A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 41: The True Fight Begins

Shadow Runner (Arcane) stood in the shadows of the warehouse staring at the carnage before him. He watched as Chaos turned X² against one another and while X² spared Chaos misery, Chaos refused to do the same. His deep green eyes grew hard and full of hatred as he watched Chaos continue to fight an unfair battle.

How can they do this without a regret in their minds? He thought in his Australian accent as he stared in disgust. How? He closed his eyes as he watched Rush (Ashley) shoot a wave into Poseidon (Sean) and crushed him against the cement wall. Poseidon pushed back with a wave to protect himself and then Frostbite (Seth) froze the stream between both of them and it shattered in between them.

He looked down at the ground at the sparkling piece of ice shard that lay at his feet. He let out a tiny breath and watched the shard melt. "I don't want to be part of this…" He whispered as he stared at the small puddle that reflected his dark figure.

Sonic (Rashad) stared down at the burn marks on the shattered cement ground and smirked. "That was easy." He chuckled before walking over to the computer monitor and sitting down in front of it.

He pressed a couple of keys and soon the monitor went from black to having multiple files on the screen. "Now where was I?" He smirked as he cracked his fingers and then began to type against the keypad so more and more files popped up on the monitor.

Sonic quit typing for a moment as his brown eyes scanned over the monitor for a couple of seconds, What do you mean the "cure" has been made?! He thought in shock as he stared at the monitor and then began to type furiously on the keyboard. I need to know exactly what it does and where is it.

His dark brown eyes shifted from side to side at each file that popped up on the screen and then he paused. It doesn't "cure" mutants… He thought quietly in his head.

Void (Hiro) opened his eyes and quickly shut them because of the blinding white light around him. He slowly opened his eyes and looked around and saw nothing but white light and glowing floating orbs all around him. He looked over to his side and saw Linx dressed in completely white robe with the hood pushed back. "Where are we?"

"Limbo." She said quietly as she walked around and the orbs quickly moved out of her way.

Whispers echoed throughout Limbo as Linx and Void walked around quietly. Void looked around carefully at the orbs and saw nothing but his reflection against them. He raised his eyebrow at the whispers of the word 'Mistress' and then turned back to look at Linx. "Who is whispering?"

"The souls

"What?"

"The orbs; they're people's souls." She smiled softly as she continued to walk around and then turned back towards Void to walk towards him.

"Why are they whispering Mistress?"

"That's what they call me in Limbo," She shrugged nonchalantly. "We have to be getting back," she said as she held out her hand to Void and waited.

Void nodded and placed his hand in hers. In an instant flash, him and Linx returned back into the living realm exactly in the same spot that they disappeared from.

Linx looked around for a minute and then saw Sonic sitting at the computer again. "He's over there." Void looked down at their hands, which were still together and then slowly slid them apart.

"It kills them," Sonic gasped softly as he stared at the screen. He looked up from the screen and saw Linx and Void standing before him, "I thought it was a little too easy to get rid of you pest." He chuckled. The virus was lost a week ago and they haven't been able to located since. He thought as he went over the facts in his head.

A dark figure stood in the dark corner of the warehouse and smirked at the carnage playing out. Perfect. He chuckled in his head and then his dark eyes caught sight of another figure within the shadows. Well, well, well what do we have here? He thought as he stared ahead at the man and stood quickly behind him. He's one of them. A filthy mutant… He thought bitterly in his mind as he softly moved his coat to the side and revealed a line of injection needles lined against the inside of his black trench coat.

Sonic slowly raised into the air and hovered above Linx and Void as he stared down at them with his dark brown eyes. "So I ready to stay and fight, or do you still want to runaway?" He taunted from above.

"I'm not afraid of you," Linx said calmly as she stepped forward.

"You should be."

"If I don't fear death, than I certainly don't fear you," She smirked and concentrated on Sonic and sent him crashing towards the ground with her telekinesis. "If we don't run, you can't fly." She smirked as she felt Void run passed her towards Sonic. Void skillfully jumped over equipment debris towards Sonic, who was pinned against the ground.

"Fine," Sonic grunted as he pushed against Linx's telekinetic hold with his sonic power, which made Linx stumble backwards from where she was standing. "Then you fight me fairly," Sonic said as he slowly stood up to see Void running towards him. "Bad idea." He shot out a blast of sonic energy towards Void, who quickly sent it back. Sonic took off into the air to avoid the blast and Void.

Linx balanced her feet and then took a deep breath in as she took off running towards Void, "Void," she said calmly, "boost."

Void turned around and cupped his hands together just in time for Linx to place her foot in his hands and push her up into the air after Sonic. She used her telekinesis to pull Sonic down as flipped in the air. Her foot cracked under Sonic's chin as she fell back towards the ground into Void's arms. He carefully caught her and then set her down on the ground.

Sonic flew higher into the air because of the impact and then when he gained control over his ability to fly again, he shot a sonic blast towards them. Void stood in front of Linx, "Pull him towards me," He said to her as he reversed the gravity of the blast again.

She clenched her fist as if she was squeezing something and did a sharp pull towards her side, which made Sonic quickly fall back towards them and directly into the sonic blast he shot at them. As the first blast hit him, he shot another blast out at Linx and Void when he was only a couple feet away from them. Linx used her telekinesis and pushed Void out of the way as the second sonic blast hit Linx directly.

Shadow Runner stared at his reflection in the tiny puddle before him as he saw different explosions dancing in the puddle, I'm going to even the score. He nodded as he placed one foot forward and then froze as his dark green eyes grew wide in pain from behind his dark sunglasses. A sharp pain surge from his spine and rippled throughout his entire body.

"You took my world, so I'm taking your life in exchange," a terrifying voice whispered against Shadow Runner's ear that sent shivers throughout his body as he felt the virus quickly move from the needle in his back through his veins. Shadow Runner dropped to his knees and used all of his strength to stay sitting up as the dark figure came into his blurred view. "And I will take all of their too." The voice chuckled and then disappeared.

Shadow Runner stared out at the blurred visions of X² and Chaos. Run… He tried to scream out to warn everyone, but nothing came out except a gasp as he fell forward against the cold cement.