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.