Reviews: The latest of these is CABLE & DEADPOOL, which offers you two failed titles for the price of one.
The Mutant Messiah. The Merc with a Mouth. One is a warrior from the future with near-limitless mental abilities. The other: A lunatic mercenary with a massive healing factor. What in the world could make two of the deadliest men in the world - who hate each other's guts, by the way - work together?
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First Look
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The Story:
Deadpool was hired by the One World Church, a group headed
by a man named Anton Krutch, who planned to use Deadpool to
steal the Façade Virus, a bioweapon they intended to use to
turn everyone in the world blue for racial uniformity without genocide.
Meanwhile, Cable, whose powers were considerably enhanced by
the events of Cable #100, recovered the unstable virus from a
group of self-proclaimed anarchists calling themselves "The Scanners."
They had stolen it from the developers and deliberately infected themselves
to impersonate famous people, although two died, literally melted by the
virus before Cable managed to save the third. Deadpool then proceeded to
shoot Cable in the head and take the virus back to Krutch.
While Cable recovered in Switzerland (having managed to prevent the
bullet from entering his skull, he'd still been concussed), Professor
Charles Xavier visted him at his request. When he asked Cable what he planned,
Cable said he was angry at himself for being capable of so much and doing so
little, before proceeding to take his safehouse apart brick-by-brick, then
rebuilt it again. Professor X warned him that being able to take the world
apart was very different from having the judgement to put it back together,
and that if he tried, there would be no shortage of people who would try to stop them.
Meanwhile, Deadpool was being used as a guinea pig, to see if his healing
factor could counteract the fatal side effects of the virus. Cable infiltrated
the OWC, and tried to remain hidden for several days. When the Church revealed
they'd known he was there all along, they showed him their "Deliverance Device,"
an optical means of infection, and proceeded to infect Cable in such a way as to
disable his powers, reactivating his techno-organic virus.
Deadpool fought Cable around the Church, before Cable was finally immobilised by
his T-O virus and Deadpool started to melt from the Façade infection. Straining,
Cable managed to make a TK burst to swallow the liquified Deadpool, absorbing his
healing factor and allowing him to purge them both of the Façade virus with his
telekinesis, then regurgitated Deadpool, whose healing factor could now resolidify.
Cable immediately flew, under his own power, to Singapore in search of Krutch,
with Deadpool following some time later on a plane. Cable proceeded to subvert
the Deliverance Device - and Lightmaster, who had hired by Sunic to protect the
virus but was actually a member of the One World Church, and who was key to the
delivery - turning the world's population a shade of pink.
Two days later Cable used his control of the virus to return everybody to their
normal colors, taking credit for this as a saviour.
Knowing that his enhanced powers could not last long before he burned out as
X-Man almost did at those power levels, Cable arranged for what he thought would
be the best thing he could do in his last days. He recreated his long-destroyed
spaceship Greymalkin as the airborne city of Providence, although their earlier
merger meant that the teleportation matrix on board registered Deadpool as him,
meaning that he could not use it without taking Deadpool with him (and Deadpool
could trigger a "Bodyslide" too), with messy results when he tried to "Bodyslide
by One."
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