UNO One-shots

by Anonymous

Summary:

I’m going to use this to try and get out of writing block and work on getting better since I suck ass.

So fair warning.

Might take requests.

Chapter 1

 

When Johns uncle reached out to him to met him after his father died he agreed to meet up. They talked for a bit to try to get to know each other but then one thing lead to the next.

 

“ Do you know where your mother is?”

 

“Hm?” John took a sip from his boba. “No she left years ago, why?”

 

Cameron look at John with something in his eyes, curiosity? Guilt?

 

“ I thought he wouldn’t tell you,” he sighed, “he was always strong physically but that moment something happens that negatively affects him, he breaks.”

 

John narrowed his eyes at him, “you know your shit talking my dead father right?” He said in a low tone, “and I act the same way.”

 

Cameron took a sip from his coffee, “I wasn’t insulting him. Whether I like it or not he was a great guy, despite the hierarchy he was perfect for Jane.”

 

John perked up, “ dad never spoke about mom. Do you know what happened to her?”

 

He reached for his bag and pulled a folder out, “ before you Mr father died he was looking for your mother and found her,-“ John looked at him with wide eyes.

 

“She is trapped inside of a ability research facility, being experimented on because of her ability.”

 

John almost dropped his drink.

 

“What?!?”

 

“Yes. I’m working on finding her,” he looked at John curiously, “Would you like to help too?” He extended a hand.

 

John thought for a moment before thinking ‘Fuck it’ and shoke his hand, “Sure.”

 

And that’s how we got here.

 

John leaped forwards, falling in the process due to his leg being injured, he was on his knees and froze at the body in his arms. It was supposed to be a simple get in and get out plan but it didn’t seem to work, the alarm got set off and guards came to see what was going on. Cameron was supposed to take care of the security guards from the left entrance to the right but it seems like he didn’t make it to the control room in time for John to break in without sounding any alarms.

 

He and Cameron tried to get Jane back from NXgen by tracking their location and using Cameron’s connections. But it didn’t work, John had taken off school for the next 3 days for this plan and the preparations and he thought they looked though everything…

 

“..! Agh !-“ Jane grunted as the strings from the boss of the building’s ability rapped around her arms, legs, torso and pulled back hard making, John stop as well since he had to drag her to get her to move since she hadn’t walked in a long time.

 

Before anyone could do anything one of the guards used his ability to throw a spear right near Janes heart. Janes eyes widened as she went limp, not fully dead yet, John leaped forward to catch her but going on the ground and having her in his arms.

 

The rain was as making the spear more wet and the blood was mixing in with the water underneath the both of them. It was dead silent. No one moved, no one dared to move as the hit was an incalculated shot and they had just lost their power as she couldn’t produce the drugs anymore.

 

Janes eyes looked at John, old tired glossy eyes meeting young tired sad eyes. She smiled up at him and patted his face, being happy to see her boy all grown up even though it would be the last thing she ever would.

 

“I’m proud of you….stay strong…” her smile was starting to get wobbly and her eyes where getting darker.

 

“N-no- No! Stay P-please…” John mumbled, panic creeping into his voice as he watched her eyes start to fade and start to go dark. “Please!” He cried as he cradled her body, hugging her and crying into her shoulder repeatedly saying “I’m sorry” as her body finally became numb and he felt her aura channels turn off.

 

John heard the people around him moving around saying stuff like “grab him!” “He’s vulnerable!” “Move it!” But he couldn’t care, he copied a speed ability and strength. In one second all the people around him were on the ground, bleeding with broken bones but he wasn’t done.

 

It was around 2:10 am when they started the raid, and 2:30am when he found Jane and brought her outside to try and make a run for it, and it was 2:37am that Jane had got shot and died.

 

It was now 3:00am and John was still beating the broken bones of all 11 NXgen members, granted they were all dead by now but he continued due to rage and revenge, he only stopped when Cameron can to the area to say that the explosions had been planned and they needed to leave, only then seeing John standing in an alleyway covered in dark red blood and a shadow across his face. After finding out what happened he picked up John and ran to a different building roof to watch it explode.

 

It was satisfying but not as good as it should have been, they both spent some time in silence together since now, in family terms, all they had was each other since EMBER killed William last week. Cameron offered to drive John to his house so he can take a shower since he was from head to toe, coved in blood to the point that the only other colour on him were his eyes and a little bit of his hair.

 

He said no and that he would sneak back onto campus since the blood has dried by now and won’t be a big deal.

 

The drive back is quite and filled with dread, they had both lost people important to them but they hardly knew each other, John was replaying the scene again, and again, almost like he was with Keon right now, he felt useless knowing he could have saved her but couldn’t.

 

Cameron broke the silence, “How could they still use their abilities?” He made a right turn at a intersection, “did they do something to Janes ability?” 

 

John remained silent for a moment, curling into himself more from the back behind the passenger seat since they didn’t want to risk him being seen covered in blood.

 

“She couldn’t use her ability… since she was worn out..” he muttered, Johns voice was raspy and filled with guilt. When he disconnected her from the machine she was weakened, but she didn’t survive long enough to tell him why.

 

It was silent as Cameron tried his best to word this as best as he could, “This must be really hard for you. And I’m not the best at comforting people, but..” he took a right, “ if you ever need someone to talk to I’ll be there. It’s the least I could do after dragging you into this.”

 

“Thank you… really..” John forced himself to speak, he still had one day off so he would use that day to try and calm himself, but right now he was so so tired.

 

Cameron nodded and the car went back to being silent. After a good 15 minutes they were infront of the school gate, he pulled into a parking spot and turned to John who was staring out the window.

 

“We’re here.”

 

John slowly got up to sit in the car seat and nodded, grabbing his backpack that had his stuff that he left when they went in. He but it on and gave Cameron one last nod before mumbling a goodbye bye and left.

 

He slowly walked to the dorms since the headmaster moved him into a dorm with the Jack so he could live closer, it bothered him to have the risk of getting bullied in the hallways and in his own room if they broke in but Keene said that Blyke would be there to help if anything.

 

Speaking of blyke, what was John going to say if he woke him up when walking in or taking a shower. It was freaking 3:30 in the morning! He would kill him-

 

John stoped his train of thought and had a violent flashback to the failed rescue attempt. He punched himself in the face to snap himself out of it and continued walking. 

 

His clothes went from black and grey to red, the blood had dried and it didn’t even look like he was wearing a black hoodie with black pants but red.

 

Everything was red .

 

Monster.

 

He somehow managed to get to the dorm door. He put his backpack down and went through it to find his keys, after he put the key in and opened the door praying that Blyke was asleep, but the new sense of 3 auras was enough to snap John out of his thoughts one again.

 

His eyes widened as he realized that Blyke probably invented people over. He picked up his bag and walked in slowly and closed the door as quietly as he could and froze to try and hear any noise.

 

He heard a voice coming from Blykes room, but it was not groggy but wide awake. Johns head was spinning as he slowly and steadily walked to his room, now very aware of his roommates room.

 

There was a noise of someone getting up and walking to the door with some other words being said but was muffled by the wall. He heard the door handle start to move and he dashed into his room and shut the door quickly behind him making a loud noise.

 

“What was that?”

 

“I think, that was John.”

 

He recognized the first voice to be isen and the second blyke. Blyke sounded unsure, I mean he just heard John come in after curfew thinking he was properly asleep and rush into his room without saying anything.

 

“Is he ok?” Remi. The voice was Remi, she sounded concerned.

 

“Should we ask?” Blyke looked back at isen. John could now tell where was where and who was who from his passive marking their aura, plus his mind was no longer fuzzy so he could hear more clearly.

 

“Maybe not, he seemed in a rush..”

 

John got up and sat on his bed, taking off his hoodie and pants. He changed into some loose black pants and a baggy long sleeve shirt to cover up his injuries. He grabbed his clothes and a towel before standing by the door and waited for them to close their door so he could bolt to the bathroom.

 

He started to get impatient after a few seconds and decided it was best to just bolt as fast as he could.

 

He opened the door feeling nervous, his legs were weak but either he ran or got spotted by his roommate (s?). He was not in the mood to overthink things so he start to run ignoring the pain in his leg, he heard people moving and went he past Blykes room they all looked up but didn’t seem to see him because he was fast.

 

“Wha!- hey!” Both blyke and Remi got up to run to the door but isen stayed back a bit before standing looking uneasy. They reached the door when John closed the door to the bathroom.

 

“What do you think that was about?”

 

“Blyke shouldn’t you go and ask? He’s your roommate.”

 

“Yeah Remi but I barely know him, and he seems to hate me.”

 

“Why do you guys care so much anyway?” Blyke and Remi turned to isen, “what if he really needed to use the bathroom?” Isen sat back down on bed before picking a controller back up.

 

Remi sighed moving back to spot on the beanbag she brought (somehow) to Blykes dorm, “that whole  thing was not normal though. He came to the dorms at 3:30 !” She reached for some chips before getting comfortable.

 

Blyke closed the door, before moving back to his place right on the floor leaning against the foot end of his bed facing Remis laptop. He picked up his controller.

 

“He’s not been in the dorm for 2 days and comes backwards at night and avoids us?”

 

“That is weird but,” Isen shrugged, “ It’s not our business, what is our business is me kicking your ass in Mario kart.” “Oh you’re on!”

 

Remi just laughed at her two friends, isen and Blyke were keeping scores with isen at 7 wins and Blyke 4 wins. They have all been up for longer then expected.

 

John filed up the shink with cold water and put his blood filed clothes into it since, he had learned from all the times he had to wash his uniform from blood on it, cold water gets rid of blood if drowned in it.

 

He turned on the shower and turned it to boiling hot. He keeped thinking about how stupid and useless he was back there. He couldn’t activate his ability to knock their guards out, he only reacted when they killed his mother. So he killed 11 people .

 

He really was a Monster.

 

After he cleaned all the blood from his body. Holy shit blood was everywhere what did I do!?- he got out and put on his clean clothes and washed properly his bloody ones.

 

He noticed that the lights were off in Blykes room as he walked to his room. He tried to sleep but failed and stayed up all night laying in bed, thinking about all the shit he had done.

 

The next morning he ignored the knocks on his door and the voices outside his door. They were begging him to stop but he didn’t, they deserted it they deserted it they deserted it!-  he woke up when he heard his phone ringing. Wait when did I fall asleep?  

 

He flipped his phone over and looked at the screen, thankful that it was not so bright. He looked at the caller id . 

 

“sera?…”

 

He paused.

 

“Sera!”

 

His voice would sound horrible but he couldn’t care. I can’t lose her too! -

 

He answered and brought the phone to his ear, pushing himself up to lean on the bed rest.

 

“hello?” He cringed at his voice, it sounded like he swallowed dirt and it went dry.

 

“ John? Where are you ?”

 

A pause from the other end, another voice was speaking but John couldn’t put a face to it.

 

“ And what happened to your voice ?”

 

He looked at the time and realized it was lunch. He had not told Sera why he was off Wednesday and Thursday, and only now realized that he said he would be off for only those days and not Friday.

 

“ huh , uhm I’m in my dorm.”

 

 He cleared his throat in an attempt to get rid of the rasp in it but it sadly didn’t work.

 

 “and I think it’s just the phone audio.”

 

He heard Sera sigh and a new voice say something but he didn’t register it. He leaned over his bed to grab his headphones and connected them to his phone. He put one in his ear and laid back down on his back.

 

“ After lunch I’m coming over, with some friends .”

 

“You have friends?” John blurted out without thinking. He heard a sound of 2 people laughing but it got quickly cut off.

 

“ Yeah I’ll see you then.”

 

“Bye.”

 

“ Bye. ”

 

He hung up. Now having to wonder who else was coming. He was kinda excited-

 

….

 

Why was he excited… after what he did he doesn’t deserve to have fun. Nothing. He’s a murderer, a monster.

 

But… he needs to make sure nobody else dies because of him. He already did enough, the only thing he can do is make sure that when NXgen or EMBER or the authorities- anyone comes after him no one is hit or killed in the crossfire.

 

He should at least put in an act infront of Sera so he doesn’t make her worry. She’s already suspicious of him because of his voice so all he really needs to do is play it off like he’s sick.

 

This could work, right?

 

….

 

This has to work. I can’t lose anybody else….

Chapter 2: and i oop-

Summary:

I thought i posted this so long ago but its been rotting in my drafts oml.

Notes:

Sorry about that.

They were going to meet on the roof to talk about their next outing. They had plans to just have Remi, Isen, and Arlo on main base in a fight because of Remis long range, Isens strength and targets, and ofcourse Arlos barrier. Blyke would be their snipper and Elaine would “on call” for any bad injuries, and Sera was basically the guy in the chair ( or girl yk) since her ability is very unique and easily recognizable, she would only come in on emergencies. 

But what was surprising was for Remi to ask about John. In which she was confused and remembered that he should be back today, She then explained ( since Blyke and Isen were ‘fighting’) that he came back to the dorm around 3 am and a few minutes later rushed to the bathroom, then in the morning didn't come out of his room when they tried to wake him up for school.

“ So I just wanted to ask if something is happening to him, so maybe Blyke could ask him since they are roommates.”

Remi finishes her long explanation, by now everyone's attention was directed in the two girls' direction wondering how she would respond. Well Arlo was a little upset about her being friends with him, but after seeing a glimpse of what happens in lower-tier districts he's become 50/50 with the hierarchy so he's giving John a chance.

Sera thought for a moment. It was weird for himIt was weird for him to do that.Sera knew that John was introverted, but she didn't know that he was that introverted.She just didn't think he would go to that extent just to not talk to someone. Maybe Blyke did something to upset him when he moved in? But that would not explain why he ignored Remi and Isen too, it didn't make much sense until she remembered what happened about a week ago.

John and Sera were chilling on the roof playing flappy pigs. It was a cloudy day and slightly windy but the duo didn't care much and tried to beat each other's high scores. Or just John trying to beat Sera. Overall it was a calm day, until an announcement came on.

“ Can John doe please come to the office.”

Both Sera and John shared a look but John waved it off. “It's probably nothing.” he smiled and got up, said bye and left the roof.

After an hour or two John did not return so she texted him. 30 minutes later still nothing, she was starting to grow worried. Sera walked around the school looking for him since he was not picking up, even checking the Informatory but he was not there. After school was when he finally texted back, apparently he was called down for two things. One being that he was moving to the dorms for some reason he didn't specify, and two was a secret.

After that day he seemed more jumpy though. Less confident and let bullies beat him up, hell he stopped fighting back and took the beatings. It was scaring Sera, whatever the Headmaster told him broke her best friend. He also seemed more clingy which normally Sera would tease him but this was a new type of clinginess, the type that screamed “if i let go you’ll die” which was even more concerning. She had tried bringing it up but he would keep brushing it off.

“I'm not sure,” she let out a deep sigh , “ He's been acting differently since last week.”

Blykes eyes shot up as he made a connection, “ Last week he moved in with me. You think that has something to do with it?” Blyke sounded guilty, He has been thinking that John does not like him but why ?

Arlo shook his head, “ I doubt that's why, Blyke.” he paused, “wasn't he called to the office? Maybe they told him something else.” he looked to Sera for almost confirmation.

“Yeah, he told me there were two things that the headmaster told him, but only told me about the roommate thing.”

Isen picked up some papers that were currently spread out on the roof floor, “ We should start cleaning up then since we need to go soon.” Blyke gave Isen a weird look.

“ Dude we have like, 40 minutes left.”

“ Yeah but I need to stop by the Press room.”

“Yeah You need to.”

“ Don't you wanna see if anyone has seen John that day? The press would be the best way to try and find out info like this!”

Everyone silently agreed with Isen and started to clean up. The plan was now set for not only the Vigilante run but to try and find out more info on John. why they were so invested was something no one really knew, Arlo was curious on how John acted since he somehow managed to befriend the great Seraphina. Remi and Blyke wanted to help after seeing what happens in lower-tier districts, and Isen wanted to help but also maybe write a story. Sera wanted to help her best friend anyway she could.

When they made it to the press room, Isen started to ask people questions while the rest waited outside to try and not add so much pressure to the students when answering questions. Since Isen was an elite he was pretty intimidating to the lower-tier students so he would most likely get the correct answers from whoever he asked, well except Cecile since she's a High-Tier.  

The students who passed were pretty concerned why basically all the top students were outside the pressroom and practically started to run like Olympic champions to try and avoid whatever they thought was going to happen.

Sera hoped that whatever info Isen got would help them find out what is happening to John.

She crossed her fingers.

This better help us.