Revenant Chapter Six
The Bat Jet flew silently and quickly through the city of Dakota, then it vanished from sight above the clouds.
It soared in the bright blue sky; the sun gleamed on the black paintwork. It soon vanished back into the clouds and flying in and out of the skyscrapers before stopping at the abandoned industrial area of Dakota.
It soon landed outside an abandoned gas station to the passer by but it was really a secret hideout for Dakota's superheroes Gear and Rubberband Man.
A hatch slid back and revealed the super genius hero, and the dark knight, Batman. Climbing out of the black jet, Gear stood back and Batman climbed back into the pilot seat.
"Not bad, Gear" Batman said, with a smile.
"Thank you Batman, I really needed that flight… it helped me clear my head!" Gear said, adjusting his helmet a little.
"I hope you are sure about this situation and if you ever want to talk again then you know how to reach me" Batman said, pressing a button on the control panel, waved then the Bat Jet took off.
Gear waved and watched the Bat Jet vanish from sight.
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Deeply sighing, he walked into the gas station, his eyes adjusting to the dim light before looking around.
Removing his helmet as the door closed, he was half glad that the ghost thing had seemly gone. Rubbing his forehead to fight off an oncoming headache, Richie moved back to his desk for his glasses.
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Virgil sighed as he watched Richie walk around the headquarters cleaning up silently. He remembered when they would joke about and have the radio playing in the background.
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Richie quickly changed out of his costume and back into his street clothes. Even though his parents knew that he was Gear, he still felt better in going home in his street clothes.
Cleaning his glasses before putting them on, he looked at the mirror and saw a depressed teenager staring back at him. Sighing deeply, Richie folded his costume up and stored it carefully in the rucksack along with his helmet.
Walking out of the bathroom he felt someone watching him again. "I know that you are there! Show yourself!!" Richie yelled, his voice bouncing off the walls of the gas station.
Virgil sighed and appeared. "No need to yell! How did you know I was here?" He asked, appearing at Richie's side.
"I'm not really sure…" Richie said, jumping away from the ghost, still a little unsure of what was happening to him.
Smirking Virgil crossed his arms. "You haven't changed, you sure have gotten on well" Virgil said, looking around the gas station which had really changed.
Instead of Richie keeping all of his technology and his ongoing inventions and experiments to a corner, they had spilled all throughout the gas station. A notice board had been put up and was covered in complex diagrams and calculations, which gave Virgil a headache to even glance at.
"Yeah well this is mainly my home now… though I do go to Mr Hawkins house and spend time there" Richie said, sitting back down at his desk.
"Oh… is he ok?" Virgil said, his arms still crossed against his chest but turned to face his back on Richie.
"He had been keeping busy, but I think it is still going to be some time before he recovers… before we all recover…"Richie said, removing his glasses and rubbed his eyes with the palms of his hands.
Putting his glasses back on, he saw that Virgil had his back to him and that his shoulders were slumped down.
"Virg?" Richie asked getting up from the desk and raised a hand up to put on his friend's shoulder.
"Don't…" Virgil said moving away from Richie then looked up at the ceiling and sighed. "I… I better go… got a few things to do…Rich…" Virgil said, unfolding his arms but kept his back to Richie.
"Yeah bro" Richie said out of old habit.
"Don't tell anyone that you saw me… they won't believe you…" Virgil said and then glowed white before disappearing.
"Only one person would believe me Virgil…" Richie muttered, a single tear coming out of his eye.