According to the Database
Written by: Wendigo3
Email: wendigo3@hotmail.com
Rating: PG
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"According to the database, he's an psionic illusionist. He can create images from his mind and make them real." Jesse swiveled his chair and turned to Shalimar, "So you're saying that he can use his mind against us. He can create a piano from his mind and drop it on us, what do we have to protect ourselves?"
"The kid has a subdermal govenor inside him. Somehow he found a way to use an electrical outlet to deactivate it. According to Adam, he's really smart," Brennan said. "Plus," Emma said as she smiled from the corner, "I may be able to use my abilities to counteract his."
"I may be able to transmit a randomized code from the Double Helix and reactivate his subdermal govenor. The only problem would be if he found a way to block the transmitter." "We're coming up on the building," Brennan said, "I'm going to take us down slowly. Is the cloak still activated?" "It's at full power, not exactly sure why we need it since it's 3 in the morning though," Jesse said sarcastically.
Emma and Shalimar leaned back in their chairs as the Double Helix slowly went towards the earth as it made its descent. Brennan landed the team on a rooftop with perfect ease, obviously he had been practicing. Emma stood up first, "He might sense that I'm here, psionics are always unpredictable when it comes to sensing each other. It just depends."
"Let's go." The team entered the building through a quick phase of a wall from Jesse. They walked down the stairs until they came to an open area where a young blond-headed boy stood. He looked directly at them and then his face changed to pain. "The subdermal govenor activated, we have to hurry." Emma psionically projected a blindness to the boy, but he ignored it with ease." Emma looked in awe to Shalimar, who fell backwards as gunfire started to erupt.
"He's a hologram," Shalimar said as her feral eyesight. "He must have sensed us and escaped, are the guns holograms too?" Emma sighed as she leaned back. "I think they're pretty real." "How do you know," Jesse asked as the team took cover. "I think I got hit by one." Emma moved her hand from her gut and blood started to rush out. Jesse walked foreword and focused his mind and within seconds, he reached his hand into the wound. "Sorry, this may hurt. We have to get the bullet out quick."
He pulled his hand out of Emma's phased gut and looked at the bullet. "They're real alright." "They seem to be locked on to movement," Emma said. She turned her head and a psionic blast shot towards the center of the room. It split into various directions and then bounced all over the place. Bullets struck it until silence was heard. "Empty, let's get Emma to the double helix and see if we can track him."
Adam looked at Emma and smiled, "As good as new. Take it easy for the next few days, but you should still be okay except for mild pain." Emma smiled at Adam, "Thanks. Sorry we couldn't catch the guy." "Don't worry, you had no idea what you were getting into with him. Now that you know what he's capable of, you'll be ready." Emma smiled at Jesse and Shalimar who walked in.
Brennan followed a few seconds later. "How are you feeling?" "In perfect health, Adam says that the damage was minimal because you got the bullet out, thanks Jess." "I'm just glad I could help." Adam glared at him, "Were you able to track the subdermal govenor frequency?" "Yep, he's at a school. I was thinking that maybe Shalimar should go in as a substitute teacher."
"What, why me? You know how much I hated school when I was a kid!" "Because, you'll be able to keep track of him better than the rest of us. Besides, you're better with kids." "As much as I'd like to agree," Adam said, "I think it would be wise for all of you to go in." "Adam, this kid might be able to sense me. Besides, he might recognize us from the building."
"No, I think he was gone. I think that you two stumbled in on his security system. Plus, if his subdermal govenor is deactivated, he shouldn't be able to sense you." Emma nodded and turned to Jesse. "We'll get started on making the profiles." Brennan rolled his eyes and looked at them. "Just don't make me the theatre teacher or something cruel like that." "Oh, I have the perfect job for you Brennan, the girls will love you," Emma said.
Four hours later, the team was already in their places as the morning bell rang. The class looked up at the blond-haired woman who was smiling. The guys had to stop themselves from drooling, and the girls had to control their envy. "Hello class, my name is Shalimar Fox and I am your new substitute science teacher. Between you and me, I hate to be called a 'Mrs.' or a 'miss' so just call me Shalimar."
The class looked at her as if she were fresh meat, it was all she could do to close off her feral nature from the staring eyes and hormone enraged teenagers. Her feral abilities allowed her to practically smell it all. "So, where have you been in the science book?" A young girl raised her hand and smiled. Shalimar recognized the type instantly, the brilliant girl who always had to get every answer in. "Yes, please, fill me in."
The girl smiled and lowered her arm. "We've started learning about magnets." Shalimar looked at her in disbelief. "This is a junior science class, you're talking about magnets?" The class nodded their heads. Shalimar sighed and sat on the teacher's desk. "Okay, everyone open your books and turn to chapter seven and start reading." Shalimar walked behind the desk and quickly surveyed all of the students. She ignored the females and made a small mark on the roll sheet for all of the males. The door opened and she turned to look at Emma. Shalimar smiled and took a breath of relief.
"Class, sorry to interrupt your reading, but this is Emma DeLauro, she is going to be taking over the counseling position to assist Mrs. Reynolds with the load of the students. If you have a problem, it might be better for you to talk to her."
Emma looked at the students and surveyed their emotions quickly. She passed up the contentment and searched for anger and cruelty, and then she mentally made a note of the face, hopeful that she would remember. "I hope that you will all come to me if you have a problem. Think of me as a classmate, not a teacher. Hell, I graduated college three years ago, it isn't like I'm an old granny or something."
"My office is right across from the health office, so come and see me. I was also asked to inform you that we have a new Auto Shop Teacher, a new Physical Education teacher, and someone from the Education Services has been sent to monitor the student's achievements for the next few days. Please be on your best behavior as we have all of the new staff changes." "Excuse me while I talk to Emma outside." Shalimar and Emma walked outside and closed the door.
"Aren't you the lucky one, you get to be the counselor. You aren't stuck in there with the glances and the daydreaming!" Emma smiled, "You know you're loving it Shal, all of the attention. It's what a good feral needs anyways. Besides, Adam said that you were a whiz at science, it was the easiest place to put you." Shalimar nodded her head, "I know, I just hope we catch him. Have Brennan or Jesse had any luck?" "Not yet, but it's the first period of the day, we'll just have to meet up after class. Reminds me of high school, except now I can pass notes to you without breaking the rules."
Emma raised her eyebrows as she started laughing. Shalimar glared at her, "You are enjoying this way too much!" "Probably, but at least we're not stuck in a building where chemicals are circling around us, half of the scientists are pointing guns at us, and we have to fight our way out."
"I would actually be able to do something in that situation Emma." Emma nodded. "The action that you crave will happen soon honey, just enjoy the time off. Boss some kids around, it'll make you feel better." Shalimar glared at Emma's playful tone with her feral eyesight. As Emma walked away, Shalimar walked into her classroom. Shalimar looked at the students who looked down to the books as soon as she walked in. "I take it you guys aren't much fans of books either.
Okay everyone, we're going to do an experiment." Shalimar placed a magnet on each of the student's desks. "See if your book is magnetic." The students looked at her and then, did the experiment. "It's a book, nothing metal is even near it Shalimar." Shalimar sat on the teacher's desk and smiled. "Then why is it on your desk, if nothing's attracting it to you, why hasn't gravity placed it on the ground?" A jock in the back row pushed his book down to the floor.
"I guess my book just needed a little momentum." Shalimar smiled, "Now you're thinking like a scientist." Shalimar looked around at the room with barely any light from the outside. As a feral, she needed to be in an open space with all of those people, maybe even more so as a regular person. "This room is horrible, let's go outside."
Jesse held his hand out and shook it. "It's nice to have a new edition to our Physical Education staff." The female coach looked Jesse up and down. "Especially young ones in great shape." Jesse smiled and blushed slightly, "I'm flattered." The woman smiled, "Don't be flattered, class starts in fifteen minutes and you have no idea what you're getting yourself into."
Jesse nodded as she walked away, "Lucky Emma, gets to be the counselor. Why couldn't I have been the psionic in the group?" The students walked in, about seventeen average high school guys who deep down, hated gym class. Most of them knew how to ignore it and just get it over with, but there were those that didn't want to give it a chance.
Jesse watched them closely, ready for one of them trying to make an escape. He figured that the people that would try to leave the class would be the same group as the suspect, but he demanded that he didn't think that way the whole time. For all he knew, the guy could be any one of them.
Emma psionically blasted the principal and glared at him. "I could have sworn that my office had told me that they sent over the right papers, I'm sorry for the mix up." The principal's face looked slightly pale and confused. "Don't worry about it Emma, I'm sure that they will send the rest of them in a day or two. That reminds me, we are still waiting for papers from the other new staff members."
Emma raised her shoulders, "Must be something with the mail." The principal nodded, "Of course. Uh, is there anything else that I can do for you?" "Actually, I was wondering if it would be okay if I called in a few random students to just see what's going on with their lives, you know, try to get to know a few of them so they can rave about me to their friends." "Is that a new technique that they're teaching at the schools these days?" Emma smiled, "Something like that."
"I'm sorry Miss DeLauro, but I'm afraid that we simply don't have the time…" Another psionic blast hit the principal directly in the forehead and he fell back, unconscious. "I guess a weakened mind can only take so much. Poor guy, all of the problems with your wife's cancer, you should be at home resting." Emma heard the door open and turned around to find the secretary glaring at her.
"What happened, why didn't you call for someone?" "It just happened, I was going to call for help, who are you?" The woman glared at her and raised her hand. Emma's body fell to the ground. She couldn't get up, as hard as she tried the only result was to raise her shoulder a few inches.
"I saw you do something to him, you must be a psionic, probably one of the strand." The woman ran over to the principal and checked his pulse. Emma reached out with her mind, desperate for assistance, "Shalimar, I need you."
Outside the students were gathered around the oak tree. There were books all around them in stacks and they were being used to hold magnets and bowls of various items. Shalimar glanced at the school building as her feral eyesight activated. "Shalimar, I need you."
The words hadn't come over the comline, she had heard them in her mind. Emma was calling her, she was in trouble. Shalimar turned to her students with human vision, "I have to go and get something out of the classroom, all of you stay near this tree. If any of you so much as move, I'll feed your arm to flesh-eating bacteria." Shalimar ran quickly and once she was at a safe distance that the kids couldn't see her, she leapt into the air with amazing agility.
She grabbed the base of the open window and climbed in and looked around. Knowing that she was in the girls bathroom, she quickly ran into the hallway. "Brennan, Jesse, Emma's in trouble in the Principal's Office." She stopped for a moment, thinking what that had sounded like, "She needs us to break her out." Holding back a chuckle, she ran towards the room and walked in.
Emma looked at her from the floor as a woman hovered over the principal's unconscious body. "She's a new mutant Shal, a gravative." Shalimar leapt back as the woman glanced at her. The door fell to the ground with excessive heaviness. "What are you people doing in this school," She demanded. Emma glanced at her as Shalimar rolled into the room. "We're Mutant X, we came to find a specific student." The woman glanced at the two of them for a moment and then her face changed from angry and defensive, to calm and relieved.
"Now everything makes sense, to think that I thought you were the bad guys. Still, after what I saw you do to Mr. White…" She waved her hand and Emma's body became light. She floated up quickly and then, normal gravity returned. "Wow, that can really make you dizzy." Jesse and Brennan ran into the room quickly and looked around. "I thought you said Emma was in trouble."
Four minutes later, the door was fixed as much as possible and it was closed. The principal was still unconscious, but Emma would have known if he was starting to awaken. "I'm Jenet Oliver, the principal's secretary. I'm a gravitive mutant and I can also destabilize the molecules of objects." Adam looked at her in amazement, "That ability is very rare, I'm glad that you're able to have control over it."
"Actually, I don't have a lot of control with it. That's why I only use it in extreme circumstances. Unfortunately it kind of leaks out when I'm angry, it kind of surrounds me in a field. Anything within a few feet of my body kind of melts." "I can help you learn to control it," Emma suggested. Jenet smiled, "That would be incredible, I'd be grateful. The files that you asked for are in that filing cabinet." Emma smiled and walked over to the cabinet.
She opened a drawer and pulled out six folders. "James Thompson, Lucas Kayler, Luenda Martinez, Anthony Daniels, Jennifer Albert, and Cameron Christensen." Shalimar looked at the Principal and then looked at Emma, "Is he going to be okay?" "Well, I was using my abilities and he was so weak that he fell unconscious. It's his body's way of telling him that he needs rest." Jenet nodded sympathetically. "He's been running around without his head.
His wife's been going to chemotherapy four days a week and it's running him down." Emma smiled, "I can wake him up and give him some extra energy, but he needs to monitor his body more closely, I think we should just let him rest. He'll wake up soon." Shalimar looked at Jesse with wide eyes, "Our classes! I'm not used to having a class, I need to get back to them."
Jenet smiled, "Your class probably left as soon as you did. All of your classes probably left, it seems to be a building problem these days." Emma smiled and looked at the folders, "I have work to do. Thanks for your help, we'll keep you informed." Jenet smiled, "Let me know if you need my help with anything."
It was 5:30 in the afternoon and everyone had met in the teacher's lounge, including Jenet. The only one missing was Shalimar. "She probably fell asleep," Jesse said, "You know how ferals get when they're tired." Emma looked at Jesse, "She's on her way, but something's wrong. I can feel it." "Well Emma, that isn't anything surprising since you're the psionic that senses emotions." Jesse definitely needed to be taught a lesson. Emma looked at him, "Yes, you're right. Still, Shalimar is two floors down."
Adam looked at Emma, "Maybe your abilities are expanding?" Emma looked at Adam with a worried look. Adam raised his hand, "I'm not saying that your abilities are beginning to mutate out of control, just that you're gaining better control over them." Emma smiled weakly, "Sorry, I guess I can't help but feel a little worried over loosing control of myself."
Shalimar walked in a few moments later with pure anger in her eyes. Her feral eyesight had already been active for a few feet. "What's up," Brennan asked calmly. "Someone attacked the principal a few minutes ago." Shalimar sat down and continued to explain. "His car was crushed. He was found inside and is in the hospital with a concussion and two broken ribs. He's still alive, but the thing is that the thing that crushed his car is completely gone." "It's our illusionist then," Emma said as she received a mental picture without searching for one. She suspected that it was what Shalimar saw, although she didn't want to ask."
"He's getting closer to hurting anyone, we're going to have to find him soon." Jenet turned to Brennan and Shalimar, "Do you think he's aware that you're here?" "I'm hoping not, if so things are going to get worse," Brennan said. "We're definitely going to need to watch out for things," Shalimar said. "Be ready in case something happens," Adam suggested. "In the meantime," he continued, "We should all start talking with students and trying to narrow down the list."
Jenet smiled as she leaned back in her chair, "I can call a few to the office and talk to them, it won't be suspicious because I do it all the time when something happens." Adam smiled at her, "Thanks, but we don't want to put you in any danger." She looked at him and pushed her dark-haired bangs away from her eyes. "I want to help. Besides, if he went after the principal, that means he doesn't care who he goes after. If he goes after me, you'll at least know that I talked to him."
Emma looked up from the file folders and sighed. "All of the students I talked to today weren't mutants, I scanned each of them. Although Psionics can usually hide their abilities, they're children and their abilities would be easier to pick up."
Jesse sighed, "Nothing special has happened in Gym class, except for one student who telekinetically pushed the ball in the basket. He didn't think anyone noticed, but since I know what to look for, I did. He's good at hiding his abilities though." Adam thought for a moment as he put his hands to his face. "We need to look at this from a different angle. I feel like we're missing something." Emma looked up and smiled. "You think we should check the staff too?" Adam nodded and smiled after he realized she had picked up on the thoughts that he was getting to. She connected them herself.
"If our kid is an illusionist, he'd be able to project anything, even a younger body or someone of the opposite sex." Jenet looked at Adam and sighed. "Except for the six of us, I haven't noticed any other staff members with mutations or abilities. Although it doesn't mean that they aren't out there, I find it hard to believe that they haven't slipped once."
Adam glanced at his watch and smiled. "We should all go and get some sleep. We'll meet here at 7 tomorrow morning and see if anyone thought of anything else." The group got up and cleared the office, leaving Jenet sitting by herself deep in thought. "Why would someone be after the principal, he isn't a mutant. The way they talked, this kid is only going after new mutants himself…something doesn't fit."
At six thirty the next morning, Jenet had already arrived at the school. Fearful that someone was after her, she had typed up her thoughts on a disc and hit it in her office in a place that any feral would see. Jenet walked into the principal's office and got a handful of folders and then walked back to her desk. She sat and looked at the first one as she felt someone's eyes on her.
She looked around and eventually stood up as her fear grew. She raised her hands, ready to activate her abilities if she needed them. Movement to her left caused her to look, but she couldn't move fast enough to stop the large basketball from hitting her. She fell down to the ground and couldn't keep herself calm. A dark shadow appeared over her and she raised her hands in fear. She called upon her anger, hopeful that it would work as the shadow got closer.
A green field extended around her body and then shot out in every direction. The shadow twisted and turned and then vanished as a dark haired boy was left looking at her. She looked at his arm and saw that his skin had started to break down. It resembled a bad burn and it looked very painful to her. He looked at her in annoyance and anger. She threw her hand and gravity pulled him in the opposite direction.
He was forced out of the room as a large object appeared above her. She tried to control it, but it fell on her after a few seconds. Blood rushed from her face as the various cuts started bleeding while she remained unconscious.
Adam thanked the police officer as he walked away and glanced briefly at the students near him. He sighed, thinking about what to do, and walked further into the office. "I hope these events aren't common here." A man smiled, "No, this is the first time these things have happened. Maybe it's because you're here?" Adam ignored the English teacher and grunted in response. He smiled to himself as he walked down the hall. He thought he was acting very well for the part. Once he was fairly sure that he was alone, he raised his ring towards his face. "It's Adam, we need to meet in Shalimar's classroom. There's been another attack."
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Written by: Wendigo3
Email: wendigo3@hotmail.com
Rating: PG
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"According to the database, he's an psionic illusionist. He can create images from his mind and make them real." Jesse swiveled his chair and turned to Shalimar, "So you're saying that he can use his mind against us. He can create a piano from his mind and drop it on us, what do we have to protect ourselves?"
"The kid has a subdermal govenor inside him. Somehow he found a way to use an electrical outlet to deactivate it. According to Adam, he's really smart," Brennan said. "Plus," Emma said as she smiled from the corner, "I may be able to use my abilities to counteract his."
"I may be able to transmit a randomized code from the Double Helix and reactivate his subdermal govenor. The only problem would be if he found a way to block the transmitter." "We're coming up on the building," Brennan said, "I'm going to take us down slowly. Is the cloak still activated?" "It's at full power, not exactly sure why we need it since it's 3 in the morning though," Jesse said sarcastically.
Emma and Shalimar leaned back in their chairs as the Double Helix slowly went towards the earth as it made its descent. Brennan landed the team on a rooftop with perfect ease, obviously he had been practicing. Emma stood up first, "He might sense that I'm here, psionics are always unpredictable when it comes to sensing each other. It just depends."
"Let's go." The team entered the building through a quick phase of a wall from Jesse. They walked down the stairs until they came to an open area where a young blond-headed boy stood. He looked directly at them and then his face changed to pain. "The subdermal govenor activated, we have to hurry." Emma psionically projected a blindness to the boy, but he ignored it with ease." Emma looked in awe to Shalimar, who fell backwards as gunfire started to erupt.
"He's a hologram," Shalimar said as her feral eyesight. "He must have sensed us and escaped, are the guns holograms too?" Emma sighed as she leaned back. "I think they're pretty real." "How do you know," Jesse asked as the team took cover. "I think I got hit by one." Emma moved her hand from her gut and blood started to rush out. Jesse walked foreword and focused his mind and within seconds, he reached his hand into the wound. "Sorry, this may hurt. We have to get the bullet out quick."
He pulled his hand out of Emma's phased gut and looked at the bullet. "They're real alright." "They seem to be locked on to movement," Emma said. She turned her head and a psionic blast shot towards the center of the room. It split into various directions and then bounced all over the place. Bullets struck it until silence was heard. "Empty, let's get Emma to the double helix and see if we can track him."
Adam looked at Emma and smiled, "As good as new. Take it easy for the next few days, but you should still be okay except for mild pain." Emma smiled at Adam, "Thanks. Sorry we couldn't catch the guy." "Don't worry, you had no idea what you were getting into with him. Now that you know what he's capable of, you'll be ready." Emma smiled at Jesse and Shalimar who walked in.
Brennan followed a few seconds later. "How are you feeling?" "In perfect health, Adam says that the damage was minimal because you got the bullet out, thanks Jess." "I'm just glad I could help." Adam glared at him, "Were you able to track the subdermal govenor frequency?" "Yep, he's at a school. I was thinking that maybe Shalimar should go in as a substitute teacher."
"What, why me? You know how much I hated school when I was a kid!" "Because, you'll be able to keep track of him better than the rest of us. Besides, you're better with kids." "As much as I'd like to agree," Adam said, "I think it would be wise for all of you to go in." "Adam, this kid might be able to sense me. Besides, he might recognize us from the building."
"No, I think he was gone. I think that you two stumbled in on his security system. Plus, if his subdermal govenor is deactivated, he shouldn't be able to sense you." Emma nodded and turned to Jesse. "We'll get started on making the profiles." Brennan rolled his eyes and looked at them. "Just don't make me the theatre teacher or something cruel like that." "Oh, I have the perfect job for you Brennan, the girls will love you," Emma said.
Four hours later, the team was already in their places as the morning bell rang. The class looked up at the blond-haired woman who was smiling. The guys had to stop themselves from drooling, and the girls had to control their envy. "Hello class, my name is Shalimar Fox and I am your new substitute science teacher. Between you and me, I hate to be called a 'Mrs.' or a 'miss' so just call me Shalimar."
The class looked at her as if she were fresh meat, it was all she could do to close off her feral nature from the staring eyes and hormone enraged teenagers. Her feral abilities allowed her to practically smell it all. "So, where have you been in the science book?" A young girl raised her hand and smiled. Shalimar recognized the type instantly, the brilliant girl who always had to get every answer in. "Yes, please, fill me in."
The girl smiled and lowered her arm. "We've started learning about magnets." Shalimar looked at her in disbelief. "This is a junior science class, you're talking about magnets?" The class nodded their heads. Shalimar sighed and sat on the teacher's desk. "Okay, everyone open your books and turn to chapter seven and start reading." Shalimar walked behind the desk and quickly surveyed all of the students. She ignored the females and made a small mark on the roll sheet for all of the males. The door opened and she turned to look at Emma. Shalimar smiled and took a breath of relief.
"Class, sorry to interrupt your reading, but this is Emma DeLauro, she is going to be taking over the counseling position to assist Mrs. Reynolds with the load of the students. If you have a problem, it might be better for you to talk to her."
Emma looked at the students and surveyed their emotions quickly. She passed up the contentment and searched for anger and cruelty, and then she mentally made a note of the face, hopeful that she would remember. "I hope that you will all come to me if you have a problem. Think of me as a classmate, not a teacher. Hell, I graduated college three years ago, it isn't like I'm an old granny or something."
"My office is right across from the health office, so come and see me. I was also asked to inform you that we have a new Auto Shop Teacher, a new Physical Education teacher, and someone from the Education Services has been sent to monitor the student's achievements for the next few days. Please be on your best behavior as we have all of the new staff changes." "Excuse me while I talk to Emma outside." Shalimar and Emma walked outside and closed the door.
"Aren't you the lucky one, you get to be the counselor. You aren't stuck in there with the glances and the daydreaming!" Emma smiled, "You know you're loving it Shal, all of the attention. It's what a good feral needs anyways. Besides, Adam said that you were a whiz at science, it was the easiest place to put you." Shalimar nodded her head, "I know, I just hope we catch him. Have Brennan or Jesse had any luck?" "Not yet, but it's the first period of the day, we'll just have to meet up after class. Reminds me of high school, except now I can pass notes to you without breaking the rules."
Emma raised her eyebrows as she started laughing. Shalimar glared at her, "You are enjoying this way too much!" "Probably, but at least we're not stuck in a building where chemicals are circling around us, half of the scientists are pointing guns at us, and we have to fight our way out."
"I would actually be able to do something in that situation Emma." Emma nodded. "The action that you crave will happen soon honey, just enjoy the time off. Boss some kids around, it'll make you feel better." Shalimar glared at Emma's playful tone with her feral eyesight. As Emma walked away, Shalimar walked into her classroom. Shalimar looked at the students who looked down to the books as soon as she walked in. "I take it you guys aren't much fans of books either.
Okay everyone, we're going to do an experiment." Shalimar placed a magnet on each of the student's desks. "See if your book is magnetic." The students looked at her and then, did the experiment. "It's a book, nothing metal is even near it Shalimar." Shalimar sat on the teacher's desk and smiled. "Then why is it on your desk, if nothing's attracting it to you, why hasn't gravity placed it on the ground?" A jock in the back row pushed his book down to the floor.
"I guess my book just needed a little momentum." Shalimar smiled, "Now you're thinking like a scientist." Shalimar looked around at the room with barely any light from the outside. As a feral, she needed to be in an open space with all of those people, maybe even more so as a regular person. "This room is horrible, let's go outside."
Jesse held his hand out and shook it. "It's nice to have a new edition to our Physical Education staff." The female coach looked Jesse up and down. "Especially young ones in great shape." Jesse smiled and blushed slightly, "I'm flattered." The woman smiled, "Don't be flattered, class starts in fifteen minutes and you have no idea what you're getting yourself into."
Jesse nodded as she walked away, "Lucky Emma, gets to be the counselor. Why couldn't I have been the psionic in the group?" The students walked in, about seventeen average high school guys who deep down, hated gym class. Most of them knew how to ignore it and just get it over with, but there were those that didn't want to give it a chance.
Jesse watched them closely, ready for one of them trying to make an escape. He figured that the people that would try to leave the class would be the same group as the suspect, but he demanded that he didn't think that way the whole time. For all he knew, the guy could be any one of them.
Emma psionically blasted the principal and glared at him. "I could have sworn that my office had told me that they sent over the right papers, I'm sorry for the mix up." The principal's face looked slightly pale and confused. "Don't worry about it Emma, I'm sure that they will send the rest of them in a day or two. That reminds me, we are still waiting for papers from the other new staff members."
Emma raised her shoulders, "Must be something with the mail." The principal nodded, "Of course. Uh, is there anything else that I can do for you?" "Actually, I was wondering if it would be okay if I called in a few random students to just see what's going on with their lives, you know, try to get to know a few of them so they can rave about me to their friends." "Is that a new technique that they're teaching at the schools these days?" Emma smiled, "Something like that."
"I'm sorry Miss DeLauro, but I'm afraid that we simply don't have the time…" Another psionic blast hit the principal directly in the forehead and he fell back, unconscious. "I guess a weakened mind can only take so much. Poor guy, all of the problems with your wife's cancer, you should be at home resting." Emma heard the door open and turned around to find the secretary glaring at her.
"What happened, why didn't you call for someone?" "It just happened, I was going to call for help, who are you?" The woman glared at her and raised her hand. Emma's body fell to the ground. She couldn't get up, as hard as she tried the only result was to raise her shoulder a few inches.
"I saw you do something to him, you must be a psionic, probably one of the strand." The woman ran over to the principal and checked his pulse. Emma reached out with her mind, desperate for assistance, "Shalimar, I need you."
Outside the students were gathered around the oak tree. There were books all around them in stacks and they were being used to hold magnets and bowls of various items. Shalimar glanced at the school building as her feral eyesight activated. "Shalimar, I need you."
The words hadn't come over the comline, she had heard them in her mind. Emma was calling her, she was in trouble. Shalimar turned to her students with human vision, "I have to go and get something out of the classroom, all of you stay near this tree. If any of you so much as move, I'll feed your arm to flesh-eating bacteria." Shalimar ran quickly and once she was at a safe distance that the kids couldn't see her, she leapt into the air with amazing agility.
She grabbed the base of the open window and climbed in and looked around. Knowing that she was in the girls bathroom, she quickly ran into the hallway. "Brennan, Jesse, Emma's in trouble in the Principal's Office." She stopped for a moment, thinking what that had sounded like, "She needs us to break her out." Holding back a chuckle, she ran towards the room and walked in.
Emma looked at her from the floor as a woman hovered over the principal's unconscious body. "She's a new mutant Shal, a gravative." Shalimar leapt back as the woman glanced at her. The door fell to the ground with excessive heaviness. "What are you people doing in this school," She demanded. Emma glanced at her as Shalimar rolled into the room. "We're Mutant X, we came to find a specific student." The woman glanced at the two of them for a moment and then her face changed from angry and defensive, to calm and relieved.
"Now everything makes sense, to think that I thought you were the bad guys. Still, after what I saw you do to Mr. White…" She waved her hand and Emma's body became light. She floated up quickly and then, normal gravity returned. "Wow, that can really make you dizzy." Jesse and Brennan ran into the room quickly and looked around. "I thought you said Emma was in trouble."
Four minutes later, the door was fixed as much as possible and it was closed. The principal was still unconscious, but Emma would have known if he was starting to awaken. "I'm Jenet Oliver, the principal's secretary. I'm a gravitive mutant and I can also destabilize the molecules of objects." Adam looked at her in amazement, "That ability is very rare, I'm glad that you're able to have control over it."
"Actually, I don't have a lot of control with it. That's why I only use it in extreme circumstances. Unfortunately it kind of leaks out when I'm angry, it kind of surrounds me in a field. Anything within a few feet of my body kind of melts." "I can help you learn to control it," Emma suggested. Jenet smiled, "That would be incredible, I'd be grateful. The files that you asked for are in that filing cabinet." Emma smiled and walked over to the cabinet.
She opened a drawer and pulled out six folders. "James Thompson, Lucas Kayler, Luenda Martinez, Anthony Daniels, Jennifer Albert, and Cameron Christensen." Shalimar looked at the Principal and then looked at Emma, "Is he going to be okay?" "Well, I was using my abilities and he was so weak that he fell unconscious. It's his body's way of telling him that he needs rest." Jenet nodded sympathetically. "He's been running around without his head.
His wife's been going to chemotherapy four days a week and it's running him down." Emma smiled, "I can wake him up and give him some extra energy, but he needs to monitor his body more closely, I think we should just let him rest. He'll wake up soon." Shalimar looked at Jesse with wide eyes, "Our classes! I'm not used to having a class, I need to get back to them."
Jenet smiled, "Your class probably left as soon as you did. All of your classes probably left, it seems to be a building problem these days." Emma smiled and looked at the folders, "I have work to do. Thanks for your help, we'll keep you informed." Jenet smiled, "Let me know if you need my help with anything."
It was 5:30 in the afternoon and everyone had met in the teacher's lounge, including Jenet. The only one missing was Shalimar. "She probably fell asleep," Jesse said, "You know how ferals get when they're tired." Emma looked at Jesse, "She's on her way, but something's wrong. I can feel it." "Well Emma, that isn't anything surprising since you're the psionic that senses emotions." Jesse definitely needed to be taught a lesson. Emma looked at him, "Yes, you're right. Still, Shalimar is two floors down."
Adam looked at Emma, "Maybe your abilities are expanding?" Emma looked at Adam with a worried look. Adam raised his hand, "I'm not saying that your abilities are beginning to mutate out of control, just that you're gaining better control over them." Emma smiled weakly, "Sorry, I guess I can't help but feel a little worried over loosing control of myself."
Shalimar walked in a few moments later with pure anger in her eyes. Her feral eyesight had already been active for a few feet. "What's up," Brennan asked calmly. "Someone attacked the principal a few minutes ago." Shalimar sat down and continued to explain. "His car was crushed. He was found inside and is in the hospital with a concussion and two broken ribs. He's still alive, but the thing is that the thing that crushed his car is completely gone." "It's our illusionist then," Emma said as she received a mental picture without searching for one. She suspected that it was what Shalimar saw, although she didn't want to ask."
"He's getting closer to hurting anyone, we're going to have to find him soon." Jenet turned to Brennan and Shalimar, "Do you think he's aware that you're here?" "I'm hoping not, if so things are going to get worse," Brennan said. "We're definitely going to need to watch out for things," Shalimar said. "Be ready in case something happens," Adam suggested. "In the meantime," he continued, "We should all start talking with students and trying to narrow down the list."
Jenet smiled as she leaned back in her chair, "I can call a few to the office and talk to them, it won't be suspicious because I do it all the time when something happens." Adam smiled at her, "Thanks, but we don't want to put you in any danger." She looked at him and pushed her dark-haired bangs away from her eyes. "I want to help. Besides, if he went after the principal, that means he doesn't care who he goes after. If he goes after me, you'll at least know that I talked to him."
Emma looked up from the file folders and sighed. "All of the students I talked to today weren't mutants, I scanned each of them. Although Psionics can usually hide their abilities, they're children and their abilities would be easier to pick up."
Jesse sighed, "Nothing special has happened in Gym class, except for one student who telekinetically pushed the ball in the basket. He didn't think anyone noticed, but since I know what to look for, I did. He's good at hiding his abilities though." Adam thought for a moment as he put his hands to his face. "We need to look at this from a different angle. I feel like we're missing something." Emma looked up and smiled. "You think we should check the staff too?" Adam nodded and smiled after he realized she had picked up on the thoughts that he was getting to. She connected them herself.
"If our kid is an illusionist, he'd be able to project anything, even a younger body or someone of the opposite sex." Jenet looked at Adam and sighed. "Except for the six of us, I haven't noticed any other staff members with mutations or abilities. Although it doesn't mean that they aren't out there, I find it hard to believe that they haven't slipped once."
Adam glanced at his watch and smiled. "We should all go and get some sleep. We'll meet here at 7 tomorrow morning and see if anyone thought of anything else." The group got up and cleared the office, leaving Jenet sitting by herself deep in thought. "Why would someone be after the principal, he isn't a mutant. The way they talked, this kid is only going after new mutants himself…something doesn't fit."
At six thirty the next morning, Jenet had already arrived at the school. Fearful that someone was after her, she had typed up her thoughts on a disc and hit it in her office in a place that any feral would see. Jenet walked into the principal's office and got a handful of folders and then walked back to her desk. She sat and looked at the first one as she felt someone's eyes on her.
She looked around and eventually stood up as her fear grew. She raised her hands, ready to activate her abilities if she needed them. Movement to her left caused her to look, but she couldn't move fast enough to stop the large basketball from hitting her. She fell down to the ground and couldn't keep herself calm. A dark shadow appeared over her and she raised her hands in fear. She called upon her anger, hopeful that it would work as the shadow got closer.
A green field extended around her body and then shot out in every direction. The shadow twisted and turned and then vanished as a dark haired boy was left looking at her. She looked at his arm and saw that his skin had started to break down. It resembled a bad burn and it looked very painful to her. He looked at her in annoyance and anger. She threw her hand and gravity pulled him in the opposite direction.
He was forced out of the room as a large object appeared above her. She tried to control it, but it fell on her after a few seconds. Blood rushed from her face as the various cuts started bleeding while she remained unconscious.
Adam thanked the police officer as he walked away and glanced briefly at the students near him. He sighed, thinking about what to do, and walked further into the office. "I hope these events aren't common here." A man smiled, "No, this is the first time these things have happened. Maybe it's because you're here?" Adam ignored the English teacher and grunted in response. He smiled to himself as he walked down the hall. He thought he was acting very well for the part. Once he was fairly sure that he was alone, he raised his ring towards his face. "It's Adam, we need to meet in Shalimar's classroom. There's been another attack."
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