The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2' Page #4

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The metal on your bones -

it carries his signature.

- But the professor...

- He trusted you to discover this on your own.

He gives you more credit than I do.

Why do you need us?

Mystique has discovered plans of a base that

Stryker's been operating out of for decades.

We know it's where he's building the second

Cerebro, but we don't know where the base is.

And I believe one of you might.

The professor already tried.

Once again, you think it's all about you.

Hello.

I didn't mean to snoop.

Just try and relax.

I'm sorry.

- Stryker's at Alkali Lake.

- That's where the professor sent me.

- There's nothing left.

- Nothing left on the surface.

The base is underground.

You OK?

- Yeah.

- You sure?

How we doin'?

Not good. It looks like four or five hours

before I can get it off the ground.

That's not what I meant.

- I'm just worried about Scott.

- I'm worried about you.

That was some display of power up there.

- Obviously it wasn't enough.

- Come on.

I love him.

Do you?

Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, Logan.

They don't take him home.

They marry the good guy.

I could be the good guy.

Logan, the good guy sticks around.

Please.

- Don't make me do this.

- Do what?

This.

Excuse me.

They say you can imitate anybody,

even their voice.

Even their voice.

Then why not stay in disguise all the time?

Look like everyone else?

Cos we shouldn't have to.

Look...

- No one's ever left a scar quite like you.

- What do you want, an apology?

You know what I want.

But what do you want?

What do you really want?

I want you to get out.

Jesus.

Why don't we get uniforms?

They're on order.

Should arrive in a few years.

We love what you've done with your hair.

Come on, let's go.

They say you're the bad guy.

Is that what they say?

It's a dorky-looking helmet.

What's it for?

This dorky-looking helmet is the only thing

that'll protect me from the real bad guys.

What's your name?

John.

What's your real name, John?

Pyro.

Quite a talent you have there, Pyro.

I can only manipulate the fire.

I can't create it.

You are a god among insects.

Never let anyone tell you different.

Sir, the machine has been completed

to all specifications.

Good.

If I may ask, sir,

why are we keeping the children here?

I'm a scientist, Sergeant Lyman.

When I build a machine,

I wanna make sure that it's working.

All right, this is a topographic map

of the dam. This is the spillway.

See these density changes in the terrain?

They're tire tracks.

That's the entrance.

And this shows the depth of the ice

covering the ground.

- This is recent water activity.

- If we go in, Stryker could flood the spillway.

Can you teleport inside?

I have to be able to see where I'm going,

otherwise I could wind up inside a wall.

I'll go.

I've a hunch he'll want me alive.

Whoever goes into the dam needs to be

able to operate the spillway mechanism.

What do you intend to do?

Scratch it with your claws?

- I'll take my chances.

- But I won't.

Sir, there's someone

coming down the spillway.

- I'm flooding it.

- Wait.

Stryker!

Look who's come home.

Move, and you're dead.

The one thing I know better than anyone

is my own work. Seal the room. Shoot it.

Seal the room. Step away.

We have a metamorph loose.

Could be anybody.

- Can you override the spillway mechanism?

- Only from that room.

- That's why the doors are so thick.

- Really?

Get some charges. Blow the doors open.

Take out these cameras.

I'm in.

- She's good.

- You have no idea.

Fire in the hole.

Move.

She's opened the spillway doors.

More mutants have entered.

- How many?

- We've lost coms - electrical interference.

Sergeant Lyman, gather your men

and meet me outside Cerebro.

You, carry on. When I come back

I want this door open all the way.

Welcome, Professor.

Don't leave me alone. Please?

You can come inside.

Found it?

A large portion of energy from the dam

has been diverted to this chamber.

- Cerebro.

- There it is.

Can you shut it down from here?

- Come. There's little time.

- Not without us.

My God. The children.

Kurt, will you come with me?

- Where are they?

- In a cell one level down.

We'll get the children

and meet you at Cerebro.

I'll try to find Scott and the professor.

- Will you be all right without us?

- I'll be fine.

Where's Logan?

He's gone.

You. Set up a perimeter.

Jason.

It's time.

Time to find our friends.

Is it time to find our friends?

All of them.

All of the mutants.

Everywhere.

- Everywhere.

- That's right.

- Every one of them?

- Yes.

Good.

It's time to bring it to an end.

Make me proud.

Just don't move.

Kill anyone who approaches.

Even if it's me.

Go! I'll take care of him.

This is one lovers' quarrel

we cannot get involved in, my dear.

Scott!

- Help us, anybody!

- Listen.

- Help!

- Get us out of here.

- Jubilee?

- Storm.

We're coming.

Scott, don't do this.

Jean, no, it's OK. It's me.

I'm so sorry.

- I thought I'd lost you.

- Oh, God.

I'm so sorry. I could see you,

but I couldn't stop myself. I tried.

- I love you so much.

- I love you.

- My leg.

- Easy.

Something's wrong.

My God.

Have you found the mutants yet?

Have you found all of them?

I'm trying. There are so many of them.

Then concentrate.

There's a tricky thing about adamantium.

If you ever manage

to process its raw, liquid form,

you gotta keep it that way.

Keep it hot.

Because once the metal cools,

it's indestructible.

But you already know that.

I used to think you were

one of a kind, Wolverine.

I was wrong.

Holy sh*t.

That's it.

- Where do you think you're going?

- I'm sick of this. I'm going in.

John, they told us to stay here.

You always do as you're told?

Find all the mutants.

All of them. Find them.

Find all the mutants.

Everywhere. Each one. All of them.

Good. Kill them.

Concentrate. Concentrate harder.

Now find them all. Find all the mutants.

Concentrate harder. Each and every one.

Find all the mutants.

Kill them all. Find them all. Kill them.

Cerebro...

We're too late.

Eric, hurry.

That's strange.

How does it look from there, Charles?

Still fighting the good fight?

From here, it doesn't look like

they're playing by your rules.

Maybe it's time to play by theirs.

There's been a change of plan.

Goodbye, Charles.

There's been a change of plans.

Now find them. Focus. Find them all.

The humans. Find all of them.

Every one.

How does it feel, bum?

- Why did you come back?

- You cut me open. You took my life.

You make it sound as if

I stole something from you.

As I recall, it was you

who volunteered for the procedure.

Who am I?

You are just a failed experiment.

If you really knew about your past -

what kind of person you were,

the work we did together...

People don't change, Wolverine.

You were an animal then.

You're an animal now.

I just gave you claws.

What the hell is that?

- What is it?

- The dam's ruptured.

It's gonna flood water into the spillway.

It's trying to relieve the pressure.

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