The door closes behind Pryce and Eduardo as soon as they walk through. They follow a spiral staircase between stone walls lined by grey bricks up to the roof where the only source of light is from the light being refracted from the deep blue water body floating high above them.
Eduardo looks up in awe, realising he can see the shadow of the bottom of a boat floating along the water body.
"Just wait till you see the jellyfish."
The lighting changes to bright purple and yellow as Eduardo stops and stares as the bright lights emitted from jellyfish illuminates the dark stairway.
Eduardso asks the professor who walks ahead with a scowl on his face.
"The road to Limbo,Mr bliss."
He responds calmly.
"Limbo?"
"My apologies Mr Bliss, this wasn't in your job description. "
"You said things could get dangerou but this is beyond what we're used to."
"That Is true, here in Limbo, the laws of physics are rendered null.
He looks at the glove on his left hand and sees only k
That's why I like you, Eduardo, you're open..."
The staircase ends at adoor with the same as the last one.
A puddle of ink appears in front of them and the redhead steps out of it.
"Invoke the name of the current holder."
She says as the names on the door light up with a bright red color.
"Jack the headless knight is the holder
The word at the top of the door turns green and it swings open.
He and Eduardo emerge through the door and are standing upside down on the underside of the roof of a building looking down at a room with a blood red carpet and eleven tall seats with golden frames and blue cushions rests and seats arranged concentrically around a seat with a golden frame and red cushions.
Atop one of the silver seats is a Caucasian woman in a black one piece dress the sleeves cover her arms, in blue lipstick.
A puddle of ink appears next to her and the redheaded woman emerges.
"I've brought the ones you asked to see, Madam."
The woman nonchalantly looks up to them and speaks with an English accent with a feminine but cold tone.
"I'm glad you accepted my invitation, professor."
"Well, how could I say no? Your assistant over there was so polite..."
He says in a sarcastic manner .
"I asked you here to discuss your " project.""
"The hands of salvation no doubt and likely the fiasco at the summit."
"Yes...and the fact you're ready to disarm the pseudo humans for personal gain."
"Okay, let's get this straight *madam*I was the one who turned those drug addicts as well as many others into real bioweapons and the Blizzard kingdom thinks they can use them against me?"
"So you'd rather handle falling leaves than sort out the root of the cyber attack. You know this project especially is costing us."
"...And I thank you...for nothing I am very appreciative of you not sorting out the problem yourself!."
"My hands are tied, as you know the leader of the Incarnation can make these decisions."
"Powerful but useless."
"I called you here to request that you focus your endeavours to finding the cause of the cyber attack."
"Don't worry."
He puts a hand on Eduardo's shoulder who is still trying to process how he's standing inverted.
"He's a technopath, one of the best I've seen."
"How are we sure he didn't do it?"
He looks atEduardo and crosses his arms
"Ed, did you do it?"
"N...no sir."
He looks back at her.
"There you have it."
"You must be joking."
"I'm not, you see Eduardo here knows what I do to traitors, so if I do find out he did it...well.." He grins at Eduardo.
"Now, I'm.going to oblige your request with regards to the search for the real culprit...but on my terms."
"You have six days till the next meeting, I implore you to have found the source by then."
"Don't worry, I'll have it sorted by then."
"Remember this Professor, there are those who wish to terminate your project,be careful who you trust."
"Don't worry madam, I trust no one.".
The floor beneath them changes to the door from earlier and swings open, both he and Eduardo fallthrough, they emerge through the wall and land in a hotel room."
Zane sits across the blonde female teenager as she stares at him.
"What do you mean?
"That vision in my head. I saw...myself when I was younger."
"Okay, nice to meet you. Crazy.,"
"Who are you?"
She stares blankly past him.
"Listen kid, thanks for..."
" kid? We're basically the same age."
"Maybe"
she shrugs
" but you're a little...not tall."
"You mean I'm short?"
" your words,not mine."
Suddenly they hear glass break and Zae snaps his fingers, and everyone slows to a halt , he looks behind the lady and sees a bullet inches away from making contact with her head.
He followed the bullet trail and stepped outside to see where the shooter was but it came far beyond the green dome.
The shooter is in all black and hiding on the last floor of a faraway abandoned building, resting his sniper rifle on a bag of cement.
The ground beneath him rumbles as he tries to reload, a man dressed a
In black with a bulletproof vest and a ski mask on flexes his fingers and his veins glow brown, the asphalt of the road starts to crack and levitate , he rotates his hands and the blocks become shapen into multiple spikes and as he swings his hand towards the dome the spikes fly into it and also slow down on entry.
Zane pulls her out of the building and out of the line of sight, he's about to snap again but he realizes the spikes could harm the people in the shop, he pulls everyone out and snaps his fingers and as he does, the sound of glass shattering from the spikes making impact with the shop's windows is so loud, everyone starts panicking.
Zane pulls the lady away from the site, she's shocked.
"What just happened ?"
" The real question is what crime did you commit?"
"I knew too much."
Zane looks at her and starts trying to start the hoverboard when the ground starts rumbling again .
This time, the man in black makes the entire surface of the ground envelop them in a rectangular box but before it completely closes, Zane snaps his fingers and they escape, pulling her with him as they run into a hovering train as it's about to disembark.
Just then, a bullet strikes Zanes cheek
"!" He screams, covering his face as she pulls him in and the door closes.
She pulls his hand off his face to see his face with a pink streak along his cheek.
"It's just a flesh wound, you big baby."
"You're a baby!"
He retorts but he feels a sense of familiarity as he keeps looking at her.
"What?"
She asks
The train stops abruptly, Zane snaps his fingers but nothing happens, he peeps outside the train and it's hovering over a building with the same blue field antenna as the school.
"I have a bad idea."
"I'm all ears."
They hear something land on top of the train and the emergency lock opening.
Zane slams the base of.the board on the floor and then taps the hind disks three times.
He grabs her hand and they both jump out the window,.the board goes high up in the air, sparking and vibrating.
Zane climbs atop it and helps her up as well.
She almost fell off but he pulled her closer.
"Um...thanks."
She says
"Um, the board isn't going to last long, so we need to think of something. "
He says putting his hand over his mouth as he thinks of a solution.
She looks at him and squints
"He looks...familiar." She thinks to herself.
"I got it...!"
He catches her staring.
"S...so what did you get?"
"...another bad idea." He says with a smile.
"So far so good, I guess...I'm Six by the way."
"What?"
"Six...like the number that's my designation."
"Are you a robot?"
"No, dummy. That's the name they gave me at...where I was held.I've been in isolation so long,I've forgotten my real name."
She shows him the underside of her wrist and the roman numeral "VI" is branded there.
"I'm sorry about that."
The board starts to generate smoke.
"What's your plan again?"
"Just hold on to something. "
He pulls off the hind disc on the board and they start plummeting to the ground, Zane snaps his fingers and they fall into the green dome, Zane looks around and spots something, he snaps with his opposite hand and then with the first hand falling into multiple domains one after the other until they're above a building.
The shooter in the building realises this .
"Dammit!"
He runs to the door but the next thing he knows, he's dangling outside the building with Zane and Six holding the other end of the rope.
"Who are you? Who do you work for?"
Zane asks
The man doesn't respond, just dangling and screaming:
"Don't drop me!"
Zane looks at six and they both nod their heads in agreement and let go of the rope.
He screams as he falls but in an instant,he finds himself in the same position.
"We can do this all day pal."
The ground beneath them starts vibrating and the building starts to crumble. Zane snaps his fingers and grabs Six and the man, and jumps into the dome allowing a safe descent but he sees groups of people falling out of the building, he takes the rope, ties them all by the hip and pulls them all towards the dome and as he snaps his fingers again they're safe on the ground.
The man in the bulletproof vest extends his hand again but Six's veins glow white and he suddenly feels a pain in his head. She and Zane run away until the shooter shows up and aims at them, making them stop in their tracks.
"You!" He points at Zane, "Leave, this doesn't concern you."
"She's our target." The other man says.
"I've seen what you did to her."
"Listen, kid, step away from...."
Six grabs a piece of glass from the rubble, and holds Zane in a headlock.
"Stay away or I swear I'll do it!"
"Women, amirite?"
Her veins glow white and they both feel migraines so strong, they're unable to stand.
He snaps his fingers again and from their perspective they both vanish.
21:09 pm
They climb up the stairs to a flat and Zane opens the door with a key.
"Okay,.my brother isn't around, so you can hide out here for a while I guess."
He suddenly feels a powerful migraine making it difficult for him to stand,.when it fades, he turns around she's gone but there's small.napkin from the coffee shop with
"Thanks but no thanks" written on it.
The next day, he rolls out of bed,walks outside with a brown bandahe over his cheek in his grey shirt and pants with a notebook in hand but stops briefly at the door.
"You know.what? Let's try something different today."
8 :30AM
He puts on his uniform and the pieces of the broken board in his closet .
"What happens in Vegas..."
He walks to school and Al; the old security man at the entrance rubs his eyes .
"My Lord really does answer prayers. "
Zane walks to the class where a group of guys are mumbling something.
His friend in glasses and an afro looks back, sees Zane and takes off the glasses , breathes on them and wipes them again.
"I'm sorry,sir you look like my friend, he's always late and thinks he knows everything. "
He gives him a fist bump.
"So what's going on?"
He points to Six who is in the female school uniform; a white shirt and green skirt over white socks and brown shoes.
Her hair is rolled into a bun.
She's sitting alone in the class reading a book when Zane walks in and takes it from her.
"Well...well...." he says but is cut off by someone snatching.the book from him,a voice he listens to frequently.
"...Well, what do we have here?" Professor Pryce says standing behind him in his white coat over a black shirt and trousers with loafers on as well.
"Take your seats, students. My name is Professor Pryce, I'll be your new chemistry teacher."