Murder Ballads

• Writer - Warren Ellis
• Writer - Ian Ed Ginton
• Penciler - Whilce Portacio
• Penciler - Ian Ed Ginton
• Inker - Gerry Alanguilan
• Lettering - Chris Eliopoulos
• Colorist - Avalon Studios
• Ass't Editor - Lysa Hawkins
• Editor - Jason Liebig
• Editor in Chief - Bob Harras

Summary

  Domino's back is half covered with a parasite; she has Jesse scan it, and he feels electric and biomagnetic energies, then it scans him back. She says she got it when she died: she knew Tsung was after her, so she disguised herself, but he still found her and shot her in Paris. She woke in a morgue, about to be autopsied. The parasite grown from her gunshot wound, resurrected her and healed all previous scars.

  Six months ago, Wisdom initiated X-Force into the real, hidden world of espionage. He says they need to know who to go to for help.

  Tsung crashes a birthday party and kills everyone there, so he can use the phone.

  X-Force waits for a contact; a city bus pulls up and morphs; they enter and are scanned. The spies Abel, Baker, and Charlie are angry they let Wisdom die, but they take a look at Domino's back.

  Domino tells Sam not to imitate Wisdom too much: there is good in the world as well as hatred.

  The spies are unable to find any information through their normal channels, but Jesse suggests visual clues. They find a fossil dug up in South Dakota in 1908 that matches, and it is large.

  Just then the bus is attacked by helicopters with missiles.