The milk man watched the school kids walk across the street. He looked at his partner, birdman, a reliable partner he found at one of his meetings going to the Comic store. He nodded to his partner, they walked out of their van, they made a steady approach, then when they got close, they booked it. Running at the children, they grabbed one each and ran back to their van, the opened their back, two cages, they threw their new property. Already screams could be heard, the group of confused children who found their two friends taken were running away screaming. Doors of confused neighbors opened their front door, but this was a suburb neighborhood, no one had witnessed scene of the kidnapping scene. Milkman and birdman entered their seats and drove away.

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At a warehouse in the middle of a business area a white van seamlessly entered a garage with their back being close. Milkman walked out, he made it to the back of the car, bird man passed him a cross high five.

Taking a look at the scene around them, the warehouse was easily boring and plain with a few exceptions, on one corner of the warehouse was a room that took eighth of the warehouse. They weren’t done, they got back in the car, and drove to that room.

He held his hand his hand at a pad, the doors opened, and an elevator shown behind the enclosed doors. They opened the doors to the car.

The two children who were kidnapped earlier looked at them in silence. Their eyes stared at them.

“No need to be afraid, you kids having nothing to worry about” The assurance coming from the kidnapper did not make the kids make any change, at least on the surface.

“Alright let get this headway” Milk man open the trunk back fully and carried the cage in the elevator space and birdman done the same with the other. The elevator door had only one level, on it was labeled as “2.”

The door closed, the silence in the room was deafening to the kids. Their eyes looked at everything going on, their lives had never experienced this turn, they found themselves experiencing something outside of their fabric of understanding.

Bird man whistles a happy tune. And milkman drummed his finger against the plating of the wall. The two buddies were happily about it, the kids watched as the elevator kept going lower, and lower, with no stopping. Their tripititon and fear rising, from fear, to confusion, to bizarre to total oblivion.

Bird man let out a crow. “Eww bro, why do you have to throw that here."

Birdman didn’t reply.

Finally the elevator came to a slow.

The doors slowly opened.

The kids eyes glued to the door. And what they saw took their understanding from their heads.

Behind the door was massive open expanse. A grass fields. As if to confirm what they are seeing is real, they turn their heads simultaneously at each other, their eyes shaking at confirming it.

The two mans did not leave much room for the kids to recompromise themselves. They each took a cage and walked out the elevator. The elevator door closed, and sunk down the ground. Leaving a bare metal plate surrounded by grass.

Soon enough the kids understood where they were headed. A closing on wooden house. “Hey birdman, go fuck yourself.”

Things only calming down started getting more odd. milkman suddenly jumped back from birdman, he grabbed onto his costume, ripping it apart from his body. A handsome man of enormous build who did not make sense on how he had fit behind the costume he appeared. His bearded face had a confident smirk.

He put down the cage to the side, and dashed back at birdman. Birdman who hadn’t made any strange gestures started morphing. His costume began throbbing and shaking, rapid shift slowly unfolded, settling down to a woman in slim black tight body cover. “Jack you had be such little piece of shit.” “What, can’t have a little fun before we had to close?”

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“You asking for it", she jumped up and… kept stand still in the air.” She fisted her hand at Jack, a massive kinetic energy thrusted with a bang flew at Jack. Jack took a large breath and compressed his body into a black tint. A shock sent the fields blowing.

The kids now out of their minds. A simple kidnapping turned into a sci fi elevator into a fantasy wonder world now into super power fight. The wind blew their cages sending it flying back further from the fight. The kid screamed grabbing the attention of who were at fault for their screams. “Dang, I really wanted to go at it with you Jane, maybe after a massive fuck we can can go for another.” He walked up to the cage, the kid was lying with a blooded twisted arm. “So fuken fragile, can’t have a simple fight with you nearby.”

He smashed the cage open, ripping apart the metal bars. He picked up the kid and threw it on the back of his shoulders. By now birdman now known as Jane was walking towards the house with her kid laying on her arms.

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Jane and Jack now stood at the door front of the wooden house. They had been standing there longer for what it took together for the rest of the trip from the moment their kidnapping began to the short fight earlier.

Jack irritably kept flicking his hand hand in fist grabs creating a powerful constant cracks. The kids were groaning in pair, they had been let down on the grass. They sat sitting up, the events lead up had had made them really exhausted.

The door opened, the wooden door split into two, opening up to finally something you would expect. An ordinary wooden cabin house hallway.

A constant knocking could be heard at the walk down the hallway. They were walking to where it the seemed to be  coming from. The hallway didn’t have much going for it, the floor plates were long wooden tiles in haphazard patterns, only thing noticeable was a stand of a white ball.

Inside the room was a young boy, he didn’t turn his head up and kept looking down at his work, he held a chisel and and hammer, and was hammering away at a small object on the floor.

Everyone stood a standstill as they watched the boy working away.

Finally the boy stopped satisfied with his progress and turned to face his guests. The boy smiled as he stood up coming a stop to the two childs. He looked them down and up. “Hmm satisfactory.”

Jane and Jack let out a breather. They bowed, and left the room. The door entrance could be heard with a slide than a swift shut signalling their absence. The kids, no better refer as the two kids who were brought here relaxed a little with their kidnappers leave. But they didn’t fully relax as their new captivator was shown massive referral by their previous two super powered kidnappers.

“It is good that you do not underestimate. You can call me as Jet. To be strange and come out stronger, isn’t that a special occurrence.” He said enthusiastically, his recipients remained silently unresponsive.

“What are your names?” Again the two stayed quiet.

“Ahh how understandable, but we do not have time. If this was another time, I wouldn’t have minded to take things slower. But not this time, you two need get prepared. The holy war we are facing is dire and we need your help.”

The kids finally having a response to their new situation. Finally not able taking it no more. “What the hell are you talking about, is this some kind of sick joke. Why are you playing with us, just, just… just do your worse then going with this. Please.”

“Ah one of the little ones speaks. That is good, progressing is finally being made. This is good. Very good. Little me tell you a little story O-Little-Ones. The story goes like this:

"A fiery volcano exploded, and a massive destruction… no that one is not the right one. It goes like this. The royal knight just lost all their honour, the once great knight of the most powerful force had their vow removed and had now a destitute wanderer. They left everything behind. Nothing, absolutely nothing they had, their sword, their name, their standing, could be kept. Do you understand this knight's pain, how they felt."

"Now let me tell you something, this knight went on to becoming something that had nothing connected to their disconnected past. They built something that many other rely to build their lives on and that distant place the knight was once part became a small place to their new adventure."

"Do you understand now. You future, is not yet lost, everything you have had has will be ripped away from you. Nothing, I promise you, nothing of that life you had will stay with you."

“Ah apologies I got carried away” He looked at the object on the floor, "To make something anew without the help of your past, isn’t that something worth living for. How amazing isn't.” He smiled at them. “Greatness lay standing on nothing, do you understand? Greatness cannot stand atop on greatness, it demolishes, savages, demeans the world. The path you once had would have been nothing.”

The kids had no idea to why and what was going on, the person in front made a speech to some point, but they glossed over it. But now they understood their previous captivators silence and brisk leave, as their new captivator was absolutely insane.

“There are two doors in the hallway, they are bedrooms for you. Go now.”

With little will to refuse and happy to leave the side of the insane person they left the room. A small banging sound could be heard resumed.

“Do you think we are going to be okay.” “No” 

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