@Zhaliora@Nomad@Orlan@BlackPanther@Helo--------------------------------------------
Far away from all the action, two men sat in an office. The place must have been a nightmare to keep clean, as it was all white. Floors, walls, ceiling even a large part of the furniture was white. There was expensive decorations and polished glass tables.
The two men wore suits that probably cost more than most people’s houses. At their sleeves cufflinks sat with the word
EDGE, and they wore them proudly. Despite the obvious comfort of the chairs, the men did not look happy. On the flatscreen played a live feed, one of their agents recorded. It showed the theater collapsing, and before that a giant lightshow of a war had played.
“It’s our Jane. Always thinking with her fists. God damn her! A child, forever a child. She could be a force of nature if only she listened to us. She might even win us the war, if only she would be more discrete.”“Do you think she will survive?” the other asked, a blond guy with glasses. Unlike his colleague he actually sounded concerned.
“Maybe. Maybe not. We have to start planning without her. Like how are we going to use this?” He nodded to the screen.
“The scientists have played their hand, and I don’t think they expected this much resistance. The site is a warzone now, and we can expose them for the murderous tyrants they are. They can’t just spin this, people have seen too much, and the cat is out of the bag. Supernaturals are among us, and the government unleashed them on the streets without a second’s thought.”-------------------------------------------
Meanwhile Jane picked herself up from the solid ground. Her hood was down and sand and dirt fell from her hair.
The stranger had started another lecture while people fought for their lives around him. He even spoke to the enemy.
“Seriously, just shut up and get out of here! I came back for you, get it?” she shouted to him. More clouds had formed above, and she greeted the rumbling sound of thunder. It was thanks to her newfound supernatural friend whom could control storms. Hoping desperately that her escape plan would work she raised her fist and gave the signal.
Immediately lightning struck the ground a few meters from where she was standing.
Come on, hit me! she thought to herself.
Another strike, this one right next to her. She could almost smell the power coming from it.
Again! Make it strike me! This has to work. And then the thunderstorm hits its mark; Jane was struck and thrown down on her knees by the violent impact. Her vision got blurry and her limbs started shaking. Before she could order another delivery, she was hit again and then again, and they kept coming.
A clear silhouette of her hands and knees where painted in soot where she was laying and trying to push back, so she would not get totally smashed into the ground by the strength of the bolts. Luckily for her they stopped as soon as she raised her arm again.
She had never felt such power running through her before. This plan had gone even further than she had wanted. But it worked! Her hands were almost vibrating and her heart was pounding like a locomotive. The little bit of lighting that shot between her fingers, as she stood up again, was quickly absorbed as well. Her eyes yet again glowed orange, but steam also started to pour out like something from a cheesy manga.
“Hell… fucking… yeah!” she whispered and raised her bleeding arm. With a single stroke of her hand she blasted a giant line in the ground where the Scientists had come from. The concrete was instantly obliviated, and pieces and dust shot up into the air like a giant wall, obscuring the view of anyone not close and directly in the fight.
“Go! We can’t fight all of them!” she yelled out in the direction of the stranger and the escape vehicles.
There was a woman at one of them. Covered in armor with a set of wings on her back. In her hand a gun. She was undoubtedly with the Scientists.
Looking like a lion about to devour a mouse, Jane now directed both arms right at the winged woman.
And then Jane fired…
The blast was like radiant lava, heated up to the absolute boiling point. The beam itself shot out with such unbelievable force, Jane was pushed slightly back. The ground beneath the immense ray started to melt, and the air around turned red. It was as if pure hellfire burned the world with a glow warmer than anything.
Unknown to Jane at the time where the consequences of the Armageddon she had unleashed from her hands. All she felt right now was hate. A consuming hate. And she hoped her hate would allow them all to retreat.