Jenskott: I really try my best for Sinister in this, I wanted him to act all professional and seem normal but just makes your skin crawl being in the same room with him. Yet major fighting happening now.
Mark C: Oh yeah, they will but it won't be easy. Deadpool is such a joy to write. It's refreshing to write a character like that now and then. Expect a major Logan/X23/Deathstrike part in this chapter.
GothikStrawberry: Well that's good to know but I hope it's soon. Deadpool is always fun to write and put into fics.
ViciousAssassin: Yeah the Jamie/Rahne scene might happen in the next chapter or after that. Yeah I like Piotr/Kitty they just work so well together. Yep a look into each mind was the best way to start off and you know Sinister won't make it easy for them.
The Uncanny R-Man: Yep, it is and maybe disturbingly cute might work. You know it will be brutal.
Kaliann: Why thank you very much I really try to get into the minds of the characters I write, I think that's the most interesting thing about reading a story you get a level of intimacy with them you can't get on TV and Movies. You may be right about Deathstrike but I think she'll take her revenge anyway she can. Sinister will get his trust me.
Thanks to: X00001, Simba317, Wen1, japanesegirl101, Windvuur, Quilllian, Silver Warrior.
Hellfire and BrimstoneCHAPTER 46: SINISTER FACEOFF PART 2
Selene
The Black Queen, Selene, was fuming in a fit of rage. She couldn't believe the X-men had found them all so fast after how long it took them the first time. She just knew it was because of that traitor bitch, Tessa…Although she had this sneaking suspicion that she alone couldn't have found them so fast without some sort of help. Such suspicions, however, would have to wait, for there was another little problem that was pestering her to no end…One that nobody else could possibly begin to contemplate.
That samurai wannabe warrior she had fought earlier…Slayer as he had called himself…Was here. Nobody else could see, hear, or even so much as sense him…But she knew it was him. He was the only one who managed to evade the elaborate physical and mystical defences of the Hellfire Club and reached all the way to a place where few dared to dread…Her room.
They fought and she had underestimated what she was up against. That sword of his and whatever magic lay within it, had hurt her…It had struck her beyond her immortal body and hit hard at the very darkness and essence that had allowed her to live and flourish over the centuries. While he wasn't strong enough to overcome her…He had succeeded in hurting her in a manner that no other mortal ever had. The fight ended in a draw, for he had faced her and survived…But her gut told her that this being was going to be a far greater menace than she had previously thought.
"Where are you?" she growled with complete and utter hatred as she slowly made her way down the vast corridors of Sinister's facility, using her dark instincts to guide her in search of this putrid warrior, "I know you're near you little shit! I underestimated you last time…But I will NOT make the same mistake again! No mortal fights the Black Queen and lives to tell about it!"
She kept her senses sharp, working more feverishly to find this little pest before he messed anything up. After her last fight with him, she had been furious because he had actually lived through it. He clearly had a pretty high pain tolerance and he was obviously highly skilled…But he was still mortal and because of that, he would eventually fall to her power. She just had to find him and drain the life out of him until there was nothing left.
However, even with her knack for sensing and detecting all things mystical and good, this little pest was proving to be quite a challenge. The longer she searched, the more frustrated she became, for no mere mortal should have been capable of evading her no matter how adept he was at the mystic arts. No…He had to be something much more…Something of far greater complexity than she had previously thought. But complex or not, he would fall to her power…She would see to that.
"I'm close…I know it…I can feel it," she grunted as she made her way down another long hallway, following that sneaking intuition that had pestered her since before she had even faced him, "I'm going to find out all your secrets. No eye is powerful enough to save you from burning in the depths of hell in eternal torment!"
Just then, she passed one of the main security rooms that oversaw the elaborate surveillance system that had safeguarded the facility up until this point. Not having any luck with her mystical senses, she decided that perhaps it would help if she had a more broad view of the vast facility. There was no area in or around this building that went without careful scrutiny…And if that little shit was somewhere around here, there would definitely be signs for her to see.
"Hmm…Let's see just how well you hide from my all seeing eye…" she said with an insidious grin as she entered the secure room via retinal scan and pulled up the main computer, "Now…Where are you? You cannot hide from my wrath warrior…I will find you!"
There were dozens upon dozens of little monitors all throughout the confined room. Some overlooked the outside area, some monitored the prisoners, and others kept track of everything that happened in the lab area…Probably because Sinister was very meticulous when it came to keeping detailed records of his experiments. With plenty of eyes and ears all throughout the facility, Selene began her search, ignoring the images of the X-men as they snooped about in search for their friends. She knew they stood no chance of succeeding against them this time. Sinister had prepared for this and had anticipated their every move…But even he couldn't begin to comprehend the threat this warrior could pose and Selene was determined to stop him before he ruined everything.
"Come on…Come on you piece of shit," she grunted as she looked over image after image, growing increasingly frustrated, "There's nowhere to hide! You have to reveal yourself sooner or later!"
Then suddenly, one of the monitors caught her eye. It wasn't what she saw…But what she didn't see that drew her attention. One of the very high tech and expensive monitors had abruptly failed on her and all of the sudden there was nothing but static. She knew that it couldn't have been a technical malfunction…Sinister was way too good for that. Feeling as though she had her lead, she began furiously typing on the keyboard to get the feed back. She could feel it in her bones…That meddlesome warrior was so close and he was just moments away from feeling her wrath.
Finally, the static on the screen began to clear and she got an image of one of the corridors not far from the elevator that led down into the facility. It wasn't far from where the infiltration team of the X-men were and it took a moment for the image to become readable. But when it finally cleared…She saw him…She saw the mutant warrior she had faced earlier as he stood in a battle prepared stance. He seemed to be looking around for something or he could possibly have been scanning for something with that eye of his. But whatever he was doing, it appeared he had made a critical mistake…One that Selene was bent on making him regret.
"There you are! I knew you'd slip up sooner or later, warrior!" she said with a cold grin, "Now I have you right where I want you!"
Then suddenly, the mutant warrior did a most unexpected action…He looked up at the camera. Selene's eyes widened, for it was almost as if he had somehow heard that, which she knew was impossible even with his senses. Then suddenly…Something else took her by surprise. All the monitors…Every last one of them…Changed to the exact same image of the mutant warrior now looking back at the camera from the ambiguous hallway.
Now, Selene was facing a mosaic of identical images of Slayer as he looked directly into the hidden camera upon the wall. Then…What he did next was something that pissed Selene off more than any other action so far, including their earlier fight…He grinned.
"You son of a bitch!" she yelled feelings of intense rage overcame the immortal woman.
As if to rub salt in the wound, Slayer proceeded to flip the Black Queen off as every single security monitor went dead and no images other than static pervaded on each screen. Her instinct had been right…The mutant warrior known as Slayer was here…And he had just taunted her. He…A mere mortal with a samurai sword…Taunted HER…The Black Queen.
"YOU LITTLE SHIT!" she yelled as she pounded her fists upon the control consol, causing numerous sparks to fly, "I WILL HAVE YOUR HEAD FOR THIS WARRIOR! I WILL DRAIN EVERY DROP OF LIFE FROM YOUR BODY AND CAST YOUR SOUL INTO THE DEPTHS OF HELL!"
This could not stand…A mere mortal could not taunt her and get away with it. With an unbridled surge of rage, Selene stormed out of the now useless security center in search of the only major taint in this meticulously crafted plan. She had lost to these pestilent mortals before…And she was not about to let her glorious revenge be stunted by some sword wielding vermin. She would fight him again…And this time, she was determined to watch him die once and for all.
-Outside the Base-
The outside group was still waiting for word of the others inside the main structure. It was a huge metallic building that looked like a very large warehouse sized structure that could have been an assembly plant with all the equipment around. All of it was old and used, not to mention poorly maintained. It was also covered in dust in the corners, but not in certain areas were a lot of traffic had gone through. It had been the only way to find the hidden entrance to this place and it could have taken them hours if it hadn't been for that.
Ororo for one was glad to be outside then inside, for her powers were more useful up here and she hated being underground. Even when they were in the sewers in their first rescue, she felt a slight grip of fear, but she had managed…Although that rescue had turned into a disaster. They had been caught and both Kurt and her had suffered the worst from being captured. She still remembered Kurt's haunted looks from his own experience, it was only because of her harsh childhood that she knew what had happened even though Leland had taken her away for her not to see.
She had a few nightmares about that, but she put it behind her. She only hoped this time wasn't as bad or worse and that Logan wasn't hurt as bad. She remembered him being dragged in looking half dead. She and Logan had only just started their relationship and she didn't want to lose him. She still remembered them sharing her bed not to long ago and even though she would have loved for nothing more then to have made love to him right then and there he needed comfort more then that.
"Hey Ororo, you think we'll see any action?" said Ororo, brought out of her thoughts by Tabitha's question.
"Are you nuts?" Roberto asked the blonde, "You honestly want to fight? I mean sure, I want them out, but do you really want to ask for trouble to come and get us?"
"Besides, we'll mostly have to go in soon and back them up anyways," Ray said offhand although he was itching for a fight anyway. Then suddenly, there were vibrations. At first, only a few noticed but it became more noticeable and louder.
"Oh crap…Looks like we won't have to go in," Jubilee said looking at the entrance ramp down into the facility, "I think something is coming out."
Metallic sounds could be heard now and then not long after various machines started to pour out of the large opening and started taking flanking positions on the mutants.
"Oh boy…This wasn't in the Danger Room simulations," Bobby said at the menacing machines.
Then, low beam energy weapons started firing out of them. The humanoid drones went in close as the larger four legged ones kept pouring on the supporting fire. Ororo order them to scatter since they were sitting ducks gathered together like that.
Ororo and Roberto, in his solar form, took to the air as the others took cover and teamed up like in their training had told them to. All the Danger Rooms lessons were coming back to them. Bobby created ice shields for the others to use as cover and at times used his powers to make large chunks of sharp ice to try and pierce the joints of the machines since they were too heavily armoured.
Tabitha was sending out her energy bombs at them while Sam launched himself through the machines. Luckily while in the air he was invulnerable and smashed right through many of them.
Jubilee's powers, although since coming back she had learned to concentrate them into more forceful attacks, was mainly using her powers to blind and disorient the machines sensors. Ray's powers proved useful since his electrical powers were shorting out the systems of the drones. He managed to get behind one of the larger ones climbing on its back and sent a huge surge into it. It took more then he thought it would to finally shut down the war machine, but then he took a blaster bolt in the back.
He hit the ground hard with a nasty burn on his back that felt like he was hit with a red hot poker. Beast had ran towards him, jumping and dodging more bolts, and picked Ray up and hoisted him over his shoulder, taking him to safety. He placed him against an ice shield and at that moment, Ray couldn't have loved Bobby's powers more as his skin hit to nice cool ice.
Storm was throwing down lightning, hail, and hurricane winds at as many of the machines as possible and even though she was taking most of them out, they just kept pouring out of the base. "How many of these things can there be?" Sunspot shouted in the air firing his own energy at them. He was hoping it was before his power levels dropped. He had been storing as much solar energy as he could before this, but while inside he had to be careful about how much energy use used up with no way to recharge.
"I don't know, but we have to clear this way out for the others!" Ororo shouted back as him frying several of the drones with lightning.
She just hoped they could keep this up. She already noticed Bobby protecting Jubilee, who seemed to have been hit in the leg, but she was still throwing out her powers despite the pain she was in. Ray was back in action, although he was a bit slower and she saw Hank grabbling with the humanoid drones, tossing them around like paperweights. The fight was a hard one, but they were holding their own. She just hoped they outlasted the number of reinforcements that were steadily coming out from under them. It wouldn't be easy and it was going to be a long drawn out battle, but she and the others wouldn't let the their friends down and they would not only hold out…They would defeat their enemies.
And if they had to they would go in and help the others, they were most certainly ready to do so…Only they hoped that it wouldn't be the case. 'Please Goddess help us,' she silently prayed, 'Give us the strength to endure and look after our friends as well.'
Inside The Base
Inside the elaborate facility, Logan, Sage, Angel, Psylocke, Magma, and Rogue were carefully making their way through the corridors, working their way to the lower levels. They had no idea the kind of security they were going to face, but if what they knew about their foes was any indication, it was sure to be difficult. The layout of the area was well organized and well laid out, hinting that the mind behind this place was very attentive to each and every detail. But it was still like a maze…One that was near impossible to navigate without any guidance. Luckily, Sage's telepathy and Logan's senses kept them on track as they treaded into the depths of mysterious building that they hoped housed their missing friends.
"Sage, Psylocke…Can you sense anything yet?" asked Angel as he was forced to stay on his feet due to the more confined area of some of the lower levels.
"I'm trying,…" said Sage as she struggled desperately to get around the shielding, "It's still a bit hazy with all the shielding both outside and in."
"But it's starting to wane a bit…I can feel it!" said Psylocke as she kept her mind open to any hint or trace of their missing friends, "The deeper we go, the better our chances are at sensing something!"
"And the deeper we go, the greater the danger gets…" grunted Logan as he kept sniffing the air.
The six mutant infiltration team continued to work they way down past a few more halls, all of which seemed to go around in circles because they all looked alike. They hadn't encountered any security, but they couldn't help but have the sneaking suspicion that they were being watched somehow. And given their track record, a sneaking suspicion was usually all it took.
"Keep together team…I don't like this…I don't like this as all," grunted Wolverine as he kept sniffing the air and listening for any menacing noises.
"Me neither…They're setting us up…I know they are," said Sage, knowing all too well how the Hellfire Club worked.
"Then why in the hell are we walking right into it!" exclaimed Magma, not seeing why they had to walk right into a trap.
"Too late for anything else…" grunted Logan in response, who could only think about the kids at this point.
"No kiddin'…" said Rogue in agreement, who seemed willing to punch through any obstacle in order to find her friends and family and get them out safely before this heinous club could hurt them in the way they hurt her, "Guess that means we'll just have to blow through anythin' that gets in our way."
"Sounds like a plan to me, luv!" grinned Betsy, eager to face off against these pricks again and beat them for good.
"Doesn't make it a very good one," commented Sage, knowing all too well that nothing was ever that easy when it came to the Hellfire Club.
As they all turned down another corner into another stretch of hallway, the psychic shielding continued to weaken for the two psychics of the group. They had still not faced any security threats, but it was a pretty safe bet to assume that whoever was running this place knew they were there. And the deeper they went, the more difficult they knew it would be to fight their way out if they had to. For all they knew, this whole setup could be one big trapped designed to capture or kill them all, but possibilities aside, they still had their friends to find and they were willing to fight through anything to get to them.
Just then, both Sage and Betsy got a few trace thoughts that caused them all to stop.
"Wait! I just got something!" said Sage as she closed her eyes and focused on what she had just felt.
"Yes, I feel it too!" said Betsy, trying to focus on it as well, "It's weak, but it's there!"
"Is it the others?" asked Rogue in anticipation, hoping they were that much closer to finding their missing friends.
"I…I think so…Yes! It's them!" confirmed Sage as she got a few trace readings from who she knew was Kitty and possibly Piotr, "They're near! I can feel it!"
"And so can I," said Betsy as she formed a couple of psionic blades, "What do you say we get them out of this place?"
"Ya don't have to tell me twice!" said Rogue, eager to see her friends and brother again, hoping that they hadn't suffered too much as a result of their capture.
They were about to move out and follow the weak mental signatures, when suddenly…As if whoever had been watching them had known…A blaring alarm sounded. It was loud…So loud in fact that everybody had to cover their ear, especially Logan. Then, at each end of the hall, both in the path ahead of them and the one they had just come down, the sound of many mechanical footsteps echoed over the alarm as dozens of imposing and heavily armed silver humanoids came out of secret compartments in the walls. On each cybernetic machine, a deathly gaze locked onto the six intruders as the eyes upon their face glowed in the same eerie red light as Sinister's. Each machine looked equipped to kill and maim and they vastly outnumbered the X-men…But then again, they were used to such odds after everything they had faced before.
"Damn I hate it when I'm right," said Sage, who had foreseen something like this beforehand.
"What are these things?" said Amara as she powered up her magma powers in preparation to fight.
"They're scrap metal!" bellowed Logan, "X-men! Move!"
And with an animal-like roar that echoed through the metallic hallways, the angry Wolverine let out his claws and pounced upon the menacing robots. Not wasting any time, the others did the same, beginning a frantic fight between fire, fists, and metal.
Immediately, they found out that these robots were a lot tougher than they looked. Each one had the strength of twenty men and armor tough enough to withstand bullets…But unfortunately, they weren't tough enough to withstand adamantium and psionic blades. And for machines, the humanoid robots were fast…Much faster than larger robots like the sentinels and they wasted no time in opening up with a hail of energy blasts.
However, as was in their accordance to Sinsiter's commands, each blast was set to stun, not kill…For he wanted to save as many specimens as he could for his experiments. Because to him, it was only a matter of time before they yielded.
"Dang!" yelled Rogue as she punched a few of the heads off of a couple of robots, "These things are pretty tough!"
"Errrah! Not tough enough!" growled Wolverine as he tore through several robots that had tried to dog pile him.
More and more robots poured out into the halls, surrounding and cutting them of from any exit. However, the more they fought them, the tougher they became. It was almost as if they were learning and adapting to what they were fighting against the longer they went on. And some of them were starting to hit a little too close for comfort.
"Hey! Watch the wings!" yelled Warren as he drop kicked one of the robots that had tried to sneak up and taser him directly into one of Betsy's blades.
"Nice shot, luv! But there are plenty more to go!" grunted Betsy as she struggled to use some of her ninja skills to fight off increasingly tough waves of robot humanoids, "And they're starting to get tougher!"
"No kidding…I think they must be programmed to learn or something!" said Sage, her computerized mind easily recognizing the signs.
"Great! Then how do we fight against that?" said Amara as she burned through robot after robot with blasts of super hot magma.
"We just have to switch it up a bit and keep moving! We can't let them surround us!" grunted Logan as he saw how every robot seemed to be surrounding them, "We can't let em box us in! We need to cut a path through em!"
"You got one sugah!" said Rogue as she took to the air and launched herself like a cannonball down the hall, blasting through several waves of robots and temporarily knocking a few off their feet.
Seeing their opportunity, Logan signaled with his hand to follow the path before it closed on them.
"Hurry up team! We have to keep moving before we're surrounded!" yelled Logan.
"Right behind you, Wolverine!" said Sage as she and Magma joined up with Betsy and Warren, "I can still sense traces of the others, but I have a feeling that there are plenty more of these things up ahead!"
"Then I guess we'll just have to fight through them too!" said Rogue as dozens more humanoid robots were already swarming to counter their move and slow them down.
There were still plenty of robots up head, but as they reached a juncture with an army of silver humanoids hot on their trail…Suddenly, Logan caught a whiff of something.
"Holy shit…" he said as he suddenly found himself running down the opposite hall that the others were following, "It's her…She's here."
"Wolverine! What in the bloody hell are you doing!" shouted Betsy as they all momentarily stopped upon seeing their friend run off down the opposite direction.
"You guys keep going! I'll catch up!" he yelled, not slowing down in the slightest, "I just smelled something I have to take care of…Now go! There ain't time to argue so just go and get the others before it's too late!"
Knowing nothing could stop Wolverine at this point, the others merely let out a grunt of frustration as they continued down the path laced with legions of silver humanoid robots in pursuit of their friends. For Logan, however, he was following a trail that he knew he couldn't ignore. The smell hung so strong in his mind and he could sense it so clearly. It was her…It was X23. She was here. He didn't know how she got tied up in this, but she was here…And he knew he was about to face her.
"Hang on, kid…I'm coming," he said, knowing he was about to face a very difficult fight with someone who was his own flesh and blood, "I don't know how these pricks got their hands on ya…But I'm gettin' you outta here…I owe ya that much."
-Logan-
Logan followed the scent as it continued to get stronger and stronger. He had to find the kid because there was no way in hell he was leaving without her. He was outside of a door, when suddenly…He froze as another sent hit his nose. This time it was one he knew all to well…Yuriko.
Logan swore under his breath. He should have known and as he opened the door to what looked like a large training room, he saw Deathstrike and right in front of her and slightly to the left…Was X23. She had grown a few inches since last time he saw her and her hair was now shoulder length and wore a new uniform. She looked alright physically, but she had on this saddened face a look as though she didn't want to do this and through this, he had hope.
He had been afraid that they had brainwashed her like the girls last time, but seeing her and the pain in her eyes, he knew she was in a strange state of mind. "Well, if it isn't Wolverine…So nice to see you again," said Deathstrike, her voice filled with venom at him.
Logan was tired of this. He wasn't sure if he had killed her father or not…Hell, he might have if he had been with Weapon X, but the fact that the young lovely woman he partially remembered had turned into this because of him was still something hard to deal with. But now she was using this kid, not to mention any kid for that matter, against him and it angered him in a way that pushed all that aside.
"Let the kid go! She's not a part of this!" Logan yelled at her, "This is between you and me!"
She just smiled at him, "Oh I think otherwise. You killed my father Logan…You destroyed the only family I had left in this world. You betrayed my love for you and everything we shared…So…Now, I will use your 'child' to kill you. The sins of the father visited on the daughter it seems."
Logan looked to X23, "Kid…You don't have to do this."
"Actually, she does." Deathstrike walked up behind the young clone and turned her head and moved her hair so he saw some round dark device on her neck. And from the looks of it…It was pretty deep. "Sinister has an amazing mind and this is one of his little 'toys'."
"Sinister?"
"Yes, apparently after the defeat of the New York house, the others decided to send someone in to clean house as it were and build it back up." Logan let out a small growl, for they hadn't figured the other Hellfire Club houses getting involved in this so that's why their new attack happened so fast. There was a new player in this.
"You see…He and that Viper woman were instrumental in capturing and controlling this little disgusting little thing." Logan's eyes widened at the name of Viper. He was sure that she had been killed, but it only added one more piece to the puzzle…One that showed how they knew about X23. And if this was the same Viper then it was no wonder they went after her. He bet she had a score to settle with the kid after she crippled her organization.
"But that is enough talk for now…X23," she addressed the clone with a smile, who couldn't waiting to see this, for either way she won. If the child could kill Logan then it was a perfect way for him to die if he killed her, well then he just killed his own 'daughter' in a way…Or at least the closest thing he had to one, "Kill Wolverine."
There was only a moment's hesitation, for she didn't want to fight him again, but she knew that in the end she had no choice. She charged forward with her hand claws extended. She swiped at him, but he only kept dodging her never counter attacking or doing anything to harm her. This was just like last time, only now she wished he would fight back.
She kicked him into a wooden beam and did a flying jump kick with her foot claw. She was thankful he jumped out of the way as the metal sank into a wooden beam and she used her other foot to kick it off, freeing her foot. Deathstrike wasn't amused as she thought, for she wanted him to fight back.
"You better put up more of a fight then that," she sneered at him.
"I don't have to do a god damn thing bitch!" he yelled at her, rolling under one of X23's attacks.
"Oh I think you do," Deathstrike gently pressed a button on the small device on her hip and X23 went to her knees screaming and reaching behind her neck. Logan looked shocked and then turned angrily to Deathstrike, "Now you have a choice…Fight to the best of your abilities or watch me fry this little creature's brain until there's nothing left and not even her healing abilities will fix that."
Logan made to attack her, but X23 spoke up, "No…Don't…Please fight me…Don't hold back." She slowly stood up on shaky legs and he looked into her eyes. He could see the same determination in her eyes that he had in his own. He saw that she really wanted him to stop going on the defensive and to start attacking. He nodded to her and she nodded back as he unleashed his own claws. Logan didn't want to hurt her, but he had no choice if he didn't then…Then he'd lose any chance to save her and to save her he had to fight her to the death it seemed.
Deathstrike smiled seeing the two of them go at it. X23 was smaller, but she was faster and more agile. And thanks that, she wasn't weighted down by a metal skeleton. But Logan's metal skeleton would offer more protection. She watched as the two of them fought fiercely, cutting and slashing at each other. And seeing them cut each other up was very entertaining to watch.
Their battle raged on as both their healing factors were keeping them up where normal people would have collapsed already, but they still kept going. Logan had to figure out how to end this without killing her. But before he could finish his though she jumped at him.
He caught her in the air and they both spun around and rolled onto the ground. Logan found himself above her and roared as his instincts took over for a moment and sat up and raised a hand with its claws out ready for a killing blow to her heart or head, but he stopped himself.
She looked up at him…The three scarlet lines on her face already healing as she looked up at him with his eyes. Her eyes pleaded with him for something, but he wasn't sure what. Then she spoke and he knew what she was pleading him for.
She had suffered so much and had done things in her life she wasn't proud of and the thought of her entire life under the thumb of that monster, Mr. Sinister, was worse then Hydra. Seeing Logan above her, knowing that if she killed the only person to give a damn about her, she couldn't live with herself, not with that.
So when she saw a chance to end it all…A chance to end all the pain and suffering…Now she had a way out. "Please…Kill me Logan…Please…I beg of you…End this…" She looked up with tears in her eyes since that last first time they had met and she closed her eyes waiting for the killing blow for it all to finally end and maybe she would finally find the peace she never had in life.
Logan saw her down there and looked up to see Deathstrike going for the remote and he knew she was going to kill her with it, or at least the next best thing. So now he had to either kill the girl fast so she didn't suffer or to let that evil woman fry her brain causing her to suffer greatly before her death.
He quickly looked at her closed eyes and knew that he had no choice in the matter. Before Deathstrike could touch a button Logan decided to act and to end this fight with X23.
CHAPTER 47: SINISTER FACEOFF PART 3