There are silence and darkness all over the place. An old rusty nineteen seventy-eight Camaro can barely be seen inside the site thanks to the bright light of the nearby vehicles driving down the street. Suddenly, somebody violently goes through the concrete walls of the place, landing near the middle of the abandoned local. Another individual enters the site as in darkness; his/her face remains.
Unknown individual: "You… You have ruined the lives of many people, including mine… But that ends today!"
Unknown person: "Bitch! Who the fuck are you?", he says while he regains balance.
Unknown individual: "I'm the person who's going to save the world, and your worst NIGHTMARE!"
The Unknown individual violently approaches the Unknown person and attacks him, but at the moment she does this, the unknown person quickly dodges her, grabs her by the neck, and teleports her four meters above the old Camaro inside the repair shop, and then throws her at it.
Unknown person: *CHUCKLES* "Listen, I don't know you, and I don't know what the fuck you want, so stay the hell away from me!" he says while he slowly leaves.
The Unknown individual levitates herself and uses her psychic powers to bring the Unknown person to her and make him kneel before her. She takes out a weird looking katana, and with anger, she gets ready to strike him with it.
Unknown individual: "Any last words?"
Unknown person: "Go to hell!"
While the Unknown individual gets ready to cut the Unknown person's throat, she is impacted by a blast.
[Flashback]
A teenage girl is awakened by thunder in the middle of the night. She rises from her bed and walks in search of the mysterious voices that she hears coming from the hall outside her room. The teenage girl sees a girl being insulted and beaten by a group of kids; she finds a bat and hits the knee of one of the kids.
"If I see you all bullying her or even talking about her, I'll hurt you all!" the teenage girl says to the injured girl.
The group of kids leaves, leaving their friend with the broken leg behind.
Teenage girl: "What's your name?"
The injured girl doesn't answer.
Teenage girl: "Do you want me to break your other leg?"
"Hannah," the injured girl says as she cries.
Teenage girl: "Hannah... If you say something about this to anyone, even Teresa, I'll kill you!"
The injured girl cries.
Teenage girl: "Do you understand?"
Hannah nods her head and slowly limps away.
The teenage girl gets closer to the girl who was being bullied and helps her to stand up.
Bullied girl: "Thanks."
Teenage girl: "I just did what was right! Don't thank me!"
Bullied girl: "Well, thanks anyway!"
There's an awkward silence.
Bullied girl: "So, what's your name?"
Teenage girl: "Why do you want to know my name?"
Bullied girl: "I'm just curious! I have never seen you before! Are you new?"
Teenage girl: "Why are you asking too many questions!? Are you with the cops or something!?"
"Well, I'm sorry! I was just asking!" the bullied girl says before walking away.
The teenage girl, while annoyed, takes a deep breath.
"Kara!" the teenage girl says.
The bullied girl, as she stops, "What was that?"
Kara: "My name is Kara!"
Olivia: "Oh... nice to meet you, Kara!"
7 YEARS LATER
Olivia: "You jump first!"
Kara looks at Olivia.
Kara: "Olivia, we have been through this already! It's not that hard! Just run and then jump!"
Olivia: "Kara, it's not that easy!"
Kara: "Just jump!"
Olivia: "No... I can't!"
Kara: "Do you want me to throw you!?"
Olivia: "No…"
Kara: "Then jump!"
Olivia: "I fucking c…"
Kara pushes Olivia to the other roof. Kara jumps behind her. Kara lands on her feet, but Olivia doesn't.
Olivia whispers while on the ground, "Fuck…!"
Kara: "Come on! Dean is waiting for us!"
Olivia stands up.
Kara and Olivia go to the main entrance of the building. A guy is waiting for them.
Dean: "Hi!"
Olivia, while kissing him, "Hi!"
Olivia and Dean stop kissing.
Kara: "I had to push her… again!"
Dean starts to laugh.
Olivia: "Who are you laughing at? Do you know how hard it is to escape that orphanage?"
Kara: "Three feet away!?"
Dean continues laughing.
Olivia gets mad.
Dean to Olivia: "What?"
Olivia doesn't answer.
Dean: "Listen, babe, I'm sorry! I just think that it is funny that you are scared of jumping to a building that is literally three feet away from ours!"
Olivia doesn't answer.
Dean: "But at least in a week, you won't have to do anymore, right!?"
Olivia, while looking at him, "Kara won't have to wait that long! She turns eighteen tomorrow!"
Dean: "Oh shit! Really!?"
Kara: "Yeah…"
Dean: "Do you have a place where to stay?"
Kara: "Nah… but I'll be fine!"
Dean: "If you want to, I can go and talk to our boss after we go and do our business...! You know he wouldn't let us down!"
Kara: "I'm fine…"
There's silence.
Olivia: "Wait… What are we supposed to do!?"
Dean: "Our boss wants us to intercept an armored truck!"
Kara: "What for?"
Dean: "He wants us to take something valuable from it!"
Kara: "Good, what are we waiting for!?"
Olivia: "Guys, do we really have to do this?"
Kara: "Of course we have to do this. The only way we are going to become one of them is by showing them what we are capable of."
Olivia: "Yeah, I know, but don't you guys think that we take some time off from this?"
Dean: "Babe, and we can't take no time off from this. Remember, If we want to have a good life-"
Olivia: "We must work really hard, I know… I know, but this is becoming more and more dangerous every time a new job comes in. A couple of weeks ago, we were just going against some local gangs, and now we are about to assault and rob a truck. What's next? Us killing some politicians and taking control of the White House!?"
Dean: "No, and we would never go that far, but we might end up taking over the Capitol instead of the White House."
Olivia looks seriously at Dean.
Dean: "And I'm kidding, but babe come on! Stop being so paranoid! Nothing is going to go wrong!"
Olivia: "Oh yeah? How do you know that?"
Kara: "And he knows that because you guys have me. You know the half black and half white girl with awesome superpowers?"
Olivia: "You might be very strong, but we don't really know if you could survive being struck by a bunch of bullets."
Olivia: "No, but I have been shot twice, and I have survived getting hit by a terrible driver, aka you, thanks to my healing factor!"
Olivia rolls her eyes to Kara while mad.
Dean: "And come on, babe. This job isn't going to take that long."
Olivia stays quiet.
Kara: "Come on, Live… We can't do this without you… I mean, we actually can, but taking on that truck would be a little bit harder without you."
Olivia seriously looks at Kara.
Kara: "Come on, and let's go. I'm pretty sure we don't have all day."
Olivia is still quiet.
Dean: "Babe, come on!"
"Alright… Alright! I'll go, but I'll drive!" Olivia says to Dean.
Dean: "Okay."
"Dean and come on. You have to think this straight. Olivia doesn't know how to drive well, and besides that, she doesn't even have a license.", Kara says while serious at Dean.
Olivia: "Oh, Kara, and stop being so dramatic. I just hit you once, and it was because I was distracted."
Kara: "Yeah, and that's the point, Olivia. You are always distracted."
Dean: "Girls, we don't have much time. We have to go."
"Yeah, Kara. We have to go.", Olivia says as she leaves the building.
"God. If I get hit by her again, I'll kill you both.", Kara says as she walks outside while Dean holds the door for her.
"Girls…", Dean whispers as he nods while walking outside.
Suddenly…
"Stop right there, Frank!" an old man with glasses and a mustache, who's last name according to his name tag is Lee, yells with a banana in hand as he's abruptly woken up by the banging of the door.
The man looks around, but he doesn't see anything, and then he looks at his hand.
Mr. Lee: "It must have been the damn vodka!"
A COUPLE OF MINUTES LATER…
Dean and Olivia are on an alleyway waiting for Kara to give them the green light to intercept the truck.
Dean on the walkie talkie, "We are in position!"
Kara on the walkie talkie, "Okay! I'll let you know when they are here!"
Olivia to Dean: "You know, after this, we should take Kara to a restaurant or something for her birthday!"
Dean: "Does she like Chinese or Italian?"
Olivia: "I don't know! I'll eat some Italian, but ask her!"
Dean on the walkie talkie, "Hey, would you like to eat Chinese or Italian?"
Kara on the walkie talkie, "What about some Mexican?"
Dean on the walkie talkie, "Okay, that I'll do!"
Olivia: "Why did she have to choose Mexican?"
Dean, while laughing, "I'll take you to eat some Italian next week, but not this week!"
Olivia: "Why not this week?"
Dean: "I'm going to New York City to take the package to our boss and to see mom."
Olivia: "So, I won't see you until next week?"
Dean: "Yeah, but I should be back by Tuesday!"
At hearing this, Olivia leans her head on the window of her door.
"What's the matter? Why do you seem mad?" Dean says.
Olivia: "I don't know. It might be because we barely get to spend time together."
Dean: "And we do get to spend time together like… now."
Olivia: "Dean… you know what I mean. We barely get to have time for ourselves because of the Circle."
Dean: "Babe, I know you don't like working for them, but trust me. In the end, all of this is going to be worth it. This is the only way we can prove to them that we deserve to become one of them. That we deserve to be part of the Inner Circle."
Olivia: "Yes, but what if something in the future goes wrong or what if after all of what we have done we never become one of them? I know this is important for you, but I don't care if I become one of them or not. I only care about the present… about what we have. I only care about us."
Dean: "Babe, I care about you too, and I want to get to spend more time with you, but… don't you want to move far away from here to somewhere nice and peaceful and have a family, a luxurious house, and nice job?"
Olivia: "Yeah-"
Dean: "Exactly. That's the reason why I'm doing this… why we are doing this, so we don't have to live the rest of our lives wandering the streets of Baltimore like some miserables."
There's silence. Olivia is still leaning her head on the window while mad.
Dean: "I'm going to talk to them, and I'll see if we can take some time off."
Olivia doesn't answer.
Dean: "When I get back, I will take you to the best Italian restaurant in town… and then to the movies, and then… we might go to a five-star hotel… and get drunk… and-"
"Oh, my God! Can you shut up?" Olivia says as she smiles at him.
"I love you!" Dean says as he approaches her.
"I love you more!" Olivia says before kissing him, but as they start to kiss...
"They are here!" Kara says through the walkie talkie.
Dean and Olivia stop kissing.
Dean to Kara through the walkie talkie, "Alright! We are getting our masks on! Tell us when to intercept them!"
Dean, as he quickly kisses Olivia, "Ready?"
"Ready!" Olivia says before putting her mask on.
Kara, through the talkie, "Alright! Intercept in three… two… one… now!"
Dean accelerates his muscle car and blocks the street. Afterward, Dean and Olivia get out of the car and start to shoot the wheels of the armored truck. Then the armored vehicle tries to back up, but Kara quickly surprises them and breaks the driver's side door. The driver, while scared, quickly gets a short double-barrelled shotgun and tries to shoot Kara, but he gets shot in the head by Dean before he gets to do so. The other guard is shocked with his hands in the air, and blood all over his face.
Guard #2: "Please don't shoot me! I will do whatever you want!"
Kara, while looking at the guard, "Get out of the truck, now!"
The guard gets out.
Dean: "Open the back door!"
The guard walks to the back door and opens it.
Guard #2: "Please… let me go…"
Dean shoots him.
Kara to Dean, "What the hell is wrong with you?"
Dean: "I'm following orders from the boss!"
Dean enters the truck and searches for the bag until he finds it.
Dean: "Here it is! It looks… different than expected, but this is one is the one!"
Kara, while curious, "What is it?"
"The boss told me these were supposed to be the remnants of an enchanted ancient sword.", Dean says.
Olivia: "Enchanted?"
Dean: "Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but that's what the boss said."
Kara: "Alright. Let's leave before cops show up."
As they all walk back to Dean's car, they all suddenly get shot by three men coming from the alleyway. Kara, Olivia, and Dean are on the ground. Dean tries to crawl towards his gun, but it's immediately killed by Gang member #3. Olivia removes her mask and gets on Dean's chest.
Olivia, while crying, "Dean…! Dean…!".
Gang member #2 goes and grabs the bag. When Gang member #2 walks back, Olivia takes Dean's gun and shoots Gang member #3 in the face. The other guy besides him (Gang member #1) shots Olivia on her stomach. Olivia drops the gun. The guy who got shot in the face takes his mask off.
Gang member #1 walks to Gang member #3 to look at how bad the wound is.
Gang member #1: "Holy Shit! You're lucky that the bullet just scratched your face!"
Gang member #2 approaches them.
Gang member #2: "We have to go!"
Gang member #3 while standing up, "I will deal with this bitch first!"
Gang member #2 to Gang member #3 as Gang member #3 walks towards Olivia, "Nigga, we don't have time for this shit! Let's get the fuck out of here before the twelve shows up!"
Gang member #3 continues walking towards Olivia.
Gang member #1: "Man, and he's right! We got to get the fuck out of here!"
Gang member #3 looks at Olivia while she looks at him.
Olivia: "Are you going to kill me, or are you going to continue looking at me like a…"
Gang member #3 shots her on the neck, and then he spits on her.
Gang member #3: "Bitch!"
Kara is gaining consciousness again. She looks at Gang member #3's face.
He looks at her and points at her with his gun. Sirens can be heard.
Gang member #2: "Nigga, deal with the cops yourself! We are out of here!"
Gang member #3 lower his gun and run back to the alleyway.
Kara takes her mask off and looks at Olivia struggling to breathe. Kara approaches her, but then…
"Oh… no!" Kara says as she realizes that Olivia has been shot in the neck.
Kara crawls towards Olivia and puts her hand over Olivia's neck to cover her wound, but blood stills coming out of it. Olivia, while scared, starts to cry while at the same time, blood starts to come out of her mouth. Kara tries to speak, but not even a word can come out of her mouth. Olivia still tries to fight for her life when suddenly she finally passes out.
Kara slowly removes her hands from Olivia's neck as she, in detail, looks at the blood running down her hands. Suddenly the cops arrive at the scene, and Kara quickly stands up and runs back to the alleyway. One of the officers rapidly gets out of her car and runs to the alley with her gun in hand, but upon arriving, not a trace of Kara can be found.
Another officer quickly runs to the alleyway to assist the officer in it.
Female officer: "Where did the suspect go?"
Male officer: "I don't know. I was following her, and then she just quickly disappeared."
"Okay. Gather a team and search the perimeter for the suspect. She shouldn't be that far from here.", the officer says as she walks back to her car.
As soon as the female officer gets to her car, she takes her two-way radio from it.
Female officer through the walkie talkie, "South 1-A-1, this is Officer Emily Carson reporting a 10-35 in South Hanover Street. There are multiple victims, all dead. The suspect has escaped on foot."
Dispatch: "Copy that, Officer Carson. Forensics are on their way."
"Oh, and another thing… the suspect might be a mutant.", the officer says as she looks at the crushed right side door missing from the armored truck.
LATER THAT NIGHT…
It is late at night, and Kara secretly gets into the orphanage to pick up some of her stuff. As she quickly starts to pack her belongings, she finds a picture of her and Olivia as kids, hidden in one of her shelves. Kara, while sentimental, sits on her bed as she holds the picture of her and her beloved friend when suddenly…
"Kara? What have I told you about leaving this place without permission?" one of the nuns says as she looks at her.
Kara doesn't answer.
"Kara? What happened to your arm?" the nun says as she slowly approaches Kara.
Kara starts to cry uncontrollably.
Kara: "Olivia… Olivia is gone!"
"What!? What do you mean gone!? Did she run away!?" the nun says while mad.
Kara: "Teresa… Olivia is dead!"
Teresa's mood completely shifts at hearing this.
"What… What happened?" Teresa says as she while anxious sits on Kara's bed.
Kara: "Dean, Olivia, and I were robbing an armored truck when some guys approached us and started to shoot! She got shot on the neck!"
"That you and she did what!? Why would you two do stuff like that!? I have told both many times to stay away from that guy and from all of those problems, but as always… Neither of you listened to me, and because of it, she is dead!" Teresa says as she rages at her.
Kara doesn't respond; instead, she continues to mourn the death of her friend. Teresa sits closer to her and hugs her with both of her hands as she also starts to cry.
MINUTES LATER…
Teresa comes to Kara's room with a cup of tea for Kara as Kara stands in the mirror with a towel covering her body as she dries her hair with the other one. As she does this, Kara notices that she still has some blood between her fingers and inside her fingernails. Due to this, Kara stops drying her hair and starts trying to take the rest of Olivia's blood from her hands, but she struggles to do so. Eventually, at seeing that the blood isn't coming out of her skin, Kara starts to put more and more pressure on her towel until ultimately she ends up tearing it apart, but that doesn't stop her from using it to remove Olivia's blood off her hands as she continues trying to remove it to the point she starts to peel her skin off. Suddenly, Teresa gets to her side and puts her hands over Kara's hands to stop her from hurting herself.
"Why isn't it coming off, Teresa? Why isn't it coming off!?" Kara says to Teresa as she loses it and starts to cry again.
"She didn't want to be part of any of it, but I pushed her to it… She was all I had, and now she's dead… because of me.", Kara says to Teresa as Teresa hugs Kara to comfort her.
Teresa: "Dear, what happened to her is not your fault."
Kara: "Yes, it is. She didn't want to rob that truck, but I pushed her to."
Teresa: "Kara is not your fault… Olivia might haven't wanted to take part in it, but we both know that once you get involved in that life, it is more than difficult for somebody to get out of it… Eventually, something worse would have happened to her if she had decided to don't be part of that heist. She was a good girl, and she didn't deserve any of it, but sometimes things happen for a reason, even bad things."
Kara continues crying.
Teresa: "What happened to the kid?"
Kara: "He got shot in the head while trying to defend himself."
"Oh, Kara… If you kids had listened to me, none of this would have ever happened.", Teresa says to Kara as she hugs her.
Upon Teresa hugging Kara, Kara flinches in pain.
"What wrong!?", Teresa says while worried.
Kara: "The bullets went too deep into my shoulder and stomach. As a result of it, my wounds are taking longer to heal."
"I'll go downstairs to get you some band-aids. I'll be back in a minute, okay?" Teresa says as she looks at Kara's wounds.
Kara: "Okay."
Teresa: "And don't forget to drink your tea before it gets cold."
Teresa walks out of the room to get the medkit for Kara when suddenly a girl quickly walks out of the shadows outside of Kara's room.
MINUTES LATER…
As Kara gets stitches on her arm by Teresa, a siren can be heard at a distance. Kara and Teresa, while curious, stand up to look through the window of Kara's room when they suddenly see multiple police vehicles stopping in front of the orphanage.
"Did you call them?" Kara says nervously to Teresa as she walks back from the window.
Teresa: "No! Kara, I would never do such a thing to you!"
Teresa takes a moment to think.
Teresa: "Did somebody see you when you left!?"
Kara: "And I quickly left when I saw the police arriving, but I don't think that they saw me."
Kara: "Did somebody follow you when you left!?"
Kara: "Teresa, I don't know!"
Teresa: "Were there any cameras around the area!?"
Kara: "Teresa, I don't know! I didn't see anybody following or any cameras on my way here!"
Teresa sighs, and starts to think.
Teresa: "I will go downstairs, and I will talk to them. Hide somewhere until they leave, okay?"
Kara agrees while she looks at the window. Teresa goes to the main entrance and opens the door to talk with the police.
Police: "Hi! I'm officer Carson! We received a call from somebody saying that there was a murder suspect in this building! "
Teresa: "I think it was a mistake. There are just kids in this building."
Hannah gets close to the door.
Hannah: "She's upstairs! She's hiding on the second floor!"
Teresa looks at Hannah.
Officer Carson: "Please, backoff the door!"
Teresa: "You can't be here without a warrant!"
The detective with a gun in hand. "Backoff, now!"
Teresa: "No, you can't…" she gets pushed by the officer.
Officer Carson: "Search the whole place now!"
The officers are now searching the whole orphanage while armed.
"Run, Kara! Run!" Teresa yells at Kara as Carson, along with other officers, quickly run to the second floor.
Kara, at hearing this rushes down the hall and tries to escape the police by getting to the roof through a fire escape ladder. The officer spots her going through the window, and because of it proceeds to follow her. Kara quickly gets to the roof, and without hesitation, jumps to the roofs of the nearby buildings. The officer gets to the ceiling and sees Kara jumping from building to building, so she proceeds to do the same to capture the supposed murderer. Kara runs and jumps without looking back at the officer, but the officer seems to be more agile than Kara, as she quickly runs and climbs the roofs of every building.
"Stop and put your hands where I can see them!" the officer yells as she gets closer and closer to Kara.
Kara: "Leave me alone!"
Kara suddenly tries to jump to the roof of the next building, and ends up slipping due to the rain, but manages to get her hands on the edges of the ceiling that she was going to jump to. As Kara, with her super strength, helps herself to get on top of the building, the officer jumps over her, rolls on the ground, and with her gun aims at Kara.
Officer Carson: "Get on your knees now!"
Kara: "I didn't do anything! My friends and I were attacked by some masked men."
"I said on your knees!" the officer yells at Kara as Kara while scared walks backward.
Kara, while scared, looks back, realizing that she is at the edge of the roof.
Officer Carson: "Kara, I don't want to hurt you! Please, get on your knees!"
Kara: "Alright! Alright! I'll surrender!"
Then suddenly, as Kara started to get on her knees, a deafening boom of thunder caused the officer to shoot Kara in self-defense. The bullet ends up hitting Kara on the left side of her chest, causing her to fall off the building to her death.
END OF CHAPTER 1
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