"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Michael sprinted around the corner, and yelled, "Let her go you.Gordon.?!"
Mike froze and let his jaw drop. GORDON was who had dragged Michelle through the hallways. Michelle wasn't about to stare just yet.
"What the.what is the matter with you?!" Michelle shrieked. She kicked and punched Gordon's stomach and knees relentlessly, screaming, "You scared me half to death! Why didn't you tap me on the shoulder like any other normal person?! Oh, wait. But you're NOT a normal person! You're a humanoid- type of alien slug that I happen to know! Why didn't you tell any of us that you'd be here?! And." Michelle blinked, stopped her attack, then asked, "You have a mutation too?"
By the time Michelle had called Gordon an alien slug, Mike had recovered his powers of speech. But.Gordon had a mutation? Mike barely said, "Wha.?" before his jaw dropped yet again.
"Whaddaya mean, 'too'?" Gordon asked, "What is this 'too' you speak of. Wait, you have a mutation?"
"Answer me first! Your mutation is invisibility, isn't it?" said Michelle accusingly.
"Well, partly. You have a gift?" asked Gordon.
"Yeah. I can morph. So can Mike, but he's got limits to it. I don't. Wait, invisibility is only partly your gift?"
"What do you mean?" asked Mike, who finally got his jaw to work properly again.
"I.don't just go invisible. Heat sensors don't find me while invisible, because for some reason I stop giving off heat. And I can walk on the walls and ceiling," explained Gordon.
"How did you find out about your mutation?" asked Michelle, "I mean, did you just think, 'I'm gonna climb up this wall right here, and be totally invisible too,' or what?"
"Well, I was playing hide-and-seek with some of my family, and I couldn't find a spot, so."
"You're kidding," said Mike, "You have to be kidding."
"Tell me you didn't just think, 'I hope they don't see me' and then go invisible," said Michelle, shaking her head, "No."
"No, seriously. I wished really badly that my cousin wouldn't see me, and she didn't. I wondered why, then I looked at myself.well.I couldn't see myself. I ran to a mirror, and didn't see anything. Everything behind me wasn't even skewed to betray whether or not I was there. I realised I was invisible."
"What about walking on the wall?" asked Michelle. "And please don't tell us that you just wished really badly to walk up the wall, and then it happened," requested Mike.
"Well, be glad because I won't. I'm sure at least one of you have jumped to see whether or not they were tall enough or could jump high enough to touch something, or the ceiling, right?"
"Yeah." said Michelle, than after a moment, "No."
"You didn't.jump and then get stuck.you didn't," said Mike.
"Actually.ok, you asked me," said Gordon.
Michelle and Mike burst out laughing.
"You.got stuck? On what?" said Michelle, who was still giggling.
"The ceiling. I got confused for a moment, then.yeah. I realised I could walk on walls and ceilings. Ok, Mike could you stop laughing at me?"
"I can't help it! I can just imagine." Mike went into a peal of laughter yet again.
"I hope no one was around to see you," said Michelle, trying to hide a smile, then finally giving up and laughing out loud.
"Well, no. No one was around. I was at home in my basement, and no one saw me until I was down again," said Gordon, "Oh, and I climb with my feet too, but I need to take my shoes and socks off first."
"You need to go barefoot?" asked Mike, who had calmed down.
"Yeah."
"That's great," said Michelle, "Just warn us whenever your shoes need to come off, for health reasons, ok?"
"Hang on." Mike strained his ears, then whispered urgently, "Teacher's in the next hallway!"
"S*#&.we're not supposed to be in the hallways," said Gordon.
"Gordon, does anything behind you, or that you hold go invisible?" asked Michelle.
"No. Otherwise, the people I walk by would look weird," replied Gordon.
"Ok.Gordon, take your shoes and socks off, put your shoes in your so.I mean your socks in your shoes, and hide them by that garbage can there. Quick!" yell-whispered Michelle.
"Why?"
"Just do it," advised Mike, then turned to Michelle and asked, "What morphs do we have will work? Or will I."
"Acquire," said Michelle. There was a shimmer around her, and then.
"Oh ugh!" exclaimed Gordon.
"Madagascar hissing cockroach. Never watch 'Fear Factor'? Anyhow, Mike you have to acquire me. I chose this because at least we can bite back, and scare people away a little faster," explained Michelle, "Hurry!"
Mike carefully picked up Michelle as the cockroach.
"That is so weird.and creepy," commented Gordon, "Now what do I do?"
"Climb up the wall and go invisible so the teach doesn't see you maybe?" suggested Mike.
"Climbing."
Gordon went up the wall, mimicking Tobey Maguire's idea of how Spiderman would climb walls. Michelle and Mike couldn't help but notice the terrible contrast between how different the two wall-climbers looked. As soon as Gordon was on the ceiling above a few lockers, he simply vanished from sight. Mike put Michelle down by the garbage can where Gordon's shoes were stashed, and hurriedly transformed into a cockroach himself.
{Come on! Run over here!} rushed Michelle.
{I'm coming! I'm coming!} answered Mike, whirring his little cockroach legs.
Just as Mike disappeared behind the trashcan, the boys' gym teacher, Mr. Mulford, walked into the hallway. All three mutants held their breaths.
"Hm.lights are still on in this hallway. They shouldn't be. Darn grade 10 helpers."
The tall man flicked the lights off, and would have hit his head on Gordon had the latter not sped across the ceiling, away from the teacher's mop- covered head. The teens waited until Mr. Mulford's footsteps faded away, before breathing normally again. Gordon let himself fall from the ceiling, and become visible again. "That's too close. And it's too dark here."
{I'm sure you're proud,} commented Michelle.
{Ah.the dark is good for these eyes. The light's too strong for cockroaches,} said Mike.
"Well, I'm not a cockroach, so I need help getting out of here," said Gordon, "Could you help me out?"
{Sure,} said Michelle, {Let me just get a better morph,} she added as she transformed into her favourite house-cat morph, the grey kitten with a white tail tip.
{Aight.I'll trot up ahead. Mike, you're gonna rather slow in that morph. You sure you don't want to be something else?} asked Michelle.
{I just switched to a grey tabby.}
"How're those morphs gonna get me back to the boys' dorm? The lights are all out now, I bet," Gordon whispered as he groped around in the dark, looking for his shoes.
{Cat's can see fairly well in the dark. Even in a school like this without any windows. Duh. I'll lead the way, and Mike'll follow to make sure no- one's behind us.}
"Who'd be following?"
{A teach, or Scott or Matt,} answered Mike, as Michelle began to lead the way.
{Follow the waving white speck.} Michelle said eerily, waving her tail around like a flag.
"Who are Scott and Matt, and why?"
{Long story. Michelle and I'll tell you later, with everyone else.}
"Everyone else?"
{Later! Oh yeah, and Shell? Why'd you scream a moment there?}
{It's all Gordon's fault. He'd reappeared right in front of me, and since I wasn't able to focus on him beforehand, he looked kinda blurry. And it was quite a shock considering that I hadn't expected him to appear like that.}
Gordon stumbled a bit, then neatly tripped over Michelle. She nearly screeched aloud, before catching herself and keeping her cat mouth shut. But she didn't silence her mind.
{Gordon! What is the matter with you!? Get off my tail! Ooooooooow! You slimy alien jerk that highly resembles.!! Forget it. Just be careful and don't do that again!!!}
{Oo.next time scream just at Gordon? Mind screaming hurts more since you don't stand a chance of the person losing their voice, or are able to block the sound.}
Gordon got up again, and Michelle was able to lead the way to the gym without any more incidents. Once inside the gym, Michelle slipped into her sleeping bag since the girls' dorm was faster to get to through the hallway, and silently demorphed. Mike and Gordon nearly didn't make it into the boys' dorm. What they didn't account for were the extra girls that weren't able to fit into the girls' dorm, and had been moved into the middle gym. Gordon had nearly stepped on someone's hand. Thankfully, everybody was asleep, and the boys made it into their dorm. Soon, they were asleep too.
Michael sprinted around the corner, and yelled, "Let her go you.Gordon.?!"
Mike froze and let his jaw drop. GORDON was who had dragged Michelle through the hallways. Michelle wasn't about to stare just yet.
"What the.what is the matter with you?!" Michelle shrieked. She kicked and punched Gordon's stomach and knees relentlessly, screaming, "You scared me half to death! Why didn't you tap me on the shoulder like any other normal person?! Oh, wait. But you're NOT a normal person! You're a humanoid- type of alien slug that I happen to know! Why didn't you tell any of us that you'd be here?! And." Michelle blinked, stopped her attack, then asked, "You have a mutation too?"
By the time Michelle had called Gordon an alien slug, Mike had recovered his powers of speech. But.Gordon had a mutation? Mike barely said, "Wha.?" before his jaw dropped yet again.
"Whaddaya mean, 'too'?" Gordon asked, "What is this 'too' you speak of. Wait, you have a mutation?"
"Answer me first! Your mutation is invisibility, isn't it?" said Michelle accusingly.
"Well, partly. You have a gift?" asked Gordon.
"Yeah. I can morph. So can Mike, but he's got limits to it. I don't. Wait, invisibility is only partly your gift?"
"What do you mean?" asked Mike, who finally got his jaw to work properly again.
"I.don't just go invisible. Heat sensors don't find me while invisible, because for some reason I stop giving off heat. And I can walk on the walls and ceiling," explained Gordon.
"How did you find out about your mutation?" asked Michelle, "I mean, did you just think, 'I'm gonna climb up this wall right here, and be totally invisible too,' or what?"
"Well, I was playing hide-and-seek with some of my family, and I couldn't find a spot, so."
"You're kidding," said Mike, "You have to be kidding."
"Tell me you didn't just think, 'I hope they don't see me' and then go invisible," said Michelle, shaking her head, "No."
"No, seriously. I wished really badly that my cousin wouldn't see me, and she didn't. I wondered why, then I looked at myself.well.I couldn't see myself. I ran to a mirror, and didn't see anything. Everything behind me wasn't even skewed to betray whether or not I was there. I realised I was invisible."
"What about walking on the wall?" asked Michelle. "And please don't tell us that you just wished really badly to walk up the wall, and then it happened," requested Mike.
"Well, be glad because I won't. I'm sure at least one of you have jumped to see whether or not they were tall enough or could jump high enough to touch something, or the ceiling, right?"
"Yeah." said Michelle, than after a moment, "No."
"You didn't.jump and then get stuck.you didn't," said Mike.
"Actually.ok, you asked me," said Gordon.
Michelle and Mike burst out laughing.
"You.got stuck? On what?" said Michelle, who was still giggling.
"The ceiling. I got confused for a moment, then.yeah. I realised I could walk on walls and ceilings. Ok, Mike could you stop laughing at me?"
"I can't help it! I can just imagine." Mike went into a peal of laughter yet again.
"I hope no one was around to see you," said Michelle, trying to hide a smile, then finally giving up and laughing out loud.
"Well, no. No one was around. I was at home in my basement, and no one saw me until I was down again," said Gordon, "Oh, and I climb with my feet too, but I need to take my shoes and socks off first."
"You need to go barefoot?" asked Mike, who had calmed down.
"Yeah."
"That's great," said Michelle, "Just warn us whenever your shoes need to come off, for health reasons, ok?"
"Hang on." Mike strained his ears, then whispered urgently, "Teacher's in the next hallway!"
"S*#&.we're not supposed to be in the hallways," said Gordon.
"Gordon, does anything behind you, or that you hold go invisible?" asked Michelle.
"No. Otherwise, the people I walk by would look weird," replied Gordon.
"Ok.Gordon, take your shoes and socks off, put your shoes in your so.I mean your socks in your shoes, and hide them by that garbage can there. Quick!" yell-whispered Michelle.
"Why?"
"Just do it," advised Mike, then turned to Michelle and asked, "What morphs do we have will work? Or will I."
"Acquire," said Michelle. There was a shimmer around her, and then.
"Oh ugh!" exclaimed Gordon.
"Madagascar hissing cockroach. Never watch 'Fear Factor'? Anyhow, Mike you have to acquire me. I chose this because at least we can bite back, and scare people away a little faster," explained Michelle, "Hurry!"
Mike carefully picked up Michelle as the cockroach.
"That is so weird.and creepy," commented Gordon, "Now what do I do?"
"Climb up the wall and go invisible so the teach doesn't see you maybe?" suggested Mike.
"Climbing."
Gordon went up the wall, mimicking Tobey Maguire's idea of how Spiderman would climb walls. Michelle and Mike couldn't help but notice the terrible contrast between how different the two wall-climbers looked. As soon as Gordon was on the ceiling above a few lockers, he simply vanished from sight. Mike put Michelle down by the garbage can where Gordon's shoes were stashed, and hurriedly transformed into a cockroach himself.
{Come on! Run over here!} rushed Michelle.
{I'm coming! I'm coming!} answered Mike, whirring his little cockroach legs.
Just as Mike disappeared behind the trashcan, the boys' gym teacher, Mr. Mulford, walked into the hallway. All three mutants held their breaths.
"Hm.lights are still on in this hallway. They shouldn't be. Darn grade 10 helpers."
The tall man flicked the lights off, and would have hit his head on Gordon had the latter not sped across the ceiling, away from the teacher's mop- covered head. The teens waited until Mr. Mulford's footsteps faded away, before breathing normally again. Gordon let himself fall from the ceiling, and become visible again. "That's too close. And it's too dark here."
{I'm sure you're proud,} commented Michelle.
{Ah.the dark is good for these eyes. The light's too strong for cockroaches,} said Mike.
"Well, I'm not a cockroach, so I need help getting out of here," said Gordon, "Could you help me out?"
{Sure,} said Michelle, {Let me just get a better morph,} she added as she transformed into her favourite house-cat morph, the grey kitten with a white tail tip.
{Aight.I'll trot up ahead. Mike, you're gonna rather slow in that morph. You sure you don't want to be something else?} asked Michelle.
{I just switched to a grey tabby.}
"How're those morphs gonna get me back to the boys' dorm? The lights are all out now, I bet," Gordon whispered as he groped around in the dark, looking for his shoes.
{Cat's can see fairly well in the dark. Even in a school like this without any windows. Duh. I'll lead the way, and Mike'll follow to make sure no- one's behind us.}
"Who'd be following?"
{A teach, or Scott or Matt,} answered Mike, as Michelle began to lead the way.
{Follow the waving white speck.} Michelle said eerily, waving her tail around like a flag.
"Who are Scott and Matt, and why?"
{Long story. Michelle and I'll tell you later, with everyone else.}
"Everyone else?"
{Later! Oh yeah, and Shell? Why'd you scream a moment there?}
{It's all Gordon's fault. He'd reappeared right in front of me, and since I wasn't able to focus on him beforehand, he looked kinda blurry. And it was quite a shock considering that I hadn't expected him to appear like that.}
Gordon stumbled a bit, then neatly tripped over Michelle. She nearly screeched aloud, before catching herself and keeping her cat mouth shut. But she didn't silence her mind.
{Gordon! What is the matter with you!? Get off my tail! Ooooooooow! You slimy alien jerk that highly resembles.!! Forget it. Just be careful and don't do that again!!!}
{Oo.next time scream just at Gordon? Mind screaming hurts more since you don't stand a chance of the person losing their voice, or are able to block the sound.}
Gordon got up again, and Michelle was able to lead the way to the gym without any more incidents. Once inside the gym, Michelle slipped into her sleeping bag since the girls' dorm was faster to get to through the hallway, and silently demorphed. Mike and Gordon nearly didn't make it into the boys' dorm. What they didn't account for were the extra girls that weren't able to fit into the girls' dorm, and had been moved into the middle gym. Gordon had nearly stepped on someone's hand. Thankfully, everybody was asleep, and the boys made it into their dorm. Soon, they were asleep too.