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Chapter 9-Ambush!

Scully slowly sat up. Spooky sat next to her wagging his tail with a goofy grin on his face. "Have a nice nap. Well actually you were only out for about 2 minutes but I think you hit yourhead pretty hard." Mulder couldn't help but smile wider. This was so oddly amusing. Scully's eyes widened.

"Oh my God. Is that really you Mulder?" Scully still couldn't grasp what was happening. (A.N-Cant really blame her.)

"No Scully I'm Elvis reincarnated." Mulder retorted. For the first time this week Scully smiled her own genuine smile.

"Now that would be an interesting X-File."

"Let's figure out this one first." Mulder reminded her. Scully's face fell as she remembered their current problem. Scully gave him an awkward hug.

"How is this possible?" Scully wondered

"You're the scientist Scully. I was hoping you would have a logic explanation for me."

"This is not what they taught me at Quantico. Or anywhere else for that matter." She sighed as she realized how depressing this was becoming. What if Mulder was stuck like this forever? She would still love him. Wait! Did I just think that? Scully thought. Guess I can't deny that any longer. "Mulder…" Scully didn't know what to say. Now she was facing a torrent of confused emotions. Absently she began to scratch behind his ear.

"Scully do you know how good that feels?" Mulder tail began to wag even faster. She smirked. They sat there in a short silence enjoying each others company. Their attention was diverted when Byers groaned and shakily stood up. He glanced at Mulder and then back at Scully. A look of recognition crossed his face as he remembered what had just happened.

"So much for this being a really weird dream." He mumbled. Scully gave him a look of understanding. Byers smirked when he saw the other three men on the floor. "I guess we should wake them up." He suggested. Scully nodded in agreement and they set out to their task.Some time later after long explanations, disbelieving statements, and about 20 cups of water to keep Frohike awake from both sleep deprivation and passing out they all came to the same question, what do we do now?

"I can't believe the collar actually worked." Marveled Skinner.

"Neither can I." Scully agreed.

"Me too or I would be a screwed deep fried dog." Mulder complained.

"Where do you guys come up with this stuff?" Skinner turned his head towards Frohike. Frohike shrugged.

"Actually I was just really bored when I came up with it."

"Figures." Scully rolled her eyes. "But back to business. What do we do next?"

"I think we should look into this Manson guy and see if we can find anything about him." Langly suggested. "Maybe even find something about these Alpha labs."

"I seriously doubt he would have some website posted about his conspiracy experiments Langly." Skinner snapped.

"Somebody's grouchy." Langly mumbled.

"I heard that." Skinner glared at him. Byers stepped in to prevent a fight.

"What would help if we had blueprints of the building or something. That way we could go in there and see if there is anything to reverse Mulders, uh, 'condition." He suggested. Frohike shook his head in agreement.

"But we don't have any. And not to be pessimistic but there might not be anything to get him back to normal. We might just endanger ourselves." Skinner pointed out. Everyone knew he had a point.

"Ok. How about we start with finding more about Manson like Langly suggested." Mulder said.

"And in the mean time keep Mulder somewhere safe." Scully added. "Its obvious Manson wants him back."

"I agree with Scully." Skinner said. "I shouldn't be that hard to hide a dog."

"You're not gonna put me in a kennel or anything right? Its bad enough Scully makes wear a leash." Frohike snickered.

"I would say she had one on him before he became a dog." He whispered to Byers.

"Hey!" Mulder protested. Scully smirked.While that had been going on nobody noticed the black van that had pulled up or the dark figures darting around the buildings perimeter on the security cameras screen. Then without warning a rain of bullets smashed through the window."I thought you guys had bullet proof windows!" Mulder shouted.

"No, Frohike never got around doing it!" Byers shouted back.

"Oh sure blame me why don't you!"

"Shut up and get down!" Skinner barked. Meanwhile someone had started to try toram down the door while smoke bombs followed the bullets.

"Damn it we need to get out of cough here!" Mulder yelled.

"Please tell me there is a back door." Skinner searched for the trio.

"Oh yea, cough come on." Langly still stooped low searched for the others."Where are you guys?" He shouted. A deafening slam told them the door had been successfully knocked down. Chaossoon followed. Unidentifiable men wearing gas masks marched through the door and released another gas bomb. In a matter of seconds Scully felt drowsy.

"Mulder?" She slurred slightly. I can't let them take Mulder again she thought. Scully stumbled through the smoke. "Mulder!" Everything was becoming hazy. Scully lost her balance and fell. One of the masked men caught her, slung her over his shoulders like a sack of potatoes, and rushed out with the others. When the Gunmen, Skinner, and Mulder awoke several hours later they discovered Scully was gone.

A.N- sigh I know, I know its taking me way too long to update. I'm sorry ok! Busy schedule. Pathetic excuse I know but it's the truth! Sorry this is short. But hey maybe I'll have chapter 10 up by my Christmas vacation! Heh, heh. Thanks for everyone who is bearing with me.  Reviews! Please…

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