THAT ONE LITTLE THING!
By: SAGE360
Disclaimer: Mutant X, don't own them. Enjoy!
Shalimar lunged a foot into the guards face, before spinning to hit another. Behind her, Jesse and Adam were at work as well. Both pummeled into the men running towards them. And as much as she worried about Brennen, she had to focus.
Between busting up on Genomax security, she made sure to keep an eye on Jesse. He'd never fought with such anger before, and even now his executions seemed dangerously smooth, reminding her again of the dark- haired man in her heart. They roared into the oncoming men, breaking electro-shock sticks, and pushing taser gloves into their owners sides with blinding pace. Another five minutes and they had to head upstairs. She had to find him soon.
Brennen Mulwray was going off the rails, and using Thorne's head to do it. He'd said nothing as the man grinned at him, and only planned to keep him alive a little longer. That way, he could suffer more. This punching bag thing is great! He thought. The elemental punched the man, square in his face. The sound of bones breaking nearly brought a laugh. From his martial arts training, he new that if you broke the nose a certain way, then shattered the chin upwards, it would push the shattered material into the brain, killing the person instantly. That would be too easy with Thorne.
In his mind, he remembered the first time Thorne had ran from him, the day he met Shalimar. It was all the one two of that very same moment. He'd escaped his captor and fell in love, all in one rush of adrenaline -all so distant from his now breaking heart.
"I'll make you break!" he muttered before slamming the man into a wall, his blood sent sparse streaks along its white canvas. Another fist slammed into his stomach. "She lived a week, Thorne. One fuckin' week!" The elemental could hear Lexa' steps behind him, and knew she wouldn't interfere. In fact, she was enjoying the show. "You knew that though, didn't you? DIDN'T You!"
The broken man swallowed hard, his entire being hurt. But his eyes gleamed in laughter. The whisper of a voice pushed through his lips. "Ask Adam."
To his surprise, the elemental smiled. Grabbing the man by his collar, he slammed him into the wall again, before dragging him down the stairs. "Alright then. We will."
They were headed towards the lab from both directions. From below, three looking for a strange sliver of redemption ran upwards. From above, two broken parents bent on justice flew head first into hell. Along with them, their daughter's creator and imminent murderer, dragged like baggage. In each mind, a pure thread of emotion bled. One wanted forgiveness from her love. One wanted absolute justice for his. One wanted vengeance for his daughter, and one wanted deliverance from the life she'd sworn would never touch her child. The 'father' of them all secretly prayed for their mortal souls.
Bust through the stairwell door, Brennen kept a tight grip on the back of Thorne's neck. Behind him Lexa stayed quiet, watching out for any impending guards. What they got were the other members of their team.
Shalimar froze at the sight of Thorne. Broken and limp, he hung like a dirty rag in Brennen's hand. Blood laced the expensive leather sleeve of the elemental's favorite brown duster. Behind her Jesse stood with wide eyes, when moving from Brennen, he saw Lexa. Her long leather coat covered in a sporadic dust that also clung to her ebony brown hair. She was no longer crying, and that sent the most dangerous chord through his spine. Neither could speak as Adam stepped forward.
"Brennen, you're going to kill him!"
"I know."
The older man could have crumbled from all thee decay his work caused. Thorne was barely holding on and getting weaker by the minute. "Brennen, you and Lexa can't do this. It will make you just as wrong as him."
"You mean just as wrong as you." The man spat. "Two times, Adam! First Emma, and now Amber! Two time you let go."
"That's not true! I did all I could." The man was now moments from the elemental's face -a dangerous place to be if you were Adam Kane.
"Part of me actually believes you." Brennen replied. But his grip tightened on Thorne. "But right now, that part isn't home."
"Lexa." Adam pleaded. "Don't do this. It'll bring you no solace."
"He said you were hiding something." She managed, nearly surprised at hearing her own voice. "Stop the secrets Adam. You owe us that much."
The man looked back at his other children, who now knew they weren't his first. That had been Lexa and her brother, Leo. But they all were priceless to him, and no matter the sins he committed, they would all be his redemption. "When Genomax took me, they were working on a sequence to clone new mutants. Obviously, Eckhart had managed to get samples from your entire DNA, by use of the sub-dermal governors. Everytime one was injected, the action recorded the DNA, sending it to the Genomax computers and mine."
"Adam." Shalimar managed. "What are you saying?"
"When they took me from Naxcon, I was forced to work on the sequencing project. Eckhart had only one goal in mind, and when he died, Thorne took it over. His only adjustment was that we test it out on Brennen and Lexa."
"His ultimate revenge." Jesse exhaled. "So Amber wasn't the prime subject."
"No, she wasn't." The man lowered his head. "She was only a test."
"A test!" Lexa lunged forward, pounding on the man's chest. "My daughter was a prototype for your plans! You knew she wouldn't live you bastard! You knew!" Adam managed her away, but it was the look on Brennen's face that froze him.
"All Thorne wanted was his revenge. The rest would go on as planned. If Amber survived," that caused the sickest shudder between all the teammates. Adam felt his heart crumbling. "Then we'd do one more test subject before the initial person."
"And they were?" Shalimar spat.
"First Gabriel Ashlock, then,,,,Emma Delauro."
The feral's hand found itself slamming into his cheek, the crack resignating around the cavernous building in a defiant echo. "You bastard."
"Tell, us you're lying." Jesse fumed.
Adam's head again lowered, allowing the admission to ring true. "I'm sorry, I can't. Genomax wanted to use them as super weapons. From them, we'd created a race of Mutants defiant of their wild mutations."
"We," Jesse interrupted, coming face to face with the man. "You took some sick thrill in all of this."
"If it meant finding a way to save you from your mutations, I would walk through fire."
"Already did it." Brennen replied. "You just dropped Emma, to make sure you got across." With that, his grip released from Thorne's neck. The man crumbled, partially pulling himself to the nearby corner. This was worth the show after all.
Adam stood in the center of his broken team. Shalimar, Brennen, Lexa and Jesse. And somewhere in the recesses of his heart, Emma wept. " I only wanted to save you."
"You only wanted to play God." Lexa snapped. "First Leo, then Emma, and now Amber. You still have no excuse for putting us through that. You claim to know what it is to lose a child." Her words reminded him of Emma and Leo.
"I did what I thought was best."
"Best doesn't always mean right." Jesse muttered. "You were willing to bring back Ashlocke just as an experiment. Were you not there when he combusted in the lab? I sure as hell thought you were!"
"I was, Jesse! And I knew what I was doing, but Genomax gave me no choice! It was that or die!"
"Then you should've fuckin' croaked." Brennen muttered. It was then that Shalimar's nose picked up on that familiar scent.
"Agents, and lots of 'em. Coming from both directions."
"Let's bail!" Brennen yelled. Before he could turn a single shot blazed past him hitting the wall. How could he have missed that?
The crumpled man raised the weapon shakily. Noting the gathering formation of Mutant X. Jesse was coming forward. "Change of plans." Thorne muttered. "I'm going to hell, and taking you with me." With that, his finger released the trigger, and all the team ducked, save the molecular. He lunged forward, deflecting the bullet, and pounding the man into the wall. His massed fist squarely crushed the already broken chest, killing the man instantly. Thorne fell like trash at his feet.
"They're coming!" Shalimar yelled. The group gathered, pushing towards the stairs. "The roof! The Helix is in stealth!"
They pushed into the exit way, suddenly realizing again they were one person short. Adam had left them for the second time. Shalimar kept looking back for her 'father' but it was to no avail. Realization hit her that he didn't want to be found. Thee large hand on her shoulder, kept her going.
"Let's go." Brennen whispered. With that, she pushed forward following the man she loved towards thee roof, and into their future.
By: SAGE360
Disclaimer: Mutant X, don't own them. Enjoy!
Shalimar lunged a foot into the guards face, before spinning to hit another. Behind her, Jesse and Adam were at work as well. Both pummeled into the men running towards them. And as much as she worried about Brennen, she had to focus.
Between busting up on Genomax security, she made sure to keep an eye on Jesse. He'd never fought with such anger before, and even now his executions seemed dangerously smooth, reminding her again of the dark- haired man in her heart. They roared into the oncoming men, breaking electro-shock sticks, and pushing taser gloves into their owners sides with blinding pace. Another five minutes and they had to head upstairs. She had to find him soon.
Brennen Mulwray was going off the rails, and using Thorne's head to do it. He'd said nothing as the man grinned at him, and only planned to keep him alive a little longer. That way, he could suffer more. This punching bag thing is great! He thought. The elemental punched the man, square in his face. The sound of bones breaking nearly brought a laugh. From his martial arts training, he new that if you broke the nose a certain way, then shattered the chin upwards, it would push the shattered material into the brain, killing the person instantly. That would be too easy with Thorne.
In his mind, he remembered the first time Thorne had ran from him, the day he met Shalimar. It was all the one two of that very same moment. He'd escaped his captor and fell in love, all in one rush of adrenaline -all so distant from his now breaking heart.
"I'll make you break!" he muttered before slamming the man into a wall, his blood sent sparse streaks along its white canvas. Another fist slammed into his stomach. "She lived a week, Thorne. One fuckin' week!" The elemental could hear Lexa' steps behind him, and knew she wouldn't interfere. In fact, she was enjoying the show. "You knew that though, didn't you? DIDN'T You!"
The broken man swallowed hard, his entire being hurt. But his eyes gleamed in laughter. The whisper of a voice pushed through his lips. "Ask Adam."
To his surprise, the elemental smiled. Grabbing the man by his collar, he slammed him into the wall again, before dragging him down the stairs. "Alright then. We will."
They were headed towards the lab from both directions. From below, three looking for a strange sliver of redemption ran upwards. From above, two broken parents bent on justice flew head first into hell. Along with them, their daughter's creator and imminent murderer, dragged like baggage. In each mind, a pure thread of emotion bled. One wanted forgiveness from her love. One wanted absolute justice for his. One wanted vengeance for his daughter, and one wanted deliverance from the life she'd sworn would never touch her child. The 'father' of them all secretly prayed for their mortal souls.
Bust through the stairwell door, Brennen kept a tight grip on the back of Thorne's neck. Behind him Lexa stayed quiet, watching out for any impending guards. What they got were the other members of their team.
Shalimar froze at the sight of Thorne. Broken and limp, he hung like a dirty rag in Brennen's hand. Blood laced the expensive leather sleeve of the elemental's favorite brown duster. Behind her Jesse stood with wide eyes, when moving from Brennen, he saw Lexa. Her long leather coat covered in a sporadic dust that also clung to her ebony brown hair. She was no longer crying, and that sent the most dangerous chord through his spine. Neither could speak as Adam stepped forward.
"Brennen, you're going to kill him!"
"I know."
The older man could have crumbled from all thee decay his work caused. Thorne was barely holding on and getting weaker by the minute. "Brennen, you and Lexa can't do this. It will make you just as wrong as him."
"You mean just as wrong as you." The man spat. "Two times, Adam! First Emma, and now Amber! Two time you let go."
"That's not true! I did all I could." The man was now moments from the elemental's face -a dangerous place to be if you were Adam Kane.
"Part of me actually believes you." Brennen replied. But his grip tightened on Thorne. "But right now, that part isn't home."
"Lexa." Adam pleaded. "Don't do this. It'll bring you no solace."
"He said you were hiding something." She managed, nearly surprised at hearing her own voice. "Stop the secrets Adam. You owe us that much."
The man looked back at his other children, who now knew they weren't his first. That had been Lexa and her brother, Leo. But they all were priceless to him, and no matter the sins he committed, they would all be his redemption. "When Genomax took me, they were working on a sequence to clone new mutants. Obviously, Eckhart had managed to get samples from your entire DNA, by use of the sub-dermal governors. Everytime one was injected, the action recorded the DNA, sending it to the Genomax computers and mine."
"Adam." Shalimar managed. "What are you saying?"
"When they took me from Naxcon, I was forced to work on the sequencing project. Eckhart had only one goal in mind, and when he died, Thorne took it over. His only adjustment was that we test it out on Brennen and Lexa."
"His ultimate revenge." Jesse exhaled. "So Amber wasn't the prime subject."
"No, she wasn't." The man lowered his head. "She was only a test."
"A test!" Lexa lunged forward, pounding on the man's chest. "My daughter was a prototype for your plans! You knew she wouldn't live you bastard! You knew!" Adam managed her away, but it was the look on Brennen's face that froze him.
"All Thorne wanted was his revenge. The rest would go on as planned. If Amber survived," that caused the sickest shudder between all the teammates. Adam felt his heart crumbling. "Then we'd do one more test subject before the initial person."
"And they were?" Shalimar spat.
"First Gabriel Ashlock, then,,,,Emma Delauro."
The feral's hand found itself slamming into his cheek, the crack resignating around the cavernous building in a defiant echo. "You bastard."
"Tell, us you're lying." Jesse fumed.
Adam's head again lowered, allowing the admission to ring true. "I'm sorry, I can't. Genomax wanted to use them as super weapons. From them, we'd created a race of Mutants defiant of their wild mutations."
"We," Jesse interrupted, coming face to face with the man. "You took some sick thrill in all of this."
"If it meant finding a way to save you from your mutations, I would walk through fire."
"Already did it." Brennen replied. "You just dropped Emma, to make sure you got across." With that, his grip released from Thorne's neck. The man crumbled, partially pulling himself to the nearby corner. This was worth the show after all.
Adam stood in the center of his broken team. Shalimar, Brennen, Lexa and Jesse. And somewhere in the recesses of his heart, Emma wept. " I only wanted to save you."
"You only wanted to play God." Lexa snapped. "First Leo, then Emma, and now Amber. You still have no excuse for putting us through that. You claim to know what it is to lose a child." Her words reminded him of Emma and Leo.
"I did what I thought was best."
"Best doesn't always mean right." Jesse muttered. "You were willing to bring back Ashlocke just as an experiment. Were you not there when he combusted in the lab? I sure as hell thought you were!"
"I was, Jesse! And I knew what I was doing, but Genomax gave me no choice! It was that or die!"
"Then you should've fuckin' croaked." Brennen muttered. It was then that Shalimar's nose picked up on that familiar scent.
"Agents, and lots of 'em. Coming from both directions."
"Let's bail!" Brennen yelled. Before he could turn a single shot blazed past him hitting the wall. How could he have missed that?
The crumpled man raised the weapon shakily. Noting the gathering formation of Mutant X. Jesse was coming forward. "Change of plans." Thorne muttered. "I'm going to hell, and taking you with me." With that, his finger released the trigger, and all the team ducked, save the molecular. He lunged forward, deflecting the bullet, and pounding the man into the wall. His massed fist squarely crushed the already broken chest, killing the man instantly. Thorne fell like trash at his feet.
"They're coming!" Shalimar yelled. The group gathered, pushing towards the stairs. "The roof! The Helix is in stealth!"
They pushed into the exit way, suddenly realizing again they were one person short. Adam had left them for the second time. Shalimar kept looking back for her 'father' but it was to no avail. Realization hit her that he didn't want to be found. Thee large hand on her shoulder, kept her going.
"Let's go." Brennen whispered. With that, she pushed forward following the man she loved towards thee roof, and into their future.