Rage War

• Writer - Ian Ed Ginton
• Penciler - Jorge Lucas
• Inker - Jorge Lucas
• Lettering - Chris Eliopoulos
• Colorist - Gina Going
• Ass't Editor - Frank Dunkerley
• Editor - Matt Hicks
• Editor in Chief - Joe Quesada

Summary

  Rychenko is out of bullets and about to be killed by Warborgs, on the authority of Dumas and the Executive Security Committee, but X-Force arrives and stomps them. Tabitha tries to blind them with hard light blades, and Jesse tries to short out their mechanical parts, but they're heavily shielded, so Sam calls a retreat and sends Jimmy to beat on them. He does but gets poisoned in the process.

  In New England, the two Russian spies who let themselves be mutated into monsters look at the teenage daughters they don't remember. One feels betrayed and resists following orders; Racal orders the other to kill him, then sends her on a suicide mission while he collects the girls. Progenitor observes but doesn't interfere yet.

  Rychenko dissects the brain of one of the Warborgs to get its data cluster. She explains they're reanimated Russian soldiers, killed in Afghanistan and Chechnya. She's trailing their creator, Racal. Tabitha has Domino read the data cluster remotely via Sam's headset and is disproportionately congratulated for the idea. Jesse destabilizes Jimmy's nervous system slightly, to keep him stable.

  On the Helicarrier, Fury is briefed: recent attacks on decommissioned bases by mutated humans. They and the Warborgs are based on the same decades-old Soviet technology, and they aim to kill Rychenko and Sam.

  Rychenko tells X-Force about it: volunteers mutated and brainwashed to be moles in America, activated by oral command. Two decades later, Warborgs were sent to destroy them before they become liabilities, but found that some of them had children, which was supposedly impossible. She takes them to Racal's base, who is her father, and X-Force starts to suspect her motives.