X-Men 3: A Crystal Revealed

A/N: Here it is! So umm this a chapter for Crystal's (Logan) flashback! The next chapter, you'll know soon enough! (gives you an evil grin) Anyways, read and review! No harsh remarks! I did my best on this one! So enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men so I don't own the characters as well! But I do own Crystal and any other characters I created!

Flashback

Men with white uniforms held strange instruments in their gloved hands, ones used for surgeries in hospitals as they got to work on a body of one man, unconscious on a silver table. The same similar equipment some of the men were holding was laid neatly on a surgery platewaited to be reached. Some sort of water was filled in the plates that held the instruments and little drops of blood were mixed with the water.

The man on the table was groaning but one of the men with the white uniforms shot him with a syringe which made him quiet again. The area the white men were working in looked like an abandoned lab, water dripping from some cracks on the concrete wall.

Dizzy as Crystal was, her mind focused through the blurry memories of Logan's hidden past. Her eyes concentrated on the white men who she looked distastefully and she also carefully observed the man on the silver table, who she didn't really recognize.

'What is this?' she thought as she looked further. She knew she was looking from another person's point of view and realized that it was Logan's.

"Logan!" she heard a voice as a man, around his 40's or 50's, came to her (to Logan), with a sincere smile on his face. 'He didn't even glance at the poor guy now being experimented! Sick bastard...' Crystal thought as she, through Logan's eyes, saw this man.

"Hello, Mr.Stryker," she heard Logan say as the man's smile broadened. "Hello Logan. You did good work today. Already we've caught five mutants," the man, 'Stryker,' Crystal thought, congratulated Logan and patted him on the shoulder. She felt a slight frown crease Logan's face as a disturbing thought came to Crystal. Including your son…

Then she felt Logan moving towards the experimented man. The white men stepped aside as Logan leaned towards the man. "How is the mutant's condition?" he spoke, and one of the white men started to explain. 'What is this place?' Crystal thought. 'And why was Logan in this place anyway? What happened to the dying people?'

"The Mutant's powers are fairly under control, Mr. Wolf, (I don't know Logan's last name in the past so I'm gonna call him Wolf, ok?) it will take a little bit more time till he will obey. He is quite strong, sir."

"Good. And weaken him; we don't want him to go rampage on us and kill our precious crew, do we?" Crystal heard Logan command and he left the room, wherever it was. She saw bright lights up above her brightening the area in front of her.

There was an electrical lock on the door now in front of Logan/Crystal and she could see Logan's finger tapping at the lock. '4-9-3-5-0...' Crystal thought as the door in front of her opened a bit slowly. Logan went through the door and Crystal realized that she was in some sort of office.

There was a concrete desk, and paper was stacked on the desk. A simple wheeling chair stood near the desk. The office was a bit small and there was nothing except the chair and desk. Everything else was concrete walls.

'This must be a secret organization…' Crystal thought as Logan sat on the chair and leaned over. The door in front of him automatically closed by itself. Logan took out a cigar and started lighting it, breathing in the relaxing smoke deeply into him.

There was a phone in front of him on the desk and it started to ring but Logan decided to ignore it for a little while. Then sighing and breathing in the smoke from the cigar, he took the phone. "Yes?"

"Mr. Wolf, Mr. Stryker would like to meet you," a voice spoke sharply and clicked. Crystal felt Logan snarl irritably and Logan's thought, I hope he hadn't found out I was a mutant myself…

And with that, he put the tip of the still lighting cigar on his palm. Crystal cried out in pain as the cigar fizzed and the lights burned out on the cigar. He heard Logan give out a sharp cry of pain and then quickly let the cigar be lifted from his palm. Slowly, to Crystal's amazement, it started to heal itself. 'What the-?' Crystal thought as Logan threw the cigar on the ground recklessly. Then Crystal felt Logan get up and walk towards Stryker's place. 'Office,' Crystal thought.

The scene in front of Crystal started to blur and change as she saw Stryker sitting on a black office chair, a large desk in front of him. Stryker was flipping through a few pages of a file. A frown was imprinted on the man's lips. She felt Logan starring at Stryker in confusion.

When finally Stryker stopped flicking the papers in the folder, Crystal realized he was reading a folder about Logan. Stryker slowly lifted his head and his frown seemed to deepen.

"What is it, Mr. Stryker? Do you have a problem?" Logan asked.

"Yes… You are the problem. Why did you not tell me you were a… mutant?" Stryker said and he hissed with fury instead of a concerned tone. He lifted his gaze and his glare pierced Logan. Logan winced. Crystal shivered.

"I have always been loyal to you. I thought you would betray me if I spoke I was... a mutant. An abomination," Logan replied and Logan's hands felt clammy with sweat. Crystal stared at the man in front of Logan and felt Stryker's frown soften a bit.

There was an uncomfortable silence for a minute until Stryker finally spoke, "Logan, you've done a lot for us, we won't kill you or anything of that sort. But I would like you to help us."

'Whose us?' Crystal thought suspiciously at Stryker. The frown now turned to a smile and it made Logan loosen up a bit and made him feel more relaxed.

"Of course," Logan replied and the smile on Stryker's lips curved wider. "We have been tracking for mutants like you with the similar power you possess" - Logan winced -"but I have not succeeded. I hope to create a mutant that will lock all the other repulsive mutants in the world. Will you accept my offer of being the man who will do this for me?" Stryker spoke, almost too kindly.

'A mutant that will lock all the other mutants into cages? Oh please, your thinking more of a killing machine!' Crystal thought, remembering the last flashbacks she had in the cafeteria. She heard Logan, to her horror, say, "I'll volunteer for anything, if it'll help the facility."

The smile, now seeming to be carved into Stryker's face, now grew into a grin as Stryker started to get up.

"Thank you for volunteering Logan. We must start now. Now, I'll explain the details…"

Crystal heard all the lies spilling out of Stryker's ugly mouth. She knew Stryker was just trying to use Logan, but Logan seemed to be clueless. But as clueless as Logan was, that didn't stop from Logan asking questions about Stryker's obvious lies. After Stryker answered most of Logan's questions, Logan, satisfied with what Stryker had spoken, agreed to be experimented on.

One of the biggest lies Crystal heard from Stryker's deception was the sentence, 'We may be able to destroy this mutation in you, take it out of you.'

"I will call for the men to come and they will give you the instructions needed for the experiment," she heard Stryker say as she saw him leave. Logan seemed to walk in circles, excitement welling up in his stomach. Before long, the same white men Crystal had witnessed came in and started to explain. Logan was to go in the machine of some sort (Crystal didn't really understand what it was) and they will take out the mutating genes. Logan did as he was told and he went in the machine. Crystal could feel chains on Logan's wrists locking him down the machine. She had heard one of the men say that it was 'for safety'.

'Yeah, right…' Crystal thought angrily, but she knew she could not do anything. This was just a memory in Logan's locked mind, after all.

Then suddenly the memory started to blur in front of Crystal and felt herself in water. She could feel the cold as she heard voices calling, "Logan…" and "He will have no memories…" and the last, a peculiar name being called out as she felt the water disappear, "Wolverine…"

There was a sudden growl from Logan's lips as she felt Logan 'Wolverine's' eyes shot open. She could see the horrible Stryker smiling at him.

"W-Who am I?" Logan spoke, no slurred, as Stryker spoke, "Your name is Wolverine now." Something hard and cold was put over Logan's neck. Crystal shivered as she felt the coldness of the metal. The cold chain on Logan's wrists got his attention. Slowly Logan's vision started to focus. Logan felt pain stabbing at him from the inside but he ignored it. His eyes glanced at the chains and he looked up at Stryker with a glare.

"You did this to me?" Logan snarled. Stryker's smile wavered.

"Did what? This is your Rebirth, Logan. Wolverine! Think of it as that," Stryker spoke. Cold fury was building in Logan as Crystal felt the sudden pain Logan was feeling now. She screamed as she felt daggers seem to stab at her everywhere. Her mind yelled to be away from this nightmare, but she held on, watching with fixed horror as Logan's power quickly ripped the chains on both his wrists.

To Crystal's stubborn satisfaction, Stryker was backing away from Logan as she felt another jab of pain from Logan's hands, which now looked like he held three daggers in both his hands.

Logan roared furiously as his new daggers -No... Claws,' Crystal thought through her pain- shot and stabbed at almost every crew in the experimenting facility as she heard Stryker shout, "Get out! Get out!"

Crystal felt Logan was running from the men, killing anyone in his path. Blood splattered everywhere and Crystal watched in horror as every one of the victims of Logan's new claws looked up at Logan with horror in their eyes. Many screamed for their lives before getting stabbed.

Terrified and unable to get away, Crystal's eyes watched as Logan finally Logan screamed in horror. Crystal screamed with him. Then Logan's eyes fixed over the door in front of him, that read, "Exit."

Crystal felt Logan scream awfully as he pushed the door. Snow was falling down on Logan as she felt Logan scream one more time, a feeling of agony, pain and fear lingering on Logan as Crystal finally started to slip away… into reality.

A/N: (pants for breath) So did everyone enjoy the ride? It was a bit hard through Crystal's 'Logan' memory flashback, whatever you call it, lol, but I think I did good. I hope! I just made this up so you can have a bit of an overview of what I thought Logan might have been! Anyways… thank you for the reviews! (jumps around manically then pants again) Anyways, next chapter will be coming soon! Please review!