Remi explains everything, the info that they do know to theories based on the evidence.
Blyke: Okay then, looks like we'll focus on Volcan while John takes on Cecile.
Remi: We can't let John know about us going after Volcan.
Isen: Huh, why, wouldn't we want John to know?
Blyke: Because, he would just tell us it's "too dangerous" and try to stop us. You know how protective he's gotten recently.
Remi nods in agreement.
Isen: Well screw it then, let's raise some hell anyways.
Remi: I'll let you guys know our next move, okay.
Meanwhile John is on a rooftop with Keon.
Keon: It's about time.
John: So, what do you got?
Keon: We found them.
John:???
Keon: Shide, a criminal gang.
John: What was their crime?
Keon: What do you think, they eat people, their power isn't a normal Aura ability.
John: So basically more Reins?
John asked horrified from the possibilities that awaited him.
The next day John and Sera see the headline in the newspaper.
Headline: Seraphina has fallen.
Meanwhile John and Sera are walking together talking about their day when they stumble onto a crowd.
John: What the?
Sera and John stop to see the bullet board and saw a poster that has Sera injured on it. Like a front line on the newspaper.
John looks at Sera one last time.
John: Sera, RUN.
Sera sees the look in John's eyes, he's about to use his ability. Sera grabs John's arm and decides not to resist her pull, the two book it to the end of the hallway, two kids, green and blue chase the two down. John stops, pushing Sera to keep going, he grabs green kids arm and twists it till he drops to the ground, he steps on the joint between the upper and lower arm breaking it, however the blue haired kid tries to land a kick on John. He ducks and punches him in the jaw.
Sera in her head: Holy fuck, he didn't even use his ability and they went down so quickly!
John: Head toward the stairwell, GOGOGOGOGO!
Krolik charges up his laser ability, he gets hit by the laser causing a mark to form on his back. Another kid with gray hair punches John in the face, then the blue haired kid follows.
Blue hair: TRY RUNNING AWAY AGAIN ASSHOLE!
Sera shoves the grey haired kid off John. The two attackers snicker.
Blue kid: Sera, you don't scare us! You don't have any abilities!
A laser is fired at Sera, however, John takes the hit.
The two kids and Sera standoff, a red laser hits one of them close to the heart.
Blyke: THAT'S ENOUGH!
Everyone runs back to class in fear. The Jack himself looks pissed.
Blyke: Are you two alright?
Sera: Yeah, well at least I am.
Sera: Hey Blyke, thanks for stepping in.
Blyke in his head: Oh my God, she just..... thanked me!
Blyke: Uhh no problem, I was just passing by, make sure you see the doc.
Sera and John head to the infirmary in shame and defeat.
Sera in her head: I couldn't do anything. Yet John, he...
Sera pauses before talking to John.
Sera: John, you didn't have to hold your ability back, I just thought-
John: Sera, I already told you, I'm gonna protect you no matter what, I don't care if I have to endure all my bones breaking, I'll do anything for you. I won't expose myself if that's what you want, I should have known better, but if I learned anything from Joker.
John stands up in front of his queen.
John: I don't care if I have to throw rocks, I'll protect you and my identity. I won't ever be a coward.
Sera blushes, not knowing what to say.
John grabs her hand and looks her in the eyes.
John: I promise.
Sera looks away giggling.
John: I uhh, you know cause your...
Sera continues to giggle, she then hugs John. Tightly like she's squeezing all the toothpaste out of its container.
Sera: Thank you, John.
John in his head: DAMMIT, JUST TELL HER ALREADY, I CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE.
SERA
I LO-
Meanwhile Arlo slams a poster of Sera on the table.
Arlo: CECILE, WHAT IS THIS?!
Cecile: The truth.
Arlo in his head: Damn, John was right, she's trying to use Sera against him. This whole time I could have done something. I let them both down.
Cecile: It is my job to-
Arlo: Get the fuck out! Isen...
Isen looks at Arlo in shock.
Arlo: Isen, you're in charge of the press now.
Isen: Wait, what?
Cecile: WHAT WHY? HE'S A LOWER RANK THAN ME!!!!
Arlo: He gets the job done, your power doesn't mean shit, you hide stuff from the rest of us royals and act on your own. You're a loose cannon, a disgrace, you only care about being on top, not realising that there's responsibilities, the reason why we have a system that empowers the powerful is to protect the weak. Now I know why it's flawed.
People like you were given power. What a disgrace. I hope to God people like you burn in Hell you fucking Nazi.
Cecile looks at Arlo in disgust. She reacts with emotion not realizing history has repeated itself.
Cecile: FINE, THEN HAVE SOME OF THIS!!!!!
Cecile throws some energy whips at Arlo, Arlo uses his barrier to block them. Cecile gets cut up from the reflective damage.
Arlo: Get out, you're never allowed to set foot here again.
Cecile walks out with shame.
Cecile in her head: Dammit, I lost the press, I was so reckless, at least I have the low rankers, I'll have to get them to do the deed. Then we can get John out in the open.
Arlo in his head: Dammit, enough of this shit, I have to talk to Elaine.
Arlo walks out and slams the door behind him.
Meanwhile Elaine is in her dorm.
Elaine: Hmm, a text from Arlo.
Arlo: Let's grab a drink after school today.
Elaine in her head: Yaaaay!
Elaine: Sure, sounds good, call me later.
Thirty minutes at Wobba Bobba.
Elaine: Arlo!
Arlo: Hey, Arlo.
Arlo: Oh hey, you're dressed nicely.
Elaine: Ohh yeah, I thought this was something else.
Arlo: I'm sorry I'm just a wreck.
Arlo in his head: She do be looking nice though, NO SHUT UP WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?! STAY FOCUSED!
Waitress: Hello, what can I get you two?
Arlo: The Mango boba isn't bad.
Elaine: I'll just have that.
Waitress: Alrighty then, coming right up.
Elaine: Arlo, what's wrong?
Arlo: Well, Cecile just went around telling everyone about Seraphina's...
Elaine: Oh dear, you think she's the-
Arlo: We know, her behavior is obvious to the role of our target.
Elaine: Oh, I see....
Arlo: Something on your mind?
Elaine: It's Seraphina, she isn't showing signs of her ability coming back.
Arlo: Of course, what else is new?
Elaine: She sent her blood samples to the Hospital, they said she may be crippled indefinitely.
Arlo: Well once her ability recovers everything will be fixed.
Elaine: Arlo, what if this is permanent?
Arlo: Don't be ridiculous. One injection won't defeat Seraphina.
Elaine: Uh yeah, right. It's only been a week. I just-
Breaking news, Ember strikes again, after the death of The Golden God Ember is sweeping the nation, riots have broken, people are accusing the authorities of dropping the Ember case. The authorities have yet to respond. The Golden God's memorial will be held on Capitol hill. Of course this is a fan held memorial for the government denied to give him a proper send off due to budget funding.
Elaine: Why is this breaking news? This war on crime has been going on for months now.
Arlo in his head: Ember, they're the ones that killed Rei! What the hell has he done to deserve such a pathetic death?! He deserved nothing near it. I miss him still. Why?
Arlo asks as he remembers every last detail of his life with Rei in it. From their happiest moments to the last gritty one of Rei's casket closing.
Arlo: So, what else is new?
Elaine: Remi, last night Blyke and Isen brought me to her dorm, and she well. She's still acting as X-Rei.
Arlo: What?!
Elaine: Yeah, it was pretty rough, she had a huge hematoma on her back.
Arlo goes into a state of shock.
Arlo in his head: WHAT THE.....
His heart races, pounding in his chest like a drum in a heavy metal concert.
Arlo: I have to go!
Arlo rushes out of the restaurant.
Elaine: Arlo, wait!
Arlo heads back to the dorms, scared of the realization he came up with in the restaurant.
Superheroes aren't going away anytime soon.
Arlo in his head: Remi, I've already lost my best friend, I won't lose you too!
The next day John is heading to history class with Sera.
John: Hey, Sera!
Sera: John!
John: So, looking forward to History?
Sera: No, can't even look forward to the end of the day. Or anything anymore.
John: Is it-
Sera: Yeah, I feel scared. For once John, I feel so scared. I'm sick of it!
John: Sera, you don't ever have to feel scared anymore. You know that right?
Sera: Oh yeah, it's not like you lost-
Sera pauses to remember all of the times John was beaten to the ground. How she had to bail him out with his own powers.
John: Sera, I'm not playing cripple anymore.
Sera: John, you don't have to do yourself like that. I got myself into this mess, I can surely get out as well, just need a little help from above when all else fails.
John looks at Sera with his grey glowing eyes.
John: Sera, I got this. I decided that-
Sera: What about your promise?
John: You mean" I don't care if I have to throw rocks, I'll protect you and my identity. I won't be a coward ever". Right?
Sera: Yeah. What about that?
John: Well, look, I promised to protect you, just you. Nothing else. Besides, what secret identity, last I checked John Doe always had powers, he just never used them.
Sera looks at John, she gives off a warm smile, but in her head she fears for John. Everything around her turns black, she sees a John look alike approaching her.
Sera: Joker!
Sera grabs onto her John, holding him tightly.
Sera: What do you want?!
Joker: Relax, I'm just here to talk.
Sera: Then speak!
Joker: Ahh, such hostility, reminds me of...
Sera: JUST SPIT IT OUT!
Joker walks towards Sera.
Joker: My my, why are you holding John so tightly, you're afraid of what he's become. MEEEE!
Sera: ....
Joker: You saw those eyes right? Those Gray, empty, lifeless eyes.
Joker gets closer to Sera, she slaps him across the face.
Joker: Ohhh, you're a feisty one, I get it, you can't accept that he's now accepted me. All because you had to lose your powers. That's right, all of this is your fault.
Sera: No! I won't listen, you're nothing but a....
Joker fades away, Sera's surroundings return.
John: Sera, you okay?
Sera: John, promise me one thing, forget about the other one, okay.
John: Anything. But, I'm not breaking the first one.
Sera looks at John as she tightly wraps herself around him.
Sera: Don't lose yourself to that monster.
John looks at Sera with a confused gaze.
Sera: John?
John's eyes momentarily turn to gold, then back to Gray.
Sera: John? No wait!
John hugs Sera, the two stand still for what felt like eternity.
John: Of course not, why would I?
Sera: I, I don't know. I just wanted to make sure.
John: Haha, well, it's gonna take a lot more than him to beat me, I have to deal with powerful cannibals, a corrupt government, my peers, all sorts of Villains, Ember and their rivals, trust me. Nothing is ever gonna break me.
Sera: You better promise or else, or else I'm gonna beat you up!
John feel's Sera's tiny arms wrap around him even tighter.
John: Haha, you think you can beat me up with no powers?
Sera flinches for a second, a wave of sadness washes over her.
John: Well, maybe you're right actually, cause it's not like I could ever land a hit on you. No matter how hard I try.
Sera bury's her head in John's chest. John wraps his arms around her body, his hands feel the bumps on her spine.
John: Hey, I'm here for you, always.
Sera: Thank you.
John and Sera embrace before John and Sera start to hug tighter and tighter. John looks at Sera's eyes, her beautiful, lapiz blue eyes. He strokes his thumb on her lips. He leans closer to her face as the two stare immensely into each other's eyes. As if their souls were connecting. Everything about them syncs up.
She leans closer to him, laying right on top of him when Doc bursts in through the door, the two jump off each other. Their faces burning bright red. They both look at each other, laughing off what they just did as nothing more than an intense moment. The two stay in the infirmary and play games on their phones.
Meanwhile Remi, Blyke, and Isen are in history class learning about World War II. The war was started by a cripple (who's name I think we all know). He was tired of the world looking at each other as high tiers and low tiers, so he sent people with abilities he didn't like to the death camps. Elite tiers were the superior race in his eyes, if you were anything above or below you would be subjected to his harsh laws. At the time Mid tiers and low tiers were just as rare as High tiers and God tiers, God tiers were able to fight back and hide, but they were caught and killed. War machines were built to hold special engines that would allow people with Aura enhancing ability to use. They would take a train for example and activate their ability while using the train to increase its power and speed, they did this with 25% of their weapons. The result of this war is why High tiers run the current society, with their intention to protect the jealous and the weak from themselves without realizing the tyranny they would cause. The lesson takes place in France, a platoon is chasing down a train.
Blyke: Jeez, this seems kinda dramatic don't you think?
Isen: I don't know man, this all sounds scary, and we weren't the oppressed one's. Imagine how they feel right now.
Blyke: Yeah well at least it makes me think twice before I look down on someone for something they can't control, because at the end of the day, it's pretty messed up. Can't say a lot of people do that these days.
Isen: Yeah well, I'm still gonna wreck someone if they give me shit! Equal rights equal fights.
Blyke: Explains why your dumb ass gets beaten up by Arlo and other god teirs.
Blyke sighs as he looks up at the ceiling, his blazer off as he chews his pencil.
Blyke: Bruh, sometimes I feel like me and Remi are the only ones who actually care about them.
Isen: Huh?
Blyke: Well you just said your thing, Arlo's an asshole about everything so despite him being with me and Remi, he never will admit it, Elaine tries to hide her disgust but only changed recently after she and John met, Seraphina is like, Seraphina, and John's just mentally ill. He's like you, equal right, equal fights, but trying to kill everyone, not defend his honor like your egotistical ass.
Isen: Yeah whatever man, people are gonna think what they're gonna think, you can't always change it. Just be glad the authorities know what they're doing and not committing mass murder and blowing up continents.
Blyke: Yeah well, these guys did, changed a whole lot of people's thinking with their guns and abilities.
With force.
Isen: Yeah, they look bad ass though.
Remi (whispering): Will you two shut up, this is important and you're being insensitive!
Teacher: Excuse me Miss. Remi, would you like to teach the class today?
Remi: No sir, pardon me for my rude behavior.
Teacher: Thank you. Now as I was saying.
It is August 20, 1944. A squad of soldiers from the New Bostin region have been assigned to stop an armored train. Carrying illegal ability enhancing drugs, supplies, and war tanks. Private Sully, Private Sherman, Corporal Steve, and the new recruit driver Davidson, are all chasing after the train, this event is known as the battle Chugington, for that was a popular kids program during the war about trains, so to try and humor the dark situation, people named it that.
Private Steve goes over the plan, When the train reaches a certain point the four of them will lead the platoon to charge the steam engine beast. It has an enhanced engine which gives it an ability level of 10.1 classifying it as an unnatural ability. Guarding it also were some dogs with 1.2 abilities, injecting animals with aura enhancers is a war crime, on top of that animals rarely get abilities in the wild, and when they do they rarely acceded over 1, if they do somehow get one naturally they are considered unnatural and are hunted down for the safety of the city nearby.
Private Steve gets caught by a Nazi guard.
Steve: Fuck, we've been caught, shoot to kill!
OPEN FIRE!!
The four start loading up their weapons and abilities, the abilities enhance the weapons allowing them to shoot at godly rates, The four run and gun as they head to the train station. The train starts to glow a bright green, it's light in the front glows yellow like someone's eye, it makes a loud noise, almost intimidating everyone around it.
Sully: Let's move it! Into the cars!
The four get into their jeeps and start perusing the steam beast. The Train starts to gradually speed up.
Steve: Fuck, they're getting away!
Davidson: Me and Sherman will gun, Steve and Sully drive!
The four get into the jeeps and pursue the train, Sherman and Steve are in one while Sully and Davidson are in another.
Sully: Hey crip!
Sully refers to Davidson as a crip due to his lack of an ability.
Sully: Light em up brother!
Davidson: Nothing left to lose am I right?
Sully: Don't worry pal, the government may be against yeah but you'll always belong here.
Sully enhances his jeeps engine, Sherman and Steve fall back.
David: Hahaha, nowhere else though am I right?
Sully: Davidson, don't stop spraying.
At this moment Davidson flashes back to his life, his older brother was killed by an enhanced ability wolf that was illegally modified. His parents shamed him for not using his ability, only to find out he was crippled. At age seven he was given up to an orphanage only to grow up in it, he lived his life alone, after meeting some low tier friends he found himself a place where he belonged, he met a beautiful girl who accepted him for who he was despite her being a 7 on the power scale and an 11 in looks, the war breaks out and now he's signing up in the army, after that he finds out she was "killed" in a tragic accident. His friends went missing in Hamburg Germany during a scouting mission, and now his boys are staring God in the eyes as their very souls are close to being taken. Davidson's eyes glow at that very moment, out of sheer desperation. A gold color that no man has ever seen before come out of anyone's eyes, a dark aura leaves his body. Davidson in that moment was an elite tier, 4.3 aura manipulation.
It was at this unOrdinary moment, a legend had the chance to be born.
Davidson Fires his machine gun, the bullets run out only for his aura to make their own, Davidson screams in a fit of rage as his life flashes before his eyes.
Sully: Holy shit, DAVIDSON, YOUR....
Davidson: LET'S GIVE EM HELL!
Davidson's eyes glow a bright gold. Sully's grey eyes reflect the gold off of his pupils.
Sully: Jesus chri-
Sully's head was blown off.
Davidson: NOOOOO!
DAVIDSON FALL BACK!
Davidson grits his teeth.
Davidson: No, I'll make peace with my God!
At that moment Davidson's left eye turned grey, his eyes glow Grey and Gold, he uses his aura to drive the car while shooting at the Train. The train roars like a demon. A German soldier throws a grenade at the jeep, it explodes and the jeep goes crashing towards the front of the train, causing it to stall and slow down. The train driver increased it's aura causing it to over power the jeep, the Train flips over causing everyone on it to crash and burn.
DING DONG BING BONG.
The bell rings, Remi, Isen, and Blyke along with the rest of the class get up to head out.
Remi: Thanks a lot assholes you got me in trouble.
Blyke: Right, my bad.
Isen: No problem!
Blyke punches Isen in the gut.
Back in 1944, Davidson was meeting up with his patrol unit. Role call requires that first and last names be read out loud to find out who the casualties were.
Joe, Peachquie ability, servant summoner, 5.3.
Here sir.
Ryan Reynolds, ability, bloody pool. 8.9.
Yes sir!
Davidson....
Davidson Doe, sir.
Alright everything seems to be in order, rest up we're moving out in the morning.
Yes Sir!
As Davidson heads to his bunk, he curls up and cries to himself. He just witnessed his last friends die right in front of him. The PTSD has set in, now he's scared for the rest of his life. All that's left for him is to live on, find someone to share it with, to care for, to show the world he has a place left in it.
He falls asleep and fades into a nightmare state, something he would have to endure for the rest of his life.
To be Continued....