Collaborator Arc 1: Fade To Begin

Episode 20: It Isn't Over Yet

(It takes about a month to remove citizens and rebuild the cities and towns that were damaged during battles to remove civilians of Arizona. The humans are not happy, but initially, there is nothing they can do about it after fighting a one sided fight. Through use of metal users, lightning elementals, water elementals, earth elementals, and plant manipulators, the cities and towns run as if civil service never left. Along with rebuilt cities, several new ones sprout up as well. Trey and the others meet at the newly rebuilt Rec. Center.)

Raine: Everything seems to be going well.
Trey: Yeah, so far at least.
Zellos: The Army and citizens keep coming back to take over. Seems that they are getting brave again.
Trey: That's fine. We uphold the rule to kill anyone who threatens our own lives.
Raine: I'm still not sure if that is the right choice, Trey.
Trey: As I have said before, if it's just their discrimination through use of words, who cares. But if they attempt to kill you, it is fair game.
Raine: ...Right.
Nuvia: I think we need a better place to settle down.
Trey: I agree, but killing Hoffman takes priority. This is because of him after all.
Alma: Guys, me and Avacyn brought you guys some drinks.
Avacyn: Micheal, thanks again for rebuilding this place.
Micheal: No problem. Anything for Trey's boo.
Trey: Micheal, wanna fight? Let's go fight.
Micheal: Hahahaha! No.
Nuvia: So, let's assess what we know. In terms of powers, we can't touch him. Whatever we throw gets warped around him.
Trey: And if you get too close, he seems to nullify our power by putting our collaborator to sleep.
Micheal: From my analysis of him, he is in fact a normal human. So this is very confusing.
Alma: Well...what if he was an amalgram?

(Everyone looks at each other.)

Trey: Impossible.
Alma: Why?
Trey: We amalgram don't have serious conflicts between other amalgram.
Raven: What? But Zellos has been trying to kill you for years.
Trey: That's not that serious. But what I mean is none of us are self loathing.
Alma: Raine spent most of her life killing your people.
Trey: Alright, shut up. What I am saying is, like regular people we do fight and harm each other. But none of us have ever displayed the kind of loathing and hatred against each other as we have received from humans.
Alma: But you only know so few. How can you say that for the rest of the world?
Trey: Bolas told me. Apparently all collaborators are very close and try to make us as passive towards each other as possible. They can actually communicate with each other within a set proximity. Though we can't pick up on it enough to understand what they are saying.
Raine: Celsius has never mentioned to me anything like that. But, then again, she does seem different whenever I'm near you or anyone else.
Micheal: They are pretty secretive about their past. And was I the only one to sense the tension they had when we faced Hoffman?
Trey: Yeah. Bolas was a bit more short with me than usual. So there is definitely something up with Hoffman.
Nuvia: He and his emeratz will go down!
Micheal: Speaking of which, the emeratz population has dropped from 20% to 5%.
Trey: For what reason?
Micheal: The human's own hatred fooled them. They mistaken them for us and took out 10% of them across the world. Jey and our psychics are keeping contact with those across the planet. Our people have taken out the other 5%.
Raine: That's great!
Trey: That's hilarious!
Micheal: But, those were mostly the weak emeratz. And what I mean by that is the ones not entirely made for combat or those not practiced for combat. Some strong were taken out and some weak do still remain. But it seems some of the emeratz are just normal citizens.
Trey: Hm...We were once just citizens too. They've made their choice.
Nuvia: That just means killing off the rest will be more entertaining.
Trey: You really speak my language Nuv. So have our reconnaissance teams come back yet? I am pissed Hoffman up and disappeared after our fight. I wanna know if they have found him.
Raine: They should be back sometime today.
Trey: Until Hoffman is dead, it isn't over yet.

(An amalgram comes bursting through the doors in a panic.)

Amalgram: Trey! A group of humans led by an emeratz is approaching city limits!
Trey: I'm disappointed you let them get in this far. Just kill them.
Amalgram: We can't...the emeratz is a gravity user and is affecting the area around them so that we can't reach them. His A.O.E. is about 10 miles.
Nuvia: *Perking up* Gravity you say? Let me handle this.
Trey: Alright. Let's go, everyone.

(They reach Rita Ranch where the group of humans and emeratz is fighting off amalgram.)

Trey: Ok, Nuv, have at it.
Nuvia: Alright you filthy emeratz! How about you fight me now?
Emeratz: Ohhhh, look who it is. Nuvia Brago, right? One of the traitors.
Nuvia: I don't recall betraying anyone.
Emeratz: Haha, we beg to differ. Wait, why aren't you being affected by my gravity? You're well within 10 miles.
Nuvia: I am a gravity user as well. And my A.O.E. just seems to be more vast and more potent.

(The emeratz looks around andnotices  that she is affecting all around them for 15 miles and nullifying his gravity zone.)

Emeratz: Hm, fine. How about this? Anti-gravity.

(Everything within 10 miles starts to float upwards aside from the emeratz and the humans.)

Emeratz: Have fun floating into space. While you're enjoying that once in a lifetime experience, we will start our retake of Arizona.
Nuvia: Tch. Micheal, would you please give "it" to him?
Micheal: Sure...*Ahem* Mr. Emeratz, because you do not know us well enough, you were unable to see the "weight" of this situation. And will now suffer a "heavy" loss.
Emeratz: What?
Nuvia: Back in the day, I was known as Triple Threat Nuvia.
Emeratz: What does triple threat mean?
Nuvia: Well, it means I, too, can manipulate and create anti-gravity.

(Suddenly, everything stops floating upwards and remains stationary in the air.)

Nuvia: See? Perfect counterbalance.

(At mach 2, Nuvia dashes toward the emeratz and sweeps his legs with a kick. He starts to float, but not in any particular direction.)

Emeratz: What the!
Nuvia: The three things I can do outside of decreasing and increasing gravity are anti-gravity, zero gravity, and changing the direction of gravity.
Emeratz: What do you mean?
Nuvia: Meaning that if I wanted Earth's gravity to flow to the west, it will. If I change it to up, left, right, North, South, East, West, whatever. That is where you will flow. And you can't fight it, as it will be natural. Also because I am the only one who can do such a feat.

(She starts waving her hand around and his body follows almost as if she was controlling him with telekinesis.)

Emeratz: I can't stop! S-someone! Help me!

(The humans watch as he falls from high up and lands on Trey's sword. Not one bats an eye.)

Trey: You may be able to speak with and stand by them because you were created and not born the way you are. But they see you like they see us even still. You won't get help from them. Now good day sir.

(Trey shoots flames from his sword which causes the emeratz body to spew flames. Soon after, his body sprays a black mist and reveals his body to be unharmed and unconscious.)
Trey: What?
Raine: That was odd.
Trey: Did Sokka's body do that?
Raine: I don't remember. Our focus was on Hoffman. It could have.
Nuvia: I've seen it happen before. It happened to all the ones I killed before I joined you guys.
Trey: But why though? I guess I will have Micheal look into it. Take his body.
Human: Give us our homes back!
Trey: ....No.
Human2: You guys are just monsters! Kicking us out! Who do you think you are!?
Trey: You know who we are. You saw Hoffman's video a month ago. Now, you can either leave with or without your lives.

(No fire is present, but every human can feel extreme heat and pressure while peering into Trey's amber orange eyes.)

Human: ....F-Fine. Let's go guys. We will be back later.

(The humans march off while amalgram trail them to make sure they leave. Soon after, a 5'8 black man with white irises and very baggy clothes appears behind Trey at mach speed.)

Trey: Yes, Deemari?
Deemari: We found him.
Trey: Finally! Where is he!?
Deemari: He is residing in Yosemite National Park. Embarrassingly, he wasn't really hiding. We just checked all the wrong places first.
Trey: Who cares, you still found him. We have to prepare. Come on! We need to rally everyone in town!
Deemari: Also, on a secondary note, the Earth's 2% is now in Arizona.
Trey: Huh? As in all the amalgram in the world?
Deemari: Correct. They showed up as you left for here. Jey and his friends are very productive.
Trey: Even better. They may still outnumber us, but we will make sure we are more combat ready. Let's go!

The End...