Part 19
The streets of London are clearly re-designer after Queen Gloriana ordered so, to be fair, few know the reason for such order or if it was an order at all, as Queen Gloriana has the heart and minds of everyone and pretty much everyone wants to please the loving Queen. Whatever the case may be, if she indeed wanted the changes or if people took one of her jokes too serious, the fact remains that the streets of London are now more illuminated than before, which if you´re a good citizen this is a good addition, however, if you´re a criminal...you need to be inventive.
Such is the case for Dr Lauren Smith, a woman who comes from Poland and was working with Magneto in some experiments that Queen Gloriana and the others really, and she meant that really don´t need to concern themselves with it.
As she´s walking on the street light pretending to be a mere Dr working and ready to return to her home, she´s a great actress or so she thought so, as she spots a young woman with long raven hair glaring at her curiously for a moment and flashes her a smile. Dr Lauren was ready to return the smile, out of polite and nothing more, when the young girl pops claws out of her hands and she turns around to see another woman gripping on her shoulder strongly.
“Dr Lauren, how nice for you to join us...we´re wanting to have a chat with you, right, Wolverine?” Ariel states and phases her hand through the woman´s body as a silent warning and pretending it was an accident and Dr Lauren is better not let any accidents happen here.
And soon enough, as sweat drops from her body, Dr Lauren is meeting, out of her free will and option mind you, Wolverine and Ariel and is very clear they have questions and is very clear that Dr Lauren does not want to compromise her project.
“So, Dr Lauren” Ariel begins and Wolverine is clearly upset this woman shares a similar name with her. “I heard from a very good source you´re thinking in clone more people like Wolverine...the good and old project X, is that true?” she speaks with her gauntlet in hands and yes, there´s no way to deny that Ariel and Wolverine are cutting a very fearsome figure.
“Maybe, if you kill me...you won´t get any information” is a small piece of a bargain. One that Dr Lauren thought it would be enough to get some leverage on the women, but, she mistaken as Wolverine has her claw on her face and is too close to comfort now.
“Listen, I´m a clone, I´m a supposed weapon that people like you made. Me and Logan were nothing but weapon and I´ll be damned if I´ll let you inflict this pain on another innocent soul, so, Dr Lauren,” her annoyance only grow because of this name. “The way I see, you have two options here or you tell us about the project X and stay alive or tell nothing and watch us rip piece by piece of you”
Ariel notices the Dr is looking at her as if waiting for the God and Bad cop here, but, for the moment, all Ariel can do is pop her claws and repeats. “I was in the war of Apocalypse, Dr...trust me, I saw much worse...do yourself a favour and choice wisely here, we know there´s more than one scientist in this project”
And this was the final strike as Dr Lauren opens her mouth and gives all the info in regards the project. Magneto was in debt with Logan, and for some reason, no one can fully understand, thought that cloning a new Logan would be a nice way to give Logan a nice life he so wanted.
And now, Magneto made a mistake one that Logan´s daughter will want to have a word with him. Dr Lauren was delivered, if we can put nicely, to the police station as she starts talking about the plot and the chief police connected to the Queen was given the task to send Dr Lauren to the female ward prison. Rehabilitation is in order.
Now, one mystery solved and all thanks to Ariel´s future husband. “Yeah, I guess he helped but...” she then looks at Ariel seriously. “Do we all have to wear pink dresses when meeting the Darkholmes?”
“Well, Kwannon knows more about this than me, so, I think so”
On the next day, as London is bright thanks to Queen Gloriana´s excellent mood, the Darkholmes finally meet Ariel´s family. Kwannon, Jubilee with her son Shogo (a nice story was used to explain Shogo´s origins without causing a scandal, and well, technically is true. Jubilee did adopt Shogo) Laura, Karma, Yana are Ariel´s only family in this world as her biological parents perish before the great war of Apocalypse and her parental figure did so after the war.
Raven Darkholme and Annalise Darkholme accepted the friends as a form of family and soon the two groups begin talking about the wedding, their hobbies, to put nicely, and other social details.
Meanwhile, Count Darkholme is offering a small smile as for some reason the scene of their families being more concerned about their wedding than themselves is a bit funny.
“You know...once you marry me you´ll be a countess and countess don´t smile much” he jokes and Deadpool is so shocked with this fact that his mouth is refusing to make any sound.
“Well, there´s always a first time for everything, Kurt”