Sunday 18 October 2009

A perfect disguise, part three

Nobody was quite sure what to do, but all offensive powers were turned off and we followed him in. We all trusted him completely, that tends to happen when the person in question has swept in from nowhere to save you from a collapsing volcano and three beings threatening to wipe you from the face of existence. He lead us to the back of the cave, where three familiar faces met us. Stun, Tremor and Warcry, from the cavern. They stood aside to reveal a girl, about a year older than me, a couple of years younger than Cleo. She was wearing grey, and had a very pale face. She kept fading in and out of sight, as if the world kept forgetting she was there. When she saw us, she looked like deep in her eyes, an emotion was stirring, but her body remained the same. 'at last, i was told you would come.' she said, in a slow, flat, deadpan voice.
'i think i am getting my first experience of pleasure at your arrival a slight increase in heartbeat that means that after years of hard work i am beginning to beat my ability but I cannot win you must help cleo trellis take it from me so that i can live and you can all be saved from ancient greece or else you will all be wiped from existence and unable to be here and the eye will never gain my ability and the world will die'

Cleo thought and then smiled 'Ok, sure. We were told a similar thing last time we met your friend over there. Now what exactly is your power? It helps to know what I'm taking.'
'immunity immunity to everything and anything i bet youre wondering how i managed to disappear from the cinema well i became immune to the earths orbit and gravity until i was over where i wanted to be and then let it affect me again i am lucky that there certain aspects of my power that i can control but without you i am doomed to live a life of nothingness and the world is finished and i well be left alone once everyone dies and i will float in space forever you have to help it is written in the visions of my associate'
'Hang on, surely if you're immune to fate, which is kind of the point, then you won't show up in visions?'
'i am immune you are not yet i have been shown a picture of you all coming to this cave and taking my ability i was not in the picture of course but the meaning was quite clear'
'Ok, I'll give it a go. Brace yourself, a power like this could cause a serious change in you once it's gone.'
'i hope so'
Cleo stretched out a hand and closed her eyes. Tingle was watching, wide eyed, and when I gave him a questioning glance he grabbed my hand, and I suddenly saw what he was seeing: there was a whirling mass of dark light near the immunity girl, and it kept breaking into strands which flew over and soaked into Cleo's hand. I could only see the bit where her power was actually active, Tingle can't see Auras. All of the wisps suddenly escaped back out of Cleos hand and faded out of sight around the girl again. Cleo opened her eyes. 'You're not immune to abilities by any chance, are you?'
'yes it tends to rub off on things and places near me that it why the door was unaffected by your abilities'
'Great. So what do I do?'
'Perhaps I can help?'
'The Eye' (actually, can I just call him Eye from now on? So much easier!) leapt forward. 'If I use my immunity to cancel out hers, then maybe it will work?'
He took hold of Cleo, and explained that he was making her power immune to immunity. Cleo tried again, and seemed happier with how it was going. 'Do you have any idea how big a paradox this is?' she said as immunity girl started to glow, and colour flushed into her cheeks. 'If you weren't able to cancel her out with her own ability that I already gave you, then I wouldn't be able to get it in the first place and you never have it, meaning-'
'PLEASE can we not have another of those conversations' said Centaur, and Doolittle nodded. 'My heads starting to hurt.'
Then four things happened at once. Eye let go of Cleo and stood, as if frozen, while his eyes glowed a brilliant white 'We're on the right track!' he yelled delightedly 'The future is going the way it must! As long as you give me the ability before the Fates find me, your rescue will be set in stone!'
Immunity girl stood up, her face a proper pink at last, and beamed for the first time in her life. She smiled at us all, and then collapsed to the floor as spasms rippled over her body. My phone went off, and I answered it to hear Precog screaming 'WHAT DID YOU DO! The future is changing! My head is in so much pain! Cleo has to get to 'The Eye' fast, or so much stuff is going to happen, and it's all bad! Wherever you are, get out now, they're after you!'
The fourth thing to happen was Cleo. She looked ill, and fell to her knees as the colour began to fade from her cheeks. She seemed to finish absorbing it, and looked up at us with a pale face and blank eyes, which flashed between their usual colour and an empty grey. 'urgh, how do you live like this?' she asked, disgust fading in and out of her voice as she spoke. 'I can fight it with my other abilities because its not my real power but Surely this bad enough, it feels Horrible.'
The girl sat up, her grey hair now a glorious brown, and clutched her head. 'That's because I had the full dose and my emotions were blanked out, so I didn't know how bad it felt. Hang on, I can FEEL. Wow! This is so cool! This is happiness, yeah? Oh my god, I love emotions! Oh and to answer the paradox thing, I came to this cave because because it's close to those bitches that made me, so Time and Fate can be messed up here, it was the only way it would work. Oooooooooh, this is anger? Yes, definitely anger. Wow! I really hate them! Oh that feels really strange, is it wrong to enjoy anger?'
'I think under the circumstances we'll let you off.' I said, as I saw her suddenly clasp her hands to her cheeks with a look of horror. 'Umm, what was that you were saying about neighbours?'
'I'm guessing this one's fear? It's not as fun as the others. I just realized, now I don't have the power, they'll be able to find me, not even Eye can block them now. I was the balance you see, for all the people like with powers. They made me with all the immunities to stop you being to powerful or something, I don't really understand, but once I was fully immune, I was immune to their control too, and I fled, but they can find me now! Oh, I don't like fear at all!'
'You!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sisters, she is under our nose!' yelled an all too familiar voice.
'Ah' I said, pulling Cleo to her feet and having gravity lift her into the air so I could lead the girl away from a crack in the wall. 'We're in those caves. OK, success with paradox explained, may I suggest we introduce you to something called running? Now?' We all ran for the door, and our new friend stumbled, unable to keep up. 'I've never run before! I can't go fast enough!' Centaur stopped and gestured to his back, and I helped her up. 'There you go, something none of us have experienced either.' I told a delighted IG (Immunity girl) as she was carried off into the passage.
Precog, of course, is only able to draw the fates themselves whilst in this volcano, and as he was not, I worried that he had meant other people were after us. They chose this moment to arrive. I heard the boy ahead of us yelling 'No! you don't have a ghost, a centaur, OR an egg monster, you can't go through!' and then scream as John yelled 'You think I care? We need to get to the girl before that meddling Trellis and her friends do!'
'Sarah!' the boy cried before there was a horrible crunching noise. 'NOOOOOOOOO!' she yelled from Centaur's back, and then grabbed my staff out of my hand. 'Thank you!' she grinned at me, and as we turned the corner and saw John, Shade, and Don looming over the small boy. 'Leave max alone!' screeched Sarah, and jousted into John, using my staff as a lance to throw him off his feet. Tingle pulled Max to his feet, Warcry and Healthbar leapt at Shade, and confronted himself. Our Don was at a loss for what to do, but Diify ran threw him calling 'Just like yous taught me, jump and kick!' and jumped into the air, kicking Don's body in the chest. Blast caught Diffy as he fell, and I took hold of Don's body. 'We're taking him with us' I said to the others. 'Try and keep those two busy. Eye, Dragon, any way out of here?'
'Sarah pointed at a space of wall just like the rest. Can someone break through there?' Tremor thrust both hands at it, and a large patch of wall crumbled to dust, revealing a heathaze like the one at the cinema. 'That will get us back to that cinema' Sarah explained. I had it covered up so that I only had one open at a time.'
Dust and smoke filled the tunnel, and three figures were silhouetted at the end of the passage leading to Sarah's chamber. The Fates flew towards us, and we piled through the door. I noticed Eye and his group were staying behind. 'We'll hold everyone off until we can close that thing' he pointed at the heathaze' we don't want any of this lot getting through.' I nodded, and shook his hand before diving through after the rest of the group. dust and smoke surrounded me as I hurtled over the planet, and crashed with the rest outside the cinema, to see a large crowd staring at us. A large group of people appearing in a puff of smoke, some of which are a centaur, and small egg shaped creature, a ghost, a solid version of the ghost spitting yellow sparks, a boy with a staff and cape, a boy levitating a girl, and a oldish man in ancient chinese robes does tend to draw attention to itself somewhat.
'I can't get everyone, there are too many people and we're too big to hide properly this quickly.' muttered Playwrite, looking at me.
'Umm, we're here till tuesday?' I said to the onlookers, taking my stuff back from Sarah and sprouting a bunch of flowers from the end. Diffy lifted his hat and released a pink rabbit, which sprang into the air and exploded in a shower of coloured sparks. Gravity raised and lowered Cleo, who managed to wave at the crowd. 'Doesn't seem to be enjoying it much, does she?' muttered one mum to another, referring to Cleo's pale face. I juggled some coloured fireballs (I can't juggle normally, but I could control these ones with my mind), while Playwrite went up to one of the onlookers and offered to guess what he was thinking. Doolittle spoke in tongues, Cecil and blast did a little show with her blasting him in the chest and he gets up and shows the crowd he's fine, and various other little tricks until Playwrite was able to convince everyone that we were a harmless magic act, that shouldn't be mentioned to anyone. Once he had made them leave, we ducked round into a sidestreet and I FFed us home. We entered the base to find Eye waiting for us, but he was alone, and looked worried. 'Ah! At last you're back! They're onto me, I don't have much time. I believe you have something for me?'
Seeing this was clearly an earlier Eye, Cleo transferred the bits of the power he wanted across, and put the rest into a badge with Pete's help (Her aura power can transfer abilities person to person, but Pete can do objects and we didn't want anyone having these parts of the power). Her colour and health restored, Cleo left for C.H.A.S.E again, and we were left wondering what to do about Don........

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