"Come out, you fucking bitch! There's nowhere you can hide!" Hart yelled. "Not from me," he said in lower voice. He grasped his locator stone in his hand and concentrated. He got a visual. Two girls cowering in a clothing store. One of them had a purple stone. He was about to zero in on their location further, but his concentration was diverted. Apparently, his stone had detected another stone entering its range. This was a new one, in addition to the ones he had detected before.
"Look at that!" Tommy said, almost jumping up and down in the backseat. Out the window, he saw a tornado ripping through the farm land, less than a mile from the car he was in.
"Wallace! Don't try to outrun it," Janice said, getting hysterical.
"I know what I'm doing. Just let me drive, okay?" Wallace told his wife, as he pressed down on the accelerator more.
"Ohh," Tommy whined, as he watched the small tornado dissipate.
"Thank god," Janice said. "There was no forecast for severe weather today. Where did that come from?"
"Weather is always unpredictable. Who knows?"
Suddenly, there was a clash of thunder and the car began to shake.
"What's going on?" Janice asked, getting hysterical again. "Is it another tornado?"
Wallace looked out his windshield, then out the driver's side window. Everywhere he looked, the sky was a crisp blue. No thunderstorms or tornadoes around.
"Earthquake maybe?" he asked. The car shook even more.
"In Pennsylvania?" she asked.
Then something sounded like it exploded and a giant fireball flew over their car and crashed into a nearby corn field.
"What was that?!" Janice yelled.
Wallace stopped the car and got out. He ran to the edge of the corn field and saw that a swath of the field was burning, and about in the center was a crater.
Janice stood by him. "What is it?"
"A meteor?" He squinted his eyes. "I've never seen one crash before."
"Should we call someone? Like the police?"
"I don't know." He focused more on the crater. "Did you see that?"
"What?"
"I thought I saw something in the crater."
"A meteor?"
"I don't know." Wallace walked into the corn field.
"Where are you going?"
"I just want to check this out. It'll only take a minute."
Janice was against this, but decided to stay with her son in the car.
As Wallace made his way through the corn stalks (which were only recently planted, so they weren't so tall just yet), he saw a dark cloud just appear on the horizon, like it came from nowhere. Then it suddenly dissipated. It was strange. But maybe not as strange as what he would find in the crater.
The impact crater wasn't very big, maybe ten feet wide. But what was really shocking was what was in the center of it. A small yellow stone. He walked into the crater and picked it up.
"This? This little thing caused all of this destruction?" He looked around at all the burning plants and suddenly the stone felt warm in his hand. He looked down and saw that the stone was glowing. "What the hell?"
As strange as that was, it wasn't as strange as what came next. All of the fire from the burning plants suddenly got pulled up into the air and got sucked into the yellow stone. And within just a few seconds, all the fire was gone. There wasn't even any smoke from the smoldering corn plants.
Wallace looked down at the yellow stone. It wasn't hot, as he expected it to be. But he was very sure that the fire did get sucked into it. How was this possible?
Seeing that there was no reason to still be there, he walked back to his car.
With the yellow stone.
