Part Four - Phase Three Part Three and Four

The two part conclusion to the Phase Three arc! I loved it more than anything else I wrote so far. It's got revelations, even more subtle humor, a different side of Trevor, some jaw dropper moments, and some pwn'ing. Anyway, here it is:

When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.

DREAM

There is only a Void, Bird's Eye Point of View, on Trevor Tanaka. He is standing in it somehow. The camera view pans down slowly to close up on Trevor's face. His eyes and mouth are covered by a DNA Symbol each. Flames appear from the void. Trevor is standing on a rock.

Uluru - "Who dares to defy me?! I am Uluru the Invincible!"

Trevor turns to face Uluru, his face is back to normal.

Trevor - "I dare!"

Uluru reaches to grab Trevor with his right hand. Uluru clenches his hand with Trevor sticking half way out. He brings Trevor closer to his face.

Uluru - "How your world is filled with filth and lies. The comingling of good and evil in mortals only upsets the natural balance."

Uluru transforms into a giant DNA Symbol, it slithers around Trevor and constricts on him and like a snake and they fall into the flames. Black out.

[The Helix references the DNA Symbol and the numbers, his power]

Trevor jolts awake. He is standing in a dark alley with four others. They are looking to him to say something.

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

WASHINGTON D.C.

Trevor - "A splinter cell composed of former Building 26 special agents are based in this abandoned hotel. There are seven of them. And they have an old database with files on highly evolved beings compiled by the Primatech Company. The intelligence is too dangerous to for them to keep. We're here to liberate that database."

[Volume Four and iStory Book Six]

Marcus Kane - "And to maximize this effort, you brought in as many absorbers as you could on short notice?"

Trevor - "Something like that. I need telekinetics. Since you power absorbers are so fond of telekinesis, it would be more expedient to use you. Two on the roof. Four on perimeter. One on guard."

Kane - "I call roof."

Trevor - "Wait. Tell the security system to shut down with your technopathy."

Kane - "My what now?"

Trevor - "Technopathy. You can talk to the machines. Disable the security system with your mind. They are connected wirelessly so it should be even easier for you."

Kane shrugs and closes his eyes and focuses.

Kane - "Okay. Now if you'll excuse me."

Kane telekinetically pushes himself up. Trevor, Radburn, Phillip "Blue" DeParis, and Antonio Dourado look up. Two agents are telekinetically pushed onto the rooftop edge. Their guns fall over. Kane looks over and waves them on.

Radburn opens the door with telekinesis. The four walk into the hotel lobby. Four agents stare at them. They are armed with shotguns and tasers.

[Kane's use of telekinesis references Sylar speculation.]

Trevor - "Four of us. Four of them. Nobody miss."

[A loose reference and pun on "One of Us, One of Them.]

Trevor shoots one and he goes flying. The second gets shot into a nearby wall. The third's legs are blown out and his face crunches onto the floor. The fourth is launched up into the ceiling and dropped.

[References when Noah Bennet shoots people, they go flying. Various references to uses of telekinesis seen on the show.]

Dourado - "Never saw one of these up close."

Dourado telekinetically opens the shotgun into pieces and floats them as he observes them with earnest interest.

[Heroes Survival Game - Dourado has a keen interest of the world.]

Radburn - "This wasn't that hard. It could have waited."

Trevor - "It was a limited time offer. Four hours tops. If we didn't take advantage of time differences, another faction would have pounced on this place."

[Heroes Survival Game - Faction Urgent Request]

Kane walks down the stairway and rejoins them. There is a gunshot wound on his left ribcage that is healing. His body pushes out a bullet. No one knows speaks.

Blue - "Let's Scooby Doo it and split up."

[Heroes Survival Game - Blue is a nerd and would know animation]

They hear someone laughing in the background.

An agent is reading a 9th Wonders! comic book, with Uluru on the cover. His earpiece is removed. He sees the evolved beings and almost jumps off his chair. He puts his earpiece back in and aims his gun, shaking.

[9th Wonders! comic book, Issue #13. Loosely ironic with Trevor's nightmare]

Double doors flap open as the agent backs up with his gun still aimed. He fires at them. The bullets are frozen in mid-air and fall on the ground like rain.

[Volume One "Parasite."]

Agent Johnson - "Damn…"

Blue telekinetically knocks the gun out his hands. The team walks forward unafraid. The agent backs away and screams into his earpiece.

Agent Johnson - "They found the pigeon coop! Repeat, they found the pigeon coop! Respond!!"

[9th Wonders! Forum - The Hang Out - The Burnt Toast Diner]

Johnson is agitated by the lack of any response.

Agent Johnson - "Where is everyone…"

He realizes what happened and runs.

Trevor - "He's going to wipe the hard drives."

Kane - "Can't have that can we?"

Trevor shoots in the right leg. The agent falls forward and skids onto the floor.

Dourado - "Nice shot."

Trevor - "I was aiming for his head."

They walk up to Agent Johnson.

Johnson - "You're all a symptom. A disease. This is our world."

Blue telekinetically flips him out a nearby window.

Blue - "The moron was asking for it."

Trevor looks ahead to a door. He has a running start and kicks in the door. Everyone looks in and is in shock. The room is in disarray, wires dangling everywhere, and hard drives are emptied out. There is a key laid on the floor.

Dourado - "A key?"

Trevor picks up the key and examines it.

Trevor - "I know the place. It’s in California, 1319 Racing Avenue."

[Volume Four - Noah Bennet has a storage unit there]

UNDAUNTED - in Heroes title font - graces across the panel.

PHASE THREE - PART THREE: OFF THE BOOKS PART ONE - in Heroes title font -

COSTA VERDE, CALIFORNIA

Trevor, alone, stares at the key then walks up to storage unit 108. He unlocks the unit and walks in. There is only a camcorder sitting in the center of the room. He walks up to it, turns it on, and flips open the viewer.

Woman - "Is it on? Wait, what are we going to say?"

Offscreen Man - "Anything!"

The point of view starts rocking and Trevor appears next to the woman. He is holding the camcorder in his right hand.

Trevor - "It's December 28, 2004. We're in Tokyo to visit her parents."

Trevor walks up to the camera and whispers.

Trevor - "Her dad hates me."

Woman - "Yeah, whatever."

The woman walks up to the camera.

Woman - "Daddy adores Trevor."

Trevor - "We weren't supposed to be here until the 30th but we wanted to take in the sights."

Trevor points the camera down at the snow.

Woman - "Shh…hey, that's a secret."

She giggles at the notion of it.

Trevor - "I love you."

Trevor kisses her on the cheek.

Woman - "Love you, too."

Trevor - "Color me toxic, but this looks like a great spot for something I have planned."

[9th Wonders! Forum Member]

Woman - "Yeah…what's that?"

Trevor - "This."

He gets on one knee and brings out a ring with his left hand.

Trevor - "Will you marry me?"

The woman lights up.

Woman - "Of course! Yes!! Yes."

Trevor exhales in delight.

Trevor - "Yes? Great."

She takes the ring. Trevor stands up and puts the ring on her left ring finger. She smiles at it then looks up at Trevor. They kiss again. The footage ends.

Trevor freezes up and the camcorder drops to his side. His other hand is trembling. He stares into the storage unit wall in disbelief.

The video is still running and sounds like it jumping to another recording. The voices can be heard, slightly muffled.

Trevor - "What color is it?"

Woman - "I don't know…Oh my God…We're…"

Both cheer in excitement.

Trevor drops the camcorder onto the storage unit floor. He rests against the unit wall and slides down. He stares at the camcorder then bangs his head against his knees. He stops and starts crying uncontrollably.

SOME TIME LATER

Trevor is standing. He wipes his face with his arm. Clara Zhang teleports in.

Zhang - "Got your text. Where to…were you crying?"

Trevor - "Yes."

Zhang - "Oh. Uhhh…"

Trevor - "Take me to Tokyo."

Zhang - "Okay."

Zhang shuffles through her purse, skimming post cards.

Zhang - "Wait, weren't you supposed to go back to Colorado?"

[9th Wonders! Forum - The Garden of the Gods]

Trevor - "I've got business, first."

Trevor's face has formed a murderous look as he faces away from Zhang, staring at the camcorder.

TO BE CONTINUED

NEXT: PART FOUR - OFF THE BOOKS PART TWO

Life is a game of patterns and chance, and those who play well will win.

DREAM

There is only a Void, Bird's Eye Point of View, on Trevor Tanaka. He is standing in it somehow. The camera view pans down slowly to close up on Trevor's face. His eyes and mouth are covered by a DNA Symbol each. Flames appear from the void. Trevor is standing on a rock.

Uluru - "Who dares to defy me?! I am Uluru the Invincible!"

Trevor turns to face Uluru, his face is back to normal.

Trevor - "I dare!"

Uluru reaches to grab Trevor with his right hand. Uluru clenches his hand with Trevor sticking half way out. He brings Trevor closer to his face.

Uluru - "How your world is filled with filth and lies. The comingling of good and evil in mortals only upsets the natural balance."

Uluru transforms into a giant DNA Symbol, it slithers around Trevor and constricts on him and like a snake and they fall into the flames.

Upon impact, the flames disperse like water and turn into ones and zeroes.

Trevor - "What you represent is a constant. An element. Equilibrium isn't as predictable…it is caught in a cycle of paradigm shifts…"

The Symbol breaks off. Trevor coughs and gasps for air. The Void has returned.

Uluru - "How can a variable like you tell the difference?"

Trevor turns and sees himself, but with Uluru's demonic eyes.

Uluru - "Do you have what it takes to be like me?"

Uluru transforms again, into classic dressed in black Sylar, with the demon eyes.

Uluru - "To be the most special?"

[Repeated by Sylar]

Uluru transforms into Adam Monroe.

Uluru - "And have the discipline of the gods?"

[Graphic Novel, "Revolutionary War" Part Two]

Trevor - "To believe in that would only lead to arrogance and subjectivity."

Uluru transforms into Arthur Petrelli.

Uluru - "That's not a belief, it's a fact."

[Volume 3, "Eris Quod Sum"]

Uluru transforms into a common cockroach and crawls away into the Void.

Uluru - "Always seek the truth, mortal. Never find it."

[A loose reference to Andre Gide]

Black out.

TOKYO, JAPAN

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

A room. It is pitch black except for the center where there is a man waiting at a table with a closed box. Another man enters the room.

The Consultant - "You've secured the database and left the bait?"

The Associate nods and gestures at the box.

The Consultant - "Good. The sniper team is on standby if we need them. The powers that be will be satisfied after that fiasco in Peru."

[Reference to Angel and Destiny webisodes]

A gunshot goes through the Associate's heart. His body falls over onto the table. Smoke wafts in the shadows. A voice emerges.

Trevor - "The Associate, I presume. You were the one chasing me in Costa Verde four months ago. Small world."

[See Undaunted Part Three]

The Associate doesn't respond.

Trevor - "Oh, right. Dead."

[Loose reference to a scene in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]

The Consultant - "H…how…"

Trevor - "What? Didn't do that good a job researching me? I'm smarter than the average bear. Kidnap me…I let it slide. Screw with an urgent request…I swallow my pride. Taunt me like you did…your days are numbered. My power was already activate during the video. Did you think I would be so upset that I wouldn't remember the building in the background or the faint chlorine smell from storing medical supplies in there between then and now?"

[Yogi Bear and Urgent Request - Heroes Survival Game]

Trevor holding his gun out at the Consultant slowly emerges from the darkness, like a film breaking off of him.

Trevor - "The thing you don't seem to understand is: I'm the same with or without my power. It's not a crutch, it's a gift. A godsend, even. Now, call off the snipers."

[Volume 1, Ando Masahashi translates Takezo Kensei's symbol as "godsend"]

The Consultant slowly shaking, pulls his Sprint cell phone and makes a call.

The Consultant - "Stand down. Repeat: Stand down. Do not engage."

The Consultant gulps, fearing his impending death.

The Consultant - "The Haitian…last sighted in Arlington, Virginia before Halloween."

[Volume 5 "Shadowboxing"]

Trevor - "The Haitian? He's got a name. He's not some blunt object. He's a human being."

The Consultant -"Er…Eric Thompson, Jr. he…"

Trevor - "You're not saying anything I don't already know."

The Consultant sweats.

Trevor - "Did you ever think about what's more dangerous than an enemy?"

The Consultant nervously shakes his head.

Trevor - "Standing in the way of someone who had everything…who found someone to share it with, unconditionally. Then she dies because of a lie. Something she never knew about. Your heart breaks in half and you try to fill it with revenge…to only end up stained a color you can never get rid of. Try to defeat that person."

The Consultant - "You should get some sleep."

Trevor - "No thanks."

The Consultant is shocked. His power didn't work.

Trevor - "I was too busy staying up doing my homework."

Trevor taps a skin-colored ear plug in his left ear.

The Consultant - "But how…"

Trevor - "Do I understand what you were saying? I keep up with reading. Society is flooded with this hyper-abundance of content but I love a good book, you can always find something amazing, like how to read lips. It's a useful skill, especially if you have to deal with a highly evolved being with the advanced ability of sedation through modular suggestion. Having one of your colleagues mess with my dreams was a nice touch."

The Consultant - "I don't know what you're talking about. Only myself and the dead man over there were assigned to you, and he was…ordinary."

Trevor focuses his eyes on the Consultant and realizes he is telling the truth. Trevor smiles and laughs at himself, realizing the nightmares came on their own accord.

Trevor - "I'm sorry to leave now, but I have a family to help take care of and in my line of work, it is better to apologize than ask for permission."

[Trevor mocks something the Consultant told him two stories ago]

The Consultant grits his teeth. Trevor shoots and the bullet connects with the Consultant's head. He falls over. Trevor shoots him in the head once more and twice in the chest. He checks the contents of the box, closes it, takes it, then walks into the darkness. From the darkness, Trevor shoots the light bulb, turning the room completely dark.

UNDAUNTED - in Heroes title font - graces across the panel.

PHASE THREE - PART FOUR: OFF THE BOOKS PART TWO - in Heroes title font -

ONE DAY LATER

FUSHIMI INARI SHRINE, KYOTO, JAPAN

Clara Zhang walks up a path of the famous torii columns. She is taken aback by the sight of them. Up ahead, Trevor is waiting near the entrance to the inner shrine.

Zhang - "Done with your business?"

[Irony. Inari is the god of business.]

Trevor - "Yup."

Trevor holds up a USB thumb drive and puts it away. A fox darts out onto the path. Zhang is surprised. Trevor walks up to it and holds out the storage key unit from part one. The fox takes it in its mouth and runs away.

[Foxes are thought to be messengers, are often seen in Inari shrines. Statues depict them with a key (for the rice granary) in their mouths.]

Zhang - "That was so cool!"

Trevor - "Y'know, With your complexion…you really shouldn't be wearing your hair pulled back that tight."

Zhang - "What are you talking about?"

Trevor - "It pulls back the skin on your forehead...creating a tension which clogs the pores. That's why you have some light pattern dryness around your scalp. Read it in a magazine once."

[Zoolander]

Zhang - "C'mon d-bag. Let's go make an offering before I return you to your life of high fashion."

Trevor sighs but waivers.

Trevor - "I miss James."

Zhang - "What?"

Trevor - "Nothing."

Zhang tries to look authentic and makes an offering in the shrine. Trevor just stands there.

Zhang - "Aren't you going to do it, too?"

Trevor - "I already did."

Zhang - "Back there with the fox?"

Trevor nods.

Zhang - "Cool. But don't you want to make a wish or something?"

Trevor - "No…I've got what I want."

Zhang - "And what's that?"

Trevor - "A purpose. Kindred."

Zhang - "So you don't want like a new scarf or something?"

Trevor squints at Zhang.

Trevor - "Colorado, please."

Zhang - "You're no fun."

Zhang puts her left hand on Trevor's right shoulder.

Trevor - "Pft. Define fun."

They teleport away.

THE END OF SPECIAL TWO: PHASE THREE - in Heroes title font

SPECIAL THREE

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO

THE GARDEN OF THE GODS

Dozens of corpses are strewn across the field. Trevor is wounded somewhere in his abdomen. He crawls over to two bodies that are barely breathing and leaves a trail of blood. Trevor uses all of his remaining strength to flip them over. One is Regan "Redo" McCairn and the other, Dixon "Nox" Cheung.

[Two characters from Heroes Survival Game and part of Undaunted]

Trevor - "Nox…you got to…undo this from ever happening to me."

Nox struggles to concentrate then it works, Trevor is unwounded. Nox spits up blood laughing then his head drops. Nox is dead. Trevor closes his eyes. Redo was watching what happened.

Trevor - "Reset us as far back as you can, McCairn. Farther than you've ever gone. Everyone's lives depend on it."

Redo uses her time reversing power. Things start to go backwards like a video tape rewinding, then everything turns into a blur of images and sound. Then a white flash envelopes everything.

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

A laptop is turned on but the seat in front of it is empty. Pan right, Trevor is standing, hunched over on a window. Point of view on his back. He shakes his head.

Trevor - "It's finally happened. They're coming."

[Homage to Lost Season Six Finale]

TO BE CONTINUED...