Author Notes: Since there's been a Kyle XY continuation wave sweeping the fans... I figured, I should be apart of it too. Entire italicized lines are canon lines in the series. Centered, non-italicized lines is Kyle's narration.
So, here it is, my season four. Enjoy.
Kyle XY
Season Four. Episode 1: Firewalls
Previously in Kyle XY:
"Why'd you do that!" Jessi said in utmost agitation.
Amanda retaliated with the same amount of disdain, "I thought you could use some help."
Jessi shot back, "It's not going to work, because you don't hit hard enough."
Amanda detested the emphasis.
Just then, Nate, who managed to shake off the lamp hit, abruptly grabbed her arm. Never feeling so irritated, Amanda made an elbow shot for Nate's face knocking him out with a single blow. "Better?" wearing a triumphant smirk.
Jessi leaned forward glancing at his body, then she looked over at Amanda with a momentary impressed expression.
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Back at the warehouse, getting manhandled out of the warehouse - Mark finished his project with little
Mark turned around, walking back to the computer almost forgetting his flash-drive only to see Kyle land dramatically onto his feet. Mark jumped backward from the sheer shock from Kyle landed safely from a five or six-story drop.
"Kyle! H-How'd you-! What are you doing here?"
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Jessi opened a folder revealing a number of Baylin's research papers and even a small, velvet, black pouch. She touched it lightly before lifting it over the vanilla folders. The ropes loosening, Jessi turned it over and out tumbled a Latnok ring fitted with not a blue, but a red gem. Jessi felt her lips press together.
Amanda whispered. "That ring, it looks like the one Kyle wears around his neck."
"Nate stole it from Cassidy." Jessi sighed, "It belonged to my mother."
Jessi then sentimentally slipped it onto her ring finger and became reverent to the metal jewelry as she looked onto it. Amanda stepped back, soaking it in and then it came to her in vivid detail. Before her was a vague explanation as to why Kyle and Jessi were so close. They had a connection long before Amanda and Kyle were even together, and possibly before she met him. Whatever Kyle's secrets were, it was clear that not only was Jessi was aware of them, she was apart of them.
"So, I guess you kind of helped me find it."
Amanda bit her lip, "...And you saved me, so I guess we're even?"
Jessi busied herself, allowing the tension between them to grow once again.
"Look, I know we've never really gotten along... but, I don't know... I feel like that we've got a little bit closer than before." She paused for a second, waiting on any reaction before she continued, but it seemed that Jessi was going to continue giving her little attention. "So, I think it's only fair that I tell you..."
However, Jessi was listening intently, and now to have her stop in the middle of a sentence irked her.
She perked up her eyes and looked over to her with sharp and wide eyes, "Tell me what?"
Amanda inhaled lightly and straightened herself. "I'm going to tell Kyle that I want him back."
Jessi adopted a snake-like quality in the way she made herself taller to the girl-next-door. "You really have the nerve to say that? After everything that happened tonight?"
"Like I said, fair warning. You deserve it."
Jessi and Amanda both acknowledged the unspoken bond.
"You're a lot braver than I thought."
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"Why are you doing this!" Kyle fell onto the floor, his spasms leading to his labored breathing.
"Because that is what they want. That's what she wants. And if you try to stop me, I'm just going to have to keep hurting you. And then, I'm going to hurt Jessi until she wishes she really had died. And just when you think it couldn't get any worse, I'll hurt everybody that ever mattered to you..."
Kyle's eyes were still set onto the floor, much to Cassidy's chagrin.
"Starting with Amanda." Kyle turned his chin upward. And there it was, the sudden irate stare that sent satisfying chills down Cassidy's spine.
"How you feeling about that, mate?"
"Nicole had been right when she said that she didn't recognize the person I've become. The person I had been before would've never done this."
Kyle's uppercut sent him flying through the twin doors, shattering them. Clutching onto Cassidy's shirt, Kyle brought his neck to the threshold of his right hand. As he was lifted by his very neck, Cassidy was forced to restrain himself to stop moving at all cost, lest he wished to smother himself. The control Kyle had on his throat was detestably extraordinary. The trachea pinched, but not crushed.
"Grace Kingsley? I've seen that name before."
"Latnok are scientists, but they have a very clinical point of view."
"Who knew what a clever little liar you would be."
"I had no choice."
Nicole shouted, "Don't do something you'll regret!"
Jessi boiled, "He Killed My Mother."
"How lucky for me that you still have Adam's ring. How awfully sentimental."
"You can have a normal life, Kyle."
"I wished you would've taken their offer. You can't keep doing this to our family! It's just not you!"
"Maybe she is evil as everyone says she is."
"An hour out of the pod and she murdered someone. I'm afraid that's the sort of person that she is. It's in her nature."
"I am not a killer!"
"We all have choices."
Kyle stared menacingly into Cassidy's eyes. The murderer of a murderer. As it happened, he thought it was all for show, just one more lie. But when Kyle felt Cassidy's heartbeat in his hands, it felt so much more than a bluff. It was then, Kyle concluded... this was not a lie.
"You won't do it."
"What makes you so sure?"
"Because Grace Kingsley... my mother..."
"What about her?" Kyle baited.
"She's your mother, too... I'm your brother."
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- Episode 1: Firewalls -
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Underneath Kyle's boiling exterior, his body was in shock when his mind finally caught with his emotions. The hand around Cassidy's neck nonetheless clutched tighter without his permission. Unexpectedly, Kyle felt his former self returning in the recesses of his mind, a Kyle that didn't understand anything.
Cassidy meanwhile, grew a red-faced scowl to breath.
"I was finally able to see… the change that I'd gone through. Cassidy and I were brothers and we were ready to kill each other. I never understood hatred before but now I felt as if I've known it all along. And I was terrified."
Kyle released his brother suddenly as his eyes stared down at the remnants of the door frame.
Cassidy fell hard onto the patio with a grunt, and the veins across his neck and skull were plump. The redness of skin slowly scattered away as he brought his hand to nurse his neck. Kyle read his vitals haphazardly as the wall moldings centered his entire attention.
Jessi would've been proud of his poker face for inside he was lost to no end. Kyle Trager almost ended a life. For once, his heart didn't feel so certain in his once upstanding morals.
"You were always one of the good guys. I just... didn't want to believe it."
"I try to be."
"You are."
Kyle shifted his head dejectedly to the one side, sending his eyes downcast. Even with Amanda no longer apart of his life, he really didn't want to disappoint her.
Momentarily, Cassidy was able to nudge a smirk upon his face as he attempted to sit up. A forced chuckle found its way through a sigh. "Cutting it close, were you?"
The muscles in Kyle's forearm tensed. More than anything, Kyle hoped Cassidy would call it a night and leave.
Kyle's glare softened. "Leave."
Cassidy stood up, lending a hand out for Kyle to shake, "I'm willing to forgive-"
Kyle sent a right hook into his face. Cassidy's head smacked downward with his hair thrown at out place. The sound brought more satisfaction than Kyle felt comfortable with.
If it was painfully obvious Cassidy was a front man before, it would have been then. Unflinching even charmingly, the older man brought his arm near his face, using his wrist to fix up his jaw. Cassidy had been punched before. As he recomposed himself, the brothers began staring at each other down through scowls and glowers.
Meanwhile, Kyle's desk lamp flickered, the Bloom security lights brightened, and the kitchen lights hummed. The hum, no louder than a pin dropping, undermined the air.
The street lamps blinked and the smallest of dirt particles were levitating over the ground. It was one of the many details that Kyle would regret not noticing.
"You can't choose family."
Unexpectedly, Kyle's perfect vision began to sting, as if a film covered his retinas. He bat his eyes once, twice.
Then, his vision blurred. At first, Kyle tried to pretend it wasn't happening, standing erect despite developing a small tick.
He shut his eyes tightly, only to reopened them with no improvement whatsoever.
It happened gradually, but soon everything became a mock up of a pixilated image... He brought his forefinger and thumb to rest between his eyes.
Kyle was going blind.
Cassidy's shoulders dropped. "Kyle?"
Kyle didn't answer, still so intently focused as millions of questions exploded to the forefront of his mind. However, just as steadily as his vision disappeared, it returned. Kyle pulled his hand away and watched his palm cautiously.
Cassidy sent a glance at Adam's Latnok ring hung around Kyle's neck.
It was then he understood, and Cassidy nearly chuckled at the revelation. Cassidy knelt down, tenderly picking up the small delicate remote.
A deep and intricate pressure leaned against Kyle's forehead. Kyle brought up his fingers to rest on top of his upper lip, only to find that he had yet to gain a nosebleed.
"Getting headaches?"
The pod child glanced over at him.
Did he plan on this happening? And finally, Kyle noticed the remote in Cassidy's hand. His suspicions were confirmed. His brain began lightly pulsating, and a light vein was apparent along Kyle's forehead.
Kyle stood up right, speaking in an indisputable accusing tone, "What did you do?"
"Vision blurring?" Cassidy smirked.
When Kyle took so much as a step towards him with a clenched fist, Cassidy pressed the switch once again abusing Kyle with the electricity. The immense contraction of his muscles was getting unbearable, and more importantly the electrocution was reeking havoc to his brilliant mind.
When Cassidy released the button, he returned Kyle's right hook and sent him onto the patio.
"Ah," he panted.
Kyle's breathing hardened. His exhaustion was vivid on his face as well as his hatred. He glared daggers to Cassidy, who was was aloof for once, merely a spectator.
"I will never be apart of Latnok."
Cassidy didn't appear disheartened, surprised… in fact, no immediate reaction was apparent. It was as if Cassidy took Kyle's words as just Kyle's way of coping with the tragic circumstances.
Kyle attempted to hold himself off the patio, continuing, "Killing Sarah, kidnapping Amanda... threatening my family... you'd betray your own brother so much? You bas-... you bast-..."
The word never came. Kyle had never realized what it took to express your disdain. He almost killed the man, and cursing still felt forbidden.
Cassidy approached him, hovering over him. "Of all the people that have betrayed you... I'm the least of your worries."
Kyle visibly locked his jaw.
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Back at Nate's dorm room, the unveiling of Nate's research lay bare.
Amanda skim read as much as she could before Jessi abruptly scrolled down... and she kept scrolling at a speed that was too fast to even make out the words.
In light of things, she was grateful. However, Amanda couldn't help but watched Jessi's expressions instead. She laid a hand on her shoulder, having almost no doubts that Jessi had read every single word.
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Cassidy pumped an innumerable amount of volts in Kyle's body. Kyle had to strain just hands just to form fists. His nerves twitched incessantly, and his neck felt like it could break through a noose.
Kyle felt his system slowing down, dying out. And for once, he was able to see his brain for what it really was... a computer.
Cassidy freed the button from his finger, finally pardoning Kyle. Even in his threats and insults, Cassidy remained sympathetic to the tee.
"If you had really saved my life, you would be in your tub sound asleep. If you hadn't lied, deceiving your own brother, the people you loved wouldn't be in danger. It's because of you Kyle, that you lost the girl you loved. On top of that, you couldn't even let Jessi have the small happiness of being with her mother. You caused the greatest emotional torment for your soul mate."
The intensity of Kyle's headaches increased, he could hardly think.
"No..." was all Kyle could say.
"All the pain you're feeling now, is pain that you've inflicted upon yourself." Cassidy waited, wishing that all his words would sink in. "...You may be the world's smartest man - but you, my brother, are the world's dumbest kid."
Kyle was unresponsive, as if what he heard he knew to be true.
Cassidy pulled out a small cell phone, "Come to the Trager home."
Kyle groaned. As he stared mindlessly at the wood floors, he saw the first drop of blood of a profuse nosebleed. His body had met and obliterated his limit. Another pulsating headache attack was streaming through Kyle's mind, and even though Kyle couldn't even feel it... he was omitting his powers. Cassidy slowly pulled away his cellphone from his ear.
"Kyle?"
The enigmatic intensity of Kyle's abilities was far too powerful for Cassidy and Latnok's comprehension... Lights everywhere began beaming to a blinding state.
Cassidy hid his eyes in the crook of his arm, and then Kyle blacked out along with every light in Seattle.
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Stephen and the family were nearly home, driving through suburban roads when all the street lights glinted only to fade to black. Stephen braked and unknowingly stopped the car between the two lane road. He turned on the high beams.
"What happened?"
Josh and Lori scooted forward in their seats.
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Jessi and Amanda, in perfect unison, looked to the ceiling lights right when it snapped off. Amanda frowned as she waited, waiting the seconds for it to hopefully flicker back on. When it didn't, she had for some reason, thought of only one name when the comforting familiarity and apprehension hit her all at once.
"Kyle," Amanda whispered accidentally.
Jessi could feel her heart fastening. "Oh no," she muttered in an equally low voice.
"Jessi?"
"We need to get out of here."
Her memory temporarily flashed to the night Amanda was taken away when the both of them were like partners in crime. She could already hear Kyle's voice.
"Enhance your vision."
Papers rustled loudly.
Amanda could feel Jessi already moving abruptly. The chair subtlety knocked back and forth and Amanda was compelled to take a step back. The overwhelming darkness couldn't allow her to see two inches in front of her face. Amanda kept a hold of the head of the chair to stay grounded and went to reach for her cell to use as a nightlight, but to find that she didn't have it with her. She was in the total dark.
Amanda could barely make out a silhouette of the girl, and really, she felt like she was imagining it. Jessi was seemingly bending underneath the desk. The small room lightly echoed the noise of Jessi unscrewing and unplugging cables. Hearing Jessi make a small grunt and the quiet sound of a plastic-metal box moving... she realized what Jessi was doing, which was then made painfully obvious when the locking mechanism of the monitor cable clanged against the wall.
"You're stealing his computer?"
"And you're taking the papers." Jessi felt a small pinch of pride, "With the electricity out, there's no way for me to get the data and no way for me to erase it either. Right now, we've got to get this and go as fast as we can."
"So he still has more information?" Amanda asked, already seeing the astonishing entanglements of Kyle's secrets.
"I don't doubt that he doesn't."
"But why do you have to take his computer?" Amanda said, trying to figure out why Jessi couldn't just hack right back in from the safety of Kyle's room when the electricity came on. Nate couldn't prevent her, she was sure of it.
"It's easier," she snapped.
Amanda could hear the hint of finality in Jessi's voice. It wasn't taking the computer that bothered her, it was knowing that Jessi was excluding something. It was the same feeling she would get when she knew Kyle was withholding information. Jessi could see Amanda's, albeit indirect, stare but she knew she had to rush... not for their sakes, but for Kyle's.
Jessi stood up, but when she was about to head out to the door and Amanda wasn't following, she realized that she couldn't see a damn thing. Things wouldn't be so difficult if it was just her and Kyle. She looked around the room, and then down onto the floor. Jessi shrugged…
Amanda could hear Jessi's muffled footsteps on the carpet, and it sounded as if Jessi was walking around her.
BAM!
A loud smacking sound resounded in the room, and immediately Nate grunted and fell into silence yet again. Amanda furrowed her eyebrows... did Jessi just kick him? Apart of her wondered how in the world Jessi could do all that whilst carrying the heavy and large computer and make it sound so effortless. At this rate, Nate wouldn't wake till morning!
The footsteps sounded again, and out of no where, Jessi gave Amanda Nate's cell phone while popping it open for the back light. "Take it."
Amanda held the cell phone in her hand while looking up at her incredulously. She shouted back, this time actually scolding the theft, "His cell phone too, Jessi!"
"We're going!" Jessi seriously singsong-ed, already walking through the hallway.
Amanda shook her head as she quickly grabbed all the folders and research papers off Nate's desk and followed her... Somehow, she completely brushed the event off, and was already wondered how Jessi knew precisely where she was going with no lights to guide her way whatsoever.
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Stephen drove into the neighborhood, "All the lights are out here, too."
Josh peeked around the block, "Where's Prometheus when you need him?"
"I hope they're okay," Nicole held onto the armrest when Stephen's hand covered hers.
"What I wouldn't give for a blackout that didn't scare the hell out of me."
"You're worrying over nothing! Kyle could handle anything."
Lori shook her head, "Josh, I know you mean well... but Kyle's not Superman, neither is Jessi. They could seriously be hurt."
Josh glanced over at her.
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Kyle blinked slowly, unable to figure out if he was asleep or not. The calm darkness was both lonely and wonderful. He never felt more at peace in a long time. The bright green gleam in his eye was slowly fading away. Kyle's lips parted, completely content with not moving from his spot on the patio. It felt nice. He wasn't concerned with the pain he endured or even Cassidy for that matter...
Speaking of Cassidy, he seemed to have vanished.
Alone in utter darkness with nothing but the moon to keep company, Kyle smiled at the sight of Amanda's room window.
"Life has always been a journey whether we treat it that way or not. The people we are and people who we will become are shaped by our experiences and our choices, and even the consequences that follow. Change is a natural part of life. But I had to wonder... Is it possible that the person I was before could become a distant memory… an entirely different person?
When I first met the Tragers, family was the most important world to me.
I learned facts and equations in seconds. I accomplished feats that everyone else was incapable of.
And I fell in love.
I was plagued with the destiny that I was meant to live alone but despite of that, the Tragers have always stood by me. There was only one group of people that I could call my family… and that will never change. I will always protect them."
Kyle's eyes closed once again as blood began seeping onto the maple wood patio and for once in Kyle's life and probably for the last time, the unknown became comforting.
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The Tragers pulled up the driveway, and Stephen left on the headlights. As they all got out of the car, Carol Bloom was seen walking about the sidewalk with a flashlight in hand, "Oh! Stephen, Nicole... is everyone alright?"
"Well, we just got home... we're all fine," Stephen said.
Nicole watched Carol, feeling an irrefutable sense that something was wrong. "Um, Carol is everything alright?"
Carol worriedly crossed her arms, "I haven't been able to find Amanda. Have any of you by any chance seen her?"
Stephen and Nicole looked over at each other, both aware that Latnok may once again target her. Nicole went on with sympathy laced in every word. "Um, no, I'm sorry but we haven't. Lori, Josh?"
Lori shrugged, "I haven't seen her at all today."
Josh nodded, "I haven't seen her either."
Carol sighed, trying her best to keep most of her apprehension at bay, "I've been trying to use my cell phone to reach her, but she's not picking up."
Lori couldn't take the abuse. "I'm sure Amanda's fine. She's probably at the Rack."
"Do you know what caused the blackout?" Stephen asked.
"I have no clue... it all happened about a half hour ago. Around the time I've heard these strange noises, but by the time I went to investigate..." she spread her arms weakly, "this happened."
"Noises? What kind of noises?" Nicole asked.
"Like someone breaking a window," said Carol, completely flaccid.
Nicole didn't like the sound of any of this... not one word. There were plenty of questions that bubbled to the top of her mind but looking over at Carol, a single mother alone in a blackout with no knowledge of where her daughter was, Nicole didn't have it in her heart to turn her away. "Carol, I think you should come to our house for a little while. Lori, could you try calling Kyle again?"
Stephen glanced over at Carol, "Mrs. Bloom, could I borrow your flashlight?"
"Of course..."
Stephen led the group up the long driveway to the door, however... as soon as he pointed the flashlight to the front door, everyone froze.
There was something horrifically different about it. The top of the door was bent outwards with the wood splintering, and it nearly broke off a hinge. Stephen made a run for the door and Josh followed. He grasped the doorknob, but unfortunately the door wouldn't budge the way it had been jolted off the hinges.
"Maybe you should all come to my house instead..." Carol said.
Stephen nodded to his son, "On three. One... Two... Three!"
"Kyle? Jessi!"
"Oh no, the backyard!"
Stephen's feet stepped over the glad, then knelt down onto the patio by Kyle's body. Noticing the small pool of blood that collected beneath Kyle's face, Stephen grimaced tightly at the nosebleed of godly proportions.
"Oh God, Kyle." Stephen moved Kyle's chin upward and tapped his cheeks, "Kyle? Kyle, can you hear me? Come on, just grunt, make a noise. Wake up. You can do it," he coached.
Nicole shouted, "Carol, please, call for an ambulance!"
"KYLE!"