It was a week later and a lot had happened. The members of Mutant X had all come
up with new powers. Onika could shoot balls of energy from her forehead, which
Brennan called a Mental Bazooka, Shalimar could block and hit anything blindfolded
and with it being silent, Jesse could ghost anything along with himself and Brennan
could use his powers as a propulsion so that he could fly. Ekart is gone and is now
replaced by a New Mutant. This man was the very first child of Genomex and is the
most powerful of all known mutants. His name is Gabriel Ashlocke and he was born
without a conscience. He had been placed in stasis to protect the entire world, now
he was back and he wanted humans to learn to live side by side with mutants. Jesse
and Onika were becoming close friends and they were always testing their new
powers on each other. Brennan had fallen in love with Shalimar and she was
showing the same feelings back. All but Adam and Onika seemed to have forgotten
about Emma.
Onika was on a mission when she came face to face with Gabriel, he told
her that she shares her mind with another and then he knocked her out. She woke
up to find that she was a prisoner, and that she was being guarded by a New Mutant
with the ability to kill things with a single touch. She ended up escaping and then
killed, by the same mutant that had guarded her, on Gabriel's command. The rest of
Mutant X didn't know that she was dead. They only knew that Gabriel had her.
Brennan, Shalimar and Jesse were all training together when a blast of energy shot
through Brennan's bedroom door, flying into several pieces. They all stared at the
empty doorway to find Emma walking through it. She was wearing one of Brennan's
longer shirts because Onika had put her in it sometime the day before. Her hands
had glowing blue spheres of energy in the palms and she looked upset. "Emma!
You're awake!" exclaimed Jesse, who looked very shocked. Emma looked down at
what she was wearing and then at her hands, "What's happened to me?" She
looked horrified now and then she started to cry silently. "Where is Adam?"
Shalimar ran over to her and put her arm around her for support, "He's in the lab,
here I'll bring you to him." As they left, Jesse looked over at Brennan, "Could she do
that before?" Brennan looked over at him with a worried look, "I don't think so.
From what Onika said, she had the Mental Bazooka and the same powers as she did
along with the whole feral thing. She never mentioned the whole shooting from the
hands thing." They both looked at each other and then went to the lab.
Emma had changed into some of Shalimar's clothes. She was wearing
dark blue jeans, a shimmering black belly top that had a low cut on the front, along
with half way down the sides was black string that held it together. She had put her
hair half up and it amazed Brennan and Jesse that she had done it so quickly. Emma
was sitting on the chair that was in the middle of the room. Shalimar was stroking
her hair, "What's wrong with her?" Adam looked at the scan results, "The same
thing that had happened to all of you. This is her mutant growth spirt. She already
had all the same powers as Onika did when she had her new powers, so she can
now shoot the same thing from her hands but they can also heal. The strange thing
is, Emma is part feral. It will take me a while to figure out what type of feral and
what her new abilities in that area are, so I think that all of you should go
somewhere ELSE to practice with her." Brennan and Jesse looked at each other and
smiled. Shalimar looked at Emma and decided something, "I guess it's us ferals
against the boys." Emma got up and all she said was, "Bring it on."
They had gone to an abandoned building, that was in the middle of
nowhere, to practice. They all met at the very top, then Brennan shot electricity at
Emma and then she used the energy from her hands to make a shield. "Hey! That's
not fare! You can't do that!" Shalimar just looked at Brennan, "Why, is it too difficult
for you?" With that, she attacked him and then Jesse went after Emma. Her eyes
glowed green and then she jumped over him. That seemed to annoy him because
he came at her with a charge. At the same time, Brennan was charging at Shalimar.
Her and Emma both jumped to the other side of them as they connected with each
other. Shalimar sat there laughing and declared, "Emma, you take them both! I
need a break!" It was returned with Emma laughing, "My pleasure!" She shot them
both with the energy from her forehead and they both fell. Emma was standing on
the edge when she felt a jolt of pain. Shalimar jumped up from where she was
sitting with a worried look on her face, "Emma?" Emma just stood there in pain and
then, from nowhere, a stream of green light swept into her eyes. She let out a
scream and then fell over the edge. Jesse, Brennan and Shalimar rushed over to the
edge. All of a sudden, Emma shot up into the sky. She had sprouted beautiful white
wings and was flying. She landed on the roof top but she collapsed after landing.
The others rushed over to her. Shalimar reached her first and found that she was
unconscious. "Adam, we need you to have the med lab ready. Emma now has wings
and the same green light that went from her to Onika a month ago just happened
again," Shalimar motioned for Brennan to carry her because Jesse had already left
to get the Double Helix. Once they had gotten into the Double Helix, Jesse took off.
Brennan still had Emma in his arms but he was now on the floor with Shalimar beside
him. He had his hand on the side of her face as Shalimar pulled Emma's wings out
from being scrunched under her. "They're beautiful. Now all we need to do is put
her in white and she'll look like an angel." Shalimar acknowledged as she stared
down at Emma. Brennan stayed silent the entire time because he was having mixed
feelings about Emma and Shalimar. Before the thing with him and Shalimar had
started, he had been in love with Emma almost from the first time he had seen her.
Adam was checking a new scan when he found something that made him
realize something, "As we know, Emma is a psionic as well as a feral. What is
unbelievable, is that her feral part is an Ave. There has never been any Ave hybrids
that were successful before so they had stopped trying. They also found out,
afterwards, that it would be too powerful. You see, being a psionic is difficult and
powerful enough by itself but also being a feral would make her very powerful. Even
being psionic and feral wouldn't make her powerful enough to defeat Gabriel but she
isn't just any feral... she is an Ave. This has never happened before, so we don't
know this for sure but she might be even more powerful then Gabriel himself."
Shalimar had understood everything he had said but Brennan and Jesse were
extremely confused. Jesse looked from Emma, who was asleep, to Adam, "What's
an Ave and why EXACTLY does it make Emma so powerful?" Adam just stared at
Jesse and Brennan and then shook his head in the usual fashion when the two of
them didn't understand something. "Shalimar is a feral who is a Feline which is, as
you know, part cat, lion etc. Emma here, is a feral who is an Ave which is part bird.
This combination had never been successfully achieved before. I don't know why,
but we found out that there were many things that we didn't know about Aves. We
never new the true extent of what they could do. All we know, is that they would
have been extremely powerful." A look of understanding went across Brennan and
Jesse's faces. Shalimar looked concerned again, "What about that weird, green
light?" Adam looked back at the scan, "Well, that's just a matter of brain-waves.
You see, in the first scan I took of Emma, it showed that her brain-waves were being
shared with someone else. The new scan shows that they have returned to her." A
voice came from behind them, "I was psychically linked with Onika. I now know
everything that she experienced while I was unconscious. I know what happened
with all of you." as she said this, she looked at Brennan and Shalimar. She rubbed
her head and then her wings just kinda went back into her back. Then a look of pain
came over her, "He killed her, that basturd. Gabriel has killed Onika. I know this
because I saw it and it is the only way to break the link." All of the others looked at
her with stunned faces, then Jesse spoke up, "Oh my god. I shouldn't have let her
go out there by herself. It's my fault she's dead." "No Jesse, it's more my fault then
yours. I should have done more to help her." Adam looked at Emma with a sad face.
She had a fierce expression on her face as her eyes glowed green, "None of it is the
fault of any of you. I promised her that I would protect her and now I've failed her.
I'm the one to blame and now I'm going to fix the mistake." With that, she walked
out the door. Adam turned around quickly to the others, "You can't let her do this.
You MUST stop her, if we don't, who knows who else will end up dead." With that,
Shalimar, Jesse and Brennan ran out to stop her. Shalimar was first up. She jumped
in front of her and tried to talk her out of it, "Emma, listen to me. You can't just go
and try to kill Gabriel. He's too powerful!" Emma looked at her and then kept on
walking. Shalimar tried to stop her but Emma just turned around and faced her,
"Forgive me." She was crying when she said this and then she sent Shalimar flying.
She turned around quickly and started to leave again when Jesse stopped her. "I'm
sorry Emma. I know how you feel but I can't let you do this," He went solid on her
as she went to hit him but then she stopped. "If you know how I feel then you know
what I have to do and you know that I can't let you stop me." With that, she shot
energy from her forehead and hands but he went solid again. Then he grabbed her
arms and restrained her. Emma's wing shot out of her back and sent Jesse flying
into a table. He was bleeding from his forehead and Emma stopped only to go over
to him and heal it. She started to leave again when a bolt of electricity shot past her.
She stopped again but did not turn around, "Don't try to stop me Brennan. I can't."
She turned around to find Brennan right behind her. Brennan could see the tears
flowing down her face, "I know you're hurting, I've felt the same way before."
Emma glared at him, "How dare you! You don't know how I feel! I've lost two
people that I love! One because I couldn't protect her and another because I never
told him how I felt. Now I've lost them both, Onika's dead and the other has fallen in
love with someone else." She turned away and Brennan knew that she was talking
about him. He grabbed hold of her shoulders and swung her around, "But I'm not
gone and I don't want to lose you!" "Stop it! I know that Onika caught you and
Shalimar kissing, so what you say is a lie!" With that, she swung around and then
flew up into the air. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" she yelled as she watched Shalimar helping
Jesse up and Brennan charging up his power. Brennan shot up into the air with his
new propulsion and landed on the upper railing. "Emma! We can't leave you alone!
We care about you!" She put her hands over her ears and yelled, "Shut up!" She
turned and faced Brennan, all of a sudden, Shalimar hit Emma from behind and
landed on the ground. Emma fell to the ground and her wings went back in. There
were a few feathers on the ground. Brennan flew back down and walked towards
her, "Emma, look at me..." With that, he put her face in his hands, "...we all care
about you and we don't want to lose you... I don't want to lose you. Emma, the kiss
between me and Shalimar was nothing. Shalimar loves Adam and we all know that.
I haven't known you long but I fell in love with you. You have to listen to me, I
CAN'T lose you. You mean too much to me," with that, he kissed her. They both
started to glow and the light got brighter and brighter until it was blinding.
up with new powers. Onika could shoot balls of energy from her forehead, which
Brennan called a Mental Bazooka, Shalimar could block and hit anything blindfolded
and with it being silent, Jesse could ghost anything along with himself and Brennan
could use his powers as a propulsion so that he could fly. Ekart is gone and is now
replaced by a New Mutant. This man was the very first child of Genomex and is the
most powerful of all known mutants. His name is Gabriel Ashlocke and he was born
without a conscience. He had been placed in stasis to protect the entire world, now
he was back and he wanted humans to learn to live side by side with mutants. Jesse
and Onika were becoming close friends and they were always testing their new
powers on each other. Brennan had fallen in love with Shalimar and she was
showing the same feelings back. All but Adam and Onika seemed to have forgotten
about Emma.
Onika was on a mission when she came face to face with Gabriel, he told
her that she shares her mind with another and then he knocked her out. She woke
up to find that she was a prisoner, and that she was being guarded by a New Mutant
with the ability to kill things with a single touch. She ended up escaping and then
killed, by the same mutant that had guarded her, on Gabriel's command. The rest of
Mutant X didn't know that she was dead. They only knew that Gabriel had her.
Brennan, Shalimar and Jesse were all training together when a blast of energy shot
through Brennan's bedroom door, flying into several pieces. They all stared at the
empty doorway to find Emma walking through it. She was wearing one of Brennan's
longer shirts because Onika had put her in it sometime the day before. Her hands
had glowing blue spheres of energy in the palms and she looked upset. "Emma!
You're awake!" exclaimed Jesse, who looked very shocked. Emma looked down at
what she was wearing and then at her hands, "What's happened to me?" She
looked horrified now and then she started to cry silently. "Where is Adam?"
Shalimar ran over to her and put her arm around her for support, "He's in the lab,
here I'll bring you to him." As they left, Jesse looked over at Brennan, "Could she do
that before?" Brennan looked over at him with a worried look, "I don't think so.
From what Onika said, she had the Mental Bazooka and the same powers as she did
along with the whole feral thing. She never mentioned the whole shooting from the
hands thing." They both looked at each other and then went to the lab.
Emma had changed into some of Shalimar's clothes. She was wearing
dark blue jeans, a shimmering black belly top that had a low cut on the front, along
with half way down the sides was black string that held it together. She had put her
hair half up and it amazed Brennan and Jesse that she had done it so quickly. Emma
was sitting on the chair that was in the middle of the room. Shalimar was stroking
her hair, "What's wrong with her?" Adam looked at the scan results, "The same
thing that had happened to all of you. This is her mutant growth spirt. She already
had all the same powers as Onika did when she had her new powers, so she can
now shoot the same thing from her hands but they can also heal. The strange thing
is, Emma is part feral. It will take me a while to figure out what type of feral and
what her new abilities in that area are, so I think that all of you should go
somewhere ELSE to practice with her." Brennan and Jesse looked at each other and
smiled. Shalimar looked at Emma and decided something, "I guess it's us ferals
against the boys." Emma got up and all she said was, "Bring it on."
They had gone to an abandoned building, that was in the middle of
nowhere, to practice. They all met at the very top, then Brennan shot electricity at
Emma and then she used the energy from her hands to make a shield. "Hey! That's
not fare! You can't do that!" Shalimar just looked at Brennan, "Why, is it too difficult
for you?" With that, she attacked him and then Jesse went after Emma. Her eyes
glowed green and then she jumped over him. That seemed to annoy him because
he came at her with a charge. At the same time, Brennan was charging at Shalimar.
Her and Emma both jumped to the other side of them as they connected with each
other. Shalimar sat there laughing and declared, "Emma, you take them both! I
need a break!" It was returned with Emma laughing, "My pleasure!" She shot them
both with the energy from her forehead and they both fell. Emma was standing on
the edge when she felt a jolt of pain. Shalimar jumped up from where she was
sitting with a worried look on her face, "Emma?" Emma just stood there in pain and
then, from nowhere, a stream of green light swept into her eyes. She let out a
scream and then fell over the edge. Jesse, Brennan and Shalimar rushed over to the
edge. All of a sudden, Emma shot up into the sky. She had sprouted beautiful white
wings and was flying. She landed on the roof top but she collapsed after landing.
The others rushed over to her. Shalimar reached her first and found that she was
unconscious. "Adam, we need you to have the med lab ready. Emma now has wings
and the same green light that went from her to Onika a month ago just happened
again," Shalimar motioned for Brennan to carry her because Jesse had already left
to get the Double Helix. Once they had gotten into the Double Helix, Jesse took off.
Brennan still had Emma in his arms but he was now on the floor with Shalimar beside
him. He had his hand on the side of her face as Shalimar pulled Emma's wings out
from being scrunched under her. "They're beautiful. Now all we need to do is put
her in white and she'll look like an angel." Shalimar acknowledged as she stared
down at Emma. Brennan stayed silent the entire time because he was having mixed
feelings about Emma and Shalimar. Before the thing with him and Shalimar had
started, he had been in love with Emma almost from the first time he had seen her.
Adam was checking a new scan when he found something that made him
realize something, "As we know, Emma is a psionic as well as a feral. What is
unbelievable, is that her feral part is an Ave. There has never been any Ave hybrids
that were successful before so they had stopped trying. They also found out,
afterwards, that it would be too powerful. You see, being a psionic is difficult and
powerful enough by itself but also being a feral would make her very powerful. Even
being psionic and feral wouldn't make her powerful enough to defeat Gabriel but she
isn't just any feral... she is an Ave. This has never happened before, so we don't
know this for sure but she might be even more powerful then Gabriel himself."
Shalimar had understood everything he had said but Brennan and Jesse were
extremely confused. Jesse looked from Emma, who was asleep, to Adam, "What's
an Ave and why EXACTLY does it make Emma so powerful?" Adam just stared at
Jesse and Brennan and then shook his head in the usual fashion when the two of
them didn't understand something. "Shalimar is a feral who is a Feline which is, as
you know, part cat, lion etc. Emma here, is a feral who is an Ave which is part bird.
This combination had never been successfully achieved before. I don't know why,
but we found out that there were many things that we didn't know about Aves. We
never new the true extent of what they could do. All we know, is that they would
have been extremely powerful." A look of understanding went across Brennan and
Jesse's faces. Shalimar looked concerned again, "What about that weird, green
light?" Adam looked back at the scan, "Well, that's just a matter of brain-waves.
You see, in the first scan I took of Emma, it showed that her brain-waves were being
shared with someone else. The new scan shows that they have returned to her." A
voice came from behind them, "I was psychically linked with Onika. I now know
everything that she experienced while I was unconscious. I know what happened
with all of you." as she said this, she looked at Brennan and Shalimar. She rubbed
her head and then her wings just kinda went back into her back. Then a look of pain
came over her, "He killed her, that basturd. Gabriel has killed Onika. I know this
because I saw it and it is the only way to break the link." All of the others looked at
her with stunned faces, then Jesse spoke up, "Oh my god. I shouldn't have let her
go out there by herself. It's my fault she's dead." "No Jesse, it's more my fault then
yours. I should have done more to help her." Adam looked at Emma with a sad face.
She had a fierce expression on her face as her eyes glowed green, "None of it is the
fault of any of you. I promised her that I would protect her and now I've failed her.
I'm the one to blame and now I'm going to fix the mistake." With that, she walked
out the door. Adam turned around quickly to the others, "You can't let her do this.
You MUST stop her, if we don't, who knows who else will end up dead." With that,
Shalimar, Jesse and Brennan ran out to stop her. Shalimar was first up. She jumped
in front of her and tried to talk her out of it, "Emma, listen to me. You can't just go
and try to kill Gabriel. He's too powerful!" Emma looked at her and then kept on
walking. Shalimar tried to stop her but Emma just turned around and faced her,
"Forgive me." She was crying when she said this and then she sent Shalimar flying.
She turned around quickly and started to leave again when Jesse stopped her. "I'm
sorry Emma. I know how you feel but I can't let you do this," He went solid on her
as she went to hit him but then she stopped. "If you know how I feel then you know
what I have to do and you know that I can't let you stop me." With that, she shot
energy from her forehead and hands but he went solid again. Then he grabbed her
arms and restrained her. Emma's wing shot out of her back and sent Jesse flying
into a table. He was bleeding from his forehead and Emma stopped only to go over
to him and heal it. She started to leave again when a bolt of electricity shot past her.
She stopped again but did not turn around, "Don't try to stop me Brennan. I can't."
She turned around to find Brennan right behind her. Brennan could see the tears
flowing down her face, "I know you're hurting, I've felt the same way before."
Emma glared at him, "How dare you! You don't know how I feel! I've lost two
people that I love! One because I couldn't protect her and another because I never
told him how I felt. Now I've lost them both, Onika's dead and the other has fallen in
love with someone else." She turned away and Brennan knew that she was talking
about him. He grabbed hold of her shoulders and swung her around, "But I'm not
gone and I don't want to lose you!" "Stop it! I know that Onika caught you and
Shalimar kissing, so what you say is a lie!" With that, she swung around and then
flew up into the air. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" she yelled as she watched Shalimar helping
Jesse up and Brennan charging up his power. Brennan shot up into the air with his
new propulsion and landed on the upper railing. "Emma! We can't leave you alone!
We care about you!" She put her hands over her ears and yelled, "Shut up!" She
turned and faced Brennan, all of a sudden, Shalimar hit Emma from behind and
landed on the ground. Emma fell to the ground and her wings went back in. There
were a few feathers on the ground. Brennan flew back down and walked towards
her, "Emma, look at me..." With that, he put her face in his hands, "...we all care
about you and we don't want to lose you... I don't want to lose you. Emma, the kiss
between me and Shalimar was nothing. Shalimar loves Adam and we all know that.
I haven't known you long but I fell in love with you. You have to listen to me, I
CAN'T lose you. You mean too much to me," with that, he kissed her. They both
started to glow and the light got brighter and brighter until it was blinding.
