Chapter 2: Synchronized
Dr Holiday's View
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… Small spheres…
… Some kind of technology…
… EVOs that were not EVOs…
… What is going on?
I woke with a start.
My heart was racing. It couldn't have been called a nightmare...
I reflected on the dream. Monstrous EVOs, a blue and silver one and a light pink and silver one. Other EVOs, surrounded by lightning, fire, water, plants, and ice.
Oh, God.
I looked at the little digital clock next to my bed. 6:00 AM. Might as well get up, I thought. I swung out of bed and started to get dressed.
Blackouts, fires. Lots. Concentrated in one small part of Tokyo. I couldn't understand. This might be the work of EVOs, but it still looked suspicious.
"Hey, Doc!"
I turned. Rex was running up to me. I sighed. "What now, Rex?"
"I had this really weird dream last night, there were little spheres, red on the top and white on the bottom, getting smaller and growing bigger and then shrinking again, and there were EVOs… the EVOs! They shot fire and water and lightning except they looked… organised. Their bodies. They weren't weird and lumpy like EVOs normally are, they had a sense of… I don't know… they looked like real animals."
I paled. He had described the exact same dream that I had had.
"I… I don't know, Rex. It was probably… just that, a… a dream." I turned away, shaken.
Why were those EVOs like that? What were those spheres? And why had we had the same dream?
I couldn't ponder more because a live video feed came from White.
"There has been an outbreak of EVOs in the middle of Tokyo. Your job is to find out why this happened and neutralize it." Very short.
Looking through the little camera in Rex's goggles, I saw the EVOs. "Rex… be careful. You don't know what –"
"Yeah, yeah, relax! I've done this like a million times!"
Rex jumped in, brandishing his Smack Hands. "Hey, yellow!" Rex punched it in the face – chin to be exact – and it went flying. Whipping around, he cured the flaming EVO before either could react, and a girl about his age stood there. That was bad.
There was still the yellow one, though. "Rex!"
He didn't turn around in time. I bit my lip as he was knocked to the ground, but then snorted as Rex, teenager as he was, swore and punched the EVO's face again. He cured it, and another girl stood there. Before Rex could say anything, both girls fled into a nearby alleyway.
It was strange, but not as strange as the suddenly high heat and electricity levels coming from the still-human ex-EVOs that had just fled.
As I lay in bed that night, I pondered, again, why I had had the same dream as Rex.
You did not have the same dream as him
I sat bolt upright. "Who's there?" I whispered.
There is no-one here
"Then… why am I hearing things?"
No reply.
"Hello?"
He had the same dream as you
"What's that supposed to mean?"
He has the Synchronize Ability
"What?" I was dumbfounded.
Just like me
"Who… what… are you? Are you an EVO?"
You might think I am an EVO, but I am not
I blinked twice.
I will be with
"Who?" I asked, but as I did so I felt the faintest light-headedness.
Six
"…Did you read my mind?"
Yes
Said mind felt muddled. "So… this is-"
Telepathy, yes
I frowned and blinked.
You will see me soon enough
"How?"
Look for Dawn in Sandgem
"Look for dawn in the sand gem…? What?"
Sleep well… Rebecca Holiday
I couldn't say any more because I fell back onto my pillow in a deep, dreamless sleep.
Edited! She's called Rebecca instead of Amy now! :D