Uh, perhaps you two better take over from here.
Well, at least you tried.
Better than old grumpus over there.
Wolverine! Come over and help us.
I've never had a Christmas with you before.
You ain't missing nothing.
You could sing the guy's part on "Jingle Bells. "
Cyclops is having his problems.
Kid, the day you catch me singing "Jingle Bells"
is the day pigs fly.
Come on!
Don't let him bring you down, sugar.
Old Logan's just never been one for holidays.
It's fun he doesn't like. No use ruining ours.
Wow! I never had a star like this!
This is your first Christmas as an X-Man
and we mean to make it extra special.
It already is!
What's this here you're cooking?
It's called food, Gambit. Normal Christmas food.
This need a little Gambit magic!
A little cayenne, a little thyme...
If you want to keep that hand, stay away!
Gambit just trying to help!
The day that I need your help in the kitchen
is the day that I stop cooking!
You still know nothing about cooking no Christmas dinner!
"'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale
"'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale
"A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
"the poor man's heart through half the year"
Ah!
Though non-alcoholic,
a Yuletide brew worthy of Sir Walter's verse.
Storm, I don't think I've had a happier Christmas.
All of my X-Men together, with so much to be thankful for.
Yes.
What is it, Storm? You seem distracted.
I am sorry. I'm not sure why.
Perhaps I see Jubilee's childlike joy at Christmas
and remember my own.
What was that?
Could we be under attack? On Christmas Eve?
Disturbance isolated in Sector 9.
We are nearly there!
Beast! Are you all right?
I am unhurt.
That is more than I can say for my cranberry glaze.
Is Beast injured?
Only his pride.
Delightful!
Though the chemical formula
proved distressingly volatile,
the harmony of flavors is impeccable.
All you need is a white belt and a hat, and you could be Santa!
Did I hear an attack alarm?
Or would that be hoping for too much?
It was only a culinary statement of Beast's.
Perhaps a bit overdone.
Christmas again. I gotta get out of here.
All this good cheer is driving me nuts!
Storm and I are going shopping in the city. Come with us!
Christmas Eve shopping? You're crazy!
Please, Wolvie. For me.
Kid, turn it off.
I'd do better trying to fight Sabretooth.
Don't you just love it?
I've never been able to get nice gifts for people before.
This is great! Thanks for coming with me, Wolverine.
Don't mention it, kid. Now let's get out of here.
Think I have enough?
Should I get some stuff for Christmas Eve dinner?
Well, this is the first time I've ever had a real family at Christmas time!
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do!
You have done more than enough, Jubilee.
Now, let us make a last stop and go home.
Excuse me, sir. Would you like to try our newest fragrance for men?
It is called Musk of the Wild.
It turns women into animals!
- Logan...
Then get me out of here
before I turn into an animal.
There, Logan.
Escape while you can.
Come on, Wolverine! It's Christmas Eve. Have a little fun.
You don't want to know what I'd find fun right now.
Sirens. Something's happening up there. I can smell it!
You sure it's not Musk of the Wild you're smelling?
Boy, that stuff stinks.
Trust me.
It is an ambulance!
I call upon the raging wind!
Come on!
Hurry, Ape!
Morlocks! I thought I smelled sewer gas!
Ripping off an ambulance.
You scum have sunk real low.
Come on, they're down there!
Let go! You don't understand!
You're the one who don't understand, tunnel-boy.
You could've killed someone!
Please, Storm, help us! Leech is very sick.
And we don't know what to do.
Leech. The little kid?
You're not buying any of this sewer water, are you?
Morlocks would lie to their grandmother.
I sense they are telling the truth.
We must do what we can.
We tried to take Leech to a hospital.
But Leech's mutant powers were out of control, and we were refused help.
How awful!
How touching.
But that still don't explain
why you're joyriding in an ambulance.
The ambulance has emergency medicine.
We were desperate.
We didn't know what else to do.
Oh, please.
You are supposed to be the leader of the Morlocks,
but you are never around.
You should help us when we need it.
Leech might not live!
There they are!
We will help.
You can help. I ain't no sewer rat babysitter.
Under cover of snow!
Hey! Where'd that blizzard come from?
What about all my presents?
Do not worry about them. Now, let us go!
Is this gonna take long?
It's only an hour until Christmas Eve dinner!
They'll be worried about us.
This way! In here! Hurry!
Callisto.
So, our glorious leader
deigns to visit us after all this time.
Is this Christmas charity?
Or did you just come to watch a Morlock suffer?
I do not deserve that. We have come to help.
Why? You never have before.
Listen, lady, we don't have to...
No, Wolverine. Let Callisto speak.
Our differences will have to wait.
Leech needs our full attention.
Agreed.
Wolverine! - Yeah, what do you want?
You have experience in field medicine. Prepare the child.
I will fly him to the mansion where Beast can tend to him properly.
Uh-oh.
What is it? What's the matter? Why are you just standing there?
Hi, little one.
Why don't you make him do something?
Take your hands off of me!
Shut up! Both of you.
We ain't taking this kid nowhere.
What do you mean?
He needs immediate medical attention!
There is none here!
It's too late to move him.
His pulse is dropping. He'd never survive the trip.
Not survive?
Leech?
No! No! He can't!
Not today! It's Christmas Eve!
No, I will not accept it.
We cannot lose him.
There must be something we can do.
Wolverine, please.
You're so good at healing yourself. Can't you help Leech?
Don't be crazy. He ain't me.
Logan, can you?
Forget it! It's impossible!
Can your blood save Leech's life?
Maybe! There's a chance!
Is that what you want me to say?
You have to try, Wolverine.
It's not like you not to help.
Can you hate them so much?
Don't you think I want to help the kid?
You have failed trying to save others?
Yeah. They looked at me, scared,
hoping, like I had the answer.
And I let them down. Over 20 of them.
The last one was a kid, smaller than him.
But you said, maybe.
Yeah, it worked twice.
Once a long time ago.
I don't know why.
The second time I...
What's the difference?
Ape! Did you get a transfusion kit out of that ambulance?
Transfusion?
Never mind.
I will contact the mansion
and have Rogue fly Beast and his medical kit
here immediately.
Until then, Logan, you know what you have to do.
You don't know what you're asking.
I am asking you to show the courage needed to save a child's life!
He wouldn't be dying if you looked after these people.
Perhaps you are right.
But if there is one chance in a thousand you can help him,
you must.
Ask yourself, Logan.
if he were your child, would you refuse?
Good. Ape!
Wolverine will need a flat surface to lie on, right beside Leech.
Ape will do it.
Leech be okay?
Do you believe in miracles, Mariana?
What's miracles?
Maybe in a little while, we'll see.
You did what?
I just gave the ham a little juicing up.
I want this, this, this swamp rat out of my kitchen! Now!
Stop it! You're both acting like children.
This is Christmas Eve, remember?
Everyone, we have an emergency!
Rogue, I need you to fly Beast to the Morlock tunnels, immediately.
On my way, Professor.
- Who's in trouble? - How can we help?
Beast will be here in 10 minutes.
There. It's started!
I pray we're in time.
Please, kid. Help me out here.
Leech okay now?
Soon.
Come! See Christmas tree!
I helped make it nice. Isn't it pretty?
It's the most beautiful Christmas tree I've ever seen.
Leech found it.
- Leech... - Come on!
Is this your Christmas dinner?
Mm-hmm.
Leech bringed it from up above, before the cold make him sick.
Will you be joining us, dearie?
Please stay. You can have some of mine.
Please! I bet you're hungry.
Mariana asked you a question, Jubilee.
Storm!
Is Leech...
It is still too early to tell.
Come, let us rejoin the others.
How do these people keep going? They've got nothing!
You're wrong, child. They have each other's love.
As long as you are part of a caring family,
every day of the year is Christmas.
It would do all of us well to remember that.
He should be better by now. Why hasn't it worked?
I told you it wouldn't work!
Logan, stop!
Yes, I may need a hand.
Hank, hurry!
- Beast! - Thank goodness.
Tell us quickly. Will he live?
Wolverine's recuperative powers are nothing short of miraculous.
Their mutative origins, however, are a mystery to medical science.
And the efficacy of their transference is impossible to predict.
Then try something else. You're supposed to be a doctor!
One moment!
His eyes!
Welcome back to the world of the living.
Like dutiful Aeneas, leading his people to Rome.
It would appear that my face is not the world's most reassuring.
He's okay, Mariana! He's okay!
Of course, he is.
Give me the Scepter of Power, Callisto.
Why?
As leader of the Morlocks, I owe you no explanation. I command it!
It is your right, but you have been no leader to us.
Kneel before me.
This Scepter of Power is mine by right of single combat.
As leader of the Morlock people,
I hereby relinquish
all rights and title associated with that position.
What?
Rise, Callisto, and kneel no more.
Before all those here assembled,
I hereby grant you the Scepter,
symbol of Morlock leadership,
with all the rights and responsibilities
associated with it.
Callisto is now
the one and true leader of all the Morlock people.
What's a fella have to do to get
a glass of orange juice and a cookie around here?
Make that two.
Leech hungry, too.
A good meal is exactly what the doctor prescribes.
Thanks, kid, for making it.
Logan, I regret that I was too blind
to show you the compassion you have given Leech this day.
I should know better than to question your heart.
As leader of the Morlocks, I hereby extend an invitation
to all X-Men to join us for Christmas dinner.
We haven't much, but...
Wait!
We've got plenty to eat.
Half of these boxes are food!
Are you sure, child?
I know how much these gifts mean to you.
Well, what are you waiting for?
You two don't expect me to open all these gifts by myself, do you?
You have done something very noble today, Jubilee.
I learned from the best.
She's a good kid, Storm.
Though it was not quite the Christmas
Jubilee had anticipated,
I would wager that she will find it a memorable one.
So will a couple of cooks I know.
What do you mean, not eating?
Gambit has spent days on this meal!
My oyster loaf! My daube glace!
We could warm it up tomorrow.
Warm it up?
You do not warm up such a meal!
Gambit does not make TV dinners!
I understand.
I just didn't want you to think
that we wanted to be away from you on Christmas Eve.
Don't worry, Jubilee. You all will be missed, of course,
but your generous sacrifice indicates to me
that you understand how much more you are needed where you are.
No gift could have made me happier, or more proud.