Brennan was turned away from the door, forced to face a corner of this new hellhole that they had taken him to. An ugly sleet gray cinder block walled room with a concrete floor and cold metal chairs. He knew it was a lab by smell and by the equipment that littered the other walls. To his left he could feel the agents, watching him, to his right he could feel Eckhart sneering at him, but he never gave them the satisfaction of a glance or squirm. They were trying to make him uncomfortable, well they were doing a damn fine job, but he'd never let them know.
A few minuets passed before he heard a knock on the door. "Ahh…. they're finally here," Eckhart said, and one of the agents moved to open the door. Brennan heard something being wheeled in, a gurney his gut told him, then someone gasped….
"Brennan?" That one word, his own name, made him flinch. It sounded so hushed, weak and forced, like the speaker was using up all his strength to say that one thing. Brennan doubted anything had ever made him more afraid then that one word.
"Jess, that you?" he breathed out.
"Mos…" Jesse broke off as he started to cough; it was a few moments before he could regain his breath, "Mostly…."
"Now that we're all reacquainted," Eckhart's voice broke in before the teammates could say anything else, "why don't we get started. Dr. Harrison, if you will please?"
"Hey, what's going on? What are you doing?" Brennan shouted as he tried to look behind him.
"Don't tell them anything…" Jesse's sentence was cut off by his own scream. In Brennan's mind he saw his best friend floating next to him in a lake, and himself losing control of his own powers.
Emma explained her plan very carefully. Jessica had said she had, for as long as she could remember, had always had her powers. It was a fact that the governors kept new mutants from using their powers. However, new mutants were created, someone played with their DNA in order to make them. If Jessica had been using her powers since she was a baby, then there was a strong chance that she wasn't a new mutant at all, just natural gifted. And if that were the case, then maybe the governors didn't work on her.
It took Emma a full ten minuets to explain this to the skeptics that surrounded her. She had finally won them over by throwing her hands up in the air and saying, "Well if anyone else has any bright ideas then I'm all ears!"
So there they were, testing out Emma's theory, trying to get Jessica to move Emma's bracelet towards her.
"Ugh! It's no use! I just can't do it?"" Jessica said, slouching against the wall.
The was a moment's silence, and Shalimar and Witson both sank to the floor with looks of despair, Jessica and Emma's theory had been their last hope. Emma however just sat in deep thought, then fixed her inquisitive gaze on Jessica and asked her "why not?"
"What?" Jessica asked, looking at Emma as if she had suddenly grown a horn.
"Why can't you do it? What's so hard?" Emma asked again.
"Gee, I don't know maybe because of this little thing in the back of my neck?" Jessica snapped.
"Or maybe that's what you think is holding you back. Maybe you got it in you head that because we can't use our powers you can't as well. Maybe you should just give it a try, not thinking about what we can't do, but what you can," Emma said, with the calmness of a Buddhist priest.
Jessica took a second to think about what Emma said and determined that it made sense. So she squared her shoulders, cleared her mind, and focused on the bracelet. It moved like at bat out of hell straight for her.
Adam looked around the Helix one last time, making sure he had everything and thanking god once again for Jesse. The man had thought of everything, there were weapons for those of the group who didn't have powers, i.e., Adam, there was a PDA that was of Jesse's own design, able to hack into any system in a matter of four minuets, and there were also a small collection of smoke grenades and sleeping gas bombs.
"My own little armory. Thanks Jess. Well, here goes nothing…" with that, Adam stepped outside of the Helix and headed for the base.
It's short, i know. Barely two pages, but i kind of just broke my hand, so um...may i go to the doctors? besides, now the real fun starts.