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Lincoln Krane's POV

If I can just get this piece properly shaped I think I'll have a prototype that works. What the hell is this material? It doesn't spring like steel. It's both brittle and strong. It melts easier than steel but is harder than it too. The only thing that seems to even shave it is itself. What the hell am I working with? I changed the angle of my blow torch trying make the perfect curvature for the bullet. I heard a wrench drop throwing my concentration and the bullet became circular. I cut off the torch immediately to see my three year old son Dominic had came in to my shop.

"Dominic!" I called dropping my tools and running to him. There was far too many dangerous things in here for him to be in here. He was taking a nap and must have left the room. I scooped him up in my arms after discarding my gloves.

"Daddy! You silly goggles on!" I smiled at him as he giggled at me.

"Oh do I?"

"Yes!" he said reaching for them.

"Do you want to wear them?"

"Ya!" he exclaimed. I leaned down and he pulled them off my face. I gave him a squeeze as he put my specialized goggles on. I looked back at my work for a moment missing field work.

"Daddy!" Dominic called grabbing me by the shirt and shaking it. I laughed turning back to him. I missed it, but I never regretted leaving for him.

"Come on Dominic, let's go play with your trucks."

Mike's POV

I smashed my fist into the wall and that annoying pain blossomed in my knuckles. I ignored it and pushed myself harder striking with my elbows and knees. I bit my lip to suppress my desire to scream. My knees and elbows were black and blue from all the training. What doesn't kill me. I thought to myself. I heard someone come in the door. I spun and saw Zuri. I pulled my right arm up my sleeve trying to hide my knuckle. I turned my body away from her.

"Mike? What's wrong?" she said gliding over to me. I'd underestimated how fast she moved.

"It's nothing." I said turning my shoulder but she caught me by the elbow. I winced in pain at her touch but tried to hide it. She turned to my face grabbing my forearm, her eyes drawn to my knuckles.

"What is this?" she asked angrily.

"It's nothing I'm just training." I started turning away.

"Just training that's bullshit and you know it!" She said pushing me with both her hands palm open up against the wall pinning me. I growled under my breath and pushed on the insides of her wrist with a quick strike freeing myself. She seemed surprised.

"What! I'm not that weak helpless guy you thought I'd be? Just because I'm human doesn't mean I can't fight." I said walking past her.

"Damn it Mike! What are you trying to prove?" Zuri yelled at me.

"Prove? That I'm not worthless! That I can do something! That I'm worth more than lunch!" I yelled. I was ready for a knock down drag out fight with Zuri, it was coming I'd seen it before... it didn't come though. The screaming didn't followed as I thought it would... at first I heard nothing. I stopped at the door way when I realized that. I turned around slowly. Then I heard it. It started with hitched breath. My greatest weakness. I thought inwardly. I gulped audibly.

"Y-y-your not wo-wo-worthless." she said between unsteady breaths. I didn't say anything I just turned and faced her. She slowly made her way over to me. I shook my head.

"You know what I meant." I said suddenly interested in the ground between us.

"Screw them! That's not what makes you worth something. Don't you get it Mike... you're worth so much more than that... then your power... You're kind and funny... you're caring, gentle and generous. How can you not see that you're amazing?" I snorted.

"Yeah right." I answered.

"Yeah I am right... You don't get it Mike... I don't want you to become a vampire again. I love as you are." she said running her hand down the side of my face. I took comfort by it for a moment.

"No... I can't. I'm needed here... and whose to say they'd even let me leave." Zuri made disagreeing sound.

"I don't want you to kill... I don't need you to be that way for me. I love you like you are... I don't want to worry about you. I want you to be safe next to me." she said. I very much wanted to kiss her but I restrained myself.

"But this... I can't love... you're hurting yourself." she said crying.

"This hurts me... please... don't do this."

"I... I'm sorry..."

"Damn it Mike... don't you know I love you? Don't you get it? You can't do this to me... I can't take it." She said grabbing on to my shirt begging me. I gulped.

"Zuri... I'm sorry." her shoulders started to shudder.

"Zuri."

"No Mike... just leave me alone... I can't see you like this." She pushed away from me and ran out of the room. I looked down at my scarred hands. I flipped them over and saw my bruised knuckles. Hey look at that... after all of that I'm still a monster. I stared down at my broken body and curled my hands in to a fist and was about to punch the wall but stopped short. Never again... for you Zuri... never again will I do this.

Embry's POV

I could see Volterra in the distance. This trip was much more than I bargained for. I was still a stiff from sleeping in an ill suited bed. My body had fully recovered from my fight with Adam but I knew it wasn't over... Adam might have submitted to me as Alpha... but he didn't believe I was the Alpha. I knew I'd need to fight him again... and next time I might not be able to keep from shifting, I might kill him... I might die.

It hit me like a brick wall... he was close. He wasn't alone. I stopped myself and felt it. It was an unfamiliar feeling... like an extra sense... something I'd never felt before outside of form. When I was a wolf I had a general idea where my pack was... now I knew exactly where he was when I focused.

I turned in the direction the resonance came from. I closed my eyes. They were close... no further than a mile away. I could feel more than Adam but his resonance was definitely the strongest. I focused on the others. Four of them... Why can I feel them? The reason came to me a moment later. Adam had been turning people in to werewolves. Five with Adam. I can't take five of them... not even phased. The only way Is to half shift. You'll kill them all! Or be killed. I promised King Lycan I would control or kill his son, I will keep my word.

The five of them ran on there hands and legs, all still in human form. So the Werewolves he bites become stronger as humans also... unlike his father who only became werewolves at the full moon if these wolves are like him they can turn at will. There is no way around this fight.

"Adam... I warned you to stay away from Volterra"

"Embry... I will not be controlled by someone as weak as you... and neither will my werewolves."

"You realize for every werewolf you bring I grow stronger." I answered him. Adam laughed.

"Yes... but strong enough to stop five of us?" I shook my head resolved to do what I had to.

"You give me no choice." I said slowly removing my shirt hoping to avoid what came next.

"What are you doing?" Adam asked.

"Showing you how I killed your father." I let indignation infect my mind. How dare he! I was trying to protect his sorry ass. He was a monster... like me. He should have learned who the fuck he was dealing with before deciding to pick the fight. He deserves the wraith he was about to unleash.

I Howled throwing my head back feeling the monster take over. I felt my body expanding... I stopped after the shift. I'd never stopped after the shift. I clenched my fists and looked at my hands. I'd never been able to control myself before. What the fuck?

I felt teeth biting in to my arm just above my elbow. One of Adam's pack had turned in to a werewolf. My feral instincts took over immediately. I threw my elbow back. He fell to the ground. My leg naturally stomped on his head. I looked down realizing he was dead. What did I just do? Two more werewolves charged me. I caught both with either of my hands and smashed them in to each other before tossing them aside. The fourth werewolf leap at me. I caught him with my fist throwing as powerful a punch as I could. The werewolf flew backwards through the air snapping against a large trunk of a tree.
I heard a fierce howl and then I saw it. It was Adam. No! I need to keep him from fighting in his form, he'll be out of control! Kill him! He should be a good fight! I promised King Lycan. DIE BASTARD!

I lost control and charged him I grabbed him by his mouth with both my arms and dislocated his jaw. I felt his claws digging in to my chest. I headbutted him as hard as I could and grabbed him by the throat and leg smashing him in to a tree repeatedly until I felt a snap and let him go. I could feel my rage cooling.

I felt tingling up and down my body as I shrunk... then exhaustion. I fell to my knees In front of Adam. His back was bent unnaturally. I had snapped his spine... he was dead. I stared at what I had done. I felt it in my throat first. I gulped trying to hold back guilt but I couldn't.

I had murdered him.

I turned my head to the right and saw where another wolf had been cut in half by the force of my punch.

Dead.

I looked behind me where the wolf with a smashed head was. He didn't even look like he ever had one.

Dead. Three wolves dead. Two I'd never even spoken to. My wolves. They were my pack and I killed them without a second thought. I opened my hands and looked down at them. Half-shifting was never supposed to happen. There was no stories of it in our legends. I was an anomaly. The only wolf in our tribe to become this abhorrence. I heard a thudding cracking noise and looked up to see Adam's back moving back together and him transforming in to a human. He coughed as he made his way to his discarded clothing and put it back on.

"I'm sorry Embry... but if you thought that was going to kill me it'll take a lot more than that." I was too exhausted to phase in to a wolf, much less half-shift to fight him again.

"I can see now why my father named you alpha... that is quite a power you were hiding." Adam offered me a hand and I took it. He helped me back up to my feet.

"Rolf, grab our alpha's clothing. Boyd, give me a hand with him."

"Why aren't we killing him?" Boyd asked as he came closer.

"He beat all of us in unfair combat... he is our Alpha. I am his Beta, and if you want to kill him you'll have to kill me first, do you want to try and kill him?" Adam asked still holding me up by the shoulder.

"No, of course not Adam." Boyd wrapped his arm around my other shoulder and helped me over to Rolf who had my clothing. I put it back on.

"Thanks... but you should go... all three of you. Volterra isn't safe for you. Adam, lead them away, stay safe." He growled.

"We should kill the Volturi."

"We lack the power, and even if we didn't they don't pose us a threat." I answered. Adam wanted to argue but held it back.

"Go." I pointed. The three ran in the opposite direction. I sat down by a tree trunk and closed my eyes. Just a little nap.

Jack "Ironman" Elzam's POV

"All systems running well as could be expected in the Mark I. Guy, how is your systems check on the Mark II?"

"Everything running to system Sir." It was Guy Nakamura's first attempt to run one of these weapon systems, he wanted the simplest machine possible with as few weapons as possible. It seemed odd but we stripped down the Mark II giving him only one large stun stick for practice. I had two smallers stun sticks, short swords, I also didn't want to rely on weaponry. The Mark I didn't last long so all weapons used would work best and keep the Zealot running better if they weren't taking the same energy.

I watched as Guy attempted to walk for the first time in his Zealot. It was quite an adjustment for him. The Zealot added four inches to guy making him 6'6, and much bigger than I was. He was cumbersome but he had a good balance in movement. He turned to face me before moving his weapon hand to hand back and forth. He's a natural... Good. I watched as he moved in to his natural fighting stance.

"Shinobi, are you sure you want to go already?"

"Yes Commander." I spun my blades through my fingers. What the mark I Zealot gave up in strength in speed it made up for in maneuverability. I spun both of my weapons backwards in to a defensive style with both weapons against the backs of my arms.

I charged at him straight forward. I swung a vertical slash at me. I rolled away from him spinning around his much more bulky frame. He tried to follow me as best he could but he failed he couldn't spin as fast as I could get around him and I struck the back of his thigh with my inverted stun blade. I kicked his leg trying to knock him off his feet but I didn't even make him budge. He spun and I felt the full force of his weapon striking across my chest. I felt my suit shorting and rolled away putting my hand up.

Yeah I definitely had the prototype. I turned off my Zealot and reached for my phone dialing the Engineers.

"Yes?"

"I need you to fix the Mark I, and tune it up, see if we can't make it at least a bit stronger, faster too if possible."

"Why not just use the Mark VI?" He asked.

"Because I like the Prototype."

"The mark I will never stand up to the Mark VI." he said annoyed.

"Well I was going up against the Mark II."

"I don't understand why you would want to use those when we can just send you Mark Vis"

"Well we like them so I'm sending it in." I don't like it. They're trying to force these weapons, they're too big for stealth ops, why can't they see it... it's what you fear... they can see it, they simply don't care.

Embry's POV

How long was I asleep? I wondered as I got up. Only a couple hours this time? I got up expecting to feel groggy but I felt nothing. I felt good. I felt powerful, stronger, faster... everything. I felt like I could wrestle Felix and win. A fools gamble. I thought to myself. I heard a sound. I smelt. Her scent. I know who it is. Themba. I crouched down lower to the ground and followed my nose to the scent. I ran on my hands and feet to keep my nose close to the ground trying to get the scent. Only after running for a while I realized how natural it felt... then I noticed I was running like the other wolves, and I was running very fast. I slowed down as I finally caught the scent on the ground. I got up on two legs and started running after the scent, faster, she was running I could hear it in the distance.

I sped up. I forgot how much I loved running. Feeling wind, even thin twigs snapping under my feet. I missed it all.

I finally saw her. I followed her as quietly as I could but I knew she'd hear me soon enough. She turned her head back to see me and stopped almost instantly. She took a smell and something changed in her eyes. It was like it was a different person completely. Something unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

She pounced at me flinging herself at me. I growled catching her before she forced her lips against mine. I didn't expect it and spun her back around groaning. I wrapped her legs around me and pinned her up against a tree.

What are you doing? What's it look like? Do I want to know? Don't you know? Is this me? Don't you need this? Do I need this? Do I want this? Shut up and do it! I felt the animal inside of me screaming. I was losing control. Her fingers wrapped around my neck as she leaned in closer to me. A growl escaped. Who is this?

Ivan's POV

He's finally stopped running. I thought. I'd come to a large cave opening on the side of a mountain, it was well lit and as soon as I'd turned a corner it transformed from a simple cave to an underground temple. Beautifully crafted marble pillars stretched up in to the darkness of a mountain I focused on his scent that descended in to this temple. I didn't trust it. He knew he couldn't hide from me and this place wasn't a good place to run... no other exit. Why did you lead me to Egypt? I climbed deeper and deeper in to the temple sensing a trap but not caring. The shifter would be mine. The room was huge. Pillars holding up the structure everywhere. And there, three forms. The one in front was hard to describe. His clothing covered up to his neck and left side of his body in thick flowing cloth, his legs had a belt and a middle cloth that stopped inches away from the ground, both his legs covered in this same flowing cloth.

His skin was a dark grayish blue Black Tattoos colored his torso with a circular crest mostly covered by his clothing. His arm was decently muscled, his body completely hairless, his eyes... were red with black sclera. He was no more than six foot two inches tall. There was something sinister about him. Like his presence created a darkness around him I couldn't see but I could feel. Two steps behind him was the the Shifter and Xavier. I thought you were dead. We killed you.

I growled at them. I wasn't stupid, I knew I couldn't kill all three of them.

"So you hide behind others... fucking bitch." I growled at him.

"You are quite a tracker... you should join us." The man in middle bellowed. I felt his words as well as heard them.

"I'm already part of the Volturi Coven." I growled.

"I thought you led their expendable army. Pittance, I could give you real power."

"What I want is revenge." I roared and rushed forward. The blue-gray skinned vampire slid between Shifter and myself. I clawed at his face. He didn't move. His left arm still wrapped around his body. He raised his right arm and caught my hand interlacing his fingers in mine holding my back easily. Felix isn't that strong, this guy is over half a foot smaller than me. I felt his fingers begin to squeeze and my hands being crushed under his much smaller hand. Once again without moving the rest of his body he pulled and threw me behind him with one arm. It startled me at first and I smashed straight in to a pillar twenty feet behind him. No one is that strong, not even Iverson at full power. He's not even trying...

"We emancipated you from your weakness, you should be grateful. What you want is Power, not revenge. I can give it to you."

"And why should I believe you?" I said growling as I got back up."

"Because I understand your indignation. Pledge fealty to me and I will give you the power you desire."

I made my way to him but stopped short.

"What loyalty do you owe them? They who would use and discard you, Join me as my hunter." I nodded and lowered myself in front of him.

"Take my power, and my mark, you are my Hunter." He touched me and I felt power surge through my body. It surged through me. I felt my fingers changing. I flexed a new muscle and then my fingertips turned in to claws an inch longer. I could feel it, and something else.

"I have a poison in them." I said not understanding how I knew.

"Yes... a paralytic poison, great for live captures. I have a Capture for you."

"Who." I asked.

"Connor."

"The Teleporter?" I asked.

"Yes. Bring him back to me, unharmed."

"If he resists?"

"You have your poison." I nodded and turned to leave but stopped short.

"What is your name."

"Primus Hemi Mortalis."

"Primos Hemi Mortalus?" I said trying to repeat it.

"You can know me by the name all others will soon enough."

"Which is?"

"Apocalypse."

Embry's POV

What was that? That wasn't me. I wasn't in complete control. Didn't you want her? Yes, I wanted her I needed her... but I couldn't say no... what was that? I just had sex with Themba. I bit my lip.

"Did that seem natural to you?" I said awkwardly.

"It felt good." Themba said sliding her fingers across my body. I groaned.

"I couldn't control myself... I wanted you too much... more than I ever have... I felt like I was being pulled towards you."

"Come to think of it... seemed like something drove me... pulled me towards you." The way she described it triggered something in his mind. Pulled her towards me. Just like I was pulled towards Adam... Like The alpha inside me pulled her towards me, me towards her... No... This won't control me. I swear it won't control me. Never again will this control me.

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