The imprints of boots cluttered the floor, over a dozen that he could count anyway. Each standing there with their weapons and flashlights pointed down. His breath staggering, his eyelid sliding down as his purple face he slouches forward as the flashlights make his vision blurred “ Now Now, Franklin. Men drop your weapons”, “ Sir, this event is a class five there is no way in hell we can do that” the argumentative nature of the soldier struck at odds with the scientist so much so that he puts a finger to the soldier’s head and poof he was gone. Frank slides back in fear almost tripping over the body of one of the unconscious first response soldiers from earlier, “What the hell? “ Frank whispered to himself, he focuses for the moment “ now, don’t be alarmed. That man was sent somewhere to cool his head and hopefully whip him back in line,” he says as he re-adjust his glasses “now, what is this” his slick black boots clapped to the floor as he walks passed Frank, while stepping over the unconscious guards with his hands behind his back fingers closed tight as he analyzes the energy field “this is magnificent, who would have thought a group of local high-schoolers would figure out such a thing”, “ hey….hey!” Frank shouts finally comfortable enough to turn his back to the remaining soldiers, catching his breath while his words staggered “don’t touch them”, “Oh, silly, silly. Touching is not my intent but observing on the other hand is a different matter” the man sits on the couch “here come to have a seat, I’m sure I can heal you back to tip-top shape”. Frank smirks at the doctor before shaking his head, “You think I’m a liar, mischievous like the folklore menace Loki.”, “I think you’re a lot of things but liar….no. What would you get out of it? But a mad man? Yes. My father told me enough about how government and scientists treated Us, those that are special in some fashion but your words only make it worse to know that one of our own does it too.” The scientist chuckles before getting back up from the coach “This combination of abilities is a phenomenon, the outage of energy is astounding” He lefts his hand, fingers piercing through the dense field of energy before him.
As his fingers cross the threshold, it becomes heavy instantly, frying the plastic glove that sits on his hand but even then he doesn’t pull away. “Very interesting, an energy so sustained and dense it’s basically in physical form”. He retracts his hand and swiftly moves back out the door, “Hey Dr.znits, what do we do with this one on the coach” one of the soldiers ask, Znit stops in the doorway only slightly turning his head “ leave him be, I’d recommend gathering up your friends before that energy bubble expands over them” he replies before leaving.
Frank watches cautiously as the soldiers move in, carefully taking their man that had fallen and dragging them outside. He watched as what could only be the leader watched him while standing in the doorway, his weapon and flashlight down by his side swaying but his arms crossed. Franks lends himself up, grunting in pain as he does so.
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Wait wait” Fin says as he pulls another bottle out from the cabinet, “ Let me understand this clearly, I’ve been through various years of college and vigorous training just to be told that the agency uses children”, “yeah…well you’re only simplifying it Fin” Kane moves away from the table and over to the sink, putting his glass down and walking over to the open front door to stare out the screen. “Whatever it is that is happening a Clovefield’s house and clearly above our pay grade so it’s a don’t know and don’t care situation, our issue is to make sure those three boys upstairs don’t move from upstairs. Might get the thought to sneak out or worse trying to do something in secrecy and end up putting humanity on the brink.”, “ you say that like you’ve been in such situation before” Finn curious raises an eye-brow before feeling up another glass and continues “ don’t worry chief, I’ll take the first night shift and make sure the little rascals don’t go anywhere but whatever event is happening tonight I’m willing to bet school is going to be a half-day tomorrow”, “ or more like no school at all until we get the area back under control”.
The two agents stand there watching the helicopters swirl around in the air, only a few neighborhoods over.
Meanwhile, upstairs both Luke and Colt try to wake up Howard who at this point appears asleep with slight twitches when suddenly his body violently begins to shake and his jaws begin to clinch. Luke yells at Colt but Colt doesn’t respond he is frozen, just staring as he watches his brother’s eyes roll to the back of his head. Luke’s words faded out in Colt’s mind and Howard’s face imprinted in his brain before….poof. He is gone.
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