X-File Eve
Part 3
An X-Files/Parastie Eve 2 fanfic
By: M.H. Torringjan

November 24, 2001, 11:24 p.m.
Harden, Florida

	Aya Brea walked out of room 104 of the hotel and back into the overly-
humid air.  Her calves ached badly from lack of rest.  She needed sleep.  It had 
been two nights since she had slept, and even with her mitochondria supplying 
her with fresh energy, she was starting to slow down.  Even mitochondria need 
rest sometimes.  She didn't have much time to think of much else, though.  As 
she walked down the walkway to the stairs, she felt a hand grasp her throat and 
lift her from the ground.  She began thrashing wildly to get loose from the iron 
grip.  It placed her back on the ground, and she turned to see a red-suited 
knight golem soldier.
	She took aim and fired at the golem quickly before it disappeared.  She 
knew the best way to handle these golems.  Running around the area was the best 
way to make it reappear.  As soon as it did, the two began running towards each 
other.  Aya ducked under its outstretched arms, which held poison-tipped darts, 
turned, and fired.  She hit it in the back twice before it could fade out again.  
The golem slumped to the ground, twitching.  Aya took aim and fired a few more 
times, shutting down its systems for good.
	From the road, a pair of headlights shone across the parking lot.  Scully 
had returned with Aya's car. Finally, Aya thought to herself.  Scully parked the 
car and got out.
	"Where's Doggett?" Scully asked, walking up to Aya.
	"He's upstairs, room 205," Aya replied.  "He should be fine.  He had a bit 
of a mishap earlier, so I took over cleaning for him."
	"What kind of mishap?" Scully asked.
	"His mitochondria started misbehaving," Aya explained.
	"What?!" Scully exclaimed.
	"Never mind," Aya replied.  She walked over to her car and opened the 
trunk.  She took out a couple of small vials and placed them in some of the 
pockets on her vest.  "Go get him and get out of here.  Things could get 
dangerous from here on out."
	"No way," Scully said.  "We were assigned to this case, and we have to see 
it through."
	"I thought you didn't want any part of this mission," Aya said.
	"I didn't want to kill things unless it was necessary.  That's not the 
same as not wanting to investigate," Scully said.
	"In this case, it is," Aya replied.  "I'm going on alone, and that is 
that.  You and your partner go back and tell them that another branch took over 
for you.  Because I did."
	"All right," Scully replied after a short pause.  Of course, she wouldn't.  
She didn't have any intention of letting a major case like this slip through the 
cracks.  Mulder had taught her that much in their years together.  She felt sure 
that Doggett would agree with her in this case.  "I'll go check up on Doggett."
	Scully ran up the stairs and into the room where Doggett was sitting up 
against the wall beside the door.  "Doggett, are you all right?" Scully asked.
	"I'm fine," Doggett replied.  "It doesn't hurt much now.  Where's Brea?"
	"She's heading out into the swamp on her own.  She told me that she was 
taking over the investigation," Scully said.
	"Something's odd about her.  I think she did something to me to make my 
body hurt," Doggett said.
	"What happened to your arms?" Scully asked.  Doggett explained what had 
happened when he had checked out the explosion.  "So, she thinks that we're part 
of her government conspiracy?  What's she got to hide, I wonder?"
	"Good question, but I think it has something to do with that swamp," 
Doggett replied.
	"Are you strong enough to walk?" Scully asked.  Doggett stood up, grunting 
as his muscles ached, and walked to the door.
	"Ready for a field trip?"

	The swamp probably wasn't the safest place to be in the middle of the 
night, but the action seemed to all be going down right then.  Aya didn't really 
want to be there.  She'd rather be at home in LA with Eve, and maybe even Kyle, 
having a peaceful afternoon.  Maybe going out to a film.  Unfortunately, she 
didn't have much of a choice.  First off, it was her job.  Second of all, she 
had a voice in the back of her head, saying that this was closely linked to the 
Mojave Desert, which made it all the more important for her to be there.  If 
some part of her had been used to produce more monsters, she'd not let them 
live: the monsters or the creators.
	She felt a tendril reach around her neck from above and was picked up into 
the treetops.  Leaves rustled past her face as she tried to get a look at her 
attacker.  She slowed and stopped in the midst of branches and vines of other 
plants.  Another of the large, black ANMC's was looming over her, pulling her 
towards its mouth.
	Without aiming, Aya fired the gun into the mouth of the creature.  The 
creature froze for a moment and, after registering the pain, screeched.  Its 
breath rushed past Aya, filling her own nose and mouth with the odor of dead 
bodies.  The tentacle loosened and released her.  Before she could drop very 
far, she reached her arm out to grab the nearest branch.  Aiming her gun, she 
fired another couple of shots into the mouth of the creature, which slumped over 
in the branches where it was.  Aya climbed down and tried to avoid the shower of 
slime from the decomposing ANMC.
	I really need a raise, Aya thought to herself.  And a nice, warm shower.
	At the bottom of the tree, Aya found a footing and continued squelching 
through the swamp.  Looking at her GPS, she saw that there was a large hill in 
the distance with a cave in it.  Scientists are consistent if nothing else; the 
entrance to the base would probably be there.  She started hiking in the 
direction of the hill.  It was about a mile to the north of her; she was in for 
a long hike in conditions like those.

	Scully and Doggett hiked carefully over the moist ground of the swamp, 
following the GPS to where it said that Agent Brea was.  In the distance, they 
could see a large hill rising into the sky. On the way, they had encountered 
some of the smaller NMC's, like the ones from earlier.  Now, all they wanted to 
see was Brea.  The machine must have gotten some water into it; it said that she 
was inside the mountain.  As they approached the hill, they saw that the side 
closest to them was flat, with a cave in it.
	"Well, that would explain the readings," Scully said.
	"What would she be looking for in some old cave?" Doggett asked.
	"Well, it makes about as much sense as anything else that's happened so 
far today," Scully said.  The two walked into the cave with their weapons at the 
ready.  A string of lights ran along the ceiling, casting a dim light on the 
rest of the cave.  They couldn't see how far down the cave ran, but they were 
willing to risk it.
	"Nice, cozy place to house a government conspiracy, eh?" Doggett asked.  
Scully was busy investigating the ground.  Piles of slime littered the floor all 
down the path as far as Scully could see.
	"I think that Brea's been here," Scully said.  "This GPS says that there 
are still creatures in here."
	"Do you think she left them for us?" Doggett asked.
	"No, I think that she just didn't get them herself," Scully said.  "I 
don't think that she expected us.  Besides, why would she want to kill us?"
	"I don't know.  Ask the couple hundred other people who want to kill you 
and Mulder," Doggett replied.   From a little bit further down the cave, Doggett 
heard the squeal of the creatures.  It sounded like they were moving towards 
them.  "You may want to get your gun ready, Scully.  I think we're about to get 
slammed."
	Doggett reached out into his pocket and pulled out one of the flares that 
Agent Brea had lent him.  He waited a minute to let the guttural noises come 
closer, pulled the tab, and threw the flare.  A bright light shone from where 
the flare landed, causing Doggett and Scully to cover their eyes.  As the light 
faded, Doggett ran down to where he heard the pained cries of the creatures and 
opened fire.  Scully wasn't too far behind him, being more reserved with her 
attacks.  The Scavengers had been stunned by the flare, and couldn't easily see 
where Doggett was.    After half of them lay dead and dying on the floor of the 
cave, the others had recovered their eyesight and began to attack Doggett and 
Scully.
	Doggett dodged to the side as two jumped at him and turned to shoot them. 
While he was distracted, one of them sank its teeth into his bracing leg, 
bringing him to his knees.  He quickly turned and shot it point blank.  Scully 
defended herself from the ones who attacked her and helped Doggett when the 
creatures stopped attacking her.  Three of the Scavengers jumped at her at once, 
and she froze in surprise.  Letting out a scream, she fell to the ground with 
the three Scavengers on top of her, biting through her skin.
	Doggett ignored his own, ran to pull two of the monsters from Scully and 
fling them against the walls as hard as he could.  Quickly turning, he shot the  
monsters that jumped at him, only then turning to shoot the ones who had 
attacked Scully.  The one final monster on Scully was easily disposed of.
	Doggett reached into one of the pockets of his vest and retrieved a first 
aid pack to give Scully.  Scully sat up and leaned against the wall of the cave, 
groaning in pain.  Doggett took out the bandages and handed her the drink from 
the pack.  He wrapped her wounds as quickly as his hands would move.
	"Are you all right?" Doggett asked.
	"Well, other than the gashes in my arms and the cuts on my head, I feel 
fine," Scully said.  After a few swigs of the liquid from the first aid pack, 
she commented, "This stuff really works!  Does the box say what it is?"
	"No, it's just a long acronym," Doggett said.  He handed her the box.
	"I've never seen this in my career," Scully said.  "I'll ask Agent Brea 
when we catch up with her."
	"We?  Scully, you've been injured," Doggett admonished.
	"It feels like this may have healed me enough to go on," Scully replied.  
As a test, she took the bandage off of one of her cuts.  The pain had faded 
almost completely from her arms and head, and she wasn't bleeding anymore.  
Doggett stared, amazed, at the wounds.
	"Adrenaline rush?" Doggett suggested, shrugging.
	"I don't know about that," Scully said.  "First off, adrenaline doesn't 
work quite *that* well.  Second, Agent Flash said that Agent Brea handled one of 
these missions all on her own once.  That would need some amazing healing 
ability, probably along these lines.  I think that as long as we have these 
things around, we should be able to keep going."
	"All right, Scully, but if you start feeling bad again, we're going to 
leave," Doggett said.  "This really doesn't seem like the sort of thing that 
three FBI agents can handle on their own.  A strike force, maybe.  But three 
people, there ain't no way."
	"I think that the key to that may lie in Agent Brea," Scully said.  "Let's 
get moving."  The two walked further down into the cave, towards a brighter 
light than had been cast in the rest of the cave.  They reached a doorway in the 
side of the cave that lead to an infrastructure similar to a military base.  
There were gangways and fluorescent lights with area designations painted on the 
walls.
	"This must be what Agent Brea was looking for," Scully said.  "She's only 
a couple of rooms down, and she's got company."
	"Let's get in there!" Doggett exclaimed.  The two ran through the narrow 
hallways that lead to the room where Aya was located.  She was face to face with 
a giant, bloated creature and two small gel-like creatures.  As they watched, 
fire flew from her hands and fried the two gel creatures.  She leveled her gun 
at the bloated creature and took a few shots at it, knocking it backward onto 
the ground.  She continued shooting it on the ground as it labored to raise 
itself to a standing position.  After to more shots from the Mongoose, it fell 
back to the ground and began melting.
	"That's some good shooting you've got there, Agent Brea," Doggett said.  
"And I don't mean with the gun."  Aya jumped and turned, with the gun pointed 
straight at Doggett's head.
	"I thought I told you two not to follow me!" she exclaimed.
	"Well, I believe that we outrank you here, since this is our case 
originally," Doggett said.  "Now, what was that thing with your hand shooting 
fire?"
	Aya sighed.  She hated telling people about her powers.  They usually just 
looked at her funny or ran away in fear.  "My body is endowed with a form of 
mutated mitochondria that produce abnormally large amounts of energy and give me 
special powers," she said.
	"Like those monsters?" Scully asked.
	"Well, to a certain extent," Aya replied.  "The two types of mitochondria 
have similar mutations, mainly that they have evolved some sort of cognizance.  
Only, my mitochondria are the safer type, the ones who don't want to overthrow 
'nuclear dominance.'  Mine form a stronger form of symbiosis with the rest of my 
cell that gives me my powers."
	"Scully, what the hell is she talking about?" Doggett asked.
	"I find it extremely hard to believe that cellular organelles could evolve 
their own intelligence," Scully said.
	"Most people do," Aya replied.  "Then, they see the monsters and assume 
that they're aliens or the like.  You really should speak to my friend, Kunihiko 
Maeda.  He could explain the whole thing to you and show you better than I can."  
Aya took a moment to reload her gun.  "Now, are you going to go back, or do you 
insist on getting yourself killed?"
	"Well, those are some steep choices there," Doggett said.  "I think we'll 
take choice C.  The one where we get to the bottom of this together and get out 
alive."
	"That may be impossible in this case," Aya said.  "Now, look, I don't know 
if there are still people here, but if they are, then they're not going to be 
happy to see us.  And they won't stop just because you're federal agents.  If 
you insist on coming along, then stay on your toes.  This may be all for the 
better, since it might be harder getting your out than it was getting you in."  
The three walked to the end of the hallway and opened the port-hole to the next 
room.
	Inside the room, there were a few Sucklers that Aya took care of quickly 
enough.  They stood in a storage room for weapons and armor with a BP counter in 
the corner.  "Great timing," Aya said as she walked over to the machine to 
purchase some new ammo and to check their selection of other supplies.  A small 
device emerged from the machine and shined a light into her eyes.  She typed 
some commands into the computer, on which a large door opened, dispensing the 
requested ammo.  The machine shined the light into her eyes again and turned 
off.  "Your turn, agents," Aya said, stepping away from the machine.
	"We don't have those contact lens things," Scully said.  "What are we 
supposed to do?"
	"Agent Flash told me that she gave you the hand-held version of them," Aya 
said.  "Hold them up to the light instead of your eyes, and it'll take care of 
the rest."
	Scully was first and did as she was instructed.  She ended up with three 
boxes of 9mm bullets for her gun.  Aya had said that they were poison-tipped, 
and that made them stronger.  She took a couple of extra medical packs, in 
addition.  As Doggett made his purchases, Scully asked Aya about the substances 
in the medical packs.
	"Well, I'm not really a specialist in that," Aya replied.  "I just use 
them and feel better.  I might be able to ask some of my friends to send you the 
information after we get this job done with.  Which reminds me..."  Aya looked 
around the room, and settled her gaze on a phone hanging on the wall.  "Excuse 
me for a minute," she said, walking over to the phone.  She dialed the number 
for MIST headquarters.
	"Ordering a pizza?" Scully asked.
	"Hardly.  I'm checking back in at the office," Aya exclaimed.  Rupert 
picked up the phone.  "Hey, Rupert, it's Aya."
	"Nice to hear from you again, kid!" Rupert said.  "How's the hunting 
going?"
	"Well, you were right.  I'm standing inside the facility as we speak," Aya 
replied.  "And did Pierce get that information that I asked him to?"
	"Yeah, I've got it sitting right here in front of me," Rupert replied.  
"These agents you were asking about?  They work with a branch of the FBI called 
the X-Files.  Research unexplained phenomena.  Why did you want us to look them 
up?"
	"Because they're working this case, too," Aya said.  "And they won't 
leave."
	"Did you tell them about the danger?" Rupert asked.
	"Yep.  I even told them about the last time this happened," Aya said.  
"That didn't get them.  Then, I told them about the government conspiracy.  That 
interested them even more."
	"Some people..." Rupert sighed into the phone.  "Well, as long as they 
know what they're getting into.  Try to keep them safe, as much of a burden as 
they are.  Anything else to report?"
	"Is Pierce still there?" Aya asked.
	"Yeah, he's bouncing his leg at his seat, but he's still here," Rupert 
replied.
	"Good," Aya said.
	"Now, make sure that you stay safe, Aya," Rupert said.  "You're the one 
who deserves to beat these bastards."
	"Thanks for the vote of confidence, but is there any way to send out a 
strike force?" Aya asked.  "Remember last time?"
	"I'll see what I can do," Rupert said.  "Call back later on, and we'll get 
back to you on that."
	"Thanks, Rupert," Aya said.
	"Wait a minute, would you like to talk to Eve?  She's been begging to talk 
to you," Rupert asked.
	"She's there?" Aya asked.
	"Yeah!  Pierce couldn't think of anything to do with her, so he brought 
her here for the day," Rupert replied.
	"Sure, I'll talk to her," Aya said.  "I don't think that there'll be any 
ANMC's coming through any time soon."
	Rupert handed the phone to Eve.  "Hi, Aya!" Eve said from the phone.
	"Hi, Eve!  What do you want?"
	"I wanted to tell you about my grade in English!  I got a one-hundred on 
the test from Tuesday!" Eve said.
	"Well, that's great!  I'll have to give you a reward when I get back," Aya 
said.  "And what about Pierce?  Is he treating you well?  Starved you to death 
yet?"
	"No, he says that I fit well into his bachelor lifestyle," Eve said.
	"Well, that's good," Aya said.  "And is he taking you home soon?  It is, 
after all, past your bed time."
	"That's what I've been telling him," Eve said.  "He was waiting for you to 
call back before we left.  He's getting ready to go right now."
	"Well, that's good," Aya said.  "I should be back in the next couple of 
days, kiddo."
	"Okay, I'll see you then!" Eve exclaimed.
	"Love ya' and miss ya'!" Aya exclaimed back.  "Bye!"  She hung up the 
phone and turned back to Scully and Doggett, who were waiting for her near the 
door.
	"Are you quite done?" Doggett asked.  "Do you really think that it's a 
good time to be calling in to say hi?"
	"My office gets nervous if I don't report in from time to time," Aya 
replied.  "Besides, it's not like we're in too much danger in here."  In 
response to her claim, the door that they hadn't used vibrated from some impact 
in the hallway beyond.
	"You were saying?" Doggett asked.  Aya readied her Mongoose and kicked the 
door open.  As she pulled the trigger, a pawn golem stomped through the door.  
It was caught in the shoulder by the bullet and staggered back a step or two.
	"Come on, you two!  Don't just stand there!" Aya exclaimed to Scully and 
Doggett.  The two agents took aim and began firing as well.  After a few more 
shots, it fell to the ground, emitting sparks and smoke.  "Well, this is great," 
Aya said.  "They're loose in here, too?"
	"What are they?" Scully asked.
	"They're called Golem soldiers.  They're robotic sentries that keep the 
peace during crises around these places.  There are four different types, each 
with different powers, and they're all extremely dangerous," Aya said.  "Just be 
glad that we won't run into many of the stronger ones.  They're too expensive to 
have many of them, so they just make lots of the weaker ones, hoping to overrun 
the problem."
	"This just keeps getting more and more fun," Scully said.
	"Let's go, you two," Aya said.  She ran into the hallway with her gun at 
the ready.  Doggett and Scully followed her closely.  "Do you want to split up?" 
Aya asked.  "We could cover more ground like that."
	"Split up in a place like this?" Doggett asked.  "We don't have any idea 
what we're doing here!"
	"Well, it'll be safer for you if you keep your distance from me.  I can't 
control my powers well enough to keep you safe from them," Aya said.  "Take 
earlier, for example, Agent Doggett."
	Doggett thought for a moment.  "Can you tell us what we're looking for 
here?" he asked.
	"We're looking for a control room of some sort and possibly a creature to 
spread a virus across the south-west coast," Aya said, over-simplifying.
	"We're up against bio-terrorists?" Scully asked.
	"Of a sort, yes," Aya replied.  "They're actually working for the 
government."
	Doggett shook his head.  "Great, more of this," he said.  "I really doubt 
that the President of the United States would want to change the whole 
population of the country, and probably world, into ravenous, flesh-eating 
creatures hell bent on overthrowing nuclei."
	"You know, the way you say it, it sounds a lot more stupid," Aya said.  
"Besides, he has done some pretty stupid things up to this point."
	"But really!" Doggett said.  "This is taking it a bit far!"
	"Yeah, it is, but they think that humans are a plague upon the planet," 
Aya said.  "I suppose that they're more eco terrorists than bio terrorists in 
that respect.  They want to create an entirely self-contained food chain to stop 
humans from destroying the planet.  They really think that they're doing the 
right thing."
	"Okay, now I'm confused," Scully said.  "How did you find out all of this 
information, anyway?"
	"I've got my sources," Aya said with a slight smile.  She couldn't help 
thinking about Kyle.  She really did miss him.
	"Right," Doggett said.  "I think it might be a good idea splitting up."  
Scully and I will go to the northern wing while you go to the eastern wing.  
Whoever finds this control room first will contact the other group somehow."
	"Sounds good to me," Aya said.  "There's a PA system in here, so it should 
be easy."
	"Easier said than done, I'm sure," Scully said.
	"You two are doing just fine so far," Aya said.  "Just take some of my 
medicine supplies, and you should be able to make it through."
	"Well, nice of you to say so," Doggett said.  "I think we'll be going 
now."  He and Scully walked to the door that they were supposed to take, opened 
it and walked through the port, their guns at the ready.
	"I hope they don't come up against anything big," Aya said as she opened 
the door that she was supposed to go through.

End part 3