The Missouri Purifier arrives at
the gates of Heaven, where he is greeted by an angelic Deadpool. The man is
pleased to have made it to Heaven but Angelpool says there is one more test:
reveal the whereabouts of Jonathan Standish and the nature of his plans. The
detonation of the suicide bomb was an illusion created in the bad guy’s mind by
Psylocke so that she could learn this info. The baddie is then executed by
Fantomex. He reassures the crowd that the danger is past, only to realize the
people are just as frightened of them as of the bad guys….
X-Force ponders Standish’s scheme:
with the end of the world approaching, Standish is going to detonate the bomb
that sends out an electromagnetic pulse to shut down the brains of everyone
within a 25-mile radius, ostensibly sending them to Heaven before the Devil can
get them. So it’s obvious he is going to detonate his bomb in New York City….
X-Force flies to NYC in EVA where
they see an Air Force jet fire a missile at the Purifiers plane, unaware of the
bomb aboard. Fantomex dispatches EVA to intercept the missile; she is hit and
falls apart, dropping the team members into the sky. Logan tells Archangel to
stop the bad guys’ plane as he grabs Psylocke, using his body to cushion her
when they hit a roof. Deadpool just hits the roof while Fantomex guides EVA
down to a safe landing on the city streets. Archangel kills the pilots with
razor sharp blades from his wings then enters the cockpit and tries to take
control. He can’t so he slices the wings off and guides the damaged plane to a
safe landing in the street. Standish emerges to see they have come down in front
of a cathedral, which he takes as a sign from God. Archangel confronts Standish,
who shoots him down while ranting about the super-people being responsible for
all the suffering in the world. He reaches for the button that will detonate
the bomb…and Wolverine slices his hand off. Standish mutters that he just
wanted to save people. Logan points out that the hero he murdered also wanted
to save people and he takes off Standish’s head. They stand back to admire the
cathedral….