The day after the students, Dosko, and Rin had gone to see Jun and Kan, they were forced by Chris to return to their classes. Because of Jun's unusual pregnancy, she was being kept in the medical center for observation. Kan, however, had come to collect his and Jun's schoolwork from their teachers. Presently, he had stopped by the cafeteria to speak to the others at lunch.
"She was trying to rest when I left. Taking care of the boys is really tiring her out, and she's still weak from the birth." Kan explained to the gathered people, which included Shadow (who had come to see Angela), Robert(Who had come to see Ragdoll) and Nick…because, well, he just didn't want to be left alone.
"Makes sense. Super-kids have gotta be tough." Alex said around a mouthful of tuna salad. Next to Chelsea, Marcus chuckled.
"Yeah, you don't come back from that." He said, causing Chelsea to laugh out loud. Kan shot him a disapproving glare, but said nothing.
Their conversation was cut short as the entire school shook and rumbled like an earthquake. Students began to panic, as debris began to fall from the ceiling. Kan yelled out in pain and clutched his head, a white-hot spike of pain piercing his skull with each heartbeat.
"What the hell?" Alex yelled, then yelped as Luna knocked him out of the way of a falling beam. She pulled him to his feet.
"Survive now, panic later." She commanded, and he nodded, ruffled and surprised. Shadow was making a small dome of blackness to stop the debris, while Robert made a translucent shield of red energy.
"We have to get out, now! This whole building is coming down!" Luna yelled out as the shaking seemed to intensify, and the walls began to give way.
"One exit, coming up!' Marcus yelled, charging onwards towards the wall. Falling debris simply bounced off him, and he punched a hole through the wall. Nick enlarged it with a few of his fingers, which went off like hand grenades. With a gesture and a muttered spell, Robert made his this shield into a wave of energy, using it to push the walls up long enough for everyone to stream through the hole in the wall.
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"Chris, what in the name of whipped topping is going on?" Own yelled out, the small quivers caused by his titanic footfalls lost amid the rumbling of the earthquake. He slammed through the door of Chris's office, and what he found shocked him to silence. The nearly omniscient man seemed to be unconscious, trapped within a swirling orb of dark red-and-purple energy. Before he could question what had happened, he was struck in the back, knocking Own through the wall and several others as well, pushing him out over the edge of the island. He screamed as he plummeted to the city below.
The dark figure that had stuck him chuckled darkly, crackling with power.
"Ah, that was satisfying. Time to visit the rest of the old stomping grounds, I suppose." He said to himself, then vanished in a snap of Brimstone and a puff of sulphur.
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Around the campus it was chaos. The sky had blackened with storm clouds, and the air crackled with ozone as red lightning lanced through the heavens. Suddenly several bolts converged on a single spot, leaving a smoking crater and several new arrivals.
The one in front of the group turned to the others with a commanding air.
"Spread out and find them. The Master will not take failure lightly." She commanded, and the others nodded. Three took to the sky, one ran towards and through a nearby building, and the rest either spread out on food or vanished all together.
"We shall find the three, my love, and then all will be ours."
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Meanwhile, with our heroes, Kan had begun to struggle past the pain behind his eyes, and looked around at the destruction running rampant around them.
"What in the name of Heaven is going on?" Kan muttered, and Marcus, who had been carrying him, turned his head to face him.
"Who know? It looks like the fit's hit the shan in a big way. We could use your help fighting whatever's gonna try and kill us."
Next to the super-strong teen, Angela looked over at him, as she used her healing light to heal several scratches Cooper and Rachel had sustained in the cafeteria.
"What makes you think we'll have to fight?" She questioned. He gave her a look.
"Considering Chris hasn't made this go away yet, and the lighting is blood red, I'm predicting punching someone in the near future." Marcus answered her.
Suddenly, there was a large explosion, and Kan's eyes widened in horror at it's location.
"Jun!" He cried out in fear, then vanished, leaving Marcus clutching empty air. He turned with the others when he heard a spout of mocking laughter. Around ten sinister figures stood on the other side of the school's courtyard, each in a fighting stance.
Marcus looked surprised for a moment, then glanced over at Angela.
"I rest my case." He said, then cracked his knuckles in preparation for the fight ahead.
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The medical center was in disarray when Kan arrived. The walls were buckling, pieces of ceiling tile cracking free even as doctors and nurses rushed to a fro, attempting to help those who had been injured in the cataclysm outside.
"Jun, Jun!" He called out as he rushed through the halls. Just as he reached the doors to her section of the maternity ward, he heard her scream and the cries of his children.
"Jun!" He yelled as he knocked the door aside, drawing his staff. What he saw made his blood begin to boil with rage. A tall figure shrouded in red and black armor of mystical design stood in the center of the room. Jun's bed was sticking out of a whole in one of the walls, and Jun herself was pinned to the wall by a claw of sparking red power connecting to the figure standing in the center, her face bruised and blood running from a large gash above her eye. The infants were all within the arm of the dark figure assaulting their mother, all three wailing in fear.
"NO!" Kan screamed, speeding himself up to the speed of light as he charged the would-be kidnapper. However, he was slammed by and invisible force and pinned to the wall, much like Jun. The figure in the center of them room turned to look at him, and Kan's eyes widened in shock as he saw his face.
"Do not attempt to stop me, Time Walker. These children are mine now." The man seemed to be in his mid-twenties, his eyes glowing like coals in flame, his teeth all pointed like a sharks.
"Robert?" Kan asked in shocked confusion as the energy encircling him began to constrict, cutting off his air.