Envy

"One day your entire world will come crashing down, and you'll have to rebuild it with the remnants." – Angelo Russo

9:45am June 25th, 2010 Frostfire Abandoned Hideout

Angelo yawned as he walked over to the main computer only to find Ayame. For the past week she seemed completely incased in research of gods from all sorts of cultures and religions along with myth. "Hey, Ayame, you mind if I use the computer later? I want to check something," he said yawning afterwards. Angelo hadn't been able to get a good night's sleep ever since they saw their parents kill that girl. He was plagued with nightmares.

"Sure," Ayame said as she kept reading and clicking through pages. "I'm thinking about getting some actual books anyways," she added on. "With what money?" Angelo said laughing. "I'm sure the library wouldn't mind if some of their older books were, let's say...borrowed," she said with a smirk as she flicked her lighter open. "Got a skeleton key, remember?" she said before putting the lighter back into her pocket as she got up. "You can use the computer now actually. I need to do some stuff," she said as she left the area.

Angelo sighed as he went over to the computer and started inputting various commands into the keyboard. Demyan entered the room, Lily in tow. Ever since the incident she had seemed to follow him everywhere he went. Angelo looked over at Lily and shook his head. "I don't understand why she follows you everywhere. You'd think that firey hair, stubble and scar, and the way you dress would scare her away," he said as they approached. Lily simply stuck her tongue out at him as she grabbed Demyan's hand. "Couldn't tell ya," Demyan said, looking down at her before looking at the screen. "So what'cha doing?" he asked.

"I'm hacking into the local police, the FBI, CIA, NSA, S.H.I.E.L.D, A.R.M.O.R, S.W.O.R.D and X-Men databases," he said simply, his hands flying across the keyboard. "Serious? Can't they like track you and come kill us all?" he said looking closer at the screen. "This entire base is on its own private power system and network. I'm also denying any of their ping requests with my powers and downloading everything into an alternate computer then transferring it to another and then through another countries government then back into a computer in the States and finally into ours. Even if they do find us, then we can turn in our parents and get this taken care of. In the mean time I plan on finding out everything I can on our parents," he said, his typing speed increased.

"I guess that's one way to do things," Demyan said shrugging his shoulders as he started walking off. "Hey, if you see her around, could you have Elise come here? I could use her help," Angelo said. "Yeah, yeah, I'll tell her to come up here so you nerds can make out or whatever," Demyan said, smirking as he left the room before Angelo could yell at him.

Lily tugged on Demyan's hand until he looked down at her. "What is it?" he asked. "I'm hungry," she said as her stomach growled. Demyan sighed. "Looks like it's time to go on a food run, and not the legal kind," he said as he went off to find Ayame. "Hey firestarter, we're going to go steal some food. We could use our favorite lock pick." Ayame didn't look up at him. "Why don't you just rip the locks off?" she asked. "Because melting them is quieter and you can melt any security cameras. I'm thinking we break into the back of some supermart and load whatever we can find into the van." Ayame looked up thinking about the foods she had missed. "Kay, so should we get Kayla for some extra heavy lifting?" Demyan shook his head, "Little miss magic here has been practicing, says she can levitate stuff, so we won't be needing Preppy."

12:54pm, June 25th, 2010, Local Supermart

Two metal doors slowly melted as Ayame held up her hand, her eyes glowing red. Above her were various melted cameras as Demyan and Lily walked into the storage area of the supermart. Demyan tore off the tops of two large boxes and emptied them out. "I figure we got about 5-10 minutes before the cops get here. Keep the masks on and grab whatever you want and put it in those boxes," Demyan said. While Ayame went off on her own, Lily followed Demyan grabbing stuff after he did. They had to knock out some people who tried to stop them but soon they had two full boxes.

"Okay Heromine, levitate the boxes and get them in the back of the van," Demyan said. Lily nodded and held out her hands. Her eyes glowed gold as a golden magic circle appeared in front of her, rotating various arcane symbols glowing on her skin as the boxes were covered in a gold light and lifted off the ground, floating forward out of the supermart and into the van.

They were about to get out scot-free when Demyan saw it, a bolt of lightning heading towards Lily. He quickly jumped in front of it blocking it with his back before turning around with a snarl. "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?" A lightning bolt struck down on the ground near them as a man walked out. He was wearing what looked to be a fullbody combat suit with various armored parts. The suit went to cover his face with a balaclava that had shaded eye sockets. "They call me Black Bolt. You villains get younger and younger every year," the man said, his voice static. "I'll give you one chance sparky, we aren't villains so get lost," Demyan snapped. "Well you are stealing, in my book and practically every other superhero that's something a villain does." Demyan sighed as his muscles tightened. "Goth, get the little girl out of here," Demyan said not wanting to give away names or powers. Ayame almost talked back but realized what he was doing. "If I crash the van it's not my fault," she said as she got in the van with Lily as they drove off. Black Bolt tried to shoot a lightning bolt at the van but Demyan blocked it as horns began to come out of his forehead as he began to transform.

"Just remember, I gave you a chance." This transformation was different. His horns were pure black and they seemed to be more straight than the horns from the night they got Lily out. Slowly his skin became grey as his hair turned pitch black growing out, becoming longer as a tail fell out with fur at the end. His body became more muscular, claws growing out of his fingers, the claws being black like his horns. He smiled revealing rows of sharp teeth as he took a step forward, his shoes tearing as claws came out of them.

"That's a neat trick, but it won't help you at all," he said as he sent two lines of lightning into him, only for Demyan to be un-phased. "The hell…that was 100,000 volts." Demyan simply grinned. "That's a neat trick, but it won't help you at all," he said copying him before he started to run, his first step causing the ground to crack and break under extreme weight as his body slowly became bigger before he jumped into the air, fully transforming into a giant beast dwarfing the supermart. He let out a screeching howl as he stepped on Black Bolt. Black Bolt attempted to shock the beast with no avail. Of course, you can't turn into a giant monster without attracting attention.

Suddenly red transparent chains wrapped around Demyan's limbs as a large red humanoid figure walked towards him. "Target is chained down, take him down Paranormal," the red figure said with a booming voice as a white streak flew through the sky before impacting with Demyan's jaw, sending him flying upwards, the chains breaking. Demyan simply smacked the streak down into the ground. "The hell… you hit with enough force to break my psi-chains and it's still moving." A red beam shot into Demyan, burning his grey skin only for it to heal. "I don't like our odds Origin, maybe this is a job for Armageddon. I don't even know what this thing is." The white streak known as Paranormal who was now hovering in the air was wearing a mainly white outfit that consisted of a hood, cape and slightly loose white body suit that had a red X on the chest. "Okay, Shattered you got the civis out of the area?" the one identified as Origin said into a head piece only to be responded with a yes.

Slowly Origin built a red dome around the area as a force field was made. Demyan looked around before noticing the top opening slightly as a figure fell down, and then a red bubble surrounded Paranormal. When the figure landed on top of Demyan a massive atomic explosion went off. Demyan was on the ground before he slowly got back up, his skin healing. "What in the actual hell is that thing!?" Paranormal yelled. "That was a fucking atomic blast going off right on top of it!" He was met with a roar that made cracks appear in the force field. "I'll see if I can get a look in its mind," Origin said, holding up his hands to his head.

Unknown Time, Unknown Date, Unknown Area

Origin had sleak black hair that was shaggy and went over his eyes slightly. He wore a red jacket along with a red long-sleeved top that had red armor plating on it with a black x on the chest plate. He had blue jeans with armor plating on them as well and leather boots. The area he was standing looked like a barren wasteland with various beasts either the same size or bigger than the one they had been fighting roaming around, and nearby sitting on a throne made of bone was Demyan with his head resting on his hand as he held a bored expression.

"Who are you?" Demyan asked yawning. Origin looked at him. "My name is Edward Knight, but most people call me Origin. I'm a member of the X-men," he answered. "Oh yeah, I've heard of you, that mutant who makes the red shit appear. Seen you on the news." Origin was confused. "You didn't see me while you were fighting me?" Demyan simply shrugged, "I'm not really sure what's going on right now. I was fighting some cape named Black Bolt and then everything just kind of got hazy. But I feel like someone's hit me over the head with a chair or something." Origin laughed at this. "Kid you've been hit by a guy who once punched an asteroid into the sun. And an atomic bomb has gone off in your face."

"That explains the headache," Demyan said standing up. "So, I'm assuming the giant grey monster you aren't in control of." Demyan shook his head. "Well, tell me this. Why were you fighting Black Bolt? He's a member of the West Coast Avengers." Demyan just shrugged again. "He tried to hurt Lily... so I decided to break his bones," Demyan said as he began to walk. Origin walked with him watching as the beasts went by them. "Why did he try and hurt this Lily?" Origin asked. "We were taking food…we didn't have any money so we stole it. We've kind of been homeless for a while now, hiding out in some place."

"Why are you homeless?" Origin responded. "We…found out our parents…are Supervillains, so we ran away. All the cops are working for them. We didn't have anywhere to turn, and we were marked as kidnappers, so we hid." Demyan then stopped and looked up. Standing in front of them was the grey beast that the 4 X-men were fighting. "Is this the one?" Origin looked at him and nodded. Demyan looked up and snarled. "HEY UGLY, TAKE A NAP!" The beast tried to attack Demyan, only for a larger green almost dinosaur-looking monster to bite the beast, making it run off. And then Origin was kicked out of Demyan's mind.

2:37pm, June 25th, 2010, Local Supermart

When Origin snapped back into reality the other X-men were groaning and Demyan was nowhere to be found. "What happened?" Origin asked. "Big monster threw us around like ragdolls before shattering the dome and stomping off. It seemed to get smaller and smaller before it disappeared into the woods." "God, I have the worst headache…" Origin said, backlash from being kicked out of Demyan's mind hitting him. "I can't seem to recall what the mind of the beast was like…Whatever. Let's head home. Maybe Data will have something on what exactly that thing was."

5:43pm, June 25th, 2010, Frostfire Abandoned base,

Demyan walked into the base wearing a different outfit. He was shortly hugged by Lily who refused to let go for a good 5 minutes. "So, she was right," Elise said walking forward. "Hmm?" Demyan said removing Lily. "Lily said not to worry, that you'd make it back. We were going to go join the battle when we found out what happened, but she insisted we stay out of your way." Demyan laughed a bit. "Yeah, I kinda lost control. I can't remember more than half of the fight. When I came to I was in the middle of some woods running so I just kept going."

"Duuude!" Angelo said running down to them. "YOU FOUGHT SOME OF THE X-MEN'S HEAVY HITTERS! AND WON!" he said ecstatic. "LIKE WHAT WAS THAT GIANT MONSTER? THAT'S SOME GODZILLA SHIT RIGHT THERE!" Demyan shrugged. "If I let my powers go I guess that's what happens. Before I just kind of tapped into it slightly and got a bit scared when it changed my body and stopped it there. But…I was just so angry about him trying to attack Lily. I mean, she's a little girl. That's just messed up," Demyan said thinking back to when his father would beat him.

"Well, whenever we're majorly in trouble, just let go and we should get out fine. I bet you could take on the full force of the Avengers!" he said smiling still. In a blur of black Ayame slapped Demyan across the face. "IF YOU EVER MAKE ME DRIVE AGAIN I WILL PERSONALLY MAKE THAT RED HAIR A LOT HOTTER!" she yelled glaring at him before storming off. Lily nodded. "Ayame is very scary when she's driving." Demyan just laughed as he walked off. "I'm going to sleep," he said as he went down to the cell area of the base.

9:28pm, June 25th, 2010, The Acker Residence

"What did you call us here for?" Mr. Kihaku snapped at Mr. and Mrs. Acker. "Please, keep your calm, we've received a message," Mr. Acker said, putting a paper on the table. It read simply, "Don't worry, I trust you." This drew smiles across the faces of the various parents. "It seems one of our children are still loyal. This will be very useful," Mr. Russo said as he went over the paper.

***Chapter 3 finally done! Hey maybe I'll actually get this going!

***The only question now is which runaway will betray the other runaways