bound to cross the line; logan (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sixreasons) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} rooms,@ 2014-11-18 21:33:00 |
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Who: Logan and so many flashforwards
What: Logan wants to know more about his past. The hotel meets him part of the way, and gives him more of his future [aka, a canon jump!]
Where: Mansion/X-Movieverse
When: over the next week [fyi, Logan will be gone for about a week~]
Warnings/Rating: basically all the events of X2 - "Days of Future Past"
He hadn’t been able to help himself at that hotel party: he drank, he drank, and he drank more. He scared off one companion—well, the girl hadn’t really been scared, but he had been bad company, and why would anyone stand for that? But there was a chance that some of these memories might be his, and he’d have to try, right?
There wasn’t much of himself that he had seen, whether that was good or ill. What was worst, though, was that it kept up that gnawing in himself about how much he had lost of his memory and how he desperately wanted to know what had happened.
In a way, the hotel was going to give him what he wanted. Or at least, give him more memories.
One minute he went to sleep in the hotel, and the next, he was back. Back in his New York with an old professor and no team of Avengers. And a whole new danger. The school was attacked by a military strike force led by Stryker, who knew him. A journey back to Alkali Lake to save the Professor and all mutants—and humans—had him confronting his own past: he had to fight a woman who was like him, laced with adamantium, built that way because of Stryker. That was where it had happened. That was where he turned into (more of) a monster and lost the memory of his life before.
That was also where they lost Jean Grey, sacrificing herself so the others could escape.
The loss came as a hard emotional hit for him, but the return of Jean Grey was even worse. She was a stronger, alternate personality of the one who had been before, and she was willing to kill Scott Summers, Charles Xavier, and…everything. She joined with Magneto in his quest to destroy humans (again) as they developed a “cure” for the mutant gene. She could rip matter apart, so it was a perfect fit.
Logan had to stop her, because he was the only one who could survive it. And he did.
As always, he sought solitude in Canada to brood.
But there, he was approached by Yukio and was convinced to travel to Japan to meet with a man he had saved in World War II. It was there that he was offered what seemed to be the best thing: the removal of his powers. He was alive for so long, had seen so many people die, had killed so many people that death would be a godsend. A natural death.
It wasn’t meant to be. He almost did die, almost lost his healing factor and his adamantium skeleton, but for the sake of Mariko and Yukio and the others in Japan, he had to fight. He wasn’t quite up to normal, but he managed to win another fight. He and Yukio roamed for two years after that, but eventually he returned to America…and walked right into another disaster: Sentinels, a group of machines created to destroy mutants.
The only way to stop them was to go back in time to stop them from being created, and that’s where Logan had to step in. He was the only one who could survive the trip back. If he was stuck with this immortality, he might as well use it.
And so, he went back to the 1970s, back to his bone claws, and suddenly faced with a much younger Xavier and Magneto and Mystique. Fuck. It wasn’t easy to convince them all to work together, especially since Logan wasn’t known as a great motivational speaker, but the threat outweighed their protests. Nothing went as planned, and Logan ended up filled with metal at the bottom of the Potomac river, but Mystique did good, and the Sentinel program was unwritten.
Logan found himself back in the future, reeling from the journey as well as the new timeline he found himself in…with Xavier, Scott, and even Jean Grey alive again.
It was the most optimistic he felt in a while.