Chapter 1
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Prelude to Destruction
For years everyone on Earth constantly wondered if aliens ever existed, even in the year 2217 the question was still unanswered. But what if mankind weren’t actually alone in their universe? What if aliens were actually real, and if so how would humans make contact with them? It was a question that went unanswered for thousands of years until May 10th, 2227 at 11:17a.m. NASA officials had picked up a sound coming from the edge of the Milky Way. At first they thought it was just a random sound maybe coming from a black hole but the longer they listened, the more clear the sound became, leading them to believe that whatever was out there seemed to be getting closer and closer.
But the bigger question obviously was what exactly was moving toward their solar system? NASA officials kept constant surveillance of the sounds being transmitted “We need to start narrowing down what this thing is, if it’s aliens then we need to find out intentions. because seriously I told my kids if aliens came to earth I’d buy them all horses, you know how much those things costs?” The officials bickered among themselves trying to decide what option would be best “The more important question is: if they are aliens how the hell did they even find us? and when exactly are they gonna be here… so I can call off and heavily barricade my house” Several hours went by and suddenly NASA was able to get a clear signal; although they were warned not to communicate with possible extraterrestrial life their curiosity got the best of them so they began to communicate with the possible life forms. It began with just vocalizations sounding like gibberish to the earthlings but it was thought to be that this was their language.
NASA continued to listen, and communicate with whatever was out there. Hours had passed until the NASA officials made a very startling observation which confirmed that they were indeed communicating with other life forms. The Aliens began to speak bits and pieces of English telling the officials who and what they were. The officials were baffled that the aliens had learned English in such a short amount of time, they believed that these were very similar life forms compared to themselves, considering that they had learned a different language just by listening to the officials talk to them and amongst themselves in a matter of hours. NASA’s discovery was all over the news from local to international; hours after the discovery, most believed that this was a big step for humanity; this meant new technology, possible cultures, and definitely new places to visit.
It had been established that the visitors would arrive on earth in a little over a year due to officials picking up transmission somewhere near Mars. Mankind rejoiced at the news, planning a earthly welcome to their incoming visitors. Days went by, some people were filled with excitement but others were already filled with dread believing that their planet would be invaded and overrun by aliens even though the government officials had said the aliens meant us no harm. Months of observations from NASA and other space institutes led to a large flow of information about the aliens coming for a visit. The news filled all stations which then filled schools causing the exciting news to spread like wildfire. But even though there were people all around the world excited for what the visitors have to offer, there was one man, who was suspicious from the start.
Jayce was living in Chesapeake, Virginia with his wife and two kids, his wife Audrey, was a beautiful Mexican Woman. Her hair was long, straight and black; her eyes were hazel with a face so gorgeous every man would take a second look, with a body only a true man can handle. Jayce was a young tall, handsome black man; with a clean cut and a body build of a veteran athlete. it seemed almost destined they’d be together. Jayce met Audrey as a senior in high school, however they didn’t really start dating until after. Audrey was somewhat of beauty queen and Jayce was..somewhat of a loner; his mom had died a year ago when he was sixteen from a heart virus so it was safe to say he wasn’t in the mood to talk to anyone, and who could blame him? He had lost someone that was very precious to him. not only had he move schools but also, he wasn’t interested in making friends. His father disappeared on them mysteriously when Jayce was four so it was only himself and his mother for a long time up until she died. Jayce did what any other young adult would do at that age: put on headphones to drown the pain; but that’s when he met her.
Audrey found Jayce with a broken spirit, and a bitterness toward the world. But when he was down, lonely and unwilling to talk to anyone, she was willing to talk to him; as unbelievable as he thought it was at the time she grew on him; she was there for Jayce, when he had nobody to turn to, nobody to relate to the pain in his heart. As time went by Jayce started developing strong feelings for Audrey so the two started to hangout more often. Eventually Jayce dropped his walls allowing them to get close; to Jayce the greatest day of his life was when Audrey said yes to going out with him in the summer of 2212, the second greatest would have to be when the twins Akura and Xayvion were born, four years later. This led to Jayce and Audrey to get married. Three years pass, Jayce gets a job working as an FBI Agent, later that year his team was tasked with a cold case, a seven year old named Luna Ventura was abducted when she and her father had went to a movie One night on February 18th 2216. According to the father he was hit over the head with a blunt object, possibly a club or bat once the movie was over and the two made their way to the car. Before his head hit the ground he claimed he saw Luna standing in front of him. As he tried to crawl to his daughter he was kicked in the left temple knocking him unconscious. When paramedics arrived he was by himself; and when he woke up inside the ambulance paramedics say he was hysterical he repeatedly asked them where his daughter was, unaware that paramedics found him alone. After an official report was made Jayce was given the assignment, It was first believed that she was just targeted by some freak who had a thing for small children. However, it was quickly ruled out because sex offenders weren’t listed in Luna’s residential area. To look for possible discrepancies in any of the family’s statement Jayce went to his office in Chesapeake his personal desk was located on the third floor of a tall and large black building with the FBI insignia in the center. while he was going over the statements from the parents, and the officers on scene. one of his partners: Karen Mendez, the all star who had just transferred from the gang unit; entered the room. Mendez was a Puerto Rican woman with long brown hair, and green eyes, people thought she was a very beautiful woman, some say her eyes are what make her irresistible; others argued that it’s her body. She was easy to get along with, had a lot of friends and only asked that you not call her by her first name. She wore a white button up blouse, blue jeans, and white flat heel shoes. She quickly took a seat across from Jayce’s desk and asked him: “have you read the officer on scene statement?” Jayce shook his head saying he hadn’t gotten to it yet. Mendez went on to say the officer believed that there was something more to the case than just a kidnapping, the only thing she could think of was that Luna was being held for ransom. Jayce stood up then put on his coat and badge “Well let’s head to the home and get a good look around maybe there’s something there that’ll give us a clue” before they left Jayce took a look at the television, it was already tuned to the news. They were covering the story behind the alien visit, he could see people around the world holding up banners that said: ‘welcome’ on it, he could also see people barricading their homes, others held weapons into the air as a threat against the celestial visitors. Jayce could see there were two versions to mankind’s reaction, and Jayce sided with the aggressive side because he felt that the aliens were hostile.
Jayce and Mendez drove ten miles to get to the Ventura home, a brown two story house with a black gate surrounding it. Jayce looked to the roof of the home and spotted, a camera. “Did they collect any surveillance videos from the Ventura home?” Mendez shook her head saying that the video was too blurry to see. Jayce couldn’t accept that “We’re not leaving without that tape” the duo entered the gate then knocked loudly on the door “Mr Ventura, FBI we want to ask you some questions” the locks began to turn, when the door opened they looked at a very distraught white woman in her early forties with blonde hair along with a couple strands of white hair, she was just wearing a tracksuit she had bags under her eyes indicating that she hadn’t slept for a couple days, her eyes were red; probably due to crying as much as she probably was. Mrs. Ventura’s question was if we found her daughter yet. Mendez shook her head telling her that they were working as hard as they could, Mrs Ventura rolled her eyes and demanded to know why they were questioning them again “Where is your husband Mrs Ventura?” Mendez took the lead on questioning while Jayce asked to look around; she agreed. Jayce looked around the living room, but didn’t see anything odd.. but when he got to the kitchen he saw a pile of bills that were previously past due, some had large amounts of money that were past due. Jayce couldn’t help but think, how did a man come up with the money to pay for thousands of dollars worth of bills? Jayce headed back to the living room and asked Sarah, Mr Ventura’s wife: “Has your husband ever taken out a loan of any kind for any reason?” Sarah shook her head, saying that her husband has a well paying job, he wouldn’t need to take out a loan. Jayce looked to Mendez then asked for information about Mr Ventura’s job. Sarah grabbed a pen and piece of paper, writing down the number of the company. “We also need the surveillance tape from the camera on your roof” she complied, but not before complaining about it. Surely enough she went up the stairs to grab it. Immediately Jayce hopped on the phone “Hey I need you to run both of the Ventura’s financials, anything suspicious you tell me” Mendez folded her arms then leaned on the wall of the house “when I was talkin to her she said her husband was at work, but he wasn’t dressed in his normal work clothes… which. Is. Kinda odd but.. maybe he went for a run?” Jayce shook his head at her “I don’t wanna rule him out as the perp yet I’ve watched enough crime shows to know this might be one of those life insurance related cases” Mendez frowned before saying: “Shouldn’t you know that based on your years on the job and the school they put you through?” Jayce looked at Mendez sideways and said “Don’t be stupid Mendez don’t you watch forensic documentaries? It’s like the same thing but on tv. I know what blood spatter and what instrument caused it before csi even takes the picture” Sarah soon returned from the upstairs bedroom handing them the tape before she sent them on their way. Even though Jayce knew that the tape was pretty blurry he thought maybe he could get someone to enhance the video. But there was going to be no need “Excuse me! Detective!” Jayce looked across the street, seeing a young man coming toward them with a tape in his hand “There’s something on this you might want to look at, I live in that house across from the Ventura’s; I have my own set of cameras and I’ve picked up some suspicious activity about that girl that went missing awhile ago.” The boy couldn’t be more that sixteen years old, he was a slim white boy with blue braces, blue eyes, and blonde hair.. and wouldn’t stop staring at Mendez. in fact, Jayce was the closest person to him but he willingly walked straight passed him, giving the tape directly to Mendez. She laughed nervously before taking the tape from the young man; she could tell the boy was a little skittish and timid. she smiled brightly as she thanked him. “You stay outta trouble honey, you’re way too handsome for jail” she gave the boy a wink before getting into the squad car. Jayce shook his head before getting into the car and driving back to the station “So uh… you into nerds now?” Mendez scoffed saying that the boy didn’t have a chance even if she was passed out in a robe. Jayce just laughed before he got a call from the computer forensics lab “Talk to me” the woman on the line told Jayce that Mrs Ventura’s financials had no suspicious activity, however it was Mr Ventura’s financials that were a little shady. He was sixty thousand dollars in debt.. but suddenly paid it and coincidentally, investigators found out that Luna had a two hundred thousand dollar life insurance policy taken out on you nine months before her disappearance. “Okay, have someone compare the life insurance document to anything else he’s ever signed, tell the rest of the team we got a video to go over maybe that can shed some light“ Mendez asked if he had found something in the house that could help them in any way. Jayce hung up the phone then told her: “There were a pile of bills on the kitchen table, it looked like they were overdue until he suddenly paid them” she asked how was that suspicious in any way, after all he was paying his bills like a normal person “I added up the amount from all the bills on that table, it was close to forty thousand dollars. We just have to figure out how he got it, and if he got it from someone where the fuck are they right now?” Jayce stepped on the gas, speeding to get back to the office. He felt like he was getting close to a big break in the case. Once inside his other partner Gage was there to meet him, “Everyone’s in the conference room waiting for you two” the three walked into the conference room saying hi to everyone present. Mendez was asked to be in control of the video playback. As the tape the boy gave Mendez played everyone noticed a single vehicle that would drive pass the home slowly every other day “fast foreword to the night of Luna’s disappearance, I think this asshole must’ve followed them” five minutes after Luna and her father left for the movies that night the car followed the same route “Can you get the license plate?” Mendez zoomed into the video, buffering then enhancing making the license plate clear as day “Run those plates and get me a warrant let’s run down on this prick. I need to go by the forensic lab anyway so be ready to go when I get back.” Jayce walked down to the second floor where their forensic lab was. The woman on the phone he had been talking to was Doctor Taylor a computer forensics analyst who was a light skin woman in her mid twenties with short black hair and green eyes. Both her and Jayce were hired around the same time so they had worked numerous cases together. Jayce asked what she had found out based on Mr Ventura’s financials; it was discovered that Richard Ventura had a really bad gambling problem and had lost about Sixty thousand dollars. When cards began to max out, bills started piling up and his car was getting towed things started to look very bleak for the family of three. “But with no record of where he got the money from its gonna be hard to confirm our motive, maybe he got the money from a loan shark which is a very likely explanation” that’s when Mendez and gage walked into the lab saying that they got a hit on the vehicle. Jayce was feeling excited about it but on the faces of his partners told another story “You’re not gonna like this, the vehicle belongs to Ronaldo Ortiz” Ronaldo was a man that was known by the FBI to be associated with the Peruvian Cartel; “Gage, you and Danielle bring The Ventura’s in, I think we just found out how they got the money. Mendez and I will take the rest of the team and bring in Ortiz ready? Break!” With that the team spread out to carry out their task at hand. As Jayce, Mendez, and four others arrived at Ortiz’s residence they identified the car in the video. Jayce drew his service weapon, a .45 caliber 1911 handgun. As protocol they usually announce themselves before entering but Jayce was impatient, there was a kid missing and nobody had a single lead to her whereabouts. Jayce kicked down the door before anyone could say anything “No time for introductions search the place top to bottom and bring him with us when we leave” as they entered the two story house they could hear soft moaning coming from upstairs Jayce quietly walked up the stairs then kicked open the door where the noises were coming from. Jayce pointed his gun directly at who he thought was Ronaldo Ortiz “Where is she!?” Ortiz was a chubby guy in his early twenties with short black hair and tattoos all over his body the woman next to him was a white woman with green eyes and brown hair, she didn’t look healthy, her pupils were abnormally large, and she looked like she had been sleep deprived. She appeared to be in her early forties but was actually a lot younger than she appeared “who in the hell are you?!” Ronaldo snapped saying he had no idea who Jayce was talking about and that jayce had no right barging into his home. That’s when Mendez presented the search warrant for Ronaldo’s house. She also took point of the woman sitting on Ortiz’s bed covering herself up. “You doin okay over there? You look like there’s been a flashlight in ya face for like three days straight” Mendez then asked her how old she was but the woman rolled her eyes as she said: “I’m Thirty-seven alright.” Mendez tilted her head as she wrote down her information “So you’re one of those cougars huh? You know he’s probably the same age as your son right? But i’m guessing you don’t. See what’s wrong with that right?” The Woman “Bitch, Cop or not I’ll still jump out these sheets and make ya face match your uniform” Mendez chuckled as she put her weapon back in its holster “as long you don’t try to make this about police brutality I’ll gladly introduce you to the ground!” Without a second thought the woman jumped out the bed and rushed to Mendez. Jayce pinched the bridge of his nose while he lowered his weapon “Here we go” Mendez smirked as the woman became within arms reach then simply stomped on one of her feet then head butted her which caused a nosebleed “Who the fuck headbutts in a fight you psycho bitch!? You just broke my nose” Mendez rolled her eyes as she moved the woman’s hands that were blocking her nose “Here let me get that for you honey” she said sweetly before she twisted the woman’s broken nose back into place “the girl screamed in pain as she fell to her knees cradling her nose “What the hell is wrong with you!!” The woman’s face was red, she was in tears and she was hurt but Mendez just shook her head and said: “I mean I could have just arrested you for assault on an officer.. but since I didn’t wanna do the paperwork I’ll send you to the hospital instead” she turned to one of the officers with them and told him to escort her to the hospital. Shortly after, one of the officers entered the room holding a plastic bag. Inside that bag was a children’s backpack, and on that backpack they could all see small traces of blood. Jayce looked at the bag then shook his head, turning his attention back to Ortiz. “Well it’s not normal for a person with no kids to have a bloody children’s backpack… if you didn’t know that; but hey Those gold bracelets like good on you by the way” Jayce then grabbed the handcuffs from his belt, twirling them around his finger “But I think these silver ones would really bring out your eyes”
While Jayce worked on some paperwork for Ronaldo Ortiz’s capture Mendez and three other officers escorted Ortiz to the interrogation room. “You fucking pigs have no class, I didn’t even have a chance to properly dress myself before you ripped me from my home and beat my girlfriend” Mendez quickly shoved him into the room and slammed the door before flopping in the chair “Who are you trying to impress? The convicts? Trust me I’m pretty sure most of them will say you look great just the way you are” After that, Jayce walked into the room slamming a large folder filled with papers of all sorts. He circled around Ortiz with his hands together down his lower back “Well Mr Ortiz it seems you have a lengthy record behind you. Murder, extortion, rape, assault and now kidnapping. And that Woman you were with? Her names Amanda and we found traces of different drugs in her bloodstream. I think it’s safe to say she got the drugs from you;” Ortiz avoided Jayce’s eyes, he continued to remain silent, it was obvious he wasn’t going to say anything but Jayce wanted to get whatever he could out of him until he said the magic word “I want you to understand something Mr Ortiz.. You’re going away, for a very very long time. But now it’s your turn to help me understand something” Jayce leaned against the wall across from Ronaldo then asked “Who loaned Ventura the money Ronaldo?” Ronaldo was silent at first.. after about five minutes Ronaldo finally said: “Lawyer” Mendez rolled her eyes before she got up and left the room. Jayce frowned before he got up. Out loud he said it was fine if Ronaldo didn’t wanna talk; “What I can’t get out of you I can get it from Ventura.” He took one last look at Ortiz then left the room. Gage and his partner Garret were already interviewing the Ventura’s together. Their suspicion was that Mr Ventura loaned money from Ronaldo Ortiz or maybe Ronaldo introduced him to someone who could. “Mr Ventura, you say that you’re daughter was abducted on the Tuesday night of October 8th last year?” Richard confirmed Garret’s statement saying he had already told the police everything about that night “Be that as it may Richard we think you know exactly why your daughter was abducted, even though you say you don’t” Richard firmly denied the allegation toward him saying that the statement was preposterous “You say you work as a physical therapist?” Richard aggravatedly said yes, while also adding that he’s worked there for two years. Garret placed a tape recorder on the table; he asked Richard one more time to tell them the truth before he allowed it to play “This is Agent Garret I’m calling about one of your employees, a Richard Ventura?” As the tape played, Richard began to sweat excessively. He was trying not to raise the suspicion higher than it was, but he knew the lies he’s been telling are going to expose him. The woman on the tape recording went on to say Richard was fired from his job recently. Which was Coincidentally two months before his daughter's disappearance. Sarah looked at her husband demanding him to tell her why he never told her he got fired from his job, It also made her wonder what else he was hiding; Richard looked his wife in the eyes, seeing her worried he started to break into tears. Then began telling the tale “When I got fired from my job we didn’t have much in our savings, so when it dried up bills began to pile up and I didn’t want to stress my wife out.. I met this guy… his name was was Ronaldo; a couple weeks later. He promised me that he could get me the money to pay off all my debts and then some. We were on the verge of losing the house so I agreed to the arrangement. He loaned me sixty thousand dollars through his boss.. but I don’t know his name I swear…”
After a series of question by investigators accompanied by an angry wife staring at him , Richard went on to say that he had promised he’d make the money back for them somehow. However, once the Cartel started to demand their money things began to take a turn for the worse. When Richard began to give them the cold shoulder the cartel began applying pressure: burglary, vandalism, and threats. Until they suddenly stopped, which even Gage believed was really bizarre; any cartel wouldn’t just stop because someone’s ignoring them; which brought Garret to his next question: “What happened next Richard?” Gage watched as all the color slowly drain from his face when he was asked that specific question. While Richard looked like he saw a ghost, Sarah looked like she was full of rage.
“After they stopped harassing me at least four months went by. I thought things were starting to blow over. Me and Luna went to a movie. After it was over we were heading toward the car that’s when I was hit over the head with something I was still conscience but everything was a blur. All I could see were feet walking passed me, I struggled to get to my feet but all I got was a kick in the head. When I woke up again I was in the back of an ambulance I asked them where my daughter was but they said nobody was with me when I was found” Mrs Ventura instantly broke down.
Hysterical and distraught she stood up and slapped her husband across the face. “It’s your fault!!” She shouted as she attacked him with slaps, punches, and kicks until she was pulled away by the officer who was in the room “I’m sorry!! I-I should of came to you earlier but I was afraid of what they’d do!! What they might do to Luna!! what they might do to the rest of my family!” Ventura broke down in tears filled with regret and anger toward himself. “You bastard!” Sarah shouted as she tried to free herself from the officer “Just wait till I get my hands on you!!! You got my daughter kidnapped you son of a bitch!!” I shook my head as I flipped through the case file while I made notes. “Get her outta here, I can’t fuckin concentrate” Garret said as the officer began dragging her away “Let me go!! let me go!!” She screamed as she kicked her feet trying to break free. “Sheesh now you have an angry wife on your hands I’d hate to be you Richard. In fact, I think you’d be better off in prison but all bullshit aside man, we’re going to do everything we can to bring your daughter back, in the meantime sit in the lobby and relax we’re gonna set up a safe house for you to stay in while we figure out our next move” Gage said to him before the two left the room. At this point Garret wanted to just get the case over with. All they had to do was find Ronaldo’s boss. The only trouble was where to look now. “Mendez, Garret I want you two in there when Ortiz lawyer gets here so we can get straight back into the interview, me and Gage are going back to the house we scooped him up at, maybe there’s something we missed” As Jayce grabbed his coat from the rack he noticed that the woman they found with Ronaldo was missing when he asked about her Mendez said she was discharged from the hospital two hours ago because there was no reason to keep her. “She might be someone that can help us find Ronaldo’s boss, some people pillow talk you know?” Mendez shook her head saying that they have her place of residence on file so if Jayce really wanted to question her he could.. but soon they’d realize she’d be unable to speak to anyone..
Jayce and Gage left for Ortiz’ residence to do more searching but when they arrived, they knew there was something wrong. As they made their way to the house, they saw immediately that the door was ajar; the two men looked to each other; drawing their weapons then continued inside. What they saw was a blood trail that lead them to the main bedroom when they opened the door.. they saw evidence of a horrifying and brutal murder. On the bed soaked in blood was what was left of a body she had deep lacerations all over, to the point limbs were almost severed. Muscle was torn away from bone and her face was almost unrecognizable Jayce sighed as he shook his head taking note of the blood spatter on the walls and ceiling “looks like an axe.. Sweet fucking Christ what kinda madman murders someone with a fucking axe she was so young… well not really but... what the hell happened here…?” Gage walked over to Amanda’s body then checked her pulse, he looked at Jayce shaking his head “Nothing we can do… she’s gone” Jayce blinked once as he looked at gage, in a sarcastic tone he replied: “Ya think?”
Amanda’s death was so shocking it actually made the news the following day, Jayce had to turn off his television to so he could focus on it.. he was more mad at the fact he could’ve prevented it, he thought he should’ve ordered his team to personally escort Amanda back home safely. To make matters worse the only DNA left at the Crime scene belonged to the victim there were no fingerprints, no witnesses, and no leads. But Jayce believed he knew the person who may have had a hand in the crime. And that person was now sitting across from his team in the interrogation room “I’m sure you’ve seen the news Ronaldo, that poor girl we caught you with is dead now. Guess where she was found?” Garret pulled out the crime scene photos from a folder before sliding them across the table but Ronaldo refused to look at them representing Ortiz was an older white woman in her late forties “My client had nothing to do with that we all know he was was stuck here all day yesterday.” Mendez questioned Ronaldo as to why he wouldn’t look at the photos.. she could tell there was something bothering him, maybe he was hiding something. information worth hiding was information worth looking into “Was it your fault she was killed Ronaldo?” Rachel , Ronaldo’s lawyer immediately told him not to say anything but Ortiz’ had already given himself away because Mendez saw his eye slowly begin to tear up “How long did you know her Ronaldo.. longer than we all think?” Rachel once again retaliated saying it was none of Mendez’ business “You loved her didn’t you Ronaldo.. probably the first women you met when you came to the US all those years ago..” Garret watched as Mendez took lead in the interrogation he could tell she might’ve actually found something to exploit against Ronaldo “Look we know you didn’t kill her but everyone else is going to think you did. We can’t help you if you don’t help us.. You owe it to her and that poor womans family, along with the Ventura’s” Ronaldo thought to himself for several minutes, Ronaldo was in quite the hard place with a very difficult decision to make; and decided to make the right one “Get me a cigarette and a few minutes with my lawyer please and I’ll tell you what you want; If our terms are agreed too of course.”
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Chapter 2
Prelude to Deception
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“Well we’re gonna have a pretty lengthy trial now thanks to her, so much for an open and shut case.” all agents were standing behind the two way glass outside of the room Ronaldo was held in. Gage shook his head at Mendez’ statement; saying it was never an open shut case from the beginning “We don’t even have a confession from this guy, just because he darted his eyes in a direction doesn’t mean it’s admissible in court ya know.” Mendez rolled her eyes before pushing her face against the glass “Just tell us you did it, you lowlife we know your fricken guilty!” Jayce chuckled to himself as he watched Mendez be herself, a little unorthodox but that’s what made her loved by everyone “Just gimme twenty seconds with them, and those diamond brass knuckles in our evidence room; you’ll have everything you wanna know” Mendez spoke in an oddly cheerful voice with a wide grin despite the fact she was mentioning torture. “You know, sometimes I wonder how you got passed the psyche evaluation, is this like some weird fetish of yours?” Garret was previously from the sex crimes unit but transferred to Jayce’s cold case team. He and Mendez were absolutely nothing alike. Mendez has seen what she believed to be mankind’s true nature in life. She’s portrayed them as… emotional beasts. “Don’t be an idiot Garret. People are just animals that can talk I’ve seen it all. People murder their own families over money.. you do realize if animals started talking like us they’d be just like us right?” Garret believed that people were just.. misunderstood they may have good intentions but unfortunately, have poor judgment “He’s just scared, he’s putting a lot on the line they just took his girlfriend from him if he sings in this interrogation it’s curtains for him and maybe his family” Jayce and gage rolled their eyes as they watched the two argued. Next they heard the door buzz; Rachel Maddison was the one to walk out with a tired expression on her face, she leaned against the wall next to the door then exhaled deeply before saying: “We wanna make a deal” all agents looked at one another with confusion in their faces. “Alright then” Garret said as he and Mendez went back into the room to sit down with them “My client is willing to tell you where the girl is, who he thinks killed Amanda and where to find the lone shark” Mendez looked at Garret and she could tell he was thinking the same thing she was. Why so suddenly? They’ve been interrogating him for hours and his lawyer suddenly influenced a change of heart? “..Go on” Mendez leaned forward, as she slowly placed the cigarette on the table, allowing it to roll to Ronaldo. She was intrigued to know what Ronaldo and his attorney had to say “But we’re only agreeing to cooperate if he’s granted full immunity and a visa” Garret chuckled to himself before saying: “You fuckin with me? I mean I don’t entirely understand why you think you should get immunity but a visa? What are we? A commercial airline?” He made it clear that he strongly disagreed to the arrangement. “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch you little bastard. Don’t forget we found a bloody children’s backpack in your home!!” Mendez slammed her fist on the desk before leaning over the table to grab Ronaldo by his shirt “Now listen you little shit stain i’m not even gonna so much as think about your plea until you fucking explain to me how that backpack got there and why your vehicle was seen following the victim the night of her abduction!!” Garret pinched the bridge of his nose as he watched the barbaric cop in action “I wonder if HR will allow us to put a leash on this brute of a woman” Jayce facepalmed as he watched the now questionable so called “rising star” assault their suspect in front of his lawyer, Gage simply walked away from the glass to gather his thoughts; he couldn’t bare to watch as their case crumbled away. Surprisingly, Ronaldo grabbed Mendez by her wrist to lower it away from the collar of his prison jumpsuit, but she just violently yanked him closer “I’ve done a lot of things, I’m not proud of what I’ve done over the years. I’ve made some very harsh decisions in Mexico… I’ve shot a father while knowing his daughter was watching for christ sake…. Richards daughter, Luna… she’s dead already. I figured the least I can do is something nice for once.. I know where her body is, but I did not kill her I swear… but I know who did..” Mendez released her grip from his shirt before she sat back down with a pen and notepad. Jayce folded his arms as he leaned in close to the glass; his heart was pounding, he was feeling anxious because he believed he could capture everyone involved in both murders once he hears Ronaldo’s confession. Garret leaned back in his chair with his cheek resting on his knuckles and fingers “aaaaand action!” Ronaldo grabbed the cigarette from the table then lit it “I let them use my car for the kidnapping because I thought they’d just hold her for ransom… I didn’t know they’d take a whole step in the other direction by killing her. She was just a fucking kid! After they got Richards daughter that night they took her to a house our boss owned the next day. I told them put a hood over her head so she couldn’t identify them, for multiple days Luna was in the dark unable to see anything but she was able to hear everything around her… and happening to her… two days before you guys arrested me I gotta call from El Shinigami and he said.. something weird.. he said that the girl.. tried to kill them, he said that the little girl heard all their thoughts.. she made people bend in ways they shouldn’t, and next thing I know she’s dead, I don’t know what spooked him but it was odd because El Shinigami is a fucking giant he wasn’t scared of anything. After I calmed him down he told me where they buried her, she’s buried at Great Dismal Swamp, she’s in a marsh that has a charred tree that looks like a horse…. if you stand in front of it she’s buried on the left side.” Jayce shook his head as he whispered “What the fuck?” to himself under his breath while he listened to Ronaldo’s confession. Hearing footsteps, he looked to his left seeing gage walking up to him, drinking from a silver flask “What I miss?” He took one more gulp from the flask before storing it in his inside coat pocket in his blazer. “Well, somehow Mendez’ interrogation tactics worked and now he’s spilling everything… but his story is kinda… off; have you been drinking since you walked off?” Gage rolled his eyes as he ate a piece of chewing gum “Yes officer I did, But I can handle my liquor better than anyone on earth” Gage leaned his back against the wall beside the glass as he listened to Mendez’ response. “Okay so I’m gonna assume that story is true up until the point you said your friend was hearing voices in his head?” Ronaldo insisted that all of his story was true “The love of my life was taken from me by my own people.. to think they’d throw everything I’ve done, away like it’s nothin!! in the most violent and vicious of ways!!” Ronaldo was feeling very emotional about the entire situation.. it took him a minute to get himself together before he said: The weapon used to take her life.. it was an Ax wasn’t it?” Mendez looked to Garret with a shocked expression on her face “H-how could you know that??” Jayce quickly remembered the medical examiner's report on Amanda’s autopsy, without a doubt Ronaldo was telling the truth, because the pathologist concluded that the cause of her death was none other than by the blade of an ax. Which was something investigators did not disclose to the media to keep the investigation a secret “So then who killed her? I want names, locations, social media accounts, I want it all!!” Mendez said excitedly before Garret patted her head telling her to calm down as if she were an animal “Contain yourself” Garret looked to Ronaldo telling him he might actually get his deal if everything he said were true. “For your sake I hope it’s true, you’re freedom is literally hanging in the balance.” As the interrogation progressed Ronaldo gave up the names of all involved in Luna’s kidnapping and murder: Mark Garcia aka El shinigami and Carlos Porter aka Slim were tasked to kidnap Luna by their boss Giovanni el praedo. He also gave up the person he believed was responsible for the murder of Amanda; Rizvan, Mercado aka Sigurd was known and wanted for his involvement of over thirteen murders in the United States he had just made the FBI’s ten most wanted list and was known to use Ax’s in his murders “Oh yeah there was a fucking madman running around with a damn ax once upon a time, why didn’t I accuse him first?” Gage shook his head at Jayce saying he needed to remember important stuff like that, but Jayce rolled his eyes at Gage’s criticism “Don’t you lecture me, weren’t you just drinking your life away?” Gage took two big gulps from his flask before he rolled his eyes at Jayce “What did I tell you? I can drink for two days straight and still be normal, Can you do that? Dick brain!!” Jayce quickly stripped the flask from Gage’s hand, telling him he had too much to drink and wouldn’t get it back until the end of the day “What are you my mom? When I get outta here I’m gonna break your..” the interrogation room door suddenly swung open so fast that the handle made a hole in the wall. First to step out was Mendez she was writing something on a notepad then said: “They’re working out of some warehouse southwest of the city. However, the warehouse is just a front so people wouldn’t suspect anything…. It’s a stuffed animal factory… need I say how they ship their drugs?”
Jayce sighed in relief, he was feeling great. All of the pieces were starting to come together, it appeared that the case was coming to a close. He checked his watch seeing that the time was five p.m. “Alright Check it out, tomorrow be back here an hour early. That means seven in the morning people get some rest, spend time with your families, because the next forty eight hours will be hell, besides I promised the wife I’d be home before the twins got home” he then tossed Gage the flask, with one hand in his pocket and the other held in the air to say goodbye for the day, he turned and walked off to the west exit while everyone else headed to the south exit. Jayce passed by the building’s lounge, before going to his car for his drive home, he felt the weather was oddly warm for November. As he got into his car he checked his weather app to see how hot it exactly was; when he saw the forecast he nearly fell out of his seat “Eighty Degrees? Where am I? California? Jesus.” On his way home he remembered seeing a news report on the television before he left about a strange virus that has hospitalized thousands of people across developing countries. The news also told him about an eco virus that was affecting animal and plant life, then he remembered that his wife told him something about a virus a couple months ago; but this was the first time he heard something about it on the news, neither did he think it was a coincidence that a virus suddenly starts when aliens come to visit. Jayce was starting to believe that Mankind may have just signed their own extinction certificate; Jayce was so lost in thought he hadn’t noticed he was down the block from his house. “Plants and animals dying, people are getting sick outta nowhere… somethings wrong.. those bastards at NASA aren’t telling us everything.” Jayce pulled into his garage then got out of the vehicle before making his way into the two story house. “It’s about time Jayce” Audrey, Jayce’s wife, was standing in the kitchen as she made dinner and drank wine. “It’s gonna be the first time in a long time that you make it home before the kids do” the comment was bitter sweet, it showed Jayce how much his personal life was taken over by his work; but it didn’t matter much to him right now, he was just happy to be home. “The kids won’t be home for a while though right?” He only asked because he didn’t want her to realize that he had forgot what time they got out of school everyday, But like always she saw right through him.“The twins are getting dropped off by Auntie Flores. You know they have that fuckin After school alliance shit babe” she said as she took a sip from the glass then turned off the stove. Jayce couldn’t help but think about the alien visit, could it actually just be bad timing for the visitors to come to earth? or did mankind answer a war call? Audrey noticed her husband lost in his train of thought so she snapped her fingers twice to wake him out of his trance “Focus, Jayce” he quickly shook his head and said “huh?” A clear indication he wasn’t listening to her, Audrey smiled as she leaned back on the stove taking a few sips of her wine “So What happened at work I can tell something is bugging you baby” Jayce shook his head, trying to decide where to start… but at the same time he didn’t want to talk about work “Have you seen the news? There’s a bio and eco virus that's making every living thing on earth sick. Do you think it’s a coincidence that all this is happening because those aliens are coming?” Audrey tilted her head telling Jayce it wasn’t like it didn’t cross her mind when she saw the report “But I’m sure it’s probably gonna blow over like Cold War four” Cold War four took place in 2193 and lasted roughly two months. The conflict was between the United States, the Ukraine and Hungary; for some reason The Ukraine wanted to conquer Hungary just by bombing them with a new Weapon, at the time the Ukraine invented a new weapon called: a solar warhead, this missile launches into space to build up solar energy, this meant that if too much energy from the sun was absorbed it could lay waste to the entire world. Armed with this information the United States stepped in, little did the Ukraine know that the United States had designed their missile to build up solar energy with a code. This code allowed only a certain amount of energy to be stored in the missile; the US then threatened to use the missile to eliminate the Ukraine as a country, needless to say the Ukrainian people didn’t want to vaporized so they stood down. “Still.. I feel like something isn’t right with all this, I don’t think NASA is giving us the full…” Audrey silenced her husband by putting her finger on his lips as she smiled seductively “shhh… we have another hour and a half until they actually come home” Audrey said as she wrapped her arms around his neck
Jayce smiled excitedly at his wife as he wrapped his arms around her waist “You do have a good point, so let’s use our time wisely.” but just as things were about to heat up there was a familiar knock on the door. “That’s odd the school would’ve told me if they were out early” Audrey said as she went to open the door “Mom! Mom! The School let us out early!” Akura cheered then told Xayvion to show Audrey the note the school had given to them. “They said not to read it until we give it to you first Mom” they had no idea Jayce was here so he wanted to surprise them “Only your Mom huh I don’t think that’s fair I think I should get to read it too” both Akura and Xayvion were so happy to see their father home early that day they both ran up to hug him. “It says parents so you can both read it” Xayvion took after Jayce in terms of being a bad liar at least “oh so you did read it, even though they told you not to huh?” Akura chimes in saying he stopped Xayvion from reading it because he didn’t want him to get in trouble.
Jayce laughed saying that his son was a bad liar. But nonetheless he wasn’t mad anyway, just being home with them is satisfying enough. “Honey read this!” there was a panic in Audrey’s voice regarding the note from the twins’ school Jayce read the note to himself under his breath:!“To all families: All Loudoun county schools will be closed until further notice due to a pattern of sickness affecting neighboring districts and many schools of our own. For further information please contact the district office. Stay safe, sanitize often and Keep your children inside!!” The letter sounded just as frantic as Audrey was; “Boys go do your homework while me and your dad talk” Akura whined asking why they had to do homework when they didn’t have to go to School for a while. Audrey took a deep breath, then popped him in his mouth “Remember when I said defiance is gonna start getting painful?” She then turned to Xayvion and popped him in his mouth as well. He started to tear up and asked what he did “In the military if one person fucks up everyone suffers. You still wanna be in it?” Xayvion wiped away his tears and proudly said “yes” Audrey smiled as she patted Xayvion on the head telling him she was so proud of him for being so committed” Xayvion had told his parents that he wanted to enlist in the military when he was five, neither Jayce nor Audrey understood what made their son want to enlist but it’s been something he’s had very intense feelings about. His teachers would always say he’s so helpful to everyone and that he’s got a good heart “Akura you and I are gonna have a little chat in a minute but for now go start on your homework you two are about to eat in a minute anyway” the twins replied with a question of what exactly was for dinner “Whatever I decided to cook tonight.” the twins looked at each other before bolting to the bathroom to wash up. Next, Audrey chugged what she had left of the wine then poured herself another glass “ I made you guys Spaghetti I know it’s you guys’ favorite… Anyway, those nerds said that the aliens weren’t coming for like another year so If they’re apparently that far away how the hell could they be involved?” She smirked to herself as she turned to look at Jayce “Riddle me that detective?” She said as she hid her grin behind the wine glass “Jayce laughed as he crossed his arms “Well.. I’m gonna keep it real with you I don’t have any idea how these two circumstances could be possibly connected. But good police work involves theories, tests, research, and a lot of questions; if I go on the computer I bet I can form some theories.” Audrey laughed saying that she can’t wait to see what he could come up with “But right now it’s time for dinner, I need to eat if I wanna keep drinking anyway” Jayce wasn’t really worried about Audrey’s drinking because she’d typically drink about three glasses of wine then she’d stop, but don’t let that fool you, that woman can drink.
Shortly after Dinner Audrey helped her two boys with their homework, while Jayce cleaned the kitchen. Xayvion went to go brush his teeth before he went to sleep. The time was 9:00 p.m. Audrey had to pass by the bathroom to get to her and Jayce’s bedroom but she was unaware of who was inside there. She had hoped it would Xayvion because if it was she could talk to him and then go directly to her and Jayce’s room for the night. She knocked twice on the door before opening it wide enough for her to see. She smiled seeing it was Xayvion inside; Audrey opened the door wider so she could stand in the doorway “Xayvion, I’m sorry I popped you earlier but you left me no choice, you know I don’t play about you two talking back to me, they might say y’all gotta go to school tomorrow and if you didn’t do ya homework your teacher would’ve called me and then you’d be in even more trouble, remember last year when your school said school might be closed because of the snow? What happened the next day?” Xayvion spat out the toothpaste then told his mom that they went to school the next morning because it was barely snowing outside. Audrey nodded and said “Exactly, so don’t count your chickens before they hatch… in other words, don’t get ahead of yourself, do you understand what I’m saying?” Xayvion nodded after he was done drying his face.
In the couples bedroom was their king size mattress in center of the room against a wall, A few feet from the foot of the bed was a large dresser where their 50 inch tv rested, there were also nightstands on both sides of the bed where the couple would store their personal weapons for home defense. Jayce was sitting on his side of the bed with his laptop researching everything he could about the aliens coming to earth, when Audrey walked in taking off her earrings as she went into their bathroom “That case your working, you’re getting close to closing it right? Do you have to be up early tomorrow?” Jayce groaned at the question saying he really had to close the case but he hated the thought of getting up early. Audrey peeked her head beyond the door to ask Jayce what he was working on, at first Jayce looked once, then had to look again before falling off the bed; Audrey was wearing a green face mask that had large spots of white in some places of her face. He suddenly shrieked and said that the aliens were attacking the earth before throwing a small black brush at her.
Audrey’s eyes widened as the brush quickly came at her, “You little shithead!” She yelled before slamming the door, once the brush hit the door however, she swung the door open then dove to the floor, rolled into the kneeling position with a airsoft gun in her hand “Punk ass!” Then shot him directly between his eyes. Jayce laughed after he expressed how it felt to get shot with an airsoft gun “Alright Alright chill out I coulda broke my laptop” Audrey laughed as she put the gun back into the bathroom “Remember last time you threw something at me? I told you I’d have something for that ass didn’t I?!” Jayce rubbed the area she shot in an effort to ease the pain.
Audrey kissed her husband on the cheek before she got under the covers, she grabbed her phone from the nightstand to read all news articles regarding the aliens and their visit. She read articles from people who were thrilled that aliens were coming; she read how famous television hosts were discussing the subject on social media outlets, from the corner of her eye she saw Jayce slowly and slightly lean in closer to his laptop so she turned to him and asked if he had found something; but Jayce didn’t respond for several seconds, until she called out to him again. Jayce shook his head then closed the laptop saying he couldn’t focus, he was zoning out, and that he was tired; Audrey squinted her eyes on the suspicion that Jayce was hiding something from her. “Oh really?” Audrey quickly leaned over to grab the laptop to look at Jayce’s internet history, “You’re wasting your time babe there’s nothing there” Audrey ignored him as she typed the password for the computer to unlock; when it did she opened the internet tab.
At first she thought that she’d find some chilling article. But all she saw was a blank search engine which made her believe he was telling the truth; so she handed him back the laptop “I’m watching you” Jayce rolled over to look at her then blew her a kiss “Better sleep with your eyes open then huh?” Audrey smacked Jayce with her pillow, telling him to go to sleep as she rolled over and did the same. What Audrey didn’t know was her suspicions were actually true. During the time she had read articles Jayce received a strange message which said: “Don’t waste your time researching you’ll have your answers soon enough, we’ll talk real soon” at the bottom of the message read: “Sincerely, Ms. L, Chief of Vanguard operations.” Jayce continued to think about the message and it’s possible origin, was it a simple pop up, or something more?
The next morning as Jayce made his way to work he noticed that the heat from the sun was oddly high for 6:30 a.m. but Jayce paid it no mind, the only thing that was on his mind that morning was closing the case. he said flapping the collar of his shirt. As he got on the freeway he noticed the usual flow of traffic was absent; in fact, there was only a handful of cars on the road, Jayce assumed that people must’ve been fearful of the mystery sickness floating around. Of course, he was a little worried about it too but he still went in for work; when he finally made it Mendez was the first person he saw “Are you ready for this” Mendez was already suited up with a bulletproof vest that had the FBI logo in the center, and a 12 gauge shotgun was slung across her back “I’m so ready to raid that fucking warehouse!! I bet it’s the same rush the Vikings felt when they raided villages in the Viking age!!” Mendez also had sprayed on face paint in a gray and black camouflage pattern, which Jayce thought was a little excessive “Less ruthless, more appropriate; they may be scumbags but they’re still human” Jayce then directed Mendez to follow him to the conference room so all agents involved in the siege would be present. Once inside Jayce stood in front of table where all the other agents were sitting. “Well good morning ladies and gentlemen, I’m glad to see you all still made it here; despite the mystery flu going around so without further delay I’m gonna get right into it” Jayce placed his laptop carrying bag onto the head of the table, the Agents were all sitting in front of him with the bulletin board standing behind him. From the bag he pulled out the blueprints for the building they were about to infiltrate; “Alright, check it out we’re gonna hit these assholes hard no homo, I want two teams of six. My team will infiltrate from the front of the building, Another team will infiltrate from the back entrance the rest of you will take up positions as snipers, if you see anyone trying to flee make them stop. Fire a warning shot, shoot em in the leg, whatever; I don’t give a fuck just don’t kill anyone, the warehouse is believed to have our Suspects whose name was given to us from Ronaldo, I’ve sent Gage, Garret and another team to go search for Luna’s body to see if his story checks out… let’s just hope it doesn’t hopefully she’s locked in a room in the warehouse any questions?” The room was silent all Agents were ready to proceed as planned “Fan fucking tastic now let’s move out” the task force of agents quickly panned out of the room and went to their service vehicles. Jayce, Mendez and the rest of the their team were traveling in a large black SUV; Gage was in a Black sports car, followed by two vans holding the crime scene techs. The other teams were in a blue SUV that was following close behind Jayce’s vehicle. “Ya know I’ve been thinking about something.. lately I’ve been having these strange dreams, I’ll wake up in a field.. the sky is dark gray and there’s like these light blue flower petals that fall from the sky… it looks really nice but a couple feet ahead of me there’s always these two door standing in front of me. When I try to open the white door it’s always locked and Whenever I touch the black door it shocks me, but I’ll hear voices coming from both doors.. I’m thinking maybe it means something? I know I’ve had the dream before but everything is a blur. What do you think? Could it mean something?” Jayce eyes widened, remembering that Audrey had said the same thing just weeks earlier “How bizarre Audrey said the same thing a couple weeks ago I was heading to work one morning when she told me; my phone rang and when I answered she wouldn’t stop talking about it, the settings were similar except the flower petals were glowing green and the clouds were purple. She also said she saw a woman with long white hair, bright green eyes and old, ugly lookin’ yellow nails. When she turned her back I guess the woman was behind her so when she turned around the woman put her hand over Audrey’s mouth and screamed… that’s when she woke up.. she said the scream was damn near demonic…” Mendez leaned back in her seat as she thought about the seemingly identical dream, then said: “Maybe her and I are connected somehow… ya know I’m not lesbian but if she wanted to make out I totally would” Jayce looked at Mendez like she was crazy then laughed at her comment “Go to a club I’m sure there’s other woman there that are more your type” Mendez blinked once like she couldn’t believe what Jayce said “What? Are you saying that I don’t have a chance with her? What you got that I don’t??” Jayce looked at Mendez and raised his eyebrow “You really want me to answer that?” Mendez rolled her eyes telling Jayce to forget what she said. For the next twenty minutes everyone in the SUV started sharing stories about their experience with the FBI until they got to the warehouse. First on the scene was the other team commanded by Agent Baxter, and they were just about ready to breach the back door. “Alright we got two guards at the front door, heavily armed; do we have tear gas?” Mendez grinned excitedly as she took out a flashbang from her utility belt “I’ve got something better” Jayce’s first question was: “Where the hell did you get that? Are we even authorized that?” Mendez patted Jayce on his cheek telling him not to worry “Now come on I’ve been waiting to use these things forever.” With that, Mendez and Jayce made their way to the front door; the guards noticed them instantly and raised their weapons but it was too late, Mendez had already thrown the flashbang. When it rolled over to their feet one of the guards looked down, then looked to the sky as he closed his eyes and shook his head. Before the other guard could take the shot the flashbang went off; blinding them and making their ears ring. When the guards finally got their vision and hearing back; a few seconds later, Jayce and Mendez were gone; they looked to their left and right trying to get a visual on their targets but they found nothing. Little did they know that the two were standing directly behind them, Mendez happily cocked the shotgun and whispered into one of their ears: “If you so much as blink I’m gonna blow your parietal lobe clean away.” Jayce didn’t even cock his pistol, instead; he smacked the guard over the head with the floorplate of the handgun. Mendez’ suspect slowly put his weapon down then got to his knees, thinking he’d only get handcuffed. However, Mendez had other plans; she grabbed the barrel of the shotgun then held it as if it were a baseball bat, she looked at Jayce, who just shook his head at her “Hey! you said less ruthless, at least I didn’t shoot his stupid ass” the man didn’t speak English so when he tried to say something Mendez yelled “Stop resisting!!” Then she smacked him over the head with the butt of the shotgun knocking him unconscious instantly. Mendez inhaled deeply then said “Ahhh I love the smell of violence in the morning.” Jayce shuffled through his utility belt until he found the tool he needed. Mendez grabbed the communicator from her right shoulder, asking the other team if they were ready to breach. Mendez nodded to Jayce, meaning that everyone was ready; from the utility belt Jayce produced a green rectangular gadget, a tool used by police to breach large metal doors. The gadget was designed to detonate on the snap of whoever deployed the charge; Jayce took a deep before he loudly announced that law enforcement is about to enter “FBI!!!!” Jayce’s voice echoes in the distance.. time stops.. and everything fades to black…
Chapter 3
The Vanguard
Deep in the marshes of Great Dismal Swamp, five heavily armed Peruvian men were standing ten feet from a gravesite located near a charred tree that resembled a small horse. Their weapons were drawn, red dot lasers were aimed all around the small depression in the ground. But what made this scenery so twisted was that across the area lay dozens of bodies piled on top of one another. Their blood had soaked deep into the soil beneath the deceased creating one large pool of it; the men showed desperation, fear, and anxiety on their faces. Quivering from the fear of what was lurking in the grave beyond them, seconds turned into minutes and minutes felt like hours, until finally the group believed that their job was done… but as one man lowered his weapon a human arm abruptly extended out of the grave.
“It’s Alive!!!! Mate Al Diabla!!” Before the men could open fire on the gravesite; from the waters a few feet away; Garret, Gage, and a team of six others slowly rose up from the waters with dark green camouflage face paint, even their weapons and gear were camouflaged perfectly. Gage yelled “freeze” at the top of his lungs, ordering the men not to move “Hold your fire!! Standby to engage on my command!!” Garret held up a fist signaling the team to halt; His elbow was bent so his fist wouldn’t be above his head, Gage ordered the five men to drop their weapons or they’d have no choice but to shoot.
The men looked to one another, then they looked at the dozens of bodies laid out before them.. suicidal thoughts began to pour into their minds as each one of them slowly relaxed their bodies “I said drop your weapons now!!” It was like the men couldn’t hear any of Garret’s words to them, Gage kept his finger on the trigger of his rifle waiting for the command. But as he looked around he noticed a very few portion of the bodies had gaping chest wounds. He also noticed that some of the bodies had lost their color; some bodies were grey and other were a dark purple Gage also spotted that all the suspects were frightened… not by police but of the human hand that was extended from the grave; “Garret, look at the-“ interrupted by the sound of a single shot the agents watched as the first body dropped to the floor, one of the armed men had put the gun to his head then shot himself.
“Holy Shit! Did you see that?!” It wasn't long until one by one the armed men put the barrel of their weapon to their head or their mouths either with a shotgun or a pistol and fired. One by one the bodies would drop to the floor one after another after every shot was fired, but what made it strange was that it looked like the men didn’t want to commit suicide but something was forcing them to. The men didn’t look like they were entirely in control of their bodies because they would struggle to put the gun to their heads “Holy fuck..” Garret reaches to his left shoulder to use his radio as Gage rushes to the gravesite to recover the little girl buried alive “CSI this is Delta 2-7 we got bodies over here, one victim appears to be buried alive.. multiple suicide and homicide victims” Gage grabbed Luna’s arm from the grave then began pulling her out. “You’re gonna be okay!! I’m gonna get you outta there Luna!” Gage yanked, then dug before he finally pulled Luna’s unconscious body from the shallow grave; next Gage performed CPR in an attempt to revive her. After about two minutes the little girl began to cough; to gage it was the best sound he had heard all day because it meant she was breathing “Get me a fuckin paramedic!!” Gage shouted as he began to check her pulse, eyes and airways.
As Luna looked up at Gage he noticed her iris had bright blue codes running through it, “What the fuck?” The codes were in a number sequence identical to programming software but before Gage could say something the numbers disappeared, her eyes became hazel, her skin was regaining its normal complexion, Gage assumed he was merely seeing things “Okay maybe I do have to cut down the drinking” Luna smiled weakly at Gage before paramedics took her to the ambulance to transport her to the nearby hospital
While Luna was being treated for her injuries. Garret, Gage, a handful of detectives and the CSI team completely blocked off the area to collect possible evidence. the CSI took pictures, looking for forensic evidence such as: fibers, hairs, clothing, weapons, and every spent shell casings left behind. Many began to raise questions about several of the victims having small open chest wounds, it was a crime scene like none of them had ever seen before “What the hell happened here…?” Gage whispered as he knelt down beside one of the victims, the man in front of him was young maybe eighteen or nineteen; this young man was Mexican with brown hair and hazel eyes. As Gage began to look into the hole in the man's chest he thought he saw an abnormal blood drop.
Gage removed a magnifying glass from his belt and looked carefully at the blood drop “Well well” The blood drop was a perfect circle which meant that whoever the blood drop came from had to come from someone who was standing over the body. Next Gage collected the blood sample in hopes of using it for DNA testing. Gage closed his eyes, trying to visualize what could have happened. He imagined the suspect stabbing the victim with a weapon that uses an air compressor; in the current time period this weapon was available. This is what Gage thought happened prior to their arrival.. but who could’ve done it? “Hey Gage! you might wanna come check this out” Gage opened one of his eyes as he heard the voice.
Gage sighed before he placed the blood sample in a white clear capsule then sealed it in a bag before he walked over to where Garret’s voice was coming from “If I was crazy I’d say Johnny cage himself did it” Gage damn near fell over when he saw what happened to the victim. Somehow the victims spinal cord was halfway ripped from his body; gage wanted to vomit but managed to keep his composure “What kind of Mortal Kombat shit is this? What person has enough strength to do that to a person?” the crime scene specialist chimed in saying that there were no animal tracks, no animal DNA; not even so much as a hair follicle, which made the entire situation very difficult to understand. Back at the hospital doctors performed surgery on Luna. She had mild lacerations to her skull, but what puzzled doctors was the bullet wounds she received were already healing.
Upon her arrival doctors believed that Luna’s attitude to everything was emotionless, almost as if she was a robot so there wasn’t much to work on after a while so they closed her up and sent her to the infirmary to recover. When she woke up, four hours later; Sarah, Luna’s mother was the first person she saw. Sarah was sitting a few feet away from her daughter in a chair, she had her face buried within her palms, Luna turned her head slightly as she softly called out to her; Sarah was shocked when she got the call that Luna was in the hospital and that she was still alive. Sarah was sitting at home watching television when she got the call. What the other person said on that call nearly made her faint, Luna slowly sat up in bed, stretching her arms; Luna had brown hair, Hazel eyes and was about 4 feet tall. hearing muffled movement Sarah quickly brought her head up to see. Her eyes widened as tears quickly filled them, she became emotional very quickly when she saw her daughter look at her with a smile, a whole year after her disappearance.
Sarah was finally reunited with her daughter “Luna! Oh my god!” Sarah quickly got up and hugged her daughter tightly “I’m so happy you’re okay, I never thought I’d see you again!!” tears streamed down her face as she showered her daughter with love and kisses.
Richard had stepped out the room minutes before Luna woke up because he wanted to get himself and his wife coffee. When he returned four minutes later, he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw that Luna was awake, he was so shocked he almost dropped the cups of coffee on the floor “Luna..” he placed the cups on the counter before running to Luna’s bedside. “Thank god you’re alright!! I’m so sorry sweetheart, I never intended for any of this to happen!” Outside of Luna’s hospital room, a short distance from the door a womanly figure lurked in the shadows, the only thing that was visible were her hazel eyes that suddenly flashed pink when she turned to her left; she wanted to leave before Luna or her parents could spot her, On her left shoulder was a black patch with the number 10 stitched into it. Next mysterious woman suddenly vanished just as she had appeared, she was silent, she was careful; she wasn’t even spotted coming into the hospital nor was she spotted coming out. Meanwhile at the FBI office Gage just finished notifying the news station of Luna’s safe return home.
“Well I’m glad our part is done, we just need Jayce and Mendez to carry out theirs” Gage spoke to Garret but he could tell Gages voice was a little distant, so Garret could easily tell something was bothering him. “Uh huh are you okay over there? You sound a little off” Gage was reluctant to tell Garret about what he had saw when he examined Luna’s eyes mostly because he thought that his partner would think that he had gone insane. Before Gage could give an answer Gage’s train of thought was interrupted when he spotted the director of the FBI along with three other individuals. What made one of them stand out was she had a black trench coat that stretched down to her upper ankles; to match the coat, she wore black pants along with a black shirt. She was Mexican, in her early twenties; with long black hair and hazel eyes. gage had a strong sense of deja vu when he saw her face, he felt like he had seen her recently he just didn’t know where.
Garret called out to Gage a second time “I'm sorry what were you saying?” Garret rolled his eyes telling, gage to forget what he said. Next he changed the subject to Luna’s recovery “The hospital called a while ago they just released Luna from the emergency room” Gage raised his eyebrow as if he were suspicious about something “So early? Didn’t we find deep lacerations on her skull? we even found multiple gunshot wounds, how is she being released so early?” Garret shrugged at Gage’s statement saying he didn’t know much but all they said was they didn't have any reason to keep her, and that she was making a very speedy recovery. Gage scratched his head thinking his suspicions carefully, but after a while he ignored them; he was just happy Luna was finally at home safe. Gage leaned back in his chair as he began to daydream, he was hoping Jayce and Mendez’ mission was accomplished safely “Closed Case, finally..” with his eyes shut and hands behind his head he patiently waited for his boss to return so they could finish closing the case…
“FBI Open up!!” With a snap of his fingers the charge detonated, shattering the metal door into millions of pieces. The inside of the warehouse was pitch black, the only illumination in the darkness were the assault rifles equipped with flashlights used by the FBI SWAT team. As they travelled deeper into the warehouse they could smell the early stages of decomposition. “Oh boy.. I know what that smell means.” The scent was too much for even Mendez could handle; and to everyone that was saying a lot. Taking only a few more steps foreword, Jayce suddenly ordered the group to halt; “Well that’s not a good sign” Jayce shook his head as he kneeled down to examine the pool of blood that was in front of them. “This blood looks fresh, so why does it smell like there’s been bodies here for months?” Jayce said as he shined his flashlight around the room until he spotted a body placed against a pallet that had stuffed animals piled on top and then wrapped in plastic.
Mendez pulled a hunting knife that was attached to her bulletproof vest as she examined the pallet; carefully aiming her knife to the right of the body before slashing diagonally down the pallet, forcing a white substance to pour out of a few of the stuffed animals. While Mendez continued her substance analysis Jayce examined the body that was recovered “Well there’s no doubt he’s dead, but I wonder how many more bodies are here?” shuffling through her utility belt Mendez took out a small, white metallic sphere; it was a gadget that was used to scan an area using an X-Ray scanner. The gadget began to glow blue as the scanner began to circle the room, using holographic image a 3D grid was displayed with six blue dots displayed close to the bottom.. but scattered all around the other area of the grid were red dots. The blue dots represented people who are alive, red dots indicated dead ones “What could’ve done this…?” Jayce examined the blood smears on the walls and floors and noticed that the blood smear patterns were made by claws“What the fuck attacked them? A bear?” The crime started to get more and more strange as they continued deeper into the warehouse. Once they reached the end they stumbled upon a body that terrorized the entire group; on the floor in front of them was the remains of a male who had somehow been ripped completely in half.
Mendez and a handful of the swat team began to feel nausea wash over them “I think I’m gonna be sick” even Jayce felt revolted at the sight “Let’s get the fuck out of here, I’m gonna call for the CSI’s let’s let them deal with this bloodbath.” Jayce’s phone immediately rang after that. When he answered, it was the director of the FBI who had said he needed Jayce to come to his office as soon as possible. Jayce knew the call was important because it wasn’t normal for the director to call him “Mendez help these guys survey the crime scene, the director wants to talk to me so I’m gonna head back” Mendez lifted her head out of the bag she had been throwing up in “What does he want you? You’re not that important” Jayce just laughed as he made his way to his car “Have fun with the smell of corpses surging through your nostrils, try not to breathe in through you mouth!” he said sarcastically.
It took Jayce about 30 minutes to get back to the office. Jayce walked up a couple flights of stairs to get to his floor; as he made his way down the large hallways he ran into Garret, who had asked him how the siege went; Jayce just shook his head telling him he didn’t want to know. Two minutes later Jayce finally gets to the director's office, the door was closed and so were the blinds but Jayce knocked anyway; when Jayce was told to come inside he noticed four people sitting at a large table. From right to left: the director sat with a notebook sorting through paperwork, a woman dressed in an all black women’s dress suit; she was on a laptop but Jayce couldn’t exactly tell what she was doing. The next two individuals stood out a great deal to Jayce; there was a woman who was wore an all white women’s dress suit with white pants to match; she smiled at Jayce as soon as he had walked through the door; she was an older woman maybe in her late 60’s or early 70’s with hair as white as snow.
There was also another woman standing against a wall right behind her. She wore a long black trench coat with two patches, and a cross around her neck. A patch with the number 10 was centered on the left shoulder and on the right was a patch with a shield in the center that had the the outer part made of stars. It actually looked the shield was a portal into space; above the shield was an eagle with its wings spread out. Left of the shield was a lion with a bow and arrow; on the right was the Virgin Mary, all designs looked like a portal into outer space.
Jayce took it as she was the old woman’s body guard “Alright Mr Winters my name is Elizabeth Chambers” His eyes suddenly widened, he had a feeling at first that he knew who the woman in black was but Jayce didn’t wanna believe it. She was the secretary of defense herself! “And what does the secretary of defense possibly want with me?” Jayce asked as he folded his arms. He figured it was at least to some extent important considering she had to come talk to him face to face rather than emailing him or a simple phone call. “Jayce, these two women have come to offer you a proposition” The director knew how Jayce always loved to ask a million questions in an interview so he only mentioned the proposition in an effort to get to the point of the meeting.“Right, but before we get into that, I’m sure you’ve heard about our intergalactic visitors coming sometime next year, as I am also sure you’ve heard about the influenza outbreak that have scared the schools into shutting down” Elizabeth began to type away at her laptop then turned it to Jayce as several images began to upload, in the first picture Jayce could see hundreds of bodies piled on top of one another, Jayce saw there were bodies of children and adults along with people walking around in hazmat suits.
“What is this, where is this?!” Elizabeth closed the laptop and took off her glasses “A very poor part of South America, there’s more just like it. Some even worse but whatever this is; the weaker parts of the world are being affected by it first. Only recently it’s been starting to affect the much more advanced countries. there’s been reports that there have been about two hundred cases of people becoming gravely ill in the United Kingdom. Showing similar symptoms to the influenza affecting the weaker countries” Which brought Jayce to his next question: “So you know all this and believe that the aliens have something to do with everything happening? What other evidence besides a mystery sickness do you have to back up this claim?” as much as Jayce wanted to believe what she said; as a cop, he needed to know what else she could possibly know, He had a feeling she was beating around the bush. “You’re a curious one aren’t you Mr Winters?” this time it was the woman in white who spoke. Her voice had a strain to it that overtime got better as she talked. “Your curiosity has been noted Winters however..” her warm friendly smile quickly vanished, and in its place was very serious glare “Don’t get carried away, you will hold on to all questions until the end or until you are asked to share your thoughts.
Are we clear?” Jayce didn’t even know who this woman was but she was talking as if she knew him, as if they were friends or something. Jayce looked at her bodyguard who had just made eye contact with him, that was the first time her eyes had moved since he got in the room. She slowly shook her head as if she knew what Jayce was thinking about doing “Mr Winters I understand you’re very skeptical about this, rest assured that we have all the answers to whatever questions you may have. So for your question on evidence all we have is our claim that all this began when the visitors entered our solar system. And we’ve been constantly wondering how they even found us, when we discovered them it wasn’t no accident or just a random occurrence” The woman in white produced a folder that held dozens of pictures inside it then slid it toward Jayce.
Needless to say he was both baffled and horrified at what he saw. Jayce began flipping the pages frantically, but every single picture was the same. Every picture, every victim in it had the same piercing chest wound; the last page made his heart drop. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing; it was her! It was Luna! “Oh my god!!” Jayce shouted then quickly turned away to run out the room but the older woman told him not to bother “what do you mean don’t bother she’s a walking killing machine!! we have to stop her!” The room was silent for a brief moment. The old woman just crossed her arms
“we understand your reasons for wanting to act but we must be careful, any wrong movements could jeopardize our whole operation so it’s important we keeps things as they are.
Shortly after this little chat you’ll be briefed on the full story of what we’ve discovered. Luna has been in every photo we’ve showed you, she’s always roaming in the night throughout cities of other countries and that’s not the worst of it, these photos I’m uploading show a pictures of Luna literally growing up before our very eyes. It appears that Luna can progress her age to any extent for example this is a picture of Luna when she’s sixteen. She’s in India, She’s 5 foot 5 with long black hair and the same hazel eyes. This next picture is Luna when she's Forty, in France this time she’s 5’11” her hair is longer, and she even has strands of gray hair, she’s even got bags under her eyes.
We’ve compared thousands of pictures and they’ve matched to different forensic sculptures; just to rule out any doubts our artist had only Luna’s current picture to work with. When we asked to do age progression on her the busts matched the pictures taken” Jayce couldn’t believe what she had said at first, and how could he? A person that could actually change their age, it sounded like something out of a sci fi movie. Therefore, Jayce wanted more evidence than just photos. The woman in white uncrossed her arms, leaned toward Jayce and said “don’t play me for a fool, I know for a fact she’s the reason they found us ” Jayce asked her if she meant that their leader was giving her orders. The woman in white replied by saying: “We believe she’s almost like a walking radio giving off a frequency to the invaders. We know this based on these charts I’m about to show you; through your forensic training I’m sure you can understand graphs and shit like that... On this chart we see the visitors frequency; we compared that frequency to every electronic device on earth until we got to the Ventura’s home, when we compared the two frequencies to our surprise, they matched and it traced back to Luna” Jayce told the woman in white to slow down for just a minute then said: “So you’re telling me she’s a fucking cyborg or something?” The woman in white rolled her eyes at Jayce telling him that the correct terminology was Android not Cyborg.
“So what do we do about Luna? she can be anywhere, at any age what if they start an attack now!!?” Finally the younger woman spoke her mind she spoke with a strong accent that gave away that she was from some part of New York. “Well I suppose we can’t let her get away so easily.” The Woman in white nodded to her bodyguard saying it would take at least two people to handle the job. “So I guess you and Jayce have no choice but to go hunt her down.” Jayce shook his head disapprovingly, telling the woman in white he’d rather do this with his team because he was more comfortable after working with them for so long but she quickly shut his suggestion down “Jayce, remember that proposition that your boss mentioned earlier? He lied, it’s not a proposition its an offer you cannot refuse. Think of it as an order from the secretary of defense herself!” The secretary rolled her eyes as she texted on her phone she found the woman in white an odd character.
The woman in white spoke with both sarcasm and hyperbole in her voice. Hearing her title be announced she looked up from her phone, at the women in white then nodded. “Yeah, whatever he’s all yours” The woman in white clapped her hands in excitement as she reached into her bag, producing a contract and a red pen; “Well I guess introductions are in order aren’t they?” She smiled as she leaned forward in her chair. “First thing you should know is: my last name is Ms, and my first name is Liza, and this gorgeous blessing from latin america is Agent 10. She will be your new partner through your journey with The Vanguard” Journey? The Vanguard? Jayce’s head was filled with questions about this entire meeting and What the hell she was even on about.
“The what guard? What is this? a secret government agency?” Ms. Liza laughed at the remark as she shook her head. “I like you already Jayce, but the Vanguard is a little more deeper than that. It’s a global agency; for the time being that’s all I can tell you… until we get further acquainted at least. This contract I have in front of me is a transfer document. signing it nulls your contract with the FBI and your FD-291; and you’ll be transferred to us” Seeing as this was an order from the secretary of defense herself Jayce was hesitant at first but it wasn’t like he had a choice in the matter anyway, so Jayce signed the contract and slid the paper right back to her. “Do you wanna see something cool?” Ms Liza said with a grin as she held the paper to eye level. Before Jayce could say anything he started to notice the paper dematerialize right in front of him!
At first Jayce couldn't believe what he was seeing; but another part of him was saying what the hell did he just get himself into; the paper soon was produced to a small chip the size of an SD card. Tucking it away in her pockets she said “We’ll save that for later. Now Jayce, what was discussed in this meeting is completely confidential you must not speak of this to anyone, that includes family, friends, coworkers, anyone who you would even think about telling… under no circumstance do you disclose what was said here today. Do you understand?” Jayce nodded asking when does he start “Patience young agent, patience. We’ll talk again soon don’t worry , I’ll have Agent 10 come get you when we need you; until then say goodbye to your friends, clear your desk, spend time with your family or something I honestly don’t freakin’ care.. but we’ll be in touch” she said with a warm smile and a handshake. Needless to say Jayce thought that Ms. Liza was strange just like Elizabeth did. “When Jayce made his way to the door he stopped because he had another question he wanted to ask, but as Jayce turned around he saw that Elizabeth, Ms Liza, and Agent 10 were gone “Where’d they go?!’ the director just scoffed “You know I can’t tell you that.”
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Chapter 4
First shift
Two months have passed since Jayce left the FBI… lately he’s been spending all his time with the people he loves including some of his coworkers. Jayce never disclosed to anyone that he’s no longer an FBI agent, Jayce just tells them all he got transferred to another office...
and even though times were harder now Jayce still managed to keep a smile on his wife and kids faces; outside of him home whatever the sickness was, is now starting to advance in third world countries and now has spread to the united states. Certain groups of plants have become extinct; the people of earth were doing all they could to stop whatever was happening, it had gotten to a point where people began to wear respirators because they felt that something was in the air that was making the rest of the world sick. Schools were still closed, numerous businesses had also closed down for the safety of their workers.
As time progressed reports began to pour in that a few species of the animal kingdom were now endangered or extinct; and as many suspected, it wasn't the usual poacher. That meant whatever was affecting people was taking its final toll on nature itself, many argued that there’s a logical explanation to what was happening, others weren’t so sure. The cockroach, for example: an insect that was rumored to be able to survive almost anything was now confirmed to be extinct, even though many were thrilled that the common burden was finally exterminated permanently humans failed to realize that meant only the beginning of the problems. It was a cold winter night and Jayce had already went to sleep somewhere around 10:00 p.m. he was having a strange dream where he woke up in a field of grass. immediately after he got up, Jayce saw two doors slowly appear in front of him. The first door on the left was black, the door on the right was white. Jayce wasn’t really sure which one to go into but the black one looked more appealing to him for some reason, so he walked toward it. As Jayce reached out for the doorknob; he started to feel an intense heat coming from the handle itself, but just before Jayce’s hand touched it someone grabbed him by his wrist; when he looked over to his left he saw that it was none other than agent 10.
Agent 10 had on the same clothes Jayce met her in, once she raised Jayce’s wrist away from the handle she shook her head. “ I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” she sounded serious so Jayce took her advice, and simply asked where he was exactly.. Jayce looked around to examine the massive field in front of him. “Welcome to the nanospace, i’m sure you have like a million questions but I’m only here to stop you from going through that other door, it’s said that a few other agents before us have gone through but have never come out.... so it’s safe to say you don’t wanna know what’s behind that door... considering nobody has ever lived to tell about it.” she pointed toward the white door saying that was the one that Jayce needed to enter, she also said that there was someone in there waiting for him. The door handle began to glow yellow as Jayce reached for it, until the light completely filled the room when he touched it. Jayce was even forced to close his eyes because the colors were so bright, He felt like he was being blinded.
When he opened his eyes again he found himself in a white room filled with yellow fluorescent lights, computers, and other lab equipment. Behind the white marble counter, was a man in a white lab coat “Son of a bitch, this is gonna take me fucking forever to decode this bullshit” the scientist had his back turned to Jayce so he was obviously unaware that someone else in the lab with him. “uhhh.. hello?” The scientist didn’t acknowledge Jayce at first until Jayce called out to him a second time “You must be Jayce yes? I’ve heard some stuff about you, a brave man who found a lost little girl after two years of searching... is what the header of the newspaper would have said if that little girl wasn’t a walking killing machine... but enough small talk let’s get you examined” The scientist was about 5’11” in his early 60’s white, skinny, and had green eyes. “Well before you start experimenting on me can you tell me how I even got here? is this a dream?” The scientist laughed saying it was technically a dream but it was so much more than that. The scientist turned around finally with a chart in his hand while he searched for something in his lab coat pocket “Now as for your question of how you got here, remember when Ms Liza shook your hand sometime after the meeting? During the handshake she transferred a device called a nanochip to you directly, although you probably couldn’t feel it. That chip is what gives you access to the nanospace. You can see where it’s decided to set up shop” the scientist said as he pointed to Jayce’s right arm. As Jayce looked down at it, he noticed that it started to glow purple. The color would keep changing from a light purple to a dark purple “The regular purple represents a safe zone, there’s no enemy’s around you or anything. The dark means you’re in danger; the chip will pick up deadly hostility rather quickly, it’s like a six sense basically. Right now it’s just going through it’s regular function check.”
at first Jayce was pretty spooked but the scientist told him to stay calm “The chip is just trying to merge with your DNA but from the looks of it I’d say it’s having some trouble trying to fuse” of course that made Jayce think that it was a bad thing “Why does it need to merge with me? What will happen if or when it finally does?!” he just laughed telling Jayce not to worry about it.
But for some reason when the scientist laughed it really irritated Jayce. He started to feel a sense of rage wash over him, his body felt hot, so hot that it started to steam; next thing Jayce knew he had the scientist pinned against a wall by the collar of his coat. “You think you’re fucking funny? I wanna laugh too, so why don’t you fill me the fuck in!!” even though all of this was unfolding the scientist was still so calm and collected. there wasn’t even a flicker of fear in his eyes. “lets see.... purple colorization of the eyes, steam rising from the body, with an impulsive action due to spontaneous anger... I like that a lot actually, I can tell that you’ll be worth studying.” The scientist folded his arms before he said: “Gravity times 10” Suddenly Jayce’s body started to feel really heavy to the point where he just dropped to the floor face first, forcing him to release his grip on the mans shirt. The scientist raised Jayce’s chin up using his foot “Careful there hothead you could get hurt letting your emotions control you like that” he paused for a second then knelt down to eye level for Jayce “Anyway, I can’t wait to see what you can do later on. When you wake up agent ten will be waiting for you. Best of luck to ya” right after he was done talking the door flung open and he flicked Jayce on his forehead, immediately Jayce went flying out the door and into the sky; then everything went black.
Meanwhile in Norfolk Virginia, two doctors were performing an autopsy on the body of a child that had died from the sickness that was affecting the world. It was stated that she was the first fatality in Virginia so time was crucial in hopes of studying the disease and possibly find a cure. They started from the top with the examination of the brain, doctors saw that everything looked just about as normal like anyone else’s; moving further down when they were just about to cut her chest open one of the doctors noticed something under the skin of her stomach. When doctors opened up her chest they noticed a small abnormality actually move inside her stomach, the doctor’s first hypothesis was that it was some kind of parasite. “This could be what the sickness progresses to.” the assistant nodded, suggesting a machine to extract the specimen without damaging it or the body too much, but the tool was in a draw located in a room next door. The two doctors left for only two minutes to bring the machine back from the other room that required a two person transport. But when they got back to the autopsy table to their horror they saw that the body was gone.
Both doctors were completely petrified, this body had literally got off the table and walked away from them while they were gone. “This is going to be really hard to explain” the assistant said with shaky voice “Oh my god, what if zombies is really how the world ends?? We gotta get outta here!!” The doctor grabbed the assistant by the wrist to make a run for it but right as they turned around the child stood before them. Her chest had been closed up as if she was never cut open, her eyes were red; her iris’ were filled with millions of number sequences. She gave a twisted smile then punched the assistant blowing her heart clean away from her body, The assistant, later identified as: Kourtney Holmes heart hit the wall before her body hit the floor; the doctor quickly tried to make a run for it but was tripped by the child causing him to fall flat on his face. The child then quickly placed her foot on the doctors head then began pressing down on his skull, so hard she could hear his skull cracking until she finally crushed it. She gave off a sigh then slowly walked out the room removing the tag from her toe.... The name read Luna Ventura...
Sometime after 1:00a.m. Jayce finally woke up, this time he was actually in his own house next to his wife in bed, he laid there for about five minutes; staring at the ceiling just lost in his thoughts. For some reason something told him to go into the kitchen, even though he was still half asleep. When he got to the kitchen Jayce turned on the light; at first he didn’t notice Agent 10 sitting at the kitchen table eating a bowl of cereal. They both looked at each other for about 10 seconds but Jayce didn’t even say anything to her, he actually walked right passed her and went straight to his fridge, took out a gallon of water and drank from it... in a couple seconds he quickly realizes that Agent 10 was in his house. When he finally noticed he spat the water out, slammed the fridge door shut, then took the cereal from her “What the hell are you doing here?! how did you even get in here is a bigger question! Second of all nobody even opened this cereal yet! there’s still a open box up there!!” he whispered hostility “Why are you whispering? Nobody can hear us” she said taking back the cereal from him then continuing to eat it “After I finish this cereal we have to go, Luna’s body just turned up on an autopsy table in Norfolk.” Jayce was hearing what she was saying but he couldn’t understand the problem “So she’s dead why is that an issue?? wasn’t that the objective if you guys captured her?” Agent 10 just rolled her eyes as she walked over to the sink to pour out the milk that was left over. But before she could even waste a drop Jayce stopped her “What are you doing? Drink the milk don’t nobody waste nothing in this house” she just looked at Jayce like she wasn’t trying to hear that “Jayce, I’m Twenty-Three years old”.
“I don’t care if you’re a hundred Just drink the shit!” He said sternly. In response Lisa grunted then drank the milk “honestly did you really have to make me drink it? The milk expires in two days anyway!” Jayce pinched the bridge of nose then sighed “One day when you’re married and have kids you will learn that every penny is important. Until then take notes from the pro” she scoffed then threw him some clothes to put on. “Anyway the problem is not that she’s dead, it’s the fact that the civilian doctors have a hold of her; there’s no telling what they could find. They have no idea what they have on their autopsy table. Our job is to get in there and retrieve the body, bring her to headquarters, in one piece by the way, so our scientist can figure out what exactly we’re dealing with here.” The clothes she had Jayce put on included a dark red trench coat, with a black shirt and black pants. On the left wasa black patch with the number 12, stitched in gray on it. On the right was an erupting Volcano. “Alright I’ll go change.. be quiet and don’t touch anything.. hungry fuck.” He grunted as he went into the bathroom to change. Agent 10 shook her head as she opened the fridge to grab a can of soda, she took her first sip and grinned, closing her eyes with joy; the soda was root beer, her favorite. As she opened her eyes they suddenly flashed pink...
Xayvion peeked around the corner of the kitchen entrance, seeing nobody he turned on the light to sneak himself a midnight snack, he opened the fridge first, seeing nothing he wanted, next he checked the pantry and saw his favorite pastries. So he grabbed a couple, turned off the lights and tip toed back to his room. Seconds after that, Jayce walked out of the bathroom, turned on the kitchen light only to See Agent 10 drinking a can of soda “Aww you asshole that was the last one, and I told you not to eat anything. I heard you take something from the pantry” Agent 10 raised her eyebrow as she shook her head “That wasn’t me dummy, your son is in his room stuffing his face with those things, go look... go look if you don’t believe me!” Jayce hesitated but went to verify her story anyway. As he approached his sons room he could hear the wrapper of the pastry being greedily removed. Once he heard the noises stop he bursted through the door; catching his son just before he was about to take his first bite “You know you’re in trouble right?” Xayvion Nodded as he held out the pastry for Jayce to take away “Ew no! you’ve already touched it I don’t know where your hands have been.. Hurry up and eat that thing” before Jayce closes the door his son called out to him to ask what he was wearing “don’t worry about it, eat and go to sleep.. don’t tell your mom what I’m doing” Xayvion called out to his father again to ask who he was going with “Your son asks a lot of questions for a seven year old” Jayce quickly turned his head in confusion to the corner of the room. In the shadows Jayce could see a pair of light glowing, pink eyes looking around the room.
“How the fuck did you get in here?!” Xayvion looked around the room as if he couldn’t see the pair of pink eyes in the corner of his room... or could he? “Daddy who are you talking too?” Agent 10 slowly walked out from the corner chuckling to herself “He can’t hear me if I don’t want him to” she walked passed Jayce telling him to hurry up, he shook his head telling his son he was talking to someone on the radio. He pointed out the earpiece to his son “I have to go back to work really quick I’ll be back” he said in a hurry before closing the door so his son couldn’t question him further “Alright then, let’s get started.”
back at the hospital a nurse was preparing to head home. She was on the phone with her boyfriend discussing weekend plans. “So I was thinking that maybe we could go to virginia beach, there’s this actress that’s supposed to be there doing a photoshoot there. I thought maybe I could meet her and get a picture, while we soak up some sun.” he happily agreed to the arrangement saying that he wanted to go surfing so he doesn’t get too rusty. She laughed saying that when he wipes out she’ll come save him from drowning.. During their conversation the automatic sliding door suddenly opened. She even jumped a little as she turned around; but she saw that nobody was there, so she just assumed that it was just a simple mechanical error “What happened, are you okay?” she gave a nervous chuckle saying that the door just opened by itself and that it scared her a little bit. She said that it was about time that she head home anyway since it was so late. Before hanging up her boyfriend told her that he loved her which was the first time she had heard him say it to her; she grinned because she was waiting for quite a while for him to say it to her,
even though they had been going out for a year already.
Before she could say it back to the man she was madly in love with it she fell to her knees with blood pouring from her mouth. She looked down at her stomach, the source of her pain; she saw that a hand was jammed into it from behind. She coughed trying to stop herself from choking on her own blood, she clutched her phone with both hands, blood began to drip onto the phone as she clanged to life. With a very weak and shaky voice she told him that she loved him so much more than he could ever know. Shortly after she collapsed onto the floor; where she died in less than minutes. The voice of her husband could still be heard on the phones speaker “hello? Hello! Kourtney? Are you okay? What happened?!” Outside of the hospital a security guard was sitting at his post smoking a cigarette in front of the gates. All he could think about is getting off work followed by a couple beers at home; as he was about to take his first puff his mouth and nose was covered by a cloth. He soon fell limp and fell to the ground like a house of bricks; “Chloroform, really? I thought you would know pressure points or something, that would have been way cooler” Agent 10 said as she folded her arms.
Jayce held the cloth out to her asking if she wanted a whiff, she just rolled her eyes and walked passed him. “I can tell what kind of dynamic we’re gonna have as partners” moments later a loud scream was heard coming from inside the building. both raced inside to the first floor. In front of them were dozens of body laid out all over the floor. The bodies were horribly disfigured, some were even dismembered completely; with a grim voice Jayce said: “What the hell, this looks like a slasher film” as Jayce looked around at each body every fatality was more gruesome than the last “this isn’t just some child. It’s the devil himself. From the corner of Jayce’s eyes he could see a bright pink light emitting from Agent 10. The glow was coming from her left arm Jayce could see her gazing at the ceiling, the next thing Jayce saw was the roof cave in from above them. As the body came crashing down to the ground Luna was seen with her hand around the man’s neck. He was battered and bruise to the point his face was almost unrecognizable. Luna’s eyes glowed a bright red as she starred directly at the two of them “Here she comes!” Agent 10 yelled as Luna ran towards them.
Luna started off with a heavy punch but Agent 10 merely blocked it with her knee, Luna just smiled then tripped her using one of her legs; she grabbed Agent 10 by the face when she was midfall, slamming her into the ground. Before things got out of control Jayce stepped in by grabbing Luna by her wrist with both hands, next he started swinging her around until he released his grip, which plunged her into the air. Deep inside Jayce felt a little bad for throwing a child thirty feet into the air... but then again this particular child had single handedly murdered dozens of people. Jayce looked to see if Agent 10 was okay but to his surprise she was gone. Next he heard a grunt followed by feeling and hearing a loud crash. He looked to his left seeing Luna laid out on the ground and Agent 10 in the air with her hands clasped together. Finally, Agent 10 dove straight down at Luna, trying to bring the heel of her shoe onto Luna’s head. But Luna slowly stood up, held out her hand, and smiled as a orange barrier surrounded her; just as Agent 10 got close the barrier spun around at a high speed.
Assuming she was in trouble Jayce ran to her in an attempt to help “Wait Jayce don’t!!” she shouted but it was too late, When Agent 10 touched the barrier she spun in rotation with the it until she was thrown directly at Jayce causing her head to collide with his face. Jayce fell onto his back covering his face. “ow ow ow ow ow” Agent 10 said as she cradled her head “Goddamnit Ten what the hecks your head made of? Steel?!” Jayce whined as he wiped the blood from his nose. Jayce looked at the blood on his fingers, his anger began to build, it was happening again! His blood began to boil, his arm began to glow purple, his eyes started changing from brown to purple until finally, he lost control like he had in the nanospace, in a fit of rage he zoomed right pass Agent 10, throwing a vicious punch at Luna, even though she merely moved her head slightly to dodge it the force of the punch caused her to do flips and twirls mid air. She crashed through a few walls until she hit one that was three rooms away. Right as she opened her eyes Jayce was in front of her again; as he stared into her eyes he could see what he believed was fear “What’s this? a cold hearted machine actually has something to fear?” Next Jayce grabbed a clump of her hair before tossing her back into the main room.
Luna could barely get to her feet after she had been thrown. Her eyes were turning from red to white repeatedly “Don’t worry your pretty little head about getting back up I’ll make sure the only time you’ll be getting up is when you stand before the devil himself... or the robot devil if you guys have that. You look like you’re about to shut down anyway so why don’t I give you a hand” Jayce faced his open palm in Luna’s direction and smirked. Agent 10 struggled to get to her feet “Jayce don’t kill her she’ll be useless to us if you burn her away, we need her to plan a counter attack against the-” Jayce cut her off before she could even finish her plea. At the top of his lungs he shouted “Quiet! This does not concern you!! If you know what’s good for you, stay out of my way before I blast you away along with this poor excuse for a reconnaissance droid!!” Agent 10 raised her eyebrows because of what Jayce had said “Reconnaissance droid? How could he possibly know that?” Jayce turned his attention back to Luna, he smirked as purple flames began to swirl and build up in his palm “Take this, you little imp!!” Before Jayce could throw the fireball the last thing he heard were two gunshots… Then everything went black.
Chapter 5
Reunion
Jayce felt a light breeze brush pass his face as he lie unconscious in a field of white grass, revealing he was now once again inside the nanospace, grey clouds completely covered the skies with millions of light purple orbs of energy falling from the clouds. Jayce slowly opened his eyes; his vision hazy, his body heavily aching with fatigue “Ow, my fucking head.. it feels like I got hit by a truck” Jayce slowly got to his feet seeing nothing but the vast emptiness of white grass in front of him. Not long after he awoke the black door began to slowly fade into sight, Jayce had already been warned about the door so he didn’t even go near it. “What the hell? How am I supposed to get out of here if nobody’s here to help me.. maybe I should just go walk around, maybe there’s a way I can get back without being flicked into the horizon” before he started to walk the other way Jayce heard the black door slowly creak open. Jayce turned around to get a better look. He suddenly saw a foot emerge followed by a shadowy figure, the only clear detail at that moment was the figures bright purple eyes “Who the hell are you?” Jayce demanded nonchalantly “Hey now. Is that any way to speak to the man that named you?” He said stepping forward to show his face.
He was tall, black, wore a white and gray suit, his hair was down to his neck, he was in his early thirties but his hair was white just like snow and in the form of dreads. Jayce almost wanted to cry, the man looked just like he did in all the pictures Jayce saw... “I don’t believe it.. This can’t be real, how is this possible!?” Jayce had so many questions for the man. After all it had been twenty years since Jayce had seen his father and here he was standing right in front of him “I understand that you have a shit load of questions for me and want me to explain like fifty thousand things that aren’t gonna make any type of sense so at least try to follow along” he said covering his face with his palm. Even though Jayce was happy to see him again he couldn’t help but feel a little angry with him, after all Jayce was under the impression that his father intentionally walked out of his life. Jayce’s father opened his arms wide hoping for a hug by his son but all he received was a fist thrown to his face. However to Jayce’s amazement the bastard stopped his punch with just a finger. Jayce completely froze “Okay you little shithead” Jayce was unaware that his father was a former Vanguard Agent so he knew a whole lot more than Jayce did about fighting. He demonstrated this by grabbing Jayce’s wrist tightly, then judo flipped him onto his back “Are you done being stupid? Because I’d really like to talk to you” he said as he sat down next to Jayce.
“Listen I know that I wasn’t there for you most of your life, and i’m sorry for that... I just want you to know it wasn't intentional. I loved both you and your mom a lot, I didn’t walk out on you guys for no reason... My most important mission was protecting you guys; and I don’t regret it at all” Jayce understood where his dad was coming from.. and hearing the explanation straight from his father gave him some closure, he felt contempt. “Jayce there are a lot of things that you need to know, like that door I came out of. Before I send you back to the real world, I want you to know a few things about me...” Jayce’s father looked into the sky and smiled... memories of his life began to pour into his mind. He turned his eyes on Jayce and said: “When you were a kid I was a Vanguard Agent too, except I was a little older. That coat you wear, it was mine once upon a time, I met a lot of people, seen a lotta things most people wont ever get to see in their lifetime; I also learned a lot from those people I met... like how to judo flip your son if he tries to attack you.” Jayce rolled his eyes trying to hide his snicker, Jayce’s father chuckled “Yeah just because I’m old doesn’t mean I’ve lost my touch.. anyway I made sure that they put me behind that door so that I can have a chance to see you again.. if your mom could see you right now... I know she’d be so proud of you” Jayce could feel his throat tense up, but he refused to shed a tear “Now about the door.. it’s not just me behind it; well actually, if you ever enter it Omisha forbid, you won’t see me in there; as I’ve I said I just wanted to see my son all grown up. I’m just giving you a further warning, that chip that’s inside your arm reacts to what’s behind that door. There’s a code that’s encrypted inside it, the rules say going behind the black door is used as a last resort, you literally have to be on the verge of death before you even think about going inside.
The code gives you the strength to carry out your last desire. Mine was to protect you and your mother” Jayce asked his father if he knew about the stories regarding people who went in before they were ready to access the room.
He shook his head as he sighed, then said: “When you first reach the nanospace and end up opening the door before the nanochip feels you’re ready, the code to carry out your last desire doesn’t appear but a code to initialize a computerized version of yourself with the strength of a juggernaut will, So it’s safe to say that the people that went in had no chance in beating the computer.” Jayce sat up from the grass rubbing his back, still filling the pain from the flip. he couldn’t help but ask the hypothetical question of what if an agent actually beat the computer somehow, what could possibly happen? Surely someone with experience could defeat the program and what would happen if they did? “Even if an agent beat the program that's not the worse of it. After defeating the program the computer will recognize you as superior and will try to give you full access to all your powers that comes with the chip. But the toll it takes on your body is astronomical, we’re not fucking computers Jayce, humans can only handle so much pain. I did hear about an Agent in Russia that beat the program because you know.. Russians are like bears but the poor guy died minutes later after returning back to the real world.. after his first gulp of vodka the strain on his body was far too great after the fight with the computer. It appeared the nanochip was trying to link with everything, nerves , cells, and completely fuse with his DNA his body couldn’t handle it so he fried from the inside out, so obviously if your body can’t handle the process, you’ll die.” The explanation gave Jayce a lot to think about. Sure, having complete access to his abilities sounded really interesting, and very useful but it came with a very heavy price. “So this chip that’s inside my body, how was it made and how long have the Vanguard been around?” he looked up toward the sky for a brief moment then took a deep breath “The chip was not created by humans it’s technically alien technology.
That’s all I am allowed to tell you right now. the history of the Vanguard is also something I don’t know much about but Ms. Liza is very open about it. If you have a couple hours to spare she could tell you all about it.” suddenly he snapped his fingers “oh yeah I was watching your battle with that kid earlier it looks like you lost control and really did a number on her” Jayce pleaded with his father saying that he didn’t mean to. “Well yeah that’s why I said you lost control.. I knew it wasn’t you, your voice very slightly changed when you lost it. The chip responds to your emotions, usually anger; so when you get angry, your body gets you ready for action! The blood flows to your muscles faster and it gives you that monstrous boost in strength. Now add a piece of alien equipment then the situation can become a dire one for whoever’s on the the other side of the sword. Now before you say anything; what I mean by that is: no matter how small the percentage of the chips usage it still takes a toll on you. You probably felt a little tired once you woke up in here. When you get angry, your blood is pumping, you’ve got alienized adrenaline going through you, the chip will start to overheat and it could fry the programing. So the chip will react to your emotions and try to destroy the source, so it won’t overheat. If it does however, it’ll shut down and you won’t be able to use your powers for a while, also if you continue to strain it the chip will detonate, taking its host along for the ride. The destructive force is said to wipe out half a mile, so what you need to do is learn to control your emotions... like your partner; that’s how you become a good agent... Now then” he stood up, stretching his arms, and legs “it’s time for you to go back, I know they’re getting tired of waiting on you, i’ll even show you how to get out of here without being flicked into the horizon. All you gotta do is just close your eyes and focus, try to remember the last thing that happened in the real world before you came here” Jayce nodded slightly. With a small tear in his eye he gave his father a tight hug “I wish you could meet my family, you have two grandsons that would love to meet you” Jayce’s father patted his son on the back saying that Jayce would be a great agent. “Throughout your journey with the vanguard you will get stronger and learn to access your powers and become a great asset to the Vanguard, I believe in you Jayce. Despite some of the foes you may face I’m confident you’ll conquer each battle” he grinned brightly as Jayce stood up from the grass, next he closed his eyes, trying to imagine the last thing that happened. He started to remember fighting Luna followed by the sound of two gunshots. When Jayce opened his eyes again he found himself in a small pod completely filled with water; the respirator on his face was allowing him to breathe even though he was submerged. Jayce looked around and saw that there was nobody outside the glass.
Taking the respirator off he placed his free hand upon the glass, channeling his emotions, it didn’t take long before the glass started to crack then shatter allowing him to escape. Agent 10 was in the next room. Ms Liza was sitting behind a desk with Agent 10, who was giving a field report. the scientist, formally known as Dr Madden was also on the room “So when we got there we came face to face with Luna, I was the first to attack so Jayce ensured that he had my back. I don’t wanna say she got the upper hand but before I could come up with a strategy Jayce came running to my rescue” Ms Liza rolled her eyes as she shook her head “you don’t wanna admit a child beat you up?” Agent 10 contorted her face to express how disrespected she felt at Ms. Liza’s statement “Why would I admit to something that didn’t happen?” Ms. Liza chuckled to herself, she found it hilarious making fun of Agent 10 “Well i’m glad he made an effort to try and stop her before things got even worse nonetheless... Because God forbid that a highly trained Agent got killed by a fucking kid!” Ms. Liza said sarcastically, quickly she turned her attention to the doctor “Don’t think I forgot about you! What was your reason for shooting one of my agents?” she demanded. The doctor cleared his throat before saying “Well based on my intake of the situation Jayce was about to destroy a key part of our plan to combat the incoming invaders.”
Agent 10 interrupted by asking why the scientist was even there in the first place. She also added that she would have handled the situation well enough on her own. Dr Madden just chucked to himself “Are you sure? Because you looked like your legs were made of spaghetti or something, but as I was saying Jayce’s raw power has yet to be tested, I simply wanted to observe how his abilities respond to situations. When Jayce realized that he had his own blood on him he snapped. So the nanotech responded accordingly, believe me when I say that this was an amazing observation; it would seem that his anger is the source of his strength. emotions give people the power to carry out something. For Jayce, it was merely to complete the mission, but I could clearly tell he wasn’t in complete control, he was going to kill Luna himself. He even threatened Agent Ten!! So yes before he could take out a key piece for our operation to eliminate the alien threat I shot his ass.” Ms Liza raised her eyebrows slightly “wait wait you say he was not in complete control, what do you mean?” she asked as she leaned forward in her seat. “Well, Before Dr Madden shot him he identified Luna as a reconnaissance droid. He said it with such anger, if I was crazy I’d say he’d seen one just like her before” Ms Liza crosses her legs as she wrote down what Jayce said “like he’s seen other androids like Luna.. but Luna is the first one he’s seen” Just then, they could hear glass shards hit the ground in the next room. Dr Madden checked his watch “Well, he’s came back early looks like he’s up, Agent Ten! Why don’t you welcome our friend back” she nodded as she walked back to the other room, to see what was happening; as she made her way down the corridor she could feel herself sweating a little, when she looked at the thermostat; bolted to the wall on her right she said that the screen read error she also saw that there was a pool of water seeping out from the inside “Pretty sure it’s Jayce” she said confidently.
The automatic doors to the room slowly slid open. The fist thing she saw was Jayce’s back facing her, he was in the middle of putting on his shirt and luckily he already had pants on; she could see red glowing veins passing through his body just before he threw his shirt and coat on. Jayce heard the doors open so he turned around, once he saw it was his partner he immediately pressed the issue of who shot him “Relax Hothead they had a very good reason for popping you“ Jayce rolled his eyes saying it couldn’t be that good of a reason “You told me you were gonna blast me away if I got in your way.... oh yeah, double homicide wasn’t a reason at all” Jayce firmly declined the allegation saying he didn’t say anything like that.. in fact, he didn’t even remember talking “It was more like a movie... I was seeing everything that was happening but I wasn’t doing anything.. it was like I was watching someone else” on a hunch, Agent 10 asked him if he knew what a reconnaissance droid was “We have those?” He asked as he turned to look at her. Agent 10 squinted her eyes, suspicious of how Jayce was acting.. a couple hours ago he knew exactly what Luna was.. but now he didn’t. But like he said it was like he was watching someone else.. it was something worth looking into. She also noticed Jayce’s iris’ had turned purple but she didn’t think Jayce noticed “Enough about me” Jayce clenched his fist tightly. He watched as his hand became completely engulfed in purple flames “What’s next?”
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Chapter 6
Training day
Two weeks have passed since the Vanguard captured Luna, her body was being examined thoroughly for clues about the invaders. As more bodies piled up the world soon found itself in a state of panic, and all fingers pointed toward the incoming visitors. Transmission from the invaders stopped; which was awfully suspicious to say the least. But no matter how many times NASA tried to make contact with them there was nothing but static interference, which raised the eyebrows of millions. Needless to say that people were fearful of what was to come leading up to the intergalactic visit; it was hard for people to cope with loved ones suddenly becoming gravely ill.. Doctors had no answers, police had no advice so residents took it upon themselves to barricade themselves within their homes. Wearing respirators in fear that something in the air was taking the lives of thousands, with the clock winding down on time until the aliens came to earth, Jayce was sitting at home with his family watching the news “As of today there have been a confirmed Forty Thousand fatalities across the globe, President Alvarez has yet to be reached to address the nation....” The first six months after contact with the aliens have brought nothing but dire repercussions to the planet and its inhabitants. Twenty percent of the world's oceans became dangerously radioactive and was slowly spreading, vegetation became weak and started to wither away causing them to die and nobody could explain it; “This is crazy, this can’t be happening...” Audrey was more concerned than anyone about the Earth’s predicament. She was afraid that something could happen to her family so she was very careful with their kids, keeping them protected from what could happen. Jayce tried to act concerned but he couldn’t, because he knew exactly what was happening..
Later that night around 10:00pm Jayce got a call from Ms Liza saying that he needed to report to her immediately. Everyone was asleep so Jayce got up and put his coat on. Just before he walked out the front door his iris’ glowed purple “Daddy?” Jayce turned to see his son, Akura standing before him. Half asleep of course, he rubbed his eyes and asked him where he was going “Daddy has to take care of something” Jayce knelt down to him and told Akura not to tell anyone he saw him leave “If you do that I’ll take you to Gravity park” Gravity park was a place that the family has always wanted to go for a long time, the name explains why it’s a popular attraction. The park had atmospheric simulation technology that allowed the customers to experience gravity, weather and other various features that a planet had. It was one of many places on earth that people really spoke highly of due to its educational impact.
“Now hurry back to your room and don’t wake your mom or Xayvion, and come lock this door” Akura nodded as he watched Jayce walk out the door, silently closing it behind him. Once he locked the door and turned around to head back to his room his brother Xayvion was standing right behind him “Going somewhere?” Akura shook his head telling his brother he thought he heard someone knocking at the door, he was only seeing who it was before he headed back to his room. Akura brushed passed his brother as he made his way to his room he could feel his brothers body was hot, so he quickly turned around and put his hand over Xayvion’s forehead “your forehead is hot..” when Akura turned on the light he gasped at what he saw, Xayvion’s lips were blue, Strands of gray veins can be seen from the outside of his body; Xayvion’s breathing sounded like he was having trouble doing it on his own “Mom!!” Akura cried out to his mother who was upstairs sound asleep but hearing one of her children call out to her in distress, she sprang into action, tossing her nightstand completely over and grabbing her pistol. She raced down the stairs, slid across the floor until she could see her children, she aimed her gun at the front door expecting to see an intruder but all she saw was Akura run to her crying. Xayvion slowly turned around breathing heavily and snarling she could see massive amounts of saliva dripping from his mouth “Xayvion’s sick!!” Akura cried out as he hugged his mother, Audrey could see that Akura had a busted lip along with bruises and cuts all over his body.
Audrey’s eyes became tearful as she watched Xayvion slowly walk toward her she looked down at Akura; his face battered and bruised, tears of pure fear filling his eyes and trickling down his face... she looked back at Xayvion who was now clumsily running at her, everything was moving in slow motion to Audrey; she closed her eyes and just cried for what seemed like minutes, she had to face the harsh realization that she would have to kill one child to save the other which was something she couldn’t imagine any parent would have to go through. But nonetheless she knew as a mother to be strong and do what was best for her family and in this case the only thing going through her mind was she had to save Akura.. so she forced herself to raise the gun at him, she cocked it back, stabled her aim to Xayvion’s chest and placed her finger on the trigger “I’m sorry...” Audrey slowly closed one of her eyes, looking through the iron sights of the pistol, Xayvion twitched slightly before he threw himself at her so Audrey inhaled deeply then exhaled, as she pulled the trigger.
“Damn, he should be here by now...” Agent 10 was waiting for Jayce outside of a door leading into the training room. She wondered if Jayce had ran into trouble before he got to headquarters, but she knew this wasn’t the case because suddenly it began to get hot in the room which made her roll her eyes as she looked at her watch “Bout time” she muttered. A small ring of fire appeared right in front of her; followed by a small pillar of fire shooting out from the ring; once the fire subsided Jayce was standing in front of her with his arms folded. She just shook her head as she exhaled “What is that, your heroic entrance now?” Jayce just smiled with pride, he was actually surprised he didn’t really know if he’d get to the right place by traveling in that way “Yeah I guess you could say that. Hey, before we go into this room there’s just one thing I gotta know” Agent 10 tilted her head slightly “oh yeah? And what might that be?” Jayce went on to say that it would be much better if he addressed her by her first name rather than calling her Agent 10 all the time. plus she knew his name, and Jayce didn’t even give that out; “Well when you put it like that I guess you have a point... my names Lisa, Lisa Venezuela and that’s just the short version” she said opening the door into the room.
As soon as Jayce stepped foot into the room he immediately felt the immense heat coming from the air ducts high on the ceiling, Jayce started to break sweat instantly. “Holy shit, it’s like a sauna in here!” Jayce whined, Lisa just chuckled “That's nothing wait till we actually get started” Lisa said as she walked a few feet away from Jayce then stood still across from him. The room was lit by blue fluorescent light, the floors was checkered in various glowing bright colors, “wait wait what do you mean get started?” seconds later Jayce started to hear feedback from the speakers that were in the room. “Testing, testing... is this thing on?” Dr Madden cleared his throats before saying: “Good evening agents, tonight you two will be training so you can both test your strength against one another. Jayce you have major potential that we need to bring out and that you need to master.... Lisa we all know you’re a seasoned veteran of the Vanguard and all but try not to overdue it. Ms Liza and I will be observing you throughout your training, until we feel like we have gathered enough data from the both of you. This room will enhance your skills and cause your bodies to adapt to the terrain and fight accordingly. My gravitational abilities may also come into play to make things interesting. Best of luck you two; you may begin when ready” Quicker than Dr Madden could finish the instructions Jayce felt a sharp pain in his stomach, he looked down to see Lisa in front of him with her fist jammed into his stomach. The punch was so hard that it knocked the wind out of him; as he took a few steps back clutching his stomach, Jayce shared how his pain felt “Son of a bitch! That’s one hell of a punch!” Jayce looked up thinking she was in front of him, but to his surprise she wasn’t there, next he looked around but still couldn’t spot her.. That’s when he remembered the fight with Luna “Above me!” Jayce shouted as he jumped to the left.
Jayce was lucky that he moved at the very last second before she was able to hit him “That’s right, her thing is like hyper movement and stealth or something” She was fast, she was quiet, and she was really annoying. “Not quite its more like mimicry.. I see a power, and I can copy it, watch” Lisa put her left and right index fingers together along with both her thumbs and all other fingers spread apart. Jayce watched as pink flames begin to form inside the triangle she made with her hands “So basically, anything you do I can do better” Lisa smirked as the flames grew bigger and bigger until: “Volcanic Volley!!” From her hands hundreds of pink fireballs were fired at Jayce. His eyes widened as the barrage of fire covered his field of vision “Hmph! Come and get me!” At that moment Lisa bolted through the volley of fire before they got to Jayce, even though he was caught by surprise he still managed to block the punch to his face by tilting his head. Next he swatted her arm away so hard she actually spun around, so he kicked her into her own barrage of fire. The flames quickly engulfed her body, swirling into a vortex around her until the flames combusted, the force of the explosion shook the entire room along with smoke filling a small portion of the room “Copy cat attacks don’t work against the original ya know Lisa” as soon as he said that Lisa jumped into the air separating herself from the smoke “Maybe you’re right, but you were a fool if you thought I’d be hurt from my own attack!!” She shouted then flew at Jayce. When she got close she threw a punch to Jayce’s face but he managed to block it by throwing his fist into hers. “Not bad” Lisa smirked as she jumped into the air, gracefully doing a handstand on Jayce’s forearm; next she flipped over him as she tightened her grip on his arm then judo threw him into the wall but Jayce planted his feet on the wall like he was crouching on it “Is that your best?!” He said launching himself at her this time. Lisa saw Jayce coming at her and just scoffed; in an effort to counter she leaned far back allowing Jayce to pass over her, next she back flipped, kicking Jayce in the chin which sent him up in the air “Here I come!” She shouted before a shroud of pink flames covered her body, when the flames vanished so did she. Jayce’s back suddenly felt like it was burning; that’s when The pink flames appeared behind him, when the fire vanished Lisa was right behind Jayce; she wrapped her arms around his arms and waist “this might hurt!” She smirked as she leaned back so that the top of the heads were facing the ground. In mid flight the two began to spin very quickly until pink flames surrounded them both. Jayce felt powerless, no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t free himself from Lisa’s grip “Let me go!!” He shouted as he continued to struggle, at that point he could see the ground and he was heading for it very quickly “You’ve had it now!!” He shouted as his iris’ began to glow purple; before he hit the ground he broke free from Lisa’s grip. After that, Jayce covered himself in purple flames and flew to the right escaping the painful impact of the ground, but Lisa wasn’t so lucky, right when Jayce flew away she crashed into the ground. Jayce felt good about how he escaped the situation, he felt like he was really learning to master his powers; that being said, he was feeling very confident in himself.. to Mrs Liza and Dr Madden maybe he was a little too confident “Should we send him in? It seems our new recruit is feeling himself a little too much” Ms Liza pondered in regard to Dr Madden’s question... she turned her head slightly to the man in the back of the room with the long white coat that went down to the back of his knees “Very well” the mans iris’ started to glow a light blue as a thick fog began to conceal him. He pulled down his white scarf and smirked to himself, eager for the chance to train.
Jayce turned his back to the dust that filled the area where Lisa crashed into the ground; Jayce assumed the battle was over.. he didn’t think anyone can survive hitting the ground at that speed and still be conscience. So he was shocked when Lisa’s voice called out to him “It’s a shame you’ve got those beautiful purple eyes but don’t know how to use them... I guess I don’t have to worry about the rookie surpassing me for a while.” Jayce quickly turned around and watched as the dust subsided “Persistent little shit” Jayce bent his knees slightly and clenched his fist. He gritted his teeth trying to focus his energy “Combustive...” As Jayce powered up his attack Ms. Liza had walked over to the large two way glass and watched with excitement “I must say their little sparring match is getting really really interesting.. although I’m not really to fond of these guys naming their moves and shit... it’s a waste of time” purple flames began to swirl around Jayce’s body as if he had been swallowed up by a tornado. The vortex stretched all the way to the ceiling, and was significantly wide. Lisa watched as the vortex came toward her, she held out both her hands in an effort to stop the tornado right where it stood. But before she could even touch it, the tornado vanished “Don’t move foreword” Jayce said calmly, he was low enough that Lisa would have to look down at him, then she spotted Jayce’s hands which were inches away from her breasts, her face turned red as she took a step back. She wanted to call him a pervert, she wanted to slap him across his face but what she got however, was a powerful wave of purple fire from his palms. “This is awesome!!” Jayce cheered as he walked over to an unconscious Lisa. her clothes singed, and torn from the fight, Jayce folded his arms as he stood over her feet “what’s wrong? Done already?” Seconds pass with no response... then, Lisa smirked and looked directly at Jayce with a sadistic look in her eyes but Jayce didn’t want to find out why she did so Jayce jumped into the air “Man! you’re slow.” Jayce’s eyes widened as he heard Lisa’s voice from behind him he was shocked by how fast she managed to get to him “She’s met so many agents she’s become a worthy opponent” Dr Madden noted as he watched the fight close up with his computer at his desk, Lisa smirked as she turned her hips slightly then kicked Jayce in his back. The force sent him flying back to the ground, but Jayce shot purple fire from his palms to regain his footing. “Good counter” Dr Madden started; as Jayce began to stable his footing, Lisa flew in delivering a heavy kick to Jayce’s ribs.
Jayce coughed up a little blood but he chose to suck it up and keep fighting, when her foot made contact he grabbed it with his hand then swept her free foot causing her to fall backwards. Next he yanked her foreword grabbing Lisa by her face then shoved her to the ground, hard enough that she actually bounced; after that, Jayce spun around once then kicked her high into the air. Jayce flew after her; He did this by shooting flames from his feet like a rocket, so it didn’t take long for him to get above her... “Sucker in the trap!!” Lisa shouted as her body began to glow pink. Jayce’s original plan was to dive down with his foot but Lisa countered by tilting her body slightly, allowing his foot to pass right by her face “Fucking hell!!” Jayce shouted, as Lisa kicked him down and onto a wall. “Good thing these nanochip’s make their bodies a lot more durable, my back hurts just from watching that happen” Ms Liza said as she rubbed her back; suddenly the door swung open “Where is Agent Zero? It smells like fucking failure in here and I don’t want that to linger over my Agent” Dr Madden pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance, the voice belonged to Dr Maxwell a scientist from France; his skin was pale, his eyes were blue and his hair was a mixture of black and white. Maxwell was once a former colleague but was now Dr Madden’s bitter rival in the Vanguard “ I hope you didn’t come all this way to talk shit to my scientist Maxwell.” Ms. Liza said as she squinted at Maxwell in the corner of her eye “Of course not ma’am just having a little fun” Ms. Liza suddenly turned her head and smiled then said “let’s keep the flirting to a minimum boys, you can have your who’s dick’s bigger contest later... I am glad you came though, you were just about to see your guy in action” Lisa walked up to Jayce brushing off her shoulder from debris, she looked up at Jayce who was still embedded into the wall “Told you you’re slow” Jayce struggled to get free from the wall but his body was too deeply embedded “Oh, so you’re not gonna fight back? Fine” she said as she formed a pink fireball in her hand “Eat this!” She shouted as she threw it “hmph!” Jayce smirked as his body broke up into flames. Lisa’s eyes widened as the flames swirled around her until Jayce appeared again, using the opportunity to smack her with the back of his right hand. The force of his hand sent her flying “Hope you’re ready!” Jayce shouted as he launched himself at her. Just as Jayce was about to catch up to her Lisa backflipped mid air and used her hands as a spring to launch herself vertically into the air “You let your guard down..” In front of Jayce now was a man wearing a white beanie, a white scarf that covered his nose, mouth and chin, A trench coat that was completely white; on the left was a patch with the number zero on it and It had frozen water sliding off the number. On the right was a patch with a mountain on it, covered completely in snow with a cross at the top of the mountain. Jayce tried to stop himself from flying but he had too much momentum. The man held out his open palm then shot out a stream of water that had the strength of a firehose; this attack made Jayce slide across the training room floor “pathétique” Lisa slowly descended back to the ground a few feet in front of the man with her back turned to him “Never thought I’d see you here.. Agent Zero. Don’t you remember what happened to you last time we trained together?” Agent Zero remained silent as he walked passed her “Still the same gifted speaker I see...” Lisa said as she placed her finger on her earpiece to hear the incoming message: “Hey check it out you and Agent Zero will be fighting Jayce together... try not to bang him up too hard please, for the love of god...” Lisa shook her head in acknowledgement, although she did believe that fighting two fully trained, veteran Agents would prove to be difficult. Across the room, Jayce slowly got to his feet with steam rising from his body “Great, now my clothes are ruined” he watched as Agent Zero, walked to him, Jayce was in no mood for talking after he had just been hit with a stream of high pressured water. Jayce inhaled deeply as he clapped his hands together before calmly saying “Dragons breath” next he exhaled a wave of air that ignited after a few seconds. Agent Zero stopped dead in his tracks as the purple flames travelled to him “Aqua wall..” holding out both his hands a wall of water shot up from the ground, blocking the flames which created a thick fog once the two attacks collided “What!?” Jayce shouted as the fog started to obscure his vision “How reckless” a voice called out from behind Jayce so he quickly turned to throw a fireball “Calm down” Lisa said as she grabbed Jayce by his wrist tightly which forced the fireball to vanish. Next she yanked Jayce foreword while she drove her knee into his stomach “You’re done for” Lisa said as she drove her elbow into the back of Jayce’s neck, knocking him unconscious “Typical Agent Ten. You knock him out while me and him were just getting a chance to know each other? That’s foul” Lisa smirked hearing Agent Zero walk up from behind her. Concealed inside her trench coat was an eight inch gold dagger that had diamonds embedded into the handle. Quickly, Lisa turned around to try and stab Agent Zero with the dagger “Amateur” he said nonchalantly as he froze Lisa’s hand just by looking at it “Bastard!” Lisa shouted as she gritted her teeth. Since her hand was frozen in thick layers of ice along with her dagger, she felt her hand drop to her side from the weight of the ice.. now Lisa would have to fight without using one of her hands “You’re definitely not good enough to fight with only one hand.. this isn’t gonna end like the last time. This time I’m gonna win” Lisa and Agent Zero joined the Vanguard around the same time, approximately three years ago when Lisa and Agent Zero met they were participating in the Vanguard Tournament, an event where agents from all over the world test their strength and skills against other agents. Even though Lisa didn’t have as many powers as she does now she managed to win her fight against Agent Zero in the third match; “we shall see” Lisa said as she slammed her frozen hand on the ground hard enough that the ice began to crack then shatter, freeing her hand in the process “Since Jayce is out of commission I guess you’ll get your rematch” Jayce could hear their voices even though he was passed out. But what made him wake up was the insults Agent Zero threw at him. “Repent for your arrogance papist!!” Jayce’s eyes suddenly opened with a bright purple glow. Lisa quickly turned her head in shock but Jayce was no longer on the ground “Burn!!!” Jayce shouted from above them then used his palms to shoot flamethrowers. “I’ll handle this” Agent Zero said as he held out his open palm to extinguish the flames with water. Once again a thick mist filled the entire room “Here we go with this bullshit again” Jayce said as he extended his left arm out which blocked Lisa’s fist from hitting his left cheek; next he lifted his knee to block Agent Zero’s punch to his face. He had flew up through the mist to get to Jayce but He had a feeling Agent Zero would do that “Someone’s been watching a little too much fighting movies” Ms. Liza said as she continued to watch “And so what? He’s out there holding his own against two well trained agents” Ms. Liza turned her head quickly, glaring at Dr Madden “That’s the problem, how can he possibly do that? It’s almost like he’s had fights like this before. It took me forever to train Lisa to fight the way she’s fighting right now” Dr Madden typed away on his computer pulling up Lisa’s field report about their fight with Luna “Remember when Lisa said that when Jayce lost control it was like he was another person? I’ve been thinking about that a lot too.. there’s so much about Nano technology that we still don’t know.. there must be a hidden factor that’s gives Jayce that extra boost in strength and defense” Dr Maxwell walked over to Madden’s computer asking him to pull up Jayce’s energy chart. “In the beginning up until he was knocked out his energy readings were normal. But look at his chart at this moment, now that he’s awake there’s a massive spike in energy, we just have to figure out what’s causing it in a few minutes.” Raising her eyebrows Ms. Liza asked what Dr Maxwell meant by that “You’ll see, he’s about to burn out in a second” Jayce grabbed Lisa by her wrist, yanking her into a headbutt then blasted her to the ground with a fireball. Jayce smirked as he punched Agent Zero several times in the stomach. After Jayce delivered the barrage of punches, Jayce flipped over Agent Zero, bringing his elbow down on the Agents head with such force it sent him flying down the ground “I’m not done yet!” Jayce shouted as he clasped his hands together then slowly pulled them apart, he gritted his teeth trying to pull his hands apart as a white fireball formed between his palms. Lisa was struggling to get to her feet after hitting the ground so hard and Agent Zero was just about to fall to the ground next to her; Lisa eyes widened as she looked up to see a fireball so massive she could see nothing but the white fireball travel to them. Lisa took a step back, but the fire was so hot it managed to singe their clothes, but Lisa was determined to stop the fireball so she planted her feet, one of front of the other then held out her hands. She cried out in pain as the fireball started to burn her palms but she could feel her hands slowly get colder and colder after the burn “Finally! I can use his powers too!!” Lisa concentrated as hard as she could to try and freeze the fireball “Agent Ten! Why does it feel like your friend up there is trying to kill us!!” Lisa couldn’t find a answer to his question except that maybe Jayce couldn’t control his powers just yet. Agent Zero rushed to the fireball even though he was dazed, to help out Lisa but before he could even put his hands up, the fireball suddenly vanished; Lisa sighed in relief as she saw Jayce fall from the ceiling and onto the ground “Looks he burned himself out, I knew that fat ass fireball had too much energy for a sparring match.” Ms Liza shook her head as she walked away from the glass saying that the end of fight was unfortunate “Jayce has a lot to learn, but for his first training exercise it wasn’t all that terrible. He actually surprised me.. hurry up and get him to the rejuvenating tank so you two can analyze him” Lisa smirked as she turned slightly to look at Agent Zero. He rolled his eyes as he cracked his neck and knuckles he folded his arms while he glared at Lisa “Go!” Both agents jumped high into the air and began fighting with high intensity, exchanging punches, kicks, elbows and blocks, they both could also feel Dr Madden’s powers coming into effect due to their bodies feeling slightly heavier.
Agent Zero covered his fist in ice as he tried to punch his opponent in the face but Lisa blocked Agent Zero’s punch with her forearm “What are you doing?!” Lisa said snobbishly as she placed her hand on Agent Zero’s chest then blasted him with a pink fireball which sent him crashing back to the ground “I’ve learned a lot of abilities through the Agents of this organization!!” She began as she faced her open palm toward him. Agent Zero slowly got to his feet, he had a large hole in his shirt where the fire blast hit him “I don’t care how many powers you have!! I’m going to crush you here and now!!” Agent Zero yelled as he too faced his open palm toward her. A pink concentration of fire began to form inches away from her palm; “And now I’ll blast you them onto you” she smirked as she fired the blast in the form of a large fireball. Inches away from Agent zero’s palm was a concentration of water that formed, swirling violently as the water began to grow in size to match his palm. After that Agent Zero fired the wave of water; when the two attacks collided; at first the fireball was pushing the water back “Damn! I need more power!!” Agent Zero’s iris’ began to glow light blue. He poured more of his energy into the attack and felt joy as the water began to push the fireball back. That’s when Lisa’s iris’ began to glow pink as she too poured more energy into her attack which caused the fireball to explode completely covering the field once again in mist “Why do they keep doing that? I’m tired of not being able to see what the hell is goin on down there” Dr Madden typed away at his computer carefully charting the energy readings “Even if we can’t see what’s going on at least we can hear it” Ms Liza carefully placed her ear close to glass, she was surprised she could hear the clanking of metal. What caused the sound was Lisa’s dagger slashing at Agent Zero but he kept blocking each slash with a shield of ice “I think they’re taking this a little too seriously isn’t Agent Twelve still down there?” Even though Jayce wasn’t his Agent Dr Maxwell understood how valuable Jayce could be “keep you coat on Maxwell, I put a barrier around his body so they don’t accidentally kill him”
Ms Liza leaned her shoulder on the glass and sighed “Well this is gonna take a while isn’t Doctors?” she said folding her arms as she watched Lisa and Agent Zero punch each other in the face. Dr Madden’s only focus was gathering data from Jayce’s fight then work on improvements; Dr Madden already new exactly what he had to do, and that was to update the nanochips system from the inside.... however it had not been done before because most agents have never broke through the nanochips energy limits. “Jayce has burned through his limits and like most software the chip must update itself to be more sufficient for jayce’s fighting capabilities” Dr Madden started... Ms Liza pinched the bridge of her nose mumbling under her breath: “And I know this fuckin’ idiot Maxwell is gonna say something too” Dr Maxwell shook his head disapprovingly, he knew his opinion wasn’t wanted, but he refused to stay quiet about something he thought was irrational. “The one called Jayce shouldn’t be relying on the chips software so much just to fight. Updating a nanochip has not even been done before! There’s no telling what could happen!!”
Ms Liza’s phone suddenly rang “If this isn’t important I’m gonna kill you” She answered, she was actually glad someone called her she didn’t really wanna listen to the Doctors argue amongst themselves. “Are you serious? You couldn’t pour piss out of a pitcher if the instructions were on the bottom!! It’s called pioneering you dunce!! You never think outside the box, The update will be a breakthrough in understanding the nanochip and with some serious training Jayce would be just as good.. Hell, he’ll probably be better than Agent Zero!” The other doctor raised his voice saying that Dr Madden's radical ideas could be a possible threat to his agents life, Ms Liza covered her mouth right after that; not by what the doctors were saying, but by whoever was talking on the other side of the call. Even though the call looked serious the doctors paid no attention; they just continued arguing, shouting, hitting each other with facts and opinions, until: “hey dumbasses!!” Ms Liza shouted in anger “Send those two to Jayce’s house right now! Jayce’s wife Audrey, she’s been infected and she’s tearing the fucking neighborhood apart, along with another infected party!” Dr Madden and Maxwell looked at each other “Oh my god his kids!” Dr Madden shouted in a panic, Ms Liza aggressively pushed the button to turn on the microphone, the very sound made Lisa and Agent Zero stop fighting immediately “That’s enough you two! Change your clothes and report to the briefing room, you guys are going on a mission, be advised danger level three… drop Jayce off at the rejuvenator on your way to the briefing room” Lisa and Agent Zero looked at each other first, frowned then turned away from each other... neither of them were exactly thrilled to work with the other “Fuck off.” The agents said to one other in unison.
Chapter 7
Operation Exterminate (Part 1)
“You mean to tell us that Jayce’s entire neighborhood has become infected by the virus?!” Lisa knew this was not something to take lightly, it appeared that the virus had mutated and became much more aggressive; and Jayce‘s neighborhood was the first of many to be affected by the newly mutated virus. With that being said, everyone could understand why Lisa felt so uneasy “Haven’t you run tests on the Luna girl? What were the results?!” Dr Maxwell demanded; Dr Madden paused for a moment before he exhaled and shook his head “The results were... inconclusive I’m afraid, sorry but her body received a great amount of damage after the fight with Jayce and Lisa. Thanks a lot by the way... anyway the parasite that had set up shop inside her body was pretty banged up when I cut her open.” Dr Maxwell paced back and forth frantically, as he cursed under his breath “Damnit why couldn’t we have captured her in France, we could have had the entire strategy constructed... leave it to the fucking Americans to ruin everything!” Agent Zero didn’t show much interest about what was going on.. in America at least “Enough, what about France and the rest of Europe? We must head back to protect our people as well” Ms Liza shook her head as she typed on her computer. “Don’t be ridiculous, until Jayce wakes up you and Lisa are going to defend that neighborhood.. sorry, but I need you here Lucas. If this virus mutates again I want to contain it.” on Ms Liza’s screen were thousands of codes highlighted in green; every code represented a specific person on earth, the Vanguard refers to these individuals as the Sleeper Agents, but more casually known as the Vanguard’s Iron Division, thousands of people across the world who were secretly trained through the nanospace, but won’t remember the training until they are activated, Although hundreds of thousands were given nanochips; the device only worked at half it’s overall capabilities.
These temporary Agents were to only be activated for grave situations, and Ms Liza started to believe that it was finally time to make the call “Do you really think we should activate the Agents of The Iron Division?” Maxwell appeared concerned about the sleeper Agents being activated prematurely, but she went on to say that she wants to see how things go before activating them, all she really had to do was type the password then press enter. “Get to the place of infection, and clear them... I’d rather you guys not kill them but if you have to so be it, just secure the area. I’ll have a team take back a body for further studies if I can; now get a move on.” Lisa and Lucas both nodded, as they closed their eyes... Lisa began to picture the neighborhood where Jayce was living. “Hold on to my shoulder, you’re not from here and I know you don’t know where you’re going” Lucas scoffed arrogantly as he put his hand on her then complained about cleaning up America’s mess. When they opened their eyes again they were on the roof of Jayce’s house; below them were streets filled with bodies, blood, and patches of flames that had spread to the buildings but were burning slowly “Oh my, it looks like a fucking riot happened here..” Lisa said as she shook her head. She gazed over at Lucas who was focusing on one of the bodies on the floor... wondering what could possibly have him distracted she thought she’d have a look as well. That’s when she saw something that made her stomach turn; one by one the seemingly lifeless bodies began to twitch violently.
Slowly, they started to rise to their feet even though they were confirmed to be dead not too long ago “Y-You gotta be kidding me!!” The bodies began to move in a twisted manor, their bones cracked with each step they took. Lisa couldn’t believe what she was seeing “They look like zombies don’t you think?” Lucas thought it was going to be quick and easy work, believing that taking care of the so called zombies would allow him to get back to France and take care of his people, so he didn’t think much of the creatures, suddenly his train of thought was disrupted when he saw the creature turn its head a full 360 degrees just to look at them. Lucas was utterly disgusted by the way it looked “Wretched creature, I’m sending you back to hell!” He yelled, then pointed at the creature. From his fingertip a small ball of water the size of a nail began to form “Hydro beam!” He shouted before shooting a thin but powerful stream of water from his finger. Lucas smirked as the water stream rushed toward his target “Just like I said this won’t..” in that instant the creature swatted the blast away with the back of its hand “No way!!” Lisa yelled as she watched the creatures growl at them. “Alright, lets go!” Lisa jumped down off the roof and into the crowd of infected, she performed a few flips before hitting one of the creatures head with the heel of her boot but to her surprise, the creature grabbed her by the throat and began to squeeze.
Lisa tightly gripped the creatures wrist in an effort to free herself; but creature raised her off the ground as it tightened its grip. She began to see stars so she kneed the creature in the stomach, ultimately releasing its grip. She rubbed her neck as she gasped for air while she gave the creature a death glare; “Jesus... not even a date first?” Lisa couldn’t see it but as she stared down the target in front of her she was unaware of the other creature lurking behind her “oh no you don’t!” Lucas yelled as he aimed his open palm to the creature... the creature moved slowly... silently, carefully observing any sudden movements that Lisa might make. “C’mon you know you want her... go for it..” Lucas waited until he knew the creature was about to strike “Snow Slide Splinter!!” He shouted before shooting a large icicle that pierced straight through the creatures chest. The creature screeched in agony before it fell to its knees “Freeze!!” Lucas muttered under his breathe as he watched the creature slowly and completely freeze over starting from the entry wound “Blow out!!” He shouted as he closed his palm abruptly; after that, the ice containing the creature began to crack until it finally shattered into thousands of pieces leaving nothing but ice shards.
“I can tell this is gonna be very aggravating” Lucas said in annoyance before he jumped down from the roof, stood back to back with Lisa, and watched as the creatures surrounded them “Well, I guess this is our last stand” Lucas said as his Iris’ began to glow light blue and covered his mouth with his scarf. Lisa held up both her fist ready for a fight to the death “Don’t be so gloomy... Just try to keep up... I’m gonna be highly upset if you die here on me” she said as her iris’ began to glow pink. There was a long pause, and both agents took utmost precaution about how they were going to carry out the battle.. sweat began to trickle down the side of Lisa’s face until it reached her chin; once the sweat dropped and splashed onto the ground, the creatures attacked and both agents jumped high into the air “Dragons breath!” Lisa screamed as she exhaled a wave of air that quickly ignited, engulfing a handful of the creatures in bright pink flames; Lucas also exhaled a wave of air but the air he exhaled rapidly changed into water. Once that water hit the ground the force of the impact formed a twenty foot long, and twenty-five foot wide tsunami that slammed into the crowd of creatures, sweeping them away in the waves along with a couple houses that were in the path the large wave travelled. “I know I talk shit about you but that was cool!” Lucas smirked as he descended back to the ground with Lisa following behind him “Don’t think you can go copy my shit and try to pass it off as your own .” Lisa rolled her eyes telling Lucas that she’s make the attack even better than his “Don’t be absurd nothing is better than the original” Lucas turned to Lisa with a “What the fuck?” Expression on his face
“Don’t look at me like that, we both know I’m right, maybe one day you’ll be as skilled as I am” Lucas pinched the bridge of his nose before he turned his back to her “Que Dieu me donne la force” Lisa tilted her head telling Lucas if he was going to talk shit at least say it in English “I’m not talking shit I’m just saying a prayer you imbecile” Lisa’s iris’ suddenly flashed pink so when she turned around she saw one of the creatures she had previously set ablaze standing before her. Saliva dripped from its mouth with brightly glowing white eyes, she gasped as she held out her hand to blast the creature... but she hesitated; for a brief second the creatures iris’ became more noticeable, the creature now had blue eyes just like a regular person and in that split second the creature uttered: “Please... k-kill me..” It was obvious that the creature was once human and now that human side of the creature was trying to fight back.. the creature wanted to lash out against her but the human half of the creature was holding it back; the creature would jerk at her but not much else. “Very well.. I’ll end your misery” she said gravely as she slashed the creatures throat horizontally, the creature dropped to its knees clutching its neck in an effort to stop the bright green liquid that was spilling from its neck wound “Did that thing just talk a second ago?” Lucas asked as he shot an icicle through the creatures head using his hand “Usually when someone says their gonna end someone’s misery it’s usually fast, this thing would’ve had a painful and very dragged out death.... by the way” Lisa rolled her eyes “You really like hearing yourself talk don’t ya?” she said as she slapped Lucas across his face “If you push me like you did before again I’ll fucking kill ya!”
Before Lucas could give a response he suddenly heard soft groaning coming from behind him. When he turned around he saw another herd of the creatures slowly walking toward him “I think it’s safe to say we might have to withdraw.. there’s way too many... they’re just gonna keep coming” Lisa scoffed as she too turned around to view the situation, she was thinking that Lucas was over exaggerating but when she saw for herself, she agreed with his suggestion. “We can request evac as we fight” she said as she unsheathed the dagger concealed in her trench coat “I imagine it’s gonna take a while for them to get here so we might as well kill some time.. think of it as training” Lisa said as she ran into the the crowd of creatures; bicycle kicking one of them into the sky then fired a fireball, which exploded when it came into contact with the creature. “Who’s next?” She said nonchalantly as she cracked her knuckles
Meanwhile at the lab, Jayce was still recovering in the rejuvenating tank while Ms Liza and Dr Madden watched the global news “There have been a series of reports about strange creatures walking around the cities, even though these creatures appear to be threats they only seem to respond to protect themselves, there have been multiple reports of death mostly by law enforcement and national guardsmen...” in the news report there was a video of a national guardsmen team shooting at the creatures with sniper rifles. Despite their best efforts the bullets fired didn’t kill any of the creatures; once the shots stopped the creatures spat out a strange black sludge. When the sludge came into contact with the snipers position on top of a building; hundreds of yards away, the sludge began to cover the building until it was reduced and eat away at it fairly quickly until the building was reduced to a lake of black sludge “Active duty military personnel have also been called in causing multiple countries to be in a state of emergency…” Ms Liza turned off the monitor as she buried her face within her palms. “This shit’s getting out of hand quickly.. how long until Jayce wakes up? Do you know?” Dr Madden shrugged saying he was unsure how long Jayce will stay out of commision. “Any word from Lisa and Lucas?” Dr Madden shook his head but reassured her that if they were in any kind of trouble they would’ve called.. “Are you gonna call it in or what?!” Lucas yelled as he was knocked to the ground by one of the creatures punches, “I’m trying to but the lines busy!!” Lisa shouted as she was kneed in the stomach then elbowed in the back, which knocked her to the floor.
Back at the lab one of the scientist that was in the room with Jayce was using the telephone to talk to his soon to be ex girlfriend... well, one of them at least “What do you mean you need space? Are you still mad about yesterday? I told you I don’t know a Rachel! I only have eyes for you girl!” It appeared that the scientist thought of himself as a ladies man.. but evidently had trouble keeping up with names; the scientist noticed a blinking red light on the telephone, a clear indicator someone was trying to make contact. He assumed it was one of his other girlfriends calling.. but he wouldn’t get to answer “What the hell do you think you’re doing?!” Ms. Liza shouted as she smacked the scientist upside his head “You do know that’s a recorded line right?” The scientist quickly hung up the phone before he was exposed “I was unaware ma’am, I apologize” he said rubbing the side of his head from the slap “Get the hell off the line! You’re lucky you hung up... with the conversations I’ve heard this month I could’ve ended your ties with that chick on the other line” minutes after the scientist hung the phone up another call came in, when the scientist pressed the speaker button at first there was only static, but soon a voice could be heard through it “This is Agent Ten of the sector Seven Vanguard Organization requesting immediate Evac to headquarters, I repeat immediate evac to headquarters, Coordinates Zero, Twenty, Alpha, Zulu...” the call suddenly ended “shit! the call ended before she gave the last coordinate.. can you trace the call?” The scientist nodded but said it might take ten to fifteen minutes because there was so much static interference “Fine! Just hurry up we need to get them out of there!” The scientist nodded as he quickly tapped away at his keyboard..
Back on the battlefield; Lisa and Luke found themselves back to back with one another yet again and completely surrounded by the creatures except there wasn’t a lot of room to work with. “No matter how many we take down more of them just keep coming!!” Lucas was feeling anger surge through him, he wasn’t exactly used to being overwhelmed on the battlefield. In a blind rage he quickly rushed into the crowd of creatures in front of him, But was quickly welcomed to a punch to the face which stunned him. Wasting no time the creature grabbed Lucas’ arm, yanking him forward into its knee so hard that it actually cracked a few bones in Lucas’ chest. He fell to his knees coughing up blood before he finally lost consciousness. Lisa was now alone “Great, I’m on my own now!!” Lisa cautiously took a few steps back as the creatures glared and clumsily walked toward at her
“Vanguard Headquarters Where the hell are you goddamnit!! Agent Zero is down, I repeat Agent Zero is down” again there was no answer, only static interface; Lisa was now feeling desperate. There were dozens of the creatures slowly closing in on her, Lucas unconscious and unable to help in any way; she new her decisions at this point may be her last... so she chose to fight, she smirked to herself as she slowly unsheathed her dagger... holding it tightly “here I go!” She yelled as she charged into the crowd; stabbing one of the creatures in the stomach, then dragged the blade up splitting the creature in half before setting the creature on fire with her palm, “Next!” She said as she ducked to avoid the punch one of the creatures was going to throw at her. She could see the creatures arm above her head so she grabbed its wrist, spinning the creature around then threw it into the crowd in front of her and threw a fireball that exploded; not long after she threw the fireball, she heard footsteps behind her approaching quickly. She inhaled deeply before saying: “You guys are starting to get on my nerves!” Lisa’s body slowly began to break apart into pink flames which made the creatures stop in their tracks. When the creatures looked up they could see Lisa with Lucas thrown over he shoulder, and thick black smoke pouring out of her mouth; the smoke began to spread over the ground eventually covering the creatures feet.
Finally she bit down on the smoke; this caused the smoke to turn pink and glow until finally it exploded in a bright pink light ultimately clearing out the creatures. “Well that takes care of that, guess we don’t need evac after all” as Lisa descended back to the ground she noticed that there wasn’t much left of the crowd of monsters. But some of them managed to live, there were a number of them who were struggling just to crawl toward them “My god look at you ugly bastards despite the flesh wounds you still continue to attack” she rudely dropped Lucas’ body to the ground before she made her way to one of the creatures “You’re not a threat when you don’t have legs to stand on” Lisa held out her open palm; smirking as she watched the creatures face light up from the brightness of the flame. “Away with you!” She shouted but before she could shoot, the creature spat out a thick black sludge that covered her palm forcing the fireball to vanish “What the?” She jerked foreword as she felt the next sludge ball latch onto her back, the next one was spat on her leg, the one after that was her other leg which made her fall on her back. She could feel her muscles start to tighten in each spot the sludge balls latched itself onto; even though the creatures couldn’t walk, they still had tricks up their sleeves.
Soon she was unable to move at all “What is this stuff?! I can’t move!” Lisa panicked as she watched the sludge begin to spread all over and her body become numb. “Fucking brilliant when I’m just about to wrap things up these things show me they have a trick up their sleeves” Lisa said weakly as she looked into the skies.. hoping to see the helicopter.. but to her dismay the helicopter never came for their rescue... “Jayce, I leave the rest to you..” she whispered to herself before her enemy wrapped its hands around her neck. Lisa was completely immobilized, she tried to resist as much as she could; she thrashed her body about, she shook her head wildly to try and loosen the creatures grip but it was no use, the creature just squeezed tighter. She struggled to breathe, her face was turning purple, blood started to come out from the side of her mouth, she knew she was going to die because she could feel her heart beat slower and slower. Lisa blinked once, watching her vision turn black then blinked again when she saw the creature start to scream as a bright white light shot out from its eyes and mouth, the creature quickly released it’s grip as it cried out in agony until it finally froze up in a block of ice then shattered completely. Lisa watched the small ice fragments rain down on her, she sat up slowly, feeling the oxygen surge into her lungs “Sorry to keep you waiting” Lucas said as he wrapped his scarf around his mouth once again “I’ll finish up here, feel free to take a breather” Just then Lucas’ iris’ flashed light blue “Somethings coming” He quickly turned around and held out his hands but it was too late; Lucas grunted as the punch sent him into the side of a nearby car; to Lisa, everything was happening in slow motion up until the assailant struck Lucas. Lisa’s eyes widened as she got a better look at their attacker “her of all people...” her eyes were white, her veins could visibly be seen from the outside of her skin, her entire right arm was covered in a thick black sludge, similar to what Lisa was covered in and instead of fingers she had claws.
“I’ve seen pictures but I don’t remember you having one arm a totally different color” Lisa grunted as she continued to try and free herself from the bind. “Slick remarks won’t get you anywhere human” Audrey’s voice was a combination of hers along with someone or something else. Lisa’s eyes widened, she knew she wasn’t like the rest of them but she didn’t expect Audrey to be able to talk in that state actually able to talk “Well, you aren’t like the rest of these foul creatures but why?” Lucas said as he walked back to them, cracking his knuckles “Who cares! Why would I introduce myself, you’re not going to live long enough to hear it!” the temperature around them suddenly began to drop quickly, dry ice was slowly began to shroud his body “So I know what to put on your headstone..” Lucas chuckled once the dry ice completely shrouded his body, Audrey rolled her closed her eyes before throwing her head backwards, which was exactly where Lucas appeared again; with no time to counter the back of Audrey’s head slammed into Lucas’ face which bloodied his nose.
Lucas stepped back as he cradled his face and covered his nose but there was too much blood leaking from it. Next he felt a sharp pain in his stomach followed by two punches to his chest and a kick to the head so hard it made him stumble backwards “Not even worth studying” she shook her head before kicking Lucas in his chest hard enough his feet slid backward “I’m done with you!!” Audrey smirked as she sent streams of red electricity from her blackened arm. Lucas stumbled foreword before seeing the electricity completely cover his field of vision; his eyes widened as his face lit up from the electricity’s illumination. Lucas’ life flashed before his eyes as the electricity got closer to him, he knew if he took her attack head on his odds of survival were slim; both he and Lisa had due to the level of attacks they’ve used.. before the electricity got to him a shadowy figure descended from the sky to the ground right in front of him, the key detail of the figure was that the person wore a dark red trench coat which was a dead giveaway of the figure’s identity. “Firewall!” Jayce shouted as he raised his palm; in that moment a wall of fire quickly shot out from the ground to shield them from the electricity; Suddenly a bright light began to emit behind Audrey. She turned her head slightly only to see Lisa walking out of the light. She was now free from the sludge, she smirked as the light subsided “Let Audrey go” Jayce demanded as he walked out of the fire. Audrey focused her attention back to Jayce telling him not to worry about his wife “Relax your wife’s in here.. With me!!” suddenly her eyes returned to normal and so did her skin “Jayce help me!!” she screamed, before her mouth was covered and her eyes turned back to white. “Sorry, about that she’s quite a fighter” she said laughing “I tried to take control of your kids too but as you can imagine their little bodies can’t handle the virus very well... You’re smart, I’m sure you can fill in the rest” Jayce felt his heart drop to his stomach, the thought of losing his family for the second time was almost too much to bare... almost. Jayce held his head down in anger, as he clenched his fists tightly; steam began to steadily emmett from his body “You’re gonna pay!!” He shouted then ran at her throwing a fist, but she successfully blocked his fist with the front of her forearm. “Too slow” she said with a twisted grin on her face as she threw a kick to the side of Jayce’s head.
It was almost too fast to see but luckily Jayce’s reflexes were reliable so he managed to block the blow with his wrist; but he felt the sting of her kick make his entire hand numb, but he couldn’t let Audrey know that. “You humans really put up more of a fight than we thought, unfortunately for you I love a good fight; so try not to bore me, or this will be over quickly” she said kicking Jayce in the chest and jumping back to gain some distance but as she was jumping, Jayce chased after her from the ground, jumped a few feet in the air before finally kicking her in the ribs. Audrey spat before she grabbed onto Jayce’s ankle; next she started to spin Jayce around before finally throwing him back to the ground “I’m not done!” He shouted as he landed on his hands and feet, Jayces iris’ glowed as he took off like a rocket, shooting flames from his feet to launch himself at Audrey, who was still midair; Lisa took off after her too but she got to her just as Jayce was thrown “Over here!” Audrey quickly turned around to block the attack but it was too late. Audrey threw a punch but Lisa pushed it away as she placed her palm on Audrey’s chest blasting her with a ball of fire “Lucas!” In that instant Lucas jumped into the air above Audrey. He clasped his hands together and smacked Audrey over her head. As she plummeted to the ground She could see Jayce coming at her from the corner of her eye so she waited till he got closer “Go to hell!!” Jayce shouted as he threw an elbow toward her face. Suddenly she smirked as she spun around; doing that, caused Jayce to miss her by the hairs so she wrapped her arms around his waist, and dove straight to the ground headfirst.
Jayce thrashed his body about trying to free himself from Audrey’s grip but it was no use. Once she realized she was close to the ground she released her grip. To avoid any backlash from the attack she used her hands to backflip a couple feet and once she planted her feet she formed a fist and punched the air twice. The first punch caused the air to ripple, next the air began to swirl; the second punch fired a pocket of air at Jayce but was blocked by Lucas’ Ice wall “Lets shut her up for a good she’s starting to get on my nerves” Jayce shook his head “Simmer down, we take her down, not out, did you forget that we’re supposed to take them alive anyway?” Audrey tilted her head slightly at Jayce’s remark stating that there was no way to cure the people that have been infected “Based on your planets technological status I’m afraid you fools have no chance of reversing the effect of the virus since it combines with the hosts DNA, and I’m pretty sure humans can’t split DNA on a molecular level.” Her eyes glowed white for an instant “enough talk, let’s end this!!” Audrey raised her hand vertically to the sky, dark gray clouds began to form and cover the night sky, thunder began to rumble in the skies above until she abruptly dropped her arm halfway; “Heavens wrath!” She screamed as a series of lightning bolts began to rain down from the sky, the team of three tried to dodge the lighting bolts as they came crashing down on them but Audrey was just as fast as the lightning she used, she moved swiftly, so quick in fact that she was able to land several hits on them as they were dodging the lightning.
“She’s so fast.. did she even move?!” Lisa rubbed the side of her arm and saw a bruise “Yeah she definitely moved Jayce, this bruise on my arm felt like a kick” Lisa said as she got to her feet, clutching her shoulder. Lucas cradled his head as he got up from the ground, complaining that it felt like he just had surgery done on his head; Jayce struggled to get back to his feet, his coat and shirt were singed so he ripped them off “I don’t care what you say, after we take you down, I’ll find that cure for Audrey and my kids!” Jayce turned sideways then pointed at Audrey with determination in his now glowing eyes “prepare to be captured!”
Ms Liza and Dr Madden watched the fight from the monitor in front of them. “I wasn’t expecting this level of power when we sent Jayce to their aide. We have to get them out of there, fast! She’s too strong!” Ms Liza said as she logged onto her computer. “I wanted to save this for the day of the invasion but it looks like we’ll have to play our next hand early those things are getting out of hand” Dr Madden watched as she typed her code, then pressed enter. The next thing the computer displayed was a grid of the entire planet, one by one small red dots appeared all over the grid and began blinking; soon the red dots would cover over sixty percent. The Sleeper Agents had been activated but Ms Liza couldn’t help but think that she activated them a little too soon, “I think it’s safe to say we should fall back we’re obviously outmatched” As much as Jayce hated the fact of retreating he knew Lucas might be right.. but they all knew that Audrey wouldn’t let them go so easily. “Sorry but mercy is out of the question.. because I’m going to crush all three of you here and now!!” As Audrey charged toward them dozens of thoughts filled Jayce’s mind. The clock was ticking on their lives, she was going to kill them without a second thought; even though Jayce didn’t want to harm the woman he loved, the woman that birthed his children, possessed or not she was still the woman he fell in love with all those years ago…
But Jayce knew he couldn’t let her kill Lisa and Lucas.. all they really had to do was incapacitate her.. but it was easier said than done. Once Jayce took a step foreword he stopped when he felt a serious gust of wind blow pass him. Suddenly Audrey was sent flying into the air, a figure sporting a white trench coat was now standing where she once was, the man in question took out a silver flask from his coat pocket and took a huge swig as he turned to Jayce “Long time no see... Winters.” Jayce eyes widened once he got a good look at the mans face to his disbelief it was none other than his old partner Gage looking at him. After that, Audrey was smacked back down to the ground, by a woman in a white trench coat hovering in the air where Audrey was before she was hit. Next, another womanly figure fell from the sky above her; she was diving straight down at Audrey with a sword in her hand; but she quickly sheathed it, as she flipped before she punched Audrey; sparks began to fly everywhere until a bright white light illuminated the streets. The four individuals in front of them all had vanguard patches on their right shoulder. Audrey spat out blood as she tried to crawl away, she was severely injured from the series of attacks “W-what’s wrong with this body... I can’t move... this.. this can’t be... who are these people...” Audrey suddenly gasped as she heard the hammer cock back from a handgun “You’re death” the fourth man said before he pulled the trigger.
Chapter 8
Crowd Control
Audrey found herself laying in a field of tall white grass, she opened her eyes to see green flower petals fall from the cloudy skies above her. Slowly she sat up, feeling a little groggy with a massive headache.. her mind was a haze as to what happened before she woke up. She looked at her hands, wondering if she was even alive.. for a split second she thought she may be in heaven somewhere. “There’s no time for shock Mrs Winters” the voice called out, but Audrey couldn’t tell where it was coming from “Who are you... are you god?” Audrey slowly got to her feet as she looked around looking for the source of the voice “What? No, of course not... you’re not dead you idiot.. but look that’s not important, your memories will come back once you wake up again, everyone is waiting for you” Audrey noticed that everything around her started to dematerialize as the voice was speaking to her “You can both thank me later” Audrey’s eyes began to feel heavy, along with her body. Her vision got darker and darker until she finally lost consciousness.
“Just who the hell are you? I don’t remember calling for backup!!” Jayce was furious, he was in the mans face with a rage that burned like an inferno toward the man who just shot his wife at point blank range. “Well first off my name is Johnny, second of all why are you pointing the sword at me for saving your lives? if anything you should be thanking us you son of a bitch!” The man said pointing his gun angrily at Jayce “You idiot!! That’s the point I’m trynna make to you! I already had plans for her!” The man rolled his eyes; he couldn’t understand why Jayce was being so unreasonable “This woman tried to kill all three of you, you’re lucky we stepped in when we did otherwise, your asses would be going back in a hearse right now!!” Jayce pinched the bridge of his nose “You’re missing the point; My bad, I failed to mention that you just shot my fucking wife you clown!!” Even though deep down Jayce knew that she wasn’t his wife anymore it was the fact of him losing her forever that didn’t sit well with him. It wasn’t long before he and the man were face to face with one another and damn near about fight. Both Lisa and Lucas tried to hold Jayce back to calm him down but due to his level of anger he actually burned their hands unintentionally when they touched him.. needless to say his body temperature matched the rage he felt toward the man. “Should we do something?” the woman with the sword asked as she reached for her sword’s handle on her hip. Gage shook his head as he folded his arms “Don’t be stupid you know how Jayce is when he gets mad.. besides I actually want to watch this unfold; it’s like the second string guy on the roster versus the starter.” Jayce turned his head toward Gage and the other woman with a death glare “What? Don’t look at us, We didn’t shoot her” The woman smiled at Jayce hoping he’d recognize her “Not in the mood Mendez!” Lisa and Lucas turned to each other with raised eyebrows; the obvious question to them was: how did Jayce already know two of the four individuals in front of them “You guys must be the sleeper agents... how is it that you know Jayce?” Lisa asked as she squinted at the pair “Well, before you guys stole him, the three of us used to work together” Mendez started “Before I left the FBI these two were my partners, I’ve worked on numerous cases with them... solved a lot of crimes.. I felt bad for just leaving without saying goodbye.. but I’m glad we get to be a team again” the man with the gun mumbled under his breath as he holstered his pistol “Are you guys done with the introductions? We didn’t come here to play catch up” Lisa glared at the man with gun as she folded her arms “Alright fire crotch so why the fuck did you come here?”
Suddenly Audrey’s body began to glow green, the light was so bright everyone froze. She slowly sat up toward them ; they all watched as the bullet that entered her skull slowly began to seep out of her forehead and fall onto the floor followed by the wound closing, repairing itself as if it nothing happened. The light started to fade as her eyes slowly opened; she looked around seeing them all staring at her like they had just seen a ghost “The fuck are y’all lookin at?” Audrey was always grumpy when she woke up. Remembering that little detail about her was enough for Jayce to get teary eyed; he lightly brushed passed the man with the gun, hugging his wife tightly, and showering her with kisses “Oh my god you’re okay!! I can’t believe it!!” Audrey smiled as she chuckled and hugged Jayce back “Not so tight hun I still feel really sore” Jayce cried tears of joy just hearing her voice again. The man once again pulled out his gun as he walked over to them but Mendez grabbed him by his shoulder to stop him, he turned his head slightly just so that he could see her from the corner of his eyes “I wouldn’t do that if I were you, if you pull that trigger again I’m not responsible for what happens after” the man scoffed; jerking his arm forward and placing his gun back in its holster “Looks like someone’s true powers have finally surfaced, but at least she’s on our side now.. I hope” the woman with the staff said as she leaned against a wall. She had long black hair down to her mid back with light blue eyes, olive skin and a slight accent that made her sound like she was from England, “Well, considering the fact she’s not attacking I think it’s safe to say she’s not on the same shit she was on a couple minutes a go” Gage said as he took another swig from his flask.
Jayce wanted to ask Audrey what exactly happened earlier in the night... but there was one thing she had to ask first “Yes well, before we get into that” Audrey suddenly sprang up to her feet with her arms folded “So where were you tonight before all this went on? I also saw a bowl in the sink before I blacked out, the twins know better and I know your ass doesn’t like cereal so who’d you have in my house Jayce?” Audrey asked suspiciously. Lisa slowly turned away from them and started snickering and Lucas damn near fell over. “After everything that’s just happened she’s worried about another female in her house?” Mendez muttered as she tilted her head in confusion “And whats with the new faces? I don’t recall seeing them before.” Jayce understood why Audrey had so many questions; Hell, if the roles were switched he’d have the same reaction “That hyena over there who won’t stop cackling was in the house eating our stuff.... I told her to wash out the bowl”
A few feet away Lisa raised her voice telling Audrey that Jayce said nothing of the sort “You’re not helping!” Jayce said in annoyance. Audrey impatiently tapped her foot “I don’t care why was another non family female in my house? You’re not working so what’s going on?” Jayce and the others knew they weren’t supposed to disclose their involvement with the Vanguard under any circumstances, It was a strict rule that was heavily enforced for the agents safety “I can’t really tell you Audrey it’s to protect...” Jayce stopped mid sentence when he began to hear the sound of helicopter blades whirring overhead “Someone request evac?” The pilot said shortly after he landed. Lisa folded her arms stating that the pilot was late and that they could’ve died if they weren’t so experienced “Well its a good thing you guys are such great agents we should be so proud” the pilot said sarcastically. Both Lisa and the pilot knew each other outside of The Vanguard but why they dislike each other so much was a mystery. Lisa cracked her knuckles as she walked toward the pilot “What’s that? I didn’t quite hear you” Lucas pinched his nose as he watched the conflict “Americans” he muttered. “Oy!” Ms Liza shouted as she stepped out the helicopter, only to smack the pilot upside his head “I didn’t bring you down here to flirt with Lisa you know! we’ve got bigger problems in case you haven’t noticed!” Audrey recognized the voice immediately “That voice, her voice! She’s the one I heard in my dream! She told me to tell you that she sent me!” The team of four agents whispered among themselves. Ms Liza turned to Audrey and smiled “oh yeah, forgot about you.. well there’s certainly in need of some form of introduction but I’m afraid that’s gonna have to wait... for now at least.. I am only here to sync the five of you with your nanochips.. since I have you all in one spot” Jayce scratched his head in confusion “wait wait you said five who else do you mean?”
Ms Liza rolled her eyes as she pinched her nose “I’m sorry didn’t your wife just literally come back to life? Obviously she must be an agent” Audrey cleared her throat loudly before saying “I’m sorry but, are you guys gonna tell me who you all are because I’m completely lost” Audrey said as she sat down on the hood of a car. Ms Liza looked at her watch then sighed “Okay, my name is Liza... first name Ms, I am currently the leader of an organization called the Vanguard.. we’re the freaks that keep our solar system safe from the other freaks.. you see the Vanguard has been around for hundreds of years.. there’s a lot of things that go on in the universe that you may or may not know about, in fact there’s a lot of mysteries here on earth that are easily explained by extra terrestrial intervention... I’m pretty sure you’ve all heard of that bizarre body of water that keeps taking things? What’s it called uhhh” she snaps her fingers as she tries to remember the name “Bermuda Triangle..” Mendez said softly “that’s what I said... anyways believe it or not the Bermuda is just a portal to an unknown universe, then to a technically advanced world light years ahead of ours, it goes without saying that going there and trying to retrieve everything that was taken would be suicide... but it is on our list of things to do” Ms Liza stated sternly “But enough about that we don’t have time for you to learn the entire history.. let’s focus on the task at hand yes?” All agents nodded in acknowledgment “Now then, the sync process will activate your abilities locked away in the nanochip... it’s a very standard thing it’s not gonna hurt.. well.. maybe a little” she said as she produced a smart phone from her pocket.
Ms Liza held the camera facing them; the camera began to glow blue then flashed five times before a 3D scanner shot out of the camera “Commence Scan” she muttered as she watched the scanner turn multiple colors as it scanned those who needed to be. “Just so you five are aware Audrey is your team leader” hearing that she wouldn’t be the one in charge, Mendez pouted because she felt she was more qualified... in her own way “Scan complete.. now rebooting... standby” Ms Liza put the phone back into her pocket and stepped away from the five of them “Hey you three, you guys might want to stand back!” She said as she sat in the helicopter “I don’t know what for it’s not like-“ suddenly the five Iron Division members began to radiate bright colors: Gage’s eyes began to glow white. He smiled as his eyes began to fade leaving his eyes completely white, he could feel a surge of intense power coursing throughout his entire body; directly above him storm clouds started to form. First came the thunder, Mendez looked at her palms in awe she could see electricity circling her body; next she raised her blade to the skies and grinned as lighting came down from the clouds, striking her blade, and the ground around her. Ms Liza watched and smiled as everything was unfolding “Here we go.” She said to herself as she watched Danielle, the woman with the staff. Her body began to glow a bright yellow, “This is gonna be fun!” Next, Johnny’s powers began surface. Pebbles and other small rocks began to float around him, one after another bigger rocks began to cover his body until he was completely concealed. After about ten seconds the rocks began to crack until they finally broke into millions of pieces, his eyes glowed a light brown as he cracked his knuckles “Okay I’m ready!” Finally, Audrey’s body began to shine a brilliant green; her complexion suddenly changed making her look a lot younger, in addition to that; her hair became as white as snow.
Audrey looked at her arm, she was astonished when she saw her scratch heal itself in seconds before her eyes “Is that all I can do? heal myself?” Audrey was a little disappointed that she didn’t have a power suited for fighting. Ms Liza flared her nostrils then threw a rock at her , Audrey quickly brought her hands up to block the rock.. she expected to feel contact from it but she didn’t... when she opened her eyes there was a green shield of energy protecting her “That is so cool!!” To Jayce, Audrey had hit a gold mine with her power. “Audrey, Gage, Johnny, Mendez and Danielle are gonna be known as team four. There are a total of one hundred and six teams in The Vanguards Iron Division... for those of you who didn’t know. And you don’t just heal yourself as you can clearly see.. it’s just a sub power. Your primary power is magic.... stupid, now then” Ms Liza turned her back to the agents “Your next assignment is over there” the agents looked slightly passed Ms. Liza to see hordes of creatures running toward them in the distance; their glowing white eyes were a dead giveaway “Now that everyone has their power unlocked let’s see what you can do. It looks like there’s about.. thirty five of them so you all get five to test out your new powers. In the mean time, Agent Nine will be getting the helicopter ready... everything should be up and running by the time you’re done.” Gage watched as the creatures got closer to their position, “You don’t have to tell me twice” Gage took a big gulp from his flask and charged toward the group of creatures head on “Let’s do this... for them!” Jayce could see it in her eyes, Audrey had changed a little; her will was strong and absolute! All she cared about was she delivering her own form of justice over the loss of their children. Jayce took her hand and held it tightly “let’s do it!” Lucas shook his head as he watched the couple... maybe he was jealous.. or maybe he believed affection had no place on the battlefield; whatever the case Lisa just laughed “I’m sure you’re heart isn’t as cold as the ice you create.” Lucas turned his head slightly to look at her for a second before he turned his attention to the creatures and simply said: “Wrong, it’s actually much colder” Lucas closed his eyes as he walked toward the crowd of creatures; focused only on how he could take out the vile creatures that dared to approach him.
“My god, look at you ugly bastards I bet you all can’t wait for me to put you out your misery” Gage said in disgust at the small group of creatures surrounding him. He smirked as the first creature came to attack, Gage grabbed the creature by the hand and squeezed causing the creatures head to explode. The creatures became increasingly angry, so angry that they blindly lashed out at him, the next creature that attacked tried to spit black sludge at him but Gage blew it back in its face “That won’t work on me” he said as he charged at the creature and punched it in the stomach. The creature fell to its knees trying to gasp for air but its airways were obstructed by the sludge; so the creature ultimately suffocated to death “poor thing” he said sarcastically as the creature laid motionless on its stomach. Next, Gage lightly flicked the third creature on on its forehead causing it to go flying hundreds of yards away; “Bring it!” Gage said confidently as the fourth creature ran toward him. Gage waited until the creature threw a fist, and when it did he slightly tilted his head; allowing the creatures fist to pass by him “Hands off!” Gage yelled before poking the creatures bicep with his finger; the creatures entire left arm began to glow white “You can attack me all you want but it’s going to cost you each time, for that pathetic attack I’ll be taking your arm!” He widened his eyes slightly as the light began to glow brighter until the creatures arm began to swell massively until it finally ruptured “I’m done with you” Gage pulled his arm back and pushed his open palm out to the creature. Gage was able to manipulate the air into sharp winds that completely tore the creature apart until there was nothing but flesh and bone remaining. While his back was turned, the fifth creature went in to bite him but Gage saw this coming so he placed his hand over the creatures mouth; its eyes widened, as it tried to free itself “Tell me how death tastes!!!” Gage shouted before he filled the creatures body with air until its entire body blew open “That’s a bad case of air sickness” Gage said jokingly.
A couple feet to his right a creature was making its way toward gage but made an abrupt stop and just stared at him “Don’t look at me like that it ain’t like they didn’t have it coming” the creature remained motionless, not even a snarl or shred of anger “What’s wrong? you scared?” before Gage could take further action the creature slowly began to split in half. “She said five, don’t get greedy” Mendez said as she stepped in between the creatures split body. After she flipped her hair and walked away, lightning came crashing down striking the creature reducing the rest of its body to ashes “Show off” Johnny muttered. Mendez walked up to the next group of creatures she saw; slowly she unsheathing and ran to the creatures before she leaped into the air, both hands on her sword as she cut the first creature in half “Taste my blade, vile creature!” Next, she kicked another creature in the stomach then cut its head from its shoulders; after that, she sprinted toward the other two creatures, throwing her sword in the air before she inhaled deeply then exhaled below her allowing the air to carry her about 10 feet into the air. As she fell she began to spin around very quickly; gusts of wind began to shroud her body as she twirled before finally taking the shape of a tornado that pulled the creatures into the storm. After a while the tornado stopped, Karen stood on the ground once again with her hair a bit frizzy; she twirled her sword as limbs began falling from the sky above her “Easy work” as Mendez fixed her hair she suddenly saw what was left of the creatures become frozen in ice. At first she was confused but then she saw Lucas walk right passed her. His hands in his pockets, and his eyes glowing light blue. Once he walked passed the remains, the creatures limbs began to crack then shatter into millions of pieces. Mendez’ face became flushed watching Lucas walk pass her “he’s so cool” she whispered
Lucas had paid little attention to the creatures in front of him. The creature tried to strike Lucas but all he did was turn his body to mist and pass through the creature. Slowly the creatures body became covered in ice then shattered like glass “vous les abominations à Dieu ne valent pas mon temps!!” He yelled folding his arms. Suddenly large spikes of ice came out the ground impaling the other four creatures, thus killing them instantly. As he opened his eyes he caught a glimpse of Lisa running pass him. She was swift, quick, and deadly as she jumped from a wall; kicking one of the creatures in the neck which ultimately snapped it. As the next creature tried to attack while she had her back turned she hit it with the back of her fist sending it into a building destroying the building along with killing the creature. Next, she unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks on the next creature before pausing for a brief moment to watch the monster collapse. Just then she kicked the next creature into the air then jumped after it, as she rose above it’s body she twirled her body kicking the monster back to the ground with overwhelming force; but she wasn’t done yet, as she free fell back to the ground the creature stood up in a daze “sorry about this” she said sarcastically before dropping the heel of her boot on the creatures head, crushing its skull completely. Finally she grabbed the last monster by the collar of the shirt it had “I’m sending you to hell!” with a mighty yell she lifted the creature over her head then slammed the creatures head into the ground before killing it with the fire power she mimicked from Jayce. She smiled as she pushed her hair behind her ears “Maybe I overdid it a little”
Suddenly, the ground started to shake below her; Lisa wasn’t worried she knew what was about to happen so she jumped away; in that instant Johnny exploded out the ground with his arms out wide “Hey, check this out!!” he said excitedly as he stomped his foot on the ground, forcing the ground split open causing them all to fall in “I wonder if I can split a planet in half like that” Danielle placed her hand on Johnny’s shoulder asking him nicely not to try what he was thinking of doing; “I’ll beat them in three seconds” Johnny quickly turned around but saw she was already gone.
Danielle slowly walked toward the five creatures in front of her. She was calm, she was collected, and she was confident. She knew what her power was and she couldn’t wait to use it; she welcomed the creatures to attack her so she waved her finger out at them then toward herself. She smiled as two of the creatures ran toward her, next she closed her eyes and focused “halt” she said plainly. When she opened her eyes a blinding yellow light filled the air, everything began to turn black and white; the creatures speed began to reduce until they stopped mid sprint completely. Nobody around her could move, not even her teammates, she checked her wrist watch, and noticed that the clock had stopped “The power to stop time” she said happily as she looked up at the two creatures in front of her. She scoffed as she grabbed her bo staff from her back and walked behind the two, she smacked the first creature on the back of its neck as hard as she could. The next creature she walked around in circles stopping only to punch the creature as she went around its body. She punched the creature in the side of its temple, the center of its face, elbowed the creature in the throat and finally smacked the other side of its temple with the back of her fist “half a second left” she turned her attention to the last three “Time begins again!!!” She yelled as she darted to the right of the creatures and launched her staff at their heads. As the staff traveled time began to move once again but it was too late, the creatures were impaled all at once with the staff and killed instantly. The creature she hit on the neck with the staff was decapitated the instant time started again but not before the other creatures body suddenly ruptured “looks like you’re... out of time.”
Finally came Jayce and Audrey, she used her magic to create a small platform that flew us through the air; “I’ll end this in one shot” Jayce said throwing a fireball. At first it was the size of a golf ball but in seconds the blast expanded to about the size of a large truck. Audrey used her power to amplify the strength of the attack by throwing small green fireballs that circulated around Jayce’s “let’s see.... what she should we call it?” the fireball now resembled the appearance of an atom, remaining ten creatures looked to the sky and tried to extinguish the flames with their black sludge but it was no use. The flames were too hot and too big. Their attack proved to be useless; as the flames got closer their clothes and skin began to singe and burn away. The creatures shouted in agony as the dropped to the floor from the immense heat fireball came in contact with the ground and exploded with great magnitude ultimately leaving a massive crater in the aftermath of the blast. “Hmmm I’m not sure how I feel about naming them.. we’re not comic book hero’s” Jayce just rolled his eyes and laughed telling Audrey that she’d come around Ms Liza clapped to herself as she watched the dust clear “now that’s what I call crowd control!! an exceptional display of power. I didn’t think they’d get the hang of their new powers so quick.” Ms Liza said as she looked to the sky passed the stars ”Well they’ve certainly surprised me, they cleared them out pretty quick now let’s get the fuck outta here before more of those things show up” the pilot added as he scurried back to cockpit to perform the final checks before takeoff. As if the aliens could hear her voice from earth; she folded her arms and said: “Come and get us.”
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Chapter 9
The Vanguard Vs That Zola Squad
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Deep in the vacuum of space the invaders began their preparation for the invasion of planet Earth. The ship's crew members armed themselves with weapons ranging from laser rifles to melee weapons similar to the shape of swords but were equipped with electrical wires, along with a shield. The soldiers had a resemblance close to gorillas; their fur was jet black; their eyes were glowing white, and their teeth were sharper than razor wire. When the ship's captain entered the room; all personnel stopped what they were doing and stood still, All being very careful not to even glance at her face.
On that ship it was a speak when spoken to rule that everyone respected; the captain wore a full body suit of black armor, she was slim, about five feet and eight inches tall, with black hair down to her back; her skin was dark pink, and her eyes were white and reptile like “Attention all crew members, prepare to fire at the incoming comet obstructing our path, brace yourselves” the pilot prepared the canons telling his crew to standby. Just before he gave the order the captain entered the room “How long until we arrive on earth?” She asked as she strutted to the doors that led to the outside deck of the ship “uhh five months Captain” the crew lowered the canons as they watched her step outside. Her armor quickly extended to cover her face from the harsh conditions of outer space. She stopped about halfway from the edge of the ship as she studied the asteroid obstructing their path.
The captain raised her left arm, extending it completely out toward the asteroid; next she extended her right arm but pulled it back to her chest. With a stance similar to an archer she lifted her index finger and pointed it out toward the asteroid, she closed one of her eyes as she aimed her finger toward the center of the asteroids mass “Light arrow..” a concentration of red light began to buildup at her finger tip. The concentration gleamed only for a second and was about the size of a grain of sand “Number two” suddenly a bow made of red energy appeared in her hands along with an arrow made completely of the same light energy; once she let go, the arrow bolted toward the asteroid before passing clean through it; “Destruction” the entry hole suddenly glowed red before the asteroid exploded into a brilliant red light, breaking the asteroid into millions of small pieces and scattered throughout space. “Let’s not waste our time on rocks, I know the earthlings may be weak but I want to annihilate them as soon as we get there. A species that cannot achieve peace without violence need to be wiped out” she said as she went back toward the door that led to the inside.
“Hm?” Before she entered the door she turned her head in earths direction... almost as if someone called out to her. She had a weird feeling about earth, but she couldn’t understand why, so when she went back inside she asked the ships intelligence officer how were earth’s defenses against their initial attack “Our initial attack ran into a force not calculated by the higher ups. I’m loading what was picked up by our solar imagery” she looked toward the table that was in the center of the room. The table displayed a holographic globe, and in that globe was a recording of Lisa and Lucas’ fight with the monsters, their fight with Audrey, and everything that happened afterwards “Impossible, how did they acquire these abilities I thought they were a species that didn’t have any special attributes” the officer shook his head saying that it was true that the humans didn’t have any special attributes but upon further study it was discovered that there was a device that gave them the powers the humans in question possessed “Not that it matters. I don’t care what they decide to invent to try and stop us, it won’t help! They’ll still be dead at my feet in the end” The officer agreed with the captains statement saying that their forces should be more than capable of winning “This should be entertaining… but for now.. let that Zola Squad have a go at them.” The pilot spoke into the microphone saying: “Attention Zola Squad personnel prepare to engage” without hesitation eight small pods ejected from the bottom of the ship and bolted forward toward earth. The captain headed back to her quarters with a big smile on her face “let’s see how they handle themselves this time”
Three months have passed, the situation with the creatures that came with the virus have taken out a quarter of the earth's population, but was now starting to be contained thanks to the Vanguards Iron Division. Some of the creatures had been taken in for research and experimenting by both civilian and Vanguard officials. However due to the fact The Vanguard had more advanced technology than the civilian officials, their findings were much more helpful “Several reports have been coming talking about the creatures and the fight against them, the following clip recorded by a man in Texas seems to have captured it all.” The reporter said excitedly as the clip began to play. The story was captured in Blythe California, where a police officer was just about to take his first shot at the creature when it grabbed him by the throat and began to strangle him, but something stopped the creature just in time before the officer was killed. The camera was only able to capture a black blur “As you can see when the blur comes in contact with the monster, it seemingly vanished before our very eyes. Now watch when slow motion is applied” when the slow motion was applied to the video the blur became clear, showing a young Hispanic male wearing a black trench coat; punching the creature in the face, which saved the officer. As the clip continued to play the young man waved to the camera before running toward the direction his punch sent the creature
“I thought the point of the Vanguard was to remain anonymous?” Jayce asked turning off the television “It was, but agents of The Iron Division seem to miss the point” Ms. Liza said pinching the bridge of her nose “but who could blame them? They literally just woke up two months ago with powers... but at least now we have part of this situation contained.. so I guess we can’t complain too much” she just sighed, as she leaned back in her office chair “but I have a feeling this is only the beginning” Jayce shook his head as he leaned on the wall behind her desk telling Ms. Liza that she was worrying too much “Maybe you should take a day off” Audrey said as she sat in the chair in front of Ms Liza’s desk; but she scoffed saying that she’d take a day off when they’ve won. Jayce and Audrey looked to one another and both shook their heads before Lisa walked in with a plate of steak and fries “Have you guys seen the news? It send those sleeper agents love the camera” Stated with a mouthful of food “Don’t talk with your mouth open.. it’s gross” Jayce unfolded his arms asking where Lisa got the steak and fries from; it didn’t look or smell homemade which was suspicious considering the fact Jayce bought her chili cheese fries twenty minutes before, because she told him she was broke and hungry “Where did you get that!!” Lisa just looked at him while she squinted her eyes as she ate the steak and fries slowly. Audrey just chuckled “Leave her alone Jayce let the girl eat. I remember I used to eat like that.. but I was pregnant though.” In that moment all three of them turned their attention to Lisa. Hearing the comment she almost choked on her food before downing a glass of her favorite soda. “Are you out of your mind?!” She yelled trying to catch her breath, the room suddenly roared with laughter; even Ms Liza broke her serious bravado.. which made everyone feel a little less worked up about the months to come... but the moment of peace wasn’t going to be long until their next challenge would appear. “By the way, Audrey, and Jayce I’m really sorry for what happened to your children, but I want you to know that their bodies were recovered and we’re working on reviving them... but I cannot promise you anything” despite the news Audrey couldn’t help but feel frustrated at the thought of not being able to help them in any way, despite her power to heal others because her power only worked on living people who were injured, and not the dead.
Back in Dr Madden's lab, the doctor was working on blueprints for a new device that would amplify the power of the nanochip. “So if I put the processor here instead of the left corner.. no that won’t work” he said crumpling the papers before throwing it into the overflowing trash bin filled with similar looking plans. “I can splice human DNA but I can’t stick to one design… I’m missing something, but I don’t know what it is” his frustration eventually got the better of him so he decided to take a break to get his head together, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong; but he couldn’t exactly figure out why... but in a matter of moments he’d find out why. Just before he walked out his lab an alert popped up on his computer that required his immediate attention “And what do we have here?” He said turning back to his computer. When he opened the file a blurry image captured by one of the vanguard’s satellites was displayed on the screen “What the hell?” Dr Madden typed vigorously in an attempt to enhance the image, once he finally did he could clearly see eight small black metallic pods. “Those things are big enough to at least hold one person inside” he knew that these pods could only have one destination and it wasn’t hard to figure out what that destination would be.
The following day, Ms Liza decided to give everyone a little break due to getting rid of most of the creatures that had overran most of the countries. However, everyone remained on high alert because of the meeting they all had with Dr Madden a couple hours ago, discussing the possibility of a second phase of the invasion. Gage spent his day in a remote wasteland somewhere in Colorado. The wasteland was filled with cliffs, large boulders, and Rocky Mountains. Even on his day off Gage continued trying to get use to his powers; he would use the air to split cliffs and other larger rocks just to test his limits. “Cliffs are fun and all but I wish I had one of those ugly ass monstrosities to test it on” little did Gage know was that he was about to get exactly what he wished for... a couple hours away from Gage was Denver, Colorado. The time was 5:00p.m. The city was still recovering from the creature attacks but it wasn’t affected as bad as its neighbouring cities. Citizens were still walking around the city with masks on their faces and armed themselves just in case there were more creatures left to get rid off. Two men sat on a curb outside a run down tavern with a beer in their hands and several other bottles scattered across the pavement. Phil was a white man, in his mid twenties with blonde hair and green eyes, Daryl was a black man in his early twenties with hazel eyes, a clean cut and a beard that connected to match his thick moustache. The two men were obviously heavily intoxicated but were in the midst of celebrating because they believed the alien invasion would no longer be a threat soon. “I haven’t seen any of those freaks in a while, maybe we got rid of them all, those aliens aren’t so tough, I bet they’ll think twice about coming here now!” Phil said energetically as he waved his fist in the air “You’re telling me? I bet they’ve probably turned around and took their scary asses back to their backwater planet!!” Daryl said triumphantly. Before the men could finish off their beer they suddenly dropped their bottles as they felt the earth below them shake violently “What the fuck was that?!” Daryl exclaimed before the two men scrambled to their feet “Probably one of those gremlins again... we should probably go check it out!” Daryl nodded as he pulled his pistol from his pants.
Just a couple hundred yards away from the two men was a crater; inside the crater was a black metallic pod with a tinted window. As Phil and Daryl made their way to the crash site the pod slowly began to open; the inside of the pod was filled with an ultraviolet red light with steam rising from the inside to the outside; a women wearing an all black light body suit of armor gripped the side of the pod as she emerged. She wore a metallic like mask with a single tinted lens that masked her eyes from their sight; she looked up to see two men looking down at her with guns pointed in her direction “Don’t you fucking move! I don’t know who or what you are but we’re gonna fill you up with lead unless you crawl back in that pod of yours and get the fuck outta here!!” Daryl shouted as he cocked his pistol. The woman chuckled softly to herself as she floated out of the crater. “Such poor hospitality! Is that how you earthlings welcome guests on this worthless rock?” She said after planting her feet on the ground less than five yards next to Phil and Daryl. She took note of the city around her and smiled “I’m gonna take my time reducing this entire planet to ashes.. certainly, that’ll draw them out” Phil pulled his assault rifles charging handle back then let it ride foreword, feeding a bullet into the chamber of his weapon. “As if you’ll get the chance!” Both men took aim at the woman then fired several rounds at her “How cute” she smirked as the bullets slowly came to a halt, inches away from her body “Is this your best?” The men were horrified beyond words, they were completely baffled at what had just transpired in front of them, they knew the invader wasn’t like the creatures they had encountered before; and they had only begun to witness the terror of her abilities “We gotta go! Now!!” Phil said as the two men turn and ran as fast as they could away from her “You can run but you can’t hide my little humans” she said as she pushed the bullets out slightly toward them.
Her glowing red eyes shined through her tinted lens as the bullets began to twist, bend and merge until they formed into a bird like shape. Without saying a word she pointed to the direction they were running and that’s where the bird flew, the men had no idea an attack was coming until Daryl looked back “Phil watch out!!” He shouted but it was far too late, when the bird rammed itself into Phil’s back it exploded, vaporizing both men that were caught in the blast. “Now to draw out the real targets” she said with a senile laugh as she faced both her open palms toward a line of cars on both sides of the street. Her body and eyes glowed a brilliant red as she made the cars bend and twist forming the shape of dragons. She folded her arms as the dragons swarmed around her “For this cities sake I hope they hurry before it’s reduced to dust” one by one the group of dragons bolted to buildings nearby, destroying them on contact. Fire burned its way through the city leaving a path of destruction and terror in its wake.
The people of Denver screamed in terror while buildings began to topple to the ground, kicking up dust and other debris that caused more deaths in the city. The woman laughed as she formed more dragons, only to destroy more buildings and kill hundreds of people in her path. Dust filled the air, ashes made it almost unbreathable; the terrified screams of the people began to fall silent.... in a matter of minutes she was able to lay waste to the entire city. She formed another dragon out of the rubble that was large enough to transport her to the next city where she would unleash more destruction in an effort to draw out a Vanguard agent.. but how many more will suffer at her hands before she is finally stopped?
”This just in, there have been reports from the city of Denver of a terrorist attack” Ms Liza turned the television’s volume higher as she spun around in her chair to face the screen. “A terrorist attack? Kind of hard to believe the world is literally facing annihilation and they want to attack each other..” Ms Liza’s suspicions led her to search her laptop for answers; The first thing she did was search for vanguard Agents in that area. Surprisingly the only person that could be dispatched was Gage but he was over sixty miles away; she grabbed the phone from her desk to get ahold of gage. While Gage was trying to level a rocky cliff he answered an incoming transmission on his earpiece “Go ahead” Ms Liza relayed to him about the situation in Denver “The news is saying it’s a terrorist attack but I’m pretty sure our friends in space just played their next hand...” Gage smirked as he slowly ascended to the air telling Ms Liza he’d take care of the situation “Your confidence is noted Gage but be careful, I don’t care how strong you think you are never underestimate your opponent” Gage Acknowledged Ms Liza’s advice before he flew off to the city of Denver, he was thinking his flight path would intercept with the attacker’s. Things were getting serious and he knew it; after all, it would be a one on one fight with no teammates to back him up, Gage was feeling both nervous and excited “I can’t take my time, I have to get there quickly before more people suffer!” He thought anxiously as he increased his speed.
“Please don’t! I’m begging you!!” The woman screamed as she backed away from her attacker but was stopped by a concrete wall. The woman had just seen her husband and daughter die before her very eyes, their blood stained the side of her face. Her life seemingly flashed before her eyes as the woman who killed them walked closer to her, tears began to fill her eyes as she trembled uncontrollably from pure fear “Well look at it this way if it’s not me it could be your friend.. or your own child maybe even your spouse...at least this way you can die without feeling betrayed.. I feel like I’m doing you a favor honestly” she could feel her heart drop to the bottom of her stomach as the woman raised her palm to her. Behind the woman in black was a thick smoke from the fires that were ravaging the city of Colorado Springs, she closed her eyes, she couldn’t bare to see what was about to happen to her, she only thought of her family.. and that she would be with them soon. “You’ll spill no more human blood today!” slowly she opened one of her eyes to determine who the voice belonged to, she opened the other eye in pure shock that someone came to her rescue.
As if he was moving in slow motion, Gage jumped through the smoke forcing it to part ways. He gritted his teeth as he kicked the woman from the left side which sent her flying for a brief moment, but she caught herself by using her hands to slide on the ground, before balancing herself on her knee. “Get as far away from here as you can” Gage made sure not to take his eyes off his opponent for a second, he wasn’t sure what her power was but from the looks of what she unleashed on the city around him he knew she was not to be taken lightly.
“I know you didn’t level two cities just for little old me” Gage said calmly as he cracked his knuckles. The woman slowly got to her feet as she dusted herself off “You must be one of the troublesome earthlings that are getting in the way of our plans. I hope that attack made you feel good because you won’t be able to feel a damn thing once I get my hands on you!!” Gage scoffed as he brought out his metal flask from his inside coat pocket.
Slowly, he twisted the cap off before taking three gulps of the alcohol it contained before pouring the rest of it on the ground “I’m sorry I came too late I’ll avenge each and every one of you” after throwing the flask on the floor he walked closer to the woman in black “Well my my... you approach me with not even a glimpse of fear, most don’t ever approach with such swagger; usually they turn the other way” Gage’s eyes began to get cloudy until they were completely white “Why the fuck would I be scared? All you are is just a high tech bully; and there’s only one way to deal with people like that, I recommend a very long lie down in the dirt to help you think about what you’ve done... there’s some actions you can’t take back” the woman’s red eyes shined through her visor as she began to walk toward Gage.. as the two came closer to one another they suddenly both charged; both fighters pulled their arms back then threw punches at the same time causing both their fist to collide with one another. The force of their fists were so powerful it generated a shockwave when the collision occurred. The second stage of the invasion had begun; each fighters from both sides of the invasion were fighting for the future of planet earth.
“Don’t forget to take Leslie to her piano recital it’s a big day for her, If she misses it she’s gonna be really upset babe.. anyways I should be home before you guys. ” Faith Gonzales, thirty six years old; mother of a ten year old daughter, married to a respected lawyer and loving husband who was working at a well respected law firm in Paris, France one of very few places that was mildly affected by the creatures. Faith’s husband, David worked long hours to accommodate his wife’s luxurious lifestyle as a high rolling housewife; today started just like many others until the weather suddenly shifted. The news had predicted the skies would be clear but when the clock struck 11:00a.m. The skies were filled with dark gray clouds. Faith was the usual one to take Leslie to and from her piano lessons and recitals; she knew if David took Leslie instead he’d be late for work, but she couldn’t care less, she had other plans for the day “Have a good day at work my love” she said as she smiled at the man sitting across from her while he shook his head and laughed softly “I love you more” she told her husband before she ended the call to resume the lunch date she was having with another man “Now where were we?” Faith held the mans hand as he produced a champagne bottle from his backpack; It’s contents included Swedish food he prepared at home, water and various other alcoholic beverages. Faith was never loyal in her relationship with David; to her it just wasn’t enough she proceeded to have numerous affairs through their ten years of marriage.
Sadly, her husband was completely oblivious, she could do no wrong in his eyes and had him completely wrapped around her finger. Faith was cheating on David with a Swedish man named Jason, he had blonde hair, blue eyes, a stalky figure and worked as a pathologist in Dourdon France; the two had met on an online dating service and began to see each other almost regularly not long after. The affair was nearing its one year mark and the two decided to celebrate with a lunch date at a park, far from their homes. They picked a private location for their date because both were married and did not want to be seen; after lunch they were going to rent a motel for a couple hours until they had to go back to their lives as spouses. “So your husband really has no idea what you be up to?” He asked as he poured them a glass of champagne.
Faith looked at the glass and noticed the label had a tiger performing a handstand, which told her that it was a rare bottle most likely not in regular stores. “That wine looks expensive, where’d you buy that?” Jason chuckled telling her he had connections... in reality the bottle belonged to his wife who was collecting rare bottles of wine as a hobby. “Well anyways, that poor soul doesn’t have a clue! He never stops working, he’s always in that damn office of his, he never makes time for me, he doesn’t even care about me.. not like you” Faith failed to mention the only reason her husband worked so much was because she was very hard to love, she wanted a big house, a nice car, expensive jewellery along with designer clothes, all at her husbands expense. Although he didn’t want to be away from his family for so long; he still wanted to make his wife happy, so he forced himself to work no matter how exhausted he felt.
“Once we leave them we can finally be together, no more sneaking around” Jason started “No more hiding our love” she finished. Faith looked to her lover with lust filled eyes; the only real love she felt about Jason was that he was just as oblivious as her husband, if not more. She could do nothing wrong in Jason’s eyes he felt she was perfect for him in every way.. the missing piece to his puzzle. Unfortunately, faith did not feel the same way; she did not want love, she didn’t really need it either... Just as the two were about kiss one another a large gust of wind, dirt, and small debris swept right passed them. The wind was so strong it knocked a large tree over, along with some tables that were bolted into the ground; some people even ran out of the tree line to avoid being crushed. After Jason made sure Faith was fine he turned his attention toward the streets, where he saw many running and pointing in the direction the wind came from.
“What was that?” Jason asked as he began to walk toward the crowd “Who the hell cares! I don’t think it’s something we should stick around for!” Once again the ground began to shake, even worse than before only this time, Jason and Faith could hear ear piercing screams of terror from the crowd that went toward the direction of the wind. Jason quickly grabbed Faiths hand and the two began to run a few blocks down to Jason’s car; he frantically turned the keys and drove off “I don’t know what the hell that was but I don’t think those were screams of joy” there were no cars on the street so Jason had the petal touching the floor as he drove; swerving and drifting as he increased the car’s speed “Slow down! You’re gonna hurt somebody!! Why are you driving so fast?!” Jason shook his head as he adjusted his rear view mirror so she could see what he saw.. at first she saw nothing but as time went by she could see a large gleam of light; it appeared that the light was jumping from building to building almost as if it was chasing them “What the..” There would be no time for words before Jason lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a pole.
Faith was the only one ejected out of her seat and onto the cars hood face first. Her body was sprawled out halfway through the windshield as blood began to leak onto the hood and drip to the floor... there was no doubt that she was dead. Minutes later the sounds of explosions woke Jason up, he could feel his own blood dripping down from his head; his right arm was broken so severely his now snapped in half elbow tore through muscles and skin causing an open fracture. “Fuck!!” The pain of his injuries were completely unbearable to him. He could see black smoke rise from under the hood; He knew his lover was already dead so all he could do now was save himself. Jason turned his body toward the drivers side window and kicked at it frantically until it shattered “I should’ve stayed my dumbass home man!” Jason grunted as he attempted to climb his way out of the burning car.
The metal began to heat up quickly, burning Jason through his clothes “Ah! Fuck! That’s hot!!” This made his adrenaline finally start kicking in, he threw is injured arm onto his lap; turned his body facing the roof. “C’mon c’mon!!” Despite the severity of his pain he tried effortlessly to pull himself out, Jason forced himself to ignore the pain of burning metal singeing through his pants to his skin “Fuck!” He grunted as he fell onto his back once he pulled himself out of the car “Good thing I’m left handed I guess” Jason knew he couldn’t lay on the pavement for long, he had to get away from the car. He took a few deep breaths “Must.. get.. away.. from car!” He grunted, struggling to get to his feet but not before he looked back at the tires of his car, he noticed there were several knives sticking out of the tire “What the hell? Where’d these fuckin knives come from?” As he took a seat on a curb a few feet from the crash site he noticed the burning wreckage of a news helicopter just fifty yards from him. “Wait..” In that moment he remembered seeing the helicopter just before he crashed, which led him to believe whatever destroyed his car most likely did the same to the helicopter as well.... but that was the least of his problems
Moments later Jason heard footsteps approaching from behind him; when he turned around he saw a womanly figure wearing an all black cloak with the zipper down to her chest; along with that, she wore a black and gold jackal mask that had a striking resemblance to what the ancient Egyptians of earth wore; except the mask came with a gold lens that concealed her eyes from his sight. “Thank god for you! I need your help!!” He yelled as the woman slowly walked toward him “I don’t know what happened! My girlfriend is dead!! S-something happened to my tires and they just..” Jason suddenly felt his heart sink to his stomach, the color completely drained from his face, his knees quivered in terror once he saw the same gleam of light he saw earlier present itself from under the woman’s sleeves. They weren’t knives this time, they were actually star shaped and made completely of gold. She held three of the blades in both her hands, between her fingers “hey! What are you?!” Without a word the woman crossed her arms before throwing the star shaped blades at him. Jason’s eyes widened as he watched the blades come at him “Mary.. I’m sorry” he whispered before he closed his eyes, accepting his fate at the hands of the woman... but
Jason opened his eyes to the sound of metal clanking together “You’ll spill no human blood today bitch!” In front of Jason was a woman with long black hair and a white trench coat. Mendez held her sword across her chest; she took note of the star shaped blades on the ground “ooooh shiny” she said sarcastically “I wonder if I can throw it back at you?” With her free hand she clenched her fist, allowing electricity to buildup outside her body, next she raised her hand up slightly; pointing at the woman which sent the blades flying back at her. The woman remained silent as she deflected the blades with an even larger blade from her sleeve “Oh hell yeah! She has a sword too!!” Mendez turned to the man behind her and told him to get as far away as he could “And put some ice on that thing!! Jesus it looks like a tiger just went to town on your arm!!”
“So you gonna say something? Or are you one of those weird species of aliens that can’t talk or something” the woman just shook her head before she bolted at Mendez; letting her sword drag as she ran until she was close enough to swing “You’re annoying..” the woman said as their swords crossed. “Ohh so you do talk huh?” Mendez began to generate electricity but the woman quickly jumped away to avoid being shocked “What’s wrong? Are you scared of a little electricity? I can’t really tell by that mask you have!” Mendez shouted before she bolted at the woman. As Mendez got closer she jumped into the air; twisted her body sideways, her left elbow was facing the woman and her arm carrying her sword was behind her, she was aiming to swing at the woman’s neck. “Nice try” the woman raised her sword to block Mendez’ in her right sleeve was a gold knife she was grasping tightly in her hand before she took a jab toward Mendez’ neck “This is the end for you..”
“Hit em with everything you’ve got!!” The Sergeant yelled as he ordered his soldiers to fire their weapons. The target was about a hundred yards away from them, he was dressed in black and red armor that covered his upper and lower body, the only thing visible was his head and hands. His skin was dark yellow, his iris’ were glowing green, and he was bald with pointy ears; “Sarge we’re running out of ammo! We can’t keep this up!!” The man smirked while he watched the soldiers try to shoot him but from his point of view it was like they were shooting at nothing “Damnit! What the hell is going on? One second he’s in one spot and then once the bullets get there it’s like he wasn’t!!” The sound of their weapons clicking meant the worst for the soldiers “We’re dry sarge!” The private yelled as he fished through his flick to find another loaded magazine “Thanks Captain obvious it wasn’t the sound of weapons clicking that made me realise that you guys were out of ammo, no no it was the brilliant observation of you private; thanks for the sitrep!!!!” The sergeant shouted in anger to mask his fear because they had nothing left to defend themselves “What’s the matter? Your toys break already?” The man said as he came closer and closer to the soldiers.
The sergeant gritted his teeth as he threw his helmet to the ground “Alright listen up! We took an oath to defend this country by any means necessary, we may be out of bullets but we’re certainly not out of breath!! If you don’t have a pocket knife then fight with your hands!! And with your hearts!! There’s a hundred of us and only one of him!!” The remaining soldiers began to take off their vests and helmets; the plan was an all out charge in the hopes of somehow overwhelming their enemy with their numbers “This is for our families, our comrades! Our friends, the countless people who have lost their lives at the hands of these monsters that have took our kindness for weakness!! This is our chance soldiers! Attack!!!” The soldiers all shouted in unison as they charged at the man in armor “Should’ve ran away like the vermin you are!” The man walked about two feet before he started sprinting at them “You’re not welcome here!!” The first soldier in front was the sergeant, he was trying to stab the man in the neck but he grabbed the knife, and jammed it into the sergeants heart and continued to run into the soldiers; like a car driving into a crowd, the soldiers were tossed around as the man made his way to the middle, where he stopped to drop the body of The sergeant he had killed.
The soldiers were quick when it came to hand to hand combat.. however, the man in armor was much quicker; he made easy work of the soldiers, dominating them with bone breaking punches, heart stopping kicks along with skull shattering blows... the battalion of soldiers were all killed in less than fifteen minutes. Their mangled and lifeless bodies were scattered across the streets of Brigham City, Utah “You’ve seen it here first Ladies and gentlemen the complete decimation of a hundred U.S. soldiers at the hands of one person! This is a very gloomy day for the planet earth we urge all residents not to engage any...” Ms Liza rolled her eyes as she muted the television before logging into her computer “What a mess, it’s like all these years of preparation have mounted to absolutely fucking nothing, where the hell are all the iron division agents!! The point of them being activated is to spare those who wouldn’t even have a chance against the invaders!!” Dr madden shook his head as he continued to watch the news story “I hate to break it to you but the iron division is very unskilled, I’m afraid throwing them into the mix would only add more bodies to the pile” Ms Liza abruptly slammed her fist onto her desk “Don’t be a fool Doctor! You and I know that even one of them would stand a better chance than the dwindling armed forces! It’s gonna take more than fucking M4’s and tanks to stop these assholes” Dr Madden threw his hands up telling Ms Liza to calm herself “keep in mind that the military makes up one percent of the population, the vanguards iron division isn’t even close to that; it’s possible that they could be handling a different situation somewhere else, not all of them can fly you know” Ms Liza eyes widened before she smiled and picked up her phone “Madden you’re a fucking genius. They may not be able to fly but I know someone who can! Get on the intercom and bring two agents to the roof”
“Is this all your planet has to offer?” The man in armor grabbed a soldier by his hair and lifted him up to his eye level. The soldier retaliated by spitting in the man’s face “Go fuck yourself!” The soldier said weakly before he spat out blood; after that the man tightened his grip on the soldier before throwing him back on the ground and pressing his foot down on the soldiers broken arm. The soldier shouted in pain as he laid on the ground helpless to defend himself..
“Alright listen up you two your target is located in Brigham City Utah, it’s looks like his powers have to do with the afterimage technique all you guys are doing is buying time until we can transport agent zero to take over, do you understand?” She motioned her hand to the black helicopter behind her “This will be your transport since neither of you can fly, I know your jobs were to stay as security for the building but this is a dire situation. This bird right here is the 378 specter. One of our advanced model aircrafts. Once airborne it would benefit you both to remain calm, this thing is designed to change into a jet capable of Mach seven and an altitude of sixty two thousand feet; a very expensive plane so it will not be landing near the target. Instead, you two fuck faces are going to jump out, so if you’ve never gone skydiving here’s your chance... any questions?”
As the man in black armor continued to wreak havoc upon the people of Brigham city, Ms Liza has concocted a plan to distract the metallic menace from wiping out the city; meanwhile Agent Zero is being prepped to be transported from the city from Oregon. His estimated arrival time is forty five minutes while the two agents at headquarters are estimated to arrive in ten... Can the two Iron division Agents arrive in time to distract their celestial attacker? Or will the man in black just add the Agents to his pile of victims?
Lucas folds his arms as he kicks his feet up as the helicopter begins to take off for Brigham City, Utah “que dieu ait pitié de mon ennemi parce que je ne vais pas” he muttered before kissing the cross that was around his neck.
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“Wake up Jayce!!” The sound of Ms Liza’s loud voice in his ear made Jayce fall out of his bed, face first onto his own hardwood floor. He angrily groaned before covering his right ear “Someone better be dying!!” He angrily shouted “Well, good morning sunshine hope you’re feeling well rested because you’re gonna need all your energy today.. now listen” Jayce listened to Ms Liza’s breakdown of the situation, while the brief was happening he texted Audrey, who was in West Virginia, half an hour from where he was; the message he sent told her what Ms Liza was telling him. “Okay, soooo where the hell are the other iron division agents? Don’t you think It would be better for them to be there than anyone else?” Ms Liza pinched the bridge of her nose before telling Jayce that his concerns were already discussed “As Dr Madden said, not all of you can fly.. Mendez, Gage, and Lucas have already been targeted.. I’m suspecting they’re trying to draw you guys out; so we’re gonna give them what they want. It won’t be long until you run into someone as well so stay alert!” Just then, their conversation was interrupted by a violent explosion “Well, sounds like our galactic challenger has found you.. why don’t you go show em some earthling hospitality.” Jayce acknowledged the comment before ending the transmission as he walked outside. The first thing he saw was a large line of blue fire that stretched from the end of the street to his house; the fire had broken off into separate patches of the intense flames.
“Someone else has the same power as me.. this should be interesting” Jayce followed the trail that lead up his street... but he started to feel something; he couldn’t feel the heat from the flames but he could feel a heat signature. Everything in his field of vision began to turn Slate gray along with his eyes. Jayce noticed that the fire in the streets now looked infrared instead of blue; it was as if his eyes had given him thermal vision. “Now where are you?” He asked himself, he canvassed the area he noticed the burned bodies that were scattered in the yards of his neighbors and streets. He knelt down beside one of the bodies that stood out to him, the body was facedown and charred to the point it was unrecognizable; he also took note that there was a spot on the back of the body that was noticeably lighter than the burned skin that surrounded it. Upon closer examination he noticed the light spot was shaped similar to a hand; it was the same on the other bodies except the hand impressions were on different spots “Did these people not see their killer coming? How could they get so close?” As Jayce walked further down the street he saw a man crawling toward him and calling for help. “I’m coming hang on!!” Jayce yelled as he rushed to the man’s aid; “Poor soul” Jayce stopped dead in his tracks once he heard the unfamiliar voice, he looked around slowly but couldn’t find the source.
Seconds later Jayce identified a man wrapped in dark red bandages from head to toe. The only thing visible were his bright red eyes and long black spiky hair that stretched down to his lower back. “What... the fuck.. is that? A mummy?” Ms Liza said in disgust as she watched the confrontation unfold from her laptop. The man held out his open palm, before simply saying: “Ignite” the man that was crawling suddenly began to glow blue “Help me!!!” He shouted before he spontaneously exploded in bright blue flames that reduced his body to nothing but ashes, only to be swept away by the breeze that passed through. “Humans seem to burn away very quickly, it’s a shame really.. such fragile life forms” Jayce gritted his teeth while he clenched both his fists tightly “Damn you!” Jayce’s body began to steam immensely as he glared at the man “Oh my, it seems you too are a pyromanian.. you would rather sit here and protect earthlings than your own people?!” The mans body began to build up steam just like Jayce except his shared the same color as his fire “Then you can burn away along with them!!” The man pointed his finger at Jayce, shooting a small blue fireball at him “Yeah right!” Jayce shouted as he deflected the fireball with his hand before pointing back at the man “Don’t get it twisted asshole, I’m not like you! I’m just an earthling with powers!!” Jayce raised his hand to the air in the form of a gun “Take this!” He shouted as he abruptly dropped his hand, taking aim at his attacker with his other hand holding his right wrist. Slowly, particles of fire concentrated to his fingertips “Flash Cannon!!” Jayce jerked back as he shot the beam of fire at his attacker “What’s this?” The man held out his hands to block the attack but once the beam came in contact with him it exploded leaving a thick shroud of purple smoke in its wake.
Jayce lowered his hand, breathing heavily “Welcome... to earth” Suddenly Jayce iris’ flashed purple “Shit” Jayce quickly ducked to avoid the kick the man was about to give him; as the man passed over, a large gust of wind flew right over Jayce’s head. Jayce grunted as he drove his knee into his opponents stomach then punched him so hard he slid back a couple feet, Jayce’s entire body became shrouded in purple flames before he seemingly vanished “Come back here!” The man shouted as his body too became shrouded in blue flames “Where’d they go?!” Dr Madden said as he watched the fight with Ms Liza. Every other second the two would appear again; the first time they reappeared Jayce punched the man in the stomach, the second time the man elbowed Jayce in the face, the third time they both punched each other in the face and backflipped away from each other before glaring at one another “Who are you! And where the hell did you come from!” The man chucked softly as he took his fighting stance “I could be asking you the same question.. if you’re an earthling as you claim then how the hell do you posses the Flames of Pymoa!” Jayce raised an eyebrow at the man’s question “Flames of what?” Jayce’s dumbfounded tone only seemed to infuriate his opponent “I’m gonna beat you up until you start making sense!” The mans fire began to glow brighter as he slowly walked toward Jayce. “Funny, I was just about to tell you the same thing” Jayce retorted as he too walked toward his opponent.
Once the two fighters came within 10 yards of one another they stopped and took their stances... First came the long stare down, that seemed like forever.. until they finally charged at each other, their flames burning brightly like a mighty inferno; it wasn’t long until they were face to face with one another just about to throw a punch, Jayce could tell that this was going to be one hell of a fight.
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“What the fuck is that?” Danielle said in disgust as she quickly covered her nose with her hand, she opened one of her eyes to look around the snowy Alaskan terrain, the scent of a rotting corpse disrupted her meditation on top of mount McKinley, and was embedded into her nostrils. It was there she waited for her opponent to find her.. she knew she wasn’t alone “Is that how earthlings greet people, so much for a warm welcome” Danielle grimaced once she caught a glimpse of the man in front of her. “Jesus Christ you look like someone threw up rotten meat and put it in an ice tray! You smell like a homicide scene fourteen days before they find the body” The man had similar resemblance to that of a zombie his skin was dark gray and his eyes were light blue and lifeless, small fragments of skin actually began to peel due to the harsh conditions for the snowy mountain they were standing on. “What the fucks a homicide!?” Danielle shook her head and sighed in annoyance to the man’s question “it’s when a human being kills another” the answer to the man’s question gave him a eureka moment, he responded by saying: “oh, you mean like a zomicide?” The question made Danielle facepalm “Zomi- n-no not like a zomicide!! How the fuck do you kill something that’s already fucking dead?!” The man tilted his head, contorting his face as if Danielle should have known better. “My people are not dead! We are very much alive!! what a foolish thing to say!” he smiled exposing his brutally damaged teeth “The reason why we are not dead is because we harness the life energy of other life forms, so allow me to show you the true meaning.. of dea... w-what are you doing?” Danielle had turned her back to the man, cradling her stomach with one hand and holding her finger out to him.
“hold on, I can smell your foul breath from here and it made me gag a little, they must not have toothpaste where your from” Once Danielle got herself together she began performing a number of stretches to warm up before turning back around to face him. “I’ve never fought a zombie before, I’m sure it’s the same like in the movies” Danielle grunted as she yanked her staff out of the snowy ground “as long as I knock your noodles out... if you have any.. that’ll kill ya” Danielle had a cocky personality, she thought that since she could stop time momentarily she was invincible. “You’re confidence is truly laughable considering you know nothing of your opponent!!” The man clenched his fists tightly as he shrouded his body in a mysterious green gas. Danielle twirled her staff elegantly before charging full speed at her opponent “You ready!?” She yelled as she jumped into the air, swinging her staff at her opponents skull with such force she’d break it easily... her opponent smirked, catching the staff with his hand; squeezing it so hard that it snapped in two “What?!” Her opponent yanked her staff toward him, head butting her in the nose causing her to bleed as she fell backward. “Don’t underestimate me!!” In mid fall Danielle’s opponent grabbed her ankle, to slam her face first into the ground then again on her back before tossing her a few feet into the air. That’s when her opponent leaped into the air with her, driving his knee into her back, before she could scream he covered her mouth as he wrapped his forearm around her throat, spinning around in circles before throwing her into the snow “Hmph! You were poppin’ all that good shit a second ago and now look at you, face first in the snow!!” Her opponent scoffed as he descended to the ground; grabbing a chunk of her hair to lift her up to his eye level.
“I don’t know what you thought” her opponent grunted as he drove his knee into her stomach and punched her so hard in the face she slid back a couple feet “I don’t have a taste for mercy, one of us is going to die here today” Danielle wiped the blood from her mouth ‘W-what’s wrong with my body... it feels like I can hardly move... I’ve got to change my strategy if I’m gonna survive this fight!’ Danielle’s eyes began to feel heavy before she fell to her knees; desperately trying to catch her breath “I bet your airways feel like they’re on fire right about now. Don’t worry I’ve got something that’ll put you out your misery...”
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Hundreds of miles away, in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia, Audrey stood on top of a tall cliff surrounded by trees and various other plant life. She stared up at the gray skies lost in her own thoughts, allowing droplets of rain to trickle down her face, the loss of her two children still haunting her mind; overwhelmed by her raw emotions she screamed, cursing at the wind before falling to her knees, punching the ground in anger. With tears filling her eyes she looked at her bleeding hands and punched the ground again. She became infuriated as she watched her wounds heal themselves, wishing her powers can do the same for her two sons taken from her. “I’m sorry I couldn’t save you... I wish... I wish there was something I could do!!” Thoughts of hatred poured into her mind, malice began to fill her once kind heart, all she could think of is vengeance on the invaders for taking a large piece of her world away.
“I’d do anything... to have both of you in my arms again” the rain slowly began to die down, the clouds began to part; allowing the sun to shine through the center of the clouds that were parting. Suddenly she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up and her iris’ flash green, quickly she leaped into the air, using her magic to form a glowing green disc under her feet to hold her in the air. The spot she was just standing on had exploded her suspicions were high and she was now on alert “Someone’s targeting me” Audrey dropped her guard assuming she was alone in the mountains.. the rain turned the cliffs muddy making them almost impossible to climb given the conditions “I knew our paths would cross eventually.. maybe this is just what I need” she turned her attention to the trees that were now in front of her. “You wanna die, that badly?” Audrey crosses her arms as she watched her opponent ascend from the hole in the cliff. His body was completely covered in white armor with a red mushroom cloud in the center of his chest along with a red visor equipped with a scanner that moved to the left and right. “It’s kinda hard to take a threat from someone that looks like a fucking Power Ranger” her opponent chuckled at the remark “My apologies but I don’t have time for jokes I came here to end your meddling and carry on with with the extermination of this entire planet!!” Without warning Audreys opponent flew at her full speed “if you assholes are getting paid for this you’re gonna have a very hard time collecting!” She shouted as she turned her body slightly; the second he passed by her she grabbed his ankle before throwing him to the ground below.
“Spell Casters Assault: level two..” Audrey’s voice echoed following the formation of a glowing green pentagram that appeared half an inch from her palm. Her opponent steadily got back to his feet, he noticed the ground turn green, “ohhhh hell” he looked up to see hundreds of energy blasts coming down on him “Tch” her opponent crossed his arms over his face to shield himself from the blasts. Once the energy blasts stopped shooting out from the pentagram, it vanished “Fucking prick” Audrey jumped off the disc that kept her in the air; performing graceful flips and twirls before she planted her feet on the ground. Placing one hand on her hip she chuckled as her iris’ began to glow green “And all that babbling about killing me.. yet here you are flat on your ass” she shook her head, taking a step foreword. “Fool” Audrey’s eyes widened when she saw the ground below her glow red following a violent explosion “A good hunter always watches where they step” the man said with a malicious tone.
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“Helloo Earth to Johnny?” He shook his head, snapping out of his trance “huh?” His wife shook her head as she scolded him for not listening to her story. “What’s the matter with you? You’ve been spacing out all day” Johnny apologized for the constant zoning out.. but he couldn’t help it, he felt on edge all day after hearing Mrs Liza’s message in his earpiece. The couple had their Television set to international news where they saw countless Vanguard agents in action “All this time there have been people with super powers living amongst us... I hope whatever is happening ends soon I don’t think our world can handle much more bloodshed” Their television screen suddenly displayed nothing but static, their phones stopped charging followed by all the light bulbs in the house bursting. “oh no!” His wife gasped as she ran down to their basement “The circuit breaker shorted out! It’s pitch black in here but I can see a million sparks coming from it” when she took a closer look at the circuit breaker she noticed green vines moving to cover it. out of her direct line of sight a figure silently lurked in the shadows; their glowing yellow eyes the only feature visible in the darkness. Olivia suddenly felt her heart drop to her stomach as she slowly turned around before screaming her husbands name at the top of her lungs.
“Olivia!!” Johnny yelled as he ran down to the basement stairs after he grabbed a flashlight. Johnny could hear his wife’s muffled screams before he kicked down the door. “let her go!” Johnny confronted a green woman who wore nothing but vines over her chest and lower body “Seeing his wife’s teary eyes he stepped foreword but stopped, seeing the vines around her neck get tighter. “Ah ah ah Not another step or I’ll squeeze her neck so hard the pressure will take her head off her shoulders!!” Her voice was surprisingly soothing despite the obvious murderous actions she was taking. “If you want to see your companion again you’ll have to come find us” she chuckled as the ground began to rumble “For her sake I hope you can find us before I get bored..” an open rose suddenly shot out from the ground, Olivia’s kidnapper smirked at Johnny as the rose closed up, before burrowing itself down into the ground along with Olivia and her kidnapper. “Fuck my life” he grabbed his coat off of the rack and bolted out the front door with his finger on his earpiece.
“Vanguard Main be advised, I’m currently in pursuit of one of the invaders” a Vanguard radio operator responded to Johnnys call to tell him he was acknowledged “I’ll pass that on to Ms Liza just give us a shout if you need back up” Johnny scoffed at the remark, saying that he wouldn’t need assistance. “Don’t be stupid, this is my fight.. first they invade my planet now they take my wife! Those bastards are going to pay dearly!!” Johnny stopped suddenly and punched the ground as hard as he could, the earth began to rumble and crack before the culprit was expelled from under the earths crust and twenty feet into the air. “Are you ready to die?!” Johnny stomped his foot on the ground, a large chunk of the ground was ripped away and molded into a sharp projectile “Here it comes! A welcome to earth present for you!!” He raised his hand high then he lowered it to his opponent, as a result the sharp rock shot toward her. The woman laughed as she watched the rock hurl toward her “You’ll have to do better than that!” She grunted as she backhanded the sharp projectile, breaking it to pieces “What!!?” Johnny couldn’t believe it, he began to feel sweat drip down his face, but it wasn’t from the heat; he was nervous “Shit! She’s stronger than I thought!” The rose that had Olivia sealed within it began to wither away, before she could fall to the ground her kidnapper caught her then threw Olivia over her shoulders then descended back to the ground. “how unfortunate, I was hoping that we could fight in a more suitable area.. but I guess this will have to do.” Olivia had passed out from shock and was completely unaware of what was happening around her.
“Let her go right now! I’m the one you’re after not her!” Johnny’s Iris’ started to glow brown as he began walking toward his opponent. The ground he walked on began to crack with each step he took. All that occupied his mind was the desperate need to save his wife before she got hurt “Tell you what human, I’ll make a bet with you.. these seeds I’m holding are from my home planet. They seep into the ground rather quickly and will most likely take two hours to fully grow” Johnny stopped, scratching his head in confusion. “And exactly what the fuck do some stupid ass seeds have to do with a bet” she smirked as she dropped the four purple seeds onto the ground; the seeds bright purple glow was only visible for a few seconds before they seeped deep into the ground “if you’d shut your stupid mouth I’d tell you... anyway, do you want to know the difference between our planets plant life? Your plant life needs water and sun.. mine need flesh” Johnny gritted his teeth “What!? A carnivorous plant?” The woman laughed at the look of fear on his face. “That’s right my friend, you have two hours to defeat me before the seeds grow, surface and devour your precious companion... but don’t look so sad who knows, maybe you’ll get devoured with her and you can both spend the rest of eternity in hell!!!” Her maniacal laugh echoed throughout the streets; Johnny thought she was insane, he felt discouraged because she shook off one of his attacks like it was nothing.. but Johnny knew better. “Two hours is more than enough time!” He pointed his finger at his opponent before saying “I hope you didn’t tell your friends and family back home that you’d return! Because I intend to crush you here and now!!” Two fighters from different worlds, both with different goals in mind, both on different sides of the invasion; a life hanging in the balance “Two hours to kill this bitch before those fuckin seeds kill me and my wife.. I’ve gotta do something and gotta do something quick or I’m plant food” Johnny thought...
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“Let’s try that again” Lisa spent hours in a batting cage in her hometown of White Plains, New York. Lisa was training to master the ability of stopping time she had seen Danielle use.. but she was having a really hard time activating the power; she was using a baseball throwing machine to train but sadly, her hard labor bore no fruit “Halt!” she raised her open palm to the ball shot at her, but instead of stopping, the ball smacked her right in the face “Goddamnit!!” She screamed in pain while she cradled her face before throwing a fireball at the machine, destroying it “How the fuck does it not work?!” She grew frustrated that her training showed no results, despite being in the cage for hours. She thought it was strange that she was having trouble trying to use Danielle’s ability, considering the fact she had no issues with anyone else’s “I don’t care how long it takes!” But there was a small problem, Lisa had just destroyed the machine used in her training; she groaned and kicked the dirt before yelling for someone to bring her a new machine “D-does she like... not know we have a training facility here?” Ms Lisa asked in a puzzled tone “I mean it would go without saying that an agency with alien technology would have some sort of facility for this type of training” Dr Madden shrugged as he bit his nails “I mean..” he spat the nail out of his mouth “I talked to her earlier, when she just got to New York and she said she didn’t wanna train at headquarters. She said: “what if they attack me there and destroy it?” I told her that was a good call” Ms Liza nodded as she turned it to the news
“Halt!” The ball smashed into Lisa’s nose so hard she bled. She growled angrily, while she pointed her finger at the machine “Glass Stream bullet!” She raised her thumb to make her hand look like a gun then fired a high pressurized ball of water; the water hit the machine so hard it broke in half before completely freezing and shattered into hundreds of pieces when it hit the ground. ”Fuck this! I don’t need her power!! I’m ready to fight I have more than enough!!” The second she was done talking a blinding pillar of white light shot into the air, filling the skies with its radiance. Lisa held her hand above her eyes but didn’t close them; instead she squinted so she could try to see where exactly the light was coming from “To bright to be fireworks, too bright to be a spotlight” the light began to gradually subside, and when it did she was able to find the pillar “Me and my big mouth..” Pink flames began to twirl around her until she vanished.
“Woah... who is that?” The light was gone, the pillar had appeared in the middle of a street in downtown White Plains. Cars had stopped in fear because the people inside didn’t know what was happening, side walks, cross walks every person who was close to it completely stopped what they were doing to admire its radiance. The streets we filled with people recording and posting the event, but only when the light subsided they’d see something even more breathtaking. She was gifted with skin finer than gold, she had silver hair that was down to her shoulders in length, her eyes were a warm Hazel, some say being in eye contact with her made their hearts completely melt. She was completely naked, she had only her hands to cover herself.
“You poor thing!” Jasmine, a slim thirty two year old Hispanic woman, who was married with two kids, and worked as a dentist was doing some last minute errands for her daughters 10th birthday and was planning on going to the gym afterward, where she was learning martial arts.. but that was before the pillar of light appeared. When she saw that a naked woman appeared after it was gone, she thought she was a victim of alien abduction, she knew the stories had to be real since the beginning it was confirmed that aliens existed.
“What the hell?” The flames transported Lisa high on the roof of a building in the city, where she was able to see all that was unraveling below her. “Why is she naked? And why is everyone staring at her like that?” The women and men were completely smitten by the woman, they thought she was absolutely beautiful. “Are you okay? Please let me help you!” Jasmine was wearing a Red and white tracksuit, white shoes, and her dark red hair was in a ponytail. She offered her hand to the naked woman telling her she was going to be okay... “What the?!” The naked woman suddenly drove her hand deep into Jasmines chest. She wasn’t bleeding like she should have been, Jasmine tried to grab the woman’s wrist but she couldn’t move a finger.. even though she wasn’t bleeding, she was in an excruciating amount of pain, her vision was starting to turn black “Soul Ripper..” to the horror of her audience she began to violently pull on something inside of Jasmine’s body as she screamed in agony; after a couple yanks a human sized and shaped star was pulled from her body. It had the outline of a woman but instead of skin it was made of stars; Jasmine’s body stood motionless the entire time, even when people ran head on into her she remained stiff, even her eyes were unresponsive.
“Did.. she just rip that woman’s soul out of her?” Lisa realized she was sweating bullets, she had never seen such a freighting thing in all of her life. “The Cosmos is a scary place..” the naked woman laughed as she approached Jasmine, her soul floating slightly above the woman’s finger as she examined the body “hmmm... not really my style but... I guess this’ll do” she licked her lips before she popped Jasmine’s soul into her mouth and swallowed it, her body started to glow white as she merged into Jasmine’s body. She was learning everything about the person’s soul she just devoured, her fears, her deepest thoughts and all her knowledge of earth “Yes... this body is perfect!!” Jasmine’s once red and white tracksuit became a black and red one, her shoes were still white but she wasn’t Jasmine anymore.. she’s Zola, the strongest member and leader of that Zola squad “Get down on the ground right now!!” She wasn’t bothered by the crowd of swat and police officials surrounding her “you’re making a very foolish mistake officer.. my powers... are infinite and my strength.. is. Maximum!!!” Her sadistic laugh had law enforcement shaking in their boots. “Get down on the ground right now! Or we will fire!!” Zola laughed even harder when she heard the sound of the weapons cocking “Oh? You think you’re gonna have a chance to use those things?” Zola snapped her fingers, in that instant dozens of portals made up of stars suddenly appeared to her left and right “Fire!!!” The sound of gun fire erupted throughout the street.. but the bullets didn’t come from the police; What came out of the portals were exact clones of the White Plains police department, and they fired their weapons first. “Know your place, scum!” She turned her back and began walking away, her thirst for blood and violence grew more intense “Everything on this planet’s as good as space dust.. I just have to find the others so we can finish the job and get off this ball of dirt and water” She looked back at the pile of bodies that were laying in an ocean of blood and chuckled “Such fragile creatures”
“Hey you!” Zola turned back around to see Lisa Staring her down. Her left fist was balled tightly, in her right hand was on the hilt of her dagger; she was pointing it at Zola with an intense hatred festering in her soul “After I kill you, I’m gonna rip you away from that body you stole!!” Zola laughed “This is gonna be too easy, it seems that my target has found me instead” Zola held her arms out wide, with a sinister grin on her face as dozens of portals began to manifest to her left and right. Lisa could feel the sweat trickle down her face, this wasn’t going to be easy, she was in for the fight of her life, they all were... but they all knew for certain.. that defeat was not an option “Prepare yourself!!” They both said in unison
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Chapter 10
Gage Vs Vikora
“Here I was thinking that this’ll be an easy job, seems you humans aren’t the sniveling push overs we were told you were” the two fighters fists had collided into one another; small sparks of electricity circulated around their hands “Why are you here?!” Gage shouted as he threw a second punch, but it was blocked by the woman’s forearm. “My, What a fascinating creature, whatever that red shit is inside you seems to be circulating much quicker now that we’re face to face. There’s also a strange chemical surging through your body as well”
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Such advanced technology... she can see the adrenaline inside of me! It has to be that helmet on her head that’s allowing her to see
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“I am Vikora, a warrior from the planet micromia with a task to take you down!!” She pulled her fist away before kicking Gage in the stomach with such force he slid back a couple feet. “Humans have been documented as a D Class race. Meaning your race has no special abilities, no elemental properties, and far less advanced in technology; basically what I’m saying is there’s nothing special about your backwater people at all.. that’s what made this planet such an easy target.. but you, you’re different! why is that?” Gage shook his head as he glared at her “Hey you’re on my planet, I’ll ask the questions here! How long has earth been on your radar? Long enough for you to document and weigh us based on powers it would seem” Vikora chuckled, although she knew giving gage information wouldn’t be a good or bad thing for her but it was still information that was classified. “Sorry that information is on a need to know basis!!” Vikora’s Visor began to glow red, there was a black SUV parked near her with a blaring alarm “I hear on this planet that some of you earthlings claim to have had encounters with other lifeforms; I’m here to tell you they weren’t exactly wrong!” The SUV alarm abruptly stopped. The vehicle started to bend and twist until it was molded into the form of a four legged metallic beast similar to a tiger. It’s eyes were red and bright with acidic oil dripping from its mouth; each drop that fell to the concrete quickly burned through it “Of all my victims who have seen my power none have lived to tell the tale; first they see and then they die.” The mechanical monster growled before spitting out a wave of black, oil infused flames at Gage “Die!! Earthling!!” Gage gritted his teeth “Tight air seal!!” Before the flames could reach him, he shielded himself behind a barrier made of air. “You’ll have to do better than that!” Vikora chuckled after she ordered her mechanical monster to increase the temperature of the fire but Gage held his ground valiantly.
“hmph! Seems you’re the one that needs to do better!!” Suddenly the fire exploded, breaking Gage’s barrier; creating an opening for Vikora to strike “Go! My mechanical beast!!” The creature roared as it charged head on at Gage; he was still in a daze from the force of the explosion along with smoke clouding his vision. When the smoke began to clear it was too late for Gage to react, when the creature rammed itself into him the creature exploded with devastating force. Vikora shook her head in disappointment, saying that Gage was a waste of her time “Not even worth reporting, vermin.” Vikora turned her back to Gage and started walking away; she was pleased with the results of the battle and why wouldn’t she? Vikora was the winner.. “Get... back here... I ain’t done with you.. yet” battered, bruised and bleeding; Gage got to his feet, determined to beat his opponent “I know I’m not the only one fighting... I can’t die until the earth is safe” Vikora turned her head slightly toward Gage. His body was emitting a radiant white light “You’re still breathing? You look like you can keel over any second” Gage clenched his fists tightly before he flew at her swinging his fist; “I’ll pulverize you!!” Vikora smirked before she ducked, allowing Gage to pass overhead, next she turned her body to get from under him and drove her knee into his stomach, before smacking him over the head with her clasped hands. The first blow was strong enough to knock the wind out of him “You’re finished!” Just as the battle was going to come to a close, Vikora had believed she had finally secured victory, but Gage refused to give in “We have to do something! We have to send an agent down there to help him!!” Dr Madden shook his head at Ms Liza, then asked her to take a look at his laptop “Even though our Gage is down he is definitely not out take a look at his energy readings” when Ms Liza took a closer look she noticed that Gage’s nanochip wasn’t losing power, it was actually increasing.
“The only one that’s finished here.. is you” although Gage was struggling to get to his feet, he was determined to keep fighting, his spirit was burning bright, his body was emitting a white light more radiant than the last “like I said.. there are some things.. you can’t take back. Coming to my planet.. will be a mistake you won’t live to regret!!” After his speech to Vikora, Gage was back on his feet. “whatever, I’m sick of toying with you, You die here!” Vikora wasted no time going on the attack, she threw both her fists at Gage in a blind rage. Gage really didn’t have problems with dodging her fierce punches, he was just waiting for an opening; and when the opportunity presented itself he took it. Just as Vikora threw her next punch he squatted to the ground not just to avoid it, but to sweep her legs with his foot; as she was falling Gage grabbed her ankle and threw her into the air.
With his arms spread out a bit he flew directly above her and clasped his hands together before smacking her to the ground with so much force that when she hit the ground her body was embedded into the concrete. “For years I’ve protected an entire city from itself, and I’ve learned something” Gage could feel the air circling him. “Some killers, are naturally born.” Gage faced his open palm to Vikora, the air began to flow to it, compressing itself into a ball “There are few who can be reasoned with and there are many that won’t change. I’ve dealt with my race all my life and I still don’t understand why people do the things they do, you’ve just learned our language and you really believe you know what’s best for us?!” Gage could feel sheer anger surge through his body, this anger was fueling his fighting spirit to its peak; Vikora smirked as Gage pulled his arm back to throw the ball of compressed air; his insult to her was nothing compared to what she had in store for him “What?!” From the corner of his right eye he saw something quickly coming toward him, only when he turned his head did he realize it was a large metallic like dragon.
Out of instinct he threw the ball of compressed air at the beast; upon contact the ball slowly began to expand over the dragon, the dragon suddenly froze when the ball began to expand over its face before glowing red and exploding. The force of the explosion overpowered the expansion of the pressurized air ball ; from Vikora’s view on the ground all she could see was a thick black cloud, but she had a feeling she had a direct hit on her target. When the cloud began to disappear she could see Gage was still alive, but it appeared he was missing his right hand “ouch, looks like that attack saved you from total obliteration.. wish I could say the same about your hand” Gage covered his bleeding wrist with a piece of his shirt he had just torn off. She couldn’t see it but that blast did more damage to Gage than Vikora thought, his head was bruised and bleeding and so was his other arm. He slowly descended to the ground before falling to his knees. He knew there was damage to his right leg but he didn’t know the extent; nor did he want to
“We have to do something!! Gage is gonna die out there!!” Ms Liza quickly began to undo the scrunchy that kept her hair in a ponytail. “There’s no need for you to do that you know” Dr Madden said as he calmly sipped his coffee “What the fuck is you sayin? He probably knows we’re watching and is sitting there wondering why his superiors are watching him die!!” Dr Madden continued to sip his coffee as he watched Gage struggle to get to his feet “do you see that? That’s a dying man right there! His hand and the obvious head injury are the only things we see and that was a massive explosion who knows what other type of damage he’s sustained!” Dr Madden raised his eyebrow before motioning Ms Liza to look at the monitor. “seems that attack did more damage to you than I thought, oh well at least now I can get rid of you with not as much resistance. But don’t get discouraged; we’ve all failed a few times in our lives. However you failing means your world and everyone in it gets exterminated” Vikora chuckled to herself as she made her way to Gage “You bitch... it’s not over.. till it’s over..” although his body was broken his spirit continued to stay in tact. Gage didn’t want to give up but his body couldn’t fight anymore “broken, battered and bruised you still continue to fight.. just accept your fate with some honor” Gage wanted to keep fighting but he knew he wouldn’t be able to touch her in his current condition. Vikora balled her glowing red fist tightly “Goodbye earthling!!” Gage closed his eyes. He felt helpless; was this the end for him? Thoughts of his friends and family raced through his mind “Hey Ugly!” Gage suddenly opened his eyes to see a white gloved fist being driven into Vikora’s face, Gage’s eyes widened when he saw Vikora go flying along with wind from the impact of the punch.
Her trench coat was Violet along with the tracksuit she wore under it, she stood approximately six feet tall with light blue eyes, and strawberry blonde hair. On the left shoulder of her coat was a patch with the number sixteen displayed. On the right was a patch with the the titan Atlas from Greek mythology but instead of the heavens he was holding the Earth. “Who are you?” The Agent briefly gazed at Gage before saying “I am Agent Sixteen, I’ve been sent here to help you with your situation” she looked Gage up and down then said: “from the looks of you I’d say I came just in time” she said as she raised her eyebrow snobbishly. Ohhh I don’t like you already Gage thought. “That’s a heavy accent you got there; are you from Mother Russia?” Sixteen felt like Gage was making fun of her accent but she felt like she could beat his ass even if he wasn’t injured. Instead of getting mad she just flipped her hair as she chuckled “if you weren’t clinging to life I’d rip your fucking intestines out and strangle you with them” Gage could feel Sixteen’s overwhelming energy but he didn’t want her to know that “Why don’t you take a breather, I’ll finish her off for you. You can’t trust an American man to do a Russian woman’s job” Sixteen smirked; turning her attention to the building she sent Vikora into. Sixteen tugged on her gloves just to be sure they wouldn’t fall off; she know Vikora wasn’t dead yet, she was actually looking foreword to a good fight she just wished she was fighting in her home country
“Be careful! Don’t underestimate her!” Sixteen scoffed, she wasn’t worried about her opponent, it wasn’t in her blood to fear anyone on earth let alone someone from a different planet. Sixteen folded her arms as she waited for Vikora to show herself; the building Vikora was sent flying into was a forty story law office. Due to the goblin outbreak the building was forced to close until further notice, as pieces of debris began to fall around the hole of impact Vikora had worked her way out the rubble “Just as I was about to put the nail on the coffin I get sucker punched” Sixteen had punched Vikora so hard her helmet cracked down the middle; at this point she chose to take the helmet off. exposing her pale skin, her eyes were dark red and reptile like, her hair was long and Jet black “How dare you interfere with my fight, that’s a mistake you’ll only be able to regret in the afterlife!” Sixteen showed no emotion to Vikora; she spread her arms wide, a violet aura slowly started to form around her body “Don’t get ahead of yourself Cyka” Sixteen smirked before suddenly bolting toward Vikora; she gritted her teeth and pointed in Sixteen’s direction. The pitch black hole behind her began to fill with small glowing red eyes “blow her away!” One by one the glowing red eyed creatures shot out of the hole with ear piercing screeches, leaving a gust of wind behind them.
Sixteen’s iris’ glowed violet as she examined the creatures coming toward her she could see there were hundreds of them.. she smirked remembering the briefing she had received from Dr Madden an hour before she arrived:
“This opponent you’ll be facing won’t be an easy one, It appears she has the ability to bend and manipulate metal into living things but that’s not the best part; she can make them explode!! But as remarkable as that sounds it would be in your best interest to find a way around that”
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“Is this all?” Sixteen smirked as she jumped into the air, the creatures followed her like heat seeking missiles; but she wasn’t worried.. after all she had a power that wasn’t like any other “That screeching is really annoying.” Sixteen held her open palm to the creatures and smirked “Release the First Gate!! blackened abyss!!” Small particles of violet light began to swirl around the center of her palm; from her wrist to her fingers darkness began to cover her hands along with bright violet stars, at this point her hands had a strong resemblance to outer space; in the palm of her hand was a small black portal filled with stars. Vikora’s red eyed creatures appeared to be forcefully pulled into the portal; one by the creatures were pulled into the vacuum until their large numbers were reduced to zero “you’ve done a number on this city thanks to those things and I’m glad they’re done for but the blackened abyss is eager to show you more justice!!” In that instant the portal displayed dozens of glowing violet eyes from within “Rebirth!!” Gage watched in shock as the creatures she had taken from Vikora were now being sent back to her. Vikora took a deep breath, she knew dodging an attack like her own wouldn’t be an easy job; she jumped, she flipped, she did everything she could to shake the creatures but her efforts were useless “Guess I’ll have to fight fire with fire!” Vikora’s eyes glowed red as she watched the creatures pursue her. “Hey! Are you ready over there? We’re gonna end this right now!” Vikora waited till she was at a safe distance; but she had to be quick about it, she only had seconds to think of something before the creatures would crash into her; Vikora clasped her hands together, creating yet another metallic exploding dragon.
Without being commanded the dragon charged at the other creatures; the resulting explosion destroyed all of the flying creatures, leaving behind a thick black sheet of smoke “This should give me some time to strategize an escape.. I can’t take two of them on by my...” the smoke suddenly parted in front of Vikora, Sixteen jumped through the opening and kicked Vikora straight into the air “Chains of the blackened abyss!!!” Sixteen’s closed fists began to generate glowing violet particles until both her hands became filled with violet stars like before; suddenly black chains made of violet stars expelled from her palms, wrapping themselves tightly around Vikora’s wrists and ankles “Gage! Do it!!!” Gage steadily stumbled to his feet, his body began to emit a bright white light before he took flight. “There isn’t going to be a thing left of you when I’m done!!” Once Gage was close enough he placed his hand over Vikora’s mouth “Your soul is tainted, as a result your soul will be taken!!” Vikora’s eyes widened, she could feel her body being stuffed with air; for the first time in her life she felt fear overwhelm her.
The chains holding her body began to feel tighter as she tripled in body mass until her body could take no more; her body was glowing white until she was vaporized. Gage let out a sigh of relief as he fell to the ground from exhaustion, as he laid on the ground seconds away from passing out he smiled at Sixteen “Nice moves.. for an American”
Chapter 11
Jayce vs Venzi
“Before I reduce you to ashes, I’ll ask you one last time, how is it you possess the flames of pymoa!?” Jayce rolled his eyes because he had to repeat what he had told the man several times already: “For the last time I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about!! Just who the hell are you anyway? And what the fuck are the flames of pymoa!” The man held out his palm toward the sky. Jayce watched as a small, bright blue flame ignited in the man’s palm “I am Venzi, Duke of pyromania. Pymoa translated in your language means: Raging Inferno; the color of your flames suggests you’re a Pymoa Conjuror. I’d love to give you a history lesson but it won’t do any good if you’re dead.” Jayce’s eyes widened slightly “Feast your eyes on the flames of Pyloa!!” Jayce could feel the temperature around them rise dramatically.
How bizarre, I know this man is human, yet he possesses one of the Four Flames of Hephaestus... hmmm, This is nothing like what we were told.. the smart thing to do here is finish him off quick then go help the rest of them.. but then again, where’s the fun in that! Let’s see what these earthlings are capable of!!
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Venzi’s right hand suddenly burst into blue colored flames, he pulled his arm back then quickly pushed his palm out to Jayce, unleashing a large wave of blue flames. Jayce could feel the heat of the flames burn hotter as it got closer to him; quickly, he cloaked himself in purple flames and took flight to avoid the attack “Sneaky little bastard!” Venzi waited for the flames to travel further away before grabbing a bright blue thread from thin air; after he grabbed hold of the thread he yanked it, the wave of blue fire exploded immediately after. The force of the explosion left a massive mushroom cloud several miles from them. Venzi Shrouded himself in blue flames and pursued Jayce “You can’t escape!!” Both fighters swung their fist, the shockwave from their fists colliding caused them both to be blown back; but both fighters quickly caught themselves and went back on the offensive. Jayce leaned back to dodge the punch Venzi had thrown; next Jayce landed a direct punch in Venzi’s face “Say your prayers!” Jayce placed his palm on Venzi’s chest and shot a fireball that sent Venzi crashing to the ground. The flames surrounding Jayce’s body burned brightly as he stared at the dust cloud that appeared as a result of Venzi hitting the ground.. but even though Jayce dished out one hell of an attack, he was surprised when the dust cleared and Venzi only had a few cuts and bruises.
“I hope for your sake you can do better than that!” Jayce growled angrily before throwing a barrage of fireballs at Venzi; he smirked as he watched dozens of fireballs rain down on him. “My turn” blue flames slowly started to surround his body until he vanished. Jayce didn’t see Venzi disappear because the fireballs blocked his view of the ground; it wasn’t until Venzi reappeared to his right did Jayce realize his mistake. “Over here fool!!” as Jayce turned to try and defend himself, Venzi punched him across his face, he punched him again in the stomach right after, before kicking the left side of Jayce’s body so hard he was sent flying across the sky. “Majestic Pyloa Inferno!!” Venzi struck a pose, he leaned his body back, his left knee was to his chest and his arms were above his head.
A ring of blue fire appeared below Jayce; his body froze mid flight, flames began to swirl the ring until it rose and became a tornado “I was hoping I could play with you just a little bit longer but it looks like our time together has run short. Can’t say it hasn’t been fun but..” Venzi smirked before snapping his fingers, the tornado immediately exploded afterward; Jayce was thrown out of the thick black smoke by the force of the explosion. “You’re just an amateur!” Jayce had suffered severe burns all over his body, his trench coat was burned away completely along with his shirt, his pants were burned away up to his knees. Venzi watched as Jayce fell from the sky to the ground “What a waste, we came all the way out here thinking this would be easy but damn.. I don’t even feel like you were trying! Don’t you care about your precious planet?” Venzi said snobbishly; he stood over Jayce’s unconscious body. “You earthlings aren’t a threat to anyone but yourselves. You lot are no warriors.” Jayce soon began regaining consciousness he could see Venzi standing over him with his palm inches away from his face but Jayce was unable to move because of the injuries he had sustained. It was then that Jayce had realized he was new to this type of fighting; nothing could have prepared him for the fierce battle he was now in. Defeat and grief were all he felt now.
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Enough! I’m not about to watch this crap; if you’re gonna feel sorry for yourself do it when your life isn’t on the line!!
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Jayce’s eyes widened when he heard the voice; he looked around really quick to try and find the source of the voice, the voice was male and sounded really close.
You’re clearly outmatched and I can’t risk having you die so I guess I’ll have to step in and finish this
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Suddenly Jayce’s Irises glowed red, shrouds of red flames quickly covered his body, the flames began to spin and rise in the form of a small tornado. Venzi was intrigued by what he was seeing but laughed at the bright red burning inferno before him “The flames of Pyroa? You really think you can fight me with just those pathetic flames?” The flames suddenly vanished, the sounds of chains and shackles followed suit. In front of Venzi now, was someone completely different. His skin was dark red; but it was hardly noticeable, his hair was red, short and spiky. The new fighter wore an all black prison jumpsuit with a red undershirt and a strange symbol to the left of his chest; “Who the hell are you?” Venzi asked as he folded his arms. The man’s chains and shackles around his wrists clanked together as he turned to face Venzi “You’re death” Venzi growled as he walked closer to his new opponent “So you’re a prankster huh? Well I don’t like your pranks, something that would amuse me would be seeing everyone living on this worthless rock being annihilated!” The man standing before Venzi paid little attention to him, he was more focused on the new world around him “Well I don’t care about you exterminating this planet, but I won’t let you kill Jayce”
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Back at Vanguard headquarters, Agent Sixteen, Ms Liza, and Dr Madden watched Jayce’s fight on a television screen; Gage was accompanied back to headquarters with Agent Sixteen after his fight with Vikora. Now confined in a rejuvenating tank to recover he had no idea of the situation outside the pod he was recovering in.
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“What the hell just happened? Who the hell is that?” Dr Madden rubbed his chin trying to piece together what exactly was happening “You failed to mention Agents could transform and shit, where the hell did Jayce go?!” Dr Madden shrugged, even he didn’t know the answer to Ms Liza’s question. “Such a drastic transformation, the only way we might know is if Jayce turns back to normal after this fight... how interesting!” Sixteen exclaimed as she watched the fight closely. “It seems the power of the nanochip has yet to be truly understood if Sixteen’s hypothesis is correct Jayce might be able to tell us, if he survives”
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“I hear you’re the duke of Pyromania. It’s been a very long time since I’ve been around Pyromania but Veloza was the duke last time I remember... nevertheless, I never really liked any of the higher ups. Since he’s long gone I guess I’ll destroy you instead.” Venzi laughed hysterically at the man’s threat. “Wow that’s some big talk coming from a jailbird” The man raised his eyebrow then folded his arms saying he was surprised Venzi knew that expression considering he was from another planet “Enough of your babbling!!” Venzi jumped backward into the air, he smirked feeling his blue flames begin to buildup in his palms. “Know your place peasant!!” Venzi shouted as he threw the fireballs at his opponent.
The two fireball began to expand until they merged together to form one huge mass of fire. “Some things never change” A red ring of fire appeared below his feet, the flames began to swirl and rise “You should really respect your elders” by this time the new fighter was cloaked in red flames, he flew toward the fireball head on; as if he were swinging a sword; black flames suddenly took the shape of a blade, allowing him to slice the fireball in half. “What the hell?!” Venzi seen the fireball split in half but didn’t see his opponent “The fuck he go?!” Venzi looked to his left, right and even behind him to try and find him; before he knew it he was kicked right above his left shoulder, plummeting him into the ground “hmm” the fighter looked at the hand he used to cut the fireball, he felt a tingle followed by sparks of black electricity “Looks like the flames of pyboa are a definite no no, Jayce’s body must not be able to maintain the flames.. can’t say I’m surprised; he’s only human” He folded his arms looking down at the center of the small depression Venzi had made after his opponent kicked him; as a result of the kick Venzi suffered a broken arm and a few bruised ribs from the impact. Venzi was just starting to regain consciousness it was hard for him to see what was going on around him since his eyes were still adjusting.
“You called Jayce an amateur earlier yes?” By this time Venzi’s eyes had adjusted; he tried to stand on his feet but fell to his knees instead. “Your place on the pedestal may be high but your character ain’t worth shit!” Venzi looked up; in front of the beautiful earths sunset was his opponent. The man folded his arms before planting his feet in front Venzi “Your heart is as dark as your sins; you say these earthlings are no warriors but what exactly are you?” The mans irises glowed red as he placed his palm inches away from Venzi’s face. “To the people of pryomania you’re a great man worthy of your title.. but to me you don’t deserve it!” The man punched Venzi dead in his face, the back of his head bounced off the ground but the man pushed Venzi head back to the ground with the bottom of his foot. “You can thank your lack of compassion and morals for that perhaps the heat of your own flames will burn away your the darkness that has consumed your heart” The man grimaced at Venzi; just looking at his face angered him; his irises were glowing blue as he clenched his fist.
“J-just who the hell are you-“ the man silenced Venzi by placing his hand over Venzi’s mouth; blue flames began to fester around his hand. “Shhh Shhh Shhh don’t be a hothead” as soon as the man took his hand away from Venzi’s mouth his head went up in blue flames; Venzi screamed in agony feeling every feature of his face being burned away. “To answer your question: I am Monzoro!! Be sure to tell em that when you get to hell” Monzoro smirked at Venzi one last time when he noticed a purple ring of fire forming below him. “If the name Monzoro doesn’t ring a bell to you then I’m sure it might to the bastards you work for!” Monzoro folded his arms, his irises were glowing dark purple and with a stern voice he said: “Invaders, this is your first and only warning” from the purple ring of fire the flames began to swirl around Monzoro’s body until he was completely shrouded; after a few moments the flames quickly subsided. “What the heck happened?” Jayce groaned as he rubbed his head; in front of him was a charred pile of red bandages Jayce could still see a small amount of smoke coming from the pile; he knew they were Venzi’s based on the color “It can’t be..” Jayce had no recollection of what transpired after he blacked out; the only he could remember was being overwhelmed by Jenzi then suddenly heard a voice, but everything else after that was completely void of his mind.
“I better get back I’m sure Ms Liza might now what happened.” Jayce knelt down to pick up the bandages; as he reached for them his hand began to sting so bad he fell to his knees “Why does my hand feel like it’s on fire!!” For a second, Jayce’s hand was completely shrouded in black flames “Son of a bitch..” when the flames subsided so did his pain; but his curiosity hadn’t; Jayce’s flames were never black they were always purple, he thought maybe that event was linked to what happened after he blacked out he questioned if the vanguard knew more than what they were letting on, he questioned the Vanguard’s true motives; one thing was for sure: he wanted answers.
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Chapter 12
Danielle vs Abron
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The snow fell lightly onto the mountain tops Danielle and her opponent held their battle. Danielle is beginning to pick herself up from the ground, she coughed twice then wiped the blood from her nose; her broken staff jammed into the snow, she knew she’d have no choice but to fight without it. “What’s the matter? Have you decided to give in.. eh?!” Danielle gritted her teeth and scoffed as she turned to look at the man “Don’t patronize me you freak!!” Danielle’s Irises glowed yellow when she charged at him “Bring it!” He yelled as he too charged. The two fighters exchanged dozens of punches, blocks and kicks; Danielle went for a bone crushing kick to his shoulder, he turned his body toward the direction of the kick to block it with both of his forearms; however Danielle was slightly stronger than he anticipated. The force of that kick she gave him made him slide back several feet “Don’t try to run cause I’m coming!!” Right after he slid back she chased after him.
The man smirked when he realized Danielle was still on the attack, “You’re too close!” Just as Danielle was going to punch him the same green gas from before was expelled from the man’s back “Shit!” She tried to get away but it was too late; when she came in contact with the gas she breathed it in. The gas travelled down her airways and into her lungs and stayed there; the gas had also gotten into her eyes, blinding her temporarily “Oh my, you’re looking quite pale” he smirked as he pulled his arm back, ready to punch Danielle again but “H-Halt” a blinding yellow light filled the air, everything began to turn black and white around them. Danielle’s lungs felt like they were on fire “what’s wrong with my body... it’s just like before” it was a eureka moment; she realized it was the gas itself that was making her body feel like shit. Now all she had to do was compose a strategy to fight off the gas “Even though I can stop time I can’t touch him if he has that stupid gas surrounding him.. but there must be something I can do!” Before time began to move again she snuck away to collect her strength and devise a strategy; once she felt that she was safe, time began to flow again. “What the?” Suddenly Danielle was gone, she vanished into thin air ? “Running away from our death are we? You can run but you can’t hide!!”
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Back at Vanguard Headquarters Jayce had just made contact with Ms Liza. He called in to request a helicopter to cone get him; while he waited for the helicopter to arrive he had the opportunity to seek the answers to his questions..
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“So help me understand something.. I need to know what happened to Venzi, I remember hearing a voice for a second.. and then I fuckin passed out, next thing I know Venzi is a pile of ashes” Ms Liza was talking to Jayce through the speaker of her telephone, Dr Madden and Agent Sixteen were also in the room. “Well, to be honest we don’t really know ourselves, from out of nowhere these red flames began to consume you; at first we thought it was the enemy’s attack but when another person came out of the fire we knew that wasn’t the case. I’m sending a picture and a voice recording over to you now” Ms Liza said while she typed on her laptop; before Jayce could mention the fact his phone was destroyed in the battle, his forearm began to glow purple and blinked as the voice recording played:
“To answer your question: I am Monzoro!! Be sure to tell em I sent ya when you get to hell”
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Jayce’s eyes widened a bit, it was the same voice he heard before he blacked out! After the voice recording ended, a holographic image of Monzoro was displayed from Jayce’s forearm. “So exactly how long have you guys been keeping other aliens hostage?” Sixteen’s eyes widened a bit toward Jayce’s accusation “I understand your suspicions Jayce but I’m telling you the truth when I say we can’t give you an explanation.. not because we don’t want to, but because we don’t have one. What happened to you is new to us as well...As to why he’s in a prison suit I’d really like to find that out myself but I’m afraid you might be the only one to find out the truth for us; you’ll have to enter the nanospace if you want answers to the questions you have.” Jayce could hear helicopter blades whirring in the distance “Lets hope you’re right” before Jayce ended the transmission he took one last glance at the charred remains of Venzi’s bandages, exactly how strong was this Monzoro person? And where exactly did he come from?
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“I don’t know how you managed to slip away from me but when I get my hands on you there’s no way in hell I’m letting you slip away again!!” The man had no idea where Danielle was hiding, he yelled at the top of his lungs so she could hear him from wherever she was; but Danielle knew she couldn’t hide forever.
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Sounds like he doesn’t know where I am.. otherwise he wouldn’t be yelling like a madman, the bigger question is how the fuck am I gonna defeat this guy?
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In the time her opponent spent looking for her Danielle, had made her way down to the riverbank; once there she concealed herself behind a large tree that were surrounded by several others. Suddenly she covered her nose in disgust; her opponent was near and she could smell his rotting flesh from the tree she was hiding behind, she tried her best not to make a sound, she needed more time to collect herself. As the smell of her opponent became stronger the trees around her began to wither away “What the?!” Danielle suddenly felt a gust of wind over her head, she looked up to see her opponent had cut the tree in half with his hand that was covered in a green gas “There you are!!” With the same hand he swung at Danielle’s neck. In one motion, Danielle caught his hand between hers, from there she judo flipped her opponent onto his back “That’s more like it! I knew you weren’t a coward.. but you’ll have to do better than that!” Suddenly Danielle released her grip on the man’s arm; she started to feel light headed and winded, she suddenly fell to her knees completely out of breath.
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What the hell is going on? I didn’t even use that much energy in judo flipping this guy... so why am I so out of breath...
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What Danielle hadn’t realized was that the gas in her lungs was starting to liquify “what’s the matter? You look like shit.” The man said snobbishly. Danielle glared at him while she struggled to get to her feet “Just.. who the hell... are you? And what have you done to me” The man crossed his arms and smirked “My name is Abron I’m from a planet called Avalon which is located far outside of your puny solar system; what’s happening to you is basic science.. in cold temperatures liquids become solids.. now what do you think gasses turn into?” Abron asked rhetorically. Everything made sense to Danielle now; in fact she couldn’t believe she hadn’t realized it sooner “You sound like a comic book villain, you shouldn’t expose your tactics unless the battle is won!” With her index finger she pierced the center of her chest, allowing the toxic fluid that sat in her lungs to pour out of the wound. “We earthlings are known to be an adaptive species, no matter what obstacle is in front of us we will always overcome!” Danielle finally got to her feet once all the green fluid was drained.
“The same attack won’t work twice, I hope that’s not all you can do!” Danielle took off full sprint at Abron before taking a small leap into the air to drive her knee into his face, as Abron fell back she turned her body while she was still midair and gave Abron a hard kick to the back of his neck that sent him flying. but Abron caught himself with his hands as his body tumbled across the snowy terrain. Before Danielle could catch up to him he turned his body into a green gas; only to appear behind Danielle as she was running toward him “I’ve got you now!!” With a mighty shout he threw an elbow to the side of Danielle’s face, but she suddenly vanished “looking for me?” As Abron turned his head to look behind him; Danielle drove her elbow into the side of his face so hard he started to fall “What’s the matter?” She asked as she swept Abron’s feet from under him, forcing him to completely lose his balance; she reached for his ankle in an attempt to slam him around just “How are you doing that!?” Abron demanded. Danielle scoffed saying that a magician never reveals their secrets “You know I inadvertently picked the place for you to find me at. There’s no doubt that that toxic gas you pump out is filled with toxic bacteria.. however” Just as Abron appeared behind her, Danielle quickly turned and landed a punch to his face so hard he him he fell his back. “in order to thrive, Bacteria needs a warm or hot environment. If we were in a desert or something you might’ve actually won this battle” Danielle took a small step toward Abron “I’ll kill you!!” When he shouted he also threw himself at Danielle in a violent rage; but no matter how many punches he threw Danielle dodged each attack easily.
“Halt!” Just as Abron’s fist came close to Danielle’s face a blinding yellow light filled the area with its radiance, everything began to slowly lose its color until everything was black, white and motionless. “This is the end for you Abron!” As Abron stood suspended in time Danielle unleashed a powerful barrage of close ranged punches all over his body until: “Time will move once again.” The colors began to return to normal, Abron spat out a massive amount of blood as he fell to his knees and then face first into the snow.. he was dead before he fell to his knees. “Thank.. god” Danielle suddenly fell on her hands and knees struggling to catch her breath, the wound she had given herself was causing her to lose a substantial amount of blood because of how much power she put into her punches to stop Abron. “Well.. at least I can die knowing I did my part..” as she began drifting into unconsciousness she could hear the snow crunching in front of her.. the last thing she saw were a pair of white boots coming toward her before she passed out. The white boots she saw belonged to Agent Sixteen, who had been tasked out to help out Danielle. Luckily there was no need for her to step in; all she had to do now was bring Danielle to Vanguard headquarters “Vanguard Main this is Agent Sixteen requesting Immediate medivac we got an Agent bleeding out down here...”
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