After learning of
Emma Frost's plan to have
X-23 leave the school,
Cessily Kincaid takes X-23 to
Salem Center for coffee to cool her down. Facility agents led by the
Weapon Plus program (including X-23's former handler
Kimura) come for one of them. X-23, believing it is her, begs Cessily to leave, but not before Kimura shoots Cessily with an electric bullet and captures her. At the lab, Cessily questions who they are and what they want but is given no answers. Before his death,
William Stryker had requested a living weapon to combat the coming of the
mutant Anti-Christ, which resulted in the creation of three mutant-hunting creatures called "Predator X". After
Dust scars him,
Matthew Risman is fixated on training the remaining Predator X to kill her. Despite this, Predator X senses the mutant it was originally created to destroy and heads off to find it as the
Purifiers follow. Predator X is later killed by
Wolverine. After a brief fight with
Rockslide, Predator X heads toward the mansion and encounters
Trance,
Indra, and
Wolf Cub.
Surge jumps in to protect them and instructs the students to head to the infirmary. In pursuit of the wounded mutants, Predator X manages to get past Surge and attack the infirmary, although
Gentle and
Armor attempt to stop it. Wolverine destroys Predator X by letting it eat him, then tearing his way out of its stomach. Following the events of
Utopia,
Scalphunter is kidnapped by a group of non-mutant superhumans. When the X-Men attempt to rescue him, several Predators attack them before being killed. A sixth Predator X operates in New York City before being killed by
Fantomex. ==Powers and abilities==