[5] Wolverine acquires the Space Infinity Gem after killing the Frost Giant Snarr that was targeting it on Loki's behalf.

[9] Following his fight with Thing and Human Torch, a desperate Hydro-Man arrives at a campfire and attempts to rob the person sitting at it, who happens to be Wolverine.

[15] While in Japan, Wolverine watched a broadcast of Amadeus Cho's Hulk form battling and defeating Phalkan.

[16] At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wolverine arrives at an unoccupied desk to find a long spreadsheet printout.

[17] Shortly after the X-Men had retrieved Logan's adamantium sarcophagus from Mister Sinister,[18] Forge had built a log cabin in Alberta, Canada to serve as a secret shrine to hold Wolverine,[19] Those attending the quiet ceremony were Jubilee, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Cyclops, Beast, Firestar, Storm, and Doop, having arrived at the secret location via the Blackbird.

Some time later, the Reavers locate Wolverine's shrine and discover it empty; the X-Men arrive and defeat the aged cyborgs.

Kitty notices his burial shroud entangled in the nearby trees and discovers that Wolverine's body is no longer interred, and rallies the X-Men and his other close associates into finding him.

Lady Deathstrike vows to hunt down Wolverine after she is notified via Reavers' intel of the empty state of the adamantium statue.

At the McCarthy Medical Institute in Manhattan, Misty Knight and Nur arrive ask about the person who delivered flowers to Jane Foster; unsuccessful, they head to the next sighting.

Nur discovers that the security guard worked for a group called Soteira, so they head to one of their offices in Chicago where Daredevil's radar detects the people inside purging their records.

"[24] Iron Man assembles Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Spider-Man, who hear that the genetic material of a hero is going on sale at the black market and go undercover to investigate the auction, which takes place in a submarine.

Stark meets with the seller in a room for the transaction, which is crashed by Mister Sinister - seeking to reclaim genetic material of Wolverine that was stolen from him.

After Mister Sinister escapes, the submarine starts to go down as Iron Man orders Jessica to keep an eye on the seller.

As Iron Man raises the submarine to the surface of the ocean, Spider-Man and Laura evacuate the auction attendees who are loaded onto South Korea's National Intelligence Service Helicarrier.

[27] While Iron Man objects to Laura wanting to destroy the genetic make-up, Spider-Man discovers on the database that no mutant DNA is included.

Just then, the group is attacked by more armed guards; they find a room filled with dead personnel, Jessica states that Mister Sinister would never kill his own people and that someone else is behind this while Iron Man discovers a digital mutant database.

When Spider-Man suggests they destroy the databases, Mister Sinister arrives and admits to Iron Man that a Killteam stole his work.

Wolverine presses a button on a strange device causing the green orb to glow brightly throughout the entire building.

Sabretooth and Deathstrike of them take refuge in a garage, while Daken continues to fight the Killteam, evading their firepower and jumps out the window.

As Daken defends Lady Deathstrike from Lord Dark Wind, Sabretooth identifies the other soldier as his late son Graydon Creed.

At the Princess' Bar, Kitty Pryde quotes "Yashida" causing the bartender to take them to a secret basement room.

However, the person they were talking to was not Magneto and was actually Mindblast in disguise who subdues Storm as Viper in the company of the Femme Fatales.

Viper unleashes Knockout on Rogue, Bloodlust on Domino, and Snake Whip on Jubilee while Sapphire Styx crashes Psylocke's fight with Mindblast to drain her energy.

Kitty Pryde works to evacuate her group, but a defeated Rogue and Storm are taken captive while Sapphire Styx continues to drain Psylocke's energy.

Arriving at the Hightown casino called Wheelers and Dealers, the trio see Bloodlust with a man, who Kitty Pryde abducts.

He is a high roller and mathematician named Stenya Ubacowits who was hired to help in the flight trajectory of a satellite which he agrees to take them to.

While Kitty Pryde phases into the rocket and frees Rogue and Storm, Psylocke joins the battle against the Femme Fatales.

While Magneto denies any knowledge of taking Wolverine's body, he works to destroy the launch site and purge Madripoor of Viper's criminal empire.

Back in the Princess Bar's secret room, Kitty states that she got a confession from Snake Whip that Soteira had hired them and Viper to find Wolverine, and that Carol Danvers and her team in the Alpha Flight space program have been tracking the rocket launch.

In Persephone's lair, tethered by energy ropes and suspended by his arms and legs before her, Wolverine reacts angrily to her and extracts his claws, which are shown to be glowing red hot.