the indigo project ch2

you can find ch1 here

tw for action violence

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Three Days Later:

Evan was curled up on the sofa flipping through channels on the TV. It was about 6:00 am but Evan had woken up just as he heard the door to the apartment open and close and a note from Connor saying he’d be back soon.

Evan’s heart had started beating faster in his chest as he scrambled out of bed to get his phone. He was nervous about where Connor was going. What if he goes somewhere sketchy? Or gets hurt? What if a super villian gets ahold of him and holds him hostage? He dialed Connor’s number hastily.

A phone had started ringing on Connor’s side of the bed. Evan looked over and saw that Connor had left it. He hung up and sat on the couch in the living room. He was too on edge to go back to sleep.

He stopped at the news channel and placed the remote down. The movement caused the the half-zipped hoodie of Connor’s to slide off his shoulder. The sweatshirt was huge on him.

Suddenly the news remote switched to footage of some kind of attack taking place. Evan stared at the screen a little longer and recognized the buildings in the background to be of Jade City. Electric waves pulses throughout the road, all coming from one person. He tuned out the news reporter as he examined the man. He was wearing almost the same exact suit that Evan had! How could that be?

He watched as people ran from this super villain, screaming in terror.

Evan shot up from the sofa. Then everything just went black. The lights, the tv, the buildings outside the window. Everything.

Evan dug into his pocket and pulled out his ring, the one his father gave him when he was seven. As he left Evan and his mom.

Evan slipped on the ring and his suit immediately covered him. He threw open the window and into the pitch black night. The power was out for the whole city. What did this man do?

He formed crystal beneath his feet shooting him forward on a skyward path as the crystal extended rapidly out in front of him. He bent his knees and rode the crystal almost like a surfboard. Except, this was much much faster. He never really knew how fast he could ride his “crystal paths” but he knew it was faster than a speeding car. The crystal disintegrated the second his feet stopped touching them, making it look like a collapsing beam-like structure.

Valerian could soon see where the attack was coming from since the electricity gave off a bright light against the blackened city, though the sun was beginning to rise.

Valerian continued speeding forward. The man had hostages. A lot of hostages. Cars were flipped over, the GPD took cover behind a line of smashed cabs. The man was about to attack them when he turned to see Valerian about 100 feet away. So much for a surprise entrance. If only he could get better at that holographic projection thing, but he only managed to do it once.

The man smiled as he saw him, “I’ve been waiting for you to show up!” He hollered in a sweet tone

Chills ran through Valerian, “Who are you!” He cried out to the man

He laughed. Hard. Valerian was growing more uneasy “How do you have that suit!”

The man laughed even more and used his electric powers to skyrocket up and levitate to about halfway up the height of a building. Valerian followed, his crystal shooting him upwards so that they were face to face.

“You really don’t know?” Valerian looked at him confused. The man realized he was clueless, “My name is Snapwire!” He announced

Snapwire was surprised his enemy didn’t understand. Had he not known there was another ring? He tapped his ring so Valerian could see it.

“Where did you get that!”

“Doesn’t matter. What matters is that I’m going to kill you”

Snapwire shot his electricity at the crystal-tower Valerian was standing on. Valerian’s guard was down and couldn’t block it in time. The electricity disintegrated the crystal and sent Valerian free falling. He tried making more crystal to his fall but it just kept getting disintegrated by Snapwire’s blasts.

Valwrian hit the ground pretty hard. He cried out in pain at the impact. Valerian tried to push himself up but it only caused more pain to shoot through his body. He whimpered and collapsed back down.

He took labored breaths in and out. Snapwire cackled as he made his way toward Valerian.

Valerian tried getting up again, causing him more pained sounds from out of his mouth, but it was in vain. Snapwire was right in front of him now. Out of options, Valerian extended his arm out toward Snapwire, a sharp crystal protruding from it until it was embellished into Snapwire’s stomach. Snapwire screamed in pain as blood started spreading from the wound. Valerian hadn’t wanted it to come to this.