DISCLAIMER: All recognisable characters and places belong to the Show
Mutant X and are not mine and I am simply borrowing them for this
fanfiction, please do not sue me as I have very little money.and at times
very bad grammar. Also, it may be a little longer between posts now, sorry,
but schools started back.
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Adam woke in the examination chair in his Lab, he didn't even remember feeling the hit, the feral in Jenna Salvatore's group had moved so quickly he was out before he even realised it. But he felt it now, a sharp ache in his chest and a pounding in the back of his head from where he had impacted with the wall.
Trying to bring a hand up to rub his fore head he found it to be strapped down to the arm of the chair, indeed he was completely restrained, something even pressing into his head to keep him from looking around. Which worried him more then anything else so far, since he feared that that meant there was something they did not want him to see, not yet anyway.
"Glad to see that you're finally awake Adam" Came the low, almost reptilian hiss that he was beginning to associate with Jenna. "I was afraid you were going to sleep the night away," In a lighter and sarcastically sympathetic tone "I was afraid Janie may have done some permanent damage to you"
She was edging around the chair so that she was leaning over him from behind, her eyes meeting his own "Wouldn't have wanted it all to be over before it had even begun, would we?" she asked.
"Before what has begun? What do you think I've done?"
She jerked away from him and strangely her voice become low and calm "What do we think you've done? Don't worry, we don't think you've done anything Adam. We know what you have done, you are responsible for the suffering of every New Mutant alive, you are responsible for the creation of us and the pain and the hurt and everything else a new mutant has had to go through"
She slipped back into his vision "And what has begun?" A smile gripped her face, and it wasn't of the nice variety "What has begun is justice Adam, you will know the pain that you have caused, you will feel it in every way that we can make you feel it."
The grin become more warped, more evil, and he really didn't like it what that might mean "But then, there are so many of us out there, so many of us in pain that you caused, that you can never pay the debt fully yourself."
Her eyebrows shot up as she continued "Yourself being the key word there Adam, so those fools who are loyal to you, who believe you to be innocent of all that pain will have to pay with you"
Jerking the restraint from his head her nails ripped through the flesh and made him grit his teeth "And they have already begun!" With that she flung her hand out to point
Adam slowly turned his head towards the wall Jenna Salvatore was indicating and he almost stopped breathing, Brennan, Shalimar and Emma hung limp in chains that had been attached to the ceiling.
Tendrils of smoke were still seeping from Brennan's clothes and skin, and it looked as if he had suffered large amounts of burning from the backwards charge the water had carried into him. Adam was pretty sure the damage was still reversible, the girls were luckier still, looking a little beat up but otherwise fine.
"Ok, ok if you blame me for whatever's happened" he wanted to motion with his hands to try and calm her and himself down, but couldn't "Then Blame me! Not them, just, just let them go"
Jenna looked down at Adam and cocked her head while crossing her arms "Mmmm, no. Simple as that, they stay and help to pay your debt. And please do remember that, it is your debt to our kind that they are paying, yours, not theirs. But I think we've wasted enough time with this idol chit chat, don't you Adam?"
Jenna took the shoulders of one of the other girls in her hands, five foot seven, brown eyes glittering down at him, she was a brunette and was pulling her leather coat off.
"This is my dear friend Arianna, one of your beautiful creations. A telekinetic psionic, her mother died giving birth to her and when she began to develop her 'gifts' a mob threw a rope over a tree and tried to hang her"
The jacket falling to the ground revealed scars, thick and over lapping her neck where a rope had torn into her, he almost winced just at the sight of it, he couldn't imagine how it must have felt for her, knowing that she was going to die as the life was slowly choked from her.
"Janie and I saved her from her fate, we recruited everyone here today in similar ways" she said, "You're probable wondering why I'm telling you this? Yes? I just want you to understand, understand us, our lives, to understand why we have made it our responsibility to do what must be done for the good of our kind"
"How is taking apart Mutant X helping New Mutants?" Adam cried out "You'll destroy the Underground and expose New Mutants every where to the GSA!"
"Ah yes, the Genetic Security Agency, I was wondering when you'd bring that up, try to defend what you did with ignorance. They don't matter, any New Mutant can easily slip away from their incompetent people, we've done so several times, and any that can't, well. They deserve to be caught, but then they are another example of what we have to live in fear of because of you"
Resting her head on her hands she stared down at Adam for a few moments before saying "Now where was I? Oh yes, I was telling you about our pasts, Ari almost had it easy compared to some of us, calling hanging easy, give you a clue to our lives because of you?"
Her eyes flickered shut as she collapsed into a chair beside him, her legs extending up to rest on his chest "Jake is the guy who can throw off thermal energy, when we first met him he was on the run like Janie and I. He was still absorbing heat then, didn't even know that he could throw it as well, he'd just killed his abusive step father and mother, sucked the heat right out of them, made them ice over"
"He was in a cafe in a small town, running from an arrest warrant, and he lost control of his abilities and started turning things to ice, we got him out of there, into our van and away from the terrified people" she paused like she was looking back over it, remembering. Shivering as she felt the reality of those memories.
Almost leaping back to her feet with a thud she grabbed his head "Like I said before, Janie and I were both running as well when we met him, want to know why?"
"Janie was outed as a freak when we were in year ten, two years of living hell as an outcast in that town where we'd both been placed in foster care. She was an exile, me as her only friend, then one day, only a few weeks off of graduation a group of jocks took to seriously beating her, broken ribs, nose, leg. I intervened" And the way she said that made it sound very final.
Her mouth curved in a snarl "Stuck my hand through the lead jocks chest and gripped his heart, I squeezed it. A little like this," And she phased her hand, let it pass through his chest to touch his heart, just a light stroke against it to let him know what she was capable of, apparently it was a unique ability among others with gifts like her.
"I felt him drain away, kept tightening my hold on him until he died. That's why we were running, barely getting free of that town. And just so you know that we are not playing around here I've killed since then, mostly humans when they've been in our way, once another mutant who didn't approve of my attitudes" All said without a tiny change in her eyes, that made his breath catch as realisation dawned on him.
She was like Ashlocke, a New Mutant sociopath, fortunately she was only a molecular, far less powerful but just as dangerous.
She was continuing " And then we met Ari, Jake and Damon." She smiled and spun with a little flourish of her coat "The five of us studied the five of you, but you were the only one we were really interested in, they were just in the way"
"Arianna" The word was enough, they knew what she wanted, the shackles holding Emma sprung free and she was floating towards Jenna.
Hanging limp just behind her as if on a suspended table courtesy to Arianna's telekinetic gifts. "Now lets get started" Nodding her head to herself she turned towards Emma, anticipation and eagerness raging through her eyes.
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AUTHORS NOTE: Hope you are enjoying it
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Adam woke in the examination chair in his Lab, he didn't even remember feeling the hit, the feral in Jenna Salvatore's group had moved so quickly he was out before he even realised it. But he felt it now, a sharp ache in his chest and a pounding in the back of his head from where he had impacted with the wall.
Trying to bring a hand up to rub his fore head he found it to be strapped down to the arm of the chair, indeed he was completely restrained, something even pressing into his head to keep him from looking around. Which worried him more then anything else so far, since he feared that that meant there was something they did not want him to see, not yet anyway.
"Glad to see that you're finally awake Adam" Came the low, almost reptilian hiss that he was beginning to associate with Jenna. "I was afraid you were going to sleep the night away," In a lighter and sarcastically sympathetic tone "I was afraid Janie may have done some permanent damage to you"
She was edging around the chair so that she was leaning over him from behind, her eyes meeting his own "Wouldn't have wanted it all to be over before it had even begun, would we?" she asked.
"Before what has begun? What do you think I've done?"
She jerked away from him and strangely her voice become low and calm "What do we think you've done? Don't worry, we don't think you've done anything Adam. We know what you have done, you are responsible for the suffering of every New Mutant alive, you are responsible for the creation of us and the pain and the hurt and everything else a new mutant has had to go through"
She slipped back into his vision "And what has begun?" A smile gripped her face, and it wasn't of the nice variety "What has begun is justice Adam, you will know the pain that you have caused, you will feel it in every way that we can make you feel it."
The grin become more warped, more evil, and he really didn't like it what that might mean "But then, there are so many of us out there, so many of us in pain that you caused, that you can never pay the debt fully yourself."
Her eyebrows shot up as she continued "Yourself being the key word there Adam, so those fools who are loyal to you, who believe you to be innocent of all that pain will have to pay with you"
Jerking the restraint from his head her nails ripped through the flesh and made him grit his teeth "And they have already begun!" With that she flung her hand out to point
Adam slowly turned his head towards the wall Jenna Salvatore was indicating and he almost stopped breathing, Brennan, Shalimar and Emma hung limp in chains that had been attached to the ceiling.
Tendrils of smoke were still seeping from Brennan's clothes and skin, and it looked as if he had suffered large amounts of burning from the backwards charge the water had carried into him. Adam was pretty sure the damage was still reversible, the girls were luckier still, looking a little beat up but otherwise fine.
"Ok, ok if you blame me for whatever's happened" he wanted to motion with his hands to try and calm her and himself down, but couldn't "Then Blame me! Not them, just, just let them go"
Jenna looked down at Adam and cocked her head while crossing her arms "Mmmm, no. Simple as that, they stay and help to pay your debt. And please do remember that, it is your debt to our kind that they are paying, yours, not theirs. But I think we've wasted enough time with this idol chit chat, don't you Adam?"
Jenna took the shoulders of one of the other girls in her hands, five foot seven, brown eyes glittering down at him, she was a brunette and was pulling her leather coat off.
"This is my dear friend Arianna, one of your beautiful creations. A telekinetic psionic, her mother died giving birth to her and when she began to develop her 'gifts' a mob threw a rope over a tree and tried to hang her"
The jacket falling to the ground revealed scars, thick and over lapping her neck where a rope had torn into her, he almost winced just at the sight of it, he couldn't imagine how it must have felt for her, knowing that she was going to die as the life was slowly choked from her.
"Janie and I saved her from her fate, we recruited everyone here today in similar ways" she said, "You're probable wondering why I'm telling you this? Yes? I just want you to understand, understand us, our lives, to understand why we have made it our responsibility to do what must be done for the good of our kind"
"How is taking apart Mutant X helping New Mutants?" Adam cried out "You'll destroy the Underground and expose New Mutants every where to the GSA!"
"Ah yes, the Genetic Security Agency, I was wondering when you'd bring that up, try to defend what you did with ignorance. They don't matter, any New Mutant can easily slip away from their incompetent people, we've done so several times, and any that can't, well. They deserve to be caught, but then they are another example of what we have to live in fear of because of you"
Resting her head on her hands she stared down at Adam for a few moments before saying "Now where was I? Oh yes, I was telling you about our pasts, Ari almost had it easy compared to some of us, calling hanging easy, give you a clue to our lives because of you?"
Her eyes flickered shut as she collapsed into a chair beside him, her legs extending up to rest on his chest "Jake is the guy who can throw off thermal energy, when we first met him he was on the run like Janie and I. He was still absorbing heat then, didn't even know that he could throw it as well, he'd just killed his abusive step father and mother, sucked the heat right out of them, made them ice over"
"He was in a cafe in a small town, running from an arrest warrant, and he lost control of his abilities and started turning things to ice, we got him out of there, into our van and away from the terrified people" she paused like she was looking back over it, remembering. Shivering as she felt the reality of those memories.
Almost leaping back to her feet with a thud she grabbed his head "Like I said before, Janie and I were both running as well when we met him, want to know why?"
"Janie was outed as a freak when we were in year ten, two years of living hell as an outcast in that town where we'd both been placed in foster care. She was an exile, me as her only friend, then one day, only a few weeks off of graduation a group of jocks took to seriously beating her, broken ribs, nose, leg. I intervened" And the way she said that made it sound very final.
Her mouth curved in a snarl "Stuck my hand through the lead jocks chest and gripped his heart, I squeezed it. A little like this," And she phased her hand, let it pass through his chest to touch his heart, just a light stroke against it to let him know what she was capable of, apparently it was a unique ability among others with gifts like her.
"I felt him drain away, kept tightening my hold on him until he died. That's why we were running, barely getting free of that town. And just so you know that we are not playing around here I've killed since then, mostly humans when they've been in our way, once another mutant who didn't approve of my attitudes" All said without a tiny change in her eyes, that made his breath catch as realisation dawned on him.
She was like Ashlocke, a New Mutant sociopath, fortunately she was only a molecular, far less powerful but just as dangerous.
She was continuing " And then we met Ari, Jake and Damon." She smiled and spun with a little flourish of her coat "The five of us studied the five of you, but you were the only one we were really interested in, they were just in the way"
"Arianna" The word was enough, they knew what she wanted, the shackles holding Emma sprung free and she was floating towards Jenna.
Hanging limp just behind her as if on a suspended table courtesy to Arianna's telekinetic gifts. "Now lets get started" Nodding her head to herself she turned towards Emma, anticipation and eagerness raging through her eyes.
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AUTHORS NOTE: Hope you are enjoying it