Manhattan, New York
Kai Miyagusuku, Mohinder Suresh, Niki Sanders, David, Lewis, Akihiro Okamura, Julia Silverstein, Mao Jahana, & Lulu
The nine individuals had just arrived at Manhattan, New York from New Orleans, Louisiana. Upon exiting the airport, the nine of them were greeted by two SUVs and were driven towards a loft in Manhattan. The loft was on the top floor which had cost a lot of money to buy. David knew that the loft had belonged to Joel. It would be used as one of Joel's residences around the world. This would make a suitable place to hold Red Shield meetings. Now, all nine of them were waiting in the living room waiting for the hosts to greet them.
It was a sleek looking and extremely furnished loft with a large bedroom. Everything looked pretty damn modern. The floor was made of cool black marble tiles. The furniture was made of black leather. This place looked more of a high end luxury suite. Most of the people didn't have a problem with the place. On the dining room table, there was already food prepared. It was courtesy of Joel Goldschmidt the 6th.
Luckily, there was a large screen TV in the living. It was more than enough to keep Lulu occupied as she sat right in the front watching cartoons. Lulu was still a kid, who could blame her for watching to watch some quality cartoons. While everybody else waited, Lulu wanted to get some quality cartoon time in before meeting with Joel.
After that that traveling, Mao had felt extremely exhausted. She would walk to one of the sofas and just plop her body down with a loud sigh of relief.
"All that walking is killing my feet," Mao said out loud.
David, Lewis, Akihiro, and Mohinder went to the table to pour themselves a cup of coffee. The four of them would gather in their own little group and talk. What they would talk about was unknown. It would be a talk amongst the adult males.
Julia would walk to the bathroom while Niki would get some food from the table. The group might as well make themselves at home while they waited for their hosts to arrive. For this adventure, Julia had to be extremely careful since she was only a few months pregnant. She didn't want to risk putting her unborn child in danger.
In the case of Kai, he would keep to himself in the balcony. He would be joined by his two adopted infant daughters whom were sleeping peacefully in their carriages. That was about the only company Kai wanted to have at his side. While coping with his powers, the one thing that had kept Kai from going so far was his two foster daughters. They were the one living piece of his late-brother Riku that was left.
He would look at his two daughters sleeping peacefully. Kai gave a smile before looking back up at the sky. The sky looked very cloudy like it was going to rain. He was thinking about why his power didn't activate sooner during the fight against Diva and the Goldsmith brothers. Many people have died as a result.
Kai thought about how George was wounded by Forest who turned into a Chiropteran. There was the rescue mission to take back George. But, the mission was a failure as George was wounded and was about to transform into a Chiropteran. Kai was there when he witnessed Saya having to carry out the deed of killing George.
There was the incident in Hanoi, Vietnam. Many kidnapped children were given the Delta 67 and were transformed into horrid creatures. A girl named Mui was halfway through the transformation. Currently, she's in holding until there's a cure.
There was the agent that was murdered by Amshel. They met the Schiff who wanted Saya for her blood. However, it proved that Saya's blood was deemed fatal as a result. Then there was the attack on Red Shield HQ and the organization was destroyed in a foul swoop by Diva and Karl.
Riku was raped and killed as a result.
It would end in a showdown at the Metropolitan Opera House. Now, Kai was back in New York City. It would be the last stop before flying out to England. There, Kai would learn how to hone in on the abilities that he had absorbed from other advanced humans. Kai was still coping with the fact that he was indeed an evolved human.
Coping all these powers were physically, mentally, and spiritually draining on Kai's part. Ever since his powers manifested, Kai had to take frequent rests. Right now, that was what Kai was doing. He was going to take a rest by the balcony. Closing his eyes, Kai would take a brief nap before they would meet with Joel.
As Kai closed his eyes, he would reopen them and find himself waking up at the bar counter of Omoro's. His eyes rapidly blinked. He would rise from his seat and look to his left and his right. The place was packed left and right. There was a reason Kai found himself in this setting up closing his eyes.
"What's going on?" Kai asked.
"Have a nice sleep?" asked George, who was manning the stove. He had his hair tied back in a ponytail and an apron tied around his waste.
Kai nodded, "how long was I out for?"
"A good few hours. It wasn't as packed, thought I'd let you sleep," George answered while cooking at the same time. He then tossed an apron to Kai, "things are getting pretty busy. Need you to bust a few tables and bring them into the washing room."
Kai nodded as he grabbed the apron and quickly tied it around his waist. There were a few empty tables with glasses, plates, bowls, and utinsils. Clearing the tables, Kai quickly rushed towards the back room where the dishes needed to be washed. Working in the back were Solomon, Karl, and Riku.
The three of them were wearing gloves over their hands, aprons around their waists, and hair nets over their heads It was pretty awkward to see the three of them together, washing dishes.
All three waved at him.
"What are you guys doing here?" Kai asked.
"What do you think?" Riku asked back rhetorically while he washed one of the plates.
"We're preparing... There's a special guest coming," Solomon explained.
"Special guest?" Kai asked a bit concerned. Bolts of lightning formed in Kai's left hand.
"Not that kind of guest!" Karl exclaimed, motioning for Kai to not summon up lightning.
Kai sighed in relief as the bolts of lightning disappeared from his hand. He looked at Riku and then the two former Chevaliers, "I can understand Riku being here. Why are you two here?"
"I was bored," Karl answered.
The sound of the door opening reached Kai's ears.
"That's him," Solomon said.
"What are you waiting for?" Riku asked.
"Hurry up and take his order," Karl added motioning for Kai to get back out to the main dining area.
Kai quickly turned around and went back into the dining area to greet the next customer who is supposed to be the special guest that Solomon had briefly talked about. He then stopped to watch George and the man converse. The special guest was a Japanese man perhaps in either his fifties or his sixties. He was shorter than George and wore a very nice suit. Perhaps the man was a businessman.
"Kai here will take your order, Mr. Nakamura," George said to the man.
The man nodded as he took a seat at one of the empty tables. Grabbing a pad and paper from the pouch of his apron, Kai would walk up to the man.
"May I take your order?" Kai asked.
"A glass of water will be fine, young man," the man answered. Kai nodded. As Kai was about to get a glass of water, the older man grabbed him by the wrist, "wait."
"Yes?"
"Kai Miyagusuku, am I correct?"
Kai nodded, "yes, I am. May I ask who you are?"
"Kaito," the man answered releasing his grip on Kai's wrist. "I'd also like a cup of coffee, too."
Kai nodded as he walked to the counter.
"What did he want?" George asked.
"He said a glass of water and a cup of coffee," Kai answered.
George nodded as he poured a glass of water and a cup of coffee. Both drinks were placed on the tray and Kai went back to Kaito's table.
"Here are your drinks sir," Kai said placing the cup of coffee on the table.
"Have a seat in front of me," Kaito offered.
"Um..." Kai was about to answer. He turned back to see George motioning him to do so. Placing the tray on another table, Kai would take a seat in front of Kaito Nakamura. Kaito would slide the glass of water to Kai.
"What's going on?" Kai asked.
"Why do you think I'm talking to you?" Kaito asked rhetorically.
Kai let out a sigh, "what is it with all these questions?" He grabbed the glass and took a sip of water. It looked like that Kai needed something to drink. "You're dead, I know... Why are you coming to me?"
"I've been watching what has been going on. It disturbs me. I can't give messages normally. I can only relay my message to you because of the ability you absorbed from Allison Dubois," Kaito Nakamura explained. He then looked at George and then back to Kai, "I have a son, not that much older than you named Hiro."
Kai was silent.
"He's like you too, has a special power and a destiny," Kaito explained.
"What kind of power?" Kai asked.
"You'd have to see for yourself," Kaito answered.
"Why have you come to me?"
"You'll know eventually when you meet Robert Bishop. Just say my name to him," Kaito answered. Kai nodded. He would remember the name of Kaito Nakamura.
Kai took another sip of water.
"Robert Bishop?"
"Ask your friend Joel Goldschmidt," Kaito answered. He then added, "I know about the monstrosities you must fight soon. You do not have Saya or Haji to help you in the fighting. For now, they will have to depend on you."
Kai wasn't feeling at all that confident in his abilities. He hasn't even used them in life or death situation before.
"You're telling me something I already know," Kai responded getting pretty annoyed.
Kaito nodded. He would pull out a business card from his coat, place it on the table, and slide it to Kai. Kai would look down and examine the business card. It was a black card with that same symbol in the middle that Solomon drew on the sand in his last dream.
It was a business card for Jittetsu Arms, a shop that sold and repaired weapons.
"Jittetsu Arms?" Kai asked.
"Tell Mr. Claremont that I had sent you. He'll understand," Kaito explained. "It's time for you to wake up."
"Wake up?" Kai asked.
Kaito grabbed the glass of water, splashing the liquid in his face.
"Shit!" Kai exclaimed as he sat up. He panted hard and fast finding himself back on the balcony of Joel's loft. Kai turned to his right to see that his two daughters were gone. For some reason Kai's face felt wet. It had started to rain and Kai was getting wet from it.
"Kai, get inside!" David exclaimed.
Kai nodded as he stood from his seat and ran back inside the loft. Stepping inside, Kai saw the group standing on their feet to greet Joel Goldschmidt and a much older individual.
"Joel," Kai said slowly walking towards Joel.
Joel gave a smile, "it's been awhile, Kai." He then turned to face the other person, "this is Bob Bishop, our ally."
"Robert Bishop?" Kai asked.
"Yes, I am Robert Bishop. But everybody calls me Bob," he said introducing himself, "you must be Kai Miyagusuku, the boy I have been hearing about."
"Yeah, I'm Kai," Kai replied back. The two of them would shake hands.
"I've been hearing that you're like Peter Petrelli," Bob stated.
"I've been hearing that, too," Kai replied.
"Perhaps we can talk in private, I'd like to get to know you better," Bob suggested.
"Fine with me. Got plenty I want to talk with you, too."
Mao Jahana watched the two of them talk. She was concerned because of the nature of this organization. Ever since what had happened with Cinq Fleches and its experiments, Mao was pretty distrustful of mysterious organizations.
"We should go now," Bob suggested.
"Wait, I'm coming too," Mao added in. She turned to face Bob, "I mean no disrespect but we just met you. I'm a bit on edge."
"Understandable," Bob replied.
"I have to go back to my apartment and check on Molly," Mohinder explained.
"I can take the others to see the lab," Niki offered.
"That would be great," Mohinder replied agreeably.
"What about her?" Okamura asked motioning to Lulu.
Joel smiled, "I can stay with her."
Lulu ignored everything that was going on behind her. The girl's eyes were glued to the TV the whole time.
"We should leave now," Bob said.
Kai then turned to see Joel playing with the little ones. He knew Joel was a good person and could trust him with his adopted daughters. Turning back to face Bob, Kai nodded.
"Yeah, we should leave now."
Mao nodded as she gave Bob the suspicious glare. She still wasn't convinced at all if she could trust the Company or not. While Bob insisted they track down evolved humans, Mao felt that it was no different than Cinq Fleches creating Delta 67.
"Well, I can show you the lab. I'll make a call to Maya to let her know. She's still learning to cope with her abilities," Niki explained.
Mohinder turned to face Kai, "when you're done talking with Bob, why not stop at my apartment?" He would grab a pen and paper and write down the address. Kai wouldn't take the paper as he shook his head.
"I got the address memorized now," Kai explained.
Mohinder nodded, "Right. I remember… Enhanced memory."
Kai smiled.
"C'mon, let's go," Mao demanded as she left the loft while dragging Kai by the arm.
Bob would follow the two teenagers.
Manhattan, New York
Molly Walker & Matt Parkman
School was released for the day as Molly Walker along with other students left through the front doors. Amongst many of the adults waiting for the children was Matt Parkman, who jointly took custody of Molly along with Mohinder Suresh. Mohinder's antibodies were in Molly's system. Matt was the one that rescued Molly from Sylar.
Both Molly and Matt decided not to talk about what they had saw in regards to the monsters she saw while looking for the missing people. It was bad enough that these monsters were giving Matt all sorts of nightmares and it was up to Molly to calm him down. With Mohinder away on assignments, Matt and Molly would have to depend on each other.
Molly ran over to Matt as he hugged her like a father would hug a daughter.
"How was school?" Matt asked.
"It was great," Molly answered with a nod.
Matt gave a smile to the girl. The two of them had walked towards Matt's car where he would take Molly to the babysitter's. He had a shift for the night and wouldn't return home. But, Mohinder would be picking up Molly later in the night for Matt.
As they walked towards the car, they saw both Noah Bennet and the Haitian waiting for them. While Matt was on all right terms with Noah, he was still a bit concerned. He held Molly back and slowly approached Noah.
"What is it?" Matt asked.
Noah didn't sugarcoat anything and went right on the point, "we need the help from both of you."
"What kind of help?" Matt asked a bit suspicious of Noah's actions.
Noah took a look at Molly and then turned to Matt, "we need your help more than Molly's. But we need Molly's help in finding a certain someone."
"What's going on?" Matt asked a bit concerned.
Noah took a deep sigh. He didn't want to talk about this in front of a little girl. Instead of talking, Noah would talk to Matt with his mind.
"You already know about our alliance with Red Shield." Noah mentally projected.
"Yeah, what about it?"
"There are creatures that Red Shield has been hunting down that are dangerous. It's like several thousand Sylars. They just look to feed."
"Molly and I already know about them. I've been assigned on the case. At least twenty people have gone missing. Molly helped me find them. Those things gave me nightmares."
"We need you to come with us and read this book called Joel's Diary. It explains what happened."
"What about Molly?"
"He can take her to the babysitter."
Matt turned to see Molly and the Haitian talking it up. It seemed that the Haitian was pretty good with little kids.
"I'll call the babysitter up."
"We're going to need to be on full guard. No telling what those creatures are capable of."
"Right."
Matt turned to face the Haitian. He already knew what the Haitian was fully capable of. Perhaps that man might be able to handle himself against a bunch of those hideous creatures. Part of Matt regretted asking Molly to find these people.
However, Molly insisted saying that the two of them needed to depend on each other. The two of them were now part of a bigger mission, the destruction of those horrid creatures. This was something completely new that everybody had come across.
Noah's cell phone went off.
"Hello?" Noah answered as turned on the cell phone. He paused a bit as his face now had an angry expression, "what? Claire and West are gone? To where?"
Noah was silent.
"England?! Why did they fly to England?!" Noah was starting to lose his cool. He had told Claire to stay out of Company business. But, it didn't surprise him that Claire had somewhat of a rebellious streak.
"What's going on?" Matt asked. He was getting pretty concerned.
Noah let out a sigh of frustration. "Alright, I'll talk to you later." He pressed the button and ended the phone conversation.
"What just happened?"
"A few days ago, Claire and West read the e-mail that Mohinder sent me," Noah explained rubbing the temples of his head. Now, Noah would have another pain to deal with.
Grabbing his cell phone, Matt quickly dialed up Mohinder's number.
"Matt, I'm on my way to the apartment."
"What e-mail did you send Noah? He's with me right now and said that Claire flew to England," Matt explained.
He could hear Mohinder sigh on the other line.
"I told Claire not to snoop in her dad's e-mail. We found a nineteen year old boy in Okinawa. He's with that Red Shield group. Apparently, he's on the list… He's just like Peter Petrelli."
Matt was silent for a bit.
"Matt, what's going on?" Noah asked. Now, Noah was curious about what was going on with Matt and Mohinder.
"This boy is just like Petter Petrelli?" Matt asked.
"Yes. The boy's name is Kai Miyagusuku. He's already exhibited numerous abilities."
"He's not going to explode, is he?"
"No. Kai's shown no signs of emitting radioactivity."
Matt let out a sigh of relief.
"What's Noah doing at Molly's school?"
"They need her just to find one person. That's all," Matt explained. He then looked to Noah, "right?"
Noah nodded, "yeah, that's right. We only need Molly to find one person. And it's not some nightmare man."
"What's going on?"
"Molly and I will meet you at the apartment. We'll take Molly to the babysitter's and then talk to Bob," Matt said.
"Alright, I'll see you all there. You should meet that Kai Miyagusuku kid as well."
"We'll see you then," Matt said ending the call. He turned to face Noah, "in the e-mail, he said that this Kai Miyagusuku kid is just like Peter."
"We have another Peter Petrelli on our hands?"
Matt gave a nod, "yeah. Mohinder said we should see him."
Noah nodded back, "now I'm getting curious about this boy."
"Who's the person you want to find?" Matt asked.
Noah pulled out a picture from his coat and showed it to Matt. It was a picture of Haji that was provided by Joel Goldschmidt the 6th. "He goes by the name of Haji," Noah explained.
"Alright."
"The sooner we find this Haji, the better," Noah explained.
"Why do you need to find him for?"
"I can explain that later." Noah would then add, "We have to find him immediately."
Manhattan, New York
Amshel Goldsmith
Inside the main study of Angela Petrelli's home were numerous paintings on the wall. While Amshel thought the artwork was superb for comics, Angela had to explain the significance of all of these paintings. Amshel had to read the book by Chandra Suresh called "Activating Evolution" which paralleled the research he and Joel the 1st did on the Chiropteran Queens and the Chiropterans themselves.
Angela explained to Amshel about several seers that can paint the future. These paintings were done by the late Isaac Mendez before getting his head cut open by Gabriel Gray who went by the name of Sylar. She explained a good deal about the person known as Sylar along with her younger son Peter.
Amshel was very intrigued by both Peter and Sylar. But he understood that Peter would never be able to turn into a Chevalier due to absorbing Claire's ability of cellular regeneration. He found it to be interesting because they can regenerate without feeding on human blood. Amshel didn't need to do anything right now as he was brought back to life by the blood of Adam Monroe.
He wanted to bring back Diva so he could become a Chevalier once again. While he found "evolved" humans to be interesting, Amshel felt that they were no match of Chevaliers. But, his attention was directed towards those paintings placed around the study of the Petrelli home. Amshel saw that there was a notable pattern of these paintings.
Amshel stopped in his tracks as he saw one of the paintings. It had hit Amshel like several tons of bricks. The painting he looked at had Kai Miyagusuku in it.
"Kai Miyagusuku? Is he an evolved human?" Amshel asked himself. The person in the painting was definitely Kai Miyagusuku.
This painting was of Kai at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Kai had a much different look on him in this painting. In this painting, Kai was dressed in a black leather long coat, black shades, black leather pants, black boots, and the necklace. This time, the necklace had the "Godsend" symbol engraved.
Amshel further examined the painting and saw that Kai was levitating two feet off the floor by use of electromagnetic repulsion.
"Electromagnetic repulsion… You have me impressed, boy," Amshel said. He examined the painting further seeing that Kai was using his ability of electromagnetism to create and direct electrical arcs at several Chiropterans that were surrounding the boy.
"I knew there was something interesting about you, Kai," Amshel spoke out eyeing the painting.
He then looked at another painting. Kai was also present in that one painting. This one had Kai in a confrontation with Sylar on the London Bridge. Sylar's right hand was emitting ice while Kai's right hand was emitting electricity.
Amshel was curious about the gentleman that was confronting Kai.
He looked into another painting and saw the same person known as Sylar with Kai pinned against the wall and attempting to cut open his head. Amshel further examined the painting and saw that Sylar wasn't using any kind of instrument to cut open Kai's head. He saw that Sylar was using telekinesis to do what he was doing.
"Telekinesis to cut open someone, I had never thought of that," Amshel said.
Amshel looked at another painting to see Kai and Peter fighting it out with Diva. Kai was armed with two Chinese butterfly swords. It looked as if Diva was evenly matched with both Kai Miyagusuku and Peter Petrelli combined. That was understandable since Diva continuously fed of human blood while Saya would get regular blood transfusions.
"Is that Peter Petrelli, Angela's son?"
He looked at another painting. Kai was present in that painting too as he was learning how to fly. It was a foreshadowing that Kai was going to acquire the ability of flight. While Amshel found these paintings interesting, they made little sense. But, the book by Chandra Suresh helped Amshel to make sense of everything.
Amshel was starting to be more concerned about Kai than the possibility of Saya being brought out of her hibernation. He was more concerned about the fact that Kai was one of those evolved humans that Angela had told him about. The thought about these evolved humans had him thinking a lot.
He turned to another painting of Kai. This time, it was of Kai using cyrokinesis on a Chiropteran. In the painting, Kai merely touched the Chiropteran on the shoulder and used his will power to freeze it.
The painting next to that one had Kai standing on top of a hill as the Chiropterans around him seemed to be in a state of bliss and euphoria. Amshel saw that many of these paintings had Kai exhibiting some sort of different power. One was of Kai flying up in the air, the next was of Kai using cyrokinesis, and another one with Kai using emotion manipulation.
In another painting, Kai was emerging from the flames of a burning building. Flames were coming out from both of Kai's hands. The next painting had Kai and several other Chiropterans crying out black tears.
"Kai Miyagusuku can prove to be problematic..."
Amshel was surprised to find out that Kai was able to exhibit all sorts of special abilities.
Okinawa, Okinawa
Haji
While it was daytime in New York City, it was still night time in Okinawa. Without Kai and the two adopted daughters around to make regular visits to the family grave where Saya would be in her hibernation, it would be up to Haji to make the routine visits. As he stood at the front steps of the Miyagusuku family grave, Haji would kneel down and lay down a flower.
"Kai's currently on a journey right now," Haji explained to a hibernating Saya. "He wishes that you were awake from your hibernation to see what he is doing."
Haji was carrying his large cello in the case. He would open up the cello case and take out the large cello.
"The boy has been going through changes… I have been watching over him closely. Like you were, Kai's very scared about what he's going through," Haji added. He would play a tune for Saya, perhaps she could hear it while in hibernation.
Haji would prepare his cello and start playing a tune for Saya to listen to. It was Saya that had taught Haji how to play that one instrument.
While he was Saya's Chevalier, Haji had started to show concern for Kai and his two adopted daughters whom were Saya's nieces. The thought of evolved humans too had gotten Haji intrigued and concerned at the same time. He of all people knew that they would be getting dragged into a new adventure soon enough.
While Saya was deep in her hibernation, she was still "aware." It seemed that her consciousness would travel around while in hibernation. Interestingly enough, Saya developed a subconscious link to Kai. Saya knew that he and the two little ones made regular visits to the Miyagusuku family grave.
She could tell that Kai and the two adopted daughters were gone for the time being. Saya could hear Kai's words as he explained to her that he had to go on a journey for awhile. The girl wanted to end her long hibernation and see Kai. All Kai said was that he was going to be on an adventure. Kai didn't explain to Saya about the various abilities that had manifested. He wouldn't know how Saya would react if she knew.
All Saya could do was to remain in hibernation until then. She had no idea of what the Company was let alone its alliance with Red Shield. Saya didn't even know that Amshel Goldsmith was resurrected by the blood of Adam Monroe.
However, it would be soon enough that Kai and Saya would be reunited.
"Kai..."
