Previously on Heroes
Dylan, Praful:
Dylan tried to keep track on his mind - he gathered his thoughts and tried to remember where Aida was. He remembered and dug deep inside his pocket and reached for a note.
"Beaconsville," replied Dylan.
Aida:
“Look I didn’t do anything bad so there’s nothing to worry about okay.”
“Wrong. Janette and Khiem escaped.”
“That doesn’t matter they will come back soon I know it” she replied, walking out the door, Dylan following her, closing the door behind him.
Bovey, Allison, Tommy:
Bovey's eyes turned black. "You shouldn't have done that."
Janette, Luisa:
'You will do everything I say,' repeated Luisa.
Janette closed her eyes and pictured her brain and generated a force field around it.
"As I said, I don't need to."
Luisa cried out in frustration knowing that Janette was now invulnerable to her powers.
Henry:
"Marco."
"Polo."
"Marco."
The voice said nothing. Henry turned around and saw a woman - fit and young - Thinzar.
"Polo."
Khiem:
"Tsk tsk tsk. Don't you people ever learn? We only let you go, if we get something."
"What do you want?"
"Well... Khiem."
Aida…
Quietly, she crept around the side of Thinzar’s house. Looking in the windows, she could see Janette but no sign of Khiem. I’m the reason they got captured so I should be the one to get them out, she thought to herself. She was thinking of a plan when was interrupted by other voices. On the other side of the house was Dylan with four other people. What are THEY doing here?
Dylan, Praful, Derek, Ben, Darcy
“Okay Dylan. We’re here,” said Praful.
“This won’t take long, I promise. I’ll just walk in, go get her and then we’ll…” Dylan started. That was, until he saw Thinzar leaving the house. “Oh. No. This is bad.”
“What is it?” asked Derek.
“See that woman over there? Her names Thinzar and she’s very dangerous. She can get you to do anything she wants against your will. And if she’s here then that means Luisa would be too. Luisa can mess with your heads.”
“Then what happened to Aida?” asked Ben.
“I guess…she got captured… We have to save her!” said Dylan running towards the house.
“Slow down there, Dylan. Exactly how are you going to save her? You can’t run blindly into enemy territory,” said Praful.
“I guess you’re right…” Everyone fell silent for a moment.
“Umm…can I say something?” chimed in Ben. No one said anything so he went on. “I can possess people!”
“We know that.”
“Yeahhh so that means all I have to do is get in there, possess someone, and then open the door. Hey, I can even take out a couple of people,” he said, getting excited. Everyone thought about this plan.
“Hmm…that could work, except for the ‘take out a couple of people’ bit,” said Dylan. “Just open the door and then us grown ups will do the rest. Got it?”
“Fine…” said Ben reluctantly.
Tommy, Allison, Bovey
Despite Allison gaining a new ability, Bovey – as crazy as he was – still had the confidence of an entire army. What’s with this guy? Allison thought. His cockiness unnerved her and that made her cautious.
“You shouldn’t have done that.” Bovey repeated.
“It’s two against one, I don’t see why not,” said Tommy.
“Because I’m stronger,” said Bovey slowly and with such force that the two Company agents actually believed him for a second. At first they hesitated to come forward, but soon Tommy found his strength. Now he had to help Allison find hers.
“C’mon, we can beat him Allison,” he said.
“But how?”
“Just use your powers, you’ve got the strongest one!” Tommy’s words of encouragement gave Allison a confidence boost.
“Just as I thought. Talent is wasted on the weak.” Bovey said.
"You see... That's where you're wrong," she said as she raised her hands, controlling Bovey's movements, "I'm the stronger one." With a quick hand gesture, she aimed her hand at Bovey and shaped it as if it was grasping a ball. Bovey went rigid and his eyes went wide with fear.
“If you make the slightest move I can’t guarantee that one of your arteries won’t burst or that your veins won’t tear themselves from your skin. Only if you move, of course.” She taunted. “Tommy, freeze him.”
Tommy lifted his hand and stepped forward towards Bovey. He rested it on his shoulder saying, “Don’t worry mate. You’ll get what you deserve.” It was almost comforting. Then a thin layer of ice started forming on the end of Tommy’s hand, spreading to the rest of Bovey’s body. Pretty soon Bovey, no longer a threat, was frozen in ice.
Ben
Ben wandered around the house, looking inside windows, trying to find the perfect candidate to possess. He saw two girls fighting – Eww girls have cooties. Then, in another room, he saw a soldier in some kind of trance. Perfect.
Ben closed his eyes and concentrated. He pictured his consciousness leaving his body, going through the window and into the soldier’s body. When he opened his eyes, he was inside the house. He could feel the soldier’s consciousness in his head struggling to wake up from its trance. The soldier’s name was Khiem.
“Sorry to do this Khiem, but I have to save somebody. It’s my chance to prove that I’m as good as ANY grown up.”
“Janette…” said Khiem weakly.
“Huh? We’ll save her later. Hmm…yeah…two birds in one stone. Then I’ll be the hero!”
Ben (we’ll call him Ben for now) stood up and walked towards the door. “Woah. Everything looks so different from up here.” First Ben checked that no one would see him outside. Then he sneaked around to the front of the house. He unlocked the door, just as planned, and waited.
Dylan, Praful, Derek, Darcy
The four of them walked stealthily towards the house but what they saw made them stop mid-step. Ben’s lifeless body was lying on the grass in front of them. Gasping, Darcy ran towards Ben, falling to her knees.
“Ben? No! Ben! Wake up! BEN!!! He’s…” she cried, afraid to finish her sentence.
The others walked up beside her, solemn, taking one minute of silence for the short life their short friend had lived.
Inside the house
Ben waited for as long as he could. But the gang were taking too long and he wanted to start fighting. Suddenly he heard his name being called. He looked outside and saw Darcy, Derek, Praful and Dylan beside his body. Did they think he was dead?
“Uh guys, I’m right here,” he said from behind them. One by one, they all turned their heads around slowly, speechless. “It’s me, Ben, in this guy, Khiem’s body.”
Shock turned to embarrassment as they all realised their mistake.
“Oh, right,” said Darcy, getting up. She cleared her throat. “Let’s get on with the plan then.”
“And the plan is?” asked Derek.
“I was thinking…” said Praful, turning towards Derek. “You can make up the bulk of our assault ‘team’ on the inside while Dylan and I attack from the outside. Make it chaotic. Oh. And take care of Ben.”
“Fine.” Derek created six clones of himself on both of his sides. “We won’t let you down,” they said, saluting Praful and Dylan before turning around and heading into the house. Darcy saw the clones split up and cover every path inside.
“What should I do?” she asked.
“Darcy. We’ve got a special assignment for you. You’re going to work with us,” said Praful.
Win
Win walked through the hallways of The Company, deeper than she had gone before. It was weird; she hadn’t known there were other levels to The Company. Otherwise Henry and Allison would’ve told her, they would’ve told everyone – wouldn’t they? Win continued down the corridor until it ended at a door. On the door there was a sign saying:
Warning: Do not, under any circumstances, open, obstruct or break through this door.
But the door was slightly open already. Curiosity took over Win and she sneaked a peek inside. When she couldn’t see anything at all, she opened the door a little wider and stepped inside. Now she noticed that there was a dim lamp shining light on a dark shape. She saw chains and straps bound tightly across someone’s arms; sharp blades surrounded the figure – his head bent down, his dark hair covering his face. At first, she thought the man may be dead but then she heard him breathing in and out. The man lifted his head slowly to look at her. “Hello Win,” he said.
“Aaahh!!” Win looked around her. She was still at The Company but the man was gone. It was all a dream….just joking. Seriously, the vision felt so real; it was so vivid and detailed. She shivered. It’s probably nothing, she thought.
Praful, Dylan, Darcy
“Derek’s been in there for a while and nothing’s happened,” said Praful.
“Maybe he got delayed…”
“All six of him?”
“Good point.”
Praful sighed. “There’s no use waiting any longer. It’s time to attack.”
“How about the others?”
“We can’t wait anymore.” Slowly, Praful lifted a boulder-like piece of earth from Thinzar’s front lawn. Swinging his arms forward, he hurled the boulder towards the house. Dylan concentrated and shot at it with a powerful beam of UV radiation. One side of the boulder caught aflame, and then spread until the ball was a bright inferno.
“Fireball!” he yelled bracing himself for the impact.
Meanwhile…
“Ha! Your powers are useless!” Janette teased.
An amused expression formed on Luisa’s face. She said nothing.
“What are you so happy about? This is where you’re supposed to say ‘Oh no. I surrender…blah blah blah.’” Janette waited for her reaction.
“Not necessarily.” Luisa hands reached out and grabbed a broom from beside her. She swung at Janette, who was caught by surprise, and knocked her off balance. “Power should not be wasted,” she said, gripping the broom tighter. Luisa stood there poised, ready to deal another bone crushing blow. But whistling from outside distracted her. “What is that?” she said to herself. But before she could say anymore, something huge crashed through the roof.
“The roof?”
“The roof!” gasped Janette.
“The roof is on fire!!” yelled Luisa. “OH, that’s it! No one wrecks my roof and gets away with it. No one.” Luisa took a step outside to confront Praful, Dylan and Darcy.
“Hi!” she smiled politely. “Do you lovely fellows happen to know anything about my roof?” she asked with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
“Uhh..no” said Dylan an octave higher than normal.
“We don’t know anything,” said Praful, more composed. Darcy stood behind them saying nothing.
“Oh really?” Luisa looked at them in the eye one by one but it was it was their minds that she was really taking a look at.
This is one scary chick…
This isn’t what I signed up for…
Oh no...where’s Aida?
Luisa smiled. She had got what she wanted – a weakness.
“Look,” said Praful. “We just came here to find our friend.”
“Your friend Aida?”
Dylan looked at her suspiciously. “…what’ve you done to her?”
“Nothing, really.” Luisa decided to use this to her advantage. “She came by then…she left.”
“Tell me the truth! Where is she?”
“Why do you need her?” Luisa dug into Dylan’s head. “Is this betrayal I’m hearing about!? We have more in common than I thought – our goals, for example.”
“Forget it. Just tell me where Aida is or I will shoot you down.”
Henry, Thinzar
Henry froze on the spot.
“Henry. I hear there’s been some trouble at The Company,” said Thinzar.
“Minor setbacks, that’s all.”
“I’ve been told your problems are more major than minor.”
“Who told you that?”
“C’mon. Join us and you’ll be safe when The Company falls apart. You know it’ll happen.”
“What kind of person do you think I am? I’m a company man and I’m staying that way.”
“Fine. But just in case, I’ll spare your delicate life and leave you to think about my offer.”
“No persuasion?”
Thinzar laughed softly. “There’s more to me than my powers you know. I don’t need them to do all of my bidding.” And then she started walking away. Henry didn’t try to stop her. She made a good point. What if The Company were to end soon, tomorrow, even today? What then?
Aida
The argument between Darcy, Praful, Dylan and Luisa had escalated into a full blown fight. Dylan was in danger!
“No!” yelled Aida, shape shifting into a rhino and running towards the brawl. No one expected a rhino to come running out into the open so they all stopped. And stared. But Aida kept running. She ran until the crowd noticed and started running to different directions. Then she shape shifted back into her original form. “Are you guys okay?” she asked them. Luisa was gone for now, but who knew when she would come back.
“Forget about us,” said Dylan. “What happened to you? We thought something bad had happened.”
“I’m fine.” It was then that Aida noticed Darcy for the first time. She turned to Dylan for answers.
“Oh. This is Darcy,” he said introducing her.
“Hi.” Aida said politely offering her hand. Darcy looked at it but didn’t take it.
“You must be Aida,” she answered. Her voice was ice cold.
Win
Win tip toed to the main lobby of The Company and listened intently. No one else was there; no one she could hear of. Odd, but it was an excellent opportunity for some snooping. She studied the map of the entire building next to the elevator. ‘In case of emergency, use evacuation routes shown’ was printed above the diagram. It showed every single room in The Company’s structure – except one. According to the map there were only 5 levels below the main building.
“Hmm… what’s this?” There was an unmarked passage from level 5. “That must be it.” She followed the map until she reached the place on the map. Now there was just a door separating her and the room in her dreams.
With some slight hesitation she opened the door and saw a staircase going down. I knew it - Level 6.
“What are you doing here?” The voice startled Win who nearly jumped out of her skin. It was Henry, back from wherever he came from.
“Oh. I’m just looking around. But there’s nothing here so I think I’ll… leave now.” Win laughed nervously. “I was hoping to find something cool, but nope. Nothing...bye.” Turning around quickly, she took the stairs two steps at a time to get away from Henry as fast as possible.
“Win, wait,” called out Henry. Win stopped and looked back. Henry looked into Win’s eyes, trying to stare out the truth for a long moment. Then he gave up and sighed. “Don’t come down here ever again. Okay? And don’t tell other people about it either. I’ll know if you do.”
“Sure thing boss,” she answered smiling then running to the door.
Henry made sure she left then he pulled out his phone and dialled a number. “Allison? We’ve got a situation. He’s trying to escape again.”
Khiem, Ben
“Hey kid, the fighting’s over you can go back to wherever you came from,” said Khiem to Ben.
“I’m trying.”
“Trying? What do you mean trying?”
“As in, it hasn’t been working.”
“You mean, you can’t get yourself out.”
“No, I’ve just been enjoying your intelligence so much I didn’t want to leave,” said Ben sarcastically.
“Seriously, get out.”
“I can’t!
“I’m not going to be stuck with you okay? I have a life. Get out!”
“I’m stuck!”
Janette came running over from the wreckage of the house. “Khiem, all these people came into the house and saved us. There were a few of them, but they all merged into the same person. He ran away as soon as the house was destroyed though. Khiem?” he was looking frustrated.
“Janette, I have something to tell you. Err…you might want to sit down.” She did. “While you were with Luisa, there was this kid that came and helped me out.”
“That’s great!”
“Well, not really. He helped out by possessing me – that’s his power – and now…now he’s stuck.”
By: Allison
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i just realized no one comment ed on ur chapeter allison..so it hought i would..=D
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