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Note:- Lady Deathstrike's back story given below has been taken from the comics. I've just twisted it a little bit :p

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The End- II

"How can you be so irresponsible, Logan?"

Xavier glared at the feral man and all his guilty students standing behind him and growled out his anger. His ever-present politeness missing from his face this time. "Letting the X-Men go out for a movie in my absence, that was seriously the most reckless decision I didn't expect from someone like you!"

"But, professor," Scott lifted his blameworthy face and tried to defend his teacher. "It was us who insisted on going out for a night show, he wasn't-"

"Do not try to defend Logan's unforgivable mistake, Scott!" Charles scolded his most beloved student this time. "Because his one little mistake presented that Stryker and his men a golden chance to attack at the school and abduct my students AND injure Jade!"

"Yer right, Chuck," Logan, who had been silent since this meeting started, finally raised his reddened eyes and snarled. "I'm the one who is responsible fer that abduction and now I'll be the one ta bring all those kids back safe because this shit has turned very personal now! Just tell me where that bastard is and I'm goin' ta rip him and his bitch apart!"

Xavier was momentarily left speechless by the savage rage in Logan's eyes. He sighed to calm down a little bit and he intertwined his fingers before setting them on the table. "Listen, Logan, Jade has told me everything about Stryker and that woman's connection with your wife's murder. Letting anger override your brain is just going to make everything worse. We X-Men are the protectors, not cheap hitmen-"

"Then keep yer fuckin' X-Army ta yerself and lemme go fer all of 'em alone!" Logan thumped the table with his angry fists. "That man and his whore killed my wife, Charles! Maybe it's not a big deal fer you but it is a very big fuckingl' deal fer me and I'm gonna make' em pay fer it! With or without yer help!"

With that Logan stormed out of Xavier's office, leaving the old man to regret his words.

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"Hey, how are ya feelin' now, dar-"

Logan's next word got stuck in his throat as he saw Jade removing all the tubes connect to her body.

"Hey! What the hell are ya doin'?!" he rushed forward to stop her. "Why the hell are you-"

"Jubes just told me about whatever happened in the professor's office, Logan." Jade replied calmly. "I cannot let you go against them all all alone, so I'm also coming with you."

"No, yer not!" Logan said sternly as he cupped her cheeks. "I've already lost a lot, I cannot let ya join the damn list."

Jade wrapped her fingers around his wrists with a weak but assuring smile. "You gotta trust your training, Logan. You're not gonna lose me there."

"But why do you wanna-"

"Because whatever happened last night was partially my fault, too." Jade pursed her lips sadly. "If you weren't thinking about spending some quality time with me, you wouldn't have sent our team for the movie and..."

Logan rolled his eyes. "That's not completely true, Jade, ya can ask Scott about thi-"

Jade crossed her arms with a determined look on her face. "Whether you like it or not, I'm coming with you and that's final."

"And so are we." Scott's voice pulled the couple's attention from behind. Smiling, the young leader walked in with his entire team.

"What the hell does that mean?" Logan raised an eyebrow.

"It means that Professor-X has realized his mistake." Jean explained with a soft smile.

"And he's dug out Stryker's base that is underground in a dam at Alkali Lake." Storm completed her best friend's sentence.

"And he is ready to send us all with you." Peter added.

"And I'm just coming to protect my stupid baby sister because she always gets hurt whenever she's alone with your ugly behind." Jubilee added her own participation, making everyone chuckle.

"Are ya sure ya can handle all that violence and bloodshed, kids?" Logan had a teasing smirk on his lips this time.

Scott smirked back. "Trust me big guy, these lasers ain't just for blasting cardboards in the danger room."

"Then get ready pups," Logan snapped his neck. "We're goin' for some hardcore action tonight."

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"What's the view, slim?"

Scott scanned the base through his ruby gaze. "There're four on the front gate, three on the back one, a quartet of white coats are in the lab while Stryker and his commandos are in control room on the second floor and the kids are in the underground facility." the young man turned his head back to his leader.

"So what's the plan, cap?"

Logan shoved a fresh cigar into his mouth and seized it under his left jaw. "I ain't very good at this shit but still...Jean, make the watchmen sleep right away. 'Ro, create a big fuckin' storm and destroy their power supply. Elf and Peter, take the back door and Scott, you, me, Jubilee and Jade, we'll take the front. Am I clear?" everyone nodded firmly.

"Good." Logan snikted out his claws with a long puff. "C'mon, let's do it!"

The team once again nodded spun around to complete their given tasks. When everyone else was out of earshot, Logan grabbed Jade's wrist and pulled her against his chest.

"Logan?! What are you-"

"Shhh..." Logan's index finger silenced her. "Ya know I'm still against yer decision ta come on this mission. If ya really gonna disobey me...just don't get killed."

Jade grinned and seized his mouth in a promising kiss.

"Don't worry, I won't."

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"So how many of them are useful for our experiment, Morris?" Stryker asked one of his assistants, swiveling his chair side to side.

"Well, according to all the tests," a middle-aged man in the white coat started reading from the file in his hand. "Four of them have nothing but low level healing factors and weak abilities to manipulate water and other elements, but the rest of the children are Class Five mutancies like Telepathy, Lupine Ferality and ability to shoot energy blasts from their palms. I'm sure we can use-"

The old man's line was cut off by a loud thunderclap. Before any of the uniformed men could understand anything, the furious winds started shaking the windows of the building and the lights abruptly went out, causing everything to stop working temporarily.

Stryker snarled in frustration. "What the hell is going on here?!"

Deathstrike took a deep inhale and snarled. "It's him and his pets."

Stryker's eye sockets broadened in shock. "Are you sure?"

The Asian woman turned her head to him and gave a firm nod.

Stryker signaled him men to take care of Wolverine's pets before turning back to his best soldier.

"C'mon Deathstrike, time to finish some unfinished business."

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"Nothin' can hide yer ugly ass from me tonight, Stryker!"

Ghosting as many flatscans as he could and following his nose that was quickly taking him toward his prey, Logan finally reached an old metal door. He slashed the lock and hurried in but instead of Stryker and his harlot, Logan found a nastily familiar view around him.

Wolverine snarls in rage.

I hate those fucking machines!

His gaze roamed around. The old walls, stairs and his claws marks all over the place, maybe he knew which room it was.

It was the same place he was forced to accept these blades.

Before taking him to the island, they'd kept him right here for months. That square tub filled with cold transparent chemical, those x-ray images of his adamantium-covered bone structure hanging on the walls, those big fucking metal syringes attached to those strange tubes, and that small circular container filled with that hot, molten metal he was perhaps familiar with, everything caused a tornado of those agonizing memories Jade had told him about to start revolving around his brain.

Claws...you're my country's perfect weapon...Adamantium...start the bonding process!...Pain...his heartbeats are going down!...Blood...he has to survive it...Stryker...erase his memory...

"The tricky thing about adamantium is," Logan's deep contemplation was broken by Stryker's smirking voice. His bitch was also with him this time. "That if you ever manage to process its raw, liquid form, you got to keep it that way, keep it hot. Because once the metal cools, it's indestructible. But you already know that, right?"

When the enraged feral turned to him, he smirked again and stood behind his most powerful weapon, Deathstrike. "I used to think you were one of kind, Wolverine..." he whispered as his feet retreated toward the exit. "But I was wrong. Who knew that a small DNA sample of yours would turn a human woman into my best soldier?"

With his left step out, he smirked at Deathstrike. "You know where to find me after getting rid of him." he tapped the briefcase in his hand smugly. "These samples will be waiting for you."

Logan rushed forward to stop him but Deathstrike blocked his path with a sharp hiss of her shining talons that achieved their deadly length in the blink of an eye.

"Watashi o oboete imasu ka, Wolverine?" (Do you remember me, Wolverine?) Deathstrike asked with a predatory smirk on her lips as she showed off her own weapons.

"Hai." (Yes.) Logan gave a bitter nod, remembering Jade's revelation about his wife's murder.

That woman was the only person you'd seen leaving your house right before you went in and found Itsu dead and if my instincts are right, I think she's the one who killed your wife...

*Snikt*

"And now yer gonna pay fer what ya did to my wife, bitch!"

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"Jubilee, Kurt and Peter!" Scott instructed his team as he and Jade blasted two more commandos. "Use this elevator and save the kids while Jade and I whack these bastards!"

All the eyebrows shot skyward.

"What?" Scott shrugged. "I can swear, too. Now you three go, save all the kids and take them back to Ororo and Jean. C'mon, hurry up!" the trio nodded and hurried toward the elevator while Jade and Scott began to clear the ground again. Scott's laser beams and Jade's explosive 'babies' worked as a great team and within minutes, all the muscled dudes of Stryker were whimpering on the grounds.

Jade and Scott's ears twitched when they heard the roar of a taking off helicopter. The duo rushed to a nearby window and snarled.

"That asshole," Scott gritted his teeth, watching Stryker escape the facility. "He's trying to flee! And he has a large briefcase, I'm sure he has our kids' blood samples in it!"

"We cannot let him run away!" Jade snarled. "Shoot the copter!"

Slightly surprised, Scott looked back to Jade. "You sure?"

Jade nodded. "Yes, I am."

Scott nodded back and raised his visor to shoot another lethal beam. "Time to taste the ground again, asshole!"

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"Why?" the screeching friction emitting sparks between the snarling ferals. "Why the hell did ya kill her?!"

Another evil smirk played on Deathstrike's lips. "Oh believe me, Wolverine, I had no personal animosity against your wife." she suddenly delivered a hard dropkick to Logan's chest to push him away."She was just a small obstacle to my mission."

Logan retreated a few steps, but then pounced at her with even more ferocity. "What the fuck do ya mean, bitch?!"

Deathstrike dodged his attack and gripped his neck in a Gogoplata (foot choke) this time. Logan's blades made a desperate attempt to break him free of by slashing her thighs but the stubborn bitch just didn't left his neck. "What do you think? This Weapon-X Program, it was Stryker's idea? No! It was my father, Kenji Oyama's! My Chichi (dad) was the one who invented the process by which a metal can be bonded to bone, but this cruel world, it made fun of his research, called him crazy! My father's failed attempts resulted into a few deaths that made an angry mob kill him!"

Deathstrike roared in great pain as Logan buried his blades into her sides this time, forcing him to let go of his neck. Coughing vigorously, Logan jumped to his feet and lunged back at the feral woman who was also trying to drag herself back to her feet now and drove his knives through her stomach this time. A loud painful gasp left her trembling lips this time.

Logan gritted his teeth angrily. "But what the fuck did your crazy father's death have ta do with my wife?! What was her fault in all that, huh?!"

Deathstrike's whimpering face abruptly changed into a smirking one as she slowly grasped Logan's wrists and began to climb up his body, widening Logan's eyes and give him a solid kick to the chest to shove him away before landing on the floor gracefully.

She jumped back up and rolled her neck with another wicked smirk. "Like I just said, your wife did not have anything to do with me or my mission. It was always about you."

Logan's eyes widened again. "M-Me?"

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With a loud shuddering gasp, Stryker spat out a gob of blood and glanced at the burning remains of his helicopter. His gaze returned to the silhouette hovering over him and turned into a glare.

"S-So you're the new distraction of his life, huh? W-What a p-poor thing...sorry to say, b-but you're also going to end up like all those women that have ever tried to tame that beast..."

Jade leaned forward to snarl our her words in the old fucker's face. "I won't tame that beast, I will love that beast."

With that Jade delivered a solid kick to Stryker's neck and sent him to La-la land. By the time she straightened back up, Scott and rest of her friends arrived at the site. "Is he dead?"

"No, I just made his shut up." Jade replied with a slightly evil smirk. "Did you guys rescue all the kids?"

"Yeah. Where's Logan?"

"You guys take him to the Bird, I'll go find Logan."

"Okay."

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"You, the great Wolverine..." Deathstrike and Logan paced in a circle, snarling, growling, looking for a small chance to pounce. "My father needed a perfect rat like you who could survive the process, but he didn't know about you." she made the first move and sent a Mawashi geri (spin kick) to Logan, causing him to hit the ground with a loud growl.

She smirked down at him before straddling his chest and started giving slash after slash to the leathered front. "When I, Yuriko Oyama grew up, I decided to continue his research. My friend in US military, Stryker told me about two brothers that had been fighting the wars for decades, but never died. That's what I needed! I chose you for my experiments because of your unique claws and I wanted to give you many more powers you couldn't even imagine to have! But unfortunately, by the time I found you, you had decided to play house with that human wench..."

Snarling back, Logan brought his knees up and kicked the bitch off his chest before grabbing her throat and slamming her against the tiled wall of the huge tub filled with the chemical. "So ya killed her just ta drag me back into the military?!"

Deathstrike broke the grip by kicking Logan away and rapidly wrapped her arms around his waist to suplex him onto the rectangular iron net roof above the tub. She reached under the roof and snaked an arm around Logan's neck before beginning to lacerate his back from behind, making him roar in agony. "That was my only option, Wolverine. I had to do it." she abruptly smirked in Logan's ear. "But I would be lying if said I didn't enjoy killing that human whore of yours. She was crying, whining, begging me to spare the lives of her and her unborn baby!"

Logan's eyes widened as he heard about the brutal death of his unborn baby. His baby, his Cub... Was Itsu pregnant when...

The mental image of the brutal murders caused all the controlled rage and savagery to explode. The amber glint taking over his irises, sharpening ears and growing canines was the arrival of Logan's beast, Wolverine.

Before Deathstrike could understand anything, Wolverine cut the chains holding up the roof down and trapped the woman inside the tub. He then jumped back to his feet and ripped the roof apart with his sheer strength. He grabbed the bewildered woman's pony tail and yanked her out with one hand, making her scream in great pain. Not caring that he was fighting a woman anymore, Wolverine wrapped her hair around his fist and rammed her head into a concrete pillar again and again until the streams of blood gushed out and started trickling down her face to the cracked floor.

"Ya wanted the Wolverine," Wolverine bared his canines at whimpering bitch viciously. "Ya got the Wolverine."

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He now hauled her to a nearby window and slammed her against it, making the glass shatter. The broken pieces of glass penetrated Deathstrike's back and cut it to shreds mercilessly, making her roar in agony. Not caring one bit about the excruciating pain his brutal assaults were giving her, Wolverine kept raining all this physical torture over Deathstrike until she was a whimpering mess. He then dragged her to the middle of the room and straddled her chest. His left hand's blades raised in the air. Time to finish the bitch for good.

"W-Watashi o koroshite, bakemono..." (K-Kill me, monster...) Deathstrike prepared herself for the brutal death with a shuddering gasp. "B-Because that's what monsters like us do..."

Wolverine snarled and prepared himself to do what was necessary but before he could slit that bobbing throat-

"Logan! No!" his Mate's scream halted his pounce. He lifted his head and looked at her. Jade was left stunned by the sight of those amber eyes, fangs and pointed ears.

Successfully wiping the shocked look off her face, Jade shook her head softly. "You're an animal, not a monster."

Her words calmed the beast instantly. Her beautiful face placated all the rage, savagery and bloodlust. He glared back down at the enemy under him but his eyes lacked the brutality they had a few minutes ago.

Deathstrike gritted her teeth angrily. "Don't listen to her, Wolv-"

The rest of her sentence was eaten by a solid sucker punch that made her see the stars in the closed room. He then sprang back to his feet and walked to Jade. They both stared into each other's eyes for a long interrupted minute.

Jade's fingers slowly and hesitantly reached over to touch his cheek. Wolverine cautiously leaned into her palm. Jade smiled weakly as she whispered softly. "Wolverine?"

Wolverine nodded hesitantly.

Jade then slowly leaned forward and rested her head against the beast of a man. "Don't care, you are also my Mate..."

Those four words were all Wolverine needed to hear. He purred in pure content and closed his eyes to let the human take over him. When he reopened his eyes, he was Logan again.

"Jade?" Logan asked gently as he pulled back, his fangs and ears returning to their normal state.

A wide relieved smile touched Jade's lips as she found her Mate back in her arms. She hugged him tightly. "Oh Logan..."

On the other side, Deathstrike's eyes snapped open as her healing factor took care of the damage left by that jaw breaking boff. She turned her head and glared at the couple happily lost in each other's arms. She shot back up and rushed at them but-

"Don't even think about it, bitch!" Jade captured Deathstrike's mind with her telepathy in the blink of an eye. The so-called merciless assassin was now standing before the couple like a mannequin, waiting for Jade's next order.

Jade looked back to Logan and grinned. "Now this one is the beast I would totally like to tame."

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"Don't touch me, kid!" Stryker snarled against the shove Scott has just given him to push him into the helicopter.

Scott rolled his eyes and gave the old man another shove. "C'mon, get in-"

"How is it feelin' ta be cuffed, Stryker?" Logan's smirking taunt from behind caused Stryker to glare over his shoulder. The couple sauntered up to him and smirked again. "Now ya know how I felt in that little prison of yers."

Rubbing the area of his neck Jade's kick had reddened, Stryker glared at the couple alternatively. "You know she would hate you If she ever found out about what kind of person you used to be and the work we did together."

Jade slipped her hand into Logan's and spoke firmly. "For your kind information, I already know about all that."

Stryker shook his head acidicly. "But people don't change, Wolverine. You will never change, my friend. You were an animal then and you're an animal now. I just gave you claws."

"Maybe yer right," Logan smiled at Jade and all his friends. "I am really animal."

He lifted their joined hands up.

"But this animal has a pack now."

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Suplex and Dropkick are the moves of professional wrestling and yeah, I hope my Japanese isn't that bad. Please correct me if I made a fool of myself in any of those sentences :p

Hope y'all liked the end :D okay now get ready to see three totally fluffy, funny and smuttyyy epilogues, people ;-}!