It's A Festive Micro Adventure
: "Hi, heroes! Stan Lee here, to introduce a fearsome festive freakshow in the mighty micro manner!"
: "Our tale begins in the offices of Howlett and Rasputin, on the day before Joseph's Day, when mutants everywhere celebrate the birth of the Clone of Magneto."
: "Now the thing to remember is that Colossus was dead."
: "Very dead. Freaking cremated, in fact."
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: "Mr Howlett? Can I go home already?"
: "No way, bub. You stay there, and you keep working."
: "But it's Joseph's Day tomorrow!"
: "Bah, bub! I don't care. I didn't harvest organs from myself for you to go home and not make me more money from selling them!"
: "I have to go, my family need me. My youngest son, Little Nate, is very sick."
: "How sick?"
: "He's sleeping with my first wife."
: "You make me sick, Summers. You and your whole family. Away with you! The Logan is leaving the building!"
: "Donate some money to charity, sir?"
: "Bah! My money is all for me, bub!"
: "Help mutants less fortunate than yourself to enjoy Joseph's Day?"
: "Many are still left powerless by the Decimation."
: "Let them find a place for themselves in flatscan society!"
: "Many would rather die."
: "Then let them, and decrease the mutant population until it's all about me, all the time!"
: "......it isn't already?"
: "Unfortunately not. Now leave me alone!"
: "Poor and starving mutants need your help, and it is our duty to Our Lord Magneto and Joseph to help them."
: "This poor boy, for example, could you leave him to die? You remember Nurse Annie's son Carter, don't you?"
: "Sasquatch is my daddy and he has to protect me!"
: "Yes, indeed I would, bub. That kid's stupid."
: "I know."
: "So screw you guys, I'm goin' home!"
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: "So Logan returned to his home, to spend the night counting his money...."
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: "Logan!"
: "Colossus? You're dead, bub! You were freaking cremated!"
: "Aliens brought me back."
: "Whuh?"
: "Just kidding.
: "Yeah, that would be pretty freakin' retarded, bub."
: "Yeah, like I said, just kidding. I'm a ghost. Woooooooo!"
: "Stop that! You're no ghost! You're just a hallucination, brought on by an undigested beer-can, or a half-eaten ninja."
: "You need to change, Logan. And not just your crazy diet. I have been sent to warn you!"
: "I need no warning, bub! I'm the best there is!"
: "Your greed, egotism, violence and glory-hounding have to end, Logan, or you'll be damned like I am!"
: "Damned?"
: "I came to US and A and abandoned my Communist upbringing, and we made a lot of money together, but we neglected our fellow mutants. Neglected to celebrate Joseph's Day."
: "Joseph? Bah! Why should I care for myth and legend?
: "Logan, Joseph died to save us all. He repaired Earth's electromagnetic field!"
: "Myth and legend!"
: "Logan, you were there when it happened."
: "Your words say 'yes', but my memories say 'no'."
: "Just start caring about your fellow mutants, Logan."
: "Why should I care for mutants who can't help themselves? I have metal claws on each hand, people will always pay to see that. And as long as it's all good for me, I don't care about anyone else."
: "For my sins, Our Lord Magneto has damned me to H*ll-on-Earth. With the flatscans."
: ".....no!"
: "It's true. And now I bring warning to you. Tonight, you will be visited by three ghosts."
: "Three including you, or three more?"
: "Three more. I think. Here comes the first one now."
: "Hi, I'm the Changeling, and I'll be haunting you tonight."
: "Who?"
: "The Changeling? First X-Man to die? Which is why tonight, I'll be....The Ghost of X-Men Past!"
: "Who?"
: *sigh*
: "How quickly they forget."
: "Eh, I forget things faster than I heal."
: "Well, I'm taking you on a tour of some of the memorable moments of your past, things you can't possibly have forgotten, the things you did instead of celebrating Joseph's day!"
: "Are we gonna have a flashback?"
: "We already are, Logan. Here we are, back in your old home in Canada."
: "Hey, I remember this! That's my original costume, the one I designed myself!"
: "Nice whiskers."
: "Couldn't we have taken this baby to the big people some other day, Logan?"
: "No, it can't wait!"
: "But it's Joseph's Day!"
: "Think of the money we could make, the fame and glory that could be ours! What use is your silly festival compared with that?"
: "I just want to go home."
: "Set me free! I'll look after the baby for you."
: "We can't hand the baby over to that Sentinel! We need to find someone who'll take care of it!"
: "You don't think I could look after a baby, you little peck?"
: "How much will you pay us for the baby?"
: "About $3.50?"
: "Come on, you can do better than that!"
: "I'm locked up in a cage, peck. How much money do you expect me to have here?"
: "Eh, it'll have to do."
: "Logan, you can't do this!"
: "Watch me. I'm setting you free, big robot bub."
: "Thanks. This is one tasty baby."
: "...the H*ll is this? You weren't supposed to eat the baby!"
: "What did you expect me to do, you stupid peck?"
: "That Sentinel was right, Wolverine. You really are a stupid peck."
: "......dammit."
: "See where your hunger for money and fame leads you?"
: "Bah! I stand by my actions!"
: "You remember that, but do you remember Mariko?"
: "Who?"
: "Exactly."
: "Logan, why can't you spend Joseph's Day with my family?
: "Because your family are Sunfire and Silver Samurai, bub. I'd rather go fight ninjas or something."
: "And you wonder why I couldn't marry you?"
: "Hey, I'm starting to remember her now. She was the last woman I ever loved."
: "Really? So what happened to her?"
: "I killed her and married Viper. Then I stabbed her until she divorced me...."
: "......"
: "Then I married Witchblade, but that didn't work out either."
: "Wow, you really suck, don't you?"
: "No, I'm still the best there is."
: "And now we've come to your last flashback of the night, a good friendship gone horribly wrong..."
: "Hey, Wolverine, it's Joseph's Day, you ready for our big double-date?"
: "Sure am, bub."
: "Teenaged girl versions of ourselves. It just doesn't get any better than this."
: "Sure does, bub! Slutty drunk teenage girl versions of ourselves!"
: "Hey! We're standing right here, you know."
: "Yeah, we're perfectly sober."
: ".....that's the part you complain about?"
: "Aw, man, I remember how this ended."
: "Yes, you had a big fight with Nightcrawler the next morning."
: "Logan! Logan, you @&%$*#! How could you do this to me?"
: "Do what, bub?"
: "You were supposed to leave one of them for me! Me!"
: "Eh, guess I forgot. I was too busy. Scoring."
: "He never talked to you again, did he?"
: "No, he ran off and found religion or something. What a sucker."
: "You haven't learned a damn thing here, have you?"
: "Not a one, bub."
: "OK, bring on the Ghost of X-Men Present!"
: "....YOU!?!?! It can't be!"
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