Awaken Book 2: Hell's Rejuvenation

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The stranger looks at both Quinn and Madison as they seem to be exhausted, the stranger however isn't even breathing hard. "I was the one who couldn't play with others....the one liability Johnson couldn't afford on his little team....I wasn't ready." He says as he marches slowly down the hallway, inching closer and closer to the tired duo. "You, that absorbing idiot, Ghost, and me...are creations of Johnson's insanity and look at all the others who aren't here to vouch for themselves...we should've killed him. He causes the world to go to a recession, made us close up trade so nobody can get anything from anyone...." He continues as Quinn comes from his left and he grabs him by the neck. "You...my wife sees your little interviews, you found out to be protecting the man who killed your birth parents, making you a foster child. I know....he made me do it." He says as he slams him to the ground and he doesn't move as the stranger walks over him. "Holt." Johnson says as he slowly gets out of his room. "You...the brainwasher HIMSELF. Boy I'm glad to see you!" He says as Madison doesn't turn her head as she hear his voice loud and clear. Her eyes widen as Holt's name rings in her head more and more, she remembers pieces of his presence. "You were...." she says as he looks down to her and bats him to the wall. "This will be over soon." He says as he looks at nothing else other than Johnson, he walks into his room. Holt walks in his room as Hope sneaks up from behind and shoulder checks him to the wall, he stops her from advancing with several red crystals around her ankles. Her eyes open as a sharpened pillar inserts itself in her chest fr behind as she managed to escape, she spills out blood. "I lost so much to get here, I'm not letting a troop of children stop me, not even close." He says as the purple energy that flows around her would slowly was drained into the pillar, she turns lifeless as she dies standing up. Johnson sits at the edge of the bed, looking outside as the sun sets slightly. "Any last words..?" He says as Johnson nods. "Yes. Yes I do." He says as he puts his phone on the bed and taps the cracked screen on a play button.

The phone shows a woman and Johnson sitting at a office, the stranger's eyes change as he looks on. "Your husband and his crimes will get him to jail for life. But I could change that for you, Heather." He says as Heather looks up in tears. "Tell me, how can he not have life?" She cries as he takes out a paper and slides it to her with a pen attached. "T-this...my hospital bill, how did you-?" She starts to say as he ignores her reply. "Your hospital bill for your surgery is a couple thousand short. If I pay this, your husband will have a lower sentence." He says as she stops crying. "There's a catch however.." He continues. "Your husband will be listed in my program's most promising initiative. Him, my daughter, and a couple of folks from their death row sentences will join; his life will be forever changed the moment you allow my aid." He says as Heather's hands shake. "I'll make sure he'll be in good hands. You have everything to lose, I'd hate for someone the likes of you would pass such an grand opportunity." He says as he hands the pen to her from the top of the paper. She grabs it, slowly signs her name as she isn't sure what of her husband's future is certain after the deal she made. The phones goes off from lack of power in the battery, Holt stands there in silence. "Tobias and I went to this new world that coexisted with ours, its name was Ebon, the ingredients I found to make you....well what you are cane exclusively from there. You wife isn't at fault here, I may have said a selected few words to have her sign. But she needed that surgery, your son to be born and look at him now. I bet he's alive, strong, smart, and healthy; Tobias met someone on the other side, as did I. However, he got excellent intel on the world as his source was inviting, I had a different case. A dark, small man who gave me short, depressive answers....I fear something is coming, I planned right in his hands." He says as Madison and Quinn with their combined force hit the door again and again as it won't budge. "Who's hands?" Holt asks. "Knonus. He must've been that little, old man....he made me sick as the illness is unknown and unclassified at my lab. He transferred his cells within mine and it almost damn well killed me, I have yet to know how I'm still alive despite it all. But that Hell's Gate gave a demon heart....it gave me power above anything I've imagined. I let me greed take over and it made me a..." He says as he feels heat steaming off his chest. "A monster. Holt. I apologize for all I did, I'm an evil genius sure, but never I wanted the world t become what it is now. Completely isolated and cut off the world, my dearly daughter..." He says as Holt charges at him and Johnson dodges his punch, delivers a headbutt, and hooks his a to pull him closer. Madison breaks through and sees them both, "FATHERRR!" She yells. He cries as he looks at her and sheds a tear, "Knonus is coming..." A huge explosion with a bright light shines from his body and covers the entire half of the building.

Quinn quickly teleports to grab Madison and Allen and they all land outside the radius. "I didn't even..." Madison says as she starts to cry and drops to her knees. Allen slowly gets up and looks at the destruction in front of him, "He said...Johnson said Knonus is coming...what does that mean?" She says as they all see from far away, hordes of demons charge towards him from hearing the explosion. "I'd use this." Allen says as he taps his chest and a temporary suit covers him and lights up blue around his arms and legs. He tosses a rod at Quinn as he catches it and looks at it, it immediately turns into a dual weapon with blue waves coming out around it. "I call it a sound stick, you aim it towards the enemy and it delivers a wave to either make their head explode or leaves them brain dead." He says as Quinn smirks. Madison slowly levitates off the ground with her eyes blue, electricity flowing through every part of her body, her blonde hair sparks with blue highlights as she faces the hordes coming. "Boom." She whispers as a huge surge of lightning bursts out of her hand directed to the demons and creates a huge line through, blasting numerous demons back, killing them instantly beyond impact. "Well shittt. When could you do that? That would've been quite helpful earlier against that big, red asshole huh?!" Quinn says sarcastically as Allen slaps him in the back of his head with a sound wave.