Chapter 4: Arguments
Once the movie ended, Virus looked back at Robin to see him asleep on the couch. She frowned and looked at her best friend, Blaze. He knew what she was thinking. He knew what everyone was thinking. Virus was annoyed everytime her best friend forced someone into sleep, but she knew Red Demons loved to do it.
Red Demons could poke inside your head at anytime; they don't care if you say not to. It was impossible to not see inside a mind, especially a human's mind. But now Blaze knew that Robin watched his father explode and his mother being taken from him. He now knew Robin's real name, his age, his father's name, his mother's name, and he even knows Robin is half Tamaranean. If he handed the boy to a couple of aliens, Blaze could get rich.
Other Red Demons would not hesitate to, but Blaze wouldn't even do it if you dared him, and he hates backing out on dares. He felt bad for poking into the boy's mind and finding out what the boy didn't want anyone to know. Robin was mostly human, so Blaze couldn't resist, and since the boy was mostly human, he wanted to put the half human to sleep. The more humans Red Demons put to sleep, the more quicker their powers grow.
They do it by talking to someone through telepathy. All they have to do is say the command to the mind and the rest of the body listens. It's not mind control, it's just... a useful tool to make a Red Demon's power grow, but it takes focus to put others to sleep. Most enemies of Red Demons learned to resist the commands since they fought so many times, and Red Demons have lots of enemies. A command could last forever until another Red Demon stops it.
And since Blaze was the only Red Demon on the surface of Earth right now...
"Why did you put him to sleep, Rin?" Virus had her goggles on her eyes to help her see better. When she had her goggles on, and used your first name, she was probaly mad or worried. In this case, a little bit of both. She was told about the irresistable call.
Blaze was at a loss of words for a minute. He finally found some to answer with. "I could wake him up anytime, Amalia." When Blaze used your first name, he was just using it. Nothing more, nothing less. "Besides, what about the Archangel and the Knalian that escaped from the Techno scanners?"
"I know." Virus thought for a few seconds before coming up with an idea. "We could leave now and come back at dawn once we found the escaping creatures. I can't wait to turn them in! We will get paid for it, and we did a good deed." Virus stood up and walked towards the hole in the wall, which was still there. "We will fix this first though."
"Did you tell your dear old King Auto Repair about us leaving Techno?" Blaze watched as Virus paled and her eyes widen.
"First of all, his name his King Automatic. Second of all, stop watching car shows about auto repairs. Third of all, I thought you did, Rin!" Virus turned back to her friend.
"I didn't, but it doesn't matter. Just fix the hole, or do you want me to be gaining for power from a sleeping human?"
Virus breathed in and out; she was annoyed at Blaze. "You distracted me." She simply said. She turned around again to face the hole. She lifted her hands, her amethyst eyes glowed a bit purple.
She could sense every technology in range, which was one mile. Virus focused on the wires in the wall that were supposed to be running with electricity. She then snapped out of her trance and glared at Blaze.
"I didn't do anyting!" He put his hands up in defense.
"I know. You have to move pieces of the wall together while I make the electricity flow into the wall. That should get the security back on when the current reaches its destination." She sighed and restarted what she had done before.
Blaze did as he was told. He bent the pieces to the right position with his telekinesis, which meant he could move things at thought. He placed them back in their place. He found a couple pieces of metal in the storage room, which he teleported to and back, to get replace the ones that couldn't be fixed. Finally, Virus gave a thumbs up to Blaze telling him that she was done.
"That was so much work to fix one hole." Blaze complained. He teleported them to a roof in Jump City. "I bet King Automatic already found out we left, but he doesn't know where. You're going to be in so much trouble!"
"What about you?"
"You were the one who threatened to make my life a miserable mess if I didn't come along."
They spotted the Archangel soaring above in the night skies. The Knalian was standing on a yellow, floating, circular platform watching and probaly recording the Archangel's wing speed as she flew. "That was easy." Virus smirked as she rubbed her hands together. Electricity shot from her fingers that were aimed at the Archangel, who fell from the sudden electrifying suprise attack.
"Wisdom help!" The Archangel yelled as she tried to use her wings, but failed.
"Scepter!" The Knalian, or now known as Wisdom, made his platfrom drop, but still fly, to try to catch the Archangel, now known as Scepter.
"Oh no you don't!" Blaze lifted off the gound and flew up to kick Wisdom in the side. This caused Wisdom to fall off the platform, and for the platform to disappear since no one was using it. The Knalian just made another platform; it was green instead of yellow.
Meanwhile, Scepter got to use her wings again. Virus couldn't fly, so she used electicity to try to shock the Archangel from the sky. When that didn't work, Virus spread her arms out and clapped her hands together. Electricity underneath Scepter in the city shot up, but Scepter used her golden scepter to block the attack.
The Archangel was getting confused. Why were these other creatures attacking them? It did not make sense. Scepter got an idea and trapped Virus in a sphere of energy. She did the same to Blaze, who was about to kick Wisdom again. Then, she was able to bring both spheres to a rooftop to have a little chat.
"Okay, why did you attack us?"
"We saw you escaping the Techno scanners." Virus crossed her arms.
"Escaping? We had permission to leave by King Automatic. Did he not tell you?" Wisdom said. "We were simply going on a mission to Earth."
"Then why is a Knalian and Archangel working together?" Blaze asked.
"Why is a Red Demon and Technoian working together? Ask yourselves that!" Scepter snapped back.
"We were best friends for like our whole lives. We met on my planet one day." Virus said. "Now that we know that you are not escaping, truce?"
"Truce." Scepter made the spheres around Blaze and Virus to disappear. "I also believe that guy looked inside my head to see if we trust you." She pointed to Blaze.
"Your name is Evelin?"
"Yes, yes it is. Now you know that we trust you, now what?"
"I was thinking we could all forget about this and head for our homes." Scepter was already flapping her blue feathered wings already, but the truth was she did not want to leave Earth.
Blaze and Virus then remembered they left a sleeping boy on a couch.
"No! We, uh, forgot something?" Virus said with a questioning tone.
"I sense you are forgetting someone." Wisdom had put his hood up that came with the cloak. "I could tell by the tone in your voice."
"I just noticed you barely speak, Wisdom." Blaze smiled.
"Don't change the subject, Red Demon. Who did you put to sleep?"
"How do you know that I put someone to sleep?"
"When you kicked me off my platfrom, there was a shield up. You shouldn't of been able to pass through unless you keep gaining power from the sleeping life form."
Blaze knew Knalians were very smart, and annoying. "The boy is in a secret base, which is protected. We were allowed to stay there for the night, but we spotted you two and you know the rest."
"We'll go back to that base to wake him up, Red Demon." Can't this guy just say his name instead of what he is? How hard is it to say Blaze?
The four were teleported back to the secret base, thanks to Blaze. They went through the door after the security was deactivated, thanks to Virus. They all went into the living room and found the sleeping boy on the couch. Wisdom stared at Blaze with disgust. Wisdom didn't like Red Demons at all since they could control anyone. Everyone should be able to make their own choices. His species learned to resist the commands since his species is determined to know everything about this universe, but they don't know everything yet.
Blaze looked to the other three. Scepter probaly was thinking the sleeping boy was cute. Wisdom was probaly thinking about how foolish it was of him to put the command on a child while Virus looked like she understood why he gave the command. He looked back at the boy.
Wake up, Adam...
The white lenses of Robin's eyes opened a little, but he closed them and snuggled into the couch more. Everyone noticed and grew with worry. What if Blaze made the command to last forever? What if the boy will never wake up?
"He's still asleep, Rin." Virus was looking to the boy then to Blaze.
Blaze could have his fun if he told them he didn't know what to do. He loves to have his fun and play tricks on people, especially Virus. He knew exactly why the boy woke up for a second and fell back into a deep slumber. Blaze bet Wisdom already figured it out, but Blaze wanted to be the one to answer. The Knalian species always gave extra information not needed just to show off how smart they are.
Blaze whispered his answer. "He is out of the command. It seems that he just wants to sleep." Now that is how you give a simple reply.
"Which he needs since this boy clearly hasn't gotten the 8-10 hours of sleep." The Knalian ruined it. He just had to add on to Blaze's simple reply. "The sleep command is not-"
"-included in the regular human sleep period. So, right now, Robin is getting his human sleep, which is needed." That sentence was about Red Demons. There was only one Red Demon there and that Red Demon likes to talk about his powers, commands, and what the outcome is.
"I was going to speak that in a more better way to understand." Wisdom glared at Blaze. Knalians hate it when others finish their sentences for them.
"You could have put it in a more understandable way? A simple reply and not a whole story would do you know!" Blaze was a few inches shorter than Wisdom, but he could still look intimidating to the other teen.
While their quiet argument continued, Scepter played with Robin's hair. He looked so cute when he slept! Virus just looked mad, and a bit jealous, that Scepter was playing with Robin's hair. The boy could maybe wake up from the feeling of another hand, but she highly doubted that. Wisdom, and Blaze, said that he doesn't have enough hours of sleep as he should have. So the boy should be very deep in sleep. Okay, now Virus was getting really jealous.
"Hey Scepter, why don't we get to know each other better while we are here?" Perfect distraction.
"Sure." The hand has been removed from the boy's hair. The jealous feeling has gone down, but the 'I want' feeling has gone up. They walked to the kitchen.
"So, as I heard Blaze, your name is Evelin?" Virus started.
"Yeah."
"My real name is Amalia.
"Nice name. Did you know I live on your planet? You already know what my species does, so that's way I am out here."
"I see."
"So... what are we still doing on Earth? I should really get back." Scepter said.
"I actually don't know why we are on Earth right now. What was your mission here anyways?"
"Well, King Automatic from your planet, wanted to check out Earth. Since you know he can't leave your planet, he wished for Wisdom and me to take pictures of Earth. He wanted to know how low-tech it is compared to Techno."
"You already know why Blaze and I are here. I have another question, why did you pick the name 'Scepter'?"
Scepter pulled out a golden scepter with a blue middle on the tip of it. It wasn't a stone, it was just for decoration. "I get my power from this scepter. Except the power to fly since I have wings on my back." She put the scepter away. "I already know why you picked the name 'Virus' for your codename. You are a Technoian and you also love to hack."
"Pretty obvious I guess."
"Totally." Scepter looked back at the two boys fighting and smiled. "We're almost like a family." She said her thoughts out loud.
"Family?" Virus asked as she sat on a bar stool.
Scepter realized that she said her thoughts out loud. "Uh, yeah, sure. Almost."
"I know what you mean actually. The argument going on over there reminds me of how my family always argues." Virus thought for a moment. "I want to stay on Earth."
"Why?" Scepter asked.
"I've never really been here before and I would like to see more of this planet."
"The truth is, I would like to stay too. I will get to meet new people and see new sights. I would also get to fly in a new sky."
"Why don't we all stick together? I could ask Robin if we all could stay here."
"Yeah, why don't we? King Automatic didn't say to return with the pictures." Scepter said. "He just said to take them. So I am staying."
Virus and Scepter got to know each other more. Blaze and Wisdom kept fighting over who was better while Robin slept on the couch. About half an hour later after lots of talking, the four decided to watch a movie. Each of them seemed to really like movies for some reason.
Since there was only one couch available, thanks to Robin, Wisdom made a comfy platform to sit on while Scepter laid on the ground. The movie was an hour and a half long. After that, the four played board games together for the rest of the night. In Blaze's opinion, it was really boring. The four teens did not need sleep since each of their species didn't need any.
Each of their species are really helpful to others. Knalians provide knowledge to others and live on Earth hidden amongst humans. Archangels would always be asked to fly something to another planet, and sometimes they are called Messangers. They don't really have a home planet since the species is spreaded out on many other planets. Red Demons live under the rule of Master Firemind who some Red Demons describe as a tryant. They live in the underworld, and they help by reaching into minds to judge a person, which isn't that helpful. Technoians live with the great leader King Automatic on Techno. They help others by improving or adding technology on other planets. It is rare to see any of those four species on Earth, but in space they are well known.
Scepter's people are treated like slaves while Blaze's species is one of the most controlling out there. Wisdom's people are considered just another species amongst many. Virus's species is one of the most known but not as high ranked as Red Demons. They are just another helpful species.
Morning came quick to the four, and they quickly made sure everything they pulled out was back in its place. Virus was making breakfast, which consisted of scrambled eggs and bacon. Wisdom went out to buy more food since he had the most money out of all of them. Blaze was just sitting on a bar stool watching Virus cook. Scepter read books on the couch about Earth's history to learn more about the planet. They all didn't know much about Earth, except Wisdom.
Robin stirred and opened his eyes slowly. That was the best sleep he had in three months! He sat up slowly and wished he could be engulfed by sleep again.
"Virus, Blaze, he's awake!" A girl with many books piled around her was on the other couch.
The two best friends came into the living room and found the now awake Robin. The boy was really confused why there was another teen here, but his questions could be answered easily. "Who is this?" He asked Virus and Blaze as he gestured to the new teen.
"You know the two creatures we were tracking down? Well, she is one of them and the other is buying more food. We found out they were not escaping the scanners." Virus smiled. "Could we all stay here?"
"We decided to stay on Earth for a while, and we need a place to stay. Will it bother you, kid?" Blaze stated.
Robin thought it over and answered. "Sure, why not?"
"Yes! And by the way, my name is Scepter and the one getting more food is Wisdom."
The boy nodded and looked at the digital clock. It was 9:00 A.M.! He was used to turning in at three in the morning and getting up at about seven. Robin then remembered he fell asleep during the movie, but shouldn't he wake up earlier than seven if he went to bed earlier? "Why did I sleep that long?"
"Oh, sorry, my fault. Red Demons can give commands through telepathy, telling that person what to do. I had to put you to sleep for my pleasure, since Red Demons love to put humans to sleep. But we ended up going out and meeting Scepter and Wisdom."
"Never do it again." Robin didn't like the idea of being forced to sleep. He didn't remember his real name being added to the sleep command which was why Blaze wasn't being punched right now.
"Wisdom said you are not getting enough hours of sleep." Virus said. "I bet you are really tired right now."
"I said that." Blaze muttered while he sat down next to Scepter on the couch.
"Doesn't matter, Blaze. What matters is that you are not getting enough hours of sleep Robin! That isn't healthy for a boy your age." Virus stated.
"You cannot tell me what to do Virus. I was doing this for three months, and my body had grown used it it."
"Your pale and too skinny. Let us step in and help." Virus crossed her arms.
"I don't need any help. I will keep on going by my normal routine; wake up at seven, eat and drink, then turn in at three." Robin was getting annoyed that they think he is not getting enough sleep. He was in charge of his own routine right?
"You only get four hours of sleep each night? No wonder why you didn't wake up when I got rid of the command." Blaze said. "You're only a child Robin. We are older, and that allows us to tell you what to do."
"Being older doesn't mean you could tell me what to do!" Robin stood from the couch with his hands in fists.
"Then why do parents and teachers tell children what to do?"
"Because they-"
"You're just going to tell us some stupid response kid. Now, go back to sleep!" Blaze shouted. He knew he would win this argument.
Sleep...
Robin swayed on his feet. His eyelids got heavy again, and he knew Blaze was putting him to sleep. But he couldn't focus since sleep seemed the only way to get pleasure, and darkness engulfed him. He fell foward, but Scepter quickly jumped from her spot on the couch and caught Robin before he could hit his face on ground. She held him bridal style and glared at Blaze.
Virus spoke before Scepter can. "You know he probaly hates you commanding him, and now Wisdom will get mad at you for doing this just to win a simple argument."
"I know, but it is so much quieter when the kid is sleeping, and Wisdom will never have to know. Also, when I take away the command the kid will still probaly be sleeping, and therefore he will get more sleep that is needed." Blaze smiled as if he had done something right.
Scepter didn't like the idea of being controlled. Her species are slaves, but she was lucky she ended up working for King Automatic. He gave her a very nice bedroom, meals whenever she liked, and other nice things like clothes. Then Wisdom came in. He watched as Scepter placed a sleeping boy onto the couch. He looked at Virus as she spoke, who did not know he was there.
"Good luck then, Blaze. Drown with pleasure as Wisdom lectures you about putting children to sleep just to win an argument is wrong." Virus turned around. "Wisdom! So nice of you to come back to yell at Blaze!"
Wisdom placed the three bags he was holding on a nearby table. He walked over to Blaze and stood tall. He glared down at the Red Demon.
"Now, Red Demon, if you cannot learn that putting humans to sleep for the fun of it is wrong, then I'll have to teach you myself." Wisdom cracked his knuckles.
The girls laughed as they saw Wisdom chase Blaze around the room. Blaze could've teleported or used the extra power he was gaining from the sleeping boy, but it looked like he was too scared to even think of the idea. Now the question was, will it be like this everyday?