FADED SHADOW

WELCOMING PART. 4

CONT’D

“Monday.”

“Monday... wake up.”, Naomi voice watered down his consciousness. She repeated his name again. Sharply, his eyes popped open. “Oh my God, you are okay!.”

Monday took a good look around him. “I am still here?”

“You suddenly fell unconscious before you left. Goodness, are you okay?”

Monday held his head trying to ease the headache that was knocking him on an extreme rate. He groaned and exhaled heavy breaths.

“Are you okay, what happened?”

“I don't know... how long was I knocked out cold?”, Monday asked, feeling awkward on the inside.

“Just 5 mins ago.”, Naomi confirmed. “You really need to go now , Az said there are some trucks heading towards the white house, they are loaded up with explosives.”, She said as she assisted him up on his feet.

Monday held the couch and shook his head.

“My God, what's wrong with you.”

“It nothing.”, He lied. “I’m okay, I just need to get some water , that's all.”

“Mon---”

He vanished into the sky at top speed before she could say anything.

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𝐅𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐃 ༒ 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖

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•𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄•

“Thank you.”, Mrs. Aiden said as her daughter, Debbie took the plates from the dinning. She was this tall slim woman who her daughters took after In terms of characteristics and looks. She wiped her lips clean with a provided tissue.

Mr. Aiden on the hand. “This was an amazing night. ” , he complemented. The siblings had decorated the whole house just for their parents anniversary dinner.

From candle lights to balloons and other series of decorations that made it look like an actual party. Ordered delicious meals from their favourite restaurant; Serah's bay.

Mr. Aiden nor Mrs. Aiden had asked about Mondays whereabouts yet.

A smooth romantic music was turned on by Jake, the dance floor was made for the two couples to dance on this supposed joyful occasion.

Kat stood in a distance with her eyes fixed on her phone, she was going through her call logs. She stopped on Naomi and called her. She headed out of the house to avoid any interference.

Naomi was busy switching her TV channel to the news channel to watch the pursuit of the van holding the explosives when she received a call from Kat.

“And why is she calling me? ”, She sort to pick her phone up but she stopped herself and laid back on the couch.

“Why isn't she picking my calls? ”, kat lampooned and she tried again but it result were still the same. “Great, Monday must have told her to ignore my calls. Just great. ”

Kat was worried. Even though she and Monday didn't share that much bond, she still cared about him. Circumstances led to different situations that made their relationship stagnant.

She made her way back into the house while Naomi could only hope nothing goes wrong with Monday, unbeknownst to her , the latter had fallen into a state where he might have possibly possessed a vision, dream, something and . . .he's weakend by it.

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A black blur shoots across the sky faster than an eye could follow. He utilizes his enhanced vision and locks unto the van.

The President Lamborghini arrives at the front gates of the white house, armed men came out to accompany the president but the alarming sound of the incoming van gets their attention.

“What in the name ---”, The president wasn't done talking when his man started shooting the van as it refused to halt. It maddened speed terrified the president.

Monday increases his speed and ruptures another sound barrier. Going twice as fast as before as he impales the American states territory and beam towards the White House!

Armed men dropped from the van immediately, taking out their rifles and began to fire at the guards till the president was the only one left.

The distance between the president and van was slightly close as the bastards began shooting the van to get ignite the flame.

Unfortunately. . .

A black blur makes a terrific entry and snatches the van from the Earth's grip and soars fast into the air and with one hand, sends the van flying into the Earth's atmosphere; where the explosion itself. . .takes place.

The armed men were pissed! the rushed at the general with their rifles and fired from a distance before any other guards could reach out to him.

“Great! can't he run!.”

Monday dematerialized and rematerialized Infront of the president as time dilated, the bullets traveled at a slower pace as Monday was materializing before the president.

When he was done, time. resumed back to it normalcy and the bullets came at him only to bounce of him immediately. The armed men kept firing , till they ran out of bullets.

They began to gasp and took steps backwards with the plan to runaway.

“Well you guys had your fair share. ”, He levitated like airplane and remained stagnant. “Now, Let me have mine. ”

The act of dematerializing and materializing, Monday knocked each and everyone of them with one fist to their cheeks, jaws, guts! making sure he broke their bone.

He stopped the act of teleportation before one of them he had previously beaten up badly.

He was struggling, still stubborn but the pain inflicted murdered him slowly.

“What... in .. the ... name are you?! ”

“I don't know, how about you help me find that out?”, With that, with a palpable amount of force retracted from his strength! Monday smashes the armed man down to the ground.

Either dead or alive, Monday left them to their grief. Ignored the president and flew of at top speed. Leaving the man of the country stranded in his thoughts.

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𝐇𝐐

Az was just about walking into the large platform where Monday was meant to land and stood there, busy going through something on his tab.

“Seems to me they had all these planned out.”

THUD!.

Monday landed at the center of it, he removed his mask as he alighted. Az kept his tab and smiled then walked up to Monday who looked like he was having an extremely bad day. “And there's the man of the hour. Nice entry though.”

“Yeah whatever.”, Monday walked pass him and went to have a sit.

“Yo... What the matter with you? you look like someone who lost his candy bar or something.”,.

Monday ignored, his mind was busy.

“Dude, can you tell me what the hell the problem is?”

Monday heaved a sigh and leaned forward with his elbows resting on his lap. “I fell unconscious for 5mins at Naomis’ place.”

“Thennn... what happened?”

“Within that five minutes I saw something, perhaps I was hallucinating it or something... like I fell into a dream state.”

Az came forward. “Well mind telling me what you saw that's making you act like a freak?!”

Monday sighed, lowering his head. “I am not sure Az, but whatever I saw...”, He looked up at him. “I think my dad is alive.”

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𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

Outside the earth awaited the unrivaled beauty of the suspense of space , occupied with planets and stars, celestial bodies that holds a great definition to history. But something otherworldly hovers close to the earth premise.

Not a planet, not a star, but could have been mistaken for one.

The darkness of space grooms it appearance hiding it true nature but as it hovers and hovers close to the earth premise, it comes to light slowly.

What could this be?

An emerald mothership?!

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Next Morning:

It morning and the sun is on the rise without hesitation, there's nothing stopping it now. Birds are dashing back and forth across the sky. Everyone else is busy heading to their work place.

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𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖 𝐇𝐐

Back at HQ,

Az enters with a mug of coffee in his grasp and a brown package containing some snacks which he had held closely to his body with his other hand. The lights turned on as he settled down the brown package on one of the desk in the room and placed his mug to the side.

He turned around and was startled. He caught Monday seated on the front sit , making use of the surveillance system globally.

“Dude!.”, He seeks his attention. “What the heck is the matter with you? you didn't go home or what? ”

“Not with what happened to me last night. I told you what happened didn't I? ”, Monday replied without facing Az

“Yes you did and I clearly said, it was nothing. No need to get yourself worked up about some crazy mothership that might have your dad in it.”

Monday got up with his eyes appearing to be purging golden energies that seeks to offloads but ceases immediately at the sight of a freighten Az.

“Okay okay... I didn't mean that but it nothing, don't stress yourself out over that. We have bigger things to deal with. ”,

Az said as he took the front seat and did some clicks. “ Remember what happened last night with the president? I think it was staged, someone wants to kill the president. ”

“Any leads ... ”

“Not yet... but one of those men were one of those guys that you bursted back in Hayward Tech industry. ”, Az makes another click and the pictures of the two men potrays itself.

“They look like twins. ”, Monday observed thoroughly.

“Yeah. I'm guessing these two are brothers, and the whole operation is linked together. ”

“And why will anyone want to kill the president and also wants some nuclear power generator”,

Az ran his hands across the keys. “Political warfare I guess. ”

“Right... I think I'm gonna go. I have to catch up with Naomi today ” , Monday slowly backed away while clashing his fist together and turned away.

“Yo wait up. ”, Az ran up to him. “Kat called me last night, she was really worried about you, I am hoping you can at least see her. ”

“I will see them when I want to.”, Monday declared and flew out at top speed , taking the force of the mighty wind with him.

Az slowly turned back and walked up to the front seat and sat down. “Oh Monday, I have got no idea on how to handle you, for now. Let see what I can find on Doctor Grayson Snow. ”

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𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇,

“So glad you make it to school, I thought I won't be seeing you today.”, Naomi nudged his shoulder as they moved along the hallway.

“Yeah...”, Monday nodded. “Really weird to be here, since I missed a whole semester.”

“At least you are here, and that's what matter. ”,

They stopped by some lockers and Naomi opened up one revealing to be hers while Monday stared at his like he was unsure if it was his locker.

Naomi catches him staring and lifts an eyebrow. “Why staring? it your locker, isn't it? or are you remembering how you kissed her with her back against your locker and you two were both---”

“Oh shit!”, Monday interrupted and threw his face at her. “You saw that?!”

“Umh yeah! and she basically bragged about it during one of my camp periods so yeah, I'm well aware that you did that.”

Monday sighed and faced his locker then opens it and places his backpack in it and slams it.

“You didn't really have to slam it ”

“Come on Naomi . . . ”, He said taking out a note book and a pen. “Let head to class. ”, He walks away holding the unfriendly context on his face.

Naomi tagged along as they both headed to class. Boys from different parts of the school soon ganged up in a spot close to the locker as they left.

“Heh...seems Monday is back.”, Says one of the boys.

“And he is with her, should we go knock some sense into him and tell him you run this place?” ,one of the boys asked , his blood boiled.

“It okay... no need to rush him. Besides, it his first day in school after missing a whole semester. We are going to show him how it done.”, The latter grinned devilishly and the supposed gang wandered of.

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𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖 𝐇𝐐,

“Doctor Grayson Snow. Seems like a hard shell to crack. He's been missing for five days after the event that occured at Hayward Tech lab, don't know why but something tells me otherwise.”, Az thought as he went through his reading on the holographic screens that surrounded the room with another latter in the building.

He was tall, fair and cute with his eyeballs that were observing the screens. Tucked in a black long sleeves buttoned up t shit with matching black jeans and fitting boots.

“How did he go missing all of a sudden. A renowned scientist to begin with.”

Az snapped his fingers while still reading with a hamburger in his mouth. He took a huge bite and digested the nourishing contents.

“Exactly... how does a renowned scientist goes missing and it just getting published. And we have the president on a serious lock down mode.”

The latter moved closer Az to observe what he was saying. It was a live event going on at the white house.

“* Lock down mode for the president takes a serious turn than expected. President Wells declares war to whoever tries to take him out of the seat. Our president isn't going down without a fight as it seems. The attack has occured on series of occasion and the last one which was thwarted by Green Land Citys’ Black blur; the faded shadow seems to have been the very last of the attack made on the president. *”

“Seems to me they must me regrouping.”, Az thought. “Seeing Monday must have startled them.”

”No amount of regroup can stop Monday. ”,

Az stood up and walked forward a bit. “Yeah, you're right about that but it depends.”, he then turned around to face a screen which showcased the nuclear energy generator. “I think I know how we are going to find this.”

“How?”

“I should have done this a long time ago but well here I am doing it now.”

The latter stood close to him. “What exactly do you wanna do.”

“ The generator is meant to continue generating nuclear energy and contain it for a long period of time. Perhaps the one thing we can do is... search for any similar heat pattern across the city.”, he said setting everything up. “But it has to be active, not by just generating this energy but by being used to do something or rather, being experimented on.”

“Okay that's just genius!.”, The other latter exclaimed. “Why didn't you do this earlier?”

“Because I was busy... now if we can find the generator before that organization that attacked the president then we will be at an higher advantage.”, He tapped on the screen. “Now let's find Doctor Grayson Snow.”