Only a couple more chapters to go now. I've been working out a sequel but I'll only start writing it if you really want it.
Jesse groaned as he woke up. Opening his eyes he immediately regretted it as the light in the room shot daggers at his head. Scrunching his eyes closed he tried to sit up. Hearing someone's footsteps he called out.
"Shalimar?" She replied by helping him up onto one of the beds
"You okay?" She asked as he slowly opened his eyes
"I'll live, how long you been up?"
"Just a couple of minutes before you"
"You seen Mary Kate or Ashley?"
"Huh?"
"Lexa or Brennan"
"Oh, I haven't left the lab yet, I though we'd go on a little recon. If they've got Seroxin in their systems then their not going to be that happy to see us" Jesse looked at his watch
"They're gonna be in stage two buy now, so be careful, we'll do some recon, try and lock them up and then I'm gonna find the counteragent" Shalimar passed him a couple of painkillers and then helped him off the table. Walking to the lab door they stayed silent to see if they could hear anything
"Can you hear them" Jesse whispered
"No, but I can smell them, they're still here somewhere" Jesse slid the door open and they moved forward, looking in each direction for the two AWOL friends. The mess that was Sanctuary silenced them, there were burns, holes and scratches all over the walls, all the furniture had been ripped and upturned, the computers were all on a burning mess in one corner and there was mess all over the floor.
"When they party, they really party"
"They are soo cleaning this mess up" Jesse was about to move forward when Shalimar stopped him. She pointed to the far end of the room where Lexa and Brennan burst into the room.
"Look Lexa, someone's left us some people to play with"
"How nice of them" Jesse and Shalimar took a step back. They could see the red in both Lexa and Brennan's eyes.
"How about you come to the lab and we fix you two" Jesse reasoned
"No-one tells us what to do" Lexa shouted at Jesse and he massed in time as Lexa shot a laser as Jesse. Brennan joined in and Shalimar hid behind Jesse as lasers and electricity was being thrown in their direction. Shalimar knew that he couldn't stay massed forever. As Lexa and Brennan stopped to recharge Shalimar made a run for it, making it into the lab in time. She started the Sanctuary lockdown and Jesse slipped under the descending metal walls into the lab just in the nick of time. Now Jesse and Shalimar were locked in the lab whist Lexa and Brennan were locked in the main living area.
"You okay?" Shalimar asked Jesse as he took large gulps of air
"I will be" He answered through breaths. "I don't think we have much time, you know where they got the drug from?" Jesse stood up with Shalimar's help. Shalimar thought about it for a second before answering.
"Now I think about it, they both had a drink at the club we were checking out, the one where Joanna also got into a fight." With that Jesse went to the computer and started typing. "The club was called Undertones right, Owned by a Peter Ross it's been open for a couple of years now… oh wait you will not believe this… his brother worked at Genomex. Well he did until Eckhart sent him on a mission that got him killed, probably at the hands of a couple of mutants."
"Everything makes sense now. Only new mutants have been infected with the drug so far. His brother must have smuggled the drug out while he was there thinking he could make a profit on the side and then when he died his brother must have found the research on it and decided to take revenge"
"But how does he know who to give the seroxin to? I mean he doesn't have access to the mutant database and the only other way for him to know would be..."
"Would be what?" Shalimar asked, puzzled at Jesse's pause. Jesse started typing and brought up a picture of Peter Ross.
"He's a new mutant too"