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Annie sighed as she stood up in the hanger of the facility and looked around, "They probably have more important worries at the moment than the whole you created. Shane has replaced the director of Valhalla... and there are the bodies that were brought in this morning."

"And, about Mr. Cortez," continued Annie, "you are aware he can control electricity. Your devices run on electricity. Figure out how to overcome that hurdle and maybe we're in good shape."

Closing her eyes she added, "Tell Shane when he returns that I will be in the morgue. I have a personal matter I want to take care of." She walked out of the hanger heading towards the morgue. Her heels clicking ever so lightly on the concrete floor. As she walked, she began to be lost in her own thoughts.

So, Mr. Cortez had gotten so much stronger because of eating the substance from the dead meta-humans. What would happen if she decided to even the playing field some? If the mouse had gotten so much stronger from the digestion of the substance, what would happen if a human meta-human did? The thought turned her stomach, but how else could she possibly take on the man?

Annie sighed, "The fact that Shane was placed in charge and considering his expertise in biology, he was placed in charge of helping examine the bodies of a few meta-humans that Mr. Cortez murdered last night."

She turned, "Leviathan Cortez has been murdering meta-humans recently. It is a sort of selective elimination that he is going through. Those he deems not worthy to live he kills. This is exactly why I don't want you to fight personally against him."

Turning back around, she tucked her hair behind her ear and continued towards the morgue. Upon arriving at the door of the morgue she paused, turning slightly to see if Gidget followed her, and hoping the girl did not.

Lily sighed as she looked up and down the hallway. If he hadn't come to pick her brain, then what the hell was with the questions? She shook her head, her arms wrapping around herself in a tight hug. She didn't want to tell Shane what she had seen, the images so graphic that not even Holly wood dare to reactivate. But, she had to... She knew time was closing in, only she didn't realize how fast her visions would be coming into play.

"Look.. I can't tell you exactly what happened. All I know is I went for a walk, got lost, and Alabaster came and we began to talk. Then, he was going to show me to the closest hotel “wait, was that right? She couldn't remember anymore at the moment. So much had happened since the night before, she'd been up so long now her days where fading together, she couldn't tell night from day, nor yesterday to tomorrow. Sighing, she shook her head. "Then he heard something, and told me to run. So I did. Then I heard gun fire, and then he came running, hurt. And next thing I know he passes out and changes into Felix." she sighed, knowing that 'what happened' probably wasn't about what happened with the man now laying in a coma, but more about why Lily had looked so scared.

"While I was waiting for you, after I called... I don't know what happened, I blacked out... I don't remember" she lied, hoping that it would be good enough, she didn't want to explain to Shane that she saw all them die, her, Annie, Shane, Felix, even Gidget. All of them. She couldn't explain the horrible things that happened in her subconscious as she waited for help to come. But something had to be done and quick.

"This all could be the sleepless babble of a teenage girl." she joked it off. She hadn't gotten sleep in a really long time, not a good amount of rest anyways. That's it, Lil. You just need sleep... Sleep... A good nights rest and everything will be fine. she told herself as she began to look up and down the hall now. She half wished Annie would come marching down the hall to scream at her and haul her away to her dorm, telling her to sit and stay. She wished she could find Ako and get her kittens back; she wished she was safe in her dorm room away from all harm. But no matter how hard she wished, they where not coming true.

Trinity nodded and looks at the headband . "I feel so worried, what if I can't get this soon enough? Everyone will be at risk because of it.". she started to think about all the things that could go wrong. She shook her head "Sorry sensei I'll give it a shot." She ties her hair back then puts the headband over her eyes maintaining a picture in her head. She was getting ready to go down again with worries and pressure clouding her mind. It didn't occur to her that putting all of the worries and pressure on herself would affect her power.

Lilies eyes widen as Felix had walked out of his room, the color completely drained out of her face, he was still weak it seemed, so she quickly found her arms around his waist. Holding him up, as she did she noticed the strange discoloration of his eyes, and his speech pattern was cross. She eyed the man with some suspicion, he sucked as a actor. But, regardless, she played along.

"Felix! You should be in bed!" she exclaimed, shooting a look to Shane that she needed his help in getting him to his bed. After what happend last time the man passed out -the switch from Alabaster to Felix- she didn't know what to expect this time around, and not too mention that she had the strangest feeling that right now Felix shouldn't be trusted.

Though as soon as she began to lead Felix back to his room, her vision was taken over again by Visions. She slammed back against the wall, her fingers quickly pressing to her temple. This wasn't good, the images where flashing pass her vision faster and faster, and each time they did she could barely control her body.

she could make out voices. Many voices, all screaming out. Then she saw it. Red, all that filled her vision was the color red. A bright orange red, much like you see in a fire, smoke filled the air, along with her lungs. She was burning to death, looking around she began to realize she was still in the underground facility, the calender on the wall stated that it was the next day.

then she heard the same tune, the song she had heard Lev sing
"Let grasses grow and waters flow,
"In a free and easy way..
"But give me enough of the rare old stuff,
"That's made near Galway Bay!"
His voice holding a sickening crackled laugh. She felt vile build up in the back of her throat, standing up she noticed something else strange about the room. Laid out before her where a series of corpses, all having carnage covered with a vermillion spray. The walls having the same color red.

She couldn't hold it any longer. The vile she'd been holding back came rushing pass her lips, onto the floor adding with the strange display of death. Then she looked up, not only seeing Lev, but his two accomplises that had been haunting the back of her mind for days now.

Lily gasped as she came out of her dazed like state. Tears filling her eyes as she looked at both men, both giving her the look of hell. She gulped shaking her head, her voice shakey just as the rest of her was. "W-w-we h-a-v--v-v-e to get o-u-u-t of here." she finally got out with a bit of trouble. She couldn't explain to them what was going on, what had happened, and why she was so scared. But she needed to talk to Annie, she needed to talk to them all.

Smiling, as she saw Gidget turn around, Annie opened the door to the morgue quietly, and slipped off her heels as she stepped into the morgue. It was generally quiet, and apparently her appearance had yet to be noticed. She glanced about the lab until she caught sight of some of the substance taken from the deceased meta-humans.

Taking a deep breath she quietly walked to the dish and opened it, wincing she looked at the substance which seemed to be faintly glowing. With a shaking hand she dipped her hand into the substance and pulled out the fine particles and opened her mouth.

"Now or never," Annie whispered to herself dropping the powder into her mouth.

(AND NOW FOR A NEW SURPRISE CHARACTER. Surprise! His name is Eros. He can fly and throw objects at incredible speeds, and he's..
A GOOD GUY.)
The air was nippy. Heck, it had gotten really bad when the lightning had began firing, and Eros had to do some fine maneuvering. He even legged it to Mach two, and he'd never had to go half that fast...
Well, until now.

A man, seemingly standing in the blue of the sky above, hovered a moment, looking down at where he had last seen the commotion. Eros was skinny, wearing old military fatigues he had once found, old buttons with catchy motto's lining the front flap of his jacket, his boot laces hanging limply in the still air, swaying back and forth.
Eros had a flash of black hair, a sharp face, edgy and rough, WWI bombardier goggles strapped over his eyes. Picking at his nose, the hovering fellow gently swooped 30 feet down, now out of the gently moping clouds that once hid him.
His speed was incredible, his every jitter sending him spiraling in what seemed any direction he so chose. Eros now had a toothpick in his mouth, wiping a thin string of snot from his running nose. "Weird s**t. First I can fly..Then red lightning." Eros dropped the length of an eight story office building, his feet already walking upon the pavement, in far less then any second could count, his clomping steps heavy for such a strange man. Eros rounded the corner where he had last seen the three, but now it seemed they were gone.
Eros was at the end of the alley, then upon another street, then the next, in less then three seconds, flashing around, nearly unseen, a blur across the horizon. Scratching his head, Eros looked around, confused..
---
Eros had felt the heat rise around him, and with a step, one faster then any jet, leaped Eros away from where he was once, his vision blinded in claret, himself firing off, red filling his vision.
A quick turn, then Eros found himself diving and twirling, the air whipping his face as lightning screamed just behind him. It seemed Eros could outrun the heat lightning, barely, but how long would he keep?
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Lev had sensed the man in the air, smelled the change in heat around the electromagnetic currents in the sky. After telling Blitz and Rod's parts in his plan, they went off to do their duties..
And Lev did what he always did.
Hunted.
But this time, this time victory was not sudden. Confusion at first, then a calculated anger. How? How could his lightning miss, once, twice..
Three times now!
Lev's anger was held inside, and Lev simply heaved a sigh. He would need his strength, and chasing strangeness was no way to do so. Lev began out of the building he had chosen to sling his invisible assault, pulling out another Marlboro. "I'll get you Hermes.." Lev cracked his fingers, "And the rest o' the Gods on Olympus too.."
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The heated feeling left Eros, and he in turn skidded to the ground, on his back, across the hard gravel until he lay panting in a dirt plodded field, the sky above clear as day. Eros felt his face, cold to the touch, then breathed heavily for at least two minutes. He knew that death had been only an inch, maybe closer, away, and in this thought Eros was filled with terror.
"I've got to find shelter..Help of some kind.." Eros panicked, talking to himself.
Flying had been all fun and good, but now an enemy that could pelt him out of the sky? Eros felt like crying.
Sitting there, on the outskirts of town, a panicked young man held his hands in his face, and contemplated his next move.

Annie turned at hearing Doctor Acula's shout, already dropping the handful of substance into her open mouth. The petri dish falls onto the floor as Dr. Acula slaps it out of her hand. "Too late," she said, grabbing a table to steady herself. She coughed as some of the powder caught in her mouth, a few speckles of black blood falling into her hand. She was shaking as she held herself up, and let herself slip onto the floor into the contents of the spilled petri dish.

It was an amazing feeling, pure power surging through her veins. She glanced up at the doctor and said smiling, "See, I'm fine. Actually I feel a Hell of a lot better than I did a minute or two ago." Holding up her hands she created a water sculpture of sorts of a dancing elephant that she changed into acid. Curious she touched it and expecting to feel the singe of the acid burning her skin instead she felt nothing. Calmly she changed the acid back into water and let the elephant form evaporate into the air.

The control from that little bit was amazing, she would have been exhausted from doing something like that before considering how she used her powers earlier that day, but instead the display didn't even phase her. Yet, she was looking at her unsigned hand as if it was a foreign object, "I... I think I'm immune to acid- or at least my own acid now."

Calmly she stood up and dusted herself off, "I plan on evening the playing field, Doctor, by any means necessary. Leviathan Cortez will strike here tomorrow. Even if this substance ends up killing me or even just giving me temporary power, that is okay. He is using this stuff too, it is only fair to do the same thing, right?" As she spoke, her brown eyes were cold and determined, even her own words chilled her, she wondered what affect would it have on the doctor. Perhaps, none, he didn't know her before.

In the past several days, she could feel herself changing emotionally and morally, doing things she never would have dreamed herself capable of. She was a murderer and now she was risking everything on getting enough power to try to kill another person. Annabella Soulsmith had taken a path from innocence and could never turn back. She wouldn't call herself evil, but she knew she could never call herself good, again... especially now: wasn't what she just did the same as cannibalism?