*WARNING: READ THE HEROES "REBELLION" GRAPHIC NOVEL ARC BEFORE READING THIS STORY OR ELSE YOU'LL BE EXTREMELY CONFUSED!!!!!!!!*
The Adventures of REBEL
Chapter One: This Little Light of Mine
"At first, I believed that everyone needed to be saved. The government was trying to capture everyone like us. Everyone like us. It's only right that we try to save as many as we can. But now, I begin to wonder if some people really deserve to be saved. We've already helped so many people, and some of them have done horrible things in their life, like Eric Doyle. Do they deserve the same fate as those who use their powers wisely and help others? Right now, I'm not sure anymore. Howard Grigsby didn't deserve to be saved."
We see a log cabin, it's in the middle of some isolated forest. A group of government agents with guns are surrounding it.
"Yeah, we got the whole place surrounded, sir," one of the agents reports through a walkie-talkie, "Do you want us to proceed?"
Inside the cabin, a man is calmly sitting in a rocking chair, drinking some iced tea. He looks middle-aged, not necessarily fat but just a little bit overweight. His hair is slightly messy but mostly flat and smooth. He's in his bathrobe with a tee-shirt and shorts underneath and fuzzy slippers on his feet. He's completely unafraid.
With a smirk on his face, he announces, "I'm coming!"
The man sets down his iced tea, gets up, and slowly but steadily comes out of the cabin. Before he can even blink, taser darts are being shot at him from all over. He's ready to unleash his power. But before anyone knows what's happening, some kind of forcefield begins to shield him. It quickly covers him and his entire cabin within moments. The man looks behind the agents and chuckles.
They turn around and see Abigail, a girl who can create forcefields and a member of Rebel. The guards all turn around and point their guns are her.
With a sharp British accent, she sarcastically exclaims, "Fantastic!"
Suddenly, the ground shakes. The agents have no idea what's going on. The ground just opens up out of nowhere and seems to suck them into a large hole. Most of them die as they hit the bottom of the recently-created hole in the ground. Sparrow Redhouse, a member of Rebel with terrakinesis (or earth maniuplation), high-fives Abigail.
"Well done," Abigail compliments.
Sparrow picks up one of the unused taser guns.
"This would be fun to use in the bedroom," Sparrow quips.
The forcefield disappears.
The forest is a large vast place. There are various cliffs and ridges surrounding this forest. On top of the one of those cliffs, not too far from the cabin, is another agent just waiting to claim his prey. As he looks down the scope of his sniper rifle, he reports to his superior.
"I got him in my sights, sir. Do we want me to take him out? Yes sir."
West Rosen is standing behind him, giving a smug grin.
"Boo."
Before the agent can fully turn around and comprehend what's happening, West punches him out cold. He jumps off the cliff and flies down towards the girls.
"Are you Howard Grigsby?" Abigail asks the man who is still smirking in contentment.
"No," he replies, "I'm not Howard Grigsby."
The two girls look at each other confused.
"Then who are you?" Abigail asks.
Howard gives an almost Grinch-like smirk in pure evil delight. His arms slowly outstretch.
Suddenly, a powerful light begins to illuminate from his body. The girls shield their eyes and turn away from him. West, still flying in the air, is thrown off and covers his eyes while floating.
"I am the light that was brought forth when this world was created!" Howard shouts intensely.
"Please," Sparrow begs, "Don't do this, man! We're on the same side!"
"I am the light that guides you through the darkness!"
The light begins to shine brighter. Abigail and Sparrow's heads are in the ground. A large ridge rises up, separating Howard from the girls. The girls look up at it, the light seems to have faded.
"Well done again, Sparrow," Abigail compliments, "You get a gold star for the day."
"I am the flame that burns through your soul and sees only truth!"
Even with a large chunk of mountainous land separating them, the light still seems to be coming through. It's burning through the rock and dirt. Abigail's jaw drops, completely taken back.
"What the f-"
The light burns through the dirt and begins shining at them ten times stronger than the last time.
"I am everything that you know!"
In a desperate last attempt for survival, Sparrow looks at West, who's still floating in the air trying to shield himself. Abigail creates a forcefield between them, but the light is still passing through. The girls are being blinded now. Even with their faces in the ground, their skins burning, and their minds frying, the light is still passing through.
"I am everything that you care for!
West flies back toward the cliff. He lays down and adjusts the sniper rifle.
"Everything you want! Everything you need!"
West points the gun toward the center of the light.
"Please, let this work," West prays.
"I AM GOD!!!!!!!!!!"
BANG! West fires the bullet.
There is silence.
The remains of the rocky pile of land crumble and collapse. The girls place their heads up. Their bodies are completely red.
"I'm gonna be red for weeks!" Abigail complains, "Thanks to this bastard, I'm gonna shed more than my cat does!"
"At least you're alive," Sparrow reassures.
Abigail rolls her eyes.
They stand up and look at Howard, who's bleeding into the ground now.
"That wasn't a taser dart," Abigail observes.
West flies down and lands next to them.
"Nice shot, tiger," Sparrow compliments.
He looks over and almost falls over laughing.
"I know your name's Sparrow, but I think I'm gonna call you Cardinal from now on," West jokes.
"Ha ha, very funny," Sparrow angrily replies.
Abigail pulls out her cell phone and texts Micah.
REBEL: How did it go? Did you guys save him?
abba: At first, I believed that everyone needed to be saved...
To be continued....