Ch.2-Girl Talk
Summery-The journey to Sanctuary is full of surprises between Shalimar and Melissa.
Disclaimer-The only person in this story I own is Melissa b/c she's me lol. The rest isn't mine (dang!). Well have fun, hope you like it.
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Melissa fallowed the woman out of the dark, dank alley that held the fallen thugs. She led her to an huge open grass area out in the middle of nowhere. The blond turned to her with a smirk on her face "You might want to take a step back." Then she took a small remote control out of leather jacket pocket.
Melissa stared at her, not understanding why she had to move. "Huh? There's nothing here but gra…." but she was quickly cut off when a huge silver jet appeared in front of her and she was knocked on her bum.
The blond giggled beneath her wavy hair" Can't say I didn't warn you, My name is Shalimar by the way." She flipped her hair back and offered Melissa a helping hand.
Melissa took Shalimar's hand and hopped back on to her feet, brushing off red Dickies and pulling some leaves out of her light brown locks. "Melissa, and thanks for the warning, I think I'll listen to you next time."
"Well now that our flight has arrived I say we get going, Adam wants to meet you." Shalimar nodded her head in the direction of the plane.
"Who's Adam, and where are you taking me? I mean not that I care, any place is better then where we just were, but…."
"You'll know soon enough, come on." Shalimar began to walk up the platform to the jet with Melissa close at her heels.
Shalimar made her way to the pilot seat, gesturing for Melissa to sit in the seat at her right. Shalimar went through the pre-flight check, once all was clear she revved up the engines and set the plane on auto-pilot. Sitting back in the pilots seat, she spoke into a silver ring on her right hand.
"Adam? I've got her with me, we'll be there in an hour."
A man's deep voice came through the ring, "Good Job Shalimar, see you soon."
After a couple minutes of awkward silence, Melissa decided to try her had at idle conversation. Surely they could find something to talk about. She hoped….
Melissa thought a bit, trying to find a topic of interest, "So… umm what's this thing called?"
"You mean the Jet?" Shalimar chuckled "Well it's called the Double Helix, we, as in the team I'm on, use it for rescue missions. And it makes for one hell of a fast drive to the nearest mall."
Melissa stifled her laughter long enough to ask her next question, "The team your on…..?"
"Ya were called Mutant X, we umm…." Shalimar bit down on her lower lip wondering if this was a story Adam should be telling and not her. Finally she came to the conclusion that there was no harm in telling Melissa, she seemed nice enough. "We…" She paused, not knowing where to begin. "We rescue new mutants like you, people who are put in danger because they are different."
That sounds vaguely familiar Melissa thought, she racked her brain for a bit until she remembered. "Hey! Didn't you use to go to my high school!!?"
Shalimar shifted slightly in her seat, "I was wondering when you would remember that, yah me and the other four on the team use to, but there was an incident…." She trailed off a bit.
"Yeah there was a rumor when you guys went missing, something about a government conspiracy and you guys were aliens, Ya something like that….. But the few at the school who knew you were New Mutants, including me of course, knew otherwise."
Shalimar couldn't fight back her giggle fit once she hear the so-far-from-the-truth rendition of their disappearance. "Well close but not quite." She said through her giggle attack which was increasing by the second. "Umm, where to start? Have you ever heard of a teacher named Adam Kane?" Shalimar's face was red from laughing and her eyes were tearing in her fit of laughter.
"Yeah, didn't he teach biology or something, I'm not sure I'm a junior and I take that class next semester.?"
"Yeah, but we found out he is much more then a biology teacher, he made us what we are." her voice going from bouncy to a grave tone.
"What do you mean…..?" Melissa asked, not sure if she really wanted to know.
Shalimar gave a heavy sigh, this was the worst part of the whole thing, many mutants she told this story to went crazy on her. All she could do was hope this girl was different. In the next 10 minutes Shalimar told Melissa the tale of Adam's betrayal at Genomex, the creation of new mutants, types of New Mutants and how the Mutant X team was formed.
"So… what your saying is .. We are what's called a New Mutants, well that explains a lot, and I mean a lot! Of things."
Shalimar gave a chuckle and then a sigh of relief. "Wow I've gotta say you took that better then most people do, so.. What powers do you have, normally new mutants only have one, but from what I've seen you have more then that."
"Ummm…." Melissa tried her best to explain but she couldn't find the right words. "How bout' I show you?"
"Sound's cool to me."
"Think of something, anything."
Shalimar thought of Brennan and how much she loved him.
Melissa read Shalimar's mind and the smile on her face widened. "Wow, what a hottie, does he happen to have a brother my age?"
Shalimar gave her a smile, "Cool power, but sorry no brother. He's one of a kind. So… what else you got?"
"Hehe just wait, I think you'll like this next one."
Poof.. Suddenly Shalimar was engulfed in a thick blue cloud, and Melissa was no where to be seen.
"Boo!"
Shalimar yelped, Melissa had teleported into her lap and scared the bujesus out of her. Melissa climbed out of Shalimar's lap and sat back down in her own chair.
"And another power of mine is the wonderful gift of teleportation. Great for getting out of sticky situations or into the boys locker room." She gave a short giggle as she looked back at Shalimar who was still a little off her game, her hair tussled and but she still managed a smile.
"Oh but wait there's more." Melissa said using her TV show announcer voice. "Look into my eyes."
Shalimar stared intently into Melissa's eyes, having a pretty good idea at what she was going to see. Melissa's eyes changed from their natural green to a brilliant gold with a cat iris in the middle.
"I KNEW IT!" Shalimar screamed with excitement. "I knew you were a feral the moment I met you!"
Melissa looked at the woman who was bouncing in her seat as she screamed "If that's what you call it then how did you know?"
"Well it's helps to be another feral, I can sense you, the pull is even stronger because you're a feline feral. I knew it but I figured it would be better if you told me yourself. A lot of mutants are in denial about who and what they are, but you are making this really easy for me."
"Now that I've shown you my powers what are yours?"
Shalimar maneuvered in her chair so her whole body was facing Melissa, "As is said before, most New Mutants only have one power, I being one of them. You already know I'm a feral like you, and that's it. I think that's as much as I can handle."
Melissa thought about what Shalimar said, "Hmm I must be one of those lucky few who is what? A triple Mutant?"
"I think Adam mentioned what you were called once, but I can't remember. Oh well I guess he'll tell you, because guess what? Where here."
"And where exactly is here?"
"Home." Shalimar said with warmth.
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Please R&R Ch.3 soon to come.