A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 45: Stay And Die

Octavian (Gabe) coughed in pain from the burning sensation in his lungs as he watched Hecate continually throw punch after punch at Miracle (Natalie). Octavian's ice blue eyes grew large as he watched Hecate trip over a broken piece of scientific equipment. His ice eyes glanced down at her quickly disappearing shadow, and then a large circular shadow thrust into the air and pushed Hecate up.

Hecate's dark blue eyes looked around quickly and then looked over at Octavian. She nodded her head to him and then rolled to her feet as she looked down at Miracle, who was looking extremely confused.

Miracle looked up towards the ceiling and saw Hecate onto of the large shadow and her silvery colored eyes warped into a deep gray colored before she turned her attention back towards the large shadow in front of her. She placed her palms together and moved them back and forth against one another in order to think of what to inject Octavian's shadow with.

Octavian saw Miracle's eyes and quickly retracted the shadow from underneath Hecate, who quickly fell towards the ground. His icey eyes stared at Miracle, who was smirking over at him.

You've figured it out. Miracle thought as her grey eyes warped back into their silvery luster.

Hecate tucked her body and fell faster towards the ground near Miracle, and when she was a couple feet away from Miracle she kicked her leg out. She continued to spin in the air with her leg extended. Her dark blue eyes swirled into a dark black as she felt the growing anger in her body start to take over again.

Miracle looked up and saw Hecate falling towards her and quickly jumped out of the way, as Hecate hit the ground. The cement beneath Hecate's leg shattered and sent a sonic wave underneath the cement towards Miracle. The ground cracked as it moved closer to Miracle, who was trying to run away, but the wave caught up to her. When it hit her feet, the ground beneath her burst and shattered in an explosion that catapulted her into the air.

Hecate slowly stood up to take off running towards Miracle, who was lying in the ground amongst the rubble in the pain to finish the job, but Octavian placed his hand on her shoulder. Hecate grabbed his wrist and squeezed, but even though it burned in pain Octavian didn't flinch; he knew that's what she wanted. She wanted him to runaway.

Slowly her black eyes swirled back into the deep blue color and her grip loosened from around his wrist. Her hand quietly slipped from off his wrist and back to her side as she stared at Miracle in disgust.

"Let me handle her," Octavian said in his thick southern accent as he walked closer towards her and his eyes quickly took note of all the little shadows in the rumble around Miracle.

He focused his attention on the rumble and slowly the shadows formed together and pinned Miracle against the rumble so she couldn't move. He stared down at her helpless body and his face was completely emotionless. He made sure that none of his shadows were touching her skin and that she couldn't touch his shadows; he was in complete control.

BAM

Octavian slid across the cement floor away from Miracle, which made his control over the shadows around her disappear. He looked up and saw Shocker (Lucas) standing there looking at him and then turning his attention to Miracle.

"Get out of here," Shocker said in his thick Scottish accent as he held his hand out to help Miracle up.

She carefully took his hand and stood up amongst the rumble and then stared at Octavian, "I have a score to settle," She grunted in her British accent.

"We're leaving." Shocker said more in a demanding tone than a statement.

Hecate walked over to Octavian, just as he was slowly standing up. "Alright?"

"Fine."

Miracle turned and looked at Shocker, "Since when did Chaos run?" She challenged and then gasped as she felt a stinging pain surge from her hand throughout her body. Her silvery eyes quickly changed to a dark grey as she gasped, and then her eyes began to flash back and forth between silver and grey colored. Her hand began to tremble as she turned it so the her palm side was facing her and Shocker, and a small, empty injection needle was sticking out of it.

Shocker's brown eyes looked in horror at the injection needle and then looked up at Miracle, No… He thought.

Miracle stumbled forward into Shocker's arms as her skin turned pale and her eyes continued to change colors as she looked into Shocker's eyes. "It's a virus," she gasped and then her eyes changed into a black color as she gasped and then closed her eyes. When she reopened them, her eyes were back to their normal silvery color and she carefully stood up from Shocker's arms. She gripped the needle and threw it on the ground.

"Let's go," Shocker nodded as her stepped aside to usher Miracle out of the building.

Miracle nodded and quickly took off running out of the warehouse with Shocker by her side. The other members of Chaos were already outside of the building and running away without looking behind.

All the members of X² watched as Chaos disappeared into the darkness of the outside night and leaving everything that had come for, and even leaving Shadow Runner (Arcane) behind.

Octavian looked down at Hecate with his icey blue eyes without saying anything. They both looked away from each other's gaze and looked over at the empty needle that Miracle had pulled out of her hand as the world around them began to move a lot slower.

Link and Void (Hiro) were only standing a couple feet away from Octavian and Hecate as they watched their rivals take off running in an instant. "What's going on?" Void whispered.

"They're scared," Linx said calmly and then looked over at Hecate, who was staring at the injection needle. "And maybe rightfully so…" She said nonchalantly as she pointed at the injection needle near Octavian and Hecate, which made Void look over at it.

Spitfire (Grace) had Hell's Angel's (Jazmine) head in her lap as she looked around at the other members of X². Her green eyes tried to stay strong because she was one of the leaders, but the truth was she was terrified. Chaos had never runaway from a fight before unless they were injured and members of her team were falling. She looked over at Poseidon (Sean) as though she was looking for some kind of answer.

Poseidon looked at Spitfire and then looked to his side to see Rage (Sam) standing in front of Clutch (Noah) as though she was protecting him. "Are you really staying?" Sean asked in his thick Australian accent.

Rage's hazel-green glanced over at him, "Is there a doubt in your mind?"

"You're fighting someone or something we can't even see."

"Whatever it is, it can't stay in the dark forever."

"Well it is." Poseidon reminded her.

Rage turned and looked at Poseidon and her hazel-green eyes flashed into her eyes cat eyes, but the rest of her body didn't transform, "Then I'll play in it's territory."

Counterstrike (Tonya) looked around at her team for a minute and then saw Frostbite (Seth) standing by himself. We need to stay together. She thought quietly as she walked over to him without saying a word. As she stood by his side, she noticed the injection needles lying around the warehouse and near her fallen members of her team. Together we're sitting ducks. She thought in slight panic as she looked around at her team, who had no idea what was going on.

Miracle stopped at the gaping hole, which made Shocker stop, "Why are you stopping?" He gasped as he looked back at X², who were still standing their ground against the faceless enemy.

"They're all going to die," She whispered in pain.

"What do you mean?" He gasped as he looked over at Miracle, who was rubbing the puncture from the needle earlier, but he couldn't actually see the wound.

Miracle held her hand up to Shocker so he could see the back of her palm, which looked diseased even though it didn't see to effect Miracle, "It's a virus," she took a deep breath in, "that kills both humans and mutants easily."

Dreamer (Dawn) looked around at her teammates and noticed the slight twinge of fear in every single one of their eyes. She quietly moved closer to Twista's (Saria) side and Twista instinctively wrapped an arm around Dreamer as she looked up into the darkness of the ceiling. "Don't leave my side," she whispered, "Stay close."