"We failed," Roman repeats, gently rocking back and forth with Emery's head in his lap. She's breathing okay but she hasn't come to yet. Drake's got his jacket on Grayson's bullet wound, pressing hard to keep blood from pouring out. It's not really helping but all Drake knows is that he's got to try. "We didn't stop the Suvek, and everyone in Edendale is dead."

"Not everyone," Drake says forcefully, straining to look at Roman over his shoulder. "These two are still alive, and Grayson's been shot. Can you get her to wake?"

Roman breathes deeply and tries to rouse Emery with a little shake. She murmurs a jumble of words but her eyes open. "R-Roman?" she gasps, trying to sit up.

"Slowly," Roman warns her softly. "I'm pretty sure you've got a concussion."

Emery listens but the second she remembers Grayson she's up and over to his body, kneeling down on the other side of him, where Drake isn't. "He's losing a lot of blood," Drake tells her, gritting his teeth as another little wave of blood coats his fingers. "I don't know if he's going to make it."

Roman joins her on the ground and watches while she pulls out her phone. "I'm calling 911," she says, putting the phone to her ear, "but they'll be busy." Growling a second later, she presses a button and places the phone on the ground. "Can't even get through. Here," she adds, gesturing to the wound in Grayson, "let me take a look. I know a little bit of first aid."

"Not sure first aid's going to help him here," Drake mutters but removes his hands.

As Emery moves Drake's jacket a little to inspect the wound, Roman asks, "What the hell was that? I know it's a signal of some sort but what knocked us out?"

"Energy blast," Emery answers, "I think. Would have knocked out everything electronic."

Drake visibly stills. "That include cars?" he winces.

She nods, flicking her eyes up to Drake. "Yeah." Realising, she sucks in a breath. "Go," she says and Drake doesn't think twice.

"Elevators?" he calls back, already heading towards them.

"Should be running on an emergency generator, it'll work!"

He hits the down button, tapping his foot impatiently as it works its way up. He can hear Emery telling Roman to dial 911 again and panic threads its way through his body. Roman was right. They failed to stop the Suvek, and though it may not have been a bomb like they thought, it still went off and reigned destruction down on Edendale. The elevator doors ding as they open and Drake steps in, hitting the button with the g on it repeatedly, as if it will make it go faster. He finally hits the bottom, out at once and heading towards the doors Eric and Julia locked up.

"Drake?" a voice startles him. Eric. Drake turns towards the voice and sees a stumbling Eric, who's moving towards Julia. She's laying still, too still, and despite his hurry to find Taylor, he goes to her as well. When did he start to care for these people? "What the hell happened?" Eric asks.

"Emery thinks it was an energy blast," Drake tells him, the two of them kneeling besides Julia's body at the same time. "Knocked everyone on their asses and concussed all the humans." He looks at Eric then. "You feeling woozy?"

Eric shrugs, his features twisted in worry. "I'm more concerned about Julia," he says, checking for a pulse. "We were standing together when we got hit, and I think she might have landed wrong." Letting out a short sigh of relief, he adds, "She's breathing."

"Good," Drake says, standing. "Keep an eye on her. Emery seemed fine when she woke up but you guys might not be. Take it easy."

"Where are you going?" Eric asks, moving into a sitting position beside Julia.

Drake's already taking apart the blockade Eric and Julia made when he replies. "I need to find Taylor." He tears down the rest of it and Drake's out the door the moment he opens it. It takes him a few milliseconds to get a bearing on his surroundings and when he does, he feels sick. There are people on the ground everywhere. Some are starting to move but others aren't and this could be a massacre. He wants to see if everyone's okay but he can't. He has to find Taylor. He's on his way to the street where he last saw her when someone grabs his arm. "Drake."

"Sophia," Drake says. "Are you okay?"

She nods. "Better than everyone else. Lukas, too. He's a bit concussed, I think, though."

"Yeah, him and every other human." Drake grabs her shoulders gently. "Listen, you need to try and wake everyone who's down, okay? I'd help bu-"

"Taylor," she cuts him off. "Go. Just, is Roman okay? And Emery and Grayson, too."

"Roman and Emery will be fine but Grayson's been shot," he answers.

She puts her hand on her chest before calling out, "Is he okay?"

"Roman and Emery are doing the best they can to help but I'm not sure," he says loudly over his shoulder, ending the conversation as he's too far away to continue it. He hopes Sophia won't get offended.

Sophia heads off to the nearest injured and Drake heads off towards where he thinks Taylor will be. It doesn't take him long to find her car and his heart sinks. Her upturned car, that's surrounded by fire. He's running before he knows what he's doing and when he gets a good hundred metres from her car, he can hear her.

"Drake!" she shouts, coughing. "Help me!"

The fire's spreading fast and if Drake doesn't hurry, the car's going to explode. With Taylor in it. "Are you stuck?" he yells back, reaching the upended vehicle.

"Drake?" she repeats loudly, as if she didn't know he was there. "Yes!"

"How?"

"My leg's caught!" She's fighting the urge to scream, trying to keep as calm as possible. Knowing that Drake has no idea how her leg's stuck, she looks at her lower half and quickly surveys the damage. "You've just got to move the passenger seat!"

Drake hears her and within seconds, the broken seat is off her leg and she's free. Unclicking her seatbelt, she begins to try to crawl out until Drake's arms are within her reach and she's being carried out. The car is now completely on fire and he carries her as far away as possible, careful of the injury to her leg. Once she's safely on the ground, he turns back towards the fireball to make sure no one else is in the vicinity of the car. Luckily there's no one and seconds later the car explodes, raining pieces down on the ground. Drake covers Taylor's body with his own as a precaution until nothing else is falling.

Hey, guys. I wrote more than this as a whole, but I decided to split it up into smaller chapters. If you liked it, let me know, and I'll upload the next part. And thanks for reading! :)

Shannon