To Save the World

Carson

Kathy looked good and ready to explode at Noah all over again, after all, he’d knocked back her pleas twice now, making it clear that if Jessa wanted to go, she was very welcome to do just that. Carson could see where she was coming from, to an extent, it was a dangerous mission, and Nathaniel wasn’t known for treating spies well. And he wasn’t sure if Jessa was up to it. None of them were, really, at the same time, and Jessa was the most likely of them to defect.

He put a hand on Kathy’s shoulder, “Calm down, there’s nothing more you can do. We’ll all have to find some way to help out here, but screaming isn’t going to help anyone. Especially if it’s you who’s screaming.” He smiled.

Jason

The guardians seemed to have found their representative, so what happened now? Did his side just sit back and hope for the best, hope that a spy could stop whatever Nathaniel was planning? There had to be something more they could do, something that would help them stop what needed to be stopped.

Leal beat him to his own question, almost as if she’d sensed it, “What can we do, then?”

Kathy-

I took a deep breath and tried to calm down as Carson said. I sat down and put my head in my hands, not crying but still in agony. Jessa, a friend who was practicaly my sister, was willing to risk her life on this foolish mission. Everyone knew that Jessa was the least disciplined and the most capable of screwing all of this up. Noah wouldn't listen, Jessa wouldn't listen... what could I do.

Edward-

We walked down the streets of Venice, waiting for a time to strike.

"Let's see how many people in the city are afraid of the dark." With a smirk Colt and I used a combonation and took out all the lights in the city. One big blackout.

Vual put his hands to the ground and started freezing every wet inch of ground. A car past, slipped on the ice and wrapped around a telephone pole. This is fun.

~Jessica~

"I'm sorry, Miss, but it seems we can't land in Venice." The flight-attendent said to me, smiling gently. I was sitting in a private jet, above Venice (I'd gotten out of there ASAP)

"And why not?" I asked, trying to be diplomatic and failing misribly.

"There's a blackout and ice is all over the runway." She explained sighing. She probably had a boyfriend or husband waiting for her. I had a band of people trying to destroy the world to get to and I needed to get there now!

"I'll fix both of that." I said, looking out the window to the runway. You could barely see it in the moonlight. First, I made the cement hotter than it really should be, making sure it didn't turn into molten rock. Then I made the outer cement turn red-hot. Like super hot.

The flight attendent jumped back and stared at me.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm a superhero, now land this plane!"

*My laptop was busted for a few weeks and this is still going... Cool! ^^
Just wondering if I could, uh, jump in again? It's fine if everyone's already doing there thing and it'd just be confusing if I did that. I was Audi in this storybook*

- kittykat

Of course you can! I'm hanging back a little at the moment but will post again when Maisy is needed =)

**Jump away!**

(Come back kittykat. We miss you!)

Edward-

What the heck? Vual's masterpiece just got ruined and the runway was red hot.

"Who did that?" he asked furiously. I shrugged and then saw the plane ahead that was coming in for a landing.

"Better freeze it again," Colt said and Vual did so. But then it was thawed again. For the next fifteen minutes the runway continued to freeze and thaw, freeze and thaw.

"Edward, you do know there's a girl up in the plane and she's controling the thaw?"

"What?" I looked up and found one of the last people in the world that I wanted to see. That guardian who practically burned Antonius, Larella and I.

"What the heck is she doing here?"

~Jessica~

"DARN IT!!!!" I screamed, getting angrier and angrier. "Who the heck is doing that!?"

"Miss...calm down please." The flight attendent said, afraid.

"NO! I will not calm down. I don't do the jumping out of the plane thing!" I yelled, thawing the runway. If they did that one more time...

"THAT'S IT!" I screamed, forcing lava up at the evil doers.

Edward-

A lard lava ball came hurtling towards us. Vual already lifted his hands and covered the object in ice so that it was onyl stone. I saw that the runway had thawed again and the plane had landed.

"Let's go destroy another part of the city. This place is boring," I said, not because it was boring but because I knew who would be coming out of that plane the moment it stopped.

Unfortunately we were too late and she was already coming toward us, her fists practically aflame.

"You are so dead!" she yelled.

~Jessa~

"What the heck do you think you're doing?" I screamed at the bad guys, you know, the ones I was supposed to befriend.

"I was freezing the runway." One of the guys said.

"And why would you do that?!" I screamed, getting in his face. I was aware that my hands were heating up and so was the ground below me, but I was beyond caring at that point.

"Hello, bad guy!" He explained.

"Well..." I stopped, trying to make Kathy proud of me by letting it go, "Then take me to your lair!

"WHAT?" The darkness guys that I nearly boiled earlier said, "Hold up, why would we take you anywhere? You'd just try to destroy us!"

"Well, I have a knack for blowing things up, as you can see, and I wanna join you guys." I shrugged, but still found myself glaring at the ice-guy...who will now be known as 'the idiot.'

Edward-

Everything was silent. A guardian wanted to join... wait a sec!

"Wait just a minute! You're a guardian right? Aren't you supposed to be all neautral and what not?"

"I heard you guys had cookies!"

Colt gave me a look. "I'm not sure Nathaniel would agree to this."

"Come on guys, didn't you mommies ever teach you to share your cookies?"

"We Don't Have Any Freaking Cookies!" Vual shouted.

"Vual get a grip!"

"If you don't have any cookies then I'll have to destroy you," she said sweetly.

"You can try," Vual challenged. I held Vual back by the shoulder knowing that he was ready to send a hailstorm her way.

Colt then had a sickly smirk on his face. "What?" I asked.

"If she wants to join, there should be some type of test."

"Test?"

"Yeah, like how much of the city she can destroy in one blow?"

I saw his point. This girl had to prove herself in a way that kills.

"I like it. Okay 'guardian', let's see what you can do. How much of the city can you destroy in one attack from..." I looked around and saw the top of our building. "... from the top of there," I said pointing to the roof.

"Okay," she said cheerily.

...........................

Kathy-

I hope Jessa isn't doing anything stupid.

~Jessica~

On the outside, I was smirking and enjoying this. Inside, I was paling. It wasn't right. Ideas on how to get out of it swirled through my head, but I couldn't find any that would totally give myself away. Crap, I actually wish Kathy could give me some advice right now. I need rational thought.

"Sounds like fun." I said as we headed towards the building. I don't want to hurt anybody! Information Kathy had given me for the plane ride flitted through my under-used head but I didn't grasp much of it because the plane ride had made me sleepy and I'd slept through most of it.

Then one thing popped into my head. She'd circled an area on a map where I could fight without worrying about hurting too many people. I'll just destroy that entire area. That should make them happy.

We got to the top of the building without much trouble (by much I mean me and the idiot got into a lot of random arguments that didn't have much relevence.).

"Come on, 'guaridian'" The darkness guy prodded, using the word as if it were an insult, "Show us what you got." They all smirked, thinking I wouldn't destroy anything. Tee hee.

"Just don't ruin my concentration." I growled, looking at all the rock I could turn into molten lava. Basically glaring at the section, I gathered heat and melted the cement and brick. Then I changed the flow of the lava, destroying a big chunk of builing. Screams from this side of the city (turns out you can see lava from a ways off and it scares people. Wonder why, it's so much fun to play with...).

Then I made the lava cool before it ran into the water, so there was a big chunk of lava rock on the edge of the sea.

"That good enough for you guys?" I asked, panting and sweating.

Edward-

She did it. Not very impressive, but she destroyed an entire segment.

"If she wants to join Nathaniel's team then I don't give a care. See ya," I said before walking to the elevator. I wonder what Larella was doing now?

(Back at Good guy HQ)

Kathy-

"So now what do we do while Jessa is gone?" I asked. The TV was playing the news and a terrible scene of a town in the dark and ice covering the streets.

"I say we help with that natural disaster," said Jason.

"It's in Venice. That's where Jessa is right now. We can't endanger her mission," said Kyle.

"We have to help Kyle. People are suffering and we're supposed to help. It's what we do," said Leal.

Kyle looked at Noah imploringly. He stood in silence for a minute before nodding. "We will help."

~Jessa~

"THAT'S IT!" I yelled at the other bad guys. That one darkness dude really likes pissing me off.

One of them shrugged, "That's just how Edward is. I'm Colt by the way."

"I'm Jessica." I said, sighing. The other bad guy was silent, glowering.

"He's Vual." Colt said, "Come with us. You have to talk to Nathaniel."

"Is he your guru or something?" I asked as the elevator came back.

"Far from it." Vual said, getting a weird look. I was curious but didn't say anything. For once.

I don't remember what floor we went to but I remember the silence. We went into a door that looked like a lounge. Werid. Colt knocked on a door going off of it.

"Come." A voice said from inside the door. I followed. "And who might this be?"

Without waiting for anything (kinda stupid) I introduced myself, "I am Jessica Mercy. I would like to join you." I said, all diplomatic.

"People don't come to me. I go to them." He said cooly. Then something really strange happened; the heat, my HEAT fell from my face. For the first time in a long time: I was afraid.

"Um...I...I'm sorry." I choked out. "I really...really want to join you."

"Do you now?" He stood smoothly from where he'd been sitting. "I have something to tell you, Jessica Mercy. It doesn't matter what you want."

Then I felt cold all over and it was hard for me to breath. My heart was slowing, I felt dizzy, sick, and terrified all at once. My blood had stopped. It had really stopped. I was going to die.

"It's about what I want, Jessica Mercy. And if I don't get what I want, there will be punishment. Severe punishment."

I put all of my strength into nodding. Pain was everywhere, and I couldn't do a thing about it. I probably would have screamed but I couldn't breathe.

"That's a good girl." My heart beat once. Then another time. He'd realeased me. I gasped for breath, suddenly realizing I was on the floor. "Welcome to my world, Jessica Mercy."

Edward-

I walked into the lounge and saw no one there. I wonder where LArella could have gone. Suddenly Nathaniel's office door swung open and the guardian girl walked out pale, almost dead.

Colt and Vual were behind her. "What happened?" I asked with no feeling.

"Jessica met with Nathaniel."

She shivered and I saw a look in her eye that I had seen so many times in my own reflection after a punishment from Nathaniel.

"He also wants to see you inside," Vual said.

"What for?"

"I don't know."

I walked in his office and shut the door behind me. His office was dark and my power surged better than it had been for weeks.

"Yes Nathaniel?"

"We need to get Audi back and that girl may be our ticket."

"What's so special about Audi?"

"I need her for my plans. She can manipulate anyone's feelings and a child's emotions can be the most difficult to sway."

"A child's?"

"Never mind. Miss Mercy knows where my brother is hiding and that is where they will be keeping Audi and Maisy. Get everyone together and plan an attack. The wreckage you did in town today was a perfect decoy for Kyle and his followers. Now go."

I nodded and walked out with a nasty look. "What?" Colt asked.

"We're going to get Audi."