I hope you all enjoy this chapter. I really had a lot of fun making it. This one will explain, in my words, how I believe the Wave Change is performed. Please review this chapter and tell me whether or not you like the explanation I gave for it.
Chapter 13: What's a Wave Change?
"You don't know how surprised I was when I heard that you and your friends were found in the middle of a scene of a virus attack," Hope said as she and her son, Geo, entered their house after coming home from the police station. "It was quite a shock to hear that they took you four to the police station for questioning."
"I'm sorry about that, mom," Geo apologized as his mom locked the door. "I didn't mean to worry you with all that. It all just happened so quickly that my friends and I didn't get a chance to get away and we got stuck."
"It's alright, honey," she assured him. "I'm just glad to know that you and your friends weren't hurt in any way during that incident. How about I fix you up a snack or something else to eat? After all, you've had a very hard and stressful day and it could help calm your nerves down."
"No thanks, mom," he declined with a small polite wave of his hand. "I'm not really in the mood to be eating anything right now. I think I'll just go to my room and try to get this morning's events out of my head."
"Alright. Will you at least come down and have some dinner when it's ready in a couple of hours?"
"Don't worry, I'll be down for dinner for sure. I can't go the whole day without eating some dinner, at least. For now, though, I'm just going to go up to my room now and rest a bit."
"Okay," she smiled at the remark her son made. "Would you like for me to check up on you in an hour or so?"
"No, it's good. You don't need to do that. I just want some time to myself for the time being."
"Then, I'll call you down when dinner's ready."
And with that, Geo went up the stairs and into his room without saying another word. Naturally, Hope was concerned that her son might be experiencing some kind of shock to his system after the dangers he was forced to face that afternoon. However, her motherly instincts told her that she didn't have to worry too much about it. Knowing her son, he was going to get over this whole ordeal as soon as his friends left the station and they got back together. He was mentally stronger than most children at his age and she knew that. Still, she couldn't help, but worry at times like these about him.
"Boy, today was such a crazy day," Geo sighed as he silently closed his bedroom door. "First, it was a friendly get-together with my friends at the mall gone wrong. Then, a crazy bull-like Wave being by the name of Taurus tries to destroy Wilshire Hills and actually takes over Bud's body in the process. Finally, the Satella Police come and take us to the station just so they can ask us some questions regarding the attack. Things just couldn't get any better, could they?"
"How do you think I feel here?" Omega asked as he came floating in from the balcony. "I've been waiting here for you to come back for over an hour after they got there. Do you have any idea how boring it was starting to get in here?"
"Well, sorry, Omega," the boy apologized. "They took a bit longer with their questions than I thought they would. I didn't think that they had to be that thorough with their investigation. The detective kept repeating the same question over and over again. It was as if he didn't believe me when I said that I didn't know anything about the attack. It was really starting to get annoying."
"Well, unless you weren't putting up a very good act, there's no reason he shouldn't believe what you've said to him. Except for what we already know and want to keep secret, what can a kid at your age possibly gain from hiding any information about the ambush?"
"That's exactly what I said to him. In the end, he finally bought it and let me go. My friends, though, haven't been allowed to leave yet. They're probably still being asked the same questions right now."
"Yeesh, if they can't get it from one guy, they try another one. It doesn't sound like they're going to be giving up on this anytime soon. Anyway, did you manage to get your Star Carrier back from them?"
"Actually, they never asked me to hand it over to them. I had it in my pocket the whole time I was at the station. It was probably too hectic and they couldn't find the chance to get it from me."
"So what you're saying is that I've been spending the past hour hiding in your room with nothing to do for no reason?" Omega asked in disbelief. "I spent the past hour hiding out in your room and getting bored for nothing?"
"Hey, it was better to be safe than sorry," Geo tried to explain to him. "If they did ask me for my Star Carrier, then you'd be found and destroyed before you could even get a chance to get out of there."
"Oh, come on, you make it sound like their almighty Wave weapons can destroy anything that's made up of EM Waves," the wave being said with a roll of his eyes and in a sarcastic tone.
"Of course they can! They were made for taking care of viruses that invade computer systems. They've already destroyed countless viruses with them ever since their creation a couple of years ago."
"But have you ever seen a Wave being like me be attacked and destroyed by one of those things before?"
"Now that you mention it, I never did."
"You see, Wave beings like me have a very sophisticated build to them. We can't be destroyed by something as pitiful as the Satella Police's Wave Guns. As I already mentioned earlier, only the FM King and his right hand man have the power to destroy us whenever they so wish to. The most those weapons can do to us is give us a very minor wound, nothing more."
"So theoretically, nothing except the FM King and his right hand man can kill you?" Geo repeated just to make sure he understood everything.
"That's exactly what I just said." Omega replied with another roll of his eyes. "And no, I'm not being theoretical here. I'm merely stating the truth. You know, if you're planning to try out to become a parrot as a job profession, you should keep it up because you're doing a great job at it."
"Uh, a-anyway," he quickly attempted to change the subject with a stutter, "could we move on to a different subject?"
"Like what?"
"Well, maybe we can talk about how you and I were able to perform a Wave Change with such ease?" he suggested. "I am actually kind of curious as to how you can do that."
"That is very easy to explain. It might take a while, though. So you might want to make yourself comfortable."
Deciding to take Omega's advice, Geo took off the shoes that he was still wearing and placed them next to the door. He then made his way to his bed underneath the glass roof and laid on his stomach so he could easily look at the Wave being whenever he had a question.
"Alright, I'm ready," Geo said once he managed to find a comfortable position. "Go ahead and start explaining."
"Okay," Omega sighed as he somehow managed to make himself lean against the wall. "Let me first start by explaining what a Wave Change is. It's basically when a human and a Wave being come together and create a real world Wave form, or a Merged Form as it's more commonly known as. Through it, the Wave being has total control over the human's mind and body and the human is rendered unconscious. Our power is much stronger than it would be when we are only in our Wave form. That's why we perform Wave Changes when the opportunity presents itself and if the situation becomes really desperate.
"Next, I will talk about how we can do a Wave Change," he continued on. "Before we are able to perform a Wave Change, we must first find a human with a Wave Signature that closely resembles our own. Being that we're Wave beings, it isn't hard to sense something like that. Finding a human with the same signature, though, is a totally different story. Only a handful of people have the same signature as a Wave being and we can only sense them if they are relatively close by. Basically, we'll be very lucky if we're able to Wave Change at least once during our lifespan."
"What is this Wave Signature that you're talking about?" Geo interrupted. "How is it that every human, or so that's what you seem to be implying, has this thing that allows you to Wave Change?"
"Wave Signatures are basically the natural wave lengths that every human, whether they know it or not, give off. It is composed of two different types of Wave lengths. The first is Brain Waves while the other is EM Waves. A human only gives off very small fragmented bits of their Brain Waves. However, it is more than enough to combine with the EM Waves that are floating everywhere on this planet. Once they have finished combining, it creates a special Wave length that is unique and different for every human. That is what a Wave Signature is and how they're created. For us Wave beings, though, we are born with our own unique signature. We don't have to combine our EM Waves with anything else.
"Once we have found our matching Wave Signatures, that's when we can perform a Wave Change if we so wish to. In order to perform the change, we must first combine our signatures with that of our human match. Once they have completely intertwined, that's when the entire process begins. While the change is underway, the signatures begin to quickly analyze each other. In doing so, they can come up with a form that best suits both signatures. Until the transformation has been completed, there's no way for us Wave beings to know what form we are going to take. It doesn't quite mater, though, since our power would be more than when we were in our Wave forms. Once we have successfully merged with the human and transformed, we will be able to have a real world form that we call the Merged Form."
"Is the Merged Form almost exactly like a real human?" Geo asked with great interest on this amazing topic.
"Not exactly. It's true that we're able to touch things in the real world that we would otherwise not be able to. However, the Merged Form allows us to change from an EM form to a real form at will. Take our battle with Taurus Fire, for example. Remember when he almost ran into that building before he stopped short of doing so? Well, if he chose not to stop and decided to run through it, he could easily do so without taking the entire building down. He could simply just change his Wave Frequency and it'll allow him to take on a Wave form while still being in the Merged Form and he'll just pass through it like water passes through a crack in a bowl. Think of it as an advantage for us in order to not take as much damage from real world objects. Of course, it has it's drawbacks. It requires a bit of concentration in order to do that and when you're busy in the heat of some major battle, let's just say that your thoughts are more on the battle than on trying to change frequencies."
"Wow," he said in awe with his mouth slightly open once Omega was done explaining the entire process of a Wave Change. "I didn't think that it was that complicated just to perform a Wave Change. Once you can do that, you can also change your own Wave Frequency in order to pass through real world obstacles like buildings and other stuff like that. This is almost like something you would see in a sci-fi movie or book. It seems too bizarre to be true."
"Yet you yourself have already experienced something like that," Omega reminded him. "You can't possibly deny the fact that it's real now."
"I know, but it still seems like a dream. It's so hard to believe all of it."
"Well, you better start believing it, kid. Because now that the FM-ians more or less likely know that I'm here and that you can see them, they'll be coming after us. We're going to have to defend ourselves when that time comes."
"I'm not worried about that. As long as you're there fighting beside me, I'm sure I'll be able to defend myself in the Merged Form pretty well with your help.
"By the way, didn't you say earlier that any human that you perform a Wave Change with will lose consciousness and would, therefore, have no control over their body and mind?" Geo asked.
"Yes, I believe I did say something to that effect earlier. Why are you asking about that?"
"Don't tell me that you've already forgotten? Remember how I was still able to keep my sanity while you were occupying my body?"
"Of course I remember that. I'd have to be crazy to not remember something like that. If you're going to ask me why that happened, then have I got news for you. I have no idea. This is the first time I've ever heard of something like this happening. I really don't have any good explanation for this."
"Is it because our Wave Signatures are incompatible with each other?" he suggested with a shrug.
"That's impossible," Omega immediately shot down the suggestion. "If that were so, then we wouldn't have been able to perform the Wave Change. No, it was something else that allowed you to keep your sanity. As to what that something was, I truly have no idea as to what it is."
"Well, I guess there's no point in thinking about it right now. What's important now is that we have to be careful when we perform a Wave Change. We don't want to have the Satella Police breathing sown our necks every time we get into a fight with the FM-ians that are chasing you."
"That's true. We especially don't want that detective guy to figure it out. He'd probably be hunting you down once he knows what you can do."
For a moment, there was silence between the two of them. It wasn't one of those awkward silent moments, though. It was more like a chance for the two of them to digest the info that they had just heard.
"Hey, Omega?" Geo addressed the Wave being. "Can I ask you one more question?"
"Depends on what it is," Omega replied as he got up off the wall and began to float around the room in a pacing manner.
"When you performed the Wave Change with me this afternoon, did you already know that we had the same Wave Signature?"
"To be honest with you, I didn't know it. I was too busy trying to fight the urge to lose consciousness. That and I was trying to figure out what you were saying. Seeing as we were about to be killed either way by Taurus Fire, I just figured that I had nothing to lose. So I just went with it and it ended up working."
"Alright, that's all I wanted to know."
"Geo," they heard Hope call from downstairs, "it's time for dinner! Hurry up and come down here before it gets cold."
"Alright, mom," Geo called back. "I'll be right down."
"You go ahead and eat, kid," Omega said to the boy. "I'm going to just stay in here and think about today's events."
"Okay," he replied as he began to walk out of his room. "I'll see you when I come back up then."
And with that, Geo closed his bedroom door and went downstairs to join his mother for a nice relaxing dinner after a very hectic day.