John (age thirteen) was impatient. He was almost always impatient. Sam (age eleven) may have been his best friend, but today he was getting on his nerves. Setting out a burning building by pure will was one thing, but almost reviling their location with fire works was just plain annoying.
Thank goodness for Abby. If it weren't for her, the two might have killed each other already. And now that she was gone, he was almost considering it.
John turned to the heat-sensing monitor he had built again. He was shown as a small orange dot, Sam almost blocked him out with his red light, and the Orb was the same as always. But Abby and Matthew were nowhere to be seen. Then without warning, there was a small dot and a bigger dot right above the tunnel. He was confused, but only for a moment. As soon as he turned to the periscope he saw his friends and partners in stopping crime, Abby (age twelve) and Matthew (not yet one). they were holding his teleportation remote, so that explained why they had just appeared on the radar. But what had kept them so long?
Sam asked "Are they here yet?" then added "Did they bring the pizza?"
John nodded. He knocked twice on the door. Abby replied with the Mario beat. He let her in. Abby floated in. "Did you bring the pizza?" Repeated Sam.
Abby rolled her eyes. "No. I was a little busy running from The Dark."
Every ones eyes widened. "The Dark? What happened? It never comes out durning the day." said John.
"Well, it came out today." Stated Abby. "We were just flying home, when Matt began to shrink. He was already normal sized, so I knew something was very wrong. Then, It appeared. It was
flying. Eye-to-mist with me. Thank the Powers I was just above your house, John. I managed to get in your window and grab your remote. It defaulted here."
The kids had been running into the Dark for almost a year now. They knew nothing about it, exept for what had happened to Alex...
"So, whats the meeting for?" Abby quickly changed the subject. John was more than happy to play along.
"Approximately ten hours ago, the heat and stability of the Orb fluctuated greatly."
"Someone touched it." translated Sam.
"Oh, who?" Asked Abby eagerly. "I hope its a girl."
"We don't know who it is. That's why brainic here called the meeting." Explained Sam.
For a moment, everyone fell silent. They were all remembering when they had touched the Orb. How confused, scared, or exited they were.
Matthew was worried by the quiet and began to grow. Three feet. Six feet. Ten feet. Abby flew up to be eye level with her 'little' brother. "Its okay, I got you. Calm down."
Obediently, he shrank back to normal-baby size.
Absent mindedly, Sam flipped through the Power Book. He saw Mary, the weather Controller, and Robert, the Super speeder. He turned to Villans. There was hypnosis. The red bookmark that meant he was next on the List was there. Sam smiled. 'you're going down.' he thought. then he added, in the back of his mind, 'if we can find you...'
The kids had not found hypnosis for the simple reason that
no one had
ever found him. At least, no one with their memory still intact.
Curently, the evil master mind was drinking coffee. His Zombie-like slaves were waiting at a respectful distance. As he drank his coffee, He watched the screen that showed the children heroes. He leaned forward to hear better. They were discussing his Mist.
He leaned back, and smiled. He had brought nations to their knees. He could bring down four children with his eyes closed.
He laughed in a way that would have been funny if it wasn't so scary.
