BrokenDown Angel.
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"Hey, Adam."
Jesse looked up from the Double Helix's controls to face his fellow teammate. He noticed that Emma and Shalimar had done the same.
"Yeah?" the voice of the older man came through the com-link.
"Why are we going to a meet this new mutant at a nuclear power plant?" Brennan continued.
"Didn't you pay attention during the briefing?" Emma scolded, her eyes narrowed.
"Maybe someone was reading too much poetry and was rhyming everything Adam said." Jesse taunted.
Shalimar chuckled and swung her chair side to side. "Sorry Brennan, can't help you there."
Brennan rolled his eyeballs but said nothing.
"It's all right," Adam laughed as well. "Well Brennan, nobody chose the place. It's just that we got a tip off that a young, but blind telekinetic was hiding there."
"Again we're trusting another unknown source." Shalimar pointed out.
Jesse could imagine Adam shrugging and smiling back at Sanctuary. "Like always. Just be careful with her. She's blind and will probably be confused."
"Don't worry Adam. We'll handle it." Emma assured before ending the transmission. "Shanesia Winstrem," Emma murmured, trying out the sound of the new mutant's name they were seeking.
Jesse gave her a lopsided grin before returning to the panel. 'This should be an easy one.' He thought.
Or at least he hoped so.
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Like every other meeting point, this one looked the same.
"Is it just me? Or do all this places start to look the same after a while?" Jesse asked as he walked through the half empty building.
"Yeah," Shalimar agreed from behind. "Like bad B-grade movies reusing the same cheap set over and over again."
"This place is huge. How are we going to find our new mutant?" Brennan asked, scanning the surrounding area.
"Emma." Both Shalimar and Jesse said at once.
"What would you guys do without me?" Emma said, smiling.
The two fair-headed mutants looked at each other before saying in unison. "A lot."
"Are you sure you guys aren't Psionics in disguise? I could have sworn you are with all these-talk-at-the-same-time-thing." Brennan frowned at both Shalimar and Jesse.
Jesse clapped his hand on Brennan's shoulders. "For us to know, and you to never find out."
Shalimar laughed and walked ahead with Jesse at her side.
"They scare me." Brennan confessed to Emma.
Giving him a so-what's-new look, she nodded, "Uh-huh."
Suddenly, Shalimar stopped in her tracks and placed her hand on Jesse's hand and a finger on her lips, silencing everyone. "Shh…someone's walking around."
"Our new mutant?" Brennan asked, straining his ears but obviously he could never par up to Shalimar's feral senses.
"If it is, than she has about another 10 more consciousness to sort out." Emma said. "I'm picking up more than just her thoughts."
"Great…who knows who these people are." Jesse whispered, trusting Emma's abilities.
"This way." Emma took the lead as the rest followed behind, prepared for a fight.
With Emma in front, Brennan stayed behind the group, making sure that there wasn't someone ready to ambush them. He kept flexing his fingers, ready to jump start just about anybody who threatened them. This could after all be a trap.
"Here." Emma stopped. "Everyone's here."
Brennan let the current flow through his fingers. The familiar tingling sensation at his fingertips, white blue bolts lighting up his face.
"Oooo…I like party." Shalimar purred, her eyes going golden yellow.
"Though I think we might have crashed this one." Jesse said.
Scanning the area, Brennan still had the electric current in his hands. The place was basically empty except for a few control panels and a small steel room in the middle. A heavy door was ajar with a window and a radioactive sign painted on it. "This looks like a test room of some sort." Brennan concluded at the steel room.
"Yeah well, this wouldn't be out of place after all it is a power plant. A nuclear one at that." Emma explained.
"Are you sure their here Emm? Cause it's kinda quiet" Jesse pointed out.
"Oh they're here all right. I can smell 'em." Shalimar said, sniffing the air.
"Is somebody there?" a small tiny voice rang out.
The mutants exchanged glances.
"Shanesia?" Shalimar called out.
"Go away. I don't want to hurt you."
"It's all right Shanesia." Emma answered back. "We don't want to hurt you either. We just want to help you." The team slowly encircled into the source of the sound.
"Leave me alone!"
Shalimar motioned to the spot behind some wooden crates. She was there.
"Why can't you people leave me alone?!"
Troubled glanced flickered across their faces. What did she mean by that? Brennan was cautious about this whole thing. Something wasn't right. And he could tell Jesse felt it to. The two young men stayed behind as Shalimar and Emma approached the new mutant. By now, the Psionic would have given the girl a sense of trust. Leave to Emma to handle the emotionally unstable.
"Shanesia? We're here to help. We're not this 'people'."
She didn't answer, but they could hear her sniffling. Slowly, Shalimar and Emma crouched next to her as Brennan let the bolts in his hands cackle off.
"Don't touch me!" she shrunk back from the girls. "I know you're there" Her eyes darted back and forth even though they knew she could see nothing but darkness.
Emma gently laid her hand on Shanesia's arm. "It's all right. You can trust us." Her voice was soothing and calm. As soon as Emma had her whole arm around Shanesia, she broke down and cried in Emma's arms.
Brennan never knew how the girls could stand it, but he was one of those who stayed well away from a crying kid.
"Look." Shalimar said, pointing towards the girl's neck. Underneath her ebony hair at the base of her neck was something foreign to the girl's body yet familiar to them.
A sub-dermal governor.
"Did you ever get the feeling that this was a trap?" Jesse asked wryly.
"Why don't you ask our 'guests'" Brennan announced.
A group of suited men surrounded the area sealing off the way they came through, which happens to be the only way out as well. The group of men was undoubtedly the long missing G.S.A. "Are they who I think they are?"
"If they aren't, than I'm the King of Spain." Jesse added dryly, agreeing with Brennan.
Still, this shouldn't be much of a problem, G.S.A. or not. Shalimar, Jesse and he stood in a line, forming a protective shield around Emma and the scared new mutant. They moved in closer. Brennan arched an eyebrow, "Didn't I whoop your ass the last time I saw you? " he asked one of the approaching agents. "You look familiar," he continued, smirking.
Obviously unimpressed by his remark, the agents started after them.
"Aw…now look what you've done." Jesse grinned.
Brennan threw his hands up to say: 'I can't help it.' Before fending off the agents.
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