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-Telekinesis (Chronicle)
-Dominator:
When this ability is used on someone or an animal you gain absolute
loyalty of the person or animal it is used on, they will do everything in their power to fulfil your wishes while under your influence, in the beginning you can only dominate 1 mind at a time, with training you may be able to dominate up to ten minds/souls.
-Minder:
You can turn invisible/undetectable by any means of detection, read minds must make eye contact and actually want to read someone's thoughts to read a person's mind, you can also give nightmares to those asleep as long as you're within ten feet of them and they are within your line of sight.
-Portaling: open portals to places you've seen either in detailed paintings, or some kind of media and memories, places you've visited, also line of sight, (Portals take extreme amounts of concentration to open at first but will become easier with practice.)
-Small Pocket World:
This world will look similar to King Kai's planet, there is a large log cabin style home, it has a large master bedroom/bathroom fully furnished, two spare rooms, a full kitchen with a stove, always stocked fridge, cabinets, always stocked pantry, dishwasher, breakfast island, cutlery and other necessities, a full bathroom with a shower/bathtub, and a half bath. The living room is fully furnished with comfy furniture.
Travel to your pocket world by opening a portal into the pocket dimension, this dimension is inaccessible to anyone but you and those you open the door for and allow inside. But if you are being shot at bullets, blaster bolts etc will follow you inside. Note portals take a bit of concentration and time to open but with practice these needs will decrease, the larger the portal is the longer it will take to open the portal and the stronger your concentration will need to be.
-Peak human physique: You are Batman's equal when he was in his physical prime, your brain power is extremely high and so are your cognitive functions this doesn't mean you are smarter or will feel smarter.
Steel Skin: Your skin is as tough and as resistant to damage as 1 inch thick high carbon steel. This power is always active unless you choose to suppress it. Your skin feels normal unless it's being struck hard enough to injure you.
-Sizeshift: change size from anywhere within the range from one millimeters to six meters, all parts of your body will become proportional to match your sizeshift.
-Sacrificial Immortality: Drain someone's life force for an hour, 1 hour equals one year of their life force, 1 year worth of Life force will reverse your aging by six months, you can use this ability on other people to keep them younger, Life force stores can be used for healing of wounds and fighting off illnesses.
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'Damn…I really hit the lotto jackpot on this one.' I think idly while feeling myself smiling, suddenly my vision starts to grow dark and then blackness takes me.
Suddenly a door seems to open up in the darkness, memories of another life start flooding and merging with my own, a life that takes place a hundred and twenty plus years into the future as one Josh Shannon.
'Fuck, I'm Josh!' I curse in my mind but the more I watch the more I feel I'm surprised that Josh Shannon is intelligent even as a young child, at least in problem solving and things needing certain types of recognition.
He's so intelligent that a ladder climber talent scout placed in his school brings him to Hope Plaza, well more like the place that will become Hope Plaza where the portal stabilization technology is.
There he meets Commander Taylor, the man is pretty cool though he's most definitely damaged from the loss of his wife and still healing, then there's Lucas Taylor it's surprising how easy the older boy formed a connection with Josh, an unexpected entity is Lucy Taylor, Lucas's sister who is very pretty at least from Josh's memories she looks like Jaimie Alexander, she hates both her brother and father, blames them both for the loss of her mother, just as Lucas blames their father.
Other things keep popping up like I know Mira, the leader of the Sixers, the talent scout that recruited me is the husband of a lawyer who has custody of Mira's daughter.
I was involved in a train bombing, I don't have a girlfriend, in fact I have to keep a barrier between myself and everyone but the Shannon family for fear of Zoey being discovered and us reported.
So I…I mean Josh has a very very close relationship with Maddie, I'm pulled out of this memory synchronization, sitting bolt upright gasping for air. I look around Maddie is five feet away from me in her bed Zoey is snuggled against her.
I get out of bed drenched in sweat and needing to take a piss. The room is cramped; there's barely enough room to walk between the beds to the door, the beds and a shared dresser taking up most of the room.
'This is not enough room to be shared…between two teens of opposite sex.' I think while making my way into the cramped living space. Elizabeth and Dad sleep on a small loft platform above the door.
Entering the bathroom draining the dragon, flushing the toilet, washing my hand, not having to turn on a nightlight because of chemical lighting.
"How do people live like this? I mean I've lived pretty cramped before but this…Elizabeth and Jim have decent paying careers though." I murmur while staring into the mirror seeing a fifteen year old but handsome as hell I look a bit like the kid that played Josh in the series but there's enough different about me that I also look a bit like Tom Welling as well, I have green eyes instead of blue and more of a dark auburn hair, 'You can definitely see the Irish in this one.' I joke in my mind with my hands clean and I splash water onto my face.
"Josh, is everything alright, Sweetheart?" Elizabeth…Mom's voice calls out to me softly while her knuckles gently knock on the bathroom door startling me.
"Uhh yeah." I lie as I'm not really feeling all that alright, I feel like I'm going to fucking puke, I'm experiencing cold sweating my body is trembling transmigration does not seem like an easy process.
I open the door and Elizabeth makes a concerned sound in the back of her throat, "Oh my Josh you look terrible." Elizabeth coos in motherly concern and immediately cups the sides of my face with her soft warm hands, it's deeply comforting and confusing at the same time being a teenage boy in body and…somewhat adult in mind, the last thing I want is to be comforted by Mommy and yet I find myself slinging my arms around Elisabeth Shannon's back pulling her into a tight hug burying my face into the crook of her neck the smell of her hair a deep comfort that I've recognized since my earliest moments in this life as I start to cry.
"Ohh Josh honey you're hugging me too tightly." Elizabeth…Mom complains but hugs me back just as tightly.
"Come on Sweetie, let's lay down on the couch." Elizabeth says and leads me into the small communal living space which the couch dominates, lays down on it and pulls me towards her.
I lay down on the couch beside Elizabeth, and Elizabeth pulled my face to her breasts, "Mommy's here Josh, I know you're hurting a lot because of the loss of your friend."
'What, what friend?' I wonder and then it hits me what if Josh's one friend before committing suicide is the one who reported Zoey.
But I shrug it off and close my eyes being lulled to sleep by Elizabeth's comforting fingers running through my shaggy/messy hair and the gentle humming.
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Waking up to a soft snicker I look up sleepily and see Maddie standing near the couch, hand on her hip tooth brush hanging out her mouth, "Aww, look at Mommy's baby boy." She teases and though I do feel a little embarrassed/uncomfortable because a certain part of me most definitely did not care that Elizabeth was the mother of this body in this life.
"Maddie." Elizabeth says warningly, making the girl blush and develop a frightened expression on her face.
"Are you feeling better, sweetheart?" Elizabeth…Mom asks me and I nod, I did feel better if one didn't count the aching erection.
"Good, now let me get up, your father had to go in early today, and I have a surgery scheduled to begin at nine." Elizabeth says to me and I get out of her way she doesn't say anything about the hard on but Maddie gasps/giggles before covering her mouth holding her tooth brush like a weapon when she sees the way my sweats are tented.
"Oh my god." I can hear her muttering.
"You two look after Zoey and make sure you complete your online lessons today." Elizabeth says to ask as she flights about the house putting on her work clothes no shame whatsoever in taking off her night shirt revealing that she wasn't wearing a bra underneath it, granted that was something I knew already but damn modesty is not a thing in this house I guess.
The day goes by quickly with me and Maddie teaching Zoey through our Plex's a Plex being a glass panel with electronics on one side the thing works better than an iPad pro and has more processing power than it has any right to.
Lessons were done within a couple of hours than it was lunch time. I find myself slaving away in the kitchen preparing what honestly looks like slop to me, but it has all the nutrients the body needs.
The three of us end up on the couch watching cartoons from the time of my first life. Some sign that Josh and I were always the same person but separated somehow as he or I always insisted these ancient cartoons are the best Zoey being my little minion of terror agrees with me on this.
The day goes by in a flash. Elizabeth walks in through the door and makes sure to come over to us and give us each a kiss on the tops of our heads.
Hours pass, it's getting late and Elizabeth, Maddie and Zoey are starting to get really worried.
"Where is that man?!" Elizabeth…mom mutters in worry as she puts some pasta into boiling water, "I'll go get the mail mom." Maddie suddenly says and waves Maddie off.
Jim walks in with a brown paper bag with a smile on his face, "What'd you get…that has you so happy?" I ask him though I have a sinking feeling that it's an orange.
'Shit, I think cannon is about to start!' I say in my head a pit opening in my stomach a very small part of me that views Jim as my hero dad wants to keep him out of jail, but I also worry that if I do so Peter Malcolm…the guy who puts Elizabeth's name on the short list for Terra Nova won't if he thinks she's still with her husband.
'Actually I wonder if I could pull some strings given my previous connections with Hope Plaza?'
Jim pulls out an orange and Maddie rushes inside the apartment, and struggles to take off her rebreather in her rushing, pulling the family out of the gentle conversation it was enjoying from her panicked words.
"They're coming. When I was downstairs getting the mail I saw them. They're on their way now." We all somehow manage to look at each other at the same time in alarm.
Jim and I move in sync moving over to and quickly pulling open an air vent, while Elisabeth picks Zoe up and rushes her over to the now open vent to hide her inside of it.
Zoey being only three years old and scared resists being placed in the vent while starting to cry.
"Zoe, baby? I know you're scared but It's time to play hideaway, okay?" Elizabeth realizes and tries another way, seeing her mother's change in attitude, Zoey calms down and nods okay.
"Okay, come on. Climb in there for Mummy. Everything's going to be…" Elizabeth is interrupted by someone harshly banging on the apartment's door, Zoe whimpers.
I look around trying to remember Zoey's security blanket but Maddy beats me to it and picks up Zoe's toy and rushes it over to us and hands it off to Elisabeth, who gives it to Zoe.
"Okay, Monkey Mama loves you." Elizabeth coos and Zoey nods and gives her a watery smile back. Jim and I close the vent while the banging on the door continues.
Jim looks at me and nods before walking over to and opening the door, revealing a squad of Population Control Officers standing on the other side of it.
"Population Control. You're being investigated for a possible violation." The lead officer says he's a man with a shaved and oiled head of medium build.
"Oh, no, there, there must be some mistake…I'm a cop, too." Jim says while trying to block the lead officer's view inside of the apartment.
The lead Officer forces himself past Jim and walks inside, shoulder checking Jim in the process.
"Hey!" Jim shouts but doesn't do anymore than that as four other officers walk inside.
"I need you to step outside so that my men and I can search the premises." The lead officer says coolly.
"Do you have a warrant for this search? Because if you don't I can make a call right now to some pretty powerful people and get you fired…" I say and hope that I'm not bullshitting right now as I still do help Hope Plaza with the Pilgrimage preparations…and I seem to be a valuable resource. They even pay me enough that I have about twelve million creds to my name.
The lead officer freezes for a moment, "Smart mouthed kid, I could arrest you for resisting a search and for threatening an officer of the law."
"Right…and you're threatening a minor right now while being recorded only because he asked if this was a lawful search?" I snark back while pointing to a security camera inside of the apartment that was disabled by Jim so that there wouldn't be any video evidence of Zoey, the man starts to flush red with anger.
"Okay, Josh. Let's go! Come on, guys. It's okay." Jim says and grabs my shoulder steering away from the lead officer, the four of us walk out of the apartment and the four officers that the lead officer is in charge of start searching the apartment…I call it searching but it looks more like vandalism, cutting open furniture, breaking cupboards shelving, throwing fragile and expensive things.
"Hey! Be careful with that!" Maddy shouts as her Plex gets thrown against one of the walls.
One of the Officers hits the air vent where Zoey is hiding.
Zoey of course whimpers, "Hold it!" The lead Officer commands, "Pull the vent."
Zoey starts crying, "Mommy… Mommy." As the officer rips the vent out of the wall, Jim and mom share a worried look, as the Officer gestures for Zoey to come towards him.
"Come on, Come on! Come here! I'm not playing around…Come here now!" The man barks threateningly at Zoey just making her push herself as far back into the vent as she can go while crying.
The man starts to climb into the vent, and grabs Zoey to drag her out, "Leave her alone, Don't touch her!" Jim rushes in and punches the lead Officer in the face, knocking him to the ground.
"Jim!" Mom yells out as Jim starts throwing a flurry of punches and kicks, it takes everything in me not to join him, 'Fuck it I'm a minor.' I think as Maddy yells "Dad!" As Jim starts getting his ass beat on by five dudes I rush in the guy I hit first gets sent into the wall I'm pretty sure I hear bones cracking, the next guy is the lead officer who smiles maliciously as he reaches to pull his sidearm.
I smirk grab his wrist and twist bone protrudes from the skin as he drops to his knees scream the three remaining officers grab shock batons but I lift the lead officer and throw him into one, catch a shock baton in the air slam it into one guys neck, not hard enough to penetrate skin but it drops him to the ground in convulsions.
The last guy drops his shock baton and raises his hands over his head, "I give up, I give up!" He shouts quick I help Jim up, and then walk over and get Zoey out of the vent Jim leads me out of the apartment and goes back inside shutting the door behind him
The officers beat up and bloody lead Jim out of the apartment in handcuffs, "See, now, you shouldn't have done that, kid…your old man will face life for this." The lead officer says to me, making me glare at him he steps back though flinching in fear.
While Jim is being handcuffed, Maddy starts to cry, and hugs me tightly, as Jim is led away.
"I'll go meet your father at the station, you three stay here." Mom murmurs and stands on her toes to kiss my cheek. She's looking at me in a light I don't think I've ever seen before, before she kisses Maddy and Zoey too and rushes after Jim.