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"Okay then." Aden said as he grabbed hold of Ciaran's hand then earth bended them a bridge to go quickly across the divide.

Nick summoned a sword and blocked the bullet. It floated around Nick to protect him. Then just when he was almost there his shot the sword into the cliff wall and used it as a platform to make it the rest the way up to the top. He saw the man who was after them and summoned a sword and dashed towards him.

Nick Jumpped from a taller ledge and enchanted his sword with earth and implanted it into the earth when he hit and the clif face began to shake near the confederate soilder and Nick.

Nick rolled backwards throwing John off of him and jumpping to his feet. He summoned another sword. "So your the pesky little scout. Tell me your name so I'll remeber it when your dead." Nick summoned another sword enchanted with fire while enchanting his first sword with earth.

Agent G and his men finally came to the cross section after breaking through and Agent G couldn't tell which way they had went. He told some to go left the others to go right and he went down the middle.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Nick got in a martial arts stance in which his left knee was bent up and his foot was slightly off the ground and in front of his right leg which sat straight. His arms made semi circles holding his blades straight across his body and above his head. He closed his eyes and breathed easily for a moment then opened his eyes. They had changed to a cocky, sly look to a serious and stern look. He shifted his weight to his left leg and spun on the tips of he toes swinging around his left hand which was holding his fire sword. The sword sent waves of fire at John. As he kept spinning he dragged the earth blade on the ground creating a trail of uprooted sharp spiked rocks. When he finally swung his earth blade the trail continued towards John. Nick then placed the tip of his earth blade to the ground and immediately lifted it up and as he did so the earth around him arose into to form several large circular pillars.

"...Alright." Ciaran replied uncertainly, still glancing up at the higher edge. She really didn't want to leave him to fight the Confederate soldier, maybe because he was the first real friend she'd had in a while or for some other reason. But he could fend for himself. She bit her lip and thought, opening her hand a second later and throwing a small black object at Nick. It fell and clung to the bottom of his shirt. When she had seen that it was there for good, she grabbed Aden's wrist and started running off towards the boats.

John dove to the side, tucking into a ball and rolling away from the fire waves and out of the path of the rock trail. He stuck a hand and a leg out to stop himself well enough before getting into a crouch. "Pretty tricks there," he said, panting a little. He reached up and patted his head, finding that he'd lost his hat on the ground. "But it looks like it'll tire you out soon enough, hopefully." He whistled and Jangle swooped around to glide silently at Nick's back and around the pillars. He then aimed, squinting with one eye for accuracy, and fired off a few shots with one of his pistols, raising up dirt in little puffs as the traveled up to Nick's position.

Nick fell backwards like a free fall to avoid the shots. Half way down the pillar he stabbed his earth blade into the pillar and caught himself from falling. He took his fire blade and cut the pillar until it began to fall in John's direction. He hopped down while it was falling and began cutting down more. "I have been trained in over five different martial art forms by one of the greatest masters in the world. I can go days without stopping."

Agent G had finally got all his men in the right spot and they climbed the ladder. G was the first up. He had seen that a fight was raging across the gorge and that two others were at some boats further down the gorge. G looked and sure enough there was a fight raging between Nick and John. Ciaran and Aden were trying to start a boat. He was about to order his men to go after the two when he heard a helicopter. It fly over their heads and went to land where the fight between Nick and John was going on. "Go after the two down the gorge, i'm going after Ashford." The soldiers complied and started to follow the trail. G used his psychic powers to leap across the gorge. The helicopter had opened to reveal two people. One pulled out a sniper rifle and shot.

Nick was about to leap towards John but was hit by a bullet, not from John. He looked to his side and saw a landed helicopter and two people. Nick widened his eyes. He knew who they were, agents. Nick stammered to a kneel as the agents neared Nick and John. "Ciaran! Aden! Get out of here! Now!" Nick threw his earth blade at the other side of the canyon. It crumbled the canyone wall killing the soldiers and making the water rush and send the boat down the stream. "Be safe guys."

Agent G made it to where Nick and John were as the agents made their way over. G knew who they were without having to ask. "Agent A and E." Agent A was male standing at 6' 3" with white hair. Agent E was female, she stood at 5' 7" with red hair. Both were wearing pants, boots, belts, shirts, trench coats, shades, and gloves.

"Stand down soldier, we'll take it from here." Agent A walked towards Nick. "Nick Cornelius Ashford. I have been looking for you for a long time."

"Oh really?" Nick's breath was getting heavy. "Why would that be?" Nick kept up his swords. Agents were always very tricky seeing as they all had powers.

"Well, have you ever asked yourself what the meaning behind the letters mean? Well let me enlighten you. They stand for the first letters of our last names." Agent A looked at Nick.

"What does this have to do with me?" Nick's vision was blurring and he could barely keep upright.

"Agent E's last name is Elson, Agent G's over there is Garrison, and mine...is Ashford." Agent A lifted up a pistol to Nick's head. "I'm your father."

Nick's eyes opened wide. "Why?"

"Lets just say your a sore in my records and I deleted you once and now that you've been found again it's time to delete you...permanently." Agent A pulled the trigger.

Nick looked down. The bullet had missed his head but hit him in the chest and fell to the ground.

Agent A wiped the blood off his gun and looked at John and G. "Well what are you waiting for? Go after the other two...now!"

"No need, even if he does I shot him with a special bullet. Even if he lives he shall never have his powers ever again. Now here take this and go after the other two." A throws the John an orange package. "It's an inflatable boat, the new rapids should take you down stream after them. Oh, and it's Agent A to you." With that E and himself walked back to the helicopter and took off.

"Best not to go against his orders. He's the head of the Agents. Highest level access, top secret info access, and the most powerful infected in all of the Americas. Level 5 infection. All agents are infected, the top 10 are level 4's or above, all the others are varied. All I know is that agents that have vowel code names are the leaders of the five levels of agents. E is my director and A is in command of the four top agents. But come on, lets go get the other two. He'll come find us if we don't." With that Agent G took the boat and pulled the string inflating the boat. He then took John and jumped down to the waters edge using his powers. He threw in the boat and jumped on.