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power since I killed the last one." the man laughed,
"but I have more."
    "What did you do to him?" I
yelled as Ronnie groaned on the ground.
    "Resume firing!” he ordered his
troops.
    The bullets began to rain again.
    I turned to look at Rachel.  She was trying
not to drop to her knees and slowly her eyes were starting to bleed.  The force
field began to shrink quickly.
    "I don't know how long she can keep
this up." Kenny and Sandy were helping Rachel stay on her feet.
    A flash of bright blue light blinded us
from the sky.  Four people appeared from nothing between us and the Aurora
Soldiers.
    "Vanish, get ready for the return
trip. Hothead and Silence take out the Sabers." One of the men ordered.
    Silence moved in a blur cutting through
the Sabers.  Hothead had taken out two massive blades and began cutting down
the Sabers in a blind furry.  Quickly the enemy soldiers fell and before long
only the leader stood chuckling.
    "Sam it's been too long." the
leader said.
    “Richard, it seems that you have moved
up in the ranks.” Sam, the man leading the newly arrived group yelled at the
leader of the Aurora soldiers. 
    “Funny you should call me that.  It’s
not my name anymore.  Call me Jolt.”
    "Who the hell are you?" I yelled. 
I was completely lost in the situation with no idea of what to do.
    "I'm a friend." Sam said.
    Jolt began to laugh as Silence and Hothead
finished taking out the Sabers.
    "What is so funny?" Silence
yelled.
    "These Sabers have had an upgrade. 
Something new the doctors have cooked up, over active production of a
supercharged adrenaline.  They won’t be stopped that easily.” Jolt held up the
head of one of the downed Sabers.  They all started to get up off the ground.
    "That's definitely something
new." Sam started to show a little nervousness. 
    I ran over to Rachel who let the force
field fall. She was on her knees holding her head in her hands, "if you
want to help, now would be a good time."
    Silence and Hothead were thrust right
back into fighting off the wild Sabers.  The Sabers moved faster and were
predicting their movements. 
    Silence was grabbed around the neck and
tossed like a rag doll.  Hothead swept the legs out from under the Saber, his
torso falling to the ground, but it didn’t stop.  The torso pulled itself
across the ground with its arms to attack Hothead’s legs.  Two other Sabers
jumped onto Hothead’s back and wrestled him to the ground. 
    "I think it's time to go, Vanish."
Sam said.
    "I'm not ready yet." She rubbed
her hands together.
    "Well you need to get ready.  Hothead,
Silence, time to wrap things up."  Sam yelled to the two fighting the
crowd of soldiers who kept standing back up after getting knocked down. 
    Hothead stood with all of the Sabers on
his back.  He got a hold of one of his blades and swung it blindly.  He took
out most of them that clung onto his back.  Silence slipped out and reappeared
behind Sam.
    I stood there helplessly frozen with
fear, unable to act.  I tried to tap into the power that I had used to break us
free, but I couldn't find it.  Not only that, I couldn't find any power at
all. 
    I was useless.
     Hothead grabbed the leg of one of the
soldiers and stepped on his head, then used him as a sort of bowling ball chucking
the limp body to knock down the others around him.  He stormed back where we
all stood.
    The same bright blue light filled the
air and the ground left my feet.  All I could see was blue, I could feel everyone
around me, but I couldn't see any of them.  I couldn't see anything.
    The ground was soft and cold.
    "Where are we?" I looked
around in darkness.
    "Alaska." Sam’s voice came
from my left, "Everyone ok? Silence, Hothead, Vanish?" He dug through
his pockets.
    "Hey guys, there's something wrong
with Vanish." Silence stood beside where the girl laid on the ground, red
snow surrounding her body. 
    "LIZ!" Hothead yelled running
to her, knocking silence out of his path and skidding to a stop