CHAPTER 9
It had been hours since the two older members of mutant X had disappeared leaving the youngest to fiend off the hired help that had been employed and search for their friends.
"Adam?" Jesses spoke with a hint of vexation creeping into his voice.
"Yeah Jess what's up?"
Jesse looked at Emma who stood tensely beside him while simultaneously trying to get a hit off of her teammates.
"Adam, me Emma and I have been all over this place. Aside from the soldiers that started the fight with us there is nothing more here." He paused. "And Adam, we can't find Brennan or Shalimar."
"What?"
"I mean we have scoured this entire facility and there is no sign of either of them and we cannot reach them on their comm. Links, nor can Emma get a hit off either one."
Adam listened to Jesse while he worked on tracking the other members comm. Signals. No luck.
"Okay Jess, I just tried a network scan their comms are working but jammed something is short circuiting the signal. If these two were able to capture Shalimar and Brennan I don't want you two to be next, get back here now, we need to find them as soon as possible, god only knows what those two want with them. In order to do that I need you here." Adam cut off the signal.
Jesse looked toward Emma although both were worried in expression; Emma was more so in that she was receiving no readings from either of her teammates. He stepped closer letting his hand run down the length of her arm calming her slightly he guided her back to the Double Helix.
"Com'on Em, Adam wants us back. We will find them." Jesse reassured Emma as much as himself.
Hours past like years, Shalimar could have sworn time had stopped and she was there stretched out like some perverse display with no real way out. Her shoulder throbbed from the stab wound Klarissa had inflicted, blood now ran down her left side from the invasion. But that was the least of her concern; worry had taken over her as she watched Brennan intently hoping for any sign of consciousness. His features and grown ghostly and his lips shown a strong hue of purple, he still stood in the pool of water which was continuing to drain him of what little strength he had left remaining. Shalimar thought back again at the horrific display when he had electrocuted Klarissa it seemed to be set in slow motion in her mind. Over and over it played, his body had convulsed for thirty minutes afterwards letting her know that all his power had been focused in that one shot. He had protected her to his own downfall and now she worried about his welfare, about his life, and even more for not saying what she wanted, and not acting on what she felt.
The tears had dried in her eyes it was no use in crying any longer she had pleaded with him to stop and he had heard her somehow, she did not know how but he heard her and stopped. She had continued to cry for a time after seeing him in such pain and not being able to help or at least hold him or do anything. She was tied forced to watch in horror and only scream out his name pleading him to hear her, now that is was over she called to him gently trying to bring him back to wake him so that maybe she could help in some small manner. She let out a sigh of frustration laced with helplessness at least Kyle had not come back into the room.
"Adam what if..." Jesse let the sentence hang not sure as to whether he could bring himself to ask. Adam looked into his eyes and Jesse turned quickly away casting his solemn star toward the floor.
"If they were dead Jess, Kyle would make sure to have a display of their remains erected in our views. No they are still alive we just have to find them."
Jesse nodded his head in agreement with some relief he thought about what Adam said, he was right they must still be alive.
"Jess, we'll find them." Emma assured. "When we do scores will be settled." Emma held a deathly note in her voice; Jesse caught the slight and made note to speak with her after this was all over. She was cold and he needed to know why.
"JESSE!" Adam shouted from behind his computer. "Look you two, I have done a broad area scan. Here." He handed out two freshly printed maps. "The red overlay covers a 5 X 5 mile spance. Their Comm rings are jammed but I was able to narrow the field down to this area." Adam signified the red. "I want you and Emma to take the Double Helix and scan for the antidote that I infused into your rings as the protection from Kyle's poison. I have uploaded the tracing information into the Helix you should be able to just hover and scan, it will pick up on the antidote and that's where we'll find Brennan and Shalimar."
"Great! Lets go." Jesse snagged the paper.
"Wait Jess!" Adam caught the young mutants arm before he broke into a run for the Helix.
"What?!"
"You need to make sure to scan every inch of the area I have shown you. If not you could miss them." Adam's eyes held a sincerity that stung Jesse.
"I got it Adam, We'll find them." Jesse assured their mentor knowing how much weight he was bearing. He turned and caught Emma by the hand as they both jogged to the Helix.
The door creaked announcing an intruder was entering into her space. . Her hair hanging dirty about her face golden eyes shown with fury at the intruder.
"I see you're still upset with Klarissa's little move on your teammate. Or is he something more?" Kyle inquired with deadly tones he held a steel rod in his hand clapping it against his thigh as he walked.
"Yeah well, lets talk about your fried little lover shall we?" She spat the words at him. "She feeling a little static?" Sarcasm dripped off every word.
"For your information." Kyle circled Brennan's limp form.
Shalimar froze "NO!!" there was nothing she could do.
*CRACK!!* The steel came in contact with Brennan's ribs once twice and yet a third time.
"SHE'S DEAD!!!"
Shalimar could hear the sickening sound of bones break as she struggled futilely against her restraints. "STOP STOP! PLEASE!" she pleaded with the mad man as he continued his torment on the elemental's already weakened body.
Kyle turned on her, knuckles white from the tight hold he had on the steel. *CRACK!!*
A wave of nausea swept over her like a tidal wave her ribs gave in and the unmistakable crack resounded. He had hit her only once but that did the job. She coughed in agony trying to breath.
He gripped her chin. "It would behoove you to keep your mouth shut." He forced her face away and dropped the rod before leaving.
Tears of pain streaked her face as she worked to shallow her breathing and allow her feral healing to begin. Thankfully she could only feel about three broken ribs her feral strength had held against the brunt of the attack. She shook the tears and nausea from her lifting her head to see Brennan. Her heart raced and she stared at him looking for any sign of life. A raspy breath was drawn and another, shallow and tainted with the sound of liquid filling his lungs. Blood was seeping through his shirt slowly expanding throughout the fabric. He was fading rapidly and she felt him, felt him drifting away from her, from life.
"NO! I am not going to let you die on me!" She screamed and jerked on her binding. It was then she noticed a small tear in the rope that bound her left leg. The knife Klarissa had held must have cut the rope when she fell. She summoned all her strength and with that her love, anger, and fears all pooled within her in one fast motion she ripped her leg up the rope dug through her sock and into her skin. Again through clenched teeth finally the rope gave way. She rested regrouping herself and breathing through the pain of her ribs and newly injured ankle. With the limberness of a ballerina she lifted her free foot to her hand revealing a small knife slid carefully inside her shoe. In a matter of moments she was free and fell in a heap upon the floor panting from the strain of her actions. Ribs throbbing she removed the embedded binding from her ankle and rushed to Brennan's side.
Cutting the rope on his feet she moved to the last of his restraints and the only ones that held him up right. He collapsed upon her with a slight moan she coughed in pain forcing herself to move him. She managed to drag him from the water to a secluded room hoping it would buy her time.
"Jesse, Emma, where are you guys?" She eased Brennan onto the floor, checking his vitals.
"I need to find something to release the fluid in your lungs" she spoke more to herself than to him.
Looking around the room she notice a new can of paint with the straw still tapped on the outside.
"Perfect"
She stood when a wave of dizziness darkened her vision, her knees buckled as she collapsed unconscious beside Brennan. Her last thought was one of failure. Brennan's breathing slowed as one lung collapsed and a new pocket of fluid seeped in. Garbled breaths were drawn sporadically one....two....three...silence.
R&R let me know what is out of character and whatever else laters.
It had been hours since the two older members of mutant X had disappeared leaving the youngest to fiend off the hired help that had been employed and search for their friends.
"Adam?" Jesses spoke with a hint of vexation creeping into his voice.
"Yeah Jess what's up?"
Jesse looked at Emma who stood tensely beside him while simultaneously trying to get a hit off of her teammates.
"Adam, me Emma and I have been all over this place. Aside from the soldiers that started the fight with us there is nothing more here." He paused. "And Adam, we can't find Brennan or Shalimar."
"What?"
"I mean we have scoured this entire facility and there is no sign of either of them and we cannot reach them on their comm. Links, nor can Emma get a hit off either one."
Adam listened to Jesse while he worked on tracking the other members comm. Signals. No luck.
"Okay Jess, I just tried a network scan their comms are working but jammed something is short circuiting the signal. If these two were able to capture Shalimar and Brennan I don't want you two to be next, get back here now, we need to find them as soon as possible, god only knows what those two want with them. In order to do that I need you here." Adam cut off the signal.
Jesse looked toward Emma although both were worried in expression; Emma was more so in that she was receiving no readings from either of her teammates. He stepped closer letting his hand run down the length of her arm calming her slightly he guided her back to the Double Helix.
"Com'on Em, Adam wants us back. We will find them." Jesse reassured Emma as much as himself.
Hours past like years, Shalimar could have sworn time had stopped and she was there stretched out like some perverse display with no real way out. Her shoulder throbbed from the stab wound Klarissa had inflicted, blood now ran down her left side from the invasion. But that was the least of her concern; worry had taken over her as she watched Brennan intently hoping for any sign of consciousness. His features and grown ghostly and his lips shown a strong hue of purple, he still stood in the pool of water which was continuing to drain him of what little strength he had left remaining. Shalimar thought back again at the horrific display when he had electrocuted Klarissa it seemed to be set in slow motion in her mind. Over and over it played, his body had convulsed for thirty minutes afterwards letting her know that all his power had been focused in that one shot. He had protected her to his own downfall and now she worried about his welfare, about his life, and even more for not saying what she wanted, and not acting on what she felt.
The tears had dried in her eyes it was no use in crying any longer she had pleaded with him to stop and he had heard her somehow, she did not know how but he heard her and stopped. She had continued to cry for a time after seeing him in such pain and not being able to help or at least hold him or do anything. She was tied forced to watch in horror and only scream out his name pleading him to hear her, now that is was over she called to him gently trying to bring him back to wake him so that maybe she could help in some small manner. She let out a sigh of frustration laced with helplessness at least Kyle had not come back into the room.
"Adam what if..." Jesse let the sentence hang not sure as to whether he could bring himself to ask. Adam looked into his eyes and Jesse turned quickly away casting his solemn star toward the floor.
"If they were dead Jess, Kyle would make sure to have a display of their remains erected in our views. No they are still alive we just have to find them."
Jesse nodded his head in agreement with some relief he thought about what Adam said, he was right they must still be alive.
"Jess, we'll find them." Emma assured. "When we do scores will be settled." Emma held a deathly note in her voice; Jesse caught the slight and made note to speak with her after this was all over. She was cold and he needed to know why.
"JESSE!" Adam shouted from behind his computer. "Look you two, I have done a broad area scan. Here." He handed out two freshly printed maps. "The red overlay covers a 5 X 5 mile spance. Their Comm rings are jammed but I was able to narrow the field down to this area." Adam signified the red. "I want you and Emma to take the Double Helix and scan for the antidote that I infused into your rings as the protection from Kyle's poison. I have uploaded the tracing information into the Helix you should be able to just hover and scan, it will pick up on the antidote and that's where we'll find Brennan and Shalimar."
"Great! Lets go." Jesse snagged the paper.
"Wait Jess!" Adam caught the young mutants arm before he broke into a run for the Helix.
"What?!"
"You need to make sure to scan every inch of the area I have shown you. If not you could miss them." Adam's eyes held a sincerity that stung Jesse.
"I got it Adam, We'll find them." Jesse assured their mentor knowing how much weight he was bearing. He turned and caught Emma by the hand as they both jogged to the Helix.
The door creaked announcing an intruder was entering into her space. . Her hair hanging dirty about her face golden eyes shown with fury at the intruder.
"I see you're still upset with Klarissa's little move on your teammate. Or is he something more?" Kyle inquired with deadly tones he held a steel rod in his hand clapping it against his thigh as he walked.
"Yeah well, lets talk about your fried little lover shall we?" She spat the words at him. "She feeling a little static?" Sarcasm dripped off every word.
"For your information." Kyle circled Brennan's limp form.
Shalimar froze "NO!!" there was nothing she could do.
*CRACK!!* The steel came in contact with Brennan's ribs once twice and yet a third time.
"SHE'S DEAD!!!"
Shalimar could hear the sickening sound of bones break as she struggled futilely against her restraints. "STOP STOP! PLEASE!" she pleaded with the mad man as he continued his torment on the elemental's already weakened body.
Kyle turned on her, knuckles white from the tight hold he had on the steel. *CRACK!!*
A wave of nausea swept over her like a tidal wave her ribs gave in and the unmistakable crack resounded. He had hit her only once but that did the job. She coughed in agony trying to breath.
He gripped her chin. "It would behoove you to keep your mouth shut." He forced her face away and dropped the rod before leaving.
Tears of pain streaked her face as she worked to shallow her breathing and allow her feral healing to begin. Thankfully she could only feel about three broken ribs her feral strength had held against the brunt of the attack. She shook the tears and nausea from her lifting her head to see Brennan. Her heart raced and she stared at him looking for any sign of life. A raspy breath was drawn and another, shallow and tainted with the sound of liquid filling his lungs. Blood was seeping through his shirt slowly expanding throughout the fabric. He was fading rapidly and she felt him, felt him drifting away from her, from life.
"NO! I am not going to let you die on me!" She screamed and jerked on her binding. It was then she noticed a small tear in the rope that bound her left leg. The knife Klarissa had held must have cut the rope when she fell. She summoned all her strength and with that her love, anger, and fears all pooled within her in one fast motion she ripped her leg up the rope dug through her sock and into her skin. Again through clenched teeth finally the rope gave way. She rested regrouping herself and breathing through the pain of her ribs and newly injured ankle. With the limberness of a ballerina she lifted her free foot to her hand revealing a small knife slid carefully inside her shoe. In a matter of moments she was free and fell in a heap upon the floor panting from the strain of her actions. Ribs throbbing she removed the embedded binding from her ankle and rushed to Brennan's side.
Cutting the rope on his feet she moved to the last of his restraints and the only ones that held him up right. He collapsed upon her with a slight moan she coughed in pain forcing herself to move him. She managed to drag him from the water to a secluded room hoping it would buy her time.
"Jesse, Emma, where are you guys?" She eased Brennan onto the floor, checking his vitals.
"I need to find something to release the fluid in your lungs" she spoke more to herself than to him.
Looking around the room she notice a new can of paint with the straw still tapped on the outside.
"Perfect"
She stood when a wave of dizziness darkened her vision, her knees buckled as she collapsed unconscious beside Brennan. Her last thought was one of failure. Brennan's breathing slowed as one lung collapsed and a new pocket of fluid seeped in. Garbled breaths were drawn sporadically one....two....three...silence.
R&R let me know what is out of character and whatever else laters.
