Rise of The Unknown: A Gifted Teens Story (10 pre-made characters. 9 spots available)

[Legolas The Jedi Master]

Lucas nodded to Kai and turned as Brandon started to mumble something. I think the drugs effected him more than he's letting on.

"Don't worry Kai, I'll take care of things." Lucas said and stepped after Brandon.

Adrian frowned and forced himself to step through the dark portal. he hated them, and he hated following Kai, but right now he was helping them find their family and Josh.

When they came out on the other side, they were standing near where Josh was last known. Solders were running nearby, but for now they weren't spotted.

Lucas frowned and pointed north. "look, something smashed through there, only Josh can get that big."

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Josh was being back into a corner. the tranquilizers were starting to effect him, he had to stay as an elephant, if he changed to anything smaller he knew he would pass out.
Josh turned and bashed into another wall, it gave way and Josh started forward again.

 

[AmazonPanther]

Jo felt foolish for asking the question even though Di tried to comfort her.

"all right, Brandon, Adrian, Jo and Lucas, you four will head back and find Josh. once you find him, text me and I'll portal you back to HQ. The rest of us have another facility to break into. I know Taka isn't there, but it's bound to have the information we need to find her and the rest of our families."

Jo frowned. Had Kai assigned her to that team on purpose? She was really beginning to regret speaking up. At least Adrian was going with.

Jo stepped up to the portal. She had to go through. For Josh if for nothing else. Taking a deep breath, she stepped through and followed the others to the other side.

Felicia turned to Kai when the last of the other team was through the portal. "What exactly do you have in mind for a plan, Kai? A distraction? Or just storm in?"

 

[Legolas The Jedi Master]

Kai shook his head. "neither, I was able to get the layout for this facility from the other one. I can put us right next to where I need to be to copy their files. we'll storm into the room, they'll be unprepared so it will be easy to take them out. However once that happens there's a very good chance the alarm will be sounded, so I'll need you all to keep the guards at while I work. depending on the security and who left what up depends on how long we have to stay."

Kai closed the first portal and opened a second with a flick of his hand. "ready?"

 

[FireRock]

Brandon felt nauseated as he stepped back out of the portal again, but he held it down. He moved out of the way quickly as some military-looking men ran by the group.

Lucas frowned and pointed north. "Look, something smashed through there. Only Josh can get that big."

"That's the way all the important-looking people are heading, too. Let's go," Brandon agreed. He took a quick look behind them to see if they'd been noticed, then led the way through the larged smashed wall toward the noise.

As they made their way, a few prisoners ran past them with wide-eyed fear and/or dazed looks, but the group of teenagers were still basically ignored. The noises got louder and there was the sound of shouting down the way.

"Over there," Brandon pointed, "Looks like Josh went this way through another wall."

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Dr. Morgan began subtly organizing his own team of scientists. He'd gotten word that one of the children was in the process of being caught, but he didn't trust this military man any further than he could throw him.

 

[AmazonPanther]

Felicia grinned. "Always."

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Jo nervously followed the Brandon. She was amazed that none of the men had noticed them yet. Josh had to be close if there was that much noise. But how were they going to get out?

 

[ChristIsCalling]

Diana nodded simply when Kai asked the group if they were ready. She felt like chuckling. Ready? To find out where her parents were? That was a silly question to ask.

 

[FireRock]

Brandon shook his head as the group walked through yet another large hole in a wall. This had to be at least the fourth one they'd gone through by now. He was guessing that they were being mistaken for patients at the facility, and that was why they were being generally ignored by anyone who looked official.

Then just ahead, Brandon saw that military men were trying to get the patients to run in a different direction, shouting at them and showing off their weapons. Most of the frightened people obeyed the jumble of orders, only wanting to get out of the building and to freedom. The few that tried to push past the men for whatever reason were either shot or hit, and their bodies pushed off to the side.

"Josh must be in there," Brandon announced plainly. His head still foggy, especially with all the choas around him while he tried to focus, but he knew they needed a plan. Stopping, he turned to the group and said, "I don't think we can just run in there firing off our powers at these guys. We don't know what's going on with Josh or how many innocences are around that we probably shouldn't kill. Anybody got any ideas?"

Another loud crash from the other room. Brandon instictively ducked a little. "Anybody got any ideas fast?" he asked again with more emphasis.

 

[Legolas The Jedi Master]

Lucas shrugged. "I can just zap the area of oxygen, then the guards will be dead."

Adrian frowned at Lucas. "along with Josh. next plan."

 

[AmazonPanther]

"Maybe some of us could distract the guards?" Jo timidly suggested. It was probably a stupid plan but it was the only one she could think of. Nobody else seemed to have a really good one either.

 

[FireRock]

Brandon watched as a guard shot at a prisoner who was trying to push past another guard. He felt his blood get hot as he stood there listening to the others brainstorm.

"Distracting the guards?" Brandon asked before turning to face the others, "Perfect. Joanna, you're with me. We'll take out the guards while Lucas and Adrian do what they can to help Josh. Once you guys get him out, let us know and then contact Kai. Hopefully he won't be too tied up to open a portal for us to get out of here."

A loud commotion made Brandon think that Josh was really trying to put up a fight against those guys. He took a deep breath, mentally trying to keep a hold on his powers.

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Dr. Morgan strapped on a modified handgun before signaling his newfound team to head out. They were armed with special weapons that the doctor had been working on for this kind of occassion, and now he just hoped that the coordinates they were following would lead them to the kids.

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"Ready, Joanna?" he asked, then paused for a moment before saying, "Okay, let's go."

Brandon lit up his hands and 'distracted' the guards the only way he could think of, by injuring or killing them. He instantly felt satisfaction after the first guard screamed and fell dead, then went for the next one. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the other two run past the guards and out of sight, and was relieved. In the back of his mind he just wanted everyone to be okay. Taka. His parents. Even the Crusaders' parents. Brandon couldn't help the nagging frustration that taunted him for feeling so helpless and ignorant to do anything about that. He threw a random fireball down an empty hall, pausing for just a moment to see it erupt and engulf the walls that it hit.

"Wonder if this building will still be standing once we get done here?" he mumbled with a smirk as he took grabbed another guard with firey hands and flipped him over his back, causing the guard to land with a loud thud as he struggled out of Brandon's painful grasp.

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"Doctor, are you sure these readings are correct?" a scientist asked as he cocked his head at the handheld computer he was looking at.

"About as right as we can get," Dr. Morgan replied without looking at the young man.

"But sir," he continued, "That would mean that one of the children have injested enough of the drug to knock out a horse, while the other has a diluted quanity in his system that could have different effects than we might anticipate."

"We'll cross those bridges when we come to them," Dr. Morgan explained, leading the way to a stairwell and up a few flights, "Our current objective is to find these powerful children and safely secure them. Just follow the plan as we have laid it out. If anything comes up, we'll need to use our imaginations and get the job done."

The doctor and his team arrived at the floor Brandon and the others were on. They spread out as they had planned and took a few moments to analize the childrenss movements and behaviors. Dr. Morgan was both excited and fascinated by what he witnessed. He couldn't wait to get these children into holding where he could talk to and analize them to see what made them different.


((If anyone wants to get shot or taken prisoner or whatever, feel free! Otherwise I'll just kind of keep writing off the cuff until someone comes up with a better plot twist. Speaking of which, whatever happened to Mr. Richards and his secretary???))

 

[ChristIsCalling]

(( They were Aisynia's characters, but she left a looong time ago, so I've been kinda... ad-libbing with Joey since then.

Oh, and I'm going to be out of town from Friday to Sunday, but I should be back on Monday. Don't wait up for me though. I'll catch up when I get back. ))

 

[Legolas The Jedi Master]

Lucas and Adrian exchanged looks as they watched Brandon and Jo head out. when their commotion died down they headed out following the holes towards Josh.

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Josh roared again as he felt another rain of pricks. his vision was growing worse, he was losing. Josh ran forward unsure where he was going. through another wall, and suddenly he realized he couldn't use his feet. Josh fell forward his large body crashing to the ground and skidding a few feet. stopping just short of Dr. Morgan.

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Kai smirked and raised his hand suddenly the rest of them were dropping through the ground. they landed in a dressing room, that for the moment was empty.

Kai pointed to some old uniforms. "change, that will slow them down. they can't know were here till I get what I need. Then we go back and get the others and hopefully this Dr. Morgan is there. I think he's heading or pretty high up on the commite or what ever that is researching us."

Kai himself didn't have to change since he was still in his disguise from earlier, but he waited for the rest of them to pick something out and change.

 

[AmazonPanther]

Jo followed Brandon's lead and started attacking the guards. She raised her arm high above her head and the air began to crackle with electricity. Jo lowered her arm and a bolt of lightning hit the ground a few feet from the guards. The oddest thing was that there was no sound. Most of the guards were blinded by the flash of light and some of them were laying on the ground in shock. Jo continued to blind the guards or shock them with little bolts of lightning; but she refused to do anything that could kill them.

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Felicia frowned at the old uniforms piled in the room. Why did they need disguises if they were just going to portal in, get stuff, and portal out? Grudgingly, Felicia picked out a guards uniform and pulled it on over her clothes. "All right, Kai, let's get this over with." She grumbled.

 

[ChristIsCalling]

Mimicing Felicia, Diana also grabbed a guard's uniform, and pulled it on over her clothes. Smoothing the folds, and quickly tying her long, red hair into a ponytail, she cleared her throat quietly. "Let's go." She said firmly.

 

[Legolas The Jedi Master]

Kai nodded as everyone changed and reached for the door. "follow my lead. the last thing we need to do is raise an alarm. we can take them sure, but they can lock down the computers. We're a technical crew here for a routine checkup. it's in the books so they'll let us by no trouble."

Chris nodded hoping quietly that she didn't actually didn't have to do anything.

Kai reached his hand out into a small black portal that opened up and pulled out his computer bag. "let's go. make sure your faces can't be seen by the cameras."

Kai opened the door and walked quickly down the hall, he stopped in front of a door and knocked briskly. the door opened and the guard looked them over simply. "you're early. sign here." Kai did as he was told and stepped inside. "we'll let you know when were done." Kai said.

the guards stepped aside as the people working on the computers got up and walked out, then took their positions around the room. Kai nodded to his group. "let's get started."

Kai spied the computer he wanted and sat down in front of it setting his computer up next to it and got to work.

Chris frowned slightly and sat down at a random computer and stared at the screen. she could feel the guards staring at her wondering what she was doing. great

 

[FireRock]

Dr. Morgan didn't move as a large elephant came running towards him. He could see the number of tranquilizers that had hit the animal. As Josh ran towards him, his feet gave out and he crashed to the ground, right in front of Dr. Morgan, who smiled at the animal.

"A shapeshifter?" he asked out loud, seemingly to Josh himself. Then looking to his team, he ordered, "This one will need to be restrained, quickly and securely. Assume that he could have any amount of strength at any time." Dr. Morgan clicked on his radio and talked to another team member, "This is the chief staff doctor, requesting that room 407 be prepared for a new arrival. This is a positive subject, repeat, positive subject. Please be advised."

A voice came back over the radio with an affirmative reply, and Dr. Morgan clicked it off and ordered three more team members to help get Josh ready to move. To the other team members that were still standing around, he ordered them to spread out and find the other child with the powers.

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Brandon laid down one last soldier with a satisfied sigh. He shook his hands to get the flames to go out, although it took a few moments wioth the flames up to his elbows by that time.Once his arms were out, his shook them again to make sure.

"Something doesn't feel right," Brandon thought, patting down his chest and shoulders to make sure he wasn't on fire anywhere else. Casting a glance over to Joanna, he waved her to go with him as they followed after the others.

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The men had quickly secured the unconsious elephant and a mode of transporting him was en route. A couple of scientists that Dr. Morgan had brought with now set to work drawing blood samples and doing a quick diagnostic of this new and odd patient. One of the scientists, an intern, went about removing the tranquilizers once they were drained of thier contents.

"Patch me through to the commander," Dr. Morgan requested to the radio as he watched everyone work. There was a beep and then the doctor announced, "Mr. Richards, we may have something you might be interested in here, sir."

 

[ChristIsCalling]

Commander Richards glanced up from his desk as the radio beeped beside him. Picking it up, he heard Dr. Morgan's voice from the other end, "Mr, Richards, we may have something you might be interested in here, sir."

Richards' eyes widened. Things were finally starting to look up. Previously, his partner in crime had left him, and his commandees had revolted against him. He could only hope that Daniels hadn't yet spilled the beans.

"Yes? What is it, Morgan?"

 

[AmazonPanther]

Jo knocked out her last guard and followed after Brandon. The stench of burning... things... was horrible. She almost wanted to puke. Hurrying to catch up to Brandon, Jo wondered why the Rebellion held life in such low value. Jo cleared her throat. "Um, Brandon? What are we going to do if Josh is already captured?"

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Felicia was glad she had picked a guard's uniform. That meant she didn't have to pretend she knew what she was doing on a computer. She positioned herself so she blocked a curious guard's stare from Chris' computer screen and maintained her usual bored scowl.

 

[Legolas The Jedi Master]

Chris took a deep breath grateful that Felicia blocked the guards view. soon she was typing away, opening random things and probably doing way more harm than good, that is if she was doing anything.

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Josh's eyes fluttered briefly as he could feel himself being lifted. he was afraid to change back, nor did he feel like he had enough energy to do it. he didn't know what they would do to him, but all he knew is he had to escape.... just not now.... and Josh blanked out.

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Lucas pointed ahead to a large shape being moved bu a crane. "there, he looks dead." Lucas frowned then flinched slightly as he felt a sharp pain. turning he sees Adrian glaring. "you could show a little emotion, besides he's more good to them alive. he's probably drugged. come on, we got to do something."
Lucas frowned. "and end up next to him under the knife, no thanks. let's let Kai know."
Adrian rolled his eyes. "do you guys care for anyone but yourselves?"
"maybe, but not that you all care. you guys much rather paint us holding up a head laughing." Lucas retorted. "I don't want to go on a suicide mission and suddenly I'm heartless. I kill some people cause if I didn't they would kill me, and suddenly I'm a murder. I guess it's all black and white for you guys, I bet this is the first time someone has tried to kill you guess they don't kill you for saving puppys."
Adrian turned away. "I didn't realize you were such a saint. I can't believe I didn't notice the trail of goodness falling you, but it is hard to see under all the blood and bodies. Now can we get Josh?"

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Kai glanced forward at the others, his eyes lingering a moment over Diana. Kai dropped them back to the computer screen, just a few more minutes.

 

[FireRock]

Dr. Morgan chuckled a little, as if amused by a joke that no one else heard, "Do you like the circus, sir? Because I have an elephant here that may look familiar to you. We're taking him into a secure holding room currently, but I thought I'd give you a heads up." The doctor was exceedingly proud of himself, and even this man's permenant scowl couldn't dampen his mood.

Brandon wanted to ignore the question, but at the word captured his mind flooded back with memories of the men wearing black suits that took Taka as he fell unconscious. It wasn't until he reached the center of the room where the others were that he noticed that his hands up to his elbows were on fire. With a growl, he shook his arms until the flames extinguished themselves. He still felt very warm, almost uncomfortably so, but played it off to the stress of the situation.

He barely caught sight of Josh's elephant body being carried out of the room, but he definitely saw the numerous men with guns and probably more drugs still surrounding the team. "Cripes," he muttered to no one in particular, "Now what? We can't keep this up if unlimited men-with-guns are going to keep coming after us in here."

He watched several men transport elephant Josh down a hallway for a few moments, and when he turned back he saw that Josh wasn't the only one that had been deposited onto his doorstep. "Did I win the lottery today?" Dr. Morgan asked into the radio, although not directly to Mr. Richards, "Sir, I'm not sure if you'd like to come down and see this for yourself, but I may have more to this circus than just an elephant for you." He quickly exchanged his radio for a modified handheld gun on his belt.

As he motioned for his men to raise their weapons and hold fire, the doctor took a breathe to decide wheter or not to try negotiating with these kids before taking them under observation. There was really no telling how powerful they were or if they even had control of their powers.

((Sorry...writer's block!!! I have no idea what to have the character say. I'll try finishing tonight, but it might not be until tomorrow.))