After – Effects Chapter 3
Sorry for taking so long, I fell ill and have only just recovered, so to my loyal readers, here is the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I may own Mutant X someday, but that is not today, I make no profit from this or any other story I write.
"Adam, Jesse and the Double Helix are gone," Shalimar said after locating Adam in the lab. "I think he's gone after Brennan".
"I think there is a very high possibility that that is the case," replied Adam. "If so, then he will head for Genomex and try to rescue Brennan, with his new abilities, he might just succeed". The team had undergone a mutation just over six months ago, Jesse could now slow down molecules to the point where time stopped, or he could speed them up, causing them to explode, a powerful bag of tricks, coupled with his other powers, the ability to solidify his mass to make him invincible to reduce his density to that where objects passed right through him, he was someone to be respected.
"We have to go after him, we can't let him do this alone, what if he fails?" asked Shalimar, Jesse was like a little brother to her, and she would let no harm come to him.
"We have to let him do this, he blames himself for losing Brennan, he thinks he could have done something else to help him, and I have every confidence that Jesse will get Brennan back here in one piece," said Adam, trying to comfort Shalimar, who looked about ready to pounce on someone, her eyes were already glowing like ferally.
Jesse had landed the Helix in a clearing just outside of the Genomex sensor range, he would need to get to the helix quickly once he had Brennan, he had no idea what shape Brennan would be in, he didn't even know if he was alive, but Jesse had to find out, one way or another.
Jesse didn't bother masquerading as a guard like he had six months ago; he phased right through the perimeter fence and froze the two guards who had already started running towards him. His freezing power had advanced well over the past six months and frozen objects remained frozen for up too five minutes depending on their range, but these guards we about ten metres away, so Jesse had one to two minutes to get inside at best, and the clock was already ticking. Running for the nearest door, he found it locked and bolted shut, but with a flick of the wrist, he blew it to smithereens and ran through it just as the guards unfroze.
Brennan was in insurmountable pain, but they had injected him with some sort of drug that stopped him from falling into the black recesses of unconsciousness. He was still naked and lying on the same cold floor the guards had left him on after he had watched Eckhart slit Jesse's throat, and Brennan felt that it was all his fault, he could just revealed the location of Sanctuary, he should have done something, anything, to save Jesse, he loved him so much and now wished he could have told him just that, maybe Jesse could have even loved him back, had he been alive, but no, "He's dead thanks to me!" thought Brennan and curling himself into a tighter ball, he cried himself to sleep. Watching on a plasma TV from an office above the holding cells, Eckhart smiled as he watched the Brennan's soul break apart, this was easier than he had thought.
Jesse was relatively familiar with the layout of Genomex, having broken in to the facility several times, So he was relatively certain that Brennan would be held in the detention cells in the basement of the complex, he guessed this because the first place he had looked was the stasis pods, and Brennan wasn't in any of them, so this was his last bet, unless Brennan was dead, in which case his body would probably be have been burned or whatever it is that Eckhart did to the dead. "No! Brennan is alive, I would know if he was gone, I know I would," Jesse thought to himself as he phased through another wall. it took Jesse ten minutes to find a lift that went to the basement, and when he got down there, the first thing he heard was loud sobbing and the second thing he saw was two menacing guards with electro-poles.
"Hi guys," Jesse said with a smile, before blowing the advancing guards into the opposite wall, Jesse had spent two months trying to control how much force he used with his explosive power, and it seemed to work as he had planned, both men were out stone cold, he rushed down the hall, for the explosion had undoubtedly set off alarms in the building, time was of the essence, Jesse did not have to look far, after looking into three empty cells, he found a bloodied and bruised mess crying on the floor.
"Brennan!" Jesse ran towards his friend and brought him into a sitting position, with a struggle, as strong as Jesse was, Brennan was somewhat of a giant compared to him.
"Oh my god Brennan, what have they done to you?" as he examined the elementals naked body, there was practically no part of his body that had not been covered in blood, bruises or cuts and abrasions. Brennan looked up at Jesse and decided he was hallucinating because of the pain, because to him, it looked like he was seeing Jesse, but that wasn't possible, Brennan had watched Jesse die.
"Brennan, it's me, it's Jesse, I've come to get you, come on, we'll get you back to sanctuary and get you fixed up, you'll be up and about in no time," said Jesse in a confident tone, which his mind did not agree with, Brennan was badly messed up, maybe some of the damage couldn't be fixed, but right now his priority was to get Brennan out of here. Hauling Brennan to his feet, Jesse (with great difficulty) phased and dragged/carried Brennan through the first of many barriers no Brennan's road to recovery.
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