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Touching Darkness – part 1
A bathroom in Paris, France. X-23 has cut her left lower arm and wrist; the blood drips into the drain, mingling with the water. Without expression, she stares at her reflection.
Later, wearing a jacket to cover the cuts, she steps outside where Gambit is already waiting in a street café, playing cards. She was gone a while, he notes. Everything okay? Fine, she replies curtly. He got her something, he announces and pushes a small cake towards he and puts a candle in the middle. For her birthday, he explains.
She has no birthday, she reminds him. She was born, wasn’t she? He asks. She was excised from a womb, she corrects. Well, that just sounds fancy, he jokes. He assumes he came out the old-fashioned way. He tells her to make a wish. Think hard about what she wants most, then blow out the candle. That will accomplish nothing Laura points out. Sure it will, he promises her.  Gotta learn to trust in mystery sometimes. There is no mystery, she announces. Mystery is everywhere he protests, then sees blood on her hand. He asks about it. Laura withdraws her hand, then runs away.
Later, he listens to a waiter telling another it looks as though someone tried to commit suicide in the bathroom. Whoever it was, tried to clean up but there was too much blood.
Laura stands on a bridge looking down, bowing forward almost too much. Then she sits, down knees drawn close, as though in pain. Passers-by look at her curiously but leave her be. When one hand reaches out to touch her she lashes out, clawing at his arm. Too late she sees it’s Gambit.
Clearly in pain, he assures her it’s fine. She’s got small claws, like being poked with a toothpick. She’s horrified at the realization she could have killed him. He assures her it was an accident. He trusts her. Leaning on her, they walk back to their hotel.
At night, a bandaged Gambit makes a phone call. Laura stays in bed and doesn’t get up. Remy stays at her side, reading from “Peter Pan” : To live would be an awfully big adventure. He continues that the “Little Prince” is his favorite. He stole the first copy when he was a boy. Reading it changed him. Always loved the line You risk tears, if you let yourself be tamed. Later, he falls asleep in the chair.
Finally, Laura gets up at night and puts a blanket on him. She packs her things and prepares to steal out on her own but when she opens the door Wolverine stands before her, saying “hello.” It is him? she asks  Not the demon, he agrees. Gambit explains he called him. Thought Laura might want to see a familiar face.
Wolverine has brought someone else, though, Jubilee. With a smile, she gets ready to hug Gambit, but Laura steps between them, claws unsheathed. Gambit gently draws her back while Wolverine does the same to Jubilee. She is a vampire. Laura stammers. She is dangerous! Look who’s talking, Jubilee angrily shoots back. She smells predator, right? Gambit asks. She stinks of it, Laura explains. He reminds her that , Jubilee is a friend. Laura apologizes for hurting him earlier. He knows, he tells her, but she hurts him more when she tries to hurt herself.
Later, Laura sits on the roof under the night sky, reading a piece of paper. Wolverine sits down next to her. Nice view, he remarks. What’s that? he asks, regarding the piece of paper. She found it in Madripoor when she was in Malcolm Colcord’s lab, Laura explains. A list of names. Her kill list. It’s long, he remarks. It covers only one year, she replies. There must be other lists just as long. She did not see them though. Wolverine asks why some names are circled. Laura doesn’t know.
Is that why she’s been hurting herself? he asks. Did Gambit tell him that. Does she want to die? Laura seems close to crying, then admits, she doesn’t know. He wishes he had answers for her. But he can only tell her she needs to have some faith. Faith in life. In people. In herself. All the names on her list… all her lists… It’s nothing compared to what he’s done.
She remembers them all. She felt nothing when she killed them. She wishes she still felt nothing. She does not know what this is she feels now. But she wants it to stop!
Better memories, he tells her. Fill her head with better memories, better actions, better friends. That’s all any of them can do. Is that what he’s doing for her? Laura asks. The vampire? She knows her name, he chides her. Jubilee was never a killer. Just the opposite. But now the instinct to kill is in her, more even than in him and Laura. He doesn’t know if she understands yet what that means. He doesn’t want her to.
Later, Laura and Jubilee take a nightly walk near the Eiffel Tower. A group of young men are interested in them.
Back in the hotel room, Gambit takes off his bandages. How come Wolverine never protected Laura like he protects Jubilee? he asks. He put a hurt girl on a death squad! Is he gonna do the same to Jubilee? Logan replies that Laura was raised to be a weapon. It was all she knew. You don’t just walk away from that. You have to work that out. Let it rise and give it new focus. He didn’t like it but X-Force provided that focus. For a time.
And Jubilee? Gambit asks. Logan warns him not to go there. He knows it was too much for her but he got X out when he could. Maybe it was too late and maybe he screwed up, but X and Jubilee are two different girls and he’s trying his best to make it right for both of them.
Okay, Gambit replies, but let’s be clear about one thing: Everyone may think Laura was broken, but they are wrong. Bent maybe, bent so far it looks broken, but that’s not the same thing. If she truly was broken, she wouldn’t be here now. She is fighting every bit of that conditioning because she wants to be someone better. So much so it is killing her on the inside. So Logan shouldn’t pretend it doesn’t make it hard for her when she sees the differences in how he treats Jubilee. Don’t pretend it doesn’t hurt her and make her think maybe she is failing.
At the Eiffel Tower, the men touch Laura’s hair and shoulders. Jubilee warns them to back off and they do. Losers, she scoffs. Is she okay? She needn’t have interceded, Laura tells her. Like hell she didn’t! Jubilee snarls. She’s one of the good guys, in case X hadn’t noticed! Or… maybe… she didn’t! Jubilee displays her fangs. Laura unsheathes a claw. Is she going to cut her? Jubilee challenges. Instead, X-23 cuts at her own throat. A moment later, Jubilee is upon her, overcome by her vampire hunger for blood…


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Touching Darkness – part 2
Jubilee drinks X-23’s blood and, while doing, so shares one of Laura’s memories.
flashback:
Laura is overcome by her killer instinct in a room full of corpses. A man and woman armed with guns warn her back. She easily kills them, then sniffs and opens the door to an adjacent room where a little boy crouches.
end of the memory
Jubilee withdraws, asking what that was. She tasted her blood, Laura replies simply. What the hell was she thinking? Jubilee demands. Nothing, comes the reply. Was that some kind of sick joke? Jubilee asks and tries to punch her. Laura easily blocks the punch, telling her “no.”
Jubilee shouts she worked too hard to be normal and not a killer, but for her to offers herself up with all that blood… That’s why she left Utopia. She had to go. Everyone was afraid of her. People even wanted to kill her! People who she thought were her friends! It wasn’t until she left that she got some perspective. She was a danger to others. She just didn’t want to admit it to herself. She was so wrapped up in who she had been she couldn’t accept the fact she had changed.
Laura understands. She was raised to be a killer. She knew nothing else when she found the X-Men. Logan understood that. No one understood what it was like to have to kill to feel alive. No one wanted to understand. That’s why she had to leave! She could not become someone new with so many watching and judging. Perhaps that was why she offered the blood. She wanted to see if Jubilee would kill her.
She was testing her? Jubes asks. Not exactly. Laura admits and announces they should walk back. Oh sure, and let’s not talk about anything important, right? Jubilee mocks. Laura apologizes for scaring her. Just don’t do it again, she is told, besides licking her neck was gross! Now, if she were that hot guy a couple blocks back… Cut her one of his veins, will you? She doesn’t think she should, Laura replies seriously. Jubilee doesn’t bother telling her it was a joke.
Later the two girls and Wolverine and Gambit walk the streets. Jubilee sees a white dress in a shop window and announces Laura would look smoking hot in this. As Laura hesitates, Jubilee demands the credit card. He’ll take one for the team, Gambit agrees as they enter the shop. He probably has a stash of diamonds hidden in his underwear anyway, Jubilee replies unimpressed. That was last week, Gambit admits. Today it’s just the silverware he lifted at lunch, Logan adds. Jubilee shoves X-23 inside the dressing room.
Later, Laura stands in the dressing room looking at herself in the mirror. Jubilee peeks in, telling her she looks great. It feels wrong, Laura admits. Clearly she needs an intervention even more than she does, Jubilee sighs and asks what’s wrong. X-23 admits she doesn’t know what she’s doing here. She was given clothes in the lab. She was given clothes when she joined the X-Men, but no one… taught her how to dress. She chose what felt good. This dress is someone else, but is it who she should be?
Jubilee tells her that her clothes are part of her voice. She’s gotta love her voice. If this dress isn’t her, she should say so. Laura admits she likes dark colors. Does Jubilee want to try it on? They look at the mirror where only Laura is reflected. No, but do her a favor Jubilee replies. Tell her, she is real. She is real. Mirrors, she is told, always lie, Laura replies.
Outside, the men are waiting, wondering if the girls are still alive. That moment, Gambit gets a phone call. Trouble, he tells Logan and the arriving girls.
Later, in a café, he explains he has friends in low places. One of them heard there was an arms deal going down tonight. This one is from Madripoor. A trigger scent.
X explains to Jubilee that the scientists who made her created the trigger scent to make her kill. It’s sprayed on a target and, if she smells it, she cannot stop herself. She becomes an animal. They must stop this. She will not be used again like that. Gambit promises her he won’t let that happen, but asks her to keep in mind that nobody mentioned her by name. She told him the people in Colcord’s Madripoor lab had been affected by something formulated to make them all crazy. Maybe that’s what’s being sold tonight. He cannot be certain of that, she replies. They must go.
Jubilee puts on a large hat and sunglasses, sighing that she used to love the sun. She needs to talk with Laura. She tells Laura that when she tasted her blood she saw something… she thinks a memory. She was killing people. Unsurprised, Laura points out she killed many people. But it was the trigger scent, right? Jubilee asks. Not always, Laura replies. But has she ever resisted the trigger scent. Snapped herself out of it? No, Laura replies. Is she sure? Because in that memory at the last moment Jubilee thought she felt something, almost like she was…
She has something to ask her, Laura interrupts. Dude, she wasn’t finished! Jubilee protests, only to be told what she was saying was irrelevant. Jubilee is a predator now. A hunter. Fast, strong. If the trigger scent is used on Laura, she wants Jubilee to kill her. Her skeleton is made of bone, not adamantium. If Jubilee rips off her head, that should be sufficient to end her life. She urges her not to hesitate. The moment, she thinks Laura has turned, kill her! She doesn’t want to, Jubilee protests. Laura announces she will not be used again! Wolverine will not do it. Neither will Gambit… She doesn’t think much of her, does she? Jubilee points out. She trusts Jubilee to kill her, Laura explains. That is a compliment.
Night time, the four are atop the roof, in costume, looking down at Paris. He loves his life! Gambit announces. Just like old times, he remarks as he ruffles Jubilee’s hair. But with fangs, right? she grins. Whatever, she is still her, he assures her. Ready? Wolverine asks X. Always, she replies. Jubilee jumps down first. Last person to get the murder perfume is a loser!
Inside a villa, several masked guests arrive. A blind member of the staff informs someone that number 12 is here with guest, then asks the couple to follow Mr. Jones. He will take them to the viewing room.
They are led to an observation window from which they can watch several prisoners in a room. They are told that the group is diverse regarding age, race and gender. And the serum affects them all with hundred percent effectiveness.
Scientists in protective suits enter and let gas into their cage. The prisoners’ eyes begin to glow red and they begin to savagely attack each other. Beautiful ,12 admits and asks for the price. He is told, it isn’t their price he should be worried about. His neighbor in room 11 has already offered ten million dollars for a single treatment… 12 goes up to fifteen.
Suddenly, Wolverine and X-23 wearing gas masks enter the booth. He loves watching people die? Wolverine snarls. X-23 makes her way downward and they grab a scientist. Wolverine tears off her gas mask demanding answers. When she refuses, X-23 stabs her leg ordering her to talk.
Elsewhere in the mansion, having taken out everyone, Jubilee asks Gambit if he arranged it  for the two of them to find the trigger scent. He doesn’t want X-23 near it. He agrees that if it was up to him she wouldn’t be here at all. Jubilee asks him to give Laura some credit. He is, he replies. But he knows what it’s like to have your instincts and body turned against you. To do things you can’t control. It murders part of your soul. He knew the trigger scent scares her.
Jubilee wants to reveal something but then chooses not to. Impatient with his lock picking, she orders him to move aside and uses her vampire strength to open the door. Inside are several staff members handling the trigger scent. Boo! Jubilee exclaims.
When X-23 and Wolverine join them, Gambit and Jubilee have everything under control and have the containers with the trigger scent. However, the workers never saw the woman in charge. They also found test subjects, women, men, kids even some cats, most seemed okay, but frightened.
Suddenly, Laura smells something. She runs into an elevator behind her. Alone in the cabin, she hears a voice addressing her with her name. She remembers her voice, doesn’t she, her scent? And she supposes Laura realizes by now that her old trigger scent has been modified. It’ll send anyone into a killing rage now. Gas is released into the cabin. But Laura’s rages are particularly spectacular. Rage engulfs her and she is triggered. The cabin opens in the Metro, the Paris subway.
Jubilee comes running trying to talk Laura down. This isn’t her, she tells her. Just the red eyes alone make her look totally crazy. She offers her hand. Laura tries to slice it off. Both of them land on the track with a train rushing in. Oh great! Jubilee mutters…


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Touching Darkness – part 3
X-23 has gone mad when she came in contact with the trigger scent. Now, both she and Jubilee are on a subway track with a train rushing in at great speed. Jubilee runs at X-23 and shoves her aside at the last moment. However, X-23’s leg was hit by the train and is mangled and broken. Jubilee offers to get help. Laura grabs the leg and sets it right for it to heal correctly. Moments later, she stands on it again. Jubilee tells her she doesn’t want to fight but, still under the scent’s thrall, X-23 attacks.
That moment, Wolverine and Gambit join them. Wolverine gets in the attack’s way, taking the brunt, urging her to let it out. But he’s not letting her go He repeats this while grabbing her arms. Gambit too tries to reach Laura, telling her to remember who she is. Who loves her. Impossibly, the two of them succeed. The madness begins to wear off.
Laura weakly apologizes to Wolverine, who tells her it’s ok. She’s not alone.
The crowd watches, fascinated and horrified. The others want to get out before the cops come but Laura stops them. Wolverine smells why. They smell the men they killed in the glass room, the bozos who were spraying the gas. They‘ve been on in the tunnels. Laura asks what if the entire subway has been rigged with the trigger scent?
Police are coming to arrest them. X-23 hits the one trying to stop her. Gambit sighs and assures the police this is a misunderstanding. A pregnant woman with a child begs Laura not to hurt her. She won’t, Laura replies and orders them to leave now. That moment, she notices the gas entering and shouts they are too late. The people begin to panic.
Gambit and Wolverine put on their gas masks and Gambit throws Laura one. Jubilee hasn’t got hers. Wolverine orders her to leave, but they have other problems. While Jubilee remains, unaffected thanks to her vampire nature, all the bystander suddenly surround them, eyes glowing red. Why does he suddenly feel like he’s dinner? Gambit mutters. The crowd pounces on them.
Laura tells the others not to let the people kill each other as the battle begins. Jubilee asks Laura if the scent wears off. Eventually, she is told.
The heroes try to keep the people alive and not let them escape to the street. X runs after the people up the stairs and Wolverine order Jubes to follow her. Cursing, Jubilee helps Laura against the crowd, telling Laura to go get the rest.
Laura runs after the ones which escaped. She tears a mother with her child off a bystander and notices that the effect is wearing down. It’s over she tells them.
Hardly, a hooded woman informs her. It’s beautiful watching Laura, she muses. Who is she? X-23 asks. The woman replies she knows. She will know. Has she ever read the works of Hunter S. Thompson? “As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.” Think about that, she tells her, smiling, and they will discuss Laura’s future when next they meet.
She disappears around the corner. Laura follows and finds only an envelope left for her, containing money. The other three join her. She explains the woman was here. She could not stop her from escaping. Did she find out who she is? Wolverine asks. A mystery, she replies.
Later, Laura reads them the letter left with the envelope. “Please accept this token of my appreciation, Laura. After all, without you this weapon would not have been possible. In addition to the money I offer you something far more valuable. A name. Alex Cimini. Years ago, you were sent to kill his family. But you resisted your conditioning and left him alive. Perhaps you should find out why.”
Gambit promises to put in calls to his contacts. They’ll find that woman. Laura muses she recognized her scent and voice from Madripoor. She smelled her all over Malcolm Colcord. She heard her in the corridors outside her cell. Alex’ name is on Colcord’s list.
Wolverine announces that she and Colcord we developing weapons together. She will make more weapons, Laura realizes. Today was a game. A test. And there was something else about her…
Jubilee is weirded out and suggests they take a walk. The men stay behind. When Gambit worries, Wolverine accuses him of becoming a mother hen. She’s worth it, Gambit points out. Logan agrees and thanks him for doing what he couldn’t. Wanna go find a bar and start a fight? Remy suggests. Logan shoots back Remy couldn’t fight a kitten now. ‘Course not, Remy replies. Kittens play dirty. He’ll just sit in the corner and kick people in Logan’s direction. Now they’re talking, he agrees.
The two girls are atop the Eiffel Tower. Is she okay? Jubilee asks. X agrees and asks the same. She’s like a rockstar, Jubilee replies. She’s fantastic. But if she ever wants to talk about anything, she’ll be there for her. They’re friends now. She gets that, right? Friends take care of each other, like family. She stressed that X has family.
What if there are some things she cannot put into words? Laura asks. Words are overrated, Jubes replies. She can pick up the phone and they’ll be quiet together. She just wants her to know she can count on Jubes in case she ever needs… in case she ever feels like… She doesn’t want to die, Laura announces. Well, neither does she, Jubes replies. She is a vampire, Laura points out. Technically, she is already dead.
Let’s not get personal, Jubilee retorts. Besides being alive is a state of mind. You have to embrace the world, all the good and bad, and make it yours. You have to go for it. Life is beautiful and ugly and crazy but it’s mostly just beautiful, because it’s theirs. Her time. Laura’s time. They can do anything and be anyone. That’s the definition of being alive. Race you to the bottom! With that, Jubilee leaps from the Eiffel Tower with a WHEEEE!!. Laura smiles and, a moment later, follows.


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Chaos Theory – part 1
Laura’s dream:
X-23 dreams of floating, like an embryo in space, until she sees a strange, dagger-like energy symbol, surrounded by a row of teeth.
Reality:
She awakes in a cab in New York. Gambit asks if she is okay and suggests she take it easy. Look for that name on her list. See some shows. Eat good food. Has she ever spent much time in the city? He knows she spent time in Westchester… She lived in the city first, she tells him. What was she doing? he asks. She was a prostitute, she tells him matter of fact. Remy is speechless. Laura announces she smells blood. His wounds have reopened.
A little later, Cecilia Reyes hears a knocking at her door. Grabbing a baseball, bat she opens the door to find Laura and Remy outside. Just a stitch or two, Remy announces. He is bleeding from the groin, Laura specifies. A very careful stitch, Remy adds. He’s had worse.
Cecilia shuts the door, unlocks the bolt and opens again. Oh, they are still here. If they bring hell into her home, his bleeding groin will be the least of their concerns, Cecilia warns them.
While getting ready to treat Gambit, Cecilia complains she needed some time away from Utopia for just this reason. Stupidity! That is a good reason, X-23 mumbles. Gambit calls her a very cranky woman. She warns him she is also the woman who is about to take a needle to a very sensitive region of his body. She orders him to take off his pants and get on the bed. When he hesitates, she remarks that, if he’s shy, she might throw up.
Laura sniffs and states that Kiden Nixon and her friends were here. She knows them? Reyes asks. Homeless mutants her age, she explains to Gambit and asks where they are. Cecilia doesn’t know. Before she left for Utopia she told them they could stay here. When she returned, though, they were already gone. Did Laura come looking for them?
Gambit replies that Laura is looking for a boy named Alex Cimini. He has some information she needs. Laura leaves, announcing she has to go somewhere. She orders Gambit to rest and get fixed. He tells her she knows he’s here if she needs him. She knows he is her friend, she replies and she is his friend.
She walks the streets, musing that the first time she came to New York she had no friends. She did not even have herself. She was a thing. A puppet who needed someone to pull her strings. So someone pulled. She made it easy. When a man leers at her in the subway, she vows never again.
She gets some hot food and looks at the list again. When she was an assassin for the Facility, she made choices. She simply did not realize it at the time. On one occasion, she chose not to kill. She defied her conditioning. She looks at the picture of Alex Cimini. She does not know why the boy is different but needs to understand.
She enters a university physics department. In a lab, she sees a group of students, among them is Alex, working. Laura is about to enter but hesitates, then leaves.
Something strange happens in the lab as a device begins to glow.  One moment later, Laura moans, her head aglow.
In the sky above the physics department, the dagger-like symbol from her dream manifests. Laura is hit by a car and others try to drag her away. She quickly recovers and declines the offer of an ambulance.
Suddenly, an earthquake starts and the people run away panicked, all except one man standing in the center of the quake, smiling, the red sigil from Laura’s dream on his forehead.
In front of her, a building collapses. She tries to get people clear and finds a woman is trapped high up in one of the semi-collapsed houses. Laura uses her claws to climb up to her and the old woman is surprised a child came to her. Laura orders her to hold onto her. When the scared woman refuses, Laura warns her that the building is coming down. Luckily, before a piece of debris can hit them, it is held back by webbing, courtesy of Spider-Man (in his white FF costume).
He suggests he could finish the rescue. Laura announces there is no need, they are fine. Others need him more. Spider-Man sighs at her stubbornness. She is so related to Wolverine.
A little later, he brings the woman and a sulking Laura down in his webbing. See how easy this is, he tells her. He’s like a source of pure Spider awesome. As she glares, he asks she is not going to cut him. He’s very delicate…
They look up to again see the sigil in the sky. Spidey remarks he dreamed about that while she admits so did she. This morning, she saw it on the forehead of a man with red eyes. He is the one responsible for the destruction… she knows it.
A cop asks Spider-Man to help. Down the block there are some kids… Laura asks to be taken along. He agrees, revealing he knows her name as he swings along with her. A little hirsute bird with claws told him.
Together, the two of them help the firefighters with the caved-in kids. Afterwards, Spidey stretches. What a day! he announces. Sorry to bring it up to him but it’s not over yet, Reed Richards of the Future Foundation announces.


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The news reports of the strange earthquake. Thanks to Spider-Man and the city’s finest, there have been no deaths but clean-up efforts continue. A fireman is interviewed and explains this is the strangest thing. The earthquake affected only one city block.
Cecilia Reyes is snarling to get the camera out of her face, as she and Gambit are helping wounded.
Suddenly, the channel changes to a cartoon. They were watching the news, Franklin or Valeria Richards protests to their “Uncle” Ben. The Thing apologizes to the kids of the Future Foundation. He forgot they don’t mind the tough stuff and all those geniuses together should be able to figure out what happened. Like if this is some new weapon…
Then Ben can clobber it, one of the Moloid kids agrees. The other Moloids point out that an earthquake only occurs when there is sufficient stored energy released after a build-up of strain and stress. Nor do seismic waves simply stop, Dragon Man adds. One block of damage and no more?
So it was an attack, Alex Power concludes. But why there? Who was the real target? Who’s the girl with his parents? Franklin asks. Ben tells him she is no one he needs to worry about. He should keep helping Valeria with her robot. Android, Val corrects him. Its ears are going to shoot lasers and its tail will detach to form a projectile bomb. Uh, right, he replies and flees.
In the corridor, he finds Spider-Man munching a sandwich. Are the others in there? he asks. Ten minutes ago they were. Her too? he asks pointedly. Spidey assures him X-23 is a good kid. Maybe, but there have been too many people with claws around the place causing trouble. He likes trouble, Spidey points out.
The Thing enters, offering Laura a sandwich, hoping she isn’t picky. All he could find were ham, pickles and something furry that growled at him. He left that off the sandwich.
She informs him that Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman (in another part of the lab) haven’t made progress yet. She wants to leave. He tells her to eat first.
Is it true that device caused the earthquake? He isn’t sure, Reed admits. But it’s likely the device had something to do with it. A massive amount of energy was realized just prior to the earthquake. Sue adds that Reed traced the source to the physics lab at the university where this thing was housed. Was anyone hurt? Laura ask. He just saw a bright light, Sue informs her.
Laura heads to the door. She demands the Thing move aside. What’s going on? he asks. Laura unsheathes her claws. Spider-Man gets between them as does Sue, who tells Laura she doesn’t need these in here. Nobody is going to keep her there against her will or hurt her. They asked her to come because she saw something. There was the symbol. Spidey reminds her he saw the symbol in his dreams too. Sue suggests Laura stick around. She might like them better than she thinks.
Does she know someone at the university? Spider-Man asks and Laura replies she was there before the earthquake, looking for someone.
At a dorm, Alec Cincini, the said someone in question, tells Gambit and Cecilia Reyes he doesn’t remember any girl of that description coming to the lab. They hand him their number if she comes.
As they walk off, Gambit insists she was here. Cecilia tries to calm him. Laura has a healing factor… Doesn’t help her if she’s buried under a building, he fears.
She thanks him for helping with the rescue work. She sounds surprised. Can she be blunt? Let him be blunt for her, Gambit replies. When she was with the X-Men, she heard people call him a womanizer, a thief. Heard about all the trouble he caused, folks he betrayed. All true, except maybe the womanizing. She smiles and tells him to watch his step. There’s glass.
Valeria comes to the lab and Sue introduces her. Val tells Laura she has heard about her. She kills people. Sue is horrified at her bad manners. Laura agrees, but she does not kill children. Not anymore, she assures Val.
They enter a room where Spidey is entertaining the kids. Spider-Man introduces Laura. Franklin offers her the last cookie, noting that he only chewed on it a little. Laura suddenly crumbles the cookie. Her face distorts and she begins to glow with energy, then passes out.
She awakes in a bed in the infirmary and immediately gets up and almost extends her claws in Valeria’s face. Was it a nightmare? Val who’s been keeping her company asks. Laura demands to know why she is in lab. They are monitoring her vitals, Val explains. It’s standard procedure in a situation like this. Laura doesn’t like it. Because she was experimented on? Val asks. Yes, Laura admits.
Reed joins them and apologizes for not taking this into consideration. Did he learn anything? X-23 asks and is told no. Sue joins them and tells her husband Laura should rest before he launches into his tests. Reed is against waiting.  What if another earthquake strikes?
Spider-Man asks Laura if she is okay. She wants to know what’s happening to her, she replies. Reed remarks he has been picking up strange energy readings from the device that came from the university. Almost as if it’s still receiving. He is tracing that signal and it points him to this room. To her.
While Spider-Man and Sue try to calm Laura, Val points out her father missed something, namely that there is more than one of these energy signatures in this room. He was just looking for active radiation but she found passive old traces from both her mother and Spider-Man!
Spidey has an idea what it is. The Uni-Power, he announces. Remember? Stars on their chests… cosmic foreboding… getting selected as host of an otherworldly entity and turning into Captain Universe? Both he and Sue were possessed by it. So was she, Laura agrees.
Valeria fiddles with the device while Reed wonders why the Uni-power hasn’t manifested itself. Why these earthquakes? Why the symbol? Spidey asks. Val has finished calibrating the device to activate the passive traces of radiation. Against their protest, she presses the button.
Energy engulfs Spider-Man, X-23 and the Invisible Woman and, a moment later, they are transported to another world. They stand on a dark plane, before them a host of angry alien warriors. Asked by Sue what just happened, Spider-Man sighs that he really doesn’t want to know.


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Chaos Theory – part 3
Moments ago, X-23, Spider-Man and the Invisible Woman were in the Baxter Building. Then, Valeria Richards activated a device that found traces of the same radiation in the three of them, pertaining to the time they were all hosts of Captain Universe. A moment later, the three heroes suddenly find themselves on an alien world, a hostile army before them.
This is not cool, Spider-Man decides. The aliens notice them. Hundreds of spears and arrows are loosened at them. Amused, the Invisible Woman announces this is nothing, only to find her forcefield isn’t working. Laura tries to shield Sue with her own body, however all three are impaled.
Still conscious, Spider-Man asks how the others are. X-23 tries to free herself. The soldiers have reached them and discuss amongst themselves of how they are going to feast tonight. Brains first, one of them gloats. They close in on them…
Darkness. Laura opens he eyes to find she and the other two are floating in darkness, wondering why they are still alive. Sue thanks Laura for trying to save her, but Laura points out she failed.
Suddenly, something addresses them as its hosts, its chosen heroes. The Enigma Force is with them. The three look at each other doubtful. Where are they? Sue demands. Nowhere or everywhere, she is told. They are in their minds, and there is no limit to the reach of a thought.
Laura bluntly points out it made them live through their death. What it made them live through is merciful compared to what is coming, they are told. The king of the Whirldemons has escaped his prison. He is now on Earth. And if they do not stop him, he will free his army and destroy their world.
Those monsters that hacked them apart and ate them? It calls them Whirldemons? Spidey mocks. Laura wants to know more about the king.
The Enigma Force explains he is ancient. A million years ago, he and his army battled for control over their world. He was defeated by a single man in possession of a sword that burned like a star. Using that sword, the prince created the Microverse to provide a new home for his people and then bound the demons inside their own prison. But the sword had its own will and bound itself to the prince, creating the Enigma Force. It was a man once…
Sue asks how they can stop the king. Will it possess them again? No, it is in a distant place. It will try to reach them… But they are alone, Laura spells out. No, she is different from the others, it warns Laura. The king will have his eye on her. What is that mark on her hand? It appeared after a bad dream, she replies evasively. She dreamed of hell, the Enigma Force tells her, but that dream provided a revelation. What does it know about that? Laura asks. It knows she learned the power of choice. She chose freedom. She chose to be herself. She chose the stars. They are all made of stars. But they must choose to touch them.
Suddenly, they find themselves back in the Baxter Building with the others. Sue warns them it is the demon king they are facing. Ben is not impressed. He doesn’t want to meet his friends, Spidey warns.
Odd humans, the stranger smiles. Reed warns him, he will not get the device. With odd powers, the king continues. They taste twisted inside his mouth.
Sue tries to trap him. He is amused. Perhaps when they tire, they will activate the device that brought him here. He finds himself lonely for his kind…
Ben tries to hit him. Lonely and hungry and weary of games. He smiles and they are all pushed back. Only X-23 is still standing. He notes she is immune to his power. The energy around her smells familiar. Like his old foe. He wonders what that means.
It means nothing, she informs him. He is a killer. His kind are killers. He wishes to free them. That is all that matters to her. He does not belong on this world! Laura insists. This is his world, he replies and smiles.
Laura attacks and cuts his throat. He smiles, asking her if she really thought it would be that easy. Flesh is only a shell that can be replaced, recreated. To prove a point, he tears off his own face.
Looking demonic, he announces: no more games. They will do as he says and activate the device. Or what? Laura asks. He is nothing! She attacks again. He is everything! he booms and threatens to tear her apart.
The King swats her aside. Spider-Man shoots webbing at him and Valeria fires the device at him, which seems to hurt him. However, nothing more happens.
Before the demon can attack, Val Laura tackles him, allowing Spidey to grab Val. He smashes Laura against the wall. Laura refuses to give up and pulls him with her as she fall out the window. Laura begins to fall but is caught and dragged up by Spider-Man’s webs.
The FF come to. What did he miss? the Thing moans. Everything, Laura informs him. Need a hug? Spidey asks. Ben tells him to shut up. Reed realizes the demon wanted them to activate the device they took from the physics lab. Laura warns him to destroy it before the demon returns.
That would be a terrible idea, Valeria announces. She turns around and bears the sigil of the demon king. Open the portal to his people or the girl will die! he announces from her body…


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Chaos Theory – part 4
Moments ago, the Whirldemon King revealed himself to the FF and X-23 and possessed Valeria Richards, giving them his ultimatum: Activate the device or he will kill the child. Val’s parents protest angrily but the demon only grins, announcing they will give him what he wants or their child will die.
Sue Richards offers her body instead. Maybe, he laughs, after his people are free. Are they just gonna stand there? the Thing whispers and Reed orders him to stay.
The demon king announces he can feel the edge of the prison. He can taste its cold air. This device lets him escape; it will do the same for the others.
Richards remarks they don’t know how it worked the first time. He believes he will be motivated to find a solution, the Whirldemon King replies. If not, then the child will aid him. Her mind is quite fluid. He can almost sense the answer in her thoughts.
Laura warns Sue and Reed that he will kill Val no matter what they do. Sue is convinced, though Reed insists she not destroy the device. They need time. Laura unsheathes her claws. She tells the king she is the one he wants, if he wishes to see his people again. Sue protests he should take her. She is Val’s mother!
Disagreeing, Laura tells her that Sue is needed by others. Laura is not! She reasons her presence activated the device and called the king to come through. It will do so again for his people. What makes her different? the demon asks. She doesn’t know. Perhaps he will learn this too.
He agrees and moves from Valeria’s body to X-23’s, after which Mr. Fantastic quickly snatches Val away to safety. Spider-Man tries to calm Laura on whose forehead the sigil has appeared. She slashes him. She is trapped in a forcefield.
Struggling with the demon, Laura shouts at Sue to destroy the device. Reed tries to reverse the order. The portal activates. Laura runs towards it. The Thing gets in her way. Laura orders him away. Behind him, the portal opens. The king begins to groan. Laura moves. When the Thing doesn’t react, she struggles with herself, then somersaults over him. She tells Sue what needs to be done. Sue throws her the device and Laura jumps into the tunnel.  She falls into the darkness towards a light.
She awakes at the feet of the king’s throne, pinned to the ground. Angrily, he announces she tricked him. She knew he would not be able to possess her entirely. He is not the first to try to control her, she explains. She was raised by men to be controlled. She resisted them. He is nothing in comparison. He admits he was a fool and strove for freedom. Look what it gained him. Nothing, she tells him. And her an eternity of pain, he threatens. For what good? Keeping that world safe? Was the sacrifice worth it? Yes, she announces.
He wonders if she will still say the same thing a year from now or ten years or hundred years. He is not going to kill her; he is going to keep her alive. She will wish for death before long…
One of his servants severs her right hand at the wrist with a knife. Fascinated, he stares at the starshaped scar in her palm. She must tell him about his. He hasn’t seen this symbol in eons. It is the mark of the starsword. It is a sign of power.
The scar begins to glow and the energy engulfs him. He drops the hand. Laura grabs it and calmly reattaches it. She knows nothing of signs. She only knows action and death.
A light from above engulfs her and the Uni-power turns her into Captain Universe. She knows he will never defeat her. With her added power, she diminishes the attacking army.
He has hungered for this, the king announces. He has dreamed of extinguishing the light that imprisoned his people. Oh he has dreamed! Laura attacks. Energy hits energy. He vows that never again the Uni-power will harm his kind. It is nothing! Just a memory of light in the body of a girl! A dead star. He throws her down.
No, she refuses to accept. Light pours forth from her chest and hits him. They could battle for a thousand years, but she is never going home, he promises. She is trapped for eternity!
Is she? Laura looks up. She can still see the stars. She can’t touch them, he mocks. She doesn’t need to, she insists. She is made of stars. With that, she flies upwards, hearing a voice: My little star, my chosen vessel. How bright you burn. Never forget. This is just the beginning.
Laura flies into the darkness and wakes up in a bed in the Baxter Building. Sue is sitting beside her. Sue explains that Laura returned to the lab moments after she leapt through the portal. She’s been asleep for days. What happened?
Laura tells her what she remembers, but isn’t sure what happened. What happened is that she sacrificed herself to save her daughter, Sue tells her. She must forget how young she really is.
Spidey peeks in, happy to see Laura awake. He’s found some people who have been worried about her. Worried? Cecilia Reyes mocks. Gambit here was freaking out. Sue reminds Laura she has a lot of friends. Laura doesn’t understand. Sue tells her she is needed more than she knows.
Later, Laura meets Alex Cinicini, who still doesn’t know what she wanted from him. He’s sure they never met. It was years ago, Laura replies reluctantly. Years ago, he was living in Hong Kong, Alex remembers. She was there, Laura agrees. Why did she want to find him? he asks. No reason, she announces and apologizes for bothering him. She is sorry.
She leaves without further explanation and tells Gambit she couldn’t tell Alex that she murdered his parents. She lied to him. She has never lied to anyone. What a crime! he mocks. It would have been a crime to make him remember the pain of his loss, she decides. He seemed happy. She would have burdened him with an unnecessary truth, just so she would feel better. He is proud of her, Gambit tells her. Why? Laura asks. She will understand eventually, he promises.


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Misadventures in Babysitting – part 1
He doesn’t really want to be here, Julian Keller aka Hellion tells Wolverine, headmaster of the Jean Grey school. No one twisted his arm, Wolverine replies. They all say that, Julian scoffs. Tell him he has a choice. But he knows what happens if he walks away. Some will call him a threat. Someone will come after him. Cyclops said as much. Cyke ain’t here, Logan points out. But maybe he wasn’t wrong. Maybe Julian is a threat. Or maybe he’s just a jerk.
Call him that again, Julian tells him calmly. Or what? Wolverine sneers. He doesn’t leave this room, he doesn’t talk to anyone. He wouldn’t give a damn, except there are some folks who seem to think Hellion is a bomb waiting to go off. So why did he come to Westchester, if he hates it so bad?
That moment, the door opens and X-23 enters. Julian didn’t know she was here. Laura and Logan exchange a silent look and he leaves. She looks great, Julian admits and tries to telekinetically clean up somewhat. He looks worse, she points out. He suggests she shut the door. The room smells, she tells him. No, it doesn’t! he protests. She looks at him silently. Whatever, he sighs and then telekinetically destroys the window and shutters. Is that better? he demands Laura stays calm as the shards surround her. Julian drops them telekinetically and apologizes.
He is angry, she observes. He is always angry, he admits. But that’s not her fault. It’s good to see her. He isn’t seeing her, Laura points out, he is not looking at her. Julian turns around, then tells her she was gone a long time. She didn’t’ say goodbye… He sits down on his unmade bed. It’s okay, no big deal. She was going through a rough time. So was he. He looks at his prostethic hands. He did… some bad things after she left.
He doesn’t think they are bad, he counters. He was just the only one with any guts. She’d understand that. Cyclops always preaching peace and then pulling the trigger when it suits him. Julian told him he had to protect himself, right? He was protecting everyone else when he killed… when he… He guesses that’s why she’s here. Did Wolverine call her back to talk to him?
No, X replies and turns around to leave. He telekinetically grabs her am. She can’t just walk away! Hellion protests. Is she staying in Westchester for good? Is she back with the X-Men? Laura calmly orders him to release her. He complies.
Gambit joins them. What does he want? Julian snarls. He doesn’t want to know, Remy retorts. He hands Laura a cell phone. The FF just called. Sue Richards needs a favor. She can call her back and keep the phone.
While Laura takes the call Remy tells Julian to stay put. Julian calls him a Cajun redneck and orders him to mind his own business. Laura is his business, Remy replies, and if Julian ever touches her again in anger, his arms and legs are going to join his hands, wherever they’re rotting. He’ll kill him first! Julian snarls back. He can’t kill Death, Remy smirks. But go ahead and try…
Later, Gambit drives Laura into the city. He point out she looks unsettled. Is it because of that boy? Laura denies it but points out he smells nervous. He has never smelled nervous. Not since Miss Sinister. He’s going on a date, he admits. Nothing dangerous about it, he hopes. He promises to pick her up at the Baxter Building at midnight.
Laura looks up. Sue appears next to her and asks if she is changing her mind. Was Sue waiting for her? Just taking a walk, Sue replies. She doesn’t always like being noticed. She takes Laura’s hand and ushers her towards the building. Franklin and Valeria are waiting for her. She knows nothing about babysitting, Laura admits. What if they get hurt? Sue reminds her she protected them recently and they like her. More importantly, they trust her. Also, everyone else refused.
And so, a little later, Laura is in the Baxter Building where the Richardses are getting ready and Reed lectures his children. Remember what he told her about the thermo-nuclear reactor? he asks Val. It’s not a toy, she replies dutifully. But if she siphons off precisely the right amount of—“No,” she is told and, sulking, she acquiesces.
Sue tells her not to be afraid. She will be fine. Reed remarks he’d tell her to have fun with them, but it might be dangerous. Laura promises there will be no fun. Sue drags Reed away and tells Laura she left a number. They will be back by midnight. Ben took the other children on a camping trip, so it should be just the three of them. “Remember, young lady, no bomb,” is Reed’s final goodbye to his daughter.
Laura and the kids stare at each other. Does she want to see her new inter-dimensional temporal window? Val suggests. Okay, Laura agrees.
Soon Laura watches some dinosaurs frolicking in said window while behind her the kids argue. He didn’t even look at the equations! Val whines about their dad. Franklin reminds her she promised. If she could just show him… No! he tells her.
Laura finally turns around and sharply asks what they are doing. Both kids are wearing gas masks and are fighting over some kind of device. Nothing! they chorus. Valeria! Laura warns her. Exasperated, the girl sighs and explains it’s all very simple. She contends that the explosive output from a nuclear fission reaction, if concentrated enough in a small enough space, could be used in conjunction with the proper instruments to open a temporary hole in the fabric of spacetime, thus allowing passage along a straight temporal line to the past or future.
She wants to use a nuclear bomb to travel in time, Laura finally translates. It’s only five hundred kilotons, Val complains. Franklin wants to pet a dinosaur! So does she! her brother shoots back.
They are not petting a dinosaur tonight, Laura decides and leaves them in front of the screen, as she takes a call on her cell from Julian. He apologizes for acting like a jerk earlier.
Val decides to use the opportunity. The time window is locked down, but she can choose a different place where the T-Rex didn’t roam.
Julian asks Laura if he could come up. He’s just outside. She refuses.
While they argue, Valeria behind Laura activates the machine. Suddenly, something explodes. Purple light emits from the machine and a dragon comes forth. She is so in trouble, Franklin tells his sister, who orders him to shut up.
Laura grabs both of them and runs to the roof with them. The dragon follows. When it is about to attack, Laura unsheathes her claws.
Elsewhere, Reed and Sue are mingling at the reception. Reed wonders if they should call. She doesn’t want Laura to think they don’t trust her, Sue replies and drags him to the dance floor. Reed fears they’ll probably get home and find the kids have tied that poor girl up and locked her in the closet. Sue is sure everyone is behaving. Anyway, what’s the worst that could happen? She asks.
Elsewhere, the dragon flies holding the kids in its claws and Laura’s grabbing onto its tail…


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Misadventures in Babysitting – part 2
Valeria and Franklin Richards, playing with the time machine, produced a flying dragon that has kidnapped them and is flying upwards. X-23 is holding onto its tail, promising she will come for them. The dragon notices her and breathes fire at her. Nevertheless, X uses her claws to climb towards his head and jumps. She lands on his head, ordering him to stop. She has no wish to hurt him, she announces, but she must protect the children.
The dragon flies downwards towards Times Square. Is she sure he understood her? Val asks. Laura orders him to stop. That moment, Hellion shows up, threatening the dragon to put them down. When the beast doesn’t comply, he fires a telekinetic blast at the dragon. Big mistake, as it falls now and drops the kids. Hellion catches them telekinetically.
Laura falls through a skyscraper glass window. Julian apologizes when he sees her injuries. She tells him to give her the children now. Of course, he accedes. What to do about the dragon? he asks. She orders him to take it to the roof of the Baxter Building and wait there.
She asks the kids if they are injured. Franklin nervously announces he thinks they are in trouble. Is she going to tell mom and dad? Valeria asks.
Suddenly, there is an explosion of light. She orders the kids to stay close and they are drawn away towards the light. Laura orders the kids to reach for her and not let go.
Elsewhere, Reed is nervous that Laura hasn’t answered the phone. Sue tells him to relax. Everything is fine. Laura is responsible. They are only a fifteen minute cab ride away. Not in another galaxy.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly where they seem to be, as they find themselves in an alien landscape.  Hellion wakes X-23 up. Immediately, she asks for the kids. He doesn’t know where they are. The two of them seem to be alone on some sort of garbage heap. Julian adds his powers are dampened and assumes the same goes for hers. When she keeps looking around, he suggests the same might go for her hearing.
Her hearing is fine, she replies, as she unsheathes her claws. Julian points out that it seems to be some kind of garbage dump. All of this junk and it goes on forever. They sky is purplish green. Hellion assumes they are on a different world. Laura explains this isn’t sky. The air tastes metallic. Recycled of metal walls. She keeps on looking for the kids.
Just like old times, huh? he asks sarcastically. When she doesn’t know what he means, he explains when she was with them in Westchester, all those times she went on missions. This is different, Laura insists. She is not a member of the X-Men anymore.
Hellion muses that, when he saw her today at school, he thought she’d come back, that she’d chosen Wolverine’s side. He is mistaken, she announces. Is she still with Cyclops?  She didn’t choose any side, she replies.
Then what is she doing? Where has she been all the time? Travelling, she replies, seeing things. Oh right, he answers sarcastically. She’s seen some things with Gambit. He’s sure he showed her plenty. He is her friend. Laura replies. He’s a grown man hanging out with a teenage girl! Laura observes his scent is acrid. He is jealous. Julian denies it. She turns away.
Julian begs her to stop. He hasn’t been able to stop thinking about her. Every day, he was hoping she’d come back. Why? she asks. She knows why. Stop talking, she tells him. Is it his hands? he asks. No, she replies curtly. He thinks she abandoned him. She did not. She sat with him after his accident. She waited for him to wake up. Later… she had to leave. She had to find her own way. Where she was not judged.
He admits he didn’t know. He just wishes she had talked to him. He closes in. She admits she doesn’t know how. Now she does, he tells her, about to kiss her.
When there is suddenly a fiery explosion, Laura turns toward it. Something’s happening to the sky, he tells her as it gives way to a metallic look. Laura calls for the kids. She hears a voice answering from below and jumps into the abyss.
She finds the kids trapped in see-through ball cages. Franklin tries to warn her when a giant robotic being attacks her. It orders them to lay down all weapons and prepare themselves for collection.
Laura tells Julian to save the children while she attacks. When Julian finds he cannot break the cages, Val informs him they are made of an alloy made from ever shifting nano particles that mimic glass. Julian informs her she is weird.
The “robot “is actually armor and, inside it, Laura finds an old man who shouts she’ll destroy everything. She demands to know who he is. Taneless Tuva, he tells her. The Collector. One of the Elders of the Universe!
He hesitates when he sees her adamantium claws. Is she related to Wolverine? She is his clone, she replies. He wants to collect her claws with a device. She struggles. The device’s ray hits the kids and they and their cages are gone. Laura shouts he has killed them! Not yet, he tells her. She threatens him and he informs her they are outside the ship and running out of air…


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Misadventures in Babysitting – part 3
It is a small problem, the Collector announces regarding the fact that Valeria and Franklin Richards are floating outside in space, trapped in small bubbles. It is not, X-23 replies gravely. That’s because she is mortal, he retorts. When you are as old as the universe, all problems are small. Hellion remarks he is just an old guy who lives on a space dump. If that ever happens to him, someone put him out of his misery! The Collector offers to oblige him.
They are going to die, if he doesn’t hurry! X-23 snaps. Everyone dies, he replies, except for him. He has finally found what he was looking for among his hoard. A see-through device that will allow Laura to leave the ship and fetch the children.
Hellion asks if he doesn’t have a tractor beam under all that junk. It… is… not… junk! he replies angrily. None of this stuff matters, Hellion replies.
Laura interrupts their argument: she must save the kids. The Collector helps her put on the helmet. Laura threatens she will kill him if he interferes with the rescue. Julian offers to keep him in line. Oh, spare him! the Collector scoffs.  He helps Laura put on the rest of the suit. He tells her to back up against the airlock. Julian is still suspicious but Laura reminds him she has no choice and he tells her to be careful.
Laura is sucked outside and she steers towards the kids. Looking outside, Julian marvels she is the bravest person he knows. If he says so, the Collector replies disinterested.
Val shouts they have plenty of air, but Laura can’t hear her.
What’s taking so long? Julian asks. The Collector smirks. Apparently, he forgot to give his friend the means to return the pods to the ship. Do something about it! Julian orders. Tell him about his hands first! the Collector demands. Angrily, Julian orders him to help Laura. And why would he do that? He grabs the boy by the throat. He knows his kind. He knows of Wolverine, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers. For more years than he can count, he’s wanted them for his collection. Alive or dead! He was prepared to be vexed about the opening of a portal onto his ship as well as the theft of one of his prized specimen, but it was a blessing. He knows who these children belong to. Sue and Reed Richards. Imagine what they would give him in return for their children.
Hellion vows they won’t let him do this. Funny, the Collector replies. He thinks he’ll take his hands first, and then her claws, once the girl’s device shuts off… In 30 seconds or so… she won’t be alive to fight the extraction.
Laura looks back to the ship. Val suggests she try to activate a propulsion unit in the pod. So now she’s trying to figure out the controls, Franklin bickers while Laura tries to grab the pods and drag them towards the ship.
However, her suit suddenly fades. Unprotected in the vacuum of space, blood begins to come from her mouth.
The Collector looks forward to her death and addition to his collection. Laura begins to claw at the ship, damaging the device that holds up a protective field in front of the entrance. Both the Collector and Julian are sucked out into space.
The Collector immediately throws up a protective forcefield. Julian emulates this with his telekinesis which works again outside the ship. He flies towards the unconscious Laura and grabs her, as well as the pods, and flies towards the ship. The Collector is already aboard, muttering about the chaos to his precious things. The entrance is about to close. Hellion speeds up and barely manages to get them all aboard. However, inside the ship his powers fade again.
While the Collector’s attention is on Hellion, Valeria frees herself from the globe and tries CPR on Laura.
He ruined everything! the Collector shouts at Julian. He will take his hands in payment and then hang his skeleton from his bridge!
Laura stabs him in the throat. He will do no such thing! The Collector flashes her a bloody smile. He is immortal! Nothing she will do can stop him. Perhaps, or perhaps not, she replies and gets to work.
When she’s done Val is still working on freeing Franklin. Laura worries that will not keep the Collector for long. Leave that to her, Val smirks. The controls for the transporter are easy. He even stored the dragon’s world’s coordinates. Is that thing going to eat them? Julian wonders. Maybe him, Franklin snarks.
Val sends the dragon through the portal and then change coordinates. This should take them back to New York. Laura holds on the kids as they step through. They find themselves home in the Baxter Building. Which is as they left it – a mess. How long before their parents are home? Julian asks. Ten minutes, he is told. They are screwed, he announces.
Ten minutes of very hard work later the place looks normal again and the Richards come home to find Val and Franklin sleeping on the couch next to Laura. He’s never seen them that tired, Reed wonders. They went for a… walk, Laura explains.
A short time later, Laura leaves. Julian is waiting downstairs and asks if they bought it. It went well, she replies, then wishes him a good night. He grabs her arm. They still need to talk. He was brave tonight, she tells him and thanks him for his help. Julian swears, then kisses her. Everything is going to be different now, he tells her smiling.
She knows and tells him good-bye. Just for tonight, right? he asks confused. No, she replies. So she is leaving the city? No, she is staying. What the hell is she saying to him. She is saying there is nothing between them. After all these years? he shouts angrily she’s lying. Or maybe she’s just incapable of feeling anything. Maybe what everyone says is true. She really is just a machine! She’ll never want anyone!
He is wrong! Laura replies. She feels. Wants. She just does not want him. With that parting shot she leaves.
Later she sits in a diner, barely touching her food. He heard a dragon flew through Times Square tonight, Gambit remarks as he sits down. She hurt Julian, she replies. Permanently? he asks hopefully. Laura explains he meant something to her. Before, when she was with the X-Men. She still feels something, but it is not the same. She does not know why.
He tells her people change. She’s changed… He watched it happen. Sometimes relationships survive and get better because of that. Sometimes they don’t and you have to let them go.
Has he ever let go of someone? Easier said than done! he laughs. He suggests they leave. She can tell him about the dragon during the drive.
He leaves her in one of the apartments belonging to him. When she enters, she finds Jubilee waiting for her.


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Girls Night Out – part 1
The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning:Get out of her way or die! X-23 warns her opponents. She does realize this is just a game, right? Bobby Drake, asks nervously. People don’t kill each other in football. He said no rules, Laura reminds him, and her teammate Jubilee agrees, warning the boys (Iceman and Gambit ) to brace themselves.
As X-23 attacks Bobby (who has iced up) Gambit mocks Jubilee’s vampire speed. Laura tries to somersault over Iceman’s ice ramp, but finds instead she is trapped, hanging upside down. From this angle, her scowl looks like a smile, Bobby observes. Ready to consider herself tackled? No, she replies and uses her footclaw to free her other leg.
Jubilee catches her and together they manage to cross the line with the ball. Iceman sighs that they are going to be hearing about this for years. Gambit agrees but figures it’s worth it.
He adds he has an appointment in the city. What’s he stealing? Jubilee asks. Nothing, he replies, but thanks for assuming the worst. That was a compliment, she clarifies.
Laura notices she is stared at by Hellion, who silently stands at the edge of the field. Jubilee suggests she ignore him. Why does he watch her? Laura asks. He’s a creep Jubes explains and Gambit agrees and offers to drive them to the city. They should go out.
No invite for him? Bobby asks. Laura explains she and Jubilee need to talk. Jubes warns she has to leave the next day. She’s not even supposed to be here. It’s stupid! Laura agrees. Bobby asks Gambit what’s going on. Choices, he explains.
In the evening, Laura and Jubilee walk through the streets of New York. Jubilee muses that she was born and grew up in LA. Always considered herself a California Mall rat. But now she misses New York. Laura announces she does not miss anything. Jubilee predicts she will miss New York too. If she goes, Laura stresses.
Jubilee doesn’t blame her for not wanting to return to the X-Men. Definitely not Cyclops, after what he did to her. Laura replies he did not make her join X-Force. It was her decision. Why did Jubilee join his side? She almost didn’t. But she is different now. A killer. No, she isn’t! X-23 replies. Jubilee points out she can hear the heartbeats of everyone around. She can smell them. And it makes her hungry. She wants to eat them. Even the kids. She would not harm anyone, Laura is certain.
But the urge is there, Jubilee explains. She has to fight. If she is not going to feed, she needs to fight. She craves violence almost as much as blood. That’s why she decided to stay with Cyclops. Her heart is with Wolverine but, if she joined him, it would only be a matter of time before she violated his trust. He’s got this new philosophy of peace. No fighting if you are a kid. And he still sees her as a kid. Laura muses he sees her the same way.
She gets a message on the phone. Another reminder she needs to choose. Jubilee suggests they do something fun and go dancing. She cannot dance, Laura protests. She’s hot, it doesn’t matter, Jubilee assures her. They walk off, not noticing the red-haired woman that watches them.
Later in a club, Jubilee tries to get Laura to dance but her attention is on a pretty blonde with a Asian man with a neck tattoo who holds her shoulder somewhat too tightly. Laura tells the woman to come with her. The man asks if they know each other. Frightened, the blonde explains she doesn’t know what she wants. Sure she does, he tells her. Don’t be stupid.
One hundred dollars for the first thirty minutes, the pimp tells Laura. She is fresh and worth it. That’s what her customers say, anyway. Oh gross, Jubilee mutters.
Laura tells the man she remembers him. He was friends with a pimp named Zebra Daddy. He finally recognizes her. She was one of his, the girl with the blades! Reaching for his gun, he adds he hears she killed him. He should thank her for that. He took over his business afterward.
Before he can use the gun, Laura grabs his gun arm, and positions her claws at his throat, threatening to kill him if he moves. Noticing that other men come closer, Jubilee asks how much ass-kicking they are committing to. As much as it takes, is the reply.
Does she really think she can handle all his boys? the pimp smirks. Or maybe she has some tricks she can show them. For old times’ sake. He remembers Zebra Daddy used to give them discount, but he never had her. Not her or anyone else again! she replies and cuts at his lower body.
Jubilee vamps up and the fight begins. Very soon there is a large circle around the three women. He escaped, Laura states. They take the blonde and hurry outside. The girl mutters he is going to kill her. Angrily, she berates Laura why she did that to her. She was saving her? Laura points out. The blonde replies she has nothing besides this. She can’t go home, she can’t--
Laura asks her where the other girls are. She explains that he took over for the pimp who used to control Laura. This night will not frighten him from his business. The girls must be found. Or it will never end!
Soon the girls find the brothel and see the horrors inside. Girls who crouch on the ground. Almost naked girls standing in a row and being manhandled. A girl lying on a bed being shot up with drugs. A “John” touching a far too young girl.
Jubilee and X-23 free everyone. X has taken the keys of a van. Jubilee remarks she knows why this means so much to her. What does she think is going to happen to these girls now? They don’t know where to take them or who to call. Not the police, Laura announces.
Outside they are already expected by agents of SHIELD. In front of them stands the Black Widow, who announces she’s there to help and talk. While SHIELD takes care of the girls Natasha talks to Laura. Does she know why she’s here? Not to help these girls, Laura replies. She is the spy, Black Widow, an Avenger. The Avengers cannot stop slavery or help those girls. Neither can the X-Men, the Widow replies. But they try. Laura’s a good fighter. One of the best, she’s told. She’s also supposed to have a gift for strategy, but tonight she didn’t see it. Laura let her emotions rule.
Her… emotions, Laura repeats surprised. Natasha tells her she isn’t immune to anger. Nobody is. But she isn’t a blunt force object either. She can be better. She has had her eye on X-23 for a while. She doesn’t ignore potential. She asks her to come to the Avengers Academy. She was groomed to be the best and most dangerous. Natasha can make teach her to be the smartest as well. She can teach her how to lead. It’s not such a bad thing being useful.
So what is she going to tell them? Jubilee asks Laura.
Later, Logan finds Laura sitting on the roof. He heard she and Jubilee had an interesting night. It was… useful, Laura replies. She made a decision. She’s leaving, he states. She agrees. He’ll miss her and apologizes he couldn’t do better by her. Taking his hand, she tells him she’ll miss him too.
She can still change her mind, Gambit tells her later. But she is sure this is the right choice. That’s the beauty of knowing yourself, he agrees. He hugs her. If she needs anything at all, don’t hesitate. She is not alone. Neither is he, she tells him. He tells her to go for it and not look back, and so she drives off on her motor bike.


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Girls Night Out – part 2
Laura lies naked on the snowy ground, surrounded by sitting wolves. She awakes from her dream. She’s been sleeping outside and was awakened by the falling snow.
The next day, she travels on through the American northwest on her motorbike. She takes along a Native American hitchhiker, who invites her to stay with his family for the night.
In the night, a howling wolf wakes Laura up and she steps outside, looking at the falling snow. When she walks outside into the forest, she sees a pack of wolves and follows them. As she runs after them, she drops all her clothes until she is naked. Finally, she and all the other wolves stand before a white wolf that looks at Laura.
The wolf turns into a shamaness, who in her hands holds a white and a black staff. She points with the white one towards Laura and stamps the black one to the ground. Where she has done that, a more feral, vicious version of Laura, essentially her killer personality, arises.
She rushes towards Laura and the two of them fight. The feral Laura seems to overwhelm her when Laura stops fighting and gives the other her hands. The feral version calms down and only Laura alone is left sitting in the snow, surrounded by the howling wolves.
She notices lights coming from torches. The Indian family has been looking for her. The wolves run away. One member of the search party loses his footing and almost falls down the ravine but Laura catches him and drags him back. Pensively, Laura looks after the wolves.
The next morning, she says goodbye to the family. Riding away, she sees the white wolf one last time and waves goodbye to her.


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The Mindscape:A lone voice fills X-23’s mind. He speaks directly to her, telling a tale that is accompanied by surreal representations of the both of them. “You, listen” he begins as he describes how once upon a time, a prince found a lovely but wicked girl amongst the bones of the dead. The girl had “murder in her heart” but the prince was lonely and his desperate heart inspired him to play games. He took the girl and continued to do so repeatedly in an effort to make her his.
New York City:X-23 stands on a high rooftop. She responds to the voice in her head. She tells him that she was born to a woman who should have killed her, that she should never have lived. “They wanted a boy.” Or rather a man they could turn into a weapon. They got her instead. She pops her claws and leaps from the rooftop. She plummets down and as she falls through the night sky she adds “And I did fine.”
Earlier that evening:Logan stands in an alleyway, clad in his standard civilian garb – jeans, a white tank top and his signature cowboy hat. X-23 is kneeling on the ground near him. She thinks to herself that the city is a cage like the one in which “the enemy” lives. She looks at Wolverine and realizes that he is the closest thing she will ever have to a father were it not for the fact that she was his clone.
Jubilee arrives as Logan announces that the scent of their quarry is still strong. Logan tells Jubilee that she shouldn’t be there to which she replies with typical sarcasm “You need to get a new line.” Wolverine asks Jubilee if she thinks he needs her help. She smiles and replies casually “Always.” Laura watches this exchange and notes how close Logan and Jubilee are. She realizes that they are not related but are friends in ways that she and Logan will never be. She slices into her arm with her claws and tells herself “It does not matter.”
Jubilee and Logan review a packet of photos of former mutants who have recently been killed or disappeared. Jubilee notes that they were all regulars at the outreach center for depowered mutants that she helps to run. She explains to Logan that the police haven’t been much help and admits that she hasn’t found much on her own which is why she’s asking for his help. As he looks at the pictures, he asks if they’ve come after her. Jubilee asks if it matters and Wolvie just glares at her. She tells him that they did and that they got away. X-23 stands up and says bluntly “You were stupid.” Jubilee says boldly: “Say that again” and Laura does. She says that all of these former mutants should have known better than to frequent a place that would identify them as such.
Jubilee scowls and turns the conversation back to the scent they’ve tracked. Logan notes that they were on some fliers but they might not be the bad guys Jubilee is after. He asks X if she’s found anything and she catches an unexpected scent. She reacts with a startled “Oh” and falls silent. Logan begins to reach out to her and she pulls away. As she stalks off silently, Jubilee remarks that she “really is your clone”. Logan chooses not to follow and tells Jubilee that X-23 has her own demons to deal with and he’ll handle helping her tracking down hers.
As X-23 leaves, she assures herself that she knows what she’s doing. She recalls all that she learned in the labs where she was raised, the cold, sterile environment marked by the fear and control of her masters and those charged with grooming her for the dark work she was created for. Their fear became a game to her in her solitary and controlled existence. They treated her as a pet or a specimen in a zoo, locked safely in her cage. But she was no pet or even a tool. She was a shark, a tiger, a monster in a child’s body. They were right to fear her. Eventually, she rebelled and killed her masters. What happened after this is a blur to her. She recalls losing herself in this city. Working the streets, she sold her body to those who enjoyed pain. She traded her life as a paid assassin for another form of servitude. Only this time, it was her body she sold and a pimp she answered to.
She passes a pimp and one of his girls. She watches as he pushes her to the ground. Before the woman knows what has happened, X-23 has beheaded him with her claws. She remembers that when she was a prostitute, someone helped her and she woke a bit from the blurry daze she existed in. Despite this, she is still being used. Even the X-Men use her to kill and she wonders if that is her only worth to them.
She climbs a ladder to a rooftop and tells herself that she has a choice. She knows that she has some freedom now and could leave, even if she has no one else. From the rooftop, she spots them. They were the first she could call her friends. They are huddled around a fire, fighting to survive. X-23 tells herself that she should walk away, that she’s not a safe person to be in their lives.
On the rooftop, Laura’s friends debate their current circumstances. Kiden chides them for being lame about the whole thing. Tatiana reminds her that they are once again homeless and still wanted by the police. Plus, their one adult friend hates them. Bobby Soul adds that they’re broke as well. Kiden calls them “Whiners” and points out that they at least have some food. Tatiana retorts “Which you stole” and Kiden shoots back at her “Which you ate.” Bobby tells her that they can’t go on like this and suggests they leave the city. Kiden asks if he’s talking about Vegas again. Bobby argues that it’s big there and there will be jobs for them. Kiden teases that he’ll make a great showgirl with his legs. The others tell her to be serious and Bobby makes it clear that he wants a better life for his brother and that they all deserve that. Kiden argues that New York is their home. Bobby argues that his brother and their little group are his home and they all need more than to just survive from day to day.
At that moment, they all notice a trail of psionic images streaming from L’il Bro to a nearby rooftop. Bobby states that “Someone’s here” and before he can say the words, Kiden has frozen time and stalks off to investigate. She grumbles under her breath about Vegas. She expects to find an evil overlord or peeping tom and is surprised when she finds X-23 huddled on the adjacent rooftop surrounded by L’il Bro’s psychic projections. Kiden unfreezes time and calls out to Laura before rushing to give her a hug. At first, Laura doesn’t respond and Kiden asks if she remembers her. Laura falls against Kiden’s chest and says weakly “I remember.”
X-23 joins the others around the fire. She remembers what it felt like when she was one of them. She felt safe with them for the first time in her life. They expected nothing in return. Kiden is thrilled to have Laura with them again but Bobby is clearly not as keen on her return. He points out that they haven’t seen her in over a year and that she left without saying good-bye. Tatiana adds that they looked all over for her. Kiden says that they were worried about her. X-23 is in a daze. She simply repeats what they are saying and it’s unclear if she is at all moved by their expression of concern. Kiden watches as X-23 slices into her arms. She says to her “Because you’re our friend” and reaches out to her. X-23 can’t help but feel how effortlessly Kiden offers both friendship and understanding.
In the Mindscape:Gamesmaster comments on how alone X-23 is, even when she’s with them. He understands her loneliness because he is always alone, even though he can hear the thoughts of everyone. He longs for quiet. He looks upon X-23, his “wicked, lovely girl” and is in awe of how quiet she is inside. He wonders what comfort she will offer him.
In New York:Laura awakes on the rooftop. Kiden asks her tentatively if she is back on the streets. X-23 replies that she no longer has sex for money. Bobby’s questioning is sterner. He wants to know how she’s been living and where she’s been, as well as why she came back. X-23 replies “You do not trust me” and Bobby simply states “It’s been a while.” Tatiana adds that a lot has happened, bad things. X-23 asks for an explanation but they simply tell her that they’re alive and she agrees that this is all that matters. Tatiana tells Laura that she looks sick and she cannot help but agree that something is very wrong.
Gamesmaster draws her back into his mind and welcomes her home. She confronts him and tells him that this is not real. He tells her that dreams are real enough and that they keep a man’s soul alive. He compliments her on having such a “clean mind”, free of pretense. She tells him to stop talking and he commands her to “Make me.” She asks what he wants and he counters by asking if she wants to know who he is. She tells him that he’s the same as the rest, a user and manipulator. He replies “Not me. Not yet.” She relents and asks his name and he reveals that he is called the Gamesmaster. She asks him what he calls himself and he reveals that he has forgotten it somewhere. He expects that she understands how easy it can be to misplace pieces of yourself. He explains that he can hear every thought on the planet but that it helps to focus on just one. He implores Laura to be the one he focuses on exclusively. He notes that he’s already been following her life and offers her a “whole world” if she consents. She tells him “No” and he urges her to do so again because he knows that no matter how much and to whom she says it, she will never truly “own” herself. He tells her there will always be someone there trying to control her and she’ll let them because that’s all she knows. “Born a slave, always a slave” he tells her, and that even after a taste of freedom she will put the chains of servitude back on every time. He tells her that she has always exchanged one “cage” for another – her creators, her pimp, the X-Men and now, him.
She asks why he is telling her this and he replies that he is in a cage as well. She suggests he just end it then but he claims to believe in life, despite how it pains him unlike her. Laura challenges this statement and insists that she believes in life too. She tells him that she now fights so that others may live. He asks if she truly feels this or if she was just programmed to believe this to be true. He asks her bluntly if she even knows what’s real. He offers to give her anything she desires. But she refuses, saying all she wants is to be free. He refuses and cages her, telling her that of all those he has psionically chosen over the years, her mind and her pain are unique. He tells her that he will be watching and will not let her go. She asks what the price will be for this “freedom” and he tells her “Not yet.” But assures her that until then she will never truly be alone since he will be watching.
Back on the rooftop, Kiden tries to pull Laura out of the blank stare she’s slipped into. She practically begs Laura “Please, please don’t be sick.” Laura rises and pulls away from Kiden, warning her to stay away. Kiden calls to her to wait but Bobby tells her to let her go. Kiden refuses to and Tatiana adds that Laura “needs help.” They call after X-23 as she leaps from the rooftop and flees. As she leaves her friends behind, she thinks that everything in her life always falls apart. She sees the city around her and at first, looks at it as a cage. But then she changes her perspective. She is determined not to be a prisoner or treat herself as an enemy. “Nothing can hold me.” she declares to herself. She lands on another rooftop and vomits. She decides that she is strong enough to make her own choices, even if they end up breaking her heart. She is willing to endure that pain in order to be free. Kiden has chased after her and calls out “No!” as she dives from the roof. She lands hard on the pavement before, her body shattered. Seconds later, Kiden is beside her apologizing that she couldn’t stop time quickly enough to cushion her fall. Laura speaks weakly, thanking her for trying. She starts to get up and Kiden urges her not to. Laura assures her that she will be fine. Kiden looks her in the eyes and says “I know.”
The others catch up to Kiden and Laura and ask what happened. Kiden tries to convince the others that Laura just ran until she got tired but Bobby Soul is quick to point out that she’s bleeding too. Kiden ignores this and tells Laura that she doesn’t need to run anymore and that’s coming with them and they’ll take care of her.
Laura says “I know” At that moment, Logan arrives and simply says Laura’s name. Kiden assumes he is X-23’s new pimp and tells him he can’t have her back and that they’ll fight for her if they have to. Laura explains that he’s just a friend and that she needs to go with him. Kiden tries to convince her to stay and X-23 thanks her for being her friend. Kiden tells her “You ever need to run again… run to us.”
As the gang leaves, Logan says that he thinks he likes Kiden and tells Laura she should have mentioned that she had friends in the city. Laura seems surprised that Logan found her. He tells her he was worried and asks if she feels better. She asks Logan if he saw what happened and he says he did. He tells her that pain isn’t the way to deal with her feelings. She tells him it helps. He asks what he’s gotten her into and takes her hand. They walk hand in hand as they leave the streets of New York.
Laura remembers the book her mother read to her. Pinocchio- the story of a wooden puppet who strived to become a real boy. Laura acknowledges that she is not “real” yet. She realizes that Wolverine didn’t make her this way but that she does have the power to change, learn, and get what she wants out of life. She challenges the Gamesmaster: “Watch me.”


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X-23: Target X – Part One
X-23: Age Fifteen.
She sits in an interrogation room wearing an X-Men jacket. She has a bag over her head and her mouth is taped shut. A light comes on and the bag and tape are removed. A man asks twice “Are you X-23?”
X-23: Age Eleven.
X-23 is put through a Weapon X training sequence. A hologram of the original Weapon X appears. X-23 shadows its movements perfectly as a pair of cyborg wolves attacks her. In a control booth above, Dr. Zander Rice, Dr. Martin Sutter and Dr. Sarah Kinney observe her progress. She is initially within .09n percent synchronicity with Weapon X.  Zander goads Dr. Kinney saying that as a clone she should match his moves perfectly. Sarah tells him to shut up and Dr. Sutter says that X-23’s performances will determine whether their efforts to create her have been a waste of time or not. Sarah tries to tell him that she’s only a little girl and Zander reminds her once more that they’re here to build weapons not Girl Scouts. Sarah tells him to go to hell.
 Behind the trio of scientists, X-23’s handler, Kimura watches the training as well. X-23 is momentarily overcome by the wolves and falls out of sync with the Weapon X hologram. Dr. Rice barks at her to resume her position but before she can do so he unleashes the next attacker: a cyberneticly enhanced grizzly bear. The bear tosses her away like a rag doll and Dr. Kinney begs him to stop the program. He notes that getting tossed like that has to be considered out of sync with program parameters.
 X-23 tries to return to the hologram and is again swatted away by the bear.  Dr. Kinney begs her superior, Dr. Sutter to stop the sequence before x-23 is killed. Sutter coldly replies that if she fails here, she’s no good to him anyway and orders Zander to increase the bear’s adrenaline levels.  The bear advances on X-23. She kicks up from where she lies on the ground, driving her foot claw into the bears mouth and up into its brain.
Sutter is impressed by X-23’s ability to improvise and upon comparing her fight time with that of the original Weapon X finds that she defeated the bear in significantly less time than it took her predecessor. Sutter is pleased but Dr. Rice notes that she was outside mission parameters. Sutter tells him that doesn’t matter and to prepare the girl for a field test. He assigns her to the Candidate Johnson assassination. Kimura watches X-23 closely as she approaches the Weapon X hologram.
X-23: Age Fifteen.
The question is repeated: “Are you X-23?” to which the girl bound to the metal chair replies “No.” One of her interrogators confirms that she is telling the truth and the other insists that that’s not possible. He holds out a locket and asks who the woman in the photo inside is. X-23 replies that it is Doctor Sarah Kinney, her mother.
X-23: Age Thirteen.
Dr. Sarah Kinney lies in a pool of blood on the snowy grounds of the Facility. X-23 begs her not to leave her and to wake up. She asks her “What is my mission?” X-23 remains by her “mother’s” side for a long time despite the bitter cold. The sound of approaching helicopters forces her to her feet. She gathers the scattered notes and journals that lie strewn about Dr. Kinney’s body. She begins to walk away and then returns to Sarah’s lifeless body to wipe the tears from her empty eyes.
  The circling copters easily tracks X-23 and send a small squad of troops to intercept her on the ground. She easily takes out three of them mere moments after they hit the ground.  Using one of their assault rifles, she takes out one of the helicopter pilots. The copter explodes magnificently in the forest near her.
 As she continues her flight from the Facility, she is suddenly hit by a series of crossbow bolts. She immediately recognizes the source: Kimura. X-23’s handler steps boldly towards her and asks if she really thought they were going to let her get away. She says that she’s going to take X-23 back in. X-23 lunges for Kimura’s gun and Kimura reminds the young clone that there’s no way that X-23 can hurt her. X-23 replies coolly “I know” and shoots the gun into a nearby snow bank. This creates a miniature avalanche that buries them both. X-23 is the first to emerge and makes good her escape.
X-23: Age Fifteen.
The interrogation continues as they ask the name of the young girl in the other side of the locket. It is Megan, Sarah Kinney’s niece.
X-23: Age Fourteen.
In San Francisco, Megan awakes from a nightmare about a deranged madman who kidnapped her when she was a child. She cries out and asks for it to stop. Surrounding her bed are drawings of the man in her dreams and another figure: a dark-haired woman with claws extending from her hand.
 As Megan makes her way downstairs, she overhears her mother Debbie and her mother’s boyfriend, Desmond arguing. Desmond insists that he won’t pay for another “shrink” and what Megan needs is discipline. Debbie begins to tell him what Megan needs and Megan interrupts and asks what that might be. Debbie asks her daughter if she’d like some breakfast and Megan slams the door behind her.
 From across the street, X-23 watches as her “cousin” heads off to school. For the next several weeks, X-23 watches Megan, Debbie and Desmond from afar. She observes Megan’s lonely isolation and Debbie’s motherly desperation. After three weeks of watching, X-23 rings the doorbell wearing a t-shirt and looking like a normal teenaged girl. Debbie answers the door and immediately recognizes the young woman.
X-23: Age Fifteen.
X-23 sits silently in the interrogation room. One of the men in the room insists that this isn’t going to work and the other that it has to. They ask the question “What is X-23?”
X-23: Age Fourteen.
Desmond is furious as Debbie tries to explain to him what has happened. Debbie tries to apologize and explain that the situation is complicated. Megan arrives and asks what’s going on. Debbie struggles for words and finally just tells Megan that they have a guest, her cousin. Megan is surprised by this news. She finds X-23 in her room looking at the drawings that adorn her wall. Megan gets angry and tells her to get out. X-23 asks Megan why she draws the man who took her. Megan tells X-23 that he’s not real, except in her nightmares. X-23 replies that he is real and that she killed him. Megan begins to cry.
X-23: Age Fifteen.
Again the men in shadows ask the question, “Who is X-23?” One of the men asks if he can ask the question and the other replies, “Go ahead.” The man, Matt Murdock asks “Who was X-23?” to which X-23 replies, “He knows what I was…” Captain America looks down on the young girl and says flatly “She was a weapon.”