7 - A Rouge Agent and a Family Reunion

*Characters: Brooks, West, Stone, Michael*

Brooks gently tapped the files into place as she finished up with today’s test, she glanced up at the testing range and shut the lights off. She closed the door behind her, as an alarm blared throughout the facility. Brooks realized that the alarm meant someone or something had gotten in or out.

Seconds later she saw West and Stone Racing down the hallway towards the main doors, Brooks hurried to join them. “What’s going on? What got out?” Brooks asked as the three raced down the hall. “You should be asking what got in,” Stone replied as Brooks ran into something.

Brooks stumbled back as she regained her footing, she looked ahead to someone doing the same, and it didn’t register who until Stone suddenly tackled them. “What the hell are YOU doing here?” Brooks attempted to pull Stone off of the guy, realizing Stone was strangling him

“Stone calm down, and also who is this?” she asked as Stone shrugged Brooks hands off her “How can you NOT tell that this idiot is the same one who we dragged along to find the CI base to find you?” Brooks looked closer and she noticed that he actually was the same guy from the Chaos Insurgency, the one Stone and the others held hostage to find Brooks.

There was a gurgling sound that seemed to come from the CI agent currently being strangled. Brooks watched as West gently shoved Stone off of the guy, before planting a foot on his chest. “I’ll give you five seconds to explain yourself before I let Stone do whatever the hell she wants to you” He nodded and took a second to catch his breath “You want the truth? Fine, I’ve gone rogue from Insurgency, and I was led here by this fox with these crazy ass eyes”

West pressed her foot in the guy’s chest a little harder “Why the hell would the fox lead you here?” Brooks watched the supposedly ex-Insurgency agent panic “I DON’T KNOW, IT JUST KEPT TUGGING ON MY LEG”  Almost as if speaking of the fox summoned it, the creature padded up to the four and began to headbutt Brooks’ leg as if to show them something “That’s the fox I was talking about!” The ‘former’ CI agent said as West slowly let him up.

Brooks watched as the fox began to lead them out of the building, only pausing to check if the four were still following. It took about ten minutes of the fox leading them before they saw what looked like a campsite of some kind. As they reached the campsite, the fox raced away and Brooks started to walk up to the camp.

Suddenly Brooks noticed Stone’s ears perked and saw the faun sharply glance around. Seconds later she watched as the teen quietly stomped a hoof on the ground. “We need to either get out of here, or hide” West turned towards Stone “Wait why?” Stone continued to glance around as she replied “Just trust me on this” The ‘former’ CI agent apparently didn’t need to be told twice as he quickly hid in the undergrowth.

As Brooks and West crouched beside the CI agent, there was a rustle of leaves and before Stone could join them a small group of people walked out. Brooks watched as one of them- a lanky black haired woman- stared at Stone in disbelief. “What the fuck are you doing here?”The woman asked while she studied Stone.

“I could ask you the same thing, bitch” Stone responded, whatever feelings the woman had towards her were obviously mutual. Brooks looked over at West, silently asking what was going on.

Unfortunately West simply shrugged, as unsure as her friend. “Wait, she knows Agent Stone?” They both turned towards the guy beside them.

“What do you mean by Agent Stone?” Brooks asked quietly, he looked at her in return “Just that Agent Stone’s one of the ‘best’ CI agents” The three of them jumped at the sound of two loud gunshots, and Brooks’ eyes widened as she saw the other two CI agents dead, sprawled out on the ground. “You think I’m still scared of you now, mother?” There was a collective “Mother?” from Brooks and the others.

The black haired woman turned to face the undergrowth, but as she did Stone charged toward her head first. Brooks watched as Stone rammed the CI agent face first into a tree. As the three stood she also saw the large bleeding wound on the woman’s face. The woman laughed at the sight of them, focusing on the former CI agent “Well, well, I should have figured you’d defect, Michael”

‘Michael’ sneered “And I should have known they’d send you after me” there was a rustle from the bushes behind the woman, and Stone must have figured it was another CI agent as she darted into the trees chasing after the noise. Brooks watched as West pulled the gun off one of the dead agents and aimed it between Stone’s ‘mother’s’ eyes “So you’re the one that Stone’s told me about, the one who tried to hand her over to the CI”

The woman smirked and eyed West “Yes, I’m her mother and I highly doubt you’d have the guts to actually shoot me” Brooks watched as West’s finger began to pull to tigger, when suddenly Stone appeared from the tree line with bloodstains splattered on her lab coat

“Stop” Stone stepped towards her ‘mother’ , her back towards West and the others. “It’s not her time to die” Brooks saw Stone’s tail flicking back and forth “But that's what she wants,” There was a look of disinterest on the taller woman’s face “Isn’t it? Mother?” Stone’s fists slowly balled. “I. Am. Not. Death.” Static and visual tears formed around the teen. Suddenly the static vanished “But you’ll get exactly what you deserve,”

Brooks stepped towards them, cautious of the bodies “If she’s let go, she’ll come after you,” Stone waved her statement off “Like I said, not her time to die” Michael spoke up this time “What about all she did?” Stone stepped closer to her mother “That is irrelevant” Brooks watched West move close enough to place hand on the faun’s shoulder “Is keeping her alive worth it?”

There was no response from the faun “I understand your anger bu-” West was cut off when Stone whipped around to face her “YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND MY ANGER!” Brooks jumped as Stone loudly snapped at West, her sclera dark and the static forming again, Stone then seemingly calmed and the static became less apparent “If you did, you’d get why she can’t die yet”

Stone turned to her mother, and roughly grabbed her shirt collar “I’m bringing you back to the site and tell Willow I have a new ability test subject for her,” Brooks saw Michael take a step back when he heard Stone quietly laugh in a slightly sadistic manner “And we both know damn fucking well that you have no anomalous abilities Mother, meaning you won’t last more than an hour,”

Eventually Brooks and the others made their way back to the site, Stone breaking away with her mother and Michael in tow behind her head towards the holding cells. About five minutes later Brooks and West were joined by the other in the staff room, and not long after Stone showed up in sweatpants and a t-shirt with Michael following her.

“Site command said he could stay as long as we keep an eye on him,” she informed them as she proceeded to flop onto one of the couches, stretching out on it. Brooks gave a thumbs up and continued the chat she was having with Steve.