'Magog' Rommie repeated, anger seeping into her voice. Her decision took a second to make as she leapt
over the side of the rail on the upper floor to join Lexa in the fight against the Magog. Grabbing her force
lance, she began firing.
Taking Rommie's cue, Trance and Harper grabbed their own weapons and rushed down the stairs to help
their comrade.
'Lexa; friend or foe?' Shalimar quickly asked Adam.
'Friend' He replied as the members of Mutant X set off to join the fight. Adam sickly grabbed Jesse's
shoulder, stopping him from going.
'Jesse, you're still too weak from the use of your powers earlier. The others can handle the Magog.' Adam
told the mutant firmly.
'But…' Jesse started, but was instantly cut off by Adam.
'If you must do something, go and prepare the incinerator. I have a feeling there are going to be a lot more
bodies to put in there. It should have finished incinerating the Reetza by now.'
Jesse sighed but did as he was told, knowing Adam was once again right. He really was too weak to fight at
the present.
The battle itself was short and brutal. The Magog were over powered in a matter of minutes. They were no
match for a feral, three guns, an empath and two elementals compared to a horde of unarmed animals.
'Okay, what the hell are those things?' Lexa asked, turning away from the three she had just killed, then,
noticing the amount of people she didn't know, added 'And who are you?'
'Those were Magog lady' Harper told the confused Lexa.
'And Magog are…' Shalimar asked coming up beside Lexa.
'The worst thing you can imagine plus a bit. They kill anything they come across, eat those they kill, and for
those lucky few that survive, they infest with their eggs' Harper told them bitterly, remembering his own
experiences with them.
'Okay. Are they mutants?' Lexa asked, trying to take all this information in.
'No. I suppose you would call them Aliens. Like me.' Trance told her. 'I'm Trance, that is Rommie and the guy
is Harper' Trance introduced each of them in turn.
Rommie then added 'we're from the future, as are you from my scans, but it seems a lot less further in the
future than us. Your from about two years.'
'How far are you from in the future?' Lexa asked curiously.
'A few thousand years' Rommie told her mildly.
'A few THOUSEND years! Hang on; you said you knew that from your scans. What scans?' Lexa exclaimed.
'I'm an Avatar.' Upon seeing the woman's blank face she added 'An Android.'
As she finished explaining, Adam came to the centre of the group where Lexa was stood, 'I think some
explanations are in order.
Twenty minutes later the entire story had been told to Lexa. 'And so you see, we now have the problem of
how to send you back. We don't even know why you're here' Adam concluded
'Okay' Lexa stood trying to absorb all the information that had just been fed to her.
Harper, Rommie and Jesse had left after Trance reassured them that she would share her part of the story,
allowing Rommie to have the adjustments needed to be recharged.
Slowly walking in a lop sided circle, Lexa paced the small area. As she reached a monitor, it suddenly
switched on startling everyone in the silent room.
'I've heard some pretty fantastic stories in this line of work but this far out does the stories of people falling
13 floors and walking away unscathed, these eye witnesses swear there are two 6ft people who look
unfortunate enough to have been caught in a fire as their faces have been hideously disfigured. This is the
normal bit of what my informants tell me, from what I hear they are upturning cars and going on a
murderous killing spree. Two people are already dead while three are injured. Here's the weird part, they
are completely unarmed and wearing a long sleeved dress! If you ask me the world is getting weirder
everyday. Some people are even claiming the alien invasion has begun.
Proxy Blue told the world. Adam switched the monitor off and looked at his team and the guests.
'We need to stop them as well as trying to get you all home. Emma and Trance I want you to help me figure
out how to send you home, Shalimar, Brennan and Lexa, I want you to stop the Reetza. If you can't beat
them, keep them occupied until Harper and Rommie can join you.' Adam instructed them.
Nodding in agreement, they each went their separate ways, Shalimar, Lexa and Brennan to the Helix while
Adam, Emma and Trance headed to the labs.
A/N: Sorry this is short and took so long to come. I had to set things up for the next chapter and my first copy of this was lost when we had to erase everything on the computer. Stupidly I hadn't made a hard copy so this chapter has turned put a little differently than I first planned!