Hey guys! Thank you everyone for the reviews, I'm super glad to have positive feedback. Here's the second chapter, and as promised, it's longer!
To answer the questions asked in the last reviews:
- Yes, I am a Trina fan. But don't hate, there's reason to my madness! This is an AU story, so Trina will change.
- Yes, Robbie is in the story, he'll most likely be in the next chapter.
- As for pairings, I'm still working that out. There will for sure be some Tandre, maybe MAYBE some Brina and Cabbie. Mostly just friendship at this point though.
So please keep reviewing, it means the world to me! I'm happy to answer any questions as well. Next chapter to be posted soon!
Trina opened her eyes slowly, blinking against the harsh light of the afternoon sun. 'What the heck happened?' she wondered. She could only remember a rush of purple light, and then nothing. The grass underneath her tickled the side of her face, so she turned onto her back and started to push herself into a sitting position. Her arms tingled as she put weight on them. 'Great, I've probably injured myself' she thought. Yet as she continued to sit there, an odd sensation came over her. It made her heart race, and her whole body started tingling. It wasn't the feeling of pain, but more so of…power. Yes, power. That's what it was. She looked down at herself, but nothing had changed. She was still just Trina.
Pushing the odd feeling to the back of her mind, she looked at the bodies that lay around her. Tori lay to her right, Beck to her left. She crawled over to Tori first, and was relived to see her sister's chest moving up and down, proving that she was alive and breathing.
"Tori? Tori. Tori!" she hissed, trying to wake up her sister.
"Trina?" Her name didn't come from Tori's mouth, but from the body behind her. She whipped her head around to see Beck looking at her. His gorgeous mane of perfect hair fell over his eyes, and Trina couldn't help suppressing a small smile.
"What happened?" he asked.
"I'm not sure, I don't remember anything," replied Trina, who was now trying to shake Tori awake.
"Do you feel…different?" He didn't know how to put it, but he too felt a strange, tingling sensation going through his body.
"Umm…yeah. I feel…strong. If that makes sense. Tingly."
"Yeah, same here."
"Me too man! It's weird!" Andre shouted from across the yard. Beck and Trina both looked over at him. "I don't seem to be hurt though. What about you guys?"
"I'm good," replied Trina and Beck in union.
"Me too!" yelled an annoyed Jade, who was rising from the ground beside Tori. "So what the fuck just happened?"
"I'm not sure, but why don't we get Cat and Tori inside?" inquired Andre. The other three agreed, so Beck picked up Cat while Andre got Tori. Trina opened the back door, and Tori and Cat were deposited on the sofas. Jade strode in a few seconds later, holding the round object. Well, what was left of it. It was now no bigger than a golf ball, and instead of radiating light, it was now just solid purple. Jade placed it on the kitchen table, and the four conscious bodies gathered around it.
"Do you guys feel like snakes are slithering through your veins?" asked Jade. Trina, Beck, and Andre just kind of looked at her before nodding. They all felt that weird, tingling sensation. "And are Vega and Valentine dead over there?"
"Nope, they're just blacked out still," replied Andre.
"Well darn," said Jade, flatly.
"Jade, we don't need any of your sass right now! Who knows what just happened? Tori may as well be dead thanks to you going and poking weird things that fall out of the sky!" shouted Trina, her eyes fierce.
"Shut it, Trina! We're all fine and dandy, so don't worry your skunkbag of a face!" shout back Jade.
"Girls, we don't need to fight," reasoned Beck, who was looking from Jade to Trina.
"Not now Beck!" the both of them shouted. Trina slammed her fist against the counter, the loud noise of breaking granite ringing through the kitchen. Trina jerked her hand up, surprised. There, on the counter where her left hand had struck down, was a massive dent. Broken pieces of granite littered the once pristine countertop. Trina looked at the three figures that stood around her, and could see equal shock in their eyes. She brought her hand back down, and slowly felt the broken granite with her fingertips. Did that just really happen?
"Holy shit," gaped Beck, his eyes traveling from Trina, to the dent, to the object on the table. Jade stroked her chin, her eyes wide. Andre looked like he saw a ghost.
"Well, fuck this," said Jade, flinging her arm to her side. A series of glass shards flew right past Trina's face, and embedded themselves in the far wall. Jade jumped, instantly bringing her right hand back into her vision.
"Did that just…?"
"Come out of your hand? Yeah, I think so," said Beck. Andre still just stood there. Trina was rubbing her left hand with her right, staring into space.
Jade took a tentative step forward, putting her right hand out in front of her. She felt a surge of power travel through her arm and then WHOOSH, another shard of glass burst forth, lodging into the wall with the others. "Right. Things have just gotten a lot more interesting," she whispered, clearly stunned.
"Guys?"
Jade, Andre, Beck, and Trina all looked to the couch. Tori was looking at them, but something was off…Andre noticed it first.
"WHOLY CHIZ TORI!" he screamed, falling backwards. Tori looked down at herself and nearly fainted; half of her body was lying on the floor behind the couch, and the other half was, well, through the couch. She scooted her legs out from the couch, and they phased right through it. The gang all looked at her, even more shocked (if that was even possible).
"Ok, lets get this straight. Everyone, come sit at the table," Beck instructed. The rest of the group didn't make a sound, but came and sat at the table. Except for Jade, whom sat on the table. "So Trina is super strong. Jade can throw glass. And Tori can…what, like phase through things? All after some object fell from the sky and Jade poked it," continued Beck. Everyone nodded, throwing glances at Jade.
"What?" she yelled, glaring at each of them. "I may have just got you guys superpowers. Be happy."
The group just sat and processed that. Superpowers. Real superpowers. How ridiculous was that? And totally not possible. Yet, here they were with a dent put in solid granite and a few thin chunks of glass sticking out of a wall. Yes, this was very much real.
They were all pulled from their thoughts by a loud yelp. Trina looked to her left, and saw that Tori had phased right through her chair and was sitting on the ground, the chair legs disappearing into her legs and thighs.
"Yeah, this isn't fun," whined Tori as she stood up.
"Well, if you three have…powers…do me and Beck have powers too?" wondered Andre, who was staring at the chair Tori had just phased through. Beck was about to ask the same question, and looked at all of his friends that were gathered around the table.
"Only one way to find out," said Beck as he stood from his chair and took a few steps back. "My arms feel heavy. Maybe I have a power similar to Jade's." He raised his right hand in front of his face and aimed it at the wall that held Jade's glass shards. He tried focusing his mind on the power he felt running through him, but after a few long seconds, nothing happened. "Well, I guess I don't shoot things from my hands. What else would I be able to do?"
"Maybe you can fly!" quipped Andre. Beck just shrugged, but figured it wouldn't hurt to try. He jumped onto the countertop and counted down from three. Then, he jumped off. As soon as his feet left the counter, he felt it. Weightlessness. He looked down to see that the ground was still at least a foot or two below him, but he wasn't moving. He was levitating.
A high pitched squeak pulled him from his concentration and he crashed to the ground. He and the others looked to the couch to see Cat starring at them, her eyes wide with fright.
"Oh, Beck! Was that a magic trick?" she asked.
"Um…why don't you come sit down with us Cat?" said Tori. Cat slowly got up from the couch and made her way over to the table, where she took the chair Tori offered her.
"What's going on guys? I feel…all fuzzy inside!" Cat said, giving a small laugh. Beck was about to explain, but then Cat scrunched up her face and gave a small sneeze, magenta fur flying into the air. Trina yelled and jumped out of her chair, while everyone else took a few steps back. There, sitting in the chair where Cat had once been, was a magenta colored tiger.
"What? Am I finally a unicorn?" Cat laughed. But the question didn't come from the human Cat, it came from the tiger. And it's mouth didn't move, but was barely open. Cat saw that everyone was looking at her, so looked down at herself, thinking she forgot to put shorts on this morning. What she saw made her laugh.
"I'm a tiger!"
"Yeah. You're a fucking tiger." Declared Trina, who was now hiding behind Tori. Jade looked at everyone and rolled her eyes, then moved towards Cat the tiger. She placed her hand on Cat's head and stroked it.
"Tiger fur is surprisingly soft," she said.
"Aw, thanks Jade!" said Cat.
"Well, Cat has the power to turn into a tiger," said Beck. "So now we just need to find out what Andre does."
"Me? Well, maybe I can manipulate minds! Yeeeah." Andre squinted his eyes and looked at Tori. "Tori, you're thinking about tacos."
"No! Not even close!"
"I can't manipulate minds," said Andre, clapping his hands together.
"Andre…I get this weird feeling you can run fast," said Tori, scratching her head. "It's weird. When I look at you, my mind yells 'run, run, run!'" Everyone looked at her like she was crazy, but then they thought about how crazy this situation was and just shrugged it off.
"Yeah, maybe I can run!" exclaimed Andre. He looked to the stairs at the other side of the room, then ran. It felt like no time had gone by at all, and then he was standing at the foot of the stairs.
"I was right!" said an excited Tori. "Andre, you got there in like .001 seconds!"
"We all have superpowers now. Great," said Jade.
"So what do we do now?" asked Beck. The rest of the group all looked at him, no one having a good answer. What were they going to do now?