Here is the newest chapter, I hope you all enjoy reading. There's not much action, a bit of a backstory as to why Adam recruited everyone. Next chapter the real escape. I know I keep on saying that but I always intend to and then think of something else that needs to be said...mental note to self: must stop promising things that are not necessarily gonna happen.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy. If you do, review, if you don't, still review, I wanna hear exactly what it is that I'm doing wrong.
Have a nice day.
***
The alarm was piercing and Shalimar could barely hold one thought in her head for more than a second before it was dashed out and she was forced to forget it. She looked around her, not with fear but with complete and utter disdain for the people surrounding her. She had never really respected the GSAgents. She couldn't quite understand how they could do the things they did...killing new mutants for money. There were no moral sensibilities involved and it baffled her somewhat. Cold blooded killing had never really done it for her.
Brennan watched Shalimar. She was sizing up the competition and although she and everyone else in the room including the GSAgents knew she could take them all without even having to use her brain, she liked to make it a sort of art form. She always made fighting look so graceful, almost balletic. It was partly a feral thing but he knew she liked being able to jump higher, run faster, fight harder than most people. It made her, like most new mutants feel a little bit special.
The agents moved closer around her, their tasers flashing electricity. Shalimar watched the sparks flying and worked out the moves she could make. She sensed the two guys behind her. They had worked their way round and she could see them through the metaphorical eyes in the back of her head. Her human eyes changed to the golden feline ones and she turned around quickly, her leg smashing into one of the GSAgents head. He flew backwards and everyone looked on as time seemed to stand still. As soon as he hit the floor time sped up and everyone was moving. Jesse was up in a second and he took on two agents leaving Shalimar with the remaining four and Lexa to help Brennan who was more hurt than he was prepared to admit.
***
Adam watched on as the team worked together to take down the bad guys. He had missed watching them work. They were such an integrated team that it was like they could predict each other's every move. Without saying a word to each other they could take down ten agents in one go. It had taken him a lot of time to find the perfect members for Mutant X. He had known that he would need one of each group, feral; elemental; psionic; molecular. But there was more to it than that.
When he had first found Shalimar she had been scared, confused, unable to cope with all the crap that was going on in her life. However, once he had given her a decent meal, a bed to sleep in and a reason to carry on she had improved no end. She was strong, protective, something he had initially been more than a little worried about. Looking out for her friends no matter what was something that made her who she was but it could have so easily turned against her. She could have gotten herself into more trouble because of it. But she was still with him and he had come to realize how much her protective attitude added to the team.
Then Jesse had turned up. He had been unhappy in his home life, had dealt more with computers than humans. He was insecure about his gift, or as he saw it his curse. Jesse was not nearly as strong as Shalimar but Adam had seen serious potential in the boy. And over time Shalimar, and the necessity of talking to other people had forced him to deal with his fears of rejection. Adam had continually forced Jesse into certain situations, like re-stocking the safehouses just so he wouldn't sit in the lab all day and play around in the world of cyber space. Jesse had been drawn out of himself and he had become the person Adam had always known he would be.
And then Brennan and Emma had shown up. Emma deLauro was someone Adam had researched for quite some time, just like he had with Shalimar and Jesse. She had been chosen out of so many others because of her mutant abilities but Adam had had to meet her to make a real decision. Her abilities were powerful when he first met her, not controlled enough to be much of an asset but he knew that that would take time and practice. But Emma's gifts were aided by her ability to feel. It wasn't a psionic thing, she was just an incredibly compassionate person and Adam had seen in her an ability to help others even without her mutant powers.
Brennan had been somewhat of a blip though. He was someone who had never even appeared on Adam's radar until the team had had to help him. Adam knew there were mutants who used their gifts to help themselves, there always had been, most of them working for the GSA. Adam had never approved of the waste and so when first meeting Brennan on the Skyway had disregarded him as someone they had to help and could then place in the underground. But after seeing how Brennan worked under pressure, how sure of his powers he was and how much he needed someone to trust him and instill their faith in him for just once in his life, Adam made a spontaneous decision. Brennan Mulwray was the fourth member of Mutant X.
Adam had never regretted his decisions about the members of the team. They had to live and work together, something that could have so quickly become a problem but they became closer and Adam watched them become more and more like a family.
The loss of Emma had put a huge obstacle in the way of Mutant X. They had all drawn away from each other, into themselves. They had stopped being a coherent unit and started becoming more like individuals, colleagues. That was something he had never wanted to happen. So he had brought Lexa into the fold, hoping that she would unite them again. Maybe it had been a misguided attempt to bring back what was lost but Adam had needed to do something and it seemed now to be paying off.
***
Lexa watched as Shalimar bent her knees and jumped off the ground. She seemed to float for a minute before landing her foot into the jaw of the second GSAgent she had taken down in as many minutes. She landed and punched the third to the floor. Lexa's mouth opened to try and warn Shalimar but it was too late.
The taser slammed into her back and she fell to the floor with a yell. The blue light still flashed across her spine at random intervals and Shalimar's eyes flashed on and off due to the pain. She rolled over onto her back, wanting to atleast see what was coming before it hit her. The Agent advanced and she backed away slowly before collapsing onto the floor. The taser had taken a hell of a lot out of her and she was finding it hard to breathe due to the force the agent had used.
Suddenly the agent was engulfed in blue sparks. He stood unable to move while the electricity still had him in its grasp and then dropped to the floor, occasionally convulsing. Shalimar lifted her head off the ground and saw Brennan, in pain but glad she was still alive. She smiled weakly before letting her head drop to the floor.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy. If you do, review, if you don't, still review, I wanna hear exactly what it is that I'm doing wrong.
Have a nice day.
***
The alarm was piercing and Shalimar could barely hold one thought in her head for more than a second before it was dashed out and she was forced to forget it. She looked around her, not with fear but with complete and utter disdain for the people surrounding her. She had never really respected the GSAgents. She couldn't quite understand how they could do the things they did...killing new mutants for money. There were no moral sensibilities involved and it baffled her somewhat. Cold blooded killing had never really done it for her.
Brennan watched Shalimar. She was sizing up the competition and although she and everyone else in the room including the GSAgents knew she could take them all without even having to use her brain, she liked to make it a sort of art form. She always made fighting look so graceful, almost balletic. It was partly a feral thing but he knew she liked being able to jump higher, run faster, fight harder than most people. It made her, like most new mutants feel a little bit special.
The agents moved closer around her, their tasers flashing electricity. Shalimar watched the sparks flying and worked out the moves she could make. She sensed the two guys behind her. They had worked their way round and she could see them through the metaphorical eyes in the back of her head. Her human eyes changed to the golden feline ones and she turned around quickly, her leg smashing into one of the GSAgents head. He flew backwards and everyone looked on as time seemed to stand still. As soon as he hit the floor time sped up and everyone was moving. Jesse was up in a second and he took on two agents leaving Shalimar with the remaining four and Lexa to help Brennan who was more hurt than he was prepared to admit.
***
Adam watched on as the team worked together to take down the bad guys. He had missed watching them work. They were such an integrated team that it was like they could predict each other's every move. Without saying a word to each other they could take down ten agents in one go. It had taken him a lot of time to find the perfect members for Mutant X. He had known that he would need one of each group, feral; elemental; psionic; molecular. But there was more to it than that.
When he had first found Shalimar she had been scared, confused, unable to cope with all the crap that was going on in her life. However, once he had given her a decent meal, a bed to sleep in and a reason to carry on she had improved no end. She was strong, protective, something he had initially been more than a little worried about. Looking out for her friends no matter what was something that made her who she was but it could have so easily turned against her. She could have gotten herself into more trouble because of it. But she was still with him and he had come to realize how much her protective attitude added to the team.
Then Jesse had turned up. He had been unhappy in his home life, had dealt more with computers than humans. He was insecure about his gift, or as he saw it his curse. Jesse was not nearly as strong as Shalimar but Adam had seen serious potential in the boy. And over time Shalimar, and the necessity of talking to other people had forced him to deal with his fears of rejection. Adam had continually forced Jesse into certain situations, like re-stocking the safehouses just so he wouldn't sit in the lab all day and play around in the world of cyber space. Jesse had been drawn out of himself and he had become the person Adam had always known he would be.
And then Brennan and Emma had shown up. Emma deLauro was someone Adam had researched for quite some time, just like he had with Shalimar and Jesse. She had been chosen out of so many others because of her mutant abilities but Adam had had to meet her to make a real decision. Her abilities were powerful when he first met her, not controlled enough to be much of an asset but he knew that that would take time and practice. But Emma's gifts were aided by her ability to feel. It wasn't a psionic thing, she was just an incredibly compassionate person and Adam had seen in her an ability to help others even without her mutant powers.
Brennan had been somewhat of a blip though. He was someone who had never even appeared on Adam's radar until the team had had to help him. Adam knew there were mutants who used their gifts to help themselves, there always had been, most of them working for the GSA. Adam had never approved of the waste and so when first meeting Brennan on the Skyway had disregarded him as someone they had to help and could then place in the underground. But after seeing how Brennan worked under pressure, how sure of his powers he was and how much he needed someone to trust him and instill their faith in him for just once in his life, Adam made a spontaneous decision. Brennan Mulwray was the fourth member of Mutant X.
Adam had never regretted his decisions about the members of the team. They had to live and work together, something that could have so quickly become a problem but they became closer and Adam watched them become more and more like a family.
The loss of Emma had put a huge obstacle in the way of Mutant X. They had all drawn away from each other, into themselves. They had stopped being a coherent unit and started becoming more like individuals, colleagues. That was something he had never wanted to happen. So he had brought Lexa into the fold, hoping that she would unite them again. Maybe it had been a misguided attempt to bring back what was lost but Adam had needed to do something and it seemed now to be paying off.
***
Lexa watched as Shalimar bent her knees and jumped off the ground. She seemed to float for a minute before landing her foot into the jaw of the second GSAgent she had taken down in as many minutes. She landed and punched the third to the floor. Lexa's mouth opened to try and warn Shalimar but it was too late.
The taser slammed into her back and she fell to the floor with a yell. The blue light still flashed across her spine at random intervals and Shalimar's eyes flashed on and off due to the pain. She rolled over onto her back, wanting to atleast see what was coming before it hit her. The Agent advanced and she backed away slowly before collapsing onto the floor. The taser had taken a hell of a lot out of her and she was finding it hard to breathe due to the force the agent had used.
Suddenly the agent was engulfed in blue sparks. He stood unable to move while the electricity still had him in its grasp and then dropped to the floor, occasionally convulsing. Shalimar lifted her head off the ground and saw Brennan, in pain but glad she was still alive. She smiled weakly before letting her head drop to the floor.