Chapter 10

Triskelion (AKA the land office of S.H.E.I.L.D) is located on the upper Bay of Manhattan. It is a complex of twenty-five or more building that stands over thirty stories high with several subbasements beneath them as well, and has ten feet tall concrete high walls that line the perimeter of the whole complex.

The sound of the building alarms ringing loudly as Logan and Laura neared the front gates of Triskelion and the bright search lights scanned the ground and air all around them in the fading daylight. Once at the gates they found the two guards on the ground. Logan bent down to check their pulse. "Are they alive?" Laura asked leaning over him.

"Yes, they are, they are just been knocked out," Logan told her.

Just then his phone rang. "Logan, where in the hell are you at?" Fury's voice screamed at the other end.

"At the front gates, where are you?"

"I am at the central command deck on the twenty-fifth floor barricaded in along with most of the Alpha unit," Fury informed him. "We have lost main power along with our five back up systems, so hurry your hairy but up here and stop Karen from trying to kill us."

"Then you have seen her?" Logan asked running towards the building and in through the front doors. The building was completely dark with only the flood lights to light their way to the stair well.

"Yes, I've seen her, she's right outside this door trying to claw her way in here," Fury screams.

"We will be there in ten minutes or less or the next meal is on me," Logan jokes hanging up the phone. The two of them stepped out of the stair well and looked down the hall to see the back of Karen slashing away at the triple reinforced metal door like it was a piece of pie with shards of metal flying through the air all around her.

"Karen!" Logan yelled at her and she stopped. She slowly faced him with a sadistic smile on her face with her eyes hidden behind her black hair. She was dressed black leather jacket and pants that showed off cleavage and her mid-drift.

Logan was shocked by her new look that he called her name out again.

"I am not the young woman you call Karen," Her voice was deeper with a thick Russian accent to it. She shook her head revealing her eyes that were completely black.

"Then who the hell are you?" Laura asked.

"You should know me very well X23, you did try to kill me not to long ago," She answered vaguely. "Oh, well I don't look like my self, but this body is a good host for now."

"Who the fuck are you? And what are you doing in my daughter?"

"Easy now Weapon X getting angry isn't gonna get you anywhere," She said shaking her index finger at him. "But sense you two are here and I am going to kill you both soon might as well know who I am. I am madam Hydra."

Both of them stared at her in disbelief. "Yes, you thought I was dead, well I thought X23 was dead now too, but I didn't fair as good as she did after the explosion though," She went on. "My body was badly burned, but my mind is still very sharp. I needed a new host body to control so I could run Hydra again. I spent the last year looking for a new host, and would luck I found Sliver Fox. She was the prefect candidate, but you know how things change. I found out she had a daughter who was much better choice."

"That's why you took Karen," Logan growled.

"Yes, she was everything I wanted. She had your powers and her mother's stealth abilities, why not?" Madam Hydra took in a long breath. "Then you had to take her from our labs before I could activate the chip in her brain…."

"What chip? Karen was examined by the leading S.H. doctors when she got back, and they didn't find anything," Logan asked.

"Wolverine, wolverine, that is was the point about the chip it could not be seen," She said tapping Karen's fingers to Karen's head. "It's in the one place in this girl's brain that makes her so special."

"It's in her invisibly gland," Logan realizes.

"Yes, but even though you had gotten her out of my Labs I was able to get the chip activated with time and effort. Now to reward for all your quick deducting," She extended the claws in Karen's hands and got in to a fighting stance. "Let's do as you American's say, get this party started."

Logan was mad, he extended his claws and was about to rush Madam, but Laura but out her arm stopping him. He looked at her, "What do you think you're doing?"

"Family doesn't don't hurt each other," She looked up him with tear full eyes. "That maybe Madam Hydra in Karen's head, but it is still Karen. We can't hurt her."

"Yes, but…"

"But nothing," Laura shouted. "I know that Karen is still in there."

"Ha, X23 don't be silly," Madam Hydra laughed. "I am in complete control of this body."

"You really think so? Laura said walking towards her. "Then why didn't you kill the guards at the front gates or the other soldiers in the building as you made your way up here to kill Fury?"

"What are you talking about? I killed…."

"No you didn't, we saw them they were ether knocked unconscious on the floor or sliced up but nothing a few stitches can't fix," Laura told her. "So I ask you this, attack me?" Madam Hydra's face went flat. "You heard me, attack me!" Laura poked her in the chest. "Come on! Do it! Come on! Do it! That is…. if you can."

"Shut up!" Madam Hydra screamed pushing Laura away and clutching her head in pain. "Your…Wrong…I am in complete control…..Shut up!" She let go of her head and charge at Laura with her claws drawn going for her neck, but stopped in her tacks a hairs breath from Laura's skin looking down at her hand to find her fighting with control of it as the claws went back into her hand. "This can't be happening!"

"But it is," Laura smiled. "Karen, can you hear me?"

"Yes," Karen's voice out of her mouth quietly and forced. Then her body jerked up against the near by wall smashing her head against it with force, and did so repeatedly.

Karen got to her feet. "I will not be beaten by a child," Madam Hydra's voice said. "I will die before I give your body up."

"Fine," Karen's voice said. She raised her fist to just below her chin, and quickly glanced at Laura then at Logan, they knew what she about to do. Slink. Karen extended her claws up into her neck, and she fell to the ground in big pool of blood.