CHAPTER ONE: THE HELICOPTER RIDE
Explanation. I need one about life. Why are so many strange things happening to me, and why are all of my loved ones dead? It all started a couple days ago, when I was peacefully getting ready to get in the helicopter to Hawaii. Yeah, you may be wondering why we are in a helicopter rather than a public plane or Alaskan Airlines. My real dad owned this company called ” Hydro”. They’d sell healthy water like Vitamin Water. He also made tons of other companies. It was a VERY successful business. I mean VERY. He got $185 billion out of it. So, I guess you could say we’re wealthy. “Elysian! Hurry up!” Sorry, that’s my mom. I should probably introduce you to my family: Jacob, my step-dad, Olivia, my older sister, and my mom, Ava. My name is Elle. “No, it’s Elysian” UGHH. That’s Olivia peering over my shoulder and looking at my journal. My full name is Elysian, meaning beautiful, creative, divinely inspired or perfect. But I like being called by Elle. My step-dad named me that. He’s Greek. I HATE him. He thinks that since my father passed away he can just go and name me a stupid word, steal my family’s fortune and take my mom away from my dad. The worst thing is that my mom loves him back.
“Sissy! You’re bag is on my seat!” Olivia says as her face is getting more and more red. “Shut up Olivia! Just move it yourself!” I say. “Stop fighting you two! This is supposed to be a FUN trip. No fighting, yelling, pulling each others hair…” Jacob goes on and on about what we can’t do. I call him Jacob because he’s not my real dad, and I wont EVER call him Dad even if my life is on the line. He just doesn’t deserve the title.
As we take up into the air, Olivia (aka Olive, that’s how I tease her about her name), turns to me and says ” I didn’t mean to get super mad at you. I just over reacted.” “It’s ok. I also over reacted. Now let me go to sleep. We had to wake up at 4:00. I feel dead and ugly.” I reply. “Fine. Get your beauty sleep,” Olivia says as she snickers. After about 2 hours in the air, I wake up due to some screaming and mom nudging my arm and trying to wake me up. “What’s happening?” I say. “Olivia accidentally opened the window and we need to find the latch to close it back up, ” Mom says. I search frantically for the latch but don’t find it. As I was searching for the latch at the back of the helicopter, I found a glowing thing that looks like something out of Star Trek. I figured it’s just a lantern incase the electricity burns out. I decide to place it in my pocket incase this helicopter goes down and we get stranded on a island and are in need of light. “I FOUND IT!” Jacob says. A couple minutes later after the window gets closed, We hear another thing. It almost sounds like grenades or even worse, Nukes. It occurred to me that it wasn’t nukes because it had more of a screeching sound. I study Grenades, Nuclear bombs, Thermobaric, Antimatter, and Nuclear Fusion. It seems like I’m one weird girl, and I am, but not a psychopath type of weird. I should clarify. I study history about wars, some of the greatest wars in the world. Ask me any question about The Siege of Orleans, or Storming the beaches of Normandy. I could go on and on. I find them fascinating like Olivia does with makeup. I don’t like wars because they’re very violent. I only like them because I want to learn more about what to do if another one comes up and how to know when one’s coming. For the first time, I knew something was up.
CHAPTER 2: THE BOT’S RETURN
BOOM! “Pilot! What was that?!” Jacob said. “It sounded like nukes or even worse! We should stay in the air so we’ll be away from the bombs.” I turn on my phone, go to the radio app, turn the volume up, and listen if there’s more information. We hear static for a few seconds then, “Attention people in Greensville, there has been sightings of potential bombers in the sky. Everyone currently in the sky, we advise you to come down for safety reasons. We aren’t completely sure who- I think I should say what- is up in the sky. I’m a believer, so I think it’s an alien. We shouldn’t jump to conclusions, folks, so stay tuned to 99.5 STAR. ”
“This is craziness! Fly this helicopter down right now!” Mom says. “No! we-” “What do you mean ‘No’? I said fly this chopper down right now!” Mom says. “Um, I…I don’t think that’s a good idea…” The Pilot replies. “Oh my god. It’s a bot. I recognize you. You’re a 4A type spy bot,” Jacob says. “What? Me?” We all gave a terrified look at him. The pilot turned his head to us and said “OK, OK, you caught me.” The pilot’s eyes started to turn pitch black. Before he could say anything else, Jacob grabbed his neck and took out a blue wire which shut the pilot-bot down. “Jacob, you better tell me and the kids what’s going on and how you knew what that thing was!” I hear Mom scream. “There’s no time to explain. I have to fly this helicopter down before we get caught by the ‘Aliens’. Everyone grab your bags and we’ll get off on this island right here. ” Jacob says. I am still in shock. I can’t believe this is happening. My life was normal and happy right up until then.
Minutes later, we land on the tiny island. “Don’t get out yet. I’ll go and see if the island is safe and is a good environment to inhabit. I may get hurt and never come back. ” Jacob says. “Sounds good to me!” I say. “ELYSIAN!” Mom yells. “Bye,” Jacob says. About an hour later, Olivia and my Mom start getting nervous. Bam! Bam! We hear a noise coming from the helicopter door. Then it opens. “I’m back! ” Jacob says excitedly. We all sigh in relief. “Good news, there are enough rations here for us to survive about two weeks. Although I almost recognize this island… I just can’t put my finger on it.” “That’s it. This is, hands down, the WORST vacation EVER!” Olivia screams. We all ignore her and hear Jacob say, “Let’s take a look around the island, shall we?” “Sure.” Mom says. I nod my head silently.
We arrive at a berry bush, when all of a sudden, these black robots come RAINING down on us from a huge ship that looks like something from Star Wars. We all stare, frozen with fright. And here comes the screaming. “AHHHHHHHHHHH!” we all scream, EXEPT for Jacob. Jacob stares in the sky with a mad look on his face and says, “Run. Run as fast as you can. Run as if your life depends on it.” We all begin to run, but Jacob grabs my arm and says, “Not you.” I struggle and attempt to be free of his grasp. “They’re safe.” Jacob says unsurely. I bit his arm and he doesn’t even flinch. The bots are getting closer, and closer by the second. Jacob throws a fishing net onto them that must’ve washed up from the shore. When they finally reach the ground, and are distracted by taking the ropes off, Jacob grabs my arm harder and runs to the mini mountain on the island. “What are we doing!?” I scream. “Say your name. Hurry! We’re running out of time! Say it!” I do what Jacob says. A small part of the mountain lifts, and it’s the size of a doorway. I run inside, turn around, and scream my name, hoping it would close the door so the bots wouldn’t get in. The door slowly closes. I could see many bots running towards us. That wasn’t the only thing I saw. I also saw my family being slayed by the bots.
CHAPTER 3: THE EXPLANATION
I stood next to the door open-mouthed. About a second later I fell into tears. “THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, JACOB!” I screamed. “I- I’m so sorry Elysian… I didn’t know it was going to end this way.” Jacob says. “Well sorry isn’t going to help it.” I say back.
30 minutes later of silence… “You know, I should explain my self a little better… I’m not actually Jacob. I’m Axel Wells and I come from the Resistance.” Jacob says. Or shall I say ‘Axel Wells’. “Hold up. So… you come from a Resistance, lied to my family, then KILLED them?” I say in anger. “No, no, well.. I guess… I didn’t know your family was going to be killed. I just had to get them someplace safe so we could come back and get them after our journey. ” Jacob answers. ” Our what-now?” “Our ‘Journey’. I have to use you to call for the resistance. I was very good friends with your father. We worked in the resistance together. We had some good times up there, until your father passed from the bots. That’s when I studied the bots for 4 years. I then knew to much and they took me and erased my memory. My captain saved me just in time, so I didn’t forget everything. I vaguely remember the resistance. Anyway, before your father passed, he told me how he studied you for a while when you were just a newborn, and found extraordinary facts about you.” “Like what?” “Umm. I don’t think you’re going to believe me…” “Just say it already.” “Well, your father is from a different planet called Exzulsia. It’s extremely similar to this planet. Except… They have supernaturaul powers…” “WHAT?! So does that mean I have powers?? Like what type?” “Psychokinesis. It’s when you have telekineses, levitation, mind reading and mind control.” “Sure…” “I knew a young human brain can’t handel that much information.” “ok ok, so what if my powers are real, why haven’ I noticed anything?” “Simple. Your father told me that Zionite triggers your powers. A shard of rock from the Exzulsia core. But enough chatting, we need to move. Follow me. your father built this cave for safety reasons, so I know the way to the escape pods.”
CHAPTER 4: ZIONITE
” How’s it goin’? ” Axel asks. “I’m currently riding in a SPACESHIP and have NO IDEA where were going. ” I say loudly. I burst into tears. I couldn’t help it! My family is gone… DEAD. Axel places his hand on top of mine. I slipped my and out from under his. “Y-you have astonishing powers, Elysian. ” Axel tries changing the subject. “I JUST WANT TO KILL WHOEVER SENT THOSE BOTS!” I scream and pull my hair in anger. OK, that was a total toddler moment, I know. But those bots SHOT DOWN my family… “And you’ll get a moment to. I just have to get the Zionite from my old ship. It’s all the way in California.
1 HOUR LATER: We arrive at a small shack, near a lake. Axel presses a button and *PCHHHHhh…* The doors open and steps outside. I follow after him as he bends over to pick up a capsule in the water. “Elysian, come forward slowly… you might feel a weird sensation, but don’t worry. it’s just your supernatural cells waking up and activating.” Axel say as he opens the capsule and takes out a dark, red rock. I take baby steps towards it. I feel something… my hands start to glow blue! ” O-oh my gosh…” I say, intimidated. Nothing else happens. I’m standing there with glowing hands. “That’s it?” I say relieved. “That’s not what is supposed to-” My feet lift off of the ground. ” I’M FLOATING!” I scream. “telekinesis, levitation, mind reading, mind control, and flying.” Axel says impressed. “Um, is this Telekinesis?” A stick starts floating up towards me and into my hand. “Yep!” Axel says excited. Axel tossed me some harsh obstacles, and I demolished them all. It’s like I don’t even need any practice. As long as I have that Zionite, I can do anything.
CHAPTER 5: THE BOY
With just a flick of my finger, I tore an old shack up from the ground and threw it more than 300 feet. I didn’t even break a sweat. Razing is getting easier and easier. What about killing… I turned to the sheep in the farm house. No! I can’t do this! What has happened to me?… I slowly float down. “Something wrong, Elysian?” Axel says. “Nothing.” I say.
THE NEXT DAY: I was getting used to my powers. Maybe even taking them for advantage. I think as I’m baking pancakes with a swish and a flick of my finger. “Morning, Elysian. Do you like my house?” Axel says sarcastically and points to the tearing down wallpaper. “It actually isn’t that bad. I could live here for a couple months.” I say. Now, that wasn’t a lie. It really wasn’t that bad, just the colors and decoration were horrible. “Well, you’re in luck. We’re going to stay here and wait for my friend from Exulsia. He’ll help us find the source of the bots.” Axel says. “I think you’ll like him.” He wiggles his eyebrows at me. I laugh at him.
2 WEEKS LATER: As I step out of the shower, I hear talking downstairs. I peek open the door and see a tall, blonde hair, blue eyed teen, about my age standing there. “Oh! Hello there.” The boy looks up at me, peering down the banister with just my towel on. I must look like a complete creep. I panic- “Heyyyy…I’LL BE RIGHT BACK.” I panic as I frantically search for some clothes. I throw on an oversized tee I got from the racetrack with my (REAL) dad, and some biker shorts. I run down the stairs and fall face first into the wood floor. *BOOF* “Oww…” I say as I get up. “Well that’s awkward.” Axel laughs. I slowly float upwards and do a total Scarlet Witch pose as a threat. I look down at my hands and say “Huh. That’s strange, my powers changed colors. Now it’s-” Axel cuts me off. “Silver… a color of peace in Exulsia. AHA! So you weren’t going to hurt me! Wow, this is exciting.” The boy examines me and says “So, her powers change based on her mood?” The boy’s eyes change color to bright white. “Wow. She has a lot of powers.” He says amazed. “WHAT?! Get OUT of my HEAD! ” I scream at him. I cover my ears and tuck into a ball yelling “La la la la ” Thinking he wont know what’s in my head. “Uhhh… Anyway, can you help us track down those bots?” Axel says to the boy. “Yep.” He replys.
During lunch, I found out that the boy’s name was Ben. So now I can stop calling him ‘The boy’ I pick up my plate through the kitchen, without touching it. When I was almost to the kitchen sink, Ben sneeks up behind me. “Hey, about-” Ben says, though something cuts him off… *CRASH*
CHAPTER 6: PLATES
The plates drop. I squat down and put my hands over my head in embarrassment. No, I don’t think that’s it. I don’t know what I’m feeling. Emotions-I can’t describe. Tears pour down my face. flashbacks play in my head, over and over. My family’s death. It’s been about 4 weeks and I still can’t shake the feeling that they might be alive, held prisoners and tortured by the bots. “Are you OK?” Ben says as he squats down next to me. Without a second thought I reply “NO. I’M NOT OK. MY ENTIRE FAMILY IS DEAD.” Tears pour down my cheeks. I stop my tears and pick up the shards of plates with my hands. Blood. Lots of it. “Oh geez! What are you doing?” Ben says. I don’t respond, because I don’t feel like it. Oh, and because I don’t want to. Ben grabs the back of my hands and we both stand up. He creates a blue ball with his powers, hovers over my hands and collects the sharp splinters out of my hand. I look up at him in amazement. “Um, how did you do that?” I say as look down at my hands-completely healed. “Wanna learn?” He smiles and looks up at me.
A COUPLE MINUTES LATER: “Wow this is really cool!” I say as levitate and create a fireball. “Wait, watch this.” Ben says. He floats up, creates a blue shield around him and his eyes turn white. Great, I know what this is again. I run away, as far as I can so Ben wont read my mind. He catches up to me anyway. “Hey! Wait up! What’s going on?” Ben says. “You’re reading my mind again, aren’t you.” I say, furious. “No, It’s called a power charge.” Ben replies. “You don’t always have to be afraid of me.” He says as he looks at the ground. “So, ‘Power Charge’? it sounds pretty legit. Teach me?” I ask. “Whatever.” Ben laughs. “Ok, levitate upwards, and concentrate your mind on this stone. In a quick second, the rock shatters. “Why did you do that?” Ben says. “You said to concentrate on it…” I say. “Don’t destroy it, concentrate, and focus.” He says as he hold out another rock. I float upwards and feel a weird sensation. “It’s working! You’re eyes are turning white!” Ben says. “When are we going to kill the source of the bots?” I say. “When I’m done preparing my ship.” Ben says, wiping dirt off his hands.
I splash my face with cold water. “Hey. Ben told me he taught you how to do a power charge last night?” Axel says, leaning on the door. “Yep, it’s pretty cool.” I fidget with the Zionite necklace Axel made for me. ” Something wrong?” He says. “I feel something coming.” I reply, as my hands glow red.
CHAPTER 7: THE TIME IS NOW
*CRASH* The entire half of the house gets blown up. I use that power charge ben taught me and created a forcefield around me and Axel. “What do they want from us?!” I say. I feel my feet lift off the ground. “Your powers.” Axel says.
The door of the ship opens up, and some bots/troopers come pouring out. “We’re surrounded.” Ben says. “Ya’ think?” I say. “Do it, Ben. Now.” Axel says. Ben does this amazing power trick thingy and knocks out half of the bots. “Your turn.” Ben says, looking at me. I have a little panic attack and think of my family dying all of a sudden. I do the power charge and take out the rest of the bots. “Woah…” Ben and Axel say. And I didn’t even break a sweat.
It happened so quick. The bots came, they destroyed half of the house, then all of a sudden they’re gone. “We need get some where safer.” Axel says. “No. We can’t just hide forever. We have to fly up to the source, and destroy they Astharite technology. It’s the root of all bots. ” Ben says. As i’m currently eating breakfast. I shake the last 2 cookies from the cerial box. “UGHH! Could this morning get any worse?!” I say. I go outside just for some fresh air. “Are you ready?” Ben says as he walks out from behind me. “For what?-” I reply, suspicious. “To destroy the bots. What else? This!?” Ben says, and throws a big rock at me. I stop the rock without a motion of my hands or thought. I flick the rock and it breaks into pieces. “it’s getting easier, eh?” Ben says.
I pack up my stuff and we all get into Ben’s fixed-up spaceship. “To Astharite!” I say and point forwards. Ben and Axel both move this stick-shift thingy forward and we move at the speed of light.
CHAPTER 8: THE CITY
I doze off to sleep for an hour and a half, which is the longest I’ve ever napped in this situation. I’ve had trouble sleeping. I finally leave my beautiful dream land for a disgusting city. It looks as if there had been a horrible apocalypses. We land in a rusty space ship dock. “We’re here…” Says Axel. “Yep…” Solemnly says Ben. *PTCHHH* The ship door opens up and we walk onto the dock. I look to the left and see a building that looks like the Empire State Building, but more techy. “The root of all bots. We can finally stop all the torturing the bots are doing to innocent people.” Ben says. “C’mon. We can sneak in the building through that alleyway and in the guards quarters.
As we walk around the corner a group of people start whispering to each other like we’re criminals or something. They all slowly start gathering around us and follow us. “Uh… B-” I say as Ben cuts me off. “I know. Keep walking.” Ben, Axel, and I walk into the dark alley way. A hand grabs my mouth and I can’t scream. I feel a needle pierce my skin, painfully. “MMPHH” I hear Ben and Axel struggling. I try using my powers and knock every one down, but nothing happens. A hear two loud thuds and finally a third.
I slowly lift my head up and open my eyes. I’m in a dark room laying on a couch. I sit up and frantically look around the room for Ben and Axel. I sigh in relief, they’re on floor next to me. “Sorry for that rough greeting, Jack said we would have to use the drugs to pause your powers but I guess we did. A girl walks in the room floating a coffee cup from meteoroid dollars (A coffee shop) Ben takes control of the boiling hot cup of coffee so it’s above the girl. “Woah… Slow down dude-” The girl says, frightened. “Who the heck are you?” Ben says, moving the coffee closer and closer. “Alice. Alice Wood. I’m part of the resistance against the bots. I know who all of you are. Elysian, Ben, and Axel. We’ve missed you.” Axel sits up. Whaaa……… OH MY GOD It’s Alice! Guys, this is the resistance! They can help us break into the core! A middle aged man, like Axel, walks into the room. “This is Jack.” Ben lets go of them coffee and moves it to Alice’s hand. “Mornin’ Sunshines.” Jack says sarcastically as he looks at our rugged clothes and hair. “Pick you weapon. ” Jack says. as he walks over and opens a closet full of futuristic guns. “Jack, they’re only 16.” Alice says.”17.” Ben says and rolls his eyes. “I was 12 when I picked up my first gun. They gotta fight for themselves.” Jack says. “Oh, I don’t do guns. I have these bad boys.” I say as I make 10 floating fireballs, moving around each other like planets. “Hey, I taught her that.” Ben says and puffs up his chest. “Although I think Axel would love-” I look over at Axel already stuffing his belt with guns. Ay, Su casa es mi casa.” Ben says. “All right, everyone ready?” Alice says. “Let’s do this.”
CHAPTER 9: THE BIG FIGHT
“I can’t do this. They have over 200 bots loaded with fancy space guns, and we have A girl who can shoot fire from her hands, a woman who has telekinetic abilities, and two men who can barely fight. ” I say doubtfully. “Oh, I haven’t introduced you to my team yet!” Alice rings in 2 burly men and 3 random people. “This is Jack and John, the unstoppable smash brothers, Kylie who can freeze things, her sister Anna who can heat things, and finally Emma, who can pick locks and do some crazy flips” “I can also make really good Spaghetti” Emma says. “Alright who’s ready to kick some robot butt now. Get in the ship.” Says Alice.
After 30 minutes of stressing in the ship, we’re ready. It’s all come up to this moment. My family’s depending on me… “Want some spaghetti?” Emma says to me. After we land on the mothership of bots, Ben says “Wait where’s the Smash Brothers?”. *CLANGG* “Is that?-” Alex says as the brothers walk out of the hallway with two robot heads in their hands. Alice jumps out of the ship first. “Emma, stay in the Ship’s control center and tell us where to go.” “What no fairrr” Emma says solemnly. “Fine, I’m not sharing my spaghetti then.” We all put an ear piece in so we can hear her. “Kay, I know the center of the ship is just over there, If we kill all four of the big brainiac bots, They won’t have a leader, and will freak out. After we cause that distraction, I’m pretty sure somewhere near them is the power source of all bots.” Alex says. 10 bots come out from the corner and rapid fire. Alice uses her ability to make a shield. “Anna! Toast ’em!” Anna’s eyes turn red as she shoots fire from her hands. Huh, that’s funny my eyes do the same thing. “Elysian! Focus!” Ben says as a bot almost shoots me. “Geez that was a close one.” I say. “There will be no more ‘Close one’s’. Elysian.” Ben says, punching a bot in it’s face. “Ok guys, Take the doors on your right and run down that hallway to the center.” Emma says. We all bolt to the hallway, and see 1 more bot, but it’s different than the others. “J&J, get ’em!” The two brothers barely tear apart the bot with all their might, but it hardly does any damage. Kylie freezes the big bot and I sneak past to the center. The doors shut and I’m trapped.
“Elysian?… is that you.” A shaky voice says in the darkness. As the figure comes out, It’s a rotting human head with a robotic body. “It’s me- your father.”
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