[IC] Adolescent Heroes (Teen Titans Inspired)

[LemonZest1337]

Kurt was nearing the end of the pressure field when he heard the demon roar. He hissed and doubled his efforts to get out of whatever it was the shrunken head had put down. He watched it flail for a moment before looking over at at the fat convict who was now holding Marcus by the head. "Marcus!" He pushed himself finally getting out of the pressure filed, he almost fell from the change in weight but managed to catch himself.

He then ran at the fat convict hissing with anger. But before he could get close the convict had been struck by one of the demons enraged and mindless swings and had dropped Marcus. He then looked at the now rather deformed demon throwing itself around in a savage attempt to remove the girl from its back.

After hearing Marcus's command he turned to him and nodded. "I'll give it my best shot. Are you going to be alright?" Kurt asked and it seemed rather genuine. After getting his response he would then turn his focus onto the demon, he would begin building up speed charging towards the demon. He would hiss in pain every time his shoulder moved.

[1Hawkeyes]

Ally continued to phase in and out of human and metal form once the demon went into its rage. It smashed cars and windows, some of the debris hitting Ally as she was mere flesh again. She noticed this affected her titanium form, giving it scuffs and grooves. The demon was now bleeding, something the young woman didn't expect at all. It's almost over! Keep going! she urged herself, and she continued to punch, putting every ounce of strength she had into each strike, regardless the form she put on.

Then, the demon expanded, doing his best to shake her off. She had her legs now wrapped around the torso, doing her best to keep on as she struck it. Before it was too late, she noticed it was about to ram her into the wall! She went titanium and went back human. She was unable to get a punch in before she was flying back to the wall. Again, she went to titanium before hitting the wall and came out of this form before being hit again.

Her energy continued to drain. Each time she phased back into her human form, the deeper she could feel the cuts and scrapes on her back grow. Finally, she found a pattern to continue the attack. Once she was slammed into the wall and fully titanium, she slammed her elbow- often referred to as the body's knife- into the demon's cheek or chin. Come on! Keep going! she urged herself, Just a little longer! If I go human and get hit I'm dead!

[Leaves]

Marcus Winters

Marcus pressed his palm on the concrete. There was some internal pain going throughout this body. Slave might have been just a chubby convict, but his overall strength was not to take lightly. The teen closed his eyes and referred back to the time he ate some metal. Leaving one eye open, he was unsure how much time had gone by.

"Okay, I might have two or three minutes left," he commented to himself. Marcus lifted himself up to his knees and was prepared to dodge another reckless demon strike. He was afraid of getting hit the second time; however, he was lucky to get out of the convict's grasp. Marcus did not want to learn of the puppet's intentions. Shivers were then sent to his spine.

Looking at the battle, he could see Kurt heading toward the demon. "No, you idiot! Get the old guy, not the demon! What the hell is wrong with you?" Marcus was not certain if the lizard man was capable of listening or could see the best probability of defeating the creature. The monster appeared to be extremely powerful and the woman on top did not seem to have much strength left.

Marcus peered behind him to see the fat convict standing upright. His prison jumpsuit was tarnished and ruin. The teen prepared a stance to prepare for any upcoming attack.

Enemies

The demon growled and hissed the woman on his body. No matter how much he squirmed and shook, the woman would not receive the hint. Slamming into the walls and buildings was tiring her out until she figured out a technique. Every body throw would only force the woman to react with an upright elbow.

The first few times the demon roared in pain. Punctures from the woman's elbow were certainly effective. The demon slouched closer to the ground. It was beginning to tire out. The monster then stayed motionless; its body began forming more and more mass as a response.

Below the monster, Percy was writhing in pain. It looked like he was becoming older than his previous state. The man might've been in his 60s. Now it looked like he was aging into his 80s. The monster appeared to regain more stamina and health from the stolen years.

It was slowly rising from its slouched stance.

[LemonZest1337]

Kurt was in the middle of his charge when he heard Marcus call out to him. He skidded slightly as he stopped himself, he was not a fan of being called an idiot. He looked over at Marcus and hissed then looked over at the ever ageing Percy. He growled as he knew Marcus was right, he wouldn't admit it tho.

Curt spared the demon one last look before turning around and running towards Percy. He didn't want to kill the man but he was afraid he might have to. He stomped over to the old form of Percy, he looked at the horrid mass of demon pouring out of his head. He didn't have much time to think but he was fairly sure he had a good idea on how to stop the demon and not kill Percy.

With both hands Curtis grabbed the dark mass that leaked out of Percy's skull. He then started pulling with all his strength, he made sure to space his hand far enough apart so he could also bite at the putrid mess that was the demons flesh. He pulled and chomped as hard as he could hoping this would be enough to sever the connection between Percy and the monster.

[1Hawkeyes]

Ally hit the demon a few more times, this time in pure human state because she wasn't being slammed into the walls anymore. Now that she had stayed in her human form rather than the constant titanium or constant switching, the pain really began to sink in. The scrapes on her back became for prominent as she struck the demon. She sucked in air through her teeth, trying her best to ignore the stinging and ache of her back.

Then, the demon began to grow in size. Percy began to grow older. Ally didn't know how much longer she could keep the demon distracted- she desperately needed help. She heard pounding footsteps running towards her and thought it might be the day convict, but when she looked up she saw something better. The lizard man was running in her direction. Ally felt relieved to have the help, but then the metal boy began yelling at thr lizard man, who stopped and turned his attention to Percy.

I-is he gonna kill him? Ally thought, almost frantically when the lizard man changed course for Percy. Was that the only way to end the fight? Suddenly the lizard man chomped down on the supernatural cord connecting the two. Ally's jaw dropped, but once her shock dissipated, she attempted to give the demon a few more elbow strikes before momentarily retreating. She was now about fifteen feet away, sitting on her haunches, trying to recover from the major loss of energy. Her breathing was deep, almost gasping, and her arms felt like the heaviest noodles on earth. Despite this, she tried to keep her eyes on the scene in front of her, as ready as she could be to dodge or go back to help, even though she wasn't sure she could go titanium once more.

[Leaves]

Marcus Winters

Marcus was caught in a battle of strength with the fat convict. The corpulent foe defended himself from the boy’s reckless strikes. The teen acknowledged that he had the speed advantage. Landing metal punch after metal punch was the guy’s best option for toppling the convict.

Marcus paused his assault and peered over his shoulder. Pushing his shoulder into the gut of the convict, he growled. “Damn it, Kurt, why are you being submissive,” Marcus said to himself. It was then at that moment that Marcus could feel his hand hurting. “Damn it, not now.”

Marcus had lost his metallic body; his previous power had depleted. The teen took a couple of steps back, but the man’s giant trunk of a hand grabbed onto his leg. The convict proceeded to toss him back and forth on the concrete like a rag doll. The boy hit the pavement and sounded every impact with a grunt.

Enemies

The body stem that connected the man’s skull to the monster was thinning due to Kurt’s teeth. The texture was slimy and might have caused some numbing to his mouth. The demon roared and pissed when it could sense daggers being injected into its body. It stopped giving the titanium girl attention and started flinging its body in the air.

The section that Kurt sank his teeth on was keeping a large mass of darkness from pouring into the demon’s body. One might say the process was similar to a hose being stepped on. As more seconds passed with each crunch from the lizard man, the bubble of darkness was becoming uncontrollably big.

Boom! The bubble of black goo exploded and sent all of the demon’s bodily fluids in every direction. The Street Dragon might have been drenched in the liquid given his closeness to the blast. The rest of the monster collapsed to the floor in agony. Rolling around the floor was its only option. It was then that it came to a complete stopped and ended its fight.

[LemonZest1337]

Kurt watched as the mass started to build up, his eyes widened as this wasn't what he expected. But he knew the outcome and kept his jaws firmly shut until finally the mass had exploded drenching him in its vile fluids. He had closed his eyes to avoid the gunk form blinding him. God I've got demon all over me! A-am I going be alright!? He was slightly panicked as he spat out the black flesh from his mouth then started wiping all the demon juice from his face.

He had quickly calmed down after not feeling any effects. He lifted himself from the floor and looked over at the body of the monster he thinks he had just slain. Glad that's over... He ate his words as he looked over at Marcus being throw around like a rag doll. Dammit! He then looked at the body of Percy not sure if he was dead or not, but he couldn't stay to find out. Marcus needed him now.

Curtis rolled his shoulders before advancing towards the fat convict. "Hey! Over here!" he yelled hoping to distract the convict even for a split second. Jesus is Marcus alright?... Guess it doesn't matter. This guy's gotta go down! Curt had then charged towards the convict with his thundering footsteps.

[1Hawkeyes]

Ally felt the liquified demon fall onto her. It wasn't nearly as much as Kurt, but it was enough to disgust her. She wiped some of it off, but struggled to find the energy to stand again. Ally looked up at the lizard man who stopped this and smiled. "Finally it's all over!" Ally thought as her head hung down. Then she heard slamming and her head snapped up again. The steel boy was no longer steel! He was being slammed around by the convict!

Ally forced herself up, her muscles burning with the effort. If no one did anything Marcus would die. Ally forced her body to sprint, though, she stumbled every few steps as she gained speed. Right before she reached the huge convict, she turned titanium and using the last ounce of energy she had, she slammed an uppercut into the convict'a stomach.

Immediately after the punch she fell into her hands and knees and began coughing, trying to catch her breath. She was no longer titanium and couldn't push off the ground. She wanted to crawl away, but her arms were even too shaky for that.

[Leaves]

Enemies

The convict leaned over the titanium girl once she struck him in the gut. Breath came out of his nostrils. His eyebrow flinched and pointed to the center demonstrating his anger toward the woman. Ally’s punch was effective, but it only tightened the convict’s grip on Marcus’ leg.

The convict could hear the whispers from its whispers. Slave acknowledged his recklessness and how the others were advancing. He grunted from his sewn mouth. Looking to his eight, he noticed the lizard man charging towards him. As his only option, he chucked Marcus at the reptilian monster.

“Aim me at the bitch, Slave.” The shrunken head spoke in anger; its voice sounded like static on a television. The obese man opened his palm. As before, the magic charm shouted a few words of incantation. Though this time was different. Each incompressive word was followed by an annoying buzz.

Bzzzzzzzz…. The buzzing was becoming louder with each word. It was until at that moment a swarm of bees emerged from the shrunken head’s mouth. They were agitated and were seeking their closest victim. They soared toward the titanium girl.

Marcus Winters

“Damn it,” Marcus muttered as his body collided against Kurt. The throw was tough enough to stagger the lizard man. The teen plopped onto the floor and wailed in pain. “I can’t take this anymore.” The kid began holding his head in pain.

He kept blinking as the pain was becoming unbearable. He started to speak between pants of pain. “Look, Kurt.” He twitched from the previous body throws. “We need to isolate that fucking creepy ass doll.” Marcus turned his head to the side and spat out blood.

“Without that thing, he’s just a big blubbering convict. You can probably take him on giving you guys share the same weight.” He picked up his knees and could hear buzzing. The teen began questioning his mental status. Was the buzzing from his head injuries or something else?
“Fuck,” he bellowed. “You need to go cover her. Your skin may protect her. I’ll see what I have left in my pockets.” Marcus winced as his arm hand into his jeans.

[LemonZest1337]

Curtis staggered as he Marcus collided with him then looked over at Marcus. He growled slightly then listened to Marcus explain that the head and the convict needed to be separated. He then nodded, "If I can get the big guy to stop moving, do you think you could quickly bounce in and take the head?".

Kurt looked around as the buzzing started ah crap. His gaze shifted over to the girl as Marcus told him to go help her, he then looked back at Marcus "Just hold on alright. I'll save her then we hit the big guy.". With that Marcus moved as fast as his body would carry him praying that he would be able to get to the girl in time.

The moment he gets to the girl he quickly tries his best to wrap around her. Even going so far as to use his tail in an attempt to plug as many holes as he could. He did all this without much fear for himself, because he was pretty sure a few bees couldn't hurt him. But then again, These might be magic bees... Kurt shivered at the thought and readied himself for a lot of stinging.

[Leaves]

Enemies

The swarm of bees immediately stung the giant, green lizard. A portion of the swarm had failed attempts trying to get their stingers past the lizard's hard armor. Some bees, however, managed to inject their venom into Kurt. The buzzing was all around him as he protected the titanium woman. The convict could see the struggle in the teenagers. A murderous cackle came from the shrunken head in his palm.

"Hurry up and take care of them, Slave. We don't need any more interruptions." The fat convict proceeded to stomp towards the struggling woman and lizard man.

Marcus Winters

Marcus fished out of his pockets and held the item dearly. He clenched his fist and pressed the item to his forehead. "It's my best and last shot. Don't fail me," he begged. The boy inserted a lighter insider his mouth. Marcus began grinding his teeth on the tiny device. The taste of metal and oil mixed around on his taste buds.

Taking a step forward, he swallowed the remaining pieces. "Kurt! Break the guy's arms or something!" Marcus exclaimed as he held up one hand to the group. "Brace yourselves." Out of his palms emerged a stream of fire. The flames brought most of the bees down to the cement as they began becoming infuriated. They died without any retaliation.

Slave was surprised by the fire. The burning flames caught on his jumpsuit and he began going ballistic. The shrunken head responded by telling his minion to calm down and that he would take of it.

[LemonZest1337]

Kurt hisses as he is stabbed by the bees, he feels the venom take effect and his movement's were massively slowed. Gah crap... Is the girl alright!? He looks underneath and sees that the girl appears to be alright. He then feels a massive wave of heat and hears Marcus shouting.

The venom is making it hard for him to concentrate, but he does manage to receive Marcus' message. As he turns to the fat convict he is surprised to see Marcus shooting a massive jet of fire. He stands stunned for a moment before shielding his eyes from the light of the fire.
He has no idea on how he's going to break this convicts arms, then he looks down at the the ground and gets an idea.

He slams a fist into road a few times until it cracks. He then grabs a small chunk of it and hurls it at the hand holding the shrunken head.
He then charges the fat convict regardless if of the rocks effects. He's winding up for a massive shoulder check.

[1Hawkeyes]

Ally heard the intense buzzing and her muscles tensed. She couldn't go back titanium, it just wasn't working. The young woman exhausted every ounce of energy she had and could hardly stand, let alone run away from the mystic insects. Just hold out, she told herself as she braced for the stuns.

Suddenly, the lizard man wrapped himself protectively around her. Not a single bee came close to her, but she did feel guilty as she heard him hissing. She wished she could return to her titanium form and help them out more, but she just couldn't manage. Then the harsh heat warmed her flesh, even from the shielding of her protector. The buzzing ended and her protector released her. She was able to look back in time to see where the fire was coming from. The boy who had ealier been made of metal was now shooting fire from the palm of his hands. "Wow, can I do that?" Ally muttered to herself as she got out of the way of the lizard man and the fat convict.

"How can I help?" she asked herself aloud as she leaned against a pole about ten feel away from the conflict.

[Leaves]

Enemies

The convict patted his body uncontrollably. The fire caused parts of his body to begin peeling. His blood began boiling and his skin was producing sweat. Roars and hisses were heard alternatively. Slave was acting like a maniac while the shrunken head tried his best to console the dumbfounded individual.

The convict suddenly had his right shoulder pushed back. It swung backwards with enough strength to have him stumble in the same direction. A huge piece of concrete had dislocated his shoulder. Today was not his day. The fat criminal saw the lizard man charging towards him. Preparing a stance, he readied himself for the charging green giant.

With only his left arm, Kurt was easily able to overpower the obese man. As a normal response, the convict attempted to use his other arm. It was all too much; there were so many variables that his dumb mind couldn’t keep up. Being consumed by flames and a dislocated shoulder brought enough stress to his body that he lost his grip.

The shrunken head dropped to the floor and rolled behind the giant feet of the convict.

Marcus Winters

Marcus kept pushing out his flames. His forehead dripped sweat as he constantly drew out the fire. He never preferred using fire against an opponent. Burning someone alive and hearing their screams would always be haunting. The boy has seen horror movies and suspenseful thrillers; they sometimes showcased the villain of the show or even a protagonist cry out in flames.

Television had it way wrong. This was real-life. The screams from the convict were genuine and discomforting to hear. It was evident that he tried killing Marcus and the other two, but he couldn’t help feel wrongful for his actions. Marcus saw how the fire affected the criminal.

Turning his head, he could hear the titanium girl speak. She appeared to be out of stamina. Currently, she was hugging onto a street pole for balance. Marcus scoffed, “I think you should worry about yourself right now.” Marcus glanced back at the fight. His flames might have affected Kurt too; however, Marcus tried his best to aim at the corpulent thug.

Marcus then saw something roll behind the convict. His eyes opened wide once he came to the realization. “The shrunken head…” He gasped and dropped his hands to his side. Going into a full sprint, he dived towards the cement floor. His elbows slammed into the pavement. The boy breathed hard as he reached for the charm and grasped onto its face.

“I got you now, sucker.” He teased as he looked at the shrunken head in his hand. The texture was scratchy. Even up close, the charm was revolting to look at. “Any last words?” Marcus recognized the head scrunched its face to express anger. It began to unhinge its mouth like a snake. The shrunken head released a deafening wail.

Marcus screamed along as his ears began to bleed. He responded by trying to cover them up with his shoulders. “Damn you. Just die!” With anger, Marcus discharged fire from his palms. In a matter of seconds, the shrunken head shifted into a pile of ashes.

Narrative

A thousand whispers of torture surrounded the three teenagers and the convict. They all came at once. Black smoke erupted from Marcus’ hand. It was hard to explain the supernatural events that were happening. The whispers were speaking in English, but because it was all at once it was difficult to decipher.

One second, they were speaking. Another second, complete silence. The fat convict broke into a fit. He stopped resisting Kurt and allowed the giant lizard to push him onto the floor. The flame began swallowing him as Kurt pulled his hair. Hard to understand, but it was possible that Slave might have been frustrated. The convict had a look of despair on his face.

The criminal then stopped fidgeting. His entire body went limp and his eyes rolled to the back of his head. The sound of fire and the smell of burning flesh was the only thing present. Most likely, the death wasn’t from the fire or the dislocated shoulder. Could it have been from the charm?

The obese criminal’s physical self began glowing a bright blue. It was a strange reaction likely to scare the teenagers. His entire body was becoming swallowed by a blue light. Afterwards, he materialized out of thin air. A couple feet away, the same reaction was happening to the body of Predator Percy.

Sound of speakers turned on. Initializing congratulations dialogue. All convicts have been defeated. Objective complete. Good work...maggots. A victory horn salute could be heard afterward which came off as kind of sarcastic given the current mood.

[LemonZest1337]

Kurt struggled with the convict eventually getting the upper hand and forcing him to the floor. He held him there until he stopped resisting, this puzzled Kurt. He only got more confused when convict went limp, his confusion quickly turned to panic. This panic only increased when the convict started glowing.

Kurt jumped off the convict and watched as his form started to glow completely, he snapped his head around to look at the shrivelled form of Percy that had also begun to glow. What the hell is going on!? He looked between the girl and Marcus, "Y-you two alright?". His question hung there but then the speakers came on.

Wait we won? Were finished?... Kurt didn't feel very good considering he'd just completed something. The whole mood for him was more of a tragic victory not deserving of any celebration.

[1Hawkeyes]

The confused whispers that emerged after the shrunken head dissipated invaded the group of teens' ears. Ally found the strength to let go of the pole she was leaning on and cover her ears. Despite this, the whispers still infiltrated through. Like the others, she couldn't really make out the words it said, but it seemed like the words were English. In all honesty, Ally really didn't want to know what it meant.

Marcus had burned the convict, and although it ended the conflict, Ally felt torn. The smell of burning flesh and seeing his skin melt off of his face was extremely hard to watch, but at the same time she struggled to look away. Part of her had wanted to help the convict through the assault, but she knew that Marcus's way of dispatching the convict was completely necessary. Still, she wished it hadn't been so gruesome.

Then, the convict who had moments ago been writhing and screaming in pain glowed a bright blue until he materialized into thin air. Ally's jaw dropped. Then Percy's body did the same until he vanished into thin air.

Kurt's yell pierced hee thoughts as he questioned their safety. Ally threw up a thumbs up and refocused on the materialization.

"They were fake?" Ally murmured, and looked to the ground. She then began to chuckle, which quickly grew into a relieved laugh, "Hey, they were fake! This... No one died!" Her laugh of relief quickly faded as she pondered something else. We were hurt by things that didn't exist?

Ally pushed away from the pole and walked over to Marcus and Kurt, feeling extreme gratitude to both. "Thanks you guys, I would've been a goner if you hadn't shown up."

[Leaves]

Marcus Winters

Marcus spat blood on the pavement. It took a bit of processing, but he was relieved he survived. The entire battle kept him on his toes; he wasn’t sure if he could commit to fighting more criminals in this fake environment. He stared at the floor for a while. Marcus never had an ambition of utilizing his power for these particular reasons. What he saw, it was going to take a lot to forget.

Marcus heard Kurt but didn’t acknowledge him with an answer. He was way too shocked and disturbed by the previous events. The teen began analyzing all of the previous moments and understanding what outcomes he should and shouldn’t have made. Marcus began thinking of questions like “What if I kicked instead of punched? Would I have died?”

Fighting took a lot of factors. Was he cut out for stuff like this? He did get into some trouble beforehand, but never like this. Marcus then snapped out of thought-process when he heard one of the titanium woman’s suggestions. “Fake? You think this was fake?” Marcus caressed his chest area. There was no telling of the broken bones and internal damage he suffered.

“I heard that man’s scream as I set him on fire. When I burned that charm, it was something I don’t believe computers can describe with coding.” Marcus’ tone was coming off a bit rude and sarcastic. He bit his tongue and sighed. “We’ll just wait to see what happens next and what that man has to say. Maybe this was a simulation,” Marcus let out a more polite tone.

Arguing wasn’t going to be necessary right now. Marcus couldn’t accept the criminals to be holograms. If they did happen to be fake, what would all of this mean? There was no way he could handle real stuff if he could barely handle computer coding. He dropped himself on the floor and took a seat on the curb.

Narrative

The room began distorting itself back to its original form. Structures, cars, and street poles began disappearing. Walls started to squeeze closer together. It was nauseating as the last time. The teenagers were back to the white, isolated room. A room full of emptiness might be the best description.

A blue portal opened up on the farthest wall. It was the same military-dressed body builder as before. He stepped out while delivering a calm applause; his teeth showed a grin. Given the circumstances of being kidnapped and fighting against deadly criminals, the grin came off more as creepy than reassuring. Mr. Russo coughed and clear the phlegm from his throat.
“Congratulations, kids. You did a satisfactory job. You managed to complete the objective and performed better than anticipated.” He brought his hands back to an applause and expected the kids to join him. Stopping his clapping, he began rubbing his chin.

”There might have been a few things that should’ve been done differently, but you guys managed. You took out the wanted criminals. One of them was sent to the ICU and the other was sent...What matters is that their crime has stopped today, because you three.” Mr. Russo then pointed to the wall behind him.

The same blue light covered a section of the wall. It sparkled like glitter and revealed a door out of nowhere. Some tiny remains of the blue light were adjacent to the door. After a bit of scrubbing, a button dressed as an arrow pointing to the ceiling was presented. Inside the door was carpeted flooring and a guard rail along with florescent lighting. It wasn’t just a door, but an elevator!

”Please step inside,” Russo ushered.

[LemonZest1337]

Kurt felt kinda bad for the girl as she went on about the whole thing being fake, because truthfully he didn't believe that they were. He could tell she had some doubts as well as her laughing trailed off. He then turned to Marcus and was displeased by his tone but he did understand how Marcus was feeling. Kurt himself had no real words for what just happened he had not been as badly hurt or thought himself to have done anything that endangered a life, never the less he was just glad it was all over.

He looked around and sighed. "So what now?" At that moment is when the room begun to shift and Kurtis was thrown off balance. Gah not this again... Kurt had caught himself with one arm and put out another for the others to hold onto if they wanted, he retracted his arm after the shift had completed.

Kurt looked up as the blue portal opened and let Mr.Russo once into the vast white room. He was by no means happy to see him but Kurt knew that if he wanted answers he would have to listen to him. Kurt hissed as any hope of the previous events being fake was smashed to pieces, "What happened to the second one?" He asked this question already knowing the answer but he hoped that he was wrong.

Kurt looked between the other two then snapped his head around as the second portal had opened, he had no idea where it would lead but he as long as it got him out of the shifting room he was happy. He brought himself to his feet and begun towards the elevator. He would have politely waited for The girl and Marcus to get into the elevator first before entering himself. Let's get out of this shit hole... He thought to himself as he flicked his tongue.

[1Hawkeyes]

Ally didn't particularly mind Marcus's rude tone, especially since they had all just risked their lives. Not everyone could be rainbows and sunshine 24/7. That was when the room morphed back into the original room. As Ally hadn't been awake in any of the original rooms and awoke in the false city, she almost had a heart attack. "What the..?" she murmured as a man now stepped out of a blue portal.

The ripped military man gave them applause and congratulated them. Something about him was unnerving, and because Ally hadn't had the introduction from earlier, she wasn't sure she could trust him. Was this another convict? How could they know everything was truly over? At least he gave them news Percy was alive, but what about the fat convict?

"I'm sorry," Ally said, shaking her head, "I'm not sure if it's because I'm barely awake right now, but who are you? And why do you have us here?"

She didn't have a reason to ask the age old question of "Why should we trust you?" because it seemed obvious that he was part of the big power here. They had no choice. But she did want some of her questions answered before she stepped into any kind of portal.

[Leaves]

Marcus Winters

Marcus climbed back up to his feet. He groaned as any slight movement brought pain to his body. His muscles located on his calves and arms were aching badly. The boy didn't know how he was going to sleep at all tonight. Marcus hoped the pain would put him to sleep. The monsters he saw though, those will only bring nightmares.

Walking slowly, he entered the elevator. He chose not to resist or argue. Marcus took on the military guy before and had lost tremendously. There was no way he could take him now during his current condition, even with the help of the titanium chick and lizard boy. Marcus leaned on the guard rail and sighed.

Mr. Russo

Mr. Russo sucked the air through his teeth. He imagined the lizard hybrid to be more ferocious, but under the green exterior, he was a big softie. Cracking his neck by shifting it side to side, he made eye contact with Kurt. "Let's be real. You know exactly where he is." Mr. Russo then pointed a down to the floor with his index finger. He gave a short whistle signaling that they must be in hell. "The ends justify the means," Mr. Russo began to approach the elevator.

He stopped his footing once he heard the woman speak up. "Shit," he muttered. "I totally forgot about you. Your dumb ass wouldn't wake up. You weren't even supposed to be helping these two." Mr. Russo eyed the two men, Marcus and Kurt. He pinched the stem of his nose and began snickering. Next, he clapped his hands together.

"But I do applaud you for asking questions. You see, boys? She doesn't respond with violence. She knows better," Mr. Russo reminded the two male teenagers about the conflict from before. He waved his hand and excused himself toward Ally. "Sorry, it's an inside joke."

Mr. Russo then cleared his throat. "I will explain in better detail upstairs. You can ask these two for more information. All I can say is forget your old life and welcome to your new one." He then ushered for the remaining two to enter the elevator.[/color]