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Xavier institute for higher learning
"You know how to ride a bike kid?" Logan asked as we entered the garage.
"Yeah but we are not taking a bike." I said carrying a large duffel bag with me.
"I am not staying cramped up in a car the whole way." He argued.
"Logan we need to be able to come up with a plan. We cant do that if you are not with me. I cant take a bike because I have too much to carry." I explained.
"There is a communicator in my helmet, here take this." He said tossing me a small radio.
"Damn you are difficult to deal with. I thought Natasha was stubborn." I said to myself as I got into my car.
"I heard that kid." Logan said as he fired up his bike.
"Good." I responded and started my Cadillac.
We pulled out of the garage and headed down the long driveway. The gates to the mansion grounds opened and we headed west.
"I hope you have a GPS in there kid. It has been a long time since I headed west." Logan said through the communicator.
"No need I have seen a map." I said remembering the map perfectly in my mind. Every highway every major road every backroad and every city is forever etched into my mind. I practically am a GPS.
"Alright, I will follow you." He said and I cut into the oncoming lane and sped up past him. I begin to wonder how he is able to stand riding his bike right now as cold as it is but then I remember his healing factor helps to keep his body warmth regulated. Lucky bastard.
"So what do yah got so far?" Logan asked a few minutes later.
"Well they have motion detectors along an outside perimeter and flags set up to let civilians know not to enter. When someone gets too close a team is sent out to turn away anyone who gets too close. Airspace above is restricted and anyone flying over will be warned and if they do not turn away immediately will be shot down. They have automated lethal weapons outside of the facility itself and throughout the way to it just incase anyone is stupid enough to enter. We don't have too many options as far as a stealth mission go. I am thinking of using diversions from two locations and sneaking as far in from behind as we can before we are detected. After that it will be fighting our way in I hope you are ready to get some blood on your claws."
"How do we cause a diversion at a place that heavily guarded without giving ourselves away?" He asked and I chuckled.
"Have you ever heard of a potato gun?" I asked.
"Yeah a piece of PVC pipe with compressed air used to launch a potato right?" He asked.
"Essentially but we will not be using potatoes. I am thinking homemade mortars. Only with a lot more bang than the army has. Basically pipe bombs that will be programmed to launch and detonate at specific times depending on the elevation and speed they are travelling. We will set up multiple launchers at key locations and let the fireworks start before heading in." I said and he laughed.
"A lot more sophisticated than I would have gone with but it sounds good." He responded.
"I don't heal Logan I cant just go in slicing anything that moves. I need to minimize risk as much as possible. Once we get in, if we get in we will need to locate a security control room one floor beneath the ground. We will then have 6 minutes and 43 seconds to descend another two floors and find the hard drive that has our information on it. It wont be too hard to find it will be the most well guarded room on that particular floor. Once we do I will locate the files we need and getting out with those files will be 5 times harder than getting in was." I said and he grunted.
"Its not too late to turn back kid. Like you said, you don't heal. If this will be as dangerous as you say then there is a good chance you will not make it out alive." He said and I thought about it for a second.
"No I am not turning away from this, If it was just what I went through then that would be one thing but Stryker must be stopped. For everything he has done, everyone he has hurt and everyone he will hurt if someone doesn't put an end to it." I said angrily and my foot increased the pressure on the gas pedal in an effort to get their faster.
"Slow down kid, The facility is not going to go anywhere. It will only take more time if you get arrested." Logan said and he is right, I can not go into this angrily.
We continued driving until we reached Grant county Kansas and decided to find a place to stretch our legs. I know I am a little cramped and that bike cant be comfortable for that long. Apart from that we have not eaten or stopped to use the restroom since we left.
"How yah feelin kid?" Logan asked.
"Like I need a restroom and some food." I said and Logan grunted his agreement.
We found a bar and walked in. Logan wen straight for the bar and I headed to the restroom. After I finished my business I walked back out and saw Logan with a beer. After I returned Logan went to take care of his business.
"What can I get for you tonight sweetie?" A bartender in her mid thirties asked me.
"Is your kitchen still open?" I asked her hopefully.
"It sure is for another hour anyway, would you like a menu?" She asked.
"As hungry as I am I could eat anything, what do you recommend?" I responded.
"I personally like the chicken wraps but most of the people here just order wings." She replied.
"Chicken wrap it is." I said and she nodded before writing the order down and walking back to the kitchen to put in my order.
"I would like a glass of water as well." I said after she emerged from the kitchen.
"He will take a beer whatever you have on tap." Logan said as he came back to the bar.
"I don't think its a good idea to get drunk right now Logan." I said and he just shrugged.
"I cant get drunk." He said.
"I can." I responded.
"One wont hurt ya quit being a girl." He then said and I don't feel like arguing right now.
"So what do ya think, a motel for the night or are you ok to keep driving?" He asked before taking a drink of his beer.
"Honestly I don't know if its nerves or excitement but I don't think I could sleep right now." I said ready to eat and get back on the road.
"I know what you mean, I cant believe I am this close to the people that did this to me." He said and his head dropped slightly. "What can you tell me about the type of person I was before all of this? What kind of person was I? Was I still the same asshole? How old am I? What was my family like?" He asked solemnly.
"I don't know how old you are. I don't think anyone does. I know you were a soldier, that you fought bravely for this country. I remember seeing pictures of you from world war two and you look pretty much the same maybe a few years younger but not much. I know that you fell in love with a beautiful woman named Kayla codenamed Silver fox. And then you fell in love again with a woman named Mariko but you remember that one. I know that you cared for people that you were a passionate man. Remnants of that man still exist today. They may have taken your memories but they have not taken who you are Logan." I said comfortingly to the clearly in pain man next to me.
"Thanks kid." He grunted before finishing his beer and another two were brought to us.
"I only ordered one." I said confused.
"He looked like he could use one." The bartender said sliding one to each of us. "Its on the house."
"Thanks doll." Logan said and I took a drink. The beer was ice cold and after all day in a car was just what I needed. My food arrived soon after and Logan ordered some wings. Once we finished eating we headed back to our vehicles and continued driving again.
We drove until early morning and stopped in a place called Tooele, Utah Just outside of Nevada. We found a motel and decided to get some rest. After twenty three hours of driving we definitely needed some sleep. The hotel was cheap and dirty but it beats the hell out of a small col room with an itchy cot to sleep on like I spent most of my life living in. I layed down on top of the comforter a little scared to cover myself with it. Before I knew it my eyes began to grow heavy.
I awoke 9 hours later feeling a lot better. I used the shower in the room which was just as dirty but it was better than nothing. I got dressed and headed outside to get some fresh air. I walked out and looked around the small town breathing in the smogless air.
"Thought you were gonna sleep all day." I heard followed by the sound of a match striking followed by the rich smell of cigar smoke.
"Nah Never been one for sleeping in." I replied turning to face him.
"There is a place aaround the corner to get some food. I just got back but I am heading out to find a place to drink." He said before walking back to his bike. "I'll keep in touch."
"Sounds good I am going to eat and hit a few stores to get some supplies." I said and he just nodded before swinging his leg over his bike and firing up the engine.
Four hours later I received a message. "Placed called luckey's 7 blocks east of the motel." Logan said and I headed out to my car. I carefully placed a black crate into my trunk and then got into my car. I drove slowly and made sure to avoid a;; potholes and other bumps as I drove to the bar.
A few minutes later I entered the bar and saw Logan shooting a game of pool with some man. Logan sank the eight ball in the side pocket and the man handed over a fifty dollar bill before walking away. "You play?" Logan asked as he saw me approaching.
"No but cant be too hard." I said and he racked the balls before handing me a pool cue.
"Ill break." He said before hitting the cue ball and breaking the rack.
He made the number six ball off the break and then the number two and the number five before he missed a shot. "What you wanna do is-" He began to say before I cut him off.
"I know the rules, I have just never played." I said before taking my first shot. I made all seven striped balls one after another before calling the corner pocket and sunk the eight ball as well.
"Thought you never played before." He said angrily.
"I haven't its all about angles and hitting the cue ball in the right spot to put it where you want, my brains registers all of the angles and my steady hands from all of my marksman training allows me to hit the cue ball just right." I said and he threw back a shot of whiskey before handing me the fifty he just won.
"Drinks are on me." I said walking to the bar and ordering us more drinks.
"Are you sure that's smart kid." Logan said as I came back with multiple shot glasses. "If we go in tomorrow it wouldn't be good to be slow and sluggish." He said and he has a point but I know what I am doing.
"Right but drinking helps to ease my mind and allows my brain to function more effectively the night after drinking. It will allow me to think more clearly." I explained. "And so will that." I said as a tall leggy blonde walked past with a shorter redhead girl. "Hey you two cant just walk past us without saying anything, come have a drink." I said and the girls stopped. "This is my friend Logan and my name is Jason." I said introducing us to the girls.
"Hi, I'm Britney and this is Samantha. You two are new here where are you from?" Britney the tall blonde asked.
"Canada, Originally. We live in New York presently." I answered.
"Your a Long way from home." Samantha said and I smiled.
"So are you darling." Logan said with a smile of his own. "That's one hell of a Lone star drawl I hear." Logan replied turning on the charm. Apparently I am not the only one who could use some relaxation before tomorrow.
We continued to make small talk while we played pool and threw darts. I made sure I missed a bunch of shots and it seems Logan did the same to give the girls a chance. We had a few more drinks and it was getting late. So I knew I had to seal the deal now.
"Well, Britney it was an absolute pleasure to meet you but it is way past my bedtime. I think I will be going now." I said taking her hand and planting a kiss on her knuckles.
"Where are you staying?" She asked and I knew I had it in the bag.
"Motel a few blocks from here. I am allowed to have friends over." I replied giving her a sexy smile.
"You have a car?" She asked.
"I do shall we go?" I asked offering her my hand.
"Lead the way." She said and we headed back to the Motel.
I opened the door and let Britney walk inside. She looked around for a second before turning back to face me. She leapt onto me wrapping her legs around me and began kissing me. I returned the kiss and walked us toward the edge of the bed. I laid her down and climbed on top of her. Before long clothes found their way to the floor and the bed was rattling the walls. Between that and the screams I doubt anyone else was getting any sleep. After all was said and done Britney fell asleep and I sat awake feeling refreshed and ready for tomorrow.
Suddenly the communicator Logan gave me chirped and I picked it up. "Bright and early kid." I heard Logan say over the sound of his bike engine.
"What did you say?" I heard Samantha say from behind him and I just laughed.
"Nothin darling, hold on tight." Seems Logan was able to seal the deal as well.
I awoke after three hours and decided to get an early start. I left a message wit the motel for Logan telling him that I was getting a head start and took off toward the diversion locations. One near Tikaboo Valley and the other near Indian Springs. I set up the makeshift mortars mostly buried in the sand with remote detonators to launch the bombs which will then arm to detonate at a time I set by making some quick calculations.
After all was said and done I proceeded to the point in which would be the easiest for us to breach the fences and then the facility. An hour later just west of Armagosa valley I received a message from Logan. "Where yah at kid. I picked up your scent in a few places. But you have been all over." He said and I smiled and took a deep breath knowing we would be ready to begin soon.
"Just off 95, west of Armagosa Valley." I answered. Ten minutes later I heard footsteps behind me and I turned with my pistol drawn as we are very close to a civilian restricted area and I didn't want anyone to get the drop on me.
"Just me kid." Logan said placing his hands in the air in mock surrender.
"Not all of us have your scent all I heard were footsteps." I replied as he walked up and stood next to me.
"So when do we start?" He asked excitedly.
"I have 3 sets of timed mortars in two locations. The first wave will set off whenever we are ready, all I have to do is press a button the second set will fire 45 seconds later and the third 45 seconds after the second. That will give us a few minutes of diversion time for them to figure out what happened and where it came from. By the time they figure that out we should be pretty far in until they realize we are there. I have a high frequency jammer that will disable the motion sensors as we progress, I am banking on the fact that people are curious and the men who watch over the cameras will be as distracted as everyone else so that we can get in unnoticed. Just let me know when you are ready." I explained and he stood there silent.
"Ready when you are kid." He grunted and prepared to run as fast as his metal laced bones would take him.
"In three two one." I said and pressed the button and the homemade mortars began firing just as I calculated. The alarms began to blare before the first one could even hit the ground. But by that point we were already nearing the warning flags. We quickly tore past them at a blistering pace and came to a 20 foot high barb wired fence. Logan made quick work of the fence and we made our way into the perimeter of the restricted zone. We ducked behind a building and watched as men ran toward the locations where the mortars were being fired from. Getting attacked from two different areas had them off their game and they were scattering, unaware of which attack to fend off first. We snuck along the side of the building and took off toward another large building.
"Which building is the file located in?" Logan asked quietly after we ducked behind the building.
"You see the one way off in the distance." I said pointing to a small one floor building that almost looked like an office building.
"Lets go." Wolverine said and he leapt out from behind the building.
"Logan wait." I said grabbing his shirt and yanking him back just as a mortar landed that he would have ran directly into. The ground shook beneath our feet from the explosion but we were left unharmed.
"Good save kid." Logan grunted.
"Go now." I said and we took off again.
"Contact six o'clock." I heard one of the guards yell and I pulled my pistol Logan changed direction and began charging the men.
"Logan stay on course." I said as I fired three shots and put down three guards.
"He changed direction to join me as more mortars began to fall. Explosion after explosion landed behind us as we ran.
A squadron of men rounded an airplane hangar and immediately opened fire after realizing where the bullets were going to hit I dove forward and rolled back to my feet behind the other hangar. Logan kept charging while bullet after bullet ripped through his flesh. His wounds healed as quickly as they were made and he made quick work of the guards. I ran back out and rejoined the fight. An armored personnel carrier headed directly for us with a mounted 30mm turret on the back being manned by a soldier. I ejected a clip from my pistol and replaced it with another full of my adamantium rounds. I fired one round into the engine block of the APC and a second into the helmet of the gunner before he could do any damage with the turret. I then switched clips back and caught up with Logan who was 15 yards ahead of me. I stayed as close to him as I could using him as a human shield as we were being met with waves of gunfire. As we were getting closer to the building the reinforcements were getting heavier. I grabbed a grenade rom my belt and pulled the pin with my teeth. I tossed the grenade as close to the building as I could so that we could still run and be outside of the blast radius. The grenade took down four men and I took down six more with five shots. We reached the building we were looking for and came to a heavy steel door standing in our way of getting inside.
"Step aside kid." Logan ready to slash the door.
"Logan no, just keep them of my back, I can hack the security console to get in and change the code to buy us time once we get inside." I said and he deflected a bullet with his claws and I took out the man who fired it.
"You know I am only good from up close right. When they start firing from a distance there is only so much to do. I cant exactly leave you unprotected." He said as more men began running towards us.
"Take this." I said removing the tactical sling I had holding my Kriss vector short barrel spec ops rifle to my back. "I prefer my pistols anyway."
Logan took the rifle and immediately began firing short controlled bursts with great accuracy taking out guard after guard. He may not remember being a soldier but he still has his training. I jammed my knife into the security console on the wall and removed the cover plate from it. I pulled an alligator clip connected to a wire from my pocket and connected it to one of the wires in the console and plugged the other end into my phone. I began typing away at the screen of my phone. It didn't take long to hack their code but creating a complicated enough algorithm for them to figure out to break back in is another story. Once I felt comfortable with the one I created, I opened the door and tapped Logan on his shoulder giving him the signal to get inside. He slowly backed up firing the last few rounds he had and entered the building behind me. I closed the door and it locked the second it closed. Alarms were going off inside and Logan handed me the rifle back and began to cover his ears.
"Take these." I said pulling out two ear plugs.
"Thanks kid." He said putting them in his ears. He looked much more comfortable now. "How do we get to the control room?" He asked.
"Make a right at the end of this hallway then go down two the second hallway off of it and make a left." I answered letting him lead the way.
"Why do we need the control room?" He then asked as he began walking down the hallway.
"The floor we need is three floors down and only accessible by elevator. The elevator will be easy enough to get onto but I need to override the security protocols so that they cant drop us once we get on it." I answered.
"Smart thinking." He grunted.
We reached the end of the hallway and Logan peeked his head around and his head immediately snapped backward and he hit the ground. I took his place at the corner and decided to use him while he was down I saw the reflection of two me down the hall in his claw and quickly calculated the angle and trajectory before firing two quick rounds at his claw and the two men dropped from the ricochet rounds.
"Fuck that hurt." Logan muttered from the ground as a mangled bullet dislodged from his adamantium skull.
"You'll be ok get up big guy." I said as I quickly rounded the corner and walked stealthily with my pistol aimed down range.
We began walking again until we reached the second connecting hallway. We crept down the hallway after encountering no one and we made our way to the door I was looking for. I opened the door revealing a stairwell and we began to descend to the next floor. We reached another door and after listening for sounds coming from the other side Logan opened the door slowly. I had my pistol drawn over his shoulder as we continued.
"Make a left up here and another left at the next hallway. The control room should be the third door on your right." I said and as we approached our next corner. Logan held up his hand signaling for me to stop.
"Seven men." Logan answered after inhaling their scents.
"Leave it to me." I said pulling a flashbang grenade from my belt and tossing it down the hall. An explosion was heard followed by groans and screams. Logan rushed into the hallway and quickly incapacited three men. I fired a round past his head and took out another before shooting between his legs and hitting one in he knee. The man hit the ground and Logan impaled him through the head before stabbing two more through the chest and I fired another round hitting the last one in the neck. We stepped over the bodies and reached the final hallway.
"Three more." Logan said and I only brought two flashbang grenades. I am saving the other incase we should need it. I changed my clip and screwed on a silencer I pulled out of my pocket.
"Where at exactly?" I asked.
"One standing about 6 inches from the wall nearest to us. One standing roughly two feet behind him and I cant place the third." He said after inhaling deeply.
I leapt out from behind the corner and fired only two quick rounds before rolling back to my feet across the hall from Logan. "You are getting rusty there were only two." I said stepping out of cover with my pistol still down range.
"No, the third scent is still there. Its coming from in that room." He then said as we slowly approached the room.
"Tear it down." I said to Logan and he carved a large X in the steel door before kicking it in and rushing into the room. I rounded the corner to see him with his claws in a guards stomach. I ran to the console and began typing away at the keyboard.
"Reinforcements are on their way. Hurry up kid we are sitting ducks in here." He said.
"I am working as fast as I can thankfully the elevator is right outside the door but this may take a minute go hold them off." I said and Logan stepped back out of the control room. It took several minutes to override the security protocols and I heard gunfire hailing through the hallways. I finally took control of the protocols and crept back peeked my head back into the hall just as a grenade was dropped from a dead soldier. I ducked back inside to avoid the blast but Logan wasn't as lucky. The gunfire stopped after the blast and I stepped out into the hall. Logan sat up from the ground with his shirt tattered and covered in blood. Pieces of shrapnel began to make its way from his chest and his charred skin quickly healed but he was still weak. I draped his arm over my shoulder and helped him to stand. I pressed the button for the elevator and the door opened immediately we stepped inside just in time as more reinforcements arrived. The door closed and was immediately met by gunfire thankfully for us the doors were bulletproof. I pressed the button for the third floor and the elevator descended quickly. The elevator door soon opened again and we found ourselves in a large room with a few cooling towers and computer consoles all over the room. I walked toward one and Logan quickly crept toward another door that branched off of the room we were in. I logged onto the computer and inserted a USB drive into it. I began typing away and pulling hundreds of different files but I have yet to find the one we need.
"Hey you cant be-" A man began to say as he entered and logan quickly grabbed him from behind and put his hand over the mans mouth.
"You won't believe the morning I'm havin." Logan said intimidatingly in the man's ear. "I have been shot more times than I care to count, I have been blown up and almost hit by a mortar. So unless you keep quiet and tell me what I want to know then I will start slicing you got that?" He then growled. The man nodded his answer slowly.
"Good, Who are you and what is in that room?" He asked after releasing the mans mouth.
"I just keep records here. That room is for R&D." He said fearfully.
"What can you tell me about a man named-" Logan began but I cut him off.
"Logan stop, If you tell him what we are looking for we will have to kill him. He has done nothing to harm us. He Lives. I found what we came for anyway. Make sure he doesn't wake up until well after we are gone." I then said and Logan grabbed the man by the collar and head butted him. The man slumped to the floor and we walked back toward the elevator.
"You ready to fight our way back out of here kid?" Logan asked and I chuckled as a plan began to form.
"Getting out will be the easy part." I said and he looked at me confused. "That grenade didn't mess you up too bad to climb did it?" I asked and he shook his head no. "Good, as long as the elevator is on this floor they will think we are still down here. I am thinking we climb the elevator shaft." I said and he smirked.
We walked onto the elevator and opened the panel in the ceiling of it. We climbed on top of the elevator and I grabbed onto the wires holding it. My gloves helped to protect my hands while Logan's healed as fast as they were cut from the wire. It was a long climb but we finally reached the top.
"What now?" Logan asked.
"You climb back down a few feet." I said and he looked confused but began climbing back down. I pulled a cord from my pocket and began sticking it to the wall in a circular pattern.
"Is that what I think it is?" Logan asked and I climbed back down a few feet before detonating the Primacord.
"Watch your head." I yelled as rubble began to fall onto us. We then quickly climbed back up and climbed out of the building through the whole blown in the wall. We took off running at a blistering pace. I used my silenced pistol to quickly dispatch of two soldiers before they could radio in our location and I saw no more around.
We made it back to the fence line without any gunfire heading in our direction, hell for all they know we are still in the third floor basement. We finally made it back off of the restricted ground but it was no time to let up. We made it back to Logan's bike and He quickly jumped on. I jumped on the back and we rode off to safety.
"I parked my car about a mile from here take the next exit off of 95." I said and he complied.
Once we got back to my car I dismounted from the bike and Logan shut the engine off. I opened my trunk and tossed my all of my guns in apart from my trusty Sig Sauer which I holstered. I then unlocked my car door.
"Are you sure you got what we were looking for?" Logan asked.
"Would have been pretty stupid to go through all of that if I didn't." I said pulling the flash drive from my pocket.
"Got that and about a thousand other dirty government secrets. Old classified missions other top secret government installments, most of it is trash but if our info was the only thing I took they would know what we were looking for and tipped off Stryker." I said and he smirked.
"So what's next?" He asked.
"We are off to California."