…wow. I was told that Cyclops fans would come off the hinges, wasn't expecting it that quick.

Dear Anon,

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Laura was walking down the hall counting the steps between her 'room' and the spaces between the other doors to preplan an escape when she lifted her nose to the air and sniffed.

Kitty Pride turned the corner reading her tablet and looked up to see her old friend. Kitty's first reaction was bewilderment followed by happiness. "Laura?" Laura kept her skeptical look as the woman walked towards her. "Laura is that you?"

"Is it you, Katharine Pryde?"

Kitty smiled. "Of course."

She opened her mouth to say more but Laura cut her off. "What are you doing here?" Her tone was sharp and direct.

Taken aback slightly, Kitty gave a short laugh. "I'm here training the time displaced X-men. Have you met them yet?"

"No." She said quickly, "Why are you here." She asked again.

Kitty furrowed her brow but was still smiling at her friend. "Perhaps I don't understand the question."

"Why are you here with Cyclops and not Logan?"

Kitty's smiled slowly faded as she looked away from her. "Did you hear what happened two weeks ago?"

Laura arched a brow. "I have not been" she paused looking for the word, "here for the past month."

Kitty looked at her still face and shrugged off the cryptic sentence. "Well, the Original X-men, from the past, came to us in the present, their future."

Laura held up her hand. "Stop." Kitty did as she asked. "If you go any further you will only confuse me more. Why are they here to begin with?" Kitty told her everything that had occurred so far in their lives. The battles with the Avengers, the battle with Shield, and the fight against themselves from the future. Laura sighed. "I wish I could use the 'against the laws of nature' argument."

Kitty put her hand on her hips as she looked at the clone. "Laura," She started but was interrupted by Deadpool screaming-

"X, ugh, there you are. You know you can't go wanderin off lik- squeeze me." He pushed her aside with more effort than necessary and leaned against the wall, crossing his arms over his chest while trying to look seductive to Kitty. "Hey. Don't know about you, but I'm settin my phaser to stun."

Kitty gave an over animated look of surprise mixed with disgust. "What?"

"It's. It's a joke. Lemme try again." Wade cleared his throat and retook his suave stance against the wall. "I know you're the mother of dragons, but you're doin a great job of commanding my snake."

Kittys look of disgust hadn't changed. Laura arched a confused brow. "What are you doing?"

Wade shushed her. "You'll ruin it." He quickly turned back to Kitty, "So, how about later-"

"How the hell did you get in here, Deadpool?!" Kitty shouted at him while pointing a finger in his chest.

"You wouldn't be the first woman who asked me that." He said suggestively with a smirk.

Laura furrowed her brows. "What are you doing?"

"What?" He said defensively. "You X-guys fuck each other so often with different partners every day, I'm shocked you don't have accent thicker than Rouges and claim Bama as your home state. Statically, my chances are vastly greater than they've ever been."

Kitty was still fuming while Laura tiled her head. "And those chances would be."

Wade shrugged, "Well, if you carry the two, its like thriteen to six."

Laura looked up in thought. Women by his age divided by women in the world, times y divided by women in X-men. Carry the two. "That is impressive."

"Thanks." He said with a smirk then leaned towards Kitty again. "How bout after the lights go down, we do a little up all night?" With a scowl, Kitty reached her hand into his chest and squeezed his heart. His eyes went wide as he took in quick breath to counter the pain. "Oh no, my nougat center." After a few tries of breathing. "It only beats for you babe, but please stop. I'm not gonna ask again. " He squeezed though tightened lungs.

With a groan, Kitty released his heart and crossed her arms. Wade leaned against the wall again for support. "Deadpool, No. Just" she paused unable to find the words. "No. Ugh. How did you even get in here?"

"Cyclops brought us here." Laura answered. "While we were unconscious. He then manipulated us into staying here to 'protect the kids.' He would probably do a better job if he did not send them into the field daily."

"Laura" Kitty sang

"He is making soldiers again. With your students. Look at the things that you have been though, is that the life you want for them?"

Kathrine put her fists on her hips. "This is the life they choose. This is where they want to be."

Wade arched a brow as he pushed himself up the wall. "So your answer to life choices is appeasement." He shrugged "Spare the rod."

Kitty shot him a displeased look then back to Laura. "Look, since being in this time, all of their bad decisions have been paraded in their face. This is a chance to help them make different choices."

"More like mistakes." Laura added.

"Exactly."

Laura arched an accusing brow. "You want them to be free to make their own mistakes?"

"Yes. We learn more though failures than successes."

Wade huffed but both women ignored him "Maybe you mutants, I mean, we mutants, but some of us totally have more skillz than the others. That how I learn. Mah skillz."

Kitty continued without him. "Good, bad, these are words used to describe using hind sight. They need to know that there is always another path. Another way. Another life."

Laura dropped her gaze to think on that sentence. Deadpool noticed her silence. "Oh, no." He poked her in the temple three times. "Hamster, get off the wheel and back in the cage."

Laura shifted to anger and popped her claws. The loud speaker came on before she could respond. Scott Summers had announced that everyone should come to the danger room immediately.

The door to the danger room opened with a gust of air from the hydolics. The scents were slightly disappated, but the lights from the ceiling were almost blinding. It only took a moment for Laura's eyes to adjust as she stepped into the room. There were several people on the other side of the room, each turned to see the duo as they entered.

Wade walked beside her and whistled. "Big room. Know what it kind of reminds me of?" Laura arched an annoyed brow. On an adjacent wall was a door that was akin to a garage door. It had four claw marks that belonged to a bear that were poorly buffed out. She dropped her eyes to her feet as she walked. Her mind filled with questions as to why she was here, and her own memories of rooms like this. "Kind of reminds me of that one scene in Star Wars where what's his name sets up a virtual reality, and then that one guy is all like 'Dude, it'll create an actual real thing if it escapes.'"

Laura stopped walking and looked up at him. "You mean Star Track?"

Wade stopped and turned around to look at her. "Nerd" he coughed into his hand.

Laura's hands turned into fists as she shot him a death look and took a deep breath to calm herself. The one time she has a pleasant conversation with Hellion as he was describing the events of the re-run of that exact episode.

Wade laughed and made the sound of metal on metal. He shirked and grabbed for his leg. "Oh no, my leg is trapped in this bear trap. That I walked into. On my own." He said more pointing. With another chuckle he continued on to the crowd, leaving her behind.

Laura walked up the group, still glowering at Deadpool and barely noticing the students.

"This is Laura, your combat instructor today." Scott announced. Laura looked up at the 'kids' with aphrention.

"I do not think that is-"

Scott ignored her. "Wade," Hearing his own name hmm-ed, "I know you are quite eager, but I'd like for you to sit this one out."

Deadpool slumped. "Oh, comon teach. I won't hurt em." A malicious smile replaced the jovial mask with a tone to match. "Too much."

"No." Scott said seriously.

"Come on, that's so unfair. How come she gets to have all the fun?" Wade whined while pointing his whole hand within inches of Laura's face.

Cyclops only arched a brow. "Because she knows when to back off. Please." He gestured for Wade to sit on the side line for this one. With an annoyed look and a grunt, Wade did as he was asked. He stomped to the side of the room like a child and crossed his arms over his chest.

Allowing Deadpool one last sigh of displeasure, Scott contuined to the group. "Your enemies will usually out number you ten to one. But sometimes, all it takes is one." He pulled off his belt and wrapped it around Laura's waist, allowing her to buckle it. "Your mission," Scott instructed the kids, "Take the belt." He gave her a warning look. "Don't kill them."

Laura arched an annoyed brow as he walked away from her. She took a deep breath to pass her anger. This was completely against her chosen pacifist life style. With an annoyed grunt she looked up at the kids who were slowly surrounding her. Five opponents. Each wearing a diffent color but the same scheme of uniform. Maybe she should just let them take it. She shouldn't fight them. They don't know what they're doing. They're following orders. It would be wrong to –

The biggest of the group was behind her and wrapped his arms around her. He lifted her off the ground. Laura didn't fight. She let him. What she wasn't expecting was for him to slam her into the ground. Laura's back hit first, followed by her head. Concussion. She rolled for five more feet, finally coming to a stop on her stomach.

Logan once told her that he was never good in a fight. At first.

The pain broke her of her pacifist choice. Picking herself off the ground she looked at the group. Truly looked at the group. Their scents, their faces. These are the time displaced X-Men. Every achievement they've ever accomplished, very battle they've won, was a simulation that the other students used as a training. Everyone knows their moves. Laura smirked.

Warren was first. He used his power of flight to try and catch her off balance. But their time together on X-Force told her what his predictable move would be. He caught her and carried her off into the air with one arm while the other was reaching for the belt. She grabbed his hand that was reaching and pulled his first two fingers back impossibly far. He released a groan of pain until she broke them. He recoiled and dropped her to cover the wound.

Jean, the saint, caught her before she hit the ground. Jean tried to establish a com link between the two of them, hoping to lock up her brain. Laura only smiled as she forced Jean to watch the most brutal thing Laura has ever done to another human being.

Pure disgust was written in Jeans face. She was still young, naive. That moment of hesitation was all Laura needed. Bobby was behind her, trying to freeze her. She dropped her knees around Drakes neck and twisted. The torque caused him to flip off his ice bridge and onto the ground. Laura landed within inches of him. He was winded from landing on his back. Defenseless. Laura recovered and drove an elbow into this throat, shattering his Adam's apple. He started to choke on his own broken bones as she stood and marked her next target.

She popped her claws and turned to Jean again, who was still recovering from the memory. Laura dragged her claws on the metal floor. The sound of nails on a chalk board came to mind as the other X-men quickly grabbed their ears as Laura ran towards Jean.

"Jean," younger Scott yelled, "Make her stop."

"I can't even hear myself think." Jean yelled back.

Laura picked up her claws long enough to drive her elbow into Jean's collar bone. The sudden surprise of pain sent the young girl into shock. Thankfully, she wasn't used to pain. Yet.

Younger Scott moved behind her but it was Beast at her front that gave her the most trouble. He ran at her straight on. His fists lifted in the air as he gave a brutes war cry.

Laura had other plans. Warren came swooping in again to try and take her out of the fight. She timed and anticipated perfectly. They are still young, unable to communicate. Perfect.

Laura jumped , twisting her body to land on Warrens back. Her sudden weight set him on an immediate decline towards the ground. Laura jumped off, driving his head straight into the metal ground, breaking his nose, chipping two teeth, and cutting his lip. She landed behind Beast. He turned and ran towards her again.

Kitty was in the control room with Summers as Laura was wiping the floor with hem. "Do something." She yelled at him.

"Not yet." Cyclops said. His arms were crossed as he watched X-23 shatter Jeans clavicle. "They need to learn."

"What? The reason why she was even created? Why a place like this exists." She said as she indicated to the Weapon X facility. Scott didn't move as he watched X jump on Warren. Sophie behind him gave a slight snicker as he landed on his face. "If you won't-" Katharine threatened.

"Christopher" Scott said over his shoulder at the young male behind him. The boy swallowed hard as he looked up at his leader, "Go with Professor Pryde and prepare to heal the students."

Kitty sucked her teeth as she held back a wave of hatred. With a disgruntled sigh, stormed out of the control room with the boy trailing her.

Frost arched a brow and took Prydes place looking out the window. =What are you planning?= She asked telepathically.

He gave her a sideways glance and returned to the battle field.

Laura wasn't able to resist a challenge. She ran towards Beast, claws pointed and teeth barred. At the last moment, she dropped to a knee and slid between his legs, driving her elbows into his femoral arthritis. Beast fell to a knee as he clutched his inner thighs.

One left. Laura recoiled from the slide back into a run. She opted for a zig Zag as younger Scott failed to hit her with his optic blast. She offered several punches that he either dodged or took. He lifted a hand to his visor to shoot her down. Predictable. She quickly side stepped and stood behind him.

She wrapped her arms around his stomach and locked her hands together. Judging from this size and build, this could be difficult. She jumped up on her toes and arched her back, pulling him with her. Their bodies started to fall backwards. That moment of surprise was replaced by pain as younger Scott landed on the back of his neck, his body folded up on itself. Laura was still holding his stomach. She pushed herself up, feet first and wheeled herself to stand in front of the young Cyclops.

Heart rate behind her. She turned and popped her claws and took a defensive stance.

Deadpool stood there with his arms crossed, but looking amused. Laura paused. The others acted predictably, but Deadpool? If he's as dangerous as they say, it would be safer to forego this fight as long as possible. She would need more data on him if she wished to survive their battle.

With a snort of submission, Laura snak-ed her claws and stood straight, adverting her eyes from him.

"OMFG!" He screamed as he put a hand on his head. "Did you just German Suplex Cyclops?" He was both surprised and excited. A vast difference from five seconds ago.

Laura could hear the children as they all groaned at the pain. "Yes."

"That's awesome." He held up a hand for a high five that Laura arched a confused brow at. "Here" Wade lowered his hand to its natural length warranting Laura to scowl at the obvious joke about her height.

The Danger room door opened slowly as Kitty and an young African American boy ran in. Kitty shot her a heated look and ran to her students to assess their situation.

Scott Summers entered the room with a mix of amazement and disappointment. Most of the disappointment was directed at Laura. "Well, I think we proved the point."

Laura gave an annoyed look and let his belt drop to the floor. "Mr. McCoy has a blood clot that is heading for his brain, Mr. Drake has a shattered Adams Apple, Ms Grey has a broken clavicle, Mr. Warren has two broken fingers and a broken nose, and younger you has a concussion. I assume the boy is your healer?"

"Yes." Summers bent over to pick up his belt from the floor. On his way up, Laura sniked her claws in front of his face, causing him to pause and reevaluate his situation.

Wade smacked her in the back of the head. "Don't be a Naughty Nelly."

Laura didn't move as Scott stood fully and used his entire 6'1" stature to stand over her. She kept her gaze on him as he moved in closer to her. "Woof." She said sarcastically. Summers kept a stern scowl. "So, now that they will see an animal, can I go now?"

Scott quickly looked at Deadpool who took her sarcasm and held up his hands like a begging dog and was panting. "This was your test, Laura. I wanted to know if you were still willing to fight. If you could fight after what happened-" Laura growled and looked away from him. "Jean reported to me what she found-"

"I don't care." Laura snapped. "I do not wish to be here any longer. Release me."

Scott took a knowing breath and stepped back. "You're reverting back to what you were when we first met." Laura arched an annoyed brow. He was right and she knew, but would never admit to it. "You need to reassimilate, resocialize. And they're going to help you." He pointed to the kids behind her who were all helping each other stand and assess wounds. The whisper of 'ballistic' and 'animal' was heard from Drank but hushed be Pryde. "And before I can put you on a team, you need to learn how to trust again."

Wade yawned. "Well, if this isn't fast times as X-men high, so, when's my test."

The healer boy came up to the group, keeping his distance from the girl. "Mr. Summers, they're all healed up."

Laura stepped closer to him and sniffed him. The boy took a step back. As if introducing a dog, Scott smiled. "She's just getting to know you. Laura, this is Christopher Muse. He's our resident healer."

Laura nodded in understanding. "Maybe you can help me with something."

Muse looked between Cyclops and the girl. "I can try."

Laura nodded again as a sign of thanks. Using the heel of her foot, she dislodged one of Deadpools guns from the holster causing it to go up in the air. Wade instantly turned his hand into a fist and reached to punch her, Laura used her opposing elbow to knock him over a few inches while she grabbed the now falling gun. He recovered and kneed her in the kidney. Her body naturally fell forward. She used the momentum and the angle to shoot him in the head. Spinning, she shot the younger Scott Summers three times in the chest. While everyone was watching where the bullets were flying, she pivoted and held Chris to her as a hostage, the hot gun barrel pointed at his head.

Scott looked at her with hatred when he saw her and her hostage. No one moved. Laura watched him, was Scott turned his attentions to Chris, his younger self, and Laura. He put a hand to chest waiting for the pain to set in, to wait for himself to start disappearing. But nothing happened. He remained whole.

"That is interesting." Laura said to herself. She released Muse to heal the younger Summers as she tossed the gun towards Deadpools body. Cyclops focused his rage and was about to fire on her. "He is no longer you but rather his own self." Cyclops paused as she turned to look as the healer was doing an impressive job under pressure. "They cannot go back to their own time, because they are in their natural time. This is where they are supposed to be." Laura returned her attentions to him. "This time line, of course. Here, is another matter."

"Why did you do that?" Cyclops almost shouted.

"It's this place." She retorted calmly as she put her hand to her nose. "It brings out the animal in me." She pulled her hand back to reveal her nose was bleeding. "Judging from the brain aneurism that Ms Frost is trying to impose, I'm going to assume that I am in trouble. I will see myself to my room."

Laura walked past him only for Scott to grab her arm painfully. Without hesitation, she popped her claws as his visor glowed red.

Snorting himself awake, Deadpool jolted himself up with a "She-verine, don't you-" he looked around the room and noticed the small group helping the younger Summers stand with three bullet holes in his uniform and older Summers holding the she-verine by the arm. Both look like they are ready to kill one another.

"Deadpool," Scott called over his shoulder to the mercenary as he pushed the girl away from him. "Take X-23 back to her room."

Wade stood slowly and did as asked with more commentary than necessary. But all he saw was X smirk and the one word she uttered. "Woof."