Day off from school! Hopefully I can get some serious writing done today!
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Chris' POV
"Who do you think found us out?" Sam asked as the four of us pushed through the doors of the school building and started the walk back to Cathy's house. It'd been silent between us as we'd made our way from our lockers to these doors; silent because we knew that if we'd been discovered once, we could be discovered again.
"Maybe someone saw us in the woods," Cathy suggested. "You know, someone could've been on a hike, heard the noise, and came to investigate. I mean, that's the only time we've ever used our powers outside of the clubhouse."
"But what if they're talking about the MBC secret and not the superhero thing?" Danny countered. "Then there would be plenty of opportunities for them to catch us in the act."
"I guess we won't know until we get there," Sam said. "And whichever secret it is, try not to give anything away until they give us clear cut evidence that they actually know what's up." We nodded our consent.
"But going back to I guess, either secret actually," I started to say, not quite sure where my thoughts were headed yet. "I guess anyone really could've figured out secrets out if they watched us close enough." I felt the others' eyes watching me, but I kept my own gaze aimed at the ground, still trying to piece together what my intuition was telling me.
"And what do you mean by that?" Sam asked, sounding interested.
"I mean, what if someone out there has been watching us?" I replied. "What if someone knew about the MBC, then formulated some sort of plan that involved spying on us, and now they've discovered that we have superpowers?" The rest of the team was quiet again as we moved closer and closer to the clubhouse.
"It's a little detailed, but it's definitely possible," Sam commented after a few moments had gone by. We could see the Smiths' house now. "Okay team, show time."
When we reached her house, Cathy ran ahead and pushed the front door open.
"We only lock it at night," she explained, motioning for the rest of us to follow her inside. Danny shut the door with a soft click behind us as we walked further into the Smiths' home. It seemed darker inside of their house. Of course, there wasn't actually a light difference, it was just the amount of tension filling the room that gave it a darker look about it.
"Grandpa, we're home!" Cathy called as she set her backpack down on at the bottom of the stairs. The rest of us followed suit and continued through the house into the kitchen where we found Mr. Smith and someone we'd never seen before sitting at the table.
"Oh, hello kids! Perfect timing," Mr. Smith said with a reassuring smile. "I'd like you to meet Vel Afsou." He motioned to the man sitting across the table from him who stood up and smiled at us as well. But there was something about that smile that just seemed, wrong.
Then again, everything about this guy seemed a little off. He was just a little too tall, with a lanky figure that he hid behind a large, maroon ringmaster's coat. His hair was a grayish white color and stood up in a spiked up fashion. His eyes were brown with a tinge of red around the rims of his irises and his skin was pale as snow. But the one thing that really stuck out amongst his features were his hands, with fingers long and bony like a skeletons.
"Pleased to meet you," Vel said with a wave. "I have heard much about you, Monster Buster Club. All good I might add."
"Thank you sir," Sam replied with a nod, stepping up as the spokesperson for our team.
"Now, before we go any further, may I know your names?" Vel asked, his white eyebrows arching in question.
"Oh! Yes of course!" Sam exclaimed. "My names is Samantha Jacobs, but you can call me Sam." She then pointed to Danny. "This is Daniel Jackson and we call him Danny. He's also well trained in sarcasm. Just ignore some of the things he says." Danny crossed his arms over his chest and looked like he was about to argue, but Sam continued and pointed to me. "This is Christopher Mahoney, we call him Chris. He's the smart one." And finally she pointed to Cathy. "And last but not least is…"
"Cathy Smith," Vel finished for her. "Yes, I know who she is from all the pictures in the house. Is there anything that you call her?"
"No. Its just Cathy," said blonde girl giggled. "So what are you here to tell us, Mr. Afsou?"
"Well, I'm here to discuss your dealing with a substance known as Imra," Vel began. "I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but you four have come in contact with this substance and could…"
"Give us superpowers? Yep, we know," Danny interrupted, then clasped his hand to his mouth, his eyes growing wide.
"So you have experienced the effects of the Imra already?" Vel asked, sounding intrigued. "Excellent! I know I haven't mentioned this yet, but I am an extraterrestrial substance analyst. It is my job to travel through the galaxies, taking care of substances that fall onto planets that they are foreign to. Imra, luckily, is not of any real danger to any living being seeing as though it is only attracted to planets with living species on them. So now, if it's not too much trouble, would I be able to meet with each of you, one at a time, to see how the Imra has effected you."
"Sure," Sam answered. "That's fine."
"Excellent! Why don't you come with me first, Miss Jacobs," Vel said. "We can just…"
"Stay in here. The rest of us can step outside," Mr. Smith interrupted. He nodded to us and we followed him to the sliding glass door that lead to the backyard. "Just send Sam out when you are ready for the next one."
"I will. Thank you all," Vel replied with a gracious nod. I looked at Sam. She stood with confidence, but there was a tinge of uneasiness in her eyes. When her golden orbs locked with mine, I offered her a reassuring smile. She smiled back and I followed the others out into the backyard.
Sam's POV
"Now, Miss Jacobs. What abilities have you gained from your encounter with the Imra?" Vel asked, producing a pen and notepad from inside his large jacket. I took a quick glance at the door, but I knew that the others weren't going to be there. They'd probably gone into the clubhouse. Calm down, Sam. This guy's not gonna pull anything. Mr. Smith trusts him, so that means I should trust him too.
"Well, I can turn invisible, " I answered. Vel nodded and scribbled it down on his notepad. "And, I'm not sure how to describe the other one, but I can… I can… shoot beams of light out of my hands? Yeah, that sounds right." Vel continued to nod and write.
"Can you show me?" he asked, cocking one eyebrow at me.
I nodded, then focused on becoming invisible. And just like that, I was invisible. Or at least I must've been because Vel's dark eyes widened in surprise. And I couldn't see myself in the mirror hanging on the wall across from me. I focused again on reappearing and just like that, my image appeared in the mirror.
"Amazing," Vel whispered. "Can you show me the other thing?" I nodded then held my right hand out in front of me. I stared directly at my palm and a white ball of light appeared, shining brighter than the sun. I didn't want to break anything in the Smiths' house, so I let it be at that.
"I'm don't want to break anything, so I'm not going to shoot it. But that's what would be shot," I said, closing my fingers around the ball and making it disappear. Vel nodded, his eyes wide as he scribbled furiously on his notepad.
"Excellent. Just excellent," he muttered. "Thank you very much, Sam. Could you please send in Cathy?"
"Of course," I answered, heading for the door. I looked back to see him still writing in that notepad. I'd be interested to see what he wrote down.
Cathy's POV
"Teleportation? Is that new for you?" Vel asked.
"Yes it is," I nodded. "Sadly, teleporting isn't something Rhapsodians can naturally do. So it's been so fun getting to just snap and appear somewhere else." Vel laughed, jotting some notes down.
"Now can you show me those fire powers you mentioned?" Vel questioned.
"Sure!" I replied, flicking my wrists and watching as they filled with flames. "I can also ignite things on fire just by pointing at them, but I don't really want to burn my house down…"
"No, that certainly wouldn't be good," Vel responded. "I must say, Miss Smith, your powers are quite amazing. Will you send in Mr. Jackson please?"
"Sure thing," I said. "Thank you!"
"It was my pleasure, Miss Smith."
Danny's POV
"So it makes sense that you would be super strong and super fast," Vel concluded, writing something down on his notepad.
"Yes it would. I'm kind of like the jock of the group. You know, into sports, good at sports, good with the ladies," I explained. Vel nodded.
"You know, usually, superpowers attained through contact with Imra often reflect something about the person. You athleticism probably influenced your powers," he said. "Very interesting, Mr. Jackson."
"Yeah, that's cool. Being a superhero in general has been awesome," I replied. "Now I know what it feels like to be Superman without having the bad guys constantly threatening to take over the city. Man, his life could've been awesome!" Vel was quiet.
"I'm going to take that as a one of the comments Sam said to disregard," he said, crossing something out on his notepad. My spirits feel. I guess this guys didn't have much of a sense of humor.
"I'll get Chris," I said, heading towards the door.
Chris' POV
"And I realized I don't even have to be all that focused to do this," I said, moving Vel's notepad with my mind. "As long as part of me is thinking about it, I can telekinetically move things."
"Amazing," Vel breathed as I returned the notepad to his boney fingers. "Now what about the ice powers?" I nodded, turned to the table and holding my hand out towards it. A thin layer of ice covered the chair.
"So you can generate ice on command," Vel stated. "Excellent. All of your powers are quite extraordinary." I nodded. "Can you please go grab the others?"
"Of course," I said, heading towards the door. I pulled it open and met the eyes of each of my friends who'd taken up refuge sitting on the grass. "Time for us all to come back in."
Cathy, Sam, Danny, and Mr. Smith followed me back into the kitchen where Vel was looking back over his notes.
"Did you get all of the information you needed?" Mr. Smith asked.
"Indeed I did," Vel answered. "And I think I might have a solution."
"Solution? To what?" Danny asked.
"Well you see, the effects of Imra will wear off eventually. But unfortunately, seeing as though Imra isn't a substance known to Earth, it is dangerous for it to be in your systems," Vel explained. "So we are going to have to extract it from your bodies."
"That sounds painful," Danny commented.
"Are you sure we can't just let is run its course? Would it really be a problem if we just left the Imra in our bodies until it wears off?" Sam asked.
"I'm sure," Vel answered with a serious nod. We exchanged glances, but luckily before we had an answer, our v-coms went off.
"We gotta go," Sam said.
"What? Where?" Vel asked, sounding surprised.
"Aliens attacking. We'll back in a little bit," Sam reassured him. "We promise." Vel looked unsatisfied by that but we couldn't stay. The four of us ran to the clubhouse and I pulled up the alert on the screen.
"Looks like we're headed back to school," I said.
"Let's go team," Sam commanded as we headed towards the pods.
"This is gonna be 'excellent'!" Danny said.
Excellent! =)
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