RRogue
Don't compare yourself to me. You're a criminal. You're making it hard for all of us.
It was hard long before we got involved. We're not the ones who picked this fight, Rogue. We're just standing up for ourselves, and for those who can't fight back.
RRogue
By terrorizing the city?
By refusing to back down. Rogue, don't you ever get tired of being bullied? Of being hated just because you're different? And now they want us to register. Come on, what's next, locking us up? It's time we stop being victims. It's time we unite. Rogue, you feel the same way, I know you do.
Nothing. Rogue's mind is a broken patchwork of thoughts from everyone she's ever touched. Sorting it out will take days, maybe weeks. Change of heart about her story?
[Walking ahead] Rogue ain't stupid. She had to know how we'd react, but she came anyway. [Enters room] Here's the plan, we're... why aren't you guys geared up?
What, you can't tell me you believe her. Not after...
[Jabs finger in Cyclops face] One, I told you to get ready, so you should be ready. And two, if those Brotherhood clowns wanna mess with us, then we'll go after them.
Wait. We won't need to. They're here.
[Zooms into room, grabs Emma's wrist and face slams her into pillar] Take out the telepath first; check. Invite ourselves in; check. [Causes an avalanche mudslide to crash into window and carry away Cyclops, Iceman and Shadowcat]
ISIceman and Shadowcat
Whoa.
It's now safe to wipe the floor with the X-Men.
TToad
Ha! What are you gonna do now? Can't risk hurting... [Cyclops blasts him out]
Emma. Emma, wake up.. [Quicksilver is zooming ahead] Pryde, phase! [Quicksilver slams into pillar]
SShadowcat
[Blob has jumped airborne] Watch out! [Blob pins Wolverine on floor and crashes through all floors to basement]
Rogue, it's possible... and I'm not saying for sure., but it's possible I owe you an apology. [Rogue takes off glove and Wolverine flies up the devastation cavity, cornering Domino with other X-Men with her aiming her guns undecidedly] Nobody's that lucky, darling.
RRogue
[Touches Domino's shoulder from behind] Dom, don't.
[Cocks and aims gun under Rogue's chin] We all choose sides, Rogue. [Rogue touches Domino's cheek and incapacitates her]
[Stands up] Oh, my nose. I think Quicksilver broke my nose. [Hands glasses to Cyclops] Here.
Let's dump this trash at the corner and call the MRD on them. Pietro here will like that.
[Wolverine and Rogue exit the mansion]
RRogue
What is going on, Logan? Who are these people? What do they want from you!? [Wolverine goes over to his motorcycle] Logan!
[Gets on his motorcycle] Get on. We have to go. [Turns on his motorcycle and revs the engine]
RRogue
Go where? [Turns off the motorcycle] Tell me what this is all about!?
It was a few years ago. Might as well have been another lifetime. Her name was Mariko. She meant a lot to me, but her father wanted her to marry a guy named Harada. He was Japanese nobility, and a member of the criminal Yakuza. I was gaijin, an outsider. He wanted to fight me for Mariko. And I accepted. Harada was a mutant; he could supercharge his sword to cut through anything. Me? I didn't even need a sword.
[Logan and Rogue arrive outside the Japanese Embassy]
RRogue
But you won. Why would she...?
Didn't matter. Minds were already made up.
[Wolverine and Rogue make their way towards a fence]
RRogue
You're seriously just going to sneak into the Japanese Embassy?
RRogue
What makes you so sure he's even...?
[Interrupts Rogue] Because he's a coward. And this is where he'd hide. [Starts feeling the fence] He thinks he's safe here. [Takes a few steps back] He's wrong.
RRogue
I don't get it. He goes to all this trouble, he gets the girl. What else does he want?
What he's always wanted: A fight to the death.
[Rogue is shocked. Wolverine starts to make his way into the embassy]