Two guards carried a young girl down a long hallway of cells at Fort
McMurry, her long brown hair hanging in knots over her face. Occupants of
the other cells looked up from their sorrows as they drug this poor girl
back to her cell. They opened the cage door and simply threw her to the
ground like an old rag doll.
"Lane!" James screamed to her from his cell, across from his sisters, "Lane!" No matter how many times he called to her she didn't wake, "Guards, please cage us together." The guard said nothing to James as he walked away. James walked back over to his iron cot and sat down and with his father's brown eyes watched his sister's seemingly lifeless body. Hours passed before Lane started to move. She slowly pushed herself off the ground and rose to her feet. James got up and slowly walked to the front of his cell, "Lane, what did they do to you?"
"I don't know." She mumbled as she sat on her cot, "I just wish it would stop." She started to remove the bandages from her legs. There were needle marks all over them along with a rather large circular scar on her calf, "Why hasn't mom come for us James?" She started to cry.
"She will, I'm telling you, she'll be here." James said, as he poked at the device on his head stunting his powers.
"Before I die from this torture?" his sister wept.
"I assure you, girl," Came a voice from down the hall, "This will make you better."
"You stay away from her!" James growled as he ran to his cage door, "You're going to regret this."
"Please, leave me alone, Viper." Lane weakly pleaded with her, "I'm nothing. My abilities are useless to no one but me."
"I have over seen this project numerous times, only one being as successful as you." The woman known as Viper smirked with her dark green lips, "While it wasn't quite as successful as we had hoped, we learned from our mistakes. Your fathers ability to heal so graciously passed on to you." Viper smiled deviously.
"It means nothing to us," Lane said as she laid down on her cot, exhaustion settling in, "We never knew our father."
"I find it fascinating that his abilities were passed on to two of you," she said looking at Lane, "and not all three." She turned her head to James, "Be up bright and early tomorrow we have a world of work." Out of nowhere, Lane got up and ran to the front of her cell.
"Don't you have someone else to torture for awhile." Lane growled as tears ran down her tan complexion, "Piss off you worthless excuse of nature."
"As a matter of fact, I do." Viper smiled as she signaled to two guards who immediately came stomping in. Lane watched the guards barge into her brothers cell. She watched her brother struggle and put up a fight for a few moments before he was rendered unconscious.
"JAMES!" she screamed as she rattled her cage door, "Please, don't take him from me please!!!" Viper said nothing to the girl as she cried for her brother. Then, just as quickly as they came in, they were gone and so was James, "JAMES!!" Lane continued to scream, "JAMES!"
It was Kristine's turn to be startled awake by disconcerting dreams and her woman's intuition. Her stomach was turning in several directions and it made for a very nervous feeling. She got up and nervously walked about the room for a few minutes, before she noticed an X-man uniform on the dresser with a pair of boots on the floor. She picked up the uniform and held it in front of her. She sighed as she looked at the blue and yellow uniform in front of her. She quickly discarded her current clothing and changed into the outfit provided for her. She looked at herself in the long mirror hanging on the back of the door. The outfit was blue with yellow markings on the shoulders, around the short sleeves, and an X over the left chest. She sat down on the bed and slowly put her boots on. They were not clunky, which was a plus for her. Her fighting style would never tolerate clunky boots. Still feeling very nervous about something, she quickly walked out of the room and looked to her sides, seeing no one and hearing no one made her nervousness worse. She stalked down the long dark hallway coming to the staircase leading to the front door. She focused her mind on Logan and took on his power enhancing her hearing, but just as she did, someone came up behind her.
"Hey!" X23 said as she walked up to Kristine. Startled Kristine whipped her head around and caught her breath.
"Oh, it's you." Kristine panted, "Where is everyone?"
"They're in a training session." The girl told her, "I'm exempt from daily training because of my.condition."
"I understand." Kristine smiled at the girl, "How long until they're done?"
"It's Wolverine's training session." Kristine nodded as she continued to look around herself, "Is something wrong?"
"I can't shake this nervous feeling, I feel like something bad is about to happen." Kristine said, "I don't know what." The young girl listened around her and took in scents of the air. The girl looked up at Kristine with fear in her eyes.
"Someone's coming." The girl told her.
"Go!" Kristine snapped, "Get Logan!" Just then, several guards for Hydra came bursting through windows and ceiling fixtures. X23 extended her claws, ready to fight for her freedom, when the front door burst open and a creature with a pale complexion and a red uniform came in, "Oh, shit." Kristine freaked out. Kristine grabbed X23's arm and threw her down the hallway from which she came, "GET LOGAN NOW!" Kristine ran down the staircase to charge at the intruders but was met by two sets of Carbonadium tendrils, one around her feet and one around her neck.
"Well, well, well," Omega Red laughed, "if it isn't the American Psycho." Fear took over the look in Kristine's eyes, "I always did love the look of fear I could instill in your eyes, because I know you can't take my powers or you'll be stuck with them." Omega Red tightened the grip around her neck slowly cutting off circulation, "Guards, find the girl and restrain her."
"Good.luck." Kristine managed to whisper out as her eyes began to glow, "now.piss off." With that, Kristine's eyes tore open violently and the force behind the blast blew Omega Red back out the door he came, taking most of the frame with it. Kristine fell to the ground and looked around her. Suddenly, she disappeared from her position and re-appeared a short while later running along side X23. She grabbed the girls hand and disappeared from site again. The guards that were chasing them stopped in their tracks and looked around themselves in confusion.
Kristine appeared with X23 in the Danger Room where Logan and the other students were having their training session. As they appeared in the middle of it, the session was instantly stopped. Kristine looked around realizing that X23 was safe, she teleported out of the danger room and back into the main hallway.
"This is a school, not a war zone." A voice came over head of the guards. They looked over their heads to see Kristine leaping towards them. She landed in front of one guard and roundhouse kicked him in the chest sending him flying down the hall. She picked up the runner on the floor and shook it as hard as she could knocking the intruders to the sides. She quickly ran up to one, grabbed him by the head and slamming him against the opposing wall. Then flipped herself over one guard, taking his shotgun with her and fired a shot into his back. She snapped the gun in half, with her bare hands and threw the pieces aside as the guards took their cue to leave. Kristine walked down the hallway towards the front, when Omega Red walked out from behind a corner, just as Logan and the other students came up behind Kristine.
"What is going on?" Logan said.
"Lady Hydra has promised me my Carbonadium synthesizer, so I do not intend on leaving with out the girl." Omega Red said as he threw a series of metal balls into the hallway, "I don't usually use such devices, but for this I will." Less than a second later, the devices exploded in a flash of extraordinarily bright multi colored lights, blinding everyone.
A few minutes later, the lights subsided and most could see again. Kristine looked around quickly and noticed that X23 was gone.
"LILIANNE!" Kristine screamed as she ran towards the front door. She ran down the staircase and out the hole that was the front door see a helicopter flying away from the school, "NO!" she screamed again as she clenched her fists into a ball. Everyone ran out the door to see if anything could be done. As they walked out side, they all felt the pressure drop as they saw an enormous amount of pressure building up around Kristine.
"What is going on?" Scott asked Logan. Logan said nothing as he watched, but a few minutes later he realized what was going to happen.
"Everyone, back in the mansion!" Logan yelled. Everyone, except Logan ran back into the mansion. Logan watched as Kristine exploded with power leaving a huge crater in the front yard. As the pressure returned, Logan walked towards the woman who was bracing herself on her knees. He realized quickly that she was crying, "Kristine." He said softly. She said nothing as Logan helped her to her feet then took her into his arms, "We'll get her back." Logan then picked her up and walked back in the mansion.
A few hours later Kristine walked into the professor's office and slowly took a seat in front of his desk. Nothing was said between the two until Logan arrived a short while later.
"Kristine," The professor started, "is that what your ability is like when you take on too many at one time?" he asked. She nodded.
"Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't." She replied, "I was too angry to make it work this time."
"I can tell by the tone in your voice," the professor said in reference to Kristine, "and by the look in your eyes," referring to Logan, "that there is nothing I can do to stop you from going after them." Suddenly Logan turned to Kristine with an inquisitive look on his face.
"Lilianne?" Logan asked, "Why did you call her that?" Kristine turned her head from him.
"I don't know." She lied, "But undoubtedly they've taken her to the same facility that they're holding James and Lane."
"Don't lie to me." Logan said, "I know you know a lot more than you're telling us." His voice got louder, "Now you better start telling us everything you know."
"I don't have to tell you shit." Kristine growled.
"Oh no, because James and Lane are my children too, and now Hydra has my other daughter, and I'm starting to wonder if you led Hydra to us." Logan accused her.
"You," Kristine growled venomously, "think that I used her as a trade for my own children!"
"No one thinks anything of the sort, Kristine." The professor said, "What I think Logan is getting at is maybe they followed you here and found her."
"No one followed me here."
"How do you know?" Logan snapped at her, "You were half dead on our door step when you got here."
"I was alive enough to make it here."
"Hydra has probably always known where X23 was," The professor cut in, facilitating them, "they just had to wait for the right moment. The important thing now, is that we get her out of their hands and get your children back. I'm sending Storm, Scott and Jean with you to Canada. I will not risk any one else."
"I'm not going anywhere until she tells me the truth." Logan snapped.
"I've told you all I know."
"Bull shit!"
"You know what?" Kristine snapped as she stood up, "I don't need you, or your students, I'll get my children on my own." She moved towards the door but Logan stood up and grabbed her wrist.
"You think just because I'm pissed at you, I'm going to let you go." Logan snapped back at her.
"You can't stop me." She simply stated.
"I believe I can." Logan snapped
"You're not my employer or guardian." Kristine said
"Do you remember what happened last time you broke into one of Hydra's bases?" Logan said.
"They may have gotten the best of me, but I certainly took a few of their numbers in the process."
"You don't think they're going to beef up security a bit since your last performance?" Logan snapped back.
"I've been through worse." Kristine said.
"Oh really?" Logan huffed back, "Tell me then? You came here looking like your body went through a blender."
"I was a trained special operative assassin for the Canadian government." Kristine snapped as she got in his face.
"You think your training is still up to speed?" Logan snapped back.
"Is yours?" Kristine said.
"You sure you can remove guards and create a clear path for MY entry?" Logan firmly stated.
"Give me 15 minutes, and I'll give you door." Kristine simply stated. Just then, Scott, Jean and Storm walked into the office.
"We're leaving in one hour." Kristine said as she walked out of the office with power behind her walk.
Lane was sitting on the floor of her cell waiting desperately for the guards to return with James. Suddenly as if her prayers were being answered, the door at the end of the hall opened and four guards came in, but they weren't carrying James, it was someone they had never seen before. The guards opened the door to her cell and threw the unconscious girl to the floor.
"Do you people have no souls?" Lane snapped at them as they closed her cell door and marched out. Lane looked at the girl on the floor. She brushed her hair out of her face and drug her towards her cot. Lane used all the strength she had picking the girl up and laying her down on the cot, "Welcome to hell." Lane whispered to her as the hall door opened again. Lane moved towards the cell door and watched as her brother walked, in a trance like state, back into his cell. He stood in the center of it for a moment before he collapsed on the ground, "JAMES!" Lane screamed. As she did, the girl on her cot woke up and jumped to her feet. She looked at Lane who was white knuckle gripping her cell bars.
"Where am I?" The girl asked. Lane looked at the girl with her tear stricken eyes.
"I don't know, but we're experiments for Viper." Lane replied.
"Viper!" The girl shrieked with a growl. The girl held up her fists and released her set of adamantium claws. Almost instantly, X23 screamed in agony and retracted her claws.
"The device on your head stops you from using your powers." Lane told her as she wrapped a blanket around her shoulders.
"Who are you?" X23 asked.
"I'm Lane." She replied as she leaned her head against the cell door, "That's my brother James." She said nodding towards her brother.
"Lane and James." X23 nodded, knowing who they were, as she sat down across from her, "Are you guys ok?"
"We're still alive," the girl sighed, "for now."
"What has Viper been doing to you?" X23 asked.
"Testing my body. For what, I don't know." Lane shuddered, "Lots of needle poking, endurance testing, I always wake up with scars like these," She pulled up her leg to reveal a circular scar on her leg. X23 looked at her leg, then pulled up her pant leg to reveal an identical scar.
"They wouldn't be." X23 said in confusion.
"Doing what?" Lane asked.
"Your mutation, what is it?" X23 asked with urgency.
"Enhanced sense and these bony claw things," Lane replied, "I don't know what Viper wants with me."
"She's trying to succeed with you, where she failed with me."
"Failed at what?"
"Creating the perfect weapon, which is what I was molded to be." X23 replied with spite in her voice.
"Why did she fail with you?" Lane asked, "You seem fine to me."
"Too long of a story," X23 told her, "But don't worry, people are coming for us."
"Lane!" James screamed to her from his cell, across from his sisters, "Lane!" No matter how many times he called to her she didn't wake, "Guards, please cage us together." The guard said nothing to James as he walked away. James walked back over to his iron cot and sat down and with his father's brown eyes watched his sister's seemingly lifeless body. Hours passed before Lane started to move. She slowly pushed herself off the ground and rose to her feet. James got up and slowly walked to the front of his cell, "Lane, what did they do to you?"
"I don't know." She mumbled as she sat on her cot, "I just wish it would stop." She started to remove the bandages from her legs. There were needle marks all over them along with a rather large circular scar on her calf, "Why hasn't mom come for us James?" She started to cry.
"She will, I'm telling you, she'll be here." James said, as he poked at the device on his head stunting his powers.
"Before I die from this torture?" his sister wept.
"I assure you, girl," Came a voice from down the hall, "This will make you better."
"You stay away from her!" James growled as he ran to his cage door, "You're going to regret this."
"Please, leave me alone, Viper." Lane weakly pleaded with her, "I'm nothing. My abilities are useless to no one but me."
"I have over seen this project numerous times, only one being as successful as you." The woman known as Viper smirked with her dark green lips, "While it wasn't quite as successful as we had hoped, we learned from our mistakes. Your fathers ability to heal so graciously passed on to you." Viper smiled deviously.
"It means nothing to us," Lane said as she laid down on her cot, exhaustion settling in, "We never knew our father."
"I find it fascinating that his abilities were passed on to two of you," she said looking at Lane, "and not all three." She turned her head to James, "Be up bright and early tomorrow we have a world of work." Out of nowhere, Lane got up and ran to the front of her cell.
"Don't you have someone else to torture for awhile." Lane growled as tears ran down her tan complexion, "Piss off you worthless excuse of nature."
"As a matter of fact, I do." Viper smiled as she signaled to two guards who immediately came stomping in. Lane watched the guards barge into her brothers cell. She watched her brother struggle and put up a fight for a few moments before he was rendered unconscious.
"JAMES!" she screamed as she rattled her cage door, "Please, don't take him from me please!!!" Viper said nothing to the girl as she cried for her brother. Then, just as quickly as they came in, they were gone and so was James, "JAMES!!" Lane continued to scream, "JAMES!"
It was Kristine's turn to be startled awake by disconcerting dreams and her woman's intuition. Her stomach was turning in several directions and it made for a very nervous feeling. She got up and nervously walked about the room for a few minutes, before she noticed an X-man uniform on the dresser with a pair of boots on the floor. She picked up the uniform and held it in front of her. She sighed as she looked at the blue and yellow uniform in front of her. She quickly discarded her current clothing and changed into the outfit provided for her. She looked at herself in the long mirror hanging on the back of the door. The outfit was blue with yellow markings on the shoulders, around the short sleeves, and an X over the left chest. She sat down on the bed and slowly put her boots on. They were not clunky, which was a plus for her. Her fighting style would never tolerate clunky boots. Still feeling very nervous about something, she quickly walked out of the room and looked to her sides, seeing no one and hearing no one made her nervousness worse. She stalked down the long dark hallway coming to the staircase leading to the front door. She focused her mind on Logan and took on his power enhancing her hearing, but just as she did, someone came up behind her.
"Hey!" X23 said as she walked up to Kristine. Startled Kristine whipped her head around and caught her breath.
"Oh, it's you." Kristine panted, "Where is everyone?"
"They're in a training session." The girl told her, "I'm exempt from daily training because of my.condition."
"I understand." Kristine smiled at the girl, "How long until they're done?"
"It's Wolverine's training session." Kristine nodded as she continued to look around herself, "Is something wrong?"
"I can't shake this nervous feeling, I feel like something bad is about to happen." Kristine said, "I don't know what." The young girl listened around her and took in scents of the air. The girl looked up at Kristine with fear in her eyes.
"Someone's coming." The girl told her.
"Go!" Kristine snapped, "Get Logan!" Just then, several guards for Hydra came bursting through windows and ceiling fixtures. X23 extended her claws, ready to fight for her freedom, when the front door burst open and a creature with a pale complexion and a red uniform came in, "Oh, shit." Kristine freaked out. Kristine grabbed X23's arm and threw her down the hallway from which she came, "GET LOGAN NOW!" Kristine ran down the staircase to charge at the intruders but was met by two sets of Carbonadium tendrils, one around her feet and one around her neck.
"Well, well, well," Omega Red laughed, "if it isn't the American Psycho." Fear took over the look in Kristine's eyes, "I always did love the look of fear I could instill in your eyes, because I know you can't take my powers or you'll be stuck with them." Omega Red tightened the grip around her neck slowly cutting off circulation, "Guards, find the girl and restrain her."
"Good.luck." Kristine managed to whisper out as her eyes began to glow, "now.piss off." With that, Kristine's eyes tore open violently and the force behind the blast blew Omega Red back out the door he came, taking most of the frame with it. Kristine fell to the ground and looked around her. Suddenly, she disappeared from her position and re-appeared a short while later running along side X23. She grabbed the girls hand and disappeared from site again. The guards that were chasing them stopped in their tracks and looked around themselves in confusion.
Kristine appeared with X23 in the Danger Room where Logan and the other students were having their training session. As they appeared in the middle of it, the session was instantly stopped. Kristine looked around realizing that X23 was safe, she teleported out of the danger room and back into the main hallway.
"This is a school, not a war zone." A voice came over head of the guards. They looked over their heads to see Kristine leaping towards them. She landed in front of one guard and roundhouse kicked him in the chest sending him flying down the hall. She picked up the runner on the floor and shook it as hard as she could knocking the intruders to the sides. She quickly ran up to one, grabbed him by the head and slamming him against the opposing wall. Then flipped herself over one guard, taking his shotgun with her and fired a shot into his back. She snapped the gun in half, with her bare hands and threw the pieces aside as the guards took their cue to leave. Kristine walked down the hallway towards the front, when Omega Red walked out from behind a corner, just as Logan and the other students came up behind Kristine.
"What is going on?" Logan said.
"Lady Hydra has promised me my Carbonadium synthesizer, so I do not intend on leaving with out the girl." Omega Red said as he threw a series of metal balls into the hallway, "I don't usually use such devices, but for this I will." Less than a second later, the devices exploded in a flash of extraordinarily bright multi colored lights, blinding everyone.
A few minutes later, the lights subsided and most could see again. Kristine looked around quickly and noticed that X23 was gone.
"LILIANNE!" Kristine screamed as she ran towards the front door. She ran down the staircase and out the hole that was the front door see a helicopter flying away from the school, "NO!" she screamed again as she clenched her fists into a ball. Everyone ran out the door to see if anything could be done. As they walked out side, they all felt the pressure drop as they saw an enormous amount of pressure building up around Kristine.
"What is going on?" Scott asked Logan. Logan said nothing as he watched, but a few minutes later he realized what was going to happen.
"Everyone, back in the mansion!" Logan yelled. Everyone, except Logan ran back into the mansion. Logan watched as Kristine exploded with power leaving a huge crater in the front yard. As the pressure returned, Logan walked towards the woman who was bracing herself on her knees. He realized quickly that she was crying, "Kristine." He said softly. She said nothing as Logan helped her to her feet then took her into his arms, "We'll get her back." Logan then picked her up and walked back in the mansion.
A few hours later Kristine walked into the professor's office and slowly took a seat in front of his desk. Nothing was said between the two until Logan arrived a short while later.
"Kristine," The professor started, "is that what your ability is like when you take on too many at one time?" he asked. She nodded.
"Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't." She replied, "I was too angry to make it work this time."
"I can tell by the tone in your voice," the professor said in reference to Kristine, "and by the look in your eyes," referring to Logan, "that there is nothing I can do to stop you from going after them." Suddenly Logan turned to Kristine with an inquisitive look on his face.
"Lilianne?" Logan asked, "Why did you call her that?" Kristine turned her head from him.
"I don't know." She lied, "But undoubtedly they've taken her to the same facility that they're holding James and Lane."
"Don't lie to me." Logan said, "I know you know a lot more than you're telling us." His voice got louder, "Now you better start telling us everything you know."
"I don't have to tell you shit." Kristine growled.
"Oh no, because James and Lane are my children too, and now Hydra has my other daughter, and I'm starting to wonder if you led Hydra to us." Logan accused her.
"You," Kristine growled venomously, "think that I used her as a trade for my own children!"
"No one thinks anything of the sort, Kristine." The professor said, "What I think Logan is getting at is maybe they followed you here and found her."
"No one followed me here."
"How do you know?" Logan snapped at her, "You were half dead on our door step when you got here."
"I was alive enough to make it here."
"Hydra has probably always known where X23 was," The professor cut in, facilitating them, "they just had to wait for the right moment. The important thing now, is that we get her out of their hands and get your children back. I'm sending Storm, Scott and Jean with you to Canada. I will not risk any one else."
"I'm not going anywhere until she tells me the truth." Logan snapped.
"I've told you all I know."
"Bull shit!"
"You know what?" Kristine snapped as she stood up, "I don't need you, or your students, I'll get my children on my own." She moved towards the door but Logan stood up and grabbed her wrist.
"You think just because I'm pissed at you, I'm going to let you go." Logan snapped back at her.
"You can't stop me." She simply stated.
"I believe I can." Logan snapped
"You're not my employer or guardian." Kristine said
"Do you remember what happened last time you broke into one of Hydra's bases?" Logan said.
"They may have gotten the best of me, but I certainly took a few of their numbers in the process."
"You don't think they're going to beef up security a bit since your last performance?" Logan snapped back.
"I've been through worse." Kristine said.
"Oh really?" Logan huffed back, "Tell me then? You came here looking like your body went through a blender."
"I was a trained special operative assassin for the Canadian government." Kristine snapped as she got in his face.
"You think your training is still up to speed?" Logan snapped back.
"Is yours?" Kristine said.
"You sure you can remove guards and create a clear path for MY entry?" Logan firmly stated.
"Give me 15 minutes, and I'll give you door." Kristine simply stated. Just then, Scott, Jean and Storm walked into the office.
"We're leaving in one hour." Kristine said as she walked out of the office with power behind her walk.
Lane was sitting on the floor of her cell waiting desperately for the guards to return with James. Suddenly as if her prayers were being answered, the door at the end of the hall opened and four guards came in, but they weren't carrying James, it was someone they had never seen before. The guards opened the door to her cell and threw the unconscious girl to the floor.
"Do you people have no souls?" Lane snapped at them as they closed her cell door and marched out. Lane looked at the girl on the floor. She brushed her hair out of her face and drug her towards her cot. Lane used all the strength she had picking the girl up and laying her down on the cot, "Welcome to hell." Lane whispered to her as the hall door opened again. Lane moved towards the cell door and watched as her brother walked, in a trance like state, back into his cell. He stood in the center of it for a moment before he collapsed on the ground, "JAMES!" Lane screamed. As she did, the girl on her cot woke up and jumped to her feet. She looked at Lane who was white knuckle gripping her cell bars.
"Where am I?" The girl asked. Lane looked at the girl with her tear stricken eyes.
"I don't know, but we're experiments for Viper." Lane replied.
"Viper!" The girl shrieked with a growl. The girl held up her fists and released her set of adamantium claws. Almost instantly, X23 screamed in agony and retracted her claws.
"The device on your head stops you from using your powers." Lane told her as she wrapped a blanket around her shoulders.
"Who are you?" X23 asked.
"I'm Lane." She replied as she leaned her head against the cell door, "That's my brother James." She said nodding towards her brother.
"Lane and James." X23 nodded, knowing who they were, as she sat down across from her, "Are you guys ok?"
"We're still alive," the girl sighed, "for now."
"What has Viper been doing to you?" X23 asked.
"Testing my body. For what, I don't know." Lane shuddered, "Lots of needle poking, endurance testing, I always wake up with scars like these," She pulled up her leg to reveal a circular scar on her leg. X23 looked at her leg, then pulled up her pant leg to reveal an identical scar.
"They wouldn't be." X23 said in confusion.
"Doing what?" Lane asked.
"Your mutation, what is it?" X23 asked with urgency.
"Enhanced sense and these bony claw things," Lane replied, "I don't know what Viper wants with me."
"She's trying to succeed with you, where she failed with me."
"Failed at what?"
"Creating the perfect weapon, which is what I was molded to be." X23 replied with spite in her voice.
"Why did she fail with you?" Lane asked, "You seem fine to me."
"Too long of a story," X23 told her, "But don't worry, people are coming for us."