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...
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November 12, 2009
November 8, 2009
Commentary - Phase Three Part Two
So yeah, part two was a smaller story to slow down after the big op tale and prepare readers for a multi-part big op filled with intrigue, suspense, and death. But right now, as I mentioned, this is a more Trevor-centric story set pretty much in line with the current timeline of the show. The first line is a quote from the late Muhammad Ali. Below Trevor's wit and sarcasm, he's actually speaking his mind and no one realizes that, that's what he thinks is the best joke of all.
And I continue to reveal more about Trevor's nightmare. Uluru makes an appearance after I referenced him in the first story arc. Continuing on my interpretation of the nightmare: The nightmare, itself, is up to interpretation. To me, I think the void represents Mu, nothingness, from Buddhism. From it comes Trevor, whose senses are covered up and he is in a state of ignorance, powerless and without a purpose in life. Trevor connects this nightmare to his lover's death as the jolt that made him reach his full potential. Now the flames, a symbol of destruction and Uluru, the inner demon within everyone (at least how I see it), appear to threaten Trevor and he turns, with the symbols gone, implying experience and activation of his power challenges the dark forces within him.
And coming along with the present story, the idea came from my list of to do. I always wanted to make a story where Trevor gets kidnapped and the punching shtick is the sequence I wrote. I matched this up with my desire to expand on the mystery company that tried to recruit Santiago in the Destiny webisodes. To make sense, an alliance of faction leaders but some bills together and hired these people to kidnap and interrogate Trevor for his intelligence. Obviously, among these five people, I didn't exactly state who had what power. At least for the Consultant, I want to keep it vague for a future story. I threw in the nullifier to prevent Trevor from using his power and show he's the same with or without it.
I prodded a little more with the mystery behind his name mainly because its a typical warm up question during an interrogation. Then things get frustrating for them as Trevor outwits them most of the time. My favorite word at the time was proclivity. But mainly, the interrogation was to integrate the arc of volume five and phase three of the survival game into this story to frame it.
I also felt the need to revisit the possibility that Trevor could walk away or even betray Undaunted for his own interests. Why is he still with them? By this point, the viewer should start wondering what the conversation between Leona Mills, Trevor, and Seal was and when it will be revealed. Since Seal now knows everything Leona is planning and how he's using that information is very interesting to know.
Then for the last half, Trevor encounters Jasp, Marc, and Seal, from Undaunted. I wanted Jasp and Trevor's relationship to be more cordial as contrast to Trevor and James'. And with Marc and Seal, Trevor pretty much concluded who the faction leaders that commissioned his capture are but doesn't really care. Obviously this op he's talking about is...well bigger in importance. Does it have to do with the Timewave Zero software he was running? Soon.
And I continue to reveal more about Trevor's nightmare. Uluru makes an appearance after I referenced him in the first story arc. Continuing on my interpretation of the nightmare: The nightmare, itself, is up to interpretation. To me, I think the void represents Mu, nothingness, from Buddhism. From it comes Trevor, whose senses are covered up and he is in a state of ignorance, powerless and without a purpose in life. Trevor connects this nightmare to his lover's death as the jolt that made him reach his full potential. Now the flames, a symbol of destruction and Uluru, the inner demon within everyone (at least how I see it), appear to threaten Trevor and he turns, with the symbols gone, implying experience and activation of his power challenges the dark forces within him.
And coming along with the present story, the idea came from my list of to do. I always wanted to make a story where Trevor gets kidnapped and the punching shtick is the sequence I wrote. I matched this up with my desire to expand on the mystery company that tried to recruit Santiago in the Destiny webisodes. To make sense, an alliance of faction leaders but some bills together and hired these people to kidnap and interrogate Trevor for his intelligence. Obviously, among these five people, I didn't exactly state who had what power. At least for the Consultant, I want to keep it vague for a future story. I threw in the nullifier to prevent Trevor from using his power and show he's the same with or without it.
I prodded a little more with the mystery behind his name mainly because its a typical warm up question during an interrogation. Then things get frustrating for them as Trevor outwits them most of the time. My favorite word at the time was proclivity. But mainly, the interrogation was to integrate the arc of volume five and phase three of the survival game into this story to frame it.
I also felt the need to revisit the possibility that Trevor could walk away or even betray Undaunted for his own interests. Why is he still with them? By this point, the viewer should start wondering what the conversation between Leona Mills, Trevor, and Seal was and when it will be revealed. Since Seal now knows everything Leona is planning and how he's using that information is very interesting to know.
Then for the last half, Trevor encounters Jasp, Marc, and Seal, from Undaunted. I wanted Jasp and Trevor's relationship to be more cordial as contrast to Trevor and James'. And with Marc and Seal, Trevor pretty much concluded who the faction leaders that commissioned his capture are but doesn't really care. Obviously this op he's talking about is...well bigger in importance. Does it have to do with the Timewave Zero software he was running? Soon.
November 7, 2009
Part Four - Phase Three Part Two
Without further ado, here is my latest story. Ultimately, the plan is to wedge smaller character stories that rest the reader between the big op stories I have planned and set up future story plots. Commentary to come:
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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.
[Expanding more and more on Trevor's childhood nightmare each chapter]
Uluru - "Who dares to defy me?! I am Uluru the Invincible!"
[Uluru the Invincible from the 9th Wonders! comic book]
Trevor turns to face Uluru, his face is back to normal.
Trevor - "I dare!"
Uluru reaches to grab Trevor with its right hand. Black out.
Trevor jolts awake. He is sitting down on a wheelchair, restrained with a black bag over his head and hands and legs tied down. He is being wheeled somewhere. The chair comes to a stop. Trevor hears a door close. A switch is thrown. A bright light glitters through the bag fabric.
OCTOBER 31, 2007
[In Late October 2006, Peter Petrelli was in a coma from absorbing too many powers and experienced a frightening dream. The date was intentional because, similarly, Trevor had a dream on the same postulated day, one year later.]
LOCATION UNKNOWN
The Consultant - "Hello. Trevor. We've never met but you can say you are my current assignment. I am masking my voice to protect myself and those who contracted me. I apologize that we are meeting like this, but in my line of work, it is better to apologize than ask for permission."
[The last line is a clue on who the Consultant works for. In the Destiny webisodes, SLW makes a similar comment.]
A garbled laugh comes from the black bag over Trevor's head. He raises his restrained hands as far as they can to show - "Like I have a choice."
The Consultant - "I am going to ask you a series of questions. You will answer them. If that becomes a problem, my associate, who happens to hate lies, will correct you."
The Consultant - "Remove the bag."
From Trevor's point of view, the bag is lifted from his head. He is also blindfolded.
Trevor - "And you also have a nullifier. That's remarkable. They're so hard to come by."
[Term from the Evsdropr arc in the graphic novels. Also comments how only the Haitian and a DHS agent from an alternate future had the ability to nullify other people's.]
The Consultant - "You have no idea."
The Consultant - "Tell me your name."
Trevor - "You just said it."
The Consultant - "Your real name. Tell me your real name. The one you were born with."
Trevor - "It is irrelevant because in the fullness of time, we are all dead. Hmm. I had a chicken sandwich with avocado for lunch, today."
[The first sentence is a quote from Justice League Unlimited in the episode "Dead Reckoning."]
The Consultant - "How many people have you killed?"
Trevor - "I don't know. I'm far from done."
The Consultant - "You say you're one of us. You walk among us but you aren't anything like us. Who are you? Who is Trevor Tanaka?"
[The first two sentences are a reference to Lost in the episode "Stranger in a Strange Land" and the last question is a reference to a blog of the same name.]
Trevor - "My name is Undaunted, for we are many."
[A pun on the Bible verse of when the Devil tried to tempt Jesus Christ.]
The Associate punches Trevor in the face.
Trevor - "I plead the Fifth."
[A reference to Chappelle's Show, and the character Tron.]
The Associate punches Trevor in the face again.
The Consultant - "What do you know?"
Trevor - "The truth. The truth is there is no good and evil left in the world. There are no monsters. Just visions that are placed in our minds."
[Heroes, Volume One, Future Hiro's Yamagato blog.]
The Associate punches Trevor in the face a third time.
Trevor - "I, an outcast, never belonged. I longed to bleach this dark world with the truth. But our lives are timed to a precision and cross with each other. Communication is the conductor of truth."
[Heroes, Volume One, Future Hiro's Yamagato blog.]
The Consultant - "Your proclivity towards deflection amuses me. What do you know about the factions?"
Trevor - "We're all pawns of watchers and dreamers. No matter what initiatives we take, what precautions we imagine…the factions will continue to fight each other. Fear and distrust are the foundations of each faction's tenant."
[Trevor refers to the Watcher and Angela Petrelli. Also a loose reference to the paranoia and hype surrounding Phase Three of the Heroes Survival Game.]
The Associate punches Trevor in the face a fourth time.
Trevor - "It is all a distraction. There is something gathering strength in the shadows…gathering the strongest of us all. Then, it will swallow us whole in one gulp. Heh. And you are so focused on stealing my toilet paper."
[A joke about Phase Three and what Resources are.]
The Consultant - "The Carnival?"
[Heroes, Volume Five]
Trevor - "Samuel Sullivan. Sylar."
[This places the story after Sylar is recruited to the Carnival.]
Distorted voices murmur among each other.
The Contractors - "…Sylar?!...Isn't he dead?...He's bluffing…They don't kill kindred…"
The Consultant - "Do you mean to say this Carnival is a threat to evolved humans and humans, alike?"
Trevor - "Yes. Especially if you start a sentence with a no."
The Associate punches Trevor in the face a fifth time.
Trevor - "This is getting old. Throw in a kick or something fresh."
The Consultant - "Does Seal know any of this?"
Trevor - "Yes. He knows what I know. Doesn't matter if he does or doesn't know."
The Consultant - "Why?"
Trevor - "He is a fan of democracy and diplomacy. By the time there is a consensus among the factions on what to do about the Carnival, we'll all be six feet under. All they're good at is pushing buttons."
[Another joke about the nature of Heroes Survival Game.]
The Consultant - "Then why did you even join Undaunted?"
Trevor - "The insurance benefits."
The Associate punches Trevor in the face a sixth time. Trevor looks up with a grim expression, a scowl and bleeding.
Trevor - "This is who we are."
[Reference to the code used by the Millennium Group in the series Millennium.]
There is silence for a minute.
Trevor - "I would be happy if one of you out there were a healer because I can confirm that I am bleeding and my face hurts."
There is another minute of silence.
A hand comes over Trevor's face. It heals him.
Trevor - "Thank you."
The Consultant - "I will ask you one more question then I will release you."
Trevor - "Release release me or release me, throw me out an airplane, release me?"
The Consultant - "How many of us will it take to destroy the Carnival?"
Trevor - "None. It's not our fight. Besides, I have a gut feeling they sowed the seeds of their own destruction. Until then, it's a game of survival."
[A bad pun on Heroes Survival Game.]
The Consultant - "Go to sleep."
[Samson Gray's Sedation power or an aspect of Telepathy?]
Trevor's head drops down. Black out.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
TWO HOURS LATER
Trevor is sitting at his computer. The program he was running on it is still on. It looks like a graph with a constantly moving oscillation. In one corner, the words "Timewave Zero" are visible. A hardcover book is opened next to the keyboard. Two parts of a page are highlighted in yellow. They read, "Genes determine obesity, blood pressure" and the second, "out of the thirty billion possibilities, one might contain the potential for human flight." The book is Activating Evolution. A cell phone, the battery, and the chip are laid out next to the book. Trevor's eyes flicker and he wakes up.
[Reference to Timewave Zero, a way of calculating the apocalypse, and Dr. Chandra Suresh's book, Activating Evolution. The quotes are from "One Giant Leap."]
UNDAUNTED - in Heroes title font - graces across the panel.
PHASE THREE - PART TWO: THE CONTRACT - in Heroes title font -
Trevor grabs a piece of paper from his desk and jots down words very quickly: Voice modulation, Nullifier, Telepathy (?), Healing Touch, Consultant (2), Faction (3 Males Present), Medical Supplies-Wheelchair, Warehouse (Abandoned?), Chlorine scent, Floodlights.
Trevor - Just because my ability is Enhanced Memory doesn't mean my regular memory is terrible, Consultant.
Someone knocks on the door in Trevor's room, three times, three seconds apart.
Trevor - "Come in."
The door opens and in walks Jasp.
[Jasper "Jasp" Red from Heroes Survival Game.]
Jasp - "Ready?"
Trevor - "Yeah."
Jasp - "Where to?"
Trevor - "The Garden."
[9th Wonders! Forum]
Trevor tucks the paper in his shirt pocket. He closes the book and puts it under his left arm. He types in a combination in the keyboard. He reaches under the desk.
Jasp stares at the door and concentrates. He grunts then holds the door open, Trevor walks in then Jasp.
[For long distance travel, Jasp has to concentrate a little harder.]
THE GARDEN OF THE GODS
The restrooms are locked. The door opens. Jasp and Trevor walk outside.
Trevor - "Thank you, Red. Good luck with the new semester."
[Jasp is in college but stays in contact with his allies.]
Jasp - "Welcome. Most people don't call me that."
Trevor - "I'm not most people."
Jasp closes the door.
Trevor exhales. He looks at the book. Then looks up to the sky. He marches up to the path. The field is within sight. Marc and Seal are there.
Marc - "How're you feeling?"
Trevor - "Much better, thanks for asking. Here's your book back."
Marc - "Oh yeah, thanks. What'd you think?"
Trevor - "Mmm, no potential for a TV movie. Maybe nine seasons."
[A loose reference to the X-Files]
Seal chuckles. Marc laughs nervously. Trevor pulls out the paper he wrote on. Trevor's demeanor changes.
Seal - "What? You were kidnapped…by a faction."
Trevor - "It shouldn't be too hard to find out which one."
Trevor waives the paper.
Seal - "But who were these people that interrogated you, freelancers?"
Trevor - "Awhile ago, there were numerous companies that employed highly evolved beings, not just Primatech and Pinehearst. Others who have no names, no initials. I heard a rumor once that there is a company that contracts out evolved beings to people with deep pockets. Assassination. Intelligence. You name it, there's a price. They were last sighted in Chicago and Peru a couple months ago. Fits the M.O., could be them. "
[Webiseries - Destiny]
Marc - "What do we do?"
Trevor - "When's the next inter-faction assembly?"
Seal - "It's a secret. Your idea. Might be in two days."
Trevor - "Someone wanted to do their homework before then. Make sure you watch for any changes in attitude."
Seal - "You're not coming?"
Trevor - "Doubtful. Paranoid and all that."
Marc - "I can help you with that."
Trevor - "No, I've got bigger fish to fry. I need these people for a special op I was about to commission before I was distracted by my new friends."
Seal looks at the back of Trevor's paper.
Seal - "But they're all investigating active events with their teams. They'll ask what this is for. Things are shaky enough as it is."
Trevor - "They'll understand. I can be persuasive. We'll all meet at the secondary site."
[Two Garden of the Gods were considered on 9th Wonders!]
Seal - "Fine. Extend an olive branch to whoever you're going after, first."
Trevor - "I'm not sure they understand that currency."
Seal - "Make the bird want to sing."
[Reference to the book, Taiko]
Trevor - "That I can do."
Seal - "Without your gun."
Trevor - "Oh. Right. The semantics again. Ever tell a fish not to swim? Order a bird not to fly? I have no illusions about what I do, but it must be done."
[Biology/Darwin]
Seal - "Trevor. Do you really think any of us are going to get through this?"
Trevor - "Well, I might."
[Serenity - The Operative and Zoe & Jayne]
Trevor walks away back down the path as Seal and Marc look at each other.
TO BE CONTINUED
NEXT: PART THREE - OFF THE BOOKS PART ONE
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
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.
[Expanding more and more on Trevor's childhood nightmare each chapter]
Uluru - "Who dares to defy me?! I am Uluru the Invincible!"
[Uluru the Invincible from the 9th Wonders! comic book]
Trevor turns to face Uluru, his face is back to normal.
Trevor - "I dare!"
Uluru reaches to grab Trevor with its right hand. Black out.
Trevor jolts awake. He is sitting down on a wheelchair, restrained with a black bag over his head and hands and legs tied down. He is being wheeled somewhere. The chair comes to a stop. Trevor hears a door close. A switch is thrown. A bright light glitters through the bag fabric.
OCTOBER 31, 2007
[In Late October 2006, Peter Petrelli was in a coma from absorbing too many powers and experienced a frightening dream. The date was intentional because, similarly, Trevor had a dream on the same postulated day, one year later.]
LOCATION UNKNOWN
The Consultant - "Hello. Trevor. We've never met but you can say you are my current assignment. I am masking my voice to protect myself and those who contracted me. I apologize that we are meeting like this, but in my line of work, it is better to apologize than ask for permission."
[The last line is a clue on who the Consultant works for. In the Destiny webisodes, SLW makes a similar comment.]
A garbled laugh comes from the black bag over Trevor's head. He raises his restrained hands as far as they can to show - "Like I have a choice."
The Consultant - "I am going to ask you a series of questions. You will answer them. If that becomes a problem, my associate, who happens to hate lies, will correct you."
The Consultant - "Remove the bag."
From Trevor's point of view, the bag is lifted from his head. He is also blindfolded.
Trevor - "And you also have a nullifier. That's remarkable. They're so hard to come by."
[Term from the Evsdropr arc in the graphic novels. Also comments how only the Haitian and a DHS agent from an alternate future had the ability to nullify other people's.]
The Consultant - "You have no idea."
The Consultant - "Tell me your name."
Trevor - "You just said it."
The Consultant - "Your real name. Tell me your real name. The one you were born with."
Trevor - "It is irrelevant because in the fullness of time, we are all dead. Hmm. I had a chicken sandwich with avocado for lunch, today."
[The first sentence is a quote from Justice League Unlimited in the episode "Dead Reckoning."]
The Consultant - "How many people have you killed?"
Trevor - "I don't know. I'm far from done."
The Consultant - "You say you're one of us. You walk among us but you aren't anything like us. Who are you? Who is Trevor Tanaka?"
[The first two sentences are a reference to Lost in the episode "Stranger in a Strange Land" and the last question is a reference to a blog of the same name.]
Trevor - "My name is Undaunted, for we are many."
[A pun on the Bible verse of when the Devil tried to tempt Jesus Christ.]
The Associate punches Trevor in the face.
Trevor - "I plead the Fifth."
[A reference to Chappelle's Show, and the character Tron.]
The Associate punches Trevor in the face again.
The Consultant - "What do you know?"
Trevor - "The truth. The truth is there is no good and evil left in the world. There are no monsters. Just visions that are placed in our minds."
[Heroes, Volume One, Future Hiro's Yamagato blog.]
The Associate punches Trevor in the face a third time.
Trevor - "I, an outcast, never belonged. I longed to bleach this dark world with the truth. But our lives are timed to a precision and cross with each other. Communication is the conductor of truth."
[Heroes, Volume One, Future Hiro's Yamagato blog.]
The Consultant - "Your proclivity towards deflection amuses me. What do you know about the factions?"
Trevor - "We're all pawns of watchers and dreamers. No matter what initiatives we take, what precautions we imagine…the factions will continue to fight each other. Fear and distrust are the foundations of each faction's tenant."
[Trevor refers to the Watcher and Angela Petrelli. Also a loose reference to the paranoia and hype surrounding Phase Three of the Heroes Survival Game.]
The Associate punches Trevor in the face a fourth time.
Trevor - "It is all a distraction. There is something gathering strength in the shadows…gathering the strongest of us all. Then, it will swallow us whole in one gulp. Heh. And you are so focused on stealing my toilet paper."
[A joke about Phase Three and what Resources are.]
The Consultant - "The Carnival?"
[Heroes, Volume Five]
Trevor - "Samuel Sullivan. Sylar."
[This places the story after Sylar is recruited to the Carnival.]
Distorted voices murmur among each other.
The Contractors - "…Sylar?!...Isn't he dead?...He's bluffing…They don't kill kindred…"
The Consultant - "Do you mean to say this Carnival is a threat to evolved humans and humans, alike?"
Trevor - "Yes. Especially if you start a sentence with a no."
The Associate punches Trevor in the face a fifth time.
Trevor - "This is getting old. Throw in a kick or something fresh."
The Consultant - "Does Seal know any of this?"
Trevor - "Yes. He knows what I know. Doesn't matter if he does or doesn't know."
The Consultant - "Why?"
Trevor - "He is a fan of democracy and diplomacy. By the time there is a consensus among the factions on what to do about the Carnival, we'll all be six feet under. All they're good at is pushing buttons."
[Another joke about the nature of Heroes Survival Game.]
The Consultant - "Then why did you even join Undaunted?"
Trevor - "The insurance benefits."
The Associate punches Trevor in the face a sixth time. Trevor looks up with a grim expression, a scowl and bleeding.
Trevor - "This is who we are."
[Reference to the code used by the Millennium Group in the series Millennium.]
There is silence for a minute.
Trevor - "I would be happy if one of you out there were a healer because I can confirm that I am bleeding and my face hurts."
There is another minute of silence.
A hand comes over Trevor's face. It heals him.
Trevor - "Thank you."
The Consultant - "I will ask you one more question then I will release you."
Trevor - "Release release me or release me, throw me out an airplane, release me?"
The Consultant - "How many of us will it take to destroy the Carnival?"
Trevor - "None. It's not our fight. Besides, I have a gut feeling they sowed the seeds of their own destruction. Until then, it's a game of survival."
[A bad pun on Heroes Survival Game.]
The Consultant - "Go to sleep."
[Samson Gray's Sedation power or an aspect of Telepathy?]
Trevor's head drops down. Black out.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
TWO HOURS LATER
Trevor is sitting at his computer. The program he was running on it is still on. It looks like a graph with a constantly moving oscillation. In one corner, the words "Timewave Zero" are visible. A hardcover book is opened next to the keyboard. Two parts of a page are highlighted in yellow. They read, "Genes determine obesity, blood pressure" and the second, "out of the thirty billion possibilities, one might contain the potential for human flight." The book is Activating Evolution. A cell phone, the battery, and the chip are laid out next to the book. Trevor's eyes flicker and he wakes up.
[Reference to Timewave Zero, a way of calculating the apocalypse, and Dr. Chandra Suresh's book, Activating Evolution. The quotes are from "One Giant Leap."]
UNDAUNTED - in Heroes title font - graces across the panel.
PHASE THREE - PART TWO: THE CONTRACT - in Heroes title font -
Trevor grabs a piece of paper from his desk and jots down words very quickly: Voice modulation, Nullifier, Telepathy (?), Healing Touch, Consultant (2), Faction (3 Males Present), Medical Supplies-Wheelchair, Warehouse (Abandoned?), Chlorine scent, Floodlights.
Trevor - Just because my ability is Enhanced Memory doesn't mean my regular memory is terrible, Consultant.
Someone knocks on the door in Trevor's room, three times, three seconds apart.
Trevor - "Come in."
The door opens and in walks Jasp.
[Jasper "Jasp" Red from Heroes Survival Game.]
Jasp - "Ready?"
Trevor - "Yeah."
Jasp - "Where to?"
Trevor - "The Garden."
[9th Wonders! Forum]
Trevor tucks the paper in his shirt pocket. He closes the book and puts it under his left arm. He types in a combination in the keyboard. He reaches under the desk.
Jasp stares at the door and concentrates. He grunts then holds the door open, Trevor walks in then Jasp.
[For long distance travel, Jasp has to concentrate a little harder.]
THE GARDEN OF THE GODS
The restrooms are locked. The door opens. Jasp and Trevor walk outside.
Trevor - "Thank you, Red. Good luck with the new semester."
[Jasp is in college but stays in contact with his allies.]
Jasp - "Welcome. Most people don't call me that."
Trevor - "I'm not most people."
Jasp closes the door.
Trevor exhales. He looks at the book. Then looks up to the sky. He marches up to the path. The field is within sight. Marc and Seal are there.
Marc - "How're you feeling?"
Trevor - "Much better, thanks for asking. Here's your book back."
Marc - "Oh yeah, thanks. What'd you think?"
Trevor - "Mmm, no potential for a TV movie. Maybe nine seasons."
[A loose reference to the X-Files]
Seal chuckles. Marc laughs nervously. Trevor pulls out the paper he wrote on. Trevor's demeanor changes.
Seal - "What? You were kidnapped…by a faction."
Trevor - "It shouldn't be too hard to find out which one."
Trevor waives the paper.
Seal - "But who were these people that interrogated you, freelancers?"
Trevor - "Awhile ago, there were numerous companies that employed highly evolved beings, not just Primatech and Pinehearst. Others who have no names, no initials. I heard a rumor once that there is a company that contracts out evolved beings to people with deep pockets. Assassination. Intelligence. You name it, there's a price. They were last sighted in Chicago and Peru a couple months ago. Fits the M.O., could be them. "
[Webiseries - Destiny]
Marc - "What do we do?"
Trevor - "When's the next inter-faction assembly?"
Seal - "It's a secret. Your idea. Might be in two days."
Trevor - "Someone wanted to do their homework before then. Make sure you watch for any changes in attitude."
Seal - "You're not coming?"
Trevor - "Doubtful. Paranoid and all that."
Marc - "I can help you with that."
Trevor - "No, I've got bigger fish to fry. I need these people for a special op I was about to commission before I was distracted by my new friends."
Seal looks at the back of Trevor's paper.
Seal - "But they're all investigating active events with their teams. They'll ask what this is for. Things are shaky enough as it is."
Trevor - "They'll understand. I can be persuasive. We'll all meet at the secondary site."
[Two Garden of the Gods were considered on 9th Wonders!]
Seal - "Fine. Extend an olive branch to whoever you're going after, first."
Trevor - "I'm not sure they understand that currency."
Seal - "Make the bird want to sing."
[Reference to the book, Taiko]
Trevor - "That I can do."
Seal - "Without your gun."
Trevor - "Oh. Right. The semantics again. Ever tell a fish not to swim? Order a bird not to fly? I have no illusions about what I do, but it must be done."
[Biology/Darwin]
Seal - "Trevor. Do you really think any of us are going to get through this?"
Trevor - "Well, I might."
[Serenity - The Operative and Zoe & Jayne]
Trevor walks away back down the path as Seal and Marc look at each other.
TO BE CONTINUED
NEXT: PART THREE - OFF THE BOOKS PART ONE
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