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Originally Posted by bmorr

so for those who read the x books what happened in WOTXM #11 and x men legacy #267? woooo 2 book pull this week!

I don't collect legacy. But here's what happened in WatXM #11:

Kid gladiator is drugged and abducted by his guardian in an attempt to flee the earth from the impending doom the Phoenix is expected to bring. Kid gladiator sees this fight as too big for him to miss and probably thinks it a proving grounds of sorts, so he breaks free and heads back to Earth to join the fight against the Avengers and is later seen punching Red Hulk in the face during flight.

There are multiple panels that show the various fights taking place between the A&X. Among them, Dr. Strange vs Magneto and Iron Fist vs Rachel Grey, however, the one fight that occurs that has me excited for the entirety of it during the next AvX: VS is Red Hulk vs Iceman. Its a surprisingly more even fight then you might think now that Iceman is seemingly about as strong now as the AoA version of him was.

The meat of this issue, though, focuses on Wolverine and Hope on their way to an AIM facility where they could jack a spacecraft to get them to the moon. During the blackbird flight Wolvie has flashbacks of Jean as the Phoenix begging him to kill her and him not being able to do it. He questions what he's even doing with Hope now and in general. Comments about how he's supposed to be there because he's the only one who can kill her if things go bad. Says he's supposedly "the best there is..." but since when did that involve killing kids?

Its then that they're shot down and attacked by Shi'ar Death Commandos. Hope borrows Wolverine's healing ability to survive the crash and then pops claws of her own to fight the commandos alongside wolverine. Wolverine reminds her that they've trained all their lives to kill and she reminds him she's been trained all her life to survive. They hold their own pretty well up until the Skrull commando impales and then guts hope while wolvie is being devoured alive by flesh eating bugs courtesy of the death Commando "Colony".

Then Hope goes Phoenix rage on everyone at which point Wolvie recovers and notices the dark Phoenix grin on hope while she takes out the death commandos and his claws pop ready to take her out. Then he flashes back again and sees Jean again pleading for him to kill her. Hope disengages the Phoenix power and reasons that the Phoenix must be close since her flare ups are getting stronger and asserts they should get to the moon soon.

SPOILER: the following is Wolverine's internal monologue exactly as it was written in this issue. If you want to read it yourself in this issue or in the collected book please skip the next few paragraphs.

Wolverines claws retract and the following internal monologue is spread out across several pages through multiple panels filled with various AvX fight scenes:

"Time to face facts...I'll never be able to do it. I'll never be able to kill her. No matter what. Its not just because she reminds me of Jean. Other than the hair she really doesn't. Jean was the most amazing woman I ever met. I look at Hope... and all I see is a kid. There was a time I could kill pretty much anyone anywhere for any reason at all. Bit that time's gone. "

"Even if it's to save the world, how could i go back to my school and face the kids there, with Hope's blood on my hands? How could i face myself? That ain't what I been fighting for. That ain't who I am. I'm Wolverine. Best there is at what I do. I'm the guy you call when there's somebody needs a good stabbing. But I ain't the guy who kills kids. I'm the guy who saves them."

Following that monologue Gladiator shows up to the Jean Grey school pissed demanding his son. End issue.