The view was blurred but bright. He couldn't realize what was going on around him. Like a rainbow of colors crystal formed structures were moving infront of his eyes. At first he was wondering about the strange structures, rubbing his eyes to wipe them away, like he would have thought these were an imagination. Suddenly their form got sharper and let him feel pain in his eyes. He pressed his eyes together, rubbing them to get away the pain that was already gone for seconds. As he opened his eyes again he realized there never were these structures. Due to the contact of the oxygen with his upper layer of his eyes the pain was created like throwing salt into somebody's eyes. As he looked around with a now clear view, he realized he was lying in a bed in a white room with grey doors. A nurse came to him, smiling slightly, and sat down to his right.
"Tell me your name."
"Nnnhhh....J-Johan....Lennox...."
"Good....good to have you back Mister Lennox. You have slept for very long, almost a month. But we were able to remove the virus from your body."
"W-what..? Wait....where is Natasha? Where is she?"
The nurse tried to calm it down as Lennox tried to get up, pushing his weak body gently back into the bed as he tried to get up.
"She is alive. And guess what....she was worrying more than you at the moment you have spoken about her..."
The nurse just smiled at him, nodding to somebody who was in the room, too. A door opened and a woman with black her and dark, almost black eyes stepped in, almost running to Lennox' bed. As Lennox heard the steps getting closer to his bed, he looked over and saw her. It really was Natasha. And she looked much better than before. Johan was like freezed for a moment as she saw her smiling on her face. He couldn't find any words. He thought her and himself were dead. He then smiled at her too, feeling like taking a bath in joy that let his heart beat faster. As she arrivedm, she almost jumped on his bed to hug him, releasing some tears as she pressed herself against him.
Surprised by her, Lennox pushed her a bit away gently to let himself some air to breath. Even when he was already a bit annoyed by her behavior, like when seeing somebody after ages the first time again. The girl looked at him with a smile, though different than other, ordinary smiles. He could recognize how she looked at him and what it meant to her. He just returned a smile.
She giggled briefly, nodding. "Yeah..and I am feeling alive again....even more now that you are back, too."
Johan rolled his eyes but added a smile after some seconds. "I..I honestly didn't expect to survive that. Carlisle is known for it's high aggressive 'behavior' against strangers. But...I am happy to see you are alright."
Still weak due to his just ended regeneration of the destroyed cells in his body, the nurse came back into the room, waving with a hand.
"I am sorry...but the visiting time is over. Mister Lennox needs to rest."
Natasha looked over to the nurse and nodded. She then looked back to Lennox and smiled at him. She stood up from the bed. Almost turned his face away again, Natasha suddenly gave him a kiss on the cheek before departing. She turned around once to wave as Lennox looked at her, somewhat confused. As the door closed again he finally made it to sit up. But then suddenly his view looked like a tunnel of light.
He opened his eyes and realized it was only a dream. He was lying somewhere in a dark room on a table. It didn't feel very comfortable. He stood up, realizing some wounds inside him already healed again. He didn't feel sick any longer but he could smell that something was wrong. He walked out of the room through a door, heading for the unknown.
The smell was odd and the hull was making weird sounds, like all the other things, coming from the dark. It seemed like there were corpses lying around everywhere. The smell let him stay concerned a bit. He didn't know where he was and smelt something odd. As he walked to the next door through the dark corridors he could see some kind of prison station through the bars, he was walking along. He had to turn around immediately as the first wave of the horrible stenght reached his nose. It smelt like there happened a massacre. As he turned towards the 'prison' again he could see blood everywhere. Flies are satisfying themselves from the decomposed bodies, lying on the ground. As he opened the door towards the place where the corpses where lying. It made him feel scared to see all those bodies lying there. He thought he would be in a bad dream, nervously looking around all the time. He tried not to touch the lifeless bodies or the pools of blood. As the next door opened he couldn't see something different. Everywhere were those damned corpses. Women and men and even children were lying there in that fog of stenght. The air was thick and Lennox was barely able to breath clearly. Lights were flickering, sometimes being deactivated completely for seconds before activating again.
Something was completely wrong at that place. Everything was intact. Only the bodies seemed to were affected by something. Forcing himself to investigate those persons more close, he could see that in every body the organs were missing. Mostly the bones were 'untouched'. But the flesh looked like still being active somehow. The thought a virus was coursing around made him stand up back again to continue his walk through the hull of the yet unknown structure that could be a ship or a station.
As the amount of the dead bodies finally began to decrease and the air 'cleared up' a bit, he took a deep breath, like feeling relieved. The lights weren't flickering any longer and the stenght finally completely disappeared. As the corridors got brighter he could see space through a big window in a big room. As he entered that room, the door behind him immediately. He turned around, looking at the closed door, quickly drawing his handgun that was for some reason still sticking in the holder for it. He heard a chuckle, coming from a dark corner out of the room. Lennox aimed the man who was standing there but didn't realize more men were coming into the room through another door. As they approached behind him, Johan realized he was surrounded by those strange people. They were all wearing Outcast uniforms but didn't got a breather for cardamine. As another door directly infront of him openend up, he could see somebody in shackles. The strange man in the corner chuckled again and moved to the person, catched in the shackles. He pulled the person with him while walking towards Lennox slowly. As Johan saw the face, he gulped, looking at it. Natasha was looking at him scared. She looked like she would had been 'abused' for fun of others. He noticed her clothes were torn, like she was grabbed roughly very often. Her face was filled with pain and fear. Something in her eyes let him think the strange 'Outcasts' even raped her.
He got angry, unlucking his weapon quietly. The men chuckled all together. One of them walked towards Natasha and forced her on the ground. But before he could do anything more, a foot hit his head. The man got thrown on the ground, consciousless. The other guys stepped back a bit and drew their weapons, aiming at him. Lennox didn't move. He just stood there, like being absent. He thought about what he should do now. He then slowly moved a hand to the device around his arm, pressing two buttons before removing his hand again. The persons around him just shouted he shouldn't move. But instead of a typical retreat of the will to act against them, a smile crossed Lennox' face. The air somehow contained more ions than before. It was to see how the hairs on the men's skin began to rise due to the higher electrification. They suddenly grabbed their arms, feeling pain for some reason. Because of the closer distance to the men around him, than to the guy who was still standing where Natasha was, only these were effected by the sudden ion field. Their neurons stopped moving due to the increasing electrical energy in the air. Not being able to stand on their feet any longer, all of them fell on the ground, still twitching.
That guy just smiled and took Natasha by her arm, pulling her up again. He then held a weapon at her head, smiling at Lennox.
"Are you really sure you want to risk her life with such stupid actions? Don't be a fool and throw away your weapon! Now!"
"If I would do it...nobody can make sure you wouldn't harm her. So...no...."
As Lennox finished he quickly lifted his weapon up and aimed for the head of the 'Outcast'. It was to see the guy who was holding his weapon against Natasha's head, moved a finger to fire at her. In not even a second a quiet sound of unleashed energy was to hear. A weapon flew away on the ground and it's owner, too. Natasha collapsed due to the shock. She looked behind her briefly, seeing the man lying there, dead. She then looked back at Lennox who was already on it to help her.
