X-23's Biography

Rating: PG-13

X-23's life starts many years ago at the beginning of Weapon X.
Dr. Dale Rice was running from Wolverine (Original Weapon X). He had gotten a suit case with a DNA sample of Weapon X as he was escaping from the facility. As he was almost away, he was stabbed through the chest by 3 metal claws and died with the suit case in hand. Dr. Martin Sutter had come too late and found his old friend's body. Martin took Dr. Rice's suit case, that Dr. Rice lost his life to get, and Martin promised his old friend (Dr. Rice) he would continue what Dr. Rice died to build. Martin took in Dr. Rice's son, Zander, and raised him as his own.

Many years later, Martin had taken over control of Weapon X. Zander is in charge of the new Weapon X project. Twenty-two (22) of the new series of Weapon X failed miserably. Martin hired a woman, named Dr. Kinney, to help work with the DNA that Dr. Dale Rice retrieved before his death. Dr. Kinney was hired to help in an attempt to clone the original Weapon X.

The Y Chromosome from the DNA strand was too damage to make a male clone. So, Dr. Kinney said the only way to make a clone was to make it Female. Against Zander's wishes, Martin approved it and Dr. Kinney went to work on it.

Late one night, Zander went to Dr. Kinney's room asking her where they will find a female candidate with the necessary physiology needed to carry the clone. When Dr, Kinney asked what he meant, he gives her a glance insinuating she would be the one to carry the clone. Without much choice she accepted.
(X-23 Innocence Lost Issue 1-6)
 

Seven years later, X-23 trained with her Sensei in hand to hand combat.
They kept X-23's quarters at high temperatures to stimulate her development.
Zander waited for the day he could lace her bones.
Zander disapproved of how much time Dr. Kinney spent with X-23.
Martin overruled Zander and allowed Dr. Kinney to keep working with X-23.
Martin and Zander had been working on a "Trigger Scent." Zander told him it was doing better then expected.
Over time, the Sensei started treating X-23 less as a weapon, and more as a child. The Sensei spoke to X-23 in Japanese so Martin and Zander wouldn't understand what he was saying.

Dr. Kinney received a call from her sister, Debbie. Debbie told her that she has a niece and that she wanted to send her aunt something. Dr. Kinney was upset that Debbie cut her out of her life, and that Debbie didn't believe her about their father. Debbie apologized for not believing her, and said that their father is gone. She asked if things can go back to the way they were?
Dr. Kinney said they can't, and that her niece (Megan) can send whatever she wanted, but not to call her again.

Rachel told Zander that she's having a baby - and that it was his.
Rachel was married to Martin. Zander had forced himself on Rachel a few years back.
Zander coldly replied to just tell Martin it was his (Martin's) child.

X-23 was training with her sensei when Zander and 2 guards came it. Zander ordered her to come with them. As they took X-23 away, Zander went to talk to the Sensei.
He told him not to touch her unless its to strike her down in combat! And if he though he'd gotten away with speaking to X-23 in Japanese, that he's dead wrong, and that he can speak it Japanese as well.

X-23 was then subjected to very high levels of radiation against Kinney's approval.
Zander did this to start her mutation, which normally doesn't happen until the age of 13. They did this when X-23 was the age of 7.
X-23 almost died from the treatment, but it worked. A bone claw in each foot, and 2 in each hand, painfully broke their way through her skin.
 

Dr. Kinney begged Martin not to let Zander perform the surgery on X-23, saying he'd become too emotionally motivated in this, and that he'd lost it.
She asked if she could do it, and Zander could do the Adamantium Bonding.
Martin denied her request.



Zander went on with the procedure, denying X-23 any anesthesia.
When other doctors in the room protested that it was inhuman, he ordered them to leave.
He extracted each of her claws one by one. He sharpened each one then coated them with the indestructible metal Adamantium, outside her body.
She had recovered, physically.
She liked to pop her claws out and retract them, then pop them out again.
 

 
When it was time to test the "Trigger Scent", Zander put it on the Sensei's sword.
During their next training session, as the Sensei pulled out his sword, X-23's eyes turned red. She stared and him right before she lunged at him with all 6 claws out, and in full rage!
When X-23 woke up, she was in a bloody room, next to her dead sensei.
As she cried over his body, Martin said to Zander, "Well, I'd call that a success.

(X-23 Innocence Lost Issue 2-6)

 

 Three (3) years later, it was time for X-23's first mission.
She was to assassinate Greg Johnson, a man running for president.
She wore a skirt and a white shirt with a button saying "Vote Greg Johnson for President"
She had leg braces and crutches. When she asked to see the president, the guards said no. When they did she started crying.
When they called head of security, the head of security said she couldn't come in. When they told the head of security that the girl was handicapped, they still said no. When Greg Johnson's wife heard, she said to let the poor child in.
When X-23, Greg Johnson, his wife, and his kids were taking a picture: as the camera flashed, X-23 stabbed Greg Johnson with her left foot claw and killed most everyone in the room as well, before making her escape. Martin and Zander offered X-23 to the highest bidder. Every time they gave X-23 a mission, and a time limit, she beat them with time to spare.

When Rachel told Zander she had to tell Martin about Henry (Zander and Rachel's Child):
he slammed her head into the wall telling her to tell him nothing, and everything will be fine.

On X-23's next mission,  Zander went with her this time. Dr. Kinney disapproved of this, but Zander didn't care and told her to take it up with Martin - but for now, to back off.

X-23 ran and jumped from a building, escaping guards. As she was almost to the pick up point, Zander shot the two (2) guards with him and put a gun to the pilot's head. He told the pilot to tell everyone X-23 failed, and to leave. As they did, X-23 stood below looking up at the helicopter as it began to fly off. Zander tossed her his father's dog tags as he said goodbye. X-23 Popped her claws out as all the guards fired on her.
(X-23 Innocence Lost Issue 3-6)

As Dr. Kinney sat crying at her desk about X-23's "Death," an alarm sounded saying someone, somehow, broke into the facility. When the guards aimed at the door waiting for the intruder(s) to come in, in walked X-23 with bullet holes in her suit.
    Martin ordered Dr. Kinney to debrief X-23 on how she survived. Dr. Kinney happily accepted. When she sat with her, X-23 didn't say a thing to her. X-23 sat holding her arm. When Dr. Kinney asked to look at her arm, she saw 3 X slice marks on X-23's arm. With a shock of horror, Dr. Kinney asked her who did that to her. X-23 still said nothing.

Dr. Kinney was crying in her office when her sister called, again. As Kinney was about to ask her why she was calling (as she had told her not to), Debbie told her that her daughter (Dr. Kinney's niece) had been kidnapped. Dr. Kinney told her to wait, and that she'd be there soon. Dr. Kinney then realized that she was as bad as Zander and Martin - as she went into X-23's room, knowing X-23 would help find her niece.

When Rachel was about to tell Martin about Henry, Zander stormed in saying X-23 was missing. Rachel begged Martin not to leave her. Before she could say anything, Zander looked at her, telling her to saying nothing. As Sarah (Dr. Kinney's first name) and Debbie talked, Sarah tried to comfort her. X-23 went into Megan's room. She sniffed and smelled a man had gone into her room during the night and took her away. As X-23 went to the man's apartment, Dr. Kinney tried her best to keep up. When X-23 reached the apartment, she got changed into a girl scout uniform pretending to sell cookies. When he told her he'd get his wallet, he actually went for a knife to kidnaper her, too. She opened the box and there was a picture of Megan. When he saw it, he was going to kill X-23. Just as Dr. Kinney was getting worried about them, the man came crashing through the fourth (4th) story window and fell to his death. X-23 came walking through the door with Megan wrapped in a blanket, still shaken up a bit.
 

That night, after Dr. Kinney's long lecture, Zander drove Martin back to his house. Zander told Martin that he'd been working himself too thin. Zander asked him to sign over all control of the facility to him. With a smile Zander told him he already lost a father to the program and didn't want to lose another. Martin smiled at him and signed the paper, leaving it in Zander's hands.
After Zander was a few blocks away from Martin's house, he opened his trunk and X-23 sat there. Zander handed her a watch, and a picture of Martin, Rachel, and Henry. He told her to make it look like an accident - a fire. She had 22 minutes.
(X-23 Innocence Lost Issue 4-6)

Rachel told Martin the truth about their son Henry. He didn't believe her. He smacked her and said that Zander wouldn't do that to her. As she tried to convince him, X-23 came in with a club and beat Martin to death as Rachel watched. X-23 killed Rachel the same way, and went for the closet where Henry was hiding. She put the club under his neck and looked into his tear filled eyes. She sliced Henry's Spider-man toy's head off, as a symbol to her choice. As the fire spread, X-23 looked down at a broken picture of Martin, Henry, and Rachel.

At the facility, Zander took her to the shower and used a fire hose to wash her down. He threw her suit into the incinerator. Zander then grabbed her by the wrist and told her to say nothing about this mission. She quietly sat down on the floor. As Zander walked off, X-23 popped out a claw. When Dr. Kinney walked in, She saw X-23 slicing into her arm with her own claws. She was the one making those Xs in her arm.

As she asked why, Kevin walked in and told her Martin and Rachel were dead, but Henry was found alive in the woods behind the house.
As she walked off, X-23 grabbed Dr. Kinney's arm. X-23 opened her mouth. Dr. Kinney saw a piece of paper in her mouth and took it out.  It was a picture of Martin, Rachel, and Henry. Dr. Kinney realizes what a monster Zander has become and tells X-23 that she may have killed them, but the blood is on Zander's hands.
Dr. Kinney tells X-23 that she'll get her out of that place. X-23 asks "A Mission?" Dr. Kinney answers, yes, a mission.
 

Dr. Kinney goes to Zander's new office telling him it's horrible what happened to Martin and Rachel. With a smile, Zander agrees. They go for a walk. Zander tells her that he didn't agree with Martin letting the specimen bond with a mother figure, and that he won't repeat Martin's mistakes with phase 2.
He opens a door showing over 25 clones in artificial wombs. Zander admitted to her that there were times he thought he would just kill her, but contrary to what she might think, he's not a bad guy. He then strokes her hair. She pushes him away. With a smile, Zander tells her to pack her bags and that X-24 through 50 won't be needing her. He then said to her that if she was not gone by morning, he'd have her shot.

Dr. Kinney writes some final words to X-23, telling her she that there is hope. She'd showed her they'd failed and that she's not a weapon. She is a child.
Dr. Kinney and Kevin shoot 2 guards outside X-23's room. A note slides under the door. It has a message Dr. Kinney wrote, a map of the facility, a watch, and a picture of Dr, Zander Rice.
(X-23 Innocence Lost Issue 5-6)

Sarah (Dr. Kinney) and Kevin ran down the hall looking to shut down the cameras so X-23 could reach the chamber. Kevin was shot by the guards. As Dr. Kinney looked back, Kevin told her to go, for X-23's sake.
With a tearing eye Sarah ran as she heard a gun shot. She shot the guard and shut down the cameras. X-23 was able to enter without trouble. Zander was in the shower as he talked to one of Fisk's lackeys, offering him a Weapon - one of the many Weapon X clone pods. As he was talking, a guard told him X-23 has escaped.



X-23 kills a doctor. She then puts a bomb on each pod and sets it.
An army of guards aim at her. She pops her claws, jumps over the hail of bullets, and easily kills them all with quick speed. As Zander checks in on another doctor. He sees X-23 had killed him, too. When he tells a guard to check on the pods, a look of fear came over his face, knowing he may die if X-23 is there.
He sees X-23 on top a pile of bodies.
When X-23 goes into Zander's room, she doesn't see him anywhere. He comes out of his closet and shoots her twice at close range. When she hits the floor, he asks her disappointedly "Didn't we teach you better?" With a "yes," she slices the gun with her left foot claw. She pulls in her claws, and starts punching him. As she does, she remembers the abuse, the torturous surgery, and the time he left her to die at the hands of the guards.
Zander is helpless to fight back.
She turns to leave and he tells her she can't bring herself to kill him. She takes off her dog tags and calls him an "animal" and leaves him.

Just as she leaves, the building blows up. With a smile, Sarah is happy to see her and thanks God X-23 is alive. X-23 sniffs, her eyes turn red, and her claws pop out. Sarah remembers how Zander touched her hair the night before. She knew he had put the trigger sent in her hair so X-23 would attack.
X-23 stood over her with tears in her eye. With her dying breath, Dr. Kinney tells her that her name is not X-23 - it's Laura. Dr. Kinney's dying words to Laura were: "I love you." Laura laid her head on Sarah's body repeating the words, "Please don't leave me."

Two men came to the site a few weeks later, taking the trigger sent from Zander's dead hand.
Two years later, X-23 is in New York City wandering the street.
(X-23 Innocence Lost  Issue 6-6)