Okay, here's the next chapter. Another link in the chain that is my story. Thanks again for all your LOVELY reviews. I really enjoy reading your comments about what you think is going to happen, what you want to happen or just something that encourages me to keep writing. THANK YOU!

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Chapter 5

Dream?

It was later the next morning, and the entire Mutant X team had broken into the compound. Emma had fallen back asleep in the same chair she had only stopped to rest in the evening before. All three of her former teammates sneaked past security, as Adam was making their job easier by working from the Helix. He had bypassed several security codes, allowing them undetected entry. However, they did not account for Emma still being there. Just as they had gotten to Analyn, who had already broken out of her cuffs with her powers of psychokinesis, Emma awoke and sensed their presence.

"Oh my god, I'm so glad to see you!" Analyn whispered to the three mutants who were escorted her through the building. "Ever since I got thrown in here I've actually wondered to myself if I'd ever get out again. I mean that twisted, wicked--" She was cut off by the looks Shalimar, Brennan and Jesse threw her. They knew she was about to talk about Emma.

"Well this time you're going to get out, and get out for good." Shal reassured her, acting as if the very last bit of Analyn's words hadn't been said.

"Eckhart will never get that information out of you if we have anything to do with it." Jesse added.

"Enough talk, lets get the hell out of here." Brennan said, a bit rushed.

"Afraid I can't let you do that!" A voice yelled from behind them, just as they had begun to move.

All four of them turned their heads in unison to see Emma standing there. Shalimar's eyes glowed feral as she leaped in Emma's direction. When she landed she began to run, only to be stopped short by a psionic blast from Emma. It didn't knock her out, but she wasn't entirely aware of anything happening as she lay on the floor. Seeing this both Brennan and Jesse rushed forward, not to help Shal up but to stop Emma.

"Why don't I give you a little taste of your own medicine!" Brennan yelled, as he powered up a tesla coil of electricity.

By the look on Jesse's face he didn't seem too keen on letting Brennan zap Emma. That, however, did not matter because before either of them did anything Emma's forehead illuminated with an ultraviolet light. Then both Brennan and Jesse's foreheads were illuminated with the same color. Right after that Brennan threw the electricity in Jesse's direction, but he massed so the energy had no effect.

"There. You can't do anything about it if you're fighting each other now, can you?" Emma had deactivated her 'mental pill' she always used on them to keep their heads level when around one another. "Finally, that annoying mutant instinct came in handy for once." Dismissing everything else that was going on, Emma turned to Analyn who had collapsed. Apparently there was something unstable about her that caused her to slip in and out of consciousness regularly. "Now to take care of you."

Emma leaned down and picked Analyn halfway off the ground to where she was on her knees. She still swayed back in forth even though Emma held onto her shoulder tightly. Then, obtaining the look she did whenever reading someone, she began to punish Analyn in her mind. Suddenly Analyn shrieked in pain, pain that she had never felt before. This was so strong that it aroused Shalimar from her state and stopped Brennan and Jesse's struggle. Even Adam, all the way back in the Double Helix, shivered as he felt the pain that radiated from Analyn and he winced.

"At last! Something is going my way." Just as she said that aloud to herself she felt a sting in her head. It was this prick in her mind, like a horde of needles puncturing her psyche. "Not this again!" Emma shouted to herself and loosened her grip on Analyn.

"No, me!" A somehow familiar voice said from behind her.

She turned to see a young man, younger than her, standing in the hallway. He was taller than she was and definitely younger. He had short dark hair, larger eyes and the bluest ones you've ever seen. He looked around twenty or twenty-one years old. Emma just stared, not realizing she had released Analyn from her grip, emotional and physical. As she just seemingly stared at this young man Brennan and Jesse resumed their clash. Each one throwing hits towards the other in attempt to subdue one another. Emma gaped, and the man spoke again.

"Well, I see you have no problem with your short term memory." He began.

"That's impossible." Emma mumbled to herself in which case he did not hear.

The two began an unseen mental battle with one another. It was telepathy versus telempathy in a war of minds. Emma was losing. She kept finding thoughts, not her own, entering her head. This distracted her and allowed him full entry to her mind.

"I know this is crazy but he was in my dream!" Emma thought to herself. "His name is, is…" She mentally broke off. "Corey?" She said questioningly out loud. The look she received from him only confirmed her suspicions.

Getting angry, Emma then decided this was definitely not going to end with her as the victor if they kept on fighting in this fashion. Concentrating hard she used her weak telekinesis to lift Corey into the air; therefore, causing him to break his link to her. Keeping him afloat Emma then leapt and kicked him in the stomach. Back on the ground she continued to throw more physical hits at her new opponent, Corey.

A ways behind this fight Analyn was beginning to become aware of her surroundings again. Although she could not see it for her back was facing them; she could hear Emma trying to punch his lights out. Then she closed her eyes and brought her chin to her chest. Suddenly Emma's blows were cut short as in a flash she was flipped upside-down and stuck to the ceiling. Corey quit flinching as the punches, kicks and throws had ceased. Emma frantically looked around until she saw Analyn, now standing and facing her with her arm outstretched.

"You want to get physical? Then your fight is with me!" Analyn's eyes reflected a mix of pure hatred and fear. Gathering herself together Emma decided to agree.

"Okay, I'll bite, you just let me down and you can have your fight!" Emma shouted, completely ignoring Corey now.

"Ana, you don't have to do this." Corey mouthed to Analyn.

"Yes Corey, yes I do." Analyn replied before letting Emma down from the ceiling, not so carefully I might add.

Before Emma could even concentrate on Analyn's mind she found herself feeling the pain. At first she thought it was a telempathic attack until she noticed at Analyn's hand movement did Emma move, as if on command. Continuing to attempt focus for her own telekinetic attack Emma realized that physically she was no match for a full-fledged telekinetic/psychokinetic. If she was going to win it'd have to be on her own terms.

Through her mental planning Emma did not notice an exchanged nod between Corey and Analyn. Sooner than Emma could do anything Analyn had held Emma against the wall and Corey concentrated all his energy in turn knocking her unconscious. The two of them gathered up Emma's remains and fled the building to who knows where.

Through this ordeal Brennan and Jesse couldn't have noticed anything because they were still locked in warrants. Aside from that the nearly unconscious Shalimar lay on the ground staring in the direction Corey and Analyn had run in. Only she had witnessed their escape but had no time to ponder it for in the next minute she was out cold. This was due to a mental surge Corey had sent through the vicinity to allow a clean escape and avoid Mutant X or Eckhart pursuing them.

TBC…

I know this chapter was shorter but it's just to get some things said before the next chapter. There's not much else to say other than "Please review." I know it's only a request but I can still try can't I?