According to the Database

Part 4

Written by: Wendigo (Travis)

email: wendigo3@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

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Author's Note to readers: Here it is, the 4th part in the story. I'm glad to see that you are all enjoying reading the story. I'm probably not going to have the next chapter up until Thursday because I'm going to be busy this week, but I'll try to put some time aside and see how much I can get out. Maybe instead of posting a short chapter, I'll make a longer one available. Please post which you would prefer.

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Emma thanked the man for the drink and then walked away. She shook his head at her, angry at himself that he let her walk away, and then turned to the next pretty girl that his eyes found. Emma sensed the emotions of everyone in the room.

It was a natural high, something incredible. The older Emma would never have done it, she would be too scared to try it. So what if her brain overloaded, she thought, it's better to have a blast now than live a boring life. She stopped suddenly as she sensed a familiar array of emotions. Smiling to herself, she turned in Jesse and Shalimar's reaction.

"There she is, let's take to the back room to talk to her." Emma walked towards them and looked at them. "I'm glad you decided to come and have some fun!" "Actually, we were hoping that we could talk you into coming back," Shalimar said.

"We're worried about you," she added. Emma shook her head, "You mean Adam's worried." Emma looked at her curiously, "What? You think that we shouldn't be worried about you?" Emma raised her eyebrows, "Maybe. Why don't you two just leave. Tell Adam I'll be back later tonight." "Come on Emma, let's go into the back room and talk."

Emma bit her lip and then put her drink on a table with a couple sitting down talking. After she ignored their cruel looks, she walked with Jesse and Shalimar into a back room. Once she stepped food inside, the emotions of the outside people became quieter, but she could practically feel them out there. She felt like a vampire or something, living on their energies.

"Okay, now that we're in the confessional, tell Adam I'll be back later." Shalimar pulled a small square object out of her pocket and pointed it towards Emma.

"What the hell is that?" Jesse sighed, "It's a tranquilizer. Adam says that it should help you control the mental boost you got." Emma smiled, "What would we do without Adam? The entire group would fall apart if it weren't for him."

"Emma, that isn't fair. Adam has helped all of us so many..." A psionic blast erupted from Emma and hit Shalimar directly in the forehead. Shalimar staggered backwards and dropped the device as she grabbed her head. She fell to the cold concrete floor unconscious, but amazingly aware of what was going on. Another psionic blast flew to Jesse at amazing speed.

Jesse attempted to phase out, but it hit him before he could do anything. He stood there, in shock, unsure of what to do as Emma sent a few emotions to confuse him. Emma smiled and walked foreword, purposely stepping on the tranquilizer device. "Tell Adam that Emma isn't ready to go back. Tell him that she's a big girl and she can take care of herself, and you can also tell Brennan to make his move because I'm tired of feeling all of his sexual urges bounce back and forth.

You'd think Shalimar, with all of her animal instincts, would have jumped him by now anyway." Emma looked at Jesse and walked closer. Slowly, she kissed him on the lips, and then pulled away when she felt another presence rushing towards her.

Emma spun around in time to see Brennan stare at her and a streak of electricity sting the air around her. Emma felt the jolt and fell backwards into a table. Her head connected against the wall hard, and Emma fell to the ground with a small cut on the back of her head.

Jesse snapped out of his confusion as soon as she touched the floor, and Shalimar was suddenly awakened by an invisible force. Jesse turned to her and helped her up while Brennan closed the door behind him. Shalimar sighed, "You were right. She used her abilities against us. We need to get her back to Sanctuary, will she stay like that for long?" Brennan nodded, "At least an hour or so, we can always sedate her if she starts to wake up."

'Is the double helix on the roof?" Brennan nodded, "Yeah, I figured you guys needed a hand." He looked at Shalimar and blushed slightly as Shalimar avoided his eyes. Brennan walked foreword and carefully picked up Emma while Jesse phased a wall. He took a deep breath and then focused and the wall became covered by a strange texture. Shalimar walked foreword and then Brennan followed her with Emma in his arms. The alley was dark and empty, and once Jesse returned the wall to its normal state, the three of them that were conscious ran towards the building.

Shalimar looked at it and smiled, "Looks to be about 30 feet, no problem." Shalimar kneeled to the ground like a feline and then jumped high into the air with quick speed. She landed on the edge of the roof with perfection. Brennan held Emma in his arms and put his hand to the ground.

His ability activated propelling him into the air. He landed on the roof out of Jesse's sight. Jesse smiled, "Don't worry about me, I'll just climb up the fire escape!" Jesse started up the steps quickly, hopeful that one day he would also get an ability to propel himself.

Adam looked at Emma and shook his head. "What are we doing to do with you?" Deciding not to waste time on an answer that would never come, Adam picked up his silver palm pilot and began to enter in random thoughts.

Once the computer beeped, he smiled in excitement. Although it wasn't the answer he was looking for, it was relatively simple. The only problem that came up was that he was the only human. Adam pressed a large red button on the edge of the door casing as he walked out, securing Emma to the table. He walked past the kitchen and dining area and found the rest of his team mates sitting and talking. "Is she going to be okay?" Adam nodded, "She's going to be fine.

From what I can tell, she's been psionically given a dose of radiation. In other words, the effects are temporary because they're being created from her mind." "So how are you going to stop it," Shalimar asked. Adam sat down on a wooden chair near Brennan and looked at the three of them. "She has to psionically connect to someone without the mutation. From what I can tell with my research, if she psionically connects to me, the effects will be transferred from her to me. Since I'm not a new mutant, the virus, or whatever you want to call it, will remain inactive.

Once Emma is feeling up to it, all she has to do is give me a psionic blast between the eyes, and the problem will be gone." Brennan shook his head and leaned foreword slightly, "Not so fast, you're forgetting about Daniel. He's getting bored being stuck in that cell. It's giving him plenty of time to think up new illusions to create." Adam nodded, "Honestly, I don't know what to do with him. I'm hoping that Emma will be able to give us some advice once she awakens."

Emma opened her eyes and attempted to ignore the headache and the pain in her right arm. Although her senses remained active to some extent, her psionic senses were inactive in order to recharge her mental strength. Emma glanced around the lab, thankful that no one was in there.

It didn't take her long to realize that she had been secured, and Adam had no doubt forgotten to attempt to secure the button that would let her free. Emma looked around and spotted a mirror, and then thought for a moment. "If I hit it at the right angle, it should bounce off and hit it. Perfect!" A dark crimson orb appeared near her eyes and was propelled at the mirror. The orb spun around and knocked the mirror slightly backwards, but was then knocked toward the large red button.

The button sizzled as soon as the psionic bullet had hit it, and the red light faded. The invisible force holding Emma down vanished allowing Emma to stand up and stretch. Emma looked at her DNA pattern on the wall, realizing instantly that Adam had already run his tests. Putting her hands on her hips and attempting to ignore the anger, she casually walked foreword towards the lab door. It automatically opened and Emma shook her head. "Don't you people think that you need to keep me in?!"

Shalimar looked at Brennan and Jesse, "Do you guys hear something?" Jesse looked around, "No, why?" "It sounds like someone's walking towards us. How did Emma release the suspension?" "Who knows, I'll see if I can locate her," Jesse said, getting up and running towards a computer.

Typing fast, he looked at the display and nodded. "She's on her way alright, but not towards us. She's heading for Adam in the kitchen." "Let's hope we can beat her," Brennan said. The three of them ran quickly towards the kitchen, realizing that they were probably too late. Adam turned around and his skin felt as if it were going to melt. Emma stood staring directly at him. "Coffee, or tea?"

Adam put the coffee cup down and sighed. "Emma, why are you out of the lab. You're supposed to be resting." Emma smiled, "I saw the lab results Adam, it really wasn't a smart thing to do, leaving them up there." Emma spun around as Shalimar, Jesse, and Brennan walked towards her. "How are you feeling Emma?" "I'm fine, thanks for asking. You know Adam, if I wanted to, I could change them just like me and there wouldn't be anything you could do to stop me."

Adam nodded, "You're right. I couldn't, that's why I'm hoping that you won't." Emma smiled, "I don't think they'd be much fun if they were like me. Besides, I always did like being unique. And trust me, children with mutations aren't unique in Seattle. Everyone has to have some kind of mutant abilities to keep themselves from going insane from all of the rain."

Jesse walked foreword, "Emma, this isn't going to help. We found a way to make the virus leave you." Emma nodded, "I know all about the transference to Adam and the mind sweep thing. Don't worry, I'm not going to do it." Jesse looked at her, "Emma, as your friend, you should do it." Emma walked foreword. "As a friend? All you people do is lie to each other and evade questions. Look at perfect, brilliant Adam. Lately half of what he says is a lie."

Shalimar looked at her, "We aren't going to let you go down that road again. You can either do it our way, or we'll force you." A psionic blast projected towards Shalimar. Shalimar fell backwards but Brennan caught her. Shalimar looked at her in pure anger and her feral eyesight activated. "Oooh, very scary Shal. You might need to get some contacts to hide those Are you going to attack me now?" "Gladly."

Shalimar leapt into the air and punched Emma hard. Emma was knocked across the floor. Emma stood up and looked at her. "That really hurt, how about we even the odds?" Bright red orbs propelled in various directions from her forehead creating fires all over the place. "Emma, knock it off!" Shalimar stood, frozen in fear. Brennan twisted his hands as electricity erupted towards Emma. Emma smiled and focused her mind.

The stream of energy was pulled towards Emma's forehead where a cloud of blues and purples circled. The energy was propelled back at Brennan and Jesse. They were knocked back onto the floor hard. Emma smiled. "Don't you people realize that psionics are the best." Adam pulled his palm pilot from his pocket and stared at it.

He punched in a few sequences and a dark gray smoke filled the air within minutes, putting out the fires. The smoke also shielded the team from Emma visually, but not psionically. Emma raised her hand and smiled as four psionic blasts propelled quickly.

In the fog, Brennan was hit first. He was knocked hard against a wall and then landed on the floor with a loud thud. Shalimar and Jesse were hit about the same time. They were thrown the opposite direction from each other, and then Adam was knocked backwards into the kitchen counter.

He hit his head on a cabinet, but remained conscious like the other members of the team. "Emma, stop this now!" Emma smiled as her eyes glazed over with pure white. Skipping towards the exit, Emma was able to psionically navigate her way through the smoke until she got far enough from the others that her psionic abilities proved useless.

Emma's regular vision returned and she looked around, unable to see more than a few feet in front of her. Looking around, she ran to her right, not realizing that she was heading towards the cells.