A/N: . I know… It's been a long, long time. But you see, I did something stupid. I have this story on a floppy disk, which I took over to my dad's to work on. I never did and I forgot it over there. I didn't go over there for a week and when I got back home I found that I didn't have another chapter typed like I had thought. And then came the stupid writers block. But I worked through it and here's the next chapter! Yay!!
A/N#2: Thank you X00001, Kagome Rogue Shizoru, and Xiowolfe for the reviews! Once again sorry for the delay in chapter. ,
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Logan was mad.
Xavier was worried.
And Liz was sitting in the corner keeping to her self. Her arm was tightly bandaged and held against her stomach as she watched Logan pace in front of Xavier. Her uninjured hand clutched the arm of her chair as she watched the two men converse.
"Where could she have gone?"
"Logan, calm down. I'm sure there's a perfect explanation for all of-"
"Can it Chuck," Logan snapped pausing in mid-step, "I was finally gettin' through ta 'er. This makes no sense at all."
Liz watched Logan resume his pacing, the folded piece of paper she found earlier addressed to her was poking into her thigh. She had read it over and over again; the note was specific as was the ending reading 'don't tell anyone.' Ripley was in trouble and only she knew exactly what kind.
"Liz?" Xavier's voice cut through her thoughts, "Is there anything else you can tell us? Anything that seemed… different about Ripley?"
She had been the one to discover that Ripley was missing.
"Only that her room was a mess." She replied softly lowering her eyes to the floor.
Logan snorted clenching his fists as he paced, "Somethin's not right 'bout this…" He stopped in front of the window and sighed staring outside at the cloudy sky.
The not so familiar feeling of someone sifting through memories startled Liz out of her recent thoughts. Her eyes flickered to Xavier staring at her and her mind began to itch furiously
"No!" She screamed jumping to her feet, "Stay out of my mind!!" Her chair tipped over as she ran to from the room.
Logan whirled around at Liz's sudden outbreak, "She knows something." Xavier shouted to him as he raced from the room after Liz.
"No…no…no…." Liz panted running out the front door, she had to make her way back to Hydra it was the only way to save Ripley.
An idea jumped into her head and she raced to the garage and grabbed Logan's bike. Logan raced into the garage just as Liz hotwired the bike and revved it to life.
"Liz wait!" He shouted as she peeled out of the garage and down the driveway, "Damn it!!"
Liz grit her teeth together as Logan's last words reached her ears, she wouldn't slow down no matter what. Her destination was Hydra…
Logan watched the trail of dust disappear before shoving his hand into his pocket and pulling out a key, 'I'm goin' after 'er Chuck.' He sent to the telepath as he climbed into the 'van.
Logan, it's a trap!
He didn't care what it was, 'I'll bring 'em back.' And then he slammed down his mental shields shutting Xavier out from his mind.
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A thick cloud of dust kicked up surrounding Liz as she drove down the dirt road leading to Hydra's head quarters. She pulled the bike over to the side of the road and wiped her running eyes as she made her way through the cloud. The dust began to thin out once she got to the border of the base; she scowled looking over the heavily guarded building.
"Hope this is easier getting in than it was getting out." She muttered to herself crouching low to the ground when a black van pulled up. Her eyes widened when she spotted a small logo on the bumper, it was the X-van and Logan was driving it!
To her dismay, Logan jumped from the van and clawed his way through the gate despite the onslaught of bullets aimed at his head.
"Logan no!" Liz found herself screaming as she raced to his side.
A bullet whizzed by Logan's right ear and slammed into Liz's shoulder causing her to gasp and stumble backwards.
"Liz!" Logan shouted his eyes widening as another bullet slammed into Liz's stomach making her double over and fall to the ground.
Liz groaned wrapping her arm around her stomach as Logan kneeled down by her side, "Rip… R-Rip's in there…" She gasped around a mouth full of blood, "L-Lo…ga…n…"
"Kid, stay with me kid." Logan growled wiping the blood running down his forehead from a bullet wound that had already healed.
He shook her gently by the shoulders, nothing. There were two choices laid out before him at that moment, take Liz back to the mansion and pray that she was still alive but also loose Ripley, or save Ripley and loose Liz. A bullet slammed into his back making him wince forward in pain.
"I'm sorry Liz." He whispered; he knew she was already gone but the thought of her possibly still being alive and in the hands of Hydra made him sick. Slowly he pulled away from the girl's still body and climbed to his feet.
He had to hurry.
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"It's good to see you again X-23"
"That's not my name."
"It's the name I gave you and the only one that you'll ever have."
"It's not mine."
The doctor glared at Ripley with coal black eyes hiding behind thick glasses, "Whatever." He hissed retreating towards the large metal door.
Ripley strained against her restraints with a soft grunt.
"You already know escape is useless. You're just a pawn to get Crimson back, and once we have her back then…" He trailed off with a shrug and entered a four-digit code into the pad on the wall.
"What are you going to do with her?" Ripley growled narrowing her eyes; the old man was starting to creep her out.
The metal door slid open and the doctor stepped outside he smirked in at her as the door closed. A shiver went down Ripley's spine; slowly she turned her head away from the door and glared up at the camera positioned above her. Suddenly the alarms went off, a red light flashed in the corner of her room and a high-pitched wail assaulted her ears. Several scientists came running into her room and each grabbed a hold of a limb and began carrying her out.
"Let me go!" Ripley screamed struggling against the white coat clad men, "Damn you bastards!" Adimantium shoe-like things on her feet prohibited her from unsheathing her claws.
"This way!" The old scientist from earlier called out to the men at the end of the hallway. The lights were disorienting to Ripley as she struggled, her head was beginning to feel light.
A familiar scent came to her, "Logan!" She screamed feeling on the verge of blacking out.
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