Chapter 1: The Terror begins

  A male figure cloaked in blood crashed through the city while lightning rushed through the air after him. The figure started to get up as a bolt of lightning struck him on his head, the populace who were watching the fight were flown into the buildings. The wind started to pick up and the clouds grew dark as Thunderlord rushed through the sky heading towards the center of the city, the crowd started to cheer as he punched the blood soaked villain but with little to no effect.

  “I will make you pay for the deaths of my comrades.” The clouds started to darken as they struck lightning and thunder down on the blood soaked villain’s head, the lightning bolt reflected off the villain and hit a mother who was shielding her child. “Looks like you are just as weak as the rest of your puny group, just once I want to face someone who is a match for me” yelled the Blood soaked villain. Thunderlord's face grew dark and blank while blood crept from his mouth as the blood soaked villain manifested a blade of purplish fire and jammed it through Thunderlord’s throat.

  Thunderlord’s body grew limp and began to fall towards the ground but was caught by the Blood soaked villain. “My name is Bloodstain, and you are all my prey.” Bloodstain flew up towards the sky and left with Thunderlord’s body. The crowd was recording the entire fight. It wasn't long till it went viral in the matter of hours due to the west coast’s most powerful hero fell in a matter of seconds. A couple of weeks passed, and the head of Thunderlord was delivered on the doorstep of the mayor of New Verton, Dr. Verton.

  “Hey, Ben, have you watched the video yet?” Don asked me, like if I wasn't human and wouldn’t watch that train wreck.

  “Yes, Don, I watched it last night. I find it funny that the news stations didn't even dare air it and put that freaks face all over the television. What did he call himself Bloodstain?” I asked while putting on my uniform.

  “I don't know but hopefully the last line will find him,” Don said with excitement.

  “The last line, as if they are lost without their leader Thunderlord heck I think only two members are left alive after that fight,” I mocked while getting ready to exit the locker rooms and go to the briefing.

  “Why are you always in a rush, Ben? Damn man you should learn to chill out and smell the roses, I'm sure at least one more hero will join the last line,” Don muttered while rushing to get ready.

  “As if Don the last line is looking at their last days,” I said while holding back a smile.

  Don looked pissed as he yelled softly in my ear just loud enough to cause an ear ache without alerting the others in the locker room, “I’m sure Nemesis will join them on their noble quest.”

  I let out a small chuckle as he finished talking. “Nemesis? Don’t get me started on that vigilante, heck because of him the other gods are hard pressed about the registration bill that congress just signed. At least some people in the capital have common sense.”

  As I finished my sentence, I noticed Don was clutching his fists and was about to swing until my alarm went off.

  “You got saved from getting your ass kicked, next time you use that slur I will get you,” he growled while rushing off towards the briefing.

  I rushed to my office and while looking for my medicine I saw my academic awards and let out a smile. “No one ever graduated M.I.T, and Harvard law school at the same time and in under six months to match that, congrats Ben Olcan may this award bring you many opportunities- signed president Grimm.”

  As I looked through my desk I found my medicine a vial of pills and then put two in my mouth as my skin started to glow bright blue for five seconds before going back to normal, I then picked up the rusty serrated knife I keep in a small box in my desk underneath a secret compartment that needs a series of key codes to be slid in to be opened.

  I checked the blade and it still feels like skin, after inspecting it I cut my left arm. I dropped to the floor as all my energy was leaving me. As soon as the pain left, the cut I made started to heal. I then made a very lowkey remark, “I hate this fucking curse.” I looked at my arm and noticed the blood on my arm. I then went to lick the blood up and put my knife back into my lockbox in my locked desk. I put the key codes for my desk in the picture frame to make sure no one finds it.

  “Welcome back, Ben, we have been waiting for you,” the chief, Jill Rogue, said coldly. She was wearing her jacket but as usual she forgot that she was still in her pajamas, her crimson red hair flowed to her back, what a beautiful sight.

  “Yes, ma’am. I’m sorry, it was time for my antidote.” I walked up to my seat while glancing towards her and sat next to Don.

  “Ben, I still can’t believe that Dr. Smith infected your old unit with nanobots. Anyway, you may get payback on the man who supplied him with the nanobots” as the chief started, but for a quick second her eyes locked with mine but quickly turned away, as the lights grew dark as the projector shown an image of a slim male who has a thunderbolt in his hair.

  “Ladies and gentlemen this is K. Marten our prime suspect for the nano incident five years ago, and most of our informants say he is also the leader of the group they call Crystal Enigma.”

  As she mentioned crystal enigma most of the department started laughing, one of the undercovers mocked, “Yeah, right, an organization that runs every criminal act in New Verton and most of the country.”

  “Yes, I know it is far-fetched, one of the informants says he has a lead, for the next reason we are having a briefing at two in the morning.” The entire department went silent as most of them lost loved ones during the attack. “He may know who Bloodstain is and may be in contact with him. One of the informants says he meets with a dark robed male who had a mask on, that is one hundred percent matches what bloodstain wore, all we know is that K. Marten moves every four days to a new hotel in a series of six. His next move is today and he has at least four powered suits of unknown grade with him. The informant also mentioned he is meeting with a dealer of power armor.”

  Don rushed up out of his chair and spoke in a haste, “Does this mean we may finally get to arrest Slone?”

  “Raymond, please sit back down. And we don’t know who he is meeting. It may just be a lacky. Everyone, we also have a special guest with us.” The chief moved her hands to the man sitting in the back.

  The man stood up, dressed in a dark suit and a tie that was glowing red, and said, “Hello, I am Mr. Davis, on this operation you will have the support of my entire organization.”

  Don spoke up as he looked at the mysterious man. “What organization are you in?”

  “My organization is helping you and that's all you need to know,” Mr. Davis replied calmly. He started to walk down the aisles and was checking his watch as he stood by Don, as his watch started blinking. “We will need everyone to work on this mission most of you may die, my sources say that Marten may have powers of what group he belongs with is unknown to us all that is certain is that once I get a mole inside the group they are never heard from again.” He started to walk towards Chief Jill.

  “You are all the top of the New Verton police department, get some rest if you can, because in fourteen hundred hours we will begin operation Stolen Crystal.” Chief spoke calmly and then she yelled at the top of her lungs, “Dismissed!”

  The entire department stood up and yelled, “YES, MA’AM.” The department then left and went back to their homes to their loved ones. I went back to my office to get my medicine, but was interrupted by Mr. Davis.

  “Mr. Olcan is it?” he asked me.

  “Yes, sir, it is.”

  “Mr. Olcan, I may have a job offer for you. I see you have a distaste for the gods that walk among us, if you want I can have you try out for a special team within my organization. We need people as gifted as you.”

  I looked shocked and I asked, “If I join the team, what would I be doing? And what is the organization called?”

  He smiled as he handed me a paper. “After the operation, go to this address, and the team is called the C.S.U. If you want to know what that stands for, go to the address, sergeant.” He then left my office.

  I then pulled out a small box hidden underneath my desk and put the letter in it.

  Later that morning

  A hooded man patrolled the streets. His head started pounding as he looked around him. “Found you, scum,” he shouted while running after the individual.

  The individual shot a flame burst from his hands, missing the hooded figure but hitting a bus full of children. The hooded man turned towards the bus as it exploded. The head of the bus driver falls to the hooded man, knocking him down, and his hood falls down, revealing a mask with no eye holes.

  “That's it, you prick. You’re dead now.” The hooded man pressed his left arm and a pair of rollerblades appeared through his shoes. “Activate thrusters.” The hooded man soon darted towards the flame powered person, crashing into him.

  “Damn it, nemesis, you should really learn to stop when things get hot.” The flame powered man tried to set Nemesis on fire, but he could only produce a spark. “What the hell is wrong, why can’t I turn you to ash?”

  “Flamehead, you're an idiot,” Nemesis replied while delivering a kick with the force of his rocket thrusters accelerating his foot to Flamehead’s face knocking him out. A police siren started speeding towards the scene of the fight. “Guess it’s almost time to go back to work.” Nemesis laughed as he skated away from the scene leaving Flamehead in cuffs with a power nullifier around his neck.

  As soon as he got far enough away from the battle scene he removed his mask. As he did a slick dark brown hair rushed by his eyes, when he moved the hair away his eyes started to twitch as they turned from black to dark green, his face was sweating as the fight against flame head finished. He made it to his house and walked in as his wife and daughter welcomed him home.

  “Daddy, what happened? Every night you go out and look like you got in a fight,” his daughter asked as her mother spoke up letting him wind down.

  “Jasmine, hush. Your father is tired let him rest.”

  “Thank you, my sweet Rose. I have to be ready in five hours for the big bust,” he told her as he went upstairs to the master bedroom where he put all his gear in his closet and looked at his uniform and put his hand on his badge. The badge reads detective Don Raymond, he laughs as he falls backwards onto the floor completely missing the bed. His wife ran up the stairs laughing while saying.

  “Oh dear Don, you missed the bed again.” She rushed over to him and with one hand she picked him up and placed him on the bed.

  My phone started to buzz as I threw the phone at the wall, as it continued to buzz I got up with a slight wobble as I walked to the phone and answered it in a half awake half asleep voice. “Don, where the FUCK are you? You are two hours late for the freaking bust, get your ass down here now,” screeched Ben as he was talking to four other people and telling them to wait until I got there.

  “Dude, calm down, I'll get there. I had trouble sleeping and I guess I overslept,” I was saying before I got interrupted by Ben.

  “The operation started and fifteen officers are dead and we are in open fire. The chief wants you to get down here and hurry up. The reports were right the fucker is a god and he has the same powers of Thunderlord, it was a trap we were set up. If I see another freaking god I’m going to shoot first, I’m not going to risk my life so those glory seekers get some time in the sun.” The line grew quiet for a while as I was trying to listen to it as I heard shots being fired and the sound of lightning hitting the ground as the lines went silent. I rushed to get the closet and opened up a compartment behind the wall. I thought to myself ‘thank you chief for having us take some of the gear home just in case this happened again.’ I started getting undressed as my wife walked into the room.

  “Honey, what's wrong? Why are you rushing?”

  “Rose the operation was a setup, before you left the last line did Thunderlord have a secret kid, a brother or anything, the leader of Crystal Enigma has the exact same powers as him.” She looked shocked.

  “No he didn’t, he only had the one son Billy and he is in Silver mask Academy, and the only powers he has is super speed and flight, and he isn’t as fast as Heatram, he is just a class four Quick,” she told me, as I finished putting on my visor for my helmet that masked my eyes.

  “I’ll have to figure this out on my own, honey stay home with Jasmine and keep her safe. Do not go to that hotel, Ben said he will shoot any hero who would try to help. And I may have to knock some sense into him since he keeps using the term ‘god’.” as I sat on the bed with my hands over my head. “I hate that term, we are not gods, we are just special humans who have powers.” Rose walked up to me as she put her hands over mine and gave me a kiss.

  “Don’t worry about it, I know you can get through to him about this. You two have been friends since your first day at the department, heck you saved him plenty of times when you went out on your first patrol for the department.” I smiled before getting up and walking out the door with my shotgun in hand.

  “I’ll be home late, don't wait up for me,” I told her before walking out, with tears in my eyes thinking that today might be my last.

  I got into my truck and put my sirens on top of it. I floored down the roads towards the hotel as I saw many heroes rushing towards it trying to see what was going on. A half hour went by as I saw that the clouds grew dark and bolts of lightning struck down to the ground and fifteen power armored suits smashed through the police force. I quickly checked the suits and I released a sigh of relief for they are only type four power armors slow but incredibly strong with one weak point that shuts them off, a battery in the back. I got out of my truck and snuck towards the damaged police command center as I saw the chief and no sign of Ben. I rushed into the command center and checked Jill’s vitals. She is weak but she is alive. I picked her up and moved her towards my truck and placed her in the bed that is reinforced enough to save her life if any other bolt strikes. I heard over the radio that in the hotel are two officers and four agents. Five heroes tried to rush in but a power armor tore them into pieces. I surveyed the battlefield and saw a faint blue light glowing in the building.

  “Ben, you idiot, the freaking nanites will kill you if you don't use the antidote every five hours,” I muttered to myself before opening the glove compartment in my truck and grabbed a blue metal pill box. I placed the box in my pockets. I looked at the hotel and it seemed unguarded as I looked to the sky and saw a man made of pure electricity shooting bolts down on the city. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a simple suit of armor fly at the man and started to fight him. I put on a pair of binoculars and saw that it was Richard Slone fighting K. Marten. I saw the opportunity to sneak into the hotel and save the people trapped in there. I rushed into the back of the hotel and made my way from the kitchen towards the information desk, as I made my way towards the group I saw Ben holding his left arm while it started to glow.

  “Ben you know you shouldn’t leave for a big operation without your pills'' I semi-mocked mentioned while scaring everyone and they all pointed their guns at me.

  “Dammit, Don you shouldn’t sneak up like that during an event like this. Anyway I did have my pills but that asshole melted them when he blasted the van.” He yelled before grabbing the pills I had in my hand.

  “Slone is here fighting Marten'' I mentioned but to the surprise of me no one flinched.

  Mr. Davis replied to me, “I was the one that called him over here after it all went south.”, I quickly lost my temper and grabbed him.

  “You did what he was selling to this fucker, you let the person who caused so much death and misery to aid us? For what a peace of mind?”

  He smiled and slapped me “If Project Icarus was ready I wouldn't have needed Slone but he is our best chance to stop this mad man.”

  I was in shock ‘what was this project?’ I thought to myself before grabbing him again. “What was the deal you made with Slone? And what is Icarus?”

  He looked at me and coughed. I let go of him, and he spoke while wheezing.

  “Slone wants a medal from the president himself for his work here, and Icarus is the gods worst weakness. It’s our only hope to survive the coming war between us and them.” He smiled at me and whispered in my ear, “I know you're a god and go ahead and tell your friends about this, you're too late we are almost in the testing phase for it.”

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  I was about to punch him before Ben stopped me.

  “Dude, calm down and look outside.” The clouds started to clear up as Slone landed down to the ground and K. Marten in cuffs and a nullifier on his neck. All the power armors shut down afterwards and the police cheered for this victory. I saw news vans arrive on the scene and started to record Slone holding Marten and giving a speech about right and wrong before handing him over to the Swat, before flying off. To my notice I saw no bruises on Marten or any scratches on Slone’s Power suit.

  ‘Was this all a show? Why would he want to be captured’ as my thoughts started to race trying to get everything to seem right. I looked at the crowds and one person caught my eyes. A strawberry blond male who was pale and had three scars across his face, as I walked towards the crowd he started to walk away.

  Over the next two weeks I saw the fight on the news and on every social media page, calling it the fight of the century. Most of the media was anti supreme propaganda claiming that the fight was over due to normal humans working together while the Supremes got in the way of police and agents. I soon tried to get in touch with the last line and every other team to set up a secret meeting to discuss what I found out and the problems in my head over the whole ordeal. I changed into my costume and went down into the sewers from my secret hatched under my house and walked towards the cave of nobles.

  Ben

  ‘It’s been two weeks since the battle and I still haven't gone to see the place Mr. Davis wanted me to go,’ I thought to myself as I looked it up and it seemed to be underneath the city hall. I walked through the doors of city hall. The guards asked my I.D and I gave them it.

  “Oh, Mr. Olcan, we were expecting you to head down to the basement, Mr. Davis is waiting for you.” The guard walked me to the stairs of the basement.

  As I walked through the doors, I saw the gray hair man with a slight bald spot on his head waiting for me. I waved and he just walked in front of a wall and placed his hand on it. The wall started to glow as his hand was being scanned, he removed his hand and the wall opened up into a doorway and he had me walk in first as the door war started to scan me.

  After five minutes, the door started to talk in a mechanical voice as I continued to walk in. “No powers detected, warning five thousand nanites detected.”

  Mr. Davis motioned to me. “Welcome to the Counter Super Unit. For short, we call it the Unit, the last line for the safety of the world from the gods who would enslave us. You will be coming here every day for the next two months to be trained. You are a candidate for the program if you pass. But first things first to get rid of the nanites that you are infected with.”

  I looked at him, smiling. “Bout time I hated having to take those pills every five hours,” I mentioned.

  “Before I forget your first assignment is to monitor your friend Don Raymond, he has powers but we don’t know what his abilities are.”

  I stopped for a couple of seconds, shocked. “What, wait what. No, it's a mistake he doesn't have powers if he did he would have used them by now… That damn idiot, how could he be a god,” I muttered while rolling up my fingers to make a fist. ‘Damn it Don. I knew you were sympathetic to their cause but you had to be one of these damn gods.’ I thought. “All right, I'll do it, and what is Icarus, and how did you find out he had powers?”

  ‘Damn it Don, I knew you were very supportive of the gods' dilemma. But you had to be one. How didn’t I figure it out? I had procedures in place to figure out who they were. How the fuck did he pass by? Did I somehow trusted him to not suspect him? Who else is a god?’ I questioned my intelligence.

  He looked at me and just pointed to his watch. “It’s a standard item for the Unit you will get one after today it will start flashing when there are gods near you. Sadly, we couldn’t figure out how to store the data to our computers, our benefactor has not given us that yet, heck the person who gave us our technology is unknown. He is more gifted than Slone. Heck, speaking of him, the reason we didn’t arrest him before? He is a member of our Unit and he has been working to find god groups unknown to us, heck he put fatal flaws in the suits he sells to kill the user beforehand and have them go on a small rampage before they are stopped.” He stopped for a second.

  “The Project Icarus is a special bullet, that's all I can reveal before its done. I mentioned it to your friend because I want the gods to do something stupid.”

  The next few weeks Bloodstain appeared and continued to kill, but he went after heroes and villains alike; for each hero he killed, more of their heads were sent to public offices. The city of New Verton issued mandatory Curfews for all residents other than the police, or supreme ones’ that registered to the government. A group of heroes who are calling themselves the Cabal of Heroes whose leader is Alpha the hero of technology made a press conference to pre-claim they will be the first group who registered and will reveal their identities to the public. This made an uproar in the supreme community who felt the weight of the cabal's actions. The cabal began offering fees to the citizens who are wealthy enough to hire their own personal heroes. I started hanging out with Don more often, collecting more data over what his powers may be. Today I am going to meet his wife and hopefully I can get some details on how he could make it a secret to the entire department. I was riding the train to his neighborhood when I got off I started walking down the streets until I saw kids playing heroes with one of them playing as Bloodstain the others played as the last line, I watched with wonder until the kids playing as the last line started picking up sticks and attacking the kids with full force as they were doing this I saw the parents looking and cheering for the kids. I started to run at the kids until I noticed the kid playing as Bloodstain was not getting hurt and was taking the others ganging up on him. I continued to walk towards the kids, but was going near the parents and my watch started to buzz.

  ‘A helpful improvement I made to my watch allowing the watch to just give me a little shock to let me know when gods are near and to allow me to be a little more discreet when inspecting areas.’ The parents were gods and cheering for the kids to gang up on the little child. I started walking down the streets away from that fight and every time I got near one of the residents then the watch started to buzz. I then started to realize this entire neighborhood was for the gods and their families. After fifteen minutes of getting zapped I arrived at Don’s house and he opened the door.

  “Hello, my friend, how do you like the neighborhood? It’s pretty nice and the safest one in the city. Heck if you want my next door neighbor is single and she is looking for a nice guy” He winked while laughing.

  “Well yes it is nice, and I’m not looking for a partner; as you're aware I had a bad break up and I’m still recovering from it. I did notice a couple kids were ganging up on one of the other kids.” His face went silent as he was thinking, then his wife walked up to me and my watch buzzed. I looked at her, she had Bantu bun hairstyle on her head that matched her natural afro. I put out my hand.

  “Oh, hello, I’m Ben. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” As she shook my hand I let out a small smile and looked at her. ‘She is so familiar, I know I have seen her somewhere but I can’t place her face.’

  Don looked at me and laughed. “Oh, you mean that mystery woman you were dating and then she dumped you in the coldest of ways, and those kids were playing it was nothing they were, uhm... Using foam sticks,” he said while stuttering, obviously lying.

  I ignored him and agreed with him. “Yeah, I thought she was the one. The only person I could ever be with. She is the first person I had these feelings for.” he looked at me and placed his hand on my shoulders.

  “Don't worry, Ben, I’m sure things will be better. So, when will you tell me her name?” he asked, and I just sighed.

  “I can't because she made me promise that what we had should stay between us two.”

  He nodded and motioned for me to come into his house while he and his wife started to head to the kitchen and I heard them raising their voices at each other. Their daughter walked into the living room and turned on the T.V she motioned her hand and the tv started to change channels until it stopped on a cartoon station. I stood there dumbfounded as she started to laugh and a piece of candy flew from the top of the book shelf to her hands.

  ‘Telekinetic powers? It can’t be, the law states that if that power class were to manifest they would have to take her to the nearest office of supreme-powers to register her due to the dangers of that power. The treaty of Notre Dame stated that the United nations was almost destroyed due to a massively powerful god. I must be careful if the wife is a god. I don’t know if she has the same powers’.

  The daughter started to talk to me. “Don’t worry. My mommy doesn’t have my powers. So, relax please, Mr…”

  As she said it, I quickly rushed my hand to a spot on my right forearm and pressed a uniquely hidden button that made my mind go blank. She turned her head and yelled to her parents as I fell towards the floor blacking out.

  Don

  I ran into the living room as I heard the screams and to my shock Ben was out cold on the floor, I looked at my daughter as she walked towards him and touched his right arm.

  “There is something here that he implanted when he was young, daddy he knows that we are supreme ones I told him I knew his mind went all froggy, as I went deeper into his mind he pressed his right arm and his mind sort of shut off.”

  I looked at him and shouted to Rose, “Grab the Sensor on the bed.” I started checking his vitals and they were all perfect. There were no flaws in his health. Rose brought me the sensor and I started scanning his body. To my surprise he had no nanites in his body. I then sent it towards his right arm and there were no signs of an object. I sent it towards the maximum setting used for deep space objects and it found a slight signal then it disappeared as if it detected the scanner and it adapted to it. I started to bring him down to the basement and tied him up to a chair I had down there. I then got some smelling salts and placed it under his nose. He woke up and he looked at me.

  “Ben, be honest, how did you know about me? And what is in your arm? I tried to scan it but nothing. When I adjusted the scanner it appeared and disappeared, I then tried to find it with my hands and nothing.” I looked at him thinking for two minutes, his face looked flustered as his eyes looked around the room studying for ways to escape, his blue left eye turned to me than his green right eye followed.

  Then he spoke with anger and bits of sadness. “Okay, I’ll talk about when I was a kid. I was bullied for my intellect. I surpassed everyone in my school. During a sixth grade science fair, I built a cold fusion generator the size of a penny for the fair but before I could get to school that day one of my neighbors dad pulled his car over to me and asked if I wanted a ride to school. He went towards the forest and with many of the other fathers they had me stand in the center of them and they started to beat me till I was near death. The last thing I remembered of that day I knew I was going to die but someone arrived and saved me. I didn’t get a look at his face. The police found me walking to the school covered in blood with both of my forearms poking out of the skin. They stopped me and took me to the hospital. It was a couple weeks before I could speak a word… I was broken. When I finally went home, I created a device that would adapt to anything and it could help me overcome such odds by shutting down my body and mind for a while to adapt to what happened. It saved my life many times, heck the nanites, it would re-wire me to adapt to them but it would make me weak until it worked so I had made a pill to allow my body to succumb to the nanites but they kept on changing how they acted and I had to keep using the pills. For how I knew you were a god my watch it was designed to read if someone has powers it was given to me as a gift.’’ My eyes widened as I heard his story. I didn’t know if he was telling the truth or not, so I got another chair from the broom closet and set it before him.

  “If you are telling the truth why do you hate supremes?” I was puzzled.

  “I don’t hate them but I know if they go unchecked they will overthrow every single government on this planet, I have done the math and if we don’t have a way to keep them in line, they well, you will become dictators and tyrants. It happened all over history those with the great powers they made themselves into gods and controlled the earth.’’ I looked at him in his eyes and they seemed to be telling the truth. I was walking up the stairs before he spoke.

  “So god what will you do to me? Will you kill me or leave me here as your slave? And don’t ask your daughter to read my mind; it won’t work now.”

  I looked over to him and smiled “Don’t worry you will be safe. I will release you once I know my family is safe. I have to go out to recon, the city has been a mess since Bloodstain arrived. I will let you stay the night, I’ll talk to you in the morning” I laughed while walking up the stairs. When I reached the top of the stairs and walked into my house. I just sat near the door and held my hand over my forehead while thinking what would happen if he was right. I walked over to Rose and hugged her from behind.

  “I will be out late tonight, don’t go down there. I love you.” I mentioned while giving her a quick smooch to her cheek. I left before she could say a word. I needed a breather to think of what he said and what was right.

  I started to patrol the slums and for a change it was all quiet. I couldn’t find a trace of crime. All I found was a syringe of juice. Its full I guess the junky was too late to resupplying the juice of the lich, what a horrifying way to die once you use once you become unfeeling and pretty much undying but if you miss a dose you turn to dust, what a shame there is no cure but the mayor have found a way to make the user pass peacefully instead of the pain. I put it down and stomp on it crashing the glass beneath my foot and the liquid turned into smoke before depleted, before I went to the main street where I heard gun fire as the booming sound transferred through the air, I then found a couple cops in a shootout but I felt no powers I started to walk up and asked what they needed help but they shot at me. I’m sure I am lucky that they were terrible shots, one passed by my head as I skated away.

  ‘This is no good even if I was invulnerable I still wouldn’t have made out squeaky clean. The police would have said I was unlicensed and would have tried to restrain me. I got to be careful’ I thought to myself as I saw a figure on the roof above me as it looked like Bloodstain.

  I quickly ran up the stairs but before I came to the final staircase I started to creep up and looked out the door to the rooftop as I saw a man in a black trench coat, a bandana over his head made out of an unknown material. He was lifting up a corpse and moving the feet towards his mouth, he placed the foot in his mouth as it turned to dust and the dust disappeared in his mouth, he continued to do this till all the way left was the head. He stopped and all the blood that was in the body poured from the head onto Bloodstain's body and it drenched his clothes. He started to laugh as he licked the blood off from his chin and the part of the shirt near the neck. He turned his head and looked at me as he started to walk and a purple flame sword appeared in his hand as he sliced through the air the doorway where I was hiding at, broke apart and crashed downward leaving my escape route unassessable. I got up and put up my fists as I focused on him and his flame sword went out. I rushed forward and punched with all my might at his face as he was knocked back a few feet. I started to follow punch after punch as he was leaving himself open. I started to use the Dempsey roll weaving left and right while punching. I went for the last attack, a gazelle punch I sunk low to the ground as I used all of the force to deliver a devastating right uppercut to his face as he fell off the roof. I felt relieved that I took him out but shame I had killed him but to my surprise he flew up to me and began laughing. In a deep menacing voice that left me in terror.

  “SSo, that’s all you have, Nemesis what a shame I thought you could handle me. So I guess I have to show you my true power.” As he mocked with a cruel laughter then the sky grew darker and rain started to pour over the city as lightning started to crash down and directed itself on me as I tried to run to the fire escape before another bolt appeared right in front of me. Both of the lightning bolts crashed into my body as I felt every last voltage leave my body and come right back in over and over again as my life flashed before me. I saw meeting Rose, the birth of our daughter and my death by this monster. The bolts stopped as the water started to surround me and collapse on me as the strength of the moving water destroyed the building. The water entered my lungs and began drowning me as it stopped. I woke up in an ambulance with my mask off for the world to see. I saw my hands and feet were tied to what remained of the building. My life is over for what I can tell as I woke up and saw the chief standing over me and slapping me before she put me into cuffs.

  I asked weakly, “Why are you doing this?”

  She answered quickly, “Because due to the law you should have registered and by law the city is under curfew if you are not registered, I’m sorry but the media found you before we did, if they didn’t we would have let you go without the fuss.”

  Tears shed over my eyes. “Ben is in my basement tied up. He found out and I panicked. I would’ve released him when I got home but. I found Bloodstain and fought him. He is more dangerous than I would have realized, please protect my family.” My vision soon started to grow darker and darker then fell into void.

  Jill:

  I looked at Don when he passed out and I started to cry a little. How could this have happened? The station was friendly and everything, we would have accepted his secret. I told the others “We have to go to his house, he tied up Ben.”

  They said yes ma'am but they looked shocked and angry at this betrayal. My precinct and I rushed through the city towards Don’s house as we saw the entire block closed off by masked men with the badge of C.S.U showing on their backs. I immediately stopped my car and got out. I ran towards the group of men blocking the street.

  “What the freaking hell are you doing here if you don’t remove this road block I will imprison all of you for interfering with police business.” As they looked at me and spoke on wireless microphones I got inpatient with them so I pulled out my gun and pointed it at one of the masked men. My fellow officers started to pull out their guns and point them at the other masked men. A familiar figure approaches us with his grayed hair and balding.

  “Mr. Davis, what are you doing here?” I asked with a hiss while still pointing my gun at the individual.

  “Miss Rogue, I do imply that if you lower your weapon you are impeding on a federal operation, so if you don’t want to be held in federal custody lower your weapon.” I looked shocked as he said that but I lowered my weapon and told my men to stand down.

  “So, what's going on here, why the roadblock? And what does C.S.U. stand for?” I asked while studying the men, while looking around as I did I noticed numerous citizens being carted up in blacked out vans with nullifiers on their heads.

  “We are cleaning up this town. You know the law, all Supremes who are living in the same community must have it registered with the government to stop the development of supreme gangs.”

  I looked at him and flipped him off before yelling with fume, “Fucker, these are kids and mothers being locked up. What gives you the right to arrest these individuals without due process?” I shouted at him before being held back by my officers. He looked at me and whispered to the guy I pointed my gun at.

  “While they had this newly appointed agent captive here when he found out a dangerous power was being held a secret, take of your mask son.” The agent took of his mask as I saw gorgeous medium long golden hair fell out of the mask the man looked like a knight I used to know before the pain, when the agent swiped the hair away from his face I gasped as I saw Ben standing there with shame in his eyes.

  “I’m sorry, Jill, but to save this country I must help them.” Ben moved close to me and whispered in my ear. “…icarus…almost done....be careful meet me at our spot.”

  “Oh, Ben, I didn’t know you two were partners,” Mr. Davis mentioned with a hint of amusement, eavesdropping for the last part of his message. I quickly moved away from him and immediately slapped him across his face leaving an indent of my palm. The agents started to grow aggressive against me until Ben put his hand up, stopping the men from moving towards me and asked.

  “Can’t we let her and her officers go too?”

  “Yes, Ben, good idea. We need privacy for this operation.” He handed out a bunch of forms to myself and the Officers.

  “I will need these by Monday sharp if you do not sign these you will be accused of treason. Have a good weekend,” he said while we took the papers and left for the precinct. On the ride there I saw more C.S.U agents patrolling the streets with strange guns.

  ‘This city is going to hell fast, I got to get alone and go to the mansion. If he wants to meet up there of all places again it must be big’ I continued to think as I drove to the station about Don and his family, I had to do something for them. As I was about to get to the station the cabal showed up and started to order my people around saying they had the proper authority from the mayor to patrol the streets and to police it till she could figure what was going on.

  “Okay, fine. Whatever. I have to leave and get my head straight,” I complained while moving towards the doors until Alpha showed up in his power armor and spoke up.

  “I’m sorry, but for the safety of this department you will need to wear these tracer bracelets. It will let us know if you are in danger and because the mayor ordered us to do so. She doesn't want the city without a single department. If you remove them, an alert will let us know to come and find you.”

  Rico stood before him and took one of the bracelets when he turned it on his arm and started to pulsate violet. I stood up and told the cabal, “I'm sorry I can't. I'm not willing to risk my safety on you.” the station looked at me with shock in their eyes but they defended me.

  As I was driving, I saw a couple flashes of blue light in the city rush from different directions. I soon drove into the outskirts of the city where Ben grew up. I started to think of how we met each other when he first applied to join the station. Heck he was so much younger than the standard graduates, when he graduated top of his class and the two classes above him. We were lucky to have him join the way he was before the pain happened. I wish it didn’t, we were better together, we shared everything but he wanted to keep us a secret, I thought it was strange but once I got to know him I knew why.