BIOGRAPHY - Page 11
Time passed, and the X-Men's roster changed as it is known to do: soon most of the new faces were gone and the group was comprised mostly of Logan's oldest teammates. Professor Xavier even returned to the team after a prolonged absence, but his return also heralded the return of Magneto, the man who turned Wolverine's life inside out. Magnus launched one of his most excessive plots yet, 
threatening the stability of the planet's atmosphere and entire electromagnetic field unless the United Nations gave in to his demands for a duly-recognized mutant homeland. The X-Men did their best to stop his actions, and Magneto's clone Joseph sacrificed his life to undo the damage caused by his sire's powers, but in the end the UN capitulated to Magneto's demands and signed over sovereignty of the island of Genosha to him. Wolverine nearly went insane with rage during the X-Men's battle with Magneto, and in the aftermath of the UN's decision Xavier had to forcibly put Logan to sleep to prevent him from executing Magneto on the spot. [The Magneto War crossover]
Undeterred, upon his return to the mansion Wolverine began running Danger Room scenarios night and day, training himself to infiltrate Genosha and assassinate Magneto single-handedly. His efforts were interrupted only when he and his fellow X-Men were unceremoniously teleported into another dimension by the being known as Ejulp. Their circuitous path back home took them into extra-dimensional combat with the Juggernaut, and launched them backwards in time to confront the Skrulls on their own Homeworld just before Galactus devoured it years ago. They escaped the world's destruction in a Skrull starship, but the team was still light-years from home and trapped in the past. Shadowcat came up with a plan to place them in a stasis field for a set period of years matching their journey home, arranging things so that they would arrive back on Earth soon after they first left, chronologically. She miscalculated slightly, however, and the team arrived right in the midst of the Magneto War, a week earlier than anticipated. As a debate began about whether they should risk altering the timeline to stop Magneto and save Joseph, something hit the ship and the stasis field was knocked back on-line. In this, the present day, the Skrulls had formed an alliance with the X-Men's nemesis Apocalypse, 
and had planned for this moment well in advance. Slipping aboard the starship, they removed Wolverine from the X-Men and replaced him with a Skrull trained to act as a deep-cover operative in his place. When the X-Men reawakened eight days later, they were none the wiser about the spy in their midst. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #368-371, X-Men (2nd series) #88-90]
In the meantime, Logan was removed to Apocalypse's lair, where he was forced into single combat with Sabretooth. En Sabah Nur had decreed that one of them would receive augmentation at his hands, to becoming the next Horseman of Death. Reasoning that he couldn't let Creed become more powerful and more dangerous that 
he already was, Wolverine savagely beat his opponent and won the trial, praying that he could somehow restrain his actions and hopefully overcome the brainwashing if he were to become the Horseman instead of Sabretooth. Apocalypse then arranged for the adamantium Sabretooth had recently had installed in his skeleton to be sucked out and bonded to Wolverine's own bones, restoring his adamantium claws and unbreakable skeleton. Mindwarped into serving his new master, Logan adopted the identity and weaponry of Death, first among the Horsemen. [Wolverine (2nd series) #145] He was put to work attacking a fallen Horseman of War, the Incredible Hulk, and assaulting a Hulkbuster base to extract information from Bastion about the Mannites, an artificial group of beings Apocalypse had interest in. This second mission put him into conflict with the X-Men, a conflict which led to him murdering his own Skrull doppelganger on that team. [Astonishing X-Men (2nd series) #1-3]
This was apparently Apocalypse's attempt to clean house of some loose ends, but unknown to him Sinister had provided the X-Men with the means of uncovering the Skrull's duplicity after his death, and they learned Wolverine was merely missing, not dead. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #375] Using some bait to attract the Skrulls' attention, the X-Men infiltrated the aliens' primary headquarters on Earth, and in so doing encountered Death once more and learned of his true identity. Death soon turned the tables on the X-Men, and invaded their own mansion base in order to extract Mikhail Rasputin, one of the prophesized Twelve, which Apocalypse needed for his plans. Logan managed to send Mikhail through a transmat field to his master, but his teleportation circuitry was damaged before he himself could escape. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #376, X-Men (2nd series) #95-96] 
On the run from a squad of X-Men comprised of his closest friends, Death fled into the Morlock Tunnels. With the help of Psylocke's telepathy, his friends reminded Logan of all he meant to them, and they managed to pierce through Apocalypse's conditioning and restore Wolverine's true personality to him. [Wolverine (2nd series) #146]
In the days that followed, the X-Men were successful in routing Apocalypse's plans for the High Lord Ascension, but only at the cost of Cyclops's life. Time passed, and Wolverine and the X-Men dealt with varied threats, including the High Evolutionary and Belasco. With Storm gone off on her own and Cyclops dead, Logan championed Rogue's advancement as the team's new field leader instead of rising to the position himself. [X-Men (2nd series) #103] This might have been due to some reoccurring nightmares he had been experiencing, dreams of violence and death where he murdered friends and strangers alike. As he mused over the meaning of these dreams (suspecting some residual bleed-over from his brainwashing at Apocalypse's hands), Wolverine came into a confrontation over a title he had long claimed -- being "The best there is at what he does." An international assassin and sociopath known only as Mister X had learned of Wolverine's skill and prowess,
and sought to test himself against the feral X-Man. After a legion of armed mercenaries and private enforcers pummeled Logan as a testing exercise, Mister X personally engaged his prey. With his years of practice and psionic sense for anticipating his foe's moves, Mister X actually succeeded in beating down Wolverine in straight hand-to-hand combat. Afterwards, he even had the audacity to present Logan with legal documents precluding him from ever again referring to himself as "the best there is." Their reunion bout after Logan's capture was inadvertently interrupted by one of X's henchmen, and so Wolverine was knocked out and let go to live to fight another day. [Wolverine (2nd series) #159-161]
Soon after, Wolverine's recent run of disturbing dreams became serious business when a newscast reported on the death of Senator Drexel Walsh, the very man Logan had just dreamed of killing, complete with a videotape apparently implicating Logan directly in the murder. As a nation-wide manhunt began, Wolverine was forced to go into hiding, along with Beast who was with him when the story hit the airwaves. The two fugitives were eventually captured by a self-interested SHIELD agent named Brent Jackson,
and imprisoned in a superhuman holding facility called the Cage, off the coast of France. Their presence proved to be like blood in the water, as the various hoods and villains attempted to "off" the heroes in their midst. The chaos finally prompted the unscrupulous head corrections officer, Reb Tillis, to unleash the mystical evil known as Mauvais, a cannibalistic killer who had been magically imprisoned beneath the Cage ever since it was a French prison centuries previously. Mauvais tortured and ate upon Logan until his powers returned enough for him to teleport away, reneging on his deal with Tillis to dispose of Wolverine. The guard was about to carry through the execution himself when the most unlikely of rescuers stopped him -- Sabretooth had arrived to set Logan free. Wolverine was taken back to Creed's new headquarters, and learned his worst fears had been realized: the Weapon X Program was up and running again.
Years earlier, one insignificant soldier was attacked and heavily scarred by Logan during his escape from the original Weapon X program. The man recovered and had nursed a grudge for all these years, accumulating power to the point where he could successfully reactivate Weapon X under his command and take revenge on Wolverine and all mutants in general. In researching his program's predecessor, this "Director" was able to recover the original memory implants which the Professor and Cornelius had installed to control Logan's actions remotely. They had been using him as a tracker for weeks to hunt down "loose ends," government officials who were still around and knew too much about the dealings of the original Weapon X Program. When the Director employed Logan directly as an assassin against Senator Walsh, however, the shock of being forced into committing murder against his will effectively disabled the mental control circuits in Wolverine's mind, leading to the events of the past few weeks.
Agent Jackson had even been working with Weapon X, setting Wolverine up to be returned to the program. The Director attempted to bribe Logan back into working for Weapon X, but naturally he refused. It was only thanks to the intervention of Nick Fury's associate, the Shiver Man, that Wolverine managed to escape with his and Beast's lives intact. [Wolverine (2nd series) #162-166]
During his time on the run and in the Cage, Logan had been receiving mysterious letters guiding him to the secrets behind Weapon X's resurrection, signed only as "A Friend." When another such letter arrived at the X-Mansion soon after, Logan was interested enough to do as it suggested and return to Madripoor, where he entered the annual Bloodsport Tournament in order to meet his "friend," who had claimed to be the reigning champion in his correspondence. After he arrived, he discovered the Champ was none other than Mister X, back to further secure his superiority over Logan. Wolverine was diverted from his feud with X when his old demonic sensei Ogun returned to settle his own score with his former pupil. Ogun had planned to secure Logan's body as the vessel for his disembodied essence,and was causing chaos throughout Viper's underworld empire in order to do it.
In order to secure Logan's vow to help her get rid of Ogun, Viper was forced to agree to grant him a divorce. She clearly got the short end of the stick, since Ogun possessed her and Wolverine stabbed her through the chest in order to make her uninhabitable for the spirit. Nevertheless, she had to be true to her word or else her dear husband wouldn't have gotten her to a hospital in time. [Wolverine (2nd series) #167-169]