"This is it." Brennan confirmed as they ran into a warehouse with huge lettering spelling out "Gas Manufacturer Inc".
Shalimar kicked open the double doors and ran through the hall until they reached a fork in the road, so to speak.
"You go right and I'll go left." Brennan instructed. Running down their separate corridors, neither found any sign of Lexa and Jesse.
"Nothing down here." Shalimar reported through her comlink.
"Me…" Brennan paused when he thought he saw a glimmer of sunlight bounce off someone's hair. "Shal, get over here." He whispered.
"On my way." Shalimar replied.
Brennan snuck around the figure quietly, it hadn't seemed that he had been seen yet. Getting closer, the figure became clearer. It was definitely Mitch; the picture in his file identified him.
Ok, he's a temporal molecular, what's the best way to handle this? Brennan said to himself, studying it from a safe distance.
"What are you doing here?" A voice behind him said. Turning around quickly, he saw no one. "You shouldn't be here." Someone said beside him. Damn! Brennan thought.
"Mitch, I only wanna talk." Brennan said.
"Do you want to play with me?" Mitch smiled. Brennan was surrounded by one man and couldn't even see him.
"Really don't." Brennan murmured. "Where are Lexa and Jesse?"
"My friends are sleeping." Mitch appeared directly in front of him. Before he could let Mitch stop time again, Brennan charged up his strength and threw a bolt of electricity at Mitch, knocking him to the ground.
Shalimar came running in after hearing Brennan and Mitch's little spat. Looking at Mitch on the floor, she winced at his grotesque features. "How could Lex and Jess even think I'd date someone like that?"
"Cos you told them you did." Brennan replied.
"Yeah, well. Come on, we need to find –"
Tuning into her feral senses, she could hear Jesse coughing fiercely from the room inside the metal door directly in front of them. "They're in there."
Shalimar tried to kick the door open, but it wouldn't budge." "Check to see if Mitch has the key."
Checking his front and inside pockets, Brennan found the key. "Got it."
Opening the door, they immediately inhaled a gas that made them feel drowsy and their lungs feel heavy. Covering her mouth and nose with her shirt, Shalimar could see Lexa unconscious and Jesse almost asleep.
"You get Jess, I'll get Lexa." Brennan directed. Running inside, they grabbed Jesse and Lexa and made their way out of the building, leaving an unconscious Mitch lying on the floor.
When they reached the outside of the building, Shalimar and Brennan breathed in as much fresh air as humanly possible.
"Lex and Jess should wake up as soon as the fresh air knocks out the gas." Brennan said. Waiting a few minutes, Lexa opened her eyes only to be blinded by the sun.
"Lex?" It was Shalimar. Sitting up, Lexa spent a few seconds trying to get the remainder of the gas out of her breathing system. Jesse, awakening to the sound of Lexa's coughing, sat up only to lie back down again. "We feel like hell." Jesse said, taking a look at Lexa and seeing her face as tired as his.
"And we are so, so sorry about that." Shalimar apologised to both of them.
"When I feel better I'm gonna kill you." Lexa threatened.
"Get in line." Jesse added.
"And we totally deserve it." Brennan agreed.
"Yeah you do." Jesse coughed. His lip was beginning to swell up and he was pretty sure his face was very bruised.
"Maybe we should go back to Sanctuary, clean you guys up and talk about it there." Shalimar suggested.
"What about Mitch?" Lexa asked.
"He's unconscious and will be for a while with all the gas in there." Brennan replied. "I'll come back later and deal with him."
"Ok. Come on, the Helix is double parked." Shalimar smiled. Helping Lexa and Jesse up, they made their way back to Sanctuary.