Nick layed in bed looking at the ceiling one hand on his ribs which were now wrapped up in a cast like substance, the other hand dangling off of the side of the bed holding the T.V. remote. The T.V. was on and Nick was watching it when Maya walked in with a pizza. Nick got excited and tried to get up realizing that his ribs were broken so he flopped back down.

“Calm down it’s only pizza.” Maya said opening the box on the table beside him.

“Yeah, but I would have done that for any food because we haven’t eaten since detention.” Nick said arguably.

“I guess you have a point. Plus the two years in the Master’s room, which shouldn’t we be dead?” Maya said looking at the ceiling pondering what she had just said.

“Yeah… Wait He told me thirst nor hunger increases or effects you when you’re in the room.” Nick answered.

“Well I guess that would make sense… Anyways let’s eat.” Maya said while grabbing a piece of pizza.

Maya put a piece of pepperoni pizza on a plate and gave it to Nick. Nick took it and started to inhale it but stopped when the door slammed open to Sophia running in.

“They have Rose!!!” Sophia said yelling.

Maya and Nick immediately took action they got up from the bed but as soon as Nick got up he feel over back onto the bed clutching his ribs hard while yelping.

“Stay here and take care of Nick.” Maya said to Sophia.

“Ok.” Sophia said running back to Nick who was trying to get up again.

“No don’t get up just lay down.” Sophia said.

“I have to help, I need to save her.” He said with his fist clenched.

Sophia stopped in awe from his determination, even though she was the one that put him in the bed and broke his bones.

Nick could feel his power rising to new limits, limits that he had never reached before. His gauntlets appeared along with his boots, a blue aura started to form around Nick. He started to float up in the air, his arms and legs were spread apart making the shape of a star. A battle suit started to form around him, the pieces of the suit floated around him ad they had the same design and style of the boots and gauntlets, once all of the pieces were there they slammed into him forming a battle suit around him. He fell back to his feet and Sophia fainted soon after he was on his feet. Nick saw that she was falling and rushed to help her and got to her faster than he ever had gone before. Three men bashed down the door and they were cyborgs they ran at them but they were much faster than the ones he had fought with the Master, as they rushed towards them Sophia woke up. As she gained consciousness all she saw was her move from Nick’s arms to the bed and the tree men fall to the ground almost instantly. With a blur of gold streaking past them. Then Nick in his battle suit stopped in front of Sophia and he held out his hand.

“Come on we need to find the others.” Nick said.

“OK.” Sophia said shakily still recovering from fainting and what she had just witnessed.

She reached out and grabbed his hand. He stooped her up into his arms and within a few seconds they were standing in front of Maya and Rose who were chained up to a wall.

“Sophia you came!” Rose said excitedly.

“I told you to watch over Nick they sent troops over to take care of you two.” Maya said

“I’m right here.” Nick said through his battle suit as it disappeared in a blue haziness.

Maya and Rose both looked at him.

“But what about your broken ribs.” Maya said.

“I don’t know.” Nick said touching his ribs. “They seem to have healed themselves.”

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“That’s not possible, They were snapped clean in half.” Maya said

“I don’t know but I think--” Maya cut Nick off. “Stop, you could not have healed those ribs in a matter of days. you must have an extremely high pain tolerance to be keeping a straight face with several broken ribs and be moving.”

“Hey there they are they’re in here.” A masculine voice said from the other side of the window of the room.

“Get us out of here!” Rose yelled at them.

Nick ran over to them and grabbed the chains and tried to snap them in half but he couldn’t he tried again and pulled even harder but still nothing.

“These are really strong chains.” Nick said.

Two men barged into the room while pulling out guns. They pointed them at Nick and Sophia. They shot them with small darts before they could react. Nick started to get droopy and his eyelids got heavy as he fell to the ground. He could feel the pain of him hitting the hard floor but was too tired to care, then he blacked out.

Nick woke up next to Sophia in a dark room he could barely see the door on the other side of the room. He looked over at Sophia who was still out like a light he tried to get up but couldn’t, then he realized that he had been bolted to the ground with metal curling around his boots to keep him from moving them. He deactivated his power and his boots and gauntlets disappeared which made his feet reasonably smaller and he was able to slip out of the metal holding him to the ground. He rushed over to Sophia and tried to get her out of the chains.

“Sophia wake up! Come on we have to get out of here!” Nick said.

Sophia moaned and her eyes opened. She immediately shot awake once she saw she was in a dark room with Nick trying to get the chains off of her.

“Where are we?” Sophia asked.

“I don’t know.” Nick answered still fixed on getting her out of the cuffs.

“Here someone comes.” Sophia said. “Hide.”

“No, I have a better idea.” Nick said.

He walked over to the spot where the metal was still bolted to the floor. He slipped his feet back in and used his powers to make the metal a snug fit on his feet again. A few men barged in soon after nick had finished.

“Come on you are coming with us.” One of the men said.

The other men went up to Nick and Sophia and unchained and unbolted them from the walls and floor.

“Come on let’s go.” One of the men said dragging Nick and Sophia out of the room. “Stop dragging your feet.”

Nick looked at the men, they looked normal and not like those cyborgs he saw earlier. He thought that if he could take them out then he would have time to go find Rose and Maya and get out of there with everyone. He looked down the hall and there was no one other than the men escorting them to their new destination. His hands were behind his back but he knew he could still take out normal people without his hands. He planted his feet starting to take action, he jumped over the man’s head doing a backflip landing right in front of him. He swiped out the man’s feet out from under him by kicking him in the side of the leg. He fell hard to the ground due to his thick build, but before he hit the ground Nick was already in the air rushing towards the next man. Nick kicked the man in the face, but he didn’t go down instead he stumbled but stayed standing. Nick noticed he didn’t go down and jumped and wrapped his legs around the man’s head and used his body force and momentum to pull the man to the floor knocking him out in the process. The last man ran towards Sophia to grab her, Nick took immediate action, Nick ran for the man but wasn’t fast enough and the man grabbed Sophia and held her in between him and Nick.

“You’ll have to go through her to get to me, are you willing to sacrifice your friend just to get me.?” The man said with a smug smile on his face.

“No, I wouldn’t sacrifice my friend to get to you. But I don’t need to, all I need to do to wipe the smirk off your face like th--” Nick already was jumping over both of them, he landed right behind the man and finished his sentence. ”--is.” He pried the man off of Sophia and punched him straight through the wall.

“Are you ok?” Nick asked.

“Yeah, I think so.” Sophia answered.

“Come on let’s go find the others.” Nick said.

“Ok.” Sophia agreed.

As they ran down the halls they stopped at every doorway to check if they were in the room. Once they had checked the entire building in every nook and cranny they went to the control room to keep looking but that would make it easier to find them. They headed for the door in the room that they were currently but it slammed shut, Nick ran to the door and started bashing it with his fists trying to break it down but not there wasn’t even a dent in it. Soon after the door closed a T.V. turned on in the corner there was a man standing in what looked like a plain room that had no distinct details.

“Hello, I guess you are wondering why you are locked in a room with no escape. Well let me tell you, I have planted a bomb right under your feet. We can’t have pesky kids like you running around ruining our plans and taking out our troops. My name is Harold Abner the leader of the eis and the eis is going to blow up this entire dimension and you along with it. Have fun in the afterlife.” The man finished, Soon the T.V. turned off and retracted into the wall.

“What there is a bomb underneath us right now.” Sophia said.

“Yeah, we walked right into a trap.” Nick said.

Nick walked over to the door and punched it but again nothing happened. The T.V. came back out of the wall and turned on again and the man started talking again.

“Oh, and by the way this room has dampened your powers so I guess it is over for you.”