Title: The Rescue
Author: Fatcat
Rating: PG (or less)
Category: X File/MSR
Spoilers: Everything up to November 5, 2000.
Summary: Tomorrow night everyone will know Chris Carters story. This is my
Season 8 answers. Hope you have enjoyed this possibility.
Disclaimer: So you think you're the only ones with answers, Mr. Carter? Thanks again to FOX, 1013 and all those others for the use of their characters. I hope it continues to be fun during season 8 and 9.
Feedback always appreciated
"Agent Scully, it's time." Skinner said.
They all dressed in the black assault clothing provided by the assault agents. Skinner's team had provided not just bulletproof vests, but full body armor that was lightweight and flexible for all of them. Tight fitting helmets outfitted with an oxygen supply, night vision cameras and radios were passed around. Assault weapons loaded with armor piercing bullets were given to the trained agents.
The Gunmen were given the body armor even thought they were going to be on the outside of the compound. Their expertise in handling the electronic equipment needed to breach the security systems required two of them remained with the van. The third, Frohike, was given a weapon with rubber bullets to stun instead of kill.
Every member of the team had stun rods that doubled as a club. Various areas of the body armor held every conceivable item they could need for an operation of this scope. Everything from spray paint to duct tape to an emergency medical kit had been efficiently stored on their persons. The trained assault members had concealed weapons and carried a spare suit of armor for Mulder.
At exactly 10:13 p.m. they began the assault.
Only the months of exercise Scully had doggedly pursued allowed her to keep up with the men. The continued strengthening of the mental contact with Mulder drove her. After they had breached the security system and entered the bowels of the facility, Fletcher's knowledge ended. The ease of their entry was testament to the disregard these people had for other agencies. It was plain they felt they were so above the law no one would even make an effort to gain entry.
She quietly directed the leaders down three floors—right, left, down the hall, to the right again and at last to a hall of doors that was locked on the outside.
Guided by Mulder, Scully indicated which rooms were occupied as she sped to the last room on the left. She held up her hand and motioned for the men to act on her command. The door was quietly opened with the application of a clear liquid that completely melted the hinge system and left no residue. There were several men dressed in white surrounding a table bathed in blinding white light. Only the quick adjustment of the night vision glasses to shielding allowed them to continue.
The men around the table were arguing loudly. So loudly in fact they had not noticed the arrival of the team.
"How does he resist the chemicals?"
"We've had immediate success with the two others that we processed, but he is seemingly impervious to our technique!"
"What have we missed? The other's resistance was destroyed almost immediately. They are ready to implant with the new memories."
"Could it be linked to his immunization to the black oil?"
"Don't be ridiculous! There is no such substance as black oil. This resistance must be a fluke of nature."
Skinner signaled to Byers to turn out the blinding light. The room was immediately immersed in darkness.
The members of the medical team were thrown into chaos. Each was quickly stunned and laid out on the floor. They had no idea what had happened.
Scully raced to the table to release Mulder. He seemed to be unconscious, lying still with his eyes closed, headphones on his ears, manacled hands open and relaxed. As she stared down at him she began to cry out with her heart. 'Oh! No! What have they done to you? Are you still there? Come back we need to leave right now!'
Mulder opened his eyes quickly and looked directly at her, picking her out of all the black clad figures surrounding the table.
"Yes!" He grinned as he shouted. "Yes! Scully the answer is yes!"
She smiled back at him behind her mask, realizing he could not see her face. She nodded her head and motioned for him to quietly get up as the other agents released him. He was unsteady on his feet at first, but soon regained his balance. Scully held a black suit of armor out to him that one of the agents had been packing.
He quickly dressed and they turned to leave, calling out to Frohike.
Frohike had immediately moved to the computer and monitor beside the table upon entry to the room. His fingers flew over the keys as he probed the program being used to alter Mulder's memory. He had quickly chuckled and began furiously typing again. He was rising from the console, as they were ready to leave.
"Everyone out." He said. "I've got this set for a 15 second time delay then a run for 10 minutes. Everyone in this room will be exposed to their mind control image of the Aliens attack and retribution for abducting their specimens. A virus will destroy the entire program at the end of that time. We all must be out of the room before the time delay is up. Move it!"
Everyone withdrew from the room. The other agents had opened the doors of the others imprisoned and were leading them quietly out of the complex. They loaded everyone up in the large van and quickly exited the area using a local country road that did not lead back into Beckley. As they drove up the mountain road and down the other side, they stopped and applied some decals to the sides of the truck. They were now as invisible to the security of the complex as they were anonymous to the citizens they met on the back road.
Twelve hours later, the entire group of abductees had been loaded onto planes and were being transported back home. An FBI task force was on its way to Beckley to completely close down the operation.
Skinner, The Lone Gunmen, Morris Fletcher, Scully and Mulder were still in Skinner's office when the news that there was not a shred of evidence left in the entire facility. In fact, a cave-in of the old mine shaft outside Beckley had sealed any evidence forever.
Mulder looked at Morris Fletcher and asked, "How are you going to explain this to your superiors, Fletcher?"
Morris got a sly look on his face and answered, "Explain what? I've been in Atlantic City in the honeymoon suite of Trump Towers with my wife since I got off duty. After I transported the abductee's to West Virginia we met there and we've been celebrating our anniversary and the coming birth of our baby behind a DO NOT DISTURB sign. I have room service deliveries and receipts to prove it. That's my story, and both my wife and I are sticking to it. Thanks to you, we still have a marriage to celebrate and a new baby on the way."
Mulder looked puzzled. Scully put her arm around his waist and told him she would explain later. Morris smirked once more and disappeared out the door.
"Thank you! Everyone, thank you so much. Sir, please thank your team for us. Guys, what can we say? Thanks again. Mulder and I are going to leave now." Scully said.
"Not so fast, Agents. There are a few loose ends to tidy up." Skinner said.
Mulder and Scully groaned as they looked at him—visions of paperwork filling their heads.
"Yeah!" Frohike, Byers, and Langley interjected as one.
"Sir, we'll be glad to do all the paperwork Monday, but right now, we both really need to get some rest." Mulder said to Skinner.
"Paperwork? Paperwork? I'm not interested in any stinking paperwork. I want the real facts here. Scully, how did you know where to go when we were searching for Mulder? Mulder, just exactly what did you mean when you yelled 'Yes' at Scully, and how did you know it was her in that get-up?" Skinner had a bemused expression.
Mulder and Scully looked at each other and smiled. How could they explain what had happened on that mountain in West Virginia? They had just experienced their own personal X File and were not willing or able to bring it to light of day yet.
"Well, Sir, I think the chemicals they were using opened our minds to possibilities that normally wouldn't be…possible." Scully stammered.
This only started a tsunami of questions from all the others in the room.
Dana looked into Mulder's eyes and sent him a mental picture. Mulder's eyebrows lifted and then he smiled as he shrugged.
"Well, Sir." Dana started to respond. She very delicately began to crumple to the floor right in front of Mulder, who immediately responded by sweeping her up into his arms.
"I have to get her home for some rest. We've got to think of the baby!" He said as he immediately turned to the door and left.
The four men left in the room stood with their mouths open. They looked at each other in astonishment. Had the straight-shooting Ms. Scully just faked a faint?
"Hey!" Frohike said finally. "How did he know she is pregnant? We were with them the entire time and she never said a word about the baby!"
"Give them a couple days and then we'll grill them!" Skinner said and gave another of his rare smiles. "We have a department here at the FBI that investigates unexplained phenomenon like this. This is definitely an X File!"