Chapter 11
We ended up resting for a bit during the four days wait time, even to the point where Raz's siblings asked the family circus if they could go to the Motherlobe ahead of time and set up shop nearby. And that Frazie, Squeepie, and Mirtala would show up along with Milla and Oleander after the camp had finished, which they understood and said yes to, so long as they promised not to go on the lake, them agreeing and knowing not to tell or share of learning that the curse was fake. Frazie had since gotten some treatment for her black eye courtesy of Oleander and steak, which she was grossed out at, but it did help a bit.
"I just hope that this shiner is gone by the time we perform again," Frazie said, me smiling at that.
"Yeah, it's kind of weird seeing someone as nice and funny as you with a black eye. It kind of reminds me of the pranks that I had to endure or avoid in high school," I admitted, which is when Jenna spoke from Raz's mind.
"I said I was sorry about it," she said.
"I wasn't including you in that, Jenna," I said with a smile. "Just from sharing our head with Raz, I can tell you had virtually no ideas for the pranks and the other girls were abusive to you... I still feel extremely bad for Mitsy, though..." I sighed as I looked at her, who was currently in the middle of a brain tumbler experiment with Sasha and Lili, the duo hoping to try and find out more by going into her mind.
"Did you happen to learn anything else about whoever took over Lili's dad? Or was that supposed to happen? Or what?" Frazie asked.
"It's kind of weird to explain, but there was going to be a mid-game based in VR, or virtual reality. Imagine the Virtual Boy, but it's the same graphics we see here," I said, her nodding at that. "Anyways, it'd be an adventure in a place called the Rhombus of Ruin, which is where Doctor Loboto would've been the one to transfer the brains, hide Truman's in the mailroom, and the entire game would be trying to find the person in the ruins, who would pretend to be Truman, managing to fool people by protecting his thoughts pretty well... the only thing I doubt he knows anything about is me and Raz, as we know who he is," I smirked.
"Who is it?" Lili asked, her being the one to look over the experiment while Raz and Sasha were in Mitsy's mind. And it was going well so far, aside from the fact they had to capture the memories one by one, and they'd only gotten the knowledge of a prince, tons of caviar, and that Grulovia was involved.
"A spoiled rich prince who thinks he deserves the throne of Grulovia, which is currently destroyed during the big fight that Ford had decades ago," I explained, Lili frowning.
"The M name, then. That must've been the one to destroy Grulovia... but then who is the rich prince?" Lili asked... then, the brain tumbler hummed a bit harder, which meant that Sasha and Raz had managed to get one more thing, that being information about the name of the person to look for.
"Gristol Malik?... He's been the mailman for all this time, and we never knew? But why would he do that to daddy?" Lili asked in annoyance.
"One reason. To try and find the M name person. In his delusions, he thinks that only her power can help Grulovia come back as the nation it used to be," Gloria said for me.
"You know, too?" Mirtala asked Gloria. AKA, the Gloria in my head. The actress Gloria insisted we called her Bonita instead, since she no longer felt the darkness we'd found in her. And she wanted to join our group at the Motherlobe as the new mailperson, which would make Gristol weirded out for sure... and her body looked MUCH better after having a much-needed shower and wardrobe change.
"I played it, too, but skipped Rhombus of Ruin," Gloria smirked... and it was then that the Brain Tumbler started to get overworked, meaning we had to turn it off, us then pulling Raz and Sasha out of her mind and for Mitsy to sigh after and land on her knees.
"I hate that... it makes my feet so wobbly after..." Mitsy sighed as Raz then spoke to her.
"You're really hard on yourself, aren't you?" he asked.
"NO!" Mitsy retorted loudly and abruptly before then sighing with a couple more tears. "I just... I never knew what it was like for you, Rosie... but after having been possessed by... that THING!... I'm sorry for everything I put you through... just please... no more tests... I just want to find somewhere to call home..." she said with tears, me then picking her up and hugging her close, her gasping at how it wasn't zapping her. "W-Why am I not getting shocked?" she asked, me smiling at her.
"I don't shock people that I consider as family," I smiled at her, which she then blubbered and cried into my chest some more. "You're welcome to come to the Motherlobe with us, even if just for moral support and for company," I smiled, her sniffling at that and seeing in her thoughts that she still didn't want to go there. "You may not be a Psychic anymore, but bear in mind, Naraku was using you and them. He lied to everyone, as he does. You are not him, and it's time to share the honest truth to the others, just because I doubt he did anything good in that place," I said with a frown.
"You're not making me feel any better," she sighed at me.
"Sorry..." I sighed, knowing it had to take a bit more, me looking at Raz and him smiling and nodding.
"Look, I may not know anything about you other than what I saw in Rosie's memories, but I can tell you that, ever since she learned that you were being forcefully controlled by that Nakura guy or whatever, she's been trying to care for you like she's cared for me and my family. She's never said anything about the past to your face directly and she's been trying to get you what you need while you recover. Couldn't you just accept what's going on and be a part of the family?" Raz asked, Mitsy sighing before smiling with tears on her eyes.
"I know... I just don't know if they'd understand the situation at all..." Mitsy sighed as I simply smirked and handed her something that I'd gotten from Ford. A cell phone. "What's this?... This phone is ancient..." she said at it, me smirking and rolling my eyes at her assumption.
"It's 1982, remember?" I asked, her sighing at that. "Just look at the text messages," I said, her then doing so and then reading them aloud.
"Mitsy, this is Sam... I don't know what all happened, but apparently from what we were told, the one we were used to hearing and seeing wasn't you, but a demon? I feel bad for ever thinking bad about you if that's true. I'd like to get to know you when you come back to the Motherlobe. We need our number 1 to stay that, not as a Psychonaut, but as our leader and friend," she read, me smirking at how she proceeded to cry and she handed me the phone, me then reading some more to her.
"Mitsy, I know that you probably don't know me as Hollis Forsythe, but I wanted to let you know that I don't think any differently of you after learning the truth from Agent Cruller. I'd like to see you again and give you an important status update. You may not be a Psychonaut, but you are still our leader. We'll be waiting for you to come back, warm regards, Agent Forsythe," I read, her smirking at me as she had tears rolling down her face. Happy tears. "Can I keep reading?" I asked, her nodding at me.
"Mitsy, this is Lizzie and Norma. We, like, totally heard that something nasty was going on in your head, or something? Major bummer, but we heard that the one we're used to isn't actually you, but some demon from another world... we can't imagine how much you suffered from something so scary, so we're prepping something special for you and the new interns when you come back. Stay safe and stay purple, Lizzie and Norma," I read, that making her smile bigger.
"That's enough... I feel happy now... they don't care about me being possessed, just that I'm safe and happy... thanks, Rosie... I'll never forget this, and I owe you everything," Mitsy said, me nodding at her.
"So... are you into her or not?" Frazie asked, me then zapping her with some electricity, causing her hair to poof out on her head.
"Frazie, time and place, and now is not a good time," I said, her frowning at me. "And as for the answer... I just want her to be family, not romance... the wounds are still there, y'know?" I said, Mitsy sighing and nodding.
"Says you... I got a lot more misfortune after getting expelled for that prank. I don't even know which of the girls added fire to the plan, because that wasn't my idea," she said, me sensing her mind and being surprised that she was truthful in her words.
"How about we go ahead and get some lunch? I heard that Kanna and the other anime girls are making some food for us as opposed to Ford," I said, that making Sasha smile.
"It'll be quite unique to taste food made by people from another universe, that's for sure," Sasha admitted, us then leaving his lab so we could go to the Main Lodge. And when we got in, we saw that all the other kids were eagerly waiting for us and that there was a lot of food available. Kanna was dressed in a more modern version of her old white kimono, Sabrina opted for her attire from the Heart Gold/Soul Silver version, and Pinoko was still in her old dress, and made sure to hold her returned anniversary present close to her via her newfound telekinesis technique, which I'd trained her in yesterday. Turns out that she was a natural at the Psychic tricks of telekinesis, levitation, zoolingualism, aromatherapy (which was what I called the Psychic power of healing with plants), and clairvoyance. And whenever she looked at me with it, she giggled at how I imagined her as a cute, yet powerful adult instead of her being the super short Psychic toddler. And as for what she saw me as? A powerful goddess with three eyes, five wings, and 4 sets of arms... it looked awesome, yet freaky at the same time.
"Oh, they've arrived just in time, everyone," Kanna said with a calm smile, which the kids all heard because she was speaking to all of them telepathically at the same time. That was one of two specialties she had. The other was mental projection, and she was able to do so without a Psycho Portal, which is why she decided to be a counselor during the time I wasn't tutoring her and the other three in their Psychic powers. She could go inside the campers' brains to help them out internally, which is something that even Milla had problems doing without a portal. And when I saw how she saw me using Clairvoyance, I looked like me, but with big muscles and wearing an empress kimono of white and red with a rose in hand. So that meant that Kanna was in love with me, but she knew that I knew.
"Hey, did you guys find out anything about Lili's dad?" Benny asked, me nodding at that.
"We've found out a couple of things, but it's problematic. So problematic, that it's only the adults who will hear it because of how dangerous the information could be to the plan if it's spread around," I said, them all nodding, but looking displeased. "However, what I can say is that it's some kind of conspiracy with some spoiled brat hoping to use the same powerful Psychic that brought Naraku here as his own personal helper. So, yeah, that's dangerous," I said, Benny then smirking and nodding at that as Mikhail spoke next.
"Do you need expert protection services, per chance?" he asked, me shaking my head no as Maloof spoke to him.
"No offense, Mikhail, but none of us could even compare to the insane powers that Raz and Rose have!" Maloof said, me looking at Mikhail with a smirk.
"How about, after the party is done and over with, we have a mental wrestling match between me and Mikhail? I wanna see if he'd be a good match," I smirked, the Russian camper smiling at that.
"Sounds fun, I agree to fight you, weird mind ghost," he smiled widely at me. And it was then that I took up my seating place at the table with the anime girls, Mirtala, Milka, Elton, and Bobby.
"Um... why is Bobby sitting with us?" Milka asked with shyness on her face.
"I... uh... just wanna, that's all," Bobby said. I simply used Clairvoyance on him right then and there and saw that, when looking at me, he imagined me as being... well, a nice and caring nun. One who had a kindness to her.
"You think of me as a nun, Bobby?" I asked, but only to his brain, which he looked around and then at me. "Private talk, just me and you in our minds... who is this nun, per chance?"
"U-Uh... my mum... she died, like, five years ago. It's just been me an' my pops, but... I hate him. Because he hates Psychics. And that my mum had me when she was a nun," Bobby said, me smiling and shaking my head at him.
"I understand... I may be doing something wrong... but I would like at least one familiar face to come with me that isn't an adult or going to become a Psychonaut in training. I think I could pull some strings and have you come with me to the Motherlobe. Would you like that?" I asked in his mind, Bobby smiling as tears came down his eyes and he nodded.
"Bobby? Are you crying?" Elton asked, Bobby sniffling and, of course, snapping back.
"I'm FINE! I-I just have somethin' in my eye," Bobby sniffed as Milka picked up a napkin from her table with telekinesis and held it to him.
"Here, blow," she said with her mind, him then doing so and sniffling in again.
"See, Bobby? You're among friends here," I smirked, him smiling at me after that.
"Again, I don't think I've seen Bobby like this before. You really are awesome, Rosie," Crystal smirked at me. And though her mouth was still hard to look at, I understood the reason as for that AND for her suicidal mindset. She apparently had a bad accident involving a bad plastic surgeon that ruined her mouth. And as a result of the bullying that came afterwards, she got smiling depression, which culminated in her psychic power of Psi Blasts. She always shot them in the sky or at herself because of her embarrassment from her looks. But after seeing me in action, she kind of idolized me, especially after the instance of me being nice to Bobby the bully during the race in Milla's mind.
Regardless, I proceeded to prove that I could still eat food by taking some of the items that were on the table and eating them, those being chocolate fondue, grilled bananas, some bear steaks from the psychic bears outside of camp, and even some special Japanese sake made by Kanna. According to her, this specific Sake was a favorite of demons from her world, but as far as we knew, she is the only demon in this world and wished to learn how to be human, now that her master was gone for good.
"Mm... I can see why demons are in love with this Sake. It's got all the different flavors for the taste buds in it. Spicy, sweet, bitter, and sour! It tastes so good with all those flavors mixing together, and just a small hint of... hmm... is that a small dash of wasabi?" I asked, Kanna nodding at that.
"Yes, it is. I know it can be quite the powerful spice, so I only put in at least one tiny grain in each Sake, lest the kids get their mouths cooked," Kanna said, me smiling at that.
"I think it tastes weird, yet cool!" Elka smiled from her table, where she sat with Nils, Phoebe, Quentin, Dogen, and Vernon.
"I like it too... but I also like the donuts," Sabrina said with a smile as she simply picked the sweets up with her mind and ate them one at a time. Sabrina, as I'd learned from training her, was a tough student to try and teach for one reason. She had the looks of her game counterpart, but the attitude of her anime version. As in, she had a split persona that often took hold whenever we practiced using more advanced psychic powers, that being the creepy little girl. Luckily, Sabrina's secondary personality didn't have the power to shrink people or turn them into dolls when in this universe, as the littler Sabrina said she was trying to do so with me for 'losing the game'. It was both a relief, and a nightmare having to work with Sabrina, especially when she insisted on not having me go into her mind with a Psycho Portal or the brain tumbler, because her 'little sister', as she called her, would have way more power over me. As for what Sabrina showed me as, it was a drill instructor... in the form of a Gardevoir. So, yeah, that was something I didn't need to see.
"Are you doing okay, Sabrina? No issues with training so far?" Elton asked, Sabrina sighing at that.
"Quite the opposite... whenever I use the more advanced techniques, my younger side takes control, which is dangerous... in my own world, she had the power to shrink people and turn them into dolls... luckily, that's a power that doesn't exist in this world, so I don't have to worry about anything other than that Blastokinesis," Sabrina said as she then jittered a bit and she then gained the big creepy smile.
"Uh... Smallbrina?" I asked, her smiling at me.
"What is this Blastokinesis?" she asked, me smacking myself in the face.
"Something that would kill everyone in this room if I ever tried to teach you. And killing is bad, right?" I said, her frowning at me.
"Right, killing bad. It's more fun to play with them when they're tiny," she said, me then looking at Raz and him smiling.
"Raz, if you would?" I asked, him then conjuring a psychic hand and slapping me in the face as I then looked at Smallbrina, as I called her, and spoke to her.
"Okay, I'll make this simple so you can understand. Shrinking people, bad. Turning people into dolls, bad. Ruining lives, bad. Blowing peoples' heads up, bad," I explained, her nodding at me with her smile before then speaking.
"Can I at least try to shrink something inanimate?" she asked, me sighing as I simply gave her a carton of milk. "Okay..." she said as she then tried to do something to it... but all that happened was that she crumpled it up into a ball.
"Good thing I drank all that milk before she did that," Mirtala smiled.
"I can't shrink anything, can I?" Smallbrina asked in annoyance as I simply smiled.
"You can do something else other than shrinking, you know? Pyrokinesis, Psi Blasts, Invisibility, Hydrokinesis, Cryokinesis, talking to animals and plants. Heck, why not try talking to the napkins with your mind and seeing if they talk?" I asked, her then thinking and looking at the napkins before then gasping.
"I can hear them! They're saying... they want to taste the food on my face? What does that mean?" she asked as I simply showed her by taking the napkin I had and wiping it against my mouth, her then going wide-eyed. "Oh, that one said it tastes good! I think I got it now," Smallbrina smirked as she then took her napkin with telekinesis and wiped her mouth with it, her smirking at that. "Mm... it feels weird to hear it praise me like that, but also happy!... Okay, big sis is wanting back in control now," she smiled before she jittered again, and Sabrina showed up again.
"Thanks for helping her learn something better than what she's used to... just don't teach her blastokinesis," Sabrina said, me nodding at that.
"Agreed wholeheartedly," I smiled.
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After the meal in the cafeteria, we then went outside with me and Mikhail staring each other down in the parking lot with the others in the crowd watching intently.
"Remember, Mikhail, though I am a mental projection, I can still feel pain. If you win, then I'll be reverting my form to Raz's head for healing. If I win, it'll be from me holding you down for more than 10 seconds, like normal wrestling. Got it?" I smirked, him nodding at me.
"Very well. We must wait for ref to ring bell," he said, the ones to do so being Maloof and Pinoko.
"Ready! Set, FIGHT!" Maloof shouted as Pinoko rang the bell, it being a triangle music instrument. I then proceeded to use my psychic powers on Mikhail while he did the same to me. And to be honest, Mikhail was very tough with his telekinesis! I could feel the pain from him, but I could tell he was feeling pain as I managed to down him first... but his mental prowess was draining me a lot in terms of strength, which I didn't expect.
"Augh! Painful! You don't mess around, Mikhail! AUGH!" I grunted loudly from the feeling of his psychic full nelson, but the countdown had already started for Maloof as I held all of him down with five different mental arms, one on each limb and his head. I managed to last for up to 9 seconds... and then I felt my form get so in pain that I had no choice but to retreat to Raz's mind, which is when the others looked at Mikhail in surprise.
"We have a winner! Mikhail wins!" Milla smiled as he then smirked and did an air punch as I simply chuckled in Raz's head.
"He doesn't mess around, that's for sure! I doubt anyone could handle a mental match with him if he could manage to beat me. But, boy howdy, I was so close I could almost taste victory!" I said in my head, Mikhail smiling at me.
"I went all out and you held back, that much clear as day. Next time, I want real fight," he said, me smiling at him.
"We said we were using telekinesis wrestling, and I was doing so in a less strong way. After all, I wouldn't want to hurt a friend if it has negative side effects like blood out of the ears," I smiled.
"Good point. I always fight dirty, you did not, yet you almost win. You are real winner in this war," he said as he then clapped his hands and the other campers did the same, me smirking at that.
"Can we still train when you're in Raz's head, Rose?" Pinoko asked, me smirking at that... before Boyd spoke up.
"I'd like to request something else... maybe some therapy?" he asked, me looking at Pinoko and then at Boyd, me being surprised he'd want therapy after his life went.
"Uh, sure, I don't mind... Pinoko, how about you train with the other teachers for now? I want to accept Boyd's request first," I said, her pouting at that before looking at Blackjack and him smirking.
"You've been training with her and only her for awhile, hon. How about we train with Milla instead?" he asked, that making Pinoko smirk.
"You don't have any Psychic powers, doctor," Pinoko said.
"Maybe not, but I do know how to deal with psychiatry myself," Blackjack smiled.
"Okay, I can manage that, doctor Blackjack. But I must ask, do you have a license?" Milla asked.
"Uh, no... no he doesn't," Pinoko said. "But despite that, he's the best surgeon where we come from. He could treat Face Disease, a random shrinking disease, a brain transplant from a person who survived a nuclear explosion, and he could make me a body when I was nothing but organs," Pinoko explained.
"She's not wrong on any of those... also, in her world, brains were much more fragile than the ones in this one," Blackjack explained.
"Well, normal human brains are fragile, but Psychic brains are tougher. That's why Loboto was able to force brains out of the campers by making them sneeze too hard... speaking of, how is our prisoner doing?" I asked, Sasha frowning at me.
"It's hard to look into his brain with the Brain Tumbler, to be fair. He must've been called Loboto because someone tried to give him a Lobotomy... I can see he used to be Psychic in the past, but then a botched surgery got rid of it and made him crazy. He was also controlled by Naraku, as you call the demon... but his mind is hard to explore because of that fact," Sasha explained.
"I see... maybe I could look at it?" Blackjack asked.
"Maybe... you know what, I'll let you do so, but I'll keep my eyes on you, since you're unlicensed." I couldn't help but smile at that notion as I then looked at Boyd with a smile.
"How about we go to a secluded area that's familiar to you?" I asked, me, Raz, Jenna, and Gloria then using teleportation on him and sending us to the asylum island, right at the gate.
"Okay... this place is familiar, but not for the good reasons," Boyd said as he looked at his scrawling on the wall and frowned.
"Well, if you don't like it, just speak up," I said.
"Uh, no, it's fine... let's start," Boyd said, me nodding as we then started to talk to him.