Absorption Distortion

Chapter 5

On the second floor car park of Fernbrooke Facility, Sergeant Major Ryder steps out of the car park elevator and approaches Professor Eville and his men, about to depart the facility. "Eville!" Ryder calls out, he stops, as do the others, but they similtuaneously turn as if all told at once it was okay, although no words were spoken. His jet black hair glistened against the flourenscents as Ryder approached him. The other Professors and Bolt walked to a nearby Black BMW and hop in the car, waiting for the Professor to join. 

"Ryder, what is it?" Eville queried, putting his hands in his trouser pockets, turning to face him. "Professor, I don't know if I can control it anymore," Ryder says, his face covered in sweat, he holds out his hands and shows they are trembling before Eville. "Now now my son, I have just what you need," A grimacing smile by Eville is shown just as he pulls his hands out of his pockets, places his hands on either side of Ryder's head and closes his eyes. Ryder begins to shake under Eville's hands, but there is no struggle for Eville to keep his head still. As his head moves slowly back, Ryder slowly stops resisting. Eville removes his hands off his head and opens his eyes wide, stepping back slightly. He composes himself, as does Ryder, standing to his feet but looking drained and tired. "There, how bout now?" Eville asks, clapping his hands together in success, "Much better, thank you Professor," Ryder said, saluting to Eville and walking away. Eville turned back towards the BMW and jumped in the back seat. "Bolt, Nick Bilter's house," Professor Eville demanded. Bolt didn't hesitate to follow orders and put the car into motion, driving towards Nick Bilter's house. "Are you sure Luna would go to Nick's house?" Professor Warren asks, sitting beside Bolt, he puts his hair into a ponytail behind his head. Eville smirks, "Yes, I'm sure," Bolt sends his glowing light into the steering wheel, which projects through the headlights, providing easier lighting to navigate out of Fernbrooke. 

They pull up beside the house, seeing the lights inside the main house. Bolt jumps out of the car, leaning over it and sending a zap into the front door, but missing at first and hitting a hanging pot plant beside it, making a thud on the veranda floor. He huffs out of frustration and zaps again, hitting the door and sending it smashing into the house. In excitement of the chase, he runs around the car and up into the front of the house, zapping doors and objects in the event Luna was hiding behind it. He makes his way through the house, using his lightening bolt ability in search as he goes room by room. He mistakenly his a curtain and it catches alight, moving quickly through the house. As he scans the house with the blonde, blue eyed Professor Stevens, He was able to break a door open and throw it across the room simply by hitting it with his fists. He was famous in his earlier years as a Professional Boxer who was disqualified for hitting his opponent into the car park from the ring. They moved through the house to the back yard but found nothing. Bolt set a few other rooms on fire, sending the house into a blaze. Stevens walked into the backyard and looked into the darkness as Bolt walked up from behind. "They're not here," he says, patting Stevens on the shoulder, but not amused, Stevens looks over his broad shoulder at Bolt and pulls a disgruntled, get-a-way-from-me face and he quickly removes his hand from his shoulder. They move into the backyard as the fire gains momentum but both quickly move back to the car from the side of the house. "Lets go back to Fernbrooke for now," Eville says from behind a half cracked window with Professor Warren between the two. As Stevens and Bolt get back in the car, Eville notices the dark clouds forming above the house. "Stop!" He demands forcefully and everyone freezes, he opens the door and steps out, "Stay here," He says to the others, moving at lightening speed around the back of the house. 

With her hands to the sky, Kate controls the clouds to form rain above Nick's burning house. With her ability, she's able to create the torrential rain necessary to put the fire out. As she's focusing up the in sky, a figure of a man appears in her peripheral vision, she lowers her hands and looks at him. Professor Eville slowly moves towards her, "Ahh.. Mrs. Kate Daniels, so lovely to finally see you," he said seductively with his deep voice as he walked towards her. She looked at him, "I know who you are and what you are trying to do," she said aggressively, as if to show her dominance towards him. He lets out a laugh and claps his hands while moving back and forth, "No no, you have it all wrong my dear sweet Kate," He says, as his stops moving and turns to her, "I want you," He smiles at her, the hair which is pulled to the side begins to lift in the air and she immediately puts her hands in front, creating a dark cloud barrier between herself and Eville, using the opportunity to soak the oval in fog and run away. Eville finishes his sentence, "to find Luna," seeing the barrier, he turns to face it and looks up at the sky, a  few strands of blonde hair floats down and his catches it in his hand, putting it in his pocket and walks back towards the car, leaving the backyard to disappear in the fog she was creating.

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Jason managed to break Luna's hold on Nick, after a few moments of difficulty from breathing and getting his blood pumping normally, he was able to come to and sat looking at Luna. She was peacefully resting with her eyes closed, situated on the couch but not reacting to the sound of the glass smashing or noticing what she was doing to Nick. In fact she hadn't woken up at all since she sat on the couch, "I think she's in a deep sleep," Jason suspected, not wanting to touch her after what she did to Nick. He grabs a pillow and uses it to push against Luna to attempt to wake her up but nothing happens, so he throws the pillow against the couch in anger. Kate leans over Luna and passes a blanket to Nick to help keep him warm, as she does so Jason looking forward see's Kate's hair, her shoulder length blonde hair was out of the beanie and although she had straightened it earlier in the day, he noticed there was some black marks in her hair, "Hey, what's that," he said, grabbing her arm gently to hold her still. She stood up and he looked closer at her hair strands, seeing it had been burnt and blackened slightly. "Eville?" Jason asks, stepping backwards slightly. "I ran into him outside Nick's, I got away, I just blacked out the whole oval with fog," "We have to go," Jason says, moving quickly into a back room, "What is it?" Kate asks, running to a nearby mirror and looking at her hair. She sees the black burns and Nick stands up, "Whats happened?" he questions, letting the blanket fall to the couch. Kate gets handed a bag from a room nearby by Jason and she walks around the lounge room, "Professor Eville has my DNA, he can locate me," she runs over to her bookshelf and grabs photo albums and a few wedding pictures, putting them in her bag. Jason runs back in the room, "We have to wake up Luna, we have to move," he says urgently, wearing a backpack. Nick reaches out in panic and grabs Luna, shaking her gently. He waited to see if he could feel any sort of pain from touching her but he doesn't feel anything as he moves her. She falls limply to her side, her head landing hard against the couches arm rest. "I can't wake her," Nick says, grabbing her shoulder with the blanket as his own oven mit and pulls her back upright. "Kate, the Ute" "Out back," she replies to Jason, he quickly moves outside and grabs some of the bags he already had around the house of their belongings they hadn't unpacked yet. Kate runs outside and puts the some of the bags into the ute, while Nick lifts Luna using the blanket. She doesn't wake up at all and although he can see she's breathing, she wasn't making any sound. Nick moves to the side of the ute and places her inside,  using one of the bags a makeshift pillow. He jumps in the back with Kate already behind the wheel. Jason runs around the house, and turns off the lights. He quickly moves to the passenger seat and Kate takes off, they exit through their rear driveway leading onto a dirt track outside of town.