BIOGRAPHY - Page 22
The Avengers did not survive unscathed from the ordeal either. The near-global catastrophe led Luke Cage to reassess his priorities and disband his team of Avengers in favor of spending time with his family. [New Avengers (2nd series) #31-34] As a result, Wolverine, Spider-Man and other members of the team were absorbed into the second-tier of a new global response unit of Avengers assembled by Captain America and Iron Man, operating again out of Avengers Tower. [Avengers (5th series) #1-3] Touched by some of the accusations Cyclops threw at him during the war, Captain America also created a second Unity Division of Avengers, with Wolverine and several former X-Men joined the Avengers in the spirit of mutant and human cooperation. They had their work cut out for them, as the Red Skull exhumed the body of Charles Xavier and stole his telepathic brain, using it to fan the flames of mutant hatred among humanity. [Uncanny Avengers (1st series) #2-5]
Meanwhile, life almost returned to normal at the Jean Grey School. The X-Men dealt with killer clowns, Frankensteins and the secretive rise of the Hellfire Academy. [Wolverine and the X-Men (1st series) #21-23] Things took a serious turn, however, when Beast enacted a mad plan to force Cyclops to confront his younger self and see how much he had changed and deviated from the values that once defined him. Traveling into the past, Hank returned with the original five X-Men from shortly after the team's formation. Wolverine immediately detected the scent of Jean Grey and lost control of himself, attacking the young X-Men. After learning the fates they had all suffered in this future via her awakened telepathy, Jean surprisingly took the lead in convincing the others to stay and fix things. Her telepathic knowledge included her older self's tumultuous relationship with Wolverine.
Kid Cyclops has already begun pushing Wolverine’s buttons as much as his adult counterpart and it remains to be seen what effect the presence of a teenaged Jean Grey will have on Logan. [All-New X-Men #1-6] In order to monitor the original X-Men full-time, Shadowcat stepped down as headmistress of the school and was replaced by Storm. At the same time, with Logan separated from Melita Garner and Storm's marriage to T'Challa annulled, the two old friends decided to experiment with being more than that. A casual, but passionate, affair between the two headmasters soon began. [Wolverine and the X-Men (1st series) #24]
Wrapping up loose ends, Wolverine also worked with a team of X-Men to hunt down the Age of Apocalypse’s Nightcrawler for betraying his team to the Brotherhood some months earlier. This led to a conflict with Celestial exterminators, nigh-omnipotent beings hidden between realities until recent damage to the space-time continuum allowed them to rip free. Three teams of heroes from different dimensions confronted this threat, but in the end an entire universe was lost containing them again, and Nightcrawler was among those heroes who sacrificed his life to prevent the exterminators from consuming all realities, everywhere. [Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) #59-61, X-Termination crossover]
Despite everything, Logan began to come into his own as a leader and a teacher. He led a class of new and problem students into the Savage Land on a survival expedition, preparing individualized “lesson plans” to encourage the development of each of his students. Things got out of control, as trips to the Savage Land are known to do, when Wolverine’s long-lost brother “Dog” Logan turned up, having acquired the means for time travel since Logan last saw him. Although Dog was determined to prove he was a better teacher and a better Logan than Wolverine ever was, it was eventually Wolverine’s teachings and example that led the students to success. [Wolverine and the X-Men (1st series) #25-28]
In the wake of this encounter and the many trials of the school's early days, Logan decided to reaffirm his commitment to this new expression of Xavier's Dream. This was important for both him and his students. Though still tentative in his new role as a headmaster and role model, Logan showed progress in his ability to connect with and inspire his students and fellow staff members. 
While burying a time capsule at the Jean Grey School as part of this ceremony, Logan received a message from his future self thanking him for his efforts and wishing him luck on the hard roads ahead. [Wolverine and the X-Men (1st series) #29]
The road got harder faster than Logan expected when he learned Sabretooth and Kade Kilgore had started a rival Hellfire Academy and poached several of the Jean Grey School's students, including Idie and Quentin Quire. The idea of losing any more kids was maddening to Logan. As he and the X-Men scoured the globe for their missing children, Logan decided they were doing a horrible job of protecting these kids in the first place, and resolved to close down the Jean Grey School as soon as the Hellfire Academy was found and stopped. Fortunately, the former X-Men students turned against their Hellfire instructors and reaffirmed Wolverine's faith in his school. He quietly stepped back from his plan to close the school's doors, and continued on with business as usual. [Wolverine and the X-Men (1st series) #30-35]
A day Wolverine had long been dreading came when the Apocalypse Twins descended upon the present day as the new evolutionary caretakers of the mutant race. The time-tossed children of Archangel conceived during his Apocalypse phase, they represented the period of Logan's recent history where he allowed killing to be his answer to every problem. The Twins deliberately targeted the Avengers Unity Division, and Logan in particular, driving the heroes apart with revelations about Logan's X-Force squad killing the child Apocalypse and their own former teammate Archangel. Although Thor stood up for Wolverine and the decisions made during war, the other long-time Avengers in the Unity Squad were revolted by his actions, and Captain America emotionally declared it a mistake to ever make Wolverine an Avenger. For his part, Logan made no attempt to explain away his actions.
The emotional blows continued as the divided Unity Squad separately investigated the Twins and their Akkaba dens. The Twins' Four Horsemen of Death, resurrected through the power of the Celestials, included Wolverine's fallen son, Daken. Wolverine was captured and tortured by his son, both physically and psychologically. Daken tormented Logan with the fact that, up until the last moment, he never truly believed his father would drown him in that shallow pool. He also told Wolverine that Sabretooth filmed the murder, and that was one of many crimes the Red Skull would use to drive man and mutant apart if the Scarlet Witch didn't rapture the mutants like the Apocalypse Twins wanted.
Logan was later found by Rogue and Sunfire, who pulled him from the wall on which Daken had crucified him. Logan previously made Rogue promise there would be no more killing and, even as he weakly told her the Twins' plan for Wanda, he tried to reiterate his wishes. As they left Wolverine behind to heal, however, Rogue told Sunfire she knew what Logan really wanted in his heart was to stop the Witch... by any means necessary. Logan eventually healed enough to follow them, but was helplessly restrained by Daken as Rogue went in for the killing blow. Rogue murdered the Scarlet Witch as Logan watched and Daken whispered in his ear that it was Logan's influence and example that led her to the act. Rogue was then murdered as well by the Horseman known as the Grim Reaper, the last sight Logan saw before the dying Wanda completed her spell, and mutantkind was raptured into the Akkaba space ark. [Uncanny Avengers (1st series) #7-15]
Out of spite towards their adopted father Kang and the whole human race, the Apocalypse Twins manipulated the Celestials into destroying the Earth itself shortly after the rapture, as mutantkind settled on a new world of Planet X. Logan and Sunfire were held captive for six years by Eimin and her remaining Horsemen, Daken and the Reaper, as Sunfire's atomic flame was used to burn and torment Logan the entire time. The others surviving members of the Unity Squad ultimately joined forces with Kang to travel back in time and reverse the destruction of Earth. Logan insisted they travel far enough back to prevent Rogue's death as well. Although Kang inevitably betrayed them for his own interests, Wolverine and the Unity Squad were successful in stopping the death of their teammates and the destruction of the planet. Although united, this squad of Avengers suffered serious injuries in the process, and effectively disbanded for several weeks to recuperate. [Uncanny Avengers (1st series) #18-22]