"What the hell?" Jesse questioned looked at his body fully fused with the feral's at the hand. His left hand was connected to her right and it appeared as one hand in the center, a very weird sight in deed.
"Oh my god," Emma gasped not believing her own eyes.
"How the hell did that happen?" Brennan asked walking around the two for a better look.
"I don't know," Jesse explained in a slight panic. "I phased and she passed through me. Part of her must've gotten stuck when I restabilized."
"Well phase again," Shalimar ordered.
Jesse prepared himself to phase and six eyes watched in anticipation only to find the molecular remaining his normal self.
"What happened?" Shalimar questioned. "Why didn't you phase?"
"I did," he replied shocked himself at the unknown results. "At least I tried."
"Try again."
Jesse took the feral's orders but it was no use. His powers weren't working. He tried to mass to see if that would still work and couldn't even pull that out.
"It's not working. My powers aren't working."
"What?" Shalimar asked sighing. "Alright, let's go find Adam."
Shalimar and Jesse each tried to walk but quickly remember they were connected as they joined bodies jerked at each other's movements.
"We're gonna hafta work together," Shalimar concluded knowing she couldn't get anywhere by herself. "Let's do it like we're in a potato sack race."
Sighing Jesse agreed and the two joined mutants slowly made their way down the hall, Emma and Brennan walking behind hardly able to kept the giggles down.
"Hey! I hear you two back there," Shalimar warned hating being laughed at. If it wasn't her in the awkward situation she might have been able to find the humor in it.
"Adam," Jesse called out as the two waddled into the genetics lab to find Adam had just ended a call.
Turing around Adam's mouth nearly fell open at the sight.
"Jesse, how…are you?" he concluded seeing the annoyed looks on both their faces.
Emma and Brennan giggled and made their way into the lab to lean against the counter.
"Well," Adam began stepping over to the two mutants or more like one giant mutant now. "I guess it's true what they say. Two blondes are better than one."
Brennan and Emma laughed and Adam himself found a small grin come to his face but he quickly hid it preparing to deal with the seriousness of the situation at hand.
"How do we fix it, Adam?" Jesse asked.
"Alright, come sit over here," Adam told waving his hand and walking over to the observation tables. "Hop up."
Shalimar and Jesse hopped onto the table and Adam took a closer look at their shared hand.
"How did this happen?" the genius asked enthralled by the astonishing sight.
"Shalimar and I collided and I phased. When I unphased we were connected," Jesse explained as the older man looked them both over. "Adam, I can't phase again. My powers are gone."
"No I don't think so," Adam concluded. "Do you still feel different like you were the other day?"
"Yeah. I felt that way again today. Right before this happened."
"Well, I think your mutation is just growing. Your powers are bound to grow over time, expand, sometimes give you new abilities and sometimes make the ones you already have stronger. I couldn't find anything physically wrong with you so I think your mutation is just going through a growth spurt."
"How long is it gonna take?" Jesse asked. Although he loved his feral friend deeply he didn't much enjoy the thought of sharing a body with her any longer than he had to as it certainly wasn't comfortable.
"Well, any given amount of time. You're healthy and your body seems to adapt pretty quickly. You've been feeling this way for almost a week I'd guess it probably won't take much longer but you will need to get it under control before you can use your powers again."
Both Shalimar and Jesse sighed taking the news as bad and not liking the outlook so far one bit.
"I guess we'll just hafta start calling you Jessamar," Brennan said laughing at his own joke. "Or Shesse."
Emma couldn't help chuckle at the names and Jesse and Shalimar frowned at the two. At least someone was making the best of this situation.
"Do it and you can call yourself dead meat," the feral warned flashing her eyes for added effect.
"Isn't there anything you can do Adam?" Shalimar asked again desperately.
"I'll get to work on a serum to help boost the process along but I told you, Jesse, you need to do this on your own."
"Alright, I wanna go lie down," Shalimar said hopping off the table and forcing the molecular to do the same.
"Wait I wanted to finish my research," Jesse debated not in the mood for a nap as his heart was racing.
"Well, use a laptop, hun, we're goin' to bed."
Jesse sighed and the two mutants waddled their way out of the lab.
"Hey, look on the brightside," Brennan called behind them. "You won't need a costume at Halloween."
Emma, Brennan, and Adam grinned at the backs of the two as the left the room heading for Shalimar's bedroom.