***KILMARTIN RESIDENCE***
A somewhat young, blonde girl sits in her room crying out for her brother... "Jesse, please help me..." If someone were to look at her from a few feet away, they'd be able to see two large bruises on her face. The girl is abused by her father, and protects her younger brother from her fathers wrath. This young girls name is Debbie Kilmartin, sister of known member of MutantX, Jesse Kilmartin.
*Flash to when they were younger.*
Two blonde figures sit on a bed, one near 16, the other 10. The oldest has his shirt off, and the little girl is cleaning wounds on his back.
"Thanks Jess. I don't know what I would do without you... if not for you, I'd probably be near dead, if not dead by now," the young girl states, wiping more blood off her older brothers back.
"Deb, you know I'd do anything to protect you, right? And that if you ever need me, all you'd have to do is call right?"
"Yup."
*End Flash Back*
"All I ever have to do, is call," she mutters, wincing as she got up from the bed and sits at the computer. She logged on to the 'net and went straight to her mail. Seeing she had no new messages, she went to the composer and started writing her mail to her brother.
'Dear Jesse, hey there bro. I know that you're probably real busy right now and that by the time you get this mail, I'll probably be down in the basement again, either because Dad's drunk, pissed at my New Mutant-cy, or the fact that Justin messed up again. I just thought that I'd let you know Dad's getting worse and the beatings longer and more painful, and that if I don't get out of here soon I'll die, and then Dad'll start in on Justin. Jess, I'm doing the same that you did for me when I was younger, and Justin the same that I did for you, but it's getting worse and I'm scared. Jess, please help me get out of here and somewhere safe. Much love, Debbie'
Debbie sent the mail and hoped beyond hope that her brother would come and save her and her 11 year old brother soon. She logged off and started on her homework.
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*AT SANCTUARY*
It was a boring day. No GS agents to fight, no New Mutants to put into the underground, and basically nothing new to do. Jesse logged on to the 'net and went straight to his mail. He found there a letter from his 17 year old sister, begging for help to save her and his brother from their father. "Hey Guys come're and look at this. I think I found something for us to do." The others come up and read the mail from Debbie.
"Jess, we've gotta do somthin'. She says she's 'doing the same for Justin as you did for her, and that she'll probably be in the basement by the time we get this message.' What's that mean?" asked Shalimar.
"Okay here's what she means, 'doing the same for Justin as I did for her' means that she's protecting him from getting the crap knocked outa him by letting herself take the beatings, 'being in the basement' is meaning that our Dad, will be hurting her and that he'll end up killing her tonight if I don't do something."
"You're not going alone, we're coming with," says Emma.
"That's right Jess, once a team, always a team." Brennan says.
They all hop into an Audi and speed off to the Kilmartin home. Once the car stopped, even a little before Jesse had gotten out and started up the stairs, the others not far behind. He knocked and knew his mom had looked through the peep-hole and knew she wasn't going to open the door, so he phased through it and scaring his mom, opened the door for his friends. Each stepped over the fainted Mrs. Kilmartin and headed, with Jesse leading them, to the basement door. Before opening it they heard a whipping sound, a scream of a young girl, and a shout of "STUPID GIRL WHY NOT LET HIM TAKE HIS PUNISHMENT HIMSELF"
Jesse pushed open the door and rushed down the steps, to find his 17 year old sister with her top and bra off, arms shackled around a large pipe, and being whipped by their father. Shalimar's eyes burned yellow and she leaped over Mr. Kilmartin to the girl protecting her while the boys fought. Emma glanced at Mr. Kilmartin, and he flew across the basement into a wall, where Jesse pinned him with an elbow to the throat. Brennan fished the keys out of the mans pocket and threw them to Shalimar, who in turn unlocked Debbie. Debbie tried to put her bra and shirt back on but found it too painful and decided just to put her over large shirt on, then backing away from the fight slid down a wall and into unconsciousness. Jesse seeing all of this seethed with anger.
"Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you, for all you put me and Debbie through." he growled through closed teeth.
"B-because I am your father," the man stated.
"Wrong, you're not our father because a father wouldn't do this to his children, let alone a teenage daughter of his."
"Let me go, boy." he hissed.
"Jess, she's bleeding pretty badly, we need to get her to Sanctuary," Adam said, looking at the girl in Brennan's arms.
"Right, Shal, Em, will you head up to her room to get her things? I want to finish this."
The girls nodded and headed upstairs to get her things, after Jesse telling them where his sisters room was.
"Jess, let me," Brennan said. Jesse nodded and went and took the unconscious girl from Brennan. Brennan stepped up and shot Mr. Kilmartin with a jolt of electricity, not enough to kill him, but enough to see him in pain, before slipping into unconsciousness himself. The girls appeared, with three bags and the laptop computer they'd found along with a backpack and a duffel bag of stuffed animals, at the top of the stairs with a young boy at the age of 11. The boys climbed the stairs and went outside to the Audi. They carefully placed Debbie in the very back, with her bags and then climbed into the vehicle themselves, silently. They put 'blinders' on Justin and rushed back to Sanctuary, to stop the bleeding and hopefully ruse Debbie out of her unconsciousness.
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*BACK AT SANCTUARY (IN THE LAB)*
Jesse is pacing around the room waiting for Adam and Emma to give him the diagnosis of his sister. Debbie herself lay on her stomach in the middle of the room, with Shalimar cleaning and bandaging her wounds. Justin who had fallen asleep on the way to Sanctuary lay in one of the spare rooms, asleep. Brennan sat on a table across from Shalimar and Debbie, obviously deep in thought.
"Jesse," Adam starts, "Except for the blood loss, cuts, and unconsciousness, Debbie will be fine. Your father opened up some scars and cuts, and that's why the lacerations are so deep. Debbie should be waking momentarily as we gave her an injection of adrenaline to wake her up." Suddenly Debbie moaned.
"Ahh, oh, okay, yep, that hurts," she stated trying to move.
"Debbie, I'm Adam, a sort of doctor, you could say, and right now, just don't move."
"Jesse, where is Jesse?"
"Right here Deb," Jesse said
"Jess, my friends they need my help."
"Wha- what? You just suffered probably the most severe beating yet, and you need to go help your friends? I really don't think so missy."
"Jess, their parents are worse then ours, they need you more than I do right now... Jess, please go help my friends."
Jesse looked to his friends, who each nodded. "Only children right? No siblings?"
Debbie laughed, "No, no siblings. Their names and addresses are in my school planner. There's only 3 of 'em."
Jesse and the others left the room, with Adam and Emma still bandaging up Debbie.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**LATER THAT SAME NIGHT**
MutantX now had 4, 17 year olds, each in varying conditions of injuries, Debbie's being the worse. Dahlia, a girl with black hair and tan skin taking second in being injured. Matt, a blonde boy, took third, and Jon, a boy with brown eyes and multi-colored hair, was near fine, save for the bruises on his arms, legs, and face. Matt, though cut on his back wouldn't take the help offered until Debbie started shouting at him to sit down and get better. Obviously the two, Debbie and Matt, cared deeply for each other, as did Jon and Dahlia. After each were bandaged and semi-sedated, they were sent to the other extra rooms. Debbie and Dahlia on the girls side of the hall, Matt and Jon on the boys' side.
*THE NEXT MORNING.*
At around 6:15 Debbie woke up and took a shower, yet again wincing at the contact of warm water on her still bandaged back. She toweled off and dressed in a loose navy blue T-shirt and a pair of cut off shorts, then set off to explore Sanctuary. She found the reflecting pool and sat down on the edge of the platform. She was soon joined by her three best friends. Jon and Matt put their arms around the girls and Debbie and Dahlia leaned into the boys.
A little later, they were being silently watched by the members of MutantX.
"Aw, isn't that sweet," whispered Shal to Emma and Brennan. Brennan, put his own arm around Shal in the same manner of the boys.
"Yah," whispered Emma, putting her arms around Jesse's waist.
"Who wants to interrupt there little moment, by announcing breakfast?" Adam said, standing in the middle of the 2 couples.
"I'll do it," Emma offered, untangling herself from Jesse and starting to walk over to the teenagers.
"I'll come with," Jesse said.
They walked over to the teens and said Breakfast was ready, and the boys got up, helping the girls up as well.
Jesse grabbed the hands of the love of his life and his sister, and led them to the others and eventually breakfast.
"Debbie, Dahlia, I'd like to re-bandage your wounds after breakfast, is that okay?" Adam said
The two best friends looked at each other, and said 'Sure' at the same time.
"And then later, if Adam says it's okay, we can take you shopping." Emma offered.
"Cool!" both girls exclaimed.
"Do you guys always talk like that?" Brennan asked.
"Some of the time," Matt said, laughing and shaking his head.
"Matt!" Debbie exclaimed hitting him lightly on the shoulder.
"Debbie!" he exclaimed mocking her high pitched annoyed voice.
The girls of MutantX exchanged a knowing look with each other, yep those two definantly liked each other.
They finished breakfast, and the girls offered to wash the dishes, but Adam explained that they had a dishwasher. So the girls went to dress in clothes good enough to go shopping in. Debbie wore a pair of blue hip huggers and a long, loose, black T-shirt, so you couldn't tell about the hip huggers. Dahlia wore a pair of blue jeans and a loose long-sleeved navy blue shirt. The boys except for Adam accompanied them, for protection, from the GSA or Mr. Kilmartin.
After 2 hours of the mall, the girls had decided that they'd done enough shopping and went back to Sanctuary. After unpacking each of their things, and Debbie and Dahlia getting re-bandaged, the 4 teens decided to watch their elders spar. The girls immediately took to the styles of Shalimar and Emma, while the boys liked Jesse and Brennan's styles. Adam even let the boys spar together, but the girls couldn't until their wounds had healed, so they exercised their brains in a game of chess. Debbie beat Dahlia n a relatively short amount of time, but as Dahlia had no experience in the game, didn't really offer any comparison.
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**Debbie's Sanctuary Room**
Debbie, after playing chess with Adam and getting her butt royally kicked, went to her room and got on the 'net. After messing around for a while, she went to check her mail, and she found a message from her father.
"JESSE!!!!!" She screamed.
Everyone came running at this point, "What is it?"
"Jess, look at that address!"
He instantly turned an angry red. Debbie opened up her email, and read aloud this: 'Dear bitch, I promised myself I'd never speak to you again, but had to tell you this. I will find you, and when I do you and your brothers will be killed, and your friends fathers are with me on this too. If we find any of you. You'll be killed. Your Father." Debbie wanted to scream but couldn't as Jesse hugged her tight. Justin ran out of the room and into his own, crying. Jesse then went after Justin, and Adam called a meeting of the MuntantX members in the lab.
*******LAB*****************************************************************************
"Okay guys what do you want to do?" Adam asked.
"We could keep them here until they learn to defend themselves." Emma suggested.
"Yeah, but what if they're fathers band together?" Shalimar said.
"Plus they need to go back to school, just until exams start, as they get those of because of the whole less than 5 day truancy clause..." Jesse says.
"We could teach them to fight and then give them an injection of tracing bots." Brennan says.
"But we'd have no way of knowing if they were in danger or not..." Emma says.
"We could give them Comm-links. That way we could trace them and they'd have a way to contact us." Shalimar suggests.
"That's a good idea Shal, all in favor?" Brennan says. All raise their hands. "Then Comm-links it is."
"I'll get the new rings started immediately ." Adam says.
The rest go out of the lab, leaving Adam to his work. The 4 teens were spread across Sanctuary, Debbie at the reflecting pool, Dahlia sitting reading under the dojo, and Matt and Jon sparring on the dojo. Although acting natural, anyone could tell the teens were nervous. Shalimar went over to Debbie to talk. She had her knees pulled under her chin and was deep in thought.
"Do you mind if I join you?" Shal asked.
The teen jumped, "Sure, go ahead..."
"So, you never told us, what is your New Mutant ability?"
"I'm half psyonic, half morpher. I can change into any animal that I've ever touched."
"That must be quite useful when you're afraid."
"Yeah, I guess. Only I can only stay in animal form for an hour at a time."
"Why didn't you ever use your ability to get away from your father?"
"Because each time I did use it, the beatings would get worse...."
"Oh. Hey, I noticed that you wear that necklace all the time. Does it mean something?"
"Yeah. See the necklace itself is a pentagram, the Wiccan sign, and Matt gave it to me, to show me that he still liked me even though we don't believe in the same Gods."
"Aw, that's sweet."
"Yeah, he gave it to me for my 16th birthday."
"So you say you can turn into any animal you've touched. Ever touched a lion?"
"Actually yeah, I have. At a fair a long time ago."
"So you could turn into it whenever you want?"
"Basically yeah, why?"
"Well I'm feral, and I've never seen a lion..."
"Technically I'd be a lioness, as I'm a girl."
"That's cool."
Later on after dinner, Debbie and Matt decided to show the others how they could morph. After talking a while Debbie and Matt decided on a lion/lioness morph, after she told him Shal had never seen one. Matt and Debbie got down on their hands and knees and concentrated. Soon the morping began with Matt hair exploding into a huge mane and Debbie shrinking into her head. A while later to teenage lions started to prance around the dojo, and Debbie let Shal pet her. After about 15 minutes of messing around in morph, they decided to end it, and de-morphed back to their original forms.
"That was so cool, you guys!" Shalimar exclaimed.
"Yeah, totally awesome!" Emma said.
They decided to get to bed as the teens had to go back to school the next day.
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*THE NEXT DAY*****************************************************************************
After breakfast Adam called everyone together at the doors. "Okay, now guys I know this is going to seem weird, these are Comm-links. They are traceable and communable, so you can get a hold on us at any time. Now here's something I just installed, its a mood detecter, so if you guys are afraid, angry, happy, or whatever, the ring will tell us."
"Cool. They're like high-tech mood rings." Dahlia said.
"Yes, now I want each of you to wear this constantly, okay. By the way when you put them on, they'll show your personal DNA strand." Adam handed each teen a ring, and each solemly slid it on to his or her own finger. "Now, it's straight to school with you, and when it's over, Shal and Brennan will be there to pick you up. Okay?"
"Yes, sir. Mr. Adam, sir." Jon said with a mock salute.
"Jon..." Adam said shaking his head.
At school that day, everything went normally until 6th hour when, "Will Jon Nelson, Dahlia Leal, Matt VanderPloeg and Debbie Kilmartin please come to the front office." came on over the intercom. Matt and I exchanged glances, as we got out of our seats, grabbed our stuff, and headed for the office with Dahlia and Jon. The front office has see-through glass all around it, and as we rounded the corner, we saw each of our fathers. Debbie whispered into her comm-link, "Jesse? Adam? I think we have trouble."
"What is it?" Adam's voice said.
"The dad's are here, at the school."
"You need to get out of there, as quick as you can guys. We'll be over as soon as possible."
"Hurry!"
The teens walked around the front office hoping not to be seen, but unfortunantly they were. They ran out the front doors, looking around for someplace to hide. They each jumped into the bushes, just as the dad's had come out.
"When I find that freak of a son I have, I swear...," a man said brandishing a gun.
"Don't worry, we'll find them alright, then I'll show that daughter of mine a thing or two about pain."
"HEY!" they heard Brennan shout, and then Jesse.
"DON'T MESS WITH MY SISTER!!!!!"
A gun shot was fired and then the dad's went off in different directions. The kids came out of the bushes, just as the principle and the police officer came out of the school.
A somewhat young, blonde girl sits in her room crying out for her brother... "Jesse, please help me..." If someone were to look at her from a few feet away, they'd be able to see two large bruises on her face. The girl is abused by her father, and protects her younger brother from her fathers wrath. This young girls name is Debbie Kilmartin, sister of known member of MutantX, Jesse Kilmartin.
*Flash to when they were younger.*
Two blonde figures sit on a bed, one near 16, the other 10. The oldest has his shirt off, and the little girl is cleaning wounds on his back.
"Thanks Jess. I don't know what I would do without you... if not for you, I'd probably be near dead, if not dead by now," the young girl states, wiping more blood off her older brothers back.
"Deb, you know I'd do anything to protect you, right? And that if you ever need me, all you'd have to do is call right?"
"Yup."
*End Flash Back*
"All I ever have to do, is call," she mutters, wincing as she got up from the bed and sits at the computer. She logged on to the 'net and went straight to her mail. Seeing she had no new messages, she went to the composer and started writing her mail to her brother.
'Dear Jesse, hey there bro. I know that you're probably real busy right now and that by the time you get this mail, I'll probably be down in the basement again, either because Dad's drunk, pissed at my New Mutant-cy, or the fact that Justin messed up again. I just thought that I'd let you know Dad's getting worse and the beatings longer and more painful, and that if I don't get out of here soon I'll die, and then Dad'll start in on Justin. Jess, I'm doing the same that you did for me when I was younger, and Justin the same that I did for you, but it's getting worse and I'm scared. Jess, please help me get out of here and somewhere safe. Much love, Debbie'
Debbie sent the mail and hoped beyond hope that her brother would come and save her and her 11 year old brother soon. She logged off and started on her homework.
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*AT SANCTUARY*
It was a boring day. No GS agents to fight, no New Mutants to put into the underground, and basically nothing new to do. Jesse logged on to the 'net and went straight to his mail. He found there a letter from his 17 year old sister, begging for help to save her and his brother from their father. "Hey Guys come're and look at this. I think I found something for us to do." The others come up and read the mail from Debbie.
"Jess, we've gotta do somthin'. She says she's 'doing the same for Justin as you did for her, and that she'll probably be in the basement by the time we get this message.' What's that mean?" asked Shalimar.
"Okay here's what she means, 'doing the same for Justin as I did for her' means that she's protecting him from getting the crap knocked outa him by letting herself take the beatings, 'being in the basement' is meaning that our Dad, will be hurting her and that he'll end up killing her tonight if I don't do something."
"You're not going alone, we're coming with," says Emma.
"That's right Jess, once a team, always a team." Brennan says.
They all hop into an Audi and speed off to the Kilmartin home. Once the car stopped, even a little before Jesse had gotten out and started up the stairs, the others not far behind. He knocked and knew his mom had looked through the peep-hole and knew she wasn't going to open the door, so he phased through it and scaring his mom, opened the door for his friends. Each stepped over the fainted Mrs. Kilmartin and headed, with Jesse leading them, to the basement door. Before opening it they heard a whipping sound, a scream of a young girl, and a shout of "STUPID GIRL WHY NOT LET HIM TAKE HIS PUNISHMENT HIMSELF"
Jesse pushed open the door and rushed down the steps, to find his 17 year old sister with her top and bra off, arms shackled around a large pipe, and being whipped by their father. Shalimar's eyes burned yellow and she leaped over Mr. Kilmartin to the girl protecting her while the boys fought. Emma glanced at Mr. Kilmartin, and he flew across the basement into a wall, where Jesse pinned him with an elbow to the throat. Brennan fished the keys out of the mans pocket and threw them to Shalimar, who in turn unlocked Debbie. Debbie tried to put her bra and shirt back on but found it too painful and decided just to put her over large shirt on, then backing away from the fight slid down a wall and into unconsciousness. Jesse seeing all of this seethed with anger.
"Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you, for all you put me and Debbie through." he growled through closed teeth.
"B-because I am your father," the man stated.
"Wrong, you're not our father because a father wouldn't do this to his children, let alone a teenage daughter of his."
"Let me go, boy." he hissed.
"Jess, she's bleeding pretty badly, we need to get her to Sanctuary," Adam said, looking at the girl in Brennan's arms.
"Right, Shal, Em, will you head up to her room to get her things? I want to finish this."
The girls nodded and headed upstairs to get her things, after Jesse telling them where his sisters room was.
"Jess, let me," Brennan said. Jesse nodded and went and took the unconscious girl from Brennan. Brennan stepped up and shot Mr. Kilmartin with a jolt of electricity, not enough to kill him, but enough to see him in pain, before slipping into unconsciousness himself. The girls appeared, with three bags and the laptop computer they'd found along with a backpack and a duffel bag of stuffed animals, at the top of the stairs with a young boy at the age of 11. The boys climbed the stairs and went outside to the Audi. They carefully placed Debbie in the very back, with her bags and then climbed into the vehicle themselves, silently. They put 'blinders' on Justin and rushed back to Sanctuary, to stop the bleeding and hopefully ruse Debbie out of her unconsciousness.
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*BACK AT SANCTUARY (IN THE LAB)*
Jesse is pacing around the room waiting for Adam and Emma to give him the diagnosis of his sister. Debbie herself lay on her stomach in the middle of the room, with Shalimar cleaning and bandaging her wounds. Justin who had fallen asleep on the way to Sanctuary lay in one of the spare rooms, asleep. Brennan sat on a table across from Shalimar and Debbie, obviously deep in thought.
"Jesse," Adam starts, "Except for the blood loss, cuts, and unconsciousness, Debbie will be fine. Your father opened up some scars and cuts, and that's why the lacerations are so deep. Debbie should be waking momentarily as we gave her an injection of adrenaline to wake her up." Suddenly Debbie moaned.
"Ahh, oh, okay, yep, that hurts," she stated trying to move.
"Debbie, I'm Adam, a sort of doctor, you could say, and right now, just don't move."
"Jesse, where is Jesse?"
"Right here Deb," Jesse said
"Jess, my friends they need my help."
"Wha- what? You just suffered probably the most severe beating yet, and you need to go help your friends? I really don't think so missy."
"Jess, their parents are worse then ours, they need you more than I do right now... Jess, please go help my friends."
Jesse looked to his friends, who each nodded. "Only children right? No siblings?"
Debbie laughed, "No, no siblings. Their names and addresses are in my school planner. There's only 3 of 'em."
Jesse and the others left the room, with Adam and Emma still bandaging up Debbie.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**LATER THAT SAME NIGHT**
MutantX now had 4, 17 year olds, each in varying conditions of injuries, Debbie's being the worse. Dahlia, a girl with black hair and tan skin taking second in being injured. Matt, a blonde boy, took third, and Jon, a boy with brown eyes and multi-colored hair, was near fine, save for the bruises on his arms, legs, and face. Matt, though cut on his back wouldn't take the help offered until Debbie started shouting at him to sit down and get better. Obviously the two, Debbie and Matt, cared deeply for each other, as did Jon and Dahlia. After each were bandaged and semi-sedated, they were sent to the other extra rooms. Debbie and Dahlia on the girls side of the hall, Matt and Jon on the boys' side.
*THE NEXT MORNING.*
At around 6:15 Debbie woke up and took a shower, yet again wincing at the contact of warm water on her still bandaged back. She toweled off and dressed in a loose navy blue T-shirt and a pair of cut off shorts, then set off to explore Sanctuary. She found the reflecting pool and sat down on the edge of the platform. She was soon joined by her three best friends. Jon and Matt put their arms around the girls and Debbie and Dahlia leaned into the boys.
A little later, they were being silently watched by the members of MutantX.
"Aw, isn't that sweet," whispered Shal to Emma and Brennan. Brennan, put his own arm around Shal in the same manner of the boys.
"Yah," whispered Emma, putting her arms around Jesse's waist.
"Who wants to interrupt there little moment, by announcing breakfast?" Adam said, standing in the middle of the 2 couples.
"I'll do it," Emma offered, untangling herself from Jesse and starting to walk over to the teenagers.
"I'll come with," Jesse said.
They walked over to the teens and said Breakfast was ready, and the boys got up, helping the girls up as well.
Jesse grabbed the hands of the love of his life and his sister, and led them to the others and eventually breakfast.
"Debbie, Dahlia, I'd like to re-bandage your wounds after breakfast, is that okay?" Adam said
The two best friends looked at each other, and said 'Sure' at the same time.
"And then later, if Adam says it's okay, we can take you shopping." Emma offered.
"Cool!" both girls exclaimed.
"Do you guys always talk like that?" Brennan asked.
"Some of the time," Matt said, laughing and shaking his head.
"Matt!" Debbie exclaimed hitting him lightly on the shoulder.
"Debbie!" he exclaimed mocking her high pitched annoyed voice.
The girls of MutantX exchanged a knowing look with each other, yep those two definantly liked each other.
They finished breakfast, and the girls offered to wash the dishes, but Adam explained that they had a dishwasher. So the girls went to dress in clothes good enough to go shopping in. Debbie wore a pair of blue hip huggers and a long, loose, black T-shirt, so you couldn't tell about the hip huggers. Dahlia wore a pair of blue jeans and a loose long-sleeved navy blue shirt. The boys except for Adam accompanied them, for protection, from the GSA or Mr. Kilmartin.
After 2 hours of the mall, the girls had decided that they'd done enough shopping and went back to Sanctuary. After unpacking each of their things, and Debbie and Dahlia getting re-bandaged, the 4 teens decided to watch their elders spar. The girls immediately took to the styles of Shalimar and Emma, while the boys liked Jesse and Brennan's styles. Adam even let the boys spar together, but the girls couldn't until their wounds had healed, so they exercised their brains in a game of chess. Debbie beat Dahlia n a relatively short amount of time, but as Dahlia had no experience in the game, didn't really offer any comparison.
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**Debbie's Sanctuary Room**
Debbie, after playing chess with Adam and getting her butt royally kicked, went to her room and got on the 'net. After messing around for a while, she went to check her mail, and she found a message from her father.
"JESSE!!!!!" She screamed.
Everyone came running at this point, "What is it?"
"Jess, look at that address!"
He instantly turned an angry red. Debbie opened up her email, and read aloud this: 'Dear bitch, I promised myself I'd never speak to you again, but had to tell you this. I will find you, and when I do you and your brothers will be killed, and your friends fathers are with me on this too. If we find any of you. You'll be killed. Your Father." Debbie wanted to scream but couldn't as Jesse hugged her tight. Justin ran out of the room and into his own, crying. Jesse then went after Justin, and Adam called a meeting of the MuntantX members in the lab.
*******LAB*****************************************************************************
"Okay guys what do you want to do?" Adam asked.
"We could keep them here until they learn to defend themselves." Emma suggested.
"Yeah, but what if they're fathers band together?" Shalimar said.
"Plus they need to go back to school, just until exams start, as they get those of because of the whole less than 5 day truancy clause..." Jesse says.
"We could teach them to fight and then give them an injection of tracing bots." Brennan says.
"But we'd have no way of knowing if they were in danger or not..." Emma says.
"We could give them Comm-links. That way we could trace them and they'd have a way to contact us." Shalimar suggests.
"That's a good idea Shal, all in favor?" Brennan says. All raise their hands. "Then Comm-links it is."
"I'll get the new rings started immediately ." Adam says.
The rest go out of the lab, leaving Adam to his work. The 4 teens were spread across Sanctuary, Debbie at the reflecting pool, Dahlia sitting reading under the dojo, and Matt and Jon sparring on the dojo. Although acting natural, anyone could tell the teens were nervous. Shalimar went over to Debbie to talk. She had her knees pulled under her chin and was deep in thought.
"Do you mind if I join you?" Shal asked.
The teen jumped, "Sure, go ahead..."
"So, you never told us, what is your New Mutant ability?"
"I'm half psyonic, half morpher. I can change into any animal that I've ever touched."
"That must be quite useful when you're afraid."
"Yeah, I guess. Only I can only stay in animal form for an hour at a time."
"Why didn't you ever use your ability to get away from your father?"
"Because each time I did use it, the beatings would get worse...."
"Oh. Hey, I noticed that you wear that necklace all the time. Does it mean something?"
"Yeah. See the necklace itself is a pentagram, the Wiccan sign, and Matt gave it to me, to show me that he still liked me even though we don't believe in the same Gods."
"Aw, that's sweet."
"Yeah, he gave it to me for my 16th birthday."
"So you say you can turn into any animal you've touched. Ever touched a lion?"
"Actually yeah, I have. At a fair a long time ago."
"So you could turn into it whenever you want?"
"Basically yeah, why?"
"Well I'm feral, and I've never seen a lion..."
"Technically I'd be a lioness, as I'm a girl."
"That's cool."
Later on after dinner, Debbie and Matt decided to show the others how they could morph. After talking a while Debbie and Matt decided on a lion/lioness morph, after she told him Shal had never seen one. Matt and Debbie got down on their hands and knees and concentrated. Soon the morping began with Matt hair exploding into a huge mane and Debbie shrinking into her head. A while later to teenage lions started to prance around the dojo, and Debbie let Shal pet her. After about 15 minutes of messing around in morph, they decided to end it, and de-morphed back to their original forms.
"That was so cool, you guys!" Shalimar exclaimed.
"Yeah, totally awesome!" Emma said.
They decided to get to bed as the teens had to go back to school the next day.
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*THE NEXT DAY*****************************************************************************
After breakfast Adam called everyone together at the doors. "Okay, now guys I know this is going to seem weird, these are Comm-links. They are traceable and communable, so you can get a hold on us at any time. Now here's something I just installed, its a mood detecter, so if you guys are afraid, angry, happy, or whatever, the ring will tell us."
"Cool. They're like high-tech mood rings." Dahlia said.
"Yes, now I want each of you to wear this constantly, okay. By the way when you put them on, they'll show your personal DNA strand." Adam handed each teen a ring, and each solemly slid it on to his or her own finger. "Now, it's straight to school with you, and when it's over, Shal and Brennan will be there to pick you up. Okay?"
"Yes, sir. Mr. Adam, sir." Jon said with a mock salute.
"Jon..." Adam said shaking his head.
At school that day, everything went normally until 6th hour when, "Will Jon Nelson, Dahlia Leal, Matt VanderPloeg and Debbie Kilmartin please come to the front office." came on over the intercom. Matt and I exchanged glances, as we got out of our seats, grabbed our stuff, and headed for the office with Dahlia and Jon. The front office has see-through glass all around it, and as we rounded the corner, we saw each of our fathers. Debbie whispered into her comm-link, "Jesse? Adam? I think we have trouble."
"What is it?" Adam's voice said.
"The dad's are here, at the school."
"You need to get out of there, as quick as you can guys. We'll be over as soon as possible."
"Hurry!"
The teens walked around the front office hoping not to be seen, but unfortunantly they were. They ran out the front doors, looking around for someplace to hide. They each jumped into the bushes, just as the dad's had come out.
"When I find that freak of a son I have, I swear...," a man said brandishing a gun.
"Don't worry, we'll find them alright, then I'll show that daughter of mine a thing or two about pain."
"HEY!" they heard Brennan shout, and then Jesse.
"DON'T MESS WITH MY SISTER!!!!!"
A gun shot was fired and then the dad's went off in different directions. The kids came out of the bushes, just as the principle and the police officer came out of the school.