Don't Say Skrull!

I'm leaving town for a little vacation early in the morn. So I leave you with a little puzzler to mull over while I am away: Who (or what) is Layla Miller?*

*{Note: Saying "a MacGuffin" will not win you any of the fabulous prizes.**}

**{Note: There are no fabulous prizes to be won, so don't get your hopes up.}

Pietro's weird "Super Mutant Power Overload" attack didn't work on her, suggesting she is not, in fact, a mutant. The Old Man Tryp referred to her as being a being of chaos like him, but that may have been in a general sense, rather than meaning she is actually an embodiment of chaos. Though there is a chance she a chaos sprite (like that little pink creature that was on Thanos' shoulder through most of Annihilation), just in disguise. But that's just crazy talk, so let's try and come up with a different idea. Fortunately, I have two more crackpot theories:

1) Layla is a sentient piece of the Cosmic Cube, just like the Beyonder wound up being (right?). Would explain the whole "knowing almost everything" schtick.

2) Layla is actually Cable/Deadpool editor Nicole Boose. She's made her way onto the Cable/Deadpool recap page - and survived! - so she knows how to sneak into the 616 universe. How hard could it be to get Wade to steal a holographic image projector from the X-Men for her, so she could appear to be a child? And, this would also neatly solve the "knows stuff" angle, as Marvel editors must spend their time doing something, and since they aren't editing, reading the plots for books they don't work on seems as likely a pasttime as any. Layla's rare misstep comes when PAD makes a last second change (for the sake of argument, I'm saying Monet bringing the French girl to X-Factor HQ was a last-second writer decision. It probably wasn't, but then my brilliantly crafted scenario would crumble, and I would cry, and nobody wants that, not even UnCalvinPitt, and he's still sore about getting clubbed with a chair back in April.)

So, those are my theories, you've got until I return on Friday to present yours. I expect documentation to support your assertions - or ELSE!!!!!!!

No seriously, just throw out anything that tickles your fancy. We'll have a good laugh when I come back. Until then.