The New Sanctuary-Chapter 2-"Mutant X, Meet Mutant X"-Part 1
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Mutant X characters created by Avi Arad. I do, however, "own" the characters I created out of my own odd mind (i.e. Kari Schneider, Mac Jameson, Fynn Jackson, and Beka Thompson), and the Santa Cruz Sanctuary.
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---Thirty minutes later.---
Thirty minutes later, the four mutants felt the train begin to slow and found themselves in a wooded area. As they exited the train, which promptly left as soon as the last passenger had gotten off, they noticed by scent and by sound, that they were somewhere near the sea.
"Jesse, where are we?" Lexa asked, startling everyone out of the enchantment the environment had left them in.
"We're near Natural Bridges State Beach. See that cliff over there? That's where we need to go," Jesse said as he started for the cliff he had indicated earlier.
With odd looks to each other, the others followed Jesse to the cliff. "So, why are we going to the cliff?" Shal asked as they neared the rock formation.
Jesse didn't answer, instead he began trailing his hands over the rock, apparently looking for something. And with a triumphant ::click::, a key pad emerged from the stone. Jess quickly typed in a code, and waited as the door appeared and opened.
"Okay, that was impressive," Brennan muttered as they followed Jesse through the door.
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---Inside Sanctuary---
Inside the cliff, klaxons were sounding as three young adults quickly gathered around the computer moniters, one of their number obviously missing.
Kari Schneider was in Sanctuary's Dojo area, trying to focus on calming her emotions, when she suddenly opened her eyes, stood up, and ran down the stairs to the computer area to join her comrades, the klaxons unnoticed by the petite blonde.
"Mack! It's Jesse and Shalimar and their team!" she yelled to the fair young man seated at the computer moniter.
"Are you sure? Yeah, you're sure," the young man said as he uploaded the pictures from the cameras positioned outside the stone wall.
"Who're Jesse and Shalimar?" a young brunette woman asked as her feral senses kicked in, identifying that something was about to happen with her best friend.
Kari ran down to where the doors to Sanctuary opened, once again trying to calm down her emotions before she went catotonic. She suddenly stopped short, her psionic abilities picking up thoughts and emotions that she knew had to be dealt with as soon as she had reprimanded the man she had once known as her savior.
=Flashback-Five years earlier=
"Stop that girl!" a rough male voice yelled into the night as half a dozen men in dark clothing chased after a young college student down the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
People moved aside as the girl ran away from her pursuers, occasionally sending out psychic images, trying to divert there attention and sway their path. Just as she sent out another psychic image, the girl felt a large hand grab her arm and pull her into the shadows. The hand held onto her arm while another hand covered her mouth and a soft male voice whispered, "Shh. I'm going to take my hand off your mouth, but only if you can stay quiet," the girl nodded, the man removed his hand, and whispering, "follow me," he pulled her into a dark car.
"Who are you?" she questioned the two other people in the car, a young man and a middle-aged man.
"My name is Adam Kane, Kari, " the older man answered, "and I believe you have met Jesse Kilmartin," the younger man nodded.
"Okay, so the next questions are who were those goons who were chasing me, why were they chasing me, where are you taking me, and how do you know my name?"
"In order, those people who were chasing you were GSAgents, they were chasing you because of your unique abilities as an almost full-fledged psionic, we are taking you to somewhere safe, and, just as the GSA knows who you are, so do we," the man who had introduced himself as Adam Kane finished.
Ten minutes later, Jesse got up and, facing Kari, took two white disks out and attached them to her temples. "This might be disorienting. But don't worry, the blindness is only temporary. I'll remove them as soon as we get there," the younger man, Jesse, explained as Kari's vision went dark, putting her into a panic.
The ride went on in silence for what seemed like an eternity to the young woman, when the car they were riding in finally stopped. When Jesse finally removed the white disks from her face, Kari saw that they were in a large, sparsely furnished room. "Welcome to Sanctuary," Adam said. "This is Shalimar Fox and Justin Corvier," the man said as a young blonde woman and a dark young man nodded. Adam continued, "Jesse, Shalimar, and Justin are just like you. All four of you are what we refer to as New Mutants. Jesse is what we call an intangibility-imperviousness molecular, Shalimar is feline feral, and Justin is a propulsion molecular-sonic elemental."
"And what about me?" Kari asked the man.
"Well, as I said earlier in the car, you are a psionic. But while most psionics have only one or two abilities, you seem to have every type of ability we have determinbe there to be, based on that show you displayed as you were being chased."
And so the four older adults introduced Kari to what would later become her home. =End Flashback=
Four quiet adults entered the Sanctuary, only to be met by a rather angry-looking blonde. "Jesse! Shalimar! Why aren't you trying to help Adam get free of the Creator?! Why are you here instead of there?!" she continued hasseling the young man and woman as the other five adults looked on.
"What's going on?" Lexa asked Shal.
"And you!" Kari had turned on Shalimar now, "Why didn't you insist on looking for him?!" by this time, Kari had unleashed her full anger on the two mutants.
"We tried to, but it wasn't that easy, Kari!" Jesse tried to explain.
"Kari! Maybe they have a good reason for not going after Adam," Mack calmly tried to get the psionic to calm down.
Kari gave them all one last look before storming back to the Dojo to work off her anger and frustration.
"What was that about?" the younger brunette asked.
"That's what I'd like to know, Beka. Well, guys? Care to explain what has got our resident psionic in such a fury?" Mack asked.
"It's a long story, Mack," Jesse said to him.
"We've got time," was Mack's answer.
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More to come! Please review! Very much appreciated!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Mutant X characters created by Avi Arad. I do, however, "own" the characters I created out of my own odd mind (i.e. Kari Schneider, Mac Jameson, Fynn Jackson, and Beka Thompson), and the Santa Cruz Sanctuary.
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---Thirty minutes later.---
Thirty minutes later, the four mutants felt the train begin to slow and found themselves in a wooded area. As they exited the train, which promptly left as soon as the last passenger had gotten off, they noticed by scent and by sound, that they were somewhere near the sea.
"Jesse, where are we?" Lexa asked, startling everyone out of the enchantment the environment had left them in.
"We're near Natural Bridges State Beach. See that cliff over there? That's where we need to go," Jesse said as he started for the cliff he had indicated earlier.
With odd looks to each other, the others followed Jesse to the cliff. "So, why are we going to the cliff?" Shal asked as they neared the rock formation.
Jesse didn't answer, instead he began trailing his hands over the rock, apparently looking for something. And with a triumphant ::click::, a key pad emerged from the stone. Jess quickly typed in a code, and waited as the door appeared and opened.
"Okay, that was impressive," Brennan muttered as they followed Jesse through the door.
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---Inside Sanctuary---
Inside the cliff, klaxons were sounding as three young adults quickly gathered around the computer moniters, one of their number obviously missing.
Kari Schneider was in Sanctuary's Dojo area, trying to focus on calming her emotions, when she suddenly opened her eyes, stood up, and ran down the stairs to the computer area to join her comrades, the klaxons unnoticed by the petite blonde.
"Mack! It's Jesse and Shalimar and their team!" she yelled to the fair young man seated at the computer moniter.
"Are you sure? Yeah, you're sure," the young man said as he uploaded the pictures from the cameras positioned outside the stone wall.
"Who're Jesse and Shalimar?" a young brunette woman asked as her feral senses kicked in, identifying that something was about to happen with her best friend.
Kari ran down to where the doors to Sanctuary opened, once again trying to calm down her emotions before she went catotonic. She suddenly stopped short, her psionic abilities picking up thoughts and emotions that she knew had to be dealt with as soon as she had reprimanded the man she had once known as her savior.
=Flashback-Five years earlier=
"Stop that girl!" a rough male voice yelled into the night as half a dozen men in dark clothing chased after a young college student down the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
People moved aside as the girl ran away from her pursuers, occasionally sending out psychic images, trying to divert there attention and sway their path. Just as she sent out another psychic image, the girl felt a large hand grab her arm and pull her into the shadows. The hand held onto her arm while another hand covered her mouth and a soft male voice whispered, "Shh. I'm going to take my hand off your mouth, but only if you can stay quiet," the girl nodded, the man removed his hand, and whispering, "follow me," he pulled her into a dark car.
"Who are you?" she questioned the two other people in the car, a young man and a middle-aged man.
"My name is Adam Kane, Kari, " the older man answered, "and I believe you have met Jesse Kilmartin," the younger man nodded.
"Okay, so the next questions are who were those goons who were chasing me, why were they chasing me, where are you taking me, and how do you know my name?"
"In order, those people who were chasing you were GSAgents, they were chasing you because of your unique abilities as an almost full-fledged psionic, we are taking you to somewhere safe, and, just as the GSA knows who you are, so do we," the man who had introduced himself as Adam Kane finished.
Ten minutes later, Jesse got up and, facing Kari, took two white disks out and attached them to her temples. "This might be disorienting. But don't worry, the blindness is only temporary. I'll remove them as soon as we get there," the younger man, Jesse, explained as Kari's vision went dark, putting her into a panic.
The ride went on in silence for what seemed like an eternity to the young woman, when the car they were riding in finally stopped. When Jesse finally removed the white disks from her face, Kari saw that they were in a large, sparsely furnished room. "Welcome to Sanctuary," Adam said. "This is Shalimar Fox and Justin Corvier," the man said as a young blonde woman and a dark young man nodded. Adam continued, "Jesse, Shalimar, and Justin are just like you. All four of you are what we refer to as New Mutants. Jesse is what we call an intangibility-imperviousness molecular, Shalimar is feline feral, and Justin is a propulsion molecular-sonic elemental."
"And what about me?" Kari asked the man.
"Well, as I said earlier in the car, you are a psionic. But while most psionics have only one or two abilities, you seem to have every type of ability we have determinbe there to be, based on that show you displayed as you were being chased."
And so the four older adults introduced Kari to what would later become her home. =End Flashback=
Four quiet adults entered the Sanctuary, only to be met by a rather angry-looking blonde. "Jesse! Shalimar! Why aren't you trying to help Adam get free of the Creator?! Why are you here instead of there?!" she continued hasseling the young man and woman as the other five adults looked on.
"What's going on?" Lexa asked Shal.
"And you!" Kari had turned on Shalimar now, "Why didn't you insist on looking for him?!" by this time, Kari had unleashed her full anger on the two mutants.
"We tried to, but it wasn't that easy, Kari!" Jesse tried to explain.
"Kari! Maybe they have a good reason for not going after Adam," Mack calmly tried to get the psionic to calm down.
Kari gave them all one last look before storming back to the Dojo to work off her anger and frustration.
"What was that about?" the younger brunette asked.
"That's what I'd like to know, Beka. Well, guys? Care to explain what has got our resident psionic in such a fury?" Mack asked.
"It's a long story, Mack," Jesse said to him.
"We've got time," was Mack's answer.
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More to come! Please review! Very much appreciated!