Post by Tunder28 on May 29, 2005 13:17:29 GMT -5
GOOD vs. EVIL 18
Warning: this one’s a long one guys.
The attack suddenly started when Sabre tooth jumped forwards at Merrick, and only earned him self a sore face when Merrick knocked him away with a swift strike.
Shal and Logan charged forwards but Merrick was easily dodging their attacks and pushing them backwards towards the other group.
Scott nodded to Pyro and Jesse, while waiting for Shal and Logan to move aside.
Logan’s claws couldn’t get close since Merrick was super fast. Shalimar swung her self over Merrick and kicked out at his leg in order to slow him down, but he was to fast. As she kicked out, he swung out the way and swot her legs out.
Before he could continue his attack on Shalimar, Logan threw him self at Merrick. Merrick was pushed back, but only for the moment. He lifted Logan up by his throat and threw him back into Sabre tooth that was just getting back up.
Shalimar rose back up, and as she did, Merrick kicked her square in the chest, making her chest instantly burn and sting. She landed right on Logan and Sabre tooth.
Merrick looked back at the small group of three and started laughing. “ Well…I guess you were all expecting to beat me. Just to remind all of you I was trained at Genomex”. He laughed loud and the depth of it rumbled in every ones chests.
Merrick looked over at Reign who was shooting blue beams out of her hands at another man. “Reign…come here!”
But she didn’t, and that was when he realised what they’d done. He dried again to call her back to his side, “ REIGN!” But again, it didn’t work. He could see by how she growled in a snarl and ran at the man, her father he had recognized easily. He’d been the one to sent Reign to Genomex. He left her to it, always thinking she could have her fun for now, while he had his.
Scott and Pyro both shot off an attack at Merrick, but he was only pushed back a step. He looked down at his chest, then back up at them and smiled, “ Come now boys, you gotta do better than that if you actually want to leave a mark”.
“ Well try this then”. Brennan through his energy towards him, and Merrick laughed at the sudden sight of Brennan. But he misinterpreted Brennan’s actions.
Brennan’s attack missed as Merrick had dodged to the right, but Scott and Pyro had taken another shot. That one hit him and he was knocked to the floor.
Reign was out of control, doing very thing in her power to attack the man who stood in front of her. Eric had to keep her attention. “ Reign, you don’t understand. They took you from me-” “-NO! Shut up!” She ran at him, but the man kept lifting him self up into the air. That was when she resorted to using her power to try and shoot him down.
Merrick lifted up onto his arms and knee’s; slightly shaken they’d had got such an effective hit on him. Angry his winds shot out from his back and he got back up with a new emotion playing in his eyes.
Only Brennan could have pulled that trick off on him. He glared angrily at him.
“ What’s wrong Merrick…losing your temper”? Brennan was smiling slightly, and Merrick thought to him self, * I’ll wipe that smile off your face boy, and make you watch your friends die*.
Merrick swished his wings and a gust of wind flew at them, just before Scott and Pyro could get another shot off. He flew forwards and knocked straight into Jesse, and to his surprise, he bounced backwards off of Jesse and fell to the floor.
He looked up confused at the smiling figure in front of him, and before Jesse could react, Merrick grabbed his legs and flew up into the air, holding Jesse up side down. As soon as Jesse unfazed, he swung down and kicked Jesse in the ribs, sending him flying right back to the ground. When he landed, he saw a woman with white hair standing next to Brennan. Unknown to him, he was about to receive the worse attack of his life.
But he continued to watch, trying to show he was amused because of their weak attempts of attacks.
Storm looked at Brennan weary, “ Are you sure your ready?” Brennan looked from her to Merrick and nodded. “ Just make sure you ready, I’ll try and keep him busy, along with Jean, at least until your ready, ok”.
Storm nodded and then flew up into the air, where a thunderstorm started to pick up increasingly fast. She held her hands above her head, and electricity started to spark on her, and in the skies.
Brennan sighed deep before staring straight at Merrick. Merrick had no idea what was going on, but sensing a fight, his wings retracted again. Brennan walked towards him and Merrick’s smile grew across his face, “ So you’ve finally decided to face me now”. Brennan didn’t say any thing, but merely allowed some energy to spark off him.
Merrick laughed, “ Don’t you remember Brennan, you get weak during thunder storms…what did it feel like. Would the thunder almost seem like it was calling to you…is it calling now Brennan”. In response to his words, thunder, crackled in the background, making Brennan tense slightly. Merrick saw him tense and continued to laugh.
“ Merrick, you wanted a fight…well here I am”. Merrick stopped laughing after Brennan said that. “ You know Brennan, you always were determined, but too stubborn. Well, lets see if you’ve gotten any better”.
Reign threw a punch at Eric, but he knocked it aside, “ Reign, don’t you remember me?” She stopped for a moment, as if she was remembering some thing, then through another punch, this one faster than the others and hit Eric directly in the jaw.
She stood over him and looked down at him, fist clenched in front of her so he could see, but her eyes, so roar from crying and fully of rage.
“ Yes!…I remember you. You put me in Genomex. Well…what’s your excuse, couldn’t put up with me”. She through a blaze of blue energy at Eric, making him instantly roll to the side to get away. Eric climbed back up, “ Reign, I’ve been trying to get you back. You’re my daughter and you belong at my side”.
She crunched her fist so hard, and gritted her teeth as if she was about to explode. Her eyes were blazing like wild fire. “ I BELONG TO NO ONE!”
With that she through a blast of energy at Eric, throwing him back about 20 feet away, and there he lay unconscious.
Merrick run at Brennan, and started to throw well-aimed punches, he was taking it easy on him, just so he could work him up. Brennan dodged them and knocked others to the side, but there was that one off kick, that kept knocking his leg and then a punch would be delivered.
He could feel the old emotion of failure coming back, he couldn’t handle Merrick because he was too strong. He used to think he could, but now, like Merrick had said, he’s become weak.
Seconds after he got back up after an upper cut from Merrick, he heard Charles in his head. * You need to push harder Brennan, make him know your better than him. Don’t throw punches to hurt, throw them to aim*.
He then heard Adam in his head, * Brennan, storm may need more time, try to mix your moves, use your energy in punches*.
Merrick threw a punch and to his surprise, Brennan had knocked it to the side, but had stepped forwards an hit him directly in the jaw. To his own surprise, Brennan had released energy directly into his jaw, and had some how, damaged the nerves. Now his mouth twitched and jaw was numb.
“What’s a matter Merrick, cant hit me like you used to when I was held down”. Brennan hit him again before he could swing fully round and Merrick hit the floor, jaw and mouth bloody. Brennan was using a key he always used to use with Merrick, his weakness Brennan knew. It was like his own, but when Merrick lost his temper, he was clumsy, when Brennan lost his temper…he was deadly.
Merrick roared and jumped back up to run straight at Brennan. He tackled him to the floor and laughed in his face when he couldn’t get back up.
Brennan felt a spark of energy shoot through his arm and shot it directly at Merrick’s face. Out of shock, Merrick release his hold on him and Brennan through Merrick back with a hard push.
Shalimar ran to Brennan and helped him up. His ribs were hurting again from the fall with Merrick. Merrick must have weighed about 3 pounds more than Brennan with all the muscle on him, but the bigger they were, the harder they fell.
She smiled at him as he got back up, breathless. He smiled back, but it didn’t last long. Merrick threw his hand forwards at them and they were both threw backwards into Scott and Pyro.
Logan ran at Merrick and sliced a wing before he could fly off. Merrick fell back down and when he landed, knocked Logan back with the other wind. He was being surrounded now.
Scott shot his other wing and Merrick roar in pain as a hole was newly formed by Scott’s shot. He stood up and suddenly realised, they had got him surrounded, and they could pick him off…but there still was hope.
“ Reign!…rid me of these pests”.
Reign looked over at Merrick and started to walk towards the group.
“ Reign don’t!…he doesn’t control you no more”. Brennan shouted to Reign, and her walking slowed increasingly. She looked at him, her eyes lost, “…I….have, to”.
“ No! you have a choice Reign”, the more Brennan talked the more Merrick wanted to kill him, finish the job he’d started that day he beat him to the floor.
Images of that day flashed back in his mind, and Merrick smiled at the reminder. He knew what he could use against her.
“ Reign…don’t you want us all to be a family again. Me, you,…Brennan, the GSA”.
She shivered and gripped her head. “ I…don’t know”.
Brennan moved towards her, and stopped about 10 feet away, to talk softly to her. “Reign…I don’t know about you…but I’ll never go back to that life. I’d never let you relive it again. You knew how bad it was…don’t let him drag you back to it all. All of it can end here…but its your choice”.
Her head lifted to him as if she was expecting him to continue. She was making a choice though, in her eyes, where he could see it. He was her family, a protective brother she’d always wanted, a best friend she would relay on her emotions onto. She was struggling to see past things.
Merrick saw her trying to fully brake away from his control, and thought it best to go to plan B. “ Reign…if you don’t help me…then I’ll kill Brennan”.
She froze, and then her head shot up at him. Her eyes were angry, but pleading with him. “ No…Merrick…don’t”.
Brennan felt an memory suddenly resurface, she’d said that in the vision he’d had the other day, when Logan had found him in the Dojo. She begged and still Merrick went on.
“ I will unless you help me…take down these pests and then grab Brennan. He is confused Reign, he does not know what he’s doing”.
Brennan shook his head, “ Reign, don’t listen to him Please!” but he could tell he was quickly losing her. She looked at Merrick, his smiling face, that horrible face she’d feared all her life.
Brennan suddenly got an idea. “ Reign…he’s right…” Every one swung round and looked at him like he was a mad man. However, he did have Reign’s full attention.
“ He could kill me…but would you let him”.
Merrick growled low in his throat, again Brennan had corrupted her mind.
Reign’s eyes suddenly changed, and her protective nature to him was being tapped into. She looked at Brennan, and swung a dangerous glance towards Merrick. The look he saw…it wasn’t anger, but some thing else. He now knew he needed to flee. Reign had been under his control so she knew what things made her master strong…and what made him weak.
Before he could make a brake for it, Logan tackled him, “ Hey Bub, don’t leave when the parties just started”.
Merrick growled, but he was losing the energy he had drawn from Reign quick. When at Genomex, he’d constantly drew energy…strength from both Brennan and Reign. But now neither was under his control…his strength was greatly decreasing.
Reign started to walk towards Merrick, but stopped next to Brennan, and suddenly looked at him with innocent eyes. Her voice a whisper, “ What if I fail…”
Brennan smiled trying to show her how much he knew, she wouldn’t. “…you wont”.
She turned back to Merrick and continued her walk towards him.
He was scared now, his eyes wide as she walked towards him, his thought’s racing.
* What have I got my self into*.
Reign reached him and he froze expecting a blaze of energy to tear his arms and legs off.
“ Reign…wait”
Brennan walked up behind her, and looked down at Merrick. “ I want to know…why did you come back Merrick”.
Merrick seemed to gain some of his old self-back. He smile was evil as he looked up at both of them. “May as well, there is no way out.”
“ Eckhart wanted Reign transferred away from you Brennan. You two were becoming, too dependant on each other. We expected the both of you to become stronger…but you didn’t. you refused to do any thing…” he smiled sickly again, “…but we had our ways of making you do things. Reign was released from the program, what had it been, two years that we left Brennan in the program before realising we couldn’t go any further. The risk of a brake down from one of you was a risk too high. We figured if we kept you close by… the project could be continued.”
He looked up with anger flooding his eyes at Brennan, “ But you had to do a runner from your foster home…and we never found you again. Then Reign was lost also, and we feared you two had found each other again. If that was the case…Genomex would have crumbled….but it wasn’t. However, Eckhart doesn’t look kindly at failure and threw me away…after all my life of protecting him”. Merrick huffed angrily but then found some thing to smile about.
“ So I though it would be so ironic…to use the two of you again, to take Eckhart on. Show him how wrong he was. You both have gotten so strong over the years that I knew Eckhart would have no escape…but you could have fell out of sink with each other…so I knew training was in order”.
“ I searched every where, trying to find the both of you. When I did, I slowly started putting things into motion to bring the two of you together again. I soon found out where Brennan had ran off to….Mutant x…while Reign was still nowhere in to be found. I knew I couldn’t get close to you Brennan, since Adam had you on such a tight leash…and besides going after the strongest of you two would have been death. But I knew also that you would never fight her…not even if she was here to kill you.
So I found her, with another family who took her in, raised her. She was easy picking’s”.
Brennan crossed his arm’s, he could tell it was effecting Reign to hear it all again. He nodded at Merrick, “ Is that all…or is there more”. Merrick smiled up at him “ You always were the stubborn one, that’s why we were so hard on you. Reign would have broke if we put her through your procedure…but you didn’t”. he finished off his speech with a smirk and small laugh.
Brennan felt an overwhelming urge to snap his neck, but knew Merrick was just trying to get him angry. When Brennan didn’t retaliate, Merrick’s smile faded with his laugh.
Reign was froze in her spot, too mixed up in the past to move.
Before any one could move Merrick shot his winds out and blew every one except Brennan and Reign 20 feet away. He was tired and needed to gain some strength…fast.
Reign was no use to him now, but he could use Brennan. Before Brennan could build up an arc Merrick grabbed him around the neck and held Brennan’s back to his chest. Holding him by the throat, Brennan was trying to get his hold on his neck to loosed.
Before he started to try and draw energy out of Brennan, he felt the thrill of the struggle, like he used to get off him and Reign. It was like a drug to him…along with the energy that would soon be flowing in his veins. He smiled against Brennan’s head and started to speak into Brennan’s ear.
“ Don’t worry, at least you can say you put up a fight” he laughed and Brennan struggled more, feeling the tingle in his joints that normally came seconds before Merrick started to drain him.
The energy was very slowly being drawn from Brennan, and Merrick could tell Brennan was feeling it because his struggling was decreasing. He laughed again into Brennan’s ear, using as a shield so none of the others could get a shot off.
“ Its over Brennan”
Brennan felt his arms starting to droop and tried to free him self another time.
*No…not quite yet*. He gripped Merrick’s hand and gained some air to breath. He almost wanted to laugh back at Merrick…but that would spoil the surprise.
Brennan laugh was short and Merrick stopped the drain.
“ you know what Merrick…your right”. Brennan gripped Merrick’s arms with his own and scuped his legs around Merrick’s so he couldn’t run.
“It is over!”
Brennan looked up to the sky, “ Storm!”. Merrick looked up and suddenly realised he’d forgot about the other mutant, the women who’d flew up into the sky.
Storm had a huge ball of swirling thunder above her, her whole body sparkling with it. Her head looked down on them, and her eyes, so white now had a rage to them.
The thunder above her head grew and started to swirl more wildly.
Merrick tried to move, but Brennan had his arms and legs in a vice lock. He struggled hard, and growled at Brennan. “ Brennan, she’ll kill you too”. Brennan laughed, at Merrick, “ Well, not really. You see, I control electricity, I’m an Elemental, I can take the energy…but you can’t”.
Merrick was wobbling like wild now, Brennan laughing in the background because Merrick was panicking…and when you panic…you die.
Storm thrust her hands down at the two of them. The thunder flew down, heading directly for Merrick.
” Brennan, it’ll kill you too…let me go!” Brennan shook his head, “ No it wont Merrick. It’ll just pass through me, and straight into you”.
The Thunder was a few seconds away, but it didn’t take it long before it attracted to another energy source…Brennan. The thunder hit him…but he didn’t seem to notice. Merrick how ever did. He howled in agony, but the thunder drowned out the noise, throwing him back wards and Brennan, a few feat forwards.
When Merrick hit the floor, his flesh was singed and pieces of his hear was on fire. His chest did not raise again, his heart…if he ever had one…did not beat, ever again.
Storm landed a few feet away from Brennan and walked towards him. He started to get up and when she saw him rise fully, smiled. He smiled back and Shalimar came running over to him. “ Brennan, are you ok”.
“ Ye but…” He shivered bad, and then smiled when Shal and Storm both looked at him. “ God that feels weird…feels like I’m tingling all inside”.
Charles was inside his mind again, * Brennan…its finally over now*. Brennan nodded, * Ye, it finally is…now the past can be at rest hopefully*.
Warning: this one’s a long one guys.
The attack suddenly started when Sabre tooth jumped forwards at Merrick, and only earned him self a sore face when Merrick knocked him away with a swift strike.
Shal and Logan charged forwards but Merrick was easily dodging their attacks and pushing them backwards towards the other group.
Scott nodded to Pyro and Jesse, while waiting for Shal and Logan to move aside.
Logan’s claws couldn’t get close since Merrick was super fast. Shalimar swung her self over Merrick and kicked out at his leg in order to slow him down, but he was to fast. As she kicked out, he swung out the way and swot her legs out.
Before he could continue his attack on Shalimar, Logan threw him self at Merrick. Merrick was pushed back, but only for the moment. He lifted Logan up by his throat and threw him back into Sabre tooth that was just getting back up.
Shalimar rose back up, and as she did, Merrick kicked her square in the chest, making her chest instantly burn and sting. She landed right on Logan and Sabre tooth.
Merrick looked back at the small group of three and started laughing. “ Well…I guess you were all expecting to beat me. Just to remind all of you I was trained at Genomex”. He laughed loud and the depth of it rumbled in every ones chests.
Merrick looked over at Reign who was shooting blue beams out of her hands at another man. “Reign…come here!”
But she didn’t, and that was when he realised what they’d done. He dried again to call her back to his side, “ REIGN!” But again, it didn’t work. He could see by how she growled in a snarl and ran at the man, her father he had recognized easily. He’d been the one to sent Reign to Genomex. He left her to it, always thinking she could have her fun for now, while he had his.
Scott and Pyro both shot off an attack at Merrick, but he was only pushed back a step. He looked down at his chest, then back up at them and smiled, “ Come now boys, you gotta do better than that if you actually want to leave a mark”.
“ Well try this then”. Brennan through his energy towards him, and Merrick laughed at the sudden sight of Brennan. But he misinterpreted Brennan’s actions.
Brennan’s attack missed as Merrick had dodged to the right, but Scott and Pyro had taken another shot. That one hit him and he was knocked to the floor.
Reign was out of control, doing very thing in her power to attack the man who stood in front of her. Eric had to keep her attention. “ Reign, you don’t understand. They took you from me-” “-NO! Shut up!” She ran at him, but the man kept lifting him self up into the air. That was when she resorted to using her power to try and shoot him down.
Merrick lifted up onto his arms and knee’s; slightly shaken they’d had got such an effective hit on him. Angry his winds shot out from his back and he got back up with a new emotion playing in his eyes.
Only Brennan could have pulled that trick off on him. He glared angrily at him.
“ What’s wrong Merrick…losing your temper”? Brennan was smiling slightly, and Merrick thought to him self, * I’ll wipe that smile off your face boy, and make you watch your friends die*.
Merrick swished his wings and a gust of wind flew at them, just before Scott and Pyro could get another shot off. He flew forwards and knocked straight into Jesse, and to his surprise, he bounced backwards off of Jesse and fell to the floor.
He looked up confused at the smiling figure in front of him, and before Jesse could react, Merrick grabbed his legs and flew up into the air, holding Jesse up side down. As soon as Jesse unfazed, he swung down and kicked Jesse in the ribs, sending him flying right back to the ground. When he landed, he saw a woman with white hair standing next to Brennan. Unknown to him, he was about to receive the worse attack of his life.
But he continued to watch, trying to show he was amused because of their weak attempts of attacks.
Storm looked at Brennan weary, “ Are you sure your ready?” Brennan looked from her to Merrick and nodded. “ Just make sure you ready, I’ll try and keep him busy, along with Jean, at least until your ready, ok”.
Storm nodded and then flew up into the air, where a thunderstorm started to pick up increasingly fast. She held her hands above her head, and electricity started to spark on her, and in the skies.
Brennan sighed deep before staring straight at Merrick. Merrick had no idea what was going on, but sensing a fight, his wings retracted again. Brennan walked towards him and Merrick’s smile grew across his face, “ So you’ve finally decided to face me now”. Brennan didn’t say any thing, but merely allowed some energy to spark off him.
Merrick laughed, “ Don’t you remember Brennan, you get weak during thunder storms…what did it feel like. Would the thunder almost seem like it was calling to you…is it calling now Brennan”. In response to his words, thunder, crackled in the background, making Brennan tense slightly. Merrick saw him tense and continued to laugh.
“ Merrick, you wanted a fight…well here I am”. Merrick stopped laughing after Brennan said that. “ You know Brennan, you always were determined, but too stubborn. Well, lets see if you’ve gotten any better”.
Reign threw a punch at Eric, but he knocked it aside, “ Reign, don’t you remember me?” She stopped for a moment, as if she was remembering some thing, then through another punch, this one faster than the others and hit Eric directly in the jaw.
She stood over him and looked down at him, fist clenched in front of her so he could see, but her eyes, so roar from crying and fully of rage.
“ Yes!…I remember you. You put me in Genomex. Well…what’s your excuse, couldn’t put up with me”. She through a blaze of blue energy at Eric, making him instantly roll to the side to get away. Eric climbed back up, “ Reign, I’ve been trying to get you back. You’re my daughter and you belong at my side”.
She crunched her fist so hard, and gritted her teeth as if she was about to explode. Her eyes were blazing like wild fire. “ I BELONG TO NO ONE!”
With that she through a blast of energy at Eric, throwing him back about 20 feet away, and there he lay unconscious.
Merrick run at Brennan, and started to throw well-aimed punches, he was taking it easy on him, just so he could work him up. Brennan dodged them and knocked others to the side, but there was that one off kick, that kept knocking his leg and then a punch would be delivered.
He could feel the old emotion of failure coming back, he couldn’t handle Merrick because he was too strong. He used to think he could, but now, like Merrick had said, he’s become weak.
Seconds after he got back up after an upper cut from Merrick, he heard Charles in his head. * You need to push harder Brennan, make him know your better than him. Don’t throw punches to hurt, throw them to aim*.
He then heard Adam in his head, * Brennan, storm may need more time, try to mix your moves, use your energy in punches*.
Merrick threw a punch and to his surprise, Brennan had knocked it to the side, but had stepped forwards an hit him directly in the jaw. To his own surprise, Brennan had released energy directly into his jaw, and had some how, damaged the nerves. Now his mouth twitched and jaw was numb.
“What’s a matter Merrick, cant hit me like you used to when I was held down”. Brennan hit him again before he could swing fully round and Merrick hit the floor, jaw and mouth bloody. Brennan was using a key he always used to use with Merrick, his weakness Brennan knew. It was like his own, but when Merrick lost his temper, he was clumsy, when Brennan lost his temper…he was deadly.
Merrick roared and jumped back up to run straight at Brennan. He tackled him to the floor and laughed in his face when he couldn’t get back up.
Brennan felt a spark of energy shoot through his arm and shot it directly at Merrick’s face. Out of shock, Merrick release his hold on him and Brennan through Merrick back with a hard push.
Shalimar ran to Brennan and helped him up. His ribs were hurting again from the fall with Merrick. Merrick must have weighed about 3 pounds more than Brennan with all the muscle on him, but the bigger they were, the harder they fell.
She smiled at him as he got back up, breathless. He smiled back, but it didn’t last long. Merrick threw his hand forwards at them and they were both threw backwards into Scott and Pyro.
Logan ran at Merrick and sliced a wing before he could fly off. Merrick fell back down and when he landed, knocked Logan back with the other wind. He was being surrounded now.
Scott shot his other wing and Merrick roar in pain as a hole was newly formed by Scott’s shot. He stood up and suddenly realised, they had got him surrounded, and they could pick him off…but there still was hope.
“ Reign!…rid me of these pests”.
Reign looked over at Merrick and started to walk towards the group.
“ Reign don’t!…he doesn’t control you no more”. Brennan shouted to Reign, and her walking slowed increasingly. She looked at him, her eyes lost, “…I….have, to”.
“ No! you have a choice Reign”, the more Brennan talked the more Merrick wanted to kill him, finish the job he’d started that day he beat him to the floor.
Images of that day flashed back in his mind, and Merrick smiled at the reminder. He knew what he could use against her.
“ Reign…don’t you want us all to be a family again. Me, you,…Brennan, the GSA”.
She shivered and gripped her head. “ I…don’t know”.
Brennan moved towards her, and stopped about 10 feet away, to talk softly to her. “Reign…I don’t know about you…but I’ll never go back to that life. I’d never let you relive it again. You knew how bad it was…don’t let him drag you back to it all. All of it can end here…but its your choice”.
Her head lifted to him as if she was expecting him to continue. She was making a choice though, in her eyes, where he could see it. He was her family, a protective brother she’d always wanted, a best friend she would relay on her emotions onto. She was struggling to see past things.
Merrick saw her trying to fully brake away from his control, and thought it best to go to plan B. “ Reign…if you don’t help me…then I’ll kill Brennan”.
She froze, and then her head shot up at him. Her eyes were angry, but pleading with him. “ No…Merrick…don’t”.
Brennan felt an memory suddenly resurface, she’d said that in the vision he’d had the other day, when Logan had found him in the Dojo. She begged and still Merrick went on.
“ I will unless you help me…take down these pests and then grab Brennan. He is confused Reign, he does not know what he’s doing”.
Brennan shook his head, “ Reign, don’t listen to him Please!” but he could tell he was quickly losing her. She looked at Merrick, his smiling face, that horrible face she’d feared all her life.
Brennan suddenly got an idea. “ Reign…he’s right…” Every one swung round and looked at him like he was a mad man. However, he did have Reign’s full attention.
“ He could kill me…but would you let him”.
Merrick growled low in his throat, again Brennan had corrupted her mind.
Reign’s eyes suddenly changed, and her protective nature to him was being tapped into. She looked at Brennan, and swung a dangerous glance towards Merrick. The look he saw…it wasn’t anger, but some thing else. He now knew he needed to flee. Reign had been under his control so she knew what things made her master strong…and what made him weak.
Before he could make a brake for it, Logan tackled him, “ Hey Bub, don’t leave when the parties just started”.
Merrick growled, but he was losing the energy he had drawn from Reign quick. When at Genomex, he’d constantly drew energy…strength from both Brennan and Reign. But now neither was under his control…his strength was greatly decreasing.
Reign started to walk towards Merrick, but stopped next to Brennan, and suddenly looked at him with innocent eyes. Her voice a whisper, “ What if I fail…”
Brennan smiled trying to show her how much he knew, she wouldn’t. “…you wont”.
She turned back to Merrick and continued her walk towards him.
He was scared now, his eyes wide as she walked towards him, his thought’s racing.
* What have I got my self into*.
Reign reached him and he froze expecting a blaze of energy to tear his arms and legs off.
“ Reign…wait”
Brennan walked up behind her, and looked down at Merrick. “ I want to know…why did you come back Merrick”.
Merrick seemed to gain some of his old self-back. He smile was evil as he looked up at both of them. “May as well, there is no way out.”
“ Eckhart wanted Reign transferred away from you Brennan. You two were becoming, too dependant on each other. We expected the both of you to become stronger…but you didn’t. you refused to do any thing…” he smiled sickly again, “…but we had our ways of making you do things. Reign was released from the program, what had it been, two years that we left Brennan in the program before realising we couldn’t go any further. The risk of a brake down from one of you was a risk too high. We figured if we kept you close by… the project could be continued.”
He looked up with anger flooding his eyes at Brennan, “ But you had to do a runner from your foster home…and we never found you again. Then Reign was lost also, and we feared you two had found each other again. If that was the case…Genomex would have crumbled….but it wasn’t. However, Eckhart doesn’t look kindly at failure and threw me away…after all my life of protecting him”. Merrick huffed angrily but then found some thing to smile about.
“ So I though it would be so ironic…to use the two of you again, to take Eckhart on. Show him how wrong he was. You both have gotten so strong over the years that I knew Eckhart would have no escape…but you could have fell out of sink with each other…so I knew training was in order”.
“ I searched every where, trying to find the both of you. When I did, I slowly started putting things into motion to bring the two of you together again. I soon found out where Brennan had ran off to….Mutant x…while Reign was still nowhere in to be found. I knew I couldn’t get close to you Brennan, since Adam had you on such a tight leash…and besides going after the strongest of you two would have been death. But I knew also that you would never fight her…not even if she was here to kill you.
So I found her, with another family who took her in, raised her. She was easy picking’s”.
Brennan crossed his arm’s, he could tell it was effecting Reign to hear it all again. He nodded at Merrick, “ Is that all…or is there more”. Merrick smiled up at him “ You always were the stubborn one, that’s why we were so hard on you. Reign would have broke if we put her through your procedure…but you didn’t”. he finished off his speech with a smirk and small laugh.
Brennan felt an overwhelming urge to snap his neck, but knew Merrick was just trying to get him angry. When Brennan didn’t retaliate, Merrick’s smile faded with his laugh.
Reign was froze in her spot, too mixed up in the past to move.
Before any one could move Merrick shot his winds out and blew every one except Brennan and Reign 20 feet away. He was tired and needed to gain some strength…fast.
Reign was no use to him now, but he could use Brennan. Before Brennan could build up an arc Merrick grabbed him around the neck and held Brennan’s back to his chest. Holding him by the throat, Brennan was trying to get his hold on his neck to loosed.
Before he started to try and draw energy out of Brennan, he felt the thrill of the struggle, like he used to get off him and Reign. It was like a drug to him…along with the energy that would soon be flowing in his veins. He smiled against Brennan’s head and started to speak into Brennan’s ear.
“ Don’t worry, at least you can say you put up a fight” he laughed and Brennan struggled more, feeling the tingle in his joints that normally came seconds before Merrick started to drain him.
The energy was very slowly being drawn from Brennan, and Merrick could tell Brennan was feeling it because his struggling was decreasing. He laughed again into Brennan’s ear, using as a shield so none of the others could get a shot off.
“ Its over Brennan”
Brennan felt his arms starting to droop and tried to free him self another time.
*No…not quite yet*. He gripped Merrick’s hand and gained some air to breath. He almost wanted to laugh back at Merrick…but that would spoil the surprise.
Brennan laugh was short and Merrick stopped the drain.
“ you know what Merrick…your right”. Brennan gripped Merrick’s arms with his own and scuped his legs around Merrick’s so he couldn’t run.
“It is over!”
Brennan looked up to the sky, “ Storm!”. Merrick looked up and suddenly realised he’d forgot about the other mutant, the women who’d flew up into the sky.
Storm had a huge ball of swirling thunder above her, her whole body sparkling with it. Her head looked down on them, and her eyes, so white now had a rage to them.
The thunder above her head grew and started to swirl more wildly.
Merrick tried to move, but Brennan had his arms and legs in a vice lock. He struggled hard, and growled at Brennan. “ Brennan, she’ll kill you too”. Brennan laughed, at Merrick, “ Well, not really. You see, I control electricity, I’m an Elemental, I can take the energy…but you can’t”.
Merrick was wobbling like wild now, Brennan laughing in the background because Merrick was panicking…and when you panic…you die.
Storm thrust her hands down at the two of them. The thunder flew down, heading directly for Merrick.
” Brennan, it’ll kill you too…let me go!” Brennan shook his head, “ No it wont Merrick. It’ll just pass through me, and straight into you”.
The Thunder was a few seconds away, but it didn’t take it long before it attracted to another energy source…Brennan. The thunder hit him…but he didn’t seem to notice. Merrick how ever did. He howled in agony, but the thunder drowned out the noise, throwing him back wards and Brennan, a few feat forwards.
When Merrick hit the floor, his flesh was singed and pieces of his hear was on fire. His chest did not raise again, his heart…if he ever had one…did not beat, ever again.
Storm landed a few feet away from Brennan and walked towards him. He started to get up and when she saw him rise fully, smiled. He smiled back and Shalimar came running over to him. “ Brennan, are you ok”.
“ Ye but…” He shivered bad, and then smiled when Shal and Storm both looked at him. “ God that feels weird…feels like I’m tingling all inside”.
Charles was inside his mind again, * Brennan…its finally over now*. Brennan nodded, * Ye, it finally is…now the past can be at rest hopefully*.