CHAPTER 10: RISE FROM THE ASHES PT. 4
The helicopter's members raised the miniguns. Other soldiers stood behind, eyes through the sights. "YOU TWO DOWN THERE! GET BACK!" Texas yelled out. Needless to say, we started running back around the corner. What the hell is happening..! "M-Miles!! Who the hell are they!? How'd they find us!?" Emma asked as soon as I got back. "Th-they're military but--" I started to explain but suddenly.. a burst of light and screaming came. Everyone stood perfectly still.. "ALMOST.. DONE..!" I heard John yell. I peeked around the corner. I couldn't even see.. the light was too blinding. "AAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" John let out a ear splitting scream. "Oh god.. we should probably back up.." Frank suggested. I agreed. We all moved, in wonder of what is happening. John must be putting up one hell of a fight.. or.. oh man, what if he has powers now! "FIIIREEEEEEE---" John suddenly yelled out, but trailed off. The intense light wasn't seen, and bullets were firing. "Frank, come on, let's go!" I told Frank. I ran in. The chopper was shooting at Billy and Liz.. they were on the ground, and they looked.. defeated! John was next to them, eyes closed. "IT'S 'BOUT TIME WE GOT TO DO THAT! Haha, alright!!" Texas yelled, as the helicopter landed. "Texas! Where.. where has Bravo been? I thought Bravo was freakin' dead. And.. how did you find us?" Frank greeted Texas. "For ya first question, we weren't dead! Just missin' in action, for a long time. I'd rather not go into tha details if you get ma drift. About your second question, well.. you guys were missin' a long time. It's like, December 30th now. You were gone on.. the 2nd I think. Since then we've been looking for ya.. and we did some searching. Lots of it. That's when your mates from Delta found us. We continued our search and Alpha brought up how you were in the future. So we thought 'hey maybe there's something at the base!' and there was! We all went together, and before we knew it, we got knocked on the back of the head. When we woke up, we were in some room with a computer, and papers or somethin'.. They said you were here, and there's no way to get ya out! But, there was pictures of the place and everything for some reason, and I realized 'hey this looks familiar!' and we came. In a helicopter. At a very convenient time, it seems." Texas said to us. Apparently he seen the room too.. I wonder if he seen 2040, like I did. But something seemed off, about what he said.
"December 30th? Are you sure? We were told it's only December 8th.." I asked Texas. It can't be the end of the month already when it just started. "Nope.. 30th. You didn't BELIEVE these two did ya? They're god damn liars as well, most likely!" he replied. Guess he had a point- why would they be truthful with us? "So what just happened? We're trying to escape and out of nowhere John comes and he's screaming and everyone's dead and.. I don't even know!" Frank asked him. Yeah, I wanted to know about this too. I guess if it's the 30th now they had time to develop the cure and save John.. but I don't know if the cure is complete. "Yea.. we had a while, as you can see. We took Dr. Red and made him save John. He also finished up a bit of the cure, but that was before he went and died. Got infected. We all are. Just waiting for it to start takin' effect. So we woke up John and Liz came, and she was all 'we want John!' and then some crazy crap started happening, and Liz did something to John.. except I don't know what it was. When Liz left, he went into a small coma. When he woke up, he had powers too. I don't know what Billy and Liz were planning, but whatever it was, it gave John powers and helped the student defeat the master, if you get what I'm sayin'. So anyway, John used his powers to get rid of THEIR powers, and we added the final touch." Texas replied to Frank. I had to think.. and I think I have the answers to everything.
Liz died, about 8 years ago. Or 7. It was when John broke her necklace, I know that. For a reason we still haven't figured out yet, she came back to life as a God, and had the powers to destroy the world. Being so young, she didn't know what to do. With barely any effort she could kill us all. But that was the thing, the powers made her evil, I guess. It got rid of all the good she had in her and made her have more of an evil intent than she ever had before. Liz decided to find John, and do something about him since he destroyed the one memory she had of her parents. So she went to the town John lived in and noticed some things about him, like his best friend, Billy. He had a certain family, with scientists in it that could do just about anything. So she told them to start developing the infection, and probably blackmailed them in a way. Being so young, she didn't know she could just make something like this happen with her powers. Liz wanted to start the infection because since she was now evil from the powers or whatever, and thought to well, kill everything.. and no one would know why this happened, or who started it. Now, we fast forward eight years. It is now 2020, November. The virus is complete to spread worldwide. In return, Liz gave Billy powers.. but he could control it. He was like 18 at this point I think. He was immature, but could control. The evil intent was most likely there.. but Billy didn't do anything with it. He was still a good person. He started getting evil by the time he first tried to kill Liz. When he used his powers. He realized what he can do with them.. and it started to kick in. Next thing we know, he's Liz's partner in crime in taking down the world.
"I know what's been going on. I have my answers. I can explain, I'll do it right now." I started saying. My family came over, and heard what we were talking about. I explained to everyone my thoughts. I have no proof that this is what happened, but it seemed the most likely. Everyone nodded and seemed to agree. "That may be what happened.. we now have our answers it seems. Now we just have to do what comes next, Miles. We'll continue to do what we were doin'. Which is saving us all. The cure isn't finished yet. There's only three vials, meaning only three of us can get cured. If you turn around, there looks like there's a jet or something over there. Our chopper's out of gas, and that jet holds up to 4 people. There's way more than 4 of us here. I want you to go, though. Take your family, and Frank, you guys should go together. To the shelter. Here's a map we had to make, just follow that and you should be on your way." Shaun from Delta came over and handed me a map. I took a careful look at it. Yes.. this should help us. "Go to our shelter. Take the vials and use them, but make sure you choose the right people of you four to take it. Because one of you won't be able to have the cure, but I want Frank with you on this. And what was it.. 2040? I think that'll be the next time we get to do somethin'. I am really not sure of what's going on still, but.. stay safe. For.. well, 20 years. Maybe we will meet again, Miles. Until then.. peace, dude." Shaun told us. We all waved, and walked over to the jet. Thankfully, I know how to fly this stuff, I was taught this in the military. Except I don't know if this jet is gonna be different. The runway was pretty long, longer than what I seen before. Lights filled up the runway, in order for us to see obviously. There were stairs leading up to the cockpit, and I walked up them and opened the window with ease. I helped everyone up, and let Frank sit next to me. Emma and Lilly sat in the seats behind me, and I closed the window. "Alright. So we just gotta follow this map, and we're set. The map shows the way pretty clear. You guys ready to fly?" I said behind me. "I'm ready!" Lilly spoke. "I'm usually not up for flights.. but let's do it." Emma replied to me. "You know it. Let's get outta here." Frank said.
"Alright. Let's fly."