So, while they weren't busy
discovering adamantium, researchers at M.I.T. (and friends) were busy discovering how to improve the fidelity, stability, and viability of making attachments to bone.
And he is drawn, very reluctantly, into caring for and defending a mysterious young girl mutant named Laura (Dafne Keen), who he
discovers possesses the same
adamantium - claw - deploying capabilities as he does.