Heroes of Savannah

Heroes

The city of Savannah hums busily under the heat of a mid afternoon sun. Giant towers stretch upwards from the ground as if reaching out towards the heavens from earth. One tower trumps their efforts and sits proudly as the cities focal center, the Wave building. Upon the monument to the sky, sit 2 heroes chatting casually as they keep their watch over the city surrounding.

The pair silenced at the sound of an alarm sounding on the far edge of town. The one hero dressed in a dark purple costume picked up the other on her back as she jumped down off the building and landing on lower nearby buildings until they reached the building. It was a large grey building with giant silos holding unknown materials. As they sat on the closest building, they watched as dispatchers arrived at the scene. The two hopped down off the building and walk towards the building. The second hero wielded a pan flute in which he played and mice crawled out of nearby places and walked with him.

He turned to the female hero, "this seems like a fire. I don't even think this one is worth checking out."

She smiled and nudged him with her elbow, "Aw come on Piper. Let's just take a look around to see if anyone is still in there? We haven't had much action in awhile."

Piper nods, "alright I guess that makes sense. Do you want to do the honors this time Anarchy?"

Anarchy responds with a smile and a enthusiastic nod. They approach the dispatchers, "What's the situation here?"

A police officer turns and smiles," Guys look! It's Anarchy and the Caped Piper!!" A few other officers turn to look and cheer, they guy looks back at the building, "not sure yet, we think it's just a faulty fire alarm. The fire truck guys will be here anytime."

Piper nods, "can we take a look inside?" The man nods yes and the paid enter the building.

Inside the building everything stood motionlessly as the alarms flashed red causing shadows to play across the walls. One shadow seems to dart across the room, this catches Piper's attention. He taps Anarchy as he points to the out of place shadow. She slowly inches towards it's it disappears down the nearby hallway. She and Piper begin running down the hall after the now more obvious shadowy figure. A glaring motion spot light from the blinds them from the ceiling. After a moment, the light fades but the shadow is gone. A few rooms are nearby that it could of hid in so they split up to cover more rooms. Piper slowly creeped around a large computer room, the pitter patter of his mice's feet serve as one of the few sounds audible over the now silent alarms. Anarchy creeps around the other room across the hall which looks wildly different. Barrels are packed up against a wall and large tubes filled with a purplish sludge stand stagnant. Anarchy pauses as she stares at the sludge for a moment, like as if hypnotized. The barrels behind her clang and she turns around. An empty barrel shakes slightly as if someone had hit it. Yelling echoes down the halls to the separated pair as they both turn as meet each other back in the hall.

"What's going on? Why are people screaming?!" Piper says seeming a little distressed.

Anarchy shrugs as she goes back into her room and checks around the barrels, but to no avail, nothing was there. She walks back out into the hall, "should we go deeper into the building?"

Piper frowns, "I don't know, I've got a bad feeling about this...."

Suddenly gunshots rang down the hall as well. The pair looked at each other and ran back outside.

One of the officers shouts angry, "THERE THEY ARE! GET THEM!" Numerous officers begin firing at the pair as anarchy grabs Piper and moves his out of the doorway.

Piper frowns, "why are they shooting at us?! I thought they loved us?!"

Anarchy peeked around the corner, "yeah? What's going on?!!"

News people watched in complete shock as the events were unfolding, suddenly two people walked past anarchy and Piper... But they looked just like them and were carrying barrels from the room anarchy had been in previously, "HEY STOP!" Anarchy grabbed her clone and it immediately disappeared, the Piper clone dropped his barrel and disappeared as well. Anarchy glanced at Piper confused and grabbed the barrel then walked out, "Clones of the real us have been taking these barrels!" She set it down, "We need some officers to follow those clones who left to see where they are taking these!" The officers just stared at her.

Suddenly a person yelled out of the crowd, "THEY'RE LYING! THEY'RE TRYING TO GET YOU TO LEAVE!" The officers begin to open fire at the pair, they scramble back inside. Anarchy winces as a sharp pain erupts from her side.

Piper slams the doors shut and pulls her aside to a chair, "oh my gosh. oh my gosh. Are you ok? Did you get hit?!"

Anarchy snickers a little through the pain, "it hurts but it should heal up in a little. You know all this already."

Piper frowns, "sorry, I just feel the need to always make sure you're ok. I'd be devastated if someone really hurt you."

Piper turns away as Anarchy pulls out the bullet from her side and winces trying not the cry out in pain.

Piper looks around and glances out the door windows at all police still outside. "Take your time regenerating. We might be here awhile..."

Suddenly, another alarm lights the building wand fills it with its deafening screams. This time the alarms sounded weird and it put an eerie feeling throughout the building. The officers outside ran to their cars and drove off as the news helicopter backed away.

Piper helped anarchy stand up and they walked outside cautiously, not knowing what's going on. Suddenly the sound clicked in Piper's head, "RUN!!!" He grabbed her arm and started running.

Anarchy followed next to him confused, she looked back as the alarm lights on the silos we're going off and a black smoke plumed from the building. Anarchy picked up Piper and ran a few meters away just as the building exploded sending a shock wave that leveled the closest buildings and covered the nearby area in the sludge. The shock wave pushes the pair back slightly even at their safe distance.

Piper sighed, "that was close...."

Anarchy put him down and nodded, "too close...."