Chapter 1: - Stranger things have happened
Disclaimer: - Mutant X doesn't belong to me. Yet! Mwhahaha. Just Kidding!
A.N: - Just to recap for those who were hospitalised when season 3 the finale was aired (The only possible excuse for missing it) Jesse has had his mutant code fixed and Lexa's expiry date is coming up. Adam has been captured by the dominion, by the creator who turns out to be the original Adam, well Adam was cloned from him so whatever. Sanctuary and the helix have been destroyed and with the help of D.D. (the guy in the wheelchair) Lexa, Jesse, Brennan and Shalimar escaped. Oh yeah and they destroyed the dominion facility in the progress. My story starts from well exactly where season 3 ended. Enjoy.
The cold night air bit at Mutant X as they fled the exploding dominion facility. They were running as fast as they could under the circumstances fully aware that they were being pursued.
"Guys their catching up on us!" Shalimar called sniffing the air. Their eyes were almost useless in the virtual darkness. Well all except Shalimar's anyway. "I can smell trees over there," she pointed, "Pine if I'm not much mistaken."
"Great Shal what do you want to do? Build a tree house? Or perhaps get a fire going their not going to notice one of those are they?" Lexa replied sarcastically.
"No I was planning on a more subtle approach. They'd make a good hiding and resting place." Shalimar replied flicking Lexa a smile she couldn't see.
As she turned away from Shalimar she noticed Jesse limping close behind. He had already refused their help, insisting he'd slow them down, and for them to go on without him. She walked over to him hooked her arm around his and dragged him along.
"I can walk you know Lexa." Jesse said indignantly.
"Could have fooled me." Lexa retorted.
" Well you could just leave me or just…….." Jesse was interrupted
"Or we could just help you Jess, Brennan you come over here and help me as Shal's the only one who can see these infernal trees. So she should lead the way." Brennan came over and grasped Jesse's other side helping him along. Shalimar led the way onwards.
"Hey Lexa couldn't you just use your powers to make a light or something?" Brennan questioned.
"And alert everyone to our position. I'm sorry Brennan you'll have to rely on my more subtle abilities," Shalimar interrupted before Lexa had a chance to speak. "Or is that a problem for you?"
"No problem just I thought it would be easier if we had some light. I'm not saying your not doing a good job. Oh I'm just digging myself into a hole aren't I?" Brennan commented.
"Yeah want to borrow my shovel." Jesse asked.
"Shhh were here. Now lets find a place to rest." Shalimar cut in as they approached the forest.
CRUNCH!
"Who stepped on a twig?" Lexa asked.
"Wasn't me." Jesse replied.
"Nor me," Shalimar replied. "Brennan?"
"Nope."
"No it was me." an unfamiliar voice came through the air a split second later the heard the click of a plasma grenade. Everyone dived for cover to be fair no they didn't they just got out of the line of fire. Shalimar who was closest to the attacker, and had heard a noise slightly before the man had spoken, had acted instinctively the moment he opened his mouth. She jumped high into the air using her feral eyes to spot a branch and cling to it, there was only two of them well that's good she thought. It was then the plasma grenade was thrown. Uh Oh thought Shalimar.
Jesse grabbed Lexa who was helping him walk and massed out just before the explosion so the impact did not affect them. Brennan skidded along the ground and fired a burst of electricity at the grenade it spun away and exploded destroying the trees. Now it just so happens that one of the trees that were blown up was the one that Shalimar was hiding in. She was sent flying and using her feral abilities aimed her flying kick right at one of the men, the one that had used the grenade. He was sent somersaulting into a tree.
"Shal behind you." Brennan called firing an electrical bolt at where an obvious laser sight was coming from.
"Huh, you fools ever heard of power-proof suits." Said the man. The electricity hadn't even fazed him and he then began firing off bullets like a madman. Brennan ducked behind a tree while Shalimar went for the more energetic approach of scaling a tree and hopping from one to the next as the bullets followed.
Jesse had released Lexa who summoned a sphere of light energy and blasted at the guy. The impact didn't hurt him but he was successfully blinded, blinded enough for Shalimar to leap down from her perch and hit him squarely in the face with a roundhouse kick. He fell backwards and did not get up. The team regrouped.
"Wow that was a close call," Jesse commented. "Everyone alright?"
"Just peachy." Lexa said conjured a ball of light around her hand.
"I thought you said that would just attract enemies." Brennan pointed out.
"Well it doesn't matter anymore in this forest the light isn't going to escape and anyone close will know we're here anyway that grenade wasn't exactly quiet was it?" commented Lexa
"Fair point." Brennan returned.
"Come on we have to put as much distance as we can between us and this place as possible." Shalimar said, her eyes scanning the darkness around them, well the bits that Lexa was illuminating anyway. They walked on until the trees cleared revealing…
"A cliff, just great how are we going to get down?" Brennan asked as they looked over the edge.
"It must be a least 5 kilometres," Jesse added.
"Anyone bring wings? No parachutes either well it's official were screwed." Lexa said dejectedly.
"There's no way we can survive falling off that." Shalimar commented.
"Precisely what I was thinking." They span around a whole group of dominion agents separated them from the safety of the trees. They were between a rock and a hard place.
TBC