Disclaimer: I do not own Mutant X, why? Cause life isn't always fair….
This chapter will shake things up again, and get me kill by one friend, or two. It depends, lol.
Gelf: I am trying my hardest to play Lulu as the Rabbit Feral that she is. I have something planned, big for her, trust me. It gets set up here, and finished through out the rest of the story. Hope I can do a half way decent job of it. If not, please know I tried.
Mel, thanks for the help with editing, needed it, lol
Mari: get your butt on IM sometime this week will you? Lol
Miss you like crazy!
Rosalie, Josh, and Dasi: Same for you, but it seems that I am the one who needs to log on more. Sorry it is so hard to catch me, I will have more time soon, and after this week, I will be on IM a little more than usual.
Chapter 27: Troubles and Danger
Jesse walked into the living room and saw Lexa, Max and Shal talking. They all looked around when he came in.
"Hey Jesse," said Shal.
"Hey, what's up?"
"We're trying to figure out where Lulu went with our Helix," said Lexa.
"She'll come back."
"Yeah, but we need to find her before she gets herself killed," said Max.
"Ok, what do you guys know for sure?"
"That she sold L&S Truffles," answered Shal.
"Wow, never thought she would do that."
"Well apparently she ate all the truffles, before selling it," added Max.
"All of them? Well then she must be sick as a dog."
"You're right, I'll check emergency room's then," said Shal.
"Your wasting your time," said Emma as she came into the room.
"Why?"
"Cause she isn't in one, she just called me, she said she was on the trail of the person who killed Shelly."
"Did you tell her she was wrong?" asked Jesse.
"Yeah, and she said she's not."
"Who is she after? Did she tell you?" asked Max.
"Yeah, and she ask me not to say anything, cause she's afraid of the person setting a trap for her."
"But the killer is here!" said Jesse. "I know cause he or she attacked me."
"And I know that, so does Lulu, but she also knows that whoever it is, is working with someone on the outside, cause someone is sending Shal emails, and it isn't coming from inside Haven.
"So what is Lulu doing?" asked Lexa.
"I don't know, she said she could track the signal of the mail sent to Shal, and was on her way to bring the person a while lot of hurt."
"Hope she does, without getting hurt herself," said Mike.
"We feral's can be very careful," said Max.
"And when were angry, the person were angry with, better watch out," said Shal.
Lulu landed the Helix on top of the apartment building and cloaked the Helix. Lowering the hanger door, she walked out. She had loaded the information into her GPS tracker, and was following the signal. She walked through the rooftop door, and walked down the hall.
She was so angry; she was even surprising herself. After Shelly was killed, she flew the Helix to where they grew their truffles, and ate until there was none left. Without Shelly, there to stop her, she had eaten until she was so sick, she just lay on the ground for hours, hoping she had done enough damage to herself that she could die.
Her and Shelly had been best friends for so long, they felt more like twins. She and Shelly were so close that people always jumped to the wrong conclusion about them. It was assumed that they were lesbian, but they weren't, furthermore, they liked men.
She walked toward the elevator, but as she passed one door, the
GPS tracker started peeping. She had found the person responsible for killing her best friend and it would lead her to the person who actually did it.
She knocked on the door, and tried to figure out what to say, but it all went out the window when the door opened…
"Yes?"
Before her stood, someone she had only seen in pictures, and it shocked her, cause he was supposed to be dead. "Hi, my name is Lulu, and I have a delivery for you."
"I wasn't expecting anything, are you sure it's for me?"
"Depends on you name honey," she said smiling as nicely as she could muster.
" Greg Marlin."
"Oh sorry, this package is for a Gerald Alejandro," she said as the smile was erased from both of their faces. She saw flickers of fear come across his face, and it set her off. She imagined Shelly with the same look, right before she was murdered.
Lulu kicked out with her legs and threw Gerald against the wall. He hit so hard that the sheet rock behind gave away. He fell to the floor, and held up his hands to stop her, and to her surprise, she was lifted off the ground.
"Put me down!"
"Not till you tell me who sent you?"
"Who do you think? Mutant X!"
"Oh in that case," he said dropping her.
She landed on the floor with a loud thump, she angrily got to her feet, "Why did you let me go?"
"Cause my fight isn't with you."
"Well it is now, you've been ending emails to Shal, and you got my best friend killed!"
"I am sorry about your friend, but I had nothing to do with that. And yeah I just sent Shal and email, who are you?"
"Lulu."
"Look, I just sent Shal an email, but she won't get till after…."
"After what?"
"After I'm dead."
"What?"
"Dominion knows who I am now, they're going to kill me."
"So you telling me that they don't know you're alive?"
"Well until now, yeah."
"Does Dasi?"
"I don't know, I think so."
"Why have you been emailing Shal?"
"I haven't, until now, this was my first one. I am sending her a video of where Brennan and Mari are."
"Then why does the signal form this email match the rest of the emails."
"Don't know, this is my roommates computer."
"Who's your roommate."
"Some weird guy, name is Ashley."
"Ok, let's get you out of here."
"Where are we going?"
"Haven."
"You're taking a big risk taking me there."
"Why?"
"Cause, you don't know if you can trust me."
"Can I?"
"Yeah."
"If not, I'll kill you. However, I just lost someone I love; I won't kill Dasi's twin brother. But I better not find out you lied to me, or I will kill you." The truth was she didn't trust him at all, but she needed him to find the traitor.
"Deal, but before I let you take me home, there's something we need to do."
"What's that?"
"Come with me, I'll show you."
"Ok."
Later that night…
Melodie walked out of the dojo and headed for her room, she rounded the corner. She saw someone headed toward her, and looked up to see Dasi pass her going toward the kitchen.
She hadn't said a word to Dasi sense the other night. She knew Dasi attacked her, she just couldn't prove it. It hurt that Jesse believed Dasi over her, though she was used to Jesse believing others over her. 'Don't even know why I bother. I want so much to tell him my secret. But every time I do, I get kicked in the head with reality.'
She was so busy thinking that she didn't sense someone behind her. All of a sudden, she was hit from behind, and she fell to the floor unconscious.
The next morning…
Shal, Emma and Mike were sitting in the living room talking when Max and Lexa ran in the room, "What's going on?" asked Shal.
"We have a major breakthrough in finding Brennan and Mari," said Max.
"Are you serious? You mean you found what Jesse was looking at the night he was attacked?" asked Shal.
"No, better!"
"Spit it out!" said Emma anxiously.
"Ok, you know how when I came back from the warehouse after the first mission, after me Lulu and Shelly tried to get a scent of them, I brought back these," he said holding out his hand and revealing two com-rings.
"Yeah Brennan and Mari's com-rings."
"Well, that's we thought, until we took a closer look," said Lexa. "Sorry Shal, we made a huge mistake."
"Mistake?"
"These aren't current Mutant X com-rings."
Shal took them from Max and started turning them around, and then she saw it, a small lighting bolt insignia. "Are these from when you were a member of Mutant X-1?"
"No, apparently Adam had one before us as well," she said angrily. "But their records should be around here in the Mutant X database. We just have t o find out they belong to, and better news, we can track Brennan and Mari using their com-rings."
"Great, let's do it."
Melodie woke up and begin to look around. She saw boxes everywhere, and tried to get up. She realized she was tied to something, and looked down to see a straight-back chair.
She heard footsteps behind, and turned to see Dasi coming toward her, "Dasi?"
"Yeah, it's me."
"What's going on?"
"What do you think?"
"Why are doing this to me?"
"Cause, if your dead, I won't have to worry about you anymore."
"Is this about Jesse?"
"Duh!"
"I don't want him back!"
"Sure you do, why wouldn't you, he's great."
"Dasi, I had my chance with him, and it didn't work out. I have other things in my life, I don't have time for stupid games!"
"Oh this is no game," said Dasi, as she walked over to the wall behind Melodie.
Melodie heard peeping and turned just enough to see what Dasi was doing. "Dasi, is that a bomb!"
"Yeah."
"Dasi, please don't do this."
"Give me one good reason."
Melodie searched her brain, and the only reason she had, would for sure get her killed, unless she only told half the truth, "I have a son!"
Dasi turned from what she was doing, to look at Mel in shock.
"You haven't mentioned a kid, I can't believe you, how do I know your telling me the truth?"
"His name is Alex, please his birthday is in a few days, please don't kill me. Don't do that to me, to him!"
"There is something your not telling me, I feel it, you're lying!"
"No I'm not!"
"It will go off in 1 hour, goodbye Mel, and good riddance!"
Lulu walked toward the Helix, and turned around to ask Gerald where they were going, only to find that he wasn't behind her, he was still by the door. "Are you coming?"
"Lulu," he said. Before she knew it, he flicked his hand and threw something out of the corner of her eye. She was struck in the face with something sharp.
With blood running down her face, she turned to race toward where Gerald had been, and in no big surprise, found that he was gone. She couldn't smell him either, which was strange.
She turned to walk toward the Helix, and pushed the GPS button to lower the hanger door, and to her shock, nothing happened…. The Helix was gone!
Jesse walked toward Melodie's room; he had to apologize to her. He had spent the whole night thinking about things.
He knew now, that she hadn't lied. It may not have been Dasi, but someone attacked her. He had to apologize. He knocked on the door.
After a minute of knocking, he pushed the door open. He realized fast that no one had slept in that room. He looked around her room, and wondered where she was. He started to worry that something bad had happened to her, when he remembered a conversation he had yesterday morning in the dojo.
Flash
'I've been working out with the GSA program.'
'Why?'
'Don't want to talk about it.'
'Come on Mel, we talk about everything.'
'All right if you must know, I feel like I am holding the team back.'
Flash
'And with all of us turning on her the way we did, it only makes sense that she's gone! She's left Mutant, she left me!'
He walked out of the room, part of him wanted to scream, cry and yell. He wanted to scream in anger, and cry in pain.
'Why did it take her leaving for me to realize I want her back!'
Jesse walked out of the door, and headed for the computer. He had to find her address; he had to get her back!
He found Adam in front of the computer, "Move!"
"What?" asked Adam as he looked up in shock. He had never heard Jesse take that tone, ever!
"Please move, I need to find Mel, she's left Mutant X!"
"Why?" he asked as he got up and let Jesse have the computer.
"Cause she thinks she isn't helping the team enough, and we all kind of yelled at her about something."
"OK, just close the thing I was working on, save it first though."
"Ok, what it this anyway?"
"A warehouse that I'm trying to convert to another safe house for mutants."
"Oh the one you took Dasi to the other day?"
"I went there the other day to set up the demolition of the warehouse, it wasn't safe enough to live in. But Dasi wasn't there, I didn't have any of you guys with me."
"Oh, I must have misunderstood her."
"Whatever, I'll leave you alone."
"Thanks."
Jesse started to surf through the database and looked up as he saw Emma come running in, "Mel's in danger!"
"What?"
"I saw her, she's tied up to a chair, and there's a bomb."
"Where?"
"Don't know, some kind of warehouse."
It hit Jesse what had happened, obviously the traitor had taken Melodie. He had a good idea where. "Adam!"
"What?" yelled Adam from behind Jesse.
"Where's the warehouse you said was being blown up?"
"Why?"
"Cause Mel is there!"
"Oh no, it's set to go off in 30 minutes, come on I'll drive!"
"I'm coming!" yelled Emma as they all ran out.
OK, so will they find Brennan and Mari? Find out later in the story. Will they get to Melodie in time, or will she die? In addition, who is the traitor? Is it Dasi? On the other hand, is she just going overboard with Mel? All of it will be revealed as my story begins to unfold, and as I begin wrapping things up, though there are at least 10 more chapters after this one.