Episode 4

The Gathering Part 1

2:41p.m.

"Oh come on, Luna we can't lead her to the group. Hang on we is getting aggressive again."

James grabbed the wheel hard and began cutting through streets at high speeds with Dawn right behind him.

"Luna listen up…I can't lead Dawn to the others. As soon as I lose her I want you to get out and get to the school, extract them, and meet me at the airport."

"Airport why the airport?"

James weaved through cars left and right. After reaching a stretch off road he said, "Just do it."

Luna nodded

James shot to an alleyway and cut a couple corners to have for the time being lost Dawn.

"Okay Luna we seem to be clear now I'll let you off here."

James pulled over next to a Tom's food store and Luna got out.

"Wait, take these."

"What are they?"

"It's a Bluetooth and PDA."

"Oh…nice"

"I'll contact you with and give you further instructions with the Bluetooth. The PDA has instructions on what to do right now and the images of what the people look like. Luna you only have eight minutes to get to the school before they let out. We can't risk people getting in this fight."

"Alright"

"And Luna…good luck and be careful."

"You too James"

Luna shut the door and took off in a direction as James pulled onto the road again. Luna looked through the PDA to find the location of the school which is located up the hill from where she was. She then saw a clock on the PDA which read 3:49p.m.

"I got to move time's almost up, but how do I get up the hill?"

She looked around and heard a voice behind her saying, "Do you need a ride?" Luna turned around to see an elderly man with a bag of groceries. Luna found a lucky break.

"Yes I need to get to the West Senior High School in she looks at the timer on the PDA and it reads 2:50p.m. seven minutes."

"Sure come on I'll get you there."

"Thank you so much."

"I try to help."

Luna wanted to be nice so she took the bag of groceries for the elderly man, and took it to the truck for him. They fastened their seatbelts and up they went up the hill.

A nice quiet street was now interrupted as two vehicles raced across and was flying down the street.

"Thoughts I hope Luna gets to them in time."

"Where are James and Luna going? I haven't seen her head yet since…." Dawn quickly hit the brakes and spun around.

"Oh crad, Dawn knows she's not with me, but at least she don't know where the school is."

Dawn is now racing up the hill and James is now pondering.

"Wait; does she know where the school is? I did not say where it is so how would she know?"

Dawn is approaching closer and closer to the school.

"This doesn't make any sense."

In the truck

"Are you going to see someone?"

"Yeah, a couple of people actually."

"I see…you don't look like you've been around here before."

"I'm not."

"Oh really where ya coming up from."

"Down south."

"Oh how nice."

They were pulling into the school and Luna mumbled, "So this is Zman's school. Not a bad size. A little small."

"Here we are." The old man said.

Luna got out and turned to the old man.

"Thanks, sorry I have nothing to give ya."

"That's okay I needed to come pick up my grandson today anyway. It's also been a while since I saw such a pretty face."

Luna began to blush and said, "Thank you." The moment was disturbed upon hearing the bell. Luna looked at the Timer and it read 3:57p.m.

"Just in time. Thanks for the ride."

"No problem."

"Now where are they?"

Luna waited by the back entrance where the old man dropped her off. She saw school buses pulling up alongside a curb and parked behind her waiting to pick the kids up. Luna put herself flush against the brick wall, and using the PDA flipped through the images knowing who she must find. Eventually she saw Tem Xephmor and Arial walking out. "Okay that's two now to find the other two."

Shortly after she found the he found Anthony the third man.

"Erm…where's Z?" Luna waited patiently then she saw a guy with a flight jacket on and dark brown slick back hair walking out with his headphones on.

"Yep, that's Z. Huh he looks a little different from the video clips, oh well time to round them up." Before she could do anything everyone panicked at the two cars racing up the road.

"Oh no better work fast."

She saw Anthony get on a blue bus with BATA written on the top. Zman got on the bus shortly before dawns car smashed into the back of it. James squealed his wheels to a stop. He got out and drew his gun and pointed it at the car Dawn drove. He crept up as panicked students got out of their cars and off the buses to view what's happening. "LUNA!" James yelled, "GET THE FOUR PEOPLE OUT OF HERE NOW!"

Luna nodded and acted on his request first he got a school bus that Tem Xephmor got on, just as the people were about to get off and view what happened Luna pushed them back and said, "Where's Tem Xephmor?"

"That'd be me." Tem Spoke up.

"Tem you're coming with me."

Tem was confused as to who this person was but weird things are happening all over he didn't ask questions.

"Now what", Tem asked.

"Now you wait here while I round up the other three."

"Other three," Tem said as Luna was running to the next bus in which she saw Ariel get in. Half the people that got on the bus got off to witness what happened. Luna got on and asked, "Which one of you is Ariel?" "A hand went up as Ariel addresses herself that way. "Come on Ariel."

Ariel got up and got with Luna. While Luna was dealing with that James was on Dawn he had a gun to her head as he noticed she was just fine considering how she plowed into the back of a bus. Dawn began to move her hands and James said, "Don't move."

Dawn began to laugh which confused James, "What's so funny."

"You think it's that easy to beat me…snicker…think again."

With that the bottom made a slight explosion which distracted James as Dawn whacked the gun away with the back of her hand. Using her claws she drew up her shield and jumped up smashing through the roof. James began pumping rounds at her but they weren't effective enough to stop her. As James was reloading she landed down in front of him and swung her claws slicing his gun in half. He threw the remains of his gun at Dawn which didn't do anything except bounce off the shield. Then he pulled out his combat knife and swung it at Dawn but the force field repelled his attack and sent him backwards.

"It's time for me to rid myself of you, once and for all."

Dawn attacked but James thinking quickly took his combat knife and wedged it between two claws. Dawn was stopped short of stabbing him through the face, now it was a matter of who was stronger. Dawn pressed all her strength and her body weight down on the claws as James tried to hold up his knife. Then without warning Zman grabbed Dawn and pulled her off James and threw her as she fell to the ground.

"Are you all right?"

"Yeah I'm okay."

"Now what do we do?"

Dawn was getting back up and was scorned because Zman prevented her from killing James.

"Run, get the others out of here."

"What others are you referring to."

James pointed to a group of people who were now running up.

"Take them to the airport."

"Why?"

"Z come on let's go." Luna yelled running up. Zman looked at her confused.

"Do I know you?"

"It's me Luna." James laughed and said, "And I'm Sally Struthers Husband."

Luna sighed and said, "Now is not the time for sarcasm Z. I AM LUNA!!!"

"You can't be Luna because she's…"

"From Canada, I'm an artist that goes to college, blah, blah, blah COME ON LET'S GO."

"That is Luna James. I brought her because Dawn tried to rub her out first." James spurts out.

"Luna" Zman said then all of the sudden lunged at Luna and hugged her tightly.

"Oh my god Luna, I always wanted to see you in person."

"It's good to see you to, but I can't breath." Luna forced her words. Zman let go and she panted a little bit.

"Sorry Luna, I'm really happy to see ya."

"It's okay Z, my goodness you squeezed the air right out of me."

"I hug a lot."

"Enough of this time to die." Dawn said turning her sights and charging at Luna.

"I have you now." Dawn reached her arm out and attempted to stab her, but at the last second Luna is shoved aside by James. Dawn stabbed James right side of the torso. He was brought to the ground by the claws with Dawn on top. She smiled and said, "Well your death will be satisfying for now."

"JAMES" Everyone yelled simultaneously.

"RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!" James pleaded to them. Blood was beginning to come out of his mouth. Dawn loved seeing his last breaths of life slipping away. Then a school bus backed into dawn causing her and her claws to be pulled off James. Once it stopped Tem and Ariel ran under it to grab James and pull him out from underneath. The doors opened up.

"Get in."

"Kora…what are you doing?" Zman asked.

"Getting us out of here what else?"

The group was rushing onto the bus to get a seat. Tem and Arial brought James on

"Do you know how to drive a bus?" Luna asked

"Do you?" Kora responded.

Luna shook her head no and sat back down.

"It can't be too hard driving one of these." Kora said shutting the door.

They could hear sirens blaring up the hill.

"Let's get out of here before the Smokey's do." Zman said.

"Drive carefully." Ariel requested as she was tending to James' wounds.

Kora put it in drive and began driving away as Luna was giving her some driving instructions.

"We gotta get him to a hospital." Tem said

"No." Tem and the others turned their attention to James who was half conscience.

"Don't you worry about me, just get to the airport."

"But you're bleeding badly you'll most likely die if we don't."

James reached into one of pockets and pulled a weird looking rod with a grip on one end.

"Waive this over my injury." He instructed Ariel. Ariel grabbed the object and gripped the end and the rod part then turned green. She began waving it over his injury and slowly it was healing itself. She could see flesh rejuvenating rapidly across his wounds.

"Man this day couldn't get any better." Zman said cheerfully. "Luna, this is so cool that I got to see you personally."

"It is nice to see you too. I just wish we could've seen each other under better circumstances."

"What's so bad?"

"Well for one my creation is trying to kill me. I swear if Dawn don't kill me first my car insurance company will."

"Why would your car insurance kill ya?" Zman asked

"Because I totaled my car trying to kill Dawn, that damn shield of hers is hard to wreck.

"So where are we going now?" Kora asked

"We must get to the Cherry Capital Airport." James said to Kora. "Ariel, how's James doing?"

"He's doing very well in fact I almost healed him."

"Thanks Ariel for healing me." James said

"Thanks for helping us back there." James smiled at her

"Uhhh, what exactly are we going to do once we get to the airport?" Anthony asked.

"We're going to fly out of here to get Stephanie and Kat." James responded

"Cool, now I get to meet Stephanie and Kat. Oh my goodness this is so exciting." Z said cheerfully

"Remember Z, we aren't going there for friendly visits." Luna explained

"I know Luna, I know"

"Look we're at the airport." Kora said.

"It's show time." James said sitting up wearing a smile.