"My arms," Starvos thinks and he and Reya plummet towards the bay. They have the now familiar yellow haze around them, but he's too scared of hurting Reya even more than she already is. He doesn't know what to do, but he does know they are running out of time and quick.
"This is it, my fallen star," Dr. Mayhew thinks aloud, "now show us how you shine." He watches from the roof of a skyscraper across the bay.
"I want every second of their fall recorded," Anna Bone Vichi has ran to the overlook of the bridge with her camera man, Scott, who is still rolling.
Merrick's van screeches, as rounds a curve to an embankment in front of the bridge.
"Gia," Merrick orders as she hops out.
"I'm on it," she tells him. The van drives away as she focuses on the falling Starvos and Reya. She holds both of hands out and concentrates everything on them. She is able to capture them and they stop falling.
Starvos holds Reya as they stop in midair. He looks down at the water, with his arms still emitting the yellow haze. The crowd gasps above as they watch to see if the continue falling. They are stopped too far out and below the bridge for anyone on it to help them, but they still have a substantial drop to the water.
"I don't know what's happened," Starvos says to himself. He moves his arms to the side of him.
"Starvos," Reya drifting into consciousness, "you have to fly."
"Don't fight me, you idiots," Gila grunts from the embankment.
Winston watches is fear with the rest of the crowd.
"Dr. Mayhew knows what he's doing, I think . . ." he says in a whisper.
"Droids," Dr. Mayhew has pressed a Bluetooth in his ear, while staring at Gila's general direction, "attack her."
"Ahhg," Gia moans as she is taken down by a droid, losing her concentration on Starvos and Reya, and letting them fall, once again.
The crowd on the bridge gasps upon seeing them fall again.
"Merrick," Sage calls out standing by the van, looking out to the bridge. Merrick comes out from behind the van.
Starvos and Reya fall forward, with Starvos's free hand falling forward first.
"I need to fly," Starvos thinks as they fall. Yellow beams fly from his free hand and immediately go under them, forming an oval. It catches them and Starvos is able stand on the oval that his yellow rays have formed. He, still holding Reya, zips out over the bay at a high speed.
"He did it," Sage smiles and is relieved, "he finally did it."
"Ladies and gentleman, this is a sight to see," Anna Bone Vichi reports, "it appears that the fallen star only known to us as Starvos, can fly. That's right, you can believe ears, I said he can fly. You can even see it and believe it."
"You've picked the wrong lady to mess with tonight," Gia tells two droid-hybrids as she holds them in place with her telepathy. She claps her hands together and they smash into each other. A different tube from a third droid-hybrid whips towards only to be stopped when she turns around and glares at it. She snaps her fingers and swings her arm back to rip it from the droid-hybrid. The droid-hybrid is then lifted into the air and she swings herself in a turn to throw it into the bay.
"Must exterminate," she hears one of the droid-hybrids that she slammed into another one call out.
"How are you still operating?" she asks herself as she turns back to them. Each of the droid-hybrid now stands, obviously damaged and they each whip out coiled tube at her, each one securing one of her arms.
"You knew about this, didn't you," Winston shouts as he runs up to Merrick and Sage. Merrick is strapping a jet pack onto Sage's back. "You knew he was never in any danger, didn't you-both of you?"
"Winston, we don't have time for this," Sage casually brushes him off, strapping another strap to himself into the jetpack.
"Winston, not everything is as it appears," Merrick says switching on the device, "everything looks good to go."
"What are you doing now, Winston asks?
"Go check on Gia," Sage tells Merrick, ignoring Winston "I'll be fine."
"You know where we'll be," Merrick tells him and begins to close up the van before hopping in and taking off.
"Are you seriously going to ignore me?' Winston asks frustrated, "what are you doing now, Sage."
"Just stand back and watch," Sage finally answers him, "or better yet, go talk to your friend, Anna Bone Vichi." Sage begins to lift in the air, thanks to the jet pack and Winston takes a few steps back.
"We're not friends," Winston shouts up to him.
"You've seen it here, first," Anna Bone Vichi reports, then gets a glimpse of Sage in the jet pack, "ladies and gentleman it looks like-it is, one of Merrick Hargrave's henchmen has taken to the air in what looks to be a rocket pack of some kind."
Sage has reached the same level as the droid-hybrid, but remains floating in the air.
"You're mine," Sage says before firing his weapon. It is a direct hit on the droid and an electric pulse is delivered. The droid-hybrid spasms and sparks shoot out from it it. "Got it," Sage says with a grin.
Gia is held in the air by all three droid-hybrids, two by her arms and the third one, which emerged from the water, by her waist. They slam her down into the ground.
"I can play that game too," Gia tells them. Using her telekinesis, she lifts them in the air, but her legs are pulled out from under her by the third one. Gila face plants on the ground as she hears the screeching from Merrick's van. He hops out with a weapon of his own and fires it at the coiled tubes that hold Gia, slicing through them, allowing her to stand.
"It's about time I got some back up," she tells him, "these are different."
"I know," Merrick fires his weapon again and this time it's a direct hit on one of the droid hybrids, taking out a chunk of it's body. "I couldn't make sense of their readings when I drove up," Merrick tells her as he hits the second one. Both of the droid-hybrids fall to the ground. Gia now holds up the third one with her psychic ability and Merrick fires at it, destroying it.
"Where's Sage?" Gia asks.
Sage is struck by the coiled tube as it whips out against him. He falls just a little, but is able to regain his momentum.
"I don't understand," Sage says to himself, "you should have been out of commission by now. I can't let it fall on the people below, so I have no choice to to use my big gun." He switches weapons and begins to fire at the droid-hybrid, hitting it every time. The droid-hybrid begins to shatter with every hit, but Sage continues to fire at the pieces until he's hit everyone one, making them small enough to where their impact will seem like nothing. "I didn't want to do that," Sage comments aloud putting his weapon away.
"He's fine," Merrick reassures Gia who now faces the bay where Starvos is zooming over it. "You can do this," Merrick encourages her, "it's just like we practiced." She concentrates on Starvos as hard as she can.
Starvos can feel the wind in his hair, a feeling he knows he has felt before. He is happy, content and feels as if he's proven himself right.
"Starvos, this is Gia," Gia's voice resonates in his head, "I am taking Reya. See if you can turn and come back to us. We're near the bay beach before you get to the bridge."
