BIOGRAPHY - Page 3
Around the same time, Wild Child was rather annoyed by Sabretooth being forced to join X-Factor, who held in check with an inhibitor collar. Actually, Creed had the same powers like him, only that he was much better at using them, and he continued to taunt Kyle with it. Also, he was a reminder for him how it was to have the bestial side take over and Sabretooth even provoked him several times, trying to make him revert back into his feral killer mood. Fortunately, he managed to stay calm, though sometimes only just barely. [X-Factor (1st series) #124, 126-128]
Mystique, X-Factor’s other criminal member, also was not very easy to get along with. For one she had grasped that there was some secret back-story between Kyle and Val Cooper and she was eager to find out about it to possibly use it to her advantage. Additionally, she cruelly enjoyed putting as much pain on her teammates as possible. Several times, she fooled them with their shapeshifting while honing her skills. She once managed to duplicate not only Aurora’s looks but also her scent, and for an instance Kyle really believed that his former lover had returned to him. [X-Factor (1st series) #114, 126, 136]
Shortly after X-Factor had faked their own death in order to break free from the government, 
everyone’s doubts and suspicions regarding Sabretooth came true. Having found a way to remove the inhibitor collar, he could perform his actual mission, as he was part of the Hound program. He slashed his way through X-Factor’s base, seriously injuring everyone in his way, including all of his teammates. Wild Child fared much better than the others, thanks to his healing factor, and even battled Creed twice, but the outcome was never in doubt. After Sabretooth had made his escape, Val Cooper found the unconscious team and, as the government and the troops of Operation: Zero Tolerance were hot on their trail, she had no choice but to contact Havok and the Brotherhood to take care of them. [X-Factor (1st series) #136-137]
Wildchild healed much quicker from his injuries than the others, but his healing factor seemed to have kicked into overdrive and activated his mutation again. Kyle felt the changes inside his body, 
but managed to hold them off long enough for one more thing he needed to do. Despite of her being under government surveillance, he broke into Val Cooper’s house to sort out their past with her. He was unaware that he was stalked by Sabretooth, who crashed in on the meeting. By revealing that Val had known what the Secret Empire’s plan had been for Kyle, though not stopping them, Creed once more tried to make Kyle revert back into his killer mode. Wild Child pretended to go along with Sabretooth’s suggestion to kill Val, but only to remove her from the killer’s clutches. Right then, government troops stormed into the building and both mutants escaped on their own. Kyle, however, had left Val a letter, saying that he forgave her for letting him down in the past. He understood that she was young and inexperienced and the Secret Empire was much bigger than both of them. Not far away from Val’s house, Kyle then mutated further into more of an animal than ever before. He was walking on all four legs and, letting of a howl, probably no longer able of speech. [X-Factor (1st series) #142]
What became next of Kyle is unknown, though he probably fled into the woods and was living there for some time. Eventually, he was located by the new Weapon X project, most likely by their prime agent, Sabretooth. The scientists of the revamped program were able to reverse and upgrade his mutation. Wild Child now has a Nosferatu look - fangs, pale skin, pointed ears and all bald. His sense of smell became so keen that he could tell if somebody was lying by changes in the person’s sweat and pheromones. [Deadpool: Agent of X #1 / Deadpool (2nd series) #57]
During one of his earliest mission for Weapon X, he and Sabretooth were supposed to recruit Sunfire but were met with more resistance than they thought. When Kyle made fun of his teammate, whose flesh had been burned by the Japanese mutant, Creed angrily lashed out at him and severed his vocal chords so that he can never make such snappy remarks again. When the two agents returned to the Weapon X compound, Sabretooth threatened the scientists to not restore Wild Child’s chatter box or else he would kill him and make sure he could not be resurrected.
Months later, the now-mute Wild Child was sent to retrieve Aurora from a mental asylum. The program had arranged for the poor girl to be further hospitalized and she was quite mad, but still she was able to recognize her rescuer as her former lover. Kyle hoped for another relationship with her, but once the scientists had restored and improved her, she rejected him, calling him ugly and laughing at his affections. [Weapon X: The Draft - Wild Child]
Still in love with her, Kyle was horrified when Sabretooth, who had betrayed the program, ambushed and disfigured Aurora, making him watch the entire ordeal. Fortunately, though, the Director arranged for her to undergo cosmetic surgery and she looks now as good as before. Thankfully, she offered herself to the man and they quickly became a couple. Brent Jackson, the program’s second-in-command, used Wild Child’s jealousy to coerce him into joining his little sub-group within the project, intent on taking it over. [Weapon X (2nd series) #4, 7]
During an attack of Cable’s Underground on the Weapon X compound, Jackson and his followers 
showed their true colors, forcing the Director to flee. His hated rival for Aurora’s affection being out of the picture didn’t do much good for Kyle, though, for she had accompanied the Director and was now gone as well. Still, as Wild Child remained loyal to Jackson the whole time, he was rewarded by being promoted to the compound’s Head of Security, right after Jackson proclaimed himself as the new Director of Weapon X. [Weapon X (2nd series) #8-13, 16]
When the program’s secret of operating a concentration camp for mutants was about to be exposed, Weapon X relocated to another base with a trimmed down staff. [Weapon X (2nd series) #21]
Regardless, only a couple of weeks later, a war broke out between three different factions of the program. All hell broke lose, as the rivaling groups and their operatives fought each other to the bone - until suddenly everything was engulfed by a glowing bright light. This was the doing of the Scarlet Witch, who used her reality-warping powers to depower about 90-95% of Earth’s mutant population. After the light faded, nearly all combatants, including Wild Child, had lost their powers. [New Excalibur #9] With only a few hundred mutants left worldwide, Homo superior became a dying species on the brink of extinction and the Weapon X was robbed of their prime directive. There being nothing left to fight over, the survivors apparently packed their belongings and went their separate ways.
It is unknown what Kyle’s next plans were, but before long he was recruited by the mysterious Romulus. Whether it happened voluntarily or against Wild Child’s will, Romulus had the scientists of the original Weapon X program re-power him and further improve his abilities, putting him up on par with the likes of Wolverine or Sabretooth. Apparently, there’s a reason for these three and several other mutants having such similar abilities. As it was recently discovered, evolution brought fourth not only Homo sapiens. Apparently there were also some wolf species that learned to walk on two feet, eventually evolving into some humanoid wolves, Lupus sapiens or “The Lupine” as they referred to themselves. Quite a large number of mutants sporting some feral component, it seems that they are at least partially of Lupine descent.
As the first and oldest of the Lupine, Romulus is able to get into the heads of other Lupine, either to suppress certain memories or re-activating their people’s “genetic memory.” For some reason, he seems to have been following and manipulating the lives of Wolverine and Sabretooth for years and, following his orders, Wild Child stirred up the conflict between the two arch-enemies, resulting in another duel to the death between them. After Logan killed Sabretooth with the Muramasa blade, a sword capable of suppressing their healing factor, Wild Child explained that, throughout history, there were always two individuals that emerged from the pack - one blonde, one black, destined to fight each other. With Sabretooth now gone, it seems that Kyle is to take his spot as Wolverine’s “genetic” enemy. [Wolverine (3rd series) #53-55]
[Note: During this storyline, Wolverine experienced a flashback of meeting Wild Child during World War II. However, Kyle's history with Val Cooper, Wyre and the Secret Empire cannot reconcile with him being alive in WWII. Possibly, it was not Kyle but one of his predecessors that Logan met. Another explanation might be that it was no exact memory that Wolverine witnessed, but some mixed up version of Romulus manipulating him in the past and him being presently involved with Wild Child.]