Chapter 6

It was another twenty hours before the tall man awoke in more casts. He blinked as there with him was the healer that had been working on him.

This meant that things were getting worse, yet. Then he saw the main doctor for the project also in several casts. Damn it, he thought, they were two of the strongest that they had. The doctor would set them back a few years.

He grabbed a phone beside his bed, then was informed before he could talk that four of his replacements were dead.

He sighed as the next, third, fourth and fifteenth were gone.

How he wondered if the radical, untrained user had gotten that information? Then he thought that they had been in his mind they could have very well got it from him. Though he wondered why they had stopped at four?

All four had been shot by an assailant of undetermined origin. A psyche sweep of the area hadn’t found any that hade a memory of carrying out the deed.

The tall man shivered, whoever was responsible for these killings, had learned far more control. He shook his head as he was out of time, the council was demanding that he answer them.

There was going to hell to pay, and they were going to make him the scape goat. If he couldn’t get things controlled, his was the next death.

He thought about it for a few moments, they were obviously losing control of everything. A few minutes later he heard an elevator close.

At that moment, six grim-faced, cloaked figures entered his room. He suddenly heard six voices as one as they spoke to him. We expected you to have been stronger than this.

I know this council, this wild user, is far stronger than I have ever felt before. The worst of all is that they feel natural and not made. I never felt them when they hit me and did this damage.

We see have they made demands yet? That is how we will defeat them, so what do they wish, the one voice asked.

The tall man swallowed hard as he thought of what the wild user had said. They only demanded one thing, only one.

What, can we indeed lure them with it? The one voice in his head asked.

No council, I am afraid not, not as things are now. They have repeated it over and over.

What is so difficult that we can not grant it? The voice said.

All they asked, was to be left alone nothing else, then they did this to me and him. The tall man thought.

He could swear that all six members of the council gasped at this answer.

The council went quiet as they were in discussion with themselves. It was about thirty minutes, then they turned back to the tall man.

We shall deliberate about this, recall all teams that are left. We have already felt the twenty that are changed. Send no more as we can’t risk more. Also release half restraint on the asset’s daughter. Her patterns have started to stabilize, we can use this, the voice said.

I wish to voice my concern about this as she has escaped twice. We lost a lot of techs, when she did.

They are of no concern, only the asset, their offspring and this new threat. This threat might end all of us if we can’t gain control or destroy it.

The tall man’s eyes were wide as he heard them say this. As of that day, he had never heard them say or act afraid, it seemed that this was far more serious than he thought.

Also, Director, do not worry if they escape. We have them tagged to a cellular level.

With that, the council members flickered, then vanished. The tall man nodded one way or another, this would be over soon.

Now he thought I just have to get out of here. A few moments later, several male nurses came in and removed all the casts from his hips down, completely. They then took off almost all from his waist up.

The tall man looked shocked, then looked at the lone cast on his left arm. He released a sigh and nodded about their speed.

He looked at the main doctor for the project and shook his head. “Guess you messed up too much, too bad, ass guess they thought you deserved it,” the tall man said.

I awoke the next day a great distance from where the airman had been destroyed. I sat up in the hotel, sitting still a moment as I reached out.

I felt that the tall man was almost completely healed, damnit! This power was a bit above mine, and it felt like several had done it.

I then reached out to the woman, they were in the town where the airman had died. Shit, they were moving a hell of alot faster than I gave them credit for.

I managed to contact her without the others feeling it, though talk was short and clipped. She asked me if it had been me, to which I confirmed, also as to why.

You really don’t have to explain these that you dispatched were, indeed, a problem. The others that you know of are almost as bad.

I know I am going after them soon and need food. She asked me about her daughter as I updated her. She seemed far more grateful than I thought she would.

She then explained that her daughter had never had any control at all. The more that she gained, the sooner they could be together.