A/N: Enjoy and interesting chapter...

Chapter 7

Adam and Tempest appeared in the Firestorm Base via teleporter.

Seconds later Candace appeared with Isa, Vivian, James, and Adyson 1.

"Adam is everything okay?" Isabella asked worried.

"No, no it isn't." Adam said seriously. "We have a serious problem regarding Felicity."

"Why did something happen to her?" Isabella asked sounding worried

"No," Adam said then looked up at Candace. "I should have listened to you in the first place. She's not the kind of girl I thought she was."

"What happened Adam?" Isabella asked worried because Adams blue eyes were red again.

Adam softly elbowed Tempest who told them everything she had told Adam, including the part about Katie.

"That manipulative little murdering bitch!" Isabella said.

"ISA!" Vivian said as if Isabella lost her temper things were going to get bad well worse

"She was just manipulating my brother and all of us and MURDERED his girlfriend who was also one of my best friends How do you expect me to react?!" Isabella asked angrily not caring who this girl she's never met (Tempest), is at the moment.

"Isabella, please I need you to calm a little you get to help me," Adam said

Isabella took a deep breath trying to calm herself down. "We're going to kill her, right?"

"Yes, yes we are," Adam said

"In the most painful and torturous way possible?" Isabella asked creepily.

"Probably yeah, but we will build up to it. By the way this is Tempest," Adam said pointing to tempest.

"Um, ok, nice to meet you, Tempest." Isabella said kind of awkwardly. Before turning to her brother and asking. "Who is she exactly?" since the name alone doesn't tell her much.

"She's a poisons expert adn the one who told me about Katie," Adam said

"I work for Vanessa," Tempest added/admitted since they're bound to find out eventually. "but I always felt I was on the wrong side. I just stayed where my brother is."

"I can understand family loyalty," Isabella said.

"So, you can forgive me?" Tempest asked nervously. "I never even killed anyone on your guys' side. I only used temporary toxins."

"Yeah, you could be forgiven," Candace said.

Tempest nodded, "Thank you, you won't regret it."

"I hope not," Candace said

"I'm sure we won't," Adam said even though he thought the same about Felicity.

"Thank you," Tempest said blushing just a bit

"Which takes priority though?" Tempest asked. "Felicity or Vanessa?"

"Not sure yet," Adam said turning to Candace.

"We should probably go after Felicity first, she has no reason to see it coming so we have the element of surprise like she had with us," Candace pointed out.

"That is true, but she thinks well on her feet," Tempest said

"So does Vanessa though," Adam added. "We just need to be better."

"You have a plan?" Tempest asked hopefully.

"Not yet," Adam admitted slightly hesitantly.

"No plan?"

"We'll get one," Adam promised.

"Do you always work like this?"

"Sometimes, not very often though," Candace said.

"Your all crazy."

"Sanity's a relative term," Adam told her. "Besides, we don't really have any other options."

"Well when you put it that way...how can I help?"

"Well, first you can help come up with a plan," Candace said simply.

"Okay, I can do that."

They all worked out an awesome plan to defeat Felicity without her seeing it coming.

"Alright everybody ready?"

Everyone nodded having their respective weapons.

"Good, Tempest your with me," Adam said.

"Got it," Tempest said with a nod.

"Good and everyone there's a big guy named Gale. He's Tempest's brother fight him to knock out not to kill if you can avoid it," Adam said surprising Tempest that he cared.

"Of course I care, Tempest," He said noticing the look on her face. "He's still your brother after all."

"If there is one thing Adam gets it's sibling love," Isabella said

"Well, I really do appreciate it," Tempest told Adam.

"It's okay," Adam shrugged.

"So, anything else we need to cover?" Tempest asked.

"No I think we're good," Adam said.

"When does it go into effect?" Adyson 1 asked.

"When I teleport us in."

"Alright," Adyson 1 said as Adam pulled out his teleportation device.

"What do you mean he teleported away?" Vanessa asked Gale angerily

"He just took out his teleporter and left, took my sister with him, too. I tried to stop him when I noticed but it was too late," Gale explained.

"Where did he go?" Vanessa asked

"I don't know! He didn't say!" He defended pretty stressed out.

"He just left!?" Felicity asked

"Yeah, I swear that's all I know." Gale said.

"Do you think we should worry?" Vanessa asked Felicity dismissing Gale.

"Yeah, there's about a million things they could be doing and very few of them could mean anything good for us."

"What do you think she's doing with our boyfriend?"

Felicity gave an agrivated sigh, "She could be doing absolutely anything with no one there to stop her."

"You don't think there..." Vanessa trailed off.

Felicity grunted, "I try not to but yes, yes I do."

"Well we aren't so don't worry," Said a voice from behind Felicity.

Felicity turned around and instantly hugged him. "There you are, Adam. Where were you?"

"Here and there and finding some very interesting information," Adam said coldly.

Felicity let go of Adam and looked at him worriedly. "Are you ok? You seem angry about something."

"Well yeah I am angry tell me Feliss, how is it that of all people you just happened to be going to wake Katie up when you found her dead?"

"I thought I heard a weird noise in there so I went to check on her. are you trying to imply that it was ME who killed her?" Felicity asked sounding offended at such an accusation.

"Maybe, I am because I find it funny that according to Tempest she helped you install vents that could release poison when you wanted in every room," Adam said his eyes turning red.

For once, Felicity was at a lose of words so she just immediately pulled out a teleportilizer and was gone in a flash.

Adam pulled out his teleporter and was about to go after her when a dorr was thrown at him. He flipped over it and landed facing the person who threw it...Gale. As Gale walked into the room looking furious Vanessa could hear the screams of her troops as they were clearly under attack.

Tempest had just barely gotten out of the way of the the door in time and went back to Adam right after staring at her brother in disbelief. "Tempest! Get away from him!" Gale demanded of his sister.

"No Gale please he' a good guy he's helped me. I don't want to be on this side anymore. Please come with us?" Tempest said in a pleading voice as Vanessa ran

"That's the problem, he's a good guy. You were born to be evil. You're a TEMPEST, there's no such thing as a beneficial Tempest, they destroy cities and they kill people now get away from him and back where you belong," Gale demanded.

"No! I'm not evil I never was. I just came here because you were here please come with usI don't want either of you two to get hurt." She said as Adam prepared for the worst coming from Gale

"Tempest Marie Mayes, you have ten seconds to get over here." Gale warned sounding EXACTLY like a parent but considering everything, that's kind of his job.

"No! I'm not going to be a part of the wrong side anymore!" She shouted at him.

"This isn't the wrong side, Tempest! Don't you see that?!" Gale shouted angrily.

"No I don't!"

Gale glared at Adam "You brain washed my sister!" He shouted charging at him and swining his huge right hand.

Adam ducked got behind him and kicked Gale in the back of the knee's. Gale fell to one knee. Adam ran up his back jumped and slammed Gale's face into the ground. He thought that had knocked him out. However Gales hand grabbed him by the throat lifting him off the ground.

Gale got up lifting him up to his own eye level. "Stay away from my sister or I will personally kill you!" He swore.

"It's not your choice what side she chooses to be on," Adam said struggling to breath as Tempest watched on worried.

None of them noticed Adyson 1 and James come into the room quietly.

"Then maybe I should crush your throat right here," Gale said tightening his grip.

Adam gasped for breath finding it difficult. "Let him go Gale!" Tempest cried desperately without much thought to the consequences.

"Why?" He's Frestorm trash and with him gone I can get you to see sense again." Gales said his grio getting tighter.

Adam reached for a vile in his belt if he could through that in Gales face it would make him fall asleep.

"Adam's not the reason I left, he just gave me a way to get out! Just please! Don't kill him!" Tempest said as Adyson 1 snuck up behind Gale without anyone but James noticing.

"No, I think he needs to die," Gale said as Adam struggled desperately to get the vial out.

Tempest noticed what Adam was trying to do and got the vial out herself splashing it in her brother's face in a complete leap of faith.

The effect was instant Gales grip relaxed and he fell over completely asleep.

Adam hit the ground gasping to re-oxygenate his blood as his skin regained it's color. "Thanks Tempest." He gasped out.

"No trouble are you okay?" She asked gently running a hand along his throat.

Adam recaught his breath, his skin returning to it's normal color. "Yeah, I'm ok."

Tempest looked over her brother analyzing the sighs, symptoms, and behavior; identifing the toxin; and detirmening when it will wear off within a few seconds. She could have just asked him but she's not exactly thinking clearly right now. They also noticed James and Adyson 1 who looked happy Adam was okay.

"We need to get out of here he'll be able to move minute now," Adam said offering Tempest his hand.

Tempest nodded having concluded that and took his hand. He immediately teleported them away.

They and the others came out in Firestorm again.

"Mission failure. Gale got in the way," Adam said.

"Wait, where's Adyson 1 and James?" Adam asked having never noticed either of them but now noticing that they weren't there.

"I don't know they aren't back yet," Candace said.

Tempest paled making the dirt and grim even more noticeable as she turned to Adam, "Do you think...?"

"Oh no there still with Gale!" Adam said pulling out his teleporter and grabbing Tempest and teleporting away.

Tempest gasped in horror when they got there and damn near fainted right there. "GALE!"

Gale lay there bleeding heavily as he tried to catch his breath was a large hole in his chest.

Tempest rushed up to her brother, getting down on her knees next to him, crying about as heavily as he was bleeding but she knew that there was literally nothing she could do to save him at this point.

"Tempest, are you okay?" He gasped out.

"No, y-your..." Tempest stuttered from over him unable to say it.

"Hey, it's alright they did it in self defense I would have done the same," Gale said weakly.

"No, it's not alright, they could have just knocked you out our something. Adam specifically TOLD them not to kill you."

"Did he and here I thought he would prefer me dead," Gale said looking at Adam who stood behind Tempest.

"You listen to me," He said looking Adam in the eyes now.

"What do you...?" Adam started to asked... but it was too late.

"Take care of my sister," Gale said with his last breath as his eyes rolled back in his head.

"I will," Adam promised as barely a breath as Tempest pretty much completely broke down crying into the body.

Adam sat down beside her and started rubbing her back and soothing her a little.

"You two get back to base we'll be there in a bit," Adam said knowing the tower was now empty.

Adyson 1 and James went back the base what they had done starting to set in.

Adam turned to Tempest and sat closer to her and letting her cry. She spun off her brother and started to cry into Adams shoulder.

"I'm so sorry Tempest," He whispered in her ear.

"It's not your fault," Tempest barely croaked out. "You tried to prevent this, you told them not to."

"I'm still sorry," He said rocking her soothingly.

Tempest didn't say anything for what felt like forever for both of them as she just cried herself dry.

He just held her waiting for her to say something to him.

Tempest sat up drying her eyes making that area of her face cleaner then it's been in about a decade if not more. "We should head back to base." She said in a croaked voice.

"Yeah I guess we should," Adam said carefully, but he still had yet to let her go.

Tempest bent down and gave her dead brother a last kiss on the forehead and shut his eyelids. "I'll never forget you, Gale," She breathed.

Adam pulled out the teleporter they went back to base.

They arrived in a quiet and deserted room.

She trembled for a few seconds before crying again.

Adam hugged her to him again and let her cry herself out.

"Why would they even do that?" She croaked out while crying.

"I don't know, but I will find out," Adam said picking her up as she started to sink down so she sat in his arms bridal style still crying.

"Thank you for trying though," She croaked leaning against his chest.

"I'm sorry I failed," Adam said sadly looking down at her.

"It's not your fault, Adam. You tried everything you could."

"Still I should have given better orders. I was just too revenge obsessed," He said glumly.

"You gave the orders clear as day," Tempest corrected. "They're the one's who didn't listen."

"Still I was in charge it all come back to me doesn't it?" Adam asked

"I don't blame you, Adam. There's nothing else you could have done. You shouldn't either."

"Okay, but I promised I would take care of you and I will," Adam said holding her a little closer.

"I have no doubts on that. I'll definately need it."

"Why do you have doubts?" Adam asked.

"I said I have NO doubts," Tempest corrected.

"Sorry, I missed that part," Adam said blushing.

"Should we go over to the other people?" Tempest asked.

"Are you sure you want to?" Adam asked her.

Tempest gulped, "It'll be fine, he would have wanted me to move on."

"Do you wan me to put you down?" Adam asked.

Tempest hesitated but nodded, "Yes please."

Adam sat her down on her feet, but did not let go of her hand as they left the room to find the others.

When they got there, everyone looked at them clearly worried.

"What?" Adam asked looking at them all.

"Are you ok?" Isabella asked mainly directed at Tempest. Probably the only girl who would look CLEANER after a complete break down. She still pretty much belonged in the dumpster though.

"No, but I'm getting better. Who did it?" Tempest asked.

Adyson 1 slowly and hesitantly rose her hand.

"Why?" Tempest asked quietly

"Self defense," Adyson 1 said simply.

"I said don't kill him if it could be avoided," Adam said.

"And it couldn't have been," Adyson 1 said.

"He was charging us before we could get away," James muttered.

"I told you to try and knock him out," Adam reminded.

"We did, but he kept avoiding all the knockout blows," Adyson 1 said

"You have to believe us, Adam," James said. "It was the only option."

"I believe you, but I'm not who you have to talk to."

Adyson 1 turned to Tempest. "Tempest, I know there's nothing I can say to make things better but we really did try everything we could to keep all three of us alive and we really didn't have any other option."

Tempest nodded glumly and Adam knew things would always be tense between her and Adyson 1 now.

"He could be really stubborn like that," Tempest muttered in false understanding.

"I'm sorry," Adyson 1 said.

Tempest didn't say anything as she just stared at the ground.

"Come on Tempest. Lets get you a room," Adam said.

Tempest slowly nodded as Adam put his arm around her and guided her out.

"Adam why are you so protective of me?" She asked when they were out of the room.

"I promised you're brother I would, and I always keep my promises, especially when it comes to a dying wish," Adam told her.

"Are you sure? You were sort of protective before that."

Adam shrugged, "I'm usually that way with most people unless they did something truely bad to deserve it."

"Well, I appreciate it. Thank you." She said kissing him on the cheek.

Adam blushed ever so slightly but it wasn't even noticable. "It's my plessure, Tempest."

"So, can you stick around? Please, I don't want to be alone right now," Tempest asked when they got to her room.

Adam gave a small smile, "Of course I can."

"Thank you," She said pulling him into her room

'Maybe there is something more to it.' Adam thought as Tempest sat down taking him with her.

She positioned them so she was leaning against Adam and sighed.

"What's going to happen now, Adam?" Tempest asked.

"Well, that's up to you. I recomend joining Firestorm I need a new partner." Adam said running his fingers through her hair

He stopped when he got an ow in responce because there's no place in her hair where you can run your fingers though without pulling it out. "Sorry," He apologized.

"It's ok, I would like that though." Tempest said with a small, weak smile.

"Really? I did not think you would," Adam said.

"Well, why wouldn't I?" Tempest asked.

"I thought you would be sick of the fighting," Adam said.

"Just for those two," She said grabbing his hand.

"So, you'll fight with me?" Adam asked as she turned her head to look at him.

"Yeah, I'll fight with you, do the right thing to make up for doing the wrong."

"You have no idea how much of a relief that is I really didn't want to be Candace's partner. I could kiss you!" Adam said smiling

Tempest turned deep red at that last part.

Adam blushed when realized he said that.

"I uh..." He said not sure what to say now.

"I actually wouldn't mind if you did," She admitted blushing deeper.

"You wouldn't?" He asked as she scooted closer..

"Actually, I would mind a little if you didn't."

Adam gave in leaned forward and kissed Tempest. He felt a warmth spread though him and he also felt very light headed. This was amazing it was much better than kissing Felicity or even Katie had been and Tempest seemed to melt into the kiss as well.

She wrapped her arms around him further staining his shirt with dirt, sweat, her brothers blood, everything that was accumulated on her arms but neither of them cared about that.

His arms slid down and around her waist pulling her right up against him.

"I never thought that this was possible," Tempest admitted once they separated.

"That what was possible?" Adam asked still holding her against him still.

"That a girl like me could ever end up with a boy like you."

"You are an amazing girl." Adam said

She shook her head. "Felicity and Vanessa are both EXTREMELY rich and all three were very smart and stunningly beautiful. I'm nothing special."

"You are special and incredibly smart and beautiful though I have wondered...if you don't mind my asking why don't you shower?" He asked carefully.

Tempest shrugged, "I never really saw the point in it. Plus, if you look and smell horrid then you know those who do want to be with you, whether as a friend or a boyfriend like you for the right reasons. It's better to end up with no one then someone who only cares about what's on the outside."

Adam smiled and kissed her again.

"I didn't realize that was worthy of a kiss or I would have said it sooner," She said when they separated again.

"It's great thinking," Adam said holding her close.

"But the point is now moot since you keep calling me beautiful."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Adam said

"It's still a moot point though." Tempest half-repeated.

"Would you like me to stop calling you beautiful?"

"Then it would still be a moot point cause I'd still know that you think it," Tempest said with a sigh.

"Your also smart, talented, and very determined," Adam said.

"Well, I guess that makes up for it," She said. "Makes it less moot."

"Also, impossible to beat in an argument so far and one of a kind," Adam said

"My point is?" Tempest asked confused.

"If it were not me it would have been somebody else," Adam said

"I actually meant were you referring to my point on there," She corrected.

"Oh, alright," Adam said as Tempest yawned and lay her head on his chest.

"Tired?" He ased looking down at her.

"A little, your not going to leave are you?" She asked worried.

Adam shook his head, "Besides, I have recently concluded that sleeping with someone else in the room helps keep away nightmares."

"What nightmares?" She asked worried.

"I had just been getting nightmares all the time ever since I killed Doofenshmirtz." Adam admitted.

"Oh, well your welcome to sleep here with me."

Adam laid her down. "It will be good for the both of us."

She snuggled into him "I hope so," She said.

"Just go to sleep." He told her.

She nodded a little already drifting off.

Adam kissed her on the forehead. "Good night."

"Good night," She muttered.

Adam laid down and fell asleep himself.

A/N: Please review see you next time!