Day 1 – Tom - Infiltrated
Right before the clocks struck midnight for new years, Leanne, Josie, John and Ed attacked me out beyond the safety of my own house's defences, with about twenty people within it walls, who were all just sat inside drinking and laughing with no knowledge of their potential death hanging over their shoulders.. And even though I drew on Ed's power because we are quintuplets, I was still outnumbered until Cameron ran down the road and began shooting at Leanne and the others, then he opened a dark portal, no one saw much more because when I woke up, I was back in the house on the sofa, Cameron has disappeared back to his house. It was past midnight and I was told that I was discovered outside while everyone was leaving.
Even now, my arm is still majorly burnt from the engagement. Endless Fire-Balls have a habit of leaving extremely painful burns.
The round Control Room, home to most of our technology, was basically a white room with glass filling in most of the walls connecting outside, and I should have learnt by now that them being windows is a very bad thing. Jack and Darren were running around trying to pinpoint Leanne whose base had suddenly dropped off of our radar, I was busy trying to organise the house into a state that is probably the tidiest it has been in ten years. Bobby, my catlike AI, appeared on the screen next to me in the Control Room at the top of my house. "Tom, Sam just arrived," he explained as he has done for every other person invited. "But he jumped over the fence, well somersaulted over the fence anyway," he added before disappearing and putting up an image of what happened.
"Okay, thanks Bobby," I gestured for Jack to follow me, We wondered into the lift and took it down to the bottom floor to greet our unusual guest. "Bobby, scan Sam find out what is up with him," I ordered the AI.
"Yes sir," he replied and a picture of Sam appeared to my right on the screen. As an image of Sam appeared with all the scan results.. "I'm getting no bio-reading from him."
"Scan for any electromagnetic disturbances," I commanded as the image began to pulse intensely.
"What does that mean?" Jack inquired.
"It means that Sam is the electromagnetic disturbance," Bobby replied as a picture of Marshal appeared and began doing the same as Sam's.
"Thanks Bobby. Where is Marshal?" I queried.
"With Sam," he answered.
"Looks like we are going to begin this earlier than expected," Jack determined.
"Looks that way," I agreed as the doors opened onto the bottom floor.
"Tom," Emily stated as she walked up to Jack and I. "How long do we have?"
"About three weeks," I responded while looking for Sam and Marshal. "Do you see them?"
"No," Jack whispered as Emily just stood there in complete confusion. "We'll explain later."
"Bobby, where on Earth are they?" I requested. No answer. "Bobby."
"They've blocked me out of all the systems down here," he replied from my watch.
"Where are they hacking you from?" I demanded.
"Everywhere, there is no set area they are hacking me from," he explained quickly. "Wait, third floor, Universe 04 room."
"Thanks," Jack and I replied and then we turned and got back into the lift, Emily followed, still slightly confused.
The third floor was basically a massive computer room split into three, one to control Universe 03, one to control 04 and then the third room to keep an eye on the remaining universe, particularly only problem is even with monitoring them we normally end up having to help save them from themselves.
We enter the room Bobby directed us to, only to find that the two kids have disappeared. I spin around on my heel just in time to see one of them blast Emily in the back with a laser. The quick glimpse of the culprit I am allowed tells me that its Sam. I direct Jack to blast the stupid idiot in the face, only he misses the shot and hits the wall. I try to shoot some Ice-Shards at it, but the damn thing is gone before they leave my hands.
"Bobby track them," I ordered while helping Emily up.
"They're coming up towards the Control Room," the AI replied. "Marshal is about three floors up already, Sam is on the floor above you."
"Emily, Jack," I said as I pointed towards the door, they nodded and half walked, half limped towards the lift. I then began to slow accent up the stairs, Sam always ahead of me. Up until the eighth floor, Sam had slowed. I wanted to outright attack him on site, the only problem being at least half my guest were up here, none of whom knew about their powers or the war that we escaped from.
"Attack me Tom," Sam taunted while I tried to think of a way of attacking him.
"Bobby –" I started, however, I never finished the sentence as Sam suddenly came flying across the room and I had to jump out of the way of the flying body. Jack was standing in Sam place. Emily sat in the corner clutching her burnt arm.
"Marshal knew we were coming and had et up defences to stop us from getting in," Jack explained as I approached him and an injured Emily.
"Get her to the infirmary and douse her arm with water," I suggested. Jack nodded and help Emily up and towards the lift, which they then took down to the fifth floor. I on the other, made my way towards the Control Room, ignoring all the questions being put towards me about what just happened.
I pushed up through the ninths and tenths floors with ease and poked me head around the corner to see if I could see what was happening. And what I saw was something I tried so hard to prevent. Darren being held at gunpoint and forced to hack his own security system, I had to get in soon to prevent Marshal from taking complete control of the system. "Bobby," I started. "What's happening."
"Marshal is being an idiot and thinks Darren is hacking the system, whereas he is trying to find out what Marshal and Sam are."
"Thanks," I replied with a sigh of relief as I entered the room. Marshal turned and trained his laser on me. But before it had time to fire, his body came flying towards me.
And then, standing where Marshal had once been. A boy wearing glasses and half destroyed clothes. The person Emily and I had seen ripped in half by Leanne. There stood Dean.