Chapter 16

Arc 1

Sunstone City

It was hours later and the man who became the hero of Sunstone City over a short period of time stood in his room getting dressed for his date tonight. It's not every day that a man of his stature got a date with a billionaire, so he had to make sure he made a great impression on her. A good impression on her would get her to come back to him for a second date.

Cedric stood in front of the mirror he had hanging on his closet door in his bedroom dressed in blue jeans with a white button-up and brown sports coats with matching loafers. This wasn't his usual style but it was gonna have to do tonight. He really wanted to impress his date. It looked good to him but he needed a second set of eyes, someone who was feminine. Luckily for the alien-human hybrid his mother was downstairs. Cedric came bolting down the stairs to see his mom sitting in her lazy boy with a glass of wine in her hand as she watched the news.

"Mom, How do I look?" Cedric asked as he did a quick spin around for his mom showing her the outfit he was wearing.

"Looks good." His mom said not even looking away from the TV making Cedric sigh before she spoke up.

"If you go upstairs and change I will shoot you."

"I'm bulletproof. Remember?"

"Your clothes aren't." She said, taking a sip making Cedric roll his eyes. There was a knock at the door making Cedric turn his head and look at the door. He walked towards the door and grabbed the door handle, pulling it open revealing his father standing at the door with a smile.

"Dad!" Cedric said as he hugged his father making his father chuckle as he embraced his son. Their last encounter kind of left things rocky between the two but Cedric was glad to know that it was all put behind them and that they could go back and act as if it never happened. But given when you have two prideful powered beings like the father and son duo, tensions were gonna be high.

"What are you doing here?"

"Well, I heard my boy had a date tonight and I had to show up and wish you luck."

"Dad, I've been on dates before."

"Yeah but I've haven't been there to have those talks with you."

"Please don't." Cedric chuckled as his father patted him on the shoulder before walking into Cedric's childhood home. Koya looked around the house seeing the many pictures of Cedric and his mother. But there was one picture that captured his gaze and occupied it for a while. It was a picture of Cedric as a baby being held by Koya and Kimberly.

Kimberly stood up from the couch changing Koya's gaze from the picture to the mother of his child.

"Hey." Koya greeted Kimberly.

"Hey." She smiled.

"Alright, I'm gonna go before this gets any weirder."

"Before you go son, I wanted to give you this. Consider it an apology gift.' Koya said as he placed a set of keys into Cedric's hands. Cedric smiled as he looked down at the set of keys. They were car keys. Keys to a BMW.

"Holy shit!" Cedric shouted as he looked down at the palm of his hand seeing the keys.

"Thanks Dad." Cedric gave his dad a hug making Koya chuckle. He looked up at his mother who smiled and gave him a wink before he ran out of the door clearly excited for his date and his new ride. He didn't need it since he could fly and had super speed but a car was something he needed to look normal. To fit in.

Cedric walked down the walkway seeing the electric blue BMW M8 Coupe parked out front. The car had a sleek metallic color with black rims and blue brake calipers. The Coupe had a bit of tint in the windows and black leather seats.

"Oh shit." He said clearly excited as he unlocked the doors to his new ride and entered in his ride before pushing on the start button, starting his car up. He switched gears and drove off down the road heading to his date.

Meanwhile inside the house, Kimberly and Koya were standing there staring awkwardly at each other.

"I-"

"Save it. I know what you're gonna say. I don't need the apology anmore."

"I just want to make things right."

"Look, I get it. But there are certain things that you not even you can make right." Kimberly said walking over to the stairs. She gave him one final glance before she ran on up the stairs leaving Koya there to reminisce about his mistake. His biggest mistake. The mistake of leaving his family.

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Downtown

Cedric had finally arrived downtown Sunstone City for his date with the billionaire princess of Sunstone. He had definitely forgotten the struggle of driving a car and dealing with the red lights and the traffic. Whenever he was using his speed, he never had to deal with traffic or red lights. It was always just him. Just him running along the streets at super fast speeds.

But anyway, he pulled up in front of the address of none other than Madison Maverick. And speaking of Madison Maverick, she came walking out front in a black sequin dress with a single-shoulder style and stopped mid thigh. Her hair was straightened with black heels. The dress hugged her curves and even a red-blood alien-human hybrid like Cedric had his breath taken away at her beauty.

"Oh shit." Cedric whispered as she smiled at him and began walking down the steps in front of her building, walking towards him.

"Hey." She smiled.

"Hey. You look beautiful. Not that you don't always look beautiful. 'Cause you do, really nice. It's just today with the dress and all, it's very, very nice." He said as he smiled to stop himself from rambling. She giggled as she looked down at her feet before looking back up into his chocolate brown orbs.

Laughing and smiling. That's a good sign.

"So you ready?" He asked as he held a handout for her.

"Yeah." She answered as she placed her hand into his palm. He led her to the new car that his father had given him earlier.

"I hope you don't mind. I picked out this place you might like." He said as he opened her door. She smiled as she entered the car before he gently closed her door behind her. He walked around the car with a smile as he shook his head before pointing up at the sky.

"Lord don't fail me now."

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SCPD

Detective Joey sat at his desk with his feet propped on the desk looking at a case file. The file. Well, the file actually wasn't his. The file actually belonged to or was assigned to James Knight, the man who took the case from Joey and his partner. Perhaps it was for a reason unbeknownst to Joey but Joey didn't feel that way. It was a case that he needed to be close with for his own reasons.

"I'm doing alright Officer Keys, I'm just here to see my boyfriend." Joey heard making him look up to see Kala walking into the precinct. Kala chuckled as she heard a joke from Officer Keys up front.

Joey grinned as he watched his girlfriend walk through the precinct over to his desk.

"Hey babe." She greeted him with a quick kiss.

"Hey. What are you doing here?"

"I just thought that we could use a date. We haven't gone out in a while or done anything together in a while, so why not?"

Joey nodded as he placed his file down on the desk and looked up at his lover. There was more to this than she was leading on. Kala was the type of person that as long as she had you within her, in her proximity she was fine. She didn't need fancy dates or fancy dinners. Just you and her on a couch maybe chilling and eating popcorn.

"I know there's more to this than you're leading on." He said standing up and placing his hand on her shoulder.

"No, there's not. I just want to have a date." She caressed his hand as she tried to reassure him.

"Okay, if you say so. I'm gonna go see if I can leave early."

"Okay, you do that." She grinned as he took his hand off her shoulder and walked away going to talk to his superiors. This left the curious reporter as his where the case file that didn't belong to him lay. This was a very, very big no no for officers but it was a reporter's dream. Anything found interesting in the file could be used for an article.

Kala looked around seeing if anybody was watching her before she took a seat in his chair and opened the file getting a quick glance. And at first glance, she could see everything in the file that they weren't telling reporters. Everything they weren't telling the public. But her focus was cut off from the file when she saw a text notification coming from Joey's phone.

She peeked over her shoulder to glance around the room before she picked up the phone and saw a text notification that made her frown.

"Are you ready to go?" She heard from afar making her quickly close the file and place the phone down quickly before he could see her.

"Yeah, let's go." Kala said with a fake smile as she stood up and started walking. Joey looked at her with a confused frown before he looked over at his phone and walked towards grabbing the device and placing it in his pocket. He quickly placed his files away and made his way to follow his girl.

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Maverick Tower

Miles Maverick sat at his desk currently looking at a screen watching the footage of The-Black-and-Blue Blur fighting the droid that Maverick sent out in the city weeks ago. That battle was the first time that The Blur had ever popped up and there was part of Miles that hated himself for creating a reason that would allow the nuisance that was The Blur to walk into his life, But the other part of Miles was happy. He was happy because he created a reason for The Blur to walk into his life. The way this part of Miles saw it was that it was a chance to show the world just how dominant and how strong Miles Maverick was as a man. If Miles could destroy a man who had the power of a god, then he himself would be seen as the saviour that he truly thinks he is.

"Mr. Maverick, I'm going home. Anything you need from me before I go?" said beautiful, blonde with blue eyes who opened the glass door of Maverick's luxurious office. To anyone with eyes you could clear as day see that Maverick loved expensive things and nice things. He loved things that looked good and it was clear with the assistant he hired.

"No, Ms. Graves, you're free to go. Have a good night." Maverick said as he looked up and gave the blonde assistant a smile making her return his grin and close the door and proceeded to walk down the hallway on her way home.

The grin that once held Miles Maverick's face hostage quickly disappeared leaving him with a scowl. Maverick stood up and turned around to the bookshelf that was behind him. He pulled one of his favorites, Hamlet causing the bookshelf to slowly back up before going up showing the state of the art lab that Maverick used for his own research. He walked into the office with a smirk on his face as the bookshelf lowered back into its regular position while a steel door came down.

Maverick looked directly at his new science project who was wearing a hoodie covering up himself as he stared at a tablet in hand.

"Adam, How are you?" Maverick asked, trying to be cordial.

"Angry." Adam bluntly answered as he didn't turn to face the man who asked him a question.

"Understandable. You have every right to be angry."

"I want him dead. I want him dead now!" Adam said as he turned to look at Miles but with glowing red eyes. Maverick loved seeing Adam the way he was. Most men would hate to see their friend in pain but not Miles. He never really saw Adam as a friend, just more of a business partner. And now that Miles had given Adam the power he needed to take down their enemy but what Adam didn't know was that Miles really had the power.

"And he will be, but first we have to plan." Adam stood up and took off his hood showing the cybernetic face that he had due to The Blur.

"I have a plan. It's simple. Send me after him and let me kill him."

"Adam, Adam, Adam. You know the rules, I call the shots." Miles said. Adam frowned before he quickly ran over to Miles in a blur and lifted Maverick up into the air with his hand wrapped around his neck.

Miles grunted as he was struggling for his breath as Adam held him up. MIles luckily was able to reach in his pocket and pull his phone pressing a button causing a jolt of electricity to run through Adam making him groan in pain as he quickly Miles and dropped down to a knee in pain.

Miles fixed his suit as he stared at Adam who was still writhing in pain as the electricity continued to course through his body. Miles pressed a button causing the electricity to leave from his body making him groan.

"Next time, you think about putting your hands on me. Remember this pain." Adam slowly looked up at Miles with a frown as Miles smirked.

"Now for my plan to unfold."