Part 6:
" Gods, what a mess," Betsy said as she went to Scott after the battle against Pestilence. His force had proved greater than they had first thought and now broken bodies, wounded and dying lay among each other on the battlefield.
" You alright?" she asked concerned as she saw the blood on Scott's uniform.
" Yes. The blood isn't mine," Scott said grimly and Betsy nodded. Something made her turn and look behind Scott. One of the wounded had a strange gun like weapon in his hand and it was pointed straight at Scott. He was to shoot Scott in the back!
" Get down!" Betsy yelled and pushed Scott out of the way as she with her telepathy made the man lower the weapon. A small arrow from his gun hit her in the leg and she quickly removed it. How odd, she thought. Why arrows?
" Betsy! You okay?" Scott asked as he came to her. He saw the wounded soldier with the gun still in his hand. Without a second thought he used his eye beam to blast the man to kingdom come.
" I'm fine. Strange though. Why try and shoot you with an arrow?" Betsy wondered as she walked with Scott towards Alex and the other prelates. Those wounded still alive was being carried away.
* Shall I kill them?* Betsy asked in Scott's mind.
" No. Better that Beast torture Pestilence's followers than the resistance* Scott said and Betsy nodded.
" Scott," Jesse Bedlam said and came to him. Scott turned towards the handsome, chocolate coloured young man to listen to what he had to say. Jesse and his brother Terrence shared a bond of brotherly love so strong that Betsy could often feel Scott's envy for them because of that. The Bedlam Brothers were good men at heart but like Scott, they were working on the side of the devil.
" Yes?"
" The prisoners…..the Pestilence soldiers….they were all carries of the deadly decease, The Legacy Virus," Jesse said and even though Scott had never seen the man even break a sweat in the hardest of fights; he saw the fear in his eyes now. And right he should. The Legacy Virus gave a painful death to all who became infected and though it was believed that the decease was transmitted only through bodily fluids, scientists weren't sure.
* Betsy? Your advise?* Scott asked in his mind through the psychic bond which had formed between them.
* Kill them. Kill them all. They could infect everyone* Betsy advised, a flicker of sadness in her mental voice.
* That was what I thought*
" Kill them all and burn the bodies. I'll report this incident to Sinister and everyone checks in with Beast to see if anyone was infected," Scott said to Jesse and he nodded and left.
" Do you think it was an accident? That they were all infected?" Betsy asked as they walked towards their bikes.
" Hardly," Scott said grimly as he got on his bike.
" It was a plot? Against who? The Elite? Sinister? You?" Betsy wondered out loud.
" I don't know but I'll find out. Sinister won't like this," Scott said as they drew off. Sinister was the father he would never have but also his superior. It made their relationship a strange one.
From a distance Alex Summers watched them drive away. Damn, he had been so close. But that woman had to go all noble on him and save his brother. If the woman still lived tomorrow, he'll make sure she didn't the day after.
TBC
