The closely bonded group stepped into an empty room where all the meetings were placed and saw all the plans spread across the table that sprung around in a unlimited loop, repping all different allied flags into one singular room.

Caden zipped all around in the building locating a gas bomb located in a secured area of the building where only securities were allowed, he wiped the dust of the gas bomb and looked at the old data, then black electricity followed up with white electricity zapped at the gas bomb multiple times.

It didn't explode which Caden didn't expect, and just when he just figured what situation he was in he felt his entire body was sent crashing through tough walls, landing across the smoky roads, hitting the back of his head on a ledge of a window, His vision was blurry but he could see a tall male walkout from the smoke seen wearing a fedora over a black suit with a buttoned white shirt.

"Nice to meet you, terrorist," The unknown man spoked with a deep voice, reaching inches away from Caden's collapsed body.

Caden didn't think twice and threw a weak, small punch that was easily avoided by the unknown man who returned the fist with punches whereas each one hit, the more blood spurted from out of smashed eye socket that the gas mask had to protect to the eyes from. The unknown man continued to smash his blurry fist into Caden's suffering head, leaving no marks on his skin to be clean.

"I thought you would be a harder opponent," The unknown man chuckled after finishing his last punch.

"Oh, please...I-I'm not even fighting back..." Caden coughed out violently.

"Is that right?" The man cackled before digging his sharp nails into Caden's bruised neck to lift him off the ground where blood created a meaning itself in the identification of a lake, the man covered by black smoke scanned all the face features of Caden to try and recognise him.

"Oh~ Wow~ You really aren't fighting back...why?~ Finally feel defeated?" The man asked with a joking manner as he pulled out a cigarette from his pocket to smoke it in Caden's suffering face.

Caden directed his eyes over to the shadowy face and stared deeply into the part he thought there would be eyes, the man behind the thick smoke looked into the lifeless eyes Caden had and sighed deeply before slamming Caden onto the ground aggressively. He then started stomping on Caden many times seeming to have no end to it.

"You really...." The man said with a kick to Caden's face, "Gave up...just not the gave up on..." He added with another kick.

"Killing the Government..." The man continued with a last, hard kick to Caden's twisted stomach to watch blood escape from the insides of his gas mask.

Bruised from bottom to top, Caden laid froze in his position as he didn't care about the abuse he was going through, the only thing that roamed around in his zombie mind was that one spiteful regret.

"I...want to meet the boy...I accidentally murdered..." Caden's voice slipped out, silencing the manic man in a suit, he glared at Caden's pitiful situation and saw his hands gradually reach towards the sky where nothing was to be seen.

The man took a puff of his smoke and dropped it onto the ground, he rubbed the bottom of his shoe to get rid of the cigarette and glared at Caden in a confused way, the man crouched down to get on Cadnen's level, grabbing the top of Caden's heads to force him to look at a middle-aged man with blonde hair being brushed backwards. His grey eyes distracted him from the scruffy beard he grew around his jaw where it hasn't been cleaned in years.

"Listen, boy...griefing on a mistake will not male you win in you this war you declared on the entire nation. It'll become a burden that will bring you down," The man spurted out, itching his foreheads afterwards, "Jesus, my old age is catching up with me and is making me talk with a crazy mutant.." The blonde man laughed quietly.

"You'll meet him for sure, but when you do. You'll have to watch him scream right in your face because the damage you caused wouldn't win over a person's heart, you need to face that consequence and move on, you idiot." The man scoffed, patting Caden's head before disappearing with traces of white lightning.

Caden threw himself on his back and stared into the busy sky, he watched the clouds swim across him as he breathed slowly so he could heal his wounds quicker, Caden painfully removed his mask off his screwed in the face to place it beside him.

"Caden!" A worried female voice screamed, Caden didn't care who it was, he was busily closing his eyes to unconsciousness. His entire body became numb while he felt lumps grab hold of him and lift him off the stained roads he laid in for minutes as he watches all three blurry faces look down at Caden's ruined state.

"If only I could see you all again..." Caden whispered out before blacking out completely.

As hours speed by, Ms Paden, Autumn and Kaylee watched Caden lay limp in his bed, not moving a single bone in his body while the wounds stabbed into his skin slowly healed over time.

"This is the first time I felt a genuine sadness come from Caden.." Autumn squeezed out.

"It would explain why he hasn't spoken for two years, he was too busy fighting the demons inside his mind that started tipping the roof on him." Ms Paden said worriedly.

"What do you think the cause was?" Kaylee questioned.

"Maybe that kid he killed made him cave in and started being forced to remember the only ones he truly cared about." Autumn pointed out.

"And since that was stuck on his mind, he started facing depression that he never felt before..." Ms Paden acknowledged.

Words echoed inside Caden's mind as he watches his dear treasures be murdered in front of him many times, with that being added by the boy he saw get slashed in half by his ice powers.

A shine of light boomed in front of Caden's weeping eyes which stopped him immediately when he saw a familiar body appear from the ring of light with the other sides being full of flying distant mutants zooming through puffy clouds.

Then a smile he remembered popped inside his head, silencing him from sadness as his eyes widened.

"You've grown well, my son..."

To Be Continued...