Chapter five
(Sept 25 Thursday)
Classes were over quicker than usual for Grace, and apparently for some others as well. This was due to a school-inspection by the Zone Police Corp. It was still warm on many Mobiuses, and many students were deciding to take advantage of that. Sadly only certain students could do this; fifteen percent to be exact. Another fifteen percent were playing hooky, twenty-seven percent were in detention after class, thirty percent were doing extra work for credits, and thirteen percent simply did not want to leave.
Grace was asked by a student named Sleak, who was the male in her dorm room, if she wanted to go with him and his friends. She was fine with the idea, but realized that she did not have a bathing suit. One of the girls that was going, Annie by name, asked if Grace wanted to use one of hers. Grace was reluctant at first, but after Sleak gave her the option of her current attire, she decided to take Annie up on her offer.
They went through Sleak’s Mobius, and were on course to the beach, when they saw traffic; A lot of traffic. One of the kids jumped out of the car, and ran to the beach and back. It was not going to be till at least 9 P.M. that they got to the beach.
“Why not just run us over?” Grace suggested to the speedy student.
“I’m fast, but I’m not that strong. That and your arms might pop off. What powers do you have again?” The dude asked with a slight air of annoyance.
“Uh… age… changing…” Grace admitted, feeling a bit useless. But then again, so was the speedy guy.
“There’s a small waterfall place I know on my Mobius.” Annie suggested. “We could try there.”
“… Fine…” Sleak groaned. Both him and Grace had the same idea. It wasn’t the beach. It was a swimming pool in a way. No seashells. No waves. No surfing. But at least the possibility of a water-slide was introduced.
After they had driven all the way back to the school, then all the way to the location, which took fifteen minutes longer than they wanted due to Annie not completely remembering where it was, they made it.
It was surrounded by trees that cleared off as you got nearer to the lake/stream itself. The waterfall was slanted, but not enough, so sadly there was no waterslide. It was fairly deep though, and quite wide. There were some fish, which could either be a downside or an upside, and even a little sand at the bottom.
They put on the sunblock, which was no short process for those with thick fur such as Grace, and dived in. Sleak kept his shirt on for the moment, then threw it off very “majestic”-like, and dived into the pool. Sleak wasn’t ugly, he was actually fairly handsome and masculine, but that little performance just made everyone laugh.
“I’m not trying to show off!” He protested.
“Sure.” Grace smirked as she dived to the bottom of the lake.
While Grace was under, a bright light appeared on Sleak as he prepared for a dive from the top of the waterfall. As he dove, he felt a large amount of weight on his back as he descended, which was immediately followed by the scream of a girl.
*sploosh*
Sleak quickly surfaced with a soaked figure gasping for air on his back. “Can you get off me?” He ask hastily.
“Y-yes…” The girl jumped off just as Grace resurfaced.
“What was that guy-… I should have known.” Grace’s face hit her palms immediately to the sight of who else? Rynk. Once again, at a random point, appearing. Only this time she was soaking wet without a bathing suit, but instead a shirt and pants.
“What happened this time, Rynk?” Grace groaned.
“I, have, no, i-idea!” Rynk answered nervously. “First I was just walking around, then I’m on this guy’s back!... AND I’M SOAKED! UGH!”
“Congratulations!” The speedy kid teased. “You’ve entered puberty.”
Rynk’s eyes widened, then narrowed. “… Great.”
“Well she’s here now. Why not hang out in the water?” Annie suggested as she paddled over to them.
“Uh because I’ve got no bathing suit, and I’m FREEZING!” Rynk answered.
“Well I don’t have a towel.” Grace shrugged.
“I have a shirt…” Sleak weakly suggested. He was only trying to help, but sadly he only received a brief stare of disturbance from the others.
“Eh… thanks for the offer, but no thanks for the offer.” Rynk replied. “Actually, I feel dry already.” Rynk’s grey T-shirt and jeans were still soaked to an extent, but her fur was actually dry and warm after just being soaked.
“That’s humidity for ya.” Grace joked. “What do you plan to do if you can’t swim?”
“Uh… figure out how to not teleport.” Rynk answered weakly. “I really don’t know. FLAG! Why did I have to get that power now?!”
“Why did you say flag?” Annie asked with a very confused look.
“… I… just, do?” Rynk answered unsure of herself. “I just say it when I get surprised or angry or something.”
“You mean like…”
“No!”
“We get the picture, Rynk.” The speedy kid interrupted. “Well I’m gonna try to make a whirlpool.” Then he dove into the water and began to spin quickly. It did not last long due to the fact that while he was fast, he could not hold his air for more than thirty seconds, and with that movement, it was closer ten.
“I’ve got a towel if you still need one, Rynk.” Annie suggested, just remembering that she owned one.
“Thanks.” Rynk smiled. “Do you guys have a radio?”
“Yeah.” Sleak answered. “Just don’t do it too long. I want to be able to use the battery later.”
Rynk nodded then went back to the car. Shortly after she came back. “Uh guys,” She began nervously. She rubbed her arm a bit, trying to hold back, but ended up saying it. “They want us back now.”
“How did you know that?” Grace questioned.
Rynk raised her arm. “Because I hear voices in this thing.”
“… That’s freaky.” The speedy kid noted.
“It’s the tracker.” Rynk added on. “It started beeping, I poked my arm and then they said they wanted me back, then they said that all the students had to come back.”
“Now? We just got here!” Annie protested.
Rynk shrugged. “Maybe the time here and there is different. Sorry.”
“It’s not your fault.” Sleak added with a sigh. “Come on guys.”
The five mobians hopped back into the car, and drove back to the academy. Grace herself did not blame Rynk or any of the other students, but she was bummed. Heat-waves were hard to get when it was almost October, and they only got about twenty minutes for this one. “What could be so important?” She thought.
They arrived at what was apparently 2:13 at the school. At first they expected the school to be gathering in the main-hall for something important, but the students that were there simply walked around and did their normal high-school stuff. Nothing special.
“… Nothing’s happening!!!” The speedy-kid squealed in a most inappropriate cracking voice.
“Yeah. We got that.” Sleak said as he cleaned his ear. “Maybe the principal knows.”
“Well have fun asking.” Rynk waved as she started to jog off.
“You’re not interested?” Grace asked.
“Not when I’m still wearing wet clothes I’m not.” Rynk hinted as she ran off to get a change of outfit.
“Anyway…” said Annie.
They walked to the principal’s office and found themselves with some surprising news. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE WEREN’T ALLOWED TO LEAVE!?” Speedy yelled.
The principal was scowling now. She cupped her hands and said “None of you signed at the front-desk for time off from the school.”
“But I thought good-graded students were allowed to leave on break.” Grace reminded.
“Yes they are, if they sign their names at the front-desk first. Otherwise we have no idea why you are leaving. Even if we know where, we don’t know what you could be doing, or what dangers you could be facing. The security was about to go and get you if not for a student informing me ahead of time. You also did not receive your tracker-injections. Thankfully your friend forgot to take hers out from a previous day and we were able to contact her after the spontaneous teleportation.”
“So it was just a coincidence that Rynk teleported to our EXACT location?” Grace questioned in disbelief.
“The Mobius you ported to was the last to be used before she teleported. When she did so, her energy must have collided with the coordinates used for your location and sent her there. How she was able to teleport in the first place however we don’t know.”
“But if you knew which dimension we were at, why was it a problem?” Sleak asked, still depressed from the day’s events.
“We knew which dimension but not where. You could have been a country-away from the area you ported to for all we know.”
“Well can we go back?... I-if we sign the paper thingy this time?” Annie requested.
“Unfortunately not.” The Principal replied. “If our portals are causing random students to teleport to random locations we need to know, and then we need to make sure it won’t happen again. And aside from that, Sheldon was not to leave. He did not make the cut for the grade-level.” The Principal starred at the speedy-kid.
“C + is a good grade-average!” Sheldon protested.
“B is the lowest you can have, Mr. Kellin.”
“The Rynk-girl ran off too!!” He blabbed to attempt shifting of blame.
“I already talked with Rynk, that’s how I found out all of you were there, remember? Manifesting an ability that makes you randomly appear at a location, or being teleported by school equipment without requesting it, does not count as running off. She will be having special lessons to control this ability if it is indeed an ability.”
“But what about the rest of us?” Annie questioned. “You know we weren’t doing anything, and we’re safe ‘N all, so can we go back?”
“… No.”
“Bu-“
“I’m sorry, but you disobeyed the rules. There are Listings of all the school-rules in each major area of this school, and typed-paper on the beds of every student. If I cannot trust that you either forgot to read them, which suggests slacking, or that you tried to ignore them, which is dishonest, how am I to know if you were doing innocent-activities?”
“… You use a lot of big-words, you know that?” Grace noticed without thinking through her sentence. She quickly shook herself back and said, “Sorry. Um… does this mean we get a demerit or something?”
“No,” The Principal answered, “well Sheldon gets a demerit” Sheldon pouted, “but I think staying at the school the rest of the day is enough.”
The students walked out, Sheldon stormed off, grumbling his speedy legs away, Sleak just sighed with a disappointed frown, Annie seemed content but was not happy, and Grace just looked bored. They parted ways, and Grace continued on down the halls to see if something else would happen.
Eventually Rynk found her again, now wearing a grey long-sleeve-shirt with “THIS IS SPARTA” on it, and tan-pants. Grace looked the outfit over briefly. “… New shirt?”
“New shirt. So what she say?” Rynk asked perkily. “Are you guys allowed back?”
Grace sighed. “No, but you’re getting special-lessons or something now.”
“Really? Why? Cause of the teleporting?”
“Yup.”
“Huh…” Rynk sighed a confused sigh. “Well I doubt I’ll be able to manifest it. I wasn’t doing anything when it happened… maybe someone was pulling a prank on me… which would explain how I was sent to you guys so easily.”
“Maybe. Wait, don’t you want special lessons?” Grace questioned as she halted for a moment.
Rynk shrugged. “I dunno. I might… if I knew what they were like. I’m just making some guesses as to what happened. I mean, I’ve never teleported before, and I can already walk on walls, have metal-bones, have had my voice change twice, and my stripes glow. All of those happened in the same way. Teleporting… not so much.”
“I guess y-… you’re voice change-… you really are Persian?” Grace stammered.
“Yeah… here’s the thing. I don’t know why, but my voice like… changes at points in my life. When I was younger I used to be Scottish believe it or not. Then when I was thirteen, I got Persian… or whatever you would call ‘Persian’. I found out from the school that Supreta’s a mix of what you’d call ‘Indian’ too. So I got a voice that sort of mixed those together. Then a little before I saw you guys on that rainy day I was all English-like... I hope I got those right I’m not sure.”
“… That’s… strange. “Why were you out there so long anyway?”
“I like rain for one. And two… I was uh…” Rynk looked a bit embarrassed now, “I was trying to sing while gargling water with my new accent.”
Grace chuckled slightly. “That is funny. So… what? Are you going to turn Australian when you’re twenty?”
“Like Craaaaaaaaiger?” Rynk smirked.
“… Like I said. Are you going to turn Jamaican when you’re twenty?”
Rynk rolled her eyes. “I dunno. Ma-“ *BOOMF!!!!*
The side of the wall blew open. A female cybernetic hedgehog, known as Thunder, was shot back through a wall, slamming against the following one by a large explosion.
Rynk and Grace took one look to each other then ran towards the explosion
“What happened, Thunder?” Asked Grace.
“Roxm….” Thunder mumbled as she pulled herself from the wreckage. A figure walked through the newly planted hole just before it began to repair itself. She was a black cat, with a red and black punkish outfit, a red tail, and what appeared to be glasses of a sort above her eyes.
“Saaaaaaaaaaaara!” The cat called out.
“Who’s Sara?” Grace whispered to Rynk.
“I think she’s part of the music class. There’s a lot of Sara’s here.” Rynk whispered back before walking towards the feline.
“Uh… evil villain lady. Could you take the front door please? Seriously. Do you have to be dramatic?” Rynk taunted. The cat ignored the advice and charged towards her.
“EEP!” Rynk squealed as she quickly ducked. She attempted to place her foot in a good kicking spot, but the feline dodged and slammed her foot into Rynk’s, sending the lynx backward, being barely caught by Grace.
An electrical-current struck the cat in the backside. She groaned slightly, but seemed to be almost completely unharmed aside from a burn-mark on her back.
The school’s security stormed towards her, but the cat simply blasted them to a crisp.
“Uh… I’ll be right back.” Rynk said nervously as she ran off.
“Real nice! Leave me to fight the freako!” Grace glared. “… GET MY SCYTHE WHILE YOU’RE BACK THERE!!!”
If Rynk had heard Grace she would have said something like “You have a scythe?” or “Where’s your dorm?”. Either way, she was too busy to pay attention.
“What do you want? Who are you?!” Grace said to the hostile, trying to buy herself time.
“My name is Roxan.” The villain answered. “And I said was after Sara.” Roxan reached out to attack Grace.
“Why do you want her?” Grace asked, trying to stall her longer.
Roxan paused for the moment. “Do I need a reason? I just want her d- ERRG!!!!”
Thunder had recovered, and quickly used an electric-charged fist to punch Roxan in the back of her neck. The aftershock caused Roxan to spin diagonally till she hit another wall.
“That HURT!!” The angered feline roared as she began to claw away at Thunder. Grace had to think quickly. She jumped on Roxan’s back and began to pull at her hair. Normally Grace would do something a bit more martial-art related, like a fan-kick, or simply hay-maker Roxan’s chin with an uppercut, but this foe seemed a bit too dense to be harmed by large attacks, so Grace went for distraction.
As Roxan’s head would have it, her hairs were not as strong as her body. Grace fell backward, with two handfuls of black hair. Two small, yet noticeable, patches of skin were now visible on Roxan’s blood-stained head. The raged feline let out a long scream of pain before opening her eyes to Grace. “You are SO DEAD!!”
Roxan charged at Grace, meaning to kick her two-claws into Grace’s head. The vixen quickly dodged, ducking downward, allowing Thunder a shot. She charged her arm again, and sent an energy beam at Roxan. The black cat spun around and absorbed the beam.
There was a *CLANG* sound as Rynk kicked Roxan in the back of the head, followed by a large scream of “FLAAAAAAAG THAT HURT!!!!” as Rynk braced her foot on the floor. Roxan seemed almost equally irritated by the collision, dizzily trying to stay upright while rubbing her head.
“Metal bones?” The cat asked to the lynx.
“Yep.” Rynk replied.
“A bit Wolverine, don’t you think?”
“Your world has that two?!.”
“Fun stuff. Anyway?” The uncaring feline gave a full kick to Rynk’s chest. The metal bones contacting with Roxan’s dense body caused both of them to ricochet backwards.
“Tell me you brought something with you.” Grace groaned.
“Yeah.” Rynk answered as she got up. She walked over to grab a suit-case that she had dragged back. She opened up the case to reveal a syringe inside of it. She reached out to grab it, but as soon as she did, she began to feel… moving, not her body but her soul? She looked down at herself and saw a different body; Thunder’s.
Rynk and Thunder had switched bodies; curtsey of Roxan. It took a while for them to realize what had just happened. When Rynk figured out what had happened she quickly yelled out “THUNDER! BREAK THE SYRINGE!!!”
For a moment Thunder hesitated. She was still recovering from the strange event. She slowly turned her head to the syringe and took it out. Before Thunder could break the syringe, Roxan grabbed her arm and held it. When she did though, not only did Thunder feel it, but Rynk did also.
“I’m still connected…” Rynk muttered. She looked up. Roxan was about to break off Thunder’s/Rynk’s arm, and seeing how Rynk has metal bones, the process would not be pleasant. The Lynx-cyborg, thinking she was going to shoot some kind of energy beam, detached her arm and launched it into Roxan’s face, causing her to loosen her grip. The Syringe fell.
Roxan screamed while jabbing her hand towards the syringe. Grace did not know what was going to happen yet but she assumed danger was near.
The vixen kicked herself up, and darted to the side of the building. *BLAM* a small, yet potent, explosion went off, knocking Rynk’s body (with Thunder in it) out, and causing Roxan to get stuck in a wall. Rynk was in a safe distance by default, so she waited for the next move.
Roxan was damaged, but not too damaged. Her hair was already growing back, granted it was growing slowly. The area was slowly fading from its red glowing smoke, which helped it along slightly. The evil cat cackled a bit to herself and said “That was your big move? A small explosion? You were planning to knock me out?”
“Uh, no, I was hoping someone would appear actually.” Rynk replied somewhat nervously, confused by the delay.
“Yeah? Who?!” Roxan tested.
Then a third new female’s voice called out “Guess”. It was at that moment that an energy beam shot Roxan through the wall, through the next one, then down one story. When the stunned cat got back to her foes, a new player arrived. Grey hood, red hair, black fur, red-ends on her feet, claws, dark blue jeans, glowing red eyes.
“Hello, Rin.” The angered feline growled.
The hooded figure turned to see who she had just attacked. Her eyes changed from red to white, then back to red. “… Oh… you… A-GAIN!”
Rin Turned to Rynk briefly. “Rynk? Wh- wait a minute where is this?”
“Uh… Mobius Academy.” Rynk replied. “Are… you gonna fight her please?”
“…Fine.” Rin groaned. The red-haired creature threw out her hand at Roxan, morphing it around in a caging-attempt. Roxan dodged, but Rin followed. Roxan attempted to slice off Rin’s arm, but instead it blew a wave of chaos energy in her face, which caused even more destruction to that part of the school.
“Can you take this outside, please?!” Grace yelled.
“Alright.” Rin answered. She stuck her bladed-finger into Roxan’s shoulder then teleported herself and Roxan outside where they continued to fight.
While the violence went on, various Zone Police began appearing in the school, though none of them knowing who was the enemy and who was the ally. As they charged into the fight they seemed to be of no help. The Principal arrived at the still reforming hallway that the fight originated in, questioning instantly to the students “Who and what just happened here?”
“Some… uh…” Grace shook herself a bit to regain consciousness, “S-some girl named Roxan just popped up going after Sara, then Rynk threw a bomb on the ground and now we’ve got a hoodie girl here.”
Miss Icle, the Principal, pondered over this briefly, “She shouldn’t normally be able to breach the school’s perimeters, nor the identity either.”
“R-Rin’s helping if that… helps…” Rynk trailed off. The Principal turned to the Thunder-Body-possessing-Rynk.
“How do you know that?”
“… W-well right now we just need Roxan gone and I want to be back in my body.”
Thunder waved from the side inside of Rynk’s body. A trail of quickly-paced footsteps were heard as a pale-tan-colored dog-mobian girl ran up to them. “Th-they said Roxan was here.”
“And you-“
“I’m Sara.” She interrupted. “Where’s Roxan now.”
Rynk pointed down at the fight twelve stories down. “How do we stop that?”
“Wha- Uh… th-there’s a song tha-… uh… “ Sara went through her pockets and pulled out a small disk-like object. “You can capture her in this…”
Rynk thought to question what the disc was and how Sara got it, but things were becoming a bit dangerous. She grabbed the disk then ran out a broken wall and down the side of the school. It was shortly after that she remembered that she was not in her body, and could not walk on walls anymore. “Flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-“ * bamf*
Rin and Roxan were both blasting away at each other. Roxan took the first offensive move and teleported behind Rin. From there she stabbed her through the back, and tried to implode her from the inside. Instead, Rin wrapped around her arm, and stabbed random parts of her Nanites into Roxan’s arm.
Rin let go of Roxan just as she set her Nanites to implode. Roxan’s hand was gone. “What happened to you?” Rin asked in confusion. “You’re like… weak.”
“WEAK!?” Roxan drilled herself into Rin, ignoring any attacks that would follow. She charged an energy blast, then let loose, causing pieces of Rin to go flying in random directions.
“You’re the weak one…” Roxan growled. She knew the battle wasn’t won yet though. Rin quickly regenerated with a darkening glare.
“There a reason why you’re after Sara? Why don’t you just go home?”
“You don’t tell me what I should do! What do you know?!” Roxan shot randomly aimed energy beams at Rin, who due to Roxan’s blind rage, dodged with little difficulty. As she dodged she noticed the passed-out body of Rynk-inside-Thunder and a shiny CD-like object. She teleported to the object, and picked it up.
“This doesn’t do anything to you by any chance, does it?” Rin grinned. Roxan growled and tried to grab the disk.
Rin kicked Roxan down then pointed the disk at her, assuming something would happen… nothing did. “Uh…” Rin tapped the disk. “Hello? Operator? Pee’za-man??” Rin turned to Roxan. “Okay, how does it work?”
“You think I’m gonna tell you?” Roxan scoffed.
Rin sighed. “Fine.” Then teleported to Sara. “Hi Sara. Nice outfit. Good to see you again. How do I turn the disk-thingy on?”
“You have to charge it up first.” Sara replied.
“… Oh. Imma derp, thanks.” Rin made a quick peace sign to Sara then teleported back to where she thought Roxan was. Roxan was gone.
“Roxan?” Rin called out. “Hello? Uh… do I just wait here or *slice*” Roxan sliced Rin’s head in half, not knowing that it was Rin’s entire body that was Nanite-composed.
“There you are.” Rin grinned as she materialized her face to face Roxan’s. She charged up the disk then rammed it into Roxan’s mouth before teleporting a safe distance way. Roxan disappeared in a blue light, with the disc collapsing on to the ground.
“… uh… Yay… yeah… Byyyyyyyyyyye!” Rin waved to the people watching, then teleported away.
The remaining Zone Police took hold of the disc-prison, and took it off-campus for safety reasons. The school was healed completely soon after, though many students were still weary. Most of the Zone Police were merely injured in the battle, and were on their way back to health.
As for Rynk and Thunder, they would soon discover that their cores were switched. These cores connected to one’s soul and memories. Thankfully by use of the School’s Nurse Center, and concentrated energy pulses, they were able to remove the cores from the body’s and place them back inside their correct owners.
Rynk woke up in her normal body again in a cot. “Why does this keep happening to me?”
Grace walked up from across the room. “Good morning. You okay?”
“Yeah.” Rynk sat up. “Did we get Roxan?”
“Yep.” Grace grinned. “Who was that girl with the hood though?”
“Oh her?” Rynk said. “That’s Rin. Don’t ask me, I don’t know her too well. She just popped up one day, saved my life, then left. I caught her name though. Where’s Thunder? She’s probably mad that I launched away her arm.”
Grace shrugged. “I dunno. Weird friends Sara has… Oh yeah, the Principal wanted me to tell you, we found out why you were teleporting randomly.”
“Really?” Rynk asked with widened eyes.
“Turns out Roxan had gotten the school’s porting-defenses down, probably from hacking, and it caused a few energy bursts. One must of hit you and messed around with the databank.”
“… Wait, so I’m not going to the special-class thing?”
“Well… actually you are. She said that there might have still been traces of energy in you that would allow that, you being the only one who teleported, so they still want to make sure.”
“That works I guess.” Rynk hopped out of her bed and walked out of the nurse’s station with Grace. When they got out they saw that most of the school was empty. Rynk’s eyes widened. “Where is everybody?”
Grace sighed. “A lot of the kid’s parents made them leave. The board-members of the school are trying to convince everybody to keep the school running. They said that they might even get some magical-protector person, but so far that’s not happening.”
“Th-… there closing the school?” Rynk asked in terror.
“I hope not, but it might happen… you okay? You look kind of freaked.”
“Well… I… I don’t have anywhere else to go.” Rynk mumbled as she dropped her head, her large ears dropping over her face.
Grace put her hand on Rynk’s shoulder. “Hey they haven’t closed it yet. And I doubt they will. Then things will get back to… abnormal.”
“I hope…”
(Sept 25 Thursday)
Classes were over quicker than usual for Grace, and apparently for some others as well. This was due to a school-inspection by the Zone Police Corp. It was still warm on many Mobiuses, and many students were deciding to take advantage of that. Sadly only certain students could do this; fifteen percent to be exact. Another fifteen percent were playing hooky, twenty-seven percent were in detention after class, thirty percent were doing extra work for credits, and thirteen percent simply did not want to leave.
Grace was asked by a student named Sleak, who was the male in her dorm room, if she wanted to go with him and his friends. She was fine with the idea, but realized that she did not have a bathing suit. One of the girls that was going, Annie by name, asked if Grace wanted to use one of hers. Grace was reluctant at first, but after Sleak gave her the option of her current attire, she decided to take Annie up on her offer.
They went through Sleak’s Mobius, and were on course to the beach, when they saw traffic; A lot of traffic. One of the kids jumped out of the car, and ran to the beach and back. It was not going to be till at least 9 P.M. that they got to the beach.
“Why not just run us over?” Grace suggested to the speedy student.
“I’m fast, but I’m not that strong. That and your arms might pop off. What powers do you have again?” The dude asked with a slight air of annoyance.
“Uh… age… changing…” Grace admitted, feeling a bit useless. But then again, so was the speedy guy.
“There’s a small waterfall place I know on my Mobius.” Annie suggested. “We could try there.”
“… Fine…” Sleak groaned. Both him and Grace had the same idea. It wasn’t the beach. It was a swimming pool in a way. No seashells. No waves. No surfing. But at least the possibility of a water-slide was introduced.
After they had driven all the way back to the school, then all the way to the location, which took fifteen minutes longer than they wanted due to Annie not completely remembering where it was, they made it.
It was surrounded by trees that cleared off as you got nearer to the lake/stream itself. The waterfall was slanted, but not enough, so sadly there was no waterslide. It was fairly deep though, and quite wide. There were some fish, which could either be a downside or an upside, and even a little sand at the bottom.
They put on the sunblock, which was no short process for those with thick fur such as Grace, and dived in. Sleak kept his shirt on for the moment, then threw it off very “majestic”-like, and dived into the pool. Sleak wasn’t ugly, he was actually fairly handsome and masculine, but that little performance just made everyone laugh.
“I’m not trying to show off!” He protested.
“Sure.” Grace smirked as she dived to the bottom of the lake.
While Grace was under, a bright light appeared on Sleak as he prepared for a dive from the top of the waterfall. As he dove, he felt a large amount of weight on his back as he descended, which was immediately followed by the scream of a girl.
*sploosh*
Sleak quickly surfaced with a soaked figure gasping for air on his back. “Can you get off me?” He ask hastily.
“Y-yes…” The girl jumped off just as Grace resurfaced.
“What was that guy-… I should have known.” Grace’s face hit her palms immediately to the sight of who else? Rynk. Once again, at a random point, appearing. Only this time she was soaking wet without a bathing suit, but instead a shirt and pants.
“What happened this time, Rynk?” Grace groaned.
“I, have, no, i-idea!” Rynk answered nervously. “First I was just walking around, then I’m on this guy’s back!... AND I’M SOAKED! UGH!”
“Congratulations!” The speedy kid teased. “You’ve entered puberty.”
Rynk’s eyes widened, then narrowed. “… Great.”
“Well she’s here now. Why not hang out in the water?” Annie suggested as she paddled over to them.
“Uh because I’ve got no bathing suit, and I’m FREEZING!” Rynk answered.
“Well I don’t have a towel.” Grace shrugged.
“I have a shirt…” Sleak weakly suggested. He was only trying to help, but sadly he only received a brief stare of disturbance from the others.
“Eh… thanks for the offer, but no thanks for the offer.” Rynk replied. “Actually, I feel dry already.” Rynk’s grey T-shirt and jeans were still soaked to an extent, but her fur was actually dry and warm after just being soaked.
“That’s humidity for ya.” Grace joked. “What do you plan to do if you can’t swim?”
“Uh… figure out how to not teleport.” Rynk answered weakly. “I really don’t know. FLAG! Why did I have to get that power now?!”
“Why did you say flag?” Annie asked with a very confused look.
“… I… just, do?” Rynk answered unsure of herself. “I just say it when I get surprised or angry or something.”
“You mean like…”
“No!”
“We get the picture, Rynk.” The speedy kid interrupted. “Well I’m gonna try to make a whirlpool.” Then he dove into the water and began to spin quickly. It did not last long due to the fact that while he was fast, he could not hold his air for more than thirty seconds, and with that movement, it was closer ten.
“I’ve got a towel if you still need one, Rynk.” Annie suggested, just remembering that she owned one.
“Thanks.” Rynk smiled. “Do you guys have a radio?”
“Yeah.” Sleak answered. “Just don’t do it too long. I want to be able to use the battery later.”
Rynk nodded then went back to the car. Shortly after she came back. “Uh guys,” She began nervously. She rubbed her arm a bit, trying to hold back, but ended up saying it. “They want us back now.”
“How did you know that?” Grace questioned.
Rynk raised her arm. “Because I hear voices in this thing.”
“… That’s freaky.” The speedy kid noted.
“It’s the tracker.” Rynk added on. “It started beeping, I poked my arm and then they said they wanted me back, then they said that all the students had to come back.”
“Now? We just got here!” Annie protested.
Rynk shrugged. “Maybe the time here and there is different. Sorry.”
“It’s not your fault.” Sleak added with a sigh. “Come on guys.”
The five mobians hopped back into the car, and drove back to the academy. Grace herself did not blame Rynk or any of the other students, but she was bummed. Heat-waves were hard to get when it was almost October, and they only got about twenty minutes for this one. “What could be so important?” She thought.
They arrived at what was apparently 2:13 at the school. At first they expected the school to be gathering in the main-hall for something important, but the students that were there simply walked around and did their normal high-school stuff. Nothing special.
“… Nothing’s happening!!!” The speedy-kid squealed in a most inappropriate cracking voice.
“Yeah. We got that.” Sleak said as he cleaned his ear. “Maybe the principal knows.”
“Well have fun asking.” Rynk waved as she started to jog off.
“You’re not interested?” Grace asked.
“Not when I’m still wearing wet clothes I’m not.” Rynk hinted as she ran off to get a change of outfit.
“Anyway…” said Annie.
They walked to the principal’s office and found themselves with some surprising news. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE WEREN’T ALLOWED TO LEAVE!?” Speedy yelled.
The principal was scowling now. She cupped her hands and said “None of you signed at the front-desk for time off from the school.”
“But I thought good-graded students were allowed to leave on break.” Grace reminded.
“Yes they are, if they sign their names at the front-desk first. Otherwise we have no idea why you are leaving. Even if we know where, we don’t know what you could be doing, or what dangers you could be facing. The security was about to go and get you if not for a student informing me ahead of time. You also did not receive your tracker-injections. Thankfully your friend forgot to take hers out from a previous day and we were able to contact her after the spontaneous teleportation.”
“So it was just a coincidence that Rynk teleported to our EXACT location?” Grace questioned in disbelief.
“The Mobius you ported to was the last to be used before she teleported. When she did so, her energy must have collided with the coordinates used for your location and sent her there. How she was able to teleport in the first place however we don’t know.”
“But if you knew which dimension we were at, why was it a problem?” Sleak asked, still depressed from the day’s events.
“We knew which dimension but not where. You could have been a country-away from the area you ported to for all we know.”
“Well can we go back?... I-if we sign the paper thingy this time?” Annie requested.
“Unfortunately not.” The Principal replied. “If our portals are causing random students to teleport to random locations we need to know, and then we need to make sure it won’t happen again. And aside from that, Sheldon was not to leave. He did not make the cut for the grade-level.” The Principal starred at the speedy-kid.
“C + is a good grade-average!” Sheldon protested.
“B is the lowest you can have, Mr. Kellin.”
“The Rynk-girl ran off too!!” He blabbed to attempt shifting of blame.
“I already talked with Rynk, that’s how I found out all of you were there, remember? Manifesting an ability that makes you randomly appear at a location, or being teleported by school equipment without requesting it, does not count as running off. She will be having special lessons to control this ability if it is indeed an ability.”
“But what about the rest of us?” Annie questioned. “You know we weren’t doing anything, and we’re safe ‘N all, so can we go back?”
“… No.”
“Bu-“
“I’m sorry, but you disobeyed the rules. There are Listings of all the school-rules in each major area of this school, and typed-paper on the beds of every student. If I cannot trust that you either forgot to read them, which suggests slacking, or that you tried to ignore them, which is dishonest, how am I to know if you were doing innocent-activities?”
“… You use a lot of big-words, you know that?” Grace noticed without thinking through her sentence. She quickly shook herself back and said, “Sorry. Um… does this mean we get a demerit or something?”
“No,” The Principal answered, “well Sheldon gets a demerit” Sheldon pouted, “but I think staying at the school the rest of the day is enough.”
The students walked out, Sheldon stormed off, grumbling his speedy legs away, Sleak just sighed with a disappointed frown, Annie seemed content but was not happy, and Grace just looked bored. They parted ways, and Grace continued on down the halls to see if something else would happen.
Eventually Rynk found her again, now wearing a grey long-sleeve-shirt with “THIS IS SPARTA” on it, and tan-pants. Grace looked the outfit over briefly. “… New shirt?”
“New shirt. So what she say?” Rynk asked perkily. “Are you guys allowed back?”
Grace sighed. “No, but you’re getting special-lessons or something now.”
“Really? Why? Cause of the teleporting?”
“Yup.”
“Huh…” Rynk sighed a confused sigh. “Well I doubt I’ll be able to manifest it. I wasn’t doing anything when it happened… maybe someone was pulling a prank on me… which would explain how I was sent to you guys so easily.”
“Maybe. Wait, don’t you want special lessons?” Grace questioned as she halted for a moment.
Rynk shrugged. “I dunno. I might… if I knew what they were like. I’m just making some guesses as to what happened. I mean, I’ve never teleported before, and I can already walk on walls, have metal-bones, have had my voice change twice, and my stripes glow. All of those happened in the same way. Teleporting… not so much.”
“I guess y-… you’re voice change-… you really are Persian?” Grace stammered.
“Yeah… here’s the thing. I don’t know why, but my voice like… changes at points in my life. When I was younger I used to be Scottish believe it or not. Then when I was thirteen, I got Persian… or whatever you would call ‘Persian’. I found out from the school that Supreta’s a mix of what you’d call ‘Indian’ too. So I got a voice that sort of mixed those together. Then a little before I saw you guys on that rainy day I was all English-like... I hope I got those right I’m not sure.”
“… That’s… strange. “Why were you out there so long anyway?”
“I like rain for one. And two… I was uh…” Rynk looked a bit embarrassed now, “I was trying to sing while gargling water with my new accent.”
Grace chuckled slightly. “That is funny. So… what? Are you going to turn Australian when you’re twenty?”
“Like Craaaaaaaaiger?” Rynk smirked.
“… Like I said. Are you going to turn Jamaican when you’re twenty?”
Rynk rolled her eyes. “I dunno. Ma-“ *BOOMF!!!!*
The side of the wall blew open. A female cybernetic hedgehog, known as Thunder, was shot back through a wall, slamming against the following one by a large explosion.
Rynk and Grace took one look to each other then ran towards the explosion
“What happened, Thunder?” Asked Grace.
“Roxm….” Thunder mumbled as she pulled herself from the wreckage. A figure walked through the newly planted hole just before it began to repair itself. She was a black cat, with a red and black punkish outfit, a red tail, and what appeared to be glasses of a sort above her eyes.
“Saaaaaaaaaaaara!” The cat called out.
“Who’s Sara?” Grace whispered to Rynk.
“I think she’s part of the music class. There’s a lot of Sara’s here.” Rynk whispered back before walking towards the feline.
“Uh… evil villain lady. Could you take the front door please? Seriously. Do you have to be dramatic?” Rynk taunted. The cat ignored the advice and charged towards her.
“EEP!” Rynk squealed as she quickly ducked. She attempted to place her foot in a good kicking spot, but the feline dodged and slammed her foot into Rynk’s, sending the lynx backward, being barely caught by Grace.
An electrical-current struck the cat in the backside. She groaned slightly, but seemed to be almost completely unharmed aside from a burn-mark on her back.
The school’s security stormed towards her, but the cat simply blasted them to a crisp.
“Uh… I’ll be right back.” Rynk said nervously as she ran off.
“Real nice! Leave me to fight the freako!” Grace glared. “… GET MY SCYTHE WHILE YOU’RE BACK THERE!!!”
If Rynk had heard Grace she would have said something like “You have a scythe?” or “Where’s your dorm?”. Either way, she was too busy to pay attention.
“What do you want? Who are you?!” Grace said to the hostile, trying to buy herself time.
“My name is Roxan.” The villain answered. “And I said was after Sara.” Roxan reached out to attack Grace.
“Why do you want her?” Grace asked, trying to stall her longer.
Roxan paused for the moment. “Do I need a reason? I just want her d- ERRG!!!!”
Thunder had recovered, and quickly used an electric-charged fist to punch Roxan in the back of her neck. The aftershock caused Roxan to spin diagonally till she hit another wall.
“That HURT!!” The angered feline roared as she began to claw away at Thunder. Grace had to think quickly. She jumped on Roxan’s back and began to pull at her hair. Normally Grace would do something a bit more martial-art related, like a fan-kick, or simply hay-maker Roxan’s chin with an uppercut, but this foe seemed a bit too dense to be harmed by large attacks, so Grace went for distraction.
As Roxan’s head would have it, her hairs were not as strong as her body. Grace fell backward, with two handfuls of black hair. Two small, yet noticeable, patches of skin were now visible on Roxan’s blood-stained head. The raged feline let out a long scream of pain before opening her eyes to Grace. “You are SO DEAD!!”
Roxan charged at Grace, meaning to kick her two-claws into Grace’s head. The vixen quickly dodged, ducking downward, allowing Thunder a shot. She charged her arm again, and sent an energy beam at Roxan. The black cat spun around and absorbed the beam.
There was a *CLANG* sound as Rynk kicked Roxan in the back of the head, followed by a large scream of “FLAAAAAAAG THAT HURT!!!!” as Rynk braced her foot on the floor. Roxan seemed almost equally irritated by the collision, dizzily trying to stay upright while rubbing her head.
“Metal bones?” The cat asked to the lynx.
“Yep.” Rynk replied.
“A bit Wolverine, don’t you think?”
“Your world has that two?!.”
“Fun stuff. Anyway?” The uncaring feline gave a full kick to Rynk’s chest. The metal bones contacting with Roxan’s dense body caused both of them to ricochet backwards.
“Tell me you brought something with you.” Grace groaned.
“Yeah.” Rynk answered as she got up. She walked over to grab a suit-case that she had dragged back. She opened up the case to reveal a syringe inside of it. She reached out to grab it, but as soon as she did, she began to feel… moving, not her body but her soul? She looked down at herself and saw a different body; Thunder’s.
Rynk and Thunder had switched bodies; curtsey of Roxan. It took a while for them to realize what had just happened. When Rynk figured out what had happened she quickly yelled out “THUNDER! BREAK THE SYRINGE!!!”
For a moment Thunder hesitated. She was still recovering from the strange event. She slowly turned her head to the syringe and took it out. Before Thunder could break the syringe, Roxan grabbed her arm and held it. When she did though, not only did Thunder feel it, but Rynk did also.
“I’m still connected…” Rynk muttered. She looked up. Roxan was about to break off Thunder’s/Rynk’s arm, and seeing how Rynk has metal bones, the process would not be pleasant. The Lynx-cyborg, thinking she was going to shoot some kind of energy beam, detached her arm and launched it into Roxan’s face, causing her to loosen her grip. The Syringe fell.
Roxan screamed while jabbing her hand towards the syringe. Grace did not know what was going to happen yet but she assumed danger was near.
The vixen kicked herself up, and darted to the side of the building. *BLAM* a small, yet potent, explosion went off, knocking Rynk’s body (with Thunder in it) out, and causing Roxan to get stuck in a wall. Rynk was in a safe distance by default, so she waited for the next move.
Roxan was damaged, but not too damaged. Her hair was already growing back, granted it was growing slowly. The area was slowly fading from its red glowing smoke, which helped it along slightly. The evil cat cackled a bit to herself and said “That was your big move? A small explosion? You were planning to knock me out?”
“Uh, no, I was hoping someone would appear actually.” Rynk replied somewhat nervously, confused by the delay.
“Yeah? Who?!” Roxan tested.
Then a third new female’s voice called out “Guess”. It was at that moment that an energy beam shot Roxan through the wall, through the next one, then down one story. When the stunned cat got back to her foes, a new player arrived. Grey hood, red hair, black fur, red-ends on her feet, claws, dark blue jeans, glowing red eyes.
“Hello, Rin.” The angered feline growled.
The hooded figure turned to see who she had just attacked. Her eyes changed from red to white, then back to red. “… Oh… you… A-GAIN!”
Rin Turned to Rynk briefly. “Rynk? Wh- wait a minute where is this?”
“Uh… Mobius Academy.” Rynk replied. “Are… you gonna fight her please?”
“…Fine.” Rin groaned. The red-haired creature threw out her hand at Roxan, morphing it around in a caging-attempt. Roxan dodged, but Rin followed. Roxan attempted to slice off Rin’s arm, but instead it blew a wave of chaos energy in her face, which caused even more destruction to that part of the school.
“Can you take this outside, please?!” Grace yelled.
“Alright.” Rin answered. She stuck her bladed-finger into Roxan’s shoulder then teleported herself and Roxan outside where they continued to fight.
While the violence went on, various Zone Police began appearing in the school, though none of them knowing who was the enemy and who was the ally. As they charged into the fight they seemed to be of no help. The Principal arrived at the still reforming hallway that the fight originated in, questioning instantly to the students “Who and what just happened here?”
“Some… uh…” Grace shook herself a bit to regain consciousness, “S-some girl named Roxan just popped up going after Sara, then Rynk threw a bomb on the ground and now we’ve got a hoodie girl here.”
Miss Icle, the Principal, pondered over this briefly, “She shouldn’t normally be able to breach the school’s perimeters, nor the identity either.”
“R-Rin’s helping if that… helps…” Rynk trailed off. The Principal turned to the Thunder-Body-possessing-Rynk.
“How do you know that?”
“… W-well right now we just need Roxan gone and I want to be back in my body.”
Thunder waved from the side inside of Rynk’s body. A trail of quickly-paced footsteps were heard as a pale-tan-colored dog-mobian girl ran up to them. “Th-they said Roxan was here.”
“And you-“
“I’m Sara.” She interrupted. “Where’s Roxan now.”
Rynk pointed down at the fight twelve stories down. “How do we stop that?”
“Wha- Uh… th-there’s a song tha-… uh… “ Sara went through her pockets and pulled out a small disk-like object. “You can capture her in this…”
Rynk thought to question what the disc was and how Sara got it, but things were becoming a bit dangerous. She grabbed the disk then ran out a broken wall and down the side of the school. It was shortly after that she remembered that she was not in her body, and could not walk on walls anymore. “Flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-“ * bamf*
Rin and Roxan were both blasting away at each other. Roxan took the first offensive move and teleported behind Rin. From there she stabbed her through the back, and tried to implode her from the inside. Instead, Rin wrapped around her arm, and stabbed random parts of her Nanites into Roxan’s arm.
Rin let go of Roxan just as she set her Nanites to implode. Roxan’s hand was gone. “What happened to you?” Rin asked in confusion. “You’re like… weak.”
“WEAK!?” Roxan drilled herself into Rin, ignoring any attacks that would follow. She charged an energy blast, then let loose, causing pieces of Rin to go flying in random directions.
“You’re the weak one…” Roxan growled. She knew the battle wasn’t won yet though. Rin quickly regenerated with a darkening glare.
“There a reason why you’re after Sara? Why don’t you just go home?”
“You don’t tell me what I should do! What do you know?!” Roxan shot randomly aimed energy beams at Rin, who due to Roxan’s blind rage, dodged with little difficulty. As she dodged she noticed the passed-out body of Rynk-inside-Thunder and a shiny CD-like object. She teleported to the object, and picked it up.
“This doesn’t do anything to you by any chance, does it?” Rin grinned. Roxan growled and tried to grab the disk.
Rin kicked Roxan down then pointed the disk at her, assuming something would happen… nothing did. “Uh…” Rin tapped the disk. “Hello? Operator? Pee’za-man??” Rin turned to Roxan. “Okay, how does it work?”
“You think I’m gonna tell you?” Roxan scoffed.
Rin sighed. “Fine.” Then teleported to Sara. “Hi Sara. Nice outfit. Good to see you again. How do I turn the disk-thingy on?”
“You have to charge it up first.” Sara replied.
“… Oh. Imma derp, thanks.” Rin made a quick peace sign to Sara then teleported back to where she thought Roxan was. Roxan was gone.
“Roxan?” Rin called out. “Hello? Uh… do I just wait here or *slice*” Roxan sliced Rin’s head in half, not knowing that it was Rin’s entire body that was Nanite-composed.
“There you are.” Rin grinned as she materialized her face to face Roxan’s. She charged up the disk then rammed it into Roxan’s mouth before teleporting a safe distance way. Roxan disappeared in a blue light, with the disc collapsing on to the ground.
“… uh… Yay… yeah… Byyyyyyyyyyye!” Rin waved to the people watching, then teleported away.
The remaining Zone Police took hold of the disc-prison, and took it off-campus for safety reasons. The school was healed completely soon after, though many students were still weary. Most of the Zone Police were merely injured in the battle, and were on their way back to health.
As for Rynk and Thunder, they would soon discover that their cores were switched. These cores connected to one’s soul and memories. Thankfully by use of the School’s Nurse Center, and concentrated energy pulses, they were able to remove the cores from the body’s and place them back inside their correct owners.
Rynk woke up in her normal body again in a cot. “Why does this keep happening to me?”
Grace walked up from across the room. “Good morning. You okay?”
“Yeah.” Rynk sat up. “Did we get Roxan?”
“Yep.” Grace grinned. “Who was that girl with the hood though?”
“Oh her?” Rynk said. “That’s Rin. Don’t ask me, I don’t know her too well. She just popped up one day, saved my life, then left. I caught her name though. Where’s Thunder? She’s probably mad that I launched away her arm.”
Grace shrugged. “I dunno. Weird friends Sara has… Oh yeah, the Principal wanted me to tell you, we found out why you were teleporting randomly.”
“Really?” Rynk asked with widened eyes.
“Turns out Roxan had gotten the school’s porting-defenses down, probably from hacking, and it caused a few energy bursts. One must of hit you and messed around with the databank.”
“… Wait, so I’m not going to the special-class thing?”
“Well… actually you are. She said that there might have still been traces of energy in you that would allow that, you being the only one who teleported, so they still want to make sure.”
“That works I guess.” Rynk hopped out of her bed and walked out of the nurse’s station with Grace. When they got out they saw that most of the school was empty. Rynk’s eyes widened. “Where is everybody?”
Grace sighed. “A lot of the kid’s parents made them leave. The board-members of the school are trying to convince everybody to keep the school running. They said that they might even get some magical-protector person, but so far that’s not happening.”
“Th-… there closing the school?” Rynk asked in terror.
“I hope not, but it might happen… you okay? You look kind of freaked.”
“Well… I… I don’t have anywhere else to go.” Rynk mumbled as she dropped her head, her large ears dropping over her face.
Grace put her hand on Rynk’s shoulder. “Hey they haven’t closed it yet. And I doubt they will. Then things will get back to… abnormal.”
“I hope…”
Helu.
I, personally, think I have too many fcs to use. There's too many even to remember. So, I've decided to either give them away or to get rid of them completely.
Ones I'm definitely keeping include:
Amber Prower
Kyoko Otonashi
River Spark
and their evil forms and families (but not all of Amber's family is staying. She's got 12, mainly dead, siblings I don't do anything with, and Victoria's only gonna be referenced, as she's possibly getting cut.)
So, I'd like to know...
Are there any other characters you'd prefer me keeping? Or is anyone interested in adopting characters?
For adoptions, you need to send me a picture you've done of the charrie you want, and I'll choose if there's more than one person that wants them.
Thanks for your time :3
CLT
I, personally, think I have too many fcs to use. There's too many even to remember. So, I've decided to either give them away or to get rid of them completely.
Ones I'm definitely keeping include:
Amber Prower
Kyoko Otonashi
River Spark
and their evil forms and families (but not all of Amber's family is staying. She's got 12, mainly dead, siblings I don't do anything with, and Victoria's only gonna be referenced, as she's possibly getting cut.)
So, I'd like to know...
Are there any other characters you'd prefer me keeping? Or is anyone interested in adopting characters?
For adoptions, you need to send me a picture you've done of the charrie you want, and I'll choose if there's more than one person that wants them.
Thanks for your time :3
CLT
Blood's Past
Chapter three
A Strange Event
(I guess I now have to call Miles, Blood)
Three years later...
"Dad I don't know if you can hear me but yesterday was Zoey's and my birthday we're both thirteen come on Dad you can fight this..." Blood said, "Im sorry visiting hours are done you will have to leave" said one of the nurses "give me a second, Dad I love you please just wake up, okay Im leaving" Blood walks out the hospital, Zoey walks up to Blood "Visiting Dad?" she said "yeah still nothing" Blood's left hand electrifys then stops "okay what was that?" he looks at his hand "Weird"
Chapter three
A Strange Event
(I guess I now have to call Miles, Blood)
Three years later...
"Dad I don't know if you can hear me but yesterday was Zoey's and my birthday we're both thirteen come on Dad you can fight this..." Blood said, "Im sorry visiting hours are done you will have to leave" said one of the nurses "give me a second, Dad I love you please just wake up, okay Im leaving" Blood walks out the hospital, Zoey walks up to Blood "Visiting Dad?" she said "yeah still nothing" Blood's left hand electrifys then stops "okay what was that?" he looks at his hand "Weird"