THE UNION

GOK HOUSE PART2

Ayo and Gboyega notices all the changes around them, Ayo gets really suspicious and decides to search for the others.

"I can't just sit here, I need to find the others." Ayo says hoping Gboyega will join him.

"I'll rather not, I might just mess everything up." Gboyega says firmly while Ayo runs off disappointed to look around for the others.

Richard had been wandering around looking for Tolu and Ngozi, when he noticed the changes around the house he didn't want to go back to the guys cause he felt embarrassed and disappointed by what Ayo said wondering whether Ayo ever listened to all the things he had told him. He bumps in with Madaniyah who's in a hurry to find the heroes.

"Madaniyah? What's going on here? What's happening to the house? I need answers." Richard says, she tries to move away without answering his questions but Richard grabs her hand assuring her that he'll listen.

"Fine, walk with me." She grunts and goes on.

"Mr and Mrs Mind are my parents, they adopted me." She says as she looks around worried about her parents and the trauma they will inflict on anyone they find.

"I never knew they had a child." Richard says.

"Not a lot of people did, there was a time Papa came to my parents and gave them a top secret mission to find and defeat Essence.............. Things didn't go well, Essence broke my parents and damaged them with their past lives, turned them against each other." She says as her voice shakens and her mind filled with regrets.

"Essence is really that dangerous." Richard says to himself.

"The Gok heroes promised to take care of them so that I could go to boarding school but even they couldn't handle the mind games my parents were capable of doing, they abandoned them and left them to suffer. Years later I came back and met my parents insane, I tried to get to Papa but he said it wasn't his business anymore." Tears gushes out of Tolu eyes as she goes on.

"Papa did that?" Richard was conflicted, he couldn't believe that Papa could do such a thing he was starting to believe everything Ayo told him about Papa.

"But he gave me a drug that could calm them down for sometime but when your friend mentioned Essence name it triggered them. This is all my fault, I should have been there for them." Madaniyah had always blamed herself for leaving to go to boarding school and not taking care of her parents, she felt a huge burden.

"It's not your fault, you had your own life." Richard tried to comfort her.

"I know but I should have at least been calling them to see how their doing, we shouldn't give up on the people we love and care about." Madaniyah says quietly.

"Yeah." Richard quickly thought of Ngozi.

Ayo goes around different rooms looking for the others, he hears a voice of a lady screaming in a particular room and quickly barges in. He sees Tolu crying as a huge form of blood is gushing out of her stomach and spreads around the room floor.

Ayo goes around different rooms looking for the others, he hears a voice of a lady screaming in a particular room and quickly barges in. He sees Tolu crying as a huge form of blood is gushing out of her stomach and spreads around the room floor.

"Tolu! You're bleeding really bad." He runs towards her and kneels down touching the wounded spot with his hand.

"Where is Richard when you need him?" He knew he could easily help her with his powers but he didn't want to do it, he didn't want Slip to come back and overcome it but he couldn't watch and let Tolu die.

"I can do this." Ayo says as he breathes out heavily, he starts seeing images of people he had hurt in the past.

"You hurt me." Lucy says as she appears in front of him, a lady with a baby also stands beside Lucy and speaks.

"You ruined my life Ayo, all I wanted to do was help you." The lady says, Ayo knew all of this were in his head, he was sweating heavily. He took his eyes away from Tolu but she started screaming in pain.

"I got this, Slip activate!" He screams, his robot eye glowed in a red colour and his whole cybernetic part started shaking, it's been years since he had activated his powers. He hears a disoriented voice of Slip.

"How may I help you?" Slip says.

"Activate the lasers, this may hurt a bit Tolu." He says comforting her, she nods her head to the positive understanding.

As Richard and Madaniyah look around for the others, they spot Ngozi laying on the ground not moving her body.

"Ngozi?." Richard touches her chest. "She's still breathing." Richard says and breathes out he was firstly scared thinking she had died, Madaniyah could hear her parents voice.

"Stay here." Madaniyah says and runs into the shadow. Ayo who has been walking around while carrying Tolu spots Richard and Ngozi, he moves towards them with lightning speed.

"Now, we have to hope Gboyega gets here quickly." Richard says.

Gboyega had already left the trophy room searching for the others. He got really scared hoping nothing had happened to the only family he had left, he finally spots them from a far distance. He saw what had happened to Ngozi and Tolu, he heard disoriented voices it Mrs Mind.

"If only you were there to save them, you're pretty powerful." She says and laughs. "No matter where you are, you're always going to ruin people's life." The voice fades away, Gboyega quickly runs towards them feeling guilty for not coming out with Ayo.

"What happened? This is all my fault." Gboyega cries out, Richard puts all of them closer to him.

"This isn't the time." Richard says boldy, they all suddenly teleport out of the building.

In Papa's house, Linda and Abayo are both playing a board game while Oloogun was busy searching for Papa trying different incantations hoping Papa will appear in front of him.

"Shouldn't you get that man to rest a bit." Linda asked Abayo, worried about the way Oloogun has been walking around the house for hours.

"Oh you mean my dad? He'll just tell at me and I don't want that." Abayo says swiftly.

The teams suddenly appear in the middle of the living room as they all are covered in blood, Oloogun runs toward them.

"What's going on?" Oloogun says, he was quite concerned.

"You said you were a herbalist, can you do something about our friend who's bleeding?" Gboyega pleads, he kneels down and begs Oloogun, Oloogun pushes Gboyega aside and sits beside Tolu.

"I tried to patch up the wound with my laser, it worked for sometime but the blood is still gushing out." Ayo says, Richard wasn't paying attention to them rather he was attending to Ngozi who wasn't still moving her body.

"The object that was used to cut her wasn't just any object, it was filled with magic. I don't have much powers in me but I can help." Oloogun says, he starts saying incantations in Yoruba and a black coloured liquid comes out of Tolu stomach.

"That should help her but take her to the hospital." Oloogun says, Ayo grabs Richard and he teleports he, Ayo and Tolu away from the house.

"For your other friend, I don't think I can help her. Her case seems to be different." Oloogun says, he was really concerned about them and what was going on, Linda stared at Gboyega hoping he'll explain to her about what happened but he ignores her.

"I need to report back to my team, tell them what happened. Abayo you start looking for the materials needed to track people down." Oloogun says, with what he had seen he quickly believed what Gboyega told him that they had no idea where Papa