Glass

Broken Alliance

"Good evening, so glad you could join us" Elijah spoke 

"What do you want Elijah?" David shouted at the screen

"I just wanted to talk to some like-minded company for once, do you like the location...I know you'll recognize it David, this is where all of our stories began" Elijah said smugly.

"What the hell are you talking about?" David asked getting frustrated with Elijah's riddles, Elijah leaned forward studying him before laughing hysterically.

"My, my you don't recognize it do you?" he mused savoring the confusion David was feeling "This is what's left of the train that you were on fifteen years ago, the one that crashed killing everyone on board except you, where you started your first steps to become the man you are known as today, the Unbreakable man" 

"This is also the train where you killed hundreds of innocent people just to prove some stupid theory" David lashed out as he started shaking with anger.

"No David they were a necessary sacrifice to push you to discover who you were, to unlock your potential and to discover who you really are" Elijah argued "But that is not why we're here, I didn't bring you all the way out here to reminisce on the past"

"Then why are we here?" Dennis piped in 

"Ahh I'm glad you asked Master Crumb...I'm here to prove that even the toughest alliances can be broken"

"And how do you propose to do that?" Dennis asked not liking where this subject was going, Elijah smiled before answering.

"Tell me Master Crumb...what do you know of your father?" he asked 

"My father?" Dennis huffed out a hollow laugh, this was one subject he completely despised talking about "My father left me with an unstable drunk woman who used to torture me for years...if it weren't for me Kevin, our host, would have ended his life a long time ago, so don't even think about asking me about our father" Dennis spat.

"Do you know where he is now?" Elijah pressed 

"Do you not understand what the term abandoned means...I don't know or care about where he is right now...if he truly cared about us he wouldn't have left in the first place" 

"You might after watching this" Elijah promised before he pressed a key and disappeared from the screen being replaced with old security footage, which appeared to be in a hospital, intrigued Dennis moved closer to the screen.

The footage showed a younger David Dunn sat on a bed with a doctor asking him questions, next to him was a bed where a young man with dark hair and a large bleeding wound was struggling to stay alive, nurses were working hard to try and save him but the damage was too severe. Dennis felt a familiar tug towards this man and he wasn't sure why, something about him felt familiar, like a memory trying to resurface after being buried for so long.

Suddenly the man's vitals started to drop and his breathing became harder to spot as the red on his shirt became darker as it spread before he suddenly became still, the monitors beeping silently as they signaled the end of his life. The doctors tried to save him but after three attempts with a defibrillator and doing CPR for twenty minutes they reluctantly gave up.

"Time of death 9:03 pm, injuries were a severe crack in the skull and a deep laceration located on the abdomen and finishing just below the sternum, name of patient is Joseph Wendell Crumb" the doctors continued but Dennis had collapsed on the floor, breathing heavily as he tried to recover from the shock of what he had just heard.

"Dennis are you alright?" he heard David ask and he couldn't control the anger he felt as he spoke,looking at David with a look of hurt and rage.

"You let him die...you were in that room and you just watched as my father died, how could you be so selfish...so self absorbed...why didn't you do anything?" Dennis whispered in a cold voice, David held his hands up in surrender as he tried to diffuse his anger.

"Dennis I didn't know alright...I was dazed and confused, I had no idea he was your father...I'm sorry" Dennis just scoffed at that 

"Sorry...my father died and left me with that bitch of a mother...you saw what I had to endure and you did nothing when you first saw me and now this" Dennis hissed as his hands clenched into fists, before his eyes snapped shut and someone else started talking.

"I warned you about these impures Dennis, I told you they were not to be trusted and yet you denied it, I hope this is evidence enough for you" Patricia's soft tone said triumphantly.

"He killed our father" Dennis cried, his anger becoming harder to control

"And now it is time for him to pay" The Beast growled "Say the word Dennis and I will make him pay" he promised.

"Dennis crouched on the floor as he seemed to be battling against his need for revenge and his moral compass, sensing his internal turmoil Patricia spoke up again 

"Where was he when we needed saving in the past, he said so himself he saw what we went through and he still shrugged us off, he needs to be taught a lesson and what better time than now...say yes to The Beast, let him suffer all you have to do is say yes" she pressed, feeling Dennis's sorrow cut through the last bit of resolve he had left.

He heaved a sigh before he spoke in a dark tone 

"Alright Patricia, you and The Beast win, he killed our father and left us for dead, he doesn't know of our pain, our suffering...let's show him how it feels to be on the receiving end of that fear"

And with that Dennis hunched over, groaning as his arms started shaking as he allowed The Beast to take full control over his body, the last thing he remembered hearing was , Mr Glass's triumphant laughs erupting from the speakers on the television before The Beast took control of the light.

The Beast stared directly at David, fury clear in his black eyes.

"You have been apart of our suffering for too long and now it is time for you to die" he yelled as he lunged towards David.