On Stryker's facility on Three Mile Island

The corrupt Colonel was looking at a cryogenically frozen mutant with mismatched eyes before general Munson spoke out. "Colonel?"

"General?" Stryker asked while looking at him.

"Is this Weapon Xl?" Munson asked while looking at the uncompleted Weapon Xl, which strangely had his mouth sewed shut, as well as several needles implanted in his neck.

"All their strengths, none of their weaknesses." Stryker answered while walking up to him.

"You really hate them, don't you?" Munson asked.

"No, I don't hate them. After 20 years of working with mutants, I just know what they can do. We can win this war before it starts and save countless lives in the process. Pre-emptive action is the only action here, General. The days of our country sitting on the sidelines are over. We need to take the fight to the enemy before they take the fight to us." Stryker spoke like a typical military officer.

"I admire your passion, I do."

"Thank you."

"But this is as far as it goes." Muson told him.

Stryker, thinking that the general was referring to Wolverine, tried to assure him. "Weapon X was a hiccup…"

But Munson cut him off. "We know about your son, Bill. We know he's a mutant, and we know he killed your wife. You shouldn't have kept that from us."

"That…" Stryker said, almost yelling before he calmed himself. "That has nothing to do with my work, general."

"Bullshit." Munson said, not believing that. "You're too close to this. I'm shutting you down."

But Stryker, not willing to allow that to happen, spoke to him while turning towards a surgical table next to Weapon Xl. "Okay. You're right. I won't lie to you. My son did bring the problem home for me, but I took an oath to protect the American people…from every threat, both foreign…" Then he suddenly stabbed Munson with a big scalpel, making the General yell in pain before he fell dead on the floor. "... and domestic."

Meanwhile

Ember was holding on to a grapple, having been in a biplane that Gambit owned as he asked. "You don't like flying, do you, Missy?"

"I'm fine. Just concentrate on what you're doing."

"You sure?" Gambit asked with a grin. "You got a bit of sweat on your brow there."

"Very funny." Ember said sarcastically. "Just keep your eye on the…"

"On the what? The clouds? Keep my eyes on the clouds?" Gambit asked himself.

"You're going up and down like a fucking yo-yo here!" Ember said. "Where'd you get this thing anyway?"

"Oh, this is my baby." Gambit said while tapping on the dashboard. "I won her in a game. Jacks over fives."

"Great." Ember said sarcastically.

"Relax. We're almost there." Gambit said while flying through some of the clouds before the island came into view, revealing that it was a nuclear reactor island. "There it is. The island. Three Mile Island. Hiding in plain sight. Nobody's gonna think about snooping around a nuclear reactor. They think it's gonna turn them into freaks."

"Like you?" Ember asked sarcastically.

"Right." Gambit answered as they got closer to the island. "All right. You ready? Because it's now or never."

"About time." Ember said before getting out of her seat and opening the door. "This really gonna hurt?"

"Yeah. It kinda does actually." Gambit answered with a smirk. "Good luck." He said before Ember nodded and jumped out of the plane and into the water.

A bit later, in the lab

Stryker walked up to Weapon Xl in a science coat and asked. "Is he ready?"

"Just a couple of hours." The female scientist from the Weapon X facility answered.

"And he will respond to my commands?"

"Absolutely." She answered before injecting Weapon Xl with more mutant DNA.

Meanwhile

Ember used her 1st claw to unlock the door and came through it. She carefully avoided being seen while watching 2 personnel dragging an unconscious kid into some kind of room. Not that it matters to her as she looked at the upper window moved forward up the nearby staircase, going up until she got to the room Stryker was in, walking inside with her vow of torture beyond the horrors of Hell in mind.

"Ember. Welcome back to the war." Stryker said calmly.

Ember, angry at everything they'd he'd done to her, only said to him. "Before I kill all of them and fulfill my vow to you, I wanna know why."

"I needed your powers for the Pool."

"The what?" Ember asked with a raised eyebrow.

"The mutant killer. Deadpool." He said before explaining. "Years of searching and refining, finding the right powers that can coexist in 1 body without ripping it apart." He then looked at her and walked up to the side. "My son was the 1st piece of the puzzle. Ember, you were the last. You made Weapon Xl possible. I asked for your help, to try to offer you an easy way out, but you refused. Well, in all the time I knew you, I learned that nothing motivates you more than revenge. Especially when it came to Victor. All I needed then…was to give you a reason to go after him again."

And when Ember saw him seemingly looking at someone, she turned her head and saw none other…then Kayla, making her shocked and confused, thinking that this could be a shapeshifter. "Who are you?"

But Stryker just confirmed to Ember that it wasn't, and that the woman she was seeing was indeed the real thing. "Oh, she's real, old friend."

While Ember fell to 1 knee, Creed, who was hiding very close to stay hidden but could see everything, grinned evilly with delight, thinking that this was the final push Ember needed to finally fully embrace her true nature and work with him again, so that they could finally put the last 2 centuries of fighting and trying to kill each other behind them and be what they were born to be.

'Come on, Ember, that's it. Do it. Kill her…and we can finally bury the past and be what we were born to be.' Creed thought with delight.

But Stryker taunted Ember as she was in shock. "Did you really think we'd just let you desert us like that? You're a dangerous woman. We like to keep an eye on dangerous men and women, in your case." Then he told Kayla with a warning look. "Tell her about the day you died."

Kayla, with a heavy heart, revealed the truth. "They gave me a shot of hydrochlorothiazide. It reduces the heart rate so low, it makes you appear flatlined."

Ember was trying to find the words to say while beginning to get angry before Stryker told her. "Don't be angry with her. She's a real credit to your species. Did you know that her sister had diamond-hard skin? Kayla's mutation is tactohypnosis. She can influence people as long as she touches them. Quite a useful tool in making friends. It was never real, my friend."

Kayla stepped forward to protest that but Stryker stopped her by revealing a gun under his coat…before an angry Ember spoke out while looking at Kayla with betrayed and angry eyes. "It was real for me."

Stryker stood up and told her mockingly. "I told you if you came down this road, you wouldn't like what you found." Before going back to Weapon Xl.

'Come on, Ember, do it!' Creed thought anxiously.

Ember then said to Kayla the most painful words she'd ever heard. "That story you told me about a man who gets flowers for the moon, I had it backwards. I thought that you were the moon and I was the wolverine." She said before her eyes turned angry. "But you were the trickster, weren't you, Silverfox? I was just the naive fool who got fucked." She said before standing up, walking up to her and looking into her eyes. "I did something for you I never did for anyone in nearly 2 centuries let you in. I gave you a chance. I let you in. I gave you my trust, my friendship, even thought of you…as a sister. And this is what I get? Lied to, manipulated, betrayed in the worst way possible, and overall fucked!"

"Ember…" Kayla said, trying to explain as a tear fell from her right eye.

"Shut up!" Ember told her before continuing. "You know what the worst part about it is: I should have known. In the near 2 centuries I've lived, I've learned only 2 things: the world is cruel, 2: never, ever count on or trust anyone except yourself. It's how I've survived all those years of fighting. Well, I broke those 2 rules, just once, and this is what I get for it! I chose to ignore my instincts, chose to ignore and fight what I really am." Then she grabbed Kayla by the shirt and told her darkly. "Well, guess what: I will never make those mistakes, ever again!" She finished before throwing Kayla on the left side of the floor. She looked at Stryker for a minute and said. "Keep up your fucking insane experiment. I'm done…with you…and EVERYTHING!" She said before leaving the room, going back the way she came and getting outside before walking away, intending to disappear to a completely unknown place.

Kayla got up, wanting to chase after Ember and try to explain to her, but seeing her so angry and with everything she knew about her animal side taking over her at times, she'd more than likely kill her. But she also had her sister to think about, which was why she reluctantly did this in the 1st place. "Colonel?"

"Not now, Kayla." Stryker told her.

"I've done everything you've asked." She begged while taking a few steps to him. "My sister. You said if I helped you, you'd let her go."

But Stryker, not willing to let beings with valuable power that could kill mutants for good, lied. "Kayla, it's not as simple as that. Her mutation is unique. Quite beautiful. We just need a little more time to analyze it, that's all."

But that was when a very mad Creed said while coming out of hiding. "You let her go?"

Stryker tried to plead with his favorite pawn. "Victor, please."

"You can't let her go." Creed said while walking up to him. "You said she would agree to have her memory wiped after seeing her alive and tell her everything."

"You can't beat her, Victor, not now that she's more than likely embraced her animal side."

"Then give me the Adamantium! I'll hunt her down later, bring her back here and you can do it then and things can be like they were before she deserted!" Creed said, revealing that his true goal was to have Adamantium claws like Ember, have her memory wiped and to rejoin him so they could be the animals they were born to be and terrorize the world for eternity.

"Your tests came back…"

"WE HAD A DEAL!"

"You would never survive the operation!" Stryker told him.

But Creed didn't believe that, as he believed that he had a healing factor just as strong as Ember's. "I can take anything she can."

"No, you can't." Stryker countered, remembering that Wolverine did enter a flatline state during the procedure and implying Victor's healing was not inferior but on similar levels, meaning the risk of Creed entering a flat-lined state was very likely, therefore Stryker would rather avoid risking a powerful soldier. But he tried assuring him. "You're my favorite soldier, Victor. Be patient. Your time will come."

But it was only then that Kayla realized the truth. "He's using us." She said before she tried to run, only for Creed to grab her by the neck and lift her off the floor in a death grip. "AAAAAAHH!"

Meanwhile

Ember, who'd heard the scream with her mutant hearing, looked back in the direction she came from. While her 1st impulse was to just walk away and leave that manipulative liar to her fate, she suddenly sniffed a familiar scent, making her growl in fury. And it was then she, while not interested in saving anyone, wasn't going to leave without settling a long score.

Back inside

Creed looked at Kayla with murder on his mind. "How about this time you die for real?"

Kayla tried to use her power to control Creed as she held his arm. "Let me go."

But Creed, due to his healing factor, and occasionally seeing her try it on Ember and that it didn't work on her, wasn't affected. "Your little mind games didn't work on the runt, so they damn sure don't work on me." He said before tightening his grip.

"CREEEEED!" The voice of Ember roared out before he looked to his right and saw Ember growling while drawing her claws as her coat flowed over her like a cape.

Creed's 1st instincts took over and he threw Kayla away before they rushed to each other while roaring before Ember stabbed him in the chest with her right claws, forcing him down while ignoring everything and everyone else. She then got him back up before he tried to punch her but she easily deflected him and used her graceful move to flip him to the floor, drawing out her claws before kicking him close to the window and as he got up again, she roared out and lunged at him, stabbing her claws into him as they fell out of the window and landed on a hard object before Ember took her right claws out of him.

Creed, after getting over the shock, chuckled with delight. "Hahahahahahaha. Feels good, doesn't it? Embracing your nature. Come on, Ember, don't you see? This is what we were born to do."

Kayla then called out to Ember. "Ember!" Getting her attention. "You're not an animal."

But Creed knew otherwise. "Oh, yes you are, Ember. Come on, you really gonna listen to her after what she did to you? Hahaha. Save yourself more of her mind tricks and bullshit and just kill her now. Or let me finish what I started up there and do it for you."

But Ember had plans of her own, remembering that kid that was dragged away earlier and what Dukes and Wraith had told her. She retracted her claws and knocked Creed out. "I'll be back for you."

Kayla quickly rushed downstairs and got to Ember. "Ember. My sister. They have my sister." Then she begged. "Please. I didn't trick you into being my friend. It was real for me, too. Please, I'm so sorry. They have my sister."

But Ember wasn't in the mood for her pleading and pointed at her with gritted teeth. "Save the begging and pleading, Silverfox. Just show me where they keep the mutant prisoners."

Kayla, seeing how Ember was still angry, just nodded and led Ember to the prison area.

Back upstairs

Stryker knew that he couldn't let them escape. So he ordered his female scientist. "Activate Weapon Xl!"

"But the bonding process isn't complete."

"Just do it! Now!" He ordered before she did just that, activating Weapon Xl and uncovering him as it formed a fist.

Meanwhile

Kayla pulled a lever, opening the doors to the prison area before Ember walked in and saw several mutant teens in cages, with 1 of them having reptile features, another with ice powers as her cage was frozen, and another strapped up because he had the power of speed. And of course, Scott Summers, who was blindfolded and Kayla's sister, Emma.

Ember, while not interested in helping Kayla, was angered at the sight of teens being held captive like they were abominations of nature. So, keeping her own plans in mind, she drew her claws and ran, slicing the locks on all the cages and setting the mutant teens free, with 1 of them freeing the teen with the speed power.

Kayla and Emma embraced before she told her and the other mutant teens. "Come on! Come on!" And as she stopped when getting close to Ember, who glared at her, she tried to ask for forgiveness by offering her hand. "Please, Ember, come with us. Forget about Creed and Stryker and let's all escape while we still can."

But Ember, still blinded by anger at Kayla's betrayal, and that Creed and Stryker were still alive, only swiped her hand away. "You get these kids outta here if you can, Silverfox. We're done!" She said as she began walking away, seeing Creed use his animalistic reflexes to get to the other side of the room, ready to continue fighting with his eternal rival.

"Ember, please…" Kayla pleaded.

"No fucking way. I'm through with you and your mind tricks. It ends here. Stryker, and especially Creed: They're. All. Mine." Ember said while drawing out her claws.

"Hahahahahahaha. That's it, Ember. Don't fight it anymore, give into it!" Creed said with delight while extending his own claws.

"Ember, please, you're only doing what he wants. You don't have to fight him anymore! You're not an animal!" Kayla pleaded with her.

"YES, I… AAAAAMM!" Ember said while roaring out as she and Creed roared while rushing at each other and continued to fight like the animals they were inside.

Emma pulled her sister to follow her. "Kayla, it's pretty obvious she doesn't wanna go anywhere with us. Come on!" Before Kayla reluctantly followed and led the mutant teens away from the area.

Meanwhile

Stryker activated a computer at the big table to see through Weapon Xl's eyes and to control it before the screen showed it walking up to a still fighting Ember and Creed as the doors in front of it opened, who stopped when seeing it. "Perfect." He said with delight.

Meanwhile

Ember and Creed saw Weapon Xl as it drew 2 familiar katana swords from its wrists, causing Ember to look at Creed for a second before kicking him hard into a wall. "I'll finish you after I deal with this freak, Creed!" She said before looking at Weapon Xl, seeing the blade and almost immediately realizing who it was. "Wade, is that you?" She asked with a raised eyebrow before grinning with amusement as she saw that he had no mouth anymore. "Guess Stryker did 1 good thing: finally shutting you up." And when Stryker typed in 'engage' on his keyboard, making the controlled Wade run towards her. "Oh, I'm gonna enjoy this. Making sure you never talk again."

The mind-controlled former Merc with the Mouth used his balance, dexterity, and coordination to leap and spin towards Ember before engaging her in blade combat, with Ember blocking a few stabs before she twisted his arm and stabbed him in the side!

But when she took her claws out, he instantly healed. "You've gotta be shitting me!" Ember said in anger that this freak had her mutant healing factor.

Meanwhile

As Kayla and Emma were running away from the area with the other mutant teens, some of Stryker's guards came from the upper window to stop them. "Shoot on sight!" 1 of them ordered.

Emma used her power of turning her body into a diamond and blocked the bullets to protect her sister and the others before they took cover around the corners as they continued shooting at them.

But Scott knew how to get past them. "I can help! Point me at them!"

Kayla told her sister. "Go."

Emma went to the other corner and got Scott as the guards kept shooting before pointing him in their direction. "Go! Now!"

Scott yelled. "AAAAAAHH!" And lifted his blindfold, allowing his powerful optic blasts to kill the guards, getting them all as he destroyed them and the window before he covered his eyes again. "Did I get them?"

"Yeah." An impressed Emma answered before looking at her sister. "Let's go."

"I can't go." Kayla said.

"Kayla, that woman's pissed off at you for whatever. She doesn't want anything to do with you anymore and you don't owe her anything. Come on." Emma pleaded with her sister.

"It's not that. I have to stay here." Kayla said truthfully. "Go. Just go." Before Emma reluctantly did what she said and led Scott and the others away from the area, leaving behind a wounded and bleeding Kayla, who'd been shot in the chaos.

Emma led Scott and the others before coming up to a dead end and seeing only 2 pathways. And as she looked around, Scott heard a voice in his head. "Go left."

"Left." Scott said.

Emma looked at him with confusion. "What?"

"We go left."

"You can't see."

"Trust me." Scott said before leading them all down the left path.

Meanwhile

Weapon Xl flipped Ember into the air before she landed on the floor and tried to slash her while sliding but she jumped in the air to avoid him. She got up and tried to slash off his head but he blocked her right claws and got behind her before leap-flipping and kicking her back before she stopped herself with her claws and flipped to her feet with a growl!

And as Stryker watched from the monitor, Ember used her claws to run up the nuclear tower until she got to the top and turned around. "Let's see you dance up here, freak." Before Weapon Xl suddenly used Wraith's teleportation power to get right behind Ember, making her annoyed. "Fuck."

Ember tried to stab his head but he teleported, making her almost fall into the tower before Weapon Xl used his teleportation power to avoid her claws while using his own flexibility to get to her openings and slash her for the next few minutes before he got her to the floor and flipped over her, stabbing his blades into her like an X while a delighted Stryker typed in 'Decapitate' making him raise his right blade for the final blow.

But before Weapon Xl could take Ember's head off, he was suddenly swept off her by none other than Creed, who quickly caught Ember before she fell into the tower, much to her surprise and shock when she saw it was him. "Nobody kills you but me, Ember." He said before lifting her up as he face turned angry, as she'd rather have died than ever be saved by her most hated enemy. "How about we put our differences aside for now until we kill that freak, huh?"

But then Weapon Xl teleported in the middle of them and swiped them both before he reverse flip kicked Ember and teleported again to avoid a slash from Creed.

Ember, knowing that there was only 1 chance to beat this deadly mutant killer, was to do what Creed said despite hating him with every fiber of her being. "Back to back!" She said before they got into the back to back position and prepared for the next attack. Weapon Xl flipped while teleporting in front of Ember. "I got him!"

"Oh, no you don't." Creed said as Weapon Xl was in front of him now.

Weapon Xl flipped above them before teleported at random speed, landing multiple blows on them while completely avoiding their claws until he got them down. But Ember and Creed, nodding to each other locked arms and spin around as Weapon Xl teleported to hit Ember again, only for Creed to stab his claws into his neck, only for the controlled Wade to stab him with his blades, stunning him before Creed turned him around and got him to Ember, who stabbed him in the back and getting his major organs.

But Weapon Xl teleported to the other side of the tower while the animalistic mutants looked in his direction before the skin near his eyes burned and he fired optic blasts at the floor beneath them, making them dodge to avoid them but also separating them before he focused on Ember and blasted at her, making her shield herself with her Adamantium claws, stopping the blasts while she was slowly being pushed back. Creed got back up and ran towards Weapon Xl on all fours while he was distracted while Ember deflected the optic blasts right back at him, destroying the floor beneath him as Ember stopped herself from falling off the tower. But before he could pounce on the controlled Wade, he got up and fired optic blasts to stop him, sending him on his back before Wade teleported in front of him and fired optic blasts again to finish him off. But Ember, running on all fours while he was distracted, jumped up and sliced through Weapon Xl's neck with her superheated claws, making him hold his neck to keep him head attached until she kicked him inside the tower as his head spinned around as it came off his body, still shooting the optic blasts through the tower until he stopped when hitting the bottom!

Meanwhile

Scott continued to lead Emma and the other mutant teens down the path he was told to go before Emma stopped him. "Stop! This can't be the way."

"This is the way." Scott assured her.

"How do you know?" Emma asked.

"I just know. Come on." Scott before continuing to lead them down the path.

Meanwhile, with Stryker

The corrupt Colonel was loading the gun that Cornelius had given him days ago with the Adamantium bullets as his female scientist came in. "Adamantium bullets. Let's see her heal with a few of these through her thick skull."

But the woman told him. "You can't stop her, even with that. She'll heal."

But Stryker was referring to something else as he finished loading the bullets. "Her brain may heal…but her memories won't grow back."

Back with Ember

As the tower was beginning to collapse, Ember and Creed stared at each other before he got back up with a delighted grin. "Felt good, didn't it? Fighting together. There's still time to finally put the past 2 centuries of war behind us."

"Shut… the fuck up!" Ember stopped him. "This doesn't change anything between us, Creed. You're free to go for now, for once. But know this: the next time we meet, I will kill you!"

Creed chuckled with delight. "Hahahahahahaha. Had your chance, Ember. But you know this: it'll never be over. I'll keep hunting you until the end of time. I'll keep fighting you." Before he leaned in with a grin. "And I'll damn sure…enjoy every second of it." He promised before licking her cheek and jumping off the tower to escape, hunt and fight Ember another day.

While every fiber of Ember's being wanted to follow Creed and finally kill him, the tower was starting to collapse, making her jump off the tower before she landed hard on the ground as it finally collapsed to big pieces, 1 of which would have fallen on Ember if not for the arrival of Gambit, who used his power and staff to break apart the big piece before landing with style while Ember looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

Gambit smirked at Ember. "Did you miss me?"

Ember rolled her eyes in amusement. "Jesus Christ."

Gambit threw away his staff as he walked over to her, offering his hand. "You know, when you said you were gonna kill everyone, I thought you may just have been exaggerating."

Ember shrugged as she took his hand and got back up. "Pff! Do I look like a woman who exaggerates?"

"You're welcome."

But then, Ember could hear Kayla's voice from afar, using her sensitive hearing. "Ember… Ember…"

Ember looked back, hearing Kayla approaching, making her angry as she'd stated she had had enough of her and her mind tricks. But somehow, she could hear her walking slowly, as if she was injured. Not wanting Gambit to get involved, Ember told him what to do. "Listen. There's kids trying to get off the island. We'll split up and see till they're safe. Go!"

Gambit nodded. "I'm on it." And ran off to find the other mutants.

Once Gambit was gone, Ember ran to where she'd heard Kayla, hearing her falling on the ground. When she saw a clear view of her, Ember saw Kayla laying on the ground with her bleeding shot wound on her belly.

"What the fuck?" She asked before she ran over to her and saw the wound on her belly. Having seen a wound as this before in the wars she'd fought over the near 2 centuries, sensing she was hit at the liver, Ember knew that Kayla didn't have much longer to live.

With sorry in her eyes, Kayla said. "Ember… I am so sorry.. about everything… I know I'm not worth your forgiveness… but I want you to know that.. you too were like a sister to me… And I'm so sorry for breaking your trust."

Ember gave her a glare before looking away as she shook her head. "You betrayed me, lied to me, tried to manipulate me using mind tricks. Worked with Stryker from the start. I trusted you and you used me… just to save your real sister." And a sense of anger flew through Ember's mind.

A tear fell from Kayla's eye, giving a small nod. "I know… I would never trust myself again if I was in your shoes…" Then she groaned because of the pain.

Ember glanced back at Kayla, looking at her gunshot wound on her liver.

Kayla could see what Ember was thinking. "I don't have… much time to live…" Before she then requested with a heavy heart. "If it'll satisfy your anger on me for betraying your trust… Then… end it… and end my suffering sooner…"

Ember looked at her right wrist. She could just draw her claws and stab Kayla right into the heart. But… despite being angry for being used by her from the start, Ember thought back on when Kayla was always there to comfort her, how good she'd been to her despite it wasn't real according to Stryker while Kayla didn't mean it by that. Ember was this close to drawing her claws. But then… she thought of Creed, knowing if she would kill Kayla here and now before death would take her anyway because of her gunshot wound, she would be just as bad as him, despite almost fully embracing her inner animal.

Ember's angry face began to fade and looked at Kayla with some sadness. "Kayla, I…" Before she shook her head. "I can't do that. As much as I hate you so much now…I can't do it. It'll be easier for both of us if I just leave you to your fate right now. Let God take you from this world."

Kayla sighed before saying softly. "Yes you can…"

Ember, while being conflicted of freeing Kayla from her suffering, was beginning to let her anger take her over, feeling like she didn't deserve a quick death. But Kayla held Ember's hand, trying to control her. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Just… do it. You will do me a favor too." Kayla begged her.

Despite hating Kayla, she couldn't bring herself to see herself do it, so Ember slowly took out her claws while looking at Kayla with an almost remorseless face. "Your damn mind tricks never did work on me. Goodbye…"

Kayla sighed with sadness, telling her. "I'm…sorry…"

And instantly, Ember stabbed her claws straight into Kayla's heart while Ember closed her eyes. "Goodbye." She said, almost without emotion.

As life began to slip away from Kayla, more tears fell from her eyes. She asked her final words. "Please… tell Emma when you see her… that I'm sorry… and that this… wasn't your fault… but was my own choice…" Before she slowly lay on the ground.

Now… tears were forming in Ember's eyes, despite her trying to fight them due to still being angry at her betrayal.

Kayla then slowly touched Ember's chin. "Forgive me… Ember… my… sweet… sis..ter…" Kayla then blew out her last breath. She was now truly dead.

And with a sigh, Ember slowly pulled out her claws from Kayla's chest, now with her blood on it. She'd killed Kayla but despite having her for her betrayal and making it quicker, tears fell from her eyes. "Kayla…!" She then roared her lungs out into the air. "RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

But then, as Ember cried over Kayla's body, Stryker appeared, angry at the 1 mutant who destroyed his work as he fired 2 Adamantium bullets into her back, hurting her before her animal rage took over and she drew her claws and ran towards Stryker on all fours to finally kill him for good, roaring as she did while Stryker kept shooting Ember, hitting her with 1 as he ran behind a piece of the tower, making Ember run on it before jumping towards him, but leaving herself open for him to fire an adamantium bullet into Ember's skull, sending her to the ground on her back before the military scientist got back up, walked up to Ember and fired another bullet into her head for good measure.

Stryker looked down at Kayla's now dead body. He scoffed. "Such a waist." He then walked away, cursing what Ember had done, killing Weapon Xl and ruining everything. "You may have won this battle, Ember, but you and your kind will not win this war! Mock my words, you filthy animal, one day you shall pay, along with every single mutant in the world!"

Meanwhile

Scott led them outside and saw a chopper a few feet away from them before a man stepped out of it, bold and wearing a brownish coat and had a kind smile on his face as he saw the teens.

He then spoke telepathically to Scott. "It's all right, Scott. My name is Charles Xavier. I'm a mutant like you and the others."

Scott replied to him with his thoughts. "I can hear your thoughts."

"Yes, and I can hear yours." Charles said before speaking out loud."You're all safe now. Come. We have to go."

Scott, trusting this kind mutant, assured Emma and the others that it was okay. "Come on. Let's go." And led them to the chopper as Gambit followed close behind them, but watched from a distance and, believing they were in good hands with the man with the aircraft, smiled before heading back to Ember.

Back with Ember

Ember's eyes suddenly opened, but due to the injuries to her brain, which was healing, didn't know who or what she was, where she was or even how she got there. She felt the dog tags on her and looked at them, seeing the name Ember, which was her name but not remembering it, in front and the name Wolverine in the back.

That was when Gambit, not knowing what had happened to her, informed her. "The kids are safe." Before he looked and saw the healing holes in her head before they were fully healed. "Damn." He said with shock.

Ember, not remembering who Gambit was, got up and turned aggressive as she asked him. "Who are you?"

Gambit was confused, as she'd just seen him minutes ago. "What do you mean, who am I?" He walked up to her and said. "I'm the guy who brought you here, remember. Now, we gotta go."

But Ember grabbed him by the coat and demanded. "Where the fuck am I?"

Gambit tried to assure her he meant no harm, as those head wounds more than likely gave her amnesia. "Listen to me. I'm a friend. I'm a friend."

But Ember, due to her memory being lost, didn't believe that. "Oh yeah? What's my name? WHAT'S MY FUCKING NAME?!"

Your name is Ember. Ember Wolverine." Gambit answered. That made her calm down a bit. "You really gotta trust me. We have to go." He said before Ember let him go. "Follow me." He told her before turning around and beginning to run back to his plane. "Now!"

But when Ember followed him, she saw the dead body of Kayla, making her walk up to her and look at her. Getting a strange feeling of sadness and anger at her. But due to her amnesia, she didn't know why.

Gambit walked up to her and looked at Kayla's body and wondered. "Do you know her?"

"No." Ember said with rolled eyes after a few seconds.

Gambit then heard a siren and saw a fire truck coming. He then told Ember. "Hey, these boys ain't gonna like what you've done to the place. We really need to go."

But Ember closed her eyes and told him calmly. "You go, I'll find my own way."

Gambit seemed to accept that and told her. "Good luck." Before running back to his airplane to get off the island.

Ember, on the other hand, took 1 last look at Kayla's body before closing her eyes and, adjusting her trench coat, began running her own way to get off the island and find answers about her now lost memory and life. And though it would be a very long time for her memory to come back, time and circumstances would eventually bring it back, though not quite in the way she could foresee.

A few days later

Stryker, in a limo, was being driven to another facility to start his insane work over when the car suddenly stopped. "What is it?" He asked before looking out his window and seeing 2 MPs walking up to his window.

"Colonel Stryker? Colonel William Stryker?" An MP asked.

"Yes. Can I help you?" Stryker asked.

"You're wanted for questioning in connection to the death of General Munson, sir." He informed him as more MPs stood in front of Stryker, who looked a bit terrified.

There you go, my dear friends, X-Men Origins Wolverine is complete. The next chapter will involve Danny, Sam and Tucker and their mutant origins, with the outcome separating the 3 friends for a few years before they eventually reunite, while meeting with Ember along the way by the time X-Men happens. And of course, Ember and Creed's eternal battle is far from over, as there's still plenty more battles for them to fight before the winner of their centuries long war finally comes to an end.

Hope you all enjoyed and be sure to thank my dear friend, SreznoJIG, for the dialogues at the part of Kayla's death and Stryker's ending part. Rate and review and I'll see you all next time, my dear friends.