For my safety, I decided to stay in my room until it cools down a little. 'I wish that I could get some hair paint here. I think that the only thing that could cause someone to recognize me is my rather unique white hair in combination with my small figure. If I could get rid of at least one of them my problems would be solved.
I was hungry but going to the hotel restaurant right now would be dangerous so I decided to call room service and get something to eat. As I was waiting for my meal I opened the interface to increase my boosts by five each.
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Celestia Energy Total: 1849
Celestial Energy in Use: 247
Physical boosts: Mind boosts:
Muscle Strength: 40 Memory: 27
Muscle Flexibility: 50 Reflexes: 27
Body Endurance: 60 Inteligence: 27
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Half an hour later a room service arrived and I ordered them to leave it in front of the door for fear of them recognizing me. After making sure that one was in the corridor, I opened my doors and took my meal inside. The first course was a vegetable soup and as second was classical grilled chicken with potatoes. After the meal I spent the rest of the day bunkered in my room.
The first half of the next day went the same way except for someone knocking on my door. ‘Who can it be? At least it isn’t police I doubt they would be knocking in my case.’
Agent Terry Smith POV:
It was a routine day at work, just some office work. At least it was until we got called to the emergency meeting about the new paranormal.
On my way to the meeting room, I met my colleague and friend Tim “Hello, Tim. We got a new paranormal. And from what I heard it is probably an S-class.”
“S-class, are you sure about that? We have never seen one before” said Tim with a troubled face.
“I am not, I heard it from someone else. Anyway, we should hurry, the meeting will begin in a few minutes”
“Gentlemen, we found an S-class in Detroit. And it is confirmed” at these words of my boss whole room went silent for a moment before he started to speak again “Our subject with codename ‘S0’ managed to destroy the whole block of houses, most of them abandoned, with a single action. She also showed more supernatural abilities like telekinetics, electrokinesis, superstrength, superspeed and form shifting. These two things are proof of her being an S rank.”
“How many victims, boss?” I asked.
“From camera footage and records of houses, we confirmed at least eleven victims. Due to the nature of the area and the size of the destruction, there can be more. More questions will be allowed after a video record from CCTV”
In video footage was a girl-looking being killing a group of people, presumably in self-defense, with an array of supernatural powers and afterward destroying the whole block together with another group before fleeing in form of black smoke.
Doors of the conference banged open and man come in “Sire, we have a problem. Someone leaked CCTV footage to the news.”
“It wasn’t leaked, I did it. Catching up S0 is more important than secrecy. In the end, after we catch it, we can just say that it is some CGI prank made by some computer enthusiast.”Boss replied
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Meeting went on for twenty more minus before we got a phone call with information that the owner of the local pawnshop identified a suspect and from there, our analyst managed to track her to her hotel.
Few more minutes later we had a photo of her without a mask and her real name projected on the wall.
“She looks like a normal girl, except for her hair,” Tim said something obvious.
“Now is time for your suggestion on how to proceed,” said Boss.
“We should, surround the whole hotel, evacuate people from the hotel, and send a tactical unit to capture or kill her,” Said a big, bald and muscular agent with the nickname The Stone.
“Are you crazy? For first you can’t surround someone who can change to smoke. For second if you send the tactical unit on her, there would be plenty of death agents and civilians. For third, there would be no chance to make it secret.” I said
“Do you any better idea than old good brute force?” said The Stone with a dumb look on his face.
“We should put nanites in her food to infect her brain. This will give us the ability to knock her down when we send command to nanites in her brain without risks...”
The Stone interrupted me with another dumb idea “Yeah, and then we will beat the hell out of her”
‘How the hell did he got this job?’
Before I could continue boss started to speak “No, The Stone will use it as leverage to control her. Our agency was created after President Kennedy was assassinated with telekinetically controlled bullets, but we were always considered a second-rate agency. They are calling us overpaid ghostbusters. But this is our opportunity, when we will get a powerful S-class paranormal on our leash, we will gain prestige and a bigger budget. ”
“Sire, is this really a good idea? This, not some person in weird costume capable of summoning speck of fire out of nowhere this being is capable of causing destruction equal to bombardment with the wave of her hand” said Tim.
“I will say it differently. Imagine how many lives of our field teams we could save with her. This world is full of mindless and brutal monsters. And a great amount of them is living close to areas with people preventing us from simply bombing them with planes. Plenty of our agents die every year while hunting them down. But with her, it would be easy to slay even the strongest of these monsters.“
“Alright boss, but wouldn’t some of the higher-ups in government have a problem with hiring a murderer?” I asked.
“CIA hired plenty of murderers too. And when you look at the footage and ignore the fact of her suspiciously being in such a dangerous place, it is just self-defense. So don’t worry and go to Detroit, infect her with nanites and then bring her to our facility, voluntary or by the force. ”
Tia POV:
As I went to open the door my surroundings instantly changed. I was in place without any physical object in sight, there we only distant stars and galaxies in place of the walls, ceiling, and floor.
“Where am I? Is anybody here?” I shouted while searching for anything making sense.
“Calm down, little one. I am here for you. And before you ask, I am you mother, Anor Ae Morduine, Pentarch of highest order holding the post of High Owersear in Pentarch authority, archduchess of Pentarch empire, Queen of Outer Reality, and Archdragon.”
“Wasn’t Oriane my mother?” I said with confusion in my voice and my expression.
“She is your mother like me, Uriel, Tenebris and Luminia. We are all your mothers”
“This makes no sense. I can’t have so many mothers. And where is my father?”
“Ohh, little one, you have no idea how our biology works. But don’t worry, you are too young to know anyway. And yes you have a father too.
“Hey, I am an adult! So I…”
“Only by human standards and I refuse to discuss this topic anymore. So I will skip directly to the point of this meeting. Oriane showed you a way of violence and now I will show you a way of manipulation.”
“Manipulation?”
“You are in trouble. You were infected by nanites, they can knock you out any time they want.”
“Wouldn’t they be destroyed when I change a form? And why I can’t see you?” I asked while searching for a source of the voice.
“No, it would be the same as with your clothes, they will change together with you, but you have other abilities in the list that will work. And you can’t see me because… I … I don’ have to explain myself. Hmm, anyway little one, you can get rid of these nanites and kill those who infected you. But you will be hunted like some animal and your comfort will be gone. So let yourself get captured. They will try to get you on their side. Let them think that their plan is working. Play the innocent victim. You are looking like a young girl, use it to manipulate them. Give it enough time and they will be working for you. They will want you to be their hunting dog and that is good for you. They will identify and find stronger and better pray for you to hunt and consume. I am done little one I will go to sleep so go away, we will talk again when I will be not so sleepy. Bye and take care of you”
“Wait! How do you know what they will do?”
“Being billions of years old, training, little bit listening to their dialogues with my cosmic powers plus time precognition. Now go away please.”
I was back in my room. ‘Is she really recommending me to work for the government? But when compared to other option of them trying to kill me or capture me on my every step, it is definitely a better option. And maybe I will never gain such an offer again and I can always kill them and escape. But it will work only if Anor was saying the truth.’
My thoughts were interrupted with another knock on the door.