Here I Come to Save the Day

Chapter 2

I have to thank my beta Carly. Thank you Carly… you so rock. I also have to thank my 7 year old niece who helped me think of the powers for all the good guys and the bad guys. She especially laughed extra hard when she suggested that Emmett have the power to make people dance; that was her favorite. Thanks to all the girls for keeping me inspired.

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Ted a.k.a. "The Parasite": Gets inside people and infects them from the inside out.

Emmett: Power to make people dance and creates force fields.

Brian: I have decided that in addition to all the other powers he is just plain…complicated.

Melanie: Causes earthquakes.

Ben: Crushes Bones.

Michael: Can whine so loud people's heads explode.

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End the impending doom theme music… "I said turn it off. Fucking… asshole," *tackles stereo operator and presses stop button before jumping up and looking around.*

"Where is he keeping her?" Justin asked as he looked over the pictures. Brian held some of the pictures in his hand as Richard talked.

"She is being kept underground in the old abandoned police headquarters," Richard said. He watched the fear wash over Justin before it quickly disappeared. He got up from his desk and moved over to his spacious window. He looked down at the city below and at the snow that was falling from the sky. He hated New York it was like a prison, even on its decent days.

Richard felt like an inhabitant of a snow globe as he watched the people moved freely in the cool moist fall air while he was stuck behind a pane of glass where he dreamed of freedom, of…deserts, dry heat and sand.

"So what, we are just supposed to go down there and get her?" Brian asked to Donovan's back. A smile crept over his face and reflected in the sparkling glass in front of him. Brian saw him smile and looked over at Justin who was too busy staring at the pictures of Lindsay to pay attention to the man by the window.

"Yes, exactly, I want you two to go and get her," Richard said. "You are the best and the fate of the world rests on you two getting to Lindsay before Stockwell has a chance to breed her," Richard said with a shudder.

"But he is a powerful man. His might and powers are the things of legends, what if some of the myths about him are true? No one has ever come in contact with him," Justin said. He could feel the heat taking over his small patch of moist air and he longed to be far away from the office. Brian noticed his discomfort and looked down at the humidifier. The button was lit up, indicating that it was low on water. They needed to speed this up.

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"Come out, come out, where ever you are," Emmett said as he searched through the house for Shane and Mac. Shane kept turning invisible and Mac walked through the wall every time Emmett got close enough to touch her. Emmett turned when he saw a flash run past him and quick as lightening he had a force field around the speeding boy. "There you are," Emmett said as he raised the force field and deposited the young boy at the kitchen table.

"Hey, no fair," Shane screamed as he tried to reach a hand out of the force field, finding it impossible.

"Life isn't fair sweetie," Emmett said as he secured the force field and turned to find Mac. He walked slowly down the hall and bumped into the small girl as she was coming out of the living room wall. "Gotcha," he said as he pointed with his finger and sent the girl into a dancing frenzy. Her hands were raised about her head and she swayed to an unheard beat.

"Uncle Emmett, make it stop," Mac said as she danced and twirled. She was giggling uncontrollably as Emmett stopped pointing and went to pick her up. Ted was in the kitchen cooking dinner for the kids and watching as Shane tried over and over to get out of Emmett's force field. "Uncle Ted, Uncle Emmett made me dance all funny," Mac squealed as Emmett carried her into the kitchen.

"I promise I won't turn invisible anymore," Shane pleaded with Emmett as he sat in the force field with his legs and arms crossed. Emmett went over to him and seemed to be lost in thought for several minutes before releasing the boy from his prison.

"Dinner is ready," Ted said as he fixed the kids a plate of lasagna and placed it on the table. They went to wash their hands and came back to the table to eat.

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"We'll think it over," Brian said to Richard as he stood and motioned for Justin to stand also.

"Think it over?" Richard said confused. He was shocked. He thought that he would have to do little to no convincing to get Brian and Justin to agree to go on the risky mission. "Umm…I need to know your answer right away. We only have a couple of weeks to stop this catastrophe," Richard said. He was tense. This was supposed to be effortless, but he should have known that involving Brian would make it less than easy.

"You will know right away. We'll give you our answer no later than two days from now," Brian said as he walked toward the door. Justin stood where he was. For the first time in years he was torn between wanting to save his friend and the mother of his children and following the man he loved. "Sunshine, are you coming?" Brian asked as he walked out of the office doors. Richard looked at Justin, questioning his love and his commitment as he stared into him.

"Yeah… I'm coming," Justin said as he followed the man he loved. No matter the journey, in the end following Brian had never steered him wrong before. Brian was at the elevator pressing the button to go down when Justin caught up with him. "Brian…I," Justin started and Brian motioned to the many cameras and different listening devices in the elevator.

"Not here," was all Brian said as the elevator doors closed and it started its decent.

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"Where is Molly?" Bronson asked his wife. Jennifer came out of their bedroom and stood in the doorway of his office.

"She went over to a friend's house," Jennifer said as she walked over and sat on Bronson's lap. "I thought maybe you and I could do something without her," Jennifer said as she placed a chaste kiss on Bronson's lips. He tensed up under her touch and gently pushed her away.

"I can't…I have umm, a lot of work to do," Bronson said. Jennifer stood up and wrapped herself inside her robe tighter.

"You know Phillip," Jennifer said as she stopped on her way out the office. "If you don't pay attention to your wife, someone else will," she said as she disappeared back into their bedroom. She closed the door behind her and pulled her journal out. She opened it to the last page and ran a finger over the name of the one man that she had ever truly loved… Jim Stockwell.

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Brian and Justin rode inside the car in silence, neither one wanting to approach the topic first. "I think we should do it," Justin said as they passed another exit. He looked over at Brian, trying desperately to read the thoughts that were going through the man's head. Brian seemed to lean a little more into his door, resting his head on the window as he drove along lazily.

"I think Richard is full of shit," Brian said after a couple of minutes had passed. Justin bit down on his lower lip so he would not let words pour out of his mouth with reckless abandon. Brian could see the steam coming off of Justin and he pulled over at a rest stop. He pulled into a parking spot and turned the engine off before turning his body to look at Justin. Justin sat staring straight ahead at the trees in front of him.

"Look Justin, I didn't say that we weren't going to go and get Lindsay but I know that there is more going on with Richard than what he is telling us. I mean think about it, he fired you and completely collapsed the Pittsburgh office. All those agents went missing and now suddenly we are the only two "best of the best" left to take this mission. I don't fucking buy it," Brian said. Just as the words left his mouth he saw a movement in the trees ahead of him. The hair on the back of his neck trembled and stood on end.

"What's wrong?" Justin asked. Brian promptly covered Justin's mouth with his hand and directed him to focus, really focus, on the trees. Justin saw the cloaked figures come out of the shadows and his eyes got as wide as saucers. "Shit," Justin said when Brian moved his hand. In the blink of an eye the five darkened shadows were surrounding the car, banging and demanding entry.

The window on the sunroof broke open and glass rained down on Brian and Justin as they sat in the SUV. "They busted my fucking window," Brian said as he opened his door and got out, slamming the door closed behind him. He was dressed in black from head to toe and his body was fluid in the air and the moonlight. The grass crunched beneath his feet as he reached out and grabbed the first cloaked figure with merely the slight movement of his wrist. The cloaked man wiggled and squirmed in his hand, trying desperately to get himself free.

"Put in the tape with the "Batman" fight scene sound effects." POW…BANG…PUNCH.

Brian grabbed another darkened shadow and punched him in the jaw, knocking him out cold. He was standing in the same spot. His powers were unknown and unfathomable. He was simply put…complicated. Justin used the moisture in the air around him to form an ice prison around the remaining men, effectively trapping them inside. "Who sent you?" Brian asked the men.

Shit, hold on. Turn it off…NOW… Turn it, *POW…BAN…* Thank You.

"Who sent you?" Brian repeated as he waited to see if the mysterious noise would begin again. The five men stood un-masked and shivering in the cold atmosphere that Justin was creating. They refused to say or do anything. Justin started to smile and slowly the men could feel their bodies shrinking, turning and twisting from the inside out as Justin drained their bodies of its vital water supply.

The burly man, who was the leader, was the first to speak. Justin stopped the process as the man told them that they had been sent by Stockwell. He told of how Stockwell had found out where they would be and also where they lived.

Justin clenched his fist tightly and the water from the attacker's bodies burst free from them. It soaked the dampened ground around them in their juices and blood as it painted a tapestry of their night's events for the entire waking world to see. Brian and Justin climbed back into their SUV after cleaning out the glass and headed toward their house, as fast as they could.

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"Something's wrong," Ted said as the kids sat on the floor watching cartoons. He slowly moved from the sofa and went to open the curtain when his hand froze. He knew that opening the window would be a mistake. "Shane, Mac go upstairs and get in the trunk," Ted said knowing that both the children knew what he was talking about.

"Why Uncle Ted? What's wrong?" Shane asked as he turned off the T.V. Ted and Emmett looked at him and he quickly grabbed Mac's hand and pulled her as fast as he could up the stairs.

"Don't come out until one of us comes and gets you," Ted yelled as he stood facing the window. Shane opened the trunk that sat at the end of his dad's bed. He held it open for his sister and when she was inside the trunk he climbed in himself, shutting the lid closed behind him and locking it from the inside. They felt the house shake as the front door flew open. They could hear muffled shouts and screams coming from downstairs. Mac pressed her body into Shane's and held onto him. The sounds of glass breaking took a back seat to the smell of smoke that started to flood their senses.

"Shane, Shane I smell smoke. Daddy said to not stay in the house when there is smoke," Mac whispered to her brother. He clamped a hand down over her mouth as he heard the bedroom door fly open, banging into the wall behind it with brutal force. Shane felt his heart pumping faster and faster and then he felt a warm liquid start to seep its way into his jeans. He looked over at Mac and saw the tears trailing from her eyes and over his small hand as it covered her mouth. He could smell his little sister's urine as it soaked the trunk and he prayed that the trunk held the moisture.

"Those fucking kids are in this room somewhere," Shane heard a low voice say as it made its way further into the room. He tensed and pressed himself as close to the bottom of the trunk as he could get.

"How do you know that?" the second man asked.

"We checked everywhere else," the deep voiced man explained. They searched the room, paying no attention to the trunk.

"Fuck it, let the fire take care of them," the second man said.

"But the boss said to make sure they were dead," the man with the low voice rumbled. "He said to make sure we saw their bodies," he finished.

"We'll never be able to tell him shit if we don't get out the house ourselves," the second man said as he grabbed the small doll that lay abandoned on the floor next to the trunk. "We'll take him this," the second man said as he walked out the door, the other man flush on his heels, and out of the house as the flames consumed the structure from the inside out.

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"Something's wrong," Melanie said as she paced the floor of the living room while Michael and Ben sat on the sofa watching her. "I am tell you I can feel it, something's wrong," she said again as she rolled her hands over and over.

"Melanie, you've been saying that since Lindsay went missing," Ben said to the pacing woman. Melanie stopped pacing and moved in front of Ben.

"Lindsay didn't go missing Ben. She was fucking kidnapped. Lindsay wouldn't just leave her family. She had just had Mackenzie, she wouldn't just leave," Melanie shouted and the louder her voice got the more the house shook. Ben and Michael looked at each other and Michael shot a hand out to catch a picture of Mackenzie before it hit the floor.

"Mel, Ben knows that Lindsay wouldn't just leave but that doesn't mean that every time you get a bad feeling something is wrong," Michael said. Melanie calmed visibly and the tremors in the house disappeared with just the taste of an aftershock when Melanie cast Ben and Michael another look before plopping down.

"I don't need you to believe me…" Melanie said. She wrapped her arms around her and bit down on her bottom lip. "…I know something isn't right."

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"Soon it'll be August 1st and there won't be a damn thing that those two can do about it," Jim Stockwell said as he paced in front of Lindsay. Lindsay sat on the floor, chained to the wall by both her arms and legs. "We are going to breed, effectively turning you into a straight and then you are going to give birth to the first completely pure, all natural… bisexual." Stockwell said. "Our children will rule the nightclubs, the gay ones and the straight ones. They will overturn the masses, wreak havoc on the sexually declared and feast openly on the sexual pleasures of the undecided. DOOM… DOOM… DOOM.

"You're crazy, you are really crazy," Lindsay said. She had been missing for awhile now and every time someone got close to saving her they suddenly disappeared. She wanted to leave but she did not want Brian and Justin getting hurt.

"I am not crazy. I am the evil genius," Jim yelled as he whipped his flowing cape behind his back and left the room.

"And no one wears fucking capes anymore, you dick," Lindsay yelled as the door slammed closed.

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"Oh my god," Justin yelled as they turned onto their street. The flames seemed to kiss the clouds as they engulfed their home. Brian stopped the car down the street. The fire trucks and spectators were lining the sidewalk and street, watching the house burn. Justin jumped from the car before it could come to a complete stop.

Brian had to push all his power at the running man to stop him from running into the flames. Luckily one of the firemen was also blocking the door. "My kids, my kids are in there. Did you get them out? Did anyone come out of the house?" Justin yelled hysterically.

"We weren't able to enter the house," the fireman said as Brian held Justin in place effortlessly. Brian could feel the heat from the blond burning his skin.

"What? WHAT? What do you mean you weren't able to enter the house, did you get anyone out?" Justin screamed. Brian was holding onto his husband as the oxygen fed the fire and caused it to swell.

"Justin, Justin…before we panic let's try and call Ted and Emmett, maybe they weren't even here," Brian said as he pulled out his phone and dialed Ted and then Emmett. "They're not answering," Brian said. The fireman turned his back to answer a question.

"I can't take this Brian, I can't," Justin said as his heart sped up and sweat started to bead on his skin. Brian reached out and touched him, immediately pulling his hand back. "Justin, you have got to calm down. You're on fire," Brian said. Brian watched the sweat increase on Justin's brow and as fast as light Justin liquefied and pooled to his feet.

"What happened to your friend?" The firefighter asked when he turned back around.

"Husband actually, and he umm…got a little wet," Brian said as the firefighter ran over to help his friend. Brian looked down and watched as Justin seeped into the ground.

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BOOMING ANNOUNCER VOICE…

What happened to Ted and Emmett?

Where are the children?

Will Lindsay escape the clutches of Stockwell?

Who were the two mysterious men and who sent them?

Who lives in the basement at Lindsay and Mel's house?

Find out in the next chapter of….. *plays the music for excessively cool can't miss chapter coming up next*….. HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY!

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