![]() The marketing campaign was launched and she did several wet works for various criminal parties around the world (US, Japan, Africa…).Īt some point, Rice, now trying to avenge his father’s death, abandoned her on a particularly dangerous mission against AIM. She managed to survive and come back to “The Facility”. To start selling the services of X-23, they made an advertising run: she killed a senator, running for the US presidency, and all the attendants of a PR party he was having (that included the senator, his wife and children and all the press). She managed to elude Captain America, who arrived at the scene to investigate the carnage. When Rice thought X-23 was going soft, he decided to try the limits of the trigger smell conditioning. He put it on her sensei. The girl gruesomely killed him. The trial run was satisfactory. Part of her training was a conditioning to react to a particular scent. When smelling it, she was to enter a killing frenzy directed at the bearer of the scent. Rice “extracted” them surgically, without anesthetic… coated them in adamantium and reattached them. X-23 will remember that pain. ![]() They planned to coat her skeleton in Adamantium, as her illustrious genetic father had. However, aged 7, her skeleton was not fully grown yet. It was too soon. Instead, they satisfied in coating only her claws. When she was 7, Zander Rice had her subjected to radiation poisoning, in order to activate the healing factor they expected her to have. It worked. As a side effect, she demonstrated her claws for the first time. X-23 was intensively trained, particularly close-quarter combat. Her sensei grew fond of her too. Beside Sarah Kinney, he was the only one secretly considering her as a child… or so he thought it was a secret, until Rice made it clear he spoke Japanese and knew of the teacher’s soft spot. ”The Facility” as this secret facility named itself, wanted the girl to be treated as a weapon and not as a human being. torture) to the girl, and certainly to the mother too. Just a child after allĬomplying to this unwanted pregnancy, Sarah unexpectedly developed a special bond with the girl. She provided X-23 with her first human warmth, and secretly named her Laura. She had to keep this love secret, maintaining a distant face in public. Doing otherwise would have caused pain (i.e. ![]() Starting with some hard gained genetic samples of Wolverine, they tried to make a male clone. However, the Y chromosome of the sample was too damaged to produce viable results. Against the will of Dr Martin Sutter, the project director, Dr Sarah Kinney started working on a female clone (thus only needing the X chromosome). This parallel project lead to a viable result.ĭr Zander Rice, son of Dale Rice, who died collecting Wolverine’s genetic sample, was formerly in total control of the project. After Kinney’s arrival, he felt pushed aside and immediately resented her. To push her, he forced her to act as surrogate mother for the female clone. X-23 is the result of a project to recreate Weapon X. Her fighting technique is based on her acrobatics, constantly moving, jumping and back-flipping. It allows her to use her feet’s claws in particularly devastating surprise attacks. When she explains everything that has happened in her life, Steve Rogers debates turning her over to SHIELD, but ends up deciding that she should return to Logan and take him up on his offer of mentorship.She was intensively trained, and conditioned, to be a killing machine that nothing should stop. Their conversation is interrupted by SHIELD, who want to discover who she is, and X-23 is taken in by Captain America for questioning. After an epic battle between these two mutants, Logan is able to talk Laura down, explaining that her mother sent him a letter explaining everything, and offering to help her find out what she can become. She leaves to try and hunt down Logan, heartbroken at his role in her creation, determined to kill him and then commit suicide herself. After watching Kimura nearly kill Debbie and Megan, and nearly killing them herself when her trigger scent is used, Laura realizes that she cannot have a normal life. Before she can truly settle in, however, Kimura tracks her down. Talking about her training in school gets her suspended, and she cannot find a way to fit in with teens her own age. Here, Laura tries to build a normal life (if one with some very goth fashion choices!), but she struggles to cope with this new world.
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