Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 17:30:10 -0500 Subject: Unstoppable CLASSIFICATION: S with a little A and an attempt at H RATING: PG DISCLAIMER: Nikki and I do not own the X-Files. 10-13, FOX, and Chris Carter do. SUMMARY: Alien voices and teenagers just don't mix. FEEDBACK: Nikki ***** Unstoppable by: Nikki Ford April 27, 1999 Goodridge High School, Dallas Texas 1:43 P.M. The blonde haired girl dropped her pencil from her desk and reached down to pick it up. On the floor beside it was a note which she picked up as well. It read: "Mary, did you here the rumor going around? Someone said that something was going to happen today at 1:48.  No specifics. I'm so totally excited to find out though! WBS!"  The blonde smoothed out the paper and began to write back. A quick hand snatched the paper from her desk and carried it to the front of the room.            "I don't permit note writing during my class." the teacher said as she tore it up and threw it into the waist basket. "You and your friend now owe me thirty minutes after school for detention."  A low groan of despair drifted into the air. The speakers creaked with static and a masculine voice poured threw.            "Good Afternoon Students. Today is April the 28, 1999. The Latin Club will be holding a meeting at..." A loud booming blast was heard and a few startled screams. In the background some shots were fired and painful shouts of anguish screamed threw into every class room.            "Okay class, "the teacher started, leaping from her podium and running to the door, "Just pretend it's a fire drill. Single file lines please."            The requests of the teacher were not heard or at least not followed as everyone rushed out of the door. The blonde haired girl and her friend ran out with their classmates. Waiting in the hall were twelve men in black, each carrying a power riffle. A cruel smile pricked each of there cheeks as there fingers tensed around the triggers. The blonde saw this and screamed. All guns opened fire without prejudice. The sounds of the guns seemed far away to the bodies that fell to the floor, eyes wide and mouths open to the reality that is death. April 28, 1999 FBI Building; Dallas, Texas 7:33 FBI Agent Fox Mulder walked into the open, empty elevator. He held an open Dr. Pepper in one hand and a folder of papers under his arm. As he scanned over the many buttons looking for his floor he noticed that they had been missnumbered, skipping the number 13 and going strait from 12 to 14. He smiled a bit and shook his head. He pressed 27 and took to checking himself out in the mirrored walls of the elevator. He checked his tie to make sure it was straight and smiled to make sure there was nothing between his teeth only to find a piece of bagel stuck tight. As he leaned closer to the mirror to flick it off, the papers under his arm fell and scattered on the floor.            "Oh sh-" he placed his Dr. Pepper on the hand rail and knelt to pick the papers up.  The elevator lerched up as it stopped at level 27. The Dr. Pepper tipped and rolled off the railing, landing on Mulder's head. "Ouch!"  The door opened and those waiting to get aboard looked down to see a very flustered Fox Mulder, drenched in Dr. Pepper and carrying a messy stack of ruined papers. He pressed pass them and walked to the conference room. Scully was waiting outside for him. ***** "Mulder, what happened to you?" was all Scully could say when Mulder approached her at the door to the conference room.  She was having an extremely hard time at keeping her giggles from escaping.  Mulder had brown splotches all over his white dress shirt and his hair was a mess, but his expression was the funniest thing of all.  It was red from embarrassment and contorted into an angry frown.  Both were rare expressions to be seen on their own, but to see them both at the same time was the rarest of them all.  Scully wished that she had a camera. "I had a little trouble getting up here.  I'll be right back."  Mulder practically threw all the Dr. Pepper soaked papers into Scully's arms and ran for the staircase.  He did not want to mess with that elevator again. He ran down to the first floor, out the front door, and went straight to the Taurus that Scully and he had rented once they had arrived in Texas which was in the parking garage.  He open the trunk and frantically dug through his suitcase searching for a shirt he could wear.  At last he found one and quickly put it on without even checking to see if he was alone.  He slammed the trunk and ran back to the building and up the stairs to the 27th floor.  Boy, was he tired. Scully had just been standing there the whole time looking at the papers she was now holding.  They were brown like Mulder's shirt and smelled sweet.  She was amazed that Mulder would ever buy anything from a vending machine, especially in Dallas.  Scully hoped that this visit would not be as bad as her last one.  She was relieved to finally see Mulder again even though he kept messing with his hair as he walked towards her. "Mulder, it looks fine.  We need to go in.  We probably missed most of the meeting anyway."  Scully was right.  Before she could turn the knob on the door it opened making her jump slightly.  Mulder and Scully walked in anyway but had to fight through the small crowd to get in the room.  The only person left in the room was a tall, thin man with jet black hair and a mustache. "You two must be Agents Mulder and Scully.  Have a seat."  The man was very direct, and the two agents did as he commanded.  "I'm actually glad the two of you missed the meeting.  Y'all will be investigating this case from a different angle.  I'm sure that the two of you have been informed about the incident that occurred at Goodridge High School."  The agents nodded their heads.  "Good.  But I bet that y'all haven't heard about the strange activity that had been going on there before that.  Some of the students said that the reason that they did the killings was because they had been commanded by some strange force.  A few said it was aliens, and others said it was demons.  My concern is that there have been reports from students at a high school in McKinney stating that they have been commanded to do, as they put it, crazy things, and I want the two of you to check it out. Report to me once you have found something."  With that the man turned back to the file he had been reading, and Mulder and Scully quietly exited. Scully and Mulder walked in silence back to the car.  Scully was disappointed since she thought that they were going to investigate a real case and not some X-File.  Mulder on the other hand was quite happy. Suddenly memories of an old case involving high school students who were powered by a strange force and a "blond" by the name of Detective White rushed into both their minds.  They both shivered.  Scary. ***** McKinney High School, McKinney TX. April 29, 1999 12:40 The business of the day was ever present in the library as police investigated leads, summoned witnesses and or connections, and carried on with the days safety issues.  Through all the hussle and bussle, no one seemed to notice the two FBI agents walking down the ramp and into the library. Not seeing the metal detector, Mulder walked strait through only to have a loud beeping noise erupt from the plastic door. All the police turned with guns drawn.           "Jesus Mulder, the people here are edgy enough as it is." Scully remarked as she raised her hands into the air. "We're FBI agents."           Seven officers came up and took there weapons. One pulled out Mulder's badge and showed it to the chief. "Checks out on visual. You may want to run a scan on the numbers though to be certain."           The chief nodded and the officer took Mulder and Scully's badges. "You'll get them back after we run the scan. It won't take but a little while. In the mean time, have a seat." he said as he pointed to a couch positioned near a bookcase.            "Thanks," Scully grabbed Mulder's arm and pulled him to the chair opposite her. A number of kids came in and came out as they were questioned and sent back to class. One or two seemed to have stayed a bit longer though.  Mulder leaned back in his chair and looked over the side of the bookcase. At a table was a young girl who was most likely to be in her freshman year. Her curly brown hair stood apart from the white walled room and her brown eyes were framed by glasses. She seemed to sense she was being watched and looked back over at Mulder who quickly sat back up and took to watching Scully read  a magazine on new medical findings.            "Sorry for that Agent Mulder and Agent Scully. We can't be to careful now-a-days."            "We understand sir. Can you tell us what your findings are so far?" Scully asked.            "Well, so far we've run into a lot of brick walls. More rumors that facts running around this school."            "Have you heard anything about strange forces controlling these teen-agers' thoughts? A sort of suddle mind control?" Mulder questioned.            "Uh...." the chief seemed to hold off on answering. "Wait one minute please." he walked over to a back room, brings a junior officer with him. As the chief left, another student entered. The girl from behind the bookcase ran up to her.            "I'm sorry. They wanted me to give all the names I-"            "It's okay. I knew they'd get me down here sooner or later." The new girl replied. She looked over at Mulder and Scully. "Who are they? They don't look like Police officers to me."            "FBI agents really. You missed it. The guy triggered the metal detector. I don't think I've ever seen a police man jump as high as they did then!"            The two girls laughed at Agent Mulder's expense and carried on for a few more minutes.            "Freshmen" Mulder remarked. The chief came back to the room.            "Sorry to keep you waiting. We had a lead we needed to get onto and it couldn't wait. You were saying?"            As Mulder opened his mouth to respond, a booming voice called out across the library, "Is Nikki Ford here?"            The new girl from before looked over and smiled forcefully, "Right here!"            "Will you come this way please?"            The first girl frowned and watched her friend go off with the officer.            "Will you excuse me?" Mulder asked. He walked over to her, "I'm Agent Mulder.  And you are?"  She looked him up and down and smiled, "Laurie Collins." ***** "Does this have anything to do with me laughing about your... problem with entering the library?  I didn't really think it was funny.  All right, I did, but you have to admit that it was slightly funny."  Laurie looked around Mulder to see his partner still reading her magazine but smiling now.  Laurie felt pleased that at least one fed had a sense of humor. Mulder turned to see what the girl was looking at, but Scully had returned to her serious "I'm actually interested in this magazine" expression. "I was actually wondering if I could talk to you about what's going on," Mulder said with great politeness.  Laurie began to look him up and down again wondering how she could help them out. "I don't know much.  I've only heard rumors like everyone else has.  I guess I heard it closer to the source than most."  She was still very confused.  She basically knew nothing. "I'm sure that you can tell me, I mean, us something we don't know." Mulder even put a sincere smile at the end of his sentence.  He wasn't going to sit on that coach all day and not do anything. "Well, my lunch is in about ten minutes, so would it be okay if I ate in here and talked to you and your partner who you have not bothered to introduce me to?"  She was hoping that he would say yes.  She didn't want to have to explain to her friends why she had to miss English right now. "Oh, I'm sorry."  Mulder turned around and motioned for Scully to come to where they were standing.  "This is Agent Scully.  Scully, this is Laurie Collins.  Why don't we go and grab that empty table over there before someone else decides to take it."  Mulder moved the group over to the table.  Laurie noticed that Mulder had his hand on the small of Scully's back the whole time they were walking over to the table.  How cute!  After they sat down Laurie took a brown paper sack out of her maroon backpack. "So, what do you have in there?" was Mulder's question. "It's my lunch of course.  I've got a peanut butter sandwich.  No jelly.  I hate jelly.  There's some Pringles and a homemade chocolate brownie.  You guys can have some of the chips if you like, but you can't touch the brownie.  You can't even think about it.  And I saved the best for last.  My Dr. Pepper."  Mulder turned as bright as the can Laurie was holding in her right hand.  He didn't need to be reminded of that incident again. "Miss Collins..." Scully began. "Just call me Laurie." "All right.  Laurie, you said that you heard one version of the rumor from someone close to the source of it.  Who was that person?" "Oh, that would be Nikki Ford.  She was the girl I was talking to about five minutes ago.  She heard it directly from the source.  Now, I know what you're thinking.  So no, I do not know who the people are that told her. She was too nervous to tell me." "Did she mention anything about these people being controlled by strange forces, such as demons or aliens," was Mulder's peculiar question.  Scully just rolled her eyes, while Mulder sat on the edge of his seat hoping for a true X-Files answer. "Nikki did mention something about that to me.  I didn't tell the cops that questioned me about it.  Who would believe that anyway?"  Suddenly, Laurie realized that there was someone who would believe her.  The woman to her left continued to roll her eyes, and the cops around the room refused to even believe that a bombing or an incident like that could ever happen at this school.  But the man sitting across from her was different.  He would believe her. ***** She popped open her drink and took a sip before she began.            "I'm just gonna repeat what my friend told me so if ya have any questions, I'm not the person to ask."            "Understood." Mulder said, growing more anxious.            "Alright then. Nikki said that the reason these threats have been made all over the nation is because of some kind of alien mind control.  You've got to understand she's kinda weird. She loves all the Star Wars stuff and such but anyways, she said it was part of a plan to destroy the world's youth."            "Why would aliens want to destroy only kids?" Scully asked with her usual skepticism.            "Think about it Scully," Mulder imputed, "A generation gap this size could result in our nation's leaders to be younger and in some cases more naive and irresponsible that those who would have been brought forth from this generation." he turned his gaze back to Laurie who nodded at his answer.            "Exactly."            "This sounds like something from a comic book or sci-fi novel." Scully noted. She stood up and paced the area.            "But it's not." Laurie took a bite from her sandwich, "It's happening here and everywhere. Goodridge was hit yesterday. Before that it was Conner in Alabama, last week it was Okerman in Nevada. Tomorrow It'll be McKinney and you won't catch me, Nikki or anyone around here." Laurie looked over Mulder's shoulder at something or someone. Mulder turned around and saw Nikki standing beside the junior officer signing some paper work. She had curly hair like Laurie but it's shade of light brown was different. She put the pen down and turned to Laurie and the agents.            "Well, they think I'm crazy. Nothing new there, ne?" She smiled and took a seat beside her friend. "My gosh, interrogated over lunch...." she reached her hand over to the brownie but was met with a slap on the wrist.  "Ouch!"            "Don't even think about it."            Mulder laughed at them and looked back over to Scully who had restarted her conversation with the chief.            "It's just another rumor. Those girls just have wild imaginations, like your partner." the chief said.            "Could I see their written testaments?" Scully asked.            "I'll have copies made." he turned and gave some orders to the officer behind him who quickly complied. "It'll only be a second. The last girl just finished hers, " he laughed, "I have a good mind to take her to an asylum. She's crazier than a Kamikaze who bothered to buckle up!" Scully smiled and walked back over the group. She bent and whispered in Mulder's ear, "Though I hate to spoil your picnic, we should really start our investigation."            "What do you mean? We have started it?" he picked a Pringle from the baggy and held it up for Scully, "Want one?"            "No thanks." she sat back down as listened as the conversation carried on. ***** "When did you first want to join the FBI, Agent Mulder?" Nikki asked the man sitting across the table from her. "Well, I don't think that we need to get into the whole story, so I'll give you the short version.  My sister was kidnapped at a young age, and I have always wanted to find her," was Mulder's response. "That's so sweet!" Laurie nearly shouted.  "I had a friend that took a career test, and it said she would either be an FBI agent or a farmer. Agent Mulder, have you ever gotten the urge to go milk a cow?" Before Mulder could answer her question Scully butted in.  "Why don't we get down to business?  Miss Ford..." Nikki opened her mouth to speak but Scully already knew what she was going to say.  "Nikki can speak with Mulder, and I'll talk with Laurie."  Nikki was a little happier than Laurie about the decision.  Most teenage girls would die to have a handsome man like Mulder focus all his attention on her.  Nikki and Mulder moved to another table across the room since Laurie's lunch was already spread out over this table. "Nikki, can you tell me more about these alien voices that you heard about?" Mulder asked the teenager after they were settled at their new table. "I know that the voices have been commanding students to do horrible things they would probably never think of on their own.  I'm thankful that I'm not hearing them." "Do you know what these voices are commanding these students to do exactly?" "They tell the students to kill everyone they hate and to make bombs. That's why people who are thought to be left out of the 'in crowd' are the ones hearing the voices.  They hate many more people than the popular people that are loved by almost everyone."  Mulder nodded at her answer. It made a lot of sense. Over at the other table littered with Laurie's lunch Scully was saying, "Do you really believe that aliens are controlling people?" "No, I don't.  I don't believe that aliens exist.  I just told you the story that I merely heard from Nikki about the alien voices because I knew that Agent Mulder would be interested in it and I don't want Nikki to look like a fool."  Scully was surprised by Laurie's answer.  The girl had sounded like she had really believed the voices were real before, but of course she was only repeating what she had heard. ***** After keeping the two girls from class for another half hour, Mulder and Scully took a trip to the main office. Scully gathered together Laurie and Nikki's written testimonies and gave them to Mulder to read as she went threw the school's records.            "It says here Mulder that in the past two weeks there have been seven fights, twelve threats on 'popular' kids, and two arrests for assault with a weapon. It's about a 90% increase from the rest of the school year." She turned towards Mulder, "Something is going on here but I don't think it's Alien voices commanding these children."            "You're not gonna blame this on t.v, movies and Marilyn Manson are you?" Scully leaned forward, "It is proven that the minds of teenagers and children are more easily influenced by what they hear and see than those of adults. With all the attention placed on the other school bombings, you're gonna see some copy-cat incidents all over the country."            Mulder flipped through some pages, " Then how do you explain this," he handed one of Nikki's papers to Scully. On it were some of the dates she had remembered from earlier incidents at the school.            "January 17, 1999, the first attack of one of the popular students and threat that the school would blow up. That's months before these other schools were bombed." he sat back in triumph, "So much for the copy-cat theory."            Scully looked over the paper and frowned. "What are you suggesting Mulder?  That Aliens really are to blame for all this?"            "I'm not suggesting anything," he looked behind her shoulder at the window that looked into the main hall of the school. A small girl with black lipstick, eye liner, and multicolored hair was standing there, starring at him and Scully. Her eyes seemed glazed over and her pupils were extremely dilated. He tugged at Scully's sleeve and she turned her head and looked at the girl. She still starred.            "Can I help you?" Scully asked. The girl smiled wickedly and held up her hand. In it was a gun. She continued to smile as her finger tightened around the trigger. ***** April 29, 1999 Holiday Inn; McKinney, TX 7:36 pm The events at the school today had really freaked Scully out.  After the mystery girl had taken out her gun she shoot and killed the drug dog.  Why would anyone want to kill the drug dog?  It was so cute, friendly, and obedient.  At that moment Scully had decided to tackle the girl.  She hated it when dogs died during her cases.  Poor Quequeg.  Now Scully was pacing in her hotel room thinking about what the girl had said to her. "You can't stop them." The girl had whispered it into Scully's ear when Scully had been handcuffing her.  The girl's voice would not get out of Scully's head. "You can't stop them.  You can't stop them."  Scully couldn't take this anymore and screamed.  That was a big mistake.  Mulder came running to her room in his "I'm actually caring about Scully's feelings" mode, but Mulder was the last person Scully wanted to see.  Mulder began to bang on Scully's door. "Scully, is everything okay?  Are you hurt?" Scully sighed and gave her predictable response.  "I'm fine, Mulder." "Do you need to talk about anything?  I can listen." Oh, brother.  Scully just rolled her eyes at that.  Did she ever want to talk about what was bothering her?  No, Scully doesn't do that.  Dana would want to talk about her feelings, but the Scully that Mulder had created kept all her feelings bottled up.  "It's okay, Mulder.  You can go back to your room." Mulder turned around reluctantly and went back to his room.  Why did she never talk about her feelings with him?  He knew she was having trouble with this case, but he just couldn't get her to open up to him. ***** Mulder retreated to his room and flipped threw the t.v channels. Every other program seemed to be talking about the many school incidents. He way the road runner always eluded Wiel-E-Coyote....kinda like the way Scully always eluded him. Of course he never had a ACME bomb blow off in his face like Wile-E but he wasn't complaining. The sound of his cell phone brought him back to reality. He turned down the television and prayed it was Scully on the other line.            "Scully?"            "You can't stop them."            "What?" Mulder heard another scream from Scully's room.            "You can't stop them." the voice repeated.            Mulder jumped up and ran out the door.            Pounding on Scully's door, Mulder felt a sense of dread come over him. The door opened quickly and Scully ran out and into his arms.            "Make them stop!" she screamed, burying her head in his chest.            "Scully, it's alright. Make who stop?" He saw on her bed that her cell phone was on.  He could make out a voice, chanting over and over again the same message he had heard on his own cell phone: You can't stop them. April 30, 1999 McKinney High School, McKinney Texas 9:03 "I assure you, all precautions are being taken. We have guards at every exit and one outside every room." The Chief said but Nikki wasn't satisfied.            "Look, I don't care what you say! I don't want to be here!"            The chief pulled her into the main office, "Caught this one skipping. Write her a note and escort her to class."            "No!" Nikki wriggles free and turned to run but ran strait into a tall man in a suit.  "Agent Mulder, nice to see you again. If you don't mind I'd like to get passed...quickly."            Scully stepped closer, "I thought you and Laurie said you weren't coming today?"            "Well this one sure as hell don't wanna be here. Found her and her friend skipping.  This one gave us a chase."            "Ya needed a good run after packing down all those Crispy Cream doughnuts." Nikki said, looking around the office. "So what did you do with my friend Laurie?"            "She's in class like all the other kids." The chief said, grabbing her by her arm, "And that's just where your going." he pulled her through the door way but Nikki grabbed hold of the door frame tightly, "Please don't let them take me!  They'll get me!" but she lost her hold on the door and was pulled away.            "Sad really. Kid's got a screw loose." the junior officer from before commented.            "Yeah well my partner here seems to think there is some truth to her statements." Scully said.            "Really? On what basis?"            "Your reports say that the threat on this school was said to be carried out on April 30, at 1:48 is that right?" Mulder asked.            "Yeah."            "According to Federal files, Adolf Hitler died that day and time."            "Jesus Christ..."            "Not only that but many other strange events have happened on that day. There was an out of season Tsunami in Japan thirteen years ago on April 30, 1:48 p.m. and in 1996, mass murderer Tim Macraw was set free only to blow up a federal building. When the bodies were cleared, the time on their watches 1:48."            "So what exactly are you saying Agent Mulder?" the officer asked.            "I'm saying that this day and time is littered with accounts of death and destruction.  This school should be cleared at once!"            The officer hesitated.  "I'll go get the chief." then left quickly. ***** Nikki looked sad and worried as she was being dragged off to class, but she began to yell out things to the agents that were still in the office.  "You CAN stop them!  It's not to late!  Stop them!  For the love of God, stop them!!!"  The cop dragging Nikki put his hand over her mouth.  He couldn't have her scaring people any more than they already were.  Out of the 2,600 students that attend the school only 900 had shown up. Mulder and Scully just looked at each other.  What could they do to stop this?  "Hi, agents." They turned around and saw Laurie at the office window.  "What are you doing here?" was Mulder's question. "I called my mom on a pay phone, and she came and checked me out.  But if anyone asks, I had an orthodontist appointment."  Laurie gave them a quick wink and walked out the door with her mother.  As if on cue, the junior officer walked up to the two agents. ***** "Sorry to keep you waiting," he said, "The chief says school will go on as planned. You're welcome to stay and reinforce security but he asks that you not disturb the teachers or students." he walked back over to the main desk.  Mulder looked at his watch, there was still 3 hours, 23 minutes and 47 seconds to stop this. 12:15 Mulder looked at the paper at hand, a schedule of Nikki's classes. He walked up to her class and opened the door. The teacher and a cop were trying to keep her in her seat, one had her left and the other her right. She noticed Mulder immediately.            "Agent Mulder!"            "I'd like to see Miss Ford for a while."            The class ooed and chanted 'your gonna get it' as the officer and teacher released her. Nikki ran to the door and smiled up at him, "Thank you so much!"            Mulder shut the class room door and began to walk with Nikki to where Scully said she'd meet him. "You said we could stop this."            "Yes," Nikki looked at her feet as she walked, "They told me you could."            "Who did?" Mulder asked.            "Someone called me last night."            "Someone called me and Scully last night too only they had a less optimistic message to bring."            "That was them, the students. The people who called me were not Aliens. They were humans. I think that they know what's really going on."            "Did they tell you how we can stop this?" Nikki hesitated, "Yes"            "How?"            "Mulder!" Scully ran up to him with a look of worry in her eyes, "They found a bomb in one of the gym lockers. It was set to go off at 1:48. It's been defused but a search is now going on all over the school."            "They're canceling school now right?"  Scully didn't answer and didn't have to. Her face said everything.            "Damn."            "If they found the bomb they probably think they have neutralized the situation." Nikki said. She ran to her own locker and popped it open. Inside was a poster taped to the door that said "I want to believe". Scully punched Mulder in the ribs, "Spooky Junior." Nikki ran back to the others and handed both a key and to Scully a piece of paper as well.            "What's this for?" Scully asked.            "The Aliens are controlling the students by harmonics. They home in on certain brain waves such as ones that indicate anger and hatred and are picked up."            "If that were true than no one could stop them. You can't eliminate those brainwaves so you can't stop them from hearing the message."            "Harmonics?," Mulder rubbed the edges of the key, "That would explain why they were able to call our cell phones."  Nikki continued, "You can't get rid of the brain waves but you can get rid of the message itself. On the roof above the library there is a large satellite dish. The paper I gave you are the coordinance from which the message is being sent."            "What's the key for?"            "There is a system lock so students can't mess with it. The locks are at the council on the satellite dish and in the main port in the library."            "How did you get these keys?" Scully asked.            Nikki did some back peddling, "Well ya see uh..."            "That's not important. Scully, I'll take the roof. You take the library."            "And what about me?" Nikki asked.            "You, get out of here and take as many as you can with you."            "Dose that include preps? I'd rather them stay.. just in case." ***** Mulder and Scully were off in a flash.  Once they reached the library they separated.  It was very easy for Scully to find the main port, and she finished her business in record time.  Up on the roof Mulder was having a little trouble.  His key didn't want to work.  Scully began to wonder what was wrong.  She ran up to the roof and found Mulder yelling at the satellite dish. "That's enough of that, Mulder." "Huh?" Mulder said to the dish. "Mulder?" "Oh, it's you, Scully.  I thought that I had lost my mind and the dish was talking to me." "Mulder, you lost it a long time ago.  Give me your key."  Scully took Mulder's key and jammed it into the lock.  "You just needed a woman's touch."  Mulder began to think of one those movies that isn't his. "Mulder?  Mulder?  Hey, Spooky!" "What?  Oh, I'm back." "Boy, Mulder.  You've really lost it.  In fact, I don't think you ever had it." Mulder just rolled his eyes at Scully's comment.  "Let's get to work," Mulder said in his manly voice.  Well, he thought it sounded manly. ***** Mulder drifted off again, not really aware of it. He saw a flash of white and screaming children as flames engulfed their bodies. Shoots were fired and bodies fell. He saw their eyes, all black and glazed over. They said nothing but smiled as if they were carrying out some divine plan and would be greatly rewarded. Scully yanked on his sleeve and pulled him back to reality.            "Mulder!"            "What!" She looked at him the way a doctor eyes a patient, "The Dish is set. Let's go back in." she pulled him towards the stairs. 1:17            Hours of persuasion hadn't worked. The Chief and his men still stood in front of the exits.            "Look Mr, Agent Mulder said to get out of here!" Nikki shouted.            "That FBI agent is as crazy as you are kid. Now all of ya! Get back to class!"  His words made as much difference as if he hadn't said anything. The hundreds of kids that lined up shouted and pushed, trying to get passed.            "Chief!" Scully shouted as she ran down the hallway, "Why are these kids still in here?"            "Agent Scully, I thought you had a better head for these things. If we let all these kids leave just because of an ideal threat, there are gonna be more threats just so they can have more days off. It's a domino effect."            "And if you don't let them out and this school blows?"            "Well, they'll have a hell of a lot more days off!" Mulder walked up to Nikki and pulled her from the rest of the group, "The Dish has been moved. Why do I still see the kids with the glazed eyes? Why haven't they gone normal?"            "The Aliens didn't implant the ideas of murder and destruction, they just put into action what was already there. The people who called me said you could stop them. I didn't tell you everything they said though."            "What else is there?" Nikki frowned and pulled him back so no one else would hear. ***** "There's something I haven't told you about yet.  I wasn't sure if it would work, but it's worth a try."  At that instant, Mulder's cell phone rang. Mulder fumbled in his jacket for it and finally found it.  He removed it and flipped it open. "Mulder." "Hi, Agent Mulder.  It's Laurie.  I got bored, so I thought that I'd call you.  I'm looking at your card, and it says that your name's Fox.  Did your parents decide to name you that before or after you were born?" Laurie released a small giggle.  "Anyway, how are things going at the school?" Mulder did not have time for this right now.  Then he noticed that Nikki was being taken back to class, but she was also holding out a small piece of paper towards the agent.  Mulder took it and opened it to find a series of three numbers.  What could they mean? "Agent Mulder, are you there?" "What?  Oh, I'm here." "Are you going to answer my question?" "Oh, sure.  We still can't get the school to release the students." "That's too bad.  I'm sure you can stop whatever is going to happen. Anyway, I'm really bored.  My mom is watching her soap in the other room. The whole Austin-Carrie-Sami-Lucas-Mike-Will thing has been going on far too long.  I think the writers should do the possessed by the devil thing again.  Now that's entertainment.  Is..." "Sorry about having to interrupt you, but I was wondering if you could answer one of my questions.  Nikki handed me a piece of paper with three sets of numbers on it.  The numbers are 15-25-34.  Does that mean anything to you?" "It could be a locker combination." "That could be it.  I'm going to hand you over to Scully while I go check it out, okay?" "Sure.  Fine.  Whatever."  Mulder passed the phone to Scully and was off to the office to research the numbers. "Hi, Agent Scully.  Forgive me for being curious, but why does Agent Mulder call you by your last name?  I can see why you wouldn't want to call him by his first name.  Fox sounds like some kind of pet name, but..." Laurie fumbled through all the things on her desk searching for Scully's card. "Dana is a very pretty name."  Scully knew this conversation was going to be a long one. ***** Mulder rushed up the stairs and to the locker he had seen Nikki open earlier.  He tried the numbers on the paper and was relieved by the sound of the lock unlatching. He opened it up and searched through the locker. On the inside of the door was a note that was written in a green pen. Agent Mulder was written on the front. He took it off and read," Agent Mulder, I guess I've been dragged off to class again. Oh well. I didn't tell you everything that the 'people' told me. Inside my locker you will see a black pouch. Inside is a nero-transmition reader which will help you find the people who are hearing the voices. There will also be a nero-isolator gun to break off brain waves to the cerebellum. This will not hurt them but stop them from hearing things. The clock is ticking." He put the letter in his pocket and went through her stuff. He found the black pouch quickly and emptied the contents into his hands. A small device in the shape of a 'C' made of a strange metal was sitting there as well as a thin, gun-like weapon. As he shut the door he snapped the 'nero-transmition reader' over his right ear. He went for his cell phone but remembered he had given it to Scully. He'd have to inform her later. He was already hearing the voices. He thought he could actually see them. He followed these sounds to a class room and then to a kid. He put the gun to his neck and shot. A small flesh colored device latched onto his skin and he fainted. "Don't be alarmed. He'll be fine." and he left to find the next one. ***** Had Scully heard gunfire? "I just can't understand why all my friends can't get along.  I've never had a fight with any of my friends, but they all seem to be fighting with each other.  Did you..." "I'm sorry, Laurie.  I've got to go."  Scully quickly turned the phone off and concealed it in her jacket.  She then ran towards where she had heard the gunfire with a tight grip on her gun.  Scully turned the corner and saw a classroom in E hall that was in chaos.  They were gathered in a circle around something and screaming.  Scully ran in, and they screamed even louder when they saw her gun.  She quickly put it away and made her way to the center of the circle.  She saw a boy laying on the ground.  She checked his pulse and how he was breathing. "There's nothing to worry about here," Scully announced to the room in her calmest voice.  "This boy simple fainted." One girl walked up to Scully and began talking like a wild woman.  "This tall man in a trench coat came in and shot Billy in the neck.  Then this strange thing attached itself to his neck, and he fell over.  I'm so scared!"  The girl was crying now.  Scully put her arm around her and assured her that everything is going to be okay.  Bang!  Scully heard another shot.  She was out of the room in an instant. "I can't take him anywhere."  Scully kept muttering that phrase under her breath as she ran to J hall.  She got there just in time to see Mulder walk out of a classroom.  "What the hell do you think you're doing, Mulder?" ***** Mulder turned when he saw her and spoke, "I was going to call and tell you but you had my cell phone."            Scully reached up by his right ear and looked at the 'C' shaped devise.  "What's this, Mulder? Why are you running around shooting kids with that..." she looked at the odd shaped gun in his hand and frowned, "what the hell is that?"            "A nero-something-or-other. I can't remember exactly." he pulled the paper out of his pocket and handed it to Scully. She read over it quickly and frowned even deeper.  "Mulder, your scaring the bujesus out of everyone. Look maybe you should stop listening to those two girls."            "Why? Nothing they've said has been wrong?" he walked off, following something that Scully could not see or hear.            "They haven't said anything that can't be proven right either!" she stood for a minute but quickly followed muttering under her breath, "Whose the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?".            Mulder stopped suddenly and smiled. "Well what do you know." he looked down at the next person the device had pointed out. It was the police chief. ***** Mulder walked up to the chief, and shot him in the neck before he had a chance to say anything.  The chief went down to the tiled floor and a small device was now attached to his neck.  Scully looked down at the chief in shock.  Had Nikki been right?  Mulder was off on another search before Scully could ask him any questions. Bang!  Another shot. Scully sat down on the hard floor.  She had no clue as to what was going on around her. "You can't stop them." Oh no!  The voices were back.  Scully curled herself into a ball and began to rock herself back and forth while she desperately prayed the voices would leave her head again.  She heard someone running towards her, but it seemed like she were a million miles away from her spot on the floor. Mulder frowned.  He could not shot Scully, but he knew it was the only way to stop those awful voices.  Mulder put the gun next to Scully's neck and shot.  She fell to her left side as the device latched onto her neck. ***** By now the police were in action, yelling for him to drop his weapon and step away.  Mulder couldn't stop. There was only a few more people. A few more. But those few would mean everyone's death.            "You don't understand."            "We understand quite well Agent Mulder," he leveled the gun with Mulder's head, "Drop it now.", The junior officer shouted. He wasn't used to this, Mulder thought. The man's hands were shaking and the gun he held was gripped tightly. A ringing noise came from Scully's pocket. The police jumped back thinking it was the timer of a bomb. Mulder dropped down and picked up his cell phone. He held it in the air so they could see what it was and answered it, "If you're Laurie, you'd better have something productive to say."            "Well actually I do Agent Mulder. The radio can't stop talking about the "FBI agent turned bad". You right? Not a bad tittle but I think "Spooky Mulder, the FBI agent who believes in little green men" is more appropriate."  Mulder rolled his eyes, "Teenagers."            "But anyways, I was thinking, of all the people in a school, who would have the most hate and anger towards others?"  Mulder thought for a while. "I don't know. It's been a while sense I was in school."            "Think Agent Mulder, people who everyday have to put up with us, listen to our stupid questions and deal with our petty fights."            "Teachers?"            "Exactly. I don't think the messages were intended for students at all but for our teachers. The people with the means to do it and who would never be suspected." Mulder smiled, "Great, thank you Laurie." he hung up and looked out at the hopeless abyss of police.            "If you'd let me explain this would go a lot quicker!" Mulder shouted.  In the corner of his eyes he saw them. Three students and seven teachers.  Eyes glazed over and a remote devise in the oldest teacher's hand. His thumb hovered above the release switch.  Mulder was hit hard with realization. He looked at his watch. It was 1:47. He shouted but the police took him no mind.  They took his moment of distraction to hold him back and cuffed his hands behind his back. A cruel smile pinched the teacher's mouth and he fell...? He fell to the floor and the bomb detonator fell from his hand and rolled to the floor. Behind the fallen man was a young girl.            "Hello, Agent Mulder."            "Nikki!" he shouted in relief, "Can't they keep you in class?" Mulder asked, straining against the police. She dropped down and picked up the detonator, stashing it in her pocket. She raised her gun and aimed it at the junior officer's head, "Let him go or you get it!" ***** The junior officer frantically searched for his keys and took off Mulder's restraints the instant he found them.  Mulder ran over to the remaining "crazy" teachers and students and shot them all in the neck.  He looked down at his watch, and at that instant the time changed to 1:48.  A sigh of relief was released by the agent.  The junior officer on the other hand was staring down at the students and teachers on the floor.  They all had some strange device attached to their necks.  It was like nothing he had ever seen or was ever likely to see again.  The shrill ring of Mulder's cell phone broke the silence in the hallway.  Mulder reached down to pick his phone off the ground and flipped it open. "Mulder." "Did you get 'em?" "Yes, Laurie.  We stopped them." April 31, 1999 Holiday Inn; McKinney, TX 8:36 am There was a knock at Scully's door.  "Who is it?" "It's me."  Scully went over to her door and unlocked it. "Are you feeling any better?" "I'm fine, Mulder." "Scully, you always say that." "But this time I mean it."  Scully was able to force a smile to go along with her comment.  "I'm not mad at you either.  Hey, those voices finally went away." "So, does that mean you believe aliens were sending people messages?" "No.  I'm just glad the voices went away.  That's all."  Mulder rolled his eyes. "What are you going to put in the report?" "Who said I was writing it?  You know much more about what happened than I do." "But you're a much better writer than me, Scully." "And I got that way through experience."  It looked like Mulder wasn't going to get out of having to write this report.  Suddenly, there was a sharp knock at the door. "Who is it?" Scully asked in a commanding voice. "It's your two special helpers," Laurie said in a childish manner. "It's unlocked." Nikki and Laurie opened the door and walked into the hotel room. "Oh, umm, are we interrupting you guys?" Nikki asked. "No, not at all," was Mulder's reply. "Well, I didn't expect to find you two alone in a hotel room together," Laurie remarked.  Nikki nudged Laurie with her elbow.  "Anyway," Laurie continued.  "We just wanted to drop by and say thanks for all the help and good-bye." "Also," Nikki said.  "If you two are ever in the area again, give us a call." "Yeah," Laurie said as she nodded in agreement. "We'll do that," Mulder said. "Good-bye," the two girls said in unison as they waved, and they were out of the room in a flash. "Interesting," Scully remarked. "We better get going or we'll miss our flight," Mulder said.  The two agents gathered all their luggage and went and checked out.  They were ready to go home. THE END