Power Anomaly
disclaimer: I don't own The tomorrow people or Heroes
Summary: Stephen Jameson is pulled through the vortex with the founders machine which disintegrates and he is thrown into the Heroes universe.
Pairing : Stephen x Claire
Shortly after the founder's machine went off and froze every human inside and in the near vicinity of Ultra, Stephen arrives in the room containing the machine.
He uses his telekinesis to stop the machine, but it only slows down the spreading of the field, after a minute or so of trying to stop the machine he finally succeeds but the founder caught up to him and blasts him with his telekinesis telling him "enough of this nonsense." And causing Stepeh to fly against the equipment behind him.
"It cannot be stopped, not anymore than evolution can be stopped. Don't you understand Stephen that human extinction is inevitable. That rather than thousands of years of slow decay and obsolescence, this will all be over in a blink of an eye, now what could be more human than that?" The founder asks him while he's using his telekinesis to shatter the frozen human guarding the room.
"You killed him." Stephen says shocked, because his kind is not able to kill without being experimented on.
"He was never alive. I'm offering youyour rightful place as the planet's apex species." The founder offers him.
"You killed my father." Stephen replies pissed and charges at him but the founder stops him with his telekinesis, causing Stephen to fall into a defensive position, trying to push back against the founders superior telekinesis.
"It was your uncle, a human that killed your father." The founder replies and liftst Stephen into the air. Stephen returns the favor by using his own telekinesis to pull the founder up by his feet and then slams him into the ground. The founder reacts quickly and teleports behind Stephen, who then tries to punch the founder, but he stops his punches with his telekinesis and conters the assault with a telekinetic shove, making Stephen fly against a beam.
"You are no match for me and you're certainly no match for your father." The founder tell him.
"What?" Stephen asks confused.
"Don't you get it yet Stephen? Your father's powers are the machine! A home without humanity, a refuge. That is your father's legacy." The founder tells him.
"No." Stephen disagrees and starts to attack the founder again and gets one punch in before being thrown back by his telekinesis.
"This is the future and we are already living in it powerful little boy and even one as special as you can't hope to turn the clock backwards." The founder rants, standing over Stephen.
Stephen gets up and uses his telekinesis to throw the founder off balance and behind him, against a wall, before reaching up to the core of the machine and trying to stop it. But instead of a struggle against the machine he feels its powers get transferred into himself and the machine stops, opening a portal to limbo behind the machine as well.
Stephen reaches to the founder and uses his new powers to teleport the founder into his chokehold, before turning him to the portal and pushes him in saying "I'm my father's legacy."
The portal then starts to consume the founder's machine part by part and Stephen feeling a pull coming from the portal goes in as well, wishing that now that he's not reachable anymore the world will be save from someone continuing the founder's work. After the portal closes behind himself Stephen finds himself in Limbo, just like before when he visited his father and sees his father sitting in an old memory again.
"Dad?" Stephen asks surprised.
"Stephen, how did you get here?" His father asks concerned.
"I did it dad, I stopped the founder." Stephen replies proudly.
"That's great son, I knew you could do it, but why are you here?" Roger asks.
"I don't know, I got these new powers and was able to open a portal to limbo. I pushed the founder in here and went in feeling something calling for me and took the machine with me. I hope that now that we are gone, the world is save from anyone freezing the humans any time soon." Stephen says.
"I hope so too, but what are you going to do now? I think that because you can control the Limbo to some degree you could exit it to your will, as long as your physical form is intact." Roger informs his son.
"Sounds like a great idea, maybe I'll get Cara and mom and Luca and just hide somewhere away from the general population, I'm sure there is some kind of Island not used yet." Stephen replies.
"Son, I can't say this for certain, but I don't think it'll be that simple. The Limbo is a dimension which might not exclusively be connected to our world, so you might come out in another dimension." Roger says.
"What? What am I gonna do now?" Stephen asks shocked.
"I think you should take your chance and if you get out in another dimension make your best of it. It's important that you don't come back into Limbo if you can avoid it. Being here must take an immense toll on your body." Roger says.
"What? How can I just accept that I'm never getting back, even though I might have a chance, however small it is." Stephen yells outraged.
"Stephen, if our understanding is true then there is an unlimited number of dimensions out there. You can't possibly get back into the right one." Roger explains.
"So what? I have to start over again in a world I know nothing about and have no one I know?" Stephen asks.
"Sadly yes. Listen son, I know this seems scary and unfair, but it could be a blessing in disguise, you still have your whole future ahead of yourself don't waste that on trying to get back to a world that might have forgotten you by the time you get there. Now go Son, I think being in Limbo is getting dangerous for you now and never forget, I love you son." Roger says seeing Stephen's clothes start to waste away.
"I love you too dad, but I can't promise that I'll never try to meet you again or get back to my old live." Stephen says and creates a portal, hoping it'd lead back to his earth and steps through.
After coming out of the portal Stephen looks around curiously and sees that he's in a dry area and came out at an abandoned refinery, which are basically a few rusted metal constructions by now.
"Well, I might not be in New York anymore, but I could still be in the same dimension." Stephen says starting to walk towards where he guesses is a town, based on the tire tracks leading away from the refinery.
"I better get to a computer fast and see if I can find my mother or anyone online." Stephen murmurs to himself thinking about how he should approach his situation.
After half an hour or so of walking through the desert area he arrives in the Texas town Odessa.
'Hmm Texas huh? Well let's try to find the Library.' Stephen thinks and then uses his telepathy on someone he just passed to peek into his memories, looking for the location of the library.
'got it.' Stephen thinks to himself and heads to the towns library.
After 20 minutes he reaches the library and heads inside, going over to a computer and sees that they have to be close to ten years old.
'maybe they are just cheap here.' Stephen thinks but is fearing the worst, that he's in another dimension.
Sitting down at a computer he opens up the desktop and sees in the bottom right corner that it's the 8th May 2006.
Looking at the date shocked Stephen gets up and leaves the Library and finds an ally, where he slumps down against the wall of a building, feeling helpless and not knowing what to do next.
"Fuck, how am I even gonna survive in this place? I don't exist here. How am I ever gonna get a life when I don't exist in any database or documentation." Stephen curses, shoving away some dirt with his telekinesis violently.
After close to an hour of sulking and being angry at the universes screwing with him he calms down and gets an idea 'I guess I should try to pull of being an amnesiac. I mean I really don't know anything about this world and anything I could say about my old lie won't be true here anyway, so this might work.
Stephen then looks around town, looking for the police station. Walking in he goes over to the first officer he sees and looks around confused, rambling on about where he is and how he got here and who he is.
After a few minutes of his rambling along with Stephen trying to influence him telepathically, which worked to his surprise he then gets taken to the hospital by an officer and they perform test on him, coming to the conclusion that there is nothing physically wrong with him, but that his amnesia might be because of an emotional trauma or something and tell them that they should keep him at the hospital for now.
Over the next two days Stephen fakes being an amnesiac only remembering his name and age and gets some new documentation on that name and not being an adult, he gets put into foster care and has to come in to the hospital every now and then and is supposed to be enrolled in school for the next semester.
Over the next 4 month Stephen has gotten himself a job at a coffeeshop and found a small apartment for rent and after telling the owner about his memory loss and his situation he rents it for a reduced price. He still has to check in with the foster care system every few weeks but since he's 16 already there is not much hope of getting adopted and Stephen has shown that he's able to take care of himself.
AN: I know the whole getting his identity might not be realistic but since he can influence people's thoughts and I needed a place to start from this seems like a good approach, anyway review and follow if you like it.