A.N: This was a slog to write. I've been busy with work (and i work full time) and just been absolutely beat when at home so i've been struggling. Still, hope you all enjoy.
Chapter 18
Andrew grunted, his hands outstretched and slowly closing into a fist as two cars were slowly crushed like soda cans. A trickle of blood dripped from his nose.
"Hey, Andrew? You, ok?" Matt asked as he landed in the disserted junkyard.
"Fine." Andrew grunted.
Matt watched with a hint of envy as the cars were compressed into balls of steel and oil.
"I just don't get how you're still so much better than Steven and I."
Andrew released his hold on the twisted wreckages of the cars and his shoulders slumped with the sudden release of tension. Panting he wiped the blood from his face with the back of his hand.
"Practice and imagination," Andrew huffed, "It's like a muscle; the more you use it the stronger it gets."
Matt pushed with his powers against one of the crumpled cars causing it to roll over. "I get the practice idea and I'm trying to do more when I can but I don't really get as much time as I would like between helping mom with the store and seeing Casey it's hard to get much time to really go at it."
Andrew rolled his eyes behind Matt. Was this guy really complaining about having good parents and girlfriend? Cry me a river.
"But what do you really mean about imagination?"
Andrew stretched forth his hand and lifted the other crushed car. "At first, I imagined lifting things with an invisible hand. Like, I imagined an arm reaching out from me and then the hand grasping the object."
Andrew then raised his other hand and dozens of small fragments of metal, stone and glass rose and started orbiting the crushed car.
"But I realised that it doesn't have to be hands, in fact imagining hands was good for one or two heavy things but not for multiple things. So, I simplified to stings. I imagine dozens of strings lashing out and wrapping around everything I want."
Matt tried what Andrew was doing but only managed four small objects awkwardly bumping into the crushed car.
"Then I realised that I didn't need to keep the strings attached to me."
The orbiting debris started flowing more smoothly increasingly complex patterns.
"If I bind the strings in a loop, I can twist it and shift it into a path that the item attached will follow without even having to concentrate on it other than remembering the pattern I made."
"Yeah… and you've lost me."
Andrew let the patterns he'd weaved go and the objects to fall to the ground and he pulled out a tissue and wiped at his blood nose. The bleeds were less intense and less frequent every time he pushed his abilities as he got stronger.
"If it helps, you're still much better at flying."
Andrew shrugged. "That's easy. You just let it fill you up and then push yourself where you want to go."
Andrew considered Matts words. "Fill you up? Like a liquid?"
Matt nodded. "Yeeaah… yeah, that's kinda what I mean. I dunno. I always imagined it like a light or like how gas in a balloon make it lighter."
"Huh… that's not how I was doing it at all. I kept trying to lift myself with my own hands."
Andrew had a thought. "Hey Matt. Think fast."
With a grunt Andrew threw the crushed car at Matt while still keeping a hold on it in case he was wrong.
"The FUCK!" Matt caught the wreck. He caught it with his hands.
For a moment Matt held the car aloft in his arms until with a grunt he dropped the whole thing with a resounding crash.
"What the fuck, Andrew! You could have killed me!"
"You caught the car." Andrew noted.
"Yeah! No thanks to you!"
"No, I mean you caught the car physically. Did you even try to catch it with your mind?"
"Huh? Of course, I did… didn't I" Now Matt was confused. He didn't feel the usual strain he did when lifting heavy things with the power.
"I think you're doing it internally." Andrew theorised. "I think you're strengthening yourself or something."
"Like one of those Kungfu movies?" Matt asked.
"Yeah! Like that anime Steve won't shut up about."
"Dragonball… you think I'm using it like Ki instead of telekinesis."
"I think you can do both but that you're better at using it internally."
Matt considered that and felt like Andrew was likely right. "We should ask Steven if he does the same or uses it differently."
"Yeah, were is he by the way?"
"He said he was going to that comic book store in the city." Matt replied. "You know it surprises me how much of a nerd he is sometimes. I would have pegged you as the nerd of the group, hands down."
Andrew shook his head. "Nah, I'm too poor to be a nerd. I've window shopped in comic book stores and honestly, it's an expensive hobby to really get hard into it."
"That's why you become a philosopher like myself. All you need are second hand books and enough money for beer."
Andrew choked on a laugh. "Right. Well, if Steven is being all nerd-boy then let's go hand with him. He might have some cool ideas."
Matt was already sending a message on his phone. "He's cool to meet in the city. Says he'll catch us on the roof of the Rainier Square Tower with Donuts and Coffee in hand."
"God bless the man who brings coffee."
"Amen."
The junkyard was left empty as the two took to the skies and flew toward the city proper.
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"Is… Is she going to be, ok?" Lapis asked.
Alex wouldn't meet her eyes as he kept the water bottle steady so that Alice wouldn't drink too fast. "She's just a little dehydrated but she's going to be ok."
Alice raised a thumbs up and gave a shaky smile. Perhaps she shouldn't have insisted they all share their quirks at once but… it had felt really, REALLY, good. Even now little waves of pleasure ran through her from her shaking legs all the way up to her sweaty hair.
Morrigan moaned from the a nearby chair as she took in the last empowered ghost child, super spirit? Power ghost? Share Spirit? Maybe they'll name them later. Absorbing the ghosts didn't appear to be as orgasmic as Alice made giving birth to them look but it did feel really nice. A wave of energy and potential that flowed though them and set every nerve alive with a wonderful tingle.
Alex picked Alice up and carried her to the couch and laid her down gently. "You did wonderfully, Alice."
Alice blushed bashfully. "Thank you, Master."
"After you've recovered well see about getting you set of all the powers of your own."
Alice shook her head. "No thanks. I just want to be useful. I'm quite happy being the maid to Master and his Mistresses."
Alex frowned but didn't argue. He'd let time pass and see how she felt in the future. It was a hard balance though. When Alice couldn't speak and simply followed directions it was easy to see her as a simple construct but now that she expressed her desires and wants, he wanted to treat her more as one of the girls even if that went against her request. He'll let it go for now since accepting another autonomy generally meant accepting their choices as well.
Any further discussion was interrupted by the sound of alarms.
"What the fuck is that?!" Lyn shouted over the buzzing alarm sound.
"That's the alarm system. It's supposed to go off during either a MOGO emergence or if the Starlight Princess Knights are in danger." Alex said with a frown on his face.
"Go see what it's about. I'm going to lay here and enjoy the afterglow." Alice said reassuringly.
Taking that as permission, Alex led the rest of the group into the Temple's main chamber. As they entered the [WARNING] icons on the screens vanished and were instead replaced by multiple camera angles of Seattle's streets at night. On screen Starlight Princess Knight Aries was trading blows with a gargantuan Grizzly bear. In the background Andrew, Matt and Steve were throwing around their abilities to ward off and defend the public from a handful of smaller yet still overly large brown bears which seemed to be rampaging with telekinetic powers of their own.
"OK. I'm not sure what's happening but I don't think I can be blamed for this."
The audio increased in volume as a human face and torso emerged out of the chest of the largest bear.
"Bring me Snowball McBearface! Bring me the Polar Bear!" the conjoined abomination screamed.
"Or maybe it is." Alex admitted.
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Avery lashed out with a fist that was coated in red and gold fire. The Giant Grizzly she was fighting hardly even moved.
Avery had expected many things when she was called to the site of some disturbance. On the low end of the spectrum, she had expected something like an outbreak of gang violence or a high stakes police chase. On the other end of that spectrum, she worried about an early emergence of a Titan: one of those crystal monstrosities that slept beneath the earth. A gaggle? A Posse? No, that's not it… fuck. This'll bother her for hours now. Whatever. Five fucking bears telekinetically destroying the city was not within the wheelhouse of possibilities!
Avery had to leap backwards to dodge a large and dangerous paw swipe that would have easily removed her head from her shoulders if she was currently human. The giant bear used the increased distance to swing a paw at a parked car picking it up telekinetically and tossing end over end it at Avery.
"Fuck!" Avery jumped over the tumbling Prius.
Screams from behind her alerted her to her mistake as the car kept rolling towards a young couple who had stopped to record the action on their phones rather than flee the rampaging empowered bears.
Avery was about to rush at the pair even knowing that she wouldn't make it on time yet before she could even move the car comes to a sudden trembling halt as black teenager drops from the sky interposing himself between the car and the bystanders his hands outstretched and trembling as he holds the car aloft with his mind.
"Steve?!" Avery exclaims in surprise.
Steven almost drops the car at her exclamation of his name, his eyes wide as he looks at the weird magical girl with fiery fists and wings of light. Shaking his head, he concentrates and with a grunt of effort hurls the car at one of the other smaller bears that are menacing the public the twisted automobile slamming into the monster and crushing it against the pavement.
The largest bear used Avery's distraction to lumber further down the street all the while flinging parked cars into shopfronts in which people were hiding. Avery stopped thinking about how Matt's friend Steve somehow had superpowers of his own (and wasn't that just freaking hot?) and swooped down after the creature turning her dive into a devastating kick to the things head.
The bear staggered under the blow and tumbled forward yet regained it's footing much faster than would be expected for its size. Avery twisted around the swipes of the bears claws all the while feeling an odd pressure against her skin as if dulled blades were being dragged across her body. Behind her she barely noticed as both Matt and Andrew joined the fight. The three empowered teenage boys using their abilities to hamper the remaining bears and prevent any further damages or casualties.
The large bear backed off a little to avoid a blast of fire into it's face and its chest rippled and split as ribs pried themselves apart. The flesh parting as a human, male face and torso emerged from its chest cavity.
"Bring me Snowball McBearface! Bring me the Polar Bear!" The conjoined abomination cried out.
"Oh, fucking God! I'm going to be sick." Avery dry heaved.
"You people are the ones that are sick." The bear-man-creature proclaimed with a deep and rasping voice. "You pollute the world with your leavings, destroy the beauty of nature and perverse the natural order of things."
"And that has to do with anything how?!" Avery retorted indignantly.
"Bringing me Snowball is just the start. A showing of goodwill to save yourselves from the coming culling of your bloated population."
"… you're not quite right in the head. Err… sorry, heads." Avery gathered heat into her fists letting the power build.
"Why the fuck is the Mahou Shoujo talking to the insane monster?!" Steven called out to Matt.
Matt strengthened himself and kicked one of the bears before responding. "Hell, if I know!"
"Guys!" Andrew shouted to the group. "Stop playing around and end these things."
Andrew simply raised his hand palm down and a manhole cover floated up from the street. He quickly lined it up with the closest bear and thrust his hand forward causing the solid circle of iron to launch at the creature's head. For a moment there a sense of resistance as the round of iron slowed minutely in the air before with a grunt and a sudden blood nose the cover sped forward even faster than before and literally cleaved through the creature's head in a mist of blood and brain matter.
"How the fuck do you do that so easily? I can't even get a hold of these monsters" Steve complained.
"They're resistant to direct effect, use the things around you as ammo or do what Matt's doing and make yourself stronger." Andrew explained as he distracted a bear by pelting it with a dozen thrown chunks of broken concrete and asphalt allowing Matt to come in quick from behind and slam his fists clenched together into the things neck causing it to limply collapse to the ground.
Steve looked around wildly before spotting a street sign. Running towards it he yanked on the metal pole and almost fell over in surprise as he easily tore it and a large clump of concrete from the ground. Using the sign like a makeshift mace, Steve launched himself at the remaining minion-bear and slammed the concrete heavy end into the creature's side causing it to roar in pain.
Only Andrew's quick reaction of yanking Steve back telekinetically by his belt prevented Steve's head from being separated from his shoulders as the bear's clawed paw nearly brushed Steve's nose as it retaliated.
Steve paled at how close he almost came to decapitation but used the distance to adjust his hold on the metal pole. In the attack the sign's end with the concrete mass had actually sheered off and now Steven lined up the jagged point of the metal pole with the bear's centre.
"Rrrahhh!" Steven shouted and mentally pushed as he threw the pole like a javelin at the bear. The pole flew faster than anyone could naturally throw it and faster than the bear could react. It pierced through the creature's chest and out the other side.
The creature paused and seemed to look down at the sign pole suddenly protruding from its chest. With a grunt it stagged forward towards the teen who had just wounded it so but only managed a few lumbered steps before slumping forward and going still.
The teen's heaved a sigh of relief as the last bear dropped only to stagger as a mental pressure slammed into them along with a tremendous roar from the human-grizzle monster.
A few minutes earlier while the boys were fighting the smaller bears, Avery was still confronting the lead Grizzly. The human torso attached kept spouting nonsense about globalist ecological terrorism and a missing polar bear named 'Snowball.'
Avery had to keep dodging as the creature hounded on about nature and a lost bear. Each aggressive swipe of the bears claws saw a car flying towards her or a building being torn apart brick by brick and launched in a whirlwind of destruction.
Police had arrived at some point but hung back uselessly, unable to get a close and unable to get a clear shot. Any bullets they had fired only seemed to get caught in the maelstrom that surrounded the bear or did nothing to at if they hit. No one was stupid enough to aim their weapons at the magical girl who was clearly fighting the abomination especially when she imposes herself between attacks and innocent bystanders who hadn't managed to flee.
Despite the dangerous telekinetic storm that bear was producing, it seemed to pay less and less attention to Avery herself and focused more on simple general destruction and monologuing to its fearful audience of police, bystanders and whoever was watching from what must have been multiple livestreams. People have no sense of self-preservation and recorded everything on their phones these days.
Avery used its distraction to charge a more powerful attack. Honestly, she didn't have much experience using big moves in combat. She had trained with the other Knights but they were all still fairly new to this and unwilling to test their regenerative abilities or Heather's healing powers too far. Avery pulled heat into her cestuses and let it build up. Already there was a wavering in the air around her fists as the heat warped the surrounding atmosphere. Little flickers of gold and red swirled around her clenched fists as she moved into a better position to attack.
This was different than just punching fire. It took time and concentration but the heat involved had already reached greater heights that of mere flame. The flickers or red and gold were swirling in greater number and even starting to merge together into thin streams of white-purple energy that behaved like liquid electricity. Already, Avery could feel the strain of keeping up the process as the air around her fists literally ionised from the heat.
With a shout like a shounen anime character Avery launched herself at the imposing bear-creature and lashed out with her fists. The purple energy shifting into the shape of a ram's head.
The bear-man almost seemed surprised. Like he had forgotten he had actually been fighting someone and not just angrily calling for environmental change and the delivery of a missing zoo attraction.
The plasma-hot ram construction hit the creature straight on and sizzled through his fur and flesh. The streams of ionizing energy burning their way through, melting skin and boiling blood as it passed in and around it.
With a cry of effort Avery cut her energy output to her attack leaving the energy ram chewing through the beast to break apart and dissipate. Only the scorched and carbonised corpse of the bear remained. It was undeniably dead and Avery's hands hurt.
"Ave- Aries!" A sweet voice cried out.
Two more winged Magical Girls dropped from the sky and landed next to Avery. The one who had cried out launching herself at the tired girl and hugging her tightly.
Jade was slightly taller than Avery and had short black hair in a messy bob. The slight tilt of her eyes and the shine of her hair denoted a slight Asian heritage but her sinfully curvy body suggested something European. Her outfit was much the same as Avery's being a white short tunic dress but her accents where closer to bronze than gold and having a snake-like motif instead of Avery's Ram.
She was the Zodiac Princess Knight: Ophiuchus. The surprising thirteenth Zodiac and second in the tentative command after Avery.
"Are you ok?" Jade fussed over Avery making sure she was uninjured and flinching slightly as Avery hissed in pain when she touched her hands. "You're hurt!"
"I'll be fine." Avery reassured the attractive girl. And where did that though come from? She reflected internally.
"What on earth happened here?" The other newly arrived magical girl asked.
She was stunning, with vivid red hair, pale skin and piercing teal eyes she resembled a certain mermaid from the famous children's animation. Except she was definitely not made for children. Despite being the shortest of the group she was curvy in all the right places making an interesting and disturbing juxtaposition between childlike and outright erotic. Simply put she was a real life shortstack. She was also Christine; the Starlight Princess Knight: Cancer.
"Telekinetic bears." Avery succinctly answered.
"Right. That's what I was told on the comm." Christine said as she used her control over ice to freeze the few fires that were burning in the area. Mostly from spilled fuel and crushed cars.
"Ummm… are you people even real?" Andrew floated over followed by Matt and Steve.
Christine eyed the newcomers appreciatively.
"Who are the wannabe Supermen?" Just because she liked their looks didn't mean she would be nice.
"Cancer, Ophiuchus meet Matt, Steve and Andrew." Avery pointed to each of them as she said their names.
The three teen boys were shocked that she knew each of their names. Andrew was just about to say something stupid given his angry scowl when they were interrupted buy a loud:
"THIS IS THE POLICE! Put your hands behind your heads and knee on the ground!"
The six looked over in surprise to see the nearby police presence had decided to get involved.
"They have to think we're incredibly naïve to actually follow that directive." Jade shook her head.
Steve looked to the skies and noted the multiple police and military helicopters that had arrived during the fight and the aftermath. "I don't think they're just gonna let us fly out."
Avery groaned as she could already tell what Jade was about to suggest by her obvious grin.
"Alright girls; grab a guy and let's bubble out." Jade said.
"What?" Andrew asked surprised as Christine grabbed hold of his arm and pressing it into her developed chest causing him to blush.
Avery sighed and made sure to grab a bewildered Steve before Jade could leaving Matt in her capable hands.
The had left it too close for comfort though as the police had kept shouting at them to comply to their directives and one of the closest helicopters was lining up some sort of mounted automatic weapon on their position.
Still, it only took a second for them all to trigger their emergency escape bubbles. Round opaque spheres of red, silver and blue appearing around each pair before popping strange warping motion leaving the authorities about to fire on empty space.
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"Sooo… are we going to talk about that?" Lyn asked as they all watched the three magical girls abscond with the three empowered boys.
"I really just want to pretend that didn't happen." Alex said as he brought up the feed for the Moonstone Temple.
On screen the six teens had appeared in the throne room and promptly collapsed to their knees from the nausea. Already Heather, the last found Starlight Princess Knight: Virgo, was rushing to each of their sides and laying hands on their heads, healing them with a deep grin light.
Heather was dressed much like the other magical girls except she lacked almost all decorative armour and her tunic skirt was a mix of white and green. She had long green hair with vine leaves woven in like a crown and starling green eyes. Of the girls found so far, she avoided conflict wherever she could and preferred to take on a more motherly, healing role of which her powerset was most suited.
"Where did the bear things even come from? They weren't in the movie." Lapis asked.
Alex sighed. "That was probably our- no, my fault." He admitted.
"Why is it your fault?" Lyn asked indignantly.
"If I was to guess I'd say that the man who was part of the bear creature was the Ranger I took as a drawback. That's the only reason he would be shouting out my bear name."
Lapis snorted. "Your bear name was Snowball McBearface?"
Alex grunted. "Yeah, it was. It was a competition at the local primary schools to name the new Polar bear and that's the only politically correct name that was in the top three."
"Now I have to ask: what were the other names?" Morrigan smirked.
"Eskimo Pie and Whitey McWhiteBoy." Alex said with a groan.
"Wow." Lyn broke the incredulous silence that followed Alex's reveal. "Those names suck."
"Which is why I was Snowball." Alex agreed. "Anyway, what should we do with them."
They all watched as the group ended up talking to Dianna, the Gem that Alex had put in charge of the Moonstone Temple. Dianna was explaining the Starlight Princess Knights and the three boys were explaining their encounter with the crystalline entity which had given them their powers.
The concensus among them all was that the boys had encountered a dying Titan and had somehow attained their abilities through its death. They also agreed that the bears and more specificall the bear-human abomination were someone who had somehow absorbed or had been absorbed by a piece of the Titan's body and mutated by the process.
"That also didn't happen in the movie." Morrigan noted.
"The bears might have always been exposed even without the Ranger getting involved but it's unlikely." Alex admitted. "Though the whole 'infected by the MOGO crystals might have always been intended to happen but just never made it into the first movie. It was hinted that the government had recovered the crystal organism from the cave the boys had found."
"So we can expect more mutated crystal monsters?" Lapis queried.
Alex shrugged. "I wouldn't put it past the government to screw up and let some people get infected. It's a good thing that the Starlight Princesses seemed to be able to take care of it if Avery is any indication and the boys also did well."
"Hmm… I'd feel better if there were more fighters. I'm going to move up our schedule with power babies." Lyn said.
Alex agreed. This world was meant to be a quick stop to get some powerful and adaptable abilities but when you looked past the videocam footage of three boys getting superpowers then this world on the edge of going very, very bad.
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Two weeks later and things had calmed down somewhat.
Oh, don't think that the world wasn't still freaking out about the existence of superpowered teenagers and monstrous bears. That was still all over the news worldwide and people wanted answers that the governments either didn't want to or weren't able to provide. Matt, Andrew and Steve had to go into hiding as their faces had been caught on camera multiple times. They'd barely gotten the opportunity to explain to their families before having to flee the Feds who turned up at their homes demanding answers and custody of the teens.
The magical girls didn't look enough like their human selves when transformed to be recognisable though Avery had to lay low a little while her sister was being questioned about her ties to Matt.
The worldwide stir-up and the surprisingly quick response by the government meant that Alex decided to investigate the military and the government more closely than he had been planning. Gemtech V.I. computers quickly infiltrated even the most secure Black Op mainframes and invisible and intangible Spectres were his eyes looking over the shoulders in every important meeting.
What was revealed was both as expected and alarming. As expected, the government had no idea what was happening. It had no idea how there were superpowered teenagers running around, that superpowers were actually possible, that bears could be telekinetic murder machines instead of just regular murder machines or that the world's balance was being threatened by the emergence of giant crystalline organisms over the next few years.
Alarming was that there were segments of the government that, while not knowing the whole picture, knew too much.
A secret department under the joint ownership of the US military and two private companies called jointly: the Darkside Cooperative, had a hand in collecting the remains of the MAGO that the boys had stumbled upon. They'd stumbled upon that site though an investigation of micro-tremors and trace amounts of a previously unknown type of electromagnetic radiation (and wasn't that new!) resulting in them having found the cave and claimed the crystals there.
Testing had found minor mutagenic effects from exposure but enhanced mutagenic effects and the development of minor psychic abilities when surgically placed within test organisms. So far there were only a few stupidly strong rats to worry about but further testing was planned and there were already speculations of human trials in the next few years.
Additionally, a Chinese government agency seemed to know way too much about the future MOGO threat. The Shēncéng dìxià kāntàn yǔ guāncè or more colloquially the De kānchá or in English the Geological Survey Department had records of deep underground movement dating back from the thirties. Strangely, they had less reliable documents going even further back and eventually referencing a series of partially translated Kushan writing found on burial artifacts dating back to about the third century. The point was that China had obviously encountered a MOGO in their ancient past and they made sure to remember and were now preparing.
A quick check of the other world powers showed that no others had enough information or at least enough accurate information. The middle east was of course claiming the work of God and already rousing the people in preparation for something. Either an internal cleansing of their own population or the possibility of another Holy War. Honestly, it was a coin toss at the moment.
Europe was simply going through endless circular discussions on how something needed to be done but not offering any new information or suggestions. Australia was ignoring most of it all but had for some reason invested a lot of money into exploratory mining operations and geological surveys revealing that they had access to someone else's information at least. Oh, and Japan was already making porn of the Magical Girls and the Telekinetic Teens… To be fair they were also trying very hard to get samples of the dead bears to study.
Through all this Lyn was still going hard at Operation Impregnation. She had found over six hundred volunteers worldwide that she had somehow found the time to vet and process. Offering obscene amounts of money and the promise of perfectly health and incredibly special children seemed to attract women like flies to honey. She had used the near infinite amount of money of which she had access to create a series of safehouses and supply lines that were operating under the banner of a new women's health association.
Contracts were signed, trust funds given out and young women brainwashed into her new religion. Obviously, Lyn wasn't calling it a religion but it really did look like one. Offering obscene amounts of money and the promise of perfectly health and incredibly special children seemed to attract women like flies to honey and once Lyn flashed a few Gem powers most were convinced that they were going to bare the next Messiah figure and were ready and willing to become pregnant.
All that was left was that he and each of the girls traveling the world and touching each prospective mother and gifting them with a child. Most of these women had already given up on having a child of their own for one reason or another, mostly medical, and so they were happy to be blessed with a kid. Through mutual discussion it had been agreed to pass on the bare minimum of genetic information not needed for the given powers to function. In this way; while he and the girls were the technical fathers to the kids, they weren't literally creating children that were biologically their own. Put simply, the coming children were not actually related to any of them and would genetically resemble a slightly deviated clone of their mothers. Even with Alex skewing the odds of the ones he contributed to this would result in a five to one ratio of girls to boys.
Lyn had already briefed them all on what abilities to pass on: Telekinetic powers,Magnetic Personality,Secrecy Insurance andBiological Shifting. The powers were obvious but the Biological Shifting ability from the Steven Universe Jump was the key to making the plan work. The ability would see the children grow with their mental age before their physical age. If the world continued to be at peace and everything was fine then the kids would grow up at a normal rate but if the world went to shit and the kids were forced to grow up mentally then they would literally grow up physically to match their development and thus have the best chance to survive. The addition of Magnetic Personality and Secrecy Insurance would guarantee that they all found each other when they needed to as well as any other allies and that that until they revealed themselves to the world at large then no shady organisations would likely get their hands of the kids.
They still had a little under nine months until the minimum requirement of year was up but Alex was looking forward to watching how everything moved. The Starlight Princess Knights were getting on with boys and they were working together to respond to natural disasters around the globe in an effort to keep public opinion of themselves up. Additionally, they were also keeping an eye on the corporations and organisations that were playing with the remains of the MOGO and the bear just in case something went wrong.
Alex and the girls were spending their downtime training and just having fun in preparation for their next jump.
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A.N
Alright. I'm thinking there's only one or two more chapters left in this world before we Jump to the next.
Those of you who have expressed their enjoyment of the Magical Girl side story: Don't worry.
Even after the Jump we'll still get updates from this world. (Reason to be revealed next chapter).