Chapter 1

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"Get to the girl!" i shouted to my team mate Josh as we were fending off an army robot drones, these drones stood on two legs about 7ft tall they were sporting a pair of nasty claws and all its face had were a pair of lights for eyes that seemed to refocus like cameras. As for the girl she's a mutant just like me and josh and these robots are trying to kidnap her based on the fact she is a mutant you see our kind isn't really liked by a percentage of humanity we managed to track her down in an abandoned part of town theres a whole neighbourhood just here not even the homeless come here its weird.

"Other mutant signitures detected" three of them said in unison as they cornered me i looked past them to see the girl struggling to get away she was quite small she had light brown hair that reached below her shoulders two of the robots had each one of her arms in their metalic claws tears were streaming down her face i looked in the other direction i see josh the average size guy with a short styled hair cut he was punching and throwing the robots aside he being able to do that he possesses the mutant powers of super human strength and durability also the added powers of agility, levitation and low level telepathy one of the robots sharply moved in his direction and grabbed him by the throat and rasied him up off the floor he was struggling his legs kicking to try and move then he started to choke his eyes started to glow a soft purple and an echoing voice went through my mind.

*Kieran i need your help i can't break free!* he shouted with his telepathy i snapped back into reality still in danger of the three robots that face me i took a step back i held out my arms in front of me with my palms open my eyes started to glow a neon blue and a sudden burst of force flew out of my hands the robots were pulled back with such force that one of them was seperated from their legs the remaining two got back up i held out my arms yet again and slammed my hands together both robots flew into each other and exploded after the fire dissipated i ran over to the robot constricing josh and channeled all my telekinetic power to boost my strength and did a round house kick i managed to dent the metallic beast the robot released josh its arm rotated and hit me square in the chest i flew into a near by taxi and face planted the floor the robot turned back to attack josh but as he turned around josh impaled his right arm through its torso then ripped its metal body in half and tossed its lifeless parts aside.

I look up from the floor and look over to josh he looks back at me i spring to my feet and started to sprint over to the girl and josh joins me as we're running towards her the expression on the girls face seems to change almost trance like her eyes become empty and emotionsless, the air around her started to change waves of heat started to brush against my face then slowly flames ignited from her hands they erupted around her whole body the robots beside her have turned to charcoal she lets out a loud scream and a bright inferno explodes from her body i see the wall of flame heading in our direction i surround my body with a force field and josh held his arms against his face in a defensive position but to my surprise my force field couldn't protect me from the force of the flames and it sent me rocketing backwards and the same with josh as i was spinning backwards i could see the flames attack his body my last thought being *why didn't i protect him?* as i slowly blacked out i could see all the damage around me buildings, cars, everything was enveloped by the fire and finally everything was silent.

I was awake but just seemed to stare into the sky everything was silent i wondered where i was and little flakes landed on my face *is that snow?* i thought to myself then my memories came flooding back to me every gap was filled it wasn't snow its ash i left out a loud gasp and shot up my face winced in pain i looked at my legs i somehow managed to get my legs trapped under a brick wall from what i see of the remaining building it was the old bridgedale bakery which before it was destroyed wasn't even used much bridgedale was a nice small town untill it was turned into a city and this area is what they call old bridgedale no one ever comes down these parts, i tried to move my legs but the weight of the bricks was too much i caught the sight of something on my arms i had cuts all over me i believe my force field turned off as i blacked out i looked at the pile of bricks i focused on them and gave a little glare, with my eyes glowing a few bricks floated aside but the more i did it the less control i had on my last try the bricks shook and fell back down my power levels were burned out then i thought of something that i could do which would need all of my energy i closed my eyes and concentrated really hard my body started to feel weightless and i simply rolled to the right and i was out from under the rubble i let out a loud gasp and breathed for air which proved difficult for a few seconds because of my telekinetic power i am able to with great concentration rearrange the atoms of my body and pass through solid matter this act causes me to tire instantly because im manipulating my own body i struggled to stand up i had to rest against a wall one of the few that are still standing i look around to see the whole street was decimated those small two story buildings that were here before are gone, over in the distance i see an arm under the rubble "Josh!" i quickly limped as fast as i could to the other side of the road i moved most the rubble telekineticly, i placed my hand on his forehead like him i to have telepathy but mines on a much higher level i have the ability to awaken people when their unconscious josh's eyes slowly fluttered open he let out a soft groan.

"well that didn't hurt" he said sliding himself up his clothes were burned and charred most of his top was missing and the lower part of his trousers were missing, ripped or charred soot covered portions of his face he let off a sweet smile "don't worry im fine, im stronger than i look" he said as he studied the worried look on my face he lifted my chin up with his finger and winked at me "okay now wheres the girl" he stood up perfectly i noticed there wasn't a scratch on him we started to walk he noticed my limp and let me lean on him as we walked "could you scan for her? she probably got away and your range is bigger" i put my hand on my left temple, the sensation is intense it feels like i leave my own body and move around with incredible speed then i came to a halt she was only a block away then i returned to my body.

"she's close only a block away" Josh pulled a surprised face then we started to walk in her direction "what?"

"she managed to throw us a block away with that stunt she pulled" he ran his fingers through his soot cover hair "she's powerful but it looked like she wasn't in control when it happen did you see how blank her face was?" he looked at me

"well the power always controls you first before you're used to it, when i first got my powers i could hear everyones thoughts i had no control at first"

"true that i broke everything i touched" he said with a little laugh we both turned the corner and stopped in our tracks the girl was exactly where she was before she layed in a circular shaped scorch mark without a scratch on her she was unconscious "we need to get her out of here before any of those HIVE robots show up" he instructed and picked her up in his arms

I will be posting kieran and josh's character profiles on the next chapter :)