Author's note: Hey it's me! This is my first fic to actually let people see so bear with me. Obviously, I don't own Mutant X. If I did not only would I be quite wealthy, but I'd probably be spending to much time with Victor Webster to bother writing this fic! (grin)

But the story is my own and so are the characters of Elizabeth Mulray, Catalina Ramirez, and "the Puppet Master." If you want to use them....I do accept personal checks and credit card #s. (grin)

So...enough of my chatter...on with the mayhem!

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"Beth, get a hold of yourself!" I was at the end of my patience and my strength. By now I must have telekinetically shifted almost every person in the train out of the path of her lightning bolts. Between that and shifting the bolts to the few non-conductive surfaces in the room....I was exhausted. It wouldn't be long before my energy gave out and some of the innocents around us got hurt.

That thought gave me a little more strength as anger kicked in. I'd spent most of my life keeping people from knowing about my differences, and now, within days of our moving here, Beth had totally blown our cover.

"Cat, help! This isn't me!" Beth's eyes were wide and frightened. I glanced around the train, almost expecting help from the terrified passengers around us. Fat chance. Most were huddled against each other doing everything in their power not to attract Beth or my's attention. I was about to dismiss them all with a glance when one man in particular caught my horrified glance.

"Oh no..." He'd managed to stand, bracing himself in a corner. As I struggled to keep up with Beth's shocking display, he reached into his jacket and pulled out one of the strangest pistols I'd ever seen. With an almost satisfied grin, he aimed it at Beth. "Like hell." Abandoning the passengers to land where they would, I pulled the pistol from the man's grip and hurling him into the doors of the train. I grinned as I caught the pistol deftly.

"Look out!" The shriek of one of the passengers brought me back to reality fast. The redheaded woman was trying to push people out of the way as fast as she could... but she was only human. Beth knew and I knew she wouldn't be able to keep up for long. I went back to work, shifting people around as well as I could.

"OK.. This isn't working..." I muttered to myself as I almost lost a passenger due to exhaustion setting in. "Time for plan B." Without a second thought, I broke the only promise that had ever mattered between Beth and I. I threw my consciousness into her's, hoping to somehow wrest control of Beth's power back into her hands. I slammed into a wall, the likes of which I'd never seen before. I staggered as a sinuous voice threaded into my mind from behind it.

"Mine. Do you understand me? Mine!" I trembled as the voice gained power with each word. "Now get out!" With a yelp, I found myself shoved violently out of Beth's mind and back in the subway train.

"What the...?" I didn't have time to wonder over what had happened. The situation was getting worse. By now several of the other passengers had also pulled out the bizarre pistols and were aiming them at Beth, the redhead, and myself. I panicked. There was no way I could grab all of the weapons at once... not and make sure none of us got fried by my sparking friend. "Damn! Beth, get down!" Amazingly, she did, her body finally allowing her some control. The pistol shot I'd not been able to catch sailed by, missing her by a fraction of an inch. I slammed the woman who'd shot at her into the ceiling, and refocused on the others.

Suddenly, the train shuddered to a halt. I was thrown directly at Beth, and into the path of one of her blasts. "Oh shit." I didn't have time to shift my path. I fell directly into her, absorbing the bolt and knocking her unconscious. As I too started to lose myself to blackness, I saw the subway train's door forced open by an athletic blonde.

"Emma, is she alright?"

That was the last thing I heard.

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