The World Heroes

Alien King

Vincent was staring out the window confused by what he was seeing.
He cleared his throat and said, "Uh, guys?"
The rest of the Heroes ran next beside Vincent to see what was staring at. 
Vincent asked, "Am I the only one seeing this?"
Bradley said, "He's going to destroy the space craft. We better take him out."
Zora said, "Tat would be killing him and we don't kill humans."
Bradley shrugged and said, "Obviously the guy has lost his mind. Taking him out wouldn't affect the world."
Mani stopped him and said, "Hold on you guys, take a look at his face."
Everyone on the team leaned in close.
Mani asked, "Doesn't he look familiar?"
Bradley shook his head and said, "He looks like a one armed cowboy to me!"
Mani rolled her eyes and said, "Actually look! That's a Chosen One!"
Vincent said, "No way!"
One of the shots the young British Chosen One named Christopher Pace made cracked the window of the space craft.
Bradley said, "Whatever he is, he needs to be stopped! David, shoot at the ground near him so that we can subdue him."
David ran over to the laser cannon controls and began to aim at the ground beside Christopher. Bradley said, "Fire!"
David pulled the trigger and shot at the ground.
    The laser hit the ground and caused a force so harsh that it sent Christopher off his feet and flying toward a nearby tree head first. He hit the ground knocked out.
    The Heroes turned and looked at David surprised by his action. David shrugged at each other.
   
The Heroes lowered their space craft down and opened the ramps. Mani and Vincent ran out of the space craft and went to pick up Christopher. Mani had an easy time lifting up Christopher's upper body but Vincent was struggling to lift up his legs. Mani saw this and noticed how red his face was getting. She asked, "You good?"
Vincent nodded still struggling to get him up.
   
The two carried Christopher on board the space craft and dropped him on the floor. Bradley glared at Christopher and remembered his face well enough. He said, "Yeah that's him. But I didn't know he was missing an arm."
Zora said, "He wasn't before. This is recent."
Vincent asked, "How do you know that? He's not an internet celebrity."
Zora glared at him and said, "He's got an Instagram."
Vincent rubbed his face and said, "No way, you sneak on his Instagram?"
Zora said, "When I've got nothing to do, yeah sometimes!"
Bradley yelled, "ENOUGH! You teenagers always have shit to argue about! Right now, we've got to leave before to attract any more attention, got it?" The Heroes agreed.
Bradley said, "Good, now Vincent get us out of here. Mani, tend to the Chosen One and let us know when he wakes up."
Mani agreed. Bradley turned around and everyone took a seat as Vincent flew the space craft out of the forest and toward the city of Birmingham.
   
Upon arriving over the city, the team saw the destroyed city.
Zora said, "Oh my God!"
There was nothing left. The buildings were on fire and the seats were covered with dead corpses. Bradley said, "It's happening all over again."
Vincent said, "Yeah, but this time it's different. This time we may be in for a whole different ball game." Bradley said, "Yeah, no shit."
   
Christopher slowly began to wake up after Mani had applied cool ice packs on his face.
He looked up at her and asked, "What's going on?" Mani said, "You're on board a space craft with The World Heroes."
Christopher slowly began to sit up.
He asked, "Why'd you guys shoot me?"
The team turned to him.
Christopher looked at each of them and said, "Right, The World Heroes. I remember reading about you guys. Thanks for shooting at me by the way."
David looked down a bit embarrassed. Bradley stood up and walked over to help Christopher get on his feet.
He said, "You looked pretty beaten up. What happened?"
Christopher looked out the window at his destroyed city and said, "We were out done by an alien named Jola."
Zora asked, "A single alien did all of this?"
Christopher said, "No, but he pretty much could have from what I witnessed."
Bradley asked, "How did you survive?"
Christopher said, "I ran."
Bradley laughed to himself.
Christopher said, "Point is, I don't know much about Jola but from what I've been told, he doesn't want to enslave us or take control of the planet. He just wants us dead. All of us."
Mani said, "Well your city says it all. He can do it." Christopher agreed and said, "I have friends all over the world trying to protect the planet but I fear it won't be enough."
Bradley asked, "What makes you say that?"
Christopher said, "Because, we're stronger together than we are apart. We'll be picked off one by one this way. We need an army."
Bradley sat down and said, "Listen kid, what we did four years ago was luck. We could have easily been killed."
Vincent said, "Thanks for that Brad."
Bradley said, "Point is, we've been all over the planet. There are places that look a lot worse than this city. There are a lot more aliens this time. And what's worse is that they are being ordered by someone stronger than all of them combined. We could defeat the aliens on the ground. But trying to take on Jola would be one of the worst ideas ever." Christopher asked, "Then where are we going?" Bradley said, "There's a friend of mine in Scotland. He and a few of his friends need to be evacuated out of the city."
Christopher asked, "We're not going to fight?" Bradley said, "That would be suicide. And I can't afford to let any of my team members die. Not today. I need them."
Christopher looked at the rest of them and saw the look of shame on their faces.
Bradley asked, "Would you like to join us? We could use an extra pair of hands. Or one."
Christopher smiled at the joke but he didn't find it very cool.
He said, "Sure I've got nothing better to do."
    Vincent continued to fly on toward Dundee, Scotland.
    He landed the space craft somewhere outside the city. The team stood up as soon as they landed and grabbed their weapons.
Bradley walked over to Christopher and asked, "You ready?"
Christopher looked up at him and asked, "Do I really have much a choice?"
Bradley handed him his rifle and said, "Don't take it so hard brit, we're doing something right here." Christopher grabbed his rifle and stood up.
Vincent patted him on the back and said, "I know, he's a dick."
   
The Heroes walked out of their space craft and looked forward at Dundee.
Bradley turned to the team and said, "All right, we're going to have to split up."
Zora asked, "What?"
Bradley said, "My partner is somewhere in the city. He couldn't give me his exact location."
Mani asked, "Why not?"
Bradley sighed and said, "Because... the radio I used ran out of batteries."
Everyone sighed.
Bradley said, "Hey, come on, okay? Don't judge me!" Vincent asked, "Now what are we going to do?" Bradley said, "I just said it! We're splitting up! Vincent and Christopher; you'll take the north side. David and Mani take the west. Zora and I will take the east. Got it?"
The Heroes nodded uneasily and began to split up in different directions.
   
Vincent and Christopher were sneaking around the streets of a destroyed and abandoned Dundee. Christopher looked around and said, "You know, I never got the chance to actually thank you people for what you did four years ago."
Vincent laughed and said, "Well, it's what we do you know? Save people."
Christopher agreed and said, "I've read about you've done throughout the years. You've changed things in a very good way. Way better than the Chosen Ones have."
Vincent said, "What are you talking about? You guys stopped aliens from ending an execution in the kremlin. That's badass."
Christopher nodded and said, "Wasn't there." Vincent looked at him surprised and said, "Really?" Christopher agreed and said, "Yup, they replaced with an Aussie."
Vincent snapped his fingers and said, "That's right! Alien-Teen. God, we could really use someone like that right about now."
Christopher looked at him puzzled and asked, "Really? I'm way better than him."
Vincent chuckled and asked, "How? You're a human. He's a human slash alien. Human strength mixed with alien power. That's tough!"
Christopher agreed and said, "Wherever he is, I hope he's having a better job at saving the world than us."
   
At that moment, Christopher stopped when he heard rubble movement. He looked around aiming his rifle forward.
Vincent stopped and asked, "What?"
Christopher said, "We're not alone."
Vincent aimed his machine gun forward and pinned his back against Christopher.
Vincent asked, "Can you shoot with that one arm?" Christopher said, "I've only had six weeks to train with it. So it's not as good as it used to be."
Vincent sighed and said, "God, now I'm really wishing we had Alien-Teen on our side."
    A smoke grenade rolled out in front of them. Christopher and Vincent looked down at it and before it could explode, Christopher tackled Vincent out of the way. Smoke filled the air. The Hero and the Chosen One looked around confused when they heard people surrounding them. Vincent began coughing uncontrollably.
Christopher looked at him and asked, "Are you okay?"
Vincent saw something get close to them.
He pointed at the person and when Christopher noticed it, he aimed his gun at the person and yelled, "GET BACK!"
The person was wearing a gas mask. He stopped when he got a good look at Christopher and began speaking into a radio. Christopher looked around even more confused.
    The man put his gun away and reached out to Christopher. Christopher grabbed his hand and the man pulled him up.
The man said, "Sorry, we thought you were aliens." Christopher said, "Yeah, because we look just like aliens."
More people entered the smoke to help Vincent get on his feet.
The man asked, "Where's Reed?"
Christopher looked at him and began to tell him where he might be with a sneaky smile on his face.
   
Bradley and Zora were aiming their guns around looking for buildings that were perfect for hiding out. Suddenly something fell inside a building beside them. Bradley and Zora turned to the store wondering what it was. But it was too dark. Bradley swallowed his fear and they began to move toward the store. The closer they got the more scared they were of finding out what was inside until a bunch of people stood flashing lights at them. Bradley screamed as loud as he could.
    The people flashing the lights were Christopher and Vincent along with the resistance fighters that they ran into earlier. Bradley sighed and rolled his eyes.
He said, "You guys are assholes!"
   
The resistance fighters led the Heroes toward their hidden base somewhere far from town.
    They entered a hardware building and saw some of the survivors of Dundee sitting and huddled up with each other. Zora looked at each of them and felt the emotional pain that she had felt four years ago. This was happening again but this time things weren't going to be the way they used to be.
    The fighters lead the Heroes to the leader who was sitting in the manager's office. The leader went by the name Jeremy Smith and he was a close friend of Bradley's went back when he was younger.  The one of the fighters knocked on the door as he opened the door.
Jeremy looked at him and asked, "What is it?"
The fighter allowed the Heroes to enter the office. Jeremy got onto his feet quickly and said, "You son of a bitch!"
He ran over to hug Bradley instantly.
He said, "Thank god you came!"
Bradley said, "I had to man, I had to!"
Jeremy let him go and asked, "So, what's the plan?" Bradley looked at the team and said, "We're going to get you guys out of here."
Jeremy chuckled and asked, "What?"
Bradley nodded and said, "Yes, we're getting you guys out of this place."
Zora said, "Really Brad? That's the master plan?" Bradley looked at her annoyed.
Jeremy said, "I have to agree with the tomboy, it's a shit plan."
Bradley rubbed his face and asked, "I have no other plan okay? We've been through this damn thing before! And this time we can't possibly win!"
Christopher said, "Yes we can."
He looked to Jeremy and asked, "Your people, can they fight?"
Jeremy nodded.
Christopher said, "Then we go along with Brad's plan. But instead of getting them somewhere safe, we go to the fight. We fight Jola and his army!" Bradley instantly laughed out loud alone. Everyone looked at him confused and annoyed. Bradley slowly stopped laughing and saw his team giving him a look.
He asked, "What?"
Zora said, "I think it's a brilliant idea."
Christopher smiled at her and said, "Thanks!" Vincent saw the two smiling in each other's faces and stepped forward saying, "I like your plan also!" Mani agreed and said, "I'm down."
David agreed.
Jeremy said, "My people will stand with you!"
Christopher saw that things were going to go well. Everyone then looked to Bradley.
He sighed said, "Fine, why not? The world is about to end anyways."
   
Jeremy walked over to the survivors and they all up at him.
Jeremy said, "We're leaving!"
Some of the survivors were confused. Jeremy tried to calm them down but they were all very chatty. Jeremy said, "It's okay, we'll be okay. We're going to get somewhere safe."
Jeremy looked to Christopher. Christopher nodded to Jeremy giving him the okay.
Jeremy said, "We're going to fight with the World Heroes and the Chosen Ones."
One person asked, "What about those who don't fight?"
Jeremy said, "It's the end of the world! We have to stand up and do something. The men and women will be giving weapons and if need be... the children-."
Before he could even finish the people began screaming and shouting at Jeremy. Jeremy looked down in sadness. Christopher stepped forward and patted him on the back. Jeremy looked at him wondering what was going on.
Christopher yelled, "LISTEN UP!"
Everyone went silent.
Christopher said, "I don't care what this sounds like or what this is, those aliens are slaughtering people left and right! My friends could be dying right now! I was not a fighter at first. I was just like all of you! Then I got roped into this shit! The Heroes of the World were just regular teenagers. Now they're out saving your asses from alien's every day! If we can do it, why can't all of you? Sure of you may die, but it'll be for the future of your children and your children's children! You help us fight and I promise you the alien responsible for all of this will die!"
The survivors got onto their feet.
One survivor said, "I'll fight with you."
Everyone else in the group agreed as well. Christopher had an army behind him. Now he just needed to figure out where to lead them.
    Christopher stepped outside the store to make a phone call to the leader of the Chosen Ones named Robert Mark. As soon as he answered, Christopher was filled with joy.
He asked, "Are you okay, mate?"
Robert said, "Yes, I am. Thank god you're still alive!" Christopher asked, "Where are you?"
Robert said, "China."
Christopher was confused and asked, "Why China?" Robert said, "Because, we're planning on making a final assault here. Where are you?" Christopher said, "Scotland. I met up with the World Heroes."
Robert asked, "Who?"
Christopher said, "The people who saved the world four years ago."
Robert went silent for a bit and said, "Oh yeah, them!"
Christopher said, "Yes, they gave me a ride and now I've got an army of fighters."
Robert said, "That's great! We're going to need all the help we can get!"
Christopher asked, "Who's we?"
Robert said, "Lin Wu. The newest member of the team."
Christopher had forgotten about her and asked, "Anyone else?"
Robert said, "I've tried to reach out to Giang but she's not answering. I don't even know where she is." Christopher said, "I'm sure she's okay. What about Sasha?"
Robert said, "I'm about to call her as soon as we're done on the phone."