Nina eventually met up with me in the hallway and guided me to the room after packing up a few clothes and leaving a note for Professor Xavier I looked around the room and found a note tied to the handle of the window. When I glanced out the window I could have sworn I saw a person sitting in a nearby tree staring back at me.
"Keep your eyes open." I read out aloud glancing up at the empty tree
"What are you looking at?" Nina asked
"Nothing but a mirage." I answered
"Are you alright?" She asked
"Is Trent and Mikey ready cause I really wanna make this quick." I said pocketing the letter and making my way over
"Yeah. They have been ready for awhile now but Trent wanna know how are we gonna get there." She replied
"The internet...duh. It'll take three days by car day and a half by airplane and twenty minutes by internet." I answered
"Is that a fact?" Nina asked
"Google it." I answered before calling Trent
"Ok I will." Nina said before walking up to the computer and turning it on
The screen was completely black out for a few minutes before turning solar blue with only one visible code showing:T4ns93gdx. A few seconds later other random codes form all around it and slowly started to project off the screen making a door way into the digital universe appear in the room. The gates was covered in a firewall until Nina hacked her way into the server and crashed it causing the firewall to fall and the doors to open. I grabbed my bag and jumped right into the vortex of codes and data and held the doors open for Nina to get inside. I looked around for a final time before letting myself fall inside as the doors shut behind me.
Back at HQ everybody was in complete picnic mode as alarms sound endlessly around the area. Everybody scrambled around trying to gather as much information as they possibly can from any and everything that's useful. Trent Mikey Nina and I fell out of one of the many computers the reachers was using before getting up and racing to Stryker's office.
"23-19! WE HAVE A 23-19! 23-19! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! RED ALERT" A male voice repeated over the intercom
"SHUT THE FUCK UP MARK!" I yelled over his obsessive taunting
"Alright I'm just letting everybody know geez." He said
"I'm sorry but what's a 23-19 again?" Mike asked
"I'm not gonna say anything about it. Your dumbass should've showed up to the class drunk." Trent said
"Listen up Mikey cause I'm only gonna explain this once. Alright?" I asked
"Alright just get into it." Mike said
I instantly glared at him before rolling my eyes,"Ok you know how we have I.D numbers like X-19, X-23, X-47 right?" I asked
"Yeah but what does the 19 stand for?" Mike asked
"Runaway, a wall, missing in action/ M.I.A. What ever you wanna call it when you leave without permission." I answered
"Well who the hell is X-23 anyway?" Mike questioned
"Got it! X-23 is a female name Laura Kinney. Age 17. Born and raised by HYDRA to be an unstoppable killing machine and is a clone of Logan." Nina said glancing over a dozen files at once until Stryker walked into the room
"As you all know we have a runaway agent on our hands normally this wouldn't be a cause for concern but in this case it is for you all." Stryker said
"Why is that anyway?" I asked
"Agent X-23 is a clone of a former agent codename Wolverine you may have met him before hiding out at Xavier's school." He replied
"So what does this have to do with us?" Trent asked
"She could below your cover and expose every single one of you." He answered
"That is true if she was a social agent. Since she wasn't she doesn't know anything about us unless she hacked into the files before leaving until than her motives for coming to the school is completely her own personal agenda. We shouldn't worry to much about it." Nina said
"Is that so?" I asked
"I'm sure of it. There's like a 5% chance that she's gonna rat us out." Nina replied
"5% my ass." I mumbled under my breath
"If all of this is going down during our mission than we should give you the data we collected." Trent said pulling out a flash drive out of his wrist and giving it to Stryker
"Good work you all." He said
"Thank you sir but...never mind." I said
"What is it Captain?" Stryker asked looking at me
"Is there a chance that we'll be able to resign after this?" I asked nervously
"Hmmmm. Why would you want to leave?" Stryker asked
"We've been working for you for more than a three decades. We have collected hundreds maybe millions of intell and information from all over the world. We made you a very successful man...you and your father. He gave us his word that after three and half decades we would have the option to leave." I remained
"So what are you trying to say? You want out?" Stryker questioned
"She's not the only one who want this and by the end of next year our contract is up so you can't really stop us." Trent said
"How do you two feel about this?" Stryker asked looking at Mike and Nina who quickly glanced away in silence
"It's not like we don't appreciate what your father did for us. I'm more grateful out of everybody he gave us all our lifes back but isn't time for us to start living it the way we want to?" I wondered
"Fine I'll see if I can find all your contracts and turn them into you by the end of next year until than I want you all to stay at the school." Stryker said
"Yes sir." We all simultaneously replied
"Report any and everything that has to do with Agent X-23 and we'll contact you if we need more intell until than stay uncovered. You're dismissed." Stryker said
We all got up and the left the room one by one Mike led the way than Nina and Trent. I could tell that Stryker was unhappy by my request but I never seen him so upset before so I went back to his office to say something to ease the tension between us. He was pacing back and forward with a stack of papers on the desk staring at it like he was gonna do something he'd regret later.
"Is that our contracts?" I wondered
He stared at the papers for awhile before shoving them in a safe and closing the door. He immediately sat down and pulled out a box of Cuban cigars before lighting one. He stared at the picture of his father with hatred and disgusted in his eyes as he slammed the picture down and started using it as an ash tray.
"Keep your eyes open." I quietly mumbled to myself before catching up with everybody else
"How long do we have to stay here?" Mike asked
"A day or two three at the most." Nina answered
"Why?" Mike wined
"Cause we need to know more about this rogue agent." Trent answered
"I told you we don't have to worry about her." Nina said
"This is bigger than her anyway." I said
"What do you mean?" Nina asked
"Don't you think it's weird how Stryker reacted when I reminded him that our contracts are almost up?" I asked
"Maybe he's just taking our leaving a little harder than we thought. I mean think about we partially grew up with him." Trent said
"That might be true but without us he has nothing." I said
"So what are you trying to say?" Nina asked
"Keep your eyes open to everything that's happening around here. I'll be checking out the new recruits." I awnsered before walking off
"What does she mean by that?" Mike wondered
Nina shrugged her shoulders before directing her attention to Mikey,"Wanna go do it?" She quickly asked
Mike waisted no time picking her up over his shoulder,"Ummmmm we'll be back." He said racing to the nearest empty room
"DON'T KILL HER MORON!" Trent yelled shaking his head
When I took a look around everything seem different: the training was more intensed, there was little rest and social interaction among the new recruits but the weirdest thing was the age difference between them and us. There used to be rule against doing a surgery like this on minors but that was when Stryker Senior was in charge now that Jr. is in charge he's performing the life threatening surgery on anybody he can get his hands on. Most of them didn't seem like threats to anybody expect their over powering and very demanding drill sergeants who bark orders at them day and night. Now that I finally see what's going on I slowly start to realize why X-23 ran off all the years of training was no more than mental and physical abuse than I had an empathy...
"He's never gonna let us out of our contracts." I thought out loud
"Are you alright?" Trent asked snapping my out of my thoughts
"I'm fine. Where's Mike and Nina?" I asked
"Out picking roses." He answered
"Are you kidding me?" I asked
"I wish I was after that little talk they ran off somewhere most likely a broom closet." He said
"Oh God. My words of wisdom mean nothing to her." I said
"You should have known that wasn't gonna stop them." He said
"What time is it?" I asked
"It's 5 minutes till 6:00." He answered
"Lunch time." I grabbed hold of Trent's arm and guild him to the cafeteria
"Remember the food fights we used to have?" He asked
"Duh. Every other day Mikey was throwing something at the other tables." I answered
"Yeah good times." He happily sighed
When we got to the cafeteria everything was different there was dead silence among the new recruits drill sergeants watched over them and their every movement but when me and Trent walked in a few stared at us as if we were the enemy. We grabbed some food and sat in the back of the cafeteria so we could observe their behavior.
"This is weird as hell even in the same room as each other they don't interact. It's like they're not even human anymore." Trent whispered
I glanced around at the guards, "No that's not it. It's these guards suffocating them." I said
"Well...What are you gonna do about it?" Trent asked raising an eyebrow with a slight grin on his face
I stood on top of the table and cleared my throat,"All drill sergeants please leave." I said
The drill sergeants looked at each other and mumbled shaking their heads mocking me.
"I don't think they heard you...Captain." Trent said before taking a slip of drink
"ALL DRILL SERGEANTS LEAVE IMMEDIATELY!" I commanded
The drill sergeants marched out of the room with a grim look on their face glancing over at me and Trent with a scraw,"And if I see any of you by the door you'll have to deal with 1st Lieutenant Trent Garcia." I said
"Oh yes. For "drill sergeants" I'll have most of you crying like bitches after five minutes especially the one holding the door on the right side. Yeah I see you. You'll be crying in four minutes and a half at best." Trent said with his back turned to them
After the last graud walked pass the confuse man holding the door, he glanced around before flipping on Trent. Trent picked up a fork and threw it right through the graud's glove before it was stabbed into the wall. The graud stared in shock counting all his fingers before gulping loudly.
"You...what is your name?" Trent asked dusting his hands off looking at the man
"Ummm...m-m-m-my name sir?" He nervously asked
"I'm not gonna asked again." Trent said while I sat down on the table enjoying the show
"It's...ummm...Tr-...ummm..Troy! Troy McCoy." He answered
Everybody lightly giggled especially a nearby table of kids that looked like they were in their early teens mumbling to each other and pointing at the trembling Troy. Trent got up sighing deeply before rapidly moving behind Troy and placing his hand on his shoulder,"Lets go for a walk shall we?" He said with a fake smile
"Y-y-yes sir." Troy nervously replied
Trent smiled for two seconds before opening up a portal to the digital universe and quickly throwed Troy inside back first so his scream echoed through out the cafeteria,"What a damn shame. I'll be back faster than I predicted. Hey Someone Time Us!" Trent said before diving inside
"Was he serious?" A female asked
"I think he was." A male replied
"I don't like this." A little girl said
"Are they gonna come back because that was my drill sergeant and I need him alive...kind of." A teenage boy said
"HAVE ANYBODY EVER BEEN SEPARATED FROM THEIR DRILL SERGEANTS? " I asked over the arising chatter
"No sir!" Everybody answered simultaneously
"THE YOUNGEST MALE AND FEMALE IN HERE PLEASE COME FORWARD! " I said
Everybody instantly started back rambling while two of the youngest made their way forward. I could tell by how they fiddle with their tags and wristbands they were nervous glancing around frightened by some of the older kids staring at them. I hoped down from the table and keeled down to the kids level. Both was wearing solid black suites with black boots the girl had tan long blonde hair and blue eyes while the boy had a light tan black hair and dark brown eyes
"Hey my name is Alex but you guys can call me A.J. You don't have to be formal with me I just wanna know your names and how old are you." I said softly
"My name is Amanda and I'm 5." She softly replied
"My name is Sonny and I'm 5 and a half." He softly answered
"Well it's nice to meet you guys. How long you have been here?" I asked
"3 years." Amanda said
"4 years." Sonny answered
"Have you guys every been apart of a food fight?" I wondered
"What's that?" Sonny asked
"Open your hands." I said
They nodded and opened their hands. I went over grabbed some bread and tared it apart before placing it in their hands,"I want you two to throw this at someone whose not paying attention, Ok?" I said just before Trent enter the room and sat down were he was.
"Time 2 minutes 12 seconds Sir." A male voice said
"Good job kid. Here's...500 dollars cautiously of Troy McCoy." Trent said giving the kid the cash
"Thanks 1st Lieutenant Garcia." The kid replied
"Call me Trent." He said smiling before sitting back down
"But everybody is watching us." Sonny said
"Not them." I said pointing at the kid who just got the money
Amanda threw her piece of bread as hard as she could at the back of the guys head while Sonny threw his at a girl that was daydreaming at a different table. While everybody started laughing the other threw food at the other people and it triggered some sort of chain reaction.
"FOOD FIGHT!" A teenage boy yelled to the top of his lungs