[center][img]http://i.imgur.com/krev7SC.png[/img][/center][center][b]Aubrey Adkins[/b] | [b]Kyra Muller[/b] | [b]Jeffery Zimmerman[/b][/center]
	I finished wrapping a rope of spider silk around the three combatants that the three of us had just subdued. And even then, I had to gag the spellcaster and tied up the snout of the lizardman because the guy in the weird, yellow hate would have kept hurling spells at us, and the lizard guy would have kept spewing out fire. Meanwhile, those metallic cubes ominously hovered above the sky, as if they were waiting for something to happen. I don’t need a spider sense to know that something bad was going to happen.

	The people, who had taken shelter inside the shops and buildings nearby, had just started to file out in order to escape the chaos that had fallen upon Pacific Point, when some television screens in one of the shop windows spontaneously turned on. A man, presumably the Game Genie, who wore a black, hooded cape, appeared on the television monitors.

	“Citizens of Pacific Point. I have patiently waited for the Blue Blur to arrive at city hall, but he still ignores my challenge. Therefore, I felt like I needed to up the ante in order to convince him to come out from hiding. Unfortunately, that means you all have to suffer some more. And for that, I apologize, but it must be done.”

	Suddenly, the metallic cubes began raining down red beams. However, instead of burning holes in people or something like that, the red lasers made anyone who was struck by it slowly fade away into nothing. After one of the cubes had hit a person, it would immediately turn around and float back towards city hall, as if it were carrying something back to the Game Genie’s headquarters. When people began disappearing, the crowd panicked as they tried to escape.

	The three of us were paralyzed by not knowing what to do in this situation. We could have tried to protect the civilians by destroying the cubes before they could disintegrate them, or at least make them disappear. However, if the devices were actually capturing people with their red beams, we could possibly erase any captured victims from existence. Therefore, we would be damned if we don’t act and damned if we do. A real catch twenty-two.

	The Son of Osiris was the first to act.  Since he could not attack the cubes without risking the lives of the people who might have been captured by the cubes, the Son of Osiris formed an magical bubble shield around himself and some nearby bystanders so that he could block the red beams and allow these civilians to escape.

	Meanwhile, the stroller that a woman had been pushing her young daughter in had been capsized when the crowd stampeded away from the swarm of metallic cubes. While the mother struggled to take her own daughter into her hands, one of the cubes took aim at the woman and the young girl. However, before the cube fired its red beam, Kyra dashed over to the woman and tried to help.  And when the cube did emit its laser, Kyra sacrificed herself in order to give the woman and child time to get away. It took all of my willpower not to scream out her real name while I watched her disappear before my eyes.

	When the cube began to turn to return to city hall, I was determined not to allow it to escape. With a pinpoint accuracy that I would only have dreamed of before I got my powers, I struck the metallic box with a webline. The cube struggled to move forward as I held it back with my spider strength. Even as my sixth sense buzzed in my head, I continued to pull back against the cube. If the Son of Osiris had not jumped forward and shielded me from another cube’s beam, I might have suffered from Kyra’s fate, too. When the magical shield came up, it severed my web strand, which released the cube, allowing it to finally fly back towards city hall.

	[color=b22222]“We can’t just leave her!”[/color] I told the Son of Osiris.

	“I agree.” He communicated telepathically, “But we need to find a way to do that without getting hit by one of these cubes.”

	I just really hope that we are correct that these cubes are only capturing people and not disintegrating them.