Mutant experimentation is far from unheard of. It's a fact that is either unfortunate or barely worth noticing depending on what the individual thinks of mutants. The reasons for this vary from wanting to turn mutants into weapons to wanting to create the ultimate mutant, but there are also those who simply do it because they can. Whatever the reasoning was it was something the X-Men, especially Wolverine, were against, so when it had come up that a doctor was recently killed in a mutant prison had been experimenting on mutants the X-Men wanted to investigate to see if she was acting alone or if she was working with someone.
Professor Xavier selected Emma Frost and Storm to go investigate. Wolverine insisted he come as well, and he was very stubborn about it so Xavier agreed. He had called ahead to the prison letting them know what was going on, so there wouldn't be any surprises and there would be full cooperation between the prison staff and the X-Men.
The three X-Men, well two X-Women and Wolverine, left post haste and arrived a mere two hours after their departure time. Having a fast jet did have its advantages. Having a jet with vertical takeoff and landing also had its advantages since it allowed them to land right in the prison yard without any problems. Our extraordinary heroes were greeted by the warden upon exiting their jet. He led them to a room where prison staff who knew anything about the departed doctor were. There weren't many.
Emma looked around. "You two can start questioning the people in this room." She told Storm and Wolverine. "I'll talk to the prisoners that were experimented on."
Wolverine glared at Emma. "You're kidding right? Questioning the staff is clearly a one person job. I'll go with you Frost."
"Your mere presence will make my job difficult."
"Your self assigned job." Wolverine was getting ready to pop his claws, but the sudden drop in temperature stopped him.
"That's enough from both of you." Storm calmly told them. The temperature went back to where it was before. "The prisoners will most likely be less cooperative, so it's best that Emma be the one to question them; it will be more difficult for her to get in there minds if they are scared of you. You should know this Logan."
"He's just trying to pick a fight." Emma said. "No surprise really. It's a base instinct of his."
"Go question the prisoners, Emma." Storm ordered her.
"That's what I've been trying to do." Emma remarked before going to another room where she would do her questioning.
"Do you really need me in here Ororo?" Logan asked. He knew she could handle this on her own, but he also knew she might prefer to keep him in here so she could keep him from causing trouble.
"Is there anything you intended to do?"
"Yeah I wanted to find out about the two prisoners that were involved with the Doc's murder. I think there's a chance they know something about her."
"They both escaped though."
"If anyone can track them down it's me."
"This is true. Okay, go ask about them."
Wolverine walked over to the warden. "What can you tell me about the prisoners that killed Doctor Lynn?"
"Well one seemed to want to protect her until he found about what she was doing, while the other wanted to kill her from the beginning. He was extremely persistent."
"What were their names?"
"Oh right that would be far more useful wouldn't it? The one initially trying to protect her was Wade Wilson, and the extremely persistent one was Victor Creed."
"I'm somehow not surprised by that." Wolverine sat down and pulled out his phone. Finding Deadpool would be easy. He always announced everything he was doing on twitter. After a few minutes of browsing through pointless stuff about eating chimichangas and something about Scrooge McDuck he found what he was looking for. Apparently Deadpool was now living in Seattle with some old friend of his.
Storm finished up her questioning of the prison staff determining that none of them really knew anything about Dr. Lynn. Apparently she never socialized and was very secretive. Storm had a feeling that this would be the case. It still didn't hurt to ask though.
Emma wasn't having much luck either. All she really got from probing through the prisoner's minds was exactly what kind of experiments were ran on the them. After she was done she was going to give the details to Beast, and see if he could extrapolate anything useful from them. She finished her questioning then walked back to where the others were. "I have no idea if anything I got was useful. I'm going to send the details of the experiments to Hank and see if he can get anything of use from them. What about you two?"
"No one knew the Doctor personally, so I didn't get anything useful." Storm answered.
"Deadpool and Sabretooth were the two who killed her. They might know something, and I already found Deadpool." Wolverine answered. "If you two are willing to go question him on your own I can start tracking down Sabretooth."
"How did you find Deadpool so fast?" Storm asked him.
He showed her his phone with Deadpool's twitter page still pulled up. "He makes it easy."
"Social media does make finding people so much easier now." Emma commented. She didn't have a problem with it. In recent years they had managed to find several mutants because of tumblr.
"There are still some people that stay off the grid though. Which is why you have me."
"It is also why we have Cerebro." Storm said. "And I would prefer if someone else found and questioned Sabretooth. Whenever you two meet things get very violent very fast, which will just be counterproductive."
"Then who will go after him?"
"I'll do it." Emma volunteered.
"Like you would be able to deal with him."
"If he tries to kill me I can either turn to diamond, or forcefully stop him with telepathy. I think I'm actually better equipped to handle him than you are."
Wolverine growled. "Fine."
"I will call the professor when we get back on the jet."
The three X-People left the prison, getting on the Black Bird to go to Seattle. Storm called Xavier on the way there, and asked if he could find Sabretooth. In the past finding Sabretooth telepathically has proven difficult, but Xavier had recently managed to come up with a few tricks for finding mutants as difficult as him. He still couldn't use these tricks to find Magneto while he was wearing his helmet, but they were still extremely useful.
"I found him. He's currently in what appears to be a mutant fight club in Reno." Xavier informed them. "Keep me informed of anything important that comes up." He told them then hung up.
Storm readjusted their flight, so they would be going to Reno. "We'll drop you off there then go to Seattle." She told Emma.
"Alright." Emma said then went to the back of the plane to suit up.
Within an hour the plane had landed in Reno about a mile from where the fight club was, so they wouldn't alert the members of the club to their arrival. Emma got off the plane and started heading toward her destination. Once she was a safe distance from the jet it took off again heading to Seattle.
Another hour later and the remaining X-Duo landed just outside of Seattle. They wanted to remain inconspicuous, so they remained in their civilian clothes. They took Wolverine's motorcycle into the city. They didn't know exactly where Deadpool was, so they drove around until Wolverine caught his scent then followed it.
When they found Deadpool he was waiting in line at a taco truck. Wolverine parked his bike nearby before he and Storm got off.
Deadpool noticed their approach. "Hey Logan, thus must be a special occasion. You hardly ever visit."
"That's because you're a complete pain to deal with. And this isn't a social visit, so don't go thinking that."
"Aww I love you too."
Wolverine popped his claws in warning. "Be serious."
"You should know that isn't possible."
Storm decided to interject now. "Wade, we would like to speak to you about your time in prison."
"Well I can tell you right now it was not like the movies. After I get my taco I'll tell you more about it. Until then why don't you sit over there with my friend?" He pointed over to a bench where a woman with short messy black hair, pale skin, and a lot of muscle was sitting. She was wearing ripped up jeans, a red shirt, a black leather jacket and a pair of aviator shades.
"You actually have friends?" Wolverine asked clearly surprised.
"It's just as plausible as you having friends."
Wolverine rolled his eyes before walking off. The less he had to talk to Deadpool the better. Storm followed him and sat on the bench next to Deadpool's friend with Wolverine standing next to her. Storm turned to the woman to introduce herself. "Hello, I am Ororo."
The other woman turned to her. "You're one of the X-Men aren't you?"
"Yes, how did you know?"
"Seen you on the news. You have very distinctive features. I'm assuming your runty friend here is another member."
"What'd you call me?" Wolverine asked, the insult a reminder of Sabretooth who used it all the time.
"Would you prefer short-stack or midget?"
Wolverine growled at her.
She chuckled in response.
Deadpool finally walked over to them carrying two tacos. He handed one to his friend. "One taco with all the meats for you." He handed one of the tacos to his as of yet not named friend. "And one with extra hot sauce for me." He sat down between Storm and the other woman. He noticed the scowl on Wolverine's face. "Oh did you want one? You should have said something earlier buddy."
"I'm not dignifying that with a response."
"Isn't that a response?"
"Wade please, could you tell us about your time in prison?" Storm asked. "Particularly about the Doctor."
"Yeah I can do that. First thing you need to know is that the Doctor was hot."