Losing Control

The Great Escape

Summary

  On another world, a Saurian guard named Jh'az gives chase after a fugitive Zennan, who appears to be dead. But the Zennan's spirit leaves its body, enters Jh'az's body, and flees. The Zennan's spirit then takes control of the body of a Saurian pilot, and flees the planet in a Saurian ship, making her getaway to Earth.

  Back on Earth, Logan and Carol Danvers, once known as Ms. Marvel but now known as Warbird, are shooting pool and having a few drinks in a pool hall. During their pool game, the two reflects on their past lives, Carol thinking about the various jobs, including that of a superheroine with superpowers, that she has held in the past, while Logan reflects on how the two had first met and the adventures they had together. Logan notices Carol was drinking unusually heavily, and guesses that her being kicked off of the Avengers (see the current Avengers series, #7) was contributing to her depression.

  Just then, Logan notices the news report on television reporting on a mutant militant extremist known as Powerhouse, who was creating havoc around the U.N. building in New York City, the site of where a international debate on human-mutant relations was to take place the next day. She was destroying everything in site "as a symbol of humankind's destructive attitude toward mutants". Only when Carol looses her footing on her shot at the pool table does Logan take his attention off the news. Logan tells her that he had to go look into that incident on the news. Carol begins to protest, telling him that the Fantastic Four or the Avengers would go look into it, but Logan, being a mutant himself, wanted to take care of this himself since Powerhouse was making all mutants like himself look bad. Only after he gets his costume on does Carol, donning her Warbird uniform, decides to go with him, much to Logan's protest that she was drunk. She flies him over to where Powerhouse was creating the destruction.

  Logan, still concerned that Warbird might be fighting drunk, is dropped over Powerhouse by Warbird, landing on her back. The two begins dueling it out, though Logan was having a tough time since he felt as if Powerhouse was draining his energy, thus, hampering his healing factor's efficiency. Warbird attempts to help Logan, but Logan notices how she was creating more destruction and endangering civilians' lives with her reckless energy blasts towards Powerhouse. Logan knew he had to do something about it as soon as possible.

  Elsewhere, two teenagers stop by to investigate a shooting star that appeared to have landed nearby on the road. The two investigates, only to discover a ship with what appeared to be a dead pilot in there.

  Back at the U.N. battleground, Logan spends most of his time dodging both Powerhouse's plasma blast and Warbird's reckless energy blast. On the sidelines, he devises a plan to take down Powerhouse while avoiding Warbird's reckless blasts. Only after Powerhouse knocks Warbird unconscious, accusing her of being drunk and useless, does Logan finally get his chance to take down Powerhouse, who once again, asks Logan why he chooses to live as a slave, even though mutants had the power to be the rulers over mankind. Logan's response was that humans weren't the enemy, the world wasn't as simple as black and white, and therefore, mutants and mankind would have to learn to live with one another. Logan manages to defeat Powerhouse. Nearby, a car screeches out of the corner and into a wall. Logan goes over to investigate, only to discover the teenager, now possessed by the Zennan's spirit, who knew Wolverine by name and sight. Warbird slowly regains conscious, heads over to see what Logan was investigating, only to find that a possessed Logan with a cynical, evil smile on his face.