Hello everyone! Well, with the current state of things in the world and all of us having a bit more time on our hands due to it… what better to do than to contribute to the cause and write some more fanfiction. I just need something to fill my time being off work and hopefully I make some of your days by giving you all some reading material to choose from to escape reality for a little bit as we continue to practice our social distancing. So, without further ado, here is the latest chapter that picks up immediately after the last chapter. Hope you enjoy!
({No POV})
It was a little before midnight and a cloud of dust, rumble, and smoke drifted above the skyline.
The side of a high security bank vault was blown wide open. Two detectives, along with their crime scene investigative team, were all sweeping the area for any evidence on this crime trend that was taking over Metroville at the moment.
"Anything yet?" The first detective, Jerry, asked his colleague in a nasally tone.
The evidence technician shook her head as she replied, "Nothing. Like every other time, we searched and scanned every surface and can't find any leads. No fingerprints, DNA, tools… nothing. All we can find is rubble and holes carved into things that seem almost alien. Nothing adds up."
As the tech walked away, Jerry heard, "She's right Jer."
Jerry looked behind him and saw Ray right behind him as Ray continued, "Nothing about this makes any sense. Especially with each time it happens."
Jerry gave him a confused look as he questioned, "What are you talking about, Ray? The same thing's happened every time."
Ray walked off and looked into the vault as he commented, looking toward one spot in particular, "Not every time."
Jerry came over, still very much confused until his expression shifted to intrigue once he saw what Ray meant. A particular drawer was open and the contents strewn about the space with every other drawer containing valuables around it remained untouched.
Public Records and Blue Prints.
The next day
Helen walked back in the house with the Sunday morning newspaper, pulling off the rubber band as she walked back into the house.
She looked over and smiled for a second as she saw Bob and Jack-Jack play wrestle on the living room floor. Or at least it was until Jack-Jack got a playful yet slightly sneaky smile on his face as he used his powers to immediately multiply himself to 5 as 4 of his copies clung to Bob's arms as he put his dad into a headlock.
Despite having super strength, Bob just fell to the ground to humor his son as he laughed before playfully scolding, "Jack, c'mon! No replication. You know, I can't do that!"
Jack-Jack laughed a little as he went back to being his one person, still clinging around his dad's dad neck in a loose headlock.
Bob glanced over his shoulder to see Jack-Jack giving him a slightly apologetic yet cheeky grin before smiled and pulled Jack-Jack over his shoulder as he said playfully while laughing, "Okay, you little stinker!"
Jack-Jack started laughing too before Helen interrupted, "Bob… come look at this a second?"
Bob paused as he put down Jack-Jack, who immediately looked back to the TV as he picked up an action figure and started fiddling with it in his hands as Bob walked out of the room. Bob walked in the kitchen and saw Helen looking at the newspaper at the kitchen counter.
"What's going on?" Bob asked as he walked in.
Helen glanced over and slid the Newspaper closer to him on the counter as she commented, "Another robbery last night."
"Another one? That's the sixth one in the past couple weeks."
Bob commented as he started to read the column about it, scratching his head a little. "And not many leads on it either. Have you heard anything from Lucius? You said you talked to him the other day, right?" Helen asked.
Bobby shook his head, "No, all he really said was that he was just trying to help us keep an eye on Dash. But, odds are wherever he follows Dash he'll probably also be following this case. I can't see Dash not being on this at all whenever he's out there."
Helen got a thoughtful look on her face as she commented, "Is he still in his room?"
Helen looked down the hall at Dash's door, still closed.
But, the faint sound of clanking metal from his weightlifting set could be heard being in use.
"Sounds like it." Bob said, looking at the end of the hall from behind Helen. They both exchanged a look, both unsure and also hesitant about the entirety of the situation.
2 weeks later
(Dash's POV)
Oh for the… where's that stupid book?
I've been in the school library looking for this book for the past 20 minutes.
We're starting book reports in English and we all got a different book that we had to pick from this list… except I got the scraps since everyone got to the good ones before me.
Yeah, I had it coming since I waited until the last minute, but still.
The whole section was totally picked over.
I kept looking over books to find one on my list when I saw one sticking out from the shelf. I was about to push the book back in until I stopped for a moment as I looked at the cover. I read this book in English last year, and also didn't even like it.
Romeo and Juliet.
And the cover was just as sappy as that whole story with Romeo climbing halfway through the window and Juliet kissing him. I could feel my jaw clench and I felt like my head was going to explode as I scrunched my eyebrows together and shoved the book so hard back into the shelf that it made a loud thump that caused everyone around me to look at me and I didn't even care.
Girls suck.
I mean… C'MON?!
The moment I started to like a girl and she ended up being a total snake that was just using me to try and steal stuff. I bet Lucius was just loving it since I could tell he probably caught what happened with Nova.
I mean, he said sorry, but… I don't know?!
Pft… whatever.
That's the last time I'll ever get totally lame over a girl or trust anyone out there. I can't trust anyone but me. And I still can't find that STUPID BOOK?!
I probably looked like a total psycho as I kept scanning over the shelves like crazy. I actually had to go down a few more aisles.
"C'mon, Orwell… Orwell." I kept saying to myself.
Yeah, anyone looking at me right now probably does think I'm nuts.
I rounded the corner and flinched and actually fell back when I collided head on with someone.
Sure… why not? I got double crossed by a snake, my team got booted out the playoffs in our first game last week, and I feel like I'm losing my mind looking for a stupid book… What else can possibly happen to me right now?!
I looked down and saw a whole bunch of stuff in front of me from the person I ran into and saw I ran into Melanie Frickowski. She looked like she was flipping out as she was trying to pick up her stuff as fast as possible.
Great, anything else?
"Sorry." I said, under my breath, as I started to just help her pick stuff up.
I was reaching for a pencil she dropped when she also reached for it at the same time since I ended up putting my hand on top of hers by accident.
Right when our hands touched my eyes went wide as I felt this HUGE rush go through my body that made my back straighten instantly on reflex.
Either way, it didn't feel… normal.
It felt like this current was running through my body, like electricity or something. It wasn't like I was being electrocuted or anything, but I could feel something, like goose bumps and static put together all over my body.
My chest started to tighten up and I almost couldn't breathe.
I seriously had no idea why since nothing was happening in the library. I felt like I was this close to losing my mind. But… I couldn't move. I felt like the whole room was getting smaller around me. All I wanted to do was escape.
I didn't know why but that's all I could think of.
I kept looking all around me to find a way out even though I have no idea what's happening to me right now. I was looking everywhere.
The windows, the ceiling… I need to go. I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!
I looked back at the floor but… what the?
I looked down and saw… what am I even looking at?! My eyes looked at my hand and up my arm and saw these… colors. Like these colored lights coming from my body like flames whipping all over the place.
It was like looking into an insane Kaleidoscope, but I was the Kaleidoscope.
It was all around my whole body. I was still freaking out but now I felt like I was freaking out about a million different things, most of those I didn't even know why. I just looked at my arm until I noticed something.
I still had my hand on Melanie's over the pencil that was still on the floor. But, as I looked up at her, I saw Melanie looking right at me. That's not what got me though. The same Kaleidoscope flame color lights were also all around her body, but they were reflecting colors way different from mine and looked way more intense than the colored lights around me.
And her eyes… her eyes weren't her eyes, at least not her normal eyes.
Her eyes were radiating white light like headlights on a truck or something as she looked at me. And she looked just as freaked out as me, like exactly how I was freaking out right now.
After a second, I saw her expression change on a dime and right at that instant, I saw her shut her eyes and grit her teeth and I suddenly felt like I was being ripped out of my body for a second as I felt her hand under mine clench into a fist and rip itself away from mine.
I fell back and pretty much propped myself up on my elbows and I was gasping for air like someone just tried to drown me, but… all the anxiety and the weird colors around me were gone.
Like it never even happened and I couldn't figure out what the heck was happening?!
I looked back across from me at Melanie and saw her doing the same thing back at me. Except she looked like she was still beyond freaked out and then add-on looking totally mortified.
She started shaking for a second until she just grabbed her backpack and took off in an all out sprint, being yelled at by one of the librarians for running through the library as she bolted out of there like a bat out of hell.
A whole bunch of papers and stuff that she dropped were still all over the floor in front of me as I tried to figure out just WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!
I leaned forward and saw that she dropped what looked like the rough draft of the history essay we had to write… that I still need to write.
Right as I was picking it all up, I felt my eyes go wide as everything hit me, making me feel stupid why it hit me so late after all that happened.
Those weird lights, the feeling like I was freaking out totally out of nowhere for no reason, and that weird current feeling with whatever that was that was happening when I touched Melanie's hand? I felt my mouth fall open.
No way...
Is Melanie… a super?
Well… looks like Dash and the rest of the gang have quite a few things on their plate at the moment in a variety of ways. Trust me, this is only the beginning of what's to come. I hope this chapter helped make your day a bit lighter with what's happening right now. As always reviews and feedback are always appreciated and thanks for reading. I hope you all and your friends/family are staying safe and healthy out there.
Keep calm, wash hands, and of course… Stay Classy!
Dexter1995