Disclaimer: I get paid for a lot of things but definitely not this (haha!) Tribune andFireworks own Mutant X, I am but a little leech borrowing them since I'm too lazy to create my own world and characters!

Author's Note: Due to time constraint issues I didn't get to edit this chapter as much as I would have liked to so please be understanding in that...without further ado...

aniki19: hey, hey I originally had the action come earlier but it just seemed everything was happening too soon so I had to improvise...you know they go to Alex's house, BAM they find out about NAMA, and go after Adam...too much too soon so...glad you like, should be aniki19 approved the rest of the way!

KatKnits00: What's a Mutant X story without conflict or angst? I think it's SO mean that the writers keep killing off Jesse's girls...he's so sweet it kills me!

alexis: Oh my freakin god I wrote like nearly half of what was left (like I said I'd sit down and finish it) and apparently I didn't save it...so since I'm a dumb ass I had to bust into getting this chapter done on time...but no worries next chapter should be done quickly!

hi (5): Yes...still here! Next step in my action...

Freckles-101: Aw thanks...wasn't sure if people would like Alex so I limited the 'sole' parts she had...I ended up giving her some more time, guess it's my way of writing for an absent Lexa.

CatJerica: Your character...hmm, should have brought that to my attention earlier could have given her a bit role...oh oh next chapter will have romance and angst oh you're gonna love it!

Amber Cloud: You know I really like the character Lexa...like granted I started watching the show in the third season but I thought it was genius on how the writers developed Lexa's character. Since most people aren't fans of change and since Emma died they figured fans would be pissed so they created Lexa to piss off Mutant X and throughout the season they warmed her up to the team...but I'm glad you like Lexa in my fiction (doing the happy dance).


New Beginnings

Chapter 7: Rescue Me


"Do you have the coordinates? Good, let's hear it," she said, writing it down on a piece of paper. "Alright, it's good to finally hear from you again, I was beginning to worry. See you soon," she finished hanging up the phone. She turned to tell Mutant X of the partially good news, but was surprised when she turned nearly bumping into them.

"We found Adam, let's go," she said. No questions asked, no delays Alex started for the roof access stairs.

In a different situation they might have suggested Alex stay with Lexa, they might have told Jesse not to risk any further injuries, but they didn't. They needed all the help they could get and the sooner they found Adam the better chance Lexa had.

Upon the roof a helicopter was waiting. The four climbed inside finding it to be just big enough for the four passengers. Once the door was shut Alex signaled to the pilot by circling her index finger above her head. Nodding the pilot flipped a couple of switches and the helicopter started off.

Grabbing a headset Alex put it on signaling for the others to do the same. With the headsets on the volume of the noisy helicopter was then muted a bit. They heard Alex's voice as she tested to be sure they could hear her. "Test, test, check one," she said repeating it until all nodded an okay.

"I'm going to give you a quick brief with the information I have so far. Right now Adam is in one of the Dominion covert bases about two hours from here. I'm getting blueprints made up and transferred to rendezvous point one. There we will also get back up air and ground forces to assist our escape at rendezvous point two. When we do get Adam keep all emotions in check until we are airborne again. Afterwards we'll return to the hospital and see if he has a cure."

Mutant X, minus one, nodded, not wanting to know the end result if he didn't have that much needed cure.

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An hour and a half later they landed at rendezvous point one. Landing on an open field, surrounding it were a pair of warehouses in what appeared to be the middle of nowhere.

Circling the area in a military hummer a driver and a passenger saluted Alex as she started towards them. Alex returned the salute and gestured them at ease. A few words were exchanged and they handed her what Shalimar, Brennan, and Jesse could only assume were the blueprints. The rolled up prints were in her hand and they watched as she started back for the helicopter only to stop when a man in a pilot suit approached her. They talked briefly and from her expression they knew something else was up.

Smiling Alex gestured for the three to get out of the helicopter. After doing so they jogged the distance to Alex, curious to learn why. "Good news, we're changing vehicles," she said following the pilot. Behind her they followed till they entered one of the warehouses. Inside they were surprised by the sight of the Helix type aircraft.

Brennan and Jesse looked at each other, then simultaneously looked at Alex. Without so much as a look their way she answered their curiosity. "One of those projects that aren't suppose to exist."

As simple as that they followed her inside their new ride. By now they trusted her and being impressed if longer than a moment right now wasn't going to happen, not with all that was at stake.

A minute later they were boarded and ready for lift off. In the air and still a half an hour away Alex went over the blueprints and gave them a plan of attack.

"Risk assessment," Alex had said. The three shuttered at Lexa's exact words when she first came to Mutant X. Their first mission together was the same as the one before them, just a different enemy.

With their plan set firmly in their minds they were ready to go when the pilot called out the "five minutes until rendezvous two" warning.

The plan went as Shalimar and Jesse were to take the lead, while Brennan covered the middle, and Alex would cover the rear with a 9-mm Beretta. Eager and ready to go the advanced aircraft was in stealth mode, cloaked and indictable whether by man or machine.

They landed upon the roof; one by one they exited onto the building top. All out Alex checked for her target point beneath their feet. Counting out using her feet she stopped when she found the objective spot. Turning to Jesse she asks, "ready?"

Nodding the others gathered next to him. Bending down he placed his hand on the surface. Taking a breath he phased a small portion of the roof. Shalimar was the first to descend, then Brennan, Alex, and finally Jesse. From the roof, through the ceiling, and into the ventilation shaft they had phased.

Quickly but quietly they crawled several feet before Alex found the hall beneath them they were looking for. Again they had Jesse phase through the solid surface and below. All phased and ready to go they broke off into their positions.

Shalimar and Jesse took the lead. Shal used her senses and Jesse to back her up in case of surprise which with her feral senses was unlikely but better safe than sorry.

Brennan was between the leaders, for 'electrical' support, while Alex was behind him, her 9-mm in hand.

Shalimar's eyes turned yellow as she found Adam's familiar scent up ahead. The four followed the plan step by step. With little opposition they passed a hall, turned right down a second corridor, passed another hall they were outside the double doors of Adam's location. In front of the room where Adam was expected to be she smiled at the strong scent that came from behind those doors. He was there in the room.

Turning to face the others she nodded and signaled them to cover her as she opened the door. Opening the door's they were met by a pair of guards. Shalimar jumped at one while Brennan took the other out.

Behind the fallen guards Adam stood and behind him a small lab was a computer screen with a DNA strand taking up the majority of the screen. He looked at them, stunned. "Shalimar, Brennan, Jesse, what...how did you find me?" he asked, but then saw Alex enter behind them. A simple 'oh' escaped his lips as Shalimar stepped towards him.

"Come on," she insisted pulling at his arm. He paused briefly then turned and grabbed a disc from the computer. Stuffing it in his pocket he followed Shalimar out. As the others turned to follow them they stopped at the doorway, met by a familiar figure, Lexa's Dominion contact.

Brennan was about to take him out with an electrical coil but Alex stopped him. "Brennan, I think it would be rude to kill our contact that gave us this information," she said.

Brennan closed his fist, looking from Alex then back to the contact he nodded his understanding and gratitude. The brief interlude ended as Shalimar, Adam, Jesse, and Brennan passed him.

Alex began to follow but stopped facing the man. "Guess this is the other's cue," she said pressing a button on her cell phone. She then returned her attention to her contact. The alarm sounded which gave way for Alex to hurry with her goodbye.

"You know if you come with us we have spot open in the organization."

He looked at her, shaking his head no. "I need to stay here and make sure this organization goes down. Just promise me that you and Lexa will survive this and take down the Dominion."

She nodded. "Now that we have Adam I'll make that promise," she said shaking his hand.

Looking up at her he smiled. "It's funny working with Lexa for that time I felt like I was working with you."

Nodding she held up her gun and shot him in the shoulder, making it believable enough that he was left for dead. He bit his lower lip from the pain, not making a sound. "Get that shoulder checked for me," she said. Turning she raced after Mutant X who were actually quite far ahead , about ready to make the first phase.

"Thought we'd lost you," Brennan said with a smile.

"Well I'd hate to miss the ending."

"Ready?" Jesse asked. Taking a breath his phased the wall as they entered the stairwell halfway up the stairs they continued to the roof.

Beneath them Alex saw the incoming guards climbing up towards them. Firing their guns at the retreating five the bullets missed, coming awfully close. Not wanting to get hit the five continued until they were on the roof. Before Alex left the stairwell she pulled out a grenade. Pulling the pin an evil smiled crept across her face as she dropped it below.

As she started for the door a stray bullet clipped her shoulder but she shrugged it off, finding the numbness that followed from the pain.

Out the door she was forced to stop Brennan from trying to reenter and slow down their pursuers. Grabbing his arm he stopped looking at her questionably. Simply shaking her head no she started to run, Brennan took the hint and followed. Not two seconds later the grenade exploded shaking the entire rooftop.

Brennan stumbled and Alex caught his falling form. "Watch your step," she said in a flat tone. He glared up at the older woman shaking his own head. 'Just like Lexa,' he thought.

Ahead of them Shalimar, Adam, and Jesse boarded the aircraft; they turned looking for the final two passengers that weren't far behind.

Alex pushed Brennan ahead of her. Once he was inside she looked behind her to be sure no one followed then was met by Brennan's extended hand. A quick glance at the gesture and she took it shutting the door behind her.

With the passenger compartment closed the 'bird' lifted off the roof and began their return.

Inside the reunion began. "Adam!" Shalimar exclaimed like a child seeing a parent after an unfortunate event that forced the separation. Reaching next to her she hugged the older man.

He smiled at her warmness and embraced the hug. "Shal, I'm glad to see you're okay, all of you," he finished looking at the rest of the team.

Alex didn't waste any time. "Adam, do you have a cure for new mutants?" she asked, slightly wincing from her injury.

The others noticed this and Jesse, who sat next to her offered to look at the wound but she ushered him away implying it wasn't serious. Seeing that it hadn't hit any major organs or arteries, that he could tell, he contented himself with her stubbornness that she was and would be okay. After all they were heading back to a hospital.

Adam looked across from him at Alex. They'd met once or twice but the meeting wasn't long. He knew she was all business and seeing Lexa wasn't here he put two and two together.

"For the most part, yes, though I haven't been able to efficiently test it out yet..." he started.

As she listened she pulled out her cell phone and tossed it to him. "Here," she interrupted, as the small device landed in his lap.

He looked at her for instructions, knowing there would be no argument. "Press one and give Dr. Jones the information. Lexa needs all the time she can get," she ordered.

Adam tapped the phone against his leg nervously about to start something he might not win, but perhaps he could convince her. "This isn't something you can just call over the phone and instruct. It's a delicate procedure that..." again he was interrupted.

"Spare me the lecture. Dr. Jones knows of your research and mutant DNA he just needs the procedure to stabilize Lexa's DNA. At least give him SOMETHING to work with while we fly back and once there you can 'delicate' the procedure all you want. Don't make Lexa wait any longer than she needs to," Alex said.

Adam nodded; about to make the call he stopped. Scratching his head he responded, "if he mixes the wrong..."

"Look, Adam, if Lexa dies than I won't be shy about sending you into a pine box. You started this mess now you'd better finish it or this rescue mission will turn into a disposal mission," she responded more coldly than any had heard her or anyone for that matter say.

All looked at her timidly. Sure that'd stop her if she tried anything but what stopped them from intervening in the verbal conflict before them was that her only living relative was dying and Adam was making the situation harder to swallow.

Adam nodded a second time then made the call. The conversation was only heard from Adam's view by the other passengers in the aircraft. Instructions that only a genetics expert would understand came from his mouth. As he began to end the call he looked at Alex for the answer as he spoke to Dr. Jones. "We should arrive in," he paused, waiting for Alex's reply.

"An hour and forty-five minutes," she said.

Relaying the message through the receiver Adam finished the call hanging up the phone and tossing it back to Alex. Then he sighed, knowing the rest of the ride would be a long one.

"Report," she ordered, eyes eager to hear an update on the situation.

Adam looked across at the woman. In his though short time with the Creator he was able to take what he needed and pieced together a stabilizer. Something he had been working on since the day he was taken from Mutant X, for he knew the four most powerful mutants would find him and when they did he'd be ready to save them. The only problem was that he hadn't tried it out, only in the lab.

Alex's eyes reminded him of their first encounter. He knew he could count on her more so than the other Commission members to bring Mutant X into the organization. Which had been one of his reasons for working Lexa into Mutant X, not only for the woman's own protection of who she was becoming but to brighten the future for the other three members if it came down to it.

"He's preparing as we speak. Once there I will finish up and give Lexa the stabilizer," he said.

Alex nodded and Adam looked at the three mutants. Finally, after this long year of figuring out the true corruption of the Dominion and NAMA's open arms the two teams were combined to stop the Dominion, but that higher goal had to wait until he cured the final member of Mutant X.


Author's Note: I know the rescue was quick and seemed somewhat easy but considering in 'The Assault' Mutant X were in and out and didn't have the intell 'NAMA' does...plus I didn't want to overkill the rescue. Since it's not a vital part of the story, though it could have been...I felt it should have been something that was 'built up' and executed quickly. Think special ops...

Next chapter will be short but full of angst...and oh, two more chapters to go! We're almost done!