[b]Jace Williams – How did this happen [/b]
 
"NO NO!!!!" Jace was screaming, his whole life was collapsing in front of his eyes. Everything he'd worked for revenge, and redemption alike were both coming to an end. Tears streamed down the super powered killer's eyes and blue lights were flashing all around him. He was laying in the ground blood rushing from him, and rain coming down all- around him. Several police cars were present, sirens, police officers, even some heavilly armored vehicles, and some media personell. In the distance was a damaged ginormous home in the back-ground, and Jace looked in the sky having several images pass through his mind before he lost conscious. 
 
"I gotta go, fuck this town, if she wanna be dumb she gotta be dumb." Jace was driving on the highway ready to start his new life in Florida. His apartment had been raided, he had everything he needed, and it was simply time to move on. He didn't want his sister to get hurt, but if anything happened it would be fine. He'd killed Luke after all, she'd find out eventually, and if she never spoke to him again that was fine with him. 
 
His life was simple, he'd made it to Florida, he opened the keys to his new place, and stepped in and settled down on the couch. He decided to bring his stuff in, and get ready to play some Scotty Cain, and relax. At least that's how it should have went, but no karma had a sneaky way of creeping back up on you when it least expected and it definently did for him, in ways he hadn't ever imagined. 
 
He was three hours on his way when he'd received a call from Tamara asking him to come back, claiming that not only was she wrong about Luke but that he was still alive. He was sure this was some ploy, no way but he heard Luke's voice on the phone. 
 
"You think you was gonna get the last strike huh motherfucker! I played yo ass with my shit, I put my shit to a whole nother level, illusions and shit bruh, you ain't kill me and ole girl!!! Bitch it was a play, and yo stupid ass sister, I'm finnaf uck her up, I'mma ruin her life, in more ways then you can iamgine, bitch if you gotta problem push up on me mothetrfucker, or Tamra's done!!!!!" Luke barked on the phone before hte line went dead, JAce was in shock nearly  veering off the highway. He pulled into a gas station and banged his hands on the dash board with anger denting them. "Damn it DAmn it! LUKE!" 
 
His rage was at a whole nother level, not only had he failed to get rid of Luke, he'd let his sister go and now the Black Professor X had her. He knew he was right about his assumptions, Luke was the only person with mental powers so of course it was him that ruined his sister's life. He was determined to stop Luke, and make sure to kill him, he'd bring the entire house down, he'd wipe out Luke's entire family, he'd made sure the Braxtons were wiped off the face of the earth regardless of the past, right now he didn't care about the law, Luke Braxton was the biggest threat to his family specifically his sister and he wouldn't let him live. 
 
That's how it all started, and it culiminated hours later. When Jace had pulled up to the parking lot of the Judge Walton's massive home to confornt Tamara. It was ironic he knew why Luke was drawing him here, if he could get into people's heads he knew this was the last person he intended to kil before he abandoned his bloody rampage of vengeance. He had came to save Tamara, to kill Luke, at this point kill the judge too, clearly leaving business undone wasn't the wisest thing. He'd marched in ripping the front door of it's hinges intending to kill Luke and it had all went down. 
 
" But I failed bro, I failed, she played me." Fast forward a week later Jace was sitting down at a table looking none other then his incarcerated brother in the eyes. Devon Williams looked at his brother with concern, his tale was quite the tale, but there had been two prisoners who'd been murdered by the guards since the storm both had superhuman abilities, and intended to incite a prison break, and were stopped with aid from outside authorities who put them down. 
 
"So you had powers man, and there just gone zapped away? You sure it's got nothing to do with Braxton's mind mojo I mean you had them up until that point bro." 
 
"It don't make sense but there gone. Like I told you I burst in there, the Judge's family was gone, Tamara was there she tried to calm me down, told me Luke wanted to help me, told my powers were fucking with my head, making me a monster, I was pissed she set me up, Luke came in he had some help, they all went at me, I Was damn enar finna beat his ass, Tamra got in the way, then Luke got in my head told me I ain't shit, then the cops came, shit got bad, Tamaara got shit, Luke told me I wasn't shit, I just wanted to save Tamra, I Tried to stop the cops, next thing I knew they tasered me, I Was down, my powers were gone. Even Luke didn't know what the gfuck was happening bruh, these powers just left me as quick as I came. Luke did his jedi mind tricks and dipped out with sis, I ain't seen them since, but she's dead tyo me. SHe ain'tt ook my powers, but she damn sure worked with Luke, and I've been normal. That's how I got locked up, booked, processed, I got sent to prisont his fast, I know Luke was involved, but my powers he can't touch him." 
 
"Damn bruh..like damn..!!! You coulda gotten us outta here, we coulda been free man it's." Devon was saddened but more so that his sister apparently turned on them, and now Jace was in prison with them. She was out there with Luke, and they were in jail. 
 
"I just don't know mayne, I was stronger then him, It wasn't Luke he was damn near unconscious, his folks couldn't do shit to me, it wasn't even his mind command, it was after Tam was shot, it just went like a big zip, I felt all this force rushing outta me, I really thoguht about what Luke said man, I believed it, I got her shot I wasn't shot, but what's she to get me in here what's she.." 
 
"Bruh...man I dunno maybe they'll come back, bruh you gotta believe, you gots to mayne. Maybe Luke was messing with Tamara's head you gotta think that  bruh who knows what happened in the end." 
 
"Who knows but we stay talking L's,t hat's what our family does I'm finna go workout man, It's just hell, we're in here it's hell." Jace stepped from the lunch table, having already gobbled down his "Food" and left. He made his way over to work out, he had everything, he was invincible, he nearly exacted revenge on everyone who ruined their lives, and now he was stuck in prison probably for the rest of his life powerless, set to watch him and his brother grow old together. 
 
Everything that happened over the past month he'd gone from something to nothing. He saw Devon's dissapointment, he knew his brother really believed in him, maybe he should have just burst into prison and broke him out and took him with him to Florida. But now that was nothing more then a pipe dream, he was a regular mortal, set to suffer the regular fate of a non powered mortal for the super powered crimes he did. The court didn';t even believe in his superhuman abilities, they just linked him to the crimes, and that was that powers or not. He sighed as he made his way over to the weights and punched a wall then shook his head. He didn't know what to do, there was no way out, and that girl had the nerve to bother him. He told her if she really cared get him and her brother out, with what she could do they could get out it would be risky but they could but she filled his head with nonsense that wasn't helping and right now he didn't need imagination he needed help. He sat down and under weight ready to get to work, this was the only thing that kept his mind off his circumstances.

[b]Luke Braxton – Rise of the Empowered[/b] 
 
Innocent U.S Civlians being taken away, or threats to society being removed? He didn't know if the Govenrments intention was to keep this on the hush hush, mainly it was just rumors, but many people had taken the story and ran with it. Apparently the U.S Government was sweeping through the nation picking up people with powers, and doing God knows what to them. Arianna was furious, and Luke being the paranoid person he was believed it. 
 
He'd made sure not to use his powers in public, hell just going to the police station and getting into it with Jace had been enough. He had two agents come to question him, CIA, he'd read their minds, and filled up their heads to the point they'd reported there was nothing strange going on with him, and the incident with the apartment was entirely related to the now depowered Jace Williams. 
 
It was all going down the drain, the whole conforntation with Jace was a mess. Tamara'd gotten shot, her car was wrecked, everything she still didn't want to talk to him. Her court date was in a few months, and he'd use his powers to free her. The same way he'd used his powers to get the court system to sentence Jace to 10 years in prison, it was a break honestly he should be facing triple life. 
 
His ability to influence the court system was great, and his own brother's court date was soon. He wanted to use his powers to get the Judge to release him in a few days when the date came up. If only Jace had listened, he planned to get Craig out of prison. Initially he set out to get Devon too, but there was no telling what Jace said to him. Regardless after Tamara got out the hospital she wanted nothing to do with him, still he'd used his powers to help her get a job working online. 
 
She blamed him for lying, he wasn't lying. He had no idea what happened to Jace's powers in the fight, but the police barged in, he got Tamara out of there and to the hospital. He was sure in the eyes of the Government Tamara was still being watched, and even if she didn't like him that was fine. He was heavilly tempted to use his powers to persuade her to see eye to eye with him but still family was over everything. In her eyes he'd manipulated both her and her brother and put her brother int hat position. 
 
"Damn it." Luke sighed as he rolled another blunt, and sparked it. He'd been smoking more marijuana then ever, he'd been smoking and smoking. He had to stay high at this point, and he was worried. Sure he'd sent those agents packing, but what if they came at him full force, and put him down. There was s many ways to stop him. 
 
He'd fully moved into Amber's place, and was glad for it. He wanted to buy his own place, but for once he didn't want his image to work against him. Sure he made a decent income at Uber, and Lyft but legally he didn't want to be on paper buyinga  house. His apartment was ruined, luckily he didn't have to deal with them anymore. A lease wasn't a problem, after all a superhuman attack wasn't thought of when it was drafted, and thanks to his renters insurance he was being refunded. 
 
Jace was a problem, or at least he was. His powers were gone, he didn't know how. But what if one day his powers suddenly vanished, what he was doing well he was in over his head. He wasn't telling anyone about his actions, he didn't want Arianna to know, or even Lucy and the rest of the Empowered he met. He was doing this he said for everyone, but really it for himself. 
 
He was definently done moving drugs himself, he was a trafficker full and full. He'd used his brothers connections to import large quantities of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and MDMA into Atlanta. He'd used his powers on law enforcement  to get several dealers, distributors, and traffickers arrested over the past week. The APD was being praised for their historic number of drug busts over the past week. 
 
He did this for many reasons, some of the people he disliked, others were simply too violent, but mainly to create a scarcity of drugs, and inspire a fear in other involved in the Atlanta Drug Trade. While he put so many others behind bars, he'd moved up the ladder. He'd raised the price of the drugs and he'd gotten other dealers to work for him. He hadn't gone after the entire Atlanta Drug trade, that would be too much. 
 
But he'd diminshed his opposition siginfingaly, was getting high quality drugs, and making sure his people weren't touched, and he was making more drug money then he'd ever make selling grams on his campus.  Thanks to his power, ingenuity, and using the law to his advantage he was rising to be one of the most powerful and connected people in the Atlanta Drug Trade. Hell he had people moving drugs to other parts of Georgia, money was rolling in, he was living out the Scarface fantasy without risk of being arrested thanks to his powers. 
 
So the past week hadn't been all paranoia about being captured by the Government, and regret over what happened with Jace. He'd been doing more drugs then he'd ever been doing before, had more money, even attended a couple lavish parties with the upper echeleon of Atlanta, and shown what it really meant to get drunk and high on a whole other scale.  He'd met with his mohter a few times that week too, and got her to give him ownership over Braxton's wings the family's business. 
 
Using his powers he'd influenced many people to come there, but after they had some of his famous southern cooking they were coming back on his own. Braxton's wings popularity had exploded, and he had taken a hefty business loan. He was in the plans of opening up two more Braxton's wings another in Atlanta, and another in the suburbs of Atlanta. He'd make his family's business succesful, he wanted to rival some of America's best food chains, and his powers were going to make it possible. IN short he was having a wonderful time, Jace, Tamara, the Government, all those things where in his mind but in-between all the money he was counting, all the drugs he was doing, all the blunts he was smoking, and all the women he'd fucked he was able to keep his mind at bay. 
 
He was putting some money in his money machine at Amber's house when he got a text from Arianna that caught his eyes. "Elliot Burrows hmm." He hadn't heard that name before, but he thought Tamara had mentioned him once or twice in passing, some comments about being an annoying neighor. That was a start, he didn't know if Arianna's information would fully help or how she got it but it was good. Still if she was messing around with information the Government might find interesting about people with powers, he wanted her to be careful. Sure he could control people, but he couldn't control machines, and he wasn't Jace so if she could got captured he couldn't burst in and get her. He could get the courts to let her go, but if the real Govenrment got theirh ands on her he couldn't find her not to mention rescue her. He shot her a text saying he'd be on his way, he slipped into some cargo pants, and a 1017 T shirt, and went out to his car. "Hopefully I can find out who did this to you Tamara." He took a few more hits of the marijuana blunt now a roach and tossed it out the windows. He turned on some YFN Lucci, and pulled out the driveway to make his way to Arianna.