Skinner and Doggett stared in horror as Mulder vanished before them.
"Shit, I guess you were right about that one, John."
"Well, I didn't want to be right. Come on, let's get to this place before we disappear too. I'm sure they too him to wherever Scully is."
Mulder opened his eyes and squinted against the sunlight. He swore someone had grabbed him, yet here he lay in the field in front of a larger property. This had to be it...had to be the ship they brought Scully and his son to.
"Mulder?" He heard a familiar female voice say into his ear.
"Agent Reyes?"
"What happened...I lost connection with you for a second and Director Skinner and Agent Doggett thought they had lost you."
Mulder stood and quickly attempted to head towards the building.
"I don't know, Agent Reyes, but I'm assuming I'm within the barrier of a space ship and starting to believe that I'm the one they are after."
"Be careful, Mulder."
"How is the baby doing?" He had to ask.
"She's doing fine...but I can tell she is discontented with the fact Dana has been gone so long and you."
Mulder sighed. He had to get Scully and get home.
Doggett and Skinner were relieved Reyes had made contact with Mulder and the reassurance, that backup was on call.
It was what or who was coming next that caught them off guard.
A tall figure, much over 6 feet headed their way in the distance.
"Shit," Doggett exclaimed.
"What is it?"
"It's Knowle Rohrer."
Meanwhile, Mulder managed to pick the lock of the closest door with the light tools in his pocket. He scanned the premises befpre heading inside pf what appeared to be a military base...much like the one he escaped from several years back.
He ducked behind several walls of areas protected by armed men...men he wasn't ready to face quite yet.
He came upon a camera room with a single guard and slowly approached from behind until the man in camouflage whirled around at him, but not before Mulder plunged a needle directly into his spine and pushed him to the side. He tucked a piece of magnetite rock into his front pocket and proceeded to scan the cameras quickly until he spotted Scully in a dark room, along with an unfamiliar boy, which he knew had to be his son.
Realizing there was no time to process that, he quickly moved to shut down the system, disabling the cameras once he knew where he had to go. Before he finished, he pulled thr emergency fire alarm and fled the room.
Skinner and Doggett waited for Rhorer to disappear before making their way towards the area until the heard a piercing sound of a fire alarm that resulted in a flood of men exiting the building.
"Don't tell me this is Mulder's doing," Skinner whispered.
Doggett looked over at his boss in horror.
"What do we do now, sir?"
"We hope and pray we're not sitting ducks, Agent Doggett, but we'll have to trust he knows what he's doing."
Scully nearly jumped at the sound of the alarms and instinctively pulled William towards her. Despite his maturity for his age, she knew he was scared as much as she was. "It's okay," she whispered. "It's going to be okay."
"He's here, " William whispered in a shaky voice.
"Who?"
"My dad, he's come to save us."
Scully faught her fear and hoped Mulder would get to them in one piece. He had to. They had another child at home.
Doggett and Skinner had to make a detour around the sudden outflux of men and women, whonwere obviously aware of an intrusion.
"Going somewhere?" Came the familiar voice that sent chills down Doggett's back.
"John?" He heard Monica say. "John, who is that."
"Knowle Rhorer," the words faded on his lips.
"Get backup," Skinner demanded.
"Already done, sir."
"John!" She repeated.
Knowle proceeded closer towards them. "Well, well, John, I didn't expect to see you again."
"I hoped I had taken the trash out for good."
Scully heard a door open and though she clutched William closer to her protectively, she gave a sigh of relief at the sight of Mulder who immediately tensed and was unsure of what to say to the son he hadn't seen since he was just a few days old staring back at him.
He did look a lot like Scully with those deep blue eyes, but he also recognized the unmistakable brown hair that was his own.
"Mulder," she whispered.
Mulder snapped out of his reverie and seemed to remember that they were still in a lot of danger here. This wasn't the proper time for a reunion.
"Come on," he grabbed her free hand and rushed them out of the prison-like cell.
It was only moments before Doggett was certain he would meet his fate that the FBI flooded the area and came to their aid. He wasn't sure why, but Rohrer had left him...he could have easily shifted once the reinforcements arrived, but he disappeared into the barrier in which Mulder escaped.
He wasn't sure why, but maybe part of his old friend still existed somewhere beneath that alien facade.
He turned to see Skinner pulling himself off of the ground and not much after he saw Mulder, Scully and a young boy headed towards them, did EMT's swarm over them to examine their injuries.
Somehow they came through that barrier, no doubt that had something to do with Mulder & Scully's son, but his head hurt too much to think.
They would get out of here alive.
To be continued...