My Super Secret Life…Scarlet-3

Chapter 3

I’m excited and I’m scared all at the same time and I do exactly what I’m being told. I know that doesn’t sound all super hero like but I don’t know…I’m flying into a burning three hundred and some story building trying to get the people out, using my enhanced strength to ferry firefighters, move heavy stuff that I can lift.

It’s hard as hell because we’re all not used to doing this like this but we get into a rhythm. I get a pair of firefighters on my boots and they hang on as I fly them up to a critical area even getting them up ahead of the fire in the upper levels so they can hit it from both sides.

I carry air replacement tanks with me going in to where the guys are getting low. I’m in an EMT vest so when there’s some one hurt and cut and needs something fast I’m there and carrying the supplies needed to get the injured to where they ca get real help. Or if bad enough I fly an EMT in.

There are Aero-fire trucks and Aero-Ambulances but there’s just not enough of them considering the entire block is ablaze.

Then there’s the fact that my body field protects me from the fire, and the smoke even the radiant heat so I’m effectively fireproof. But while transporting a firefighter we got caught in a blast and my power flared too coating the both of us. It weakened the fields strength….I felt the heat and the debris hitting it.

But we were both okay.

It got better and rougher after that. I started sharing my field with those I was carrying and getting out. I got burned with the kids in the clinic building…there was one of the levels in the building that had kids in it. A cyber-fitting ward for disabled kids and the medical gas lines caught and blew. I flew three guys in one standing on each foot and one girl hanging onto my back but it was up to me to get the kids out.

Nine kids under the age of ten…I got them onto one of the hospital beds and put up the rails and told them to. “Okay you guys, get under the covers and hand onto each other and don’t peak out.”

I grabbed the rails and with cargo like this…I put all of the field I could on them and there was so much weight that I couldn’t fly fast enough not to get burned. Not badly but bad enough that parts of my clothes were on fire when I landed and I was quickly blanketed by some of the fire fighters.

I passed out for a few minutes I think. My lungs hurt and I think I got a good dose of the smoke inside my lungs when I did this.

“Oh…oh… (cough)…are…are the kids alright?”

One of the paramedics looks at me. He’s pretty cute, blonde wavy hair, green eyes and the uniform and this really sort of kind sweet way that he’s looking at me…

“They’re fine, scared but fine thanks to you. You on the other hand Ms.?”

“Scarlet… (Cough)…that’ll do…?”

“Spencer, nice to meet you.”

“Spencer is that a first name or a last name?”

“It’s Spencer.” He says smiling and moves off to help some others as he puts a bottle of water in my hand.

Wow…

At least one part of me isn’t feeling dehydrated right now.

My burns hurt but there’s red energy in them, and it feels strange but I’m watching reverse blisters acting like they’re bubbling away. Healing? Yeah definitely healing and this is really frustrating…I wish I knew how this was healing me…and if I could pass it onto other people…heal them.

But the books so far never mentioned that they self healed with this either. Do we all have different powers?

I’m tired and I’m resting a few…I take the oxygen mask they give me too and I’m a bit light headed. My stomach does a nasty snarl when I smell food from a food cart/truck that stopped its sales to help the FD and the PD.

I’m treated to free tacos from there and canned orange juice as I watch the stuff going on. The battle is over and as far as I can tell only the henchmen are being carted off. The Ultimatum seems to have gotten away.

But the Ark Angels are still doing their job.

Wraith… their resident batman type is bringing people to safety with his grapple gear. He’s all black garbed in and tattered hooded cloak that no one can see inside the hood of. He’s the bogey man of Ark City and a borderline hero type. He’s been often accused of being a criminal and a killer. There’s no evidence of it but he’s been rumoured to have beaten some very bad people into extreme trauma.

I’m of two minds about that. The law is the law right but inside when he does that to a serial rapist or a child molester. There’s a part of me more than willing to turn a blind eye.

And so does a lot of the city. It makes me wonder if the ones foaming at the mouth for him to do time are scared he’ll come for them.

Daystar…. He’s really strong and he’s impervious to the flames and he’s literally able to shine like a sun or a star. He’s doing anything he can but a lot of it is what I was doing only he can project his golden light as energy fields like me only he’s able to make spheres connected to his hands by beams of light and he’s taking dozens of people out at a time. He’s big nearly seven foot tall blonde and stunningly good looking and his gear looks like black jeans and a black lycra t-shirt. He’s open in his ID. Christian Stevens he’s one of the few open heroes that there is. Watching him in action is breath taking when you seen him flying out of a burning building with all those people shining like the sun.

Saber…a female samurai warrior and master swords woman she’s in some of the buildings using her blades like some firefighters would use their fire axes. She’s one of the non-powered of the heroes only her martial skills are said to be inhumanly strong compared to other people. Picture a modern leather and Lycra ninja but add a black leather long coat and lots of toys.

Harrier… He’s another flyer and a blaster rather than a brick; he can fly and fire energy pulses. He’s doing what I was doing and it looks like he’s done that before only he doesn’t have my energy field to protect him just his courage. Steel grey costume but it’s a hard body armor with a winged helmet.

Sentinel…He’s another armored one but he’s actually inside a hyper advanced suit of silvery glossy power armor with a bright blue visor. He’s helping the same as Harrier despite some heavy looking battle damage.

Samson…he seems to have recovered enough that he’s in the thick of it too using that huge strength of his to move things out of the way of the rescue vehicles. I mean strong. Daystar could likely press a city bus. Samson can send one skidding and sliding out of the way with a single armed push.

Then there’s Victory…

Head of the Ark Angels, their founder and the Dr. King of Meta rights not just on NH but all over the Alliance of Free Colonies.

Six foot four tall and leggy with chrome colored eyes, not like solid but regular eyes that are like shimmery chrome. Long white hair that hair like shining highlights of light in it. She doesn’t wear a mask either she’s Victory…

That’d be like superman wearing one.

She’s in her standard colors a black body suit with a short sleeved black leather t-shirt-one piece bathing suit over the body suit. It’s got gold trim on it and the Shield with the Winged Lady of Justice on the right shoulder it’s the symbol of the Ark Angels and The New Haven flag as a patch on the other.

Golden calf high boots, golden long gloves and a black utility belt with a golden buckle on it makes up the look. The black and gold colors are the traditional colors of the Ark City Police Department.

Her uniform’s torn, there’s blood on her and ashes and I can see dried blood in the corners of her mouth, a bit in her ears….She walks into the middle of the block and her powers kick in and she shines.

Not like Daystar but like she’s dipped in glass, there’s this energy she can harness that makes her just gleam.

I hear the order to pull everyone back once the people are out. To let it burn?

Nope…

She does what looks for a second like this ballet pose…

I can see her exhale, close her eyes, take a breath…then she starts to spin. She’s a super speedster at times and a flyer too…it’s like out of a movie and a comic book as she spins and spins and spins ever faster until I can feel it. The vortex as it’s forming around het this shining controlled twister that’s pulling in the flames to it and the ait and the trash id still burning and soon it’s a flaming twister but all of the fires are out of the buildings now and there around her then there’s this thump that shakes everything and she’s sky borne and the flames are being pulled up and up over the heights of the buildings with her leading them all away until they’re high enough the air is too thin and they break apart in this giant roiling cloud of flames…and then they’re gone.

The cheers are deafening…I can’t help it I’m joining right in with everyone.

This is Victory…This is what she does.

Even that hurt.

I see Sentinel fly to her and he does the thing that I was doing. He slides his foot under hers and slips an arm around her waist in this I’ve got you way and he flies off with her towards Sanctuary their private island out in the Ark City Harbour and their home base.

The others are getting ready to leave too. I get up and head to the fire chief guy that set me up with everything…I’m still healing and really beat and should get myself home.

My ear piece crackles to life. “Is this the comlink used by the Scarlet Angel?” it’s a guys voice tired sounding but nice,

“Yes? Who is this?”

“Hold on a moment please miss.”

I wait a bit nervously. Then there’s this really tired voice but one I’ve heard all my life on TV and Radio and stuff…Victory’s voice. “Hello Miss Angel…I saw you out there, you did a hell of a good job tonight, thanks for the assist….you saved lives. Welcome to Ark City.”

She clicks off and I didn’t even get to say anything back but…

She actually noticed?...She thanked me…?

You ever do something and have this experience that just completely affirms everything that you believe in?

Looking around at the police, rescue and fire fighters and those words ringing still in my ears.

I’m having that right now.