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Post by Other Realm on Mar 28, 2019 13:43:22 GMT
My life wasn’t supposed to turn out like this. I should be in college right now, I should be somewhere with a beautiful girl and working on planning a future together. I wanted to go to college and major in science. I love science, I used to love my life. How exactly am I supposed to go on with my life now? What would anybody do in my current position?
It was dark, the weather was warm, I left San Jose California and drove all the way to North Charter California. North Charter is a big city, i’m not gonna lie, it’s a great city. 8:17PM, I sat in the driver’s seat of my 2010 silver honda accord. I never thought that I would be living in my car at the age of 24 but there was no way I was going back home. I had suitcases in my trunk, clothes and junk piled up in the backseat. I knew I couldn't live like this forever, I just had to take it one day at a time….
By the way, my name's Kyren…
I was driving through the city streets of North Charter, the night was still young. I was driving pass office buildings, restaurants, nightclubs and all these other spots where college kids would go to. One thing that caught my eye was some guy being jumped on by two other guys on the side of this sports bar and grill restaurant called “Willie's”. I parked my car on the side of the street and couldn't help but see this poor guy getting shoved up against the building.
[Kyren]: “Hey!”
Stepping out of my car I quickly rushed over and shoved one of the guys off of him. I helped the innocent guy up off the floor as both guys tried to attack the both of us. I threw some punches and started hitting one of them in the jaw! The lights that was lit up around the sports bar building began to turn off and on. The lights kept switching back and forth around me. A police car had quickly turned a corner and that was when the fight had finally started to come to an end. People started to break us up. Looking over my shoulder, I noticed the guy that I came to the rescue of had decided to quickly enter inside the sports bar.
Making my way into the building, I quickly followed after him and spotted him sitting alone at one of the tables. The whole entire restaurant looked like the ultimate hang out spot for college kids. Looking around, it was obvious that students from North Charter University was hanging out here. It's not that I wanted to eat at this bar, but I did want to speak to the guy I went out to protect just to make sure that he was ok.
[Kyren]: “Are you ok?”
The guy looked like he was having just as rough of a day as I was. I don't know if he was one of the college students around here but he looked like his life was over. Finally, he looks up at me and nods.
I decided to sit at the table with him. I was able to get a good look at him as he finally takes a deep breath and looks at me with gratitude.
[Everett]: “Thank you for helping me back there...I'm Everett.”
Everett shook my hand, something in my heart told me that this was a good guy.
[Kyren]: “What was wrong with those guys? Why were they fighting you?”
[Everett]: “It was over something stupid, nothing important. I gotta go.”
Everett was gonna leave but I quickly protested as I got out of my seat.
[Kyren]: “No no don't leave, my name's Kyren. Let me buy you dinner tonight. My treat? I'm sure they got some great food here.”
I looked over at a poster hanging up on the wall inside the bar. The poster was showing advertisement for a punk rock band that was performing there tonight. The “Jade Statues” was performing that night.
[Kyren]: “A band is gonna be playing tonight. You don't have to really leave now do you? Dinner is on me.”
Truth be told, Everett was starving, he honestly couldn't turn down the offer because he had no money to eat.
[Everett]: “I'm a stranger to you, I can't give you anything in return. I wouldn't feel right doing this.”
[Kyren]: “You don't owe me anything, we can just chill for right now and I can order us some food.”
I have a good judge of character when it comes to people. I can look at Everett and tell that he's been going through a rough time. Once he sat back down across from me, I felt like he was letting his guard down.
[Everett]: “Ok….Sure.”
The punk rock band that was performing there tonight must have already been in the building backstage somewhere. I can see work staff getting the stage set up in front of us.
[?]: “There has got to be some good bang around here…”
What color is my skin now? Steel blue? That’s funny. It’s probably half steel by now. My skin has turned into a freakin’ oil drum. I can’t get a dart in my arm to save my life. I haven’t been high since the turn. The last erection I had lasted four days. Four DAYS.
[?]: “Son of a…”
Everett and Kyren both looked over and was caught off guard by a young man talking about “good bang” as he was sitting at another table all by himself. A male waiter who appeared to be around the same age as him begins to approach his table.
[Haven]: “Greetings sir, welcome to “Willie's” My name is Haven, what can I get ya?”
The man lights a cigarette, despite there clearly being no smoking.
As soon as I find this guy I’m after, I gotta get out of here. Way too many people and way too many of them would freak the heck out if they saw me. I think little crystals are forming within my skin. It looks kinda marbled...oh, this guy’s waiting on me. My bad.
[?]: “You got anything that’s ever killed a man?”
[Haven]: “Well...um, we have Bacardi 151…”
[?]: “That stuff’s great for cleaning out car engines. Here’s $100, keep the change and keep ‘em comin. Thank you very much.”
The $100 bill the man pulls from his pocket appears to have a few drops of dried blood on it. However, $100 is $100 and the man isn’t being rude or obnoxious. After the waiter leaves, he glances over to see two young people looking over at him from another table.
[?]: “What? You got a problem with blue people, or you trying to get bent too?”
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It was backstage at the club and Jade was sitting in the makeshift dressing room that the club owners had made for Jade and the band. Suddenly there was a knock at the door.
[Jade] Yeah?
The door opened. Standing there in the doorway was Emilia - friend of Jade, but not part of the band.
[Emilia] Jay, umm are you ready?
[Jade] Emmy! Yeah I’m ready. Come here a minute.
Emilia walked over cautiously.
[Jade] What’s the matter?
[Emilia] Just been thinking about stuff.
[Jade] Nightmares of England again?
[Emilia] Umm… yeah.
[Flashback]
Emilia Jones was 10 years old when she found out that she was fast. Like, really fast. Growing up in Coventry and going to a school in a part of Coventry called Hillfields, one of Coventry’s roughest areas, it wasn’t the best place to first discover you first have powers.
Emilia was in her house, sat on the sofa crying her eyes out with her Dad looking at her with absolute hatred. She never knew love from the man though. Bill was an alcoholic asshole who only felt like a man when he was beating his wife and daughter.
[Emilia’s Dad] When did you find out you could run this fast? You’re a freak!
Emilia looked as if she was going to cry. Her father was looking down at her in absolute disdain. Emilia looked up at her father with tears in her eyes.
[Emilia] I.... I can’t help it… it just happens! I...I’m sorry, Daddy.
[Emilia’s Dad] You’re no daughter of mine! Get the fuck out of here!
Emilia’s father raised his hand looking as if he was going to strike his daughter but Emilia managed to dodge out of the way.
[Emilia’s Dad] You’re a fucking freak, you little shit! Get out of my life.
Present Day
Emilia woke up from her daydream with a concerned Jade looking over her.
[Emilia] Not a freak.
[Jade] You OK Emmy? We can cancel the show?
Emilia shook her head and then nodded that she was fine.
[Emilia] Jade, you can’t cancel. I wanna watch you myself. Come on, you’re about to go on.
[Jade] OK hun, well go take your seat.
Jade walked out on stage to a roaring, if drunken crowd, whilst Emilia went to sit near the bar and ordered a Rum and Coke. Jade and the Jade Statues started the set.
[Jade] Thank -you! We hope you enjoy!
The guitars started up and Emilia was still sat near the bar sipping her drink watching her friend solemnly.
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[Kyren]: “So...who are you?”
After asking the blue-hued man to join them, Everett and Kyren were clearly intrigued. He seemed sort of aloof to the world around him, and yet he had clear determination and focus.
[Eddie]: “Name’s Eddie. Eddie Stone. I’m here looking for a nasty piece of crap human trafficker. My job is to end his. After that, I’ll sit back and wait for another job to come around.”
[Everett]: “You’re a mercenary?”
[Eddie]: “Was. Although you guys might know it as the United States Army, 3rd. Middle East. I was part of 1st Sustainment Command, a grunt on the ground they sent to shoot people when they couldn’t legally justify it on the news. I was in Syria during the Civil War, Yemeni uprising, I even helped with peacekeeping missions during the fallout of the Arab Spring. After my tour, I came home and nobody wanted anything to do with me except for a couple seedy underground vigilante groups trying to clean up the streets.”
[Kyren]: “Then why were you asking about drugs?”
[Eddie]: “Because I got a lot of shit on my mind, and smack helps take it away for a little bit.”
Elsewhere in North Charter
My name is Simone Clement. I am from Paris, France and as of right now, humans they...disgust me. But… how do you English say? ‘A job is a job?’ Simone was in a hotel lobby of North Charter waiting for her target. She was wearing a long black evening gown dress in order to entice her prey. She looked stunning and she knew it. Simone tapped her inner earpiece while sitting down watching people but looking like she was reading a newspaper.
[?] OK, gorgeous, he’s coming in now. Blue suit, red tie. Black hair and sunglasses. You got ‘im?
[Simone] Shut up Phil.
Simone looked over towards the door of the hotel lobby and saw a man matching Phil’s description walking into the hotel.
[Simone] I got him. How much for this one?
[Phil] 100k.
[Simone] Double it, or I’m not doing it.
[Phil] Si, you know we can’t do that…
[Simone] AND YOU KNOW that I’m the best that the Agency have got. Now double my price!
Simone pressed the earpiece into her ear.
[Simone] He’s starting to walk. Double my price Phil, or I let him walk.
[Phil] ‘........’
[Simone] Phil…..
[Phil] Alright! Fine 200k has just gone into your account. Make it happen!
Simone began to stare intensely at her target and walked over bumping him in the shoulder to guarantee the man noticed her.
[Man] Hey watch where you’re… Oh! I...do...I do beg your pardon Miss?
Simone smiles sweetly.
[Simone] That is… most alright Sir… My name is Lisa.
Simone held out her hand and the man shook it [Man] Lisa can I buy you a drink as an apology? You have a lovely accent.
[Simone] I know a place around the corner that is to...die for.
Meanwhile, back at the Bar restaurant
Everett couldn’t stop looking at Eddie, he kept staring at him and looking at him made his nerves bad. It was obvious that Everett’s mood was changing in front of Kyren.
[Kyren]: “Everett, you ok?”
Everett sighs deeply as he gets up from the table.
[Everett]: “I gotta go….”
Kyren quickly gets up and approaches Everett.
[Kyren]: “Everett, look, I know that you and I have just met, but there’s nothing you can’t tell me that I won’t believe. What’s wrong man?”
[Everetty]: “NOTHING!”
People began to stare at Everett as he tried his best to hide back his emotions. Suddenly, the temperature in the room began to shift into a very cold temperature. It was hard not to notice the sudden change in the temperature. It actually started to get very, very, cold.
[?]: “MUTANT FREAK!”
A random guy points his finger at Eddie and calls him a “mutant freak”. The color of Eddie’s skin did not look human at all. All of the sudden, everyone inside the sports bar began to stare at Eddie, Kyren and Everett. The waiter who was named Haven, had quickly taken off his work apron and quickly walks over to Eddie.
[Haven]: “You need to get out of here, now.”
[Eddie]: “Well, so much for finishing these drinks…”
Everett quickly takes off and exits the building. Kyren began to feel nervous and upset as he started to feel a bit dizzy. The lights inside the building begin to flicker on and off. Little bolts of electricity began to circulate all over Kyren’s head as the power suddenly goes out inside the restaurant! It was now pitch black.
Kyren grabs Eddie by the arm and pulls on him.
[Kyren]: “Come with me! Now!”
Kyren tugs on Eddie as the two of them quickly takes off and exits the building!
Once Kyren and Eddie had gotten outside, they spotted Everett running down the street! Kyren tried calling out to him but he kept on running. Police cars were driving towards the sports bar location as the police sirens were now going off. Everett was running until he came across a police car that was now driving towards him. In a panic, Everett quickly runs away from the police car as he was now being chased down. All of the people who were inside the building had quickly started to evacuate the sports bar! People were rushing out as fast as they could!
Jade and Emilia were now outside the building as they looked over and spotted Kyren and Eddie outside in the middle of the street. Two police cars began to trap Everett, one of the police cars was blocking him on the left and the other one was blocking him on the right side of the street. A police officer quickly steps out of the car and pulls out his gun.
[Police Officer]: “Freeze! Show me your hands!”
Out of fear, Everett raises both of his hands as the cop aimed his gun at him.
[Police Officer]: “Down on your knees!”
Everett gets down on his knees.
[Kyren]: “Leave him alone!”
Kyren, Eddie, Jade and Emilia were all standing on the other side of the streets as they were watching Everett get arrested. The cop was putting the cuffs on him as he laid on the ground. A few more police officers began to step out of their cars and approached Everett. More police cars were piling up. The sound of Everett’s heart was beating and pounding like a sledgehammer! The temperature all around him began to drop to dangerous level of cold temperature. A few of the police officers around Everett started to feel as if they were freezing to death. The cold temperature was starting to feel overbearing. Kyren could feel his powers slowly starting to erupt, he needed to concentrate, he needed to focus. A small tear was coming down Kyren’s eye as he began to focus and concentrate. He raises his right hand high into the air….
Within a matter of second, a wave of electricity from the traffic lights on the street began to pour out and quickly strike direction into Kyren’s chest!!! Jade and Emilia jumped a little bit in shock as they watched Kyren getting electrocuted! Bolts of electricity began to flow all over Kyren’s body! He started to look like Raiden from Mortal Kombat! His eyes began to glow into a bright white as he raises his arms and quickly aims directly at one of the police cars and strikes it down with a massive bolt of electricity!!!!!!
[Eddie]: "Guess I know who to ask for a phone charger now..."
BOOM!!!!! THE POLICE CAR EXPLODED!
[Eddie]: “JESUS!”
Another policeman, pistol drawn, approaches the group and Eddie specifically.
[Policeman]: “DON’T MOVE!”
Eddie sighs, reaches out, grabs the gun, squeezes….and destroys the pistol with his bare hands!
[Eddie]: “Sorry to crush your hopes, dude.”
With a shove to the chest, Eddie knocks the policeman nearly seventy-five feet away, into a crowd of other officers.
Everett now had the opportunity to escape as he took off in the opposite direction of where the others were standing. Kyren shook his head in disbelief.
[Kyren]: “HEY! Everett come back! I just saved you! SERIOUSLY?!”
Multiple police cars were pulling up from behind Kyren, Eddie, Jade and Emilia! A series of big black vans started to pour in from the opposite way of the street that they were all standing on.
TBC
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Post by Other Realm on Apr 20, 2019 19:35:52 GMT
Multiple police cars were pulling up from behind Kyren, Eddie, Jade and Emilia! A series of big black vans started to pour in from the opposite way of the street that they were all standing on.
[Eddie]: “Awe hell yeah! They’re sending in the big boys now!”
Jade and Emilia began to slowly back up as the vans began to close in. The girls felt something hard behind them. Jade looked up over her shoulder - a brick wall.
[Jade] Damn it. Emmy, cover your ears.
Jade looked at Kyren and Eddie as Emilia covered her ears
[Jade] You guys too. Things are gonna get loud.
Jade made sure everyone’s ears were covered before letting out a shockwave of noise from her mouth. She screamed so loud that car windows burst like pinatas. Jade aimed at a group of vans in particular, they were closest to the group and screamed even louder. The vans blew up around them from the sheer pressure of Jade’s shockwave of sound. Everyone chasing them was down on the ground. Jade looked at Emilia.
[Jade] OK babe. Your turn.
Jade looked at Kyren and Eddie.
[Jade] You boys want to live?
She handed them a piece of paper.
[Jade] Meet us at that address.
Jade held on to Emilia’s hand and in a flash, the girls were gone with Emilia zooming down the street holding on to Jade.
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Kyren looked down at the address, suddenly a beam of green rays began to flash through both Kyren and Eddie. It was like they were being X Rayed from a piece of equipment coming from one of the vans.
Within and instant, both Kyren and Eddie got struck with needle shot darts into their legs! Eddie and Kyren both hit the ground as they pass out. Before passing out, Eddie notices the dart in his leg and mumbles softly.
[Eddie]: “Why didn’t it…”
Meanwhile….
Everett was spotted walking alone down a dark empty street. He could hear someone calling out to him. Jade and Emilia from the bar restaurant. Everett begins to quickly run towards them but then his eyes light up in shock when he spots two men aiming weapons behind both women as they shoot both women down with needle shot darts into their legs!
[Everett]: “NO!”
Once both women fell to the ground, both men were now aiming at Everett as he tried to run but quickly gets shot into his back! Everett cries out in agony as he falls to the ground and blacks out!
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My body felt sore, it felt like I had been passed out for a long time. Blinking my eyes, I immediately jumped up a little bit in complete shock. I looked around and I was riding in the back of what appeared to be a huge bus. The bus looked like something from the military, I looked around and I could see bars everywhere. I looked around at the bus and I could see everybody that I was with at the sports bar! I was in handcuffs, I was sitting up against the side door of the bus. Each and every one of us was in handcuffs and we were lined up in a row on both sides of the big bus. I looked over and I could see Eddie sitting across from me. I started to breathe heavily into a panic. I looked over to my right and I could see Emilia sitting next to me. Kyren was sitting next to me on my left side. Everybody had started to wake up after being passed out. One by one I could see them beginning to realize where they were. I knew I had to pull myself together and keep my emotions in check.
I noticed another guy was on the bus with us, Haven, the guy who was the waiter at the sports bar. He was still dressed in his work clothes. What was he doing on the bus? Was he a mutant too?
I looked over at Kyren and I had a look of sorrow, pain and frustration all rolled into one.
[Everett]: “Kyren…..I’m sorry, i’m sorry man, I shouldn’t have run off, but I didn’t know what else to do. I panicked.”
There was something else that I noticed had happened to me….. I could feel that there was a neck brace strapped around my neck like a dog collar! I looked around at everybody on the bus and we each had a neck brace wrapped around our necks. There was a red glowing dot glowing on each of them.
[Kyren]: “It’s ok Everett, you pretty much feared for your life.”
[Everett]: “I’m scared bro.”
[Kyren]: “Everett, you gotta get it together man, it’s gonna be ok.”
[Everett]: “Where are we?”
[Haven]: “We have been captured by Mutant Hunters.”
Hearing that statement coming out of Haven’s mouth, they each began to look at him.
[Kyren]: “What?”
Haven sighs while shaking his head, he looked just as exhausted as I did.
[Haven]: “We are all mutants, I knew something was up with this guy after I saw his skin turn into a different color. I guess I was serving the wrong customer. Here I was trying to blend in with the world and of course this guy over here had to be WIDE OPEN to the public looking like a f*cking SMURF!”
[Eddie]: "Do I look like I want to be the Avatar Man to you? I didn’t ask for this!"
[Kyren]: “HEY, relax man, he can’t help who he is. NONE OF US CAN, we didn’t ask for any of this. We didn’t do anything wrong.”
[Everett]: “You are the waiter at the sports bar right? I didn’t think that you was a mutant. I didn’t think any of you guys were.”
[Haven]: “Of course i’m a mutant, i’m not in here on this bus handcuffed with a neck brace strapped around my neck because the mutant hunters think i’m pretty.”
[Kyren]: “What are they gonna do with us?”
[Haven]: “Mutant Hunters are made from the U.S. government, they are highly trained and equipped to hunt down and track down mutants here in the United States. Somebody must have contacted them once they saw this guy’s blue skin being exposed in the public. They work fast and they know how to track mutants down. I should have ran off the minute this guy was being exposed.”
[Everett]: “What are these things strapped on our necks?”
[Haven]: “They are mutation resistant neck braces, with these things on our necks, it keeps us from our mutation being able to function and activate.”
[Everett]: “Which means we can’t use our powers…”
[Haven]: “Exactly.”
[Eddie]: “So wear this collar and be a normal person again. Sweet. Can I just do that instead? Don’t they have this in like, a ring or something? Something that doesn’t feel like a Saw trap?”
[Kyren]: “We gotta figure out a way to get out of here. Where are they taking us?”
[Haven]: “They are not going to kill us, at least not anytime soon. They have mutant enslavement camps outside the U.S. where they keep mutants imprisoned. They want to know everything about us, our powers, what we can do and what our history is. I should have known that I wasn’t going to make it on my own.”
[Everett]: “How do you know all of this?”
[Haven]: “Pfft, I’ve been speaking to a lot of homeless mutants who live underground. They have been telling me how it’s not safe to be above the surface among the human kind. The U.S. government has been under an emergency to track down mutants for years once mutation was discovered on this earth. Do you really think we have a chance at making it on this planet? I don’t know what is gonna happen to us. I should have ran out of this country as far as I could. I tried to live normal, I got my job as a waiter and tried my best to never use my powers. I can’t believe this is happening.”
I looked over at Kyren with compassion, I really was nervous as a tick, but because of the neck brace, my powers wasn’t accidently going off.
[Everett]: “Kyren, I owe you man, I really do. I wanna help, I wanna help us get out of here.”
The whole entire situation was emotionally draining. The bus kept driving on the highway road and they had no idea what was about to happen. Kyren wasn’t mad, he just wanted to help save his life and theirs.
[Kyren]: “It’s ok Everett, you just gotta keep your brave face on. I know we just met, but as crazy as it sounds, you are all I got right now.”
Everett. Kyren. Eddie. Haven (The Waiter). Jade. Emilia. They all remained captured on the bus.
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[Flashback]
[Lieutenant]: “8 O’CLOCK! TAKE ‘EM DOWN!”
[Captain]: “GET THAT 50 CAL ON THOSE TANKS, LIEUTENANT!”
The year was 2016. The unit’s official name did not exist, but it was referred to as “The Forgotten”. Every single man in the unit had been court-martialed and was set to be dishonorably discharged, except for one Corporal. His name was Eddie Stone.
[Private]: “CORPORAL?”
[Captain]: “STONE GET BACK IN HERE BEFORE YOU GET KILLED!”
A clean-shaven Eddie Stone, rifle in hand, pops out from a blown-out doorway. The building his unit is pinned down in is taking heavy artillery fire. A group of five Islamic State insurgents readies a 20mm gun towards the building, and Eddie opens fire immediately taking three of them down.
[Lieutenant]: “COVERING FIRE!”
His team assists him by taking down the other two. Eddie struggles with all of his might, attempting to move the gun by himself. Even with wheels, the gun is very heavy.
[Private]: “We gotta go help him, Captain!”
[Captain]: “You stay in this building, Private!”
Eddie finally gets the gun turned, just as a couple of Free Syrian Army soldiers reach him from another position. Eddie backs off, allowing them to engage one of the tanks.
[Corporal Stone]: “Assalaim-alaikum, boys! I’ll cover you!”
Eddie returns to the building, giving fire the entire way. Once he returns, he ditches his empty magazine for a full one. He glances over to see a round from the tank hit the 20mm directly, engulfing it and the two Syrian rebels manning it in flames. Eddie turns to approach the stairwell, to see two men running down.
[Lieutenant]: “FALL BACK STONER, YOU CRAZY SON OF A BITCH I LOVE YOU!”
[Private]: “We’re gonna die, Eddie….we’re gonna die…”
Eddie runs along with the two men, stopping to watch for the rest of the six-man team.
[Corporal Stone]: “The hell if we are! Nobody else but me is allowed to die today!”
The commanding officer, a captain, is last to leave. He stops to shoot an insurgent attempting to enter the building.
[Captain]: “Corporal, I really appreciate your enthusiasm, but I can’t relieve you of duty just yet.”
Eddie pulls the pin on a grenade as they exit, tossing it into the building.
[Corporal Stone: “Yessir. But y’all have something to go back to. I don’t.”
The team covers outside, as the grenade renders the building’s upper floors unaccessible.
[Captain]: “Stone, the whole point of you staying in the Army was so you could learn how to build something worth going back to. If you don’t learn shit else while you’re under my command, learn this. Everybody deserves a place in life, but you still have to earn it. Now move out. Extraction point is still half a mile out.”
The team moves out.
[Present Day]
[Eddie]: “If we want to get out of this mess, we’re gonna have to know everything we can about who made it. Maybe fate put us all on this bus together for a reason…”
Emilia looked up groggily.
[Emilia] Ugh...where...am I? Jade?! Jade?!!
Jade who was some seats back was waking up too.
[Jade] Back...here… sweetie.
Emilia looked around nervously for her friend.
[Jade] It’s gonna be OK honey. I know you’re scared, but I won’t let them hurt you.
Elsewhere in North Charter
Simone in her ‘Lisa’ disguise was still having drinks with the man who her bosses had perceived as a target.
[Man] So, Lisa… what is it you do…?
[Simone] Me…? Oh. Nothing special. You know, you have wonderful blue eyes. Can I look at them for a moment?
Simone shook her hair back and giggled. The man, who was smitten (they always were) agreed eagerly.
[Man] Baby, you can look at whatever you want.
The man reached for Simone’s hand. She was disgusted at this creep but played along for effect. She grabbed his hand and stared into his eyes intensely. Suddenly the man was overcome with euphoria.
[Simone] Now then… you are going to tell me all that you know about a young man named Kyren.
[Man] Ky…..ren.
Back on the bus
Emilia looked up at the young man next to her nervously….
[Emilia] Umm… Hi… I...I’m Emilia. Didn’t we see you before we blacked out? We called but…. But…
[Jade] But…. we got shot. Name’s ugh…. Jade.
[Eddie]: “SWEET!”
[Eddie]: “So…we’re introducing ourselves? Eddie Stone. The bad guy who beats up other bad guys.”
[Eddie]: “I was supposed to make $2,000 for laying down some boots to this pimp at that club we were at, but instead I would up on this van. And from the looks of it, these guys ain’t no ragtag group of bounty hunters. This is all military grade stuff. Top of the line, some of this stuff is better than the equipment we used against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.”
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Post by Other Realm on Apr 20, 2019 19:38:52 GMT
It feels like we’ve all been riding on the bus for hours, it had been at least two hours of a ride. It started to feel hot on the bus. There was a hard thumping noise as the bus came to a complete and full stop. It was midnight, it was so dark outside. The backdoors of the bus swings open as men armed with weapons and unique military style uniforms begin to step onto the bus. One of the armed troops used a flashlight to check and make sure that every mutant was on the bus. I never felt so disrespected in my life, I literally felt like a helpless slave who was being manhandled. I could feel one of the armed men grabbing me hard by the arm and yanking me off the bus. I could feel the cool breeze come over my skin as I was being taken outside. I looked around and was shocked to realize that they had taken us………...to a prison.
We were all still in handcuffs with the neck braces on our necks. The neck brace started to make my neck feel numb. I was in a little bit of pain with the handcuffs still on my wrist.
[Everett]: “Where are we? Is this a prison? Where did you take us?”
Within a matter of seconds, one of the armed troops had taken his back hand and back slapped Everett hard across the face! I hit the concrete ground as I collapsed to the floor.
[Kyren]: “You son of a b*tch…”
[Eddie]: “OOH! Me next, me next! I dare ya, pu-”
[Haven]: “Quiet!”
Kyren was trying to hide back his emotions, it was a mixture of anger, sadness and fear. It was easy to tell that they had landed on a prison facility, the crazy part about it is that the whole prison area looked abandoned and empty. Based on the way Kyren was looking around the area, clearly he was searching for electric fused spots and locations to absorb electricity from. Why bother anyways? It’s not like Kyren could use his powers with that neck brace on. Guns were being aimed at each of them.
[Armed Troop]: “Stand in a single file line.”
Naturally, they all did what they were told. The weather had gotten a bit cooler since it was so dark. There was barely much light except for the lights being lit up around the prison. A few of the armed men had grabbed Everett and pulled him up from off the ground.
[Armed Troop]: “Get in line!”
Everett does what he’s told.
[Kyren]: “Be strong Everett…”
Kyren. Haven. Eddie. Everett. Jade. Emilia. Were all lined up.
Haven couldn’t help but look forward and notice that another big bus was pulling up on the prison facility ground. There were two armed military men who were in charge of the whole squad. Their names were Joel Gragley and Andre Quinn. Joel handed his assault weapon over to one of his teammates as he begins to walk over towards the mutants. Another bus pulls up and comes to a complete stop. Several troops head on over to the second bus to opened up the backdoors.
[Joel]: “.....Heh, don’t worry kiddies, everything is going to be ooooook.”
The sinister grin that Joel had on his face was pure evil and disgust.
{Eddie]: “Good. Because we could really use some coffee right now. What do you all say? Some coffee, couple doughnuts…”
Eddie’s joking demeanor fades when he looks back at his captor.
[Eddie]: “Maybe tell us what the hell we’re doing here?”
Several more mutants in handcuffs and neck braces were escorted off the second bus and brought over to the rest of the others. One of the ones coming off the second bus was a young woman.
{ ? }: “Let me GO!”
[Armed Trooper]: “Joel, this one is a handful.”
The armed trooper had the young lady hard by both of her arms as she was being sent over to the other mutants. Several more mutants were now joining the group that was already lined up.
[Joel]: “What is this mutant’s name?”
[Armed Trooper]: “Her name is Camila Harrison, do you remember the old Mayor of New York? Yeah that guy, well this is his daughter.”
[Camila]: “How dare you treat us like animals, how dare you!”
[Joel]: “Mutants, WELCOME to your temporary home, here at the Glendengale Prison facility. This place used to be a facility prison for men, but we decided to use this old abandoned place as a new location to store all the mutants until we send them to their final location. Until we get down to the bottom of this mutant spread, it would be best if you all was far away from human kind.”
[Haven]: “We didn’t ask for any of this to happen to us, I still don’t even know how this happened to me. Please, let me go.”
[Joel]: “You will all be put in groups and taken into one of the cells here. There is much information that will be given to you.”
One of the unknown male mutants had charged forward and leaped on one of the troopers while still handcuffed! Three men began to beat him down to the ground as he tried to kick his way out but couldn’t.
[Joel]: “Lock him up!”
The young male mutant was grabbed and taken away!
[Eddie]: “Guess he’s gonna get some extra information, huh?”
Eddie looks back at Joel.
[Eddie]: “I know what this is. I used to help run places like this. Only we were smart enough not to run them in broad daylight, on American soil. How many times were you put in the dryer when you were a kid? What the hell is the point of all this in the first place?”
Andre Quinn, the second top troop in the bunch begins to pull out his magnum gun and walks over to Eddie Stone. He grabs him by the neck and puts the gun right to his forehead.
[Camila]: “NO!”
Andre quickly looks over at Camila. Eddie doesn’t seem to be afraid.
[Eddie]: “Oh, NOW we’re talkin’! Do it! You ain’t bad! DO IT!”
[Camila]: “Don’t hurt him, don’t hurt him, if you spare his life I will tell you everything that you want to know about Snyder Ross. I’ll tell you everything. If you kill me, my dad will know and you will regret it for the rest of your life. Spare his life, I will tell you everything.”
Eddie whispers quietly…
[Eddie]: “...please shoot me…”
[Andre]: “Take them ALL away, take them to the cells. Put them in groups of five. Do it Now!”
It was hard to count how many young mutants had gotten off the buses. They were all being taken away. Multiple armed troops were moving the mutants inside the prison facility. Once they were all assembled, they each had their handcuffs removed but of course the neck braces were not going anywhere at all. The prison cells were on several different floors. It’s not like they had a hundred mutants, therefore they didn’t see a point in having them all separated on different floors. Once they were broken up into groups of five.
Camila. Eddie. Everett. Jade. and a unknown male mutant had all been put in a cell. The rest of them were broken up in other cells located on the same floor. The armed guard closes the cell bars shut once they were locked in. The only thing they had in the cell was a toilet and bunk beds. The whole area was quiet. A pissed off Camila looks over at Eddie and walks over to him.
[Camila]: “I saved your life, if you want to live? Do NOT be a f*cking show off, ok?”
[Eddie]: “Thank you very much, but who cares what happens to me?”
Eddie lays back on one of the bunks, closing his eyes.
[Eddie]: “And besides, now you know what kind of people we’re dealing with. The average man wouldn’t have been able to control himself. That man could. These folks are the real deal. I wouldn’t suggest just trying to force our way out of here. We’re stuck.”
Eddie looks down at his normal-colored hands.
[Eddie]: “Of course. They make me normal again, then they lock me up in here. Figures. So….”
Eddie sits up, looking around the room.
[Eddie]: “Haven said something about not asking for this to happen. Did all of you get this way by accident…?”
Camila shook her head, the unknown male mutant who was in the cell with them began to kick and punch the cell bars! He grabs the bars and tries to shake them up as he was flipping out and losing control!
[ ? ]: “GET ME OUTTA HERE!”
[Everett]: ‘Dude, keep it down!”
Everett sighs as he looks at the crazy guy and then back over to Camila.
[Everett]: “Camila, right? Look, you gotta give Eddie a break, ok? We have all been through a lot. Eddie was simply trying to get answers. We all need answers, this isn’t his fault. They have no right to do any of this to us.”
Camila couldn’t help but sigh deeply as she leans up against the steel bars. Having her head down for a moment, she looks up at them.
[Camila]: “We are all here because we are mutants, we are different from the world now. We BECAME mutants because of the lethal mutant injection. All of our powers must have been activating around the time all this craziness started to happen. They are not going to kill us, they want to keep us around for a long time in order to figure out why each of us is so special now. They are going to fly us out of the country and into a mutant enslavement camp that is not in the United States. I’ve been there before, it’s a living hell.”
[Everett]: “How do you know so much?”
[Camila]: “I come from a family of military veterans, my dad is connected to the U.S. government. My own dad knows that I am here right now. We didn’t ask to change into what we have all become. We need to find out who did this to us, it was by needle injection. All of us are now different. We are going to be slaves for the rest of our lives under their watch if we don’t get out of here. I can only hope that somebody is going to come. If my beliefs are true, I think I know who it might be.”
[Eddie]: “.....I gave it to myself. That’s the only explanation...”
Everybody in the room is now staring at Eddie.
[Eddie]: “Jesus, when did this turn into an NA meeting? When I got home from Iraq and Syria, I was burned by the military for the things I did, that they told me to do. I had nobody and nothing, so I did the whole ‘shoot up dope in the streets’ thing for a while. Somehow, I must have gotten a hold of this mutant serum thinking it was some really good stuff.”
[Camilla]: “How long?”
[Eddie]: “The change was about six months ago. I woke up one morning and my skin was blue. I tried to shoot up and the needle broke off before it even got into me. I got mad and punched a wall, and almost knocked it down. Took me a while to start figuring out what was going on. I did a whole bunch of stuff. Taped a show for the Internet even. It’s called Un-Live From Castle Drakeskull. It’s awesome.”
[Camilla]: “You’ve been out in PUBLIC?”
[Eddie]: “Nobody ever cared about me until now…”
Emilia has been listening to the conversation between Eddie and Camilla. She shuts her eyes and breathes deeply before joining in.
[Emilia] I… I know what it’s like to find out that you have powers in front of people. Back in England, when I was twelve years old, it was school sports day and I was in a race. Before I knew it, I… I won the race. I left everyone in the dust and...and everyone thought I cheated. I was expelled. My… my dad thought that I was a cheater too. When he saw that I ran so quickly that he couldn’t hit me - my dad used to beat me and my mother - he called me a freak so...so I ran.
Jade overhears Emilia getting upset and stands up from her seat to come over to comfort her friend. She puts her arms around Emilia in a hug making sure the handcuffs went around the back of Emilia’s head.
[Jade] I met Emilia a few years ago. She was running away and I felt for her. I could see right from the start that she was different. Like me…
Elsewhere in North Charter Simone makes her way to the bathroom and sits down on the toilet and puts her finger into her ear, pressing her earpiece.
[Simone] He knows nothing.
[Phil] You’re sure?
[Simone] I can read minds Phil. He knows nothing.
[Phil] Alright. Then do what you have to do.
Simone takes her finger out of her ear, closes her eyes and concentrates. Back in the restaurant the man who was on a date with ‘Lisa’ checks his watch and suddenly spontaneously combusts out of nowhere! Everyone else in the restaurant screams in fear as the corpse falls to the ground. Simone stands up and calmly and callously walks out of the restaurant while waiters call emergency services. No-one has any idea how a man suddenly caught on fire…
Meanwhile, inside the Prison
Everett walked over to Emilia and placed his hand on her back. The level of emotion was so high inside that prison cell.
[Everett]: “Everything is going to be ok Emilia. You got me now.”
[Haven]: “You got all of us…”
Everyone looked at Haven as he stood up. Haven closed his eyes and sighs a little as he looks at everyone.
[Haven]: “I was a fool to think that I could blend in and he normal by never using my powers. When people touch my skin...I can drain their energy. I….If we spend the rest of our lives enslaved. I don't think I….”
Suddenly, a voice cuts Haven off in mid sentence.
[ ? ]: “That is not going to happen.”
The voice was coming from the young man inside the cell that nobody knew. The one who blew a casket earlier and was attacking the steel bars.
[Haven]: “Who are you?”
[Brave]: “My name is Brave, those armed guys captured me when I was living in a shelter. They captured a lot of mutant runways at shelters. What choice did we have by not living on the streets? I can't always control my powers, I didn't know where to go.”
[Eddie]: “I just lived on the streets, I’m probably not the guy to be asking that question…”
Brave walked forward and out of his corner from where he spent most of the time since they got here.
[Brave]: “We need a plan, look, we don't know if they will ever come up with a cure for us. Right now, we don't have a lot of options. If I die that's fine but they are not going to take me down without a fight.”
[Haven]: “Once we get out of here we can stick by each other and find shelter. There has to be somebody who wants to help up. First we gotta get out of this prison.”
[Everett]: “We need to get these neck braces off. My powers are completely gone and it feels like this neck brace is effecting me on the inside.”
Everett grips on his neck brace. Haven does the same thing.
[Kyren]: “We are gonna make this country respect us, even if we have to start a group. How do we get these neck braces off.”
[Camila]: “There has to be a key that one of the main guards has. It's either Andre or Joel.”
[Eddie]: “And how do we manage to get those…?”
Eddie pokes around at his collar briefly, shaking it with his hands.
[Eddie]: “Yeah, if I had my powers, I could have turned this into a wire sculpture by now.”
[Everett]: “We can at least all agree that it's now become either kill or be killed. I never thought that I would be this guy, but then again I never thought people would try to play with my life either.”
[Brave]: “Were gonna figure this out. I want to see my family again.”
You could feel the emotion in Brave's eyes.
[Camila]: “They have to let us out some time. Even if they do send all of us off to the slave camp, we never surrender...We fight.”
Kyren nodded, Everett could look over at Kyren and see that he was struggling to stay positive but he was shaking fear and doubt out of his mind. Eddie attempted to throw some encouragement his way.
[Eddie]: “Hey...I wasn’t sure the first time I had to kill someone either. But we’re in a situation where if you don’t kill them, they will kill you, or one of the rest of us.”
Not intending to, but perhaps in fate, Eddie glances towards Kyren when he says the last few words.
[Eddie]: “I got no problem taking someone out who’s trying to mess with us. Just point and I’ll smash.”
[Jade] Alright, so...what now? I mean we may not have our powers but… we can still fight.
Emilia was still sobbing and then looked up at the bars of the cell.
[Emilia] Wait…
Emilia shook the bars of the cell.
[Emilia] These… these bars are rusty and loose. I bet a good pull would get them out of the ground!
Jade walks over and tests them herself.
[Jade] Emmy’s right, they are but I bet you anything these things are alarmed. Any suggestions?
TBC
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Post by Other Realm on Apr 25, 2019 18:58:18 GMT
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Camila honestly didn’t have any suggestions. Looking over at Jade, she felt like she was running out of ideas. Camila spent time training in the military, she actually works well under pressure. Kyren was looking around at everybody, despite the fact that Emilia was sobbing earlier and was upset, for the most part, everybody at least looked like they weren’t ready to just give in and fall apart.
[Camila]: “I don’t know what time it is, but i’m sure that it’s after midnight. If we don’t get out of here tonight, we can focus on a plan before they try to move us to another location.”
Suddenly, there was a male voice beginning to speak over the loud intercom!
[Male Voice]: “Attention armed troops, attention armed troops, we have an intruder moving among the facility. I repeat, we have an intruder moving among the facility. Please report to the main floor!”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sounds of things exploding can be heard loudly around them!
[Haven]: “Intruder? Who would purposely want to come here?”
[Camila]: “Please don’t let it be just a bunch of idiot kids hanging around.”
[Everett]: “...........I don’t think that’s the case.”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
[Male Voice]: “Attention guards! The intruder appears to be an unknown mutant! He is loose! Attention! He seems to be causing explosive attacks! Please report...Aaaaaarrgghhh!!!”
The sound of the male voice being strangled can be heard.
[Eddie]: “Looks like someone else beat us to escaping. Now would be a great time to slip out of here. Hell with it. I might not be metal right now, but I can still kick the crap out of something...stand back!”
Eddie motions for everyone to step away from the bars. Eddie picks one he believes to be the most weakened, and takes several steps back.
[Eddie]: “Ain’t nothin’ stronger than the human will, friends. GET YOU SOME!”
Eddie charges in full-speed. Kyren, Everett, Haven, Camila, Brave, Jade and Emilia all stare in anticipation as Eddie lifts both feet, knees to his chest. Eddie leaps high into the air, and drives both feet into the cell bars as hard as he can!
[Everett]: “Whoa! Dude, you good?”
Eddie flies backwards, landing flat on his back. The cell bar appears to barely bend.
[Eddie]: “Yup. We’re good. Just gonna lay here and collect my fractured ego.”
An armed trooper heard the noise that Eddie had made as he rushes over to them with a glare.
[Armed Trooper]: “Listen you little bunch of mutant pieces of sh*t! You better stay QUIET and shut up! Do you hear me?”
The armed trooper was so focused on the young mutants that he didn’t noticed a tall, muscular, african american male with a black mohawk and arm tattoos quickly rush over to him and grabs him! He puts him into a headlock and then smashes his head hard into one of the cell bars! The armed trooper was knocked out cold. The mysterious mohawk man pulls out a pair of keys and quickly opens up the cell door and frees them!
[Eddie]: “MY MAN!”
The guy didn’t look like he came to hurt the young mutants. Everett rushed over and hugged the mysterious man! Suddenly, another unknown man enters the hallway. This unknown man was young just like the other young mutants. He was african american decent as well. He walks over towards the mohawk guy and pulls out a unique and shapely designed key.
[ ? ]: “Hey Shark, I got the key, I was able to set their bus on fire. It’s a big enough distraction but we gotta move fast.”
[Haven]: “Who are you guys?”
[ ? ]: “My name is Shark, that is all I can tell you right now. This is not the place for you guys to be. I need you all to head for the exit on the bottom floor and run all the way north, all the way north until you get to Forland Bridge. I will meet all of you guys there.”
[Eddie]: “I don’t care if your name is Donald J. Trump, right now I’d wash your underwear by hand if you asked me to. Thank you!”
Everett looks over at the unknown young mutant.
[Everett]: “Are you the one who was causing those explosives? Are you a mutant too?”
[Jemal]: “Yes, my name is Jemal, i’m gonna get those neck braces off, but you guys gotta go where Shark directed you to. These armed guys are gonna start pouring in.”
Brave had so many questions to ask, but NOW was not the time. Jemal uses the key to start unlocking the buckle on the back of the neck braces to free all of the mutants. Shark rushes over with the key to free the other captured mutants who was inside the other cell rooms. Jemal unlocked Eddie’s neck brace and freed him.
[Eddie]: “Here, lemme help make this faster…”
Eddie begins finding whoever has yet to be freed from their neck collars, starting with Everett by one hand and Camila by the other. With a little bit of concentration, Eddie’s skin begins to harden and glisten as if it is becoming metallic. Once his skin is a light steel blue, Eddie squeezes the collar in each hand at the buckle to break it into several pieces.
[Eddie]: “Told you. Wire sculptures. If we had the time…”
Eddie rushes on to quickly free whoever else he can.
ALL of the young mutants were now free with the neck braces off of them. They were able to move around in the hallway as Haven was stretching his neck.
[Jemal]: “Run to Fortland Bridge! Head north, you guys have to split up, if you stick together, you will be easy to capture and cause more harm then good.”
[Camila]: “We have to fight!”
Everybody RAN OFF!
The other mutants were now free as Jemal and Shark were working overtime at getting people’s neck braces off. Eddie is quick to assist them where needed.
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Brave was running down the hallway, Haven was running behind him. Armed Troopers were rushing in. Brave spotted three troopers charging towards him! Brave growls as he leaps up on the side of the wall and bounces off of it! He takes down one of the troops with a tackle!
[Brave]: “GROWWWLLL!!!!”
Brave’s eyes lit up in a bright orange. He swings his fist and strikes down at another guard, he leaps up and swing kicks the third one! Grabbing one of the troopers off the floor, he picks him up, spins him around and smashes him up against the wall!
[Eddie]: “Oh, you want it too?”
After freeing the last of the mutants in his immediate area, Eddie stares down a pair of guards approaching him, weapons drawn.
[Eddie]: “Take the shot! Right here!”
Eddie pounds at his chest, making a “CLANG!” sound. The troopers look at each other, shrug, and open fire! Round after round goes at Eddie’s chest! And round after round bounces right off!
[Eddie]: “Can you shoot me right here? It itches so bad and I just can’t reach it…”
While still being shot, Eddie turns and points at his back. One ricocheted bullet strikes one of the troopers in the helmet, knocking him back but not killing him. When their magazines are emptied, Eddie turns back to face them with a grin on his face.
[Eddie]: “You scratched my back…”
Reaching out towards a nearby cell, Eddie pulls one of the bars out with ease and swings it around his head.
[Eddie]: “Now I’ll scratch yours!”
Both troopers are hit with the bar, and knocked into a cell...four cells down the hallway! Eddie laughs, chucking the bar and turning back towards more of the struggle.
Haven spotted the knocked out troopers that Brave took care of. He touches one of them with skin to skin contact on his neck and begins to drain and suck away his energy as it was now feeding into his body. Meanwhile, Camila and Everett was looking for one of the good exits. EIGHT armed troopers quickly spotted them as they aimed their guns at the both of them and began to quickly fire their guns!!! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
Before the bullets could reach Camila and Everett, all of the bullets begin to move in slow motion. Moving into slow motion like the matrix as Camila reduces the gravity in front of them. Hundreds of bullets begins to quickly fall to the floor. Everett who was standing next to her began to light his eyes up in a bright red. The armed troopers begin to rush towards Camila and Everett but were now struck hard with 876 Degree of HOT temperature entering their bodies!
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The multiple armed troopers began to moan in agony! Everett had created a massive force field in front of him that was purely hot with high temperature as the troopers began to catch on fire! Everett held Camila’s hand as they began to quickly walk forward with the flaming force field protecting them in front of them as everybody within range contact of the force field quickly begins to burn massively! Three more troopers were now coming for them from another angle! Everett quickly begins to generate heavy loads of fire from his hands as he quickly strikes forces and blasts the three troopers down with a FIRE BLAST!
Meanwhile, Haven was trying to escape, one of the guards catches him and tries to pull out his gun but Haven begins to generate a long sharp dagger made out of energy from his wrist as he quickly strikes the troopers down with the dagger as it strikes his stomach and begins to drain his energy! Haven puts him in the headlock as he backs him into a corner.
Meanwhile, Kyren had absorbed electricity from the lamp poles hanging above the ceiling inside the prison hallways. Brave was punching and kicking some troopers down as he finally made it outside! One of the troopers was trying to get up but Brave leaps high up into the air and tackles him down like a tiger!
Kyren turned a corner and spotted Eddie as he rushes over to him. Jemal makes his way to the bottom floor as he spots Kyren and Eddie in one of the main entrances of the prison building and runs over to them.
[Jemal]: “I hope everybody is able to get out. They got more guards coming in.”
[Kyren]: “Jemal, are you able to blow this whole prison building to bits? I don’t want any mutant to have to come here and go through this?”
[Jemal]: “I can try, but I think one of your friends would be better at that than me.”
[Kyren]: “My power is electricity, let’s get everybody out of here and then start a big fire.”
[Armed Trooper]: “FREEZE!!!”
MULTIPLE armed troopers were pouring in and was trying to corner Eddie, Kyren and Jemal.
Kyren’s eyes lit up in bright white light as he now turns off the power inside the prison. It was now pitch black save the very feint laser sights on the troopers’ rifles. Eddie, meanwhile, has another one of his bright ideas.
[Eddie]: “Anybody feel like going laser bowling?”
A formed group of guards appears stunned that someone would make wisecracks at a moment like this. They were even more stunned when Eddie ran forward, curled himself into a ball, and mowed them down like bowling pins! Standing up, Eddie looks around at the fallen mass around him, then back up at his companions.
[Eddie]: “STRIKE!”
Kyren uses his powers to turn the lights back on inside the prison facility and could now see the troopers down on the floor.
One of the guards motioned to grab his radio from his belt. Seeing this, Jade comes over to the guard and stomps on his radio.
[Jade] Oops! I’m so sorry about that how…
Jade then stomps on his head, giving the guard concussion.
[Jade] ...clumsy of me. Emmy?
[Emilia] On it.
In a flash, Emilia uses her super-human speed to take all of the guards’ radios. The group of guards currently on the ground in front of the mutants is completely at their mercy.
[Jade] Well then
Jade cracks her knuckles
[Jade] Shall we beat these pieces of shit?
Emilia looks pleadingly at Jade
[Emilia] Jay… we… have to go. Please.
Dejected, after all they’ve been through so far, Jade reluctantly agrees.
[Jade] Alright… Fine.
Emilia looks stern at everyone for a few seconds but can’t hold it long enough. She’s still not in her comfort zone just yet.
[Emilia] I’ll go and drop Jade off to where Shark told us to go and...and then I’ll… be back for you guys. Trust me you’ll be faster holding on to me. Ready Jade?
Emilia grabs Jade by the hand.
[Jade] Ready, sweetie.
Before everyone knows it the girls are gone. Seconds later, Emilia returns alone.
[Emilia] Come on! There isn’t much time!
Camila and Kyren had made it outside to the side of the prison building. The majority of the troops had all been taken out but they were calling for back up support! Haven came running out and Emilia spotted him. Emilia held onto Haven as she brought him all the way to safety. Emilia was doing the best that she could as she kept moving back and forth.
[Eddie]: “Lookee! I got me a ri-fle!”
While falling back towards the escape vehicles, Eddie opens fire with a weapon he commandeered from a fallen trooper. It is soon out of ammo, leaving Eddie to improvise.
[Eddie]: “Damnit!”
Eddie changes his grip, and one-hand tosses the rifle like a javelin!
[Eddie]: “We gotta get out of here! Everyone fall back!”
Unfortunately, several of the unknown young mutants had already taken off and escaped.
[Camila]: “Forget about them Emilia, we have to go!”
Jemal was running on his own two feet back to the Fortland Bridge. With the help of Emilia, finally, the majority of the young mutants had made it to the bridge area. There were two big vans covered in the color black waiting for them. Shark was signaling all of the mutants to get inside. The last one that Emilia had to rescue was Camila. One by one, they all got inside.
[Jemal]: “Several of them had ran off, they are gonna have to be a lost cause. We can’t risk going back for them, a lot of them had splitted up and took off.”
Eddie Jade Emilia Kyren Everett Brave Camila Haven Jemal
They all made it out, they were split into two groups as they got into the vans and drove off. Kyren was worried because Everett was in the other van. Jemal looks over at Kyren with a look of comfort.
[Jemal]: “It’s ok, both of the vans are going to the same location.”
The vans drove for a good 17 minutes, they even split up for the sake of not being easily followed. Eventually both vans met up at an empty aircraft base where two helicopters were waiting for them. Shark and Jemal escorted the young mutants out of the vans and into the helicopters. They got split up into two groups once again. Pretty soon, they were heading into the air. The crazy thing about it was that none of them knew where they were going, but Jemal was a young mutant himself, who was working alongside Shark who clearly was a human. Deep down, they must have trust Jemal enough to leave their current situation for a whole new one.
TBC
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Post by Other Realm on May 20, 2019 13:28:22 GMT
Could we trust Shark? Could we trust Jemal? These were the two guys that came to that prison and simply saved us from losing our freedom. Naturally, I wanted to thank him but at the same time, I don’t know these guys from a can of paint. Everyone was riding in a helicopter until we landed in West Charter city. West Charter had a certain feel to it, it had a lot of trees and mountains if you drive in a specific direction further west. It was 4:37AM, that’s right, Shark and Jemal came to our rescue in the middle of the night. Everett had fallen asleep.
Once we landed in West Charter, there was a nice big tour bus of sorts waiting for us after we all got out of the helicopters. The bus was big enough to fit all of us. One by one we got on the bus. It’s crazy knowing that I have no idea where i’m going, but at this point I had no choice but to trust Shark. It was obvious that he was human but Jemal was definitely one of us, a young mutant. It was a 25 minute drive, sitting next to Everett, Brave began to wake up Everett who had fallen asleep as they rode on the bus.
The bus ends up pulling up in front of what appears to be a nicely sized building of sorts. On the front of the building it reads “James Brentwood Science Research Facility”.
[Brave]: “Where are we, where are we? Where did you take us? Is this some kind of lab building?”
Brave was fully alert as everybody on the bus was noticing their new surroundings. Jemal sat across from him on the bus and nodded his head.
[Jemal]: “Trust me, you guys could not be in safer hands, welcome to James Brentwood’s science lab facility.”
The bus comes to a complete stop as Shark just got off the phone as he was standing up.
[Shark]: “I know that there are so many questions you guys have. All of your questions will be answered soon. Jemal and I don’t mean you any harm. You guys are safe with us.”
Jade looks at Shark quizzical. She really isn’t sure what to make of the situation.
[Jade] You guys are… human right? Why would you help us?
Jemal heard the question that Jade just asked them. The bus had arrived in front of the nicely sized building. It was still dark outside, the sun won’t rise for another few hours. Everett was probably more tired than everyone else. They each got off the bus, Shark and Jemal were the first ones off the bus as the bus driver remained behind the wheel. The only form of light within all of the darkness was the lights coming from the science lab building. They were in a woods area, dark trees were all around them, it looked almost creepy but the beauty of the luxurious science building made it look nice. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Haven, Brave, Eddie, Kyren, Everett, Jade, Emilia, and Camila. Everyone was safe and off the bus. They all began to approach the science building but the majority of them appeared to be somewhat nervous. Except for Eddie, who is infatuated with a device he snagged from one of the troopers. It is hooked up to a set of earbuds, and Eddie is barely even aware of what is happening around him.
[Brave]: “Do we have to go in there?”
They all stopped to look at Brave. Jemal stood among all of the young mutants and he had a look of compassion on his face.
[Jemal]: “I know that this is a lot for you guys to take in. I know that we are considered strangers to you but we promise that we are not mutant hunters who are trying to harm you. I am a mutant too, I was also injected just like the rest of you. James Brentwood is….”
Camila cuts Jemal off as she looks at him. Eddie looks like he is now paying attention, but the earbuds are still in his ears.
[Camila]: “James…..James Brentwood, the scientist, the man who created that amazing drug that is good for healing injured bones. They have been using his stuff for injured military soldiers. It’s an expensive drug, it’s an illegal drug to be used in pro sports, but they definitely use it in the military for saving injured soldiers. James Brentwood, that guy is a millionaire, he’s a genius.”
Jemal developed a bit of a warm smile. Suddenly, a glowing blue ball made out of plasma began to generate from the palm of Jemal’s hand as he holds it up for them to see.
[Jemal]: “James can help all of you, just like he helped me. We must go inside.”
Jemal quickly throws the plasma ball into the air as it explodes. Shark and Jemal begins to make their way inside the lab building. Camila looks at Kyren and the rest of the guys.
[Camila]: “If this is James Brentwood’s lab, then my speculation was right all along.”
[Haven]: “What do you mean Camila?”
Camila sighs as she began to walk closer towards the front entrance of the building.
[Camila]: “I knew it, I knew it, I knew it….”
[Kyren]: “Camila, talk to us.”
[Camila]: “There was a strong speculation going on that mutation was created based on a science experiment created by someone. Scientists all across the world have been doing research on mutation believing that natural born mutants actually do exists on this planet. If James Brentwood is a scientist who wants to help us, then that means we all became mutants by the actions of someone who intentionally wanted to affect people with the mutant gene. Someone out there is responsible for us changing into what we have all become. If James knows the answer? Then I am going to have to trust this guy and get answers from him.”
Camila enters inside the building…
[Eddie]: “You guys...you should really get one of these. It’s awesome. Like, all I gotta do is think of a song, and it shows up! And if I hit this little button here, I can hear like everything in a hundred yard radius. If there were two caterpillars getting it on in the bushes, I could hear how long it’ll take until they’re done.”
One by one they followed her inside. Feint music is heard from Eddie’s device, amplified by him singing along (his metal frame somehow echoing the signal from the song being played rather than his singing voice.)
[Eddie]: “Who can it be knocking at my door? Go away! Don’t come ‘round here no more! Can’t you see that it’s late at night?...”
The main entrance of the James Brentwood Science Lab Research facility looked like a very nicely designed establishment. They were in the main entrance way, there was a big lobby area with a front desk. It was a nice relaxing spot with couches and a television. Everett was so exhausted, he quickly sits on one of the couches in the lobby that looked like an area to check in at a hotel. Eddie, meanwhile, is dancing to his song as if he is actually in the music video (which he happens to be watching on the device’s screen).
[Eddie]: “Who can it be now? Who can it be now?”
Jade looks at Shark. She knows that he heard her and isn’t impressed that he ignores it, but with things afoot that are more urgent, she decides to not press the issue.
[Jade] Alright then. I guess we’ll find out.
Suddenly a noise wakes everyone into alertness, it is Jade’s mobile phone. Emilia is surprised that the prison guards failed to find it.
[Eddie]: “WHO CAN IT BE NOW? WHO CAN IT BE NOW?”
[Emilia] Jade, how have you still got that?
Jade simply winks at her friend as she checks who is calling her. It is simply Dave, one of her bandmates.
[Jade] Hey.
[Dave] Hey? You go off the radar and all you have for me is ‘Hey’? Look, are you OK?
[Jade] Uhh… Dave now is not a good time. You’ll have to carry on the Jade Statues without me man. I’m a bit…. Tied up. I’m safe though.
[Dave] What the fuck are you on about, Jade? Are you quittin’ us?
[Jade] No… We...I was kidnapped… Remember the whole load of shit at the club?
[Dave] Wait, we thought you just walked out on us….
[Jade] I was protecting Emmy. Look, I can’t say anymore. Gotta go… Bye Dave.
Dave goes to say something but Jade cuts out before she can hear what. Emilia and the rest of the gang look at Jade perplexed.
[Jade] Emmy, you know I have my ways.
[Eddie]: “Hey, you’re in a band?”
Everyone glanced over at Eddie, who is no longer using his vocal chords as a speaker for his music. It’s still playing over his earbuds, but he is talking normally.
[Jade]: “You could hear all of that?”
[Eddie]: “I was trying to listen to that sweet saxophone line, but yes. This thing totally picked up your call. I’m really sorry...if someone can show me how to turn it off, I will…”
[Camila]: “How were you playing that song through your own voice?”
[Eddie]: “I...have no idea, ma’am. Can we add that to the list of questions we ask the big man? I mean, I understand if there’s some other stuff we need to ask him first…”
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Everyone was assembled inside the main lobby of the lab building. Jemal wanted to feel like he was one of the young mutants, which he was, so he went over and sat near Haven. Now that they were all in the same room, Shark made his way into the lobby and stood before everyone there. Kyren didn’t know what to truly think of Shark. If his intentions were bad, he had a funny way of showing it.
[Kyren]: “Thank you, for saving us….”
Kyren looked at Shark as Shark nodded his head with a smile.
[Haven]: “Why are we here?”
[Shark]: “Well, like I said, people call me Shark. I’m a trained agent who works for the N.C.I.A. but I also work on the side for James Brentwood. He is a scientist and this is his facility.”
[Camila]: “He studies mutant DNA.”
[Shark]: “Yes, he studies it along with his fellow lab partners. This is his research lab facility. I promise you, we don’t mean any harm. You guys are all mutants who are in some serious danger.”
[Everett]: “We got attacked and ambushed by these guys, they weren’t exactly cops, they were trained pretty well. I don’t even know how they detected that we were all mutants. They hunted us down at a sports bar in North Charter.”
[Jemal]: “Those guys are called Mutant Hunters, they are trained military guys who are now skilled in specifically hunting down mutants. You guys are not the first group of young mutants they have captured. If Shark and I didn’t come in to save you? You guys were gonna be sent to their enslavement prison camp for mutants. The government and the White House is focusing on coming up with ways to control the mutant spread that is happening on this planet. The way mutants are being hunted and tracked down? It’s really bad. We don’t know what those guys would have done to you, but we had to come in to save you guys and bring you all here.”
[Brave]: “How did you guys know that we were even there?”
[Shark]: “James has been keeping tabs on the actions of our enemies. We knew about their prison for awhile now, tonight was the night we were going to come in and pull you guys out of there. Unfortunately not all of the mutants made it out of that prison. Some of them ran off on their own when we were trying to get you guys to the helicopter.”
Camila stood up.
{Camila}: “Thank you for helping us, but what made you want to do this? What is your reason behind helping us?”
[Shark]: “James Brentwood is a great friend of mine. He knows the reason as to how this mutant spread started in the first place. He wants nothing but the best for mutants and he wants them safe. He knows it’s not their fault that this happened to them. He knows more about this whole situation than I do. There is so much that needs to be explained but i’m sure you guys are tired and exhausted. We can talk about everything in the morning.”
Jemal looked around at everyone.
[Jemal]: “I’m a young mutant just like you guys. James Brentwood took me in like his own adopted son when I had no one to turn to. My mutant powers were going crazy and James came around to rescue me before I got hunted down by mutant hunters. James is here to help all of us, he really doesn’t mean you any harm. On the 8th floor of this building, we have a room called the sleep room. There are plenty of beds to sleep in, I think we should all get some rest.”
[Shark]: “We will bring breakfast in the morning and then you can all meet Mr. Brentwood himself.”
[Jemal]: “You guys are safe here.”
Jemal gave them a warm smile as he walks over to Shark.
[Kyren]: “Breakfast and a bed, man…..That sounds great.”
[Eddie]: “....got any weed?”
============ Meanwhile, back in North Charter…
Simone was still on the hunt for the man known as Kyren. She noticed the catastrophe all around the city that had taken place whilst she was on her ‘date’. There were still military personnel driving around the city, or to her they looked like military anyway. She looked at the uniforms being worn by the guys in the vans. The logo looked familiar, but she couldn’t place it. Simone decided to head back to her apartment on the other side of North Charter in order to do some research. She decided to stick to the rooftops in order to stay a bit more out of sight - although she couldn’t place the logo as of this moment, she recognised it enough that she knew it was bad news.
Still in her evening gown dress, she looked down shaking her head. Traversing rooftops was definitely not going to be possible in this attire. What luck then that she was in California and the air was warm. Simone made some very tactful rips and tears to her dress, whilst also removing the train which increased her mobility and also maintained dignity. She removed her high heels and made her way into an abandoned building from inside an alley and then made her way to the rooftops. After about thirty minutes of careful building traversal, Simone made it back to her apartment building. She opened the door to her building and noticed that her elderly neighbour Mrs. Shepard was collecting her mail.
‘I was out longer than I thought’ thought, Simone.
Mrs. Shepard was 89 years old and by her own account ‘as blind as a fruit bat and as mad as one too’. Simone didn’t understand this reference. Bats were not blind and fruit bats were certainly not crazy, but in a rare act of empathy for Simone, she never pushed this issue with Mrs. Shepard, she just let the old woman be. For the most part, Simone had somewhat of a soft spot for Mrs. Shepard. Or at least as much as Simone could muster. Simone was in the lobby of the apartment building and made her way to the stairs doing her very best to avoid Mrs. Shepard.
[Mrs. Shepard] Lori! Is that you?
Too late. Simone grimaced. Mrs. Shepard knew the French stunner as ‘Lori’ for everyone’s safety.
[Simone] Hi...Mrs. Shepard…
[Mrs. Shepard] Hello dear! Busy night?
[Simone] Yes.
Simone made her way closer to the stairs, when Mrs. Shepard called her again.
[Mrs. Shepard] Would you like to join me for a cup of tea, dear?
In her head, Simone was screaming ‘No, you old bag! I have work to do’ but outwardly all she said was
[Simone] Oh Mrs. Shepard, that’s very nice of you, but oh… *Simone yawns for effect* I-I’m very tired. I’ve been very busy tonight. I think I’m just going to rest. Maybe another time, OK?
[Mrs. Shepard] OK dear.
Simone rolled her eyes and made her way upstairs. She made her way along the corridor to apartment 32, her apartment and unlocked the door. Simone’s apartment wasn’t a home - it was a safehouse. Her furniture was still wrapped in plastic, barely used at all. She walked into her hallway and locked the door slumping against the door as she shook her head. Simone threw her shoes down and removed her torn dress. She retrieved from her bedroom a t-shirt and black denim shorts. She then made herself a whiskey, set up her laptop and went to do some research on the World Wide Web.
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Post by Other Realm on May 20, 2019 13:30:25 GMT
The more time we spent around Jemal and Shark, the more we decided to let our guard down. Everett felt like they were in a safe place, I mean, if Shark was dangerous, he would have killed them already or at least trap them. Thanks to him, they all got their powers back, it’s impossible at this point to think that he was an enemy. The James Brentwood Research Facility had 11 floor levels to it. It wasn’t exactly a public domain, they had security and gates in front of the building. It was so late that night, Kyren and Haven both looked like they were going to fall asleep while standing up. Jemal escorted everyone to the eighth floor which was known as the “Sleep Room”. It felt like Jemal wanted to feel like he was apart of our group. He took all of us on the elevator and took us to the eighth floor. He gave us a small tour of the two big laboratory rooms where research was being done by real life scientists. Kyren looked over and could see Brave waving hello to all the people that they walked pass as they got on the elevator.
Once we all arrived on the 8th floor, we entered the sleep room and there were rows of beds lined up on both sides of the room. It looked like a sleeping location for the military. Without hesitation we each began to pick out a bed to lay in. Brave and Haven removed their shoes as they laid in beds that were next to each other. Everett picked out a bed that was next to Eddie. Camila looked over and could see Jade and Emilia picking out there beds to sleep in. Jemal picked out a bed that was further down at the end of the room.
[Shark]: “Get some sleep guys, i’ll be back in the morning.”
The level of exhaustion had to be severe on all of us. Honestly, it didn’t take long for any of us to fall asleep. None of us had the chance to really make conversation or discuss our surroundings. I could hear Kyren snoring as I was shutting my eyes….
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While fast asleep, Eddie’s mind was halfway across the globe, and five years ago.
{Eddie}: “How long do we have to rest, Captain?”
{Captain:}: “Three hours, then we move out to link up with 45th.”
{Eddie}: “Need a smoke?”
{Captain}: “No thanks, found a pack on a sand bo-”
A .50 caliber round flies through the nearby window, striking the captain in the head. Everything from the chin-up is virtually vaporized. Eddie’s face is now covered with blood and skull fragments, pushing him back as some has sprayed into his eyes. Eddie falls back, where two men from his unit return fire out the window.
{Private}: “These mother fuckers just don’t quit!”
{Lieutanant}: “Get back, corporal! It’s just the three of us now, we can’t afford to lose any more men!”
{Private}: “WHERE THE HELL IS OUR BACKUP?”
{Eddie}: “This was a suicide mission...they sent us out here to die…”
{Private}: “Why the hell would they do that?”
A round strikes the private in the chest, taking the unit down to two. The Lieutenant falls back, taking cover underneath the windowsill. He looks straight over to Eddie.
[Lieutenant]: “Corporal, take the package and find the first American you can! Do NOT let this get into the enemy’s hands! I’ll cover you! GO! NOW! THAT’S AN ORDER!”
[Corporal]: “Are you kidding me? I’m not leaving you here to die!”
[Lieutenant]: “Of course not! You’re leaving me here to live! GO!”
The then-corporal Eddie Stone bergudingly exits the room, taking a small black satchel with him. In the rush, one of the syringes falls out...containing a glowing green substance. Eddie is totally unaware of this, and works to quickly put the remaining contents into his own personal pack without checking them whatsover. He cocks the receiver on his rifle, and looks to exit the small dilapidated one-story home his team had taken up shelter in.
He barely makes it out before an RPG missile destroys it.
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11:15AM, the lights came on inside the sleep room. The sounds of doors opening up can be heard. Everett woke up right out of bed, I reached out and started to rock Eddie to wake him up. Shark comes into the room with a big tray cart that smelled like hot breakfast food. About five other people began to enter inside the sleep room behind Shark. The five people were wearing lab coats. Camila looked over at the door and noticed another man entering the room behind Shark and the five mysterious individuals in lab coats, she looked at the man and had a strong feeling of who it might be. The tall man looks over at Camila and smiles as he enters the room.
{Camila}: “.....James Brentwood.”
TBC
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Post by Other Realm on Jun 13, 2019 14:18:38 GMT
Camila was making it obvious that she has a history of military training. The way she got right up out of bed as Shark came walking into the room with a big tray of food for everyone to eat. The man himself, James Brentwood was walking alongside Shark as he looks around at all of the young mutants. Kyren got up from his bed and he could see the five lab scientists who were always in attendance in the room. Well, it was obvious they were scientists based on how they were dressed. There were three men and two women wearing lab coats. Haven could see Jemal walking over to James and hugging him. The look and vibe that James was giving off to them, he was happy to see everyone.
[James]: “Good morning, how is everyone feeling? We got some hot breakfast for you all. I hope you guys slept well. Welcome to my research facility.”
Everett was a little cautious at first, but something told him to truly let his guard down.
[Everett]: “Thank you, for helping us.”
James looks over at Everett with a warm smile.
[James]: “It was my pleasure, i’m glad everyone is safe.”
[Camila]: “Are you James Brentwood?”
[James]: “Yes, I am.”
While Everett may be letting his guard down, Eddie was a direct contrast. He stood directly at attention, as if he was standing on the yellow footprints at MCRD Intake.
[Eddie]: “Thank you, sir.”
Pretty much everyone stood around with their focus on James himself.
[Brave]: “Do you know who did this to us? Did you cause this mutant gene to happen?”
[James]: “No, and yes I know who did this.”
[Everett]: “Wait a minute, James, what do you want with all of us? I think we know by now you are not the enemy. I mean, you gave us our powers back. Are you a mutant? Why are we here?”
[James]: “I’m not a mutant, I am simply a scientist who is studying Mutation and Mutant DNA. I know what happened to all of you. Please know that I do not mean you any harm.”
Camila walks over to James.
[Camila]: “You are not just a scientist, you are a highly successful one. You are like a millionaire. You used to be friends with Snyder Ross weren’t you? Snyder is a scientist too. HE did this didn’t he? The mutant injection, he created what he needed to change human DNA into mutant DNA. I had my suspicions but now I know it’s the truth.”
[James]: “You have to understand that it’s bigger than you think.”
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Corporal Stone runs up a bombed-out city street, taking heavy fire from the buildings above. Yes, we are in another flashback. Eddie ducks down near a fallen car, a bullet whizzing by his head and knocking the side mirror off.
[Corporal]: “Damnit!”
Eddie looks over, to see two men in the same color fatigues as him. They pop out from a nearby building, firing with M16 rifles back into a cluster of insurgents.
[Corporal]: “Holy shit, am I happy to see you!”
[Major]: “Likewise, soldier! Holy hell, did they send you here by yourself? Laying down covering fire, let’s go!”
The old grunt, without hesitation, opens fire into the enemy.
[Corporal]: “What outfit are you?”
[Lieutenant]: “45th MD, we’re the mad scientists! You must be those black ops guys!”
[Corporal]: “The rest of my unit was killed...I got the package, it’s right here in my pack…”
[Major]: “We’ve got a tunnel system under here, we can get to our base safely, let’s hurry up!”
The three enter the half-blown out building, but not before a round finds it way into Eddie’s back. It exits his chest, forcing him to stumble into the arms of the masked and hooded Lieutenant.
[Major]: “He’s been hit!”
[Lieutenant]: “He has the package! I found it!”
[Major]: “He’s bleeding out fast! Let’s leave him, we can’t afford to get slowed down!”
[Lieutenant]: “Major...I have an idea?”
The Lieutenant removes the cap from one of the syringes’ needles.
[Lieutenant]: “This is the only way we can save him!”
[Major]: “As long as you don’t get killed too!”
The corporal, with no time to spare, injects Eddie directly in his wound with a full dose of the green liquid. He throws the syringe onto the ground, and continues to carry the unconscious Eddie Stone away. The two soldiers open a broken closet door, then trigger a false door inside the closet. It reveals a lighted and re-enforced concrete staircase, leading down. The Major is on the radio as they enter the stairwell.
[Major]: “Coming in hot, we have the package, prepare the change tank...we’re gonna have one turn on us live, boys!”
[Lieutenant]: “I’m a woman, sir!”
[Major]: “You got more balls than half the men out here! We need to move him before he turns…”
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Eddie’s consciousness suddenly pops back into the present day.
[Eddie]: “...son of a….”
James walks over to Eddie.
[James]: “Did you already know what the mutant gene was? How did you get in contact with it?”
[Eddie]: “Sir, I don’t know...but I think the US Army gave it to me, sir.”
Camila walked further out to where she was in the middle among the young mutants, James, Shark and the lab scientists. She actually started to pace a little bit.
[Camila]: “My dad used to be the mayor of New York. I have been around Government my whole life. I have heard rumors and talk about mutation and that it truly existed. I used to be in the military but only for a short time. Once my dad found out I was infected by the injection, he pretty much wanted to throw me into a mutant slave camp. My own dad, I…”
Camila sighs and holds back her emotions as she now looks over at James.
[Camila]: “Are you sure it’s Snyder Ross? You Mr. Brentwood are a brilliant scientist, I heard a lot about you. I know that we are in good hands. You are the man who can stop Snyder if it’s him. Why did he do this? What happened?”
[Jemal]: “There is so much that James would love to tell you. We hope that this means you guys would like to stay?”
[Everett]: “Jemal, how do you know so much about James and this facility? How did you know to rescue us at that prison?”
Jemal nodded.
[Jemal]: “I was injected just like all of you. I was a stray mutant who ran away because I didn’t want my powers to kill my family. I was thrown into a mutant slave camp that is not even in this country. I was put through so much. James came in with his team and got me out of there. I have been with him ever since. He is like a dad to me. Shark is like a older brother. I been at this science lab facility to learn more about my powers. James gave me shelter over at his house and he’s been really helping me and taking care of me.”
Haven shook his head and chuckled a little.
[Haven]: “So James wants to adopt us and that way he can turn us into his little mutant workers? No thanks, i’m outta here.”
Haven begins to walk out but Kyren goes after him.
[Kyren]: “Haven, wait up.”
Both Kyren and Haven were now out the door. Camila looked like she was getting a strong sense of what was going on.
[Camila]: “I hear that Snyder Ross is an absolute monster. If he is the one responsible for making me this way? It must have been his intention to populate humanity with mutation. What did he think he was gonna do? Take over the world or something and have mutants somehow work for him? His intentions do not make any sense.”
[Eddie]: “If anyone here has the power to make me remember stuff, it would be really useful right now. I can only remember bits and pieces...”
[James]: “It’s all right. Start with what you know.”
[Eddie]: “Five years ago, I was part of a black budget ops team in the 3rd Army. We were supposed to deliver a package to the 45th.”
[James]: “Oh, Medical Research and Development!”
[Eddie]: “Yes, sir. Thing is, I remember the mission, I remember being the last guy alive in my unit, but I cannot remember whether or not I completed the mission, or what happened. One minute I was in South Yemen fighting al-Queda and the next, I’m on a flight back to the States. They dropped me off somewhere in the middle of the city, and left me to fend for myself. I got hooked on drugs, I thought that maybe it was the drugs that mutated me. But now I think...I think the 45th gave something to me, sir. I just can’t remember...”
Jade and Emilia look at one another whilst pondering and then look at James. Jade walks over and stands next to him.
[Jade] This…. Snyder Ross. Does he have...or his company at least - does it have a UK division? I mean, I’m assuming it must do. Emilia and myself are British by origin. We moved to the States a few years ago, but we developed our powers in the UK.
[James]: "Hmmm, I'm not quite sure of that. I can't imagine Snyder having operations outside the U.S. unless he was somehow able to sneak the injection overseas. Eventually our only way to get certain answers is from Snyder Ross himself."
Jade looks over at Emilia who is meekly looking at her shoes. A beat goes by before Jade looks at James once more.
[Jade] So...how do we go about that, then? Is he here?
Meanwhile back in North Charter
Simone is still looking through the Internet regarding the guys that were causing havoc tonight all over North Charter. She sadly doesn’t find any information regarding them but a name does pop up from her files that she recognises from way back when.
[Simone] Snyder Ross! Damn it! I should have realised that he would be involved in this.
Simone shuts down her laptop and gets dressed again. This time in her work attire as she calls it. A black leather catsuit. She equips a gun to complete the look. She looks deadly. And gorgeous. And she knows it. Simone then heads out into the cool night air.
Meanwhile:
Looking around at everyone in the room, James Brentwood felt like certain things was more important than focusing on Snyder Ross and his whereabouts.
[James]: "Well guys, I know you all have a lot of questions but I think you guys should eat some good breakfast first and then I'll come back and discuss where we go from here. My lab partners and I are here for you but we first want to make sure that you guys are taken care of."
[Jemal]: "Don't worry James, I'll guide them all the way. Follow me everyone."
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James, Shark and his lab crew decided to give the young mutants some space and time to think things through. Jemal ended up moving the young mutants out of the sleep room and to another lower floor level of the research facility building.
[Jemal]: "I'm taking you guys to the briefing room."
Jemal escorted them down a hallway and once they arrived at the front door, he opens it as they all begin to enter inside a nicely sized office room with a huge and long table with chairs. The whole place looked like a room to discuss meetings with some of the top government aides of the U.S.
They each sat at the table near each other. Breakfast was being served on the big table. The atmosphere was very clean and cool temperature. They had eggs, bacon, pancakes, biscuits, coffee, orange juice and hash browns.
Eddie, Everett, Camila, Brave, Jade, Emilia and Jemal were all at the table. I'm sure they were all hungry. Looking around at the table, Everett noticed that Kyren and Haven were missing.
[Everett]: "Have you guys seen Kyren or Haven?"
[Eddie]: “Not since Haven took off...guess he wasn’t hungry.”
Eddie is folding eggs, bacon, and potatoes up into a pancake to simulate a breakfast burrito.
Suddenly, the door swings open as Kyren enters the room and joins them at the table.
[Everett]: "Yo, Kyren, where's Haven?"
[Kyren]: "He took off and left, he said screw it, he wants no part of this. I think he's heading back to North Charter."
Brave nodded.
[Brave]: "Well after I'm done with this breakfast, I'm gonna head out too. I'm gonna see if I can reach my mom and tell her I'm coming home."
[Eddie]: “If I had a home to go back to, I’d go there. Might as well stick around here for a while, see if Mr. Brentwood can figure out what the hell happened to us...”
People started eating the breakfast; Eddie, Kyren and Everett were eating like they had missed a few meals.
[Jemal]: "You can't go home Brave."
[Brave]: "Why not?"
Taking a break in between bites, Everett sighs.
[Everett]: "Are you serious? Dude this world out here ain't ready for people like us, the people that we have become. Do you think you can just leave here and life is gonna be the same as it was? After breakfast we all gotta go look for Haven. There is no way he's gonna be safe out there."
[Kyren]: "It was stupid for him to just take off like that. We gotta bring him back."
Brave was slowly losing his patience as he drinks down his orange juice.
[Brave]: "We are all adults, James and these other men in lab coats are not our adopted parents. I gotta make sure my family is ok. If mutant hunters wanna come after me? I got something for them."
[Eddie]: “Dude, you don’t want to play with these guys. There’s a good chance they already know who your loved ones are, and where to find them.”
Eddie inhales his breakfast “taco”.
[Eddie]: “In fact, they’re probably already being watched right now…”
[Brave]: “Like I said, after this i’m outta here….”
In one instant, Jemal had instantly lost all of his patience with how Brave is going about the situation. Jemal stands up from the table with a serious look on his face. He looks at Brave and doesn’t take his eyes off him.
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Post by Other Realm on Jun 13, 2019 14:20:05 GMT
[Jemal]: “That’s it, so you’re just gonna get up and walk out of here. You’re gonna go back to your family and go back to living a normal life and pretend that there isn’t something inside of you that has changed you and made you different? Do you think this is a game? It’s not a game, it’s real life, I did not come down to that prison to help save you guys just so that you can walk out of here as if your life isn’t at risk.”
[Brave]: “I didn’t ask you to help me, YOU decided to come to my aid. What, do you think I owe you something?”
Jemal sighs.
[Jemal]: “Brave, you don’t owe me anything, i’m sorry ok? All I am trying to tell you is that this world is not the same anymore. Over the years, normal human beings just like you and me have unexpectedly mutated. It’s not our fault and I’m not blaming you for anything. What I am trying to tell you is that we need to go about this the right way.”
[Brave]: “And what makes you think this James Brentwood knows all of the answers?”
Camila stood up from the table as she walks closer towards Brave with a slight form of compassion piercing through her eyes.
{Camila}: “This whole spread with mutation? It’s got millions of American people scared to death. Our current U.S. President, President Bryan Creed is already focusing on taking serious action to dispose of mutants like us and make sure that we never come in contact with human life ever again. The police is not on our side, the U.S Government is not on our side. There is a strong and powerful military base of trained men and women who are being given special equipment to track mutants down and capture them, they might even kill them. We have to trust somebody and right now, James Brentwood is looking pretty good right now.”
Eddie nodded as Everett stood up.
[Everett]: “James seems like a guy who is on our side. He’s not just any regular guy, I mean he’s a scientist who specializes in this type of stuff. I’m sure he has an idea as to what happened to us. We need to find out what this Snyder Ross guy is all about.”
[Kyren]: “If this Snyder Ross guy is the one behind all of this? Then I would feel more comfortable having James Brentwood with me. The guy seems to have his heart set in the right place. I don’t think James is trying to treat us like his children, I seriously think he wants to help us.”
[Camila]: “Can you imagine how many other mutants are out there? I’m sure that over the years hospitals have become more focused on protecting innocent people from the mutant injection, but how many of us are truly out there? I choose to stay with James Brentwood and help him the best way that I can. I have knowledge on the military and i’m sure I can find some connections with people working in the government. We gotta stop whoever caused this.”
Looking over at Brave, Jemal felt like he was done arguing.
[Jemal]: “.........I can’t force any of you guys to stick around. If you guys leave, we might not be able to track you guys down and help you again. If you guys leave, I will still be here helping James and helping him figure out how to handle this mutant spread and protect people from getting hurt. James never held me captive, I chose to be here, I didn’t ask for this mutation to happen to me, but it did.”
Jemal sighs deeply as he was looking down at the table with sorrow.
[Jemal]: “There are two locker rooms downstairs on the very bottom floor of this research facility. You guys can get your clothes washed, hit the showers and we also got a load of fresh clothes that haven’t been worn yet. We have extra clothes that you guys could try on and wear. After you guys get cleaned up, I will be more than happy to drop you guys off back at North Charter. The world is changing, I don’t know what’s really going to happen. If this Snyder Ross guy is truly the one behind all of this, I honestly don’t know what he’s capable of. I don’t even know what the U.S. government is capable of. I can imagine how many innocent young mutants are somewhere captured, alone and scared.”
Sitting back down at the table, Jemal was deeply emotional and lost in thought.
[Jemal]: “.....No matter what, I wish you guys the best….”
Silent Pause.
Everett closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. Camila walks over to Jemal and places her hand on Jemal’s shoulder.
[Camila]: “Jemal…..I got your back.”
Jemal looks up at Camila.
[Camila]: “....I’m staying, i’m gonna help you figure this whole thing out.”
Everett walks over to Jemal and places his hand on his back. Kyren follows behind him.
[Everett]: “I’m staying too.”
[Kyren]: “Me too bro, I got your back.”
A warm smile grew on Jemal’s face as he stood back up from the table. Everett put his arm around Jemal.
[Everett]: “We're not gonna let you fight in this war alone man.”
Looking at everyone, Brave sighs deeply as he turned around for a moment and began to think for a second. It was obvious that so much was on his mind. He finally turns back around to look at everyone.
[Brave]: “Ok, i’m in...as long as I get to eventually speak to my mom.”
Jemal smiles and nods.
[Jemal]: “I’m sure James can figure out a way to make that happen.”
[Brave]: “Ok then, I’m in.”
[Eddie]: “I ain’t going anywhere, even if I had somewhere to go. I was built for war. This is my home and y’all are my siblings in arms.”
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