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Chapter Ten

"Patrick, what's the matter? What's on your face?" Raven asked when she heard Patrick coming from the cave entrance. She had been meditating and had lost track of time, it was now nearing dawn, the horizon a deep crimson, tinted with orange.

"I… killed them," Patrick said in a completely calm voice as he walked towards her, "I killed them all, Raven."

"What? Killed who?" Raven was now standing and walking cautiously towards Patrick, quickly figuring out what the substance on his trench coat and face was.

"All the people in the cave. They're all dead. I killed them."

Raven walked up right next to Patrick, looking at him closely, confirming that he was spattered with blood, the deep red accented by the sky. She withheld a gasp; even the self-proclaimed queen of the dark was not hardened to the sight of blood. She closed her eyes in front of him, delving into the depths of his mind to his recent memories. She moved away from him as she opened her eyes suddenly.

"I'm sorry," Patrick said solemnly, far from oblivious to Raven's presence in his memory, the intrusion causing an odd feeling in his head.

"So am I," Raven replied softly. She had long feared this happening with Patrick. He had so much pent up rage. She knew one day it would all be released in one violent outburst. "Come on, let's get back to the tower." Raven began to levitate and float slowly towards the dimly lit Titan Tower. "We can try to explain this to the others."

"No… wait," Patrick said turning to the cave, seeming to come out of his stupor for a moment.

Raven stopped in midair and landed softly. "What is it?"

"The computers in that chamber… they ran on a network."

"So?"

"That means there might still be a server down there with all our files on it. We have to shut it down."

Raven nodded, the prospect of Titan Tower's security being compromised was enough to keep Raven from taking Patrick back to have judgment cast upon him. Slowly, they set off into the cave, destined for the chamber once more.

The room was the exact same as it had been left. The stench of burnt flesh was prominent in the air, enveloping Raven and Patrick in its pungent grips. Bodies, the ones that had not been vaporized, laid in ruin, most of the time nothing but a charred skeleton left of them, fused to the metal and stone floor.

Raven held back her disgust and walked towards the cubicles in the back of the room, ignoring Patrick's reactions to the room entirely, not wanting to add to the situation in his mind.

Patrick looked out upon all that he had caused. All the workers who had been so severely incinerated, most of which weren't visible, having been turned to ash and scattered about in the room.

Then came the one man, crippled on the chamber exit, still semi-decapitated, a monolith to all Patrick had done. He was still surrounded by a pool of his quickly hardening blood, his face frozen in the eternal form of fear. That was death staring Patrick right in the face, the cold glare of a horror-struck face.

"Patrick, I found a wire," Raven said calling him out.

Sure enough, Raven had found a Cat5 network cable, which had been unearthed when Patrick had released his power in the room. He shook off his emotions and returned to what appeared his normal self; the oposite of what he was feeling with in. Slowly, he made his way over to where Raven was standing and tugged the cable upwards, pulling more out of the ground.

It led to a solid wall. Patrick recognized the obvious hidden door and pressed his ear against the smooth rock, hitting it to listen for hollow spots. It took about a minute of feverish searching until he his a very soft spot in the wall. The pressure caused it to move inwards and lift. Inside there were two enormous black prisms, each with countless lights on them. They were all lit by the flat screen monitor of a computer seated to the left of them. It had an enormous tower, at least three feet tall. This was no doubt the main computer, handling all the requests for data from any device on the network and routing it to the right system.

Patrick took a seat behind the computer finding that it had no encryption and no required login. There was even a blank DVD in the drive. This was the easiest hack Patrick had ever done, not that he had much experience in the art.

The files were burned and he handed it to Raven. Standing up, he made a path for the exit, passing the servers on his way out.

"Wait," he said silently, instantly halting and moving back to look over the side of the server.

"Something wrong?" Raven asked looking around the server to see what he was looking at.

"There's a light on here," Patrick said, tapping the light in question.

"Yeah, so?"

"It says," he squinting his eyes to read in the low light, "It says, 'Headquarter Uplink'." He looked over another light that said "Wireless Network". The entire island was networked.

"What are you trying to tell me?"

"It means… these weren't the only people with our life stories."