Planet Hero
Chapter one: A new life
"Kyla, look out!" yelled Kyle.
"What!" I screamed. I quickly checked my surroundings; I can't tap into anyone's mind. There was no one around me except Kyle. Then I heard Kyle's footsteps running at me, he pushed me to the ground as a bullet flew passed my head and hit Kyle in the stomach. Blood shot out of him as soon as the bullet hit him.
I crawled out of the way, just as another bullet flew passed me again. Who the hell is shooting me, I thought to myself. Kyle was still lying there in the line of fire. So I ran out as fast as I could, grabbed him and ran back into hiding. A bullet had grazed the back of my hand, and was now bleeding. I ripped Kyle's shirt, and wrapped my hand.
I was putting pressure on his wound, when he took my hand and barely said the words stop. I looked him in the eye and knew what he was asking. I lowered my head thinking, how he could ask this of me. When I looked at him again he placed my palm against his and said, "This power I hold, that keeps me alive, I give it to Kyla, my sister. It will be hers, for good not evil. She will be strong and not give up. This shield I own, my power is hers."
In an instant a surge of power flew from his body and swirled around me. I was lifted into the air and I dropped Kyle's hand. He went limp, but not before his mouth formed a smile. His eyes closed and he stopped breathing. As I looked down at him from way up in the air, the power finally stopped coming at me. And a tear was shed; I glided out into the line of fire. The killer still wasn't visible. I knew who he was instantly when he spoke.
"Awww, poor little girl. Her brother is dead, her mother is gone. Her other sister is on Earth. Where is your daddy little girl?" he said
"Shut up" I snarled back at him. I landed onto the ground and looked towards the sound of his voice.
"I wouldn't talk to your elders like that little girl. After all I am older, and the only one you have left." He replied. "Did I forget to tell you, I am your father, your daddy's little girl."
"Shut up, shut up, and shut up! I am not your little girl anymore. I am not little, I am 15 years old, and you can't control me anymore! So leave me alone!" I screamed back at him.
I know you are probably wondering what is going on. As you have already figured out, my name is Kyla, my brother is Kyle actually he is my twin. My father is a villain, my mother is a hero. My sister, well, I shouldn't have said anything about that yet. Maybe I should start from the beginning. All of what happened above had started about a year ago.
My name is Kyla; I live on Planet Hero which the humans on Earth know as Mars. My mom is a superhero. She has powers that no one could imagine having; flying, telepathic, shield, super strong, and invisibility. My dad has no powers, he is just super smart. Both his parents had powers, but he received none, and he wasn't supposed to have them either. According to some sort of prophecy.
Well my brother has shield and super strength. I can fly, am telepathic, and I can turn invisible. Ok so I got the better deal of the 2 of us. Well it gets better; ok maybe that's not the right word. But in a way it does, in another it doesn't.
One morning I woke up and everything was normal, mom cooked us breakfast, and dad was already at work. Well Kyle and I went to school, by noon nothing in my life was ever normal again. Kyle and I got called into the office after lunch. It was a phone call from another planet and it was mom. This scared us a little more, because mom has never left Planet Hero, unless she was called in for a mission to Earth.
And she never called us, especially in the middle of the day at school. When I pick up the phone and before I could say anything, a thought is thrown into my head from mom. "Kyla don't speak, just listen." That means she wants me to communicate by mind. This also means that something is wrong. So I sent back, "ok I'm listening, tell me as much as you can about the situation, and what is going on?" she responded, "Kyla, your father has taken me hostage, and he wants you and Kyle to come down here to receive me." "Mom, what planet are you on?" I asked. "Planet Evil." She answered.
For those of you that don't know, Planet Evil is known as Saturn down on Earth. And with all the rings, it makes it difficult to get into. And there is only a certain ring you can enter and exit from. And since my mom the second greatest hero in the world is captured on that planet, it means that Kyle and I cannot enter those grounds, that we should send help, but not ourselves.
So I told her that she will be saved, and Kyle and I will stay safe. This means that Kyle and I will go the planet, and help, but will bring help with us. So I looked at Kyle, he listened in on everything from my head. Here the thing, no one else can tap into my mind except Kyle. Not even my own mother or the greatest heroes known to mankind, or villains.
So after I hung up the phone I grabbed Kyle's hand and we ran/flew to the principal's office. We call him Sir.
"Sir, it's the Ryne twins. We have an urgent message that you need to hear." I said as fast as I could.
"The twins, oh alright come on in." we entered. "What is it then, spit it out, I don't have all day and you 2 have class." He prompted us.
"Sir, just listen" I said aloud, then silently, "our mother has been held captive by our father on Planet Evil. And he is asking for the freedom of our mother, his wife, that Kyle and I show up, as in just him and I." I explained through mind.
Sir took my hand in his and led me through the door and told Kyle to close it, and then shield it. Once the 3 of us were concealed from all ears, Sir asked us if we knew why we were born, especially as twins. Both Kyle and I shook our heads. So he explained to us why.
"When your father was born with no powers, and he wasn't supposed to have any. The town decided that he should live on Earth, not our planet. Then your Grandmother stepped in, she said he would be great, everyone would remember him, no one will forget him." Said Sir.
"But what does that have to do with the current situation?" I asked
"Well, if you would let me finish you would know." He answered
"Oh ok, continue then." I finished.
"Your father wasn't supposed to marry, especially not your mother. But since he did, and if they had twins, which means you two. That the 1st girl born as a twin from him and your mom. Well that girl would be known as the "key" on her 16th birthday she will help destroy the world. Starting with Planet Hero, by turning all heroes into villains. So no one would help the people in need down on Earth. The only heroes that would be left would be Kyle, and your mother." He explained.
"Tell me about Kari, please Sir." I begged
"What, wait how do you know about her?"
"Ummm…"
"Don't answer that, your telepathic aren't you?"
"Ummm, yeah."
"Well since you blew the surprise already, I might as well finish it. Kari is your sister; she is older and was born with no powers. This time they sent her to Earth to live with a normal family. So she is now growing up as a human, not a hero. And Kyla, your job is to protect her, while she protects you. You will go undercover as a human, someone that is living without food, shelter, shoes. Oh and of course NO POWERS!" said Sir.
"Do you mean that you take my powers away from me, or I just can't use them?" I asked
"You can't use them. If I were to take your powers from you it would be like handing the villain what he wants. So you need to stay under the radar."
"Sir, I don't mean to question your authority and your plan. But how on earth am I supposed to drop off the radar screen. I would have to fake my death."
"That's exactly what will happen, so they will think that your powers went to Kari. That's why you will be sent to her and you must protect her."
"So when do I take my hero test?" I asked
"You don't, so here is the plan, you will pretend to take your hero test. But when you go to break up the asteroid it will hit you. You will turn invisible and continue flying down to Earth. Everyone will think that you died, and start looking for Kari. When you get to Earth you need to change your identity. Instead of Kyla you will be Jayla Woods. And you need to make your clothes ugly and torn up. Then you need to collapse or fall off a cliff or something to get noticed by their house. They will take care of you, and you will become good friends with Kari. And they will adopt you, and take you in like they did with Kari. Oh and you need to change your hair color when you get there, you can't have blond hair. Change your hair to black or brown." Said Sir
I just nodded my head and changed into an outfit for the hero test. Then told him I was ready, and Sir announced it on the intercom. So everyone went outside for the test to watch me fail, pass, or in this case die.
He blew the whistle and I flew into the air, went through burning building with super speed and saved the people that were trapped. Then I had to dive into an ocean and save a ship full of people. I passed both of them. Then came my sky test, I had to fly up and break an actual asteroid. Except this time it was huge, it wasn't a normal one, because Sir can control objects with his mind. Just like me.
So I went up for it, and went to break it and I put no strength into it, but it looked like I did. And it hit me and I ricocheted off of it. Ok so I made myself look like I got crushed by it, and then got sent flying into outer pace. But actually after a few seconds after the hit I turned invisible. So I flew down to Earth, and landed under a bridge next to a river. I went for a swim to cool the heat radiating off from my body. Then covered myself in dirt, tore my clothes and then dyed my hair black. Good bye Kyla, hello Jayla Woods.
"Kyla no, not her. They can't take her now, she is my sister." Said a panicked Kyle. He looked at Sir and he was pretending to be sad, so Kyle knew that the plan was a success. And before anyone could say anything Sir stood up and took off flying towards the Asteroid and broke it into many pieces. When he landed he said loud enough so everyone could hear, "Kyla Rynes is gone from this atmosphere and I believe she is dead. By the way that asteroid hit her, on her head and chest. It crushed her, when I flew up there was an imprint in the asteroid with her shape. And unless I hear otherwise, Kyla Rynes is officially pronounced dead." He finally finished.
Everyone turned to look at Kyle and started to walk over and comfort him. In that instant Sir stood behind him and sent him a message that said, "Cry or I will make you cry." So instantly Kyle started to tear up, and just about everyone came over and comforted him. Then there was a call in the office and it was his mother, so he said, "Mom, it's Kyle, and Kyla i...i...i...s d.e.a.a.d." instantly she broke down crying and she couldn't stop crying, then his father came on the phone and said in a very strict tone, "Kyla, my daughter, is dead. Kyle how could you let this happen, how did this happen?"
"She took her hero test and the asteroid was too big for her and it crushed her, there was an imprint of her in the rock, and some of her blood. So she is officially pronounced dead and I didn't let anything happen, she was passing up until, well she died. Besides, now you only have one child, just come back home, I'm really scared daddy, she is my sister, my best friend. I don't know what to do anymore." He finished.
Ok now back to me, so yeah I'm not dead, but everyone thinks I am. This is so cool, except that my brother and Sir know all about it and they have to pretend to be sad. But now that Kyla is supposedly dead and Jayla Woods is so very much alive. Now operations protect my sister.
I started walking towards where she was. She was right around the corner so I hid quickly and made myself visible again. I walked into the park and spotted her right away. I walked by her and started to play on the playground. She was watching me, without anyone noticing. Then she got up and started to walk towards me.
"Hello, there, what is your name?" she asked.
"My name is Jayla Woods. What is yours?" I answered.
"My name is Kari Glade, Jayla that is a cool name, where do you live?"
"I live; I don't know where I live. I just woke up one morning under a bridge near a river. And I have stayed there ever since." I replied.
"You poor thing, maybe you can stay at my house, I will talk to my parents about it. In the mean time why don't you sleep here in the park?" She waved her arm around where we were. I nodded and we started to play lava tag. Which means you can't touch the ground, unless you're the one that is it. Kira was it first, and her friends and I were running trying not to get tagged. Then one of her friends named Sarah was it, she is really fast. And I still haven't been tagged.
After a few more minutes the person that was it started to come after just me. Her name was Stacey. She was close every time, so I climbed higher. Soon I was standing on a bar that from the top to the ground was about 15 feet. So I am about 5' 7''. Over all my head is 20 ft above ground. Kira followed me up there, then Sarah. There wasn't much room anymore I was on the edge, Kari in the middle and Sarah on the other end.
We stopped playing and Stacey climbed up and slipped so she bumped into Sarah who nudged Kari, who tried to grab onto me, and ended up hitting me from the front. So I fell backwards towards the ground. As I started to fall, Kira tried to grab me but fell forward and landed on the step. Sarah was already standing on the step same with Stacey.
I was falling 20 ft, and not slowing down at all. I was gaining speed and going head first, someone was running for me, but got there to late, and I hit ground head first, damn it, the ground was cement. I felt my head hit it and cut open, great I was bleeding again. Wait a minute why can't I see anything except black. The girls I was playing with were calling my name, and someone went to get help.
I could hear everything at the moment, why can't I move my body or even open my eyes; I can't even send a thought to anyone. I heard footsteps running to me, they were adults, I could hear them panicking, but I couldn't tap into their minds. Something is actually wrong with me. Ouch someone is using a cell phone, with a very high pitch. They are calling someone, and that someone will be here as soon as they can.
Sirens, I hear sirens, humans getting out of a vehicle. They are carrying something with them; there is a mask over my face, why is air coming from this mask. I can breathe; well at least I don't need oxygen. I know how to breathe without air, wait I'm supposed to be human, not a superhero. Why does everything seem so blurry now, I could hear things; now I can't the footsteps and nervous voices are gone. I feel really sleepy, but I can't sleep it's only been 5 minutes since I fell.
I can hear voices again, there are really loud voices around me, and there is this weird thing on my head, and wires sticking to me all over the place. My left wrist is in a cast, and I still can't read anyone's mind, or even pick up any thoughts at all, or send anything. Why does my head hurt so much, and where am I.
It must have been only minutes when I felt someone leaning over me. I tried so hard to open my eyes, that they finally opened, and there was a guy standing over me, with a needle in his hand. He was dressed in all white and had something around his neck. He looked at me with curious eyes and was about to stick me with the needle, when I managed to say, "No." He stopped dead in his tracks with the needle, and backed away from me, and ran to get someone else.
It was seconds after the guy left, another guy walked in, he was also dressed in all white. This is a weird place, except another person walked in after he did. This guy said to the girl, "I don't want to get your hopes up, but from what I have heard she is making a remarkable recovery. I'm going to check her brain now, and see what she remembers about herself." Said the guy in white. The girl nodded, and walked over to the window.
The guy in white walked up to me and said, "Hello there miss, my name is Doctor Gates. Can you tell me what your name is?"
"Mmy nnaaamme iis Kkyylla. Wwheerre aam I?" I managed to get out.
"Miss, your name is Jayla Woods, and you're in a hospital."
"No, my naamme iis Kkyla Rrynness, annd I doo noot kknoow of ssucch a tthinng ccalleed a hossppittal. Hoow loong haavve I beeen hherre?"
"Jayla, it has been 3 days since your fall. Normally someone your age, especially with your deterioration of health, you would have been out for at least a week." Answered the doctor.
"What!" I yelled, ok good I've got my voice back, and some of my strength. The doctor looked at me like he had just seen a ghost. I started to sit up in the bed, but he pushed me back down. I tried again and he held me down on my back. Before I even settled down I saw the girl near the window trying to get as far away from me as possible. I looked into her eyes and I knew who she was. That's when I remembered operation protect sister.
"Kari, Kari, I know who you are!" I said with more excitement than necessary. The doctor stopped trying to hold me down so I sat straight up, and oh god that hurt my head. I grabbed my head and screamed. The doctor's attention switched back to me. He took a needle and injected me with it. Everything went black, but the pain was gone.
I woke up what must have been hours or days later. The same doctor came in again and asked how I was. I told him I felt better, and that I remembered who I was. He looked at me again, and asked me my name.
"Jayla Woods, I am 5'7'', have brown hair and the last thing I remember was playing with Kari, Stacey, and Sarah." I answered.
"Wow, maybe all your head needed was a little more rest. Would you like anything to drink or eat?" he asked. I shook my head which sort of hurt to do. Kari walked in again, except this time she walked right up to me and said, "Yesterday you knew who I was, but not yourself."
"Your right, I know who I am now, and you are Kari Glade; I played with you and your friends; Sarah and Stacey right?" I questioned my answer. She nodded. So I asked, "What happened, the doctor said I fell?"
Her response was hesitant, "You were standing on top of one of the bars in the playground. Then I came up, then Sarah. When Stacey came up she slipped a little and grabbed hold of Sarah who ran into me. I tried to steady myself and ended up hitting you. The 3 of us fell back onto the platform. You fell backwards 20 ft towards the ground, and landed on your head."
"As soon as you hit, well you sliced open your head, and were out cold. Everyone panicked and called for help. You woke up 2 days later here in the hospital and didn't know who you were. When you sat up after noticing me. You screamed and grabbed your head. Then the doctor injected you with something." She explained to me.
After what seemed like hours the doctor came in again with a glass of water with a straw. Behind him was an older woman. She walked up to me, after the doctor handed me the water and told me to sip slowly. Kari told me that it was her mom. So Kari's mom offered me a place at her house, she also said that she had a surprise for me, for when I was feeling better.
