Thank you Ashley for looking over my story. Well, this is the last chapter. *Sigh* Now I will have to use up all my other creative ideas and write another one.
_____________________________________________________________
Finding Lost Answers

Brennan heard Shalimar cry out and spun around to find her up against the wall. He sent an eletric shock towards the man holding her. The man flew back and hit the wall. Brennan ran towards Shalimar and grabbed her arm.


"You are ok?" He asked. Shalimar nodded and saw a movement from behind him.


"No!." She yelled as she flug herself between Brennan and the man just as a ball of fire flew towards them. The force of the blow sent her passed out into Brennan's arms.


Brennan caught her against his chest and then flung her body to the floor and his above hers right as another fireball flew at them. When the fireball passed Brennan quickly threw a deadly bolt of electricity and watched as the man fell lifelessly on the floor. He picked Shalimar up and started towards the door.


"I don't think so." A male voice said from behind them and the door slammed shut. "I was paid to kill the feral, so that's what I am here to do."


Brennan's head started screaming, he dropped Shalimar on the floor and grabbed hid head before hitting the ground next to her.


Shalimar opened her eyes and blinked to focus them. She saw Brennan laying on the floor next to her. She sat up to rush to his side when pain exploded from her chest. She looked down and saw her shirt was burned and some of er skin was. She closed her eyes and focused the pain away just like Emma had ttaught her when they first met. The pain slowely subsided and become barable enough to check on Brennan. She slowely crawled to his side and check his pulse, it was still beating.


The sound of clapping made her spin around and cry out as her chest screamed in protest. The face she stared at was the face of Walter Richardson.


"Your buddy is a terrific fighter, especially when someone he loves his hurt. He defeated my best mutant. What about you Ms. Fox?" He walked up to her and leaned down to her ear. "Can you beat me." Shalimar tried to hit him but she couldn't move. Her mind was telling her body what to so, but her body wasn't doing it. She was so confused. The data told them that he was human, but how was he controlling her body like this? Or was it just fear that stopped her from reacting. She mentally shook her head. She didn't fear him, she wanted to kill him for the pain he had caused in her life.


"Who are you?" She asked trying to act like she didn't already know. He responded by raising an eyebrow then smiling. She hated that smile. It made her think he knew something she didn't. It made her feel weak, and she hated feeling weak.


She went into feral mode and found that she could move once again, but he was to far away. She had the oddest feeling that they were being watched but she pushed itaway and went into battle mode.


He sent a wave of some type of energy at her, but she jumped over it and landed behind him. Before he could turn around she kicked him in the back and he flew forward but was stopped a few feet from her. The atmosphere around them shuddered and she realized what they energy was. He surrounded the with some type of energy barrier to keep anyone from helping or running away. Before he could get up she jumped on him but was met with a kick that threw her into the shield.


'You cannot fight me.' A voice whispered in her head, before her head exploded with a burst of pain. She could feel him walking towards her, but she couldn't hear anything. She looked up and saw his mouth moving. Somehow he had taken her hearing away.


"Are you having fun yet, Ms. Fox? Its not to late to give up." He stepped up besides her and she grabbed his arms and broke it. She couldn't tell if he cried out in pain or not, but if he did then it didn't last long. He backhanded her but she blocked it and upcutted him. He fell back and smiled at her.


"You are a very worthy apponent, Shalimar." The use of her first name alerted her. Something was about to happen. Suddenly the shield got smaller and smaller until they were almost squished together.


He grabbed her hands in one of his and she stared in shock as the hand she thought she had broken touched her face. He smiled at her and her body shivered with a mixture of fear and disgust. He leaned forward as if to kiss her and she acted fast. Her feet shot out and kicked his knees. He fell to the ground with a yell.


Once again pain exploded inher head and she, like Brennan earlier, fell to the ground in pain. She heard him get up and felt his presence next to her. a rough hand grabbed her hair and yanked her head to where her eyes looked into his.


Brennan woke up and moaned in pain. Man, did he head hurt. S sharp cry from Shalimar yanked him back into reality. He looked at the shield seperating them and he through a bolt strong enough to disable it. He then threw another one at the man who had raised his fists to strike at her.


Shalimar fell to the ground to weak to move. She felt Brennan hold her close to him. She looked into he eyes and touched his cheek. Her body stiffened as the presence she felt flew into her mind again.


"We are not alone." She whispered. A cackling laugh we heard behind them. Brennan looked at the fiqure in black as he helped Shalimar to her feet. His mind was split in two. Part of him wanted to kill the person without finding any of the answers that both Shalimar and Adam needed, and the other part of him wanted to stay by Shalimar's side and help her. She was to weak to be on her own and each time she fought her pain becamse greater. He carefully turned on his cam ring so that Adam and the others could listen and help if needed.



Shalimar eyes never left the fiqure in black. Her feral senses told her who it was. "What type of person would have their own child murdered?"



The fiqure took of the hood to reveal a beautiful, blond woman. "What type of child would betray her mother and join the one person that could destroy her."


"If your talking about Adam, he has done nothing but love me. Unlike the woman who gave birth to me."


The woman shook her head and walked towards Shalimar. "He has done nothing but corrupt you against me."


Shalimar raised an eyebrow and looked into the eyes of the woman that left her. "No, you did that."




Jesse and Emma ran up the steps. They had been listening to everything that was said since Brennan had turned on the ring. Emma tripped over a step and Jesse quickly grabbed her. They only had one more floor to run. He sighed when they finally reached floor 13. They walked into the hall and looked around no one. The ran towards the room where Shalimar and the others were. When they turned a corner two men grabbed them and dragged them down the hall and into the room.


Anger rushed through Brennan's body when he spotted Emma and Jessie being pulled into the room. There went their back-up plan.


"Let them go." Shalimar demanded. Hate coursed through her body. Her eyes turned yellow and she moved towards her mother, but was stopped when Emma cried out in pain.


"The closer you come to me, the more they will be hurt. Do you want to risk it, my dear?" She looked into the yellow eyes of her daughter. She didn't want to do this, but she had to. Shalimar had betrayed her and joined forces with Adam. Her daughter had to pay for her bad choices.


"Why do you hate Adam so much?" Shalimar asked. She looked at Brennan and winked. Brennan nodded.



On the other side of town Adam rushed into the double helix and headed for the apartment.



Brennan quickly used his abilities to shut down the lights in the room. Shalimar ran towards her mother. Brennan could hear them fighting.


Emma used her powers to make her holder imagine himself being covered in snakes. He let go screaming for help.


Jesse elbowed the man's stomach and delivered a hard backfist into the guys nose. He heard a loud yell and smiled. Yep, he was learning. The man let him go and started to back away. Jesse quickly sidekicked him into the wall.



The turned the lights back on and turned back towards the sound of the fighting. Shalimar ducked her mothers shot and hit her in the stomach with a solid hard punch. He mother started to back away, but Shalimar grabbed her hair and yanked her down to her knees.


"You will never be half the parent Adam is. Do yourself a favor and don't delude yourself anymore." She whispered into her ear and then stepped back and let the just arrived police take her away. Shalimar looked up at the team and smiled. "Let's go home."

_____________________________________________________________

FINISHED!!!!! What do you think? Tell me all!!!