TITLE-Double Trouble
Disclaimer- I don't own MX but I do own Sandy and Roxy, gosh knows I would love to own Brennan but they wouldn't sell Victor to me. They said something about it beign illegal. Oh well He will be mine, oh yes he will be mine lol. ENJOY
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Emma, Jesse and Brennan had gotten to the site 15 minutes after Shalimar due to heavy traffic. Seeing Shalimar's bike parked by the side of the warehouse, they walked towards the warehouse to find her hoping everything went well. Getting closer a menacing feeling grew in Emma's mind. She just hoped nothing bad happened to her feral friend, but the feeling only grew stronger as she approached. Emma moved a little closer to Jesse, "Something is wrong, I can feel it."
Jesse drew Emma even closer trying to comfort her, "It's ok Shalimar is fine, she always manages to keep her self out of trouble, strike that, she goes looking for trouble, but she can always handle it. Besides it's just a kid and maybe a couple of GSA agents."
Once they got into the warehouse they saw that everything was not fine, there were broken peaces of floor board everywhere, but no Sandy or Shalimar. The team fanned out to try and find them, and what they found, no one was ready for. In the back of the warehouse Emma had found a battered and bruised Shalimar beneath a pile of floor boards. She had fallen through the floor of the upper level scraping her face and arms up, but for the most part she was ok.
Brennan ran over to Emma practically pushing her out of the way to get to Shal. He brushed Shalimar's hair out of her face, "Shal, hon' wake up."
Shalimar stirred for a second and gave a loud moan. Brennan stood up and ripped off the boards covering her body. She struggled to get up, but Emma and Brennan were right there to help her. "No I'm fine," Shal said brushing off there help.
Emma backed off a little and let Brennan take over, Shalimar sighed and let Brennan continue to help her up. "Thanks."
"No prob," Brennan said running his hands over her busies and cuts.
Shalimar gave him a devilish smile as his hand traced down her neck, he leaned in to give her a kiss, but Jesse interrupted. "Guys, I think you might want to come over here and check this out."
"What is it?" Emma asked heading over to him.
"I think I found another body, but I need help lifting this stuff." Jesse explained.
Brennan sighed dropping his hand from Shalimar, turned around and began walking over to Jesse. Shalimar purred as she walked up to Brennan pinching his butt on her way by. Brennan eyes widened as he stared at Shalimar walking away from him. "What was that all about?" he asked himself.
"Hey Bren a little help would be nice!"
"Oh sorry I'm commin Jess!" a still befuddled Brennan walked over to where Jesse was, looking over his shoulder to see Shalimar sauntering over to Emma.
::::Something's wrong with her:::: he thought to himself, he shrugged the feeling off, right now Jesse and the person under the boards needed his help.
Jesse took one end of a board and Brennan the other, "Ok on 3, 1.…2.…3..." They both lifted with all of their might, and threw the board to the ground.
Shalimar walked over to Emma with a devilish smile on her face, stopping herself at Emma's side.
"Hey Shal how ya feelin?"
"I'm great, never better." Shalimar reached out and put her hand on Emma's back, slowly moving her hand down to and area that was more then friendly. Emma was getting a bit nervous with Shalimar's behavior, for one thing Shalimar was trying to grab her a$$. Emma moved away from Shalimar slightly, but Shalimar kept moving her hand down.
Shalimar leaned forward and whispered into her ear, "Your very pretty you know." then she did something Emma had never heard her do. She purred in Emma's ear.
Emma's eyes widened at Shalimar's comment, "Umm ya thanks but….." Emma quickly wriggled out of Shalimar's grasp and ran over to the guys who were still uncovering the other body. "I think I'll just go over here!!!" she motioned to the guys quickly with her hands.
"Oh common Emma, what's the matter!" Shalimar's eyes changed to feral and she let out a low playful purr.
Emma ran over to the guys to get away from Shalimar, "Umm you guys I think there is something very wrong with Shalimar." Her voice a little panicked.
Jesse walked over to his girlfriend, "Like what, she's only bleeding a bit nothing big."
"No not that, she.. She..tried to grab my butt."
Brennan's head turned towards her so fast it almost flew off. "What!!!!"
"I said Shalimar tried…"
Brennan held up his hand signaling for Emma to stop. "No I got that part, but… Oh! What the hell is going on!" Brennan took a moment to calm himself down, right now he had another person who needed his help, he would have to deal with his girlfriend later. "Alright.. Lets get back to work, ready Jess on 3, ready? 1.…2.…3...." About 5 minutes later they had almost uncovered the body all but their upper body. Emma went to clear away the board by the person's head. She wasted no time clearing away the broken wood, when she was hit with an intense vision that knocked her flat on her a$$. She saw Shal go into the warehouse, and chase after Sandy. FLASHBACK "Hey it's alright I don't want to hurt you, I'm trying to help you, common I'm gonna take you somewhere you can be safe." Shalimar moved closer to Sandy, making the young girl even more terrified. As Shal got closer Sandy began to form a blue energy ball in her hands. When Shalimar reached out to touch the girls hand Sandy threw the energy at Shalimar. When the energy hit her Shalimar split into 2 people, but they both were Shalimar. The force of the blast threw both of them on to the ground and sent them crashing through the upper level and down to the floor under piles of wood. END OF FLASHBACK
"Oh my gosh you guys, hurry! That's Shalimar under there!"
Brennan looked back at Emma, "Are you nuts? Shalimar is right over there!" pointing towards Shalimar, who was in the corner twirling her fingers in her hair, and muttering to herself, purring ever so often.
Emma moved into Brennan's face, showing she wasn't going to back down. "Yes! But there are two of them. Don't ask me how, all I saw what Sandy throwing some type of energy ball at Shalimar and then there were two of them!"
Brennan looked at Emma her eyes pleading for him to believe her. "Ok then lets get moving, Shal needs us."
Brennan smiled at a relieved Emma, then got back to work. A few minutes later they had the other Shalimar uncovered, she was worse off then the other Shalimar. A lot more cuts, bruises and from what they could tell a few broken bones.
Once Emma saw her she backed away, "Oh my gosh it's true."
Jesse could tell Emma needed to get out of the warehouse, the vision had drained her and she needed to be back at sanctuary. "Common Brennan lets get out of here, Adam will want to examine both Shalimar's.
Brennan could tell what Jesse was saying, "Ok Jess you and I will take this Shal," he pointed at the Shalimar they had just uncovered. "And Em' you look after her," he pointed at the Shalimar in the corner. "There's something off about her, so keep and eye on her."
"Ok then lets get movin." Brennan and Jesse helped the injured Shalimar out to the car, while Emma went over to the Shalimar in the corner. "Ok it's time to go back to sanctuary." Emma offered out her hand to help her up. Shalimar took her hand, "Sure thing." she said seductively.
Emma recoiled a bit, "Uh Uh, hands off, lets go."
Brennan and Jesse eased Shalimar into the front seat, and Emma and the other Shal got in the back seat.
Brennan walked over to Shalimar's motorcycle and revved up the engine, "Jess you take the girl back to sanctuary in the car and I'll drive Shal's bike back we can't leave it here. She would kill us, or they… would…. Hmm it's gonna be hard to tell them apart."
On the way back to sanctuary the injured Shal passed out, but the other Shal was causing a lot of trouble.
"Shalimar stop it!" Emma pushed Shalimar off her for the millionth time. "Jess hon' do something." she wined
"Ok Em' you drive and I'll fend off the hungry beast in the back seat."
Meanwhile, Brennan was taking his time getting back to Sanctuary, he needed to think. :::::Argggg this is so messed up, there are 2 of them. There's something different between the two, one seems…. Ahh I don't know. What ever it is it can't lead to anything good. With out track record this is going to cause major trouble. If it's anything like the time Emma was split in 2 then we've got problems. Shalimar can make a bigger racket then Emma, but hey other hand 2 of them could equal twice the fun….. No hey Brennan don't do that! This is a major problem, this is no time for sex. All though…. NO! Now I gotta get back to Sanctuary and see what's going on. What ever it is it can't be good.
The more Brennan thought about it, the more he wanted to know what was going on. Emma and Jesse were already back at Sanctuary with the 2 Shalimar's, Brennan had taken his time thinking. Now his main concern was finding out what was going on. He hunched over a bit more on Shalimar's racing bike and took off, swerving in and out of traffic. When he reached the mountain, driving into the garage and parking Shal's bike in it's proper place. Getting off the bike he jogged through the door into sanctuary. From the moment he opened the door his ear's were assaulted with screaming and squealing. Shalimar ran past him, "Hey sexy!" and as quickly as she came she was gone down the hallway with Jesse hot on her tail.
"Shalimar get back here!"
Shalimar turned around on her heels and flipped over Jesse's head, and took off running in the other direction.
"Catch me if you can Jess!" running faster in Brennan's direction. Before he could move out of the way Shal came flying at him, sending them both crashing to the floor. Leaning down and licked his ear, "hey sexy.. Miss me?" purring at him.
Brennan had to use all his strength to resist Shalimar continuously throwing herself at him. Doing his best to stand up, but Shalimar kept pulling him back down on her, whispering things that Brennan thought were not humanly possible.
"Hey I'll make you a deal ok?"
Shalimar bit on her lower lip, "That depends on the deal."
"If you get off me, and stand up you get a kiss."
"Oh is that all, well ok, I guess if a kiss is as far as I'm gonna get, but that's only for now."
Shalimar let go of the elementals leg and stood up next to him, only to be swept off her feet again. Brennan quickly grabbed up Shalimar before she had a chance to throw any punches. Bringing her close to his chest so she could get out of his hands.
"Now I have a feeling you are suppose to be in the lab."
"Brennnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaannnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let go of me!!!!!!!!!!!"
Just then Jesse ran up to them, "Oh I see you have finally managed to tame the wild beast."
Brennan smirked at the molecular, "You wanna give me a hand here?"
Jesse took a step back, "and risk getting kicked again? No thanks. Thanks to her I have a large bruise in a very embarrassing place."
Brennan winced at Jesses description, taking special care to make sure he didn't share the same fate as his friend.
"Ok then if you won't help me with her then you get the door to the lab."
"Yeah we took her to the lab when we first got here for Adam to scan her, but as I said she kicked me and ran off. You know with her powers it's impossible to catch her, I even phased through a few walls and I still couldn't catch her. By the way Brennan what was the video camera by your bed for???? Or do I not want to know?"
"Let's get her back to the lab, and about the camera….. And I think you can guess."
When they got back to the lab Emma and Adam were hovering over the other Shalimar taking readings. The door hissed as they walked in, causing Adam to look up from his work.
"Great you guys finally got her back in here, I need to run more tests. She ran out before I could take any detailed scans. Set her down there," pointing to another bed next to the other Shal.
"Yeah how is she doin?" Brennan asked.
Adam smiled at his young charge, "Well I managed to heal the broken bones, scrapes and bruises. So in other words, she's as good as new."
After that Brennan stayed quite for a while, fidgeting with his fingers. Emma could sense he was worried, he wanted answers like the rest of the team, but him being so close to Shalimar only made it worse on him. Emma walked over and sat next to the worried elemental.
"She'll be ok, Adam will figure out what's going on. This has happened before, and he found a way to put me back together. Witness the proof." pointing to herself.
"Yeah but you were different."
Emma looked at him with a hurt expression on her face, "How so?"
Brennan looked at Emma's face realizing he had hurt the young tele-empath. "No Em, that's not what I meant, it's just when you were split we knew one was good and the other Emma was evil. But with the 2 Shal's, it's like one is way over the top, she keeps throwing herself at everyone she comes in contact with. This other Shal is….nothing like the Shal I knew. She quite, the fire in her eye's is gone, she's not the same. All the things that attracted me to her…. Argggg I don't know I'm just lost!"
Emma sensed his confusion, she knew Brennan loved Shalimar, but even with her powers she had no idea that love ran so deep. Putting her hand on her friends shoulder, "Don't worry she'll be back to normal sooner then you know it. Until then it's up to us to make them feel as welcome as we can."
"Yeah I guess so." With that he got up and walked over to the other Shalimar, which he hadn't talked to yet.
"Hey Shal, how you feeling?" trying his best to keep the uneasiness out of his voice.
She smiled a bit, but nothing compared to the warmth with which his Shalimar smiled at him. "Fine." she said just above a whisper.
"Ok everyone come over hear, it's time for an explanation."
Everyone walked over to the monitors near Adam.
"Ok I've done a bit of research on Sandy and it seems there was something we missed. It seems that we overlooked the bit that says Sandy can generate and Atom splitting charge, that split Shalimar right down to the same hairs on their heads. In saying they are exactly the same."
Brennan decided now was the right time to speak up, "But they seem to have different personalities, neither of which resembles even close to our Shalimar. My Shalimar he said softly.
"Oh yes that, it's seems that when Sandy split the two Shalimar's apart her personality was split as well. Causing two factors to take president. One Shalimar's flirtatious nature is due to increased pheromones. The other Shalimar seems to be shy , the complete opposite of the other one. Now I need to do more research, Emma I want you to take a Shalimar, and Brennan you take the other. Jesse I need your help to figure out how to find Sandy again."
The team did as they were told, Emma taking the shyer Shalimar to talk and Brennan taking the bolder Shalimar, not exactly knowing what to do with her. They all went there separate ways, but little did the rest of the team know the two Shalimar's had a day full of fun planned for them. Well fun in their eye's, whether the rest of the team thought so was up for debate.
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Remember R&R ch 3 soon to come