Jae Khameron: Hehe, next chapter up! Sorry that this one is a bit shorter than the other ones. Everything is coming into place! Uhm, sorry about the Sylar and Ashe thing if anyone here does like that bit when they get there - just saying sorry before hand ;;
Chapter Seven: A Brand New World
In the Previous Chapter:
"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,"
"Artemis, for the last time, the plan is that you round up as many of these 'normals' as you can and I get rid of them – get it?" Apollo sighed dejectedly, his head dropping slightly to the side.
"But can't we play around with them first?"
"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.
"The real problem is those annoying four," Apollo whispered out loud. The most troublesome was the small child Micah. His ability was somehow strong enough to enable him to create a gun that would temporarily render Apollo's and Artemis' abilities powerless, but they could never get to him because of the other three. "Maybe we need another plan,"
"That's what I was saying!" Artemis whined, and Apollo sighed again.
About two months ago Mohinder and Peter had received word from Niki that New Orleans was in need of major help. However, they could not get in because the whole city was under lock down which meant no one could get in or out.
Another reason why they couldn't enter the city was because New York was also under attack by twin brother who they knew as Adrian and Damien. Ashe had told them about the two and she and Peter had stopped them from
completely destroying a certain area but it wasn't enough. Hiro had come to help as well but he couldn't get near either of them because Damien seemed to have fire spikes all around him and Adrian froze to the touch.
A mass of people had also been killed because of the twins and Peter hated himself for not being able to help. The twins seemed almost impossible to stop and it seemed that there weren't much others to help with the struggle.
"What are you going to do!? We can't keep this up…" Peter slammed his fist against the nearest wall. Caitlin started to reach out to comfort him but Peter shrugged her hand away and then walked away into the other room. Caitlin looked desperately to the others in the room but all they could do was give her a look of sympathy. "He's right… but how are we going to stop them?" Caitlin whispered quietly.
"We can't even point their attacks at each other because as soon as they touch they cancel the other out…" Ashe stated sorrowfully, frowning as she spoke. Her once bright smoky-blue eyes were now dull with exhaustion. "There has to be a way…"
"I cannot even touch them even when I freeze time…" Hiro looked at the ground, staring at his feet intently, frowning as he did also.
"We can ask Elliot…" Molly spoke up. She hid behind Mohinder and hid further behind him when everyone turned to look at her. "Well, he seemed really nice… He might help us… I know where he is already…"
"You're following Elliot around?" Mohinder raised a single brow at her and she shied away from the questioning glare. "Please don't tell me that you like him,"
"I don't! It's just that… I sort of wish he was my older brother… He seems like he has a really good personality, is all," Molly moved away from Mohinder and walked toward Ashe when she noticed the older girl's large smile and open arms, beckoning her to come towards her. Ashe hugged Molly tightly, "Aw, you're so cute Molly!" she squealed. "Okay, we'll give Elliot a try,"
Molly looked up at Ashe happily for a moment and then ran to grab a map of New York. She immediately pointed to a spot on the map and Ashe giggled. "You think about him a lot, don't you?"
"I just want to see if he's okay!" Molly blushed and turned slightly away from Ashe.
Suddenly Peter came out from the room and grabbed his jacket, putting it on swiftly. "Let's go," he said as he started to walk out the door. Ashe took a few seconds to realize what just happened and followed Peter quickly. Hiro stayed behind, not really knowing what just happened. "Okay, bye bye – good luck!" he shouted after them, just before the door had closed.
Ashe followed Peter as fast as she could because of his fast feet while dodging the burnt and crumbling walls. Once they hit the streets Peter stopped walking and turned to Ashe, silently asking her which way to go. Ashe smiled and turned to the left, guiding the way, "This way, it's just a few seven blocks that way,"
"Have you thought of any ideas Ashe?" Peter asked, his voice serious like it's been for a while.
"I have, but the difficult part is touching them without getting 3rd degree burns or frostbite," Ashe said frowning. "I could touch them because of my shield, but I don't have your time control to actually be able to grab them,"
"This'll be –" Peter stopped his sentence just as he and Ashe stopped walking when suddenly appearing in front of them was Sylar. Ashe, filled with joy at seeing her friend, ran toward him and wrapping her arms around him for a hug. Peter narrowed his eyes as Sylar returned Ashe's gesture yet looked at Peter with a grin.
"Sylar! I missed you! Where have you been!?" Ashe half shouted as she continued to hug Sylar, not intending to let go anytime soon. Sylar tightened his hold around her and Ashe had to pull back and look at Sylar in confusion. He just smiled at her and then turned to Peter still grinning at him. Just then, Sylar brought a hand up and made a motion with his hand like it was grabbing onto something and pulling down. The ground around Sylar and Ashe suddenly opened up and it looked like the earth had swallowed the two of them. The only sound heard was Ashe's surprised gasp and Peter's cry of protest.
Peter ran to the spot they had disappeared into, falling to his knees. He banged his fist into the ground a couple of times, fully knowing that it would do nothing but still kept on doing it.
"You look like a lunatic, doesn't he?"
"Mhm, who cares?"
Peter froze and slowly turned around until his eyes met with Adrian and Damien standing a few feet away from him. He rose to his feet and braced himself for an oncoming battle, narrowing his eyes and watching them carefully.
"He's alone – do we really want to prey on the weak?" Damien turned to his brother Adrian who just shrugged his shoulders.
"You can have him Damien, I want to fight Ashe – she's more of a challenge," Adrian began to walk away after he finished his sentence, giving Damien and Peter room to fight. "But try not destroying everything – I'd like to put some effort in that too,"
"Let's see if you got any better from the last time we fought," Damien fisted his hands and they were instantly covered with fire. He started to walk toward Peter but was suddenly then being pushed back by an unseen force. Damien smirked and kept walking, slowly inching closer to Peter.
Peter tried as hard as he could to keep Damien away from him with his telekinesis. Then, before Damien got a couple metres away from him, Peter turned invisible and moved around silently but still kept trying to push Damien back in the same direction.
Damien stopped walking and placed his hands on the ground. He quickly heated the ground around him up and smiled when he heard Peter's wince of sudden pain to his feet. Damien threw a few fireballs to the direction of the sound and smiled some more when Peter became visible, lying on the ground.
Peter stopped time just before another fireball came at him. He took this time to fire a few jolts of electricity at Damien. He didn't unfreeze time until Damien's body was literally covered with electricity. The fire starter howled in pain and fell to one knee. Damien looked up at Peter just in time to see him cover himself with electricity like his own fire spikes and then charge at him. He got up just in time so that the two of them match each other punch of punch.
Each blow they matched created so much force and energy that the surrounding area was enveloped with the sound of thunder. Each hit that the other matched caused them more pain then they originally had thought.
Because of Peter's electric spikes Damien received painful shocks and Peter received scorching burns on his hands that, luckily, quickly healed due to one of his other abilities.
Suddenly, Damien roared loudly and a large burst of flames erupted from him, sending Peter back a few feet. Peter trying to shake out of it quickly but Damien had already fired a flamethrower at him. Peter bit back the pain, again thanking his rapid healing ability. Peter used his telekinesis and threw a nearby large object at Damien but Damien melted it quickly before it hit him.
Peter took the opportunity of Damien being distracted to once again go invisible and move away from the area in case Damien did that trick with the ground again.
"Nothing I do is working on him…" Peter thought out loud, making sure to whisper in a very low tone. "Ashe… Where are you?"
Ashe opened her eyes and suddenly she was in what looked like a room that was underground for the walls, ceiling, and floor were all made of the earth. Sylar still had his arms around her but didn't seemed to want to let go of Ashe no matter how hard she tried to free herself. "Sylar?"
Suddenly she felt Sylar's lips against hers, rough and demanding. Ashe tried to push him away but he just wouldn't budge. Soon she felt her feet moving because she was trying to move back and Sylar was moving forward with her. Sylar let one hand slowly roam over Ashe's body and place itself just underneath her shirt. Ashe squeaked and tried pushing Sylar away again but this time with much more force.
Sylar pulled away from her but the two of them were still very close to each other. However, before Ashe could even think that Sylar was going to stop, he placed his lips against hers again. This time, his kiss was more gentle as he if was wanting her to actually respond. And that she did.
Ashe was taken back at his sudden change and couldn't help but lean into the kiss. She felt Sylar lift her up as he guided her to another part of the room. Then, as soon as she felt something soft against her back her eyes that she didn't even know she closed snapped open and she again pushed Sylar away, which was effective this time. "Sylar?" she said again, completely confused.
Sylar leaned forward, his mouth hovering just a hair's width away from her ear. "Just relax," he whispered huskily to her, causing Ashe to shiver slightly.
Garreth sat quietly beside Claire in her backyard. The two of them were a bit uncomfortable for something intimate was just about to happen until Claire's father had poked his head outside the door to ask them what they wanted for dinner. Claire stared at her feet, playing idling with her hair. Garreth tried to look away from Claire but would glance at her every now and then. "So… uhm…" Garreth started.
"Yeah… uhm…" Claire continued; neither of them able to say a complete sentence.
"Guys; dinner!" Claire's mother shouted from inside the house. Claire jumped to her feet, followed by Garreth and the two walked silently into the dining room. Noah stared evilly at Garreth as he sat down beside Claire but was snapped out from his glare when Claire's mother, Sandra, slapped him lightly on the shoulder. Secretly telling him to leave the two alone. However, Noah wasn't going to leave it alone.
"So, what do your parents do Garreth?" Noah asked suddenly. Claire glared at her father, Sandra glared at Noah, Lyle chuckled lightly, and Garreth had almost spit out his food. "My parents?"
"Yes, you do have parents don't you?"
"Dad!" Claire protested. "Noah!" Sandra disapproved.
"I sort of only have one… my dad," Garreth replied in a low voice as he tried to quickly think something up so he could answer the question.
"And what does he do?"
"He's a… a scientist," Garreth mentally slapped himself in the face before turning to Noah and smiling. "He's always… busy,"
"A scientist… What kind of scientist?"
"Uh, I don't really know… I don't see him that much…"
"Noah, that's enough," Sandra whispered harshly to her husband who just looked at her like he didn't do anything bad.
"Why not; I thought you could teleport to anywhere you wanted to?"
"Dad!" Claire protested again, looking to her father with pleading eyes.
"It's okay," he said to Claire, "I'm not allowed in there," he said, facing Noah.
"And your mother; what happened to her?"
"She died," Garreth said bluntly. He took another spoonful of the food on his plate while everyone else looked at him shocked how what and at how he just said what he said.
"Oh…" Noah quickly shut himself up, immediately regretting the question he had asked.
Just then, a knock came to the door. Claire excused herself to answer it and quickly returned with none other than Lucas following her.
Suddenly, Garreth jumped up from his chair in disbelief, "Lucas!?" he shouted, completely shocked.
"Garreth…" Lucas stared wide-eyed at the young boy who was now smirking at him.
"Oh man… Pops is going to love this!" Garreth was about to teleport out of there until Claire held onto his wrist. "Don't tell anyone please, Lucas is sort of in hiding… and, how do you know him?"
Garreth looked into Claire's eyes and instantly rid any thoughts of telling Thomas about seeing Lucas. "Lucas used to work with my dad…"
Noah's eyes widened but went back to normal, trying to hide his new realization. "Lucas, why don't we speak in the other room?"
"Mhm," Lucas nodded his head and followed Noah into Noah's small office, the door closing behind him.
"What is it my old friend?" Noah asked, sitting down in his seat.
"Have you heard the news?"
"Yes, sadly… New Orleans and New York under attack – who is this Garreth child?"
"Garreth is one of the creations of the one who is in charge of the attacks… Thomas Kingston, a former partner of mine," Lucas bowed his head in shame, his voice laced with regret. "Garreth is also known as E20 – Experiment number 20… He's something like a wild child, I think he can be leaned towards good if treated fairly Noah,"
"Hm, I see… Is this another astral projection, because you're showing emotion?"
"No, this is really me… My wife Kael is in your living room – sorry," Lucas bowed forward, too used to the old customs.
"Why did you come out?"
"We need to rally others with abilities – before Thomas gets to them first,"
"Faye – what's wrong with you!?" Elliot threw another bomb at one of Faye's creations, making it disappear instantly. He glanced up at the other girl just as she brought up another creation: making the nearby statue to life. Elliot refused to attack Faye in fear of hurting her so he just kept destroying her creations until the girl tired out, but it didn't seem like she would be anytime soon.
Faye outstretched her hand out toward the ground underneath Elliot and the ground become so soft that Elliot couldn't stand on it any longer and slipped. "Snap out of it Faye!" Elliot shouted at her again, but it was no use. The girl was in some kind of trace.
"I must destroy all who oppose him…" Faye mumbled like a chant. A giant scythe appeared in her hands and she slashed down at Elliot but missed when Elliot rolled away just in time. "I must… destroy… all… who oppose…"
"Shut up!" Elliot finally threw bombs toward Faye, but only flash bombs. Faye instantly became blinded for a few moments and Elliot took that time to get out of the area. He ran away as fast as he could, thinking if he had time he could think up a way to snap her back to her old self.
As he ran he saw all the torn down buildings and the uneven, broken ground. "What's happened to this city?"
End Chapter
