Chapter 7
Hey there guys, I'm back with another chap! I'm so glad y'all liked my twist. Your reviews really make my day :-}
Now, i know it's a very short update but get ready peeps, this one is going to reveal the villain of my fic. Hope y'all like it...
Chapter 7
A sharp metallic hiss caused Marie's eyes flicker behind her closed eyelids. After a long moment she groggily opened them and let out a silent yawn. A blurred realization of her and Logan's passionate moments from yesterday brought a lazy smile to her lips. Every fagged nerve of her body told her to just snuggle into her man's chest and get back to sleep. Just as she rolled over to sink into her husband's arms, she found a set of three shining adamantium blades pointed at her.
"L-Logan?" her sleepy eyes widened at once. "What's all this, su-"
"Stop!" Logan hissed through his clenched teeth, trying so hard to control his anger. "Stop acting like my Marie, and just tell me who you really are!"
Marie sighed with a large eye roll. "Pleaseee! not again sugah, how many times do I have to-" she tried to get out of the bed but-
"Don't! Stay where you are, woman!" Logan roared. "And tell me who sent ya! It's Transigen right?"
"Oh fer gawd's sake Logan, nobady sent meh okay?" she shot out of the bed in her complete naked glory and tried to prove her innocence in a louder southern tone.
"Oh really? Then what the fuck is that goddamn bug doin' behind your head?!" Logan snarled again.
"Bug? What bug?" she furrowed her eyebrows in confusion and instantly took her hand behind her head to touch the damn thing Logan was making so much fuss about but just as she did, it suddenly started bleeping with a bright red light and immediately hypnotized Marie. Her body went stiff and her eyes turned blank. After completely taking her in control, the little machine sent a horrible female voice message into her brain.
"Kill Logan, kill Wolverine!"
Her blank vision now had a target in it, The Great Wolverine.
Before Logan could understand what the hell was happening, Marie roared and ran at him with widened arms. Not wanting to hurt her before knowing who she really was, Logan pulled back his claws and grabbed her wrists but holy shit, just as he seized them, Marie activated her powers that started draining Logan. Logan's eyes immediately bulged out and his face turned veiny and pale with a loud gasp. Her draining force was much stronger than ever. In just next second, it brought Logan to his knees.
"M-Marie...s-s-stop.." Logan's dying voice pleaded but Marie's spellbound body wasn't listening to him anymore. It was just listening to a ghostly voice command in her head that was telling her to kill the love of her life.
Logan barely collected some strength to get back on his feet and give her a hard shove against the wall behind her. Her head hit against the wall and started spinning. With a weak groan, she sunk to the floor. Logan's healing factor immediately started working. He took another breathless gasp before stepping forward to check on the unconscious woman but just as he did, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. His head also began spinning. His quivering fingers reached behind his neck to see what hit him and came back with a large dart in his hand. Before he could wrap his mind around whatever happening to him, his vision got completely blear and his head also hit the ground.
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"Ah you're finally awake, started thinking those elephant tranquilizers had sent you into a long coma or something." a thin, female voice touched Logan's ears as he tried to open his heavy eyes. His vision was still a little blurred, his eyes struggling to stay open. As he regained some of his senses, he took a weak sniff and tried to recognize the owner of the voice. It was indeed a familiar scent. Claudine Renko.
"C-Claudine?...i-is that you..?" Logan blinked repeatedly, trying to recognize the face and walls around him, he wasn't in the cabin for sure.
The voice took a step forward. "Glad to know you still remember me, Mr. Howlett." a taunting chink in her tone.
The blurred face got a little clear with the step. Unlike the last time when he'd seen her, the young girl was standing there in a skin-tight leather outfit, giving a crooked half-smile and..is that...a red diamond on her forehead? Isn't that Sinis...
As Logan shook his head and tried to wake his heavily drugged body, he found himself pinned to the wall behind him by a couple of heavy shackles around both of his wrists.
He unsuccessfully tried to wrench out of them. "W-What the hell is this, Claudine?! Unshackle me, now!" he snarled.
"Sorry Mr. Howlett, but cannot." she crossed her arms over her chest with a clenched jaw. "You see, you've destroyed my biggest plan and now you're going to pay for it."
Logan's groggy eyes narrowed. "P-Plan? What plan? What the hell are ya talkin' about, kid?!" Logan snarled and snikted out his blades, they struggled so hard to reach the shackles but no use.
"Don't waste your last bit of energy on those fetters. They're made of Vibranium, the strongest metal in the world, even those shiny blades of yours can't cut through them." she pointed her chin at his claws.
Logan roared in frustration again. "I don't want your fuckin' details kid, I just want my hands outta that shit and tell me where the fuck I am and where is Ma-, no that woman, where is she?!"
"I know you have so many questions thrashing around in that little brain of yours and I'm going to answer each and every single one of them but first," she turned around and walked over to a chair situated in the middle of the empty, white room. She sat down and crossed her legs with a mysterious smirk. "Let me give you my real introduction because my real identity is going to be the answer to all your questions. Claudine Renko was a lie. I'm Dr. Claudine, Claudine..Stryker, daughter of Colonel William "Bill" Stryker."
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A few things to point out:-
1. For all those who thought Mister Sinister was going to be the villain behind the whole set up, I need to point out that Sinister has NOTHING to do with the cloning of X-23 in the comics. In the post-credit scene of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, they showed Essex Corp. collecting Logan's blood samples after Weapon X program failure but in the comics he's always been after the DNAs of Scott Summers and Jean Grey and later becomes the reason behind the birth of Nathan Summers aka Cable. Besides, he is an expert at cloning science then why would he wait so long to clone Logan when he had his DNA all these years? Maybe that's why they showed Transigen behind the creation of X-23, NOT Essex Corp in the movie.
2. I'm sure all the comic lovers like me must've recognized Claudine Renko but all the X-Movies fans'll have to wait for the next update to know about her.
3. Vibranium is actually the strongest metal in the comic world and that's the metal Captain America's Shield is made of.
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