A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 47: The Virus Is The Cure To The Disease

Poseidon (Sean) and Linx ran from the gaping hole in the warehouse towards the car, and quickly got in. Poseidon quietly walked through the aisle of seats towards the front of the car to call Cannon (Jamal) and let him know about the situation, while Linx stopped just after the door and stared at everyone.

People were tending to the unconscious members, while the others were sitting waiting for something; anything. However, they needed a plan and there wasn't any way to create one at the moment.

"Jamal?" Sean huffed into the receiver.

"Sean? Are you alright?" Jamal asked in worry.

"There's someone in the warehouse trying to kill us."

"Chaos?"

"No! Someone different. He has a virus of some sort and he's infected Noah, Jazmine, Seth and some other guy we found in the warehouse."

Jamal scribbled the names on a piece of paper, "You need to get them back here as soon as possible."

"But what about the guy?"

"Forget him," Jamal huffed, "our teammates could die if I don't see them."

"We're on our way," Sean sighed as he hung up the receiver and returned back into the briefing area of the car, where everyone was tending to everyone else who was hurt.

"What'd Jamal say?" Sam asked as she stood next to Sean quietly.

"We need to leave."

Sam rolled her hazel-green eyes and sighed, "And I'm assuming that means me too…?"

"Yes."

"Then what are we waiting for?" She huffed.

"Twista is watching Dreamer."

"Why didn't you grab them both?"

"Because all three of us would be dead… Whoever is in there wants Dreamer."

Sam turned and looked at Sean in astonishment, "So you just left them?!"

"Twista has always taken care of her," Sean sighed and looked at Sam, "Trust me."

She swallowed her pride and walked away from Sean. She sat down in the passenger seat by the driver, and away from everyone else. Sean's brown eyes followed Sam and sighed. It was the feral's nature to act like that, and everyone knew to leave Sam alone when she was like that.

He turned back to his team and sighed. We just have to wait now…

A few minutes passed inside the car, but it seemed as though hours had passed by. Sean tapped his foot up and down impatiently as he heard painful murmurs from his teammates. I can't stand this! He huffed and stood up, "I'm going in to get Dreamer." He said quietly as he stood up and started walking towards the back of the car to get out. When he reached the back, Linx was standing in front of the door with her arms folded in front of her.

"Linx, move." He sighed.

"You're being foolish." She said coyly. "Send people in who will come back."

"I'll be fine."

Linx looked away from him and then looked back up at him, "I'll go. I'm not afraid to die and I've already proven I can stop the needles."

"I'm going."

"You're foolish." Linx said quietly as her two different colored eyes stared into Sean's brown eyes.

Sean stared into her eyes for a moment and sighed, "Fine. You go."

Linx nodded her head and turned to leave when Gabe stood up, "Ah should go to."

"No," Sean grunted, "One person should go."

"Ah can get her through the shadows and out safely."

"Fine go," Sean threw his hands up in the air and walked away. They can't let anything happen to Dreamer…

"You're going to be alright Chica," Twista said calmly as she continued to scan the darkness with her brown eyes that had slight flecks of gold and blue in them. Her eyes never left from scanning the darkness as she spoke to Dreamer, "When I tell you to run, I need you to run." She whispered.

Dreamer looked up at Twista in fear, "What?" She gasped.

I need to lure him out of hiding. "I won't let anything happen to you." She said as she stepped away from Dreamer a little bit, but was still near her.

"But what happens if-"

"Have I ever let anything happen to you?" Twista questioned before glancing for a spilt second at her and then looking back into the darkness. Where are you?

"Well no…"

"Then trust me." Dreamer looked down at the ground for a minute and nodded before looking back at the gaping hole. Twista took another step away from Dreamer and stood about a foot away from her out in the open.

There was a whizzing sound in the air, and quickly Twista stuck her hand out in front of Dreamer, in front of her heart, and then gasped as the piercing sting surged through her hand and her body. The needle was sticking out of her palm, but all she did was turn and look at Dreamer to whisper, "Run."

Linx and Octavian stepped out from the back of the car and looked around the outside of the warehouse carefully. "We should enter out here so that whoever is in there isn't payin' attention to us." Octavian whispered in his thick southern accent.

"Agreed."

Octavian wrapped his arms around Linx small body and then melted them both into the shadow outside of the warehouse. When they reemerged they were inside amongst the wooden crates. They both saw Twista sitting on her knees and Dreamer running for dear life towards the gaping hole.

"I got her," Linx whispered, "You wait here."

"Right," He nodded and then looked at Twista, while Linx took off running towards Dreamer. What is she doing? He thought and then he saw her pull out an injection needle from her palm and shatter it on the ground. She's infected…He thought in horror.

Linx's black hair with the bright red highlights underneath swayed back and forth violently as she ran towards Dreamer, who had yet to notice her running towards her. Her arms wrapped around Dreamer's small body and held her closely and then she turned just in time to stop an injection from hitting both of them with her telekinesis. Without skipping a beat, Linx grabbed Dreamer's wrist and took off running with her right behind her.

She pulled Dreamer in front of her and pushed her into Octavian's arms, before turning around and stopping a couple of injection needles in the air. She kept a coy look on her face before turning the needles around and shooting them off in the direction that they came from. She didn't care if she hit whoever was shooting them or not; she was concerned about Dreamer's safety.

Linx grabbed Octavian's hand just as him and Dreamer were melting into the shadows of the floor to go back to the car. Linx continued to hold onto Octavian's hand, but she turned around again and stopped another set of injection needles from hitting them. Dreamer's dark brown eyes watched as Twista stumbled to stand up, and she felt her heart break as she disappeared into the shadows. She wanted to fight with her. Twista wouldn't have been there if Dreamer wasn't there. She was protecting her.

"TWISTA!" Dreamer screamed out and then was softly muffled by the darkness of the shadow swallowing her away from the carnage to come.

They reemerged in the back corner of the car, and Dreamer was holding onto Octavian's arms for dear life as her small face was red from yelling for Twista. Linx quietly stepped away from them and sat down in the back of the car quietly as she rubbed the side of her neck. Octavian slowly let go of Dreamer, who slid down on the ground in pain as she felt hopelessly lost.

Twista slowly stood up and stared into the darkness. She's safe… She thought in content as she stared into the darkness to watch an injection needle fly directly at her, but she used her powers to warp the needle until it exploded in front of her. Her brown eyes pierced through the darkness as wobbled back and forth slightly in pain. She could feel the virus running it's course quickly throughout her body as she stood there. The more her body tried to fight against it, the faster it grew and began to destroy her.

Twista stood there in the middle of the room confidently even though she could feel herself become more and more weak the more she stood there. "Ya gonna stay in the shadows?" She shouted out to whoever she was to fight.

"Nightmares are only in the darkness, and that's what you can call me: Nightmare," The man chuckled in the depths of the darkness.

"So you have name, huh?" Twista chuckled, "Well you know how they say you get rid of a nightmare, right?" She paused, "You turn on the light." She smirked in her thick New York accent both using her powers to flick on the broken overhead warehouse lights.

The entire warehouse lit up with Twista in the middle of it. Her eyes scanned around and saw a man dressed in completely black except his dark brown hair was free and his dark brown eyes with a vertical scar over the right eye could be seen. "So you've seen me," He smirked.

"I guess so," She shrugged as her injected hand began to tremble by her side.

He chuckled lightly at the sight of her hand, "You only have a few minutes to live," he said calmly as he grabbed a couple more injection needles and twirled them in his hands, "and once you're gone she'll be mine."

Twista felt her blood begin to boil at the thought of him hurting Dreamer that she balled her hand into a fist and forgot about the pain in her body, "Then let me introduce you to my reality." She said before taking a deep breath in.

The boxes below Nightmare warped and twisted until they disappeared and everything else in the warehouse melting into the floor until there was nothing left in the warehouse but her and Nightmare. Her brown eyes stared at Nightmare as she melted the injection needles in his hands until they burst into bubbles that floated to the top of the ceiling.

"You see," Twista smirked as she walked closer towards Nightmare and more bubbles burst from within his jacket, "my power is to warp reality into whatever I please." She chuckled as she stood in front of him, "Whatever I can think of, it can happen." She grunted as she fought through the pain, "So if I wanted you dead right now, it could happen." She got close to his face as her face began to slowly have dark purple rings appear on her tanned Latina skin.

"It doesn't matter if I die, so will you and everyone else I infection." He smirked.

"But at least you can't infect anyone else," She grunted as she turned and walked away from him as the wooden crates reappeared back in the warehouse. The bubbles that had come from Twista warping the injection needles sat at the ceiling and slowly changed from the translucent rainbow luster, to a harsh grey and quickly fell towards the ground. The boulders crashed onto the ground and on top of Nightmare with a horrific crashing sound that shook the warehouse.

When the warehouse shook and echoed from the crashing boulders, Twista felt the vibration run through her weak body. Her heartbeat began to slow down as the pain quickly intensified and then seemed to stop in a euphoric feeling. She quietly collapsed onto the ground as more dark purple rings appeared on her frail body.