Colin, Kevin, Brandon, and Kai surround the Tiger from all sides.
It growls at them repeatedly as if trying to intimidate them away.
June, Jet, and Jake wait on standby.
Toya and Rex portal the creature out of the city but it comes back running fast and knocks them out so quickly no one knows what happened.
The adults look at each other and at Kai.
"Are you sure this isn't one of yours?" Colin asks.
"It's Avalon. It has to be." Kai says staring at the creature.
Colin frowns, "She said he would come back to us one day. Today we have to fight fire with fire."
Kai shakes his head, "I haven't used that power since than, I won't use it now."
Kevin nods, "Alright, we'll have to rely on different methods."
They stand back to back attacking haphazardly on purpose for the creature to make the first move but it looks like it doesn't want to fight.
It's just circling them at an insane speed they can't get a hit in.
~~~
A boy sleeping on the floor tosses and turns in his sleep seeing through the tigers eyes.
"It's Avalon. It has to be."
The boy wakes up in a cold sweat, "Stay alive." He instructs the animal.
A woman sitting on a chair in front of a fireplace turns around hearing Avalon's voice. She finds him talking in his sleep.
"Stay alive. Stay alive. Stay alive."
His power activates in his sleep.
~~~
Kai's eyes widen hearing a child's voice speaks through the animal. That is exactly what his power can do.
"Stay Alive." The boys says repeatedly and suddenly the tiger starts crouching.
~~~
"Go now." Lily says to June on standby
~~~
June is portaled to the top of a building to help watch out for any flying infected that might come Luna and Aira's way.
He sees something like a star in broad daylight heading for Luna with her back turned. June attacks with a water bullet hitting the infected in the face knocking it out of the sky.
It falls to the ground and breaks the stalemate between the the Tiger and the 4 men.
Kai took his eyes off it for a split second to see what just dropped out of sky landing beside him and it pounced without hesitation.
Brandon uses his explosion eyes to blow a hole in its stomach but it's tougher than that, however he did cause it some pain.
Kevin opens a portal and cuts the Tiger in half.
The Tiger roars in agony before the 2 Half's become two tigers.
"Kai dammit that's your son's tiger. Your power, fight back with your own!" Colin yells at him frustrated.
Kai shakes his head, "If we take it alive he'll know how to find us. If I fight it'll run away."
The one tiger pounces and swipes it's powerful paw at Kevin trying to claw him in the face, "This could be our only way to communicate with the boy Colin. We haven't had a lead this reliable in years. We have to take it alive."
Brandon sighs, "This gives it the advantage."
"We don't have another choice." Kai says.
~~~
The boy in his sleep looks around and looks at the men talking.
_"Kai dammit that's your son's tiger. Your power, fight back with your own!"_
"Kai? Dad?"
~~~
Kai looks at the tiger, "Avalon! Where are you?"
The Tiger shakes it's head, "She's here."
"Leigh?" Colin asks
"Yes."
"Tell the tiger to stand down." Kevin speaks and the tiger looks at him.
~~~
The woman sitting in front of the fireplace closes her eyes drowsy with sleep. Her eyes turn purple and she sees a tiger surrounded by familiar faces.
"Avalon where are you?"
"She's here." Avalon echoes talking in his sleep.
She quickly jumps out of her seat and violently shakes the boy awake, "Dear, are you alright? You were having a nightmare." She says helping him up.
The boy still drowsy with sleep closes his eyes to go back to sleep, "Don't be afraid." He says to the scared tiger ready to run away, "Stay there. No matter what."
The woman slaps the boy talking in his sleep, "That's enough!" She yells confusing the boy holding his hot cheek.
The boy punches her in the face, "What the hell mom! Can't I sleep in peace now? You're such a psycho." He stands up and goes upstairs to sit on his bed.
The woman opens the door and pours a bucket of iced water on the boy and smiles running away.
"Oh! You're asking for it now." The boy grabs a bucket and pours water running after the woman to pour it in her face.
"I still have ice!" The woman laughs adding ice to her bucket.
"Okay, don't you think it's a little too early for this mess." He says using his power to drop a fish in his bucket and it generates water.
The fish jumps into his hand and vanishes and pours the cold fresh water all over the woman and black mist fills the air coming out of her hair and skin.
"Mom! Are you okay?"
~~~
The tiger's demeanor changes as it growls at everyone ready to fight.
"Dammit, he was talking in his sleep! We lost him, I can't feel him anymore." Kai says.
The Tiger pounces at Kevin and when he uses a portal to jump out of the way. The second tiger opens a portal clawing him in the face
Kevin instinctively portals himself inside the mall.
Bella rushes to his side and covers his entire body in a cloud with a loud thundering coming from inside of it, "He will be fine, were lucky he brought himself here."
Lily grabs the phone Comms rubbing her forehead annoyed, "Don't try to kill it, just drive it out and the wall will keep it out."
Colin huffs, "Killing it seemed like the easier option." He says.
Lily sighs turning to the back up, "Go in, pretend to be the weaklings of the pack and sprint for the exit, just lour it out until it's far enough." She says to the young boys that were not supposed to join the action. She bites her lip, she told them not to try and kill it no matter what.
"They didn't follow my plan to the latter, I don't see how we're going to beat it now." She says trying to hold back the truth that someone will die here.
"So what?" Chronos asks
Lily looks at Chronos, "If you go there now you will die, stay here until your future is certain. The rest of you don't kill it just make them chase you as often as you can."
Jet nods, "Alright."
Toya wakes up and looks to see 2 tigers now.
Jet and Jake help Rex and Toya up.
"Great, you are here. We can make the wall and send it out." Toya says.
"No! We take it alive!" Kai says
"What? Lily sent us to drive it out." Jake says confused and dodge's the infected.
"It can open portals be careful. We need to stay at the same spot and give it your full attention." Kai says.
Jet and Jake stand back to back like the adults. Rex joins them with a purifier gun.
~~~
Luna gives her neck a from look up and looks down seeing two tigers now. She can't hear a thing from her height.
She attacks the tiger when it pounces on Toya.
Toya jumps and shoots down the flying Infected as it tries to get up.
The Tigers see the ashes of the flying Infected going up and roar at Toya.
He fires shots and purposely misses in case they split.
"How does it copy people's powers like that?" June asks
"By sight, it saw Split so now it can split. It saw Kevin so now it can open portals. This is advanced." Kai says.
Kai creates a wall of fire between himself and the tiger.
"Now why would you go on and do that if they copy powers." Brandon asks pissed off when the tiger looks at him.
Aira gives the signal that the nano shield device is ready. All he did day and night was train for this.
Luna notices a group running into the blue mist, "Bella, we have sick civilians near the stark entrance." She says over Comms.
Bella nods, "Are they injured?" She asks seeing the monitor show a group of 12.
"I can't see. The mist is too thick." Luna responds.
Bella smiles, "That's a good thing. Don't forget the mist has healing essence. You're a powerful healer Luna, give yourself credit." She responds and turns her attention to Sharon and Sarah, "Retrieve them."
They nod and hurry up.
~~~
The group in the bunker see Sharon and Sarah leaving. It's easy to tell that something didn't go according to plan.
Lily walks towards the group, "We have 12 new arrivals. Can you guys make room, you're blocking the way to the infirmary. Why are you all bunched up so close to the door? There's plenty of space in the other room."
"How is everything going?" Her mother asks.
"The giant infected is tough, but Aira has completed setting up the shield. They just need to drive it out." She reports and turns asking Mira and Dodge to pass food and water around.
A meal should calm everyone's nerves. Being stuck in a bunker could bring out the crazy side of the generation 1 group. Last time they were in a situation like this they were constantly fearing for their lives. They might start being troublesome soon.
It's something they would do.
~~~
It may take a while to deal with the monster. There must be something they can do.
She sits down with her eyes purple, but all she keeps seeing is Avalon, "Dammit!" She bangs her hand pissed off she keeps seeing her sister.
"Mom? What's wrong?" Mira gives her mom a hug putting the plate of food down.
"I can't focus my power. I keep seeing people instead of a solution. I hate this." Lily takes deep breaths She'll find a solution. No matter what it takes.
"Mom, have a little faith in them. They can't rely on you always. They will be fine. Now eat this and watch them shock us like they always do."
Lily drinks some water, "You're right. Sorry, I should stop trying to be god. They can improvise."
Mira nods.
She goes to the kitchen thanking the women who cooked under these stressful conditions.
"It's only a pleasure. How is it going?"
"12 strangers just arrived, the beast infected has everyone confused on how to deal with it. We've never been safer than ever, but just one creature threatens all that. It's frustrating." Mira responds.
A woman by the name of Rebecca looks at Mira, "You are so wise."
Mira giggles, "Thank you."
Dodge enters and takes the plates Mira was dishing up in, "Everyone loves the food. Thanks for finishing up so early." She says before walking out.
Rebecca and Anita smile, "It's honestly our pleasure."
"Well, you better put your plates aside. When we're done serving everyone we must eat too." Mira says.
The women nod smiling, "Of course."
~~~
Jet and Jake pretend to be tired catching their breaths. June on the other hand is not pretending at all
They stop confused when the Tigers start fighting each other only to split each others tails off.
Kai gulps when there are four more, but to make matters worse the Tigers are larger now. They can alter their size too.
Jet screams hearing the Tigers stomach growl. And not like a man either. It's the girliest scream of the century