Alpha Male by Joshua Page B

attention?"
    "I don't know," she said. "It's like…He's…Look at him. He flies, he's strong, he's fearless; what more would a woman want? Before he came around, it was movie stars, and musicians, you know? They were larger than life, but they were human. He changed all of that. He's better than us." 
    "And you think if you are with him, you'll be better as well?" 
    "Why not?" she said, shrugging. 
    "So, this is why you jump off the buildings? Just to get his attention?"
    "You don't understand," she said. "We share something. The way he looks at me, it's special. We are meant to be." 
    "You've put a lot of thought into this," he said, jotting down notes. 
    "What else you gonna think about before jumping off a building?" she said, casting a slight smile. 
    Chapter Eleven.
    "Thirty seconds," Xavier said, staring at the digital watch on his wrist. The ten men standing behind him in the dark sewer were all nervous, fidgeting around as the clock counted down. Each seemed lost in their own head as the anticipation of the coming minutes overtook them.
    "Fuck," Keen said, pulling down his mask. "I'm not ready for this."
    "Don't worry," Xavier said, still focusing on his watch. "We've got the big man with us."
    A few feet away, Al stood in shadows, separate from the group with his arms crossed. A piece of black cloth with two eye holes was tied around his head and he wore a long-sleeved outfit of the same color.
    "I don't like that guy," Keen said, glancing at Al.
    "Fifteen seconds!" Xavier said. "You're gonna have to get over it, cause Eddy likes the bastard plenty."
    "What if he goes apeshit and kills us?" one of the other men asked.
    "I'm more worried about Alph—" another started, but his mouth was muffled before the words could come out.
    "What are you, a fucking idiot?" Keen asked, staring into the man’s eyes. "You saw what happened last time. You wanna get us killed?"
    The man's reply was nothing but a simple "nuh uh" from behind the cupped hand.
    "Let’s go!" Xavier said, heading up the sewer ladder. He pushed aside the manhole cover, and crawled out onto the street. He turned back and looked into the hole. "You four stay here. Al, you're with us."
    Al didn't even blink at the command. He just climbed the ladder and stared up at the big building before them. It was a massive warehouse surrounded by a tall chain link fence; the top of which was surrounded by menacing barbed wire. The place was lit up by safety lights, leaving few shadows for them to hide in.
    "I'll handle this," Al said, holding up his hand, ready to use his powers to take down the fence. Xavier placed his hand on Al's shoulder and shook his head.
    "We gotta do this quiet," he said, smiling as he brandished a pair of bolt cutters. He turned to two of the men and said, “I’ll get us through, you two stay here and make the hole bigger. We’ll need to move large pallets through it.” They nodded in agreement as he began cutting.
    It took less than two minutes for him to cut a hole big enough for them to duck through. The men at the fence began their job, while the remaining four ran towards the nearest loading dock. Between them and the inside was a thick rotating lock. Xavier checked his watch and said, "Fifteen seconds."
    "The alarm is going to go off as soon as we open this door," Xavier said. "Al, your job is to use your mind-shit to grab as many boxes as you can, and pass them off to the others. They will haul them away."
    Al nodded, emotionless. The watch beeped and Xavier cut the lock. It fell to the ground with a clank, and they slid the door up. A loud alarm belted out as they ran into the building.
    Al saw his objective and got to work. He lifted a pallet of boxes with his mind and carted it out to the fence. The waiting men cut the plastic and started hauling the boxes, one by one, to the sewer hole. He went back to get another pallet and saw Xavier and Keen tussling with an armed guard for his gun. They got the upper hand, and stepped