Remi: Flames and claws, just like EMBER!
Remi jumps out of the corner and rushes at the two, the Bounty Huntress steps in, Isen and Blyke jump the corner.
Volcan: Don't worry, we'll slaughter these little brats together and continue business after.
A looking pair of Glowing Golden eyes appears in the background.
The Golden God: I don't think so BITCH!
He uses his raw super strength to smash Volcan fifty feet away from the trio.
Golden God: You three, take care of her, and be careful she has ability enhancing equipment!
X-Rei, Lazerbeam, and The Bounty Hunter, all take turns throwing punches at The Bounty Huntress.
Bounty Huntresses suit: One hour remaining for enhancements.
The Bounty Huntress whips back at the three, despite her being a high tier, she's getting beat up from left and right.
X-Rei: Listen up, this has nothing to do with you, let me to Volcan.
Bounty Huntress: My client hired me to dispose of you, hold still.
Bounty Hunter: Let us through asshole!
Bounty Huntress: Make me copycat!
The three duke it out for another five minutes before The Bounty Huntress uses smoke bombs to get away. Unable to beat them she decides for now to retreat.
Remi: Forget her, I have something to take care of!
Isen: Let's just wait for John, he looks like he's the only one who could take her on.
Remi: John! I'm coming!
Blyke: Hang in there, Isen let's go!
Meanwhile with Volcan and The Golden God.
The Golden God: You, you killed X Static! You're a monster. You killed an innocent man.
Volcan: He killed himself, he should have not fought with me.
The Golden God: NO, he was just trying to make this world a better place, a place that was normal, where logic didn't get replaced with violence. But you... I'll rip every last piece of flesh off your body, I will make you feel more pain than any human being on this planet ever WILL!
Volcan: Okay then, bring it on!
The Golden God takes her and pulls her by the arm, using his other fist to punch her right in the jaw. She evades and slashes him. X-Rei shoots electricity at Valcon.
X-Rei: You killed my brother!
Her eyes start to cry, she activates her super ability and lighting shoots down from the sky.
X-Rei: I'll make you pay!
She shoots big bolts of lighting down from the ground.
Volcan evades, The Golden God does the same casting even bigger bolts of lightning. Volcan still evades. The Bounty Hunter locks on her aura while Lazerbeam blasts her with a constant stream of lasers. The Golden God and X-Rei go ham on Volcan. She blocks and even parries Remi's attack.
Golden God: You bitch, LEAVE MY FRIEND ALONE!
Joker starts to talk in John's head.
Joker: Break her bones, kill her, kill her like how you were going to kill everyone in New Bostin.
Volcan Stabs Remi to the left of her lower abdomen. The Golden God loses it, copying her ability directly, he slashes her in the gut, once, twice, three times, he then punctures her left lung. Despite a collapsed lung and multiple stab wounds, she still manages to leap away. The Bounty Hunter comes out of the corner and knees her to the face. Volcan. Volcan charges at The Bounty Hunter with her flame claws, The Bounty Hunter in return smashes the ground and creates a distraction with his small fault line. She tries to stab The Bounty Hunter when Lazerbeam blasts her hand with a laser. The Bounty Hunter kicks her back, carrying an unconscious X-Rei.
Golden God: You three, get out of here, NOW!
The three head out of the area, leaving just The Golden God and Volcan.
The Golden God jumps fifty feet in the air before falling back down and slamming everything around him, the buildings knock down and collapse on Volcan, but she manages to dodge the buildings by a fraction of a centimeter, making it look like she is dead.
John walks away before the authorities check out the buildings. He heads back to his place.
Off in the distance, an older looking man, about Rei's age is on a rooftop, he witnessed the whole thing. His blue pony tail flaps in the wind as he stands on the roof.
Isen, Remi, and Blyke all head to John's house because it's closer to their current location.
Isen: I'll set her on the couch, Call Elaine!
Blyke: Yeah on it!
Meanwhile in Sera's and Elaine's dorm, Elaine gets a phone call.
Elaine: Oh hey Blyke.
Blyke: MEET ME AT JOHNS HOUSE IT'S AN EMERGENCY!
Elaine: Blyke, you're scaring me!
Blyke: Just come over here!
Fifteen minutes later Elaine shows up to John's house. John's bedroom window is heard being open.
Blyke: Isen, go check it out, I'll guard Remi while she is healing!
John: Relax it's me!
Isen: John, quick! Copy Elaine's ability and Heal Remi with Elaine.
John: How bad is Remi?!
Elaine: Oh man.
John: Oh GOD! HER arm, quickly the skin is peeling off completely!
The two work on healing Remi. She wakes up to find herself in John's house.
Remi: Wait, did we, did we capture Volcan?!
Blyke: Well, John told us to leave as soon as you passed out.
John: I got angry and tried to kill her with some abandoned buildings in the area, but when the dust settled, she was gone, no way at her level was she pinned by the rubble, she definitely got away. I saw her aura from a distance.
Remi: Well, then how do we catch her now?
John takes a moment to compose his words carefully.
John: We don't.
Remi: But we have to, we finally found Rei's killer, please I want to capture her!
John: You're not strong enough Remi, not even close, I had a hard time with her! You need to give this superhero thing a rest until we go after Rein, even then I think we should see how you recover.
Remi starts to get teary eyed.
John: Please Remi, we don't want to see you get killed.
Blyke: Remi, come on.
Remi is crying at this point. She looks at Blyke's and Isen's injuries.
Remi: I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt, I just...
Blyke: It's fine Remi, let's just get you to bed. John, you mind?
John: Guest bedroom is across from mine.
Blyke: Thanks man.
Blyke helps Remi up to the guest bedroom.
Remi: Blyke, I just think that we should keep going in secret after I'm healed.
Blyke: Now way, I think we should-
Remi: NO BLYKE, don't you get it, there still out there trying to hurt people. We need to do-
Blyke: Remi! Someone DIED tonight, It doesn't matter if we work for the answers, I get it, we wouldn't go anywhere if we didn't work for our answers, but what's the point if we all end up dying. If my aim was slightly off, I would have.... I.....
Remi: Blyke, I...
Blyke's eyes start to water.
Blyke: Remi, I don't want to lose you and Isen, but I almost just did.
Remi pauses to think about what Blyke just said.
Remi: Blyke, I'm sorry, I don't want to see you like this. Let's just rest up for now.
Blyke: Yeah, okay.
John Isen and Elaine are in the living room.
Elaine: Well, what happened? Why was Remi's arm ready to fall off?
John and Isen give each other a look.
Isen: We can't, I...
John: I just want to go to bed, I'll see yeah tomorrow.
Isen and Elaine head out of the house.
Elaine: Isen, tell me please, what happened?
Isen explains exactly what they went through. Spilling every detail out as he goes from start to finish. All while Elaine just stared at him with shock and disbelief.
Elaine: Oh God, you guys should stop for a bit, we have to take that queen down and then that's it, that's the end of this.
Isen: Yeah, I agree.
John later that night texts Sera.
John: Hey, can we talk?
Sera: Yeah sure, whats up?
John: Well I just fought the Ember leader with Blyke Isen and Remi.
Sera: Oh my, how did that go. You won right? Wait, is everyone okay?
John: Well, she got away, and so did some bounty hunter lady.
Sera: Bounty hunter?
John: Yeah, me and Isen fought her earlier, we also took down some low tier criminals with power enhancers, but the Bounty Huntress got away, she had power enhancing equipment.
Sera: So what's the important part of all of this?
Isen with Elaine
Isen: Elaine, I fought some bounty hunter lady today with John.
Elaine: Yeah and?
Isen: Her powers, they definitely reminded me of...
John and Isen: Cecile!
Sera: What? How is that possible, why would Cecile take on being some kinda super villain?
Elaine: Cecile working for Ember? That just sounds absurd.
Isen: Yeah but it isn't that far off, plus...
John: It's not like we don't have proper reason, their abilities are exactly alike.
Sera: Yeah well, just keep me informed okay? I don't want to see you get hurt.
John: You don't have to worry about me anymore. I won't hold you back as some loser cripple.
A long moment of awkward silence fills the air as Sera doesn't know how to respond.
Meanwhile back with Elaine and Isen are wrapping up their conversation and are heading back in their dorms. John and Sera start texting because their laptops died.
Sera: John?
John: Yeah?
Sera: Have you ever fallen, um, well...
John: Haha, come on Sera, spit it out!
Sera: (In a quick awkward manner): Have you ever fallen in love with someone?
John: Woah where did that come from? Seems kinda random.
Sera: Oh I don't know, it just came up in my mind.
John: Sera, can I tell you something?
Sera: Yeah John.
John types up the following but doesn't hit send.
Sera, I think I'm talking to her right now.
He pauses, then deletes and writes a new message.
John: Nvm I'll tell you when you get home.
Sera: Okay then I'll see you in a couple days.
John: Isn't your suspension a month? Besides your so chill with me leaving you hanging like that?
Sera: I'm crashing at your place.
John: Wow it's like I saw this coming.
Sera: Okay then my parents are making me do more work, see you soon.
John signs off for the night.
The Next morning. The sun is up, everyone is happy and ready to greet the day with a smile, the world has never looked better, people are starting to feel safe after The Golden God and some vigilantes made their presence known last night.
Well except for John.
The next day at school John gets slammed against the wall by two students, one has purple hair and red eyes while the other has red hair and purple eyes.
Meili: Really, that's it?
Ventus: What did you expect? He's a cripple.
Meili: He didn't even fight back, come on this isn't right, we got what we needed done so let's just go.
The two students look at John with their glowing eyes, piercing his soul and mind.
John: Who the fuck do you think your pitying on bitch?!
John gets up with a mean look in his eyes.
John: You fucking demons, GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!
They both rough John up a little more before they both laugh and walk away.
John: Yeah well, let's see who's laughing when a cripple beats your ass on the turf!
John freezes, he puts his hand over his mouth.
Meili: Well then, we'll see you at the turf, LOSER!
Ventus: Hahahaha, this is gonna be easy, come on let's get to class.
Meili: I don't know, he's not gonna show up anyways.
Ventus: Whatever, he will, kid has a huge ego.
As they talk John heads into the infirmary.
Doc: John you really outdid yourself this time.
John: Doc, I didn't do anything this time, I swear.
Doc: John, I'm really getting sick and tired of this, you should know how to avoid these kinda things by now.
John sighs and takes out his phone.
Doc: I'd like to take you out again, yeah sure, oh yeah I'm free Saturday. Sure then, sounds great, okay bye.
Smash!
Doc slams his phone down.
Doc: WHAT NOW?!
John is standing over his phone, his eyes glowing. Joker in John's head starts to talk to him.
Joker: DO IT, KILL THEM, KILL THE ONES WHO SEPARATED YOU FROM SERA!
John: Those two, I'll kill them!
Doc: Where do you think you're going?
John's eyes continue to glow, getting brighter by the second. Doc grabs him to try and stop him from leaving.
John: LET GO!
John turns around with bright Golden eyes, his teeth gritting. His hair wild like the animal he's about to become.
John: Doc, I'm going, whether you like it or not!
Doc: Don't take another step! What the hell do you expect to do, you just have a bigger target on your back.
John: It's not the cripple you're talking to that's leaving this room.
Doc: John, my policy exists to reduce student injuries, if you leave now, regardless of your ability or not, someone is going to get seriously hurt, and I can't have that on my watch. So if you have an ounce of respect for me, you will sit your ass down.
John: FINE!
He bumps into the doc.
John: But you have only prolonged the inevitable.
Doc in his head: John, why would you do this to yourself?
The Doc goes and telephones the headmaster.
Doc: Headmaster Vaughn, yeah it's me, get Arlo to watch Greece (Greece is code name for John, his hair is greasy but they say it like the country so he isn't aware it's him if they ever need to talk about him in front of him).
Later that day John is heading out of the Docs and two girls from behind him shove him causing his papers to fall.
Girl number 1: Haha, that was hilarious.
Girl number 2: Yeah, serves him right.
Girl number 1: Eww he's so gross.
Girl number 2: Yeah, what a total loser, am I right?
Blyke and Remi walk by John on their way to class.
Blyke: Yo John, you need some help?
Remi: What the hell, what's their problem, there the weak ones after all. Kinda hypocritical.
Blyke: Yo, say the word and I'll go kick their asses.
Remi: Blyke! That's not how we solve our problems!
John: No!, it's... it's fine, thanks guys, I'll see yeah Saturday.
Remi and Blyke walk away with concern.
Remi: John is usually never like this. What's going on?
Later that day at John's house, Sera and John are talking on the computer
Sera: Where were you today, you didn't respond back to my text?
John: These two assholes just jumped me and broke my phone.
Sera: Ahh well, that's a bummer.
Sera looks at John she can tell he's been mad for the whole day, his eyes slightly glowing.
Sera: John YOUR EYES! DID YOU?!
John: Huh, what oh, yeah that has been going on a lot.
John de-activates his ability.
Sera: John, what happened, you're never this mad over anything?
John: It's fine! I'm just, having a rough day, how was your?
Sera: John, did you hurt anyone with your...?
John looks at her confused for a second before putting two and two together.
John: What huh? No, I just lost control over myself for a bit.
Sera's parents are heard in the background.
Sera: Dammit! John, I'll call you back.
Sera hangs up the computer.
Sera: Oh hey mom, your back.
Seraphina, give me your phone.
Sera: Wh-what?!
I've heard about what you have been doing this past week. Wasting time on pointless socializing and playing games, is this how you behave at school too? You're becoming just like your sister! Such a disgrace.
Sera looks at her mom with surprise and disgust.
Seraphina: MOM! Leilah never did anything wrong.
Seraphina's mom: Your phone.
She hesitates but eventually hands her phone over to her mother.
Sera's mother: Don't forget why you were sent home to begin with, I want you to carefully reflect on what you've done. I've turned off the wifi so there'll be no distractions. Make sure you properly correct yourself, also keep your door room open from now on.
Sera watches her mom walk away, she clenches her fists as she looks at her, feeling powerless against her mothers authority.
Sera in her head: So John, is this how it feels, to be a cripple? To be powerless against others?
What a shitty feeling.
I can't do anything except watch.
And the fact that you chose to do this every day.
What kind of mad man are you?
John comes home the next day to text Sera when he sees her offline.
John in his head: Huh, she's never offline?
He refreshes the page a couple times before giving up.
John: Whatever, I'll try again tomorrow.
It's Friday and John is at school when he hears someone rushing from behind him. His ability is making his hands hot and he is rushing towards John.
Hower: Hey loser! Ready to lose your lunch?!
John elbows the kid hard in his nose, to where it's bleeding. He then picks up his apple he dropped.
John: I'm not in the mood for any bullshit today.
John heads up to the roof to find Arlo up there.
Arlo: We need to talk, now!
John: Yeah, what's up?
Arlo: I trust you, but the Headmaster and Doc told me not to tell you.
John walks up to Arlo and leans over the fence on the roof.
Arlo: Doc told me you had your eyes glowing, you had murderous intent.
John: Yeah well, my phone broke because of these two assholes.
Arlo: Ventus and Meli?
John: Yeah. How did you know?
Arlo: Is it also true that you challenged them to a civil turf war before you left school that day.
John: Yeah, it's about time I put some people in their place.
Arlo sighs and throws his cigarette bud off the roof.
Arlo: Listen, it's not my place to stop you despite what the headmaster said, but just don't lose yourself. I know I've been bugging you to use your power but this, is not what I had in mind.
John walks off the roof. Ignoring Arlo as he feels the rage build back up inside his soul.
Arlo: Whatever, I got my own problems to worry about. (Music stops at this point).
Arlo recalls back to when he was with Elaine in the infirmary yesterday.
Elaine's eyes open.
Elaine: Arlo?
Arlo: Hey there, how you feeling?
Elaine blushes.
Elaine in her head: Wow, that was the second time today. Maybe I was wrong about him, maybe there's more to him than what appears on the outside.
Arlo: Hello?
Elaine: Hey, can I ask you something?
Arlo: Yeah, whats up?
Elaine: So, you remember when you were last in my dorm?
Arlo in his head: Seriously, she's not even worried she just fainted, like I don't care if doc said it was just her over stressing in a moment, somethings up and I don't like it, best not bring it up though, it might cause another episode.
Arlo: Yeah, I remember.
Elaine: I umm, well, you maybe wanna well, stop kinda fooling around in the background, and maybe make it more official?
Arlo's heart starts to beat faster.
Arlo in his head: No, she can't be in the right frame of mind, she just fainted out of the blue, this doesn't feel right, but I want to say yes so badly.
Arlo: Sure, wobba bobba tonight? I'll pay.
Elaine: Sure.
The two exchange smiles, Arlo starts to get up when Elaine grabs his hand.
Elaine: Hey, I'm fine, really, but doc won't let me out for another hour, wanna maybe keep a girl company?
Arlo in his head: But, I got to be King right now.
Arlo looks at Elaine, those green eyes staring into his soul. He tries to resist her face but the cuteness gets to him.
Arlo: Sigh, alright.
Elaine: Yaaaay!
Arlo then starts to walk down from the roof as well.
Arlo in his head: Elaine, I don't know if I'm able to cater to you and the school. I wanna take care of you with dates and kisses.
but...
This school is on the verge of destruction. I need as much free time as I can get.
John headed home that day pissed. His anger seeking out of his body like blood to a cut.
John: Why? do I have to PUT UP WITH ALL OF THIS?! Arlo, you know something that you're not telling me.
He starts wailing at his punching bag, breaking the sand out of the bag.
John: WORTHLESS! THEY'RE ALL WORTHLESS! Those weaklings with no backbone, those who use their powers for worthless petty things. Just because they have a little bit of power, they THINK THEY CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT!!!!!!
John then remembers his friends, Sera, Arlo, Remi Blyke and Isen, even Elaine. He then stops his violent rampage against the punching bag. His calendar on his phone sets him a reminder to head to the field to meet with Ventus and Meli. Then his group chat with the Royals pops up.
Remi: Hey guys, get rest because tomorrow we have to stay up all night for Rein.
John smiles and puts his phone away.
John to himself: Sorry Remi, I got to settle something first.
John later that day is on the train. It goes black and everything around him turns dark.
John: Joker!
Joker: Well well, looks like it's just those two, I remember having to fight Arlo as well, he betrayed me you know.
John: Yeah well, this is my world, sorry I have it better than you!
Joker: John, don't hold back, cause I won't.
John gets slightly shocked and confused, everything lights back up as the train slows down at the station.
Ventus and Meili are waiting on the turf. Meili taps Ventus when John starts to pull up.
Meili: Wow, the fact you actually showed up is kinda sad, it's like you want us to kill you.
Ventus: The problem isn't you John, it's everyone going easy on you! Let's make sure you don't walk again! Then your ego will finally fall!
Joker is seen standing behind Ventus and Meili, taking the form of Arlo. The duo start to power up.
Joker: Let's start the show shall we.
John starts to power up, his eyes a piercing Gold color.
Meili and Ventus get chills down their spine, the boy they thought was a useless cripple just powered up, something isn't right.
Ventus: Oh fuck he has powers, Meili you ready?!
Meili: That's impossible, he's a...
John rushes towards them with the speed of a fighter jet.
He punches Meili so hard she coughs up a whole pint of blood as she goes hurling fifty meters. Ventus starts to use his wind ability to fly away to get some space.
Ventus in his head: Fuck man, he only used my wind and his strength, and he sent her flying. Wait, I've seen this power before, but were?!
Meili regains consciousness and starts charging back towards the battle. John uses Meili's blades and heads toward the Joker. Meili leaps in front, blocking John's rendition of Meili's demon claws. John slices her back and forth till her uniform is nothing but red. Meili falls to the ground crying in pain as she tries to cover her clawed up wounds.
John: Who said you could interfere?!
He says as he stands over her like a shadow demon.
Ventus pushes John back, only for John to catch the wind and use it to fly around in the air.
Ventus and Meili get back up on their feet.
Ventus (in fear): Meili, don't those powers look similar to you?
Meili looks at John, flying in the air with his wind, but the thing that catches her eye is ironically his eyes, those dark gold eyes, THOSE GOLD EYES!
Meili: He's.....
The Golden God!
Ventus: No, am I seeing this right?!
Meili: We have to keep fighting, launch me there!
Ventus: What? Are you crazy?!
Meili charges at John with her demon claws out, as she is charging John starts to switch up his strategy.
John: WORTHLESS TRASH!
John throws blades of wind at Meili, she dodges but they hit Ventus, causing him to go down and bleed.
He charges up wind and when Meili lunges at John, he throws her up in the air, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty meters up in the air before she slows down and starts to fall again.
Ventus: Hang on! I'll save you!
John stabs Ventus's arm so he can't charge up his wind.
Ventus: Okay John, you win, please stop, I don't wanna keep fighting, I've always looked up to you, The Golden God, I...
John pushes him to his chest on the ground.
John: Yeah well, know that you've failed him, and he doesn't accept trash like you.
Ventus: John please she could die!
John: Exactly, you're fighting me, John Doe, not The Golden God, not the superhero who saves lives, but someone out for yours!
Ventus: Screw you man, you're supposed to be the good guy!
John: AHAHAHAHA!
At this point Joker's nature starts to peek through, John wears a sinister smile.
John: OH DON'T WORRY I STILL AM!
John takes Ventus's head and smashes it against the ground, however the sand doesn't provide a hard enough surface to do any damage. John as a result takes Ventnes's arm and holds it in a breaking position.
Ventus: No, stop please! I'm sorry, I don't want to watch her die.
John: Oh don't worry, you won't have to.
Meili's falling forty, thirty, twenty meters...
Ventus: JOHN! NOOO, STOP!
John: Let's see who is laughing when I cripple you.
John snaps Ventus arm, the bone sticks out and causes massive bleeding in the arm.
John: You'll never make steady wind again.
Ten, five,....
Ventus: AAAAHHHHHHHHH! FUCK!
John takes the other arm and does the same, as he hears the bone crack Meili plunges to the ground. The two lay on the ground unconscious.
Joker in the form of Arlo looks at John, ready to get down to business, John returns the look. Meanwhile Blyke, Remi, and Isen are texting about how they are gonna take on Rein.
Blyke: Guys, can we talk about what happened last night?
Isen: Well, was it my powers on those guys in the Vault?
Blyke: No, it wasn't just you, I lost control of my powers, and killed a whole group of thugs when they were on the ground.
Remi: Guys, I don't know what you're trying to say, but just because we do bad things to bad people, doesn't make us bad people.
Isen: What are you talking about? We killed people, that's a crime! Plus that statement doesn't even make sense, if anything, we're hypocrites.
Blyke: Remi, they were a whole league below us, and we just slaughtered them.
Remi: Yeah well what do you think John does?! We aren't any different! Yet the government lets him do whatever he wants!
Blyke: But that's not an EXCUSE!
Isen and Blyke type on their phones unsure of what to say.
Back at the turf war field, John looks at the Arlo look alike that is, JOKER.
John: You're next bud!
Joker: Looking forward to it.
He smiles and looks at John. The two stand there with their abilities at hand.
To be Continued....