Evolution Lost

            While Klamp was making more comments to himself while no one was present, Aya and the gang were making their way back down to the car from the flights of stairs. Still being in awe about what she found about herself Aya distance away from Daniel, who is still not finished with Klamp after finding about his family’s name being on his computer. Maeda knew it wasn’t the right time to talk about anything until he felt it there wasn’t a large amount of tension being shown from Daniel. As for Xeo, still not able to shake his feeling about his midi-chlorians being similar to mitochondria kept having relapse about how the humans on Earth could live without The Force. He wasn’t going to jump to conclusions until he knew the facts straight; however, the only problem with that is he was at a dead end of who or what to find next. The only person he could think of now is his brother, Dreazin. By the time they made it out of the museum and packed into the car, Xeo could feel the thoughts of Aya and Daniel, both being distrust, anger, fear, and doubt about everyone around them.

            “Klamp…he has hidden agenda about this mitochondria. Always thinking highly of himself and yet was almost brought down to our level when he found Aya’s sample and confirmed it. He doesn’t have any leads on the case that Daniel and Aya are working on…unless he was getting information from someone. But who? Unless someone from NYPD was leaking the information out. Naaaaa that can’t be…I know most of the people in that place don’t have a clue about what Aya is when I was moving around on my own. Still…what is Klamp hiding…?” Xeo thought to himself while getting into the car as Daniel started up the engine. He floored it before Maeda would get his seatbelt on and was slammed into the back of the car.

            “Hey!” he said while trying to get back up in his seat.

            “Sorry, Maeda…just…Damn him! One of these days…!” Daniel said while jetting down 5^th Avenue with no cars to worry about but the NYPD. It was only little after dark that the sun started to set and night was taking hold on the city. Aya turns to Daniel to ask him a question.

            “What was that list…?”

            “It was an HLA type listing…” Maeda said as he slowly moved his body towards the front seats of the car. “It’s a list to see whether organs will be rejected when transplanted.”

            “Why the hell are Ben and Lorraine on the list!?” Daniel said while looking back to Maeda as Xeo remembered looked that the PC before.

            “It was a list of people with matching HLA types, so…” Maeda kept saying while Daniel honks on the horn to exert his anger out.

            “Damn! I’m gonna get him!” he said while looking in the back to see Xeo was zoned out. “I don’t even care if I have to learn to control my anger, Xeo…he will get it!”

            “Not yet…” Xeo said while Aya looks back at him.

            “Why not?” Xeo tilts his head down and thinks about what happen moments ago.

            “Well…why he and I were having a…personal conversation…I was able to feel his thoughts.”

            “That wacky power of yours picked up something?” Daniel said as Aya kept listening in

            “…To be blunt about this. I wasn’t able to see clearly about his idea…or plan with the mitochondria. I think he has a hidden argent altogether but I wasn’t able to know why. His mind felt…like he was able to block my powers out. That’s not possible for a man like that. Not even to know the midi-chlorains.”

            “Well…shit!” Daniel said while thinking Xeo had an idea of what Klamp was up to. “I thought you would come through with something…”

            “I did…that list you saw…it wasn’t there before.”

            “What?” Aya said while Daniel was just thinking the same thing to say.

            “He only had more information about the mitochondria…I thought I could use that…equipment on his desk and I did something to make it restart itself by the looks of it…the list came on.”

            “Well…” Daniel said with a smooth voice yet was still stressed out. “Looks like your skills haven’t been for nothing, heh. You do make yourself a good cop. Even if you are illegal…”

            “The Force work’s in many ways, Daniel…many ways…” Xeo said while he was able to feel something within The Force in his own mind. It was only sudden but little that Xeo didn’t care about at first.

            “So…how does it work?” Aya said.

            “The Force?” Xeo said back at her.

            “Yes. Your power…”

            “It’s hard explain but I told you most of what it is. Anyone with midi-chlorains can use this power in many different aspects for good…or evil…it all about how you use it,” Xeo said while Aya nodded.

            “To use it for good…” she said while turning around and look out the window to only think about her power in what it means for her or for the future.

            “How powerful can a Jedi be, Xeo?” Maeda said as Xeo looked at him to only give him the best possible answer.

            “Well…not many Jedi that live today could be powerful enough to live out their lives beyond their own death. Most Jedi that I can recall are able to make impossible moments seem…possible. Almost hard to defy if one was just…normal,” he said as Aya looks back to Xeo as he kept explain. “The most basic of the Jedi’s core powers can be used to take down a squad of enemies but they have to keep their endurance in check if not to over exert their powers. Although if a Jedi was able to go beyond this and attained a higher learning and understanding of The Force…well…almost anything is possible. As much as my teachings go…most Jedi that were on The Light Side were able to save many near death innocents and bring back Sith Lords to the light. Able to cure illness and make short work of war machines if the numbers are not too overwhelming but then again…it might not even matter. Depending on how much a Jedi can learn of The Force a simple strong army could be overtaken…how it’s up to them to deal with it…that’s what makes a Jedi unique. On the other hand…Dark Jedi’s powers are far too…limited to the simple Jedi. There powers far exceeded that of a fully trained Jedi and yet it mostly there undoing,” said Xeo while Maeda interjects with a question.

            “Undoing? As if there power is…too much for their own good?”

            “Jedi are for defense and enlighten for the mind and body so that we can atone the power to see life prolong without death or war. Dark Jedi use The Dark Side to smite out life because it’s what it does to you. It tells you to kill all that are weaker than you and you would remain to be the strongest against everyone else. But to listen to The Dark Side means others will think like you too and you have conflicts a pone conflicts in your life until you learn so much of its evil power that sooner or later…it will consume you. Sith or Dark Jedi believe that its where way to live…to survive. The most powerful Sith Lords or Dark Jedi I could think off the top of my head are capable to living longer lives by doing…unnatural things with their power. Even able to save those who are dead and even make suns become unstable and nova a star system,” said the Jedi while everyone in the car was not able to think of how someone like Xeo was even present with much power.

            “You could be something…like that?” Aya said while thinking of what he could be if he would have been evil.

            “Well…you have one loose in your city, my brother.”

            “That’s great to hear…” Daniel said while being more ticked off about the problems everyone is facing.

            “About the Sith, Xeo…they live to survive?” Maeda said

            “Yes…either by the rule of two or just a brotherhood of Dark Jedi…any one of them has the right to become the leader of a clan if one can be the most powerful Force User. The Sith ways are always to ensure that their ways will live on by the most strongest of their kind.”

            “That’s…almost what Maeda was talking about with the mitochondria Eve sample,” Aya said while Xeo ponder about what she said.

            “Aya…wow your right,” Maeda said as Xeo thought about how the Sith’s ways are close to mitochondria Eve’s will to survive.

            “The will to survive in the nature of the Sith’s ways…Eve wasn’t kidding then,” Xeo said while Aya and Daniel looked at him.

            “What did Eve say?” Aya spoke to Xeo

            “When the hell did you find the time to talk to Eve? Huh!?” Daniel yelled out at him while Xeo was trying to explain about the night at Carnegie Hall.

            “I got to Carnegie Hall on that night and was feeling a presence of…The Dark Side but it felt…different. Like someone took the essence of it and dulled it out with another kind of energy flow. It was then I was having a conversation with Dreazin, thought The Force…and then Eve. She spoke to me about how I am like my brother, a Jedi or rather…a non-mitochondria life form. Somehow she was going to make me feel like I was going to be burned alive but I didn’t…” Xeo said while Aya could understand what she went through. “Then she wanted to know how I am able to resist her power and then she explained to me about how Dreazin was doing the right thing in being…human instead of me who I wasn’t able to survive like anyone else…or any animal.” Maeda then brushed his hair back while being able to understand what his question before now means in a whole different view of Xeo’s ways of being a Jedi.

            “Eve thinks that you aren’t human. Or acting like one…the will to live and survive…I guess your brother is closer to Eve and even most living animals do in life,” he said while Xeo turned away from the Japanese scientist.

            “But…that’s not how I am. Most of those things that animals do…to live and survive…I mean once you taken on the roll as a Jedi…you…”

            “You can’t be like us?” Daniel said while Aya looked at him and then back at Xeo as she could see the conflict between being human and being a Jedi.

            “Its…not just that simple…I can be human…I have…”

            “You’re beliefs…” Aya said while Xeo turns his head towards her and looks.

            “Yes. It’s what Eve thinks that doesn’t make me normal…or to even live like a human. I can…” Xeo said while putting his body against the seat of the car and sighs. Aya, for once, wasn’t able to imagine that even her own words would make him feel unconformable. “Please, Aya…you have to understand…I can be…” he kept saying while his mind started to feel that sensation in The Force now becoming unbearable. “What the! ARG!” he screams out while Maeda gets away from him as Aya and Daniel just looks back at him. His hands were on his head as the pain started to swell up into heat. “I’m feeling that heat again!”

            “Xeo? Is it…Eve!?” Aya said while Daniel slowed the car down.

            “Come on, Xeo! Fight it!” Daniel yelled at him as Xeo struggles to gain his mind back. He thrashed around for a bit while making grunts and yelps of pain while his mind begins to start seeing a vision in his head. It was clouded and hot as he could hear voices being echoed from all angles in his head. At first they were sudden fast images of hallways and desk but soon started seeing people being burned alive. Xeo though it was another moment of his past with Dreazin or the war with The Vong back in New Republic space; however, the uniforms he were saying were not red and gold. He was seeing dark navy blue suits being incinerated as screams of pain and agony kept ringing into his ears. Then he was able to make out the locations of where the visions were taking place as he saw a little kid running away. Xeo couldn’t make it out at first but was able to picture the image of Daniel’s son, Ben. With all the death and carnage he was running away from what Xeo couldn’t tell but then soon a dark figure showed up with a familiar tone in his voice echoing in his mind.

            “Child…you’re lost in your own madness…Xeo isn’t here to save you,” spoke the voice of Xeo’s brother as his lightsaber ignited to blind his own point of view of seeing the mental vision. Then his mind came back to being on fire to being normal as he pants in front of Aya and Maeda.

            “Death…Dreazin…close to…home base…”

            “Speak up man!” Daniel said to him. “What do you mean home base? Like your mother ship or something?” It only made Xeo jump to a name that would make Daniel listen to him.

            “Death…Ben…Precinct…” Xeo said as he would have thought that Daniel would be able to understand that as clear as day.

            “…What the!? You’re…Dreazin…Ben…OH NO!” and with that said, Daniel through the car into overdrive and made a beeline down 5^th Avenue.

            “What was that, Xeo?” Aya said while she could see the sweat coming from his head.

            “It was…a disturbance…in The Force. I felt a ripped within the flow of all things and was able to feel this…event taking place! Daniel…step on it!” Xeo said while resting his head on the seat and on the window.

            “Way fucking ahead of you, Jedi!” Daniel swerves the car onto 51^st East Street. It didn’t take Daniel to reach the 17^th precinct as he parked the car outside. While everyone was getting out of the car, Aya and Daniel were meant with an eerie dead silence. No cops were talking and saying dirty slang about who had the better manhood or how there shift sucks. No lights inside to greet any NYPD or criminals. Nothing…it was dead from the outside. Drawing their weapons out, Aya and Daniel started to move slowly and taking cover near the door as Xeo was walking on his own with Maeda close by. Daniel looked at Xeo while he was stumbling up the steps towards the front door. “Hey, do your thing!” he said at the Jedi.

            “What? You can’t even open the door to your own station?” Daniel just looked at him with a frustrated look.

            “To see if it’s clear inside…?” Aya said at Xeo but he nodded.

            “Whatever happen to me…my mind isn’t doing well on using The Force…I just need a moment; however, Daniel can’t wait…” he said as he knew Daniel wasn’t thinking about waiting around to find out what happen to Ben let alone the whole station.

            “Well, Daniel?” Aya said to him as he readied his revolver while Aya throws back the hammer on her Beretta. Slowly Daniel makes a crack at the door and then opens it fast. Aya swings in and aims to check her fire sector for any possible NMCs. Slowly walking in Daniel followed behind Aya to cover her vulnerable spots. Maeda comes in with Xeo not to far trailing behind him. What they saw…was a massacre of a sight to be seen. “Oh…my…” Aya said while she kept looking around the room to see what never be done before. Officers that were dismembered either in half or maimed with the stench of their blood. Pools of the dead NYPDs blood were all over the place as some police units had been engulfed in flames and melted into the orange ooze. Daniel wasn’t even had a moment to think about what he was seeing too in fact that most of the bodies he could tell were some close friends on the police force…all made into piles of meat.

            “What in the wild blue hell happen here…Eve?” Daniel said as Xeo was able to walk perfectly balanced.

            “If it was Eve…you and Maeda would be ‘hot under the collar’, Daniel,” Xeo said as Daniel remembered how back at Central Park he couldn’t do anything. “This place has been hit hard already…I thought his was just moments ago…”

            “Are you saying we got here too late!?” Daniel yelled at him. “Ben!! He could be…”

            “I know!” Xeo said while trying to calm him down. “What I felt must have been a delayed reaction…or intentional.”

            “Intentional…?” Aya said while she looked at Xeo. “Someone wanted you to know about this attack after it happened?” From what Aya was saying to Xeo, the Jedi was made clear of what kind of message it was and the evidence being seen in front of him.

            “This is just a message from Dreazin…and Eve. They planned this out. Wanted to take down any one left in the city so they can do as they please…I can tell from the bodies. Nothing left but there reminds and all over in this room alone. He wanted me to see this…if he thought he had disappeared again,” Xeo said to Aya and Daniel while Daniel couldn’t believe the extend of Dreazin’s message was to use the bodies of NYPD.

            “That…son of a bitch…” he said while Xeo had to calm him down.

            “It’s what he wants, Daniel…to feel anger…he wants you to use it for his own benefit so it can turn on us in the long run. Don’t let it get to you!”

            “Don’t even tried it with me again, Xeo…I can deal with this…my own way!” he said while walking over to the open doors of the hallway of the main building. Aya followed up behind Daniel as Xeo was taking in the death and chaos of his brother’s work.

            “What kind of a man…” Maeda said as Xeo turned around to him.

            “…I still question that to this day. Be alert for anything…” Xeo said while the change of his tone became vigilante as he took out his lightsaber for any kind of close quarter fighting. Maeda thought it was not safe for him to be alone but it also not be where a fast exit could come in handy.

            “I’m…going to stay here just in case…” he said to them.

            “Okay, Maeda…” Aya said while Xeo followed behind her. “Damn it, Daniel…he left us behind!” Xeo looked around as she did too.

            “Nothing…he’s close but nothing so far…” Xeo said while trying to use his Jedi senses to feel any presence of NMCs. The hallways were less bloody in bodies while more burnt cops lay dead on the ground. It was dark with only a few emergency lights being on to give some sight to Aya and Xeo. Pictures of past memories for the NYPD were on the ground and stained in the blood of the fallen cops while other atrocities to Dreazin’s message at Xeo were visible still on the ground. Arms and legs and even heads were littered throughout the hallway as they both were taking their time to walk around the dead. Xeo was even able to see Zed and Bob’s nametags at one end of the hallway while Aya proceeds to go down stairs. “Too bad for them…and I only just seen them when I crashed landed.”

            “You did? Why didn’t you go to them…oh wait…” Aya began to speak to Xeo about notify the NYPD about himself instead of wondering off but in the situation like his…it was understandable. “It might have been the same outcome. Ending up in here and being interrogated.”

            “With a story to back myself up…it was bound to happen…heh,” the charismatic Jedi said while being behind Aya’s six. Walking down the stairs to the bottom floor, they were even seeing more darkness while trying to make out what is a body and what was part of the body. It was dead still and the air was filled of decay as Aya was making towards a door on the other side of the lower hallway…until one of the bodies had a sudden twitch. Pausing in her footsteps she moved her head slightly to the left to see a couple of bodies being together; however, Aya felt something being wrong after see a slight movement. Xeo could tell Aya had feeling of being uncertain as he draws his lightsaber in front of him and being ready for anything that was in the darkness. Using his Force Sight to see in the darkness for anything that was remotely alive he was able to tell the bodies of the fallen cops…weren’t cops. He slowed down and didn’t move yet kept an eye out for any slight jerking motions from the bodies. It was then that Aya knew that they were being hunted by something they haven’t seen before as her body began to feel the presences of NMCs being close by as Xeo could feel it as well. Out of the darkness behind Aya one of the unseen NMCs came at her back as she quickly turned around and shot a couple of rounds into the shadowy outline of the creature. Xeo turned around to let his guard down in front of him to see the body of a NMCs fly over her head as it came crashing into the ground. It was dead by the time Xeo was able to see it land into the tile floor of the hallway. The creature was a bipedal walker with brown skin and a humanoid structure with a skull being extrude out for quick tares from its prey. It was the only thing they could make out without the bullet holes bleeding out of the creature to make a positive ID. While Xeo was looking at the NMC that came after Aya another one rose up from the plies of dead bodies as Aya wasn’t seeing things. It snarled while being a foot away from Xeo. Aya tried to get a clear shot from her position but the Jedi, able to tell when danger was nearby, turned to look at the drool of the up close NMC and just smiled back. “It’s not nice to stare at people…” he said. With the flick of his left wrist he was able to ignite his lightsaber and make quick work of humanoid creature as his whole left arm was above his head. The humanoid monster then went into two as it fell to the ground; however, in the distance…three more were coming. Xeo takes up a stance of Makashi as he was holding his lightsaber hilt, with both hands with the blade pointed away from the NMCs below his hips. Aya could feel more showing up on her side as four more came out of the shadows near the other end of the doorway.



“Xeo…I got some coming,” Aya said as she takes aim and head shots one of them effetely killing it. The reminding three on Aya’s side started to charge her.



“I can tell…!” Xeo said agreeing with Aya as one of them took a leap towards the defensive Jedi. His lightsaber was already in motion by moving his hands upward he made a fatal cut across the chest of one of the creature. The nearest one was only a couple of feet away as Xeo got low to the ground and moved his weapon to his side with one hand being free. Using The Force in his feet he was able to leap over the creature while the NMC was letting out a roar that nearly made Xeo lose his footing. While in mid-air he moved his entire body to have his head looking down at the NMC’s head. Arching his body to make his feet land on the ground, the Jedi was able to maneuver his lightsaber to slice down the back of the would be dead humanoid. Still in motion with his weapon, Xeo kept twirling his lightsaber to make a 1080 degree spin as he ended it with the blade jabbed into the jaw line of the NMC behind him. Xeo took out both of them while he was able to see Aya trying to kill the other three. Reloading her Beretta, she immobilized another NMC by breaking its neck joint as it crawled on the ground. The other two rushed her as Xeo took his lightsaber and Force Saber Throw at both of them. Aya quickly looked behind her to see the blur and hum of his lightsaber going pass her and cutting one them in half. He missed the other humanoid creature as it took a swipe at Aya, which she dodge it and dodged again until was feeling something weird within her. After a few more evading moves on her part the humanoid NMC charged her and was about to head butt her in her chest. In a split second Aya was able to pass in front of the aggressive NMC and shot it in its nerve stem area. The head of the creature went into the wall and made a dent as it fell to the ground. Xeo, now has his lightsaber back in his hands and turned off, came over to Aya wasn’t able to understand what happened; however, another humanoid creature came behind Xeo. Without thinking, Xeo acted with The Force in his hands and Force Pulled the nearly dead NMC, who had been crawl after Aya’s gunshot to its leg, behind him and it made a thud sound into the monster behind him.

            “How…was I able to…do that?” Aya said while Xeo checked to see if the monster was dead. As he got closer he was able to sense something familiar about the dazed humanoid creature. Aya walked over to Xeo while reloading her handgun to see that he wasn’t moving. “Xeo?” she said while he said only a name.

            “Will…” Xeo said as Aya wasn’t able to understand what he was saying but then looked at the mutated body of Detective Will. Only his face was left unchanged but it was still hard to make out what was left of him.

            “Is he…still alive?” Aya asked the Jedi while he nodded.

            “Yes. Only as this now…Eve must be this cruel to lead him like this…” Xeo said while they took a moment to look at him. In that moment the mutated by of Will came back up and snarled at them. Xeo and Aya weren’t ready for him to attack them both as a shot ranged from a far distance. Will’s head had a new hole to show as he went down on the like a sack of potatoes. They both turned around to see a smoking barrel of a revolver and a less stressed out Daniel coming in to view.

            “Damn…I knew he was an ugly ass kisser but…never knew he would really turn into one, huh Aya?” he said while Aya just sighs of relief.

            “Ya…karma is a bitch at times?” she said while Xeo was about to give Daniel a lesson about revenge but thought to himself that he was going to attack them. What he did was in self defense and had to take his life for their own safety.

            “Ha! Aya…your always had a knack for find the wrong kind of people in this world,” Daniel said while Xeo had to get something off his chest.

            “Daniel…thanks, but why are you here…Ben could be…”

            “Don’t even say it, Xeo…he was last seen down here by me personally. In this room.” Daniel and Aya check the door as Xeo stood behind for anything to happen. They opened up the door that lead them to the weapons storage hold area. “Fuck! It’s hard to see in this place!” Daniel said while sound of a gun being primed was heard in the background.

            “ARRRrrggg!” said a voice in the darkness while Aya knew too well who would scream at a high pitch tone.

            “Wait! It’s me, Wayne! Cool it!” she said as a scared and shell-shocked Wayne kept pointing his handgun towards not Aya or Daniel, but at Xeo.

            “Aya! Someone is behind…” Wayne screamed out.

            “No…he’s with us!”

            “Ya, Wayne…put it down!” Daniel said as Wayne lower his gun slowly. Being an emotional wreak at first he slowly could start to feel better knowing he wasn’t the only cop alive in this building.

            “This is too much Aya…first, I mean we were attacked by someone in dark clothing. I thought it was that guy behind you but he had some kind of suit of armor. Like he was a roman general of the old times or some kind of bat shit crazed man but he…he lit up this weapon. Started splattering and dicing up anyone with a fucking uniform of the NYPD. I thought he was back to finish me off from what I hear outside the door. But man…I’m glad to see you’re alive, Aya.”

            “Dreazin…” Xeo said off to the side of his mouth as Daniel heard him and just nodded.

            “This is getting worst by the minute the more I hear about your borther…”

            “Can’t it, Daniel…” Xeo said trying not to make anyone else know about his brother killing almost everyone in the building.

            “It didn’t stop there, Aya. Some woman then came into the precinct…started flaming up everyone. I tried to do anything but I couldn’t get a clear shot…I felt fear and terror all about me…”

            “It’s okay, Wayne…we’re where here now,” Aya said while Xeo was able to ponder about Dreazin’s powers.

            “The Dark Side’s taint is in this building…for Wayne to be that scared by just Eve and Dreazin alone yet locked up here to fend for himself. Dreazin might have been using his powers to influence the cops in this building to not be able to take out Eve even if they had clear shots…”

            “But…Aya…this freak of a dog…came, and it…it got Torres!” Aya ran over to Wayne to see the body of Torres. Daniel rushed over as Xeo took his time to feel the energy flow of The Dark Side making is corruption all around the room and even the mind of Wayne, which is being slowly lifted away. Both Aya and Daniel keel down to see Torres and his lung punchier wound.

            “…Hey, Aya,” Torres said while trying to move to view Aya’s eyes. He coughs up blood and tried to no get it near Aya. “Guess…I screwed up, eh?”

            “Why…? Why didn’t ya shoot, man!? Wayne yelled at him even still emotionally messed up from all the chaos that happened before.

            “Shoot what…a dog!?” Daniel said while trying to figure out what Wayne was talking about.

            “Haven’t used a gun since…” Torres said while Wayne could answer that for himself.

            “Since your daughter was shot? Torres, you can’t blame guns for that!” he said while Torres wasn’t able to argue much about anything with the lost of blood proving to beat his thinking process.

            “I…suppose…you’re right. Wayne…you take good care of this place, now…” he said while trying to keep awake but it was sudden moment that his life ended right on the floor as shock settled in before his last orders were given to Wayne.

            “Torres!” Aya and Daniel screamed out but it was already too late. He was dead. Even Xeo could do anything for him at this point as his power were not strong enough to bring someone back from the dead let alone be able to against his Jedi Code.

            “Xeo!? Is there anything you can…” Aya said to him but he shook his head and couldn’t give her a reason. A pit of emptiness filled Aya’s stomach as she felt her main goal to protect those she knew was failing her. Xeo could feel her pain coming back to pick at her again from the inside but she was strong enough to move on. Daniel on the other hand wasn’t happy about Xeo letting him die while he could have saved him with his powers.

            “Why…?” Daniel said to Xeo as he looked at him and could say anything. “Cut the crap, you Jedi or not!? Don’t back done on us…help him!!”

            “It’s too late…I can’t bring him back. Even if I did it would be unnatural on my part…” Xeo said while Wayne wasn’t able to understand what he was saying.

            “What are you talking about? Who is this Xeo guy? And why does he look like that…oh my…ITS HIM!!!” he yelled out while trying to Torres’s gun. Aya got back up and held back the hammer on the handgun with her thumb.

            “Not it’s not Wayne…he just looks like him…but it’s not him!” Aya said. Wayne looked at Aya’s face while looking back at Xeo’s and even agree to what she just said. It took him awhile to let it sink in but he was able to put the gun down and drop it on the ground.

            “Aya…find Ben for me. Whatever is loose in this building…take it out too. I’ll stay here and help Wayne be…calm down,” Daniel said to Aya and Xeo while he walked over to Wayne to clean up the mess in the room and to explain who Xeo is. Aya and Xeo left the room and went back into the hallway. Aya checks both sides with her Beretta at the ready as Xeo was right behind her. Still able to use his Force Sight, Xeo was able to make out the dead NMCs being melted away and not able to sense any of them nearby. They move down the hallway to the next door, which was the K-9 room that Daniel left behind Ben before heading out to find Aya. The door for the room was ripped off the hinges and orange ooze was visible for both of them to see while black marks were etch into the door’s surface.

            “High energy yield markings…a lightsaber I bet,” Xeo said while Aya took up a cover position near the opening of the doorway to the K-9 room. Xeo looked at her as she nodded for an “O.K.” while Xeo was able to step in. He goes ins first to see only one NMC humanoid was to his right. He wasn’t able to get his weapon right in time but he was able to Force Speed away from the creature’s mouth about to bite him. By doing that he was able to kick it out of the room as Aya blew it away with her handgun. Xeo rolls and get’s back up with ease as she enters the room to see only Cath lying on the ground. She had heavily laceration across the stomach and chest and was bleeding out. They both ran over while Xeo was able to look at the orange slime slowly moving its way from the kennel cages to the drainage ditch. Aya got close to Cath to hear what she had to say.

            “I…I’m sorry…Ben’s…gone…”

            “Where!?” Aya asked while trying to keep her from not moving so much. This time Xeo was able to get near here and try to use his power to heal her wounds.

            “I…don’t know…Sheeva when berserk, and…Ben went after her…”

            “What!?” Aya said while Xeo kept trying to heal her as she went unconscious. “Is she?”

            “She’ll be fine,” Xeo said to Aya as they both got up. Xeo ran to the hallway again to open yell down it to get Daniel’s attention. “Daniel. Cath is hurt and needs help…I healed her up but she need more medical attention.” Aya then got up and ran towards Xeo. He looked to see Aya as they both made their way up the steps to the main hallway. Once back in the main hallway they moved towards the office room of where the detectives did their work. Again, Xeo got to the door while Aya took up a position incase anything would happen. Before he would even open up the door, a mutated NMC rat came crashing through the glass window of the door. Aya was able to take it out in two shots about wasn’t aware about the other four behind them. Xeo just looked at them and with this hand alone he Force Pulls them while Aya plugged three of them. The last one didn’t die because her clip ran out of ammo but Xeo just Force Push it back near the ground. It came back up fast as it was a stronger type of NMC rat than what Xeo and Aya dealt with before. Xeo made short work of it by running up the side of one of the walls and flipped over the rat while sticking his saber to behead it. Once he got back on his feet he walks over to Aya as if nothing happened.

            “I still can’t believe that you can do all this…” Aya said to him.

            “Training and disciplined…in time…it becomes a part of life…” he said while Aya agreed with him.

            “Too bad I can’t help out as much as you are doing,” she said while Xeo looked at her with a sign of coinsure on his face.

            “Not true, you’ve been saving me from those NMCs and others too. I can even tell at times when you are using your power without even knowing it,” he said while Aya looked up at him to even believe it is happening. “That NMC that was coming at you with its hands…you dodge every move at a fast pace that I was able to see. You out maneuvered it until you took it down. The power is there, Aya…you just have to be able to use it in time.” Aya nodded and smiled to know that even in the bleakest of moods she can be able to feel well with his words of wisdom; however, another voice from the room they were about to go in could be heard.

            “OoooooohhhhHH…is that you, Aya?”

            “Warner!” she said while busting into the room. Xeo followed in as she rushed over to his side.

            “Aya…man, Eve really caught us off guard. Most of our men were out. Anyone else in here was either burned alive by her power…or that other man…eviscerated anyone that wasn’t already dead. That…look…of pure terror…” Warner said as Xeo kept overlooking the destroyed desks and file cabinets with random spurts of blood.

            “Hang on for a second!” she yelled at Warner while he tried to stay away.

            “I’ll help him…” Xeo said while he started to use his Force Heal him.

            “Woh, what are you…doing…” Warner questioned Xeo as he felt himself being better while being tired. He passed out soon as his wounds were mostly mended away by Xeo’s powers. Aya got back up and started heading for the door was Xeo trekked behind her. Out into the hallway again they started running towards the other side to move up to the next floor of the building. On their way, two more humanoid NMCs came from out of the ceiling as Xeo let out his lightsaber and made a couple of swings to cut them down to size before they even hit the ground. Another one came out of the meeting room and ran towards them; fortunately, Aya took aim and put it down with a few shots into its body from afar.

            “Aya…” said another voice somewhere down the hallway. Xeo and Aya looked around as the Jedi was able to sense out the faint life sign of detective Nix. Aya walked over to Nix’s body while he kept trying to talking as best as he could. “You gotta go after Ben! He went upstairs chasing Sheeva...”

            “I’ll help out his wound…” Xeo said while Nix waved his hand as best as he could.

            “Forget about me…I’ll be okay. Just go after Ben, Aya…” said Nix as he passed out on the floor.

            “Hold on…Aya I’m going to get Daniel an update.” Xeo said as he closed his eyes and was making his voice echo through The Force. Daniel was still trying to help out Wayne and Cath as he was suddenly felt his mind having a headache at first.

            “Daniel…its Xeo. I’m using The Force to talk to you telepathically.”

            “What in the hell…how can you!?” Daniel said while Wayne was looking at him thinking he lost it for a moment. Daniel looked at Wayne while yelling at him saying, “Can you see I’m on a phone call from Xeo!? Don’t give me that look like I’ve gone crazy!”

            “Daniel…could you be…ugh forget it. Nix is up here and Warner in the detective room. Ben is on the higher levels…alive from what Nix was saying before he passed out…get them to where Wayne is and come after us!” Xeo said while syncing his mind back to where he was. “Okay…were good now, Aya.” Aya nodded and get’s back up while they both ran up stairs to the floor that Xeo was held yesterday. The bar door to the integration rooms was left slide opened as more dead bodies were laying on the ground. It was a sure sign that not only Ben had to brave these traumatic conditions but also had to be sure that he didn’t run into any NMCs that were human like. It was only a few seconds they enter the area and more humanoid creatures started to rush them. Aya kept taking aim and making internal organs to fail from blood lost as Xeo ignited his lightsaber to make a clear pathway. Around the first corner Xeo kept maneuvering his body to dodge and take down the NMCs while being able to give Aya her shots. At times the rat NMCs would come out of vents and fling there fireballs at them; however, Xeo was able to Force Push them back at them. Aya kept checking his six while Xeo would at times move behind Aya to get any backstabbing NMCs but she was strong willed and never let that happen. Heading up more steps, both Aya and Xeo make their way to find Ben. “Hold it! Were close…”

            “Xeo? What is it?” Aya said while check her back and Xeo’s back as he talked.

            “I can see his…aura footprints…its warm. He alive!” Xeo said while Aya took another rat NMC down.

            “Do you need to get Daniel to…” Aya said but was intrupped by a familiar gunshot off in the background down the hallway they just came from.

            “He will be here soon…” Xeo said while Aya started running.

            “Well, Jedi…move along!” Xeo ran behind her as another set of humanoid NMCs blocked their path. He Force Pulls two of them at his lightsaber, skewering one of them as he twirl his weapon to get rid of the body of one and cuts up the next one he pulled in mid-flight. Aya got close to one of them and put the gun near the temple of the NMCs before it would claw her. She shot it as it tried to let out a nasty howl at her face. Another humanoid type NMC rushed her and Aya once again was able to dodge it and even tripped it with her foot in the process. The thud made is stunned itself long enough for Aya to execute it. Xeo got up to Aya and they both ran down the corridor to make a right and up another set of stairs. It was here that Xeo was able to feel a change in the air and within the room before they were standing. “More of that ooze…” Aya said while checking her ammo count before heading in.

            “…Ben is inside…I don’t know what could be inside,” Xeo said while Aya thought he was unsure about what could be inside.

            “What? You feel like something is bothering you?”

            “Me? I’ve seen a lot in my life time to know if something would be to worth feeling bothered by…” he said while Aya opens up the door. Xeo and Aya ran into it for only a few seconds to here the scream of Ben’s voice.

            “Sheeva…what happen to you!?” Ben said while another crud but overprotected mouth was yelling at him.

            “Sheeva is sick Ben…close your eyes!” Baker said while getting out his handgun and taking shot at the dog. Xeo and Aya were able to see that Sheeva, the NYPD’s #1 trained K-9, wasn’t different at all but as soon as Baker was making his shots count it bled out the same orange slime that has been seen down in the kennel.

            “That slime…it has control over the dog!” Xeo said. Baker was able to make out that Aya came back from the dead in his eyes but was also able to see Xeo standing next to her.

            “What are you doing with him, Aya!? I thought we were going to be held and…” Baker screamed out while Sheeva started changed into an overgrown NMC.

            “I’ll explain later, Baker…just stand back!” Aya said to them both while Xeo readied his lightsaber. Both Baker and Ben were not able to believe what was happening. They were seeing Xeo’s energy beam blade and couldn’t take their eyes off of it while Sheeva kept mutating. The dog’s skin fell off and deep red muscle was being shown. Its tail was an elongated muscle and its head spitted off into three with a huge mouth in the middle.

            “It’s not Sheeva!” Ben screamed out at Aya and Xeo. “Sheeva’s already dead! Aya, please! Don’t let her hurt us!” Aya get’s her Beretta aimed at the mutated Sheeva NMC while Xeo puts his lightsaber below his chest and points it away instead of in front of him.

            “By the way, Aya…” Xeo said while he had to say something at the moment of Sheeva’s mutation. “…I am now bothered.” Both of them just looked at their target without worrying about each other for the moment until Aya called out the NMC.

            “Come on! I’m the one you want!”

            “I’ll let you try a new trick to play with…” Xeo said to get Sheeva’s attention. It worked at it turned around and snarled at them. “Good boy…” the Jedi said while waving his lightsaber as the NMC monster ran towards him fast. Xeo wasn’t able to attack the creature from its speed. Aya shot it once of its heads to do some superficial damage. It turned around and roared at Aya while her aim was thrown off. Making its way to Aya, Xeo was able to get back on his feet and ran at the monster’s back. It could tell that Xeo was behind as its tail tired to swipe him but he was able to dip and dive around it. Soon Xeo made a few cuts on the tail that it became useless and just dead weight for the NMC. Aya looked down her sights of her gun and blasted into one of its heads and it became swiss cheese; however, the monster wasn’t too thrilled about that. It charged towards Aya but Xeo Force Pull it to make him tripped. He moved in for a killing blow but the creature’s upper black claws batted him away into the wall.

            “Xeo!” Aya said while the monster took its time to get after her. The NMC came up to Aya as she kept shooting more into its last head and it wasn’t able to know where it was looking at. Aya thought it was done for sure but it wasn’t going down as she could feel a sudden flicker of energy about its mouth. “Oh no…this isn’t good.” Aya didn’t know what to do at the time but then boxes started flying in at the monster’s body.

            “Come on and show me what you got with that energy of yours!” Xeo yelled at the dog while Force Pushing more and more onto it. It finally went after Xeo and was able to stand still and take aim at the Jedi. “Now for the test…for me…” he said to himself while the flicker of energy became more apparently brighter. Soon the energy became a cyan bean of power as the NMC discharges it at Xeo. With his lightsaber in front of him he was holding back the energy from not melting his body while making the walls behind him turn black. He was using so much of The Force that he was able to push back the monster into the other side of the wall; however, this only made it use its upper black claws to take down the Jedi. “Damn it…” he said while holding his lightsaber still and then parted his hands away from it while using The Force to hold it in place. The claws came down at Xeo as he used his hands to Force Push them back. Much of his body was able to use his power easily but Xeo didn’t know how long he could last against the beast. “Aya!” he screamed out while trying to focus his energy at the monster’s every move. “You see what it’s doing…I want you to think about your power. Turn that into a shot like that…if he can do it…you can also…just control it!” Xeo said to Aya while she was not able to think about what he wanted to do.



“I will…try…” Aya said. Soon Xeo looked back at Aya as he scream out another bit of advice to her.



“Aya…just do it. There is no try!” Xeo said as he tried to make sense of an old dead master’s ideal back talk about The Force from an old holocron recording.



“I will!” she said while trying to think about her power from within. Her mitochondria started to tingle all around her body as her energy moved from different areas to her hands from there the energy flow from her body was able to move onto the bullet that was primed into her handgun. Aya was not able to move but also couldn’t believe that she was able to summon up her power into a focus point on her handgun. Once she felt it was good enough Aya took aim and pulled the trigger at the NMC’s body. The discharge was so great that the monster’s front half was vaporized and but it dissipated before it made a hole in the wall. Xeo felt to his kneels after what he was been fighting against. The rest of the NMC started to melt away as Aya lowered her handgun and was still unable to believe what she did. “That power…from me…” Aya said to herself while trying to understand what else could he have not known; however, she stopped thinking about it and ran over to Xeo. “Are you okay…?” she said while Xeo just kept looking at her.



“Do…or do not, Aya. There is no try…but you did do it. Right before I felt like I was gonna lose it,” the Jedi said while trying to stand up and getting his lightsaber back on his belt hook.     “It’s okay now, Ben…Baker,” she told them both as they walked over to Aya and Xeo.

            “Aya…” Baker said to her. “I’m glad you came in just in the nick of time from beyond the grave no less. I thought we were in hell already and that was just a demon you took down. Not to mention…the way you did that!?”

            “It’s a long story…I’ll tell you once we get you patched up,” Aya said as Baker looked at his wound.

            “What this? This is nothing…really…” Baker said as Xeo got back up to looked at him.

            “I can fix that in a second…” he said while Baker backed off.

            “Wait a second. Mr “subject to be questioned” by us!” Baker yelled at him. “I know you and your new look doesn’t make me not remember who you are…”

            “Baker please…I can tell you all that you need about Xeo,” Aya said.

            “Well his name is a fucking start…what else?”

            “I can do this…” Xeo said while making one of his hands on Baker’s wound. In time it started to heal up as the captain felt a sudden change in his heart about Xeo.

            “So when do criminals have the ablative to help NYPD? Bah!” Baker said while Xeo just rolled his eyes.

            “Mr…uh Xeo?” Ben said to him while Xeo looked at him.

            “Yes? Do you want to know who or what I am?” Xeo said.

            “Well…I wanted to see that glowy stick you have…” Ben said while Xeo tried really hard not to get moody about how his lightsaber is the object to everyone affection on Earth.

            “In time Ben…beside someone needs to see you…” The door opens up and came Ben’s father running into the room.

            “Ben!”

            “Dad!” Ben said while rushing over to him.

            “Ben, are you ok?” Deniel asked Ben while Baker walked over.

            “Uncle Baker was protecting me!” Ben said. Daniel looks at Baker and could only say his thanks.

            “Captain…thank you…”

            “Still doesn’t change the fact about what you did…going rouge on us and disobeying order to find your partner, yet it paid off just in time. Still if Will was around…” Baker said as Xeo cut in on his speech.

            “He turned into one of them…he’s not a part of this world anymore,”

            “Is that so…” Baker said to Xeo than looks back at Daniel. “Hate to admit it but he was going out the door just as fast as you were if you didn’t cool it. But forget that…it’s in the past. Speaking of which remember when Ben was younger? We use to all play at your place.”

            “Sir…” Daniel said while Baker begin to ease off on him

            “Cut that out…’Baker’ is fine. Like the old times. Come on…let see what we can do about this place, Danny,” Baker said while they both walked out of the room but not before he said to Aya, “I’ll willing to hear what you have to say once you come to be. Keep an eye out on Xeo…”

            “Is that an order?” Xeo said while Aya looked at him and just had an expression of dumbfounded.

            “Na…I don’t really think you’re on the wrong side of the law. Still I need to know what happen on that night with you,” Baker told him as he and Daniel walked out of the room. Ben then felt a great deal of sadness about him as he was a witness of Eve’s power.

            “Sheeva…” Ben whimpered out as Aya was next to him. Xeo didn’t need his Jedi skills to know what was happening but could relate to how losing a friend can be.

            “Ben…” Aya said as she bowed down to talk to him. She could see the tears building up in his eyes after the transformation of Sheeva happened.

            “Aya…whoever did this to Sheeva. You’ll get them, right?”

            “Yeah. I will…” Aya said as Ben kept trying to come over the fact about the death of the NYPD’s proud K-9. Xeo was only able to look out the window to feel anything different within The Force to know if Eve or Dreazin were planning to make another attack on the NYPD. Aya and Ben kept talking as the Jedi was able to look over to a moment. During that time he wasn’t fixed on the conversation they were having or Ben’s emotional state. Xeo was able to look at Aya once again in like before in the import store only this time her back was turned and wasn’t able to see his eye looking at her. He only felt it after battle that she was a woman with powers that didn’t quite match his own but came close. It was only then too that he left his Jedi guard down and was able to see more of Aya being a caring individual when fear and sadness were around others that were suffering. Plus the Jedi was viewing her body again but more of her lower proportion as she kept talking to Ben and having her upper body lowered down. He was beginning to see more of the muscle tone and shapes for just a brief moment until his willpower kicked in.

            “After all that…the NMCs…Klamp…that dog too. After all that and I let myself try to think like…that? Come on, Xeo. You’re better then that…even if…no. No…I’m just going to meditate on this…on what happen tonight. Up until now…ya…Jedi Code.” Xeo said to himself as the night went on. The stars kept flickering and pulsing with the light they give off as the city was still dead silence with only a few dozen people to keep the peace…for as long as they could.