Dorek stood at the grave of Lucy, he had nothing but a smile on his face as he looks at the tombstone "well boss, it's all set in motion." he looks at his hand which held his blindfold, one that Lucy gave him when he first joined the zodiac's "I think you should have this." he kneels down and ties it around the corner of the tombstone and he laughs to himself as he saw in to the future and people walked by as he laughed "excuse me? what's so funny, you do know you are in a cemetery right?" a man asks but Dorek turns around to look the man in the eye "ah sorry sir, just in a few days my friend said this hilarious joke." he then pats the mans shoulder "oh by the way congratulations." he walks away from the man who then gets a text from his wife saying that she was pregnant and the man jumps in joy while
Dorek then walks back to his apartment where he would have someone waiting for him.
*click, creeeaaaak... click* Dorek walks into his humble abode where he saw Dylan who had teleported into his apartment, his one eye staring down Dorek "well if it isn't the walking, talking spoiler alert." Dorek frowns at Dylan "look Dylan I just want to talk and you saw my text didn't you?" "why else would I be here?" Dylan grabs a chip that was in a bowl that rested on his lap *munch* Dorek watches as the crumbs fall onto his couch "just tell me what your plan is and why do you need me?" he asked with a bored tone and Dorek sat down beside him, putting one leg over the other and stretching his arms out wide with a smug look residing on his handsome face "well I'm sure you are well aware of the organisations made by the government to stop groups like us." Dylan looks confused "Dorek, I'm not-" "now just listen," he tilts his head to get a clear view of Dylan who had a frustrated look on his face "fine, go on." Dorek smiles "alright." Dorek would later go on to explain the plan to Dylan and as Dorek thought, he'd agree to the plan.
Sam lied down in bed with Frank who was scrolling through his phone, he peers over to Sam and saw a troubled look on his face "Sam?" he snaps back fo reality and looks at Frank "you alright? you seem a bit worried about something." as Sam looked at Frank he had nothing but visions of him turning to dust until Frank yet again brought him back down to earth "huh?" "nevermind Sam, just go back to sleep it's only 6:00." he said as he rolled over on his side, ready to sleep but Sam didn't sleep, he only worried for his friends and himself and so he took this into his own hands, he stood up from his bed "hey Frank can I borrow your scarf?" Frank turns his head slightly "yeah sure, you were the one who bought it for me so feel free." Sam stood up and decided to wear a jacket that he didn't zip up, he then grabs Frank's scarf and wraps it around his neck "alright goodbye Frank love you." Sam said before he left "love you.... *snoooooorrrreeee*" Frank quickly fell asleep before finishing his sentence but as he walked out he saw Pete finally able to sleep without the immense heat bothering him and Sam quickly poured Pete a nice cool glass of water and places on a counter next to him before leaving the house.
Sam wandered the hall of his apartment complex, but was desolate like a liminal space which gave Sam an eerie feeling, he peers around each corner he comes across to see of someone affiliated with the zodiac's would try and sneak up on him but nobody popped up, not even a single soul walking past him in the empty, liminal hall "alright... how long do you plan on hiding?" he asked the empty room as he turns around to see "Dorek." he smiled "for a while." Sam saw that Dorek had a pistol in his hand and noticed he had his other hand rested on the back of the pistol and so Sam immediately blasts a wave of dark blue energy at Dorek who quickly dodges to the left and fires at Sam, scraping his cheek and his arm "look, with a power like that you won't be able to do any major damage." Sam then has a red sphere appear in the palm of his hand, tossing it at Dorek like he was a pitcher and Dorek smirked as he ducks under it "tch, you think I don't already have that figured out?" he charges at Sam, knocking him to the ground, holding the pistol directly at Sam's forehead and he then looks at Sam, clockwork eyes slowly ticking down "have you already forgotten about our little chit chat? I've got it all planned out and I've decided," he leans in closely to Sam's ear "I'm going to get myself another power, a power you and your friends are familiar with, one that belonged to Lucy linfer!!!" he yells out into the hallway until *click!* the door to Sam's apartment opens and Dorek turns around instantly, *BAM!! BAM!!* firing two shots at the person who came out the door but the bullets turn to ash as quickly as they were shot "Frank!" Sam said with excitement and then Frank stood there, flames coming from his head and fingertips "hey Sam, clockwork." he forms a cowboy hat made of fire on his head and tips it with a smile until he then extinguished the flames atop his head, *BAM!* Dorek fires another shot at Frank but he turns his body to fire and let's the bullet pass right through him and he slowly looks at his stomach, then up to Dorek "you missed." he then summons fireballs in his hands, throwing them at Dorek who runs away before he could get hit and Sam rushes towards Frank who grabs his scarf and wraps it around his neck, "so plan on getting Lucy's power, kinda forgot about that guy." Frank pulls out a box of cigarettes, opens it and places a unlit cigarette in his mouth, Dorek smirked as the ticking slows down and he began to laugh, "shut up, you never forgot about that bastard, you feared him just as much as the public did," Dorek dropped his weapon "tell me why those organisations didn't take care of him, because they knew their place and that they were outmatched." Dorek lectured Frank, waiting for him to strike but Frank let's him ramble on "I need to tell you a little fun fact about that thing I called a boss, if even one bit of him remained like a blood cell or something as small and microscopic as a nucleus in one of his cells could bring him back." Dorek then shoves his hand into his pocket and rummaged around in it to pull out a small jar that had something small inside it, writhing around like a worm "and here he is." he threw it up and then caught it like it was a baseball.
Frank yawns as Dorek finishes his speech "I'm going outside." he walks past Dorek, who grabs his shoulder which stopped Frank "listen to my warning, he will return one way or another." he said while Frank didn't seem to care at all, Frank turns his head slightly to look Dorek right in his clockwork eyes "stand back." as Dorek looks down he saw Frank hold a blue flame in the palm of his hand.
*CRAAASH!!!* Dorek crashes through a window with blue flames following him, Dorek lands on the roof of a car "shit... too many possibilities!" he looks up to Frank who stood there at the broken window, suddenly the end of his cigarette ignite spontaneously, Frank takes one puff from it and then let's the smoke plume out of his nose "come on clockwork, you've woken me up and the least you could do is fight me." Frank looks at Dorek running away and drops down onto the car, following him shortly after "get back here!" Frank goes into a running stance, one that an athlete would use and then *FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!* roaring flames burst out of the soles of his shoes which caused him to jet along the ground in a flash and it left scorch marks on the ground
"oh fuck!" Dorek stops in his tracks and turns around to see Frank charging towards until he dodges by jumping into a nearby alleyway but Frank quickly makes a turn and slams his fist into the ground, narrowly missing Dorek's face "fight back you little bitch!" Frank demanded but Dorek kept dodging and as he kept hopping backwards to avoid the flames and blows from Frank because the raging flame that was Frank didn't know he was being lead into a *BAM!!!* Frank's fires are extinguished as he pats his abdomen, raising the hand to his face to see there was blood and a bullet wound in his abdomen "fuck..." Frank falls onto the floor, clenching his stomach as he tries to apply more pressure.
Dorek walks over to the pathetic extinguished fire that was Frank and chuckled "one thing about people with awakened elemental powers is that they have to prepare themselves for it, like when you're getting a injection from the doctor, you don't know when it will happen but you've gotta prepare yourself." Frank saw Dylan with a pistol in his hand slowly walk next to Dorek, while Dorek kneels down to Frank's eye level "but while you were having a little hissy fit and focused on killing me, you've been shit and now I've got to finish the job," Dorek holds out his hand and Dylan gave him the pistol, Dorek cocks the gun and stood back up, aiming the pistol at Frank's head and as he readies to pull the trigger, he hands the pistol back over to Dylan "ain't you gonna kill him?" Dylan aims the gun back at Frank, ready to finish him off but Dorek pushes down Dylan's arm "not his time." Dorek states which confused Dylan but he went along with it all the while Frank's eyes slowly start to close...