Chapter 1 It begins
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I woke up in a hospital bed, IV, a Foley catheter connected to me,. I started to wonder where I was, before I was surrounded by nurses who scrambled to examine me. It was not a decent aspect about discovering yourself in a hospital. I was wondering how I'd landed there in the first place. Sure, I was pleased that I am alive, even though everything felt weird and I had a feeling that things wouldn't get any better from here. All I can see blurry pictures. 'Where am I? ' my final thought before I fell asleep again.
Beep... Beep... Beep...
I woke up again thanks to the beeping noise. The room is white, there are curtains surrounding me. I cant see anything else. 'Oh, I'm in the hospital right? What happened to me? The last thing I remembered was ...I don't remember...
I became more awake after I can't remember anything that caused me to be in the hospital. "Hello? Nurse? Is anyone there? Can someone give me a glass of water? My throat hurts. Hello, is anyone here?"
*knock knock*
"Who is it?" I heard a man's voice coming from the other side of the curtains,
"Its Doctor Conner. How are you feeling? Any headaches, memory loss and can you see things clearly? No blurry visions, right?" I shook my head no. He nodded as he sighed.
"I can still see fine. Though I can't remember what happened for me to be in here. "
"I see. That's ok. Can you close one eye and look into the light with the other eye?"
"I dont know how to explain what happened to you, Mr. Anderson. You have been in a coma for three weeks now, Mr. Anderson," he explained.
"W-what?!? Why, what happened to me?!" I said scared.
"You were one of a few that was caught up in a cape fight. It was caused by a rogue cape fighting a villain. You were lucky to be alive, some other people weren't as lucky.
I just stared at my shaking hands. I tried to make them stop shaking but it didn't work. Dr. Conner left so I can process the information.
3 hours later, there was a knock on the door. "Mr. Anderson, there are a few people from the PRT that want to ask you a few questions. Is that ok?" "Yeah, thats fine. Please come in, " I said not too thrilled to be asked what happened.
As they walked in, I saw two women walking inside my room.
"Hello Mr. Anderson, we're people form the PRT. We received notice that you woke up. We have a few questions for you to answer about what happened. My name is Patricia and this is my partner Maria Swan. Do you remember anything from 3 weeks ago? I know it's a long shot, but anything you can give us would be helpful.", Maria asked.
"N-no, not at all. What is going on? Why am I here?" I'm scared of what they would tell me.
Looking at him using a hidden camera on their body, running an encrypted channel are three people standing. One is a tall man in his late twenties or early thirties. He has dark-brown hair and beard that he keeps short and cropped. It's Armsmaster, his costume consists of a suit of midnight-blue power armor with silver highlights and a helmet and visor that covers his eyes and nose. The second person is a dark haired and olive skinned woman. Miss Militia wears a scarf and sash around her waist patterned after the American flag, and stylized, fitted army fatigues that accentuated her curves. She has perfectly shaped white teeth, courtesy of American dentistry.Miss Militia has bottle-glass green eyes. the last person is Emily Piggot. She is an obese woman with steel-grey eyes and a bleached blonde bob-style haircut. She usually is seen wearing a navy blue jacket and skirt.
"I don't trust him. He must be hiding something. Did you go through his background more thoroughly, Armsmaster?", said Piggot.
"Yes I did director, but neither me nor Dragon found anything incriminating at all."
"How about the girls. What did you find on them? Any criminal records?" Emily questioned them. Armsmaster shook his head negative.
''Nothing major just a few truancies. Nothing that stands out. What I want to know is why was this kid there in the first place?"
"Maybe it was just a random event where Neo went out for a walk to familiarize himself to the city. He is new here after all, maybe he got lost and stopped to ask for directions. He could of been at the wrong place at the wrong time. It has happened before", Miss Militia replied.
"It could be, but lets say he saw the ABB abducting the girls and tried to stop them. Why? Most people would have minded their own business and wouldn't get invovled. Why did the cape heal him first, then beat up the gang members'' Emily asked.
Everyone was quiet thinking why he did what he did. "What about the female cape that healed him and the girls. What information if any, do we have on this cape?" Emily asked changing the topic.
Miss Militia looked at the papers and replied, "From the acounts we got from the victims, Neo was brutially harmed and was shot in the stomach a few times. Soon after two female capes arrived and healed him just enough to not be life threatening. After that well, they butchered almost every ABB in that area, and left. They haven't been seen since.''
''What do we call her other than what Assult named her, Amazon Slayer of men and Elfy the Archer..." The room was quiet remembering when Assult said that, his head hit the table hard enough to leave a mark on the table when Battery smacked him. They shook their head trying to stay on task.
''As for the other victims, Emma Barnes, Takagi Ruka, Furuse Arei, Susan Duran, Eva Walter, Taylor Hebert and Lillian James.'' Emily looked at her papers again, ''They were sent to Brockton Hospital in Urgent care for shock. These people could have a trigger events, it could be a cluster type trigger event. We need to find out what power they have if any, where are they now and watch out for new female capes. If it's them then picth for the wards, hard. They had bad expeiences with men so if you can try to limit it to females capes when talking to them. We need to know for sure they aren't hiding anything that could endanger the people. We can't take any chances, as much as it pains me." Emily ordered unhappily.
"Of course Director, we'll look into it." Armsmaster replied.
"Our only lead other than those teenager, is a guy who 'claims' he can't remember anything about that event. This doesnt look good in the news. We need to do something to cover up this disaster of events. The situation is bad right now, we dont need new capes making the tense situation worse. It could cause a gang war to break out." said Emily angrily. They looked back at the video.
I became more worried when they didn't answer me. I turned my head down, wondered if its all was a dream. All three people shared a look before looking back at him. Ms. Swan said, "Mr. Anderson, there is something we have to tell you. It's about what happened to you and some other people. It involves a rogue cape battle. They attacked you and some other people. "
I had a bad feeling about this. "W-what happened? Are they ok?"
"It all happened at the train yard. We dont know how to tell you this... The attackers are all died, they died before the ambulance can stabalize them. You and a few other were the only survivors. Can you tell us why you were there? We need all the information we can get to find out what happened and find the capes before there is more bloodshed."
What... I remembered... all that blood... *Heart rate increasing* Bu -dump Bu -dump, Bu -dump... girls crying... The laughing...The screams... Oh God the screaming... I remember seeing something...
And I was somewhere else. It was like remembering something profound that I'd forgotten. Its like I read it somewhere before, or something like it. Huge creatures filled my perception. It was hard to say how I knew they were two different creatures, when each of them existed in multiple parallel spaces all at once. Countless mirror moved in sync with one another, each occupying the same space, just as solid as the others, differing in how they moved and the worlds they interacted with. Each of them folded, unfolded, expanded and shifted without taking more or less space. I couldn't wrap my head around it, even as I felt there was something like a pattern there.
The pair moved in sync, spiraling around one another in what I realized was a double helix. Each revolution brought them further and further apart. Innumerable motes drifted from their bodies as they moved, leaving thick trails of shed tissues or energies painting the void of empty space in the wake of their spiraling dance, as though they were made of a vast quantity of sand and they were flying against a gale force headwind.
When they were too far away to see one another, they communicated, and each message was enormous and violent in scope, expressed with the energy of a star going supernova. One 'word', one idea, for each message. They would meet again at the same place. At a set time, they would cease to expand their revolution and contract once again, until they drew together to arrive at their meeting place.
[DESTINATION]
[AGREEMENT ]
[TRANJECTION]
[AGREEMENT]
After that he started shaking and moving erratically. They were suprised. "Whats going on?!?! Whats wrong with him?" Maria exclaimed.
"He's having a seizure! Get in there. Roll him on oneside to prevent aspiration. We can't let him die after the hard work Panacea did to keep him alive."
Medical personnel rushed into the room to help the doctor to turn him on his side. They waited a few minutes before he stopped shaking.
"What the hell happened, Armsmaster?" Emily questioned.
It seems that he remembered what happened. It might of caused his brain activity to spike erratically."
"Did he have a trigger event?" Miss Militia said.
''We dont know for sure. We just have to wait for him to wake up on his own and keep an eye on him" said Armsmaster.
"Keep me updated with this. When he wakes up tell me. I need to talk to the other directors to send in more capes, if she is hiding here. We need all the help we can get, without more blood filling the streets." As she walked away she said softly to herself, "God help us."
Next day 16 hours later at night.
I just stared at the ceiling. I'm not listening to the people saying it'll get better or asking if I'm alright. 'Really!? Would you be alright if you found out that you caused those guys to be killed and you just gained memories of a different you?! That this world is just a story and nothing is real! As well as your friend is a cape that killed a space whale with bug powers?!'
I'm currently freaking out on the inside. It's not good at all. I had too many things to plan out. Damn, I remembered that I need to make something for me to be immune or give out false positive information from every thinker on every earth's ever. I don't want to be a targeted or mastered. They are really scary. I dont want to think about them.
Ding, ding, ding*
I raised my hand in front of me, there it stood, a card of a woman. I tapped on the picture. It was a playing card like the one I used to make when I was home alone in my other life. It helped pass the time and also helped me to keep busy when my parents were working.
It was a female Amazonian, she had a sword and shield raised high waiting for an attack. Her name is Crellonia the Amazonian Queen. A voice called out to me. It was soft but filled with power, that makes you straighten your back and pay attention when she speaks.
"Master, what's wrong? Are you in trouble? Do you need me to rescue you, again?"
I looked around wildly, scared that I just outed myself. I looked around pretending to be scared by a random noise to throw off any cameras in the room watching me. Though I could be paranoid from watching to many spy movies, but it would be on the safe side just incase. "Hello? Is anyone here?" I received no answer, it is all quiet and dark.
Don't worry master, no one can hear me other than you when I'm in my ghost form. " the Amazonian woman said.
Ghost form? It kinda makes sense since she is a card. Does that mean you have another form?'
Yes master. I can be summoned by you to interact with the real world.' Crellonia replied. I was surprised that she could do that. It would be useful for spying.
"Its my fault. If only I was strong enough to stop them, I wouldn't have a trigger event and caused you to kill those guys to protect us. Taylor is going to be dev-
Don't say that, master! What you did was a noble thing. Those males were bastards. They almost killed you when you tried to stop them from kidnapping those girls. What you did was noble, though you failed in the end." I just looked down sad, not completely agreeing with her.
Sigh*
''Master you can't save everyone. It's not possible. You can at least get help from Taylor to grasp your ability and she can develop you how to be a Hero.''
I looked up wanting to tell her it's not a good idea, but she disappeared. I turned to my side and closed my eyes. In a few days, I'll be discharged and go back to my home with my... well, dad I guess. Hopefully things won't be different between the two of us. Taylor has had her bug powers for a few months now. I just hope her costume is not complete yet.
I saw the the 10 bright cards pulsating softly radiating warmth. Ready to be used, put on or set down. 'How do I explain to her that I have powers now? It's not exactly easy and say " Hey Taylor, I know a little bit of what would happen to you in the future. I got powers too! My power is that I can summon cards I created in my other life and people as teammates. You can use your spiders to fight the bad guys as well as you can use zip ties to tie them up. I can use my... Projections to fight for me and keep us safe. We can make a great team." I can just imagine it, she would look at me that I was crazy, stupid or both... * Haaah*
No point in thinking about it. 'Focus Neo, what new cards did you get.' Let's see... 12 trap cards, 13 spell cards and... Yes, 15 monster cards. 12 of them are really useful for me. Damn, how can I do this? I could summon some cards, but it might be bad if I use it all in one go. I don't know if the spheres would reappear; I dont have much info on it. It's almost like Eidolon's power and I don't want to be like Uber that can summon anything once and only once. If the equipment get's destoyed, them I'm fucked. Hmmm, let's look at the first 10 cards.
Ring of Mind Control, Absorption shield, Blessing of Divine Healing, Disrupt Magic and Resurrection Spell. Daisae a dryad, Leadrieth Dawnwing Queen of all vampiresses, Melissa Chilton elf, Nilerea Dawnwhisper, a dark elf and Crellonia the Amazonian Queen.
Nice they sound powerful... Why do they all involve women? Even the spell cards have them in the picture. I remember making guys too, what is going on? I should wait until I'm alone to summon any cards. I dont know what will happen if I do use the charges. I'll think about it later, for now I just want to sleep.
Author's notes
Spell cards, Magic cards, Terrain cards and Trap cards
1. Ring of Mind Control - once played the player has a ring that can control anyone's mind.
Cost : 2 charges
Duration: until ring is destroyed or taken off.
2. Absorption shield- a shield that absorbs only two strong attack.
Cost : 2 charges
Duration : invisible until attacked then disappear after blocking.
3. Disrupt Magic - cancels the persons next attack.
Cost : 1 charge
cast time: instant
4. Resurrection Spell - revive the dead whole back to life.
Cost : 5 charges or more
Cast time: instant
5. Blessing of Divine Healing - heals anything short of total death.
Cost: 5 or more charges
Cast: Instantly
Monster cards
1.Daisae a dryad
2.Leadrieth Dawnwing Queen of all vampires
3.Melissa Chilton elf
4. Nilerea Dawnwhisper a dark elf
5.Crellonia the Amazonian Queen.