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Innocence Lost – Part Four
Doctor Sarah Kinney sits at her desk looking at a picture of her niece, Megan. She then opens the file on X-23. She is crying as she recounts Dr. Rice’s report that X-23 died on the last mission she was sent on. She notes that she didn’t believe him just as sirens sound throughout the research facility.She races to an observation deck where Dr. Martin and Dr. Rice are watching as a security team scrambles to deal with the intruder. On the floor below, the main hatch door opens and a somewhat wounded X-23 enters. Sarah is joyously surprised and Zander continues his claim that he saw her die at the hands of AIM agents. Dr. Sutter orders Sarah to handle the debriefing of X-23.X-23 refuses to talk about what happened to Sarah.(flashback)X-23 was gunned down by AIM, who believed her to be dead. She survived and killed her attackers in a berserker rage.(present)Sarah looks at the deep X-shaped scars on X-23’s forearm and asks who did that to her. X-23 remains silent.Later in her room, Sarah is crying once more when she receives a message that her sister has called several times in the last hour trying to reach her. Sarah agrees to speak with her sister who is frantic. She learns that her niece, Megan has been kidnapped.Sarah and her friend and colleague Kevin go to round up X-23 to help. Sarah always thought she was above Dr. Sutter and Zander Rice who turned her into a killer. But now that she was desperate and in need of help, she willingly chose to use X-23 as a weapon, too.Rachel approaches her husband, Martin and asks if he loves her. He seems exasperated by her question but replies that he does. She starts to tell him the truth about their son, Henry when Zander comes in to inform Martin that they have a situation. Rachel begs Martin to stay but he puts her off once more. As he and Zander leave his office, Zander gives Rachel a harsh look. Zander reveals to Martin that Sarah has taken off with X-23.In San Francisco, Sarah arrives at the home of her sister, Debbie. She assures Debbie that she’ll help find Megan and tells her that she has a detective friend in San Francisco who is working on it. X-23 uses her claws to scale the wall of Debbie’s building and enter Megan’s room. Using her keen sense of smell, she is able to identify the scents of those who had entered Megan’s room. She catches the scent of the kidnapper with ease and tracks him, as Kevin and Sarah monitor her progress.She reaches an older apartment building and tracks down the room in which Megan is being held. She disguises herself as a Girl Scout selling cookies before ringing the doorbell. The kidnapper sees her and opens the door. He asks where her parents are and she says they’re at home with wide-eyed innocence. He invites her in while he grabs his wallet. Instead, he grabs a knife X-23 opens the box of cookies and offers him one. He looks inside and the box is empty except for a picture of Megan. He is shocked at what he sees and threatens to kill X-23.Outside, Sarah and Kevin are waiting for a signal from X-23. It comes in the form of the kidnapper crashing through his apartment window and slamming into a car on the street below. Sarah and Kevin pull up in a van just as X-23 emerges with a somewhat shaken Megan. Sarah rushes over to her niece who wonders who she is. Sarah tells her that she’s her aunt and assures her that she’s safe. Kevin gives her a shot that sedates her and Sarah mentions that when she wakes up, she’ll forget it ever happened like a bad dream.Sarah returns with X-23 to face an enraged Zander. They argue over Sarah’s unauthorized “field trip” and Zander’s choice to leave X-23 to die. Martin intercedes and Zander takes X-23 back to her room. Martin is clearly angry with Sarah’s little escapade and asks if she has anything to say for herself. She asks if it would matter and Sutter replies that it probably would not. He tells Sarah they will discuss her future there in the morning. As she leaves, a news reports on the apparent suicide of a man in San Francisco linked to the kidnapping and murder of seven young girls in the Bay Area.Zander drives Martin home that evening. Martin wonders what has Rachel so upset and why she refuses to discuss it with him over the phone. Zander expresses his concern for Martin’s well-being and gives him a document to sign. This document hands over all of Martin’s duties as director of the program to Zander. Zander states that he’s already lost one father to the program and doesn’t want to lose another. Martin signs it and Zander thanks him with a hug.A few yards from Martin’s house, Zander pulls over and pops the trunk. X-23 is inside. He hands her pictures of Martin, his wife Rachel and their son, Henry. Zander gives X-23 twenty-two minutes to kill them all and asks that she make it look like an accident.


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Innocence Lost – Part Five
Doctor Martin Sutter is arguing with his wife, Rachel who has just revealed to him that she had an affair with his protégé, Zander Rice, and that their son, Henry, is really Zander’s. Martin slaps Rachel and tells her to shut up. Rachel tries to explain that Zander threatened to kill if if she ever told him the truth. As she is making her case to her husband, Rachel stops abruptly. She screams as X-23 emerges from the shadows with a billy club. She beats Dr. Sutter to death with it and then turns on Rachel who pleads for her life saying that she has a son.In her journal entries Dr. Sarah Kinney talks about how the choices one makes in their life define who they are. She has chosen to stay with the program despite the ways in which they have stripped X-23 of her childhood and her humanity. She takes responsibility for all that has happened to X-23 and all that she has been trained and forced to do in her young life.
X-23 finishes off Rachel and makes her way upstairs, where she finds Henry hiding in a closet clutching a Spider-Man action figure. She places the billy club under his chin and pops a claw. She looks down at his tear-filled eyes. The head of the Spider-Man figure is cut off and lies on the ground as a testament to her choice.
X-23 stalks past the dead bodies of Martin and Rachel Sutter as flames consume their home. She looks down at the picture that Zander gave her of her targets. It is a sweet family picture with Rachel hugging a smiling Henry.She returns to the facility where Zander awaits her. He leads her to the shower room and uses a fire hose to wash her off. He then tosses her bodysuit into an incinerator. He grabs her fiercely by the wrist, calls her a beast and reminds her that she is to say nothing about this assignment to anyone. She silently agrees but pops a single claw as he leaves.
Unable to sleep, Dr. Sarah Kinney goes to check on X-23. She watches in stunned silence as X-23 cuts into her wrists.
In her journal, Sarah notes that she always assumed that Rice was the one cutting X-23. Seeing her hurt herself this way only reinforces to Sarah the damage she has done.
She goes in and confronts X-23 with this and asks her to try and explain why she is doing this to herself. As she tries to reach X-23, Kevin shows up with the news about the fire at the Sutter home and Rachel and Martin’s deaths. Sarah asks about Henry and Kevin says that they found him in shock but physically all right in the woods behind the house. He goes to find out more and as Sarah goes to follow, X-23 stops her. She opens her mouth and there is a crumpled piece of paper inside. Sarah reaches for it and smoothes it out. It is the photo of the Dr. Sutter and his family that Zander gave to X-23. Sarah immediately realizes that Zander is the one responsible for the Sutters’ deaths. She tells X-23 that Rice used her…that they both have and they are both monsters for doing so. She tells X-23 that she’s going to get her out of there. X-23 asks if it’s a mission. Sarah nods and says, “Yes. A mission.”
Sarah goes to offer her condolences to Zander. He is leaning back in Sutter’s chair smiling. He takes Sarah for a walk. He tells Sarah that it’s no secret that he opposed her inclusion in the project and her “motherly” role with X-23. He assures her that now that the project is his, he won’t make that mistake with “phase two”. He reveals to her a room with dozens of embryos that are gestating in artificial wombs. Sarah is shocked and says that he can’t do this. He tells her that this is business, not science; a distinction she never understood. He confesses that there were times he wanted to kill her but that they’re really a lot alike and that he’s not a bad guy. He runs his fingers through her hair. She brushes his hand aside and tells him off. He tells her she’s out and that she needs to be gone that night. He assures her that X-24 through X-50 won’t be needing her. He tells her if she’s still here in the morning he’ll have her shot.
Zander issues a public announcement to everyone involved in the program mourning the deaths of the Sutters and proclaiming that it was Martin Sutter’s last wish that he take over. He vows to continue Sutter’s work and vision.
Sarah completes her journal entries. She tells X-23 that she couldn’t stop what Rice made her do but that she showed that there’s still hope by sparing Henry and revealing Rice’s plans to her. She writes that despite all their efforts to forge her into a weapon, she was still a child. Kevin arrives and tells Sarah it’s time to go. She says she’s almost finished.
Zander washes his hands and smiles maniacally into the mirror.
The guards outside of X-23’s room are discusses the deaths of the Sutters and the rumors swirling about that it was not an accident but murder. They have also heard rumors of an imminent attack by AIM. The guards are suddenly shot dead. As they fall, Kevin and Sarah make their way to X-23’s cell. Sarah slides an envelope under the door.
X-23 opens the packet. Inside are a timer watch like she wears on all her missions, a blueprint of the embryo chamber that Zander showed Sarah earlier and a photo of Zander himself. The journal entries tell X-23 to always remember that she is not to blame for what she has done. Sarah takes full responsibility for the blood that X-23 has spilled and asks her to understand why she is asking her to kill one last time. The difference being that this time, killing will be in the name of justice and the completion of this mission will give her back the life that was stolen from her.


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Innocence Lost – Part Six
Dr. Sarah Kinney and her friend and colleague, Kevin are leaving the Weapon X re-creation facility with a team of soldiers hot on their heels. The guards shoot at the two and Kevin stops to return fire and is shot several times. Sarah stops and turns to help and he urges her to go on without him, for X-23’s sake.
She does so and makes her way to the central security monitoring room. She shoots the guard there and disables the security cameras, in the hopes that it will give X-23 the chance to complete her final “mission” and escape with her life. Sarah says a prayer to God hoping that X-23 doesn’t die.
In her narrative, Sarah notes how her father robbed of her childhood and her innocence. She realizes that she has done the same to X-23. However, she notes that when X-23 spared the life of young Henry Sutton, it proved to her that people can change and rise above what they were forced to be and become something better.
Xander Rice emerges from the shower. He is on his cell phone speaking with a representative of Wilson Fisk about the production of additional assassins for hire from the genetic material used to create X-23. They are discussing costs when a security guard interrupts on a viewscreen to inform Rice that X-23 has escaped.
In the embryo gestation chamber, a scientist is taking readings and measurements of the developing embryos. He sees X-23 in the reflection of one of the glass globes that hold the embryos just before she kills him. Before leaving, she sets an explosive charge in the chamber. As she turns to leave, a contingent of armed guards arrive to confront her. She turns around with a grim look on her face as she pops her claws. Bullets fly as X-23 wades through the entire squad with ease.
Xander checks in on one of his science team members named Morris to see if he has seen X-23. He finds Morris dead in his room. Xander orders an understandably nervous guard to continue his search for X-23 and to check the embryo chamber first. When he arrives, he finds X-23 perched atop a pile of dead security agents.
Outside, Sarah has taken out the guard at the gate and waits anxiously for X-23. In her narrative, she mentions that once they are together they will leave this place and have the chance to start again as a real family.
Inside, X-23 enters Xander’s room. He is lying in wait and she senses him a split-second before he opens fire on her from behind. She goes down and he once again calls her a “stupid beast” and taunts her by wondering aloud if they didn’t teach her better than that. She replies that they did as she pops her foot claw and uses it to slice his weapon in half, along with the finger that was resting on the trigger. She rises and stalks over to Xander who threatens to kill her. She sheathes her claws and begins to punch him with her bare hands.
As she beats on Xander, she recalls the abuse he has heaped upon her over the years. She recalls the sneering and name-calling, the torturous surgery she endured at his hands and the mission during which Xander left her to die at the hands of AIM. Once Xander is helpless and beaten, she turns to leave. He laughs at her and says that she can’t kill him. She calls him an “animal” and leaves him there in a bloody heap.As X-23 emerges from the building, the explosives she set go off behind her. She sees a thankful Sarah in the distance and walks towards her. As she does so, she catches a scent on the cold winter air. The trigger.
X-23’s eyes turn red as she enters the conditioned berserker rage and loses control. Sarah sees the change and wonders what’s happening. As X-23 leaps at her with her claws, Sarah flashes on her last interaction with Xander.
He touched her hair and told her to go see X-23 one last time. He set her up to die at X-23’s hands.
Sarah hits the snow and as she lay there dying, X-23 comes to her senses and sees what she has done. With her dying breath, Sarah tells X-23 that her name is “Laura” and that she loves her. X-23 takes Sarah’s hand as tears run down her cheeks. She lays down in Sarah’s lap as she did so many times and says again and again, “Please don’t leave me.”
As she lies there, the pages of Sarah’s journal are blown about. In the final sentences, Sarah once again tells X-23 that she is a child and not a weapon. She makes it clear that she thinks of her as a daughter and loves her as such. Along with the scattered pages are a passport, pages from the Pinocchio story that Sarah always read to X-23 and pictures of Wolverine and Charles Xavier.
As the facility burns, an unknown party requests a final report on the facility. It is nothing but a scorched crater. All personnel were killed and all the embryos destroyed. X-23 is identified as the sole survivor. The project isn’t a complete loss though, as someone has recovered a sample of the trigger scent used to control X-23. The unseen voice wonders where she is and is assured that she will be found.
X-23 exits a bus and steps out onto the streets of New York City. It is two years after the destruction of the facility where she was created. She is wearing a pair of fishnets, a choker and a black leather jacket with an X symbol on the sleeve.


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The Killing Dream – part 1
A barren landscape, in which the sides are strewn with corpses, many of which are hanging from dead trees. X-23 runs down a road chased by wolves. It’s a dream she sometimes has, running from wolves, running from rivers of blood, running from fire and the promise of death.
She falls and gets up again, desperately fleeing. In front of her is a torn hedge which suddenly opens. She looks into a throne room. On the throne sits a familiar shape, looking very much like Wolverine. He addresses Laura as his love. She’s heard his summons.
A black shape calls out to her from a cage, warning her not to listen. Suddenly, his voice is muffled as he is gagged.
Wolverine – red-eyed – promises he has so much planned for her. Freedom like she has never known. No more cages, he whispers into her ear. No more doubt. Just say yes! Say yes and she will be leader of his hunt. Queen of his hounds! He holds her face with burning hands. My right hand in hell…
Crying no, Laura awakes. She has fallen asleep outside on Utopia. Sometimes she dreams that everything falls apart, except it’s not a dream….
She hears party noises coming from close by and watches the young X-Men and students gathered around a campfire. Someone is playing the guitar. Rockslide tells him Elvis is dead and to stop, only to be mocked by the player and Surge.
A blonde girl about the pizza Pixie has brought. This is her first slice in a year, she tells a clearly not interested Hellion. She’s on a strict diet, ever since she saw Psylocke in that thing she calls a uniform. She had cellulite right up there beneath her derriere and she told herself, no way is she going to go that far. So tonight pizza, tomorrow tofu broth.
She urges Hellion to try some pizza. He’s not hungry, he retorts. Husk offers to help. She could feed him. Who the hell does she think she is? Julian asks angrily. He isn’t helpless! He’s not a cripple! So take her pity and shove it! He levitates a slice of pizza from the box and eats. Well, excuse her, the girl replies in a huff.
Laura quietly watches, then leaves. With no one watching, Hellion no longer eats, the pizza just hovering in front of him.
Elsewhere in the garden, Laura finds Storm sitting next to a chessboard and looking at a snapshot. She seems to be talking to herself when she says the night is too beautiful to be sad. If he were here he would say so and he would cheat. He would distract her with his tailstands and his somersaults and his smile. He would smile. At least now he is no longer homesick for God, she tells Nightcrawler and asks him to be her angel and stay close.
She suddenly notices Laura is there and asks her to join her. It is far too lovely an evening to be alone and she would love the company. She was talking to herself, Laura observes. She was begging for an apparition. Searching for ghosts in the night. Sometimes one wishes to be haunted by the dead. She does not, Laura replies and sits down opposite of the chessboard. She might feel different about Kurt, Ororo replies. A good man, so very kind. So very dear to her. She loved him, Laura observes. He was impossible not to love, Storm agrees.
She apologizes. Laura must have better things to do than listen to her. The children are having a party. She passed them earlier and can still hear their music. Laura should join them. No, is the flat-out reply. She never got along with children he own age either, Ororo muses. She doubts that, Laura states.
Storm explains she was an orphan, a thief. She did awful things in order to survive. And because of that she’s always been an outsider to other children. They couldn’t relate to each other. She never had a childhood. She always had to think like an adult to survive among adults while other children were still playing with dolls or sleeping in soft beds. Those other children were never pushed into situations of life or death as she was. No one understands that, they do. That survival is sweet and nothing is lost as swiftly as humanity.
But Storm isn’t like that anymore, Laura remarks. She was pushed to a line she could not cross and so chose another life, a better life. But that little girl is still in her. She wagers she always will be with her; it is why she fights to keep others from suffering as she did. Life is precious. She and Kurt used to discuss such things: he was an orphan too. There were only handful of them who understood what that means. They played chess together.
She offers to teach Laura. She knows how to play the girl replies and starts off with the white king’s knight. Of course, Storm agrees and makes an opposing move. She expects Laura is quite good. Yes, she never loses, Laura states simply, then breaks off when Wolverine joins them. He greets both and puts his hand on Laura’s shoulder. She shakes it off and walks way.
Storm asks Logan what happened. He replies that she‘s been acting strange lately. Jumpy. Something is eating her up. No wonder with what she’s been through, Ororo replies and reminds him he is the closest person that child has to a father, the one person she needs to be able to trust, and yet he let her join X-Force. A child forced to murder! No one forced her, he points out. Storm tells him not put the burden on this on X-23! All it would have taken was one word from him!
Still hearing all this, X-23 runs away while the two X-Men continue their argument. Short of locking her up, nothing could have stopped Laura, he claims. She doesn’t know how else to live, except to kill! She was trained from birth to believe her only purpose in life is to be a murderer. He suggests she think about that hard because Laura sure as hell does all the time. And no matter how far she runs or tries to change it, that thought never leaves her. Perhaps that is because they have never given her a fighting chance! Storm suggests.
Elsewhere, in hers and Cyclops’ bedroom, Emma Frost has come to the same conclusion. They treated X-23 exactly as her handlers would have. Like a weapon. A thing to be used. She’s always been used. Despite all of Emma’s misgivings, she proved herself. She made so much progress. She had friends her age. She was just beginning to learn what it means to be a young person. A child. They took all of that away.
Did they? Cyclops asks from the bed. No matter what they do, he’s not certain she will ever be able to reclaim her childhood. That doesn’t mean they can forget she is a child, Emma stresses. She already learned this lesson the hard way. She put her students in danger. Pushed them too hard, forgot they were children. And she lost them. Their blood will always be on her hands. She has hoped he would never understand what that feel like. He had to do what it took to keep them alive, he insists. He would do it again. For Laura’s sake and his, she hopes he doesn’t have to, Emma replies.
Laura has fallen asleep somewhere on the grounds of Utopia. Wolverine watches her.
Early the next day, several of the X-Men students meet, most of them save for Dust severely hung over after last night’s party. Rockslide addresses Hellion. Guess what he heard about his crazy girlfriend? Don’t call her that! Hellion orders. His girlfriend or crazy? Surge asks. That she doesn’t sleep in her room anymore, Rockslide continues. She’s always outside instead. Hellion orders him to stop.
Speaking of the devil, Surge remarks as she sees Laura who greets them. So now she comes to say ‘hello,’ Surge asks aggressively, ignoring Hellion’s order to shut it. She’s the one that was on the super secret killing squad and didn’t say one word to them, her so-called friends. Anole too asks Nori to stop.
Hellion greets Laura. Hasn’t seen her much around lately. Not the same when she’s not there getting him in trouble, he jokes. Or like kicking his ass. He sees a leaf in her hair and automatically reaches to get it off, then recalls that his hands are gone. He stammers, then admits maybe now isn’t the time to--
She has missed him, Laura suddenly says. She’s never said that to him before, he replies surprised. She’s not good with words, she reminds him, or anything else.
Precious, Surge comments sarcastically. He’s gonna barf! Rockslide adds. She thinks they’re beautiful, Dust comments and scolds her two teammates for being so cruel to Laura, especially after all she’s done for them. If she can’t take a little ribbing, then maybe she should have let them in on what was going on. What’s in the past doesn’t matter, Sooraya replies. Surge disagrees. X-23 came here to learn how not to kill people. Rockslide agrees. No offense, he tells Laura, but he feels like she’s more freaky now than when she got here. Oh right, that’s not offensive, Anole sighs.
She should go, Laura decides. Great idea, Nori agrees mercilessly. Hellion calls her on her attitude. What’s her problem? Her problem, Sooraya interjects, is that she’s jealous and a… the b-word. Whoa, potty mouth! Santo mocks. She’s not jealous! Surge defends herself She’s being responsible. So Laura’s back and they are all supposed to be fine with it? She’s the one avoiding them! She’s scared, Anole points out. Laura is? Nori scoffs. She is!
Surge, Laura begins. But Nori cuts her off. There’s nothing she has to say that Nori wants to hear! So what if Cyclops asked her to join X-Force? She could have said no! She could have come to her friends and they would have backed her up! She clenches her fist, energy building. What else did she lie about? Were they even really friends? Did she want to be anything but a killer?
What does she want? Laura asks. It’s not what she wants, Nori replies. Who does Laura want to be and is she going to take responsibility for that choice, because that’s what the rest of them have to do.
Enough! Cyclops announces strictly. He doesn’t like what he’s seeing here at all. He needs to speak with Laura now. Hellion jumps up to defend her and is told to shut up. Then Scott addresses Surge. He’ll want a word with her in a minute about her attitude. Which sucks, by the way.
He steps away with Laura from the others, asking if she is okay. She did not need his help, Laura announces. He knows, Scott agrees, but sometimes they all need someone to take up for them. Why is he here? Laura asks simply. This is his fault, he admits. He put her into a situation that was beyond her years… he’s sorry. And he wants her to know that it won’t happen again. This is her chance to be a… kid. To act like a kid. She isn’t a kid, she points out. She does not want to act like one just to make him feel better. She is something else. He knows, Scott agrees. He has something for her to do.
Sometime later, Laura gets out of a taxi. A man tells her that Mr. Summers set up halfway houses for former mutants and their families all over the city. He had to stay here himself for a time. Some people have trouble adjusting to life without powers. Was he an X-Man? Laura asks. No, a construction worker, he replies, a telekinetic.  Now he just uses his hands to get the same work done.
He leads her inside and asks why she is here. Laura explains Mr. Summers wants her to learn about different ways of helping people. He thinks it will be good for her. She doesn’t know yet.
The man tells her these are good people who deserve her respect. Some of them will be resentful that she still has her powers while they don’t. If she’s not serious about being here or if she plans on flaunting the fact that she is a mutant then he thinks it would be best if she leaves now.
His voice drones out. Laura shuts her eyes and opens them again. Finding herself in what appears to be her nightmare. Surrounded by fire and corpses but very much awake in the halfway house.


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The Killing Dream – part 2
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X-23 recalls how she and Wolverine shared some quality time shooting things; in a harmless setting, though, at a shooting stand at a fair. Laura focuses and wins the prize, a teddy bear, not quite what he expected. What next? he asks her. She heard that roller coasters make people scream and vomit. She wants to try it. So they do.
In the cabin, he begins that the way he sees it they are family. They share practically the same DNA. She’s his clone, she agrees. Not just that, he points out. He’d like to adopt her as his daughter. He won’t be a good father, but he’ll be hers. Her family. He already is, she agrees. Good, he tells her, before the ride begins in earnest.
Now:
The mutant halfway safehouse. All around Laura, everything is burning, everyone is dead and she has no idea how it happened. She tries to find her way out and sees someone unconscious but still alive.
Suddenly, a demon rises in front of her. Sweet Laura, he mocks. Mortal mirror of his heart. Is she dreaming again? she wonders. It’s all a dream, he mocks, from birth to death dreams are no more that a metamorphosis from life to eternity and she is about to be born.
She orders him to get out of her way to let her get to the unconscious man behind him. He’s worthless, the demon tells her. She knows that deep down, when she looks at him, she feels nothing. No mercy. No compassion. If she saves him, it will be as a dog saves a human. Because it’s trained to do so. But that’s not who she is, he says suddenly as she runs at him, claws drawn. She stops confused. She is a pure heart. Pure in death. The perfect killer! Energy from him enters her and the creature is gone, leaving her alone on her knees and exhausted.
She carries the surviving man outside, where he wakes up. When he recognizes her, he is startled and screams at her to get away from him. She killed them all! he shouts. Someone takes her by the shoulder, telling her to let him go. He’s talking crazy.
She’s still stammering “no” while the stranger uses his jacket to put out the fire on her. He apologizes for not getting there sooner. She turns around to see him. He’s a friend, he assures her, then is gone.
A fireman asks Laura if she was in the fire and tries to take care of her. A colleague asks for her name and who they can call. The first fireman tells him she is in shock. And that’s a homeless shelter burning. She might not have anyone. From some distance away Gambit watches.
Later, Laura is back in the infirmary on Utopia. Storm sits down next to her and explains that a gas leak in the basement caused the explosion. One of the volunteers smelled the leak but, instead of telling someone, she went to find a friend to ask for a second opinion. While she was doing that… investigators believe someone went down into the basement to smoke a cigarette. But it could have been anything, really. It wasn’t her fault.
He said it was, the girl insists. The man she saved. He was afraid of her. Storm tries to reach for her hand, assuring her he wasn’t himself. Laura is a good person, she must believe that. No, the girl states. She knows what she is.
Cyclops joins them and tells them the investigators want to speak with X-23. Storm insists that can wait. He asks how Laura is, then tells Storm they need to talk. Ororo assures her she will return soon; then they will discuss this some more. Just remember what she told her.
Momentarily, X-23 believes to see Cyclops and Storm as demons. Storm hisses that this is her fault and Cyclops calls her a killer. Laura clenches her fists.
Vision returns to normal and a concerned Ororo asks if she will be all right. Yes, X-23 stammers confused. Don’t listen to her, newcomer Wolverine tells them. She’s just being a trooper as usual. He assures his teammates they can go. He’ll take care of her. Isn’t that right? he asks Laura as the other two X-Men leave the room. He walks towards her, asking what happened. He sits down next to her, assuring her she needn’t be afraid. When he takes her wrist she tries to pull away. She’s not going to run this time, he tells her. She need never run from him. They are close, remember? he adds with an uncharacteristic smirk.
She shoves him away and unsheathes her claws. Do not touch her, she orders. He is not Wolverine!
After everything he’s done for her? he asks with mock disappointment. Fighting at her side, being her friend, her family, when no one else wanted her. She’s breaking his heart. Let it break! Laura replies. Who is he? The better question is, who is she? he smirks. Sweet Laura…
She realizes he is connected to the dreams and fires. He regrets her figuring it out so quickly. He wanted to see what it would do to her, being betrayed by the man she trusts most in the world. Maybe she would have felt nothing. She is so used to being used, after all. Or maybe she would have liked it.
Angrily, she orders him to shut up and stabs him. Did he touch a nerve? He smiles. Rage feels sweet, doesn’t it? Rage’s better than the emptiness.
When she tries to withdraw her claws he holds onto her arm. That moment, Hellion comes in and just sees Laura attacking Wolverine. As if on cue “Wolverine” sinks down as if hurt and asks Hellion to stay back. She didn’t mean to hurt him. She’s not herself…
“Liar!” Laura shouts. Hellion captures Laura telekinetically and asks her to keep calm. Laura shouts at him to stay away from Wolverine and asks him to listen. Why won’t he believe her? Julian apologizes but she just isn’t herself right now. She tries to make him see, he isn’t Wolverine and asks Julian to trust her. He’s her friend! Julian promises he’s doing this for her. She’s his best friend.
She shouts ‘no’ as “Wolverine” stabs Hellion from behind. Free, Laura sinks down. He’s dying, the demon informs her. Probably for the best. Never mind the hands. He just doesn’t have what it takes to be… significant. Now, he could bring him back to life. If only there was something she could give him in return…
He wants her to kill for him, Laura states. He wants her to be… his. Like all the rest. She makes it sound so mundane, he mocks. He’s a demon. The devil’s own. But she should be so lucky to get an offer into the afterlife. Even as one of the devil’s army…
What is he talking about? she asks. She’s lost! he replies bluntly. She hardly knows how to function. She keeps to herself. She sleeps in the woods. She cuts herself because it’s the only way she feels anything. She’s a clone. He grabs her by the throat. She’s always suspected what that means. She’s practically soulless! He shoves her to the ground. He knows these things. Souls have a taste. Souls are full of light. But inside her… there’s nothing but darkness.
He’s wrong! she rasps. Prove it, he challenges. For Julian’s life, she insists. A wasted being, he sighs, but if that her wish. He signs her forehead with fiery fingers. “Click your heels, sweet Laura! We’re going home.” Laura falls unconscious.
Outside the room, Storm thanks Gambit. Things haven’t been easy for him recently. That’s why she thought he’d be the perfect person to watch out for Laura. Two persons no one knows quite what to do with or whether to trust? he asks. X-23 caught his eye before she mentioned her to him. Something’s not right with her. She hasn’t been treated right. Neither has he, Ororo points out, but promises that will change. Smile for him, he suggests, that’ll be a start. Incorrigible, she sighs. She knows she loves it, he retorts. Stom just wishes he can make Laura smile. He’s the best thief in the world. If he can’t make her smile, he’ll steal one for her…
They are not aware that, in the room, Laura and Hellion lie bloody and unconscious.
Laura wakes up in a hellish landscape. Listen to my voice, she recalls. You know what to do. She knows what to do. There’s only one thing she knows how to do. Fight back!


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The Killing Dream – part 3
Flashback:
She had a mother once. She thinks about that sometimes. She had a mother and she may have loved her. She told her so, once. In a letter. She made her from her own body, carried her in her womb. Read her books. But she also obeyed the men in white and let them hurt X-23, let them turn her into a killer! She asked her to kill and, in the end, X-23 killed her.
Present:
Maybe that is love. She doesn’t know. Stranded in hell, X-23 begins fighting the demon wolves that attack her. One last is left, speaking to her, addressing her. Look at her! What big eyes. What sharp teeth. The wolf changes  into a naked Scott Summers. How cold, her touch. Did she really think he would let her go? He smirks. The first time he saw her kill, it was beautiful! She was perfect and then she was his.
No! she refuses. “His,” he repeats, stalking towards her. He owned her. He still does. She would do anything for him. He reaches for her, leering. She has become such a lovely young woman.
With a scream of rage, she slugs him. That tickled, he mocks and asks her to do it again. Don’t pretend she doesn’t want to. She was made to please, to obey… Laura runs away as he calls after her to stop resisting the truth. She is a thing. A machine. She has no soul!
What is a soul? Laura wonders as she runs through an apocalyptic landscape full of skeletons and cages. She passes a ruined Pinocchio doll. What does it feel like? What does it matter? She was made. A construct of men in white coats. But she was born, too. That must count for something.
A glowing figure tells he she was a dream. And then she was more than a dream. It matters. She lands before Laura. But even if she were a machine she would still be with Laura. She is her. Her true self. The self that lives in a place deeper than her heart, deeper than her silence. She is the part of Laura the scientists never touched. They are not in true hell. They are in Laura’s mind. The demon is here with her. She can defeat him. She can push him away forever. All she needs to do is remember who she is. Know herself. Know who she could be.
The wolves attack the being and Laura tries to drag them off. Only a small glowing light is left, which tells her not to be afraid. It will never leave her. It asks her to take it up. It’s her light and there are things she must see again.
Flashback:
Younger Laura as a prisoner of the Facility. They force her to witness scenes of violence again and again. The scientists are dissatisfied with the results… her empathy scores are still too high. She resists the conditioning. It will take something extreme to break her. They ask Doctor Kinney what she recommends and warn her not to get soft. The girl is not her daughter but property of the state!
Later, the young girl cuddles up with a puppy. The scientists enter, angry that she hasn’t killed the pet. One of them tells her she’s taken too long. She was supposed to kill it hours ago. The task was so simple even an idiot could have performed it but she hasn’t which means it’s time for a lesson.  He takes the puppy away and tells her because of her failure the dog is going to suffer horribly. And she’s going to watch and listen! Fortunately for her, he believes in second chances. If she cares about this dog, she won’t let anyone else hurt it. She’ll follow orders. She’ll kill the dog now and put it out of its misery. Obediently, X-23 reaches for the dog, which trustingly licks her cheek.
Another time: In a berserk rage, X-23 kills everyone in the facility and finally even her mother.
Present:
“Laura!” a voice calls. Why did it show her this? she demands. She knows what was done to her, what she has done! Why make her live through it again? The voice replies that she needed to be reminded. She needed to see what was done to her. She was not born empty. It took effort to make her that way. It took many hands and minds. It took years! She fought them every step but they outnumbered her and she was so young. She had no choice. But she has a choice now!
What choice? she asks. How does she know what is right? What does she believe? the voice asks. She does not know. Then believe in herself! Choice is her weapon. Belief is her weapon. No one can hurt her, if she remembers that. She has been through the worst and she was not broken. She will never be broken! Never, Laura agrees, looking at the tiny light over her right hand.
Giving up already? Hellverine asks grinning. Poor Laura, she thought she could beat him. How exactly he has no idea. She is nothing but a vessel, her mind still the same wasteland, full of death and scorched memories. Nothing has changed. Her defiance has only postponed the inevitable. He tells her to look at all the people she killed – corpses of the X-Men hanging in the vines. All the people she will kill if she doesn’t make the right choice. Of course, maybe she wants those people dead! All those simpering idiots who want to change or pity her. None of them understand her. None of them appreciate her for what she is. Not even him, he points at Hellion’s corpse. Laura almost touches him. Does she still want to save him? “Then choose me. Choose what I can offer you. Power. Destiny.”
Laura turns around and asks where Logan is. Busy fighting his own demons, comes the reply, but never mind him. It’s time for her to worry about herself. And him? she asks, looking at the figure in the cage. He thinks she knows who that is, Hellverine tells her. Her stowaway Gamemaster. The poor deluded man whom he found trying to break into her mind. A different kind of pedophile. He caught him for her. He’ll let her kill him… If she’s ready to join him. She knows it’s what she wants, he urges. Death is her drug. It’s the only time she feels normal.
There was a third choice, she replies. They had a deal. Stupid girl, he scoffs. How many times does she need to learn her lesson? She’s lucky he even gave her a choice! Lucky? she asks and touches his chest with her right palm. It was not luck. Then what? he asks And what is that? Me, Laura replies as the light coming from her hand engulfs him, causing him agony.
Reality:
Laura awakes, muttering “I choose me.” Storm holds her and asks what happened and whose blood this is. Laura asks about Julian who is all right but remembers nothing of what happened. Gambit, who helps Julian up, asks “You okay, petite?” He’s okay, Hellion replies. He wasn’t talking to him. Laura stares at her hand, seeing a star-shaped scar. Is she hurt? Storm asks. No, Laura replies.
Later, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Storm and Gambit have gathered to discuss X-23 and what happened. Scott summarizes that there are obvious signs of violence, but Hellion says he can’t remember what happened which Emma confirms. X-23 on the other hand knows something, Emma interjects that she just isn’t talking. Nor will she let Emma into her mind to see what happened. She hardly blames her, Ororo comments wryly. What did Logan say? They can’t find him, it turns out.
Forget Logan, Emma insists impatiently. They need to figure out what to do with X-23. Do with her? Storm repeats. What right do they have to make any decision for Laura? Let the child find her own way. Their job is to be there for her as the X-Men have been there for them when they were finding their way.
Scott disagrees. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about. X-23 needs structure. That’s what she understands. If they are going to break through to her, that’s the language they need to speak. Emma agrees. She would, Ororo retorts.
Ahem, Gambit speaks up for the first time and tells them they are all wrong if they think Laura is gonna stick around long enough to be… helped. The X-Men have become a prison to her She’s not a person here. Just a thing to be fixed. She knows that’s how she’s seen and she’s not a child to let adults make the decision for her. The only way she’s gonna get better is to get gone. He wouldn’t be surprised if she’s already left.
Almost. Laura sneaks into the sleeping Hellion’s room. She reaches out to Julian but withdraws the hand and leaves quietly. Julian is awake but says nothing.
Laura steps out. Storm finds her and lands in front of her. She asks Laura to stay. It is time, the girl replies. She doesn’t belong here. Ororo insists it’s her home. It was and might be again, Laura concedes, but she cannot be where everyone knows her or thinks they know her better than she knows herself. Because maybe they do know her better. And she does not want that, she wants to make her own life. Before someone else makes it for her again. Ororo touches her face. She is her own person. “Go. Make your life. But know that you are not alone.”
Walking through the streets of San Francisco, Laura tells herself she is not alone. She is not empty. There is a light inside her. She caught a glimpse of it. She held it and will find it again, she vows, unaware of the pale young woman watching her intently. Miss Sinister presses the red diamond mark on her head…


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Songs of the Orphan Child – part 1
Interstate 80: Laura Kinney aka X-23 is hitchhiking, silently musing that the first thing you learn is to be alone or suffer. It is an easy lesson. You suffer more when people are around. People make you feel alone. And loneliness is a quiet wound…
The driver who picked her up tells her she is lucky he came when he did. Temperature’s climbing. Gonna be a damn hot day. Where is she headed? Away, she replies shortly. He continues ratting. Day like this, you try to walk the road, the road will walk all over you. Burn your feet, burn your bones. Cook a growing man just looking at it. And she’s just a kid, all by herself. She have a boyfriend? Right, never mind. None of his business. But he sees girls like her all the time. Runners. Running away from boyfriends. Bad family. Got a niece her age. Always told her it was better to stay and fight out problems. Gotta outlive the hard times, make better with what you got. Running don’t solve nothing. She is not running, Laura tells him. Sure, okay, he replies unconvinced.
In the evening, he lets her off at a diner. Laura walks past a blonde girl with a black eye who is at a pay phone, promising the other person on the line she knows what to do.
Laura enters the diner, walking past a man in a white suit, leaning against a car. Laura looks at the new star-shaped scar in the palm of her right hand when the blonde girl ask if she can sit at the same table. She simply orders a water.
Looking at the girl, Laura orders a second plate. The girl thanks her for sharing the food and introduces herself as Alice. When Laura tells her her name, Alice recalls she once read a book about this kid who lived in the old pioneer days. Covered wagon and crap. One of them was named Laura. So, is she travelling? ‘Cause she is. Seeing the world. But she doesn’t have a car. She’s been hitching rides. It’s easy for girls.
Continuing, the girl asks if Laura has a car? No, she replies and asks who hit her. No one! Alice claims. But she wants something from her, Laura states. Nothing! Alice retorts stuttering. If she is travelling, where are her things? Laura points out. Who is the man in the car? The one who has been chasing them. How would she know? Alice asks. Laura thinks he sent Alice to talk to her. Alice denies it. He hit her! She denies it again. She smells like him, like sex. Alice calls her a freak. He is her pimp, Laura states. Alice wants to get up. Laura holds her by her arm. She had a pimp once. But he never asked her to lure girls to him. If he had she would have said no. She was lost but not that lost. Shut up! Alice shouts and runs away. She runs to the man in the white suit in the car.
Later, Laura leaves the diner, seeing the car drive away. Another man in a cop car watches her and announces per comm that he has found her.
Laura walks along the street and sees the car from before parking at the roadside, empty. She hears a voice saying “you don’t say ‘no’. You do your job!” She sees the man crouch above the still body of Alice, cursing at her.
Laura unsheathes her claws. The man draws his gun at her and orders her to walk away. He didn’t mean to kill her! Yes, he did, Laura replies. Okay, but it isn’t what she thinks. He fires his gun at her but the unfazed Laura walks on until she beheads him. She kneels down next to the dead girl and begins to dig a grave.
Sometime later, she is joined by Gambit, who cups her chin. How did he find her? she asks. Doesn’t matter now, he tells her and asks how much of this blood is hers. Some, not enough, she replies. She did not kill the girl. He didn’t think she did, he assures her. She relates what happened. She was trapped, Laura muses. If she had killed him while Alice still lived, she still would have been trapped. Bleak, he replies. The truth, she insists.
Gambit searches the man’s corpse and finds a snapshot of X-23. Later, they ride away on Gambit’s motorbike, wondering about the picture and what it means. They are followed by a police car.
Laura and Remy stop in a clearing. Did Storm send him? she asks. He sent himself with her blessing, comes the reply. She told Storm she wanted to be alone. He spreads out a hand of cards and asks her to pick one. They do not have time for games, Laura points out. Always time for games, he insists. Laura rattles down how she imagines the card trick will go: She picks a card, and reinserts it into the deck. He will shuffle it, then by counting cards will choose the one she picked. He will expect her to be surprised. She doesn’t know how to pretend to be surprised.
That’s not the game they are playing, Gambit replies and again asks her to pick a card. She does. The eight of spades. Fear, he tells her. Pick another! Nine of clubs. Fortune. Pick one more! The Joker. Wild card! X-23 doesn’t understand. He knew a gypsy woman down in N’awlins. Good thief. She could tell fortunes with playing cards. To pick an eight means she lives in fear. Fear of leaving something bad. Fear of imprisonment. She is not afraid, Laura points out. Nine of clubs has to do with luck. In her case, she makes her own.
But this one? He holds up the joker. Means something unexpected is coming. Something uncontrolled. He is making that up, Laura accuses him. She killed a man and he is making up games. He acts as though what she did is nothing. He accepts it without question. The other X-Men would not have, they would have asked why she killed that man. They would have told her, she made a terrible mistake. Isn’t he supposed to ask her why she killed him or tell her she made a terrible mistake?
Does she want him to do that? he asks. No, he deserved to die. And she was fit to judge him? Gambit asks. No one else was there who could. Can she live with that choice? Yes. Well, it’s a start, he decides.
They travel on by bike. They’ll be in Flagstaff before the sun goes down, he tells her. He knows a guy there who lives with the ear to the ground, he owes him. He will not take her back to the X-Men? she asks. Not unless that’s what she wants, Gambit decides. She wants to know why he is helping her.
Before he can answer, however, she suddenly orders him to stop. Before them are lots of police cars, along with armed cops who are aiming weapons at them. Alice gets out of a car and asks Laura if she remembers her. Time for running like foxes, Gambit tells Laura. Alice asks her not to. This is about Laura’s mother. Show her, Laura decides and Gambit swears.
So they follow the police cordon. Creepy, Gambit mutters. Worse than a trap. Bunch of police and a dead girl in a dead town. Not too late to change her mind, he suggests. Or she could just ignore him (which she does).
She died, Laura tells Alice. She saw her body. She should have ended differently, Alice replies. She didn’t do her job. What job? Laura asks. What is she? ‘sides maybe a zombie, Gambit mutters, She’s Alice! No, she isn’t! Laura replies. She smells the same… But her face is healed and there is something different in her eyes… They are new and empty. She is not the same girl.
She sees too much, Alice admits. The other Alice was real, Laura announces. She was defective, Alice replies. And Laura was wrong. The man wasn’t her pimp, but her handler. He did his job. His job was to kill her? Laura asks. Alice explains that she failed. Laura was right when she said Alice had been sent to lure her. Except she couldn’t do it. Not then. What does this have to do with her mother? Laura asks. “Everything, my dear”, comes a new voice. ”Step inside and I’ll tell you all about it,” Miss Sinister suggests.


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Songs of the Orphan Child – part 2
The first thing you learn is how to be alone. The second thing you learn is how to wait. Everyone breaks. No one can be vigilant forever. But you do not need “forever”. Just the right moment. And what happens in that moment is life or death. Your life. Their death.
X-23 and Gambit have been led (more or less against their will) to a small town where they found a second version of Alice, the girl X-23 believed murdered, and Miss Sinister aka Claudine Renko.
What the hell is this? Gambit exclaims. Remy LeBeau, Miss Sinister identifies him. She thinks she does remember him. What an odd feeling, to recall a man she has never met. Nathaniel Essex had a particular fondness for him. His special pet.
Alice walks up to her and Miss Sinister protectively puts her hand on the girl’s shoulder. She can see the attraction, she continues. He has good genes.
Laura speaks up, despite Gambit’s warning, demanding what this has to do with her mother. Miss Sinister tells her to follow her and walks inside. This is a bad idea, Remy warns Laura. Then stay here, she retorts and follows, as does Alice and finally Remy.
She owns the cops? he asks. She owns the town they come from and so, yes, she owns them, is the reply. How does she pull it off? Money and mind control. You spread around enough of the first, you don’t need much of the second. It’s tactics. Conservation of resources. “My mother,” X-23 repeats impatiently. One track mind. She likes that about her, Miss Sinister remarks. An elevator takes her and Alice down. Coming? she asks.
One last chance, Gambit tries to hold Laura back. Does she understand who that woman is? Claudine Renko Laura replies A … clone… of Mr. Sinister. She’s read the file on her. Then don’t do this, Remy pleads. Find her answers another way. If she goes down there, she may not come out the same person she was. Ms. Sinister frightens him, Laura realizes. He agrees. Because of who made her? Because he looks in her eyes and sees him. Laura has no idea who he was or who she could be. It’s not enough to read a file. Paper isn’t blood ‘n’ guts an’ cruelty. She works with men who kill children, Laura points out. She knows what she is. She jumps after the two women. A moment later, so does Remy.
So glad they could join them, Claudine remarks. They find themselves in a high tech complex underground. What is this place? Laura asks. A mystery Miss Sinister, replies. A failed experiment perhaps, she doesn’t exactly know, but it’s marvelous, isn’t it? She was originally put off by the whole apocalyptic city of the future thing, but it’s grown on her in so many little ways. More than a year ago, she suffered an… injury. Someone stabbed her in the stomach. He likes the story already, Gambit mutters. It was Daken Akihiro, she continues. She thinks Laura knows him. The wound wasn’t life threatening but it was her first ever injury in this… transformed body.
They walk downstairs to a pool where some kids re frolicking. Receiving it seemed to wake something inside her, an instinct. She followed the instinct to this place, one of Sinister’s secret labs, and she found something: Children in stasis.
The kids run happily up and greet her. This is wrong, Laura decides. It’s not! Alice protests. Laura asks her to explain. Ms. Claudine saved them, Alice states. She loves them. She’s the closest thing they have to a mother. She was not saved, Laura, retorts. The other Alice, she was given to a man who hurt and murdered her. She was defective, Alice replies.
Enough, Claudine tells her and asks Laura for help. The lives of these children depend on it. She leads them to a library. Claudine continues that she doesn’t know where the children originally came from or if they are even as old as they look. They could have been in stasis for decades. Sinister experimented on children during World War II and he never stopped. She hasn’t even begun to determine what he did to them. If anything. He may have just kept them around as extra stock.
And what is she doing with the children? Laura demands. Letting them live, of course, Miss Sinister assures her. Beyond that, she doesn’t know. They have no education. No understanding of the world. She’s let them go above; not for long, most prefer it down here. It’s what they know. And it’s difficult to break someone away from what they know. Something Laura’s aware of, she’s sure. She asks Remy not to judge her. She had no choice when she became this thing. She was programmed against her will, made. She’s doing the best she can under the circumstances.
Laura follows Alice who is carrying a child in her arms. She noticed that Alice’s eyes have changed in the last few minutes. Whatever, Alive shrugs her off and leaves.
Does she like her? Claudine asks. She’s a sweet girl. A clone, Laura corrects her. A clone with the same memories as the girl she first met. How did she do that? How was it done to her? Claudine retorts, that’s the better question. The moment Nathaniel Essex died she woke up. She had a life before but suddenly she was someone else with another man’s thoughts crawling within her. So she is experimenting on children, Laura accuses her. Claudine assures her she has it all wrong. Laura insists she gave Alice to a man who hurt her. She did not give Alice to that man, comes the reply. She was taken. Just as the other children will be taken. One by one.
Remy remarks he thought she controlled the entire town and has Sinister’s powers. And she can’t stop children from being taken? Laura adds that the man who had killed Alice had Laura’s photograph. She was ordered to lure Laura to him. Not her order, Miss Sinister insists. Not her man. He wasn’t local. And no, she doesn’t have all of Sinister’s powers. Because of that, she had to make her own deal with the devil. With Malcolm Colcord. She shows them his picture. He is trying to resurrect the Weapon X program. The same project that made X-23 and Wolverine. The same man who engineered a concentration camp that experimented on mutants. Sinister created an alternate identity for himself and worked in that camp as one of the scientists. If Colcord ever knew, he certainly didn’t care. But now somehow he has found her. But he doesn’t realize she is not Sinister. She doesn’t have all his memories and not even half his knowledge. All she has of value are his journals. One of which was the basis of the Facility that made Laura. So maybe she exaggerated when she said it was all about her mother, but not by much.
She leads them to a corridor with rooms, telling Gambit she hopes he’ll find his comfortable. If not, feel free to seek out hers. Her bed is very large. Then maybe she can get her minions to bring it here, he orders. There is only one bed. She has another room for Laura, she clarifies. Gambit is against their being separated, accusing Miss Sinister of being evil. No second chance? She asks. A monster made her, so she is a monster? A bit hypocritical, or did she just imagine that once he was a mass murderer?
Laura steps between them. Enough, she orders. She knows what Gambit has done and what she has done. She is staying with him. Someone needs to protect him from Miss Sinister. Well, she thinks the girl likes him, Miss Sinister mocks. Drop dead, Gambit replies. You first, she retorts and leaves.
Now what? Remy asks Laura. Now they find out what is really going on. Gambit believes Claudine was lying. Laura thinks most of it was the truth. The truth was in her scent, but something else too. Fear. Sickness. Desperation. She wants something, but it has nothing to do with keeping safe these children.
Walking the corridor, Claudine stops due to some pain in her stomach, then she begins to bleed profusely from the nose. She walks on, clearly in agony.
Gambit and Laura leave their room. He could have told her it was a trap, he points out. She agrees, so why did he come? He’ll tell her when they are free. They split up, each searching one part of the corridor. Laura finds the trail of blood and follows it, musing what being free means. She passes several cells, which had children in them and comes to a heavy adorned metal door.
Behind the door is an empty lab where people have been tied up. From behind another door, she can hear a thin voice talking. She enters the room to find another lab with human-size test tubes. In front of the only tube with a person inside, Alice is sitting and reading from a book.
She shouldn’t be here, Alice tells her, even Alice should be here. She’s her, Alice explains, referring to the girl in the tube. There were others - three or four. She feels them inside her sometimes, all jumbled. But she’s the last one left. She doesn’t want her to be lonely. What was she reading? “Peter Pan” Alice replies. Ms. Claudine has bunches of books in the library. She lets her read whatever she likes.
Laura recalls Claudine told her the other Alice was taken from her by that man. There were a lot of men, Alice replies, they had guns. Asked what they did to her, Alice replies that they took blood, a lot of blood… They ran tests. But they were disappointed by what they found. They said she was defective. So they gave her to the man… her handler.
Laura notices she see Alice different from their first meeting. More real. Alice explains when she first woke up she was numb. She felt like a robot but the longer she is awake the more she feels. Does being a clone bother her? Laura asks. The worst part is the memories that are part of her but not, Alice replies. She doesn’t like remembering being hurt or dying. She’s died a lot of times now. Was it those men who killed her? Laura asks. Twice, she replies. And then there was another man. He injected her with something. He must have been related to Ms. Claudine. He looked just like her.
Elsewhere, Gambit finds a kitchen where women from the town are making sandwiches for the kids. Gambit asks if they don’t find it strange that the kids live in caves. X-23 joins them, telling Gambit they need to talk. Gambit asks one last question: don’t the women ever wonder even a little what goes on here? They never see anything strange? Slowly the women reply that everything is loving and wholesome. Why do they act like their heads hurt? Everyone gets headaches in town. They blame the water. Government used to run nuclear tests around here. That must be it, Gambit agrees, tells the kids goodbye and joins Laura.
This place makes his skin crawl, he tells her. Did he learn anything? she asks. Nothing, except that Sinister’s fingerprint is all over the place. He’s been in some of his other labs. This feels the same. He can almost taste the suffering.
What did Sinister do to him? Laura asks.  Nothing he didn’t let him do, Gambit replies. That’s what makes it terrible. She’s sorry. Is that why he came here with her? Don’t they have better things to be worried about? Like how to get les enfants free of this place? She touches his arm. It’s important. Really? he asks. Really, she promises and touches his face. She thinks she knows why he is really with her. Dat so? He shoves her to the ground. Shapeshifting doesn’t fool him. Where is Laura?
She turns back into Miss Sinister and smirks as he threatens to blow her head off. But suddenly his powers fail. She smirks as she kicks him, explaining she turned them off. Now she is on top of him, threatening he may lose his eyes if they keep fighting. Or they can talk and deal. She knows he’s good at that. He refuses. Not ever again!
That moment, the real Laura drags her away and slashes Claudine’s back. With a kick, she orders her to get away from him.  Alice watches horrified. Grinning, Claudine states it didn’t have to be this way. Laura can’t kill her that easily. A moment later, she screams in agony and shifts to body and form of the real Mr. Sinister. “Laura,” he remarks. “What a pleasant surprise!”


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Songs of the Orphan Child – part 3
The first thing you learn is how to be alone. The second thing you learn is how to wait. The third thing you learn is how to kill. There is no art to death. All it requires is resolve. A place where you feel nothing. Where you are nothing. Death is a moment. Fill yourself with too many moments of death and you will cease to exist.
Before the eyes of X-23, Gambit and Alice the treacherous Miss Sinister has changed into the original Mr. Sinister. With a cry of rage, Gambit grabs his staff and storms at his old enemy, eyes glowing with energy. How appropriate he finds him here, Sinister remarks and slams him back with an energy bolt. “And you…” he addresses Laura. With a determined face, she unsheathes her claws and also charges at him. He fires another blast at her but she dodges it and claws him in the chest and throat.
Sinister chuckles, then grabs her arms. Let this be her first lesson, he informs her as he grabs her throat. Laura finally loses consciousness.
Sinister begins to order Alice to prepare… but suddenly his features begin to melt and struggling he returns to the form of Miss Sinister. She’s back, she tells Alice and takes X-23’s pulse. Is she dead? Alice asks. Yes, but not for long. She orders Alice to prepare the chair.
Laura wakes up strapped to a chair. Claudine tells her she’s sorry it has to end like this, then takes the statement back. She’s not even a little bit sorry, but it makes her feel better to say the words.
Why is she doing this? Laura asks. More seriously, Claudine replies that her body is not her own. Mr. Sinister has been slowly taking possession of her. She can even feel him now. A worm at the back of her mind. She’s been fighting him for months, ever since she came to this place. She didn’t realize what would happen when she sat in this chair, didn’t know she would lose so much. But even if she had, she might not have been able to stop herself. The instinct that compelled her to activate it was too overwhelming. As important to her as breathing. By the time she realized what was happening, she could already feel him consuming her. That was always his intention. If not Claudine, then someone else, he engineered. She doesn’t know how she stopped him, but she broke free of the chair. But she only delayed the inevitable. She opened the door that let him in.
She is dying, Laura states. Claudine agrees. Not her body, but she. Her personality. Her mind. Her dreams… everything she is, swallowed up by him. The times he possesses her are growing more frequent. She hasn’t been able to stop him. She needs a new body. Laura has the thing she wants the most. A healing factor. It’s like the holy grail. Immortality.
It’s the one thing that Malcolm Colcord wants most as well, she then adds. It’s the only thing that will allow his Weapon program to move forward. He promised Claudine a healing factor in return for her cooperation. A serum that she could inject into the chosen host. For a time, she thought he had succeeded in developing the serum. But when he tested it on the Alices, the results were less than satisfactory. They were defective. Much like the Alice, whose murder Laura avenged. She was going to die anyway. Snaring Laura was going to be her reprieve for a day or two.
She touches Laura’s hair and face, musing she really is lovely. Beautiful actually. Beautiful, young, with a healing factor. God must love her.
Laura points out Claudine will do the same thing to her that was done to Claudine. She can live with that, Claudine replies. She does have one question, however. Why does a girl with a healing factor have a scar? She refers to the snowflake scar in Laura’s hand.
Does she believe a clone has a soul? Laura asks. What does that have to do with anything? is the reply as Claudine puts a helmet atop Laura’s head and places a similar helmet on herself. Claudine is a clone, Laura points out. She was never a clone, Claudine corrects her. She was a woman injected with a virus engineered to transform her into a clone. Is that what she’s worried about? That she’ll lose her soul once Claudine is inside her? No, Laura replies. She’s concerned she never had one to start with.
Claudine doubts there is such a thing. She believes more in the power of electrical impulses, memories, desire, all limited and contained within the span if a single life. Rest assured, though. If she does have a soul… it won’t be with her for much longer. With that, she presses a button. As the procedure begins, Alice runs to Gambit’s cell, where she finds him out cold.
Back in the lab, the energy transfer has begun but Miss Sinister feels something wrong. She is not leaving her body. Instead, she feels Mr. Sinister slipping away. A moment later, Laura opens her eyes and they are red. With a smirk, she asks Claudine what she was thinking, trying to rid herself of Sinister. Claudine calls him a son of a bitch. That’s her body. No it’s not, comes the reply. She doesn’t deserve it. She doesn’t deserve to keep the body she has now! He made her. He owns her! He always will! She’ll kill him first! she announces and presses a lever.
Violent energy rattles Laura’s body. Covered with blood, she asks Claudine to do it again; “he” likes to be tickled. “No!” the real Laura shouts, as another energy wave hits her and orders him out of her head. A moment later, the machine overloads and the procedure abruptly ends.
While Claudine is distracted with what remains of the control panel, Alice sneaks inside and begins to free Laura. Finally noticing, Claudine hits her over the head with a metal pipe. Enraged, Laura frees herself and attacks Miss Sinister, who warns her that the self-destruct warning has begun.
Suddenly, Gambit joins them and takes a look at Alice. Laura tells Claudine she is rid of him now. He is gone forever. She could have a second chance. Miss Sinister calls her a naive stupid girl. Who does she think she is to…
Laura slashes her stomach. She’s been told it’s important to offer mercy. But she has her limit. Claudine holds her stomach and moans that Laura can’t beat her. She’ll heal. She still has this body. Sinister was right, Laura pronounces. She does not deserve it!
Gambit cradles Alice, announcing she is barely alive. They gotta go! He found the self-destruct Sinister always installs to protect his research. He should have waited to use it, Laura criticizes. Some things you don’t wait for, he disagrees.
She remembers the other Alice that was still in the test tube. She runs after Claudine, who runs outside the lab and shuts the steel door after herself.
Laura slashes an entrance to the lab with the test tubes but they are all empty. Gambit tells her they have to run. Laura insists that the last Alice clone is somewhere. They have to save her! Gambit reminds her that this clone still needs her. She can still help Alice and a dozen other kids who need saving! He can’t do it alone! Not before this place blows! She can’t save everyone. Sometimes she has to let go! Then why is he here? she asks. C’mon, he urges her. Live!
And so, she follows. The pace blows behind them and they barely get out with Laura asking where the children are. He lied to her, she snaps, the children are already out. Cut him later, he replies. They get outside where a last car with minders is waiting for them.
Later, they have brought Alice to the hospital and sit at her bedside. Gambit promises the Laura that Alice will have the best care. He’s already called Storm, who’s having someone medivac Alice to a special hospital in San Francisco. And the other children? Laura asks. Storm’s sending a team for them. He doesn’t think that town can be trusted. Laura remarks that the children will be targets if Miss Sinister was telling the truth about Malcolm Colcord. He will want to study them in case they were… modified.
Taking the unconscious Alice’s hand, Laura asks Gambit why he came looking for her. It wasn’t for Storm or the X-Men, he replies, it was for this. To be there for her. He hardly knew her, she points out. She hardly knew Alice, he shoots back. She knew enough, Laura replies. His point exactly, Gambit states. “So what’s next?” he asks. Malcolm Colcord, she decides. The Weapon program cannot be allowed to begin again.
In a tunnel that survived the cave-in, the last Alice clone kneels next to the unconscious Miss Sinister. Poor Claudine. Such aspirations she had and now look what happened… Alice – a red diamond on her forehead – strokes her face and tells her not to worry. She’ll take care of her…


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Songs of the Orphan Child – part 4
(Soon.)X-23 is underwater, surrounded by sharks. It was bad planning. Or perhaps it never occurred to them, she muses. She was disposable despite the resources put into her creation. Did they ever wonder what would happen to her in water? She never asked Logan what it was like for him to swim with so much metal wrapped around his skeleton. If he could swim at all. Even with adamantium only in her hands and feet, she cannot swim easily. But she can sink fast. And she needs to be fast. She is swimming toward the sinking form of Gambit, when a shark bites her from behind.
(Now. Singapore.)Laura looks at the ocean and tells Gambit “no.” She hasn’t heard his idea yet, he protests and jokes that he’s offended. She asks if he has hired a boat yet. They could be in Madripoor by evening if they leave now. Every second they waste is a second they give to Colcord. He knows a man who can take them there, Gambit replies, but he has a problem. Pirates. Local fishermen with guns and bad attitudes .They get roped in by larger criminal organizations that target shipping liners or pleasure cruisers… anyone who looks a little shiny. Or who rubs them the wrong way. Like their man with the boat who did Gambit a favor once. What was the favor? she asks Not killing him, he replies. He has a daughter he adds. X-23 doesn’t get what that has to do with not killing him. Never mind, he says, changing the subject.
And so, a little later, they are on Amar’s boat. Amar jokes he’d have expected Remy to be dead by now. Wishful thinking? Remy asks. He is a practical man, comes the reply. Gambit likes to stick his nose in dangerous business. He sounds like an old man, Remy jokes. Different priorities, comes the reply. That’s why he works for the police now. Special division.
Remy asks him about the target. A man named Indi, he learns. Two weeks ago he agreed to become an informant for a new task force on maritime crime. He didn’t check in last night, which means he is probably already dead. If he’s not, Amar needs Gambit to get him out. After that, he’ll clear the way to get them to Madripoor? Remy asks. That’s the deal.
Amar asks about the girl. Remy still hasn’t told him about her. A friend, is the reply. That’s what he said about his daughter, Amar points out. Not like that. Not even a little, Remy promises. That girl and he, they both got wounds to heal. He thought he was the one helping her. He thought he was over his problems, but it was the other way round. She makes him remember everything. That can’t be pleasant, Amar remarks. Remy agrees, But it’s good for him. He has to forgive himself to be the kind of friend who can teach her to love herself.
At nighttime, they arrive. Amar explains they are safe in this island labyrinth. The authorities get lost, which is why pirates come here to hide, but even they don’t stray from their usual shipping lanes. They don’t expect anyone to come to them, especially at night. Most will be gone by now, hunting. Gambit should be able to slip in and out without being seen He’ll take care of the girl while Gambit is gone. If there’s trouble…
He wants her with him, Remy finishes. Amar doesn’t believe he’s serious. Gambit throws Laura his fighting staff and she quickly demonstrates some moves to show she is far more than a child. Still, Amar protests. Laura unsheathes her claws, informing him that, where Gambit goes, she goes. Amar recognizes the claws and now that he thinks about it, her face. Remy assures him he doesn’t want to know the truth.
Remy and Laura sneak onto the island. They see the complex surrounded by tents. No guards. Remy remarks the place is a dump (and to prove it he steps on toilet paper). The place is a former marine research center. Gambit explains that some of these places were set up by an environmental group. But the funding ran out.
That moment, they hear a scream. A tied-up, kneeling man, Indi, is being tortured by some pirates. Their leader tells him to shut up and asks him to remember what he did to the Somalian. And all he did, was steal a gun. Indi went to the police and told them about him. What he’ll do to him tonight will be nothing compared to what he does to his wife and son! He knows where they live in Singapore. By tomorrow, he’ll have them chained to beds in the worst brothel in Thailand and it will be Indi’s fault!
Moments later, the screaming begins again. Gambit fears they are cutting him again. They are doing something worse, Laura decides. The sounds of his screams are different.
The pirate leader tells Indi that, when you betray man who is supposed to be your friend, you steal his faith. You take his trust and break it. You break a part of the man himself, make him less of a man. And that’s what he’s going to do to him!
That moment, X-23 attacks and Gambit is forced to follow. Laura rushes the leader and sends them both into the shark-infested water, while Gambit is left to fend for himself. A pirate throws a chain around Gambit’s throat from behind, at which point Gambit charges the chain with his kinetic energy.
X-23 and the pirate leader sink. She kills him and swims upwards again.
Surrounded by pirates, Gambit warns them not to risk their lives for their crazy boss. Because he promises them he’s dead. The first one is about to attack him when Laura comes to the surface. Gambit is briefly distracted, allowing the pirates to strike. He falls into the water and Laura swims after him using claws to keep away the sharks from him. Despite her own injuries she swims towards Gambit, grabs him, and hooks her claw into an attacking shark, which drags both of them upwards towards the surface.
Above water, they both gasp for air. The fight has left the pirates who are still standing, but the man they were trying to save, Indi, is dead, bled out. For nothing, Laura states grimly. A pirate behind her tries to stab her but she kills him with one move. Not for nothing, Gambit corrects her. He was the only one who tried to do something.
Back on the boat, Laura states they failed. Indi wanted to do the right thing and was killed for it. His family might have been killed. Anyone on that rock who stood up for him would have been killed. He had no chance, so why did he bother? Why did she? Remy asks. Because she had to, she admits. Not because she was told? No. Because she had to do something. Because something was wrong and it needed to be fixed and she thought she could fix it.
Gambit asks why she didn’t use her claws at the beginning of the fight. She held back. She explains that those men smelled like urine, like beaten dogs, like so much fear she could taste it. They were cowards and weak. So weak, it would have been unfair to kill them.
Gambit turns off the boat’s engine. It’s too loud, he explains. This is a night that deserves a hush. He suggests they drift a while and see where the waves take them. Tell him that feels right. It does, she agrees smiling. For now.


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Collision: part 1
From a rooftop, X-23 and Gambit watch chaos and fighting on the streets below them. Madripoor was never a city of angels, Gambit sighs, but at least there were rules. Survival has no rules, Laura points out. Sometimes it does, he insists. Everyone needs a code. A code implies restraint, Laura muses. Sometimes that’s what defines you, Gambit explains. Laura muses that she has come here to show restraint. The Weapon X project is being resurrected. Daken Akihiro, who walks in the streets below them, knows where to find the man responsible. She thinks it’s time to hunt, she states and jumps down.
Right, he’ll go look for some stairs, Gambit mutters, but then follows to complain about his bones a moment later. Is he hurt? she asks. He just jumped off a building! Apparently, he thinks he’s a sixteen year old girl with a healing factor, he replies. Instead, he is just… old? she teases. She doesn’t tell him that she fractured both ankles when she hit the ground. Healed in moments.
An ugly, leering man grabs Laura, cheering to his pals he found them something sweet, gonna pass her around like a prize! No, they are not, she replies and slices at him. She chides herself inwardly for forgetting about Gambit when she jumped. She is not alone.
He tells her he’ll catch up with her. Got a lesson to teach about hell. She follows Daken, noting he has Wolverine’s shoulders. She is the clone of his father. They are blood. But blood does not make family!
She almost touches him when she hears someone cry out. A small boy is kidnapped by two men and dragged into a car. She looks at Daken, then at the kidnappers and follows them, stabbing the first. She informs the second to get away from the child and she will kill him quickly. Otherwise there will be pain! She stabs through his hand, noting he smells like children. Boys and girls. Tell her why!
Gambit joins her to find both men dead. She could not restrain herself, X-23 states. They tried to steal a boy. She interrogated one of them. They work for Colcord. He directed them to take advantage of the chaos to kidnap children. He did not give them a reason nor did the man know where his lab is.
She checks the unconscious boy’s pulse, then carries him outside. What about Daken? Gambit asks. They will keep looking, she decides, after they take this boy someplace safe. Gambit suggests he knows someone who can help them. What with the chaos in Madripoor, he thought her hands would be tied, but she’s good people. He offers to carry the boy but she declines. She’s changed, he observes. No, Laura replies.
In another part of the city, military have the riot under control. One soldier reports the current state to his boss Tyger Tiger. He adds that this is not her fault. They all know this is not her fault, she replies darkly, but promises to fix it somehow. As the soldiers walks away, Gambit and X-23 join her. It’s so good to see him, Tyger exclaims and hugs him. They get into the car with Tyger who leaves the boy with some nuns who will take care of him till they find his parents. Gambit points out that there were more kids with the nuns. X adds that they smelled sick. They were experimented on, Tyger explains. She was ready to launch an investigation when everything went to hell. Now her resources are stretched so thin she has nothing left to spare, not even for hurt kids. She’s got an entire city to bring back under control.
What happened? Gambit asks. Daken Akihiro, she replies. He played her. He also murdered her friends. But she’s s till working for him, Gambit observes. That’s not her. It’s her, she replies because she loves this city and Daken knows it.
Laura interjects that they know who is hurting these children. His name is Malcolm Colcord. He wants to create a new Weapon X program. She believes Daken knows where he is. And she wants Daken, Tyger supposes and offers to help them with that. How good are her acting skills?
The next morning:
Laura and Remy appear in Tyger’s office. She pretends she’s not seen them before and haughtily asks what the cat dragged in. She tells Gambit they’ve picked the worst time to visit. Anything they can help with? he offers. Who’s “they?” The trained killer standing behind him, for starters, he refers to X-23.Tyger scoffs. She is a child! She was created by the Weapon X program, X-23 corrects her. She was never a child. Hear that? She is more mature than him, Gambit adds helpfully. Everyone is more mature than him, Tyger retorts unimpressed.
Laura insists they are wasting time. She has to find Daken Akihiro, now. Tyger claims not to know anyone of that name. X shoots back that she can smell him all over this room. He knows where she can find Malcolm Colcord. Never heard of him either, says Tyger. Laura explains he is kidnapping and experimenting on the children of her city. Testing a healing factor serum on their bodies. When he perfects the formula he will be able to design a new army of fighters. Like her. Like the man she was cloned from. Wolverine. Wryly Tyger points out that unless X-23 is hiding something significant in those tight pants she seriously doubts she is a clone of Wolverine. She thinks she is nuts and wasting her time.
Laura become angry, insisting Tyger knows Daken. Gambit asks her to stop and asks Tyger how far they go back. He wouldn’t come here unless it was dangerous. Tyger replies he can’t be trusted. He always has an ulterior motive for everything.
Enough! Laura shouts, threatening she can make Tyger tell the truth. No, she won’t! Gambit tells her and holds her back. Tyger shouts at both of them to shut up and forcefully reminds Laura she is in her city. No one threatens her. No one tells her what to do. Gambit should have known better than to bring her here. She orders them out, adding she won’t asks twice. Laura snarls she won’t get any warning when she comes for her. She heads outside. Gambit tells Tyger she is making a mistake about the danger. If she does know Daken… He trails off and slams the door behind him.
If she knows him… Tyger speaks to empty space, it’s already too late. Isn’t that right, Daken? Daken enters from another door, asking if he detects a note of melodrama in her voice. He admits he is intrigued.
On the streets at a food stand, Laura is trying out a noodles dish with extra hot peppers and garlic. If she wanted to drive him away, she only had to ask, Gambit comments. Laura explains that in the lab she was never fed anything but protein mix. No color, no taste. When she lived with the X-Men, the food was fast and always the same, pizza, hamburger. Everything here is different. She likes it.
The vendor tells Gambit they don’t look like tourists. Gambit replies they heard there were opportunities for certain skill sets given Madripoor’s new circumstances. He always knew the good times wouldn’t last, the vendor agrees. Rumor has it there’s new leadership. A man who wears a mask. Everyone calls him Akki.
Sitting down next to Laura, Remy wonders what the name means. “Akki” is Japanese for “demon,” Laura explains and adds she is fluent in many languages. Funny, so is he, Daken, in full costume announces. He wonders if it’s a family thing…
He sits down across them. Well, look, a man with a mask, Gambit announces. How subtle and devious. Laura right? Daken asks. Sneering, he asks if she really expects him to believe she is a clone of Wolverine. His father? Laura asks. Yes. Making her his… mother? Gambit suggests. Curtly Daken states he had a mother and that’s the last time he mentions her. And he might kill her for telling the most ridiculous lie ever.
She was made in a lab from Wolverine’s DNA, Laura states. That’s not a lie. He tells her to prove it. She unsheathes her claws. He hurls the table over, trying to strike them with his energy lash. Laura pushes Gambit aside. Commenting on his enhanced weaponry, she concludes Daken must be poorly skilled. Not at all, he tells her and takes off the glove. He just likes the look, but he is best, claw to claw…
Suddenly, they are surrounded by armed police men. Daken is amused. But X uses the distraction to tackle him. They fall through a shop window. Atop him, Laura threatens him with her claws and orders him to look into her eyes. He kicks her off and calls her a test tube freak. She thinks she can come here with his blood in her veins? Daken’s blood, too, she reminds him. He hits her, ordering her not to say that. They are nothing... She hits back before he can say “alike.” Is he sure? she asks as she slices his chest. The fight becomes more agitated. With a scream of rage he tackles her to the edge of a roof.
Momentarily, they both need to catch their breath. Ready to give up? he asks. Never, comes the reply. Good, he decides, then jumps at her, they both fall down the roof and land hard. Now, X-23 announces, where were they?


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Collision: part 3
A guard shines a light into the eyes of X-23, who is stuck in high security cell, as small as a coffin. Good reaction, one of the guards observes. “Let’s continue to withhold water”. She doesn’t look so dangerous, he remarks. The other guard reminds him that Colcord does his rounds soon. Besides, there are cameras everywhere. He can turn them off, the first one states. Hasn’t he ever wanted to…? No, the other guard tells him.
Darkness again. Malcolm Colcord opens the slit to the cell. Comfortable? he asks. Of course she is. She was trained to endure far worse than a little isolation and a coffin. Though he does wonder what goes through her head when she is locked in all that darkness. Does it feel like home? No reply. Not very talkative, is she? Odd, when she was ripping off his fingernails, all she wanted to do was talk. Well, her questions are about to be answered. He’s going to show her exactly what they do here. Not that any of that will be a surprise… He always wanted to get his hands on her. Sweet dreams. The slit is closed. Darkness.
Gambit awakes with a start on a mattress on the floor in a bare room. Non, Laura! he shouts. Taken, Tyger Tiger informs him. Glad he’s awake. She was getting worried. She offers him a cup of something hot. She has people working on Laura’s disappearance. She’s doing her best. Daken killed everyone she could trust. She tells him to drink this. He can’t save the girl if he’s sick.
What is she risking by helping? he asks. Who cares, Tyger replies evasively. He does, Remy replies simply and cups her chin. She is very alone here. She does her best work against incredible odds, she reminds him, or has he forgotten? She is a fighter, he admits. They reminisce about the old days when they weren’t responsible for anyone or anything. She puts her head on his shoulder and he wonders when they got respectable. When they started caring, she reminds him. Tragic, he muses. A little tragic, she agrees. Caring makes them vulnerable.
In his office, Colcord looks at snapshots of X-23, wondering what she is hiding. What does he mean? Daken asks. Colcord explains that her handlers kept extensive records covering everything from her mental state to how many bowel movements she had in a day. But her activities away from the lab are vague, at best. She was an assassin for hire, starting from the age of twelve. Was she good? Daken asks. Superb, he is told. But they had so much trouble conditioning her to be a killer they built in a safety. A trigger scent. When she’s exposed to it, she goes berserk and kills without discrimination.
Does he have a sample of it? Daken asks and looks at a picture of young Laura being tortured. He had his people synthesize it as soon as he’d learned she’d be in his possession, Colcord replies. Why? Daken could ask him the same question. Why did he make it, unless he intended to use it? He’s not planning on continuing the Weapon X program, is he? Daken would kill him, if he did that, Colcord points out. Maybe, Daken agrees. Or maybe he’d kill someone else first. He suggests Colcord not forget who he is dealing with. Wolverine’s son and Wolverine’s clone? Colcord asks. How could he possibly forget? But he has no intention of testing the trigger scent on X-23. Not yet anyway.
At the pier, a hooded woman tells a man – one of Colcord’s guards – that they were able to receive a three million dollar advance on the product. Which she’d like to see. Now. The man protests they’ve been doing this so long. The least she could say is “please.” Please show her the product, she repeats. Before she feeds his guts to the sharks.
She looks at a small vial. They’ll be disappointed by the quantity. All it takes is one drop which can be dispensed as spray, he explains. What she is holding is plenty. She knows, but they are dealing with idiots here.
She asks how she is. Probably being cut open, he replies. How the hell would he know? He tells her to be here tomorrow. He’ll have something else for her then. She can’t wait, she smirks.
Elsewhere, still chained to a rack, Laura is lifted out of her coffin onto a stretcher. The guards are nervous and heavily armed while the doctor tells them there is no reason to be so twitchy. Right now, she is the most harmless killing machine in the world. If that’s what they think, Daken scoffs. But the two of them know different. Unnoticed by the others, he uses his claws to slice one of the ties restraining her before leaving the room.
One of the scientists takes out a chainsaw. He’s been wanting to use this thing since the first time he saw it. Get it? Saw? Uh-huh, the other replies. He read the old notes on her healing factor. She knits up fast. He might be tired of all that cutting by the end of the day. Nah, the first one replies and begins cutting at her back. This is what makes science fun!
Laura recalls being on other tables. But this feels worse. It all feels worse. Not because of the pain. Because she knows better now. She is not an animal or a thing! She uses her free hand to claws the chainsaw wielder in the throat. Why did none of them see that? Why? How could they look at her and hurt her like they did? What was wrong with them? How could they?! In seconds, Laura massacres everyone in the room. How could she? she wonders.
She huffs and finally stops; she’s the only person left alive in the room. Daken enters, impressed. She gives the term “wetworks” a whole new meaning. You! Laura snarls and hits him. He drops his file, which contains reports and pictures about Laura. Transfixed, she stops. Deadliest assassin in the world stopped by paper, Daken mutters. He is not impressed.
Laura looks at the photos. This is her life, everything that the Facility documented about her existence. Why free her after betraying her? she asks Daken. “Betray” is such a strong word, he chides. He prefers to think of it as borrowing her presence.
Laura takes a list with names and stows it. No games, she orders. He knew from the beginning that Colcord had her file and that he was starting a new Weapon X project. No, he didn’t, Daken claims. But when he began to suspect, he knew that Colcord would want her to be part of the program. She’s like catnip for mad scientists.
He follows her. He wanted to see where he took her. What he could learn. There is nothing to learn, Laura tells him. Not in places like this. They stand in front of the surgery table. Charming, he comments. Does it make her homesick? No, she replies, but maybe he feels homesick. For Romulus. What did she just say? he asks surprised. Wolverine told her how he was raised. Romulus made him just as she was made. Her in a lab, he by a man. They are constructs. No, he replies. He owns his fate… his life! Does he? Laura asks. She may not understand much of what it means to be human. And normal. But she knows when someone is trying to prove something.
He knows something about her too, he retorts. No Adamantium skeleton. He could saw off her head right now. Does she think it would grow back? Laura unsheathes her claws and admits she doesn’t know. Will his?
Elsewhere, at the pier, the hooded woman admits she doesn’t like what he’s asked him to give her. It means he anticipates problems. Of course, he does, comes the reply. She wants to see the sample. The guard hands it to her. And she shoots him.
Elsewhere in the building, Laura smells blood. Maybe she’s smelling herself, Daken suggests. She stinks! Does he know what’s on the other side of the door? They are about to find out, he replies as it opens.
There are scientists on the other side who panic and run when they see them, causing Daken to mock them. Laura leads them to the cells where she hears someone crying. Who cares? Daken shrugs. What the hell has Colcord been doing here? Doors unlock, He has been doing that, Lara replies, as monstrous beings come from the cells, ready to attack. Well, damn, Daken decides.