Reformed: Supervillain Rehabilitation Project by H. L. Burke

Author:H. L. Burke [Burke, H. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: superheroes
Publisher: H. L. Burke
Published: 2020-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Prism rushed for the door. Scope made no attempt to stop her. Before she’d made it two steps into the lobby, however, Fleet zoomed out, a random woman in her arms. She dropped her burden onto the carpeted floor, spun around, and rushed back the way she’d come. The woman groaned and coughed. Sirens blasted in the distance. Prism stumbled down the hallway of individual theater entrances until she found one with gas seeping out the doorways and pooling in the hall. A small group of gray faced civilians huddled, in various stages of consciousness, a little down the hallway.

As she approached, Fade stepped through the wall, another victim clutched to his chest.

“There’s still more,” he coughed. “We’re losing them.”

Heart in her throat, Prism pushed past him into a hellscape. Gas twisted over the theater seats, obscuring the aisle lights and the flickering images on the towering screen. Moans, coughs, and muffled screams rose as people writhed in the darkness. A few stumbled towards the exit, but most lay, unmoving. Summoning her power to her fist, she held her hand aloft.

Glint stormed past her, carrying one full-grown man over each shoulder. Shaking off her horror, Prism pulled the nearest body she could reach off the floor, and started towards the exit.

While all sables were stronger than the average human, Prism was on the lower end of that scale. It took all her might to drag the dead weight of a fading human into the safety of the hallway. By the time she’d made it, Fleet, Glint, and Fade had made several more trips, Fade using his abilities to take shortcuts directly through theater seats and walls. Soon Tanvi, Keeper, and even Aiden joined the rescue attempt, though Aiden wobbled on his feet, still overwhelmed by the hit of panic and pain from the victims.

Finally taking Prism’s word about the gas’s effects on normies as opposed to sables, Glint managed to keep all first responders out of the gas-tainted theater, instead bringing the various victims out to them. It was about that point that the number of already dead among the people they were “rescuing” truly hit home.

After the lights came on in the theater revealing no more bodies, alive or dead, the sables collapsed in the lobby, watching as EMTs, including Aiden, continued their triage efforts. Glint stomped over to talk to the DOSA clean up crew. Prism felt she should be there with him but didn’t have the energy.

“What happened to Green Angel?” Fleet asked, her voice harsh.

“He tried to slip out the emergency exit, and I tackled him.” Tanvi’s fists clenched. “Might’ve knocked him out. Don’t really care.”

“He didn’t know what he was doing,” Prism whispered. “Whoever sold him the gas lied to him. Doesn’t make him innocent, but he wasn’t trying to do ... this.” She closed her eyes, unable to look at the bodies stretched out before them. Fade settled beside her, recognizable by his distinct energy, and placed his hand on her shoulder.

“We saved some.

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