****Begin Jesse Files**** The story continues...

Jesse and Brennen ran through a deserted slum with a female new mutant between them. The new mutant is wearing a sub dermal governor, the GSA are in hot pursuit, firing at them with handguns.

"You get her to the jet I'll hold them off," commanded Jesse. "Are you insane you can't keep them all at bay," yelled Brennen. "I have to try, someone has to cover your escape."

Jesse's skin turned solid as stone as the bullets flew they smashed against his hide and fell harmlessly to the ground, Brennen rolled his hands into a ball forming a electric bolt and launched it at the GSA Agents, but they were wearing insulated suits and were unaffected.

"Wait, let me try," said the woman. "You can't you have a governor on," cautioned Jesse. "I have to try," said the woman raising her hands as they glowed with energy and bolts of energy formed into the shape of a golum, then the woman passed out. "Go, I have help now," smirked Jesse. "Alright, but hurry," replied Brennen.

Brennen lifted up the woman and ran quickly toward where the jet was parked leaving Jesse and the golum to the GSA Agents. Jesse fought long and hard with the golem beside him but then suddenly he heard the sting of a explosion, the sheer force of the High Explosive Armor Piercing round sent him flying, he crashed through a building wall where he passed out.

"No one could survive a shelling like that," said a GSA agent. "Let's retrieve the corpse then," said the other one.

The two agents ventured into the building to retrieve Jesse only to discover he was still breathing. The Jet took off in the distance. Sometime later Jesse came too and found himself bound and gagged in a van headed for the GSA with a Sub dermal governor on his neck. A GSA agent entered and walked around Jesse as he sat bound in a chair.

"If I were you I wouldn't be so stupid as to try and use your powers, the pain would be.intolerable" "I'm afraid you underestimate my abilities." "Oh we are quite aware of your density control but even you wouldn't be stupid enough to go immaterial with a governor." "Who said anything about going immaterial!"

Jesse winced as he solidified, grunting in pain he knew all he had to was withstand the pain long enough for his hide to fully form, or at least he hoped so. In one quick motion he leapt up breaking the shackles of the chair and darted down the hall tears streaming down his cheeks from the pain. As he ran Agents persuade, the pain of the governor so intense he did not even register the impacts of the bullets as he just kept concentrating to maintain his fortified form. It wasn't to long before he came to the roofs, agents surrounded him, they were waiting at the top and more were coming from behind. He grunted in pain and bolted forward shoving agents out of his way as they unloading hundred of bullets, some from machine guns this time. Soon he was at the edge of the building, he looked down feeling queasy and leapt, like a rock he rocked toward the cement and with a massive thud he hit the ground. Slowly he stood up and he heard the sound of metal hitting the ground around him and he bolted from the crater he formed in the cement from his impact. The agents did not pursue and soon he was home free. Not before to long he docked into the alley between a grouping of city building to rest. Reflexively he reached for his neck, the Governor was gone. He breathed a sigh of relive. Back at the GSA the agents talked among themselves confused.

"How the heck did he survive HEAP rounds?" "How did he override the governor." "What caused the governor to fall off?"

Back at Jesse he screamed, and pounded the walls in his stone form punching holes in the brick

"What the heck, why can't I power down.wait, wait, calm down Jesse, calm down."

For several minutes more he tried, in vein but was unable to power down. He didn't even register the impact of the switchblade into his side but he heard the metal clink, reflexively he spun around and with one powerful blow he watched in horror as the head of a mugger disconnected from its shoulders and smashed like a pumpkin against a wall. Jesse gasped, and then his face went cold, silently he walked out of the alley.

While Shalamar was in the forest lost to her feral nature Jesse wandered to city picking fights and walking into danger, the death caused something to snap, he needed to feel human and so Jesse set forth to feel something, anything.

*****End Jesse Files*****