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Part 6

Will finally came to the end of the hallway where a large door stood. Unfortunately, the door was locked. Knowing that Warren was trapped inside, Will ripped the door from its hinges with a loud metallic screech and saw Mr. Boomoski stab his friend with a wicked looking needle.

"NO!" Will bellowed in rage.

Boomer froze and looked up in surprise at the abrupt interruption. Filled with uncontrollable anger, Will streaked across the room and punched the evil man away from Warren. Mr. Boomoski was knocked backwards, shattering a television, and knocking videocassettes all over the floor. He didn't rise again.

"Master Will!" Warren exclaimed in surprise much to Will's relief.

"Warren! Are you alright?" Will asked his friend before noticing the syringe still embedded in Warren's arm, "Oh God! Stay still."

Will gently pulled the needle out of the young man's arm. It didn't appear that Boomer had injected any of the serum into his friend.

"I don't think that he had time to inject the toxin," Warren said to Will, "I'm fine, but please get me out of this chair! We have to save the others."

"That's all taken care of," Will said as he struggled to unbuckle the bounds on the young teen so he wouldn't hurt the obviously battered youth, "It looks like you were worked over good."

"I've been beaten before Master Will," Warren said, "I will heal. How did you know I was here?"

"The cook told me. I came as soon as I could," Will said finally freeing one of Warren's wrists, "Are you sure that the bastard didn't inject anything into you?"

"I'm sure," Warren said sadly, "Master Boomer's poison would have started showing signs of working immediately. The other Vills who passed died horribly. The man is a monster. He wanted to take over the world and…WILL! LOOK OUT!"

Will whipped around and came face to face with an enraged Sonic Boom. He placed himself in front of the helpless Warren to defend his friend.

"Stay back," Will warned Boomer, "I am not alone. The other UN Supers are here. I wouldn't try anything if I were you."

"No. You get BACK!" the man boomed sending Will flying backwards into Warren causing the metal chair to break from where it was attached to the floor.

Will landed badly and noticed that the blow had knocked Warren unconscious. Will quickly stood up to face off with the obviously deranged Mr. Boomoski.

"I don't want to have to hurt you," Will warned as he edged away from Warren to keep Boomer's attention on him instead of the trapped young man.

"BACK!" Sonic Boom bellowed even louder sending Will crashing through the wall of the room and into a large hanger of some kind.

"You've ruined everything," Mr. Boomoski growled as he stepped through the ragged hole in the wall as Will pulled himself to his feet, "You and the Vills will die today and then I'll find that little girlfriend of yours."

"You stay away from Warren and Layla," Will growled back.

"You had no right to interfere CHILD!" the man boomed sending Will skidding along the floor.

"Interfere in what?" Will demanded getting back up, "Interfere in keeping you from killing innocents? What did Warren mean when he said you want to take over the world? Aren't you supposed to be defending the world? You're a Super Hero!"

"But not a Super Hero like your PARENTS!" Boomer bellowed again sending Will skidding along the floor, "No matter what I did, your parents did better. No matter what I tried Supers like your goody-good parents always made the news. Supers like me where overlooked like we meant nothing!"

"My parents are Heroes because they use their powers without needing to hear thanks!" Will snapped standing back up, "They don't care about what they gain. You only care about having power over others and that's why you took the position to be over the Vills."

"So you are smarter than your idiot of a FATHER!" the man boomed out, but this time Will evaded the sonic backlash by taking flight.

Will dove down and punched the hanger floor so as to cause a ripple affect to domino across the surface. Sonic Boom was sent flying.

"You're a loser and a joke!" Will spat as he flew back up and came hurtling down at the Super-Hero-turned-Villain.

"FOOL!" Boomer roared out catching Will in the backlash, sending him flying into the opposite wall, "I will destroy you!"

Sonic Boom roared out at the heavy equipment nearby so as to cause them to fly in the young Super's direction. Will was bombarded with flying projectiles and had to punch and dodge his way out of the mess. Will was able to send some of the projectiles flying back at Boomer, but the man was a professional and easily evaded the counterattack.

"I am my parents' son," Will thought grimly to himself as he continued to dodge Boomer's onslaught, "I will not allow this maniac to get the best of me. I am a Stronghold."

"God damn BRAT," Sonic Boom roared, "You have no chance against me. I have the experience to take you down boy."

"Give it your best shot," Will growled.

Will launched himself from the ground and found an opening to throw a punch at Mr. Boomoski. Unfortunately, the man was experienced enough to throw himself out of the range of the blow and used his sonic scream to throw the teenager back across the room into one of the support beams of the hanger. The support beam snapped in half and fell into two other support beams that buckled. The heavy steel beams and part of the roof came down on top of the distracted teen. Will was effectively pinned and left helpless.

O.O

The Commander and Jetstream had finally arrived to help take down the government facility responsible for the death of numerous Children of the Vills. With them was Layla and the three joined the other UN Supers to subdue the stubborn guards that refused to stand down.

"Where is my son?" Steve Stronghold yelled to Ms. Powers as he threw a guard against a wall.

"He went after his friend," Ms. Powers yelled back, "Sonic Boom took one of the Vills into the facility to exterminate him."

"Oh no! Poor Warren," Layla gasped as she urged local plants to hold down some struggling guards.

"Will went after the Battle kid?" Steve demanded angrily, "I told him to stay away from the evil punk.
"Shut up!" Layla snapped in rage as thorn vines whipped out at a surprised Commander, "Warren is not evil. He is a kind and gently guy and Will and I love him like a brother."

"Layla! Control yourself," Josie Stronghold ordered.

"Yes Layla. Control yourself," Steve echoed.

"And you listen to Layla," Josie informed her shocked husband, "Will is a fine boy who knows how to judge people. If my son says that this Warren is a good kid then I believe him. Don't make judgements so quickly. That's how we got into this whole Vills mess to begin with. Now stop arguing and help me find our son!"

Ms. Powers pointed out the way that Will had gone and the three took off to help.

O.O

Warren fought groggily to return to consciousness. He heard what sounded like a war echo from afar. With a gasp he came to as he remembered where he was and what had happened.

"Master Will?" Warren called as he opened his eyes and realized that he was seeing the room from an odd angle.

He was still buckled into the medical chair and somehow it had been ripped from the floor. Warren remembered his master catching he and Will in a sonic wave. Several crashes coming from a hole in the wall and a familiar clash of voices alerted Warren that his master was fighting with his friend.

"I've got to get free and help Master Will," Warren thought to himself frantically as he used his freed lower arm to try and get the buckle undone to free his upper arm.

The young teen strained and worked at the buckle until one of his arms was finally completely free. He then went to work on the other bindings. Warren sighed in relief when was finally free of the metal chair. As he crawled from the wreckage and stood his foot hit an odd shaped metal object on the floor.

"What's this?" Warren asked himself as he picked it up.

As the young Vills stood back up, he caught a glimpse of himself in a broken mirror on the wall. There had always been a octagon shaped lock on the power-suppressing metal collars. The metal object in his hand was octagon shaped on one end. Could this be the key to his collar? Warren quickly tried to fit the "key" into the lock and with a snap and a click the metal collar fell away from the young man's neck.

"Oh my God," Warren gasped as he stared at his reflection with wide eyes since he had always had a heavy collar around his neck since he was three years old.

Several loud crashes snapped Warren back into reality. He ran to the hole in the wall just in time to see his friend pinned down by several large support beams and wreckage from part of the roof. He heard Will cry out in pain.

"Your not so mighty now are you?" Warren heard his master say as he idly walked towards his pinned friend, "I guess Mommy and Daddy can't save you now."

Will moaned in pain as Sonic Boom climbed on top of the wreckage that held him in place. Warren scrambled silently through the wall and hurried across the hanger to try to get to his friend. He froze when he saw Master Boomer pick up a lethal looking iron rod that had been a part of the roof, but now looked more like a spear.

"Now I'll kill you and the Vills. Then I'll find your little girlfriend," Boomer growled as he raised the rod up to deliver a deadly blow to the child at his feet, "Nobody has the ability to stop Sonic Boom. Nobody!"

"Leave them alone," Warren heard Will gasp out, "I won't let you hurt them."

Even in the end, Will was trying to protect the people he cared about. Rage filled Warren from the top of his head to the bottom of his toes. Will and Layla were his friends and they had been working hard to protect him and the rest of the Vills. Will had come to save him and now Master Boomer was going to kill him. This was wrong! The rage boiled within Warren until he could no longer see straight. He felt heat coursing throughout his body until something snapped and moved deep within him.

"NO!" he roared as power surged to the forefront within him, "Leave Master Will alone!"

Sonic Boom turned at the voice of authority and froze in shock at the enraged Vills. The man could not believe the boy's audacity. How dare he think that he stood any chance against a Super? The teen had no power here.

"Stand down Vills," Master Boomer ordered in irritation.

"Bite me!" Warren bellowed as the air snapped and his long hair whipped around him, "You will never again hurt me! You will never again hurt anyone! I won't let you!"

Sonic Boom's eyes widened when the young teen again roared out and the boy's body ignited in deadly flames. Warren's eyes glowed red as he advanced on the shaken Super.

"You have no powers!" Mr. Boomoski shrieked as he scuttled sideways away from the young Stronghold who was staring at the Vills with a look of awe on his face.

"Leave! Him! Alone!" Warren screamed as he instinctually threw a basketball-sized fireball at his former master.

"BACK OFF!" Mr. Boomoski boomed as he dodged the fireball and tried to force the young man away from him.

Unfortunately, the sonic backlash only served to feed Warren's flames. Warren may have chosen Peace as his name, but he was Baron Battle's son through and through. Sonic Boom was forced to dodge well-aimed fireballs as he ran for cover screaming like a girl.

"Monster!" he yelled as he threw the metal rod at Warren like a javelin, "Stay away from me!"

"Monster?" Warren roared as his flames filled over half the room and he caught the flying rod with graceful ease, "You kill children for the pleasure of it, and you call me the monster? What the hell is wrong with you?"

"You are just like your father!" Master Boomer yelled out as he searched for shelter among the inferno, "All Vills are evil! Just like you!"

"I am not my father!" Warren bellowed as his flames burned even brighter, "Vills are not evil, you are!"

"Stay away from ME!" Mr. Boomoski screamed as he used his sonic abilities to toss a large truck at the young Vills.

Warren smirked and used a large fireball to disintegrate the flying truck. The backlash from the explosion sent his master flying against the wall where he crumbled to the ground unconscious. Warren smirked again as he formed a fireball to destroy the unmoving man.

"Your evil ends today," Warren growled.

"No," a soft voice gasped out causing Warren to pause and turn in confusion towards Will.

"Warren! Stop!" he heard Layla yell.

Warren turned and saw Mistress Layla and Mr. and Mrs. Stronghold staring at him with wide, frightened eyes. The rage drained out of him as he noticed the destruction around him. He gasped when he realized what he had been about to do.

"No! Oh no!" Warren gasped as he unconsciously extinguished the flames surrounding him and dropped to his knees, "I'm sorry! I'm not my father! I'm so sorry! I'm not evil! I'm not!"

To be continued…

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