Chapter 12

After we left Jesse in the locker room, we went straight to our meeting place. Tyson drove. He was smiling. He was so cheerful. It was like he had never been happier before in his life. He was like a little kid on Christmas morning. He was mad with power. It was sick. I grew sick because of it. My stomach couldn't handle the drive there. I kept thinking about my brother. When he finally parked the car; I got out and placed my hands on my knees and vomited on the pavement. The guys laughed at me.

I saw a lining of salty tears just before I threw up again. The entire parking lot was spinning. I closed my eyes to try and stop it. Instead I spun in the pitch blackness of my eyelids.

"That was so great man, but I really think we should've used our powers on Jesse!" Sean exclaimed.

"No you idiot! We have to reserve our strength and use our powers when it really counts." Tyson yelled back.

I just stood there. The pain from my suit was building again. My body was suffering from overexertion. I'm sure their bodies were too, but they were ignoring it. They've had the suits on much longer that I have. They couldn't even feel the pain anymore. My breath ran short. I felt every muscle in my body contract. I groaned loudly and fell on my hands and knees.

"Uh...hey Ty, Justice..." Adrien singled me out.

"Yes...Justice...well, well, well our fine friend; looks like the suit is finally going onto overdrive now...ours did the same thing before our full powers kicked in...mine's fire so I felt heat all over my body...down to every last cell...I enjoyed it." Tyson enunciated.

"Me too...all mine did was make me feel lightheaded since I'm air, but it passed in a snap and I felt so good after." Adrien spoke out.

"Yeah...since I'm earth I felt as if I had huge weight on me, but it only lasted a few seconds...when it went away I felt a rush...it was even better than when I first put the suit on." Bentley replied.

"Since our bodies are mostly water anyway I hardly felt a thing...but when it happened to me I felt like I could do anything...I still feel like that." Sean said with a smile.

"But yours...yours is electricity." Tyson stated and took a knee in front of me.

"I think you got the most powerful of all of ours...pure energy...I've been wondering what it's felt like to have all of those energy surges running through you with no where to go."

My body trembled and I let out a whimper.

"Every surge like a stab to the heart..."

I gasped at his words.

"Thump." He said very softly. As soon as he said it I felt another jolt right to my heart.

"How's it feel Justice? To finally and officially be one of the gang?"

I grabbed my chest and laid on the concrete in agony.

"Describe the pain for us Justice."

"T...Ty...It hurts really bad."

"We know that much...describe what it is you are feeling."

"I...my muscles..."

"Yes?"

"They won't stop contracting and my heart...I...its gonna burst..." I tried to talk through my pain.

"It won't burst Jus...you'd be dead if that happened... Thump."

Another jolt. I groaned again and rolled over on my back holding my chest. Sweat ran down the side of my face.

"Thump." He said again. This time with a wicked smile. I moaned. Each time he said it, a sharp jolt of energy would shoot through my heart. He was right in tune with it.

"How's it feel now Justice?"

I just grunted furiously. I was in so much pain I didn't know what to do.

"Thump. Thump.."

I let out a scream.

"Stop saying it!" I hollered.

"Yeah Ty...let the suit do what it needs too..then he can show us his full powers." Sean said.

"Shut up Sean! This is for Justice's own good. He almost betrayed us back there...he almost didn't want to be our brother...Thump."

I thought I was going to have a heart attack it hurt so bad.

"Ty...lay off him...we all went through something similar to him...and it passed a lot easier and faster when we sat alone in silence and you didn't torture us like that..." Bentley retorted.

"You boys don't understand...Justice here is being punished. He won't gain access to his powers so gently and swiftly like we did...as the suit acts on his body we will punish him for almost walking out on us...he thought that was easy..."

"But Jesse said Justice was just happy we did what we did to him. That he just needed a moment to process it." Adrien said after.

"And I went along with Jesse to humor him..." Tyson replied.

"Oh...good call Ty, what a guy." Sean remarked.

"So Justice...to fully access and enhance your suit's abilities you must allow the energy into your heart..." Tyson screamed.

"Ty...!" I grunted out.

"Maybe we were wrong about you Justice...you really aren't one of us..."

"No I am!"

"Then prove it, day after tomorrow you tell your folks you'll be staying with me; just so we can practice soccer or something, when really, I'll be torturing you like this. You won't access the full power of the suit unless I say so! In fact..."

He pulled my glove off. It was part of the suit. The pain went away immediately.

"You can't access the full power of the suit, if the suit itself isn't whole. Tyson explained. "The next step is for you to make copies of the photo you took of Jesse. We'll put them up all over school."

"Why...why are we doing this to him?!" I yelled.

"Think about it Tennyson, and don't you dare raise your voice against me...I own you..."

He held up the glove.

"Your body will crave the power so bad you'll do anything to get this glove back, and second it's to test your loyalty. I've been questioning it Jus. I mean who's your brother?

I breathed heavily and looked down.

"Who's your brother?" Tyson repeated.

"You are Ty." I answered softly.

"And don't you ever forget it or even try to betray me, got it!"

I nodded.

"Good."