I need names people! Can anyone think of a decent name and/or codename for X-23 and X-24 I can't keep them with the weapon-X names things could get confusing when I get deeper into the erm...? Plot is it? Anyway any ideas would be appreciated. R&R
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Chapter 2: the game starts when a piece is revealed
The X-men's helicopter flew high over the trees as Kurt and Kitty scanned the landscape for suitable places to land. The atmosphere in the cabin was strained at best as Logan mentally berated himself for leaving the kids alone to have to deal with the Sentinel themselves. He had to keep telling himself that he'd trained them well enough and they were experienced enough to work alone without his guidance… 'Well least they have 'Ro with them I suppose.' Looking over to Kitty and Kurt he had to hold back a small smirk; even though they were so young they had taken it upon themselves to help with Xavier's vision of a peaceful co-existence between mutants and humans that in itself was enough to impress him. Personally he saw it as nothing more than a flawed dream held dear by pacifists and hopeless optimists but it was a dream he wouldn't mind seeing to fruition. And on top of that every one of those kids has had to deal with problems people of their age shouldn't have had to go through, something about that made him worry what bleak future they held if it didn't work.
Logan was brought out of his self pity by Nightcrawler as he pointed to a small opening in the endless see of green shouting "Calm down elf! What's the problem?" he chided
"There! Down there! Herr Logan I see place we can land" Logan leaned over from his seat to see what he was pointing at
"Good job kid" Kurt gave him a wide smile and a thumbs up earning him a sigh from the older mutant. 'kids' Logan sent the helicopter into a shallow dive and set it down in the small clearing. After the dust cleared Wolverine hoped out of the door as Nightcrawler and Shadowcat teleported out. Something was wrong… It was just too damn quiet Logan could tell something was amiss he sniffed at the air in an attempt to catch the scent and it didn't take long for him to find his target even over the brimstone stench he swore he smelt something familiar in the night air… something akin to his own mixed with a cold antiseptic tint Logan's heart sank he didn't want the obvious truth to be real it meant that they had failed they knew she was alive. All he could do was hope 'please don't let it be her… whatever powers are watching please don't let it be her!'
"GOD NO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHUUUUUUUUGH!" Wolverine dropped into his trademark combat posture bringing out his razor-sharp claws with shlink to either side legs bent whatever was out here was obviously dangerous
"Was war das?" Kurt said reverting back to his native German
"L…like what was that?" Kitty said in unison stuttering slightly backing up to Nightcrawler.
"Come on you two! Keep up or I'm leaving you behind" Wolverine said in a hushed whisper before sprinting off in the direction of the disembodied cry.
"Vait up Wolverine!" Nightcrawler cried before running in his cat style fashion after him with kitty close behind.
Wolverine had slowed down as he drew closer to the scream now instincts told him something was amiss, the smell of blood drifted in the air 'still fresh' he followed the smell deeper into the forest, it didn't take him long to find the source of the smell but when he did he tried to turn round and stop the others from getting close enough to see "Wai…" but he hadn't counted on the kids enhanced night-vision
"Oh Dear God no!" Nightcrawler paled and his step faltered as he recoiled from the sight "I vink I'm gonna be sick!" 'Kitty!' trying to keep his composure Kurt grabbed Kitty by the arm holding her back from discovering the scene
"Like what's your damage K…. hmpth?" her questioning was cut short as a three fingered hand clasped firmly over her mouth
"Trust me you don't vont to see vhats up zhere trust me" Nightcrawler whispered letting go of his vice like grip Kitty was furious spinning round and scowled at him. She was a big girl now she didn't need the team to baby her, she was about to lay into him and give him a piece of her mind but the pleading look he gave her seemed to melt away her resolve. "Just trust me Kitty please!"
Wolverine nodded to Nightcrawler glad he had kept the girl away from seeing all this… mess for lack of a better word. Now he needed to focus on finding the sick bastard that did this, he knelt down rubbing his fingers in a pool of blood that had drained under the hanging body; 'still warm… can't have gotten too far' he wiped away the blood and sniffed at the air again the tinge of anti-septic was drifting on the wind whomever they where chasing was not far away now. Scowling deeply he ran forward there was a BAMF and Shadowcat and Nightcrawler where running along side him.
"Logan up Zere!" Nightcrawler pointed high through the tree line to a large outcrop of rock. Atop the cliff a ghostly bloodied figure stood peering down over the edge at something for a moment, it walked away but stopped shortly after only a few steps and ran a hand through its hair before rushing back and diving off the cliff.
"Elf! Don't go portin off now that might be the guy…" Wolverine warned letting the sentence go before he finished. Something bothered him though the sickening antiseptic smell was too potent... too new to be hers so why wasn't it? "Stay close!" Using his claws he tore through the undergrowth at speed a shoreline came into view and on its edge lay two figures one coughing for breath as the other held her close Kitty relaxed assuming everything was fine until a high pitched feral roar erupted and four blades tore from the pale figures back. "Kid no!" Wolverine's claws shot back and he ran over to the shivering X-23 falling to his knees he grabbed her gently by the head and turned it to face him. Her deadpan expression was betrayed by her quivering eyes. "Kid what did you do?"
"I…I" was all she managed she was about to pull out her claws when a three fingered hand clasped firmly onto her wrist
"Don't do it you'll kill him" she just scowled at him before trying to pull out her claws again, but the hand did not move "You really want to be like zhem if you go through with zis that's just what you'll be" he knelt down as wolverine stood up resuming his usual stoic expression as Nightcrawlers gentle eyes searched hers. "Don't do zis… ve can help you"
"How… they'll never give up. They thought I was dead and they never gave up. They'll find me again I know it!" there was such venom in her voice
"You never gave us a chance to help. We can protect you from all zhose who might do us harm." He gave her a weak smile "you vouldn't believe it but people don't like me for how I look but my friends at ze institute look out for me" X-23's scowl softened and the uncertainness in her eyes returned as she looked back to wolverine
"Logan…?" she said questioningly he just gave her a small smile which vanished quickly.
"Will you come to ze institute with me? Things can be different. Logan will be zhere if you need him… soooo will you?" he gave her a wide smile filled with sharp predatory teeth. She looked back and forth between the blue one and her template unsure of what to do she didn't answer but Wolverine gave her another rare smile before putting his hand onto the shoulder of the blue one
"Get us out of here Elf" Nightcrawler placed a soft hand on her shoulder and the other on the hard glass like shoulder of the impaled figure he waited for Kitty to place a hand and his shoulders before he teleported them all away in a large puff of smoke.
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'uurgh where am I? I…it's so warm… I don't like it!' something wet was pushing harshly against his body, something angry and vaguely familiar. Heightened senses can be a curse if you haven't had the training to bear with them and this person sniff this girl was far to close for comfort but he couldn't escape her scent and the sound of her beating heart it seemed to drown out the sound of the hum of the helicopter blades pulsing in his head like a war drum 'make it stop… make the noise stop!' he tried to run escape from the torturous sound but that someone was holding him close.
The delirium was unbearable where was he why did it hurt so much to breath, why couldn't he remember? He needed to see who held him but fear was holding him back 'why am I scared if they wanted me dead they would have tried by now.' His eyes fluttered open he wasn't expecting to see a young girl shelookedno older than him yet her green eyes bored into him with hate. Why? What had he done to make her hate him… why couldn't he remember? Her frown deepened and her shoulder tensed sending searing pain through his chest 'why?'
By instinct he refused to look away just stared intently into her vicious green eyes. Trying to move his left arm sent more flashes of pain like before he would have kept trying but she twitched again and it fell limply to his side. The right arm though seemed fine, he didn't know why he did it but he gently stroked a loose strand of hair out of her face but froze almost instantly; he was white no longer the sickly pale colour he knew but a sick white alabaster ending in purple claws…
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She watched it intently as it slept the white demon who tried to kill her after she'd fail to kill it….
FLASHBACK:
X-23 stood in front of a large glass cylinder filled in a strange fluorescent green liquid, this was the last one in the facility the other monsters had long since been silenced she'd made short work of the scientists who tried to get away. No-one was getting out of this place alive she wouldn't allow them to continue to create living weapons any longer! She just hope Logan would forgive her for this, he'd tried so hard to fake her death and keep it a secret from S.H.I.E.L.D. and H.Y.D.R.A. she smiled to herself knowing no one was around to see her meant she could express herself somewhat but the smile soon faded. Learning of this facility ruined everything they had worked so hard to achieve the deep rooted hatred drove her to seek this place and… burn it to the ground! Her fists clenched at the thought as her attention returned to the last sleeping weapon X-24 was tattooed across the left side of its pale chest crystal like material covered its shoulders, bars of it lined the shins and forearms and one more centred just under the pectorals.
A spasm shot through the floating body and she raised her arm to strike with her two claws. The creature's eyes shot open and scowled at her from within its liquid home, cracks formed on the glass before it exploded in her face. She was to close to dodge them and the slivers sliced deep into her skin the force was such that she was thrown hard into the wall behind her. Growling she tore out a particularly large piece of curved glass with a grunt and sent it skidding along the floor.
A crunch made her look up X-24 was out of its bed and walking toward her a long muscular tail swishing behind it, its bare three toed feet crushing the glass beneath like he was standing on paper. It showed no sign of pain just fury. Bringing out her other set of claws she jumped at X-24, it dropped to all fours and hissed wrapping the long tail around her leg and slammed her back into the broken tube; the pain was immeasurable if it wasn't for her Adamantium laced bones it would have severed her spine. Standing up quickly she charged again this time keeping close to the ground X-24 swing its claws at her chest she let the blow hit. The force of the blow caused her to cough up blood but she didn't care, that would heal soon enough. X-23 clamped her arm round of his arm holding it with and her free hand she brought her claws up into its shiny gut.But the crystalline material held fast the claws merely scratched two grooves into its surface sliding up she continued the forced motion slicing two deep lines into its chest.
It tried to pull away but she wouldn't let go of its arm so it just stumbled bringing her with it. X-23 regained her footing quickly and lunged at it again aiming higher this time above the crystal, X-24's eyes narrowed and the large tail coiled round her arm pulling it to the side, X-23 let go of its arm to slice off the tail with her claws but it was to fast no sooner had she let go X-24 had grabbed her other hand and pulled. It felt like it was trying to tear her in two and on top of that it was using its free hand to slash at her ripping deep gouges into her body. She wasn't going to give this freak the pleasure of making her cry out she just bit her lip schlink the sap didn't know what hit it. X-23 had her foot blade imbedded deep in its throat, she smiled as it gurgled on its own blood and twisted it in the wound the monsters cold blue eyes rolled to the back of its head and it fell limply to the floor.
X-23's enhanced hearing picked up on armoured footsteps heading her way she was too tired to fight them she had cuts all over her body and her arms felt like they would fall off if they could she need time to heal so for once she did the wise thing and ran hoping for enough time to heal so she could tear them apart….
She hadn't got far when she felt them hit those damn tranquilizers three four max but they where potent and she was tired, truthfully she didn't remember falling off the edge it didn't seem possible for her to slip training since birth had perfected her balance but she had and the added weight of her metal bones was pulling her down into the icy depths of the lake. As she sank the cuts had mostly healed up but she was too weak to swim to the surface, 'not giving up I never give up!' holding her breath until it burned but never did she give up
"GOD NO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGHUUUUUUUUGH!" the scream broke the silence bringing her focus to the surface
'What was that?' something was swimming toward her, a man. The next thing she knew she was in its arms sat on a beach her claws imbedded deep in its chest and below its shoulder
END FLASHBACK…
'he X-men stopped me then so why didn't I kill it why aren't I killing it now' the thing began to rouse and its eyes flickered open. It looked right at her confused staring into her own she didn't like it so she scowled and twisted the claw in its chest but it didn't flinch it just stared into her eyes probing for answers she saw his arm begin to move and twisted her other claw making it fall limp 'stop moving!' a loose piece of hair fell in front of her eyes and he gently moved it away. 'Why did he…it do that?' she was going to shout at it for touching her but his attention was elsewhere no longer did he stare at her he was now looking at his clawed fingers a sheer look of horror and disgust written across his face.
He clenched and unclenched his hand before pushing her off of him blood sprayed everywhere as the claws slide out widening the gaping hole through his body. The X-men where shouting at her but she couldn't tell what they where saying she just stared in disbelief at the creature he had curled itself in a corner rapping its tail protectively around itself muttering something and rocking back and forth. The blue one was trying to console him like he had her, She liked the blue one he was so selfless and kind it was something she wished she could be, she didn't really know why but she started crying Wolverine said something to the girl and she walked past to the front of the helicopter. Why did no-one comfort her?
"Come on kid don't cry Chuck can help you like he did me. Things'll turn out alright" it was strange hearing a normally quiet and antisocial man try to comfort her she knew it was against his nature to do so and the fact that he was trying calmed her down. "Where almost home now. Things'll work out trust me and if anyone turns up to take you without you wanting them I'll run 'em through!"
'that's more like the Logan I know' wrapping a blanket round herself she went to stand next to wolverine and waited to go to the mansion again this time as a guest.
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TBC
So what did you think I'm trying to portray X-23 and the X-men properly is it working? I don't know much about the new mutants I'm tempted not to use them but that would just be a cheap way round it so if anyone wants any particular mutant in eve OC just send me information about them like powers names and personalities.
I know wolverine might seem like he's out of character but I think that the kids would have a calming effect on him over the years even if he doesn't show it to them.
Alright chapter 2 is finished next time on… The weapon-X program: X-men versus the Sentinel round 2 ding FIGHT!