Hello everyone. Here is chapter 8. I hope that you will enjoy it. :)
After listening to what Carla and Crexis had been telling him, Jaime decided that he needs to test out his new-found powers as he knew that if he is going to fulfil the mission that Alex had been hoping for him to accomplish, then, he will need to get started right away, but, he had a bad feeling that gaining control over his powers wasn't going to be easy.
Luckily, Nico and Pedro have allowed him to use their underground training room, which proved to be useful to Jaime as he knew that he could use the training room as a way to help him master his powers, knowing that the training room has all sorts of equipment that he can use, though, he wasn't sure if they were useful for his new fire powers.
Eventually, he decided to start with the punching bag, though, it quickly proved to be not as useful as he hoped that it would be, due to the fact that his punches weren't very effective against it, along with the added fact that he accidentally burned it, when he tried to use his fire powers for the first time, though, he managed to put the fire out.
Next, he tried to heat himself up on command, but, nothing happened as he tried again and again, which unfortunely ended up in the same result as it frustrated Jaime, though, he managed to calm himself down, knowing that getting angry will not help him in his current situation, but, he did gain control over his powers, though, it was limited.
He eventually started to read Alex the Owl's Super Rio series, knowing that Alex must have gotten his powers from somewhere, though, he found out it was because of a type of disease called Virus Blacklight had managed to fuse with his organism, while the disease, itself, normally turned innocent people into zombies when infected by the disease.
Jaime had, also, managed to find out that Alex had trained with the Canadian Birds Forces, or CBF, for short, which surprised the young Blue Jay as he wasn't sure if a group like that actually exsisted, but, from what he was reading, Alex had trained with them for two years, before he had started to go on missions with a CBF sergeant called Ben.
The young Blue Jay even found out that Ben was the one, who had trained Alex in controlling his powers for those two years, though, the partnership between Alex and his mentor ended in tragedy, which had happened in a battle against a mysterious enemy called the Supreme Hunter, formerly known as JK, that resulted in Ben's death.
"Whoa, that must have been horrifying" said Jaime as he read about Ben's death at Supreme Hunter's hands. "It's similar to my experience, helplessly watching a friend die".
It turned out that the Supreme Hunter is a human, who, like Alex, had fused with the Virus Blacklight, which eventually resulted in him becoming much more powerful than Alex, himself, who had less power than the Hunter's full power, but, it was evident to Jaime, that no matter how powerful you become, there is always a way to lose a battle.
He, also, read about how Alex defeated his enemy the first time around, which involved Alex catching the Supreme Hunter off-guard and slashing his throat open, though, it was also evident that his enemy had a back-up plan, of some kind, which included a nuclear bomb, that could have killed Alex, at that moment, if he didn't have the prototype.
When he had finished reading about how Alex managed to gain control of his powers, Jaime began to wonder if he, himself, should try to find the CBF in order to get them to train him and help him gain control of his powers, but, he still wasn't sure if the group actually existed, though, even if they did, he has no idea where they are now located.
There is one other group that he had read about, which involved a group called the P Squad, though, Jaime has limited knowledge about this group, due to the fact that the information about the group had mysteriously disappeared, probably because the group wanted to keep their secrecy as they didn't want their potential enemies to find out.
He eventually decided to go to a nearby graveyard, where he intends to pay his own personal respects to Alex, knowing that the latter had given his life to protect everyone from Marco, though, Jaime still wished that Alex had survived as he really wanted him as his mentor, which would have been amazing, but, he knows that is not happening.
Unfortunely for Jaime, he accidentally ends up breaking the USB override key by accidentally crushing the thing, while holding it, which caused him to groan in annoyance as he knows that he has just broken the only thing, that he can use to turn off the Super Collider, while also knowing that he needs to get it fixed or replace, except, he didn't know how.
Soon enough, he was on his way towards the graveyard as he hoped that flying through the air would help clear his head, but, he was still annoyed with himself for accidentally breaking the USB override key, though, he knew that his unusual strength had happened by instinct as he knew that he still hasn't gained control of his powers.
