Lone Wolf

This is my first Mutant X fic. It has an OC and takes place in the first season when Adam

and Emma are still alive. Enjoy! Remember, flames are accepted!

Disclaimer: I don't own Mutant X. I'm just borrowing it for a while, mixing it up with my own crazy ideas and creating a story. Simple as that.

Chapter 1-Unread Call for Help

Heavy chains bound the slim body to the bed. The girl's pale skin was marred with bruises and open wounds. Her wrists were bloody from rubbing against the handcuffs that bound her. A gag was in her mouth, tears streaming down her narrow face. She could not have been more than 19 or 20 years of age. Her eyes shifted nervously around the room. It was empty, save for a single, hollow light in the ceiling. The atmosphere was so close, it was suffocating.

Suddenly, the girl's body convulsed upwards. Her beautiful obsidian eyes widened, as if to say 'not again.' Her hands jerked against her bonds and her eyes squeezed shut. After that, anyone looking into the room would have been instantly blinded. Fire and lightning shot out from her palms. Her face, contorted in pain, rose to the sky and rain instantly began to pour down onto the roof of the cement building. From her wrists, came a wind that resembled a small tornado. Air pressure seemed to be on her side and pushed against the cement walls. Gravity and all the laws of nature seemed to be denied in that single moment. In the midst of it all, the girl's eyes snapped open. What had once been an enchanting onyx colored pool, was now a wild emerald color with amber around the iris. Time seemed to stop as the girl tore off the chains that were binding her just a few minutes ago.

Outside, a couple of guards stood watching the scene going on inside the building. Then, all was quiet. Quiet until the building exploded. Debris and rubble flew everywhere as the men struggled to find cover. In the middle of destruction, the young girl stood with her palms and face raised to the sky as if oblivious to the destruction around her. The time had come...

Jesse Kilmartin sighed again and gazed at the ceiling in his bedroom. Today was an unusually boring day. Not a sound could be heard in all of Sanctuary. He lazily sat down in front of his computer and checked his emails.

Delete. Delete. Delete. "God, a hundred and seventy new messages? Do these people have no lives?" he asked himself aloud, throwing his arms into the air with exasperation. Wait. He held the mouse over a message with a very familiar sender's address. It .

"Lone Wolf." He muttered to himself. The mouse hovered over the message. Probably another one of those advertisements that brought those annoying viruses into his computer. Yes, Jesse was a computer genius with skills to surpass even that of a hacker's. But that last virus had taken almost a week to eliminate completely from Sanctuary's system. He had also gotten a pretty long lecture from Adam. In addition to that, he was subjected to a tongue lashing from Shalimar and annoyed glances from Brennan, and a stony silence from Emma.

Jesse shook his head. He didn't want that happening again! Quickly, he hit the delete button without even a second glance. With his Inbox file empty, he had nothing to do but stare at the computer screen blankly. With a sigh of frustration, he went to go see if Shalimar or Brennan had any spare time to spar with him. If he had taken the time to read the message, a whole series of unfortunate events may not have unfolded.

The message:

Jesse,

I desperately need your help. I don't know if you remember me or not but I used to be your best friend before you were taken away by an Adam Kane. I know he is your leader now and you are a part of a team called Mutant X. This is why I have tried to contact you. I am a mutant as well, and right now I know something is going terribly wrong with my body.

Lightning, fire, and water stream out from my palms at times for no apparent reason. Wind surrounds me at odd moments and I feel an awful urge to jump on some people and fight them when they annoy me. Jesse, if you are not aware of it yet, I am feral canine. I posses the DNA of a wolf mixed with my normal DNA. Also, I have the unusual ability to control wind, water, fire, air, and light. We have not seen each other for so long but I hope that you have not forgotten me yet. Please, help me.

Jesse, I'm begging you. At night, I have odd dreams in which men in black are swarming all around me and chasing me. I have managed to elude them for a while but something tells me that these are not just dreams. They are coming for me, Jesse. I'm scared 'cause I don't know what they're going to do to me. Please! I need your help!

Mariko Kei

Little did Jesse know that the 'advertisement' he had so offhandedly deleted was his best friend from so long ago. Little did Mr. Kilmartin know that he had just deleted an urgent plea for help.

This is how it all began. Before the tangled web of lies and deceit. Before danger in every dark corner. Before two friends reunited under the most difficult of circumstances. This is what started it all.

An Unread Call for Help.

To be continued...

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