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20 YEARS LATER
MAX
"Remember they aren't armed, but they are extremely dangerous, they don't mellow with age." I relayed the orders to my team through the earpiece.
"Bravo team copies." Leon says.
"Delta team copies." Brick says.
"Charlie copies." Bridget tells me, chewing her gum.
"Masks on." I order.
"They've been on since we left base." Leon informs me.
"Shut up. I'm just making sure." Sometimes he really annoys me.
"Move in." I command.
Alpha and Delta zip-line to the roof of the abandoned house, landing lightly. I signaled to Leon to move in through the back. He took his team and set up a perimeter while the rest of us copied him on each side of the house.
"Targets are watching t.v." Brick says, looking through the window. "Newscast. God that's got to be boring."
"Brick, focus." Lisa reprimands him.
"Toss 'em." Bridget opens the sliding door and tosses a smoke bomb inside and closes the door. There are shouts and glass breaks, we move in and the smoke trickles out the windows clearing the room.
They are on their hands and knees coughing and spluttering.
Leon, Bridget, Brick, and Lisa come in through the windows blocking any exits. I jump to the ground and walk in crunching broken glass under my boots.
The obvious leader throws himself at me, I jump back sliding as he tackles me like a football player. I slam into the wall.
"Stop." I command. My voice is distorted so that it's impossible to tell my identity.
Guns click and are pointed at the heads of the rest of the mutants. I knee the man in the stomach and snap kick him in the knee. He collapses to the ground.
"Who are you?" He gasps.
"You don't recognize me?" I ask innocently.
"Masks off." I order my team. They oblige.
I take my mask off, shaking out my hair.
"Max." He gasps, falling backwards.
"Yes, it's me." I cocked my gun.
"Drop 'em." I shoot him in the neck and he's out. My team follows suit.
"Bag 'em and get them back to base. I'm going to fly for a bit." I walked outside and let my wings whip out behind me. I'd gotten better at U&A's over the years and simply brought my wings down and did a forceful burst of speed straight up. I circled the skies for awhile before heading back to base. Happy to head home.
MO
"They're awake and fully functional, boss." Elly rolls her eyes next to me. I stick my tongue out at her.
"I'll be right in, Mo."
"She'll be here in a minute." The mutants in front of me groan in response, while Kio just glares at me in annoyance. There's a few children among them and they are by far the largest group on record.
"Mo? Do they look familiar to you?" Elly whispered to me.
"Yeah. Vaguely." I bit my lip until I drew blood, I was thinking so hard.
I grabbed my tablet from beside me and clicked around on it, delving into top secret files, then she walked in and I cleared the history and shut it off.
"Mo!" I stiffened. One of the men was switching his surprised look from Elly to me to her. Max had called my name.
"Max!" He shouted, but he wasn't looking at Max he was looking at Elly. She shook her head and pointed at Mom.
"Mom, that guy's crazy." She shot me a look that said, "Use your vocab."
"Boss, Subject A is certifiably insane." Elly pinched me. I shot her a glare before hopping off the table we were sitting on and standing next to Mom.
"Mo!" Kio shouted my name.
I sighed, "Stop being such a baby." Elly unlocked her bonds and Kio immediately punched me in the arm.
"Ok...Ow!" I complained.
"I'm getting coffee." Kio grumbled. Mom grabbed her arm and whispered something to her. Kio beamed before walking out the room and shutting the door behind her.
"Mom?!" The group shouted. Mom's gaze went from endearment to business in point two seconds.
"I assume you slept well?" She cocked her head to the side.
I got closer to the man in front of me with dark, hair, eyes, clothes, the only thing not dark about this guy was his skin, which was pale. His gaze switched my mom to me.
He snapped at me.
"Mom! He tried to bite me!" I exclaimed, jumping back.
"Did you even bother to read the file, Mo?" Elly scolded me.
"No. I knew you would, so I didn't." I crossed my arms in front of me.
"His name is Fang. Named because he bites, obviously. File says observers have classified him as tall, dark, and handsome. Key member of "The Flock" in recent years became the leader after a series of events supposedly caused by his genetics. Died once, has killed many Erasers, Flyboys, and can turn invisible when still for a prolonged amount of time. " She paused.
"Anything else?" I rolled my eyes.
"He's my ex." My head whipped to the side at Mom. I gaped at her. Her face was all business, just stating facts.
I didn't know what to think about that. I grabbed my tablet and typed some searches in and a bunch of results rose up on the screen. Pictures of winged kids mid-flight. Six of them and...
"Is that a dog?" I asked my mom incredulously.
"Yes. That's Total. He talks and has wings." My eyes widened into giant circles.
"That was the longest hour I've ever heard of, Max." My mom rolled her shoulders back uncomfortably before straightening her posture and finally getting down to the important stuff.
"Mr. Fang," He scoffed, "You and your team have been getting in the way of Rebirth. Sabotaging critical missions and generally getting in the way, do you have anything to say about that?" She quirked an eyebrow.
"Like you have means of making me talk." She glared. He glared back. It was a battle of will and a smile crept onto my mother's face.
"Elly! Go fetch Bridget for me." Elly ran off, hesitantly at first, but after a look from Mom she ran off to do as she was told.
"Mo. Line our guests up in a semi-circle around Mr. Fang here. I would like to show them something." I tapped my tablet and the chairs moved accordingly.
"Max." Said a pretty blonde woman, with curls and a frustrated expression on her face.
I forgot about her. In her file was a lot of highlighted text. One thing in particular had stood out for me though. Telepathic. I used to think it was stupid for someone to think that, but with what I grew up around it's no longer surprising.
"Yes, Ms. Angel?" Angel. That was such an ironic name because as much highlighted text as there was in her file there was a lot more black ink covering who knows how much bad dealings and encounters with her.
"Why can't I read your thoughts anymore?" She furrowed her eyebrows like she was concentrating hard.
"Training. And, technology created by Lisa." She smiled.
"You're crazy." A blonde boy looked in her direction. I looked carefully and realized something.
"YOU'RE BLIND!" I shouted running up to him.
"No kidding." He said sarcastically.
"You know, you're rude." I said, then added as an afterthought, "I'm crossing my arms and glaring at you."
He looked thoughtfully in my direction. It was creepy because he was looking at me, but wasn't focused on me. I shuddered.
"Hey Max." Aunt Bridget walked in chewing mint gum. You could smell it all the way over here.
"Hey. Do your thing." Max sat on the table in the front of the room observing Fang carefully. I did, too, studying his reaction.
"What's she going to do, pop her gum until I talk? Face it, Max. I will not be broken." He smirked.
"Listen, bub," Bridget started. Elly silently crept into the room, sitting next to Mom, "I may not look menacing, but I am your worst nightmare."
"As if." He scoffed.
A dark skinned girl sitting next to me, bit her lip. What was she doing with her hands. I saw her twitched her fingers and a bolt on Fang's chair came loose.
Oh, no you don't.
I grabbed her chair and bent down to whisper to her.
"Stop what you're doing or you're next." I hissed. She glared at me. I grabbed my tablet and polarized her chair, now her magnetic abilities are reversed so she can't use them. I'm so smart.
"Trust me, you don't want to be next." I hissed in her ear.
Bridget checked his bindings. She smirked.
"Elly." Elly hopped up and ran to Fang. She grabbed his eyelids and held them open.
Fang started struggling. Mom's face was unreadable. Bridget clapped.
"You know, Mr. Fang, they say eyes are windows to the soul." She closed her eyes and when she opened them they shined a little.
She stared into his eyes and Elly let go of his eyes. Fang's eyes stayed open, and then it began. It started as a slight tremor and then he was spasming. His body jerked from side to side and bucked against his bindings. He let out a bloodcurdling scream as Bridget put her manicured hands on his knees and bit her lip. Mom's eye twitched and Elly hid her head in her lap. Wuss. I watched fascinated. The rest of the Flock gripped their chairs and stiffened as they watched the children's mouths were gaping, eyes as wide as saucers. Bridget closed her eyes and opened them and they were back to normal.
Fang fell limp against the chair. He looked dead. Bridget looked freaked out, like she couldn't fathom his memories. She shook her head and sat next to Mom. I looked at the file the dark-skinned woman was named, "Nudge." Weird name.
"What did you do?!" Nudge screamed.
Max looked at Elly's head in her lap, then Bridget next to her and then me by Nudge. I rubbed my right ear. Elly got up and ran to the door. She typed in a code and left. Kio came in and replaced Elly's spot at Mom's side.
I rearranged the chairs from my tablet so they were all seated in a semi-circle around Mom.
ELLY
I watched from the viewing glass. Mom slowly got up from the table and walked over to Fang's chair. And gave him a resounding smack since there was no response from him. She shrugged and walked to the door. Kio hopped up and followed her. Mo stayed with Bridget to watch them. I studied them from behind the two-way mirror.
The blind one kept fidgeting, the two blondes were obviously related by blood and kept exchanging worried glances. The dark-skinned one was doe-eyed at the amount of technology and the unconscious leader, then there was him, Mr. Perfect, there was no other way to describe him. He was giving me this creepy look, but he couldn't possibly see through the glass, right? I stared at him trying to see anything that would tell me he couldn't see me. So, I experimented. He was looking me dead in the eye, I waved at him.
Mom and Kio looked at me like I was crazy. I beckoned them over and waved at him again. I almost tripped and fell with how fast I backpedaled. He winked at me. Winked. At. Me. He laughed and Mo looked at him like he was crazy. My eyes opened to the size of saucers. Mom and Kio's mouths gaped and then snapped shut.
Kio told me they were probably crazy, but I didn't believe it 'till now. My feet moving on their own I got up and walked back down the hall. The entire time I was thinking to myself, They're crazy. They're crazy. They're crazy.
I don't know these people very well, but if I know one thing, it's that they are a force to be reckoned with.
Well, so am I.
I know not anything major going on here. Just wanted to show some of my characters, new mutations, relationships between siblings, and pretty much just introductions.
Oh! and don't worry Fang is not dead. Pfft. I'm not that cruel. You'll see next chapter. See ya later peeps.
~~~WiseChic~~~