Sorry about the wait, i was kind of trying to figure out what i wanted to do. i didn't think that i had hurt Jesse enough, or Brennan for that matter, so well i had to think up away to hurt them some more. Anyway, i hope you like it.
Emma and Shal raced down the hall, nearly crashing into Witson and Jessica. The two wasted no time in surveying and taking control of the situation.
"Where's Jesse?" Shal asked as she slowed to a halt next to the two former Genomex employees. She didn't need them to answer, the answer was right in front of her, and it made her sick. "Oh my god, tell me he's not in there…" Shal hissed as she walked over to get a look inside the pod. Her stomach knotted, her body froze, and she felt tears starting to fall when she got her first look at Jesse.
He was still, eyes closed, his breath falling in painful, shallow patterns. There were bruises covering most of his torso and face, cuts and blood stained skin that was ten shades paler then it should be. "Oh god, what they do to you?" she whispered, putting her hand on top of the glass case separating Jesse from the rest of the world. To her surprise Jesse opened his eyes, at first he seemed a little disorientated, but when he saw Shalimar he gave her a smile and placed a trembling hand under her's. Shalimar gave him the best smile she could, fighting every instinct to tare open the cursed pod and pull her little brother into her arms.
"Why is he in here?" she hissed, fighting for control.
"It was the only way. We were a fried that we'd hurt him farther if Brennan carried him," Jessica said, in a soothing voice. She had worked with many feral and knew how protective their instincts were for one of their own. She knew the best thing was to try and calm her down. Emma knew this too.
"He's alright Shal. He's not scared; he understands that this is for the best. It was partly his idea. It's alright Shal," Emma said, putting her hand on Shalimar's shoulder.
Shalimar seem not to notice, she was to focused on Jesse. Ever since they first met there seemed to be a connection between them. Even that first night, when she first pulled him from a pod, she could read his eyes. Right now they were telling her that he was ok, he could be better, but he would deal with it. 'Same old Jesse. Do what's best and easiest for everyone but himself.'
"Alright, we need to move. Genomex is probably already aware of our little raid, and Adam is waiting. We can't go out the way we came, and we have to get Jesse out of here fast. Any ideas?" Shal asked looking at Jessica and Witson.
"If we go back to the next hallway there's another way out, a fire exit. It leads out to the back filed," Witson said.
"Good, that'll work. We'll be out of here in no time…" Shalimar started telling Jess, but she was interrupted by an unwelcome complication.
Brennan had no idea what he was going to do. Every thing he through at Mr. Hulk seemed only to piss him off, which didn't help. So far he had been thrown into four walls, slammed into the floor, and hit with a lead pipe in the gut more times then he'd care to remember. He was starting to lose focused, pain clouding his mind, and he could taste blood in his mouth. None of this did anything to help his confidence.
'Ok Bren, Jesse's in worse shape then you. He's dying lying back there, and even with the girls they're still going to need you to beat this guy. You can't lose, but how the hell do you take something four times your size down!' The answer, a higher voltage.
Brennan, dodging the swinging arm of Mr. Hulk for the umpteenth time, rolled to his right, and jumped to his feet. Brennan had been throwing his all at the Hulk, but it wasn't good enough. He didn't have enough juice in him to drop the guy. However, there was a nicely placed voltage box about ten feet from him. The only downside was that big and nasty was in-between point a and point b.
'Alright man, you know what you need, that little buster shot on the wall over there. But big and ugly's in you way. Got to get past him to drop him. Anit it always how it works?' Brennan's pain slowed mind was working overtime. However, it wasn't failing him, a plan was forming and it would work, provided his aim didn't fail him.
"Good, that'll work. We'll be out of here in no time…" Shalimar said.
"I don't think so Miss. Fox. I do believe that this is my facility and Mr. Kilmartin here is not ready to leave," came the worse sounding voice that any mutant could hear, Mansion Eckhart's.
The four spun around and found Dr. Harrison, Laura Brooks, Mansion Eckhart, and about twelve other GSA agents all blocking their exit path.
"Now if you should all be so kind, please surrender and come with us," Eckhart said.
Shalimar's eyes flashed gold, and Emma and Witson prepared themselves for a psyonic power play.
"And if we decided to fight?" Shalimar jeered, knowing she could easily, and with great joy, take them all down.
Laura though gave her a smirk and pulled a remote control from he pocket. It took only a second for her to turn a switch and send Jesse into a whole new world of pain. It took only one scream from him for Shal to lose all fighting instinct and the others to follow suite. Eckhart new these, and couldn't help but gloat.
"It is a marvelous device Harrison, it just might replace Governors. Why don't you tell me how it works again?" he said, now circling the pod as he watched Jesse weather in agony.
"The band around his neck is in direct connection with his brain stem. With a flip of a switch I can send a charge through out his whole nerve system, as well as take control of his mutation," Harrison boosted.
Shalimar let out a growl from deep inside her throat, and Emma made no attempt to hide her feelings. Both women were horrified and pissed, they would like nothing more then to kill everyone blocking their path, but Jesse had stopped screaming, and was now starting to convulse.
"Stop hurting him, we give up Eckhart," Shalimar growled. Eckhart smirked in triumph and told Laura to stop.
"Now then," Eckhart said, gloating, "shale we retrieve the element?"
Brennan took a deep breath, formed a charge and sent it flying right at Mr. Hulk's eyes. His aim was dead on, and the flash momentarily blinded Mr. Hulk, he stomped around, waving his arms and screaming in pain. It was exactly what Brennan was hopping for.
He moved quickly, dodging the angry mutant, and heading straight for the power box. He made it, just as Mr. Hulk started to calm down and tore off the covering. Grapping hold of whatever wires he could, Brennan let lose with an endless stream of lightning.
Mr. Hulk didn't stand a chance. He was picked off the floor and thrown against the far wall. His body shock and slowly started to return to normal. Brennan cut the flow of electricity and the man slumped to the floor.
Brennan, too, fell to the floor, panting heavily and clutching his ribs. "Never…want…to…do…that…again…."
"Very well done Mr. Mulwray, Vincent Cambol is one of my best agents. It's a wonder you took him down so quickly and are still in one piece."
Brennan felt a sickening chill run down his spine as he heard Mansion Eckhart behind him. Brennan pulled himself up and spun around to face him, twenty agents and Shal, Em, Witson, and Jessica.
"Don't try Mr. Mulwray, as you see your friends have been captured and Mr. Kilmartin has been returned to the capable hands of Dr. Harrison and Ms. Brooks. Please, don't make things difficult," Eckhart said.
Brennan looked Shalimar in the eyes and hated what he saw. There was a mixture of furry, fear, and hopelessness. Eckhart wasn't lying. Things were not looking well for Mutant X.