Author: Cha-Cha
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters so please don't sue me!
A/N: I couldn't believe how long it has been since I last updated so I hope you'll forgive me and enjoy the last chapter! Also slight spoiler for the fate of Emma.
Town
The car swerved into the road where the Helix was parked above. Scrambling out of the car, they narrowly dodged Brennan flying into them.
Helping him back onto his feet, he quickly briefed them on what was happening.
'The Reetza and Magog both suddenly attacked. We've been able to hold them off but there's too any of them.'
Jesse and Trance both crept over to where the others were trying to defend themselves behind rubble. Following Shalimar's lead, Jesse and the feral leapt over the rubble and using their powers held off the Magog while protecting each other's backs while the Andromeda crew concentrated on killing the Reetza.
Harper meanwhile directed Brennan to where the electrical burst had to go. Pulling up a fist full of charge, he struck the android squarely in the chest. For a few seconds nothing happened, Rommie remained as motionless as she had before. About to repeat the procedure, Harper suddenly noticed the woman eyelids flutter before opening.
'Stop! It worked!' Harper cried rushing closer to Rommie, helping her to get out of the car and on her feet. 'Rom Doll, how'd you feel?'
'Harper, where are we?' Rommie asked, confusion filling her head.
'The Reetza and Magog are here.' Harper informed her as the three of them rushed over to the others.
'Captain.' Rommie greeted Hunt, slightly surprised at seeing him. Not dwelling on where he came from, she drew out her force lance and began shooting at the swarms of Magog and Reetza that were coming in their direction.
'Hey Boss, good to see you!' Harper greeted Beka before also doing as Rommie and the others did. As fast as they killed off one, another two Magog took their place.
Diving back over their blockade, Shalimar and Jesse decided a new strategy was needed.
'Look, we'll deal with the Magog, you just get rid of those Reetza.' Shalimar instructed as the two of them caught their breath.
The mutants were mostly holding their own against the beasts, but they had no effect on the other aliens.
Dylan nodded in agreement at his, understanding where the feral was coming from.
Giving the signal to the other Mutants, Brennan, Jesse, Lexa and Shalimar leapt once more into the battle taking down waves of Magog while the Reetza's bodies were also beginning to make quite a few piles.
Marla's home
'Hello?' Emma called out as she and Adam entered the crumbling apartment block. It had had notices for it to be torn down for months, but no one had ever found the money to do it. And so it stood.
There was no answer, as the two of them moved from room to room on the ground floor finding nothing ands no one. Making their way onto the first floor, they heard a scuffle as someone shifted themselves on the floor from one of the rooms nearby followed by a cough.
Heading over to that room, they slowly opened the door, which promptly fell own causing a loud crash and a plume of dust to rise and fall.
A young woman sat on the floor jumped. She was about the same height as Shalimar and the same build as Emma. Her blue eyes were filled with uncertainty as she eyed the strangers in her home. Rising to her feet, she brushed the dust off her denim pedal pushers and green vest top. Her white trainers were too far-gone with grime to be cared about.
'Marla?' Adam asked.
'Depends who's asking' the woman retorted.
'I'm Adam and this is Emma. We believe you're the woman who's been bringing people from the future to this time.'
'And what if I am. Can you prove it?'
'She's the one Adam' Emma confirmed.
'How'd you know?' Marla asked.
'I'm an empath.'
'You're Mutant X!'
'And if we are?' Emma asked.
'Then you're here to make me send everyone back.'
'You must. There are people who shouldn't be here yet. You're messing up the time line and people are dying because of it.' Adam told the young woman sternly.
Marla looked down and sank to the floor, leaning back against the crumbling wall. 'I never meant for that to happen. I can see the future, not much but glimpses sometimes into the very far future other times not so far.'
'What's this got to do with the crew of Andromeda, the aliens and Lexa being here?' Emma asked gently, crouching down in front of the other brunette.
'I saw far into the future yesterday, it was of the crew of he Andromeda being attacked by the two species of Aliens and being killed. I then saw even further and how much they are needed to sot out this terrible future. The only way I could do that was to bring them to this time period where Mutant X and reinforcements were. I had to bring Lexa because she would have been a useful ally. I couldn't bring everyone here to be safe, so I kept bringing the attackers here so as to help the two I left there, Rev Ben and Tyr, two other aliens on their crew.' Marla told the tale of what had happened.
'Can you send them back?' Adam asked urgently.
'I only have the strength to send home the crew of Andromeda and Lexa. I can't do anything about the Reetza and Magog; I brought too many from the future. I'm sorry, It was the only way.'
'Shalimar, how many enemies have you left?' Adam asked through the comm. link.
'The Magog just seem to keep coming; it's the same with the Reetza. Haven't you found who did this and stopped them yet?' the feral shouted down her ring over the din of the fighting.
'We've found her, Marla Miniso, but she doesn't have the strength to send any more, she only has the strength to send home our visitors. You need to take out all of the aliens. We'll try and work out where the extra's are coming from.' Adam instructed the woman on the other end.
Turning his attention back to the New Mutant in front of him, he asked her 'How are there more aliens coming?'
Marla shook her head before replying 'I don't know. Unless…' she trailed off in thought before adding when seeing the others motioning for her to continue 'unless when I brought them here, I opened a portal and that portal hasn't closed.'
'Can you close it?' Adam asked urgently.
'I think so, but I'm not sure I'll have the strength to send everyone home.'
'If you don't seal it, there will be no one to send home.' Emma replied, not unkindly.
Nodding in agreement, Marla closed her eyes and began to undo the damage she had caused.
Town
The heroes were tiring but still the enemies came. The other members of her team were protecting Lexa as she incinerated the bodies, trying to clear space for the others to move in.
After passing on the message from Adam to the Andromeda crew, the urgency to beat their foes increased. Inevitably the blockade was broken through forcing Rommie to begin fighting hand-to-hand while the others kept shooting. Their strength would have no effect on these tough aliens.
Turning to face the next alien, they realised to their surprise there wasn't one.
Slowly coming out from their refuge, they saw the mutants were equally confused at seeing this.
'I guess Adam succeeded.' Jesse commented to no one in particular.
About to reply, Dylan suddenly realised they weren't on Earth anymore but once more on the Andromeda.
'Huh!' Beka commented.
'We never even got to say thank you or goodbye.' Trance added mournfully realising what had happened.
'I hope you have an explanation to where you just came from and where the Magog and Reetza just happened to vanish to.' Tyr asked from where he stood on the command deck, his force lance extended and the bodies of a few of the enemies cluttering the floor. Behind him stood Rev Ben also looking confused at the events that had just occurred.
'It's a long story.' Hunt replied, 'Which I will tell you after we've gotten far away from those two ships.
Earth, Sanctuary
'The doctors say there is very little chance Marla will ever come out of her coma.' Emma told the other members of Mutant X as they sat around the sitting room of Sanctuary. After the people from the future had disappeared and the bodies disposed of by Jesse phasing them far underground, they had all met up at Sanctuary to swap stories of the events that had just passed.
'She saved the future and we can't even thank her for it.' Shalimar commented.
'She may have saved the future but she didn't have to endanger all of our lives to do it.' Brennan remarked before adding 'But she didn't deserve this fate.'
'I agree. I'll try and find a way of helping her to recover, make sure she gets the best treatment. As far as I can tell she went too far into her powers and used too much energy to send everyone home. In time we will find a way to help her wake up.' Adam told the group.
Andromeda
'Hey Dylan, did you manage to find out about those people we met?' Harper asked as he, Trance and Beka hurried to catch up.
'As a matter of fact I did. Marla, the mutant who sent us back went into a coma for five years before awaking. She married and had two daughters. Brennan and Shalimar married and had a boy and a girl. Jesse married Lexa and had a girl while Emma died a little over a year from when we were there. There isn't much record of Adam though, but Andromeda thinks he also married and had a son. The details of that time are fuzzy, but somehow they managed to survive.' Hunt replied, stopping in the corridor and facing his crew.
They were all slightly saddened at the news of Emma, but glad the others had good lives.
'I guess we should make sure we really make a good difference in our future. The girl Marla gave up five years of her life to make sure we lived; it's the least we can do.' Trance commented.
'Here here!' Harper agreed causing the others to smile.
The end!