Never Events

Never Events is Volume 2 of the series dedicated to Noble.

### Summary

The story starts with Astrid holding Lorena and two Foresight officers at gunpoint with Lorena mentioning that she "saved" David . Lorena talks her down as they walk into Foresight . Astrid denies a drink given to her citing that she knows about Lorena's history with poisons (the first time she poisoned someone was at 14).

Astrid tells Lorena how upset she is that she was lied to about David's condition to where Lorena mentions in detail what happened after the Event and about him crash landing to Earth six months afterwards and about the incident in Houston where David comes back from the dead with superpowers and massacres 4 people during his escape.

Flashback to when he meets Dr. Mayes after the massacre and is put under a sedative for Lorena's "plan".

While trying to remember what happened to him, he accidentally bumps into a plane mid-flight, damaging one of their propellors.

Lorena shows Astrid that they got David under slight surveillance as Astrid proves that she's a strong enough agent by knocking out two Foresight officers. Lorena is impressed and mentions Caracas where at 24, Astrid completed a bloody mission with Lorena at her side.

Back with David, the plane is going down fast as David saves potential victims from falling to their deaths at a building the plane slightly grazed. In the process of trying to land the plane at a nearby empty futbol stadium, Lorena tries to rekindle ties with Astrid, who tells her that after she gets David back, she wants nothing to do with Lorena. Around the same time, Lorena tries to direct the landing only for David to deny her assistance. Overwhelmed with hearing David's voice, Astrid tries to talk to David only for him to suffer a slight headache trying to remember her.
Lorena tells David how he wanted everyone to call him "Noble" after everything only for Astrid to piece together that Lorena got into his mind. Astrid prepares to strike Lorena only for Sebastian to come in and stop the attack, unfortunately, he got a kick for his effort.

Lorena mentions to Astrid that David, in a rampage, killed four people in **Houston** and the realization from seeing the video weakens and knocks out Astrid. Sebastian asks why she lets Astrid lives to which Lorena replies that they're friends.

David successfully lands the plan into the futbol stadium and after hearing the names of the four people he killed, he mistakenly assumes that Lorena and Foresight had something to do with their deaths and vows vengeance against Lorena and Foresight.

In **Cincinnati, Ohio**, there's a rally for Sol Simms, a new victim of police brutality, that lands his brother, Simon , in jail. While in jail, he's visited by Dr. Mayes who teleports him out of prison after showing him a decomposint hand in a briefcase.

David (under one of his aliases), heads to Houston to figure out what happened to the four foresight workers who died there.

Handcuffed, Astrid is on Lorena's personal plane considering she did attack a few of Foresight's employees. Lorena tells Astrid that what she did to David wasn't supposed to be permanent but David was dangerous after coming back from space. Astrid tries to provoke Sebastian to get closer to her using trash talk so she could get something from him to get her out of her cuffs but Lorena prevents it by explaining the method. She even goes on to say that she'll continue to help Astrid as long as Astrid gets back on her side and she will not take "never" as an answer.

Lorena tells Sebastian that she's not going to tolerate him questioning her authority any longer to which Sebastian apologises.

Meanwhile, Astrid hid a lockpick in her mouth the majority of the flight.
While back in Houston, David electrocutes himself to jog his memory and remembers killing those four people while trying to get out of Foresight. He's approached by Dr. Mayes who reminds him of his real name and what happened the day he came back to Earth from space and about the implant in his head to control his perception and memories to which David threatens Mayes to get the chip out of his head.

Mayes respectfully agrees to do it and uses the code word: MEADOWVIEW, in order to get his memories of Astrid back. Mayes mentions that he's trying to get a group together to combat Foresight before David recollects his memories and remembers Astrid.

Meanwhile, Astrid has broken out of her cuffs and taken down the officials on the plane before getting a notice that there's a "code indigo" approaching, Astrid questions what a Code Indigo as Simon launches into the plane.

Simon and Jameela soon breach the plane while in New Mexico, David and Mayes talk about what happened at Foresight. David accuses Mayes of being an unwitting pawn whereas Mayes points out he didn't have a choice and is trying to make things right by enhancing people to go against Lorena and Foresight using the severed hand he showed Simon in prison.
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n the past, Lorena threatened and manipulated Mayes into putting the implant in David's head to prevent any memories forming for Astrid and their relationship. Mayes mentioned that he'll always feel guilty of that.

Simon fights Astrid (and loses) before Lorena blows up the plane (which surprisingly kills no one), Astrid, Lorena and Sebastian jump out of the plane and in order to save Astrid, Sebastian uses his power to keep her conscious.

Meanwhile, David remembers Astrid fully and agrees to join Mayes group in order to infiltrate Foresight.

During the infiltration, Mayes teleports everyone to **Monterrey** where Lorena drives up to and causes an explosion, Astrid sees David once again as he remembers her. The fray between Foresight and Mayes group begins.

Looking out for Astrid, Noble telekinetically gives her armor as they fight the foresight assailants from Mexico.

Lorena finds the secret to Mayes teleportation ability and utilizes it to shorten his systems that help with it. The discussion is about why Lorena did what she did to David. Lorena believes that she's doing what's best to keep people safe whereas David feels like Lorena is purposely trying to control enhanced people for her own sake.

Astrid walks into the room where Mayes is trying to teleport in and accidentally injures Astrid by teleporting into his hand into her suit, impaling her, causing Sebastian to sacrifice himself to save her.

The fight comes to a halt after Astrid is saved, to which Astrid and David find themselves back at home.

After some recuperating from the events that transpired, David goes and flies around with Elijah as they eat breakfast together as a family. Later, Astrid visits Foresight and Lorena tells her about the sake of the world after The Event and how the meteor shower created a lot of enhanced people because of all the collision sites. She goes on to mention the possibility of **Esparza** being an enhanced and why Foresight needs to be at the forefront of what goes on.

In a conversation with Lorena, Lorena mentions that David probably hates what Astrid used to be to which he replies that that's none of her business and that he loves Astrid. He tells Astrid about the incident in Houston where he killed four people in his rampage and how guilty he feels about it.

Not too long afterwards, Lorena and Astrid appoint to get the chip out of David's head (in contrast to Astrid possibly killing Lorena and Nurse Spencer and everyone in Foresight).

### Characters

* Astrid Allen-Powell
* Lorena Payan
* Noble
* Demarcus Mayes
* Sebastian
* Simon Simms
* Dr. Mayes
* Jameela Nayar
* Filipe Rendoza