Sleep walking

Chapter one

Nikolai Andoyovich, Nik to his friends, (or at least he would have been if he had any) awoke slowly, he swung his feet out of bed and onto the hardwood floor of his cabin and yawned. He dressed in the fresh, clean clothing that he knew would be in his dresser, and went to his small kitchen to eat the sandwich that he knew would be there, and then went outside to sit on the rocking chair and read the book he knew would be sitting next to it.

But as Nikolai stepped out onto his porch, his eyes narrowed as an old, and rather unexpected feeling that he hadn't felt since he triggered welled up inside him.

He was bored.

There was only one situation that Nikolai could think of to remedy this situation.

Time for a vacation.

Mind made up, he stood, went back inside, grabbed his wallet, a backpack he put a few of his favorite books in and left his cabin, shutting of the lights behind him, and locking the door.

Scene Break

Chief Director Costa Brown stared at the email in front of her, and the looked back up towards Dragon's onscreen avatar.

"Is… Is this true?"

Dragon nodded, her face wracked with nerves.

The report in front of the Chief Director was a simple timeline that lead up to arguably one of the biggest threats on the planet disappearing.

Dragon looked at the chief director questioningly,

"What do you plan on doing?"

The Chief Director rubbed her temples furiously.

"I will ask Alexandria and Eidolon to investigate the cabin and see if there is anything that might point where he's going. Hopefully they'll be able to find something so we can send out some advanced warning."

Scene Break

Nikolai smiled at the woman behind the counter of the airlines kiosk who gave him a practiced smile in return, but it was a smile that hid exhaustion, and resignation.

"How may I help you sir?"

"One ticket to Boston please, and do you know if I can get another ticket here, or do I need to get it once I am inside the United States?."

The woman's smile became a little fixed, but she still replied.

"You can get the ticket for Boston to wherever else you'd like to go here sir."

Nikolai smiled.

"In that case please get me two tickets, one to Boston, and one to Brockton Bay."

A few minutes later, as the woman placed the tickets in his hand, Nikolai reached out and took her exhaustion, her resignation, and gave her the determination of a man from the village close to his home.

The woman smiled and waved the odd man goodbye, suddenly feeling much better about her lot in life.

Scene Break

Alexandria and Eidolon warily alighted on the ground, just in front of the front step of the Cabin, It had been a long flight, even though they had doored directly to the outskirts of the forest, the distance from the outskirts to the Cabin seemed to be stretched out, however, anytime they turned to leave, they were out of the forest in mere minutes.

Alexandria opened the door and was shifted aside as Eidolon moved into the cabin, the heroes beginning their search for any sign of where the threat they were searching for could have gone.

"Bedroom empty!"

"Bathroom empty!"

"Office empty!"

"Got something in the kitchen!"

Alexandria moved from the office where she had just finished her search to see Eidolon holding up a note.

'got bored, going on a vacation, be back when I'm back'

Eidolon gave Alexandria a look of intense confusion.

"Can the Sleeper even get bored?"

Alexandria just shrugged, thoroughly, throughly, befuddled.

Scene Break

Nikolai Andoyovich, stepped out of the airport, and took in a deep breath of Boston air, with a sense of deep satisfaction.

And then stopped as someone cursed at him and roughly shouldered him out of the way.

Nikolai raised one eyebrow, it had been a long time since someone had acted like that towards him. He found that he didn't like it much.

So he reached out, and took the mans mind, leaving him to collapse like a puppet with its strings cut, right into oncoming traffic.

As the bystanders clustered around fresh corpse, Sleeper walked away, whistling a familiar tune that wiggled into the minds of those who heard it, where it echoed, and repeated, over, and over.

Scene Break

Accord placed his palm against the scanner of his room, the doors parted with a slight whoosh that was identical to the sound from the doors from Star Trek.

'They better be identical, I payed extra for that'

Accord took one step inside his office and then stopped, something was off… It was only because of his obsession with order that he noticed it, but one of the books in his offices was leaning on the opposite side from when he left.

And then he heard an exceedingly normal voice speak, with a slight Eastern European accent.

"Hello Mr. Accord. Are there any good places to eat nearby?"

Accord paled and swallowed. The man sitting in his chair was one of 5 singular S class threats on the planet, considered equal to Endbringers in their own way.

Sleeper, a man who could cause entire cities to be evacuated by taking a morning walk.

The average looking man was now in his personal office, past his Ambassadors, and the layers upon layers of security with no alarms sounding.

Accord swallowed again, his throat suddenly dry, his mind whirling through plan after plan that were then discarded due to lack of information. One of the things that Accord had always considered most freakish and frightening was the fact that no one had ever managed to figure out what exactly the man in front of him power actually was.

Scene Break

Alexandria got off her phone and turned to Eidolon.

"A man matching the sleepers description was just recorded leaving a Boston airport."

Eidolon's face twisted in shock.

"He… He made it to U.S. soil?"

Alexandria nodded and stored outside, but just about side she was going to outside, she stopped, an took another note from the inside of the door.

'my house better be the way I left it when I come back Alexandria…'

The Hero swallowed involuntarily and carefully placed the not on the nearby counter.