BIOGRAPHY - page 12
As he pondered how to truly die, Deadpool was hired by A.I.M. to retrieve a potential bio-weapon from the Savage Land. It was being scouted by an undercover agent working for a Hydra recovery team, but this meant retrieval agents would have to get past Hydra patrols. Nobody but Deadpool was resilient enough and crazy enough to fulfill A.I.M.'s strategy -- a dead-drop from orbit in an escape capsule from A.I.M.'s space station. Once he landed in the Savage Land and finished growing his skin back, Deadpool hooked up with his contact, Doctor Betty Swanson. Well, he tried at least... she wasn't interested.
The bio-weapon turned out to be the severed head of Deadpool's doppelganger from a dimension overrun by a virulent zombie plague. Still animated, hungry and chatty, Deadpool's zombie doppelganger (whom we hereafter christen "Headpool") was being worshipped as a god by a tribe of local headhunters. Headpool intended to decapitate Wade and take his body for his own, but became more amicable after Deadpool disposed of Headpool's followers and made off with the "prize." Deadpool, Headpool and Dr. Betty had to cope with the local Hydra cell, but they eventually succeeded in evading their pursuers and stole a Hydra shuttlecraft to return to A.I.M.'s space station. [Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth #1-4]
Once aboard the station, Deadpool recognized that Headie's zombie virus was too dangerous to let anyone weaponize it. He stole back Headpool just as A.I.M. came under attack from Hydra forces. The Deadpools and Dr. Betty hijacked the A.I.M. commander's shuttle in order to get back to Earth. They were prepared to escape, but the pilot started to praise the Star Wars prequels and had to be killed, leaving them in the incapable hands of Bill, Agent of A.I.M. (no relation). Deadpool had Bill guide them towards the Nexus of All Realities in the Everglades Swamp, where Headpool first came through to this dimension. After further encounters with Hydra and the Man-Thing, Wade found the shiny, shiny portal and jumped through with "Shorty." [Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth #5-6]
As they passed through the gateway, however, Deadpool and Headpool encountered a series of doppelgangers and worlds each stranger than the last. First was the no-nonsense Major Wilson of the United States of North America. Next came a post-apocalyptic world strangled by registration and regulation. The free-spirited Wanda Wilson, aka Lady Deadpool, fought for freedoms against the government. Deadpool leapt to her aid and even stole a kiss but, as Headpool put it, the "inter-dimensional self-incest" was not as fulfilling as he'd hoped. By the time he crossed paths with the Deadpool Kid in a small Texas town, Wade just shot his doppelganger and made his way back to the portal. [Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth #7]
Doctor Voodoo, the Sorcerer Supreme, arrived in the Everglades to stabilized the portal, so Deadpool and Headpool could make it to the proper reality. When they arrived on Earth-2149 with Dr. Betty and Bill, however, a troupe of zombies chased them away from the portal, leaving "Team Deadpool" trapped in George Romero-land. Fortunately, they ran across a group of survivors from Empire State University, especially the exquisite Professor Veronica Chase who remarkably (really, really remarkably) had her eyes on Deadpool. After helping secure a "live" specimen of a super-zombie for the ESU scientists to study, Wade met up with Professor Ronnie and benefited greatly from the "last man on Earth" hypothetical. [Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth #8-9]
Still, a zombie apocalypse reality was not a good long-term investment, so Deadpool, Bill and Dr. Betty began making plans to return to the Everglades and catch a dimensional portal back home. They ran into trouble not only from the marauding zombie hordes but also the A.I.M. commander who hired Deadpool, trying to recover his mission objective after following them through the first portal. Hijinx ensued, including Professor Veronica getting turned into a zombie and a battle with the undead Doctor Voodoo, but ultimately they reached the Everglades portal and prepared to return home. After Bill passed through, Dr. Betty indicated she had actually warmed up enough to Wade that he might have a chance with her... only for Deadpool to be extracted mid-dimension by the Elder of the Universe known as the Contemplator for a new mission. Alas, Dr. Betty continued on without him. [Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth #10-13]
The Contemplator foresaw a threat to which madness would be the best method of defense, and so a multiversal team of Deadpools seemed appropriate. Soon, on his mission through the dimensional barriers, Deadpool recruited a crack team of associates: Headpool! Lady Deadpool! Kidpool! And Dogpool! Each nicknamed for reasons so obvious we really shouldn't have to explain it to you! Another Elder named the Grandmaster challenged Contemplator's response to this threat, forcing the Deadpool Corps to compete against his chosen champions. The Deadpools were successful on a trial mission, though, and proceeded with the main goal. [Prelude to Deadpool Corps #1-5]
The Deadpool Corps were directed against a cosmic power known as the Awareness, an enormous sentience that absorbed the consciousnesses of entire worlds, incorporating their people into a mass hive mind with billions of bodies. The insanity of the Deadpool Corps made them difficult to assimilate or anticipate, and therefore Contemplator's ideal choice. Their value wasn't obvious to the other Elders, though, and Grandmaster set the Champion out to test them even after losing his wager with the Contemplator. The Deadpool Corps ignored Champion's challenge for glorious combat and left him marooned without transportation on a lonely planetoid. Twice. [Deadpool Corps #1-2]
As they approached the Awareness's space, Deadpool contacted a smuggler known as the Broken Blade, who could reportedly get them close enough to attack. The Blade also turned out to be a mega-babe who Wade totally got to sleep with and make his girlfriend, which he did not tire of telling everybody about. The Deadpool Corps were attacked by the Awareness, but he was revealed as a tangible (and therefore killable) humanoid behind the scenes. Rather easily dispatched by the Corps, the Awareness' defeat nevertheless had the Contemplator arrive to congratulate his team on a job well done. They were allowed to keep their starship, the Bea Arthur, as well as the power of five rings, which could each be used but once to summon the power of an Elder in the direst of circumstances. [Deadpool Corps #3-5]
Having inadvertently developed a reputation as extreme badasses on their travels, the Deadpool Corps found work-for-hire easy to come by in the distant regions of space. After disposing of a pirate named the Blue Buccaneer for the Omega Confederation of Planets (it was the Champion again but my god no one cares), [Deadpool Corps #6] Deadpool and his teammates were hired to deal with an uprising at the mines of Kagan 7. The local monarchy known as the Krook wanted Omega Confederation to stop pillaging their natural resources. Instead of completing the job they were hired for, however, Deadpool concocted a devious alternate plan. He aligned the Deadpool Corps with the King and his daughter, Teela, using Deadpool Corps' fame and celebrity to draw the attention of the galaxy down upon Kagan 7. This made it a PR disaster for Omega Confederation to move against the poor, blighted natives of the Krook, while also securing massive aid packages and cash deliveries to the planet in support of the cause (and the mercs defending it). [Deadpool Corps #7-8]
Princess Teela wanted to bring her primitive people into trade with the larger galactic population, and Deadpool was all too willing to help. Planets connected to the Imperial Senate shipped tremendous amounts of gold to Kagan 7 to be housed in the new Bank of Krook as collateral. It wasn't all fun and games for Deadpool, though. The sexually adventurous Princess Teela interrupted his long-distance relationship with the Broken Blade when she became one of the smugglers hauling cargo to Kagan 7. B.B. caught Wade in Teela's arms during a battle with Omega Confederation assassins and left the planet. Meanwhile, a rift developed between the King and Teela. Deadpool and Headpool stuck with Teela in the Krook’s new progressive city while Lady Deadpool, Kidpool and Dogpool became the new rebels, helping the King avoid detection in the forests while trying to reclaim his stolen throne. [Deadpool Corps #9-10]
Civil war began as Lady Deadpool encouraged the Omega Confederation to seek the return of their mines by lending their forces to placing the King back on the throne. The Imperial armies backed Teela's claim, however, leaving two opposing foreign armies fighting over which Krook would rule Kagan 7. In the end, it was all revealed as a ruse. The Deadpool Corps had been working together to instigate a civil war which would cover their escape with the gold and other assorted booty. In their escape, the Deadpool Corps were captured by the Omega Confederation and learned their gold had been replaced with painted lead by the untrusting Teela. And, after several examples of misusing the summoning rings from the Elders of the Universe to accomplish trivial tasks, the Contemplator finally said enough. He thanked the Deadpool Corps for their services, but disbanded the team and sent each of them through a portal back to their respective dimensions. Wade found himself back in his apartment for the first time since taking the job for A.I.M. in the Savage Land months earlier, with nothing to show for it but his memories. [Deadpool Corps #11-12]