Unstoppable

Chapter 19

"Damian, what is the blonde's powers" Octavia asks

"Her name to you, is Adapta, not the blonde. You can at least call them by their name" Mirina snaps, Octavia rolls her eyes at the out burst.

"You said you could handle this. Get your shit together or end up in the same boat with your little girlfriend." Octavia replies sending gloves to Mirina, she rolls her eyes heavily.

"Their names sort of have their powers in it, in case you didn't notice, Ignite is a fire starter, Hydro human water gun, Adapta, adapts" Mirina replies before leaving the room.

"Is that true?" Octavia asks Damian, he slowly nods as though this is information she should already know, well she did go to the same school for super powered kids.

"So what's the black girl's name" Octavia asks

"Changling" Damian answers trying to connect with the team. This telepathic connection is something we can I feel, Like on implant in his brain that far some weird reason he can feel.

"So she changes? Into what?" Octavia asks shifting her weight onto her other foot.

"I don't now the extent of her powers, we met the day the school sent us on this mission" Damian replies honestly the more he thought about it the more he realized he really didn't know anything about his "teammates".

"Do you think if we blew them up they would all die?" Octavia asks

"No, Adapta is basically invincible and Hydro's body would create something to protect him from the blast" Damian says he knew the part about Adapta is true, but Hydro? Possibly not.

"So how do you kill someone who is basically indestructible? Poison?" Octavia suggests turning to Damian.

"No, her body would adapt to it." Damian replies, at this point he is just guessing. He has no real idea if these things could actually kill her or not.

"Guys she is plotting your murder, hurry up" Damian says

"You try fitting four people in a damn vent without making noise" Adapta snaps looking behind her out the small square hold that exits into the basement. Adapta lets out a groan as she turns back around.

"I really hate tight spaces" Adapta groans out loud.

"Wait, so you can fight Shifters, get shot in the head and be held in a room to await your death, and you are invincible but small spaces you can't handle?" Hydro questions crawling ahead of the group.

"Hey your girlfriend kills people without music don't judge me for not liking the feeling of being in a space the size of a dog house." Adapta shoots back looking at her lack of space with fear in her eyes.

"Zwhy is it so hot in here, is this not an air vent?" Changling asks, beads of sweat coming off of her forehead, she wipes the sleeve of her suit against it.

"You're right next to Ignite, she is basically a space heater all of the time." Hydro shortly explains. They continue through the air duct attempting to be as quiet as they can to be sure not to alert any shifters.

"How long have we been in here?" Adapta asks impatiently.

"Twenty minutes, chill" Hydro says as he turns a corner slowly.

"Was that a fucking pun" Adapta asks, Hydro shakes his head and smiles a bit.

"It wasn't intentional" He answers, he is aware of the pun, their lives have always been full of unintentional puns at every corner. Finding the perfect name for them was a game of puns.

"I think you guys are getting close, Hydro can you make it foggy in the room?" Damian asks telepathically , he looks around the room he is in, there are so many Shifters here, and they still don't know Octavia's powers.

"Well maybe with Ignite's help, she put some heat out and can try to cool it, produce some thick fog or steam at the most." Hydro says Ignite nods, Changling changes herself into a mouse and moves towards Adapta, allowing Hydro to be up near Ignite. Ignite puts her hand out, expelling a small heat wave in front of her warping their vision ahead, Hydro moves a single finger right next to Ignite letting out a cool water stream, it collides with the heat wave immediately causing steam to fill the vents, the team follow their way letting the curve of the vent lead them to where they need to go, without stopping the production of steam.

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Damian awaits for the action to start, he's looking around the room, trying to think f any way to figure out her power before the others get into the room.

"Do you know how many students and teachers survived the initial attack?" Octavia asks Damian he pretends to do some math in his head, stalling in any way that he can.

"Not much, it's going to be a while before they are going to be up and running again" Damian answers knowing they are probably already rebuilding, that is if some of the techno-paths and conjurers are still alive, which would cut the rebuilding time in half.

"Excellent, so our next attack should take care of it" Octavia says writing something down on a paper clipped to a beat up clipboard, looks like it has seen better days. The overlapping sound of fingers on keyboards and chatter would most certainly cover up any noise made by the team in the air duct.

Soon enough the steam starts leaking through the air vent, just enough to shield their entry.

"Hydro now!" Changling shouts, Hydro slams his fist down on the ground, Ice spreads everywhere covering the whole floor. Adapta's feet change, allowing her to glide onto the ice with ease. The steam, still seems semi thick through the air, giving them enough coverage to wipe out a lot of shifters, Ignite, accidentally melting the ice with each step she takes; creating more steam in the air as she walks through putting Shifters down. Damian puts a hand o two shifters, they let out a yell of pain, then fall to the ground limp. He has been wanting to do that to them all day. As the steam clears the team looks around the eyes peeled for Octavia, who has appeared to have left somewhere, during the action and steam. First instinct to flee.

"We need to find her" Hydro says he gets nods from everyone who heard him. The group slips out of the room, keeping an eye out for Octavia.

"What are we going to do when we find her? We still have no idea what her powers are" Adapta says once again pointing out how totally unprepared and clueless they are.

"How do zwe find out?" Changling asks, she turns the corner just ahead of everyone else, an invisible force throws her back into the wall she falls to the floor, not before letting out a painful yelp.

"Changling! Adapta exclaims, rushing to help her up, they all look around to see where the source was. Octavia stands in the middle of a large room.

"Why are you still coming after the school?" Hydro asks, Octavia shakes her head.

"I thought you would get it, I thought you lost someone too. But no, there is no use explaining my bloody sob story!" Octavia yells

"I thought I lost her too! But I didn't blame the school for putting us out here, I blamed you for doing what you are doing. You kill hundreds of innocent kids!" Hydro yells back Octavia shakes her head again her long black locks shaking with her. She seems so out of place on first glance. She's beautiful and elegant, not someone the would want to take down in a fight. Ignite keeps a fire ball ready to spring into action, bouncing it up and down in her hands like a baseball.