Harry Candelario

After a training session with Wolverine synthoids, Heather is engulfed in a glowing glob and taken away; Meanwhile, Sunfire's radiation poisoning is causing his condition to deteriorate; The glowing glob delivers Heather to a room at Department H where they mess around with her memories to keep her addled; Mac briefs the Alphans with an incorrect version of Wolverine's (Weapon X) history; Puck, having remembered about Jefferies, runs to the briefing to find them watching a video showing Wolverine murdering Madison Jefferies.

Alpha Flight takes on Wolverine in order to bring him to justice for the murder of Madison Jefferies; During the fight, Heather notices that Wolverine doesn't have adamantium bones anymore; Since they were supposedly tracking him by his adamantium, this doesn't make sense; When Wolverine is joined by Rogue, Cannonball, Maggott and Storm, Alpha Flight begins to doubt their orders; After learning that Wolverine was in jail during the time Department H told them he killed Jefferies, Alpha Flight heads "home" to confront General Clarke.

Alpha prepares to fight Snowbird but she turns out to be an illusion set by Shaman; Somehow the two Guardians are linked and they start to feel that there is something wrong with the two teams fighting; Weapon X takes Dr Huxley to the Hellpounder, a nucleaur bomb that was originally used to destroy nucelar waste, and makes him activate it; Thinking that Weapon X is trying to crack his armor and infect the world, the two Alpha Fight him; They later learn that he is trying to commit suicide and that he has removed the virus from Aurora; They still attempt to save him anyway in order to get him the help he needs.

Polaris confronts Magneto in an effort to stop him from claiming the advanced mutagenic equipment hidden in Carrion Cove and restoring his fading powers. Magneto defeats her and uses the machines to repair his damaged DNA. The Avengers focus their efforts on saving the lives of those endangered during their fight against Magneto. When he emerges once more, he is invigorated and uses his powers to immobilize Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. He tells them to get out of his country and when they try to argue that the UN didn’t agree to this, he points out they have violated their own treaty and that they and Roxxon have been supporting the rebellion against him. He refuses to recognize human law. The Wasp declares that it’s in the world best interest that they stop him here and now. He asks how they plan to do that and as a demonstration of his raw power, he magnetically reaches out to Hammer Bay, grabs the traitorous Fabian Cortez and smashes his body against the rocks before the assembled heroes. He then positions satellites and threatens to crash them into major cities if the Avengers don’t leave. The Wasp relents and Magneto exchanges harsh words with his children: Wanda and Pietro before they depart. He tells them that they have once again disappointed him and they express their disgust with him. Polaris departs as well, explaining that it’s what Alex would have wanted her to do. Magneto is left alone to rebuild Genosha and prepare for the next stage of his plans. Quicksilver and Polaris prepare themselves for the coming genetic war on the horizon.

Lady Deathstrike leaps to attack Domino, who blasts her repeatedly with little effect. Domino pulls out two thermite grenades; Deathstrike bats them away, but thanks to Domino’s luck powers, they ricochet right back and explode at Deathstrike’s feet, knocking Domino free from her grip and leaving a crater in the ground. Hoping Thurman is still alive, Domino picks up his abandoned copy of Dante and rushes out of the room.

She flashes back to when she first met him, when she was employed as security in this same facility. Thurman was held there because of his ability to see trends in the past and thus predict future events. He calls her Beatrice, and also Domino, and though she doesn’t like him at first, eventually the two fall in love.

Elsewhere, in a secret Canadian Weapon X facility, Donald Pierce and Skullbuster oversee the effort to turn the kidnapped Milo Thurman into a cyborg.

Domino sets a device to blow up the whole facility where Thurman had been kept, and she regrets not coming back sooner to rescue him. Suddenly Lady Deathstrike attacks her again, having survived the previous explosion in a stripped-down cybernetic form. They battle, with Lady Deathstrike getting the upper hand, and both are seemingly caught in the explosion. In fact, however, to her own surprise, Domino wakes up in the Canadian Weapon X bunker, in the presence of Donald Pierce.

Domino is horrified to see that Pierce is turning Milo Thurman into a cyborg; he says that Domino herself will be next. Once Thurman’s mind has been extracted from its mortal form, Pierce plans to use his predictive powers for his own purposes. Domino tries to fight him but is immediately overpowered. Pierce also recounts how he survived his apparent demise at the hands of Trevor Fitzroy and the Sentinel attack in Uncanny X-Men #281. As Milo wakes up and sees Domino and cries out for her, Pierce orders Lady Deathstrike (now in her regular form again) Skullbuster to take her to the chamber where she will be turned into a cyborg.

Milo reflects on the last time he saw Domino; when the government facility where he was housed was attacked by AIM agents hoping to kidnap him. Domino fought them off but instead of running away as she ordered, he stayed to watch her fight, and (so he believd) watched her die in an explosion.

Domino is put into a chamber where she is suspended above an acid bath, but her harness fortuitously malfunctions, allowing her to free herself. When Deathstrike and Skullbuster rush into the room to find her, she kicks them both into the acid. Arming himself with hi-tech blasters, she finds Pierce and blasts him. With over half his memories already downloaded and wiped from his physical body. Thurman says it’s too late to free him, and Domino reluctantly agrees. She sets another bomb and prepares to destroy the facility, thinking of Thurman and Cable, the two men in her life that she has loved. Pierce recovers and plugs his mind back into the mainframe, allowing him to survive the huge explosion that follows.

Collects stories from Marvel Comics Presents (1988-1995) #62-71.

The mayhem-loving mutant faces occult intrigue against Abdul Alhazred, while fallout from the Acts of Vengeance brings him face to facelessness with the ninjas of Deathwatch! Wolverine does it again, and he does it the best!

Guest-starring Ghost Rider!

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