Megan could feel the thickness of the air, Stefan and Tyler immediately tensed, she could see how the presence of this mysterious solo affected them, they were angry, confused, nervous and ...... scared? How could this person cause so many feelings in her boys? This person whom she didn't recognize, all of him screamed bad news. She could tell the malice just by looking at his face, in the wicked way he smiled.

" Who you are?" Megan finally broke the silence with the question that raged her thoughts.

"He is one of them." Tyler answered through clenched teeth.

" Who?" Megan asked again, she had no clue of what he was talking about.

"Scott Drake" She turned her head to Stefan in desbelief, his fists were clenched tightly the memories of their last enconter hunted his mind. That's when Megan put all the pieces together, Scott Drake as in the Evil Drake Brothers, the man in front of them was one of the brothers, the brothers who almost killed Tyler and Stefan.

Megan could feel her anger rising, she wanted so badly to kill him for what he had done to her boys. That anger only increased when she saw the smug smile he wore.

"Why hello again, I hope there aren't any hard feelings between us." Scott Drake spoke with false concern.

"Why would there? It's not like you and your brother tried to kill us or something like that." Tyler's words were sarcastically spat out. He then raised one of his guns and fired at his enemy but the bullets were easily deflected with a rised water shield.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a shame Evans I thought you would know better than that." After feigning disappointment the three watched as he raised one of his hands towards Tyler, he felt the water inside his body rise to his throat drowning him agonizingly slow.

"Tyler!" Megan's desperate scream resonated against the gray walls, she aproached to try and help him, but soon she fell in the realization that there was nothing she could do stop what was happening. The desperation in his face was killing her along with him, the fact that she couldn't even use her powers left her longing the posibility of doing so.

Tyler was coughing violently trying to kill the sensation in his throat, but it wasn't working, he felt his lungs fill with water little by little, choking him. Megan fell to the floor and rested his body on her arms, holding him close to her  warmth. Stefan thought about how to help and started shooting arrows at Scott, destracting him enough to stop the torture on the other, while the archer did his best to distract Scott, Megan helped Tyler cough the water out of his system.

"Ty, it's okay, it's okay, I'm here, oh god, I was so scared." She quickly huged him before trying to help Tyler to his feet.

"Megan, we can't do much without our powers" His voice scratched  his sore throat as he struggled to catch his breath.

They turned to the sound of bone crashing against brick and saw the aftermath of Stefan being thrown against the wall with a blast of water, he fell to the ground with a groan and what certainly were broken bones.

Before Megan or Tyler could get close to him, they all felt the entire building shake. Scott just smirked.

"Looks like my brother is having fun up there." Scott looked up at the floors above them, what let Megan thinking that Derek and Liam had their own hands full with what was probably the other brother. "Oh well, let's get over with this soon." With that said he used his powers as he had done with Tyler before but this time against the two boys. Megan watched with fear their suffering and didn't know what to do, but she refused to froze in her her spot and watch them die to her feet.

She made a quick decision, she drew her pistols and shot towards Scott, although he used a water shield to avoid the bullets, she didn't stop firing as she ran towards him.

Scott shot water at the girl managing to throw her to the ground, but she got up quickly to continue fighting, she knew that she couldn't win this fight without her powers, but that didn't stop her, she had to fight to save her boys.

She took out her daggers and threw them at him while he dodged them, she took the opportunity to shoot him with one of her guns, a bullet managing to hit him in the shoulder. This was enough to get him to release both boys from the torture, Tyler and Stefan were only able to stay on the ground coughing out the water and panting heavily.

Megan didn't stop, she tried to attack Scott once more, but he managed to be faster than her, shot her with water and she was thrown into the wall, there Scott approached her and held her by the neck, lifting her feet off the ground and choking her.

"You know, you impress me Megan Stone, I knew you were strong, but in order to hurt me even without your powers, I think the word going around about you runs short. It's such a shame that I have to kill you." Scott looked directly into her eyes his expresion and tone laced with feigned pain.

He tightened his grip on the girl's neck, Megan could feel how all the air was cut off, as her feet losed the strength to keep kicking against the wall she closed her eyes, slowly waiting for the darkness to overcome her completely. But for some reason that moment never came.

Suddenly, she felt how Scott's weight was thrown away from her, the corridor lit with a ........... beam of light? She fell to the ground on her knees, gasping desperately for air and her hands went instinctively to her neck to calm the pain she felt.

"𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐼'𝑚 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦." Megan heard the voice of someone she didn't quite recognize, he managed to knock Scott out. As she gasped to recover she seemed to see the unknown man approach her, making her move against the wall in order to mantain  some distance between them the existing doubt of his intentions being the reason.

"Hey, it's okay, I'm here to help you, can you get up?" The man asked her, she could only nod and tried to get up but just as quickly lost her balance, she would have fallen to the ground if it hadn't been for his arms that held her in place. "Don't worry princess, I'll carry you." Megan didn't even have the strength to protest when he picked her up to carry her in his arms.

From the corner of her eye she managed to see Derek and Liam helping Tyler and Stefan off the ground. They all approached, Megan just leaned closer to the chest of the man who was carrying her, she was exhausted.

"We need to get out of here fast, we don't know how long the brothers can be contained." Liam struggled to say, his hand on his sore jaw, he and Derek seemed to be pretty beaten up too. They were all aware of the situation in hand, on a strange playground where they didn't have the upper spot with two hunters on the place tracking them down like foxes. A stranger was their only source of hope.

"I think I can hold a portal long enough to make it back to the safe house." Stefan took a step away from Derek, the device that was atached to his ankle preventing him from using his powers had broked when he was thrown to the wall. He could barely stand upright, but for now, his solution seemed to be the quickest way to get out of that place.

"Are you sure Stefan?" Derek asked, concerned about the boy's physical condition. Stefan just nodded and proceeded to open a portal, everyone managed to pass through it and instantly found themselves back in the safe house.

All were greeted by concerned Dr. Davis, Lillian, Ava, and Spencer.

"What happened?" Ava was immediately washed in worry when she saw the state in which everyone was.

"We had unexpected visitors." Derek said simply as he lowered himself onto the couch, he was very beaten up and tired.

"What the heck happened ?! I completely lost communication with you." Spencer exclaimed with a tone between frustrated and worried. His eyes landed on the extra figure on the room, someone he expected to see ealier but somehow managed to stand in front in them with Megan between his arms.

"Drake brothers, that's what happened." Liam said through clenched teeth. Hearing that name again, Spencer completely tensed. "We'd be worse off if he didn't show up." He gestured towards the stranger who now was intercepted by Lillian.

Her hand went to the injured face lightly touching the wounded skin, although her eyes were closed Megan wasn't unconcious and nodded when the air manipulater asked her about her state. "Who are you?" Lillian made the question that the majority wanted to, his identification was still a wonder for them, they a needed a name for this 'savior'.

"He's the friend I mentioned earlier, the one who would help with the mission, apparently he was late." Spencer mentioned as he glared at the man silently thankful that he showed up at the most critical moment.

"Just a little, but I arrived just in time to save them." His lips decorated with a small smirk. "I think I'll take the princess to rest, she seems to be exhausted." His arms reafirmed their position on her body, Megan was still leaning firmly on his chest. Derek's body was aching enough to keep him from expresing a word about it, although that's exactly what he wanted to do.

"Follow me." Lillian marked the way and led him to Megan's room leaving the others to remain resting in the living room. They were some long seconds of silence that filled the space that followed, the rising of this new problem ignited their nerves to a higher level.

"Everyone to the lab, we're going to to check and tend to your wounds." They were all ready to comply to Dr. Davis words, then he looked around to the wounded and that's when something catched his eye. "You two, what are those things?" He demanded an answer for his wonder. Tyler saw what the Doc was referring to and sighed.

"We're not sure what they are, but they are quite painful and prohibit us from using our powers, Megan has one too." The brunette scratched the back of his head as he stared to his now decorated and wounded ankle.

"Mine broked but it stil didn't get off me." Stefan shock his leg to prove his point, the metal was quite deeply impaled on his skin and flesh.

"Well we'll have to see what they are and figure out how to remove them." The Dr. replied "To the laboratory, now." He ordered with no room for objections, not like anybody had one at the moment. Some grunts and groans were heard behind him as they all got up and let him lead the way.

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Meanwhile in Megan's room.

Lillian had shown him the way to get to Megan's room, then left them to give her the opotunity to rest. He approached the bed and laid her gently on it, looking at her seemingly fragile state just a second before he turned to the door. When he tried to get out of there, before he could even take a step, he felt the warm touch of her fingers on his skin, trapping his forearm in the electrifying magnetisim that her weird act had exposed.

"Wait, can you stay with me a little longer?" Her voice came weakly above a broken whisper, but he heard it clearly. Maybe it was the concussion she had after being thrown like a rag doll just minutes before, or the fact her mind still hadn't recovered the oxygen it was denied earlier, but that moment right there, was Megan letting herself show weakness in front a complete stranger. A one in a lifetime.

" Of course I can." He showed no ounce of doubt in his movements when he sat down next to her on the bed and let his hand softly direct itself towards her. "For you princess, I would stay today and all the days after that." His sweet whisper was foreign for both considering it was just their first encounter, but that didn't mean his spoken words had any less weight of trueness. The soft trace of his touch lit up a spark on her chest she never knew could exist.

" Thanks." Megan replied as her eyes slowly surrendered to her sudden heavy feeling lids. " Can I know your name?" Was the only question her mind could elaborate in her current state, body demanding her to fall asleep.

"I'm Knight ......, James Knight" Was the last thing she heard before she completly fell into the waiting hands of exhaustion.

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He looked up with his usual fierce gaze when his paperwork was rudely interupted with a yellow envelope neatly sealed by a red thin string. The piece abruptly landed on top of his desk on behalf of it's holder, who handled the deadly stare of his superior like the experienced profesional he was.

No one entered the director's office like the man had previously done it, unless of course, you were looking for trouble, it was something life-threatening related or you were incredibly stupid. Director Hayes knew Dylan Cane usually suited the last check-box, cause only a man like him would have the nerves to precipitously enter his space of work, interupt a superior and practically throw evidence at his face while doing so.

Dylan Cane was certainly a man like no other, that was the reason he occupied such a high position in such a difficult incorporation like A.R.R.O.W. "I sent some of my men to the spot, is was burning to the ground by the time they got there." He took out one of his cigarettes and lit it up under the piercing eyes of the boss. The director opened the envelope and took out what it contained. "What you have in your hands is what we could gather." The smoke came out of his lips as he spoke and floated between the bodies when he moved his fingers with the silent killer trapped in middle of them.

Michael Hayes went through the photos seeing a pair of known faces and some other new ones, ending with two sheets that displayed the short information of two individuals. "More S.I.N. subjects." He let out as matter of fact, few details like their bynames and their last seen location were the only data printed on the paper.

"Seems like Benjamin has new reclutes under old Farrell's nose." Cane took an other take at his cigarette, his words showing amusement at the fact that good ol' Benjamin Davis dared to do something of this magnitud behind everyone's back. Director Hayes took another second before deciding what he was going to do with this new found information.

The blue eyed man smirked at the actions of his commander, his eyes going to the freshly torn pieces of paper that now layed on the desk. "Are you a snitch Cane?" His cigarette stayed dangling between his teeth, the smell of smoke overtaking in the office air, the smirk never leaving his lips after Hayes throwed the question and returned to his paperwork, expecting his reponse but the superior already knew damn well the answer to that.

"I don't even know what you're referring about sir."

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NEW CHARACTER

- James Knight -
《Light Chaster》

He has the power to control infrared rays, X-rays, gamma rays.

✰Powers include:

•Shoot a beam of energy.
•Shoot or create laser beams.
•Generate heat.
•Generate explosive energy balls.

•He can make himself invisible.
•Create holographic copies.
•Distort visibility.
•Create Flashbangs.
•Limited flight capacity.
•Create energy shields.
•Emit light from his own body.
•Go through objects.