BIOGRAPHY - page 16
Deadpool's star was rising after word spread of his brutal takedown of ULTIMATUM, and he started billing top dollar for his mercenary work. In fact, a mercenary named Solo ended up dressing as Deadpool to accept a job in order to get paid more. "Deadpool" was supposed to provide rooftop security for the drop in a ransom case in Washington D.C., only to realize he was being set up to take the fall as a sniper attacking a foreign ambassador's caravan. Solo intervened on the real attack on the ambassador, resulting in a spectacularly public rescue of the foreign dignitary, leading to a peace accord being signed with the United States the next day. "Deadpool" became the most famous and popular mercenary in the world over night. Wade Wilson saw a business opportunity and tracked down Solo. He decided to hire Solo and constructed an entire franchise of Deadpools to rake in the money from the various offers he was receiving now. [Deadpool (5th series) #7, 16]
Wade did his best to consolidate his various responsibilities. He purchased the Schaefer Theatre near Times Square as his base of operations. Deadpool's mercenary forces included Solo, existing mercs like Foolkiller and Terror, Stingray (who Wade pretended not to know was spying on him for Steve Rogers to make sure he stayed ethical), a sad sack named Slapstick and 
Madcap, who just showed up one day and Deadpool decided to hire based on their past history. On behalf of Wade Wilson, Deadpool and the Heroes for Hire Mercs for Money (pending a cease and desist order by Messrs. Cage and Murdock) took jobs around the globe, each dressed in a red Deadpool costume to provide that traditional Deadpool experience. A gift shop full of Deadpool merchandise was also found in the Schaefer, and the entire operation was used to fund the Avengers Unity Division on behalf of Steve Rogers, as Deadpool became an official member of that franchise team. [Deadpool (5th series) #1, Uncanny Avengers (3rd series) #1]
As he continued to freelance for Preston and her S.H.I.E.L.D. tactical ops team, Deadpool helped secure Doctor Carl Weathers and his TimeTech prototype chronal displacer. The mission hit a snag when Cable arrived to inform Deadpool he (Deadpool) was going to kill him (Weathers)! Nate had hit a low patch in his life since last working with Wade, losing his powers, his techno-organics, his X-Force team and his relationship with his daughter Hope. All he had left was a minimal precognitive sight, his arsenal and old man smell. Deadpool and Cable teamed up to find out what was happening with Weathers, and they encountered a time-jumping assassin named Split Second who accidentally bumped Wade's gun hand, leading to the death of Weathers' son. Split Second's time-vest rewound time over and over, as each encounter led to disaster.
Deadpool eventually shot Split Second's time-vest, but the resulting chronal explosion damaged the fraying timelines further, and Cable was caught in the middle of it. While trying to fix things in the near future, Deadpool encountered an agent of the Time Variance Authority called Loop the 
Backwards Man, then confusingly 'Pool became Loop and ran backwards through his own personal timeline to fight himself. The TVA wanted to fix the damage to the various timelines by having Deadpool kill Nathan Dayspring at different points in his lifetime, "pruning" him from various alternate realities. Instead, Deadpool saved Nate at various points in his past, from the formation of the Six Pack to his teens and twenties fighting against Apocalypse's reign in the far future.
(As it happened, Deadpool also realized these events were part of their original timeline, meaning Cable recognized him from various past encounters prior to Deadpool's first recollection of meeting Cable, trying to kill him for Tolliver in the X-Mansion bunkers.)
Ultimately, Deadpool's efforts succeeded despite the TVA's contradictory instructions. Deadpool ensured the survival of Doctor Weathers and his two sons, ending the Split Second anomaly. The timelines were stabilized as a new incarnation of Cable emerged from the improved timestream, with Deadpool's Loop armor helping multiple divergent versions of Nathan consolidate into one another. Cable was back and better than before, all thanks to his good pal Deadpool. [Deadpool & Cable: Split Second #1-3]
Despite his mercenary skills and incredible fame, Deadpool did not prove to be a shrewd businessman. He prioritized pro bono cases that tugged at his heartstrings and keeping the 
Avengers financially solvent, meaning the Mercs for Money side of his enterprise had trouble making ends meet. The Mercs frequently complained of late payment and mistreatment by Boss Deadpool, and were annoyed at having to dress up as him at all times. He also became an absentee husband to Shiklah, putting his own activities over the needs of her kingdom. In response, the Queen of the Monster Metropolis began taking up lovers from among her subjects.
Someone took advantage of Deadpool's carbon copy costumes, murdering a zoning commissioner and seriously beating Agent Adsit while dressed as Deadpool. Wade swapped out the Mercs' red uniforms for Rainbow Skittles flavored uniforms in order to catch the killer. He soon reluctantly accepted that Madcap was responsible for the impersonations. His time inside Deadpool's head had made Madcap worse. He experienced pain as a part of Deadpool, something Madcap's personal healing factor had shielded him from since getting his powers. Madcap split off from Deadpool with a darker, more sinister side and a need for revenge against his former partner. (In fact, the Mercs later learned he was responsible for the ambassador set-up in Washington D.C.)
Knowing Madcap wanted to hurt him, Deadpool used Ellie as bait to draw him out. Although he had Quicksilver on stand-by to whisk Ellie out of danger immediately, this tactic drew a wedge 
between Wade and Preston for months. Deadpool engaged Madcap and prepared to break his regenerative body down into pieces and store it in a casket he couldn't escape from. Instead, Madcap chose to use a Chitauri weapon Deadpool was holding onto that could potentially kill him. Trusting in his healing factor to bring him back eventually, Madcap "booped" Wade one last time before dispersing himself, promising to return. [Deadpool (5th series) #1-5]
Deadpool's role with the Avengers Unity Division proved to be rocky, too. His crazy impulsiveness and itchy trigger-finger rubbed many veteran heroes the wrong way. Spider-Man quit the Avengers over Deadpool's presence and squad leader Rogue constantly questioned Cap's 
decision, but Rogers stood firm behind Deadpool as an asset and as a friend. When Boston was nearly consumed by the mutated plant life controlled by an Inhuman known as the Shredded Man, Cable arrived from a future where the Avengers failed to lead them to a better outcome. Deadpool acted as peacemaker between Rogue and Cable to ensure Nathan respected the Avengers and the chain of command. After their victory, Rogers invited Nathan to join the team, making the group Deadpool & Cable and the Avengers! [Uncanny Avengers (3rd series) #1-4]
As he worked through his memory problems, Deadpool began to recall the fire that killed his parents, but not his own part in it. He vowed to find his parents' killer without realizing what that actually meant. A flash of recovered memory about being on a job with Sabretooth for Butler in Canada led Wade to the conclusion that Creed was responsible for killing his parents. He tracked down Sabretooth and accused him of the murder. Creed realized what was happening, and was also still under the influence of the Inversion spell from months earlier, giving him newfound empathy. He decided to own responsibility for the murders in order to spare Wade from hearing the truth.
Unfortunately, Sabretooth hadn't reckoned with how determined Deadpool was to get revenge. He was unable to shake Deadpool and was eventually run to ground and captured. Deadpool planned to rip Sabretooth apart using a semi cab and expose him to Terrigen Mist to infect him with a lethal dose of M-Pox. He only stopped when Adsit tracked them down and revealed the 
truth to keep Wade from murdering Creed. Realizing he was responsible for his own parents' death, Deadpool apologized to Sabretooth and they parted on relatively good terms.
He made contact with Doctor Strange and learned this wasn't the first time he had remembered what happened to his parents. In fact, the memory had fluttered to the surface of his mind, then faded again, on several occasions. The guilt had overcome him to the point where he actually asked Strange to patch over that memory, tampering with his mind again despite everything that had been done to it before. He even recorded a message to himself absolving Strange of the act in case he remembered. According to Strange, this was the first time he remembered the whole incident and hadn't tried to kill Strange when he realized his memory was tampered with. It seemed Deadpool was almost healthily processing the idea, and beginning to move past it. [Deadpool (5th series) #7-11]
Wade suffered further personal losses when the science-based Empirikul arrived to wipe out all magic in this dimension, including the supernatural creatures of Shiklah's Monster Metropolis. Deadpool recruited his Avengers teammate Doctor Voodoo along with Ben Franklin and Michael the Necromancer to defend his wife's kingdom, but the Empirikul were too powerful. Michael discovered a spell in the tomes of the Ancient One and used it, sacrificing his life to consume the Spell-Eater weapon unleashed by the Empirikul. Wade was forced to give the bad news to Michael's girlfriend Daphne, only to learn she was pregnant with his late friend's child. She spat on his offer of "compensation" and cursed Wade Wilson for all eternity. [Deadpool: Last Days of Magic #1]
Deadpool was placed in an awkward spot when he received a new mercenary job offer: Kill Peter Parker. His client, a source calling himself Patient Zero, provided evidence of the junior CEO of Parker Industries performing involuntary human testing for his products, and basically being the next Mengele. Such a topic hit home with a former Weapon X experiment like Wade, but Parker also had a corporate mascot and bodyguard: Spider-Man. Deadpool had always considered Spider-Man a role model in his quest to become more heroic, and behind his jokes he had taken it hard when Spidey quit the Avengers rather than work with him. Deadpool couldn't reconcile Spider-Man's respect for Parker with the dirt he had on Parker Industries, so he resolved to look at the matter closer.
Wade approached Spider-Man under the guise of becoming friends, and maybe using Spidey as a positive influence in his efforts to be more of a good guy. Spider-Man started to thaw when Deadpool helped uncover a plot by Mysterio to use Parker Industries' Webware tech to cause mass hallucinations, and Wade even saved Mysterio's life when he was inadvertently injured. However, the entire scenario was a set-up by Patient Zero, putting Deadpool at Parker Industries where he could see a fabricated illusion of the alleged human testing. Now convinced Parker deserved to die, Deadpool began planning how to get around his new buddy, Spider-Man. [Spider-Man / Deadpool #1-2]
Deadpool did his best to genuinely reach out to Spider-Man. He felt Spidey was being led astray by faith in a bad boss, and hoped to eliminate Parker without tarnishing the halo Spider-Man held for him. He invited Spidey to a charity gig for Deadpool, Inc., they fought together in Bolivia alongside the Mercs for Money, and Wade even revealed the existence of Eleanor to Spider-Man. They went to visit his daughter at her safehouse, as Deadpool explained that everything he was doing, he was doing for her. [Spider-Man / Deadpool #3]
Spider-Man reciprocated Deadpool's efforts to bond, and they arranged a guys' night out. Deadpool, of course, made it really weird by turning it into a double date with Jenny (one of Shiklah's succubus cousins) and Thor (one of the five "free passes" he had in his marriage). The night did not go as either of them planned, but the sheer ridiculousness proved to be a major bonding moment for Deadpool and Spider-Man. However, once he parted with the utterly relaxed and exhausted Spidey, Wade went ahead with his real plan for the night to kill Peter Parker while his bodyguard was unavailable. Deadpool approached Parker at his home and shot him dead.
(Deadpool has no idea Parker and Spider-Man are the same guy. We've mentioned that, right?)
[Spider-Man / Deadpool #4]
Thanks to special arrangement by Shiklah and her associates, Deadpool planned to watch Parker's soul being tortured in Hell for all his misdeeds. Unfortunately, Parker's soul hadn't shown 
up in Hell. Deadpool went back to Parker's apartment, had Shiklah resurrect him, then killed the man again. But he still didn't arrive in Hell. Deadpool started to realize what a mistake he made, and worked with Shiklah and her blood magic to send him to wherever Parker's soul was. He found the man being tortured in a Limbo between life and death. Deadpool stepped in and helped Parker confront both the ghost of Mysterio and Mephisto himself. Being able to literally see Parker's pure unblemished soul in this realm, Deadpool reached out to Mistress Death and asked for a favor. In deference to their history together, Mistress Death returned Peter Parker to life. [Spider-Man / Deadpool #5]