Daze.” She had a sweet southern accent, one that Eli liked.
“I’m Eliot, though I go by Eli. I, uhm, shoot pulse-type beams from my hands. It’s pretty cool.”
He tried talking himself up, though she didn’t even look at him, her head still down.
“I can move in between space and time. I don’t go through dimensions or anything like that, so yes, teleportation would be the easiest way to describe it. Boss asked me to look after you, make sure you’re comfortable in his and Raiser’s absence. So what would you like to know?”
“Well, I guess, what’s going on would be a good start.”
She nodded.
“My brother, Ranger, took his team on a deep mission, one he shouldn’t have gone on, and I allowed him to. There is a specific town east of here, Brookswood. Outside of it is a small desert, and hidden in that desert is a small base full of people who want us dead. We call it the Black-Zone. Ranger and his team were our top scouts as he had a wonderful sight ability. The best way he described it to me, imagine if you could extend your eyes out of your head and stretch them far away, looking anywhere around them as you went. He could see far, really far away. It was only him and one other guy, Monkey, had a super extensive type of hearing. They were the perfect duo. There is no way anything bad could have happened to them, right? And now, Sweets, our resident sweetheart, has gone after him. They were really close. She was one of us, ya know? Like a little sister to us. Someone he could really help. Her team, Witch and Omni, is with her.”
Eli processed all the information she gave him—an evil organization, a missing brother, two teams at that—and she was just so calm about telling him.
“I’m so sorry to hear that. Surely, he wouldn’t have had to get too close to the Black-Zone with his sight though, right?”
“He could see far, not whatever he wanted. He surely would have had to enter the desert, and I’m not even sure where the building even is. I’ve never seen it.”
They both got quiet, Eli moving to the bed to sit next to her.
“What, what am I? I thought this was all a dream. I thought I was alone.” His tone dropped, like nothing in the world mattered anymore, like he had no reason left.
“You’re you. You are the Final, and sure, you may have been Eliot King at one point, but now you can feel it, right? You’re the Beyohuman we have been waiting for. All these years, we have been tracking them down, rescuing them, and you are the last one Iris has seen that we don’t already know of. You are literally the Final. We are a people who break the limits of reality, all special and unique in our own ways. We can protect you and train you, Final. You are us, and we are you. We need you. You don’t have to be alone anymore.”
And there it was, what he needed to hear. Just like that, he knew he was home. He had found what he has been searching for all this time. His fears lessened and lessened. He and Daze spent hours in his room talking, learning, her telling him about the Order, him telling her about his life up until now.
“He found me, ya know? On his own. He knew what I was, just one look at me, and told me everything was going to be okay,” she said, referring to Boss.
“He took me and my brother in. No questions asked, and I fell in love with him almost immediately. I never believed in love at first sight or those stories about knights in shining armor, but when Boss looked at me, I knew my life was about to change for the better.”
She trailed off as lights began to shine through the window, a car pulling up. Eli and Daze quickly rose from the bed and ran outside to see the car Boss and company left in earlier as well as another. Out from the first car were a younger girl, late teens probably, and two men with her, assumingly Sweets and her team. No one got out of the second car immediately, though it seemed like that was enough for Daze. She dropped to her knees, screaming as loud as she could. She knew what happened. One by one, the men all got out of the car, Raiser holding someone in his arms, wrapped up in a blanket. Everything was silent to Eli like his hearing was gone. The moment was so surreal, like something in a movie, though it was real. Eli could feel these peoples’ pain, feel the heartbreak and anguish they felt. Boss rushed to her side. Daze quickly buried her herself into his chest. The two men who went with them helped Raiser get him into the lobby. People were moving out of their way, bowing as they went, paying their respects to the dead.
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