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The Mission

Shalimar was sitting on the bed next to Jesse. She was supposed to be waking him up for a mission debriefing. 'He looked so scared and who the heck was Cat?' Shalimar thought in her head. She lightly shook Jesse awake. "Jesse wake-up it's just a dream, come on Jesse."

For the second time that night Jesse bolted up right but this time Shal was there.

"Are you okay?" Shal asked

"Yea, I guess it was just a bad dream."

"Must have been some dream you were yelling."

"What did I say?"

"Cat let me help." Shal said

"Oh, really?"

"Yea, but who is Cat?"

"Cat?"

"The one you wanted to help."

"Cat was a childhood friend." Jesse said not quiet sure what was going on.

"How come I've never heard of her, or seen her. I thought I was your best friend."

"You are, Cat was the first person I told about my mutancy. When I was sixteen she told me not to tell anybody about her, to anyone, that was the last day I ever saw her."

"Oh."

"Why are you here?" Jesse asked

"Adam has a mission for us."

"Okay, I will be right there, let me get some real clothes on."

"Okay, see you down there." Shalimar said. He put her hand on Jesse's shoulder. He was so cold and damp. "Are you feeling okay?"

"Yea, Why?"

"Never mind. I guess it was just you dream that made you so clammy." Shal said. "See you in the lab."

Jesse got changed out of his sweat soaked sweat pants and shirt, and changed into jeans and a shirt. When he was putting his shirt over his head he ran his hand over something that hurt. He looked at it and saw a bruise. He didn't remember getting it. He would think about it some other time for now he had to get to the lab, since everybody was waiting for him.

As he entered the lab everyone went quiet.

"Good you are here. I have been tracing Genomex operations since the first fight with Ashlocke."

"What do you mean I thought that Genomex was out of commission since Ashlocke put Eckhart in a stasis pod." Emma said

"They were until they realized that one of the other mutants that was in a pod escaped. This mutant is more powerful then even Ashlocke was."

"Is that even possible?" Brennan asked

"Yes, it is. Anyways I have been following her and right now she is in a warehouse downtown. She stayed there for the night but some people came into the warehouse and I am afraid that either they will hurt her, or she will hurt them. The government, Genomex, and the Strand are after her. The Government and Genomex are working together they want to put her back into the stasis pod so she cannot cause any harm to anyone..." Adam told then this as they went on their way to the Double Helix "...The Strand wants her because they want a powerful mutant in charge of them and they want to have someone to look after them, I need you four to go down there and bring her back here. She will be safer here then anywhere else."

Mutant X headed down town in the double helix. Brennan wanted to drive a car there but this was faster. They got to the are house and Jesse phased them inside. They all saw the site before them and were ready to attack. About twenty men surrounded something. Shalimar started forward but Jesse grabbed her arm to stop her.

"What are you doing we are supposed to help her, remember?" Shal said annoyed about being stopped

"Look at the poles surrounding them." Jesse said

"What about them?"

"You see the red light on them." Shal nodded.

"Well they are part of a force field. If you touch it you go bye, bye, and we lose the element of surprise. Until one of them turns off part of it we have to wait."

"Why cannot you phase through them?" Brennan wants to know. He didn't want to wait all day here with nothing to do.

"I cannot touch the beams, remember when Ashlocke had sanctuary?"

"How could we forget? What's the point of this?"

"When I had phased into the duct Adam had laser there remember?"

"Yea, what's the point here Jess."

"Well those beams are just like these."

"Okay one question what are you two talking about?" Shalimar asked

"Adam's impenetrable home. The lasers were very painful. Even when phased. Really bad headache after that one."

"Looky, looky, I got Mutant X." A voice said

The Mutant X team turned to see that they had been spotted.

"Don't think about it Mullary, if you do the mutant over there get it." Six more men came out and tied them up. "Oh, and Kilmartin if you try to phase those ropes off you wont be feeling to good."

Mutant X was then all implanted with subdermal governors. They were then tied to chairs and knocked out.

End of Chapter

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