(Contains Spoilers)

With Wolverine bleeding and motionless on the ground, Cyber and Daken engage in battle after Daken shows surprise at Cyber being alive. Cyber grabs Daken and explains that he needs him to find Daken's master. Daken gets free and Cyber comments that Daken was his best student, something a recovering Wolverine picks up. Cyber finds him again it looks like he's going to win the struggle. Just then, Wolverine comes from behind and holds Cyber so Daken can make the killing strike. Daken turns down the assistance, saying that he's had chances before and he'll have more later, ones free of interference. With that, Daken leaves his father to deal with Cyber.

Cyber breaks free of Wolverine's hold (by breaking his arms) and starts beating him down. He says he's trying to test out his new body on someone whose body can take it. The test goes badly because (as revealed in a mid-battle scene switch to detectives investigating the disappearance of Milo Gunderson, the old owner of Cyber's new body) Milo, has a bad heart. In the middle of battle he collapses and Wolverine decides to use him to find his son.

Tied up and still suffering from his heart condition, Cyber is forced to recount his story from the beginning. Years ago, Silas Burr was on trial for many gruesome acts of violence and murder. After some unexpected violence in the courtroom he'd been sentenced to hang. Fortunately for him, Sabretooth was there dressed as a police officer. Sabretooth helped him escape and took him to a man named Hudson. Before Cyber could continue the story he became too weak to talk. He told Wolverine that The Tinkerer was the only one who could fix him (since his adamantium skin prevented normal kinds of assistance) so Wolverine helped him up and together they headed for The Tinkerer.