Fiction Friday: Chapter 16

The strong man walked slowly up to the Flex. He could see the tree girls inside, in the back seats. They stared at him wide eyes. Scared. Good, the big man thought, easier to control. He consider the report the locator had given, if it was correct, and it pretty much always was, the little one could make money and the powers of the other two were not known, but they weren't weapons. He clearly had the upper hand.

He rapped the glass beside the oldest girl, the one with curly hair, not the invisible girl. He bent down and mustered the most convincing smile he could. "I'm here to take you to your parents," he lied.

A flash of bright light reflected off of the flex. Inside, the strong man could see the faces of the three girls all turn from him to something going on behind him. He turned to see the locator on the ground by the vending machines. The shocker. This just got more interesting. He turned leaning on the car, surveying the situation.

"1 inside, 1 by us," Savannah texted Sarah.

Sarah looked at her phone and hopped down away from the Flex. She didn't want to risk going toe to toe with one of these guys. She needed to find a way to sneak up them, the guy inside first. She got low beside the station, and moved toward the side door. The excitement was causing her hands and arms crackle with electricity.

The chameleon got the strong man's call. The locator was down, three of the kids were in the Flex, the shocker was sneaking around the far side of the building. Mr. Li would like him using the feather here, but it would make this situation go so much smoother. "I wish to appear as anyone," He wrote on the wall.

Sienna didn't know it, but here power to produce limitless money had just disappeared. The chameleon was the chameleon again. He dragged the invisible girl out of view of the store windows and took on her appearance. It was everything, down to the very clothes she was wearing.

The chameleon then, looking like Sierra dove out the door, directly in front of Sarah. "I think there is only one left," he said, checking Sarah's eyes to see if she was convinced.

"What about the one in the station?"

"I hit him with a baseball bat, the clerk had, in the head, but he used a gas grenade of some kind just before I hit him and..."

"Stay hidden. I'll take care of the last guy."

Sarah walked to the front of the building and the chameleon walked to where the locator was still laying on the ground.

The strong man leaned away from the car and held his hands to either side, showing he was not armed. He shouted, trying to sound friendly, "I am just here to take you to your parents.". There she was, the shocker poked her head from around the front of the building. She could drop him at any minute, he had to keep talking. "I know you got my partners, but I'm not like them. I just want to do the exchange. I want to make sure you get safely united with your parents, look I'm not armed.". He stepped a little closer, than began turning so she could see him.

"Why should I trust you?"

"Because I could have taken any gun I wanted, but I didn't I don't hurt kids."

She moved closer, but she held her sparking hands in front of her.

From inside the flex, the girls watched Sarah move toward the big man. For the first time in a while, the saw Sierra again. She was behind Sarah with a what looked like a kind of pistol in her hand. Then they were confused. Sierra raised the pistol, pointing directly into their cousin's back and pulled the trigger.

Sarah's body went completely stiff with electricity which wasn't hers and fell to the ground. At the other end of the electrode wires, Sierra grew taller and more masculine, taking on the appearance of the man in the Blink 182 tee shirt.

The fight was over.