Hello my friends. Well, here it is, my first serious fanfic. I don't really have much to say about this one, except that it was heavily inspired by "Daddy's Girl" by "slickboy444". I really enjoyed that story and I've always wanted to write about X-23, so I decided to do just that. Anyway, here's the story.

The Wolverine who Became a Father

Chapter 1: The Rescue

Logan was a man who had been through much (at least as far as he could remember) and had constantly been in situations that any normal person would faint from just hearing about such experiences. He'd seen and heard some weird and odd things to, and this wasn't so different.

Right now, he was walking in the Canadian wilderness, more specifically, a forest. Not many people ventured this deep in the woods, but Logan wasn't afraid. He received a tip from a mysterious caller last night about there being Weapon X activity in these woods, although it wasn't a voice Logan recognized.

Weapon X. The name that had robbed him of his memories. Deciding that he couldn't just ignore it, Logan decided to investigate. Walking in the snowy woods, Logan was on guard for anything dangerous, like a predator on the hunt. Thinking that the tip was a bust, he was just about to turn around when someone shouted "Hey! What're you doing here!?"

Turning around he was meet by two armed men with guns pointed at him. Scoffing, Logan said, "You think those toys can hurt me, bub?" before popping out his claws, surprising the two men, one of them saying, "N... no way. I... it's Weapon X."

"So, the tip wasn't a bust after all?", he thought to himself. Growling he launched himself at the two men who didn't even have time to open fire before Logan stabbed his claws in one of them, the man screaming in pain.

The other man came out of his shocked state and opened fire on Logan, but he just ignored it and sliced the gun in half with his claws before kicking the man to the ground. Before the man could get up, Logan put his claws near the man's throat making him go stiff with fear.

"What are you hiding?" Logan said in a low threatening voice. "Who are you working for?" The man shook with fear before saying, "D... Dr. Cornelious."

That name made Logans rage grow stronger, and he remembered that he heard that name in his dreams, his forgotten past. "Where is he!?" Logan shouted. The man pointed a shaking finger to his left. Having got the information he wanted, Logan slit the man's throat open, leaving him to die.

Logan kept walking, his nose sniffing for danger, when he picked up a scent. He followed it until he came across a door those two men were guarding. After cutting through the door, Logan was met with several people staring at him in shock. Some wore lab coats and were probably scientists. There were also a few guards in the room. But one person caught his attention, he was an elderly man with white hair, wearing a white lab coat and a pair of glasses.

"You!" Logan shouted while pointing at Cornelious with his claws. The doctor became frightened and shouted, "Weapon X!" he turned around and shouted, "Sound the alarm! Call security! Kill him!" before running down a corridor, all the other scientists following suit. All the guards opened fire on him, but Logan ignored the pain and started ripping them apart.

After taking care of the guards, an alarm started blaring. Logan sniffed the air, finding Cornelious' scent, he ran down a hallway. In the hallway, he noticed a symbol on the wall. A symbol that brought back some of his few intact memories. Memories of his time in World War 2. It was a skull with several octopus' arms coming out of the upper jaw.

"Hydra!" Logan thought in shock. "Weren't they destroyed after the war ended?"

Before Logan could think about it any further, he was met with some unwelcome company.

"There he is" Yelled a fully armored soldier, packing a high powered MP5, "Get him! Kill that thing!"

In a hail of gunfire, the soldiers fired on the lone mutant. But bullets were no match for the wrath of the Wolverine. Logan took numerous rounds before pouncing on the helpless guards.

"Get him! Somebody kill him!" yelled one of the guards before getting three adamantium claws through his face.

Other guards arrived and tried to shoot him, one of them even tried to fry him with a flamethrower, but Logan was both tougher and faster, allowing him to tear through the guards like wet paper.

After the guards were all disemboweled, Logan sniffed the air in full predatory mode, trying to find the bastard responsible for his suffering…Dr. Cornelius. Logan could smell his trail, but it looked like he would have to deal with a few more guards along the way.

Not that it bothered him, it just meant that it was going to be much messier.

"Attention all Hydra personnel!" Came Cornelius voice from the intercom, "This is a code red! I repeat, code red! Weapon X is in the facility! Eliminate him before he reaches the main lab!"

The sound of the Dr's voice enraged him even further as followed the scent through the maze-like corridors of the facility. All around him, Logan kept seeing more of the same symbol. The same symbol that had caused the world so much pain. The same symbol that he'd fought tooth and nail to destroy with Steve. If Hydra were involved in this, they were obviously planning something sinister. The more Logan saw of the place, the more he wanted to tear it apart.

"There he is! Get him!" yelled another platoon of guards.

However, while they were well organized and had some serious firepower, Logan was able to get the best of them through speed and skill. Bullets just slowed him down as he quickly healed and kept on fighting. Blood kept staining the walls as any guard that tried to stop him were torn to shreds. God help whoever stood in his way, for he was the goddamn Wolverine. And he was the best there is at what he does.

"He's breeched security level 4!" yelled one of the guards who was desperately trying to fall back. "Stop him! For god's sake, somebody… AHHHHHHHH!"

Those were his last words as his head was severed with one swipe of Logan's claws. Other horrified guards tried to fight back but were met with the same fate as they tried in vain to stop the raging Wolverine.

Finally, after separating some more limbs, Logan stood in front of a huge and heavy door. No doubt heavily reinforced to withstand maybe even an RPG. But Logan was even worse than an RPG, and he wasn't going to let some door stop him from dismembering that "son of a bitch" Dr. Cornelius, who was most likely hiding behind a few dozen guards behind that door.

Logan then sliced through the door's hinges with little issue, before kicking it down. And once he was inside, he was met with a platoon of guards, with the good doctor in the back.

"Blast him! Shoot him! Kill him! I want that monster dead NOW!" Cornelius screamed.

Before any guards could fire however, Logan took the door and threw it at the guards.

"Scatter!" Yelled one of them.

Some weren't so lucky and ended up getting crushed to death, and those that got out of the way met their fate thanks to Logan's claws. Logan himself was officially in berserker mode as he tore guard after guard to pieces and ignoring whatever they fired at him.

One of the guards tried to fry with a taser, and while it did hurt him, Logan ignored the pain and severed the guy's head. "Dr! We can't stop him! I think… AHHHHHHH!" another guard yelled before getting stabbed through the head.

"You incompetent morons! What am I paying you for?! Yelled the doctor.

With all the guards out of the way, Logan started walking towards the doctor who started backing up. His hands darting around his body before pulling out a gun, "I… I'm… I'm warning you. Don't come any closer!" he said as he was backed up against a wall. But his words fell on deaf ears. Logan was angry, covered in blood and had only one thing on his mind… revenge.

"I swear… I'll… AHHHHH!" the doctor screamed due to a bullet getting shot in his right leg, causing him to drop his gun and clutch his leg in pain.

Surprised, Logan looked to his left and saw a woman standing in an open doorway holding a gun. She looked to be in her early 30s and had blonde hair and green eyes. She had a look of hatred in her face.

The doctor looked at her and his face became a mix of surprise and anger. "Risman." He said in a low, hateful tone. "Why… did you…?" he asked.

"I did it to save an innocent life. And to undo a great mistake." She answered before lowering her gun and turning to Logan, "You're free to kill him, I'm not gonna stop you." She said while gesturing to the doctor.

Having been confused and surprised at this woman's action's, his anger slowly returned as he looked at the doctor, who was trembling in pure terror. Logan stabbed all six claws into the man's chest while the doctor gave a very loud scream. Logan then pulled his claws out and let the doctor fall limply to the floor where he would die a slow and painful death.

With his object of hatred dying a painful death, Logan started calming down, and his thoughts turned to the woman who had shot the doctor in the leg. "Why?", he slowly. "Why did you let me kill him?"

Risman looked at Logan with a sad face and said, "Because I need your help. That's why I called you." Logan was surprised and asked, "That was you? Then why call me? If you wanted to betray Hydra, why not call S.H.I.E.L.D.?"

"Because S.H.I.E.L.D. would have just done the same thing as Hydra, and turn an innocent life into a weapon"

"What are you talking about?" Logan asked.

"That.", Risman said and pointed at the tank behind him. Looking at the tank, he identified it as something he had seen before. Then it hit him, this was the source of his countless nightmares and unparalleled rage. Flashes from his forgotten past surged through his mind.

The readout taped to the side of the tank read "X-23". And then he saw what was inside the contraption, and something changed within him.

Inside the tank was an infant child, no more than five to six months.

She was unconscious. Hovering in a pool of greenish fluid like what he recalled in his dreams. And as he stared at her, he noticed some small groves in her hands. They looked like simple scratches, but as he looked down at the claws protruding from his hands, he realized the truth.

"No…NO!" he screamed out. Logan looked back at Risman in anger. "You cloned me." He said in a furious voice and walked up to her and grabbed her by her lab coat. "You cloned me... and put a child, a baby, through the bonding process!", he screamed in rage.

Risman was scarred, but she tried to swallow that fear and said "Yes, we did. And I now realize what a mistake I made." Logan scoffed and said, "Likely story."

"Please, listen to me. I…"

Before she could finish, the speaker came back on and said, "Self-destruct sequence initiated. Time remaining to detonation: fifteen minutes."

Logan came back to his senses and let go of Risman's lab coat. Turning around, he did something he thought he would never do. He popped out his claws and shattered the tank, causing the fluid to pour out. Withdrawing his claws, he reached out and took the small child in his arms.

She was unconscious, but alive and breathing. Logan tore of a piece of Cornelious' lab coat and wrapped it around the child. Logan felt a strange urge of protectiveness course through him.

A cough brought his attention back to the doctor, whom he glared at, not one to instantly trust other people. Risman looked at Logan with a face of urgency. "Look, you need to get out of here." she said before sticking her hand in her pocket before pulling out a floppy disk.

"This will explain everything to you." she said before giving Logan the diskette. "You need to get out of here, fast! She shouted. "What about you?" Logan asked, taking the floppy and putting it in his pocket. "I'll survive." she replied. Then her face became sad and said, "But please, keep her safe."

Logan nodded before running back the way he came, the child in his arms.

Running through the facility with the child in his arms, Logan didn't really know why he was doing what he was doing, he just felt an overwhelming urge to protect this child.

"Five minutes to self-destruct." the speakers said, making Logan run faster. He spotted the exit and ran through it, but he wasn't out of the woods yet. He kept running as fast as he could. After a few more minutes, a huge explosion shattered the silence of the night, and a fiery cloud illuminated the sky.

But Logan kept running, hoping to get the child to safety. But Logan's clothes had all but been torn to shreds by the gun fire, and while he could survive a shot to the head, even the Wolverine wasn't immune to the sub-zero temperatures of the Canadian winter. Logan eventually slowed down a little, but he didn't stop, his animal like instincts made him push forward.

After a few more minutes, Logan could feel his exhaustion wearing him down, but he forced himself to keep going. At last, he emerged from the woods and walked out on a road, but Logan fell on to his knees in exhaustion. His eyes felt heavy and he had a hard time keeping them open.

Holding the baby closer to his body in order to keep it warm, Logan still refused to give up and forced himself to stand up. He kept walking as best as he could, but the cold wind refused to let up, and Logan was almost at his limit.

Once again falling to his knees, Logan was almost out cold. Then he noticed a light ahead of him. Looking up, Logan could barely make out the headlights of a car or a truck. A person he couldn't make out got out of the vehicle and ran over to him.

"Help... me.", Logan said to the person before falling on his side and letting the darkness consume him.

And there we have it. The first chapter is done. Now, I don't know when I'll have the next chapter done, you'll just have to be patient. So, until next time, excelsior!