Phoenix

11. Back To School

He just stares at me like he knows what's going happen.

Jake already introduced us to him. He already told us we look stupid. But he isn't leaving. He has a knife in his hand but he won't do anything.

I showed him my power but Jake hasn't done anything.

What's going on?

"I'll kill you. You will never turn me in. I can't go in now." He threatens but his voice is shaky and he doesn't sound believable. He's scared.

He starts running at me with the knife. He seems to let me take the knife from him because he throws it but it just dropped in front of me.

He falls to the ground crying. "They made me do it." He repeats over and over again. We eventually just take him to the police station.

We take in a few more people before we go back to Jackie's.

That's when we find ourselves on the news.

They were talking about photos people took of us. They first showed us a video of me falling off the roof of an eight-story building then Jake catching me with his negativity power.

I am fearless. It's amazing how much confidence this has given me.

This gave me an idea...

The next day in broad daylight, we go up to the top of building in our outfits.

We introduce ourselves to the world. The news is even there.

The one downfall to this is our parents who may not be so accepting of this.

Whatever.

Through the next few weeks we do about 5 missions a day and surprisingly our parents only told us to be safe.

Then, there is a mission.

At my old school.

A school shooting.

Damn it. I don't want to go back there. But it has to be done. Fine.

We rush over to the school immediately. I hear screams and gunshots coming from the inside.

The doors are broken in and the windows are smashed to bits. Jake and I jump through a window after checking to make sure nobody was in there.

We duck beside the door inside. It's open so we hide behind it. We heat a man's voice. It's muffled but I can understand what he is saying.

" Why aren't they here yet? I'm so mad, I'm going to kill someone."

Another man's muffled voice appears. "Boss. There is a girl hiding in a closet. Do you want me to kill her."

I'm about to get up to stop him before Jake grabs my shoulder and keeps me down.

The first man's voice gets a bit further in distance with a few footsteps. "No. We aren't here to actually kill people. It's just a trap for those two super-dumbasses."

If Jake didn't grab me when he did then I would have walked right into their trap.

Jake closes his eyes and puts his hand on the wall. I don't know what he's doing.

I see sparks coming from his hand. It's the electricity made from dry lightning.

All of a sudden the power goes out. Then there are dark clouds around the doors and windows. It is completely black in here.

Then Jake taps the side of my helmet turning something on. I can see again but I can only see heat sources.

I see Jake and a few people behind the closet door in the room. They are all green. Then I then see a message on my helmet screen.

Go take them out with your fire. They can't see you. The heat sources that are pink are the bad guys. I got Jackie to add that to the helmets.

I do as he says and I stand up. I quietly walk out the door. I see people with they're hands against walls or searching to find the walls to turn the lights back on.

I see a group of at least 10, pink people who are together. 2 people are standing in the middle of the room. 1 is in the other corner. Then I see one more standing beside the girls' bathroom. I turn to look at me and see 1 last pink person standing maybe 10 feet away from me.

But he's smiling.

Did he know this was going to happen?

"Hello... Phoenix. Raiden. I've been waiting for you."

I firebomb the 10 people in the corner before it's too late.

" Why Did you just knock out 10 of my people? You had the chance of killing them. But you only hit the floor I front of them which kicked them into the wall behind them, making sure it wasn't too hard which knocked them out."

"What do you want?"

"I want to kill you, Phoenix. And your brother, Raiden. Or should I say, Seth and Jake."

A fire like pain hits my chest. Anger. Then I realize. I haven't felt fear since we started turning people in. Only anger.

"Cat's got your tongue, Seth? Get Jake out hear. I want him to hear why I did all of this."