After much persuasion by Spideyfan, and a little searching...I was finally able to complete Ultimate Spider-Man from #1 - #133...

Story - It has definetely been fun reading, The stories we're very well written. It actually felt real, like you were watching a movie. It had a lot of good Peter and MJ moments as well...one of my favorite moments between them is when MJ donned her "new look" and went to that party, and afterwards she gave him the letter, and he ran back to her after reading it...It was like a tearjerker without the tears! While there were some great stories, there is always a bad one in between...Morbius fits in that category as well as a few others, and even through the crappy Ultimatum story, which literally sicked me to the point of puking...really...the Spider-Man side of it was written well...Kitty Pryde was a great edition. 8/10

Characters - Where the realism comes out really is in the characters. From The normal high school teens to the supervillains. The super villains we're given more of a real look, and a better one for some...for instance, Electro. Instead of giving him a funky green and yellow costume. A simple black leather clothing with a bolt cut in is more current, something you'd see in the movies. And that makes it more real. Which I loved in USM. There really wasn't a single character done horribly in this comic, even if the story sucked (like Morbius :P) 10/10

Art - Okay, Bagley is easily some of the best, if not the best comic book artist I have seen. His art just pops out at you and it makes it so muich more easier and fun to read. When Immonen (i think) came in later in USM, I had to get used to the simpler version of Peter and Spider-Man...after reading Annual #3, I thought the art was a little wierd, and sometimes Peter looked plain like Spider-Woman clone. But I think I'll get used to it. Bagley is ten times better though. 8/10

Closing Comments - I'm really glad I was pushed to read this. It gives a while other meaning to Spider-Man I never knew. With the twists and turns that were put in these new stories, and even though it is the only comic series I have finished, I really want to read Ultimate Comics SM, and continue on with the "rebooted" franchise...especially now that Mysterio is in!

Total - 9/10

Hey Everyone, I'm so glad your enjoying Side-Effect right now, as a writer, I'm sure you can understand how much it helps the writing, knowing that the readers are enjoying it. I'm not sure when the next chapter will be out, I have the scenes and ideas planned out, all i have to do is put keyboard to word ( get it?....instead of like...pencil to..paper...yeah, nevermind, moving on..)

Lost Colony...haven't heard from that in a while...I got positive remarks back from that and want to continue it...after Side-Effect...it would just be much easier if I waited until afterwards to do it, less cramming, and less ideas flowing through my head...plus it will give me more time to plan it out better. And with only 10 chapters left in Side-Effect, it wont be too far away.

That's all for now, hope ya'll enjoying the winter weather, we got inches and inches of snow in the midwest. woot! snow days and 2 hour delays! enjoy the weekend!

(I just finished this and wanted to get it out asap. Also, I didn't know if you noticed, but I put dates everytime a new days comes, I do this so you'll know when we get to the big climax that i showed a glimpse of in the premiere. It's crazy how fast this story has gone! Hope you enjoy this one!)

Alice and Blake, otherwise known as She-Devil and Wildfire, enter their small hideout, the abandoned apartment, with the two heroes following behind.

"Hank" Alice says quite loudly, "Hank, we're back."

"Alice, he isn't here." Blake says coming out of his room.

"I wonder where he is."

Meanwhile...

Hank is hiding around the corner of a building. His shirt is dirty, and ripped up, sweat and blood runs down his face, and he is breathing hard. He looks around the corner of the building, seeing empty streets. "I've never seen New York so empty:" he thought to himself.

"I've done my part to make sure no one interferes..."

Hank turns around quickly to see Shade standing right beside him.

"You're the first visitor to have to guts to face me."

"You tried to kill me, you can't tell me your surprised to see me!" He says, going in for the punch, Shade switches to shadow form, and he phases right through Hank.

"You've tried that at least four times, boy, you can't over power me."

"I won't give up."

"And that's what really upsets me, so much potential in you, and you waste it trying to overpower the most powerful man on the planet."

"You will die."

He pulls out a gun from his pocket, and points it at Shade. Shade however, creates a small energetic shadow ball, and flings it at Hank. It explodes when it by the bullet, knocking Hank against a dumpster in the alley.

"Now, why don't you listen instead of continuing to embarrass yourself?"

Hank gets up, burn marks all over his front side of the body, "Go ahead...talk!"

"I have many plans and plots to our little 'power people' situation that has cooked up. I don't care about these rules that the President has enforced: the capturing of heroes, trying to cure them, and all that sh1t. All I want, is the most powerful ones, to help me achieve my goal."

"Which is?"

"Well, there are some things which can't be said aloud. Join me and my 'Shadow Gang' and I will explain the rest."

"How do I know this isn't some trap?"

"Because if I wanted you dead, you wouldn't be standing here talking to me."

-Back at the Hideout-

Alice, Blake, Jake, and Jason all sit on the floor, eating random foods that Blake had stolen.

"Jake, I'm not sure I feel comfortable eating stolen food." He whispers over to him.

"Why not, you didn't steal it."

"And why are we not, you know, sending these two to jail."

"Because, you said we're going to need all the teammates we can get if we're going to stop this little rampage the U.S. has gone over."

"What? I never said that..."

"Oh...well, then I did, and I think we should let them help us."

"How do you know we can trust them?"

"Because, they will want the President's act over just has much as we do."

Jason agrees with Jake's comment, but still doesn't eat the food. Something then comes to his head.

"Hey, listen guys, I will be back in a minute, I just remembered something..."

She-Devil quickly gets up, "What is it?"

"A family member..."

"Really" She says, suspicious.

"Alice, don't worry, he's telling the truth." Blake says.

"How do you know?" Alice asks.

"It's Brandon..."

Alice's eyes widen, "He's related to Jason?"

Jake breaks the awkward silence, "Can anyone say irony?"

Jason rolls his eyes, "Jake, will you be alright here?"

"Yeah, bro, I'm good."

Jason leaves the premises, leaving behind the three.

"So, it's Alice right?" Jake says walking over and sitting next to her.

Alice just sighs and walks over to Blake. Jake shrugs his shoulders and digs into some chips.

"So..." Blake begins, "Where did your whole attitude come from at Kroger?"

"Huh?"

"Your whole attitude, it completely changed."

"I don't know, I just got into the moment I guess, it definitely gives a rush."

"Yeah, sure does..."

-Later on-

Its dark now, the sky is cloudless, and the moon shines bright in the night sky. Jason enters his house, wearing a sweatshirt to cover his costume.

"Brandon? You in here?" He says loudly.

The house is pitch black except for the moonlight shining in. Jason goes for the light switch, but nothing comes on.

Geez, this is something you'd see in a horror movie...

Jason thinks to himself as Brandon still doesn't answer to his name. His heart actually begins to race.

Come on, Jase, what are you afraid of...This is your house, and your beginning to sweat, what are you scared of?

Jason sucks it up, and walks in determined, still calling out for Brandon, he walks up the stairs. His heart actually begins to pound faster, even though he doesn't show fear on the outside, he feels it inside.

"This is ridiculous, Brandon!" he yells.

After checking all the rooms, he finally comes to Brandon's at the end of the hallway. The door is closed; a small light can be seen coming from the room.

"Oh, good."

Jason walks up to the door and opens it. he looks around the room that is dimly lit by a candle in the middle. Over at the bed, he sees a lump under the covers.

"Brandon..."

He walks over and begins to nudge him, with no answer, he pulls off the covers, "Come on Brandon, and quit messing around."

As the covers pull off, A greenish creature screams in the face of Jason. Jason freaks out at the scream and slaps it across the face, knocking it against the wall.

"Oww, what the hell was that?"

"You scared the crap out of me!"

"That was the point, smart one."

"What happened to you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You look like...don't take this offensive, a complete monster."

"Was it the scream? My voice is still messed up from the cold."

"Dude, this isn't a normal cold!"

"What?"

"Look at yourself!"

"I'm just a little pale...It freaked me out at first, but I looked it up online, paleness is very common."

"Brandon! Look at yourself!"

He walks over to a mirror, he sees his face, which is completely white with a green hue. His eyes are pure red, and his teeth have begun to look like fangs, almost has if their growing abnormally. His hair is also thinning. That one fro he had is no more.

"My god, what happened?"

"You tell me!"

"I'm a freakin freak!"

Something comes to Brandon's mind just then..."I know where I got this...from the old guy!" Brandon begins to act excited, which just plainly freaks out Jason.

"What old guy?"

"The old guy, on the plane, he yelled at me! He looked just like this, like an I am Legend sort of thing!"

"Wait...hold on...so this is like a disease?"

"I don't know...I mean, if it is, it is obviously more noticeable then the swine flu!"

"It can't be though, no one has ever seen anything like this, I mean, your disgusting! Look at your hands!"

He lifts them up and reveals his dry hands that are looking scaly and his fingernails which have gotten longer and sharper.

"So I haven't clipped my nails in a while..."

Jason walks up to Brandon.

"Brandon! Snap out of it! Listen to me! You are turning into something! I don't know what, I don't know why, and I don't know how! But this is not you normal disease, this is serious, now take it seriously!" he says.

Brandon is silent for a while...

"Why is the power out?"

"Power surge went through this neighborhood, killed all the electricity, guy said it'd be back by tomorrow."

"Well, then we're not staying here, come with me."

"You want me to go out like this?"

"Put a hoodie on!"

Monday, September 15, 2014

Joshua, or Dark One, sits down in his machine that he has been working on. Zane is over at the computer screen, and Hank stands by Joshua.

"So what is this thing?"

"This, my new friend, is what will give me and Shade more power than you can imagine, and once we have that power, and with the reliance on a few of Shade's friends, things on this earth will change...drastically."

The voice in Josh's voice showed just how serious he is. Hank knew he wasn't kidding around. "How does it work?"

"Well, you see, we need a..." Dark One was about to finish when Shade interrupted, "Looks like we've got another job."

"What does your shadowy friend as another task?"

"No, this is completely my idea."

"What is it?" Hank asks curiously.

"We're going after Obama."

"Why?"

"This anti-meteor thing he's going through is going to get out of control if we don't stop it. He already has the swat team roaming around neighborhoods tracking down with equipment only God knows where they got it."

"Yeah, okay, so let's just waltz into the white house and have a talk with the President. It's not that simple." Hank says confidently.

"God, Hank, have you been paying attention this whole time?" Shade yells, "I'm a freakin shadow for crying out loud!"

Zane walks back over towards the computer, Dark One follows him.

"Why the hell are we putting up with this Hank guy?"

"He's just for support; we'll dump him when the time's right."

"Can you trust him?"

"No, that's why I like him..."

Dark One is confused, but he just rubs it off, not understanding half the things Shade does.

-Meanwhile-

Jake and Jason sit on one side of the table, while Blake and Alice are on the other side. Brandon is in a bedroom inside Blake and Alice's little hideout.

"Okay, so, here's the deal, me and Jake have decided we need your help." Jason says.
"What is this, some kind of meeting?" Blake interrupts.

"Somewhat...and if you want the chance of living in the next few days, I suggest you listen." Jason continues, "We all know Obama has given the act to give away all meteor freaks."

"Dude, you completely stole that from Smallville." Jake interrupts. Jason gives him a stern look before continuing on, "We POWER PEOPLE" he over exaggerates to Jake, "Are being put away at a quick rate, they've estimated almost 200 have been put away around the world, not only that, scientists in D.C. are working on a cure from a meteor shard that I...I mean, they found."

Jake looks over at him, now realizing what he actually almost said.

"I have a small plan that hopefully will get us in with Obama, and we can talk to him about this whole thing."

"What's in it for us?" Alice says.

"We won't send you to jail for theft." Jake says.

"Fair enough." She responds.

"What's your idea for getting in the White House."

"I am planning on breaking out a girl who may help us."

"What makes you so sure she will?" Blake asks.

"She's my girlfriend."

"How can we get in with her?"

"She's a freakin shadow, should be easy for her."

"What about your friend, Brandon?" Blake continues to ask questions.

"He's gonna have to sit this one out, considering he has no powers, it'll be dangerous for him."

"He's not going to like that." Jake says.

"I know, but he'll have to take one for the team."

While they talk inside, unknowingly to them, a creature stands outside, he has four skinny arms, his whole, skinny body is a pure blue, and his tail is about the length of his body. He peeks into the window, almost like an animal, he sniffs out his surroundings, and makes weird squeak noises, after he sees them scatter away from the table, the creature grows wings like a fly, and quickly sails off into the air.

Jake walks over to Jason on one side of the room, "This is risky, think we can trust them?"

Jason watches Blake and Alice converse in the other room.

"I don't know, that's what scares me though.

-A little later that day-

The man known only has the Pickster, in his dark over coat, sits in a dark room, with barely any light. The blue creature flies in through a curtain covering the window, the sunlight shone through and gave a glimpse of Pickster's face. The creature speaks. His voice is nasally, and hard to understand, but Pickster knows him.

"Sir, sir, they are planning to attack, they have from what I've seen four of them."

"Then we will take the proper measures. Get me the President."

The blue creature walks over to a small control panel in the other room, presses a few buttons. On Pickster's wrist is a small television screen. The President appears on it. He looks confident, but on the inside, he knows that his life is on the line.

"Mr. President, I have enjoyed the way these last few days went, but they are planning to revolt...there is only one thing to do, Mr. President."

He says with shame, "What is it?"

"Kill anyone with a meteor energy reading."

"Kill? I thought it was the one thing you were against."

"Drastic times call for drastic measures Mr. President."

The screen goes blank, not letting the President respond.

"Thank you Spyder."

The blue creature, Spyder, crawls back in, "My pleasure, sir."

Here is the list of characters requested by Cradleman, their name, their character, and their powers

Blake/Wildfire - Beegk - Able to create and manipulate blue fire. He is also able to consume his whole body in fire, similar to Human Torch.

Jason/Heatwave - Sportsfan23 - Able to make his surroundings super hot, hotter than any oven I might add.

Jake/Crimson Battery - Spideyfan914- Has the ability of consuming and projecting any kind of energy, including electricity. He can use this energy to run super fast, and even fly.

Alice/She-Devil - Abby309 - Able to control a being's actions, and doing anything to her will.

Joshua/Dark One - Cradleman - Able to manipulate the darkness, create darkness, and even shoot weak beams of dark power that will paralyze a person has long as he focuses on them. He is also able to gather powers from others by touch; however, it does limit his other power.

Nicholas/Pickster - NickPick - At first intelligent, the blast of the meteor made him twice as smart. He is the smartest of all the heroes and villains, and also has increased strength and speed.

Zane/Shade - Zamxus - Able to become a shadow at will and travel through matter as a shadow. He is able to create weapons of shadow and create beams as well.

Hank - Frostite - Although he has no unique name, Hank has telekinetic ability. Able to read others mind.

Dasiou/Rikou - Rikoswind29 - Able to raise small items from the dead, or give life to via transferring of life energy. He was killed by Pickster in the second episode.

Brandon - Brandonfrench - Wouldn't you like to know?

In other words, I am almost done with Chapter three, and should be out within the next few days unless complications arise.

(well, technically it is sunday so, here you go...I have one problem with this episode, it may not be a big deal, but I'm like a perfectionist when it comes to certain things...also, I had a scene planned for this episode, however, it was so long, I am going to have to put it in the next chapters...anyway, enjoy!)

Saturday, September 13, 2014, Late at Night.

After the funeral was over, I couldn't talk with anyone there. I couldn't bear the loss of such a close friend, I went straight home. I sat there, by myself, the pain was deep. It felt like there was a knife sticking right through my chest. That night, I couldn't sleep; I went outside and sat on the porch, trying to let the cool air clear my mind. That's when I saw him.

"Who?" Jason interrupts

The Watcher...I came up with that name by myself. Yes, I think I have a knack for those things. He was stalking me all day. From the funeral to me at my house, he followed me. Spooky? Yes. Intimidating? No.

With my powers, I could take on anyone, I wasn't scared. I pulled off my sweatshirt, wearing a t-shirt underneath. I called him out. The man in his black trench coat just stood there, speechless and motionless. So, I walked out there to him.

He never moved, he just stood there...thoughts ran through my head, Dasiou, the bank robbery, everything that has happened the last few days. It's just so much stress, and this man in his black clothing. He knew me, I know he did, why would he be following me, did he know I had powers? I don't know...but he never will. Because in my stress, I charged up my hand, and sent thousands of volts into his body. He flew back away. I walked out to his dead body on the ground. His face now revealed in the light of a simple street light post. His coat was open. I saw some papers sticking out of his pockets. I grabbed them, and this is what it read.

"If you're reading this, you probably killed me out of anger, with that said; I did not deserve to die. Just like your friend...I'm sure it gives you much pain, now you know how I felt when you killed my wife. I am after you, Jake; I am after you and all those power people who have made this world a horrible place.

"No..." Jason says.

"It was signed, the Pickster"

"Pickster?"

"Yep...that's not all."

"What else did you do?" Jason says kind of scared.

"I turned around for a couple of seconds, and when I looked back, he was gone..."

"So...he's still after you."

"He's pissed off for my doing back at the bank."

"I told you, Jake, it wasn't your fault!"

"Well, this psycho sure thinks so! But does he even consider that one all-black dude? No!"

"Well, you can take him on!"

"I shocked that guy to death and he's alive! This guy has powers, he's stronger then that one dude from the mental institution!"

"Tantrum"

"Yeah"

"Well, you had it easy, the meteor hit a mindless psycho! It's not like he knew what he was doing"

"Not the point!"

"I know, I know, but don't worry, you might have lost control, but you didn't kill anyone, even that girl at the bank...it's not your fault, so cheer up!"

"Right...right..."

Jason and Jake walk outside, "So uh, have you seen Rachel. It's been days and she hasn't shown up."

Jake is speechless.

"Uh, Jason"

Jake points out to Jason what he is staring at. Jason looks over and sees a big armored truck in the middle of the neighborhood. Three armed men in Camou suits barge into a house, another man sits back waiting for them to return. He carries a small radar gun, which is beeping quickly.

"What's going on?"

Suddenly, the two men hold a young man by the arms and the other guy has a gun to his back. He is struggling hard, trying to break free. They throw him into the back of the armored vehicle, and shut the door. Moments later, dents begin to form inside-out of the back of the truck. The man inside was trying to punch his way out. With no luck though, the armored truck drives off.

"They just took that man away!" Jason says.

"Why?"

"Probably because he had powers...turn on the TV!" Jason yells to Jake.

He runs back inside the house and quickly flips the TV on.

Jason runs over and hops onto the couch in a semi-cool fashion, has they switch it to CNN news.

"Oh my..." Jason starts.

"God..." Jake finishes.

On television, inside a huge storage base, they show hundreds of cages, electrified on the bars.

"As you can, we are ready for taking action. Right after President Obama declared that power people be put away, governmental scientists quickly gathered these jail cages. Specializing for keep these people imprisoned."

"Many of these people have already been captured."

Clips are shown of people being taken away.

"Some have been easy, others have not been."

Another clip is shown where a girl phases through the men until they shock her with a special gun, and take her out.

Jason's eyes widen watching this.

"The ferocity of these new creatures has the government taking action. After the tantrum incident, and the attack on the President, Obama has decided to take drastic measures in protecting the United States."

"Yeah, right"

"What?" Jake says.

"Do you know how many of those people are good? And don't deserve such pain?" Jason says. He's doing more harm than good, because all the other power people will just rebel and attack!"

"Why aren't you going into politics again?"

----Meanwhile----

Blake, Alice, and Hank sit inside an old abandoned apartment. Blake is eating some beans right out of a can, and Alice chows down on some berries that she kept in her bag. Hank stands up, just staring at them.

"You people act like were poor!"

"We are..." Alice says.

"Um, hello...we just flew to New York..."

Blake gives him a dirty look...

Days ago...

Blake and Alice arrive at the airport, and find Hank mumbling to himself while pacing back and forth.

"Hank" Alice says.

"Alice..." he mumbles...and then he lifts his head up just like the light bulb went off, "Alice!" he says more exuberantly.

"Why are you still here?" she asks.

"Well, I kind of forgot about the plane ticket thing and I tried to convince her, but apparently she has no guilt for the poor...so..."

"So you want me to tell the girl to give us plane tickets to New York."

"And you don't even have my power to read minds."

Alice smirks.

"Oh yeah...I forgot again."

"So, let me ask you this, Hank." Alice says, "How on earth do you have the powers to read others minds, but, you can't even remember your own memories."

"Makes you wonder, huh?"

"I'm just glad to be out of Georgia, that place has too many bad memories..."

"Well, now that we're here we can track down that bastard who tried to kill us!"

"Dude, I know him, he's pretty powerful, and has the mind of an insane mental patient."

"Well, anything's better than just sitting here."

Meanwhile....

Jake and Jason arrive back at Jason's place where Brandon is sitting at the dining room table. His whole face is a pale green, and is freckles have turned a dark green. Is hair is also getting a green hue.

"Hey, Jason, who's the alien?" Jake says.

"Shut up, Jake!" Brandon yells.

"It's just some side-effect to this cold I have."

"You must have it really bad."

"Yeah...I've had a fever all day, I'm barfing non-stop, and my eyes are really bloodshot."

"Just get some rest" Jake says.

"I will...but turn down the heat; it's burning up in here."

"It's just your flu!" Jason yells.

"I don't know about that Jason, I think I'm starting to sweat."

Jake walks over to the thermostat on the wall. "That's odd..."

"What?" Jason asks, almost hesitant.

"It's like 69 degrees."

"That's strange."

"You're not feeling it at all?"

"Eh, nope." He says, and then quickly changes the subject, "So about this power capture thing..."

Jake looks at him funny.

Sunday Morning, September 14, 2014

Brandon lies down in bed, his face covered with sweat, his clothes and sheets are stained with sweat, he tosses and turns before he wakes up urgently, almost as if he awakened from a bad dream.

"Damn, I hate this..."

He rubs his eyes and walks over to a mirror. He opens his eyes to find the iris is completely red.

"My God!" he screams, "What is going on with me!?"

Meanwhile...

Jason sits down on the couch watching an episode of Family Guy while eating Frosted Mini Wheat. Jake walks down the stairs at that moment.

(Editor's note - I had Frosted Mini Wheats that night, and was watching Family Guy while writing this...I figure, what the heck? lol)

"Dude, I just realized I stayed the night last night."

"Yeah you crashed at eight, figured I'd let you sleep."

"Thanks man, hey is that Family Guy?"

"Hell yeah, it is..."

Jake hops the back of the couch and sits down, "I love this episode"

"We interrupt your current broadcast to bring you an update on our current situation."

"Ah, crap...I'll be in the bathroom." Jake says.

"Over the past night, over a hundred of power people have been captured and have their own "quarantine cell" on the whole east coast."

"Man..." Jason says with a gulp.

Clips are shown of certain people that have had powers, when a face comes up that Jason notices. He puts down his cereal bowl, and rewinds via DVR. He pauses it on a girl's face. His fist begins to glow a orange. The wooden table begins to sizzle and blacken. Jake then yells out. Jason's power quells.

"Dude, it's freakin hot in this house!!"

"Sorry..."

He looks back at the TV, with Rachel's face on the screen, he mumbles, "Now it's gotten out of hand..."

Later that day, near sunset...

Blake and Alice stand outside a Kroger. Alice holds two bags full of random foods, while Blake's full body is consumed by fire. Five cop cars surround the area.

"Put your hands in the air and put the food down and we won't fire!"

"Who's to say I won't?" Wildfire says.

"Listen, just cooperate and we won't bring in the real people you should be scared of." The cop says, hoping they won't hurt them. He was sweating like hell. You could easily tell he was scared of two power persons. He knows the stories, the rumors...their powers. Yet, he still did his duty. Either that, or he was sweating from the heat off of Wildfire.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning strikes down from the sky, and two men appear. One man wore a red clothing with yellow bolts on his suit, everyone knew him, the Crimson Battery. But, there was someone new by him. He wore a dark burgundy, almost black costume. He had bright red boots and belt. And had a yellow stripe that went down the sides of his arms, legs, and down the middle of his chest. This was Heatwave.

"Hold it, all of you!" Crimson Battery says.

"And who are you two?" the cop yells, the stutter in his voice showed he was twice as scared as before.

"I'm the Crimson Battery, remember I saved you from that crazy psycho maniac tearing up the streets?"

"No..." he replies simply.

"Geez, don't cops watch the news?"

"Just trust us, we're heroes here and we're just trying to make things easier." Crimson Battery says as he walks toward the cops.

"Jake, no" Heatwave whispers.

"Fire!" one of the cops yell, and bullets fly toward Jake. Heatwave quickly slides in front of him, and focuses his power. When the bullets reach near him, they slow down, and begin to melt in mid-air.

"Whoa!" Jake says. Even Alice and Blake are both shocked by this.

The cops all stop shooting, and call in the backup.

"Crap, look what you did now!" Jason says.

"Dude, that was sick! Why the hell didn't you tell me you had powers before?"

"Well, I don't know, I guess I was kind of scared of them, or maybe I was just worried what others would think...or maybe some writer forgot to write it in earlier."

"Hey! I like some of his writings!"

"Not the point, Jake."

"Yeah, yeah."

Jake and Jason get back to reality and realize that everyone is staring at them. Even Blake and Alice haven't tried to escape yet.

"How about them Knicks?" Jake yells. Jason just looks down, almost embarrassed to be around Jake.

Alice then leans toward Blake, "I've really had enough of this...here, hold this!"

Alice hands Blake the bag who is saying, "No, don't..." the bag burns up in his hands and all the food falls to the ground. "Nice going, Alice!"

She walks up very casually to the front of the hero pack and begins to focus all her energy on the cops.

"What the heck is she doing?" Jake asks.

Within a second, every cop in front of them puts their weapons away, and gets into their cars, driving off.

"Come on, we should go before the government soldiers arrive, Blake as much food as you can. And you two...are you with us, or not?"

Jason acts in surprise, Jake whispers over to him, "Go ahead, she's cute!"

"She's also a thief." Jason says aloud.

"What are you going to do about that?" She walks up close to Heatwave, almost touching him, "After all, I can make you do anything I want...anything."

Blake's eyes widen, stunned by her actions.

"Um, well..."

"We will tag along!" Jake interrupts

"Then hurry your asses up!"

She snaps her fingers and both heroes quickly follow them.

Hey guys, happy new year! I just want to let you know that I am almost finished with the latest chapter of Side-Effect! Unless complications arise, I should have it out tomorrow.

Also, I have been drawing a little lately, who else but Spider-Man lol, I put a few twists to some of the villains, giving them unique looks or drawing style. I want to know what you guys think, I plan on drawing up some more. I love art, and i would really love an opinion on my drawings other than my family lol so if you want to see them I might put them up on like photobucket or something.

So I didn't get on here, I didn't check my blogs, I didn't write, and I didn't read for a whole week! meaning...I was in louisville playing basketball all week :D so hopefully this hasn't disinterested you from Lost Colony and Side-Effect, I will try to get back into rythym with my writing during my winter break week left, just wanted to let you know...I didnt leave TV.com or anything. lol

(Well, this was officially an update, but it ended up being the premiere lol....here is what i wrote anyway...I am officially on Winter Break...and I am going to KY! lol...for a basketball tourny and hang with some friends :D now that I have less to do in the next two weeks, I hope to catch up on some stories...I haven't started the next chapter of S-E yet...I will though, i will...your probably thinking, "Finally!!! this &()$%^ %*()&% has waited &(%&^( long enough..." yes, i know, but I will....except the week I'm in KY :P)

****THE LOST COLONY****

EPISODE 1: Precious Treasures

"Careful, careful, that's a priceless artifact you're messing with there!" Nick yells out to two men carrying a box. The box says fragile on the front. Nick Boss stands by a small plane; he has a cigar in his mouth. He had black hair, spiked in the middle. He had a shadow, perfect to with his stern face.

One of the men just rolls his eyes; they lay the box inside the bed of Nick's truck and walk over to him with a clipboard. He signs the paper on the clipboard, and walks back to his truck.

He grabs the crowbar lying in his bed, and jams it under the lid of the box, pulling it up. He takes a glance inside; a smile comes to his face.

"Finally"

Later that day, he pulls his truck up to the back of a pretty big building that is being closed for remodeling. The huge metal doors open up like a warehouse, and he walks inside carrying the wooden box.

"Thank you, Blake." He nods at the young man standing next to the switch that opens the door.

"Sure thing, boss" Blake says. He was of a younger age, about twenty years old. He had short brown hair and a clean face. He looked about seventeen actually.

Nick puts the box down safely, and takes his keys out, unlocking a door which was always kept locked. He opens the door and picks the box back up. Inside were beautiful artifacts. Gold staffs, statues, jewels, tombs, mummies, and so much more. "I can't wait until the new section is finished." Nick says has he lays the box down up on top of another wooden box that was in the room. He locks the door and leaves.

"Boss, is that it?"

He smiles back at Blake, "Oh yes, my boy, it is."

"Can I see it now?"

"No..." He says firmly. Blake pulls out his phone and starts to text Tyler, he says, "Hey, bro, Zane came in with ur treasure you found...he's takin credit 4 it again."

Minutes later, Nick sits in his office, papers in front of him. He reads them intensely...well; it looks like it at least. Walking through the door, somewhat startling him, is Zane Reaper. He wore a dirty, brown leather jacket, his black hair draped over his left eye. He wore black leather pants and sunglasses.

"Well, if it isn't the Indiana Jones of the 21st century." Nick says.

"Hey, I am in no comparison to Indy...after all, I do have the nice shades." Zane shows a cocky smile.

"Yes, yes..."

"So, you got it?"

"Yes, yes..." Nick gets up from his seat, and grabs a briefcase from under his desk, and lays it on the desk. He opens it, and inside is tons of money.

"Finally...Now don't think this is overpaying me."

"Oh, of course I do not..." he rolls his eyes.

Later that Night...

Blake stands outside the storage room with Tyler; Blake holds the keys in his hands, while Tyler checks his watch.

"Are you sure we should do this? Boss is still here...he leaves in five minutes, it can wait."

"He won't be back here, we can get an early peek, plus when he leaves, he closes this whole storage room up with his own locks.

"Doesn't that mean he will be here in like, four and a half minutes?"

"Good point..."

Blake quickly goes through his keys and unlocks the small door. He walks into the dark room, and feels around the air. Blake feels the string, grabs it, and pulls it, clicking on the one light bulb in the room.

Tyler walks in casually, closing the door behind him. Blake picks up the box and opens it...inside is a beautiful gold ring. An R is engraved on the onyx glaring in the light.

"Wow, it's beautiful." Blake says.

Tyler grabs the ring, looking at it all around. Blake looks back in the box, noticing there's another section, he takes the soft pillow that the ring was setting on, and he finds a piece of paper.

"Tyler..."

"What is it..." he says almost mesmerized by the ring.

"Look, it's a map."

"What?" Tyler looks at the map he's holding. It's complicated and hard to read as the dust covers it.

"What is this?"

"I don't know, maybe..." Tyler stops when he hears someone coming up the steps. "Oh, crap..." Blake whispers. Tyler grabs the ring and stuffs it in his pocket and Blake throws the map in the box and on the ground. They turn the light off as they hear the key going into the lock.

The door opens, a shadow of a man is seen, and the light is turned on by Zane who just looks around.

"Must've been some rats..." He says, "...dumbass boss, always worried someone stealing his precious treasures"

He turns around and closes the door, not turning off the light. Behind a tall statue comes out Blake, and out of a small coffin comes out Tyler.

"That was close." Blake says."

"Close? You didn't have to lie down on a mummy."

Blake laughs.

"What?" Tyler asks.

"You lied down on a mummy..."

Tyler doesn't get it for a second, and then slaps the back of Blake's head. "You pervert."

Blake rubs the back of his head, giving him the "what the hell?" look.

The Next day...

Tyler is in the main lobby, a few artifacts are displayed...a sign nearby says opening soon. He sits down next to Abby, the one female archeologist there. Zane had always flirted with her in a more annoying then attractive way. He never prevailed.

"Zane came back yesterday, you know?"Abby starts the conversation

"Yeah, I saw the ring."

"Lucky, Boss wouldn't let me see it."

"He didn't let us either, Blake and I snuck in, and almost got caught by Zane, now we have to find a way to sneak the ring back in."

"You have it??" She says loudly.

He shushes her, and pulls it out of his pocket, "Yes, I forgot I had it, and I found it in my pants last night, I'm hoping Boss doesn't know it's gone!"

"Yeah, he'd be pretty pissed."

"Ya think?"

Suddenly, a voice yells across the lobby, sending an echo throughout the room and a chill down the spine of Tyler.

"Yeah, Boss?"

"Listen! We've got a whole museum to remodel and your sitting around doing chitter-chatter with your girl friend over there, now get up and help Zane move the two Pyramid models to the Egyptian exhibit.

"Yeah, okay boss" He's about to walk away when Abby grabs his arms..."Careful, he seems pretty pissed."

Tyler walks into the storage room, Zane holding one pyramid exhibit. "Hey Ty, why don't you make yourself useful and go grab that other model." Tyler ignores him, staring at the box that held the ring. It looked liked it was undisturbed. He grabbed the other pyramid model, and eventually caught up with Zane. Tyler puts the model next to Zane's and walks over to him, who is talking with Nick.

Has he walks up, he pulls out a piece of paper out of his back pocket. "So, I found this on my trip, and think it will be useful in finding even more."

Tyler's eyes widen has he visualizes the map he and Blake found last night.

"Zane...this is a major breakthrough."

"It says it leads to an island somewhere on the east coast. It's unidentified right now, but it looks like it's just off the coast of Florida, maybe a little North.

"Well, Zane, you've come through for us again."

Zane looks back at Tyler and smirks at him.

"What's that you got there, Boss?" Tyler says

"Zane found a map on his trip to Virginia, he came back with the ring, and he also found a map."

"Why didn't you reveal this yesterday?" Tyler asks Zane.

"Because I just found it last night when I was unpacking..." Zane says, Tyler rolls his eyes, Well, we'll have you fly over as soon as possible.

Tyler then jumps in, "You know, I know a few guys that can help...My best friend, Jason, knows a few pilots that can get us there cheap, if not for free."

"They'd do that?"

"Yeah, they're like expert pilots also, Brandon and Jonathan are their names."

"That's would really be helpful, considering all the money we're putting into this remodeling."

"Wait? Does that mean?"

"Yes, your taking him with you!" Nick says.

Zane looks to Tyler who gives him a smirk.

The boss leaves, and Zane walks up close to Tyler, almost cornering him. "I don't know who you think you are, but you are not going with me, or I'll tell Nick, you have the ring."

"Doesn't matter, because I have proof the map was in there, and he'll know you've been digging through it."

"What proof?"

"Blake took a picture on his phone."

Zane storms out of the Egyptian room and finds Abby and John, Zane's partner, talking on the bench.

"John!"

"Yeah boss?" He says "Quit messing with my girl and get over here, we've got a job to do."

"See ya!" He says quickly, running next to Zane.

"His girl?" Tyler says.

"He'll never get it." She laughs

"So guess what."

"You got in trouble?"

"We're going to a haunted and deserted island off the east coast." he teases

"Oh, scary!"

"I know, pack your things!"

"What?"

"I need an eye witness in case Zane finds something after I do..."

"I was really hoping to, maybe, take the week off."

"Abby, listen to me..." He walks up a little closer, pulling the ring out, he shows her the R. "We could be on a major breakthrough...this ring may have belonged to a member of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. And I will not let Zane steal from me, something this big, and historical."

"Wow, are you freakin serious?"

"One hundred percent serious, you in?"

"Hell yeah, I'm in!"

****THE LOST COLONY****

(Here is the first chapter of this episode, Freedom No More, (renaming for Frostbite who loves this title) I hope I can get this to work, I have so many stories with so many characters in this episode, I'm afraid I'm going to have it rushed or leave something out...so if you have any questions at all, please ask, and I will answer if i can't ruin it or spoil it...I kind of plan, and hope it falls into place when I write...so far so good! lol, hope you enjoy!)

Saturday, September 13, 2014, two days after the funeral

It's been a pretty crazy last few days. The loss of Das has really put a barrier between me and Jake. He doesn't want to talk to anyone at all. I feel really bad for him, I guess, I am a little scared that he's going to abuse his powers. I keep thinking what if he really loses it; he could kill many with just a single bolt. Rachel hasn't spoken to me either, it's been two days and I haven't seen or talked with her...It's like she's been avoiding me since then...

Two days ago, night of the funeral, Jason sits on the couch, Rachel asleep on his shoulder, his parents asleep upstairs. Jason is pretty tired; he can't sleep, yet feels he can't stay awake. The news comes on, showing clips of the Tantrum fight

Jason sees Jake in his costume fighting Tantrum, he is amazed at the power he has. He starts thinking of what would happen if he just lost it. He softly lays Rachel's head on a pillow, and walks into the downstairs bathroom beneath nearby.

He looks in the mirror, his eyes red, tired, and droopy. It's quite noticeable he needs sleep. As he continues to stare at the mirror, memories come back of the past week...from the meteor, to Dasiou...realizing the pain that has been brought upon by a simple meteor shower...simple? It was all over the country, heck, maybe the world!

He lets out a loud sigh, and walks back to the sitting room where Rachel was, only to find her not there anymore.

"Rachel?" Jason says, loud enough for her to hear him, but not loud enough to wake the others.

"Rachel?" he continues to say.

She was nowhere to be found.

I decided to just head for bed and talk to her in the morning. I lay down in bed that morning, just think over Jake and his powers...you'd think I'd be mourning Rikou's death, but, this bothered me more...Is that bad? Or is it good that I'm looking out for a friend...Either way, the next morning was quite difficult.

Jason wakes up from his sleep, looking around his messy room, he leans his arm over to his nightstand and grabs his phone...he speed dials number three...he waits for a few seconds, only hearing the buzzing noise.

"She always answers her phone." Jason thinks to himself.

He jumps out of bed, and puts on a shirt. He walks downstairs to hear a horrible noise in the bathroom. He walks over and knocks on it...

"Brandon?"

He hears a late reaction, "Yea?"

"You alright?"

"I've been better"

He hears the noise again. Jason's face spells disgust all over it.

"Guess you ain't going to school today."

"What?"

"Yeah, my mom enrolled you in my school; she thinks it's time you got an education."

"I haven't been in since middle school"

"Don't worry about it, she hired a tutor to help you through the first few years of high school you missed."

"Wow..."

"You done in there? Can I use the bathroom now?"

"Can you use the one upstairs?"

"Sure..."

Jason runs up the stairs, Brandon peeks open the door and looks around to make sure no one is around. He quickly runs out of the door, holding a towel to cover most of his face, except his eyes. Around his eyes, he is very pale and a few green spots can be seen vaguely. He runs up the stairs to his room, and closes the door, locking it.

I had planned on going to school that day, until my mother said she was letting me stay home since it was right after my best friend died...I started getting teary-eyed at the mention of him. It finally hit me that day that he was dead. I stayed in my room most of that day, so did Brandon, I don't know what happened to him, the flu I guess...I still didn't hear from Rachel at all that day, kind of worried me. I tried calling Jake, but he didn't answer...I haven't seen him since the funeral, who knows where he's been...or what he's been doing.

Saturday, September 13, 2014, Midday.

Blake and Alice sit by each other in the plane; Hank sits in the row in front of him.

"Glad you guys decided to come along!" Hank says.

Alice ignores him, and looks to Blake, who is sleeping and whose hand is starting to turn a bluish color.

"Blake!" She yells

Blake awakes quickly, his hand bursts into fire, and Alice grabs her water bottle and quickly sprays his hand.

Blake tries to hold back the scream.

"Sorry, don't want to worry anybody."

"Yeah, no problem..."

Alice sits back in a normal position. "So tell me a bit about yourself Blake. I mean we've lived together and I don't even know your last name."

Blake laughs. "It's Begek."

"Blake Begek, huh?"

"Yup"

"My parents died when I was little, first my dad, then my mother. She made my sister promise to take care of me, and raise me. She did, well...for the most part...We had an argument, and I lost control of my powers..."

Alice's face turns to shock, "No..."

"Yes..."

"Blake, I'm so sorry..."

"It's okay...so what about you?"

"Well, I was born in Seattle, I was sent to an orphanage ever since I was little. I ran away at age seven, cared for myself...and I had to do a little trickery to do it...I met Hank, and I've never met my real parents...I've been looking for them since I escaped."

"You never knew your parents? That's so sad."

"Yeah..."

"I'm sorry"

"Looks like we've both had it rough."

"Tell me about it."

The pilot comes on the microphone, "Ladies and Gentlemen, we will be landing at the JFK airport in New York in less than an hour, please enjoy the rest of your flight as we arrive shortly.

Meanwhile...

Jason stands at Jake's doorstep and rings the doorbell.

"Jake?"

He opens the door. He is in his Crimson Battery costume, his mask is off. His hair was not combed, his eyes were red, and he looked horrible.

"Aw, Jake..."

Jake walks back, pouting his head.

"Listen, I wanted to know how you're doing, but I...do you need help?"

Jake sits down on his couch. Jason sits next to him.

"Jason..." He starts crying.

"I know, Jake, I know, we all lost a great friend..."

"No Jase, it's not that..."

"What?"

"I lost control..." He looks up at Jason with tears in his eyes.

Meanwhile...

Zane sits down in a chair, Dark One stands by him, both are staring at a huge piece of machinery, it had a seat in it for one person, and then a large satellite on the back of it. It had a ton of wires that looked like they could be attached to a person.

"This, Dark One, is brilliant..."

"Yes."

"I did you build it?"

"I was an engineer before my criminal days."

"Beautiful...and that's saying something coming from me"

Dark One lets out a chuckle...

"Can you hack into other computer networks from here?"

"Yeah...why" Dark One asks.

"Can you keep a secret?"

"Yeah"

Zane presses multiple buttons on the keyboard, which was probably twice the size of a normal keyboard. Suddenly, a shadowed face appears before them. The light shone on the top of his bald, pale head. And his eyes glowed a reddish color.

"My Goodness, Shade, who is that?"

"This is someone that I've been helping, you could say."

A deep voice comes from the computer, "Who is the man beside you?"

"A friend, he's here to help...I want you to know that I have eliminated the threats in Georgia, and am now in New York."

"Well, Shade, you may think you were successful, but they're on their way to your location now..."

"What!" Shade exclaims.

"You failed your job."

"They really are good...trust me, master, my job isn't close to done...I have more connections with the Brandon boy."

"Ah, yes...Brandon..."

"What, he's a kid!"

"No, Shade, he's someone that could a damper in our plans."

"So I'll take him out, he can't be that strong, kid doesn't lift."

"I'm not talking about that kind of strength"

Shade looks to Dark One, who is just as confused.

Meanwhile...

"And the President is arriving now; they're saying he is bringing along a special guest who will help out on the whole situation with the meteors and the power it gives. There he is, walking up to the podium at this moment!" the reporter says as the cameraman switches to the President. Walking behind President Obama is a tall skinny man in a lab coat. President Obama stands at the podium, the doctor behind him next to two security guards.

"People of America, I am here to bring you a special announcement, one that may save you, your friends, and all that stand around you this very second." He waves ahead the doctor, who walks up next to Obama. "This is Dr. Harry Walters. He came across one of the meteor rocks just a few days ago. He says he has examined it thoroughly, and knows exactly what is needed to be done." The President steps back next to his bodyguards allowing the doctor to speak.

"I can't believe Obama is letting me speak, really...this is, just wow!" his voice was somewhat nerdy, but the shock and surprise could be seen in his face as well.

"Has Mr. President has said already, I have examined this rock, and have found out that the people you're seeing, shooting electric bolts out of their hands, pounding the wall down, are actually results of a virus."

The people begin to talk amongst themselves.

"There is some strain of virus in the meteor rock that affects a human blood cell...the process Is quick as it travels along the bloodstream, giving you amazing abilities...where these come from are unknown, but we're working on a cure as we speak."

People begin to raise their hands, the doctor in surprise points to a man closest to him.

"Hi, I have a question, what will happen to those who do not agree to take this cure you're working on...I believe most of us have seen movies like the X-Men...is this going to turn into a war?"

"Actually..."

The doctor's voice starts to tremble...the President looks in shock as blood rushes from a hole in his back. The two guards by Obama fall instantly, around him, all his bodyguards sit in a pile of blood within an instant.

People were running around screaming now, the President's heart was beating hard. He looked around him to see a man in a dark blue trench coat. His black hair was full of gel, and his dark sunglasses reflected in the sun.. Behind him are four men, all holding sniper rifles. He walks toward him slowly.

"I believe I can answer the question for that man for you, Mr. President"

"What do you want?"

"No need to be scared, Mr. President..." The mysterious man checks radar-like thing on his forearm, showing the BPM.

"Yes, I can see your heart rate and all...nice to know you're a normal man."

"What are you going to do to me?"

"Listen, we're not terrorists or anything, in fact, I voted for you to be here right now...I actually need your help on something..."

"What is it?"

The man smiles an evil smile..."Like I said, I have an answer to the reporter's question"

Meanwhile, Brandon sits on his bed...his face has pale as white, along with the rest of his skin. He wakes up, and looks around his room. He walks downstairs, wearing a robe. He grabs a coffee cup and fills it with hot water, preparing to make some hot tea to soothe his throat. Jason's mother walks downstairs.

"Brandon, are you feeling any better to..." She finishes the sentence with a scream, startling Brandon who drops the cup. It shatters all over the floor.

"What?"

"Your face!" she screams

He runs to the bathroom quickly, and slams through the door, knocking it off the hinges.

"What the hell?" he looks at his face in the mirror and all that is heard is a loud scream.

My week break is over, and I've started writing episode 3! first chapter should be out later this week...not sure when. This episode has been my favorite from the start, however episode 2 turned out way better then expected, so I hope I can top it! It will contain mystery, lots of action, and for the first time, all the characters will be in one place...can you say "Oh boy!"? that's all for now...oh and I'm over Pac-Man...lol

I almost finished with the first episode of Lost Colony, until I re-read it, and hated what I wrote, so I am going to go back and re-write it...it will delay it, but it will be better, trust me, it's worth the wait. I hope to get that done soon!

Also, I read somewhere that Cradleman said he wanted a Chosen sequel...I've been thinking about it, and it might be possible...of course, not right now, but I just wanted to let him know It's on my mind!