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Return to Weapon X Sequel

Stryker was annoyed. Annoyed was the least he would call it.

He was sitting in his office and kept on throwing file after file onto the pile in front of him. The subjects they had caught with their last assault on a village weren't what he had expected of them. He considered the women as useless, wouldn't even dare to use them for any breeding plans and the abilities the men possessed weren't useful either. Only shaking his head, he threw the last file onto the pile and glared at it for a while. For days their project and plans were put on hold because tests didn't have the desired results. Angrily, he reached for the files on an extra pile and opened one of it. He needed to find a way to reach his and the Director's aims. With a frown on his face he went through the files, reread all of the captured X-Men's abilities, threw some files on one pile, others on another one…

In the end he sighed and leant forward in his chair to run both hands over his face, just to be interrupted by a knock on the door. "What?!" Stryker asked in annoyance and glared at the soldier that entered the room.

"Sir, the mutant is making trouble again and Brown doesn't stick to your orders," the man reported and swallowed hard when he noticed the look of the Colonel.

"And you tell me that because…?"

"Well,…we have the order not to shoot them," the soldier shrugged and made a step backwards when the man got up. "Sir?" he asked but Stryker just walked past him.

"Where's Brown?" the soldier heard him barking in the corridor and quickly followed his superior officer

"In the lab, sir," the soldier replied and startled as Stryker slammed his key card against the scanner. Two seconds later the door opened and he followed him inside, just to see how Brown gave both of them a look full of hatred and pulled the crying girl closer.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Stryker barked and the soldier behind him only waited for the vein on the man's forehead to explode. "You had orders!"

"I'm trying to calm a crying child!" Brown gave back and made another step backwards.

"Child?!" the Colonel asked and narrowed his eyes. "The thing you are holding is an animal, a mistake of nature…"

"You are crazy," the woman hissed and glared back at him. "This baby here misses its parents. How can anyone be so cold hearted and take a baby away from its mother? Do you even know what you did to her by exposing her to radiation that often?!"

"Do you think I give a damn? If it was up to me I'd burn them alive!" Stryker gave back and tore the baby away from her just to drop it into the small cage again, not caring that the girl cried even louder. "And now," he added in a dangerous, low voice and grabbed the woman by her hair, "to you, Ms. Brown." Smirking, he threw her over to the soldier. "I think it is time to test the trigger substance on her, don't you think?" he asked and his grin widened when she frowned. "Pick X23 for it and afterwards burn the rest of her or give it to Wolverine. He should be hungry by now."

"Y…yes, sir," the soldier nodded.

"You can't do this!" Brown said shocked and began to struggle against the man. "Stryker, you can't do this!"

"I can, my dear, and I will," the Colonel replied coolly. "I'm sick of your attitudes and I warned you often enough. And now…you'll take the consequences and this will set an example for your colleagues!" With a wink of his hand he gave the soldier a sign to finally get rid of her before he turned to the crying child. "Disgusting…," he mumbled, walked over to a desk and grabbed a syringe and small bottle with a white liquid that he injected into the baby's arm; feeling relieved after it finally stopped crying. "Much better…," Stryker nodded his approval and left the room to head for the cells.

He had barely reached the door when he could already hear people yelling at each other. Beginning to be really pissed off, he opened the door and shoved the soldiers aside after he had walked down the corridor to the cell with the mutants. "What's going on here?" he demanded to know but already saw who the source of the trouble was. Again… "Ms. Grey… Of course…" Crossing his arms, he glared back at her. "We already know what you want and I'm telling you for the last time that I want you to SHUT UP!" Barking the last two words, he took a gun before the woman or anyone else could reply anything and pointed it at Kitty, who startled and stared at him with widened eyes. "If I hear one more word," he warned her and held the redhead's angry gaze, "then she is the first to die!"

"I want to see my child!" Jean hissed.

"Yes, yes, yes," Stryker waved off. "We already know that. In the end you're going on our nerves with it for at least once in one hour, right?" Turning to his soldiers, he was about to say something when another one entered the dark corridor. "What now?" he asked since it was the same soldier from before.

"Sir, he killed four of our men," the soldier reported and stopped in front of the Colonel. "Again…," he added and already prepared for an outburst, but was surprised when Stryker only stared at him.

"Four?"

"Yes, sir."

"How is that even possible?!" Stryker demanded to now, enraged.

"Well…," the soldier replied. "This time he covered himself with snow and waited for them to do the daily check-up on the electric fence…"

Staring at him as if he wanted to shoot him, the Colonel took a deep breath and tried to regain his composure. "Did X23 get rid of that woman?" he asked instead and received a nod. "Good, feed her corpse to him," Stryker added and turned to leave when the soldier spoke up.

"We did, sir, but he rejected it."

"Rejected?!" the Colonel asked slowly and gave him a look.

"Yes, sir," the man nodded. "He went over to the body and just…sniffed…"

"Sniffed?"

"Yes, sir. He….sniffed…," the soldier said once more and hoped no one could hear how fast his heart beat in his chest in fear. "There must have been a scent on her that he didn't like…"

"Hm…," Stryker made and began to think hard. Suddenly it hit him and he began to curse under his breath. "He smelled her…," he hissed and left the room to go and tell the Director about it.

"Did you hear that?" Scott asked after the soldiers had left too.

"Sounded like Logan…," Hank nodded and gave his teammates a look.

"Did he just say that Logan covered himself with snow?!" Bobby asked and looked to and fro between them. "Why do they keep him on the outside?!"

"I'm rather interested why they expect him to eat a corpse," Hank said darkly and could tell that Jean had begun to think too. "It sounded more like Wolverine to me…"

"Another thing…," Kitty said and pointed at the number on her shirt. "Didn't anyone of you notice so far that a number is missing here?"

"What do you mean?" Ororo asked and cradled Kurt's head in her arms.

"Well, I'm X109, Bobby is X108, you X102, Kurt X105," the girl began and pointed at each of them. "Mr. Summer's X103, Dr. Grey X101, while Rogue is X104 and Dr. Mc Coy X106. So, who is X107?!"

"Maybe Logan is," Rogue shrugged but Hank shook his head.

"No, Logan is known as Weapon X, they wouldn't give him another number."

"Maybe they have caught the Professor and he's X107?" Scott suggested but Jean shook her head and pulled the blanket closer to protect herself from the cold.

"No, if they had caught him, he would be X101. I'm sure of it…"

Hearing the undertone in her voice, Ororo lowered her gaze to the sleeping man in her arms before she looked back at her friend. "Do you think…Sara's… Well, maybe she is X107…"

"No," Scott disagreed and shook her head. "They would make her X102…"

"But who is it then?!" Kitty asked but had spoken more to herself than to the others.

X

"I wanna go home…," Jubilee cried and pulled her legs closer while she sat in a corner, sobbing aloud and shaking, wishing that she was somewhere else but here.

"Ya think cryin' will help?"

Looking up, she gave the mutant in the opposite cell a look through a blurred vision. "I'm scared!"

"So? They don't give a shit if yer scared or not…"

With a shaky hand she wiped her tears away and startled every time a door was opened or closed somewhere. "Can't you do anything?"

"'n what? Don't ya think if I could I'd be already outta here?!"

"But…you're…you're strong and…," she sobbed and pulled her legs even closer. "Wolvie could…" Receiving a low chuckle from the other prisoner, she but her lip hard.

"The runt ain't here and if he was…he'd already be toast!"

About to reply something, Jubilee shrieked when the door to their cells was opened and the man she feared the most appeared. "Hello, my dear," an elderly man with nearly no hair and glasses said, his lab coat looking like in need of being washed again. He opened the door to her cell and beckoned her to come over to him. "Come on…"

"No!" the girl replied and tried to retreat even further into the corner. "Go away!"

"Oh, don't make me sedate you again," the man said, still smiling lasciviously. "You'll do as I say!"

"Leave the kid alone!"

Hearing the roar from behind him, the man turned to glare at the mutant. "If I were you, I wouldn't risk such a big mouth. You know what will happen, right?"

"So? Ya think I'm scared?!"

"Enough!" the man said and went into the cell to grab Jubilee's wrist, ignoring that the girl cried even louder and called for help. "You really are a bad girl. You disappoint me!" he told her and pulled her roughly with him. "I think I have to punish you."

Trying to free herself from the grip, she reached out and tried to reach the bars. "Help me, please!" she begged the mutant in the cell, but the door to the corridor already closed in front of her. Roaring in anger, Sabretooth slammed his fists into the wall and bared his teeth…

"So…," the man in the lab coat said after closing the door behind him and let go of the girl's wrist. Jubilee instantly retreated into a corner, her breath and heartbeat out of control, since she knew what the man was up to. "You really have been a bad, bad girl. And you know what happens to bad girls, right?"

"Go away!" she yelled in panic and tried to run past him towards the door. She didn't care where she would land as long as it was far away from him.

Smiling, he pushed his glasses back up and shook his head. "A little fighter. I like that!" Sensing what she was up to, he quickly grabbed her, ignored her screams and sobs and pushed her against the next wall before he reached for his belt. "Bad girl!" he scolded her and pinned one of her hands against the wall, while he took her other one into his. "Bad girls have to be punished. You know that right?"

"Let go of me," Jubilee cried heavily and had the feeling that he tears were choking her, but he only chuckled.

"Every time the same with you," he purred and began to rub against her hand. "If you keep on doing that," he panted, "then I really have to punish you… You don't want me to hurt you, right?"

"No…," she whimpered and turned her head away in disgust.

"Good girl…," he smirked and leant further in, his rubs already becoming erratic. "Pretty, little thing… A shame you're mutant scum…," he groaned and released his load with a muffled cry into her hand. Heavily breathing he let go of her and reached for a towel. "Clean me up," he ordered and watched her doing so with a smirk. "Your lot is only good as lab rats or hookers," he mumbled, just to cry out and drop to the floor next.

Taking her chance after giving him a hard kick into the balls, Jubilee stormed out of the room and down endless corridors. It didn't take long until she heard the alarm being activated and soldiers running around. She opened the first door she reached and closed the door quickly behind her, just to freeze on the spot in shock.

"Jubilee?" Ororo asked and walked over to the cell, followed by the others. "Goddess… What are you doing here?"

"Help me!" the girl cried and took hold of her arm, trying to squeeze herself through the bars. "Please, help me!" Her breathing quickened when the door to the cells was opened and she began to scream terrified. "Please!"

"You…," the man in the lab coat glared and gave the soldiers a sign to grab her. "I will punish you, mark my words!"

"No," Jubilee screamed and was glad that her teammates took a hold on her when the soldiers tried to pull her away. "Please, don't let them take me!" she begged Scott under tears and this one tightened the grip around her, even when the soldiers pointed their weapons at them and threatened to shoot the mutants.

"Let go of her now!" the leader barked and used the back of his rifle to hit them onto the arms, satisfied when Kitty let go with a painful scream and held her wrist. "I said let go!"

"What's going on here?" Stryker barked and entered the cold room.

"She escaped!" the man in the lab coat told him and watched how the Colonel stopped next to him. "She's mine!"

"Those things belong to the project!" Stryker gave back with a glare and looked at the terrified girl. "What did you do to her?!"

"He makes me touch him!" Jubilee cried and still tried to get away from the men. "He's a perverted, mean bastard!"

"This is a lie!" the man in the lab coat gave back but already faced the end of a gun. "Stryker it's a lie!"

"Is it?" the Colonel asked coolly. "As far as I remember we already lost four females because of you… Am I mistaken?"

"Those…were accidents…"

"Accidents?" Stryker asked slowly and, before the man could reply, shot him into the head. "Well that was an accident too," he hissed and gave two soldiers a sign to get rid of the corpse. "Ms Grey…," he nodded, since only Jean was holding Jubilee, the others had let go of her when the gun had gone off. "Of course…"

"It wasn't only her!" Scott said and stopped next to the redhead.

"Really?" Stryker asked, receiving a nod from the still crying Jubilee but chose to ignore it. "Well…I don't care," he added and grabbed the girl roughly. "Step away from the bars!" he ordered and pointed the gun to Jubilee's head while he waited for the mutants to obey. "And now…, my dear Mc Coy. I'd like you to step out of the cell, we have to talk. Oh, and Ms. Grey, you too."

"Talk?" Hank asked skeptically and got slowly up when the remaining two soldiers opened the door and pointed a weapon at him. "Talk about what?"

"Ah!" Jubilee shrieked when she was thrown into the cell and the door went shut. Only able to begin to cry in relief, she held onto Ororo, while the woman, as everyone else of the team, stared at the scenery in front of them.

"You know what to do with her," Stryker said coolly and without looking at Jean, who was suddenly grabbed by the soldiers and dragged away.

"No!" Scott shouted and jumped at the bars. "Where are you taking her?!"

"That's not of your concern!" the Colonel replied and turned his head when three other soldiers entered. "And now, my dear Mc Coy," he went on and watched how one of them pulled the metallic collar away from Hank's neck, which instantly made his mutation kick back in and soon he was covered in fur again. "After discussing it several times with the Director, I have to say that I'm sorry…"

Hearing the strange undertone, Hank gave Stryker first and the soldiers next another mistrustful look. "Sorry for what?" he asked when all of a sudden another shot could be heard and he suddenly felt that he couldn't breath anymore. With widened eyes he dropped to the ground, holding his bleeding chest and noticed that the terrified screams of his friends seemed to be too far away.

"That we have no use for you," Stryker finished and nodded at the soldiers before he turned, knowing from the noises that they had grabbed the body and were carrying it away.

Still minutes after the door went shut the X-Men were staring at the pool of blood in front of their cell with shocked and widened eyes. The only sounds that could be heard were their heavy breaths. "He shot him…," Kitty whispered, not noticing how violently her body was shaking. "He just shot him…"

Scott looked at her like in trance, as if he hadn't understood what she had said and only snapped out of it when Ororo stumbled to the dirty toilet and began to throw up. "My God…," was all he could say before his legs couldn't carry his weight anymore and he dropped to the ground, still staring at the pool of blood. While Kurt tried to comfort Ororo, who broke completely down, he began to realize that they were doomed… If no one came to rescue them, he knew that they were going to die here…

X

Unaware of what hah happened on the inside, Jean slowly began to regain consciousness. She groaned when a strong pain shot from her head down her spine and thought she would have to throw up when her view darkened briefly. Her hand touched the back of her head, felt the small bump there and remembered that one of the soldiers had hit her with the back of his riffle as soon as they had left the cells. Wondering why she felt so cold, her eyes widened as she realized that she was on the outside, lying in the cold snow without any clothing on. She sat up and began to look around, realized that she was still captured and surrounded by mountains, fences and walls and wondered if Stryker had planned to let her freeze to death. It was hard for her to see anything at all in the dark, but she felt too well that she was freezing horribly. Slowly, and still feeling dizzy, Jean got up and wrapped her arms around herself. With chattering of teeth she began to walk through the snow, slowly in case that there were any traps, and began to wonder if there was any way to help her out of here. She wouldn't give them the satisfaction of giving in as easily as she had done the first time. She wanted to get out of there with her friends and child and she wouldn't go down without a fight.

Startled, Jean turned when she heard a noise behind her but couldn't see anything at all. But then she heard it again; a low growl from some kind of animal that must have spotted her and was hiding somewhere in the dark. She felt how her heart kicked into high gear and how fear began to take over. Was that their plan? she began to ask herself. Allowing an animal to kill her and take care of her corpse? Suddenly, the growl was on the other side of her and Jean turned quickly into the direction. She narrowed her eyes when she could clearly see two shiny dots, of which she knew that they were the animal's eyes and that the moonlight was reflected in them. Panting, Jean began to walk slowly backwards and screamed when the animal suddenly roared and leaped at her. Before she could do anything at all, she landed hard on her back, the air forced out of her lungs and her eyes widened when she noticed how three shiny claws were already raised in the air and about to kill her for good…

So much to studying for an exam. -- But I had to get this idea out of my head. It's already past midnight here and I still have today to learn for my exam on Friday, so I will do that now. Anyway, thanks for the reviews!! I hope you got my reply since we obviously had some server problems. I'm sorry for the cliffie but I had this one planned. Yeah, I know you'll hate me now… LOL Anyway, please leave a review and let me know what you think!!! See ya!!