Jacob woke up and after a few moments slowly got out of bed. As he was getting dressed for school he felt a pulse of pain behind his eyes and grimaced. The little pocket where he kept the voices seemed to be full but it seemed like something was trying to get in anyway.
"So, boss what's the plan for today"
Screamer's voice piped up in his mind sending another wave of agony through his brain. Jacob stumbled to his bed and focused on the voices he had running through his mind, Screamer, Bamet, and Labyrinth. He knew that he needed to push one away at least for now. With a flex of his will, he pushed Bamet's voice away and out of his mind, however, it seemed as if Bamet's voice was still there ready to be called upon. With his headspace freed the new voice slotted in as the headache faded.
"Hello"
The dry montane stated. Still wincing in residual pain he asked.
"Who are you?"
"Oni Lee"
Jacob paled, while he had gotten powers from terrible people the teleporting serial bomber of Brockton Bay hit close to home it was an in-your-face reminder of what powers and personalities he could gain.
"Jacob, Breakfast!"
His mother yelled up the stairs.
"Coming!"
He yelled back, tugging a shirt on. A few minutes later clothed and hair brushed Jacob sat down at the table for another meal of eggs, bacon, and orange juice. Face twitching for a few moments as he pushed down the revulsion at eating eggs and bacon again along with the growing part of his mind that whispered to him that he didn't have to take this anymore.
"Thank you for breakfast."
Jacob said after a few bites. His mother nodded as she set down a plate for herself and Anderson who was reading the local paper. As Jacob scarfed down his meal he caught the headline
"Local Gang Lord Lung Captured by Protectorate Hero Armsmaster"
"Contact Bakuda for orders and how to break Lung out."
Oni Lee stated in that dry monotone voice. Ignoring the stupid request Jacob stood, up the last piece of bacon in his mouth, shrugged on his backpack, and ran out the door shouting bye over his shoulder.
Arcadia was a nice school and Jacob hated it. He hated that his parents shoved him into this school and that he didn't stand up to them. He hated that his grades were poor and that he disappointed his family and he hated that he cared about disappointing his family. The one thing he liked about Arcadia was Dean. While meeting him firstly at a charity event he grew close to him over time and considered him a friend of sorts. He walked to the front of the school and joined the surge of people moving into the school along with Dean.
"Hey, how was your weekend?"
Dean inquired as he entered the building shooting a strange glance at Jacob.
"Fine, fine how was your?"
Jacob replied, voice supernaturally smooth.
"You back on with Victoria?"
"Don't remind me, I plan on taking her horseback riding today so keep it a secret."
"You know me I'd never get in-between you and her. Not because she could bend me in half."
Dean snorted and clapped Jacob on the back before walking off to his first-period class. Jacob watched him go for a second before heading off to his first class, math. The rest of the day passed in a blur marked only by the chattering of his headmates, the few twists of sound to his amusement, and the strange daydreams. Jacob entered his house with a bang and an
"I'm home!"
Hearing only silence in reply he shrugged off his bag before heading up to his room to test Oni Lee's power. Jacob looked out the window and taking a not-step appeared on the roof across from him, however, he was still in his room looking at himself from the back. A few seconds later he stopped seeing himself from the back and just saw himself in front of himself again. A few more minutes of testing told him what he needed to know about his newfound power. The teleportation was line of sight, the clones lasted around 7 seconds and he got all sensory inputs of his clones. Appearing back in his room he picked up his bag and got to work on his homework, plans swirling in his mind for stress relief later tonight. After a bland dinner and pointless small talk, Jacob left his house clad in normal clothing with a bandana in his pocket. Appearing on a rooftop and quickly wrapping the bandana around his face, Jacob started to teleport from rooftop to rooftop heading to the Docks. Arriving in the South Docks Jacob looked around using Screamers power to find any fights going on. Hearing some panicked breathing and the sound of a meaty thwack on flesh Jacob teleport on a rooftop near the sounds. Seeing two people in red and green dragging an elderly man out of an alleyway and marching him away.
"Follow them report to Bakuda"
Oni Lee's voice once again demanded void of inflection or personality.
"Nah, how about you just talk to them"
Screamer piped up, her method of talking different from most peoples. Jacob grinned at the latter idea and twisting sound conjured a voice similar to the one he used the first time he went out.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
Both gang members whirled around letting go of the old man to look around where the voice is coming from.
"Come out where ever you are!"
The first gang member shouted knife clenched in a white-knuckled grip. The second one did not respond and just carefully put his hand inside the jacket and withdrew a small pistol.
"I'm looking to clean up people like you from the city"
Jacob's voice once again stated twining around and in between the two men. He felt the range on Labyrinth's power growing closer to the two men, he just had to stall them for a bit longer. The first man full of bravado just puffed up his chest and waving his knife about shouted out.
"Right well what kind of 'hero' just stands around in the shadows, stop it with that stupid dummy trick it's not fooling anybody"
The second simply placed his pistol in the gut of the older man and spoke calmly to the air.
"Show yourself or I kill him"
Jacob took and deep breath and appeared in the alleyway where the two members of the ABB had emerged from earlier, shrinking the range of Labyrinth's power again. He then appeared in front of the man with the pistol and punched him in the nose with a crack. Grasping the pistol Jacob took a not-step behind the man with a knife and pistol held in trembling hands pointed at the back of his neck. He told his self in front to point it at the man with the pistol originally, both men froze. Realizing that like an idiot he had no way to peacefully resolve this situation he ground out.
"Leave or I kill both of you, tell Bakuda to piss off, or Variable's going to come after her."
Both men nodded and scampered off once again Jacob took a not-step to a rooftop and started to head back home, he had done enough stupid for the night.