So the month had started and everyone was paired up with someone and put into all of the new living areas designed especially for each of them. Dakota had gotten into the house after Will had jumped to the roof and proceeded to enter through one of the windows on the upper levels, “So Will, you aren’t even going to use the doors, are windows the hottest thing to use to enter buildings now?” said Dakota as he entered the mansion. Will jumped down from the top of the staircase and before he touched the ground he stopped in the air just in time for a perfect landing, “Well I was just so excited, everyone got their living space individually made for them right? So what’s the deal with this place?” said Will, “Well to be honest the design is nothing specially for you but the material is very tough so you won’t be breaking it anytime soon” said Dakota, “Sweet!” said Will as he jumped back to the top of the staircase.
Back at the hospital Naomi and Caitlin were filled with excitement walking around and exploring the rooms to see what they would find, “Wow. So where do you think our room will be?” asked Naomi, “Well I would imagine with all of our stuff we had sent here yesterday.” said Caitlin, “Oh right good idea well we could use this as time to get acquainted better” said Naomi, “I guess what do you want to know about me?” said Caitlin, “Well what did you bring with you?” asked Naomi, “Just the essentials my medical kits, my dog and sewing kit” said Caitlin, “Oh awesome I just bought my books and pencils with me, wait a minute did you say dog?” Naomi said with sudden realisation, “Yeah my dog, I wouldn’t be able to last a day knowing that he could have not been fed properly” said Caitlin, “Oh fair enough anyway what is your power anyway?” asked Naomi, “I have the power of self healing, Delta gave my uniform the power to heal others so now I am basically a medic, how about your power?” said Caitlin, “Well I haven’t really told anyone what it is before but I feel like since we will be living together I should tell you, I have the power to shape shift” said Naomi, “Shapeshifting! That’s amazing please show me what you can do” said Caitlin with sudden excitement.
Naomi stood still and closed her eyes as a burst of light made it impossible to see her, “Hey are you alright do you need my help?” said Caitlin with concern, as Caitlin looked down she saw a dog barking at her, “Oh I see you turned into a dog but you have to way to communicate with me in this form yet” said Caitlin, Naomi in her newly taken form ran down the hallway trying to track a scent when suddenly she stopped and her head pointed directly down one of the halls and she ran, “Slow down will ya I don’t even know what you’re doing” said Caitlin as she was gasping for air.
Naomi didn’t slow down and continued her pace to a room where she closed her eyes and the light shone off of her again as she returned to her human state, “Well that was embarrassing hope I don’t have to do that again, tracking scents is disgusting how do dogs manage” Naomi said to herself as she opened the door, when Naomi opened the door out came running a dog that jumped up on her excited to see someone new.
Naomi was taken down to the ground by the dog as it licked her face, “Disgusting get off why won’t it stop” Naomi pleaded out, Caitlin had finally caught up and found Naomi on the floor with the dog licking her face, “Jack, come here get off of her” said Caitlin as the dog proceeded to listen to what she had said and came to her feat with his head down knowing that Caitlin wasn’t happy.
Naomi and Caitlin sat down inside the room to find all of their belongings separated to sides, “Wow I was kind of expecting our room to be covered in our belongings from your dog” said Naomi, “What? My Jack wouldn’t ever do something like that he knows better” said Caitlin who was obviously offended to hear what Naomi said, “Sorry I prefer to say things directly instead of keeping secrets because otherwise if we aren’t truthful we won’t have trust and trust is a crucial component if we want to be partners” said Naomi with complete calmness, “Hey we have a TV in here I wonder what’s on” said Caitlin.
Caitlin proceeded to turn on the television only to find that the screen was static, “Hey doesn’t that only happen on the old televisions” said Naomi, “No it happens usually when there is a problem with the reception to channels, I’m guessing that we can’t get any connection to the real world as Dakota has closed off the exit to the outside world meaning that we won’t be using this TV” said Caitlin, “Well if you decided to pay attention the TV does have something connected to it, I think that it’s some sort of DVD player” said Naomi as she investigated it further, Caitlin proceeded to look through the drawers to find remotes for the TV and DVD player, she also found the bottom drawer completely filled with discs, “Hey Naomi look what I found” said Caitlin.
Naomi moved over to the draw to see what Caitlin had found and before Caitlin could go on to say anything else, “Yes! We have so many movies to watch you are going to love them” said Naomi, “Wait what?” said Caitlin, “Well all of these are a bunch of animated movies and some shows are here with them” said Naomi with joy as she looked at each disc getting more excited with each one that she saw. As the two were looking through the movies Dakota came into the room through one of his portals.
Naomi and Caitlin were to preoccupied to notice Dakota had entered the same room as them, “Hello Caitlin, Hello Naomi, how are you finding your living arrangements?” said Dakota, Caitlin’s first reaction to finding out Dakota was in the same room as them was to punch him but as her fist went flying towards him a portal appeared in the way and ended up with Caitlin punching herself, “What’s the deal you don’t just sneak up on us like that I could have died from a heart attack!” said Caitlin who was filled with anger, “Well actually you wouldn’t have because you see the greyspace is different from the reality you know” said Dakota, “Different how exactly?” asked Naomi with curiosity, “Well the time flow here is actually a quarter of normal speed so the one month in the real world would be four months here” said Dakota, “What?! Four months, we have to spend four months here” said Caitlin shocked to hear this information, “Yes but that isn’t all of the differences, as I have to explain this to the rest I will tell you the one crucial change” said Dakota, “Which would be” Naomi asked impatiently, “You can’t die here” said Dakota as he proceeded to leave through one of his portals, “Awesome that’s amazing I can try all sorts of transformations now without any penalty the perfect thing for my training” said Naomi. Caitlin and Naomi got themselves rested whilst they still could before their training begun as they could tell it would be difficult.
Over at what seemed like an environmental disaster Zac and Andrew had explored the place to some extent, “Where do you think our stuff would be?” asked Zac, “I don’t know and I really hope that a certain something isn’t there with it” said Andrew, “What do you mean?” said Zac, “I mean I may have sent some criminal to the greyspace instead of bringing anything with me” said Andrew, “So you mean instead of bringing anything for the next month you got a random criminal off the streets?” Zac said lost in what was going on, “Well it wasn’t the streets he was holding a guy at gunpoint and I was running out of options” said Andrew.
The two walked through, Zac’s body was changing as he went through each of the different environments when he got to the rocky area Zac’s fingers turned into suction cups and his skin turned into scales and he grew a tail, “Hey could you stop it already I’m tired of you hitting me with all of these random body parts you keep on growing out of nowhere!” said Andrew, “Well sorry I can’t control when it happens and what happens, well at least not that well unless I have complete focus and I can imagine that I am not here but I just can’t focus at a time like this” said Zac.
The two proceeded to walk around and aimlessly try to find their room, “I’m getting tired can we rest now?” said Andrew, “If we have to, I will try and find a way around this” said Zac, Dakota had come in to where Zac and Andrew were sitting, “So you two any luck with finding your room yet?” said Dakota, “Not at all this place is so weird and confusing” said Andrew, “Yeah, I know that you have to go soon and help the rest out but before you help us out can we please have some clarification?” said Zac, “Yes, the man Andrew had sent to the greyspace was put somewhere else so don’t worry” said Dakota, “So where do we go to find our room” asked Andrew, “I was really surprised that you two didn’t find it especially you Andrew” said Dakota, “What do you mean?” said Andrew, “Well that’s my hint to you and it looks as if Zac has already figured this one out” said Dakota as him and Andrew looked at Zac grow his wings, Dakota then left through his portal and Andrew had also realised what was going on.
Andrew went into the air and Zac followed behind closely, “Don’t you feel stupid now?” said Zac laughing at Andrew, “HEY YOU COULDN’T FIND IT EITHER” said Andrew, “Yeah but only because I was changing into all sorts of other forms so I really didn’t have an opportunity to take my winged form unlike you who can just take flight whenever you like” said Zac with Andrew flying at a much faster speed upwards leaving Zac behind to catch up.
Andrew had arrived at what seemed to be a glorified birdcage that was as big as a house and the inside of it looked like a five star hotel room. Zac had come up to see Andrew had already made it inside and was exploring the insides to see what was in the drawers and what was in there to do, Zac had come in and at the side of the room was all of his stuff exactly as he would have had it at home.
At the blank house Sam and Hayden had just entered and the interior of the house was the same colour as the exterior, “Well I can’t live with this we are gonna have to do some changing here” Sam said as he proceeded to grab markers from his pockets, “I knew these would come in handy one day” said Sam as he proceeded to absorb the markers and his fingers all turned into the same colour as the markers.
Before Sam could change the colouring of the walls Dakota came in through one of his portals, “I would suggest you don’t do that” said Dakota, “But why not?” said Sam, “Because if you bothered to look around you would have noticed these remotes on the wall all throughout your house” said Dakota, “Well I was too busy looking at this ugly house to notice” said Sam, “How could you? They are the only coloured thing in this house” said Dakota leaving Sam with less excuses to use, “You caught me I just really wanted to colour in this house okay, but anyway what was it that you wanted to show me?” said Sam, “Well it’s not you specifically it’s also Hayden because this house design was made more for him to train in” said Dakota, “Wait that’s unfair what about me?” said Sam, “Well if you remember correctly you have used your power of mimicry to copy Hayden’s power of invisibility so it will also work for you as well but I think we should focus on getting Hayden trained first” said Dakota.
Dakota went on to explain the rest of the training plan to Hayden and Sam as they took in as much as they could, “Also final thing these remotes they change the house design to one of the available options” said Dakota, “Well thanks for the explaining we will be going to rest now bye” said Sam as Dakota went through his portal closing it. Sam and Hayden rushed to their room and went on to connect one of the consoles they had sent to the greyspace and played the games for the rest of the night instead of sleeping.
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Meanwhile at Cat and Katie’s house with intense light emanating from it, “Hey do you think that this place could be a bit too bright?” asked Katie, “No way this is great I love bright places it’s comforting” said Cat, “Yeah I guess so but where is our room I want to sit down” said Katie who was slowing down from exhaustion, “But we’ve only been in here for ten minutes and five of those minutes we were us playing rock paper scissors” said Cat, “Yeah and that was really exhausting it took a lot out of me” said Katie, “Alright I think I may have an idea then stand back I don’t want to knock you down” said Cat as Katie backed away from her.
Cat stood still in the room of light and from her sides darkness was spreading, “You see without the light a shadow can’t exist so I have the perfect opportunity to make my shadow’s find the room for us whilst you and I can take a well deserved break” said Cat as the shadows took form and split in opposite directions, “Oh right that’s cool so what do you want to do whilst your shadows do that for you?” asked Katie, “Wanna play some more rock paper scissors?” replied Cat, “Sure I love that game” said Katie as the two proceeded to play with each other.
Two hours had passed and Cat and Katie were still playing their game when one of Cats shadows came around the corner and jumped into her, “Oh I know where the room is now” said Cat, “Really where?” said Katie, “Follow me I will take us there” said Cat as she walked down the hallway with Katie following behind her.
Cat and Katie had got to a door that had darkness spreading from under the door, “Well this must be our room” said Cat, “What makes you think that?” responded Katie, “Well it’s the only one that looks different, anyway it’s not like we have things in our rooms to make them ours” said Cat, “Oh I guess you got me there well let’s go in then” Katie said as she proceeded to open up the door, “SLOW DOWN YOU WILL LET THE LIGHT IN I CAN’T HANDLE ANYMORE OF IT” said Cat, “I thought you loved the bright look of this house” said Katie, “NO MORE” said Cat as she rushed in the room with Katie followed closely behind.
In the gym Connor and James were looking around and amazed at all of the things they could see, “Wow we even have kitchen just for us” said James, “Yeah I guess your cooking skills could finally be put to use” said Connor, “Look at this the weight sizes look so basic but they go up to at least five hundred kilograms each” said James with excitement, “Look at this treadmill the speed only goes down to five hundred kilometres for the lowest speed” said Connor.
James and Connor who were overly happy about their new living space immediately started to try everything on the maximum setting, “Are you sure about this James? I don’t think this will end well,” said Connor with an uneasy tone, “Stop being such a sour puss we can handle it we have powers” said James, “Well I guess you’re right but I’m not sure,” said Connor.
The two started straight away on the maximum settings, James tried benching over ten thousand kilograms of weight and ended up not being able to handle it resulting in it falling on his neck and blacking out, Connor on the treadmill was going at over seven thousand kilometres per minutes and within the second of starting he smashed back into a weight behind him which hit him directly on the back of his head.
Dakota came in through one of his portals to see Connor with a massive lump on the back of his head unconscious and James in what would normally be a fatal incident, “I didn’t even tell you two about the no death in the greyspace yet you decided to do something stupid like this, get yourselves better I am sending you to the hospital so Caitlin can heal you both” said Dakota as the two put their thumbs up in the air before a portal opened underneath them both.
Meanwhile at the shinning house with Baden and Jesse, “PLEASE DON’T BURN ME!” said Baden pleading for his life, “Wow do you really think I would, I don’t think so I also have to add that you are the one paired with me so you would have to have some way to prevent getting burned alive, right?” said Jesse, “Well let me just see what I have inside me” said Baden as he closed his eyes and entered his mind.
Baden was floating around in his head looking for something to counter Jesse’s fire, “There has to be an easier way to do this” Baden thought to himself, “FIRE EXTINGUISHER COME TO ME” shouted Baden into to endless space that was his mind. Seconds later a group of fireproof and prevention items came floating in front of Baden, “This is more I like it, now why don’t I remember absorbing any of this” said Baden, “Bring me video recording of when I consumed all of this, please?” said Baden doubting that this would actually work.
The next moment passed and a massive screen floated in front of Baden showing footage of Delta and Ryan in his room when he was sleeping, “What are these two doing?” Baden said to himself. The footage continued and Ryan had a bag full of old junk and Delta was creating items that appeared in his hand, “Wait a minute what are they doing with that” Baden said.
Baden watched as Ryan grabbed out a variety of mechanical things that he had no use for anymore, he started with some old torches, a pedometer, a radio, an old video player, a MacBook, three toasters, a kettle, a microwave and a lawnmower. Baden’s first reaction instead of being angry about this he admired the fact that Ryan and Delta both managed to sneak into his room without waking his family, whilst also bringing all of that with them.
The footage went for about an hour with Ryan who had finally finished Delta brought out a list and Ryan ticked of each item as Delta shoved them into Baden, “They are really determined to shove things in me” Baden said to himself. Once Delta finished his list, which took about half an hour the two of them left, and the screen in front of Baden had disappeared and then Baden had woken up.
Jesse saw Baden wake up and saw his face in disbelief, “What happened in there?” said Jesse, “I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT” said Baden as he proceeded run down the hallway, “Okay then I guess I will see you after we rest then” said Jesse as he proceeded to walk towards the rooms.
Meanwhile at the peaceful place that Nathan and Elisa were staying at, “This is so dumb, there is nothing to do” said Elisa, “Well I don’t know it could be a nice opportunity to relax I mean this is meant to help us with our powers so maybe we could better control them” said Nathan trying to make light of the situation, “Well Dakota said that our powers are linked with our emotions so if we can control our emotions better we could be unstoppable” said Elisa whilst she started to have a sinister grin appear on her face. Nathan unsure of whether to go along with Elisa decided to just get in the house and be pleasantly surprised by the neat look of the house, “Wow this place is so clean I haven’t seen anything this neat before in my life except on the TV of course, speaking of TV where are they?” said Elisa as she proceeded to look through the house for something to entertain herself.
At the library Ryan and Quintin were left at they decided to go and explore it, “Wow this place is huge” said Quintin, “Seeing as Delta knew I was going to live in it he has most likely filled it with puzzles and secrets ready for us to find” said Ryan, “I will find our room first before we do any of that” said Quintin as he closed his eyes.
Quintin had his eyes closed for just under five minutes and he opened them floating off down one of the aisles, “So let me guess he made it like a maze if we wanted to get to our room right?” said Ryan, “Yep” replied Quintin, “And you just cheated by using your power to scout the area right?” Ryan said, “That would be correct” said Quintin, “So how long would it have taken us to do it without your power?” asked Ryan, “Without my power it would have taken at least an hour but your memory is already great without your power so you wouldn’t be going in circles” said Quintin, “I guess you’re right but still it would have been fun to go and do this puzzle without powers right?” said Ryan, “I would like to get to sleep wouldn’t you?” said Quintin, “Nope I never need to sleep” said Ryan, “Wait what do you mean you don’t need to sleep?” asked Quintin surprised by what Ryan had said, “I mean I don’t need to sleep” Ryan repeated, “Okay then please elaborate on that if you could please” said Quintin even more confused than before, “I mean that my mind is fully rested already so there would be no real reason to sleep” said Ryan, “But how could that be?” Quintin asked, “Well you see whenever I use my power my mind goes into a resting state that similar to if I were dreaming and the power goes throughout everything I have ever experienced so instead of the normal amount of time required for sleep all I have to do is blink and there I go fully rested” said Ryan, “Wow that's impressive and explains how you are able to have so much done already” said Quintin as the two got to the end of the maze and found themselves at the front of a door.
Quintin entered the room to immediately go face first on the bed that was in the room, “So I guess Delta knew that I was going to live here after all and just didn't put a bed in here for me, oh well seeya Quintin, I'm going to go find Delta because I have some serious combat stuff to prepare for.” said Ryan as he left to go back in the maze.
Meanwhile, in a room that was made of half light and half darkness, Delta and Dylan were writing down their ideas on each of their different halves of the room, Delta had a whiteboard and Dylan had a blackboard, “So we need to have them training right?” said Delta, “Yeah. That was the whole point of this remember?” said Dylan with a slight bit of confusion, “Well how about we make it more fun, like add an incentive so they want to train” said Delta, “I'm listening” said Dylan who was intrigued by what Delta was saying, “Well how about we make a tournament, where we will start it off with each person battling their partners, then the winner of that will go off to verse another winner from one of the pairs, this way we can also find out who the strongest is. So Dylan, what do you say?” said Delta. Dylan remained still and started to think, “Alright but where is the incentive?” asked Dylan, “Well how about we let the winner have them and their partner any object they want created for them?” said Delta, “I like it. Let's do it, but we will have to wait for morning because Quintin wouldn't be able to get in contact with everyone at once until he has slept.
Delta and Dylan remained writing stuff onto their boards when suddenly Delta had a gummy bear appear in his hands for him to eat it straight away, “Did you suddenly have a craving for gummy bears or something like that?” said Dylan, “Nope I just felt tired.” said Delta who was radiating with positive energy, “Do you mean hungry? Because hungry and tired are two totally different things.” said Dylan, “No I meant tired, I thought up a special gummy bear that is kinda like coffee except is a substitute for sleeping all together so instead of sleeping I eat that and well I am as awake as ever” said Delta, “Yeah I get that but why a gummy bear?” said Dylan, “Oh because that's all I could think of when I made my first one so I decided why not just keep it that way” said Delta, “Fair enough, anyway I'm gonna get some sleep see you when I wake up” said Dylan heading for his bed, “Hey don't you want a gummy bear?” asked Delta, “No I don't know what they could do to me” said Dylan, “Oh, okay, I guess so, anyway goodnight, I'm going to find Ryan so we can plan some stuff.” said Delta as he walked out the door that was placed where the light and darkness met, “Sure, whatever, see ya later then.” said Dylan as he proceeded to go on his bed.
Delta was walking around the greyspace and admiring all of the buildings he created whilst also looking for Ryan, “HEY!” shouted a voice from behind Delta, Delta turned around pleasantly surprised to see Ryan running towards him, “Ah Ryan, I was just looking for you.” said Delta, “Cool so what do you wanna do? I'm kinda getting bored of shoving things into Baden whilst he's sleeping, you know?” said Ryan, “Well I thought you may want to help out with a tournament we are having for training, also you may want my help, seeing as you don't really have a combat orientated power.” said Delta, “Sweet, I would love your help, but I would just like the materials on this list due to the surprise of what I want to make.” said Ryan.
Delta looked at the list and was expecting a list of swords but it was a list of materials with pictures of what they looked like next to it, “Wow Ryan I didn't expect this from you, I was sure that you were going to have this full of swords.” said Delta, “Oh that's right thanks for reminding me” said Ryan as he pulled out another list, “This list is an optional list, you know if you get bored you can give them to me.” said Ryan giving Delta another list with swords on it, “Come on Ryan, how many swords can you need and also how many swords are there?” said Delta as he read through the list.
Delta was quickly creating the things on Ryan's first list, “Thanks Delta, I owe you one.” said Ryan, “Alright I will keep that in mind and make sure to see what you make with these.” Delta said as he continued to swiftly create materials, Ryan got to work with the materials as soon as he could and started to put them together.
The night went by and people started to wake up Quintin was given the details of what was going on by Dakota, “ATTENTION EVERYONE! TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY! YOU AND YOUR PARTNER CAN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WIN ANY ITEM IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ENTER THIS COMPULSORY FIGHTING TOURNAMENT AND WIN! MORE INFORMATION WILL BE GIVEN OUT SHORTLY!” Quintin said through mass telepathy to everyone.