Talon's History
Talon is an aged
X-23/
Wolverine.
X-23 was cloned in The Facility by Doctor Sarah Kinney using genetic material from
Wolverine under the direction and supervision of Doctor Martin Sutter in an attempt to recreate the original Weapon X experiment.
X-23 was manipulated and used as an assassin but eventually escaped and built a life of her own. She eventually took on the
Wolverine code name after her genetic donor "father",
Wolverine as she, like him, transitioned from her life as an assassin to a life as a hero and member of the X-Men.
Like many mutants, Laura became one of the inhabitants of the island nation of Krakoa. She was picked along with
Darwin and
Synch to go into the Vault in Ecuador, as they were some of the few mutants who could survive the temporal disparity. As soon as the three entered the Vault, they seemed to lose contact with the X-Men, and because time moved much quicker inside the Vault, the trio were stuck within it for what was centuries for them. During their first day, while engaging the Children of the Vault in battle, Laura killed
Serafina and
Fuego. After seeing her teammates killed,
Aguja angrily killed herself by projecting a force field that destroyed everything around her in an attempt to kill her foes.
However, Laura recovered with her healing factor, as did her two teammates. The team then spent 100 years inside the Vault gathering intelligence on the Children of the Vault and learned that the
City could use cloning to resurrect any Children that were killed. This kept them continuously evolving. Laura and
Synch eventually became romantically involved, although it took Laura time to warm up to him. Their first kiss didn't happen until their 217th year together. After Laura and
Darwin were captured,
Synch, who could not rely on Laura's longevity powers anymore, fled the Vault for a week and when he returned to rescue them, he found that, for them, 100 years had passed in the Vault. He managed to rescue Laura, but
Darwin was captured by the
City and used to create a new generation of Children. Laura and
Synch then attempted to leave the Vault, but on their way, Laura stopped to hold off the Children while
Synch fled outside. After defeating Laura, the Children caught up to and killed
Synch but not before he managed to make telepathic contact with
Charles Xavier at the last moment to ensure everything he'd learned about the Vault was passed onto his resurrected form. Believed to be dead,
Laura was also resurrected, but without the memories of their time in the Vault, leaving
Synch with the burden of being the only one of the two to remember their time together in the Vault.
It remained unknown to anyone that the newly-resurrected
Laura was a duplicate, as the original Laura was not killed, but captured and kept alive by the Children inside the Vault.
Forge eventually discovered her on what was a rescue mission for
Darwin and managed to get her out of the Vault. Now sporting a gray streak in her hair, Laura was welcomed by the X-Men who immediately called for
Synch. As soon as he arrived, Laura jumped into his arms in a passionate kiss. Afterwards, she moved in with him at the X-Men's Treehouse in New York City. After spending some time together with
Synch, they went to talk with the younger
Laura whom, until then, everyone presumed to be the original. The two women met up in Detroit and set up some rules for their shared existence. The younger
Laura forfeited her resurrection rights to the older Laura but insisted that she would keep the name "
Wolverine". The older Laura agreed but warned that she wasn't looking for future socializing or even encounters between them. She then adopted her old code name "Talon".
