An extra workload

It is after christmas now and i am finally ready to plan and execute my mission of liberating Charlie and (hopefully) many others from a holding facility here in NYC. i'll need to call in some help of course, i'll get on to that maybe tomorrow. But actaully i wont, heres why i won't need to infiltrate any base (yet)---

i set out to find some food for lunch, i didn't feel like eating Lelian's health food. I mean, Christamas dinner was bad enough (she served TOFU, TOFU, a Tofu turkey? it was all i could do not to punch her, but then, maybe i'm just not used to it). So i was in the mall, i had considered swing by subway but i only eat chicken teriaki subs and this particular branch isn't very generous with the chicken. So i walked into a grocery store.
i know that could just use my powers to get more chicken but i said i was laying low right? which is the same reason why i had to pay full price for the first time in like 5 years. Then who should i see looking through some magazines but a man in a large trenchcoat with an aura with black swirls in it. sound familiar? i looked at him with a bit of anger, but mostly confusion, why would a powerful guy like that be in some common grocery store?

anyway i tried to read his mind, then he started talking to me telepathically:
"Cleopatra (gah, i hate it when people call me that) Elizabeth Tavara" he snickered aloud.
"what do you want?" i asked him using telepathy, i'm sure we must have looked strange, staring at each other unblinkingly but thats beside the point.
"As you know i'm a "bad" guy. I ripped half of your friends face, i ripped off other people limbs and for what?" I was puzzled, i kinda assumed is was a frankenstein thing but anyway- "i sell them for research, the governments Equinox tactics division pay hefty prices for samples of the more dangerous specimens. In exchange i'm kept alive and get enough money to retire by the time i'm thirty. Being twenty six, i'd say thats pretty good"
"so the whole thing with Tempest?" i asked him
"he's a bit different, the government see him as a threat to their operation, but i like to toy with people sometimes. he and his team would have been ripped to shreds by now but i like them, they're... unique. but they'll be killed eventually"
"are you the only one?"
"there are a few others, but i'm far more reliable due to my powers being far superior."
"why haven't you killed me yet?"
"i don't need to my queen" (i'm assuming this is a reference to my name being Cleopatra)
"why?" asked him cautiosly
"because you are going to help me"
"what's in it for me?" i asked him, suddenly interested
"your life" he said
"and?"
"Your friend, Charlie, oh and Elle Bishop"
"Elle? she wouldn't be dumb enough to join up with you"
"She didn't join, i brought her in last night, found her in bar singing "one way or another", nice voice that girl, that's why i only knocked her out after she'd finished the song" he laughed.
Then he started to speak to me outloud.
"so are you in?"
"what do i have to do?"
"Take down the remaining members of The C.H.A.S.E. there aren't many, bring them in or kill them i don't care which, it'll sure be a nice amount of my workload. You'll also get 10,000 bucks a job"
i stood stunned.
I'll do it"

Jingle Bells

Tis the season to be jolly? yeah ok. i guess that being a prisoner for monthes and stuff (twice) has thrown off my calender. it being xmas and all i figured i should be a little festive so i decorated my apartment which i'm sharing with an old friend named Lelaina, she was a less air headed friend of mine and i knew she lived in the city and i gave her call her roommate maoved out because aparently Lainy is a slob but i don't mind. ii decorated and we both seem to like colors etc. we agreed on not getting eachother presents.

i'm not working, i just get money, i'm pretty sure she thinks i'm a drug dealer but never mind about that. i don't feel right about putting her in danger and with all the stressful equinox hunting i've been itching to kill and take powers again but never mind about that. she works at Mcdonalds or Burger king or something and she goes out most nights so i'm pretty bored, laying low is horrible.

oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh..... i have a great idea for a distraction. more on that next post (that is if i go through with it)

sidetracked

i haen't seen anything that Tempest has been describing in his blog so don't expect any anecdotes from me about that stuff but here is why i am sidetracked-

i'm cutting back on power usage so that i dont get 'cauht in the act' so to speak. To do this i caught a plane. just my luck right? A surprise 'Equinox Check' meets me at the gate in NYC. A simple sensor or something beeps at me and i try and teleport away before i get caught again. but those hunter waste no time in switching off powers (do they all have Haitians now? i don't know but he's the only guy i know who can turn off powers).
So i ran for it, the hunters chased me, knowing full well not to go all trigger happy in an airport. i finally realised that SWAT teams would be everywhere and soon get me... the only way to get out was to do something i'd always wanted to: steal a plane.

In the end people weren't stupid enough to leave a plane unattended so i settled for a helicopter. I was able to get knock out the pilot (it was pure luck that he had just filled it with gas or whatever they run on and was about to get in himself ). I was able to lift off no problem, my uncle Rob was a helicopter pilot and i can remember how he would do things. i flew off (up, up and away if you will) and good see that i was escaping the hunters' grasp, too bad they kept shooting at the helicopter, apparently forgetting the rules on not shooting in airports.
although we WERE outside. ok so anyway eventually i'm out of the Haitians (it probably isn't him but i'm just saying its possible) power weakening radius and i fly off, but come back and steer the helicopter using technopathy so it crashes to the ground on top of several hunters.

i teleported into the heart of NYC without illusion but with shape shifting. it'll be less easy to spot me now, i have to keep out of the upublic eye, no powers for a bit, i have to be normal. Completly normal and ordinary. at least until the search for me dies down.

i got back eventually

im alive. i havent posted since late october and now... well i know its been a while. i found Ali, but she's not with me. no one is. i took charlie along with me and the formula. i found Ali at a holding faculty in london, i blew in there easy with Charlie arm with a machine gun and bullet proof vest. i made my way to where i was getting Ali's signal. i turned in the office, security alarms sounding like crazy, i froze time (haven't done that in ages... wonder what that was about) anyway i walked into the office. i saw Ali standing and talking with a guy who looked very official. It was obvious to me that she wasn't a prisoner.
i grabbed her and brought her into my time zone."What the Cleo!" she exclaimed upon seeing me.
"yeah, now two questions: how long have you been here and what have you done o your hair?" Ali had died her hair a dark reddish brown, i wont lie... it looked awesome. sort of the same as mine only more red. the she looked out the door and saw Charlie.
"Charlie!" she cried, "i haven't seen him in so long!"
"Ali what are you doing here? in an office?" i asked, with a mirk, but when i read her mind it quickly disapeared.
"i'm sorry Cleo, it was the only way to protect you, i promised you wouldn't do any damage as long as i worked here and was safe" she said, "you've caused a lot of problems, blowing up number 42 in Boston"
"43 actually"
"anyway that was a huge setback, do you know how many equinoxes escaped? dangerous ones? the plight is bein compromised just because YOU love your powers too much" she said in a forcefull tone i've never heard before
"the plight? you're with them now?"
"i equinoxes are dangerous, Sylar, Adam Monroe, the Petrelli's and Lockland. they have ALL put the world in danger. Petrelli's perhaps unintentionally and Adam may be dead but Sylar and Lockland are still out there!"
"Lockland? who's Lockland?" i asked
"the guy who's been wondering around tearing faces and such! don't tell me you haven't come into cntact with him?"
"not directly but i know who you're talking about. c'mon you gotta get outta here"
"no, this is my place, i catch them and i keep them from killing people. i'm sorry Cleo"
"it's logical why are you sorry?"
"cos you fall into that category." before i could react i was tasored and the next thing i knew i was in a room not unlike the one i had the last time i was caught.

i tried all my powers but nothing worked. sudenly i heard a voice
"I believe Elle called them haitian pills" said Ali over a speaker. "where is she? she's killed too many people for her not to be a threat"
"she's dead" i answered, i wasn't so sure though.
"you're lying" said Ali
"i'm not"
"Cleo we're sisters, well.... by name anyway, i've known you for more than 2 decades (when did she learn about decades?) you're not as good a liar as you think you are"
"i'm not lying!!!!" i screamed.
"call me when you decide to tell the truth"
"wait! where's Charlie?"
"He's not on this floor that's all i can tell you, he's not in my domain. i deal with dangerous people and bake sales" bake sales? "now tell me how Elle died"
"i don't know how she died"
"suit yourself" she said. i didn't hear her till i escaped again.
i passed the days with a pack of cards in my pocket and playing a guitar that Ali sent to me.
i was like this for a while. i took the meds every day because people MADE me and really masted solitaire.

Then two days ago i didn't take the meds, the guy who gave them to me was obviously new on the job and didn't watch me take them like he was supposed to, it didn't take long for me to get my powers back. i phased trhough the walls and alarms were screaming when they found motion! i had forgotten about them. i stopped time and ventured to find Charlie, there were a lot of floors and i couldn't check all of them within the time given, my powers weren't up to full strength after all. i knew that to find him quickly i had to get to records, so i went to he main office which is where Ali happens to work. i through a real employee out a window and changed into him using illusion. i hacked the computer with ease and time went back to normal. the hustle and bustle somewhat distracted me but i got the job done, but them Ali walked over and looked over my shoulder.
"John why are you searching up Charli um Charles Holland?" then suddenly she realised it was me, maybe my illusion flashed or perhaps she recognised the glint i get in my eye but she new it was me.
"get out now!" she whispered.
"not ntill i know where Charlie is"
"he was transferred to New York for rehabilitation" she said, "now go! you can just escae i can't stop you. just don't come to me for help when the send you out to be slaughtered"
"you're my sister" i said, hurt, "i should be able to="
"you didn't save me from getting captured!" she screamed suddenly. noone heard thank goodness. i summoned the formula which had been confiscated from me and put in a holding room. i jabbed into her arm.
"dont come running to me when you're being hunted" i said, turning off the illusion and jumping out a nearby window. in mid air i teleported to NYC. i had to bust Charlie and whoever else out