THE UNION

SICK DAY

Sometime in the past, Ayo runs out of a building breathing heavily as blood drips from his body while a huge rain falls.

"Why would you do that?!" Ayo yells at the top of his voice.

"You didn't listen, she came in at the wrong time and got what she deserved." Slip says boldly.

"She allowed us to stay with and you killed her....... You killed her baby, there has to be a way to get you out of my head." Ayo says, his voice shakens as he talked with tears gushing out from his one good eye.

"I knew you'd try and stop me but you can't! It's about time I took over this body." Slip says deeply. The metal in Ayo body suddenly starts shaking, he was suddenly not in control of his body, his robots leg suddenly start changing form into a rocket boot and he flies around the sky. Slip was in control now, Ayo struggled to regain control, it was a battle of who owns the body after many years of waiting Slip was tired and sick, he wanted to go back to his world and rule.

They go through different buildings, causing havock and mayhem around the city. The citizens cried out for help, Slip enjoyed watching them suffer and let's out a huge laugh the rocket boots suddenly stops working as Ayo takes control of the body, after yelling for over a minute as he falls down he suddenly lands on a flock of grass.

"Shit." Ayo says, grunting in pain as he stands up he finds himself in a forest. He walks slowly after using up all his energy while flying, his right robotic hand suddenly starts moving without his command. With quick speed and power, the right hand continuously punches him on his human face, Ayo screams out in pain he tries to hold it down with his other hand but Slip control was too powerful.

"You're not human anymore! Give it up boy." Slip says, his voice gets even louder he was finally taking control.

"No!" Ayo says, not ready to surrender but what could he do he wondered. His face already disfigured with wounds, bruises and blood all around it.

"No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ayo let's out a huge scream which releases a powerful electro energy from his body, the energy was so strong that it nearly cut down all the trees in the forest. Ayo system went down for a minute due to too much use of power, he couldn't move his body and all he did was cry thinking of everything he had done, he suddenly hears another disoriented voice of a robot but the tone sounded very different from Slip tone this was much more softer.

"Your system is turning on again after a huge power outage, what would you like to implement?" The voice says, at first Ayo was scared to say anything but decides to question this new voice.

"Who are you?" Ayo asked.

"I am also a link to your robotic side, added to guide you by the people who gave you this power The Organization but Slip has been shutting me down due to having access to all your body. Presently, Slip is inactive due to the huge power outage." The voice says swiftly.

"Then................. Shut down Slip." Ayo says quickly without thinking about it, he wanted to get Slip out of his head as soon as possible.

"Are you sure about this? Shutting down Slip will also shut down your powers." The voice says.

"I do not care about these powers, they've done more harm than good." Ayo pleads.

"You'll need a voice code to activate and deactivate." The voice says calmly, Ayo was getting pissed.

"I don't care, just use Activate Slip and Deactivate Slip." Ayo says anything that comes to his head.

"No problem." The voice slowly fades away, Ayo lays on the grass the rain gets even heavier washing down the blood of his human face, he felt a little peace.

"I hope you're fine Tolu?" Ayo says as he watches Tolu just laying on the bed, staring at the ceiling. They've been at the hospital for over two hours, Tolu was having doubts about herself she didn't talk throughout which is unlike her only thing she had done so far was call Deji to come meet her.

"I'm not, gathering all of us to face Essence was a great mistake." She said as she uses a tissue to wipe her tear filled eyes.

"You don't have to talk like this, you're going to get better and we'll continue the search." Ayo has been having a boost of confidence since he used his powers at the Gok house, he saved someone's life with the powers he thought were only meant for chaos and destruction.

"You're not listening to me, you need to give up on that idea." Tolu sits properly, she now knew what Essence was capable of.

"Well, there's no going back now." Ayo says firmly, Deji quickly barges in. He sees Ayo really close to her, he couldn't wait for any explanation and quickly concluded that this was all Ayo fault.

"What did you do to her." Deji says swiftly as he angrily grabs Ayo shirt.

"Me? I didn't do anything." Ayo pushes Deji out of his way, Tolu sensed that they were going to fight but she couldn't stand up she was still in pain.

"Why are you people risking her life? She's a human and you guys are Supernaturals." Deji cries out, he hadn't seen Tolu in this condition before.

"Risking her life? She was the one that forced us to find Papa, you don't have to discourage her from doing what she clearly loves." Ayo says firmly.

"You should go Ayo." Tolu said swiftly as she her head gently on the pillow, Ayo couldn't say anything he couldn't believe that this was the person that gathered all of them, gave them motivation and so on to find Papa would be like this.

"Wow." Ayo says disappointed and walks out of the room, he goes to the reception and sits on a chair, he couldn't leave Tolu all by herself he wanted to make sure she was fine.

"Shit." Ayo says as he hears the voice of a baby crying, this immediately triggers Ayo as it brings back a lot of bad memories, Ayo stands up swiftly running towards the entrance door of the hospital he moved really fast that he had no idea he pushed a old man using a wheelchair.

"Ye!" The old man screams in pain, Ayo quickly turns around to apologize.

"Sorry Sir." Ayo says, the man was blind this made Ayo concerned cause there was no nurse supervising him. "Where are the nurses?" Ayo asked.

"The nurses here don't care about me, I've been here for over 7years I'm pretty sure the people here want me dead." The man says and sighs out, tired of his pathetic life.

"Let me get you to your room." Ayo says as he gently pushes the wheelchair.

"Part of me feels like I failed." Tolu says as she opens her eyes, thinking of all her life choices. Deji stands up from the chair and sits on the bed.

"You've tried your best, there's no other thing you can do." Deji whispers to her as he grabs her hand to comfort her. "Hey, you can move with me Tolu. We can always work together, you give me information and I handle the crimes." Deji says and kisses the back of her hand Tolu quickly takes her hand off of Deji.

"I hope you know that I'm a les...." Tolu tries to come out to Deji but he he quickly shuts her down not wanting to be in the friend zone.

"Don't talk." Deji says, she picks up her phone that was laying beside her, she checks her mom's i********: profile.

"Sometimes it just feels like you've made the wrong decisions in life." Tolu says and sighs softly.

"We're here." Ayo gets the old man to his room.

"Do you want to relax on the bed?" Ayo asked.

"No, just leave me here." The man says sadly, Ayo turns around to leave the room but didn't just want to leave the poor old man all by himself.

"Don't you have any family member that lives around this place? I could help you get them." Ayo says as he shuts the door to the man's room.

"My family left me a long time ago." The man says as he laughs regretting the choices he made in life.

"That's terrible." Ayo sits on one of the many chairs in the room.

"Nah, I was a terrible person. I deserve it, what about you? What are you doing here?" The man asked.

"I came to drop a friend here, she's not okay both physically and mentally. She was like our team leader but now that she's not feeling so fine I feel like I have to step up and take charge but I can't." Says Ayo, he wasn't ready to give up on finding Papa.

"Then what's stopping you?" The man's asked, his eyes were closed and his saliva was rolling down to his shirt from his mouth. Ayo turned around not wanting to say anything but the guilt felt heavy on him.

"At a time of my life I felt I had everything I always wanted, I had powers, I could do whatever I want but there was this thing in my head." He sighs and goes on.

"I met a lady her name was Rinu, she had a middle class family but she took me in when she saw that I was homeless. Rinu was so nice to me, she had dreams and wanted the best for her husband and child." Ayo stops not able to go on, tears dropped from his one eye, the old man touches Ayo head he wanted to touch his shoulder but couldn't see.

"One day I was in her kitchen and this thing in my head wanted to take control of my body, I struggled to stop it but I couldn't. I screamed at the top of my voice and Rinu ran inside while carrying her baby, sadly this thing was in control and it shot her and her child." Ayo voice shakens, he couldn't handle what he was feeling. He burst into tears.

"And I know you might say it's not my fault but it is, I can't get it out of my head. I've hurt so many people and it keeps on haunting me." Ayo sees a tissue on a table and quickly picks it up to clean his eyes, he relaxed his back on the chair glad that he finally told someone what was going on with him.

"Hmmmm." The man says as he pats Ayo head.

Ayo walks toward Tolu room confidently, he sees Deji going in and quickly stops him.

"You're a bad person an I hope you're proud of yourself for what you did." Ayo says swiftly and walks to the room, Tolu is sitting on a chair this time.

"I'm going back home to rally the others so we can find Papa." Ayo says gently, as he stands from distance.

"It's madness Ayo" she tries to stand up but Ayo points back to chair implying that she should relax.

"I know, part of me is telling me that but Papa needs our help and I'm not ready to give up, thanks for bringing us together." Ayo says and smiles, he wanted her to still know they are friends no matter what.

"You guys should just do one thing for me." Tolu says.

"Which is?" Ayo was hoping she'll say she'll come back.

"Don't die." She said in a very low tone.

"I can't promise you that." He chuckles, waves to her and walks out of the room.

Ayo walks out of the hospital, he turns around and looks at his reflection in a window he touches his cybernetic face. "I got this." Ayo says to himself and exhales deeply.