BIOGRAPHY - Page 2
Back on her own, Copycat decided to search for Tolliver’s will too. In fact, she had access to some of Tolliver’s private files, as in the past she had posed for several months as the lover of Tolliver’s personal assistant. Vanessa followed a lead to a temple in Katmandu, but she wasn’t the first to get there as Slayback was already waiting there for her. Slayback had been an enemy of Deadpool and Kane back in the day of the Weapon X program, so he took Vanessa hostage, expecting the two mercs to catch up with them sooner or later. Indeed, Deadpool and Kane were already on their way, with Kane wanting to recruit Copycat into the Six Pack and Deadpool being after the treasure.
By the time they arrived, Vanessa had already begun to copy Slayback’s techno-organic looks due to being held in a tight grip by the villain. Both men deemed that these powers could be harmful for Vanessa, so they rushed into battle to free her. Slayback proved to be nearly unbeatable though. In the end, Copycat hurled herself in front of Deadpool when Slayback stabbed him with a techno-organic lance. Close to dying, Deadpool pressed Vanessa’s limp body 
to his bare chest, so that she would absorb his healing factor faster. Having saved her life, Deadpool wanted to profess his love, but Copycat interrupted him, stating that she no longer loved him but someone else. Deadpool understood and handed the weakened woman over to Garrisson Kane, who promised to get her to medical treatment. [Deadpool: The Circle Chase #2-4]
While Vanessa did not accept Kane‘s offer to join the Six Pack, probably because she needed some time to fully recover, Kane continued to run missions with the group for a few months before they disbanded and went their separate ways. Around that time, Kane and Vanessa admitted their feelings to each other and chose to retire from the mercenary life.
They settled into a quiet routine in San Francisco where they worked at a local stage theatre. Despite an explosive visit by Deadpool, they lived a peaceful life there. Due to her experience of taking on other people’s identities, acting came rather naturally to Vanessa. [Wolverine (2nd series) #88]
Following the Onslaught debacle, the flames of mutant hatred were fanned significantly by the loss of Earth's mightiest and most popular heroes. The Psycho-Man was more than willing to make use of this and, employing his emotion-manipulating devices, he magnified every fear, doubt, or hatred among the populace until they turned against themselves. During the riots, an angry mob destroyed Kane and Vanessa’s home. Having recognized the psionic nature of the 
city's madness, Kane contacted Cable and Domino for help. Domino still had strong feelings about the metamorph, which she barely kept beneath the surface even before the sub-atomic Psycho-Man began manipulating their emotions. During the fight that broke out, Vanessa taunted Domino by telling her she was easy to replace because no one knew her well enough to tell the difference.
The Psycho-Man attempted to kidnap Garrison in order to pilfer the bio-technology from his body for his own uses, but as soon as the villain revealed himself, Vanessa posed as her lover and let herself be captured to protect Kane from harm. With the help of the Micronauts, the others managed to follow the Psycho-Man and his prisoner to the Microverse, where Kane ended up captured too. Before the Psycho-Man could finish his plan to turn Kane into a living matrix for his new breed of techno-organic soldiers, though, he was defeated by the other heroes. Once back on Earth, Copycat and Domino made peace with each other. After that, Garrison and Vanessa packed their belongings and hit the road to find another place where they would fit in and be accepted. [Cable (1st series) #37-39]
It can only be assumed why Garrison and Vanessa did not find themselves a new home. Possibly they remained bitter over their experiences with bigotry in San Francisco. No matter what the cause, though, Vanessa bounced back to her previous ways and let herself by hired for an undercover job involving Deadpool. Seeking revenge on Deadpool for screwing up a previous assignment of the Frightful Four (in a line-up that had included all three of them), the Wizard and the Taskmaster hired Copycat to pose as a roommate in his new shared domain for super-villains. As such, Vanessa impersonated the super-strong Titania and moved in with Deadpool and the Constrictor. The plan was for them to have someone to observe and slightly influence Deadpool. “Titania” was then offered a job by the Taskmaster but, fearing that she was being set up, she was to ask Deadpool for help.
Deadpool immediately saw through the ploy and realized that it was he that was being set up, just like he knew all along that it was Vanessa with whom he and the Constrictor were sharing the apartment. Despite all that, he accepted the Taskmaster’s botched mission and managed to accomplish it, although he temporarily ended up in space. While waiting for Deadpool (and the 
money he had earned) to return, Vanessa was stuck playing Titania for the Constrictor. When they ran into Titania’s husband, the Absorbing Man, her cover was nearly blown. Eventually Deadpool came back and demanded an explanation for Copycat’s actions. As she claimed that she had done it just for the money and not for any old feelings between them, Deadpool humiliated Vanessa by carving the access code to his bank account into her face, well aware that she could shape-shift the injury away. [Deadpool (2nd series) #38-45]
Shortly thereafter, Vanessa’s powers grew unstable, so both she and Garrison Kane accepted an offer from the new and improved Weapon X program. In exchange for their services, they both received a power upgrade. Yet these augmentations came at a heavy price. Whereas Kane was left emotionally cold as he became more machine than man, Copycat – while having more control over her shape-shifting, including even an invisible form – began to lose her sense of identity and respectively her sanity as a side-effect of her rapid morphing. To test her new powers, Vanessa was ordered to try and recruit Deadpool for the Weapon X program, but because of her deteriorating mental state, she forgot about the mission as she sought him out. [Deadpool (2nd series) #58, Weapon X - The Draft: Agent Zero]
Desperately trying to get Wade’s attention, Vanessa approached Wade in the guise of five different women, including an elderly lady who needed help after hurting her ankle, a sexy hospital nurse in the hospital, a night-clubber, a young woman who had just moved to town and a delivery 
girl. Copycat flirted with Deadpool in each these roles and always slipped him a phone number. As could probably be expected, Deadpool tried to set up dates with all five versions of her at the same time. Vanessa’s anger over Wade Wilson trying to cheat on the various versions of herself soon gave way to jealousy when he didn’t call any of her five identities, as he was kept busy by his mercenary missions. [Deadpool (2nd series) #49-52] Vanessa even posed as another woman named Anna, who Wade had recently killed after she betrayed him on a job. Claiming Anna was alive and ready to forgive him, Vanessa got Wade to meet her in Las Vegas. "Anna" agreed to marry Wade, but replaced the actual pastor and witness with actors and left Wade in the hotel suite with a $60 grand bill. [Deadpool (4th series) #27]
When Deadpool did get in contact again, he told Vanessa to stop the charade as he had again seen through her disguises – all of them – right from the start. Much to Copycat’s surprise, though, Deadpool told her that he was willing to give a real relationship with her a try after Vanessa admitted that all she wanted was to be with him. They spent a night together, but the next morning Vanessa acted rather needy and obsessive. While Deadpool was taking a shower, Vanessa witnessed an incoming phone call from his former love interest,
Siryn, asking Wade if he wanted to attend a flower exhibition with her. Vanessa attended the exhibit posing as Deadpool, and she immediately attacked Siryn, punching her in the face several times. Later, back in Deadpool’s warehouse, she played him Siryn’s recorded message and accused him of having an affair. She didn’t believe Deadpool’s true claims that he hadn’t heard from Siryn in weeks, especially as he did confirm that he still harbored some feeling for the redhead. That was all Vanessa needed to hear; she said good-bye and left right after she blew up Wade’s warehouse. [Deadpool (2nd series) #53-56]
Vanessa’s rampage didn’t go unnoticed by the Weapon X program. Right after they recruited Deadpool as one of their agents several days later, they ordered him to rectify their mistake and kill Copycat. Deadpool refused, rather quitting the program than kill his ex-girlfriend, but Kane did not have such quarrels and went after her. Aided by Deadpool, Vanessa escaped to the Bronx zoo where she hid amongst a group of gorillas by mimicking one of the animals. However, while Deadpool was busy battling Kane, the Weapon X program dispatched another agent, Sabretooth, to finish the job. After following Vanessa’s trail to the gorilla cage, he simply killed all the animals inside until he got to Copycat. By the time Deadpool found her, she was already bleeding out; she died in his arms. [Deadpool (2nd series) #58-59]