Xander and Blink were on patrol thinking about the last week and a half, first there had been this She-Mantis that had tried to eat Jesse after having sex with him something that caused Blink to laugh, then there had been the anointed one who Buffy had killed in a funeral home something both Xander and Blink thought was suspect. When they saw a young girl no older than Xander stagger out of the shadows as they moved towards her Xander saw out of the corner of his a man in a military uniform with a gun aimed at the girl's head acting out of instinct Xander whipped out his shotgun and shot the man in the in the skull this caused the girl to whip around and to both Xander and Blink's shock extend claws from her hands and feet. "Who are you?" She demanded.
"I'm Xander and this is Blink, who are you?" Xander asked.
"X-23." The girl replied this caused Blink to cringe.
"The guy after you was part of the Weapon X program wasn't he." Blink said.
"Yes and how do you know of Weapon X?" X-23 asked.
"Long story, but right now I'm in the mood to kick those butchers' asses to hell." Blink said venomously.
"How do you intend to do that?" X-23 asked.
"I'm a point and click teleporter I just need to think of a place and then I'm there." Blink said.
"Fine, but I'm going with you." X-23 said.
"Count me out I'm going to patrol solo." Xander said.
"Your loss." Blink teleported herself and X-23 to the Weapon X facility.
Weapon X facility
As Blink and X-23 ported in they began attacking everything that moved, as X-23 chased some soldiers one of them threw a grenade at her which she cut in half with her claws a gaseous compound came out of the grenade which she breathe in and started to cough violently as the gaseous compound entered her lungs.
Blink on the other hand was killing the Weapon X staff members with a vengeance when she finished she saw X-23 lying on the floor coughing violently. "Are you okay?" Blink asked concern evident in her voice.
"I'm fine." X-23 said grimacing as she coughed up blood. Blink looked at the area they were in it had a computer and open on it was information on X-23 as Blink went over to it she saw that it had information on all the Earth's heroes and villains on along with information on the Weapon X program.
As she removed the USB drive that Xander had given her she began to download the information onto it when she noticed that Ben's file came up and the word clone was next to it. When that download was done she started another download this time of only the Weapon X files. When that was down she moved to where X-23 was stilling lying on the floor. "Let's go." Blink said X-23 nodded as she teleported them back to Sunnydale after Blink had activated the self-destruct sequence.
After she had teleported X-23 to Sunnydale. Blink teleported to The Daily Bugle.
The Daily Bugle
Jameson was not having a good day first Bastion had tried to convince him to stop digging into Operation Zero Tolerance then Parker had failed to get him photos of Spider-Man. As he sat in his chair fuming a pink skinned girl ported into his office. "What do you want?" Jameson growled.
"Just to hand over some information on the Weapon X program." The girl replied.
"Weapon X?" Jameson asked.
"Top secret military group that experiments on mutants and is funded by the US and Canada. That is responsible for Wolverine, Sabretooth and Deadpool being who they are today." The girl cringed at this when she said it something Jonah noticed.
"Were you?" He asked.
"No, someone worse." The girl shuttered. This sent Jonah mind reeling she had been experimented on. This help quell the fear that she was doing this out of greed in his mind.
"Why this newspaper?" Jonah asked.
"This paper is the only on that goes out of its way to attack Operation Zero Tolerance so by giving you this it will make Bastion fearful of you." She said. Jonah nodded her logic was sound as far as he was concerned.
"How accurate is this information?" Jameson asked he did not want have any facts wrong on a story this explosive.
"One hundred percent accurate." The girl said. "If you want you can double check some the assassinations this group has conducted." Jonah was shocked this group carried out assassinations that were public and still managed to remain hidden that really pissed him off.
"Fine, but if any of this is false I'll have your head." Jameson said with conviction.
"Okay and I don't want to get any money for this because that way it will be harder to track me." The girl said.
Jameson nodded "Smart thinking. What's in it for you?" He asked.
"Seeing those bastards sweat." The girl smiled then she teleported away leaving a USB drive behind.
"Urich!" Jonah yelled.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ben Urich who Jonah thought was as good as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein put together entered Jonah's office. "Yes Jonah?" He asked.
"I want you to look over this information and see if it checks if it does you're writing an exclusive on it." Jonah said.
"How big is this Jonah?" Urich asked hoping that it was not Jonah trying to hype it up.
"If the source is correct this could be bigger than Watergate." Jonah shocked Urich "And no it's not Spider-Mans' secret identity, it's about a clandestine Para-military organization that experiments on mutants." This relieved Urich and at the same time horrified him.
""Okay I'll take a look." Urich hoped that Jonah was not lying about this.
Sunnydale
Xander had just finished his patrol and had gone to Ben's apartment he saw that X-23 was there as well. "Okay where am I going to stay so that Weapon X won't find me?" X-23 asked still breathing heavily.
"You can stay with me." Ben said when Blink ported in.
"Okay where did you go for that second port?" Ben asked.
"Jameson's office." Blink smirked.
"The head of The Daily Bugle nice thinking." Ben smiled.
"Thanks and by the way the Weapon X files state that you are the clone." Blink said this did not cause as much of a response as she had thought it might. Although that statement shocked X-23.
"Figured that much." Ben said.
"Really why?" Blink asked.
Ben shrugged "Just a gut feeling."
The next day in the library
"She has to go." Buffy yelled at Xander.
"Now why is that?" Xander shot back.
"She's a threat." Buffy stated.
"And I'm not, that's a relief." Blink said sarcastically something that caught Buffy off guard.
"I have to agree with Xander here, Buffy. Although X-23 is a threat she also could be a valuable ally." Giles said.
"Yeah, but..."
"No buts Buffy." Xander said. Buffy glared at him knowing she had lost.
"Fine, but you haven't heard the last of this." Buffy stormed off.
"Xander I do hope that in the future you try not to get under Buffys' skin." Giles said.
"'Kay, G-Man but if she starts it I'll finish it." Xander said and Giles knew that Xander meant every word.