Chapter 6: Rage

"Well it all started about two weeks ago, The school basketball team was playing off against the Daryl Gregor team, you know, that private school down by the factory district? Anyway, our team was having a lot of trouble even with Edward's help, the problem wasn't Edward's ball handling skills, though. The other team were just monsters. The ball rarely had a chance to move before one of them would jump up and grab it out of thin air, storm across the field, and dunk it into the hoop before your eyes could catch up to the ball. It went on like this for two periods and the opposing team seemed to be getting agitated. Finally, getting seriously angry at the complete domination, the team captain, Jerry Mathews I believe, punched one of the other team's players right in the face and the player went berserk. He snapped Jerry's right arm in half and slammed his face into the linoleum before slamming his hands to his chest ape style and foaming from the mouth. As soon as the rest of the team charged at him all hell broke lose. It wasn't long before our whole team was injured and the Daryl Gregor team was pinned down by four men each. The game got canceled and the police were called in to investigate."

Edward sighs as the story goes on, "The worst part was our team had to withdraw from the rest of the season; there was no way we could compete with our entire team hospitalized. Anyway, I was heading back from the changing rooms to go home when I remembered that I left my Science binder in the second floor computer labs. I had a master key to the school because the coach always let me lock up after the games for him, so I headed up there quickly to grab it before I went home. Wasn't I surprised when I walked into the lab to find Danna here walking out of a monitor."

Seth's face twists into a look of confusion and he gasps, "Walking out of a monitor, that doesn't make any sense."

Danna laughs and suddenly sticks her hand on one of the video screens in the roller. Her hand presses in slightly, a small portion of it seeming to transform into light, "Don't ask me to explain how. Let's just suffice it to say it's my way of escaping reality. Now for a few moments I was hoping he hadn't seen anything, but with my left foot still inside things were a bit difficult to explain. The fact that he wouldn't stop nagging me about it didn't help matters, so I explained it to him. I thought it would be fun to try intimidating him with threats of jumping out of his computer late at night. You should of seen the look on his face when I mentioned that."

Edward grins. "Don't pay any attention to her, Seth. I wasn't scared for one minute. Naturally, I couldn't let Danna go around thinking she was the only freak in school, and so I put her in place with my awesome sphere controlling skills."

Danna laughs evilly, "As far as super powers are concerned, I give it a four out of ten at most."

Edward gets an angry look on his face and growls, "Yeah, well I give your computer hopping a zero, so there."

Seth holds his hands up, sighing, "Okay okay, back to how you two became the fantastic duo."

Edward grins. "Relax, we're getting to that part. A few days after the game, Daryl Gregor gave out an official apology for what happened blaming the incident on a rogue teacher who'd given the basketball team steroids to boost their performance, and that measures were being taken to prosecute him."

Danna laughs, "Can you believe that? Steroids. Hah! I'd done my fair share of research and that was not steroids. Naturally, I jumped into the police mainframe to learn out what they'd discovered only to find that the records had been deleted. Being the natural snoop that I am, I did manage to discover the name of the teacher who'd been blamed for the incident. Apparently he used to work for a company called Dimenstra-Tek and that Dimenstra-Tek was one of the official sponsors of their school's team. Naturally, I decided that investigating Dimenstra-Tek was the next logical course of action, but I had no way of getting into their mainframe from the outside, so I coaxed sphere master over there into giving me a hand."

Edward smiles. "You should of seen the way I made her beg. I'd already decided to go after hearing her out, but there's just something about a girl on her knees that made me grin and bear it."

Danna screams, "You little shit! I was practically dying trying to convince you, and in the end the best I could get you to agree upon was a test run of your powers to see if we stood a chance. I guess that brings us to the point where we met up with you, Seth."

Seth stares off into space. "I see. So you two are after Dimenstra-Tek as well. They're the ones responsible for Seishero's kidnapping and all this fuss about me being dead."

Edward nods his head slowly and whistles before speaking, "Well then, I guess this test run was a complete success. If I can find out information about my target without even trying, imagine how well I'll do when I am. Don't worry Seth, I've got nothing better to do than help you out. What are friends for? But what are we going to do with you while we plan our attack? We can't exactly have a dead man walking around town."

Danna giggles, "Why doesn't he stay at your place, Edward? Your parents never watch the news, so I doubt they've heard anything. You might want to assume a fake name just to make sure. If they have heard about you they're horrible with faces."

Seth grins and jokes, "Whatever you call me, don't make it Dubby Dub," before suddenly remembering Seishero again and becoming lost in thought.

Edward slaps Seth on the forehead. "Wake up. I have developed the perfect name for you. You shall be Will Smith."

Seth looks at Edward. "Will Smith? Why would you choose a name like that?"

Danna sighs, "You still watch those old pre-plague movies? Those must be 30 years old by now."

Seth looks back and forth between the two, "Uh, you guys lost me. I may be a collector of pre-plague games and such, but I don't really know anything about the movies. Wait a minute... GOD DAMNIT! My entire collection was in the house when it burned down. AUGHH! Can this day get any worse?"

Suddenly, the sounds of police sirens can be heard and a cruiser appears on the view screen behind the roller.