Chapter 6

There were six of us in the training hall. Five of us abnormals and the Professor. He took several minutes trying to figure out something then finally broke the silence and instructed...

“Come with me, all of you”.

“Where are we going?”. Priya was curious, so she questioned.

“I have to get you to somewhere safe. But first, I have something that could probably keep Ego trapped inside Kyle for a while”. Said the professor.

He started walking towards the lab while we all followed, then he suddenly stopped like he remembered something important and wanted to tell us right away. He looked at us and yelled “Everybody get down!”.

We weren't able to respond quickly to his warning as a huge explosion knocked us off and sent us a few feet away. It gave off a blast that took out our sense of hearing for some seconds. I got up and was feeling dizzy when five strange people suddenly appeared from nowhere and started walking towards us, they were in costumes so we assumed they were superheroes and there was probably nothing to be worried about.

“Kyle, come with us!” a huge bald guy ordered, but I was hesitant to agree.

“Wait! Where are you taking him?” the professor asked.

“The bureau”. He replied.

“You are not taking him anywhere!” Jordan protested, everyone else took their defensive positions and where ready for whatever comes next. Everyone except the Professor.

“I hope you do realize how overwhelmingly outnumbered you are?”. The bald guy immediately set off a warning alarm.

“What are you talking about, there's six of us and there's only five of you” said Jayna.

“One of us is capable of taking you all down with ease, so stand down and let us do our job!” he threatened.

“He's right, stand down, all five of you!”.

Though he seemed weak as he uttered those words, but I've always known the professor to be some kind of a pacifist and I've never actually seen him start a fight before. So I understood what was going on.

“We have to listen to them” he said, and I submitted myself to them as one of them grabbed my arms and placed a power dampener on my wrist. Just as they were about to take me away, the professor stopped them and asked “What are you going to do with him?”

The bald guy ignored the question and we vanished into thing air.

There was complete silence for a couple of minutes before Jordan finally broke it “We are going to get him right?”.

The professor grinned and said “come with me, time for your first mission”.

Professor Mathews took his tablet then linked it to a screen and started with the planning.

“They are known as THE THUNDER SQUAD and they are all A class superhumans, making them the most powerful team of superheroes within the bureau, which is why this is strictly an extraction mission. Their leader is NOLLAN, also known as DRAGON BOLT. He is extremely powerful so make sure to avoid him. If you see him, then by all means DON'T ENGAGE!”. He concluded.

“So how do we get in?” Jordan asked.

“We're gonna have to sneak in” The professor replied.

“I don't think that's a good idea” Jordan objected.

“What do you mean?”.

“If the bureau is half as twisted as we all think they are, I'm pretty sure they'll be expecting us to try and rescue him. So they probably have the whole place rigged up”.

“So?” said Priya.

“So...we'll need a distraction!”.

“And what is this distraction?”. Asked the professor.

Suddenly, everyone stared at him and he immediately got the message but made a declining gesture with his hands.

“But you have to, you're the only one strong enough to do that”.

‘Like I have a choice, they won't stop until I say yes so have it your way’ he thought to himself.

“Okay then, I'll be the distraction”.

Professor Mathews pushed a button on the wall which revealed a room filled with varieties of weapons...“Your choice”. He said.

“Lets do this!” Jayna and Roxy both said in Unison, also while cracking their knuckles.

The plan was for Prof Mathews to take the main entrance since he was to serve as a decoy so the others could sneak in through another route. At the entrance, there were four men tucked in suits just like the ones from the car chase earlier. He was asked to stop for some questioning as he approached.

“State your purpose here!” one of them ordered.

He started with his British accent which sincerely makes him sound much smarter than he looks. We call him professor but he's still pretty much in his late twenties, he's the kind of man girls would fall for after dropping a single sentence. At least that's what he wishes buuut we all don't get what we want do we. “Oh hey guys! I was just wondering, do you happen to know if a boy named KYLE was brought here a while ago? He's a teenager, handsome (Oh my god!), with nerdy looks (you really had to point that out han?)”.

One of them brought out a tablet with his picture on it along with pictures of Jordan and the others. There was about thirty seconds of silence as the man slowly directly his gaze towards the professor. Imagine this in slow motion. After that, the professor suddenly sighed and was like “bollocks!”. In the blink of an eye, he placed his right hand on the guy's head and it exploded. He wasn't human though, just a clone so there wasn't any blood.

He punched the one with the tablet by the jaw, grabbed his neck then threw him at another guy beside him. Then jumped and kicked the last one with his knee. He walked towards the wall and punched it down, neglecting the door that was literally in front of him since he was simply trying to draw their attention.

He walked in then used a hologram projector to send a message to every corner of the building, informing them about his presence and where he was so they would all come get him. They rushed down to the bottom floor where he waited, giving Jordan and the others a good chance to sneak in and come find me.

Meanwhile, I was in an empty room, tied to something that looked like a modified torture system. If anyone who didn't know better just walked in, he'd think I was about to get tortured in a newly fashioned way. Of course they could have just pointed a gun and shot me right in the head but they knew my alter ego wouldn't just go down that easily, they decided to perform some experiments which they believed would work and should eventually destroy Ego for good and me too.

I wasn't just gonna sit there and wait for them to come rescue me so I decided to try my luck with my alter ego. Unfortunately, the power dampener they put on me was so strong that it stopped Ego from coming out, or to put it correctly, he didn't want to come out. So I figured I was stuck in there, praying not to get killed in one of the most painful ways possible. Today is not my day.

Thirty more men were already in front of the professor, waiting to attack. They were all holding aluminum tonfas this time. They rushed towards the professor one after the other as they were being destroyed. Their numbers weren't decreasing, instead it started increase. Each of them created more clones of themselves and they soon reached sixty.

“I know you people aren't human, so I don't have to worry about getting my hands dirty”. He said with utmost boldness. He is a formidable martial artist, skilled and profound. He taught us all he knew while I, Jayna and Roxy happens to be his best students. While I dislike violence, Jayna and Roxy are both crazy about it, they are like assassins on the making. That's pretty much why they seem stronger than me.

One of them tried to attack from his left but he dogged it then took his tonfa, broke his leg with it, whirled around then finally his neck with the handle. He attached tonfas into the side of two others mouth's and aggressively pulled it out, splitting their mouth wide open. He threw the tonfa with great force as it went through their skulls and finally pierced through the wall. A few others rushed towards him as he started taking them down one by one, he dogged a few attacks then broke their necks, spines, skulls, gave one a few rounds of punches in his abs then a final one which splitted him into pieces.

Five others pushed him into an elevator then pushed the button as it started heading to the last floor. When it opened, all five dead bodies slowly started to fade away as he walked out of the elevator and in front of him were about a hundred others with tonfas that were emitting electrical charges.

“That's right, just keep coming” he muttered.

They rushed towards him all at once and covered him, he struggled to find space but couldn't so he gathered energy and blasted them all away then yelled “That's enough!!!”. His voice echoed throughout the whole building as he gathered energy around his fist and punched the ground with intense force, it broke down and collapsed one on top of the other till it got to the bottom floor and he just simply squinted through the dust and walked away unscathed to the other section of the building where the others where.

Jayna and Roxy finally found me so she asked Roxy to go find the others so we could rendezvous at the point where they all splitted up.

“What did they do to you?” she asked.

“Nothing, they just kept me in here that's all”.

“What about Ego?”.

“No, turns out if I die, Ego will still exist by completely taking over my body”.

“Oh I get it. Common let's go!” she clenched her fist I'm anger, anger at how weak she was when she challenged him the first time, anger at how weak she was when she tried to kill one of her comrade. She gave me a device that immediately attached itself to my wrist.

“Professor asked me to give this to you, he called it the DAWN BREAKER, I'm not sure what it does but he said it would suit you”.

We were about to leave when we heard a distinct voice say “Alas! We finally meet. And here I was, thinking I wasn't gonna get a bit entertained. Hahahaha. Jayna Merced, it's been a long time, I heard you've gotten strong. Now tell me, how does it feel to be together again... Sister?”