By the time Armor came back, it was later into the evening. Rim had tried to message him several times to tell him about what had been announced about our mom, but he didn’t respond at all. He didn’t even know the information until he walked in through the elevator doors. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbA1ZGVBzo3
It was about ten o’clock when I heard the door outside. Before that I was sprawled out on the guest room bed, my amber-colored hair spiked and uneven, as I tried to meet all of my realizations at the same time. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT69mzJ4xP1
Blake’s Horrible Crazy Life Realization #1: I am a teen superhero with powers that are supposedly jeopardizing the planet. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOm7XkEqVsl
Blake’s Horrible Crazy Life Realization #2: My father has been alive this entire time and just decided to waltz into my life now, and not when I really needed a father. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwpLk3683Sm
Blake’s Horrible Crazy Life Realization #3: My mother is supposedly gone, taken by these weird creatures my long-lost-emotionally- scattered-just-met-her-today-she-threw-me-into-a-car-and-basically- kidnapped-me sister won’t tell me about. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Dx0REBuqD
Blake’s Horrible Crazy Life Realization #4: My life must be pretty nasty if I made a whole “Blake’s Horrible Life Realization” list with more three points, and it’s even sadder that I carried it in that far. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBRLSDd1XFO
“You’re new here,” a voice said from the wall. I jumped, looking around to see where the voice had come from.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZnmigIuL4
“Who said that?” I asked.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ114bFfvssA
“Yes, definitely new.” I froze.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAh868KvbS
There it was again. I was tempted to run out of the room and find Rim, who was watching a movie about a vampire-princess romance one room over. The voice came again.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3n9pzqPmhH
“Do not be alarmed. I am sorry. My name is Sicily. I was programmed into the walls of this flat when a man named Knight’s-Armor was stationed to this apartment. Are you acquainted with him?” I shifted awkwardly on the mattress.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ctCqVp8Yf
“Are you talking to me?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpGPcDvHa4I
“Of course, Unidentified Male Lifeform.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5nb2UVs3P
“I’m Blake,” I said, twisting my head, trying to decide which way to face the voice. The walls flickered like holograms.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBMSEbYwQn
“Blake. Yes. My internal scans tell me that you are composed of two-hundred human bones and about six-hundred-thirty human muscles. According to my findings in the official achievement of human intelligence, you are slightly below the average height for a boy of your current age. I collected a sample of your DNA through monitoring the saliva you spit on the left wall when telling your name, and found that you are indeed a son to Armor. Fusing family trees now. You are indeed an adolescent, and interestingly prone to major types of acne.” I sat up on my elbows.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeI6zr69OhX
“Nice to know. Yes, supposedly Armor is my father, and I’m supposedly an all-powerful teenage arc of destruction that has really become some kind of time bomb to supposedly trigger the end of the earth as we know it. Did any of your sensors tell you any of that?” There was a long pause.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KmYIJfA5p
“That doesn’t compute.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1BEDtgdz8
“Figures.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7gUTKTnyn
“My sensors picked up the word “supposedly” used many times in your statement. Could my computing error happened as you might have been referring to the rare sou possum?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdBrLiV38J
“Forget I said anything. I’m sorry about the way I snapped, I’m just really messed up inside. I don’t exactly know what’s what.” The humming in the walls grew a little louder.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkVrgHdOb9H
“Well, I’m an expert on what’s what. What would you like to know?” I thought for a moment.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGgNog6ryd
“Everything?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCiBiLA2ek
“Well, relaying that massive request will take 1.2 eons to collect and relay,” Sicily chirped. I laid on my back.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcT2RUO0bXg
“Well now’s a good time to start with the truth as any. Go ahead.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSdYIuNwy1
“Sarcasm detected. Was that sarcastic?” I laughed.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1Jj1OQJYN
“Sicily, you and I are going to be great friends.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ycC8iUG63
Just as I finished saying that, there were a doorbell sound and a swish. Armor was home. Instead of going out to see him, I found myself turning out the lights. Let’s just say I wasn’t completely comfortable with a new family at the moment. I wasn’t completely comfortable with a new identity either.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBHDIlbq6sK
I heard footsteps, chatter, crying? It must have been Rim, telling Armor the mysterious news. There was more talking. Arguing and silence. I heard footsteps outside my room. I quickly crawled under the covers and closed my eyes, faking sleep just as my bedroom door opened. I felt a presence there.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHAfYa22f0
“Oh, Blake.” That was Armor. Of course, he thought I was asleep. I was an excellent actor. More footsteps. Rim’s voice broke the silence.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR34lxftaeH
“I don’t want you to leave,” she said simply, her voice dipped with pain.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0auC6h1iFo
“I’ll only be gone for a little while, sweetheart. I need to check those archives. They shouldn’t have been able to find your mom. There has to be some kind of mistake.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rFvuxFIlh
“I heard her name, cross my heart!”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4v7dRx9SfX
“I know, cupcake. Just stay here and watch your brother.” Footsteps sounded further and further away from the door. He was leaving the room.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpZRwPUr3iQ
“Dad? Do you think the under-naturals will take Blake too?” The footsteps stopped.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡntLTKXdMHQ
“I hope not. I should never have lost him in the first place. I never want to lose him again. Only time will tell, Rim. Only time will tell.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEZ6Xdd7Le
With that my consciousness slipped away, leading me into sleep. My dream centered around a room with a large table. It was dark, lit primarily by a crackling fireplace. Off two one side was a high-backed swivel chair. Someone was sitting in it, but I couldn’t get a good look at their face.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsShuwQ3GZu
Someone opened the door. It was the boy from the gym that had tried to attack me. His features were etched in the firelight. His eyes glowed. His black hair made his eyes look darker.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDmBDiED3S
“Sir,” he began, closing the door behind him. The chair swiveled towards his voice, the face still out of view.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZx0vhbwlgO
“What do you want?” It sneered. It was a man’s voice.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPsAW4r7bk
“We found the boy,” he said sternly. The figure stood up.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWaC5JopCIi
“What?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡATd7SE0QqS
“We used the tracking locators and found him at the school in sector 243. We found him, Myrna and I. We tried to retrieve him, but those no good Super Naturals got to him first.” A growl escaped the dark figure.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzg2qUQFflf
“Super Naturals?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFcshOVzNW
“Yes. One was a...” He bit his lip as if he were hiding something. “A leg-natural. The other was a guardian: Lana. We could have had him easy, too. We chased them all the way to the highway and then they vanish off the scanners.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeunZSEpbo
“Let me get this straight. You alerted them of your presence, and then you let them get away!? Do you understand how important this boy is? Now they know the gist of our plans! Do you have any other horrible news to report?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2q4AmEUeTm
The boy was about to speak when the doors opened and a girl entered. It was the boy's accomplice from the gym. The one he called Myrna. Her black hair was arranged in a bouquet of ringlets atop her head. She was wearing a long, sleeveless white top and black pants that were cropped by pearl white boots. Her cold grey eyes were scary no matter how much makeup she put on.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc9A2xpJu4H
“I’m sorry, Master. I had important errands to attend to.” She met the boy’s eyes and silent communication passed through them. She faced the tall figure.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8GDZZgOoI4
“We got word from group 451 in a sector close to the one in which we found the boy. It seems they found a feisty little Super Natural of their own. One with a high power count. They suspect....they suspect she may be an ultra-natural as well.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqz4Gc0Qni
“Did you catch the name?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLPKIgcQ7R
“Taradelta. The team also failed to extract her. She was supposedly quite quick on her feet, and she had a little friend from a chest-natural known as Allen.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQ2bgx3QTj
“Ugh. No news is good news when it comes to your extraction teams. You have failed me again. No matter. We have recognized your failure. Both the boy and the girl are most likely at the “safe haven”, and we’ll have them by dusk tomorrow. Now get to the pods. We need to move fast.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyU9VCS2W9d
The dream changed.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOOqv19haRk
My mother was chained to a metal wall. Her head was hanging and she was breathing heavily as if she had been busy struggling from the restraints. Seeing her that way made me want to cry. Another woman was there with blue hair and vibrant eyes, holding her hands out.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqGrpmB4l8
“Hurry, it won’t last long.” His teeth seemed to be clenched with effort. My mother looked up and her eyes met mine.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TvWODi0A7
“Blake!”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgImRQayKZ
“Mom!” I wasn’t sure if it was an illusion or not, but I was just so relieved to see her alive. She didn’t look happy, though. Her eyes grew desperate.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxjfXsd9g3
“Are you okay?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9em6yQYmU
“I’m fine Mom. Where are you? What have they done to you?” Her face pinched. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJmP9unS3v4
“Blake, don’t come to get me.” I gasped so loudly it made her flinch.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMn37Z53NHY
“What!? You’re imprisoned and you expect me to sit around and do nothing? I’m coming to find you, Mom.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyP2Jv0DqZd
“No, you can’t. You’re the one they want, cupcake, not me. I’m only here in this place to see you get hurt. Don’t come near and you’ll be fine. I’m safe because I’m the bait. Don’t you see it? Stay away.” The blue-haired woman grunted.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqZgUNjyjU
“I’m losing the dream connection, Lauren.” I whimpered.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8h8Zcbmq1z
“Mom....”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFO9L9E0wf
“Blake! I don’t have much time! Stay where you are! I’ll find you!”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxprW1vKzcg
And then I woke up to my sister’s scream piercing the night. I jolted awake, immediately on alert. Rim screamed again, quickly silenced, as if someone had tried to stop her. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYeujD52CD
“Quiet girl! You want to wake up the whole neighborhood. No, stop! Guards! Catch her! CATCH HER AND BRING HER TO ME!”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzcGUokOTGm
There was a lot of noise from the room over, as if there was a fight. I flew out of bed, a bit alarmed, not sure if this was reality, or if I was still dreaming. I was going for the door, wondering whether I should lock it or fly to Rim’s rescue, when my sister burst through, falling into me and sending us sprawling on my bed. I tried to push her off me.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJ0zqko91U
“Ah! Get off! Rim what’s going.....” She sprang up and locked the door. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMOOKrXYc5o
Then, hastily, she began to pile the few furniture items I had in the room in front of the entrance. The apparent intruders banged on the door, but it was no use. She used her back to push the items snugly against the door. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWyYYU3W8MV
“We’re being attacked,” she managed, her electric blue eyes wide and shining in the dark. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeePzSLZDO
Her pajamas were rumpled in a few places from the fight, and her once smooth hair was in a rats nest.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqk7lXrO8D
“You think I didn’t notice? What happened? Who’s out there?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFBlhGVW3z
“It’s hard to explain. Basically they want to take us and do horrible things to us. Need to say more?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgluuGtOvhK
“What about Sicily? Can’t she enforce the security?” Rim grunted.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDYuZSBCBe
“They hot-wired the system. I tried to call the authorities but I didn’t have a signal. I texted Dad and told him about the intruders, but who knows if he’ll get it in time.” 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Ssqldv75L
The truth came to me.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyspawW6DRC
There was no way out.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwTaRH2pA9
“So....we’re stuck?” She shrugged.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3O1mJYQ0e
“Basically.” 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2ijDPr0ZW
Oh yikes. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxZ99kK5dg
“How many of them are there?” I asked, backing as far away from the door as possible. She joined me, sending me a cautious look.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63rgEnletZ
“You can’t seriously be thinking.....”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjBb7mO7Ru
“No. I have absolutely zero experience, but maybe....if some do find us or hear us.....” 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyCwb22tPls
“Doubt it,” she remarked.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTPQ8gsMFt
“Thanks for the optimism, queen sunshine. I suppose you have any ideas?” Her eyes lit up in a scary kind of way.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPwImUlPtR
“We can go through the fire escape.” I blinked. That was actually kind of brilliant. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPRK5ncmN1w
“Great. It’s out of my window?” She nodded.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSEjJ7ipFu
“Yep. There’s just one problem though.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeeKTVfmH8A
“What’s that?”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡei07sNnJC8
“They have the girl. The one that can do the scary weather stuff. Tara. They have her gagged and held in restraints.” 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvss0AYBSl
She bit her lip like she was going to try to break it to me we would have to leave her. Call me crazy, but I felt a surge of protectiveness for the girl. She was an ultra-natural, like me. She’d been outcast, like me. I couldn’t leave this girl behind.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDKMZTzTHb
“We have to get her.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYmwFzxjlv
“That’s crazy. We have no backup!” Rim protest. She was standing at the window now. I crossed my arms.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qxoetJD4o
“She needs our help! Do you want her to get taken away too?” That got her. Her face scrunched.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8FWmM96smn
“We’ll fail.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPePoLGFW5
“We might fail,” I corrected, “and even if we do, we would have failed to know we tried.”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAQ7sYmNlW
Rim didn’t seem to approve of my reasoning. She didn’t know me that well yet. When I get started on something, there was no backing out. I made my way to the keyhole in the door and peered through. A bunch of pirate-looking guys stood around.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsc5pyTvWU
Two of them were holding Tara between them. Her eyes were wide, and she looked a mixture of panic and anger. Her short hair was caught in some places in the cloth gag around her jaw. Suddenly she was looking at me and her eyes glinted. She was telling me to get out. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSHq1mhau8
“Get them!” The tallest one said.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLs3pX9rAPW
They tried sticking a variety of weapons through the keyhole. I managed to stumble away just in time. Then, they slid something through. It looked like a bug; a sort of spider that looked almost mechanical. Before I could do anything it hooked onto the doorknob and began to tinker with the mechanism.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwrOX3sbZi
“Rim...” I began, backing away from the door. I heard her gasp behind me.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaenl3etrYV
“We need to go. Now.” 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzf5Sb2IutE
I didn’t want to, but Rim pulled me by my elbow to the fire escape just as the door swung open and the intruders burst in. Then out of nowhere comes Armor. He immediately comes to our rescue, defending us without weapons.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5SI9Cqjgv
His skin, as you might of guess, was as indestructible as titanium. He lifted Tara on his shoulder and made his way to us, leaving the girl with us just as a dozen police began to take the criminals away into custody. Armor nodded to them as they hauled off the men. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ856eqCpPOR
He turned to us.“Are you kids alright?” Rim nodded, a little startled. I helped untie Tara.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA19PCS0Rof
“Thank you,” she said simply, though the relief was apparent on her face.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7roQbcdwF
Her eyes were vibrant at night. I smiled and told her I didn’t do anything. Armor was shocked. I must have asked him a million times was going on.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmig9WLGvK
“Go to bed,” he told me in a serious tone. “You need your sleep.” 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMi7voW7xOU
I wasn’t tired anymore. Armor headed towards his room and closed the door loudly, so it sounded more like a door slam. The sound was final and condemning. Behind me, Rim was already inviting Tara to stay with her and ushering her inside. I laid on my back, feeling lonely and clueless. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12yHRIYYKO
I wanted to know who those people were. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSa5K51Pi8a
I wanted to know why Armor was suddenly so frustrated. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8Z7o1TOJE
I wanted to know what would happen to me, being so dangerous and powerful.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCOJwvQZlX
For now, I knew the answers weren’t going to appear on my bedroom ceiling. I didn’t even know if the answers were going to appear at all. I knew one thing...694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnvNULwueb
I was Blake, no matter what. I was going to do something, and somehow... everything would work out. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxmNW3oD9q
I heard Rim and Tara chattering in the next room. I was surprised. Those girls are as different as night and day. Maybe they would be friends after all.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpPPraGyQqE
“Master Blake?” A whisper. A sudden stirring of humming in the walls.694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOgl75vpSX
“What’s going on? My power sensors....”694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3H628GHuB
“Sicily.” It made me smile to hear her voice again. “It’s okay.” 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYw4EbYswDR
I yawned and pulled the covers up to my chin. Tomorrow, I would think of a plan. I would save mom, no matter what. Tomorrow. I faced the wall where I always felt Sicily lived in. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPYdkeU2R3q
“It’s okay. Everything is going to be okay.” And my eyes slipped shut. 694Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxbuRI0ypAv
That was my first day in Super Natropolis.
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