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5. Ignis and samantha

All the events that lead up to this one still run through my mind every now and then. Right now as I am standing by Mighty Meg's side, trying to apear as tough as I really am to the current threat to the human race(Barry Avery), I can't help but think back to simpler times. Of course there was nothing simple about trying to find the cure for the epidemic as well as juggling baby sitting the girl who lived in my lab with saving the world. It still beats this. Now I am public enemy number one and Barry, is the only one that can save us all(how'd that happen?)
Life for steel is shit, but I always thought tuker Langston would be safe. But now, Barry Avery knows who I am.
"Steel or should I say Tucker," Barry smiles, his perfectly white teeth sharpening his smile. "We meet again"
"Oh please Barry, how typical can you get?" Mighty Meg spits.
"Oh, you think I'm the typical villain don't you Megan?"
Megan freezes for a while at her real name, but then unfreezes really quickly. At the speed of light she jumps at Barry, who doges, but not with out a scratch. I make a move for him, getting him at his jaw then with a roundhouse kick, sent him flying Meg's way. She gave an axe kick to the head and as he crumpled to the round she gave him one in the nuts.
He was on the ground motionless.
Meg looks at me, a pained expression on her face that seemed to say
Did we hurt him too much?

Suddenly, every thing is moving. The boxes in the ally, the cars on the street, the trash cans.....every thing.
Meg steps away from Barry, who is getting up.
"Wow, being betrayed by my girlfriend" he has the smile of a maniac plastered on his face.....wide, and stupidly happy looking. You just know that something is wrong.
"What's he talking about!" I yell to Meg.
She glances at me, a wistful look on her face.
"We are together" she said.
I scowl, I am so angry I don't to say.....or want to do for that matter.
At least she doesn't deny it.

Suddenly, a car is hurtling at me, I dodge it, but barely.
Barry is using telekinesis to throw particularly heavy things at us— make that me. He has Meg in the air and unable to move. Protecting her and taking out the cousin.
Is that tough love, or plain craziness.
I lift a few things and throw it at him, he dodges easily, throwing things isn't my department. I am not super strong.......that's Meg's department.
I fly up to a telekinesis bound Meg and try releasing her only to be pushed to the ground, by some kind of force, Barry.
Wow, his hold really strong, its like you have no option but to stay still. I struggle anyway.
Barry walks up to me a big smile on his face. "I'll be going now" he says. "The cops should be on their way....wouldn't they want to catch their public enemy number one?" He adds and then lifts a car.
My eyes widen with shock......and then bang. I am pulled into the darkness of my mind with with my memories for entertainment.

I remember when Samantha learnt how to control her powers.
She smiled at me the very first time she turned on the flames on her own.
Every one else was there, they clapped for her.

"Four months of working on you" I could hear the smile in chameleon's voice.
"Okay, now fly" violet said.

The training room is high enough for her to fly and wide enough too.
She is nothing but red and yellow glowing light with the faint highlight of human features.
She zooms up into the air and does a somersault, before diving towards Meg at full speed and only to get up in the air again.
"Great!" Adam shouts "now use you powers"
Adam was monitoring Samantha's energy readings.
Samantha had this fireproof monitoring band on her wrist, it would send signals to the RMS monitor that Adam was working with. Adam in particular was worried about Samantha, she tended to break her energy limit when ever she used her powers. She could set things on fire, she could heat things with out setting them on fire, she could absorb all the heat in an environment, she could burn out all the oxygen in a room, she could shoot fire balls out and fly. Although flying didn't take much, she did it on natural instincts like on our first encounter.
Still, something always went wrong when she tried to heat things up. Every one exited to the viewing room. Samantha could burn us to ashes.
Meg scowled at me through her mask.
I shrugged.
I hadn't given Samantha a word of encouragement all through out the two months of her training.(shocker that she hadn't figured out who we were).
Last week when I had tried helping Samantha, she latched onto my arm and burnt her hand print into my skin.(she was still in her normal form when she did it). She had said it was an accident, but from then on I was a bit wary of her.
She kept giving me these wistful glances all week when I didn't talk to her. Violet and Megan, who were now in love with her kept giving me rude glances all week.
"You are just being mean" Meg said to me once we were in the viewing room "you even brought a bloody fire proff blanket!"she rolled her eyes.
Violet shook her head.
" she's not going to burn any one!" Violet hissed.
I didn't say any thing to her. I just leaned on the wall futherest from the rest of them, the fire proff blanket at hand and looked beyond the bullet and fire proof glass.
Samantha couldn't talk when she was in her fire form.....a form that Adam had decided to call Ignis.
She waved at us through the glass, though she couldn't see us.
"Okay," Adam called out through the microphone "begin at reducing the temperature in the room"
The temperature monitors that took gauge of the training room dropped.
Every one clapped. I was passive.
"Okay now shoot fire" Adam called.
She did.....so far so good.
" okay, now heat up the place gradually" Adam called again
She did, glowing a bright yellow and then it happened, the temperature monitors shattered, Samantha, who was hovering in the air began to loose her balance.
The viewing  glass cracked and Samantha turned from yellow to red.....she was losing heat fast.
"Samantha, stop!" Adam tried to use the microphone, but she had fried the system "guys, she's gonna burn her self out!"
" We have to help her!" Meg reached for the door to the training room(which I was glad was made of reinforced steel and had a vault lock as well as a computerised lock).
I stopped Meg.
"You'll burn alive!" I yelled
"She's going to use up all her energy!" Meg yelled back
"So? Then shell turn of her Ignis"
Adam shook his head at me, I raised a brow at him.
"The energy she'll burn out, includes the one that keeps her alive" he said.
My eyes widened.
" I'll go" I said "if there's any one of us who can manage for a while its me"
"What are you gonna do?" Seth looked alarmed but cynical "pour water on her?"
"No," I said " she'll just burn the water away"
I headed out into the training room.
The heat was unbearable, it was worse than fire.......I felt my hair burning.
She was hovering close to the ground now. She was looking around like she was confused.
"Samantha......you have to stop" I said to her
She looked at me tilting her head in confusion, like she didn't recognise me.
"Samantha, you're killing you self" I tried again. My skin was burning. It was impenetrable, but it could burn.
"Samantha.... Please im dying" I reached out to her.
She stretched her hands towards me......but stopped the halows he had for eyes slanted. It was like she didn't know me.
She lost her balance in the air, she glow was dying. She was killing her self. It was like in her Ignis form, she was a whole other person. That's when I knew Ignis and Samantha were two different people.
I grabbed her, and pulled her into my arms even if she was burning my skin off, she looked at me with some kind of familiarity.
Suddenly, I couldn't breath. Adam must have turned the ventilation off. She had burnt all the oxygen out. She was turning back to Samantha slowly, but then something happened. As if Ignis had realised I was a kind of distraction, she began to over power Samantha.....even with no oxygen to burn she was heating up. It could kill Samantha. I pulled her closer.
"Please Ignis, let her go" I begged "you'll kill her"
Ignis glared at me and shook her head.
"Please.....you can't do this Ignis" I begged again " Samantha if you're in there, fight it."
Ignis shook her head spasmodically, like something was fighting her inside. I let her go. My skin was burning off me, it was getting too hard to breath, my eye lids were getting heavy.
Then she turned back, she had over powered ignis.
By now my clothes had burned of and my chest was burnt. Samantha who usually, turned back with her clothes intact was naked now. She only had strips of burnt material around her. We collapsed on the floor. She tried to reach out to me just before the darkness pulled us under. And just as the darkness closed in, I realised my mask must have burnt clear off.

I wake up.
A sense of panic rushes over me. I always have that feeling when I wake up from some kind of knock out. I am glad to be out of the night mare of my memories
I am held to the wall by some kind of cuff. I try to break free, but I can't. I look around me. I am in some kind of lab. I hear voices, I can recognise Adams voice amongst them. Then someone walks into my view.
It is Blaze.
"Steel, how nice of you to join us" he says "that was some knock out you had there"
"What's up with the cuffs Blaze?" I groaned "what are you doing?"
Over his blue and red suit, blaze is wearing a lab coat.
Someone else comes into view.
The general.
The army had taking over the task of apprehending me and Barry. My DNA was needed for the cure and Barry was needed to make the cure. Though they where sure that something about my powers was the only was to save man kind. So they were going to test on me. They would test me till I was nothing. They could could cut me open, destroy me.....but it wouldn't help. Barry was my only hope(once again: how'd that happen).
"I'm sorry steel" blaze said "but people are dying every day"
"A year ago" I groaned "man kind thought the epidemic was a blessing"
"Mankind knows better" the general butted in sarcastically.
"Ill get started" blaze said to the general.
The general left the room.
"Adam, why are you doing this?" I asked Adam
"Because I'm the only one willing to make the nessecary sacrifices.
"You want to kill me!" I yelled "you know you actually need Barry. You can just get my DNA you don't have to test me!"
Adam shook his head.
"This is my job" he said
"Blaze's job or Adam's job?" I urged "are you trying to please these people, they don't need it. We are the ones who can save the world."
"There are hero's everywhere trying to find the cure and you say we know how to have the day" Adam scoffed.
I shrugged.
"You're right...?so why are you taking it up on your self to save every one?"
"Because I can"
"So can i!"
Adam ignored me and began to prepare and injection.
"Please Adam" I pleaded.
He looked me in the eye before giving me the shot.
"Some one has to me a hero here"

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A/N
Incase you don't understand. This whole book is kinda being told by Tucker/steel. When ever you see any part in present continuous tense, it means that Tucker is telling you what is happening to him at that moment.
Most of the book is in the past any way.

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