Chapter 12
Thanks for all the great reviews. MSR ahead. Before we continue I'll give you the key to the telepathic communication coming up too.
italics- Scully
-italics- -Mulder
:italics:- Sapphire
'Thought'- Ana
ITALICS Reika or Eva
Without further delay, here's our story.
Sapphire and Leki clutched each other, staring at the ruins. There was only a part of the structure still standing in the center of the crater left behind by the blast. Darkness began to fall over them and the woods surrounding them. Tears streamed down Sapphire's face, both Dana and Emily were ... gone. A black helicopter flew over the ruins.
"You bastards! Come back here! Cowards, you killed them! You killed them!" Sapphire began to run after the helicopter, towards the crater.
"Sapphire!" Leki ran after her, Sapphire was looking up at the helicopter, not looking at the ground unlike she. Two figures were emerging from the area of the compound that was still standing. "Sapphire!"
Sapphire whirled around. "What!"
"Look behind you!"
"But..." The helicopter was disappearing over the tree tops and so was her chance for revenge.
"Just look!"
For the first time in her life Sapphire finally listened someone, and didn't act boldly. She whirled around and stared at the crater. "I don't see anything."
Leki came up behind her. "I saw to figures down there."
"Leki, if you mean Dana and Emily are still alive we may have to have your head examined because I think your time below has gotten to you."
"Just watch. I'm sure of what I saw."
So they watched, and waited. They stood there for about a half-an-hour, finally the two figures made it up from the bottom of the crater.
"We made it mommy!" the smallest one squealed.
"Yes we did Emmy, yes we did."
Sapphire recognized the second voice. "Dana!" She ran up and threw herself at her friend. "Don't you ever do that to me again dammit!"
"I'll try."
Leki asked softly. "Are the two of you all right?"
"We're fine, a little bruised and I have a few cuts but we're fine." Dana pulled Emily closer to her as Sapphire finally let her go.
"What now?" asked Sapphire looking from Dana to Leki.
"We go find Samantha that's what. And end this madness."
Syndicate Compound
Mulder leaned up against his wall, he hadn't eaten in 12 hours, but he didn't care. Scully was gone, and she would never know how much she meant to him. Mulder felt the tears threaten to fall, it was all he had the energy left to do. He had spent to first six hours since Krycek had thrown him in the cell, yelling himself hoarse at the guards outside who just laughed at Scully's death.
The cell door opened and Ana entered. "Mulder it's time to go."
"What's the point?" He turned away from her.
"What's the point? Don't you want to see Dana again?"
Mulder jumped up and pulled out his gun, aiming at her. "Are you people trying to rub this in my face! Scully is dead. Scully is ..."
Ana calmly looked down the gun barrel. "Samantha must be slipping." She equally calm to the grieving man. "What are you talking about? Dana is alive. I've spoken to Sapphire who confirms it."
Mulder just gaped at her. His mouth moved up and down, the words wouldn't come. "Come on." She pulled him out of the cell, and past the unconscious guards.
Unknown forest near ruined compound
Sapphire lead the way through the forest followed by Dana who was giving Emily a piggy-back ride. Leki brought up the rear, both Sapphire and she were holding futuristic looking guns. The two women looked all around them, determined to get Dana and Emily safely to Mulder.
"If we're going to bring Them down, we're going to need help." said Sapphire.
The other two nodded. "Look ahead of us." whispered Dana, easing Emily down and taking out her knife. "Who's there?" Shouted Leki.
"Reika and Eva."
Sapphire and Dana slightly dropped their guards. "How do we know you're you?"
"Come on D, who else would know about "Red Devil"!" an exasperated voice said.
"Well come on out then." Demanded Sapphire.
Two identical women walked out from a clump of trees. Both were tall and had long, dark brown hair and light brown eyes. "I see you were expecting trouble." said Reika glancing at the weapons.
"How did you get here?" asked Sapphire.
"We heard what was going on through the grapevine, so we took the bikes and brought them to Hawks Nest." Said Eva, handing Dana and Sapphire some keys.
"We can't take those old things, I have Emily."
Reika waved it off. "We took it to someone who actually knows what he's doing and he fixed them up to code, and made yours to fit Emily."
"Let me guess the grapevine?" asked Sapphire.
"Yup."
"Well it's a good thing I told Ana and Mulder to meet us in Hawks Nest."
Emily was walking behind Leki, Sapphire, and Eva with Reika. Eva calculated that they could make Hawks Nest and the motel by at least nightfall with a quick stop at the town's only gas station for the bikes.
"How did you all meet?" asked Leki.
"We were put in the same group when they "upgraded" us and trained us for their army." said Dana, glancing around them.
"And when you go through that hell, you have friends for life." said Eva bitterly.
"At least when you went through it you had each other. When this area of the project began we were separated, it was only until They thought we were submissive and believed all the lies were we allowed out of our cells and able to see each other."
"They did that to me once." commented Dana softly causing the other three to look at her in alarm. She glanced backwards to make sure Emily and Reika were preoccupied before continuing. "It's Their way of breaking insubordinate "children". They didn't like it that I was being good and not helping Mulder."
"So we're their "children". How cute." said Eva. "They sure don't treat us like we're their kids."
'Mulder will you please stay clam?'
-I'm trying but she's right in front of us!-
"What in the world was that?" demanded Reika from behind them.
"Ana and Mulder." said Sapphire.
"Where are they?" asked Leki.
"I couldn't tell." said Dana, trying to keep the panic out of her voice.
Near Hawk's Nest, West Virginia
Ana and Mulder were staring out the front windshield. In front of them stood Samantha in the middle of the road.
"Tsk, tsk. What do we have here?"