Chapter 12- the Demon and the Apprentice
Bruce turned to the others, all of the henchmen having been taken care of.
"Any ideas of what we should do about that snatch and run?"
"We need to go after him," Jared said. "If for nothing more then morale."
"It's more then that…" Barb said. "She was channeling much more power then she should be able to here."
"So you're saying that if she's turned by Steven it's gonna be a huge mess?" Ryan asked.
"Look, we're running out of time here," James said. "Now's not the time to get advice, it's time for action."
"Right. Scott, Rath, Ryan, get up to the Unity. Protocol 2."
"Got ya," Scott raised his hand to his earpiece. "Horgan to Unity, three to beam up." They disappeared into the swirling blue beam.
"Beth, Jared, Ian, you three supervise the repair and upgrade of this area, I want better proximity sensors. Barb, James, you're with me, we're gonna follow his trail."
"That will take too long on foot," James said.
"I have a new prototype I want to try for this."
"…I'll get the barf bags," was all Barb said as she headed towards the doors to sickbay.
A thousand volts of pain rushed though Asuyuka's body, making her skin feel as though it was on fire. The pain stopped as Steven stopped shooting lightning from his hand.
"What do you want?" She asked, pleading for him to stop.
"Want?" He laughed, a laugh full of hate and contempt that made every hair and her body stand on end. "I want nothing from you but your screams." This time he raised his other hand, his right, and although no lighting came out the pain did. She screamed and writhed as the pain raced other her, making her want to rip her skin off just to stop the pain. "And when I no longer have those, then you shall be mine," he grabbed her chest. "In more way then one." The lighting came back, as her spine curved the laughs got louder. She passed out, her body still writhing. Steven let the lighting slowly stop as a dark shadow came up from Asu.
"You wish for power, do you not?" the shadow asked.
"I have power already."
"Yes, but not enough, you want more. Tell me, how would you like to rule over these five dimentions you know of, free from your masters."
"You gonna make an offer, or am I gonna wait all day?"
"All you have to do is this, throw the fight with Bruce."
"No way! I've got him right where I want him."
"Listen to me, if you fight him now you will lose. But, if you waited another week or so your victory would be assured."
"All right, fair enough. What do you get out of it?"
"Don't worry about that, just see that you hold up your end."
"Hm… you got a deal."
"Good, I will call you when the time is right to fight Bruce." The shadow disappeared back into Asu, leaving no evidence of it ever being there.