Chapter 6:

Yuu returned to Africa. Most of the countries he hit the first time through he had only taken the active ability-wielders' powers. He had at that point yet to discover how to awaken the carriers' abilities, so now that he knew, he needed to go back and take the rest. After all, if any more people appeared with abilities in the future, everything he did was for nothing.

He flew around Chad, checking his map and searching out all the yellow dots on it. In the whole country, only two red dots existed which he thought meant that two teens had matured their powers after he had left. Yuu was right for one of them, but the other red dot he found was in the middle of a cluster of yellow ones. What's that? He thought, and as he got close he slowed down his flight to examine the area first. Do the researchers still have a way of finding ability-wielders? Does someone else with a power like that exist in their group?

Yuu got close and spotted a plane flying high over the desert. He already suspected as much considering how fast the dots were moving on his map. The teen with a red cape flapping behind him flew towards the plane and phased through the wall, a power he had long forgotten who he took from.

The boy with only one eye flew into the plane's center hanger. It looked like a cargo plane, but once inside he could look around and he frowned at what he saw. Every one of the people in the back of the plane around him were strapped to the chairs on the walls that were facing in at him. His map told him there were sixteen carriers inside, and there were sixteen people lining the walls around him. The one with the ability is up front. He must be working with whoever took them. Yuu looked even angrier and he walked up to a person in the middle of the seats on the left side of the fuselage.

Yuu lifted the black bag off the person's head and saw a cute, dark-skinned girl beneath it. She had two plastic tubes in her nose, and Yuu pulled those out while staring at her half-open eyes. He lowered his gaze from her eyes to her body. It was covered in a strange black suit that looked like a hazmat but even baggier, with a big red square in the center of it covered in buttons, and she had cuffs and chains holding her down along with the straps. So much effort for just carriers. They're getting desperate, which means I must be close to finishing. He smiled, and then the girl in front of him opened her eyes with a more clear look in them. She saw him smiling at her and a bright look appeared on her face.

Yuu saw that look of hope and his smile flattened back out. The girl staring at him had focused on his smile, but her gaze rose towards his eyes mostly blocked by his bangs, and her breathing sped up at the sight of his right eye. "The One-Eyed Re-" She never had the chance to finish. Yuu's hand pressed against her forehead and he advanced the stage of her infection with the ability particles.

The girl in front of him moaned, then Yuu felt the moment her ability was awakened. Before she had the chance to reveal this new power, which was called 'Crash,' when he heard it appear in his mind, he possessed her. His eyes glowed, then hers did, then his head lifted back up and the girl blinked her eyes in confusion a few times at what had just happened.

"Ah," the girl before him gasped. She started squirming in her seat, struggling against her restraints while gasping in pain.

"You're fine," Yuu assured her, turning to the next person down while the girl panicked. He was not going to release her just so she could run around and make it known that he was there. He had fifteen other people whose powers he needed to plunder first. As he was reaching for the next person's hood though, Yuu froze and looked back towards the girl who stopped squirming.

Yuu started panting, standing back up fully and looking in at the center of the girl's chest with wide eyes. Her red panel lost its color that had glowed on the top right corner. The numbers below that panel were down to zero, and he recalled one of those was a heartbeat monitor. It had sped up when she saw his face, but it did not make a beeping sound or anything to tell him that something was wrong. In his head though, as he stared at that 0 on the box, he imagined a flatline sound from a hospital.

"Why?" He whispered, looking back up at the face of the dead girl. "Is taking your abilities, going to kill you?" He paused then turned back to the one he had moved to. He reached out and grabbed their mask, taking it off and staring at the even younger face of another girl. He put his hand on her and accelerated her ability's growth until she developed: 'Amphibious.' He was about to take her over, then he froze and his eyes opened wide. Why am I doing this? Why was it, again? To be God, right? But, but I don't need all these powers. I'm already omnipotent, or close to it. A girl who can breath underwater won't be able to stop me, and it's not something I really need.

Yuu grabbed the side of his head and started glaring at the younger teen before him. What was it? What made me start taking powers, that I would feel so sad right now? His eyes were watery, and they shifted back to the deceased girl on his left. Because they killed her? Or because I killed her? There's something in these suits they're wearing, or maybe even something they've been injected with. How do I- Yuu spun his head to the right towards the cockpit.

Standing there, with a white cat mask over their face, was the only red dot on the plane. He did not even need to check his map. "Covering your face, huh?" Yuu asked in an interested tone, his lips curling up.

"I heard a rumor," the boy who responded began. He sounded no older than Yuu, and he was speaking Russian.

I searched a lot of Russia, but only the Europe side. I also need to get rid of all the carriers. "Just a rumor?" Yuu asked.

"Well it was just confirmed," he said, and the figure in the mask motioned to his right. Yuu looked left and saw the two carriers whose masks he had taken off in order to be able to possess them.

Yuu spun back forward though as he spotted movement coming at him. His eyes widened and he leaned to the left, slowing time in a bubble around him. The speedster racing towards him slowed down, but at the speed he was moving, slowing down still made him just a little slower than Yuu. He missed his first grab at Yuu's shirt, then he pulled back as Yuu reached for his mask. "Uh uh uh," Yuu said, and his opponent's mask covered in purple light. Yuu smirked and yanked his opponent back towards him. He grabbed the boy's face with his right hand since the Russian teen's mask was held on there too tight for him to just yank off. He started squeezing to shatter the mask, then he felt a hand on his right arm.

For a second, Yuu thought the kid was trying to yank his arm away. He had long since obtained super strength though, and his arm was not going to budge. The other boy was not trying to push his arm away though, and Yuu felt a strange sensation coming from where the teen was grabbing. He stopped gripping the mask that was now cracked three times through it so it looked ready to shatter. His eyes darted to his arm and he yanked it back as he saw the glowing of yellow light between his skin and his opponent's hand.

Yuu threw the Russian backwards and took a step back himself. The other teen slammed into a wall down the plane's center corridor, right into the back of the cockpit. It was a hard slam and Yuu frowned as he figured he must have killed the boy. A few seconds later though, the boy in the cat mask started getting back to his feet. The mask had three whiskers on either side of its face, only a pointy left ear since Yuu broke off the right, and its eyes were white with black dots in the middles of them. "You thought my ability was speed," the Russian began. Yuu got a darker look on his face as that is exactly what he had thought. "No, mine is much better. My power, is Copy."

Yuu's eyes darted down to his arm, then back up with a furious expression on his face. Then panic hit him, and he sank through the floor. Yuu popped out of the bottom of the plane while panting over and over. Did he just copy Plunder, or all my abilities? Even if it's all of them, I know how to use them, so I could take him. But, but his mask! No, no he must not have figured out how to use Plunder yet. Or else he wouldn't have said anything, he would have just stolen my abilities right there with it. I should go back. Another person with Plunder is the worst thing that could happen!

Yuu started flying back after the plane, but he smirked after a few nervous seconds. Even if he does figure it out, if he only has Plunder he won't be able to take the powers of carriers. That Amphibious girl will be in danger, and there are still over a couple thousand other ability-wielders in the world, but... Yuu slowed down as he neared the plane, and he pulled out his map. The piece of paper was flapping like crazy at this altitude and how fast he was moving. He turned his back to the wind and the direction he was flying though, then he stared at the map that he was nearing the edge of so soon he would need a different one. They were the only dots on the whole map of Chad, nearing the edge of it already past Chad's borders in a neighboring country to the north. No, Yuu thought as he stared at the map he was holding. How did he figure it out, so fast? He watched as a yellow dot turned red, then a few seconds later it disappeared.

His mouth twisted into a snarl and he got ready to drop back through the walls. Morphing through objects made him tired though, and after two times he was feeling exhausted. That mixed with the amount of sleep he had gotten in the past several weeks, which was zero, made him pause, and then hesitate in fear. He started falling behind the plane, even while telling himself he was just getting a better look to try and sneak inside. There was a back panel to the plane that he figured he could rip off with his strength. And then the Russian will look at my face and take my powers. He must have planned for it. He wanted me to grab him, or he just wanted to grab me. Either way, he already had my powers so maybe that's why he didn't take them away. Is he stupid, or- why didn't he do it?!

"Because," a voice spoke telepathically back to him. Yuu remembered in that moment that he had telepathy, and he heard mad laughter in his head before the Russian continued, "What would be the fun of that? Who wants omnipotence without anyone else who poses a challenge?"

"You let me go on purpose?" Yuu snapped at him through their mental link. "You're going to regret that."

"Maybe, but if I see your face again I'm going to steal Plunder and everything else away from you." Yuu's eyes turned huge and he fell back farther from the plane. "Wouldn't be very fair if you were trying to take my abilities but I wasn't trying to take yours. Listen to me, Otosaka Yuu."

Yuu had no idea how the other person knew his name. He would not have been thinking about it, and it gave him the chills. After all, he did not know that his face had been broadcasted around the world and his identity revealed. "I am now your rival. I really had planned on taking your powers. Those were my orders if I ever found you anyway, but fuck those orders. Fuck the president. I have the power. I have so many powers my mind is spinning. I can feel my memories being strained against the weight of them all, being thrust on me at once like this. Hahahahahahahahaaaa! Come in here if you dare, crash my plane if you want, I'm going to kill the rest of these passengers anyway. You know as well as I do that the crash won't kill me."

"I am going to kill you." Yuu responded, his voice cold and dark in the other boy's head.

There was hesitation over the link, then his enemy replied, "I'd expect no less, Reaper."

Yuu fell behind and watched as the plane flew away. This might be the best time to fight him. Before he really learns all my abilities. But he already knows how to Plunder, and since he can see my face, I'm at a disadvantage. A small grin came to Yuu's face. It spread out at the corners and rose into a smile so big it hurt. What is this, excitement?! Haha, "Hahaha! HAHAHA! AHHHHAHAHAA!" He tilted his head back and laughed madly, the sky trembling around him and pink lightning falling down from the clouds. It's on, Russian! No, my rival! "HAHAHAAA!"

Yuu started flying north after the plane. He shot past it like a rocket, and he kept going north while smirking in a smug way. Time for a trip to Russia. Super speed almost got past my forcefield, which is now his forcefield. If he just copied that ability from someone, he probably wouldn't have killed them, just in case he needed to copy a different one... unless he can copy as many as he wants, but I doubt he can do that. It's probably just Copy, and whatever the last person he stole from's ability was. Using Plunder he can take others without losing Plunder though, if Copy is only being used for Plunder. If he could use Copy to accumulate, he would have already been super powerful. I was careless and he got my powers. He became a God by touching me. I've been God for a lot longer though. I'm going to take the speed from whoever has it before he gets back. Then I'm taking the rest of the world's abilities. The God I am right now, whose abilities he took, will look like a weakling compared to once I complete my assimilation of every ability this world has to offer! Yuu continued to smirk, while dark clouds formed overhead in a line after him. Besides, I need to go to Russia anyway. They seem pretty good, at making masks.

A/N Thanks for reading! A new character emerges and suddenly poses a new threat to Yuu and to the world. How will this cat-mask-wearing guy affect the world? Will Yuu be able to complete his mission with him around? What about Nao? Find out in the next chapters of One Eyed Reaper! Hope you enjoyed! Leave a review telling me what you think or predictions for the upcoming chapters!

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