Generation Legacy Issue #7 "Innocence Lost" - Part 1

[Aenion]

“Well of course, fighting is about more then strength, I mean you have so many variables to take into account, its funny. I mean on the one hand you can’t think too much, you have to just act and react, at the same time you have to think about your guide the fight, if your losing how to even the score, or if your winning how to end the fight quickly, and hopefully without a loss of life,” Kal finishes looking over Karen’s frame.

“I mean you know if return home, and you don’t want to do the Legacy thing, Young Justice could use you. Your tough, practical, and you have a good heart. Besides it would suck to go back alone, it just wouldn’t be the same without you around,” Kal replies with a shrug.

Karen occasionally nods as she listens attentively to Kal's explanation of the technicalities of combat.

She moves closer to him, "Can't you just stay here? I understand th-that people need you on your own world, b-but I also need you. You're one of the few who are not afraid to lose a finger when they touch me. May-Maybe I'm just being selfish ... I don't know. I try not to think about you leaving, these past days have been the best of my life and I don't want that to change," she sighs, a rarity for her.

 

[Tokiwong]

Ryan rolls his eyes at Yoshi's sarcasm. Anika's gods were not capable of smiting anyone. Of course, Anika herself can do that herself. He then attempts to use the communicators build into the sunglasses to call Sarah, but gives up. He instead fishes out a more mundane celluar phone from his bag and punches in her number, waiting for her answer. Come on, come one, pick up the phone, he thinks anxiously.

Ryan waits and waits, and finally it picks up, "Hey thanks for calling... but I am not here right now, leave a message, and I will get back to you, okay? Bye!" it was Sarah's voice, and then there is a beep for the message to be left.

Star nods to Anika, "I understand, we will not kill him, we just want to apprehend him. I mean you just want to apprehend him, I am playing observer as Mr. McCallister said, I would not want to get in your way. You are the professionals afterall."

The flight continues, several hours pass, and the video monitor displays a constant stream of news from CNN. Some of the more popular issues; with the fallout of the prison escape in Dallas, Texas elite correctional facilities are being looked at once more, Bishop is set to go on trial in the near future once it can be settled where it should be held...

But with about an hour to go in the flight, some big news comes across the news ticker! The CNN correspondent goes live to Venice, Italy with a special news bulletin!

"This is Linda Valentine reporting live from Venice, at the location of an explosion centered on the top two floors of the Venice Tower, behind me. The top two floors were owned by Tommy McKain billionaire CEO of McKain Industries. It is beleived that Pantheon agents attacked his home, and at this time Tommy McKain is missing and presumed dead, perhaps incinerated in the blast," the thin woman replies speaking quickly as crews work to put out the flames, and get everything under control.

"At this time, McKain Industries has not made a statement about the fate of their CEO, but we will be on scene for as long as it takes. Once again a young life is tragically snuffed out by Pantheon, one can only hope that justice will be served... Tommy McKain was fourteen years of age, and was attending school at the Mudaba Adin Institute," she finishes continuing on with the circumstances surounding the event.

Star gasps, "No... Tommy... could it be true?"

Karen

"I wish I could Karen," Kal sighs, "But I have friends back home that need me, my family, and my team. I feel guilty enough already, but I would want to stay, but when I have to go, I will have to go. I have a responsibility I guess to my world, as much as I want to be with you..."

Kal sighs, "I am sorry, I should not have said anything. I don't know what is going to happen, I could be stuck here forever, if I am, then I am. But if I have a chance to go back, I have to take it. I don't know about Legacy and their money, but I do what I do, because it is the right thing to do," he places a hand on Karen's shoulder, "come with me, we need someone like you, I need someone like you," he says before kissing her crystalline lips.

 

[Tokiwong]

Kelly sits up and lookss at Tommy, tears still trickling down her beautiful face. "I...I was having a nightmare...it was pretty bad...Neuro was in it... he was telling me all thesee things... he said I wasn't a person, that I was just a toy, a toy to be used, and played with and then thown away...he...he said I was just a puppet, and he wiggled his fingers and it was like I was a puppet, it made dance and everything..." she sobs, looking at Tommy for reassurance.

Tommy just nods, "You are not a puppet, you are your own person."

"He also told me that nobody could care about a person like me, that everyone just wants something from me...that they don't really care... he said that everyone was gonna betray me, even you cause you don't really care... I...I don't believe it or anything, but it was all just soo real... he told me that he had been locked away in my head and that when you saved me...whatever that was you did, he said it let him out... I know it was just a dream, but it felt soo real, and well... as much stuff as he has already done in my head, how can I know he hasn't done this too?" she asks, still shivering in fear. She lies back down against Tommy holding him tightly, like he was a teddy bear that could make that scary monset in the closet go away, too bad it wouldn't work since this monster was already inside of her.

"Well I care about you, if that means anything. I will get him out of there, once the specialist arrives we will get him out of your head, I feel partly responsible for that. My power, it seems to negate all elite powers, pretty much shutting them down. Perhaps he left a seed of himself in your mind, waiting for a trigger, or maybe it just broke down, I don't know. But if he is in there, I will get him out, alright? I promise..." Tommy says looking in her eyes, "we are in this together now."

Tommy leans forward for a kiss, and then a soft caress, and then it all fades to black.

 

[Shalimar]

Kelly just sighs at Tommy's reassurance, "I know I'm not a puppet, not really,but...it just, it kind of always feels like it, I have been doing exactly what my agent says, I've been doing what everyone at the institute says..." she says, hugging him.

"I know we're in this together, I trust you. Just look at how much your doing for me, you wouldn't be doing half of it if you didn't care... I owe you so mch, not just for this, but you saved my life... you'll never make me not trust." she whispers to him, her tears and sobs ending, with Tommy's kiss, and the caress of his hand on her body. She starts doing some caressing of her own, before she slips her ruined dress over her head and drops it onto the floor. Kelly can't help but hold her breath for Tommy's reaction, the scene darkening and fading to black.

 

[Aenion]

Karen

"I wish I could Karen," Kal sighs, "But I have friends back home that need me, my family, and my team. I feel guilty enough already, but I would want to stay, but when I have to go, I will have to go. I have a responsibility I guess to my world, as much as I want to be with you..."

Kal sighs, "I am sorry, I should not have said anything. I don't know what is going to happen, I could be stuck here forever, if I am, then I am. But if I have a chance to go back, I have to take it. I don't know about Legacy and their money, but I do what I do, because it is the right thing to do," he places a hand on Karen's shoulder, "come with me, we need someone like you, I need someone like you," he says before kissing her crystalline lips.

"I-I understand..." she mumbles as he leans in to kiss her, feeling his soft human lips on hers allows her to forget for a moment that he's right, but also that she's not ready to leave her own world behind just yet either.

 

[Samnell]

"Um, yeah," Anika says increduously. "Just 'cause his buddy tried to kill Mark doesn't mean we're going to try and kill him, info or no." She gets a bit of a grin, "Of course, that doesn't mean we can't make him wish he never met us..."

"I don't know...if Star really has her heart set on killing him... Mark says with over the top, fake thoughtfulness.

 

[Samnell]

Star gasps, "No... Tommy... could it be true?"

Mark bolted up, not having really paid attention to the news until Star said something. He caught the news crawling across the bottom of the screen. "This is not happening," he said; quiet and unconvincing.

 

[Tokiwong]

Mark bolted up, not having really paid attention to the news until Star said something. He caught the news crawling across the bottom of the screen. "This is not happening," he said; quiet and unconvincing.

Star nods, "But I am afraid it is, we can't let this distract us from our mission," she says resolute, "we deal with Strength and Honor, and then we deal with this. Although I am pained as well, he was like what you would consider a father to me, he has always been there for me, I will miss him greatly," she places her head on Mark's shoulder and hugs him for comfort.

 

[Hammerhead]

"Hey Sarah, this is Ryan. Call me back at 555-648-4873. Thanks!" I hate voicemail, he grumbles as he stashes his phone back into his duffel bag. "Star, as I understand it, you've got just as much of a reason for taking Honor down as Mark. Another skilled, reliable person couldn't hurt the attack, could it?" he asks rhetorically.

Ryan pays little attention to the news stories as well, until a familiar name draws him out of his reverie. "What?" he asks incredulously, not quite believing the news for a few seconds. "I'm pretty sure it's real guys," Ryan says, staring intently at the vid monitor, unconsciously clenching his fists. "Pantheon killed Tommy."

 

[Karl Green]

James is somewhat shocked and speechless for a few seconds as the news comes on... then he looks at Kiyana "I...I don't believe it... those Pantheons derks killed Tommy?!... man they are so going to pay... one of these days I will teleport the lot of them to space…”