Stars: Wolverine,
Rogue, Nightcrawler
Appears: Magneto, Sabertooth, Jean
Cameos: Multiple, Wolfsbane
Summary
Wolverine is being chased through the woods on his
motorcycle by a military like group. Nick Fury shows up in a helicopter
and calls Logan "Weapon X". Wolverine tells him "Goodbye" and that he
doesn't work for SHIELD anymore. Fury won't let him leave and Wolverine
gets mad. He asks Fury what he wants. Fury tells him that "Rebirth" has
been stolen. Wolverine tells him that it's impossible that Rebirth was
destroyed. Fury tells him that there was a second one, a back up. SHIELD
is unsure who took it, but there were magnetic pulses that bent metal.
Of course Wolverine knows it's Magneto right away.
At the Institute, Wolverine tells Xavier about Rebirth.
A machine created to "enhance" humans and create super soldiers during
World War II. It was only used on one man, Steve Rogers. A flashback
shows Rogers during the Rebirth experiment and then later as Captain
America fighting in the war. A younger Wolverine meets Cap. America for
the first time. Xavier interrupts to say that he didn't realize that
Logan was that old. Wolverine goes on to tell him that Rebirth ended up
destroying Rogers and now he believes that Magneto has it.
Xavier tries to find Magneto using Cerebro, but fails.
Tons of other mutant signatures turn up though and the two talk about a
massive mutant population boom. Kurt and Rogue are eavesdropping and get
caught. Rogue tells them that she remembers some info that she drained
from Magneto in New York (during "On Angel's Wings) and she thinks that
he's hiding out at a base in the Sahara Desert. So Wolverine, Kurt and
Rogue head out to the Desert.
On route, Wolverine has another flashback to WWII. He's
teamed up with Cap. America on a mission to free some POW's. The mission
is successful and the boy that Cap carries out of the camp uses his
mutant powers to deflect some bombs that come hurling towards them.
Wolverine asks the boy what his name is and he tells him that it's Erik
Lehnsherr.
Back in the present, Kurt asks Wolverine why there was
only one super soldier created using Rebirth and Logan tells him that
the process actually caused a "cellular breakdown" that was killing
Captain America. In another flashback Wolverine and Captain America
destroy Rebirth to keep anyone else from suffering.
The team gets to Magneto's base and find someone inside
the second Rebirth machine. Sabertooth attacks Wolverine and Kurt and
Rogue try to get to the machine to destroy it. Both of them are trapped
by steel beams while Sabertooth and Wolverine continue to do major
property damage going at each other. Kurt 'ports to Rebirth and is about
to set the bomb when Magneto calls out to him from the chamber.
Magneto tells Kurt that he's using Rebirth to replenish
himself, that without it he's going to die and if Kurt blows up the
controls he will be killing Magneto. He asks Kurt if he's that much like
his mother. Kurt is unable to blow up the machine and Magneto turns
young again as Rebirth rebuilds his cells. Turns out Rebirth doesn't
harm mutants the way it does humans.
Wolverine is finally able to KO Sabertooth and pulls
Magneto from Rebirth. He arms the detonator and Rebirth explodes.
Magneto is furious and creates a huge metal monster that attacks the
X-men. He decides in the end to release them though, because Kurt spared
his life.
Later Wolverine visits Captain America alone. Cap is
encased in a cryogenic chamber, waiting for them to find a cure to the
damage done by Rebirth. Fury comes in and tells him it's time to go and
to remember that he was never there.
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