Part 5 - Once Upon A Time

On the downside of undercity, Silver was still sprinting until he heard loud banging against a door across from him. The others had made their way to him by this point.

They all looked at the door that continuously pounded before hesitantly walking over to it to open it. That's when Silver slowly opened it

Out came Vi who swiftly sprinted out of the room and around the corner where her jaw dropped and eyes narrowed. Grayson and Benzo were on the ground with their eyes wide open and blood covering their limp bodies.

Silver and the others followed her, resulting in the same reaction. All of their hearts began racing out of their chests from fear and sadness of seeing Benzo dead.

"What's going on?!!" Lucy cried out before falling down to her knees and bawling out tears.

Vi then closed her eyes and took a deep breath before walking away from the others. "It was Silco and some crazy monster..they killed Benzo and took Vander. Mylo and Claggor, we're going to gear up and get Vander back." Vi demanded with a serious, driven look in her eyes.

The others followed closely behind her. "How did you end up in that room?" Silver asked while looking up at her.

"I was going to turn myself in so they wouldn't come after you…I was hoping I'd be able to find Ekko somewhere and bring him back but Vander found me and locked me in that room…" Vi explained while the others couldn't believe their ears. "He turned himself into Grayson and the enforcers so they'd get off our backs but they had a different plan in mind. Grayson broke the deal. She locked Vander in handcuffs and was about to go to upcity and order a bunch load of enforcers to raid everything down here in search of the culprits. That's when Silco came and murdered them. He injected some purple like serum into a guy which caused him to lose his mind and kill the others…it looked like some monster.." Vi explained with detail while shaking her head in disbelief.

"Who is that?!" Lucy questioned with a worrisome face but Vi didn't respond.

Silco and his army had dragged a handcuffed Vander down to the underwater aquarium where his hideout was. Vander was visibly beaten, almost to the point of passing out as he spit out blood on the metal floors.

"What are you doing Silco?!!" Vander screamed out in visible rage as Silco stood in front of him with his other guards there. "We're supposed to be on the same side!!"

"Are we…brother? Because you see that's exactly what I thought when you were trying to murder me." Silco said calmly as he slowly approached Vander with his hand over the scar on his face.

"You've grown soft..I don't think you're fit to lead anyone anymore. It's a shame too, considering you used to be the one with the most fight in you. In fact, I used to envy you. Unfortunately, it's time to get rid of the weak ones. And we're starting with you." Silco promised while looking Vander straight in the eyes.

"Grab him Sevika..your run is up now." Silco ordered while Vander watched him with a angered look in his eyes.

The kids had finally made their way to their hideout where they could gear up and prepare for the rescue mission. They then informed Powder of everything that happened.

"It's time to go.." Vi said to the others before walking over to the door. That's when Powder stood up and followed them but Mylo and Claggor looked at Powder in denial.

Powder looked at the others, confused as the others stared at her. "What's up? Aren't we ready?" She questioned while looking at Vi for approval.

Silver and Lucy looked at Powder in slight sadness since they knew that Powder would be hurt.

"Listen, Powder, this mission is gonna be really dangerous so I think you should sit this one out." Vi explained in a sympathetic way while approaching Powder.

"W-what? Why?! You said that I'd do amazing things and that I was stronger than I thought. So why should I sit this one out?!" Powder explained in confusion. In her head Vi told her one thing, but is now showing her another.

"Okay and you'll have time to show your true power I know it. Now is just not the time okay? We'll be back, stay in here, enforcers won't come." Vi said all that with a hand over Powders shoulder but the entire time Powder was just staring down at the floor in sadness. "Remember that device I gave you? Use it and I'll be right there. I promise." Vi said, causing Powder to look over towards her bed where the cylinder like object with golden ridges was.

Vi couldn't help but feel bad but she left with Mylo and Claggor anyways.

"You're a lot stronger than you think. You'll grow to do great things." Those words from Vi continuously ran races through Powders head until her body started to tremble and her eyes grew watery.

Silver and Lucy stood back in worry. "Hey..you okay Powder?" Silver questioned with a concerned look.

Powder flopped down on her bed with tears streaming down her face. It was as if Silvers words came through one ear and out the other.

Powder suddenly began bursting out in tears as she bawled up on the bed, hitting her self in the head and gripping on tightly to the roots of her hair. Her teeth were heavily clenched as she sat up and began destroying her toys with deep anger and sadness. Throwing them on the floor, throwing them against walls, and shrieking to the top of her lungs towards the door.

Her eyes had multiple tears streaming down her face and onto the hard wood floors, along with saliva stuck from the roof of her mouth to the bottom as she screamed in an almost barbaric nature.

Silver and Lucy had never seen this side of her before but They weren't so surprised. They watched her for awhile and noticed how she hasn't been letting much out.

Powder grabbed the bag of crystals that she had before standing up and holding it in the air as if she was gonna throw it down at the ground. While she stood there staring at the floor, her anger soon started to vanish and all that remained was sadness. Her lips quivered and her eyes felt heavy from all the tears

"Powder!!" Silver yelled out. He was in front of Powder and she didn't even notice. Her face was lit with shock as she saw Silver and Lucy standing there extremely worried.

Powder then finally sat the bag down and began rubbing her tears away. She sat down on the bed before stuffing her face in her knees in silence.

Silver and Lucy stood there in silence with her until Silver noticed a blue light coming from her bag. He walked over to the bag and grabbed a couple blue crystals out. "Hey Powder, what is this?" He asked in confusion.

Powder then slowly and hesitantly moved her face from being buried in knees. "T-they're crystals I found from the break in." Powder said while staring at the crystals. That's when her eyes lit up from the crystals and her eyes widened.

"That's it!! I'm gonna go with them and help with those crystals!" Powder yelled out in excitement and positivity.

Lucy slowly approached the two and took a glance at the crystals. "Actually..maybe we should stay out like Vi said. We don't want to anything bad to happen.." she insisted to the others.

This caused Powders positivity to fade and Silver noticed.

Silver looked at Lucy with a raised eyebrow and slight disappointment. "Yeah freak that! Powder I say go for it. You're great and I believe in you!" Silver positively influenced while looking at her. This caused Powder to gain the courage to do it again despite Lucy's words.

For awhile, Silver witness the hardships that Powder went through. He took this as an opportunity to make her feel better.

"But I really don't th-" Lucy went on until Silver interrupted her.

"Let's go!!" Silver yelled out in optimism as he and Powder walked out of the room. Lucy felt forced to follow so she hesitantly did.

Meanwhile in Silcos hideout, Vi and the other kids were in a room with Vander who was strapped to a chair with a bunch of restraints chained to him. the room was dark and felt ominous with the only light being the light flickering from the ceiling.

"Come on Mylo, get started." Vi whispered to Mylo, making sure not to be loud.

Vander looked at the kids in complete worry for their safety. "No, you have to get out of here. You're all in danger if Silco finds you. I'll be fine so just g-"

"Interesting..very interesting.." a voice from beyond the door and behind the shadows came. It striked anxiousness in Vander and the kids.

"If it isn't the goon squad..you're in way over your head here." A bright orange circle came from beyond the shadows which was revealed to be Silcos eye when he walked out.

Silco stood there in silence for a second as Vi stood there staring at him as well. "Stop them.." Silco demanded and that's when a bunch of goons came from out of the shadows as well. There were atleast 10 of them.

Claggor had started pounding against the concrete wall with a weapon to create an opening for them to escape out of. While Mylo was breaking Vander free.

Silcos squad slowly began to approach with cocky, sinister grins filled with evil intent. While watching this, Vi knew there was only one thing left to do. Put her training to use. She looked back at Vander who gave her a proud, go ahead nod.

Vi immediately put on some metal gloves then in the blink of an eye charged straight at the goons. Sevika and Silco were left speechless from how quick it was.

Vi began attacking multiple at once, hitting them in the jaw, breaking their bones, and knocking them out with her quick boxing technique. None of them could hit her once.

Sevika, one of Silcos highly valued subordinates was about to take Vi on but Silco stopped her

Person after person, she dodged every punch with a raging fire in her eyes that was lit, brightly. Silco noticed this and felt too threatened so he stuck a syringe of the purple serum into one of the goons.

At this point Vi had knocked all of them out, except the last one who was beginning to morph into one of those monsters that she saw before. It's eyes started to go purple and it grew tremendously in size.

This caused Mylo to get distracted from fear but Vander quickly reassured him that he had this.

Vi was breathing heavily from all the fighting that she was doing. She took one deep breath with her eyes close before opening them again. Her eyes were fierce and ready. She put her guards up while the monster approached her with large amounts of drool coming from it's bottom lip, falling on the metal floors.

In the upcity of Piltover, Viktor and Jayce both managed to make the device work. They were floating with all of the books In the room, along with this bright blue color from the magic. "This is insane!" Jayce yelled out to Viktor in a happy tone. It actually worked.

Viktor smiled excitedly. "This is it..this will be more than enough power to destroy the undercity…" he said to himself as he leaned back with his hands on the back of his head. "Perfection.."

Heimerdinger, Mel, and a few guards all made their way inside the room, where they were astonished of the fact that it actually worked. "Hey look at us!" Jayce yelled out to them.

Heimerdinger was in disbelief. He didn't want to believe it. "Well okay..just because this worked doesn't mean it's going to be stable for years to come. This is still very dangerous an-"

"I think that's something only time will tell." Mel said to Heimerdinger in a way of shutting him up. She then locked eyes with Jayce before giving him a proud smile.

"Amazing.. I can't wait to move forward with this." Jayce said with a smile.

"Okay we're here..are you guys ready?" Powder asked while looking at Silver and Lucy. They were at the window of Silcos hideout where they could see Vi almost being cornered by the shimmer injected person.

However they didn't know that Claggor had finished creating an exit and Mylo finished breaking Vander free. They were beginning to escape.

Silver nodded with bright eyes. "Do it.." he encouraged her.

Powder put three of the crystals in one of her gadgets. She had a positive face and smile as she cranked the gadget for it to activate.

This all took place while Lucy still seemed to have a bad feeling about it all.

Powder sat the device down from outside of the window after she finished cranking it up. The monkey bomb made its way inside of the building before clanking the crystal, causing an immediate explosion that shot the kids from outside of the window and towards the ground.

The blue explosion lit everywhere in the hideout, destroying the hideout and all of the purple shimmer along with it. Vi was shot far towards everyone else from the explosion.

The Monkey then clanked the Crystal again causing another explosion. This time Silco was almost hit but Sevika jumped in front of him, causing her arm to get disintegrated.

The explosion caused glass from the shimmer tubes to go flying everywhere, hitting Claggor in the neck and causing his throat to have blood gushing out of it. Mylo was also hit by glass and pipes that were going everywhere which knocked him out when his head hit the metal floors.

While all that was happening, Powder was falling towards the ground from the explosion. She had a proud smile on her face from how happy she was.

Silver watched Powder the entire time. He smiled seeing Powders smile but Lucy on the other hand had a face of terror for what could've happened.

Lastly the monkey clanged the crystal again, causing the ceiling to come crashing down on Vi and the others.

The aftermath of the explosion was bad. Claggor had blood that gushed out of his neck. It almost seemed incapable of producing anymore. Mylo seemed crushed by the ceiling with only his arm sticking from out of all the rubble.

While the light was flickering from above, Vi saw her crew and started to cry and sob. Deep sadness filled her eyes when she saw one of Powders bombs on the cracked floors.

Vander came from the smoke and fire with weapons in his hands to fight off the shimmered up person that was still there. The beast seemed weakened by the blast but Vander was gonna go for it regardless.

His teeth were clenched with a deep from of anger as he approached the monster.

The monster swung on him with a loud growl but Vander countered it by grabbing its arm and breaking it. He then punched the monster deep in the stomach, causing it to grunt loudly and puke up a bunch of saliva.

Vander got behind the beast and turned it's arm all the way up to it's shoulder blade before pushing it down in the fire that lit down below.

Suddenly Vander grunted in pain with his back arched and his eyes clenched tightly. He was stabbed in the back by Silco who had a serious look on his face.

Vander turned around and grabbed Silco by the neck but Silco stabbed him again, directly in the stomach. Vander was puking up blood, but didn't even flinch as they stared at eachother deeply in the eyes.

But Vander was only human, his grip around Silcos neck grew looser as he fell down into the fire and on top of a bunch of shimmer.

Silco had a face of victory as he looked down below at the fire and smoke that had risen. After that, Vi had finally broken free of the rubble that was thrown down on top of her.

She still had tears forming from her crew mates. It was all overwhelming with emotion which caused her to fall down to her knees and scream to the top of her lungs in agonizing pain.

"Mylo!! Claggor!!" Vander!!" Vi screeched painfully. It was as if her vocal cords were being squeezed from how hard it was to scream.

A gigantic beast then jumped from the fire and on top of the metal platform. It was gigantic which caused Vi to jump back but when she saw it's face, she was shocked.

Vi stared at it with wide eyes and tears still going down her face. Her eyes had the reflection of all the fire from the hideout which was gonna collapse soon.

Vander had absorbed all of the shimmer in his wounds, causing him to grow into this beasts. When it seen Vi it was as if it was in agonizing pain from how it held it's head and roared loudly.

Vander shook it off and was beginning to attack Silco who was shaking in his boots across from him. Unfortunately the path to Silco has collapsed and the building was starting to fall down. It was Silco or Vi.

Vander grunted before turning around, grabbing Vi, and jumping out of the opening that Claggor made.

Vi looked so surprised while everything felt like it was moving slowly. Mylo then slowly opened his eyes. He realized he was under a bunch of rubble and he saw Vi and Vander but he couldn't scream.

His vision was blurry and it felt like his heart was slowing down. From the corners of his eye he saw a bunch of the purple shimmer stuff falling down onto Vi from Vander.

Vi and Vander jumped out of the building right before it exploded and a bunch of rubble came falling down on top of them.

Vander, who even though had shimmer running through his veins protected Vi from all the rubble that came down. Vi couldn't believe her eyes, Vander was protecting her from being crushed. He stayed on top of her and held the tons of concrete that fell onto them. "G-get out!!" Vander yelled in intense distresss, causing Vi to quickly roll out from under him. When she did, the rubble completely crushed Vander.

Vi fell down onto the floor, seeing the building burning and smoke everywhere. It reminded her of her past. The time Vander took her, Powder, and Lucy in. The time where she saw her parents crushed under the wooden planks from war.

Vi opened her mouth, seemingly trying to catch her breath. Even though she was devastated, she didn't cry anymore. It was as if she didn't have anymore tears left to cry.

"Vi…" a voice stuttered out shakily from underneath all the rubble.

Despite not seeing him, Vi knew it was Vander. She immediately sat up and moved close to all the rubble. "I'm here! I'm here I'm here I'm here just hold on!!" Vi screeched in desperation as she tried to find the strength to lift the rubble. She couldn't it was too heavy.

"T-take….care..of your s-sister.." Vander let out those last words to Vi before she flopped her face down into the rubble that covered Vander body.

Out from behind Vi came Silver, Lucy, and Powder. Powder had a proud face and a smile with bright eyes as she walked over to her sister. "Vi I did it! You see I did it! I finally did it!" Powder happily exclaimed to Vi who didn't even respond to her.

Powders smile slowly started to fade as she saw Vi ignoring her. Out from the corner of her eyes she then saw Claggors goggles which were covered in blood and dirt.

Silver and Lucy quickly pick up on Powder and Vis expression, causing them to look in the direction of Claggors bloody goggles. Their hearts quickly sink to the bottom of the ground.

Powders feels the same when she saw this. She started continuously shaking her head while holding onto the sides of her ears. "N-No no no n-no Vi I didn't mean! I only wanted to help! I only wanted to h- I only wanted to help please!" Powder continuously cried out with a face that was left shattered.

Vis eyes started to flicker between her normal eye color, and a bright purple eye color. "I told you to stay the hell away!! Mylo was right, you're nothing but a useless Jinx!!" Vi screamed to the top of her lungs with anger before turning around and punching Powder in the face which knocked her down to the grown.

Powder screeched from the pain of the punch, however what hurt more was her sisters words. "Why?! Why?! Y-you left me! I was trying to help Vi!" Powder continued to scream, stumbling over her words, and screeching from the overwhelming emotions.

Silver can not believe his eyes. He's stuck in a frozen state of guilt, as he stares ahead at the fire. All while Lucy tries to deescalate the situation.

Vi shook her head while breathing heavily before walking away from Powder.

"No Vi please!! Vi! Vi! Please don't leave me!" Powder begged and pleaded for her sister to not leave her. Seeing as though she was leaving, Powder stood up and chased after her. She grabbed onto Vis arm with nothing but pain and tears filling her eyes.

Vi slowly turned around and looked at Powder before grabbing her by the neck and staring at her deeply in the eyes. Vis eyes were different. They seemed so aggressive as if they were willing to seriously hurt Powder. "Vi stop!" Lucy begs as she tries to pull Vi away, though that doesn't help at all. "Silver help me!" Lucy begs once more, but unfortunately Silver is still out of it.

Powder began gasping for air as she clawed at Vis arm to let go. "P-p-pleas V-Vi" she gasped those words out with every breath that she had before Vi pushed her on the ground and walked into the shadows.

Powder began coughing as saliva fell from her mouth and on the ground. "V-vi…VI!!" Powder screamed with her hands clawing at her head. This scream was different. It was intense sadness but also anger which she let out before falling down onto the ground and sobbing.

From around the corner came Silco and a couple of his guards. He had slowly stumbled his way up to the hurt Powder, Silver, and Lucy. "Where's your sister..?" Silco questioned calmly.

The moment Silco walked over to Powder, Vi from further around the corner was about to rush in. Unfortunately for her, and enforcer by the name of Marcus grabs her and moves a cloth over her mouth and nose, which makes her pass out.

Silver and Lucy look up at Silco, with eyes of uneasiness. They feel the chills, and an off feeling the longer they look at Silco.

Powder had slowly looked up at Silco. Her eyes were covered in tears which she stared at Silco with. She then got up and stormed away from Silco, the fire, and the smoke.

Powder covered her eyes as she continued to sob. She sprinted into the darkness of the undercity before tripping and falling down into a puddle.

Heavier breathing came from Powder before slowly removing her arm from her eyes. Her face and hair was wet from the puddle which caused it to hang over her face. Her eyes seemed different than before. It was hard to tell if the water on her face was from the tears or the puddle but her eyes seemed Darker, crazier, but also more hurt than ever before.

Silver and Lucy look at Silco only for a few seconds more, before storming off in the same direction as Powder.

Silco stood still in front of the rubble where Vander had died and where all the smoke and fire were. The guards were about to chase after Powder before Silco ordered them not to. "It's time.." Silco said while staring into the blazing fire that looked so similar to his eyes.