by Anne
Disclaimer: The characters of Adam Newman, Megabyte Damon, Kevin Wilson, Ami Jackson, Jade Weston, General William Damon, Colonel Masters, Millie Damon and Caroline Damon belong to Roger Damon Price, Thames Television and Nickelodeon. So do any other names or events linked to the Tomorrow People TV series.
Max Evans, Liz Parker, Maria DeLuca, Michael Guerin, Isabel Evans, Alex Whitman, Kyle Valenti, Sheriff Jim Valenti and Milton belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims and WB. All other concepts and events linked to Roswell also belong to them.
The characters of Joe Dawson and James Horton (who appear in name only) belong to Panzer/David, Rysher/Gaumont Television. So do the concepts of immortality, the Watchers and the Hunters.
The characters of Geoff Anderson, Gil Hawkins, Jim Beckett and Simon Trent belong to me and should not be used without permission.
Kyle Valenti listened to the young red headed girl talking to the British boy, Kevin. Her boyfriend, Geoff, interrupted every few minutes, trying to explain what exactly he had thought he'd heard.
He took another gulp of water and tightened his grasp on the glass he was holding. This whole teleporting thing had totally freaked him out, but he was trying to give the impression that he was okay with the whole thing now. Judging by the looks Kevin kept giving him, he wasn't entirely sure he was succeeding. It wasn't natural being in one place one minute and another the next. Kyle hoped this whole experience wasn't going to affect him in some way. He still remembered enough of 'The Fly' to know what rearranging your molecules could do to a guy.
"Are you okay?" asked Kevin.
"Yeah fine. I mean it's not everyday that I'm in Roswell one minute and London the next is it?"
Millie giggled. "You'll get used to it."
"You don't seriously mean I'm going to let him do that to me again do you? No way." Kyle studied his glass of water, feeling the coldness from the glass seep through into his fingers. What had she meant by that remark exactly? "Don't you think we should be looking for whoever might be snooping around out there?" He got to his feet, looking out the window to see if he could spot anything suspicious, pausing as something occurred to him.
"Do you guys have any weapons? After all if we're going to go up against who knows what, shouldn't we be prepared for them or something?"
Millie shook her head. "Dad's got his revolver with him," she replied. "I don't know if he has anything else in the house. He didn't tell me, and Mom's not due back for ages."
Kyle turned to Kevin and Geoff. "What about you guys? Kevin, do you think you should pop back to Roswell and get something from my dad?" He mentally kicked himself. "I should have thought of that before we came, but we were here before I had the chance…if you know what I mean." The last comment was directed accusingly at Kevin.
"Sounds like a good plan to me," commented Geoff. "If the bad guys came in here with guns blazing, at least we'd be ready for them."
Kevin looked at both of them, an expression akin to horror on his face. "You can't, we can't…" he spluttered. "No guns. Definitely no guns."
"What's the matter?" asked Kyle. "You don't mean to tell me that you guys, with all your powers, are squeamish about stuff like that? Or are you telling me you don't need guns? What other cool powers do you have that I don't know about?"
Kevin rolled his eyes. "And we wonder why the psycho bad guys, as Megabyte calls them, keep coming after us. No Kyle, we don't have powers like the ones you are thinking about."
Kyle felt disappointed. "So what's the big problem with using guns then?"
"Don't you know?" Millie shot Kevin a glance. "You don't mean you didn't tell them?"
"Tell me what?" Kyle glanced between Millie and Kevin, certain he was missing something important. "Don't tell me there's a catch to these powers of yours."
"I wouldn't call it a catch exactly, " replied Kevin. He took a deep breath and got straight to the point. "We can't kill."
"Well, no one likes to kill. I remember this one time my father took me hunting. It was just a duck…"
"No Kyle, I mean exactly what I said. Tomorrow People can't kill. We can't, even the idea of it…" Kevin shuddered.
"Oh great," Kyle rolled his eyes. "Now he tells us. So Mr I Can't Kill, what do you suggest we do if the bad guys attack then? Run away?"
Before Kevin could reply, Kyle noticed a movement out of the corner of his eye and yelled, "Get down!" He dived for the floor as some sort of light beam hit Kevin full in the chest. The British boy went down without even a sound, lying in a crumpled heap on the carpet.
"Kevin!" screamed Millie.
"Nobody move," barked a tall man standing in the doorway brandishing a small hand weapon. "Unless you'd like to hit with the same thing as your friend, that is."
Kyle looked behind the man, adding up the number of weapons the other commando types had in total. At least he presumed they were commando types judging by the camouflage gear that they were all dressed in. He raised his hands, the universal signal for surrender.
"I think we'd better do as the man says," he told Millie and Geoff. At least for the time being, he continued to himself.
He could see the look on Geoff's face. The other boy looked angry, very angry. Kyle hoped he wasn't going to do anything stupid. He tried to send a look of reassurance to the boy, while at the same time desperately trying to remember what his dad had told him you were supposed to do in situations like this.
Geoff looked at the door and back again at Kevin lying motionless on the floor, looking pale in stark contrast against the dark carpet. He slowly raised his hands to match Kyle's.
"You haven't killed him, have you?" Millie sounded very upset.
"Oh no, young lady," the dark haired man smirked. "Not yet, anyway." He reached into his pocket and spoke into his phone.
"Colonel Masters? We have them, sir. Yes sir, the Damon girl and a couple of others. Oh yes, and a bonus, I think one of the boys is another one of those teleporters. I disabled him with the taser weapon in case he got any bright ideas of disappearing." He gestured towards one of his companions who produced some photos which he laid out on the large coffee table in front of the dark green two-seater couch at the side of the room.
Kyle leaned over as far as he could with being obvious, and tried to get a look at them. The red headed boy must be Megabyte, Millie's brother. Completing the gallery were two more photos, one of Kevin and another of a dark girl whom Kyle had never seen before. They didn't have any of Ami, Jade or Adam he realised. He glanced again at the photos. Judging by what he could see these photos looked quite a bit out of date. Kevin looked very much younger than he did now. Probably Megabyte did too. Kyle wondered who the other girl was.
It certainly sounded as thought this Masters guy was after the Tomorrow People all right, with a vengeance. Kyle wondered if there was any way he might be able to get a warning to his dad in Roswell. Someone needed to warn Ami and Jade that they were in danger too.
Their captor speaking to his superior interrupted his train of thought. "Yes, it's definitely the other boy," he told the man at the other end of the phone, as he double checked his suspicions by examining the photo again. "As soon as you get the blond girl, whoever she is, we'll have them all apart, from the Davis girl."
Alex turned away from the window he was looking out, and gestured to Michael. "Hey, what do you make of this?" he asked. "Looks as though Valenti's up to something."
Michael came over and glanced out quickly towards where Alex was pointing. "Wonder what he's playing at?" He could see the sheriff, sitting in his jeep carefully watching Damon waiting outside the UFO centre. As a black nondescript car pulled in next to Damon, Valenti slid down in the driver's seat, so that he wouldn't be seen.
Maria came up behind the two boys and peered over Michael's shoulder. "He's going to follow them," she exclaimed. "Won't that put Max and the others in danger though if he's found out?"
"Only if he's caught." Michael sounded annoyed. "Looks as though we'd better go keep an eye on him."
"Yeah, like that's going to help," put in Jade. "Maybe the sheriff's got the right idea. Has anyone thought of that? I mean we can't reach Megabyte and Adam telepathically, so how else are we going to find out where they are exactly so that we can rescue them. I know I didn't pick up enough from the flash to pin point their whereabouts, did anyone else?"
Ami shook her head. "Megabyte's flash was too weak. I could have maybe got something from Adam but whatever severed the transmission seemed to scramble that side of things too. I'm not sure why but I couldn't get a location of where they were at all." She tried to keep the worry out of her voice, but with not much success.
"Can you usually do that?" asked Liz. "You know, home in on where they are, that sort of thing?"
Ami nodded. "We've been able to in the past, not this time though. It's almost of though something is stopping us…"
Maria grabbed her coat and started for the door.
"Where do you think you're going?" asked Michael.
"Well, duh," she said. "Didn't you say something about keeping an eye on Valenti? I've got a car parked outside, makes sense that if we're going to follow him, we should do it now. After all if he's going now, so should we. You coming, Michael?"
"I'm coming too,' said Liz, with a look directed at Michael that said 'don't try and stop me.' "Ami, if you get anything, phone me. Alex's got the number. You can always do your teleporting thing if you need any of us. In the meantime Valenti and Megabyte's dad are going who knows where and we'll lose them if we don't hurry."
The two girls paused at the threshold of the Crashdown and Maria gestured to Michael. He shrugged. "I'd better go and keep an eye on them." He shot a warning glance at Isabel. "Don't do anything without me. Remember this Masters creep and his goons are dangerous. They've already got Max and the others, we don't want them getting their hands on anyone else."
Isabel watched Michael and the two girls follow Valenti's vehicle from a discrete distance as he headed after the black sedan. She looked up at the night sky, watching the distant stars for a moment before seeming to come to a decision. She ran her hands through her long blond hair as she directed her question at the two Tomorrow People. "If you could find out where the boys are and could ask them what it was stopping their powers, that would help wouldn't it?" she asked.
Alex laid a warning hand on her shoulder. "Isabel, are you sure about this?" he asked.
"I can't just sit here wondering if I could help, and not doing anything," she replied.
Jade looked at Isabel and then Alex. "I don't get it. If we can't reach them, how would you be able to?" She was silent for a moment and then continued, a look of realisation on her face. "Kevin!" she exclaimed. "Kevin knew, that's why he kept looking at you. You're an alien too, just like Michael and Max." She blushed for a moment. "I thought that Kevin was only looking at you because he…er…um…forget I said that." Jade repeated her earlier statement quickly to hide her embarrassment. "You're an alien."
Isabel nodded. "Yes," she confirmed, "and I think I know of a way to reach them. I'm not sure it will work, as I've never done it when the other person's been awake before, but it's worth a try."
"Awake?" asked Ami, her mind ticking over. Isabel an alien? She kicked herself mentally. How could she have missed that? As Jade had said, Kevin had obviously worked it out, even though the two of them had missed it. Maybe the girl's natural mental shielding was stronger than Michael's. Yes maybe that was it. Still now wasn't the time to worry about that, if she could reach Adam and Megabyte…Ami was trying very hard not to think about what could be happening to her two friends.
"She dreamwalks," explained Alex. "Isabel can go into other people's dreams, and talk to them." He moved closer towards the tall blond girl and Ami wondered if there was some kind of relationship between the two of them. After all he certainly seemed very protective of his friend.
"As I said, I'm not sure it would work. I've only really dreamwalked other people while they've been asleep," Isabel said.
"What if we added our powers?" asked Ami. "Contacting other people while they're asleep, through their dreams, sounds as though it might be on some sort of psychic level. It can't hurt."
"But our powers aren't psychic." Isabel paused and thought for a moment. "At least I don't think they are. I'm willing to give it a try though, if you guys are."
"Well, we've got to do something," reasoned Jade. "I'm going crazy sitting here thinking about what could be happening to Megabyte…and the others." She blushed for the second time in as many minutes, and Ami knew she was wondering if anyone had noticed that Megabyte's welfare was obviously her main concern.
"We're worried about them too, Jade," Ami shot the younger girl a smile, sensing her embarrassment. When they rescued their friends, she was going to sit down and have a very long talk to Megabyte she decided. It was becoming very obvious to everyone but the redhead exactly how Jade felt about him. Her mental shields tended to slip a bit at times, especially when her emotions ran high, Ami had noticed. Even though the young American was a Tomorrow Person, and with that supposedly able to pick up on the thoughts and feelings of his fellow telepaths, there were still a lot of times where he seemed totally unaware of what exactly was going on around him.
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