Chapter 11: Coldstare, Scorch, and Catastrophe
Written by Croc9400
Jordan woke up sweating. She was in a small room inside The Domain. There was a door on the right side of the room, and she ran to it. She peered out the window on the door, and into the hallway. A temperature gauge on the opposite wall told her it was nearly 115 degrees in the room. She craned her neck to see down the hallway. In one direction she saw a wall, in the other she saw a boy with now completely snow white hair in a blue costume.
It all came flooding back to her. What had happened in the courtyard, with Wallace and Clyde, with Kaz. That was Kaz. She glanced down at her chest to see the iceball still floating in front of her heart. She put her fingers on it, and her arm instantly began encasing itself in ice. Jordan shrieked as the ice traveled onto her torso, and over her entire body.
Moments later all the ice flew from her body, including the ball in front of her heart. She had cooled down significantly, but it only lasted for a short while. Within an instant she began heating up again, and within the hour her temperature was back up. Then the door opened. Wallace and Clyde walked in. She immediately backed up, placing her hands against the wall. Wallace held up a lighter, and Clyde a cup of hot chocolate, and a small cup filled with something Jordan didn't recognize.
"Come here, Jordan," Wallace said. Jordan shook her head. They began backing her into a corner, when the door opened.
"You guys may want to know," Kaz said, "I had half the Dyad in my pocket when it happened. I also took two sips,"
Jordan looked between the two brothers and met Kaz's eye. His eyes were a deep blue, almost unnatural. Which was odd. If she remembered correctly, in the courtyard, his eyes were black. Kaz held her gaze for a brief moment before reaching for the doorknob to close the door.
"Kaz," Wallace said, "stay"
Kaz walked into the room and closed the door behind him. He stood in between Wallace and Clyde. Clyde handed Kaz both cups he had in his hands. Then he grabbed both of Jordan's wrists, and forced her palms opened.
"What are you going to do?" Jordan asked. No one answered as Wallace removed the Dyad from his pocket, and placed it in Jordan's hand. Kaz took the cup of stuff Jordan didn't recognize and dumped it into her other hand. He then moved to the side of her opposite of Clyde, and held the cup close to her mouth Wallace opened the lighter, and lit it.
"Kaz..." Jordan said. Wallace touched the flame to her hand, and she screamed when it came into contact. Kaz dumped some of the hot chocolate into her mouth, and she had to swallow it. It wasn't awful. Then another sip came, and this time it burned her throat almost worse than her hand. She began getting dizzy, and soon the Dyad pulsed, and she collapsed.
Wallace picked up the Dyad, and the three of them left the room.
When Jordan woke up, she was still still in the room, but it was cooler. There were gloves on her hands, and she wondered why. She stood up, and remembered her burning hand. She took the glove off, and looked at it. There was an awful burn there, but she felt no pain. She placed her hand on the wall. She felt nothing, but smoldering embers surrounded her hand. She jumped back. She took the other glove off, and tried it again. Smoldering embers surrounded that hand as well. She panicked as her head began getting fuzzy.
Soon she remembered nothing. That's when Wallace came into the room carrying a pile of clothes.
"Change and then come out," he said. She could only nod. She felt so strange. She still had her own free thought, but there was a foreign invader in her head controlling everything she did and said. Every decision she made, and step she took. None of it was her. Wallace closed the door and left. Jordan changed.
Her costume was exactly identical to Kaz's. The only differences were that it was cut for a woman, and the colors were various shades of red and orange. She pulled her mask on, and put her hair in one side braid. She put her hood up, and exited the room.
She walked into the main room of The Domain. There Kaz, Wallace, and Clyde stood. Jordan stepped out into the circle. Wallace brought her the Dyad.
"Melt this ice," he said. Jordan didn't know how, but she knew if she did it would be bad. Without her telling herself, her hand reached for the Dyad, and took it. She lit a fire in her hand that began melting the ice. Soon the Dyad was bare, and Wallace took it greedily.
Jordan felt like the shell of a human turned into a robot as she watched Wallace walk over to Clyde. Wallace held the Dyad between his thumb and forefinger, and offered it up to his brother. Clyde took it, and the two were slowly brought together. Jordan glanced over at Kaz. At least she had control of where she looked. Kaz had the same expression of his face that she had, except he wasn't looking at her. She wondered if he had free thought, and if he did, what he was thinking about.
She glanced back over at Wallace and Clyde, who absolutely were not Wallace and Clyde anymore. They were one being. Kaz was on one knee. One arm bent in front of him, and the other behind. Jordan got down in the same position.
"What should we do now," Catastrophe asked himself. Then he realized he was one person, and could decide for himself. Jordan looked at this crazy being. It looked like someone straight out of a comic book. Jordan had never seen anything like it, but the foreign invader inside her head convinced her it was someone named Catastrophe.
"Coldstare," he looked at Kaz. He smiled evilly.
"Scorch," he looked at Jordan. She smiled evilly as well.
Follow me," Catastrophe said. Kaz and Jordan both sprang to her feet. He began walking towards the door. Kaz walked after him, and Jordan followed him. Kaz reached forward and grabbed the Dyad from Catastrophe's pocket. Jordan smiled as Kaz pocketed the Dyad. Catastrophe held the door, and stopped Kaz. He inserted a needle full of blue liquid into the boy's neck. Kaz's eyes turned black, and they began going back to their blue shade faster than they had previously. Jordan's eyes were still black, and there were very few red streaks in her hair.
"Lead us to Mighty Med," Catastrophe told him.
Oliver sat in a closet in the hospital. His face still tear stained. He was watching the normo news on his iPad. Kaz and Jordan had been reported missing, and two people had shown up frozen to death in the courtyard of the marketplace The Domain was in. Oliver did not expect that Kaz would kill his own parents, even if he was being controlled. Now Kaz's eleven siblings were alone, and their brother was out destroying the city.
Soon his iPad flipped to the superhero news, without him telling it to. It was awful, the city was in chaos as three people walked down the street. One was Kaz, and he didn't recognize the other two. One wore an outfit similar to Kaz's but in red, the strands of a braid were visible from under her hood. The other thing was indescribable. The news said they were heading for Mighty Med. Kaz got up. He had to make sure the knife was out of Tecton's back.
He saw Horace in the hallway. It looked as if the older man had been crying.
"It's Catastrophe," Horace said, "he's coming here to kill me,"
"Is the knife out of Tecton's back?" Oliver asked. Horace only nodded.
"Yes. He's fine. But there's no need to get everyone together. I'm going to go to them," Horace said.
"No you're not," Oliver said.
"Yes I am. You can't make that choice for me,"
"Yes I can! You're not going to give yourself up to them! That's my best friend!" Oliver shouted. Then he realized that Horace was grieving, and he calmed his voice, "what happened to Alan, was awful. How it happened was even worse. But right now, we need to do everything we can to get to heal those two under mind control, and stop Catastrophe. We're going to send them on a wild goose chance. Find a superhero who can teleport. I have an idea,"
"Ok. I trust you, Oliver,"
"Thank you," Oliver smiled. Horace offered a weak one back, before limping back to his office. He was feeling well enough to be out of the wheelchair, but not to walk at full speed. Oliver watched him go before walking to the lab. There were scientists working furiously inside.
"Hey!" Oliver shouted. The three scientists in the room looked up. He took a vial out of his pocket, "this is a vial of blood from the person who attacked us yesterday. There is something in his bloodstream that shouldn't be. It's controlling him. Find an antidote. I need two of them. You have an hour, tops,"
Oliver set the vial down on the table, and turned to leave.
"How'd you get the blood?" one of the scientists asked. Oliver turned and took a small contraption out of his pocket. Its sole purpose was to take blood painlessly from a subject. It had a range of ten feet. He placed it on the table.
"I think you designed this," he turned to leave again.
"How do you expect us to work with this little?" another one asked.
"Can't someone here clone things?" Oliver didn't even bother turning around this time. He just continued out the door before anymore questions could be asked. On any other day he would've told them who it was, or helped them find him, but not today. Today, Oliver meant business. He was not stopping until he at least tried for Kaz and the other person, who Oliver assumed to be Jordan. Solar Flare was outside the lab waiting for him. She said nothing. She was just there, knowing she would be needed. She was his only friend who was still normal. Oliver took her hand and leaned on her, and she didn't object. He was still in love with Skylar, but Oliver needed a rock. He needed the support, and both of them knew it. Oliver may have endured the most damage, even though very few of his injuries were physical. The two just stood in silence, knowing what was about to happen would be worse than the last time.
