Chapter 51

Release the beast

At the Weapon X facility

Dean followed Logan's scent which led him to the Weapon X facility. It was at the base of a gigantic crater.

'Looks too small, there's probably underground levels' Dean assumed. He looked carefully and noticed there were several cameras surveilling the entrance along with two guards.

The guards were dressed in black outfits that covered their whole body, along with helmets that covered their faces, body armor, and equipped with various weaponry.

'Now let's see if I can get their attention' Dean thought. He took some snow and formed a dense snowball. He then threw the snowball at a nearby hill, hard enough to make small impact.

One of the guards noticed it, "What was that?"

"Go check it out" the other guard said.

One of the guards walked over behind the hill to investigate. He looked around and didn't see anything suspicious.

"It's nothing, probably just a small animal" The guard spoke into his communicator.

Dean hit the guard in the back of the head knocking him out, "And people think being sneaky is hard" he put on the guard's outfit.

Dean walked back to the entrance dressed in the guard's uniform and equipment.

Dean went next to the other guard and stood there as if nothing had happened, "Hey do you mind if I go inside to use the bathroom really quick?"

"Why can't you just go out here?" The guard asked.

"Screw that, I'm not getting paid enough to take a dump out in the freezing cold" Dean said.

The guard sighed, "Fine, try not to take too long"

Dean hurried inside, 'Piece of cake'

The inside of the facility was filled with dark hallways where he could pass by undetected.

'Now I wonder where Logan could be?' Dean wondered.

Logan woke up in an incubation chamber with nothing but trousers that were given to him and noticed Lady Deathstrike glaring at him intently.

She was a small frail woman, or at least appeared to be so, with thin dark hair and pale skin. She wore brown, sleeveless, skin tight outfit. Her fingers were a foot long each and were razor sharp like claws, but they didn't look natural. Even so there was something familiar about this woman.

"You will die today, Logan-san" Deathstrike said as she ran her sharp claw finger across the glass.

Now that's a hate boner!

Logan tried to punch the glass to try and get out. They had placed magnet braces on his wrists to keep him from using his claws.

"It does not matter what the Professor says. These are your last breaths" Deathstrike grinned deviously.

Logan banged on the glass harder.

Professor Thorton walked in with Sabretooth , "What are you doing here Deathstrike? I'm about to start Wolverine's reprogramming"

"He has to die" Deathstrike said with hate in her voice.

"How many times do I have to have this conversation with you? He's more valuable alive—" Professor Thorton was cut off as Sabretooth slashed his back and he fell to the floor, unconscious from the sudden burst of pain.

Sabretooth walked over him, "Sorry Prof, gotta go with the lady on this one"

Deathstrike slashed the glass resulting in Logan falling out along with all the liquid that was inside with him.

Logan immediately tried to get the braces off his wrists but Lady Deathstrike planted a handful of claws into Logan's back and dug deep into his flesh.

Logan cried out from the pain.

Deathstrike blissed out from hearing his cry, so much that when she dug her other claws in his back she writhed in ecstasy.

Anyone else besides me turned on right now?

She then removed her claw fingers from his back and Sabretooth punched him right in the jaw.

Logan was disoriented due to his pain receptors being put on blast.

Sabretooth then grabbed him in a full nelson, "Gotta love our healing factors" he grinned, "I'm gonna enjoy killing you for days. And then, I think we'll drop the Hulk on an orphanage or something. Just for fun"

"Gaijin dog" Lady Deathstrike said approaching, "For the dishonor you caused my family, you will suffer, and then you will die"

Logan struggled to get free, "I…know you, I've seen your face before, but I can't remember"

Deathstrike grinned, "Perhaps my name will remind you of the past, Yuriko Oyama"

The sound of her name brought shattered memories into Logan's mind. Images of him and Deathstrike being together, being in love.

"You—but what have you done to yourself?" Logan asked.

"Don't you find me beautiful?" Deathstrike asked showing off her long finger claws, "I did it for you!" she slashed his chest, "Now I am a living weapon of revenge!" she slashed it again.

"Revenge for what?!" Logan shouted.

"For the murder of my father Professor Oyama, the man who created the adamantium bonding process. You killed him in your rampage through the Weapon-X facility, an innocent scientist!" Deathstrike slashed his face.

Logan grunted as his wounds healed, it was clear that this was not the same woman from his past, "Innocent?! Sweetheart, you and your family can take your honor and shove it up your boney little—"he was cut off as Sabretooth kneed him in the back.

Lady Deathstrike's face turned red with rage and pulled back her hands for a lunge.

"Deathstrike don't!" Sabretooth shouted but he was too late.

Lady Deathstrike impaled Logan with her claws and went straight through his chest and Sabretooth's at the same time resulting in him letting go of Logan.

Logan took advantage and head-butted Lady Deathstrike as hard as he could knocking her down. Logan then smashed his braces on Sabretooth's head, breaking them.

He then extended his claws in anticipation.

Deathstrike slashed his chest and his face before jumping just in time to avoid a stab from Logan. She then slashed his face again before kneeing him in the forehead.

Logan took a step back from the force of that hit.

Lady Deathstrike tried to leap over him but Logan sliced her arm off.

Her fallen limb fell down sparking with tiny bits of electricity due to it being cybernetic.

Logan kicked her in the face before making a run for it.

He found his uniform in one of the other rooms and searched for Dr. Banner.

As he was walking down the dark hallway a bunch of red dots appeared on his chest. He looked forward and saw about a dozen armed soldiers ready to fire at him.

"Target located in zone 23, take him down!" One of them ordered.

Logan ran at them getting shot here and there but that didn't stop him from cutting them to pieces.

"Backup! We need backup!" the last one shouted as he fired at Logan.

Deadpool tapped his foot on the Professors unconscious body to see if he was awake but nothing, "Well he's alive, but I think he's gonna need some serious TLC"

"The last thing the Professor said before the runt gutted him was for us to kill Wolverine" Sabretooth said.

Lady Deathstrike reattached her lost limb and the circuitry repaired itself.

Deadpool looked at Sabretooth, "Really?" if he wasn't wearing a mask you'd be able to see the blank face he was giving him, "Not that I don't enjoy shooting at hairy Canadians, present company included, but" Deadpool grabbed the professor by his lab coat and showed his back that had 4 short slash marks not 3 long ones, "You're full of shit"

"We kill Wolverine now!" Lady Deathstrike demanded, "That is all that matters"

"Whatever you say lady" Deadpool pulled out a gun and one of his blades, "Who am I to say no to a little murder?"

"Target located in zone 23, take him down" Dean heard over the com link, "Backup! We need backup!" he heard again two seconds later.

Dean heard footsteps down the hall, probably the back-up. He threw a smoke canister at the soldiers.

The canister exploded with thick smoke clouding everyone's vision and Dean threw his pocket knife at the lights destroying them and leaving them in pitch black. Dean put on the visor that he picked up and switched it to infrared.

"Quick switch to infrared!" one of the soldiers shouted. But before they could, Dean took them out one by one until only one was left.

The soldier started looking around trying to find his opponent but couldn't spot him. He turned around, spotted Dean, and went to pull the trigger on his machine gun.

But before he could Dean placed his finger right behind the trigger preventing the soldier from shooting.

"Too slow" Dean tossed the machine gun aside and kicked the soldier in the chest sending him flying into the metal wall, knocking him out.

Dean turned the corner only to catch an incoming clawed fist, "You know, you need to learn to relax" he said to Logan.

"What are you doing here kid?!" Logan asked angrily.

"I came to make sure my instructor wasn't experimented on a second time, your welcome" Dean said calmly.

"What about the Elf and half-pint?" Logan asked feeling concerned.

"I told them to go get help, now let's get out of here" Dean went to leave.

Logan stopped him, "We can't, not yet. Follow me" he led Dean in a different direction.

"Where are we going?" Dean asked.

They found their way into the room where Dr. Banner was inside a water tank, unconscious.

"We need to get the Hulk out of here" Logan walked up to the water tank and stabbed the glass.

Dr. Banner fell out of the tank, he coughed up any liquid that was stuck in his throat.

He shivered from the cold, his rib cage was more visible now, making him look sickly like he hadn't eaten in days.

"This is the Hulk?" Dean asked dumbfounded. The monster from his childhood that terrified him for years was just a scrawny little man? What happened to giant, angry, and green?

"Get it together, we're gonna have company soon" Logan said to Banner as he helped him up.

"Please, please, I'm begging you. You have to help me, you have to get me out of here. If these people turn the hulk into a weapon, millions of people will die" Dr. Banner said in desperation.

"So I should just kill you now is what you're saying right?" Logan said sarcastically before dragging him out, "Come on weepy"

They hurried towards the exit.

Dean stared at Dr. Banner, "So how exactly do you become…well the big guy?"

"Anger tends to trigger my transformation" Dr. Banner claimed.

"What's it like?" Dean asked curiously.

"Horrifying" Dr. Banner said with deep meaning in that word, "I've been hunted for as long as I can remember, and I can't control it. The monster it—"Dr. Banner was cut off.

"Bub, do I look like I give a—" Logan stopped as he heard something coming from the wall next to them, "Move!" Logan grabbed Banner and leapt out of the way.

Dean did the same just as the wall right next to them was blown away clouding the area with dust.

"What the hell's the matter with you?! Do your thing!" Logan shouted at Dr. Banner, "We need your big green friend right fucking now!"

"What?! No!" Dr. Banner refused.

Logan pinned Banner against the wall, "What do you mean no?!"

"Even if that was a good idea, I can't!" Dr. Banner said, "The transformation happens when I feel angry, or stressed, they must have drugged me, something's suppressing my adrenaline. It comes from the cortex—"

Logan stabbed him in the ribcage, "Maybe that'll help speed things up" he retracted his claws, "If you wanna cry now, I'd say go for it"

Dean was beyond shocked at what he just saw, "What the hell?!"

"We're not coming out of this alive without him, and if he dies then at least they won't get to use him" Logan said optimistically.

"Gaijin!" they heard down the hall.

The dust cleared revealing Sabretooth, Deadpool, and Deathstrike standing a few feet away from them.

"Just to be clear, this isn't the time to show restraint. It's kill or be killed, got it?" Logan asked.

Dean nodded, he may not wanna kill but he wants to live even more.

"Well look who it is" Sabretooth said staring at Dean with a hungry look.

"Hey fur ball, how's your head?" Dean said smirking at him.

Sabretooth growled, last time they fought Dean bashed the hell out of him with a metal pole, very painful.

Deadpool looked back and forth between the two of them and then started laughing, "Don't tell me the sidekick beat you?"

Sabretooth was about to hit Deadpool when he stopped.

"You think you can do any better Fuckface?" Dean asked provoking him.

It was at this moment, that this little bitch, truly fucked up

"Oh, that's it, the little shit is mine" Deadpool drew his twin katanas.

Deadpool is lucky that Sabretooth hates Logan more than the kid or they would have had a problem.

"This place will be your grave!" Deathstrike shouted.

"End of the line, runt. Got any last words?" Sabretooth asked extending his talons.

"Yeah, 2" Logan said extending his claws, Snikt! Snikt!

They both charged in.

Sabretooth went for a kick and followed up with a swipe, "I've been waiting for this a long time"

Logan blocked the attacks and counter attacked with a slash.

Sabretooth dodged it but then Logan kicked him in the gut, "Yeah well, you can keep waiting!" He elbowed him in the face knocking him down.

Lady Deathstrike jumped right over Sabretooth and engaged Logan. She dodged a slash from Logan and then she leapt away from a second one.

Allowing Sabretooth to tackle Logan from behind.

Deadpool slashed at Dean but he dodged, he tried again, again, and again but missed due to Dean's fast reflexes.

"C'mon stand still! I wanna kill you!" Deadpool started complaining.

"Yeah sure, I'll just do that" Dean said sarcastically.

"Really? You'd do that for me?" Deadpool asked stopping his attack.

"Nope" Dean hit him with a heavy right hook that made his head turn around 180 degrees. And to think the last time he did that it was by accdent.

"You know" Deadpool turned his head around again, "That really hurt"

Dean sighed, "Does everyone have healing factors?"

Deadpool started slashing with his blades again but this time at a much faster rate.

Dean, incapable of dodging everything, resorted to blocking with his gauntlets but nonetheless it was still hard to keep up with him.

As he fought Deadpool, Dean was having the vaguest feeling of Deja-vu like he was fighting Logan. Deadpool fought in a similar manner like he seemed to have no regard for his well-being as if he didn't care whether he was hurt or not.

But while Logan is a great fighter, he has a style that once you learn and understand you can start to anticipate his moves but this Deadpool...his style was all over the place. It changed every second, like there was no pattern at all.

It was as if his body was literally moving on its own, absent of abstract thought. That shouldn't be possible unless the guy was crazy, which Dean was starting to think he was as the guy never ever shut up. Even in the midst of this fight he just kept talking and talking about one thing or another.

The merc with the mouth will never be silenced, not even if my mouth was sowed shut

As Deadpool went for a lunge Dean grabbed his arm and threw him overhead. He looked down to where Deadpool dropped one of his katana's and examined it, "Hmm, adamantium huh?"

"Banzai!" Dean suddenly heard above him. He looked and saw Deadpool diving at him.

Dean acted fast and cut off one of Deadpool's arms, the one that was holding the other katana.

"Ah dude! That is just not cool!" Deadpool complained. His arm bounced on the floor, "Wow look at that. Could you gimme a hand? Haha, Kidding" he went for a tornado kick.

Dean sliced off his leg midair.

"Stop doing that!" Deadpool threw a smoke canister to give himself some cover.

Dean took the other katana off the floor and went to help Logan.

Logan was hit with a massive uppercut from Sabretooth that sent him flying.

Deathstrike held her claws out and impaled him as he flew towards her.

"C'mon where is this piece of crap" Deadpool looked around for his limbs in the smoke.

Sabretooth charged at them aiming to hurt Logan while he was incapacitated.

Deadpool put his limbs back in place and waited for them to heal, "There we go, wait...what the hell?" as the smoke cleared he noticed he put his foot where his arm was supposed to go and his arm where his foot was supposed to go, "Hold on gimme a sec" he ripped his limbs off.

Dean jumped and slashed Sabretooth's back.

Sabretooth yelped and swung wildly as he turned around.

Dean ducked underneath it and impaled Sabretooth in the gut with both katana.

The attack only stunned him for a moment.

Sabretooth grabbed Dean's hands, that were still holding on to the katana, and pulled him closer.

As Sabretooth pulled Dean closer the katanas went deeper inside him.

Sabretooth stared at Dean with an evil grin as he did as if the pain wasn't even their.

Dean tried to break free from his hold but Sabretooth was much stronger than him.

When he was close enough Sabretooth dug his teeth into Dean's shoulder ripping his flesh to shreds.

Dean cried out in pain.

Logan grabbed Deathstrike's arms from behind him and threw her at Sabretooth knocking him off Dean.

"You ok?" Logan asked.

Dean winced and nodded, "Yup, I'm good"

Deadpool put his limbs back where they should be, "Ok I think I'm good"

Dean noticed Deadpool was back up so he charged at him.

"Sword fight time!" Deadpool cheered as he acquired two new identical katana out of thin air, "Good thing I carry spares"

Dean stopped, "How the hell did he—"

Deadpool attacked rapidly with his katanas.

Dean moved as fast as he could but his opponent was faster.

Deadpool managed to cut Dean's hand making him drop one of the katana and swept his legs making Dean fall on his back.

Before Dean could raise his armed hand Deadpool stepped on it preventing him from using it, "Let's see if you can grow hands back" he slashed downward at his hand.

Dean moved it just enough to block with his gauntlet.

"What the fucknuts?!" Deadpool repeatedly slashed at the gauntlet, "Why won't it break?!"

Dean kicked Deadpool in the balls.

"Right in the chimichangas" Deadpool whispered as he held his crotch.

Dean then freed his hand and stabbed him through the chest.

Deadpool purposely fell and slid down the blade until he was face to face with Dean, "Hey, how's it going?"

"This is by far the weirdest fight I've ever had" Dean admitted.

"You think this is weird? You should see me try to hassle a prostitute" Deadpool pulled out a gun.

Dean moved his head just in time to dodge and kicked Deadpool off of him.

Logan and Sabretooth pushed on each other's claws but Logan sneaked a knee to the groin.

Then he blocked a slash from Deathstrike, and blocked an attack from Sabretooth only to be hit in the back from Lady Deathstrike.

Lady Deathstrike planted her claw fingers inside of Logan, digging deep into his flesh and at the same time Sabertooth stabbed and slashed from the front. His shouts of pain echoed through the facility.

"Gonna kill you!" Logan shouted.

Deadpool grabbed two guns, "Time to make some swiss cheese!" he started firing at Dean.

Dean moved around as fast as he could to dodge.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" Deadpool said every time he shot a bullet.

Dean would help Logan but if he stopped moving even for a second he might get shot.

"C'mon kid, dance for me" Deadpool said.

All of a sudden a mighty roar made them all freeze in place. They looked to where it came from and spotted Banner transforming into the Hulk.

When he was done, Hulk stood on his feet, "HULK SMASH CLAW PEOPLE!" he yelled as he ran towards them.

Lady Deathstrike and Deadpool immediately moved out of the way and so did Logan and Dean.

"Oh no!" Sabretooth shouted in fear before getting blasted out of the facility with one uppercut.

"RAAAHHHH!" The Hulk yelled.

Deadpool started shooting the Hulk like crazy, "DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE!"

Dean made sure to keep his distance from the Hulk, he didn't have a healing factor as good as these guys.

Before Logan could act Lady Deathstrike pierced his back with one of her claws, "This next one will be through your brain stem Logan" she extended another finger claw and was about to strike right as Dean gave her a heavy haymaker that sent her flying over the edge.

"LITTLE MAN" Hulk said looking at Logan.

Logan and Dean turned around to face him.

Dean leaned towards Logan, "I think he means you"

Hulk threw a big piece of metal scrap at them and they both dodged it.

"Hey, we're on your side you flaming idiot!" Logan yelled.

"Not the best choice of words" Dean said backing away and so did Logan as the Hulk approached.

Hulk started running at them which made them burst into their top speed away from him.

"Hey, wait for me!" Deadpool said catching up. He jumped on the Hulk's shoulders, "Who wants snacks?!" he took out a grenade, "You do!" he put It into the Hulk's mouth and jumped off of him and continued running with Logan and Dean.

"Guys, I think we lost him" Deadpool said as the Hulk was right behind them.

The explosion of the grenade sent all three of them toppling over. They looked back but there was nothing but orange smoke.

"And they lived happily ever after" Deadpool said, "Except the Hulk"

"Bub, you just made him angrier" Logan said getting ready to run.

Noises could be heard from inside the smoke, spitting noises, then another very loud and intimidating roar.

"TALKING MAN HURT HULK. HULK RIP OFF TALKING MAN'S HEAD!" Hulk yelled.

"My head? Oh crap" Deadpool said feeling nervous.

"He's all yours Einstein" Logan grabbed him.

"No, Logan, we're friends. No. No!" Deadpool screamed as he was thrown at Hulk.

Hulk punched Deadpool in the face so hard his head literally exploded from the impact and then he continued chasing Logan and Dean.

As he was chasing them, Lady Deathstrike jumped in and slashed the Hulk's face.

Hulk took his hand off his face showing three marks, "UGLY GIRL SCRATCH HULK!" he went to crush her with his fist but she moved out of the way.

"Hold on" Logan said to Dean, "I wanna see her get her butt kicked"

She slashed his chest and Hulk went for a downward punch but Deathstrike jumped over it and slashed his back.

Deathstrike then slashed Hulk's face before jumping over another downward smash. But as she was still in the air, Hulk clapped his hands creating a shockwave that sent Lady Deathstrike toppling to the floor.

Knowing that she wouldn't last much longer Logan focused on handling the situation.

"Kid I need you to get out of here" Logan told Dean.

Dean thought about it and realized that he was way out of his league, "Don't have to tell me twice" he split. He knew Logan could take care of himself and that he would just get in his way.

Hulk went up to her and picked her up by both her arms.

Lady Deathstrike screamed in his face trying to intimidate him but instead Hulk roared back loudly and ripped both her cybernetic arms off.

Hulk then started jumping around the facility and trashing the place. Literally taking it apart. Red lights turned on everywhere and an alarm started ringing.

Logan searched for the Hulk and found him in the main reactor room ripping the gigantic pillar from the ground.

"Go for it big guy, tear this whole god forsaken place down to the ground" Logan said with a hint of joy.

The Hulk managed to rip the gigantic pillar off the ground.

"Do it! Uh oh" Logan realized what he wanted to do with the pillar.

Hulk held the pillar with two hands and swung it at Logan hitting him like a baseball sending him flying out of the facility right before it exploded.

Dean managed to get out of the facility and reached high ground where he found Sabertooth lying on the ground, still unconscious from the blow Hulk gave him.

Then two seconds later the facility exploded and Logan landed right next to Sabertooth.

"Ow" Logan said getting up.

Dean helped him up, "Looks like we did it"

"Yeah seems so. Project Weapon X has been terminated, forever" Logan said with satisfaction.

"Hopefully" Dean said, who knows what the future might await them.

They heard a distant roar.

Logan sighed, "Aw great"

Hulk leaped out of the destroyed facility and landed right next to them kicking up the snow into the air.

Dean raised his arm to block the snow and then he stared at the green behemoth that stood before him. As he stared at him Dean noticed a few things.

For one he didn't seem as huge as he once did when Dean was a child, or as angry. Perhaps his memory scared him more than the real thing.

Hulk then fixed his gaze on Dean.

Logan noticed this, "You better make a run for it kid"

Dean stood perfectly still, his electric blue eyes fixated on the emerald giant, "Do you remember me?" He asked curiously thinking back to the day he encountered Hulk the first time.

Hulk raised an eyebrow in confusion, "Hulk never met little boy before"

Dean' s gaze changed to a cold stare, lightning began to spark around him and flash in his eyes, "Not little"

Hulk's eyes narrowed, the way the lightning surrounded him jogged his memory.

"HULK KILL SPARK MAN!" The Hulk charged furiously at Dean.

Dean instinctively raised his gauntlets and tried to block but Hulk's colossal punch was so powerful it sent him flying backwards.

His body broke several trees and tumbled wildly on the ground.

Logan ran after him, "Kid!" he found him laying on the ground, "Kid you ok?!"

Dean was probably in the worst shape of his life. His body was trembling, his nose, ears and eyes were all bleeding. But the most disturbing thing was his stare, it was cold and lifeless.

Logan listened carefully and heard a faint heartbeat, 'He's barely holding on, if he doesn't get help quick he might not make it'

The Hulk's roar echoed through the forest.

Logan looked in the direction from where it came, he wanted nothing more than to finish his fight with Hulk. He then looked at Dean who was still trembling, he slowly moved his head to look at him but couldn't find the strength to speak.

A fight in one direction, a fading life in another. He could only choose one.

Logan frowned and put Dean over his shoulder, "I'm not gonna leave you here kid" he ran at top speed in the direction he landed the X-jet earlier.

"LITTLE MAN!" Hulk yelled.

"Sorry big guy, another time" Logan said leaping over a fallen tree. He put on his communicator in his ear, "Wolverine to X-jet come in" he waited but there was no answer, "Wolverine to X-jet, this is an emergency Warrior is severely wounded" he waited but again there was no answer.

"Shit" Logan said. There wasn't a town with decent medical supplies for miles, who knows how long it would take.

"Come in Logan" Charles spoke into the communicator.

Logan hurried, "Chuck! I need an evac asap!"

"We're coming up on your position now" Charles said as the X-jet descended from the sky.

It landed and the ramp lowered immediately with the X-men rushing down, ready for a fight.

"What's the situation Logan?" Scott asked.

"Get the hell back on the jet!" Logan yelled as he ran inside.

Scott raised an eyebrow in confusion, "What?"

Logan went to the back of the jet where they had medical supplies and laid out Dean on a table before returning to the bewildered teenagers, "You heard me shades, get us out of here now before I have to start digging graves"

Scott looked at the Professor for confirmation.

"Do as he says Scott, hurry" Charles said.

Scott ran to the pilot seat and took off.

"Chuck help me with the kid" Logan ran back to Dean.

Charles and the others followed his lead.

Rogue's heart skipped a beat as soon as she laid eyes on Dean's condition.

Jean gasped, "Oh my god Dean!" she ran to his side, "What happened?!"

"He got hit hard and he's fading fast" Logan said as he slashed the clothes on his chest and took them off to get a better view.

Kitty and Kurt looked at each other in guilt.

"We have no time to waste, Jean I'll need you to assist me. The rest of you clear the room" Charles said rolling up his sleeves.

They did as he asked.

As Rogue went to walk out she noticed Dean's silver cross on the floor. She picked it up and left before she was further traumatized by looking at him.

Charles looked down at Dean, "Dean can you hear me?"

Dean tried to tilt his head but was incapable of doing so. His vision was blurred and was growing darker.

"Stay with us my boy, you have to hold on" Charles's voice began to fade.

Dean was fading in and out of consciousness, looking at Logan, Jean, and Charles do who knows what to him. Then a fourth person appeared.

His face was deathly pale, his body covered In black robes, on his back were a set of black wings.

Dean's eyes widened in horror and he began to shake radically.

"His heart rate is spiking" Jean said, her voice full of worry.

The man in the robes tilted his head slightly as if he found something about him peculiar. Then he slowly reached out with his hand.

And that is the last thing Dean saw before his eyes went dark.

You only live twice, once when you are born, and once when you look death in the face

The Hulk flew through the air and landed on the street, in front of the Empire State building, severely cracking it.

The crowd that was once standing around had dispersed into an uncontrolled panic.

Little Dean stood about 3 feet away from Hulk, after being separated from his parents in the commotion, in complete and utter terror.

"Open fire!" Somebody shouted behind Dean and bullets started harmlessly bouncing off Hulk's skin.

Dean turned tail and went to run but then a tank shot a canister at the Hulk exploding on impact.

The explosion knocked Dean down, his ears ringing, and his vision blurred. He looked back, seeing triple of everything, and saw Hulk still standing there as if nothing happened.

Hulk then growled as he leapt on top of the tank. He hit it once, punching a hole through it, then he ripped it in half.

The soldier inside of it crawled out and tried to escape.

Hulk raised his foot and stomped on him, splattering blood everywhere.

Dean sat frozen in fear as the Hulk set his sights on him.

The Hulk ran towards him with a look of pure rage.

"Dean!" Eli shouted as he leapt, grabbed Dean, and rolled out of the way.

Hulk stomped right by them barely missing. He turned around and looked at the old soldier.

Eli didn't take his eyes off the monster, there was no outrunning him in the midst of all this chaos.

Right as the Hulk was about to charge the doors to the Empire State Building burst open from a gust of wind.

Thunderclouds enveloped the sky, fog filled the streets, and a bright light approached from the doorway.

The Hulk turned around to face the light.

A man with long gray hair and a beard that resembled a storm cloud, floated out of the doorway. He wore a black trench coat over a gray sweater, with black dress pants, and black boots. White lightning sparked around him and flashed in his eyes giving him an imposing look.

Dean looked in the direction of the light but was blinded by it.

The man looked at Eli, "Get him to safety"

Eli nodded assuringly, as if he trusted him, and ran with Dean at his side.

Hulk covered his eyes from the brightness, "Spark man hurt Hulk's eyes!" He shouted, "HULK SMASH SPARK MAN!"

The man raised his arms, letting the sleeves of his trench coat fall, revealing silver gauntlets on his forearms. They had an eagle design on them, wings on the sides, and feathers on the back with white round gems in the center.

Then in a flash of white light Aegis, his shield appeared on his left arm and his master bolt on his right, "No mere mortal stands before you" he said confidently, "You face the master of Olympus!"

The Hulk roared and charged at him.

Dean woke abruptly from his vivid dream. He opened his eyes to find a beautiful red head sitting next to him.

"Hey! You're awake" Jean was excited to finally see Dean open his eyes. She hugged him tightly, "I was so worried about you"

Dean made a painful expression, "Jean you're hurting me"

"Oh I'm sorry" Jean backed away from him.

Dean looked at his body and saw it all wrapped up in casts. He moved his fingers that weren't wrapped. At least his bones healed, now the rest of his body needed to heal.

"How're you feeling?" Jean asked with concern.

"Well, I can feel, so that's an improvement. But besides that, in a lot of pain" Dean admitted.

Jean locked eyes with him, her expression full of melancholy, "You were on the brink of death"

Dean thought back to the moment he blocked Hulk's punch, 'He must have broken every bone in my body with just that one punch'

She carefully grabbed his hand, "There was a moment I thought you might not make it"

Dean sighed, "It looks like destiny had other plans for me"

Jean managed a small smile, "Seems like it" she leaned closer and gave him a pec on the lips, "Get some rest, you need it" she left him

Dean closed his eyes and found it easy to drift into slumber.

Logan walked in his room and sat at the end of his bed, holding his face in his hands, 'What a day'

On one hand he acquired more fragments of his memories, and on the other he has a thousand more questions. So more or less nothing changed.

Charles rolled through the doorway, "Logan" he said in a low voice not wanting to alarm him.

Logan looked up, "Yeah Chuck?"

Charles rolled in front of him, "What did you find?"

"Take a look, it'll save me the time to have to explain everything" Logan said.

Charles placed his hand on Logan's temple and ran through the series of events that happened today, "You found more pieces, but have yet to complete the puzzle"

"That's one way of putting it" Logan said pinching the bridge of his nose.

Charles sighed, "Regardless of how painful this journey was, you still obtained valuable information"

"I did, but there's still a lot I don't know about Weapon X. Was that the only facility? Was the doc really the one in charge? Doesn't seem like it" Logan said.

"I'm sure in time we'll figure out the enigma of your past" Charles said.

Logan chuckled, "I can only hope Chuck"

Weapon X Headquarters, Finland

A soldier walked down a hall and stopped in front of a double door. He knocked on the door 3 times.

"Proceed" Someone spoke from the inside.

The soldier entered the room. It was rather small, it mostly consisted of a desk with multiple computer screens, and man that sat on a chair behind the desk.

The man was bald, tall and muscular. Despite his lack of hair he rocked a thick brown mustache and had 3 horizontal slash scars on his face that gave him a menacing look.

The soldier saluted, "Colonel Stryker"

Stryker saluted, "At ease, what's your report?"

The soldier shifted awkwardly, "Sir, Uh, there's been an incident at our Elkford facility"

Stryker looked concerned, "What's their status?"

"Last we heard the Hulk and Weapon X were loose in the facility, there's been no word since" The soldier said.

Colonel Stryker twirled his mustache as he contemplated, "Send a scout unit to search the remains"

"Remains sir?" The soldier asked.

"Son, if there's been no word since, they're all dead. And that's not even accounting for the Hulk" Stryker said.

The soldier nodded frantically, "Right, I'll send that scout unit" he hurried out of his office.

Stryker pressed a button on his keyboard and one of the screens loaded up a visual of the Xavier Institute, "Ah Logan, always a thorn in my side. If it wasn't for your telepath I'd have you already" he zoomed in and saw Logan leaving the institute on his motorcycle, "I'll just have to wait until he's not around"

At the Institute

Dean awoke in the middle of the night unaware of what time it was, or at least he thought it was night. There was no way of telling since he was sleeping in the infirmary. But he felt completely rested, no broken or fractured bones, no aching muscles, or headaches.

There was no way he was going to stay here until someone came to help him out of there, he would die of boredom.

Dean willed his legs to move and he did his best to stand upright, 'Hmmm, now how do I get these things off?' he wondered about the casts.

Dean focused all his strength in his muscles and flexed them all simultaneously shattering the casts all around his body.

Dean threw a few punches and jumped around the room, 'Seems that I'm back to 100%, and maybe more, 'Let's test that out' he thought with a grin.

Rogue woke up a little early today, she wanted to go visit Dean in the infirmary and she knew that he would be up early and extremely bored. She visited him yesterday but he was unconscious, and she wasn't going to wait around all night with Jean right next to her because that would have been awkward.

Rogue made her way down to the infirmary and was surprised to find nobody in the room. The only remains she found were shredded casts.

Rogue had an idea where he would go, the danger room. And she was correct, that's where she found him. He was wearing nothing, but his uniform pants and he was throwing punches and kicks and was jumping all around the room.

She took the towel that was placed in the observation room and she shut off the gravity program before going down there.

"Hey what's the deal?" Dean asked sweating and panting.

"How did you get out of bed?" Rogue asked with her arms folded over her chest.

"I woke up feeling fine, so I took off the casts and I came in here about an hour ago" Dean admitted.

"Took off? More like shredded them off, how did you do that?" Rogue passed him a towel.

Dean took the towel and started wiping the sweat off his body, "I flexed"

"You flexed?" Rogue said with a raised eyebrow.

"I flexed" Dean said with a smile.

"Wow, and you completely healed, you are a wonder bolt boy" Rogue said.

"If you think so" Dean shrugged walking away.

Rogue thought about something. Dean's body has healed from a lot of wounds since he got here, and every time his body has learned to recover faster. Perhaps his body may develop a healing factor like Logan's eventually.

Rogue then caught up with him, "Hey wait up"

Dean looked at her as they walked, "What is it?"

"What do you mean what is it, what happened? Logan hasn't said a word" Rogue wondered.

"I got wrecked" Dean gave her the abridged version as they went up the elevator.

"That told me absolutely nothing" Rogue said wanting a better answer.

Dean sighed, "Look, you'd have to ask Logan to give you his side because it's not my place to share his past. But as far as what I did, I tried to rescue Logan from some people, and in the process got into a fight with the Hulk"

The name rung a bell, "Wait isn't he the one…who trashed New York years ago?" she then realized how he ended up in his condition, "Why would you fight him?!"

"I…" Dean chose his words carefully, "There was a moment where I could have run away, probably could have avoided being hospitalized, but I didn't. I remembered the beating I got from my brother and how I've been trying hard to get ahead. Then when I saw myself, running from this monster, I had a thought. If I faced the Hulk, facing Kratos would seem ten times easier" he laughed lightly, "I know it sounds stupid, but I chose to face one of my fears in hopes that It would make me stronger"

The elevator door opened, and they walked out.

Rogue shook her head, "Your logic is half brave and half stupid"

Dean nodded, "It is, but I came out of this stronger than before"

Rogue stopped him, "Dean you could have died, what would that have accomplished?"

Dean's brow furrowed, "Nothing, I would have left this world leaving my family and friends in a wake of sadness"

Rogue was surprised how fast he came up with that answer, as if he thought of this before.

"I knew the risks before I made my decision" Dean said.

Rogue sighed as she took something out of her pocket, "I took this while you were out" she held his silver cross, "I was so afraid you might die…I started praying" she admitted with a sad expression, "I'm not even religious and I didn't know what else to do"

"I'm gonna be honest with you, for a minute there I thought I was a goner too. I thought…" Dean hesitated, "I think I saw Thanatos for a moment"

"The god of Death?" Rogue asked.

Dean nodded, "I saw him reach out to get me, but then I woke up in the infirmary" he said with a smile, "I'm not sure what god you were praying to, but I think someone was listening. Thank you"

Rogue smirked then lightly punched his chest, "I guess you owe me one then"

Dean laughed, "Right, I'll see you later" he went upstairs.

Rogue walked outside, 'Yeah right, like anyone would be listening to me'

Suddenly a shadow flew above her.

Rogue looked up and saw a feather slowly falling.

She cupped her hands as it fell in front of her and she caught it. It was the feather of a peacock, shinning brightly in the sunlight. Gold hairs, with a blue circle that resembled an eye, surrounded by emerald green.

Deadpool's note: Oh for the love of fuck! Can you stop making references and just say that she's—

(Punches off chair)

Not today Wade, and while you're at it why don't you take a break. I'll take it from here ;)

Author's note: The chapter was so big that it took me more time to finish, so I figured i'd do a double chapter. See ya next week!