In a darkened room, the lights turned on one by one, revealing a giant test tube that contained Logan. The poor mutant was unconscious as he floated inside a capsule of some kind of green liquid with several tubes connected to his body. A breathing apparatus was on his face, supplying him with the needed oxygen as he continued to slumber quietly.

The silence was soon interrupted as his eyes snapped open. He clenched his fists as his claws spurted out. Slashing through the glass, he made his escape as he wandered through the wilderness. As he managed to get himself together, he flashed back to his prior experimentation and escape with flashes of a bald-headed scientist looking over him appearing in his head.

He then got into a fighting stance as he noticed Sabretooth approaching him. Growling, he leaped onto his opponent, determined to protect himself.

Only to crash onto the floor of his wrecked room.

Breathing heavily, he got back into bed as he realized he was just having a dream.

Kitty's alarm went off, signaling that it was time to get off. Groaning, Kitty phased her hand through the alarm clock, which read 6:30, turning it off.

She then got out of bed and headed toward the bathroom, phasing through the door while not noticing the occupied sign that was on the handle.

"Wah?" Rogue said in confusion as she noticed Kitty was in the bathroom. "Hey, do you mind?" She asked in an irritated tone.

Kitty snapped out of her daze as she realized she had walked in on Rogue. She backed up as she phased through the door as Rogue opened it to angrily confront her.

"The sign says occupied." Rogue told her. "The door was locked."

"Who can read at this hour?" Kitty asked innocently.

"Who phases through doors at this hour?" Rogue shot back.

"Hey, just be glad it was me this time instead of Danny." Kitty pointed out. "It would be more awkward if it was him."

"I doubt Danny would be that rude." Rogue replied as she slammed the door.

"Sorry!" Kitty said in annoyance as she walked away.

Later in the day, Kitty was dressed in her normal clothing as she sat on her bed, writing a letter to her parents on her laptop.

'Dear Mom and Dad.' Kitty wrote. 'Today started out just like all the other school days, with everyone feeling a little crowded, me included.' She saw Rogue barge into their room. 'Especially with a roommate like Rogue. Though it's not real easy to get close to her, or healthy either. If it weren't for Danny, I don't think I would ever see her smile.'

Her concentration was then ruined by the sound of Rogue's hairdryer. Deciding to find somewhere else to write in private, she phased through the door, only to run into the others as they passed by her to get ready for the day.

Glaring at them in displeasure, she went to the kitchen, where she continued writing her letter.

'Finding a place to be alone around here is really a matter of timing. Sometimes you have to settle, like when Mr. Logan's around.' She glanced at the elder mutant, who was sipping his coffee as he read the paper. 'But that's okay because he doesn't wanna talk to anybody.'

"What's the matter, half-pint?" Logan asked her in an amused tone. "Am I reading too loudly for you?"

"Uh, no, just enjoying how quiet it is." Kitty answered before the rest of the students burst in for breakfast.

"Alright, breakfast!" Scott cheered.

"I'm starving!" Evan said as he poured himself some milk.

"Eggs! Part of a balanced meal." Kurt said as he helped himself to the food. "I like that."

Scott then turned on the TV as it showed a news report.

Logan turned up the volume as he wanted to hear the news, unknowingly annoying Kitty in the process.

"Witnesses have described a bigfoot-like creature in the Canadian wilderness." The reporter said as it showed a familiar forest to Logan.

'It's like sometimes Mr. Logan can be so incredibly rude, you know?' Kitty wrote in her letter.

"As a result, authorities have closed Mount McKenna National Park until further notice." The reporter continued.

"Mount McKenna?" Logan asked as he narrowed his eyes. He threw the remote control away as he stormed out of the room, much to the X-Men's concern.

"Hey, Logan, you okay?" Scott asked, but Logan ignored him.

'I mean, Professor Xavier is always saying that we're kind of like a family here, and we all got to get along.' Kitty wrote as Evan took a muffin.

"Hey, Kurt. Incoming!" Evan threw the muffin at Kurt's head as the two started a food fight.

'But Mr. Logan doesn't act like it.' Kitty wrote as Logan went into his room, gripping his head in pain. 'He's always going off doing this lone-wolf thing. I mean, it's not like his life is so much tougher than ours.'

Logan then threw a chair, shattering it as he started to growl in pain.

He popped out of his claws and started slashing around as his claws tore through his door, right as Kitty was walking past his room.

"Mr. Logan?" Kitty asked shyly as Logan opened the door, showing that his room was destroyed.

"Oh, hi." Kitty said awkwardly. "Sorry, I..." She noticed that he seemed much more aggressive than before. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, fine, fine." Logan grunted as the pain went away. "Just redecorating." He closed his bedroom door and walked away.

Brushing off Logan's weirdness, she went to the living room, where she saw Evan lying on the couch, shooting spikes up into the ceiling. She looked up to see that he had used his spikes to put a poster of The Festering Boils on the ceiling.

"Evan, what are you doing?" Kitty asked.

"Didn't have space for this in my room." Evan answered.

"We all share this area, you know?" Kitty said. "What if some of us don't like The Festering Boils?"

"You could deal with it." Evan shot out one more spike before leaving. "See you."

Sighing at Evan's childishness, she sat down on the couch and continued writing.

'Evan is the youngest, and he is so immature, you know? It's like he has no idea how his actions affect the rest of us.' The poster then fell down on Kitty. 'Then again, like, maybe he does.'

Deciding to go outside to get some privacy, she climbed up into a tree as she continued her letter.

'Some of the kids around here are pretty nice, like Scott.' She looked over at him as he was working on his car. 'Sometimes he tries to be so responsible for Professor Xavier and the other students. Then other times, he acts just like a regular high school kid.' The sound of his car's engine, along with the radio's music, almost caused Kitty to fall out of the tree. 'Today he's definitely a kid.'

The valley girl then saw Danny, who was currently kicking his busted moped in frustration. 'There's also Danny. He has the attitude of a bad boy, but he isn't a total jerk like Lance is. He's a really cool and sweet guy. And he can also phase through stuff like me. Between you and me, if he wasn't dating Rogue, I would totally go after him.'

She saw a butterfly fly past her, and as she admired it, she noticed Xavier approaching Logan. 'Thank goodness for Professor Xavier. He keeps a lid on things around here; not an easy job sometimes, especially with Mr. Logan. I bet he really gets after him for trashing his room.'

"Something in that news story, I don't know what, set me off." Logan said to the professor.

"Let's talk about it." Xavier said to the pacing mutant. "Sit down."

"Charles, there's something in my head, buried there." Logan said. "How about you get inside and see if you can't pry it loose?" He suggested.

"Alright." Xavier accepted. "But first, you need to relax."

"Heh. Yeah, easy for you to say." Logan said sarcastically.

Xavier then placed a hand on his head as he entered Logan's mind. Both mutants saw Logan peering out from his tube at a bald man in a military uniform wearing goggles.

The connection then broke as Xavier exited Logan's mind.

"Tell me that was a dream or something." Logan said.

"No, a memory long forgotten, or rather, suppressed." Xavier replied. "I believe that was a glimpse of how you came to acquire your unusual implements. Do you wish to continue?"

"Go for it." Logan prompted.

As Xavier did just that, Logan saw a memory of himself in the woods right after escaping the lab, where he was confronted by Sabretooth. In the distance, he could see the same scientist in front of a jeep. The memory then ended as Sabretooth charged at Logan.

"You all right?" Xavier asked his old friend.

Logan rubbed his head. "Whatever happened to me, that's where it started with that ghoul in the black coat. He's the guy who did this." He popped out his claws. "I gotta go."

He was about to walk off when Xavier grabbed his arm. "You're going to that mountain in Canada, aren't you?" The professor asked. "The one you saw on TV and in your nightmares."

"Happen to pick that up while inside my head?" Logan shrugged off the arm as he went on his way.

"Do you want company?" Xavier asked.

"Do I ever?" Logan replied dryly.

As the Blackbird was stationary, Kitty was inside it, finishing her letter.

'Well, I guess I better sign off before Kurt pops in here and finds me. He's always doing that; totally freaks me out.' She looked at her watch. 'Besides, I'm about late for school.'

Danny phased into the jet. "Kitty, why are you in the Blackbird?"

"Out of, like, necessity." Kitty replied as she closed her laptop.

"Necessity for what?" Danny asked.

"Privacy." Kitty complained. "I can't get one moment alone in this stupid mansion."

Danny rolled his eyes. "Is this because of the astrophysics test you have today?"

"No! I mean, well, that's part of it, but really, I just can't have any privacy here." Kitty confessed before the jet started to shake, signaling that it was taking off.

The two fell to the floor as the jet left the hanger with Logan piloting it.

The door to the cockpit opened as Kitty and Danny saw that Logan was flying the plane.

"It's Logan." Danny said as he was about to go up to the guy when Kitty held him back.

"I wouldn't." Kitty warned him. "He's been acting, like, mega-weird all morning."

Danny nodded as Logan caught their scents, tipping him off that Kitty and Danny were on board.

"Engage autopilot." Logan commanded the jet as he moved over to the two kids while clutching his head in pain. "Why are you following me?"

"We're not following you." Kitty explained. "I was just-" She was cut off as Logan pulled out his claws.

Danny moved Kitty back as Logan made a swipe at them.

"Logan, what's wrong?" Danny demanded, wondering what was going on with their instructor.

"I gotta take you back before..." Logan mumbled before he fell to the ground. "You gotta get away. Something in my head. I can't control it. Can't be trusted." He pressed a button, causing the door to the cockpit to close as he reached with one hand toward the two as his claws extended and cut through the metal door.

"He shut himself in so we'd be safe." Danny realized. "From him."

"We gotta get out of here." Kitty said.

"No!" Danny shook his head. "Didn't you hear him? Something's in his head, and he can't control himself." Danny recalled the time that he was controlled by Freakshow with that red orb. How he was forced against his free will to rob banks for that demented psycho. "He needs our help. And wherever he's going, he's probably heading there to get help." His eyes flashed with determination, not wanting Logan to go through the same thing he once went through. "We'll make sure that he's all right."

"Question is, where are we flying to?" Kitty said.

The two simply waited until the Blackbird finally landed in the Canadian wilderness. Logan got out of the plane as he started to look for any trace of who had experimented on him. He failed to notice Kitty phase through the plane as she walked a couple of steps forward to see where Logan was heading off to.

She turned to see Danny phase through the plane as well.

"Did you get into the cockpit?" She asked.

"Yeah, but something's jammed the transmitter." Danny revealed. "So we're on our own for this one."

The two then went to follow Logan, not knowing that they weren't the only ones in this forest.

In a lab, the same doctor from Logan's memories was at a computer console looking over an image of Logan's cranial area that displayed the active chip that was inside him.

"Excellent." The doctor praised. "You see, that chip in his brain is still active after all these years. Oh, I did such good work in those days." He said, feeling nostalgic for the old days. "And yet, through sheer force of will, he's managed to subdue it. Until now."

"Well, why now?" Sabretooth asked as he stood at the back of the lab.

"Oh, I suppose he just got too comfortable with Xavier, let his his guard down." The doctor said casually, as if he were having a normal conversation. "Certain news footage did the rest. Isn't that right, Bigfoot?" He teased.

"Don't call me that!" Sabretooth growled.

"Tell you what, Sabretooth." The doctor said with a smile. "Why don't you go greet our old colleague?"

Sabretooth let out a roar as he went off to confront Logan as the doctor messed with a dial, increasing the chip's strength.

Logan gasped in pain before he smelled a familiar scent and spotted Sabretooth.

Sabretooth charged at Logan as he knocked his smaller foe to the ground.

"Wolverine!" Sabretooth snarled.

"Sabretooth!" Logan returned. "I thought something stunk about this forest." Sabretooth tried to smack Logan, but he backflipped out of the way. Logan was then punched into a rock as Sabretooth charged at him for another attack, but Logan managed to dodge that one.

He moved past another attack as Logan got on his hands and kicked Sabretooth in the chest.

Having had enough with this, Sabretooth grabbed a big rock and threw it at Logan, but the smaller mutant jumped out of the way of the rock and tackled Sabretooth to the ground before Sabretooth kicked him off.

Wolverine then pulled out his claws. "Alright, fuzz-bub, playtime's over. Now I want some answers!" He was about to stab his foe when he heard another voice.

"You'll get your answers, Wolverine, but you'll wish you hadn't." The doctor said as he stood a couple feet away from Wolverine. In his hands was a remote control. Smirking at his former test subject, the doctor pressed a button on the controller, making Wolverine cry out in pain. The X-Man fell to his knees as Sabretooth came up behind him and hit him in the back, knocking Wolverine out.

"Welcome home." Sabretooth said with a toothy grin.

"You've aged remarkably well, Logan, if at all." The doctor said as he stood before Wolverine in the lab. "Your recuperative powers have served you well. Now it's time they serve me. Especially since your enhancements represent quite the financial investment.

Wolverine looked over to his right, where he saw a destroyed tube. The same tube that he escaped from back in his dream.

"Who?" Wolverine growled. "Who ordered it?"

"What? That Adamantium skeleton of yours?" The doctor asked as he placed his hands behind his back. "I can hardly believe you haven't figured that out by now." He then saw Sabretooth enter the room. "Ah, Bigfoot." He greeted, getting a growl from Sabretooth. "Are we ready for training?"

"We are." Sabretooth confirmed.

The doctor started typing on his computer as the monitors showed Danny and Kitty wandering the wilderness in search of their friend.

"Yes, and I see our test subjects are in position as well." The doctor said.

Wolverine tried to fight against the effect of the chip, refusing to hurt Kitty and Danny. "No!"

The doctor pressed a button on the remote, making Wolverine howl in pain.

"It's time we resume Project Weapon X." The doctor told Wolverine. "Your development as the ultimate mutant slayers."

Back with Kitty and Danny, the two were still searching for Wolverine.

"He should be around here somewhere." Danny said as Kitty looked around and spotted him.

"There he is!" Kitty pointed over to a hill that Wolverine was standing on. "Mr. Logan, over here!"

The two saw Wolverine look in their direction as Sabretooth came up behind him, but Wolverine didn't seem bothered by how close Sabretooth was.

"Looks like he's brought a friend." Danny observed.

"Sabretooth!" Kitty exclaimed as Sabretooth jumped down, with Logan following. "But they're, like, mortal enemies."

"Guess he forgot that part." Danny said as he saw the two start to approach them. "Come on!" He lifted Kitty into his arms and flew into the air, where Sabretooth and Logan couldn't catch them.

"He can fly?" The doctor said as he watched the scene from his lair. He sighed. "This is gonna take some time."

Danny then threw an ecto-blast at Sabretooth, knocking him out, before Danny grabbed Wolverine with one of his arms.

The mutant tried to attack Danny and Kitty, but his attacks only went through Danny, as he kept himself and Kitty intangible.

Danny then flew them to a cliff, where he dropped Wolverine roughly to the ground before setting Kitty down as he got in front of her to protect her. Coincidentally, he took them to a place where the doctor couldn't observe them on his monitors.

"Logan, it's me." Danny said as he realized that Wolverine was being controlled by something. "What's wrong with you?"

"Danny! Kitty!" Wolverine raised his claws to attack them, but he was twitching as he tried to hold himself back, trying to take back control before he hurt his friends.

Danny could see the hesitation in his movements. That meant that Wolverine could take back control. He just needed help. "So you still recognize us?" He walked closer to Wolverine. "Logan, I know what you're going through. I've had control taken from me before, but I took it back, and so can you. You just need to fight back!"

"Yeah, Mr. Logan." Kitty agreed. "We've always been friends." At seeing Wolverine let out a growl, she corrected herself. "Okay, maybe not friends, but close enough."

In the lab, the doctor was increasing the chip's power to take back control of Wolverine as he started to move closer to the two.

"Logan, fight back!" Danny urged as he and Kitty backed up to the edge of the cliff. He remembered Sam being in the same position back on the train when she was trying to reach him. It wasn't until Sam fell that he finally broke free of the staff's control.

Realizing that he would have to do something similar, Danny grabbed Kitty and threw the two of them off the cliff.

Kitty screamed as they plummeted. Danny, however, was calm as he turned them invisible before flying to safety.

"What's wrong with you?" Kitty shouted at him.

"I was thinking he would snap out of it if we thought we were dead." Danny answered with no hesitation.

Kitty smacked him in the chest. "You're crazy! That's never going to work."

Wolverine watched as the two disappeared. He looked at his hands.

"Kitty? Danny?" He then let grief consume him as he howled in sadness as the rain came down. "No!"

Danny and Kitty then appeared behind Wolverine as the feral mutant's sense of smell told him that they were still alive.

He was about to attack them when he stopped himself at the last minute, holding his claws just inches away from Kitty and Danny.

"It's me, Kitty." Kitty reminded him as she took off his mask. "Remember? Half-pint? Please try. We had breakfast together just this morning. Kind of. Look, whatever they did to you, you're fighting it. You can win.

"She's right, Logan!" Danny told him. "Remember who you are! You say bub a lot, and you're a great fighter who's been teaching us all you know. We still groan about your training sessions in the Danger Room, but we all know it's your way of preparing us for what the world will throw at us."

Danny looked into his eyes, as he could see that Wolverine indeed recognized him.

"Fight it, Logan!" Danny encouraged him. "I know you don't want to hurt us!"

"Don't give up!" Kitty spurred.

Wolverine was fighting with all his willpower against the chip. "I..." He clutched his head as he fell to his knees. "Chip!"

"Chip?" Danny asked. "What chip?"

"Something in my head." Wolverine grunted. "Making me do this."

"Well, let's get that out." Danny placed his hands on Wolverine's shoulders and turned his entire body intangible as the chip fell through him and to the ground, where Danny stomped on it.

Wolverine then started to breathe heavily as he realized that the pain was finally gone.

"You all right?" Kitty asked in concern.

Wolverine narrowed his eyes. "I will be when I get my claws into that slimeball." He then ran past them and toward the doctor's lair. Danny and Kitty watched as he sped off before noticing that Sabretooth was following him.

"I think he may need some help." Danny said as he took Kitty in his arms and flew after them.

"Sabretooth, where is Wolverine?" The doctor panicked as he tried to look for any sign of Wolverine.

Sabretooth looked down at the smashed entrance to the underground bunker. "He's entered the lab."

"No!" The doctor cried. "Get down here and protect me!" He turned around to see Wolverine cut right through the door to the lab.

"Don't make me do this, Logan." The doctor placed his hand on the dial that increased the chip's power, unaware that the chip had been removed. "You're too valuable!"

Sabretooth dropped down in the bunker in search of Logan when Danny and Kitty appeared in front of him.

"Get out of my way!" Sabretooth roared.

"You touch me, and I will phase you to the center of the earth." Danny threatened as Kitty phased through the door behind them to find Wolverine.

The feline mutant wasn't scared at all by Danny's threat. "You don't have the guts, runt!" He was about to slash Danny with his claws when the hybrid fired his ghost ray at the furry mutant, severing his arm.

Sabretooth screamed in excruciating agony at the loss of his limb.

"Don't tempt me!" Danny warned him. He knew that Sabretooth had regenerative powers like Wolverine did, so he would be fine. He then phased through the door to join Kitty.

The doctor was trembling in fear as Wolverine finished cutting through the door.

"I warned you!" He increased the chip's power to 100% as Logan fell to his knees.

The doctor smirked as he walked up to Wolverine. "Looks like I win, Logan."

His arrogance then turned to fear as Wolverine grabbed his hand.

"Gotcha!" Wolverine said as he threw the doctor back into his monitor. Realizing the chip wasn't working. He pressed a button, causing several spider-like security droids to come out and surround Wolverine.

They shot out tentacles to restrain the mutant as they wrapped around him.

Danny and Kitty then came in and noticed what was going on.

"Not a big fan of labs; let's see if I can fix that, shall we?" Danny fired his ecto-blasts at the drones, freeing Logan as Kitty ran at the monitor.

"Ok, I see the problem." She phased through the monitor, causing it to explode.

"Whoa!" Kitty phased through the fire as she saw the entire lab was about to come down. "It's about to get totally hot around here."

The doctor could only watch as his work was slowly being destroyed as Wolverine came up to him.

"You caged the wrong animal, bub." Wolverine snapped.

"Stop!" The doctor pleaded with the advancing Wolverine. "This place is gonna blow!"

"Let it!" Wolverine retorted. "Danny, Kitty, leave!"

"Not without you!" Kitty argued, but Danny grabbed her and phased them through the ceiling.

"I think Logan can survive one measly explosion." Danny assured her as they went above ground.

Wolverine then saw Sabretooth behind him with the doctor in front of him. The two people from his dreams and his past. It was time for this nightmare to end.

"Project Weapon X has been terminated." Wolverine said before the whole place was caught in a massive explosion.

Danny and Kitty watched the explosion occur as they waited for Wolverine to return. They waited for at least ten minutes until they saw Wolverine stagger toward them, his costume torn.

The X-Man could only walk a couple more feet before he collapsed to the ground.

"Mr. Logan." Kitty went to his side.

"He'll be fine." Danny said confidently as he started to carry Wolverine back to the Blackbird.

Logan lay in a bed in the infirmary before he shot up from his bed.

"Relax, my friend."

Logan turned around to see that Xavier was by his bedside.

"You're back at the institute." Xavier said. "You're safe."

Logan sighed in relief before he remembered Kitty and Danny. "What about the kids?" He asked worriedly. "Are they..." He feared the worst.

"Both fine." Xavier said with a smile. "Danny and Kitty have been in here every hour checking on you. Do you feel any pain, Logan?"

"Yeah, but not from any wounds." Logan answered as he laid back down in his bed. "Someday, though, I'm gonna find out who had this done to me." He vowed. "That's a promise."

"Glad to see you're up on your feet." Danny said as he walked into the room.

"It wouldn't have been possible without you getting that chip out of my head, bub." Logan grinned. "Thanks."

"Hey, no problem." Danny said, happy that Logan was back to his normal self.

Kitty was back in her room. Rogue was at the movies with Danny, so she had the room all to herself as she finished her letter.

'So, like I said this morning, it's been another normal day here at the Xavier Institute. Funny, I've been complaining about not having enough time alone, right? But I think I, like, miss bumping into everyone. It's part of the deal when you're a part of a family.'