Remi is kicking the furnace. Trying to break it open.
Max: You are spazzing right now.
Remi: It's dead quiet out there! Don't you think Kai would have tried to open the furnace if he beat them?!
Max: Kai's fine, he's always fine. What are they going to do? Shoot him? He has regenerated a whole arm before. He's fine.
Sparks show up in Remi's hand. Max sighs. Remi blows the furnace back along with the rubble around it. They both walk out of the basement to see the house completely destroyed.
Max: Maybe he is in trouble.
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Later that day A helicopter is flying over Death Valley in California. Kai is in a helicopter. He just starts to wake back up. As he starts to wake back up the helicopter door opens. He is kicked out of the helicopter and starts falling through the air. Kai hits the sand hard. As he picks himself up he spits out sand and wipes off his tongue. Kai looks around. He sees sand and hills.
Kai: Am I in a desert?
Kai starts walking around. He taps his com and tries to talk. He gets no response. He takes out his com and sees it's damaged. He throws it on the ground and steps on it. As Kai keeps walking he finds a road. Kai takes off the shirt torso part of his costume because of the heat and because most of it was destroyed. He walks along the road for what feels like hours. Then he hears a truck driving. Kai dodges out of the way as the truck drives past him. The truck spins and turns around facing him. The truck has no top two men standing up while in the truck. They both look like barbarians. They have skull masks on with mohawks coming out of the masks. They wear muscle black muscle shirts with a skull on them and black shorts.
???: Did he dodge a truck?
???: He's a mutant! I want to catch a mutant!
???: We'll hang his head on our truck!
???: And sell his body!
Kai: Who are you.
???: We!
???: Are!
Both ???: The skull twins!
???: I'm a skull!
???: I wanted to be a skull!
Skull: I'm skull and your bone and that's final!
???: I'm bone!
Skull: Now we're going to ground your bones to dust!
Bone: Die!
A gun raises up from the back of the truck. A harpoon shoots out of that gun. Kai grabs the harpoon and pulls the car over to him. The car starts moving at Kai quickly. Kai jumps over the truck, and grabs Bone out of the passenger seat while he's in the air. He lands on the ground behind the truck and slams Bone down. The truck spins around again. Skull presses a button and spikes appear on the front of the truck.
Skull: Now you die!
The truck drives at Kai. Kai gets low to the ground. As the spikes are about to hit him he puts his hands under the truck and lifts the front up. Skull falls out of the truck. Kai puts the front of the truck back on the ground, and gets in it.
Kai: I'll take this as compensation for trying to kill me.
Skull: That's the skull truck!
Kai: No, it's my truck.
Kai drives off. Bone gets up from the ground.
Bone: He stole our truck!
Skull starts laughing.
Bone: What's so funny?
Skull: He's not from around here. He'll end up in New San Francisco, and we'll be able to get our truck back.
Bone: How?
Skull: He thinks that we're a joke! He'll have to learn who the joke is on.
Kai is driving along the sandy road. He takes out his phone, and it won't even turn on.
Kai: I need to find a phone. Then I could call Remi and Max. I need to find out my location and tell them that I'm not dead.
Kai drives only the road until the sun starts setting.
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Back in New York, Max is sitting on the computer. An alert goes off on his computer every few minutes. Remi is pacing back and forth. Each alert testing her patients. The alerts stop for a minute or two. Then they start again. Remi blitzes.
Remi: What the fuck is going on Max?! Alerts are going off every minute! Is this what always happens?!
Max: I think the computer is acting up. Usually the alert only goes off whenever B.L.A.D.E soldiers or mutants attack. I'm trying to figure out the problem, but there doesn't seem to be one. It's almost like there is a group going around attacking random shit.
Remi: Why don't I go and check it out? I need to get out of this god forsaken basement anyway.
Max: I'll tell you where to go as you run along the buildings.
Remi leaves the basement. She has to constantly change course because of whoever is attacking. Finally she catches up to them. She sees General Grey dragging a man out of a house.
General Grey: You used to be a superhero. You would try to help humans. Now look where it got you.
Man: I-I-I'm not a mutant. I'm a human superhero!
General Grey: Are you?
General Grey takes out a sticky note. He writes torture on it, and smacks it on the man's forehead. Before the man can see what it says.
General Grey: Make sure you keep that on, or else no one will know we need to check if you're a human. It says test on it. If you're a human you'll be free to go.
Man: Thank you!
They put the man in the back of one of the trucks.
Soldier: Sir, we hate humans. You wrote torture on his forehead.
General Grey: He was crying like a bitch. Now he'll shut up instead of crying in the back of a truck. He should save the crying for when we torture his dumb ass.
General Grey gets back in the truck.
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Remi: Your computer wasn't wrong. It looks like mutants are hunting people down now in one group. They have trucks and weapons.
Max: Why would they have weapons? I thought they only used their powers to fight.
Remi: Maybe they learned that they would be able to win the war easier by using technology.
Max: That's only going to make them harder to take down. You should come back, and make sure they don't see you.
Remi: I will.
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Kai sees a building. He stops the car, and gets out. He looks at the building's signs. It reads "Death Valley Museum." Kai walks inside the museum. The place is broken down and battered. Kai moves past the rubble. Two wolves appear from in the building. One wolf launches at him. He easily grabs the wolf and throws it at the other one. They both run away. Eventually Kai finds an old phone. He types in Max's number. The phone rings for a bit, and then Max picks up the phone.
Max: Hello, who is this?
Kai: It's Kai.
Max: Where the fuck are you?
Kai: A group of mutants came by. They destroyed the house, and dropped me off in a desert.
Kai hears Remi in the background.
Remi: Was it the mutants in the trucks?
Kai: Yeah, the main guy is named General Grey. He is the one in the black trench coat. I haven't been able to test out how dangerous he is. Don't attack him. He's too smart.
Max: Where are you?
Kai: I don't know. I read the sign "Death Valley Museum." So… probably Death Valley.
Max starts typing.
Max: You're in California. Wait, if you're in California then you're close to those coordinates.
Kai(in head): Dropped off in california. Why am I getting Deja vu?
Max: If you travel north west you should be able to pit stop in San Francisco. Then all you'll have to do is go north.
Kai: How far north?
Max: Only like a thousand miles. So it shouldn't be that bad.
Kai: You're going to make me run a thousand miles?
Max: You can find a car.
Kai: It would take even longer than! How long is it to get to San Francisco?
Max: Way shorter. That's only like four hundred miles. You won't even break a sweat.
Kai: I'll fucking kill you when I get back.
Max: Take as long as you need.
Kai hangs up the phone.
Kai: Now I'm running across California a second time.