Training wasn't actually that bad for the girls. Tori actually recalled her karate classes quite well and Andre was able to teach her more basic fighting moves. The Latina's fighting style was completely different then Jade's. Tori was more fluid, more calculating and thoughtful. Jade was wild, pure aggression, no strategy at all. Andre tried to tell her that there was more to fighting then strength, but she was determined to just plow through all her enemies. Not that she wasn't good at fighting. She had pretty good instincts about it, but she was still just an amateur. He did teach her a few moves to help her, but she seemed more resistant then Tori.

Beck, however, denied the training offer. He claimed that he would mostly use his magic and wouldn't need to get hand to hand that often. Andre told him he should learn a bit at least but the demigod wouldn't budge.

After an hour Jade needed to use the restroom so she left the training area and headed down the hall. As she turned a corner she bumped into someone, who she quickly realized was Robbie.

"Dammit!" She cursed. "Sorry."
"Who're yo- wait you're one of the girls Cat recruited right?" Robbie looked her up and down, as if he was studying her. It kind of made her feel weird.

"Um...yeah I'm Jade." She said awkwardly.

"Robbie Shapiro. So, what's your power? She wouldn't tell me."

Jade raised her fist and let her claws out with a snkkt. Robbie tilted his head looking at them from different angles. After a moment he asked, "May I?" Jade shrugged and he carefully touched one of the claws. Discovering it was bone, as it looked, he muttered, "Fascinating. Just like Wolverine and X-23."

"Yeah, I know. I'm a clone of Wolverine okay? I'm tired of- wait. Whose X-23?"

"X-23? Um. I'm not sure exactly who she is." Robbie started, an apologetic look flashing on his face before continuing. "I know she's on the X-Men team, or was for a while, and was also with X-Factor. She seems to have all of Wolverine's powers, including the adamantium claws. I suppose its possible she's a clone too, but she is different then you. Only two of her claws are in her hand, the third is in her foot."

Jade gave him an unsure look, "Seriously? Her foot?"
Robbie nodded. "Yes, she's quite deadly actually. But I notice you don't have the adamantium. Why?"

"Well...obvious answer is it wasn't part of his mutation. It was put on later on." Jade shrugged.

The scientist ran a finger along the top of her middle claw, "You know, if you want I could coat your claws in adamantium."

"Really?" Jade raised an eyebrow. She was skeptical of this because frankly it seemed impossible.

"Indeed. It would be a bit painful though. I already have some liquid adamantium. I was trying to get make a weapon from it, but I can't get the mechanics to work correctly." He added the last bit at another odd look from Jade. "The process would involve having to extract the claws from your hand, coating them in the adamantium and then carefully putting them back into your hand. I don't know if anesthesia would work on you because of the healing factor, I'm assuming you have that too."

"Why would you do this for me though? You don't even know me."

"That's true. But you're going to be helping my wife. Without the adamantium you're at a disadvantage compared to Wolverine. He can cut through anything. You might be lucky to stab someone and not break a claw on a rib."

"Can I think about it?"

"By all means. Do you know where Cat is?"

"Training room. You can meet the other recruits." With that Jade wondered to the bathroom, retracting her claw.

As Jade exited the bathroom a faint scent interrupted her thoughts about getting her own adamantium claws. She could smell Cat and someone else but something was blocking the scent. Still confused about her sense of smell and her possibility of improving herself, the Goth followed the scent to a room near the main hallway. As she passed one of the doors she saw her and Tori's belongings on the bed. So, Cat must be in her room. The door was partway opened so she peered inside and had to restrain herself from making a noise. Cat was standing in the room, with her arms around a certain ninja that wasn't her husband. It was quite obvious that Cat was having an affair with Andre at this point. She knew she had sensed something up with them earlier but just ignored it thinking it was nothing. Without making a sound Jade quietly slipped away and made her way back to the training room.

On the way though she couldn't help but wonder; if Cat was willing to betray her husband like that then who says she wouldn't betray them too? It was then she made up her mind.

Tori had given up waiting for Jade to come back to the training room. She had finished sparring with Beck after Andre and Cat disappeared shortly before Robbie came in. He stayed for a few minutes and talked to them before leaving to try to find his wife. He was a nice man, if a bit weird, but a bunch of people had odd quirks so Tori didn't think much of it.

When it was an hour till midnight and still had seen no sign of Jade the Latina started to worry. Having been waiting in their bedroom she slipped out of the bed and went next door to Cat's room. She lightly knocked on the door and could have sworn she heard a poof before Cat told her to come in. Opening the door and peeking in she saw Cat was under the covers with a book in her lap.

"Cat? Have you seen Jade?" Tori questioned.

"Jade? No. Not since she left for the bathroom earlier. You can't find her?" Cat frowned in confusion.

Tori shook her head, "I haven't seen her since but I didn't think it was right to search your house without your permission."
"Oh, I would've understood. But I'll help you search for her."

"Thanks."

With that the two women searched everywhere for the missing girl, but she didn't seem to be in any room they checked. She wasn't in the kitchen, game room, the inside pool room, and still wasn't in the training room. When the clock it midnight they had searched every room in the house. Except…

"The only room we haven't looked in is Robbie's lab. But I don't understand why she would be in there." Cat looked at Tori.

"It won't hurt to look right?" Tori asked.

Cat nodded and lead the Irish-Latina to a door in the room where Tori first saw Robbie working on his gun. There was a number pad in the wall and Cat quickly pushed a number sequence. A hidden door slid open and Cat walked in, gesturing for Tori to follow. The door lead to a hallway, with silver walls and metal flooring that seemed somewhat odd to Tori. The hallway wasn't that long and led into an open room. What the two saw shocked them.

Jade was laying on a table, her arms and legs strapped down with Robbie standing over her. He was sitting a bucket down on the floor, but that drew attention to some blood that was on the table. It didn't help that Jade looked unconscious.
Tori stepped forward, eyes red. "What the hell is going on!?"

Robbie jumped at the sudden voice. "Goodness don't do that. You scared the fudge out of me."
"Robbie." Cat's voice was stern and determined. "She asked you a question."

"Huh?" Robbie's eyes widened with realization. "Oh. OH! No, no. I didn't hurt her. Well okay, I kind of did but she knew what she was getting herself into."

Tori let a fireball form in her palm, "I swear to God I will turn you to ash!"

"Relax! She's okay now. See, earlier I offered to coat her claws in adamantium. At the time she was unsure so she thought about it. Not long after she told me she wanted it. This process took longer than I thought, but I finished about half an hour ago. Putting her claws back into her hand seemed to cause to much pain and she blacked out. I don't know when she'll wake up. If you want you can take her back to her room now. But be wary, she might snap when she wakes."

The fire disappeared and Tori walked to the table and picked her kind of girlfriend up, bridal style. "I'll handle her, but just know that if you did hurt her, on purpose, and did anything you weren't supposed to do. I will end you. Even if you are my friends husband." With that Tori carried the unconscious girl out.

Cat stayed and crossed her arms at her husband. "Robbie! What the hell!? I don't even get you to talk to them when they arrive and now you're experimenting on them?!"

"It wasn't an experiment!" Robbie protested. Cat leveled him with a glare and he sighed, "Well, okay it was kind of but I'm sure it went well. Her claws were bone. They wouldn't be good in a fight. I coated her bone claws with adamantium; the same stuff that coats Wolverine's. She can cut through literally anything now."

"These girls are going to help us take down Ponnie and her gang of misfits!" Cat snapped, storming to the table. "They're nice and interesting and I don't want you to experiment on them. Or anyone for that matter! Jesus Christ Robbie! The poor girl looked like she was going to have a heart attack when she couldn't find Jade."

"Okay, I should've told you or someone before hand but she just had this look in her eye. I didn't want to postpone anything."

"Oh, please! You don't care about her or any of your volunteers. She could have died and you would have said "Oh well!""

Sighing, Robbie took his gloves off, "Come on, Cat. Let's not do this now."

"Do what? Speak the truth?"

With a poof Andre was sitting Indian style on the table between them. "Okay, what's going on?"
"Robbie's doing experiments on my new friends." Cat snapped.

"Robbie?" Andre turned to look at his friend. Andre was a laid back kind of guy, he didn't making any decisions or judgments until he hears every detail and each persons side of the story.

Robbie shook his head, "She agreed to it and all I did was coat her claws in adamantium. She wanted me to do it, I just didn't realize the process would take all day."

"Maybe we should all just go to our, or your, rooms, calm down and sleep. Tomorrow we can work this out."
Cat frowned, "But Andre that girl might not wake up!"

"I told you she'll be fine."

"You don't know that!"
"Ding ding. Rounds over. Come on guys. Let's just cool off. We'll see how she is tomorrow. If she's awake we'll see how she feels. If not then...well we'll go from there."
"And how do I know you won't slip in there and kill her in her sleep? You are a master assassin after all." It was unclear whether or not Robbie was joking.

"I'm aware that I'm a master assassin. But you are also aware I don't kill anyone that doesn't deserve it and I only go after bad people." Andre snapped, a bit offended.

Cat sighed, "Okay. We'll see what happens tomorrow. But this experimenting has to stop Robbie."

All Robbie said was okay before the two left the room and made their way to their separate bedrooms. Andre shook his head as they left. "I'm not sure how they lasted this long." With a poof he was gone and the lab lights went dark.