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Chapter 6 - Where am I

"It's been a while since I last warmed up. Perhaps this fight is going to be entertaining," Jessica smirked. "Bring it on, Jessica," replied Grandpa.

Immediately, they both activated their cores, releasing a great aura. "You could have been an SS+ villain if only you didn't reject your energy. Now you are just a mere...". "Keep your blabbering to yourself, Jessica; you and I both know that you are just trying to enrage me into fighting you as the coward you are."

peew!

"My my, I'm impressed. Your dodging skill is still great, although I missed by an inch. Anyway, shall we get on with it then?

peew! peew! peew!

Jessica kept on shooting many laser beams at Grandpa, but he kept on dodging. "Crap, I wouldn't be able to keep up if this continued. I just need enough time to copy her powers".

"Come on, Kevin, why are you dodging? Face it head on like the man you are."

peew!

"Near miss..." grandpa chuckled as Jessica had dodged right in time but with a graze in her cheek. Grandpa immediately dashed towards Jessica with tremendous speed and began engaging her in close combat.

Pow! pow! pow!

The sound of their clashing could be heard from great distances as the two  approached the sound barrier, but only after images and the sound of their clashing could be perceived.

Boom! Boom! pow! pow!

After a minute of clashing, both Grandpa and Jessica were panting altogether, with Grandpa's panting being the loudest. "I see you haven't worked over your weakness. I might as well just finish you now," smirked Jessica. "Who said I was done". 

Immediately, Grandpa furrowed his eyebrows and bent his knees into a low squat before gathering energy into his palm and channeling it into Jessica's chest.

Ack!

Jessica coughed  as she spat blood before falling on her knees. "You bastard, how come you are so strong?" she said, blood running down her chin.

"You know, picking a fight with someone who has hardly used his powers is already an advantage to you. Don't sweat it, Jessica; you are just weak," grandpa said as he laughed profoundly.

"Damn it, aem getting corrupted; I have to stop using my powers immediately."

peew

ack!

"I knew you wouldn't embrace your powers yet, Kevin," snarled Jessica as she stabbed her hands into grandpa's stomach.

"You may as well just die now," she added before placing her hand over her head, ready to slaughter him.

"We have a mission, Jessica, which is to bring him back alive!" yelled Philip. "I guess luck hit your side, Kevin," grinned Jessica as she began dragging Grandpa to her motorcycle.

"Maxwell, do you have the boy?" said Phillip through his communication device. "I'm still at it, sir; apparently the boy really does know how to run fast. I shall be done with it soon," replied Maxwell as he kept on chasing John.

"damn!

That kid is a pain in the ass. It's going to take a while," said Philip as he furiously kicked his bike.

"We don't have much time!, We've got to be back at headquarters before we meet resistance," growled Jessica as she began biting on her fingers. "You wouldn't be able to get him, Jessica. One thing about my grandson is that when there is life and death involved, he becomes a beast."

"Ahh.. god, god! Please don't let me die, I beg you." John panicked as he kept on running with full speed, trying to avoid Maxwell. "This kid is a beast," Maxwell muttered to himself. "How can he be so fast?" he added.

"I've gotta think, John!" John panicked. Sharp claws began appearing from the ground, all aiming towards John. As soon as John saw this, he kept on abnormally increasing his speed.

"help! help! "Somebody help!" cried John as he kept on dodging the claws. "damn! This kid is really a pain in the ass. Why is he so scared of danger?" muttered the enraged Maxwell, as all his attacks were proving futile.

Pow! pow! pow!

In the blink of an eye, Maxwell went flying in the air. "What the..." John thought to himself, as he didn't know what just happened. "I guess I should stop now. Wait, how do I stop?" "Help! Help!" cried John as he could not stop running.

"You are under arrest for trespassing; we advise you to surrender to avoid any further charges."

vroom! vroom! vrooooom!

"Maxwell, grab my hands!", yelled Jessica. She pulled him onto her bike.

vrooooom!

"We'll get him another time! We have Kevin... Kevin! Kevin! Jessica growled and panicked as she discovered Grandpa wasn't at the back of her motorcycle.

"I think you switched him with me when you saved me," Maxwell said nervously. "But how?!"

Grandpa can be seen waving towards them as the distance gets wider.

Grandma ran towards Grandpa, shedding tears. "I'm glad you called the police, honey," Grandpa muttered before passing out. Grandma placed Grandpa on her lap before slowly revealing her husband's wounds. Grandma immediately burst into tears, placing her hand over her mouth.

She immediately wiped out the tears on her face before running over to get some first aid supplies from the police truck. "My husband is a strong man, so I must stay strong," she chanted soberly while spreading the bandage over his stab wound.

"I've got to stop running somehow. Who knows where I am right now?" said John as he stared at his rapidly moving legs. "

After twenty minutes of running, John had run out of steam. With his shirt torn up and his shoes all worn. He staggered left and right, slowly losing his vision.

"Where am I. Is this what happens when you use your co-" John slumps to the ground.

Grandma brought Grandpa back to their partially destroyed building and placed him on the bed. "Oh god!" she mourned as she looked at her unconscious husband, who had been severely injured. It was then that the thought came to her mind,

"John! Where is John?"

"Ugh, my head... where am I?" John muttered to himself as he had just woken up from his sleep.

As his vision became clearer, John began to check the surrounding area. "Grasses, lots of trees. I'm inside a fucking jungle," he mourned to himself.

As John crouched down on his knees, he sluggishly raised his head. "A sign board!" he said excitedly. "Let's see what it says: VILLAINS HEADQUARTERS". He stayed in his current position, motionless, for a while before retaking his sentence.

"VILLAINS HEADQUARTERS"

"I'm doomed!" he yelled at the top of his voice. "great! "Out of all places, why the enemy's zone?" he added soberly.

After several attempts at starting his core, all proved futile because he had excessively used it during his last runaway.

"Did you hear something?"

"Yeah, I heard something!"

Two men talked to each other as they approached John's location.

"Activate your core, bro; maybe it's f*cking supernatural", one of them said.

The two men approached John's location in a defensive stance.