The Last Battle: Part 2

We approached Amulet’s fortress in Egypt and all I could see was a field of people, superheroes, armies and regular citizens all blindly protecting their queen. I turned around to Oriana and Electric Angel (EA) and said “You guys find somewhere to hide, there is no way we can take on this army. I will superspeed ahead and deal with this mess myself”. I was thinking that part of this was my fault anyways. Oriana and EA briefly looked at each other and EA turned to me to say “We are with you, we aren’t gonna turn tail in Earth’s last battle.” I whispered “It’s your funeral.

I super speeded ahead and turned around only briefly to see Oriana and EA get overrun by other bullets, missiles and other heroes. On my way to the fortress there were a few superheroes who could keep up with my speed, but they were no match for my strength as I knocked them to the side. After a few seconds of flying and fighting I reached the fortress to find Amulet alone sitting at her throne. She smiled at me with and said cheerfully “My king is here!” I gave a confused look and said “I am not your king!?” She sighed and responded “I knew you would say something like that. Always taking the moral superiority, but now you can really save the world. With me as your Queen you can rule the world in peace. No more war, no more violence, just complete bliss. I chose you to be my king because I knew you and I could be together to make this a better place.”

I went silent contemplating her proposal, I knew she couldn’t read my mind so I thought about what I could do. I looked down to the ground and thought about all the people I knew and all the suffering they went through and still are going through (in the case of EA). I looked up and said “Yes, my Queen. I accept your proposal.” Amulet had a huge smile on her face as she ran up to me. She slowly bowed and said “All hail the new King.”

At that moment that when her guard was down I put my arms around her and lifted her off the ground and began flying up. Smashing through her fortress and flying into space. She fought back hard, and I was beginning to lose grip on her, but I knew I just had to hold on as tight as I could and fly her away as fast as I could into the sun. The heat of the sun began to burn me and at the same time increased my speed she yelled “This will destroy both of us and the world will forget about you! They are ungrateful and you will be forgotten!” She then began saying something in a language I couldn’t understand and as the flaming sun touched her and I, she exploded sending my flying back towards Earth. As I fell through the atmosphere I saw my life flash before me as if all my memories were being presented to me for the last time and then everything went black.

The Last Battle: Part 1

While approaching the fortress I noticed two figures in the distance standing in front of the fortress. As I approached it became clear that it was Electric Angel (see Fine line between good and evil) and a girl. EA had sustained heavy damage on his heavily armored suit. But it was quite evident that the suit was repairing itself as new metallic armor appeared in the damaged areas. When we all entered the fortress, EA began telling their story.

It seems that the girl is Psychosis’s daughter and her name is Oriana. It was obvious that EA and Oriana are romantically involved, the way they looked into each other’s eyes. Oriana is a telepath with telekinetic abilities, and Amulet’s mind control had no effect on her. Furthermore, she used her telepathic abilities to suppress Amulet’s control on her love, EA. Long story short, both EA and Oriana attempted to eliminate Amulet, but ultimately failed, because her fortress in Egypt was heavily guarded by every hero in the world.

They came to me because they believe I am the last and only hope to save the planet. Talk about the weight of the world on your shoulders, and I stress over exams. I agreed to help them and after they were patched up we were off, to what could very well be my last battle…

Election: Part 2

Well it’s Election Day, and I am too lazy to vote so I ended up sleeping in and waking up around 12. After I woke up I checked what was on TV, and every channel was showing the Election Bonanza. It seemed that every country that was having an election was having huge line ups at the polls. Every eligible voter was coming out to vote, and to no surprise the party they were voting for was Talume. This was somewhat of a concern; however I just let it slide, and thought we will see after the election. Let Democracy take its course.

Later that evening, Ashley and I were sitting at the Talume victory party at the University. All the students were buzzing about the results, when the news anchor came on and announced Talume’s 100% victory. My face went pale; I couldn’t believe some no name party had taken over half the world. I turned to see Ashley’s reaction, but she was gone. I couldn’t figure out where she went, I used my super speed to jet around the room, but she was gone. I returned to watch the TV, and at that moment, the television became fuzzy. When the image returned all you could see were the pyramids of Egypt, and a dark figure approaching. It was a woman with long dark hair and a long black coat. When the image cleared, I couldn’t believe my eyes; it was Ashley. She said “Today is a great day for our race. We have ended all wars, by uniting ourselves under one banner, the Amulet. You shall all be my slaves and I shall rule not only this world but the entire galaxy.” I knew something was wrong when the audience began to cheer. I flew as fast as I could to my fortress so to piece all of this together….

Election: Part 1

It’s a cold crisp winter, with windshields making it -25 C, but it's all good because I don’t really feel the cold and I have heat vision. Anyways, something odd is going on, it seems like there are red, blue, orange and green signs everywhere I turn, telling me about people whom I have never heard of. Yes it is election season again, but this time the circumstances are a bit off. It seems that there are multiple elections going on in quite a few countries at the same time, such as Canada, England, Egypt, Germany, China, Russia and USA, it is as if all of their leadership fell apart.

I personally didn’t care too much about the parties and will probably vote on the basis of “enie-menie-minie-mo”, however this soon changed, when an unusual new party came to stage, calling themselves The People’s Party of Talume, they were sweeping the polls in every country they ran in. Their platform was nothing impressive, very generic if you ask me but everyone became zombies around them.

I still didn’t care cause I was in the “zone” with Ashley, and that’s what was important, until one day Ashley came up to me after class wearing a Talume t-shirt and asking me who I am voting for. I said I didn’t care, and she seemed disappointed and angry at the same time. She gave me a huge lecture about how this was important and how Talume will bring a revolution. I began to have a gut feeling that something was wrong, but I couldn’t put my finger on it…

Truth: Part 2

That moment felt like a million years to me, and I kept thinking and standing there. I finally decided to take the risk and I ran in front of the truck, the front end wrapped around my body as I body checked the warm metal. When it was over I got out of there as fast as I could. I didn’t look back to see Ashley’s face.

The next day I got to class early and didn’t save a seat for Ashley (I assume she wouldn’t want anything to do with me). To my surprise, she sat right beside me and said “We need to talk”. Throughout the boring lecture, we neither said nor did anything.

Finally, at the end of the lecture, she grabbed my hand and took me to a reclusive area in the library, where she said “So, you have a secret eh?” I blushed and said “So you saw me?” She laughed and said “Barely, you move so fast. But, it is ok, I hear about the stuff you do in the news and I want you to know that I am very proud of you”. She softly kissed me on my cheek and said “Your secret is safe with me” and then she ran off to her next class…