Story continues from WEAPON X #4.
A pizza driver delivers to a secret
facility in Serenity Hills, Texas, heading further and further into the
building with his pizzas—but he can go no further than the Red Level and in the
center of that is the Weapon X lab, headed by Dr. Alba….
Old Man Logan contacts Kitty Pryde,
current leader of the X-Men, warning her about Weapon X’s new killer cyborgs,
telling her to use Cerebra to watch over mutants. He declines her help in
dealing with the problem at the source. He heads into the next room aboard the
Olympus Group Transport and finds Lady Deathstrike and Sabretooth; without a
warning he attacks them both, explaining that they all need to keep on their
guards against the deadly cyborgs that can mimic any human form. Sabretooth
opines that Warpath and Domino aren’t up to the demands, so the former hurls a
knife at him: Creed ducks but Domino ricochets a bullet off the knife in midair
that hits Creed between the eyes. Sabretooth than accepts them as part of the
team and suggests that Amadeus Cho, the Totally Awesome Hulk, can be ditched
since he isn’t a killer. Logan points out that he’s a super-genius and they
need him. Amadeus shows them that he has regrown the face of the cyborg whose
skeleton he recovered and identified the human host (David Andrews), a lead in
tracking down the baddies. Logan points out the stasis formula the cyborg was
grown in and suggests they search for who has purchased a lot of it; Amadeus
traces it to a company called Omnitek in Oklahoma that was producing the
chemical illegally. Logan sends Amadeus and Lady D to find David Andrews’
family while he and the rest check out the chemical company. He tells Amadeus
and Lady D separately that he needs them to keep and eye on the other….
Logan, Sabretooth, Warpath, and
Domino break into the deserted Omnitek facility and are attacked by cyborg
cats; fighting them off, they find shipping manifests, leading them to the
names of customers who bought the fluid….
In Youngstown, Ohio, Amadeus and
Lady D find the Andrews home and put David’s mother to sleep while they search.
They uncover a book by Rev. William Stryker and a phone which gives them the
name of another son (Bobby) and a film clip of the mother killing the pet cat
to punish the kid. This last shakes Amadeus up but Lady D knows that people can
be much, much worse, like the ones they are looking for….
At the Weapon X facility, Rev
William Stryker persuades a young man that he is needed for the crusade against
the devil and his mutants, working him into a state of zeal before sending him
to the lab. Dr Alba tells Stryker that they need more than volunteers to make
their quotas and that their mental state is immaterial. Stryker vehemently
disagrees, insisting each volunteer must be spiritually ready for the task.
Alba goes to the lab and tases the young man and has him dropped into a vat
before ordering pizza.…
Story continues in TOTALLY AWESOME
HULK #20.