The Shadow Knight Returns

Chapter 7: Kaylee Adler

Rebecca Adler's Apartment: October 8th, 2063: 2:50 PM

"Well Miss Adler, you definitely didn't throw the wild party that occurred in this place after the both of us left it last. That much is for certain." Shadow Knight said as he looked around at the apartment flat that belonged to Rebecca Adler.

She hadn't been exaggerating.

The living room area was a mess, and it indicated that some kind of struggle had occurred.

But what really interested Shadow Knight was the burn marks on the walls, as well as the ones on the floor.

Electrical burn marks to be exact.

Now whatever it was that had caused those two marks on the wall might have been the same thing that had fried those thugs that attacked Kaylee Adler's paladin escort.

But it was the marks on the floor that really interested Shadow Knight the most.

Because unless his eyes were playing tricks on him, the burn marks on the floor were in the exact shape of two shoe prints.

"Hmm..." Shadow Knight thought to himself, "how very interesting. It seems there was a metahuman in this apartment. An electro-kinetic. A metahuman that would never have been able to use his or her powers in this wrecked world...unless they were able to draw power from a lightning storm...or if an entire city suddenly and inexplicably got its electrical power back after decades of being blackout city. So when the Ghoul Sibling somehow restored power to Lunar City...this mystery Metahuman got their powers rendered accessible. Now...what was this mystery metahuman doing in two places where Kaylee Adler was said to be or was supposed to be found."

He looked down at the footprints again, "I thought it might be you old friend, that maybe like Mastermind you survived as well. But it can't be you...because these can't be you footprints. So that leaves only one possibility on who this mystery electro-kinetic really is."

He then activated his Shadow Vision ability.

Unfortunately the echoes of what happened here in this room were not as strong as they would have been eight hours ago, so all Shadow Knight could see was the hazy images of what happened.

So he couldn't see who was who in this strange 'shadow play' before his eyes.

But his deductive mind was still as sharp as ever even if his powers were a bit rusty, the echoes were all he needed to piece together what happened.

Someone ran into the room to hide, they barricaded the door with the couch.

That didn't keep the person who ran into the apartment to hide safe for long from his or her pursuers.

They broke in, causing the person to pick up and throw what they could at his or her pursuers...and tried to make a break for the fire exit.

They weren't fast enough to get away, the pursuers blocked them off from the window.

Cornered, and about to be accosted by the pursuers...something happened here that caused the marks on the walls.

Whatever it was that happened, it gave this person the chance to run for the door.

But his or her pursuers recovered quickly and ran after this person.

One of them took a shot at the fleeing person, hence the bullet hole on the wall I saw coming up the stairs.

One of his crew seemed to scold him before leading the chase after the fleeing person...obviously whoever they were chasing they want him or her capture alive for some reason.