Wolverine returns to the lab where Reed Richards and Hank Pym
have an update on the spread of the pathogen: it has been traced to a Russian
gene therapy called, in English, Survivor 118, designed to help survivors of a
nuclear war adapt to the changed conditions. A shipment was brought into the US
by the Russian Mafia but they were killed by a familiar method so Logan goes out
in search of the Punisher. Logan even passes up a battle between various heroes
and villains as a distraction for his main mission. Logan comes upon Punisher,
Taskmaster, and Hawkeye fighting predators and joins in; when the battle is
over, Logan questions Castle who describes his hit on the Russians, thinking he
was stopping the import of nuclear materials, and his exposure to the pathogen
which gave him an immunity. Logan reports back that all of the pathogen is
gone, washed away after Castle’s hit; Reed realizes that the only source of it
now is in the Punisher’s body and asks Logan to bring him in whether he wants
to come or not. Castle grudgingly agrees to come in to donate blood and tissue
samples when they come upon Electro fighting Magneto and they are attacked by a
gang of predators. The clash of electricity and magnetism creates an EMP that
shuts down the city. They make it to the darkened Baxter Building and find the
severed head of Willie Lumpkin impaled on a stake. Further along they discover Reed
Richards stretched out of shape in a stairway landing. In the lab, Spider-Man
and Beast have killed and eaten Hank Pym. There is a fight and Punisher blows
Beast’s head off but Spider-Man escapes. And then a monstrous Thing arrives,
with Thundra and Red She-Hulk, also turned to predators….