Hi everyone! This is the last chapter :(, but I hope you enjoyed the story, I'm sorry it took so long to get out! Joke Dagger, thank you for your review, but I think I'll leave it as is :). Matt, thanks! You have been a very faithful reviewer of this story, and your feedback is always very helpful. I might have added those characters, if I was part of those fandoms. I am not, however, so I'm afraid they fell to the wayside, who knows, maybe someday I'll do a re-write of this and add them (the odds are not in favor of that happening, but you never know). Props to both of you for guessing the new characters. I suppose I should have said this at the beginning of the story, but SPOILERS! Thank you to everyone who has read, favorited, followed and reviewed, now, on with the story!
"So let me get this straight. You let Rex go off with three unknowns, no information on their powers besides completely unhelpful information on what they are, alone, with only a TRACKER! For an HOUR!" Dr. Holiday yelled, and Agent Six nodded calmly.
"I'm with Doc here, what were you thinking?" Bobo demanded, leaning against the wall.
"Rex can take care of himself, I don't believe he is in any danger." Agent Six said, and Holiday fumed.
"A million questions hmm? Well, ask away. We've got," Thanatos checked his watch, the most normal thing Rex had seen someone do all day, "45 minutes." He said, and smiled.
"That's how they roped me in to, you know. Got me curious so I'd have to stay to learn more." He shook his head, and Charmcaster laughed.
"We appealed to your curiosity, not our fault." She defended, and Thanatos smirked and shook his head. Rex cut to the chase.
"What's up with Test?" He asked, and Charmcaster smiled.
"That's his story to tell, he can explain later." She said, and Rex looked at her exasperatedly.
"Sorry, I'm not spilling his secrets." She said.
"Fine then. I think I've got a good enough idea what you can do." He nodded to Charmcaster, "What about you?" He asked Thanatos.
"This." Thanatos said simply. He reached into his clothes, an odd robe of sorts, and pulled out what looked like a stick. He raised it up, concentrated, and moved it down in a straight line. (work with me here, I'm trying my best) A bolt of light shot out and hit what once must have been the reception desk, causing it to collapse.
"I'm a wizard. Charmcaster is undoubtedly more powerful, she needs no instrument to direct her power, and has far more versatile and larger stores of it. I'm basically what you think of when you think wizard, except that I don't look old, and I don't have a staff. Robes, hats, fancy incantations, the whole thing." Thanatos explained. Rex blinked, and said,
"I want to be shocked, but I think my brain has already overloaded." Charmcaster laughed.
"That happened to me too, when B-Omni, got his watch, when I got my powers, when we met Hybrid."
"I think Charm, Omni and Hybrid have told you how they met, yes?" Thanatos directed towards Rex, who nodded.
"Well, allow me to do the same. Just before I was born a prophesy was made. You see, there was a war going on in Wizarding Britain at the time-" That's what that accent is! Rex realized. "-a very powerful dark wizard who believed that only wizards who had no non-magical people in their bloodline deserved to live. The prophesy stated that a child who was born at the end of July to parents who had defied this man three times, and marked as his equal, would be able to defeat him. He marked me as his equal, and killed my parents. I grew up with my abusive Aunt and Uncle, knowing nothing about who or what I really was. On my eleventh birthday I received a letter, telling me that I was accepted into a wizarding school. After some difficulty I got some help getting the appropriate materials and instructions to get there. In my sixth year my headmaster, who had been the only person too hear the full prophesy, and very active in fighting the dark wizards, told me about certain things keeping Voldemort, that was the dark wizard's name, alive, and told me they had to be destroyed. He died at the end of that school year. But, the prophesy stated that "either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives". We didn't realize that that was the only way the two people spoken of could die. I killed him, and thus became immortal. It took awhile for these guys to find me, I'm about the same age as Hybrid, only a few years older." Just as Thanatos finished saying this Omnimatrix wandered in. Rex wouldn't have noticed it if the patterns on his skin and his eyes didn't glow. It made for quite the creepy picture, the hourglass shaped pupils just barely illuminating his face, little bits of glow emanating from his joints, obscured and dampened by his clothing. Staring blankly at the rest of the group. Footsteps sounded, and Rex realized Test had walked in and now stood next to Omnimatrix.
"Ahh! Perfect timing Test. Thanatos just told Rex about himself. It's your turn now." Charmcaster said, Omnimatrix seemed to puzzle something out before nodding. The blond haired boy, now devoid of fur but with a faraway look in his red eyes, seemed to shake himself out of a trance. He fixed Rex with a rather unnerving stare and began to speak.
"The human body has the remarkable ability to bounce back from almost anything. However, when subjected to varied and horrible forms of abuse, under the guise of research for medicine and science, and as such left uncured, it loses that ability because it simply cannot cope." Test's voice, static and layered, echoed from the shadows.
"But, that lack of coping comes in two forms. What form it takes depends on what the body went through. It can take the shape of death, or, what happened to me."
"And-" Rex said hesitantly, "what happened to you? If you don't mind me asking." Test's voice was almost normal now, but he sounded choked, as if he was running out of air.
"My sisters happened to me. They were geniuses, capable of creating things most humans could never conceive of, much less make. But, of course, a great deal of their research needed a human test subject. Namely, me. Of course, a good deal of that I requested-" Charmcaster snorted at this, but Test paid no attention. "-and all of it was completely willing. I was a stupid kid, I didn't realize what it was doing to me, and my sisters didn't care. It started when I was five, but I didn't notice that anything was off until I was 13. I started to react strangely to some of the things they would give me, particularly things geared specifically towards humans. I still didn't care, I was an arrogant, rebellious teenager, and the weirder the shit that happened to me, the more frustrated my Dad got. By the time I was 18 I had wised up a little bit, and I didn't think it was normal for your arm to suddenly go rubbery or for you to get a few extra eyes. Or, for you to still look like a twelve year old. I went to the doctor, nothing was wrong with me. I went to my sisters, everything was wrong. They couldn't figure out what I was, or how to change it. I never spoke to them again." Rex didn't know how to react. At least Providence never experimented on him. Charmcaster frowned, and Thanatos scowled. Rex remembered that Thanatos had apparently been abused, so this had to be pretty bad to hear about.
"Well-" Hybrid said as he wandered in. Rex jumped a good two feet in the air, and Test made a very strange sound Rex assumed was a laugh. "-you've heard our stories, you in?"
"I-" Rex began and stopped. "Hold up, I just realized you never explained why you want to me join your little club." Charmcaster, Hybrid an Thanatos burst out laughing, Omnimatrix didn't react at all, and Test let out a few husky coughs.
"I totally forgot! We're all immortal, and so are you, whether you realize it or not." Charmcaster giggled. "Machines can't die after all, and if I remember correctly, those nanites were supposed to help humans live longer, healthier lives, but, as with all of us, something meant to be good didn't quite go that way. That's why."
"Oh." Rex said, he still didn't quite understand why they picked him specifically, clearly they could move from world to world, but, he mused, immortality is probably pretty rare. "Make your choice, Rex." Omnimatrix said, brows furrowed.
"You don't have to come with us now. I waited, Test waited. They can die before you leave. That's why we leave in the first place." Thanatos said. Rex swallowed, glanced between them, and nodded.
They all shared a look.
"Well then, Nanite, welcome to the team."
I'M SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG TO GET OUT! Despite that, enjoy? I'm actually really happy with how this turned out. If you didn't figure this out, Test is Johnny Test from a show of the same name, and Thanatos is Harry Potter. I tried to only take characters who's powers I could take to the logical extreme to make immortal. I'm almost sad it's over though, if I was villain I'd definitely be a monologuer, I LOVE to explain things, in detail, for hours on end, and I got to do a lot of explaining in this story. I'll get to do even more in my Phantom Future story (long DP story, still WIP) though, in kind of a quirky way that I think will be really fun, for my readers and me.
