1-01 Vigilante

Chapter 10:

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Jay's POV

"Stay safe please." I whisper and before following Ethan. It almost kills me leaving her here, but there's a hidden determination in her eyes that tells me she has some unfinished business relating to the other people amongst the crates in the battle.

Ethan runs down the yard and vaults over the fence then leans against the fence waiting for me. I speed up and jump over the fence landing on the ground in a crouch. I turn around and watch as Ashley tackles a few of the commandos before getting up and sprinting down the street away from the warehouse.

"Why does she have to do that?" I shout out as I look at Ethan who just shrugs and turns to look at Ashley as she disappears into an alley with a bunch of guards following her. "There must be at least ten of them following her! And she's injured!"

Ethan looks back at me with a serious look on his face. "We can't leave her. She'll never make it on her own." He says and throws a grin towards me as he produces a ball of flame in his hand and turns toward the street. "You ready to have some fun?"

I look at him and can't help to smile back at him. That's Ethan, always looking on the bright side or looking to make a bright side. "Yeah, let's go quickly before we miss all the action."

I run past him down the street, following the trail of destruction as black smudges mark the walls along with a few bullet holes. Turning down an alley, we hear the noise of footsteps along the roof and look up just as a figure jumps over the alley, followed by at least four more.

"No way! They get to go roof jumping! Without me!" I look at Ethan as he tries to break the tension with his childish humour.

We tear out of the alley just in time to narrowly avoid a body that falls from the roof. "Whoa..." was all that escapes me as I look towards the roof. Maybe she can do this by herself.

But my hopes get shot down as we round the next corner and my heart nearly stops as I see Ashley barely holding onto the edge of the roof with a guard above her aiming his gun at her. Even from across the street, we could see Ashley's struggles to keep her hold on the edge of the roof.

"NO!" I shout out the same time the shot rings out and Ashley's limp body starts to fall towards the ground.

I sprint as fast as my legs would go as I try to reach her before she hits the ground. I notice that Ethan hesitated before running after me. He suddenly stops and throws a huge fire ball towards the guards on the roof. The guards shout and duck out of the way as the fire ball hits the edge of the roof and explodes sending ash and debris everywhere.

I sheild my eyes as the debris rains over me as I look at Ashley's limp body as it hits the ground with a sickening thud. I sprint and kneel before her prone body as it lies unmoving on the concrete before the apartment block. My heart skips a few beats as I notice blood pooling around her shoulder. Her eyes flutter open, as unfocused eyes look up at me then close again.

"No Ashley! Stay with me!" I say as panic starts to creep into me.

"Hey, Jay. We got a problem here..." He trails off as guards start to flock around them like crows around food time.

I look up just in time to see guards coming out from every alley, street and crack they could find. Ethan slowly backs up towards us as his hans explode into flames. I look around as they get closer and our chance of getting out of here getting less by the second.

"Shit!" I curse and look down to a barely conscious Ashley. I gently take her face between my hands and try to rouse her. Her eyes start to flutter open. "Ashley listen, we need to get out of here, but you have to teleport. C'mon I know you can do it. Just please you have to try."

Ashley groans and looks at me again before her eyes close again. "Can't... tranq... blocks... abilities..." She manages to weeze out slowly.

I look up to see Ethan with fire balls in his palms as he stands between us and the guards ready to defend us if he has to. I look back down at Ashley as her eyes flutter again as she tries to fight the darkness that's trying to claim her.

"Please Ashley. You have to try. Its our only way out of here." I try to convince her again, almost pleading. Maybe, just maybe she can get us all out of here. "I know you can do it. Please just try?"

Ashley blinks a few times to try and focus her eyes better and looks up at me. She grabs my hand and looks toward Ethan.

"Ethan slowly step back." I whisper so as to not let the guards hear. He nods and slowly steps back. Ashley grabs his ankle with her other hand and shuts her eyes, concentrating and probably trying to think straight.

One of the guards catch onto what we are trying to do and shouts out to his fellow guards, "Quickly! They're trying to teleport!"

The other guards raise their weapons and aim at them. They fire just as I feel the strange feeling as a red flash wraps around us as my world spins at breakneck speeds before crashing to the ground hard. The force of the landing sends me rolling onto the hard ground.

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Will's POV

Bullets fly everywhere sending bits of wood from the crates into the air. I duck and take cover behind a stack of crates as Henry joins me.

"There's too many of them." Henry shouts out over the gunshots and returns fire.

"We just have to distract them to give Magnus enough time to get sneak into the facility." I reply as I stand up and shoot at the guards.

"Yeah... Maybe we should have brought back up..." Henry says and shoots at the guards, hitting a few.

I chuckle and aim towards the guards, but a black figure catches my eye. I frown and watch the figure tackle a group of guards. The figure springs up and takes off down the street as a bunch of guards chase after. I stand up and watch as the figure disappears into an alley. Henry stands up and shoots the remaining guards.

"What the hell was that?" Henry asks as he turns from the alley to face me.

"I have no idea..." I reply as my mind tries to process what just happened. "Go help Magnus. I just wanna check something."

"Dude, are you sure?" Henry says as he turns to look at the door that Magnus disappeared into.

"Yeah, I'll meet you inside." I say as Henry nods his head and runs into the facility.

I turn back to the street that the black figure disappeared down and take off jogging in the same direction hoping to catch up and get a closer look and maybe thank the figure for getting rid of the guards. I run down the street and look around for a sign of where they went.

Suddenly, I hear gunshots nearby and sprint towards the sounds. I run down an alley and turn around the corner. I stop and examine the bullet holes in the walls. I must be on the right path. I run further down the alley into another alley and onto a street. I stop and look around at the alleys hoping to find trace of the figure or the guards, but find nothing.

I take a chance and turn right into another alley, this time going slower, straining my ears to hear anything. Suddenly a shadow passes over me, I look up just in time to see the black figure flying over the gap between the two buildings, closely followed by the group of guards.

I turn around and sprint out of the alley, running next to the buildings, all the time keeping track of the figure and the guards. I look back up to the building to see that I lost the figure. I stop and look around then turn into the maze of alleys, rounding corners and turning into more alleys until I find the figure falling from the edge of a building surrounded by guards.

I start forward but stop and stick to the shadows and just watch as two young men running towards the prone body lying on the concrete. The one brown haired man instantly drops to his knees before the figure while the younger man stands by protectively. I step forward for a better look only to see a tall brown haired man crouched by a figure with long blonde hair. I look closer at the one standing beside the brown haired man and notice that his hands are glowing. Even from this distance I can see small spheres of flames in his hands.

I almost go to them to help, but stop when the guards start flocking around them, trapping them. I calculate my chances of helping, but before I can do anything, a blinding red flash surrounds the two men and the girl. When I look back the two men and the girl have disappeared and the guards look around not sure of what to do before they slowly start retreating.

I wait until all the guards are gone before walking out to where they were, I notice a few droplets of blood on the concrete. I dig in my pockets and find a bit of gause and use it to gather a sample of the blood. For some reason I have to find out who those people are. I turn around and walk back to meet Magnus and Henry, making a mental note to run the blood sample.

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