Friend or Foe?
Rating: PG 13- for violence/language/romance
Story by: Quest - ryan_jr54@hotmail.com
(Disclaimer on first page)
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Kidnapped
Shalimar woke tied to a chair in a white padded room, two men in black suits and sunglasses stood side by side in front of the door. She had a piece of duck tape across her mouth and her arms were tied behind her, and her legs were tied to the chair. Shalimar tried to break free but the ropes were to thick, so she stopped to save her strength. Soon after the door opened behind the two men and Isabel entered the room, she walked right over to Shalimar.
She leaned down and ripped the duck tape off of Shalimar's mouth, Shalimar winced as the tape stung her mouth. "Oh, did I hurt Shalimar the mighty Feline Feral of the Mutant X team." Isabel stuck out her bottom lip. "Mr. Eckhart will be down soon to see you."
"I won't talk to him." Shalimar said angrily.
"Who said he was coming down to talk?" Isabel asked her. "Because I didn't."
Shalimar flashed her eyes at Isabel, and made a low growling noise. "My friends will come for me."
"You won't be saying that after Eckhart gets done with you, you'll wish you never met them or better you'll want to kill them." Isabel suggested. "Mr. Eckhart has always wanted a Feral on his side that had connections to Mutant X."
"You'll never get me on your side." Shalimar said.
"Oh, but you haven't seen his new brain control machine, it's a lot of fun." Isabel explained. "Trust me you'll kill for it." Isabel smirked at Shalimar, Shalimar looked right into Isabel's eyes and spit on her face. "Oh you shouldn't have done that Shalimar." Isabel whipped off her face and backhanded Shalimar across the face, and then walked out of the room.
"Bitch!" Shalimar yelled at her, then spit some blood onto the floor.
* * *
Brennan got up and took a shower before heading down to the lab for the morning briefing. He heard Jesse yelling from outside his door. "Brennan, hurry up."
"I'll be right down." Brennan answered.
"Alright." Jesse said. "By the way wake up Shalimar to, she is still a sleep."
Brennan was surprised that Shalimar wasn't up yet, she usually gets up first and runs ten miles before the meeting, and it wasn't like her not to be up. Brennan went to Shalimar's room and started knocking on her door. "Shal are you up?" There was no answer. "Shal get up Adam is waiting for us." There still was no answer. Brennan grabbed the doorknob and turned it, her door flew open. Brennan looked in her room, Shalimar's bed was made, and there was no sign that she has ever been in her room last night.
Brennan ran out of the room and down the stairs, skipping steps as he went down. He busted through the door, and into the lab. All three turned around and looked at Brennan who look really scared.
"Brennan what's wrong?" Adam asked.
"Shalimar's gone!" Brennan huffed.
"Ya so maybe she's somewhere else in the Sanctuary." Emma said comely.
"No you don't understand none of the things she wore last night are in there." Brennan explained.
"That still doesn't give reason that she's gone." Emma answered.
"She wouldn't just disappear." Jesse explained.
Brennan paced back and forth as he thought about it. "Where is Isabel?"
"I don't know she hasn't come down yet." Emma explained.
Before anyone could answer, Brennan dashed out of the room and headed up to Isabel's room. Brennan opened up the door and looked in. Soon the rest of the group was at the door looking in behind him. There was no one in the room, and it looked like Shalimar's room with the bed made and no sign of Isabel's clothes or shoes. "She's gone to." Brennan said out loud. "Something is going on here."
"Well where was she last night?" Adam asked the group.
Brennan didn't turn around. "She was with me, we went out to see a play."
"Ok, so what time did you guy's get back last night?" Emma asked him.
"Around eleven thirty. I dropped her off at the front door and then went to the park the car." Brennan explained.
"Did anyone see her after that?" Adam asked and they all shook their heads no.
"I'm going to go check the garage to see if her bike is there." Brennan said.
"I'll go check the front hallway." Emma replied.
"I'll go with you." Jesse said.
"Ok, meet me back in the lab, after you check out those places." Adam ordered before they left the room.
Brennan made is way down to the garage, he opened the door and looked inside he saw Shalimar's bike parked in its spot. He turned around to leave, but out of the corner of his eye he saw glass all over the floor. He walked over to the cabinet, the glass was shattered, and a pair of keys was gone. The keys that was missing went to the Grand Am, Brennan ran out of the room and to the lab.
Emma and Jesse were at the front hallway looking around. Emma noticed a small pool of dried blood on the floor near the light switch. "Jesse, look at this." Emma called him over to her. "I think its blood."
Jesse bent down and touched the red substance. "Its dry blood."
"Do you think it could be Shalimar's?" Emma asked a little nervously.
"I don't know." Jesse answered. "Wait, what the hell is that?" Jesse stood up and grabbed a vase that was on a table next to the light switch.
"Is that blood?" Emma asked him.
"I think we should take this to Adam." Jesse explained. He started walking towards the lab with Emma right beside him.
The two entered the lab; Brennan was already back and was talking to Adam about something. "Did you guys find anything?" Adam asked.
"Ya, we found this vase with blood on it and a pool of dry blood up there." Jesse explained as he handed Adam the vase.
"Do you think it could be Shalimar's?" Brennan asked.
"There is only one way to find out." Adam said as he walked over to the computer with the vase in hand. "I'll do a DNA test on the dried blood on the vase to see if it's Shalimar's."
"How long will it take?" Brennan asked as he watched Adam start the test.
"Only a few minutes." Adam replied. "Brennan tell them what you told me a few minutes ago."
"Alright." Brennan said. "Shalimar's bike was still in the garage, but someone broke into the key cabinet and took the Grand Am's keys."
"But way is that so important?" Emma asked him.
"That's the car that Isabel drove yesterday when we went to find Shalimar." Brennan explained. "It's the only car that Isabel knew how to drive. I think Isabel took Shalimar, Shalimar had always said she got a weird vibe from her."
"That's ridiculous, Isabel would never do that." Emma said angrily.
"But what if Shalimar was right and Isabel was working for GSA or something." Brennan speculated.
"Brennan that's pretty harsh." Jesse said.
"No listen to me!" Brennan started to get angry. "You weren't a little suspicious when she was the only mutant that we found in that entire building the other day. We have never found just one mutant being held, its always has been no less than two or three."
"Well now that you mention it, I did think it was kind of strange that she was the only one." Jesse said to Brennan.
Brennan was about to answer Jesse comment when Adam spoke up. "It's done."
All three went over to the computer to see the results. Adam typed in a bunch of stuff, and then a chart came up on the computer. Adam sighed, and turned to his team. "It's a match to Shalimar's DNA strand."
"Oh Shit!" Brennan said holding face in his hands. "Isabel kidnapped her."
"We don't know that for sure, Isabel could have also been kidnapped along with Shalimar." Adam tried not to look worried about Shalimar's disappearance. "Emma, do you think you could connect with her."
"I can try, but if she far away I might not be able to reach her." Emma sat down and closed her eyes. She had been sitting down for about ten minutes, Brennan, Jesse, and Adam watched her intensely. Emma's eyes opened slowly to see the three men watching her. "Sorry I couldn't find her."
"It alright Emma you tried your best." Jesse said walking up to her and rubbed her shoulder gentle.
"Where could she be?" Brennan asked Adam.
"I have no idea." Adam said puzzled. "The only person that I can think of is Eckhart and his GSA buddies."
"Ya, but where do we start looking?" Brennan asked him.
"I don't know." Adam said. "I just don't know."
* * *
Shalimar still struggled to get out of her binds but it was no use, they were to tight and to strong. Shalimar heard the door open again and she looked up to see Mason Eckhart head of GSA entering the room with Isabel and two lab technicians behind him.
Eckhart walked right up to Shalimar. "Shalimar Fox aka Shadowfox, so good for you to join us on such short notice."
"Mason Eckhart aka big ass jerk. I see your still coming up with your evil plans." Shalimar said back to him.
Eckhart laughed. "Why I'm so glad you're here to be my first subject on a new device I've been working up, one of my many evil plans of course." Eckhart explained as he pointed to the device on the cart.
"You will never turn me to your side!" Shalimar yelled.
"I wouldn't be to sure about that." Eckhart said with a smirk on his face. "Start the treatment."
The two lab technicians moved the cart closer to Shalimar. One started to place wires onto her temples, while the other pulled out a syringe with a blue substance in it, then inserted it into the back part of her neck and into the brain stem. Shalimar flinched as the long needle entered the back part of her neck. Eckhart and Isabel smiled, as one of the lab technicians turned on the machine on the cart.
"This device is very interesting Shalimar, it controls your brain functions and allows someone to program your mind." Eckhart explained, Shalimar looked up at him her eyes glowed a yellowish color. "Ah good I'm glad you understand me. So lets begin, you work of me now Shalimar, and your mission is to kill every last Mutant X member." Shalimar gave him a sly smile. "So lets review. Whom do you work for?"
Shalimar smiled at him. "You!"
"Good." Eckhart was very pleased. "What is your mission?"
"To kill the Mutant X team." Shalimar answered.
"Very good, you're a fast learner, I'm very pleased." Eckhart turned to Isabel. "Untie her."
Isabel moved to Shalimar's chair and untied her legs and hands. Shalimar stood up and ripped off the wires on her head. She looked at Eckhart who was in front of her. "I'm dying to KILL me some Mutant X people." Isabel and Eckhart smiled at each other.
"Isabel go with her and takes some agents with you. I want their bodies in front of me by tomorrow morning." Eckhart ordered them.
Shalimar eyes flashed yellow again. "It'll be my pleasure sir, it'll be my pleasure." Isabel and Shalimar left the room, to start their search for the Mutant X team.
TBC -I'm glad everyone likes my story. I've gotten a lot of review, so I just might start another one after this one is finished, if you guys want me to!
Rating: PG 13- for violence/language/romance
Story by: Quest - ryan_jr54@hotmail.com
(Disclaimer on first page)
* * *
Kidnapped
Shalimar woke tied to a chair in a white padded room, two men in black suits and sunglasses stood side by side in front of the door. She had a piece of duck tape across her mouth and her arms were tied behind her, and her legs were tied to the chair. Shalimar tried to break free but the ropes were to thick, so she stopped to save her strength. Soon after the door opened behind the two men and Isabel entered the room, she walked right over to Shalimar.
She leaned down and ripped the duck tape off of Shalimar's mouth, Shalimar winced as the tape stung her mouth. "Oh, did I hurt Shalimar the mighty Feline Feral of the Mutant X team." Isabel stuck out her bottom lip. "Mr. Eckhart will be down soon to see you."
"I won't talk to him." Shalimar said angrily.
"Who said he was coming down to talk?" Isabel asked her. "Because I didn't."
Shalimar flashed her eyes at Isabel, and made a low growling noise. "My friends will come for me."
"You won't be saying that after Eckhart gets done with you, you'll wish you never met them or better you'll want to kill them." Isabel suggested. "Mr. Eckhart has always wanted a Feral on his side that had connections to Mutant X."
"You'll never get me on your side." Shalimar said.
"Oh, but you haven't seen his new brain control machine, it's a lot of fun." Isabel explained. "Trust me you'll kill for it." Isabel smirked at Shalimar, Shalimar looked right into Isabel's eyes and spit on her face. "Oh you shouldn't have done that Shalimar." Isabel whipped off her face and backhanded Shalimar across the face, and then walked out of the room.
"Bitch!" Shalimar yelled at her, then spit some blood onto the floor.
* * *
Brennan got up and took a shower before heading down to the lab for the morning briefing. He heard Jesse yelling from outside his door. "Brennan, hurry up."
"I'll be right down." Brennan answered.
"Alright." Jesse said. "By the way wake up Shalimar to, she is still a sleep."
Brennan was surprised that Shalimar wasn't up yet, she usually gets up first and runs ten miles before the meeting, and it wasn't like her not to be up. Brennan went to Shalimar's room and started knocking on her door. "Shal are you up?" There was no answer. "Shal get up Adam is waiting for us." There still was no answer. Brennan grabbed the doorknob and turned it, her door flew open. Brennan looked in her room, Shalimar's bed was made, and there was no sign that she has ever been in her room last night.
Brennan ran out of the room and down the stairs, skipping steps as he went down. He busted through the door, and into the lab. All three turned around and looked at Brennan who look really scared.
"Brennan what's wrong?" Adam asked.
"Shalimar's gone!" Brennan huffed.
"Ya so maybe she's somewhere else in the Sanctuary." Emma said comely.
"No you don't understand none of the things she wore last night are in there." Brennan explained.
"That still doesn't give reason that she's gone." Emma answered.
"She wouldn't just disappear." Jesse explained.
Brennan paced back and forth as he thought about it. "Where is Isabel?"
"I don't know she hasn't come down yet." Emma explained.
Before anyone could answer, Brennan dashed out of the room and headed up to Isabel's room. Brennan opened up the door and looked in. Soon the rest of the group was at the door looking in behind him. There was no one in the room, and it looked like Shalimar's room with the bed made and no sign of Isabel's clothes or shoes. "She's gone to." Brennan said out loud. "Something is going on here."
"Well where was she last night?" Adam asked the group.
Brennan didn't turn around. "She was with me, we went out to see a play."
"Ok, so what time did you guy's get back last night?" Emma asked him.
"Around eleven thirty. I dropped her off at the front door and then went to the park the car." Brennan explained.
"Did anyone see her after that?" Adam asked and they all shook their heads no.
"I'm going to go check the garage to see if her bike is there." Brennan said.
"I'll go check the front hallway." Emma replied.
"I'll go with you." Jesse said.
"Ok, meet me back in the lab, after you check out those places." Adam ordered before they left the room.
Brennan made is way down to the garage, he opened the door and looked inside he saw Shalimar's bike parked in its spot. He turned around to leave, but out of the corner of his eye he saw glass all over the floor. He walked over to the cabinet, the glass was shattered, and a pair of keys was gone. The keys that was missing went to the Grand Am, Brennan ran out of the room and to the lab.
Emma and Jesse were at the front hallway looking around. Emma noticed a small pool of dried blood on the floor near the light switch. "Jesse, look at this." Emma called him over to her. "I think its blood."
Jesse bent down and touched the red substance. "Its dry blood."
"Do you think it could be Shalimar's?" Emma asked a little nervously.
"I don't know." Jesse answered. "Wait, what the hell is that?" Jesse stood up and grabbed a vase that was on a table next to the light switch.
"Is that blood?" Emma asked him.
"I think we should take this to Adam." Jesse explained. He started walking towards the lab with Emma right beside him.
The two entered the lab; Brennan was already back and was talking to Adam about something. "Did you guys find anything?" Adam asked.
"Ya, we found this vase with blood on it and a pool of dry blood up there." Jesse explained as he handed Adam the vase.
"Do you think it could be Shalimar's?" Brennan asked.
"There is only one way to find out." Adam said as he walked over to the computer with the vase in hand. "I'll do a DNA test on the dried blood on the vase to see if it's Shalimar's."
"How long will it take?" Brennan asked as he watched Adam start the test.
"Only a few minutes." Adam replied. "Brennan tell them what you told me a few minutes ago."
"Alright." Brennan said. "Shalimar's bike was still in the garage, but someone broke into the key cabinet and took the Grand Am's keys."
"But way is that so important?" Emma asked him.
"That's the car that Isabel drove yesterday when we went to find Shalimar." Brennan explained. "It's the only car that Isabel knew how to drive. I think Isabel took Shalimar, Shalimar had always said she got a weird vibe from her."
"That's ridiculous, Isabel would never do that." Emma said angrily.
"But what if Shalimar was right and Isabel was working for GSA or something." Brennan speculated.
"Brennan that's pretty harsh." Jesse said.
"No listen to me!" Brennan started to get angry. "You weren't a little suspicious when she was the only mutant that we found in that entire building the other day. We have never found just one mutant being held, its always has been no less than two or three."
"Well now that you mention it, I did think it was kind of strange that she was the only one." Jesse said to Brennan.
Brennan was about to answer Jesse comment when Adam spoke up. "It's done."
All three went over to the computer to see the results. Adam typed in a bunch of stuff, and then a chart came up on the computer. Adam sighed, and turned to his team. "It's a match to Shalimar's DNA strand."
"Oh Shit!" Brennan said holding face in his hands. "Isabel kidnapped her."
"We don't know that for sure, Isabel could have also been kidnapped along with Shalimar." Adam tried not to look worried about Shalimar's disappearance. "Emma, do you think you could connect with her."
"I can try, but if she far away I might not be able to reach her." Emma sat down and closed her eyes. She had been sitting down for about ten minutes, Brennan, Jesse, and Adam watched her intensely. Emma's eyes opened slowly to see the three men watching her. "Sorry I couldn't find her."
"It alright Emma you tried your best." Jesse said walking up to her and rubbed her shoulder gentle.
"Where could she be?" Brennan asked Adam.
"I have no idea." Adam said puzzled. "The only person that I can think of is Eckhart and his GSA buddies."
"Ya, but where do we start looking?" Brennan asked him.
"I don't know." Adam said. "I just don't know."
* * *
Shalimar still struggled to get out of her binds but it was no use, they were to tight and to strong. Shalimar heard the door open again and she looked up to see Mason Eckhart head of GSA entering the room with Isabel and two lab technicians behind him.
Eckhart walked right up to Shalimar. "Shalimar Fox aka Shadowfox, so good for you to join us on such short notice."
"Mason Eckhart aka big ass jerk. I see your still coming up with your evil plans." Shalimar said back to him.
Eckhart laughed. "Why I'm so glad you're here to be my first subject on a new device I've been working up, one of my many evil plans of course." Eckhart explained as he pointed to the device on the cart.
"You will never turn me to your side!" Shalimar yelled.
"I wouldn't be to sure about that." Eckhart said with a smirk on his face. "Start the treatment."
The two lab technicians moved the cart closer to Shalimar. One started to place wires onto her temples, while the other pulled out a syringe with a blue substance in it, then inserted it into the back part of her neck and into the brain stem. Shalimar flinched as the long needle entered the back part of her neck. Eckhart and Isabel smiled, as one of the lab technicians turned on the machine on the cart.
"This device is very interesting Shalimar, it controls your brain functions and allows someone to program your mind." Eckhart explained, Shalimar looked up at him her eyes glowed a yellowish color. "Ah good I'm glad you understand me. So lets begin, you work of me now Shalimar, and your mission is to kill every last Mutant X member." Shalimar gave him a sly smile. "So lets review. Whom do you work for?"
Shalimar smiled at him. "You!"
"Good." Eckhart was very pleased. "What is your mission?"
"To kill the Mutant X team." Shalimar answered.
"Very good, you're a fast learner, I'm very pleased." Eckhart turned to Isabel. "Untie her."
Isabel moved to Shalimar's chair and untied her legs and hands. Shalimar stood up and ripped off the wires on her head. She looked at Eckhart who was in front of her. "I'm dying to KILL me some Mutant X people." Isabel and Eckhart smiled at each other.
"Isabel go with her and takes some agents with you. I want their bodies in front of me by tomorrow morning." Eckhart ordered them.
Shalimar eyes flashed yellow again. "It'll be my pleasure sir, it'll be my pleasure." Isabel and Shalimar left the room, to start their search for the Mutant X team.
TBC -I'm glad everyone likes my story. I've gotten a lot of review, so I just might start another one after this one is finished, if you guys want me to!