This takes place after the procedure and 6 months since Alcatraz. This I borrowed from the first 'X-men' when we see Hugh Jackman in the fighting ring. Try to picture Mai a bit bigger, muscle wise and tougher, just like her daddy!

Mai climbed out of her truck, watching it jump as if it had been severely weighed down.

"Well, look at what the dog dragged in! How are ya, babe?" Bear laughed as he ran to Mai, pick her up and spun her in his strong arms. "You put on weight or something?"

"You callin me fat, pal?"

"Wouldn't dare. You look good though."

"Thanks man, Got to admit, I'm glad to be back despite…"

"How ya doing girl? " Hawk just came out of nowhere.

"I'm ok. Give me hug, dork." She joked as her friend hugged her.

After the boys left, Mai stepped off her back porch into the pouring rain. Starting out into a run she jumped on a low tree branch and unleashed her claws. Lighting bolts caused enough light so she could inspect her new weapons. Slowing she drug the claws into the tree trunk and climbed to the top. The clouds parted enough for the moon to shine on her.

The next morning was damp from last nights rain. She should be back in school, but she wasn't. Instead, she hit the 'play' on the CD player and Three Days Grace 'Animal I've Become' flowed into the back yard. Once the song ended, she'd keep hitting 'repeat'. Grabbing a tree branch, she did 100 pull ups, then did 100 pushups; 50 with two hands and 50 one handed. After two hours of workout that would put most military groups to shame, she rested.

"Can I get a coke, please?" she asked Jacob, the bar keep at the local tavern

"No prob, Mai. Glad your home." He smiled and gave the soda. Taking a sip of the drink, she notice a drunk hitting on one of the waitresses.

"Come on baby, you know what I want"

"Let me go!"

"Hey! She said let her go! And I suggest you do, before you lose something important" Mai growled and got between them, allowing the waitress to get away.

"I don't normally hit kids, but in your case I'll make an exception." The man slurred and went to punch her.

The bar all gasped as Mai caught the fist with one hand and flipped the man on his back. He got back up and charged at the girl, but she easily dodged him. After knocking him out with one punch, Jacob helped her throw guy out on his ass.

"Hey Mai, you need a job? Wouldn't' normally give a 16 year old a job in bar, but I figured you could help get the drunks out and help with whatever else."

"When do I start?"

THREE YEARS LATER:

"Logan, you sure the person we're lookin for is here?" Rogue asked her surrogate father.

"That's what Storm said. She supposedly works here" Logan gestured to the tavern they were about to enter. It hard been about months since Magneto tried to take over Alcatraz and Storm found a file on a mutant the Professor was interested in before he died, so she asked Logan and Marie to check her out.

"Welcome to the final round! In this corner, weighting at 210 lbs and 6'8 is the challenger, Walt Phillips! And in the other corner, our returning camp, at 5'4 and 120 lbs, Coyote!" The bell rang and the man named Jake charged at Coyote who just swung her knee up and got him right under the chin.

The guys was in a red shirt and jeans, while she was in jeans and sports bra.

"Logan, does that girl look familiar to you?"

"Yeah. She kinda does" He watched the girl in the ring punch the guy right into the wire all around them, knocking him out. He notice she cracked her neck the same way he did.

"Excuse me, who is that?" Logan went up to the Jacob and pointed to Mai.

"That? That's Mai Magena Howlett. This jobs her get her anger out and she's got a lot to be angry about. Her mother was murdered about three years ago and Mai killed the guys who did. By herself."

"Who's her Daddy?"

"James Howlett. But most called him Logan" He went back to wiping down the bar and watched Mai beat the next opponent.

Logan and Rogue looked at each other, then at the girl as she left the ring with two guys. One handed her a towel, which she used to wipe off the sweat and blood off her arms and neck, while the other handed her a black t-shirt.

"Mai Howlett? We'd like to talk to ya?" He asked the girl as she sat with her back to him.

"About what?"

"Why you took a few good hits and don't have a mark on you?" She slowly turned around and looked at him eyes wide as saucers and mouth hanging open.

"You ok there, hon?" Rogue asked

"Yeah. Come outside and we can talk." Mai got off the stool, her eyes not leaving Logan's.

"You can heal can't you?" Logan asked as they went to the back lot, toward her trunk.

"Just like you, dad."

"Dad?"

"Mom said if I should ever run into you, I should say something about you only a few would know about. So instead, I'll show you" and she released her claws and look at her father.

Logan looked at her claws, then unleashed his own. The two just look at each other before he spoke "You're just like me"

"Yeah, I get that a lot. I have your healing factor, sense of smell and hearing. But I can also communicate with animals and transform into them too. And as you could tell, I went through the same operation as you."

"Holy shit"

"Yeah, that's what most would probably say. Look, why don't we continues this at my place. You can follow." With that she got into her pick up and drove all the way home, the others following her.

At the house, Mai set out drinks while Logan found a picture of him, one he didn't remember. It was of him and a women. He was leaning with his back against a tree, smiling boldly with the women in his arms.

"That's my mom." She snuck up on him and smiled, his smile.

"So you're my daughter huh?"

"Yeah. I know it's a shock for me too. Almost as big as my mother telling me that she was shot with a big ass adamantium bullet and that I healed her from the womb before she even she was pregnant with me."

"How old are you, anyway? Rogue asked

"18. Be 19 in December. You guys from that school for mutants?"

"How'd you know?"

"My mom and I talked about it the day before she died. Said some guy named the professor asked who my father was."

"When was you mother killed?"

"I was 15, almost 16. Came home, saw her dead. I tried to heal her, but couldn't. Got into fight with a bunch of Swat guys. One shot me right here," she pointed to her left shoulder, "That's when my claws first came out. They were bone then and I used them to kill them all, then lights out. People say I used a pitch fork or something to defend myself, then either I or the Sheriff got rid of it?"

"Why would he do that? Did he know about your…?"

"Ray? Oh, yeah he knows. His son Hawk is one of my buddies you saw at the bar. He gave me my shirt. He and his family practically raised when I got back."

"How'd they get to you?"

"Pulled the vengeance thing. Said they knew who ordered the ambush and that they'd help make me "invincible. During the surgery, I heard them one of them say "my father" and "shouldn't have killed her mother." Well, I lost it. I killed anyone who tried to stop me. There was one doctor who was kind to me. She told how you went through the same procedure for the same reasons. You thought mom was dead and you let them…you know the rest."

Logan sat speechless at the story. His daughter had literally gone trough hell in span of a few weeks at such a young age.

"We'd like you to come to New York. Be part of the school."

"Aren't I little too old to still be in school? I got my GED last year."

"Maybe you can teach."

Mai thought about it. She could go away and finally get to know her father, be around others like her. If it didn't work out, she could come back and live her life.

"Ok. I have to do a few things tomorrow, but then I can follow you on my bike."

"Oh, jeeze! You ride motorcycles too?!" Rogue threw her hands in the air. Was there nothing these two didn't have in common.

"What do you ride?"

"A Yamaha FZ 1. Want to see it?"

Rogue smiled as the father and daughter walked out to the barn. Once she opened the doors, a black bike sat in front of them. It was midnight blue with a design of a brown Coyote howling upward on both sides. Seeing his curious face, Mai showed a helmet that was the same color but had a full white moon.

"Cousin of one my buddies not only got me a great deal, but he did the design for free. Figured since my full name means 'Coyote Moon' why not let that be on the bike. Says it made look a badass or something."

That night, Mai pack all her clothes into a duffle bag and a sea bag she pick up at the Army/Navy store a while back. The last thing she put in was a picture of her mom. She had called the guys and asked them to keep on the place, saying she wasn't sure how long she'd be gone. Looking around her room one last time, she left to pick her final paycheck from the bar. On the way home, she stopped at the cemetery and knelt at her mother's gravestone. Tears were trying to break out when she heard him behind her.

"I wish I could remember her. I'm sorry, kid. But I promise you, here and now, I will never leave you again." Her father took her hand and helped her off the ground and pulled her into a hug.

That's that for this series. Working on the next chapters for the Batman/X-men crossover.