Prologue
After Uncanny X-Men #379-380 Wundagore Mountain
Herbert Wyndham took a deep breath as he had returned, the X-Men did not suspect a thing after their plan, "Lord High Evolutionary," one of his New Men said, a Buffalo in origin, " The Pale one has arrived." Hearing that, The High Evolutionary waved the New Man off before heading there, "Let us see if the loss of my satellite was worth all of this." He thought, as the master of Wundagore saw Nathaniel Essex.
Sinister smiled towards him as Wyndham saw that he was accompanied by a robotic nanny carrying a three year old who was babbling in the robots arms, “Jolly good show, Herbert.” he said smiling towards him, “I believe your mosquitos have gathered what I desire?” his crimson eyes gleaming with greed, “What do you take me for?” Wyndham asked his former teacher.
“A Genius Geneticist who has fabulous armor.” he told him, “Now please tell me that we got what we need?” The High Evolutionary snapped his fingers, he needed to wait only a moment before his daughter Luminous appeared with the sample, “I still do not understand why you needed depowered samples of these two mutants in particular.” he told Sinister when he noticed something, “Uh oh.” the machine said.
That drew the attention of all three adults as the child was laughing, the nanny was slowly beginning to glow green, “Uh oh, Uh oh, Uh oh, Uhoh, Uhoh, Uhoh, Uhoh, Uhoh, UhohUhohUhohUhohUhohUhohUhohUhohUhohUhoh!” Luminous took the little one from the nanny right before it blew up, imploding with metal starting to pull into itself before popping like a large balloon.
“Damn,” Sinister said as he took the babe away from the Hybrid of the Maximoff twins, “That’s the Fifth one in Two Days.” the little one started to tear up, getting ready to cry before Sinister started to shush her, booping her nose, the little girl started to laugh at that before she tried to catch his finger, “You little troublemaker,” he said before putting her down, “If I wasn’t scared your death would destroy the Earth, I’d have incinerated you.”
But the little girl ignored him as she started to waddle around, heading over to Luminous, “I don’t understand,” High Evolutionary said as he saw his daughter kneel down to greet the toddler, “If she’s so dangerous why don’t you use an Inhibitor Collar or the like?” he asked as he saw Luminous playing with the child now, he wasn’t surprised, she hadn’t had contact with human children before.
“You think I hadn’t tried that?” he asked annoyed, “You saw the Nanny, same thing happens to the collars but they don’t have a self implode protocol like them.” High Evolutionary watched her with more interest, “Why didn’t you try a Biomechanical model?” The High Evolutionary asked, “Isn’t the male unable to affect Biolo-” Sinister interrupted him when he went and picked her up.
“That is caused by surgery,” Sinister said as he made sure her glowing green hands didn’t touch anything, “Prior to that and after studying a doppelganger of his, it’s safe to say she can cause people to combust as well and we wouldn’t want your project to blow up would we?” that made Luminous retreat to her father as they observed the toddler more carefully who was pouting as she tried to reach Luminous, “L-2, you know that you can’t do that do you?” he asked, a smile on his face as he turned her his way.
The Little girl glared at him as best as possible, her little face scrunching up towards him, “No.” she said before slapping the red diamond on his forehead, Sinister tensed for a moment before realizing that her hands weren’t green, “You see now why I need their depowered samples,” he said, “Subject L-2 here shares both of their DNA, and if the Summers phenomenon happens here….”
Wyndham understood where he was going with this, “You’re creating a suit to contain her abilities.” Wyndham finished as L-2 tried to go over Sinisters shoulder to touch his cape, “Bingo HE.” he said putting her back down, making the toddler get grumpy towards him, “Right now the best I can do is make her something like those gauche sunglasses,” he told the, duo, making L-2 cover her eyes as she giggled.
“But later maybe I can make something like Cyclops’ Visor.” Wyndham stepped forward to better observe the infant, “What if the donors find out?” he had asked as Luminous went over to them again, Sinister saw the pleading in her eyes so he gave the happy child back to her which she took away and towards the Record Player, “Don’t worry, I have a few plans in mind.”
Wyndham wasn’t completely sure but he handed the Samples to Sinister, it wasn’t his problem anyways, but if the child survived, it could prove a valuable sample for him to take and study, after all it seemed his daughter was already growing attached to her, “What do you plan on calling her?” he asked as Luminous started looking through his music.
“Oh,” Sinister said with a hint of hostility in his tone, “Are you thinking of snatching my little Chimera from me?” he asked his fellow Geneticist, “Good instincts.” Wyndham thought but he wasn’t going to give himself away, “No,” he lied, “but this child is obviously not a failure and it will make people less likely to think you’re making said, ‘Chimeras’ as you called them.” Sinister seemed to consider this as he observed the two children.
“Fair enough,” he told the High Evolutionary, “Besides, it will make it easier to stash her away from greedy fellow geneticists.” he told The High Evolutionary, obviously seeing his own greed for someone like her, a combination of two potentially Omega Level threats is too valuable to pass up, “Now what kind of name would fit her?” he said tapping his chin before the two of them heard one of The High Evolutionary’s songs.
L-2 was rocking back and forth giggling as she heard the song, “No,” she happily said, “No, no, no.” both of them recognized the song, “Perfect,” Sinister said confusing The High Evolutionary, “After all, if it wasn’t for her, this little project wouldn’t be alive in the first place.” that confused The High Evolutionary as the lyrics started to play with Luminous singing along to Eric Clapton.
“Why don’t we name her in memoriam hmm?” Sinister asked no one, “After all she is her granddaughter technically,” Sinister began to approach the children, the New Men watching in the shadows as he got close to Luminous, “How does that sound L-2?” he asked before remembering the new name, “No that won’t do anymore,” L-2 didn’t know what he was saying but smiled at his manic smile, “How does that sound….”