Chapter 2

 

               

Reagan woke up a few moments later from hearing a fight going on down the hall, but the strange thing was that there was no one to back up or break up the fight. “Maybe I can get out of here now…” She said to herself. She slowly stood up and popped her back before going to get a look outside the bars. And the next thing she knew, she saw a young man with black and purple spiked hair. “Nex! What the hell?!?” She yelled as her younger brother got closer to her cell.

                “Well, it’s nice to see you too.” He smiled as he worked on unlocking the cell door. “Would you know a way out of here?” He asked without looking up, and smiled when he heard the lock click.

                “No. I got knocked out.” She stepped out and bought Nex into a quick hug. “But we’re going to find a way out.” Even if that does mean using the powers. She grabbed his hand a pulled him towards a set of stairs. “Just don’t do anything that will cause attention.” She glared at the blue eyed teen.

                As they were running towards said stairs, they passed a hall with a lot of lights and a set of heavy-looking doors made of some grey metal. Just as they were about to pass the hall completely, the same guy from before slipped through the doors. Without even thinking, Nex pushed Reagan as far from him as he could and twisted around and shouted at him.
"Hey! Jerk-face!"
Before he finished the sentence he had already sent two highly compressed spheres of water coursing towards the guy’s general direction at top speeds. Of course, the other was able to not only aviod the spheres, but also managed to speed right up to the siblings position in the blink of an eye, which is of course what Nex had in mind.
The brunette never noticed the sheet of ice that Nex had surrounded himself with, so when his feet touched down on the ground, he easily slipped and hit the ground... hard. It obviously stunned him and Nex quickly jumped on his stomach and froze one of the guys hands to the ground before the other had recovered enough to fight back. He quickly tried smacking the boy on top of him, but Nex had already reverted to his liquid form. He turned his head slightly as he froze his captive’s feet to the concrete floor as well and Reagan finally got off the floor and walked over with a huffy look on her face.
"What the hell, Nex?!"
As Nex continued to try to catch the speedster's free hand, he looked to his sister out of the corner of his eye.
"Well, we need directions, and Jerk-face here probably knows a way out... Right?"
The other blinked at the question and finally stopped struggling with a cute pout on his face. Nex was only mildly disappointed by the other's sudden stillness. The friction had been... pleasant.
'I'm mentally molesting my evil captive... Good lord...'
The other sent a covert look towards the doors he had come from as Nex snatched his other hand by the wrist and just held on. The guy shrugged.
"Well, technically, if you go up those stairs there, you'll get out... But then you'll have an a*s load of soldiers standing between you and the actual exit."
Nex shrugged.
"We could take 'em... probably."
Nex made a "disgruntled" sound by accident as the one beneath him suddenly jerked his hips upward. Reagan pretended not to notice, but his captive smirked at him, forcing a blushing Nex to look away as nonchalantly as possible as he continued with that damn smirk.
"But, if you let me up and promise to play nicely (he rolled his hips again, damn it!)... I'll get you outa here, guaranteed!"
Nex was ready to either kill the guy or start making out with him when Reagan returned to the conversation.
"And we should trust you to help us... why? I mean, I don't think you'd do it out of the kindness of your heart..."
The other glanced at her quickly before coming back to Nex who was looking at the ceiling and concentrating on NOT getting a boner.
"Hell no, I need your help with something too..."
Nex looked down at him finally.
"And that would be...?"
The other's smirk faded as he glared down the hall at the doors.
"I need you to help me get my brother."
The siblings looked at one another and thought the same thing.
'Oh lord, more complications...'

                “And where would your brother be?” Reagan asked, while she laughed her a*s in her head. She couldn’t believe that Nex was getting a boner while questioning the guy. I’m never going to let him live this down. Never.  Both boys watched as an evil smile appeared on her face. “What’s your name anyway?” Reagan pulled Nex off the guy before he could rape him, and looked at the brown haired man, whose hand was still frozen on the floor.

                “Kenneth.”  He replied as he tried to sit up. “Um… Do you mind?” He smirked at Nex.

                “Yes. And you’re staying there until we get all the answers we want.” Nex glared at the light brown eyed man. “So start speaking.”

                “Do you always have to do things the hard way Nex?” Reagan hit him upside the head, before sitting down next to Kenneth. “So, Kenny, where is your brother, again? And please say that he’s somewhere that has no guards.”

                “Kenny? Never mind. Um…I think I have an idea of to where he would be.” He didn’t look at the green eyed girl. He just had this feeling that when she got mad people got hurt.

                “You think you know where he is!?! What the hell!” Nex yelled while he threw his hands in the air. Why couldn’t they just get someone who they could have beaten the crap out of for answers? No, they had to puck someone who wanted to help them and find his brother. Could this day get any worse? 

                “Chill out Nex. Did you know where I was?” She hit her brother’s leg ignoring the ‘Ow’ that came from him. “We just happened to find one another by chance. Where might he be?” She looked at Kenny, hoping that the answer was simple and finding him would be a piece of cake.

                “Uh…He’s somewhere with a bunch of soldiers.” Both Nex and Reagan looked at each other. They had just wanted to make a quick escape, not go on some rescue mission. Never again am I going to wish for my life to be easy. Because this is just too much trouble. Hell, my tests would have been easier even if I didn’t study.  

                “What! Like hell we’re going…” Reagan quickly got up and put her hand over Nex’s loud mouth.

                “Well, lead the way.” She smiled as she once again hit Nex in the leg.

                Nex twitched a whole lot, he didn't let anyone see it of course, but he was doing it on the inside. Something about this boy was getting to him and the effect wasn't just sexual. He believed in love at first sight as much as he believed humans were basically good, never gonna happen, but this guy... Kenneth, was doing something to him, and it was a bit frightening. There was no way he was going to be around him for much longer, he couldn't take it, the guy's poor brother be damned! And then, Reagan ignored him at every turn...
'Biyatch!'
Now they were walking down the hall towards those big a*s doors and Nex's bad feelings just got worse. Reagan started prodding again.
"So, your brother's through here? And then down some hall...?"
Kenneth nodded his head hesitantly.
"Well, I think so about the hall part. I mostly just, ya know, zip through stuff like that..."
Reagan rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"You didn't even think to map out the area?"
The guy blushed a bit.
"Not really... Nexie here had just-"
"WHAT the fucked you just call me?!"
Nex had stopped dead in his tracks to glare at the guy as he shouted at him. His eyes had gone a dangerous stormy blue and the air around him was becoming chilled. Reagan could see her breath come out in puffs of smoke. Kenneth backed up a bit, but the smile on his face barely faultered.
"Whaaaat? You don't like Nexie? It sounds like foxy, which suits you, yeah."
Nex twitched, like, not just an eye or an arm, but a full bodied twitch. Reagan would have laughed if she didn't think her brother was about to murder the guy.
"Nex, calm the f**k down, he didn't mean anything by it... Just a nickname."
The guy nodded.
"Yeah, like you guys calling me Kenney."
Nex shuddered a bit and his eyes turned an inky black for a split second. Reagan had never seen that before in her life...
Next thing she knew, the lights turned up way bright, almost blinding, and the floor crackled with electricity. Nex screamed as the electrical current swept up his body in a fast wave and he fell to the ground. Before anyone could do much except gasp in surprise, Nex shifted into his water form, but instead of holding together like any other time, he just... fell apart. He gave one terrified gurgle before he turned into a puddle of water... and stayed that way.
Kenneth, shreiked with something between terror and outrage and rushed towards the guards who had just burst through the doors down the hall, but instead of smacking someone’s face, he ran right into some kind of barrier. The hit must have been hard; he flew backwards a few inches and rolled when he hit the ground. When he came to a stop, he didn't move anymore.
Reagan would have done something, should have done something, but... she was pretty sure... someone had just killed her little brother. And they needed to f*****g pay!