This fanfiction is about the Powerless trilogy by Matthew Cody. As you read on, the story will become more understandable if you haven't read the book. In summary, these kids had powers that would mysteriously disappeared on their thirteenth birthday, Daniel, a new powerless kid, stopped the thing that took the powers and restored lost powers. Now, a new school has been built for the super humans and Herman Plunkett, the bad guy, forced Daniel into his car and they are driving to Plunkett mansion. Rest of the details in story. Sorry, but only a few people have ever read the book.
Disclaimer: Matthew Cody owns the wonderful Powerless series. He wouldn't even let me have Daniel!
Smoke billowed into the air and flames licked at the roof of the Plunkett mansion. Shattered glass littered the lawn and a hand wrapped in towels furiously waved from a broken window on the top floor. Three people, a burly man with a dragon tattoo, an elderly gentleman, and a fourteen year old boy, stood beside a limousine. The elderly man was yelling at the burly guy, something about his only family being in there, but his words were drowned out by the crackling of the orange and red flames.
"Lawrence!" Daniel Corrigan shouted to the burly man, "There's someone over there!" He pointed to an unconscious person lying on the blackened grass. The pair dashed over to him and Daniel found the fire chief lying there.
"Mr. Madison, wake up!" He yelled. "We need help!" Mr. Madison had yet to wake up. "Lawrence, take him away from the fire!"
Lawrence swung the chief over his shoulder and screamed, "What are you gonna do?"
Daniel smiled, despite his fear. "Someone's gotta save Theo and his family." Without another word, he dashed over to the house.
"What the hell are you doing?" Herman Plunkett shouted from across the yard.
Daniel didn't listen. He tried to twist the door knob, but something had been wedged against the door and he knew that he wouldn't be able to get through there with something blocking it. Picking up a huge rock from the garden, he tossed it at the window and heard it shatter, but all he felt was the sudden wave of heat that hit him like an explosion. Ignoring it, he jumped through the opening, feeling sharp edges prick his skin.
"Theo!" He coughed. "Where are you?"
"Daniel?" A voice weezed from a few rooms over. It was a miracle that Daniel heard it. Avoiding the fire, he burst into the living room where sixteen year old Theo Plunkett lay near the stairs, covered in blisters and burns and ash.
"Wh-What are you doing here?" Theo murmured.
"That doesn't matter," Daniel said, kneeling by his side. "We have to get outta here. Come on." The teenager lifted the elder and barely prevented from collapsing under his weight. Dragging him through the hot house, Daniel stopped beside the broken window and eased Theo out.
"Theo!" He called as soon as the boy dropped safely to the ground. "Who else is in the house?"
"My mom and my dog," Theo replied, frantically, trying to sit up.
"I'll get them. Get as far away from the house as possible." Daniel ducked back inside and began to run through the house and climb the stair case.
"Mrs. Plunkett!" he screamed. "Bernard? Bark or yell if you can hear me!"
"Bark! Bark!" Suddenly, a shaggy dog with a towel over his head attempted to tackle Daniel down the stairs.
"Woah!" Daniel coughed. "Bernard, go downstairs and wait for me, okay? If you can find the broken window, jump through." Logically, Daniel knew that the dog probably didn't understand him, but just in case he could, he ought to tell him what to do.
Bernard raced off down the stairs.
"Mrs. Plunkett!" He yelled, continuing to race to the top level. The smoke was assaulting his senses and weakening his lungs. Flames had burned him more than once and Daniel was sure that he'd be covered in scars if he got out of this alive.
"Up here," a weak voice shouted and he followed it to a bathroom on the top floor. Inside, he found Theo's mother covered in soot and ash, weezing, while hunched over from her coughing fit.
He placed an arm around her shoulders and began to drag her down the staircase.
"AHHH!" Daniel just barely avoided getting crushed by falling debris and pulled the woman alongside him to his escape. He shoved her through, not waiting to see if she landed safely, then grabbed Bernard, who had appeared at his side, by the collar and pushing him through the opening.
"AHHH!" Daniel screeched as a falling beam caught him on the back of the head and he fell to the floor.
"No!" He thought he heard Theo's voice, but he couldn't tell. Hands were yanking at him, pulling him through the smashed window and across the yard. Daniel saw one person- a person he recognized- leaning over him worridly just before he succumbed to the darkness of unconsciousness.
Eric.
Eric tapped his pencil on the desk, clearly annoying the classroom full of students. He was bored, bored, bored, and he still had an hour of detention left!
Crash! Every head in the room turned just in time to see Rohan Parmer stand up, his face as pale as a sheet, and dash up to Principal Johnny at the front of the room. He began to whisper to him about something hurridly.
Johnny nodded, stood, and demanded, "Eric, come on." The teenager was suprised. He wasn't Eric to the teachers; he had only been called Mr. Johnson by them. "Let's go. We don't have time to waste!"
The pair of super humans floated into the air before racing towards town.
"What's wrong?" Eric shouted over the wind.
"Rohan smelled smoke and heard fire trucks and a cry for help!" Johnny replied loudly.
That's when Eric saw it. A plume of gray-black smoke floated into the air and he could just barley hear the snapping of fire from nearby. Dread filled the boy's stomach.
They landed outside the Plunkett mansion, which was now up in flames, and Eric and Johnny were both in shock.
Herman Plunkett stood beside a limousine with his body guard, Lawrence, next to him. The burly man knelt beside the unconscious fire chief on the side walk, looking nervous. Theo was sitting next to the car, leaning on the front bumper as if unable to stand, and a shaggy dog bounded over to him. The dog nuzzled Theo as the boy began to pet him, relieved. A woman that looked a lot like Theo stumbled across the yard to her son and knelt beside him.
Seeing Eric and Johnny, she cried, "A boy saved me! He's still in there!"
"AHHH!" A scream echoed from inside the house, one that Eric recognized.
"No!" Theo shouted, but Eric barely heard him. He was racing towards the house, faster than Mollie, and he flew through the window to find a horrible sight. Daniel Corrigan laid upon the charred ground, blood beginning to soak his hair and he weezed in his semi conscious state. Burns covered his skin and soot stained his body and clothes black. Before he closed his greenish gray eyes, Daniel looked at him with a look of relief.
Eric dragged Daniel out of the window and towards the curb, where ambulances and fire trucks were arriving.
"Help him!" He screamed, noticing that the blood spot on Daniel's head was growing and that the boy's chest was barely moving. Paramedics, dressed in white, crisp uniforms, raced over to where Eric was staggering with Daniel in his arms. One of them took the feather weight and placed him on a stretcher before herding the boy into the ambulance.
"Can I ride?" Eric asked, staring at his best friend in fear.
"Since you saved his life," one of the the paramedics said as he strapped an oxygen mask to Daniel's face, "hop in, kid."
Eric leaped into the vehicle, closely followed by the last paramedic, who shut the doors behind him. The men tended to the worst of Daniel's burns while Eric held his friend's limp hand.
"Come on, Daniel," he whispered. "You can't just die after everything we've been through. Stay with us, Daniel. We need you."
Theo coughed and sputtered as he stumbled through the flame filled house. His clothes were scorched and blisters and burns ran up and down his body like painful decorations.
He wasn't sure how the house had caught fire; it had just been an ordinary day when the living room combust into flames. They would have gotten out, but the fire had spread faster than it should have been possible and blocked the staircase. Theo could have escaped easier, but he wouldn't leave his mom and Bernard. The smoke had quickly gotten to him and he had collapsed beside the staircase.
Crash! The sound of shattering glass pierced Theo's ears, but it all sounded like it was worlds away, yet he could hear the familiar voice clear as day.
"Theo! Where are you?"
"Daniel?" He weezed and he was sure that his friend couldn't have possibly heard him when footsteps approached him. Through the gray and black haze, he could see Daniel Corrigan, his face bearing a scratch or two and blisters all over him, standing above him.
"What are you doing here?" Theo commanded, anxious and relieved.
"That doesn't matter. We need to get outta here. Come on!" Daniel helped Theo stand, nearly buckling under his weight. He led him to a broken window, where he shoved the elder through.
Leaning out the window, Daniel asked, "Theo, who else is in the house?"
Caught up in all the excitement of the rescue, he'd almost forgotten about his mother and pet. "My mom and my dog," he said, frantically.
"I'll get them! Get as far away from the house as possible!" The boy ducked back in and Theo didn't need to be told twice. He stumbled back up and staggered towards the sidewalk. About half way there, he fell to the ground and someone was helping him stand.
He was laid on the sidewalk, where someone leaned him up and hugged him.
"Thank goodness," a voice said. He recognized it, but it was from a distant memory. "And you said I was a jackass."
That's when it came back to him. His Great Uncle Herman, if he could call him that, considering he hadn't been there for Theo the first sixteen years of his life and turned out to be an evil bastard.
"What-" Theo was cut off by his own coughing fit.
"No. Rest. We'll talk later, Theo." The boy was left leaning against the front bumper of a car, too weak to stand up properly.
Suddenly, in a stir of dust and wind, Eric Johnson and another man landed on the ground after flight. They could only stare at the house in amazement and shock.
"Bark! Bark!" Bernard tackled Theo and the boy patted the animal's head, grateful to Daniel for saving his best friend. His mother stumbled across the yard and Theo could have cried as knelt beside him.
"A boy saved me! He's still in there!" She cried.
Daniel!
"AHHH!" A scream alerted them from inside.
"No!" Theo shouted, but Eric was already racing across the grass and leaping through the broken window. Not even a moment later, he was dragging an unconscious Daniel through the opening and carrying him across the yard.
Paramedics rushed to meet him while fire fighters started on the fire. People in white clothing began to assist Theo into an ambulance and the last thing he saw before the doors closed and Theo passed out from sheer shock was the ambulance with Daniel in it rushing away, sirens wailing...