3 = Where the Hell Are We?
Okay, before going any further, I just wanted to let you all know that I'm already reworking this story so from now on I will be using my new timeline idea. This means that the events of Logan 2017 have already happened and Nina is mourning Logan's loss and raising Laura. I did go back and alter Chapters 1 and 2 slightly so if you haven't reread those yet I recommend just to avoid confusion! I also added a Prologue! Thanks and enjoy! :)
"STOP!"
Dripping blood, both Wade and Logan stopped their duel abruptly and turned at the sudden outcry. Logan had both of Wade's katanas sticking out of his chest at odd angles, as well as Baby Knife, while Wade was full of claw holes.
Nina stood there, and she was livid. "STOP IT! I don't care how cool or cinematic it looks, just STOP FIGHTING FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Fucking hell you two." She looked down at her hands where her powers were still swirling weakly. "And MOTHERFUCKER what did they do to my powers?!" Both just stared, blinking back at her. "What?"
"Shorty!" Wade gasped. "You kiss your mother with that mouth?"
"I don't have a mother."
"Okay fine. You kiss him with that mouth?" Wade jabbed a finger at Logan.
"Oh come on, one doesn't have a decades-long friendship with you, an equally long relationship with Logan, and raise Laura without acquiring quite the mouth oneself."
"This version of you is terrifying - and I love it!" Wade whisper-hissed.
"Who's Laura?" asked Logan.
This threw her. Of all the responses she had figured may come following her outburst, that was certainly not one of them. "Who's - y-you, you don't know?" He gave a stiff shake of his head. Slowly, she approached. Then, just as slowly, cautiously almost, she reached up to cup his face in both hands. He didn't flinch away, he just stared down at her. "You're not my Logan, are you? That's how you're here, isn't it?"
Wade answered for him. "Yeah, I'm sorry you had to miss that montage - it was awesome!"
But the two were still focused on only each other. "And you don't have her in your universe, Laura?"
Another shake of the head. "Who is she?" he asked again.
"X-23 - a younger, smaller, somehow meaner version of you," Wade answered again, and she was glad he did because her chest hurt with the knowledge that this Logan had no Laura, and if there was a Laura out there, she didn't have Logan. That was all so sad. Honestly, it gutted her.
"I am so confused..." Now it was her turn to shake her own head.
"Join the club," huffed Logan.
"You-" she whirled on Wade, "-have some serious explaining to do!"
So they started walking across the vast landscape while Wade told her the whole story from his birthday party up until that point. She piped up every once in a while.
"Logan was our universe's anchor being? God, I wish he knew just how much he impacted everything, literally." Her heart swelled with the knowledge.
"And so eventually I came upon this comic-accurate beast drowning his sorrows."
She took in Logan's suit. "It's nice, I like those colours." He just grunted in response.
Wade, of course, had something to say. "See, now Shorty we just have to get you a comic-accurate suit."
"So long as it's full coverage - none of this 'I'm wearing a bikini and high heels and am ready to fight' nonsense. Men drawing female costumes, fucking nightmare." She shuddered. "But wait, you mentioned a montage - you knew Logan - our universe's Logan - was dead."
"But Wolverines aren't supposed to die, cause of the regeneration powers."
"But you knew he was dead. You had a whole 'fuck Wolverine and the fact that he died and copied my movie and now I'm going to copy his' speech in the sequel."
"Well I had to confirm it, yeah, and I did, hence the montage."
"Confirm it? How?" She was poking and prodding, knowing there was something he had yet to reveal.
"Didn't I mention that?"
"No you conveniently left that out."
"I checked."
"How?"
Silence. Then, "By digging him up..." Before she could answer he let out a rapid-fire explanation. "But then the TVA attacked and I had to improvise and I used his skeleton to help take them down! Honestly, it was awesome, the team-up I've always wanted." He lay a gloved hand on his chest, over his heart.
But she very clearly did not share in his enthusiasm. "You did what to his body and grave? I tend to that grave, Wade! So the next time I go I'll find it all dug up and in shambles, bones everywhere and dead bodies in the snow! YOU DESCECRATED THE GRAVE OF THE MAN I LOVE?!"
"So things got a little messy... Like I said, I'm not proud of any of it..."
Her hands were now balled into fists, shaking at her sides. "AHHHHH!" With a flick of her wrist, a small burst of power shot forward. Wade ducked. "You poking at my love life because you're upset with yours I can live with, even understand a little. But this is far too much - this time you have gone too far-" Whatever power she had left went shooting from said fists and struck Wade back, sending him flying across the sandy expanse and landing hard. "Oh you fucking insensitive bastard-"
Logan snorted. "Oh, this'll be good."
From where he was now on the ground, Wade held up his hands in surrender. "Come on now, Shorty, I don't want to fight you-"
"Oh, but right now, I really want to fight you. And don't call me 'Shorty'!"
"But I'm the only one with those privileges!"
"Not anymore! I'm revoking those privileges!"
He gave a gasp. "No!"
"Yes!"
"Stop! If we fight each other, we lose," a strong, male voice spoke up, breaking them apart. The new guy stood atop a nearby tower, cloaked from view, literally.
"Where the hell did he come from?"
"We're going to need to stick together - they're coming," the man said.
"Who?"
The cloaked figure pointed. In the distance, they could see a convoy of vehicles approaching, spraying dust in their midst.
"Ooo, very Mad Max-y," Wade commented.
Pretty soon they were being circled.
Nina couldn't believe her eyes. "Wait, is that - Victor?" She winced. Any time she had been around Logan's brother, Victor/Sabretooth, he had always given her the creeps. There was also Toad and Pyro, and that wasn't all.
Pyro was grinning. "Oh Cassandra's going to be just giddy when she sees what we caught! You've been running from us for far too long."
The man leapt down from the tower.
"Now that was a superhero landing!" cried Wade.
"Who's running, dickface?" Their new companion threw back his hood to reveal-
Wade gasped. "Cap!"
"Stay close."
"Sure thing, Captain." Wade came up behind him and wrapped his arms around the other man, who promptly removed them.
"You haven't caught us yet," Cap retorted to Pyro.
"We have from where I'm standing."
"Not for long-" Cap squared his shoulders.
Wade grew giddy. "Oh my God, oh my God - he's going to say it!"
"Say what?" grumbled Logan.
Wade started speaking along. "Avengers-"
"FLAME ON!"
"Ah, excuse me-"
The man - not Cap - burst into flames and went shooting upward, sending a blast of flame down at the would-be captors. However, he had terribly miscalculated, and Pyro simply sucked the flame away.
His power gone, the man fell from the sky with a cry, striking the raised platform he had previously been standing on before hitting the ground. "Ow - fuck!"
"We don't know that guy," spoke-up Logan.
"Thought we did, but we didn't," added Wade.
"Looked really familiar," Nina put in.
"You," growled Sabretooth, pointing a claw-like nail at Logan. "I want you."
With a growl, Logan turned to face him. The two brothers stared each other down.
"Wait, wait, wait - TIME!" Wade jumped in. "You look ridiculous. People have been waiting decades for this fight-" He began withdrawing his weapons that still ran through Logan. "-Baby knife! - and you have to do it right! Are you ready? I said, ARE YOU READY-" Logan turned and growled. Wade jumped back. "Oh my God-"
The brothers faced each other and charged. There was a swish as they passed each other. Moments later, Victor's head slid clean off. Well, that was a clear win for Logan.
Wade promptly bent down and scooped up the head, holding it up in triumph. "BEHOLD! YOUR QUEEN, FURIOSA! I HAVE THE WOLVERINE AND SHE ANSWERS TO ME AND ME ALONE. AND SHE IS UNSTOPPABLE! I'm sorry, I know it's pronounced 'him', I'm genderblind."
Nina huffed and blew her bangs out of her eyes. "We're fucking dead."
This is going to mess with the timeline of my Cable stories but, oh well, Wade can fix that later ;)
Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed! :)