This is an AU HIMYM fanfiction. I do not own the characters. Unrelated characters are my own creation.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on...you have powers?" Luke asked his dad.

"How else do you think I got to be a successful architect? It wasn't just from having a creative mind, you know," Ted told his son.

"Dad, are you saying that after all this time, you...have powers?" Penny asked.

She couldn't comprehend this new piece of information, just like her brother.

"Here, I'll show you."

Ted extended out his hand and cupped it, curling his fingers inward slightly. An object formed on his desk. It was a medium sized figurine of Tracy.

"Wow," Penny gasped.

"That...that's incredible," Luke gaped.

"Did mom know?" Penny asked.

"Yes, but would you relax? I'm getting there," Ted told his kids.

"So...what is it that you can do, exactly?" Luke asked.

Hotel11:25am

"Why won't you let me help you?" Joshua asked, frustrated with his partner.

"Because this is something that I have to do on my own. Don't you get it, Joshua? This isn't about you. This is about me, and my people," Elizabeth explained.

She had finished showering and dressed in clean clothes. She slipped on a sweetheart black laced long sleeved shirt, and a pair of dark washed straight legged jeans. She buckled up her combat boots, and pulled her long hair back in to a high ponytail while it was still slightly damp.

"I'm your partner, Elizabeth. I should be there to watch your back."

Elizabeth sheathed her gun in to the waistband of her jeans.

"I don't need protection."

Joshua walked up behind her and spun her around to face him.

"I know that you don't. People need protecting from you."

CRACK!

Elizabeth socked Joshua in the jaw, He stumbled backwards.

"I can control myself just fine! I've been doing it long before you ever showed up!"

With that, Elizabeth stormed out of the hotel. She walked for about five minutes down the road, before running in to Ted.

"Oh thank god! I was just on my way to see you. Listen, something's happened..." Ted began to start.

"Move." Elizabeth shoved past him.

"Where are you going?"

Elizabeth didn't answer him. She kept walking. Feeling that energy again, Ted focused it beneath his feet. He willed the pavement to move, and it brought him to Elizabeth, catching up with her at an alarming pace. Ted was almost launched forward when he made the pavement stop moving.

"What the...!?" Elizabeth cried.

Ted stood in front of her.

"Something's happened to me."

"You...you have abilities? You've had them all this time and never said anything?" Elizabeth asked.

"I only found out recently, but I...I've had this feeling since we met," Ted explained.

"Great."

"Look I...I know that I'm just some guy that you just met in a bar, and that you've tried to keep Barney and I out of the life that you have, but I can't. I can't sit back and do nothing. Not with what I know and can do," Ted spoke.

"And what exactly is it that you can do?" Elizabeth asked.

"I dunno...create things? Manipulate objects?" Ted wasn't too sure what it was that he could do.

"Constructs Creation. Only one other person I know has that ability. You can create objects, tools, weapons, anything. You can manipulate objects that already exist, or the ones you create. It's useful. The question is why would they manifest now?" Elizabeth asked.

Ted shrugged.

"How do abilities work?"

"Anyone with abilities has a sort of hidden code in their DNA. Many of the Agents in IAA had theirs brought forth through puberty. Mine was by accident...a head injury from a vehicle collision that I was in as a kid. Some can manifest through intense stress and anxiety. Some when danger is imminent..." Elizabeth stopped talking.

"No..." She gasped.

"What?" Ted asked.

Elizabeth bit her lip.

"Well...if it happened only after we met, then...yours must have become manifest during the terrorist attack at the Empire State Building. You...when I told you to let go of the grapple gun...I thought..."

Elizabeth stopped talking. She remembered back to that day rather clearly. When she had Ted over her shoulder, Elizabeth had misjudged the distance when she made the drop. She had feared that she herself wouldn't have survived the drop. But...

"You made the pavement move. You brought it up to me. That's why we survived that fall. It was you, Ted. When your life was in danger, you used your ability to save us," Elizabeth finally spoke up.

"So...I'm the one who saved us that day? Cool," Ted grinned.

"I guess that means you have to come with us," Elizabeth said.

As if on cue, Joshua showed up and Ted noticed that he carried two suitcases. One was red, the other was black. Elizabeth grabbed the red one.

"Go with you where?" Ted asked.

"To Toronto. You, Ted, have some training to do."

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

IAA Headquarters

Ted felt old. As soon as he walked in to IAA, he was surrounded by men much younger than him. He noticed that IAA barely had women. What was up with that?

"Where are all the girls?" Ted asked.

He saw Elizabeth tense at the question.

"What you see is all we have. We don't have many female agents because not many women have abilities. I was the only female in the agency for a long time," Elizabeth explained.

"Huh. Odd."

"Don't even think about trying to sleep with any of them. They're all minors," Elizabeth added.

Rats.

"So, Canada, eh? Do you like living here?" Ted asked as they continued walking.

"It's better here in Toronto than it was in Alberta. I used to live there. The winters were just too harsh."

Ted nodded. Finally, the two came to a door in the hallway that they were now in. There was a name on the door.

General R. McLean

"Why General?" Ted asked.

"We need someone to lead us."

"I thought that was you."

"I'm just the Head Agent. I'd make General, if it wasn't for..."

Elizabeth stopped talking. She hadn't told Ted about the fact that she only had seven lives left. Barney was the only one that she told. Elizabeth shook her head, then knocked on the door.

"Enter," A voice spoke from behind the door.

Elizabeth opened the door and walked in. Ted followed behind her. They walked in to an office. It was beautiful, just like the rest of the building. When Ted saw the exterior of IAA, he had a nerd explosion. The building of IAA was old; probably built in the mid 18th Century. It was a Georgian styled building, with rustic red bricks. The inside was totally different. It was modern and sleek.

Looking ahead of him, Ted found a man sitting behind a desk. The desk was old too, made of oak. It reminded Ted of the desk in the Oval Office. The man looked Irish. He had a fair complexion, ginger hair, and he wore glasses over his hazel green eyes. He wore a dark green blazer with a button down shirt underneath.

"You must be Ted Mosby," The man spoke.

He stood up and came around to shake Teds hand. It was a firm grip. The man wasn't much taller than Ted.

"And you're General McLean. Agent Striker has told me a bit about you on the flight here," Ted explained.

"Good, good. So, Ted, you have abilities. Why don't we head on down to the training room and get you assessed?" General McLean asked.

"Uh, yeah, sure."

They headed for the training room. Ted was instructed to head in to the change rooms, where he changed in to something athletic. Ted put on a black under armour long sleeved shirt and joggers. Lacing up his sneaker, Ted walked out in to the training room.

"Wow. Marshall would LOVE this! It looks almost like the training room in X-men!" Ted exclaimed.

A big wide smile spread across his face. This was so exciting! He had powers! Ted had superpowers!

"So, do I get to like, be all cool and fight bad guys? Do I get awesome gadgets? Do I get to wear a badge? What about a code name? Do we have code names? What's your code name, Elizabeth?" Ted rambled excitingly.

Elizabeth chuckled. She stood in the control room with General McLean. She turned on the microphone in front of her.

"We don't have code names, Ted."

"You should! You should be called 'Black Shadow' because you have feline abilities and hide in the dark," Ted said.

"I'm gonna call myself... 'The Master Builder'"

Ted felt proud of himself. He had given himself a cool code name. Elizabeth thought it sounded pretty cool too, along with the code name that Ted had so casually given her.

"Alright, Ted, we're going to start now. Try not to get hurt, or killed," Elizabeth spoke in to the microphone.

General McLean typed something in to the computer sitting in front of him. An alarm sounded and Ted prepared himself for what could happen.

Machines of all sorts came out of walls and floors in the training room. Some were guns, some were robots, and there were barricades as well. Ted tucked himself behind a barricade just as a gun took a shot at him with a laser beam.

"Oh god, oh god! Ah uh...what do I...?" Ted rambled in panic.

A blast hit th barricade he hid behind and it disintegrated.

"Ahh!" Ted yelled, seeing a robot charge towards him. Another shot fired.

Ted raised his arms to shield himself. He manipulated the barricades towards him, creating a shield. They covered him just in time for the blast to hit the shield, and for the robot to change course. The robot came around to Ted. It looked like that it should be harmless. Instead, it had multiple limbs with sharp objects protruding from them, twirling and spinning.

"Eek!" Ted cried.

He threw out his right hand in a 'stop' gesture and the robot jolted. It kept trying to slice him, but Ted felt the will to keep it away. He came around the barricade with the robot, then used what energy he had to send it flying at one of the shooting guns. There was a blast. The robot was blown apart.

"Okay! I think I can get the hang of this!" Ted announced with confidence.

He kept on going.

Later...

Ted collapsed on a soft bed in a spacious apartment in the IAA building. He was sore and found muscles that he never even knew that he had. The training was intense, but the battle had been one. General McLean was impressed with Teds prowess for someone of his age. He also expressed the complete control over his abilities that Ted possessed.

"Why do you think you have such precision over your abilities?" General McLean asked Ted afterwards.

"I dunno. I'm older? More life experiences? I design buildings for a living and that requires concentration," Ted had replied.

It made sense. Ted never once lost control of these new found powers that he had. A knock on the door brought Ted out of his thoughts.

"Come in!"

The door opened and Elizabeth walked in. She was wearing black mesh leggings and a black crop top. Damn, did this girl ever wear anything colourful? Ted shook his head, then he sat up in bed.

"What up?" Ted asked, turning to face her.

"How are you feeling?"

"Sore."

"That's normal."

"Hey, so these powers that I have...can they be dangerous?"

"Any power can be dangerous. It just depends on if you want them to be or not. What do you choose, Ted?"

"Good, obviously. I'm like Luke Skywalker, and not Darth Vader. I can't be tempted by the dark side," Ted replied.

Elizabeth stared blankly at him.

"Who's Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader?" She asked.

Ted gasped and clutched his chest dramatically.

"YOU NEVER WATCHED STAR WARS?!"

Again, Elizabeth stared blankly at Ted.

"What are your plans for the next six hours and seventeen minutes, with bathroom breaks in-between?"

Elizabeth stared at Ted with a questioning glare.

"Sleeping?"

"Wrong!"

Ted went over to his suitcase and pulled out three video cases. They all said Star Wars on them.

"You are going to watch the original Star Wars trilogy with me. Get some snacks."

"O-okay..."

Elizabeth left to go grab snacks, and Ted went to set things up. He tidied his space and cleared off his bed. He pulled the sheets firmly in place to create a clean and comfortable atmosphere. He put on some comfortable sweatpants and tee-shirt. When Elizabeth came back, she was carrying a few bags of chips, some candy, and a six pack of pop.

Ted helped her with the stuff and the two got comfortable on the bed. Ted turned on the tv, and Elizabeth was met with an epic announcement of music.

Ted smiled like a six year old boy who was in a candy shop. He was so excited! He looked at Elizabeth, who seemed to settle in her spot while she watched the screen with intensity.

Ted slowly inches towards her for the duration of the trilogy.

Ha! What do you think Elizabeth will think of Star Wars?

What do you think of Teds powers of creation?

I wanted something that complimented his career as an architect