Antonio Herrera – New Jersey Holding Facility
"Good evening Richard," the guard said, waving him in.
He liked this ability, with it he could be whoever he wanted and already he had a plan. He was in the most secure holding facility in the state for those with powers, he just needed to find the right person to possess and then he would have some real power to throw around.
He entered the lab where there were twenty or so scientists in lab coats, none of them gave him so much as a glance. He had chosen this host well, a high level access scientist that could get him into the 'mutant database' as it was called around here.
"…it has had better results than first anticipated," one women said to a colleague.
"Are we ready to go global?" her friend, another women asked.
"While it disables their abilities…..," the first said," it is only temporary, it acts as a suppressing agent that dulls them for a time, the only way to make it permanent is to inject them with it, the body can reject the gas after a time but if enough gets into the bloodstream, it is possible to permanently remove their ability,"
"How?" the second asked.
"It works by paralysing parts of the brain," the first women said," we don't know the long term effects it will have on their brain, but that doesn't matter considering its only applied in combat situations and they are most likely to die anyway,"
Antonio, in Richard's body, kept moving towards a glass room labelled archives. While he liked he power he already had, he wanted something more. These government agents couldn't be allowed to treat his kind like this, and he would find any way of getting back at them for ruining his life.
He put his thumb on the fingerprint scanner and the door clicked open, he closed it with a quick glance around. No one cared what he was doing, in fact someone was just leaving one of the computer terminals in the archives.
"Doing some late night research Ritchie?" the man asked.
"Errr….," Antonio replied," sure am,"
Antonio sat down and waited for the man to leave, he switched on the computer and it took another fingerprint scan. The screen pooped up and he looked closely.
He scrolled through the various folders, 'combat techniques', 'weapons research' 'list of most wanted'.
He clicked on the list and a number of individuals popped up. The first was a man named Simon, last named unknown.
Ability is energy absorbsion, can absorb electrical, heat, light and even kinetic energy and reverse or manipulate it to his own desires. Location: Unknown. Status: Unknown.
The second was a women. Name: Claire Bennet. Ability: Cellular Regeneration. Last known location was at Hope Island complex during an attack three months ago. Known weak spot known to be back of head, any other attack on her is useless as it heals within seconds. Status: Alive. Location: Believed to be in New York area.
The third was a women named Heather Cole. Ability: Unconfirmed, was being tracked by an eight man team in Florida when contact with team was lost, no bodies found. Status: Alive. Location: Believed to be in Florida somewhere.
The fourth was a man called Peter Petrelli. Ability: Unconfirmed, appears to be able to mimic the abilities of others and even store them for later use, he has been known to use mind control, regeneration, flight, shape shifting and a number of other powers. It is not known how many powers he can have at once, but he is considered extremely dangerous. Status: unknown. Location: Unknown, last seen eleven years ago with daughter but escaped capture. Still a top priority to capture this individual!!!
Antonio looked at the screen, this Peter Petrelli seemed powerful, if he could possess him he would be the most powerful of all of his kind. He would then take out the people that did this, one by one.
'But how do I find you,' he thought.
'Don't,' a voice said back, the voice of the man whose body he was in.
'Shut up!' Antonio thought back.
He scrolled down the list of those captured in the facility and sighed, there must be a way to find him.
He typed in the search box ' locating mutants' and a file on a women Claire Reynolds that read:
Claire Reynolds has a unique ability to know any piece of information once someone asks her a question, it only appears to work once per person and she does not need to answer if she doesn't desire to. After much torture it is confirmed that as soon as the question is asked, the answer pops into her head. She can not ask herself questions and get the answers, she is currently in cell 76 under light guard, scheduled for execution is accordance with newly passed laws at 8:30pm tomorrow night.
He had found what he was looking for, he wanted power, and now had the means to get it. He jumped up and left the room, striding across the lab so fast a few people looked at him strangely. Antonio kept moving towards the cell blocks, hoping he had access to that area.
He approached carefully and two guards moved in his way.
"Sorry sir," one said," Access is denied this evening now that executions are under way,"
"I need some information from one of the prisoners," Antonio said," It will help reveal the location of one of their largest safe houses,"
"Sorry," the guard said, Antonio punched him in the face.
Antonio gritted his teeth in his mind as his consciousness transferred to the guard as both grabbed him.
"He was in me!" the scientist protested as the other guard dragged him away.
"He's obviously gone insane," Antonio said, now in a guards body," you better give him a sedative,"
The other guard dragged Richard away and Antonio opened the cell block with the guard's keys, walking silently down the cells he saw various people huddled in dark damp cages, crying out for help, most were sedated but about ten were just tied up.
Within a few minutes he reached the cell he was looking for and opened the lock.
"Is it my time already?" the girl in the cell asked.
"That depends," Antonio replied, locking the cell door behind him," you have something I want, if you answer me one question and I get the answer I want, Ill help you escape,"
"That's what they all say," she replied.
"Im different," Antonio said," I'm one of you,"
"Whatever," the girl said.
"Fine," Antonio said, he released himself from the body and he appeared in the cell.
The girl gasped and the guard reached out to grab him, he quickly warped back into the guards body and faced the girl.
"You will really help me escape?"
"Yes," Antonio asked," I want to locate a man named Peter Petrelli with the ability to mimic powers, where is Peter Petrelli?"
"Aahhh!" the girl screamed, her eyes glowing red," hes on….a farm….with his daughter and mother……hiding……I see you want his power…….near a town called Riverside……..two hundred…..sixty three miles……….the one with the old pickup and….new shiny car…..,"
"Good," he said turning to leave.
"I thought you were going to help me get out of here," she said hopelessly.
At that moment the lights dimmed and an alarm bell sounded.
"INTRUDER ALERT! ALL SECURITY PERSONELL MOBALISE IMMEDIETLY!" A loudspeaker rang out.
"Damm it" he said," good luck," he added to the girl.
He began unlocking cells and removing drips that were sedating those with dangerous powers, he was only doing this to distract the guards, he didn't really need these people, they were just the bait.
As they woke up, people came running out of their cells, heading in every direction. Two guards came running towards the cell block and were hit with some kind of shockwave, they stumbled back and the ground suddenly opened up and swallowed them as the floor collapsed.
Something tackled Antonio and he slammed into the wall, punch after punch struck his face and he felt the gun from his belt leave the holster, as it did the gun floated into the air and melted away, camouflaging into the background like a chameleon.
'What an interesting ability,' he thought, reaching out.
As he touched the opponent, he possessed him. He looked down to see his new body was almost invisible, when he didn't move he was, but when he did move, his body was just slightly visible by a shimmery outline, which reminded him of the movie Predator.
Antonio pocketed the gun, he may need it later, he released more people from the cells, causing chaos. Guards came from every angle, but they couldn't see him. He fled through the corridors as people fought mutants.
A body slammed into him and he fell down, all this confusion had even got to him. At least now he knew for sure that he could use someone's power when he possessed them.
As he stood up, pushing the dead guard off of him. He saw another man, an office worker from this facility, fly into the wall with a women pinning him against it. He watched as she tore out his stomach with razor sharp claws, she tore at his throat with her teeth and bounded off down the hallway on all fours snarling.
'What the hell is going on?' a man's voice in his head said.
'Shut up!' Antonio replied,' its my body now'
'Get out!' the man replied.
'Shut up!' Antonio replied in his head.
'AGAGAGAGAGAGAGGAGHAGHGHAHGHG!' the man screamed.
'What are you doing?' Antonio asked.
'Getting you out of me!'
"Shut up!" Antonio said aloud.
'AAGAGGAGAHHLALLALALALALALALLALALALALA!' The voice screamed over and over, he could barely hear anything.
Antonio crept along the hallways, avoiding guards that were here and there. Gunfire echoed throughout the building, but the voice of the man he had possessed would not shut up.
"LALALALALA!" he screamed in Antonio's head.
He kept moving, he felt an unnatural hunger for powers, he wanted more now that he could do what he could do. For so long he had felt insignificant, but now he was special. And his mother had said that he was just like his father, a monster. From the information his mother had given him, his father had a power and was very dangerous. The next thing on his list to do was to find that man, see what kind of person he was now, first he was going to get a foothold by getting a power that could help him survive, like this Peter Petrelli's power.
Antonio reached the main gate to find a number of people in riot gear with guns guarding the gate, various officials and scientists were being carted off in cars to get out of the line of fire, and Antonio saw his chance and took it.
He cautiously climbed into the back of a small bus and pulled himself up onto the luggage rack above the seats as people piled in frantically, the bus started quickly and he was away, home free.
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Five days later – Riverside Town
The last week had been strangely calm, despite the destruction of the mall in the 'terrorist attack'. People were talking about these mutants and the way they just went around killing and stealing, or so the government told people. Police in the town were on high alert since that day, but things were clear for now. Everyone coming into and out of town was checked with a eye and fingerprint scan to see if they were a known mutant, but so far no arrests had been made.
"Caitlin!" Peter called up to his daughter, things had been different the last few days.
He had tried to explain, but it hadn't gone according to plan. Peter would need a better way of convincing her that everything he had told her was real, he hadn't even heard from his mother which was strange, he would check by the house tonight and make sure she was ok.
Caitlin came down the stairs, her eyes swollen and blue from the little sleep she had been getting. He didn't need to see her to tell that, Peter had been kept awake by her stray thoughts buzzing all night. But even as a mind reader, he couldn't tell if she truly believed all he had said.
When he touched her, something happened, like he had come up against an ability that he couldn't 'borrow'. He hadnt tried properly yet, but it was like her ability was rejecting Peter's power, that was if she even had an ability, he wasn't sure yet if she could do anything.
BUMP! BUMP! The front door shook.
Peter immediately heard thoughts buzzing through the door.
'………shut up shut up shut up!!!!!!....'
'…….you need to stop this…..'
"Ill get it," Caitlin said, grabbing the door handle.
Caitlin opened the door to see a middle aged man standing there.
"Peter Petrelli," the man said striding in, knocking Caitlin to the ground.
'Stay there!' Peter send a thought.
The man faltered for a moment but kept coming. Peter frowned, his ability wasn't working on this guy.
"It seems your trying to control the wrong mind," the man said with a cruel smile," I'm in control now,"