As she continued digging, however, she found traces of somebody that was in her league, and perhaps a little bit beyond it. Curious as to who else was watching this Genma's work she did a little tracking and broke into the source code of one of the files within the program.
Her eyes widened in sudden realization, she called back over her shoulder.
"Sinister's watching this project!"
****
"Well," Tendo said nervously. "Genma was always studying the sciences on the sly while we were studying under Happosai. Afterwards he wasn't happy with just sealing Happosai away. He wanted to come up with something to defeat the master for good."
"Such as," Logan asked.
"He theorized that the 'X-Factor' was present in all human beings and was looking for a way to trigger it to produce the ultimate cat's paw in getting rid of the Master," Soun said. "I think he had his wife on some form of regime designed to produce an active X-gene in his child."
Psylocke and Logan shared an uncomfortable look, the story sounded very similar to another scientist they knew that was interested in human enhancement.
"Shortly before he took his son on his training journey," Soun continued. "He came in talking about having discovered something that would be much easier and quicker than fooling with induced mutations and that was the last I spoke to him."
"Tell me," Psylocke said. "Did your friend ever mention a scientist by the name of Essex."
"Why yes," Soun said. "Genma mentioned a brief contact with someone by that name, said they shared some of the same ideals."
****
"We're arrived at the coordinates," Scott spoke into the communicator. "Penance tracked two scents a few miles away where she lost the scent. Signs indicate a aircraft was present and according to Jean, Penance reported a third scent very similar to Jean's." He frowned as he continued. "Jean said it sounds like Madeline Pryor."
"And Logan and Emma report finding connections between Genma and Sinister," Professor Xavier said. "Hold on a moment. Jubilee said there should be another girl near your position."
"Scott," Jean said from a few feet away. "Someone's coming. I can feel them, and when the wind shifted, Penance could smell them."
"I think we got her, Professor," Scott said into the communicator.
A few moments later the image of a winged girl clutching a large egg came into view. She spied the X-Men and paused, suspicious of their placement and yet somehow they felt familiar to her.
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