Okay! The last chapter was kind of boring but I think it was necessary but hopefully this will be a lot better!
Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or Mutant X and am making no profit from this.
First MissionPhoebe awoke in her bedroom in Sanctuary, she and Lexa had went out a couple of days ago to get things to decorate it with and say that it was hers. She hadn't needed much, as quite a lot of her home comforts were in her car, which she had located in Sanctuary's massive garage filled the best cars, another part of the place which left her in awe.
As the winter was setting in, they had bought thick sheets, which Phoebe was enjoying at this moment, but reluctantly, she knew that she had to get up; she was still learning the ropes of this place and wouldn't be allowed to go on any missions until she knew the basics of everything.
Jesse and herself had spent many a late night in front of the computers, this process was tedious for both of them, Phoebe had to learn stuff like hacking into low-security computer files and how to trace an unknown call, and that was just for the beginning! All of this had to be done quickly, and precisely, just one mistake could cause Sanctuary to go into a lock-down and they would be stuck in here until Jesse was able to restart the systems.
Her combat lessons had been quite fun, but very tiring. Lexa was a good opponent, combine her fighting skills with her powers, and she was a lethal weapon, but Phoebe was also a force to be reckoned with, so they ended up tiring each other out before a winner was decided. She had found out what the arced object was, it was a holographic simulator, that was very useful if you were planning on breaking into a building, all you had to do was upload the floor plan and you could practice your mission. It could also be used to fight holograms, which she had seen Lexa do on her first day here, it was hard to do, as if you were hit once, the program would shut down and the practice would be considered a failure.
Brennan had been teaching her how to pilot the Helix, which was very dangerous considering the fact that Phoebe could hardly drive a 4x4 car! Let alone a high-speed jet! Brennan had had to take control many times, to avoid crashing, but every time it happened, he just laughed it off had Phoebe was sitting frozen, her face chalk white, her clutching to the arm rests so hard that her knuckles were pale and indents of her nails were left on the chair.
Phoebe pulled back her covers, but immediately pulled them back over her, it was freezing! She decided to quickly run to her adjoining bathroom, and warm up with a shower.
'Jess! What the hell is going on with the heating!?' a very annoyed Lexa shouted as she came out of her room.
'There's bug in the system I'm just getting rid of it now so stop complai- oh my god!'
Jesse turned round to face Lexa, and as soon as he saw her, he fought to keep his laughter in.
She waddled over to him, underneath layer upon layer of thick woollen sweaters and what seemed to be a pair of snow pants, add those to the fluffy slippers she was wearing and she was a hilarious sight!
'Hmmm, looks like our resident ice queen is cold,' said Brennan as he walked over to the others, chuckling at the sight of his wrapped up teammate.
'I think that's a little unfair Brennan,' said Phoebe, who was now fully clothed after her shower, and was joining the conversation 'I happen to know for a fact that our girl Lexa isn't as heartless as she leads us to believe,' she said with a tap to Lexa's head and heart.
Lexa rolled her eyes and ignored Phoebe's comment 'Whatever, Phoebe do you have any thick clothes that you're obviously not using right now?' she said as she looked Phoebe up and down.
She was right, Phoebe wasn't exactly dressed for winter, she was wearing her old jeans that had rips all over them, and a thin white top, with long sleeves that went past her hands.
'I guess I just don't feel the cold like you do,' she retorted with a smirk 'and yeah, I think I have an old knitted sweater that my great aunt knitted for me, but it's itchy as hell,'
Lexa then extended her arms to the side and twirled 'Do you really think I'll feel some scratchy wool when it's on top of everything else,'
'Good point,' she answered as Lexa walked off to raid her closet 'but all the sweaters in the world will keep your heart warm! We both know there's only one person who can do that,' she said with a wink.
Lexa walked off mumbling something like 'I hate empaths,'
'I heard that!' the truth was that Phoebe didn't even know who she was talking about, she hadn't read Lexa since her coming here and decided to not jeopardise her already shaky friendship with the woman by doing it again.
Lexa walked into Phoebe's room to find the sweater that she was looking for. After she found it, Lexa turned to leave the room when she noticed something on the bed. She picked it up and looked at the cover, it had a circle, and three points that met in the middle of the circle.
Perfect. She thought, it looked like Phoebe's dairy, and it also looked like the perfect way to playfully get back at her for her remark earlier. Lexa shoved it up one of the many sweaters she was wearing and she ran out of the room with a childish smile on her face.
Later that day when Brennan had taken Phoebe out for Helix driving lessons, Lexa decided to take a look at her dairy. She began a couple of weeks before Phoebe had joined Mutant X
October 19th 2004
Today was too much of a close call, the Minotaur demon had come back just when Piper and Paige had come back from their trip to the park with Wyatt and Chris. It was a horrible day brought up old memories of Prue's death, Piper had told Paige to orb the kids to safety as soon as the demon materialised and began to fight, her exploding power did little damage and the result brought up horrible flashbacks. Paige ran into my room, alerting me to the demonic problem, I rushed upstairs to get the vanquishing spell so we could use The Power Of Three to vanquish it. When I came running down the stairs, it was as if it was happening again, the demon was standing over my dying sisters, who he had sent crashing through the wall that separated the sun room and living room. I wasn't about to let everyone down again, I couldn't! So I said the spell with all my might to at least fend off the demon.
Leo was able to heal them after I chased after the demon, Paige asked me why I looked so shaken, she said that we almost die all the time. Piper had given me a knowing glance as she sat up from her near death spot.
But the thing that really gets me is that what Paige said is true, we risk our lives everyday, not knowing if we'll going to be home for dinner, or if we're going to be able to be on time for a date, and the main reason we don't know is because of impending death. Anyway, I think I'll just channel my frustration into my column for now, but when I leave, I'm going to make my premonition a reality, and make the friendship, adventure and love happen and hopefully escape my destiny as a Charmed One… Even just for a little while.
Lexa quickly shut the book, and instantly regretted what she had done. Trust her to open at the page where it seemed a lot of Phoebe's pain lied, she decided not to ever use this information against her, but that didn't mean she wasn't going to do some digging into this 'Charmed' thing.
2 days later
Phoebe was raring to go! She had completed her basic training and was finally allowed to go with her new friends on a mission. She sat in her 'reserved' seat in the Helix, which was quite far away from the controls, which Phoebe was happy about, she had barely passed the 'test' that Brennan had set and was hoping she wouldn't be at the helm anytime soon.
'All right! Is everyone ready to go?' Brennan asked as he jogged into the Helix and took the controls.
Jesse was too busy setting up computers in the co-pilot seat, Lexa just nodded. Phoebe had noticed that, over the last couple of days, Lexa had been looking at her strangely and smiling sympathetically towards her now and again, which Phoebe found really out of character for her team mate, usually Lexa would have made some sort of joking comment about Phoebe's skills or something like that.
Going against what she had previously decided, she had to get to the bottom of this the only way she knew how, and that was to read her.
Lexa's emotional defences were a lot easier to get past now that she knew how, although it was quite hazy, Phoebe got a sense of doubt and sympathy. She stopped right there, why was she pitying her? Phoebe decided to put off the issues for now and concentrate on her first mission.
'So, what are we doing?' she asked Jesse, who was now sitting comfortably now that the Helix was in the air and half way to it's destination.
'We are going after a mutant,' Phoebe sighed at that comment, how could he consider the person a mutant? 'He first popped up on our radar yesterday when people were found outside in the street as ice sculptures,'
'So this guy has the power of cyrokenisis?'
'Exactly, I'm surprised you know the scientific term for it,'
'Hey just because I know more about magic than science, it doesn't mean that I don't know a thing to two,' she said smiling, she then continued 'So what do you do in a situation like this?'
'Usually these cases are either one of two kinds, the first is that the incident was an accident that happened out of fear, you know, since a lot of our kind don't know what they are, so they end up doing things without intending them, if that's the case then we just teach them control and put them back to their normal lives,'
'And what if it's the other case?' Phoebe asked not sure if she wanted to know the answer.
Jesse laughed slightly 'Don't worry, it's not as gruesome as you think, if they're using their powers in malice, then we just bind their powers and hand them over to the cops,'
Hmmmm… that isn't so bad Phoebe thought, she had expected that they might have to kill him.
They landed at their location, Phoebe was surprised that the Helix could not be spotted, but Brennan then explained to her that the Helix has a cloaking system, which allows it to be invisible from radar and sight.
The Helix had landed on the top of a building and as all of them left the jet, she picked up on something.
'What do you sense?' questioned Brennan, who knew the look she was wearing on her face.
'Life, two floors below us,' thanks to the power advancement she had received a couple of months ago; she was able to pinpoint the exact location of their target.
They headed down the stairwell to find the witch, and then Phoebe was hit with another psychic message.
'Whoa! You guys stop!' she said, they turned around to see Phoebe holding on to the metal railing for support. She then lost her balance as another psychic wave hit her Brennan rushed up the gap between them and caught her before she fell.
'They… know… we're…here…' Phoebe managed to splutter out
'Who knows? How do they know?' Lexa asked.
'They're…attacking…my…mind,' she said as she writhed in Brennan's arms.
'Alright, that's it, I'm taking you back to the Helix,' Brennan announced and picked her up in his arms.
'No,' she said simply 'I'm fine now, and I know for a fact that a witch was behind what just happened so I need to kick her ass,'
'Her?' Jesse asked.
'You'd be amazed how much you can pick up on a person when they're trying to fry your brain,' Phoebe said with a smile.
Jesse and Lexa continued to run down the stairs to whatever was waiting for them as Brennan put Phoebe back down on the ground.
'Brennan we have to hurry, before the witch attacked I sensed a lot of people coming in from the entrance, they must really want that witch,' she finished and went to follow her comrades down the stairwell, where she knew that a fight would take place when she got there…
They stopped at the floor where Phoebe had sensed the mutant they were after, but unfortunately, they were not far in front of their competitors.
'Alright I'd say our best bet is to split up, Phoebe do you know where he is now?' Jesse asked
'No, we're too close, I can't differentiate between his presence and the ones that are coming up the stairs,'
'Okay. I'll go and find the guy, you guys hold off the goons, since all of you are better fighters than me,'
The three nodded, as Jesse disappeared into a maze of crates that littered the floor. They hear the footsteps of the many people coming up the stairs, and prepare themselves for battle. Suddenly the door was blasted open, and a swarm of armed men came through followed by two others, a man and a woman. The both of them were wearing simple black suits, the man had long blonde hair and a dirty looking goatee and the woman was dark skinned and had big black hair.
Phoebe knew that the woman was the one who had attacked her in the stairwell, and immediately shot her an icy glare.
'Well, well, well, if it isn't the infamous Mutant X, put your hands in the air and I may spare your lives,'
Phoebe was willing to fight her way out if she had to, and was extremely surprised when she saw Lexa and Brennan to her side, putting their arms up in surrender,
'Just go with it,' Lexa whispered to her 'I have a plan,'
Phoebe complied and put her hands up and immediately felt her right hand being taken by Lexa. Then what happened next really surprised her the entire firing squad and their leaders looked baffled, the male leader then said 'Where'd they go!?'
Phoebe was confused, she looked down at her hand and almost let go of Lexa in shock, her hand had disappeared, along with her entire body!
She then clicked and realised what was going on and laughed in her head, this was Lexa's doing, she then remembered the conversation she said with Brennan when she asked about their powers
Okay, so you can throw electricity, and Jesse can alter his body density, what can Lexa do?
Let's just say she can do some pretty amazing things with light
Lexa guided them around the gunmen and right behind their leaders, the woman then tried to attack Phoebe's mind again, but this time, she was prepared, she had set a mental defence.
'Sorry sweetie,' said Phoebe, as she reappeared 'You should really learn a new trick,' the woman had turned round by this point, just in time for Phoebe to hit her with the strongest psionic blast she could muster. This sent her opponent into a row of her minions, not to mention knocking her out, the fight then ensued. Brennan and Lexa seemed to be taking care of the gunmen without any trouble, but then Phoebe realised, where had the other guy went?..
Jesse was still navigating through the labyrinth of crates that were in the building, he heard shouts of anguish, crackles of electricity and he saw large bursts of light and smiled, his friends were taking care of business.
He then heard whimpering coming from the other side of one of the boxes, and guessed that he had found what he was looking for.
There was a little boy, no older than 10, cowering in a corner, obviously scared out his wits. The boy than saw Jesse and his face went white and he put up his hands. Jesse realised what he was about to do, so he phased out so the ice blast went straight through him, and froze a nearby crate.
'The kid's coming with me,' a voice said behind him.
Jesse turned round to see a man; obviously he has somehow escaped from the fight and was still coming after his target. The man raised his hands, as if to do something, Jesse then recognised the gesture and quickly massed out to avoid being blown up.
'You call that an exploding power? Let me tell you buddy, my sister has an a lot stronger one than that,' said a voice.
Phoebe suddenly came out of nowhere and jumped off the top of the crate, she didn't the man time to react as she delivered a series of fast punches to his face, then fly kicked him to knock him out.
Phoebe and Jesse appeared with the little boy and met Brennan and Lexa in the centre of the room, all of them where covered in dirt, cuts and bruises and where extremely eager to get home to crawl into bed.
'So… How'd I do?'
Phew! That was quite hard! But I did it!
Chapter 6 is a Piper and Paige story 'The Centaur Mentor' will be up soon.
