Face to Face

Before I left the house that night, I packed all the essentials that I would need. My smartphone, some bandages, a small flashlight and some change. Who knew it would come in handy on the first night?

I turned on the flashlight and went all the way up to the third floor. There was a door stopping me from reaching the corridor for the floor, but before I went in I listened to the commotion happening on the other side.

Footsteps could be heard all over the place. People were running up and down the hall, wondering what had happened to the lights. Men were being told to get ready and gear up. So there was no way I was going in there.

I moved up further up the stairs. When I was on the second flight of stairs that was heading up to the forth floor I heard two different voices in the middle of a conversation, and they were close.

"Perfect. Just perfect. The lights had to go out right now. We were so close to that snake." said a feminine voice. You could tell by the tone of her voice that she was pissed.

"Hey calm down, Silverscales isn't going anywhere. But we need to hurry, before they find out that we're here too." This time it was a calm masculine voice that spoke.

Two individuals that matched the exact description that Debby gave me where crouching in the corner, right next to the door leading to the forth floor. They seemed to be planning. It sounded like they weren't the cause of the lights going out. Which meant that there was a third party here, and it seemed like they weren't big fans of the Silver Pack as well.

Before I could even wonder who the other party was, the girl turned towards my direction and yelled in a slightly deep voice,

"Who's there?"

Looks like it was my time to exit. These two clearly were supes and I didn't know the powers of one of them, which was a huge disadvantage for me. Going two against one would be a bad idea. But before I could even start running, my feet were lifted off the ground. Not by an attack, I was being carried like a paper bag in the wind. I could freely move my hands but the rest of my body was under her control. She pulled me closer to her and the guy standing next to her until I was face to face with them.

"Who the hell are you?" She asked while looking at the place she had dragged me from. I was positive she was trying to check if I was alone.

" I'm one of the good guys." I replied while summoning a gun and aiming at the man standing behind her. "Now put me down before I put a hole through your friends skull."

"Trust me, you couldn't even hurt me with that thing even if you tried." He chuckled.

He looked confident, so he either could stop the bullet before it hit him or just let it hit him and it would do no damage.

"What about her? Even though she has telekinesis I don't think she could stop a bullet this close to her face."

"You're right." This time it was the girl talking. "I can't stop the bullet. So I'm going to let you down if you put that thing away."

Seemed reasonable enough, and even if they did try to backstab me, I could just summon a shield while casually spraying them with a rifle. As soon as I de-summoned my gun, she let me down slowly and carefully.

"Now can you please tell us who you are and what you're doing here?" The man asked in a calm tone.

"You can call me Atlas. As to what I'm doing here, couple days ago I saw a couple of kids getting kidnapped. I tracked down the kids here and right now I'm trying to save them or get any information that could possibly save them." I told them the important parts, felt like the rest wasn't necessary. "Now its your turn."

"I'm Psyren and this is my brother Phantom. We were tracking down a local villain for the past six months and so far we couldn't find any leads. Turns out the boss of the Chimera Pack has an assistant, Silverscales and he's a snake. Both literally and figuratively. Anyways Silverscales has eyes and ears everywhere so we wanted to come down here and politely beat the living crap out of him so that he can provide the whereabouts of our guy. I read the mind of some the guys downstairs and found out that Silverscale has an office on the seventh floor and I think that's where the kids you're looking for are because I also happened to find out that there's a lab right across his office. That's where they experiment on the kids"

"Sounds convenient." I said.

I wanted to ask more questions, but before I could the door behind us busted open.