"Shalimar?" "Jesse?" "Brennan, Emma?" Adam's voice echoed in the safe house as he stepped over unconscious agents and New Mutants. It had been over an hour since he had lost contact with his team.
He spotted them, over by the back wall. He managed to revive a few of the New Mutants to load the team and the New Mutant that they had been fighting into the Helix.
Back in Sanctuary...
Adam couldn't figure it out. Their vital signs were all fine; there was no reason that they should be unconscious. He walked over to Emma, and simply touched her arm. The psionic opened her eyes, blinking up into his face. Adam beamed as she sat up, "Welcome back." She smiled, "Thanks." Emma glanced around her, and then walked over to the unmoving figure of Alanna.
Alanna's mind drifted in black emptiness, flashes of light passing by her slowly enough for her to glimpse at them. Memories, that's what they were; but they shifted. Others were glimpses of something else; Emma staring at something, a glimpse of Jesse looking terrified, Brennan writhing on a floor, Shalimar falling... One was different though. It didn't change, it didn't feel different; it was locked away, but it felt real. She ripped it out, taking the cover of blackness off.
She was looking at herself in a cell, at Genomex. Curled up and talking into a silver ring on a slim cot. She heard Adam Kane's voice. "We're going to get you out of there." Her past self smiled sorrowfully, her eyes watering as they stared at the stark gray wall of the cell. She tried to speak, but couldn't at first as emotion obstructed her throat. She heard footsteps approaching, and knew she wasn't going to get away this time. "I love you all so much...I want you to know that."
A glowing ball of light slowly formed on Emma's forehead, and then impacted the girl. She slowly woke, tears falling as the rest of Mutant X stirred; awakening.