8 years ago. 2013.
Terra walked in the house. Her grandmother Ellie and her grandfather, Carl were glossing up one of his relics.
Ellie: I was on my way back from the market and I saw another one of those men on motorcycles.
Carl: Ugh. I wish they would go away. They've always left us alone prior.
Ellie: I think they're searching for someone here.
Carl: Of course he is.
Carl shook his head.
Terra: Motorcycle people? I see them a lot when I'm in the woods. I saw them yelling at a woman. And then one of them hit her!
Carl: I'm sorry you had to see that.
Terra: Why don't we gather the village to fight back? I bet you could take a bunch by yourself Grandpa!
Carl: The village people don't want to have anything to do with those men. And we'll avoid them for now.
Terra: We should teach them a lesson and kill one of their men!
Carl looked surprised. He stopped what he was doing and came down to Terra's level.
Carl: Do you know what killing entails?
Terra: Um...Of course. It's taking their life.
Carl: Doing it like that...with hate in your heart. It can corrupt you. And it hurts more people than you know. Innocent people. Don't kill. Promise me you'll never kill.
Terra: ...Promise.
Carl: Pinky promise? You know you absolutely can't break those.
Back to present.
Terra: Sorry grandfather. It has to be this way.
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Axel and Jilaya were putting the finishing touches on their gigantic machine. They were both finishing welding gigantic plasma cannons on the beast of a machine. They jumped down on the ground and looked at the machine.
Jilaya: We're in the homestretch.
Ivan walked in with a noticeable limp. He looked up at the machine.
Ivan: By the gods. You two finished?
Jilaya: Well no, we still have to paint it.
Ivan: And what is it's name?
Axel: We decided to call it Zion.
Ivan: How long until he arrives?
Jilaya: Two days.
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Amelia was laying on the cold hard ground somewhere. She looked unconscious. She violently sparked awake and flipped herself to the ground. She stood up and fell back down again. She realized that she was on a floating piece of land. Flying through some sort of space. No some sort of force. The speed force. She looked up and saw all of time. All events in time. Converging. She got hit with a gigantic headache. A wave of pain. She fell to her knees and held her head. Her hair became more and more unruly. She stumbled to her feet. Only looking down at the ground. As far away from the forces she couldn't understand. She ran away. Until she saw land. Without visions that would break her mind. Or visions that would break her mind further. She was in some sort of jungle. She didn't care about anything. She just ran away. As she ran she realized the jungle started to disappear. Little civilizations started to pop up. Until they got bigger and bigger. She was in the current time. Even though she wasn't where she lived, In fact. The civilization around her looked completely different. As she ran she felt energy running through her body. Above her the sky was red. She kept running until she saw herself running right at her. It was like a mirror of the world she had run through. But She saw something else ahead of her standing in her path. It was wearing black. Amelia stopped in her tracks. Weirdly quick. It was wearing a black speedster suit and had the terrifying face of a zombie. It's teeth jagged and ugly. It's face dead and white. And its eyes a cold, unfeeling black. It roared at her loudly. And ran at her. Even before Amelia could run it grabbed her by the neck. It roared at her and vibrated it's hand. Amelia tried to phase. Nothing. She grabbed some of her mini-bombs from her jacket and stuffed it right in the monster's mouth. It simply phased and was perfectly fine. But Amelia's idea worked. The bombs exploded inside the speedster and blew her backward. So hard in fact that she broke through the mirror looking wall behind her. Like glass. For some reason the monster couldn't follow her. She was laying on the ground in more pain. The sky was now a light flat blue. A bit different from the actual sky. The monster didn't follow her for some reason. Maybe he thought she was dead. So she tried playing dead. Because what was more stupid? She couldn't get the visions out of her head of what she saw back on that floating piece of land. She saw Æ èìïðñ আটটঠটঞষস ললপফফফঠঞঞধঞ খমৎঽঐঝআআ ퟜퟣퟣퟞ ㄐㄗㄫㆠ ㄑㄅ ㄋㄠㆪㆩㆲ ᘪᘶᙷᘻᘱ ᘝᗡᗷᗷᗮ. And then she felt her consciousness fade.
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Millie was sitting in her cell. She had broken her bed and dragged a spring out of it. Millie cut herself on the finger with the spring's tip and wrote a message out of blood on her bed sheet. She had to wait for it to dry up. She remembered seeing Leon's cell. It was two cells away from her's. She ripped off the sheet and stuffed it in her shirt. Millie got up and started doing jumping jacks and all kinds of workouts. Eventually Monger wandered past.
Monger: Ah. Training for our next battle, aren't you?
Millie: Why not? I'll go again.
Monger seemed surprised and giddy at the same time.
Monger: Then let's go.
Monger dragged Millie out of her cage and started walking her down the cell block. Millie took the piece from her shirt and stuffed it through the food crack in Leon's fence. Leon opened his eyes as he saw the sheet fall to the ground. He jumped over and looked at it. The message read "Hypnotize trick: Possible to teach me?"
Leon: What the hell…?
Millie ended up having to fight Monger some more. Gaining bruises and cuts on her body. She came back and glanced at Leon. Millie was thrown back into her cell. She felt frustrated. Did everyone seriously have no motivation?! Leon was just sitting in his cell. He wondered where Amala was. Hoping and praying she was still alive. He had been doing nothing but sleeping. He had heard about Integer's meta cells from Krilla. And they were the real deal. He lost. And Millie could be hurt if he taught her his techniques.
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Riley was running through the speed force. The sky it's flat blue. She didn't understand where she was. Something caught her eye. Some sort of temple with a purple beam coming from the top. She ran into the temple. It looked ancient. She saw many writings on the walls. One with four people and smaller people bowing down to them. She saw writings of a man running with lightning. Another man being attacked by zombies. With the same man raising above them. Riley inspected the things on the walls until she saw a giant blast of light come through a room. She came closer to the room. It was a big room with stairs leading up to the capsule of light. Riley ran up the stairs and looked in. And saw someone in a capsule of light. He stepped out of the light and fell to his knees. It was Michael.
Riley: Who the fuck are you?
Mike: Quite the mouth on you. I didn't expect another speedster to be in here.
Riley: Aren't like, all speedsters technically in here?
Mike: Not quite. How did you get here?
Riley: You expect me to know?
Mike: Well what were you doing last before you came here?
Riley: None of your goddamn business.
Mike came over to Riley.
Mike: *Sigh* I know it's hard. Just sit down. We can talk about this.
Mike put his hand on Riley's shoulder. Riley grabbed his wrist with her hand and got Mike into a submission. Bending him over and jamming his hand behind his back. Mike vibrated through Riley. Riley threw a speed punch at Mike. Mike dodged. Riley threw a flurry of punches and kicks. Mike dodged every single hit.
Mike: Hey, your Amelia's sister. Aren't you?
Riley: Why does it matter?
Mike: Well clearly you're here because of her. It's pretty damn hard to put down a speedster. And you aren't fast enough to get in the speed force. Either way. How about that sitting down. We can talk about this like rational people.
Riley: If it'll make you shut up.
Mike laughed.
Riley: What's so funny?
Mike: You clearly want to talk to someone. I can see it.
Riley: Then listen.
Riley and Mike sat down next to each other on the stairs.
Riley: Me and my sister never saw eye to eye. But I think she changed the timeline. And after she did all that. She was different. She was crazy. And it scared me. It fucking scared me. She even had a thing with Millie for a second. And I felt good for her. Because it seemed like things were looking up. But then she got pissed and ran away. The next time I met her I had to fight her. And I lost. She beat me to shit. And stabbed me and killed me and took my speed. But Ivan killed her. Wait. He killed her. Doesn't that mean she is here too?
Mike: She was killed as well?
Riley: Why are we here? I'm dead. I don't get it.
Mike: Speedsters can't die by normal means. So we get sent here. Where a monster called the black flash kills us. For good. But lucky for me I have a way around that. It's a deterrent that I whipped up myself.
Riley: Any chance you could hit me with that deterrent too?
Mike: Close your eyes.
Riley closed her eyes and Mike threw something ball shaped at Riley. It splashed on her and turned into gas once it hit her.
Mike: As long as you don't move when he comes. You'll be fine.
Riley: How powerful is he? I mean you just fucked me up so…
Mike: His speed is limitless. Sadly for us speedsters. We can't outrun death.
A shiver was sent down Riley's spine.
Mike: So. How about we go and find Amelia?
Riley: You're fast enough, right? Can't you just get us outta here?
Mike: We can't leave her. Even if she is a completely fucked up person now. We can't leave her behind. It could risk her becoming worse than she already is.
Riley: ...But she fucked all of us over. She is the reason the end of the world could be coming. Via Integer's fucked up father.
Mike: What?
Riley: My boss Integer is summoning her father. A dude named Empyrean. He is super powerful. Definitely more powerful than us.
Mike: We have to help. As a matter of fact. We might be some pretty good damn chances. The speed force itself is jacking you up with speed force. Once we leave we'll be pretty damn fast. I was regaining my speed here for a while. Luckily it looks like when Amelia took your speed you didn't lose all of it. So if we wanna go in prepared for Amelia. Try gaining some speed yourself.
Riley: Whatever you say.
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Millie was sitting in her cell. Frustrated. She was still kept motivated, She was doing jumping jacks in her cell. When a big piece of cloth fell through the food gate. Millie was ecstatic. She opened up the cloth. And in full description was a way to hypnotize someone. It was a big piece of paper showing all proper techniques and everything. There was a balled up napkin that fell out after Millie opened the main letter. It was a chipped part of a sink. With blood in it and a combination of other things. On the main paper it said "Drink the blood, It will cast you the powers you need to perform the spell. Millie downed the blood like a shot glass. She spent hours learning the proper techniques. Until she felt it was down. Her plan was ready for action.
Millie: I guess I thought wrong.
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