The Ability Era

5: The Battle of Moon City

Jay McCormick - "Sayo"

"I'm done with waiting Jules!" Jay whispered viciously. The sun was rising and he was over top of his partner, Julianna, on the bottom bunk. There was another bunk on the other side of the room but the people who slept there were not in the room.

Jay's hands were around Julianna's smooth pale throat but he exerted little force upon her. She laid there unresisting in a light blue t-shirt and black short shorts. Her chest-length, wavy brunette hair smelled of strawberries and her cold brown eyes looked directly into his.

She lifted her hand slowly and gently put it on his arm to move it away. He did so and she lifted herself up and kissed him softly on the lips for a few brief seconds. She pulled away and ran her hand through his short ruffled blond hair.

"Just a few more hours, Jay," she whispered seductively.

"What a load of vrak. What did we do to get reassigned to an undercover job for a capture. We're supposed to be killing Renegades."

"You can kill the gang members and you can kill JMD, we just need to recover the body," she said calmly as she got out of bed and began changing clothes in front of him. It was not something Jay hadn't seen before because of the extent of their relationship, and she didn't really care anyways.

Admittedly, he loved her, but he believed that she didn't feel the same way. He had told her that how he felt but she never really reciprocated fully. He wondered what she actually thought of him. Not only was she valuable on and off the job, she was also beautiful, cunning, and charming.

"Oh right, this guy comes back from the dead. Maybe we could keep him at HQ. That would be fun."

"Just stick to the job," she said as she finished changing. She wore a black leather bomber jacket, underneath that she wore a tight white tank top that accentuated her chest, and below that she had tight black pants and black military boots. She put on a black belt and pulled a large silver trunk from underneath the bunk into the open. She opened it revealing a plethora of equipment and began loading her weapons. She put her two sub machine guns with long magazines into holsters that she put on her left and right hip. She also put extra magazines mostly under her jacket, but some on her outer thighs, and on her belt. Some of them were two magazines taped together, and each magazine had fifty bullets.

She tossed Jay his special vambraces and portable shield, a simple silver tube that would extend into a shield instantaneously at the click of a button. They both put on their grey robes and black masks, which covered the whole face, so from the exterior it looked like just a blank black oval where a face should be. They headed out of their room and began walking downstairs when they heard the building speakers announced:

"The Conquérants have arrived earlier than expected. We are heading to the meet up place immediately. Laser weapons will be distributed before we leave," the deep and ominous voice of Respire said.

They continued downstairs and then towards the main exit. Outside there were a bunch of trucks waiting there with back doors open and a ramp leading up into them. Masked Men in grey robes began filing into the trucks in single file and as each one stepped in they were handed the new laser rifles. Jay and Julianna were in the last group so they went into the truck farthest to the right. The door was shut leaving about twenty of them sitting on metal seats in total darkness and silence. There were about 150 Men of the Mask in total that had gathered on Moon City for the war.

The truck began moving and some guy who sounded like a young teenager began whispering to himself, "It's going to be okay. We're going to be okay."