Trust

The Great Escape

Summary

  Inside a prison cell, Corsair and his followers are worried about the length of time that one of their own members, Raza, had been gone for a long time. Soon, prison guards return Raza back into the cell after concluding the tests that The Collector's followers had conducted on him. Raza informs Corsair that he had learned nothing new of why they were being helped captives, but did notice that The Collector's elite patrols were patrolling the corridors as if they were seeking something or someone.

  Back to the launch docks, where Logan and Torgo were still poised for a showdown while exchanging a war of words. Aria, still in posession of one of The Collector's soldier's body, tells Logan to step down. After a promise from Torgo to make no further trouble, Logan retracts his claws. Torgo exchanges some heated words with Aria, asking her why she continued to struggle against unsurmountable circumstances to free the prisoners, while she accuses him of being ignorant to let the prisoners be reprogrammed. Torgo knocks out Aria with a concussion blast. Logan is taken by Torgo to visit the prisoners of the compound: to let him see the prisoner's point of view of their own situation, rather than just hearing the one-sided view from Aria.

  Elsewhere in the prison planet compound, the slave to the Collector and a satellite operator discovers that an energy being had landed on their planet, something bad which confirmed their greatest fears.

  As Logan is led to the prison cells so that he can interact with the prisoners, Torgo tells Logan about his origins: how he was a slave on the planet Kral by the Skrulls, and during a gladiatorial game, was unable to kill the Fantastic Four member, Thing, due to the Thing's nobility. He teamed up with the Thing and the rest of the Fantastic Four to rebel against the Skrulls and the five eventually defeated the Skrulls. Torgo tells Logan the reason he told Logan this story was because of his respect for human beings. Torgo is summoned by the Collector, and leaves Logan behind in the prison cell. Logan attempts to talk with the prisoners until the prisoners begin fighting against Logan since "his kind" was not welcome there ("his kind" referring to the prisoner's belief that Logan had allied himself with Torgo).

  Elsewhere, a Ovoid being uses a contraption which would prevent Aria from transmitting her conscious from one body to another. Aria's body, inside a holding chamber, is reunited with her conscious. Aria believes she has failed in her mission, and that only Logan now would be able to free them.

  Logan is held at the mercy of an alien who accuses Logan and the rest of the X-Men for creating the Dark Phoenix which had destroyed his world. The other aliens immediately cease in their fight against Logan, now realizing that Logan was of the fabled X-Men, whom they had heard heroic stories about. After making clear that he was one of the good guys, Logan was able to inspire the other prisoners to join him in their attempt to break free of the compound.

  Back in the main central room where The Collector was, the Collector is being informed about the arrival of the energy creature, whom they had been preparing their protective shields for. He is also informed that the Zennan woman, Aria, had been caught, and Logan was left in the holding pen to fend for himself.

  Returning back to where Corsair and his followers were being held, Corsair exclaims how he couldn't believe that Wolverine was involved in "this whole affair", but they knew, though, that Wolverine was recruited by Aria to challenge the Collector. But with what they now know, Corsair realizes that Logan must not be allowed to succeed since the Collector's cause was just and they had no choice but to help the Collector and prevent Wolverine from accomplishing what he came to the planet to do.