Spiritwalker

A/N-Hi, my name is Amber Cloud and I write fanfic... Thank you everyone who has reviewed. I dedicate this to all of you, sorry for the delays in getting more chapters up, I have been getting ready for a move, so, lots of time away from the machines for me.

This is fanfic, Marvel owns these characters, even the ones guest starring in this piece. I don't have any money, don't sue me, you won't get anything.

Cliffhanger warning. There, I warned you....(evil laugh)

Out of the Frying pan and into the fire-

Brennan woke, the scream dying in his throat. He rarely had nightmares, at least ones that he remembered, and this one was so intense it lingered on the edge of his consciousness. He saw Jesse and Kari, running after him and falling, falling very hard.

He rubbed his face, trying to rub the sleep out of his eyes and yawned. He got out of bed quickly and was met in the hall by Shalimar, who was just coming home.

"Afternoon sleepy head," she smiled. Her smile faded as Brennan's face clouded with worry.

"Has Jesse checked in?" Brennan asked, "I know he went down to help Kari get her stuff and I haven't seen him since they left on the Helix."

"No, he hasn't," Lexa interrupted, meeting up with them, "and I am beginning to get concerned. He should have checked in at least an hour ago, and the Helix hasn't moved from its homing coordinates."

"Really?" Brennan headed up the stairs for the computer lab, gut instinct telling him something was going very wrong.

Lexa was ahead of him, bringing the tracking software online.

The large map of San Francisco showed the Helix sitting in the parking lot near the safe house, the smaller blip of Jesse's ring miles from the craft.

Brennan bit his lower lip.

"Have you tried raising him?" Brennan asked.

"Yes, no answer," Lexa replied.

"Something is up, Lex, I can feel it," Brennan stated, starting to pace the floor, "We need to go after them."

Blue eyes opened to a rampaging headache. Jesse sat up and desperately tried to keep his vision from spinning. It stopped spinning, but his need to throw up didn't and he promptly threw up. As he finished he tried to figure out his surroundings. He was alone, as far as he could tell, and he was in the dark.

He slowly tried to stand up and as he did, the lights grew brighter. 'Motion detector', he thought to himself and stood, using the wall to steady himself. He scanned the room and contemplated phasing out of the room. Instinct told him to think first and act later. He stood and touched the back of his neck. Luckily, no subdermal. He still controlled his powers and knew that his captors didn't know all of his talents.

As he tested his ability to walk, the door to his cell slammed open and shut quickly, throwing the near lifeless body of Kari into the room. He caught her before she fell and turned to try and see what the captors looked like.

They were dressed in military fatigues.

"HEY! WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!" he yelled, trying to get their attention.

It didn't work. Jesse held Kari close and turned her so he could see her face. Her eyes were closed and a bruise was purpling up along her high cheekbone. He put gently put fingers to the side of her face. She stirred under his touch.

"Are they gone?" she asked, one eye opening and focusing on him.

Jesse nodded. He gently let her go, trying to steady her to stand.

"You okay?" Jesse asked. "Yep, but I can't tell you who these guys are," Kari stood, "They have a leader, he called while they were working on me, and he's coming down to meet us."

"Us? Great," Jesse met her eyes, "Any idea what they want?"

"They want my version of the database, the one I had in the safehouse," she said, walking the cell, her fingers searching the walls for any sign of bugs, "They don't realize it was destroyed in the quake."

She stopped and gently pulled on rock face in front of her. Part of the rock came off in her hand, a wire connected to it. She held it up to Jesse and smiled.

"I got that one," she sighed, "I know that there are probably more."

Jesse held up a finger to his lips. He followed her along the wall of the cell, putting on finger along the wall, slightly phased. The pain of phasing was playing on Jesse's nerves, as he found another, he pulled and the wire snapped in his hands. She found another and pulled, then she looked up. A small, lipstick camera was in a corner.

Slowly, she slid down the wall to where the camera could not look. Pointing to Jesse from that spot, she motioned for him to join her. The room went black as he sat down, but she kept her voice soft and low.

"I think we got them all," she whispered, "are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm more worried about you, you weren't conscious when you came in here," Jesse felt out for her hand and grabbed it, "Did they hurt you?"

"I learned how to play possum growing up, I'm fine, the bruise will heal," she replied, settling into a more comfortable position, "I don't like the dark too much tho, I think they're gonna come for you next. What the hell was that thing that they hit us with?"

"That I don't know, but odds are on a sonic disruptor, I heard the military was using that against the mutants now, and well," Jesse laughed bitterly, "I think we were the new test subjects."

Kari squeezed his hand. She could feel that he was scared, but he had been in this situation before. It was best to wait it out. She had spent time while they thought she was unconscious casting her mind out to whomever she could, but centering on someone she knew could help them. She breathed in and quickly relayed the information to Jess, knowing that in this state it wouldn't hurt as badly as it could.

He breathed in quickly, the invasion shocking. The images she pulled of Brennan, the ones she knew, might just work. The fact that she had resorted to mind communication, which Emma only used on him once made him more accustomed, but the headache afterward was something of memory. "It might just work," he said aloud, the answer sounding strange in the quiet room.

Kari sat bolt upright, her hand going rigid in Jesse's. The camera above them sparked out and the lights came up brightly. Jesse looked at Kari when he could focus. She wasn't doing this, she was trying to adjust to the light, but the look of serenity of her face was out of place.

She started to laugh.

"Jesse, we're going to get out of here," she said, as the door to their cell opened, "Move!"

He did as she commanded, they bolted from their spot into the lit hallway. They ran for a nearby corridor as they entered a long hall. They were almost out of the hallway when the military men met them at the one end of the hall. Jesse breathed in and massed, Kari stepping in behind him like a crude dance. She moved as he turned, protecting her as they ran the opposite direction. More military men met them at the other end of the adjacent hall, cutting off their obvious exit route.

They had a hall to their left they could duck into so they did when Kari noticed a man join the men at the end of the hall. He was a large man, with a regal walk and looking toward Jesse with extreme contempt. He started down the hall toward them when Kari pulled her head back into their small hallway. Jesse looked at her, there was no way out. They had turned down the wrong hall and were going to be in the hands of this madman.

The man continued down the hall when another person stepped into the light of the hallway.

"How you doing Eric?" the man growled, "How about you leave these kids alone?"

Jesse turned toward the man walking down the hall. It took a few heartbeats until he recognized the man, Eric Lensher, otherwise known as Magneto.