There was a small pub that was located near the woods. The woods were located on the outskirts of a small town. Most of who visited this pub was either people passing through or locals. The local's consisted of people who were small minded, ones that always thought they were right and others who didn't see things their way were the small minded ones. The closest city was two hours away. Within the pub sat a man, wearing a brown leather jacket, at the bar, having a beer and listening to the chatter of a group of guys over in a booth talking about some mutant they saw on the news. They were saying things, like how the mutant was weak and how one of them could have taken them out, as it was easy for the army to capture them. They began to laugh. Mutants were getting a bad reputation, due to a rouge group who were busting up official buildings. Thanks to them, the army has stepped in to round up all mutants, no matter what. The man at the bar sighed to himself as he took another sip of his beer. He was trying his best to keep his feelings in check to what he was over hearing. He hated how others talked about mutants, especially since he was a mutant himself. A few minutes passed by till the group left and a woman walked in. The woman was very attractive and some of the other men in the bar took notice right away. The woman walked up to the bar and took a seat next to him.
"What do you want Cyndal?" the man said to her, not looking at her.
"Nice to see you too, Logan." she said to him. "You always have a way with words. "
"You always have a way of showing up when you need something." he told her. She looked over to him and smiled.
"That may be true, but I don't need anything this time. Just thought I should give you some info."
"And that would….." he started to say when a group of armed men busted into the bar, wearing what looked to be army uniforms. The man in charge looked right towards where Cyndal and Logan sat, who in return was looking at him.
"Everyone remain calm. We are only here to take them." the man told the others in the bar while pointing towards them. "Please, come peacefully." he added.
"Friends of yours?" Logan asked Cyndal. She just shrugged. She then began to change to her true form. Her eyes went cat like and her nails began to grow which also resembled that of a cat. "I don't do peacefully." Logan told the man as his razor sharp metal claws came out.
"I was looking forward to this." the man said with a sinister smile. The whole bar fled when they all saw what was about to happen. The other army men that were behind him came inside in a hurry, their guns ready and aimed at the mutants. Logan took them in with his feral senses, noting where and how many there was in the room. Cyndal was the first to make her move. She moved as swiftly, dodging the shots that were aimed at her as she leaped behind the men and kicked them upward before kicking them back into a wall. Logan was disarming the men by cutting their weapons in half before stabbing them. They kept this up as they made their escape. Once they reached Logan's bike, they hoped on and left. The man was amazed at what he witnessed.
"Lt. Daniels, should we go after them?" the second-in-command asked him.
"No. Let them go for now. Get the others who are still alive medical attention. And let the other units know that the mutant Cyndal is with Wolverine." he told him. "And if they come in contact with them, that I want both alive, along with the disk she stole." he added.
"Yes sir."
Some time passed before Logan stopped. He wanted to make sure he made some distant from them. They headed into the woods, a place they could hide till he could figure out what was going on. Cyndal sat down on the ground, her back to a tree, looking over her wounds. She was still in her true form. Just as she was tending to her wounds, Logan made a fist with his left hand and extended his claws and stabbed the tree with them, missing her head by inches. She knew he was going to do that, that's why she didn't even flinch.
"Mind explaining what the hell just happened back there." he said as he took his claws from the tree and put them away.
"Just some angry renegade army men. Guess they found out about me swiping their disk."
"What disk?"
"Just this disk." she told him as she unzipped her jacket pocket and took out a mini-disk. "This is the info I was going to tell you about before we were rudely interrupted. This disk has blueprints on a device that the humans are trying to create to destroy our kind. And it's worse than those sentinels." she told him. She put the disk back into her pocket just as Logan sat down near her.
"You weren't planning on giving me that, were you?" he asked her.
"I was. When I picked up your scent and knew you were in the area, I was hoping I could give it to you so you could take it back to the X-Men." she told him.
"That wouldn't have worked out. I'm taking a break from the team. Let's just say I'm not on good terms at the moment." he informed her. He was sitting on the other side of the tree, right next to her. She quickly turned herself towards him when she heard that, a smile came to her face.
"So, what did you do?" she asked him, her cat eyes peering into him.
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Come on," she said as she got closer to him. "You can tell me."
"Drop it." he told her as he stared at her.
"You're no fun to talk to."
"Yeah, just like you're no fun to be around." The tension between the two of them was high. So high, that it was driving them crazy. They both stared at each other for a moment before she got up and walked away. She knew that if she didn't get away from him, he would start something in her that she wouldn't like the outcome of. She took a few deep breaths, trying to relax, her arms crossed, while she paced back and forth. She looked back at Logan.
"You know what, I'll take this info to someone else who may be able to help." she yelled back to him.
"Fine by me." he replied back as he got up. She watched him walk by.
"Logan, why do you have to be like this?" she asked him. He stopped but didn't look back at her.
"You hurt me the last time we worked together. I trusted you, but as soon as you got what you wanted, you high tailed it outta there." he told her, remembering back to that day.
"It wasn't my choosing." she explained. He looked back at her.
"I don't like that word 'choosing'. You keeping something from me?" he said to her. She began to cuss herself under her breath. She looked to the ground for a moment before looking his way. She took a deep breath before she began to speak.
"Just promise not to kill me." she said to him. "Those men back there, I know them, they know me. I kind of use to work for them. They're part of a special ops group to capture renegade mutants. Like the one we went after last year that escaped that prison. I wasn't there to collect Intel from the mutant, but to lead them to where he was located. I was having a hard time tracking him down, that's why I called on you. I didn't know what was going to happen. When the building came down, I was going to go back and save you. But they wouldn't let me. They actually wanted you to die. They wanted me to leave you behind; they said that you were a danger to them. I'm……I'm sorry." she said, waiting to see what would happen next. Logan was looking away now, trying his best to keep his anger and rage in check. He then started to walk away. "Logan, please! I'm sorry." she yelled to him.
"You've completely lost my trust." he said back. He stopped again. In a fast motion his claws came out and he lunged at her, knocking her onto her back. His right handed claws at her throat. "I should kill you for the pain you've caused me! You used me! You lied to me! Not to mention, you lead me on!" he yelled, his claws now touching the flesh of her throat.
"Kill me then, if it'll make you happy. But please, take the disk." she told him. He stared into her eyes, and she stared into his. He put his claws up and got off of her.
"As much as I would love to kill you, I can't." he told her as he helped her up. "You just better not be lying to me about this disk. Cause if for any reason you're here to lead them to me, I will kill you." he told her.
"Fine. But I'm being truthful about the disk. I won't lead you on anymore, I promise. When I found this info, that's when I called it quits."
"Good. We need to get moving." he told her.
Off in the distant sat a camouflage man up in a tree looking through the sight of a sniper rifle. It was aimed at Cyndal. He was waiting for the right moment as he watched the two of them talk.