DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters from 'Mutant X'. They're not
my property. They belong to Tribune Entertainment.
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The next thing which had awoken Shalimar was the loud voices and the strange heat that was emitting through the air filled with the sudden waves of hysteria. Her alarm had surged through her body screaming at her to release herself but the restrains did not allow her to do that. "Not fire, not fire!" she kept repeating to herself as she moved her hands and legs as much as she could, applying huge amounts of strength to her action. She closed her eyes, hoping that a moment of absent light would help her increase her chances of bigger pressure to arouse from her body against the restraints when suddenly she felt the loosening of the material above her wrists and ankles. Her eyes opened and she saw the small man with glasses punching a few buttons next to the green generator.
Seeing her alarmed but confused look, he only shook his head and said: "The e-e-experiment is f-finished. There's bin a-an "accident." When the Feral jumped off the bed he continued. "There's a fire, you b-b-better leave. Your friends are in cell no. 14." Before saying anything further he ran out, leaving Shalimar on her own.
She swallowed once and jolted off with only one thing on her mind: to find where her friends where... She would figure out the rest later.
Running through the now deserted hallway, Shalimar could feel the intensive heat much more than before and that made her worry. Her fear of fire did not make it easier but she had to fight that as much as her will would allow and hope not to come in any contact with the destructive element. Her skin did not take the rising changes lightly; instead, the changing temperature assaulted her with its breath landing on the primal layer without mercy and without care.
Taking a left turn, she came across an opened cell door. Stopping abruptly, the person inside the small space threw an even larger alarming arrow of shock through her body. The site of the fallen man did not allow the Feral to remain motionless but instead ushered her hurriedly inside. Falling down on her knees next to him she watched him with fear and shock in her eyes while she tried to speak out words. Her left hand landed fearfully on his warm forehead as the rest of his body was entirely covered in his blood. "Adam?" she winced.
The man's eyes were never covered with his eyelids as he stared sadly back at her. "Don't tell the rest that you saw me..." he fought for air and gasped painfully as a giant sting inflected even bigger agony throughout his body. "Take the bag on the table and get out... I'm sorry, Shal... I've explained everything on the disk... I.... I'm so sorry.."
"How can you be alive... what ha-..?" the surprise the whirlwind of emotions choked her enormously not giving her an opportunity to think more clearly.
"Doesn't matter... they didn't need me anymore and..."
His heart stopped.
"Adam?" Shalimar called to him with a whisper.
His heart did not respond; his eyes did not close; his mouth did not speak.
She received the message. "How... no... Adam??" she tried to bring him back to life but it was useless. The growing flames gave her no further time. She grabbed the black bag and with one last, agonizing look at her mentor and father, she left the cell in search for the others.
It didn't take long; she found the cell and opened the door. Inside Brennan and Jesse were found with a lost look on their faces. Something had tampered with their memories; they could not remember where they were. "Are you two alright?" Shalimar asked her friends.
"Weird but yeah," Jesse nodded and ran after her along with Brennan. "Shal?" the Molecular called to her when he noticed the reddish eyes.
"It's just the heat... let's find Emma and get out of here," she responded.
The three mutants entered a darker room with the Psionic inside a thick glass chamber. She was sleeping silently, undisturbed by the current disorder around her.
They tried to open the chamber but there appeared to be no switch or lock on the glass structure. Feeling frustrated Shalimar scanned the room in a hurry and noticed a smaller room, probably an observatory, distanced two meters from the chamber. "There's probably something in there," she said and hurried to the observatory. Once inside, she searched on the wide console before her and when her eyes met the screen, for a moment she stopped and observed the picture shown on it. A man was sitting on a couch comforting a young woman that lay calmly on in his arm. "Brennan?" Shalimar whispered in surprise and looked up to see the chamber and the two men but the picture did not match the one on the screen. Although puzzling, she did not have the time to find the reason but instead she went back to her search for the mechanism to open the chamber. Three small buttons to the lower left corner of the console registered as the correct solution and after their activation a sound emerged from the room on the other side. The glass box was being elevated by four thin but apparently quite strong bars which emerged from the floor. When the box was lifted high enough, Jesse and Brennan took Emma and along with Shalimar exited the room.
The corridors kept getting warmer as they rushed through them without knowing where the exit was. Luck must have kept an eye on the mutants as a long and quite narrow, blue corridor lead to a black door. Shalimar and Jesse pushed the door open and with Brennan, who was carrying Emma, were met by the blazing and hot sun and desert for miles. They ran away from the flat building, unsure of what the growing flames inside it could ignite. "Someone forgot this," Jesse said, pointing at the lonely, black jeep about 200 meters from the building.
There was no other sign of life around them and no other 'disturbing' sound as the tires of the vehicle screeched and the mutants left the damned place.
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The next thing which had awoken Shalimar was the loud voices and the strange heat that was emitting through the air filled with the sudden waves of hysteria. Her alarm had surged through her body screaming at her to release herself but the restrains did not allow her to do that. "Not fire, not fire!" she kept repeating to herself as she moved her hands and legs as much as she could, applying huge amounts of strength to her action. She closed her eyes, hoping that a moment of absent light would help her increase her chances of bigger pressure to arouse from her body against the restraints when suddenly she felt the loosening of the material above her wrists and ankles. Her eyes opened and she saw the small man with glasses punching a few buttons next to the green generator.
Seeing her alarmed but confused look, he only shook his head and said: "The e-e-experiment is f-finished. There's bin a-an "accident." When the Feral jumped off the bed he continued. "There's a fire, you b-b-better leave. Your friends are in cell no. 14." Before saying anything further he ran out, leaving Shalimar on her own.
She swallowed once and jolted off with only one thing on her mind: to find where her friends where... She would figure out the rest later.
Running through the now deserted hallway, Shalimar could feel the intensive heat much more than before and that made her worry. Her fear of fire did not make it easier but she had to fight that as much as her will would allow and hope not to come in any contact with the destructive element. Her skin did not take the rising changes lightly; instead, the changing temperature assaulted her with its breath landing on the primal layer without mercy and without care.
Taking a left turn, she came across an opened cell door. Stopping abruptly, the person inside the small space threw an even larger alarming arrow of shock through her body. The site of the fallen man did not allow the Feral to remain motionless but instead ushered her hurriedly inside. Falling down on her knees next to him she watched him with fear and shock in her eyes while she tried to speak out words. Her left hand landed fearfully on his warm forehead as the rest of his body was entirely covered in his blood. "Adam?" she winced.
The man's eyes were never covered with his eyelids as he stared sadly back at her. "Don't tell the rest that you saw me..." he fought for air and gasped painfully as a giant sting inflected even bigger agony throughout his body. "Take the bag on the table and get out... I'm sorry, Shal... I've explained everything on the disk... I.... I'm so sorry.."
"How can you be alive... what ha-..?" the surprise the whirlwind of emotions choked her enormously not giving her an opportunity to think more clearly.
"Doesn't matter... they didn't need me anymore and..."
His heart stopped.
"Adam?" Shalimar called to him with a whisper.
His heart did not respond; his eyes did not close; his mouth did not speak.
She received the message. "How... no... Adam??" she tried to bring him back to life but it was useless. The growing flames gave her no further time. She grabbed the black bag and with one last, agonizing look at her mentor and father, she left the cell in search for the others.
It didn't take long; she found the cell and opened the door. Inside Brennan and Jesse were found with a lost look on their faces. Something had tampered with their memories; they could not remember where they were. "Are you two alright?" Shalimar asked her friends.
"Weird but yeah," Jesse nodded and ran after her along with Brennan. "Shal?" the Molecular called to her when he noticed the reddish eyes.
"It's just the heat... let's find Emma and get out of here," she responded.
The three mutants entered a darker room with the Psionic inside a thick glass chamber. She was sleeping silently, undisturbed by the current disorder around her.
They tried to open the chamber but there appeared to be no switch or lock on the glass structure. Feeling frustrated Shalimar scanned the room in a hurry and noticed a smaller room, probably an observatory, distanced two meters from the chamber. "There's probably something in there," she said and hurried to the observatory. Once inside, she searched on the wide console before her and when her eyes met the screen, for a moment she stopped and observed the picture shown on it. A man was sitting on a couch comforting a young woman that lay calmly on in his arm. "Brennan?" Shalimar whispered in surprise and looked up to see the chamber and the two men but the picture did not match the one on the screen. Although puzzling, she did not have the time to find the reason but instead she went back to her search for the mechanism to open the chamber. Three small buttons to the lower left corner of the console registered as the correct solution and after their activation a sound emerged from the room on the other side. The glass box was being elevated by four thin but apparently quite strong bars which emerged from the floor. When the box was lifted high enough, Jesse and Brennan took Emma and along with Shalimar exited the room.
The corridors kept getting warmer as they rushed through them without knowing where the exit was. Luck must have kept an eye on the mutants as a long and quite narrow, blue corridor lead to a black door. Shalimar and Jesse pushed the door open and with Brennan, who was carrying Emma, were met by the blazing and hot sun and desert for miles. They ran away from the flat building, unsure of what the growing flames inside it could ignite. "Someone forgot this," Jesse said, pointing at the lonely, black jeep about 200 meters from the building.
There was no other sign of life around them and no other 'disturbing' sound as the tires of the vehicle screeched and the mutants left the damned place.
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