"Come on!" I said, frustrated with myself and at Doc. But mostly myself.

The reason I was so damn frustrated was that lately my powers have been acting up lately. When I create a force field it explodes or flickers light like a light bulb no matter how hard I concentrate. Transforming into my wings is taking longer and I get tired the more I use them.

If I want to shoot at something out of my bare hands with my powers, it will only flicker and I have to shake my hands out in order to get my powers into full glow.

But it takes a lot of concentration and energy just to make a freaking ball of light. Before, it was pure instinct that my powers just came to life and worked but now it was taking so much more energy and time that I couldn't spare in battle. Hell, my wings decide to disappear without me telling them so. I could be flying and they'd disappear in mid-air and I'd be falling like a rock in air until I had to force them to come back and that took a good while.

I didn't know what was wrong with me. I couldn't even summon the nanite crystal out of my chest much anymore. And I was trying to call it out while sitting cross legged in the training room with my hands cupping mid-air.

"Patience, Alaine. You must be calm."

I gritted my teeth so I wouldn't curse her out.

"I am calm." I hissed even though I was everything but.

"Sure and Rex is following orders." Bobo said through the intercom.

"Shut up, Bobo."

"Didn't get any loving last night, did you, princess?"

I blushed madly at Bobo's insinuation. I wasn't mad about that. Rex and I don't share our sex life with everyone even if Doc and Bobo might've suspected otherwise. I think we're discreet about that. Hopefully.

"Bobo, I swear if you don't shut up..."

"Alaine, concentrate on getting the crystal."

"I'm trying."

I've been here for a freaking half an hour, early in the god forsaken morning, trying to summon the nanite crystal. I swear if she says concentrate one more time...

"That's good, Alaine. Great." Doc murmured through the intercom.

It wasn't "concentrate" but it still irked me though.

Okay, deep breathes. In. Out. In. Out.

Closing my eyes, I concentrate on the inside of my body, the beating of my heart, the expanding of my lungs. In my mind's eye, I see the way my heart beats, the way my lungs expands, the way my ribs move. And in the middle of chest, in between my breast is the one thing beating in tandem with my heart.

The nanite crystal.

White and pure in all it's glory.

A crystal that looks like a lotus flower.

Glittering like the sun on the ocean's surface.

Beckoning it to come forward. To come out of my body and into my hands.

And it's working but I can feel it's resistance. So I concentrate harder, feeling the pounding at my temples. And it comes but I sense something off.

Opening my eyes, I see the nanite crystal in between my palms, hovering in mid air but blinking on and off like a switch. I frown, willing the crystal to come fully out of my chest and into my palms. Something that we have done in seconds before but now takes more minutes.

Minutes I can't spare in a battle. The rope that ties the crystal to my body is taut, unyielding but offering. But this time, the rope is being tugged and the hairs start to crack. Something's not right. But I have to keep going.

I'm close.

So I close my eyes and concentrate harder than before, the pounding moving to the back of my head where it resonates harder. But as soon as I do, I sense a change in the air around the crystal but I ignore it. The crystal is almost out. Just a few more seconds. I have to concentrate fully on the crystal with no interruptions or I'll lose progress. I coax the crystal out more and I don't need my eyes to know it's almost out.

Good. Finally!

"Okay, that's enough. Take a break, Alaine."

Doc's voice breaks my concentration and my eyes fly open. As soon as my eyes fly open, the crystal in my hands explodes in a blinding white light so powerful it makes my eyes water and my hands instinctively come up to cover my eyes. I shout as I'm pushed until my back hits the wall. An alarm goes off somewhere and I feel heat coming in waves in the training room.

"Alaine! Control it!" Doc yells desperately but somehow I know I can't control the crystal.

It's out of my hands.

And it's my fault.

Waiting until the light dissipates takes forever but somehow I can sense the change. The heat turns into warmth, the light changes into a softer intensity and something that sounds like a echoing ring is heard in the room. Lowering my arm from the front of my eyes, I blink rapidly as my vision rights itself. I gasp at the view in front of me.

Instead of white light, there is a room bathed in pink light.

And instead of a white lotus nanite crystal, there was a pendant.

Shocked but curious, I stood up and walked slowly towards the pendant. It felt powerful and alive. Like a beating heart. Inside the pendant, it swirled and glowed inside the pink pendant. It floated in the air as if waiting for me. Stopping in front of it, hypnotized by it's beauty and power, I held out my palms under it, where I could feel its warmth like a security blanket. Slowly, the pendant glided down into my hands until it touched my palms.

As soon as my skin touched the pendant, I gasped. My entire body burned and throbbed as the pendant joined with me and I to it. My eyes glowed as I was sucked into its world.

Visions exploded in my head, vision of me crying and suffering.

Visions of Rex and Breach inside a yellow shield.

Visions of I and the team running away from Providence.

Visions of a woman dressed in black and purple.

Vision of the world breaking out in war and Rex nowhere to be found.

Visions of my sister hiding from the world.

So many visions running together like a slideshow so fast I can't keep up and neither made sense and my head was pounding as the glow left my eyes and my body returned to normal. I was shaking from head to toe, hands and knees on the ground, breathing shakily as the pendant swung from around my neck in a chain. I had no idea when I put the pendant on my neck.

But those visions left me confused and worried.

What did they mean? What had just happened?

As I heard Doc on the intercom and Rex calling my name as he rushed inside the training room. I heard three chilling words that rose the hair on the back of neck and left me more scared than I thought possible.

"Change is coming."

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