And the birds were singing again.The birds were choir.At that dark midnight full of shadows,only the birds were standing.Singing as loud as possible.

  But the light started to come back during the hollow night of darkness.Light seemed to once again exist.But the black birds did not stop.They had only risen their volume,as the entire city had been lit.The city seemed like a light bulb,but the black birds that sang for light would still be naive.They would still be determined to be heard.The stars wondered.They wondered why the birds were so naive.And the stars shined directly on the birds.Commanding them to stop.Informing them that light has come to the city finally.Suddenly,the black birds flew away.For a second seemed to quit.A thousand birds were on the sky,on top of the city.Singing 1000 songs,Singing 1000 times.Dancing through the city.Just when the sun thought the birds had joy,the stars shined to the light source.Telling the it that they are not excited,rather they rebel.Because the light source was not the sun,it was the moon.It was the moon that lit the city on flames of hope.And because it was the moon,the black birds formed a black cloud ontop of the city.Blocking all light from hitting the city.The birds seemed ungrateful.But they were rebellious.Since the moon was imitating the sun.The Dark blue cold moon tried to imitate the light Red flaming sun.

  Hours had passed and no citizen could tell the time without a clock.Rhe birds would block all light.The citizens perhaps thought it wa a real cloud,a storm would break out! they said.As they got ready for the storm,no storm was happening.Or atleast no storm was happening yet.The sun came up.The sun rose.The birds flew away.Dancing with each other,because the sun had rose once again.For once there was joy in the city at last.Therefore the sun was tired of the city being blunt.But the ambiguous moon was not blunt.Even after being mocked and spat at.The moon was relaxed.Because the birds will soon see the suns reflection,on the transparent blue sea.Finally to know the suns true colors.He did not care if they were to see its own beauty.Thats why he waited patiently for the sun to take its place.So when the birds go to the trust worthy sea.Thats its depth show each others depths,the birds would finally be shown truth.The Sun was shining.The sun was singing.The sun was smiling.But the moon was smiling with the sun.The moon and the sun were laughing with each other.But, they were both laughing at each other.The sun laughint at the moon for the night that had happened.When on the other hand the moon was laughing at the sun for all the nights to come that will happen.He knew that a rebellion was in a dichotomy.He knew a rebellion was close.He knew nature would finally answer.

  At the lab they were.Clay,Professor Cliff at the Lab.And they looked around at all the killed of the lab.But they weren't killed.Their heart beat.And in fact it beat ten times as much as it should have.Due to their overcharge of chemicals.Anywhere their eyes could go there were some.Humans that looked like bats,gorrilas,bears and any animal there is in a dictionary.All together in a prison where they get experimented daily.They get beat,destroyed until they only obey the law of the city.Until they become Super soliders.But none of them at the lab knew that it's not the chemicals that make a soldier,it's their heart.It is impossible to make a super solider,if it's not a solider.What they were making I would call super cowards.Therefore they did not have a heart.But are they to blame?Their hearts were broken years ago.40 year olds with no heart since they were 5.And 5 year olds with no heart since they were born.Cliff walking around carelessly,as if he's not the one in charge of it all.And then Clay walking in the hall,looking at all the lost souls.Knowing they didn't do anything,knowing he would never want that to be himself.And as much as he used to hunt them in his peak ages and kill them,he still had emotion for them.Only he knew pairing with the government would be his best chance at catching the crawler.Though,one similarity the crawler and Clay shared together were that both of them are not of the city.Rather they were taken by it and possessed.

  They arrive at the room they wanted to go,entering the room Clay sees his whole purpose of his trip.The newly captured item that would bring him the crawlers head.He had found an "alien device machine" as they called it,but trust me they are morons,morons with cool scientist suits.What it really was was a fallen fragment from the 5 Brothers.Now I won't get deeper to that since that's not for now.Wait a little more you impatient dork.It brought fearing powers to anyone that possessed it.Each of its own.There were plenty in the lab.At least 4.Clay moved around and suddenly,one seems to speak to him.Calling his name.Calling his name loudly.Singing the words "Clay,clay come to me.You know you want it Clay."Clay was flabbergasted,he couldn't believe his eyes.As he was glancing at the fragment He would see his fate on it.He would see an image.An image of himself,In his Titanic Life-Shifter metal armour holding the head of the crawler.He knew that was what he wanted to take home.Professor Cliff noticed that,asking him whether he'd like to use that one.Clay aggreed immediately and the testing progress was set up.Cliff released it.Placing it on the chest of his Armour,the fragment lights up shining!His entire suit now shines in the purplish colors of the fragment.But as Clay was surprised at the glowing,the others noticed something strange.The room was spinning!The room was turning around,curving,changing form and shape.The walls coming out of their place moving towards the men at dangerous speeds.The men jump away to save their lives,only to find themselves jumping straight at the walls they had just seen fly.It was all an illusion.Clay realized at the same moment this was the weapon to murder the crawler.This was the crawlers worst nightmare.Only he didn't know,the crawler knows not of night mares,the crawler knows not of sleep.Satisfied cliff was and he was ready to go fight the crawler.But as Clay was getting ready to fly away on his armoured suit,professor Cliff stops him.Informing him that that was not the end of the exhibition.Introducing him to 2 other men.One was Dr.Smallhead,graduated from Harvard with the highest ever scores.the other being Max Axel a world class athlete,thought to be the best of all.Cliff insisted Clay would get himself some allies to make it easier to catch the crawler.

  Long enough after,they final enhancements had been placed.Of course Dr smallhead did not get one as he believed using them is a one way ticket to death.Having in his mind that they are cursed.While max had his new superhero suit,an all black latex full body uniform that covered his entire body,having rays of blue lines,Dr smallhead created a little robot with a small head instead which he would control by the laboratory to keep himself safe.Clay had his usual solider metal armour,with the colors of the American flag going one after the other on his arms.An American belt.And silverfish was the rest.His classic Life-Shifter suit he would use to hype the city up only this time the fragment was in the middle.Ready to be used.Ready to target the Crawler.Now the team was ready to get going but Cliff stopped them once more.Professor Cliff had an idea he said.He insisted on sending soliders of the lab to go to collect innocent people from the city for future lab projects.The Lab was starting to get low on people to use but that was not the point.The idea would be to bring the crawler out,rather than to wait for the crawler to get to them.Because that's what Clay had done to the crawler last time.Getting himself almost killed.Almost,since the crawl has his strict rules.Clay and the others loved the idea.Only Clay was starting to lose patience.telling Cliff that if his plan were to fail he would be sure to destroy everything.No matter what.He was confident with his new power up.That was not it though.His long awaited decade of searching for the crawler had brought him to his limits.

  Now the crawler was suited up in the city,waiting for something usual to happen.Because usual for the city meant cruel.He then at some time heard a scream.A lady screaming for help.He rushed towards the lady.Seeing it was lab corps.The Crawler immediately went wild.Throwing down 10 men of strength in two blows.One left punch and a swing of his right wing.He takes the lady and brings her somewhere safe.Atleast from the corps.On a high roof of a building it was.The Lady asks for what's going on.She was young,yet to be completely devoured by the city.The crawler paused.He was not ready for a talk.Finally someone stopped fearing him and started fearing the city.Cralwer finally had an ounce of faith in the city.But quickly he shifted,telling the Lady"it's them,they've started again.Stay here,Stay low."The Lady not understanding what was going on was still motivated to ask the crawler for more details but by a blink of the eye he was unseen.Then he saw their second victim.A little boy,a teenager to be exact.15 men going aside him to put him in their vans.They had 3 Vans in total.The Crawler shifted towards them destroying them.Before the 15 men even got a chance to pull out their weapons,he dashed towards them.Breaking the ground beneath his feet.Immense strength,a high speed shift.Going through the 15 men he is a victor once again.He grabs the boy and gets him in a dark corner.Telling him to relax,the boy remained unrelaxed.With his spirited eyes and spark in them.With what seemed like faith once again.He did not understand what was happening though.The crawler yet again hears another scream.He gets on top of the roof in a second with one jump,but before he makes a second one,another scream breaks out on the opposite direction.He twists his head on that direction and before he bends his knees down,ready to make it in time there,yet another scream is set.Twisting his head in that direction too.Before he gets a chance to think 30 more screams break out on all directions.The crawler now does not know what to do.But he knows what the others are doing.If they wanted to recruit members he thinks in his head then they would go on doorstep to doorstep.Taking as many as they could in a short time period.But now it's different.Diffrent than other times.Now they go on all directions and pick up less civilians but in a way the crawler could not respond.That,he had found out.Without a second to spare he dashes,but the direction he dashed to was the only one where a scream was ongoing.

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  The Crawler was brilliant.He played his move wisely.Thinking that if they were to drive to all directions to confuse him,the only one with no victim would be their way back.And 50 Vans were going to cross the bridge to go back to way to the Lab.But Crawler was already there.Having plenty of time to strategize his next move he was ready.He jumped down the high sky Scraper he was on.Making a dramatic fall he is ready.He was confident.Suddenly,the world starts turning around.Spinning and twirling.The crawler is now overplayed.He tries to grab on to something but before be realises it.He is slammed on a window,going through the window and exiting from the next.Falling straight down,too confused to do anything.The Crawler is slammed to the ground by a great fall.For a minute he seems to be laid on the ground unconscious.But he was not.He was just fooling his enemies.Knowing they watched he stayed still.Trying to get a moment to think.

  It is now Max's turn to play.He activates his fragment.Which his turned his body into energy.He became an energy beam,dashing towards the crawler.With unbelievable speeds,With the light speed he goes.Only he couldn't think at aim well enough,he had only spent minutes training his new ability.He dashed towards the opposite direction.Walking over the sea with his light speed,he finds himself in an entertaining hall,for adults though.With poles all around the room and wome-I better not get to that part.He is amazed.He stays there for a while enjoying himself.The rest of the team watched him go,knowing he wouldn't be back for long Dr smallhead took the chance.His small robot runs towards the crawler to retain and then paralyse him.A small 1 feet tall robot head with legs and arms,only to be hit by a card and flinged over to the opposite side too.Dr smallhead in the Lab had been watching the fling intensely.Due to his intense watch he had gotten dizzy and when he tried to take a step back he tripped on his chair,falling down on the floor.At that point,Clay shouted at his team microphone,calling them to respond.Max was overwhelmed and the music was too loud,not answering.Smallhead head indeed answered,though it was just snores.The hit seemed to be a little hard,putting him to sleep.

  Now clay had enough of it.He was on fire.He used his booster wings on his suit to go to the crawler himself.The crowd was cheering on him.shouting and chanting against the crawler.

  But just before the Life shifters landing,The crawler dashes onto him.Giving him a flying hit on the guts.Though wearing armour,as he had been both hit and pushed onto a wall be could have not felt the pain.He is not invincible.The crawler standing brutally in front of the Life-shifter.The Life shifters took his beam blasters out.Shooting at the crawler.But he dodged and danced.Danced like a Dancer,even if he hated music,even if he hated dancing.He was slick,not hit once.Unfortunately buildings were hit and ultimately people were in danger.The crawler got to the people at such speeds,where no one had gotten hurt.He saved each one,but he had finally lost a breath during the fight.He realized,it would take a whole lot more to settle things the same day.Turning around,he sees the Life shifters,shooting even more beams even if people were next to the crawler.But The crawler played wise this time.Activating his wing armour mechanic of her suit.He jumps high and blocks every blow of the life shifters with his wings,enchanced with unique metal armour on them.Once again having no civilians hurt,or even glazed.

  Now life shifter would go on to shoot at him.But the he would block it all.The crowd amazed but afraid at the same time.And suddenly,life shifter starts shooting directly on the ground.Creating smoke clouds that blinded the crawler completely.But even when he could not see,he still blocked every single blow.Now the smoke had finally went off and the beams had stopped for a little.It seemed like enough was done and be would surrender to the crowd.As they cheered the smoke clouds had been washed away by the wind.And there was life shifter in the air,holding a little boy in his arms and his beam on his head.The same boy with spark in his eye the crawler had saved before.Says the life shifter to the crawler with a lost breath "if you truly are a hero and you value this city,surrender and save his innocent life!" And the crawler responds right after,with confidence and a controlled breath "I am not a hero" as he was setting up his body for a dash at him.And everyone gasped,it seemed like the crawler would charge up for both instead.And he did.But he did not kill any of the two.The life shifter had left from the scene as soon as the crawler bad jumped.But the crawler took the little boy in his arms instead and saved the little boy.He was bluffing.He knew life shifter would not think twice but to save his life first.He ended up saving them all.

  Then the entire city seemed to have its eyes on the Life shifter.They seemed disappointed.They still didn't hate him,Therefore the life shifter was the symbol of hope of the city.But they asked them selves,"which one was the smart one?Which one planned their moves?"Because it was clear,one of them had it all planned,one of them was playing chess.The other was just doing blunders.Yes,it was easy to tell which was which,by the outcome.But the powerful idolizing of the life shifter would hold them back from getting his name dirty.So for s while they wouldn't hate at any of them.They knew one was wrong and one was right,but they wouldn't choose.And in purpose it was.They finally started to get a glimpse of the governments corruption.And out of the blue,the little boy shouts."he saved me,He saved you" to the crowd.And now,the first person to ever cheer for him had been created.Finally someone went against him.But life shifter did not let it slide,shooting multiple beams at the little boy.It seemed like the crawler would easily block them again,or take the little boy away.But as he went to block them,the fragment was used.For the crawler and only for him.The city was twirling again.The beams were going crazy.Running at different random directions consistently.But he did not give up.He blocked all of them.Or as he thought one managed to get through,hitting the boy on his right hand.Destroying the little boys right hand and exploding the kid away.

  At the end,The kid had lost his hand.The Life shifter flew away but the crawler did not care,he did not follow.He simply went to check on the child.He was living.And he put him onto his arms.Holding him tightly.With a disappointed aura coming from him.The crowd was mad.The crowd was awakened once again.Shouting against him.Saying that it was his fault.But it was not late until a woman spoke up.The same woman he saved first,stopping the crowd."Yes,I know he did not manage to save the child.But he managed to save us.He gave it his all.Dont you dare boo the man that gave it his all,when you as humans didn't do anything."She shouts with anger.Taming the crowd with her emotional words.The crowd did not chant anything about the crawler.Theh simply went quiet looking at him,expecting him to leave.He put the boy down,ready to fly away.Before he did,clapping was heard.Not by all but by a few.Starting off by one and going up to 20.Then be flew and they became 50.Stopping the vans and saving even more people.Since the bridges entrance had been blasted away by the life shifter by accident it was pretty easy.Not to underestimate though,the crawler went back to his hide out,Mary had seen him.Dissapointed.She knew that he gave it his all.She knew what he had done was right.She was indeed proud by the outcome of the city.Dissapointed she was by the outcome to nitro.Injured,tired,exhausted.Nitro took his suit out and went on to the roof of the house to rest.Laying down on the floor as the sun fell and the moon rose.Mary came next to him and sat next to him.Putting her arms around him and watching the sun set she tells him "it is not always the sun,the biggest star we have,that lights the world every day the most beautiful.The dark blue cold moon can also be the most beautiful." she says.But he answers after a small time of processing,"what does beauty mean to me?"he says with a plain face."You're,right it is not beauty that defines worth,it is what's inside of you and that's what I meant."She says with a smile on her face,looking at nitro."Inside me I am empty.Thats what they made me"with a plain Face is said but nitro yet again."You don't have to be what others made you,you have the ability to choose what you are."She ends the conversation with.As they continue by just watching the sunset laying down close to each other on the rooftop.

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