Soldier X

Trying to make a point, Nathan faces the bullets of the Armenian mafia head on, directing his telekinetic abilities only to heal his wounds, but not to deflect the bullets. The crowd is shocked by seeing him hit dozens of times, yet still standing. Asking what he demands of them, the Armenians give up their torture victim Vera. Nathan takes her and walks back but gets weaker by the minute.

The assembled pilgrims think they just witness a miracle and hope to heal their own wounds by touching Nathan as he walks by. However, when it doesn’t work, they get enraged and accuse Nathan of not wanting to heal them because he considers them unworthy. Being too weak to put up a fight, Nathan goes down but is saved by Geo.

The man with the cyborg arm tells Nathan to complete his task while he keeps the masses at bay, at the expense of his own life. The crowd kills him and rips his metallic arm off.

In the Sanctuary, the dying Vera asks her daughter Magdalena for forgiveness, which she is granted. Well aware of her daughter’s changed powers, Vera asks for a kiss, a kiss that drains the life out of her and kills her.

Nathan realizes, through this, that he is a madman, his powers limited only by his own imagination. He has to be who he is, and if the world perceives this as him being a madman, then so be it. He creates a huge illusion of himself, scaring the crowd away, and picks up Geo’s arm, which he gives to Father Dimitri for safekeeping. Then he departs.

When SHIELD agents Jordan and Dragonfly later investigate, they are led to believe that Nathan died and became a ghost, the only thing remaining of him being the metal arm. Right then, Irene barges in, telling the agents she knows where Nathan is currently located, as she has been receiving Nathan’s diaries. Reading them, she became so engrossed that it she is on the verge of losing her job at the Daily Bugle.

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