Four and Counting: It Begins

Ollie and his mum were on their way to meet his dad at the cinema to watch the newest Toy Story movie when the-should’ve been fatal accident occurred.

As they approached the crossroad, the breaks of a car at the top of the road cut off causing the car to speed uncontrollably down the hill. Not realising that the car’s breaks were broken, Ollie’s mum began to drive across the crossing. By the time she realised that the car wasn’t stopping, it was too late.

The car ploughed into the car, flipping it sideways, causing it to land upside down with the front half of the roof caved in. Ollie was sat in the back unconscious, unaware that his mother had just been crushed in front of him.

Tom heard about the accident nearly instantly and flew his ship to the site of the accident and beamed down to find his brother in an ambulance and his mother’s body being placed into a body bag. He rushed to Ollie and explained to the paramedics that he was his brother.

            ‘He needs blood or he isn’t going to make it to the hospital,’ Lelia explained.

            ‘Then take some of mine,’ Tom insisted. ‘I’m his brother, it will almost definitely be a match right?’

            ‘We can’t take that chance,’ Lelia sighed sadly.

            ‘Either we give him my blood and he likely lives, or we don’t and he dies,’ Tom yelled. ‘We don’t have a choice here. Take my blood and give it to him.’

            ‘I could lose my job,’ she retorted.

            ‘You always were stubborn,’ Tom muttered before pulling a small pen, much like the neutralizer from the Men in Black movies only with the opposite effect, out of his pocket. He pushed the button on the side of the pen and blasted her face with an extremely bright light that caused her head to begin throbbing. ‘You okay?’

            ‘Yeah,’ she winced. ‘Give me your arm,’ she ordered as she grabbed two syringes and created a makeshift transfusion kit in order to transfer some of Tom’s blood into Ollie’s body. ‘You realised that if our theories are correct, we are giving him a fate worse than death.’

            ‘Nothing is worse than death,’ Tom countered. ‘I have a way to suppress the powers that could come with this, and I’m close to synthesising a formula that could completely neutralise ones powers completely, permanently.’

            ‘For those that want out?’ Lelia asked as she inserted the needle into Tom’s arm, his blood quickly began to flow through the pipe and into Ollie’s body.

            ‘And anyone who is too dangerous,’ Tom sighed.

            ‘Inside Out? Geoff? Jackie?’ Lelia listed.

            ‘Felix and Geoff yes, Jackie’s dead. Her mind was fried,’ he admitted.

            ‘Who fried her brain? Jaso?’

            ‘No,’ Tom sighed. ‘Jaso died in a car crash a few years back, he was impaled by a tree branch.’

            ‘After everything we’ve been through…’ Lelia started but couldn’t finish as she realised all of the Protectors that had died on her watch.

            ‘Going through a war only to die in a freak accident, or to be placed in a mental asylum, or to be picked off by someone you once called a friend,’ Tom finished for her. ‘It’s not right…’

Once Ollie was stabilised, she removed the needle and told her partner to get going. While her back was turned, Tom formed a small pile of red powder in his hand that was designed to erase the memories of both Lelia and her partner back until the point in which Tom got on the ambulance. He climbed up into the front of the ambulance and blew the dust into their faces causing both of them to recede into pre-blood transfusion memories and state of mind.