Note: Holy shit, look at that. I finally updated. I'll do a short author's
note for part of my apology. This is the second half of the last chapter,
that I didn't have the time to write, so, enjoy.
Disclaimer: They're not mine.
Dedication: This time it's to Savagelove, helenakyle1, and Kelly(), who were the only people to review. Thanks for your support through all this.
Dusk had just arrived, so the plane touching down in a clearing of trees wasn't too noticeable, at least not to an average person. They knew that the metas would most likely both hear and see them, but that was perfectly all right, it would probably even be for the best. It would be an excellent way to test a few more of these creations abilities, such as tracking a moving target. For now though, the only goal was to land, set their cargo free, and hope that they survived the encounter. Touching down lightly, the plane bounced a little before cruising to a stop in the miniscule amount of space provided.
Once it had come to a stop, the back opened forming a ramp to the ground, and four people walked out, rolling two large tanks with them down the incline. The figures floating within looked ominous in the bare amount of light that was left. If it weren't for the air bubbles forming in the tank, along with the heart monitors, anyone would've thought that they were nothing more than corpses. These were hardly cadavers though, no, they contained an enormous amount of power within their bodies. The question was, whether or not that power could stand up to the already naturally enhanced humans of the world, commonly known as Meta-humans.
"All right now, let's be careful with this. I'd like to get home in one piece." The pilot walked down the ramp just after the four men, passing out a card to each of them. "These'll open the tanks. One for the top and bottom. Put 'em in at the same time, the water will drain onto the ground, and then we have ten seconds before the tanks open. I want everyone back on the plane by then. Dr. Freedman says that they've been instructed only to hunt the metas, but you never know. Let's do this."
Each group inserted their cards, and two lights above the tanks flashed green briefly before the water began to drain. "Come on." The pilot spared one last, wary look at the two abominations, then, he left with the others. By the time the water finished draining, everyone was back on board, and the back ramp had been closed up.
A hiss sounded as the doors popped open on the tanks. The figures within slouched forward as they stumbled out looking as though they had never used their legs before. Eventually, they managed to regain their footing, and walk around a bit, as if they were searching for something. Their features were distorted, so much so that they hardly looked human anymore.
One had a large metal blade coming out of each forearm, water still dripping from the tips. Its eyes seemed to glow an eerie green, and any hair it might have once had was now absent except for a few stray wisps. From it's knees sprouted two more blades, both looking wicked and deadly. The other seemed to have the same for as a wolf. A snout sprouted from its face with fangs protruding from the sides of the mouth. Slobber hung from it's jowls as it whipped its head back and forth, sniffing the air for any sign of what it was searching for. Silver fur covered its body, and the only clothing it wore was a loose pair of pants.
The beast seemed to find a scent in the air that was blowing towards them, and with a snort and a signal of its hand, it signaled the other to follow.
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"Where are they?" Dinah asked, scanning the trees in front of her.
"I don't know yet. Whoever it is, they keep moving around too much." Huntress's face was one of deep concentration as she tried to pinpoint it.
"What if it's wolves again?" There was a waver to Dinah's voice that Huntress easily picked up on. Obviously, Dinah was terrified of this idea, and was trying to act brave for herself and for Huntress. She didn't want to be a coward in front of her girlfriend.
"Don't worry, I'm pretty sure it's not wolves. There's too much noise. I think that there's more than one." Huntress knew what Dinah's little ploy was, and decided to ignore it for now.
"How do you know?" The trepidation was still there.
"Some of the steps are heavier than others. Be quiet now, I need to figure out where they are." Dinah nodded her consent, and Huntress continued to listen intently. "Over there." Huntress pointed to her left as one figure emerged from the woods moving fast. Another one came from behind moving a little slower, but looking no less dangerous.
"You get that one, and I'll get this one." Dinah suggested in a split second decision as she ran at the one coming from behind. Knowing that Huntress could deal with the faster one with more ease she opted to take on the one that ran rather clumsily.
Dinah noticed that the thing she was about to face seemed to have trouble with moving its knees comfortably, although she couldn't fathom why. It wasn't until she finally got up close and personal that she figured it out. As soon as she was within distance, it struck out at her with one of its forearm blades that she just managed to dodge, coming away with a gash across her cheek. In shock, she took in the sight of the thing before her, it was horrifying, like something out of a nightmare. "What are you?" The question was aimed more toward herself than the creature, and she rolled to the side as it lashed out with a knee.
Landing in a crouch, Dinah held up her hand and threw the creature to the ground. It hit the ground on it's back, but managed to spring back up and head for Dinah who was meeting it half way. Carefully Dinah blocked a blow of the thing's forearm, and retaliated with a punch to the stomach followed by an uppercut to the face. It reeled back leaving its chest wide open, and Dinah kicked it hard, sending it back to the ground again. Dinah approached it cautiously, waiting for any attack that might occur, but the thing didn't seem to be moving. Getting closer, Dinah decided to peer into the creature's mind to see what it was and why it was here. Before she could, it grabbed the hand that had been moving towards its own, and tried to strike her in the chest with its other blade. Dinah grabbed the fist coming at her, stopping the blade centimeters from plunging into her chest. Using her tk, she threw it away from her, and into a tree.
It impacted, but then used the same tree to launch a flying kick that caught Dinah in her left shoulder, and pushed her to the ground. Once she was down, it fell forward with both blades aimed at her; she rolled to the side and just managed to avoid it. The blades lodged into the ground, and Dinah figured that she was safe for a few moments until the creature easily managed to rip its weapons from the soil. It rushed at her again, and caught her by surprise by leaping up, and using it's knee blades to cut into her torso. She was still standing so it jumped up again, but this time with a drop kick that caught her right in the kisser. Both dropped to the ground although the creature was the first to get to its feet. Still on the ground, Dinah flung the creature into another tree with her powers, hoping to knock it out.
Instead of falling unconscious, or running at her again, the creature used its spikes to climb into the tree and out of Dinah's sight. "Shit." She cursed as she looked into the trees. "Come on, where are you?" For a moment, Dinah turned her eyes to where she last saw Huntress; concerned for the safety of the woman she loved. There was no sign of her though, and that worried Dinah greatly. However, her thoughts were pulled back to her own problem as the thing jumped down right on top of her, only Dinah's tk kept her from being skewered and chopped to pieces. It came again while she was still lying on the ground with its blades crossed and hovering just above her neck.
Now it was down to a battle of wills, Dinah's to survive, and the creature's to kill its target. Dinah was putting forth a huge amounted of concentration, but the creature still stayed in one place resisting her power. Eventually, its arms started to shake, and it finally flew away from her. Dinah was breathing hard from the exertion that it had taken, and climbed to her feet unsteadily. There was now way she could keep this up forever, but whatever she was fighting seemed to have boundless energy. She watched as it climbed to its feet, and made her decision, a decision to run.
Huntress didn't have the time to argue with Dinah's snap decision since as soon as Dinah had said it; Huntress was tackled by the one she was supposed to fight. Its snout was shoving into her face, trying to bite her, but Huntress used one of her hands to hold it back. Slobber dripped onto her face, and Helena flipped the beast off of her using her leg. "That, is disgusting." She complained wiping the spit from her face. It growled in response, circling her almost as if it were sizing her up. "You wanna dance? Then come and get some." She taunted.
It continued to circle her, snarling and raking its claws along the ground. Without warning, it leapt at her once again intending to slice her throat open with the claws at the end of its massive paws. Huntress dodged to the side, and managed to plant a knee in its stomach, and an elbow to the back of its neck. The blows sent it to the ground, but it used its hands to handspring back to its feet. Turning, it snarled at her before crossing the small gap that separated them with ease. It feigned a jab at her stomach and Huntress pulled back bringing her head in closer. The beast wrapped one of its huge paws around her face, and picked her up before slamming her into the ground over and over.
Huntress was trying to remove the paw from her face, but the beast's grip was so strong, and it was too stubborn to let go. No matter how hard Huntress would squeeze its wrist or hit its arm, it wouldn't drop her. The pain was starting to get to her, and there was no way that she was going to spend a fight like this so, she opted to deal a low blow with her foot. Almost surprisingly, it worked, and the beast let go while howling in pain. Huntress landed on her feet and somehow managed to stay there. This wasn't going to be as easy as she had hoped, but then again, there was a giant wolf man standing in front of her. She looked over to Dinah who seemed to be doing just fine, no need for a rescue. Anyway, Huntress had her own problems to worry about, and it would probably be best to catch him while he was hurt.
Rushing at it, she caught it with a powerful uppercut, and a nice snap kick to the abdomen. From there she did left cross after right cross repeatedly to its face before grabbing its shoulders, and ending with a head butt, which was a little awkward due to the snout. Her actions only seemed to enrage the beast and it slashed its huge paw at her hitting Huntress soundly in the side, and sending her flying into a tree much like a rag doll. The strength contained within that body was immense to say the least, and Huntress became worried. It launched a heavy punch at her, but she dodged and actually heard the tree groan from the force, there was no way she could beat this thing right now. She needed to catch it off guard and do some heavy damage, cause right now, she felt like a fly trying to destroy a fly swatter. Hoping that Dinah would be okay, she took off into the woods.
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Reese was waiting patiently outside for the vehicle in question, he would finally be allowed into the clock tower. (Note: obviously I'm ignoring the fact that he's been in there before). He was anxious to get there, to finally find out what exactly was going on without being certain that she was leaving something out. This was his chance to really help in finding Helena, in finding the one that he loved. When he saved her, he would tell her how he felt, and then they could become the couple they were meant to be. After a few months of that, they could even get married, and she could be Mrs. Helena Reese. Things were definitely starting to look up. (Note: Oh god, that was so sickening to write. I feel unclean).
A hummer pulled up bringing him out of his silent musings, and back into the present. The windows rolled down, and he could make out an old man beckoning him to come forward. Reese complied and asked, "Are you my ride?"
"That I am Mister Reese. If you would please enter the vehicle, Miss Barbara is waiting for your arrival."
His voice was honest and kindly, so Reese decided that he was trust worthy and got in the hummer. "What's your name?"
"Alfred, will do just fine, Mister Reese." It took a few minutes, but soon the clock tower was looming ahead of them.
Inside, Barbara had already been waiting for them. "Reese, good to see you here. I want you to understand that this is a secret location, and no one else can ever know about it." Her voice was stern and demanding, obviously, she was not in the mood for any games.
"I understand completely. So, why don't we just skip the pleasantries and get straight to the point?" He suggested.
Barbara was sitting at the Delphi system, and offered a seat to Reese. He declined, and Barbara shrugged. "I told you that Phoenix Inc. has a lot to do with this. They take people, and they experiment on them Reese, trying to create the perfect soldier." Reese looked taken aback, but Barbara forged on. "Chances are that they're doing the same thing to Anderson right now."
"What? But they can't?"
"They can. They can do anything they want because they can either keep things secret, or pay off whoever needs to be. These are powerful people Reese, and right now they're tormenting Helena and Dinah."
"What do you mean?"
Barbara pulled up a few screens on the computer. "Right here, it says that two tanks were flown out, and here, it says that tanks is what they keep these people in. Do you see the connection?" Reese nodded. "This right here, is the cargo plane's flight plan, which means that this is where Helena and Dinah are."
"Well what are we waiting for then? Let's go and get them." Reese was both elated and annoyed. Elated because his love was now found, and annoyed because Barbara had yet to do anything about it.
"Slow down, it's not that simple. Here's the mission plan. It's wordy, but what it basically says, is that this is a capture mission. Their plan was to bring the girls here all along, which means. . ." She trailed off waiting for him to figure it out.
"That we don't have to go to them. They'll be coming here." He caught on after a moment.
"Right. It says that no serious harm is to be caused, but this is still a field test. Who knows how well those things will listen?"
"Don't you mean people?" Reese asked, a little anger showing in his voice.
"No I don't. As much as I hate to say it, they're no longer people Reese; you can't expect them to be after something like this. A complete wipe of memories, and then extra enhancements, that's not human Reese." She really was sympathetic, but the important thing now was stopping it from ever happening again.
"What else do you know?" He sighed, giving into Barbara.
"I think that they're planning to do this same thing to Dinah and Helena when they're brought in." Barbara speculated.
"Helena." Reese whispered forlornly, never noticing the slight glare that Barbara sent him.
"I won't let that happen to either of them." Specific emphasis was put on the word either. "I'm going to keep monitoring the systems and see when it is that the girls are brought in, an alarm will go off as soon as word comes in."
"That could be any time though, and what if these things don't work like these people want them to, and Helena gets away?"
"Then I'll find out and we can go and rescue them, but, I have a bad feeling that that won't happen. So, we need a plan to get inside Phoenix Inc."
"And I suppose you have one?" He sat on the desk and crossed his arms.
"I have the start of one. I can set some security cameras on loops so that it will be like we were never there. There are cards that I can imprint security codes onto, and I can make us employees without them knowing. That would be our way in, from there I don't have much else planed. We'd have to get Helena and Dinah out of the tanks that they will undoubtedly be in. From there we would all have to sneak out, and who knows what kind of damage will have been caused?" Barbara was looking tired, but determined, and Reese had to respect her for that.
"That sounds pretty good, and we'll figure everything out. I have no doubts there. Helena will be fine. . . and Dinah." Her name was added only as an after thought and nothing more.
"Right." Barbara looked at him oddly, he was kind of creeping her out with his tone. "For now at least, you can stay here if you want. I just figured that it'd be easier."
"Sounds good. Do you have a room for me?" He asked. "Please let it be Helena's." Was his silent prayer.
"How do you feel about the couch?" She asked looking over her work.
"For how long?" He countered.
"I suppose a crick in your neck wouldn't help too much." Barbara conceded. She thought about giving him Helena's room, but the creepy vibe she got from him earlier made her reject that idea, and she didn't know how Dinah would feel about Reese in her room. "You can take my room. It's the last door."
"Won't you be needing that?" He was actually almost pleading.
"No, if I need somewhere I'll take the couch or Helena's room." She answered.
"I could take her room." Came the offer that Barbara had been expecting.
"I don't think she'd appreciate it too much, so you'll have to deal with mine." If it weren't so pathetic, Barbara would've laughed at the 'kicked puppy' expression he was poorly trying to hide.
Note: Okay, it's still not what I planed. In fact, there were about four other segments that I wanted to get through, but once again, I feel bad about leaving you guys for so long. The truth is, that I was having a shitty ass week, and writing wasn't something I wanted to deal with. Anywho, hope you enjoyed the action that I finally got to savagelove. Till next time, and I swear that it'll be out a hell of a lot sooner than this. Also, I'll hopefully have the rest of the stuff that I wanted to get up last chapter done.
Disclaimer: They're not mine.
Dedication: This time it's to Savagelove, helenakyle1, and Kelly(), who were the only people to review. Thanks for your support through all this.
Dusk had just arrived, so the plane touching down in a clearing of trees wasn't too noticeable, at least not to an average person. They knew that the metas would most likely both hear and see them, but that was perfectly all right, it would probably even be for the best. It would be an excellent way to test a few more of these creations abilities, such as tracking a moving target. For now though, the only goal was to land, set their cargo free, and hope that they survived the encounter. Touching down lightly, the plane bounced a little before cruising to a stop in the miniscule amount of space provided.
Once it had come to a stop, the back opened forming a ramp to the ground, and four people walked out, rolling two large tanks with them down the incline. The figures floating within looked ominous in the bare amount of light that was left. If it weren't for the air bubbles forming in the tank, along with the heart monitors, anyone would've thought that they were nothing more than corpses. These were hardly cadavers though, no, they contained an enormous amount of power within their bodies. The question was, whether or not that power could stand up to the already naturally enhanced humans of the world, commonly known as Meta-humans.
"All right now, let's be careful with this. I'd like to get home in one piece." The pilot walked down the ramp just after the four men, passing out a card to each of them. "These'll open the tanks. One for the top and bottom. Put 'em in at the same time, the water will drain onto the ground, and then we have ten seconds before the tanks open. I want everyone back on the plane by then. Dr. Freedman says that they've been instructed only to hunt the metas, but you never know. Let's do this."
Each group inserted their cards, and two lights above the tanks flashed green briefly before the water began to drain. "Come on." The pilot spared one last, wary look at the two abominations, then, he left with the others. By the time the water finished draining, everyone was back on board, and the back ramp had been closed up.
A hiss sounded as the doors popped open on the tanks. The figures within slouched forward as they stumbled out looking as though they had never used their legs before. Eventually, they managed to regain their footing, and walk around a bit, as if they were searching for something. Their features were distorted, so much so that they hardly looked human anymore.
One had a large metal blade coming out of each forearm, water still dripping from the tips. Its eyes seemed to glow an eerie green, and any hair it might have once had was now absent except for a few stray wisps. From it's knees sprouted two more blades, both looking wicked and deadly. The other seemed to have the same for as a wolf. A snout sprouted from its face with fangs protruding from the sides of the mouth. Slobber hung from it's jowls as it whipped its head back and forth, sniffing the air for any sign of what it was searching for. Silver fur covered its body, and the only clothing it wore was a loose pair of pants.
The beast seemed to find a scent in the air that was blowing towards them, and with a snort and a signal of its hand, it signaled the other to follow.
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"Where are they?" Dinah asked, scanning the trees in front of her.
"I don't know yet. Whoever it is, they keep moving around too much." Huntress's face was one of deep concentration as she tried to pinpoint it.
"What if it's wolves again?" There was a waver to Dinah's voice that Huntress easily picked up on. Obviously, Dinah was terrified of this idea, and was trying to act brave for herself and for Huntress. She didn't want to be a coward in front of her girlfriend.
"Don't worry, I'm pretty sure it's not wolves. There's too much noise. I think that there's more than one." Huntress knew what Dinah's little ploy was, and decided to ignore it for now.
"How do you know?" The trepidation was still there.
"Some of the steps are heavier than others. Be quiet now, I need to figure out where they are." Dinah nodded her consent, and Huntress continued to listen intently. "Over there." Huntress pointed to her left as one figure emerged from the woods moving fast. Another one came from behind moving a little slower, but looking no less dangerous.
"You get that one, and I'll get this one." Dinah suggested in a split second decision as she ran at the one coming from behind. Knowing that Huntress could deal with the faster one with more ease she opted to take on the one that ran rather clumsily.
Dinah noticed that the thing she was about to face seemed to have trouble with moving its knees comfortably, although she couldn't fathom why. It wasn't until she finally got up close and personal that she figured it out. As soon as she was within distance, it struck out at her with one of its forearm blades that she just managed to dodge, coming away with a gash across her cheek. In shock, she took in the sight of the thing before her, it was horrifying, like something out of a nightmare. "What are you?" The question was aimed more toward herself than the creature, and she rolled to the side as it lashed out with a knee.
Landing in a crouch, Dinah held up her hand and threw the creature to the ground. It hit the ground on it's back, but managed to spring back up and head for Dinah who was meeting it half way. Carefully Dinah blocked a blow of the thing's forearm, and retaliated with a punch to the stomach followed by an uppercut to the face. It reeled back leaving its chest wide open, and Dinah kicked it hard, sending it back to the ground again. Dinah approached it cautiously, waiting for any attack that might occur, but the thing didn't seem to be moving. Getting closer, Dinah decided to peer into the creature's mind to see what it was and why it was here. Before she could, it grabbed the hand that had been moving towards its own, and tried to strike her in the chest with its other blade. Dinah grabbed the fist coming at her, stopping the blade centimeters from plunging into her chest. Using her tk, she threw it away from her, and into a tree.
It impacted, but then used the same tree to launch a flying kick that caught Dinah in her left shoulder, and pushed her to the ground. Once she was down, it fell forward with both blades aimed at her; she rolled to the side and just managed to avoid it. The blades lodged into the ground, and Dinah figured that she was safe for a few moments until the creature easily managed to rip its weapons from the soil. It rushed at her again, and caught her by surprise by leaping up, and using it's knee blades to cut into her torso. She was still standing so it jumped up again, but this time with a drop kick that caught her right in the kisser. Both dropped to the ground although the creature was the first to get to its feet. Still on the ground, Dinah flung the creature into another tree with her powers, hoping to knock it out.
Instead of falling unconscious, or running at her again, the creature used its spikes to climb into the tree and out of Dinah's sight. "Shit." She cursed as she looked into the trees. "Come on, where are you?" For a moment, Dinah turned her eyes to where she last saw Huntress; concerned for the safety of the woman she loved. There was no sign of her though, and that worried Dinah greatly. However, her thoughts were pulled back to her own problem as the thing jumped down right on top of her, only Dinah's tk kept her from being skewered and chopped to pieces. It came again while she was still lying on the ground with its blades crossed and hovering just above her neck.
Now it was down to a battle of wills, Dinah's to survive, and the creature's to kill its target. Dinah was putting forth a huge amounted of concentration, but the creature still stayed in one place resisting her power. Eventually, its arms started to shake, and it finally flew away from her. Dinah was breathing hard from the exertion that it had taken, and climbed to her feet unsteadily. There was now way she could keep this up forever, but whatever she was fighting seemed to have boundless energy. She watched as it climbed to its feet, and made her decision, a decision to run.
Huntress didn't have the time to argue with Dinah's snap decision since as soon as Dinah had said it; Huntress was tackled by the one she was supposed to fight. Its snout was shoving into her face, trying to bite her, but Huntress used one of her hands to hold it back. Slobber dripped onto her face, and Helena flipped the beast off of her using her leg. "That, is disgusting." She complained wiping the spit from her face. It growled in response, circling her almost as if it were sizing her up. "You wanna dance? Then come and get some." She taunted.
It continued to circle her, snarling and raking its claws along the ground. Without warning, it leapt at her once again intending to slice her throat open with the claws at the end of its massive paws. Huntress dodged to the side, and managed to plant a knee in its stomach, and an elbow to the back of its neck. The blows sent it to the ground, but it used its hands to handspring back to its feet. Turning, it snarled at her before crossing the small gap that separated them with ease. It feigned a jab at her stomach and Huntress pulled back bringing her head in closer. The beast wrapped one of its huge paws around her face, and picked her up before slamming her into the ground over and over.
Huntress was trying to remove the paw from her face, but the beast's grip was so strong, and it was too stubborn to let go. No matter how hard Huntress would squeeze its wrist or hit its arm, it wouldn't drop her. The pain was starting to get to her, and there was no way that she was going to spend a fight like this so, she opted to deal a low blow with her foot. Almost surprisingly, it worked, and the beast let go while howling in pain. Huntress landed on her feet and somehow managed to stay there. This wasn't going to be as easy as she had hoped, but then again, there was a giant wolf man standing in front of her. She looked over to Dinah who seemed to be doing just fine, no need for a rescue. Anyway, Huntress had her own problems to worry about, and it would probably be best to catch him while he was hurt.
Rushing at it, she caught it with a powerful uppercut, and a nice snap kick to the abdomen. From there she did left cross after right cross repeatedly to its face before grabbing its shoulders, and ending with a head butt, which was a little awkward due to the snout. Her actions only seemed to enrage the beast and it slashed its huge paw at her hitting Huntress soundly in the side, and sending her flying into a tree much like a rag doll. The strength contained within that body was immense to say the least, and Huntress became worried. It launched a heavy punch at her, but she dodged and actually heard the tree groan from the force, there was no way she could beat this thing right now. She needed to catch it off guard and do some heavy damage, cause right now, she felt like a fly trying to destroy a fly swatter. Hoping that Dinah would be okay, she took off into the woods.
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Reese was waiting patiently outside for the vehicle in question, he would finally be allowed into the clock tower. (Note: obviously I'm ignoring the fact that he's been in there before). He was anxious to get there, to finally find out what exactly was going on without being certain that she was leaving something out. This was his chance to really help in finding Helena, in finding the one that he loved. When he saved her, he would tell her how he felt, and then they could become the couple they were meant to be. After a few months of that, they could even get married, and she could be Mrs. Helena Reese. Things were definitely starting to look up. (Note: Oh god, that was so sickening to write. I feel unclean).
A hummer pulled up bringing him out of his silent musings, and back into the present. The windows rolled down, and he could make out an old man beckoning him to come forward. Reese complied and asked, "Are you my ride?"
"That I am Mister Reese. If you would please enter the vehicle, Miss Barbara is waiting for your arrival."
His voice was honest and kindly, so Reese decided that he was trust worthy and got in the hummer. "What's your name?"
"Alfred, will do just fine, Mister Reese." It took a few minutes, but soon the clock tower was looming ahead of them.
Inside, Barbara had already been waiting for them. "Reese, good to see you here. I want you to understand that this is a secret location, and no one else can ever know about it." Her voice was stern and demanding, obviously, she was not in the mood for any games.
"I understand completely. So, why don't we just skip the pleasantries and get straight to the point?" He suggested.
Barbara was sitting at the Delphi system, and offered a seat to Reese. He declined, and Barbara shrugged. "I told you that Phoenix Inc. has a lot to do with this. They take people, and they experiment on them Reese, trying to create the perfect soldier." Reese looked taken aback, but Barbara forged on. "Chances are that they're doing the same thing to Anderson right now."
"What? But they can't?"
"They can. They can do anything they want because they can either keep things secret, or pay off whoever needs to be. These are powerful people Reese, and right now they're tormenting Helena and Dinah."
"What do you mean?"
Barbara pulled up a few screens on the computer. "Right here, it says that two tanks were flown out, and here, it says that tanks is what they keep these people in. Do you see the connection?" Reese nodded. "This right here, is the cargo plane's flight plan, which means that this is where Helena and Dinah are."
"Well what are we waiting for then? Let's go and get them." Reese was both elated and annoyed. Elated because his love was now found, and annoyed because Barbara had yet to do anything about it.
"Slow down, it's not that simple. Here's the mission plan. It's wordy, but what it basically says, is that this is a capture mission. Their plan was to bring the girls here all along, which means. . ." She trailed off waiting for him to figure it out.
"That we don't have to go to them. They'll be coming here." He caught on after a moment.
"Right. It says that no serious harm is to be caused, but this is still a field test. Who knows how well those things will listen?"
"Don't you mean people?" Reese asked, a little anger showing in his voice.
"No I don't. As much as I hate to say it, they're no longer people Reese; you can't expect them to be after something like this. A complete wipe of memories, and then extra enhancements, that's not human Reese." She really was sympathetic, but the important thing now was stopping it from ever happening again.
"What else do you know?" He sighed, giving into Barbara.
"I think that they're planning to do this same thing to Dinah and Helena when they're brought in." Barbara speculated.
"Helena." Reese whispered forlornly, never noticing the slight glare that Barbara sent him.
"I won't let that happen to either of them." Specific emphasis was put on the word either. "I'm going to keep monitoring the systems and see when it is that the girls are brought in, an alarm will go off as soon as word comes in."
"That could be any time though, and what if these things don't work like these people want them to, and Helena gets away?"
"Then I'll find out and we can go and rescue them, but, I have a bad feeling that that won't happen. So, we need a plan to get inside Phoenix Inc."
"And I suppose you have one?" He sat on the desk and crossed his arms.
"I have the start of one. I can set some security cameras on loops so that it will be like we were never there. There are cards that I can imprint security codes onto, and I can make us employees without them knowing. That would be our way in, from there I don't have much else planed. We'd have to get Helena and Dinah out of the tanks that they will undoubtedly be in. From there we would all have to sneak out, and who knows what kind of damage will have been caused?" Barbara was looking tired, but determined, and Reese had to respect her for that.
"That sounds pretty good, and we'll figure everything out. I have no doubts there. Helena will be fine. . . and Dinah." Her name was added only as an after thought and nothing more.
"Right." Barbara looked at him oddly, he was kind of creeping her out with his tone. "For now at least, you can stay here if you want. I just figured that it'd be easier."
"Sounds good. Do you have a room for me?" He asked. "Please let it be Helena's." Was his silent prayer.
"How do you feel about the couch?" She asked looking over her work.
"For how long?" He countered.
"I suppose a crick in your neck wouldn't help too much." Barbara conceded. She thought about giving him Helena's room, but the creepy vibe she got from him earlier made her reject that idea, and she didn't know how Dinah would feel about Reese in her room. "You can take my room. It's the last door."
"Won't you be needing that?" He was actually almost pleading.
"No, if I need somewhere I'll take the couch or Helena's room." She answered.
"I could take her room." Came the offer that Barbara had been expecting.
"I don't think she'd appreciate it too much, so you'll have to deal with mine." If it weren't so pathetic, Barbara would've laughed at the 'kicked puppy' expression he was poorly trying to hide.
Note: Okay, it's still not what I planed. In fact, there were about four other segments that I wanted to get through, but once again, I feel bad about leaving you guys for so long. The truth is, that I was having a shitty ass week, and writing wasn't something I wanted to deal with. Anywho, hope you enjoyed the action that I finally got to savagelove. Till next time, and I swear that it'll be out a hell of a lot sooner than this. Also, I'll hopefully have the rest of the stuff that I wanted to get up last chapter done.