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Wolverine wakes to find himself in a lab built into a mountain. His hands are covered in blood and soldiers lay dead, while prehistoric creatures scratch at glass cages in an attempt to break free. A scientist is still alive, though badly injured. He explains that Soteira brought him here, and that his expertise is de-extinction and cloning. The scientist pleads with Wolverine to stop Soteira, that he must find Persephone and end her. Wolverine appears to be having some memory lapses, before a grenade is thrown into the lab, setting a sabretooth tiger free, although the escaping tiger sends a shard of glass into the scientist's head, killing him. Wolverine fights the tiger, until a mastodon escapes, and kills the tiger as it lumbers out of the lab. Wolverine has visions of himself at past points in time as he makes his way out of the lab, and onto the side of a mountain. He sees the mastodon has been shot dead, and notices several soldiers fleeing in a jeep. Noticing a nearby motorcycle, Wolverine takes a rifle and starts to follow them towards a facility, some sort of detainment center, built near a body of water. Inside the facility, more soldiers can be seen, and one of them takes a teenage boy, before the center is set on fire. A man attempts to escape, but is shot dead by a sniper. Wolverine gets evere closer and opens fire at the sniper, who appears to be Omega Red. He knocks him out, briefly, before Omega Red shoots at Wolverine's motorcycle, causing Wolverine to fall on his head, he blacks out. But, in his mind, he sees himself, at vairous points in time, behind prison cells, and some of his friends and enemies, too. A woman holds the key to the cells and introduces herself as Persephone. Wolverine remembers being told to kill her, and stop everything she does. Persephone then claims that she brought Wolverine back to life. Wolverine wakes up and finds a different woman trying to help him. She tells him that her son was taking and begs for his help, although he is confused when she calls him Wolverine. Wolverine shows her a wound in his side which won't heal, and she takes him to a lab, where she reveals that Soteira rounded up various scientific experts to help them with their work, and tells Wolverine that her son was taken by them. The woman's name is Ana, and she gives Wolverine a black costume to wear after stapling up his wound that won't heal, before she tells him a story about how she knows he is a hero, recounting a time she witnessed Wolverine stop a madman who was on a rampage in her city. In his mind, Wolverine unlocks one of his past versions, before asking Ana if she knows a woman called Persephone. Ana reveals that Persephone runs Soteira, that she is the devil. Wolverine pops his claws and tells Ana that it is time for them to go meet the devil. (Brief description courtesy of uncannyxmen.net)
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Comic Notes: |
Variant Only: Gambit does not appear in the comic itself, only on the variant cover shown here. |
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