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03-14-2012, 08:24 AM
Paul was happy enough to sleep in, it being a Saturday so when he briefly awakened and saw the early hour, he just turned over and went back to sleep.
The teenage girl was unsure at first about where to go; she'd lived her whole life in a laboratory and had only been taken outside briefly. She stayed sitting on the fallen tree and watched the sun come up as she thought back over her life...
X-23 was her name, or at least, the name that the people in charge had given her. The woman who was her surrogate mother however had called her Laura, but this had to remain a secret as X-23 was designated to become a living weapon. She had been isolated from other children and discouraged from playing, instead being trained to fight, spy and move about stealthily. When she was twelve, something happened to her that changed her life forever.
She was immersed in a vertical tank full of fluid, wearing breathing apparatus and a one piece swimsuit. Bands of a metal called adamantium were around her body, with extra pieces strapped to her hands and feet. A sedative had been pumped into her, and she was too weak to move. Then it happened. The pain was indescrible as the metal was bonded to her skeleton and X-23 screamed. Just as she thought that the pain was too great and she would surely die, the process was completed.
X-23 healed physically from the process; her mutant power was special healing power. Now, tho, she had two claws that came from the back of each hand and one claw that shot from each foot. She could sheaf and unsheaf each set of claws at will. They told her that she was a clone of a mutant named Wolverine; that twenty two tries had been made before they'd succeeded with her after abandoning the idea of making a male clone. Apparently, the Y chromosome from the DNA sample was too damaged. Just like she was... but she was going to make this Wolverine pay for the suffering he had caused her.
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