Mutant X: A Spark From the Past
Brennan walked around the building until he reached the room where the

music was coming from. It was soothing and tranquil, Forever by Westlife. He

opened the door and went inside. What he found in the room, he would never have

expected to see. In the room was Emma, trying to do the Tai-chi that they learned

but she was failing at it. Brennan thought that it was funny but he didn't make a

sound. "What's so funny?" she asked without turning around to face him. Brennan

realized that she was using her powers, so he walked over to her. "You're doing it

wrong..." he told her, "...here." He stood behind her and placed both of her hands

in each of his. With their hands together, he moved her arms so that she would be

doing the right movements. "There you go Emma, I thought you knew how to do

this?" He asked, while he crossed her arm to the other side of her body and swung

it out. All of a sudden she stopped, took a step forward and turned around to face

him for the first time since he had come in. He was puzzled by the fact that her eyes

were green instead of their usual blue. She just smiled at him and told him, "I'm not

who you think I am. We know each other but you know me in another form.

Goodbye Brennan." With that, she left. Brennan was left standing in the middle of

the room with a very confused expression on his face. Out of nowhere, Adam's

voice rang out, "Brennan, we need you back here immediately." Brennan activated

his ring, "I'll be right there..." He went out the door and started to leave, "...what's

wrong?" When the answer came back, it was a simple word "Emma." Now Brennan

was REALLY confused. He decided that he better get back to Sanctuary as fast as

he could so that he could figure out what was happening.

Jesse was working on the holographic computer when Brennan walked in.

"What's wrong? Is Emma ok?" Brennan almost yelled as he came up to Jesse. Jesse

put both his hands up to stop Brennan, "She's ok now! She was in a lot of pain but

now she's fine. I'm trying to figure out what happened." Brennan looked at the

screen. Jesse was going through all of the New Mutants, trying to figure out if any

of them could have caused what happened to Emma. "Does she know what

happened?" Jesse just laughed, "She does but she won't tell us. She says it's all

right but you can tell that something is bugging her. Shalimar is worried about her."

"Where is she now?" Brennan wanted to talk to her about what she had said to him

earlier that evening. "She's by the pond," then Jesse went back to the images of the

New Mutants. Brennan headed over to the pond and found Emma sitting in the

patch of flowers beside it. She had a dazed look on her face. "What did you mean

when you said that you're not who I thought you were?" She blinked several times

and then looked up at him, "What are you talking about? I haven't left here since

yesterday." Brennan was still confused, "I was just with you ten minutes ago, you

left just before Adam called me. Of course, your eyes were green instead of blue

but that doesn't matter." A look of recognition swept across her face, "I have a twin

sister, her name is Emma." Brennan was even more confused then he had been all

day, if Emma's twin was Emma, then what was Emma's real name? Emma had

probably used her powers because she decided to answer him, "My name is really

Onika. We decided that I would go by her name because I had always hated my

name. I never liked it because of all the nicknames I got. To make sure that no one

would guess that we were twins, she put up a psychic image around herself so that

she would look like someone else. She has the same powers as I do, stronger mind

you, but there are a few more things about her that I can't tell you. I knew she was

back in town because that is why I got that splitting headache. Whenever she is in

great emotional pain, I get a very painful signal and the same with her when I'm like

that." Brennan just stared at her, "So you're saying that you two are linked

somehow?" Onika laughed at him, "I wouldn't call it linked, it's just a twin thing. I

can tell you one thing though, she's at the Spark and she seems lonely." "Is this that

twin thing?" "No, I tapped into her feelings." "Well then, let's tell Adam and then we

can all go to the Spark. Let's go."

The club wasn't as crowded as it usually was when Brennan went there.

He was standing just inside the door with Onika, Jesse and Shalimar. Adam had

stayed back at Sanctuary and was watching through the device that they had in their

rings. He could see everything and hear everything that they could. When Brennan

and Onika had told him the story about her twin, he had gone through the entire

New Mutant database but couldn't find another file that had the same powers as

Onika or that looked like her. Onika had told him that it wouldn't be under her real

name or picture so he would search for one once he saw what she looked like.

"Where is she?" Brennan was anxious to meet her. Onika picked that up and all she

said was, "She'll be here soon, in the meantime, let's dance!" With that, she took

hold of Jesse and Shalimar's hands and pulled them onto the dance floor. Brennan

watched as they started to dance and then he looked around the club. He noticed

Hope, the girl he had been hanging with for the past few days, sitting at the bar,

watching the crowd. For some reason, it looked to him like she was watching Onika,

Jesse and Shalimar. He decided to go over and talk to her. Brennan sat down in the

seat next to her and she turned to face him. She had long, straight brown hair that

curled a little at the bottom with no bangs. Her eyes were a brilliant shade of green,

they looked just like Emma's had, earlier that day. "So, nice to see you again

Brennan," she had a smirk on her face when she said it. "What's with you tonight?"

Brennan asked her because there just seemed something different about her then

most nights. "Well Brennan, I probably seem different to you because you saw me

as I really look, earlier today," she stared at him with the smirk still on her face. Just

then, Brennan realized that when Emma had told him that he knew her as someone

else, that she meant that he knew her as Hope. "Emma. Hugh, I should've known."

With hearing that, Adam took the image of her and the name Hope and ran it

through the computer. He found her file immediately, but he didn't expect to find

was what her mutant powers were. He called everyone but Brennan, and told them

to get over there immediately. Brennan looked over to find that Onika, Jesse and

Shalimar were heading over his way. Emma/Hope stood up and yelled over to

Onika, "Hey there Onika! Nice to see you again!" With that, she let down the

disguise and let everyone see her for who she really was. "Hey there, maybe next

time you send out a signal, you could lay off the power a bit." Onika looked at her

and then gave her a hug, "Jesse, Shalimar, this is my sister, Emma. She has all the

same powers as I do but stronger." "Hey, it's nice to meet you and it's kinda creepy

to see two of you," Jesse shook her hand. Shalimar just stared at her and then her

eyes flashed yellow, the way they do when she gets emotional. Emma just stared

back at her with a big smile and then her eyes flashed green. After that, Jesse and

Onika just stared at her. "You never told me you were also a Feral!!" Onika looked

hurt but then she laughed. "No, I didn't tell you. There are more things that you

don't know about me but we can't talk right know. The GSA has found us." Emma

looked over to the door and then she got up. "They want me, bye." With that, she

took off. Before Brennan could get out of the club to stop the GSA, they had caught

her.