A/N: Hello all! Welcome to The Pack chapter 1 of the Reboot! So special thanks to any and all of you who followed over from the old version! Thanks of course also go out to VenomSpider33, my co-author for this story. Check him out once you're done here!

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Chapter 1

Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.

-Liberty Island-

At the feet of the statue of Liberty a fierce battle was ragging, a battle that had been fought many times over many years. Wolverine, dressed in his Yellow and Blue uniform, battling Sabertooth. As the two men hacked and slashed at each other, Sabertooth managed to avoid Wolverine's slash and took him to the ground.

"Let's see what in that head of yours, runt!" He bellowed out, raising his clawed hand to try and gut Logan, only for two claws like Logan's to come popping out the back of Sabertooths head as he fell to the ground. Behind him, stood a teenage girl. She had light, slightly tanned skin and jet black hair. She wore a grey and black midriff exposing leather shirt that covered her shoulders, black gloves that come up to her forearm and had sheathes over where her claws were coming out, gray and black leather pants, with black boots similar to the one's Wolverine wore, and topped off with a black domino mask that made her eyes appear red.

"You left an open spot." Laura Kinney, also known to most as X-23, said ,smirking as she helped him to his feet and the island around them faded, leaving them in a room with smooth silver walls.

"I know that. Even the best there is can't be perfect all the time darlin." He said as they headed out grabbing towels and water bottles as they left.

"Or maybe you're slipping in your old age?" She asked sarcastically Logan glared at her then chuckled as they headed up into the Manor. When they got out they almost ran headlong into two people, one of whom phased right through them, the other who just smiled down at them.

"Kitty, Piotr." Laura said casually.

"Laura. Tell me, are you two ever going to do anything other than train together?There are other ways to bond." Kitty said.

"Training suits us." Logan said shrugging as they continued down the hall. They took a corner and came into a room filled with others. Off near the window side of the room stood a man dressed black pants and blue shirt. His eyes were covered by a silver visor with red lenses. Beside him was a blonde woman dressed in all white.

"Slim, Frost. You two havin' a contest to see who's got the biggest stick up their ass?" Logan teased, and Scott just smirked while Frost just rolled her eyes.

"If you must know, we were discussing the upgrades to the Manor's security system. After Magneto, we need to be ready for anything." Emma said. Even though Logan no longer wanted to murder her on sight, there were few things he enjoyed as much as pushing her buttons.

"Next time you see Stark, tell him thanks for the new defense grid designs." Scott said, and Logan nodded. "By the way, Jean said she wanted to see you. She's down in the Cerebra room." Scott said. Logan raised an eyebrow, but nodded heading back to the elevator and down past the danger room into a long hallway. He walked all the way to the end and the door opened letting Logan into Cerebra, where his favorite redhead sat in the chair, the helmet on her head.

"Hey, Red. Summers said you wanted to see me?" Logan said, and Jean nodded.

"Recently I've felt something dark and terrible happening with mutants. Several mutants have died recently and someone is in great pain." Jean said.

"I don't mean to sound callous, Jeannie, but I don't see how that's any different from the past couple years." Logan solemnly stated. With more and more new mutants popping up among the younger generation, public distrust if mutants was at an all time high.

"This is different. This is all...focused. All in one spot. It's all coming from a spot in Oregon called Alkali Lake." Jean explained.

"There's something else though, isn't there? If this were just an investigation you'd have called in the others. What else is there?" Logan asked seriously.

Jean sighed, removing the Cerebra helmet. "The place is a psychic blindspot. If it wasn't for the intense sadness and pain there, I wouldn't have even noticed. The place gives off a similar feeling to the Weapon X facilities that we've found in the past. I understand if you don't want to go knowing this, but I think you should lead a team of your choosing to investigate and shut this place down before anymore die."

Logan growled. "Of course I'll go. Those bastards in the program never seem to learn. Maybe they'll get it after we torch their latest base and free whoever we can in there. We'll leave as soon as I have the team put together." Logan said heading for the door.

"Logan, I understand how personal this may be for you and Laura, but be careful. If given the opportunity, I don't think they would hesitate to take either or both of you." She said worried as Logan smiled.

"Let them try. Didn't go too well the last time." The mutant retorted as he headed back upstairs.

When the elevator door opened, Logan was already on the move. He went back into the room and cleared his throat. "Laura, we gotta mission, and I want you to get ready gather the others." Laura nodded, and Logan paused for a second then looked to Emma; "I want you to come too, we may need you." He said. Rather than resume their snideful battle of wits, Emma just nodded, noting how serious Logan was.

"What about me?" Scott asked carefully.

"You should stay behind for this one. Not because you wouldn't be useful, not because I don't trust you, but more because I need to know that if something goes wrong and we get captured, there'll be someone who can rain down hell and get us out." He said seriously. Scott sighed, not liking the idea clearly but nodded all the same as the two women passed them.

Logan nodded heading out he needed a few more people for this team. He went straight down the hall and to the kitchen where he found Kitty and Piotr eating. One look at his face had them both on their feet and he couldn't help but feel a little better as he explained the situation.

"So, get ready. I want you both on this trip as well. I gotta get two more, then we need to go. Meet me at the jet." He said and they nodded heading out as well. Logan headed upstairs to the dorm rooms. His first target was easy enough to find, a young woman with light brown hair with a white streak through it wearing a predominantly green outfit with white motfits. "Rogue, I gotta mission for us. Meet the others down at the Blackbird."

"Got it, sugah. Want me to call Remy?" She asked, and Logan scoffed.

"What, and have to put up with you two flirtin'? I'll pass." Logan retorted. "Frost and Kitty can brief you on the details. You seen the Elf?"

"He's up in his room." Rogue answered, and Logan nodded, going their separate ways as Logan went to the faculty dorms.

On the bed his head bowed in prayer he was a blue demon with short blue hair, scaly skin, and a spade tail. Dressed in a black and red uniform Logan cleared his throat and Kurt Wagner, or as they called him in mission Nightcrawler, turned to face him.

"Ah, Logan mein freund. How can I help you?" He asked smiling until he saw Logans look of determination.

"Kurt, we need your help." Logan said before explaining the situation Kurt nodded and headed out with him.

"You don't even have to ask." He said.

"Alright then, lets go the others are waiting for us at the Jet right now." Logan said, pulling on his mask as they went. When they arrived they found Kitty in her yellow and black X-Men Uniform, Colossus in his red and gold one and Rogue now in her green and white one hood drawn up and Laura was remasked, Emma was in her uniform still pristine white.

"Alright team let's go." Logan said as they all boarded the blackbird jet and took off.

"Wolverine what do you really think is in this place?" Emma asked as they flew off, the Blackbird's advanced engines hurtling them forward at incredible speeds.

"I'm not sure, but I know whatever it is, it's never good for any mutant who goes there. According to Jean, there have already been a few mutant deaths at this new place. Weapon X needs to be shut down and stay down this time." Logan said seriously and they all nodded as they flew away at supersonic speeds.

-Two Hours Later-

Wolverine brought the jet down a few miles from the facility which was located near a dam on the lake. They all go out as Logan and Laura took point.

"I can feel several minds in there. However, they've got strong shielding, but I doubt they're friendly." Emma said.

"Alright, X-23, Colossus and I will scout ahead and take the more direct approach, and draw their attention. Nightcrawler, teleport yourself and the others in. Once you're in, the goal is to find and any mutants and free them, wreck the place as you go. Understand?" He asked.

"Yes, of course." Nightcrawler said, the others nodding in agreement. Kitty gave Colossus a kiss as the two groups broke apart. Once they broke apart, Wolverine's team set out, with Nightcrawler following them. They stopped a little away from an entry point being guarded by four armed men. Wolverine gave Nightcrawler a nod and the blue man vanished to get the other three.

Wolverine gave the nod as he, and X-23 popped their claws, Colossus took his metal form, and they all leapt from the tree's. As expected, they immediately drew attention, the men firing as they rushed forwards with no effect, as X-23 cut through their guns making them worthless as the other two knocked the men out wanting to avoid killing for now.

Wolverine made his way over to the door and simply slashed through, it opening the way up for them to enter the fortress as they moved down the dark hall he spoke; "Move fast and keep your eyes open, if you see anyone captured figure out a way to let them loose anyway gets in your way, get them out by any means necessary." He said seriously and the other two nodded.

-Main Control Room-

"Sir, we have intruders in sector five! Wolverine and X-23 are confirmed to be with them!" One man said just as another man spoke out. "And four more in sector nine!" He called out, and a shadowy figure just tapped his fingers on his chair's armrest.

"Interesting. I suppose that it was only a matter of time before Xavier's little flunkies caught wind of this place. Deploy troops to hold them off. Miss Oyama, get your charge out of here before they come across it." He ordered out.

Off to the side an Asian women dressed in a gold and black costume frowned her long fingernails sliding out. "If you think that I'll just let that filthy mongrel Logan get away, you're-" Lady Deathstrike started to say, when the man just sighed.

"I believe I hired you for a job, and I'm asking you to do it. You'll have plenty of time for you're ridiculous little blood feud later." The figure stated, and Deathstrike sighed.

"Yes sir!" She said walking out of the room.

"The rest of you, get the troops out stop both teams, by any means necessary." The man said seriously and they all jumped up nodding.

"Yes sir! You heard Doctor Essex move!" The lead man said as they all emptied the room leaving the man alone.

Nathaniel Essex smirked to himself, as he stepped into the light of the now empty room. Dressed in a black suit, his pale skin shining near as much as the red gem in his forehead.

'Well, this little experiment was fun, but It's time to get out of here. They won't be able to hold them off for long, but it should be interesting to see what happens now.' He thought opening a passage in the wall as he headed out into the forest surrounding the building knowing he would be able to find out what happened later on.

-Emma Frost's Team-

Nightcrawler teleported them into a dark hallway within the fortress and Emma immediately went into a leaders mode; "Shadowcat, go through the fortress. Free anyone that you see captured, and gather information on them. If possible, offer them a chance to come with us. Nightcrawler, you do the same, I'll keep us all mentally linked together so that we can communicate, Rogue you're with me." She said and they all nodded scattering to look around.

Kitty went through walls finding several, empty rooms and then she found one that nearly made her vomit. Inside she found a large room filled with corpses that were all cut open and looked to be, being examined. Holding in her vomit, she went to a large computer in the corner and pulled up files as she went through.

"These guys were sick!" She muttered angrily seeing all that they had done ranging from simple experiments of durability to trying to increase a mutants powers only to push them too far resulting in deaths. Then she noticed a file labeled Weapon X version 2.0

She opened the file and her eyes widened in surprise at what she read. She reached into a pocket on her suit pulled out a Flash Drive and downloaded everything that she had found. Just as she was about to head out of the room the door burst open and armed men flooded the room shouting; "FREEZE!"

"Yeah I don't think so!" Shadowcat said running towards them and using her powers to become intangible as they opened fire on her the bullets going right through her and causing the men to shoot the walls computers and each other.

Moving quickly once they stopped noticing they hadn't her she became solid kicking one man out cold, before spinning phasing through another few becoming solid and yanking them to the ground and phasing through the ground slamming them down and knocking them out.

'Emma, they know we're here! And I found some terrible things." She said in her head.

'We know, they are attacking us too! Get us or the others and stay safe. I'll hear what you have found when we get out of here.' She said and Shadowcat nodded running to go find the others.

-Nightcrawler-

Nightcrawler was teleporting through room by room. Finding nothing until he hit a room filled with soldiers and guns. "Of course, just my luck." Kurt sighed as they opened fire.

He teleported away and appeared on the other end of the room in an explosion of sulfur and brimstone. "Over here." He teased, before leaping towards the men and teleporting again mid jump to appear on the right of the room, spin kicking the three men each in the face. He grabbed one man and prepared to throw him before vanishing again only for the man to drop from the ceiling knocking out a few of the others.

"Where the hell did he go!?" One of the four remaining men asked out loud.

"I'm over here." The German accented voice said from behind them where this all had started for him; "Now, do you really want to fight some more? Because you can just run away." Nightcrawler offered only for them to raise their guns and he sighed vanishing in a poof again. Appearing behind the men grabbing two of them by their heads and dropped them to the floor knocking them out.

He vanished again plucking a small object from on mans belt before appearing between the last two and dropping the canister of knockout gas; "Goodnight." He said vanishing and appearing outside the room as he heard them fall to the ground.

He sighed and headed out to meet up with the others.

-Emma and Rogue-

Emma and Rogue were making their way through the fortress. Carefully checking the rooms they met, "You know, I was expecting a place like this to be more, I don know interestin." Rogue said.

"Don't let your guard down. Shadowcat and Nightcrawler have already had to fight off attackers. It's only a matter of time before we do as well." Emma warned as they entered what appeared to be a large office.

The room was large in size with a somewhat low ceiling. There was a large bookcase behind the desk and off to either side set into the black walls was small lamps giving the room an almost eerie glow. And on each side were large filing cabinets al of which were now empty.

"Search the place." Emma said and Rogue nodded as they both started to look around. They found nothing, no files left nothing looking promising. And then Emma found a document that while it said nothing important it did have one thing that immediately made her worry.

"Transigen…" She muttered out and, sighed. "Of course he's involved…"

"What's so important about Transigen?" Rogue asked.

"It's a shell corporation used as a front by none other than Nathaniel Essex. Mister Sinister is behind this, and that makes it all the worse. We need to move now!" She said seriously.

"Freeze!" A new voice said.,

Both woman turned to find a group of soldiers pointing guns at them; "Oh, you picked the wrong women sugar!" Rogue said cracking her knuckles only for Emma to hold out her hands; "We don't have time for this!" She said focusing and causing all the men to drop.

"We need to get through all this now, free who we can and get out. When Sinister is involved in things the building itself may be a trap." She said before grabbing Rogue by the hood and pulling the young lady along.

-Wolverines Team-

Wolverine, X-23, and Colossus who seemed to have drawn most of the troops, and all three of them were tearing through the troops knocking them aside as they went through each room. They found bodies being experimented on, a room filled with chemicals, and then as Wolverine slashed into a room his eyes narrowed.

"Deathstrike, should've known you'd be involved in this place." He growled as she turned around from where she had been about to unlock a large door that looked like a vault door.

"Logan, still sticking your nose where it doesn't belong hmm?" Lady Deathstrike as turning to face him and extending her fingernails as X-23 stepped in. "Oh, and you brought the runt and the Tin Man too. This is going to be fun!" She said smiling.

Not bothering to respond the two of them launched at her as Colossus was joined in fighting the troops by Nightcrawler and Shadowcat. As the battle between the three clawed people escalated all of them slashing and hacking at each other, X-23 took a chance and slashed the latch on the door Deathstrike had been about to open.

"No, wait! Whatever is in there it's angry and afraid!" Emma said having just barely arrived to the fight with Rogue, but it was too late the door swung open and growling could be heard from within.

Then suddenly a boy nearly Luara's age by the look of him leap out. He was dressed in an all black suit. He had slightly tanned skin, an athletic build, and shining golden eyes and red hair, but what caught all their attention was the three claws like Logan's coming out from between his knuckles, and the one coming out of his foot, all of them appearing to shine a bright sort of yellow color. He ignored all the others and leap at Deathstrike screaming in rage and taking her through a nearby window and leaving them all stunned.

"There's another one of you!?" Emma gasped.

"Apparently. I'm going after them." Laura called out, and without another word she jumped through the window to follow the fight they could all hear raging in the next room.

"Wonderful, more Wolverines. As if I didn't have enough headaches lately!" Emma sighed sarcastically looking to Logan who shrugged.

"Don't look at me Frost. I didn't even know about this one! Come on, we have to stop that fight and soon." He said and sighing Emma nodded knowing Rogue, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Shadowcat were more than capable of dealing with the troops without them.

As they entered the next room they found the boy and Deathstrike slashing away at each other; "Weapon X, as your handler, I command you to stop your assault!" She said between slashes just to make the boy growl again and continue to attack;

"No! No more of you!" He growled stabbing the six claws on his hands into her chest lifting her high above his head and hurling her into a large vat filled with green water.

It burst open sending the water flooding through the room and causing Deathstrike to be pushed out and slam into the wall knocking her out. Emma went into her diamond form as she dug her fingers into the wall and grabbed the boy with the other hand, holding onto him as the water finished draining from the room.

She let go and the boy hit the ground and stood up slowly, looking at them and growling; "Calm down, we aren't here to hurt you." Wolverine said holding up his hands his claws in.

The boy seemed on edge looking at them his own claws still out as he stared at Wolverine, and X-23 recognition dawning on his face before he spoke: "You're him. The original Weapon X, and you're X-23. You can't...you shouldn't be here!" He said.

"Calm down, listen we're here to get you out of here we want to help." X-23 said knowing a bit of what he was going through.

"It's alright, you're going to be okay." Wolverine said taking a step towards the boy who took a step back shaking his head.

"No, it won't! I was made to do was kill you, both of you or bring you in. Leave me alone, leave me alone!" He shouted swiping his claws at him only for Wolverine to avoid the attack and catch his wrist.

"It's going to be okay, and I'm sorry about this, but we need to get you out of here." Wolverine said before nodding to Emma who focused her powers and knocked him out the same way she had the troops from before. The boy slumped his claws sheathing themselves as Wolverine caught him.

"Well, this has been unexpected." Emma said.

"To say the least, lets go help them finish off the guards, then we wreck this place and get out of here, take him with us." Wolverine said.

"Wolverine, you should know that Sinister had a hand in all of this. That boy is dangerous." Emma warned.

"I know, but a lot of mutants are, I am and Charles gave me a chance, you are and he gave you one too, he deserves the same chance." Wolverine said.

Emma sighed and nodded levitating the boy out of Wolverines arms so he floated beside her; "Go help them, I'll keep an eye on him until your back and then we can find a way to destroy this place." She said.

Wolverine seemed hesitant, but knew there wasn't much if anything Emma could do with them all so close at hand and so he nodded as he and X-23 left to go help with the guards. Emma waited and when the fighting stopped, Wolverine returned along with the others all of whom looked surprised at the young man floating beside her.

"You can gawk when we're out of here. We need to go." Emma said seriously and Logan nodded.

"You all get to the jet, drag the men out we'll drop them later. I'm going to find a way to destroy this place." Wolverine said and they all nodded seriously and set out as Wolverine headed deeper into the place.

After a while Wolverine found the main control room a door leading off into the woods surrounding the place. As he entered he kept his guard up, but no one remained. Going over to a main computer and finally found it a program that would cause the whole place to come down.

"Leave it to Sinister to be prepared." Logan said activating the program and heading out the door and into the woods using his sense of smell to get to the jet where he found the others waiting inside the men tied up along with Deathstrike and the boy still unconscious. He smirked as they started up the jet.

He had just gotten them high into the air when the damn the place had been built into, burst the lake flowing freely and washing everything from the place away.

"It's done, let's get out of here." Logan said pulling off his mask as they flew off and away, when they had the time Logan brought the ship in low and pushed the tied men and Deathstrike out and into the woods before taking off again.

"Logan, what are we going to do about the boy?" Emma asked seriously.

"We take him back with us, we help him just like we would any other young mutant who would need it. Best not wake him til we're back. Then we'll work from there, also you said Kitty found some information?" He asked.

"Yeah, I have some." Kitty said.

"Good, we'll look at it when we're back home." He said and with that they were off again.

A/N: So that's it! For this version of chapter 1! Leave a review fav or follow if you like and see you next chapter!