Chapter 9: - Psycho Baby
A.N: - Thanks for the reivews please keep them coming they really do help. Any medical mumbo jumbo is created by me and is thus probably complete rubbish but I'm hoping that it makes a vague sort of sense at least.
"Trying to control her" said Jamie through clenched teeth as Baby fought with all her might against Jamie.
"What's wrong with her?" said Shalimar releasing Jamie from her grasp.
Lexa caught sight of Baby's white eyes. "My God! Her implants active isn't it?"
"Yeah" said Jamie "Still struggling to control Baby whilst trying to get something from his jacket pocket. Suddenly Baby overpowered him, she flipped him off her. He landed with a crash on the hard marble floor. Baby looked around quickly, her grin was pure evil, and she leapt off the balcony and began running for the stairs to the hangar.
"I have to stop her! If she gets to the Lark we'll never catch her" said Jamie jumping to his feet and running to a computer console. He hit several buttons in quick succession. The sound of creaking metal occurred as various safety devices descended throughout Saveria. "Got her!" he smiled. "Well she's not leaving Saveria at any rate."
"How is it active, I killed all the people who created it! How can someone still be using it?" yelled Lexa.
"You mean that Baby has the exact same implant that you did?" asked Brennan.
Lexa and Jamie both nodded. "We have no idea how it's active!" Jamie yelled in frustration. "If only I'd got to the serum sooner!" he ranted bashing his clenched fist into a wall. "Damn it!" he unclenched his now bloody knuckles and pulled a green vial with a syringe attachment from his pocket.
They heard a scream of feral rage from the hangar and the rattling of metal bars.
"I have to stop her before she hurts herself. She'll start burning things in a minute" said Jamie heading off towards the hangar bay.
"How does that help stop her?" inquired Jesse as they all followed Jamie.
"It's a high dose of epinephrine with some chemicals designed to relieve stress. It brings her out of their control. Whoever they are!" said Jamie angrily.
"How can we help?" said Shalimar obviously concerned for her new found sisters safety.
"Simply put, you can't! It's too risky. You guys cant move fast enough to stay out of her way" he pointed to Lexa and Brennan "and there's no way I'm letting you in to face her fiery fury" he pointed to Shal. "The only person with any vague chance is Jesse and there's no way your helping me. If this goes wrong then you're the only one with the expertise to stand the slightest chance of stabilising the others." He turned to them. "No offence"
"None taken" said Lexa sarcastically.
"I've been here before, normally we catch it before she's under their full control, her abilities mean she sort of senses it coming. But a couple of times me and Adam had to fight to get her back. I can and I will do it again!" he said with conviction.
They were now all clustered around the hangar door. Through the bars they could see Baby pacing around like a cage tiger, Every so often she let off a blast of fire to let her anger be known.
"Well that's one pissed off feral" said Brennan ducking back as Baby charged towards the bars.
"Worse." said Jamie "pushing the others down to avoid a blast of flames that flared through the bars. "That's one pissed off feramental! A whole different ball game!"
"Jeez that nearly lost me my do" said Brennan running his hand through his slightly singed hair.
"What are you going to do?" said Lexa staring at Baby clearly lost in memories of her own similar experiences as she rubbed the scar on her neck subconsciously.
"Teleport in and just keep teleporting till I'm close enough to stick this in her neck. Not much of a plan but as good as it gets!" said Jamie.
"Good Luck. She won't make this easy for you" said Lexa.
He nodded, and then disappeared into thin air. He reappeared on the other side of the bars facing straight at Baby.
He spoke calmingly. "Babe you have to let me help you" he said walking slowly towards her "We have to stop them controlling you!"
"I'm in perfect control" said Baby grinning insanely. She began to juggle balls of fire around her. "See" she said before firing the balls at Jamie in rapid succession.
He teleported out of the way with split seconds to spare. He reappeared directly behind Baby. He reached for her neck but she was too quick for him. Baby grabbed his hand and pulled him over her shoulder. He landed in a roll and stood up quickly.
"Come on Baby. I don't want to hurt you!" pleaded Jamie slowly backing into the corner.
"You could never hurt me you fool!" said Baby running at him. He massed solid but still she kept running at him. There was a huge thump as Baby connected with Jamie's rock like body. She flew backwards, performed a neat back flip and landed in a crouch. Within seconds she was jumping towards him again this time with her claws barred. Her sharp claws connected with his fleshy arm before he vanished.
"Are you alright?" yelled Jesse through the bars in concern.
"She just nicked me" said Jamie from the spot he had reappeared in on Baby's right hand side. He attempted to tackle her but she sideswiped him. He fell to the floor and within seconds Baby was planted firmly on his back her hands attempting to strangle him. He teleported again and this time when he reappeared he was obviously in a great deal of pain from the slash marks to his neck.
"You don't want to do this Baby" Jamie said hoarsely
"Oh I think I do" she said running at him again. This time Jamie sidestepped Baby's onslaught but left his foot at a precarious angle. Baby tripped, she slid to the ground and quick as a flash Jamie jumped on her back. She spun him till he was lying beneath her. Baby raised her right hand her claws glinted in the light.
"We have to do something!" said Shalimar tugging on Brennan's sleeve.
"I hope this works" said Brennan forcing his hand through the bars and shooting a blast of electricity at Baby's raised arm. Baby flew backwards and smashed into the Lark. She fell to the ground but just like a cat she landed on her feet, shook off the pain of electrocution and walked back to where Jamie was now standing.
Jamie looked into the bleakness of Baby's white eyes and then looked up at the Lark. Suddenly an idea came to him. He teleported before Baby could reach him and landed himself on the wing of the Lark and waited for Baby to realise that her prey was now above her. Her feral sense quickly noted his position and she turned to him before pouncing up to meet him. Jamie smiled causing a slight look of confusion to cross Baby's face. Jamie pounced, just as Baby had but he aimed straight for Baby who had been teetering on the very edge of the compact wing. They began to plummet to the ground and as they fell Jamie rolled the pair so he was beneath Baby and immediately Jamie grabbed the syringe and shoved it hard into Baby's neck. She was so surprised that she had no time to react as the ground rushed up to meet them.