Beyond Sight.

Chapter Eight;

"Are you sure I don't look ridiculous?" Tanya asked for the fifth time that afternoon as she stared at herself in the mirror.

"Of course not," Cassidy said as she pinned Tanya's hair up and let a few bangs hang down here and there, "you're a knock out girl!"

"You really think so?"

"Sure I do," Cassidy reached for the hair spray, "cover your eyes. And Duke'll think so too you just wait and see."

"I've never been to anything so fancy before," Tanya said looking down at her hands in her lap, "what if I do something stupid?"

"You won't," Cassidy finished with her hair and turned around to grab her own dress, "didn't you ever have proms or something on your planet?"

"Well yeah, but I never got a date so I never went." Tanya looked away as the younger girl slipped into her with gown.

"Well that's not the attitude," Cassidy said as she pulled her own hair up then grabbed her makeup bag and began doing her make up, "plenty of girls don't get dates but they still go cause plenty of guys don't get dates either."

"I guess."

"Are you girls ready yet or what!" Canard shouted from behind the door, "Everyone's waiting for you!"

"It's a woman's prerogative to be late!" Cassidy yelled at him carrying on with her make up.

"Yeah that's Tanya's excuse but what's yours!" he asked grinning.

"Hey!" she said glaring at Tanya who was trying not to laugh.

"We're all in the hanger waiting!" He told them then walked off.

"Honestly," Cassie pulled on her shoes and grabbed her jacket, "some men just don't realise perfection just can't be rushed!" The two girls laughed as they walked down the hallway to the hanger and ignored the many 'finally's they received and Tanya went to sit with Duke who, as predicted was very impressed.

"So you got a date tonight girl?" Dive asked Cass.

"Uh uh." She replied looking at him and glancing at Candy whose hair was now jet black with red tips and falling around her face in a short bob, "you like to change your hair a lot don't you?"

"I get bored easily." Candy replied eyeing Dive in his tux.

"What colour's your hair normally?" Dive asked.

"Green," she made a face, "I've been dying it ever since I was old enough to know it didn't mean killing myself." They laughed.

It wasn't long before they arrived at the function which included a lot of cameramen outside trying to get pictures of anyone famous arriving and reporters asking personal questions. A few tried asking about Wildwing and Jessica but when Canard got angry and threatened a few of them Cassidy stepped in and explained that they had gone away for a while for Jessica to get over what had happened and that they should really value their privacy in such an occasion so instead they started asking about their new addition who lapped up the attention for once not having to hide in the background.

"Well that was fun." Duke said sarcastically as they got to their table inside.

"I know they're just doing their jobs but I really have a headache now." Cassie pouted.

"You really shouldn't let them get to you you know." Candy said to Canard.

"I know but they know what happened," he said sitting down heavily and folding his arms, "half of America knows what happened they should know the two of them want some space." He glanced to his right as the music started and Duke and Tanya got up to dance, "It's been three weeks now and nothing, not even a letter."

"I know." Dive sighed.

"Oh please, they're probably getting too cosy to worry about it yet!" Mallory huffed and went to get herself a drink.

"What's with her!" Canard asked. Everyone shrugged and Canard offered to get everyone else a drink.

The party went off without too much of a hitch and they'd had a lot of fun. Cassidy had danced with nearly every eligible bachelor there, along with Mallory of course. Tanya and Duke had been lost in their own little world all night. Canard had danced with a few of the bachelor-ettes along with Cassie and Mallory and Nosedive spent most of the night with Candy talking and dancing. They were on their way home when they received an alert from drake one that there was a disturbance in the poorer section of town and a few of the buildings were on fire so they changed their gear and headed there before heading home.

"Uh you'd better stay here." Canard said to Cassie as the others left, "do you have your gear?" He asked once they were gone. She shook her head no and he groaned, "Perfect well try to act human okay?"

"Okay." She replied.

"The fire trucks had managed to get into the area and their crews were fighting the worst of the fire but there were still people trapped so Canard split his team up and ordered them to help out but not to take any risks. Cassidy watched from one of the migrator's windows, that was when she noticed a woman screaming and trying to get into one of the worst buildings, she opened the door to hear what the woman was screaming and heard her scream for her baby and something about a babysitter. Cassidy looked up at the building and froze, in the unlikely event that the baby was still alive it wouldn't be for long and that wouldn't give the fire crews enough time to beat back the flames to get to it. She desperately looked for one of the ducks but even they wouldn't get through those flames no matter how many freeze pucks they used so she jumped out of the migrator and ran out of sight then she floated into the air and flew at top speed into the building checking every room as she went. At about the third floor she heard a scream and she headed towards it where she found the body of a teenage girl and just beyond her a pram with the baby in it, it looked like the girl had been trying to escape. She checked for a pulse on the girl before grabbing the bundle inside who was thankfully still alive and was about to fly the little one to safety when.

"I thought I sensed an angel in this dimension," a voice said from behind her, she spun around to face a tall muscular man with red eyes and dark purple hair, "time to die little girl." He held out his hand and a ball of molten hot flames hurtled before her and she only just had enough time to put up one of her light shields before it hit and she was thrown through the wall and out on to the street.

"Cassie?" She looked around to see Nosedive staring at her and the others just behind him. She, along with everyone else looked up just as the building exploded and a figure rose from the flames into the air. Without a word Cassidy passed the baby to Nosedive and turned to face it.

"You angels think you're so perfect," the figure yelled, "well let me tell you something little girl," he lowered himself to the ground and smirked at her, "your New Heaven is in ruins. Your Supreme Goddess is dead. Which means you're nothing and I am gong to send you to oblivion?" Cassidy felt sick, it would certainly explain why Jessica had lost her powers. Where her own powers as an angel first class were hers alone, Jessica was an oracle first class and drew hers from New Heaven itself, if there was something wrong with her home then it wouldn't have the power to sustain anyone outside their dimension whilst it repaired itself, which without the supreme Goddess was likely to take a very long time.

"Who are you?" She said to him hiding the growing fear she felt.

"I don't really have a name I suppose in this dimension they might call me Lucifer or maybe Hades, I have control of both the evil in existence and death. I am a god older than your pitiful world and people and it's high time you angels were shown your place, just as Minerva was!" He threw another energy blast at her and she raised another shield then she attacked with one of her own and flew into the air throwing spheres at him repeatedly ignoring the fact that her dress was being ruined and the humans and ducks staring from the street below. The smoke cleared and he stood there laughing and threw one more energy blast and this time it smashed through her shield and threw her back into a building. "Oh my, is that all your capable of?" he waved his hand and a red light surrounded her and brought her back down to street level then dropped her to her knees.

"Guys get everyone away from here," she said coughing, "don't try to help me, he's after me not you." She turned to Canard, "If I don't beat him tell Jess it's gone, she'll know what I mean." Then she turned back to Lucifer, "you can try to kill me if you want but let's take this someplace else where innocents won't get hurt." She paused to think of a place but he beat her to it.

"Very well." He waved his hand and they disappeared.

Elsewhere:

"Where is it coming from!" Chase asked impatiently.

"I'm not sure," his brother Daren said as he typed into his computer and tried to pinpoint the source of the power they had detected, "wait, in dimension 7.2569, Earth," out of the corner of his eye Daren noticed his brother pale, "they've just teleported to Limbo!"

"Listen, take everything you can and go to that dimension," Chase ordered, "take Talia with you. The oracle Jessica should still be there, her powers won't be working and she may need protection."

"Right but where are you going? And Talia's just a kid she won't be much help!"

"Talia's the next in line for supreme Goddess we can't let anything happen to her!" Chase grabbed something off the side and slipped it in his pocket before his brother could see, "and I'm going to help Cassidy, she may be an angel first class but she's no match for a god."

"That god took out the supreme Goddess Chase," Daren pointed out, "you may be a god first class but you may not be enough to stop him."

"Yeah well I'm hoping that was just cause grandma was too old," Chase looked at his brother and grinned, "and who said anything about stopping him, he's in limbo right? So all I have to do is push him into a nexus dimension and seal the doorway. It won't matter how powerful that uber-jerk is he can't break through a sealed dimensional door from a nexus!"

"I hope your right." Daren said watching his brother disappear in a flash of light then running off to get Talia, "I just hope you're in time bro."

Chase reappeared in limbo just in time to hear Cassidy scream. He forced himself to remain calm and looked around to find them.

"Had enough girl?" Lucifer asked, "If you stop fighting me I can make this a lot quicker."

"I'm . . . I'm an angel first class," she straightened up and stood determinedly in a fighter' stance, "I'll never surrender."

"Suit yourself." He threw energy ball after energy ball at her, which she dodged as best she could but it wasn't long before another hit her and she felt the coppery taste of blood in her mouth. "Goodbye angel first class, don't worry there's nobody to miss you." He charged up another energy ball but before he could fire it.

"I wouldn't count on that." Chase fired his own energy ball and blasted Lucifer away. Then he went to check on Cassie, "Cass? CASS!"

"Chase?" Cassidy coughed up some blood then flung her arms around his neck, "You're okay! He said . . . I thought . . ."

"Shh it's alright I'm fine, so is Daren and Talia," he said hugging her back, "right now though we have to stop this guy and I need your help."

"But I've tried everything nothing I do even touches him!" Cassie said panicking and close to tears.

"You don't have to fight him, I do," he said brushing hair out of her face, "now listen I'll kick his ass, but I don't even think I can stop him so I need you to open a door to a nexus dimension. Then you need to signal me and I'll push him through then we'll seal it together okay?"

"Okay, but just make sure he doesn't hurt you, you promise?" she pouted at him receiving a smile.

"Pinkie swear." She laughed at their old childhood saying and watched as he flew off to find Lucifer. She took a deep breath and unsteadily got to her feet then sat in a lotus position and began focusing her powers to find the door she needed. She'd never been any good at this which was why she was partnered with Jessica as her older friend could open them without barely a thought but she knew how to do it she just hoped she could actually manage it this time. Besides, she told herself, it was always easier in limbo than anywhere else. It took her the better part of half an hour before she found what she was looking for, then she straightened out and pointed both hands at the area, focusing her powers on the door and as she parted her hands a black space appeared behind it. It was small at first and it opened painstakingly slow, but she kept at it and eventually it was big enough for a small space ship to fit through so she held it open with one hand and threw light sphere into the air and made it explode signalling Chase that she was ready and where she was.

Chase saw the sphere and was thankful; he wasn't sure how much more he could take. Lucifer's power was immense and while Chase was a relatively good match for the other god it was still a pretty close call. Chase flew around his opponent throwing his own energy balls at him over and over to disguise the signal then continued the barrage pushing Lucifer back towards the hole. Lucifer pushed Chase back a couple of times but Chase managed to push him through the doorway. Once Lucifer realised what they were doing though it took all Chase had to keep him there.

"Cassidy, close it!" He yelled, a continual beam of energy coming from his hands holding Lucifer back.

"Right!" Cassidy concentrated her power again and stretched her arms out to the side and this time bringing them together closing the doorway, and then both she and Chase fired their energy at the doorway to seal it. When Chase looked around Cassidy was out cold.

"Nice work angel." He said gently taking hold of her and teleporting them back to earth and the coordinates that Lucifer had first appeared.

The ducks were still trying to figure out what had happened, Duke and Canard had explained that she was from a place called New Heaven and she was the one who'd been going around saving people but that's all they really knew. The fire crews had finally gotten the fires under control and the ambulance crews were just taking the injured to hospital when there was another flash of light and a young man who looked human with spiky blue hair and dark eyes appeared with Cassidy in his arms. The ducks pulled out their weapons and aimed them at him.

"Who are you and what've ya done ta Cass?" Duke demanded.

"And where's that super powerful creep that was beatin' on her?" Dive said looking at Cassidy and seeing the blood trickle out of her mouth.

"My name's Chase," he replied, "I haven't done anything to Cassidy, Lucifer did this and he's sealed in a nexus dimension." He raised an eyebrow, "that everything." There was another flash of light and another guy who looked similar to the first but with red hair appeared holding the hand of a girl who looked about eleven or twelve with long light blue hair in high pig tails and dark pink eyes.

"Don't look at me like that I tried to find her but with her powers not working and her looking like a human anyway it's kind of hard you know." The new guy said defensively.

"Shouldn't we get Cassidy some help?" the young girl said, "you know only oracles have healing powers so maybe if these people know her then they might help us."

"Okay now I'm totally confused." Candy said throwing her hands up in the air and walking back to the migrator.

"Well I guess we may as well get ourselves clued in where it's comfortable." Canard sighed and directed the newcomers to the migrator and the rest of the team followed. "And you two are?"

"Hi I'm Talia and this is my cousin Daren." The little girl said as she sat down on one of the chairs.

"Thanks for saving Cassidy for us!" Nosedive said taking the wheel.

"No sweat," Daren said before his brother could say anything, "it's kinda mandatory for someone betrothed to save his girl so Chase just did what he had to."

"Betrothed?" Mallory said eyeing Chase who still had Cassidy safe in his arms.

"Oh yes Cassidy is an angel first class and Chase is a god first class." Talia explained.

"Those of us destined to be at first class level are betrothed from birth." Chase recited as if from a text book.

"So you two would have an arranged marriage?" Canard asked not sure he liked the idea.

"Only if the two are in love does the supreme goddess bless the marriage," Daren stuck up for his brother, "if not they're free to marry who they choose. It's just one of those old traditions that die hard I guess."

"It wasn't always like that," Chase said looking up, "but our grandmother changed it just before we were born."

The rest of the trip was in silence and before long they had arrived back at the pond Tanya got to work on cleaning Cassidy up and hooking her up to the medi-comm unit. Daren helped her as well whilst the others congregated outside waiting for them and once they were finished Chase went inside to wait for Cassidy to wake up whilst everyone else went to the rec room. Mallory and Duke got everyone a hot drink and they settle down to find out exactly what was going on.

"Well Cassidy and Jessica were sent out about ten of your years ago, responding to mental calls for help from your planet." Daren explained.

"Wait a minute!" Mallory interrupted, "they were on Puckworld?"

"Yes we can take on what ever form we choose and so the two of them went to your world and helped as best they could," he took a sip of his drink, "we don't know exactly what happened as we don't generally get in contact with home unless we need help, all we know is that moments before New Heaven was attacked we detected their powers in use and travelling through limbo. Once we were attacked we lost contact with all our operatives on missions."

"Wait a minute if they were helping our kind out why were they in limbo?" Canard asked.

"Well we don't know that all we know it would have been about two years ago now." Daren replied.

"They must have followed us while we went after Draganus." Grin reasoned.

"So if Jessica's from your world too then shouldn't she have powers like Cass?" Dive asked.

"She does, but oracles draw their power from New Heaven which allows then to 'see without seeing' and heal and so on," he paused making a face, "you know where she is?"

"Sort of," Canard said, "she fell for one of the team and got hurt so now they're off getting over it. This seeing without seeing, does that mean when her powers are working she's not blind?"

"Not all oracles are blind but those who are tend to be more powerful because they have to rely more on their powers so they practise with them more than those with sight." Daren told them. "And with New Heaven so damaged Jessica can't draw enough power to make her own work, so she's blind again."

"So what happened to your world?" Tanya asked leaning against Duke who had his arm around her.

"Most of it's dead but there's some of us who survived and the oracles still there are being supported by what little power our world has left and are using that to heal it, the rest are helping to rebuild the cities and technology we had before he attacked." Daren paused and took another sip of his drink, "that's how we knew Cassidy was in danger we had managed to rebuild one of the computers that detects our powers and locates where we are. Chase has been worried sick about her since this whole thing started and we've been searching for her ever since too, but it's only recently she's been using her powers and each time she never used them to the full extent so it was difficult to pinpoint her location. When Lucifer attacked she had no choice but to use her full power and that's how we found her. Talia and I teleported here and Chase went after her. Lucifer had teleported her to limbo and from there any oracle, angel, god or goddess can open doorways I guess he took on Lucifer whilst she opened a doorway to a nexus dimension then they sealed him in there."

"What's a nexus dimension?" Candy asked grabbing a cookie off the table.

"It's a dimension where it draws on a god's power to survive, one that's new and just beginning. With the reality in that dimension drawing on his power and the doorway to limbo sealed it's unlikely he'll ever be a problem here again."

"What about the beings in that dimension?" Tanya said indignantly.

"There wouldn't be any yet," he reassured her, "and although the he's evil the power being absorbed is just that, as with any race it's the person who chooses to be evil not the power they use or wield."

Back in the infirmary Chase sat watching Cassidy sleep. Even covered in bruises, to him she was still beautiful and had the grace fitting for an angel of her class.

"I searched for you," he said looking up at the ceiling, "even before the central computer was fixed I searched as many dimensions as I could. But you were never there." He sighed and looked back down at her, "I told you not to take that mission. We should be married by now. But then I guess you could have died when New Heaven was first attacked, at least you're alive. You just have to come round now Cass," he looked away again, "please."

"For you? Anything," A small voice said from the bed making him look back, "hey there handsome."

"Don't do that!" He said playfully.

"What?" she pouted innocently.

"You always find the single most effective way of worrying me out of my head and then I start babbling and . . ." Chase stopped when her fingers covered his lips.

"And I'm always there to stop you babbling on aren't I?" she smiled, "Thanks for saving my life, what's that four times now?"

"Five," He laughed and leant over to kiss her, "but who's counting."

"I won't if you won't." she said snaking her arms around his neck and kissing back, "I missed you."

"I missed you to my angel."

In case any of you don't know Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom, war and crafts and Hades (which means the invisible) was the Greek god of the underworld and his realm was also called this.

Another chapter up! I hope you liked it, I finally got around to explaining exactly where Cass and Jess came from (took me long enough huh?) Anywho, please review either way! Toodles Angel xxx.