CHAPTER 1

It was an average morning; Delta was getting ready to leave for the day. Delta isn’t a very interesting guy at first glance people would just see him as a typical teenager, during days Delta would often daydream whenever he could to escape the limits that reality had, Delta didn’t hate reality because of this he just found it boring and plain. Anyway Delta had finished getting ready for school and was walking to his bus stop on his way he heard a voice that was unfamiliar to him he looked around to try and find where the voice was coming from but was unable to locate it the voice said “do you wish to escape the bland boring world you live in now do you want to change the world to how you see fit?” Delta was sure that this wasn’t someone trying to mess with him so he responded in a confident tone “Yes, what did you have in mind?” There was a moment of silence and Delta stood completely still wanting to find out what would happen whilst also being a bit concerned about the time as the bus would arrive soon, the voice had then responded with “You may have the power to make dreams become a reality” as a ball descended from the sky became level with Delta’s head the voice said “if you truly do want this power all you have to do is touch it, but be warned that your life will not be the same after this happens farewell” Delta without hesitation reached out and as soon as he made contact a sudden burst of light happened. Delta didn’t have time to sit and think about what had just happened time was running short and the bus would be leaving any minute now so he rushed as quick as he could and made it just as the bus was about to shut it’s doors. The bus trip was quieter than usual because none of Deltas friends were on the bus this morning they usually all caught the same bus as him so he was never without company. After the quietest bus trip Delta has ever had he got to school and had his first lesson which was PE Delta liked this lesson as it gave him something to do and wasn’t a complete waste of time in his eyes.

The lesson passed by quickly as it usually does for the things Delta enjoys and it was time for recess Delta wasn’t looking forward to spending this time alone due to all of his friends being absent from the bus, this reason made it all the more of a surprise when Delta looked up to see all of his friends hanging out where they usually go, Delta stormed straight up to them and then shouted “I demand answers now, why weren’t any of you here this morning?” they all looked shocked and were surprised to hear that the others came late as well and then Ryan spoke up and said “Well I know you aren’t going to believe me but I was walking to my bus stop and I heard a voice come from nowhere” everybody’s reacted at the same time when hearing that and then Baden spoke up and said “That actually happened to me to and of course I thought that it was one of you trying to mess with me so I looked around and sure enough the voice was coming from seemingly nowhere” at this time Andrew said “did the voice by any chance offer to let you soar into the skies freely?” Baden responded “No, I was told I could become one with technology and then an orb from the sky came down” all of a sudden Zac come into the conversation and says “The voice told me that if I really wanted to do this all I had to do was touch the orb” Connor finished off Zac’s sentence and said “but your life will never be the same well at least that’s what it told me” Delta then asked “So did you all do it, did you touch it?” Ryan intervened and said “Well the information I have says that we were all absent from the bus except Delta so I would imagine we all went through with it and that’s why we came late” Baden then went on to say “So Delta I guess you’re the only one from our group that this didn’t happen to, well at least that we can confirm” Delta responded with “Actually unlike all of you I had that happen to me and still caught the bus, I am guessing it’s because all of you were trying to piece together what had just happened” after that everyone continued to do what they usually do Baden when back onto his phone, Ryan was scrolling through the internet looking for more information he hadn’t seen before, Hayden remained quiet without uttering a word, Zac would bring up interesting facts that nobody cared about, Connor would be with James participating in physical competitions which would usually be races or arm wrestles, Caitlin would be researching the human body and Andrew would usually be towering above everyone. For the rest of the day nobody mentioned the incident that had occurred earlier that day and just went on with all of their days like they would any other.

The next morning Delta got up to the sound of his ringtone, he was just adjusting to being awake and answered his phone he answered and said “Hello? Who is it?” the voice from the other side was Baden he said in a concerned tone “I am calling you” Delta responded “Yes, that’s generally how phones work Baden” Baden responded and said, “NO I AM CALLING YOU, I don’t know why but I decided to check my phone and when I grabbed it, it fell into me” Delta responded “Fell into you?” Baden repeated “Yes, fell into me” Delta said “Okay, so let me get this straight you grabbed your phone like you have done every other day and for some reason today it just ‘fell’ inside you… alright then how are you talking to me right now then?” Baden responded with a tone of frustration “I already told you I AM CALLING YOU, like my body has called you I don’t even know why it called you to be perfectly honest if I were going to call anybody it would be Ryan because he would probably have a better idea of what to do than me” Delta responded “Alright I’m going to hang up now I really hope you find your phone or whatever and I will see you at school, bye” Delta then hung up the call and went back to sleep. About 2 hours later Delta’s alarm went off for Delta to get up in the morning, as he was getting ready he remembered Baden calling and thought about it more and realised that he had genuine concern in his voice when he had called also the fact that he would normally be better than that at explaining things instead of just saying that his phone fell into him, at this point Delta had remembered what Baden said about the orb the day before “I was told I could become one with technology” this got Delta thinking that if Baden was genuinely having a problem that means he became one with technology just like the voice said and that would mean everyone else would be going through similar situations, but then Delta realised that nothing had happened to him yet so it would be unlikely that this would be the case at all.

Delta was on the way to his bus trying to figure out what the voice had been saying the day before about changing the world and making dreams come true or something like that Deltas memory was a bit foggy at this point so he couldn’t remember the exact details. Delta was way earlier than normal to his bus stop due to him being prepared for something to happen like the events that had occurred in the previous day, so whilst waiting Delta did what he would do all the time and daydream this time he was imagining himself up against a swordsman and so he gave himself a sword as well to have an appropriate weapon for the battle but just as he was about to do battle with the swordsman the bus had arrived and was parked out the front of the curb Delta quickly adapted to reality and was just about to step onto the bus when the bus driver stopped him and said “Hey, no weapons on the bus” Delta with a clueless reaction asked “What weapon?” he then looked down to his hand to see that he was holding a sword but not just any sword but the sword he was using to fight the swordsman with he put down the sword in a hurry, apologized to the bus driver and quickly got on. When Delta got on the bus he was happy to see his friends also on the bus today he went and sat down next to Ryan as it was the only available seat his head was looking out the window and he gave of a negative feeling, Baden leaned over and asked “So what’s wrong with you?” Delta with confusion in his voice replied “What are you talking about do I seem upset I would be asking Ryan he seems like he just found out some horrible news” Baden replied “Wait so has nothing negative happened to you today?” Delta responded with “Well nothing out of the ordinary except you calling me at like four in the morning thank you very much, oh and the whole sword thing back there” Baden asked in a curious tone “Sword thing?” Delta replied “Yeah I was daydreaming like usual I was just about to enter combat with this guy and then the bus got here and next thing I know there it is the sword was in my hand the one I was just thinking about” Baden with annoyed tone said “So whilst all of us have been going through this you just get to have a sweet sword come out of nowhere, alright where is the sword now?” Delta responded “I tossed it the driver said I wasn’t allowed to bring weapons onto the bus with me and I was in too much of a panic to think of anything else so I threw it away and went straight onto the bus”

The bus arrived at the school, everyone got off and headed to the usual spot to go hang out Ryan who would normally be overly cheerful headed there with the look on his face that shows fear, Delta went up to him and asked what was wrong he simply responded “It’s happening again and again why can’t I escape it, I have to relieve all of the worst moments of my life” he then turned to Delta nervously and asked “Do you know how that feels to relive all of your worst fears every time you blink? DO YOU” Delta backed away and went to ask Zac how this had affected him he went on to explain how he can’t have a shower anymore because he ends up growing gills and nearly dies, Delta backed off and went back to Baden and said “I have a feeling that the whole your phone falling into you wasn’t a prank was it?” Baden replied with “I don’t know what would make you think that at all maybe the fact I also tried making toast this morning and guess what? I AM A TOASTER NOW!” Delta who was trying to hold back his laughter asked “What are you?” that second toast popped out from Baden’s arm and Delta burst into tears and couldn’t stop laughing Baden angrily replied “Yeah, laugh now we haven’t even got to see what happens to you yet I hope yours is the worst of all” Delta walks away to Connor who is still challenging James to physical competitions and as Delta watches from the sidelines they start to go at an arm wrestle which usually ends up with them being almost equal in strength as the countdown gets to zero there was no time between the start and James smashing Connor’s hand into the table whilst at the same time leaving the metal table highly damaged with very clear indication of the winner, James was shocked he wasn’t prepared for that outcome and then before he had any more time to react Connor had challenged him to a race, James who was still up on the last victory thought that he was unstoppable and was ready and so the countdown started and Delta was at the ending point, when the countdown had got to zero a similar result occurred except instead of James this time it was Connor and all along the ground where the race had occurred you could see his footprints meters apart from each other and imprinted in the ground by at least 10 cm for each step, Delta decided to check on the remaining people whilst he let them understand what had just happened to them. Delta then went on to try and find Hayden but couldn’t find him anywhere and before he could ask anyone else if they had seen him the bell went for first lesson Connor and James were pumped when heading to class as they were excited to try out their new power in PE and see the reactions on everyone else’s face, Ryan went to class without blinking, Baden had tried to use his computer and absorbed that as well, Zac was trying to find out what other stuff he could do and Delta was trying to wrap his head around what was going on.

Delta was in math daydreaming like normal he was imagining himself in a boxing match when suddenly a phone appears in his hand in the middle of the fight and before the bizarre dream could progress any further the teacher shouted “DELTA ARE YOU LISTENING” Delta got up and looked around the teacher said “I told you to put your phone away and I get that you're trying to set a fashion statement or something like that but please put those gloves away to” Delta was confused like he had been for this whole day so far and when he looked down sure enough he had the phone and gloves that he was just thinking about in his hands, he thought to himself that this mustn’t just be a one time thing as it happened with the sword earlier and now this so he put the stuff in his bag barely as he didn’t originally have enough room for them, Delta planned to try some of the stuff he was thinking about at recess to see how this power of his works.

Meanwhile Ryan was in class and had given into the need for blinking and had his traumatising flashbacks but at this point he had decided maybe he didn’t have to fear them anymore and maybe what happened in the past shouldn’t be dwelled on and he could just move on so whenever he blinked he went through every single point of his life at once giving him the power to remember anything that he has experienced, so he tried blinking with the knowledge that he didn’t need to worry about the past and when he did blink he still had the fears to live through but he wasn’t scared of them anymore because it wasn’t as scary to him as he had gotten used to it after seeing it all day. Ryan was much happier and when he went back to doing his work he was able to have the information to answer all of his questions in a single blink so he was able to plow through all of his work with ease.

In the computer building Baden is doing IT and is stressing out because he can’t touch any device without absorbing it, Baden tries to simply stay at the back of the room and stay out of sight for the lesson. About 10 minutes into the lesson Baden can hear the teacher say “Alright then class please bring out your work to show me how far you’ve gotten in it”, Baden anxiously waits as the teacher nears closer and closer to him and after he had absorbed it doesn’t know what to do so when the teacher got over to him he asked Baden “Where is your computer?” Baden replied “Sir I don’t know how to tell you this but I have seemed to have absorbed it into my being” the teacher responds “Into your being huh?” Baden responds “Yes into my being” the teacher says, “Baden you didn’t do your work did you?” and Baden replies “No I didn’t but that’s beside the point I’m lying to you I swear” the teacher looks at Baden with a disappointed look and before he can say it Baden says it for him “Yeah I know the principal's office” Baden walked to the principal's office with disappointment about his belongings and then thought what it be like if his phone screen would just appear on his arm, sure enough when he imagined it there was a phone on his arm suddenly things didn’t seem so bad for Baden with this newly acquired knowledge.

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James and Connor were in PE and the class was getting ready for volleyball they were doing stretches and talking to each other about strategy whilst the other two members of their team stayed back and talked amongst themselves. The teacher said the game was starting and the opposite team was serving they did an underarm serve and straight away Connor grabbed James by the waist and jumped up to have him level with the ball and in an instant the ball came crashing down, there was a hole in the floor where Connor jumped and there was a dent where the ball collided with the floor as well. The two were ready for seconds but the other team was trying to process what just happened in that last turn and asked to sit out, Connor and James weren’t satisfied and proclaimed that they could take on anyone at the school so they did, everyone would try and challenge them but after the first serve the others always quit due to the overwhelming difference in power, speed and skill. So the two were given permission to go and challenge each other to more physical competitions for the rest of the lesson as it fit under the category for this particular area.

Zac was in photography in the middle of the oval taking pictures with the rest of his class when suddenly he starts to feel rain and from a positive class of taking pictures it became a raining horror story, as he had to rush to shelter before he died of suffocation he found a sheltered spot and started to think of a way out of this and then he imagined that it was cold so he grew fur to cover him, this cancelled out the gills that adapt to his surroundings which gave him perfect cover so he went back out into the rain and sure enough he remained in his fur coat, people in his class even started to complement Zac on his new look, Zac thought nothing of it as long as he wouldn’t die from the rain he was happy and conveniently warm as well.

Back to math class the bell had just gone for lunch and Delta had been thinking of what he planned to do now that he had this space of time first off he was going to find Sam, Hayden and Andrew Delta put his hands on the back of his head and looked up and said “Well just Sam and Hayden left to find” as he saw Andrew flying in the sky about the usual spot to hang out. When Delta got to the spot everything seemed different but right as it should at the same time Ryan was scrolling the web again, Baden was on his phone again now with it in his arm, Zac was in the rain with his new fur coat, James and Connor were doing as they usually do, Andrew was too high in the sky to talk to and Hayden and Sam were nowhere to be seen until Delta was grabbed from behind and when he turned around he didn’t see anyone there it happened again and nobody was there it didn’t take long for him to piece it together so now Delta had the perfect opportunity to test his theory and so he closed his eyes and imagined that he had a can of spray paint, when he opened his eyes there it was right in his hands, nobody could notice this happen so when he got grabbed this time instead of looking to see nobody he decided to spray there instead and it revealed Sam and Hayden snickering at what they had just done. Delta asked them “What were you two doing and when I ask this Sam you know who I am asking so don’t give me no answer” Sam responded “Well Hayden came to school invisible today I know this because I have been trying out my new power where I can absorb things and become made of the same material so I tried it on Hayden and one thing led to another we were invisible up till now but to be perfectly honest I don’t know if he knew how to turn back due to him not being able to communicate with me at all when invisible I’m amazed I got this far.

The bell for the last lesson had sounded and everyone heading back to their classrooms Baden had somehow managed to absorb Ryan’s watch with Ryan saying “alright come on 5 meters at all times could you imagine if that happened to my computer I wouldn’t know what to do without my computer here and able to be accessed with ease” Baden bursts into tear and runs of towards his next class and Ryan travels closely behind him analysing his surroundings for future reference. James decides that the only way he will keep up with Connor’s speed is if he uses his upper body strength to his advantage so he got on his hands and started doing a handstand to get to his next lesson with incredible speed. Connor kept up right beside him with his speed easily keeping up with him, Sam was absorbing all sorts of materials on the way and even absorbed a bin so he could scare people that walked by instead of going to class because Sam never really went to classes that much anyway, Hayden being relieved to be out of his invisible state decided he should go to lesson and maybe this time he would get marked on the role although it was very unlikely for that to happen. Andrew was still flying around the top and Delta shouted up to him “Do you have a free as well if so are you just going to remain circling up there for it” Andrew replied “No I have a very important lesson now but I don’t know how to get down I have been up here all day…. Could you please get help” that moment Delta realised this would be the perfect time to use his new power to help as first he thought of making a crane but instead he decided something a bit more fun. The floor was layered with trampolines and Delta had a giant fly swatter and Andrew looked down and shouted “Don’t you dare come on where did you even get that come on please get help and don’t try this really impractical and dangerous thing please, without another word being said Delta with all of his might flung the giant fly swatter forward and managed to hit Andrew out of the sky and get him to land safely on the trampolines that were put down earlier. Delta then asked Andrew “Do you have any idea what I am supposed to do with all of these trampolines” Andrew responded “Back where you got them from you idiot” Delta replied “Well that’s kind of difficult when I created these from my mind” Andrew looked at Delta with a face full of doubt said “Are you okay I mean that seems a bit to crazy for me to believe and I was just flying around now doesn’t that paint a pretty clear picture of just how bizarre this whole situation is” Delta couldn’t respond in time as Andrew rushed of remembering that he has a lesson to be at.

Delta spent the time he had available trying to see what could bring into reality, Baden was for the first time ever happy to be in math class as it meant that he wouldn’t have to use a device as he was still unsure on how he was meant to use his laptop through his body, Ryan who was in the same class as Baden had already finished his work that wasn’t due for another week, so he decided to read the textbooks to further the amount of information in his memory. Connor and James were anxious for their lesson to end; James had broken all of his pencils from frustration as he wasn’t able to understand the work and Connor had bent the table legs from force of habit, as he would have usually wrapped his legs around the table legs whenever he was trying to think. Hayden was in English still covered in spray paint with Sam nowhere in sight, the teacher shouted “Hayden, why are you covered in spray paint?” when Hayden heard that he was being shouted at he immediately wanted to hide and as he thought it he did it Hayden was nowhere in sight the teacher then apologized to the class and said “Sorry class I must be seeing things I could have sworn Hayden was here covered in spray paint, I think I should stop staying up late when marking work” Hayden was still in the class he had managed to trigger his invisibility again and decided to get out of class and go find Sam to see if he could help, so he put his bag on and walked out of the class and when the teacher saw a bag floating out of the room he said with desperation in his voice “IT’S NOT JUST ME WHO CAN SEE THIS IS IT?” after hearing the teacher shout again it startled Hayden and his bag vanished with him, the class was left doubting the teachers current ability to teach. Hayden began to search for Sam he wondered where he would be, Sam was never one to not attend a lesson so Hayden thought there had to be a good reason for it, he saw Sam blending into his surroundings with ease and was confirming that it was definitely Sam as when someone walked by he would either jump out and scare them or he would speak to them and end up having them run away. Hayden approached him and grabbed Sam’s hand and thought about disappearing to get Sam invisible as well Hayden had discovered that Sam could now see him as if they were now on the same plain, Sam said to Hayden “You went invisible in the middle of class didn’t you?” Hayden nodded, Sam then said “And the teacher now thinks he’s gone mad doesn’t he?” Hayden nodded, Sam then went on to say “And you came to me hoping to help you with your problem because even if you could find Ryan he wouldn’t be able to communicate with you at all” Hayden nodded, Sam then said with a prideful tone “Well friend you came to the wrong place because I have no idea how to solve your problem, well actually now that I think about it after school we could find Ryan and I could ask him if he has any idea how to stop this or at least give you better control over it” Hayden nodded, sat down and watched as Sam was now pretending to be a ghost haunting the school.

Zac was in science class and was finished with assignment earlier that expected and had heaps of time to spare to he did some further investigation into his power and figured that it was depending on the situation he was in at the time his body would change to an appropriate form that specialized in situations like this, he then went on to piece together the reason why he grew a fur coat when he envisioned himself being cold and why he grew gills when in contact with water as annoying as it was Zac decided to make scenarios in his head to see what would happen to his body and what forms he would take on, he had to leave the classroom first so he asked the teacher if he could go to the toilets, Zac didn’t care if he was missing class as he was already ahead of everyone else so there wasn’t much more he would have done anyway and at least this was he is keeping on the right track with science and mutations. Zac got on the oval and tried multiple scenarios to play with in his head; he first tried thinking he was in a pitch black cave by covering his eyes he then felt with his hands his eyes expand and suddenly the darkness of his hands were bright and so he took his hands away and everything everywhere was really bright for a moment before turning back to normal. Zac then tried imagining himself falling from the top of a building with no way to help himself then just as he had a quarter of the building left to the ground he grew wings and the sudden growth had snapped Zac back into reality and when he looked back he had giant wings that grew out of his back he thought that it would just go away after he stopped imagining the scenario but the wings stayed, the bell went for the end of the day everyone came rushing out and a mass of people were coming across the oval when Zac needed to go the way they were all coming from he managed to get control of his wings and started to move them enough to get him in the air, the people all passed by and Zac said to himself “I think I’m really starting to like this power now” and then it started to rain again and his wings retracted and he mutated his gills again and he went face first into the mud and said “I think I’m going to take back my last statement” he then proceeded to think about how cold it was and envisioned himself in the North Pole so he could counter the water form and prevent his suffocation.

Everyone was gathered in the usual spot to hang out until their bus came to pick them up so they all went on about their day and what had happened. Ryan was immediately confronted with the voice of Sam who was nowhere to be seen at the time and then blinked piecing everything together and said “Sam you have the ability of mimicry, the ability to copy something just by touching it and Hayden, you have the ability of invisibility the ability to disappear at will” Sam said “Yeah” but before he could say anything else Ryan said “But Hayden doesn’t yet know how to control his powers yet so he came to you hoping for help from the only one that can understand him, then he brought you into a plain where you could see him and then came to the conclusion that you will need Ryan to help you out with this one. Does that basically sum it up?” Sam replied “Wow you’re good at this well do you have any ideas on how to get him to stop being invisible and also me because for some reason I can’t turn myself back” Ryan replied “Well obviously you can’t turn back because it wasn’t just you absorbing his state of invisibility this time instead he is the one responsible for it so from the everyone else has been accessing their powers I would imagine you just have to think about it happening hard enough and it will happen” Sam then said “Alright Hayden you heard the guy with the brain you just have to envision in and it will happen” in the next five seconds Sam and Hayden appeared out of thin air, Sam went on to say “Thanks Ryan you’re a lifesaver” Ryan didn’t pay much attention to Sam thanking him instead he went on to ask “Hey have any of you seen Delta around I think he may be in trouble due to his power” Baden came up to Ryan with a positive tone and said “What do you mean he’s alright he probably just got help behind in class again you know how it is with him so unpredictable” Ryan looked at Baden and said “Yes Baden that would be the case if it wasn’t for Delta not having any lesson right now I’m afraid his power may have been too much to handle” Sam said “Oh right doesn’t he have the power to create spray paint cans at will?” Zac came in to say whilst covered head to toe in mud “Wow what a simple power yet it would still be easier to have than mine” Baden then proceeded to say “Wait a minute he was saying something about a sword appearing in his hand just before he got onto the bus I just imagined that he was still mocking me or wanted to sound relevant due to everything else that has been going on” Ryan then went on to say “Well to be honest I think that Delta has the most powerful power out of us all also making it a dangerous weapon in the hands of him” Zac then said “What do you mean dangerous weapon what power does Delta even have?” Ryan replied “He has the power of bringing dreams to reality well that’s just must theory now none of us can tell Delta this until we can confirm it okay?” everyone nodded hesitantly. Delta came walking to the group with Andrew flying with very smooth control by his side, Delta said “Hey guys sorry I was late and we don’t have that much time to talk now but there was a trampoline incident that I had to take care of” Ryan said “It’s okay buddy but we should be heading to the bus now” the bus took everyone home and Delta talked to Andrew For the trip home and talked to him about everything he had found out, they all got off the bus and went home for the afternoon to further develop their skills.