Key: "Talking" 'Thinking' [Story recap/Non-story related text]
Scorpion Warrior
Chapter 15
Relative Magi
[On the last chapter of Scorpion Warrior, Jake had a blast from his past when one of his closest friends seemingly came back from the dead, seeking revenge. The friend of his was a young man named Eric taken during the prime of his life. Eric was brought back by Ra's Al Ghul and wanted revenge against Jake for not saving him when he needed him the most. But a week after the fight, someone must've spilled Jake's secret of being the Scorpion Warrior because then he was mobbed by a crowd asking him for the Scorpion Warrior's autographs.]
"Superman! Something's wrong! All of Metropolis knows my secret." I tried calling out for him but he wasn't here. His super hearing would've let him hear me all the way from the engine room. "He's not here. I am though." I saw the Flash coming out from behind the monitor room. "Pizza?" He offered me. Even in my time of crisis, I couldn't resist a slice of pizza, unless there was a life in danger. "Sure." I said. "So what's up?" He asked me. "Weren't you right there?" I said sarcastically. "Somehow, a bunch of people figured out my secret." I said seriously this time. "Oh my god, you're the Scorpion Warrior!" He said. I could tell by his tone of voice that he wasn't being serious. "Not funny. What do I do?" I asked him. "You could figure out the source of where that all started." He told me. "Flash, I don't say this very often, but you are a genius." I told him. "Ow! They should call you Ego Bruiser. Seriously, hurtful much?" He said. "Not what I mean. What I mean is, when that crowd mobbed me and asked me for autographs, I heard somebody mention mages. I think this has something to do with Negi." I said. "That little midget mage who's class you helped saved a few months back?" He asked me. 'Wow… I guess its true. Not only does Metropolis know my secret, but they probably also know about Negi's type of magic too.' "You know about that?" I asked him. "Yeah, for about a week or so. I'm not even sure how I knew, I've never even seen the kid before." He said. 'So it is true. This all started a week ago.' "I need to go back to Japan." I told him. "No problem, these teleporters will take you anywhere on Earth."
My cell phone rang so I answered it. "Hello?" I said when I put it to my ear. "Jake? Is that you?" Said a really familiar voice on the other end. I've heard that voice before. "Negi? How'd you get my number?" I asked him. "Nodoka's a mind reader. She knows your name and her artifact allows her to read all your thoughts." He told me. "Are you serious? Negi that's an invasion of privacy!" I told him, anger in my voice. "I'm sorry, but this was an emergency! All of Mahora academy knows our secrets." He said. "Our? What do you mean our secrets?" I asked him in confusion. "The part of my class that didn't know I was a mage mobbed me and asked me to perform magic for them. They also asked me why I didn't tell them you were a superhero." 'So it did start there!'
[Over at Negi's holding place]
"That's enough Negi." Said a voice. The person the voice belonged to took the phone and hung it up. "I might be able to talk to them and give you a lighter sentence." Said the person holding the young mage.
[Back at the tower]
"I'll be there soon. Don't worry… Negi?" The phone went dead. "Flash, I have to go."
[Over at some random place I'm unaware of]
"He's coming. Now don't forget, if this works, you'll remember his secret. Don't let it slip at all." Said Nodoka to a group of people who're possibly her friends. "Right." Her friends said all at once. She took out her phone and dialed a number.
[Back at a teleporter]
That number turned out to be mine. "Who now? Nodoka?" I answered it. "Hello?" "Jake." She said on the other end. "Nodoka?" I asked in slight confusion. "I know what's going on. Come to the coordinates I'm about to text to you." She told me. I figured out what was going on. "Right." I told her. A few minutes later, the coordinates came in. "Okay you might want to move a few steps back." I told her. A moment later "Okay. Go." I punched the coordinates into the keypad and stepped into the teleporter. "Hold up, I'm comin' with you!" I saw a red blur zoom towards the teleporter, Flash came with me.
[At Nodoka's meeting place]
"Hello Nodoka. Hello everybody." I said to everybody when we landed. "This is my friend. He's another hero, but he's just superfast." I said with a joke. "Hello Flash." She said to him. "Uh… Jake? What'd she say?" He asked me confused. "I think he can't understand me. He doesn't speak Japanese." What Flash heard was "Kon'nichiwa furasshu." I still had that translator on me. I gave one of the translators that I had to Flash. "Okay now try." I said to Nodoka. "Hello Flash." She said to him. "Hi Nodoka, hi everyone else." He said to them. Everyone said hi and bowed to him. 'So its true. More people do know my secret then.' "So should we go get Negi then?" I asked everyone in confidence. "Yeah!" Everyone said quietly.
Asuna and Ku Fei, one of the girls I met back in Kyoto, snuck into the building and I was able to watch their every move with my x-ray vision. They climbed to the top of some rafters and waited for a couple of the mages to walk by before they knocked them out. 'Whoa… go girls.' "Okay…" I surveyed the rest of the building to see if there were anymore guards. "Okay. There aren't anymore guards on the first floor. We're good to go." I said. "How do you know?" Asked one of the new kids who figured out my secret, Chisame Hasegawa. "I have x-ray vision." I told her with a grin and the peace sign with my hand. She glared at me and that instantly killed my mood. 'Killjoy.' "Alright lets move." I said, and Flash zoomed in with the rest of us following after him.
There was a long spiral staircase. [Always a spiral staircase. I know it's a HUGE cliché, I agree, but I'm trying to keep the chapter as close to the manga as possible. More info after the chapter ends.] Everyone was running down, Flash was sliding down the rail on his feet like a surfer on his surfboard, and I would float down while keeping pace with the runners. 'What the hell's going on? We should've hit bottom some time ago.' "Hey Bookworm, are we almost there yet?" Complained Chisame while we were all going down the stairs. "It took 40 minutes to go down 30 floors? This isn't as deep as I saw…" I said while walking forward. "Wait! Jake stop!" Called Yue. BOOM! Before I knew it, something rammed into me, knocking me into the wall behind us and knocking me unconscious. I woke up a little later to see Nodoka and Chisame being crushed by a 3-headed Cerberus with snakes for a tail. "Nodoka! Chisame!" I flew over and rescued Haruna before she was eaten by one of the heads. "I'm minoring in Greek mythology and I've never heard of a creature like this." I said. "Wherever Nodoka got her information from must've been wrong." Said Haruna. "Who cares about that, get us out of here! We're being crushed!" Called out Chisame. I dropped Haruna a safe distance away, sped towards the Cerberus creature and uppercut it in the chest.
It swiped at me, but I flew out of the way and launched my heat vision at one of the heads. All of a sudden, it looked as though space itself was cracking apart. "Uh… what the hell's going on?" I asked nobody in particular. When space cracked apart enough and broke apart, we were in a big room and there was a little toddler with 3 dolls at her feet. One of which was the same monster I just fought against. "I repeat, what the hell's going on?" I asked again. "Well…" Yue began. "This was all an illusion brought on by that little kid over there. He was just playing with us, but Miss Smarty-pants figured out a spell to beat it, and here we all are." Said Flash. "Yeah cause that happens EVERY day." I said while rolling my eyes.
[To be continued]
[So… here we are at the very end of the chapter. As I said earlier, when I involve mangas like Negima or and FMA into the story, I'm gonna try and keep it as close to the chapter I'm including as I can, while changing some of it to compensate for Jake and Flash being in there. Now you know, and learning is half the battle. Sorry, couldn't resist. :P]