Friend or Foe?
Rating: PG 13- for violence/language/romance
Story by: Quest – ryan_jr54@hotmail.com
(Disclaimer on first chapter)
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Chapter 6: The Interrogation
Brennan hovered over Shalimar who lay motionless on the floor. He looked over at Jesse who dropped an unconscious Isabel on the floor beside him. "Well it looks like the rest of Eckhart's men left." Jesse explained. "They probably couldn't function without this two." Jesse said referring to Shalimar and Isabel. Jesse looked down at Shalimar who looked dead. "Is she, you know?" Jesse asked referring to death.
Brennan understood what he was asking. "I don't want to check."
Emma's hand was covered in blood were she holding onto the side of her stomach, which had a huge gash where an agent cut her. "I think you should." She said wincing in pain.
Brennan gulped and slowly bent down to check Shalimar's pulse, he hesitated before touching the side of her neck. Brennan took a deep breath and placed his fingers on her neck. "Oh thank god." Brennan sighed.
"So she's alive?" Jesse asked him again.
"Ya, her pulse is very faint, but there is one there." Brennan replied he then quickly whipped away a tear before the other two saw him crying.
"Thank goodness." Jesse replied with a smile.
"Lets get them to the Sanctuary before they wake up." Brennan suggested. Brennan reached down and picked up Shalimar's unconscious body, and he turned to the other. Jesse bent down and did the same with Isabel, then followed Brennan who had to step over bodies to get to the door.
Emma slowly went up the fire escape to fly the Helix down for Brennan and Jesse who couldn't carry Shalimar and Isabel up the fire escape. She landed the jet in the middle of the road blocking traffic. Brennan and Jesse ran onto the jet and shut the door as Emma took off towards the Sanctuary.
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Three agents stood in front of Eckhart's desk trying to explain what happened to Shalimar and Isabel, to a very angry Eckhart. "So explain to me again how three mutants could get away with two of my most important mutants. WHEN YOU OUT NUMBERED THEM FIFTEEN TO THREE!!!!!!!" Eckhart said throwing a vase at them in anger.
"Well sir they took down Isabel and Shalimar first." One agent started to explain.
"SO THERE WERE FIVE OTHER MUTANTS WITH YOU." Eckhart yelled.
"Yes Sir, but once they saw Shalimar and Isabel down they ran. So instead of risking the rest of my me against three pissed off mutants, I ordered my team to follow our mutants back here." The agent explained.
Eckhart sat down in his chair and didn't say a word. The agent waited a few minutes then spoke. "Do you want us to get them back Sir?"
Eckhart thought for a minute. "NO, let them fend for themselves, there will be another time."
"Yes Sir." The agent said as Eckhart dismissed them.
The agents left the room and Eckhart picked up a paperweight off of his desk and through it at the wall. "Damn you Adam!"
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Emma landed the Helix at the Sanctuary with the help of Jesse who was walking her through the steps. While Brennan was back tending to Shalimar and Isabel, who he didn't want to help but felt her should so they could get some information from her when she woke up. Jesse came to the back with Emma who was still bleeding from her side. Emma opened the door of the jet for Brennan and Jesse who carried the two girls out.
Adam was in the lab waiting for his team to come back from their mission, when Brennan burst through the door carrying someone, along Jesse who was also carrying someone followed him. Emma was stumbling in behind Jesse; she was bleeding but looked ok. Brennan rushed over and placed the body down on one of the lab chairs.
Adam moved over to the chair and recognized the figure on the chair. "Shalimar!"
"Ya, she was at the safe house." Brennan said as he tied Shalimar's arms and legs to the chair.
"Brennan what are you doing?" Adam asked as he watched Brennan tie up Shalimar.
Brennan finished and turned to Adam. "Trust me you do not want her loose when she wakes up."
"What's wrong with her?" Adam asked.
"The safe house was a trap, it was an ambush with these two as the leaders." Brennan explained as he pointed to Shalimar and Isabel, who Jesse was still holding.
"So where do you want me to put her?" Jesse asked.
"Go lock her up in the training room, then come back and help Emma with her wound." Adam told him, he turned to Brennan who was standing beside Shalimar. "What do you mean she was a leader?"
"She was the one giving orders to the GSA agents. She was not herself Adam, her attitude and actions were all different. She told us that her orders were to kill all of us, and you know what I think she would have." Brennan explained.
"That's crazy she would never do that." Adam protested.
"You should have seen her eyes Adam it was pure hatred." Brennan said.
Emma got up from the chair she was in and went over to them. "Don't forget about the serum she mentioned."
"What serum?" Adam asked her.
"She told us that during the time that she was with Eckhart he gave her a serum, she didn't tell what it did but I think it had to do something with mind control or something to that effect." Emma explained.
Jesse entered the lab and walked over to the rest of the group. "How is she doing?"
"She's just has a small concussion." Adam announced. "You locked Isabel in right?"
"Ya, she all nice an cozy in there all tied up." Jesse said grabbing some alcohol and gauze from the top Adam's medical kit. He then walked over to Emma and motioned for her to sit down, so he could clean her wound.
"Well I have a feeling that Isabel will know what Eckhart did to her, so we'll just have to wait for her to wake up." Adam said to them.
"She better get wake up soon, I want our Shalimar back." Brennan said.
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A few hours passed and Isabel was up and struggling to loosen her binds. Adam watched her in the lab on one of the monitors with Brennan and Jesse, while Emma slept up in her room. "Someone should go talk to her." Adam looked at them.
"Let me do the honor." Brennan replied with a grin, he left them and headed down to talk with Isabel.
Isabel was sitting on the floor of the training room with her legs and hands tied together. She heard the door unlock and saw Brennan entered the room by himself. He grabbed a chair that was next to the wall by the door, and brought it over in front of her. He sat down and just looked at her. "Why did you do it?" Brennan asked her.
Isabel smiled at him. "It was my mission."
"But why Shalimar?" Brennan asked nicely.
"That's who Eckhart wanted, a Feral." Isabel replied.
Brennan didn't by it. "Wrong answer." He gathered some energy in his fingertips and zapped Isabel in the leg. Isabel yelped in pain as the energy went up her leg, like daggers begin trusted into her leg in a million different places.
"Let's try this again. Why Shalimar?" Brennan asked.
"I told you, he wanted a Feral." Isabel explained.
"Wrong, Eckhart could easily create one." Brennan gathered another set of energy in his fingers and zapped Isabel again this time in her other leg, and with a little more strength than the other one.
The pain was intense but Isabel tried not to give in. "All he wanted was a Feral."
Brennan shook his head no and started together another set energy. "Do I have to move up and start shocking your shoulder?" Brennan explained. "Or maybe your chest."
"NO!" Isabel yelled.
Brennan smiled at her. "Then tell me the truth, why did he want Shalimar?"
Isabel looked at him. "Because Eckhart wanted someone from the Mutant X team, and she was the best choice."
"Good answer." Brennan replied. "Lets move on. "What did he do to Shalimar?"
"I don't know!" Isabel answered.
Brennan shocked Isabel in the chest so quickly; she didn't even see him gather any energy.
Adam and Jesse watched Brennan uses his interrogating methods on Isabel. "I love his approach when he's questioning someone." Jesse said.
"So do I." Adam said without looking away from the monitor.
Brennan finally stopped zapping Isabel, she yelled out in pain and gulped for air. "I'm disappointed Isabel, I thought you were smarter than that." Brennan sighed.
Isabel looked up at him; she was lathered in sweat and could barely breath. "I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!!!!" Isabel yelled at him.
"I'm afraid you do!" Brennan said with a smile. "So stop fucking around with me and just tell me the truth."
"GO TO HELL!!" Isabel yelled.
Brennan zapped her again, when he was done Isabel looked up at him. He noticed that blood was starting to flow from the corner of her mouth. "Come on Isabel I don't want to kill you, so why don't you just tell me what Eckhart did to Shalimar and I might let you live."
Isabel spit the blood in her mouth onto the floor beside her. "He gave her a new serum. She was the first one to be tested on it." Isabel explained.
"Go on." Brennan said.
"That's all I know." Isabel replied.
"NO, you know what it was." Brennan said.
Isabel didn't say anything; Brennan gathered energy in his fingers again. "Wait I'll tell you!" Isabel said quickly. "Only if you help me."
"Why should I help you? You helped our worst enemy do experiments on someone I love and you expect me to help you!" Brennan said angerly.
"You don't understand I had to, he gave me now choice." Isabel said.
"Then help me understand." Brennan replied.
"When I was sixteen my powers started to show and grow with every passing day. My mother and father thought I was a freak like my brother who was eighteen at the time. So they gave us up to Eckhart and his Genomex buddies." Isabel explained.
"So that doesn't prove anything to me." Brennan said.
"I'm only doing this so I can find my brother." Isabel told him.
"What?" Brennan asked a little confused.
"My brother was able to escape, he told me that he would come for me, but he never did." Isabel said trying not to cry. "Eckhart said if I do this mission then he would help me find him and bring us together. I told him would do anything he ask me to do if he could find my brother."
"Isabel that was the worst deal someone could make. Eckhart would most likely kill your brother if they went and looked for him, and that's if they went and looked for him. He was just using you so he could get to us; he was never going to help you." Brennan explained. "But we can help you, we'll put you in the Mutant Underground, with a new identity and hid you from Eckhart. You can go find your brother and we'll make sure Eckhart could never find you or your brother. Just help us in bring back Shalimar to her normal self."
"All I know is that it controls the brain and it's functions. I was there when they gave her the shots, they inserted a blue liquid into her brain stem, that's all I know." Isabel explained.
Brennan got up to go tell Adam what she said, but she stopped him. "They gave her three shots." Isabel said softly.
"What does that mean?" Brennan asked.
Isabel looked Brennan right in the eye. "After three shots the serum is irreversible!"
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