Chapter 5
Jesse looked up to the sound of a cat hissing, he saw a tiny black and white kitten scurry away and he saw what caused the animal to run for the woods. GSA agents were splitting up, moving in to surround him. Part of him could care less. But another part of him wanted this fight. He slowly rose from his position by the tree and got a quick look at his surrounding The large oak tree directly behind him the lake 5 paces to the right and a trail that led into the woods was ten paces to his left he knew where he was he just didn't remember getting here the last thing he remembered happen about the time his beer mug tower fell when he was still at O'Flannery's pub.
"8 to 1, bad odds." He announced, "Look, you guys know I'm here, and I know you're here. It's late and I already have a headache. So, lets say we cut out the physical stuff, you guys all lay down and play dead and I will go home, like always."
None of the agents even cracked a smile. Then again they never did. The first man to swing at him was met with a solid fist to the nose. There really was a lot of satisfaction when he felt the cartilage brake beneath his knuckle. The fight quickly became a free for all. But they had caught the Jesse in a bad mood and he was quickly decorating the lawn with their aching bodies. Three where unconscious two just didn't seem to want to get up from the ground as they rolled this way and that hanging on to their broken body parts. The next three attacked at once he managed to just duck under one strike just seconds before the guy to his left swung at him again. Instinctively he phased and the wand again went through him and caught the man behind him. Unfortunately for Jesse the whole situation was too much like the earlier incident that for all he knew had killed Brennan and he froze, replaying earlier events in his mind. His mistake gave the agents plenty of time to regroup and strike. The first blow came from the tazer of one of the men who had been unconscious only moments ago. After that, the pain became unbearable as they began to strike him repeatedly with the voltage side as well as the solid side of the club as well as their boots. The last conscious thought he had was the sight of a small kitten as it jumped out of the trees attacking the GSA agents with all the vigor of Shalimar and again that may have only been wishful thinking.
The Double helix landed just inside the fight zone. Shalimar was nearly out of the plane before the doors opened. If the situation wasn't so dire she might have laughed at the sight she came up on. Most of them appeared to be dancing around screaming and striking at each other. It wasn't till she was closer did she notice a small kitten jump from the head of one to the back of another with her claws bared and the most fierce little growl she had ever heard. One of the men had already started moving Jesse towards the car. The others seemed to be busy trying to kill the kitten by the time she reached the fight. She caught the kitten just as one of them flung it off its arm. the cat let go but the GSA agent will have a lasting memory of the fight.
Shalimar caught up with Jesse, the agent looked as if he had been in one hell of a brawl. It seemed her boy had been able to give as good as he got for a while anyway.
"Going somewhere?" Shalimar grinned. The agent quickly dropped Jess and took a defensive stance. She didn't wait for so much as a comment Shalimar just flashed her eyes and began fighting.
Adam and Emma teamed up against the larger group. Adam was a strong and graceful fighter. Emma threw punch after kick after punch as they worked together to narrow down the field. When Shalimar showed up with Jesse slung over her shoulder like so much luggage, the GSA decided to call it quits and those left standing ran for the cars on the other side of the lake.
After reaching the Double Helix Adam helped Shalimar lower the unconscious Member of the team from her back and gently into a chair. Adam quickly surveyed the damage; Jesse had quite a few welts from the impact of the tazer, a few of them even bled. There was bruising and swelling over half his body, and a more than likely a few broken ribs. He wasn't going to be a happy kid when he woke up, but at least he would awaken.
"Looks like Jesse made a friend." Shalimar announced pointing at the sleeping kitten curled up in the corner of the helix.
"How'd it get on board?
"Not sure but I think it's the one I saw attacking the GSA agent I found dragging Jesse away" Shalimar smiled as Emma picked up the little ball of fur who just yawned and curled back up in her arms
"Well any enemy of the GSA is a friend of mine" Emma laughed "can we keeper her?"
Adam smiled for a moment and then went back to treating Jesses' wounds.
"I'll make no promises."
With the kitten in one hand Emma gently wiped some of the dirt from jesses face, he seem to respond to her touch nudging his sorely bruised cheekbone towards her touch.
"That's a good sign." Adam Smiled. I think he's coming around.
Emma felt a warm rush of fever as her mind linked with Jesse's. Jesse looked panicked by her presence. "Jesse its ok, your safe. Another voice came from nowhere causing them both to turn in time to see Adam he stood by an empty pod. The mental reaction was so strong that Emma was thrown physically from his mind, as the young mutant aggressively fought the mental specter. Jesse tried desperately to move away from him. Like a frighten child trying to get out of a dentist chair.
Back in reality his sudden movements knocked Adam to the ground and nearly sent Emma and the kitten into the bulkhead of the craft. Emma was able to calm him long enough to let his mind clear, and realize where he was and that he was safe. Adam picked himself slowly from the floor, assuring his panicked child that his attack was instinct not intentional
"We should be landing soon Jesse. I can do a more thorough check up on you, but from what I see; a set of broken ribs and a good concussion is what you will have to deal with. Please don't let yourself fall a sleep.
"Not a problem." Jesse whispered. "After the last nightmare I don't think I ever want to sleep again. How did you find me?"
"Alyssa the one of the little girls told us you were in trouble." Emma replied, " They are very powerful for such young ones."
Jesse looked over to Emma and laughed. "You don't know that half of it.:
"What do you mean? "
"According to the one I talked to said they haven't even been born yet."
"Ya know I think the GSA agent may have hit you a bit too hard on the head." Emma retorted.
"Maybe you just miss under stood her." Adam injected.
"Or maybe Emma's right and I just hit my head too hard."
"We're landing" Shalimar announced.
"Jesse I have to go check on Brennan, if you don't think you can cope with the seeing the pod I can understand. I will put up a hollo wall. But I really need to get you checked out.
So give me a couple of minutes, spend a couple of minutes and get your self together.
Emma smiled and gave her free hand to Jesse who looked at the opened door like a frightened child.
"Lets go see how many of your marbles Eckart's men rattled loose."
She put the kitten down who quickly exited the door with Adam and Shalimar.
"Emma, I, I ah, um."
"Its ok Jesse, you have to stop blaming yourself for what happen to Brennan and you have to understand that what Adam did was for the best for Bren and us. If there had been any other choice Adam would have not used the pod."
Jesse thought hard on the Emma was telling her. "As far as the pods and Adam go, I ... think I mean, I do understand what your saying Emma but I... can't ...it Maybe one day I will be able to explain to you how I feel but right now...I can't, and as far as Bren goes it.....
"...Was and accident" Emma interrupted "and when Bren wakes up he will be the first to tell you so. Come on lets get you down to the lab before Adam send Shalimar after you.
Jesse looked up to the sound of a cat hissing, he saw a tiny black and white kitten scurry away and he saw what caused the animal to run for the woods. GSA agents were splitting up, moving in to surround him. Part of him could care less. But another part of him wanted this fight. He slowly rose from his position by the tree and got a quick look at his surrounding The large oak tree directly behind him the lake 5 paces to the right and a trail that led into the woods was ten paces to his left he knew where he was he just didn't remember getting here the last thing he remembered happen about the time his beer mug tower fell when he was still at O'Flannery's pub.
"8 to 1, bad odds." He announced, "Look, you guys know I'm here, and I know you're here. It's late and I already have a headache. So, lets say we cut out the physical stuff, you guys all lay down and play dead and I will go home, like always."
None of the agents even cracked a smile. Then again they never did. The first man to swing at him was met with a solid fist to the nose. There really was a lot of satisfaction when he felt the cartilage brake beneath his knuckle. The fight quickly became a free for all. But they had caught the Jesse in a bad mood and he was quickly decorating the lawn with their aching bodies. Three where unconscious two just didn't seem to want to get up from the ground as they rolled this way and that hanging on to their broken body parts. The next three attacked at once he managed to just duck under one strike just seconds before the guy to his left swung at him again. Instinctively he phased and the wand again went through him and caught the man behind him. Unfortunately for Jesse the whole situation was too much like the earlier incident that for all he knew had killed Brennan and he froze, replaying earlier events in his mind. His mistake gave the agents plenty of time to regroup and strike. The first blow came from the tazer of one of the men who had been unconscious only moments ago. After that, the pain became unbearable as they began to strike him repeatedly with the voltage side as well as the solid side of the club as well as their boots. The last conscious thought he had was the sight of a small kitten as it jumped out of the trees attacking the GSA agents with all the vigor of Shalimar and again that may have only been wishful thinking.
The Double helix landed just inside the fight zone. Shalimar was nearly out of the plane before the doors opened. If the situation wasn't so dire she might have laughed at the sight she came up on. Most of them appeared to be dancing around screaming and striking at each other. It wasn't till she was closer did she notice a small kitten jump from the head of one to the back of another with her claws bared and the most fierce little growl she had ever heard. One of the men had already started moving Jesse towards the car. The others seemed to be busy trying to kill the kitten by the time she reached the fight. She caught the kitten just as one of them flung it off its arm. the cat let go but the GSA agent will have a lasting memory of the fight.
Shalimar caught up with Jesse, the agent looked as if he had been in one hell of a brawl. It seemed her boy had been able to give as good as he got for a while anyway.
"Going somewhere?" Shalimar grinned. The agent quickly dropped Jess and took a defensive stance. She didn't wait for so much as a comment Shalimar just flashed her eyes and began fighting.
Adam and Emma teamed up against the larger group. Adam was a strong and graceful fighter. Emma threw punch after kick after punch as they worked together to narrow down the field. When Shalimar showed up with Jesse slung over her shoulder like so much luggage, the GSA decided to call it quits and those left standing ran for the cars on the other side of the lake.
After reaching the Double Helix Adam helped Shalimar lower the unconscious Member of the team from her back and gently into a chair. Adam quickly surveyed the damage; Jesse had quite a few welts from the impact of the tazer, a few of them even bled. There was bruising and swelling over half his body, and a more than likely a few broken ribs. He wasn't going to be a happy kid when he woke up, but at least he would awaken.
"Looks like Jesse made a friend." Shalimar announced pointing at the sleeping kitten curled up in the corner of the helix.
"How'd it get on board?
"Not sure but I think it's the one I saw attacking the GSA agent I found dragging Jesse away" Shalimar smiled as Emma picked up the little ball of fur who just yawned and curled back up in her arms
"Well any enemy of the GSA is a friend of mine" Emma laughed "can we keeper her?"
Adam smiled for a moment and then went back to treating Jesses' wounds.
"I'll make no promises."
With the kitten in one hand Emma gently wiped some of the dirt from jesses face, he seem to respond to her touch nudging his sorely bruised cheekbone towards her touch.
"That's a good sign." Adam Smiled. I think he's coming around.
Emma felt a warm rush of fever as her mind linked with Jesse's. Jesse looked panicked by her presence. "Jesse its ok, your safe. Another voice came from nowhere causing them both to turn in time to see Adam he stood by an empty pod. The mental reaction was so strong that Emma was thrown physically from his mind, as the young mutant aggressively fought the mental specter. Jesse tried desperately to move away from him. Like a frighten child trying to get out of a dentist chair.
Back in reality his sudden movements knocked Adam to the ground and nearly sent Emma and the kitten into the bulkhead of the craft. Emma was able to calm him long enough to let his mind clear, and realize where he was and that he was safe. Adam picked himself slowly from the floor, assuring his panicked child that his attack was instinct not intentional
"We should be landing soon Jesse. I can do a more thorough check up on you, but from what I see; a set of broken ribs and a good concussion is what you will have to deal with. Please don't let yourself fall a sleep.
"Not a problem." Jesse whispered. "After the last nightmare I don't think I ever want to sleep again. How did you find me?"
"Alyssa the one of the little girls told us you were in trouble." Emma replied, " They are very powerful for such young ones."
Jesse looked over to Emma and laughed. "You don't know that half of it.:
"What do you mean? "
"According to the one I talked to said they haven't even been born yet."
"Ya know I think the GSA agent may have hit you a bit too hard on the head." Emma retorted.
"Maybe you just miss under stood her." Adam injected.
"Or maybe Emma's right and I just hit my head too hard."
"We're landing" Shalimar announced.
"Jesse I have to go check on Brennan, if you don't think you can cope with the seeing the pod I can understand. I will put up a hollo wall. But I really need to get you checked out.
So give me a couple of minutes, spend a couple of minutes and get your self together.
Emma smiled and gave her free hand to Jesse who looked at the opened door like a frightened child.
"Lets go see how many of your marbles Eckart's men rattled loose."
She put the kitten down who quickly exited the door with Adam and Shalimar.
"Emma, I, I ah, um."
"Its ok Jesse, you have to stop blaming yourself for what happen to Brennan and you have to understand that what Adam did was for the best for Bren and us. If there had been any other choice Adam would have not used the pod."
Jesse thought hard on the Emma was telling her. "As far as the pods and Adam go, I ... think I mean, I do understand what your saying Emma but I... can't ...it Maybe one day I will be able to explain to you how I feel but right now...I can't, and as far as Bren goes it.....
"...Was and accident" Emma interrupted "and when Bren wakes up he will be the first to tell you so. Come on lets get you down to the lab before Adam send Shalimar after you.
