CHAPTER - 7 NUCLEAR PART 1

"I want a lawyer!" Justin demanded as soon as Captain Sting closed the door behind him as he walked into the interrogation room.

"Does that mean you admit to being guilty of all charges?" Captain Sting asked.

"No... It means I'm not saying a damn thing without my lawyer." Justin replied in annoyance.

"If you honestly think someone's going to want to defend you of all people, your seriously deluded young man." Captain Sting retorted.

Justin stayed quiet, he was starting to realize he probably wouldn't get a fair trial. Even if its his right to treated as innocent until proven guilt, but since he and his father were basically being accused of mass murder in the 7/15 incident, its like his rights were stripped away; just like when he was a kid. So at this point in life he was used to the injustice.

"Why are you doing this, you've apparently had a personal grudge with me since I was a kid,... why?" Justin asked in frustration.

"I lost my wife in the 7/15 massacre, my daughters lost their mother; and all the evidence leads us to believe that you, along with your parents had something to do with it. Not to mention that we have several eye witnesses that can place a three year old you emerging from the same crater as that monster after it disappeared, so you'll get no sympathy from me." The man explained, with venom in his voice.

"Didn't we already settle this when I was a kid; I was proven innocent, remember?!" Justin asked, in an attempt to jog his memory.

"That was just because there wasn't enough substantial evidence to incriminate you... until now that is; this kinda looks like you don't you think?" Captain Sting answered as he put a tablet on the table playing the footage of last night's brawl with Brody.

Justin's heart stopped for a brief second when he saw the video but then he slowly started to regain his composure.

"Are you serious right now? This is your evidence against me?!,

I can't believe you're wasting my time with this." Justin spat, raising his voice in disapproval.

"You can deny it all you want but if I can see the resemblance the other people will too, face it....your life is over." Captain Sting fired back, ignoring Justin's outburst completely.

"This interrogation is over." Someone said as they came barging into the interrogation room.

""Ahh, you must be his lawyer." Captain Sting spoke in an unhappy tone.

"Well its about ti..... oh you've got to be kidding me" Justin said as he realized that the person who walked in was Mr. Jones.

"My client will not be answering anymore questions." Mr. Jones informed Captain Sting firmly as he walked in with a full black suit and a briefcase.

"I changed my mind, I no longer want a lawyer." Justin quickly pleaded making a quick one eighty on his earlier statement.

"Huh?" Captain Sting muttered in a bit of confusion.

"Heh, heh,... he's kidding of course." Mr. Jones said while laughing as he slapped Justin at the back of his head.

"Riiiight!" Captain Sting replied as he walked through the door to give the two a few brief moments.

"So what are you doing, not that I'm not happy to see you... well i'm not exactly happy to see you either." Justin muttered having mixed feelings about Jones being present.

"You little brat, I came here on my day off to bail your ungrateful ass out of jail, so I suggest you show some respect and gratitude." Mr. Jones explained most irritated with Justin.

"Whatever man." Justin whispered without a care for Mr Jones feelings.

"Where's my mom and uncle Jayce ?" Justin asked.

"Director Stone had already made prior engagements with his daughter so he sent me instead." Mr. Jones informed.

"Oh,... that's right; Amethyst is his daughter. She's completely in the dark and I made him a promise not to involve her in any of this." Justin thought to himself.

"And as for your mother; she'll be on one of our private jets on her way out of town on an urgent business matter really soon." Mr. Jones continued.

"She's leaving again? but she just got back from a business trip, and how come she told you but not me ?" Justin asked sitting up in his seat at that moment.

"Um, well..." Mr. Jones began trying to come up with an excuse.

But right then and there, Justin started to put all the pieces together.

"My mom works for the A.D.A, doesn't she? and the business trips before and the one now are A.D.A. missions aren't they." Justin asked already aware of the answer but still asking nonetheless.

"Well I guess there's no use in hiding it any further; yes, your mother is an A.D.A agent, the best agent actually; and right now she's investigating that man in the shadows. The one that kidnapped her and was working with Brody." Mr. Jones explained.

"Wait, wait, wait... Brody was working with a partner?" Justin asked in surprise, this piece of information was new to him.

"More like working for; It seems Brody was a pawn in a much larger game." sa Mr. Jones answered with a sigh at the end.

"Brody!!!A pawn?!!... you gotta be kidding me. It took everything I had to beat him and now you're telling me that he was just a pawn!" Justin whisper yelled starting to freak out.

"That's not all, from what we were able to get from Brody after we interrogated him, it seems whoever this man in the shadows is... he can somehow give superpowers to other people. As the last time we dealt with Brody, he couldn't even lift a cinder block much less to lift a car and throw it like it's a soft ball, so the bigger threat is this man in the shadows." Mr. Jones pointed out.

"And he wants to kill all the A.D.A founding members, or at least the three that are left, including uncle Jayce, why?" Justin inquired.

"How did you know about that?" asked Mr. Jones with a very surprised look on his face.

"Heightened senses, remember?!" Justin answered pointing at his ears suggesting that he heard everything.

"Oh... Damn!" Mr. Jones replied as he remembered about Justin's super hearing.

"Yes, apparently he wants to kill them, for reasons I don't know." Mr. Jones replied to the boy.

"Ok, so besides uncle Jayce, who're the other two members? Justin asked in eagerness.

"That's classified." Mr. Jones replied quickly, completely dodging the question.

"Ok, so how much longer do I have sit in this interrogation room." the boy asked.

"Just a bit longer, all they have against you is a picture of someone who you share a slight resemblance with which will never stick. I've already pleaded your case with the higher ups."

Justin started to feel a sense of relief after hearing that... not realizing that he wasn't out of the woods yet.

ELSEWHERE

"Ugh, what's going on?" a man asked, after regaining consciousness.

"Finally, another success, I was growing impatient." Said an ominous voice.

"Huh? who the hell are you?!" the man asked as he turned to where the voice was coming from.

It was a man who was just sitting in a chair. Yet because it was so dark where he was sitting you couldn't see his face. It was the man in the shadows, the man who Brody was working for.

"Who I am is not important, what is important is the new person you are now." The man in the shadows replied.

"What the?!" the man gasped at the sight of dead bodies at his feet wearing orange prison jump suits like his own. Although they were bleeding from the eyes, nose, ears and from the mouth.

"Oh don't mind them, those are just failures, unlike you of course; since you survived the procedure. Would someone remove these worthless pieces of trash from my sight." The man in the shadows spoke confusing the man who'd just awoken.

Immediately some of his underlings entered the room and started to dispose of the dead bodies.

"What the hell is going on here? what procedure?" the man asked in a panic.

"Tony, I can call you Tony right... " The man in the shadows stated, rather than asked.

" How do you know my name?" Tony asked.

"Lets not focus on such trivial things, you see I've broken you out of prison. I've given you a gift, given you power and I can teach you how to control it; and in return I would like you to do something for me. I promise you'll be rewarded handsomely." The man explained trying to strike a deal.

"This is a joke right? I'm not listening to this crap." Tony replied as he turned his back and began heading to the door.

Feeling annoyed, Tony stormed through the door. However to his surprise, when he touched the door, it started to glow light green. Tony took a few steps back not knowing what would happen. Suddenly the door exploded in front of him, knocking him to the ground.

"The hell?!" Tony exclaimed as he stared at his hands in awe.

"Well, at least now we know what you can do; so are you ready to listen to me now?" the man asked, laughing darkly at the man.

A FEW HOURS LATER

"So they can't charge him with anything?" Sarah spoke, talking to Mr. Jones as she sat on a private jet.

"Don't worry, Justin will be out of here in no time." Mr. Jones assured her.

"Alright, ill leave it to you then." Sarah yielded as she hung up the phone.

Not too far from the jet was Tony awaiting further orders from the man in the shadows when his phone started ringing. It was an unknown caller.

"Hello?!" Tony said as he answered the call.

"Have you done what I asked of you?" the man asked.

"I cant do this, I've built bombs and sold them but I've never used one; plus I only have two more years until I get out of jail. If I do this, my sentence will increase, so no I can't do this." Tony explained putting his foot down.

"We had a deal Tony, in exchange for your powers and teaching you control, you'd do whatever I say. So you no longer have a choice."

"Oh screw you, if u want this Sarah chick dead so badly then your gonna pay me first." Tony demanded.

The man in the shadows was getting irritated.

"Ahhhh... " Tony started groaning in agony as pain suddenly shot through his body.

Somehow, the man started controlling the energy inside Tony's body which he gave him, causing it to go out of control.

"You are in no position to negotiate, you will do as you're told, UNDERSTAND!!!" The man on the phone barked at Tony now upset.

"Alright, alright... I'll do it." Tony agreed in defeat.

"That's more like it, just remember, only let it blow up after the jet takes of ." The man said as he ended the call.

Tony sneaked next to the jet and placed his hands on the tail so it would explode but he did as the man asked of him and didn't let the jet explode right away. Now that he had control over his power.

A few minutes later, the jet was in the air; everything seemed to indicate smooth flying but not for long.

AT THE A.D.A HEADQUARTERS

After the jet had taken off, one of the agents was monitoring the jet when he noticed something weird.

"What the hell?!" he voiced when he noticed a strange growing energy signature; and decided to call Mr. Jones.

"Hello." Mr. Jones spoke as he answered his phone.

"Sir, its about Mrs. Jackson's flight, we're detecting a strong energy signature somewhere on the jet. It's growing tremendously fast." The agent spoke hysterically.

"What? can you tell what it is?" Mr. Jones asked worriedly as Justin was trying to use his hearing.

"I don't know, but if it grows any further, it'll go nuclear." the agent said as he started to panic.

"Should we tell Justin?" he asked.

Mr. Jones turned back around and was surprised.

"I... think he already knows." said Mr. Jones as he saw Justin's empty chair.

Justin had sped off into the city, heading to the roof top of the tallest building he could find to try to use his hearing to listen out for the jet.

"Come on, come on... please work." Justin kept repeating again and a again.

MEANWHILE

"The Jet has to be high enough by now." Tony thought to himself as he snapped his fingers.

As soon as he snapped his finger, the area where he touched started to glow brighter.

"What the hell is that?!" said Sarah as she noticed the back of the jet started glowing.

"Oh shit." She said as she tried running to the front of the plane as she started to realize what was happening.

The tail of the jet exploded causing the jet to start falling from above the clouds into Justin's line of vision.

"I've got to time this right." Said Justin as he knelt down. Suddenly, Justin's legs started to glow blue. The floor slightly started to shake, and then... he just jumped, leaving huge cracks in the floor of the roof of the building as soon as his feet left the ground.

It almost looked like Justin was flying as he was being propelled in the air by the jump. Luckily, he timed the jump perfectly and was able to grab the jet by its wing , but there was one problem. The jet's weight started bringing him back down, he realized that he didn't think of a plan before jumping into action.

"Damn it, what now?!" Justin thought to himself as he was starting to loose his grip, until he couldn't hold on any longer.

"No, no, nooooo!!" he shouted as he was falling to what seemed to be his death.

Then he just closed his eyes, preparing himself for a crash landing. A few seconds passed and Justin thought it was weird that he hadn't hit the ground yet and decided to open his eyes.

"Wow! what?" said Justin in shock as he realized that he was floating. His face inches away from the pavement, and his whole body was glowing again.

Unfortunately Justin didn't have time to think about what was happening since his mother was still in danger. So he tried to fly as fast as he could even though this was all new to him.

When he caught up with the plane, he tried to use his brute strength to stop it from crashing, pushing past his limits since the plane was heavier than anything he had ever lifted before. Fortunately, he was able stop the jet from crashing, saving everyone onboard. Not long after, Sarah stormed out of the jet, or rather what was left of it.

"Justin! what the hell were you thinking, using your powers in pub... Justin? JUSTIN!" Sarah shouted as Justin collapsed out of exhaustion.

"I...I... I'm okay, I don't think that I've ever pushed myself that far." Justin spoke trying to get his mom to stress less.

"You need to get back to the station before someone notices you're gone." she said as she helped him up off the ground.

"But we need to talk... " he said as she quickly cut him off.

"Later, as of right now you need to go before someone sees you." Sarah instructed.

2 HOURS LATER

After news came out about another sighting of the glowing man at the crash sight of the jet. Captain Sting raced back to the interrogation room, hoping Justin would not be there, which would confirm that the boy was guilty.

"What's wrong, you look like you've seen a ghost." Justin spoke acting like nothing happened, sitting in the same place as when Sting left.

"Well, the glowing man was just sited, so I guess that clears your name." Sting said as the disappointment was very evident on his face, so he had no choice but to let him go.

ELSEWHERE

"I'm sorry, I did exactly do what you told me to do. Somehow some guy managed to stop the plane from crashing." Said Tony afraid for his life after not being able to kill Sarah.

"Yes, I saw the whole thing and don't worry. I'm not going to kill you; you can still be of use to me, so you can just go home for now." said the man in the shadows his voice eerily calm.

After Tony left, one of the underlings came up and spoke to him.

"It seems your plans have been once again spoiled." said the underling.

" Yes, it seems the boys powers are growing even faster than I anticipated." the man in the shadows replied.

"Since you know his identity, would you like me to take him out before he becomes a threat?" the underling asked.

"No! whether we like it or not, this boy is key to making my grand plan come into fruition, so we'll let him be for now." The man replied quickly but firmly to get his point across.

MEANWHILE

Justin ran back all the way to his house to see his mother.

" Everything okay?" asked Sarah as Justin hugged her tightly as soon he came in through the front door. Not even giving her a chance to welcome him back.

"Just glad you're safe" Justin replied.

"Thanks to you... again." Sarah said as she hugged him back.

"Yeah you did good today kid." Said Director Stone coming out of the living room.

"Oh hey uncle Jayce, didn't know you were back." Justin greeted the man.

"I came back as soon as I heard, we really need to do something. This is the second attempt on her life, which makes me believe she's being targeted." Director Stone revealed.

"Whatever it is I'm in." Justin voiced making it clear he wanted to be involved in whatever they had planned.

"Are you sure you want to get involved? You know whoever is orchestrating this is obviously dangerous." Director Stone informed.

And Justin responded with the anger evident on his face.....

"I don't care, whoever it is... I'll bury them

~KEOKROSTOS