Chapter 13

Finally they started to fire energy waves back only to find that they were stopped or reflected back. Cursing the leader sent the woman out; to kill the little American prick, once he was gone, then all plans could proceed. Recharging as fast as he could, Tahir felt her approaching.

The thing was, she felt different this time. Unable to hold the shield any longer around the troops, Tahir warned the commander, who ordered the heavy stuff forward. Still recharging, he felt her start to probe toward him. His shields up, he also probed towards her. This time her wall wasn’t as bad, slipping in he saw the insanity in her, then she was there screaming at him that it was his fault! Delving deeper, he saw why she was experiencing the madness.

The energy had harmed part of her reasoning center, she was dazed and confused. She had been told over and over, that he was the reason she was being irradiated, he was the reason she was losing her mind. Though not as good a healer as Kim, he reached into her deeper and tried to restore what he could, there was a lot of damage.

Finishing a small section Tahir looked at her moving closer, suddenly she stopped and shook her head. A new light seemed to come into her eyes. Reaching again, Tahir healed around the area more, it was slow going, he was glad she was slightly dazed. He’d have to thank Kim when he got back, for showing him how to do this.

The light in her eyes started to get a little brighter, when she looked at him again. A slight smile was the only indication that he had helped her at all. She nodded at him then withdrew while he tried to expand the area more. He estimated that he had about half her mind healed, when he felt the twinge and call for help.

Not wanting to leave her only half healed, he boosted the section he had healed, hoping that it would hold, till he could come back and finish. [Hide this as well as you can] he thought to her.

[I will try] came a very tired and slurred reply.

Exiting to the battle field, she still stood before him, reaching he sent her to a safer place, that the other group didn’t know of. The battle wasn’t going all that well, only gone for 30 minutes almost 80% of the troops and equipment were dead and destroyed.

Feeling angrier than he had felt in quite a while, his energy started to grow. Across the field the leader had felt the enormous buildup of power and had departed as quickly as possible, the doctor and Natasha piling into the car as he sped away. Tahir was trying hard to hold his temper back, the power was almost suffocating him, unable to hold it any longer it erupted.

Engulfing most of those left of the doctor’s group, it was a massacre, most were there one moment then almost all were gone. The few that survived the onslaught were severely burned and could hardly move. The amount of energy that had released from Tahir had seriously drained him. He hadn’t been this drained ever since all this had started.

Kim had been following almost everything up to the point that Tahir had entered the woman’s mind. She had reached to Tahir trying to help the healing he was trying, when she felt a needle go into her arm. Crying out to Tahir, she looked at Helena smiling at her, as she started to lose consciousness.

Putting her defenses up like Tahir had told her, she tried to push the knockout drug from her body, it was fast working but she had managed to get half out before everything went black.

“I’m afraid the battle she was feeling was too much for her,” Helena lied, “I’ll take her to her room, so she can rest.”

Quickly, she took the woman’s limp body to the back door; there she carried her across the parking lot, out of the camera range. Loading her into a waiting car, they didn’t notice that Tina standing nearby.

Tina started to run inside screaming at the top of her lungs for her father, she ran straight into his legs. “Daddy! Daddy! DADDY!!!!!!”

Tina picked herself off the floor having bounced off her father still screaming, “She’s gone! She’s gone! We have to help her!”

Roberts looked at his daughter trying to calm her down. “Talk to me Tina, who’s gone?” he asked.

“Miss Kim, Miss Helena took her out the back door and put her in a car. I can feel her getting further away. We have to help her, she was asleep and Miss Helena was carrying her.” Tina said as she dragged her father to the door.

Helena thought she had gotten away home free, when she heard the alarms going off just as they exited the compound. Who the hell had seen them? Had they missed Kim that fast? Leaning forward she urged the driver to speed up and get them out of there.

Tahir was exhausted, he felt the twinge more now and had tried to slip, still he didn’t have the energy to move yet.

“A call for you Mr. Tahir,” the Commander said as he handed the field phone to him.