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Volume Two
The First Chapter of the Cockney Heroes Novel

Volume 1 - In The Shadows

Hidden In The Darkness

"Where's Derek Simmonds?, he was supposed to meet us here half an hour ago" whispered Gabriel Bishop. "I was just wondering that, I'm starting to get nervous. It could be a company trap", replied Irony. "Don't worry about it" said Claude, "The Company doesn't operate in this way, if they wanted to trap us they'd burst in all guns blazing. Not in public, it's never in public". A few minutes past, but nobody came. "It's 4 O'clock, I think he has arrived" said Claude, being sure not directly to look in the direction of the man who just walked in. "It could be him" said Gabriel. "Um, excuse me, are you Claude?" asked a nervous Derek Simmonds. "Depends whose asking" replied Claude. "I phoned you yesterday, you said you know people with abilities too." Derek responded. "Yes, yes I do" said Claude, holding his hand up and making it go invisible, while Gabriel Bishop made the pencil in his hand turn to gold. "What's your power?" asked Claude. "I can make electricity, just by clicking my fingers and it flies out". "Why did you phone us? Have you got a problem with your power?" asked Irony. "Yes, Can we go somewhere else? I really need to show you. It's hard to explain" replied Derek.

Half an hour later, Claude, Gabriel Bishop, Irony and Derek arrived at an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of London. "So what's the problem with your power then?" Gabriel Bishop asked. "Whenever I use it, I discharge. I release so much it is hard for me to stop" replied Derek. "Maybe I can help" said Irony "My power is to reduce the powers of others, if you learn use it while it is weakened you should be able to use it when it is a the usual strength". Claude and Irony were showing Derek Simmonds how to use his power when Gabriel Bishop saw something out of the corner of his eye. A moment later he caught sight of something in the shadows. Suddenly, a company agent burst into the warehouse. Gabriel Bishop stopped time and saw the company agent, who was just starting to release fire from his hands. Gabriel Bishop, seeing the agent go for Derek, used telekinesis to a crash door into the agent. The fight raged on with Gabriel Bishop always staying a step up from the agent. But Gabriel Bishop slipped up, he let the agent hit him with a burst of fire. The agent, who was just about to scorch Gabriel Bishop, released a cataclysmic burst of fire, however just as it was about to hit Gabriel Bishop it trickled away into a tiny flame. The agent looked round, he saw Irony had grasped his arm and was draining his power. Gabriel Bishop and Claude, proceeded to tie up the agent and Irony, Derek, Gabriel Bishop and Claude left, with the agent bound up inside.

Nemesis

The company agent shrieked as he was tortured by Gabriel Bishop. Gabriel electrocuted him as Derek and Irony hurled buckets of water over him. "Why are you here?" yelled Claude. "I was sent by Mrs Petrelli to bag and tag Derek". "Why Me! What have I ever done that gives you the right to come and attack me?" exclaimed Derek "Why me...". Suddenly, the agent regained a smile on his face, saying “You better watch out, electricity can only hold me out for so long”. Gabriel then, deciding that electricity was nothing compared to this company agents training, grabbed a strand of his hair. He then used alchemy to turn that stand of hair into gold, saying, “Now either you talk, or I’ll do this to your whole body.” At that moment, his partner (the one of us in the ‘’one of us, one of them “) came up behind them. The agent fired 6 rounds, straight into Gabriel’s chest, but he healed momentarily. However, they both escaped. Irony, Derek, Gabriel and Claude pursued them through the streets of London, but they were company agents and even with Gabriel and Claude’s training the managed to escape. “Where did they go?” asked Derek "We lost them, they escaped in the alleyways” responded Claude. “ This could be dangerous. Now they know we’re working together they’re going to send more agents, and unless we find help, we will be easy pickings for them" said Claude, disheartened. "Don't worry" said Gabriel "We know how they work, we know their mindset, they won’t be back for a while, you know the company, all they do before operations is plan, they never rush into anything.".

They decided to return to the warehouse where Gabriel and Irony took Derek into a room to help Derek learn to control his ability. “So, remember” said Irony, “If you’re about to discharge, force your hands together, this way the current is more focused”. Irony then released Derek from his power, letting him take full control of it. “Try it now”. Derek used his power, at first everything seemed good, Derek used his power and he didn't discharge, but then Gabriel Bishop came in and knocked over a chair, the shock caused Derek to overload. Irony tried to touch him but as he was about to Derek let out an outburst of energy causing Irony to be hurled backwards. While retreating to the next room Irony shouted “How are we going to stop him? If we don’t, he’s going to die”. Gabriel Bishop knew he could reach him, thanks to his ability, but had no way of stopping him when he did. “Turn the room into Gold, Gabriel, if you can the charge from the room will stop, which should allow Irony to reach him.” Gabriel did this, but instead of this weakening Derek's ability, it made it stronger, cancelling out the rooms charge. “Irony, you've got to try and stop him” bellowed Claude, struggling to be heard over the noise. “I've got an idea said Irony, if I use my ability while walking toward him I might be able to create a shield for myself, negating the effects of his ability”. “But when you get closer to him, you will have to stop the shield to weaken him” said Gabriel “You might be killed!”, “It’s worth try”, said Irony walking into the room. Then doing so Irony managed to stop Derek, knocking him out in the process, "I need you to help him regain consciousness. Then I want you to train him", shouted Claude. "Sure thing" said Irony. Claude then strolled out trying to find some air and went to the London eye where he meet someone familiar.

Hot To Stop an Exploding Van

"Claude, have you heard?" shouted Irony. "What" asked Claude, curiously. Irony gestured for Claude to follow him out of the room to where Gabriel Bishop was standing. "Claude, there’s no easy way to tell you this, but Elle is in London." said Gabriel Bishop, anxiously. Claude, didn't say anything, but was staring at the ground. "We've phoned Abigail" said Irony, "She said that she could take you to Elle, but only if you want her to". "Where is she?" whispered Claude. "Abigail?, she’s outside, in a red van". Claude, without saying anything raced outside, looking for Abigail. "Derek, we might need your help with this" called Gabriel, running outside. "Abigail, take me there now" yelled Claude, "Shouldn't we wait for Irony and Gabriel?" asked Abigail. "Take me there now!" bellowed Claude. Claude was getting angry, he started lashing out at Abigail, she warned "You need to calm down". Abigail, having been punched accidentally by Claude, encased him in a force field, "That's enough Claude" said Abigail entering the van. Inside the warehouse Derek and Irony were making sure they were ready to confront Elle. "Who is Elle?" asked a curious Derek. "She is someone from Gabriel's and Claude's past. She works for the company". "So why does Claude want to meet her?", "He wants answers I think, but I don't know what to". Irony and Gabriel locked the warehouse and went to meet everyone else in the van. "Irony, why did Gabriel say you might need my help?", "because Elle has the same ability, he must think you can counter act her or at least be evenly matched". "Abigail, I’ll drive, you keep Claude in the force field" shouted Gabriel.

After driving for twenty minutes, they arrived at Hyde Park. "Where is Elle?" asked Claude, "She said two O’clock" Gabriel replied. "She’s looking right at us" said Irony, "Why is she staring at us?" he whispered to Gabriel and Derek. Momentarily, Elle lifted her hand and sneezed then all of a sudden she fired a cataclysmic blast of electricity towards the van, which erupted into a ball of flames. Abigail, thinking extremely fast, encased the inside of the van in a force field. Everyone was protected, but when they tried to leave the van, it was surrounded by police. "But your hands up, do not move or we will shoot" yelled the police. "What are we going to do?" asked Derek. "I don't know" replied Irony. As they left the van with their hands up they were all handcuffed and brought to the Kensington Police Station.

At the police station they were brought into a room and interrogated. "How did you escape? That blast would have killed most people, and you all escaped without a scratch on you." Said the captain, "Luck" said Irony, "Chance" said Gabriel, "Fortune" said Derek. "So" said Officer Bonkin, "we have: Gabriel Bishop, Robert Smith, Abigail Grisby, Derek Simmonds and ... wasn't there another one of you?". Without anyone noticing, Claude had turned invisible and left the interrogation room. Gabriel Bishop, noticing this, said "Nope, only us". "Well then" said Officer Bonkin, "Your van was destroyed, none of you had a scratch on you and you won’t tell me anything. I can only assume this was an insurance scam, so going to have to nick you". "Wait" said Irony, "Can I talk to you alone, for just a few seconds?" "Are you going to tell me about what happened?" "Hand on heart", as Irony and Officer Bonkin were leaving the room, Irony grabbed his arm and drained his power, exactly like he would to a person with an ability. But, as Officer Bonkin didn't have an ability Irony was draining his life-force. As he drained it further, Officer Bonkin, became weak, his skin shriveled, his eyes glossed over and his brain went into recession causing him to become immobile. "Run" shouted Irony, as everyone burst out of the room, they were surrounded by more police. "Dam" said Abigail "Looks like we are going to have to fight our way out!" Gabriel replied. "But that will expose us" cautioned a nervous Irony. "Hey, am up for it, I need to see what my power can do" said Derek. Abigail created a force field around her hand and punches many of the police officers unconscious. Derek started electrocuting police officers, however he started overloading and killing the police, Irony stepped in and drained some of Derek's electricity. "This is not working" said Gabriel as he froze time. "Let's get out of here" said a weakened Derek.

They ran all they way to the warehouse, everyone was safe, apart from Claude. Nobody knew where he was, "Where is he?" asked Derek, "Elle" whispered Irony.

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