It could be said that having abilities and powers that are far greater than those possessed my most mortals could lead to a swelled head. I have said in the past that I had a Christian upbringing and a section of Luke Chapter 12: Verse 48 from the New International Version of the Bible that has always helped to keep me grounded. Here it is for non-believers “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” Now for the record I am not calling all non-believers infidels or anything like that, really it is not for me to judge so I won’t. So when I had used my telekinesis to lift the sports car holding Melissa up to the roof of the bank I had been standing on I had every intention of teleporting her to safety. Of course the Executioner as well as his employer ADAM and backup who were already proving themselves hard to subdue and that’s putting it lightly since they obviously had other big party plans.
It was of course Friday July 9th 2011 near 7pm and was focusing my will to transport the sedan. I felt the slight mental shift of energies that always occurred before a teleportation but instead of the usual feeling of transition and travel instead I felt a gut wrenching pull on my psyche. That’s truly the only way I can describe it I felt my powers being pulled from me to the street below. Perhaps I should back up a few seconds for actually it was a busy few seconds and unknown to me I was dealing with an ADAM.
Now what exactly was an ADAM well let me jump back just a few seconds and bring everyone else into the picture so as to set the scene. The fluid Gunslinger had fell back across the street from the motel all the while continuing to fire at Eduardo a former KGB presumed dead operative and there three hired Mercenaries. Meanwhile the Voice had fired the Nausea Gun from inside the motel room and while ADAM had been unaffected the Executioner or Iain was doubled over in pain. Of course that was no doubt just the distraction that Eagle Eye had needed to place a shot in to his head which literally caused it to explode. Eagle Eye had of course been set up down the street on a nearby roof top about three blocks away. It was at about that moment when Adam went into action.
Adam stepped up and teleported up to the roof arriving right next to me and made a slightly annoying comment about my beauty. I of course had kept our communication line open on my communicator and even dual recording from both my spy watch and my belt buckle where I had my I-Phone 4 attached. So I had wasted not time in letting the others know that Adam was on the bank roof with me. That was of course also about the time we had received a communication from headquarters or Camp Hero if you will with a warning that was a little late if you ask me.
We were suddenly informed that the man who had been standing next to Iain Crawford the so called Executioner was an ADAM. To add insult to injury he was also reputed to be a Class Three Threat. So for the record while I would not have considered my abilities or those possessed by the other members of my team to be considered lesser by any means compared to normal humans. It seemed our abilities paled in comparison to the scales used by the DSEA since it seemed there were two classes above our power level. In fact it seemed the only bit of good news seemed to be that support was on its way. The woman who had been speaking over our open communications channel I did not recognized but would later learn was our own version of what would have to call a Class Four or Five Threat Agent Arwyn Summers. For within seconds a storm started to form above us and I would have sworn I heard a sonic boom and while it was of little help at the moment I realized something. What I had realized was that we needed to stall Adam long enough for our backup to arrive.
For the record even while things were happening fast and furious as they say my will was sufficient to enable me to keep my calm. While I did so it struck me that our so called support being Agent Jarvis had once again sent us into a situation far beyond what they had anticipated. So much so that it seemed that a secret weapon was being sent to our location who it seemed would be powerful enough to deal with a Class Three Threat. I had realized one thing in that moment as I stood on that bank roof looking at the mountain of a man who was an ADAM and it was time for my close up. Well actually it was perhaps a little more complicated but still a simple one for my Father had drilled into me words from his of his favorite song the Gambler by Kenny Rogers.
I will quote the lyrics for those who have never had to chance to either hear them or read them. “You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ‘em. Know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table. There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealin’s done.” Enough said.
Now back to the action ADAM had stood before me and with two deft moves not only ripped the door off of the sedan but then reached inside and pulled the still unconscious Melissa out of the car and held her there while he continued to eye me. At the time I was hoping that Eagle Eye would chose that moment to fire a bullet into back of ADAM’s head but he seemed to be more determined on shooting at Eduardo. Well I could not just wait so I figured time to fold. So I stepped up to ADAM and touched Melissa and focused my will like I never had before and teleported back to the gatehouse of our base. It was the oddest sensation that I have ever felt for while I had felling that my teleportation ability was being blocked to say nothing of the intense migraine.
When I had arrived at the gatehouse an actual gate had been opened an aperture or window which I could sense led back to where I felt my power still remained attached. In other words I could tell that someone could walk right through the window and return to the bank roof. As a matter of fact that was exactally what ADAM did a moment later. So call me coy but as soon as he stepped thru I was waiting to step back since I figured if backup was on the way as well as Eagle Eye’s sniper rifle then it was best to return and hope that he would follow me.
It had worked as I had expected and while I had tried to maintain a conversational banter he seemed immune to my charms. Of course he followed me back to the roof and then he moved closer and grabbed me by the throat with only one hand I might add. Meanwhile I was still holding Melissa and of course trying to keep him calm. Meanwhile Eagle Eye was still busy firing into the street and I noticed that the Voice had been gunned down. I noticed that my invisible companion Agent J who had not seemed to make a move but in reality it seemed he was also a psychic healer and had teleported down the room to aid the Voice.
It seemed that ADAM had been talking to me about a briefcase that had belonged to the former Executioner and of course information that the unconscious Melissa might possess. I of course had tried to convince him that we could share the information. While on the ground it seemed that Eagle Eye had yet to notice that I needed his help. Since he was still shooting at the sidekicks on the ground and if it had not been for Agent J’s telekinetic shield he would have been gunned down by one of his stray shots. Well thankfully Gunslinger had managed to convince the remaining sidekicks since Eduardo was also down to surrender and drop their guns. Finally with the situation on the ground settled Eagle Eye was finally able to bring his attention to Adam and I on the roof and just in time I might add.
Adam had intensified his hold on my throat and had honestly given me the scariest look I had ever seen and told me to tell him about my companions. I wish I could be writing that I had laughed in his face and only given him my alias and my FBI badge number. But to be honest I feared that at that moment if I had not told him everything he had wanted to know then with a snap of his fingers he would have separated my head from my neck. Thankfully before I was able to give him more than the names of all of my companions he was shot in the back of the head by a fifty caliber shell from Eagle Eye’s sniper rifle. So perhaps Eagle Eye might be a little bloodthirsty for most people but then again like my Mother favorite quote. “Someone ever tries to kill you; you try to kill ‘em right back!”
Eagle Eye had said over our open communication link after ADAM had fallen to the ground Transporter get out of there. Like I have mentioned before he really did not need to say it I knew it was time to run. Which of course caused ADAM who it seemed was regenerating right before my eyes and also gave Agent J the chance to revive the Voice with his Healing Touch. I had chosen to head for our Cleaners who we had set up about a mile south of the Motel as I could feel whatever effect that ADAM had used on me to share my Teleportation start to wear off. I had heard a crack of thunder and I heard from the open communication link that our back up had it seemed arrived. Which did not really help me for no sooner had I arrived than ADAM once again appeared to continue our previous conversation.
Let’s just say what happened next anyway you might want to put it impressive. For from the sky Agent Summers flew in and landed about hundred feet away from me. She then called forth a sword from out of time and space and rushed him leaping and finishing with and acrobatic sword attack the believe it or not missed. Adam tried to swing at her and she moved with such speed and grace I can’t even say I have seen my Mother move quicker and missed. He followed up with what seemed like an attempt to leech her power but she resisted. Agent Summers must have been holding back for when she stepped in she put ADAM on full defensive striking him once with an impressive backswing and following up with strike that I am sure would have crippled any lesser man as she had stabbed him with her sword in his leg. She then tumbled back not doubt in an attempt to pull him away for the Cleaners and me but ADAM was not having any more of Agent Summers. Instead he yelled at her with an air of contempt “Everything has changed now that I know you can bleed!” He then used my fading teleportation power to disappear.
As Agent Summers walked back to us I had asked her why she had landed so far away before rushing ADAM. It had been my deduction that he might have been able to zap my telekinetic flight which was why I had not tried to fly away with Melissa. She confirmed my suspicions letting me know that she landed one hundred feet away and rushed him since she needed to stay out of his power draining range. She also said something about boosting having boosted her flight to a level that prohibited it use in combat. Form our open communications I could tell that everything was contained back at the Motel and we still had possession of the case. But both Agent J and I were temporally exhausted since he had teleported back to the base gatehouse with Eduardo in tow. So it was up to the others to hold down the fort as it were for about ten minutes or so until we rested enough to recover them.
As I had waited only one thing nagged at me the teleportation portal created by ADAM and I was something I had never seen before. Now what was really odd was that I had thought I had seen something inside that portal. I of course had taken a little time to get to know Agent Arwyn Summers a little better. I will admit along with Gunslinger I was also a bit perturbed due to the fact that we had been lied to by Agent Jarvis who seemed to be according to Agent Summers our Director of Operations. Under most circumstances I would have pushed the issue but she told me that she needed to contain the situation at the scene with the aid of the Voice after which she would be holding a briefing back at the base where everything would be explained and all of our questions answered.
So with little fanfare a story was put together regarding Eduardo who was a terrorist who had been presumed dead who was framed for everything. It seemed that Agent Summers only had to touch the Voice and his powers were magnified which enabled them to sell all the bystanders to the idea that it was a Homeland Security matter that had been handled. I of course had removed the car from the roof and Gunslinger wanted to take it back to base for study. Of course that was cool by me plus I figured our buddy Michael could have a good time supping it up. So I readied myself and had returned everyone to the Gatehouse outside our base and it was time for our briefing to begin.
I will not go over all that transpired in our briefing but suffice to say Gunslinger, Agent J and to a lesser extent the Voice were not exactly pleased with the deadly accuracy of Eagle Eye. He took it well I thought but who really knew since he reminded me of a cool and calculating machine. I will make note of one thing that was not in the briefing it seemed that the dreams some of team or in reality Project Sentinel had witnessed were not actually a dream but had been instead a shared memory from our good Agent Arwyn. It seemed the Sword of Damocles had actually come to her during the so called Merging from Dionysus believe it or not the reputed Greek God. To make it clear the Merging was an event that had merged all of reality included parallel as well as alternate worlds which had occurred in 2008. It seemed the fate of all reality hung in the balance and only Sword of Damocles wielded by Agent Arwyn had saved the day. Now somehow she had created a nexus or singularity which had stopped a wave they believe would destroy reality. Of course somehow the singularity had been stolen while she had been recovering. That was only the beginning for in aftermath our world was altered where many lost not only their abilities but also their memory of them and even alien influences gained possession of their alternates.
That is of course putting it mildly of course but suffice to say only with the aid of the blood of Arwyn were our abilities and memories restored. It seemed that now that we knew the rest of the story as it were it was time to stop thinking about it and do something about it. It of course also seemed that we had many new potential enemies and very few allies. And don’t let me forget to mention in the case we found the missing Diazol but of the forty eight vials of which had been created twenty four doses should have been in the case but twelve were missing. So it seems the plot continues to thicken but I would not want it any other way for while I knew our team needed to work out our differences with the likes of Gunslinger, the Voice, Eagle Eye, Cowboy Roy, Agent Jay in the mix all we needed was a DJ and we would be rocking and rolling in no time. I of course had the experience for the job but they were some rough boys and it might take some time before our band would be able to find its harmony so planned to wait and see if a lead singer chose to take the microphone and lead.
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