Captured

A:

The man, apparently named Moses, drops his box of doughnuts and charges toward me.

"Hey, hey, hey," I say, holding out my hand but Moses ignores it entirely and runs right into me. Wrapping his arms around my back, he throws me against the window of the bakery before turning around and throwing me onto the floor.

"Ahh," I cry out, pushing myself up. "Why did you do that?"

Moses does not answer me. Instead, he raises his hand before lowering it. As he does this, the bakery's shutters move by themselves. They roll down and cover the windows and door. Immediately, I realize what Moses has done.

"Telekinesis," I say, bringing up my fists. "You used telekinesis. You have powers!"

"What," the baker yells. I look to the side to see the baker frozen and stuck to the wall. Her eyes are shooting between Moses and me.

"I'm sorry about this," Moses says, holding out his hand to the baker. "I, uhh, I fix all of this later. For now!"

Moses turns back to me and jumps. As he jumps into the air, Moses pulls back his arm. He is trying to punch me but I move out of the way and grab Moses's arm. He screams as, this time, I throw him into one of the display cases.

The glass shatters and the cakes flatten as Moses pushes himself off the display cases. Back on his feet, he charges toward me once more.

Moses throws one of his fists forward but I dodge it. As I pull back my own fist and throw it forward, I thought the man called Moses would dodge it. However, I am wrong.

Moses slams his arms together and blocks my punch. I, along with the baker and the two customers are knocked back by the shockwaves.

Screaming as my feet slide along the tilted floor, I look back at Moses as he steps toward me with both his arms risen. I swing my arm but he easily blocks it by rising one of his arms. With his other arm, Moses throws a punch and it hits me right in the face.

I stumble back while holding my nose.

"Ahh," I cry out again. Thinking fast, I start to throw telekinesis blasts at Moses but Moses somehow is able to re-direct all of them. With swings of his fists, he blocks all my telekinesis blasts, sending them into the walls, the floor, and even a few of the equipment.

"Again," Moses says, looking at the baker as she holds her hands over her mouth. "I am really sorry about that! I will fix it later! I promise!"

Moses looks back at me just as I pick up the cash register and throws the whole thing at him. He screams as the cash register hits him and loose changes and dollar bills rain all over him.

Moses, however, recovers faster than I expected. Shooting out his hands, he then pulls back them in.

"What the heck," I say. It looks like he is trying to use telekinesis but what is he trying to grab? I turn around and look behind me only to get hit in the face but a cake.

Crying out as the cake hits and blinds me, I feel all sorts of other pastries and baked treats hit me as well. Before I knew it, I was covered in frosty and whipped creams.

As I wipe my face and shake off all the whipped creams, I hear a scream and turn back around.

"I'll be back to clean up," Moses yells as he charges toward me. Before I can do anything, Mosese once again wraps his arms around me and teleport me away. The two of us are in a whirlwind of black mist before disappearing and reappearing.

As the two of us fall outside the whirlwind of black mist, I immediately start to burn. My skin is set on fire and white smoke starts to come off it.

Screaming as I fall to the ground, I start to look around.

"Am I," I say, doing my best to look through the white smoke. "Am I in a church?"

I see long rows of wooden seats, one lined up after the other. I see stained glass windows with a grand piano underneath it. I even see a wooden cross.

Screaming as the burning intensified, I try to use my own teleportation power to escape but no matter how hard I focus, I do not see any of the black mist.

"Now what," I say, looking at my hand as it shakes. I try to stop the shaking and hold my hand out but it is no use. My hand is shaking. No, it is twitching. It is snapping left and right and no matter what I do, I cannot stop it.

"I have to get out of here. I cannot stay here. I have to get out of--"

A yell cuts my thought off. Looking up, I see Moses as he runs toward me. I try to use my power. I try to get up. I try to move out of the way, but everything fails. As Moses runs toward me, he jumps into the air and pulls back his arm. Sending it forward, Moses hits me right in the head and before I know it, all I see is a black void.

Moses:

"I-I can't believe it," I say, looking at whipped cream-covered Aaren. "I was able to knock Aaren out. But how? Aaren should've been stronger. Even if in a church."

I shake my head at the thought.

"No," I say, stepping back. "You can figure that out later. For now, you need to call Jacob. Tell him the news."

I place my two fingers against my forehead and focus.

"Jacob," I say, "Jacob. Are you there?"

"Moses," Jacob starts. "Is that you? With all due respect, why are you calling me? I'm in the middle of something."

"Is it finding and stopping Aaren before he can destroy anything and anyone else?"

Even though Jacob is somewhere else, I can easily see him stopping in his track, his eyes going wide and his mouth hanging slightly open.

"Don't tell me," Jacob says but I do tell him.

"Yeah, I find Aaren. And fought him."

"You fought him? Are you okay?"

"Strangely, yes. I don't know why, but for some reason, Aaren isn't as strong as he once was. Do you know?"

Jacob:

"I'll tell you later," I say, using my telepathic to speak to Moses. "Listen, for now, just tell me where you are. Leia and I will meet up with you and we'll take A away."

"A," Moses repeats.

"Again," I say, "I will tell you later. There's a whole story going on here."

"Okay," Moses says slowly. "Sound like an interesting story."

Moses tells me where he and A are. I thank him before ending the telepathic call and now calling Lafayette.

Lafayette:

"Come on," I say, tapping both my fingers against my arm and my foot against the wall. "Come on. Come on! A, where the heck are you?"

I look left and right but all I see is sand, sand, and more sand.

"There's no way A would go to the apartment," I think, "And I doubt there's anywhere else he would or even can go. I mean, no offense or anything, but A is broke."

As I keep leaning against the wall with my arms crossed, I start to hear a voice inside my head.

"Lafayette," Jacob says. "Lafayette!"

"Jacob," I say, pushing myself off the wall. "Yeah. I'm here. Uhh, sorry. I still don't have any of the stuff we need, but I will have it before tonight."

"There's no need," Jacob says.

"No need," I repeat. "Wait, what? What happen?"

"Moses captured A. The two are in a church in the western part of the city."

"Moses captured A? What! Wait, Moses? What is Moses even doing here in San Francisco to begin with?"

"I don't know but Lafayette, come on! This is the chance we have been waiting for! Once we capture A, you can leave this city! You can come back with us! After two long years, you can finally come back."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," I say, coughing a little. I scratch the back of my head. "Uhh..."

"Lafayette, I'm going to teleport to that Church now. I expect to see you there."

"Wait! You can't go there yet!"

I cross my fingers and hope I manage to stop Jacob before he teleports away. Thankfully, it seems crossed fingers do work.

"Why not," he asks, still using his telepathic power to speak to me.

"Uhhh," I start, hitting my hand against my head over and over again. "Come on, Leia. Think of something. If Jacob captured A, then you'll have no reason to stay here. And I can't leave Alfred, Alieen, and Matt. At least, not like this."

"Lafayette," Jacob says. "Why can't I go the church yet?"

I hit my head with my hand until finally, an idea sparks.

"Because you can't go there empty-handed," I answer. "Think about it. We fought A many times before and even in a church, he's strong. Moses may have knocked A out but I think that's only because A doesn't remember Moses. On the chance that A wakes, we may need some extra protection. Besides Moses."

"I guess that is true," Jacob answers. "Okay. I'll wait, but whatever it is you're doing, stop it now! Grab what we need and get over here. We have been here too long now, and are drawing too much attention."

"How much attention is too much attention," I ask.

"Lafayette," Jacob starts, "I just spend the last hour wiping clean the memory of a panicking baker and her two customers while at the exact same time, wiping the bakery's floor to clean it of cakes, doughnuts, and melted ice creams. Moses owes me for this."

"Okay," I say, ending our telepathic call.

I don't even ask. I have something more important to do. Using my powers, I quickly teleport to the church to rescue A.