Eyre got out of the diplomatic limo. She appeared to be in a formfitting black dress that was business appropriate. She had her holo-tablet folded around her wrist. The secret service waved their metal detecting wands over her and verified her ID and motioned her through. She stood while she waited for her meeting. Her high heels made her seem more intimidating than she was. To those observing her she appeared to be a woman in her early thirties. She had long curly red hair, with a grey streak down her left bang and green eyes, her skin was flawless but pale. All gifts from her mother, save the grey streak.

Her attention was focused on the rounded office door she was waiting by. When it creaked open and several people in military uniforms filed out. Behind them was the woman Eyre had the appointment with. Eyre was motioned inside and the woman closed the door. The woman took a seat behind her desk and opened a drawer and pulled out two glasses and a bottle of aged scotch and poured two drinks sliding one over to Eyre. Eyre picked it up and took a long waft of it before sipping it. She lifted the glass. Eyre’s voice was a mix of sultry and melodic that made her sound almost superhuman with how beautiful it was her accent would be called proper British, almost aristocratic.

“Impeccable taste as usual madame president.”

“I think we’re past titles now aren’t we Headmistress?”

“I suppose we are.”

“What has my daughter done this time?”

Eyre shook her head while taking another sip of the scotch.

“Nothing bad, she’s been wonderful, still has no idea you’re aware of her location. We have a working prototype fusion reactor, at a safe location off world, she reverse-engineered the future tech holo-tablets in a day, they’re already in production in our China. She’s looking forward to starting classes at the Academy in the fall. She’s adapting to her new reality excellently; I have no concerns. Her foster parents adore her, and she finished with the highest marks at her school. There was a slight issue where some overeager members of Earth Gov put her in protective custody but I sorted that out.”

“When will she be ready to hear from me?”

“I’m not sure yet, she’s worried your family will be a target. I’m hoping by fall she’ll come around when she sees the other students talking to their parents. Which reminds me.”

Enid slid two high density memory sticks across the desk.

“First one is just some videos of her playing sports and some pictures of her with her friends. Oh, and her school picture, the second has the specifications for the fusion reactor and the holo-tablet.”

President Morris took both with a slight nod.

“Did you come all this way just to deliver these to me?”

“No, unfortunately, I have other business.”

Eyre uncrossed her legs and stood up and pointed to the nearby tv.

“May I?”

“Certainly.”

There was a knock on the door and Eyre paused. The president sighed and called out.

“Enter.”

It was her chief of staff.

“Madame president, I have some intelligence bri-.”

He stopped when he saw Eyre.

“Put them on my desk and close the door on your way out, don’t let anyone disturb us, I’m receiving my Slider’s National Security briefing.”

He nodded dropped the folders off and rushed out of the door.

“Nice you code named us after a tv show from the nineties.”

Eyre shook her head then flipped her holo- tablet out and then motioned towards the TV and the tablet’s image displayed on it.

“Cool hmm?”

The president nodded and stood up and looked at the image. There was picture of a girl with platinum blonde hair she was tall, young though, looked like she hadn’t hit puberty yet.

“Who is this?”

“We have designated her Earth 2 – Subject Theta-2 she is fourteen years old, and we estimate based on observed energy pulses as at least a PL:14, if not higher. In other words, she is very dangerous. Her first manifestation was in Scotland.”

Eyre tapped a file and the picture shifted to the aftermath of a massive pile up of cars that were all been burned up. Save for one which was right by the torn remains of a gas tanker.

“Note the car by the Petrol truck’s remains. Untouched along with the pavement around it. This was a pile up on a Scottish highway, icy roads and thick fog. Death to-.”

“I’m familiar with the accident.”

Eyre nodded.

“What you likely aren’t familiar with is what we covered up. The first is the photo of the untouched car. The second is the real casualty list. It was changed from 114 killed, 5 survivors to 114 killed, no survivors.”

“Why weren’t we told about this? I saw no briefing of a super-powered human event associated with that crash. In fact, I have never seen any.”

“That is because the United States of America – Earth 2 is not one of the signatories of the cross-dimensional support agreement. If we can’t rendition people from your country, then you don’t get to see the briefs.”

“I thought we were signed on.”

“No Allison, you’re not. The president who was in power when we first came over thought it would be impinging on the freedoms of your people if the government were to allow a foreign power that legal ability on your land.”

“I have tried with several presidents, but none have wanted to bite.”

“If I’m not supposed to get briefings, why are you here?”

“I asked permission to share this with you because we’re friends. The reason I wanted you to be aware of this situation is: this girl is in Arizona.”

“She is? How dangerous is she?”

“The field she produced to protect her family at age 6, is a PL9 in and of itself. And let me underline this, she was six. We have never seen a superhuman manifest anything close to even a PL:2 ability before puberty. The next event was in Minneapolis.”

She changed to a new file. An image of a greenhouse showing a man with foot thick vines wrapped around his arms and neck and through his chest. The president turned away. Eyre flipped the image to the next screen. Showing the criminal record for the man a convicted sex offender.

“If that happened in the US, why was I not informed.”

“You were not president yet.”

“Continue.”

“Same child, aged 12, pedophile shows up and isolates her family’s green house. She causes the plants to grow and attack him. She blacks out afterwards, PL13 event. Note she still hasn’t hit puberty at this point.”

“Jesus. That’s an exponential growth in power, isn’t it?”

“Based on our rating system yes.”

“Just going back to power level ratings, why was the shield that lasted for fifteen minutes that saved them from a gas fire a PL9 and the plants PL13.”

“It’s a combination of affected entities and speed of effect and strength of effect. In the bubble case, was one car, it was strong PL9. The plants the growth was instant as far as we could tell, so fast he could not react, and it affected fifty-three entities at once. But it was confined to her immediate vicinity. Plants outside the green house were unaffected.”

“Could she create a more powerful shield?”

“In the future, likely yes. Power increases with age up into the twenties.”

“Why is she in the US, I thought your treaty enforced a travel ban.”

“Her father… is from Earth Prime. When the Scottish Independent State notified the family of their intention to turn her over to us at puberty, he fled to the only country he could that had not signed the treaty. The US. When the plant event occurred, he reached out to us to help him clean up the mess.”

“I thought supers were banned from travel here except under specific circumstances.”

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“This is a specific circumstance. Liam is a PL1. He understands electronics when he touches them. Useful, but not a dangerous power, basically PL1’s can do what they want we don’t monitor them. He asked for a visa to Scotland they approved he moved here.”

The president nodded.

“I came, I assisted him with cleaning up the mess with the understanding he would hand her over when it was time. He reneged on his bargain.”

“You covered up a murder?”

“It is hard to convict plants with murder and the US has no standing laws regarding super powered beings using their powers. Again, something we can assist with developing and enforcing once the treaty is signed.”

“I thought we had no naturally occurring powered beings.”

“Not exactly true, one of your corporations has been experimenting with genetic manipulation and has had some success. We’ve had to capture and imprison eighteen so far.”

“So, they could be anyone now?”

Eyre nodded.

“I would assume once the genetic manipulations enter the gene pool you will start to see them, nothing on the scale we have but it could become problematic.”

“That is unsettling. Go on.”

Eyre went to the next screen this was a satellite image with a white ring on the photograph centered on a house.

“We received another PL14 ping from one of our spy satellites which you knew existed.”

She nodded.

“Not sure what she did but the signature is identical to the green house. It wasn’t something that registered on news sites. The last two events are unsettling.”

She switched to a video of the girl smashing a wooden training dummy with her bare hands.

“Possible Superstrength. Not exactly rare, however most super powered beings with the exception of unique things like vampires or werewolves have one thing they do, and they do well, manipulating force, making plants grow, channeling electricity, whatever, they have that one thing they are good at. So far, she has exhibited energy manipulation, rapid plant growth and possible super strength. Again, if you look closely, you’ll note she is still not in the puberty stage.”

“What level is this strength?”

“PL5 at the most, she hurt herself using it her full strength. It means she’s no more durable than a normal human. For now. We do not know what puberty will bring.”

“You said she was fourteen, how has she not hit puberty yet?”

Eyre tapped another file it was a medical record and list of prescriptions.

“Her parents have been using puberty blockers on her, without her knowledge, also she’s fairly athletic and based on our observation is very physically active and lifts weights that can also interfere with normal development. They also have her on a cocktail of mood stabilizers and ADHD medication.”

“Why the ADHD meds, I am guessing the mood stabilizers are because her power is activated by extreme emotions?”

“You are correct, and the ADHD meds are because she has severe ADHD. She definitely needs those.”

“So, she’s a teenager who has no self-control who has the ability to turn plants into murderous vines?”

“I am not finished yet Allison.”

Eyre tapped another file and moved it to the screen. It was a medical report for a teenage girl with severe trauma to her ribs. The stats were updating real time.

“Is this real time?”

“Yes, my people are very good at their jobs.”

“Did the girl do this?”

“Yes.”

“Well, she does have superstrength.”

“You misunderstand me. This is our subject at her laptop.”

She showed a video of the subject glaring at her screen, and it was obvious she was enraged by something. The image derezzed just after there were sparks and smoke from her computer. The image changed to a video of the injured girl chatting on the phone and all of sudden she is lifted up into the air and seems to be repeatedly get hit by an unseen force. Finally, she’s clutching at her throat. Her chest visibly compressed then she fell to the ground. It looked unfinished. Eyre turned away from it as it kept playing with paramedics rushed in and eventually it was just an empty room Eyre stopped the video.

“She was four kilometers away.”

“And you’re sure it was her.”

“Yes, the signature was identical.”

“Jesus. She almost killed that girl.”

“Yes, something stopped her before she could finish her off.”

“Did she do it on purpose?”

“I suspect she isn’t even aware she was doing anything.”

“What rating is that?”

“It is unprecedented. We have people who can remote view, we have no one who can remote view and beat someone up with telekinesis. That kind of control and power at that range is PL13 at least, if not PL14.”

“You have another file there is there more.”

Eyre waved her hand dismissively.

“She overloaded a computer when her guidance counselor told her she was going to get rid of her ADHD meds and take her off her Adaptive Learning Plan, PL3 a the most. No one was harmed.”

“So, with the exception of that one odd one out, her powers are increasing?”

“Yes. Even if someone is not using their full power, we can still gage it in most cases based on the scans. Each time we’ve seen her she’s been using her full power at her age.”

“And she still hasn’t hit puberty yet?”

“No, she hasn’t, but she will start soon.”

Eyre showed another document, this was one where the doctor who had been supplying the puberty blockers has said he will no longer fill the prescriptions until he has spoken openly to the patient and the patient has undergone a psychological evaluation to discuss when they were going to start transitioning to the opposite sex. The president’s eyes went wide.

“So, we haven’t seen the worst of it yet?”

“Not even close, Allison, not even close. That girl is going to hit puberty soon like a train going full steam ahead, and nothing is going to slow it down. Because it has been so delayed it is going to hit hard and fast. Her emotional stability will tank, her powers will increase exponentially. You have a walking talking, if, very kind and loving, nuclear weapon on your hands with a very short fuse.”

The president collapsed into her chair putting her hands in her face.

“We can just grab her, put her somewhere safe, train her. She could be an asset for us.”

Eyre flipped her holo-tablet back into her wrist and put her hands on the desk and leaned down.

“Allison, you have no idea how to contain this threat. That girl is an innocent in all of this she has no idea what is happening, she hasn’t been educated at all, her parents are in denial. My people are her only chance, and your only chance for you to avoid a superpowered emergence that will set your people down a very dark road. Your people will demand blood for blood. If that girl is as powerful as I think she is, all your tanks, guns, aircraft carriers and nuclear missiles will do nothing to stop her. We’re talking once in a generation power levels here. At least a PL 15.

“What’s the highest she could be? What would it mean?”

“Then, Allison if you believe in god, I suggest you pray, because if she’s higher than that she has the power to wipe out an entire continent of people.”

The president poured herself another drink.

“How do you deal with people that powerful?”

“With other people that powerful. Now I’ve done my best to suppress her memories and powers in an attempt to save lives, but she is starting to remember, and I do not think I will be able to fix her again.”

“You can stop her, right?”

“I would be more than a match for her, but you’ve tied my hands by not signing the treaty. And honestly, I would rather not stop her, I would rather educate her. She needs guidance, not an enemy.”

“What set her off this last time?”

Eyre sighed and tapped her wrist and swept a video to the screen. It showed a gender swapped couple with an adam’s apple on the subject dancing with a boy.

“That was it?”

“That was her first dance with a boy, she also kissed him, her first kiss. Then she saw this, and if I had to guess, two years of girls making fun of her because she wasn’t developing.”

“Jesus, and this is what did it, when she snapped?”

“That and a combination of her puberty blockers being withdrawn.”

“I made laws to prevent that sort of thing.”

“Yes, but they need to be enforced. We do so with an iron fist, not something I’m a fan of, but when you have angsty nuclear weapons running around, boys will be boys is not the attitude you want to have for long. To add insult to injury the Phoenix police are trying to charge the subject with attempted murder.”

“Well, she did do it.”

“True, but what do you think is going to happen when they drag that girl to jail and she’s in there with that crowd?”

“Oh Jesus, we can’t let that happen.”

Eyre nodded.

“That’s why you’re here isn’t it, you want me to sign the treaty.”

“I would love for you to sign the treaty; I have been authorized for observation only otherwise. So, my hands are effectively tied.”

“Your government knows they have me over a barrel.”

“They do.”

“Shit. Shit shit!”

“Look, we are on a tight timeline unless we can get that girl on puberty blockers again and even if we do that may not work anymore. If you were to sign an executive order declaring me a de facto agent of the US government of Earth-2 I can go, there I can grab her, and I can escort her out of the country.”

“She’s a US citizen, she has rights.”

“This is true, do her rights trump the lives of the eleven million people she’s in the center of? This is why you wear big girl pants Allison. I am doing this because I consider you a friend. Give me authorization to remove her from the USA and I will make this problem go away, I’ll piss off my government because I let you out of signing the treaty, but the girl will be safe, your people will be safe. So, my government can go fuck itself. You know how well your daughter is doing, and that she is safe, I can make that happen for this girl I just need your permission.”

“I want sign the treaty but there is a process a long drawn out, and this kind of threat is what I need.”

“Invite a bipartisan group along with your military leadership to a briefing. Grant me temporary enforcement powers and assign me 2 ICE agents. Make sure they’re gung-ho and agents who like to throw their authority around and I will deliver you a contained crisis.”

“That sounds dubious Eyre.”

“If you give me authorization to bring her in, I can do it without anyone getting hurt too badly. ICE agents like that will be pissed about having a temporary agent with them, they’ll try and shut me out and I’ll let them, then when they inevitably trigger her, I will stop her. I guarantee she will do something to impress on your people how dangerous Supers can be if untrained. And why you want us on your side.”

“So, you’re going to manufacture a mini-crisis and solve it for me live?”

“Yes. I promise your agents will be mostly unharmed. But they have to be yahoos, or this won’t work.”

“What are you going to say she is?”

“Sinn Féin they are technically still considered a terrorist organization with the US government, right?”

“Yes, but they’re Irish.”

“Do you think two good ole American boys are going to know a Scotsman from an Irishman? Hell, they’ll probably think I’m an Irish Agent. We’ll say the whole family has been radicalized. Those agents will go in there spoiling for a fight. She’ll give them one and then I will save them and her. You’ll get your show and I’ll get the girl.”

“What about her parents? They have rights, they could technically fight this in court.”

“Once the show is over, I’ll deal with them. You’re going to have to trust me.”

“Can you even stop this girl? What can you do anyway?”

“I’m a PL17-15M, I can handle one teenage girl and two over eager agents.”

“What does that even mean?”

“I have the ability to influence a city population and I am an Archmage.”

“And that is?”

“There is only one known magic user who was more powerful than an Archmage and that was my mother, and she’s been reclassified recently, PL20-20T. It means she was capable of self-mobile time travel and could cause an extinction level event.”

Allison coughed on her scotch.

“There are things that powerful?”

“There are things that are more powerful, thankfully they’re all deceased or not interfering anymore. There are no currently living PL20 beings, there are living PL20-T beings, but that just means they can time travel without need of a device.”

“And they work for you?”

“Yes, my sister is one of them.”

“Your Earth Gov has enough resources you could probably just take this girl and all we could do is huff and puff, and wag are fingers at you, why are you bothering even talking to me?”

“Again, because I consider you a friend, and because if I ignore the laws then I am no better than the super villains in my world. I need to respect the rule of law everywhere. Even your laws.”

“But manipulating them is fine?”

“If the laws were written in a way to allow them to be manipulated then so be it, I’ll work within the boundaries they provide.”

“I always knew you were a sly one.”

“So, what do you say?”

“Fine, I’ll have everything in place for tomorrow.”

“We need to do this after dark.”

“Alright. Head to Phoenix by the time you land your special enforcement powers will be in an executive order.”

“You think I have a plane?”

“I know you do.”

Eyre smiled and nodded.

“Good luck Madame President.”

“Good luck Acting Agent Eyre Aurelius”