Chapter 3: Friendships
New York City Streets, 11:23 pm, Tuesday March 7th
Rex found himself wandering the streets of New York in the middle of the night feeling a little down. Doc should have come up with a solution by now. Not only that, but Rex had discovered that he was in a world that knew nothing about nanites. Without nanites there were no E.V.O.s. Without E.V.O.s there was nothing to hit.
Rex was walking by an alleyway when he thought he may have found something to hit. Two muggers, one armed with a knife and one armed with a gun, were attacking some kid with an orange toga and a blue arrow tattoo on his forehead. As Rex was about to go help however the small kid did something amazing.
The kid summoned rock up from the ground and it encased gun muggers hands. The kid twirled around the stone that was now in front of him and punched gun mugger in the face. It then appeared that he used the air to trip knife mugger to the ground. When the mugger hit the ground stone shackles came up and encased his arms legs and neck. The kid then bowed and started to walk away.
Rex knew that he had to talk to this kid. It was obvious that he was an E.V.O., but he obviously wasn't a normal one. He still looked normal at least.
"Hey, kid." Rex called out. "Wait up."
The kid turned around to look at Rex. "What?"
"I saw what you did back there with those two guys." Rex said to the boy. "That was some pretty impressive nanite controlling back there."
"What is nanite controlling." The boy asked Rex.
"Let me guess." Rex replied getting sad. "You have no idea what nanites are."
"Nope." The boy answered. "Sorry."
"Then how did you control the ground and the air?" Rex asked him.
"I'm the Avatar." The boy told him.
"Of course you are." Rex replied as if that was the simplest explanation in the world. "What's your name?"
"I'm Aang." The kid told him.
"I'm Rex." He told Aang.
"I'm going to go hang out at this sweet warehouse I found." Rex explained. "You wanna come with."
"Sure." Aang replied.
Outskirts of New York, 11:40 pm
Danny and Jake had become introduced with each other and each others stories. They had also in the short time of knowing each other become excellent friends.
"So you really have no idea how we got here." Danny asked.
"No clue, dawg." Jake replied.
"Well we should probably find out why." Danny proposed.
"Yeah, probably." Jake agreed.
"Where should we start?" Danny asked.
"I don't know." Jake replied yawning. "But I'm thinking we should probably start tomorrow."
"Agreed." Danny yawned as well. "You know anywhere we could sleep."
"Nah, not really." Jake said looking around. Then it caught his eye.
"How about in there?" Jake pointed at a huge rundown house.
"Alright." Danny agreed before heading inside with Jake.
The house was a bit of a dump. The paint was peeling off, the windows were smashed, the door was kicked in, and a corner of the roof had collapsed onto the second floor.
The inside of the house wasn't much prettier than the outside. The railing to the stairs were leaning off, there were holes in the walls, and all the furniture there was ripped up. Not to mention there was a mysterious smell that didn't seem to have a source.
Jake and Danny didn't care though they were just glad to have a place to crash.
"I'll take the couch." Danny told Jake flopping onto the ruined sofa.
Jake ventured into one of the bedrooms to find a bed with a few springs poking out. Jake lied down to sleep.
Entering Manhattan, 11:59 p.m.
Kim and Robin were walking down the streets trying to figure out their next move.
"How are we going to find these people when we don't even know what they look like?" Kim expressed her concerns.
"Try to look for anyone who doesn't fit in." Robin told her.
"Robin, that happens to be everyone here." Kim pointed out that they were surrounded by hundreds of different people all looking like they didn't want anything to do with each other.
"Look for anyone who is acting like they got kidnapped from their normal lives." Robin told her annoyed.
"Hey so Robin you said you know people who can fly, right?" Kim asked double-checking.
"Yeah." Robin answered.
"So maybe someone else from an alternate world flies too." Kim told him.
Robin suddenly perked up seeing where she was going with this. "So maybe we would have an easier time finding one from a higher vantage point." Robin said pointing upwards.
Both of them ran behind an apartment building so that they wouldn't be spotted. Then both of them fired their grappling hooks towards the fire escape and started to climb towards the roof. Once they reached the top they both stared out at the night sky. The roof wasn't much all it had was a few chimneys and a door that led inside the building but it would serve well as a lookout tower for the time being.
The Night Sky, New York, 12:10 a.m., Wednesday March 8th
Rex and Aang were flying around after they had stopped by the 'Rexhouse' and grabbed some water balloons. Rex had taken it upon himself to show Aang how to live, since for some reason he appeared to have come from the 1800's. So the first thing that Rex had to show him was the art form of pranking.
While they were flying around they found two people sitting on the roof of an apartment building. A boy and a girl, probably a couple. The only weird thing about them was that the boy was dressed in the weirdest clothes.
Rex poked Aang and pointed at them. "Let's go ruin date night."
The both of them landed silently behind the door that led inside and prepared the ammunition. Rex transformed his arm into the slam cannon telling Aang to load 'em in. Aang did this and Rex aimed the cannon at the easiest target, the silly kid dressed in bright colors and fired. The second Rex had fired the balloons he hid behind the door. The two of them started laughing at the achievement.
A few seconds later though something appeared next to Rex's face stuck in the stone wall. Rex looked to see something shaped like a boomerang. Something that was beeping faster and faster every second. Aang suddenly ripped the bricks from the wall bending them to his will and forming a dome-like shield around them right before the explosion went off.
Once the bricks dropped Rex looked up to see the silly man whom now actually seemed more like an insane man walking towards them.
The three of them prepared for a fight.
