Evolution Lost

            “Be-e-en!” Daniel cried out. Out of his empty promises to Aya he started bolting towards one of the many ways in and out of Central Park. Just getting out of the car Aya quickly had to yell out for Daniel’s safety.

            “Daniel, stop!” she said while Daniel wasn’t caring anymore. His passion for his family was starting to get to him, which Xeo could even feel from where he was. The Dark Side of The Force was being twisted by anyone who was giving into those emotions that flow easily by anyone who is force-sensitive. Daniel wasn’t force-sensitive but his mind was being corrupted by The Dark Side as he turned around to mouth off to Aya.

            “I got to get my boy, rookie.” Aya was shock to even hear something from Daniel after being together for so long. Daniel didn’t care at this point. He wanted to get his only family back. After waving Aya off in his arrogance he began to start heading into Central Park. “Believe me. All I have now it the will to save what I hold dearest to me. I’m not even feeling the cold right now because of my anger. Hell. My arms are even heating up from all of this tension. I’m going!” His walking was short lived by only a few steps. His body was full of anger and felt it venting out but it was only then that his arm began to burst into flames. Aya started to run towards Daniel as he was taking steps back and trying to bush the flame aside. He could tell that he was experiencing from what happen last night. He knows all well that it wasn’t a chemical agent that made this happen but he didn’t believe what he could be thinking after what Klamp said to him and Aya. “Whoa!” said Daniel as he kept the fire at bay while kneeling down. Aya got up to him and kneel to help him out. After which, Xeo even looked up to see what was happening while feeling a darker presence nearby.

            “He is here…” Xeo said while feeling two different Dark Side energy signatures. He was able to find Dreazin’s signature easily but it dispersed as soon as he was able to find this last known position. “…you can’t hide from me, Dreazin.” Xeo then looks at Daniel and Aya while they were talking.

            “Sometimes you got to look before you leap, old timer.” Aya said while Daniel still trying to recover from his burn. His suit is still intact and nothing on his skin is burned but the pain is still being felt; however, the anger he is feeling is still making him belligerent towards saving his family.

            “I don’t care if I burn! You hear me you freak!” Daniel screamed while flailing out his arms to do anything he could under his human limitations with the mitochondria. Aya, now armed with knowledge, knows what she can do and could be able to do again what she did last night. Daniel wasn’t going to give up without a fight and Aya knows him too well.

            “I’ll go…” she said while Daniel started to understand why he couldn’t go in and how Aya was able to come out of there without a scratch.

            “But how…how can you. Er. Never mind. Just…save my family. Please! It’s all I’ve got! I…could…” he said while starting to agree that he isn’t all power in this time of situation. “Damnit, I can’t do anything!”

            “Leave it to me.” Aya said with now a sense of calm that Daniel wasn’t going to be himself and stay behind. “I’ll promise that I’ll get your family out. Beside, Ben needs you. You won’t do him any good if you are dead.” While they are conversing, Xeo tries to get his head up to see the blonde hair detective’s face.

            “…Alright. I’m counting on you.” Daniel said while giving her a nod before she takes off. Aya get’s her Beretta and M16A1 while taking off into the Central Park. Xeo still looking at Aya only had one thing on his mind.

            “…I missed her face again. Fuck.” He paused for a moment to rethink what he just said. “There I go again. Dreazin might be right but I need to understand there dialect if I need to talk to any of these humanoid beings. I can’t even call them people at this point scene they don’t have midi-chlorians in their body. Just now Daniel’s arm ignited and…whoever she is…went off without being engulfed in flames, only armed with those two weapons…of…her?” He just questioned himself while having another moment to himself. “…That smaller weapon she had…that might be the firearm she used. If Will’s weapon hold those types of bullets, like the ones the Tusken Raiders used in their rifles, then those shells I found might come from her gun…and she would of encountered Eve before I got there. Now I see. Melissa and that woman must have been there together while Melissa turned into Eve at some point…did that damage and the blonde hair woman must of chased after her while taking on those rats and even confronting her. So now I need to know if Dreazin ran into even her and Eve at the same time but…that can’t be. Dreazin said that she is for another purpose by Eve, alone. Hmm…” Xeo couldn’t think of any other means of what Dreazin could do with Aya; however, he wasn’t pay attention as soon as Daniel started to walk near the car and made eye contact with Xeo. “Shit!” he said while trying to get back under his hood and trench coat whiling saying under his breath, “Again…it doesn’t sound right but it’s how they say this. I think for some reason that going into people’s minds on this world is helping me but also giving me a bad taste in their culture.” Daniel started walking towards the car as he could tell that Xeo is awake. He couldn’t play Daniel for any fool anymore as he begins to open the driver side back door. Xeo could only just wait for a moment to take advantage of.

            “Get out.” Daniel ordered Xeo. The Jedi started to move out of the car and stand up. He felt his body feeling normal again after being in the back of the car laying down for hours a pone hours.

            “You forgot about me? Is your work so important that you neglected an important and sensitive key witness to a horrific event that happened last night? Is there something you’re trying to keep the other from finding out other then Will’s poor interrogation, which I might say…was very uncalled for from what I heard that you did to him.”

            “When did you have the right to say anything while I’m the one with the badge and gun…” Daniel stated towards Xeo while the Jedi added to his statement.

            “…and anger,” Xeo said while seeing how much anger is within him. He can at this point help him get lose from his emotions and not let Daniel feed on the Dark Side of The Force.

            “You’re some kind of trickster aren’t you? Telling me if I have problems and such…”

            “But you do, Daniel. The anger you have…it’s towards yourself. From that which you have fear, which is something I cannot sit aside and see someone getting eaten alive from it.” Daniel started to get defense and hostile towards Xeo but he wasn’t finishing speaking to Daniel. “…it’s your family you worried about.”

            “Woh. Woh. Hold on a second there. How can you even care about my family if you never meet them or even know how I feel about trying to save them if you were hearing all this time!? I can’t do anything because of whatever is happening. More importantly…what do you have anything to do with this? About last night too. Huh? Out with it!?” Daniel said towards Xeo while he felt like he was getting interrogated again.

            “I can feel your love for them. It’s a feeling that can be turned against you. Like what you’re going through right now…you want to save them but even putting those in your line of work against you or making them feel your pain. Then again…I do thank you for what you did to Will but that wasn’t the best way to go about it. As for me…well last night. I was there before anything happened. I do now know that Eve killed all of those innocence lives by the time I got there and NYPD started to move around Carnegie Hall.”

            “How did you know about Will?” Daniel said now backing down from Xeo while still feeling strange.

            “There’s a lot about me you don’t know. Baker even kept me away from everyone but you. Only you knew about me and him too. I can tell when friends can be trusted even under the most stressful of conditions. Yet you still regard him as a “kiss ass”, which is part of your dialect.”

            “But how do you know all of this? I left you in that car and even kept you away from anyone’s eyes with no food or water.” Daniel said while waiting for another answer from the Jedi.

            “I can tell that you’re anger is nearly gone but just what you have left. This is good. Then, Detective Daniel, shall I explain?” Xeo said as Daniel relaxes and hears in what Xeo has to say. Unknown to Daniel, but known to Xeo, the Jedi was making Daniel give into a trance like state to make his anger go away while at which point he would be able to make Daniel bend to his will. Something Xeo has been trying to not do so offend from how much he has been using his Mind Trick; however, he has been finding it more useful than his lightsaber. Once Xeo knew used his trance of the Light Side to nullify Daniel’s mental state to nothing he was able to do his Mind Trick.

            “Please do.” Daniel said while Xeo knew his moment had come.

            “Okay Daniel. I am really a magician from the crew of last night’s Carniege Hall. Will was right and needs to be looked after for questioning. You should call in on your radio and ask Baker for a full on inquiry…” Xeo then remembers that he is without his Jedi weapon. “Also give me back my metal pipe for its part of my act as a magician.” Daniel started to zone out and fall under Xeo’s Mind Trick and begins to repeat everything.

            “You are a magician. I can figure that out from the way you dress. Will was right. I will call in Baker as soon as I give you’re metal pipe back.” Daniel said while doing what Xeo commanded him to do. He opens up the glove compartment and starts to hand over Xeo’s lightsaber. Just as soon as Xeo was getting close to be handed back Xeo could feel something odd happening in the back of Daniel’s mind. Then Daniel all of a sudden balled up his free fist and started to swing at Xeo. “Magician my ass! They use black sticks. Not a metal pipe you wannabe!” The Jedi knew his tricked failed at this point but tried very hard not to use any other kind of Force Powers on him. Any attempt Xeo could try would give him away as someone not from this world or make him believe that he is another product of Eve’s power, which he would lead more to. He kept punching and missing Xeo while he was trying to get his lightsaber back. They moved sporadically away from the car and near a grey brick rectangular structure where Xeo had his back up against it. At this point he would explain who he really was.

            “Okay…I will tell you what I am.” Xeo said while still acting normal but raising his tone of voice louder to get Daniel’s attention. Even putting his hands up in a defense stands but that only made Daniel even more aggressive.

            “Trying to worm your way out of this, heh? Not happening, chump!” He started using both hands to submit Xeo but the trained Jedi could only use his hand in defense. Every punch Daniel threw at him he blocked and pushed out of the way while this made Daniel even more stressed out. “I’ll get you!” he yelled out while trying to land a hit on Xeo, which at this point Xeo was seeing an accident about to happen…and his moment. Daniel’s other hand, which had Xeo’s lightsaber was begin to slip as his thumb was drawing near the activation button. Xeo only had a moment to get his head out of the way once Daniel ignited the weapon. Daniel took one good hard punch at Xeo with his free hand, but then the lightsaber turned on and showed off its brilliant color a pone Daniel. He had no idea what was going on while he was thinking back to Will’s moment with Daniel before about the “lights” Xeo made him show. At that very moment Xeo, using very little use of his power, took Daniel’s hand and rammed it into the wall and then forcing his back onto the wall making a bone crushing thud in the process. By doing this, Daniel’s arm, hand, lower half of his back, and shoulder were fractured and even broken.

            “What…the fuck!?” Daniel screamed out in pain while Xeo saw his lightsaber drop out of Daniel’s hand. Using his mind alone, Xeo was able to hold the lightsaber over his head as a light source. Daniel couldn’t believe what just happened and still can’t do anything about it. Still in pain he tries to get up but Xeo held him down for his own good.

            “Stop moving…I’ll make this all better if you don’t give into emotions. Relax.” Xeo said while Daniel kept trying to move.

            “How can I relax after what you did to my body…hand…damn, really!”

            “Just do as I say!” Xeo yelled at him while trying to get an answer of him. Daniel didn’t want any help from him but he had no other choice. A person that is able to make a weapon shine pure light and hold it without using his hands was someone to trust very hard, even for someone who hasn’t even seen or heard about the Jedi. Xeo started to move his hands around Daniel’s broken hand and begins to use his Force Heal skills on him. Moments after wards, his hand started to feel no pain as Xeo moved his hand towards his shoulder and his arm. They were fully healed but Xeo didn’t finish his job on his back because of what he wanted to do: Find Eve and Aya.

            “How…what…what are you? Something like Eve?” Daniel said while he was being helped towards the car.

            “If you want to know, now? I can’t explain. I’ve lost much needed time…” he said while making Daniel rest near the car. He grabs his gun as he put it on top of the car.

            “What are you…doing with my revolver?”

            “Insurance for my health.” Xeo stated while getting his lightsaber on his hand and holstering it on his belt. “Beside you need to stay here with that bad back of yours. Don’t worry by the way, all your feeling now is just numbness. It will come back and you’ll be able to walk again. For now…I’ll leave you as you are. You’ll be able to defend yourself. Your gun isn’t out of reach in case something should…show up.” He started walking toward the grey wall structure while Daniel tries to get his handgun. Daniel then tries to use his words to slow down Xeo while he tries to get his gun.

            “Hey! Mr. Freak. If you can do this then why should I believe you that you didn’t start those fires in Carnegie Hall?” Xeo then turns around and Force Pull the gun away from Daniel’s car and holds it momentarily as he answer’s that question.

            “If I did that…then you would be dead already. That fire you had before…it wasn’t me. I don’t even know what it is but it’s something that I can’t explain now. It has to do with Eve and someone else I know. Right now…I have to find Eve, who is here already! And if she is here…so is your family. I can save them if I run into them. You don’t have to tell me Daniel…I’ll find Ben and your wife.” He throws the gun close enough to Daniel but still hard for him to bend over to get it. “…I’ll promises to get them back. It’s how a Jedi lives in life.”

            “What…Jedi?” Daniel questioned towards Xeo while the Jedi starts walking near the grey structure at full speed. “Don’t you walk away from me, Jedi or whatever kind of name is!” Xeo then stop for a moment and turns around for last time.

            “Whatever kind of name you say? Believe me it’s more than just a name or a titled. That titled is what keeping you alive and making you understand of what you cannot do against a power like Eve’s…and Eve isn’t the only one,” he said while he starts to being his Force Jump on to the top of the wall’s sphere while Daniel grabs his gun and couldn’t be able to aim after Xeo’s unbelievable feat. “Beside, everyone wants to talk to me about last night but she hasn’t and is going after Eve too. She will have a chance to speak with me once I find Eve. Plus I want to talk to her about her current state…” Xeo said and disappear into Central Park. Daniel could only think instead of acting on his own while his back is still out. The numbness fading away he was talking to himself about what just happen.

            “Oh god…who is he? Or what he is? ‘Not his doing that night’ he said but even now he can do…ALL THAT!? He didn’t even burn up as he entered Central Park…Eve’s power has nothing on him. Just like Aya, he could be untouched that night and just even now. He even said ‘I’ll look after her’ and went off. Watch your back Aya. I have a feeling he might not be playing for the home team.” Xeo starts making his way into Central Park while he tries to track down the blonde detective’s path. His view around him was poorly lit with a few street lamps to shine down on the pavement, trees that were spread around to reduce visibility, the ambient light from the city giving off some pocket of light where the street lamps couldn’t shine, and the darkness itself hiding anything that Xeo couldn’t see or for Aya too. Without any other tools to aid him, Xeo has to relay of his training to sense out Aya’s energy signature with in Central Park. Not moving a muscle, he gives into his power and begins to feel all kinds of different emitting energies around Central Park. The life force of the creatures that were not turned and those were by Eve’s power, which made him vigilant at the moment while his hand is at his lightsaber. He was feeling the power fields of the street lamps and other power sources that the park has been coursing through out the underground landlines. Soon he was able to find Aya’s signature from all the others he was able to sense out. A river flow of The Force was being shown to him from his Jedi point of view as a clear and visible guide.

            “There you are…” Xeo said as he starts moving down the pathway with the lit street lights over his head. Trying to catch up to Aya he could hear movement beyond either side of the pathway, which made him slow down and wonder as he un-holster his lightsaber. Feeling through The Force he was able to know where danger was lurking from the shadows of Central Park; however, the sound of he was alerted to fade away as it moved away from Xeo and towards a building structure just ahead of him. Just then he was able to see a person opening a gate and step inside. “That must be her…” he said while making haste towards the location. On his way there he was able to see another cop car that had its lights left on and the engine still running. Xeo didn’t mind the vehicle as he kept moving ahead but just then the engine of the car stopped and the lights went off. He paused for a moment to just look at it and thought to himself. “Strange…I could have sworn that…” he spoke to himself until the glass of the already downed police car and hood was shattered as different creatures came at Xeo. “…I was being followed!” he yelled while igniting his weapon and readying himself with Soresu. The closest thing that came at him were two mutated snakes, which were already in mid-air flight from crashing through the window. With a quick movement of this wrist both snakes were beheaded with ease while 5 more started to show up under the car. Above Xeo were a couple of genetically altered crows as one of them makes a move toward his face. Xeo dodges the bird as he spins around and gives the crow a horizontal swipe of his lightsaber, effetely killing it. He then Force Jumps towards the other two crows and swings his saber with this Ataru form and took them down as he landed on top of the cop car. All that was left was the snakes. “I need to hurry this up but I have patience…” he said while trying to fend off a snake that was trying to get him from behind. Still using the Ataru style, his lightsaber twirled and split the snake behind him in two. The other snakes tried to get him by using their venom to spit at him; although, normal snake venom wouldn’t harm his trench coat but they weren’t normal snakes. The venom started to eat away at his top layer of clothing as he notice this. By this time the venom stop eating away at the trench coat he back flips off the car at a height that he could pull all the snakes to his advantage and started slicing all of them in a 360 sphere of Aquamarine blur of light. As he lands back down the bits of the diced snakes started to fall after words. They started to melt and turn into orange goo while Xeo started to get up. “Didn’t have to destroy the car…” he said while turning of his lightsaber and moving onwards.

            While Xeo was falling behind on his way to find Aya, she was already inside the Central Park Zoo area. Taking her time in walking around the central pool area she begins to head for the veterinarian office. Once she got under the glass roof structure she opened up the door to the office room and saw another burnt body. “Another one…I can’t stay for long. I have to find Daniel’s family before he gets himself killed.” Aya said to herself as she looks around the room for anything useful. Searching some draws she was able to find the Zoo Key for the area that she was in. After which she came back outside into the cold and started moving alongside the rest of the building structure; however, it was stopped by more creatures that Aya had to deal with. This time it wasn’t rats she had to kill but mutated crows and plant vines that have a will of their own with long vines to attack Aya with. Arming her M16A1 she begins looking down her sights at the crows and takes a few shots at one. It goes down after a couple of rounds while a plant creature started to get near her. A vine took a swing at her as he tried to move out of its way. Her side suffered a nasty burse as she went down. Aya got back up and begins dumping more ammo into the plant as it dies. She got her sights back onto the other crow but she saw it starting to dive bomb on to her. Getting out of its way she returned fire and killed it by a headshot. Reloading the gun she looked at the other plant creature coming close to her. Once her rifle was reloaded she kept shooting until it sub come to enough stress and died. Aya then relaxed as she saw the bodies of the dead creatures started to turn into the orange slime that the rats ended up after they died too. At the time her body started to heal the burse that was inflicted on her without even thinking. Aya felt better but didn’t know how she didn’t feel pain anymore. “…how did I?” she said to herself while staying on guard for anything else. While not thinking about more of what just happen she kept continuing towards the concert. Passing under the glass roof and out into more of the park’s walking areas she was still being confronted by more creatures. A pair of snakes came out of the darkness and Aya readied her rifle. She took one of them out from a headshot and killed the other one with a few shots before it came close to her. After some walking she came to a fork in the pathway. She could clearly see the right side being a dead end while the left pathway had a gate with a red brick wall. Aya started to walk towards the gate while another crow came from behind. The detective turned around fast enough to give it a fatal wound as it crash into the pavement and dissolved. After checking her rifle’s clip to account the ammo left in there she headed towards the gate. It was locked but a key hole was visible to her and she got out the Zoo Key. “It fits,” she said while turning the key and hearing the locking mechanism make a click sound. Then she turned around while putting the key back into her leather jacket and notice that the zoo area of the park had run a mock with the animals. “I could only bet that Eve has something to do with this. All the animals have escaped. She made them strong enough to break free,” Aya said to herself while opening the gate, which leads to a pathway to the stage area of the park. With a bit of walking distance she was able to see the concert that Eve would be at. She ran for it while trying to look out for any other creatures that might cross her path; however, none were to be seen. Getting closer she could be able to hear the sounds of the people that are already gathered inside and headed right for the nearest opening to the seats of the concert. By the time Aya got inside she was able to see every seat filled up with people…and Eve taking center stage. “Eve! On no…I have to find Daniel’s family before anything happens,” Aya said in her mind while she tries very hard not to get Eve to notice her being there. Slowly moving closer to a seat she moves to a person and using her badge to get their attention. “Sorry to disturb you but I’m with NYPD and I need you and anyone else to get out of here…” The person didn’t answer back as she kept trying to get a response from him. “I’m with NYPD. I’m telling you to get out of here!” Aya’s word didn’t faze him at all as he mumbled under his breath,

            “Eve…gathering…” she steps back and couldn’t believe what is happening to the gathered mob of people.

            “He’s under her influence? All of them are.” She only could just try to find Daniel’s family before anything happens; however, Eve’s voice was being echo to everyone in the concert.

            “The holiday season brings joy to us all. And this Christmas will be the most special for all. Special because I will no longer be under the control of a host, as I have since I could remember when I first started my life span. Humans are weak-mitochondria can self evolve. Mitochondria must now take over the nucleus. Such is the will of survival,” Eve said as her hand starts to move above her head and her body began to communicate to the other mitochondria in the crowd. Without warning, the audience began to feel heat all around as they couldn’t do anything to move away from this feeling. Aya didn’t feel a thing but could only look at the horror that Eve was doing to them. The mitochondria started to ooze out of the bodies of those being seated as the heat was becoming unbearable for the people. Soon the bodies became liquid orange plasma and melted whatever was left of the audience. Aya was in awe as what just happened as the ooze started to move on its own and out of the concert.

            “No! Daniel’s family…I…I have to get backstage and stop her,” she said while heading back the way she came in. Once outside she was able to see an apparition of the little girl again. “It’s her again. The little girl I saw at Carnegie Hall. But she is moving away,” At that point Aya didn’t care to ask her to stop but kept following her, as if she was being lead down a pathway for guidance. She ended up backstage and enters the concert building again but this time could run up to Eve. Getting her Beretta’s safety off and pointed at Eve’s head and yelled out at her. “Why!? Why are you doing this?” Eve turns at Aya and just looked down at her.

            “You again. But you are too late. At least you didn’t interfere with my plans this time around. I’m surprised that my pets didn’t stop you. Then again, you are something else?” Eve said with haste in her tone of voice as she flew away from Aya’s sights.

            “Stop!” Aya screamed out as her efforts to hold Eve at bay. Looking at Eve’s intended flight, Aya begins to run out of the backstage area and away from the tragic scene. Into the park pathway areas again she ran while keeping track of Eve until she couldn’t see her again. “Damn it!” she yelled at the fact of losing Eve in the darkness. Staring at the rest of Central Park she had no other choice but to keep looking for her. Finding another pathway she kept pursuing her target. Elsewhere, Xeo, being far behind Aya’s path, has reached the Central Park Zoo area. Opening the gate and shut it behind him, he was looking around to see where the blond haired detective ended up.

            “Well look at you…” he said while Force Pushes the crimson monkey with an elongated scythe for an arm back into a glass wall. While the monkey bled out on the pieces of glass, Xeo came into a self contented ecosystem for zoo animals. “I guess I found your home. Too bad it isn’t made well for your kind they way you are now,” he said while igniting his lightsaber for another round. His energy beam glow to see if the creatures would back off from him but that wouldn’t work for these creatures. He could still sense their motives and hunger for food, knowing that Xeo might think of Jedi as a diet. Xeo didn’t like the sound of that and used The Force to see where they were while trying to find that wall that can save him time. The power of The Force made his eyes see in the dark as he used Force Sight and he was able to find the creatures out. Plus his eye found a wall close enough for him to make up for lost time, which showed him a pathway towards Aya’s location. “Well that was the easy part. Now to get to it…not very easy,” he told himself in his mind as he put his arms and hands down that grip his lightsaber, which he started walking towards the broken glass encasement. Already the creatures were on the move as one of the monkeys let out of howl to signal the attack on the Jedi. Xeo knew that was a mistake on their part for making him ready for anything. Three monkeys rush towards Xeo as he gets into the Ataru style. One of them jumps high enough in the air to set itself over Xeo’s head while he his arms and hands moved his lightsaber to meet the monkey’s chest. He turns his hold body and wrists to make his vertical downward slice at the crimson monkey that was cutting across its chest. His back was towards the other monkeys that rush him even faster. He used The Force on the long scythe arm by Force Pulling it towards him and Xeo Force Jumps while making a 360-degree vertical spin over the scythe looking arm. His lightsaber sliced the scythe arm into two while still performing his jump. He landed on the ground while the two-piece of the scythe arm looking weapon when into the other two monkeys. They were impaled on the walls right through their chest. Two other monkeys came from the ceiling trying to surprise Xeo but he simply Force Pushes them away. They both crash on the ground but got back up to come at him again. Xeo advanced one of the monkeys and skewered its chest with his weapon. While retracing the energy plasma beam of Aquamarine he could feel the other monkey landing on his back. “Oh someone wants a ride?” he said to the monkey not even caring if it could understand him. Xeo used his lightsaber to twirl it behind his back to get the monkey off him; although, the monkey jumped off in time his lightsaber made contact with a nearby tree…making it fall on the monkey that was on his back and making the wall he wanted to get to passable now. 



“The Force works in many ways…I will blame it for this kind of death,” he said to himself because of how that conflict ended while rolling his eyes. Xeo then hear the grass near him move as mutated snakes were coming after him. He started moving towards the opening but in stopped by another monkey. Xeo could sense the snakes right behind him so close that they were right next to the opening of the shattered glass encasement. “It’s not nice to sneak up on someone like that,” he said when he Force Pull the splintered glass into the body of all the snakes coming up behind him. While he did that the monkey blocking his path ran right up and tried to jump him. This time Xeo just moved his lightsaber with no effort to slice it when the monkey ran into the energy beam and when into two pieces. Another monkey ran for Xeo’s back but this time he had time to react. “I would love to stick around but I have an important engagement with someone!” Xeo said while using The Force to seek out a rock that was left inside the glass encasement. “And now to shut the door,” he said while trying to move to the outside area of the building. More monkeys and snakes were advancing on the Jedi but he got just in time to close it up; even thought, one monkey tried to get pass the rock ended up crashing his scythe arm and head. Turning off his lightsaber for the moment he brushed off any blood and plant life on him. “It isn’t easy being a Jedi. That’s for sure,” he complement to himself after much was done by him alone. Once he cleaned up he looked to where Aya’s signature was going still. He could tell where the concert was from the lack of life, which is being replaced by emptiness of death and decay. His point of view, through The Force, was able to pick up on her trail again. He Force Jumps over the cold and icy river and onto near piece of land while saying, “She was just here. This pathway is warm with her energy signature.” Holstering his lightsaber for the moment he starts walking along the path that Aya was beforehand.

            Aya, in the meantime, was still following the little ghostly girl in Central Park, which crossed her mind for a moment. “Why is she here in the middle of the cold and why am I following her. I shouldn’t but…somehow…I shouldn’t ignore her,” she said while keeping an eye out for any other creatures that might come out of the shadows. Traveling down some winding pathways of pavement Aya felt lost in the deathly frozen maze but her willpower didn’t let her down. As she kept moving onwards threw Central Park she had more run-ins with snakes and crows. Her rifle kept her alive for as long as her ammo can hold out while delivering headshots into the mutated creatures. The pathway Aya was on started to clear up as she went over a small bridge and started to see another creature she never encounter before: a disgusting bugged eye bleeding mutant polar bear. Her rifle aimed towards the bear’s head while it started to emit blue energy from its hands. A powerful shockwave could be felt from Aya as she tried to get a headshot from her weapon but misses poorly. The bear started to charge at her while she started moving back and unloading her gun into the creature. It kept on running until Aya couldn’t stay in its path of destruction as she leaps out of the way. The polar bear kept running until the body started to fall to the ground and end up crashing into the wall, while the body of the bear fell into the ice cold river. Knowing what was going to happen to the body she kept moving along the pathway while keeping a look out for anything. After some trekking she came across a structure that had steps to go up. Going up the steps she could hear another set of sounds as her head soon saw a crimson monkey’s scythe being thrown at her. Ducking her head she takes aim and kills it before the other monkeys were alerted to her present. Taking her time she takes out one by one of them with headshots or several rounds until they died. Crossing the structure, which was a bridge for motorist to go by; she walked back down the flight of steps on the other side and walked more by herself. After passing a couple of benches and black steel pipe fences she came into an open area where she could see Eve from afar. Just then the ground that she was on started to move as if a whole pack of monkeys or polar bears started to come right for her until she was the earth explode with something coming out of it. “My god! Those…those are…worms?” she said to herself out loud while the worms snarled and show their teeth at her. “What did Eve do to make them so big,” she said before one of them shot out a ball of spikes from its mouth and another tried to bite her. She evades both attacks and grips the grip handle her M16 for a fight.

            Back on the other side of the park, Xeo was tracing Aya’s pathway and was able to see her footstep. “She’s been here. I can see her handy work,” Xeo stated as he look at the bullet casings and orange residue left in the pavement and snow. At this moment his Jedi senses were being alerted as he stops and feels what is being triggered in his mind. His mind was reaching out with The Force and started to see a large cluster of creatures being attacked by the blond haired woman. “Damn…first the concert and now her. I’m not going to lose another life from my carelessness,” he said as his mind was in-sync with his body again. Xeo wasted no time on his troubled thoughts and destiny as he started to Force Speed across Central Park. Using his senses he was still able to pick up the aura energy flow from her; however, more of those creatures showed up. His lightsaber comes out of his black belt holster and ignites for a fast confrontation with them. “I don’t have time for this,” he said being impatience this time around, something a Jedi never should do for himself or for anyone else. Five mutated monkeys were right in front of him as two of them jump. He slow down his Force Speed to be able to managed his focus on The Force as he Force Push both of the monkeys that were in the air. His aquamarine lightsaber went right threw one of the monkeys while another one lost its shorter arm as Xeo swung at it. He then did a full spin with his whole body and showed off a massive Force Push surging from his hand. The three monkeys were sent flying as two for them went into the trees, which they were killed by the impact of the branches and the last one land on a polar bear in the off distances. He ran back up to speed while some snakes jump at him. His lightsaber went off in diagonal directions as he exchange his saber from hand to hand, slaying each snake as he move onwards from his ways of Shii-Cho. His sight saw the polar bear with a monkey on its back while the monkey threw his scythe arm at him. He used The Force to Force Pull the scythe looking weapon on the ground as he landed on it and used it as a mean of moving. He glides on the ground with it until he was in close range of the polar bear. He Force Push his own body towards the side of the polar bear, which tried to claw him. Xeo then used his weapon to slice pass the polar bear while he spins the scythe that he is on and lunches it at the monkey, which impales into the side of it head. Xeo then kept Force Speeding towards Aya.

            Aya, still battling the worms, was running low on the type of ammo for her rifle. She killed at least three of the mutated worms but the last one is proving more difficult as it sized tripled and was using hit own body to try to harm her. She used the last shot on the worm as it survived the shot from the M16. “Damn!” she yelled out while dropping the weapon and pulling out her Beretta and started to put more bullets into it. The worm kept on trying to bite her and slam it body on her but she was too fast for it. It tried to bite her again but its mouth slammed into the ground right where the M16 was and it was stuck. “Had your iron for the day ugly?” she yells at the worm while putting three shots into its exposed mouth and penetrating its brain. The worm fell and was dead from the shots she gave it. The body of the worm when back underground as the area looked clear for her to leave. Checking her gun before he continues forward she was able to see the one who was responsible to all this madness and twisted chaos, Eve.

            “I’m just not fast enough to get to her. I need to step this up,” Xeo said while trying to catch up to Aya. He comes to the road bridge structure and could feel a dozen of monkeys on top of the road crossing. Without wasting any time, Xeo rushes the steps and as soon as he got to the top step he does a side cartwheel while he use another force power in he knows from training but rarely is used: Force Saber Throw. His lightsaber flew from his hand horizontally connecting every single monkey and cutting them down into two halves. His foot landed at the other side of the steps as his weapon returned to his hand. He ran down the steps and was confronted by two more polar bears. “Why can’t you just go back to the zoo?” he said while the bears look at him and started to charge. He stood back and waited for the bear to get in close as the Jedi started to get into a stance with this lightsaber away from him and near his side while curling up. Once he felt they were close enough, Xeo felt The Force flow through his feet and hands as he made a quick dash from the front of the bears to behind them. His lightsaber was above him and in front now while standing tall. Making a gesture as his lightsaber move back down towards his side the bear went into two while they fell apart from the running. Xeo could see the detective from a distance while saying, “No more of those things to deal with.” By saying that just now, the Jedi was losing his footing slipped as another worm came out of the ground while he was on its back. “…I just spoke to soon. Should have seen that coming!” Xeo said while one of his hands held on to the mutated worm started to slip from the struggle. It threw him off its back as he landed on the ground, head first. Coming around from the impact, he was able to see the size of the monster as it started to open its mouth for him. Xeo’s feet Force Jump away from its mouth while it tries to snap at him. He landed on the ground and was on his knees while trying to focus his mind on the fighting the worm. His lightsaber, now in a reverse style, started to charge at the worm. He made cuts along the ground flesh of the creature as it roared at him. It tried to swallow him hold but his speed was getting the best of him as Xeo kept making his move on it. He then started to run up the worm’s back while dragging his saber into it inflict more damage. The worm then shrugged Xeo off its back by slamming itself into the ground and making the Jedi fall off. Xeo gets back up and tries to Force Saber Throw at the worm but the monster was faster this time around and finally got Xeo in his mouth.  It pauses for a moment to enjoy what the mutated creature had to taste. “I hope your mom knows that humans are bad for your diet,” he said while in its mouth as he can feel the worm’s jaw starting crush him. He turns his lightsaber off and then back on while aiming it near the brain of the beast. The energy blade went right threw the worm’s upper central nerves system as he Force Jumps with the saber cutting the worm. With a twist of his wrist and a movement of his arm Xeo jump out of the already dead worm to make his own opening and landed away from the dead monster. The body this time started to melt away while Xeo switched off his lightsaber and holster it. “Time to get back to finding her,” he said as he ran off to find Aya.

            After all the death and bitter cold, Aya found Eve near a carriage. Without hesitation she pointed her Beretta as Eve looked at her. For a moment Eve didn’t say anything to Aya as her own mind was somewhere else. Soon Eve spoke to Aya. “Your genes are stronger that I thought. Come my dear, let’s go for a ride. Hahaha!” Aya didn’t understand why Eve would say something like that while a gun was pointed at her head.

            “After all you did and you still think I’m going to fall for a trick? I should put you down…right…now…” Aya said to her while her mind started to blank. Eve kept smiling as Aya wasn’t herself. Her body started to walk towards the carriage from another powerful force that she never felt before and it wasn’t from Eve’s powers. Before she could resist it she already agreed to get into the carriage.

            “How did I…?” said to herself as her mind came back to reality and notice she was in the carriage. Eve then looked at her and then turn words the horse at the front. All of a sudden the horse started to scream and was set ablaze by Eve’s power. It couldn’t control itself as it started to run out of the feeling of pain. The burst of fire made Aya fall back and cover her eyes while feeling the motion of the carriage being moved. She got back up and points the gun at Eve again while she looks down at Aya with an twisted grin.

            The Jedi drops off the jacket had with him for sometime as a cover for him had the stench of the worm’s remains all over it. He was now back to his original outlook and ran to the road where the cart used to be. “Always something, huh! I keep thinking my brother keeps tabs on me and tells Eve,” he said with a ticked off mood but it pass in a short amount of time while he had to find a way to get Aya. He looked around but he didn’t see any cars of any kind driving on any side of the road; although, something did check his eye. “It doesn’t look like a vehicle with a repulsorlift but sure reminds me of the speeder bikes that I used during with the New Republic,” he said as he looked at a motorcycle. Knowing how powerful Eve is he could safely assume that the owner of the bike was long gone or already dead. Looked for the ignition button but the bike didn’t have one. “The technology this planet has…isn’t that simple,” Xeo said while trying to figure out how to start it up. “…They’re getting away…” he looks up and then looks back down on the bike. “…oh to hell with it.” Just that he waves his hand and used The Force to start up the bike. He was able to peer into the internal workings and looked for the starter. He mounted himself on the motorcycle and started to get used to wheels on the ground. “This might take some getting used to…”

            “Why? Why be on the human’s side?” Eve cursed Aya out as they were drawing near another conflict.

            “Why not? I am human.” Aya replied right back at Eve with the choice of which side she is on, humanity’s side while dropping the hammer on her Beretta.

            “Why are you going with them and not me!? Can’t you understand or are you just not that…developed?” Eve said with discontent with her answer knowing that she wanted to be on her side, mitochondria’s side while feeling her powers becoming active.

            “What?” Aya questioned to Eve but she didn’t answer back.

            “Come…child. I’ll show you what you could evolve to be,” Eve said and started to move around the carriage and discharge her energy attacks at Aya. Dodge her attacks, Aya tries to land a shot at Eve but to no avail. Eve at times would try to use her hands for physical blows but Aya kept ducking her head and return fire. “Get ready for this…” Eve said while she flew up above Aya and started discharging her beam attacks onto the carriage. Avoiding as much as she could, the detective could only wait for her to come back down.

            “Okay I think I got the hang of this,” said a now well trained biker Jedi. Xeo puts the petal to the metal as he sores after the runaway carriage. While Eve keeps attack Aya she was able to feel Xeo’s presences coming close to them.

            “You…here? Dreazin wasn’t lying after all. You are such a troublesome bother,” she said while waving her hand out into Central Park, which was calling out to her other lower mitochondria pets to aid her. At that time, Aya got a shot off at Eve and hit her; although, it didn’t dull her senses as she kept trying to harm Aya. Not too far behind the carriage, Xeo was able to make up time with the new wheels he has; however, it was short lived as soon as more creatures started to come over the stonewall near Central Park. Readying his lightsaber, the Jedi was able to see more monkeys jumping after him while his lightsaber cut them in two. Any snakes that tried to get to Xeo were wiped out by the motorcycle and the short end of his lightsaber. He even used The Force to Force Pull a snake with venom right into the face of a polar bear and it fell off the stonewall. Crows were just hacked up no matter how close they could get to Xeo. Monkeys were trying to used their scythe arms against him but he just send them back with a burst of Force Push for every time they threw one at him and end up dead with either being in two or impaled somewhere on their own body. A polar bear tried to jump over the wall but Xeo just Force Saber Throw at the creature and send its lower half back to the ground while the other have got stuck on the stonewall. Another polar bear rammed into a lamppost on the stonewall and was tending to make it land on Xeo. The Jedi Force Push the ripped end of it on to the bear’s cranium and send it flying over the wall. “I can see why Dreazin wants you…” Eve said while thinking of what to do with two problems. She makes another high yield shot onto a lamppost to slow Xeo down while she descended towards Aya; however, Aya finally shot her to the point of Eve was bleeding. “Ugh…!” Eve screeched out while falling back near to the ground but still able to float. She looked at Aya while trying to maintain her evil smile. “It seems you still don’t know what I am. Well, if you don’t know, your mitochondria will…that’s why you were drawn to the opera.” Aya just paused for a moment to understand the information she was getting from her.

            “What are you talking about?”

            “Here, let me explain…” Eve said while she moves one of her hands near Aya’s head and said to her “…directly.” Aya falls back onto the carriage.

            “Stop it!!!” Aya tries desperately to block out her powers but it was too strong.

“If we join forces, all the other mitochondria in the world will…” Eve said to her while forcing her hand on her head to let her power influence the woman’s mind. Aya tries to fight her but the power was too much as she kept yelling at her.

 

“S…stop it!” Aya said before blacking out from Eve’s power. She was unconscious and was venerable to Eve; however, Eve didn’t have time to kill her nor wanted to after what she said to her in the cart. Eve had to lose her for the time being since Xeo was very close. She used her power to make the horse’s internal system to be burn from the inside out and kill itself. The cart was flown clear from the horse and it spins around as if the cart was in a twister but only for the moment. It stops near a stone wall that dividing Central Park from the Sam Reno Apartments. Eve was only there to look over her for a brief time until a sound from afar came at her with intentions towards her alone. Xeo’s bike flew pass the carriage while he was disregarding her life for the moment as he was more intent of getting towards Eve.

 

“Eve!” Xeo screamed out loud while speeding close to her and the cart.

 

“So…you are Xeo. I have to say that I’m not quite impressed with your biological features. I rather prefer Dreazin’s because he knows what life is,” Eve said while Xeo kept creeping up closer to her.

 

“And…has to do with my code of the Jedi? Survival?” he said back to Eve to get an answer.

 

“Very good. You’re not all that lost in the real world of life and its rules. I’ll shall give you a demonstration. Oh and I hope you can put up more of a fight then her.” Eve started to fire her energy shots at Xeo. He was able to evade most of the shots while Eve kept trying to aim carefully at the motorcycle. Even the energy shots were a low yield type, compare to his lightsaber, they were powerful enough take out the bike if she could land a shot. He kept redirecting them back at Eve while she return fire and dodge at the same time. Xeo made his bike move in different swaying directions to avoid any shots that he couldn’t deflect in time.

 

“You know, Eve…you can stop. All I want is information but I knowing what you did to these people last night and just now…I hardly believe that you’re going to have a simple talk with me?” Xeo said to Eve while she wasn’t going to give him a straight answer.

 

“Enough of this!” she said while giving off another powerful energy shot at Xeo and he knew his lightsaber could deflect it. The power she released from her hands nearly took out Xeo’s head but his lightsaber couldn’t overpower the energy shot; however, he had teachings about fusing the lightsaber with the power of The Force to added effects. He got rid of the energy shot which went into an apartment building by accident since he wasn’t ready for an energy discharge of that magnitude at him. Eve then moved at the stunned Jedi to use her elongated fingertips to end his life; however, the tables were turned when Xeo came out while Eve was right next to him. He got the motorcycle to lift up and he used The Force to Force Push and Force Jump the bike on to the air while it flew right into Eve’s body. The amount of power that Xeo used in those moves send Eve crashing into a building while Xeo fell on his back. He got up and brushed off the snow from his robes and walked over to see if Eve was still alive. He has his lightsaber ignited if anything should go sour for this interrogation.

 

“I have to admit, Eve. You’re something else…” he said while seeing her being trapped under the motorcycle while her upper body was not destroyed for her to speak. “…I would think someone that had The Force would be able to do a lot of this chaos but you don’t have any. Why? I need to know what Dreazin knows,” he said while Eve just started to laugh.

 

“I told you everything he told me. Dreazin know a lot about what I am trying to do to this world. Hosts like you aren’t a part of my plan to take back this world from the nuclei. The mitochondria will see to that,” Eve said with a voice that sounds resolved in her goal to take over the world.

 

“I thought you would…” Xeo answer back while recalled the questions he had for Eve. “The chase has leaded me to you. Now then Eve…what is this mitochondria you speak of? Being free you keeping saying? Do they have to do with Dreazin’s plans? Did he tell you about the cells in our body? What can our cells have anything to do with you?” Xeo questioned Eve.

 

“If I told you then your brother wouldn’t enjoy the moment of truth for you, my dear Xeo.” Eve said in a sense of enjoyment while trying to make him feel like she wanted something else out of him.

 

“Answer me Eve!” Xeo yelled out due to the fact that Eve isn’t going to give him a straight answer.

 

“Heh. If you must know a long time ago on this world that you called Earth we, the mitochondria had been free and to do anything we wanted until our numbers were being to run thin. The world back then had a gas we couldn’t live by and we had to make do with being part of a host. We saw cells with a protective cell membrane that was able to shield us from the deadly gases of the world. We survived the endocytosis to become one with the cell. We lived in symbiosis when we gave the…nucleic…an energy boots to make it become active and it started to become more complex. Evolution sets in as our hosts started take on forms. Then the humans came from that evolution…from what we gave them in the first place. We thought we could live out our lives in secretly without anyone knowing what we were and we might could have been until the day finale came,” she explain her story of the mitochondria to Xeo who’s reaction was enlightening.

 

“So that is why. You were here all this time until the moment was right. I thought this was about a rebellion against the human race on this world, but now I see it was all nothing more than just a simple used and abuse idea; however, this does sounds like something I have,” Xeo said while his body started to feel unease at the moment. He then said to Eve, “The way you told about…your kind…the mitochondria is almost similar to what we have. Midi-chlorians…”

 

“Midi-chlorians you say,” Eve said while being disgusted and curious about what Xeo and Dreazin have in their cells. “Are you related to us or are you something completely different? I can tell your cells have much in common with us yet your “midi-chlorians” are far different then mitochondria. Even now, I can tell that your cells are in an uproar to go back to that woman in the carriage because it’s who you are. Unless…wait…there’s something else…within you…” Eve slowed her speking down while Xeo kept feeling something odd about Eve and what she just said.

 

“Something…else…?” Xeo said to Eve when a strong powerful energy could be felt through The Force. His lightsaber was up as he was in a stance. Eve wanted to know more but the power she felt was almost on top of them. She laughs at Xeo while the bike was lifted from her body. “I know that means…” he said while feeling a powerful pull on the motorcycle and the being crushed in two. His mind tried to look for the source of the energy but its power clouded his mind.

 

“I think that’s enough to say to Eve…dear brother…” a voice was said around him while Eve moves up to Xeo.

 

“Dreazin? Come out and face me!” Xeo said before feeling something on top of his head and then a sudden powerful flow of energy entering his head.

 

“I will still know about these midi-chlorains before your brother tells me to stop,” she said while putting her hand on Xeo’s head to see what he knows. Eve start tapping into his mind to know about anything to do with midi-chlorains. Vivid images of Xeo’s past come into her own head while seeing his mother and father. More images of the many worlds Xeo has been on and his Jedi Training, which Eve was dumbfounded to know how Xeo and his kind could do. She also seen the wars that him and his brother have been through including the threat on the New Republic just not by his brother alone. Her head was swarming with knowledge of the ways of the Jedi and their history and the many heroes that had come and gone. She also stumbled on a vision that even Xeo didn’t remember as her mitochondria power flow easily threw. The vision was of a culture tank with New Republic scientists were taking samples of and writing down data sheets of. She felt a terrible familiar sense from within the tank…as if it called out to her to join with her. The professor that Dreazin and Xeo know by was spotted taking some of those samples too while another Jedi being very old were looking after him. The vision of the operation room came back again with flashes of the folder “Project J” and Dreazin’s turn towards The Dark Side. As the vision went on Xeo was also shown himself getting out of the room and running threw the halls of death and destruction with blood stains everywhere. The fired around him in the building let him outside to his hometown off out on Corellia up in fire. He ran to everyone but all were lost as he witness Dreazin do the unthinkable in front of Xeo; however, the vision was so strong that not even Eve was able to see anything clearly but yet something came up. She was able to see Xeo surround by flames as if he was still that hometown of his but Eve felt something wrong with Xeo as if Xeo himself was not the person or organism, as she calls him, but his very inner being was taken over by something else. Something like Dreazin if Xeo was ever fell to The Dark Side but far more powerful. The scary part of the vision for Eve is that she knows about the person that is taking over Xeo’s mind in this vision, but as the flames engulf around him like if he was on stage at Carnegie Hall on that night a solute of someone else was there in replacement. Taller than Xeo or Dreazin and far more different physical look but still was human. She would feel his person’s anger that was hotter any of the flames around him, making him withstand the fire without protection of any kind. Eve nearly started to feel the fire coming at her while the man looked at her and just said one word.

 

“…Monster…” the voice said and instantly cutting off Eve’s power out of Xeo. His mind was beginning to feel like it was going to explode and kept trying to fight against it. His will to control The Force was so off balance that every thought and every sound he made destroyed object around and were thrown around. Eve thought something had awakened in Xeo the likes she had never seen before. She now knows why Dreazin didn’t want any harm towards to him. Xeo’s thoughts were being interrupted by many flashbacks that he tried to control but there was one thing he did remembered. It was back on “The Light of Hope” when Xeo and Dreazin clashed lightsaber together and then all of sudden they went out cold. It felt that effect while his mind was being slammed with images of the pass.

 

“This…this is the power of midi-chlorians? What kind of link do they have to mitochondria? I could have sworn I felt something else within him.” Eve said with disbelief until someone answered her.

 

“If you only knew what midi-chlorians were Eve, if you only know the origins like we do.” said a voice with that hovered down while sticking his arm straight out at Xeo. “That’s enough brother!” Dreazin said while using The Force to shoot out Force Lightning at the Jedi. Dreazin only did this just to make his mind stop from become too involved with the vision he was having. His brother was down on the floor in a weaken state while being Force Pushed aside to the curb of the sidewalk far away from Eve. “You shouldn’t have done that, Eve. You could have jeopardized everything I had planned for him. He wasn’t meet to come into contact with you incase this would of happen. His pathway towards The Dark Side must be him and him alone.” He said with an angry voice that even some of the destroyed material behind Eve was moved.

 

“I just wanted to know what he was,” she said as truthful as she can be.

 

“I think you know more then you should…I could feel his whole body with your power in him. What were you looking for?” Dreazin said wanting to know how much she knows about Xeo.

 

“Midi-chlorians…” she said without emotion at him

 

“…You know that kind of secret is mostly for us Force-Sensitive people and our background information with them is on a need to know base now, Eve. I would advise you not to think about what midi-chlorians and mitochondria would have in common,” he said while thinking Eve had any other information. “…is there more you looked at?”

 

“I saw a culture tank of some…thing that ask me out…to come back to me. Whatever that thing was it wanted me with ravish hunger. Also some person came out and said something. I also felt the flames about to burn my body,” she said while Dreazin’s reaction was moving.

 

“A person…what did he say in those flames?” he said

 

“He said…monster…” she replied while Dreazin’s face now smiled with joy.

 

“…If what your saying is true…and I can sense it within you…then my dearest brother is the key then for your mitochondria victory on this world and for my trumpet card for my war with the New Republic. Heh..he…hahahahaha!” he cackled while looking at Xeo’s body. “In time, Xeo…you will know,” he said before he looked at Eve and told her to leave, “I believe were done here for the moment…we’ll be seeing you soon…brother.” Eve turns around and gets one last line for she fly away with Dreazin, which is unnatural for a Jedi or Dark Jedi, “I would tent to yourself and get your lightsaber back.”