Krii7y (I promise I'll make others besides Krii7y and Switz.)
Summary: In a perfect utopia where everyone is perfect and those who aren't die, Jaren was obviously scared of his new hidden ability and the only person he trusted was his best friend, John.
Jaren woke up in his stupidly perfect room, he hated it. Everything here was too perfect. He looked to the alarm clock next to his bed,
3:45 a.m.
Jaren sighed as he slowly got out of his bed and walked to his bedroom door, slowly creeping out. He decided it's be pointless to wake anyone up or get any food so he grabbed his shoes and headed out the back door, making sure to keep it unlocked. He walked over to his friend John's house, walking up to the back door. As on queue, John opened the back door and stood on the patio. He looked over at Jaren and smiled.
"Can't sleep?" He asked.
"Never can, I'm always thinking about this power.." Jaren spoke, quietly.
"Anyone would be afraid of it, but you don't." John pointed out.
"Well yeah, I'm curious, but I know if those robot weirdo things find out, I'm dead." Jaren states.
John simply nods in agreement and pulls out his vape pen, taking a hit and blowing out a beautiful cloud. Jaren always asks where he got it, but John only replies with, 'I know a guy.' and that's the end of it.
"I still don't know how the hell you got that thing. And yes I know you know a guy, you've said it at least a billion times." Jaren says, smiling at his friend.
John let out a small laugh and continued to vape, they both sat in a comfortable silence until they heard mechanical walking. Both of their eyes widened and John pulled Jaren inside his house and they hid. It was one of the mech beasts that scout at night. See, if anyone was found at night, they died. The higher ups here thought that if someone was up at night, it was a sign of weakness and weakness was not good here. Jaren pushed John off him and walked back outside and to the front yard, seeing the mecanical beast standing tall. It sensed him and turned around.
"You should be inside, valued citizen." The robot spoke.
"In your dreams, death machine." Jaren spat through clenched teeth.
He raised his hand and out came a burst of flames, hitting the mech at such a high velocity that it instantly flew backwards. The mech sputtered and died and as Jaren was going to celebrate, John pulled his back inside.
"What the hell are you doing?!" John whisper yelled.
"I hate this place..." Jaren whispered.
"You're going to get yourself killed!" John yelled.
"Do you- do you have one too?" Jaren asked, loiking up at John who heled a shocked expression.
Jaren could see it in his eyes whenever he was angry, John's eyes just had a spark. A jolt of electricity flew through his eyes and it was noticable if you looked right.
"John..?" Jaren asked.
John started to lightly shake and tears started falling from his eyes, it was clear he hated his power.
"John- I'm so sorry." Jaren apologized.
He squeezed John tightly as he started to cry harder. Jaren moved them over to the couch and they sat down, John sat hunched over looking at his hands as tears fell from his eyes. There was no doubt he hated his powers.
"John... It's nothing to be scared of." Jaren said, reassuring his crying friend.
"It's become more frequent..." John started.
"What-" Jaren said but what cut off.
"The sparks." John finished, looking over to Jaren.
Jaren positioned himself so he was facing John and looked at him, giving him the 'go on' look.
"My family has always been a target, ever since my father died..." John whispered.
"We've always had a target on our backs... Mom had to start working but the bots thought nothing about it since she was now without a husband to work..." John continued.
"Ever since then, the stress had made me lash out so frequently... I get these sudden jolts of energy and when I lash out, I usually cause power outages..." John explained.
"John." Jaren said, a shocked expression plastered on his face.
"You're an electricity elemental." Jaren explained.
John put his hands to his face and shook his head.
"But I'l scared Jaren, I'm so scared.." John cried.
"I'm here.. You don't have to be scared because I'm here for you." Jaren smiled.
John lifted his head and looked at his friend, smiling. He hugged Jaren tightly and Jaren soon hugged back. John moved to match Jaren's eye level and smiled brightly, making Jaren blush. John then did something that Jaren could only dream of..
John leaned in and softly connected their lips. Jaren was in so much shock, but despite the shock, he kissed back. After a few seconds the two pulled away to catch their breaths.
"I-I'm sorry-" John apologized but was cut off by Jaren kissing him again.
Jaren mived away, breaking the kiss and they out their foreheads together.
"We're already fucked up." Jaren said, smiling.
"Yeah.. Yeah! We are, aren't we?" John smiled.
"I have a plan." Jaren said looking into John's eyes.
-Time skip to about a month later-
John and Jaren walked down the paved road, hand in hand. An army of robots were ahead of them, they were protecting the gates to the headquarters. The two boys came prepared though, they not only brough the so called 'Freaks' that lived outside the utopia's walls, but they had their own monsters. Elementals. Friends from different dimensions. They were going to destroy this fucking place.
"Hello there valued citizen. If you don't mind, you must go home the gates are closed." A robot pointed out.
"Yeah I know jackass." Jaren spat.
Jaren pulled John down into a kiss in front of all the robots and once ghey broke apart, they looked toward their imending doom. The robots' eyes were all red, just as they planned.
"You're not pretty, you're ugly. You're gay and gays aren't pretty. Only pretty people are allowed here." One of the robots stated as it tore through the fence and rushed the boys.
Both Jaren and John put their hands up and created a vortex of electricity and fire, aimed right at the bot. Once the vortex hit the bot, it went flting backwards at such a high rate that it smashed through a wall. The two boys then went their separate ways with a hand full if elementals and 'Freaks' to take on the headquarters.
About an hour later, Jaren had lost his mind. He had completely changed into the monster he never knew he was. He cackled whenever he bashed the head of one of the bots, he smiled when he incinerated a mech, and he laughed when they hit him. John on the other hand had become more of a boss than a crazy person. He took control of a situation easily and made sure to keep Jaren in sight incase he went off the hook. It was safe to say they were the perfect duo.
"Johnny~!" Jaren yelled to his lover.
"Yes love?" John yelled back as he took his staff and drove it deep into the power core of a bot.
Jaren let out a giggle before talking.
"This mech is annoying me! It won't die!" Jaren complained.
John walked up to Jaren and kisses his head, he then looked at the mech and simplh snapped and it started seizing then went limp.
"That better?" He asked, smiling at Jaren's shocked expression.
"Very much so." Jaren said, his expression turning into a soft smile as he looked at John.
"I love you." Jaren smiled.
I love you too, Jaren.
Thank you for reading. If there are any mistakes, I do apologize.
Final word count: 1335