Chapter 4: Medical Emergency
Cole and Cassie climb up to the roof, but Cole's phone goes off and they both stop and he answers it "Cole, I just got a call from an EMT in your area. The Reapers have overrun his makeshift medical clinic, and he needs your help." Moya informs them. "We can't solve all the world's problems, Moya." Cole reminds her as Cassie dust herself off. "Maybe not, but if you help him. He might return the favor." she informs him and Cole looks at Cassie.
"What can we possibly loose, the city hates us and we can't lose much." she tells him and he sighs, knowing that she was right. "Alright lets go." he states and the both ran longs the roofs of the ran and jump down into an alley way.
Then they look over and saw the medic waving his arms at them and they walk over to him, "The Reapers keep attacking the clinic I have down the street, take care of them for me, would you?" he asks them. They nod at him and walk out of the alley and into the street, they then saw a Reaper running at them, "Shotgun!" Cassie shouts, "The lightposts, go!" Cole orders and they both split up and climb up some light posts. Then was blow Cole and pukes up some tar, "Ugh, gross." Cassie groans and another came under her.
"Back off!" she shouts and fires at him, getting him a few times in the head, then Cole fires at the one below him and nails it as well. Then they both jump down and ran to the clinic, they jump onto the lower roof and pull themselves up.
Cassie took hers head on as Cole fires at the over, nailing it in the head and Cassie did a back flip, nailing hers in the face and making it fly back and smack against the wall. Their enemy was down and dead, then the two look at each other, Cassie jobs over to him and high-fives Cole, he chuckles at her then his phone rings, the two stops and he answers it. "There are other people around there who need help too. Keep an eye out for them." Moya informs them and Cole hangs up.
He then looks at Cassie, "What do we got to lose?" he states with her words, she giggles a little and they jump back down onto the sidewalk. Cole and Cassie walk up to a warehouse by the docks and then Cole answers his phone, "I'm getting that there are a lot of people out there that can offer some help, but I can't locate them. If you reactivate the satellite unlink, I'll be able to track them down and mark them on your GSP." Moya informs him as the two look at each other.
Cassie shrugs and Cole sighs. They then climb up to the top of the warehouse and walk over to the satellite, "Looks busted." Cole informs her as Cassie was inspecting the satellite. "Drain that one of it's electricity, which will reset it. Once that's done, you just need to run pass the others and you will resynchronize them all." Moya informs him. Then hung up Cole looks at Cassie and she looks back at him, "Give it a go." he tells her, she nods at him, stood her ground and drains the electricity from the satellite.
Then it was drain and the two look over at the next building across from them, "there!" Cassie shout and then jumps down onto the walkway, ran across it and then jump onto the roof. Cole smirks and the followed her as she touches the satellite, resetting it and jumps over the power planets and then onto the power line, running across from it and touches the next satellite, resetting the next one. Then jumps down onto the lower roof, ran across and jumps onto the ladder of the walkway on the side of the apartment building, then climbs up to the top and ran by the satellite and reset it, then jumps onto the power line and ran long it, but as he was above the lower roof, she jumps down and quick ran over to the last satellite and stops, Cassie then bends over and pants, Cole then joins her.
"You okay?" he asks her, she nods, "I feel like I just ran a Marathon." she pants and Cole pants her back, "You're just building up you stamina, you'll get stronger by doing this." he informs her, she then leans up and nods at him, "Right, but it still sucks." she whines, but then Cole pats her head and ruffles her hair.
Cassie squints her eyes shut as Cole smiles down at her, "You'll be okay, that I'm assure of." he states, she opens his head as his hand left her head. She then smooths out her hair and huffs, but they just jump down and head back to the docks, but then saw a man waving his arms at them. And they walk over to the grave and stood in front of the man. "Hello Terrorists – my brothers and I have arranged a little party for you." the man states as he was walking backwards. Cassie and Cole eyed each other as they were suspicious, but then the man shift into his true form and they both were fired at, "Crap!" Cassie shouts and ran across the street as Cole climbs u a lamp post "Get out of the here! Run!" Cassie shouts to the pedestrians as the conduit Reaper and bomber followed her.
"Cassie!" Cole calls out to her as she jumps up onto the side of the house, "Don't worry about me, take care of those other reapers!" she calls out to him and pulls herself onto the roof, the Reaper appears behind her and she twisted her body and nails him right in the face them send a shockwave at him, making him fly back and smack down into the water, killing him, then she looks down and saw the bomber killed himself and was dead as well, she then looks over and saw Cole was finishing off the other two and then she jumps down as he was down, then she ran to him as he jumps down as well.
"You okay?" she asks him, he looks at her, "I've been through worse." he answers her and then took a hold of her shoulder, "Are you okay?" he asks her, she nods at him, "I'm okay." she answers and he nods, "Man alive, never thought I'd see this place come back to life. You and Cass are doing good work, brother." Zeke said over the phone and hung up. "What was that thing?" she asks him, he sighs. "Another conduit and I get the feeling that we haven't seen the last of them."
~8~8~8~
The two ran across the roofs and jump down onto the lower floor and walk up to the man that was waving his arms at them. "The Reapers have kidnapped a whole group of people, follow me!" the man informs them and they took off. To the other side and look into the alley, they saw reapers holding seven people hostage. Then Cole looks at Cassie, "Be careful the people." he tells her, she nods at him and they both jump down.
The Reapers then notices then and open fire, Cole and Cassie were careful on trying not to hit the people and then meleed the Reapers, getting all of them, then Cassie turns to the people, "Get out of here, go!" she tells them and they didn't think didn't twitch and took off. "People are really startin' to clean this place up. And it's about time, the smell was bad enough to knock a buzzard right off the proverbial wagon." Zeke states and hung up then Cole walks up to her and she nods at him, they then left the alley and took to the street.
~8~8~8~
They walk along the train tracks, "Cole, if you were give one chance to live anywhere in the world, where would it be?" Cassie asks him, Cole looks at her and thinks to himself. "If I could live anywhere, I would say… New York." he answers her and she looks at him, "Why would you live in New York?" she asks him, "They have great hotdogs." he answers her and she giggles at him, "Okay, my turn, if you were given a chance, where would you live?" he asks her and she smiles to herself "Paris." she answers him, and he looks at her.
"Why Paris?" he asks her and she looks at him, "I've never seen the Eiffel tower before and I heard that the art is wonderful down there. So when this is over. I hope I can go there and see the tower." she tells him, Cole looks at her and places his hand on her head, "Maybe and I might just take you there with me." he states.
She looks up at him and her face was in amazement, "Really?" she states, he smirks and held out his pinky to her, she smiles and locks her pinky with his, "I pinky swear I will take you to Paris one day." he tells her, she then wraps her arms around him, "Thank you, thank you, thank you." she said with glee and Cole wraps his arms around her and hug her tight. "You're welcome Cassie." he states and then she jumps down and walks along the power straps of the train rails. He smirks and follows her, but as they were in another sections of the neon district then saw a man waving at them and they jump over onto the balcony and walk up to the man. "Sounds like the Reaper's carrier is making a run through here, look into it." he tells them, then Cassie turns around and saw a bomber was heading down the street and wasn't causing chaos.
"Cole." Cassie calls out to him, he turns to her then walk u and saw the bomber as well, "Let's follow him, shall we?" he states, Cassie nods and they both jump back onto the tracks and followed the Reaper below them, but make sure that they stayed out of the Reaper's sights.
The Reaper then ran across the street into the alley, but stops and turns back around and looks to see if he was being followed. The two waited and saw the reaper run down the street and, the two ran along the train track and stop at the gas station as the Reaper stops and looks behind him, then he ran into the alley and the jump onto the store then down into the alley and hid behind the dumpster as the reaper stops at the end of the alley and turns back and looks around for anyone following him. The it hang a left and the two got up and ran down the alley and held behind the corner and Cole peeks out and saw the bomber hide something under a dumpster and then started to walk away, Cole ran out of hiding and fires at the bomber making him explode and Cassie ran out of hiding and then to the dumpster and picks up the package.
Cole ran to her and looks down at it, "What is it?" he asks her, "Blast shards, enough for the both of us." she answers him, then Cole looks at her in surprise and the blast shards were absorb into their bodies, giving them more power. "Just saw a few people hangin' posters up, got yours and Cass's faces plastered all over 'em. Now that's publicity!" Zeke said over the phone and then hung up. Cassie tilts her head a little, "Why would people do that if they hate us so much?" Cassie asks Cole and he turns to her, "Because, they're having seconds thoughts about us. The voice of survival says we're terrorists. But we are helping people instead of killing them." he answers her, "And that's why they have posters of us?" she asks him, then Cole places his arm on her shoulder and they started to walk out of the alley, "People will do very strange things, Cassie remember that." he tells her and they were back onto the street.
~8~8~8~
Cole and Cassie ran around collecting bast shards and were powering up their powers to become stronger. But as they were passing the square they say Reaper were gunning down the cops, Cole sighs to himself and they both jumps down from the roof and ran to them, they fired at the Reapers and Cassie hits one across the face and then back flips back him fly back and hit the ground, dead. Cole finishes off the other two and Cassie looks down at the Reaper.
She kneels down and sighs at him, "Why would you ever do something like this?" she questions then places her hand on his head. Cassie then threw her head back as an image ran to her head and she saw a package was hidden around in the square.
She throws her head back down and pants then took her hand back. Cole ran up to her as she stood up, panting and with her hand press to her temple. "What's wrong?" he asks her, she then slows her panting down and looks at him, "I saw something, an image I think." she answers him and pulls her hand away. "Really?" he states and she nods and then walks to to one of the bushes under the cover and looks at it, "This is what I saw." she answers him as he followed her and he picks it up. the shards split and they were powered up, "Wait, you mean you saw the reaper's last memory?" he asks her and she shrugs at him, "I don't know. I guess I did." she answers him and Cole nods to himself.
"Saw some woman pullin' the boards off her window. I couldn't believe it. Guess she's not worried about people bustin' in there anymore." Zeke said over the phone then hung up. "Come on, lets start moving before you start acting like one of them." he teases as he pushes her out of the square and Cassie was offended by that statement. "That is not true. I'm not going to get their personality tracts as well." she complains, Cole stop pushing her and he walks off. "I'm just saying, one can never be too sure." he states and Cassie puffs her cheek, "You!" she exclaims and chases Cole. He laughs and ran from her. "Get back here so I can hit you!" she call out to him, "No thank you, I'll pass." he calls back to her.
~8~8~8~
Cassie chase Cole down down an alley, Cassie was shouting at him as he was just laughing at her red face of anger, but then stop and Cassie crashes into his back and smacks onto the ground, Cole turns and looks down at her, "You okay?" he asks her she groans a little. "Ow." she whimpers then Cole held his hand out to her, she takes it and Cole hauls her back onto her feet. "I'll that in the morning." she mutters and rubs her nose.
Then they look at the man next to them and turn to him, Cassie removes her hand from her nose as the wound heals itself. "I saw something I shouldn't have and now the Reapers are gunning for me. Gotta help me." the man begs them. "What did you see?" Cassie asks him. But he's eye were too paranoid to even answer. "You gotta help me! Seriously, they're going to kill me!" he states, but then was shot at, making Cassie jump a little and Cole sighs.
"…Ah crap…" he mutters and the two broke off and fired at the Reapers. They made the cars explode and took out some of them, but most fired at them and getting the Reapers to the last. "I am so dang glad I don't have to wade through eight feet of garbage anymore. People are really turnin' this place around. Won't be long now, and things'll be back to normal." Zeke dead over the phone and then hung up.
Cassie smirks bitterly to herself and cross her arms, "Normal. We aren't classified as normal anymore uncle Zeke."
~8~8~8~
The two ran pass a warehouse but the docks, but stop as Cole's phone went off and he answers it. "Cole, Cassandra. This is Warden Harms I know you got your hands full, but from time to time I'm gonna need your help handling some things." Harms informs them, "Whatever you got in mind?" Cole asks him, "My men have captured some Reapers, and I need you to escort them back to the station so we can interrogate them." Harms answers him.
Cole looks at Cassie as a smirk was on her face, "Race ya there!" she states and then took off. "Hey!" Cole exclaims and followed after her, they ran across the street and onto the sidewalk. "Cassie, you cheated!" Cole calls out to her they ran pass the gas station, she laughs as she then makes a left turn then jump up onto the wall and pulls herself up and jumps down were the officers were guarding four Reapers as they were disarmed. Cole follows her down and looks at the Reapers as well.
"Sorry for pulling my men out – we're stretch really thin. Bring in the Reapers, and don't be afraid to get a little rough with them." Harms informs them and Cassie smirks to herself then rubs her hands together as electricity was cracking over her hands. Cole smirks and pats her shoulder. "Cool it Cassie." Cole tells her and then they both walk up to the Reapers and then fired at them, "Get moving." Cole orders and they started.
Then Cassie fired at them, "Walk faster." she orders and they did so, Cole smirks at her as he was impress as they were leaving the alley. Two started to fight as as the other two kneel down. "Big mistake." Cassie mutters and then punches the crap out of one as Cole fires at the other, "I'm gonna mess you up." Cole threatens him and they fell back in line then they started to walk again, then Cole fires at them. "Move it." he orders and they walk faster. They then walk onto the sidewalk and across the street and then the two fought them again.
Cassie fires at one as Cole punches the other, "You shouldn't of provoked me." Cole growls at him, "Bad move." Cassie threatens the other and they fell back in line then started to walk again. Then Cole fires at them, "We don't have all day." he orders and they walk faster. They walk across the street again and down the side walk. But then two then broke off and ran for it, "You're not going anywhere." Cole threatens as he fires at one and Cassie chases the other and fires at him, "No one gets away from me." she growls and the quickly ran back to the others and walk to the station, then they arrived and the reapers held their hands at the wall as two officers walk out and took them inside. "Done and done." Cassie states as she brush off her hands.
Cole looks at her and pats her head, "Well said. Well said." he states and she smiles at him, "Hey Cole, just wanted to tell you that the crime is way down, keep up the good work brother." Zeke states and then hung up.
~8~8~8~
The two ran down the street and through the alley, but then stops as a woman was waving her arms at them. "Listen, the Reapers installed Surveillance devices on our building! Disable that junk." the woman asks them and took off, they followed her to her building and once they were there, they saw the red flashing lights. They both look at each other and they nod.
Cassie took the left as Cole took the right, they jump and climb around the building destroying all the surveillance cameras and Cassie leans again as she groans. "Which Reaper was it that through placing cameras all over a building before was a good idea?" she questions out loud, Cole heard her and chuckles. "Why do you ask?" Cole asks her, she blew some of her hair out of her face. "Because I'm going to kill that son of a bitch!" she shouts and it echos. Then she pants. "You feel better? Cole calls out to her, she huffs and nods to herself. "Yeah, I feel better now." she answers and they finished off all the cameras and then climb up to the top.
"Seriously though, I am going to kill the Reaper that though of this." she states, Cole places his arm on her shoulders and nods, "I know."
~8~8~8~
The two fought of Reapers and their powers became even stronger, but then they stop at a woman as she was waving her arms at them. "Whole crowds of people are being rounded up. Do something!" she tells them and then showed them where the people were at. They look and saw nine people were taken hostage and then Cassie cracks her knuckles. "Lets do this." she mutters and then fires at them, getting their attention, Cole smirks and he too fires at them, drawing them away from the people, "Now your chance! Run!" Cassie calls out and the people ran for it.
The Reapers cough u tar as they fired at them, then Cassie sent a Shockwave at them and sent them flying back, then Cole fires at them and got a few, then the two took cover, then Cassie jumps out and fires at the car, finishing off the rest. The people around them started to cheer for them.
"Whoo-hoo, damn crooks are on the run. Awesome! Keep it up, man, crack some skulls." Zeke informs them on the phone and then hung up. Cassie giggles to herself and the two took off.
~8~8~8~
The two electric conduits ran through the alleys, but then came to a woman waving at them and they walk up to her. "Listen, the Reapers installed Surveillance devices on our building! Please disable it." she asks them, Cassie nods at her and they followed her back to the apartment building.
Cassie looks at it in surprise and shock, "That is one big apartment building." she mutters and Cole pat her back, "Lets get to work." he states, she gulps and then walks up to the building and jumps onto the building started to climb around it, disabling the devices. "I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them." she grumbles over and over again.
Cole chuckles at her as she had a little black cloud above her, "Cassie, calm down, you're going to blow a fume or a blood vessel." he tells her, as he pulls her up, and she glares at him. "I will kill every last one of them." she growls like death himself. Cole then steps back from her. "How about I just get the rest of them while you sit here and cool down for a moment." he tells her, she did nothing but sat down and waited. Cole then jumps down onto the side and then disables the reminding devices.
Then he climbs back up and looks at her as he was more approachable, "Cass, you feeling better now?" he asks her as he sat down next to her, she then turns to him, "How do you vent out all this rage and anger that you've pent up inside of up?" she asks him in a calmer tone. He exhales and leans back, "Hit a wall, shoot a reapers, practice on a dummy. That's that I use to vent out any anger inside." he states Cassie hums to herself and then leans her head against the wall as well.
Then Cole looks at her and nudge her shoulder. She then turns her head to him lazily and looks at him, "You might not of heard this or not, but you're handling everything really well." he tells her, she just smirks a little at him. "Maybe I get it from my mom, she was a retired navy pilot, more like honorary discharge. She was eject out of her jet, but was shot a few time in the shoulder and arm. She recovered just fine, but she was able to fly another jet ever again." she tells him, "Ouch." Cole mutters, Cassie nods at him, "Yeah, but I knew that she miss flying in the sky. I would always find her looking up as the sky." she smiles a little and then frowns sadly, "I miss her." she states and then exhales heavily, but calms herself down.
Cole looks at her and then rose his arm over her head, places it on her shoulder and leans her in close to him, she rested her head onto his shoulder and as he leans his cheek against her head. "I bet they miss you too, wherever they are." he tells her and she exhales again, refusing to cry.
