I'm so sorry i haven't written a new chapter in so long, i usually like to update at least once a month but since i started college i've been really busy with going to class then having a full time job and doing homework every night. I'm on my thanksgiving break right now so i finally have some extra time and in about four more months i will be going on an internship to get field experience to work in a hospital or clinic of my choosing
But hopefully i can update a few times before then, i'll just have to manage my time better.
Chapter 21: Flashback Pt 3
Oregon October 7, 1866 3:14pm
Tommy unscrewed the cap on his water canteen eagerly taking a long sip from it, a shockwave of energy caused him to almost choke on the water going down his throat. He looked up in the air seeing his brother and sister both continuing their spar with J'onn above him, he grinned seeing his Uncle J'onn had improved so much in the short amount of time they had decided to start training him. While they had been traveling through territories to get from Texas to Oregon they had had a few nasty encounters with the locals that they had to defend themselves against. Surprisingly J'onn was not the most skilled fighter in the universe
"But aren't you in the army on Mars?" Calvin raised an eyebrow
"You have to understand that before this war broke out between the Green and White Martian's our race was relatively peaceful, there was never really any need to learn more advanced techniques"
"We can understand that, before everything that happened to our race there was never any need to prepare for something like a war or anything but still we needed to train our advanced abilities to control them better" Tommy frowned, he may have only been in his early 70's when Escar was destroyed but he had gone through years of training to just learn to control his immense power
"Well maybe this would be a good way to prepare you for when you have to go back then" Becky smiled getting all their attention "We know plenty of fighting techniques that we could teach you to fight the white Martian's when you head back. We'd be happy to teach you some of them, right?"
Calvin and Becky both fired one of their energy blasts at J'onn, The Martian waited for just the right moment before phasing out of both the blast's ways causing them to hit each other and cause a large explosion making the siblings all shield themselves from the shockwave.
"Where did he go?" Becky looked around the air trying to sense for his life source
Both searched trying to find even the slightest disturbance in the air, when they suddenly heard a large gust and Calvin gasped dodging at the last second to avoid J'onn suddenly appear in front of him with his arm stretched out to punch him. He smirked "Good, but not good enough"
He then punched J'onn in his stomach sending him flying above him where Becky appeared and kicked him sending him flying into the ground. Once the dust settled J'onn was able to make it back to his feet where he saw Tommy handing him his own canteen and smiled "Thanks Tommy" Taking it and rubbing the boys head
The older siblings both phased in front of them "I think that's enough training for today" Becky said then changed her training clothed back to the evening dress she had been wearing before
"Right" Calvin nodded then did the same
"Thanks for all your help these past couple months I can feel that my strength and abilities have become even stronger than they were before" J'onn looked to his own fist to feel his new heightened strength
"But you don't think it'll be enough to stop the White Martians?" Tommy asked seeing the look in his eyes
He shook his head "There were warriors on Mars that were more trained than I when I left and they were still not strong enough to beat them, I will need more than just sure power to be able to defeat the entire army of them especially since it's only me that has this new strength"
The three siblings looked to each other with worry for his planet, they were not strong enough to save Escar but they hoped they would at least be able to help save Mars from the same catastrophe.
"Maybe there's another way we can help" Tommy asked looking to both his older siblings who frowned at him "You know back when we always felt worn out or need an extra push to get more power to fight someone back on Escar, those techniques dad taught us to do that"
"Yeah, but I'm not sure someone like J'onn could do something like that, plus even for us that took a massive strain on us" Becky thought back to when she used them in sparing sessions with some of her teachers and she was in a serious amount of pain afterward
"You may be on to something though Tommy" Calvin thought going to his bag sitting against a stump in the field they were camping in, and pulled out one of the books he had inside
"What is that?" J'onn asked
"It's just some spell books we've found along our travels" Tommy quickly answered
This made J'onn frown, he had known them for three years now and thought that he had earned their trust enough to know everything about them but there was still something they were hiding from him. He could tell one of them always disappeared somewhere from time to time while they were camping out in the woods and came back with new supplies that could not be found on this planet.
Calvin continued to flip through the pages of the book reading through it at remarkable speed when he suddenly stopped towards the back of the book and paused for a few seconds "Look at this guys "He called Becky and Tommy over to him to check it out and all of them read through it
"What do you think?" Becky asked them both
"Could work" Calvin shrugged then closed it
"What could work"
"There may be something we can give you to give you temporary strength beyond comprehension" Tommy answered, "It would defiantly be enough to completely dominate the entire White Martian army"
"You have something like this"
"Not with us but there is a place we can get it, but there is something we're concerned about" Becky thought "This drug has never been used on anything but an Esclion before we don't know what it will do to any other race"
If this drug can give him the strength to save his people then he was willing to try it, Calvin was a little hesitant to try it out now that the danger of it was revealed but J'onn had convinced him to let him try. If something did go wrong J'onn had reminded them that they had healing powers that could help him, and he could always phase the drug out of his system too. After one final push Calvin left by himself to get the drug leaving him with the younger siblings.
"It's been a while since you've been attacked" J'onn brought up the subject of Lucero
Becky's eyes widened, now that she remembered they hadn't encountered one of Lucero's henchmen or creations since early February, maybe Lucero was planning something big to deal with them this time.
"I guess so" Tommy shrugged "This happened from time to time though it usually does when Lucero is planning something though"
"Have you ever thought of trying to settle down somewhere?"
"That wouldn't be possible for us, if we stay in one place for too long either Lucero or his henchmen would catch word of where we are especially if he reached our energy has manifested in a specific point"
"What do you mean?"
"If Calvin, Tommy, and I were to settle down somewhere and try to build a life then our energy would begin building in that place where we have been staying until it becomes so large and constant enough that Lucero could sense there even from another galaxy if he wanted to. Our traveling makes sure that if we aren't in one place for too long then our energy won't have a chance to even begin manifesting with our surroundings"
This got J'onn thinking that if there was a way to stop them from being able to access their powers or block the energy from exiting their bodies then there would essentially be no way for Lucero to track them or any of those creatures to locate them either. There was something on Mars that made this possible by creating a mental block in their physical systems, but he wasn't sure if it would work on something as powerful as an Esclion. "What if there wa-"
"I'm back!"
They all turned to see Calvin running towards them with a vial in his hands, as soon as he was right next to them he handed it to J'onn. He held the vial up to his face to get a good look at the substance it appeared to be clear colored, but it had a few particles in it that he could see
"You have to inhale it, this drug can be made to either be drunk, eaten, or inhaled. I thought the inhaled option would be much faster for us to see a reaction from it" Calvin explained to him seeing as he was a little hesitant to take it now
J'onn looked at the vial in his hands again, if this did work and gave him the incredible strength he needed to go back to Mars and save his people it would mean having to leave earth and most likely never see Calvin, Becky, and Tommy again. If he left, there would be no one here to watch out for them at night while they slept or protect them against their uncle who was still hunting them down. But maybe if this did work he could always come back to Earth after the war ended and continue to travel with them, he didn't have a family of his own back on Mars to comfort. Living with these three siblings had shown him what it was like to really have a family and he didn't want to have to leave children like them defenseless against their all-powerful Uncle.
"Is something wrong Uncle J'onn?" Tommy asked
J'onn's mind had stopped wandering and came back to the task at hand, he finally took the cap off the vial making the substance inside begin to drift out, as instructed he began to inhale the mist. He didn't remember a lot of what may have happened next, he could remember feeling hot and weak. He could feel his human personal begin to morph back into his Martian form as he was not strong enough anymore to hold up the transformation.
He could hear Calvin, Becky, and Tommy crying out to him
"Uncle John!"
"What's happening to him Eavon?"
"This must be why this drug was never given to another species besides ours, it's too strong for others to handle!"
He could feel himself being lifted upward then begin floating up off the ground, they flew for quite a while before he could begin hearing the sound of a waterfall
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Becky asked from his left
"We don't have the equipment to help him back at the cabin, so I don't see any other option we have right now" Calvin told her from his right "Daevi open a passage for us"
J'onn then heard a whooshing sound before his mind faded into black once again. It could have been hours before his mind was able to drift back to the surface and he felt that he had been lying on a cloud. It was unlike any other bedding he had ever felt before
"His body is deteriorating much faster than any of you could have anticipated"
"Can't you give him any kind of antidote, surely there's something that could reverse these effects on hos body?"
"I'm sorry but the Esclion's never saw the need to reverse the effects as this had never happened to any of them before"
"So, what are we supposed to do, we can't just let him die!"
"We have to begin trying to find a cure for this ourselves, find everything these is to know about this drug and start testing ways to reverse it!"
That was the last thing J'onn heard from his surroundings before his mind drifted once again but this time he began having dark hallucinations, some of the things he was seeing were of Mars. He could see his people being huddled into the prison's made by the White Martians and burned, seeing Green Martians pilling over each other in the cells, and tortured by their captors for entertainment.
Some of the visions he continued to see involved some of his siblings fighting in the war as their homes and cities were destroyed in front of him. He jolted up in the bed after watching one of the capitals of Mars destroyed
He didn't recognize where he was, J'onn took a look around his surroundings seeing he was in some kind of medical facility but the entire room was white. This didn't look like the hospitals he had seen during his travels on earth, so where was he, what happened to Calvin and the others. Lights from outside caught his attention next and he looked to his right seeing a window of some sort, but what surprised him was the sky
Tommy has once showed him in the books he liked to read about earth, something called the Polar lights that lite up the sky in the poles of the planet. He had hoped to be able to see them once in person while he lived on earth, but because they were always trying to stay hidden he had never gotten the chance to see them. J'onn had promised Tommy that he would make sure to take him himself and together they could watch the lights before he left for Mars.
The lights in the sky outside the room he was in were almost identical to the polar lights, while the pictures he had seen of the polar lights were usually green or purple and moved in a zigzag motion the lights he was seeing outside this window were like a rainbow color and moved in swirls through the sky. He could also see what looked like little floating islands moving like clouds; but before he could see anymore he heard a beeping sound making him turn to see a monitor implanted in the wall and finally took notice of a mask over his nose and mouth. His vision began becoming blurry again, but he was able to see that the mask was connected to large container of pink liquid before sleep claimed him once more.
"He's doing a lot better now"
"Do you think he'll wake up soon then?"
"Possibly, that cure you found has done the trick for him. If he is going to start waking up thought, we need to move him out of here"
"Do you think it's okay to move him right now?"
"We can't really risk the chance of him seeing this place"
"I guess so, we can just take him back to the cabin there's plenty of stuff there for us to survive for a little longer"
Louisiana, November 24, 1866
Birds chirping from outside where the first thing he became aware of, J'onn slowly began opening his eyes making them get used to the bright light shining in from the slit in the curtains, he groaned as he began sitting up from the mattress. Weird he remembered the bed he had been lying on felt a lot more comfortable than this, he gaze shifted to his surroundings recognizing the room as the bedroom he stayed in when they traveled to their cabin in Louisiana.
"You gave us quiet the scare there J'onn"
He looked up to see Calvin coming in the door "What happened?"
"Apparently there was a reason that drug was never given to another species. Its too strong of a medication for normal body systems to handle, we thought you were done for"
"Yet I'm still here"
Calvin smiled "You can thank Tommy for that, he was so desperate to save you he put his own life in danger to save yours. When we found out your body was deteriorating he ran off, Becky and I thought he just needed time to cool off but turns out he went somewhere we are forbidden to go and did his own research to find a miracle cure for you using these berries" He pulled out a small bag of pink berries to show him "I don't know how he found it but this should come in handy if anything like this ever happens again"
"I should thank him" J'onn smiled "Where is he anyway, and Becky?"
"They went into town to restock on supplies, You've been out a lot longer than you think" Calvin explained to him that it had taken them a while to find that cure then there was the process of it reversing the effects it took on his body, then his body had to rest up from the ordeal "You've been out for about 4 to 5 weeks now"
"Why didn't you try waking me up sooner, who knows what kind of danger you've put yourself in by staying in this area for so long"
"We probably could have woken you up if we wanted to but Becky thought it would be better to let you rest up seeing as you hadn't been sleeping well before this either. Don't worry about Lucero finding us too we've made sure to move a little while you were recovering"
That reminded him of what he had seen in the window of that room he had been in "Did you have me anywhere close to the poles of the earth during my recovery?"
Calvin lifted an eyebrow "No, we wouldn't be able to find shelter in places like that. Why?"
"I remember while I was recovering, seeing this strange place with a white room and seeing what looked like polar lights in the sky outside it's window"
J'onn could see Calvin swallow then look away "It could have been a dream or a hallucination we've only been here and a few camping sites since you've been recovering"
"Right" J'onn decided to get off the topic as he could see Calvin didn't want to talk about whatever that place had been "Anyway there was something else that I wanted to ask you right before I took that drug"
"And that is?"
"It's about Lucero or your opinion on a way that would make it, so he can't track you down anymore"
Calvin sighed "We've gone over this before J'onn. Lucero's out battle to fight not yours"
"You don't even want to hear it"
"I don't want to have to hear it and then have to disappoint you to tell you it wouldn't work"
"Even if it means having a chance to be free from him" J'onn asked getting Calvin to back down, J'onn quickly explained the method used on Mars to block the access to their powers, if J'onn was able to use this on them it would make them just like ordinary human beings. Meaning there would be nothing for Lucero to use to track them down
Calvin was dumbfounded by this, he had never heard of this technique being used in any of the species he had ever learned of, but there was still a way this could backfire "Say this did work, and we lived our lives as ordinary humans and we happened to come across Lucero we wouldn't even be able to put up a fight as we would be defenseless against his abilities"
"I could easily unlock your powers whenever you need them, especially if I could sense your lives were in danger" J'onn couldn't sense energy like they could be he was always by their sides, so he would know if they were ever in danger "We can always take it for a test run too, I could use this on Tommy or Becky and you can try to see if you can feel them or their energy when your trying to find them."
After a little more persuading on J'onn's part he finally got Calvin to at least give it a try with Becky, so when the two younger siblings returned from their shopping and they had their little reunion with the awakened Martian Calvin began explaining to them what J'onn wanted to try. Becky was a little hesitant that this would work but Tommy was easily won over at the chance of freedom. J'onn explained that this method could take a while on each of them seeing as how powerful their telepathic powers were, but he went ahead and began working on Becky's mind first
Calvin and Tommy watched nervously as J'onn worked on their sister, it took about two hours before they could see the process was finished. Tommy rushed over to his Uncle seeing he was out of breathe from whatever he had been doing in Becky's mind while Calvin went over to her and took her into his arms, she was still breathing normally and her pulse seemed to be fine. "Becky...Becky!" Calvin began to shake her to wake her up "Oshiana!"
Finally, after a couple minutes she began groaning "Oshi?" Tommy asked
When Becky opened her eyes Calvin and Tommy received the shock of their lives, her eyes were black no longer the purple-violet color they usually were "Are you alright!" Calvin's eyes widened at the sight
Becky glanced around at them seeing all their shocked expressions, then looked down at her own hands "What happened"
"Are you ok?" Calvin asked again
"Yeah, I feel just fine, why?" She asked
The two brothers glanced at each other before Tommy ran off to one of the bedrooms and came running back with a little hand mirror they had in their room. He slowly handed it to her, she took it from him and looked at her reflection, and realized why her brothers were looking at her the way they were
"Does this mean it worked?" Tommy asked them
"Could try to test it out" J'onn offered
Becky looked to Calvin first getting a nod from him, she then looked to her own hands and began trying to form the energy blasts that was as easy as talking to her but nothing appeared, she then tried chanting a easy spell to make flowers appear but nothing and finally she tried transforming into her esclion form but again nothing happened. "Can you two sense my energy at all?"
Calvin turned to Tommy telling him to try sensing her with him, so the two tried making both their eyes shine blue with color. In their vision they could make out that there were two life forms in the room, but it was the same as when they saw any other human in the streets nothing special about it. Becky's energy should have been flaming purple with energy but now it was an ordinary misty yellow as any other human being
"Well?" Becky asked once they were finished
Chicago, Illinois March 6, 1867
It had taken a little more convincing on J'onn's part but after he has successfully created the mental block in all of their minds which prevented them from being able to access their powers but made it, so no one could find them either he convinced them that they could finally settle down somewhere and have a normal life. He could understand their nervousness as they had been in hiding for the last few billion years and made them wary of all their surroundings
He had let them decide where they would like to settle down, they wanted it to be a place that there was a lot of population, so it would be easy for them to get lost in all the crowds but also a place that had nature around it too. After a bit of searching they had pinpointed Chicago as their settlement, it was a small city at the time, but it had estates in the exterior of the city where they could live and feel comfortably.
They had chosen to buy an old Queen Anne Victorian style home in the exterior of Chicago's limits, it was a bit of a fixer upper, but they had been willing to put in the time and energy to refurbish it to it's original estate. And within two months of moving there the Victorian looked brand new with a whole new coat of paint, a brand-new garden in the backyard for their flowers and vegetables to thrive in. The front of the household had a circular dirt pathway for carriages to enter through their gates and there was plenty of peaceful wildlife in this area to make the former magical beings feel happy with their new life.
Inside the house everyone was able to have their own room, unlike the cabin in Louisiana that only had two bedrooms this house had five, a fully functioning kitchen and furnished living space for J'onn to enjoy inside as well.
Currently J'onn was inside the house catching up on the literature Calvin had bought to fill up their bookshelves inside the house, while Becky had been in their kitchen preparing dinner for them all to eat that evening. He had offered for them to hire household work to keep the load of work off of them, but they had refused saying it wouldn't be right to have other people do work for them when they were perfectly capable to doing the work themselves. Calvin was probably outside in their stables making sure their horses were being well cared for and Tommy was probably off playing being his usually cheerful self
"I think I have to go into town and get some things for the food, I don't think I have enough" Becky called out to him from the kitchen
"I can go for you if you'd like" J'onn offered
"No thanks it's not like you would be able to know the specific things I need" She smiled "Besides I could use a little fresh air"
Becky made her way into town a few minutes after that going to the closest store that had the things she needed, making sure the tie up her horse to the post outside before entering, she had only been in there a couple minutes but when she came out she saw a fight had erupted outside the store. Normally when something like this happened she would have simply walked away but when she noticed that the person on the receiving end was so helpless she immediately stepped in
"You should mind your own business sweetheart, this is between me and him"
Becky turned to a boy about Calvin's age with a British accent "I don't care what you have to settle, that's no reason to gang up on a helpless man"
The boy became angry with her "Do you know who I am girl?"
"Should I care? What kind of honor could a boy like you have who gets joy out of seeing others hurt like this?!" She glared back at him
"My name is Mason Murrock, I'm the sole air to railroad system of Illinois"
And finished with this part of the flashbacks. I got an idea from watching the past episode of Supergirl 3x07, I had been a huge KaraMel fan but now the writers went and ruined my ship by marrying Mon- El off so that gave me an idea for a future chapter that will be in Mason's POV.
Hopefully I can find the time to write another chapter soon, I really like writing for this story I just need to find more time for it.
I really need help with suggestions on how to proceed with the current timeline of the story since it's been a while since I've written and need something to jumpstart my brain on this again.
Please review