Seth will do anything to get the info he needs. Anything...

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Seth came back a few minutes later, and what he had shocked the team.
He was carrying a straight jacket, and big heavy ankle weighted cuffs that were impossible to run with when they were on.
"Ready for some more fun?" He asked the boys.
They said nothing except for Ryan who whispered something to his team "stay calm and save your energy, we'll need it soon."
The three boys nodded and they glared at Seth, who was now inside their cell.
"I've got a present for you Walker." He said smiling. Ryan was scared but he kept his death glare on.

Seth walked over and captured Ryan in the straight jacket. He un cuffed him since there was nothing her could do in a straight jacket. He placed the medieval ankle weight cuffs on his ankles and Ryan was immediately weighed down by them and he fell to the floor like a sack of potatoes.
"Hahaha. Not so tough now are ya kid?" Seth asked.
Ryan struggled in his confinements, but it was no use. Seth lifted him up and slapped him across the face.
"Don't be sassy with me ever again." He ordered. Ryan's face stung.
"Where are you taking him!" Mark yelled as Seth dragged Ryan out of the room.
"To my special pain room." He answered coldly. Ryan's eyes widened and he began to thrash around but Seth sent a few hard punches to his face and he gave up.

When Ryan got to the "pain room" he saw that Cam wasn't there. He was confused and Seth must have noticed because he spoke up.
"Camellia will not be joining us. She is on break for now." Seth explained. Ryan didn't know what happened to Cam, but he had a feeling she wouldn't be coming back...

Seth flashback.

I saw Camellia in my office. She was searching for something. She knew better than to go through my things. I burst into the room. She froze and turned around, knowing she was in trouble, no more than trouble. She was dead.
"Camellia." I said to her.
"You killed my parents." She said in a cold tone as she held up an old crumpled piece of paper that read the words:
To do list:
1. Kill Camellias parents
2. That's all!

Camellia tried to lunge at her uncle in a fit of pure rage. She didn't get very far however, as he stabbed her through the heart with the same knife he had used to murder her parents. She crumbled to the ground in a pile of blood and tears. She died on the spot. Seth walked out of his office, not even flinching at the sight of his dead niece on the ground.

End of flashback.

"So what are you gonna do to me then?" Ryan asked as confident as possible.
"Well I'm kind of done with you refusing to tell me the location of your base so I figured I would just kill you making your robot useless." Seth shrugged.
"W-wait...k-kill...me?" Ryan shuddered. He always knew it was a possibility, but now in the moment it felt so real. He was never going to hug his mother again. He was never going to go to the skatepark with his friends again. And worst of all, he would never get to see his brother again.
"Yes. You never thought I would do it did you?" Seth asked.
Ryan shook his head no, and Seth laughed.
"This isn't some game kid. You messed with me and now you have to face the consequences." Seth shrugged.
"This will be fun." He concluded.

He punched Ryan in the face until he was blinded by the amount of blood in his eyes. Seth had removed the straight jacket from Ryan and he was just cuffed to a chair. Seth kicked him over and over again in the stomach and he punched him with every once of strength he had. Which was a lot.

The physical beating went on for about an hour before Ryan was slumped down in the chair. He was alive, but weak and helpless. Seth had even freed him from the chair, but he just fell to the floor, unable to help himself up.
"Ha you're pathetic. And I can't believe I was losing to you for so long." Seth chuckled to himself. Ryan wanted so badly to shut him up, but he had no strength left to do so. He was just happy his friends were safe, for now.
"Well that was a nice warm up. I'm in the mood for seeing some red. How about you?" Seth laughed.
"W-what?" Ryan was seriously panicking now.
Seth answered his question by pulling out a new knife.
"The Walker slayer. That's what I'll call it." Seth said to himself caressing the blade.
Ryan was just about ready to give in, but he remembered he had to fight it. He needed to save the world.
"Do your worst psychopath." Ryan said with real confidence this time.
"Oh! Believe I will." Seth said.

The next few hours were complete torture. Seth slowly cutting Ryan's skin, Ryan screaming in pain, Seth laughing psychotically, and Ryan not losing too much blood, but enough to make him feel dizzy. At one point Seth said this,
"If you get out of here, I want you to remember this day Ryan." He said and grinned evilly. He took the knife and engraved the letters SH not too big, but still noticeable into Ryan's back.
Ryan screamed and cried but finally the pain was too much for his body to handle, and he slipped into the open arms of darkness.

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Seth roughly threw Ryan back into his cell. He was having so much fun torturing the kid, he forgot to get the others to tell him where their base was. He shrugged. He didn't care about that anymore. He figured Ryan was so injured he could take over the world in a day with no one to stop him.

When the boys saw their leader being thrown onto the floor of their cell, they all panicked. Ryan was covered in blood. As soon as Seth left the room, he opened their chains. He didn't need them chained up anymore after all.

As soon as they were free they all ran (or hobbled) over to Ryan. Harris tried to gather the first aid supplies and Spyder and Mark were tending to Ryan. Spyder felt for a pulse.
It was there, but it was extremely weak.
Mark was looking around Ryan's body to find the most major wounds.

Harris spent awhile fixing him up. He came to the diagnosis that Ryan was severely tortured and would need a few weeks at least to heal. When he turned Ryan over to look for cuts on his back, he looked under Ryan's shirt and saw the two scarring letters that were sliced into him.
"Guys..." Harris said to the pacing Mark and Spyder. They ran over. When the saw the branding on Ryan's back, Spyder gasped and Mark swore.

Ryan had a permanent engraving of Seth Harper's initials on his back. Even when this fight was over, Seth's wrath would never have ended.

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The guys took a few hours to gather their strength up, while they waited for Ryan to regain consciousness. Harris had managed to stabilize him and patch up most of his injuries.

Ryan woke up slowly, his eyes finding it difficult to adjust to the bright white room.
He let out a small groan that caught the attention of his teammates.

"Ryan! You're awake!" Spyder said happily.
"Mhm" Ryan said as he nodded his head in response. His body was still searing in pain.
"What did he do to you!?" Mark asked protectively.
"He...beat me...then...cut me..." Ryan whispered slowly. He then remembered something, and figured the guys would care to know.
"Cam is dead."
"Wait what?" Harris said shocked.
"I think Seth killed her" Ryan said, being able to talk more now.
"How do you know?" Mark asked. He didn't know how to react at the news. The first girl he had ever confessed his love for was dead, but she also kidnapped them and almost killed them. He ignored these thoughts.
"Well before he tortured me, he just said that Cam wouldn't be joining us in a really suspicious way." Ryan shrugged. One less villain to deal with?

What happened next shocked everyone (even me!). Their cell door slid open, and a bloodied and bruised Camellia walked inside.
"You're alive?!" Mark shouted.
"Shh!" She exclaimed.
"How are you alive?" Mark pressed.
"It takes more than a knife to the gut to take me out." She said proudly.
"What are you doing here?" Harris asked.
"I'm here to get you out." She said.
"HA! Yea right." Mark laughed.
"Just... hear me out." She pleaded.
"Fine. Go." Ryan said.
"Okay... so the only reason I even got into this business, was because I came home one day to find my parents mutilated. I went to the only relative I knew about, Seth, and he took me in and trained me saying that one day I would find the monster who slaughtered my parents. What I found out today however, was that Seth was the one who killed my parents, in a way to gain me as a type of assassin for him. When I found out I tried to kill him, but he stabbed me in the gut before I had a chance. I played dead, and when he left, I patched myself up the best I could and decided the only way to get back at him was to free the people he wanted dead the most." She finished.
"Wow. And I thought my life was messed up." Ryan said.
"I'm sorry for hurting you. I don't expect you to forgive me, but I want to at least free you. You all look horrible."
"So we've been told." Spyder said rolling his eyes.
The boys looked at one another, debating whether or not they should go with her.
"It's either you take the risk and come with me, or you die anyways in this cell." She explained.
"She has a point." Harris said.
"Fine." Ryan said to Cam.
Cam nodded and unchained then all.

"Come on. We need to stay really quiet. I disabled all the cameras so we only have a few minutes before Seth notices." She whispered as they walked down a hall.
"Here," She said giving them each an electro rod thingy. "You might need these later"
"Thanks." Ryan said. He may be trusting the person who kidnapped him, but he wasn't just about to forget the manners his momma taught him.

They reached outside and all the boys took in a deep breath of fresh air. They had been cooped up in that cell for about a week and it was nice to see the light of day again.
Their happiness of escape was rudely interrupted by the one and only.
"Trying to escape are you?" Seth boomed from across the field.
"Face it Seth! You've lost!" Ryan yelled back.
"Camellia. I see you're alive?" Seth said genuinely shocked.
"You may have killed my family, but you won't kill me. Or these kids." She replied.
"Ha, cute." Seth sneered.

He motioned for the henchmen surrounding him to attack. Everyone charged at one another.
They each had a henchman to take down.

Harris used his electro rod to zap the henchman a few times before he could swing at him. He wasn't really one for a physical fight.

Spyder was jumping around and swinging his stick all around in the air trying to distract the guy. When the guy launched at him, Spyder stepped to the side and zapped the man in the back.

Ryan still couldn't use his powers, so he trusted in the weapon that was given to him. Two guys lurched forwards at him and he zapped them both quickly, but was tackled to the ground. Harris and Spyder ran over to help his friend. They weren't aware of what was happening close by them...

Mark easily knocked a few henchmen unconscious. He used his karate skills when one of them broke his weapon. He thought he was in the clear, when he heard the sound of a fun being loaded.
Seth.
"If I can't have all of you! I'll be fine with just one life!" He said.

The world seemed to move in slow motion. The three freshmen turned to look at Seth and Mark. Seth pulled the trigger and a bullet came racing towards Mark. Mark closed his eyes as he braces for the bullet to pierce through his skin.
But that pain never came.
Instead a female scream erupted in Mark's ears.
Cam had ran in front of Mark and literally taken a bullet for him.
"Camellia!" Mark yelled. All his previous feelings for the traitor came racing back. He fell onto the ground beside her.
"Why! Why did you do that!?" He shouted. Why had the girl that shattered his heart and almost murdered his team, save his life!?
"Mark..." she coughed up blood.
"I-I love you too". She said right as she slipped into the ruthless hands of death.

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Seth had ran. The boys were free. They made their way over to their robot. It wasn't too far away from their prison. No one had spoken the whole way over.

They all went inside the robot, still silent, and silently flew back to their base at the harbour. When they were safely inside, Ryan spoke up.
"We should all probably go to a hospital or something."
"Yea, we all look horrible." Spyder chuckled a little.
Mark was starting at the ground.
"Mark... I'm so sorry" Harris said. They all knew Mark still had feelings for Cam, even though she tried to kill him.
"It'll be okay Mark." Ryan said.
"She took a bullet for me." Mark said aloud.
"Yes. And she died a good person." Harris added.
"She said she loved me." Mark continued.
"Mark. She had a tough life. She could never have been with you." Ryan explained.
"I know. But she sacrificed her life for me." He said in shock.
"Because she truly loved you Mark." Ryan said, patting his brother on the back.
"Now let's go get fixed up."
"Yea that sounds good." Mark replied.

The four heroes all walked outside and laughed at one of Spyder's corny jokes as they made their way over to the hospital. As for Camellia, well she did not die a complete monster. She saved a life, and that was something she had never done, she was only used to end them. Right before she slipped away, she felt a small warmth inside of her.
"I'm coming home mom and dad. I'm coming home."....

Wow. Just wow. That was emotional just to write. That's the end of this little three shot! I will have a brand new story line in the next one and thanks so much reading! See ya next time!
~K