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Yeah, last issue needed more editing. My only excuse is that I put it up at
12 o clock at night! I'm striving to do better
To everyone else: Thanks for the reviews and if you came back, hope you enjoy the chapter!
Hydra Base, West Coast
Madame Hydra watched with interest as a high tech airship the size of most cargo planes landed on the runway of her secret base, it's precious cargo inside. Men in white lab coats rushed out to greet the plane and it's crew.
In moments, Rahne Sinclair, secured to a medical bed and with an I.V drip that included special drugs meant to keep her peacefully asleep was rolled down the plane's ramp and onto the tarmac. The doctors walked beside Rahne's rolling bed, each talking to the other and confirming various medical facts in regards to Rahne's care.
Madame Hydra signaled for the men to stop as they began to pass. They complied instantly, and Madame Hydra loomed over Rahne, inspecting the young mutant like a tiger looking over it's fallen prey.
"So this wisp of a girl is the future of our Weapon X program?" Madam Hydra asked her lead scientist as she stroked Rahne's face in an almost motherly fashion. Somehow her powerful voice managed to drown out the sounds of the plane engines not thirty feet away.
"That's correct. We've already finished with her and we've a room prepared for her now." One man replied
"Good. I've other projects that require my attention." Madame Hydra turned away sharply, "see this trash to her room and see that nothing goes wrong with this project."
"Nothing will go wrong." Dr. Markus assured the supreme Hydra leader as he approached the flight deck to check on Rahne himself, "no one knows we have the girl and the plan is simplicity itself."
"I will hold you to that, doctor." Madame Hydra warned, "This project is proving to be a costly failure, especially with our other successes."
Dr. Markus found himself adjusting his collar at the implied threat, no matter how he willed himself not too, "No more failures. I promise."
A malicious grin came across Madame Hydra's lips, "Good."
Dr. Markus watched as Madame Hydra strolled away to attend to other matters of Hydra, and then looked at his subordinates who'd yet move Rahne to her 'room'.
"Well?! What are you idiots waiting for? Get moving!" Dr. Markus snapped, failing pitifully to hide his fear.
***
"God, I knew this job was crummy, but this takes the cake." One scientist moaned as he went about securing various medical attachments to Rahne. He attached a heart monitor to her left hand and another rounded heart monitor above her heart. Rahne, as ever, slept thru it all peacefully thanks to the drugs that had been administered to her on a regular basis since her kidnapping.
"I know what you mean, she's just an innocent kid." Another scientist sighed. Only two men were in the room, as the sleeping mutant wasn't deemed too much a threat. But to both men, that only seemed to make things worse. Here they were, victimizing some poor defenseless girl like mad scientists out of a crappy B movie.
"So was I, at one time. Never again thanks to Hydra."
-Snickt!-
The blood of both men ran cold when they heard that sound. Moving at a pace that would put glaciers to shame, they turned to see a brown haired girl wearing an all black leather combat suit with two claws protruding out of her knuckles, standing just to the left of the closed door way.
"How do you boys feel about taking on a girl who isn't so innocent?" X-23 inquired.
Both men made a mad dash for the closed door. They weren't nearly quick enough. X-23 leaped forward and drop kicked one scientist into the other and slamming them into the steel walls of the room.
"Alright, I've heard bits and pieces of what you sickos want that girl for, but I want the full story and I want it now, or I play tik tac toe with your faces!" X-23 hissed as she waved her claws in front of the men's faces.
The two scientists couldn't talk and explain the situation fast enough. By the time they were finished, X-23 was thoroughly disgusted. She'd given up a possible shot of revenge on Madame Hydra to discover why Hydra wanted Rahne, and now didn't regret her decision in the least. X-23 grabbed the scientists by the face and slammed their heads up against the wall. No point in killing them in case she needed later.
X-23 strolled over to Rahne's bedside and severed tube with a single slash of her claws. She then gently slapped Rahne's face in an effort to get her to stir.
"Come on, kid, we need to scram!"
It took her several minutes, but Rahne slowly came around, her advanced metabolism burning out the drugs at an accelerated rate.
"Wha...where am I?" Rahne asked as she came out of her drugged stupor. The site of the brown haired X-23 naturally confused her, but the drugs still impaired her mind.
"I'll give you the headlines, kid. You've been kidnapped by Hydra. They're badguys. I hate Hydra, and I've decided to get you out. With me so far?"
Rahne nodded, then suddenly realized that she'd been taken while on Muir. Rahne shot up in her bed like a bullet, "Mum! Lady Moira, where is she? Did they hurt her?!"
"They didn't say anything about her, so I doubt it. Hydra wants to keep a low profile." X-23 explained evenly, "Killing a Noble Peace prize winner? Not low profile."
X-23 walked over to where she'd concealed a brown gym bag. She reached inside and tossed some clothes to Rahne, who was wearing a Hydra hospital gown, "Get dressed. We need to split, like now."
Rahne quickly complied, grabbing up the clothes and getting dressed at a frantic rate. As she got dressed, she couldn't help but notice how her own scent had somehow shifted, changed. It was different from before, altered somehow. Rahne pushed that thought out of her mind and once she was done, stepped down off the bed and asked, "What now?"
X-23 pointed up towards the ceiling, where Rahne saw an open vent. She figured out the rest. X-23 boosted Rahne up, and followed herself.
"Follow me." X-23 ordered.
The escape was slow and tedious, the vents of the building leading to a forgotten building at the far side of the Hydra complex, largely forgotten now in favor of the more advanced facilities. As soon as X-23 and Rahne stepped out of the old vent, alarms began blaring.
"Oh no." Rahne whispered, deathly afraid of recapture.
"Eh, they just found out you were gone. No biggie." X-23 shrugged. She pointed towards and old fire escape, "I've got a car waiting about a mile down the road, in the woods. Get going, I'll make sure no one follows."
Rahne hesitated, uncertain of what to do and how much she should trust this trained assassin.
"Go, God damn it! I don't have time to baby sit!" X-23 snapped. Painfully aware of how limited her choices were, Rahne made her way over to the ladder and climbed down. X-23 watched the girl reach the ground and seemingly melt into the forest. X-23 wasn't overly concerned about Hydra soldiers discovering Rahne. They were sloppy, careless. How they ever could have produced X-23 baffled the teenage warrior at times.
Turning her attention towards the main facility, X-23 withdrew a detonator from inside the folds of her coat and depressed the large button. Bombs hidden in the munitions stockpile, the buildings that held the jet fuel that supplied Hydra's hi tech transports and several other bombs hidden in key locations. The subsequent explosion destroyed a good three quarters of the complex, only sparing the building X-23 was standing on. With a satisfied smile, X-23 flipped backwards and jumped off the edge of the building, falling three stories and landing on her feet without missing a beat. It would be some time before Hydra even had any idea what had been lost in the explosion she'd caused. At the moment, that gave X-23 was edge she might be able to exploit.
At a casual sprinting pace, X-23 easily caught up with Rahne, who'd been making her way thru the forest.
"X-23!" Rahne exclaimed, "What was that terrible explosion, what happened?"
"Lets just say we won't have to worry about Hydra coming after us any time soon." X-23 explained as she slowed down to a brisk walking pace, "Your name Rahne's right?"
"Aye, why'd they kidnap me? Who are you?" Rahne asked apprehensively.
"Name's X-23. As to why they kidnapped you," X-23 shrugged unconvincingly as they continued thru the forest, "I'm not sure yet."
"Where are we?"
"California, west coast." X-23 answered.
Rahne felt a knot form in her stomach. The West Coast was, obviously, very far from both Scotland and her friends at the institute. Not a good place to be with terrorists on your heels.
"Don't worry, kid. I won't let Hydra get you again." X-23 reassured Rahne, almost reading her thoughts. Finally, the woods seemed to break, exactly where X-23 had parked her car.
"This is yuir car?!" Rahne asked, completely astonished by X-23's taste in cars.
The car was an old Volts Wagon Beetle, like an ugly lime green clone of the car named Herbie.
"It's genius, kid. No one suspects the bug. Now climb on in. I've got a hotel room a few miles from here."
Rahne got inside, and the two quickly sped away. Rahne realized the basic idea behind the car. While it certainly looked unassuming, X-23 had juiced it up considerably.
"So, tell me about yourself, Rahne. You got a boyfriend?" X-23 asked.
Rahne thought remorsefully about the almost relationship she had with Bobby, "Nae really."
"You had a boyfriend in the last couple of months you got friendly with then?" X-23 inquired. Rahne seemed to miss any possible subtext to the question.
"Nae." Rahne answered as she began staring out the window. Though X- 23 assured her that Moira was likely physically fine, Rahne knew her mother must be going thru hell now, knowing nothing besides the fact that Rahne had been kidnapped. Rahne hated the idea she was causing Moira so much worry.
"Rahne, this might seem weird, but we'll need to stop by a pharmacy on the way back."
Rahne barely acknowledged the statement.
***
And as she looked at X-23 with a little but important box in her hand, Rahne, looking back, would have admitted that was something of a mistake.
"I don' see the point tae this!" Rahne said, very uncomfortable just holding the little box X-23 had bought from the pharmacy and forced into her hands.
"Just humor me, okay?"
"But..."
"Rahne, come on..." X-23 sighed, "I saved you from Hydra, so that kinda proves I'm on your side. Just trust me on this, okay?"
"But, I don' ken how to use it." Rahne muttered softly in defeat.
"Instructions are on the box. Just go in the bathroom and do it, okay?"
***
Later
Rahne sat on one of the dual beds in the hotel room. The time limit was up, and X-23 had gone into the bathroom to check the results.
Part of Rahne was relieved. What X-23 suspected couldn't be true. It was physically impossible. But not too deep in her mind, Rahne recognized the fact that X-23 likely knew something Rahne did not. The look on X-23 when she returned from the bathroom wasn't exactly encouraging either.
"I'm sorry kid..."
"Nae, yuir wrong!" Rahne interrupted, "I've ne'er even been with a boy! Ever! It's impossible!"
"Rahne, the test doesn't lie. Nor does my nose. Your body is producing hormones it normally doesn't, we can both smell it. We both know the truth." X-23 explained. X-23 took a deep sigh, as she knew her news wasn't exactly the most welcome news for any thirteen year old girl to hear.
"Rahne, you're pregnant."
***
Across the street from the hotel room X-23 and Rahne occupied, a lone man with a sniper rifle watched the two girls converse from his perch in thick trees. Like X-23, this man had his own mission and vendetta against Hydra. But unlike X-23, he was willing to sell his soul to get it. And now, Rahne was in his sights.
Next chapter: That's right, Rahne's pregnant! But how and why? Who's the person behind curtain number 3 (last curtain, I swear)?
To everyone else: Thanks for the reviews and if you came back, hope you enjoy the chapter!
Hydra Base, West Coast
Madame Hydra watched with interest as a high tech airship the size of most cargo planes landed on the runway of her secret base, it's precious cargo inside. Men in white lab coats rushed out to greet the plane and it's crew.
In moments, Rahne Sinclair, secured to a medical bed and with an I.V drip that included special drugs meant to keep her peacefully asleep was rolled down the plane's ramp and onto the tarmac. The doctors walked beside Rahne's rolling bed, each talking to the other and confirming various medical facts in regards to Rahne's care.
Madame Hydra signaled for the men to stop as they began to pass. They complied instantly, and Madame Hydra loomed over Rahne, inspecting the young mutant like a tiger looking over it's fallen prey.
"So this wisp of a girl is the future of our Weapon X program?" Madam Hydra asked her lead scientist as she stroked Rahne's face in an almost motherly fashion. Somehow her powerful voice managed to drown out the sounds of the plane engines not thirty feet away.
"That's correct. We've already finished with her and we've a room prepared for her now." One man replied
"Good. I've other projects that require my attention." Madame Hydra turned away sharply, "see this trash to her room and see that nothing goes wrong with this project."
"Nothing will go wrong." Dr. Markus assured the supreme Hydra leader as he approached the flight deck to check on Rahne himself, "no one knows we have the girl and the plan is simplicity itself."
"I will hold you to that, doctor." Madame Hydra warned, "This project is proving to be a costly failure, especially with our other successes."
Dr. Markus found himself adjusting his collar at the implied threat, no matter how he willed himself not too, "No more failures. I promise."
A malicious grin came across Madame Hydra's lips, "Good."
Dr. Markus watched as Madame Hydra strolled away to attend to other matters of Hydra, and then looked at his subordinates who'd yet move Rahne to her 'room'.
"Well?! What are you idiots waiting for? Get moving!" Dr. Markus snapped, failing pitifully to hide his fear.
***
"God, I knew this job was crummy, but this takes the cake." One scientist moaned as he went about securing various medical attachments to Rahne. He attached a heart monitor to her left hand and another rounded heart monitor above her heart. Rahne, as ever, slept thru it all peacefully thanks to the drugs that had been administered to her on a regular basis since her kidnapping.
"I know what you mean, she's just an innocent kid." Another scientist sighed. Only two men were in the room, as the sleeping mutant wasn't deemed too much a threat. But to both men, that only seemed to make things worse. Here they were, victimizing some poor defenseless girl like mad scientists out of a crappy B movie.
"So was I, at one time. Never again thanks to Hydra."
-Snickt!-
The blood of both men ran cold when they heard that sound. Moving at a pace that would put glaciers to shame, they turned to see a brown haired girl wearing an all black leather combat suit with two claws protruding out of her knuckles, standing just to the left of the closed door way.
"How do you boys feel about taking on a girl who isn't so innocent?" X-23 inquired.
Both men made a mad dash for the closed door. They weren't nearly quick enough. X-23 leaped forward and drop kicked one scientist into the other and slamming them into the steel walls of the room.
"Alright, I've heard bits and pieces of what you sickos want that girl for, but I want the full story and I want it now, or I play tik tac toe with your faces!" X-23 hissed as she waved her claws in front of the men's faces.
The two scientists couldn't talk and explain the situation fast enough. By the time they were finished, X-23 was thoroughly disgusted. She'd given up a possible shot of revenge on Madame Hydra to discover why Hydra wanted Rahne, and now didn't regret her decision in the least. X-23 grabbed the scientists by the face and slammed their heads up against the wall. No point in killing them in case she needed later.
X-23 strolled over to Rahne's bedside and severed tube with a single slash of her claws. She then gently slapped Rahne's face in an effort to get her to stir.
"Come on, kid, we need to scram!"
It took her several minutes, but Rahne slowly came around, her advanced metabolism burning out the drugs at an accelerated rate.
"Wha...where am I?" Rahne asked as she came out of her drugged stupor. The site of the brown haired X-23 naturally confused her, but the drugs still impaired her mind.
"I'll give you the headlines, kid. You've been kidnapped by Hydra. They're badguys. I hate Hydra, and I've decided to get you out. With me so far?"
Rahne nodded, then suddenly realized that she'd been taken while on Muir. Rahne shot up in her bed like a bullet, "Mum! Lady Moira, where is she? Did they hurt her?!"
"They didn't say anything about her, so I doubt it. Hydra wants to keep a low profile." X-23 explained evenly, "Killing a Noble Peace prize winner? Not low profile."
X-23 walked over to where she'd concealed a brown gym bag. She reached inside and tossed some clothes to Rahne, who was wearing a Hydra hospital gown, "Get dressed. We need to split, like now."
Rahne quickly complied, grabbing up the clothes and getting dressed at a frantic rate. As she got dressed, she couldn't help but notice how her own scent had somehow shifted, changed. It was different from before, altered somehow. Rahne pushed that thought out of her mind and once she was done, stepped down off the bed and asked, "What now?"
X-23 pointed up towards the ceiling, where Rahne saw an open vent. She figured out the rest. X-23 boosted Rahne up, and followed herself.
"Follow me." X-23 ordered.
The escape was slow and tedious, the vents of the building leading to a forgotten building at the far side of the Hydra complex, largely forgotten now in favor of the more advanced facilities. As soon as X-23 and Rahne stepped out of the old vent, alarms began blaring.
"Oh no." Rahne whispered, deathly afraid of recapture.
"Eh, they just found out you were gone. No biggie." X-23 shrugged. She pointed towards and old fire escape, "I've got a car waiting about a mile down the road, in the woods. Get going, I'll make sure no one follows."
Rahne hesitated, uncertain of what to do and how much she should trust this trained assassin.
"Go, God damn it! I don't have time to baby sit!" X-23 snapped. Painfully aware of how limited her choices were, Rahne made her way over to the ladder and climbed down. X-23 watched the girl reach the ground and seemingly melt into the forest. X-23 wasn't overly concerned about Hydra soldiers discovering Rahne. They were sloppy, careless. How they ever could have produced X-23 baffled the teenage warrior at times.
Turning her attention towards the main facility, X-23 withdrew a detonator from inside the folds of her coat and depressed the large button. Bombs hidden in the munitions stockpile, the buildings that held the jet fuel that supplied Hydra's hi tech transports and several other bombs hidden in key locations. The subsequent explosion destroyed a good three quarters of the complex, only sparing the building X-23 was standing on. With a satisfied smile, X-23 flipped backwards and jumped off the edge of the building, falling three stories and landing on her feet without missing a beat. It would be some time before Hydra even had any idea what had been lost in the explosion she'd caused. At the moment, that gave X-23 was edge she might be able to exploit.
At a casual sprinting pace, X-23 easily caught up with Rahne, who'd been making her way thru the forest.
"X-23!" Rahne exclaimed, "What was that terrible explosion, what happened?"
"Lets just say we won't have to worry about Hydra coming after us any time soon." X-23 explained as she slowed down to a brisk walking pace, "Your name Rahne's right?"
"Aye, why'd they kidnap me? Who are you?" Rahne asked apprehensively.
"Name's X-23. As to why they kidnapped you," X-23 shrugged unconvincingly as they continued thru the forest, "I'm not sure yet."
"Where are we?"
"California, west coast." X-23 answered.
Rahne felt a knot form in her stomach. The West Coast was, obviously, very far from both Scotland and her friends at the institute. Not a good place to be with terrorists on your heels.
"Don't worry, kid. I won't let Hydra get you again." X-23 reassured Rahne, almost reading her thoughts. Finally, the woods seemed to break, exactly where X-23 had parked her car.
"This is yuir car?!" Rahne asked, completely astonished by X-23's taste in cars.
The car was an old Volts Wagon Beetle, like an ugly lime green clone of the car named Herbie.
"It's genius, kid. No one suspects the bug. Now climb on in. I've got a hotel room a few miles from here."
Rahne got inside, and the two quickly sped away. Rahne realized the basic idea behind the car. While it certainly looked unassuming, X-23 had juiced it up considerably.
"So, tell me about yourself, Rahne. You got a boyfriend?" X-23 asked.
Rahne thought remorsefully about the almost relationship she had with Bobby, "Nae really."
"You had a boyfriend in the last couple of months you got friendly with then?" X-23 inquired. Rahne seemed to miss any possible subtext to the question.
"Nae." Rahne answered as she began staring out the window. Though X- 23 assured her that Moira was likely physically fine, Rahne knew her mother must be going thru hell now, knowing nothing besides the fact that Rahne had been kidnapped. Rahne hated the idea she was causing Moira so much worry.
"Rahne, this might seem weird, but we'll need to stop by a pharmacy on the way back."
Rahne barely acknowledged the statement.
***
And as she looked at X-23 with a little but important box in her hand, Rahne, looking back, would have admitted that was something of a mistake.
"I don' see the point tae this!" Rahne said, very uncomfortable just holding the little box X-23 had bought from the pharmacy and forced into her hands.
"Just humor me, okay?"
"But..."
"Rahne, come on..." X-23 sighed, "I saved you from Hydra, so that kinda proves I'm on your side. Just trust me on this, okay?"
"But, I don' ken how to use it." Rahne muttered softly in defeat.
"Instructions are on the box. Just go in the bathroom and do it, okay?"
***
Later
Rahne sat on one of the dual beds in the hotel room. The time limit was up, and X-23 had gone into the bathroom to check the results.
Part of Rahne was relieved. What X-23 suspected couldn't be true. It was physically impossible. But not too deep in her mind, Rahne recognized the fact that X-23 likely knew something Rahne did not. The look on X-23 when she returned from the bathroom wasn't exactly encouraging either.
"I'm sorry kid..."
"Nae, yuir wrong!" Rahne interrupted, "I've ne'er even been with a boy! Ever! It's impossible!"
"Rahne, the test doesn't lie. Nor does my nose. Your body is producing hormones it normally doesn't, we can both smell it. We both know the truth." X-23 explained. X-23 took a deep sigh, as she knew her news wasn't exactly the most welcome news for any thirteen year old girl to hear.
"Rahne, you're pregnant."
***
Across the street from the hotel room X-23 and Rahne occupied, a lone man with a sniper rifle watched the two girls converse from his perch in thick trees. Like X-23, this man had his own mission and vendetta against Hydra. But unlike X-23, he was willing to sell his soul to get it. And now, Rahne was in his sights.
Next chapter: That's right, Rahne's pregnant! But how and why? Who's the person behind curtain number 3 (last curtain, I swear)?