A/N: Hello readers! Yup, that's right. I'm back! To all my fans out there, thanks for waiting for me. I'm sorry this took so long; life has been fairly erratic these last few months. Less sleep then was healthy, more school work then normal (all of it projects) and an internship. Pretty much friend my brain for a while. But I'm back, with a brand new chapter! Ok now a small bit of news, I've decided NOT to set deadlines anymore, simply because I'll never meet them. So that means I have no idea when the next chapter will be, but I can promise there will be a new one. Oh, and from the reviews, I've noticed alot of people confused over the multi-ship thing. I haven't decided if It's harem or if it just means Harry will find different girls in different worlds. OK! Read on!
"So you're my teacher?" Harry asked from the back seat.
"Yup." The voice answered.
"And you trained under Artanis?"
"Yup."
"And your part of this rebellion thing?"
"Yup"
"And we're going to some super secret rebellion hideout?"
"You got it."
"So what are you going to teach me?"
"Well, if you don't shut the hell up and let me drive, I'll teach you how to fall out of a moving vehicle."
"Shutting up."
"We're here." The driver said as they pulled through a garage door. Silently, the door slid shut behind them.
"This is a warehouse." Harry stated.
"Yes it is." The driver opened his door, and climbed out.
"You're secret base is a warehouse?"
"Yes." The back door opened.
"…Whatever works, I guess…" Harry climbed out of the car.
"That's generally the idea….Holy crap, you're Harry Potter!"
"Ya, I….How the hell do you know that?" Harry glared at the taller teen. He was easily six feet tall, maybe more, and had almost half a foot on the young wizard. His black hair spiked up, with white streaks through it, added another 3 inches. He wore a weathered tan trench coat over a loose black shirt and pants. Attached to his ear was a strange device that wrapped around his face and put a strange red lens like thing in front of his left eye.
"I trained with a Harry Potter!" The teen grinned. "We did the tri-wizard thing together."
"Really!"
"Ya, Artanis said it would be good practice so he entered me into it. Of course, that entire school of yours was pissed that some 'Outsider' was representing their school…Of course, then YOUR name came out and things just went to shit pretty quick…"
"Wait, but…I mean….When…How?"
"Ah, I remember that reaction! Yes, Artanis pretty much leaves insanity in his wake. Come; let's go get something to eat and I'll try to explain…."
"But I…"
"Oh, and my name's Devon." The teen turned and walked away.
"….Huh." Harry stood silent for a moment before running after him.
"Ok, so what's the easiest way to explain this…" the two teens sat in the warehouse office, eating soup from a pair of self heating bowls. Ok, so in general, most people are only aware of their own dimension. There are a lot of people who BELIVE there may be other dimensions, but very few actually see proof of it. Now, I'm sure Artanis probably mentioned all of this, though knowing him he said it once, it went right over your head, and he never mentioned it again."
"That sounds like him…"
"Yup. Ok so, there are an infinite number of dimensions, and each exists in groups called Shelves. Your average Planeswalker never learns of the existence of other Shelves beyond their own. Shelves contain an infinite number of different worlds that have very little in common beyond existing in the same Shelve. Now there are also infinite copies of each shelve, that contain "alternate versions" of the worlds in other Shelves. These alternate worlds are almost identical to every other version, except for some minor change. The farther away the shelves are, the larger the difference."
"So there's an infinite number of…Me out there?"
"Correct. There's also an infinite number of me, of Artanis, of all your friends and enemies, of everyone you've ever met or heard of, and an infinite number of copies of the infinite number of people you didn't even knew existed."
"….Wow…"
"Ya, really goes a long way to show just how insignificant we really are huh? Most people are less significant than a speck of dust in the grand scheme of things."
"So what made my world different from the one you went to?"
"Having never been to your universe, I'd have no way of knowing." Devon put his spoon down, brought the bowl to his lips, and drained the broth. "It could be anything. Maybe the Harry I met, had accidently walked in on his aunt changing, or maybe in your world you got up an hour earlier than mine did on some Tuesday in March. Or maybe some random guy in some random country didn't die when he did in your world, and thus everything was different. It really is that….Are you alright?"
Harry's face had turned a strange pale green. He quickly put his bowl down and covered his mouth, eyes closed. "….Aunt….Naked…."
Devon burst out laughing "So I take it, your aunt wasn't a super model either huh?"
"Go to hell…."
"Oh, I can already tell this is gonna be a lot of fun!"
"…Oh ya, loads….So why don't you tell me about the other me?"
"What for?"
"Curiosity?"
"…Ya sure, alright…." Devon agreed. "So ya, I basically spent a year in that dimension. It would'a been your fourth year. Artanis thought it would be a good idea for me to learn how to adapt and work in an entirely unknown environment. He made a deal with that old headmaster to get me into the school; apparently he got some special magical artifact in exchange. So I spent some time in London, seeing the sights, and hanging around that Magic alley of yours. That's where I met you. You'd decided to take a vacation before going to that Quidditch World Cup thing."
"I never went to the alley that summer…"
"Maybe that's the difference then…The Harry I knew seemed to be going through his teenage rebellion early. I'm not entirely sure he'd bothered to ask anyone if he could be there, but that's not important. Me and him, we spent some time talking, he got me interested in the Cup, I removed the Trace from his wand…"
"…Wait, you can do that?"
"Oh ya, simple as shit. The A.U. puts a trace on everyone, we had to learn quick how to get rid of it or we'd of all been dead before the rebellion even got started. So ya. Harry already had a ticket but I had to find my way in. He got those annoying friends of his to let me crash in their tent for it…"
"The Weasleys?"
"Ya them. Annoying family. I mean sure, the twins were bad ass, and Arthur was cool, but the rest were just messed up. The youngest one, uh…what was her name…"
"Ginny?"
"Ya her! Bat shit crazy! She had a shrine to Harry in her damn closet, complete with pictures, stray hairs, man even his toe nails! And her brother, that Ronald guy, talk about the dangers of inbreeding! Jealous as hell, dumb as nails, and easily distracted with shiny string!"
Harry snorted "My Ron wasn't nearly that…easy to distract."
"Pity, it made for a fun month….Until that cat stole the string anyway…" He grinned. "Then there was the tool, uh…Pervy or something…"
"Percy?"
"Ya, that guy. He hated me the minute we met. I'm glad I didn't have to deal with him too much. Or the older brothers for that matter. The two of them seemed to think I was evil because I wouldn't treat their mother like god, ignoring the fact that they fled the country to get away from her the whole time."
"Mrs. Weasley?"
"Ya, the banshee herself. She spent thirty minutes treating me like another son, and a week acting like I was Satan himself, there to corrupt her children with my evil ways. I was barley there a minute before she was criticizing my clothes and telling me what to do. So I yelled at her, and it was like the world went crazy. I was glad to get out of there."
"Sounds like it…What about Hermione?"
"Granger? Practically the only sane person there besides us! Mind you, she basically stayed to the side, as far away from the conflict as she could."
"So how was the cup?"
"Eh, nothing special. It was easy to sneak in; the place had no security at all. They didn't even check for tickets, just assumed you had one and let you in. The game it's self wasn't all that impressive, nowhere near as exciting as playing tank chicken or jousting on motorcycles, but hey, the flying part was cool. Of course after it was done those weird guys in masks decided to throw a party."
"The death eaters?"
"Ya those guys."
"You're not good with names are you?"
"Not even remotely….But ya, they tried to ruin the fun, so me and Harry went out and ruined theirs."
"You fought them!"
"Fought? Ya right, I threw a couple fire balls at them, and Harry stunned them when they panicked. Took less than five minutes to take them down. Mind you the hundreds of idiots fleeing the dozen or so bad guys were incredibly annoying, but then again I got the impression almost all wizards were a bit…lacking in intelligence."
"Yes, I'd noticed that."
"Yup. Well one of the death idiots wakes up and starts shouting all this evil stuff about how much better they are then everyone else and how the idiots in the government would just let them go. So of course, as the idiot's yelling this, said government idiots walked up as did an annoying reporter and a few hundred witnesses. The guys were in prison before the sun rose."
"Couldn't have happened to a better group of people."
"Agreed. So of course we went back to the red head army, who were less then happy with us. Apparently we were supposed to do the smart thing and run away like little kids, and leave all the dangerous stuff to the adults…When we pointed out the adults were running away and trampling the little kids, we just got yelled at some more."
"Sounds like a fun summer."
"Couldn't have been better" Devon shrugged. "So we went to your school, and did all the normal school things, study, read, pick fights with strange sexually confused blond boys, and flirt with girls. Then the other two schools showed up and things got even crazier. You know that really hot French girl, Fleur?"
"So you can remember her name but no one else's?" Harry asked, sarcastically. "The part Veela right?"
Devon shrugged "so you know how Veela like guys who aren't affected by their aura right?"
"…I'll take your word for it…"
"Well turns out, she also has a thing for guys who….Well, don't notice her…"
"She liked you because you didn't give her the time of day?"
"Exactly…." Devon shook his head. "I'll never understand women…So of course I'm the new guy, who can apparently cast wand less magic, who got a lot of daddy's put in jail, I've got a hot French chick pretty much following me around, AND I hang out with the suddenly bad ass Harry Potter….and then my name pops out of an evil fire cup, which Artanis DIDN'T tell me about, and now I'm chosen to represent their school."
"…So how'd we do?"
"We kicked ass of course. We spent all our free time training for the damn thing, with Granger's invaluable help of course. So when the first task came around, we were practically relieved it was something as simple as a dragon. Harry did some cool stunts on his broom to get past his dragon, while I distracted mine with the illusion of another dragon, complete with fire. Got us right up into the top two."
"You made an illusionary dragon?" Harry asked, skeptical.
"I'm good at illusions, their good for avoiding detection."
"I can see that…"
"And the fire was real, so the dragon didn't have time to test the illusion. They don't see very well anyway, so it all worked out. Then the ball came…"
"Oh god…." Harry hung his head.
Devon grinned "I, of course, asked Fleur…She was….Very convincing…"
"And me?"
"You went with Granger."
"WHAT!"
"Yup" Devon smirked. "I had to trick Harry into it of course, no matter how cool he got, he was still dumb as a brick about girls."
"What did you do?"
"Asked him what he was looking for in a date, showed him how every single point fit Granger, got him to agree to ask her, then turned him around, pointed to the blushing girl standing behind him, and said 'So ask already'."
"What do you mean?"
"Well she was like, the only girl in the school who actually knew him. Half the school wanted him for his fame, and the other half wanted him cause he was suddenly a badass. Not to mention, that without her, he'd be dead a dozen times over. In that world, she was quite literally his only good choice."
"So he realized he loved Hermione?"
"Love? Hell no! He asked her on their first date. They'd been friends for years; they had a lot of work to do to turn that into love. Just had a leg up on the rest of us is all…"
"And the second task?"
"That stupid lake thing? Ya that was fun. Apparently they had a lot of trouble finding someone to hide under the lake for me, so Artanis volunteered. He'd been coming around every so often to check up on me and thought it would be a good test. You used some super magic Pot leaf to get Granger, while I surrounded myself in an air bubble and teleported down. Had to save Fleur on the way down too, had some trouble with the weird jellyfish kiddy things."
"Grindylows" Harry said automatically.
"Ya, not important. So I popped in and there's the hostages, all soundly asleep, except Artanis, whose wide awake holding a spear gun in one hand, and a glowing ball of mana in the other."
"Oh god…"
"Yup. He tossed me the spear gun, and summoned up a 12 foot long shark straight out of hell, and said good luck."
"….Well you obviously won thought right?"
"Are you kidding? I shot it with the harpoon, grabbed the psycho and teleported the hell out of there! The thing was made to only go after me, so everything else was safe. Mind you, while all this was going on, Harry had already finished, apparently he had a spell to push himself through the water like a motor boat. Took him less then fifteen minutes."
"So he won then?"
"Yup. Tied us both in the lead. You should'a seen their faces when I teleported though. And Granger practically had a break down trying to explain how you can't 'Apparate' on the school grounds."
"Yes, I can see that freaking some people out. How'd you do it then?"
"I don't Apparate. I teleport, it's an entirely different technique, so the school wards can't stop it…"
"But of course you didn't say any of that, and let them go on thinking you were able to Apparate around Hogwarts…"
"You got it."
"Which of course caused all kinds of trouble…" Harry mused.
"More then you know. The news paper's listed me as both Merlin and the most evil dark lord ever, of course that was after I refused to comment and threw fire at the reporter…"
"I bet Rita loved that."
"Did you know she uses a ton of hair spray to get her hair like that? Apparently it's her favorite muggle invention ever…"
"Isn't hair spray highly…"
"Flammable, yup. Went up like the fourth of July!" Both teens laughed. "But ya, so the old man pulls me in and tries to make me tell him how I did it, while also trying to get me to promise never to do it again. Granger practically accused me of break the laws of Physics, while begging me to teach her how to do it. And Harry thought the whole thing was funny as hell…"
"Ya that sounds like me."
"Shut up…"
"So what happened with the last task?"
"The maze? Piece of cake. I just burned a whole straight through it and Harry and I walked right to the cup. Of course it was a freaking pork-key thing..."
"Portkey."
"Not important. So we got sent to this cool graveyard, where this strange little fat man attacked us."
"Wormtail!"
"Really? What a weird name…"
"It was his nickname from school…"
"So this fat little bald man, who'd been out of school for years, still went by his old school nickname? Ok so he had even more issues then I thought…"
"When you say it like that…"
"Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it…" Devon shrugged. "But ya, so this strange baby doll thing orders him to kill me, and he throws a green spell at me. So being the super badass that I am, I ducked."
"You ducked?"
"What? He aimed high, so I dropped to the ground. The idiot didn't even bother to check if it worked, he just moved on and tried to stun Harry."
"You ducked the killing curse?"
"Why is that so hard to believe? It's slow, it's easy to see, and they always aim it at your head. Hell, just bend to the side enough and they'll usually miss."
"Really?"
"Well duh! Works against most of your world's spells actually. Most of the people I saw didn't know they could make the spell faster. They just put in enough energy for what they needed and not a hair more. Only Harry and that old man seemed to know how to do it, and people seemed to think it was far more impressive then it should've been. It's why Harry was able to dodge the fat man's stunner so easily. Then he hurled that exploding hex he liked so much and the fat man went down, missing a limb."
"He blew his arm off?"
"Na, his leg. Harry always tended to aim a bit low…." Devon shrugged. "Most people weren't ready for it and didn't block in time…"
"How do you know that? How many people did you guys fight that year?"
"Uh…most of the school, several from that Belgian school, and one or two from the French."
"Why?"
"Well when our names came out and everyone freaked, Harry and I decided it would make good practice to challenge them all…A lot of them took up on the offer. It was pretty rare to have a day where there wasn't at least one ambush."
"And the other schools?"
"Well that famous Seeker guy, he tried to ask Granger to the dance, and when she said no he freaked, so we had to trash him, and a few of his friends, and a few of their friends and so on…" Devon grinned. "Idiots couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag with a pair of scissors. And the French…Well that was a bet."
"A bet?"
"Ya Harry, Granger, and I bet Fleur and her friends we could beat them in a duel."
"Do I even want to know what the prize was?"
"…It was a VERY fun night…."
"So not fair…."
"Not my fault your life isn't as cool as mine"
"And Hermione was ok with this?"
"Ever heard the saying 'It's always the quiet ones'?"
"….Son of a…"
"ANYWAY…Harry took out the Worm guy, I jumped back to my feet, and the two of us went over and tied up the freaky baby thing. We grabbed our two captives, grabbed the cup and went back to the school. Man that was fun."
"A supposedly dead hero and the Semi-embodied dark lord suddenly appearing, I'll bet that went over well."
"From what I heard, it went better then you'd expect."
"From what you heard? You didn't see it?"
"Na, Artanis showed up, did his whole 'I am a demi-god, fear me' thing and we left."
"Didn't even get to say goodbye?"
"Sure I did, said goodbye, tossed a pair of Artanis' super phones to Harry and Fleur, and left."
"That was it?"
"Well I hear from Harry every once in a while, and Fleur almost every other day…"
"Really?"
"Of course….It's part of my deal with Artanis."
"Deal?"
"He didn't tell you?"
"Does he ever?"
"True…But ya, I made a deal. I train you as best I can, and in exchange he gives me a way to visit my friends in other dimensions."
The next morning, Devon woke Harry up with a stream of cold water to the face…At five AM. After a quick fight, in which Harry tried to hit him, and Devon ran away laughing. It took Harry almost a half hour to realize he wasn't going to catch his new elusive teacher, and another thirty to give up. All in all, it was a very unproductive hour.
"So when do I start learning?" Harry panted.
"You mean you haven't yet?" Devon asked
"What?"
"You didn't learn a thing from all of this?"
"What was I supposed to learn?"
"How about the fact that, no matter how much power you have or how many spells you know, it won't do you any good if you can't hit your opponent?"
"I knew that already!"
"So why the hour long chase then, huh?"
"…Shut up…"
"See? You may have been told this stuff, but you don't understand it. So that's where we start. And the easiest way to learn it, is to do it."
"Huh?"
Devon grinned and a ball of light formed in his hand. "Start running potter."
Three days! Three days of running from another crazy teacher. Three days of dodging spell fire. Three days of being chased around a strange warehouse for hours at a time. Three days of the best education he'd ever had!
Sure, it was hard, but Harry had never had the personal attention of a fully hands on teacher before. Devon spent all his free time teaching, though very little on actual magic. So far, he'd spent most of his time learning to predict the path spells would take. It was easier then following a golden snitch any day…Until Devon started tossing several as quickly as he could. Then it was like trying to follow dozens of angry bees…
Devon was a good teacher, when he wasn't busy. He explained things, gave reasons for why he was teaching things, and even answered questions! It was a drastic difference from what Harry was used to from Hogwarts...Or even Artanis. He talked about his travels with the Planeswalker, about his time with the other Harry, and the world they were in. Harry learned a lot about the Rebellion in that time, How they'd taken control of Long Island, Hawaii, most of Florida, and the Baja Peninsula in the former country of Mexico. He learned that they'd only been able to hold those places because they were so isolated from the main country. He learned why they were targeting Manhattan, the new capital of the N.A.U. and the center from which they believed the loyalty crystals were controlled. Take over the capital would be a huge publicity and moral boost, while knocking out the crystals would shut down their ability to control their troops.
He also taught Harry how to teleport, and how to do it with 'style' as he called it. It wasn't all that hard really, much easier then apparition according to Devon. All he had to do was think of where he wanted to be while channeling enough mana and the magic would do the rest. Apparition, however, apparently required the person to be completely determined to reach their destination, and move without haste, but with deliberation, whatever that meant… Apparating always made a distinct 'CRACK' when it was done, in either direction. Teleporting could have almost any effect the user wanted, if they had enough mana and imagination to do it. Devon liked to 'fade away', leaving an after image of himself behind without people knowing, then he would reappear silently somewhere else.
"You're getting good at this." Devon said, walking out of the warehouse office. With a sound like a wind chime, Harry appeared in front of him, small stones spinning in the air around him.
"It's not all that hard really."
"Why the rocks?" Devon asked.
"Well, it looks cool, and it can block spells flying at me that I don't have time to shield."
"Clever. Does it work?"
"Against my own spells, but there's only so much I can test that way."
Devon grinned and both his hands filled with red light. "Then let's test it!"
"Ah crap!"
An hour later, Harry was sad to say, that it did NOT, in fact, work. The stones were too small and too hard to control to be even remotely reliable. In the end, Harry decided to base it off whatever situation he happened to be in at the time, it would probably be better not to be so predictable anyway.
"It's bad to have habits" Devon explained "and even worse to have addictions."
"How so?" Harry asked.
"They make you predictable, addictions more than habits, but still. If you have a habit, like biting your nails, then all someone has to do is get poison your nails without you knowing. If you let the rock thing become a habit, then someone could charm an extra rock to mix with yours when you do it and have it explode or something."
"I didn't think of that…" Harry admitted. It wouldn't have been hard either; he couldn't keep track of them and keep fighting…
"An addiction would be worse. A habit is just something you do without really consciously knowing you're doing it. An addiction is something you HAVE to do, like smoking. Like with the nails, all a person has to do is poison something you're addicted to, like cigarettes or drugs, without you noticing and your done."
"How exactly did you learn all of this?"
"I read it in a book actually." Devon admitted. "The main character killed a corrupt politician by poisoning the man's brandy. The guy always had a drink of it with his dinner no matter what and…"
"Ah, well sounds like a good lesson to learn."
"It's helped me so far." Devon nodded. "So, wanna learn the most badass wand spell I ever saw?"
"Huh?"
"It's one of the few spells I saw on my trip that actually had to be done with a wand, and it looked bad ass."
"You know wand magic?"
"Nope." Devin smirked "But I know this spell."
And badass it was, though it took him a week to learn it. Harry had never heard of the "Shock Ball" spell, but it was definitely worth learning. The spell threw a sparking blue ball of magic perfectly straight and really fast. And the best part was, it's only movement was a swipe of the wand, so it could be cast quickly and easily. Then Devon showed him why he thought it was so 'badass.' He had Harry turn his wand over, so the tip stuck out the bottom of his fist, then had him cast it. NOW Harry was impressed. He could throw the spell with a right hook, just by swinging his wand. And the spell went where he wanted it to when it was cast, so if he didn't time it right, it still went at the target. And when it hit them, it would knock them back while sending a charge of electricity through them which, much like a muggle taser, would leave them unable to move for a while.
The problem learning it came from the fact that you had to learn to generate and cast electricity, which wasn't easy. Harry wasn't used to generating a certain type of mana for a spell, so Devon had to give him a crash course in generating electricity. He basically grabbed the young teen's arm and did it himself until the wizard figured out what it felt like and could do it on his own. Apparently, electricity was a part of red mana (which apparently Artanis had told him, but he could only just remember) that was moving incredibly fast, whatever that meant. Then he had to hurl it towards the target with a swipe of his wand while snapping the spell's connection to his own magic.
"I see you've got that spell down." Devon said, perched on a wood crate.
"Yup." Harry said as he jumped on another crate and tossed a Shock Ball across the room.
"Good, very good."
"…Why?"
"We have a mission."
"Wha…" Harry turned, mid step, to glance back at his teacher, only to fall from the crate and slam to the ground. "Son of a…"
"Graceful, ten point landing for sure, gold medal worthy even…"
"Shut up…" Harry rolled to his feet. "What do you mean, mission?"
"The boss gave us a mission."
"Artanis?"
"Ok, MY boss gave us a mission. Commander Kelsey needs us to do something for the rebellion."
"Wait us?"
"Well ya. Did you think my bosses didn't know I had someone here? I mean, they don't know anything about you, but they know I'm training you in Mana skills so they gave us a mission."
"But….but….but…"
"But nothing. You're Harry Freaking Potter! You fight evil and concur dark lords in your sleep! Hell, you're one of Fate's Chosen! The whole reason you're here is to learn to fight!"
"But I can't fight a war!"
"Then how do you plan to help your friends back home?"
"But I…" His home was in the midst of a war, a war they were losing badly. Devon was right, Harry had to fight. Not for himself, but for his friends, for the people he cared about. He had to learn how to fight, how to win a war, for his world's sake. The alternative was to frightening to imagine. If Riddle and his death eaters won their 'blood war….' "What's the mission?"
"Good wizard. There's gonna be an attack on the Benforth Building in the middle of the city."
"Benforth….Wait we're attacking the government's capital?"
Devon laughed "Of course not!"
"Oh good"
"We're attacking the heavily fortified Barracks just outside Central Park."
"…..That's a bad joke Devon…."
"What joke? Our mission is to stage an attack on the Barracks. We're part of a distraction taking place all across the city."
"A distraction?"
"Several, concurrent attacks on numerous high value targets across the city. The point is to draw all their attention to us while a small groups sneaks into the tower and takes out the control broadcast system. Without that their troops won't be able to receive orders or even tell other groups apart from us. It will throw their entire army into disarray until they can get a new one up."
"So we're just supposed to cause chaos and confusion?"
"Pretty much. Get in, cause some damage, then lead them on a wild chase through the city. Should be fun."
"You're gonna get me killed…."
"At least we'd go out with a bang!"
"All my teachers suck….Every single one of you, you know that!"
"Hey, can you drive?"
"Huh?"
"Do you know how to drive?"
"….Is it anything like riding a broom?"
"Well a motorcycle is….Kinda….Not really…Right so I'm driving then I guess."
"…I could learn…"
"Not really enough time for that…We may not have a choice though, if things get bad."
"Right…"
"Ok, well, let's go attack the military shall we?"
"I hate you so much…"
"Sooooo…." Harry muttered from the passenger seat.
"What?" Devon asked.
"Do we have some kind of plan here or what?"
"Get in, blow some stuff up, then run away."
"That's it?"
"Well, we are supposed to destroy as much as possible, but it's not the main mission. Just start throwing those exploding hexes while I keep us safe and everything will be fine."
"If I die, I'm gonna haunt you for eternity…"
"Seems fair."
"…So how come those camera's don't see us?"
"It's an enchantment in the car. The cameras do see us, but each one sees something different."
"That's useful."
"It keeps them from tracking us across the city. Sometimes they see us, sometimes they see another car, sometimes they see nothing at all, and other times they see things like giant dogs marching down the street."
"And they don't freak out when they see giant dogs?"
"After a few dozen times with no actual proof they either assumed it was us messing with them or a computer glitch. Either way, it's too common now for them to worry about."
"All the better for us."
"I'll have to turn it off when we get near the barracks anyway, or they'll figure out something is wrong."
"So how are we getting in anyway?"
"Well, since we want to grab as much attention as we can, I figured we'd just blow their gate, drive in, and let loose."
"…You want to rush an army head on?"
"Yup!"
"Are you insane! That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard!"
"Well it doesn't really matter anyway…"
"Why not?"
"Well, I'm driving so there's not much you can do to stop it….And our target's that building on the other side of the park there." He pointed to their right. "It's a little late to think up a new plan…"
"Oh god…I'm gonna die….No no no, this is such a bad idea! I'm too young to die!" They both laughed. "Seriously, this is a stupid freaking idea."
"Then you better help me out!" Devon twisted the wheel and the car spun around the corner, darting straight at the large gate."
"What do you need me to do?"
"They've probably figured out by now that there's something wrong. We need to blow the gate or this is gonna be a short trip!"
"Got it!" Harry grabbed his wand and both teens leaned out their windows.
"On three!" Devond shouted, a ball of red light building in his hand. "One…Two…"
"THREE!" Both teens shouted. A large red and a spiraling purple spell launched forward. Immediately, both teens pulled back into the car as the spells raced to their destination.
"Brace!" Devon shouted as the spells struck the gate. The world vanished in a flash of light as the spells struck. The car jerked drastically as the shockwave struck, Devon struggling to keep it straight. Then the light vanished as a twisted chunk of metal slammed past them.
"Oh bloody hell!" Harry shouted as the mirror next to him was torn off.
"Here we go!" The car hit the curb and hopped a few inches into the air, just clearing a chunk of debris before thudding to the ground and spinning around.
"Well THAT was fun…" Harry muttered.
"Just get out of the car before they blow it up!" Devon shouted, jumping out the open window."
"….Crap!" Harry threw the door opened and rolled out, just as a green spell struck the windshield and melted it. Quickly, he jumped to his feet and drew both wands, before darting around to hide behind the car with Devon.
"Wow they are PISSED at us!" Devon called, throwing up a shield around them, just in time to deflect a pair of red spells.
"What now?"
"Start blowing stuff up, I'll keep us covered!" Devon's hand shot out and a dark red spell shot out and struck an attacking guard who disappeared behind a wall. He didn't reappear.
"Got it!" Harry jumped up and launched a pair of exploding curses over the car into a building in the middle of the camp. With a loud explosion, the left corner of the building collapsed. Another pair of spells flew through the new entrance and exploded, taking the far corner down with it. With a loud roar, the roof collapsed in, crushing everything inside.
"Good shot Potter!" Devon shouted as he deflected a yellow spell into the far wall. The spell splashed against the stone which turned a strange brown before turning to dust. "There's a lot more guards here then they said there'd be!"
"What do you want me to do about it!" He hurled another blasting curse into a group of jeeps which exploded in a rainbow of colors, hurling parts in every direction. "What the hell was that!"
"You musta hit a Mana crystal!" Devon glanced around quickly. "Do you see the building with the grey walls?"
"They all have grey walls!" Another curse took out a guard tower near the entrence.
"That one, over there!" Devon pointed. "With the big freaking flag next to the door!"
"Why didn't you just say that!"
"Just head for the damn door!"
"Are you nuts!"
"We're sitting ducks out here, I can't shield forever! We need to get inside, and that's the closest place!"
"Alright, fine!" Harry sighed. "I'll put up a shield too, and then we run!"
"Ready when you are!" Devon quickly reinforced his shield.
Swinging both wands, Harry threw up a double shield around them. "Move!"
The two teens darted for the door as spells of every color rained down on them. The triple shield held and dozens of spells bounced off, destroying everything around them.
"Ah crap it's locked!" Devon yelled.
"So blow it open!" Harry shouted, staring out at the barrage of spells bouncing away mere inches from his face.
"And leave a big hole in our hiding place!" Devon countered. "Hey, you know that unlocking thing right? Get this thing open!"
"Son of a….Alohomora. Get in, NOW!" He threw the door open and both teens fell inside. "Shut it!"
'SLAM' Devon kicked the door closed from the door, the lock instantly snapping shut. Without a sound, their shields dropped. "Well THAT sucked…"
"What the hell!" Harry shouted. "Of course it sucked; it was a dumb freaking idea! Now we're stuck in the middle of a hostile military base! What about the guards in this building, huh? What's to stop those guys outside from just blowing their way in after us!"
"There's no guards here." Devon said "they rushed out to meet us when we got here. They all did." He shook his head "its part of their dementia. With attacks going on all over the city, the guys in charge probably didn't have time for more complicated orders. They were probably just told to kill us all, so of course every single person here rushed out to do just that."
"Well THAT'S not good" Harry groaned. "So why won't they just blow their way in then? It kind'a fits the whole 'kill them all' thing…"
"They can't. Look around" Devon waved his hand. "We're in the weapon's depot. Everything here has at least one Mana crystal. They may be insane, but they're not stupid. They have standing orders not to let this building get blown up. It would take out everything within four blocks at least."
"So we're hiding in a giant bomb then?"
"Essentially…"
"Is that a good thing?"
"Kinda…" Devon shrugged. "See, right now their probably calling up the higher ups to ask what they should do. They have to kill us, but they're not allowed to attack this building. We have a few minutes before their ordered to storm the place and drag us out by hand."
"So what do we do?"
"Well we could hole up here and try to fight them. You have that poisoned dagger and I've got a pair of knifes."
"Ya uh….what else we got?"
"We could grab some of the weapons in here and try to fight our way back out."
"I don't know how to use any of these things…"
"We could try to blow out a wall and go out that way? Or we could just blow up everything here and take them all with us."
"I'd prefer not to die that way….What was that wall idea?"
"We make a hole in another wall and run away that way."
"Why don't we just do that?"
"Well, for one we don't know what's on the other side of the wall. And of course if we thought of it, they probably did too. And they'll follow us at the very least…"
"Isn't that part of the mission?"
"True…"
"And I can look through the walls." Harry tapped his sunglasses.
"Of course….Ok this could actually work. What do you see back out front?"
Harry turned and glanced at the door. "I see…A dozen solders aiming some kind'a rifle at the door…And there's a woman in a fancy uniform yelling into a phone behind them."
"That's probably the base commander…They're trying to get orders…What about the other walls?"
"On the right….Another five solders…Same on the left too…" Harry shook his head "The back wall has….No one…" he glanced at Devon. "It's an empty street…Wait, there's a car across though…That's a little weird…"
"What?"
"It's unguarded…Why wouldn't they protect every side?"
"Hmm…You said you can see the street right?"
"Well, either they only just sent guards, and we're wasting time talking as they move to the back wall or their not supposed to leave the base…"
"Then we should move" Harry pulled the teen to his feet. "Come on, either way it works."
"Right…First though…" He grinned and gabbed a rack of weapons. With a grunt he heaved the rack over, into another rack and both collapsed with a crash.
"What are you doing!" Harry shouted.
"Relax they're build to take an impact. It's only a spell that can make them blow." He grabbed another rack and tossed it down in front of the door. "Come on, let's go."
The two teens made their way through the warehouse to the back wall. "Can you cut through?" Harry asked.
"No problem. Why don't you knock some more stuff over? As long as you don't hit the crystals with a spell we should be fine…" Devon's hand started to glow with a yellow spell.
"Gladly." With a smirk, Harry grabbed the closest rack and heaved it forward. With a crash, it slammed into another rack, and then another and another. "Dominoes!"
"What the hell?" Devon glanced back as the racks slammed into each other, coming down one at a time like a set of dominoes. "Oh sure, show off…."
"Don't be jealous!"
"Go to hell Potter." Devon grinned and the yellow spell slammed into the wall, which turned a nasty brown before turning to dust. "Come on, we got an exit."
"I think they heard the noise…" Harry muttered. He was looking through the walls as the solders outside panicked. "I think they figured out what we're doing…Their all moving around the building."
"The let's get the hell out of here!" The two teens raced to the unattended car. With a flick of his wrist the doors flew open. "Get in!"
"THERE THEY ARE!" A voice called.
Harry glanced back to see a second hole melted in the wall, and several solders aiming at them. "Ah crap!" Without a thought, he threw up a double shield around the car. "Get in!"
"You idiot!" Devon yelled "Now I can't drive the car!"
"What!"
"If you drop the shield and try to run to the passenger side they'll take us out!"
"What are you talking about!"
"Just drive you stupid wizard!" Devon slammed the passenger door shut.
"Oh bloody hell!" Harry dropped a shield and hopped into the driver seat. With a slam, the door closed.
"Gun it!"
With a 'THUMP', Harry slammed his foot down on the gas. The engine roared and the car…Sat still. "What the hell?"
"Put it in drive you dumbass!" He waved wildly at the gearshift.
A spell flew past the car as Harry grabbed the gearshift and tried to pull it to drive. "It won't move!"
"Break then shift, BREAK THEN SHIFT!" Devon hopped up, and aimed out the sunroof, a red spell flying through the hole. An explosion filled the air and a cloud of dust burst through the hole.
"Oh. Right, ya I knew that…" Harry stepped on the break and pulled the lever back. With a roar, he slammed on the gas again and the car lurched forward. "YES!"
"Finally!" Devon snapped. With a sigh, he sat back down and glanced around. "Look up there!" he pointed.
"What?" Harry was a little busy speeding down an empty road to look around.
"There's a lot of smoke everywhere. It seems some of the other attacks succeeded as well."
"Well, that's good right?"
"Yup, kinda…" Devon shrugged. "it does mean there's gonna be a lot of soldiers out looking for all of us though."
"What?"
"Ya….and now that I think about it, this car isn't hidden like the last one…They can probably track us through the whole city…"
"Oh god….Do you wanna drive?" Harry asked, hopeful.
"Na, you're doing fine." Devon grinned and leaned his seat back. "So…that was fun huh?"
"I hate you."
"Sure sure…"
"No, I'm serious. I hate you, more than Malfoy even."
"Oh that hurts. I mean it, it hurts right here." He patted his chest. "To be compared to the little ferret…"
"You suck."
"Love you too Potter."
"Go to hell."
"Oh you know you'd miss me."
"Shut….Oh shit."
Devon sat up instantly "What, what is it?"
"There's a pair of jeeps coming up behind us…"
"Huh?" Devon stood up and looked back out the sunroof. "Oh crap…"
"That's what I said!"
"Keep us moving! Those thing's have big guns on the roof. Turns and swerves, don't let them draw a bead!"
"You got it!" Harry jerked the wheel to the side and the car swerved, just as a blast struck the road, sending small pebbles bouncing off it.
"Ok, they REALLY want to kill us now!" Devon shouted as he hurled a red spell back. Both jeeps swerved away, the spell striking the street between them. "Damn!"
"Turn coming up!" Harry shouted. With a twist of the wheel, he slammed on the break and the car spun around. Quickly, he switched back, slamming on the gas and the car roared down a side street.
"Son of a bitch!" Devon shouted as he slammed into the side of the window. "Gah that hurts…"
"They're still coming!" Harry shouted."
"They just won't quit!" Devon hurled another spell, only for it to collide in midair with a shot from the turret. The car swerved sharply as the explosion shoved them away.
"What the hell was that!" Harry twisted the wheel and twisted the car back on track.
"Just drive!" Devon hurled two spells back to back. The first missed, slamming into he street besides one of the trucks, but the other slammed into the front wheel of the other jeep. Devon watched, wide eyed, as the spell detonated, hurling the front end of the truck into the air, where it flipped over and slammed to the street, rolling a few times.
"You got one!" Harry cheered.
"Ya, but the other's still there, and now it's got more room to move" Devon hurled spell after spell, as the jeep swerved back and forth to dodge them. "Oh crap, in coming!"
Harry twisted the wheel, and the car screeched into a turn before darting down another side road, with a bright flash, the intersection vanished in a ball of fire. "What the hell was that?"
"I have no idea!" Devon called as the other jeep skidded to a stop before the new crater. "Hey they stopped!"
The teens cheered as they flew down the street. "That was awesome!"
"I told you… Hang on." Devon fell back into his seat and pulled his phone from his pocket. "Hello?"
"What's up?"
"…You're kidding right? How did they?... Those idiots! How could they…I know but…Really?... Ya we can do it…Everyone? You're sure boss? A road block?... Right…Sounds like fun…Ya, ya. We'll do it...We'll take care of it. Ya, see you in hell boss man…" He closed the phone.
"What's wrong?"
"The attack on the tower failed. The boss wants all surviving groups to attack the tower at once."
"What! How'd they mess it up?"
"They opened the wrong damn door. Set off an alarm and bang, one dead attack force."
"So now…"
"Everyone is to converge on the tower as soon as they can. We're pretty much spread across the city so we'd basically be attacking from every side but…"
"But?"
"When the attack failed it sent their defenses into high alert. They'll be pulling all their remaining troops back to defend it. They've already set up a perimeter complete with road blocks around it."
"Ok…"
"We don't have a choice. If this attack fails then the rebellion will fall apart. We need to take out that control unit, or Benforth will launch attacks nationwide and wipe us out…" Devon shook his head. "We have to win this."
"…Which way?" Harry asked.
"Just go straight, we have a lot of ground to cover, and we have to do it quick."
"Right."
A/N: Alright there we go! Another chapter done! I'm not actually sure what to say about this chapter so uh…Hope you enjoyed it! OK! Until next time, DON'T DIE!