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Three months had passed since the downfall of Apocalypse and the institute seemed somewhat peaceful as Charles Xavier wheeled himself down one of the mansion's many corridors. The only disturbance was the erratic snowball fight out on the grounds. Small explosions could be heard from outside and as Professor X glanced out the window, down on the scene, a rather large ice beam streamed by. Xavier could only chuckle to himself. Most of the students seemed to be rather enjoying themselves this Christmas holiday, but his eyes fell upon one lonely figure observing the battle from afar under a large tree. One lonely figure named Laura, formally known as X23.
"Mercy! Mercy! Stop!" Bobby cried from behind a rather large snow pile. Once again the others had ganged up on him. Ray, Tabitha, Sam, Alex, Jubilee, Amara, and others used their powers and own physical strength to bombard his icy fort with snowballs, fire, small bombs, and beams of energy; anything to knock it down. Just as Xavier made his way onto the veranda the fort finally collapsed and Bobby's cry of surprise could be heard from underneath it. He would be joining the rest of the X-Men: Ororo, Scott, Logan, Hank, Piotr, and Jean.
"Logan, if I may have a word with you," said the professor. Wolverine shrugged and followed him back though the front doors. Laura watched them leave and thought about trying to follow them, but then she remembered Logan would smell her and the professor probably already knew she considered doing this so she stayed behind and watched Bobby's comeback.
"So whatcha got Charles?" Logan asked in his usual gruff voice. Xavier continued down the hall so he continued after him toward the ground floor elevator.
"Laura seems to be coping with the institute quite well."
"Yeah, but sometimes I wished she would just act like a kid should every now and then. You know? Just have some fun." Logan said half-heartedly.
"Perhaps with time, but that is not the reason I called you back here."
"So what's the reason?"
"Hopefully a new student." He said as the elevator doors slide apart. They stepped in and the doors closed back to their original positions. "Cerebro, please." Logan pressed the base floor button. "Thank you. I will be going visit a young girl in Texas. You are welcome to come if you like."
"You don't make many house calls, Chuck. What makes her so special?" The doors once again slide open to reveal the catwalk to the immensely powerful computer, Cerebro.
"For one, S.H.I.E.L.D. is looking for her."
"What?"
"You're friend, Nick Fury was surprisingly kind and understanding enough to send me these files." Xavier placed the helmet on top of this head and a large screen appeared in front of them with a young girls smiling picture. She had long black wavy hair, large brown eyes, a dazzling smile and couldn't be any younger then 16.
Logan stared at the picture for a moment before saying, "She looks like Laura." He was amazed by the similarity in this girl and his clone whom he'd come to call, daughter. Although this girl seemed to be taller and older, they had the same build, same oval face, nose, even the same eye shape. The only difference was the hair and eyes.
"Actually, I think she looks more like you." The professor had a small smile playing across his face.
"What are you saying Charles?"
"Laura has a twin; not exactly identical, but a twin sister nonetheless. She is known as X23.5. These documents recovered by Fury at the destroyed Hydra airbase tell how this miraculous predicament occurred." Logan listened intently. "Evidently the embryo cell split, as is what happens when there are twins. This was a mistake, of course, but the good Dr. Risman continued with the development. Once the two girls were born Laura's X-gene was dominate while the other's lay dormant. Because of this and the fact that the girls might have a special bond they sent this girl to an adoption agency in Texas. The family that adopted her, Mr. and Mrs. Hendrix, coincidentally named her Lena." Xavier gave Logan some time to gather his thoughts.
"There was another," he thought. "Another clone; another…daughter?" All Logan could do was stare at Lena's face and almost see himself.
"Her dormant X-gene is beginning to break through, though. And I fear that if her mutant gene grows any further without our supervision S.H.I.E.L.D. will find her in no time. My worst fear is that if they find her they might want to try the Weapon X project on her."
Logan growled in furry at this. "When do we leave?"
"As soon as possible."
Well there's chapter one. If you have the time let me know what you think and if I can improve it in any way.
By the way, I promise the other chapters will be way longer then this. This was just to get things kicked off.