04/25/2019

A/N Hello again! Is everyone ready for endgames which comes out in two days I know I am! Anyways I hope you enjoy the chapter and I love the comments people have been leaving, they make me smile every time I see them, so thank you!

Evan awoke in his bed and was pleasantly surprised that every muscle on his body didn't feel like they were on fire and that his head no longer felt like someone was beating on it like a drum. Evan sat up and stretched a bit and glanced around his room, he saw bottles of various medicines resting on his nightstand. Evan threw the sheet off of his legs and got out of bed. He grabbed a change of clothes and shuffled into the bathroom, Evan hummed to himself as he took a warm shower enjoying the fact that he could breathe through his no longer clogged nose.

He shut off the water and wrapped his hair into a towel to dry while throwing on a red shirt and a pair of jeans. He picked up his phone and left the bathroom scrolling through all the text messages he had missed over the past few days. He continued to hum to himself as he walked towards the kitchen texting Tyler that he was all right. Evan looked up and practically dropped his phone in surprise when he saw Nogla glaring at him from the couch. "Oh hi, Nogla!" Evan said rubbing the back of his head. "I didn't know you were still here" Nogla didn't say anything but continued to glare at him.

"What?" Evan questioned. Nogla sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, "Evan, do you understand how sick you were." Evan pulled open the fridge and grabbed a jug of milk placing it on the counter. "I wasn't that bad," Evan replied pouring some milk into a bowl of cereal. "It was just a cold" Nogla stood up from the couch "I nearly had to use a defibrillator on you, Evan!" Nogla shouted and Evan nearly choked on his cereal.

"What?" Nogla pointed harshly at Evan and walked a bit closer "you stopped breathing Evan if that boy hadn't called me when he did, God only knows what would have happened" Evan stared down at his bowl "but it was just a cold" Evan muttered. Nogla sighed and tried to calm down a bit before speaking again. "yes it seemed to have been just a cold, but even colds can kill Evan, if you're not careful" he said standing next to Evan "on top of that I believe the cold had more of an effect on you"

"what do you mean" Evan asked. "I don't know yet," Nogla said "I've never seen someone be so affected by a simple cold, it could possibly have been conflicting with your powers," Nogla said letting his mind wander. Evan didn't say anything as he placed his bowl in the sink. "Next time Evan, seek help sooner," Nogla said sternly, Evan still didn't say anything but instead just rubbed the back of his head. Nogla sighed at Evan's silence and started walking off towards the bedroom "come on I need to check your wounds and change your bandages" Evan followed him and sat on the bed as Nogla looked over his wounds. Evan stared at the clock on the wall nervously tapping his foot as Nogla carefully looked over his wounds.

"Umm not to be rude or anything Nogla, but do you think you could hurry this along, I've still got to get to school," He said jamming his thumb to the clock on the wall. "Just a couple more minutes Evan, I am almost done" Nogla muttered completely focused on rewrapping Evan's wing. "Thanks by the way," Evan said "For saving my life again" Nogla looked up at Evan and smiled "Don't think anything of it Evan, I know you would have done the same thing for me." Evan smiled back and returned to staring at the clock waiting for Nogla to finish.

Nogla dropped his black bag by the dorm's front door and turned to Evan who was standing right behind him with fresh bandages wrapped all around his body. "Okay so remember to take a tablespoon of this twice a day for about a week and preferably before you have eaten, trust me on that" Nogla said handing Evan a brown glass medicine bottle. "What is it?" Evan said curiously as he twisted the bottle in his hand.

"It's my own remedy should keep any lingering symptoms away till your body finished fighting off the bacteria" Evan popped off the cap and smelled it, his face instantly crunched up and he twisted the cap back on as fast as he could "good god that smell awful" Evan said trying to suppress the urge to gag. "It tastes worse," Nogla said smiling. "anyways don't forget to swing by the base sometime soon Evan, we have lots of work to do in trying to figure out what Mr. Pelter is planning." Evan nodded and held the door open for Nogla

"I'll see if I can stop by after school" Evan said and Nogla waved goodbye and Evan shut the front door behind him. Evan ran around his apartment gathering all his books for school. He threw the last book into his bag and glanced around making sure that he had gathered everything he needed when he saw a little blue light flash from underneath the bed. Evan got down on his hands and knees and stared at the darkness under the bed looking for the source of the flashing light.

The blue light flashed again and Evan reached under the bed and pulled out his backpack that held his suit. He unzipped it and pulled out the new earpiece the Lui had made for him. It flashed again indicating that it was on. "Oops," Evan said holding the power button waiting for the earpiece to shut off. "forgot to shut that off, hope the battery isn't too drained," Evan said as he shoved it back into his backpack. Evan threw his school backpack over his shoulder he also grabbed the backpack with the super suit in it and walked out of his dorm locking the door behind him.

He walked down towards his car and popped the trunk, he removed a false panel in the floor of the trunk and threw his suit's bag into the small compartment before sealing it again. Evan then threw his school backpack into the trunk, closed it and drove off to school. The day dragged on and Evan felt extremely overwhelmed from the amount of work that had piled up for him due to being absent, not to mention finals were coming up.

Evan soon found himself sitting alone after school in a secluded spot in the library with piles of books stacked all around him. Evan glared at the math book in front of him trying to wrap his head around what the hell a sum of infinite geometric series was. Evan let out a frustrated sigh and rubbed the sides of his head.

Evan caught a bit of movement in the corner of his eye and glanced to his left. He caught a glips of a bright blue hood rounding the corner behind one of the shelves. Evan's heart instinctively began to race that blue reminded him so much of Delirious's jacket. Evan continued to stare down where he saw movement when a firm hand gripped Evan's shoulder "Hey Evan are you…" the person was interrupted when Evan let out a startled yelp and swung a fist at the person behind him.

The man managed to catch Evan's fist with ease and stared at Evan in shock. "Jesus Evan why are you so jumpy." Jonathan said still holding Evan's hand. Evan stared at Jonathan who was wearing the light blue hoody he had seen around the corner earlier. "Oh, Jonathan it's just you, scared the shit out of me!" Jonathan gave Evan a concerned look and let go of Evan's hand.

"Well you look better then you did yesterday at least," Jonathan said pulling up a chair and sitting across from Evan placing his own books on the table. Evan rubbed the back of his head, "yeah, thanks for that, I guess it was worse then I thought" Jonathan gave him a deadpan look "you think…" Evan laughed a little at that before returning to his math book. "What are you working on," Jonathan asked looking up from his own book.

"Math…" Evan groaned "Oh what class do you have" Jonathan asked. "Algebra 2, I have to make up a test on Monday and I am not ready for it at all. I wasn't even given a study guide for it." Evan said rubbing his head again in frustration. "Oh, I had that test yesterday!" Jonathan said as he started to fumble through his backpack. "Really!" Evan said "could you tell me what was on it" "Umm" Jonathan said "I didn't actually get to finish it"

"it was that hard!" Evan said "Oh I am so screwed!" "No" Jonathan clarified "It was actually pretty easy, I kinda zoned out and wasn't paying attention to the time. Here you said that you weren't given a study guide" Jonathan said pulling out a folder and flipping through it. He pulled out a few pieces of paper that were stapled together and handed them to Evan "You can use mine."

"Really thanks!" Evan said as he took the papers and started to look over them. "No problem," Jonathan said smiling and looked back at his book. "What are you working on," Evan asked as he tried to work out a problem. "Trying to figure out how we find the water line for our cardboard boat." Jonathan said writing notes from the book. "We are still getting together tomorrow to work on it right" Jonathan said flipping the page. "Yep," Evan said struggling to solve the math problem and bitting the butt of his pencil. "you need help there Evan," Jonathan said smiling.

Evan sighed and twisted his notebook so Jonathan could read it. "I can't figure out what to do here," Evan said pointing at the problem. Jonathan helped Evan work through the problem and many more before his phone started to ring. Jonathan grabbed the phone and looked at who was calling, he hesitated for a bit and let his shoulders slumped a bit before answering. Evan watched Jonathan jump from his seat a look of surprise and shock filled his face.

"What?" Jonathan said into the phone "Is he okay" there was a small pause and Jonathan started to pack up his things. "I understand, I am on my way now," Jonathan said and threw his backpack over his shoulder. "Is everything okay?" Evan asked and Jonathan turned to him. "Yeah everything's fine, I just need to go home now," he said smiling.

Evan was unconvinced but he didn't push it, "I'll see you tomorrow Evan," Jonathan called out and ran out of the library. Evan watched him leave feeling a bit worried but pushed those feelings aside and returned to studying. Not a second later Evan's own phone began to ring.

Evan picked it up and it said that Craig was calling. "What's up," Evan said leaning back in his chair and listen. "Evan! There's a shooting on Main street" he said into the phone. "What! Is anyone hurt!" Evan said sitting up. "No civilian injuries so far but the situation is quickly escalating," Craig said "How did this start," Evan asked as he began to pack up his things.

"I was trying to track Mr. Pelter through the street cameras and out of nowhere a car slammed into them and they started shooting each other." Evan stopped in his tracks just outside of the library doors "tell me why I am running out to save Mr. Pelter" he said. "It's not him I am worried about Evan this is a busy street there are lots of civilians that could get hurt" Evan let out a frustrated sigh and resumed running towards his car.

"Damn it what's the fastest way to get there," Evan said jumping into his car. "I am sending you the route now" Evan's phone buzzed and Evan punched his car into gear driving out of the college parking lot. Evan left his car in the nearest parking garage, grabbed his backpack from the false panel and ran deep into a secluded ally. He changed into his suit, threw his backpack to the side and summoned his wings.

"Come in Evan, come in," Craig said speaking into the earpiece. "I read you loud and clear," Evan said as he landed on a roof not far from the shoot out. "where is the biggest concentration of civilians" Evan said running across the roofs "In that coffee shop on the corner" Craig said "What's the safest way to get them out" Evan said crouching down behind a steel vent and looked down at the standoff in front of him.

A black Sedan was tipped over on its side in the middle of the road, and hiding behind it was Mr. Pelter gripping a pistol. He had a large cut running across his forehead and blood ran down his face. Next to him was his two muscular bodyguards, their clothes were a bit tattered and they had minor cuts and bruise. They also had their assault rifles drawn and were firing at a group of three just down the street. One of the men were crouched down behind a mailbox, he was thin and lanky with bright green hair combed into a sideways wave.

Not far from him was another man who was built bulkier and was shorter. He too had oddly colored hair that was bright red and was hidden behind a parked car. Lastly, there was a man that had blond hair and a beard that could even rival Jonathan's friend's beard. He popped out from behind the concrete pillar with an Assault rifle and unleashed a storm of bullets into the car Mr. Pelter was hiding behind. "I believe the safest way would be to get them through a back vent," Craig said "it should let out it the back ally and away from all the action"

"Roger that" Vanoss said and jumped down off of the roof and ran straight for the coffee shop "Jack shoot him!" The man with the red hair yelled and the lanky green hair guy popped out from his hiding place and began shooting at Vanoss. Vanoss threw himself behind a parked car as bullets ripped it to shreds. "Mini who the hell is these guys!" Vanoss shouted into his earpiece. "I'm trying to figure that out now," Mini said and Vanoss glanced around for the safest way to get into the coffee shop. Vanoss shoved his hand into one of his belt bags and pulled out a smoke grenade. He pulled the pin and threw it gently over the car so that it landed just on the other side to give him enough cover to make it over to the coffee shop.

Vanoss rolled out from behind the car and booked it for the shop. He threw open the shops door and a small bell rang out. "Shit…" Evan muttered and dropped to the floor covering his head with his hands. Jack shifted the barrel of the gun to where he heard the small bell ring and pulled the trigger. Bullets ripped through the glass windows of the shop and glass shards fell everywhere. Jack's clip ran out and he dropped back behind his cover to reload. Vanoss took this opportunity to crawl behind the counter for cover. "Mini where is everyone" Vanoss whispered.

"They in a backroom the door should be to your right," Evan crawled over to the door and pushed open. The light from the door opening illuminated the small pitch black backroom and revealed at least 15 people crouched together. Two of the people lashed out at Vanoss thinking he was one of the attackers. They each threw a blind uncoordinated punch at Vanoss hoping to land a hit and buy everyone enough time to get away.

Vanoss managed to grab the arm of the much taller man and threw him into the shorter one knocking them both to the ground. The others in the room tried to make a break for the door but Vanoss stood in front of the doorway and held his hands out "wait wait!" he cried "You can't go out that way or you'll be shot, I am here to help you" everyone froze in place and the taller man finally managed to get off of the shorter man holding his arm.

"who the hell are you and how could we trust you" the voice to Vanoss sounded a bit familiar and he also quickly realized that no one could see anything in this room but him, Evan naturally had better night vision than most people thanks to his powers but it was nowhere near perfect. He was unable to make out details in people's faces but he could see the general shape of each person.

Vanoss outstretched his hand and allow a small fireball to appear in his palm lighting up the room around them. The people in the room let out an astonished gasp and backed away a bit "Holy shit!" the shorter man said who was still on the floor "You're Vanoss!" Evan looked down at the man and his eyes widened in surprise when he saw the 3D glasses resting on the kid's white hair. Evan wanted to blurt out Smitty's name in shock but had to bite his tongue, He glanced over to the taller man and saw Tyler glaring at him through the glow of the fire.

Things just got even more serious for Evan his friend's lives were now on the line, and he couldn't find a way to get these people out safely and fast they could die. "Yes that's me" Vanoss said clearing his throat and extended his free hand to help Smitty up. "and I am here to get you guys out of here" "how do you plan to do that" one of the other frightened customers said.

"there's a vent on the back wall of the shop, it should lead out into the back alley" Vanoss said "but we will need to leave this room to get to it" "Leave this room are you crazy" Tyler said glaring harder at Vanoss "we'll get shot". "I know that's why I'll go out there first and keep their aim away from this store, Okay," Vanoss said and everyone nodded in agreement.

"Okay then wait for five minutes after I leave to head out," Vanoss said extinguishing the fire in his hand. He slowly pulled open the door and poked his head out. The smoke had cleared and Evan could see Mr. Pelter and his men being pressed by the 3 newcomers. The blond man pressed closer and out of nowhere Delirious popped out from a back alleyway and fired at his back. "Pewds!" Jack screamed when he saw Delirious aiming at him.

He dove out of the way and a bullet grazed his thigh before he managed to get behind cover. The man with the red hair turned his own gun away from Mr. Pelter and started firing at Delirious. "Evan I know who these guys are," Craig said into the earpiece. "They are apart of a large local gang and they have been in a power struggle with the mafia for a while now. The tall blond one is known as Pewdiepie and he is the leader of the gang. The red hair one is named Markipiler and the green haired one is Jacksepticeye."

"Thanks, Mini," Evan said and took the opportunity that Delirious created to run out of the building pulling out his own pistol and fired it at Jack. Evan didn't like the idea of helping Mr. Pelter, in fact, he hated it. But he couldn't just let these people take over, and he rather deal with the devil he knows. Jack duck below his cover when Vanoss fired at him. Vanoss need to draw any fire away from the coffee shop and to do that he was going to need help.

Evan watched Delirious shift his cover from behind the alley wall to a parked car. He made his way over to the car parked just behind the one Delirious was hidden behind. "Delirious" Vanoss called out "temporary truces?". Delirious looked at him but the mask blocked Evan from seeing his reaction. "So you are still alive," Delirious said reloading his clip "what are you planning here, why do you want to help me."

"I'm not a fan of this either Delirious but there innocent people in that shop and I need to draw their fire away from it so they can escape." Vanoss said as he moved up next to Delirious. Delirious eyed Vanoss "What's in it for me," He asked. "Once we stop these guys, I'll let you and your boss leave without any trouble." Delirious started at Vanoss for a second trying to decide whether he should trust him or not.

"Fine what's your plan," Delirious said. "Okay, I think we should go for Pewdiepie and…" "Who" Delirious interrupted "The tall blond one" Vanoss said. "anyways he's the leader of this gang and if we could get him the others should back off" Delirious nodded his head in understanding what Vanoss was going for "Leave Pewdiepie to me, you just provide me cover" Delirious said and ran out from behind the car.

"Delirious wait!" Vanoss called out but he was already gone. "Shit" Evan muttered to himself. Vanoss gathered a ball of fire within his hand and tossed it towards Mark setting the ground around him on fire causing him to move from his cover. He then aimed his revolver at Jack and fire a couple of rounds at him. Delirious ran straight for Pewds with his gun drawn who was hiding behind a car with his thigh still bleeding.

He saw Delirious coming up in the reflection of the car's side mirror. He popped up with his gun aimed at Delirious. Delirious shot at Pewds first and the bullet knocked the gun out of his hand. Delirious slid over the hood of the car and landed right in front of Pewds. Pewds took a kick at Delirious knees but he managed to move out of the way and landed a kick of his own into Pewd's face knocking him down to the ground.

Delirious grabbed him by the collar and hauled him up to his feet. He placed his gun onto pewd's temple and held him in a chokehold. He walked out into the middle of the street with the gun still pressed against his head "Listen up! Drop your weapons or your friend here will have a nice big hole in the side of his head very soon" Vanoss got out from his cover and walked up next to Delirious with his gun still drawn. God, he hoped everyone managed to get out by now Evan thought to himself.

"I am giving you till the count of 5. 5…4…3…2…" Delirious shouted. "Okay Okay," Jack said coming out from his cover with his gun raised above his head "No don't do it" Pewds choked out. "Shut it," Delirious growled tightening his grip around his throat. "Drop the gun," Vanoss said pointing his gun at Jack. He let his rifle fall to the floor and smiled.

Delirious suddenly stiffened "where's the red hair…" "Delirious get down!" Vanoss yelled when Mark popped up from behind them. Vanoss grabbed Delirious by his hoody and pull him down as Mark fired at him. Jack also went for his gun and Pewds tried to scramble away from Delirious as fast as he could. Delirious held on tightly to Pewds arm and kept him between Jack and himself.

Jack hesitated at firing at Delirious and Vanoss in fear of hitting Pewds by mistake. Vanoss threw another ball of flames at Mark who ducked out of the way. Delirious pushed Pewds away from him and fired his gun at Jack driving him back. There was a loud screech of tires and a van barreled down the road right for Vanoss and Delirious.

"Holy shit!" Vanoss yelled as he dove out of the way. He and Delirious split and ran to opposite sides of the streets. Vanoss dove behind a car as the van skitted to a stop and threw open the back door. Two more guys got out and started spraying bullets at Vanoss and Delirious.

"Come on!" One of the men called out "Get in the van". Mark made a break for the van first, followed by Jack and Pewds. "Thanks, Wade," Mark said as he and the others got into the van and slammed the back doors closed. The van's tires screeched as the van took off down the street as fast as it could go.

Both Delirious and Vanoss ran out to the middle of the street and fire at the van hoping to bust a tire or something. "Damn it! Bulletproof tires" Delirious growled as they watched the van continue to drive farther down the street.

A slow clap came from behind Vanoss and he turned around to see Mr. Pelter standing there. "I must say that was impressive, I've been trying to get rid of you but maybe I should have been trying to recruit you." Vanoss glared at him "not going to happen, now get the hell out of here!"

Mr. Pelter raised an eyebrow "you're not going to arrest me right here and now." Vanoss glanced at Delirious "I made a promise to let you guys go if he helped me and I am not about to break it." Mr. Pelter frowned at Vanoss "you're going to let such a prime opportunity escape you because you made a promise" Even Delirious seemed a little surprised that Vanoss was keeping his promise.

"Yes, now fuck off!" Vanoss said and turned his back to them and walked towards the coffee shop. Maybe in hindsight turning his back on them wasn't the smart idea. He heard the click of a gun and turned to see Mr. Pelter with a pistol drawn aimed right at his head ready to pull the trigger.

Vanoss closed his eyes and braced himself to get shot. M.r Pelter pulled the trigger and the gun went off but Evan didn't feel anything. He opened his eyes and saw Delirious holding Mr. Pelter hand away from Evan so that when he pulled the trigger the bullet went up into the air rather than into Evan's skull.

Mr. Pelter glared at Delirious furiously and he just brushed it off and looked over at Vanoss shrugging his shoulders "temporary truce" Vanoss smiled beneath his mask "thanks..." Mr. Pelter straightened his suit's jacket and tie and let out a frustrated grunt "We'll be leaving now" He said and stomped off towards his bodyguards, Delirious following close behind with his hands stuffed into his hoody's pockets.

Vanoss turned from them and walked into the coffee shop, he saw the vent covering resting against the wall, he also looked inside of the backroom and saw no one was in there. Evan let out a sigh of relief and figure he would pop an inconspicuous text over to Tyler and Smitty later to make sure they were all right.

Evan walked out and resummoned his wings and flew back to the alley where he had hidden his backpack. He made sure no one was around before he changed into his normal clothes and returned to his car. Evan grimaced at it when he saw a white piece of paper tucked under his window wiper.

"Really" Evan muttered to himself as he threw his backpack back into the secret compartment. "Really," He said a little louder as he stomped over to his windshield "A ticket! you've got to be kidding me!" he said as he grabbed it off of his windshield and tossed it onto the passenger seat when he got into the car.

"Maybe Craig can get this fix for me," He said as he drove off towards the base.