So, It's been a while, but I should be able to get the next Side-Effect chapter out by Tuesday or so! hope you guys remember what's been going on....not sure I do! lol

now, on my new writing...I wrote the first issue of "Batman: Darkest Fears" - Which is what I'm calling it...and I've decided to put it up, and you guys can let me know if you like it. i will be putting in characters from all over the Batman universe, and also vistors from other dc comics such as Superman, Flash, etc. I will put it out with my Side-Effect episode!

okay, so Florida has been pretty fun, this is the first time i've been on like all week, so Nick, I am going to catch up soon, don't worry lol I actually have had a lot of ideas pop up though...It won't mess with Side-Effect, which I really need to work on :P I had a few ideas, and wanted to know which one you liked better

first one, the title is BLOOD NOTE - the story is about a crazy murderer who haunts this girl and threatens her by a series of notes and deaths of her friends and neighbors....(I know it doesn't sound like much, but i have some ideas for this story) - will be a one season, ten episode series and I won't be taking in sign-ups, but a story I will create.

the second one has no name yet, but i want it to be about a group of people, who are (possibly shipwrecked) and find an island with mysterys more than imaginable...including finding a lost..(NOT TELLING!) lol...and creatures never seen before, and scary suspense moments...(possible sign-up, leaning toward one-season, low on ideas, but could grow.)

if i do any of these, I will probably do it on fanfiction like NickPick does, so it won't interfere with Side-Effect at all...

other ideas that are scattered, are a spinoff thing of Marvel: Ultimate alliance game, (just my own version which I already have multiple ideas for)....a different version of Spider-Man (I have even drawn up different looks for multiple characters) and Batman as well! (haven't thought of as much, but would be interested in doing it!)

so thats, I think five different stories and ideas, please let me know which ones you like best or want me to work on! I love writing and creating so i want to write something you will enjoy!

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I've also gotten a few games for PS3, MUA2, Madden 10, and infamous.I will review these later, but if anyone has a ps3 and these games! look online for me, Im WarbirdX5, my online name....yes i know, its nerdy, but hey lol

(Hey guys, I am going to post this chapter early, however, you wont get chapter 6 for at least two more weeks or so...this will give time for those who are behind to catch up, and give me time to get ahead of my writings, or not ahve to worry about it while on vacation :D)

(Also, I will be posting a trailer for Episode 2, and a look ahead to Episode 3 (favorite :D) after Chapter 7...Just a warning, episode 2 will probably be the most uninteresting or so of the episodes, but it plays a critical part in the future, particularly Brandon's....Well, I probably won't be on here for a few days, let alone really read or comment on anything in a week, so I'll talk to you all later, and leave you with this....)

Saturday, September 6, 2:15 p.m.

"So, how's Das?" Jake asks as him and Jason sits inside a taxi, riding downtown.

"He's fine; he just sprained it real bad, he's going to be let out today. Doc said he just needs to avoid running and he'll be just fine."

"Great! So, how'd it go between you and Rachel?"

"You saw that, you peeper!"

"I saw nothing but a big light coming down from the sky."

"Whoa! You saw it?" the taxi driver interrupts.

"What?" Shawn says

"The meteor" he says, "You witnessed it?"

"It barely missed my house."

"Have you heard anymore from it?"

"No. Why?"

"I heard that there have been reports of meteors all over the U.S."

"Looks like the shower was more like a disaster."

"They're saying that what the scientists told them was they didn't expect the meteors to pummel to Earth, but just pass by, and even if they did enter the atmosphere, they'd burn up."

"Wow."

"Everyone, including me, is amazed...I can't believe you were that close."

"Dude, we were in the crater!"

"Hey, you know what?" Jake says has he sticks his hand into his jacket pocket. He pulls out a rock.

"Here...this is from the meteor."

He hands the rock to the cab driver.

"Eh, nothing special, some reports are said to have glowing."

"This one was glowing when he gave it to me!"

"Yeah, that's right, it was, kind of cool, if you ask me."

He hands the rock back. "I think we're lucky New York only got a few hits. There was one in Central Park, one hit the Hudson River, and then one hit in a small neighborhood.

"That would be the one we saw." Jake said has he takes back the rock.

Meanwhile...

In the middle of Central Park, Nicholas lies on the cement walkway, knocked out. There were quarters on his back from where people threw them on him, thinking he's a homeless person. He starts to come to conscience, but is majorly freaked out.

Dark...dark...CAN'T SEE!!

He shivers just from the thoughts of it. He walks back to the crater, slowly. And inside is just a bunch of rocks and dirt, nothing special.

"Odd...maybe I'll just go back home, grab a cup of coffee, and...Oh no, my home!"

He quickly runs back to his house which was just near Central Park, to find the roof caved in, from the shockwave of the impact.

"Sh1t."

His cell phone goes off; the ring tone is quite dark and gloomy. He tries to look at the caller ID, but his screen is all cracked. Nick was about to lose it as he answers his phone, holding back the anger.

"Hello?"

"Nicholas!"

"Who is this?"

"We need you to come into the bank, one of our employees fell sick, and now we have no one to cover your position."

"What?"

"Please, Nick, we have no one!"

"My house is destroyed because of a meteor shower, and you want me to come in for work?"

"It'll only be 'till three, until Andrew comes back...please Nick."

"Fine, I'll be there."

He hangs up; he looks at his clothes, which is just jeans, a blue t-shirt, and a lab coat. They're all dusty and dirty from sleeping last night. He then walks over to look inside the bedroom, to find all his clothes buried under concrete, brick and rock.

"Yeah, my life officially sucks now."

Meanwhile...

Inside a dark alley way, lying against a trashcan is Joshua; his clothes are wet from the puddles he's been sitting in; His face was tilted down, almost has if he was sleeping. He takes his hands, and pulls himself up. His hands were a pure black. His head tilts up, his hair falls back behind his head. And his face is a pure black, with his glowing red eyes.

Joshua had a hard time getting up, he used the wall to brace himself, as he walked out onto the street, the sunlight hit him hard, and he covered his face with his arm, soon he got used to it. He walked out onto the sidewalk, hoping to get back into his old apartment. As he walked up to a lady walking his way, she gave him a weird look, and when he showed her his red eyes, she screamed. He is just as shocked as she was. She ran away.

He looked into the reflection of a store window, and was shocked at what he saw. His face was a pure black...he put a hood over his head to avoid being seen, but when he looked over at the lady, who was talking to two cops, he decided to walk the other way.

30 minutes later...

After taking the long way back to his house, Joshua finally made it there...he opens his door to find a chalk mark on the wall, from where the girl died, and a bunch of yellow tape scattered across. "Must be in lunch break." He says

Joshua quickly runs into his bedroom and looks to the mirror. His face is completely black, his eyes are white now, but his pupils are red.

"What the hell is happening to me?"

He starts to remember last night, but he can't remember anything after touching the rock.

"That's it" he looks at his hand and there are markings on his hand from where it had burned in. the markings glowed a bright white on his black hand. He lies down on the bed, and just takes a deep breath.

"Cursed rock, make my skin black...As if I wasn't already black enough."

His eyes close, his heart rate begins to slow down, and his skin begins to fade into his normal skin color...the markings on his hand turn a black. He lays there for only a few minutes before hearing voices. He quickly perks his head up. His heart rate begins to heighten again. His eyes glow red as two cops walk in, one of them carrying a cup of coffee.

Joshua tries to stay as quiet as possible. He gets off of the bed, and kneels down behind the bedroom door, hoping he can get to the bedroom window without being seen. When the cops turn their backs, he makes his move, but his left foot hit the door and it squeaks loud. Both cops turn around; Joshua just stands still, his heart races. His eyes glow a bright red now.

"What is happening to him?" The cop yells.

His skin turns to a dark black, the white glow steams down his hands followed by a black stream that fills it in, making the lines unnoticeable.

Both cops draw their weapons, only to look back up and see nothing but darkness. Both of them point all around, as they hear voices in the background. Two red eyes appear behind them. One of the cops head suddenly turns sideways, a crack his heard as he falls to the ground.

The other cop shoots into darkness. He sees two red eyes in front of him, and then his skin shrivels up, his face turns a grey, he struggles for breath, and falls to the ground, his arm still hanging in the air.

The darkness fades away, and it is revealed a black body, Joshua, holding the arm of the now dead cop. He lets the arm drop, and climbs out the window and onto the roof via fire escape stairs.

His skin begins to turn his normal Mexican color.

"Now this, I could get used to!"

About an hour later...

Dasiou arrives at his house, limping on his foot. His parents ask if he wants anything to eat or drink, he just says no, and walks up to his room, and sits at his desk. There is a computer in front of him, a couple of books to his left, and some dead plants inside a glass from his science project. His mouse starts to mess up.

"I hate this thing!"

He smacks it down on the desk, hoping to get it working and some kind of force travels through his hand, and across the desk. Dasiou falls back. His papers and books went flying, the computer turned off, and the plants were alive, but were slowly fading down.

He gets up, and rubs his head, also watching not to put too much pressure on his leg. He watches the plant fall down slowly, and then looks at his hands.

He sticks his hand toward the flower, his hand lights up with energy as the flower lifts his head up, in life.

He looks around his house, and then outside his window where he sees a stick sticking up from the ground where his dog was buried.

If this...Nah! It couldn't...could it?

He quickly runs out of his room, forgetting about the leg as he trips to the ground, and stumbles down the stairs

Okay! So a lot! has been going through my head lately, especially for the BRPG, and maybe future BRPG's, I've even thought of ideas for a complete makeover of the Spider-Man franchise, new looks for characters and all, of course that was just for fun, but I thought I'd share it

next, (I think I told you this) but, I am leaving for FL and will be gone for about a week and a half...I will have my laptop with me, but I will only be on probably to put up next week's episode or keep up on MM and Trinity, and Spiderman: WDC and all that.

finally, I took the spectacular spiderman style, and turned them into classic comic book characters check them out at...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHyaJ5mTFqM

There are more to come...also of the "mighty muggs" as well, I am working on a batman, and X-Men versions of those...slowly, but surely.

(Hope you guys are enjoying this story so far, It really bums me out that Zam "leaves" before he gets to the good stuff....oh well, his loss...anyway, I'm splitting this one up because without it one chapter would be over 3500 words...lol let me know what you think!)

Saturday, September 6, 2014, 8:52 a.m.

"I can't believe this..." Kristen says as she sits down next to Blake.

"I know...It's one of those things that you just can't grasp."

"Just like when..." Kristen stops as Blake looks up to her, "When Mom and Dad died...

Authorities have pretty much blocked off the area, fire fighters have put out the fire, all the people that were in need of medical attention were taking off to the hospital, and the only people allowed in the area, were those that lived there, or were helping out friends and family members.

Blake stares at all the destruction around him. He closes his eyes for a small moment as thoughts go through his head.

"Kristen, it's your turn, you must take care of Blake..."

Kristen stands inside a hospital room, an older woman inside a hospital bed, heart rate fading, little Blake standing outside the room, looking in from the window. All of them were crying.

"For as long as you live, just remember, I will always be with you...and Blake...Blake...BLAKE"

Blake comes out of his thinking state to find Kristen screaming beside him, and yelling. Blake looks down to his hands, and they're both on fire. No ordinary fire, the fire was a deep dark blue. It faded into a lighter blue as it burned on though.

Blake tries to compress the fire, slapping himself, but it just builds the fire up. People from around start to hear the screaming and look out to see what the problem is. Finally, someone comes out with a bucket of water, and throws it on Blake, who was rolling on the ground.

He gets up, and looks at his hands...the creases in his hands were a glowing blue, that faded away.

"What the heck?" he says, before something comes to his head.

Kristen tries to help Blake up, but he quickly runs into the backyard.

"Blake!" She yells.

Blake looks around the yard, and soon the rock catches his eye, he kneels down beside it, and stares at it, noticing the markings of a blue on it.

He picks it up, and stares at it before taking it back inside.

Meanwhile...

Brandon sits inside a ventilation duct...he is breathing hard, trying to be quiet. He looks around him, without moving his head when a black knife pierces through the vent to the left of him, he quickly kicks the vent open, and runs out into an office building, holding his arm, dodging businessmen and secretaries roaming the halls.

"Excuse me, pardon me!" he says has he passes each one. He looks back to see if anyone is following him, he looks back in front as he pushes the door open with force, he runs out onto the street in the middle of a city. He looks around him quickly, still breathing hard. He calls for a taxi, and it drives off.

Last Night...

Zane sits down inside a huge crater. In front of him is a big gray machine. He walks up to it, and presses his hands up to it. A beam comes from the top of the machine, which looks like a big round ball, and into his brain. Zane falls to his knees. He whispers something.

Brandon is hiding behind a bush, watching the whole thing in shock. Not understanding what's going on, he walks down to get a closer look. He hides behind a big pile of dirt created by the impact. He looks over, and Zane is not seen.

"What the heck?"

"What do you think you're doing?" Zane says from behind him.

Brandon quickly turns around as his heart jumps, but he sees nothing.

"Zane?"

"What's wrong? Can't find me?"

Brandon looks to face the pile of dirt. The light from the patio light illuminates the dirt, and he sees a black shadow...but there is nothing to create that shadow.

Brandon backs up slowly, until he backs into a fence. He can see the shadow coming closer to him on the ground. Brandon runs over the shadow, and a hand comes from the ground, and grabs his ankle. Brandon falls to the ground, and lands on his arm awkwardly.

Zane phases up from the ground, he is wearing a full black costume along with a black belt, black boots, and black gloves.
"Zane, what has happened to you?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

Zane grabs him by the shirt collar, "If I ever see you snooping around me again, you'll be buried alive, and I won't even use a shovel."

He throws Brandon against the pile of rocks and dirt. Brandon leans against it, holding his arm. Zane turns around ready to go back into his house, when a rock hits the back of his head.

He turns around.

"That wasn't nice..."

"I ain't scared of you."

A black and dark purple swirl comes from his hands, and two swords form.

"Okay, now I am a little scared." Brandon says has he quickly runs out onto the street.

"You can run..." he fades into the ground.

Present

Alice and Hank continue to drive on into Atlanta with a new car they rented. They were approaching a toll booth up ahead.

"Glad we got the insurance." Alice says.

"No joke."

The radio turns from Aerosmith to a news report...

"A strange thing as come over a cop, last night, after the meteor disaster, as two nearby cops heard him scream; they examined him, and found a bullet hole in his behind."

Alice and Hank both catch attention to this.

"You know when I told him to shoot himself in the ass, I didn't..." Alice says

"Expect him to listen to us..."

"Yeah...Wait a minute...You read the cops mind...right?"

"I don't know, I think I was, from what I heard, he was a friggin jerk."

"Well, what if I...got powers as well?"

"Like what? Controlling people?"

"Maybe"

"That's ridiculous."

"And reading minds isn't?"

"True..."

They drive up to the toll booth.

"Five dollars"
"You know, toll booths are so stupid, you should just let us in for free!"

Alice stares right at the man. The Man stares back, almost like he was hypnotized

"Five dollars"

Alice sits back in her chair. "Dang it"

Hank hands him the money, and then drives back onto the highway.

"Worked like a charm!" he said sarcastically.

Later that night...

A knock is heard on the hotel room door.

Kristen answers the door. "Hey Brandon"

"Nice place you got here."

"Hey, it was either this, or sleep outside."

"Why can't you just sleep in the house?"

"Like I said, it was either here, or sleep outside."

Brandon chuckles lightly, and walks in as Kristen invites him in. Blake is lying on the bed by the window.

"Hey!"

"Hey" Blake says weakly.

"Somethin' wrong"

"Actually...can I tell you something?"

"What?"

He looks over to see Kristen in the bathroom with the door closed.

"I think those rocks that came from space give us special powers."

Brandon suddenly becomes shocked, as the memory of Zane comes to his head.

"What makes you think that? Did you have a run-in with Zane?"

"Zane? No."

"Then, what is it?"

"Well, I was sitting on my front porch, when I just burst into flames...or at least I think I did."

"There are no burn marks on you."

"That's what's odd."

"Can you do it now?"

"No, I don't know how to, and I've tried."

"Well, then it's probably nothing, listen, I got something that will make you feel better."

"What?"

"He pulls out two tickets from his back pocket"

"Are those sports tickets?"

"Football, Falcons play tomorrow. I got the tickets from my cousin. His dad is a sports writer, and he gets extra tickets to certain games, so, he sent them to me!"

"Brandon, you know I don't like sports."

"Come on, it'll be fun, and I have no one to go with. Please?"

"But Brandon..."

"It'll help you get your mind off things, plus, I'll buy you a foam finger!"

Blake sighs before mumbling, "Fine."

"Yes! Thanks Blake! I'll pick you up here are ten, game starts at one."

"Kay."

Brandon leaves the room, yelling "Bye Kristen"

He hears a faint goodbye, as he closes the door, and on the door, you can see a shadow of a man...however, no one is in sight.

(CHAPTER 5 is also a maybe next week, I'm going to be going to FLorida for a week and a half, but I will have my laptop with me...but whether I remember to write or post it on here is a maybe...expect it though)

SIDE-EFFECT

Friday, September 5, 2014, 11:45 p.m. ET

Blake is watching outside in some lawn chairs. Brandon is staying over as well. The night was clear, not a cloud in the sky; if anything was to fly by earth, they would see it.

"Come on Blake, just face it, it's going to happen! It's all over the news; all the scientists confirm it will be the biggest meteor shower ever to pass by earth."

"I still don't believe it, and I'm going to prove it to you!"

"Well, they guess that it should be visible by 12:30 Eastern time, so, I'm going to go get us some snacks.

"All right, get me a frozen fudge bar."

"I swear your gonna make yourself fat on those things."

Blake gives him a funny look.

"Fine, fine! I'll get them"

Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Atlanta...

Hank and Alice get into a small car, it was a 04 Pontiac Grand Am. It was a rental car.

"Alice, I can't believe you got me these tickets, this is the best present ever!"

"I knew you'd like it"

"I mean, I've never been to a football game, always wanted to go!"

Alice smiles, knowing she got him a great gift.

They drive off in the direction of Georgia.

Meanwhile, In New York...

Jason is sitting outside, on the patio, a girl sits beside him. She had brown hair, a little shorter than him, and wore a cut-off jean shorts, and a green T-shirt.

"I'm really glad you feeling better Jason." She says.

"Me too, it's a miracle, I woke up from my nap this afternoon, and I've never felt stronger...I think the virus is completely gone too!"

She smiles, "Well, at least we get to spend the weekend together."

"I am excited, Rachel."

Across the street, behind the bushes, a rustling is heard...Jake and Dasiou are shown, both with binoculars.

"Man, this is lame, Jake, you said tonight might be the night he finally makes his move!"

"That's what he told me."

"I don't get it, how does he get healed so quickly?"

"Well, it has been three days, and he seemed fine when we went over!"

"I guess..."

Dasiou looks back into the binoculars..."Hey! Look!"

Jake looks though quickly; he sees Jason gone and Rachel sitting there on the porch.

"What?"

"There's a squirrel crawling up their house."

Jake drops the binoculars and leans against the house they were by.

"Let me know when something more interesting comes along."

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Joshua sits on a bench in the park, he has a hoodie that covers up is head, he looks around to see no one in sight, and decides to lay down, and try to get some rest.

In a house, Nick is outside in his small backyard, in the middle of New York on his huge telescope, watching for meteor sightings. He has his lab coat on and also holds a notepad, writing down notes of anything specific he sees.

"Perfect! I can't wait to see the beauty of the falling stars!"

He pulls out a cell phone to call his fiancé, she answers in a small quiet voice, almost has if she had just woken up.

"Hello?"

"Dear, it's me! You have to watch the meteor shower outside, I'm serious, and it's going to pass by earth in any moment.

"Okay" she yawns in the middle of her sentence, "I'll check it out."

The meteors up in space fly toward Earth's direction in packs...there are hundreds of small and big rocks just hurdling toward our planet. However, while most of the space rocks fly by...a few of the rocks do something no one expected.

Brandon sits in the lawn chair, drinking a soda, while Blake chows down on a chocolate fudge bar.

"Hey fudge boy, let me ask you a question." Brandon asks.

"Shoot."

"If you could have one power in the whole world, like super heroic, what would it be?"

Blake thinks about it for a moment...

"The power to create as much chocolate fudge that I wanted..."

Brandon just chuckles...

"What about you?"

"Umm...well you see I'd like to..."

Suddenly Blake and Brandon both stop talking, and as they look up to the sky, they see the wonderful sight of a meteor shower, passing by earth...they were so bright, so big...and then they noticed one was hurdling right toward them.

"Blake!"

Blake dives down below, Brandon trips over his chair, and falls to the ground, the chair falls on top of him.

Blake watches the meteor from the ground as the huge rock, bounces off the side of the top of the house. Rocks fly off in different directions, near Blake and Brandon. The rock skips across a few houses, before bouncing onto the neighborhood road, and soon coming to a stop. Fire, dirt, and rock is seen all around. People start running out onto the streets, looking around to see the damage.

Brandon kicks the chair off of him, and walks over to help Blake up. Blake looks down to one of the meteor rocks, and a blue glow sweeps across it like a shine on chrome. He picks it up, and is hand starts sizzling from pain.

"Ouch!"

"Don't be stupid, it's a flaming rock, what did you expect!"

"I can't believe this!"

"I know, for the first time...I wish I wasn't right"

Meanwhile...

"Anything happening yet?" Jake asks.

"No, they're just talking!" Dasiou replies.

"Uhh, Jason is such a chicken..."

"Jake...Ja...Jake!"

Jake quickly takes his binoculars and looks through the bush.

"What? Is he finally doing something?"

"Yeah! But that's not what I am pointing out."

Jake and Dasiou see meteors hurdling toward the ground.

They both scream aloud, and stand up.

Jason meanwhile was leaning in for the kiss, when he hears them scream; he sees Jake and Dasiou across the street, and then a glow of orange on the houses.

"What the heck?"

Him and Rachel both walk out onto the neighborhood road, and stare into the flaming rock, and it passes over them and into the ground a few yards away.

Meanwhile...

Hank drives on the highway to Georgia. Alice is watching out the window, about to fall asleep, when she sees the meteors shooting by earth.

"Look Hank! Shooting stars"

Both look to the right, as one comes from the left of the truck, Hank sees the glow of fire on him, and looks to his left, and sees the meteor. They both scream, as he swerves into another car, both go spinning, and the meteor, slams into the highway, sending a few cars, including Hank and Alice's, off the road, as rocks and fire create a huge mess. Both are unconscious after the chaos stops.

Later on, Blake and Brandon sit on the grass, in their front yard.

"Man, I'm sorry about your house."

"It's cool...Not really, but, stuff happens."

Blake stands up, and kicks a meteor rock that was on the ground, it shatters, as a blue spark follows the rocks.

"That was weird, Blake, did you see that?"

"Yeah...the other one I picked up did that as well. Crazy rocks."

A voice comes from behind them, somewhat dark and frightening. "Well, Blake looks like your house is a little, um, broken?" He laughs.

"Bummer, did nothing happen to your house?"

"Barely, I now have a nice souvenir in my backyard."

"Shame it missed you."

Zane laughs, "Blake, I love the lame fights your bodyguard tries to get into."

"He isn't my bodyguard!" Blake turns around and yells, "He then walks hard into his house, and slams the front door, after seconds, the door falls to the ground.

A loud grunt is heard. Zane laughs his head off.

"Well, this has been fun, but I have stuff to do!"

"You suck, Zane...You suck so bad!"

Zane flips him off as he walks back behind Blake's and back to his.

Brandon then silently follows him.

Meanwhile...

A TV report comes on, barely a signal; it's lying on some debris. "This is James Bennett, reporting that the meteor shower we expected to see, came closer then we imagined, and has caused some major damage in New York, whether this is happening in other places, is unknown." The TV finally goes out. Some of the debris begins to move nearby, and Nick comes out from beneath...He looks around, and sees and big crater were it landed near the park. He holds his arm as he runs to the crater.

Already at the crater though, is Joshua, who is inside, looking at all the rocks. All of them have a nice white glow to them.

"Wow..."

He slowly leans in, his hand gets closer and closer to touching it, he grabs it, and it burns into his hand...he screams in pain, but he can't let go...His whole body fades to black, as does the area around him, a force of blackness just consumes half the park.

Nicholas sees this, and is very curious, his continues to run until he comes up very close to the darkness...he lets his arm go, an sticks his hand up to it. After some thinking, he slowly walks in, pulling out his cell phone for light.

Once he is inside, he looks back, and sees nothing but dark...he can't find where he came in, the light reveals nothing...all he can see his black.

"What the hell?"

Meanwhile...

Jason, Rachel, Jake, and Dasiou all gather together...

"What are you guys doing here?" he asks.

"We wanted to get a good look, at the meteor shower!"

Jason gives them both a dirty look.

"What?"

"Come on; let's just check out the meteor."

The four of them jump over the neighbor's fence, and see the fire all around the crater. Jake stays back behind the group, not wanting to get close. Dasiou, Jason, and Rachel want to check it out though. Jason jumps down into the crater, Jason then helps Rachel down, ignoring Dasiou, and they both check it out. They see glowing rocks, green, blue, and purple, when they hear a grunt from behind...

"What?" Jason asks.

"Nothing..." Dasiou says as he jumps down, and lands on a rock weird and falls; he lands on some of the rocks.

Jason and Rachel both run back to help him up, but he wouldn't, they kneel down and try to help him. There is some dust that was on him, it started glowing a purple. He holds his leg, so it doesn't move.

"Jake!" Jason yells. "We need your help!"

Jake runs over to the edge, where he sees the three of them inside the crater.

"Das hurt his ankle." He looks down to Dasiou, "Can you move it."

"No, it hurts man; I think it might be broken..."

"Oh boy, Jake, call 911!"

He doesn't get an answer, for seconds, Jason yells again, and Jake finally comes back..."Um, they're already here..."

Jason and Rachel are outside with Jake; both of them had meteor dust and dirt all over them.

"How is he?" Jake asks.

"They said he may have fractured his ankle...He should be fine though." Jason continues, "I'm going to go with him in the ambulance, you guys coming?"

Jake says he will, while Rachel denies it saying she's ready to go home.

"You know, it was quite cool down there, those rocks were amazing...I brought you back a souvenir."

He pulls a glowing green rock out of his pocket, a green energy wave swept through his hand quickly, he handed the rock to Jake.

"Oh cool! A rock! You don't see these every day!"

Jason rolls his eyes as he gets into the ambulance with Jake.

Meanwhile...

Alice and Hank crawl out beneath their wrecked vehicle, meteor dust scattered all over them, there was so much their bodies were practically glowing against the shimmer of the moon.

Hank helps pulls Alice out of the window, and he hugs her, asking if she was alright, as they hug, a wave of white light flows through the outside of their bodies. Alice is forced backwards against the car; Hank falls down to the ground.

"Hank, what did you do?"

"I...I didn't do anything." He says has he wipes the dust off of him.

"Oh my goodness" Alice says staring out onto the highway.

Hank looks that direction, and there are cars flipped over, crashed into other cars, people lying on the ground, either moaning or dead. Police cars and ambulances soon arrive in the area. One of them stops by Hank and Alice.

"Are you two okay?" the officer says has he gets out of his car.

"Yeah, were fine, just a little shocked."

"You guys aren't the only ones." The officer continues, "Listen, why don't you come and we'll get you some help."

After all, a couple of weak losers like you might need it.

"Excuse me!?" Hank yells.

"What?" the officer says.

"Hank, what are you doing?"

"What kind of cop are you? You out here to help people, and you sit here and insult us?"

"How did you..."

What kind of creeps are these two?

Hank punches the cop in the face, Alice pulls him back. "Hank, remember your problem." She says has Hank is breathing deeply.

"Listen you bastard, I can arrest you for assaulting an officer."

The officer points his gun toward them both, has Alice is holding onto Hank, pulling him in the opposite direction.

"Hey, obviously the cops picked the wrong guy for the job, so instead of shooting us, why don't you shoot it up your ass!" she yells.

Hank and Alice walk away, following the destruction.

Soon after, the cop looks at his gun, and back at Alice...after seconds, a shot is heard, following it, is a loud scream

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(Next Chapter (4) The Aftermath)

Hey everyone, thanks for all the comments the premiere episodes....this "ask the editor" seemed to be pretty active last time, thought I'd put it up again. any quesions, comments, or maybe some requests or advice, feel free to say!

The next chapter will be on Friday, it is my favorite so far and will include all the characters.

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Friday, September 5, 2014, 1:00 ET

Inside a Manhattan sports bar, somewhere near Midtown, sits a man, he has a mixed color skin, and is of Spanish decent. He also knew Spanish very well, which helped him in his jobs. His job is a professional criminal.

The man's name is Joshua Sanchez, or as the gang members calls him, chez. He is wearing a leather Jacket that is somewhat dirty, like he has been in a fight. His nose is also misshaped due to a fight he had when he was 16. He started out when he was 15 years old, and he stole a diamond necklace from an armored truck. Ever since then, he's been wanted by the police for murders, rapes, thefts, and more.

"Give me another tall one!" Joshua says. His Spanish accent was well noticeable, and when he spoke Spanish, it was like a perfect blend.

The bartender pours him another beer, and Joshua drinks it down.

"Good stuff." He says as he lays a twenty dollar bill on the bar.

"Keep the Change."

He walks off, and is about to leave the bar, when a hand comes over his shoulder, and then down to his arms.

"You got some nice biceps." A soft voice is heard.

Joshua turns around and sees a beautiful girl, a little shorter than him, she was a darker skin, had rich, black hair.

"Name's Trisha, what's yours?"

"I'm Joshua."

"What a sexy name."

Joshua cracks a smile.

"So, what are you doing tonight?"

Joshua chuckles to himself.

"Whatever you are..."

She gives him a flirty smile

Meanwhile...on the other side of Midtown.

Jason looks at his clock. It says 1:14.

He moans as he lies in bed. There are tissues scattered across the floor, along with clothes and magazines.

He leans up in his bed, wearing no shirt; his hair is all messed up from sleeping on it for four days. But that's okay, he likes it messy. He coughs before getting out of his bed, wearing sleep pants. He walks over and grabs the remote on the TV. He crawls back into bed, coughing on the way.

"Thanks for that report, Jim, and now we have some exciting news for you, today!" Tom, the male reporter, said.

"That's right; you might get a great meteor showing tonight!" Hannah said.

"Scientists and Astronomers have been studying this wave of rocks, or meteors, that have mysteriously been floating through space..."

"And word is they will be passing by earth late tonight."

"...in other news, wanted for another murder is Josh..." He turns the TV off.

He then falls back onto his pillow, as his Mom opens the door. Her name was Betty Banks.

"Hey, Sweetie. Are you doing better?"

"I wish." You could hear the stuffiness in his voice.

"Aw, well, Jake called; he said he and Dasiou are going to visit.

"I'm sick!"

"They said they just wanted to see you, I mean, it has been three days since you've been in school."

"I'm not complaining."

She smiles, "I'll bring you some juice."

Across town...

"Okay and here is your cash, thank you for your withdrawal." A man says. He is at a counter, inside a bank.

The man is wearing a white shirt; he has short, black hair, somewhat of a "clean-cut" man. His Name is Nick Lemark. He has been working at the Midtown bank for 3 years now, hoping to soon be a higher accountant. This is only temporary, as his true love, besides his fiancé, is science. He has especially been studying the meteors said to pass by earth.

It was about 3 now; his shift would be ending soon. His soon-to-be wife always comes and picks him up at three. As she walked through those doors, Nick saw a beautiful blonde with long flowing hair; it was her...Grace Tannin.

"Hey Babe, are you ready to go? Movie starts in a half an hour and I made us reservations at that new Italian place across the street."

"Sounds great!" he says as he kisses her on the cheek, "Just let me file away these papers, and I'll be ready to go!"

Meanwhile...3:16 ET

Jason is lying on the couch, watching The Midnight Moon, when a knock is heard on the door. Betty walks over and opens the door, and standing there is two young men.

One has fiery red hair that was spiked up in the front, he was of Japanese descent. There was a picture of a fox on his T-Shirt as well, his name was Dasiou Rikou. The other guy had dirty blonde hair, had blue eyes, and glasses. Both were carrying a backpack, this was Jake Harvey.

"Hey guys, come on in."

Jake and Dasiou both walk in, "Thanks, Mrs. Banks." They both said.

They walk over to the living room, where Jason was.

"Hey bud, how you feeling?" Jake asks.

"Like hell." Jason answers, "I'm better than I was though.

"Hey, I brought your homework for today" Jason continues, as he puts his backpack down and starts pulling books out. "Read pages 34-39 in English" he throws the book on the couch, "...and workbook pages 7-9"

"Gee, thanks" Jason says, as he throws the books onto the coffee table, "So how's Rachel doing?"

"She really misses you." Dasiou said

"Three days feels like an eternity to her, at least that what she said." Jake added.

"I know, I miss her too...I haven't been able to text her either...my phone's broken."

"Aw man, I'm sorry." Dasiou said.

"Well hey, Sorry I have to leave so early, but, I'm getting paid today at Chick-fil-a" Jake said.

"Yeah, my dog...got hit by a car" he pauses for a moment, "...so we're going to bury him." Dasiou added.

"Aw Das, I'm sorry."

"Thanks."

Jake and Dasiou both walk out the door, and say their goodbyes.

Betty walks over to Jason, and sits on the arm rest.

"You have two great friends Jason."

"Yeah, I remember when I first met them, Jake was a complete nerd who no one would hang out with, we were paired up in science (c)lass and ever since then, and we've been best buds. And Dasiou was the new kid a few years ago, and the bullies were, you know, being bullies."

"Was that why you came home that day with a black eye?" she asks.

"You remember too?"

"Yes, that was the day you finally told me that you were dating Rachel."

"You already knew! I figured there was no reason in telling you."

She smiles and goes back into the kitchen, and then comes back.

"I forgot to tell you, your father got two tickets to the Falcons game this weekend."

"I don't feel like going, favorite team or not, we have TV."

"I know! you want me to mail them to your cousin?"

"Go ahead!"

Meanwhile...

Joshua and Trisha walk out of the bedroom; Joshua buttoning up his shirt. His phone goes off, and he starts texting.

"What's with that thing, it kept going off back in there." She asks.

"Oh, it's nothing...just work."

"Where do you work, exactly?"

"I do a lot of traveling."

"Oh, do you have a lot of souvenirs?"

"Most of the stuff in that bedroom was souvenirs."

"Really, From where?"

Joshua rolls his eyes as his phone goes off again. The name on the screen comes up as Jessica. He continues to text her.

"Nice phone."

"Yes it is." He says.

"Your job seems to do you well."

He turns around, "Look if there..." he sees a gun pointed to his head, and Trisha holding a badge in the other hand.

"Aw baby, I thought we had something special going."

"Special? You mean what we did in there? That was nothing!"

"Yeah, you were pretty boring."

"You showed me your birthmark on your chest..."

"I like to go slow"

"Shut up, hands behind your back."

He turns around and puts his hands behind his back, ready to be cuffed. She radios her cop friend outside, and tells him that he is being cuffed, just then, Joshua turns around and slaps the gun away; he then kicks her to the corner of the wall, she drops the cuffs.

"Now what do you say we have some real fun."

She screams loud...before it is cut off quickly.

Joshua grabs a hat, and a coat, and walks over to a window at the end of the apartment hallway...he jumps out the fire escape, and lands inside an alleyway, leaving the opposite side of the cop car.

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(Next - Chapter 3: The Shower)

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Characters

Blake Begek - Beegk

Alice Frock - Abby309

Brandon French - Brandonfrench

Zane Reaper - Zamxus

Hank De Core - Frostbite200

Jake Harvey - Spideyfan914

Jason Banks - Sportsfan23

Dasiou Rikou - Rikoswind29

Nicholas Lemark - NickPick

Joshua Sanchez - Cradleman

Thursday, September 18, 2014

On top of a building, in the middle of New York, a black beam is shot out from Shade's hands, Heatwave rolls and dodges it, shooting out a white beam. Shade then morphs into a shadow and goes into the ground...Heatwave looks back, seeing that there are safe.

"Get her out of here!"

He nods, as his friend tries to help her out of the cages. Heatwave looks over and a man is sitting in a machine-like chair, knocked out, there are wires hooked to him. Heatwave runs over to him, but Shade comes up with a shadow sword and trips him. Heatwave falls to the ground.

"You ain't going to stop it, Heatwave, I will prevail."

Another man over by the chair working on the knocked out man on the chair looks over to him in confusion.

Heatwave forms a ball of light, fire surrounds it.

"I'm like a miniature sun, Shade, you're pure darkness, who do you think will prevail?"

"The one with more power no doubt."

"You think you have enough power to defeat my team?"

"Your team? Your team is gone, Jason, you're the only one standing in my way!"

Heatwave launches the ball of heat at Shade, He ducks down, and sweeps Heatwave's legs, but he jumps, and when Shade comes back up, He blinds his eyes with light, Shade screams of pain, and falls to his knees, Heatwave runs over to the man in the chair, until...

"LOOK OUT!!!" She screams

All four of the men look up to the skies...a big light is seen, bright as the sun, as big as it too, and then...

Two weeks earlier, Friday, September 5, 2014, 7:15 a.m. ET

"BLAKE!!!"

A loud scream is heard.

"BLAKE!!!"

It is heard again.

In his bed with his eyes barely open is 16 year old Blake Begek. He had brown hair, light brown eyes, and tan skin. They lived in a small neighborhood, just outside Atlanta.

"BLAKE!!!!"

The scream is heard again.

"What?" Blake mumbles

"YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE!!!"

Blake looks at the clock on his nightstand, it reads 7:15. His eyes widen.

"Oh, crap!"

He tries to untangle the covers wrapped all around him, in an attempt; he falls off his bed, and lands on his face

"Ooowwww" He whines.

His door opens, his eyes turn back, not being able to move his face, and standing there is Kristen, his 18 year old sister, she looked just like him, only longer hair, and shorter.

"Really, Blake, quit being a lazy butt, and get up!"

Blake finally pushes himself up, and throws a shirt on, and some pants.

"My alarm didn't go off, okay?"

"I told you to buy one the other day!"

"You work at Radio Shack; the least you could do is pick one up for me!"

"Ugh, breakfast is ready downstairs; hurry and eat before the bus comes!"

Blake hurries downstairs; there are eggs and bacon on a plate on the table.

"Sleep late enough?"

Blake looks to the right, and standing there is Brandon French, his best friend, and has been since 4th grade. He had a small afro-like hairdo, a darker skin complexion then Blake, and had brown eyes.

"Hey, Brandon"

"Alarm clock didn't go off again?"

"You know it"

He sits down and grabs the fork, shoving food in his mouth, within minutes; the bus comes up to his house.

"Dude, hurry up, bus is here"

Blake shoves the whole piece of bacon in his mouth, and turns around; his nose is all red from when he fell out of his bed.

"What happened to your face?"

"What?"

"It's all...red!"

The bus honks its horn

"Never mind, we gotta go!"

Blake grabs his backpack, and he and Brandon quickly run to the bus and jump on in

20 minutes later...

Blake stuffs his books into his locker, and throws his backpack on top of them, he turns around, and standing there is Zane Reaper, the scariest kid in the school. He had Black hair, which draped over his right eye, His eyes were dark, could've been considered black, they were so dark. He wore a black leather jacket, and a red t-shirt underneath, with his black leather pants.

"Hey Rudolph"

"Uh, What do you want Zane?"

He shoves Blake against the locker

"Just wondering what I am getting for lunch today!"

"Sorry, bud, no lunch for you today"

"What did you say?"

His eyes squint, and he gives an angry look.

"I mean, I didn't bring any today"

"Shame...you know what that means, right?"

Zane cracks his knuckles, and then his neck

"Back off, Zane"

Zane looks to his left, and Brandon is standing there

"Oh, look, it's your witto fwend sticking up for you...how cute!"

...

"I hate cute!"

The few people who were around gathered at a safe distance.

"Yeah, well we all hate you, so what does that matter"

Zane makes a fist

"Go ahead"

Zane punches Brandon right in the nose; Brandon falls to the ground the impact was so big. Zane kneels down, and picks him up by the collar, he shoves him against the lockers, and a loud noise is heard.

"Aw look! You two have matching noses"

Zane laughs at himself, and when he turns around, the principal, Mr. Henson, stares right at him.

"My office...now!" he said with a stern look. Zane follows him, flipping off Brandon behind his back.

"Thanks, Brandon"

"No Problem, Blake, least I could do"

"I'm just sorry it's like this every day"

"Me too"

Blake and Brandon head to biology (c)lass, the only (c)lass they had together.

Meanwhile, 8:00 PT

Up in Seattle, Washington, a young 16 year old girl is wiping down the bar inside a coffee shop. She had blonde hair, green eyes, and tan skin. Her name was Alice Frock. She was a runaway orphan that has taken care of herself all her life.

The manager, Sean Jacobson, comes out of his office and walks up to her.

"You know Alice, you really out do yourself."

She doesn't answer.

"I mean, you're the first employee here every day..."

Still, she doesn't answer.

"Alice?"

She takes the rags she was using to clean, and throws them inside a bucket of water, she turns around, and is spooked by Sean.

"Ah! Mr. Jacobson, don't scare me like that!"

"Allison, are you okay?"

"What? Yeah, I am fine!"

"Are you sure?"

"No, I am a wreck!"

"What's wrong?"

"You know my boyfriend, Hank, right?"

"The Dutch guy who is in here all the time?"

"Yeah, well, his birthday is coming up, and I want to give him the perfect present!"

Mr. Jacobson thinks to himself for a minute.

"What?"

"I actually have something he may like"

"Really"

"Yeah, come with me"

Alice follows Sean into his office; there are Seattle Seahawks souvenirs all around the office; he had signed jerseys, game balls, bobble-heads, and more.

Sean reaches into his bottom drawer, and pulls out a notebook of some kind.

He rips out two pieces of something. Alice can't see it.

"Here take these"

He hands her two tickets to the football game this Sunday.

"Football tickets, I can't take these."

"Oh, please, it's the least I can do, you work hard all the time...plus I can't go; my wife is dragging me to some wedding...you guys like football right?"

"Yeah, we love football, huge Seahawks fans."

"They're playing the Falcons, in Atlanta Sunday!"

"Thanks so much, Mr. Jacobson!"

"No problem kid!"

Meanwhile...11:15 ET

Sitting down at the lunch table is Blake and Brandon...Brandon across from him...Brandon takes out a box of food.

"What is that?" Blake asks.

"Chinese"

"Chinese food for school lunch"

"Yeah, what's wrong with that?"

"Nothing...nothing..."

"So, what did you think about biology?" Brandon asks.

"About what"

"That meteor shower he mentioned, the things he's studied"

"Oh, please, it's just another shooting star parade...if it even happens!"

"What?"

"I've looked out for shooting stars and comets before, never ever see them."

"Maybe tonight will be different!"

"I doubt it!"

"Come on, he said they will be shooting by earth rather close this...umm...This..."

"Blake?"

Suddenly, Brandon notices Zane coming over behind him from the reflection of the window. Blake is facing him as he comes up.

"It's Zane" Blake continues, "Man, I am so sick of this guy, I swear, if he does one more wedgie, I am going to slit his throat..."

"He might beat you too it..."

"Huh?"

"This guy has been arrested 3 times in the past month, he was suspected for two murders, and one theft."

"And he's still here?"

"There was never enough evidence to support it."

"That sucks! This guy is a complete psycho!"

"I know"

Meanwhile...

Hank walks inside the coffee shop and waves at Alice, she smiles, as she lays a tray of food on the table, giving the signal of being there in a minute. Hank was full-blooded Dutch. He had blonde, short hair. Brown eyes, and was about 5'8''. He hated the Dutch, and came to America at the age of 18. He met Alice just a few months later.

Alice runs over, holding a towel in her hand, and jumps onto him, giving him a hug.

"I'm glad you're here...I got something for you!"

"Me?"

"Yes, hold on!"

Alice runs into an office, as Hank stands by the entrance. She quickly runs out, and hands an envelope to Hank.

"What's this?"

"Look!" She says with force.

"Okay, okay!"

He opens the envelope pulling out the two tickets.

"Happy Birthday, Hank!"

"Alice...I don't know what to say!"

"Say you'll pack your bags, and we'll live on the next flight to Georgia, oh, and rental car will be needed!"

"Alice..."

"Yeah?"

"You are amazing."

She smiles.

Meanwhile...

Zane sits down at their table, and he stares at the math teacher, Mrs. Gander sitting down a few tables away...she drinks the a glass of milk that was in front of her, and within a few seconds darts out of the lunch room.

Blake and Brandon are somewhat confused.

Zane pulls out tons of packets of salt and sugar.

"And you made the teacher puke why?"

"Because, I need to have a little fun"

Zane picks up the tray of food, and is about to pour it onto Brandon, when Blake throws his cup of chocolate milk on him.

Zane turns to face Blake, and stares into his eyes. Zane's are like pure black.

"You really shouldn't have done that."

Zane jumps over the table, Blake quickly slides off the bench and runs to the other side of the lunch room. Zane picks up random person's lunches and launches them at Blake, but manages to miss all of them.

Brandon then jumps on the back of Zane. Zane tries to shake him off, but he can't.

Soon a whistle is heard through all the commotion.

Everyone looks over to the entrance, and standing there is Mrs. Gander, and the Principal, Mr. Henson. Brandon slides off Zane's back, which is soaked with Chocolate milk...everyone seems to calm down, as the principal points the three of them to his office.

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(Side-Note - anyone who didn't appear here will appear in the next one, and viseversa.)