Chapter 31.
"Where am I?" Josephine asked, truly lost. She could feel she was tied to a wooden pole.
The Mistress approached her. "You are in hell," she whispered. "And, if you want to know the saddest part of it, it's not your direct fault that you are here. Did your sister and her friends tell you where they come from? Or do I get to tell you the story?"
"They told me. They come from the future," Josephine said steadily. "Just like you."
"True, we all come from the future, from a future I, personally, don't like," The Mistress said.
"What do I have to do with this? What do my children have to do with your life?" The young mother asked, half angry, half scared.
"They'll grow up, and have children who'll have children, who'll have children, etcetera until one of them will have Jennifer Scotts. Why do I hate Jennifer Scotts so much? Well, she captured Ransik, and she stopped and destroyed many of my plans, most of them without knowing, but what truly made me go after her is the fact that she met and married my son. My perfect Alexander married that farm girl and I shudder to think what their children will be like."
"You hate her because she married your son and made him happy?" Josephine asked, completely confused.
"Among other things," The Mistress said. "Over a year ago she killed all my mutants except for Ransik and Nadira. Those mutants were like my children and she killed them all, and now, she has to pay."
"But why us?" Josephine asked. "Why not kill someone from further ahead in time?"
"I thought your sister Jessica was Jennifer's ancestor. I thought it would hurt her more to know that I had killed her friend Wes's wife to get her. But when it turned out to be you, well, I was already here, there was no reason to go anywhere else." Josephine looked at her with hatred. She was going to kill her and her family for no real reason. "I wanted to kill Jennifer, but Alexander loves her too much, so it would hurt him terribly. However not everything was lost, if I disappeared Jennifer from history, she would never meet Alex and he wouldn't suffer. And I won't have to worry about her."
At that moment, Kevin and the children were brought in, and tied to other poles. Josephine looked around again and noticed she was in a stable, but it wasn't hers.
"Jossie, are you all right?" Kevin asked. She nodded. "What do you want from us?" he asked his captor.
"I want you to die painfully," she answered bluntly, not even caring that two little kids were listening.
"Then kill us already," he dared.
"Don't be stupid, where is your sense of histrionics? I want Jennifer Scotts to watch this, if she survives the fight with my mutants," The Mistress said cruelly. Behind her, half hidden in the shadows, Bunnistein watched the scene. Josephine looked at her for a second and she nodded smiling. The red-haired woman turned to her children and smiled at them.
"It will be alright, babies, don't worry, Mommy and Daddy are here," she said sweetly.
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The Rangers and the mutants were in the middle of a small war. Laser beams, explosions, dust and fighting yells filled a small portion of the Simmons' farm.
"Alex," Jen called when she saw three mutants walking out of the house with the Simmonses in their grasps. "They've got them, we have to go!"
"What do we do about this?" Alex asked, pointing at the fight. A mutant ran to Jen and kicked her in the side, sending her flying into her husband's arms. "Are you okay?" he asked.
She nodded. "We have to call Wes and Eric. Tell them the Silver Guardians have to come here and fight these mutants off. You have to come with me, we have to rescue the Simmonses."
"All right," Alex agreed, he brought his morpher to his mouth and called. "Eric?"
"I hear you."
"Call all the Silver guardians to the Simmons' farm now. Come along, and bring Wes," Alex ordered.
"Wes? Alex, I don't think he can make it there," Eric said.
"Is he hurt?"
"No, Jessica is in labor." At Eric's words, Alex looked at Jen, she shrugged.
"I trust you," she said.
"She won't be giving birth to that baby for the next couple of hours. Tell Wes that we need him, we really, really need him, and you and your Silver Guardians. The mutants are too strong, so hurry up."
"Are you going to make Wes fight these mutants while his wife is in labor?"
"Eric, believe me, I don't have a choice," the black Ranger said and closed communications. "What now?" he asked Jen. They were fairly well hidden from the fight, which guaranteed them a few minutes of peace.
"They left that way," she said, pointing to her right. "I think they've crossed to the next farm, I can feel them. They're scared."
"Then we have to hurry," he said. "Summon your cycle and let's go."
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Eric took a deep breath and approached Wes, who was sitting next to Jessica. She was lying on the bed, already in a hospital robe, and seemed to be in pain.
"Wes?" he called. The blond man looked up from his wife's face and smiled for a second, before his expression went dark. "Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Where are you going?" Jessica asked when Wes stood up. She grasped his hand and looked at him nervously.
"I'll just talk to Eric for a second, I'll be right back, baby," he soothed. She nodded and looked away from him, towards the window.
Wes followed Eric out of the room. "Alex called," Eric began. "He said the fight going badly, and that they need our help."
"Well, go, take the Silver Guardians with you, you have to save Josephine, or Jessica is going to kill us all," Wes said and turned to the door.
"No!" Eric stopped him. "I meant us. You and me." He pointed at Wes and then at himself.
"Tell Alex there is no force in the universe that will make me leave my wife's side at this moment!" Wes said angrily.
"Wesley!!" Jessica called from inside, in pain. Wes ran to her side and held her hand.
"Okay, okay. Breathe now, baby, breathe. It's over now, it is okay," he whispered tenderly through the contraction. "Very good," he congratulated.
"What did Eric want?" she asked.
"Alex wanted me to help them in the fight," her eyes opened wide. "But I won't leave you."
"What if they truly need you? What if they're in danger?" she asked.
"Jessica, you're in labor, I won't leave your side," he argued. She held his hand tight.
"Fine, stay with me. But if they call again..."
"We'll see," he said and caressed her hair tenderly.
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Jen and Alex got to the border between the Simmons' farm and the next. That one seemed uncared for, almost abandoned.
"Where to, psychic girl?" he asked. She threw a sideways glance at him.
"Very funny," she commented. "I feel them in that direction," she said pointing at the stable. "But we are not alone out here, be careful," she said.
"Okay, got that." He assured her and they both drove through the uncared- for plants.
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The Mistress smiled maliciously. "It's been a while since I last pulled this trick on Alex, but I think this is the perfect moment to do it," she whispered and pulled out her remote and pressed a button. The young mutants that accompanied her looked at each other, and Ransik and Nadira laughed. "Well, Alexander, you start by releasing Goldix," she ordered whispering the words directly into the remote. "And then, I would love it if you brought me your wife nicely tied up, please,"
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Alex stopped suddenly in his tracks--something was wrong with him.
"Honey, are you okay?" Jen asked him. Alex pressed a button in his officer glove and brought to himself the container that the golden version of Steelix was in. "Alex what are you doing?" she asked again.
He pulled his freezer blaster out, reversed it and shot the frozen mutant, who immediately began to grow to his normal size.
"Alex?! What the hell is wrong with you?!" she asked angrily, approaching him. But she stopped in her tracks when he turned on her. He approached her rapidly and tried to kick her, but she blocked his attempt. "Alex?!" she called, but he wasn't listening. He began trying to hurt her, throwing punches and kicks she managed to block only for a while, she had to start dodging them when he increased the force. "Alex, honey, what are you doing?"
"Shut up, bitch!" he yelled and moved at her again, finally grasping her right arm and twisting it behind her back.
"Alex, what are you doing? Let me go!" she begged, but he only grasped her harder. "Alex, I don't want to hurt you," she said.
"Too bad, because I want to hurt you," he said, grasping her left arm and twisting it behind her back too.
Jen focused on him and managed, through a simple telekinetic move, to release herself from his grasp, he flew a couple of feet away from her. The mutant was nowhere to be seen. Jen opened her mind and tried to find some thoughts coming from Alex. Alex, are you ok, love? She asked, but there was no answer. However she kept trying.
Alex got to his feet quickly, filled with sudden anger. He ran at his wife, whose eyes were closed and kicked her in the ribs before she could react. She flew a few feet and landed on her side, demorphing. She began to pull herself together, grasping her ribs and trying to get up almost immediately.
Alex ran to her and before she could get up, grasped her neck and began strangling her, she took his hands in hers, and tried to part his strong thick fingers from her neck. He tightened his grip at this and tears began falling from her eyes when she finally managed to kick him in the groin.
The pain forced him to let go of her and clutch his privates and she made to run, not even giving herself time to recover, but he didn't give himself time to recover either and jumped over her, pinning her to the floor under his weight.
"Alex, what is she doing to you, baby? What is wrong with you?" she asked desperately, as she struggled to release herself.
"Shut up," he ordered as he twisted both arms behind her back again and summoned his cuffs. Jen didn't dare to use her psychic powers on him, not while she didn't know what his mother was doing to him. She could cause terrible damage, or even kill him, and she didn't dare to use her telekinetic powers anymore, because she was scared and confused, so she would have little control over them. He handcuffed her and pulled her to her feet, she cried, scared, not knowing how to help her husband or even herself.
"Alex, honey--" he slapped her across the face with all the strength he could muster. Blood began running down from her nose.
"I said shut the fuck up, bitch!" he yelled and dragged her towards the stable.
Jen looked towards the building and knew the end of this rivalry was coming. She knew that after this confrontation between The Mistress and her, only one of them was going to be left alive; and as her husband pulled her towards the stable, controlled by someone else who was filling him with an anger that wasn't his, Jen decided it wasn't going to be her who died, no matter the consequences.
To be continued
"Where am I?" Josephine asked, truly lost. She could feel she was tied to a wooden pole.
The Mistress approached her. "You are in hell," she whispered. "And, if you want to know the saddest part of it, it's not your direct fault that you are here. Did your sister and her friends tell you where they come from? Or do I get to tell you the story?"
"They told me. They come from the future," Josephine said steadily. "Just like you."
"True, we all come from the future, from a future I, personally, don't like," The Mistress said.
"What do I have to do with this? What do my children have to do with your life?" The young mother asked, half angry, half scared.
"They'll grow up, and have children who'll have children, who'll have children, etcetera until one of them will have Jennifer Scotts. Why do I hate Jennifer Scotts so much? Well, she captured Ransik, and she stopped and destroyed many of my plans, most of them without knowing, but what truly made me go after her is the fact that she met and married my son. My perfect Alexander married that farm girl and I shudder to think what their children will be like."
"You hate her because she married your son and made him happy?" Josephine asked, completely confused.
"Among other things," The Mistress said. "Over a year ago she killed all my mutants except for Ransik and Nadira. Those mutants were like my children and she killed them all, and now, she has to pay."
"But why us?" Josephine asked. "Why not kill someone from further ahead in time?"
"I thought your sister Jessica was Jennifer's ancestor. I thought it would hurt her more to know that I had killed her friend Wes's wife to get her. But when it turned out to be you, well, I was already here, there was no reason to go anywhere else." Josephine looked at her with hatred. She was going to kill her and her family for no real reason. "I wanted to kill Jennifer, but Alexander loves her too much, so it would hurt him terribly. However not everything was lost, if I disappeared Jennifer from history, she would never meet Alex and he wouldn't suffer. And I won't have to worry about her."
At that moment, Kevin and the children were brought in, and tied to other poles. Josephine looked around again and noticed she was in a stable, but it wasn't hers.
"Jossie, are you all right?" Kevin asked. She nodded. "What do you want from us?" he asked his captor.
"I want you to die painfully," she answered bluntly, not even caring that two little kids were listening.
"Then kill us already," he dared.
"Don't be stupid, where is your sense of histrionics? I want Jennifer Scotts to watch this, if she survives the fight with my mutants," The Mistress said cruelly. Behind her, half hidden in the shadows, Bunnistein watched the scene. Josephine looked at her for a second and she nodded smiling. The red-haired woman turned to her children and smiled at them.
"It will be alright, babies, don't worry, Mommy and Daddy are here," she said sweetly.
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The Rangers and the mutants were in the middle of a small war. Laser beams, explosions, dust and fighting yells filled a small portion of the Simmons' farm.
"Alex," Jen called when she saw three mutants walking out of the house with the Simmonses in their grasps. "They've got them, we have to go!"
"What do we do about this?" Alex asked, pointing at the fight. A mutant ran to Jen and kicked her in the side, sending her flying into her husband's arms. "Are you okay?" he asked.
She nodded. "We have to call Wes and Eric. Tell them the Silver Guardians have to come here and fight these mutants off. You have to come with me, we have to rescue the Simmonses."
"All right," Alex agreed, he brought his morpher to his mouth and called. "Eric?"
"I hear you."
"Call all the Silver guardians to the Simmons' farm now. Come along, and bring Wes," Alex ordered.
"Wes? Alex, I don't think he can make it there," Eric said.
"Is he hurt?"
"No, Jessica is in labor." At Eric's words, Alex looked at Jen, she shrugged.
"I trust you," she said.
"She won't be giving birth to that baby for the next couple of hours. Tell Wes that we need him, we really, really need him, and you and your Silver Guardians. The mutants are too strong, so hurry up."
"Are you going to make Wes fight these mutants while his wife is in labor?"
"Eric, believe me, I don't have a choice," the black Ranger said and closed communications. "What now?" he asked Jen. They were fairly well hidden from the fight, which guaranteed them a few minutes of peace.
"They left that way," she said, pointing to her right. "I think they've crossed to the next farm, I can feel them. They're scared."
"Then we have to hurry," he said. "Summon your cycle and let's go."
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Eric took a deep breath and approached Wes, who was sitting next to Jessica. She was lying on the bed, already in a hospital robe, and seemed to be in pain.
"Wes?" he called. The blond man looked up from his wife's face and smiled for a second, before his expression went dark. "Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Where are you going?" Jessica asked when Wes stood up. She grasped his hand and looked at him nervously.
"I'll just talk to Eric for a second, I'll be right back, baby," he soothed. She nodded and looked away from him, towards the window.
Wes followed Eric out of the room. "Alex called," Eric began. "He said the fight going badly, and that they need our help."
"Well, go, take the Silver Guardians with you, you have to save Josephine, or Jessica is going to kill us all," Wes said and turned to the door.
"No!" Eric stopped him. "I meant us. You and me." He pointed at Wes and then at himself.
"Tell Alex there is no force in the universe that will make me leave my wife's side at this moment!" Wes said angrily.
"Wesley!!" Jessica called from inside, in pain. Wes ran to her side and held her hand.
"Okay, okay. Breathe now, baby, breathe. It's over now, it is okay," he whispered tenderly through the contraction. "Very good," he congratulated.
"What did Eric want?" she asked.
"Alex wanted me to help them in the fight," her eyes opened wide. "But I won't leave you."
"What if they truly need you? What if they're in danger?" she asked.
"Jessica, you're in labor, I won't leave your side," he argued. She held his hand tight.
"Fine, stay with me. But if they call again..."
"We'll see," he said and caressed her hair tenderly.
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Jen and Alex got to the border between the Simmons' farm and the next. That one seemed uncared for, almost abandoned.
"Where to, psychic girl?" he asked. She threw a sideways glance at him.
"Very funny," she commented. "I feel them in that direction," she said pointing at the stable. "But we are not alone out here, be careful," she said.
"Okay, got that." He assured her and they both drove through the uncared- for plants.
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The Mistress smiled maliciously. "It's been a while since I last pulled this trick on Alex, but I think this is the perfect moment to do it," she whispered and pulled out her remote and pressed a button. The young mutants that accompanied her looked at each other, and Ransik and Nadira laughed. "Well, Alexander, you start by releasing Goldix," she ordered whispering the words directly into the remote. "And then, I would love it if you brought me your wife nicely tied up, please,"
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Alex stopped suddenly in his tracks--something was wrong with him.
"Honey, are you okay?" Jen asked him. Alex pressed a button in his officer glove and brought to himself the container that the golden version of Steelix was in. "Alex what are you doing?" she asked again.
He pulled his freezer blaster out, reversed it and shot the frozen mutant, who immediately began to grow to his normal size.
"Alex?! What the hell is wrong with you?!" she asked angrily, approaching him. But she stopped in her tracks when he turned on her. He approached her rapidly and tried to kick her, but she blocked his attempt. "Alex?!" she called, but he wasn't listening. He began trying to hurt her, throwing punches and kicks she managed to block only for a while, she had to start dodging them when he increased the force. "Alex, honey, what are you doing?"
"Shut up, bitch!" he yelled and moved at her again, finally grasping her right arm and twisting it behind her back.
"Alex, what are you doing? Let me go!" she begged, but he only grasped her harder. "Alex, I don't want to hurt you," she said.
"Too bad, because I want to hurt you," he said, grasping her left arm and twisting it behind her back too.
Jen focused on him and managed, through a simple telekinetic move, to release herself from his grasp, he flew a couple of feet away from her. The mutant was nowhere to be seen. Jen opened her mind and tried to find some thoughts coming from Alex. Alex, are you ok, love? She asked, but there was no answer. However she kept trying.
Alex got to his feet quickly, filled with sudden anger. He ran at his wife, whose eyes were closed and kicked her in the ribs before she could react. She flew a few feet and landed on her side, demorphing. She began to pull herself together, grasping her ribs and trying to get up almost immediately.
Alex ran to her and before she could get up, grasped her neck and began strangling her, she took his hands in hers, and tried to part his strong thick fingers from her neck. He tightened his grip at this and tears began falling from her eyes when she finally managed to kick him in the groin.
The pain forced him to let go of her and clutch his privates and she made to run, not even giving herself time to recover, but he didn't give himself time to recover either and jumped over her, pinning her to the floor under his weight.
"Alex, what is she doing to you, baby? What is wrong with you?" she asked desperately, as she struggled to release herself.
"Shut up," he ordered as he twisted both arms behind her back again and summoned his cuffs. Jen didn't dare to use her psychic powers on him, not while she didn't know what his mother was doing to him. She could cause terrible damage, or even kill him, and she didn't dare to use her telekinetic powers anymore, because she was scared and confused, so she would have little control over them. He handcuffed her and pulled her to her feet, she cried, scared, not knowing how to help her husband or even herself.
"Alex, honey--" he slapped her across the face with all the strength he could muster. Blood began running down from her nose.
"I said shut the fuck up, bitch!" he yelled and dragged her towards the stable.
Jen looked towards the building and knew the end of this rivalry was coming. She knew that after this confrontation between The Mistress and her, only one of them was going to be left alive; and as her husband pulled her towards the stable, controlled by someone else who was filling him with an anger that wasn't his, Jen decided it wasn't going to be her who died, no matter the consequences.
To be continued
