Chapter 6
Statis Shock

Right after her,…announcement, the Goddess and her two companions turned and left reentering the building, at the same time the entire crowd began murmuring amongst them selves.

Slowly the three made there way out of the crowd, trying to get away from the people so they could talk in private, John had to help Raven walk as the thoughts of the people around her were so nervous and scared that they were breaking through her already weak mental defenses. Also because of the tight crowds, Jasmine had to hold her cloak around her so it didn't get pulled of her by accident.

Once they were out of the crowd, and into a nearby building that they were pretty sure was deserted for now so they could talk. The building had once been a cold storage warehouse, all around them boxes had been packed, and left behind after the building had been abandoned. As soon as they were sure that they were in fact alone, John began talking, "Well……now I know who planned all of this, and why I never thought of her in the first place."

Jasmine sat on one of the boxes and pulled her hood down as she said "The woman who did the talking? Who was she?"

"The Goddess"

"I don't like the sound of that name" Raven groaned.

John shook his head, "She was meant to be the ultimate villain for my series, just before I gave up writing the stories I had created her, even did some very decent sketches, only villain I ever drew to, so it's the only reason I knew who she was, but anyway, she was a literal Goddess, her power level was supposed to of been off the scale, the only abilities I know I gave her were a very controlled amount of mind control, and she could fire plasma balls from her hands."

John took a deep breath before he sat down and continued, "Thing is, her mind control powers typically only worked on the highly religious,… some how I don't think that's the entire military."

Raven was tapping her foot as he talked "Great that means you have a way to defeat her right?"

John looked at Raven, "Did I mention that's why I never completed the story?"

Raven suddenly lashed out and grabbed John by the collar slamming him into the wall he had been standing in front of, "You fucking telling me that you created this all powerful villain to fight against your team,….but you never thought of a way to defeat her?"

John grabbed her arm and pulled it off him before pushing her away from him, "Raven kool your ass, when I did all this I had no idea that anything I made would come to life, right now we need to calm down and think of a plan."

Raven glared at him for a little while before turning away and starting to pace for a while, "I'm sorry, your right,…so we need a plan then."

"Now see that I can do." he said with a smile. "Here's the plan."

Worcester State 1 hour later - Deans Office

The Goddess sat behind her desk watching the clock, As Time Master. And Ammo both sat there watching her in silence, after a long moment she turned to face them, and as calmly as if she was telling them the days events, "I see the welfare of the people in this school are of little concern to anybody."

"No ones reported anything as to the whereabouts of the Young Mutants?" Time Master asked.

"Obviously old man or she wouldn't of said what she did now would she?" Ammo said as he adjusted something with in his visor with a small set of tools that laid in front of him on the desk.

Just as Time Master had been about to say something, The Goddess held up her hand to silence him, and after a pause lowered it as she said "I don't have time for you two to be at each others throats right now, we need to carry out our plans regardless of weather or not Electron and his Young Mutants are…"

The Goddess was cut off as one of the security lights next to her desk began flashing, tapping it she called up the monitor and all she saw was the window in the basement, open.

She looked over at them and simply said "Go."

Basement.

John sat crouched behind a bush next to the open window into the basement, as soon as he heard commotion from the guards that had been guarding various exits, he closed his eyes and thought, they found the Alarm, and are on the move, Tell Jasmine to make her move

Even though he couldn't see her Raven nodded her head and from her spot sitting on the bench reading the paper outside the main gate of the school she sent to Jasmine, Jasmine, it's your move.

Jasmine knelt in the bushes near the school and as soon as she heard Raven's call she ran to a nearby tree and rapidly climbed it, using her claws. Once at the top she peered out the branches, watching the roof. Taking a breath the cat like girl leaped from the tree and landed on the edge of the roof, almost missing it completely. Not pausing, the teenager ran towards the stairs door, but had to stop as the door slowly opened…

Jasmine jumped up onto the roof of the doorway before the door completely opened and waited for who ever it was to exit. The door opened and she could see the shadow of the person who stood in the doorway, but he or she didn't step out. Instead the door closed again. Jasmine jumped down from the roof of the door and grabbed the knob, only to have the door slammed into her as it swung open.

The teenager fell back onto the ground, but rolled backwards gracefully to her feet.

Ammo eyed her intensely as he came around the corner, holding out his hand a long blade with Jagged sharp edges along the blade with a dark looking Skull hilt at the end, appeared in his hand from the image he was viewing in his visor "Here kitty kitty kitty"

Jasmine took a step back as she said "How original. You can sure tell John created you. Your lingo's as lame as a Saturday morning cartoon."

"Pissing me off with witty insults isn't going to work," Ammo said as he jumped high and swung the sword at her, but she flipped out of the way, so it cut through her cloak and nailed a few hairs. "I see that this wont be easy."

below,

John heard the commotion above and took that as his cue, and quietly slipped inside the School using the opened window, trying to keep to the far wall, avoiding the camera where and when he could.

Looking around the room, he saw various boxes stacked up, all labeled with various items, some holding books, others holding computer supplies, and so on and so forth, after checking few he decided there was nothing he could use, then cracked open the door and peeked outside. The Hall was empty, which he was glad for, so he slinked out into the hall and quietly began making his way towards the deans office.

Suddenly he stopped, off to the left he heard something coming from one of the off branching halls. Still moving quietly John pushed open the door to the hall to try and listen better, Only to have it roughly pushed open and slammed into his head. Stumbling back he tried to gain his footing again, but before he could, he was hit by a blast of energy slamming him into the wall behind him, weakly opening his eyes he looked for the face of his attacker as he started to black out, only to see the goddess looking down at him, "No…" then blacked out.

an undisclosed location somewhere beneath the school

Slowly John began to open his eyes, his blurred vision coming into focus, looking around he found he was in what looked like a simple Cave, with some kind of Portal device in it, but beyond that there was really nothing, "Talk about a cheesy hideout" John said out loud, pulling at the chains that held his hands and arms above his head.

To his left John heard, "Well welcome back to the land of the living sleepy head."

John recognized the voice, "Jasmine?"

She laughed, "yeah, so much for our big plan, we all got captured, Both you and Raven were out cold when Ammo brought me in here."

"Not good, Raven you awake?" John asked.

Not that he could see it, but Jasmine shook her head, "Nope still out like a damn light."

"Not that anyone can sleep with you two love birds chit chatting so much" Raven said groggily

"Glad to see you are still with us." John told her the stopped as the he heard a clicking sound.

Looking over to his left he watched as the wall next to them split down the middle and slid open, and in walked the Goddess, Time Master, and Ammo, stopping in front of them, moving forward the Goddess said. "You three are the only one who pose anything resembling a threat to me, but now I have you in my hands, but I plan to extend to you an offer, join me, or die, I shall let you make the decision."

Goddess snapped her figures and the three dropped to the ground, getting in attack position, Jasmine got ready to attack them.

But John held up his hand and said, "Jasmine wait."

"Screw you John! I have had it with all of this, they've turned our lives upside down, mutated me into,….this thing, I want a piece of them, and I want it now!"

Hunching back on her hind legs jasmine went to pounce, but John lunged at her to stop her, but it was too late, as soon as Jasmine attacked, Time Master shot a blast of energy out at John which hit him in the side sending him flying into the wall. Once he hit it his back hit a sharp stone and he cried out in pain.

"You've made your decision I see." The Goddess said, then as Jasmine lunged at her she fired a Fire ball at her, but at the last second, Jasmine turned her body so the blast missed her, and behind her Raven ducked, so it just hit the wall behind them. As soon as she landed Jasmine swept her foot knocking the Goddesses feet out from under her.

Getting up, Jasmine then lifted her claws and swiped at the Goddess, But she just rolled out of the way, and brought up her foot slamming it into Jasmines stomach then blasted her in the side sending her a few feet away.

Raven wasted no time at all, lunging, she tackled Ammo, slamming into his stomach knocking both of them to the ground, and making Ammo slide along it a little bit. Pushing her up, he slid a knee under her then kicked her off of him, then lifting both legs back he pushed them forward fast and front flipped him self standing up.

Turning around a blaster appeared in his hand, but she was already gone, or so he thought, he could see a faded outline of her blurring and out. "If your going to try and block me from seeing you by using your telepathy…" he said then raised the blaster and fired a stream of blasts against the wall, two hitting her, causing her to drop the illusion, then drop to the ground. "Make sure you can do it well first!

During all of this John had finally been able to move, and begun to crawl for cover, to try and figure out how to lend a hand, Once he got behind a large Stalactite. Once he was safely behind it, he stood up then turned around, only to look right at the Time Master, who was standing there withg his time staff pointing right at him. "So is this it then?"

The Time Master Just smiled, "What ever do you mean?"

"This is where you finally kill me, and do to me what you could never do to my creation?" John said, doing his level best to hide the fear in his voice, as he tried to think of away out of this, alive.

Time Master just laughed "You're a lot smarter then I gave you credit for Electron, as much as I would love to just wait till your powers emerge, so I can get some kind of satisfaction out of killing you, and eliminating your very existence. We both know you would find some way to turn the tables before I could, so I will take care of that now."

With out waiting for the John to respond a blast erupted from the Time Masters staff hitting John square in the chest sending him crashing through the stone, and landing over with Raven, and Jasmine, who the Goddess had just put there as well. Looking up John groaned, "you may have beat us Time Master, but I'm sure we are not the only Meta Humans, there will be others, and they will oppose you."

"I don't think so, and this little endeavor is over," Time Master said as he hands began to glow "when I'm done with you three, only your ashes will be left. And it wont even be enough to identify you with."

I cannot take this anymore
I'm saying everything I've said before
All these words they make no sense

Time Master thrust up both hands and blasted a stream of Time Energy at the two, just as he did John raised both his hands in front of him instinctively, just as he did the energy from Time Master struck… some kind of field in front of them that no one could see, stopping the blast.

"No he's got his powers!" the Goddess yelled

The field then caved in on its self from the inside shooting out and slammed Time Masters energy back at him, which he was thankfully immune to.

John looked down at his hands in shock once the Energy stopped shooting out of them and said "How..how,…how did that…did I?"

I find bliss in ignorance
Less I hear the less you'll say
But you'll find that out anyway

Just like before..

Raven looked over at him, still reeling from the blasts, "Don't Worry about how, just do it again" then she got up.

John concentrated and shot his hand out,….and at first nothing happened, but quickly the pressure built and the Electrical Energy shot out again in full force. "This might take some getting used to, but hey I'm liking it"

Raven dodged a hit from Ammo as she said "John quit admiring your self, and just end this already!"

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break

Raven then back flipped out of the way as Ammo swiped his Blade at her, just barley missing the girl, On her feet again she then jump kicked the blade out of his hands, then brought up her other foot and slammed it into his stomach sending him tumbling back.

John nodded at her statement then, as he avoided another blast by the Time Master, said, "How are you here Time Master! Answer me, I wanna know right now!"

Time Master just laughed at John and said "You have no room to demand anything Electron, you may have power now, but I still hold all the experience, and I will destroy you, then I'll destroy everyone you care about."

I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break

Johns eyes seemed to literally flare, and he lunged,…flew at Time Master, as soon as he hit him, and electric bubble formed around them, and John directed the two of them towards the ceiling,… crashing through it.

"Now tell me why!?" John screamed at him, as they came through the floor in the school above and landed in the hall, crashing back down to the floor.

"What makes you think I can tell you?" Time Master said calmly as he got up and cracked his fist across Johns face sending John stumbling into the wall.

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break

Below Jasmine and the Goddess were doing there own little dance, and given the Goddesses power Jasmine was doing amazingly well. Every time The Goddess threw a plasma ball at her, Jasmine was able agilely jump out of the way, just barley in time. After the last one though, Jasmine seemed to vanish.

Carefully looking around The Goddess said softly, "come on child, come out and let your suffering end, none of your friends understand how drastically your powers have affected you, nor do they care, join me, fight on my side and make it end."

Suddenly Jasmine appeared out of no where slamming landing her foot on the back of The Goddesses head Slamming it into the Ground, "Not interested."

Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break

John hit the wall with his hands out, and Just as Time Master went to try and blast him again, John used a light amount of his power to repel him self away from the wall fast, so Time Masters Blast hit the wall going through it, thankfully the class room was empty.

I find the answers aren't so clear
Wish I could find a way to disappear
All these thoughts they make no sense
I find bliss in ignorance
Nothing seems to go away
Over and over again

Just like before

Time Master turned and again Fired Energy at John, Who raised his arm and a shield made of electricity appeared on his arm blocking it., then he put out his hand and fired a large beam of Electricity at the ground in front of Time Master making it explode and send the man flying.

While he was still in the air John flew at Time Master, hitting him he kept going until they crashed out the window, taking the fight outside, causing screams from the crowd still gathered out side, both from the appearance of two flying men, and the glass now raining down on them.

Not wanting to risk innocent injury, John tried to take them over to the roof, but before he could, Time Master twisted out of his grasp, and began then brought up his fist hitting John in the jaw again.

John backed up, he needed to get Time Master to loose his concentration, cause the only reason Time Master could fly was cause he slowed down the flow of time around him, so gravity didn't pull as fast, if he could get him to loose that, he could gain the upper hand, but he had to think fast as Time Master was already heading towards him.

Making his decision, he began repeatedly throwing balls of electric energy at Time Master, Which Time Master had to keep on blocking them, after a while John picked up the speed, finally Time Master began to falter, stopping John decided on the tackling technique yet again, This time hitting him hard enough to send him crashing through an off wing that held the schools broiler, a few seconds later, it exploded.

Pausing in mid air John Paused, after a moment he flew down ward towards it, but a cop called out to it. "Wait, hey electric guy wait"

"What I need to.."

"Don't there's no way that guy could of survived it, but there are still people on the school and if the fire Spreads…" the cop said

John swore under his breath, "Get the Fire department, I want to find a body" and took off thinking no way it ended that easy

an hour later

John had managed to find Jasmine and Raven, they had beaten the Goddess and Ammo, Ammo was now in custody, and the Goddess had taken off, after that John erected an electric field around the fire to try and keep it from spreading while they cleared all the hostages out of the building, which didn't take long as the Goddess had far less then she said she had.

After all that, the Fire had been put out, and the FD discovered the remains of a body, but John still wondered.

NEXT: Everybody Talks about the Weather.