the snow-covered night.


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We Need to Talk About Beast
A Naval weapons station in Seal Beach, California. A siren blares, as soldiers rush about. 'What's happened?' one of them asks. 'Security breach' another reports. 'Somebody stole -' another begins, before one of them is blasted with a surge of energy. The other soldier looks on, and raises his weapon, ready to fire – but he's too slow, and another blast strikes him. The blasts were fired by Dr. Hank McCoy a.k.a. the Beast, who wears a Krakoan battlesuit and carries a device under one arm, while firing energy blasts from the battle suit with his free hand, he leaps towards a dozen or so soldiers who open fire at him, but he doesn't slow down – and fires a grenade from the battlesuit, which detonates and burns several of the soldiers alive. The Beast runs towards a pier, as more weapons fire rages behind him. He doesn't stop, and a helmet pops up around his head as he leaps into the water beneath the pier.At the North Pole, inside X-Force's new headquarters, the Greenhouse, Sage sits opposite Logan a.k.a. Wolverine in the mess hall and tells him that they need to talk about Beast. 'Which Beast?' Logan asks. 'I don't know what to call him. He's the old Beast, but he's also the new Beast. The newly awakened clone' Sage replies, adding that he is their prisoner, and hopefully their ally. Sage holds a cup of coffee as she explains to Logan that the Beast's mind is the weapon they have been lacking in this ongoing conflict. 'With every move Beast Prime makes, we'll ask for a responsive action' Sage tells Logan, who remarks that he is warming up to this, but is still worried. 'On the one hand, he used to be a friend. The other hand...he is who he is' Logan declares. 'The Hank we're hunting is crouched inside the Hank sitting in the other room' Logan notes.'By that logic, an alcoholic is still crouching inside me. And Weapon X is still crouched inside you' Sage points out. She puts a hand on one of Logan's hands and reminds him they don't condemn each other for that. 'In fact, knowing about that other version of us... drives us to do better, be stronger... right?' she asks. Logan narrows his eyes and grunts in agreement, before he and Sage stand up as Sage suggests they go give the Beast a chance to prove himself. 'Bollocks!' Black Tom Cassidy exclaims as he rushes into the mess hall. 'It's Beast! He's a bad Beastie, too!' Tom declares. Logan asks him what he is talking about, to which Tom reveals that the Beast is gone, escaped, and off making troubles. 'Hell. Where the $#%& did he go?' Logan snarls.Los Angeles, California, where the rain beats down over the City of Angels. Orchis agents are patroling the street, while another Beast, this one in a trenchcoat and wide-brimmed hat moves quickly across the rooftops. He bounds from one to another, then smiles. He leaps down to another apartment block and clings to the windowsill. He opens the window, and climbs into a darkened apartment.Back at the Greenhouse, Sage taps away at the console in her control room, while Logan stands with his arms folded and remarks that he should have trusted his gut. 'Now we have two of those $#%& to worry about' Logan complains, while Black Tom apologizes. 'He's full of wiles. He wiled his way around me'. But Sage nervously announces that she is the one who is sorry, and that it looks like she made the wrong call. Sage reports that, at this point, the Beast has a twenty-hour lead on them, but that he left some breadcrumbs behind. Pointing at two monitors, she sees that scans spotted him at an airfield in Nova Scotia, and then in a traffic jam in Chicago. 'He's head south and west. Why?' Wolverine asks. 'And...' Sage begins. 'And what?' Wolverine asks her, before Sage utters 'Oh no. No, no, no'. She takes off her glasses as she reports that Beast Prime was just spotted in California. 'Where he stole a nuclear reactor off a naval base?' Wolverine asks, looking at the monitor. 'It's the nightmare version of what I planned... I knew one Beast would be able to figure out what the other was up to' Sage replies. She announces that now, the one is looking to reunite with the other, which means they will have two big brains working on the same deadly problem. 'Whatever the $#%& they're planning... whatever the $#%& they're building... we have to stop them'.And, at that moment, under the ocean depths, hidden within a trench, Beast Prime is infusing some Krakoan fauna into the stolen nuclear weapon.Later, in the Greenhouse, Sage, Logan and Tom are joined by the rest of X-Force, as Sage admits that they haven't always done this right. 'Put it another way – we're all a bunch of #&%$ ups' Logan tells her. 'And now we need to rectify some of our past mistakes' Sage reports. Logan tells the others that things have changed since X-Force kicked off – for the worse and for the better. But one thing has stayed the same. 'We've got our head' Sage declares. 'And we got our first' Logan adds as he pops his claws. 'Let's move out!' Logan announces as he leads the way into a ship. With him is his daughter/clone Laura Kinney, also called Wolverine, his former enemy Arkady Rossovich a.k.a. Omega Red, his longtime teammate Piotr Rasputin a.k.a. Colossus and X-Force mainstay Neena Thurman a.k.a. Domino. Sage heads back into another part of the complex with Tom and Quentin Quire a.k.a. Kid Omega at her side. 'time for some wet work' Logan announces. 'Roger that, boss' Domino responds.Sage reports that she, Tom and Quentin will coordinate intelligence from the base, which doesn't impress Quentin, who motions at the jet as it leaves the Greenhouse and mutters 'That looks more fun? Do I have to stay here?' 'That work's for bruisers, not losers, mate' Tom replies as he leads Quentin into Sage's console room. 'We're in the air' Domino reports from the jet, and as she connects to the console, Sage replies 'We're on the ground'.Meanwhile, back in Los Angeles, the past Beast lurks through the dark apartment – when suddenly, someone tackles him. There is a skirmish as body tumbles over body, until the Beast is knocked back by a surge of energy. 'That was a warning shot!' they shout at the Beast, as numerous objects in the room and torn apart as a result of the blast. 'I consider myself a good pacifist, but I just can't tolerate you breaking into my home!' a voice calls out from within the shadows. 'Please!' the past Beast exclaims. 'Don't you recognize me, my friend?' the Beast asks, before a lightswitch is flicked – and Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man looks down, shocked, at the site before him. 'It's me...it's Beast!' the past Beast utters. 'Hank? But...what are you doing here?' Simon asks. 'What's wrong?' he queries as he crouches beside his longtime friend.The Beast removes his glasses and wipes his eyes as he sniffs and calling Simon his “dearest friend” tells him that everything is wrong, but that he feels so much better being here with him. “Dearest...friend?” Simon quotes, confused. The Beast puts his glasses back on and asks Simon why he looks at him like he is a stranger. 'It's just... it's been so long' Simon responds. 'Has it? For me, it feels like no time at all. Why did we grow apart?' the Beast asks. Simon frowns as he explains that he tried to stay in touch. 'But you had...ambitions' he points out, before telling the Beast that he doesn't understand the way he is talking to him, before adding that he had assumed that Hank was dead – or exiled. 'In a way, I was dead. This version of my anyway' Hank responds. But Simon still doesn't understand, and the Beast takes his hand, telling him that he is just beginning to understand himself, before announcing that he desperately needs Simon's help.Off the Californian coast, Beast Prime continues to connect Krakoan fauna with the nuclear device he stole. The device appears much larger now. He announces that he has decided to leave a record of his current plans, that he does this for posterity, because his accomplishments will undoubtedly be studied in the years to come. 'I trust that history will show that my policies, though unpopular at the time, were in fact correct and necessary...for the greater good of mutantkind' he declares. He adds that a record if also necessary because he is about to attempt something rather risky, and his listeners need to know what he is about to do, in case he should be killed or compromised. Beast thinks about those mutants who were not killed by Orchis, the ones who were exiled to Arakko nee Mars. He knows that Orchis had hoped these mutants would destroy themselves in a civil war – but that didn't happen, and the Brotherhood of Arakko united. Beast thinks about Orchis' Plan B, where they occupied Phobos, a moon of Arakko as a base from which they could surveil and police the mutants. But that didn't happen either, as Genesis led a violent uprising. So now, naturally, Orchis has developed Plan C – kill all mutants.Back in Los Angeles, the Beast sits at Simon's desk and taps away at his laptop. 'This computer is entirely inadequate' the Beast remarks, to which Simon tells him that it is all he, a struggling actor, can afford. Simon hands the Beast a hot drink, as the Beast asks him 'But what of your research and missions as Wonder Man?' Simon explains that he is doing the pacifist thing these days. 'The pacifist... thing? Oh, my stars and garters' the Beast utters. He turns his attention back to the laptop and explains that as he traveled, he picked his brain, while also scanning and collating data from library computers and internet cafes. 'If I was a war criminal – hunted by Orchis and X-Force alike – where would I go?' the Beast remarks, as several maps appear on the laptop screen. The Beast notes that Namor is currently imprisoned, which he thinks is an interesting turn of events, he would take to the uncharted sea. 'My algorithmic queries and dark-and deep-web scrapes revealed that this... other Beast... has been active off the California coast, stealing materials' the Beast announces. 'Including, most recently, a nuclear reactor' the Beast reveals. 'That sounds, um, terrifying' Simon responds. 'Indeed, my friend. Which is why we must leap into action!' the Beast declares, getting to his feet. 'Am I going? I don't really like to punch people anymore. I mean, unless I absolutely have to' Simon says.A short time later, at a small dock, 'We shouldn't be stealing this boat' Simon tells Hank as they climb into a speedboat. 'Don't be such a fuddy-duddy, Simon. We must act with haste!' Hank exclaims as he drives the boat out into the ocean, declaring that they are men and mutants of action, after all. 'We have to stop me to save me!' Hank exclaims. 'Run that sentence by me one more time?' Simon asks. The Beast explains that X-Force plans to kill him – Black Tom as much as said so. 'But if I stop me – the other me, this Machiavellian madman – then I will prove myself a worthy ally and friend once more! My fellow mutants need me in these dire times!' Hank declares, while, up above, X-Force's jet arrives on scene, and Domino contacts Sage, informing her that the dock security camera is a positive match. 'We've got eyes on the target' she announces, before asking how they should proceed. 'Reminder that there's nuclear energy on the table. I say we move fast and hit hard' Wolverine suggests.'Sage? Sage? Do you copy? Sage?' Domino calls out when she gets no response. 'I'm thinking, damn it' Sage snaps from back within her control room. She takes her glasses off and wipes her eyes, while Quentin utters 'I don't need to remind you that I'm a genius' and boasts that he has done the ethical and political calculations of a thousand think tanks in the past ten seconds. 'This is an easy one. He's a knock-off clone. We made a mistake bringing him back. Toss him in the wastebasket' Quentin suggests. Sage puts her glasses back on and instructs the field team to fire at will. 'Eliminate the Beast' she announces.At that moment, in the ocean depths, 'There. Isn't it beautiful?' the Beast asks as he looks at the modified nuclear device. Fish swim by as he announces that with this Black Hole Gun, modeled after Forge's design, he will take Arakko off the map. He boasts that the mutants will be crushed into a cosmic vault for safekeeping – and then he can begin his work against the humans in earnest!


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Violent Answers
Off the coast of California: 'Wonder Man?' a version of Hank McCoy a.k.a. the Beast with a mind and personality from an earlier time period calls out. 'Yes, Beast?' Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man, longtime Avenger and current pacifist responds as they speedboat they are in jets across the water, while X-Force's jet pursues them from above. 'X-Force is outfitted with a Techno-Organic ship that could outpace and outgun an F-25... and we have a 32-horsepower engine' the Beast remarks. He tells Wonder Man that he understands and respects his commitment to pacifism, but points out that these are desperate times. 'Might I request some defensive action?' the Beast declares. 'I think I can manage that' Wonder Man responds as he unleashes his powerful ionic blasts which strike down several missiles that are fired at the jetboat as Simon remarks that he insists on only firing at the artillery, not the ship. 'Just keep the boat – steady!' Simon utters as the speedboat is knocked about in the water when a missile lands nearby.Grabbing some oxygen tanks, the Beast tells Simon that he is afraid they must abandon ship. 'The deep awaits us!' he exclaims as he and Simon jump into the water as the speedboat explodes. Beast and Wonder Man put the oxygen masks on and the Beast declares that there are enemies above and below, and tells Simon that he feels nothing but reassured with an ally like him at his side. He then thanks Simon for joining him on this adventure. 'You would have done the same for me. It's nothing' the Beast responds as he and Simon begin swimming towards a large trench in the ocean floor. 'Friendship. Loyalty. Love. These are the things that give life meaning!' the Beast calls out, before telling Simon to stay close. 'Now, if I were me – and I am – I'd have set up an alarmed perimeter'. Simon mumbles something in response, and the Beast looks over to see that Simon has been captured by the current version of the Beast, who wears a Krakoan battlesuit. 'It's lovely to see you, Simon, but if you'll excuse me... I need to catch up with myself'. The Beast then uses a laser to cut into Simon's oxygen tank, which propels Simon upwards through the water and out of the trench.Up above, X-Force's jet shines spotlight beams down into the water, and aboard, Logan a.k.a. Wolverine asks Neena Thurman a.k.a. Domino if she is picking up any heat signatures. At the control panel, Domino reports that the sea is rough, but she has eyes on somebody. Wonder Man pops up to the water's surface, and Domino announces that her scanners have identified him, although she is surprised to learn that it is Wonder Man. 'Look like the Beast is reaching out to old allies' Domino suggests.Back in the trench: 'You can't speak. Good. Because it's time to listen. You've no doubt heard some things. Things that are perhaps unflattering and even damning' Beast Prime tells his past self. 'But before you declare yourself an ally or an obstacle... I have something to share with you' Beast Prime announces, before swimming on into the trench, beckoning for the past Beast to follow him.In X-Force's ship, Wonder Man has been brought aboard, although the team aren't so trusting of him, as Arkady Rossovich a.k.a. Omega Red has his deadly tendrils wrapped around Simon's neck. 'So the Beasts are together?' Logan asks, while Piotr Rasputin a.k.a. Colossus, Laura Kinney a.k.a. Wolverine and Domino gather around. 'No!' Simon quickly responds, before admitting that they are physically together, but that his Beast wants nothing to do with their Beast. 'He wants something or he wouldn't have chased his way across the continent, looking for him' Logan snarls, grabbing Simon by his shirt. 'He thinks he can convince him to change!' Simon declares.Meanwhile, at X-Force's HQ, the Greenhouse, located in the North Pole, Logan's voice can be heard over the comm-link as he asks Quentin Quire a.k.a. Kid Omega if he is listening. Quentin is with Sage and Black Tom Cassidy in the control room, and Quentin tells Logan that he is too far away to get a good read, but Wonder Man's vocal inflections indicate that he is telling the truth. 'Unless he's a very good actor. Which we know he's not' Quentin jokes, before informing the others that according to IMDB, Simon's most notable project is Beach Volleyball Bros Part II. 'In more pressing news – your offshore firefight did not go unnoticed' Sage reports.At that moment, X-Force are knocked about as weaponsfire strikes their jet. '$#%&!' Domino exclaims, while Sage reports that she is tracking an Orchis jet coming in hot. 'And our old friend, Jun Wei, is leading the charge' Sage adds.Indeed, in the smaller jet that approaches X-Force's, Orchis agent Jun Wei radios control, informing them that she needs backup. 'Get me a Sentinel!' she orders, before turning to several Sentinel Zeros in the jet and tells them to get going – and she wants bodies. 'They don't have to be alive' she adds, before the Sentinel Zeros bare their claws and drop onto X-Force's jet, where they begin to slash their way inside.'Even if he claims he's a vegan, I say we tie him up' Logan suggests. 'I said I was a pacifist!' Simon responds as he sits on a chair, a blanket wrapped around him to keep him warm. 'He's the least of our worries!' Domino snaps at Logan, before noticing he is putting on a wetsuit with some Krakoan fauna on it and asks him where he is going. 'We didn't come here to get in a scrum with Orchis. We came here for Beast' Logan responds. He tells Domino to keep things steady up top. 'I'm going down' Logan snarls as he drops from the jet and into the water below.Colossus opens a hatch onto the top of the jet, and in doing so sends one of the Sentinel Zeros flaying backwards. He, Omega Red and Laura burst up onto the top of the jet and prepare to face off against the Sentinels. Laura contacts Domino and Sage and asks them to power up the radio scrambler on the Bluebird and shut down all satellites and radio transmissions in a ten-mile radius. 'I want Orchis confused as to whether we were here at all!' Laura exclaims as she leaps from the X-Force jet onto the smaller jet, whre she lands with her claws – both hands and feet – stuck in the jet's screen, lodging herself there so she doesn't fall. 'And I want them to know how badly we're about to $#%& them up' Laura adds.Beneath the depths of the ocean, in an airtight biodome, where Beast Prime removes the Krakoan battle suit, and explains to his past self that he is baring himself to him. 'Because you are my equal, my reflection, a kind of brother' Beast Prime remarks as he walks over to his past self, the two barely distinguishable from each other save for the past Beast wearing glasses. He asks his present self what it is exactly that he is doing down here. 'I've been told it involves a nuclear reactor' he adds. 'Beast. Hank. Please. There is a tone of judgment to your voice I'm begging you to withhold' Beast Prime responds as he turns to face the large nuclear weapon stationed on the seabed. 'The greatest good for the greatest number of mutants, no matter the cost' Beast Prime utters, claiming that has been his code since the beginning, when he first helmed X-Force, and that he still stands by it now.Beast Prime continues, explaining that he knows his actions seem severe, but that they are on the verge of extinction, and even now, Orchis has Mars in its crosshairs. Their plan is not only genocidal, but Orchis hopes to eventually build a worldmind with the intelligence of Homo Superior. He touches the weapon and states that with this Black Hole Gun, he is going to take the mutants off the table entirely. 'Consider this not a cosmic prison sentence, but a new Krakoa. A nation that is truly isolated, wholly safe' he boasts. The past Beast speaks up: 'You're not asking their consent and putting them at great risk and -' he begins, to which Beast Prime snaps 'Let me finish!' The past Beast frowns and folds his eyes, and continues to listen as Beast Prime claims that he has thought this through a thousand ways. 'You know I have. And – risky as it might be – this plan is the best plan'.Beast Prime continues: 'We – you and I, the two of us, Beast and Beast – will topple Orchis before bringing Homo Superior back from their black hole banishment. We can provide the violent answers this violent world requires' he boasts, before asking his past self whether he will join him. The past Beak speaks again, telling the current Beast that he understands everything he is saying, as if the words slipped out of his own mouth. 'But with distance comes perspective, and I am separate enough from all this that I can see clearly in a way you can't... you've taken the wrong path' the past Beast tells Beast Prime, who frowns in response, before sighing. 'Oh, Hank' he utters. The past Beast tells Beast Prime that he can still come back and choose another way. 'I know this because I am you and you are me' he adds.'You're young. You're innocent. You have my intelligence but not my wisdom' Beast Prime responds. Past Beast tells Beast Prime that he chose him – this particular Beast. 'I was the only one not wiped from the Cerebro cradles. There's a reason for that' he suggests. 'Yes – you were the best version of myself. Hopeful. Happy. A mutant rights activist. I didn't plan on bringing you back, but I honestly couldn't... extinguish you either. It would be like running out of a burning house without grabbing a treasured family photo album' Beast Prime explains, to which the past Beast, adjusting his glasses, suggests to his current self that he is acting as Magneto once did. 'Magneto?' Beast Prime asks. 'Magneto was right' he declares as he pulls a lever on the nuclear weapon. 'No!' past Beast gasps, as Beast Prime claims that, years from now, people will say the same of Beast.The nuclear weapon lights up, and past Beast leaps at his present self, telling him to listen to him. 'Why would I take instructions from a veritable child?' Beast Prime asks as he struggles to shake the younger Beast off of him. They fall to the ground, as past Beast declares that he knows there is still some good in his current self. 'Your version of good is moral, an embarrassing construct, a simpleton's way of considering the world' Beast Prime suggests, explaining that his version of good is cold and quantitative – and thus, rational. 'Stop the gun!' past Beast exclaims, ignoring his present self's explanation about “good”. The nuclear gun rises up and passes through the biodome, while Beast Prime tells his past self to stop being ridiculous. 'I don't want to kill you – I really don't – but you're forcing my hand' he claims as he begins to strangle his past self, deciding that if he can't best him intellectually, he will have to settle for a more primitive method.Back up above the surface, Jun Wei lays motionless on the floor of her jet, shattered glass all around her from where Laura broke through the wind shield. Laura has taken control of the jet and contacts Domino, asking her where she is. 'Out of your line of fire' Domino responds, revealing that they are at 20,000 feet and have liquidated the robo-Wolverines. 'Fight's not over' Laura announces. 'We've got company!' she calls out as a Stark Sentinel appears behind her and gives chase as Laura pilots the jet away from the Sentinel. Laura asks Sage to confirm that all local frequencies remain jammed, to which Sage's voice can be heard over the comm-link, confirming this. 'Let's make $%&* sure Orchis stays dark on what's happening here' Laura responds, before reporting that she has got the Sentinel's attention, and asks Domino to make her move.X-Force's jet appears above the Stark Sentinel, and Colossus and Omega Red drop down from the jet onto the top of the Sentinel, while Domino can be heard telling them to do some damage. Colossus begins punching the Stark Sentinel's face, while Domino notes that if the Sentinel confirms their presence, then innocent people will die – so they have to destroy it, otherwise it will destroy them. 'I owe you all a debt. I promise to go down swinging' Colossus declares, suggesting that if Omega Red can get his tentacles tied in to the Sentinel, then perhaps Sage can hack the mainframe and pull the plug. Omega Red does get his coils into the Sentinel, and Laura suggests that she gives the tin can a tickle as she fires the jet's weapons at the Sentinel.Back below the waters, Beast Prime has his clone pinned to the ground and tells him that this could have been the beginning of a beautiful partnership. The clone responds by slamming his fists into Beast Prime's shoulders and then grabs him by his head and brings their heads together, cracking the clone's glasses in the process. Suddenly, Logan arrives on scene: 'Came down here to end this. That means killing you both, so be it. Or you can do the job for me. Looks like you already got a head start' Logan remarks as he pops his claws. 'Hurry, Logan! He's built a Black Hole Gun. It's ascending to the surface. He wants to take out Mars!' the past Beast quickly summarises to Wolverine. 'He's going to -' the past Beast begins, before Beast Prime kicks him backwards. Wolverine speaks into his comm-link and warns Domino that there is a bogey rising, and that she needs to destroy it as soon as it breaches. 'I repeat -' Wolverine begins, before Beast Prime lunges at him.'To think, I used to call you a friend' Beast Prime snarls, to which Wolverine responds by slashing his claws across Beast Prime's chest. Wolverine puts his foot on the Beast's back as the Beast struggles to get up. Wolverine raises his claws to deliver another blow, before the Beast clone lunges at Wolverine: 'No one else dies! We can save him yet! I know it!' the Beast exclaims.Inside X-Force's jet, Wolverine's voice can be heard, asking Domino if she can hear him. 'Kind of bust up here, Wolverine' Domino responds quickly as she aims the jet's weapons back at the Stark Sentinel nearby. 'Maybe I can help' Wonder Man suggests. He flies out of the jet. 'Whoever's doing it...do it now!' Wolverine exclaims. The nuclear weapon rises from the water, and Wonder Man takes flight, while an instant later, the Stark Sentinel fires a blast that tears through the rear of X-Force's jet. As Wonder Man swoops down towards the nuclear weapon, Domino reports over the comm-link that she can't maintain flight, and is going down.'Dom? You okay?' Logan asks, but gets no response. 'You idiots' Beast Prime declares as the Krakoan battlesuit covers his body once more. 'Dom, Laura – anybody! Take out the Black Hole Gun!' Logan exclaims, while Beast Prime boasts that he is the last hope for mutantkind. 'Don't protect your weapon – protect your friends! Please don't prove me wrong...you can do better!' the past Beast pleads as Beast Prime takes flight up throuh the biodome, out of the water, and up to where the missile bobs up and down on the water, energy glowing from the weapon.Beast Prime looks over and sees Wonder Man arriving at the weapon and asks him what he is doing. 'This is for you, Hank. This is for old friends' Simon announces as he begins to release ionic energy at the weapon as the weapon rises up out of the ocean. 'No! Stop! You don't understand!' Beast Prime declares.'The gun is powered by a nuclear reactor!' Beast Prime calls out, while on top of the Stark Sentinel, Omega Red asks Sage if she is hacked into the Sentinel. 'Working as fast as I can' Sage's voice is heard over the comm-link. She explains that the firewall on this thing is as complicated as anything she has ever encountered. Omega Red continues to attack the Stark Sentinel with his coils, while the Stark Sentinel swats Colossus away and into the Orchis jet which Laura is piloting, causing the jet to spin out of control. 'Almost there...' Sage calls out while Omega Red pulls back on his coils attempting to strangle the Stark Sentinel, 'I'm in!' Sage announces as she disables the Stark Sentinel, while at the same time, Beast Prime grabs the weapon and pushes it back into the water: 'The blast will kill you, you fool!' he shouts at Simon, who watches in shock as the bomb explodes in the water, sending a massive blast of glowing water up into the air.Later, at the North Pole, in X-Force's mobile base, the Greenhouse. Logan thinks about the Stark Sentinel that Sage shut down, which now collects rust at the bottom of the ocean. One Beast was atomized, while the other moved in with Wonder Man, and Quentin Quire mind-wiped the Orchis agent, who lost her last few weeks of memories, including of X-Force. Even though the future is uncertain, for now, X-Force do what they have always done. They keep evolving and keep surviving. Logan, Sage, Colossus, Black Tom, Laura, Omega Red, Quentin Quire and Domino gather around their conference table. X-Force ain't the ones you root for – but they get the dirty jobs done.


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Messiah War: Chapter One
“My name is Scott Summers,” Cyclops says, “and I'm the last of a dying breed... mutants.” Cyclops recounts how three simple words cut their numbers down from millions to less than 200. The mutants didn't realize the worst was still to come. With mutantkind on the brink of extinction, their enemies saw their opportunity to end them once and for all. They were hunted down and attacked from all sides. It was the children, however, who suffered most.
The Xavier Institute lost dozens of students in a single ambush, the worst attack in its history. Unbelievably, it was just the beginning of the killing, and with each life taken, hope faded for the survival of their species. Then, a new mutant was born—the first in what seemed like forever. Unfortunately, her birth did not go unnoticed.
The past. Cooperstown Hospital, Alaska…
In the Cooperstown Hospital's infant care unit, a pleasant-looking nurse makes her rounds over the new deliveries as usual. "All tuckered out, Red?" she asks one of the sleeping newborns. "You and your mommy had a long day." As she asks if the baby is ready to meet her parents, the sound of machine-gun fire rattles off in the background. A group of men bearing assault weapons and wearing crimson robes adorned with Christian imagery storms into the nursery.
These men, members of the Purifiers, fire several rounds into the nurse's back. She falls to the ground, leaving fingerprints of blood on the baby's plastic crib as the life spills out of her. The Purifiers have waged Holy War on mutantkind. During their twisted crusade, they acquired a sentient machine that allowed them to peer into the future. What they saw scared them; scared them enough, in fact, to lay siege to an entire hospital, killing every man, woman and newborn child inside it.
The X-Men are still fifteen minutes out when the Purifiers attack. There is no way for them to reach the hospital in time. As it turns out, however, the Purifiers are not the only ones who have seen the future. While one of the Purifiers torches the nursery with a flamethrower, a bullet pierces the back of his neck. He drops to the floor. A tall, white-haired man emerges in the room. He scoops red-haired infant into his biomechanical arm—the one not holding an assault rifle. The baby girl looks at her savior and smiles. Nathan Christopher Summers—the mutant known as Cable—looks back at her, his face devoid of expression.
Las Vegas. The near future…
Lucas Bishop approaches a man inside a bar called Betty Noir’s. “I’ve been looking for you,” Bishop says. The man, sipping his drink, tells Bishop that was a mistake; now he will have to kill him—just like he killed all the others. He refers, of course, to the other patrons of the bar, all of whom lie slumped over dead, their faces frozen in a final expression of horror. “You won’t kill me,” Bishop counters.
“And here I didn’t think you had a sense of humor,” the man retorts.
“I don’t,” Bishop says. “But I’ve got a proposition for you.” The shrouded man with a star-shaped scar over his right eye tells Bishop he could have chosen some more poetic last words. Bishop tells him he will not kill him because he can give him what he wants:  the only thing he has ever wanted.
The present...
Cyclops recalls how the baby was their last hope for survival. It was their sole mission to save her—a mission they failed, because it was, in fact, Cable who saved her. The X-Men fought those wanted control over the baby, as well as the monster that wanted to consume her. In the end, it was Cyclops’s son Cable who truly saved her—with the help of Professor X, the man Cyclops considers to be his father. Together, those two ensured their future while the X-Men fended off the most visible threats. They failed to realize, however, that the greatest danger would come from one of their own.
The near future. Betty Noir’s…
“I can give you Cable,” Bishop tells the man. He explains that Cable has gone rogue, lost his mind, and done some terrible things. Knocking back a glass of liquor, Bishop explains that if can’t stop him, Cable will commit even more atrocities. He already escaped into the future. Bishop needs his stoic bar-mate’s help in tracking him down.
“Cable?” the man says. “Cable’s dead.”
The present…
“My son escaped into the future, and almost immediately, I knew something had gone wrong,” Cyclops continues. Because of the nature of time travel, Cable should have come back the next day, if not the next instant. But, he didn’t. Cyclops has no idea where Cable has been. He has no idea Cable initially jumped ahead to 2043 on Muir Island. He has no idea Cable traveled to the desolate wasteland of the United States in 2118. He has no idea a mutated bear nearly ate Hope in 2190. He has no idea that Cable and Hope spent two years in a place called New Liberty, where they lived an idyllic lifestyle as farmers. All Cyclops knows for sure is that he gambled with the future of mutantkind. He made a bet on faith—faith that his son would bring Hope back to them.
Only later did he find out that Bishop was chasing after them through time. Cyclops now believes he doomed Cable and the baby simply by allowing them to leave. He recalls the time Bishop returned to the present for equipment and information. Bishop, he explains, sees the baby as a harbinger of his future—a future in which mutants are held in concentration camps, branded, and sent to slaughter like animals. Bishop believes with absolute conviction that the mutant baby would lead to the end of mutantkind. In his mind, the baby has to die—no matter what.
Bishop will do anything to prevent the holocaust of his future. He has already turned against the X-Men and nearly killed Professor Xavier. The X-Men even captured him once, but he escaped. Cyclops knows he is out there right now, trying to kill Cable and the child. Because Bishop is willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish his mission, Cyclops believes he and the X-Men must do the same. That is why he gave Wolverine the order to find Bishop, and, when the time comes, do what he does best.
The future…
“No. Cable’s alive,” Bishop corrects. “He turned on the X-Men. He turned on everyone.” Lowering his head at the bar, he claims Cable wants to destroy the future: to stop his own from ever happening. Cable, Bishop claims, is obsessed with this, but no one believes him or the lengths to which he is willing to go. “Destroying the future would destroy everything,” Bishop tells the other man. “Even you.”
The mysterious man asks Bishop how he intends to find Cable, since he could conceivably be anywhere. Not anywhere, Bishop answers. According to Bishop, Cable has killed most of the world in his madness: Australia, 2276—multiple nuclear strikes; China, 2381—civil war and bio-weapons; Europe, 2510—poisoned water supply and plague; South America, 2753—ongoing chemical fires. Now, there is only one place left for him to go, Bishop says.
Now…
Dr. Hank McCoy, the X-Man Beast, announces to Cyclops that he has a fix on Cable’s location in the year 2973. Cyclops cannot believe Cable has traveled so far into the future. Beast reminds him that 2973 is still 1000 years before Cable’s own era. Of course, from what Hank has heard, Cable’s era wasn’t exactly the safest place, either. Moving on, he explains that the devices he made will lock onto Cable’s chronal signature, but the team Cyclops sends will have to make its way to him geographically. Based off what Bishop said while in captivity, Cyclops imagines Cable is heading to the remnants of the X-Mansion Westchester. He asks Beast how much time they have. “Not much. If he jumps, we may not be able to find him again…” Beast answers. “To tell you the truth, I’m shocked we’ve located him this time.”
Cyclops gets on his communication unit and informs Logan they found Cable. Beast folds his arms. He now knows one of the people whom Cyclops intends to send—Logan—but reminds him he made seven time-travel devices. Who are the others?  Cyclops ignores the question. If he’s trying to allow for plausible deniability, then that implies guilt, Beast says. Again, Cyclops ignores him and continues talking with Wolverine. Their mission is to save mutantkind, he shouts over his com-link! Frustrated, Beast snarls. Isn’t their mission to execute Bishop? Cyclops tells Logan nothing else can take priority—not even their current mission. Logan says something, to which Scott answers that it’s not his call. He finally turns to Beast and tells him to push the button. Beast hesitates, so Cyclops pushes it for him.
New York City, 2973…
The sun sets over the post-apocalyptic ruins of New York City. When the sky finally grows dark, a flurry of electric activity erupts, localized entirely at the intersection of two streets. Archangel, X-23, Domino, Warpath, Elixir, Vanisher and Wolverine—the members of X-Force—emerge amidst a brilliant flash of white light already in fighting posture, as if they were ripped from the middle of a battle.
Wolverine hits the ground and plunges one of his claws into the asphalt. “Dammit Summers! I told you to wait!!” he shouts. He vows to kill Cyclops next time he sees him. Domino casually holsters her guns, accurately presuming they just traveled through time. Josh Foley, the golden-skinned mutant known as Elixir, looks around in confusion. They have to go back, he says! She’s going to kill their friends! Deciding he wants to go back and save them, he rips the time-travel device off his upper-arm. Removing it should return him to the correct time period. Instead, it does nothing.
Elixir looks around, astonished. Archangel, still in the air, supposes that means Cyclops was wrong. “Well, Cyclops apparently isn’t Einstein,” Warpath says. He looks up and sees an assortment of colors in the sky. “Anyone know what’s up with the sky?” Elixir asks who could care about the sky at a time like this. After Wolverine asks him to calm down, Elixir reminds him the Leper Queen has his friends. They have to do something!
Meanwhile, X-23 extends a single claw from her hand, kneels on the ground, and etches an “X” into a loose metal square. “What’s the creepy girl doing?” Domino asks. Warpath says he has no idea.
Wolverine continues arguing with Elixir. He orders him to reattach his armband, but Josh continues insisting they need to save their friends. They will, Wolverine swears, but right now, they need recon. He turns to Vanisher and tells him to scout ahead and see what he can find. “What, you’re not going to cut me up first?” Vanisher jokes. Wolverine reiterates his order, and Vanisher acquiesces. He activates a jump. Surprisingly, he doesn’t go anywhere. Wolverine asks if he wants to get hurt, but Vanisher swears it isn’t working! He tried to teleport to Japan, but couldn’t!
Suddenly, a bullet penetrates the back of Vanisher’s neck. He croaks as the trail of blood streams forth, like the tail of a comet. Immediately, the team runs for cover, while Elixir rushes toward Vanisher’s dying body. Archangel provides cover with his wings while Josh heals the mortal wound. Meanwhile, Wolverine and X-23 take cover behind a concrete wall and listen to the rapid fire of the machine gun. X-23 offers a sit-rep: the shooter is moving toward them from south-southeast. “Whatever it is, it smells bad,” she adds. “It smells dead.”
Elsewhere, while hiding behind a different patch of concrete, Domino asks Warpath if he has ever traveled through time. He honestly doesn’t remember. He tells Domino she should just fire up into the air; with her powers, the bullets will probably fall and hit their shooter. “Yeah, I should try—”
The shooter leans around the corner and puts his gun to Domino’s head.
“—that. Fudge.” She rolls her eyes. In response, the gunman tells Domino she looks exactly like a girl he knew a thousand years earlier. To her utter surprise, Domino turns and sees the person holding a gun to her head is none other than a decrepit, bullet-riddled Wade Wilson, the mercenary known as Deadpool!
“You have got to be kidding me,” Warpath sighs.
Domino, on the other hand, could not be more excited. She squeals Wade’s name aloud. He tells her he has no idea whom she means; he is the Emperor of North America. “You can call me Your Majesty,” Deadpool says. Suddenly, Wolverine’s claws pierce the back of Deadpool’s cranium and protrude from his forehead. Snarling, Wolverine asks Wade what he is doing there. “Logan! I can feel you inside my head! Are you a telepath now?” the skewered Deadpool jokes.
Vanisher asks if someone can’t just kill Deadpool already; Wolverine asks what they think he’s trying to do?! “Scratching my brain,” Deadpool answers. Resigning himself, Wolverine removes his claws from Deadpool’s head—and tells him he hates him. Deadpool, meanwhile, finally gets a look at Wolverine’s team and does a quick roll-call. “Wolverine! Thunderbird II! Domino! Other people I don’t know! I missed you!” He asks where they went; he waited for them for a really long time. Domino asks what happened to him—and how he is even still alive. He gives her a one-word answer: guns. Domino sighs and asks Logan how Deadpool is still alive. He doesn’t know, and he doesn’t care either. He just wants to find Cable. “Oh, Cable. That’s who I’m waiting for,” Deadpool says. Wolverine asks where he is. “Where is who?” Deadpool asks. Frustrated, Wolverine shouts and asks where Cable is. “I don’t know! But I know where he’ll be!” Deadpool says with blood dripping into his eyes. “Does anyone have a car?”
X-Force and Deadpool begin the long walk to Westchester, a feat to which Vanisher wholeheartedly objects. It’s like a 30-mile walk, he says! Wolverine tells him to stay in front, in case they encounter any more snipers. Vanisher curses at him. Domino, meanwhile, looks upward and decides the colors in the sky must come from an energy field. “It’s more pronounced at night,” she says to Warpath. “Why don’t you fly up there and check it out.” He tells her to shut up. Domino then spots a structure that looks like the United Nations building.
Suddenly, Warpath catches a familiar scent; Cable must be near. As he takes off running with X-23, Wolverine tells Warren and Jimmy to scout ahead, and orders Domino to babysit everyone else. She shrugs, obviously displeased. Deadpool, on the other hand, announces he brought his “Travel Connect Four” set. He asks who wants to play first. “Okay, who are you?” Elixir asks.
Wolverine, running ahead, approaches a crumbled ledge and leaps off, into the bombed-out crater below. He worms his way through the mangled mess of concrete and rebar, eventually locating the source of the scent. Putting his back to the wall, he creeps up to the corner and prepares himself for a confrontation with Cable. Wolverine spins around the corner with his claws outstretched. To his surprise, instead of Cable, he sees little Hope Summers, now around ten years old, standing in the room with an innocent expression on her face. She waves. “What the f—” Wolverine begins to say.
Cable puts both a gun to Wolverine’s head and a knife to his throat and tells him to watch his language; there are children present. Wolverine knows. To Cable’s surprise, X-23 sneaks up and puts one of her adamantium claws to his throat. She orders him to drop the weapons—now. During the standoff, Archangel and Warpath arrive, the latter of whom is glad to see his former mentor. Wolverine tells Cable to ease up; they came to help.
After removing his weapons, Cable tells Wolverine and X-Force they should not have come. He grabs Hope by the hand and tells her they’re leaving. As they begin to walk away, Hope turns and looks at the strangers, who behold her in awe. X-23 even removes her facemask. Wolverine, meanwhile, grabs Cable by the other arm and tells him he cannot just leave without first explaining a few things. In response, Cable turns and punches Wolverine across the face, the impact bloodying his knuckles. Instead of fighting back, however, Wolverine asks Cable to ease up; Cyclops sent them to help. They do not have to do this the hard way.
“Help me?” Cable asks incredulously. “You just walked into a trap!” Warpath asks what he means; the place is totally dead. How can it be a trap? Wolverine suddenly understands—or so he thinks. Bishop, he says. “Not exactly,” Cable tells him.
Cable takes Archangel and Wolverine up to a nearby ridge. Lying flat on their stomachs, they behold a futuristic city over the ridge. Wolverine immediately understands what it entails. “Holy $#%&. Him?!”
Betty Noir’s. The near future…
“I don’t care about Cable anymore,” the unidentified man says. Bishop tells him he doesn’t have to care about him; he just has to help kill him. If he agrees, Bishop promises to give him everything he ever wanted. The man claims there is nothing Bishop can give him he doesn’t already have. Not so, Bishop says; he can give him Apocalypse.
The man removes his cap, revealing head of silver hair. For a moment, he says nothing. Bishop presses down on his shot glass to relieve the tension. The glass cracks. Finally, the man—who looks identical to Cable—turns to Bishop and smiles. “Officer, you have a deal,” says Stryfe—the clone of Nathan Christopher Summers.


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Alcatraz Island…
Domino, staring down into a grimy prison sink, turns on the water. As the water begins filling the bowl, she grunts in pain—several times. Blood begins to mingle with the swirling water. She grunts again, and drops a bullet into the water.
“Domino?” someone asks. “Ma’am?” She ignores him and continues on her self-surgery, this time pulling out two teeth and dropping them into the sink. Again, someone asks if she’s in there, and if she’s okay. This time, she lifts her head and answers. She’s great, she says while taking a look at herself in the cracked mirror. In addition to the three bullet holes in her upper back and the one in her shoulder, a fresh slashing scar cuts across her mid-section.
The door opens, and in enters Domino’s X-Force teammate Josh Foley, a.k.a. Elixir. Aghast at her condition, he asks what happened to her. Domino continues looking at her reflection in the mirror, seemingly ignoring Foley’s question.
Flashback…
In the Nob Hill apartment that Neena Thurman, a.k.a. Domino, calls home, she endures a beating at the claws of a mechanical man dressed in all black. He cracks her in the jaw, knocking her to the floor. Landing on her back, Domino fires four shots from her pistols at the masked assailant. He returns the fire in force, hammering the floor near her with the sustained rounds of machine gun ammunition. He follows this up by rushing toward her and kicking her in the face. She falls to the floor once again, lifts her head, and stares at her attackers. “Are you @$#%#^s about ready to get started?” she asks.
Present…
“Domino?” Elixir asks, repeating his question.  “Nothing,” Domino tells him. Elixir doesn’t believe her; he asks her to look at herself. Domino, interrupting him, asks if he’s going to heal her or what. She only asks because if she’s going to bleed out, she’ll do it somewhere cleaner. Apologizing, Elixir tells her of course he’ll heal her. She tells him to just do it, then; she’s got places to be.
Elixir lifts his hands and prepares to lay them on her injured body. Just before he makes contact, however, a gloved hand appears seemingly out of nowhere and grabs him by the wrist. “Not so fast, golden boy,” a familiar, gruff-sounding voice says. Both Elixir and Domino turn to behold Wolverine standing in the doorway, garbed in his gray and black X-Force uniform. He has a few questions for Dom before Josh gets started, he says.
Clearly annoyed, Domino turns to Elixir and asks what part of ‘whatever you do, don’t say anything to Wolverine’ he didn’t understand. Fumbling for the right words, he says she sounded like she was in trouble, and that he doesn’t really know her. “You think you know him?” she asks, gesturing toward Wolverine.
Josh admits he doesn’t, but Wolverine interrupts him mid-sentence. He asks Domino who did this to her.  “Elixir. He just…he just went crazy!” she says, taking a seat on the bedframe. “I think you should kill him.” The astounded Elixir pleads that he didn’t do anything, but Wolverine doesn’t need to hear his defense to know he’s innocent. For the second time, he asks Domino who did this to her. She insists it isn’t his problem.
“No #@%^,” he tells her. After Domino correctly assumes that Wolverine’s going to let here bleed until she tells the truth, he once again tells her to spill it. She looks at him out of the corner of her eye. Blood drips from a cut down the tip of her nose. Without lifting her head, she takes a prolonged pause and utters the name of the culprits: the Assassins Guild.
Logan folds his arms and glares at her. He knew she was crazy, but he didn’t think she was stupid, too. Interjecting, Elixir asks if he can heal her now. Logan asks him if he said he could. Segueing back to the subject at hand, Wolverine says there isn’t any point, anyway, since Domino is clearly feeling suicidal. That’s the only reason he can figure for crossing the Assassins Guild. “Funny,” she tells Logan. “Now, do you want to know what happened or do you just want to be a *%@#?”
Wolverine tells her to proceed with the story. She explains they came to her—before she hooked up with S.H.I.E.L.D., and before she came across X-Force. Although Wolverine is shocked she took a job from the Guild, Domino informs him that she didn’t know it was them; it wasn’t a kill, it was a score. Plus, she was bored and needed the money. Wolverine asks whose money. Domino lays down on the bedframe, stretches her arm over her head, and answers that it was just some guys…
Flashback…
Domino finds herself surrounded by some guys at a shipyard. Dressed like ninjas and bearing samurai swords, they descend on her like a swarm of bees.
Present…
“What’s ‘The Hand’?” Elixir asks.  Wolverine, resting his face in his palm, tells him to shut up. Domino, meanwhile, continues to explain. They had set up shop in New Orleans, she says, and were running weapons in and out through the Gulf of Mexico. The Guild, it seems, didn’t take too kindly to it. The guys that approached her knew every move the Hand was making, inside and out. All they were missing was her.
Wolverine calls bull on her story; she expects him to believe the Assassins Guild just needed an extra gun? No, Domino says; they just wanted luck on her side.
She doesn’t really remember at what point she realized they were the Guild; it was probably around the time the Hand got the drop on them and started shouting ‘kill the Assassin Guild scum!’ in Japanese. Anyway, her crew just wanted its score, and as much as she loves fighting ninjas, that’s all Domino wanted too.
The Hand was running weapons, they told her. They said they were sitting on a pile of cash. Looking back, Domino doesn’t know why she was so surprised by what she found. People lie, she says, and the Hand, like any business, likes to diversify—but even she has her limits. She recounts to Logan and Josh that the truck containing the pile of cash actually contained a pen of young, female sex slaves. She was stunned.
Domino explains to Wolverine that the Assassins Guild must have known what the Hand was up to, yet refrained from telling her. So, in the chaos, she decided to free the girls. She succeeded, leaving the Hand and the Assassins Guild free to deal with each other. It took her a few days, but she got the girls out of Louisiana and into the Japanese Embassy in Texas. “End of story,” she concludes—or so she thought. Now it looks like the Guild is a little…upset with her.
Wolverine turns and fires two rounds from the handgun into the door, destroying the hinges.  It falls to the floor. In the doorway stands the shadowy figure of X-23, their teammate from X-Force. “If the Assassins Guild caught her, they would not just let her escape,” X-23 coolly insists. She starts to tell Wolverine to ask her another question, but he interrupts her and commands Elixir to heal Domino.
Later…
Wolverine takes a drive with Domino in his classic Ford Mustang. As they crest one of the numerous hills in San Francisco, Domino, fully healed, reminds Logan she doesn’t need his help. She’s wrong, he replies. “I know I shouldn’t give you shocking news while you’re driving, but I have managed to stay alive without you for pretty much all my life,” she tells him. That didn’t stop her from running to Elixir, Logan responds. “I don’t run to anyone,” she says. “And don’t pretend I don’t know why you’re really doing this.”
Sneering, Wolverine asks what she means. “I know you’ve got your dog nose and bear senses and whatever,” she says, folding her arms behind her head, “…but I’ve got my instincts too. You’ve wanted me in a big way ever since Japan,” she says with a sly grin.
Logan asks her if that’s right, also bearing a sly grin on his face. Yep, she says. He begins to tell her something in response. Unfortunately, he takes a sniper bullet in the face, cutting his sentence short. As blood explodes all over the broken windshield, the car runs off the road and flips over as it takes the turn too fast.
After it comes to a rest, Domino slips out of her upturned door. If this is how Logan is going to help her, she’ll pass, she says. She takes only a few steps away from the upturned vehicle before she hears a booming voice call out her full name. Domino looks up—and curses. Standing perched on the buildings surrounding her and the upturned car are the cybernetic assassins from the Assassins Guild. That morning was a courtesy, one of the assassins tells her—a warning. They gave her 24 hours and told her to return to them alone, but she didn’t listen. The Assassins Guild only gives one such chance.
Okay, Domino says—fine. They got her. She tells them she surrenders, and lifts her hands to emphasize the gesture. In both her hands, however, she still holds her pistols, pointed straight up in the air. As if by accident, she squeezes the trigger in her left hand and fires off a round. Oops, she says, her eyes widening in surprise. The men from the Guild look around for a moment in confusion. A moment later, the bullet returns to Earth, hitting the foremost assassin on the top of the head. His skull explodes from the impact.
Taking this opportunity to begin her attack, Domino springs into action, unloading her clips at the surrounding members of the Assassins Guild. As she fights, she yells to Logan that she changed her mind—he can help!
Her bullet takes one assassin in the throat, killing him as well. Domino asks if they can’t still talk this out. They continue firing at her, ignoring her light-hearted commentary. As she takes cover behind a wall, she makes another proposal: how about they put down their guns, she shoots them, and then she talks it out herself?
Again ignoring her chatter, the assassins begin formulating a strategy to flank her in her hiding spot. At that very moment, however, Wolverine emerges from the wrecked car and begins eviscerating their assailants. He stabs one man through the head, then impales another on his claws. Fountains of blood begin decorating the streets of San Francisco. Wolverine kills two more, gutting them mercilessly with his Adamantium claws. Domino leaps to his side, firing her pistol through the base of another assassin’s jaw.
Standing back to back in the middle of the street, they finish off the rest of the attackers. Covered in sweat and blood, they survey their surroundings, awash in truncated corpses smeared with red. The both catch their breath. “Logan,” Domino says, turning to her teammate and partner. Wolverine wipes the blood from his mouth and turns to her. They lock eyes and, in a moment of passion, embrace each other and share a visceral kiss. Domino wraps her legs around Wolverine’s sturdy torso, and he lifts her off the ground while they continue to hold onto one another.
A voice calls out Neena’s name, interrupting this feverish moment of raw, animal passion. Ending their kiss, Domino turns and looks at the new arrival: Razorfist of the Assassins Guild. The burly, savage-looking man with blades for hands snarls and asks Domino one question: “where’s the money?!”
Wolverine, clearly agitated, turns to Domino and repeats the question incredulously. “Where’s the money?” he barks.
Domino playfully bites on her thumb, unable to contain the guilty grin spreading across her face. “Whoops,” she says.


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The streets of San Francisco. Now…
A dumbfounded Wolverine, glaring angrily at Domino, repeats the question Razorback just asked her: “Where’s the money?!?” As they take cover behind the upturned car, Domino concedes that maybe she forgot to mention one teensy little detail. Wolverine incredulously repeats the question again: “Where’s the money?!”
They endure a barrage of bullets at the hands of Razorfist and his Assassins Guild cohorts. Wolverine, now brandishing his claws, asks Domino the question one more time. Domino asks him to stop saying that and help her. Fine, he says, but if he doesn’t like the rest of her story, he’ll deliver her to the Guild himself. Domino considers that proposition fair enough.
Wolverine vaults over the top of the car and lunges at the Guild members. Domino backs him up with a series of rapid gunfire. Her bullets don’t hit the Guild members, however, instead striking the concrete supporting the roof. The assassins can’t believe she missed; they thought she was supposed to be lucky. Just as one of the assassins is finishing this thought, the concrete beneath them begins to crumble away, and the group of them, including Razorfist, tumbles off the roof and to the hard asphalt below. At least one of them hits with deadly force.
As the others begin formulating their plan of attack, Wolverine descends on them. He splits the skull of one of the assassins into three pieces with a quick swipe of his claws. As another orders his men to take him down, Wolverine pierces his brain with his other set of claws. He continues ravaging the assassins, splitting their guns—and limbs—into pieces. Razorfist, however, catches him unawares, and pierces him through the torso with the blade that protrudes from the end of his right arm. Wolverine cries out in pain.
With his blade still protruding from Wolverine’s torso, Razorfist informs his old foe that this conflict has nothing to do with him. Because of that, he is willing to give Wolverine just one chance to walk away. Wolverine, ignoring this gracious offer, thanks Razorfist for the laugh. With one swift motion, he elbows the flat part of the man’s blade and snaps it in two, separating the rest of Razorfist from the blade in his abdomen. He turns and swipes his other set of claws across Razorfist’s other arm-blade, shattering that one as well. The coup de grace to Razorfist comes in the form of a sharp headbutt to the nose.
“Wait! Don’t kill him!” Domino cries out as Wolverine dismantles their foe. “We need to insult him first!” Razorfist, meanwhile, crumbles to the ground in a heap. Through the blood spilling out of his broken nose, he tells Wolverine that he and Domino are both dead! The Assassins Guild will never—
Suddenly Wolverine thrusts his fist into Razorfist’s neck—with his claws retracted, of course. “How about we give him a new name?” he asks Domino. She responds by saying she likes the name Razor Legs. Wolverine, holding one of Razorfist’s blades dangerously over the man’s left leg, tells him to listen up; since he likes giving chances so much, they’ll give him one too. If Wolverine ever hears the words ‘razor’ and ‘fist’ used together in a sentence, he’s going to find him and kill him.
“Razorfist,” Domino says. Wolverine tells her that wasn’t a sentence. Getting up, he orders Razorfist to tell Belladonna to stop this now, before someone important gets hurt.
Later, when Wolverine and Domino are alone again, she fills in the parts she omitted from her story.
Like she said before, she honestly didn’t know they were the Assassins Guild. When they got to the pier, it was all ninja ninja ninja, kill kill kill. She was only there to play lady luck—to make everything go smoothly so they could find the cash. When she found the girls, however, she had no choice but to be an upstanding citizen about it!
“Which kind of pissed me off, because, you know…money,” she adds. She tells Logan that she found a truck nearby and used it to get the girls out of there. She started driving the girls to the Japanese consulate in Texas, just a hop, skip and a jump away. She figured she would drop them off and give them a chance at a better life—no harm, no foul. Sure, the Hand was going to slaughter the Guild members who hired her, but hey—that’s life.
“No harm, no foul,” Logan says, interrupting her. “I’m going to put that on your gravestone. He asks where they’re going. Continuing, Domino reminds him that she mentioned the truck she found. As she leads Wolverine into an old, abandoned barn, they come upon the truck, and Domino opens its back door. She claims it wasn’t until she had left Louisiana that she noticed what was in the back of the vehicle.
Wolverine curses as he peeks inside the truck’s cargo bay, which is filled with a veritable mountain of cash. “Lucky, right?” Domino says. “I had the girls count it. They each got a million. I got a million, too…give or take 237 million. That’s a lot of money, Logan,” she says, giving him a seductive look. When he acknowledges her statement, she suggests that they go and find a hotel room to work this out.
“…Yeah,” Wolverine responds.
Shortly thereafter, Wolverine and Domino find themselves in a hotel room in San Francisco. They waste little time in exorcising their sexual tension. With his lips locked firmly over Domino’s, Wolverine grabs her by the wrists and slams her into the mirror, never once breaking their moment of intimate contact. Domino pushes off and pins him to the bed, removing his mask. Resting on top of him, she pauses tenderly over his face for a moment before arching her back upright and removing her top. Logan’s jaw drops at the sight of the beautiful woman in bed with him. He takes her once more and they tumble beneath the sheets in a passionate embrace.
New Orleans…
Inside a bayou villa, a head matriarch of the Assassins Guild sits on her throne while a holographic projection addresses her. The hologram depicts the assassin Razorfist as he beseeches Belladonna, his employer. He confesses to her that he lost both Domino and Wolverine. Belladonna asks if there’s any reason she shouldn’t have him killed for his failure.
Lifting his head, Razorfist informs her that he managed to plant a tracer on Wolverine with his blade. He can find them, he insists. Belladonna, speaking to the rest of her men, instructs them to summon whatever other specialists they currently have in the country. They are to drop all other assignments, she says; the Guild is calling in a favor.
The call goes out to Atlantic City, where Boomerang, an agent equipped with weaponized boomerangs, receives it via text message.
The call also goes out to Chicago, where the shadow-bending knife man Nakh receives the message. He takes a break from slitting a man’s throat to answer it.
Clay, a sniper with the ability to create duplicate snipers, gets the call in Dallas.
In Miama, Black Mamba, an assassin whose limited telepathy and Darkforce generation makes her an expert in strangulation, answers the call as well.
The call also goes out to Bullet, a superpowered assassin based in New York City.
Bushwacker gets the call in Los Angeles. A killer with a healing factor and a cybernetic gun arm, he finishes slaughtering the patrons of a restaurant before answering the phone and saying he can be there in two hours.
San Francisco…
After wrapping up their bout in bed, Wolverine and Domino lay next to each other, finally relaxed. They practically roll in the cash scattered around the room and on the bed. The shirtless Wolverine shoots a smile at the barely clothed Domino and tells her this doesn’t make anything better. Well, she feels better, she says. Good for her, Logan answers. She suggests they give it another go and see if they can’t turn his frown upside down.
Changing the subject for a moment, she acknowledges that Warren has money and all, but doesn’t Wolverine realize how much good they can do with 137 million dollars? Logan says he thought there was 237 million. “Finder’s fee,” Domino answers as she throws a fistful of dollars into the air. As it flutters to the floor, Wolverine begins to ask her a question. Unfortunately, his rebuttal is interrupted by a series of gunshots that fire into their hotel room.
Wolverine immediately positions his body between Domino and the gunfire; several rounds connect with his back and embed themselves in his flesh. Move, he shouts at her! Domino rolls out from beneath him, grabs her gun, kicks him to the side and aims at her assailant. Whoever he is, she says, he just made a big mistake!
As luck would have it, Domino’s gun doesn’t fire; it’s out of bullets. “Fudge,” she says. Her assailant towers over her. As he points the barrel of his fleshy, cybernetic arm cannon in Domino’s face, Bushwacker tells her to make her peace with God.
Right as he fires, Wolverine springs at him and brings his claws down across his arm, severing the gun from the rest of his body—temporarily, at least. The round barely misses Domino’s face. Regaining control of himself, Bushwacker kicks Logan aside. He tells him that when he found out he was involved, he was glad; he feels they left things unfinished last time. As his meaty arm-gun rebuilds itself, Bushwacker tells Logan he still wants to repay him for what he did to his face.
He fires, but both Domino and Wolverine manage to leap out of the way. Domino, still wearing nothing but a bra and panties, remarks to Logan that everyone seems to hate him. He barks at her to just shut up and shoot! Fine, Domino says as she leaps backward, deftly evading Bushwacker’s bullets. She aims her handguns right down the barrel of Bushwacker’s cannon, expertly sending a round straight into its barrel. His arm explodes; he screams.
Enraged, Bushwacker tells Domino that they told him to keep her alive—at least until she gave up the money. She should have kept it hidden, he says; she would have lived. As he speaks, however, a trio of claws burst through his right pectoral muscle. They thrust upward, rending his shoulder to shreds. Bushwacker falls to the ground with a sickening thud.
Wolverine, wasting no time, stands over him and brings his two outermost claws down around the assassin’s neck. The middle claw, he leaves retracted, but ready for release. How’d he find them, Logan asks? Through stunted breaths, Bushwacker reveals that Razorfist planted a tracer on them. “Razorfist?” Domino says. “Hey! That was a complete sentence! Now we can kill him!”
Ignoring her, Wolverine asks Carl who else Belladonna is sending. Bushwacker answers with one word: everyone. Logan lifts his head and addresses Domino. They have to move the money, he says; if the Guild gets the cash, they have no leverage. As if to punctuate his sentence, Wolverine releases his middle claw into Bushwacker’s neck with a familiar SNIKT sound, sending forth a spigot of blood.
Meanwhile, in New Orleans, a member of the Assassins Guild informs Belladonna that Bushwacker is not responding. She pauses for a moment, then states that Wolverine and Domino will be coming there soon. Put Clay at the airport, she says—and when they arrive, kill Wolverine, then bring Domino to her. At Belladonna’s side, Black Mamba, Bullet, Boomerang and Nakh stand at attention.
The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport…
A plane lands on the runway. Logan and Domino disembark shortly thereafter and make their way through the airport, chatting as they go. Domino tells him she always knew he must have had a way to get through airport security, but wow—that was something. Anything he wants to do while they’re in New Orleans? she asks.
Kill her, Wolverine grumbles. Domino takes umbrage at that; she makes him a member of the Mile High Club, and that’s the thanks she gets? He wants her too much to kill her, Domino reminds him. Logan urges her not to tempt him. Now, she admits she’s confused.
As they walk, a man watches them through the scope of his sniper rifle. “They have arrived,” he says. The speaker, however, is not Clay of the Assassins Guild. The sniper rifle is his, but the samurai sword lodged in his forehead prevents him from using it, much less breathing. The Hand ninja immediately behind him continues speaking to his fellow warriors. Wolverine and Domino will lead them to the Assassins Guild—and all who crossed the Hand will die.