Raz was in the mission briefing looking up information on the computer. Placing the tape from the GPC he was held in in the computer he watched it. It featured him on a table as they cut into his skull and inserted the chip. Something had been bothering him since it happened. Why did they pick him? They could have just as easily grabbed Lili or anyone else. What made him special?
Then he heard people talking and turned it up to hear them. It was faint, he tried to use power to hear but got shocked from trying. Grunting from the shock he put his ear next to the speaker.
" The plan is underway," the man in the black sunglasses said, " Soon they'll come after him, and when they do they'll take him back to the base. With him being injured or unable to act, or just dead they'll keep him there. What happens then is that we activate the chip. The prototype of the GPW, and then we take the headquarters."
" Sir, what if Raz isn't as strong as you think he is. What if his psyche isn't strong enough to disable the base?" A man in a white coat asked. The man lowered his sun glasses and smiled.
The man's face was now more in view. A thin face and a skinny neck, and black from head to toe. His hair was red and short, not passed his almost yellowish eyes. He was tall, taller than everyone else in the room.
" He is. I've seen what he can do first hand. He's without a doubt a class five. One of the only seven in known existence, though one of them is already dead. Ford Cruller, he couldn't keep his mind together forever."
" Still, even if we disable the base, how do we take it over. Psychonauts can do more than bend spoons."
" We have an inside source. She'll lock the doors to the armory beforehand. No one is going to be able to stop us," the man answered then put his glasses back on. In the video the surgery finished and they tested it. Raz was shocked and a few moments later Lili came crashing in and saved him. The video moved on till he saw people burning the room then a psychic bullet taking out the camera.
" What could that mean?" Raz asked himself. Then he looked at the clock. It was about to turn eight. He sighed then leaned back into the chair. Suddenly he felt a strange tingle in his head. It wasn't painful, but it wasn't exactly comfortable. Suddenly the little tingle became painful.
Raz fell to his knees and gripped his throbbing head. He shouted once to relieve the pain but it didn't help. His body began to glow a redish color then in one swift motion the color shot out in all directions. Raz fell to his face breathing deep, the throbbing pain gone. Getting to his feet he sat back on the chair then took a breath.
" What the hell was that?" Raz asked himself. Then he looked at the screen and saw red bleeps coming toward the base. " Shit." He slid the chair over and slammed his fist on an alarm.
The alarm erupted throughout the base and echoed through every hall. Everyone in the base became alive and gathered their baring ready for whatever was in store. Raz ran out into the hall and ran to the armory because his powers were useless. He rounded then corner and saw a crowd.
" The doors are locked," Truman said to Raz as he rounded the corner. " Someone jammed the mechanism, it won't open not even from the security room."
" They'll be on the base in five minutes, not even," A man said to everyone.
" Work with what you have. We are all psychics after all," Truman said then ran to the main gates of the building. Everyone followed him and Raz ran with Truman the main gates.
Everyone held their pistol out and waited. The towers could pick off a few but not all of them. Suddenly something was heard and everyone heard it.
" My powers don't work!" A man on the tower shouted. A pyrokenitic shot a fire ball at him that hit him directly and caught him ablaze. He fell from the tower as the other four were taken down as well. The attackers were all psychics.
The doors to the gate began to glow red. Everyone started to fell the heat as a burst of flame caused a hole large enough for people in enter. Everyone waited for the attack. It was going to happen any second now. Ran aimed his pistol up and kept it aimed at the hole.
The pyrokenitic leaped through the hole and lit a fire wall between the two sided. Everyone fired but the bullets melted before they reached her. She stepped forward the fire wall defending her as her friend climbed through. Once the gun fire stopped and everyone was reloading she lowered the wall.
The intruders charge, picking up psychonauts with their minds and throwing them against each other and walls. Raz didn't fire when she came through so shot at the intruders, hitting two who charged him. He ducked under and punch then kicked his attacker to the side then shot him. The psychonauts went into retreat and ran back to the first hall.
Raz was the third to last to start running. He sprinted down the hall and took a right. He saw a psychonaut being choked with someone mind only so attacked him from behind. The psychonaut was dropped, coughing and thanking Raz. The two then ran down the hall as more intruders rounded from the other hall.
Raz dashed down the hall with the agent at his heels then turned a corner sharp. The agent was levitated up while turned and slammed into the wall. The intruders were fast behind them and fired a psychic bullet at Raz. Raz focused and his shield blocked the shot. At the last second he jumped up and struck the man who attacked him, sending him to the floor.
" I have my powers again?" Raz asked himself. He helped the agent up then the two hid in a room while the place was torn apart.
" I thought you were down," the agent said to him.
" So did I. I don't know why I suddenly have my powers again. Not even a shock," Raz said as he levitated an item up. Raz then checked his gun, reloaded it full and looked at the other agent.
" Hide in here, I'll get things under our control again," Raz said then poked his head out into the hallway. Looking both ways he saw it was clear so closed the door, locked it, then started down the hall. Stopping at a corner he turned his head over the side and saw an intruder.
Stepping into the hall he levitated him up and threw him against a wall. Before he hit the ground he slammed him against the roof, then the floor then back at the roof then let him fall to the ground. Looking down the hall he saw the pyrokenitic and she saw him. Fire appear at her palms and Raz looked up the the ceiling and saw a sprinkler. He snapped and a flame appeared at the tip of his thumb like a lighter and he held it against the sprinkler.
The sprinklers shot on and soaked the building in rain. The pyrokenitics palms went out and she tried to relight it, but the air around her was too moist. Raz aimed his gun up at her and she stared at the gun.
" Surrender," Raz said to her. Then the water turned off and stopped raining out from the sprinklers. Raz looked up as the final dropped came out then back at the pyrokenitic. She smiled then relit her palms and started to step toward him. Raz fired but she shot a wave of fire straight at him and Raz dove back into the other hall.
Raz peaked around the corner and looked at the woman. She looked about his age. Black air that looked orange as it reflected back. Her lips were bigger than was needed. Her clothes were completely fire proof by the look of it. Raz noticed something on her neck. A necklace that he had seen on a man's neck, the fire starters.
" Phoebe?" Raz whispered to himself. She smiled at him then sent another wave at him. Raz ducked back into the hall and Phoebe ran to him. She rounded the corner and was about to fire before she didn't see Raz.
" Where did he go?" Phoebe asked aloud. Raz dropped from above and held both his fist in a ball. He slammed them against the back of her head and she fell to the ground unconscious. Raz flipped her over and saw a scar on her forehead and knew what it was. A control implant.
" Quinten's been worried," Raz said then dragged her against a wall. Raz then heard breathing behind him. He spun around and aimed him gun up at whoever was behind him. One man appeared and Raz laughed.
" That's it?" Raz said with a smile. The man smiled back and five more people appeared. Raz lowered his gun and turned invisible but someone grabbed him by his throat and held him against a wall. Raz kicked him and reappeared. He started to sprint before someone else grabbed him and two other restrained his arms. The man who appeared first stepped in front of him and looked down at him.
" Bet you're wondering why you have your powers again," The man said to Raz with a Russian accent. " Simple, what we put in your mind is what's called a GPW. It transmits a single wave that temporarily cancels all psychic powers. It's been gathering your psyche to release that wave and when it did it disabled it's antipsyche field on you. So you have you're powers again. The wave doesn't affect what where it came from, and it's blast radios was just this building."
Raz struggled to get free, swinging his arms to make then let go. He set a mans shirt on fire then spun around and kicked the others feet out from under him. Using a psyche bullet he hit one other and sent him to the floor then levitated the one who's shirt was on fire into a wall. Raz turned to strike on the man talking to him but only was struck.
Raz was sent back and into a wall hard. The blow knocked the wind out of him and made him immobile for a second. He was about to get up to continue fighting before someone's hands appeared from the wall and grabbed him. He pulled him into the next room and a second later threw him through the wall. The man in the black coat stepped through the new door and stood in front of Raz.
Phoebe regained consciousness then stood next to him. Raz looked up, battered and bruised at the man. He smiled at Raz then removed his glasses.
" The psychonauts are bullies. Think they can make the rules of what goes on with psychics. Well Raz, I'm here to change that," The man said to Raz.
" How do you know my name?" Raz asked him. The other man stepped next to him. Raz recognized the Russian now. Mikhail from whispering rock.
" Please Raz. This is basically a reunion. So many people from camp are already here. Though I'm not surprised no one remembers me. Who the hell ever game a damn about me."
" Maloof," Raz said to him. He smiled.
" Perhaps you do remember then. How does it feel Raz. The most secure place for psychics breached and taken over in less than a half hour," Maloof said to him.
" Mikhail. Let Raz get some sleep. We have a busy schedule," Maloof said to his body guard. Mikhail nodded then stepped next to Raz. Raz felt Mikhail in his mind and he tried to fight him. But then Phoebe started to fight him as well. Raz fought them for thirty seconds before Mikhail grabbed Raz by his throat and pinned him on the ground. A minute later Raz passed out.