"Hi-Ya! Kat no, LOOK OUT!" Before he knew what he was doing, however, Tommy had jumped in front of the laser aimed at Kat.

Tommy awoke in a cold sweat; the dream had been very vivid and he could almost feel his eyes burning from where the laser had struck.

He heard the click of a door opening.

"Tommy? How are you feeling?" came Billy's voice.

"I'd be feeling better if someone would tell me what the hell happened." Tommy told him. "Why are my eyes burning? And why can't I open them?"

"They're taped shut." Billy told him. "Your eyes were pretty messed up after that laser struck them."

"So that wasn't a dream?" Tommy asked quietly.

"I'm afraid not." Said Billy. "I'll take the bandages off, it might hurt a bit." For the next few minutes Billy carefully took the bandages off the other boy's eyes. "Open your eyes." Billy instructed gently.

Tommy slowly opened his eyes, wincing slightly from the pain of them being taped together.

"What do you see?"

Tommy blinked a couple times but nothing; all he could see was blackness. "Nothing." He barely whispered.

"That's what I was afraid of." Billy replied, sighing.

"What's going on? Billy, what happened?" Tommy demanded. "I want to know now."

"To put it blankly, you're blind Tommy." Billy told him.

"Blind?" Tommy repeated softly. "Are – are you sure?"

"Positive." Said Billy. "I did some tests last night; that laser that hit your eyes evidently had some altered frequencies or something which caused the blindness. I do believe it, however, to only be temporary."

Tommy couldn't even think straight – he was blind; because of a spur of the moment decision, it had caused him the one thing he held most precious, his sight. He didn't care that it could only be temporary; the only thing on his mind was that he wouldn't be able to see his friends, wouldn't be able to see his parents, or the sky outside. He mentally cursed himself for making the wrong decision.

Rolling over he squeezed his eyes shut tight and tried to go back to his dreamland where he still had his vision. Colorless, that's what the world was to him now.