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Chapter 6

An Interrogation Sensation

Corey and Analyn arrived, carrying Emma, at an old abandoned safe house that had been discovered by Eckhart a long time ago. This was a less likely place for Mutant X or Eckhart to look for them. Corey then took Emma from Analyn and set her down in a chair, she was beginning to stir.

"Do your thing," said Corey, gesturing towards where Emma sat moving around a bit.

Lifting her arms straight out with her hands facing upwards, Analyn held them out towards Emma's shifting figure. There seemed to be a change in the air around her and for a second it looked like she was in a bubble, but the image of that bubble vanished.

"Okay," Analyn began, letting her arms fall to her sides. She looked to her right to look at Corey's face that was staring down at Emma. "She isn't going anywhere." Analyn too stared down at Emma, as she became more conscious every second. Both could see Emma try to stretch, they could see are muscles attempting movement but she didn't move her arms like she thought she was.

"Wha?!?" Emma yelled, her eyes shot open when she realized she couldn't move (she could barely but not enough to actually do anything). Emma could not move her head so she moved her eyes to stare up into the faces of Analyn and Corey. "What the hell?" Emma could feel her anger rising within her that these two… brats had captured her for whatever reason and held her captive in an old safe house.

She attempted to rise but found she could not, so she resorted to staring down the both of them. Her frustration was the only thing that kept her from attempting to access their minds.

"I told you it'd work" Analyn said, diverting her gaze over to Corey. Without even needing Emma to ask Analyn explained. "I have placed a telekinetic force field around you. Nothing can get in or out of the bubble you're in." Obviously doubting this information, Emma powered up a psionic blast on her forehead. The orb pulsed as she held it in position.

"Oh yeah?" Was all Emma said before she sent the blast flying forward… or what she had thought would fly forward.

The psionic blast hadn't even gone six inches before it backtracked and hit Emma instead. Her head rolled backwards as far as it could in the telekinetic force field, and if this had not surrounded her she would be half hanging over the back of the chair she sat on. Both Corey and Analyn just looked at each other and shrugged.

***Later***

Corey and Analyn stood around just whispering to each other as if Emma was awake. Then once again Emma stirred. When she became completely conscious, this time she did not issue a psionic blast. All she could do was stare menacingly.

"Obviously, you have learned your lesson. A telepath is never wrong." Corey impressed upon her.

"What do you want? Why have you brought me here?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. One question at a time, especially if the answers to both questions are one and the same. We don't need to waist time." Corey apparently was going to do the talking. Analyn just stood there, guarding rather than watching.

"Well?!?" Then before Corey could begin to answer her question she began speaking again. "I've seen you." Was all she said, and it was more like stating a fact rather than wondering or pondering a thought.

"Of course you have Emma. That wasn't a dream you had, it was quite real. You see that just demonstrates how much power I do have. I was able to convince a full-fledged telempath that a real memory was simply a vague dream. Well it wasn't. It was very real… the thoughts… the emotions… all of it was very, very real." His eyes appeared to stare straight through her. Right then Emma remembered the pain she had felt radiating and winced at the thought of it. It was time to get to the bottom of things.

"Emma, I'm here to try and help you. You need to realize what you're doing. That you're acting under false ideals; you have convinced yourself that since Adam can not help… will not help you that you will look somewhere else. It is an unspoken request from him to deal with this on your own. This not being the answer you wanted you go searching elsewhere. To find someone who will resort to genetics to solve this problem. So you go to his enemy, your enemy to find a solution. You would have held back but you felt that your teammates did not know the limits of you power so you wanted to show them up." Corey was walking back and forth repeatedly in front of Emma.

"Why are you speaking with me about this. You're not involved!"

"You know what? I wouldn't have been involved but Analyn was brought into this so guess what?!? I'm involved!"

"What does she have to do with this?!?!" Emma shouted, looking angrily at Analyn.

"Everything! If you remember correctly that I told you I had agreed to be Analyn's guardian angel, so I'm here protecting her. All she needed was to keep my secrecy… Now to finish with Adam's favor."

"Favor??"

"Yes, favor. Since you had left and I came into the picture. Well, once I discovered this involved Mutant X I jumped on board. They needed a psionic and I like to help. For the past two days I have been making battle plans, they know exactly where we are."

"Battle plans?" she almost said amusingly and then switched back to frustration and anger. "You make this sound like it's a war!!"

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It all depends on the point of view you look at it from. For one there's a war between Mason and Adam. Then there's between Eckhart's people and Mutant X, then one with you and yourself and one between you and your teammates."

"Hold on! What do you mean?!? Me and myself?"

"I'm talking about the battle within you. There are two sides to your conscience you know? Whether you realize it or not both sides of your conscience have come to a mutual agreement. This agreement makes it so you're not trying to decide what to do because both sides are happy when you're through working. One side wants a cure the most while the other one wants to 'prove' to your friends how capable you are. By deciding to achieve both of these you are totally convinced there's nothing wrong with your plan." Emma always changed the subject whenever she didn't want to keep the direction their conversation went in.

"Where do you get off telling me what to do, where to go and who I am?!?" This seemed to make Corey tick."

"Where do I get off? Where do I get OFF?!? WHERE DO I GET OFF?!?!? I tell you." He moved as close as he could to her face since she was surrounded by the telekinetic force field. "You think you're all high and mighty since you're a telempath and the only one who can cause pain. Well I'm about to give you a new definition of pain." His brow furrowed and Emma's face screwed up. It looked like she would have screamed if she had enough voice for it, but it was such an overwhelming pain that she couldn't get a sound out. "You see? Telempaths attack from underneath the surface of a person and it's a dull pain that lasts forever. Telepaths however can inflict a more obvious pain but it works just as well all the same. It's more of a slap in the face that lasts forever. It stings doesn't it?" He said and finally let go his hold on her.

For a while Corey and Analyn stood silently with Emma sitting until Corey looked up.

"They're near." Emma gazed up at him strangely.

"You can't sense people! You're a telepath."

"I know very well what I can and cannot do! A telepath may not sense feelings but they sense thoughts. AND if YOU are hearing everyone's thoughts everyday all the time whether you're sleeping or awake I think you are bound to sense ONE person eventually!!" He paused before rounding on her to stare at her eye-level again. "Do you have ANY idea what that is LIKE?!?!" The look on Emma's face answered his question. "HOW would you like it if one day you're fourteen and in high school, just starting to have fun and your friends to look forward to. You think, 'Yeah I may read minds and not be able to stop it at certain times, but that rarely happens.' You're doing great on a test and you're actually a bit happy about your exams. That is until what feels like tidal wave crushes you. But instead of water, it's made of thoughts. Everyone's thoughts, drowning you leaving you unable to comprehend anything or even know what YOU are thinking. It's a huge migraine and it hurts so badly that not only can't you find your thoughts but also you don't even know what other people are saying. Now think of this for the rest of your life!" All Emma did was stare, there was nothing left to do. What else could someone say when presented with such information?

It almost seemed as if time stood still as Emma and Corey stared into each other's eyes. Emma's showing fear, while Corey's flashed with anger and pain. Before anything actually happened on either side of the safe house a door was busted in. On one side Shalimar walked in (obviously she had kicked the door in) followed by Adam and Brennan. A question might have arisen as to why or how Brennan was here instead of duking things out with Jesse, but the answer became obvious once he came into view. Jesse's unconscious body was flung over Brennan's shoulder and as he entered he lay him down. Apparently the instinct the two have turns off when one is out cold, or at least if one knocks the other out cold.

Opposite Mutant X's entrance was Darnel, followed by a bunch of agents with tasers and a couple mutants among these people was Eckhart.

"Well, it seems… we have a dilemma." Eckhart wasn't speaking to anyone in particular; it seemed he was talking to everyone. "Adam. Once again you come foil my plans. How tragic that you will be forced to walk away with nothing while we will posses everything." He then diverted his gaze to Corey. "Mister Monroe, its pleasure. How much easier you have made things for me by simply… showing up. Now there is no need to interrogate Miss Carter here." He stared at Corey and all Corey did was stare back. "Incarcerate them. All of them!"

It didn't take even a second for orders to register in the agents' minds. Those who were non-mutants had tasers with them and advanced towards the remains of Mutant X.

"Adam. You should get out of here!" Shalimar told him a bit rushed. "And take Jess with you, he's no use to us unconscious." Adam nodded, he knew when there was a time to fight and there was a time to run. This was a time to run and let his teammates handle it.

It was only a little ways into the fight when Shalimar had told Adam this. Meanwhile Brennan was sending electric pulses every which way and had already succeeded in knocking a couple of people out. Shalimar was dealing with the 'bitch' Darnel, despite her own disadvantage to the firepower. A mix of Analyn and Corey's powers kept all the others at bay, in turn keeping them from reaching the telekinetically trapped Emma. She was trying in every way to get loose but it wasn't like they were bonds you could just break, so she was trying to use her telempathic telekinesis to will away the force field. In short… she failed.

The fight raged on and it hadn't even been for very long. Several agents had unsuccessfully tried to get Emma loose but they failed to get within three feet of her before being flung twenty feet away. Emma was beginning to show her anger and frustration as the fear within her dwindled. Her eyes were so alive with anger they could have been on fire.

"That's IT!!" She shouted. Only a couple people glanced over at her, Analyn and Corey included. Her eyeballs became pure black and then a ring of black energy was unleashed from her head, moving outward. Her eyes returned to their normal color immediately after she let loose this mental blast. It was basically a build up of all her bottled up emotions. This was successful in breaking the telekinetic force field; however, Emma did not join the struggle around the safe house. She walked over to where Brennan was fighting, and just stood there leaning against the wall, watching him fight, and stayed stationary.

Nearby Adam had only just lifted Jesse up (with a bit of trouble) and was making his way to the door they had entered when a loud voice ceased the fighting.

"Enough!" Everyone looked up in the direction that it had come from. Eckhart was standing with an unfamiliar man next to him. By instinct Shalimar immediately moved into position to protect Adam. Emma diverted her gaze to him and listened attentively. "No one is going anywhere." He said plainly as he stole a quick glance at Adam.

"Oh yeah? And who's going to stop us? Surely not you!" Shalimar finished with disgust.

"Hold your tongue Miss Fox or I will have one of my agents hold it for you. It is pleasantly obvious that in the battle my people have the upper hand. There was and is no way for you to win it." Eckhart dismissed this pointless conversation with Shalimar and directed his attention to Adam. "Adam, Adam, Adam. For so long you have striven to keep me from my dreams, but now I am so close it no longer matters. This," he gestured to the young man beside him, "is my latest and most successful creation yet. He is a remake of the failed Chemical Elementals and I was able to bestow upon him the power of astral projection. Just to keep things surprising I won't tell you what those abilities of his can do. "The smile on Eckhart's face was unnerving Mutant X and Analyn and Corey, Emma didn't seem to notice. "Instead, I will show you what he can do. Or rather he will show you." Everyone stood motionless, even the agents didn't move a muscle. "Darnel."

"Right. All right Mr. Chafer, do your thing. Aim for those… three." She pointed towards Shalimar and Adam who was still carrying Jesse. Darnel had almost said two but realized that she wanted Jesse hit too.

"Can do." Robby Chafer replied in a kind of low scratchy voice that was unusual for his apparent young age. His face was roughly unshaven.

Rob held his arms straight in front of him fists clenched. Then bringing his arms a bit closer he rotated his fists in circles and a glow emitted from this. Then he quickly flung his arms straight out again and unclenched his fists. This caused a certain type of energy, unleashed in a blast, to roar on ahead. Before anyone could do anything the blast hit, good and hard. This however did not put a smile on Eckhart's face for you see, Chafer's powers were underused and he didn't have such good aim. The blast he sent was so out of control that it did not hit the desired target, but went about six feet to the right and smashed into Brennan and Emma.

It all was happening so quickly that no one had time to react. The chemical blast had flung them with amazing force into the wall behind them, knocking them both out cold. They hit the wall so hard that the already breaking down safe house broke down even more. The force caused a cave-in. A couple poles fell and crisscrossed over the spot where Emma and Brennan lay. Then a bunch of rubble covered them up. The safe house continued to collapse. As soon as Shalimar and Adam could look around Eckhart's men and Corey and Analyn were nowhere to be found.

"We GOTTA get out of HERE!!!" Adam yelled above the loud crashes of the falling safe house.

"We can't just LEAVE them!!"

"We won't!!" Adam then got Shalimar and the unconscious Jesse out of there. Now that everything had settled it was just a huge pile of debris. They had no idea how deep down Brennan and Emma were buried, heck they didn't even know if they were… alive!!

TBC…

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