Raven and Hannah had caught up with the rest of the team including Erica Alex and Harry. With the addition of Owen and Wendy, Team Fightback had grown in numbers and were now ready to take down Marco and save the Light World. It was day time on the once colorful world of the Light World.
Malik and Raven were seen talking in private. Malik placed a supportive hand on Raven. "It's good to have you back Raven." said Malik wearing his purple jacket and yellow undershirt. "Don't pull a stunt like that again."
"You know me Malik. Unpredictable." Raven replied with a joking tone.
Malik then took a serious look at Raven. "We still need to talk about what happened on Redemption. I know the Elder used you but you murdered him in cold blood with your powers."
Raven looked down at the floor. "We all have different ways of coping Malik. Sampson used you. I have my own ways of coping but don't act like you haven't done anything wrong. Remember you sealed those children-" Before Raven could finish Harry could be heard yelling from the distance.
"Malik! We need to go. We have all rested over the night. Now we must strike Marco and save his slaves!"
"Coming!" yelled Malik back as his waved his arm. "We are not done with this Raven." said a firm Malik to Raven. The pair still having deep issues which divided them.
Slave Camp
Numerous people in torn clothing were sweating in the sunshine. They were all digging with shovels in a muddy field. Each of them were shoving at their own pace, they all looked tired and dehydrated.
Marco's bikers were the guards, each one worn a black jacket with a yellow "R" on the back. They all had stun guns out and ready to fire on a slave who would try to escape. Marco was stood in the center of the slaves with a whip. He kept wiping the floor, near to some of the slaves as each whip got closer to hitting them. Marco looked delighted with himself. "Hurry up you useless, hopeless people! Before we came you were all sitting in your ruins doing nothing! At least now you have a purpose in life!"
A male in tattered clothing gritted his teeth. He dropped the shovel and looked at Marco. Marco spotted this. "How dare you make us your slaves!" he shouted. "Do you have no respect for the people we lost to the Fire World!"
Marco smiled. "No. NOW GET BACK TO WORKMa!" The man made a even stronger fist and launched towards rco. Marco stood still as the man continued to fly towards him. As the man was within a inch of hitting Marco in the face, a taser like noise could be heard. The fist slowly dropped along with the male. There stood behind him was Marco's right hand man Bones with his shaven head. "I'm surprised you didn't act sooner Bones." said Marco.
"I had it covered Marco." he said to his gang leader.
Marco smiled back. "Look at this Bones. The Dark World was our home but we never got the power we wanted. But now here we are, ruling this pathetic world and once we get to the source at the center of the Light World, we could take any world we want.
Bones smirked back. "Yes. We had to live under Sampson's reign and now we call the shots here. But Marco... These people seem very scared of the Fire World. We arrived here after the Fire World attack and we never saw what they did back on the Dark World. Shouldn't we be worried?"
"Don't worry Bones. I was able to get you and the others out of those jails from the people fighting us back, I can protect us once more. The Fire World won't be a issue when we have this world's core energy." Marco replied. "Now get this slave back to work."
Malik
Malik Hannah Raven Alex were stood on one side of a muddy crossroad path while Harry Erica Wendy and Owen were stood on the other. Malik looked towards Harry. "So we are all clear then. Harry's team plus Erica will go and free the slaves from the north side and my team will free the south side." Each person was wearing a backpack.
Harry nodded back. "Yes. My attacking resistance teams will take the east and west. Marco has them digging right at the center of this muddy field. Looking for whatever this core energy is."
"Whatever the core energy is, it's something Henry wants from all the worlds." said Hannah. "It's going to be powerful."
Everyone shouted good luck messages to each other as they walked down the path, expect Raven, Owen and Wendy. Raven was still annoyed at Malik while Owen and Wendy were still finding it hard to trust the new team. Erica waved at Hannah and she waved back.
While walking down the path the team looked around and could see nothing expect wastelands. Occasionally they would see the odd dry tree or a small building. Malik looked around. "Morgan said the Light World was a beautiful place, this doesn't match the description."
"Well after Morgan's powers were mostly taken he said a King is connected to his world. So when his powers are taken, his world suffers in return." said Alex.
"Yeah. The Dark World suffered because I didn't have my powers. The universe wanted to punish darkness. But it wasn't that which caused our home to be destroyed. The Fire World will pay." replied Malik. They walked a few more steps and saw a thin male who looked exhausted wearing ragged clothing laying flat on the ground, as if he was dying. Malik Hannah and Alex all ran over to support him while Raven walked slowly towards him.
Alex and Hannah supported him by putting him over their shoulders. "Guy... Are you okay?" Alex asked.
"I... I escaped from... Marco's camp..." He weakly said. Malik bent down and pulled out a bottle of water from the backpack. He unscrewed the top and placed it in the males mouth as it was clear he didn't have the energy to hold it.
"Thank goodness Harry gave us a bag and a restock in supplies." said Hannah. Hannah and Alex then looked at Malik as they didn't know what to do. Malik looked back at the path and looked forward once more as he planned the teams next move.
"You two need to get him back to the Light World Resistance base. Me and Raven can deal with Marco." he said. Raven looked annoyed with Malik but he understood it was the correct decision. Hannah and Alex nodded back to Malik and walked slowly down the path with the injured male around their shoulders. They walked slowly as not to injure the male anymore.
Raven walked forward towards Malik, he walked in a different direction to the passing Hannah and Alex. "So are we going to talk now then?" Raven said to Malik with a fierce tone. Malik could feel the anger from Raven at their early conversation.
"No Raven. We need to focus on this now then we will talk. Taking on Marco will be harder since were down two people." said Malik as the pair walked down the path.
Harry
The Light King along with Wendy, Owen and Erica were now within a mile of the slave camp. In the distance you could just see a glimmer of the slaves being forced to walk. However the sub team with still on the dusty path. Wendy and Owen continued to walk without saying anything. Erica looked at Harry and she felt Harry talk to her through his eye movements. He wanted Erica to break the awkward silence.
Erica stepped forward with her long blue hair rattling in the wind. She begun to walk at Owen and Wendy's speed with Harry walking slightly slower towards the back. "So... what more do I need to do to earn your trust?" Erica asked Wendy.
Wendy smirked at Erica. "I still find it hard to trust people. I am giving you guys a chance, it just feels weird.
Erica smiled back. "I understand it is hard. I had my memories changed by the Fire World and I nearly delivered them Hannah because of it. Hannah had to learn to retrust me and even though I feel bad about it still, I know that we now trust each other again. Because she understood that issue I was suffering. I know it is hard to trust someone from the Dark World but as Malik said darkness does not always mean evil. Im going to show that to you."
Wendy looked confused. "How will you do that?"
Erica put up her duel disk so she could touch the duel screen. "Alex told me about this feature he placed in our duel disks before we left." She clicked a button and the area begun to change. The dusty road slowly took the shape of a City. It was more up built and wasn't as damaged as the Light World.
"What is this?!" said Owen.
"This is my home. The Dark World. This is a live feed hologram from the Dark World which was added onto our duel disks. It's a way to check in to make sure it is doing OK." Owen Wendy and Harry looked around. They could see the damage from the Fire World invasion and they could see people trying to survive and rebuild the City. They looked and saw three kids crying, and saw an adult coming over to hug them. Wendy bit her lip.
"This... This looks a lot like our World." said Wendy. "Why didn't you show us this before?"
"Because it wasn't right to share something like this until we felt you understood us better. You see all these people are struggling in the same way as your world is. Our world was attacked and residents got sealed away. I was told by Malik to tell you this way since he feels im the person who you guys can understand. We don't mean harm, we just want to help."
The hologram faded as Owen and Wendy looked at each other with a sad look. They knew they hologram wasn't fake because they knew there was to much detail. Wendy looked saddened and hugged Erica which caught her and Harry by surprise. She felt that her and Erica had the same background. "Im sorry." she said. Owen smiled aswell, he didn't need to say anything.
Erica hugged her back. "Thank you. And I will keep trying to make our worlds a better place and make everyone her better." The group embraced the moment and then continued to walk.
A while later both teams led by Harry and Malik looked on from the distance, they could see the guards and the slaves being force to work. They were footsteps away from engaging in battle.
Hannah Alex
Hannah and Alex were back in the ruined City and had just dropped of the male at a local run down base in a destroyed building. Hannah and Alex were sitting on the ruins catching their breath. It was a long walk back to where Malik and Raven were. Hannah went to stand up, however just as she stood up she froze. She stared into midair as if she was somewhere else. Alex noticed this and jumped up to hold her. "Hannah? Hannah are you OK?!" Alex shouted with shaking Hannah to get an answer.
Hannah looked on with her eyes not moving. She begun to slowly breath and Alex knew she could feel something. "I feel... I feel her." She was like a frozen in place zombie, only muttering the same words and staring in the same place.
"Her?!" said Alex. He looked around Hannah and there standing just ahead of the pair was a girl with black hair and red highlights. She had a black tanktop on with black jeans. It was Alex's worst fear. Rachel had returned with a red duel disk from the Fire World. She smirked and grinned, switching between the two.
"Hello Alex and my other half!" she shouted with a sadistic tone of voice.
"Rachel..." said Alex as he gritted his teeth. He knew the worst had come trust.
