Jae Khameron: Ah, sorry for the long update. All the notes I had on his story were on this computer and somehow they were all gone :( They were notes to just help me out a bit for the plot so I had to rewrite 'em all on paper. Also, I hope you don't mind all the new characters. Don't worry, they all have a purpose :) I'm loving all you guys who liked my story enough to be reading this chapter I've decided on the pairings but won't be making it noticeable for a bit. And so, without further ado, enjoy chapter 6!

Disclaimer: Ahem. I own: Ashe, Lucas, Adrian, Damien, Thomas, Garreth, Faye, Elliot, Artemis, Apollo... and this story plot. Anything else, I no own.

Chapter Six: Preparations of War

In the Previous Chapter:

The officer that looked to be the leader of the pack signaled for one of his men to grab Ashe. Quickly a not-so-scared looking man ran up toward Ashe and bent down to grab her hands. "You have the right to remain silent," he started, "Anything you say can and will be used against you," He tried to lift her up but almost fell back when she wouldn't budge from the spot. "Get up," he demanded.

"I can't, not right now anyway," Ashe whispered.

"Get her up!" shouted the alpha male and men from all around immediately ran toward her, picked her up, and placed her into one of the vehicles. "Are you taking me to jail?" Ashe asked innocently.

"Nope, you're going somewhere much more… appropriate,"

"I'll see you around," Garreth saluted Claire before vanishing.

"See you around," Claire smiled at the very quick and strange encounter for a moment or two before heading to where she intended to go to earlier. However, Garreth smiled as he watched her walk away just around the corner from where Claire stood.

"Finally, some fun," Garreth said out loud, his smirk never leaving him.

Ashe sat uncomfortably on a wooden chair with a blindfold over her eyes and her hands and feet tied to the chair. She sat as still as she could while she heard a few mumbled voices in another room next to hers. She didn't bother trying to get out of the ties that were just a bit too tight on her and instead waited for someone, anyone, to come into the room.

Just then, a few footsteps entered the room. By the sound, it seemed to be at least three people who entered the room. "So, can I know why I'm in here now?"

"Take the blindfold off of her," she heard one say.

And just as the voice said, the blindfold was off. Ashe looked down to her restrains first and her eyes widened. Her wrists and ankles were chained but it didn't feel cold to the touch like metal usually felt like. "What do you want from me?" she asked in a shaky, fearful voice.

"We'll be the ones asking the questions!" another one shouted at her.

"Please don't mind him; I'm Jay, the one who just shouted at you is Jeffery, and the quiet one back there is Robert," Jay smiled at Ashe, his dark brown eyes sparkled which made Ashe feel that only he could be trusted. "You want to tell us who you're working for?"

"What do you mean? I don't know what you're talking about..." Ashe answered truthfully. She flinched away when Jeffery slammed his hand against the table not too far away from her. Then, accidentally, the energy that was being emitted from the light bulb above increased tenfold and everyone, but Ashe, jumped away before the bulb burst. "Sorry; he's making me nervous!"

"Jeffery, calm down!" Jay roared, mimicking Jeffery by slamming his own hand down onto the table.

"Garreth! Garreth, where are you?!" Thomas walked through his mansion that sat alone on a hill. "Garreth!" He called out again. "Come here this instant!"

"Relax dad," Garreth appeared a few feet away from Thomas, standing slack and leaning with his weight to one foot. "What do you want?"

"Have you been keeping watch over our new recruits?"

"I have better things to do," Garreth turned his back to Thomas and started to walk. As he walked down the hallway, he teleported a metre or so every step he took while a large grin on his face. Before he reached the end of the hallway, Garreth teleported out and away from the mansion. Thomas grit his teeth together in anger, eyes narrowed.

Mean while, Garreth had gone back Costa Verde, California landing on top of someone's rooftop with light feet. He hopped from house to house, hands stuffed into his pockets, and headed toward the local high school. Garreth teleported quickly toward his destination by never staying in the same spot for more than a blink of an eye. However, before he had time to react, Garreth bumped into one of the students who somehow saw him before he could teleport again. "Watch where you're going," Garreth had taken a step back from the impact yet still managed to keep his hands in his pockets.

"Why don't you watch where you're going?" the other boy snapped back in reflex. His dark brown hair and eyes stared at Garreth and then they suddenly averted toward the person coming toward the two of them quickly.

"Hey West I wanted to talk… to… you…" Claire looked up at Garreth in disbelief. She must've not noticed that she was looking up at him with her jaw open because Garreth smirked at her and pointed to his own jaw, making Claire close hers immediately. "Garreth, what are you doing here?"

"You know him?" West looked from Garreth to Claire and then back to Garreth.

"Oh uhm; West this is Garreth, Garreth this is West," Claire pointed to the respective persons when she spoke. "Well, what're you doing here Garreth?"

"Just stopping by – you want to get out of here?"

"I can't just up and leave school!" Claire half shouted, glaring at Garreth dead in the eyes. "And I really need to speak to West about something,"

Garreth looked at West who, in return, looked at him with a half shocked half confused look. He turned back to Claire with a sad face. "I thought we were friends…" Garreth grabbed onto Claire's hand and brought it towards himself, "And I wanted you to show me what you could do… please?"

"Is this all really necessary? Could we add anymore titanium walls around her?" Jay shook his head, slightly ashamed at himself, as a few more workers came to add yet another wall to Ashe's 'cage'. "Seriously, where do we get the money for this? Isn't this like the 5th wall?"

"Well, we have to be careful Jay – you never know," Jeffery smiled as if he had just won some battle, standing back and admiring the large box he had created. "That should hold her for a bit,"

"What do we do about Kenzie and Alexander?" Robert said suddenly, his eyes cast away from Ashe's holding cell. "Should we go check on them?"

Jeffery shrugged his shoulders and turned to Jay to see what he thought but Jay shrugged his shoulders as well. "Let's go see them then," and with that said, the three of them left the large room and began walking down a few halls. They passed many doors that looked to be made of thick steel until they reach a pair of doors that looked like the normal wooden ones an average home would have.

Jeffery entered first, followed by Jay and then Robert. On either side of the room, there was a large cube where each was filled with something different. The one on the left looked bare, except for the four flames on each corner and a single heat lamp up above. In the centre a young man lie on his back, eyes closed. He wore an average man's attire, dark auburn red hair and a face accompanied with thin glasses. He wore layers and didn't look to be sweating that much under the heat.

To the other side, the large box was almost fill with water, only stopping about a little over half of the box. There, another young man stayed afloat with his eyes also closed. He wore what the average sporty-rebel would wear, dark electric blue hair, and had a necklace with a cross around his neck.

Suddenly, both of the two young men opened their eyes and turned so that they faced the three who had just entered the room. The one with the red hair had cool emerald eyes while the other had piercing ice blue eyes. "Wanna let us out now?" the one in the water said, his tone sounding like he had a threat behind it.

"I think it would do you a great favour to yourself if we were to be released," the green-eyed man said with much calmness despite the current condition he was in.

"Don't think so Kenzie, Alexander," Jeffery smiled when the two looked annoyed when they were called by those names.

"Hey, at least call us by our names jackass! Remember? I'm Damien, he's Adrian – or are you already becoming senile and losing your memory because of old age?" blue eyes, or Damien, smirked when Jeffery narrowed his eyes in anger. Damien banged his fist against the extremely strong transparent wall and laughed when Jay jumped back in shock.

"Damien, play nice – we wouldn't want to kill them from a heart attack, that isn't much fun now, is it?" Adrian smiled at the three in front of fun. He stayed unmoving in the centre of his cube while Damien moved all about in his. "We're not the type of men who back down so easily; so either let us out and we won't hurt you – much – or don't let us go and we'll find our own way out, and then we kill you,"

"Like we'd let you twins out on the loose," Jeffery spat out bitterly, "Damien, the pyro-freak who uses his ability to burn his victims alive and you, Adrian, like to use your ability to watch your victim drown while not even being in a body of water – you're both sick,"

"You know," Adrian started, "All this time in this box has let me… meditate on certain things, you know: broaden my horizon and guess what? That's exactly what I did," Adrian outstretched his arm toward where his twin brother was and pulled on an invisible rope. Instantly, the water inside Damien's box was gone and everything was completely dry.

Damien gave a chuckle as his hands lit on fire. He brought his hands together and created a flamethrower aimed right at the wall. It melted quickly and Damien jumped out. He turned to his brother's cage and melted it down as well.

Jeffery and Jay stepped back in fear. Just then, Robert jumped in front of them and created a large dome shield around the three of them.

Adrian frowned in disappointment. "Disgraceful – how could you help those weaklings?"

"Who cares Adrian, let's get out of here!" Damien was already at the door, aiming his flamethrower at anyone who came near him.

"We'll be seeing you soon," Adrian said before following his brother out the door and into the winding hallways.

Somewhere in her isolation, Ashe sat in the centre of her completely darkened box. It had only been a few minutes since the box had been completely sealed and Ashe was preparing to begin a full assault – just her versus the titanium wall. An aura-like light began to surround her body as Ashe took in a long, deep breath.

Then, just like that, Ashe was in battle mood and slashed away at the wall but never actually touched it. Arches out appear as Ashe had her hands on either side of her forehead in concentration. She tried not to breathe too much, trying to save as much air as she could in a limited amount of time.

Suddenly, she heard a very low noise that sounded like people yelling. Next, her cage felt really hot and a hole was starting to melt through. Then, the whole wall was gone to reveal two young men staring at her oddly.

"So that's what was inside!" Damien chuckled lightly.

"You must be hot from what he just did, here," Adrian held out his hand and an orb of water appeared swirling around endlessly.

Ashe jumped out from the box cage and walked up to the twins. "Who are you two?"

"I am Adrian Kenzie, and he is my twin brother Damien Alexander – we were separated at birth, which explains the different surnames," Adrian smiled coolly when Ashe took his orb of water.

Ashe brought the water to her lips, feeling a little awkward at drinking from a floating orb of water but drank it nonetheless. She sighed with relief at the feel of cold water going down her throat. "Ah, that was nice,"

"Well, hate to break this little cute moment you have going on but… can we leave now?" Damien scratched the back of his head and then pointed towards the sound of many feet coming towards them.

"Wait, let me try something!" Ashe outstretched her arm out to the cage she had just been put in. The object started to shake slightly, and at this the two brothers looked amazed. Ashe shut her eyes and concentrated even more as the precious seconds ticked away, the guards coming quickly. She whipped her arm toward the wall opposite from the door and the large cage went flying out, leaving only rubble in its wake.

"Cool!" Damien cheered, running up toward the gaping hole. "Come on Adrian, let's get out of here!"

Adrian suddenly grabbed onto Ashe's wrist, dragging her with him and exiting with Damien out of the hole. Adrian formed something like an ice slide for a path to make travel faster while Damien melted it from behind to make sure no one would follow.

"Man! Tom is gonna kill us!" Damien whined.

"Damien, shut up! We have a guest!" Adrian couldn't turn around at Damien but if he could he would have been glaring at him.

"Oh… shit!"

Niki drove her car down the street like any other normal person would. She stopped and checked for any oncoming cars or any pedestrians who suddenly wished to cross the street at the intersections and went along with the speed limit. Everything seemed to be going okay for her until…

Niki suddenly came to a halt, literally stomping on the brakes when something crashed a few feet in front of her car. A few others behind her stopped as well and stepped out of their cars, wanting to see what the traffic was all about. Niki, too, stepped out from her car and curiously peered through the odd white smoke. Just then, unexpectedly, two figures jumped out of the smoke and passed her. Niki had to quickly hold her balance to turn around and see who the two were.

She blinked her eyes once she saw two teenagers, and young girl and a young boy. The girl had not grey but sparkling silver hair tied up at the top of her head and matching eyes that looked around with mirth. The boy had hair that looked like it was actually gold and looked to feel like silk, while his blue eyes looked around with indifference. "What's going on?" Niki whispered out loud, but then wished she hadn't because she had just gained the two strangers' attention.

"Brother, is that a human?" the girl asked happily as she stared at Niki.

"Mhm, sad to say that she's not sister," the boy replied, voice monotone.

"Aw, I really wanted to test out these new abilities!" the girl whined, turning to her brother.

"You can, but be quick: we've got about six billion or so humans to get rid of,"

Niki didn't have time to react to what the boy had just said because the girl had come rushing at her. Luckily, Niki was able to hold her ground at the last minute and pushed the girl back with much force, due to her super strength. Niki thanked them quietly before blocking jab from the young girl.

"Ooh! Super strength! Fun!" the girl squealed and tried to punch Niki but was blocked yet again.

"Who are you!? What are you doing!?" Niki shouted in between blocks and dodges.

"She is Artemis and I am Apollo, or E24 and E25 respectively; Artemis is going to get rid of you, and hopefully soon," Apollo brought a hand up to cover his yawn.

"Get rid of me!? What?" Niki barely dodged a jab from Artemis but was too distracted to block the next one that she went sliding backwards a few feet. Suddenly, something snapped in Niki. Her eyes narrowed and she gave out a feral cry as she slammed her fists into the ground. The surrounding area shook as if a earthquake was happening. The people who had been watching ran the opposite direction of where Niki stood.

A translucent bow and arrow appeared in Artemis' hand and she pointed to the ground and fired, and then suddenly appeared several feet above to avoid the attack. Apollo merely jumped up, meeting Artemis' height. "Maybe I should help you Artemis," Apollo suggested while the two were still up in the air.

"No! Let me go this alone!" Artemis shouted, pouting as she looked at Niki.

Niki dug her fingers into the ground and lifted it up, grabbing a large piece of the cement and threw it toward the siblings and hit them dead on. She watched the siblings and the large piece of cement falling toward the ground. However, before they hit, Apollo had punched the cement, turning it to smaller pieces which let him and Artemis land without trouble.

Niki blinked once and suddenly Artemis was a few feet in front of her. Before the girl came near, Niki jabbed forward and hit Artemis, knocking her back a bit. Artemis brought her bow and arrow up, pointed it at Niki and fired. Niki grabbed onto the arrow before it got to her and snapped it in half, grinning as she did.

"Do you need me now?" Apollo hollered from a few metres away.

"No!" Artemis shouted back, not taking her eyes away from Niki.

"You're speed isn't helping you much, she's like a wall – just giving you some pointers,"

"Shut up Apollo!"

Artemis tried speeding up toward Niki but again Niki had lifted her arm out in time to knock Artemis a few feet. Artemis shut her eyes and began to run around in circles, increasing her speed each full circle she did. Niki watched in confusion but soon realized what the girl was trying to do – Artemis was trying to create a twister! Niki quickly dug her hands into the ground and held on tight.

Mean while, Apollo became translucent and phased into the ground to avoid the twister.

The twister came quickly and Artemis sent it toward Niki. Debris, cars, and other objects not stuck to the ground lifted up and spun with the twister. Niki felt the pull but held onto the ground as tightly as she could. She slowly felt her feet slipping but braced herself so she wouldn't move from her spot or her position.

Artemis stomped her foot in annoyance when Niki stayed glued to the ground. "I don't care anymore! I'm not wasting energy on this! I'll get you later; Apollo let's go!" and with that said, Artemis sped off and the twister disappeared.

Apollo rose from the ground laughing for a bit, and then started to walk in the direction Artemis ran off to.

Niki suddenly felt dizzy and held her head I her hand. She looked around and saw the destruction that had just happened. There was a large hole in the ground and the ground was dug up in a line from where the twister had been. Cars were dropped and flattened on the ground, glasses all broken. Fear and guilt suddenly flooded her and Niki quickly ran away from the area and headed to the only place she knew she would be safe at.

'Beep, beep, beep.'

Garreth looked at his wrist watch and groaned. "Sorry Claire, I've had fun but I've got to go –"

"You're not just going to teleport and leave me here!" Claire shouted, pointing to the area they were in.

Garreth laughed and teleported her to her front porch. He bowed to her and teleported to the streets of New York and found just the person he was looking for - Sylar. Garreth teleported behind Sylar and then teleported the two of them right in front of Thomas. "Here, do your… whatever,"

Thomas snapped his fingers and placed Sylar in a trace before Sylar had time to react. "Once you wake up you will not remember anything of what has happened and was is going to happen in the time frame of five minutes. When you awake, you will search for a young girl named Isabelle Wisteria and take her ability of control over the earth,"

Thomas snapped his fingers and Garreth quickly teleported Sylar to Jackson, Mississippi, then teleported himself out of there before Sylar woke up from his trace. Sylar shook his head, moaning in pain. Suddenly, his body straightened and his feet began to guide him to no one knows where. He spotted a telephone booth across the street and headed for it quickly. Sylar then flipped through the pages, searching the W section until he found Wisteria. Luckily for him, there was only one person with that last name and Sylar grinned as he memorized the address and then began walking.

He didn't have to walk much, for he found the small home quite quickly. Sylar knocked on the door, but not before ridding the grin from his face. A fairly young woman opened the door, eyeing Sylar suspiciously. "Is somethin' the matter?"

"Uhm, yes: I've been looking around and tracking some of my relatives that I've gotten separated from – you can say I'm the long lost relative. Is there a Isabelle Wisteria living here?"

Suddenly, the woman's expression changed and she smiled with happiness. "Oh really; a long lost relative? Oh my! Come on in, come on in!" Isabelle moved aside to make room for Sylar to enter and gently shut the door behind him.

"You call having about seven people following whatever you want an army? Dude, I think you need more for it to be called an army," Garreth sat with his legs settled up on one of the arm rests while he laid his back on the other arm rest. "Seriously pops, I'm not kidding,"

"Could you not call me 'pops'?" Thomas said angrily without looking at Garreth, eyes staring out the window of his large study.

"Well, you created me in a lab and the creator is like the parent so… you're pops," Garreth laughed when Thomas turned sharply toward him, glaring furiously.

"And seven is enough; they are after all evolved humans,"

"Hm – the major's genetically evolved humans," Garreth teleported out of there before Thomas decided to throw the nearest object at him. "Dude's so sensitive… gees,"

End Chapter

In the Next Chapter:

"No, that would be wasting time," Apollo glanced outside and smiled. Much had changed since the first time the two of them were released out into the world two months ago. The city they had landed in was almost in runes. Buildings were crumbling and falling to the ground, the roads were no longer useable and everyone had scattered to the darkest corners to hide from Apollo and Artemis. They only reason why they were still not done with this city was because of that woman they now knew as Niki along with another girl named Monica, a small boy named Micah and an older man named Amon. And also because the government had the gall to have the military come in.

Jae Khameron: Stay tuned for Chapter 7: A Brand New World!