Author's note: As promised I bring you part 3. Would like to see more reviews though my viewers. Oh well, hope you like this more action packed chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Life is Strange or any of the OCs except my own, However I also own the plot of this story
Saranus gasped, letting the girl go, and stumbling back himself, clutching his stomach in pain. "The Hell?" He asked, too shocked to really understand what had exactly transpired.
The girl looked over at him, her Emerald Eyes glittering expectantly. "What's wrong?" She asked, using the same charming tone she had in her voice earlier.
Saranus struggled not to panic. He struggled hard. "Nothing, Ma'am." He said, scrambling to his feet.
He held his hand out to her and helped her up, before bending over and picking up the Mattress for her. Once it was in his hand, Saranus pretended to look it over, and quickly spoke to the girl. "Sorry, Ma'am, I just found a small cut in this Mattress, I'll get you another one. While I do that, why don't you go over there and browse the tablets while I go and get you a new mattress." He said, and without waiting for her confirmation, he turned and rushed into the furniture section.
"Hey, Mike." Saranus called, finding his chubbier colleague.
"Yeah?" He asked, before suddenly having a mattress dumped on him.
"Put that back on the shelf and grab me a new one. I'll be back for it in a minute." Saranus commanded, entering the back room quickly.
Pulling out his phone he quickly called Robbie. Not long after he picked up.
"Yeah?" He demanded, voice hushed.
"Robbie, man, I've found the Liberator. I need you to drop whatever your doing and get to the Pharmacy as soon as possible, which should hopefully be right now.
"I don't think that's going to go over well." He replied, staying as quiet as possible.
"Whatever your doing I don't care, I need backup on this." He then looked around. "I have to call Caroline and Kathrine, just get here." He demanded, before hanging up.
Robbie
Sighing and putting his phone down, he looked over at Mace. "Babe." He said, catching her attention. "We gotta go."
"What! But babe, we just got our Popcorn!" She said, a bit too loud. "What is so important that we're going to miss Avengers: Secret Wars?" She demanded.
As they stood, Mace quite reluctant, Robbie spoke. "I'll tell you when we get out of the theater." He said.
Upon exiting the Theatre, Mace stopped him right in the hallway. "Ok, what's so important?" She demanded.
"Saranus says he's found the Liberator." He said, causing her to fall silent.
"Alright. That seems a bit more important than Secret Wars." She nodded. "Let's go."
As they left however, a certain Stoner looked on with interest...
Johnny
"Ooh!" Johny said excitedly as he watched them leave. "I should text their descriptions to Shaun! He might be interested in knowing that our town has some non-powered vigilantes in the forms of..." He paused time and walked over to them.
"Uh, Punisher and Batgirl." He said, before walking away from them and letting time resume it's course.
Johnny quickly pulled out his phone and texted Shaun their descriptions. "I knew that my job as a theater usher would pay off one day!" He laughed, before entering the Secret Wars theater booth and secretly watching the movie.
"This is so good." He whispered, taking a sip from a soda he, uh, 'borrowed'.
Caroline
"Be right there!" She said, hanging up. Then she looked down at Rats, who was nice and snuggled into her lap. "Off." She commanded.
In response, Rats meowed at her and snuggled tighter. "Ugh! Sometimes I wish I could talk to you like Kathrine can! Get off me!" She yelled, shaking.
Rats still refused to get off her, and simply Mewls.
"Please?" She begged.
Rats, finally noticing her sadness, decided to hop off her and walk away. She watched him leave, before grabbing her remote and clicking record. "I'll be back for you later!" She smiled at Owen Grady's determined face and stood, before rushing outside.
Saranus, not long after
Kathrine, surprisingly, was the first to arrive. She was bent over a beatle, speaking to it. "I'm looking for a tallish, black guy, toned muscles, crazy smart. You know him?" She asked.
Saranus quickly grabbed her, and led her away from the beatle. "Ok, look, I need you to wait until Robbie, Mace, and Caroline, alright? No talking to beatles alright, once they get here, lead them to the technology section, I'm going to distract her."
He quickly moved back towards The Liberator, but first grabbed the new Mattress from his coworker. Moving back to her, he smiled and hefted the Mattress up. "Do you want me to take this to your car?" He asked, gesturing with his head to her new mattress. "Don't worry, I'll pay for it." He laughed.
She smirked at him, but shook her head. "Thanks but, just take it outside, I don't really have a car right now and I can carry it back to my home.
Saranus nodded, and led her outside through the front, before he left, he stopped and laid his debt card down in front of one of the cashiers and gestured to the mattress over his shoulder. "I'm taking this outside for her. Thought it'd be nice for me to help her out since she fell." He said as the cashier rang his card up.
As they waited for the Mattress to be paid for, he looked toward the door and saw Robbie, Caroline, Mace, and Kathrine. He and Robbie locked eyes, and he nodded toward the door.
Robbie called the group to attention, and forced them outside.
"Hey so, what's your name?" He asked as the cashier handed him back his card.
"Carrie White." She replied quickly.
"Cool, I'm Sarunas." He replied. "Carrie White? Really? Does she think I'm stupid or something?" He thought bitterly.
"Hey, I don't feel to right in letting you carry this home, why don't we take this in my car?" He asked, saying it loud enough to be heard by Robbie, or Mace hopefully. Thinking about it now, maybe having a fighting match with a psychopath in the middle of a parking lot is a bad idea...
Andrea
As they got into the car, Sarunas being so "Nice" as to put the mattress in the back, Andrea had to smirk. There could only be three things that this guy was after: Her number, her head, or some loving for him and his friends that were following them. "As cute as that Edgelord is, I'm not too interested in gangbangs." She had to chuckle at that, and, of course, right at that moment Sarunas got in the car.
"What's so funny?" He asked, giving the most uncomfortable and fake smile possible.
"I just thought of something funny. Anyway, I live a little ways out into the woods, past that Junkyard." She said, smiling. "Yep, he knows who I am. I can feel the terror radiating off him, the only time I feel such fear, is from my victims." She thought as they pulled off. "Can I turn on the air?" She asked, causing him to look at her weirdly.
"Uh, sure." He replied, causing a wider smile from her, this time a genuine one.
She smiled as she felt the artificial air on her face, not caring if it was 40 degrees outside, this felt too good to pass up. Moving across the country undetected meant that she didn't usually stay in one car for too long, in fact this last summer she was completely without a car and had to travel by bus, train or walking. And, to be honest, trying to walk through the dense forests of Washington state, the previous state she'd helped liberate, was not high on her list of things to do.
Plus, she loved the feeling of the wind, so cold, so refreshing. Too good.
She let herself get lost in the air for a minute or two, before opening her eyes and looking outside. There was the Junkyard. "Exactly where I want to be." She thought, extending her telekinetic power and taking over the car entirely.
Twisting the wheels and forcing them into the Junkyard, Andrea loved Sarunas' freaked out reaction.
As soon as they had driven far enough into the Junkyard she forced the brake down and stopped them. Turning to Saranus, her eyes glowing, Andrea opened his door and flung him out.
She quickly got out herself, and loomed over him as his friends suddenly roared into the 'Yard.
She waited for them to get out, and noticed that one of the girls was first. Deciding to take in her future kill, Andrea looked right at the smaller girl. It was odd, something was familiar..about..her. "Oh God no." Her red eyes immediately dropped back to green, and she stepped back, horrified.
"You-it can't be!" She said, catching her attention. The Auburn haired girl cocked her head slightly to the left, confused.
"What's wrong, lady?"
What's wrong, Andrea?
"Get the Hell away from me!" She roared, extending her hand, but found herself unable to hurt her. She never could hurt her, could she?
"Caroline, get away from her, that's the Liberator!" The Edgelord said, snapping Andrea out of her haze.
"No, it's not her. Just someone who looks..and sounds..and seems like...stupid girl." Andrea felt her power starting to return to her right as an Aboriginal girl stepped out of a pink convertible, which was blaring music, and not the kind of music Andrea was in to. Andrea prefered edgy alternative rock to..ugh, 'pop rock' or God forbid, Rap.
She extended her hand once more and began choking the darker skinned girl. But before she could do much to her, she was suddenly assaulted by birds.
Not even kidding.
Some other girl was shouting at the sky and pointing at her. "Looks like I'm not the only one who has cool powers then, hmm?" She thought, snapping one of the birds necks with telekinesis, and shoving the other one off her.
Grabbing her knife from her boot, she slashed at the rather large crow that was trying to claw her skull, cleaving it's wing off.
"You can't hurt me with birds!" She yelled, laughing. "I'm basically genderbent Darth Vader!" She said, clutching her hand and choking the Bird-girl, cutting her off from her allies.
Before she could start really killing the girl, she was suddenly assaulted from all sides by a horrible old song.
'BABY, BABY, BABY, AWW! BABY, BABY, BABY, AWW!'
As the song earraped Andrea she was forced to drop Bird-girl and press her hands up to her ears.
"Aah! WHY WOULD YOU PLAY THAT?" She demanded, flinging her hand out and throwing the dark girl away.
Enraged, Andrea lifted herself into the air and followed after the girl.
The girl had crashed through the window of an old jalopy.
"Y'know I should really thank you." Andrea said, landing on the hood of the car. "Before this I had no idea I could fly." She laughed, extending her hands outwards and spreading her telekinetic influence all throughout the girl's body, preparing to crush every bone in her body. "But instead, dear girl, I'm going to ki..ll" She paused, squinting as her telekinetic hands felt something...not right. After a second or two of..groping..and thinking, Andrea came to a realization. "Oh!"
Mace's face was flushed a bright cherry red. "Ohohohoho!" Andrea laughed. "So, dear boy, I'm going to kill-"
"I'm..not..a BOY!" Mace screamed, playing nothing but feedback into Andrea's ears, causing her to release the girl and fall backwards.
"Ah! God fucking damn it!" She yelled, plugging her ears.
Mace
Mace felt tears stain her eyes as she stood, but didn't let a single one fall. She focused on the girl with all her hatred. As she approached she allowed the feedback loop to cease.
The Liberator looked up at her with a smirk. "Touch a nerve did I, top ten Anime Traps?" She asked, wiping some blood from her ears.
Mace's whole body tensed with hate and anger. "What did you just call me?" She asked, her voice all too calm.
"I said.." The Liberator's hands clenched, and Mace suddenly couldn't move again. "Top Ten Anime Traps!" She roared, snatching a knife from her boot and rushing Mace.
Before she was able to reach Mace however, Caroline suddenly grabbed the Liberator and sucked in a breath, pushing them both through a large downed bus.
Andrea
"Oh I'm so going back for that Trap later, she made my ears bleed. I think I might be partly deaf now. Great." Andrea thought as she and the Familiar girl came out the other side of the bus.
They toppled over, and rolled over and over, ending with Andrea on top. "Heh, I don't usually go this far on a.." The quip died on her lips as she stared into her eyes, those same damn eyes that Carrie once held.
The girl below her blinked once, before sucking in a breath and standing up through her. A shudder ran through Andrea's body as the girl walked out of her and turned back to face her. "You're the one who ate my fries." She said, crossing her arms.
Blinking once, Andrea struggled not to laugh. "I thought you were familiar, but.." Once again the backhanded quip died on her lips as the Liberator looked on at her.
"Damn you.." She whispered, before scrambling to her feet and running at her with the knife clutched tightly in her hand.
The girl took in a soft breath, and allowed Andrea to pass through her harmlessly, before letting the breath go and grabbing Andrea's wrist and flipping her over her head.
"Agh, I hate it when they can do things like that, makes it way to hard to kill." Andrea thought, remembering the reason she didn't go after fighters anymore.
Suddenly the guy from earlier, the one that led her here, arrived. She smirked as she had a rather devilish idea, and stopped herself mid-air. She then used her telekinesis to propel herself toward him at an intense speed, knife flashing forward.
Saranus
The pain. This is what he'd foreseen
Such Pain. It hurt so much
The Knife jutted out of His Chest.
Red filled his vision.
So. Much. Red.
Her Eyes, her Hair, her Knife...Blood.
His?
Someone Else's?
He did not know.
What he did Know however, was that she was behind the knife, smiling.
His vision darkened, everything was going dark once more.
the pain...
"No." Sarunas thought. "Your overreacting."
She wasn't as deep as she wanted to be. Her knife had just barely entered his chest, but it had left a large gash down his body. "I'll live." He thought as he fell backwards.
Andrea
"Damn, I missed. It's almost like he was expecting this." The boy below her groaned and tried to stand. "Oh well, might as well-"
"Rah!" A voice said, and a baseball bat nearly collided with her skull. It seems that Edgelord had rejoined the fight. "Your going to pay for what you did to my..girlfriend!" He yelled, grabbing her arm.
"Girlfriend?" She asked, shoving him away with her powers. "What are you talking about, the only other girl around here is fine, I didn't even get to stab her."
The Edgelord stood up and shoved his hand out. "Mace is crying!" He roared, using telekinesis of his own to..to
...Lightly push her hair out of her face.
Andrea laughed. "Mace? So that's what you call the Trap? Funny it sure sounds like a-" Boy name...What? Why can't I hear myself..Oh she has sound based powers! That's actually pretty neat. I'm almost jealous!"
Turning and throwing her knife at "Mace" who stood upon the bus, Andrea laughed inaudibly as the Edgelord tried vainly to move her knife. She had no idea why or how he suddenly had her powers, but she didn't care. One way or another everyone here will die.
"Ahahaha!" Her voice suddenly was able to reach her ears again as Mace moved to dodge her knife. She pulled her hand back and shouted: "Mjolner to me!" In an attempt to draw her knife back with just her voice.
"Stop with the references already!" The Edgelord shouted, throwing his bat with precision accuracy.
Andrea stopped it with a yawn. "Alright, I'm getting bored now anyway." She opened one eye, which glew a bright red, and lifted everyone into the air. "Time to die."
Before she even thought about killing them though, that girl approached her defiantly, breath held. Andrea extended a hand and squeezed, yet nothing happened.
Glaring at her, Andrea slammed the others into the bus and pulled the looser scraps of metal around them. "Stay here, I'll be back." She said, before rushing at the girl.
Passing through her again, Andrea smirked as she let her breath go. She turned and placed a hand around her throat, choking down hard. "None of that for you anymore." She laughed, both of her eyes as red as blood.
She stared into her victim's eyes..and blinked. "Damn it, why?" She asked, dropping the girl. "Why do you have to do this to me?" She asked, rubbing tears away from her face fiercely.
The girl below her seemed deeply confused and...a little concerned? "What's wrong? This is not how I imagined the Liberator." She asked, like...she did, when she lived.
"Damn you, WHY?!" Andrea yelled, glaring down at her. "How do you exist?!" Suddenly she reached down and grabbed her throat again. "So you're alive again, old friend, I want answers!" She demanded, tears running down her face. "If you could come back all this time why did you leave me in the first place?!" She roared, voice breaking.
"I-ack your..chok..ing..me" She replied. In response Andrea allowed her to float in air while her knife pointed at her throat.
"ANSWERS, 'CARE!" Andrea roared.
"I don't know what your talking about, but maybe I can help you find who you are looking for!" The girl yelled, her tone begging.
Andrea's knife slid off toward her throat, but before she could do anything, Andrea's entire body crumpled.
She collapsed, letting the girl go, and letting all her tears flow. The pent up stress from seeing her old friend, old love, old..hope. Again had finally gotten to the Liberator.
The girl crawled over to her and comforted her for all of a minute before her friends reappeared, the Edgelord apparently having mastered her powers a bit more as he and the other boy, not the trap, tackled her.
This proved to be bad for everyone as they all felt everything around them go completely cold...
Everyone was dead.
Andrea
Robbie
Sarunas
All the others.
The flames consumed it all, the whole world burned brightly. They had lost, unable to stop the burning.
Andrea's powers saved her and her love for a time, but even they failed
Robbie and Sarunas struggled to save their friends before succumbing.
Everyone had died...
BUT
There was a hope. Several other people shined as a blue light in the wall of fire. A chance to save themselves, to save the world.
They had to find them.
The Stoner.
The Leader
The Warper
The Ambitious
The Illusionist.
Of course, only Saranus could understand this, the other two couldn't handle the knowledge.
"It's all dead! It's all dead! It's all DEAD!" Robbie yelled, barely able to breathe.
"I can't no, I Its It, can't be, I just-Aha...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Andrea had lost herself to madness, her crutch, as soon as she could. Choosing instead to pretend everything was a fabrication.
Saranus looked at the rest of those gathered. "This World will Burn..All of it..unless...unless we can get the rest..."
Author's note: Dun dun dun! The plot thickens! Next chapter we'll end the first episode. Oh and to explain what happened to cause them all to see the same vision...well let's just call Sarunas' a plug, Robbie a conductor and Andrea your phone when plugged in. All one big circuit. Now for reviews!
LostValkyrie: Just caught up on this chapter. I do understand that with quite a large cast of OC's, it can be difficult to balance them all, just more noticeable in a story with sporadic updates.
Kettle calling pan, I know.
In regards to what I've read, I feel some powers could be described better; in a sense of engaging the readers.
Example; Saranus. His future visions could be improved by describing the experience ("Pulled out of the moment/Everything around him cold/a cold shiver under his skin/etc"). Mental powers are probably easier to do this for rather than physical powers. Just my personal input.
Me: It is? I thought that spacing the updates helped me keep the characters closer to their personalities (mostly because I need to reread the last chapter everytime to make sure that I know where I was).
You've done a story without updating for awhile before *checks profile* oof, sorry about that friend.
I'll try to improve on describing the powers more, obviously since this chapter was basically already done last week I haven't done much better at descriptions, however I did include a bit of what you had in this chapter regarding Saranus' powers.
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Well, that's all for today so
Until Next Time True Readers!
