Tigger: HIYA PEOPLE!

Alexa: Someone is hyper.

Tigger: Maybe! I'm just really looking forward to this chapter.

Alexa: Why?

Tigger: This is my most actiony story yet! So I love the chapters where I can feel the excitment too.

Alexa: Should I be worried?

Tigger: Can you fly?

Alexa: No.

Tigger: Can you swim?

Alexa: Why?

Tigger: Future reference.

Alexa: I should be worried.

Tigger: YEP! Anyway thanks to lilypop8, ChaosBlack5711, Anna282, and October Autumn for reviewing this wonderful story! SPREAD THE WORD PEOPLE!

Alexa: You mean about this story you don't own?

Tigger: 0.0

Alexa: Tigger does not own Black Cat the manga, anime, action figures, plushies, characters, plot, or rights.

Tigger: THE EVIL DISCLAIMER! NO!

Alexa: Let's begin this chapter.


Alexa's eyes fluttered open. She shut them instantly when the sunlight blinded her eyes.

"You're awake now," a voice chirped.

Alexa jumped as the voice sounded in her ear. She looked around in a panic and spotted the source of the voice, Kyoko. Alexa almost jumped out of her seat but stopped when she noticed something was binding her. She looked down to see a set of seat
going across her chest and lap. There was something on her too. Headphones?

"Don't panic, you'll activate your Tao," Kyoko told her hurriedly, "Doctor said you have amnesia. We're your friends. You're an Apostle of the Star now."

Alexa paused. She had been prepared to scream and cry, she thought she was going to be torture. But Kyoko was being nice to her. She watched warily. What was an Apostle of the Star? Why were they being nice to her? Shouldn't they be yelling at her or hurting her because she disobeyed them?

"Because they think I don't remember being kidnapped," Alexa recalled from before.

This thought eased her slightly. If she went along with the act then they wouldn't hurt or kill her. She was still scared though. All she had to do was wait for the right moment and she could escape. Then she could forget about this horrible nightmare. What about before though? What had happened? What was with this Tao they kept mentioning? They had said she was from another world, but that wasn't possible. It couldn't be possible. There was only one world, right? Only one. Only one. Alexa felt herself begin to hyperventilate. No! No! No! Other worlds didn't exist!

"But then what is going on?"

Alexa paused she hadn't had a chance to fully accept the situation. She had been too busy running, screaming, refusing to see what was around her. She reviewed the facts in her brain. She had been kidnapped by a person who could control portals, woken up in a stone medical room, had gotten sick, been visited by a doctor, schoolgirl, and goth man, woken up to the schoolgirl, run away from the school girl, had run into a scary man, time had frozen, she had tried to escape out a window, there was an earthquake, she had almost been killed, and then it went blank.

"That's right! Why am I alive?"

The last thing she remembered was almost being crushed by a statue. So why was she still here? Did they rescue her? But wasn't she just an experiment to them?

"That was so cool what you did before!" Kyoko gushed, "You just screamed and everything went 'crack' and broke."

What was she talking about? Alexa had imagined that, right? She had imagined things breaking, the magic crack in the steps, and the disappearing woman. It was all tricks her mind was playing on her. She was just imagining things due to her overactive imagination which was acting up because she was scared. Things like those didn't happen in real life. They only existed in television shows.

"You totally broke all the glass in the room and you even made us all freeze. There was this annoying ringing sound in my ear and I couldn't move," Kyoko continued, "Then you broke that statue with your scream. That was so cool!"

Broke the statue with her scream? That was impossible. People can't break inanimate objects with their voice. Just like they couldn't emerge from portals in the sidewalk or give people powers just by giving them a drink.

"My power is really cool too," Kyoko bragged, "I can blow fire. Just by kissing people I can even melt their insides."

What? Did she just say she can blow fire and melt insides? What was she on drugs? Was everybody here on drugs? People couldn't breathe fire. It was physically impossible.

"I bet you're jealous," Kyoko chirped happily, "I bet you're full of anger wishing you could breathe fire. It's okay though. Your power is going to be really helpful on this mission. The festival is going to start today when we kill the president."

Kyoko seemed really happy about the prospect of killing someone and starting the 'festival', but Alexa wasn't. The minute Kyoko mentioned killing someone Alexa's stomach had plummeted. They wanted her to help kill someone! She couldn't do that! Alexa had to get out of there now! She had to escape and warn someone that these crazy people were going to try to kill someone! But where was she?

Alexa looked around and her stomach fell right through the floor and onto the land below. Now either she was in the weirdest room to ever exist or Alexa was in a helicopter. Alexa was sitting on what resembled a high tech car seat and on her left was a giant door with a huge window. Looking out the window Alexa could see miles of forest with towns tucked in. There was a giant river flowing below them and they were very high up.

"Oh god."

Kyoko was sitting on a seat to her right. There was a small aisle in-between the two girls and two more seats in the front. In the seat in front of Alexa was the pilot. The pilot was wearing a helmet and goggles, Alexa didn't recognize the man. Charden sat in the last seat wearing a set of headphones instead of his usual top hat. Alexa's brain started to go into overdrive. Oh go, oh god, oh god. How the hell did she get in a helicopter?! Wait wasn't the rebellion supposed to begin the day after Alexa woke up, but the scary man had said it would start today and so did Kyoko. That must mean she slept through a day after her first awakening. The journal had said she had been asleep for three days to, so she had been gone for three to four days!

"Cam down," she told herself, "The first thing I have to focus on is getting out of here before they make me kill someone or kill me. I know I'll text the police and warn them! Now where's my backpack."

Alexa glance around and spotted her backpack…by Kyoko. Damn it! Why was nothing ever easy? Time for Plan B. Maybe she could get away once they landed, but it could be too late by then. If they landed Alexa would be watched over and she would lose her only chance to get away. Wait where were the others? Oh it didn't matter. The less people the better. Alexa glanced around the small aircraft again. There were parachutes, she could use one of them to escape. However, Alexa knew nothing about parachutes or jumping out of helicopters. Besides what if the parachutes were broken or had a rip, Alexa couldn't risk that.

"So I'm just going to sit here like a lump?" she asked herself, "I'm going to wait until Prince Charming comes along and defeats the bad guys."

At home, Alexa had been a confident person, the kind of person to keep going until the end. Now she felt so lost. One incident and everything she was came crashing down. All she wanted to do was sit in a corner and wait to be saved. Her old self would be so disappointed. Her old self would be scared but put up a brave front and try to think of a way out. Her old self wouldn't stop until she escaped.

"What was the expression? People find out who they really are under stressful situations. I just always thought that I would have been the kind to put up a struggle. When I resisted before that was out of fear not bravery or courage. I'm a coward. A coward who will probably die by staying here."

This last thought struck Alexa hard. If she stayed here there was no doubt she would die, but if she tried to escape she would most likely die. The chance of her surviving was small but there was still a chance. Alexa would take it. She would prove she was not a coward. She would be herself no matter the circumstances. Kidnappings, magic, fire-breathing girls, none of those things would stop her from being Alexa Maxwell. Hadn't she once said the point of living is experiencing life? She could add sky-diving to her list of things she had done.

Heart pounding, Alexa planned her escape. It went as followed: nab her backpack, steal a parachute, put on the parachute, jump out of the helicopter and hope for the best. The plan was stupid but it was all she had. Alexa glanced at Kyoko who was still ranting about something or other.

"Personally, I think my teacher is such a stuck-up. He's always nagging me," Kyoko complained.

"When did we get on the conversation of teachers?"

Alexa's backpack was on the floor by Kyoko's feet. If she could just slide it over with her foot then all would be well. Her pulse racing, Alexa tried to look casual as she stuck her foot out, wrapped it around one of the straps, and began to tug it towards her. She did it all without Kyoko noticing. That was the easy part though. Her pulse doubled as her sweaty palms began to undo the seatbelts constricting her. The pilot and Charden were too busy looking out the windows to notice. Her stomach was full of butterflies and she tried to make her breathing sound casual. A slight jittery feeling ran through her veins as she leaned backwards slightly, so her hands could grab the parachute behind her seat. She unclasped it from the back of her seat and brought it forward with one hand, still on high alert. Her breathing was coming quicker and Alexa could feel the buzz of the adrenaline beneath her skin. Her muscles were tense and she had to remind herself to keep going. She slipped the headphones off warily.

"Have to get home, have to get home," she repeated to herself again and again.

"Kyoko, stop her!" Charden commanded.

Alexa shot out of her seat. Her heart went into overtime and butterflies scrambled around in her stomach. Kyoko stopped mid-rant to see Alexa standing there with a parachute in her hands and her backpack near her feet. Alexa froze as Kyoko stared at her with wide eyes. Alexa was frantic. What should she do? What should she do? Kyoko reacted first and put a hand to her lips. A ball of fire came at Alexa. Alexa's eyes widened at the sight and she gasped. Her body shook and then tensed up. Her legs wouldn't operate, her arms wouldn't move, her throat was closed up. She was going to die! All of this happened in less then a few seconds, before Alexa's mind managed to send enough messages to her body so that Alexa threw herself to the side a milisecond before she became burnt toast. She hit the ground hard and her left arm got singed by the blast. The window behind Alexa melted and things air began to get sucked out of the hole.

"Get out of here!"

Kyoko, Charden, and the pilot were aghast as the air began to leak out, but Alexa acted on instinct. Her blood was pumping through her veins at an inhuman rate, as she scrambled to grab her backpack, slip the parachute on her back, and grab the door handle. Her sweaty palm grasped the handle and she used all of strength to pull back the heavy door. It slide open and the amount of escaping air began to increase. It was almost as if the wind was pulling her backwards it was like being stuck in a strong current, there was no way to fight it. Alexa couldn't escape it, as it began to pull her outside. She knew she had to jump. She had to escape. But that didn't stop her from wanting to scream and cry and hold onto something for dear life. A searing hot pain ran through her right arm and Alexa looked to see Kyoko holding onto her for dear life. Kyoko's expression was enraged as she held onto her chair with one hand and Alexa with the other. Alexa's chest tightened and her breath caught in her throat. She was being prevented from leaving! Alexa began to struggle. The burning in her hand hurt so much. She wanted it to stop. Her skin was on fire and tears came to the corner of her eyes in pain.

Alexa needed to get out of there and now! She couldn't stay here! She wanted to scream so bad, but her voice seemed to have left her. Kyoko had mentioned she froze people with her voice. It was crazy, but Kyoko could breathe fire and was burning her hand. Alexa flinched as Kyoko seemed to melt another layer of her skin. The pain! The pain! It hurt! It hurt! Why wouldn't it stop? She had to make it stop! She had to! Had to try something! Alexa did the only thing she could think of, scream. Miraculously her voice came back and Alexa screamed as loud as her sore throat would let her. Immediately Kyoko stopped moving. Without Kyoko grasping her arm, Alexa's arm slipped right out of her hold and she fell backwards into the air.

Air rushed around her and her brown hair stung as it slapped her face. Her heart was going a four hundred beats per second and she seemed unable to move. She was falling through air. To her doom. Just falling through the cold air. It was all happening too quickly for her. Her whole life could have flashed before her eyes and Alexa would have missed it. All she could think of was the unstoppable force of nature that was working against her at the moment.

"Move!" her brain yelled at her.

Numb with shock, Alexa struggled to obey. She had to or she would meet her untimely death. In the future Alexa would never remember how she did it or how she was able to fight through the fear in her brain that seemed to block all other reasoning, but she managed to turn over so she on her stomach. When she did that her parachute tried to pull away. Alexa hadn't had enough time to put the buckle that went over her stomach on and the backpack was only on because of the straps on her shoulder. Even then the bag was being pulled away by the wind because it was lighter then Alexa and would fall at a different speed. She needed to buckle it before she released the parachute or her arms might be pulled out of their sockets. But Alexa's arms were full with her backpack, which Alexa was grateful that it was zipped up. Acting on instinct she put part of the backpack in her mouth and bit down. Then she made sure the backpack was flat against her so the air would press it up against her. Slowly she moved her arms away. When they were no longer pressed against her body the wind yanked at them and pain shot through her shoulders. Alexa didn't make a sound as she slowly began to fight the wind by grabbing the buckle on her parachute. It was a slow process because of the wind resistance and it didn't help that when Alexa tried to buckle the buckle the wind pushed her fist into her stomach making it seem like she had punched herself. Finally Alexa managed to buckle her parachute. She grabbed her backpack with one hand and began to frantically search. Where was the string that released the parachute? It had to be somewhere. It was always right by the shoulders in the movies. Alexa spotted a red handle on her right shoulder. Quickly, she yanked on it as hard as she could.

It sounded like cloth being released, but Alexa didn't dare look. Tears were flying out of her eyes due to the wind sheer and she shut them. If she didn't make it, Alexa didn't want to see her own death approaching. She squeezed her backpack, out of hopeful wishing or fear she didn't know. Suddenly Alexa felt tugged upwards. Her body was up righted and she slowed down. Alexa opened an eye and looked up. A giant red parachute was attached to her by many strings. On the parachute was the black outline of a rose and the parachute itself was a blood red color. She had done it! She was alive!

Alexa felt all the tension leave her and her fears go away. She was alive! She had done it! She had escaped from the insane criminals and was on her way home. All she had to do was land and call the police! The happy feeling fled at that thought. Alexa had no idea how to land a parachute! But it couldn't be harder then opening one, right? Alexa would just have to hope for the best. Speaking of landing, Alexa looked down. Shit! She was a lot closer to the ground then she thought she was. What to do? What to do? Wait what about the people, the Apostles they had called themselves? Alexa try to look at the sky around her parachute. To her horror she noticed three black dots up in the sky. They were barely noticeable but they were there. Oh no! What if they could see her parachute? The thought was ridiculous considering how high they were, but still.

What if they weren't simply going to let Alexa escape? What if they would come after her to punish her or kill her? Alexa's stomach constricted. They knew her name, her age, her family members and her college. They would have no problem tracking her down. She had gone from the frying pan to the fire. Now they would try to get her and they could end up hurting her family or friends. She was such a fool. Alexa hadn't given the consequences a single thought. If someone she cared about got hurt, it would be all her fault. That wouldn't happen though. She wouldn't let it. If she escaped she could tell the police and they would capture her kidnappers, right? Alexa's thoughts stopped as she noticed that she was surrounded by tree tops.

"The ground!"

Alexa began to panic. What should she do? Should she bend her legs or keep them straight? Before she could decide on an action her feet hit the ground. Alexa's knees buckled and she fell forward. The parachute was still up though so it proceeded to drag her forward even if she was barely on her feet. Dirt flew into the air and Alexa attempted to lock her legs into place, hoping the parachute would stop. It didn't work and Alexa began to look for a way to get the parachute off properly.

"How does this thing come off?" Alexa asked while frantically looking for another thing to pull that would release the parachute.

It felt like something slammed into her chest and Alexa shot backwards before swinging forwards. She was suspended a foot above the ground and was swinging back and forth like a child on a swing. Her chest ached and Alexa felt slightly dizzy.

"What the?"

Alexa looked up to the parachute was caught in a tree. The lines attached to the bag on her back were tangled on multiple tree branches and the shoot itself had a branch sticking right through it. A tingly feeling appeared in Alexa's arms as the blood flow was being cut off due to the bands pressing into her arms. Gravity was trying to pull Alexa down but the parachute wouldn't let it. Apparently it did its job too well. Alexa released the backpack in her hands and it fell to the ground below her with a clatter.

"I hope I didn't break anything."

First things first, Alexa needed to get down. Her body had stopped wildly swinging and now she was hanging limp. Alexa grabbed onto the ropes suspending her and gave them a harsh tug. Some leaves fell off the tree and the branched above her shook, but Alexa's parachute remained firmly in the tree.

"There should be a release," Alexa thought.

She examined both straps and the belt line but found nothing.

"Now what! I can't stay up here forever!"

Alexa couldn't stay up here forever. What were the chances of someone finding her? Probably very low and what if it was the Apostles of the Stars who found her? Alexa didn't want that. She never wanted to go back ever. It was something she was certain of more then anything.

"Come one let me down!" Amy yelled telepathically at the tree.

It was doubtful the tree was a telekinetic and heard her, but Alexa felt better.

"Now what? I'm just supposed to hang around?" Alexa blanched, "Okay that wasn't even intended to be a pun."

Alexa glanced around. The tree she was hanging from was at the edge of a forest next to a dirt road. No houses, signs, or any signs of civilizations could be seen. Where was she? This certainly wasn't near any place she had visited before. Was she even in the same country? Alexa hoped so. The last time she had spoke a foreign language was when she was in high school and her knowledge had slipped since then.

"Think positive," she told herself, "Eventually someone will drive by or the parachute will break. It can't hold out forever…I hope."

A tearing sound reached Alexa's ears and she looked up. The parachute was beginning to tear from the hole a tree branch was poking through. Alexa's body jerked as the tear became bigger before the branch ripped the parachute from the hole to the edge causing Alexa to land on her butt.

"Ow ow ow ow ow ow," Alexa exclaimed inwardly while rubbing her sore behind, "Stupid tree. Stupid parachute."


Tigger: Okay people I'm going to be serious for a little bit and do some explaining. Alexa's Tao power is called 'Scream'. Creative, right? Anyway her power is focused on vibrations. Vibrations are what sound is composed of. For instance vibrations created by the human voice can't travel through water well so that's why you can't hear people clearly underwater. Alexa is able to increase or decrease vibrations in her voice and any other living thing. So she can be as loud or as silent as she wants. She can also take sound away from anything. However decreasing vibrations is harder then increasing, so you won't see her do it as often. Also it is easier to do Internal Ki which is basically focusing her Tao on herself rather then others. Loud vibrations can mess with a human's delicate hearing and results such as ruptured ear drums and temporary paralysis can form. At this portion of the story Alexa is clueless about what is happening to her and the Apostles have only a vague idea. So you won't be seeing her use any of her cooler powers till later.

Alexa: What am I clueless about?

Tigger: Uh...LOOK A MONKEY!

Alexa: Your not going to fool me with that one.

Tigger: Hi Cam!

Alexa: WHAT I THOUGHT SHE LEFT?

(Tigger runs off while Alexa is looking around)

Alexa: TIGGER WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!

Tigger: (in the distance) Why are all of my characters so violent? I should do somethign about that.