Chapter 5: Gangland: part 1

When Kevin finally regained consciousness, he blinked twice, trying to adjust his eyes to the light emitting above him and quickly closed them, the light was too bright for his eyes. He couldn't remember what had happened to him or where he was. All he knew was that he was lying on a cold floor with a bright light above him. He tried moving but couldn't, his entire body was bound by a tight nylon rope. He tried absorbing the rope but realised that he was still wearing bracelets that inhibited his powers. That's when it all came back to him... The Futha had paid him a visit and assaulted him in his own house, but where he was now was still a mystery to him. He tried opening his eyes again only to feel a splitting headache from when he was hit over the head with a steel pipe by Choppa. As painful as it was, he continued struggling against the rope to try and get loose, but all he could do was hear voices…

"… Not fair, once 'Sir' has him we'll be thrown to the wayside again" came Revenna's voice

"Then we'll just have to prove that we're not easily replaceable" said Igazi

"Excuse me?, do you know how fucking powerful Kevin Eleven is with his alien powers? we're going to look like a joke next to him!"

"Don't fucking tell me what I already know Revenna, I know this guy and his abilities and I'm telling you, we're all gonna get what we want". "Hey, go and wake him up, we're here".

Kevin heard footsteps approaching him; he closed his eyes again and pretended to be unconscious just before someone stopped next to him and shook him.

"Get up scum, now! We're here!" came Choppa.

Kevin opened his eyes and Choppa pulled him up from the rope around him, he tried getting up but when he did he felt a sharp pain coming from his lower back, this caused him to hunch over and exclaim in pain. Choppa unmercifully pushed him to go forward into the central spaceship.

"Where are we, where have you assholes taken me?" asked Kevin in painful gasps but Choppa merely remained silent.

"We've brought you back to Futha territory, welcome to planet Mecka" said Igazi piloting the spaceship

Kevin turned his head and looked through the giant window in front of the spaceship and saw that they were landing on a planet that he had never even seen, but he couldn't see much more as the planet looked like it was enveloped in a cloud of brown dust.

"Why did you bring me here, I'm no longer part of your gang". "I guess we'll find out soon enough buddy".

A feeling of uneasiness was settling inside Kevin about his kidnapping especially because he hadn't heard of the planet and didn't know how he was going to get home. Gwen, Ben and his mother didn't know where he was and were going to worry sick about his absence. He didn't even have a phone to call them, nor did he have his plumbers badge to call for help. The situation really was dire. When they landed, Revenna walked up to Kevin and clamped a hook onto the rope he was tied to so that she can pull him like a dog on a leash and to walk him out of the ship with Igazi and Choppa.

"Look at this place Kevin! Look outside this ship!" exclaimed Igazi wildly, throwing his hands in the air "Look at what we've achieved, this place is ours! We run this bitch right here! You should have stayed with us then you could also have all this, but that's okay, you're here now" he said walking right up to Kevin's face and saying "It'll be just like old times, you and me, Iggy and Kevin Eleven the baddest motherfuckers in the universe!". Kevin said nothing to him and just narrowed his eyes at him, but he was slightly overwhelmed at the idea that his old gang could take over a whole planet.

"Here it is" said Revenna pulling him out of the ship.

Kevin stepped outside the spaceship and gasped at what he saw. It was simply shocking and disgusting. They landed in what looked like a city, but the city was in complete disrepair. Derelict buildings littered the city centre, covered in graffiti, rust, smashed windows and small animals that he didn't recognise rotting in years and years of decay due to neglect. The entire air space was taken over by small cruiser spaceships hovering around; it looked like they were constantly patrolling, but why he didn't know. The sky wasn't visible; it was covered by a brown blanket of smog he saw from when they were landing and, come to think of it Kevin's breathing became heavier as the air was so polluted.

There were bridges, highways and roads all over, and they all seemed to be going in no particular direction but all over the place. Kevin began walking with his three captors, they walked past mass graves of people, and dead bodies of both humans and aliens were lying scattered all over the city. The smell alone could kill someone. The small amount of people and aliens who were walking around wore brown robes and covered their faces in hoods; some looked down in fear when Kevin and the gang walked past them, and some stared in extreme hatred. They didn't look like they were part of the gang though because they all looked weak and ill. It was a sorry sight. Kevin tried looking inside some buildings with the windows still intact but he couldn't see anything but darkness until he looked through the small window of one building and saw a young man chained to a wall. He was shivering uncontrollably. "Hey Revenna, where you been queen bitch?" came someone's voice from behind.

An alien who looked like Ben's transformation known as 'Four Arms' only bigger and more tattooed stepped in front of Revenna, carrying a female alien who looked drugged under his arm. It made Kevin sick.

"Taking care of business, you can take the spaceship for your own shit you need to take care of, as long as you don't go to Earth, it's now off limits, we can't attract any attention to ourselves now" she said to him. The alien stepped aside and walked away with the female alien in his hands.

"What have you done to these people?" Kevin whispered in disgust but was ignored by the three. The three of them stopped walking and Revenna turned to Kevin. "Listen here Kevin, you're going into gangland now, so man up and listen to me if you want to stay alive, you haven't been initiated yet so you're still an outsider" Revenna said opening a door that lead down to a spiral staircase. "I'm not joining this gang Revenna" he said through gritted teeth, but she ignored this as well.

When they got to the bottom of the stairs it revealed a basement in the same condition as the rest of the city;dirty and neglected and sewer water leaking from busted pipes. But this place was extremely rowdy because there were crowds of humans/aliens everywhere just as intimidating and dangerous as Igazi; gambling, drinking, fighting, drugging and smoking and when they saw who came down, they all stopped and stared at Kevin. They looked at him with such suspicion that Kevin looked away. He realised that the Futha had expanded its numbers since he was last in the gang because he didn't know most of the people there. Revenna approached one of the first ranked officials, an alien with burned skin as well and said "We've got him". "Good, take him forward" the official said. Kevin's heart was beating, he had long since been in the Futha gang and he didn't know who their new boss was. He prepared himself to meet him…

"'Sir' here he is" said Igazi standing back. The creature that was standing with his back turned to them opened his eyes and turned around to look at Kevin who couldn't see his face as it was still covered by the shadows…

"Kevin Eleven, nice to see you again"

The creatures voice wasn't as intimidating as he had expected but it was however familiar. "I know that voice" he said in his head.

"I haven't seen you since you tried to kill me… again". Kevin couldn't hide the confusion from his face. "I don't know what you're talking about".

"Huh, and I see you've been cured from you're monster like appearance". Kevin was taken aback, how did this creature know about that? Was his old gang spying on him all this time, because of the rule that once you join a gang you can never leave a gang? He dared ask the question "Who are you..."

The creature smiled, as Kevin's heart was racing. The creature stepped out of the shadows and looked more closely at Kevin. Kevin's heart felt like it would stop, he was so shocked to see who it was that exclaimed in anger and surprise...

Sorry, no one hates cliffhangers like I do but, I'm curious to see if anyone knows who it is, it's not too difficult if you think about the last couple of lines.