Issue 8-The Stautes

Andy had just seen Courtney Miller drop and was left in front of a melted circle of street. He was still determined to find her, and even Cody, though. Even though he knew it would be a long shot, he jumped down the hole. He found himself in the sewer, although there was an advantage, as there were many random rats to talk with.
"Hey, did you see a girl run through here?" He asked the nearest rat.
"Yeah, she ran in the same direction that you're facing," it replied. Somehow, he didn't know how, but Andy knew that the rat was lying. It was just a gut instinct, but he was sure of it.
"It's not smart to lie to someone who's so much bigger than you, and has four arms."
"Sorry about my son, he's still learning," replied another rat that came up on the scene. She came into the light, and both the mother rat and Andy could now see each other clearly, as there was a seldom-seen light in the sewer. "Wait," suddenly started the rat, "How can you be here?"
"What do you mean?" questioned Andy.
"I think that you need to follow me," replied the mother rat, and Andy began to, while still not forgetting about Courtney.

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Brady had suddenly found himself and Dr. Moriarty transported to some cave. He looked around to see the creature, the person who had teleported them there, and someone else whose face he could not see.
"What's going on?" Brady quickly asked.
"You fought off the creature's scream-how'd you do it?" question the teleporter.
"Don't listen to them, run, run while you can, Brady!" screamed the doctor. The creature made a physical motion and knocked the doctor unconscious.
"I demand to know what is going on." sternly and solidly said Brady.
"Oh, I see, you are the doctor's first 'patient'," noted the teleporter, "Well well, the old doctor must have mastered the bacteria method after all, perfect. I wish I could study you further, stranger, but I am afraid that you will not like what you see." He then ran at Brady, and pushed him out of the cave, that, as Brady could see as he was falling, was very high up in an unknown mountain. Brady thought he was a goner for sure.

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"You want proof?" Zane asked Zac, "I will give you proof." He then looked at his watch. "Fly, fly out of the cave."
"Alright," Zac replied and he flew out of the cave.
"Alright, now stay there, Zac, don't move. It won't take long." Zac was hovering just outside the cave. "Ok, now look up." Zac looked up to see someone, with a yellow lab coat on, falling quickly. He flew up and caught the falling stranger, but the impact knocked them both back into Mid Cave. They tumbled into the cave, nearly knocking down Jeremiah in the process. They both got up quickly, as the cave is very large with lots of room.
"How'd you know that he was going to be there?" questioned Zac.
"Where am I? Who are you people?" Questioned Brady.
"You see," began Zane, "The Liberator is not the only one to have seen the future. I was introduced to the same machine as Andy, but I was just granted the ability to 'see' the future, although I didn't turn out to be a crazy serial killer. However, The Liberator found out about my precognitive abilities which is why he stuck me in this body, and under that boat. The last thing I saw before my consciousness was transferred was this man falling. Proof enough?"
"Why didn't Andy just kill you?" asked Zac
"The Liberator is a very complicated individual. I know that he didn't want me dead, that's why he placed me in this indestructable body. He's been to the past, the future, and everywhere in between. He has his own morals; perhaps in his own sick, twisted mind he can't kill me, or perhaps he just wants to watch me suffer, I don't know. What I do know is that right now we do not have enough fire power to take down The Liberator and his entourage."
"That's for sure," chimed in Brady, "He's got some sort of creature, and someone else working with him. This creature is really powerful, and hits hard."
"I can take him," told Zac turning on his force-field.
"No," answered Jeremiah, "To take down The Liberator, there is only one more person we need: four-armed Andy Martin."

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Andy was following the mother rat and followed her right into where the sewer opened widened into an encircled area. It was a dead-end, but a very interesting dead-end.
"This is how I know you already," told the rat. In the closed area, stood several stone statues of different people. Andy began to examine the statues closely. He saw a four-armed one and walked over to it to see that it was him, he saw a two-armed one on the ground, looking as if it had been erodded slightly, and noticed that it was also him. He didn't know any of the other people, except that there was a statue of Courtney with hardly a face on it at all.
"Who made these? When did they get here?" inquired Andy.
"I don't know. You are the first of any of them to show up, although, wait no, help!" Andy turned around to face the rat and saw a creature, with large bat wings standing there having just bitten off the head of the rat. It was definitely a human, like Andy, but also like Andy had grown sub-human characteristics.
"You want to throw down? Let's throw down." spoke Andy, gearing up into a fighting stance.

~Good Luck and Good Eats