Taken In Again
Disclaimer: It's a fan fiction, what do you expect? I own whatever wasn't invented already.
"Who? Who's coming?"
As my vision came to an end, my gaze returned to answer my dear American friend.
"I saw…"
"Yeah?"
"Men…a lot of men…invading the portal…escaping into the future."
"What? Who?" asked Mina.
"Our new enemy, apparently. They must know of my existence here…how I'm not supposed to be here."
"You may never know that, they may not know of us yet." Nemo suggested.
"No…I can sense it. They are going to attack us soon enough and they must have some knowledge of the portaleiver. We must not let them have it. They can expose us…better yet alter the future!"
"Well what did they look like?" Mina's gaze was beginning to turn a bit crimson, but they were nothing to my white ice eyes.
"I saw them killing my friends." I trailed off to the image of the people I care about die to those scandals.
"Alisha, focus!" I turned to Allan.
"Who were they?"
I breathed in deeply, and then closed my eyes.
"I can't tell. It's a group of men, seeming to be English or something."
Opening my eyes, I felt uncomfortable with the entire league staring at my expression. I scrunched my face in distress.
"Get all the portaleivers. And don't let anything happen to them."
The league rushed off immediately, except for Rodney. He touched my shoulder showing comfort, and then rushed off with the rest of them.
As soon as the league left Alisha alone in the library, a group of men all dressed in proper English attire resembling Dorian Grey appeared out of thin air, surrounding the witch. Before she could get up and scream for help, one of the men from behind caught Alisha in his arms and tightly covered her mouth. She struggled to break free from the man's grasp, but he was too strong.
"Shh…" he said, stroking the witch's cheek. "We won't hurt you…"
His voice was soft and eerie, distinguished from the rest of the men who stood like statues under their leader's order. The man chuckled. "You're not going to scream…are you?"
Alisha's eyes narrowed, and the man slowly let go of her mouth.
"Who are you?" It was a statement rather than a question; the witch's voice was cold, and demanding.
"We are The Teneacherous. My name is Bane Wilde. We…appear before you with only one request."
"And what is that?" Alisha never relaxed for one minute. She knew she couldn't use her powers to kill them just yet…she needed to know their plan, first. So she lingered on the edge, just waiting to pounce.
"We want you to join us…in overthrowing the British Empire. I for one believe that a new era deserves a fresh source of power…don't you?" Bane's breath tickled Alisha's cheek he was so close, watching her every move.
Alisha gave a wicked chuckle. "Join you? You have got to be kidding."
Bane slightly laughed in response. "Well you're speaking for the entire league now aren't you? I'll have to ask them individually I suppose…but first, I have a duty to eliminate my little mutineer."
Just before Bane could take out his dagger and slit her throat, Alisha stopped his endeavor.
"If you kill me they'll never join you."
He stopped short to think the possibility over. Shrugging, Bane proceeded to bring the knife to Alisha's throat.
"I'll take my chances."
Just then, The Teneacherous and Alisha heard Tom yell across the halls, nearing the library. "Hey, Alisha! I've got my portaleiver!"
When the young agent stepped in the room and saw the men surrounding Alisha's near murder, he immediately took out his gun and aimed straight at Bane's head. When the bullet pierced into his head, he merely shook it off and smiled. Just then Mina, Henry, Nemo, Allan, and Rodney jolted through the archway in shock of the noise the gun had made. They could only get but a glimpse of their enemy before the disappeared out of thin air.
Alisha looked behind and around her, shimmering off the feel of Bane's skin wrapped around her. She looked to the league, her face hanging. They, in response, impatiently waited for an answer.
Alisha tightened her lips and vaguely shrugged while pulling her collar. "I could have taken 'em."
Tom subconsciously put down his portaleiver, and rushed to the witch's side.
"Are you hurt? Were those the…"
"The Teneacherous. Their plan is to overthrow the British Empire, suggesting our help."
"And you denied?" Nemo pointed out.
"Obviously."
"Well do they know of the portal?"
Alisha's eyes widened as she viewed one of The Teneacherous appear and steal Tom's portaleiver, lying on the table. The league followed her gaze, not being able to do anything before the man disappeared with the device.
"They do now."
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The same man who stole Tom's portaleiver appeared before the rest of the Teneacherous, greeting Bane.
"Did you get the object the American spoke of?"
Nodding, the man handed Bane the portaleiver. After Bane took hold of it, the man bowed and retrieved behind to his usual spot of the Teneacherous, forming its complete circle.
"What does it do, my liege?" one of the men asked.
Bane played with the device in his hand, trying each of the buttons. When he was holding down one of the buttons, he spun his arm in the air as a gesture to his men, when the portal appeared.
Bane slowly turned to the mysterious swirl of purple and grey light, gradually forming a smile.
He let go of the button, and nod his head to the side, signaling to one of his men to inspect the portal. The man carefully approached the portal, and slowly stuck his hand through as a first attempt. With an astonished expression, the member retrieved his hand out slowly, turned to Bane, and shared a cruel and immoral smirk.
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"Alright. Our best bet is for me and a few others to escape into the future and wait for the attack. The rest of you then would wait here in 1899 and see if anything else happens. We can report to each other through the portaleivers. Tom, since they took yours, you can just use one of ours until I make you a new one. I dare not, however, make any more while The Teneacherous are still around, waiting to take grasp of any more there are." Alisha walked to the long wooden table in MI5, slamming her hand down. Campion followed her trail.
"Sounds like a good plan. But first we need to prepare ourselves for any attack at all. What are these guys? I shot a bullet right through one man's head! How do we kill 'em?" Tom squealed uneasy in his spot.
"We can't know for sure just yet, but only gather the facts."
"And the facts are?" Mina opened up.
"They can't be killed by a bullet wound, they can appear and disappear out of thin air, and they are strongest when together."
Nemo straightened his gaze to Alisha. "How do we know that?"
"I can tell. Whenever one of the men did as much as a flinch, Bane tightened his grasp on me, all alert and everything."
Nemo bowed his head.
"You all be careful. Do so as planned, and keep up you're guard. We don't completely know what these men are."
The league all nod in agreement. Alisha opened the portal, and went through. Tom, Henry, and Nemo followed. Departed by Campion, Mina, Rodney, and Allan retrieved back to the Nautilus.
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The first thing I felt was the cold hit my body when we approached the winter air of 2008. Tom, Henry, Nemo and I arrived outside my house in the backyard. Ugh. Why didn't we appear on the inside?
'Nyea!" I squealed as my feet fell in the snow. I basically marched into the house, still in my elder form. Tom had to stop me before I gave away our secret. Henry and Nemo looked down as their feet crunched the knee-high snow in unison.
"Uh…Alisha, aren't you forgetting something?"
I turned around, staring at him for a few seconds to remember anything I missed. Realizing, I looked down and yelled.
"OH!" Jumping out of the snow while transforming, I landed on the cement, and into my teenage self.
"Right…" I cleared my throat. "Well…today is the last day of vacation for the school. Tomorrow I have school to attend, and it's a likely time for The Teneacherous to attack. We can hold our guard until then."
I walked inside the house, unattended by anyone, and the league followed behind to help plan the assault.
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The Teneacherous didn't attack for about a week. When they did, it was a complete and utter surprise, however ready the league and I were. We checked back and forth between worlds, but Tom, Henry, and Nemo still hung around in my era, watching over the school and myself. Still in disguise, I listened to my classmates as they discussed the 'three random people watching over the school these days' intently. Just random babble and jabber, though...nothing doubtful or guarded. The three of them mostly circled the school, watching for anything suspicious. My guess is that The Teneacherous wanted to wait; to make us get our guard down and seem more relaxed…so it would be more of a surprise when they did attack.
"So you ready for the pep rally?" my face jolted as Rose woke up my conscious.
"Yup. Can't wait!" I actually did like the pep rallies; however my skills could be a lot peppier to the school than the cheerleaders and dance team.
It was nearing the end of 8th period, and the pep rally was 9th. As soon as the bell rang, Rose and I basically ran with excitement to the gym; the sound of drums and trombones filling the air, getting louder and louder as we got closer. I eyed Tom in the corner of the hallway leading up to the gym, giving me a nod as we passed. I thought I saw Henry a bit further down the hall too.
Inside the gym were mats, black and gold streamers, balloons, girls in uniforms practicing flips and jumps, sports players wrangling with each other on one side of the room and several band members blowing their life into gold and bronze instruments. The sound was exhilarating, pumping me up to the extreme. We sat all the way in front of the bleachers, at the far end of the gym. Most of my friends were seated there, others were scattered a bit ways up and to the side. I sat down, watching the doors as I saw Nemo's head pop inside. He couldn't find me in the crowd, which slightly frightened the both of us.
This might have been what The Teneacherous have been waiting for.
Waving frantically, the captain scanned the room and finally found me after several minutes. I saw him nod, then signal to Tom and Henry. A few seconds later their heads appeared too.
The pep rally began with an introduction from the principal, then a dance by the cheerleaders. Intro's and awards for the sports teams followed, with intermission from the performances by more cheerleaders and the dance team. That was basically the entire period. When it was nearly ending, my sensed tensed up as I saw a commotion going on by the doors of the gym. Tom ran inside, hurrying towards me. I saw at the doors Nemo and Henry be pushed aside and captured by The Teneacherous, forcing their way inside the gym. Some kids noticed, and teachers asked madly who they were and what their purpose was. I saw the principal even whisper something to a teacher, eying the situation.
I jumped off the bleachers just as I made eye contact with Bane. He automatically knew who I was, smiling with amusement. I could almost hear him say, "Oh, how cute. The witch has a double life as a teenager!'
Bane paced forward in my direction, and the rest of the Teneacherous molested anyone who got in their way. The kids and teachers got a little frantic.
"What do we do? They'll blow our cover!" Tom sounded just as hysterical as everyone else. The Teneacherous blocked the doors so no one could escape. Bane was halfway across the room by this time now.
With a sudden struck of idea, I whispered in Tom's ear over the muted noise of the band. He gave me a confused look, but I just hurried him off to do his task.
Tom rushed over to one of the worried students, and pointed out to her the men, plus Bane and I now in the center of the gym floor…surrounded and watched by all of my high school.
"There's gonna be an extra performance." Tom slightly yelled in a hurried and anxious manner.
The girl in charge of the pep rally's organization gave a confused look and checked her clipboard.
"But—I don't see anything about a…"
"Just play something. It's a last minute thing."
With a shrug, she motioned for another classmate of mine to pick a random song off the pep-rally-playlist. Blasting through the gym speakers, and awakening everyone including Bane and his comrades, started 'Circus' by Britney Spears.
Bane and I centered the room even more, swaying from side to side. As soon as I was ready, I sprung myself at him.
We fought with the rush of the music in our ears. I kicked high in the air and landed with caution right in front of Bane. He dart back, kicking and punching at anything he could at me. I retracted his actions. When he hit, I dodged. When he dodged, I hit. The crowd was beginning to buy it.
Tom chuckled with his arms crossed, and the Teneacherous at the doors squinted their eyes all around to the students, obviously confused. We continued…it almost looking as if the two of us were half-dancing, half-fighting. It was like watching a kung-fu movie in action.
I jumped up as high as I could, spinning my leg around. Bane bent upwards, just missing my foot. I did a backwards handspring; Bane charging at me. I jumped, yet again, just behind him. Just as he turned around, I smacked his face with my kick. He fell to the ground, my foot on top of him.
"WOO! GO Alisha!" I saw my friend Sam yell from the bleachers to my performance.
Apparently I wasn't the only one who noticed him. Bane eyed him as well, smiling meticulously.
As soon as I realized what his motive was, my eyes widened and Tom tensed up a bit. Suddenly, Bane gave the expression of being dead, and a white glow came out of him, seeming to be some sort of spirit. It glided towards Sam. I did as much as I could to stop it, Tom calling in the rest of the league. Henry and Nemo ran in, free from the Teneacherous, and eyeing Bane's body on the floor, then to the ghost entering my friend. Making a face, Sam, or should I say Bane, eyed me with a smile.
"Oh….god." Ugh. This was going to be a tough one.
Some friends next to Sam like Jessica and Kim gave a curious face as Bane got up, coming towards me.
"No wonder we can't kill them, they're already dead!" Tom widened his eyes as Bane stopped in front of me.
"You wouldn't kill your friend…would you?" he gave his evil grin, and I raised my eyebrow. His finger rose to stroke my cheek and I felt my dagger at my hip, hidden under my clothes.
Thinning my eyes and lips, I shook my head back and forth in ponder.
"Yeah. I think I would." With that, I stabbed Sam's body underneath the stomach, and he made a face as Bane's spirit rose again.
"Henry!" I threw him a healing potion of mine, and had him attend my friend's body as he fell to the gym floor.
I was going after Bane.
I had only one option to do it, I thought. And that was to do a spell.
I closed my eyes, frustrated and hurried, needing to kill Bane before he escaped into another body.
"Uh…ghost of horror, leader of destruction, eliminate this spirit of utter seduction. Let no man be possessed by the very Bane Wilde, as I use this spell to make him killed."
Opening one eye, I saw Bane's spirit explode into all different colors and sparks.
I jumped in triumph as the rest of Bane's followers disappeared in threat and Tom high-fived me. I looked to Henry attending Sam, and he motioned to me, signaling that he would be okay. Nemo, Mina, Rodney, and Allan appeared through the doors, just after the action had died down.
But, as I regained conscious, I looked around to the crowd of people staring at the seven of us in utter amazement.