by BRANDON WOO
Jacob:
We’ve done many things in life. Some good and some bad but if there is one thing we don’t want to live with is regret. To be honest. I never regretted the day I met James and got his powers. Now that I’m in this crazy world, things seemed more fun. Most days like this are just little victories. After a long day of fighting off The Lab and ruining their plans in their new bases, we had a huge change of plans. Our trail ran cold.
“hey man how you feeling?” I asked calling Henry on the phone.
“like shit. Remind me never do that again.” he said.
“so, listen our trail with this Scarlet Murderer turned cold. Sorry bud, guess you gotta try something else.”
I cut the line realizing I’m still in square one. After a four nights the search was wasted. I decided to give up and call the case closed.
I scouted out on the streets again. Its almost dark, the sun sets under the blue shores of the sea while I see that another day going to end.
I remembered about that last base I’ve attacked. It had Convict guards there. This game is about to change. 180 style and its going to start right now. I need fire power. Its getting tougher to fight one base alone. I need other Convicts to help me. And I’ll start with Dazzle Girl and my words may have called her out. A blazing purple figure running past the buildings in blazing across the roads. Its Dazzle Girl!
Alice:
Its been hard now a days, I’ve been on the run.
Terrance and I started flushing out the gangs from the Docks.
I’m not gonna let that happen to another kid again.
The mission tonight is to run to get their attention but I realized they have stepped up their game.
They’re what we called Tsetse Flies.
We will have to find The Glossy King.
We just took out the Queen.
The one who owns the hive to the Tsetse Flies.
And they came from what we call a Glossy worm. Picture a neon green worm. It called a, Glossy Worm. They are like one tiny sausage Neon Green with thick lines over it and a big black head on one end that opens its mouth and closes.
It Causes hallucinations and makes you insane. It also becomes a mind controlling agent, controlling your movements. They need a host to survive. They use our ears and enter the brain. Once that happens, they control you they turn that you into a, Tsetse Fly. A Convict with the ability to create deadly acid.
Its us or them. They could be anyone.
Which is why we are going to get to the bottom of this.
We need a team to take them out but now, we’re in trouble.
We’re being attacked. We were running. Our trip to the Docks was anticipated by Them, the sent a batch of Tsetse Flies after us.
Terrance turned back and fired his Wand at the nearest Tsetse Fly.
They’ve turned aggressive,
I turned back and beamed at another one.
The Tsetse Fly is like your normal human being, except they will be very disturbed and that they won’t be themselves. Their eyes will turn yellow. Covering their whole eye. Aggressive and dangerous.
One of them began to burp out a pile of yellow acid at us.
Terrance switched his wand to EMP and shielded the acid.
That’s the power of a Tsetse Fly if a Glossy worm infects a normal human. They become convicts who are fast, strong. They also can burp deadly acid that kills you when in contact. The acid landed on the ground. Melting the concrete floor.
We ran and ran.
“grab on!” I finally called out.
Terrance stopped and jumped onto my back.
I powered up and ran. The world became a total blur when you run at my speed. Everything will just become colors and nothing else.
Terrance began to move, turning his Wand to the back and fired another one.
I ran as fast as I could to escape this group.
They are the same people from the Docks.
“looks like they upgraded.” I said.
“no kidding.” Terrance said.
Terrance is a Firefly. He has the power to control electricity but at a low amp. He can also talk to people in their heads. But he can only fire his powers for a very limited amount of time and he needs things made of metal to amp up his powers as well as original sources.
That’s why he built The Wand.
The Wand is a tool built by Terrance himself, used to help him use his powers with four functions. The first one is power of ELECTRICITY.
The second one is SCAN. The third is EMP and SHIELD.
The last is REPAIR. It repairs anything and everything. Even organic ones. The front tip of the device is an emerald ball placed at the end and six copper rings filling up until the tip. With a black power button and a push-up button. When activated, it creates a buzzing sound.
We ran across the streets, with more Tsetse Flies swarmed over, running. Terrance jumped off my back and created another shield, blocking off the Tsetse Flies.
And just like how it happened back during the robbery, a large pile of sand swamped in and slammed the remaining Tsetse Flies.
Jacob:
Dazzle Girl appeared in a slightly different costume.
She was wearing a short sleeved black shirt with a symbol on the front,
long black jeans. Her long navy blue coat was tied to her waist, her shoes were a pair of blue Vans sneakers. Running with a 16 year old kid.
I collected a huge pile of sand from a nearby construction site and swooped over against them.
like a huge sand tidal wave.
I’m assuming they are Lab Hunters.
I got my sights on Dazzle Girl and the kid again.
This time running away to the next building. Leaving the kid behind.
“hey!” I called. “I just want to talk to you!”
Alice:
We ran to the next corner.
This batch won’t last. There will be more.
I tried to catch my breath but now is not the time.
“Terrance, get out of here! We’re gonna split from now on.” I said.
“yeah good idea, we-” before he could finish, I turned to the next block and ran.
Jacob:
I ran towards the kid. Fair skinned with Short black hair, brown eyes, and a round face. He was wearing a blue, hoodie and a pair of green long pants. He wears a pair of green sneakers.
“kid, where’s your sister?” I asked.
“don’t call me kid, kid!” he demanded.
He pulled out this wired looking torchlight and beamed at me, a stream of green light with blue lighting, swirling around the light.
The device in the kid’s hand gave a wired buzzing sound.
PEZZZZZ~
I fell to the ground. Surprised to feel shocked for the first time.
“and she’s not my sister, the name is Terrance Jones,
I’m a Firefly and this is my Wand.” He said.
“look kid, you might want to stand back.” I said.
I motioned a large pile of sand into three sand wolves.
The wolves attacked Terrance, one of the wolves smashed Terrance in the face while the other leaped above him and smacked him again.
Terrance used all his might withstand the attack and grabbed the Wand.
He turned the white turning part to the center.
“EMP.” he said. He aimed and the other sand wolf and fired the Wand.
The Wand gave a buzzing sound.
Unlike how it was last time, the Wand gave out a blue and green sound expanding all over the area.
The sand wolf dispersed and rained down on him.
In the mist of the chaos, Terrance reached for his white solid wrist band with a black button at its base and transformed into a man who is probably in his thirties. He is quite tall and he has a face of danger in his eyes. He wears a pair of brown long pants and a white shirt with a brown trench coat with a pair of black converse.
“meet the Detective!” Terrance said.
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bsp; The Detective fired another blast of lightning at me with his Wand.
“whoa!” I cried. He leaped over towards me and started punching me.
Every strike of his is thrown well, bet he got black belt in fighting.
“what’s wrong? To scared to hit a kid?” he asked. Throwing another kick at me. “I’m cutting you some slack kid!” I said.
“well, I’m not!” Terrance grinned. “then neither should I!” I cried.
I motioned, creating a giant sand gorilla. The sand gorilla growled and charged towards Terrance.
I took another pile and changed it into a sand cloud.
While The Detective or Terrance fights off the sand gorilla, I moved the cloud up to find Dazzle Girl.
Alice:
Sand boy turns out to be more powerful than I thought.
He was able to distract Terrance and come after me.
“hey I just want to talk!” he cried.
“busy!” I answered casually.
What does he know?
All he wants is to live that hero life.
“stay out of my way!” I said.
“Dazzle please. I need your help.” he cried.
“piss off!” I said. “guess I have to force you to slow down then.” he said.
This guy never gives up!
Jacob fired sand blasts over towards me like wild fire.
I turned back and fired more light blasts against his sand blast.
Taking out his attacks. He’s good. He’s really good.
“this guy is going to kill us!” Terrance said in my head.
He was still trying to fight off whatever it was that stopped him from fighting Jacob. “Terrance, hang on!” I said.
I turned and used my new powers for the first time.
I ran pass through Jacob, still shocked at the big purple blur swooping through him. I ran and ran and it happened again.
My wings sprouted out, and I flew.
I got to Terrance in time firing light blasts at what looks like a giant sand gorilla.
The gorilla growled again, he rose his arms and slammed the ground.
Time to go! I went over to Terrance in The Detective form,
hiding behind a cab.
The cars all around began to blared, the lights blinking.
I took the Portal Revolver out from my pocket. I aimed it at the wall behind us and fired it.
“come on!” I said pulling his arm and jumped into the Negative Zone.
“we’ll be safe in here.” I said “I think.”
I landed at the Negative zone with Terrance in my arms.
I looked over and realized a huge bolt of lighting hit me on the chest, knocking me out unconscious.
Jacob:
Dazzle Girl’s got more fight than I thought.
I followed her into this blue portal on the wall behind a cab.
“Jacob, found something?” Henry called.
“yeah, I’m gonna check it out.” I said. “be careful kid.” he said.
“yeah, you too.” I said bluntly. I jumped into the
Portal finding every thing in opposite.
Get a load of this!
Beyond the portal was a world like our own.
I ventured around this unusual place.
I looked around and discovered that the place is a mirror like place.
Everything is opposite.
“you shouldn’t come here.” a voice said.
I turned over, discovering Terrance is his thirties form.
Looking down at me.
“your in my turf now, here in the negative zone, I am the king, no.
Why be a king when you can be a God!” he chuckled.
He dropped his Wand and fired multiple bolts of lightning against me.
I dodged the shots and faded off.
PAK-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
Another one,
PAK-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
Another one,
PAK-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
I ran to the nearest building and got to the roof through the vents
Where is everyone?
“YOU DARE HIDE FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE DETECTIVE?”
Who does this guy think he is?
“COME NOW CHILD, REVEAL YOURSELF AND FACE YOUR DOOM.”
“your the kid here Terrance.” I taunted.
I fired a few more blasts of sand against its face.
He’s still a regular sized person but his strikes were precise.
From afar, I saw Alice running towards it.
That girl is going to kill herself!
Alice:
I feel like I just woke up from a crazy train ride,
The moment I entered the Negative Zone, Terrance’s Detective got stronger. I woke up with a horrifying sight seeing him attacking Jacob Brown. “whoa! whoa!” I blasted a few warning shots against him.
“what’s the matter with you?” I asked.
“LEAVE INSECT!” Terrance used his own hands to fire lightning shots against me.
“whoa- hey!” I shouted.
“after all we’ve been through?” I asked
“LEAVE INSECT!” he repeated.
“have it your way then Jones!” I fired more shots against him.
PAK-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
PAK-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
PAK-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
Jacob Brown moved closer towards me.
Terrance’s kept firing like a wild man.
I walked back.
“Sand Boy!” I shouted. He’s my best bet now.
Jacob faded over towards me and grabbed me by the arm.
PAK-KAH-SHA!
In an instant we disappeared!
my body felt like its turning into dust.
I began to shatter into chunks of rocks and as Jacob makes a small leap forward.
Being dust is like a different world.
I turned and turned and turned left to right with Jacob...
Balancing myself like as if I am on a see-saw path. If I go way too to the left, I’ll trip...way too to the right, I’ll also trip...
Things move at a regular pace so that I can see while in this form.
The feeling is like your being burnt alive into ashes then being turned into rocks then putting it back together again...
The feeling is wired yet cool. KAH-SHA!
Holy shit!
We appeared further from Terrance, to safety.
Standing next to me is Sand Boy, Jacob Brown.
His quite sharp looking face.
His eyes were brown and his hair was tucked in his red beanie.
He is quite tall, I think he is older than me.
He was still wearing his orange checkered shirt and long black jeans.
He wore a red beanie that had black ring figure in the front and a really fetch black pocketed long sleeve jacket.
And of course his pair of black All Stars sneakers.
“holy shit!” I exclaimed. “that’s so cool!” I said
Jacob:
This girl sure got into a lot of trouble.
Strangely I didn’t get her powers.
“mind telling me what’s going on?”I asked
“oh this is the Negative Zone, everything is in the opposite.” she replied.
Great. A four dimensional mirror.
“will we be stuck here?” I asked
“no, but we need to get The Wand to shut down The Detective.” she answered.
“the who but he’s a kid.” I said.
“well its a long story. He’s like one guy with two persons.” she tried to explain.
“like Shazam?” I asked
“yeah, something like that, now come on!” she said hurriedly.
Alice:
I ran alongside with Jacob, going across the empty city.
Jacob couldn’t catch up with me, instead, he used his sand powers to
Disappear and reappear.
PAK-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
PA
K-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
PAK-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
God, I won’t get tired of that.
Jacob:
We got back to where Terrance was or was it The Detective.
Nothing.
“where did he go?” I asked
“no idea, keep looking.” she answered.
My phone rang. It was Henry.
“wow, four bars in the negative zone.” I said.
Surprised to find my phone working.
“hello?” I asked.
“wait don’t answer that!” Dazzle Girl said.
“OH HUMAN,YOU ARE A FOOL!” said the other line.
This is not Henry.
Terrance came from above dropping towards me with a bolt of lighting.
“oh, right electricity....” I said to myself.
Terrance’s lightning bolt slammed against the ground,
Obliterating the place.
I faded off,
PAK-KAH-SHA! KAH-SHA!
That was close.
Alice quickly ran to find the Wand she mentioned.
“round two huh Terrance?” I asked
“I WON’T BE CARELESS HUMAN INSECT!” he snared.
Alice:
Jacob Brown distracted the Detective while I looked for the Wand.
It used to work last time. It has to work this time.
I scanned around the ground and found both the Portal Revolver and The Wand hidden behind some broken concrete parts.
“there you are!” I exclaimed.
Okay, you’ve only seen him use it two times but the functions are easy right? I thought to myself.
Okay, great, just turn to the third symbol and press it.
Easy.
I focused all my powers at the Wand and aimed it against Terrance.
He won’t enjoy this but we have to.
I man when someone who used to be easy going and simple turns out to be a crazy guy can’t be right.
Right?
Jacob:
I fired more sand blasts at his face distracting him from reaching Dazzle Girl.
“YOU’RE STALLING INSECT!” he growled.
“exactly.”
Dazzle Girl fired a beam against him.
Releasing a huge shock wave of purple and green shock wave rings
Blasted all over the surroundings.
The wave blasted pass me and Terrance.
Knocking him and I out.
I fell against the ground while the wave knocked Terrance back into his 16 year old self. I faded over feeling stronger but unusual.
PAK-KAH-SHA! I prepared myself and changed back,
KAH-SHA! I caught Terrance from behind and landed on the ground again. “its okay kid, I got you.” I said.
Alice:
Jacob got Terrance after a freak blast off that changed.
That’s the second time an EMP took Terrance’s Detective down.
I’m starting to think he built the Wand to stop him in case if he loses control. I ran towards Terrance.
“hey, you okay?” I asked.
“yeah, I think.” he said.
I handed the Wand back to him.
“here, this belongs to you.” I said.
“thanks.” he said grabbing the Wand.
“uh hate to break it to the both of you here but you can have your reunion later.” Jacob chimed in.
“yeah he is right, let’s get the hell out of here.” I agreed.
Jacob:
We got out of the Negative Zone as fast as we could, Dazzle Girl fired this wired revolver at a wall, creating a hole at a nearby wall that transported us back. She called it the Portal Revolver. Its like a normal revolver with the trigger, hammer, grip and cylinder intact but a change of a slightly bigger barrel on the front expanding from the center of the revolver. Back on the streets again, Dazzle Girl, Terrance and I met up somewhere where we can talk. We got to the top of Clockwork Hotel, I called Henry to meet the rest. We got there just in time to start this small meet up. Its dark now. Night is approaching, the winds began to rise as the air fills this city with its wonder.
Nights like these are awesome.
The moment wind enters your face, blowing your hair while it sways as you go along with the wind is a lot of fun.
Like looking outside with the car window open.
Neon lights filled the area as night approaches.
Makes you feel that this place is secretly a magical place when its at night. Henry’s arms were folding has he looks at these two kids staring at each other nervously. He was still recovering from his change the other day.
“So uh, let’s introduce ourselves.
I’m Jacob Brown, Sand Fly, I have the ability to control sand. I can transform, expand and create anything sand related even me. This is Uncle Henry.” I said.
“I’m Alice Dagger, Butterfly, I have the ability o blast powers of light towards objects through the direct influence with the power of light.
I can also run fast.” she said.
“Terrance Jones, Firefly,” the moment Terrance said that he changed into The Detective!
Alice stared at Terrance, confused at the sight of what’s happening.
Henry got shocked, realizing that a fair skinned blue hoodie boy transformed into a thirty year old, tall man wearing brown long pants and a white shirt with a brown trench coat with a pair of black converse. Before his eyes.
Alice:
Terrance suddenly transformed into The Detective without reaching out for his wristband.
“okay, what the hell is that?” and old man, Henry asked.
“uh, I don’t know.” I replied
I turned to Terrance, “what happened to you?” I asked.
“uh, wait let me try something.” he said.
Terrance clutched his hands together and focused on his powers,
Before we knew it,
A spark of lightning appeared right before his hands.
This stunned me because Terrance never did this before.
See, he has the power to control electricity but at a low amp. He can also talk to people in their heads. But he can only fire his powers for a very limited amount of time and he needs things made of metal to amp up his powers as well as original sources.
That’s why he built The Wand.
But now, he’s doing it without the Wand and he’s making it stronger.
His body was charged in blue electricity,
He tested out by firing it out into thin air.
“wicked!” he said in his child voice.
“uh how did you do that?” I asked.
“I don’t know, I just said Firefly-” Terrance changed again.
Back to his child self.
“oh cool!” he said.
“that must EMP must have made The Detective stuck into its Negative state.” I said.
“so, meaning to say he is Shazam now.” Jacob said.
“cool.” Terrance said with a smile.
Jacob:
Terrance displayed his inner self for the first time ever.
He’s like Shazam now. Every time he says a magic word, he changes into this other self. Which was really cool.
He’s like a real superhero now.
Henry stared at Alice, feeling suspicious. “wait a minute.” he finally said. “your that Dazzle Girl!” Henry said.
“uh yeah. Why?” Alice asked.
“there was an incident in Northwest recently.” he began.
“you’re behind that incident right?” Henry asked.
Alice tried to defend herself but Henry won’t listen.
“it was an accident and it wasn’t me.”she declared.
“yeah that’s what they all say!” Henry moved to Alice and caught her by one arm and grabbed her by the neck.
“Whoa! Whoa!” I shouted, trying to gain control over the situation.
“Jacob!” Alice screamed in panic.
“hey kid, what
do ya say we take this girl and maybe, just maybe get Wednesday to trade and save Aunt May?” Henry asked.
Terrance took his wand out, preparing to fight.
I stood there, thinking what have I got myself into?
