Evil Intent part 28

Adrian and Gabe ran for the TV station as fast as they could, after that announcement there was no way Bruce was going to be able to help them. Every villain in the city was going to swarm his front gates now.

The storm seemed to be getting stronger now and they had to stop a moment and take cover in an alley from the ferocious winds that threatened to sweep them off their feet.

Adrian took several deep breathes before realizing that the puddle beneath her wasn't from the storm.

"Gabe…" she started and Gabe breathed hard as he turned to face her.

"Yeah?"

"I think my water just broke." She said through gritted teeth, breathing more heavily now.

"Shit! Uh, ok… ok… just uh… take deep breaths." He advised, not knowing what else to do.

"We have to get inside." She said, pointing to the door of the TV station, "The wind is going to suck us right out of here." She advised, trying to make her way to the door as best she could, having to practically scream over the roar of the wind.

Gabe nodded and rushed up to her to help her inside, prying the door open for her, having to press his foot against the side of the building to get enough leverage to do so.

The moment they got inside they found that they weren't the only ones with the idea to get to the TV station. Zai, Joker, Scarecrow, Talia, and Yin all gasped for breath just inside the door.

Zai looked over to see them and immediately rushed over to hug Gabe with tears in her eyes.

"Something's wrong Gabe, she wouldn't do this. She wouldn't even kill Joker because I'm her friend and now she's wiping out the city? Something's not right and I think it has something to do with her." She said, pointing an accusing finger at Talia, "She and her father resurrected her for some reason and when I found Joker and he said that he saw Curiosity disappear out of thin air with a candle in her hand right in front of him." She sobbed.

Adrian's contractions began to get closer together and she squeezed her eyes shut and sat down in one of the empty office chairs, causing everyone to take notice.

Yin's eyes widened at both the new discovery of what her new "partner" had done and at Adrian who was clearly going into labor and ready to have her baby NOW.

Without another word Yin was at Adrian's side coaching her through things as best she could.

"Do you know what you're doing?" Adrian asked breathlessly and Yin smiled wanly.

"I watched my aunt give birth… when I was 8." She admitted and Adrian gritted her teeth together as another contraction hit her.

"Wonderful…" she said sarcastically before the baby finally started to crown, Gabe fainted, and Jonathan pushed Yin out of the way to help her.

"I'll stay with her. Go take care of Haley." He said, tossing Zai a gun, "Do what you have to. Just stop this." He pleaded and Zai looked at the gun in horror before nodding and running to catch up with the others as they ran toward the broadcasting room.

"Tell me Chance, what is it YOU want?" Neron asked, getting closer to him, "A chance to see your father again? To bring him back?" he tempted, "All it'll cost is your soul."

Chance looked on in horror as a ghost of his father appeared in front of him but like the ghost of Hamlet the moment he tried to say something to him he was gone.

"All you have to do is say the word…" Neron tempted and Chance smiled evilly at him.

"Shut the hell up." He said before emptying his revolver into Neron's forehead.

To his surprise however Neron only looked rather irritated and the bullet holes in his forehead healed before his eyes.

Chance gaped and dropped the gun with a nervous laugh.

Neron smiled now. "My turn…" he said, slapping Chance and sending him across the room.

Curiosity glared at him now and attempted to disembowel him but only received the same end result and ended up across the room on the opposite side of Chance, moaning slightly before falling unconscious.

Talia smiled as she watched the scenes on the monitors and simply crossed her arms and leaned against the wall. Everything was going as planned.

Yin looked on in horror at the mess and at Talia who seemed to be smiling through it all.

Finally Adrian stepped through the doorway with a baby in her arms as the building began to deteriorate in the lobby as the door had been blown in.

When Jonathan entered holding another baby and saw the demon his eyes widened and he handed Adrian the other baby.

Yin had finally had enough and stepped forward.

"I'll give you my soul if you…" she started before a shot rang out and she fell to the floor as Talia lowered her gun.

Gabe leapt to Yin's side to see if he could help but froze as Talia fired off yet another shot that landed between his eyes.

"You were saying?" she asked the bodies sarcastically.

Joker laughed hysterically and another shot rang out as Jonathan shot Talia.

"She was SAYING I'll give you my soul if you kill that bitch." He snarled and she coughed up blood before drawing her gun once more, shooting Adrian by accident and then Jonathan.

"See you in Hell." She smiled, finally slumping to the floor.

By this time Joker had made his way over to Curiosity and began slapping her awake. She groaned slightly and raised her hand to her head as she opened her eyes to find Joker's grinning face an inch from hers.

"Let's finish this. First you… then your boyfriend." He smirked, flicking out a knife and beginning to carve a jack-o-lantern out of her face before a shot rang out and he suddenly stopped, blood emanating both from his chest and the left side of Curiosity's face.

He attempted to take a breath now and was rewarded only with warm blood gushing over his lips as he turned to face Zai who shakily held the gun with tears in her eyes before falling to the floor.

Curiosity looked at Zai now with wide eyes before watching as she herself lifted the gun to her head and shot herself.

Curiosity screamed so loud now it seemed she'd break the sound barrier if it she continued and she hurriedly crawled over to Zai with tears streaming down her face.

"No, no, no, no, no…" she sobbed and Chance dizzily got to his feet, feeling as if he had a concussion.

"Chloe?" he asked as he spotted her and then looked around the room to see everyone dead.

"They're all dead… they're all dead…" she repeated over and over to herself, rocking back and forth with Zai in her arms.

Chance suddenly turned his gaze to Neron who only smirked at her misery and advanced on him.

"I have a deal for you." he stated determinedly and Neron turned his attention to him.

"No, Chance, not you to…" Curiosity sobbed, "Please don't." she begged but he continued anyway.

"I'll give you my soul if you allow me to change the past to where she never made a deal with you." he said and Neron's smile vanished, morphing into a heated glare before everything suddenly vanished and he found himself running out of the cemetery gates.

Curiosity suddenly found herself throwing a piece of concrete through Joker's windshield and though she silently thanked everything she could that things were back to normal she also cursed the timing as Joker angrily got out of his van and spotted her.

"Shit…" she cursed but then saw Joker looking more and more confused before stopping completely.

"What in the Hell…" he started but then glared fiercely at her as, apparently, his memory of what had just happened and his death kicked in.