A/N: Sorry this was late my bad! (Batmarcus)
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Chapter 18
The next day Tempest was pacing waiting for the article on Steve to come out.
Finally, the alert that she set went off.
"Yes, Adam get up!" She said.
Adam was instantly up and by the screen. "You got it?"
"Yeah!" She said happily
She pulled up the article, 'Even the Press Can Have Traitors'.
"Ah what great start," Adam smirked.
Some of you may have read Ms. Steve from the Central Danville Paper's article, "When We Thought it Was Over" focusing on heavily criticizing the newly arrived Tempest Doofenshmirtz. I know that it will be hard for the majority of you to trust a Doofenshmirtz's word on wanting to better the Tri-State-Area and fix what her family is done, especially after the information that Steve had released on how she had, "had fought for the company underneath both her father and sister in flawless standings for many years," but had you ever wondered where she had recieved this information? The Doofenshmirtz Evil Incoorperated employment files are certainly not immediately accessible to the public or even the press.
However these files given to this reporter bring to light some troubling facts. Ms. Steve had worked for The Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated company for many years before leaving the company while it was under Vanessa's reign. In fact, she was all the way up as Heinz Doofenshmirtz's second-in-command.
Now, I know what your thinking, I just said this information isn't open to the public or press but I was not with the company, too. I had recieved the offically files from Tempest under the request that I expose them to you guys. My loyal readers.
"Ms. Steve would do well to remember not to make enemies with powerful people in the future and should be brought to justice for her many crimes under Heinz whom it is believed she had an affair with before his death.
Finally, as for the information she had released on Tempest, though the information is true that she had worked very far towards the bottom under both her father and sister, she had never killed or even seriously injured anyone under a moral stand point. In fact, only reason she was part of the company was because her brother Gale Doofenshmirtz, the only family memeber she knew was family at the time, was and she couldn't just leave them and be stuck all alone or she'd die for sure. For now we shall have to wait and see how Ms. Doofenshmertz does and Ms. Steve gets what is coming to her.
"Perfect." Tempest smiled widely.
"Yeah, she had it coming," Adam said
"I really have confidence this will work." Tempest said smiling.
"I know it will," Adam said
"Thanks, Adam." Tempest said hugging him.
"No need to thank me," Adam said holding her close.
"Yes there is?" Tempest said simply.
"Why I didn't do anything," Adam said
"You believed in me and had faith that everything would turn out right."
"Well when it's you things do usually work out right," Adam said
"…Rarely… but recently… yes..."
"I say it does," Adam said
Tempest rolled her eyes and chuckled. "Well, alright."
"I love you Tempest," Adam said kissing her cheek.
"I love you, too, Adam. Even though your aim sucks."
"My aim sucks?" He asked confused.
Tempest nodded and said, "but I'll fix that," before kissing him on the lips.
Adam smiled into the kiss holding her as close as he could.
"So, now what?" Adam asked once they seperated.
"We scan for Aloyse again," She said
"Aloyse?" Adam asked confused.
"Rodney." She clarified and went over to the machine starting it up.
"Right hopefully he's not still on vacation," Adam said
"Hopefully, it will take a while to find out though." Tempest said wishing the machine was faster.
"We should update this," Adam said
Tempest nodded, "Yes, we definately should."
"I'll work on it later," Adam said
"And I'll help." Tempest offered.
"Sure, computer updating alone is boring," Adam said
"We should wait through this round though."
"I know," Adam sighed
"And because of that, we can go back to what we were doing." Tempest reminded.
Adam smiled and pulled her to him by the hand. Tempest came in the rest of the way closing the gap.
This lead to Isabella and Felicity walking in on a very heated make out session with Tempest straddling Adam as they continued not noticing the two girls.
Felicity just smiled and picked up her own girlfriend. "Well, if they're doing it."
Isabella smiled and kissed Felicity. Felicity took it to a different room while still kissing Isabella in case they break apart first.
"Adam...have I told you...I love you?" Tempest asked between kisses.
"Yes… many times… but I never… get tired… of hearing it." Adam said between kisses.
"Good...so..are we,,,about to..." She trailed off still kissing him
"Only… if you want… to."
"Do you think we're ready?" She asked breaking the kiss to look him in the eyes
"I know I am but the real question is if you are." Adam said knowing that she had been very stubborn on wanting to wait and wanting to respect that.
Tempest seemed to hesitate for the longest time on that. Luckily, the machine went off before she could answered. 'Saved by the bell.' She thought getting off Adam and going over to it.
"Found him," She said
"Oh man!" Tempest sighed
"What? Where is he?" Adam asked and Tempest sighed.
"Australia, 1st Dimension."
"So what?" Adam asked
"Platypi are native to Australia if you thought Feliss was afraid of water and shoes, you definately have not seen her around a platypus." Tempest answered. "Which leads me to believe for almost certain that he's doing this on purpose."
"Probably so now what?" Adam asked
"Seems like it would be easier to get you more use to your powers and go without her since he's maker sure to only go where Feliss wouldn't."
"Well that may be what it comes down too," Adam sighed.
"I'm sure you could no problem if it does though." Tempest said.
"Yeah, but I'm still rough around the edges," Adam said.
"Which is why the plan includes you getting better."
"Then we need to find Feliss," Adam said
"Let's go then." Tempest said leaving the room.
So they searched for Feliss. Unfortunately, they found her still making out with Isabella.
"We are not going to interrupt that," Adam said pulling Tempest out with him.
"You seem to be doing a little better at with though." Tempest observed.
"I am, a little, but that was really heated," Adam said.
"Still, that's good that you are." Tempest smiled.
"I guess, how long do you think they'll be?" Adam asked.
"I'm not sure." Tempest said honestly.
"You don't think there...carrying on in there do you?" Adam asked awkwardly.
"Probably not, Feliss is very reserved on that." Tempest said.
"Well that's good then," Adam said
"Yeah, except that it's because she's afraid that sex wouldn't be fun because it was always horrible before." Tempest said sadly.
"That poor girl," Adam said
"Yeah, it's hard to believe how with all the stuff she's been through, she's still so strong mentally. I guess it's true what they say on what doesn't kill you." Tempest said.
"I guess so," Adam sighed
"At least you got your powers the easy way."
"Yeah," Adam said sadly
"What should we do now?" Tempest asked.
"Not sure," Adam sighed
"We could do that some more." Tempest offered.
"I would like that," Adam said pulling her into his lap
Tempest smile and kissed him. Adam kissed her back relaxing into it
"I'm… still not… ready… though." Tempest said between kisses holding him close.
"Your...not?" He asked.
"No… I'm not." Tempest said.
"Oh...well...alright," Adam said somewhat glum, but hoping he hid it well.
Tempest noticed though and separated from the kiss looking down guiltily.
"I'm sorry," Adam said.
"It's my fault. I'm making you sad."
"No, your not if your not ready then your not ready," He said
"It's sounds like it is."
"I'm sorry," Adam said.
"No, I'm sorry I just… don't want to run the risk you know?"
"The risk? Which one?" Adam asked.
"I don't want to get pregnant, yet. I'm not ready to take care of a baby, especially with the company to lead and fix."
"I can understand that," Adam said simply
Tempest nodded, "Thank you, Adam."
"It's no trouble, but now I need a minute," Adam said awkwardly.
"Um… alright." Tempest said having no idea what to think of that.
"To uh release some tension," Adam said
"Oh." She said not looking up. "Okay."
"You know what I'm talking about right?" Adam asked
Tempest shook her head completely lost.
"Uh I need to uh..." Adam said awkwardly.
It clicked in Tempest mind. "Oh, ew! Ew! TMI."
"Sorry," Adam said blushing before he blurred away.
Tempest's shout had caught Isabella and Feliss' attention and they came out looking confused.
"You don't want to know." Tempest said. "Just go back to what you were doing."
"Kind of hard now," Isabella said.
"Please, just… don't ask." Tempest said.
"Why? It obviously has you down," Feliss said.
Tempest sighed and explained everything that happened.
"Oh okay first Ew," Isabella said
"That's what I said! But you insisted upon knowing." Tempest said defensively.
"No she did," Isabella said pointing to Felicity.
"What's the second thing?" Tempest asked since she since 'first' implying there more.
"Well I'm not sure what to tell you about your other issue," Feliss said.
"It's okay." Tempest sighed.
"No it's not," Isabella said
"I know." Tempest sighed. "But it's not you guys' problem."
"Are you sure?"
Tempest nodded, "I'm sure."
"Okay, but what will you do?" Isabella asked
"I'm not sure." Tempest sighed.
"I could go talk to Adam in a bit," Isabella said
"Obviously wait till he's done." Tempest said.
"Well duh!" She said
"What would we say though?" Tempest asked.
"I'm not sure," Isabella said
"So you see the problem."
"Yeah I did not think of that," Isabella said.
No one said anything for a while.
Then Adam returned freshly showered and looking relieved.
"Better?" Tempest asked hoping for just a yes or no.
"Yes," Adam said
"Good." Tempest said though hesitant.
"What's wrong?" Adam asked.
"This isn't working." Tempest said. "You want more than I'm willing to give."
"A...Are you breaking up with me?" Adam asked shocked.
"No! Not that! It's just, I don't know but we seriously need to figure this out because the way things are is obviously making you unhappy."
"Well I don't know what to do," Adam said
"I don't either but breaking up certainly isn't an option, that would just make both of us way sadder."
"Well I'm sorry," Adam said.
"Don't be, this is all my fault." Tempest said.
"No it's mine for being so impatient," Adam said.
Tempest didn't know what to say.
Neither did Adam who sighed
"I really do love you though, Adam." Tempest said after a while of silence.
"I love you too," Adam said opening his arms for a hug.
Tempest didn't hesitate to go into them.
"We'll be okay," Adam said.
"I hope so." Tempest said as Adam wrapped his arms around her.
"I know so," Adam said
"Yeah Tempest, you're you and he's him." Feliss said confidently.
"You'll be fine," Isabella said
"What about you guys?" Adam asked thinking of what Tempest told him about Feliss.
"What about us?" Isabella asked confused.
"Well, Isa very personal question but do you want to… you know?" Adam asked.
"Well maybe, but I can wait," She said tomato red
Feliss looked down. At least she said she could wait but honestly… she wasn't sure if she'd ever want to do that.
"I can," Isabella said soothingly.
"I'm have no idea when or even if that time will come though." Feliss admitted.
"It's alright," Isabella said
They all smiled relieved.
"Everything is okay," Adam said
"Except we still have Steve and Rodney to worry about." Tempest said, "Rodney's in Australia now so I'm almost certain he's making sure that Feliss won't go after him."
"Aw man," Feliss sighed
"So, we need a new plan." Tempest said.
"We attack Steve?"
"That will make it extremely hard to convince people who didn't read or didn't believe the new article that I'm different." Tempest pointed out.
"Good point we wait for her to find us," Adam said
"Or someone outside of either company reads the article and does something about it." Tempest added.
"Like the riot on TV?" Isabella asked
"Really?" Tempest asked have not seen it.
"Yeah in front of the paper where she works," Isabella said
"Could I see it then?" Tempest asked.
"Yeah to the TV room!"
Adam picked up Tempest and blurred her there and Feliss did the same with Isabella.
"Wow that looks bad," Adam said.
"Yes it does." Tempest said in mixed emotions.
"Do we stop it?" Adam asked.
"We probably should." Tempest nodded.
"Okay," Adam sighed.
They took the four of them to where the riot was.
"Now we need the attention," Adam said
Tempest climbed up on the tallest thing she could find and shooted at the top off her lungs. "HEY!" Being a Doofenshmirtz given the nature of the riot, all of the rioters stopped and turned there attention to her.
"Thank you no I know that women has wronged a lot of you, but killing her is not the answer," She said
"Why not?" A random rioter shouted.
"It makes you no better than her,"
"Yes it does! She killed hundreds of innocent people. Killing one guilty person does not put us on the same level." A different rioter said.
"Then it's over and you have no real closure,"
"Why do you need closure? She deserves to be dead!" The first rioter said.
"Because with no closure you won't feel better it'll get worse and it will drive you insane because you killed the one person who knows if your loved ones are still alive at all or where they are, it would take me months to find out then it would be too late, but she knows we need to have her arrested so we can all get the answers."
"She's right." Adam said climbing up with his girlfriend. "I know because that's exactly how I felt when I killed her father. No matter how bad the person was, no matter how much they deserve to die. Just killing someone solves nothing."
"It seems like it would solve everything,"
"It doesn't though." Adam said seriously.
"Fine," He said backing down.
"That goes for the rest of you, too." Tempest said to the rest of the rioters.
"Fine, but you have to arrest her Firestorm," He said
"We will, as the second-in-command, I will talk with the head and make sure of it." Adam promised.
"Good!"
All the rioters luckily dispersed and went home or wherever.
Adam blurred into the building in front of Steve.
"Your under arrest," Adam said
"I don't think so." Steve smirked arrogantly.
"You act like I'm giving you a choice," Adam said.
Adam picked her up and she was kicking and fighting it to no avail as he blurred her back to Tempest, Isabella, and Feliss.
"Get me hand cuffs she is really irritating," Adam said
Feliss blurred to get some and put them on Steve.
"Thank you," Adam said
"You're welcome, now, let's get her to prison?" Feliss asked.
"Firestorm prison," Adam said
"Of course." Feliss said and they were off.
They were there in minutes.
"Isabella 1, we caught Doofenshmirtz's second-in-command." Adam said.
"Really?" She asked excitedly.
Adam held her up.
"Wonderful we'll be right there!"
Isabella 1 came in as well as some other agents.
"Nice capture," She siad.
"Thank you, Tempest had to break a riot there first though." Adam praised. "After that it was easy."
"Very nice," Isabella said.
"Put Steve in a cell then." Isabella 1 said.
"Gladly," Adam said.
He put her in a Firestrom Prison cell and locked the door.
"Enjoy your stay," Adam said
"You know I'm going to get out, right?" Steve asked.
"Not likely," Adam said.
"Heinz did."
"Heinz had people on the inside, oh and before you rely on the other Adam and Isabella 1 we found the pazzazium in there blood and cleaned out, routine blood tests here you know?" Adam said smirking
"How do you know I don't?" Steve asked smirking back. "There are other ways then drugs you know."
"Well I could blow your brains out," Adam offered
Steve looked down. "No thank you."
"Smart girl," Adam said
"Now, why did you right all that stuff about Tempest?"
"She needed to be taken down a peg,"
"Well, that didn't work out for you did it?" Adam asked. "And why did she need that?"
"She needs to embrace who she is, and her legacy!"
"You're insane." Adam said bluntly. "Besides, she's more like her mother Charlene who no one knows about."
"Please that women who was not worthy of Heinz!?"
"Anyone's worthy of Heinz, the question is who's despicable enough to be deserving of the punishment of Heinz so if that's what you mean. No, she wasn't."
"No I mean that women did not deserve to have him," She said
"That is what I just said. She never did anything to deserve someone as god damn awful as Heinz. Were you not listening?"
"Heinz was a great man that you just could not understand," She said
"I understand that this is really more of a psych ward then a prison." Adam said. "You're just proving my point that you're insane."
"Oh just leave," She said.
"Alright, have fun rotting in your psychiatric ward cot." Adam said before blurring out grabbing Tempest on the way.
She was surprised when she was suddenly with Adam on the balcony.
"Why are we here?" Tempest asked.
"I don't know this spot relaxes me," Adam said
Tempest looked out at the city. "Well, it is very relaxing."
"Yeah it is," Adam sighed
"You know, Steve is very loud."
"Yeah I know," Adam said wrapping an arm around her waist
"I never will. She's completely insane."
"I know your not evil," Adam said
"Where are Feliss and Isabella?" Tempest asked randomly.
"Down stairs somewhere?" Adam shrugged
"Shouldn't we head back to our own base?" Tempest asked.
"Scared?" Adam asked
Tempest nodded honestly.
Come here," Adam said
Tempest did confused. Adam held her close to him.
"That does help a little." Tempest said.
"Well lets go down then," Adam said.
Tempest nodded, "Yes please."
"Okay stairs or air?" Adam asked.
"Air?" She asked confused.
"Parachutes," Adam said
"Stairs." Tempest said with no question.
"Aw," Adam huffed.
"Next time I go by air," Adam said.
"Sorry." Tempest blushed.
"It's okay," Adam said
"You sure?"
"Yeah," Adam said
"Good." Tempest said as they headed downstairs.
"Next time though I am going parachute," Adam said
"Then you're going without me."
"Why?"
"I'm just, scared, okay?" Tempest asked.
"I know," Adam said
"So, you won't make me?" Tempest asked.
"As I told you earlier I won't make you do anything that you don't want to do," Adam said.
"Thank you." Tempest said as they headed downstairs.
"No problem," Adam said
"How's it going with your powers?" Tempest asked randomly.
"I'm getting better," Adam said.
"That's good." Tempest said smiling.
"Still not mastered yet," Adam said.
"Of course not, it's an extremely difficult skill." She said. "At least that's what Feliss says."
"It is," Adam said.
"Still, it comes in handy so much and it must be so cool." She said sounding a little jealous.
"It's okay," Adam shrugged
"I doubt it's just 'okay'."
"It's fun," Adam admitted
"I figured." Tempest said.
"You could get powers," Adam said
"I would love that personally." Tempest smiled.
"We can make those darts," Adam said
"You'd do that for me?" Tempest asked.
"I'd do anything for you," Adam said
"A little corny there."
"Maybe," Adam said, "but it's true."
She smiled and hugged him tightly.
"I love you, Tempest." Adam whispered.
"I love you too," She said happily.
They got down to were Isabella and Feliss were luckily not making out.
"Ready?" They asked.
They both nodded. "We're ready." Adam said.
"Then lets go," Isabella said.
Adam and Feliss blurred Tempest and Isabella respectively back to their base.
"Well that was fun," Adam said.
"Yes it was." Tempest agreed.
"So I owe you?" Adam asked her.
Tempest nodded with a huge smile.
"Owe her?" Isabella asked.
"He's going to give me powers." Tempest said excitedly.
"Really?" Isabella asked
Adam nodded, "I told her I would."
"How?"
"We just have to make one of those darts I was hit with."
"That actually might work!" Feliss said
"I don't see why it wouldn't." Adam said.
"Can I get powers?"Isabella asked.
"Sure, but I feel like Oprah, you're getting powers, your getting powers everyone here is getting powers!"
All the girls burst out laughing.
"Thank you!" Adam said relieved that they found his joke funny.
"Thank you," Isabella said.
"You're welcome, let's get to work then."
"Right," Felicity said.
They all headed to a lab and set to work. An hour later it was done. He held up two chemical filled darts which they had ran through a simulater to be safe. "Ready?"
They both nodded.
"You might feel a little dizzy." Adam warned before sticking them both.
Sure enough they both felt dizzy instantly. Isabella sat down when it took affect but Tempest was already seated knowing all about them. She could even reverse them if she wanted to.
"Whoa," Isabella said.
"Yeah, they have that effect at first." Tempest said.
"Yeah..." Adam said awkwardly.
"It'll wear off in a few seconds though." Tempest said.
"I hope so," Isabella said.
However, after she said that she almost immediately didn't feel dizzy anymore.
"Okay all better!" She said
"So do I, I told you." Tempest said in a matter-of-factory tone.
"I know," She said
Tempest stood up and wanted to see if it worked but she didn't want to get heard like Adam did in training or Feliss the first few times.
"What do I do?" She asked
"What do you mean?" Feliss asked.
"How do I make the powers work?"
"Speed or strength, they're completely different." Feliss said.
"Speed first please,"
"Well, speed's completely a mental game. Just start off running like you normally would and focus on where you're going and how you're going to get there and the powers will do the rest. Unfortunately, if you focus to hard you'll trip up too little and won't stop when you want to and if you focus too little you'll trip up too much and fall." Feliss explained. "You have to find a middle ground which is different for different people. For Adam and I at least."
"So we can't just run?" Isabella asked.
Feliss shook her head. "Unfortunately not, it's an extremely difficult skill to master."
"I like a challenge," Isabella said
"Good, and I know Tempest does, too. That makes it easy for me to work with." Feliss said.
"Yeah this'll be fun," Adam said
"So, you guys wanna train now then?" Feliss asked.
They both nodded
"Alright, let's head to the training room then." Feliss said.