Names of Lightining
Albotross is in his cage again reading while Penelope web surfs in a chair. Since she has to make it look like she was fucked three hours straight she decided instead of limping, sit in a chair and make it look like her legs are useless.
Albotross hears someone coming down and sends an impulse to warn Penelope. She rearranges herself and changes her screen from the boat operators inforamtion to the vitals screen.
Carson comes through the door, "So my boy, did you have a wonderful night?" He asks noting that Penelope is sitting down. He goes to strike her. Penelope cringes in anticipation of the pain about to explode across her face.
Albotross sees whats about to happen. He sits up quickly and says. "Hold off on her right now old man, we went on for three hours straight. And she barley has had any feeling in her legs all day, had to help her into the tub." He says, Carson growls at her, but backs up, he looks into the cage at Albotross. "What have you been doing since this morning boy?" Albotross points at the washing sheets, his makeshift exercise mat, and then the book he's holding. Carson huffs and, turns to leave.
"You have another match tonight so be ready." He says before closing and locking the door. Albotross rolls his eyes as Penelope rolls around in her chair giggling like a school girl who was saved by a knight. Albotross lets out a sigh and closes the book.
She stops rolling as her desktop beeps. Albotross walks out to her and looks over her shoulder as she opens the problem letter file.
Albotross smirks as he recognizes the code of who sent the email, Penelope just looks confused. "Mind if I give it a try dear, I think I know who sent this." He says. Penelope slides over and Albotross starts hacking into the letter, both physically and electrically.
Within five minutes he's opened the letter. But Penelope sees something is obviously wrong with him. He's bent over the console a little clutching his heart and taking deep breaths.
"What's wrong Albotross?" Penelope asks as she notices his labored breaths, he calms after a minute. "My powers seem to tax me especially when in use for something that requires that much concentration. Dammit you little green pulse, you never should've stopped sending practice like that." He says hitting the open key, turning to the screen so that he covers it fully
Penelope has to crawl under his arm to see. Bentley is on the screen, "Hello to you too Al, who's your friend there?" He asks squinting at the screen, Penelope gets red faced and tries hiding, Albotross blocks her exit. "Come on uncle, don't tell me you forgot the face of your girlfriend." He says as Bentley's face shows recognition, then confusion and slight anger. "Why and how is she there, know what never mind. I'll ask her in a minute, where are you?" He asks, Penelope gets a little sad faced, but answers.
"We are on a private island in the Shire of Ireland." She says as he types on his computer. Albotross pets her to stop her from crying, she takes little comfort in that. "Bentley hey man, look we both have a little problem here, we're trying to get off the island but I can't cause I'm locked in the basement, cameras all over the place and I can't track them all, and Penelope can't leave me here cause she's like my property now." He says, Bentley stops for a second.
"She sold herself and now you own her, is what your telling me. Ok I can deal with that. Can you get off the island quietly?" He asks typing again, Albotross shakes, his head, "From the electrical pulses around the place they have anti aircraft, and on the land movement trackers. And I'm gonna need you to come along with our get away boat we bought, my pace keeper needs a tune up." He says, Bentley gets a worried look but nods, Penelope feels his pulse and its fighting to stay down.
He moves her hand off his throat and heads to his cage, "I'm gonna try to sleep, You two talk out your problems and wake me soon, at least before I'm supposed to fight." He says before laying down on his bare cot, he slows his heart rate to put himself in a hibernative dream state.
Penelope looks worried, she's only known him a day and a half, yet he seems to be a good enough kid. "Penelope how are you, I know I'm a little standoff-ish right now, but you have to understand that I was hurt when I found out you took our project and sold it to LaPardoux." He says before she complains.
She huffs and sits back in her chair, she knows right know she's has to look dead from the waist down. It doesn't mean she has to look pleased to see Bentley again even though she currently knows how he feels being paralyzed.
"Look I get it alright, I went behind your back, but what do you expect, I was trying to do what I thought was best for us. If we had continued on like we were we'd never have any money of our own." She whispers into the screen, Bentley rolls his eyes.
"You know had you waited I'd have told you that I'm now a fully licensed P.H.D teaching at the best schools across the globe. I now have a net worth of over two point six billion euro's. I travel a lot for my job, and frankly I couldn't be happier with it, I teach the next generation, and get grant money to work on projects for everyone. I just don't militarize them." He says with a note of disturbance at the thought of militarizing weapons for anyone.
Penelope scoffs at him. "Oh so your gonna keep throwing that in my face? Really is that how petty your feeling? You know when I built some of the things I did for LaPardoux. Most of them were prototypes so that you could walk again. Yes they were weaponized but that was all for the test faze!" She rants at him angrily. "I swear you can be the smartest and the dumbest person in the room at times."
Penelope crosses her arms, then a small spark jumps off her ear piece and into her console. "Oh would you two stop bickering like children, if this is what I have to look forward when I hit my full adult hood, no thanks, I'd rather be young forever." A miniature Albotross avatar says as it initializes onto the screen. Bentley rolls his eyes and Penelope looks from her monitor to the resting form of Albotross.
Before she asks, "It's a little deal to make an avatar while my physical body rests. So in retrospect I'm asleep but I'm not, anyway, you two are arguing, yet with my instincts, and the way you two talk about each other, I can tell your both putting on a charade. So cut it out, before I shock you both with zeta waves to force the truth out." He says looking at them both.
Bentley backs up a little giving in. Penelope asks, "Zeta waves? What are you talking about?"
Bentley and Albotross look at each other and then Albotross waves Bentley to tell her, he moves back to the screen. "So I take it you know of his condition, the good and recently the bad yes?" He asks, she nods.
"Well Al here thought to name his electrical wavelengths after the latin alphabet. Each name has a function, Zeta is the one where he turns off the brain impulses that tell lies, oddly enough that it's actually true the brain has a center for lieing. Which in turn forces the truth from your brain and you have an unconventional need to say it and anything else on your mind at the moment. And that's one of his weaker ones." Bentley explains
"Right now he's using his Theta, and I believe it's Beta he uses to sense things that use or are electrically based. Now I'm only telling you these next two because they are his fall backs when his natural abilities are not enough. So here it is, he has named his speed as Alpha, it causes him to multiply his already considerable agility to inhuman, dare I say godly, heights. Next is his Gamma, this can increase his strength exponentially, so much so that I've recorded him lifting a boulder twenty times his size and mass one handed. But they usually come at the cost of some if not all of his senses since his muscles will be busy using the electrical impulses that the brain needs for them to function ."Bently finishes while the little Alabastor avatar flexes like an Olympian.
"Ok, I have a pretty good guess of his powers now, and the risks, so let's get down to business, how to get out of here and get him to you Bently so he can be "fixed"." She says as the avatar stops flexing and stands back. "We're gonna need to grab the survalence cameras and put them on a loop at the end of the week."
Albotross flips his wrist and a camera view pops up, "Done and I have enough time to make it look like the time is moving forward as it loops, he also has some secret cameras around the house, hacking is taking a minute, but I should have them before you wake me, I'll leave a link for you when you do." He says, Bentley and Penelope shrug off how fast he's working, "Ok we also have a boat arriving around midnight at the end of the week. Bentley I'm sure Al here would like you to be aboard when it arrives so you can fix him up." She says, Albotross shrugs.
"Yeah I'd appreciate it, I mean if I have to use Omega to get us out when I change back, you'll definantly need to be aboard to operate on my pace keeper." He says, Bentley sighs and nods, "I can be aboard the boat in an hour. And I'm bringing your sister, we know she's the only way you can actually calm down. So let's hope nothing will piss her off, we don't need you burnt, and I don't need to be the essence of Turtle soup." He says, Albotross nods in agreement.
"I don't need to be smelling like burnt fur again." He says, Penelope looks confused, "Why are you both so scared of this girl, as long as you don't bring matches to the boat you should be fine." She says, they both chuckle nervously, " You haven't told her everything I see." Bentley says, Albotross shrugs, Then turning to her he says.
"My sister isn't normal, as a matter of fact, she's a ninetails, missing four tails but all the same she has all her powers of fire still." He says, then Penelope's face lightens in understanding, but before she says anything Albotross gives her a subtle gesture to not say anything. She gets it and keeps quiet. "So we're agreed then, we set into on the weeks end. Till then, Al I suggest you try and keep your power use to a minimum." Bentley says, then the screen goes blank. Penelope sighs,
"So what did you use to make me masturbate to fantasies for three hours?" She asks, "Those I named Delta, they access the person in questions nervous systems while simultaneously hijacking their perception of reality till i feel that otherwise is necessary. Such as last night I simply jolted you and made you see Bentley while you did yourself." Albotross says.
"Of course theirs also the side effect that if I put that on you while your actually doing what ever is on your mind you have no idea your actually doing it, you think it's just a fantasy." He says as his avatar hops up her arm as a volt and back into her ear piece.
"So you could have done anything to me and I would have thought it was someone else.?" She asks blushing, "Yes but as I said, I'm loyal to my mate, the only reason we'd need to actually do it is for drastic measures." He says, she puts her hand on his head and the volt jumps to his body, he wakes up slowly and sees her blushing face.
He chuckles then sits up and goes to get on his gear. "Ugh I'm gonna wash right up tonight, these fights leave me dirty in seconds." He groans as he changes, Penelope covers her eyes as he changes his pants. Time to get started. He thinks as he hears Carson come down the stairs.
Well folks theirs a quick gist of his powers, the imagery is much better when you have actions to go with it. But hey on a lighter note, i had no idea Albotross had a northern Ireland heritage. So anyway folks more to come in the next chapter so stay tuned.
Remember, keep the balance!