CHAPTER 7
Everyone had been transported to the greyspace by Dakota’s portal, “So where are we now?” said Andrew, “This is what Dylan decided to name the greyspace, the only way to access it is with Dakota’s portals, but I just generally like to use it for my book collection” said Quintin, “Ah I remember when I had to read books to store information but now it is just in my head” said Ryan, “Hey I just got an idea!” said Quintin, “What would that be?” said Ryan intrigued, “Well my power is more powerful depending on my current intelligence level, well how much information I have remembered, now hear me out because if we somehow got your power and my power to work together we could become unstoppable” said Quintin, “So basically fusion?” asked Ryan, “Yes exactly we could fuse!” said Quintin, “Nope” said Ryan, “Well that was blunt, why not?” said Quintin, “As much as I love the idea we would have to test it first and I don’t want to cause deformed creatures because I will be reminded of that every time I blink and trust me I don’t want to live with that” said Ryan, “Well how about I do the testing and you can just help me create it” said Quintin trying to reason with Ryan.
Meanwhile at school with the robotic clones of the group the rest of the friends that didn’t get powers were watching as the clones stood there for the break times and did nothing at all but just stand there. Ben came over and started to shake the replica of Baden, “Hey what was that for that seemed illogical” said Baden’s robot, “What do you think you guys have just been standing here for your breaks and when it comes to lessons you don’t have any work left, it’s even starting to worry the teachers” said Ben, “I have been thinking about life” said Baden’s robot, “Oh well that makes sense I guess but all of you at the same time?” asked Ben, “Yes it is a great bonding experience, it is all of the rage lately you should try it sometime” said Baden’s robot, “I’m doing that all of the time anyway before it became cool” said Ben as he zoned out to a similar state as the rest.
Jeremy walked by and saw Ben join them, “Oh Jesus Christ they got you to we are all going to enter this state at this rate” Jeremy said as he closed his eyes and blocked his ears to make sure that he couldn’t have it received through those senses. “What if this goes viral and we all end up like that I wouldn’t get to finish watching my anime” Jeremy thought to himself.
Meanwhile back in the greyspace, “So just a question to fill in some blanks, how did you all get your powers because we touched an orb and got our powers taking into effect the next day without us having any control over them” said Ryan, “Well we got our powers by stepping into the darkness and then had our powers awakened from fear but it wasn’t that long with Elisa here and her short tempered nature, also it helped that Quintin had us all scared with his shockwave” said Naomi, “Hey guys where did Cat and Katie go?” said Jesse, “You notice them now Jesse you do realise they have been at the local bar chatting up guys and giving life to their shadows” said Quintin.
Dylan was off in the corner sitting next to Delta’s body, when suddenly a toaster appeared in Dylan’s lap, Baden came over and consumed it within seconds hoping that Ryan didn’t end up seeing it, “He must have been thinking about you again huh Baden?” said Ryan whilst laughing at the next lot of toasters that appeared, “What is going on? I demand answers and I demand them now!” said Dylan who was angry due to his confusion, “I would have thought that was clear here have some tea and I’m sure someone will explain it to you” said Dakota as he proceeded to give Dylan some tea as if this happened regularly.
Sam heard Dakota saying that someone would explain it looked at Ryan and he was talking to Quintin so he knew that it was his time to shine, “Well Delta was walking along and one day found an orb thingy which let him shape the world how he envisioned it meaning that he has the power of imagination and then the same thing had happened to everyone else so Delta was like wow and then all kinds of stuff happened to us like Hayden disappearing and Baden turning into part toaster, he hasn’t been able to live that down and so whenever Delta sleeps he dreams of toasters and it appears right next to him Baden has to absorb them every time though because Delta has no was to get rid of the stuff he creates that’s about it” said Sam taking a massive gasp of air after saying all of that.
Ryan came by and simply said “He can make what he thinks”, “Oh that makes sense” said Dylan, “But I just went through all of the trouble of explaining that” said Sam, “Aren’t you the compulsive liar?” said Dylan giving Sam an ominous stare, “Not any more I swear I stopped that long ago” said Sam with a very obvious desperate tone in his voice, “Sure or could that be a lie anyway I will let the past be in the past” said Dylan, “Let us proceed you are all probably wondering why I brought you here correct?” said Dakota, “You brought us here because you wanted to truce with us is that correct?” said Andrew, “Nope not even close” said Jesse, “We actually wanted you here so we could train in combat with you as we have all gotten powers meaning many more people will get powers based on our estimations” said Quintin, “We only have a while to prepare and I was really hoping that Delta would demonstrate his powers to our group” said Dakota, “You just need him to wake up? Is that all you want well sure seeing as you have offered us such good hospitality it should be easy” said Baden, Baden’s body transformed in a giant speaker, “You may want to block your ears because this is going to be loud” said Baden as he prepared to sync his voice up to the speakers, everyone blocked their ears and Baden was ready to unleash, “DELTA!” Baden had been so loud that everyone was blown away by the sound.
Delta after hearing that remained sleeping and suddenly a radio appeared next to Delta, “I was sure that was going to work” said Baden as he absorbed the radio. The group all decided that the top priority was to wake up Delta and they had to do it before they could progress and further and start the training, “Let me have a go” Ryan said whilst pulling out one of his swords and approaching Delta, “HOW ABOUT NO” Caitlin yelled, “We could light him on fire” said Jesse with a sinister smile and lighting fire at the end of his finger, “How about we don’t” said Caitlin, “Me and Connor could crush his bones and see if he wakes up from that and then Caitlin could do her healing thing after” said James, “Okay how about we don’t try and hurt Delta” said Caitlin, “I guess I could always make him experience his worst fear” said Dylan, “Alright I’ll do it I know what I have to do but I swear to god Ryan I will probably end up fighting you after this” said Baden, Ryan proceeded to laugh as he knew what came next, the next second Baden proceeded to shoot pieces of toast at Delta and just the sound of the toaster alone got Delta up and wanting food, “Good your finally awake Delta” said Baden, “Toast now can’t talk hungry” Delta said as he ate the toast Baden had made to wake him up.
After Delta had finished eating he realised that he was meant to be at a bank, “Wait what happened to the bank where am I now who are you and why does Baden look happy” said Delta, “Hey Delta how have you been” said Dylan, “I’ve been good and how have you been mysterious person?” said Delta, “Wait what you don’t recognise me?” said Dylan, “Oh you now I remember” said Delta, “Yes, you remember me now that’s great” said Dylan with his face lightening up, “Yeah you were at the store earlier weren’t you?” said Delta, Dylan’s face was that of a shock then back to his default face being that of no emotion, “I knew it was too good to be true” said Dylan, “Hey maybe I can help I do have memory powers maybe I can see what’s wrong” said Ryan, “Really! You can do that?” said Dylan, “No idea but I might as well start trying now” said Ryan as he proceeded to put his palm up against Delta’s forehead closed his eyes and begun searching his memories.
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Ryan was swimming around in Delta’s memories, “Wow this sure is weird so just asking can any body hear me outside?” said Ryan, “Yeah we can” said Will out of nowhere, Ryan decided to swim deeper into the memories, it was as if he were underwater yet he could breath, so he swam deeper hoping to find something that could help him figure this out. Ryan had so many thought’s going through his head as he was doing this then he came across what seemed to be mirrors floating in Delta’s head when he looked into them he was surprised to find a memory of the first time Ryan and Delta met, Ryan continued to watch this as he knew that Dylan came next so be introduced but in the moment where he would come in the memory became shrouded in a dark mist and was unseeable from there onwards, “Hey guys I think I found your problem does anyone know what I should do about this memory being shrouded in darkness” said Ryan, “Have you tried punching it” said James, “Nope I will try now” said Ryan as he proceeded to punch it falling into the mirror.
Ryan had fallen deeper into Delta’s memories waking up in the schoolyard. Ryan looked around and saw Delta with Baden pulling him by his arm going straight through Ryan’s body, this setting seemed all too familiar too Ryan so he closed his eyes to look through his own memories, as he closed his eyes his could see nothing just the darkness that would happen to everyone else. Ryan had tried multiple times and came to the conclusion that he wasn’t able to use his power of memory whilst also in someone else’s memories, confronted with this new problem he just had to watch it continue.
Ryan remained watching Baden drag Delta to the usual spot they hang out Ryan pondered about what could get Baden to be in such a hurry. When they got there Ryan was rushing from behind to see where it led and then it all came together he was at the point the mirror showed him before, he was at the point where Delta had first met Ryan.
Ryan had remembered that Delta was brought against his will to Ryan by Baden as he really wanted to play a game with more people as he always enjoyed a challenge in games and Ryan was the most competent guy he knew so it was the ultimate challenge, when they got there Ryan and Delta hit it off straight away and started talking about a bunch of complicated stuff that he couldn’t make out that well.
The next thing that is supposed to happen was that Dylan was meant to come in because Baden invited him to have the fourth player in the game, as he was coming in Ryan looked over at him to see if the problem was still happening and when he entered the room instead of seeing him it was darkness in his shape, Ryan pulled out his sword and was ready to fight if that was what needed to be done but instead of it acting badly it just went on like the memory would but Delta didn’t pay any attention to the shadow like figure in the shape of Dylan.
Ryan couldn’t think of what to do then it struck him, Ryan decided to approach it and punch it as that was what got him into this mess. After an unsuccessful punch Ryan started to think of other things he could do but then realised that the memory never got this far when watching it in the mirror so he decided to watch it more to see if anything changed.
Ryan watched the whole encounter but just as Dylan was about to leave everyone but Dylan in the memory had frozen in place, Ryan was ready to grab his sword as the dark figure approached “I am not your enemy Ryan remember I am your friend” said the figure in a distorted voice of Dylan, “But why, why is this happening it doesn’t make sense, tell me please how do I fix it!” said Ryan, the figure was silent and put his hand out in front of him, “Promise me you won’t let the darkness win” said the figure with their hand still in front of them, “I won’t let the darkness win” said Ryan with no idea what that meant t the time.
Ryan and the dark figure of Dylan shook hands and as they did a light was released from the contact between the two, the light faded away enough to see again and Dylan was at the door leaving just like he would have normally with no darkness covering his body. Ryan then saw another light shinning brightly, “AGAIN WITH THE LIGHTS ARE YOU TRYING TO BLIND ME” said Ryan as he covered his eyes to block out the light.
Ryan opened his eyes and was no longer in Delta’s memories, Delta got up looked around and saw Dylan, “I remember it all now, Dylan I apologise for my absence in memory I have no idea what happened, thank you Ryan I owe you one” said Delta, “Oh I will remember that” said Ryan as he started to grin and bring out his list of swords from his back pocket.
Dylan’s face started to look happier as he was told that his best friend had finally remembered who he was but was still doubtful, “Alright if you really remember me what is my last name?” said Dylan, “Well that’s an easy one Loxford, your name is Dylan Loxford come on you gave me an easy on” said Delta with a goofy smile on his face, “Nice well that’s all the confirmation I need then Delta I know this is a bit sudden and is a lot to ask but could you demonstrate your power to us please?” said Dylan who wasn’t acting like his usual depressing self, “Well sure thing I’d do anything for my best friend” said Delta going to an empty part of the greyspace.
Delta was ready to create anything he was told and Dakota was ready with a list of things to test and make, “Alright first off, would you please create a training room, and also if you could it would be real handy if you could reinforce it with some strong materials to keep it in place” said Dakota, “Sure thing I will just be a bit so don’t get to comfortable” said Delta as he closed his eyes and built up the training room into a dome shaped building.
Dylan couldn’t believe his eyes in such a small amount of time Delta was able to create something like that out of nothing, “What’s the catch?” said Dylan, “I’m unsure if these are downfalls but more are more just inconveniences I create whatever I think so I wake up with items from my dreams next to me, I have to have a clear image of what it looks like in my head and the worst I would think is I have to find someone else to help me get rid of my creations” said Delta laying back down on the floor.
Dylan impressed by this new discovery of Delta’s powers decided to sit down next to him, “So just a question but why am I here?” asked Delta, “The police were coming from around the corner and we can’t risk being caught because the world isn’t ready for us” said Dylan, “Wait why were the police coming please don’t tell me you were involved with the bank heist” said Delta with increasing concern, “Well we all were but not in the way that you are thinking, we decided to use our powers in a similar way to how you have” said Dylan.
Delta remained silent for a while and then shot up, “WE COULD TEAM UP AND BECOME UNSTOPPABLE” said Delta who was at the peak of his excitement, “Would love to but we operate differently and according to Quintin’s research we should be expecting other’s to get powers soon and that means a lot more crime’s will happen not only people with powers but the people without powers would be trying to get away with this due to all of the chaos that will be happening” said Dylan.
Ryan approached and closed his eyes for a couple seconds, “I have just put together the perfect plan for us to be fully prepared for this, we have to finish our training and we have to make our groups I will stay with Quintin in here to help create some equipment that will help us and also we will have about a month until all of this starts being an actual problem as I imagine that they won’t have a proper grasp on their powers and wouldn’t be confident enough to use their powers effectively” said Ryan, “Great idea, I wouldn’t expect anything less from you Ryan” said Quintin.
The group then nodded in agreement to the plan and Dakota read the rest of his list out and they began preparation for the month of training.