According to the Database

Part 3

Author: wendigo3

Email: wendigo3@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

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Shalimar picked up the glass of water and took a drink. As she walked to the lab, she left the glass on the table in the dim light. It was 1:30 in the morning and Adam was still busy working on the kid's tests. Shailmar shook her head as she entered the lab, realizing that Adam had fallen asleep while waiting for the results.

Shalimar stood there for a few moments and then walked foreword. "It doesn't do any good to stay up late and work if you fall asleep." Adam glanced at her and smiled, slightly embarrassed. "I wasn't sleeping, I was just...reflecting mentally." Shalimar laughed at him and leaned against one of the monitors and briefly glared at it before turning her attention back to Adam.

"Any luck?" Adam nodded, "According to these readings Daniel's blood has been damaged from doses of radiation. From what I can tell, this radiation has been targeted to his brain damaging the way endorphins are released. It's like he's on a natural high, that's why he doesn't seem to care about anything." Shalimar rolled her eyes, "There's always an excuse for bad behavior Adam."

Adam nodded, "I agree. Unfortunately, this process has left Daniel a little crazy." Shalimar smiled, "Our mutations have left all of us a little crazy." Shalimar stood up and put her hand on Adam's shoulder. "This is all very interesting, but I'm going to bed." "Good Night," Adam said. Shalimar waved at him and then walked out of the lab and headed for her bedroom. As soon as her head touched the pillow, and her eyes closed, she was asleep.

Daniel opened his eyes and set up. His anger was controlling him, but he didn't care. All he wanted was to get out of wherever he was, and go back to finding New Mutants to fight with. He looked at his fist and then glared at the holographic image of a cave around him. He focused his mind and sparks erupted all over the place.

The holographic image faded revealing a large wooden door with various electronic devices all over the place. He raised his hand and forced all of his emotions into his fingertips. His mind used the emotions to manifest a substance nearly equal to ice. The ice flew from his fingers and the particles attached themselves to the wooden door. Daniel kicked it angrily and the door fell to the ground in pieces.

Daniel smiled, but he realized instantly that some form of alarm was probably going off at that moment. He ran down the hallway and turned the first corner he reached. A large room with a handful of boxes were around him, but he noticed the door. He ran to it, noticing the keypad instantly. Without the ability to telecyber his way out, he looked around.

A water hose hooked into the wall caught his attention, and he ran over and turned the nozzle. Water gushed out fast and he lifted it to the small box with various LED lights. The box began to spark and eventually, the lights in the box were gone. Daniel attempted to open the door, but his attempt to escape had failed.

"Going somewhere?" Daniel turned and looked at Emma. Daniel smiled and waved his hand. A handful of knives flew towards her. Emma moved out of the way as her eyes turned pure black. "I've had enough of your games Daniel, it's time to feel what you're doing to people!" A psionic blast erupted from her forehead and connected with Daniel instantly, creating a black ghostly stream connecting the two of them.

Daniel screamed while Emma stood without any emotions on her face. Daniel fell to his knees, but the stream continued. Shalimar and Brennan ran in with Jesse and Adam behind them. "Emma," Adam began, "You have to break the connection!" Daniel screamed while his body was thrown backwards.

His consciousness faded in and out. "Emma, you're killing him!" Emma blinked and the darkness faded, returning her eyes to their normal, human color. The stream vanished leaving Daniel unconscious. Emma took a deep breath and then fell to the floor. Her head was spinning and her eyes were hurting.

She knew instantly that she had connected with Daniel too long, she only hoped that his mental malfunction didn't manifest itself in Emma's brain. She couldn't sense anything different as she caught her breath and focused. She didn't notice, but her actions had already warned the others that something was wrong.

Shalimar watched Adam closely as he walked foreword towards Emma. He quickly glanced at Daniel to be sure that he was unconscious, and then, once his attention was free, glared at Emma in disbelief. "I can't believe you did that! Do you have any idea how dangerous that was?!" Emma smiled at him. She didn't make herself smile, it just came. Still, she didn't try to make it go away either.

She stood up reluctantly, once again in control of herself, a few moments later. She looked at everyone around her, taking a few extra moments to scan Jesse's emotions for anything interesting, and then shook her head.

"You guys are boring, I'm going out." Adam glared at Shalimar and Brennan but neither of them made any attempt to stop her. Jesse watched her walk out of the room, partly unsure if he should go after her, and partly afraid of what the others would think if he did.

Jesse eventually walked out of the room. They can handle the kid, he thought confidently, it isn't like they're giving him cookies to go into the cell. He raised his eyebrows as he entered the main area. Emma was nowhere to be found. Still, he continued, the kid did find a way to get out of the cell. He would probably have to help Adam find a solution to keep the boy inside, but only one thing came to mind.

"You want to use a subdermal governor on him," Emma asked. Jesse spun around to see Emma standing in a corner where he had looked moments before. "You hid yourself from me with your abilities!" Emma shook her head, but the smile gave her away. "Emma, what did he do to you? Are you okay?" Emma nodded her head, "I'm perfect Jess. I'm just bored, sometimes a girl just needs to have a night on the town. Wanna come?"

Jesse looked at her confidently, "I can't Emma, and you shouldn't go out either." "Who the hell do you think you are? My father?" Jesse was shocked by her sudden change in attitude. He knew Emma enough to know that she was in fairly good control of her emotions, and emotional shifts like that don't just happen instantly. "Let's go to the lab, Adam will run a few tests. If I'm wrong, I'll buy you a drink."

Emma shook her head, "No, thanks. I have better stuff to do tonight." Jesse blinked his eyes and she was gone from his vision, although he knew that she was still there. He bit his lip while he thought of a way to follow her, but she knew of every way to track a team member, and would probably be ready to deactivate anything she needed to escape.

Jesse put his ring towards his face and thought for a moment, forming the words in his mind before speaking. "Something's up with Emma, I think she's in trouble. Serious trouble." Shalimar's voice came over the channel quickly, "Try and find a way to track her, we're putting Daniel in a cell. To be honest, I'm tempted to shove a subdermal governor up his..."

"Anyway," Brennan said, glaring in disbelief at Shalimar, "We'll meet you up front in a few minutes." Jesse smiled as he walked over to a computer system. He activated every computer sequence that he knew to locate Emma, but nothing worked. Thinking of an idea, he used Emma's DNA pattern to track her from a GPS satellite. Like his other attempts, failure came quickly.

Adam walked up next to him and watched what he was doing. "Interesting idea, but I think that might be illegal." Jesse ignored Adam's remark, he didn't have time for games. One of his friends needed him, and he wasn't going to leave that computer until he found a way to find her. "Maybe you should contact Tanya in the underground, maybe her locating ability can give us a few clues."

Adam shook his head, "It's an idea, but I'm not sure if we should use it until we're out of options. After all, we don't want Tanya being affected in the same way Emma was." Jesse hit his fist against the arm rest of the chair. "This is pointless, Emma is one of us! She knows how to blend in to the city to escape everyone, she knows how to hide from us with her abilities, we need an ace up our sleeve." Adam smiled, "Unfortunately I don't have any ideas. Don't worry, we'll find her."