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Graaarrr, I can't wait till Sunday, lol. Here's chapter 21.
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Chapter 21; Minions
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Flying east over the Middle East, Ohm crosses off Cairo's symbol. Each encounter so far has been the same, weird powers; control over sand, or ability to manipulate wave lengths. On the other hand, each one has had similarities too, they've all said they were enlightened by "him", Ohm was unfortunately, unable to get the name. Also, after each one was defeated, it spawned the same dark plasmatic entity as the first. Why were the symbols darker then the ones he and Alexa had been in? What made them different? And, even a bigger question, how were they related? Ohm arrives at the Himalayas and looks for Everest (Latitude: 27°58'60.00"N Longitude: 86°55'60.00"E)*, supposedly the last symbol location. Scanning the horizon Everest isn't too hard to spot; Ohm zips over and finds the symbol on the side, oddly enough, no snow is covering it.
Each symbol Ohm has encountered has gotten more and more complex, this one is by far the strangest. A noise shakes Ohm out of his train of thought; he turns around to see at first sight what he imagines to be a Yeti. 'Whoa, what are you?' He asks. No reply, the creature is covered in shaggy white hair except for its hands and feet which are a teal blue-ish color with blackened nails that look razor sharp. Its face is covered by its hair although it is somewhat possible to distinguish human features...or once human. Ohm looks back at the symbol and notices that the place where that thing came from was in the center of the diamond, like all the others. Suddenly Ohm senses a disturbance and back flips in mid-air to dodge the oncoming assault of sharp icicles. The creature jumps to the top of the mountain, apparently not affected by the minimal supply of air, and begins to throw more icicles at Ohm, dodging, returns fire with blasts of energy, knocking the creature tumbling onto a ledge in the mountain.
Creature: Arrrgh!
Ohm: What? (In surprise) You talked...
Creature: Rrrrr... master...destroy you... must.
The creature lunges at Ohm unexpectedly and knocks them into the snow, they tumble down the mountain a ways before Ohm is able regain his balence and grab the creature by the neck flinging it into the air. Flying at super speed and passing the creature, Ohm spin kicks the creature into the mountain side with a giant puff of snow as his prize. Ohm squints to see if it survived--out of the snow leaps the dark plasmatic energy creature. Using the same technique as before, Ohm charges his power and in a burst of light causing the creature to be obliterated. 'Finally.' he says painting after all the fights one after another he's been into.
Ohm suddenly senses the same odd feeling he had done before numerous times. Looking up into the sky, he sees a black craft hovering a couple thousand feet above him, the same one he saw on the T.V. screen back at Lee's place. 'You're not getting away from me!' Ohm yells and kicks into hyper speed towards the craft leaving a sonic boom in his wake. The strange craft also takes off with amazing speed that Ohm hadn't expected. Tens of thousands of feet in the air, Ohm and the craft super speed off south west of the Himalayas. Ohm starts to gain on the craft, and launches a beam of energy, but to Ohm's surprise, the craft easily dodges the beam. Ohm tries numerous rapid fire shots, but the craft once again proves too fast for even Ohm. Running out of breath to be in super speed, Ohm gives his remaining bit of energy everything he's got. As he's about to surge when the craft launches a black beam down at the ground, and then a blast negitive plasma at Ohm draining him of the little strength he had left.
'Aaaaggghhh!' Ohm yells in pain as he plummets back to the Earth. Barely able to regain some energy before impact, Ohm slows his fall a little bit only to crash land into a farm house. Rolling over in pain, Ohm tries to get up and follow the craft only to fall back down again. A few minutes go by as he lies on his stomach in a pile of broken wood and metal trying to regain some energy. He stands up with great difficulty and looks around. 'Where am I?' He says out loud, Ohm looks at his GPS to realize he's in the southern tip of South America, the outskirts of Punta Arenas to be exact (Latitude: 53° 8'31.04"S Longitude: 70°57'4.96"W). 'Holy mother of... I was going that fast? I thought we were over the Atlantic...' Ohm remembers the craft and looks up--gone. As he walks out of what is left of the barn he notices another symbol to his left; a second later it is destroyed in an explosion as multiple objects rush out of the ground.
Screams nearby shake Ohm out of his confusion, and as he rushes to the scene, he sees not one but six identical figures terrorizing the inhabitants of the suburban city. Each one is about 3 feet tall, human shaped, and smoking as if they were on fire. One of them launches a smoke colored ball at a group of people, at the last second it's deflected by a golden beam of energy.
Ohm: Not today you little whatever you are's.
Small Creature #1: ...Nyeh?
Small Creature #2: ...Ohm...
Ohm: You know my name, I'm touched.
Small Creature #3: ...Kiiiill...youu...
Ohm: Cute, can you do tricks?
Two of the creatures approach Ohm from behind, somehow, Ohm can't seem to sense them, and they leap on to Ohm's arms with great strength. Pulling him to his knees, one of the others runs at Ohm and a heightened speed, and jumps into the air. With both feet, the creature side kicks Ohm in the gut knocking out his wind. The two other creatures holding Ohm's arms let go and drop kick him on the back. 'Ack!' Ohm screams as another comes up takes his head kneeing him in the face. Another one grabs his feet and swings him around a couple times before throwing him into a nearby house. Getting up from the debris, Ohm is severely ticked at being ganged up on by these little miscreants.
Ohm: (Pointing his pointer and middle finger) Play time is over.
Creature #1: ...Master...we kill him now...?
Creature #4: ...Thank youu...
Raising an eyebrow, Ohm charges his fingers with pure electricity and the passing of positively charged electrons creates a small lighting strike between his fingers. The lighting starts back at the beginning of the fingers, and travels up between them. Lighting shoots out and blasts one of the smoking critters, leaving only a small pile of ash and a tiny black blob about the size of a baseball floating in mid air. The blob then splits into 5 smaller droplets and is absorbed by the remaining creatures. Immediately, they grow in height, strength, and speed, 'Whoa' Ohm states looking in interest at the now 4 foot tall creatures. 3 of them charge Ohm and he speeds toward them hook kicking one while elbowing the other in the face. The third one flips over Ohm putting him in a full nelson, grabbing the things arms, Ohm tosses him over into the last creature flying toward him; knocking them both back falling.
Ohm soars up into the sky, then free falls with a fist straight out in front of him into one of the creatures. Like a spring, Ohm bounces of his kill, barrel rolling in mid air to axe kick another on the back. 2 more blobs of dark energy transfer themselves to the remaining 2 survivors. Now 6 feet tall, the smoking creatures look at their bodies, and then turn to Ohm blasting him with smoke. Ohm flies around the two grey things at super speed creating a whirlwind, not only blowing back the smoke, but causes the creatures levitate of the ground. Ohm then grabs one in a head lock in mid air and knees the creature several times in the back before taking the head of the creature in his hands and chucking it like a dodge ball at the other creature that is just landing on the ground. Jumping out of the way the first creature dodges the impact of the second one and absorbs his dark blob.
Ohm: You're the last one, scared?
Smoking Creature: Hardly. (Ohm gains a confused look) As you purify each of my brothers, their dark energy transfers to the remaining, not only are we advanced physically, but mentally as well.
Ohm: I see, so if you're smarter why haven't given up yet?
Smoking creature: Because our master commands us to kill you.
Ohm: Who is this master?
Smoking Creature: If I fail? He'll be your executioner.
Before Ohm has a chance to respond the now 7 foot tall creature jumps at incredible speed head-butting Ohm in the jaw. Flipping back over, Ohm charges electricity in his hands and fires the devastating beam at the creature. In return, the creature fires a super dense strand of smog; having no effect against the pure intensity of Ohm's blast, the energy cuts through the smog like a hot knife through butter. Hitting the creature, Ohm quickly focuses and adds more power to his hands, the extra strength proves too much for the creature and he is knocked back into the ground. This time, no dark plasma creature comes flying out of the debris filled crater; rather the creature lying on the ground gradually disintegrates.
Ohm: Now, (Ohm says painting) to head back to New York and see if Stan has come up with anything.
Ohm speeds off back towards New York when he gets that sudden feeling again. Looking up into the sky he can't see nor sense where the craft is. Keeping a wary eye out, Ohm continues his journey back to New York.
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*Be sure that the "Terrain" function at the bottom left panel is selected to view Everest in 3D. go up to the top right where your navigational tools are located and click on thew top bar, slowly moving it to the right. 
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