Prodigy

Hey folks, this is my new story…I'm not sure how you will like it so review and be honest about it.

Note: I do not own Mutant X, but I do own Brady Duff. This story is set shortly after the death of Adam and Emma, there is no Lexa Pierce and Mason Eckhart is still head of the GSA.

"Hey guys, did anyone hear about that disturbance in New York last night?" Shalimar asked as she entered the kitchen, Brennan and Jesse were already sitting down to lunch.

"Yeah, Shal, I watched it this morning…some kid blew up part of a building with an unknown explosive. Why do you ask?" Jesse replied, he had an inkling of what Shal was thinking but he didn't want to think about it.

"What if the child was a new mutant? We should find him before Eckhart gets him from the police," Shalimar said, her face a mask of determination.

"Look, Shal, we don't even know if this kid is even in custody, Eckhart may already have him," Brennan said, ever since Adam and Emma had died, he had more or less taken command of Mutant X.

"If Eckhart has him, all the more reason to go get him, we could save him from experiments and maybe even a stasis pod, besides, it's not as if we have anything better to do – we haven't been on a mission for three weeks!" Shalimar said vivaciously, the team had barely left Sanctuary except to go shopping for food. Brennan stared at Shalimar for a moment, searching her eyes to find the cause of this madness, breaking into Genomex, just to find one person – but Brennan was also bored out of his mind and the idea of a mission was very persuasive right now.

"Fine, Jesse, look up the mutant database and see if you can find any boys with that sort of fire power."

Genomex, four hours later…

Brady Duff was sitting on the ground in the corner of his cell, trying to ignore the enormous amount of pain he was in. He had no idea why he was here of how he had blown up part of that building, he didn't know why he was being chased by these goons or what they wanted with him. All he knew was that he was in major trouble if he didn't escape.

Brady got up and tested his legs to see if they would carry his weight. They seemed to hold but were a bit shaky. He walked over to the door and looked out, all he could see was a grey wall opposite the door and a corridor ending in darkness on either side. Brady walked around the room to check his surroundings for the eleventh time; the room he occupied was a ten-foot by ten-foot cell with padding all round, like in a psych institute. Brady sighed heavily, the room was sealed and he had no way out, he had tried that trick with his hands that had done all that damage, but all he got was an electric shock that seemed to centre around the base of his neck. Brady squealed and dropped to his knees, his hands reached around to feel his neck; there was some sort of plastic cube at the base of his skull, Brady tried to pull it off but got another shock instead. Brady tried again and again to take the thing off, but he just kept getting shocks. He collapsed to the floor and considered giving up when the wall in front of him began to shimmer and three people stepped through it.

Mutant X had minor difficulties getting passed the guards at the entrance to the complex but found minimal resistance elsewhere. Jesse hacked into the central server and searched for any reference to child mutants and after some sifting; he found a cell number where a feral child with the ability to create ultrasonic disruptions and make himself invisible was being held for experimentation. After that it was relatively easy to find the cell and phase through the cell wall.

Brennan looked down at the young teenager lying on the ground in front of him, panting heavily as though he had been rigorously exercising, leaning forward, Brennan could see the sub-dermal governor on the boy's neck. Brennan realised that the kid must have tried to take it off. Brennan crouched and zapped the black box with a bolt of electricity; he knew that it would disable the governor so it could be painlessly removed. "Come on guys, let's get him back to Sanctuary," Brennan said quietly, the kid had slipped into unconsciousness and his breathing was starting to calm down. Brennan picked the boy up in his arms and carried him back through the wall.

Brady woke with a start, he was lying comfortably on a chair in a brightly light room, he also noticed that although he wasn't in any pain and that all he was wearing was a pair of tight black boxers. Brady looked around for something to wear and saw a small pile of clothes on a bench next to a computer terminal. He stood up and went over to the clothes. There was a black long sleeved t-shirt, a pair of black chinos and dark blue trainers, there was also a pair of sock nestled among it all. Putting the outfit on, Brady realised that it fit him perfectly,

"they must have measured me, what the hell is going on here?" Brady saw a door and headed for it, where it opened for him. He stepped into a softly lit passage way and took stock of his surroundings, the corridor was made of a pinewood and the hum or a generator somewhere beneath him could be heard.

Shalimar was sitting in the kitchen drinking a cup of coffee when Brady stepped cautiously through the door, staring intently at Shalimar with a wary look on his face; however, Shalimar smelt no fear coming from the boy, just determination and courage.

"Hi, you must be Brady, I'm Shalimar, it's nice to meet you," Shalimar said gently with a smile on her face, the boy was supposed to be unconscious for another few hours, obviously his feral abilities had woken him faster, the same thing happened to Shalimar when she was sedated.

"Hi, err…where am I, who are you people and why am I here?" Brady said cautiously, his blue eyes twinkling with curiosity and confusion.

"Why don't you sit down and eat something and I'll explain it all to you," Shalimar said, she was usually more direct with this sort of thing but Brady seemed to bring out the gentle pussy in Shalimar. She stood up and went over to the fridge, pulling out some ham, cheese and lettuce. She made Brady a sandwich and got him a can of coke. Sitting him down on the other side of the table, she sat down and breathed, "okay," she thought, "Here goes nothing."

"You are somewhere that we call Sanctuary, it's our home, ours as in me and the other two who helped rescue you. Myself and the other two are mutants with special gifts, just like you. There are a lot of people out there, just like us, and we make it our mission to save them from the people who captured you, the GSA. We brought you here to heal your wounds and remove the governor on your neck that was preventing you from using your gifts," Brady stared at her for a moment, this was a lot to take in, he was some kind of freak with weird gifts and these people were just like him. He had always felt different from everyone else but this was more than he could possibly imagine.

"So, if I am what I say you are, what can I do, can I freeze time or teleport or something weird like that?" Brady said with a smirk, this was a little unbelievable; he actually had weird gifts, yeah, okay, whatever you say.

"I know that this will be difficult to believe but I can show you that what we're saying is true.

"Okay then, bring it on," Brady said, with a sarcastic smile, this seriously wasn't happening for real, it couldn't be, this must be a joke or something.

Shalimar and Brady walked to the dojo where Brennan and Jesse were sparring. Brady looked up in time to see Brennan throw a blot of electricity and he saw Jesse shimmer and the bolt passed right through him. Brady was amazed, okay; there is no way to fake that sort of thing. Brennan and Jesse saw Brady gaping and stopped their sparring. Walking down to the stairs to the lower landing, the guys walked over to Brady.

"Hey, I'm Jesse, nice to meet you," Jesse said politely, "this is Brennan, I suppose you could call him our leader of sorts." Brady was still amazed at the display of power but woke up and asked, "So can I do those things or do I get something else? Shalimar didn't tell me what made me special enough to warrant kidnap."

Jesse replied, "Well, we couldn't find you in our database, so when I was at Genomex, that wad the place where you were being held hostage, I found your file and sent it here, lets take a look".

Brady was utterly blown away when he read his file. It said that he had three different powers. Invisibility, ultrasonic disruption and the file read on to say he had demonstrated feral qualities. "So what is a feral and that disruption thingy?" he ran his hand through his dark brown hair, he had never heard of anything like this before, but he guessed it was the ultrasonic disruption that he destroyed that building he was in.

"Well, a feral is a mutant that is like a cat, they have enhanced strength, speed, stamina, reflexes and more acute senses. Your eyes will do this cool glowing thing when you want them too. As for the disruption thing, you seem to be able to generate waves of ultrasound, they come from your hands will look like a bubble wave. Even though your only 15, you seem to be very advanced it terms of power. Most kids who get their powers at your age don't show this much power, their gifts need time to develop but I'd say yours have been active for a while, when did you first notice them?" Jesse finished.

"Well, there was one time when I was about 12 when everyone seemed to be ignoring me, my parents acted as if they couldn't see me and even thought of calling the police, I tried talking to them but every time I said something, they looked in my direction but acted as if they couldn't see anything. I guess it must have been my invisibility. They saw me just as my dad picked up the phone to call missing persons, I got grounded for three weeks for hiding and worrying everyone." Brady said, he thought of his parents and his heart ached, they had died six months before, when the GSA had started chasing him, two men came to his house, wanting to take me to some clinic, to give him some tests. His parents had refused and had paid the price, the two men shot Mr and Mrs Duff between the eyes, Brady escaped luckily and had not stopped running since.

"Well, if your powers became active three years ago, your lucky it took the GSA so long to get to you, the usually act a lot faster than that," Brennan said with a smile, the GSA wasn't as good as they thought they were.

"Yeah, well my parents died anyway, it doesn't matter whether it happened three years ago or six months ago, now that I know what I can do, I want revenge!" Brady said, his eyes glowing ferally.

"Well you need to be able to use your powers effectively before you run off on some suicide run, there are too many of them and one of you, no matter how powerful you may be, you will not be able to defeat them. Let us help you, if your willing, you could even join the team, we need someone with your sort of firepower and to be honest we kind of need something to do just now," Shalimar said, she was feeling very protective of the distraught boy and intended to keep him close by.

"Shal, a kid cannot join Mutant X, there is too much risk involved, he'd be better off at a safe house!" Brennan said angrily once Jesse had taken Brady for some basic training.

"Yes, he can, with some practise he'll be just as good as us, if not better, you heard what Jesse said, most child mutants aren't powerful to do the amount of damage he caused, most people don't see their powers until they're 20 years old, think what he'll be able to do then!" Shalimar retorted angrily. She knew deep down that a battle like the one Mutant X fought was not the place for a child, but she could tell that Brady was no normal child, even by mutant standards.

Two weeks later…

"Ohh Brady, where are you? Come out and play," Brennan teased, Brady had been progressing very fast and Brennan enjoyed having him around, he reminded Brennan of himself when he was 15, confused, hurt, tenacious, cunning and very stubborn. Brady insisted on practise every day against holograms and some more practise against the rest of the team. So far, he was doing well. He had mastered invisibility so well that he could remain unseen while he was asleep. His feral abilities were moving just as fast, He had managed to knock every one too the ground at least once but he found it difficult to get past Jesse's invincibility, his sonic boom didn't effect him at all and neither did punching him in the face. Brady had charged at him, but Jesse just phased and Brady kept on going, right through Jesse and into the Dojo wall. Today, Brennan and Shalimar were testing Brady's stealth and had so far only found him once; he had been hiding next to the couch when Brennan Shalimar walked right into him. He had decloaked while he was dazed but quickly recovered. Brennan walked up to the Dojo and looked around for any sign of Brady. Brennan looked around when and saw a wave coming towards him, it hit him, hard; Brennan literally flew off the Dojo and landed on the ground below. He groaned in pain and looked up in time to see Brady decloak on the Dojo in a little flash of light. He looked down and smiled,

"You really should pay more attention Brennan, someone might think you wanted to hurt yourself if you weren't paying attention." Brady gloated. Brennan gritted his teeth and got up, he conjured a handful of electricity and threw it at the cocky little bastard, but Brady easily dodged it and sent another, less powerful sonic blast Brennan's way, it was weak enough so that Brennan only hit the couch he had landed in front off originally. Brady turned and disappeared.

So there you have it people, tell me what you think and if you like it, then I will write more.