The Project Series
Book 1 Prometheus
Year: 2225
Date: November 14
Location: Sky Tower California
Tim Fields: 16 dark ginger hair, 6 feet tall, freckles, white, green eyes
Nico Zelman: 14 light brown hair, 5feet 5 inches tall, white, blue eyes
Nolan Orgoto: 14 dark brown hair, 4 feet 11 inches, light tan, brown eyes
Bobby Talc: 15 blonde hair, 5 feet 7 inches, white, dark blue eyes
Naoki Atkins: 16 Dark brown hair, 5 feet 4inches, white, brown eyes
Nick Fields: 13 Dark Blonde, 5 feet, white, green eyes


“Test have been successful” Agent George said.
“To what extent,” said Cornel Green
“There bodies have accepted the alterations, but the power no longer lets the mind control drug take effect,” George replied.
“They are of no further use to us, terminate them,” Cornel Green said sternly.
“Sir these are boys we are talking about,” George smoothly said “these are not a couple of lab rats to poison, these boys have the power to destroy the world, or save it, I won’t let their gift go to waste,”
“You will terminate them,” Green replied “that is an order or you will be executed for disobeying an order about national security,”
“Yes sir,”
Cornel Green walked out the door to the Kentucky base hopped into an army jeep and drove off. As soon as he was out of site George started typing commands into the computer ferociously. The boys would live, even if it meant he wouldn’t.
Year: 2225
Date: November 14
Location: Cell block B
“Tim wake up,” Nico nudged Tim “Ty wake up the cell door opened,”
“WHAT?” Tim snapped his eyes open “Why didn’t you say so, wake up the others we’re getting out of here,”
One by one they woke up the boys first Bobby, then Naoki, next Nolan, and finally Nick (Tim’s little brother). Tim entered the hall, checked the hall way to make sure it was clear and then slowly motioned for the others to follow. He walked down the hall way. “Alright our powers won’t work till the sedative wears off so we need to get to our gear on the second floor,” Tim instructed everyone.
“If we can make it to the stairs we’ll be fine because they were dumb enough to train us,” Bobby said, “all we have to do is stick together,”
“Yes but in case we do get split up every one rendezvous at the first floor, they’ve been working on a time machine, that will be our escape” Naoki chimed in.
“Ok we have two floors to cover,” Tim said “We could always try the elevator?”
They all looked at the stairs, then the elevator.
“Stairs it is,” Tim calmly announced.
In a single file they made their way down the stairs till they made it to the second floor.
“So far so good everyone gear up, our powers should be returning any moment now,” Bobby said hastily
They all suited up and headed for the stairs, as they got to the stair well a group of guards burst out of the elevator doors, guns pointed at the boys. None of the boys gave them a chance to react, Nolan blasted them with lightning, Tim lit up the room with flames, Bobby froze the floor, and Nico threw the survivors at the wall knocking them unconscious. When they turned around to head for the stairs, the door shut and locked. Nick stepped up drew his swords and hacked the door to pieces, kicked the remainders of the door off its hinges and they continued to the first floor. In the room of the first floor was a mustang; on the side was an X. They piled into the car Tim in the driver’s seat, Nico in shotgun, and the other four squished in the back.
“Let’s see what she’s got,” Nolan screamed “floor it,”
“Nolan shut up I’m trying to figure out how to travel through time otherwise they’ll just keep hunting us, but if I can find the time travel button, we can escape to a time before they existed we can finally be free,” Tim explained.
He turned the keys, pressed the gas pedal and headed straight for the doors, as they closed in on the doors Nico blasted them off its hinges with his telekinesis. They sped down a run way, as they reached 150 miles Tim hit the time button, as they teleported a voice came from the radio ‘What time would you like to travel to?’
“2020” Tim replied.
‘Time set, prepare to travel,’
Everyone buckled up, while they started their travel they talked about what they would do, it was decided that were ever they landed they would find or build a home, then they would grow up like normal kids and attend school. When the car finally landed, it was next to a giant warehouse, the warehouse was just a few miles outside of town. They drove through the town exploring what would become their new home town. When they were done exploring they searched the car, inside the car cubby, was a pile of 20’s about 10 stacks of 50’s and a credit card. They drove to a gas station, as they refueled the car and bought food, they asked the owner about the warehouse, according to rumors it was empty and it had been for years. When they were all ready to go they drove back to the ware house. They all got out and Nico pulled the rusty doors open, they all went in and walked around. In the warehouse were a four rusted cars, an old couch, on one of the walls was a ladder, on the second floor there was one room and an over look onto the first floor, in the room was old pieces of metal, and a chest with the key on the top.
“Well guys let’s fix her up and call her home,” Tim said “It won’t be easy but together there’s nothing we can’t do”
They started on the doors, Nick carved the rust off and Tim heated the metal, then Nico forced the dents and cracks out of it. Next they cleared the first floor; they melted two cars down and used that metal to build an air conditioning system for the whole building, then Nolan put an electric charge into the system so strong it could power a jet, Nico worked some more metal into a fridge and freezer, then Bobby put a disk in each to freeze and keep them cold, Nick went to a grove of trees and cut a bunch of wood, Tim melted metal into nails, and Nico worked them into cupboards, Drawers, and closets. When they were done with the first floor they moved to the second, they worked the one big room into three rooms, two boys to a room. They used the metal to create a sparring dummy, a few staffs to practice with, and a microwave. When they were done working on their new home, they drove back to town and went on a shopping spree for clothes and cell phones for each of them. They had decided that walking around in a metarock suit with armor kind of stands out. After they were done they returned to the warehouse and relaxed for the night. The next morning they went to the library and on one of the computers enrolled them all in school, Bobby, Nico, Naoki, and Tim in high school, and Nick and Nolan in middle school. They went shopping for school supplies that day and the next morning Tim drove Nick and Nolan to school.
“Try to stay out of trouble, and don’t use your powers” He said “I mean it, if I get a call you’ll seriously regret it”
After that he drove the rest of the bunch to high school. One by one they found their classes, Naoki had chemistry, Bobby had Basketball, Nico had workshop, and Tim had Geometry. Bobby had no problem fitting in; he cracked a few jokes, answered a few questions, and made some friends. Naoki just acted normal, answered a question here, talked when he was supposed to, and made sure he did his work when he was supposed to. Nico just stuck to the middle of the crowd, wasn’t the first to talk, but wasn’t the last, he made sure that he seemed cool, but not to cool. Tim stayed quiet and still managed to make a few friends, mostly with girls but he made a male friend or two. During PE they stood out though, they had the best mile times, long jump was a breeze, and weight training wasn’t too hard either. When school got out they picked up Nick and Nolan, apparently they had an ok day, and middle school was a hard place to fit in.
“Everyone does their homework as soon as we get home, we don’t want the school to have to call our parents and realize the number is mine” Tim said.
Everyone else complained the rest of the car ride home, until Bobby turned on the radio and they all started to sing along. They arrived back at the warehouse and did home work for the next few hours.
“Anyone wanna see a go for a swim?” Naoki asked.
“Nolan and Bobby can’t, they’ll shock and freeze the pool, and it’s how their molecular compound was structured” Tim commented slowly.
“Fine I’m going for a swim, Nicks you wanna come?” Naoki said stubbornly
“Sure” both Nicks replied.
“How about we go for a quick fly instead?” Tim asked “that way we could all go, Bobby could surf behind us and you could teleport, and Nick could power up and jump with us”
Immediately they all started to suit up. They walked out the door and one by one took off Nico first, then Nolan, Bobby, Tim, Naoki, and finally Nick. They flew above the city, over the lake, and to end it the circled around the airport and started back. While they were making their way back they saw police cars chasing a small armored vehicle.
“Naoki think you could find out what’s going on?” Bobby asked
“Way ahead of you,” Naoki chimed, he teleported in a puff of smoke and then reappeared. “Alright so apparently that armored vehicle has some escaped prisoners in it they’re armed and they have hostages”
“Those police will never get close, we could have in a matter of seconds” Tim thought out loud. “Alright either we all do this or none of us do this”
One by one they all nodded. Nolan flew down above the car and slowly sucked the power out of the battery and then overloaded the signals to blow out, then Tim took a small flame from the small explosion that occurred in the signals, he pushed it up to the windows, slowly the car halted. Next Naoki teleported in grabbed the hostages and teleported out, he reappeared in front of a line of police cars. The whole group of boys landed in front of the armored car. Nick cut the doors off its hinges. When the doors fell off bullets were fired, only to be stopped by Nico’s telekinesis, and then Bobby froze all the criminals’ hands and feet. When they were all done Tim created a ball of fire, slammed it into the ground and Naoki quickly teleported them back to the warehouse. Slowly they all went to their rooms and put away their gear. They reconvened on the first floor in front of the T.V they had bought on their shopping spree. They turned on the T.V and the first channel was the news, to their surprise they saw themselves.
‘These vigil antes could have gotten the hostages hurt’ a reporter announced
‘Well to me it looked like they knew what they were doing, it was almost as if they were trained to do it’ said a Police officer.
‘Well whether they were or not, they are committing a crime by taking the law into their own hands’ the reporter replied.
“WOW!” Bobby screamed “we saved those police men, they didn’t have to lift a finger, we did all the work and they still think we’re the bad guys”
“Bobby chill,” Tim said calmly “It sounds like they haven’t decided yet, the officer that spoke thought we were doing the right thing,”
“Yah but the reporter didn’t and everyone watches the new,” Naoki responded.
“Fine we’ll lay low, but if they ever need my help I’ll give it to them,” Tim announced “It’s not my job to choose who lives or dies, but if I can stop people from dying I will.”
“Me to,” Nolan said “What we did there, that was what we were meant for,”
“We were meant to be weapons,” Nico replied “Nothing more, nothing less”
“If you ever say that again, I’ll punch you clear across the room,” Tim said sternly “we are people even if we are different, we can use that difference for good, or for bad, personally I choose good”
Tim jumped off the couch and flew upstairs. No one slept very well that night. The next morning after everyone had been dropped at school Tim and Nolan were walking to their classes when they saw a fat boy beating up a small girl. Tim stepped in and caught the kid’s fist before it landed another blow, the bully’s name was Sean, and he was a school bully.
“Don’t touch him Sean,” Tim said, he stared right into Sean’s eyes, Sean had a cold look but Tim had a look that showed that even if Sean was bad, he was worse.
“Why don’t you stop me,” Sean said he tried to knee Tim in the stomach but Tim released Sean’s fist and stopped the fat boys knee with one hand. Tim pushed Sean, Nolan swept his feet under Sean’s and Sean landed with a loud thud. Tim turned to the girl and held out his hand.
“It’s ok I won’t hurt you,” Tim said gently “we want to help,”
“Thanks,” the girl responded “My name’s Katherine, I’m in your history class actually,”
“Well I’ll admit I didn’t know that” Tim replied “What did Sean want?”
“He didn’t want anything, he was just proving he would hurt a girl as easily as he would hurt a guy,” she said with a scared tone of voice “any ways, we should get to class, it starts in two minutes,”
“Let’s go,” Tim said calmly
With that they walked to class talking the whole way there, when they arrived at history class they took some seats in the back.
“So where do you live?” Katherine asked.
“5 minutes away from the school,” Tim cautiously replied
“I live right across the street, we should hang out sometime,” Katherine said.
“Sure here’s my number, call me and we’ll hang out sometime” Tim
Through out the rest of the day Tim hung out with Katherine, eventually Bobby and Naoki joined them, they went to the park and played a couple sports then they all went to Katherine’s house and gathered around the piano while Katherine and Tim took turns playing, after that Bobby showed off with a couple of songs on the guitar. Later that night when they were all sitting on the couch talking Katherine turned on the T.V. On the first channel was the news and on the news there were reporting’s of an armed gang making its way down the street towards a school bus filled with high school kids, kids from their high school.
“I’ve got to go,” Tim, Naoki, and Bobby all said at the same time. They all dashed out of the room at that moment. They started down the street when Tim stopped, and spoke “Naoki teleport us to the house and then find the rest of the guys and get them to the warehouse and have them suit up, Bobby and I will slow the gang down”
Naoki grabbed them both and in a puff of smoke they were at the warehouse, they quickly suited up, then Naoki teleported them right between the gang and the bus, then in another puff of smoke he was gone.
“Bobby build a wall in-between us and the bus so the police can get them out of there” Tim yelled
“Dude we’re in public call me Warlock, it’s what Agent George said.
“Fine, just do it” Tim replied.
“Consider it done” Bobby shouted and then took off toward the bus.
Tim flew toward the gang spraying fire everywhere, he flew straight up and then came barreling down and landed in the middle of them creating an explosion, knocking them all off their feet. Quickly he grabbed the guns and in one burst of energy reduced them to a pile of broken metal.
He turned and saw Bobby advancing toward him. He ran and high fived him. When they got to the gang members, they started turning them on their backs and having Bobby make hand cuffs of ice around them. Out of the corner of his eye Bobby saw a member of the criminal gang run into an alley, he shouted “one just escaped into the alley on the right,”
Tim took off towards it, when he got in the alley he lit it up like it was daytime. He saw the man trying to reach the fire escape, as he approached the man finally grabbed the fire escape, he ran up the stairs as fast as he could. Tim just laughed and flew to the top of the building, at the top the crook was waiting with a pistol he must have had hidden on himself. He fired at Tim. But before the bullets could hit him, Tim shot flames from his eyes reducing the bullet to ashes.
“Who are you the?” the man screamed.
“I’m Prometheus,” Tim whispered in his face.
At the bottom of the building the police were putting the gang in car’s when one dropped onto the ground next to their feet. The police stared up in wonder as Tim flew off into the night sky. On his way back Tim saw Bobby on the ground with the rest of the group. He landed and heard the boys explaining why they were late.
“It doesn’t matter we saved the kids, but tonight Bobby brought up a good point, in public we need different names,” Tim quietly announced.
“I’m Warlock,” Bobby said.
“I’ve already chosen Prometheus,” Tim said.
“Fine then I’m Zeus,” Nolan said in response.
“I’ll be Chronis, if we’re sticking with Greeks” Nico said.
“Well, Greek huh, I’ll be Ares the war lord,” Nick announced.
“I’ll be a little more original, I’ll be Guardian,” Naoki replied.
“It’s settled then, we’re a legion of soldiers,” Nolan said.
“LEGION,” Tim yelled “TAKE TO THE SKY,”
They all took off into the night. The next morning Naoki ran out of his room and yelled “Bank robbery at 32nd and Maple,”
“LEGION SUIT UP,” Tim yelled.
“They got to the scene and saw that there were hostages. The boys huddled together and made a plan. Nolan flew through the top window and blasted the guns of the hit men with lightning, he missed one and the man fired back. Before the bullet could hit the microscopic tesla coil fired a beam of lightning, it shattered the bullet in mid-air. Then Naoki started teleporting the hostages down the block, while Tim and Bobby flew around the back to take down the hit men on guard duty. Mean while Nick and Nico helped the bank employee’s clean up and put the money back where it belonged in the safe. By the time the police arrived the boys had fixed everything, they walked out into the middle of the streets.
“STAND DOWN,” a police yelled through a mega-phone.
“LEGION,” Tim roared “TAKE TO THE SKY,”
With that they all took off, they regrouped at the warehouse. As they were all putting their gear away Bobby remembered it was 10:00 o’clock.
“Guys,” he yelled “we’re late for school,”
“Dude it’s Saturday relax,” Nolan chimed.
“Well I then I have to be at the school in a half an hour anyway,” Bobby said back.
“I’ll drive you there,” Tim yelled down the stairs, “I have to be there too, to try out for volleyball,”
“He really just wants to show off the mustang,” Nolan whispered to Bobby.
“I HEARD THAT,” Tim yelled.
As they approached the gym, were tryouts would be they noticed that around the corner people were gathered and were watching something. Bobby and Tim ran to see what it was.
“GET UP BONES” a familiar voice screamed.
As they rounded the corner they saw everyone was watching Sean beat up another victim. What amazed Tim and Bobby was that no one would do anything to help the boy Sean was beating up.
“Sean stop being a jerk and let him go,” a girl stepped up to Sean and said.
“I will,” he said “when someone makes me,”
Everyone took a few steps back. Tim and Bobby started to make their way to the front. The boy stood up and got into a fighting position, Sean walked up and when the boy threw a punch he grabbed his wrist and twisted. Just then Tim broke through the crowd and punched Sean across the face. Sean fell back, jumped up and got punched by Bobby.
“No fair you’re double teaming me,” Sean cried.
‘Fine pick a friend to fight with you,” Bobby said.
Sean grabbed a boy near the back who was big, black, and bough. The other boy was Matt; he was Sean’s only friend. Sean and Matt slowly walked toward Tim and Bobby.
“You take Matt, I’ll take Sean” Tim whispered
“No other way around, I don’t want to hurt Matt, I wanna hurt Sean,” Bobby argued.
“Fine,” Tim replied.
Tim ran and did a flip over Matt, landed and kicked, sweeping his legs out from underneath him. Bobby threw punches left and right, continuously hitting Sean. Tim took Matt’s arm and twisted it behind his back, he pushed Matt harder into the ground and said “Give up before I have to hurt you,”
“I give up I’ll stop hurting people,” Matt whimpered.
In the mean time Bobby kept throwing punches until Sean was kneeling, finally Bobby kicked him right between the knees. He shoved Sean to the ground, turned and he and Tim walked over to the boy who had taken a beating from Sean.
“You all call you’re self good people?” Tim asked “you wouldn’t help your fellow student even though there were twenty of you and one of Sean,”
“Think about that next time,” Bobby said angrily.
“Are you all right?” Tim asked the injured boy.
“I’ve had worst,” the boy joked.
“I’m Tim, this is Bobby, we’re sorry Sean hurt you,” Tim said in a hushed voice.
“Well you sure proved that when you beat him up,” the boy laughed.
“Tanner are you all right,” said the girl who had spoken up earlier.
“Oh Tim this is Teddy and well I’m Tanner” Tanner said.
“Nice to meet you, not many people were willing to do what you just did,” Tim said slowly.
“Well when someone beets up your best friend you tend to want them to stop,” she said seriously.
“We should probably get to volleyball,” Tanner told Teddy.
“You two play v-ball?” Tim asked.
“Ya we’re on jv” Teddy announced proudly.
With that they took off into the gym, Tim looked at Bobby smiled, stood up, and headed toward the gym. When he got in he quickly went to the locker room and changed, he ran back into the gym and waited to try out. When it came his turn to try out Tim did his best to look like he knew what he was doing, when it was his turn to spike he ran up and slammed the ball straight down, when the other side tried to get it back up he quickly jumped and slammed it back down, scoring the point. At the end of practice the coach announced that there would be a list of who made the team on the announcement board outside the gym on Tuesday. As he headed out of the gym Tim noticed Sean watching Bobby try out for basketball. Tim took a step back out of sight from Sean. After tryouts Bobby headed toward the city, he took a bus, what he didn’t know is that Sean and a few others were following him, what Sean didn’t know is that Tim was following him. When Bobby stopped inside a store to use the bathroom, Sean and the others stayed behind next to an alley. Tim took the time to call Nico. Nico arrived right as Bobby was leaving the store.
“So what’s happened so far?” Nico asked.
“I’ll explain later, RUN they’ve just tackled him and taken him into an alley,” Tim yelled. They both bolted across the street into the alley on the other side. They got into the alley right as the group of bully’s started surrounding Bobby.
“You shouldn’t have hurt me,” Sean said “Now I’m gonna hurt you so bad that you never try to stand up to me ever again,”
Tim and Nico ran into the alley and jumped the small wall of bully’s; they landed right next to Bobby and in front of Sean.
“What did we say Sean?” Tim asked “don’t hurt people,”
Sean ran up to punch him but Tim was more than ready, he ran at Sean to, but at the last minute he slid under Sean’s feet. To Sean’s surprise Bobby was running to, but he had a trash can lid held up, it nailed Sean in the face knocking him down. The other bully’s started to punch and kick the boys, Tim jumped and kicked two in the stomach, Nico ran behind a few and knocked them out with his telepathy, Bobby made a coat of ice to thin to be noticed on the ground, he ran and used the ice to slid into the last to bully’s.
“Let’s get out of here,” Bobby said “these filthy people are stinking up the place,”
They all walked out together, they walked across the street to the mustang, they all got in and no one spoke the whole car ride home.
The next few weeks flew by, Bobby made the Basketball Team, Tim made the Volleyball Team, Nolan got a job at the pet shop, and the Nick’s started working on building gadgets for the Legion. They made mini freezers, if it touched a person it would freeze their torso, they made Nolan a staff of copper so that his lightning would fire stronger and more accurate, and they built Naoki a pair of robotic wings.
“Guys I’m not sure this is my style” Naoki said.
‘Hey the night is young,” Tim started “why don’t you take them for a spin,”
“Fine,” Naoki said “but if they short circuit I’m taking them to the junk yard,”
“Very funny Naoki,” Nico said “you are joking right?”
Naoki took off into the sky. “NAOKI,” Nico yelled.
“We better follow him to make sure,” Nick said.
They both took off leaving Tim and Bobby alone. Tim started practicing hand to hand combat on the dummy, which was now a small robot thanks to the Nicks. Bobby headed for the door.
“Hey were you going?” Tim asked.
“I’m just going to hang with some friends,” Bobby replied
“At 11o'clock at night?” Tim asked
“Fine I have a date,” Bobby said “Satisfied?”
“And if you tell the guys you’ll have frozen showers for the next three months,” he threatened
“Wrong person to threaten,” Tim commented “I’d turn it to warm water before it hit me, I’m fire remember?”
“Dang it,” Bobby said “Fine just don’t tell the guys,”
“Fine, but you better leave now before they get back,” Tim replied.
An hour later Naoki returned, the wings made him look like a metal angel. He walked through the doors flew to his room, took them off shut the door and went to sleep. Tim started to fall asleep as Nick and Nick walked in, Nick sped upstairs and went to bed, Nico spent the next hour practicing using his telekinesis, till he was finally to tired, that he went to bed. Tim stayed awake till 2 in the morning when he felt the air get colder, Bobby banged open the front doors, slammed them shut and went to bed. Tim slowly fell asleep on the couch wondering why Bobby was so angry. The next morning when everyone was ready for school the boys hopped in the car and left. When they arrived at school they did their usual schedule. While at Math Naoki made noticed his teacher was more tired than usual. When his teacher finally fell asleep the class went wild. Music was blaring, kids were screaming, and text books were flying. This went on for thirty minutes until the principal walked in. All the students were suspended for three days. Bobby and Naoki happened to be in the same class. They couldn’t be happier to be out of school. A week later school ended for the summer. The guys decided to get jobs, Tim and Nico were hired as body guards, Bobby got a job as an Ice Cream man, and Naoki got hired as a pizza delivery man, Nolan was still working at the pet shop, and Nick were too young to be hired. As body guards Tim and Nico got to perfect their hand to hand combat, As an Ice Cream man Bobby got to practice his power of ice and kept the electric bill low for the company which made them both very happy, as a pizza delivery man Naoki practiced teleportation throughout the entire city, and got a lot of tips for being there within minutes of the call. Then one night they all had a break, they decided to hang out around town. While they were walking by an alley they saw a group of men beating up a police, the men were armed and all seemed to be wearing a blue bandana. The boys quickly ran into the alley to help the cop, but before they got there an arrow landed in the center spraying gas everywhere. The men immediately fell to the ground unconscious. The boys looked up and saw two hooded figures on the roof, they both wore leather jackets, one was red and one was white. They ran off into the darkness, the boys quickly suited up, grabbed the officer and flew him to the top of the roof. From there they split up, Naoki and Nolan took off teleporting everywhere around the area, Tim and Nick went left, and Bobby and Nico went right.
‘Alright guys I have us all connected through my telepathy so we can talk from a distance’ Nick said through his thoughts.
‘If you find the archers don’t fight them, they could be on our side, we need to know what they’re up to’ Tim announced.
Tim and Nick continued down their path; as he was flying Tim saw a speck of white in an alley down below.
‘I might have something, everyone stay alert in case I need you’ Tim called out.
‘We’re ready when you are, go we’re on our way’ Bobby replied.
“Better hurry we don’t know who we’re dealing with,” Tim thought back.
With that Tim landed in the alley, Nick zoomed into the alley and accidentally crashed into a garbage bin. He was immediately knocked unconscious. Tim lit up the alley with flames, and then when he had found the speck of white, he quickly recalled the flames. He walked up to a small black garbage can, pushed it aside with ease. Behind the bin was a hooded figure, crouched in a ball.
“Who are you?” Tim asked the figure.
“I’m Angel,” the figure replied.
“There were two of you,” Tim said “where’s the other one?”
“Right behind you,” a deep voice whispered “and unless you want to have an arrow through your shoulder you’ll put your hands in the air and slowly turn around,”
Tim did as he was told, then with barely even an ounce of his strength; he blasted the arrow tip with flames from his eyes. The tip melted instantly.
“Now what should I call you?” Tim asked.
“I’m Diablo,” The man replied “why were you following us?”
“I’m Prometheus,” Tim told them “my team, The Legion and I have been trying to keep this city safe, but when we were beat to it by an arrow, well we tend to wonder how that happened”
“We’re archers, we do what you do,” Angel said “but from afar,”
“Ah vigil ante style,” Tim said “so if you’re willing we’d like to work with you,”
‘WHAT?’ all the guys screamed through their mind link.
“Fine I’d like to work with you,” Tim said “So what do you know about the officer that was jumped,”
“Well,” Diablo started to reply
“Nothing,” Angel cut in.
“All we know is that this gang is going after cops,” Angel said.
“So we follow cops and make sure any dark alleys are empty?” Tim suggested.
“Sure, but first lets meet the rest of this team of yours,” Diablo replied.
One by one the boys arrived, Bobby slowly slipped in on a beam of ice, Naoki appeared in a puff of smoke behind Tim, Nick woke up and stood up, Nico floated down, a burst of lightning hit the ground and Nolan was there.
“Ok this is Warlock, Zeus, Chronis, Guardian, Ares, and again I’m Prometheus” Tim said casually.
“Well then I’ll take Prometheus,” Angel said
“I’ll take Chronis, and Ares,” Diablo said.
“That leaves Zeus and I,” Bobby whined, “let’s go battery boy,”
They took off one group at a time, they each went a different way, Tim grabbed Angel under the arms and took off, Nico levitated Diablo and Nick their way, and Bobby and Nolan flew/surfed in another direction.
‘Ok Angel, Diablo, I have telepathy so I can hear your thoughts if you direct them at me, and you can hear ours if we direct them at you’ Nick thought
‘Cool’ Angel practically thought screamed.
‘Creep stay out of my head I’m right next to you’ Diablo said.
‘Guys let’s just do our job and get done’ Tim cut in.
Through out the night they watched officers, and if they walked into an alley, the Legion took care of any unnecessary hit men. They saved a total of 18 police officers, Nico broke his arm, Bobby got a black eye, and Tim got oil in his hair turning it black temporarily. They fought, they used their power as little as possible, by the end of the night 56 gang members had been beaten, kicked, and knocked unconscious.
‘Ok guys I’m gonna hit the sack,” Diablo thought
‘Got it, we probably should to,” Nico replied.
‘You guys go ahead I’ll stay up for a while longer,’ Tim thought.
‘I’m gonna stay for a while longer to,’ Angel thought
‘I’m gonna practice back at HQ’ Nick said.
With that one by one they took off, until it was just Bobby, Tim, and Angel. As they scanned the city, they saw another gang.
“Don’t worry guys I got this,” Bobby said “piece of cake there’s only 5 of them,”
“Think we should help him?” Angel asked Prometheus.
“Na,” Tim responded “if there’s one thing he knows it’s how to take down a group,”
“Why is that?” Angel asked.
“When we train, he’s the only one who the others powers don’t weaken,” Tim replied “Like he weakens me, but I don’t weaken him, Electricity can start a fire giving me more power, but against ice its helpless”
Tim landed on top of the city hall, the clock struck 12, “good morning,” he joked.
“Good morning to you to,” Angel laughed “I hope you slept well,”
Bobby rose up to them on a pillar of ice, fixed a piece of his armor that had broken off, by recreating it.
“I’m gonna hit the hay,” Bobby yawned.
“K, make sure the others don’t blow up the house,” Tim shouted to Bobby as he took off.
Through out the rest of the morning, Tim and Angel went around town stopping petty criminals, they stopped a burglary of a pet store, they stopped a car thief, and they stopped a shop lifter. When they were done with the shop lifter, they started to head in the direction of the school, they said good bye, and then Angel jumped off the roof of a store onto the ground, landing with ease. When he was sure she couldn’t see him, he followed her, he flew up high and used his special vision that showed him were spots of heat were, he followed her to a house near a lake, he watched her go in, then he flew to the window and she took off her hood. Tim almost fell out of the sky he was so shocked, this girl was from his school, she was on the cheer team, she had taken gymnastics for years, which explained the acrobatics throughout the night. He took off and flew back to the ware house, and then he went to sleep. Before anyone was awake, Bobby snuck into Tim’s room, snatched the keys off his dresser, and drove off. When Nolan woke up he started practicing on the dummy, when he picked up his staff he shot a bolt of lightning from it, it bounced off the wall and came back at Nolan, when it hit him, he used the force of the shock to take off, he flew straight at the doors. Without trying he screamed and created a shock wave of thunder, ripping the doors clean off. He kept flying, he kept pushing himself to go faster, and he flew until he made a sonic boom. Once he was going supersonic, he tried to create lightning, it created a tunnel, when it ended he looked down, he was above water. He halted immediately, a roar of thunder blasted past him, he turned around and started back. On his way back he was passed by a fighter jet, he flew faster trying to lose it. Then two more flew up to him, he went supersonic and the jets did to, they pushed right up to him, pushing him closer to the ground with each second. Finally he hit the ground.
Back at the warehouse, Tyler woke up; he quickly flew to the outside of town, realizing he had forgotten his wallet he headed back to the warehouse. As he approached he saw two men in black suits enter the house. Tim quickly switched to heat sensor mode. The forest was swarming with men, around the corner was a truck full of men, and next to that car were three men with dogs. Above the car was a helicopter with a familiar heat signature in it. The heat signature belonged to Cornel Green, the man who had created the team of scientist that created Tim and the boys. But it didn’t make sense; Cornel Green couldn’t be over 100 years old, unless this was his father, or some relative. Tim was ready to burst into the house, when Bobby drove up in the mustang, the men in the forest ran out and started shouting at Bobby. He held his hands high, then he froze them in a wall of ice, he ran towards the house when the time machine/mustang blew up. He stopped turned toward it and collapsed; a group of armed men ran out of the forest, grabbed Bobby and put him in a van. Tim then realized that they weren’t firing bullets, but some sort of sedative. The armed men carried the rest of the group out, when they pulled Nick out on a stretcher Tim lost it. He flew into the open and shot mini explosions towards the men. They fired back, which was their mistake, Tim stopped the explosion that caused the bullet to fire and forced it back into the barrel of the gun. He flew in and shot flames from his hands at every person with a gun. While he was creating a wall of flames an arrow whizzed past, a man with a sniper fell out of a tree. Tim turned and saw Angel right next to him, they continued towards Nick, they fired arrows, shot fire; Tim even created a mini explosion in each of the men’s grenades. They kept fighting, but men kept coming, they were tiring.
“Pull back, I’ll cover you,” Angel shouted.
“Ladies first,” Tim said
“Sorry ladies are usually late,” Angel shouted back.
“Just go Nicole,” Tim screamed.
Angel took off towards the town, When she had gotten a good distance Tim stopped his fire wall, he turned and flew towards Angel, he picked her up and flew towards town hall.
“HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?” Angel screamed
“I saw you take off your hood,” Tim replied
“YOU FOLLOWED ME?” Angel continued to scream.
“I had to know who you were,” Tim said calmly.
“I AM SO MAD AT YOU,” she screamed “I wear the hood so that no one would find out who I was, but I kind of followed you to, that’s when I saw the armed men,”
“We have more important things to worry about,” Tim said sternly, “for instance, THEY HAVE MY TEAM!”
“Don’t worry we’ll get them back, but you need to trust me,” Angel said.
“You had my back out there, I trust you completely,” Tim replied.
“Good, then you’re going to donate your blood to a blood bank,” Angel said.
“How will that help?” Tim asked.
“Well, they won’t be able to figure out what class it is, that will make the government come back to our town, then you’ll stop a crime without your suit,” Angel continued.
“Wow, slow down, I’m not using my power with those nuts on the loose,” Tim said.
“Well if you want me to be able to track you, and follow you to your friends then you’ll have to get caught,” Angel finished.
“Fine,” Tim responded “we do it tonight,”
As they walked into the town, a shot was fired. Tim and Angel ran towards it, while everyone else ran form it. They ran straight into a trap, the men who had taken the others were waiting for them. They fired darts, Tyler incinerated the first wave, then without warning Angel collapsed. Tim created another wall of flames; he scooped her up and took off flying. As he flew away a dart hit him. He struggled towards the other end of town; he made it to the lake when he started descending. He urged himself forward, and then a bullet hit him square in the chest. He fell out of the sky like a meteor. He was about to hit the ground when he remembered Nicole in his arms, he turned onto his back, and then everything went dark. As an attack chopper closed in on the sight, an arrow broke through the windshields; Diablo flew in with the metal wings Nico had created, how she got them he had no idea. She shot down the first chopper with ease, a well placed arrow to the control panel, and the second took three arrows to the engine, after three choppers Diablo ran out of arrows. Quickly he bolted towards the forest in an opposite direction as Angel. The last remaining chopper followed.


That night when the stars lit up the sky, an old man was going for a walk through the forest when he came upon Nicole and Tim, he noticed the bullet wound in Tim’s chest, he gently picked up Nicole and turned to walk away. As he continued towards his house he noticed a small light coming from behind him, he turned around and saw Tim slowly being incased in green flames, slowly they were spread throughout his whole body, and Tim was set upright. When the flames had died down Tim stood there, the wound was gone, and he walked toward the old man.
“Do you mind if I carry her?” he asked.
‘Not at all,” Tim replied “just be careful, she’s been through a lot”
“Son I just watched a phoenix rise from the ashes of the dead,” the man responded “I think we all have”
“Thank you,” Tim said “You don’t know how much this means to us,”
“I never walk past a person in need,”
“But why us?” Tim asked,
“Because I used to be an outcast to, the world against you, nowhere to hide,” the man whispered, “I know how dark this world can get,”
They continued walking until they came to a small house. The old man walked into the house and showed Tim a room he could sleep in. That night Tim slept like a rock. While they slept, the old man treated the cuts that Nicole and Tim had received. The two teens slept until 2 in the next afternoon. When Tim woke up he walked into the kitchen. The old man walked in the door with a news paper in his hand.
“WERE AM I?” Tim screamed
“You’re in a small town,” the old man replied softly.
“WHO ARE YOU?” Tim continued to scream “WHO AM I?”
“I don’t know, you were laying in a grove of trees when I found you,” the old man replied again “but my names Jasper,”
“Do you know anything about me,” Tim asked.
“Not a clue,” Jasper said, “I don’t even know your name,”
“Well I do remember that,” Tim started to reply “My name is”
“Well what is it?” Jasper asked
“My name’s Tyler,” Tim replied. If no one knew who he was, they would all be safer.
“You wouldn’t happen to know who the girl is would you?” Jasper questioned “last night you seemed like you were old friends,”
“Her name’s Angel,” Tyler responded “We’ve only known each other for a little while actually,”
Jasper walked toward the fridge, and on his way over, he turned on the radio.
‘It has been reported that The Legion has been captured, and at 10 o clock they were given the death sentence because they took the law into their own hands and when they were told to stand down they killed 32 armed S.W.A.T units’
This caught Tyler’s attention.
‘The Legion members were put to death by the firing squad at 1 this afternoon, although the government claims it was the right punishment, the town will miss them because even though it was illegal, they saved almost every member of this town, including many police officers’
“That’s a shame,” Jasper sighed “they saved my son once; he was on a school bus when escaped convicts went on a rampage through the streets, and the Legion saved him, Prometheus even talked to my son and his girlfriend”
‘That must have been an amazing experience,” Tyler replied, “the meeting Prometheus, not the being close to being attacked by convicts,”
“It was amazing,” Jasper confirmed “It’s too bad; they were cleaning up that town,”
“What do you mean?” Tyler asked.
“Well everyone knows that town used to be a big crime bosses safe haven, but when the Legion showed up and saved officers, they started to stop taking bribes from the drug lord, then he got mad and started taking them out” Jasper replied.
“So the Legion saved more lives than people give them credit for?” Tyler continued to ask.
“Oh sure, by helping the police clean up their act, this crime boss will lose power, soon they might go after him, cleaning out the rest of the dirt” Jasper said as if he were certain it would happen.
“Not completely,” Tyler murmured.
“What?” Jasper asked.
“There is a federal agent that is corrupted by his desire to create more warriors,” Tyler responded “I don’t know his name, but he takes genetic mutations and forces them into others, hopping that it doesn’t kill them and that it will give them power so that he can control them,”
“This fellow, is he tall and pale?” Jasper asked
“Yes,” Tyler practically screamed “Why do you ask?”
“He came by earlier, asking about you,” Jasper said “he wanted to know if I had seen Angel,”
“He said she was dangerous if kept alive,” Jasper continued “said that she was a criminal and that if I ever saw her to phone the police, he never mentioned you though, and I don’t blame him, you should be dead you know,”
“What do you mean I should be dead?” Tyler asked
“When I found you, only the girl was alive, you had a bullet in your chest, then flames encompassed you and you were alive again,” Jasper replied.
“I still don’t remember that,” Tyler said puzzled.
“Well any way you can stay here as long as you want,” Jasper offered “It’d be nice to have an extra hand around the farm, you look strong enough for it, and what do you say?”
“I think that would be nice,” Tyler answered, “I don’t have any were to go now anyways,”
“That’s the spirit,” Jasper sarcastically laughed.
“When do we start work?” Tyler asked.
“Next week when the snow clears away,” Jasper replied.
“You don’t mind if I explore a little do you?” Tyler asked.
“Not at all,” Jasper responded “just be careful in the forest, they might still be looking for you,”
With that Tyler headed for the door, before he made it out Jasper called him back.
“I thought you might like this,” Jasper said, in his hand he held a black leather jacket, “it was my son’s but he can’t use it anymore,”
With tears in his eyes Tyler thanked him, and then headed out the door. He walked off the porch and into the snow, as he looked around to the left he saw a barn, to the right a road, he walked into the barn and looked around, it was really messy. It was covered in tools, most of them were rusted, there was a pitchfork in the ceiling, and an axe in the side of the barn. Tyler started to straighten up, first he sorted all the tools, and then he found a file, one by one he started fixing up the tools till they looked good as new. This went on for a few hours till he was tired, he walked out the door and stuck his face in the snow, as his face touched the snow he instantly had a flash back, this is what he saw. A helicopter flying after him, he had Angel in his arms, he was practically going mach 1, the helicopters fired at him, and he fired back. Then a bullet hit him, and he went down. He remembered seeing a figure in red leather helping him get away. Then everything went black, Tyler woke up and where he had stuck his face in the snow was a hole about three feet deep, it had been burned into the ground. Jasper walked out and saw the hole.
“So what else can you do?” Jasper asked.
“I don’t know,” Tyler replied “but I think I should figure it out before I hurt someone on accident,”
“Sounds like a good idea,” Jasper said “If you want help doing it I’m here for you,”
Location: Classified Government location
Date: two hours later
“So why exactly do we have a bunch of kids locked up here?” General King asked.
“Well sir we found out that they have powers that we’ve been trying to create through genetic alterations” Private Green said.
“And have you found the source of this so called power?” the General asked again.
“No,” Private Green replied “but my men are working on it as we speak,”
“Instead of keeping them prisoner why not just trick them into working for us,” General King asked.
“We’ve tried that, the one called Chronis is telepathical and he reads our minds and tells the rest we’re lying,” Green said.
“Fine take a couple blood samples from each and then kill them,” King said “if they’re not with us they’re against us,”
“Yes sir,” Green saluted.
He took off for the cells, when he got there he ordered a pair of scientist to take for vials of blood from each of them. This wouldn’t kill them but it would make them weaker, giving them a less likely chance of escaping when they were taken to the execution place. They would normally be sedated but for some reason the only thing that worked was freezing them in ice. Yesterday when they had taken them down, they had used a drug that if used to more than once in 24 hours would kill them.
“All right, take samples of the strong one first,” Green commanded, “After that get the one who gives off sparks,”
“Yes sir,” the scientist responded.
“Sir, samples taken,” the first scientist replied, “We’ve taken samples from all of them except the telepathical one,”
“So take a sample,” Green snapped,
“Sir we can’t,” the scientist announced, “We would have to thaw him, otherwise this force field he’s creating subconsciously won’t let through,”
“Fine, wake him up, just take the samples and put him back under,” Green ordered.
That was their first mistake. The moment the ice thawed, Nico’s eyes burst open. His eyes were no longer white with pupils, they were glowing purple. He floated into standing position; he looked at the scientist, then to Green. The second mistake the men made was drawing their guns, which of course were useless against Nico. Nico stretched his hand out and made his telekinesis visible through purple light, he blasted the three men against the wall. Next he tore the metal walls off and made them into a ball around the men, then he threw it down the hall way. He turned to the rest of the capsules that held all the boys; he blasted all the bolts and screws out of the capsules. Then he shattered the glass that held the ice in place, once that was done he started thawing the ice. When the ice was half melted he took off down the hall. The least he could do was clear an exit for his teammates. He flew through endless hallways, every time he saw a scientist, guard, doctor, or even an agent, he knocked the unconscious. He continued throughout the building, then he found the lab. Rapidly he started to access files, he opened his email and began coping files and sending them to Tim’s email. As he continued to search the files he found one labeled Professor X.
Already knowing what that meant, he opened the file and read it.
Agent Green: Entry 1, Found young child, female, shows signs of telekinesis
Agent Green: Entry 2, Took girl to lab, uncooperative, sedated
Agent Green: Entry 3, girl is being monitored in cell 52314
Agent Green: Entry 4, girl broke out of cell, luckily we captured her, holding her in the POD
Nico sent the file to Tim, and then he flew straight at the wall, creating a hole in it right before he reached it. He flew to one of the unconscious guards; he probed his mind until he found The POD. He landed on the ground, with his telepathy he scanned the building, and he was scanning the 12 floor when he found what he was looking for. He pointed his hands upward; a telekinetic beam melted a whole all the way up to the top. He flew to the 12th floor, after quickly scanning the entire floor he flew to The POD. He quickly punched in an access code he had torn from the mind of the guard he’d probed. Immediately the door to The POD opened, a girl about the age of 16 fell out. Nico caught her; around her neck were a pair of dog tags. Nico observed that they custom made, the read Harley on the first and on the second it read Jake. Nico picked up the girl in his arms and flew down the hall straight out the window on the wall. As he flew over the court he saw the rest of the guys making their way towards the main gate.
“Guys, it’s Nico,” Nico said through projecting his thoughts,
“So we’re connected mentally again?” Nick thought
“Yup,” Nico replied, “How come I can’t sense Naoki or Nolan?”
“The Nolan kind of tried to blast a guard, but his powers were unstable, he only redirected the bullet” Bobby thought
“Go on,” Nico thought
“Well Naoki teleported in front of the rest of us and took the bullet,” Bobby thought, even through telepathy you could tell when some ones voice was sad.
“What about Nolan?” Nico asked,
“Nolan got mad and went on a rampage,” Nick said, “He kept shooting everything with lightning, and he was so concentrated he didn’t see the rocket coming straight for him,”
“Get out now, and make sure Bobby makes it,” Nico thought, “I’ve got someone with me, she’s unconscious”
“Of course,” Nick teased, “We get freed, so you find a girl,”
“Shut up,” Nico thought, “I’ll meet you outside the base,”
When they had all made it out of the base, they started to slowly walk away.

Location: Unknown town
Time: 2 hours later
“Hey, Tyler,” Jasper yelled, “Come to the barn,”
Tyler slowly walked to the barn; he opened the double doors and saw Jasper standing in the middle with to metal pipes.
“What are you up to,” Tyler questioned.
“Well, I’ve realized, you have power, and you are pretty well built,” Jasper replied, “So I think you used to be part of the Legion,”
“Well, if I was, I’ll never know,” Tyler responded, “But what’s with the pipes?”
“These are for sparring,” Jasper said with a wicked grin.
“Um, no thanks,” Tyler said, “No offense but I’d probably hurt you,”
Location: Jasper’s house
Time: 2 hours later
“I can’t believe you got beaten by an old man,” Angel laughed,
“Hey, this old man can hear you,” Jasper shouted from the kitchen
“I just didn’t want to hurt him,” Tyler whispered.
“Right, that’s why you let his hit you a bunch of times,” Angel said sarcastically.
“Whatever,” Tyler moaned, “Hey Jasper do you have a computer?”
“Nope,” Jasper yelled, “But the town library does, it closes at 6 so you’ll have to hurry,”
“K I’ll be back soon, try not to do anything stupid,” Tyler said.
“I’m coming with you,” Angel yelled as she ran out the door after Tyler.


Location: Arabian Base
Time: 30 minutes later
“This is Agent Green, we just got a signal from the missing files,” Green said into his hand radio.
“Good then track them down and get the back,” King yelled through the radio, “Out of curiosity where are they,”
“The signal is coming from a library just outside of Long Beach,” Green replied, “I can have one my old pals search it, Jasper Spooks, he’s an ex Marine,”


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