The Mavericks, Chelsea and Jono
Mordred grinned as his twin swarmed through the art shop, chattering nineteen to the dozen. Demetria and Octavian were at least talking politely to each other. It was a start. He looked around for Chelsea and Jonothon. Chelsea was standing by the two other students who had decided to come along...Angelica and Roberto? Yes, those were their names. They left the store together, talking in animated tones. Jonothon slipped into a store ahead of them, eyes gleaming as he saw the old records in the dusty shop window.
They didn't have any warning. Members of the Friends of Humanity league appeared out of nowhere and slapped collars on their necks. Vortigern and Mordred tried to get off a mental shout, then exploded into action. Several sickening cracks to the back of their heads and the twins fell into darkness, Mordred with a snarl etched across his face and blood on his mouth. Chelsea screamed as her eyes swam with tears from the flare of hate surrounding them. She tried to run, and one of them punched her hard in the mouth and she went flying. She hit a wall with a crack and slithered down it.
Octavian brought down one on his own, and then they darted him. Demetria tried to 'port or fly out of there and fell heavily before collapsing into unconscioness. Two darts sang into the necks of the other two as well. They were all bundled into a white panel van which calmly joined the flow of traffic. One of the men carefully placed a special type of diadem over each of their heads.
Jonothon came out seconds after they left and he tried to contact them telepathically. Nothing. Not even a whisper. His unease grew in leaps and bounds, and when he found the abandoned bags of shopping, it reached terrifying heights. PROFESSOR! He turned on his heel and ran for Nyx's bike which Mordred had wheedled his way into getting. He got on it and was off like a bat out of hell.
~*~*~*~
Mordred woke up to the taste of blood in his mouth and an aching headache. And then he realised something that horrified him beyond all measure. His mind was...silent. He could hear sobbing from across the room and he tried to move. No good. He was shackled at the wrists. He cracked open his eyes. A white tiled room with glass plating across the front where a wall should be.
Octavian was in a room across the hallway, head hanging downwards, similairily chained to a wall. So was Demetria. The blond youth had a purpling bruise across his chest and there were red droplets of blood underneath him. Chelsea was huddled in a corner of the room with him, crying her eyes out.
"Chels..." Her head snapped up at his whispered word. "See if you can yell out."
"HEY! HEY! Who's down here?!" Chelsea screamed.
"I'm here," Vortigern's voice echoed up the corridor. "Wolf...I can't hear you." A thread of panic was clearly evident in his twin's voice.
"I can't *see* anything!" Chelsea started to cry again. Mordred was worried. Octavian and Demetria hadn't moved.
Angelica and Roberto
"Help!" Angelica screamed at the top of her voice. "Help me! Anyone!?". She tried to power up but no use. "HELP ME!!!!!!" she screamed again.
"Angel?" Roberto said grogily. "Don't scream babe, we're right here."
He could hear her sniff. She was crying.
"I can't see!" she cried, "That light thing they used on me...I can't se Berto! Is it only us?" she asked, raising her head, becoming more concerned about everyone else.
Roberto looked around.
MOrdred
"I can see Tav and Dem...they're not awake!" Mordred yelled down to them. "Can you see Jono anywhere? Everybody else seems to be alright."
Theresa and Kitty
Kitty, Theresa and Jamie were in the next 'cell,' they had been captured ast the same time as everyone else, except they were at the mall, shopping. Jamie called out to anyone who could here him
"We're here too, Kitty, Theresa and me. Kitty's unconscious and Tracy can't talk. They're mutant inhibitor collars. Dr. McCoy told me about them."
Mordred, Vortigern and Chelsea
"Bloody buggering hell!" Mordred cursed, then looked at Chelsea. "Don't tell Nathan you heard me say that."
"K." Chelsea rubbed at her eyes.
"God, it's so quiet..." Mordred could hear Vortigern's voice come down the corridor. "I can't hear anyone."
"We'll get out of this, Scathach, and I swear to God, I'm gonna bloody kill the sodding tossers!" Mordred snarled. "Ok. Chelsea is in the cell with me. I can see Tav and Dem across from me, they're both still out."
"I'm in my cell alone," Vortigern called out. "Anyone seen Jono? He came with us..."
Theresa
Theresa whispered to Jamie, barely able to make a sound. "The wisps. I sent them to the Professor. But he doesn't speak Gaelic!" she was terrified. Kitty was still unconscious, so Jamie called out to Mordred and Vortigern.
"Tracy sent the Wisps, but she doesn't think that Professor X can understand them," he explained. Jamie cralled over to Tracy and wrapped his arms around her.
"It'll be okay, Tracy, don't worry, we'll get out of this, we always do. We survived the soldiers, and we'll survive this."
Gwen
Gwen was sneaking through the hallways of a building when a sudden pain hit her head.
"Oh jeez, what the hell was that?" she whispered through the pain. Her vision went blurry and she stopped and sat down for a second.
Then it hit her.
Mordred...
She jumped up and bit her lip. If she didn't finish the job, she'd be dead, but if she didn't go to find Mordred, he could die. Gwen opted to finish the job, she couldn't help him if she was dead.
An hour later, Gwen was running from the building as quickly as she'd ever run in her life. She'd stolen the jewel in an almost unprofessional manner, but she didn't care. She dropped it off with the guy she'd been told to meet, collected her money and headed over to the Hyperion to see if they knew anything.
Fred
Fred bounced around. "Hey, look- the boyfriend-stealing electrogirl is back!"
Gwen
Gwen flipped Fred off. "Get over it."
Angel came out of his office. "Gwen, what's happened?"
"I'm not sure... something has happened to Mordred."
Vortigern and Mordred
"Spike is going to sodding well kill you all!" Vortigern called out.
"Oh god yeah. And then Nyx will bloody well bring this place down in blood and fire!" Mordred called back.
"And then Jack is going to kill you because you hurt Tav. And Orli will probably let them kill you cos ya hurt Dem." Mordred pulled at the manacles on his wrists. "They'll bring in Sabre, and he understands Gaelic. Actually, Nyx probably understands it as well."
Roberto and Angelica
Roberto looked around for Jono. He didn't know him personally but he knew of him.
"No! I can't see him! Last I saw of him, he was walking near a CD shop!" Roberto yelled. Angelica burst into tears again.
"Why me? What use was taking my vision?" she said to herself, crying.
Roberto stopped & thought for a few seconds & realised why.
"Because, if you can't see, you can't & won't aim to blast someone. That way, they could collar you easily."
The Mavericks and Sabretooth
"You know, Wolverine is going to be very disappointed in you all," Demetria said hoarsely as she raised her head. She coughed and spat blood onto the floor.
"Sweet Jesus Christ, Dem!" Mordred was shocked.
"Would the lot of you yapping kids just shut up!" An irritated roar came from down the corridor.
"Who the hell are you?!" Vortigern called out.
"Creed."
"And that means nothing." Mordred felt his teeth gingerly. They were sore and aching from a blow he'd taken to the mouth. Laughter greeted him.
"Call me Sabretooth, boy."
Angelica
Angelica raised her head.
"As in, the Sabretooth The X-Men fought?" she asked, scared & confused at the same time. Due to her lack of sight, she wasn't sure if he was captive or a captor.
Sabretooth, Mordred and Vortigern
"Aw, the girlie knows my name," Sabretooth jeered mockingly. He stalked the confines of his cell, collar firmly in place around his neck.
Vortigern tried to shrink back into the wall. Oh god. He sounded just like Cain. The blond youth started to shake.
"So, why are you here?" Mordred asked.
"Isn't it obvious? Same reason you are. Was gonna move in on that pathetic little runt and get some of my own back when some BASTARD darted me. I don't know what it was, and it only took me down for a minute or so, but it was long enough. Still managed to kill three of them though." Sabretooth ran his tongue along the sides of his fangs.
Jamie
Jamie took a good look at the still unconscious Kitty. "And then Lance will turn this place to rubble, and bury them all, when he sees what's happened to Kitty." he said. "Okay, so, Ic an see Vortigern from here, and Chelsea nd Mordred are okay, and Dem and Tav are still out, is anyb ody else here?" he called out.
Kitty
Kitty was starting to come to. "Oh God. . . Sabretooth?" She shuddered. She'd encountered him before "What happened?" she asked Jamie. "Who all is here?" she asked, rolling over.
The Mavericks, Theodore and Chelsea
"Everyone except Jono," Mordred called out. "Is everyone collared?"
"But what's this thing on my head?" Chelsea asked, running a hand along the smooth metal curve. "You're all wearing them as well."
"Probably a telepathic blocker," Mordred snarled in frustration.
"And you would be right. My my, they do teach children something in schools these days," Danjermond said as he came up the corridor. Octavian moaned.
"I am going to kill you, you sadistic rat bastard whoring son of a disease ridden bitch," Mordred gritted out, "and I can't believe how much I'm going to enjoy it."
Danjermond turned to one of the soldiers flanking him. "Take him." The entered Octavian and Demetria's cell and lifted the limp body of the youth off the wall. Mordred went mad, and Demetria started to scream. Octavian struggled briefly, then lapsed back into unconsciousness as one of the soldiers zapped him with a tazer. Dumping him onto a hospital bed, they wheeled him away. Chelsea cried in deep hiccuping sobs.
Theresa and Kitty
Theresa was unable to scream, so her best friend did it for her.
"YOU STUPID BASTARDS!" Kitty screamed. Then she just yelled wordlessly out of frustration.
"Don't worry, Kitty," Jamie reassured her, "WE'll be fine, it will all work out."rP> Isaac and Zac
Sabretooth and Mordred
"Goddamnit, would the lot of you just shut the *hell* up?" Sabretooth roared. "Useless whining kids..."
"Well, I don't see what you're doing to get out of here," Mordred sniped back.
"Grrr..."
Roberto
Roberto just sat, thinking about a way out of this mess. Then he realised something.
"Can't we like scream to the Professor though our heads. With our thoughts?"
Kitty
Kitty spoke up. "Unless he's connected to Cerebro, he'd never find us. And Cerebro locates mutant brainwave signatures, when we use our powers. BUt the collars block those signatures, so he might not even be able to find us with that. Who knows," she said grimly.
The Mavericks, Chelsea and Sabertooth
"I think that's the point of these headbands. I can't *hear* anything." Mordred considered. "What's his face, the evil mad scientest said they were telepathic blockers."
"They're the same material as Magento's dome, so ya won't be calling the cripple to come and save ya," Sabretooth said.
Vortigern looked across at the mutant from his own cell and Sabretooth snarled at him. Then a group of men came down the corridor.
"Filthy muties."
"Ok, we have an idea who they are now," Vortigern said, nodding. "Sick pathetic xenophobes."
"You are a curse on this earth, filth!" One of the men growled at him. He swiped the door open and Vortigern rolled his eyes, chained to the wall as he was, it was about all he could do. The man drove a fist into his unprotected stomach and he grunted in pain. The rest of them started working him over, targetting sensitive areas. Vortigern was pretty sure a few of his ribs were broken when they were done and he couldn't see out of either of his eyes.
"Spike is going to bloody kill you," Vortigern coughed out, and he spat a fragment of broken tooth in one of their faces. His head twisted with the force of the blow that hit him.
Mordred had settled into a silent rage, his mouth twisted and eyes deadly. Demetria was crying softly as the sounds of Vortigern's beating drifted down the corridor. And then the tenor of the sounds shifted, and Vortigern screamed in agony. Mordred clenched his fists so hard his nails cut bloody crescent moons on his palms. "Cover your ears, Chelsea."
She curled up in a corner near his feet and put her hands over her ears, but she could still hear it.
Theresa
Theresa was crying silently, when a wisp of light fluttered up to her face, and perched on her earlobe, whispering things to her. She nodded that she couldn't talk, so the Will O' the Wisp landed on Mordred's ear and whispered that he couldn't find the professor, but the others were still looking.
Jono, Nyx, Mordred and Vortigern
Jonothon screamed into the mansion's driveway, cutting the corner dangerously fine as he broadcast on every possible band what had happened. Nyx caught him before he fell off the bike, dressed in a black leather catsuit and hair tied back. An eyepiece covered one of her eyes and she looked icily angry. Jonothon winced. He was bloody glad he wasn't one of the ones stupid enough to take the students.
"Where?"
Down in the city. I don't know, here, just take the pic. Jonothon forced it into her head. He could hear feral snarling, and when he looked up, he saw it was Spike. He was really, *really* glad he wasn't the one stupid enough to take them. Go get them back.
"We will. They're going to be very sorry little mortals." Jonothon shivered and wheeled her bike into the garage. "SCOTT! Let's move this thing up!" Nyx ran back into the house and joined Logan as they jumped in the lift down to the lower levels. "We got kids to save!"
~*~*~*~
Mordred strained his ears to hear Vortigern. He couldn't hear anytihing execpt their laughter.
"Get off me...you sick, sick bastards..." Vortigern panted and struggled to get to at least his knees. Oh, he couldn't want for Spike to kill them...he lapsed into merciful unconscioness.
Scott and Hank
Scott and Hank came barreling into the driveway, ready for a fight.
"Let's do this," Scott said. "X-van or Blackbird?"
Theresa
Theresa screamed wordlessly as she and Jamie were dragged off and strapped to lab tables. She tried to struggle as they jabbed needles into her skin, drawing blood and then injecting her with something. After they took almost 2 pints of blood, she past out. Jamie screamed as he watched them experiment on his girlfriend.
"LET HER GO, YOU SICKOS!" he shouted, but they only beat him for yelling. He then went under the same treatment, and too passed out.
Nyx and Logan
"X-Van," Nyx said grimly. "We don't want them to know we're coming. Oh, and can we pick up Sabre and Dru on the way?" They all ran to the van and piled in. Nyx got a crossbow off the wall and loaded it with quarrels that could punch through a suit of plate armour. Logan sat in beside her. Spike snarled relentlessly.
Mordred, Chelsea and Sabretooth
Mordres snarled as they carted Demetria off the same way they'd taken her brothe. God, he couldn;t *do* anything. Chelsea wept harder. Sabretooth paced restlessly.
Scott and Dru
Scott drove tensely, and pulled up oustide Dru's mansion. Dru danced into the van, her skirt flowing around her.
"The stars sing- mean humans hurting the babies. I'm going to have a nice dinner," she declared.
Kitty
Kitty paced around as well. Her best friend was taken away, and she didn't know what to do. If only she had Lockheed. Or Lance, or Dawn, or anybody. She howled in frustration.
Nyx
"They took my boy, Dru. I wasn't there and they BLOODY WELL TOOK HIM!" Spike howled. Nyx patted his shoulder.
"Well, you can teach them the error of their ways, Spike. Show them how you got your name."
"Bloody hell, yeah!" Spike's smile was pure predator. Sabre chuckled slightly as he climbed in after Dru.
"This brings back memories."
"Does quite, brother mine." The two cats shared an evil smile. "They are going to *pay*." The van squealed off.
Dru
Dru took her childe in her arms. "We will make them suffer, my childe, don't you worry. Sulfer will rain and blood will boil." Dru winced at her vision, and then looked at her mate. "They have the Siryn," she told Sabre. She knew he had a soft spot for the little Irish girl.
Nyx, Octavian, Mordred and Chelsea
Sabre's eyes roared with fire. "They are exquistely dead, Dru my lovely. Could you turn them, if me and Nyx catch them?"
"I can resoul them," Nyx hissed.
"And we can torture them before they die the first time. But that won't be the end of it."
"When they wake up, we can start again. Doesn't that sound like fun? And when we kill them for the second time, my Mam will have them."
"And they'll suffer for eternity."
"Which is no less then they deserve."
"If any of them have laid a single finger on my boy, they're mine," Spike warned them in a feral growl.
"Of course, Spike," Nyx said, vaguely offended that he would think otherwise. "You Claimed him, didn't you?" Spike nodded.
"Bound in blood. He's mine. And I'm his."
~*~*~*~
Octavian came to, then screamed and arched his back uncontrollably as jolts of electricity ran through his system. He dropped his head, panting, vaguely registering that he was strapped into a chair or something similair.
"Up the voltage five volts," he heard a cool male voice say dispassionately. Octavian screamed.
~*~*~*~
A man strode into the cell Mordred and Chelsea were restrained in. She tried to run past him, and he casually backhanded her, sending her into a wall. She dropped to the ground, dazed and bleeding.
"You're all walking dead men. You just don't know it yet," Mordred said coldly. "Coward. Hitting a little girl." A tazer was stuck into his side and he shook with pain but kept any indications of the pain behind his teeth. He looked up again, and flashed his aggressor a grin through sweat tangled locks. "Kiss my ass, gurrier."
Dru, Theresa and Kitty
Dru grinned her nasty grin, vamping out. "We'll feed them their testicles, and remove their skin," she declared. "Then I'll yank out theirfangs so they can't kill."
~*~*~
Jamie screamed as he came to. A big, burly man was raping his slght girlfriend, and she was completely unable to move or scream. Tracy's eyes were wide with pain and fear.
"HELP!" she screamed soundlessly. Jamie felt tears some to his eyes as he watched. A taser hit him in the side. Then he felt a searing hot pain in his bare feet. They were burning his feet!
~*~*~
Kitty screamed as they pulled her out of the cell and dragged her into a lab. They submerged her into a tub of scarlding water.
The Mavericks, Chelsea and Sabertooth
Vortigern came to for a moment, and raised his head from the pool of blood and sweat it was lying in. He fought to make his eyes focus. Oh god. He managed to make it to his feet, sore and aching and then staggered out into the corridor, drawing up his pants. Which were thankfully mostly in one piece. And then he saw stars, and dropped again.
Mordred growled low in his throat as a man approached him. He twisted his head and sank his teeth into the syringe holding hand.
Chelsea yelped and her feet skipped over the surface of the floor as she was held by a strong hand laced into the top of her hair. She couldn't stand, and her scalp was on fire. She screamed as one of them injected something into her arm and then collapsed shaking. She proceeded to vomit, until she was hacking up blood.
Mordred's eyelids fluttered as the syringe actually made its way into his vein. He blacked out.
Sabretooth watched unmoved. As long as they were concentrating on the little brats, they weren't trying to find out how quickly he could heal. He still hadn't slept in days, being kept up by the incessant whine they had projected into his cell, and his already touchy nerves were shot to pieces. When he got out of here, people were going to pay.
Demetria struck out uselessly and then screamed as sulfuric acid dripped onto the sensitive skin on the soles of her feet. When the knife drew over them, she could barely feel it through the burning.
~*~*~*~
Spike's growls were a steady counterpoint as they raced through the city. They all hoped they wouldn't be too late. They already were.
Dru, Kitty, Theresa and Scott
Kitty was sobbing. Her skin was covered in burns. Then they decided to stick needles all over her, taking tissue samples and the like.
"Please, stop!" she cried out, "I'll do anything! Just please stop!" She felt a hand slap her scorched back.
"Shut up, you little brat!" the voice hissed. Kitty tried to be quiet, but she couldn't stop crying. Eventually, she blacked out from the pain.
~*~*~
Scott's hands clenched the steering wheel as he stopped the car.
"This is the place," he said grimly. "Let's go kick some ass!"
"Oh but this place will burn!" Dru cried out. "A pretty fire!" she sang.
~*~*~
Jamie could hardly breathe. They were burning his skin, then freezing it, and then burning it again. Theresa was unconscious, and he had heard Kitty sobbing until she eventually stopped. He was praying to whatever god would listen that she wasn't dead. Jamie looked up at the scientists with tear-streaked eyes.
"What do you want from us?" he choked out.
The Mavericks, Theodore, Chelsea and Nyx
"Well, they want to punish you for being alive," Danjermond said as he looked into Jamie's eyes, monitering the pupil action. He smiled slightly. "I'm only after data. You make fascinating subjects."
~*~*~*~
Not again. Oh god, please. Not again. Octavian arched his back as far as he could against the restraints of the chair, screaming. His body started to jerk uncontrollably.
"Careful, or you'll kill it."
"And what a waste that would be."
"Quite."
~*~*~*~
Mordred gagged as they forced a tube down his throat. He was strapped down flat on his back and he couldn't move.
"Scalpel."
~*~*~*~
Chelsea coughed up the lining of her stomach, gasping and choking as she kept vomiting.
~*~*~*~
Demetria's face was forced under water, stilling her screams with a horrible gurgle.
"How long do you think it can go without air?"
"I'd give it two minutes." She tried to move her mouth out of the water.
~*~*~*~
They stepped out of the car. Nyx looked up at the sky. "Mom, if you please." A bolt of lightning struck her and her head snapped back as her mouth opened in a soundless howl. The wall in front of her buckled. Logan unsheathed his claws, and Sabre did likewise. Spike snarled, vibrating with impatience.
Slowly, the wall started to peel backwards and alarms sounded. Spike jumped in through a hole that was barely big enough to let him pass, scraping his shoulders on the brickwork.
Theresa, Dru and Hank
Jamie looked at Danjermond. "You are SICK! We're people too! We just happen to have a recessive gene that you don't. It;s not our fault we were born this way, so why are you punishing us?!" he cried out.
~*~*~
Drusilla waltzed into the building in game face. "Hunting time, it's hunting time, Tra-la-la-la-la-la!" she sang. Hank broke through the wall and walked in.
~*~*~
Theresa curled in on herself. She had just come to, but wished she hadn't. She felt so dirty. She had been saving herself, a good Catholic girl, and now she didn't even have her virginity to give to her husband. She cried, unable to vocalize the pain she felt.
The Mavericks, Theodore, Nyx, Sabre, Sabretooth, Logan and Chelsea
"You're valuable lab animals. And the Senate does refuse the use of fully human subjects in research. Mutants are a grey area..." Danjermond looked up with a faint air of pertrubation as the alarms sounded. "Bother." He started to walk out. "You know, I'm becoming very tired of my test subjects being taken. First those two last month, and now these ones..."
~*~*~*~
Spike followed his nose to where his boy was. The scent of blood, sex, fear and pain grew stronger until he was nearly gagging on it. He found Vortigern curled up in a corner and took his boy into his arms. Vortigern whimpered and tried to shrink away.
"No...please, no..."
"Shhh, luv." Spike felt his eyes well with tears and rocked slowly. Vortigern's eye cracked open.
"Spike?"
"It's me, pet."
"Oh god, Spike..." Vortigern started to cry in chest tearing sobs. Spike carefully lifted the headband off his boy's head and then fingered with the collar, wondering how he could get it off. He decided to find Wolverine, and got to his feet, cradling Vortigern.
~*~*~*~
Sabre followed Nyx down. "A wall around, to catch the mice, let none leave unless I do will it!" She cried out and a flare of magick raced through the building, sealing them all within an impenetrable bubble. She stumbled for a moment, and then ran on.
Sabre went a different way from her and carefully knocked out the men he came across, trussing them up like the animals they were. He could smell the blood and fear of the children on them, and he *really* didn't like it.
Nyx found Chelsea retching weakly in a cell, and bundled the child into her arms. "Shh, sweetie..." She concentrated.
"Hey, runt," Sabretooth sneered at Logan. The other mutant's jaw clenched.
"I don't have time for you, Creed."
"Let me out, and I'll help you fight." Logan deliberated. "I want truce for a day when this is done, to allow me to get the hell out of here."
"Truce." Logan nodded stiffly, and raked his claws through the cardreader. It whined, and the door opened. Sabretooth stepped through.
"Can't do anything about this, can you?" Sabretooth lifted his head to indicate the collar. Logan gritted his teeth and carefully cut the ring of metal and plastic from around his neck. Sabretooth massaged the skin, sighing in relief. "Let's go kill mutant haters."
~*~*~*~
"Aw, Christ!" Octavian hung limply against the bonds that held him to the chair. "We're under attack."
"Well, you know what to do."
"Yeah, where's that gun? Tally ho, and all that." Laughter.
~*~*~*~
Demetria pawed weakly at the man on top of her as he pulled down her pants. She'd swallowed a lot of water and suddenly she threw up.
"God, that's disgusting," she heard him say and thanked god as he moved off her.
~*~*~*~
Mordred arched his back as far as he could under the restraints and tried to move his head as he felt a knife start to cut around the back of his skull.
"Bone saw."
JESUS CHRIST!
Angelica and Roberto
Roberto had been knocked out & taken away from his holdings to places unknown. Angelica was left in the cell...alone. She just kept on crying. The use of her eyes was something she had always had & taken for granted. She thought that it might be a blessing she couldn't see what was going on around but she didn't like the feeling on no sight.
Then she heard the cell door open & footsteps coming towards her.
"Leave me alone" she wimpered.
The person said nothing. Then she felt a hand against her cheek & she shuddered. She started crying.
"Your a very pretty mutie you know" the unseen man said.
Angelica tried to move away from him but she couldn't.
"Don't struggle girl...it'll only make me angry. And you don't want that." he said with a snicker & felt her breast.
"I hope you f***ing rot in hell asshole. If you hurt me, I'm gonna track you down and rip your balls off!!!" Angelica screamed, going into a frenzy, trying to wave her hands about & get him off her.
"Dirty talk. I like that." he said in a low voice & then punched her across the face, knocking her out.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Roberto awoke to find a bright light shining in his face. He tried to move his head but it was being held in position.
"Don't attempt to struggle boy. If you do, an electric shock will go through your body. You don't want that do you?" a voice said.
"No" Roberto said, trying not to cry.
"Good. Now go back to sleep. Screaming just distracts me." the voice said & stuck a needle in Roberto. Within seconds, he was asleep again, not knowing what was happening.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Back at the mansion, a car pulled up to the driveway. He spoke into the speaker "Hello, this is Mr Jones. I'm Angelica's father. Could I see her?"
The voice on the other end didn't know what to do & they opened the gate.
The Mavericks, Nyx, Sabre, Chelsea, Logan and Sabretooth
Logan heard a girl cry out and he bolted down the corridor. He threw the attacker off her and sent him to the ground with one punch. The man hit a wall. Logan knelt down by her, Angelica? He was pretty sure that was her name. He carefully pulled her pants back up, turning his eyes away. She didn't need anymore stuff like that.
~*~*~*~
Demetria coughed weakly, and managed to get her eyes clear of water. She blinked. They were on the other side of the bed...and there was a scalpel by her hand. She grabbed it and went for them like an avenging angel.
~*~*~*~
Octavian lifted his head slightly, then let it drop again. God he was so tired.
~*~*~*~
A constant stream of curses tumbled from Mordred's lips, punctuated occasionally by howls of pain as they calmly worked away at the back of his head.
~*~*~*~
Nyx healed Chelsea of the awful nausea and picked her up. "We'll get you out, sweetie." She nuzzled the girl's head. "Promise. But first of all, I have some other work to do." She went to another empty cell, which smelt like Octavian and Demetria. She put Chelsea back down, and gave her the crossbow. "You have an idea how to use this?"
"Nathan was teaching me before..." Chelsea blinked tears from her eyes. "I can hit them if they get close."
"Good girl." Nyx ruffled Chelsea's red hair, then started out again.
~*~*~*~
Sabre followed the scents of two of the students. Girl and boy. The heady pheremones of sex, fear and blood wafted down to him, along with the smell of fire. He growled, and sped up.
~*~*~*~
Sabretooth killed another gaurd, his mouth and hands redstained.
Peter and Rahne
"Where is my daughter?!" Angelica's father yelled in Peters face.
"Sir, please calm down, I'm sure she is safe." Peter replied, trying to calm the man down.
"Calm down? How do you expect me to calm down when I, and from the sounds of it, you, have no clue where my daughter is?! Wheres the headmaster? I want to speak to him NOW!"
As the man yelled at Peter, Rahne stood & watched, not knowing what was going on. "Their just at the mall. Whats the problem?" she wondered.
At that moment, Sharon walked staright past her, watching the yelling. Rahne noticed that neither of them glared or attacked each other. Rahne hadn't seen Sharon for months. She just thought they were both doing a good job of avoiding each other. She went to follow the girl when she heard the sound of skin colliding with skin. She turned to see that Angelicas father had punched Peter, who was now shifting into his metal form.
Dru and X-men
Charles wheeled into the room. "Piotyr, Mr. Jones, please calm down. Mr. Jones, your daughter, along with several other students was at the mall, shopping, when she was taken by a group called the Friends of Humanity. A rescue team has already gone to get them back, so, please, do not worry, it won't help anything. I'm sure you'll be able to see your daughter soon."
~*~*~
Drusilla came down the hall, tracking the scent of the children. She noticed a Will O' the Wisp. "Take me to them, sparkle!" Dru asked, and she followed the wisp into a lab room. Kitty was shaking in unconsciousness, covered in burns. She grabbed the scientist and pulled off his clothes, and chained him to the wall. She beat him and tortured him, then she ripped off his testicles and fed them to him. She drank and turned him, and then pulled out all of his teeth. She picked up Kitty and cradled her in her arms.
"NYX!" she called out! "WE NEED YOU!" Dru carried Kitty into the next room where Jamie and Theresa were. Sabre was already there, trying to remove their collars.
"Lover!" Dru cried as she carried Kitty to him. "Look what they've done!" Kitty's entire body was covered in 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Dr. Danjermond was there, Jamie had kicked him in the chest and knocked him backwards. Scott came in and threw a force beam at Danjermond. Then he picked him up and held him against the wall.
"YOU DID THIS!" he screamed at him. He punched Danhermond across the face. "What do you have to say for yourself. What makes you think you have the right to hurt people like this, you asshole!?!"
Theodore, The Mavericks, X-men, Sabre, Nyx and Sabertooth
Danjermond just gave him an icy glare of contempt and thought about his family longingly. "*I* am a scientest. If I had not been forced to deal with such...amateurs, I can assure you that this would not have descended to this level." He raised his hand and felt his jaw, still glaring at Scott as if he were the one n the wrong.
Sabre growled. By the Eternal Mother, they were going to pay. "You need t' put her down, Dru. The burns could get infected before Nyx gets here." Logan ran in and quickly started cutting off the collars of the students.
"Nyx is looking for Mordred, Demetria, Octavian and a few other students, we haven't found them all yet," he said. "And Sabretooth is here as well. We have a truce, for a day. So, don't kill him no matter how much you want to."
~*~*~*~
Nyx found Demetria standing in a pool of blood with two bodies at her feet, crying. "Come on, sweetie." Nyx took Demetria's hand to lead her out, and the English girl yelped in pain.
"My feet!" Nyx sighed, knelt and healed the skin so Demetria could at least walk. "Where's Tavvie? I want my brother!"
"We'll find him," Nyx promised. She looked at the dead bodies. "You killed them?" Demetria nodded wordlessly, scalpel clenched tightly in one hand as she followed the cat.
~*~*~*~
Hank opened a door and found Octavian connected to various electric generators. He quickly freed the comatose youth and treated the surface burns from where the electrodes had been attached to bare skin.
~*~*~*~
Chelsea stared out the door, crossbow perched on her knees. If they came, could she shoot? She thought about Vortigern's screams and concluded that she could.
~*~*~*~
Mordred finally blacked out, the scientests still talking above his head.
"See, I was most sure we would find that the brain cells of a telepath were abnormal..."
"It could be the other ability he has, teleportation."
"No, no. See the curious structures in the language regions?"
~*~*~*~
Spike found a shower and started to at least wash some of the blood off Vortigern. "Shh, Vort, it's over. You're safe. I'll get you out, and then I'm *really* going to hurt some people." Vortigern stared back at him blankly, mind having retreated inside himself.
Hank and Dru
Hank walked into the room. "No. I am a scientist. You are a torturer. Mutants are still human beings! You have no right!" Hank hit the man's head against the wall and then dropped him. Dru set Kitty down on a table and she curled up on herself.
"Darling, can you get these collars off?" she asked Sabre. Then she looked at Danjermond. "Can I eat him, luv?"
Nyx, Sabre, Sabertooth, Logan, Theodore and Chelsea
"I think we'd want to wait for Spike and Nyx. They'd be ever so disappointed if we started without them." Sabre smiled cruelly. "And oh, there's some lovely toys they've left for us."
Logan started slicing delicately through the collars on the students, face set in a snarl of rage as he forced himself not to go feral and let the Wolverine out to play. Not yet. "Use their own devices on them, the bastards."
"Yesssss," Sabre hissed, baring his fangs. "But we still haven't found everyone. I'll go hunting." He slipped out of the room, and then Sabretooth swaggered up and leant on the doorframe.
"This is going to be fun." He smiled evilly. "Even Sinister doesn't go this far...mind you watch your lovely wife, Scotty boy. Sinister is just dying to get his hands on a Summers baby." He licked his bloody claws and Logan growled.
Spike pushed Sabretooth out of the way, and the mutant snarled but restrained himself. He looked at Drusilla as he laid Vortigern down on a bed. "Sire..." Vortigern's eyes were open but he wasn't looking at anything and he was barely breathing. Logan came over and sliced the collar off. It didn't get a reaction.
~*~*~*~
Nyx gathered Chelsea as she went back the other way, Demetria trailing her. The British girl's eyes were almost dead, and her clothes were splattered with blood from the men she'd killed. Nyx entered another room and quickly knocked out the two men who were inside. Then she saw Mordred on the table. She snarled and placed her hands over his head. "Heal him. Restore what was taken and remove what has been forced upon." A flare of electricity sparked from her hands and quickly his scalp knit back together. Another flare, and a chip appeared in midair for a moment before dropping to the floor. Nyx crushed it under a bootheel.
~*~*~*~
Danjermond looked up from where he had fallen, and laughed, blood spilling from his mouth. "Cognita habeo auctoritas." (Knowledge is its own authority.) He pushed his hands against the ground and sat up, knowing he was going to die. Probably slowly and painfully. "You truly are fools if you don't see that." His head turned to the side as Logan backhanded him, and he just laughed again at a joke only he understood.
Dru
Dru left the room to find all the living humans she could and then bound them and gagged them and tossed them into the corner with Danjermond.
"We should wait," Dru decided, "For all the children to be able to watch. They need to see their tormentors suffer." Dru sniffed. "It smells of sex and pain in here, it's intoxicating!"
Nyx and Sabre
Nyx and Sabre found Angelica and Roberto and chivvied the pair into coming with them. Minor spot healings by Nyx and soon they were all back in the room. Nyx looked at Spike and Logan, Sabre by her side, and jerked her head to the door. They nodded silently, and soon, working quickly, the four had all members of the research facility and the Friends of Humanity restrained and ready. Nyx looked at the X- Men.
"This is going to be dark, violent and bloody. If you want, I suggest you leave now. Ideals have no place here. Morality has no place. This belongs under rules older then your human conceptions."
Spike had marked ten of the humans with a slash across the face, growling softly. "These ten are mine. They hurt Vort."
Nyx blinked placidly, the pose delicately covering her overwhelming rage. "They are yours. This isn't the law, this is the *Lore*. Tradition of beings older then humans. This is demonic, dangerous and animal. Blooddebt can only be repaid in kind. And they have a lot of bleeding to do before they've paid in full."
Dru
Dru danced around. "Can I play with the doctor? I want these two, as well, they make good dollies!" She said. grabbing twn and dragging them aside. Scott and Hank both decided to sit this torture scene out, but instead they sat against the other wall with the students. Hank cradled Theresa in his arms, and Scott wrapped an arm around Jamie, to let him know somebody was there for him. He stroked Kitty's hair with his free hand.
Nyx, Sabre, Sabretooth and LOgan
Nyx laughed, and then conjured some old toys for Spike. Railroad spikes. He'd grinned, and then started to work on one of the men. Sabre started to delicately take to pieces with his claws and teeth the ones who had Theresa's scent on them.
Screams resounded as the two cats and the two vampires gradually worked through the restrained men. Danjermond watched, face expressionless. Sabretooth showed up again.
"Started without me? I feel snubbed."
Logan growled at him. "I suggest you start getting the hell out of here before your period of grace is up."
"I found something. Do you want to come look?" Logan glanced over at Nyx but she was busily engaged in hanging a man with his own intestines. He got up and followed Sabretooth out of the room. The two walked through the now silent halls, until Sabretooth stopped outside a leadlined room. Logan could smell the acrid burning smell of radiation coming from behind it. "Here." Sabretooth indicated a small porthole of leadlined glass. Logan looked through it.
He could see a curve of a back, gleaming in the radiation's glow. Black like cast iron and then the person got up and stalked across the room like a caged cat. The gleaming yellow eyes and the long blue-sheened black hair added to the impression of feline strength. The youth in the radiation filled room looked like a Classical statue of a god, and he was nude.
"So, what the hell do we do?" Logan growled. Sabretooth laughed.
"Turn off the radiation, and then let him out? I wanna see what he can do."
"He comes under the truce as well, Creed," Logan warned. Sabretooth flashed his fangs in a bitter smile, and then walked over to the control room he had found.
"See what you can do. I wanna get back before all of the bastards are dead." Sabretooth walked off, leaving Logan with the puzzle of how to get the kid out. He finally managed it and a door slid open. Immediately, the teenager shot out and ran down the corridor. Logan caught him easily and was frantically cursed at in Russian.
"Easy, easy kid. I'm a good guy." Logan held the teen's arms and yellow eyes watched him warily as his struggles ceased for a moment.
"Und I am supposed to believe dis? Borzhemoi!" The fight returned and spitting and hissing, Logan dragged him down the corridor.
"What happened to your clothes, bub?"
"Dey rotted. Under de radiation, da?" More docile now, but Logan knew that if an opportunity present itself, the boy would wriggle out of his grasp like an eel.
"How long you been down here?"
"A long, long time. Darahchyehvehaw!" (Bastard!) Logan grimaced as fangs sank into his arm, but didn't stop pulling. Whehn they got there, he was covered in rapidly healing scratches and the boy had still not yet told him his name. Just yelled at him in Russian, words he was sure were not at all complimentary. Nyx looked up, blood painted all over her.
"What have you found, sexy?"
"A kid. He was locked in a radiation room..." Logan tried to bring the boy further into the room.
"Nyet!" (No!)
"Can you find some clothes?" Logan said wearily. The room stank of blood and pain. Spike was onto the seventh man and Danjermond no longre watched, having been killed quite emphatically by Dru.
"Here." Nyx stripped one of the men who was still alive and threw them to Logan. "We can get him real clothes once we're out of here." Logan gave the clothes to the youth and he dressed, eyes glancing at them warily.
"Does he have a name?" Sabre inquired, pausing for a moment.
"He won't give me one," Logan growled.
"Behoodayehtey vehahshaheem eeemyehehnyehem?" (What is your name?) Nyx asked him.
"Ehsdayehehrzhehteyehr emyehehngeh!" (Bite me!)
"Well, this is going to be fun," Sabre said dryly. "Like we haven't got enough attitude at the school already."
"It's not like we can leave him here," Logan said. Meanwhile the dark elf youth had crept into the room and was staring at the body of Danjermond. He spat on it with a muttered guttural Russian curse, consigning the man's soul to hell. "He said he had been here for a long time..."
"Emoyeh eeenyah Sergei," he said suddenly. "Sergei Mikaelovitch Piotr Rasputin."
"Hello, Sergei," Nyx said quietly.
"I haff been herrre for so long. It ist harrrd to believe, da?"
"We understand," Sabre said. "Would you like to help?" An unholy gleam entered Sergei's eyes.
"I would be honourrred."
Angelica and Roberto
Angelica had been in a blank state while this was all happening. She could fathom everything that had been happening. Roberto just stood & watched the torture. He knew it was wrong but he also knew that something had been done to him & he didn't know what. He held onto Angelica the whole time. He loved her so much & he felt he had betrayed her by not being able to help her.
Suddenly Angelica said in a low voice "Stop. That's enough. There are people worried about us. We should go."
Vortigern and Nyx
Spike growled, loathe to leave his victims. "Take the anklebiters back. I still have work to do."
"Make them stop! Oh, make them be quiet!" Vortigern wailed suddenly. Spike went to him and Vortigern cowered back. "Don't touch me! Don't touch me!" Spike looked frustrated, and he sent his fist through one of their faces...literally. The man died instantly as slivers of bone pierced his brain. Vortigern's keening wail echoed off the walls.
"Let's take them home," Nyx said quietly. "I'll leave the ward up. Ever seen what happens to a vampire when it doesn't feed?"
"Perfect," Spike said. "That's just a perfect end. They'll last for days."
"I can do a few things...when we get out of this and I have access to spell materials." Nyx rubbed her eyes, layering another streak of blood across her face. "Healing things..."
"Yes, let's leave this benighted place," Hank said, nodding. Dru and Spike made sure all of the men would rise again as vampires.
"Tie to those who wake again, their souls. Osiris release them to their bodies. A second death, do they reach it, send them to my mother to do with as she would," Nyx chanted, eyes gleaming golden for a second. Sabre nodded in accordance. Osiris would see that their mother would do it. "Let us leave this place."
They made their way out of the research facilities, and Nyx opened a hole in the wall for them. Soon, they had all passed through and she sealed shut the wards with a gesture of finality. The men who would soon be vampires would be trapped inside to feel the ravening thirst and unable to assuage it. They drove back to the mansion.
Angelica, Roberto, Dani and Sam
They arrived back at the mansion later & everyone scattered of in different directions.
Roberto helped Angelica walk to the mansion & once near it, found there were packed bags waiting at the door.
"Their mine!" Angelica said surprised.
At that point her father stormed out & grabbed her from Roberto's hold.
"Come on Angelica, we're leaving!" he said, grabbing her arm.
"But..." Angelica exclaimed but was interrupted by her father.
"No way am I leaving you somewhere that will allow you to get kidnapped! Look at you! You've been beaten up! I'm taking you home. To safety!" he said, pulling her by the arm towards his car, carrying some of her bags with him. He put her into the car & child locked the doors.
"I've contacted your boss at that law firm today & she found another school for you. One where you won't have who-knows-what done to you!! he yelled, glaring at the staring faces as he grabbed her remaining bags.
He got into the car, as Roberto ran up to the car.
"Angel!" he screamed banging on the car windows as it started to leave.
"I love you!" she screamed back as the car pulled away. Roberto chased after it, Dani & Sam after him. He stopped at the gates & fell to his knees.
"I love you to" he said to himself & lowered his head.
Nyx, Sabre, Chelsea, Logan and the Mavericks
Nyx helped heal the worst of it with Sabre and Dawn's help, then collapsed shaking onto a bed. She had restored all the girls' virginity and healed the worst burns. Sabre and Dawn weren't far behind her. Logan carried her up to their bedroom and curled up with her. The professor found somewhere for Sergei to sleep, and convinced the mutant that he would be safe at the mansion.
Demetria had to be sedated. Octavian woke up but couldn't focus his eyes. Mordred couldn't speak. Chelsea was fine now. Spike couldn't get near Vortigern, no one could except for Mordred. Vortigern would scream and weep uncontrollably when any male came near him. Nathan cradled Chelsea to his chest and crooned country and western songs to her. There was much healing to be done. For bodies, minds and souls.
Dru
Dru was having fun with her 'dollies.' She'd stripped them and cut pictures into their chests. Then she pulled out all of their teeth and cut off their testicles. Then she forced the men to swollow their own testes. She drank one dry, and left him for dead, then she focused on the other, the man that had strapped Kitty down in the scalding tub.
"Pretty dolly, are you posable?" she asked, bending his legs backwards so that his kneecaps snapped. Then she did the same for his elbows, shoulders and hips.
"There are so many bones in the human bosy," she purred in his ear. "Do you know exactly how many?" she asked him. He shook his head.
"Then let's find out. One," she said, snapping his upper arm. "Two, three," she counted, breaking his forearm. "Shall I continue?" she asked Sabre.
Theresa, Kitty and Jean
Kitty and Theresa were side by side on beds in the infirmary. Jean was hydrating them, and praying to God that she and Hank wouldn't have to give Kitty skin grafts. Jamie had been sent back to his room after he sat by Theresa's bed for hours. After he slept a bit he came back.
"Dr. Grey, I man Dr Summers?" he asked Jean. "I just remembered something. Some of us, they injected us with something, I'm not exactly sure what, and they they took a lot of blood. I heard the doctors talking t each other, they said somehing about Legacy and doing blood tests." He shuddered at the memory.
"Thank you for telling me, Jamie. Hank and I migh need to do some tests on your blood, but since we already took samples, we shouldn't need to take any more. Have you gotten any sleep yet?"
"ABout an hour, I think."
"Try to get more sleep, Jamie," she said in a very motherly voice.
Hank? she projected into his mind. Jamie just told me that some of the students were injected with something, can you come down here and help me test the blood sampples?
Hank
"Of course, Jean," Hank said as he entered the room. "Let's get started." The two started to work in companionable silence. "Here...look at Chelsea's blood sample. I don't know what that is...it's mutating constantly. But she doesn't seem to be showing any sideeffects..."
Sabre
"Of course, Dru love," Sabre purred. "Don't they have some lovely knives?"
"Sharrrp...see how you like it, dolboy'eb!" Sergei hissed as he drew blood red symbols over one of their chests. The man screamed and Sergei licked at his fingers thoughtfully. "You never stopped vhen it was I who scrrreamed." He bent back to his work.
Jean and Kitty
Jean ran a sample of Jamie's blood uner her microscope. "Hank, look at this, something is attacking the healthy cells like crazy!" Kitty rolled over in her bed, and then whimpered because it hurt.
Hank
"Yes. I think this may be infectious...we better isolate them, just to be sure." Hank looked worried. "I'll go talk to the professor. Can you start moving them into quarintine? Use your telekiniesis to move them, to try and minimize the rick of infection."
Dru
Dru rolled him over and picked up a nice, sharp scalpel. She started to carve poetry into his back.
"William, recite the poem you used to say to me when we'd go out on a massacre," she asked with a pout.
Spike
"Eh, right." Spike paused for a moment. "Blood running in rivers. A night of the dark. Screams like slivers. Desire the black and hide from the light. A man is best known by what he does in the night." He bent back down to killing.
Jean
"Sure," Jean said and she telekinetically moved Theresa into a room that had been set up as a biohazard bubble. There were a few beds, and she place Tracy in one. She telepathically called up to Jamie and Chelsea.
Jamie, Chelsea, I need you in the infirmary, now, please try to avoid contact with people on your way down, she warned.
Dru
Drusilla carved Spike's verse into the screaming man's back. "Oh, Spike, it feels like an age since we did this last! And Sabre, I love to see a man who can torture!" she daned over to Sabre and swung around his neck, kissing him.
Chelsea and Nathan
Chelsea started. Nathan nodded sadly. He could see the virus racing through her system. "Go, little red. They'll find a way to stop it." Chelsea nodded, frightened, then ran down to the Medlab, avoiding people on her way.
Sabre
Sabre kissed her back, his own mouth red with blood. "And I love a woman who understands the art of pain. It's underappreciated."
Jean
Jamie looked confused. "What's going on, Dr. Summers?" he asked.
"There's a virus in your blood, and Hank and I are unsure of how it's transmitted, so we need to quarantine you for the time being. I'm sorry, will you go through here, please?" she asked, pointing to the qurantine room. Jamie slipped in and kissed Tracy's forehead before sitting on one of the spare beds.
Chelsea
Chelsea looked at the two older teenagers, arms wrapped around herself. "I can see it now," she said almost calmly. "Racing through our blood...it's beacuse we're mutants. It's targeted at us because we're mutants. I can see that all through it."
Jean
You said they mentioned the Legacy Virus?" Jean asked, they nodded. Telepathically, Jean called for Nyx.
Nyx? I need a favour. I need you to go to where you found the students, and see if they left any files on their work. Three of the children have been infected with some sort of virus, it's flying through their blood and eating the good cells! she told Nyx.
Nyx
Ooooh, dammit. Nyx thought to herself. Well, at least the vampires shouldn't have awoken yet. I can't. I'm exhausted. But no one else will be able to get through the wards. Nyx was frustrated. And tomorrow, they'll all be vampires. Starving bloodlust crazed vampires.
Jean
Jean thought this over for a moment. What about your sister? Has she healed enough to go? Jean asked. We need to know what's been done, she said, as frustrated as Nyx was.
Nyx and Priss
Maybe. Nyx concentrated, and Priss replied sleepily. They conversed for a few minutes. She's in. What does she need to look for specifically?
Jean
Files of any kind. Any documentation about something called the Legacy Virus, and any experiments they'fve done on the children, Jean explained.
Priss and Nyx
Priss made her way through the dead research lab and found all the paper files she could. Then she got the computers and lifted everything to the mansion. She deposited them in the Medlab, and went home before she fell down.
They should be in the Medlab now. I need to sleep. Nyx told Jean plainly.
Jean
Okay, rest now, she told Nyx. Then she started to look through the files. Hank? I got the files! she projected.
Hank
"Good, good," Hank said in a relieved voice. He came out and started to study through the hardcopy files. "Who would you suggest we got to dig through the computers?"
Jean
"Bobby's good with computers, isn't he?" she asked. So she called out.
Bobby? Can you come down to the medlab?
Bobby
Bobby sauntered out from his room and down to the medlab.
"You rang?"
Hank
"Can you go into the computers Priss liberated from the labs, and see what infomation you can find, please?" Hank asked Bobby. "We can start on the hardcopy but if they were anything like most medical units, most of the work and the final results will be on the computers."
Bobby
Bobby nodded. "Of course."
He headed out to the computers.
Chelsea and Hank
Chelsea bit her lip and wriggled. She passed a hand over her forehead. Oh, she was starting to feel sick...
Hank and Jean got started on the papers from the labs.
Dru
"Pain can be so wonderful sometimes," Dru replied, nipping at Sabre's neck.
Bobby
Bobby sauntered back into the room.
"You know, I don't know how to get anything from these computers. Why don't you ask Doug? He's better at it than me."
Jean
Jean sighed. "IS Sabre still awake? I know that he's quite good with computers. See if you can find Doug, as well," Jean asked Bobby, trying hard to concentrate on finding anything substantial from these notes.
Bobby
Bobby nodded and headed off to find Doug. He found him after ten minutes.
"Hey, Doug, can you go to the computer lab and see if you can work out what the hell is going on?"
Hank
"Not yet...but did you see some of those DNA strands? They have obvious anamolies that would lead to death for the mother or the child," Hank said in obvious distress. "Oh my stars and garters, I hope these aren't the DNA samples for children that have actually been created."
Jean
Jean's stress level was through the roof. Finally, the baby decided that Mommy was too stressed out, andpushed the table away, and then basically floated Jean onto an empty bed. Pretty soon, she was asleep.
Hank
Hank smiled fondly, then settled to work through more of the files. There was so much...and they hadn't even gotten started on the computers.
Doug and Forge
"Sure!" Doug said & stood to leave. "I'll find Forge as well!"
With that, he ran off to find Forge & then head to the computer lab.
Ten minutes later he & Forge were walking into the computer lab.
"What do you need Hank? Where's Jean?" Forge asked as Doug gazed around all the notes, etc that was scattered around.
Hank
Hank looked up for a moment, then returned to perusing the notes he held in his paw. "These are the records of the research facility we destroyed. Can you go through the computers and see if you can find anything pertaining to a virus named Legacy, and also an alien called Jane Hall, AKA Mouse? Of course, we will need to know all of the infomation on the computers sooner or later, but those are the priorities."
Doug and Forge
Doug & Forge headed straight to a computer each.
"Doug, you take Legacy, I'll take Mouse." Forge commanded.
"Yes sir" Doug replied.
Hank
Hank leafed through the papers, making notes on a legal pad next to him. It was all utterly twisted of course, but brilliant. Evil, demented and abhorrent, but the theory behind some of the DNA splicing was impeccable. If they had actually managed to do this...there were no limits to what they could create. They could splice animal to human to mutant to alien...and these unknown lines of codes he was looking at. They were totally different to anything he had seen before. He wondered what they could be.