Time back home and doing some Investigating

Hi! Sorry I haven't updated for a while, things have been crazy here, and I haven't had the time.

So, we got back to our base, Lily having already left TP ahead of us, not sure where she went, but as we landed Hana (who's still in my phone) alerted me that I had a text. From Lily.
It said:
Everything that man showed you will come true if we don't stop HIM. Tildy says that Tingle is essential, and that Cleo and Damian will be involved, but she's not sure how yet. It might not be good. Get Precog on it.Talk soon. Lily.

This terrified me. You do NOT want to know what I was shown, I'm still not sleeping right.

Playwrite told me what they knew about Tingle. While waiting for us to come back from the VHS base with Lily, Tingle had suddenly frowned, picked up two of the torn off scraps from our pile of plans, placed them together, muttered 'That shouldn't be like that. That wasn't there before, these can only mean...Moira!' and he ran out of the room (mine), and across the hall to his own. Playwrite and Precog had followed, but the door to his room closed sharply, there was a flash and a large bang, and they said they could hear Tingle yelling at someone, something like: 'How are you here? Why now?' and then the door sagged, gave a creaking noise, and fell inwards to reveal Tingles room, completely empty. It was just white. no walls, furniture, floor, ceiling, anything. Just endless white nothing. Precog then showed me a blank piece of paper. 'I had done some trancing earlier' he explained, pointing to a tiny squiggle in the bottom right corner of the page 'and this was one of the pages I ended up with, right in the middle of the wad. I thought I must just have not used it, but then surely it wouldn't be in the MIDDLE of my pile of drawings, would it? Then I noticed this.' and he got a magnifying glass, and showed me the squiggle. It was still tiny, but by squinting, I could just make out FIVE words:

TINGLE. MOIRA. WARNING. APOCALYPSE. ZODIAC.

'From what I can tell' Tingle told me 'This means that Tingle and Moira are involved in some sort of warning about this apocalypse, and ZODIAC have something to do with stopping it. I never knew much about them, we only met three of them didn't we, and you and Tildy were the ones that really learned about them.'

I had to sit down, overcome with shock. I thought I'd left all of this behind. It was history, a chapter in my life I'd closed for good, It had torn me and my city cousins apart, we hadn't been the same since, we hadn't been able to hang out like we used to....

I stood up, and grabbed the paper 'So this is a picture of his room, right? when everything had gone. I want to see this for myself. Damian, take us back to DC! Quickly!'

next part: Communications with our missing friend.

DC: The Aftermath

So, Cleo carried us all back to TP, an impressive act for which we are all very grateful I might add, and Stan got us all up and running again, starting with Healthbar, he got her able to walk and went off to heal others, while she walked to the window and let a beam of sunlight regenerate her the rest of the way. They healed the rest of us, and then Stan left us alone, to recover mentally and just have a bit of a chat. He realized we'd been through quite a lot, and needed to sort ourselves out.Precog was checking his pictures, he thought he'd lost one, and he was talking really fast to someone on the phone, everyone was gathering themselves together, chatting quietly, but I noticed Lily sitting it a corner, exploding and reforming a ball she'd taken out of her pocket. 'Helps me think' she said quietly, when she saw me coming over.

I crouched down, giving my cousin a comforting hug, and she looked at me, scared. 'That's not what Tildy saw' she whispered 'He wasn't who I was sent to warn you about. I've never met him before, you saw how he treated me, just cut me down, he didn't even look at me.' I gave her a comforting look, and saw her nose was back to normal. I looked up as I heard footsteps, and saw Playwrite had come towards us, staying back a bit out of respect for Lily. He raised his eyebrows at me, and mouthed 'We are not alone. Cleo's wondering who she is.' He pointed at Lily, smiled at her, and when she looked down at her ball, he mouthed again. 'Who IS she anyway?' and shrugged, heading back to Damian, who was being shown a picture by Precog, and looked worried. 'Go on' I said to Lily, and she looked up at me. 'Say what you were going to say about Tildy's vision' she nodded, and put the ball away.

'I had to warn you about HIM. You know who I mean. Death's been around for ages, causing trouble, I caught up on Auriss's blog about his antics, HE has been hiding away since, you know...that time we came to stay. A few years ago. Before the whole government kidnapping, teaming up with new pals, multi-power, world travelling thing. When it was simple. just us, your friend Precog, experimenting with our new found skills. Remember? Well he's coming back. Worse than ever before. Nan put him away before us, and you know what it cost her. He came back, and we destroyed him. But he's returning. With a partner. His sister, Tildy thinks. If he isn't stopped, everyone like us, with abilities, will be in grave danger. There could be all out war, maybe just a slaughter. All the normal people out there, the ones without abilities, they're doomed. We have a chance, we might be able to fight him. They're all lost. If he wins. We have to stop him, no matter what.'

She stood up, and prepared to leave. 'Wait!' called Precog, coming over and giving her three bits of paper. 'Can you see what Tildy thinks of these? Last time we met, she was very good at visions, and she helped me improve my ability, but I can't find out anymore about these.' He gave them to her, and started explaining what he'd gathered from them and what he understood about it, and pointed out something in particular on one of them, while I checked everyone else felt ok, and I saw Lily head upstairs, and Precog came back over to me.

''I've been on the phone to Diffy' he said 'Playwrite gave me some disturbing news from Death's head, and combined with this drawing, we really need to talk. Cleo killed Death, he's gone, and he has no clones, I think, but he's still a danger to us. We now know what exactly Death was after, and why some of you got marked. That Helix means something, and while you three still have it scarred on to you, we still have a serious problem. Diffy hid yours, but he can't do that while he's so far away, and he's tried, he can't replicate it. He has to concentrate to make it, and it keeps fading. His illusion can't cope. You can't keep it up by thinking, he has no way of making one last, Healthbar can't heal them, neither can Stan, she has one on her wrist now, and me and Playwrite have worked out what he uses them for.' He looked at the scar on my wrist that Death had installed on me, then grabbed his arm in the same place. His hand glowed orangey-gold, as he used his new imprinting ability, and took his hand away to reveal a perfect replica of the black helix on his own arm.' We have a plan......'

A few hours later, we set off for home, to reunite with the others, and have a proper rest. We're at the old VHS shop now.

Family Issues, and Death's Return

So, hile Cleo was in Australia, we stayed in DC and did what we could. We've seen some strange things, Danko being followed by a man in a car, that creepy guy that tried to take my brain ages ago coming out of B26 as SOMEONE ELSE! and turning back into himself, before sneaking off, and of course people with abilities. We helped three, they all kept their powers, no cool ones, a guy who could sweat metal, a girl who could become living rock, and a man that had an acidic touch. We were looking over the plans again, mostly just for something to do, when I got a call from base. It was Justin, who's still staying with us so he can hide.

'Hi Tempest, it's Justin. Look, there's a bit of a commotion down here. A girl's turned up, says she's your cousin, and she's in a huge panic - things keep exploding, the dinner table's just a wooden blob, and most of the chairs are now wooden models of a building in DC. Please come and help. Doolittle, Broadcast and Diffy are with her now.'

I got off the phone and told the others 'It's Lily' said Precog, showing me his most recent pictures 'She has some important news for you.'

I got Damian to take me, it was quickest, and I'm almost getting used to teleporting now, it's not as bad as it used to be, but it still leaves me a bit woozy and wishing I hadn't had breakfast. I looked round in confusion, still recovering from the teleport, as Justin was filling the room with smoke, aiming it at one of the wooden sculptures that was in the room, which was on fire, and he was trying to smother it out. He turned to me, and smiled. 'Oh Thank GOD!' he exclaimed 'How is she doing all this?' 'My cousin's are all really powerful. Our grandmother was one of the strongest specials there have been, my Technopathy was much stronger than most from the start, they have strong ones too!' I called back, struggling forward. Lily was standing in the middle of the room, her eyes glowing, a chair morphing into a model of our hotel and back into a chair in front of her, while she yelled at Doolittle, who was struggling in a strong wind, trying to reach Lily, while things exploded round her. 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S ALREADY THERE? I NEED TO TALK TO HIM NOW!!!!!! HIM AND ALL HIS FRIENDS ARE IN EXTREME DANGER!THIS BUILDING IS GOING TO BE THE HOME OF TERRIBLE EVENTS! FIND HIM! FIND HIM! FIND HI- Oh there you are.' She'd noticed me and Damian, and everything stopped. The wind, the explosions, the fire, the chair, it all just stopped. 'I really need to talk to you' she said, smiling.
'Yeah I'd gathered that' I grinned at her. 'Would you mind fixing all the destruction to our lovely base first though?'
'Oh yeah, sorry' she looked around. 'Things like this tend to happen when I panic.' She waved a hand at the mess, and everything reformed. Even the things that had blown up fixed themselves.
'Molecule Manipulation' I said to the others as explanation. 'Cast all molecules of a thing outwards at fore, it explodes. Other way, it's fixed.' I turned to her, puzzled 'The wind and the glowing eyes?' 'Excitation of air molecules, and rearrangement of pigment molecules combined with friction in the air causing the molecules to nearly explode and therefore glow brightly, now can we please go here?' she said, morphing the chair once more into a wooden model of our hotel. 'It may already be happening' 'Ok, we can go, I assume Tildy told you?' she nodded 'Sis has been worried for a while, she's been picking stuff up, even the ghosts are worried, you know how she's Psychic? she saw something today in a vision, and the ghosts told her that it was ME that had to come and tell you, and quickly, she and Simon had to stay, and that you need to 'Hide' me before we go? I can come with you, but he'll know wo I am? So I need to hide?' 'Ok, hang on' I said, touching her blond hair. She stared as it turned red, and commented that I'd clearly been picking up more tricks. Then she concentrated, and with huge effort, made her nose a bit longer, and theneasily changed her eye colour. 'The eyes are easy, but it's still hard to morph parts of the main body' she said, examining herself. 'Last thing' I said, making sure everyone was ok, having found Diffy and Broadcast hiding behind the counter. 'What's your name? Your alias I mean. You need one if your going to be part of this, for protection. You know all ours, and I assume you know of Cleo and Damian thanks to Tildy?' she nodded 'They're Auriss and Cienfuego to the rest of the world, so remember that. What's yours?' she smiled around at the base. 'Chaos' she said.

We got back to base, to find Tingle gone, and everyone fighting Death, who had them locked in place again. 'Not him, someone else' Chaos muttered, looking in horror. 'This isn't right, we weren't warned of him at all, something else is going to happ- AAAAAAHHH!' she was slashed by Death, and fell to the floor. 'Hello Tempest, good of you to drop in. The air in front of you is static, so none of your attacks will reach me' Death wheezed, and he was right. My lightning wouldn't go more than a few inches, then it stopped and shocked me instead. It's almost the only thing of my powers I'm NOT immune to, but I kept using it, and it kept shocking me. He showed me horrible things, I don't know how, I may tell you about them but I don't want to. They were all true and all so terrible, I doubt I'll ever sleep properly again.

This is where Cleo comes in. I'll tell you what happened later, and what we found out about Tingle, in a bit.

Resting up.

Just a quick post to say that we came back to our VHS Base for a bit, we're all ok thanks to Cleo (I will explain full details soon, I promise) but we just need to be back home for a bit, meet up with the others, visit our families, stuff like that. I'll tell you all what happened before Cleo's bit, and who our new friend is, soon. You're not going to believe it!

Need Help?

I've realized that recently, we've got too caught up in people trying to kill us, and digging up the past, and we've been side tracked from VHS's original objective. We've just rescued people we happen to see at the moment, but we used to LOOK for people to help. I invite anyone reading this, who wants help, wants their power taken, knows someone with a power who needs/wats help, people that want their power but want protecting, or even if you just want us to know you're there. I'd like to know how many people we're reaching. Please, comment here, tell me and my team if you want help, want protecting, if you have a power or not, or even if you just like reading this.

Talk to us people. It's what we made the VHS for. let us know you're there.

A colourful new perspective

Me and Pete helped a guy escape today. We dropped him off outside DC with some money, and he asked for help with his power, he'd blinded three people and was terrified of it. We discovered he could change the colour of things, including creating flashes of coloured light by affecting the air around him. He can change the colour of anything, or create pure coloured light, which he had done by accident on the top floor of a bus. Three people got shocking bright orange light right in the face, blinding them. To cut a long explanation short, YOINK! (Slang for 'We nicked it' for those that don't know) He went away to start a new life, happy that he couldn't hurt anyone anymore, and I had fun changing the colour of my t-shirt, and making small green fireworks in the air. I left my t-shirt a lovely deep purple, and we came back to the hotel so I could get on a computer. I promised our friend that we'd help those he blinded, so I'm technopathing for them, I've found an article about the incident, and Damian's going to teleport Healthbar round to each of them, so she can heal them. I'll have to go back to the street we dropped our now powerless fugitive off, the transfer was, to say the least, colourful, and a nearby tree was still blue and pink when we left.

I like this power, I can tell I'm going to have fun. It's good to have Pete back. :)

Imprinting the future?

I sent Precog and Pete out on a task to get some stuff Precog said we needed, his drawings show one us with a large axe? and Precog said he needed to get something else he wouldn't tell me about.

Anyway, they came back with interesting news. They'd been at the bank (I'd given them my debit card, my technopathed account has a LOT of money in it) and Precog had suddenly got out one of his pictures, to show a guy in the corner, and Precog knew they had to investigate. They went over to see him holding his hand over some blank documents and checks, and using an ability to forge signatures and stuff on it to say lots of people were giving him money, and that he was the new manager! Now, I tecnhopath money from nowhere, fighting the government, I don't steal from people! sort of. They challenged him, and he laughed and tried to make his way to a member of staff to show them his papers, but Pete grabbed him, told him that Criminals shouldn't have abilities, and transfered it to Precog. Preog was surprised, but saw that he was the only candidate there. the transfer attracted attention, but not much, due to the quietness of the power, it was relatively discrete, the transfer reflects the power. During the transfer, Precog splattered all over the forgeries, making them useless. They were chased out of the bank by him, and ran into Damian, who just appeared in front of them, having teleported from school to Precog, wanting to ask if he had any drawings about a mysterious woman, and dreams he'd had. After being filled in on the situation, he telepathed the man away, and went back to the hotel with three pictures Precog gave him.

They finished their shopping and came back here. Precog offered me the imprinting power, but I told him to keep it, and pointed out how useful it could be for his drawings, it was of no use to me. He tested it out and was delighted to find he can draw with it while in a trance, and quicker than ever, so he decided it was cool after all, and kept it.