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As the lights faded to nothing Logan had closed his eyes, he had placed himself between Scarlet Witch’s attack and his family. He knew when he jumped between them his life was being sacrificed. It was a sacrifice he was willing to make. His brother deserved to live his life with Sarael and to have happiness. And Aurelia, well he loved her far too much to let her life end so shortly. He wouldn’t let either of them die to save him. As he stood there his eyes held shut he could hear two voices.

“LOGAN! NOOO!!!”, Aurelia’s voice screamed. “JAMES!!!!”, he could his John yelling. He turns and opens his eyes. “Thank god you two are ok.”, he said heading for them. Aurelia was still injured on the ground and John was holding her, she was reaching out like she was going to hug him as he got closer. “No, he can’t… where did he go?”, she said her arms falling to her sides. “What do you mean pup? I’m right here. John tell her I’m right here.”, he said looking to his brother. “I.. I don’t know Aurelia. I don’t know where he went or how.”, John said hugging Aurelia. “No, he can’t be gone. He can’t.”, Aurelia said her eyes welling with tears as she kept shaking her head. “I’m right here.”, Logan repeated.

Over Aurelia’s sobs he heard a growl and a different kind of scream. He turned back around and had to do a double take. There was Aurelia pouncing at Scarlet Witch. “WHAT DID YOU DO TO LOGAN!? WHERE IS HE!?”, she demanded backing Scarlet Witch to the stair door. “I don’t know where Logan is. I swear.”, Scarlet Witch argued. As Aurelia went to pounce on her Wanda reached up, a helicopter had arrived, and she grabbed the ladder and was quickly pulled out of harm’s way. “I WILL GET YOU WANDA! YOU WILL PAY FOR TAKING LOGAN FROM ME!!!”, Aurelia yelled. Logan rubbed his eyes and looked from his left to his right. “Two Aurelias. Both in the same place but not having the same reaction. Where the hell am I?”, Logan questioned.

He looked back to his brother and Aurelia on the ground, focusing on them. Suddenly from behind him he heard Colby’s voice. “Aurelia? Are you okay? Where’s Logan?”, Colby asked. Logan watched as Colby and Dazzler both assisted Warren onto the roof. “Dear god Warren.”, Logan said seeing his wings for the first time since they’d been locked away next to each other. He tried to stop them, but they walked right through him. He stopped stunned and just touched his chest, he felt real but they had passed through him like he was Kitty Pride. “What the hell is going on…”, Logan questioned. He then cocked his head to the side instead of Wanda there he saw a cowering human wearing a badge that said ‘FOH’. “Where’d Wanda go?”, Logan questioned looking all around. He couldn’t hear a helicopter like he’d seen her climb on. All he saw in the sky was Bubbles, which would explain why the FOH guy was cowering.

“I don’t know what happened, but Logan’s disappeared and so did Wanda.”, John said still hugging Aurelia. “Did you guys see a purple and then a blue light?”, Colby asked. Aurelia and John nodded. “Wanda made a move to attack us, I’d wager she was the purple. But I have no idea where the blue came from. All I know is before it happened James jumped in between us and Wanda. Then when I looked again he and Wanda were both gone.”, John said. “We should get out of here. Get back to the others. Find out what happened at the other locations, see if this was the only location where this happened.”, Warren suggested. John nodded. “Bubbles time to return.”, John called and the great dragon swooped down from the sky getting smaller as he descended and then attached himself to John’s skin to look like a tattoo again. “Kurt, we need evacuation.”, Colby called over the communicator. In a puff of smoke Kurt appeared.

“What happened? You called me for an evacuation of Warren. I went to teleport, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t leave the bunker.”, Kurt questioned looking around. “Where’s Logan? Where’s Wanda? Who’s this guy?”, he asked pointing threw Logan to the FOH member. At the sight of Kurt the FOH member started panicking screaming, “DEVIL!”. Kurt simply rolled his eyes. “Yeah never heard that one before. But seriously who is he and where is Logan?”, he asked. “I’m right here you furball. But you can’t hear or see me. None of you can. But why? What did Wanda do to me…”, Logan began to wonder. “We don’t know. We need to get back and talk to the other teams to see if we can piece together what happened.”, John explained. “Alright everyone hold on.”, Kurt said taking Colby and John’s hands. John held Aurelia while Colby and Alison held Warren up.

Once they disappeared Logan turned to figure out where he was going to go now, or how he was going to get there to see the other version of Aurelia. John walked up to her. “We will get her. We’ll chase her to the ends of the Earth”, John assured her. “I’ll see her dead for this.”, Aurelia growled. Logan turned hearing the door to the stairs open and there was just Colby and Alison. “Where’s Wanda? Where’s Logan?”, they asked. “Wanda got away, she got off an attack and now we have no idea where James is. But we are going to find out.”, John said before looking up. “BUBBLES!”, John commanded. Bubbles swooped down from the sky. John leapt onto his neck and pulled Aurelia up with him. “We are going to go after Wanda. She’s going to tell me where my brother is and then she’s going to die.”, John said. “Then we are coming with you.”, Colby said reaching to get on Bubbles. “NO. You and Dazzler call for Kurt, go back to the bunker. Find out what happened at the other locations.”, John ordered before flying away.

It was probably the first and only time Logan could say he’d ever seen his brother really angry. There was a familiar blood thirst in his brother’s eyes. It was familiar because he’d seen that same look in the mirror when he was ready to rampage. “Guess there is some animal in him after all..”, Logan said to himself. He watched as Colby and Dazzler left with Kurt and again he was left alone on the roof of the prison. He started pacing around trying to figure out how he was going to get off the roof, let along get out of wherever Wanda had sent him. As he paced he realized all his injuries were gone. “What the hell happened? I know my healing is quick, but being out of commission for a month this is super fast.”, he said to himself looking at his arms and feeling his face to confirm he was back to 100%. “Alright so whatever happened to get me here it healed me. But doesn’t explain where I am or how I got here or how I get out.”, he said still pacing. He had walked the whole perimeter of the roof. “I need to follow Aurelia. I don’t want her or John getting hurt..”, he said as he looked over the edge to the waves cashing against the prison. “Guess I’m going to be swimming.”, he said before leaping off the edge.

He closed his eyes ready for the cold splash of the water, but it never came. Instead he found himself crashing into a metal floor of a room. He scrambled to his feet and looked around. He saw Mikali and his sisters on a sofa with Annai and Justin, they were crying. “What are you kids crying about now?”, he questioned. “Nevermind you aren’t going to hear me.”, he said shaking his head. “I can’t believe he’s gone. I mean Wolverine was…well I didn’t think he could die.”, the youngest, Teresa said tearfully. “You guys are crying about me?”, Logan questioned raising an eyebrow. He’d never really thought his students would miss him like this. All around him he heard people crying. He turned to another corner and saw Kurt holding Isis tightly as she wept on his shoulder. “Oh god you all are going to kill me here.”, he groaned going over to Kurt and Isis. “Furball tell her to not cry please. Come on kid, I’m not dead. I’ll find a way back.”, he said despite knowing talking to them was pointless.

Isis sniffled and burrowed her face deeper into Kurt’s fur. “I can’t believe he’s gone. I’m shaking and he was just well he was my trainer. He taught me to fight, he was my teacher. If I’m this bad, if we are all this bad I can’t imagine how there is a way to console Aurelia.”, Isis said lifting her head enough to look around the room. All the students who’d survived the attack on the school and been rescued were in the main room huddled in groups all sad. They were feeling the loss of Logan. He’d been a big part in all their lives. Logan looked around and took it all in, the faces of his students with tears in their eyes. But the tears weren’t all just for him, the hostages were also crying for those they learned had died in the attack.

Logan started walking around trying to interact with different groups. He saw the Kearney kids and Kisa huddled together. He looked around for Tanner or Evan or Hiro, but he didn’t see them. As he got closer he could hear Sadria weeping. “Oh lord I can’t do this. I can’t see her cry like that. I’ve known this child since she was a teenager and now here she sits expecting her own children. But as he got closer he could hear the names of Tanner, Evan, and Hiro on her lips. He stepped back. “They’re dead…oh god the toll on this school was higher than I wanted to think.”, he said still looking around. He started doing a head count and the number in the room weren’t even close to the number of students he had. “I can’t believe they killed innocent children.”, he said clenching his fists in anger. Then he questioned, “Where am I though. Is this aftermath I saw where Wanda won or where Wanda disappeared?”

He started moving out of the main room and as he did he passed the group from the Haven. “What the fuck are they doing here? They never get involved in our fights.”, he questioned. He stopped seeing that Crow was hugging a girl with blue and red hair tightly. “I don’t know what happened today, or how Adien and Blake disappeared like that. But I’ll make them pay for taking you Aislinn.”, Crow said. Another girl from the haven, with all blue hair had her head hung. “I don’t know what went wrong. I tried to counter Wanda’s power. But I guess I didn’t do enough. They still got away and she put those stupid humans in their places.”, she grumbled. Demitri put his arms around her shoulders to comfort her. “It’s not your fault Solangel. You tried to stop whatever Wanda had in mind. Things could have been much worse.”, Demitri said. “Tell Aurelia that. You saw how she looked at me when I told Sin Eater that I tried to counter Wanda’s power when I heard the radio message. She obviously blames me for Wolverine disappearing.”, she said frowning. “I’m a bad brownie. I can’t even undo what I did, it took too much power to just do what I managed”, Solangel added. “She’ll have to get over it Solangel. Might take her a while but she’ll have to realize you couldn’t control what happened.”, Crow said looking up from where he was sitting with the other girl.

Logan slowly walked away from the group. “Alright so I’m piecing this together. I’ve got to be in whatever world where Wanda disappeared. And that Solangel girl was the blue light. Her and Wanda’s power changed everything. Their powers combined and did this to me. But then what was that other world?”, he wondered. He continued down the hall into an office. And there she was sitting in a chair with John and Colby at her side. “He can’t be gone. We have to look for him. We have to go after the Acolytes. They’ll know where he went. Wanda did this she can undo this.”, Aurelia said. “We can’t just go to their house and knock in the door. She changed things.”, Duncan said stepping into view putting an old newspaper in Aurelia’s lap. “I kept this paper from the day after the school was attacked. Before this it had the headline that terrorist training school taken down by US’s finest. Read the headline now.”, he said. Aurelia read the headline aloud, “Anit-Mutant group Friends Of Humanity take responsibility for the violent attack against the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters.” “So she changed reality to take away all responsibility to her team?”, John concluded.

“But why are we all able to remember what really happened?”, Colby asked. “Solangel apparently. From what she and Crow both explained they heard Wanda on the radio talking about changing the odds. Crow knew what that meant from his time in the Brotherhood. So Solangel tried to counter Wanda’s reality shift with her own.”, Duncan answered. “Wait so did anyone else know that girl could do something like that?”, Colby asked. Duncan shook his head. “The Haven kept her full abilities under wraps. I can see why they wouldn’t want anyone else to know what she can do. Personally I’m not sure yet how I feel about there being two mutants out there with this type of power.”, Duncan answered. “So she can undo this. If she could counter Wanda enough to let us keep our memories she should be able to undo this and bring Logan back.”, Aurelia said starting to stand up. Duncan held his hand up to stop her. “No, she can’t. She’s already tried. When she got here with Kurt and was told what happened she tried to shift reality back. She blacked out and Kisa had to heal her it drained so much energy.”, Duncan explained.

“So Wanda wins? That’s what you are telling me. She sends my Logan god knows where and there isn’t anything we can do about it? I can’t even go after her? I can’t force her to tell me where she sent Logan?”, Aurelia demanded getting angry, her claws and fangs starting to show as she grabbed Duncan by his shirt. “Whoa pup…”, Logan said wanting to intervene but he reminded himself he was just a spectator in all this. Lindee moved from where she was against a wall to place her hands on Aurelia’s wrists. “Let him go.”, Lindee demanded. Aurelia just snarled at her. Duncan moved his arms to keep Lindee back. “It’s alright Lindee. She’s mad and I get it. I get it better than you know, Aurelia. My wife was taken from me in a battle, then Ororo was shot down and her body never recovered. I’ve lost two, count them two loves in my life. If anyone knows your pain it’s me. You want to hit someone, that’s fine. Go ahead and hit me. But remember it’s not going to bring Logan back.”, Duncan said. John stood up placing his hand on Aurelia’s shoulder. “Let him go please. He can’t bring James back.”, John pleaded. Aurelia growled again before letting go of Duncan.

“I’m not saying we are going to do nothing. I’m just saying we can’t make a move against the Acolytes. Wanda took them out of the blame equation. So us going after them will look like random mutant vs mutant violence. Not to mention we aren’t strong enough to go after them. Our school has been destroyed and many lives have been lost. We need to rebuild the school, we need to give those we lost proper burials. I’m not giving up on Logan being out there. He was my friend too. I’m willing to send people out to start searching for him. Jean and Violet have already said they will combine their efforts to do a global telepathic scan to try and find him. Jean needs time to rest first. So we are going to do something. But we all have to agree that we don’t talk about the truth. We can’t talk about the truth without starting a new war that we can’t win.”, Duncan said looking around the room to those present. “So can we agree to this? That we will never, no matter what talk about what really happened here?”, Duncan asked.

Logan watched as everyone silently nodded in agreement. He was torn on how he felt about this. He was glad they’d try to find him, maybe Jean and Violet could detect him wherever he is. But then the primal part of his brain just wanted to have them attack the acolytes and tear out their throats for all they’d done. He had to remind himself that the reality of it was Wanda changed everything and now her and her team didn’t have to take the blame and responsibility for their actions. As he watched Duncan leave the room to probably have the same conversation with the others about keeping the truth a secret he wanted to hold Aurelia, comfort him somehow. As he moved towards her he found the room faded and suddenly he was in an alley. “Now what the fuck…”, he said looking around.

As he turned it was just in time for Aurelia in her wolf form to leap through him. “God damn it I hate being invisible..”, he grumbled turning to find out what Aurelia was attacking. He saw her pin Pyro to the ground, growling as she baring her teeth at him. Then a familiar voice came from behind him. Logan turned to see his brother step out from the shadows. He looked tired; his clothes had seen better days for sure. And there was still that same bloodthirst is in his eyes. “Where is Scarlet Witch, Pryo? Tell us where she went and maybe you get to live.”, John spoke his voice cold. Logan could feel goosebumps on his arms, he’d never seen his brother like this never heard him speak like this. Pyro just laughed. “I’ll never talk. You can kill me, it will be faster and less painful than what Scarlet Witch will do if I talk.”, Pyro said. “You should just give up this quest, now that she knows who you are and she will take away everything from you.”, Pyro added. “She has already taken my brother from me. What more could she take?”, John growled. “A certain florist you’ve been seen in public with before all this..”, Pyro said a sadistic grin on his lips. “Sarael….”, John said his voice trailing off. “End this Aurelia. We need to check on Sarael.”, John said turning to leave. Logan watched as the woman he loved ripped Pyro’s throat out. “Good god, what kind of fucked up reality is this? My brother and my love are killing people…..”, Logan questioned as he watched Aurelia leap off Pyro’s dead body and transform back to her human form to catch up with John. Logan looked at Pyro and almost felt bad, till he remembered that Pyro was responsible for the death of so many of his students. “Got what you deserved buddy.”, Logan said before turning to try and follow John and Aurelia.

As he rounded the corner he wasn’t in the alley anymore, he was standing in the cemetery of the Institute. He called it the cemetery because it’s where they had put up the memorials for Charles, Ororo, Atif, Ashley, and Hope after their jet was shot down over the Atlantic. “I’m going to get nauseous with all this shifting back and forth.”, he grumbled leaning against a tree. He watched as students, staff, the Delaney brothers, and even the Haven residents walked into the clearing dressed in back wearing an arm band with a gold ‘X’ on their left sleeves. He moved closer and saw a number of headstones. He glanced over them reading the names; Evan ‘Force’ Kearney, Tanner ‘Creature’ Alston, Reine ‘Lucia’ Marcellin, Alexander ‘Gargoyle’ Kroscolov, Nash ‘Naxsu’ , Lauren ‘Sphinx’ Patterson, Hiro Sohma, Jay ‘Electro’, Celeste Stepford, Phoebe Stepford, Mindee Stepford, Owen Meany, Haruka, and then he saw his name. He walked closer to the memorial that his name was on. James Logan Howlett; The Wolverine; 45825243-T78-A; 1884-?; Beloved father, brother, lover, teacher, friend. As he read the stone he wasn’t sure how to feel able it. Had they given up on finding him? Had he missed his chance of being found by Jean and Violet when he was pulled to that other version of the world?

Everyone was holding back tears he could see it in their eyes. He didn’t blame them looking at the number of stones placed in the cemetery. But then he heard someone fully crying. He turned to find the source and there walking over the hill from what looked like the institute under construction he saw Amiko. She was dressed in black, a black veil brought over her face which partially hid the tears staining her cheeks but he could still see them. Hold her with arm was his son-in-law who in his other arm carried his grandson Xavier. Logan’s eyes locked on his grandson, he didn’t really understand what was going on but looked upset because his mom was crying. “Amiko, please… please don’t cry. I’m right here. I’m right here baby girl.”, Logan said rushing for her his mind lapsing that they couldn’t see him. She walked right through him. He let out a sigh as next he saw Cero, his head hung and sadness on his face walking holding Kirra by the shoulders. Kirra looked ready to collapse.

“Kids, please. God you are killing me seeing you like this.”, He said getting frustrated. “Why am I in this hell? I can’t do anything to affect either world I see. And I just have to stand here and watch everyone I love either lose their minds and kill and perhaps die or be like this? I can’t do this.”, he shouted. Next to talk through him was John his arm wrapped around Sarael keeping her close. “Brother..”,he said as they walked through him. The next to walk over the hill made him drop to his knees. Hudson, looked like such a grown up in his black suit and tie it was hard to believe that he was only twelve. Hudson’s blue eyes were filled with tears, his face stained with the tears he’d already shed and his hand tightly holding Aurelia’s like he knew if he let go she’d run away.

Logan looked at Aurelia’s face and behind the pain in her green eyes he could see the urge to run. “I can’t do this Hudson. I’m not his widow, I don’t belong here.”, Aurelia whispered to Hudson. Logan saw Hudson tighten his grip on her hand. “You belong here. You are my mom, they only one I’ve really known. I need you to be here.”, Hudson whispered back. “But, your brother and sister don’t want me here. At least not here with you kids.”, she whispered. “I don’t care what they say. If Cero or Kirra try to voice their opinion Amiko and I will put them in their place. We want you here, we need you here mom.”, Hudson assured her as he walked through Logan. Logan turned on his knees to watch them all go to the stage and sit down. “Hudson, god you are too good of a kid to be mine.”, he said shaking his head as he got to his feet.

He walked closer to hear what was going on. Duncan took the podium first. “Today we are here to say our goodbyes to those we have loved and lost. We lost many friends and even family from this tragedy. I had offered to each of you the choice to speak today. Only Hudson Howlett has chosen to speak. So please come forward Hudson.”, Duncan said turning to look at Hudson. Logan watched as Hudson gave Aurelia’s hand a squeeze and didn’t let it go till he was too far for the length of their combined arms. Hudson stepped up on a box to be seen and to reach the micro phone. “From this tragedy I know that all of you have lost your dear friends and your family members. It is here in this garden that they have been laid to rest. I wish to speak though about the one that is not being laid to rest. My father, James Logan Howlett. He has a stone here next to that of his dear friend Charles Francis Xavier. But I want to say that I have not and will not ever give up finding him. My father is out there somewhere and I will find him. Today I bring this light.”, Hudson said speaking clearly and as eloquently as Logan’d expect for the little King. Hudson held up a copper bowl which ignited in flames. “This flame will forever burn and it is the representation of my never ending desire and quest to return my father to his family and friends.”, Hudson said getting down from the podium and stage and walking to Logan’s stone and placing it upon it. Logan watched as everyone stood and placed flowers at all the stones. He watched as they all headed back over the hill, only the sounds of soft sobs could be heard till they finally faded away.

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As the lights faded to nothing Logan had closed his eyes, he had placed himself between Scarlet Witch’s attack and his family. He knew when he jumped between them his life was being sacrificed. It was a sacrifice he was willing to make. His brother deserved to live his life with Sarael and to have happiness. And Aurelia, well he loved her far too much to let her life end so shortly. He wouldn’t let either of them die to save him. As he stood there his eyes held shut he could hear two voices.

“LOGAN! NOOO!!!”, Aurelia’s voice screamed. “JAMES!!!!”, he could his John yelling. He turns and opens his eyes. “Thank god you two are ok.”, he said heading for them. Aurelia was still injured on the ground and John was holding her, she was reaching out like she was going to hug him as he got closer. “No, he can’t… where did he go?”, she said her arms falling to her sides. “What do you mean pup? I’m right here. John tell her I’m right here.”, he said looking to his brother. “I.. I don’t know Aurelia. I don’t know where he went or how.”, John said hugging Aurelia. “No, he can’t be gone. He can’t.”, Aurelia said her eyes welling with tears as she kept shaking her head. “I’m right here.”, Logan repeated.

Over Aurelia’s sobs he heard a growl and a different kind of scream. He turned back around and had to do a double take. There was Aurelia pouncing at Scarlet Witch. “WHAT DID YOU DO TO LOGAN!? WHERE IS HE!?”, she demanded backing Scarlet Witch to the stair door. “I don’t know where Logan is. I swear.”, Scarlet Witch argued. As Aurelia went to pounce on her Wanda reached up, a helicopter had arrived, and she grabbed the ladder and was quickly pulled out of harm’s way. “I WILL GET YOU WANDA! YOU WILL PAY FOR TAKING LOGAN FROM ME!!!”, Aurelia yelled. Logan rubbed his eyes and looked from his left to his right. “Two Aurelias. Both in the same place but not having the same reaction. Where the hell am I?”, Logan questioned.

He looked back to his brother and Aurelia on the ground, focusing on them. Suddenly from behind him he heard Colby’s voice. “Aurelia? Are you okay? Where’s Logan?”, Colby asked. Logan watched as Colby and Dazzler both assisted Warren onto the roof. “Dear god Warren.”, Logan said seeing his wings for the first time since they’d been locked away next to each other. He tried to stop them, but they walked right through him. He stopped stunned and just touched his chest, he felt real but they had passed through him like he was Kitty Pride. “What the hell is going on…”, Logan questioned. He then cocked his head to the side instead of Wanda there he saw a cowering human wearing a badge that said ‘FOH’. “Where’d Wanda go?”, Logan questioned looking all around. He couldn’t hear a helicopter like he’d seen her climb on. All he saw in the sky was Bubbles, which would explain why the FOH guy was cowering.

“I don’t know what happened, but Logan’s disappeared and so did Wanda.”, John said still hugging Aurelia. “Did you guys see a purple and then a blue light?”, Colby asked. Aurelia and John nodded. “Wanda made a move to attack us, I’d wager she was the purple. But I have no idea where the blue came from. All I know is before it happened James jumped in between us and Wanda. Then when I looked again he and Wanda were both gone.”, John said. “We should get out of here. Get back to the others. Find out what happened at the other locations, see if this was the only location where this happened.”, Warren suggested. John nodded. “Bubbles time to return.”, John called and the great dragon swooped down from the sky getting smaller as he descended and then attached himself to John’s skin to look like a tattoo again. “Kurt, we need evacuation.”, Colby called over the communicator. In a puff of smoke Kurt appeared.

“What happened? You called me for an evacuation of Warren. I went to teleport, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t leave the bunker.”, Kurt questioned looking around. “Where’s Logan? Where’s Wanda? Who’s this guy?”, he asked pointing threw Logan to the FOH member. At the sight of Kurt the FOH member started panicking screaming, “DEVIL!”. Kurt simply rolled his eyes. “Yeah never heard that one before. But seriously who is he and where is Logan?”, he asked. “I’m right here you furball. But you can’t hear or see me. None of you can. But why? What did Wanda do to me…”, Logan began to wonder. “We don’t know. We need to get back and talk to the other teams to see if we can piece together what happened.”, John explained. “Alright everyone hold on.”, Kurt said taking Colby and John’s hands. John held Aurelia while Colby and Alison held Warren up.

Once they disappeared Logan turned to figure out where he was going to go now, or how he was going to get there to see the other version of Aurelia. John walked up to her. “We will get her. We’ll chase her to the ends of the Earth”, John assured her. “I’ll see her dead for this.”, Aurelia growled. Logan turned hearing the door to the stairs open and there was just Colby and Alison. “Where’s Wanda? Where’s Logan?”, they asked. “Wanda got away, she got off an attack and now we have no idea where James is. But we are going to find out.”, John said before looking up. “BUBBLES!”, John commanded. Bubbles swooped down from the sky. John leapt onto his neck and pulled Aurelia up with him. “We are going to go after Wanda. She’s going to tell me where my brother is and then she’s going to die.”, John said. “Then we are coming with you.”, Colby said reaching to get on Bubbles. “NO. You and Dazzler call for Kurt, go back to the bunker. Find out what happened at the other locations.”, John ordered before flying away.

It was probably the first and only time Logan could say he’d ever seen his brother really angry. There was a familiar blood thirst in his brother’s eyes. It was familiar because he’d seen that same look in the mirror when he was ready to rampage. “Guess there is some animal in him after all..”, Logan said to himself. He watched as Colby and Dazzler left with Kurt and again he was left alone on the roof of the prison. He started pacing around trying to figure out how he was going to get off the roof, let along get out of wherever Wanda had sent him. As he paced he realized all his injuries were gone. “What the hell happened? I know my healing is quick, but being out of commission for a month this is super fast.”, he said to himself looking at his arms and feeling his face to confirm he was back to 100%. “Alright so whatever happened to get me here it healed me. But doesn’t explain where I am or how I got here or how I get out.”, he said still pacing. He had walked the whole perimeter of the roof. “I need to follow Aurelia. I don’t want her or John getting hurt..”, he said as he looked over the edge to the waves cashing against the prison. “Guess I’m going to be swimming.”, he said before leaping off the edge.

He closed his eyes ready for the cold splash of the water, but it never came. Instead he found himself crashing into a metal floor of a room. He scrambled to his feet and looked around. He saw Mikali and his sisters on a sofa with Annai and Justin, they were crying. “What are you kids crying about now?”, he questioned. “Nevermind you aren’t going to hear me.”, he said shaking his head. “I can’t believe he’s gone. I mean Wolverine was…well I didn’t think he could die.”, the youngest, Teresa said tearfully. “You guys are crying about me?”, Logan questioned raising an eyebrow. He’d never really thought his students would miss him like this. All around him he heard people crying. He turned to another corner and saw Kurt holding Isis tightly as she wept on his shoulder. “Oh god you all are going to kill me here.”, he groaned going over to Kurt and Isis. “Furball tell her to not cry please. Come on kid, I’m not dead. I’ll find a way back.”, he said despite knowing talking to them was pointless.

Isis sniffled and burrowed her face deeper into Kurt’s fur. “I can’t believe he’s gone. I’m shaking and he was just well he was my trainer. He taught me to fight, he was my teacher. If I’m this bad, if we are all this bad I can’t imagine how there is a way to console Aurelia.”, Isis said lifting her head enough to look around the room. All the students who’d survived the attack on the school and been rescued were in the main room huddled in groups all sad. They were feeling the loss of Logan. He’d been a big part in all their lives. Logan looked around and took it all in, the faces of his students with tears in their eyes. But the tears weren’t all just for him, the hostages were also crying for those they learned had died in the attack.

Logan started walking around trying to interact with different groups. He saw the Kearney kids and Kisa huddled together. He looked around for Tanner or Evan or Hiro, but he didn’t see them. As he got closer he could hear Sadria weeping. “Oh lord I can’t do this. I can’t see her cry like that. I’ve known this child since she was a teenager and now here she sits expecting her own children. But as he got closer he could hear the names of Tanner, Evan, and Hiro on her lips. He stepped back. “They’re dead…oh god the toll on this school was higher than I wanted to think.”, he said still looking around. He started doing a head count and the number in the room weren’t even close to the number of students he had. “I can’t believe they killed innocent children.”, he said clenching his fists in anger. Then he questioned, “Where am I though. Is this aftermath I saw where Wanda won or where Wanda disappeared?”

He started moving out of the main room and as he did he passed the group from the Haven. “What the fuck are they doing here? They never get involved in our fights.”, he questioned. He stopped seeing that Crow was hugging a girl with blue and red hair tightly. “I don’t know what happened today, or how Adien and Blake disappeared like that. But I’ll make them pay for taking you Aislinn.”, Crow said. Another girl from the haven, with all blue hair had her head hung. “I don’t know what went wrong. I tried to counter Wanda’s power. But I guess I didn’t do enough. They still got away and she put those stupid humans in their places.”, she grumbled. Demitri put his arms around her shoulders to comfort her. “It’s not your fault Solangel. You tried to stop whatever Wanda had in mind. Things could have been much worse.”, Demitri said. “Tell Aurelia that. You saw how she looked at me when I told Sin Eater that I tried to counter Wanda’s power when I heard the radio message. She obviously blames me for Wolverine disappearing.”, she said frowning. “I’m a bad brownie. I can’t even undo what I did, it took too much power to just do what I managed”, Solangel added. “She’ll have to get over it Solangel. Might take her a while but she’ll have to realize you couldn’t control what happened.”, Crow said looking up from where he was sitting with the other girl.

Logan slowly walked away from the group. “Alright so I’m piecing this together. I’ve got to be in whatever world where Wanda disappeared. And that Solangel girl was the blue light. Her and Wanda’s power changed everything. Their powers combined and did this to me. But then what was that other world?”, he wondered. He continued down the hall into an office. And there she was sitting in a chair with John and Colby at her side. “He can’t be gone. We have to look for him. We have to go after the Acolytes. They’ll know where he went. Wanda did this she can undo this.”, Aurelia said. “We can’t just go to their house and knock in the door. She changed things.”, Duncan said stepping into view putting an old newspaper in Aurelia’s lap. “I kept this paper from the day after the school was attacked. Before this it had the headline that terrorist training school taken down by US’s finest. Read the headline now.”, he said. Aurelia read the headline aloud, “Anit-Mutant group Friends Of Humanity take responsibility for the violent attack against the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters.” “So she changed reality to take away all responsibility to her team?”, John concluded.

“But why are we all able to remember what really happened?”, Colby asked. “Solangel apparently. From what she and Crow both explained they heard Wanda on the radio talking about changing the odds. Crow knew what that meant from his time in the Brotherhood. So Solangel tried to counter Wanda’s reality shift with her own.”, Duncan answered. “Wait so did anyone else know that girl could do something like that?”, Colby asked. Duncan shook his head. “The Haven kept her full abilities under wraps. I can see why they wouldn’t want anyone else to know what she can do. Personally I’m not sure yet how I feel about there being two mutants out there with this type of power.”, Duncan answered. “So she can undo this. If she could counter Wanda enough to let us keep our memories she should be able to undo this and bring Logan back.”, Aurelia said starting to stand up. Duncan held his hand up to stop her. “No, she can’t. She’s already tried. When she got here with Kurt and was told what happened she tried to shift reality back. She blacked out and Kisa had to heal her it drained so much energy.”, Duncan explained.

“So Wanda wins? That’s what you are telling me. She sends my Logan god knows where and there isn’t anything we can do about it? I can’t even go after her? I can’t force her to tell me where she sent Logan?”, Aurelia demanded getting angry, her claws and fangs starting to show as she grabbed Duncan by his shirt. “Whoa pup…”, Logan said wanting to intervene but he reminded himself he was just a spectator in all this. Lindee moved from where she was against a wall to place her hands on Aurelia’s wrists. “Let him go.”, Lindee demanded. Aurelia just snarled at her. Duncan moved his arms to keep Lindee back. “It’s alright Lindee. She’s mad and I get it. I get it better than you know, Aurelia. My wife was taken from me in a battle, then Ororo was shot down and her body never recovered. I’ve lost two, count them two loves in my life. If anyone knows your pain it’s me. You want to hit someone, that’s fine. Go ahead and hit me. But remember it’s not going to bring Logan back.”, Duncan said. John stood up placing his hand on Aurelia’s shoulder. “Let him go please. He can’t bring James back.”, John pleaded. Aurelia growled again before letting go of Duncan.

“I’m not saying we are going to do nothing. I’m just saying we can’t make a move against the Acolytes. Wanda took them out of the blame equation. So us going after them will look like random mutant vs mutant violence. Not to mention we aren’t strong enough to go after them. Our school has been destroyed and many lives have been lost. We need to rebuild the school, we need to give those we lost proper burials. I’m not giving up on Logan being out there. He was my friend too. I’m willing to send people out to start searching for him. Jean and Violet have already said they will combine their efforts to do a global telepathic scan to try and find him. Jean needs time to rest first. So we are going to do something. But we all have to agree that we don’t talk about the truth. We can’t talk about the truth without starting a new war that we can’t win.”, Duncan said looking around the room to those present. “So can we agree to this? That we will never, no matter what talk about what really happened here?”, Duncan asked.

Logan watched as everyone silently nodded in agreement. He was torn on how he felt about this. He was glad they’d try to find him, maybe Jean and Violet could detect him wherever he is. But then the primal part of his brain just wanted to have them attack the acolytes and tear out their throats for all they’d done. He had to remind himself that the reality of it was Wanda changed everything and now her and her team didn’t have to take the blame and responsibility for their actions. As he watched Duncan leave the room to probably have the same conversation with the others about keeping the truth a secret he wanted to hold Aurelia, comfort him somehow. As he moved towards her he found the room faded and suddenly he was in an alley. “Now what the fuck…”, he said looking around.

As he turned it was just in time for Aurelia in her wolf form to leap through him. “God damn it I hate being invisible..”, he grumbled turning to find out what Aurelia was attacking. He saw her pin Pyro to the ground, growling as she baring her teeth at him. Then a familiar voice came from behind him. Logan turned to see his brother step out from the shadows. He looked tired; his clothes had seen better days for sure. And there was still that same bloodthirst is in his eyes. “Where is Scarlet Witch, Pryo? Tell us where she went and maybe you get to live.”, John spoke his voice cold. Logan could feel goosebumps on his arms, he’d never seen his brother like this never heard him speak like this. Pyro just laughed. “I’ll never talk. You can kill me, it will be faster and less painful than what Scarlet Witch will do if I talk.”, Pyro said. “You should just give up this quest, now that she knows who you are and she will take away everything from you.”, Pyro added. “She has already taken my brother from me. What more could she take?”, John growled. “A certain florist you’ve been seen in public with before all this..”, Pyro said a sadistic grin on his lips. “Sarael….”, John said his voice trailing off. “End this Aurelia. We need to check on Sarael.”, John said turning to leave. Logan watched as the woman he loved ripped Pyro’s throat out. “Good god, what kind of fucked up reality is this? My brother and my love are killing people…..”, Logan questioned as he watched Aurelia leap off Pyro’s dead body and transform back to her human form to catch up with John. Logan looked at Pyro and almost felt bad, till he remembered that Pyro was responsible for the death of so many of his students. “Got what you deserved buddy.”, Logan said before turning to try and follow John and Aurelia.

As he rounded the corner he wasn’t in the alley anymore, he was standing in the cemetery of the Institute. He called it the cemetery because it’s where they had put up the memorials for Charles, Ororo, Atif, Ashley, and Hope after their jet was shot down over the Atlantic. “I’m going to get nauseous with all this shifting back and forth.”, he grumbled leaning against a tree. He watched as students, staff, the Delaney brothers, and even the Haven residents walked into the clearing dressed in back wearing an arm band with a gold ‘X’ on their left sleeves. He moved closer and saw a number of headstones. He glanced over them reading the names; Evan ‘Force’ Kearney, Tanner ‘Creature’ Alston, Reine ‘Lucia’ Marcellin, Alexander ‘Gargoyle’ Kroscolov, Nash ‘Naxsu’ , Lauren ‘Sphinx’ Patterson, Hiro Sohma, Jay ‘Electro’, Celeste Stepford, Phoebe Stepford, Mindee Stepford, Owen Meany, Haruka, and then he saw his name. He walked closer to the memorial that his name was on. James Logan Howlett; The Wolverine; 45825243-T78-A; 1884-?; Beloved father, brother, lover, teacher, friend. As he read the stone he wasn’t sure how to feel able it. Had they given up on finding him? Had he missed his chance of being found by Jean and Violet when he was pulled to that other version of the world?

Everyone was holding back tears he could see it in their eyes. He didn’t blame them looking at the number of stones placed in the cemetery. But then he heard someone fully crying. He turned to find the source and there walking over the hill from what looked like the institute under construction he saw Amiko. She was dressed in black, a black veil brought over her face which partially hid the tears staining her cheeks but he could still see them. Hold her with arm was his son-in-law who in his other arm carried his grandson Xavier. Logan’s eyes locked on his grandson, he didn’t really understand what was going on but looked upset because his mom was crying. “Amiko, please… please don’t cry. I’m right here. I’m right here baby girl.”, Logan said rushing for her his mind lapsing that they couldn’t see him. She walked right through him. He let out a sigh as next he saw Cero, his head hung and sadness on his face walking holding Kirra by the shoulders. Kirra looked ready to collapse.

“Kids, please. God you are killing me seeing you like this.”, He said getting frustrated. “Why am I in this hell? I can’t do anything to affect either world I see. And I just have to stand here and watch everyone I love either lose their minds and kill and perhaps die or be like this? I can’t do this.”, he shouted. Next to talk through him was John his arm wrapped around Sarael keeping her close. “Brother..”,he said as they walked through him. The next to walk over the hill made him drop to his knees. Hudson, looked like such a grown up in his black suit and tie it was hard to believe that he was only twelve. Hudson’s blue eyes were filled with tears, his face stained with the tears he’d already shed and his hand tightly holding Aurelia’s like he knew if he let go she’d run away.

Logan looked at Aurelia’s face and behind the pain in her green eyes he could see the urge to run. “I can’t do this Hudson. I’m not his widow, I don’t belong here.”, Aurelia whispered to Hudson. Logan saw Hudson tighten his grip on her hand. “You belong here. You are my mom, they only one I’ve really known. I need you to be here.”, Hudson whispered back. “But, your brother and sister don’t want me here. At least not here with you kids.”, she whispered. “I don’t care what they say. If Cero or Kirra try to voice their opinion Amiko and I will put them in their place. We want you here, we need you here mom.”, Hudson assured her as he walked through Logan. Logan turned on his knees to watch them all go to the stage and sit down. “Hudson, god you are too good of a kid to be mine.”, he said shaking his head as he got to his feet.

He walked closer to hear what was going on. Duncan took the podium first. “Today we are here to say our goodbyes to those we have loved and lost. We lost many friends and even family from this tragedy. I had offered to each of you the choice to speak today. Only Hudson Howlett has chosen to speak. So please come forward Hudson.”, Duncan said turning to look at Hudson. Logan watched as Hudson gave Aurelia’s hand a squeeze and didn’t let it go till he was too far for the length of their combined arms. Hudson stepped up on a box to be seen and to reach the micro phone. “From this tragedy I know that all of you have lost your dear friends and your family members. It is here in this garden that they have been laid to rest. I wish to speak though about the one that is not being laid to rest. My father, James Logan Howlett. He has a stone here next to that of his dear friend Charles Francis Xavier. But I want to say that I have not and will not ever give up finding him. My father is out there somewhere and I will find him. Today I bring this light.”, Hudson said speaking clearly and as eloquently as Logan’d expect for the little King. Hudson held up a copper bowl which ignited in flames. “This flame will forever burn and it is the representation of my never ending desire and quest to return my father to his family and friends.”, Hudson said getting down from the podium and stage and walking to Logan’s stone and placing it upon it. Logan watched as everyone stood and placed flowers at all the stones. He watched as they all headed back over the hill, only the sounds of soft sobs could be heard till they finally faded away.