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Two figures stood on a cliff overlooking a thrashed clearing in the forest on the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.
(Earlier that morning.)
Wolverine was in the kitchen of the Xavier Institute reading the morning paper and drinking a cup of coffee. As he scanned the paper his eyes stopped on a picture of a campsite in the blue ridge mountains in the Shenandoah River Valley area of Virginia. At first he thought it was just another bear attack, then he noticed claw marks claw marks on one of the trees. It was a series of three parallel slashes in the tree. Spitting out his coffee he slammed his mug down and let out a feral growl. Which caused Kitty to fall out of her chair. Who was using her laptop at the kitchen table in the morning like usually to have at least a few moments of peace before the others came down.
"Thanks for the morning heart attack Mr. Logan." Kitty said watching him storm out as she picked up her chair. She was worried about his reaction. She been through a lot over her tenure at Xavier's. She quickly contacted the Professor. 'I don't know why Professor but something in the paper has Mr. Logan pretty upset.' She said in her mind knowing the Professor would receive it.
"It's okay Kitty I know he is on his way to meet me and will probably be entering my office any moment." He said to her telepathicly to reassure her.
Not even a minute after, Logan flung the door to Xavier's office, throwing the paper on his desk opened to the picture. Then slamming the door behind shut before walking over to behind Xavier's desk near the window.
"We got a problem Charles." Logan said in his gruff deep voice.
"What about Logan? It has to be something pretty important to have you this upset." Xavier said calmly knowing his friend was truly upset about something. Xavier looked at the picture but wasn't quite sure from looking at it why it had Logan worried.
"The attack on that campsite wasn't just some bear attack Charles." Logan said.
"What you think a mutant was behind this?" Xavier asked with a worried look on his face.
"Yeah but it is more the just another mutant attack. The attack was done by someone with claws similar to mine." he said.
Xavier pressed his finger tips together trying analyze the information Logan had just told him.
"On one of the trees Chuck there are claw marks identical to mine. Only according to the information below the picture that happened two nights ago. I was working on new danger room programs for the students when this happened. And we both know Sarah was here as well. Not to mention the difference in our claw patterns." Logan said both agitated and worried. Since if it is another like him it was a situation if not handled soon would mean disaster.
"I know what your thinking Logan. You believe someone else is trying to recreate the weapon x program. Like Hydra did when they worked on creating Sarah." He said calmly and rationally hoping it would help calm his friend down.
At this point outside Xavier's door Jamie, Amara and Bobby were ease dropping on the conversation. When Sarah was walking by on her was back to her room to get her work out clothes before she went out on a run through the park.
"What are you guys doing?" Sarah asked out of curiosity.
"Logan and the Professor are talking about an accident at a campsite in the woods that might involve another person like you and Logan. But from the way it sounds it isn't…" Bobby was cut off before he could finish when Sarah burst into the room.
Which caused the three young mutants to scatter from the door way, even thought most likely both Logan and Xavier knew they were there.
"Or maybe not all the so called failed attempts were actually failures before …" Logan was saying before he was cut off by Sarah storming into the office much like he had earlier.
"What is this I about another person out there like Me and Logan. " She screamed with a hint of feral growl mixed in. "It can't just be Sabertooth since it was Logan would of already hopped on his bike, and been racing toward the location."
"Well Sarah Logan believes this attack in the mountains from the picture, was actually done by another like the two of you. While we don't know if it is another group recreating the weapon x project. Or as Logan was saying before you interrupted earlier. Maybe not all attempts before you were actually failures as we believed." Xavier said with his finger tips pressed together like it is when he is in contemplation about something.
"Well I remember reading the files about the earlier experiments. And starting around number 19 and going through 22 they had tried implanting the DNA into the egg of a surrogate mother. Where only one was a successful birth that was X 20 who exceeded all their expectation. Till an accident lead to a huge explosion and the subject as well as all in the area were believed to be incinerated adamantium and all. Luckily for Hydra Riseman and other top scientists were all at the main facility continuing the experiments with me. Their hope was to have the two of us create in unbeatable team. Well needless to say the incident was covered up by filling the resulting crater with water. Also according to the file X 20 would be about 4 years older then I am." She said recounting the time when they wanted to test her black ops skill in their base and she found the files on the earlier subjects.
"What!" Logan yelled trying to take in the information. Even though they had X 20 they continued work trying to create another. Dealing with one Logan was bad enough if they had been together when Sarah first attacked the mansion who knows what would of happened.
"Well that is quite the interesting bit of information." Xavier said thinking what the magnitude of the incident was to lead Hydra to believe that even the adamantium was even destroyed. Given what he knows of the alloy and the properties it has shown it must have been quite the disaster.
"Well if it is X 20 we have to find him! The file noted before the accident that there were some irregularities in him. On more the one occasion he demonstrated to abnormal abilities on top of the ones we share and the file didn't really say anything about them." Sarah said fearful of the possibilities of what might happen if they didn't find him and soon.
"That settles it Kid! Go get your gear and meet me in the garage." Logan said and waited for X 23 to leave the room. "And Chuck I want you to be at cerebro to see if you can't get a reading on him from that area if he uses his powers again."
"Of course Logan I am even going to check back over the last two days to see if we didn't get a reading on him and just missed it." Xavier said wheeling out of the room followed by Logan.
Logan and Sarah left of his bike knowing they could get there fast and hopefully undetected by the one in the mountains.
(Back to the cliff in the Blue Ridge Mountains.)
Logan turned to X 23/ Sarah. "Well be ready for anything Kid." He said not knowing how this was all going to turn out.
"I know and will you stop calling me kid." She said in a slightly raised voice annoyed at being called kid so often by Logan.
With that Logan headed of to the North following a scent that was both familiar and deferent to him. While X 23 left heading North east in a decent proximity to Logan to use their numbers to cover more ground. As well was watch each others backs.
Next Chapter: We shall meet this mysterious experiment and not just Logan and X 23 are in the mountains searching for him.