Robin Hood

By: ShalCat-Kitty

Disclaimer: See chapter 1

Ok this chapter is dedicated to my cat Mika because she has been trying to help me type. And I have to stop every five minutes to play fetch with her. She's a very saucy cat.

Also I would like to thank anyone who reviewed and anyone else who has decided to read this. I write for you guys. I'm having fun writing this and hopefully soon I will have season 1on dvd, as soon as my dad takes me to futureshop to waste all my Christmas money.

If you're looking for a disclaimer it's in the first chapter.

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Adam:

Robin and I had decided to meet after leaving the café. So I waited at the abandon warehouse, until she came. I sat on a crate as I waited. We had been meeting for almost two months now. Her and Will had been keeping tabs on some rouge new mutants for me. It turned out that they were part of the strand hence the idea to join the strand and feed us info.

She got there and I greeted her with a smile. She smiled back. I enjoyed our meetings. We had to discuss some things, mostly about what she would be doing at genomex. Basically she and Will would be giving us info but without her brother's knowledge she would be subverting some of Gabriel followers and copying computer files. We didn't feel the need to risk Will's involvement.

"I was wondering if you could use your powers to see something for me?" I asked her. She was a seer. She could see future, present, and past. She nodded.

"Sure Adam, but I'm warning you now. You might not like what I see." She smiled.

"I want to know what's in store for mutant x." I stood up to stand beside her.

"Ok." She concentrated and her eyes went white. After a few seconds she spoke in a distant chilling voice.

"When a single wave of the moon thrashes against the shore of the earth. Then will the courage of heroes of old be tested against the strength of the pestilence that wave will bring.

The one who will save us is the one we could lose. A small strand found in a cat with lightning in heart.

The child of evil who's name is not what it seems. Ancestry of the one who leads may be closer to that of the cat, than any may know."

When she stopped, her eyes returned to normal and she shuddered. "Whoa, that was intense." Her voice was barely a whisper. She breathed out slowly and closed her eyes. I thought to myself that perhaps she was trying to shut out what she had seen or felt.

"Is it always like that?" I asked putting my hand on her shoulder to steady her, she looked as if she might fall over.

"No. That was… unexplainable." She shook her head. "The fate of mutant x is tied with that of this world." She shivered. She sat down on the crate I had been sitting on and pulled her knees up to her chest hugging them with her arms.

I pulled a pen out of my pocket and she helped me write down word for word what she had said in her trance.

"Normally I get a vision or a riddle, but never both." She seemed scared.

"Well." I said calmly. "Some of the members of mutant x have been experiencing boosts in their abilities, maybe this is something like what happened to them." I explained.

"That's a little more reassuring. But that's not all that scared me; it was the vision itself that…" I could see tears in her eyes. She looked like a little girl hiding from the monster under the bed.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to Robin." I told her. Maybe I didn't want to know what she had seen.

"No I have to tell you, it could help with the riddle." She closed her eyes and breathed deeply. "Ok here goes."

Her words were shaky but I let her continue.

"There was a meteorite, gigantic. It crashed into earth. The destruction was very minimal and still there were so many dead. Everywhere, people crying, afraid.

Then I saw a young woman, blond hair. She was on the ground, hurt bad. Your team-mate Brennan he was there close by. He's an elemental, electricity."

I hadn't told her anything about the others except for their names. She didn't know their powers what they looked like. Except for Brennan and Emma who she had just met. All she knew about them was their names.

"Then I see you and the blond one. There's another woman as well, older. The three of you are standing side by side. You're all smiling."

She stopped and looked at me. "When I get visions they come with feelings and the last vision was a good one. The others though, all I felt was pain and suffering."

I had written everything down, she was right; I now had some guesses at what the riddle meant.

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Shalimar: that night.

We were all at the club sitting at the bar; everyone except Adam that is. A song I liked came on so I took Emma's hand and dragged her into the crowd. As we started dancing, Jesse and Brennan joined us. When that song was over, a slow song came on. The dance floor quickly split into groups of two. I looked to Brennan in silent agreement, neither of us wanted to chance dancing as a couple in front of the others.

We started to walk back to the bar when Jesse took Emma's hand. "May I have this dance?" he asked. She smiled and they started dancing.

"It can do no harm now." Brennan's extended his hand to me. And so we danced and then more, loud techno music came on. We all headed to a couch in the corner. Our seats at the bar had been taken.

We had been there for ten maybe fifteen minutes and Brennan got up. "I have to go for a second. I'll be back." He left. When he got back he sat down next to me. We all sat there and talked. Then when the song ended, the DJ came on the speakers.

"Hey everyone. I hope you're all having a great time tonight, but we're going to slow it down for a song. I've had a request from a young man. He wanted me to play this song for his very special girl who makes him feel like quoting Shakespeare. She'll know who she is." I glanced at Brennan in disbelief as Don't wanna miss a thing by Aero Smith started playing. He winked, I wondered how he had known that it was my favourite slow song.

"Hey guy's we're gonna go dance." He told the others taking my hand. They didn't really notice though. I don't even think they noticed that a slow song was on. Brennan took me far enough into the crowd that the others couldn't see us and he kissed me. Then as we slow danced he mouthed the words to the song. He was the sweetest.

I put my head on his shoulder. "I love you." I told him.

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Robin:

I was fiddling with my necklace and Will walked over to me. "Would you stop that already?" he said annoyed. "We're going to meet Gabriel soon and if you act suspicious, our plan won't work." I stopped.

I wasn't just nervous about trying to fool a very powerful new mutant. I was worried about what I had seen that afternoon. I was scared for everyone now. Because if I screwed this up, it could affect mutant x (not to mention Adam.) And if they failed at whatever tests would come, the whole planet could be affected.

I didn't know exactly what my vision meant, but I sure as hell didn't want to find out the hard way. I was also concerned for Adam. We had become friends, maybe even more and I didn't like the thought of disappointing him. Let alone being the cause of pain to him and his team.

Will's beeper pulled me out of my thoughts. It was our signal to go to a warehouse to meet Gabriel. As we walked towards the building I noticed, a big 0.0 spray painted in red on one of the columns on the steps into the warehouse. Inside it was dark. The only light came from two torches, one on either side of the door.

Three dark figures detached themselves from the shadows and walked into the light. It was Gabriel and to each side a woman. One of them had blond hair, the other with dark skin and darker hair. Gabriel was intense; he walked right up to us.

"Welcome both of you." He swept his hand around and lights turned on all around to reveal that there were many more people watching from the shadows and from a balcony above us. The warehouse was almost medieval, red curtains hung from floor to ceiling in some spots, and the majority of the light came from torches.

"Welcome to the strand." The two women at his side dispersed back into the mass of people who constantly moved closer to us. "Come everyone to greet these children of Genomex. I give you our new members Robin and Will. " His syrupy smile was undeniably handsome and still I did not feel I could trust him if my life depended on it.

Everyone came and shook our hands. When they were all finished. He shook Will's hand. "It is nice to meet you Will." Then he turned to me. "And it is nice to meet you Robin." He took my hand and instead of shaking it he kissed it like you would royalty. "Very nice."

If I hadn't know who he was I would have been flattered. And so that was how I acted. He was a sociopath. He had no remorse for anything that he did. I felt kind of sorry for him. Genomex had taken away his humanity, his soul.

After all of the introductions we were taken to what had recently been the GSA. Now it was Gabriel's stronghold. When we got there someone showed us where we would be working.

Once Will disappeared I decided it was time to get to work. I wasn't just feeding Adam info, like Will thought. I was going to copy computer files and subvert the strand from the inside. Steel from the rich and give to the poor. I was being completely faithful to my namesake, a direct ancestor of mine. Robin Hood famous outlaw and a truly noble man. I felt good to be doing him proud.

I carefully snuck away to find a deserted computer. I found a whole computer room empty of workers, lucky me. I pulled a disc out of my pocket. I started copying files, using special undetectable software that Adam had given me.

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Gabriel:

I sat at my new desk, the one I had taken from the pathetic GSA leader Mason Eckhart. The GSA had been easy to take over with their sad excuse for security and some people on the inside. Today we had inducted a few new and very powerful psionics, Robin and Will Cunningham.

I liked them, the girl was pretty and I could easily bend her to my will and the young man. I liked his smile; it reminded me quite a lot of my own. He could convince you of anything with that smile. I could see the power behind his eyes. He would make a nice commander. I could really see him going places.

The door opened and one of the followers working on the computer systems came in. Andrew Turner, a tall young man with short cropped light brown hair and uneasy brown eyes. "Excuse me sir. There's something you might want to see." he was nervous.

"Well come in Mr. Turner. Let's see what you've got." He passed me a disc that I put in the computer.

"It's footage from earlier today." He told me. On the screen I saw Adam and two of his people walk in and sit down at a booth. I recognised the man with him from when we took the blond feral from the safe house. And the girl with him, I had seen her briefly when they had rescued the feral. Mutant x I had learned, were not as easy to deal with as I had thought.

After thirty seconds two people joined them. It was Robin and Will. "Oh. This will do us no good." I stated as if my food was too hot. "I shall have to talk to our new recruits about their acquaintances." The information did not phase me.

I pressed a button on the intercom, on the desk. "Will Cunningham please report to my office immediately." I said calmly. I would use him to get to mutant x and to get the blond one, Shalimar. I needed her, she was vital to my master plan.

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Will:

Gabriel called me to his office. When I got there, there was another young man there with him.

"You summoned me Gabriel?" I announced my presence. Gabriel looked over to me for a second then turned to the other young man.

"That will be all Mr. Turner. You may leave." He said. The young man left. When the door closed behind him. Gabriel addressed me. "Hello Will." He smiled. "You've done a great job. Everything is going as planned I assume."

"Yes sir." I nodded. "I believe I have Adams complete trust. Coincidentally I believe he and my sister may have feelings for one another. Also I don't think my sister suspects a thing." I smiled.

"Very nice Will." Gabriel said. "There is one small problem though." He directed my attention to a computer screen to my right. As I looked I saw my sister. She wasn't at her post. She was in one of the computer rooms and she was copying files.

I cursed myself for not seeing it before. Robin and Adam had made other plans to steel data.

"It seems that mutant x has other plans." Gabriel's voice was angry. "I did expect something like this tough, so once we've gotten a read on the software she's using we'll backwards engineer it and give them a taste of their own medicine."

"I can stop her for you." I told him. "turn her against them." I could show her that Adam was the real enemy.

"No Will, that will be ok. She will be more convincing if she believes that she's working for them." He told me. I opened my mouth to speak but was cut off when the door opened again and Mr. Turner entered.

"Sir your not going to like this." He blurted out.

"What is it Mr. Turner?" Gabriel asked annoyed.

"Um. We can't get a read on the software. It's a quicksand virus. The more we try, the further into the system it goes." He was fiddling with at piece of paper. "Here's a printout." He passed the paper to Gabriel.

Gabriel read the paper, balled it up angrily and threw it in the trash can. He pounded his fist on the desk. "Mutant x has meddled with us for the last time." His tone was seething with hatred. "When I strike. I will use as much force if not too much to take them down." He shouted.

When he had calmed down a little he told Mr. Turner, nicely to leave. He left and when he was gone Gabriel turned to me.

"I have a plan." I reassured him.

"Ok then Mr. Cunningham. Lets hear it."

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TBC

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