Artemis Panther (Earth-7)

Childhood
Artemis was presumably born after Wolverine and Jean Grey had an affair. He was abandoned as a child and he was adopted by a Skrull who was exiled for helping the human during the Secret Invasion. This Skrull adopted Artemis and gave him the name of Drake Gibson. He was raised in the Skrull's ship, constantly roaming the galaxy. His powers were dormant for most of his life, not knowing he was one of the most powerful mutants ever. However, when he sensed his "mother"'s death, his powers erupted, killing his adoptive Skrull father. He then takes to Earth in search of his father.

True Parentage
Artemis spent nearly four years roaming the Earth in search of Wolverine. One day he saw a television transmission of the X-Men and the Avengers in battle over the Phoenix Force. He made his way to America but was knocked out by an unknown person and he woke up in a cell. Artemis was informed that he was not the son of Wolverine and Jean Grey. He asked who kidnapped him and Cable revealed himself as Artemis's father.

In a fury, Artemis rejected Cable for hiding his past from him all the time he knew he was on Earth. He used his telepathic powers to rip everything Cable knew out of his mind. Artemis learned that he was born after an affair between Cable and X-23, rather than Wolverine and Jean Grey. He also picked up some information on Deadpool, who knew more about Artemis than Cable did.

Deadpool
Before he went to find Deadpool, Artemis created a costume for himself, in hopes that it would make things easier for him. It didn't take long for Artemis to track Deadpool to California. He approached him peacefully, but Deadpool, as insane as he is, attacks Artemis. Of course, if he knew who he was, he would not have acted this way.

Artemis, who was easily angered, wrongly decided he didn't care about his past and he just wanted to kill Deadpool. The battle lasted nearly two days, since both of them had extremely fast healing factor. When Deadpool finally got it through to Artemis that he cannot be killed, he decided to use his telepathic abilities to take him out. When Deadpool woke up, Artemis explained his situation. Deadpool quickly remained and explained that X-23 gave birth to Artemis not long after "Cable's" death, and she was under the impression that Deadpool was the father. X-23 chose to wipe her own memory of her and Cable's relationship, and of Artemis. Deadpool took him in and raised for almost a year before he was lost and found by the Skrull, J'onn.

Deadpool told Artemis he never saw him again after that. Artemis told him that he was raised in space and his adoptive Skrull father used technology in order to make him appear as a Skrull and have shape-shifting abilities. Deadpool told Artemis he should return to his father, but Artemis refused and then became angry with Deadpool. He left his costume behind and rented an apartment in Kansas in an attempt to escape from everything.

Joining the X-Men
However, his desired solitude did not last long. Deadpool had told Wolverine about Artemis's existence. Wolverine found him and talked with him, requesting that Artemis join the X-Men. He asked if he could meet his mother, and Wolverine said that it could be arranged. Artemis accepted the offer, but did not plan on staying.

After joining the X-Men, Artemis read his grandfather's mind and learned he only wanted Artemis on the team to talk some sense into his other grandfather, Cyclops, who had recently gone rogue. Artemis confronted Wolverine and quit the X-Men, but before he could leave, Kitty Pryde, who he had befriended, begged him not to leave. He apologized to her and said he might come back, eventually.

Artemis decided, for some reason, to find Cyclops and talk to him. Artemis finds Cyclops's base and attempts to explain everything to him. After mentioning Jean, Cyclops loses his temper and attacks Artemis, who manages to dodge a few of the attacks, but Cyclops is assisted by Magneto who uses Artemis's X-Man outfit against him.

Artemis wakes up in a cell, with Cyclops standing in front of him. He asks him to finish his story, but Artemis, who was angry at him, ripped into his mind in order to get information. However, he accidentally looks back on Scott's entire life.

Death and Return
After the intrusion of Cyclops's mind, both he and Artemis collapse under the pressure. Artemis wakes up in a white, shining room. He looks around and wonders if he is dead. He looks around and sees shadows moving in the corners. He demands that they show them self. So, J'onn, his adoptive Skrull father, reveals himself. He tells Artemis his mind has caved in and he is at a crossroads. He explains that it is up to Artemis whether he lives or dies from this point on. Artemis takes a little bit to ponder the decision. He realizes there is so much more he doesn't know, so much more he needs to do. He then decides to use his powers to read J'onn's mind to see if he is telling the truth. He discovers this is a mental image put in his mind by Emma Frost. He decides to reverse it back onto her, however, things don't go as he plans and Artemis is killed.

However, his undiscovered mutant power erupts and he is brought back to life almost immediately after. And, he is imbued with the Life Force of all reality, giving the power to raise the dead. Artemis fears his new powers and erupts into space. Artemis spends a month in space attempting to burn out his life powers, hoping he could return without the fear of killing anyone else. It didn't take long before he was able to use his other powers to separate himself from the Life Force, turning into an entity of death, wanting revenge on Artemis. However, he was able to escape back to Earth. His first thought was to go to the X-Men for help. He learned that in the time he was gone, Cyclops had rejoined the X-Men, but he was in a coma because of what Artemis did. He also discovered Kitty had begun a relationship with Iceman. He then went to the Avengers for help, but they were occupied with Ultron, so Artemis decided it was up to him to stop the Death Entity.

Defeating Death
Artemis armored himself with Hawkeye's Bow, Captain America's Shield, Spider-Man's Web-Shooters, Mjolnir, a Vibranium knife, and two pistols. He flew into space to fight the Death Entity, knowing he won't make it out alive. Once he reaches space, he clashes with the Death Entity right away, wounding it greatly. They battled for an hour until Artemis finally amplified Mjolnir's power using his telepathy, he cast the Death Entity into the sun, but the backlash was too much for him to handle.

Exiles
However, before he could be killed, Artemis was swept away from reality and dumped into the Forest beyond Space and Time. He is confronted by a variation of the Exiles, consisting of Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man, Thing, Wolverine, Daredevil, and Luke Cage. They told him that their former member, Iron Fist had died and he was his replacement. Artemis begged to be brought back to his reality, but they told him that wasn't an option. In defeat, Artemis accepted membership into the Exiles.

After joining them, he discovered there were alternate versions of himself, though much less powerful, some versions were even children of Cyclops and Jean Grey, not Cable and X-23. This reminded Artemis of his desire to meet his mother. During one mission, the Exiles had to fight the Celestials, and Artemis was captured and experimented on. They gave him a new suit of armor with extreme capabilities. He used this new suit to destroy the Celestial's ships, but they exploded and he was somehow sent back to his home reality, and the Exiles were under the impression that he died.

Return to Earth-7
Artemis triumphantly returned to Earth and found only two days had passed since he defeated the Death Entity. He went back to the X-Men and used his new found powers to bring Cyclops out of his coma. When Wolverine apologized and offered for Guardian to rejoin the X-Men, he refused, but said he will help out when he is needed. But before he could leave, Wolverine told him that X-23 has been corrupted by HYDRA. Guardian quickly found her and attempted to free her from HYDRA's clutches, but Red Skull would not allow Guardian to steal his top lieutenant. Guardian then shot Skull in the chest and escaped.

He decided to go back to Deadpool, who adopted him and they began to bond. One day, Deadpool took Artemis to the Circus where he saw clowns for the first time and developed a fear of them.

Crusaders
A few weeks had passed and Artemis finally turned eighteen, after everything that had happened recently. He said goodbye to Deadpool and decided to find out who else he was related to. When he learned that Daken was his "uncle" he decided he did not want to know anymore about his family.

He joined a variation of the New Avengers, called the Crusaders, which consisted of Doctor Octopus, Lightspeed, Captain Marvel, Hulkling, Wiccan, James Barnes, Invisible Woman, and Black Panther. Artemis became good friends with Hulkling, being able to relate with the fact that are both of (somewhat) Skrull heritage. However, he strangely found his best friendship in the former Spider-Man rogue, Doctor Octopus. One day, Artemis fell in love with a woman he rescued from a burning building but she later proved to be a psychopath called Hotstreak, who had actually set the fire. He later began a relationship with Lightspeed, which did not last very long, due to her falling in love with the Runaway, Karolina Dean. However, they remained close friends.

Venom
Artemis would later encounter the Venom Symbiote and it bonded to him, destroying his Celestial Armor. At first, Artemis used the symbiote to his advantage, it made him stronger and faster, it even enhanced his telepathy. However, it was slowly making him darker, angrier, eviller. However, unlike other hosts, he was able to detect the symbiote's deception and control it with his telepathy, but it only became angrier and stronger, until it nearly shattered Artemis's mind and he forced them apart and burned the Venom Symbiote until nothing was left of it.

After Artemis lost both the symbiote and his Celestial armor, he refused to use his telepathy in the fear that he could shatter his own psyche. He took a leave of absence from the Crusaders and decided to rent an apartment. While there, he befriended his neighbor, Zelda Reyes. They began to go out with each other and Artemis was starting to like his life as a normal person, that is until Zelda was killed by Hotstreak, who had convinced herself that Artemis still loved her. He took the risk and used his mental powers to put Hotstreak in a coma.

Alpha-X
At Zelda's funeral, James Rhodes, who formerly acted as War Machine, approached Artemis with a proposition. James offered to cure Artemis of his mutant powers if he joined S.H.I.E.L.D.'s new strike force, Alpha-X. Artemis said he would join, if they would help free X-23 from HYDRA's clutches. James agreed and brought Artemis to the newly built Triskellion. Artemis was informed that Alpha-X will consist of him, War Machine, Hawkeye, Magik, Agent Phil Coulson, and Quicksilver. Their mission was to infiltrate Apocalypse Island, formerly called Genosha, and free Magneto from Apocalypse's jail so that can reveal the secrets to killing Apocalypse once and for all before his invasion reaches America.

When they reached Apocalypse Island, Artemis, War Machine, and Magik were part of the group that would go to Apocalypse. He easily defeated War Machine, but Magik proved a challenge for him. While she was keeping him busy, Artemis tried to read his mind and put him in a coma but he realized Artemis's plan and attacked him. He temporarily paralyzed Apocalypse and told Magik to get War Machine and the others out. She did as she was told without hesitation.

Horseman of Apocalypse
After Alpha-X had left the Island, War Machine scolded Magik for leaving Artemis behind, but she said he told her to. James then told them that they were going to honor Artemis by freeing X-23 from HYDRA's control.

However, Apocalypse did not kill him. Artemis was altered into Apocalypse's new Horsemen of Pestilence. Artemis then began the hunt for the other three Horsemen. Using his memories, he abducts Kitty Pryde, Deadpool, and Cable. However, before Apocalypse could alter them as well, they were able to free Artemis from Pestilence and they all escaped Apocalypse Island.

Restoring X-23
When Artemis returned to civilization, he was contacted by James Rhodes, who said they had managed to capture X-23 and they are working on turning her back to normal. Artemis rushed to the Triskellion and James told him he needed to use his telepathy to piece X-23's mind together. He was successful and he put her memroies of him back into her head and they reconciled with each other, after everything Artemis had been through, that was one of the happiest moments of his life.

The New Iron Man
With everything happening so fast, Artemis hadn't even realized that with no celestial armor, and no symbiote, he didn't have a uniform anymore. He went to James, who was friends with Iron Man. He got an appointment with Tony and he asked if he could use one of the Iron Man armors. Tony, who had recently decided to marry Pepper Potts, told Artemis he can be the new Iron Man, only temporarily as Tony gets settled into his marriage. Artemis accepted the offer and became the new Iron Man.

Goblin Saga
When Artemis got word that there was a new Green Goblin, he went to Oscorp to investigate. When at Oscorp, he crossed paths with Spider-Man, who was also trying to find the new Green Goblin. The two decided to team-up to find him. They interrogated the now "reformed" Norman Osborn and he confessed that he sold the Goblin suit, glider, and equipment to J. Jonah Jameson.

The two of them then went to the Daily Bugle to get answers out of Jameson. They discover the Bugle has been blown up but they manage to trace him to the old location for Oscorp. They discover Jameson has gone completely insane and became the new Goblin. They fight him and in the end, Jameson blows up the warehouse, killing himself, and injuring both Artemis and Spider-Man. Jameson is given a proper funeral, to which they both attend, and Artemis resigns as Iron Man, and decides to take a break from heroics.

Return of the Guardian
Artemis decides to go Doctor Strange, to see if he can conjure up a new Celestial Armor for him. Strange said it was impossible, however, it is still active but it is within the Venom symbiote. Artemis reminds him that he killed the Venom symbiote, so Strange takes him to the place of it's death and does a spell, which brings it back. Against Strange's orders, Artemis jumps into the symbiote and his suit is inside. He puts it on and bursts out of the symbiote. Guardian and Strange then manage to apprehend the symbiote and take it to the Triskellion in order to be bonded to a host that can act as the new Agent Venom.

Dark Spider-Man
When Spider-Man's clone, Kaine, goes insane once more, he creates a Spider-Man suit variation and begins to commit crime. However, since Spider-Man, along with Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Captain America, Wolverine, and Black Widow were on trial on Hala, Artemis decides it is his responsibility to take down Kaine. It took a while, but he eventually succeeded and Kaine was arrested.

All-New Avengers
When a future version of the Hulk came to the past to warn the heroes of the impending invasion of an alien race called the Regime. This new Hulk, calling himself "The Doctor" formed a team of All-New Avengers, consisting of Artemis, Spider-Woman, Iceman, Captain America, Daredevil, Luke Cage and Gambit. They defeated many of the Avengers' old enemies that hadn't been active for a long time, but one day, the Doctor had a vision and he told Artemis that he was what was luring the Regime to Earth.

The Regime
Artemis decided it was time to make his final sacrifice. He flew into space and confronted the leader of the Regime. Artemis said that they either turn back or die. The leader asks Artemis what he could possibly do to defeat an army. Artemis smiles and activates his armor's self-destruct sequence and he explodes, taking the entire Regime with him.

However, Artemis's powers won't allow him to stay dead and he is alive by the time his body floats back to Earth. His destroying the Regime, altered the future, and the Doctor thanked him before returning to his own time.

Full Time X-Man
Artemis finally decided it would be best for him if he joined the X-Men full time. After joining, he met a girl named Hannah di Angelo, who had the power to shape-shift. They fell deeply in love and Artemis knew that he won't have to worry about losing this love. It wasn't long until the two of them were engaged.

However, their constant heroic act caused them to call off the engagement and take a short break. Both Artemis and Hannah wish to get back together but they both know it is safer to remain apart.

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One day, Artemis decides to go visit Deadpool, and he learns that he has gone broke and is living on the streets. His mind is more fragile than ever, and Artemis attempts to fix it. However, it has too much of an effect and Deadpool goes crazier than ever, believing that everyone wants to kill him, so he must kill them first.

Deadpool attacked Artemis and they battled, very similarly to the day where they first met. However, when Artemis tried to reach out to Deadpool, he responded with nonsense about "The Mutant Messiah" and "The Avengers Army". Artemis was forced to kill Deadpool by snapping his neck. He brought him back to the X-Mansion, hoping to find answers.

Answers
Artemis asks the most powerful, living telepath, Emma Frost to pry into Deadpool's mind and find out what happened. Emma informs him that he was visited by a man named Aster. He used his psychokinesis to remove Deadpool's inner voices. When Artemis asks about the Mutant Messiah, Emma says that Deadpool had been informed of Jean Grey's eventual return. She also said the Avengers Army is something under construction in HYDRA. They were kidnapping innocent people and giving them the powers of the Avengers. Artemis decided it was time to act and form his own team.