Chapter 2: The Experiment
"Morning Kylir."
"Morning Cole."
The young teenage boy waltzed into the dense blue metallic lab as him and Nathan's assistant Cole greeted one another.
Cole was a nice man, big and loving, and had a personality that warmed your heart. He had chocolate dense hues around his skin, and his smiling brown eyes welcomed you wherever you went; He was the first person Kylir seemed to find "human" in this place.
Kylir erupted into a small yawn as his arms stretched over his white designed t-shirt and black hood into the sky.
Cole smiled at the boy before wheeling his chair over to the series of computers on the far wall.
"Sleep well?" Cole asked.
"Not really." Kylir said as he plopped down in a chair next to Cole, his feet flying up to the desk and his hands going behind his head. "I still had tons of homework to do and Nathan still made me run those stupid tests."
Cole just smirked and softly laughed at the boy, his mirth overriding the sleepy morning.
"As stupid as you think they are, we do them for a reason."
"I know, I know." Kylir waved him off.
The glass doors panned open with a plum motion hiss and in stepped Doctor Nathan Dawkins.
"Morning Kyrlir, Cole."
"Morning Nathan." Both the men called back.
Nathan walked into the room with a mid-sized folder attached to his arm, his step in tune as always, and his eyes as focused as ever. He stepped over to another computer beside Cole and motioned his folder from his grip onto the lab table.
"Well then, shall we get started?"
"As always..." Murmured Kylir.
"Great!" Pumped Nathan in his low yet enthusiastic voice.
Kylir spun himself back around on his chair and pushed himself over to Nathan who now had walked over to the table in the middle of the room. Nathan just smirked at the boy.
"Well, you know what to do Kylir." Nathan said as he pulled out a weird head contraption, an oval shaped head gear dawned with pads and wires. He placed it down on the boy's head, pressed a few buttons and sat down next to Kylir. Once setting up the table, he motioned for Kylir to his attention.
"Okay, try moving one of these objects." Nathan said.
Kylir nodded and his eyes focused onto a random block positioned on the table. His mind once again pulled into that flex, and he felt that twinge and lunge and the object was pushed forward.
"Very good Kylir! Now, can you make it float?"
Now that was harder, but nothing Kylir hadn't done before. Focusing on the object, his brain counter pushed against gravity and lessened the pull around the object. The center of mass in the object attached to Kylir's mental pull and it began pulling up defying the laws of physics.
"Excellent Kylir!"
Up and down, up and down. Kylir willed the object to spin within the air; it's axis's inverting along the coordinate plane. The block floated up and down, left and right, upside down and straight, and eventually Kylir lowered it back to the table.
"Keep it up Kylir, I'm going to go see Cole for a minute."
Nathan arose from his chair and walked over to his assistant, his stance the same as always.
"What do you have Cole?" Nathan asked as he leaned down next to the computer.
"Subjects heart rate slows to near 30
Beats per minute...and his neural activity is off the charts!"
"Pull up the EEG."
"Yes sir." Cole said.
Floundering around with a few clicks, and a program was opened with Kylir's neural activity sprawled all throughout.
"Look at that..." Cole said.
"When he moves an object, electromagnetic fields are produced….He uses those fields to disturb the object's mass …and with that he can distort the flow of gravity…." Nathan proclaimed his mind running miles a minute.
"So his brain is creating electromagnetic fields?" Cole asked.
"Not exactly, but sort of. Look at this." Nathan said pointing to the graph in front of them.
"His neurons seem to have an extra sensory receptor on them...he's able to pull in energy through those sensors and push them out, affecting electromagnetic fields and much less, create small enough ones to affect an object with no magnetic field." Nathan said.
"That's..."
"Incredible." Nathan said finishing Cole's sentence. "I wonder if he could make a field dense enough to supply as a barrier of some sort?"
Walking back over to Kylir who was now stacking objects on top of each other in midair, Nathan began taking the materials off the lab table; Kylir chucking as he let the blocks fall right as Nathan went to grab them.
"Well, Kylir, you know when you lift an object; you said you felt that pull in your mind?"
"Yeah." Kylir said.
"Is there any way you could focus that energy into...some sort of a wall in front of you?"
Kylir pondered for a moment, before looking up to Nathan.
"It's worth a shot." He said.
"Great! Just give me one moment."
Nathan ran around the lab, pulling random machines from their holsters and wires falling to the ground as he scrambled to get them. Machines were hooked up to computers and soon enough, Kylir was surrounded in a sea of watchful machines.
"Okay, Kylir go ahead." Cole said.
Nodding back to the doctors, Kylir focused on the air in front of him. It was different to actually move the energy into a wall instead of using it to move an object, but Kylir accomplished it none the less. He felt the density of the air around him, and he began using that pull in the back of his mind to drag in energy and condense it into one single area.
Cole and Nathan both stood startled as the air around Kylir seemed to phase with a dense hue. It almost seemed to be vibrating and a blur was caught amongst the mist. The wall around Kylir was blurry and unidentifiable and both Nathan and Cole scrambled to the computers, information coming in left and right. Just as they were receiving the data and making correlations off of that, Kylir's field dissipated and his upper torso collapsed to the table.
"Kylir!" Nathan cried and he ran over to the boy.
Kylir softly lifted his head off the table, groaning as he did.
"I-I'm fine...that just took more out of me than I thought it would..." He said in a soft hushed voice.
"You did amazing Kylir, you deserve some rest. Go take the rest of the day off." Nathan said whilst he patted the back of the boy's hoodie.
Nodding back to Nathan, Kylir softly lifted himself from his chair and slowly walked to the door, Nathan and Cole watching him as they returned to their work.
To say his body hurt was an understatement, that field he created took every ounce of energy he had. His head throbbed with a massive headache, and all of his muscles felt lethargic and dense. He bit his lip with each step he took, as his legs felt the underlying need to give out and collapse onto the floor. Using both hands to wrap around his stomach, Kylir slowly made his way back to his room, his hair mapped with sweat and his headache worsening.
Slipping in past the wooden frame, Kylir softly shut his door and made his way across the living room of his make shift apartment. He grabbed a bottle of pain killers and popped two of them in his mouth; he always kept them out just in case Nathan's tests ever ended this way. It happened multiple times before, so he was always prepared when he came home to rest.
Sluggishly he made his way into his bedroom; he kicked of his shoes and made his way into his bathroom, items of person belongings lay strung throughout the rooms. Shutting the door behind him, Kylir walked up to the shower and turned the water on, the water taking a few minutes to warm up. He started with his hoodie, unzipping it and throwing it on the counter, then his white t-shirt, the fabric slipping over the contours of his chest, this his pants falling of his waistline along with his boxers. Looking up he frowned at himself in the mirror, he hated what he saw.
He thought his whole body was disgusting, awkward, off, disproportional, yet in reality, it was quite the opposite. His chest was nice defined with strong muscles, and despite him seeing his stomach as thin and weak, in actuality it was toned with tanned outlines of his abdominal muscles. His skin had a nice warm glow to it, and his dark brown hair and brown eyes matched the outlook all together. Kylir infact was very attractive.
If only he would see that.
Sighing Kylir stepped in the shower, steam emanating in hot puffs. His body shivered as the warm water wrapped around his chilled body, but soon his muscles draped in relaxation, and he softly leaned up against the wall of the shower, the warm water drizzling down his body.
The soft warmth overwhelmed his body and he let his mind wander as the water drew him into a place of solace, his eyes softly shutting.
Jodie.
Kylir quickly opened his eyes and stood up straight, his head in confusion.
Who was…oh that girl I met the other day.
Thoughts began brewing inside of him one after another, relentlessly tossing his mind around.
Who is she?
Why is she at the DPA?
Is she like him?
Kylir stared at the passing water flowing down past his feet and into the drain, his brown eyes following in confusion. He knew nothing about Jodie, but he did know one thing.
He had to see her again.
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