Consequences
Disclaimer : I do not own Mutant X in any way; I'm just borrowing them for my story.
Chapter 6: Foiled Plan's
If he was slightly nervous while in Eckhart's presence before, he was now literally quaking in his boot's he admitted to himself. Upon his arrival back to base he had being summoned by Eckhart immediately for a report of the status of his prisoners. Unfortunately there was this small problem that he had informed Eckhart of, the problem being that there was no prisoners!
"I want a full explanation Mr Carter, and for your sake it better be good" Eckhart threatened his eyes blazing with fury.
"Well sir only the psionic and elemental turned up at the safe house, the feral never showed" he began to explain "maybe the team have become divided" he suggested in hope that this would dissolve some of Eckhart's anger.
"Divided? Let me tell you something Mr Carter, I know Adam and his team and they will never be divided. The feral probably stayed behind with Adam who was injured in the explosion." "So if the elemental and psionic showed up, tell me why are they not here now" he asked in annoyance.
"Ugh, they got away sir" he whispered lowering his head in shame.
"They got away" Eckhart repeated in disbelieve "You had twenty men at your disposal along with a psionic but yet you could not take down two mutants. Tell me how hard could it be Mr Carter, the plan was fool prove by any idiots standards".
"I understand that sir and it was a fool prove plan but they was an unexpected factor" he began to reply eager to sanction the blame from himself.
"The elemental would not have been able to access his powers if you activated the sprinkler system as I instructed. I very much doubt that even he could take twenty men in hand-to-hand combat. The psionic is hardly what I call the strongest fighter of the team, in fact you had it easy as the only unpredictable factor in this equation was the feral who never appeared to begin with so tell me what could have possibly gone wrong?" Eckhart questioned his patience beginning to wear thin with all of the day's events.
"But sir we did take them down" he defended "we already had the elemental in our custody but that damn psionic was what went wrong. She turned her eyes black and shot out this wave of.. umm.. hell I don't know but it was bad, it was like pure fear or something anyway she made all of my men make a run out of the safe house like I've never seen before"
"I have no doubt that you were at the lead of that group". Eckhart stated with contempt "So ultimately Mutant X did not in fact escape but was released by your own people?"
"Yes sir" Mr Carter admitted in defeat.
However Eckhart found himself not waiting to hear his reply, if what he had said about the psionic was true then it was a pity she was not in custody, he would have liked to study her more thoroughly as it was obvious that her powers had mutated, she would have made a great ally or if she refused then a fascinating experiment.
But the question now was where he was to proceed from at this moment in time. He had planned to capture the remainder of Mutant X so that their molecular team mate would be forced to watch their torture and slow death, therefore making him reveal the location of Sanctuary and to hand over the codes for the new mutant data base something which he knew the molecular was the most likely to know due to his expertise with the computers. Of course there promised freedom for this answer was going to be a lie, there was too much at stake.
However he found it ironic that if it were not for Adam and his team interference at Naxcon he would not need this information as he would have been able to create the perfect army of mutant freaks, but all of that had being destroyed in the explosion resulting in him reverting back to his original plan which was to obtain the new mutant data base and to enslave the mutant population to carry out his commands.
Capturing Adam was out of the question, the last he had heard his old friend was near death in hospital so he was not going to get any answers there and he doubted that mutant X would fall for another trap any time soon so that left him were he was before with just the molecular in custody with no way of ensuring that he would provide him with any information when he had none of his team mates to bargain with.
However all though many people did not believe it but Eckhart was an optimistic by nature, he would just have to think of something else to get the molecular talking. But for now he would have he would have to deal with Carters incompetence.
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The fog that had seemed to settle in his head since awakening some minutes ago was slowly beginning to lift, allowing rational thought to filter through.
Jesse opened his eyes to be met with a dim glow from a single light bulb that hung from the ceiling.
He silently took a quick inventory of his body, which seemed to be aching all over. Flexing his arms and legs proved to be easy if not slightly sore due to the small cuts and bruises he could feel and see but thankfully nothing seemed to be broken. His chest felt fine and apart for his head that was spinning when he moved and the extreme lethargy his body seemed to be experiencing he was otherwise healthy, remarkable when he considered that had been caught up in an explosion.
The question he asked himself next was where he was, as the small room that he was in had no resemblance to Sanctuary. In fact the room was something he had always envisioned in the movies were the prisoner was being held before execution. The only light source was from the single light bulb as the room was windowless, and apart from the old camping cot that he was lying on there were no other furniture present in the room.
Jesse was getting an uneasy feeling about this, which was only intensified when he slowly half stumbled, half crawled over to the door to find it locked. Sliding to the ground to step the spinning inside his head he realised that he also had a strange taste in his mouth. "Damn it" he cursed out loud; he had been drugged that's why he felt so tied and fuzzy.
"Ok Jesse no problem" he muttered to himself "when I feel a bit more awake I'll just phase the door". However on that thought he automatically lifted his hand to his neck and felt the presence of a sub dermal governor. Ok he admitted to himself he wasn't going to phase the door after all, but if he had a governor in that meant it was more than likely Eckhart who had him. See again no problem he reassured himself Adam and the others would rescue him, he didn't know how long he had being unconscious but they were properly ready to burst in here at any moment.
With that thought he crawled back to the cot to make himself comfortable if that was at all possible. Once there he slowly settled back down to find his eyes beginning to close unwilling, no doubt the remainder of the drug still in his system.
That's when it hit him; Eckhart may have also picked up Adam and the others after the explosion And that's if he looked at this situation with optimision because if he was truthful there was the possibility that not all of them made it out of Naxcon alive, hell he was shocked himself earlier how he had come out the explosion pretty much unscratched.
But no he wasn't going to think that way he told himself, he wouldn't know how to cope if Adam, Brennan or Emma had died there were like family to him and the image of Shalimar hurt or dead was one he did not want to think about, even refused to think about she was the one constant companion in his life since his teenage years when Adam had found him. No they weren't dead and even if Eckhart had captured them he knew that he would not be able to detain them for long, not with Brennan's and Shalimar's temper, governor or no governor. This thought actually brought a laugh to his lips. No he would remain positive, there were alive and mounting a rescue for him while he slowly began to drift to sleep once more.
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Shalimar's hand was tightly enclosed around Adam's, willing him to open his eyes. "Come on Adam open your eyes for me" she pleaded.
An hour ago Adam had slowly moved his hand and when she placed her own into his and asked him to squeeze her own he had proceeded to do so, lightly but he had followed her command. She had immediately informed the doctor who asked her to leave the room while he had carried out an examination on Adam.
She had impatiently waited for over twenty minutes before the doctor left Adam and explained to her that it seemed that he was waking up, just slowly and that it may be a few days more before he became fully conscious due to the head injury that he had suffered.
To Shalimar that news was a relief, it was as if a burden had been lifted from her. She understood it would be a while before Adam was back on his feet, but unlike Jesse she knew he would be returning home alive and well.
So that was how she found herself now, willing him to open his eyes if possible. "Ok then Adam" she whispered, "we'll do it your way and take things slowly".
Glancing at the clock she realised that Brennan and Emma should have been finished at the safe house by now and considering that she had never stopped thinking of it as a trap she decided to talk to them via her comm. link.
"Hey Emma, Brennan you there?" she asked.
"Yeah Shal we're here, everything ok" came the reply from Brennan
"Things are ok, the doctor's have just explained to me that Adam's probably going to pull through, in fact he's trying to wake up as we speak" she informed the relief evident in her voice. "Were are you guy's now?
"Hey that's great news, we're just heading back to Sanctuary now".
Shalimar paused at that news, as Brennan was the one speaking to her then that meant Emma was driving, something which Brennan would never agree to unless he was injured as once one experienced Emma behind the wheel it was something you didn't want to repeat.
"I guess it was a set up then" she asked already knowing what his reply would be "you and Emma ok?".
"Definitely a set up there were agents waiting for us, but Emma's fine and I just got a bit bruised up, no big deal".
She wasn't even going to ask how badly he was really hurt for Emma to be driving, she would see for herself later.
"I don't get it, didn't Emma sense them?"
"They had a psionic block her, so she thought that there was only four agents instead of the twenty, but anyway the good news is Eckhart does have Jesse, we don't know were for now but...
"I know it means Jesse's alive, he didn't die at Naxcon!" She said while inwardly she was silently screaming for joy. "I don't it get though, how did you find this out if there wasn't a package and how the hell did you mange to escape with this information from twenty agents?!"
"Uh, uh, umm we just got lucky I guess, but one of the agents told us, and no before you ask the agent wasn't lying, Emma read him". "Look I better go, I explain fully later back at Sanctuary, you coming home now?"
"Yeah I see you soon, bye".
Something about his last answer was bothering her though, when she had asked how they had defeated twenty men Brennan seemed vague as if he was holding something back, it wasn't as if she didn't have faith in their fighting ability's but still twenty agents was a lot especially for Emma.
Anyway she would enquire when she got back she thought, for now she was just overjoyed at the news that Jesse was alive and one way or another she pledged to herself that they would find him and she'll make Eckhart pay for what he had but her family through!
Disclaimer : I do not own Mutant X in any way; I'm just borrowing them for my story.
Chapter 6: Foiled Plan's
If he was slightly nervous while in Eckhart's presence before, he was now literally quaking in his boot's he admitted to himself. Upon his arrival back to base he had being summoned by Eckhart immediately for a report of the status of his prisoners. Unfortunately there was this small problem that he had informed Eckhart of, the problem being that there was no prisoners!
"I want a full explanation Mr Carter, and for your sake it better be good" Eckhart threatened his eyes blazing with fury.
"Well sir only the psionic and elemental turned up at the safe house, the feral never showed" he began to explain "maybe the team have become divided" he suggested in hope that this would dissolve some of Eckhart's anger.
"Divided? Let me tell you something Mr Carter, I know Adam and his team and they will never be divided. The feral probably stayed behind with Adam who was injured in the explosion." "So if the elemental and psionic showed up, tell me why are they not here now" he asked in annoyance.
"Ugh, they got away sir" he whispered lowering his head in shame.
"They got away" Eckhart repeated in disbelieve "You had twenty men at your disposal along with a psionic but yet you could not take down two mutants. Tell me how hard could it be Mr Carter, the plan was fool prove by any idiots standards".
"I understand that sir and it was a fool prove plan but they was an unexpected factor" he began to reply eager to sanction the blame from himself.
"The elemental would not have been able to access his powers if you activated the sprinkler system as I instructed. I very much doubt that even he could take twenty men in hand-to-hand combat. The psionic is hardly what I call the strongest fighter of the team, in fact you had it easy as the only unpredictable factor in this equation was the feral who never appeared to begin with so tell me what could have possibly gone wrong?" Eckhart questioned his patience beginning to wear thin with all of the day's events.
"But sir we did take them down" he defended "we already had the elemental in our custody but that damn psionic was what went wrong. She turned her eyes black and shot out this wave of.. umm.. hell I don't know but it was bad, it was like pure fear or something anyway she made all of my men make a run out of the safe house like I've never seen before"
"I have no doubt that you were at the lead of that group". Eckhart stated with contempt "So ultimately Mutant X did not in fact escape but was released by your own people?"
"Yes sir" Mr Carter admitted in defeat.
However Eckhart found himself not waiting to hear his reply, if what he had said about the psionic was true then it was a pity she was not in custody, he would have liked to study her more thoroughly as it was obvious that her powers had mutated, she would have made a great ally or if she refused then a fascinating experiment.
But the question now was where he was to proceed from at this moment in time. He had planned to capture the remainder of Mutant X so that their molecular team mate would be forced to watch their torture and slow death, therefore making him reveal the location of Sanctuary and to hand over the codes for the new mutant data base something which he knew the molecular was the most likely to know due to his expertise with the computers. Of course there promised freedom for this answer was going to be a lie, there was too much at stake.
However he found it ironic that if it were not for Adam and his team interference at Naxcon he would not need this information as he would have been able to create the perfect army of mutant freaks, but all of that had being destroyed in the explosion resulting in him reverting back to his original plan which was to obtain the new mutant data base and to enslave the mutant population to carry out his commands.
Capturing Adam was out of the question, the last he had heard his old friend was near death in hospital so he was not going to get any answers there and he doubted that mutant X would fall for another trap any time soon so that left him were he was before with just the molecular in custody with no way of ensuring that he would provide him with any information when he had none of his team mates to bargain with.
However all though many people did not believe it but Eckhart was an optimistic by nature, he would just have to think of something else to get the molecular talking. But for now he would have he would have to deal with Carters incompetence.
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The fog that had seemed to settle in his head since awakening some minutes ago was slowly beginning to lift, allowing rational thought to filter through.
Jesse opened his eyes to be met with a dim glow from a single light bulb that hung from the ceiling.
He silently took a quick inventory of his body, which seemed to be aching all over. Flexing his arms and legs proved to be easy if not slightly sore due to the small cuts and bruises he could feel and see but thankfully nothing seemed to be broken. His chest felt fine and apart for his head that was spinning when he moved and the extreme lethargy his body seemed to be experiencing he was otherwise healthy, remarkable when he considered that had been caught up in an explosion.
The question he asked himself next was where he was, as the small room that he was in had no resemblance to Sanctuary. In fact the room was something he had always envisioned in the movies were the prisoner was being held before execution. The only light source was from the single light bulb as the room was windowless, and apart from the old camping cot that he was lying on there were no other furniture present in the room.
Jesse was getting an uneasy feeling about this, which was only intensified when he slowly half stumbled, half crawled over to the door to find it locked. Sliding to the ground to step the spinning inside his head he realised that he also had a strange taste in his mouth. "Damn it" he cursed out loud; he had been drugged that's why he felt so tied and fuzzy.
"Ok Jesse no problem" he muttered to himself "when I feel a bit more awake I'll just phase the door". However on that thought he automatically lifted his hand to his neck and felt the presence of a sub dermal governor. Ok he admitted to himself he wasn't going to phase the door after all, but if he had a governor in that meant it was more than likely Eckhart who had him. See again no problem he reassured himself Adam and the others would rescue him, he didn't know how long he had being unconscious but they were properly ready to burst in here at any moment.
With that thought he crawled back to the cot to make himself comfortable if that was at all possible. Once there he slowly settled back down to find his eyes beginning to close unwilling, no doubt the remainder of the drug still in his system.
That's when it hit him; Eckhart may have also picked up Adam and the others after the explosion And that's if he looked at this situation with optimision because if he was truthful there was the possibility that not all of them made it out of Naxcon alive, hell he was shocked himself earlier how he had come out the explosion pretty much unscratched.
But no he wasn't going to think that way he told himself, he wouldn't know how to cope if Adam, Brennan or Emma had died there were like family to him and the image of Shalimar hurt or dead was one he did not want to think about, even refused to think about she was the one constant companion in his life since his teenage years when Adam had found him. No they weren't dead and even if Eckhart had captured them he knew that he would not be able to detain them for long, not with Brennan's and Shalimar's temper, governor or no governor. This thought actually brought a laugh to his lips. No he would remain positive, there were alive and mounting a rescue for him while he slowly began to drift to sleep once more.
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Shalimar's hand was tightly enclosed around Adam's, willing him to open his eyes. "Come on Adam open your eyes for me" she pleaded.
An hour ago Adam had slowly moved his hand and when she placed her own into his and asked him to squeeze her own he had proceeded to do so, lightly but he had followed her command. She had immediately informed the doctor who asked her to leave the room while he had carried out an examination on Adam.
She had impatiently waited for over twenty minutes before the doctor left Adam and explained to her that it seemed that he was waking up, just slowly and that it may be a few days more before he became fully conscious due to the head injury that he had suffered.
To Shalimar that news was a relief, it was as if a burden had been lifted from her. She understood it would be a while before Adam was back on his feet, but unlike Jesse she knew he would be returning home alive and well.
So that was how she found herself now, willing him to open his eyes if possible. "Ok then Adam" she whispered, "we'll do it your way and take things slowly".
Glancing at the clock she realised that Brennan and Emma should have been finished at the safe house by now and considering that she had never stopped thinking of it as a trap she decided to talk to them via her comm. link.
"Hey Emma, Brennan you there?" she asked.
"Yeah Shal we're here, everything ok" came the reply from Brennan
"Things are ok, the doctor's have just explained to me that Adam's probably going to pull through, in fact he's trying to wake up as we speak" she informed the relief evident in her voice. "Were are you guy's now?
"Hey that's great news, we're just heading back to Sanctuary now".
Shalimar paused at that news, as Brennan was the one speaking to her then that meant Emma was driving, something which Brennan would never agree to unless he was injured as once one experienced Emma behind the wheel it was something you didn't want to repeat.
"I guess it was a set up then" she asked already knowing what his reply would be "you and Emma ok?".
"Definitely a set up there were agents waiting for us, but Emma's fine and I just got a bit bruised up, no big deal".
She wasn't even going to ask how badly he was really hurt for Emma to be driving, she would see for herself later.
"I don't get it, didn't Emma sense them?"
"They had a psionic block her, so she thought that there was only four agents instead of the twenty, but anyway the good news is Eckhart does have Jesse, we don't know were for now but...
"I know it means Jesse's alive, he didn't die at Naxcon!" She said while inwardly she was silently screaming for joy. "I don't it get though, how did you find this out if there wasn't a package and how the hell did you mange to escape with this information from twenty agents?!"
"Uh, uh, umm we just got lucky I guess, but one of the agents told us, and no before you ask the agent wasn't lying, Emma read him". "Look I better go, I explain fully later back at Sanctuary, you coming home now?"
"Yeah I see you soon, bye".
Something about his last answer was bothering her though, when she had asked how they had defeated twenty men Brennan seemed vague as if he was holding something back, it wasn't as if she didn't have faith in their fighting ability's but still twenty agents was a lot especially for Emma.
Anyway she would enquire when she got back she thought, for now she was just overjoyed at the news that Jesse was alive and one way or another she pledged to herself that they would find him and she'll make Eckhart pay for what he had but her family through!