A Bone to Pick (Laura, Malik & Daken)

[Gummy]

Daken moved slowly, not making a sound. Keeping low he moved carefully through the stench. Listening carefully he spoke back to X-23 in almost inaudible whisper.

"Three left. Chemicals ahead."

Moving he kept part of his ears pinned on Malik but kept going. Headed off to one side he moved faster, quieter and agile. Soon he popped back and signalled for Malik to follow. Again he looked over in X-23's direction his voice low.

"Kids got this."

He looked to Malik and frowned at him. There was something about this Daken felt proud of. He was going to watch Malik at work again, an amazing sight seeing all the spikes but he also knew that Malik was still green when it comes to live combat. He may have trained and possibly been on a few authorised & unauthorised missions but that was nothing compared to this.

Indicating he spoke quietly again whilst keeping very low.

"Two for you kid and the rest for us. Have fun."

With that he turned back and twin bones appeared on his hands and he grinned.

[razor]

Razor

"To be honest... I don't even know what I'm doing..."

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It didn't take a telepath to know this was a test. Xavier purposely sent him with both X-23 and Daken. The angel and demon on the shoulder, if you will.
Was he the murderer or the X-Man?
That was the question that the Professor was putting forth.


He looked between the two as they moved forward. The goal was to learn what kinds of shifts they were noticing with their enhanced senses so he could learn what to watch for. He noted a shift in the heat of the air, which meant added body heat. Which meant people. He heard a shuffle off to the side, but he figured out that was a rat by the tiny squeaks... Probably. Most likely they were rats.
God, he hoped they were rats.


He'd nod to Daken with a grim face. The protective bone plates pushed out of his arm quietly, and he would turn his Gen-X suit to the all-black Noir mode. He's sneak as close as he could before popping up in between the two as closely as he could. He would lead with his bone plates, hit him in the face, and sweep his leg. The man landed flat on his back and had to take a second to get up. In that time, he would immediately rush the other woman who was turning around. He would go for the same move, but she would catch his arm and hold him up off the ground. Razor, panicking, would shoot spikes out of the bone plates, piercing the woman's hands with a sickening sticking noise. The woman would drop him, making him have to catch up. He would, as the man was almost standing, he would charge with his spiked arm ram and push the man into the wall, pinning the spikes into him as the wall sandwiched him. To finish the man off, he would use the leverage to run up the man's body and punch him across the jaw and knock him unconscious.


While this was happening, the woman was making her way towards Razor. Right as her friend was knocked unconscious, she would begin to wrap him up in a grapple. His enhanced senses alerted him of this about a millisecond before it happened, and made him instinctively push out his bone blade and swipe. This swipe would not only make a deep cut, it would crudely decapitate the woman entirely. Razor froze as the blood spurt out of the wound where her head once was.


"No no no no no no no no, goddammit goddammit GODDAMMT!!!"

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X gon' give it to ya
$@%! waiting for you to get it on your own,
X gon' deliver to ya

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As they approached the perimeter, Laura was already doing a head count. Six guards spread out in a line along a small embankment and the sparse trees the trio had used to get as close as they were gave them ample cover to close the rest of the distance. Daken gave a basic rundown to Malik, calling out just the three to the left of them and assigning two of them to the young mutant.

This drew a small glare from the girl. While not an official training mission, it had been clear that the pair of Wolverine's children that they were to take care of Razor, and sending him against two? It was just a recipe for disaster. There wasn't time to correct it, however, and she just shook her head.

"The three on the right are mine, you cover the last and keep an eye on him." Her words slipped from her lips as a whisper, aware that her supposed brother's enhanced senses would hear them.

She didn't bother to wait for an answer, instead breaking into a sprint. Her light body moved over the terrain in eerie silence, slipping from shadow to shadow like a wraith. When she fell upon her first target, it was like a lightning bolt, all grace and power.

His form crumpled to an empty ground, his assailant already gone. The second one had enough time to yelp before a small fist sunk into his throat, silencing him. Like a dancer, the mutant spun about the wheezing opponent and covered the distance to her final foe. The sound had alerted him and he fumbled for his radio to sound an alarm. A flash of foot and metal severed the communication device in twain and when the foot lowered, it came down on his head, carrying the strength of her wiry legs and momentum of her body as she fell from several feet in the air.

The impact brought a loud CRACK and he was down. Turning back, the former assassin just frowned. One of her targets was left, though now on his knees as he grasped at his throat and struggled to breath. Not a threat.

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Knock knock, open up the door, it's real.
With the non-stop, pop-pop of stainless steel!

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Daken let out a choked laugh, much like his old man (not that he knew). The inclination that he had given an all too difficult a task to this boy was an insult. He had intended to tango with his sister but that could wait. This was only the edge of the place, he knew just how many obstacles there were to get in and then there were the "inmates" if anyone could call them that?

He wasn't as graceful as his sister, he wasn't a trained assassin but he knew how to get the job done. His powerful legs helped his momentum carry him before he leapt into the air to come crushing down on his only target. They didn't even know that he was there until his momentum sent his bones between his preys collarbone and shoulder. His other hand clamped over the canon fodder's mouth to stop any further noise.

It was his own body's weight that sent the target toppling to the ground allowing his knee to add pressure to the diaphragm sending what little air was left out of the corpse's lungs. The only side effect was the smell of urine now spilling from the bladder but there was worse to come.

Withdrawing his bone blades he quickly finished the job with a slice across the throat. Pushing off he moved on and came up behind Malik's last target. Seeing the danger his blades went out to slice at the woman's heart at the same time as Malik took off the head... His blades never made contact but he stood there only for a second as the woman dropped to the ground. Then the kid started panicking and that wasn't good.

He tried to lock eyes with the kid and stepped over the woman whilst trying to get hold of the kid and clamp a hand over Malik's mouth before he made any more noise. He spoke as quietly to Malik.

"Shhhh! Quiet! We are on a stealth! Shhh! Shut up!"

He was glaring into Malik's eyes so hard the daggers there were visible! (metaphorically). This kid was just one drama after another. Why couldn't he have just done this on his own? It was clear he had no idea how to cope with a kid... perhaps that was why he had killed the last one of significance in his life?

[razor]

Razor

"I don't smile for me, I smile for you."

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Razor would look into Daken's eyes for a moment, and an intensity that matched even Daken's would meet him. There was one twitch of aggression before he stopped himself, and took a deep breath. It was just fine. He needed to take a breath and just stop for now.


"You're right. My bad." He'd say.


Daken and Laura would likely both notice the starry eyed awe that he had for Daken was lost in that moment. Both would likely see that as a good thing, but he wouldn't worry much about that. They were both on a mission, and so was Razor. This is what being in the X-Men was all about. Getting shit done.


"What's the next play, Professor Kinney?" He'd ask Laura at a very low tone, as they all had their enhanced hearing.

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X gon' give it to ya
$@%! waiting for you to get it on your own,
X gon' deliver to ya

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Laura's slow approach to the final target brought wide eyes from the gasping man. A quick pair of fingers to the right spot against his neck arrested the man's blood flow for long enough to see him lose consciousness. She was just finishing that task when she heard her charge's shouting, drawing her around to see what was happening. In stark contrast to her three bloodless victims was a bloodbath.

Daken had slaughtered his target while Malik had managed to incapacitate one only to decapitate the other. X-23 could kill, she was quite good at it. One of the best, even. It was that killer's eyes that met the other two as she approached them, glaring.

"No. More. Deaths."

It was the first rule of the X-Men, and the exact thing they were out here to try and stop Razor from leaning into. It had been explained to her that he was on a precipice and could go either way. Killer or hero. Laura was already the latter, as was her brother. If they could show him restraint, he didn't have to follow in their footsteps.

At the boy's words, she turned to focus on him entirely. Her eyes softened slightly, though they didn't lose the serious edge behind them.

"Not a professor, though maybe I can still teach you some things. For one..." Pointing to the blood and urine the marked the area around Daken and Malik's takedown, she then brought her finger to her nose. "That's going to blur your senses, make it harder to smell further away. If for no other reason, and there ARE plenty of other reasons, you should avoid it."

Even with, or perhaps because, of the trio's heightened senses, additional stimuli made it difficult to focus. It wasn't impossible, and trained as she was she already knew the way forward, as likely Daken did as well, but it didn't make it less of an inconvenience.

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Knock knock, open up the door, it's real.
With the non-stop, pop-pop of stainless steel!

[Gummy]

Daken didn't let up the glare until he was sure that Malik had got the message. At least this lovesick puppy had finally snapped out of it! At least with Laura she never had any of that admiration for him. Backing away and giving Malik his own space he still frowned deeply at him. Not even looking to Laura as she spoke. Looking around at the area and trying to ignore what had just been caused he located the direction. It was odd... nothing seemed to be further in. It felt... wrong. Something was not right. One path in but there seemed to be many routes. A maze? A trapped maze? Looking to Laura the frown deep on his face, it made him look even more like his father accept younger and in his opinion more handsome.

"They know we are here."

He didn't even need to look at Malik as he was sure that he was the cause.

"Lets see."

He moved onwards the only direction that he could hear things coming from and the only direction that... felt better.

[razor]

Razor

"I don't smile for me, I smile for you."

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Razor backed away slightly when X-23 approached him. She was intimidating. Moreseo than Daken. These people were scary all around. Did he really want to be like this? Surely not, right?


"Yeah... It smells... Bad." He said, grimacing at the blood when she kneeled to it.


He'd stay silent as they moved down the corridor. They would enter a place that opened into what looked like a large machine room. Large was truly an understatement, it looked like something that SHIELD would have had. The centerpiece were three dilapidated Sentinel machines. It didn't look like they were in commissions with the rust that they had on them, and they were some deeply old models, but Razor's bone blades came out instinctively.


"Are those..." He'd begin to say, but the word got choked up in his throat.

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X gon' give it to ya
$@%! waiting for you to get it on your own,
X gon' deliver to ya

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When Razor admitted the smell wasn't particularly great, Laura simply allowed the two to change the conversation. The point wasn't a lecture, it was an example. This wasn't the spot for a conversation and as Daken stated...

The trio had lost the element of surprise.

Of course, Malik's uncertain words brought her attention to him and she frowned as she looked around. "Sentinels." Mutant killing machines with one goal. Not currently active but that didn't mean they weren't a threat. Glancing over at Daken, she nodded to the one at the right before turning to the left.

"Battery in the chest, disconnect it. If you can't get in there, braincase in the head. If you can't destroy either, take out the cables that connect them." Sentinel Anatomy 101. For all their mechanized terror, they functioned rather similarly to humans. A heart and a brain. Take out either and they were guaranteed dead.

Jumping up to her chosen one, she used her claws to slide a hole straight through the center chest plate and in a few seconds she had ripped its battery out.

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Knock knock, open up the door, it's real.
With the non-stop, pop-pop of stainless steel!

[Gummy]

Daken followed through with the others. It was more a maze of cables and ohhh my! Not those things. Cutting into that would not be easy at all. He looked to Malik.

"Stay close."

He really didn't want a kid to be taken or killed or anything of a sort. He also knew that he would need to find the right angle to do what was said to be done. Climbing up was harder for him as although he had claws like his sister he was lacking one major thing... metal. However, he did have the same reflexes and cunning.

Using one of the cables hanging down it aided him on getting up to the chest. All the time he was looking for a hole and he found one, this thing seemed to be pitted with holes of the three digit variety. Logan must have helped to take this big thing down. Grrr he hated him even more now! Using one of the holes and his strength he punched into the heart and tried to pull as many cables or puncture the power supply as best as he could. All the while keeping an eye on the kid.

[razor]

Razor

"I don't smile for me, I smile for you."

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Looking up at the monstrosities was something he'd thought he'd only see in dreams. He hadn't even seen them in the Danger Room yet. He really needed to join one of them... Just to see how useful he'd be at that point. Probably not very. The three would split up, Razor taking the one in the middle, Daken and Laura branching off.


God these things were huge... He knew what he had to do, but he wasn't a fan of it. He was going to have to use his claws to climb up the thing. Looking around, he'd see that Daken and Laura were almost up their respective Sentinels. He needed to catch up. Hopping up, he'd slowly punch his way up to the neck, where it was flat enough for him to rest.


Looking up at the Sentinel's face, he'd sigh, "Ya know. If only I could be you. Just hanging here, not having to deal with anything. Ya know?"


At that moment, the Sentinel's eyes would light up and the head would turn to him.


MUTANT DETECTED. EXTERMINATE THE X-GENE.


"Oh crap!" He'd say, narrowly ducking the beam firing at him.

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X gon' give it to ya
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X gon' deliver to ya

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The voice of the sentinel activating was unmistakable and it brought Laura from inside her vanquished foe with some haste. So far it seemed that anything bad that could happen on this mission was happening, and what's worse... there was no way any of these sentinels were in a state to activate themselves. Whoever was watching them had triggered it.

Her nimble form moved over the fallen body of the now fully dead robot she had just pierced. In a second she was on its head and leaping off. Claws popped from knuckles and feet as she lunged.

"Hey Murder Bot, leave the kid alone!" She wouldn't make it, of course. The machine was made to handle mutants and rarely were they taken down by a single one. It hadn't been her intention, though. Instead the weapon swiveled its head to face her and its eyes glowed.

Good, keep it off the others...

In a flash, she was flying backwards, slamming into a wall with a grimace of pain. She felt her flesh burn from the beam as her ribs broke from the impact and she felt both already knitting themselves back together. With a snarl, she pushed herself off the wall and ran at it again.

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Knock knock, open up the door, it's real.
With the non-stop, pop-pop of stainless steel!

[Gummy]

Daken finally got to where he needed to and pushed his blades deep within. For good measure his hands also grabbed a bunch of cables and pulled them out of their position. He felt a slight spark run through his body but it was soon gone. It was as if he had just managed to kill it before someone had turned it on. Then he heard the voice as his eyes shifted back to the kid.

"Hay don't just...!"

He never finished his chastising as the thing woke up!! WHAT?! Several expletives in English and Japanese came from his lips. He knew the reputation of these things but now he needed to get over to the lad. Or cause a distraction. Removing his arm he felt something sharp but ignored it as he pushed off his now dead robot! Seeing Laura being hit he knew he needed to keep it off of the kid even more.

"Hay! Tin Can! You really need to get an opener! How bout you pick on someone who has one!"

He kept his eyes on the distraction. Laura flew back and hit the wall but that meant it was either himself or the kid.

"Get the job done kid!"

It was now his turn to try and leap up, a little less gracefully, using foot and hand holes where he could whist trying to cause as much damage as possible on the way. He didn't get too far as he suddenly found the leg he was holding onto was desperately trying to kick him off. He just tried to ride the kicks whilst getting higher. This was not going to end well.... Nor did it as he grabbed a live wire and felt the pain of the power run through him. This however, did result in him holding on even tighter.

[razor]

Razor

"I don't smile for me, I smile for you."

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Razor watched with wide eyes as the machine's weapon turned to face Laura. She was so cool, he wanted to be like her when he was an X-Man... Daken's voice snapped him out of the awe, as he understood what she was doing now. They were distracting it so he could destroy it!
Wait... Oh, wait that means he actually needs to destroy it???


"What? Me? This big thing?! How am I supposed to do that?! This thing is huge!" He'd shout down at Daken, who was still on the ground running away from beams, probably. Looking around, he'd remember what he was told to do by X-23.


"Oh, never mind!" He'd shout down, making moves to the opening behind the the head, and made it to the inside.


On the outside, the thing would free itself from the bounds it found itself hanging from with a loud crash. The thing was definitely not as fast as it was in its prime, but the quick movements were always surprising, coming from a mechanical beast like that. It would turn to Daken, hoping to kick him back the way he came, twisting its body with a deafening creaking noise to turn the weapon onto X-23.


<MULTIPLE MUTANTS DETECTED. BEGIN EXECUTION PROTOCOL 119. ALL NON MUTANTS ARE RECOMMENDED TO EXIT THE AREA IMMEDIATELY.>


That was rather troubling.


Meanwhile, on the inside, the thing hitting the ground made Razor fall down inside the thing like a little bug. God, these things were huge. His landing wasn't pretty, snapping his arm in half from the impact. He'd shout out in pain as he used his power to pull it back together. God, it hurt. He'd hear the same announcement, and the inside would immediately begin to heat up.


"Oh, man... That's bad."

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