[Blade snorts] X-23. Yeah. Right. The fetishized female Wolverine. Stick around, she might show up if she's paying attention. But she's probably not. Not sure why, but she loves her phone more than I've ever seen anybody love a phone.
Yeah. That. Whatever it is. Not sure why anybody gives a fuck about it, but she motherfucking loves it.
Yeah, I get it. She has a sob story too. But let me ask you this, why make a female Wolverine? What's the point? And don't say they wanted another Weapon. That program's moved so far beyond Wolverine in what it can put out that making another Wolverine's like making another station wagon. Sure, it was useful at the time, but ain't no point in 'em now.
Her inhumane conditions were part that somebody had a fetish and acted on it. Can't imagine that made for good wholesome family conditions.
Gotta be. Just don't get it. Don't really want to, either, but I've gotta connect with this kid somehow.
Yeah...whatever. Don't get me wrong. I feel for her. I just don't put a goddamn thing past the people that made her.
No, I'm not. I'm training her to get her away from mutants. Her team's gone AWOL. Take over the world crazy. Don't want her getting hurt in the crossfire, especially because she don't get that Cyclops ain't a good guy any more. He's possessed by a demon people like to call a phoenix.
A demon by any other name's still a motherfucking demon.
No. Felt like I was keeping an eye out for you for a second, and I don't have any idea who the fuck you are. Or how you could have that kinda effect on me. [He eyes her warily] Could swear I almost fucking kissed you. Only one thing's ever hit me like that before, but you don't exactly strike me as a succubus.
Hang around here long enough and you will be. For a species that got taken down to just a few hundred, they seem to still manage to be everywhere.
Take it as a compliment that I know you're not. Otherwise you'd be dead. But I was happy to see you, and I don't know why.
You should be right now. Their leaders are possessed by a demon, and they're on one hell of a power kick. Most of 'em ain't bad. Stupid sometimes, but not bad. Right now, the world's in danger of being bathed in phoenix fire, and something tells me that wouldn't be good for you.
...But if I don't figure out what is telling me that, I'm gonna go insane.
So quick to assume I'd die. It's such a sharp contrast to the happiness.
[Her brows quirk with a flash of suspicion.] It is rather disturbing that you have this kind of information about me when I have no memory or sense that we've ever met. Even in the face of that kind of threat.
If you were a succubus, you would. Seein' as how I don't have any idea what you are, can't say I'd assume much at all.
Guess you and I are in the same boat then, cause I'm pretty fucking disturbed too. But if it makes you feel any better, I do have one legitimate way of making that kinda educated guess. I'm pretty good at seeing body heat, and you ain't got any. Normally that means suckhead, but you don't move like a vampire. Cold things don't like fire, from what I've seen.
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