Hello! Yes, I have updated the first two chapters, I'm adding some new characters and some of what I had in them didn't line up with what I wanted, so they have been changed slightly. Matt (guest reviewer), I wasn't intending to add them, but now that you mention it…We'll see. Now that that's taken care of, oh, wait, happy Pride Month! #proudtocreate. Now on with the story!
Rex walked into the hotel, trailing Charmcaster and Omnimatrix. The green glow seemed to be coming from a spot in the roof, and Rex looked up. A green ball was suspended in midair, rotating and pulsing gently, and he quickly looked away, swallowing bile that had gathered in the back of his throat.
"Welcome, Welcome, ladies and gentlemen!" A voice echoed through the decrepit lobby, and Charmcaster rolled her eyes.
"D-Hybrid, you'll scare the poor kid." She said, and a childish laugh followed.
"Ah, my bad Test. You sound so much like him sometimes." She said to a boy, who appeared about her age, as he walked out of the shadows. He had blond hair with orange tips that stuck straight up, almost like fire, blue eyes, tan skin, a black t-shirt with a rotten version of the toxic symbol on it, green cargo pants just like Omnimatrix's, and a blue collared jacket. Hybrid appeared too, lips split in a grin and fangs showing.
"Who's this?" Rex asked, and the kid grinned.
"Test." He said simply, and Rex turned to Omnimatrix, only to find that he had vanished.
"This is another one of our crew. You didn't really believe that you were the first we talked to?" Charmcaster asked, and Rex blinked.
"How come you never mentioned you had more, and why didn't they come with you?" He asked.
"You didn't ask. Test and Thanatos are the only others and they don't—umm, they're difficult to bring outside." Charmcaster said, then slipped into the shadows.
"Don't worry, you'll get to see what they can do too." Hybrid said, an Rex noticed that his eyes were acid (more like ectoplasm, his brain reminded him) green, and he jerked back.
"Surprised? I can take the form these match." Hybrid said, and a white/blue light appeared in a ring around his middle, splitting and going up and down. When that light died Hybrid seemed to have done a color swap. His jet black hair was shock white, his eyes were still that ectoplasm green, pulsing and twisting, like it wasn't iris but simply ectoplasm behind the cornea, his skin was now a healthy tan, and he was wearing a black, spandex jumpsuit with white boots, gloves, belt, and a strange symbol on the chest.
"Power number one." Hybrid said jokingly, sinking into the floor to the waist and making the front of his chest go invisible. Instead of seeing lungs, ribs, and heart, a mass of green was swirling around, like a tank of water being driven on a bumpy road.
"Two and three, and of course I can fly, so four." He said. "I'll walk you through the rest. I don't think this building could stand them." Rex looked at him alarmedly. Hybrid laughed.
"For starters I've got an ice core, which means nothing to you, but it means I can create and manipulate ice. I can shoot blasts of ectoplasm out of my hands, I'm half dead so all the fun that comes with that, no food, no water, no sleep, etc. And that teleportation thing, I don't imagine Charmcaster explained that to you. The reason I didn't just bring us all here is because, one, we wanted you to see what Omni can do, and two, only ghosts can teleport that way. What happens in I remove my consciousness, my mind, from my body and let that dissolve into ambient ectoplasm, then I have about a split second to get the energy of my mind into a host, so I'm not destroyed. I find the spot I want to get to, up together any ambient ectoplasm there, and make a whole new body. It's more complicated that that, but there's the basics." He continued, then looked sympathetically at Rex, who looked torn between disgust and fear.
"Want to go see the others? Most of the rest of my power roster is the typical things you think of when you think superpowers and ghosts. I've got a few stray extra things but they're not all that entertaining. Plus you look about ready to throw up." Hybrid said, and Rex nodded.
"You already saw what Omni can do." Rex directed a confused look at Hybrid.
"I have the second largest set of powers. Omni can turn into different aliens, and we don't have time to go through all of them, so I figure there's not much point showing you more. I'll get Charmcaster and Thanatos. You stay here." He said, and walked out of the lobby, glowing a soft white light that allowed Rex to keep an eye on him. While he was distracted watching Hybrid he didn't notice a small figure watching him from the shadows.
"So you're the new recruit?" A voice came from the figure, and Rex jumped and turned around.
The figure stepped out of the shadows and Rex saw that it was Test.
"Yeah, why?" Rex asked suspiciously. Test smiled, his arms locked behind his back.
"I'm curious. Got me in quite a bit of trouble as a kid." His neck twisted to the left, his opposite arm falling from behind his back. The skin was an angry red, and it looked disproportionate to the rest of him. The nails were too sharp, and and it looked rubbery. He chuckled in embarrassment.
"I can't control what I do, unlike the others. It's totally random." He said after righting his neck and pulling his arm behind his back again. "I don't know what'll happen second to second. Guess that's what you get for being your sisters lab rat." He chuckled again, this time his voice was raspy, it seemed to change every time he spoke, and something red leaked out of his mouth.
"I'm guessing you've got an idea what Test can do? And he can control it some, it's just more concentration then he's willing to put in most of the time." Charmcaster said, making Rex jump and sending a concerted glance at Test.
"Are you ok?" A new voice with an odd, very slight accent said, and Rex turned to its source. A boy who looked eerily similar to Hybrid was standing behind Charmcaster, he was about the same age and hight as the, halfa, if Rex remembered correctly. His black hair was cut short and his green eyes were natural, but still sparked with some inner light, he didn't look as strong though, and he had a strange mark on his forehead, shaped like a bolt of lightning.
"Yeah, yeah, just need to lay down." Test coughed, what Rex had now identified as blood coming up and splattering on Test's good arm. Said arm was looking less and and less good by the second however, it seemed to be actively withering, black hair sprouting thickly from it. Rex looked at him concernedly. Test noticed and shook his head, waving his other, now clawed but otherwise fine, hand at Rex.
"I really will be fine with some rest. My sisters gave enough healing shit that I'm fine kinda no matter what."
"Language! Go lay down, we have an hour, you can explain properly later." Charmcaster reprimanded, almost robotically. Test chuckled, shaking his head and walking back into the shadows.
"I have a million more questions now." Rex said, and the new boy, Thanatos, Rex thought, smiled.
ONE MORE CHAPTER! So, what do you think of the new characters? I'm giving you until the end of the story to figure out who the new ones are, don't feel bad if you don't get it, one of 'em's really hard to guess. Review and tell me who you think they are! *edit* Big thanks to PhantomGoat13 for alerting me to the formatting problem so I could fix it, my bad! I was in a rush and didn't check the document before I posted it.