Brennan took a deep breath and steeled his body. Despite the fatigue and pain pulsing through his body he was not about to give up.
"Where's Jesse?" he asked icily, eyes meeting Eckhart's.
"Dr. Harrison had to take him, said he need medical attention…." Eckhart hissed, a devilish smile creeping across his lips, and for an instant Brennan flinched.
"I could take you all out in five seconds flat, I'm charged to the max," Brennan said, gesturing to the still form of the former Hulk lying a few feet away.
"Yes, but your friends would also be dead. They each have a governor Mr. Mulwray, and you don't know which one of us has the controller," Eckhart stated matter-of-factly.
Brennan glanced at Shal and Em, both girls were fuming, he could almost see the steam rising. Shal's eyes were daring him, pushing him, saying they'd be fine, get Jesse, kill them all. Emma's, though a little less sure, were also saying get Jesse, kick their asses. But Brennan, loner as he was, had become to attached to Mutant X to even consider a plan that might get anyone of them killed.
Besides, there was always a chance he overestimated his power, his strength that he couldn't take everyone out. If that they killed Shalimar, Emma, and him, who would get to Jesse? What would happen to Jess? No, couldn't think of that, better to buy time and wait it out. Adam was still out there, they were all still a live…now if only it didn't feel like giving up.
"I'm sorry guys…" Brennan said to the girls, his thumb tracing the silver band on his right ring finger.
Eckhart gave a smirk of victory as he motioned four agents to take Brennan, "Wise choice Mr. Mulwray, very wise indeed."
"No Brennan, damn it no…" Shal hissed, her body slumping. Emma too felt her last rays of hope fleeing as she watched the agents place a governor in Brennan's neck.
"Well this is a wonderful day, not only did I catch one member of Mutant X, but now I have four. And I will be willing to bet that before the week is out I will have all five members, and the mutant underground," Eckhart gloated.
"Keep dreaming," Brennan hissed as a guard grabbed his wounded shoulder. He had forgotten about the gunshot wound while fighting Mr. Hulk, but now that his adrenalin was depleting, pain was the understatement of the year.
Eckhart's gloating faltered, and he glared at Brennan, "I think that Mr. Mulwray has I lot to say, why don't you take him to our interview room. Take the others to holding cells, I'll figure out what to do with them latter."
Jesse wasn't holding it together very well. It wasn't that he was about to break or anything like that, though no one could blame him if he did. He wasn't about to lose his sanity, or tell Harrison where Sanctuary was or anything like that, he was just tired of fighting. He was just tired of staying awake.
He'd watched helplessly as Eckhart and his against had taken Shalimar and Emma hostage, and cursed himself for being the reason that they were taken so easily. Self-hatred right now was the only thing he had to go on to keep himself going. The longer he thought he need to be punished, the longer he'd stay alive…even though he was pretty sure he wanted to die.
"Almost there my Freak. Almost time to start playing again…" Laura hummed as she wheeled the pod back towards the lab Jess had just come from.
Jesse shut his eyes, trying to shut the world out. The next thing he knew he was tied down to the operating table, and was listening to Harrison and Laura fighting.
"I never told you to sew him back up, I had every intention of going through with the test," Harrison snapped.
"But I heard you, you paged me and said that you wanted him sewed up!" Laura exclaimed.
"I never paged you," Harrison said thoughtfully, "It must have been Witson, he must have gotten into your head," Harrison sighed and looked over at Jesse. "Guess we'll just have to open him up again."
So yeah, i'm sorry, really really sorry, about the wait. I just got lazy. And i'm really, really sorry about how short it is, but the next chap will so be worth it.
By the way, brennan-freak, it wasn't cookies, it was brownies.