In the helix, Shalimar had been listening over Jesse's comm-link, and she almost screamed when she heard that there was a second Dominion. She gasped in shock as Lara continued to tell Jesse and Brennan about them
"They're not nearly as big as the Dominion. The Dominion could destroy them if they could only find them. They call themselves the Guardians because they feel like they're guarding the world from the treachery of the Dominion. They, we, don't believe that all mutants are bad." Jesse and Brennan noticed she said 'we'.
When the sounds of people could not be heard from the closet, Brennan, Jesse, and Lara snuck out of the closet and sprinted towards the door. Shots were heard behind them, so they turned and fired back. They continued to run, shooting behind them. Jesse was tempted to mass them all, but then the Dominion would know that Mutant X was in their headquarters. Miraculously, they all made it to the door and ran out. They could hear the helix powering up when Brennan felt a body fall onto him. He stopped and saw Lara lying on the ground.
"Make it out. Sell the disc!" she used her last gasp of breath to say.
Jesse and Brennan would have to get onto the roof before Shalimar piloted the helix down to them before they were seen by their Dominion adversary.
"Lexa, grab onto Jesse, we're going up!" Brennan said as loud as he dared as he grabbed Jesse's arm and, with his free hand, shot downward, propelling him, Jesse, and hopefully Lexa up onto the roof. After a rough landing on the roof, a shimmer of light was seen and Lexa came into view. They ran into the helix, and Shalimar piloted it back to Sanctuary.
"So it was the Guardians who we encountered at Sindrell's house." Jesse assumed.
Lexa nodded. "And they're probably the ones who killed Alkins. I was snooping in the Dominion records. According to them, the Guardians are a small group; there are only about a hundred of them. Once the Dominion finds them, they're dead." She went to the communication panel and opened a communication with her contact as Jesse and Brennan removed their face masks and Dominion apparel. The Dominion man's face came onto the screen.
"Thanks for all the inside help." Lexa said. "We needed it."
"I hope you don't make a habit of this. You had better not plan on infiltrating our headquarters again. After a security breach this serious, we will be moving. Now, do you have our disc?"
Brennan pulled the disc out of a storage compartment. "Lara King had it with her the whole time." He said. "I got it from her after she died." Everyone knew that the Dominion would be furious if they had found out how long Mutant X had the disc.
"Very good, I'm sending Sanctuary a meeting place where you will give it to us." With that, the screen went blank.
At the meeting place, Lexa and Brennan waited with the disc for the Dominion contact to come collect it. At length, he came.
"Thank you for your help in retrieving the disc," he said, "and for destroying the virus. I assure you I will make sure that nothing like that ever happens again." He rolled up his window, and the car drove away. Lexa and Brennan went back to the helix to go home.
"How much can we really trust the Dominion?" Brennan asked.
Lexa shook her head. "We should never trust anyone who lives outside of Sanctuary; you never know when trusting someone will bite you in the ass."
"After this ordeal, I think I agree with that."
Well, that's done. I thought it went pretty well. I'm pretty sure I'm going to make a sequel.
