DoomsDay!

The Great Escape

Summary

  With the arrival of Galactus, the prison planet is instantly in chaos, as the planet begins to fall apart and the inhabitants on this planet are scrambling for cover. Logan wonders exactly how tough Galactus could be. Torgo, from behind, says Galactus is defeatable, but highly improbable. His point was made as a ship tried to intercept Galactus, to stall the process that Galactus must go through before devoring the planet, but instantly disintegrates with a energy blast from Galactus's eyes. Torgo's advice to Logan was to get off the planet while he had the chance. Torgo heads off to slow down Galactus, while Logan rescues an alien child from being crushed underneath falling debris.

  Onboard Corsair's vessel, Wolverine tries to convince Corsair to help him fight Galactus, reasoning that the Fantastic Four had fought Galactus in the past and had managed to get Galactus to retreat. Corsair refuses, saying that the best they could do right now was to get as many of the stranded aliens off the planet. Logan leaves to figure out how to defeat Galactus on his own.

  Elsewhere, Aria accuses the Collector of holding the inhabitants like prisoners and breeding them like cattle. The Collector accuses Aria of destroying his plans to save these endangered species from extinction and promptly kicks her off of his vessel.

  Logan meets up with Torgo on Torgo's vessel. Torgo's plan was to obtain the help of the other pilots on the prison world to team up and destroy Galactus's elemental converter, the device which Galactus uses to absorb the planet's energy. That way, they could buy some time to rescue the prisoners who were still trapped on the planet. Logan sees Aria below and grabs her onboard as Torgo flies by.

  As the pilots group up, the plan was to use a diversionary squad to attack Galactus, while a smaller squad, led by Torgo, would come from behind to strike and destroy the Elemental Converter. But the diversionary squad was no match for Galactus, as one by one, they quickly fall under the power that Galactus posessed. Logan suddenly has a plan that he believed was better: he and Aria ejects in midflight. Logan lands on the elemental converter, while Aria parachutes right in front of Galactus. Using her will-controlling powers, she attempts to take over Galactus's will. For a moment, it appeared that it had worked, but Galactus breaks free of her control and takes down Torgo's aircraft. Logan tries to tear apart the elemental converter with his claws, but his claws instantly shatters against the elemental converter. He tries unsuccessfully to destroy the elemental converter, realizing he overestimated his own abilities, and now only did he fail, but he realize that the entire planet was doomed to die because of his failure, and because he was responsible for shutting down the planet's defences, he was at fault for the death of thousands of inhabitants on the planet.

  Galactus finally notices Logan, but Logan was quickly saved by the Starjammers vessel. Raza tries to reason with Logan that he had done all he could, but now was the time that they had to leave. Logan says he wasn't going to leave without Aria and Torgo, but then, Torgo and Aria appears. Torgo says Aria's attempt to control Galactus's mind had hurt her considerably, and she was in grave condition. Torgo leaves her with Wolverine and the Starjammers, and heads back to stall Galactus, only to be killed by one of Galactus's energy blasts. The Starjammer's vessel quickly leaves the planet and heads off into space. As they leave, Logan watches as down below, the planet is consumed by the elemental converter to convert the planet's mass into energy which Galactus would then devour.

  The ship's medic shows up, and informs Logan that Aria could not be saved anymore. Though her body could be revived, her soul was gone, lost in her attempt to control Galactus's mind.

  Much later, back on Earth, Logan meets with Carol Danvers (Warbird) on a dinner date and spends the rest of the evening telling her what had happened.