When Ash stepped out of the portal, a special spiritual power tried to invade his mind and tamper with his memory and cognition.
Following this spiritual power, Ash saw Charles in the car and Logan who looked unwilling.
Seeing that Ash was unmoved, Charles increased his power output. In Charles' view, even though Ash had special powers, it would be easy for him with the most powerful brain to kill ordinary people in the entire world.
And after suffering for so many years, now he doesn't look down upon Apocalypse, the god of mutants.
Charles unleashed all his power, injected new consciousness into Ash, took those mutant children to another world, and then tried his best to protect them.
Ash stood still in front of the portal, motionless, as if he was really being controlled.
Tears flowed from Logan's eyes and he closed his eyes in pain. He didn't want to see his friend become Charles' puppet.
"Is this what you think? Interesting..."
In Charles's horrified eyes, Ash walked over and opened the driver's door of the vehicle as if he didn't feel anything.
Looking Logan up and down, Ash opened Logan's closed eyelids and asked, "Logan, why have you aged so much?"
At this moment, Logan's originally black hair turned brown and white, and his untidy fluffy beard made him look even older.
Seeing Ash, Logan thought that Ash had become what Charles wanted. Feeling painful and sad, he broke through Charles' blockade and whispered an apology.
"I'm sorry, Ash. I should have buried that thing, I'm sorry..."
The old Logan, coupled with his mentality that he thought he had killed his friend, looked heartbreaking.
Ash snapped his fingers in front of Logan's eyes, trying to awaken Logan's consciousness.
"Hey, don't be sad, I'm fine."
"How can you be fine! You can't even notice Charles's mind modification..."
Ash gave up his body, revealing Charles behind him, and said, "Don't cry, that little power is of no use to me, I'm very strong..."
"Very strong? You can't even defeat the ancient vampire... You must have changed. You can't even recognize your own strength. It's all because of that old guy..."
Hearing this, Ash was a little embarrassed. He had pretended to be too ruthless before, and Logan didn't have a correct understanding of his strength at all.
Logan fell into a deep sleep after the vampire incident. He was sent back when he woke up and did not see the subsequent series of escalations.
Ash released Logan's control with a wave of his hand and turned his head in the direction of Charles.
Ash said: "Take a good look at that old guy. He is no match for me. Besides, you were both from the Civil War. Who is the old guy here?"
At this moment, Charles' whole body was full of cracks, and the power of flames flowed through his body. His whole body was like broken porcelain, and the flames barely filled the cracks.
Charles's eyes had long been burned, leaving only a sparkling spot in his eye sockets.
At this moment, Logan had no sympathy for what happened to Charles, so he attacked his friend. He could only blame himself for what happened to him.
Logan looked at Ash, double-checking whether he was intact.
"Are you really okay?"
Faced with Logan's worries, Ash could only find reasons to appease him.
Ash said: "Don't worry, the moment he crushed the embers, his whole body began to be burned. The embers were made based on your self-healing ability. He doesn't have that kind of strength at all..."
To illustrate this power, Ash put his hand on Charles, and Charles turned into ashes. An inexplicable wind blew, and there was not even ashes left on Charles.
Seeing Charles disappear, Logan believed Ash's story. He asked Ash to get in the car and drove away quickly.
Although he lost Charles, Logan still planned to send X-23, the little Laura in the car, to a Canadian asylum.
Taking out a can of cold beer and handing it to Logan, Ash asked curiously: "Why have you aged so much? Does time pass so fast here?"
Logan took the beer and saw that it was Ash's brand. He didn't drink it, but threw it behind the vehicle and hit Caliban.
Caliban, who was in pain, was woken up by the impact. Feeling the coolness, he opened the beer and drank it slowly.
Caliban did not interrupt the conversation between the two people in front of the vehicle. When he was affected by Charles' psychic storm, he clearly felt the gap between Ash and Charles.
As the death knight of Apocalypse, Caliban also felt the power of Apocalypse, the mutant god, but compared to Ash, he was completely like a firefly.
I don’t know how Logan managed to make such a friend, but Caliban knew the importance of keeping his mouth shut.
Logan said: "I went back to the original time, prevented the birth of the sentinel robot, and then lived in this world for fifteen years. In these fifteen years, the mutants were almost dead..."
Logan explained the changes in the world. Although Ash was aware of the changes, he still acted as a qualified listener. The depression that was stagnating in Logan's heart always had to be listened to.
Logan kept talking until the sun went down. During this process, little Laura, who had woken up, also came to the gap between the two seats and listened quietly.
Finding an open space, Logan stopped the car and lit a bonfire. Caliban, who was suffering from porphyria, got out of the car and found a place away from the light to sit down.
Ash took out the food and grilled it on the campfire. At the same time, he asked Logan: "What are you going to do?"
Logan glanced at little Laura who was teasing the campfire boredly, and said: "Send her to Canada, and then..."
There is no more, Logan can't even think of the future...
Hearing what Logan said, little Laura looked at Logan nervously. Although she was not Logan's biological child, she was modified based on Logan's genes. A strange blood connection made her believe that Logan was a child.
The root is the presence of the father.
Ash did not give advice rashly, but presented the facts and reasoned, and said what Logan said again.
"Mutants all over the world are almost disappearing, and only a so-called sanctuary in Canada is surviving. Their end is not far away. All they need is a laser-guided bomb or a team of elite armed forces, and these people will say goodbye to the earth.
,Oh! I forgot, maybe they can still survive as laboratory materials."
Ash's relaxed and cruel words made little Laura beside her furious. She was not a born mutant but was transformed in the laboratory. She has been suffering the pain of being used as an experimental material.
Little Laura's bone claws like Logan stretched out from between her fingers and rushed towards Ash, but Ash easily dodged it and used gentle force to send Laura into Logan's arms.
Logan comforted Laura without saying a word. He also knew that what Ash said was the truth. But he now has no ability to change the status quo, and he even doesn't know how to change it.
