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Note: This story is one of three backstory fanfics concerning the ZK3 trio, this particular one following Rochelle in the important events of her life. Between twice stopping the girl that would eventually become Team Vexus leader Alpha in plots where her blue-haired ZK3 teammate Dawn was the intended victim, an unintended ascent (followed by accidentally learning to use the powerful Nova Charge technique) that leads to her reuniting with her twin sister, and other events, both serious and wacky, you're looking at an eventful many years. Also, up until a certain point her middle name appears very rarely (usually used only by said twin) and measures a lot smaller for her age (up until some point after her middle name being revealed, 'cured' by the unintended ascent).
Chapter 1: Pyrokinesis
Rochelle's POV
'GX System, Mushroom World, June 13, 2001
Rochelle's age: 7 years, 5 months, 12 days'
To say i was excited would be an understatement. To actually believe, not yet seven and a half years old (Daisy was seventeen days away from turning nine, born a year and a half before me and my almost-identical twin sister Dominique), i was actually going on a camping trip. Most people only got to do so at no younger than nine years old (notable for one location, named Camp Onseyawa, in a different dimension, where the youngest campers there were age nine and the oldest sixteen), but to be so young to go camping for the first time would make anyone very excited. However, one thing i wasn't quite expecting was the elemental power i'd eventually discover i had on the trip.
For those of you (breaking the fourth wall here) who were confused by the almost part of the similar appearances of me and my twin, the reason is that Dominique has amethyst purple hair compared to my yellow-blonde locks, and ever since we became good enough at talking (we were only seven, after all) we almost exclusively referred to each other by our middle names. Dominique doing so with me is understandable; someone would be like 'Why name a kid THAT?' due to the fact Peach is my first name, so Dominique, or Jasmine as i refer to her as, calls me Rochelle, which would be a more understandable name (especially since i'm female). We ended up driving for about ninety minutes, Dominique falling asleep on the way, before reaching the site we had picked out to be where our campsite would be. Sure, Dad got pretty excited when it came to setting up the tent, but we managed to get it up without much time passing.
Things went pretty normal until it became time to eat. Since we had gotten to the campsite by means of our car (RVs can be very expensive) the only way to cook food was via a campfire, and we just couldn't get one started. Dad had made so many tries at doing so with some slim, short sticks and a couple flint rocks he had just plain given up (as he had made well over one hundred attempts) so i simply just threw a punch aimed at the area where the campfire would be, making sure to stop well short of the pile of wood, and that's when the surprise occurred. A small jet of fire had launched out of thin air, seemingly right where my outstretched fist was, and did on a surprising move what Dad and the well-known attempts at lighting a fire with just what the great outdoors offered couldn't.
"Wait, how long did i have this elemental power?!" i asked, totally surprised. As it turns out, i had had the ability to control and manipulate fire ever since December 31, 1993, the day me and Dominique were born - certain families native to the Mushroom World, whenever a multiple birth occurs, have one of the newly-born babies possessing some kind of elemental power, and in my case that was fire. Also, for the past couple months Daisy had been wanting to be able to control lightning, Dad's elemental power (which had been one of the rare cases of a single newborn having an elemental power, single being the key word in terms of how many the mother in question gave birth to). Once the trip was finally over, everything seemed to remain normal. However, my body had seemingly stopped growing, trapping me, in a sense, at three foot eight in height. The benefit of that, however, was that my internal organs had stopped the growth process as well (unlike one kid in a story). I spent ten years at that sub-four foot height, before my growth stopped a second time; this time, intentionally by me, following an unintended ascent that got me back to looking my age (i was seventeen by then). However, it was when i was eleven, with interdimensional travel possible, when i was involved in trying to stop what would become my signature crime prevention affinity years after that (and the fuel that would give me access to a transformation training alone can't give access to).
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And there's chapter one of the backstory following the blonde, eldest ZK3 member. This is how she learned of her pyrokinesis, and more than three and a half years passed before the events of chapter 2 happened. Until then, this is KhaosOmega. L-ater!