Right. I would say potato, but it's too viscous, too thin. The lumps make me suggest rice, but it's too irregular. Which begs the question: when did our fine nation's penal system decide to start serving mucus?

-- Hank McCoy

Appearing in "The Hunted Part 3"Edit

Featured Characters:

• Wolverine

Supporting Characters:

• Hank McCoy
• "Peepers"

Villains:

• The Dudes In The Safehouse
  • The Apparent Leader Of The Dudes In The Safehouse
• Sabretooth
• The Warden
  • The Guards
• The Skulls
  • Aryan
• The Brothers
  • Mo' Money
  • Axe
• The Cruisers
• The Maggia
  • Silvermane
  • Hammerhead

Other Characters:

• The Wrecking Crew
  • Wrecker
  • Thunderball
• Kangaroo

Locations:

• Los Angeles
• The Cage

Items:

• 
  

Vehicles:

• 
  
  
  

Synopsis for "The Hunted Part 3"Edit

After getting caught by Brent Jackson, Hank and Wolverine have been sent to prison. Here, they have to fight the Wrecking Crew, but the warden arrives and breaks up the fight. As he departs, the warden makes his distaste for Wolverine apparent.

This gets Wolverine thinking about the prison: The Cage, the latest super-jail. Built on the site of a 17th century French jail, rendered invisible by cloaking mechanisms, and nigh-inescapable. The inmates are mindwiped on their way out to prevent break-ins, and a power-damping field keeps the super-criminals manageable.

This skews the power-structure of the inmates slightly, away from out-and-out superhumans like the Wrecking Crew in favour of men like the Kangaroo. Of course, prison still has gangs: the Skulls, a white supremacist gang composed of Red Skull minions; the Brothers, the prison's black gang; the Cruisers, a group of sexual predators; and the Maggia. And all four gangs have contributed to a pot for the man who kills Hank and Wolverine, as they are super heroes.

As they make it back to their cell, Wolverine & Beast find a threatening graffito. Beast critiques it's mispelling, But Wolverine notices a note taped to the bed. In it, Maverick says he is trying to work out the angles of the case on the outside. Wolverine wonders how Maverick is getting notes into a prison that is this classified.

In Los Angeles, Sabretooth has been directed to an unusual address. On his way there, a street gang tries to rob him. Sabretooth argues that they are out of their depth, comparing them to hyenas and himself to a lion. Then he rips the arm off the gang leader and kills them all. Making his way to the address, he is greeted by his host, who is impressed by his work. Sabretooth says his rates have gone up, citing his part in the death of Senator Kelly. The host says that Sabretooth will be working exclusively or them from now on, prompting an outburst. Sabretooth is shocked by his host's face for some reason, giving him the time he needs to flood the room with sleeping gas. Others arrive; now they can begin in earnest.

Back in the Cage, Wolverine and Beast are discussing the food in the cafeteria when they are approached by Peepers, one of the only other mutants in the prison. A victim of electroshock therapy, Peepers is useless in a gang and looking for protection. The two welcome him to their table.

Suddenly, a note is dropped on the table; it is from Maverick. Wolverine is shocked by the appearance of the note, and starts looking around wildly. This draws the attention of the other inmates, and after some verbal sparring between Wolverine and Aryan, a poorly-judged sneak attack ends in a full-scale riot between the Skulls and the Brothers. The guards arrive to break it up, and Wolverine is shipped off to solitary in "The Hole". In the aftermath, the warden chews out one of the guards in front of the other guards and says it was his responsibility to keep Wolverine from being a problem, and tells him to "fix it". But Wolverine cannot die at the hands of a guard, and he cannot be the focus of a deal with the prisoners; as a result of previous graft, the Maggia dons eat better than he does.

In solitary, Wolverine ponders the note. He also waits in fear: without him for protection, Hank is in danger...

Out in the exercise yard, two men pick a fight with Hank and Peepers. An athletic man rushes to their aid, then shivs Hank for the bounty. As Hank blacks out, Peepers stands over him, helpless.

NotesEdit

• No special notes.
  

TriviaEdit

• Sabretooth's claim of involvement in the death of Senator Kelly is technically true, but he was not directly responsible for the deed as Kelly was killed by a man in the crowd. Sabretooth is presumably playing on his own legend here.
• Humourously, Wolverine tries to impress by noting that Axe was last seen fighting the New Warriors "a ways back"; it was actually the New Mutants. This lapse can be justified by the simple fact that Axe is not one of Wolverine's many sworn archnemeses, so Wolverine's sole interation with him would be through law enforcement databases. And that cuts into valuable drinking time.

See AlsoEdit

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• Cover gallery for the Wolverine series

Recommended ReadingEdit

• None.

Links and ReferencesEdit

• plot summary at uncannyxmen.net

 

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