A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 46: The Key Is In Jeopardy

"They're going to die?" Shocker thought in horror. He never waited anyone to die; in his mind it was all fun and dirty games. "But you absorbed it, right?" Shocker (Lucas) asked Miracle (Natalie) as he looked at X². "So if we need you to absorb it again you can cause you're immune now, right?"

"It's too powerful." She shook her head slowly, "The first time made me weak and it's part of my system now, but I can't take it in again."

Shocker looked amazed and confused at the same time, "What? But you're powers are to absorb diseases and give them to others."

"This one is different." She whispered as it hurt her to admit that a disease defeated her powers. "It has to stay dormant in my system or it'll kill me." Her silvery eyes locked on Shocker's brown eyes and her eyes seemed to flash to dark grey every now and then.

Her body is still trying to fight it. I can tell because of her eyes. "We need to leave then," Shocker grabbed her wrist and took off running away from the warehouse with her towards their team.

Poseidon (Sean) looked around with his brown eyes at his team, who seemed completely lost in their situation. Alright. Think. He told himself as he looked around at the fallen teammates. "Everyone get the injured people out of here." X² all turned and looked at Poseidon for a minute before he spoke again, "Now." We need to get everyone out of here…

After he saw the other members of X² start to move to help each other out, he turned to Rage (Sam) who was still scanning in the darkness with his feral senses. "I need you to get Clutch (Noah) out of here."

A dark figure in the shadows bounced in and out of Rage's vision, Quit moving. She thought in frustration as she ignored Poseidon.

He grabbed her bicep and turned her to look at him, "I need you to get him out of here." He grunted in his thick Australian accent.

Rage stared at Poseidon for a moment and then down at Clutch, "I almost had him."

"What?"

Rage turned back and looked at Poseidon. "It's a person. He's in the shadows, but he was moving too quickly." She sighed. "I almost had him though."

Poseidon turned and looked in the dark shadows and saw nothing, but still trusted Rage's instinct. "Well we need to get Clutch to safety first."

"Right," Rage nodded as she bent down to Clutch's side and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. She tried to lift him to his feet so that she could carry him out, but she stumbled forward, "I'm going to need help." She grunted to Poseidon.

"Alright," Poseidon nodded as he walked over to Clutch's other side and bent down. He wrapped his other arm around his shoulder and slowly lifted him up with Rage to carry him out of the building.

They only had a short time to get everyone out of the building before they all were killed. They were being stalked by unknown man in the shadows who enjoyed every minute of watching them struggle. I'll destroy this disease called mutants…The man in the shadows thought in disgust as he took aim at Poseidon's back. No one is leaving.

Linx's two different colored eyes watched Poseidon and Rage carefully and quickly tuned out the rest of the world around her. She saw something quickly move in the air towards Poseidon, and without even thinking she used her telekinesis to stop it in the middle of the air. Once it was stopped in the air, it was easy to see it was another injection needle. Linx stayed calm as she didn't draw too much attention to herself. Her eyes slowly scanned around to see if she could stop any other needles.

Hecate and Octavian (Gabe) were standing off to the side of everyone who were trying to leave the warehouse in silence. Her deep blue eyes looked over at Poseidon when she heard a tiny glass vile hit the ground and noticed it was another injection needle. Linx. She thought quietly and then looked over at Octavian, who had his hand on his shoulder, "I thought you said you were alright…?"

Octavian looked down at her, "Ah am." Hecate raised an eyebrow at him as if questioning him again, "It's just sore."

Hecate nodded, "We should go; Poseidon wants us all out of here."

Octavian nodded, "Let's go then."

Hecate started to walk behind Octavian, but something made her stop and turn around. She saw a dark figure laying on the ground amongst the wooden crates that were behind her and Octavian. She slowly walked closer towards the figure and when she was just a couple feet away from him, she noticed an empty injection needle laying by his side.

Octavian turned around when he noticed that Hecate wasn't behind him anymore, and saw her crouched down by the crates. "Hecate?"

"I'll be fine. Go on ahead."

"Alright," Octavian said in unsure tone and then ran over to Poseidon, "Do ya need any help?"

"Get the car." Poseidon huffed as they continued to carry Clutch towards the gaping hole in the wall.

Octavian nodded his head and then took off running for the car. When he reached outside, he melted into the shadows outside and when he reemerged he was standing next to the car. He pressed his thumb on the scanner by the door, and once he was allowed access into the car, he quickly drove it into the warehouse compound grounds and near the gaping hole, where Poseidon and Rage were waiting for him.

Spitfire (Grace) carefully rolled Hell's Angel's (Jazmine) head off her lap and tried to pick her up, but failed. Counterstrike (Tonya) looked over at Spitfire struggling and sighed. She jumped down into the sunken equipment area where Spitfire was and got on the other side of Hell's Angel.

"Thanks," Spitfire nodded.

"I'm doing this for you. I don't like her," she said as she gestured with her head towards Hell's Angel.

Spitfire nodded her head and continued to move Hell's Angel towards the car. She knew that Counterstrike didn't like a lot of the girls in the house, but that she definitely was a team player when it came down to it.

Void (Hiro) turned to Linx and noticed that she was surveying the entire area carefully, "We should go."

"I have to stay," she said calmly as she continued to look around.

"But why?"

"Because I'm stopping him from killing anymore." She turned and looked at Void quietly, "The Dead Realm is now full of innocent people, but I can't send that many onto Limbo." She said as she zoned passed Void, which made him turn around to see a frozen injection needle floating in the air behind him.

Void turned back around to look into Linx's eyes and nodded, "Good luck." He said before taking off running to meet up with Frostbite (Seth) to run towards the car where the rest of their team was meeting up.

Linx looked over and saw Hecate dragging someone from the shadows. What is she doing? She thought before hearing a grunt and then a gasp. She turned her attention back around just in time to see Frostbite fall towards the ground with an injection needle sticking out of the back of his calve. I should have been paying attention… She thought and then quickly began to look around.

Hecate grunted as she used her super strength to lift Shadow Runner (Arcane) up in her arms. She carefully walked by Linx, nodded her head and continued to walk towards the door. She ignored the constant dropping of injection needles falling behind her because of Linx. She quietly got into the car just as Poseidon was walking out to head back into the warehouse.

Poseidon jogged passed Void, who was helping Frostbite towards the car, and ran towards the warehouse. He was standing in the gaping hole and looked around, but only saw Linx, "Come on Linx!" He shouted.

Linx nodded and took off running towards Poseidon as fast as she could, while needles whizzed passed her until she was finally a couple of feet away from Poseidon. She turned around and used her telekinesis and stopped two needles that were only a couple feet away from her face. Linx turned and stood behind Poseidon quietly, as he searched around the warehouse. Where is she? "Dreamer?"

"I got her!" Twista (Saria) shouted back to him as she held Dreamer (Dawn) closer to her body. "Go!" She shouted. Twista knew that if Dreamer was with her team that everyone would be endanger. She was the perfect bait to lure the maniac out, but at the same time she was the one thing everyone needed to protect.

There she is… The man in the shadow smirked as his eyes narrowed onto Dreamer while he reloaded the injection needles. Once he clicked the needles into place and started to take aim at Dreamer, he let out a chilling cackle that echoed throughout the empty warehouse.

Dreamer pressed herself to Twista's side as she felt a shiver run through her body at the horrible cackle. Twista's hand pressed tighter against Dreamer's back as she waited patiently for the man to attack. Twista had decided in that moment that it didn't matter anymore, and the only thing that did was Dreamer; she was the key to everything in this era.