Chapter 4: Precog Predicament

AN: - Sorry I haven't updated in ages I've been on holiday and just got back and have been really busy you know summer holidays and all that. Hope you like my next chapter please review.

Brennan regained consciousness slowly. He looked around gently as his head was killing him. He was lying on one of the beds in the med bay of the Avon, sitting on the bed next to him was Ben he was awake and talking to Katrina. Jesse was looking in awe at the electronical wonders of the med bay. Shalimar and Lexa were sitting on Brennan's bed; Lexa was watching Jesse while Shalimar had eyes only for Brennan. The second she saw his eyes flicker she slung her arms around him in a tight embrace.

"Ow, ow, sore." Brennan mumbled.

"Oh sorry, I forgot you were sore. My bad." Shalimar replied releasing him.

"Sores an understatement I feel like hell." Brennan responded dragging himself into a sitting position.

"That's natural, every volt of your electrical energy was needed to keep this plane up." Ben responded.

"What you mean my powers are…are gone?" Brennan asked in a panic.

"Temporarily, yes but you should be fine soon." Katrina responded coolly.

"Great, so how long till I can fire sparks again?" Brennan asked wincing as he flexed his fingers.

"Sparks pretty soon but a full blast that could take a while." Katrina replied.

"Joy!" said Brennan sarcastically "so if your all down here who's flying the plane?"

"I am, the only one here who was designed for this purpose. So I believe I am the one best qualified to do it." The computer responded making Brennan jump.

"Computer you may be the best at driving this machine but does driving it at –25 miles per hour count?" Ben asked the computer remained silent. "See that's ruffled your feathers hasn't it?" Ben grinned.

"I'm afraid you have just proven your idiocy in your last statement. Firstly it is impossible to travel at –25 miles per hour. Secondly my feathers are not ruffled as I do not have feathers. I am a piece of superior machinery and I do not have…"

"Deactivate computer." Ben cut in stopping the computer mid flow and suddenly the voice stopped. "God she's so annoying sometimes you insult her once and BAM she won't shut up."

"Uh Ben." Katrina spoke gently.

"What?" Ben responded.

"You deactivated the computer."

"So?" Ben replied in confusion

"So who's flying this plane?" Katrina asked.

"Oh god." Ben rushed to the stairs, amidst Katrina's giggles and everyone else's looks of panic as they realised that the ship was going down. A couple of seconds later they levelled of."

"That's Ben for you leap before you look and all that." Katrina muttered to the rest of Mutant X as she made her way to the stairs, Brennan made to follow her but was stopped by Jesse.

"Brennan you need to rest." He told him steering him back to the bed.

"No way Jess."

"Look there's nobody here to fight why not just regain your strength for when we land." Shalimar informed him.

"You still don't trust them then?" Lexa asked.

"I'm not sure, they did save us and they know Adam but that isn't enough this could be one big trap." Shalimar replied.

"Shal this isn't like you it's normally Lex who doesn't trust anyone." Brennan replied looking at Shalimar as though worrying she'd turned into Lexa.

"How am I supposed to take that Brennan?" Lexa asked.

"As a complement and as a statement you can't deny it's true." He responded evenly as he slumped back down on his bed.

"I suppose you do have a point." She smiled looking at Jesse and Shalimar who were nodding in agreement.

"Well I'm going to go have a look at the cockpit." Jesse cut in wanting to end that conversation as quickly as possible. Lexa may be tough but even she has a breaking point.

"I'll go with you," She said. "Give you two some time alone." She grinned at Jesse as Jesse grinned back.

"Whatever Lexa don't go killing anyone." Shalimar replied.

"I'll try, but I'm not making any promises." She responded as she and Jesse left the med bay via the stairs.

"Wow this place is a marvel," Jesse commented looking at every piece of machinery he could possibly manage. Ben was driving, while Katrina looked amused at Jesse's behaviour. He was like a schoolboy who had just been given a new toy and wanted to see everything it could do. "What configuration setting are you running?"

"No idea," Katrina replied honestly." I just know it flies and has kick ass weapons, which have gotten us out of quite a few jams. Do you know what thingamajig this is running Ben?" Ben looked around his only response was.

"Computer activate." Then the computer became engaged in a 15-minute conversation with Jesse about the planes capabilities. While Katrina and Lexa tried not to laugh and Ben just kept driving along.

"Ben you are driving at unsafe speeds, please slow down." The computer asked its conversation finally over.

"If we want to get there before dawn we have to go this fast, and what do you expect me to hit up here?" Ben asked.

"That statement makes little sense our current location calculated by our speed we could be going at a safe speed and still reach there in approximately 1 hr and 45 minutes and 15 seconds before dawn." That shut Ben up but he did not slow down. Lexa was watching all this she was trying to get an idea about these people she had met. The girl was young happy and ready to laugh but at the same time could be serious and had been a dominion agent and Lexa knew that wasn't a picnic. The guy on the other hand was serious demanding used to getting his way cold to the point of freezing but seemed generally fond of Katrina. She began to feel a twitch in her fingers and assumed it was just tiredness. But it happened again a minute or two later, there it was again stronger than before. She felt a pull at her skin as it felt like it was being ripped apart. She could feel energy welling up inside energy she couldn't control.

"Jesse." She called out. Jesse looked over and could immediately tell something was wrong.

"Lexa what is it? Speak to me" but she couldn't. Katrina rushed over to join Lexa and Jesse. Lexa's body was in spasm as a wave of light energy emitted from her. "Lexa, Lexa what's happening, Lexa?" Jesse picked her up but dropped her as a beam of light energy struck him on the shoulder. She vanished before she hit the floor. "Where is she?"

"She's there," Ben called his feral eyes glowing "By the fire extinguisher." Jesse bent to pick her up and as she became visible and ready to fire another blast. Jesse massed out this time taking the impact; even so a wave of energy blasted some seats to smithereens and caused Ben to jump out of the way. Jesse carried her down to the med bay closely followed by Ben and Katrina.

"Everyone out now, you to Katrina," There was an outcry. "Now!" Ben ordered "Lexa's metabolism is falling apart she's dying." They swiftly left the room except Jesse who Ben held back.

"Isn't there anything we can do to help?" Shalimar asked Katrina in the cockpit.

"Sit tight, don't crash the plane and pray for a miracle. It's not as bad as it seems they've got the computer helping them after all."

"I have no idea what to do?" Jesse commented placing Lexa on one of the beds as another spasm of energy nearly sent him flying.

"Well first things first." Ben said and grabbed something from a tray and headed for Lexa's neck.

"A sub-dermal governor?" Jesse questioned worriedly

"It's the only way Jesse." Jesse looked away as Ben implanted one into the back of her neck. "Now computer access Adam's files when was Lexa's exact date."

"Adam might have been wrong." Jesse said

"Trust me on this he wont be wrong." Ben responded.

"She has approximately 22 hours 43 minutes to live." The computer chimed in at that moment.

"Isn't there some kind of rule that says we get at least 24 hours to save someone?" Jesse asked.

"Sorry Jesse not in this world." Ben replied as he reached over for two pen-like objects giving one to Jesse he said "We have to close the tissue where its coming apart look on the arms the blue tissue needs fixing with the pen." Jesse did what he was told as Ben did the other arm. Lexa's body stopped spasming and she fell into a deep sleep.

"We have to help her we need the cure." Jesse cried desperately.

"Lucky for you that you know someone who knows what it is." Ben replied. Jesse looked up at him. "We need to get back to Haven as soon as possible."

Shalimar and Brennan were hanging around anxiously by the door waiting for news.

"Your friend will be fine for now." Katrina called over to them as she manoeuvred the craft as quickly as possible.

"How can you say that?" Shalimar asked.

"Because I've seen this before they've got about 24 hours after this begins before they die. But don't worry Adam said that Ben knows the cure he wasn't willing to talk about it in public but I know for a fact he will use it to save your friend." It was then the door opened and Ben came back through.

"How is she?" Shalimar and Brennan asked in unison.

"She's resting you can go see her." Ben said

"What about the cure?" Brennan asked.

"We need to go back to Haven." Was Ben's only reply. Brennan unsatisfied with this answer went down with Shalimar to see Lexa.

"How long has she got?" Katrina asked.

"22 hours 40 minutes." Ben responded coldly

"Not long then." Katrina commented.

"No." Ben replied.

"We need to…" but suddenly Katrina stopped and wailed the sound made Shalimar and Brennan rush back upstairs.

"What's happening?" Shalimar asked.

"Its O.K she does this all the time," Ben replied picking up a pad and paper.

"The moon will fall,

Two bloods will be dashed,

The child will choose

and the mountain will crash." Katrina voice rang across the room.

"That was Bishop's prophecy the one about Ashloke's second coming." Brennan cut in.

"Really well she often picks up other people's predictions she's like a radio tower I'm telling you…" But Ben was cut of by another wail.

"Four will begin,

True love will call,

One will betray,

And one will fall."

"That's the prophecy Bishop gave me." Shalimar told Ben.

"Another Bishop one well that's interesting," he commented writing it down. Another wail. "Oh were not done yet."

"The saviour shall be reborn,

Two children one of dark one of light,

One will give in to their other half,

And one shall lose the fight."

TBC