Oversight

Chapter 21 Rise and Falls

The master turned in a circle, looking closely at each new controller the recruits had brought him. It had taken days, but the master had demanded that he be brought the best controller found from each recruiter, and he demanded it yesterday. Fear that the master would be angry at not meeting his impossible deadline, the recruiters dropped off their most powerful, and flew back to their teams. 

The young men and women looked at him as he turned in the center of the circle they created. Silence hung in the air between them, until the master cut through it like it was nothing. "You will all have to do." They looked at each other. 

"I'm allowing you all to speak English, even though most of you already do. You ten are the final stance between one man and the destruction of the world. I'm sure your recruiters informed you on what's going on and the rundown of who we are, so lets get to it. I can give you two options. One: I unlock all your abilities at once. You will feel, uncomfortable, during the process but you will know exactly what you can do with your power. It will help you defeat Noah..."

A boy spoke up from behind the master. "Who is...?" With a wave of the master's hand the boy shut up, gaining the answer to his question. 

"You will need to work as a team. You will be the most powerful team in the history of the world. More powerful than the Romans, the Greeks, and the Americans combined. Armies would crumble beneath you if it was necessary. But on to the second option. Option two is that you learn on your own what you can do. You train day after day. None of you can control time," the master scolded them, annoyed that none of them were given that ability. "And that is what we don't have much of. So if you go with option two, you will train with our experienced warriors who guard this fortress. It will be seven, twenty-three hour days for you if you choose the second option."

They looked at each other, no real choice but to choose option one. The master smiled. "Good, then let us begin." 

...

Will and his team had been busy for the past couple days. They had awoke that morning ready to destroy a city. Will had one rule: each person team up with at least one other person before destroying something. Will, at this time, was teamed up with Richie as they took down a seven story building. Andrew and Steven ransacked a small bakery looking building down the block. Will raised his arms above his head as he watched, through the broken doors, a tree break through the tile floor. It grew, breaking through the other floors and stretching branches out the windows. 

Richie ran up, jumping off a platform of ice and catching a rising branch of the tree. He climbed onto the branch and sat with a leg on either said of it. He rubbed his hands together and placed them on the branch, a flame emerging from his fingertips and spreading across the wood. He jumped from the branch as the fire raged, a vine reaching up to catch him from the air and lower him to the ground. Richie turned and looked up at the flames. He raised a hand towards the tree, caged in stone and glass, and concentrated. The flames reached out further, jumped higher, burned brighter. Less than a minute later, a burst erupted from the tree. An explosion began to emerge from the tree, as the pressure collapsed the building, Richie has already calmed the fire down enough to go out. The stone and glass dropped to the ground and piled, the scorched tree standing where the once seven story building stood. Richie and Will nodded to each other.

Andrew and Steven ran up behind the two, a second Andrew behind them carrying a couple thin boxes. "Hey, so we found some survivors in that bakery. They're taken care of, but we brought back some lunch." They ate in silence, the second Andrew leaving them to eat.

"Hey," Richie said. "Where do you the duplicated Andrew's go? We never see them eat or sleep." Steven nodded.

"Yeah, what's up with that?"