Then: Because of the debacle in
Latveria, General Thunderbolt Ross strips David Colton of his position as
Captain America. He is shown how to maintain the arc reactor powering his heart
and the shield is taken from him….
At Primewarrior, Nuke is getting ready
to lead his men into battle against Wolverine but Professor Ash reminds him
that his mission is not revenge but to recover the Mystery Box….
Inside, Logan and David Colton are
fighting the Nuke clone while Tyler Torrens gets away to seek revenge against
CEO Nick Pruet. Nuke and his team arrive while Tyler cuts his way through the
guards to enter Pruet’s office. He demands that Pruet take away the
Adamantium additions or he will destroy the Mystery Box. Pruet promises they
can give him a device that will dampen his mutant gene and make him normal
again….
Nuke and his men arrive and open
fire on Logan, killing the Nuke clone and Colton ends up in a standoff with
Nuke. Dave tells Nuke that if he is another super-soldier, he’ll want to make
the bad guys pay for what they did to him. So he’s going to find Logan and they
are going to save Tyler and Dave tells Nuke he can come along or go away but
Dave is not going to let him stop them….
Wolverine enters Pruet’s office and
Tyler, who doesn’t know Logan, traps him in his Adamantium coils. Logan warns
him about the Box which Pruet says has Multiversal energy and can make a
person more powerful than anything on the planet. Logan and Dave Colton warn
him not to listen to Pruet: if he has something that can dampen mutant powers
it will take away Tyler’s healing power and the Adamantium in his body will
kill him. But Tyler just wants to kill Pruet and Logan wans him that he won’t
be able to live with the guilt. Nuke enters and shoots Pruet in the head. And
then the rest of the Nuke clones come crashing in. The three good guys smash
through the big window and fight the pursuing bad guys outside in the snow. Nuke
blows up his first clone. Logan tosses the shield to Colton who can’t pick it
up and one of the Nuke clones shoots him through the chest….
Then: Dave Colton receives a visit
from Steve Rogers, the original Captain America, who tells Dave they should
never have sent him on that mission to Latveria after his traumatic time in
Iraq. No one understands what super-soldiers go through. David confesses his fears
that he could never live up to Cap’s name; Steve apologizes, telling him he
never had to and leaves him the shield….
Logan stands over the mortally
wounded Dave Colton and, in an act of desperation, he opens the Mystery Box….
Later, Logan works with Tyler, showing
him how his bloodlust could be contained. Colton tells Logan that he sought
power and used it poorly; maybe that’s the secret: not wanting the powers makes
you the person to have them. Logan apologizes for using the Box but he couldn’t
let Colton die. Dave shrugs and then flies off to get more lumber….
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