Revenant
Chapter Twelve
Richie moaned feeling that he had just had a building fall directly onto his head.
"You ok Rich?" A voice asked him sounding concerned.
Richie kept his eyes closed and felt that he was currently led on the couch, "Been better bro... feel like we just had a close encounter of the Onyx and Carmandillo kind!" He joked, moving a hand to rub his throbbing his head in an attempt to get rid of the headache.
"Headache Richie? I think that has something to do with what happened earlier..." Virgil's voice said, Richie looked up and tried to find his best friend but couldn't really see him.
"Virgil? What do you mean?" He asked, confused in whatever Virgil was talking about now and where he was.
A chair on the other side of the gas station moved from Richie's desk to where the couch was, "I'm saying about the indoor tycoon that was caused after whatever that thing is around your neck was removed" Virgil said, becoming visible to Richie's view.
Richie closed his eyes once again and tried to remember why was he in the gas station anyway, "I remember... where are the Justice League? I was talking to them then... that's it..." He muttered as he drew a blank moment in his memory, subconsciously playing with the mentioned device around his neck.
"They left, something about a disturbance over in Metropolis..." Virgil said, sighing and crossed his arms over the back of the chair and rested his head on them.
"You talked to them? But I thought you said that it was against the rules that have been set to protect you" Richie said, shocked that Virgil had spoken to the Justice League.
"So is being spotted in my angelic form… I am so going to get told off…" Virgil sighed, knowing that the next time he reports in that he was going to get a lecture of his afterlife.
Richie looked over at Virgil and could see that he was really depressed, "It wasn't your fault bro... something about this whole situation is not right!" He said, a odd feeling about these robberies and Puff's power changing did not feel right to him one bit.
knock knock
"Come in!" The crazy voice called from where he was once again at work on his laptop.
The lone figure walked in, his cloak swept around him and moved in a unseen breeze. "He was there like we thought..." He spoke in a soft, harsh voice.
"Did you use that on him?" The crazy voice asked, his smile widening.
"I did Dr, it worked how we thought it would" The figure spoke and took a seat at the table.
"that is fine! Give the orders, we will start the real mission soon enough... then the real fun will begin" The crazy doctor said.
'Soon... soon we will be reunited' The cloaked figure thought to himself before rising up from the chair, bowed and left the room.
"I don't know about this Puff! We haven't seen Chainlink since he argued with that crazy scientist!" Carmandillo spoke in a higher voice than normal and paced across the large room.
Around this large room was piles of boxes, all labelled with long complex names ready to be assembled together. There were several doors leading to different parts of the hideout.
Puff sat, or rather hovered above Carmandillo while he paced. "Are you going to stop soon?" She sighed and made an attempt to keep his noise from giving her a headache.
"I... I can't help it! I'm all for breaking out Ebon and Hotstreak, it... it's just the fact that of what they are willing to do to get them out!" Carmandillo said and crashed down breathless.
"All we got to do is get rid of the Justice League long enough to break them out! I can see the reason why you should be so upset... as much as I love this new power" Puff stopped and remembered the battle earlier.
"It's bad enough that guy gives me the creeps… but that cloaked man is even scarier! More scarier than Ebon if that is possible…" Carmandillo said just as a door opened at the other end of the hall revealing the mysterious cloaked figure, his cape whipping around him in the unseen wind.
Walking at a brisk pace, he crossed the hall and walked through a closed door, the door that had been left open slammed shut.
Puff and Carmandillo both shuddered. "I am wondering about that guy… did I tell what he did while I was fighting Gear and Shebang? He threw a capsule of some sort into midair! Didn't see any reason to that," Puff said as she regained herself.
"Something about this is not right Puff! I just hope that this would just end up being a bad dream…" Carmandillo spoke in a quiet voice and went back to his pacing.
Leaving Richie to get some rest, Virgil decided that he should go and report this to his bosses, so here was where we could find the angelic superhero deep in meditation.
"The situation is getting worse, not only has the metahuman known as Puff has gained the ability to create and breath metagas but she has affected Gear and Shebang" Virgil reported in to the high lords.
When he had arrived his mother had made him bathe before changing into some angelic robes, these robes were gold in colour with a large hood that would hide most of the face of the wearer from view.
"The fact that those heroes have possibly got new powers is interesting but that does not explain about your incident with the Justice League" The central high lord out of five spoke.
The high lords in front of Virgil all wore bright white robes their faces hidden from view. A mysterious light emitted from behind them, a old atmosphere hanged in the air yet there seemed to be a hint of a higher power but unlike the high lords it seemed more friendly.
"I am unable to explain that myself sirs... one moment I was monitoring the battle between Gear, Shebang and Puff and the next all I could remember was green smoke..." Virgil reported and tried his best to remember the events that had taken place before his small talk with the Justice League.
The high lords gathered together and shared a few quiet words before nodding in agreement before your next report" The central lords voice boomed.
Virgil bowed and left the bright room, blinking away the light change. He met up with his mom and together they flew back to their cloud home.
"Really worried about this mom... something about this doesn't feel right..." Virgil said pacing a little and his wings folded up behind him.
"Settle down... you're levitating" Jean calmly spoke seeing her son was a foot off the cloud.
Virgil took a deep breath and cleared his mind and soon felt the clouds back under his feet. "Sorry mom... but something just doesn't feel right about this" He said before crashing down on a armchair that appeared and formed out of the clouds that they were standing on.
Jean sighed and expanded the armchair to the size of a small couch. "From what you have told me and what you have told the high counci, it does sound that there is more going on than what is seems" She said as she sat down and looked across at her son, who was lost in thought, his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands.
"Virgil, go back and get some rest ok, if what you are thinking is trye then you are going to need all the rest you can get" Jean said, resting a hand on Virgil's shoulder.
Blinking a few times, Virgil found himself at the gas station still in his angelic form robes and all. A light snore was echoing lightly around the old headquarters and finding the source, he saw that Richie was fast asleep.
Smiling softly, Virgil headed over to one of the more empty desks and jumped on it before getting comfortable and made sure that his protective spells were backup and secure before falling asleep using his wings for comfort.