Laura blinked as the mind-control wore off. Her vision was a little hazy, but she was quickly regaining it. She was in some metal room, strapped to a metal table with metal restraints. The walls and ceiling were a mix of steel grey and lime green. She was in her X-Men uniform, how she had gotten into it she wasn't sure because the last thing she remembered was going to sleep with Julian.
Julian! Had she hurt him?
The clone glanced around. Tubes of bubbling liquid, pipes, some opaque, some not, and other scientific equipment surrounded her. The doors to the room slid open with a hiss and a man in a green uniform, balding, with an eyepatch over his left eye walked in. He smiled at Laura and pressed a button, unlocking the restraints holding her in place. Laura jumped onto the ground and extended her claws, leaping at the man's throat with a yell. Her claws came within an inch of his neck and then she froze. She found, no matter how hard she wanted to plunge the metal and bone weapons into his throat, she couldn't.
"Hello, X-23." He greeted. "Remember me?"
She did, which was what scared her. McKenna was supposed to have wiped those memories from her mind. She had a headache.
"Why can I not kill you?" She growled.
"It is your programming, my dear. Welcome home, X-23. Welcome, to HYDRA."
"You abducted me!" Laura hissed.
"No," Strucker said. "You came of your own free will."
"Mind control then!" Laura exclaimed.
"Perhaps a teensy bit." Strucker smiled. "We brought you here for a reason, X-23. You can not leave, you are too deep underground and your purpose too important."
Strucker seemed completely at ease, but definitely in a hurry to talk about something.
"What?" Laura growled.
"This is no longer a world of spies, X-23. Not even a world of heroes." Strucker clasped his hands behind his back. "This is the Age of the Mutants."
"And your role is so much bigger than you realize."