Chapter 6: Powers
(On the first floor. Nahid is running down the hall while dodging bullets. The bullets hit the floor.)
Anarchy Soldier #2 - Block him off!
(Anarchy Soldiers appear at the end of the middle hallway.)
Nahid - Shit.
(He turns around quick and there's more soldiers at the other end.)
Anarchy Soldier #2 - You have nowhere to go!
(Nahid looks right then left.)
Anarchy Soldier #2 - Put your hands up! Might as well give up you have nowhere to go!
(There's four on the left and three on the right.)
Carlos - Hey!
(The soldiers notice them.)
Carlos - Nahid get down!
(Carlos, Sheila, Andrea and Gabriel raise their weapons. Nahid drops to the floor. Carlos and Sheila shoot at the four soldiers and Gabriel and Andrea shoot at the three soldiers at the end of the hallway. They drop dead except for one. Carlos and Sheila aim at him.)
Sheila - Next time you should put more of a fight.
(They shoot him and Nahid starts to get up.)
Nahid - Phew... that was close.
Sheila - I suggest we start getting out of here more of them show up.
Nahid - Yeah, good idea.
(Nahid goes to one of the bodies and picks up a pistol. In front, They run down the hall and turn the corner.)
Felipe - Come on, we're almost there!
(They see Charles at the front and there's Anarchy Soldiers behind him.)
Angelo - Shit.
(They stop running. Carlos, Sheila, Andrea, Nahid, Felipe, Gabriel and Maria raise their weapons. The Anarchy Soldiers raise their weapons too.)
Charles - Drop your guns.
Felipe - You first.
Carlos - We got you out numbered here.
Charles - Do you now?
(A wind passes by them, people start to get knocked down one by one. Sheila look looks left and right, Carlos and Sheila are still standing.)
Sheila - What the hell is happening?
(Everything is in slow motion. Chase using super speed punches Sheila in the stomach causing her to fall to the floor. Then he punches Carlos in the face causing him to fall on the floor too. Everything goes back to normal motion. Chase uses super speed and goes next to Charles.)
Carlos - What the?
Chase - That was easy.
Charles - Terminate them, leave none alive... The plan failed...
Nicole - So you're just gonna murder us in cold blood!
Charles - Well not me, that's why I got henchmen for, besides can't leave any witnesses... Plus you guys killed some of my men.
Jordan - They tried to kill us!
Charles - Kill them...
Nicole - You're a monster!
(The soldiers walk to them.)
Angelo - Wait think about this!
(They aim their guns at Andrea, Sheila and Carlos first. Their fingers are on the trigger.)
Sheila - No...
(She sticks her hand and turns her head they other way.)
Carlos - No!
(He sticks his hand out, a soldier gets launched to the wall by a telekinesis push. Carlos looks at his hand in shock and everyone is also in shock. Then ice comes out of Sheila's hand and it hits the other soldier. Sheila looks at her hand.)
Sheila - Woah...
Carlos - What just happened?
Charles - The bomb worked... I can't believe it worked.
Carlos - What do you mean?
Charles - The bomb was meant to modify and mutate the DNA within people... increasing their strength, speed, instincts and so on.
Leilani - I don't understand...
Charles - The bomb was meant to give someone powers...
Nicole - Powers?
Charles - Who survived the blast has a strong gene that can handle the mutation... the people whose genes aren't strong enough died within the blast... the others who survived were just lucky. Now my plan is one step closer.
Sheila - What plan!
Charles - War...
Andrea - All of this for war?
Nicole - You're a goddamn monster...
Charles - Many people with powers will rise some with bad intentions and some with good intentions... More people for me to recruit and to have on my side.
(The rest are quiet.)
Charles - Everyone retreat, the brute will handle them...
(They walk to the front doors.)
Sheila - Get back here!
(Sheila, Carlos, Jordan and Nicole get up and runs at them. Chase turns around fast and shoots a wave of smoke at them they get knocked down to the floor.)
Charles - Send in the brute!
Sheila - Get back here you son of a bitch!
(She swings her arm, fire comes out of her hand and hits the wall right next to Charles)
Shaisha - Did he say brute?
Celeste - What the hell is a brute?
(They start to stand up.)
Carlos - I don't know.
Jordan - Whatever it is, it doesn't sound good.
(A creature that's 8 feet tall and the body is in all in black with white spirals around its body and has crystal looking spikes on it's arms, back and head and has long claws on it's hands and feet jumps in the wall behind it breaks. The Brute lands and swings at Carlos and Sheila, they get launched at the wall so hard that they break through it and land on the auditorium stage.)
Sheila - Ngh... that hurt... what the hell was that?
Carlos - I don't know... but a hit like that was supposed to kill us...
(They start to stand up , the Brute smashes through the wall and enters the auditorium.)
Sheila - Oh shit.
Carlos - You're a big one aren't ya.
(The Brute stares at them.)
Sheila - You guys get out of here we'll handle this thing!
Gabriel - Are you sure?!
Carlos - Yeah! Go! Get the others out of here!
Gabriel - Alright!
(They start to leave the building.)
Carlos - Are you ready for this?
(Sheila closes her eyes and opens them, her left eye pupil turns to faded red color and her right eye pupil turns into a faded blue color. Fire goes around her left hand and an ice fog goes around her right hand. Her hair starts to have red highlights.)
Sheila - Yeah.
(He notices her appearance changed.)
Sheila - What?
Carlos - You should see yourself in a mirror.
Sheila - Can we focus on this.
Carlos - Alright.
(He closes his eyes and opens them his eye pupils turns into a faded blue color.)
Sheila - Come on! Bring it you big ugly bitch!