X-FORCE

Issue 5.1
PAGE 8
1 - SKULLBUSTER turns to find himself surrounded by Wolverine,
Deadpool and Fantomex, guns, swords and claws at the ready.
WOLVERINE
You remember my three sisters of
doom?
DEADPOOL
Them dames got incisive tongues.
FANTOMEX
Hi. You dont know me.
2 - CUT TO - BETSY IS SUDDENLY PANICKED, still with the butterfly
effect over her face.
PSYLOCKE (TELEPATHIC)
MY GOD! Logan! PULL BACK-3 - CUT TO - SKULLBUSTER smiles at the men surrounding him, hes
holding a HANDHELD DETONATION DEVICE, his thumb about to come
down on the detonation button.
PSYLOCKE (TELEPATHIC)
IT'S A SUICIDE MISSION!!
SKULLBUSTER
Last time we met I made you an them
claws a guarantee.
4 BUTTON.
SKULLBUSTER
Came back from the dead to keep my
promise-SFX
-DEEP5 - PULL BACK - BONEBREAKER SELF DETONATES. A large explosion it
fills the street.
SKULLBUSTER (CAP)

-- to send you to hell!

SFX
GRADOOOOOOOOM

5 - CUT TO - HILLTOP - Archangel and Betsy are watching the giant

detonation in the center of town where their teammates were just
standing.

PAGE 9
1 - Psylocke and Archangel turn to find Gateway standing, HE'S
GRABBED PSYLOCKE BY HER ARM, STOPPING HER.
ARCHANGEL
Come on ! We have to get down there
PSYLOCKE
Wait- Gateway is communicating with
me.
PSYLOCKE (CONT'D)
He says we can't go. Can't leave him
alone.
ARCHANGEL
Why?!

2 - MED. SHOT - Psylocke turns to Archangel.

PSYLOCKE
He can't refuse their request or they'll kill
his tribe.
ARCHANGEL
What request?!
PSYLOCKE
They want him to open a portal to
Utopia--

3 - CUT TO - We catch up with the opening. Lady Deathstrike exists the

tavern to see the smoldering crater and flames billowing out of it.
WOLVERINE'S CHARRED HAND (foreground) prominently poking of the
flames, flesh boiling, completely cooked off in a few places. Behind her
stand COLE and SKULLBUSTER. DEADPOOL'S DETACHED arm visible
smoldering in the dirt.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
They're going to blow up the island.
LADY DEATHSTRIKE (CONT'D)
Go now, Reavers, through the gateway -decimate the dinosaur camp.
LADY DEATHSTRIKE
Kill at your discretion.
LADY DEATHSTRIKE
My objective has found me. Come to
deliver my familys honor.
4 - The Reavers all run off towards the hill as Lady Deathstrike stands
by the flames, waiting for Wolverine to emerge.
LADY DEATHSTRIKE
Come now.
LADY DEATHSTRIKE
Dance with me, my dear.
5 - SAME AS PANEL 4 - Wolverine's hand clenches into a fist as HIS
CLAWS POP OUT.
LADY DEATHSTRIKE (CONT'D)
On the corpses of your comrades.
SFX
SNIKT

PAGE 10
1 - CUT TO - PSYLOCKE and ARCHANGEL stand in front of GATEWAY,
battle ready as the Reavers approach.
PSYLOCKE (TELEPATHIC)
Warren, I cant hear the others -- We are
alone.
REESE
Look who we got here, mates. Purple
haired brit don't know what race she is.
PRETTY BOY
Leave her intact for reprogramming, be a
real shame to ruin such a first-class
frame.
2 - THE REAVERS OPEN FIRE, ARCHANGEL SWINGS HIS WINGS DOWN
FORMING A WALL protecting them from the bullets, also guarding
Gateway, obviously.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Never knew how much rage Id kept in
my guts for these creatures.
ARCHANGEL
Get behind me!
SFX
BRAKKA BRAKKA
SFX
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3 - From behind Archangel's wings, he and Psylocke crouch taking

cover. On the other side The Reavers approach, they continue to fire on
them.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
How much rage I would feel upon seeing
them.
ARCHANGEL
Elisabeth, honey, given your distaste of
these fellows, how would you like to
proceed?
SFX
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PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Logans voice warns me against entering
into this for revenge.
4 - 1/2 SPLASH - 180 CAMERA TO THE OTHER SIDE OF WARREN'S WING
SHIELD - BIG MONEY SHOT - Psylocke leaps over from the other side,
sword drawn, ready for action.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
I do it anyway.
SFX
BRAKKA BRAKKA
ARCHANGEL
I assumed.
SFX
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PAGE 11
1 - LADY DEATHSTRIKE STANDS CASUALLY AS WOLVERINE CRAWLS OUT
OF THE FIRE, badly hurt, fleshing cooking, a trail of blood and pus
behind him. She's allowing him to recover.
LADY DEATHSTRIKE (CONT'D)
I will rend the flesh from your bones,
forged in the adamantium refuse of my
father's stolen dreams.
LADY DEATHSTRIKE (CONT'D)
I will leave you alive to feel it all, low dog.
WOLVERINE
So many o you jerks have lost the art of
the diatribe
2 - WOLVERINE LUNGES AT HER, arms wide, claws extracted, a trail of
smoke behind him, feral, monstrous, bone exposed through cooked
flesh in numerous spots.
WOLVERINE
Nice to see your jam still rocking the
pontification groove, Yuriko.
WOLVERINE
Also nice to know you plan on keepin ol
Logan alive.
WOLVERINE
Gonna be upfront with you as well,
darlin'-3 - Deathstrike guards Wolverine's attack with her long finger blades.
Her other hand is clenched together, all her fingers in one bundle
forming one long blade.
WOLVERINE
--We got different plans.
SFX
SWOOOSH
LADY DEATHSTRIKE
Whatever your plans may be--

4 - IMPACT - She jabs/swings the other hand up INTO WOLVERINE'S

FACE, it tears trough his cheek, and across his face, blood and flesh
erupt.
LADY DEATHSTRIKE
YOU WILL DIE UNSATISFIED!
WOLVERINE
YERAGHAH!!
SFX
SHRUKK

PAGES 12 - 13
DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
3 TIERS - TIER 1 IS PANELS 1 AND 2- TIER 2 IS PANELS 3 AND 4, TIER 3
IS PANELS 5 - 8
1 - 3/4 DOUBLE PAGE WIDE HORIZONTAL BLEED - WIDE ANGLE - LEFT
SIDE OF PANEL, Psylocke blocks oncoming bullets fired by PRETTY BOY
with her sword. RIGHT SIDE OF PANEL (BG) - ARCHANGEL swings his
wings down, SLICING OPEN COLE. Behind COLE we see BONEBREAKER
rush/roll (he had tank legs) forward up the hill holding an GLOWING
LASER MACHETE.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Outnumbered.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Waste one second -- were dead.
SFX
SHLOOP
COLE
YEAGHH
SFX
BLAMM BLAMM
SFX
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PRETTY BOY
Our minds are guarded from telepathy.
PRETTY BOY
Well have to keep this a purely physical
encounter.
2 - Psylocke swings, cutting the arm Pretty Boy holds his gun with clean
off.
PSYLOCKE
My intention all along.
SFX
DASHH

PRETTY BOY
YEAGHH

3 -3/4 DOUBLE PAGE WIDE HORIZONTAL - LEFT SIDE OF PANEL, Pretty

Boy is on top of Psylocke, holding her down as thousands of
bioluminescent tendrils stream from his eyes into her own, bonding the
two. RIGHT SIDE OF PANEL (BG), BONEBREAKER COMES DOWN WITH
HIS LASER MACHETE AND CUTS ONE OF ARCHANGEL'S WINGS IN HALF
THE METAL GLOWS ORANGE across the incision.
ARCHANGEL
GHRAGH!!
SFX
SHRNKK
PRETTY BOY
You take my hand - I take your body.
PRETTY BOY
You couldn't have picked a better frame
- this Pretty Boys partial to a gorgeous
Japanese gal with a British accent.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Pretty Boys cerebral tendrils connect.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
A direct link to his mind.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Warrens injury reverberates - almost
knocks me out.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Use it-- reroute it -4 - Betsy smiles,
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Pipe it directly into Pretty Boys jerk
brain
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
He squeals in pain.

PSYLOCKE (CAP)
I cant stop the smile--

5 - Pretty Boy flails wildly as he dies, He knocks Betsy over the edge of
the hill.
PSYLOCKE (CAP UPPER LEFT)
-- until he falls PRETTY BOY
YERAGHH--!
PSYLOCKE (CAP LOWER RIGHT)
--Until he takes me with him.
6 - Archangel literally fills BONEBREAKER's face with his wing blades
like a pincushion.
PSYLOCKE (TELEPATHIC)
Warren-- HELP!
ARCHANGEL
On my way.
SFX
SNK SNK SNK SNK

PAGE 14
1 - Archangel turns to see Macon and Reece, glowing bombs on their
backs, as they run towards Gateway who has opened a door.
ARCHANGEL
Damn! Reavers entering the portal!
PSYLOCKE (TELEPATHIC)
Ill be dead before the do.
2 - Archangel swoops and grabs Betsy as she falls.
PSYLOCKE
Im honored you chose to come. Dying
wasnt on todays schedule.
ARCHANGEL
Last minute makes you appreciate it
more.
3 - Archangel twirls and tosses Psylocke into the gateway after the two
Reavers as
PSYLOCKE
Throw me -- while the portal is still open!
PSYLOCKE
NOW!
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
In two seconds Ill be in the middle of
Utopia
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Wearing an X-Force uniform.
PSYLOCKE (CAP)
Tres faux pas.

4 - Lady Deathstrike darting towards Wolverine who stumbling in front

of the tavern, holding his bloody face, blinded and gruesome.
WOLVERINE (CAP)
Thirty seconds inside a tornado of
kitchen knives -
WOLVERINE (CAP)
-- Yurikos souped up Smarter too
WOLVERINE (CAP)
Single incision across eyes into my
nose WOLVERINE (CAP)
-- no sight -WOLVERINE (CAP)
- no smell --

PAGE 15
1 IMPACT - INT. TAVERN - Lady Deathstrike and Wolverine exploding
through the front window into the tavern.
WOLVERINE (CAP)
Almost as if shed spent some time
thinking on this.
SFX
KRASHH
WOLVERINE (CAP)
opens my throat -- No more talking -WOLVERINE (CAP)
Left eye grows back in time to see
whats next 2 - They land on a table, crashing it. DEATHSTRIKE SINKING HER
CLAWS INTO WOLVERINE'S CHEST.
WOLVERINE (CAP)
Punctures both lungs WOLVERINE (CAP)
-- Impossible to breath WOLVERINE (CAP)
Got tusslin me down to an art.
3 - Wolverine kicks her into the wall; above her is a GAS LANTERN.
WOLVERINE (CAP)
I break three ribs -- No recoil SFX
THAKK
WOLVERINE (CAP)
-- Doesnt feel pain WOLVERINE (CAP)
-- More machine than woman --

4 - Wolverine jumps and slices at her, missing her but OPENING THE
BOTTOM OF THE GAS LANTERN, OIL SPILLS ALL OVER LADY
DEATHSTRIKE.
WOLVERINE (CAP)
Kick wasnt the thing WOLVERINE (CAP)
Kerosene bath was the thing.
SFX
TWOKK
WOLVERINE (CAP)
She doesnt notice.

PAGE 16
1 - Deathstrike hits Wolverine with a powerful kick in the gut, sending
him flying toward the other side of the room where we saw the
DARTBOARD earlier.
SFX
TKAPP
WOLVERINE (CAP)
Three steps to the left
WOLVERINE (CAP)
only way thisll work WOLVERINE (CAP)
she kicks -LADY DEATHSTRIKE
No sight no smell you fight like a blind
man!
2 - Wolverine rises up, next to the dartboard, the HIGH-TECH SPEAR
WEAPON WITH THE LASER TIP STILL STUCK IN THE PHOTO OF HIM.
WOLVERINE (CAP)
I end up where I wanted -WOLVERINE
Might need to look into your olfactory
components, darlin.
3 Wolverine pulls the glowing HIGH-TECH SPEAR WEAPON out of the
wall.
WOLVERINE
Even through all this blood
4 - 1/2 SPLASH - IMPACT - WOLVERINE HURLS THE HIGH-TECH SPEAR
WEAPON INTO LADY DEATHSTRIKE'S STOMACH, SETTING HER ON FIRE.
SFX
SHNUKK-FWOOOOSHH
WOLVERINE
-- Even I can smell youre doused in
kerosene.

LADY DEATHSTRIKE
GAA--