Chapter 44 - Working Together

Everyone just has to have some sort of scheme or something, so this chapter has a lot of dialogue and a new plot twist. Thank you for being loving fans, here ya go.



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It is near nighttime, as the sun is setting majestically outside the heroes home. Through the side window we can see that Eric is talking to the other heroes, and Brandon is bickering with Skate as Agent Y simply stands in the back holding his hand over his face, clearly annoyed by the situation. Outside the window, however, is She-Devil, holding binoculars and spying on them. She speaks to herself
"This is getting annoying, can't they just do something cool instead of arguing all the time? I don't have much time left, I only have 3 days left!"
From behind her we can hear Raven's voice asking
"Yes, and they're getting shorter every second."
She-Devil jumps around, surprised, and fixes her hair a little. She looks into his eyes and wags her thin, demonic tail in front of him, trying to seduce him but failing, and asks
"What are you doing here, tall, dark, and handsome?"
Raven is not amused by her attemps to seduce him, but merely says
"You're in danger, She-Devil. I don't have time for your tricks."
She-Devil stopped her tail and sighed, asking him
"You mean that Plan B thing? Why does he have no faith in me? I'm just in this for the free ride."
Raven rolls his eyes and grabs her shoulders, forcing her to look into his eyes. She cannot handle this strange, lovely pressure she's feeling and feels as though she is going to faint. He tells her angrily
"Satan knows you aren't going to be able to cause Armageddon. The Plan B he has planned is to release the 7 deadly sins from their holding pens and drag you back to hell!"
He lets She-Devil go and turns away, so She-Devil snaps out of her trance, gasping and looking very worried. She-Devil tries to remain calm as Raven calms and says
"Look, I've already organized a back-up plan. I know that what you're trying to do is hopeful, but you cannot go against lord Satan like this."
She-Devil smirks, apparently calm and says
"Don't worry, I have a plan."




We now switch to a view of Eric, talking to his friends, and past enemies, as Skate and Agent Y are now awake. He says
"Alright, now that we've got the formalities out of the way, I say we-"
Eric is cut off when Raven abruptly crashes through the window. They all look towards the window, seeing it had broken, but not seeing anything on the floor. Raven stands up, shaking the pieces of glass off of him, as the teens stare blindly into thin air and wonder what's going on. Tank begins to smell something, and lunges at Raven, not knowing he's there. Raven jumps back out the window before Tank lands onto the floor. Raven flies high onto the roof of the house, seeing She-Devil and asking
"Just what were you trying to accomplish!?"
She-Devil is confused and asks
"What? Why weren't they able to see you?"
Raven simply answered
"We cannot be seen unless we are in physical contact with humans. Otherwise, we are invisible. I am of a higher rank than you, She-Devil, but if you're going to throw me through windows like that, then I will remain afar, watching in the distance."
Raven flies off towards the center of the city, leaving her angry, and instead decides to watch the heroes plan from the window she broke.




May helps Tank to stand up, and Tank asks her
"May, Did you see it?"
May didn't know what he was talking about, be answered
"I saw something, but it was just some sort of silhouette."
Eric decides to ignore what just happened, and continues, saying
"Alright everyone, I'm gonna try working us all as a group. I want you all to get in a straight line, so I can better line up the wavelength of my thoughts."
They all do what they are told, some a bit less entusiastic about it, and get in a straight line, with Eric at the far right. He asks them
"Are you all ready?"
They all nod somewhat, and Eric begins to send out some sort of green energy from his mind, and it begins to link from person to person up until Christina(the 5th one across), and the wave breaks as the mental pressure cannot be sustained by Eric. He falls onto one knee and tries to stand up, but can't. Agent X runs over from the thrid position and tries to help him up, asking
"Eric, you don't have to try all this at once."
Eric suddenly turns and shouts out
"We only have 3 days, Agent X!"
Agent X backs up in fright, as she has never seen Eric this worried. The others look towards him as well, but everyone begins to hear a voice calling to them from the back wall
"True, the pressure must be devastating, Eric."
They look towards it, and we can see Agent A in Eric's eye's reflection. Agent A walks towards Eric slowly, and assuring him by saying
"You won't be able to defeat Midnight if you try to use too much power at once. Controlling people is tough, I should know. I had to make the harsh decision of the Agents."
Eric stands slowly and faces Agent A as he stops. He asks him angrily
"Then what should i do!?"
Agent A simply suggests
"Well, I am merely geussing, but I suggest that it is much easier to synchronize your mind with a person that knows you better than anyone...Agent X. After all this would be easier to accomplish if you mastered one person and move on from there."
Eric looked back towards Agent X, who was now blushing a little and avoiding Eric's stare. Eric blushes a little too, and decides to take his advice, walking over to Agent X and puts his hands on her shoulders saying
"What do you think, Agent X? Should we do it?"
Everyone seems to look towards Agent X, wondering what is she going to do. Agent X looks at Eric, into his eyes as they feel that spark that they always do, and replies
"Yes, I'll help you however I can, Eric."
Agent X suddenly hugs Eric, and Eric holds her tightly in his arms. He thinks to himself as his heart pounds
"Agent X...Soon enough I will defeat Midnight. You let your past haunt you, but I won't let my past hurt my friends."
Brandon begins to make a studio audience-like sound effect
"Ooooo-OW!"
However, Christina smacks him in the back of the head, merely sighing and asking
"Do you have to do that?"
Brandon rubs the back of his head as Agent A disappears before everyone else. Eric decides to bring Agent X up to his room, so that they would work in peace, however Tank pulls May, Brandon, and Christina aside and says
"Look, I know I smelled something that crashed through that window earlier. I think we should go and find it."
Brandon was immediately excited and said
"Hell yeah! I haven't gotten any action in forever!"
Christina once again hits him in the back of his head, asking Tank
"How do you suppose we find this thing?"
Tank answers
"I can still pick up his scent if we leave now."
May agrees, having complete faith in Tank, saying
"I think we should go. If we don't, I'll just keep wondering."
Tank is glad, and says
"Alright, I'll follow the scent out the window."
She-Devil hears this, and quickly flees from the window and into the city before she is noticed. Tank trails the scent, jumping out the window and following it across the ground until he notices that the thing can fly. Tank turns to them, and asks
"May, could you fly us through the air?"
May, unsure about the weight, replies
"I don't know."
Christina quickly freaks out and says
"No way! I am not flying through the air without any safety! I'm staying right here."
Skate calls back to Brandon, yelling
"Hey Brandon! We still haven't finished our rematch!"
Brandon shouts back
"Bring it on!", and runs back towards him.
May now knows that the two of them could definitely fly just fine and says
"We can go now, just the two of us."
Tank agrees, and asks
"Alright, grab hold."
May does what he says, and grabs onto his back, wrapping her arms around him and blushing through every second. May quickly flutters her angelic wings and lifts them off the ground with strong force. Tank begins to point in directions as he follows the scent through the air.




"Face it, you're just too weak, Raven."
We can see a young woman, dressed all in black with boots, a hairband, sharp red eyes glaring at Raven, and similar large black-feathered raven wings. Raven is sitting in a corner of what seems to be the remains of Midnight's old headquarters (The lobby of the Evergreen Hospital, in case you forgot) while the girl stands tall over Raven with her hand on her hip. We can hear some loud hacking noises coming from the other side of the room, and a man's voice agrees with the girl, saying
"Yeah Raven, we can't get involved with the humans while we're up here on Earth."
Raven retorts back
"Says the man who continuously chops up girls and drinks their blood afterwards."
The man turns around, stained with blood with a crazy look in his eye, and replies
"There's no crime in enjoying what I do."
Raven rolls his eyes as the man goes back to his chopping up what looks to be dead women's bodies. The man has white hair, but so stained with blood that it is now crimson red, black eyes with a red pupil, wearing a torn-up red business suit with no tie, and dress pants tore at the knees to appear as shorts as he is carrying a bloody scythe to chop up the bodies on the floor in front of him. Suddenly, Tank and May land outside of the building and begin to listen in to whoever is inside. The girl continues
"I know that we all feel sorry for She-Devil. After all she was human, like us. I mean it's not that we have any other options but to help her, but what are we gonna do? Go against the seven deadly sins in their re-incarnated forms?"
Raven looks up to her and confidently says
"That's exactly what we're gonna do."
Raven stands up abrubtly, but the girl holds him back where he stands, saying
"Whoa, hold on there, tiger. We're Satan's crows, the elite team of Grim reaper's here to handle the case of She-Devil's resurrection and any meantime affairs. We are not, I repeat, NOT allowed to go against Satan's next plan or else we're more fuel for the fire."
Raven pulls her hand off him, and shouts
"What are we supposed to do, Demise!?"
Raven walks into the back area as the girl, apparently named Demise, takes a step back and gives him some space. Suddenly, the man stops hacking and sniffs the area, saying
"Hmm, Fresh meat."
The man runs towards the side of the building, Tank hears this and says to May
"May, Run!"
Tank runs away from the building and May follows, but as Tank gets too far away, May gets grabbed by the man and thrown into the building by herself. May lands on her back, looking up to see the man now standing over her with his scythe in his hnds. May looks in terror at his face and he sees the bright light shine emanating from her body, apparently blinding him. He shouts
"It's her, It's The LIGHT!"
The man and girl fly right out of the building to avoid the immense light, while Raven comes out from the back room slowly. The light goes away as Raven says
"Don't be alarmed, most of my humanity is still intact, so the light will not harm me."
May stood up carefully, asking him
"Who are you?"
Raven answered her
"My name is Raven. I am a Psychopomp, a grim reaper who escorts souls to heaven or hell. You must be' the light', the angel sent to earth as a human. You're only talked about in legends."
May asks
"The Light? My name's May Ferrial."
Raven tells her seriously
"I'll let you go, but my team won't hesitate to kill you. Big things are coming, May, and I don't think either of us are prepared for it. Go."
May flies out of the entrance, still looking back at Raven, and no longer seeing anything but a white silhouette. Raven watches her leave with a hopeless look on his face and turns around to see Midnight, glaring at him in anger. Midnight throws a shade at him and the shade quickly pins Raven against a wall as Midnight shouts
"What are you doing here!?"
Raven struggles to get free, but recognizes him and tries to explain
"Case #425: She-Devil's Resurrection, you were She-Devil's accomplice, Midni-AGHH!"
Raven is crushed more by the shade as Midnight yells back
"Acoomplice? (flashes of Eric's father in Midnight's position, but more spastic now) I am no mere accomplice!"
The sun begins to rise in the background and we can see the number 2 appearing on Raven's forehead.




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Holy crap, that took over 10 hours of procrastination and soda, but it's done. I had a lot of hero and anti-hero talk in this chapter to balance things out, but I'm glad I squeezed a little Midnight at the end for the beginning of next chapter. I'm so glad I'm getting towards the end of the story. It's a lot of work, but I'm glad I'm doing something I love! Btw, The Lonely Island just gets funnier and funnier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c .

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