Title: Ocean's Call: Part 1

Author: Drew Thiele

Fandom: New Series Tomorrow People...with a twist.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Tomorrow People, or their concept. Roger Price does. However, Jonas, and any related ideas are mine. Enjoy! (Takes place after "Elemental Connection")

Thanks to my betareaders for reading over what I had so far -

Carol, and E.R.:) Bows to you two!

This story's perspective is told by Jonas, a Wind Elemental Tomorrow Person.

Telepathic/Private thoughts/emotions/conversation are in italics

Elemental Connection: "Ocean's Call" : Part 1

The wind picked up momentarily, causing Megabyte to shield his eyes, stepping back, inside the Interior Center of the Ship, near its Core.

I materialized into the Interior Chamber, as the wind died away, seeing the redhaired TP covering his eyes. I grinned at him, saying in a dry tone. "Hi Megabyte!"

Megabyte peered through his arm, grumbling. "Hey there. Wish that didn't pick up such a draft..." He continued with a small smirk. "Although it's fascinating as hell... kinda hard to vanish quietly even more, in your case."

I chuckled in good humor. "Of course. I just have to be flashy..."

Megabyte looked at me deadpan, his quick mind realizing my inadvertent pun. Groaning, he closed his eyes in a grimace, mouthing silently, and enunciated. "B-A-D... "

I laughed heartily, slapping Megabyte's shoulder.

Grinning wryly, Megabyte winked at me, his mind casting around for another pun to catch me with, but failing. Shrugging his shoulders, he remarked lightly.

"You know, Jonas, It's been really interesting having you around."

My heart filled with contentment at that thought. The thought of having a second family, that knew, and could understand the new strange world I had been thrown in. "I know. I'm glad I met you guys..."

I clutched my head momentarily, as a surge of sadness swept at the fringes of my mind. I gazed around, puzzled. That seemed oddly familiar. Where did that come from?

Megabyte leaned forward, concern etched on his face. "Are you ok, Jonas?"

I nodded slightly, not really focusing on him, since the sadness was still slightly pushing at my shields. Apparently Megabyte didn't feel anything that I was feeling. A deep sadness, from... far away?

Where had that strange thought come from? Shaking my head in puzzlement, I tentatively lowered my shields, only to be swamped with sadness, and images that flowed into my conciousness so rapidly, I staggered, backward a step. Blind to everything else, an image emerged from the confusion.

Waves, rhythmic waves pounding against a shore; A haunting melody was playing, tinged with sadness. Dark Clouds in the horizon...A gurgled scream...

Megabyte tried to snap me out of my preoccupied state of mind, with a worried tinge in his voice. "What was that?" After a minute of waiting, he got more worried.

"Jonas? Jonas! Wake up!" His loud voice did nothing to break my focus.

NO .. NO! My anguished mental scream tore through Megabyte's shielding. Megabyte flinched, visibly staggering, awestruck at my power.

Meanwhile, a wind was picking up around the Ship's Core, and myself. A gust, picking up strength, roared throughout the chamber. Megabyte covered his eyes with his arm, squinting through the wind swirling.

Jade sat up from her bed. She had been idly reading her latest school literature assignment, as a feeling swamped her. A feeling of ...urgency...

"Huh? What the--?" She opened her mind, searching for the source of the feeling. The Ship! Something's going on!

She became drawn into Megabyte's mind, seeing everything happen. The confusion only increased her sense of urgency to get there. She finally broke off with a desperate wrench, after Jonas had blasted him/her with his mental shout, visibly concentrating on getting there. As she dissolved into static, she reformed back into the same spot. She looked around in stunned silence, at her room.

Somehow, something was preventing her from teleporting into the Ship. She stared into empty space, aghast. A mere moment's decision was made. Determination only fueled her will, as she attempted another jump.

Shimmering static enveloped Jade. She vanished into a burst of light.

Megabyte dimly saw a static burst as he squinted through the wind. Jade?? She shouldn't be here. I'm surprised she actually got in! Megabyte smiled grimly, as he saw Jade stagger in the maelstrom inside the Ship's Central Room. She raised her arm to her face, and struggled to look around, eventually seeing Megabyte for the first time.

Jade struggled to reach Megabyte and I, but to no avail. The Winds were gusting around, making it impossible for a sound to be heard.

Waves surging higher, and higher. A water wave looming over, to engulf someone in its watery depths.

Terror coursed throughout my body, before I started to barely sense Jade, and Megabyte.

I touched their minds, and ...REACHED. Reached for the presence, with a blind urgent need.

The winds swirled, and narrowed around the three of us, enveloping us into static light. And...vanished.

To be continued...