
Introducing herself as Sarah's daughter, she moved in with them. Months later, Laura traveled to San Francisco and tracked down Megan and Debbie (her mother's sister). As she lay dying, Kinney named X-23 "Laura". However, Rice was able to exact revenge on Kinney from beyond the grave, as he had earlier exposed her to the trigger scent, sending X-23 into a rage that caused her to kill her mother. Unwilling to let Sutter get the upper hand, Kinney gave X-23 one last mission - destroy the pods and kill Rice. Later, Rice revealed to Kinney a chamber with dozens of incubation pods containing female clones before he fired her. X-23 was able to kill Sutter and his wife but was unable to kill their son, Henry. Ultimately, Rice persuaded Sutter to hand control of the program over to him, then secretly ordered X-23 to kill Sutter and his family. Sarah Kinney let her out once, not as an attempt to escape but instead to use X-23 to help her find her niece, Megan, who had been kidnapped by a known murderer. After her return to the facility Kimura punished her for not coming back with Rice.

Rice, in an attempt to avenge his father's murder, abandoned X-23 on a particularly dangerous mission with A.I.M., but she survived against overwhelming odds and managed to return to the Facility. Her missions took her to locations all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, Las Vegas, Japan, Colombia, the Congo, and many others.

She was left emotionally stunted as a result. Numerous other missions followed, as X-23's services were sold to the highest bidder. She was assigned the mission as somewhat of an "advertising" ploy. Weapon for HireĪt 11 years old, X-23 was sent on her first field mission to kill Presidential candidate Greg Johnson. Kimura was harsh and strictly punished X-23 for the death of her sensei. Rice already had a replacement in the wings, a woman named Kimura. The "trigger scent" caused Laura to kill mercilessly anything in her path, and thus she murdered her best friend. After Rice realized the child was growing soft, he blamed her sensei, one of the few people who treated her with kindness, and tested a chemical compound called " trigger scent" on him. Īfter seven years, Rice had X-23 subjected to radiation poisoning in order to accelerate the activation of her mutant gene, and forcibly extracted her claws and coated them with Adamantium. Kinney did her best to ensure the child retained some semblance of humanity, but her efforts appeared to be in vain.

Raised in captivity, X-23 was trained to be a weapon. As revenge for her insubordination, Rice forced Kinney to act as the surrogate mother for the specimen, and she gave birth to "X-23." Zander Rice, whom Sutter had raised after Rice's father had been killed by a bestial Wolverine at the original Weapon X Facility, Sutter allowed Kinney to proceed. Kinney proposed they create a female clone instead, and though her request was initially denied, she still went ahead and produced a viable female embryo using her own genetic material combined with Logan's to complete the process, prompting Sutter to reconsider. Using the only available genetic sample from Weapon X, which was damaged, they were unable to salvage the Y chromosome after twenty-two attempts. Martin Sutter, recruited renowned mutant geneticist Doctor Sarah Kinney and tasked her with creating a clone. Seeking to take the project in a new direction, the project's director, Dr. When a top-secret program attempted to recreate the original Weapon X experiment that involved the feral mutant, Wolverine, they failed to secure a test subject who could survive the bonding process of the virtually unbreakable metal Adamantium to their skeleton.

For a complete history see Laura Kinney's Expanded History The Creation of X-23 History This is an abridged version of Laura Kinney's history.
