Max Stross, Los Angeles California
One thing Max hated almost more than anything in the world was a dead end. A Lead that was going nowhere fast and it seemed that for all the hope and motivation he had. Elena Reese might very well end up as another person in the loop that had some sort of connection to what happened at the high school but ultimately couldn’t present the information he wanted or needed to find out what really happened.
“Alright that’s the “story” your going with” Max spoke with hatred in his voice making it no secret how much he doubted the authenticy of her story. Just the fact that she knew Blaire and that she vanished was enough for him to toss the guilty verdict on her.
Still even though he was sure in his position he could easily bring Elena in for just about anything, he wasn’t sure he’d find out the information he wanted. “There’s nothing in your apartment for me to find trust me .” Although he wasn’t exactly sure he didn’t want to open up an investigation. He didn’t care if she had drugs, guns, or any of that like not that he wanted evo’s to go around gallantly breaking laws.
It’s just his focus was much bigger, and he didn’t have time for this. “Thank you for your co-operation Miss Reese I’ll have to cut this investigation short I’ve got other matters to attend too, just now..you mess up and you will be detained…keep on doing good.” Max then shut the door himself and walked away.
It always pained him to see an Evo free even if they were abiding by the laws, just the fact that the were able to abide by anything was upsetting. These people if you could even call them that were too dangerous, weapons with emotions. He got back into his car and sent a text to the security detail instructing them to keep their eyes on Elena. He started up the car and was leaving when he was getting an update about the situation. “Anderson’s car’s been found, I want the whole vehicle swept for prints, any DNA we can find….hmm what.” Max slammed the breaks .
“How the fuck.” The DNA report didn’t make sense at all, what they were telling him was there was DNA from several individuals. It was like her car was just passed along to random people and they kept driving it. It had been missing for a month at most, something defiantly happened involving an Evo. Either her power itself made this happen, or another evo she knows. Regardless another dead end, and I’m guessing the owner might know we have the car or scene all the agents surrounding it. I told Quantum to handle the situation and law enforcement to stay back damn it.
Max was angry that the authorities had botched another Quantum investigation setting them back to square one. “This is just great, might as well start looking into some other cases now.” Max wasn’t in the mood to keep on driving for what? He pulled into a starbucks and parked the car, before getting his laptop and going inside.
After getting himself a caffeinated beverage and settling down in a table in the corner he went to work on the Quantum database. Although this dead end he hit with Elena had upset him he wasn’t about to just give up right now, not when the state of California itself was literally going to Hell. I’ve got to find something. Hmm..something about some girl in some town in Newberry springs yeah like that’ll be useful. Fuck it, I might as well check it out at least to pass time.
Max went to go check on the file despite feeling as though he’d uncover no pertinent information. He clicked a few times and began going through the file taking occasional breaks for some gulps of coffee. He nearly spilled the cup over when he caught something and was in shock.
“no way.” What he was seeing was the girl from the nightmares he’d been having, confirming they weren’t completely phony. The girl he was seeing in the police report was Riley Smith, the only witness to what had happened. Checking more on the database he saw that was one of the few places in America that lacked blood posting because they didn’t have the funding. “Looks like I’ve been putting my money through the wrong sources, something tells me that Miss Smith’s test results on a blood test aren’t blue.”
Max folded the laptop and put it between his arms and made his way out of the coffee shop with a renewed sense of vigor and joy. He was whistling as he made his way into the rental car and started it up. He knew he had quite the trip ahead of him but he was one step closer to figuring out something almost equally as important as the high school, the nightmares that haunted him. “Hmm two hours…it’s not like I don’t have time really.” He continued driving surely nothing else could make this day any worst. That’s how Max was thinking as he settled into his seat, cracked the windows to allow the fresh air to blow in and turned on some tunes on the radio. It was going to be a nice peaceful relaxing ride on the highway.
BOOM
An explosion went off and in the near distance Max could see billows of smoke rising up. “What the fuck.” Another explosion was heard and he saw two cars up-ahead flipping back-wards slamming into other cars in traffic that had accidents of their own trying to swerve. The culprit was some evo dressed in an assortment of clothes that didn’t seem to match with long brown hair, and raising his hand he unleashed a burst of seismic energy that sent an 18 wheeler truck flying to the other side of the high-way crashing into traffic on the other side. Max quickly drew his weapon from the glove compartment and stepped out his door with a tight grip on the weapon. “ So much for a peaceful fucking ride, looks like one of the prisoners made a mistake, one that I’ll be happy to fix.”
Jason Koravil, Austin Texas
Jason came from the sky and landed on the ground using light to mask his visibility. He quickly made his way through an ally in the process becoming visible, as he took out a room key. He headed over to a motel and opened the door walking in where a young woman was seen sitting on a bed. She had auburn colored hair, was well dressed, but appeared immobile.
“Ah that lack of kinetic energy getting to you Nancy? I apologize I usually prefer not to keep my women restrained but you must understand the nature of your power, I can’t risk you getting your hands on me. Honestly I really don’t mind letting a woman have her way with me on occasion, but the way you are I’d be less occasion and more like every waking moment I’d be a meat puppet to you. “ Jason shrugged as he tossed over a mcdonalds bag he had in his mind and waved his hand.
“There you go a little movement enough that you can get some food, I didn’t know what you liked..and I don’t really give a slight fuck so I just got you some fries, a mc-chicken and…a drink shit why waste money on drinks, I already bought you food.” Jason chuckled to himself, sometimes being a jackass was really amusing and these were one of those times.
Right after he left her uncle at the ware-house he swooped in to pick her up, and had a little chat about how he was the new boss. After explaining to her the new laws of the land he scooped her up and took her down to a motel room he rented in Texas.
“Anyway it’s about time we get to work, that guy I had you touch earlier, the agent who’s in charge of the Church of the Azrael case. Now remember what we went over earlier, I want it happen now.”
Nancy just nodded obliging with Jason’s request. “Okay it’s done, I’m doing it now.” Nancy spoke using her power she reached into the body of the newest person she added to her hive. The FBI Agent who was in charge of the Azrael Cult case and suppose to be heading the team investigating all the crazy stuff taking place in Texas.
That man was in the local FBI office in Austin and getting on a lap-top. He was recording himself and spoke.” My name is Agent Paul Shack, and I am the head of an FBI investigation into the Children of the Church of Azrael, a radical sect of Christianity that believes God is against Evo’s. After investigating them I must agree I’ve come to agree with the beliefs of these people, and realize this isn’t just a radical sect of Christianity oh no this is the future. Today I wil do something for the children of Azrael, for all the people of this world, I am herby releasing the information of all registered evo’s to the general public.” Right as the man said that he went on his lap-top , put in the code for his government clearance and accessed the Evo’s files. Right after in the same broad-cast the information was uploaded to the screen, and the internet. The information of every registered evo their home address, their power, everything in their hidden government files availed for all the prying eyes of American citizens thanks to this manipulated agent.
Jason turned on the TV to see the story in progress. “Evo Leak: Identities of every registered U.S Evo compromised.” He’d had Nancy do more than reach the agent, but also get in contact with the local news in Texas to broad-cast the story. He smirked watching the televised event it wouldn’t be long before this was a national event, and he had a strong belief that the radical anti evo cultists would take this as a sign from the heavens and carry out retribution against evo’s across the country.
“You…you monster..how can you do this? “Nancy spoke up for the first time watching the events that Jason had forced her to participate in.
“Oh do what? Well I dunno your going to call me a monster but you had no problem helping your uncle run drugs and such to support your lavish life-style? Surely the money he continued to fund you with you knew of its origins, or is blood money somehow worst then drug money, because I guarantee you plenty of blood was spilled by you supporting your uncle. Let me tell you the difference between that criminal and me. I do things I don’t like, things I honestly..abhore..but it’s all for the greater good, for a greater purpouse.”
“You sick fuck, your no better then the cultists who want us all dead then, you think God wants this! You think he-“ Before she could speak Jason moved over to her at inhuman speeds and wrapped his hand around her neck removing her kinetic energy to prevent her from grabbing him before choking her then releasing his grip.
“You will never ever as long as you hope to breath speak to me. I don’t care how valuable you are, mortals are expendable, and the gods are not. You are nothing but a mere pawn used by men of far higher status to further their own already great progress. As much as I despise your uncle he was a man of progression, you, you’re a pathetic bitch who simply went along with what he said for the little money he allowed you to make on the side. Me I love money sure, but what I love more then that is power, the power to do as a please, the power to let my kind be free. And if a few hundred, thousands, maybe even a million have to die so that a billion can be free then it’s worth it. Don’t worry you may not see it now, not that your opinion matters but one day I will be regarded as a hero, a savior, a man who goes down in history as one of the greats who stood up in a time of mass adversity to do something about it someone who brings about immediate and much needed change.” Jason spoke beaming with confidence as he looked at Nancy who was gasping for breath and turned her eyes away from her fellow EVO in fear.
Before he could further bask In his own glory his iPhone was buzzing. He took it out expecting a call only to see a notification from Quantum regarding another case. He opened the file and began reading it before closing it. “Hmm…now this is an interesting case, Nancy I think we have some more work to do together, how about a trip to Florida, I do love the sunshine city.” Jason smirked looking outside the window of the motel things were about to change.
Anna Pedrose, Miami Florida to Austin Texas
After a blunt to the face Anna was feeling mighty relaxed and quite high. While she hadn’t liked the dealers attitude they had some good bud, and there was no shortage of marijuana in the SUV and the car. She decided to transport the marijuana in the other car to the SUV and leave with it. While she loved the car she really was craving an SUV these days.
She made her way to a nearby hotel she was staying at and parked the car. She stashed all the marijuana in a duffel bag the dealers had and made sure to park near the dumpster away from other cars. There was no air freshener or anything in the car but she decided a little febreeze would cover the smell of what she assumed was at least two and a half pounds of pot.
After securing the vehicle she smiled and her appearance altered. She changed to that of an older Caucasian woman with auburn hair and exited the vehicle. After a brief elevator ride she made it to her floor, and entered her room via the key. Upon walking over to her bed she went over to her suit case and opened it up to retrieve some files. The same files she’d recovered after she confronted Blaire Anderson the day the high school was wiped out.
“Hmmm not too shabby I’ve been making good progress, there’s quite a few good snacks here, but I’m here for the main course and I’m determined to find them.” She was speaking to herself as she was looking at a few files she had. She’d lost her car so she knew the Government had caught up with her to some extent, although exactly how much she didn’t know. She almost wished she had risked confrontation with the agents to at least absorb one of them but it wasn’t worth it.
Grabbing her remote she turned on the television and sat back kicking up her feet as she engaged in her daily news update. She yawned as they were covering the riot that took place in Miami two days ago, but she quickly got interested when they switched to covering the situation in Texas. “We’re coming to you live from Austin Texas, an Evo elementary school was shot up today by a crazed man. As you can see local police, FBI, and Homeland Security’s Evo division have sealed off the area, and got the remaining evo students and staff to safety. There have been 15 reported causalities 12 of which where students, with the other 3 beings staff who got in the line of fire to try to protect the students. Authorities say the shooter Gabriel Dumose was shot dead by responding officers. An investigation of Dumose’s motives for the shooting is underway with many believing he may have been a member of the rising anti evo cult the Children of the Church of Azrael. Speaking of the Children, Donna back to you down-town.” Anna was just watching and was infuriated by what happened.
“These people have the nerve to shoot up our children, to wipe us out, yet we’re the superior ones? Huh!” She scoffed at people having the nerve but while she wasn’t exactly one to sit around and sing kumbaya with others she didn’t want to sit around while her species was exterminated. She already had a feeling something really bad was about to happen to them which is why she was trying to investigate herself and find out what the government was planning.
“KILL THE EVOS SAVE THE PEOPLE!!!! In the back-ground you can hear protestors, according to ours sources the Children of the Church of Azrael have launched a full scale protest against Evo prisons for the past three days advocating the death penalty for all Evo’s, Texas already has one of the highest rates of anti Evo violence in the country with several open cases regarding injured or dead Evo’s that have barely been investigated, what will come of this protest is unknown however.” Anna reached for the remote and turned off the TV boiling with anger.
“These bastards think they can get away with doing this shit? They want to kill the evo’s, nuh uh uh KILL the PEOPLE, Save the Evo’s.” Anna couldn’t help but laugh imagining that. She walked over to the window of her hotel and opened it up. She faded from visibility and took flight quickly entering the upper atmosphere as she was headed towards Texas. Before long she was in the skies of Austin Texas now rendering herself visible as she looked down on the violent protests taking place in the streets. IN some parts of the city from what she could see law enforcement was trying to split up the crowd, in other parts they were literally doing nothing as if they supported the views of the people there.
“Oh so the capitol building they can’t make their choice I’ll make it.” Anna grinned causing her appearance to shift to that of some business attire as she came from the sky people in the crowd began looking up at her yelling obscenities and slurs as Anna looked down from the sky. “Shut up! She looked down at the crowd and smiled still remaining in the sky. No doubt she was sure she was on camera’s and was actually enjoying the attention.
“Enough is enough! You people are scared of us, you people want us to be killed, well it’s time we tell YOU how we feel! We want you all to be dead too!” Anna began to laugh as she flew up into the sky and suddenly grew to several times her original height. Going from the size of an average woman to gigantic proportions she took a step forward crushing protestors and nearby vehicles under her feet. The crowd was filled with panic as the flying woman landed and became a giant.
“WE WANT YOU ALL DEAD AS WELL” Anna’s voice boomed over the crowd from her new gargantuan heights as she turned to the capitol building and reached for the roof tearing it off then tossing it into the crowd then kicking into the building causing damage. She only laughed as the scene below turned into mass panic with protestors fleeing, while law enforcement was being quick to respond to the scene of the giant EVO tearing apart the capitol building. She raised both hands and smashed them into the building with force causing the rest of the capitol building to began to collapse as she laughed. Helicopters were flying on the scene shooting but she merely swatted knocking two choppers aside giggling as they crashed into the streets below.
“KILL THE PEOPLE, SAVE THE EVOS” She bellowed laughing as protestors were running, some hopping in their cars attempting to drive away, while Anna turned her attention to the protestors walking forward stepping on fleeing protestors before looking up in the sky as she heard the sound of whirring chopper blades, and saw approaching armored trucks trying to push through the fleeing panicked crowd. “Ooooh army guys…it was fun but buhhh bye now.” Right as one of the soldiers on the armored truck reached for an RPG and fired the giant woman faded away from visibility. The rocket flying past where she once was in and into the crowd causing an explosion. The protest had dispersed and panic had taken over the scene with the rubble from the capitol building in the back-ground.
Evan Kingsfield, Miami Florida
Coffee just wasn’t going to cut it, he was caffeinated enough but he needed a little more than that to keep him going. He’d decided to leave his rental car at the hotel and just brought his bag with his laptop and some notes to keep on hand.
He was still dead intent on finding Miami’s very own guardian angel who prevented its eradication back in 2008. To support this cause he stopped by the bar to indulge in happy hour because why not he was on the hour and he wanted to be happy. “Long Island Ice Tea please, make it strong, make it snappy. “Evan demanded as he sat down at the counter.
He took out his phone to graze through his text messages right quick as well as reading a few articles. Damn shit is really getting intense in Texas with these cultists they can’t just fucking stop. He was reading that before his finger hovered over another article. “Breaking News: Information of all Evo U.S Citizens leaked by FBI agent claiming he’s working for Divine Power.” Evan said that barely audibly as he pressed the article and watched his phone screen pull it up.
Shit maybe I picked the wrong place to go, all this shit happening in Texas. On the other hand it is quite nice to avoid a riot and I doubt they’ll be very many European models in Texas. Evan thought as he tossed up reasons why making the trip to Florida was much better then Texas. As he read the article he was genuinely filled with interest, the information of every Evo that was registered to the government in the hands of the public. No doubt a massive invasion of privacy, and the agent responsible would have to get reprimanded for this breach of conduct.
“Your drink sir.” The waitress set his alcoholic beverage in-front of him underneath a small napkin with a thin black straw placed in the center.
“Gracias.” Evan responded as he took a long sip of the beverage and nodded his head slowly in approval. Damn right! That’s how you make a Long Island, I might have to leave a tip, the waitress is looking pretty damn sexy as well. I wanna give her something long and I’m not thinking about tea haha Evan could only grin wide for a moment forgetting about the news article he was reading as he looked over at the gorgeous waitress serving another patron a drink on the other side of the counter. After finishing his drink and leaving behind a tip.
With Alcohol flowing through his bloodstream he was practically skipping to the candle lighting vigil. He was already ready to ask questions as he waltzed his way into the crowd. There was a man up on the podium in the beginning stage of a speech about how sad he was that the events that happened transpired. Right your just here to get your money, you probably are gaining something financial out of this. As per usual Evan’s skepticism was on 100% as he heard people speaking still he was here to garner whatever information he could.
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