Novels


106: Resistance


[Introduction: In three years time, the world will be changed as we know it. Having abilities will become the norm: flight, super strength, teleportation...the extraordinary has become the ordinary. In the wake of this new age, a few have risen to maintain order in the growing chaos. Including one Claire Bennet...]


[Caption: Three years in the future]


Claire Narrating: The last few years were the toughest. Getting over the loss of my parents...

Claire: It's been too long, Peter.

Peter: Claire --

Claire: I have to talk to you. You been watching the news?

Peter: Yeah, you need to be careful. I worry about you.

Claire: Still the over-protective uncle...

Peter: What you're doing...it's dangerous.

Claire: I can't get hurt, remember? I'm indestructible.

Peter: That doesn't mean you should be doing it.

Claire: I love you too, Peter.

[Caption: Days later]] (outside the Pinehearst building)

Claire: I caught two more today, Daphne.

Daphne: Not bad. I mean, I caught like twenty, but...

Claire: Well, we're picking apart this cell one criminal at a time.

Daphne: Hopefully they know something about the recent attack--

(BOOM ZZZP - a massive terrorist explosion kills many, and incinerates Claire who regenerates. Daphne appears unharmed, evidently outrunning the explosion and returned.)

Daphne: Oh my God, they're dead. All of them.

Claire Narrating: Seeing death all around me...

[Caption: One week later. Albany, Oregon. Terrorist cell.]

(Claire kicks the door in, guns firing from both hands. Three men sit around a table, she hits a bald black man on the left and another man sitting in the center in the chest; the center man just gets off a green blast of energy into the ceiling. She misses the man on the right who ducks out of the fire.)

Magnetism terrorist: When are you Nazis gonna get weapons that aren't metal?

(The guns in her hands are pulled out of her grip magnetically towards the remaining man, who slams her to the ground, with his hands over her throat)

Magnetism terrorist: A pretty girl like you against an ex-military man? Not exactly a fair fight.

Claire: No. It's not. (As she pulls the pin from a grenade attached to his belt.

(BOOOM)

Claire Narrating: Letting go of my humanity...

(Claire and the man are blown up, and she regenerates immediately, regrowin skin, lost organs and broken bones, and even regrows a new right arm from the shoulder down.)

Claire: (directed towards the previously shot bald black man) I thought I killed you already.

Bald black man: What are you doing? This isn't you!

Claire: It's starting to be. (She kicks him in the head.)

Bald black man: Stop! (He telekinetically slaps her across the room underneath a series of string-timelines.) I can't do it anymore...I won't make you forget again.

Bald black man: I've tried to protect you. But it's time you know the truth.

(An Illusion fades, revealing the man to be Future Peter.)

Claire: Peter!? I don't understand --

Peter: It was me, alright? Pinehearst, the chemical plant, the port -- Your company's destroying the world.

Claire: Over 200 innocent people have died. My coworkers, my friends-- You're suppose to be a good guy.

Peter: I've dreamt the future, Claire. Seen hell on Earth. If I have to take 200 lives to save 2 million, I'll do it. Be careful. Whoomp (Peter teleports out)

Claire Narrating: (standing among string timeline with discernible pictures of Mohinder, Tracy Strauss, Nathan) ...And accepting that love doesn't stay. That's when I knew I had to kill Peter Petrelli.