Chapter 3

The doctor was healing with the help of Natasha and a few others. The leader hadn’t been pleased at all. It seemed now that with the loss of one of their top seers and eliminators, the leader was going to get personally involved. The doctor still couldn’t believe that little shit Tahir; after all he had done for him. To turn on him like that, breaking his arms and legs, the leader walked in moments later.

“I am sending someone there to take care of him. He may be powerful but I doubt he can stop a bullet, and then we can proceed with the plan to take this piss ant country.” Laughing, he thought of the many he would enjoy torturing to death as slow and painfully as he could.

Deny him citizenship? Ship him out of country back to his shit hole of a country? Fine, he’d just take this one and turn it into an ideal military state then. As if these fools in power could do anything to stop him. Though this one worried him, next to him there was no one that could enforce, seek and destroy like Demetri could.

It was going to be a long time to replace Demetri, if he could be replaced, his type were rare.

Walking up to Natasha he looked over her work, “How long do you estimate till he will be up again?”

“It will be at least 2 more days, also leader,” Natasha was scared of this man the power that flowed from him was dark and hideous, “the doctor won’t be able to use his arms or legs as well, and it appears that they were broken in several places.”

The leader cursed under his breath, without the doctor, a lot of the plan was on hold.

“Get him back to as close to 100% as you can, he needs to start finding stronger recruits” pissed off, he slammed a med tech against the wall.

Growling he caught his self, let the tech slump to the floor and walked off. Natasha breathed a sigh of relief she was glad he wasn’t mad at her. She had heard stories of his anger, she had also heard of a few deaths. Shuddering she went back to healing the doctor.

Tahir was bored; the captain had started him on a line of tests to find what he could do. So far he knew that he could project his thoughts, see and follow another with or without abilities, block almost any attempt to attack him. They found that they couldn’t restrain him, as he could think and be somewhere else in seconds. He could take control of another with or without abilities (the Captain hadn’t liked that when Tahir took over him and had him recite Mary had a little lamb in a little girl’s voice).

He also found that he could control the thoughts of almost anyone; he could form extensions of his body, (as Kim and Natasha had found out.) Tahir also found out that he could remotely control almost any machine, plus he could enter the mind of anyone, (so far no one could block him).

Tahir reached out to find Kim; she was sitting at her desk working on an assignment. Sighing Tahir’s mind started to wander. Suddenly he was back east sitting in a park near his old house. Shit! He had to be careful. Starting to think of the building where Kim was, he was about to go, when two men walked up to him with guns. “Your money puke!” the first yelled!

Tahir started to laugh. “I’ll ask you only once, to leave me alone, then, I won’t be responsible for what happens.”

The two started to laugh, moving closer to Tahir, they hit a wall. Looking shocked they aimed at him, he laughed harder. Firing at him, Tahir watched the bullets strike his shield stop, and then drop to the ground. Wide eyed the second of the two wisely beat a hasty retreat.

“What kind of fucking freak are you?” the other asked, pissing Tahir off extremely.

Reaching out he grabbed the gun with his mind and watched as the man screamed, dropping the gun, it had started to get red hot, then white hot finally it just slagged into molten metal on the grass.

“I am the last thing you will ever see. If I ever hear of you robbing anyone again, next time, I won’t stop at just melting your gun and burning your hand.”

The man’s eyes grew wide, nodding his head finding that he couldn’t move.

“Hey mister, may I go now, please?”

This snapped Tahir back to the present releasing the man. “Remember I will know,” Shaking his head vigorously he stumbled off holding his hand.

Chuckling Tahir thought of the room and was there in few seconds. The Captain was waiting when he appeared again in his chair. “Tahir, you have to stay put.”

“That wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t left alone or bored out of my skull, I told you I would help under my conditions and this isn’t them. If this shit doesn’t stop soon, then I will leave and you can fuck yourself and my help!” A thick security window behind the Captain shattered, ‘holy fuck!’, again the Captain had to remember to not upset the man.

“I apologize Captain, I don’t like to jerked around, made to wait and in general told that I have nothing better to do. I am done here. The assholes can take the data they got and shove it up their asses!” Again the security window in the next room shattered, sending doctors, nurses, and lab techs scrambling to safety.

The Captain chuckled; he didn’t know how many times he had wanted to do that. Tahir looked at the destruction that he had done, shocked that he had done that much.

“I think I’m going to learn some relaxation techniques,” Tahir walked out of the room, everyone backed away as he passed.

Grabbing his walkie talkie the Captain told everyone to stay out of Tahir’s way. Passing by the seer room Tahir looked in at the Captain’s Daughter (he found out her name was Tina) and Kim they were concentrating on their assignments. He waited for her to finish, calming just watching her, damn but she was more beautiful each day.

“Kim.” he started, “Want lunch later?” she looked up and nodded. Watching further he stared at Tina and gently delved into her head. He saw a lot of childish things there; going deeper trying not to disturb her he found her ability center. Looking around he wondered how he could make her stronger. He began to examine each strand. Surprised he could, he began to find the strands that were her defense. He wasn’t sure how, he wanted to strengthen them, so if she were attacked again, she’d could defend herself much better and stronger. After a few minutes he was about to get frustrated, when he finally figured out a way.

Withdrawing, he walked up to her and waited. “Hello Tina,” he said, “I was looking at your abilities, would you mind if I made it so the bad guys couldn’t hurt you again?”

Tina’s mouth dropped open when he spoke to her, she didn’t feel important enough that Mr. Tahir would bother talking to her.

“Sir?” asked questioningly, “Make it so the bad guys can’t hurt me, how?”

“I think I can make your defense stronger but I don’t want to, without your permission, so I am asking.” Tina nodded.

So Tahir told her she would feel him in her head and not to be afraid. She told him ok as he started.

Delving deep into her head again, he felt her following him as he went directly to her ability center. He ‘saw’ her next to him as he explained what each strand of energy was. Then he pointed to 3 strands and explained that they were her defense, or her ability to protect herself. She said ok and waited, he said that he wouldn’t hurt her, so she said ok again.

Reaching for all 3 strands, he began to infuse each with energy he gathered from the ‘air’ around him. He watched as each started to grow slightly thicker. He wanted her to be able to withstand an attack longer and stronger than the last time. Working slow to give the strands time to adjust, he watched as they grew to almost twice their size. Nodding he withdrew and looked at Tina.

“Ok Tina I want you to block me out of your mind,” she nodded watching him. Reaching out he felt her resistance snap into place.

Pushing in he felt her try to push back it was far stronger than when Demetri had attacked her, Withdrawing he looked at her and smiled.

“Oh wow!” she said jumping up and down with childlike wonder, “I could actually feel you! Felt you pushing against me but you are so strong!” Her mouth was open in surprise.

Tahir smiled, he really liked the Captain’s daughter, and he didn’t want anything to happen to her. Hell, he didn’t want Kim hurt either, he’d have to strengthen her also, that way they had a fighting chance till he could step in.

Kim had been watching the whole time, she had felt Tina pushing back against Tahir she was definitely stronger, nowhere near as strong as Tahir but stronger. Turning to Kim he sat next to her, while Tina danced around.

“I want to do this for you also, you and Tina are the only reason I joined the group. Will you allow me to?” He asked looking deep into her eyes.

Nodding she thought a second, “It won’t hurt?” she asked a little afraid but she knew that he wouldn’t really hurt her.

“No, I just want you to be able to defend yourself better. Will you allow me to do this?” Kim nodded as he reached into her mind and waited while she came also.

Going deeper he also felt her follow him. He felt her surprise when he stopped and explained that they were in her ability center. She looked around at all the colors and was amazed, this was inside her? Oh my god it, was beautiful!

Reaching out, he explained that the 5 strands he had ahold of were her defenses. He felt her nod; he told her he was going to strengthen them.

Slowly very slowly he drew in energy around him, each of the strands started to glow as he infused each with energy. Time had crept to a standstill, Tahir was afraid to increase the energy flow. Kim’s strands were much more delicate than Tina’s; he assumed it had to do with their abilities. Finally after what seemed like days the strands began to thicken. It almost felt as if her mind was resisting his efforts.

Slowly he began to increase the energy, the strands shook softly then stopped, he had to stop increasing every few minutes. After an hour they were only 1/4 thicker, Tahir was starting to get tired but continued, another hour and they were almost twice as thick. Tahir withdrew from her, fell to the floor exhausted.