1.3
Unknown Time
In a PRT Transport
I've always wanted superspeed like the Flash. It's my dream power, the one I would take out of everything. Zoom technically is a speedster, but is so loaded down with clauses that it might as well be. Or breaker effects, if we're going by Worm terms. I'll have to get used to that. Pretty sure I don't need interdimensional politics screwing with me as well.
The thought that the foam would arrest any attempts to escape by vibration is something I can't dwell on. If I am in Worm, then being locked up inside the birdcage isn't going to accomplish anything. Working with the Protectorate would expose me to Cauldron and Coil faster than you can say 'Hi, I'm Zoom', so working with them wasn't immediately in the plan. Why don't I know my name, anyway? That never made sense. I guess ROB was feeling by the numbers when he dropped me here. At least I can say my first name.
What will I do when I get out? Brockton Bay is the most familiar place I can go, and it makes sense to fight where you know the ground. Ah, wait, getting sidetracked. Escape, then brilliant plan for fixing things.
It's a bit awkward, but I find that I can wiggle enough to vibrate a few inches in either direction. As I speed up my vibrations, my perception once again auto-lowers itself till I perceive myself vibrating at a reasonable rate. While it saves me the self embarrassment of feeling like a fool, I don't smack into any pavement, meaning one of 2 things.
I'm simply not fast enough to vibrate through objects….yet.
There's more to it than speed, and I'm doing something wrong.
The foam is slowing me just enough to stop me from escaping.
The foam has anti-phasing properties.
Phasing won't work like that in worm.
I'm Zolomon(or have his powers), so no matter how hard I try, I'll never be a real speedster.
1-5 leave me high and dry, as I don't think I can get faster than what I was doing, and I don''t have the room or mentor to properly teach me how to phase. Zolomon never phased through things by vibrating them, though. The best explanation given to me by a freind is that Zolomon displaces himself from time until the object isn't there, then walks through the area it occupied, and then goes back to the time he was from.
This means my power should work in 2 different ways, A). Zoom actually time travels at will, and somehow can go exactly back to the point in time he came from, and has never accidentally got stuck in the wall. Option B says that he just selects a chunk of wall, scrolls through time until it was never there, strolls through, and then returns it to normal. Both are confusing, though if option b works, then I'll probably net a shaker rating. Don't know what A would count as though. Power ratings, gotta collect them all.
I focus on the foam around me, and try to think of time.
I want this foam to be as it will be in ten years.
Nothing happens. Okay. I think of how it feels to be in this relative state. I can't describe it.
It'd be like asking someone to describe the taste of air. Something instinctive and familiar. Then I push the feeling around me, and the foam takes on a blue hue, which is kinda impressive, seeing as how everything else is blue at this point. What now?
I envision a mouse wheel, and scroll it upwards. Immediately I can feel the impression of a number. + 0000;000;00;00;05. I don't know how, but I automatically know it means 5 seconds.
In the future. There's no change though, so I push it up more. Roughly around the hour point the foam starts to shrink. I get up to look around. There's a man with an orange jumpsuit and the letter BPCC. Must be the prisoner,cause the only other guy is an obvious guard who looks bored out of his mind. I pointedly let the foam's timer go, and it pops back into existence. Luckily, I'm not in it anymore. While I'm pretty sure breaking out of a transport is illegal, I'll make sure to send them flowers later.
This time, I select the door and think of an oval. This time, the said shape appears on the door, though it's too small to fit through. A thought makes it bigger, and I jump out. Straight into the path of the truck behind us.