Weapon X Files: Logan

Graydon Creed

Sabretooth is given a photograph of Mystique by the Tribune (later revealed to be their son Graydon Creed), and ordered to kill her, ensuring his obedience with the threat of death after implanting a bomb in his chest. Sabretooth bursts into her hotel room in France, and chases her up the Eiffel Tower, where they run into her dinner date, Wolverine. Wolverine and Sabretooth have a showdown, but are interrupted when she morphs into Leni Zauber, revealing that she and Victor knew each other during the Cold War. He's surprised and annoyed, because he knows that Leni's dead, but she attempts to convince him that she really is Leni.

Mystique tells the story of their meeting in East Berlin, explaining that her morphing powers "continually revitalize my body cells and DNA memory", giving her a permanently youthful appearance and body. Despite her story, he still doesn't believe her, and is about to kill her when she mentions their son, who he (and Wolverine) had not been aware of. She tells him that she gave her son up after he was born, and that it was surely their son who implanted the bomb in Sabretooth and sent him to kill her, for revenge.

Sabretooth and Birdy depart in search of the Tribune, leaving Mystique and Wolverine back at the Eiffel Tower. He sees a photo of her son, recognizes him, and suggests that he could have used some love from his mother, before leaving in disgust. (Sabertooth #1-3)

Cooper

After learning that Val Cooper has information on the person who tried to kill her at the Belle Fourche Dam (X-Men Prime), Mystique steals X-Factor's craft to go after her attacker. However, she's attacked by Sabretooth. She knows that he wasn't the one who previously attacked her at the dam, and he knows she's not the person he's been hired to kill. She taunts him enough to slash her. When X-Factor arrives, he tells them that he's working for the government too, but he attacks them all and goes for the kill. He was sent by the government to kill everyone involved with the facility, and has decided that X-Factor now has to die for seeing too much (X-Factor #122).

As X-Factor battles the team's training Sentinel, Forge decides they need the assistance of Sabretooth, and asks Mystique to retrieve him from his cell, to which she grudgingly obeys, grumbling that she won't bring him back alive. However, Fatale arrives via a teleportational portal, saying that the Dark Beast wants "to take you two out of the fight early". They fall through the portal into a deep cavern, managing to grab on to the edge, though both are hostile and show no regard for the safety of the other. Dark Beast wants to make them an offer and tries to recruit them. He turns off Sabretooth's restraining collar and Mystique's neural implant, and then tells them to kill Forge. They quickly decide to attack the Dark Beast instead. Mystique gets Forge to safety as Sabretooth battles the Beast. However, Beast defeated Sabretooth, and comes to kill the pair, though Raven morphs into a fierce-looking creature to confront him. She impresses both Beast and Forge with her increased shapeshifting abilities, but is quickly defeated by a quick slash of the Beast's claws. Sabretooth recovers and attacks him again, intending to kill him, but the Beast teleports away (X-Factor #125).

Forge assigns Mystique to work with Wildchild. He rescues her when she nearly falls into pit. She then uses her powers to create wings, and flies them to their destination. They meet up with Sabretooth and Forge as the two of them confront Fatale over the fate of Beast. Sabretooth determines that the man pretending to be Beast is actually the Dark Beast in disguise, and they rescue the more kindly version (X-Factor #126).

[Wolverine]

Catalyst

Mystique and Sabretooth, on the run from X-Factor in order to complete some personal business, infiltrate the SHIELD Helicarrier to gain access to a SHIELD morgue in order to find a capsule containing information they need to destroy the life's work of a HYDRA scientist named Catalyst, the man who tortured them and Destiny years before. The capsule provides a map to his fortress, and they intend to destroy his notes as a poor substitute for getting revenge directly on him for his crimes. Destiny had once told Raven where the information would be found. They're then ambushed by AIM, but go on the offensive and make their escape. Mystique flies out of the Helicarrier, struggling to carry Sabretooth, but crashes when she's shot. Cypher

Meanwhile, Cypher is tracking the pair through Sabretooth's restraining collar, and sends more assassins after them. Before Mystique and Sabretooth can get started on their plans, the assassins burst in and attack. They earn a temporary reprieve and can start on their mission. However, she's realized that AIM is tracking them through his collar, and is forced to take it off him, which leaves her in grave danger, as it's the only thing that prevents him from doing harm to her. It also means that X-Factor can track them and will realize that they're alive. She brings it along as a threat to him, saying that it'll kill anyone who tampers with it, and he's furious to be threatened. He tells her that he'll kill her if she tries to force him to put it back on or go back to X-Factor, or might slaughter her anyway for kicks, which leaves them at an angry stalemate as they approach the HYDRA base.

Their plane crashes when it's shot down, and they're forced to go on foot over the island, arriving in the middle of a war between AIM and HYDRA. Cypher is enraged that the pair is not dead, and intends to finish the job. The two get involved in the battle, Sabretooth fighting outside with HYDRA agents while Mystique makes her way inside the compound, encountering two genetically-engineered creatures which attack and incapacitate her. They carry her off to give to their "master", whilst Sabretooth is involved in a difficult situation with several agents and a horde of piranhas.

Sabretooth eventually pulls himself out of the water, leaving the fish and dead agents behind, and goes into the building in search of Mystique. She awakens in the presence of Catalyst, the old enemy who had been thought dead, killed by Destiny as he'd tortured her. His mutant powers have regenerated his body, and he's back at work, seeking power and to rule HYDRA, though he admits his project is not yet complete. He taunts her with 'condolences' of Destiny's death, saying he'd hoped to kill her himself, but describes his need for maintaining secrecy all these years. He also talks to Raven about creating a child from their genetic material, and offers her a place in HYDRA, but when she disgustedly turns him down, he simply uses his powers to affect her body, forcing her to morph uncontrollably. His genetically-engineered creatures take her away. Meanwhile, Sabretooth catches a whiff of Catalyst's scent and is determined to get revenge, going in search of him. When he finds him, he recklessly attacks all the HYDRA agents in sight, heading for Catalyst, and Mystique is freed from her imprisonment by a stray blast. Catalyst and one of his creatures (Dismember) make their escape, leaving the other monster and a bunch of HYDRA agents to fight the two mutants. They lock the doors, and Cypher floods the room with poisonous gas.

As the gas spreads, the duo uses Catalyst's remaining creature to burn their way out of the room, and then kill him after they escape. They start killing every AIM agent in their path, searching for Cypher and Catalyst, the two of whom are having a confrontation of their own as she attempts to steal his data and he tries to stop her. When he sees Mystique and Sabretooth coming after him, he makes a strategic escape, abandoning his work. Mystique follows him, morphing some wings to fly, leaving an angry Sabretooth to destroy the program. He struggles with Cypher as she is able to contact the NORAD defence system, and in only minutes will be able to launch nuclear missiles at Russia, with the intent of destabilizing the world so AIM can make a fortune. But she is desperate to escape Sabretooth's rage, and tells him that he can let her go and destroy the machines in order to prevent World War III; he grudgingly agrees, and succeeds while she runs off. Meanwhile, Mystique chases Catalyst as he tries to escape the island with his creature Dismember. He sends Dismember to keep her away from him, and she morphs into another monster just as large as he, eventually managing to trick and defeat him. She then searches for Catalyst, and he's horrified to see Destiny standing before him---years earlier, Irene had told him that her face would be the last he'd see before he died, and 'she' repeats that prediction again. Shocked and rattled by the apparition, he falls to his death in the piranha-filled moat. Finally fulfilling her long-ago promise to make him pay for what he did to Irene all those years before, Raven reverts back to her true form, and goes in search of Sabretooth. He hits her when they meet up again, furious that he was denied the chance to get revenge on Catalyst. She tells him to put his collar back on, and that they're going back to X-Factor, to which he laughs. Though she tries to reason with him, mentioning the increasing anti-mutant hysteria, and admits that it serves both their interests to remain with the team, he doesn't care. He breaks the box containing the collar, and she tells him that earlier she'd added a gas to kill him if he tampered with it---and will let him die if he doesn't obey. Under threat of death, and very unhappy about the situation, he puts the collar back on, angrily telling her that someday he'll have payback for her trickery. (Sabretooth and Mystique #1-3)