Chapter Seven
"Sir, she's awake." The doctor called from the infirmary and while he waited for the General to make his way down to the infirmary, he looked at his patient. Her hair was short, dark, and had blue strikes on each short layer. She wore a black tank top and gray short shorts. The doctor figured the troops had gone into her home while she was asleep because that was usually how things were done but she didn't go with out a fight. When they brought her in she was out cold and had a gun shot wound to her right leg. The doctor assumed that she wasn't any older than 29 or 30 and he also noticed a tattoo on her right forearm. The green vine wrapped around her muscular arm as if it were a scared child clinging to its mother's leg for dear life. He saw her eyes linger and search the room but her head stayed still as did the rest of her body. He could only imagine how scared she must be and what pain her leg was causing her but all he could do was give her some thing for the pain and wrap up her leg and he had all ready done that.
When Theressa woke up she saw a man leaning over her leg, tending to her gun wound she heard him think If the bullet had hit her any lower she'd be dead right now.
At that moment, Theressa realized that she had just had a telepathic leak. For some reason unknown to her, ever since she gained Xavier's power she hadn't been able to control her own physic abilities much less the late professor's.
Just then Theressa's eyes caught a man dressed in a General's uniform, walk in. His face was as cold as the ice that covered the landscape of Antarctica and was as stiff as the rock the Egyptians used to build that pyramids. By the way he looked he seemed that he had not smiled in years His hear was brown, gray strikes, cut in military style. He had a muscular figure and appered to be in his mid 40's early 50's.
"Who is she?" The General asked getting right down to business.
"I don't know sir, I'm not a telepath." The doctor replied
Ain't that the truth. Theressa said telepathically to the two men who were leaning over her as if she were some lab experiment.
"Who said that?" The doctor asked, a little spooked hearing someone inside his head.
I did, you two face dummy! Theressa replied, insulting the doctor.
"Looks like we've got our first telepath, Doctor." The General said, "So your powers are much like Mrs. Jean Summers and Charles Xavier, may he rest in peace." The General said sarcastically which made Theressa forget about her fear and her pain and her scar turned a fiery red.
"Who are you?" The General asked his face now five inches from her's. He was more intrigued with her than ever before.
I am who ever you think I am. Theressa replied but still gave no answer, Who are you? Theressa asked her tone lower than the General's but not for long.
"I ask the questions around here, miss."
Well, fine but I ain't gonna guarantee that I will tell you anything.
"Oh you will, my dear. You will" The general said in a tone that Theressa didn't like. Something in his voice told her that she was in for a lot of pain. He turned to the door where two young military men stood and said something so low Theressa couldn't hear it. The next think Theressa knew, the troops were taking her off the table and carrying her right behind the general as they went threw the door.
Scott was finally asleep when, "Mr. Summers, I have someone you might know." The General's voice woke him up. Scott's eyes opened unwillingly to see the General standing before him and Theressa right across from him o a vertical bed. What the heck are you doing here, Theressa? Scott thought hoping his friend heard him.
"Who is this woman?" General Tyler asked pointing to Theressa
"I've never seen this woman before, General. Where did you find her?"
"In Xavier's School."
"Well, everyone knows that the school is no longer running. My guess is that she needed a place to stay so she snuck into the building."
Scott saw Theressa close her eyes and then let out a scream of pain. The General spun around to look at Theressa, whose nose was bleeding, and then turned back to Scott.
"You do know her, Summers. Otherwise she wouldn't have tried to contact you via telepathy. We have a very special lock on that collar of yours Mr. Summers. It's called the telepath lock and it does just what it sounds like. It blocks all telepaths from the person's mind who is wearing the collar. Now, give me her name and nothing more will come to you." The General said taking the shocking stick from a man who just walked in the room. Scott was beginning to get used to the stick that the General used on him as if he were a dog who kept wetting the carpet.
"No." Scott said telling the General that he did know Theressa but wouldn't tell him squat. The General moved closer to Scott, placed the Shocking stick on his side and turned it on to the normal level. Scott bit his lip so that he would not scream but every inch and every molecule that lived with in him wanted to cry out in pain.
Theressa watched in horror as the General torched Scott for information that he was unwilling to give up. That's when Theressa realized that the General had forgotten to put a collar on her neck. She closed her eyes and once again in her mind's eye saw the shocking stick. With her telekinetic powers, she ripped the weapon out of the General's hand and turned it against him. She opened her eyes once more as she undid the locks on the chains and flew over to the General , continuing to shock him with the stick as he had do to Scott repeatedly.
"Calm down." Scott said to Theressa careful not to say her name.
"No. This man has taken our home, our freedom, and now our lives and he deserves to be punished." Theressa took the stick, telekinetically, and began to beat the General with it.
"Help." Cried General Tyler. "Help!" He cried once more as he fell on the ground.
Two men, with P-90's, and a young woman no older than Theressa herself, walked in. The men tried to grab Theressa but she had a shield around her that they could not penetrate.
After the men kept on failing the woman stepped forward and said, "Let me try." She stepped in front of the men but still behind Theressa and raised her left hand in front of her body.
Suddenly, Theressa felt a pain I her head that wouldn't go away and one that she could not resist. She lost all concentration and fell to the ground grabbing her head in pain.
"Grab her arms." The woman said to the men, who followed her orders and restrained her to the best of their abilities. With Theressa on her knees the Woman moved in front of Theressa, bent down to face her eye to eye and said,
"Tell me where the other X-men are."
"Never!" Theressa screamed at the top of her lungs as she tried to break free.
"Fine. Then I shall pry it out of you." The woman said closing her eyes, rising and sticking her hand on to Theressa's fore head. A moment past, Theressa screamed and fell over on to the floor.
