Chapter 7 starts
<5 days later>
I slowly start to wake up and I feel that
some one is holding my hands, then I hear Lance say ‘ “C” tell
Roger he’s starting to wake up.’ I try to sit up and I feel
a hand on my chest, ‘Stay still till Roger gets here.’ I know
the voice, but can’t place it. I finally get my eyes to open
and see Lance holding one hand and Howie’s holding the other,
I try to move again, ‘No you don’t Bob, stay put.’ Howie says
as he looks at my with sad puppy dog eyes. 5 min. later Roger
comes in, looks at me and shakes his head, ‘Ok Bob, what do
you remember of the rescue of the Backstreet Boys?’ I tell him.
‘Ok…may I meld with you?’ ‘Sure Roger.’ He walks over to the
bed, ‘Excuse me Lance, may sit there?’ ‘Oh, sure Roger, sorry.’
he sits down, looks at me and says ‘Let me use my powers, I
don’t want you to use yours till you are told you can.’ ‘Yes
Roger’ he reaches up and puts his hands on my temples, melds
with me and starts to go over my memories, ‘Very interesting.’
‘What?’ ‘When you yelled “No” your conscious mind shut down,
and your unconscious mind took over and combined all of your
powers, past and present into one mind blast that warped the
sentinel inside out. This is what they saw.’ I see myself
yelling ‘NOOOOooooo.’ I look up at the sentinel and a black
bolt with lightning around the edges shoots out of my forehead
and hits the sentinel in the chest and it shimmers and warps
it inside out. ‘I’m going to unmeld now.’ I look at Lance,
Roger, and Howie, I start to open my mouth to speak and Roger
holds up his hand, then says ‘ “C” public address please,
This is Roger…Bob is wake and seams to be ok, now you can quit
worrying. Roger out.’ He looks at me and smiles, ‘You’ve become
quite a hero after saving Howie like that. What have they told
you so far?’ ‘Only to stay still and wait for you.’ ‘Good…now
stay calm…you’ve been in a coma for five days, and at least
one of the guys from both bands have been in your room all the
time except when they had to be at a concert. Now stay put while
I go get Ed to have a look at you.’ As Roger leaves, ‘Would
you get me something to drink?’ ‘Kay, here you go, but sip slowly.’
Lance says.
In about five min. Ed comes in, he looks
at me, comes over and puts one hand on my head and the other
on my chest, closes his eyes and probes me to check to see how
I am. He lets go, looks in to my eyes, ‘Bob… I am putting you
on quarters rest for now, I would like you to stay in bed for
the most part, but you can sit on a couch for a while, but
do not use your powers till I tell you. Do you agree?’ ‘Can
I also use a recliner at my desk?’ ‘Why?’ So I can use the net.’
‘OK, I’ll go for that.’ ‘Ok I’ll try to do as you request, I
can tell you have informants close to me. <I look at Lance
and Howie and they blush> so I don’t have much choice.’ <grin>
‘You’ll never know how many I have.’ ‘May I have my cloth back?
I know you needed to put me in one of these gowns, but I like
my cloth to be closed in the back.’ we all laugh. ‘Well that
comment lets me know that you are doing better then I first
thought, Howie please go and get Roger while Lance gets Bob’s
cloth.’ Howie goes to a wall, waves his hand and the wall starts
to go fuzzy and he walks thru, and Ed and Lance walk out.
In a few seconds the wall goes fuzzy and
Howie and Roger walks thru. “Well Howie, I see that you’re a
portal, what powers do the others have?’ ‘We’ll talk about that
later, when Lance gets back with your cloth, change, then Howie
will take you to your room. I’ll be over to see you in a while,
I have I few things I need to take care of since you are not
to do any thing but rest for a while.’ ‘I’ll try to be good…Dad.’
‘Yeah right I know you too well… but don’t over do it or you
will be back here till you are totally recovered.’ ‘Yes Roger,
see you later.’ when he leaves I look at Howie, ‘Howie, why
the sad face?’ ‘Because of me, you got hurt and were in a coma
for five days.’ ‘No Howie…not your fault, blame Trask, if he
wasn’t so hell bent no destroying us this wouldn’t have happened,
now help me sit up so I can be ready to change cloth when Lance
gets back.’ He comes over and tries to help me, ‘Howie, I’m
bigger that you are and I’m not going to break, so don’t be
afraid to use your full strength to get me up.’ When I’m sitting
on the edge of the bed, ‘Sit down Howie.’ I pat the bed beside
me and he sits down, I put my arm over his shoulder and he starts
to cry, ‘Howie calm down, I’m ok, just forget about it.’ ‘They
thought you were dead when they brought you here, they could
hardly get a heart beat and almost no mental activity, you were
surrounded by healers and telepaths all night to make sure you
stayed around.’ ‘Well as you can see, I stayed. If I remember
the old saying “Only the good die young.” so I should be here
for a very long time, since I’m mean and nasty.’ <grin>
Lance walks in with my cloth, ‘Here you go, let us help you…or
else.’ ‘Remember…pay backs…’ I smile, Lance laughs, and Howie
looks up with a small smile. I get dressed with their help
then Howie opens up a portal to my room and we walk thru with
my arms around their shoulders. ‘Ah…home.’ I go over and grab
a cup of coffee and go sit down on the couch,” “C” I need a
recliner by my desk please.’ ‘Already there.’ ‘Get something
to drink guys, and have a seat.’
<Knock…knock>
‘Come in…hi Roger.’ ‘Well I see you did as
told for once, did you have to force him?’ ‘No…he just got a
cup of coffee and sat down as you see him.’ ‘Well will wonders
ever cease?’ <grin> ‘Thanks a lot all of you.’ ‘Ok you
two go relax for a while, I’ll call you when I’m done here.’
when they’re gone, ‘Bob… how do you really feel? And no bull
either.’ ‘Just a little tired.’ ‘Yes it’s been a little hectic
lately, What with rescuing two boy bands.’ ‘No shit, And the
trip to Jive was fun also.’ ‘Ok… what were you thinking when
you yelled “no”?’ ‘Well fear that Howie would be killed, then
anger that I may screw up a rescue mission. I was so close to
getting all of us out of there, then that happened.’ ‘Well now
I think I’ll have to reclassify you as a “Super mimic” now.’
‘Why.’ ‘Besides bringing all the people back, you also brought
the sentinel back.’ WHAT!’ <grin> ‘Yes, you brought it
back, Randy may talk to you about bringing the next one back
right side out so it’s easier to figure out what they’ve improved.
And you also brought all of our people back, not just the bands
and Gary’s crew, none of the other portals did a thing , they
just got a free ride back, you seem to be getting stronger by
the week.’ ‘So who awakened BSB?’ ‘I let Gary, but I was there
if I was needed. But he had no problems.’ ‘I need to talk to
him later, what are their powers?’ ‘Brian has eye beams and
a kind of x-ray vision, A.J. is a morph and he can turn invisible
also, Kevin changes in to bio-metal, Nick is a mimic, though
not as strong as you, and as you’ve seen, Howie is a portal.’
‘Nice addictions to the group, how is their training going?’
‘I’ve got a meeting set up for after dinner with Pat, Gary,
and Jeff for 7p.’ ‘Thanks Roger, any thing else?’ ‘Not for now,
but I talked to Ed and he give the ok to use your ready room
as a dinning room, he knows that it’s easier to eat sitting
up, I know that your getting hungry so I’ll tell the Howie and
Lance to come over with the food.’ Roger closes his eyes, then
he starts to smile and opens his eyes ‘Their on the way with
a few friends.’ He starts to chuckle and heads out.
In a min. the wall starts to fuzz out, and
Chris and A.J. push the food carts out with the rest of the
guys from both bands following, they head to my ready room,
in ten min. Kevin and J.C. come out and help me off the couch
and into the ready room, the table is all set for dinner. As
I set down the guys start to clap and cheer, ‘Ok…can it guys,
lets eat before the food gets cold.’ They sit down, Kevin picks
up his glass, ‘I know it isn’t champagne, but here’s to you
Bob, its nice to see sitting up with your eyes open, instead
of laying in bed with them closed.’ ‘Here…here.’ J.C. looks
straight at me, ‘Bob…don’t ever do that again, we thought we
had lost you, your one of the few people that doesn’t give a
damn about our celebrity status, you just treat us like every
one else, that’s so nice for a change.’ ‘HERE…HERE!’ as we get
down to eating, we chat, joke, pick on each other, and have
a good time. As we eat I notice that N sync must have talked
to the Backstreet Boys about their sexuality and mine, I see
J.C. and Justin, Bill and Lance, Chris and Joey, Kevin and A.J.,
and Brian and Nick all holding hands, giving hugs, and being
affectionate with each other. When I look at Howie he looks
sad and alone, I make a mental note to talk to him about it
as soon as I get the chance.
After dinner I get helped out by Lance and
Howie while every one else picks up the ready room, ‘Guys let
me go to my desk for a few, then I’ll go to the couch.’ I go
over to my computer, bring up a special page.
Bob >C, LFO’s Every Other Time. <enter>
C >Nasty…nasty
Bob >I know <enter>
C >Ok
Bob >Then Enigma please, wait till I get
to the couch to begin. <enter>
C >Will do.
I close the page, go get a cup of coffee,
then Lance and Howie escort me to the couch, then the music
starts. <GROAN> ‘He did it again!! Lance, Howie, you were
not to leave him alone.’ Kevin and J.C. yell. ‘Sorry.’ they
reply. ‘Go and help clean up, I won’t do it again…<they leave>…again
tonight that is.’
‘ “C” after they’re done, please change the
ready room into a guest room, I have a feeling that I will have
company for a few nights.’ ‘Sure thing Bob.’ In a couple of
min. the guys come in , except for Howie, Lance, and Nick, ‘Have
a set, where are the other three?’ ‘Taking the stuff back to
the kitchen.’ ‘Don’t be hard on Lance and Howie, I pulled a
fast one them earlier.’ ‘So I heard.’ Kevin says with a smile,
‘Now I have to be careful with you around.’ ‘Why Kev. ? Not
use to being picked on?’ ‘Since he is the old man of our group,
he usually doesn’t allow it.’ Brian says. ‘Thanks Cuz. I just
went to the top of his list.’ the wall fuzzes and Nick, Lance,
and Howie walk in, ‘Well guys, go grab a chair from the office,
I’m not use to having so many people in here at once.’ When
they come back with their chairs, Nick comes over to me ‘Bob…I
have a question , What about Aaron?’ ‘Is he still a minor?’
‘Yes.’ ‘If your parents give the ok, we’ll go get him, if they
have any questions, I’ll be glad to talk to them.’ he puts his
hand on my shoulder, ‘Thanks.’ when he does that I freeze up,
‘Nick…please…be…care…full…’ he pulls his hand back like he was
burned then looks at me with a shocked look on his face, ‘Remember
Nick, you are a mimic, and new, if you copy all of my powers
at once you could be burned out. I don’t mind physical contact,
but we have to be careful till I’m at 100% then it’ll be ok.
I’m just looking after you, you know that, don’t you?’ ‘Yeah…I
just didn’t think of that.’ ‘I’ve heard that about you.’ <grin>
the guys start to laugh, and Nick starts to turn red. ‘What
did you tell him about me?’ Nick demands of his band mates.
‘They didn’t tell me anything Nick…but you are blond…so…’ ‘Very
funny Bob…thanks.’ he starts to grin. ‘Just remember that I’m
a master of come backs, so be careful of what you say.’ ‘Thanks…I
think.’ ‘We just discussed that Nick, no need to bring that
up again.’ the rest of the guys laugh so hard they start to
fall off their seats. Nick looks at me, shakes his head, starts
to smile, and sits down.
‘Bob, its Gary, we’re here, are you ready?’
I start to get up, Kevin looks at me, ‘What do you need?’ ‘The
guys are here for the meeting that Roger set up this afternoon.’
‘I’ll do it.’ he gets up and opens the door, tells them to get
a chair and come on in. As Gary walks in he gives me a questioning
look, ‘Didn’t Roger tell you that I’m not to use my powers yet?
So all I can do is receive not transmit.’ ‘That’s right, I forgot.
What was so funny?’ ‘I was just picking on Nicky, that’s all.’
‘It must have been good, I heard you all the way down the hall.’
I look at the all of the guys ‘Gary, Pat, Jeff, do you want
the guys to leave or stay?’ ‘I need them to stay, but I don’t
know about Gary or Pat.’ ‘They can stay if they want.’ Gary
says, Pat nods, I look at the bands, ‘Well…’J.C. looks around
‘Yeah…we’ll stay.’ ‘Ok Jeff you first.’ ‘Now that you’ve used
the maskers, is there anything we can do to make them better?’
‘The one I used was fine, the guys didn’t say any thing to me,
how about you Gary?’ ‘Nobody has said anything to me about them,
but we just stand, walk, or sit.’ ‘Well…if they had a different
type of harness, that would help, with our dance moves, we need
some thing that won’t fall out of our pocket, of from around
our necks.’ Howie says ‘How about arm or leg bands.’ Chris
comments, ‘Or maybe belt packs.’ Justin comes up with. ‘Great
ideas, I’ll try to get you some thing to try out as soon as
I can, thanks guys, that’s all I needed.’ ‘Now you Pat, how
is the training going?’ ‘Well N sync are ready to go solo, as
soon as I can get either Roger or you, Bob, to evaluate them,
the BSB need a week or so then they can go solo also.’ ‘Sounds
great, I’ll talk to Roger about it asap. Anything else?’ he
shakes his head. ‘Ok Gary, your turn, how are the protection
teams doing?’ ‘So far so good, the two teams have done a good
job, but without you I had to put in a couple of extra people,
to take up the slack since you’ve been playing “Sleeping Beauty”
…but I don’t think it worked to well, you don’t look any better
than you did.’ ‘Thanks Gary, I’ll remember that. Would you meld
with me, I would like to see the awakening of BSB.’ He comes
over and puts his hands on my temples, we close our eyes, and
I go thru the event, when we unmeld, ‘That went well, thanks
Gary.’ We shoot the shit for a while, I start to feel
tired, ‘Guys, you can stay for as long as you want, but I’m
going to go to sleep. If any one wants to crash here you can
use the ready room, I had “C” change it in to a guest room.’
A.J. and Joey come over and help me up and make sure I get to
my bedroom, then wait till I’m in bed before they leave. ’That
was interesting, BSB had the same type of blocks as N sync had.
I still think Bill put them in but I can’t confirm it.’ I
think before I close my eyes. In a couple of min. I’m out.
When I wake up, Howie is curled up at the
foot of the bed. I get up carefully, stretch, go do the restroom
thing, come out and get dressed. God, I feel better and stronger
than yesterday, since Howie looks so peaceful I let him sleep,
go check if any body crashed in the guestroom, I look in and
see Lance, J.C., and Justin sleeping peacefully, grab a cup
of coffee and sit down on the recliner and email Roger about
the N sync test, check my email, nothing I need to save so I
delete it, sit back and surf the net for awhile. ‘Bob, Ed wants
to know if he can come over and check you out?’ ‘Sure “C”, he
can come over when he wants to. Please ask Julie to have something
sent over to eat. It’s time to wake these sleepyheads up, since
I can’t do it mentally what would work best? I got it…Reveille.’
‘You really want to get it don’t you?’ ‘Yeah…why not.’ The next
sound I hear is a bugle playing…then ‘What the…?’, ‘Damn Bob.’,
‘Asshole.’ ‘Morning guys…the foods on the way.’
<Knock…knock>
‘Come.’ Ed walks in with a smile, ‘Well no
need to ask how you feel, after the sounds I heard in the hall,
I may be needed to keep you in one piece.’ ‘Yeah…I feel great.’
he walks over and scans me, ‘You seam to be at 85%, but don’t
push it. I’ll let you walk to the Danger room and back, but
if you get tired have someone bring you back, you hear me!’
‘Yes Ed, will do , thanks.’ ‘I’ll check on you tonight, and
in the morning, and we’ll go from there.’ ‘Ok Ed, take care,
and thanks again.’ As Ed leaves, the guys walk in, ‘Well that
was a nice way to to wake up Bob…thanks a lot.’ ‘No problem
Boo, I try to do my best.’ The wall fuzzes and J.C., Justin,
Lance, And Howie walk in with the food carts, they shoot me
an evil look and head to the ready room, the rest follow except
Kevin and J.C., ‘So what are you going to be doing this afternoon
while we are training?’ ‘Watching, Kev., Ed gave me permission
to walk to the danger room and back, besides I need a good laugh.’
<grin> ‘Thanks a lot.’ ‘No trouble J.C., lets go eat.’
As we walk in, the guys stop talking and
glance at us, ‘Ok…what did they do?’ As I sit down, a
whoopee cushion goes off, ‘Ah…I feel better now.’ I look around
quickly, everyone but Nick start to smile, ‘What’s wrong Nick,
not the response you expected. You guys have to get a lot better
poker faces.’ They sit down and we start to eat. When we finish
Justin asks ‘Well Bob, what are you going to do this afternoon?’
‘I think I’ll watch a couple of comedies.’ J.C. and Kevin look
at each other and roll their eyes, ‘Which ones?’ Brian asks.
‘N sync and BSB in the Danger room.’ <groan> ‘Very funny.’
A.J. replies, ‘Either he’s getting faster or we’re getting slower.’
Chris says. ‘I’d say the latter.’ <smile> We get up and
I start to help cleaning up, ‘No Bob, just go sit down, we don’t
want you to have a relapse.’ I go to the rest room, and head
to the office, get a cup of coffee, then head to the living
room and sit on the couch. In about ten min. later we are all
assembled and head to the Danger room.
<Danger room>
As I walk in, there is a loud GASP, ‘What
are you doing here?’ Sara asks. ‘Just doing what the doctor
ordered, Ed told me I could walk over and watch.’ The trainers
come over and give me a group hug. ‘Thanks guys <grin>
I’m going topside with Pat, now get to work.’ I walk up the
stairs to the control room, take a seat, and watch. ‘Bob…Rogers
on the line.’ ‘Put him thru… Hi Roger what’s up?’ ‘I just read
your email, what do you have planed?’ ‘Lets have the trainers
go against the trainees and see who wins.’ ‘Sounds good…where
are you at? I hear strange noises in the background.’ ‘In the
Danger room with Pat, Ed told me I could walk over and watch.’
‘Pat is he behaving?’ ‘Yes he is Roger.’ ‘What do you think
of his plan?’ ‘Sounds good to me.’ ‘Ok what time?’ ‘Will 2P
work?’ ‘I’ll have someone portal me to the control room, and
no advanced notice.’ ‘No way I’m going to enjoy this.’ I reply.
‘See you then.’ ‘Later Roger.’ ‘ Ok Bob how do you want to do
this?’ ‘When they get done warming up we have Sara and J.C.
come up here, and spring it on them at the same time, give them
five min. to get a plan together, than just do it.’ ‘Excellent…you
are evil…I like that.’ ‘If you think that’s evil, you should
have been over when I woke them up today.’ ‘What’d you do?’
I tell him and he falls of his chair laughing. I take over the
controls, ‘Pat, have you used missiles on them?’ ‘Not much’
Pat wheezes. ‘Computer, practice warheads, sleep gas, target
all groups, fire when ready.’ ‘Confirmed.’ as the missiles fire,
Pat gets up and watches, all the missiles land on target. As
the missiles land, Justin throws a shield around his, J.C. asks
for mentally asks for help, I see Pat R. look it him and a shield
is over J.C.’s, the teleports ‘pop’ to the healers and ‘pop’
them by the kinetics, the morphs transform into cats and run
for the door, the bio-metals fall to their hands and knees and
start to crawl to the door, Howie gets to the door and opens
a portal so fresh air can come in, the force beamers head for
the kinetics, who have been trying to shield as many of the
warheads as they can, then the elemental controllers start a
strong wind to dissipate the gas, then a portal opens up and
Nick leads a group of medics out. This takes less than 30 seconds,
‘Good Job guys. Medics please check to make sure everyone is
ok. Lets call it a day.’
As we head to the R&R section, ‘Let me
guess, that was your idea, right.’ Joey asks as he looks at
me. ‘Who me…what would make you say such a thing?’ <grin>
‘Because it was sneaky, and nasty, and it felt like something
you would do.’ ‘You got me. But like I said earlier that was
a good job, not only did you take care of your selves, you helped
each other. I’m proud of you, keep up the good work.’
<My room>
‘Well you can come in, or go relax in your
rooms, I’m going to lay down for a while my back is starting
to hurt.’ They follow me in and head to the living room, Lance
points to towards my bedroom and smiles, as I lay down he comes
over and checks me out, I feel my back getting better, in two
min. it’s as good as new. ‘Thanks Lance.’ I start to get up,
‘No…just stay put and relax. I’ll come and get you when it’s
time to eat.’ ‘Oh…ok…Lance. “C” lights to ¼ please, Enigma on
low.’
About 15 min. later I remember where we can
all sit around at once with out having to drag chairs around.
‘ “C” are the guys still here?’ ‘No, they are showering now.’
‘Let me know if they head over while I’m checking out the Den.’
‘Sure.’ I get up and walk over to the living room wall, put
my hand on a small painting, a light goes from the top of the
painting to the bottom, then back to the top, I hear a click
and a hidden door opens, ‘ “C” lights on.’ as I look around
I see shelves on three walls with allsorts of models and miniatures
on then, on the fourth are swords, daggers, battle axes, and
shields, in the center of the room are six couches and six
over stuffed chairs. ‘Well this should be enuff room for
now.’ I turn and walk out, close the door, ‘ “C” fans on
full, and lights off in the Den please.’ I put my hand on the
painting, and the door closes. I go back into my bedroom and
lay back down for a while. In about an hour I here the guys
come in, 15 min. later, there is a light knock on the door,
Kevin and Joey look in and smile, ‘You ready to eat yet?’ ‘Sure
thing.’ they come in and help me up, I get up and stretch ,
which is accompanied by snaps, crackles, and pops. Joey and
Kevin cringe, ‘I told you I’m getting old.’ they roll their
eyes and smile.
We go and eat, they still won’t let me help
clean up so I sit in my recliner and check my email, just one
from Roger confirming that he would be here at 2:05p for the
test, I forward it to Pat and get ready to surf the net.
<Knock…knock>
‘Yo…oh hi Ed, how’s it going?’ ‘That’s what
I’m here to find out.’ He walks over and scans me, ‘Well you’re
stronger that you were this morning, I’d say about 93%…but still
don’t over do it, I’ll see you in the morning.’ ‘ I’ll take
it easy Ed, and thanks, I’ll see you in the morning.’ As he
leaves, the guys come in smiling, ‘Eavesdropping…boys?’ ‘Well…’
‘That’s a deep subject for shallow minds.’ Everyone starts to
laugh, except Justin, Lance, and Nick, they just look at me
with a “What the…” look on their faces, ‘One thousand one,
one thousand two, one thousand three, one thousand four, one
thousand five.’ all three start to laugh, ‘Blond brain
delay in action. Now that the blonds figured that one out,
follow me.’ I walk to the living room and start to put my hand
up, ‘Bob…remember you aren’t to use your powers.’ Kevin says.
‘Don’t worry.’ I put my hand on the painting, the light goes
down, then up, and the door opens, <Gasp> I walk in ‘
“C” lights on, fans to normal.’ the guys follow me in, and look
around and gasp again, ‘Bob, why don’t you use this room more?’
Howie asks, “I haven’t needed to till you guys showed up. I
usually go over to Brent’s, Gary and Julie’s, or the rec. room.’
I walk over and sit down on one of the couches as the guys look
around. ‘Bob…did you do all of these?’ A.J. asks ‘Well I painted
and assembled the models and miniatures, an old friend made
the weapons.’ after about a half an hour later they come over
and sit down. ‘God, you do good work.’ Howie says as he sits
down beside me. ‘Thanks Howie, there’s more to my than just
kicking ass and taking names.’ ‘Yeah, and the verbal zingers
are fun also.’ Howie says, ‘Well just wait tell he is in the
Danger room helping out, not in the control room, if you think
he’s zinged you .’ ‘Ah…poor Curly, am I picking on you too much?’
‘Not at all, I know better than to complain.’ We brake up laughing.
‘Ok…before I forget, when are your next concerts?’ ‘Day after
tomorrow.’ J.C. says, ‘The day after that.’ Kevin replies. ‘Ok…I
hope I can join you, we’ll see what Ed says tomorrow.’ We sit
and bull shit for a while, I look up and it’s 10:00, ‘Well guys,
I’m going to bed, “C” is the guest room ready?’ ‘Yes it is Bob.’
‘Ok guys, you can stay as long as you want, who ever wants to
can crash in the guest room, I’ll see you in the morning.’ go
my bed room, strip down and hit the hay.
I wake up at 8:30a, Howie is asleep at the
foot of the bed again, hit the restroom and get ready for the
day. I head to the office, ‘ “C” you can tell Ed that he can
come over when he wants to.’ I grab a cup of coffee and sit
on the recliner and go through my email, just junk, so I delete
it.
<Knock…knock>
‘Come…hey Ed how goes it?’ ‘Not bad so far,
now to take care of you.’ he scans me and starts to smile, ‘Well
physically you’re at 100%…BUT don’t over do it. Now do you want
to test your powers?’ ‘Hell yeah…but I’ll do it right, keep
the scan going, Pat is the Danger room available?’ ‘Yes Bob…and
why are you using your powers?’ ‘Ed wants to check me out.’
‘Ok come on over, I’ll put everyone else on hold.’ ‘On the way
Pat. Ok Ed here we go.’ I grab his arm and teleport us to
the Danger room.
<Danger room>
‘Hey Pat, you ready?’ ‘What do you need?’
‘Lasers to test my kinetic shield, machine guns to test my density
control, a robot or scrap metal to test my lightning, fire balls,
and force beams.’ ‘Ok a robot’s on the way.’ I take off, kinetic
shield up, a door opens and the robot walks out. I hit it with
lightning bolts, fire balls, and force beams, it stops in place,
then I kinetically push it over. ‘Ok Pat, lasers on low, and
work up to full power, if I can’t handle it I’ll let you know.’
Pat starts with one laser, works up to four on low power, then
starts to increase to full. ‘Ok Bob… all on full power, is that
enuff?’ ‘Yeah… that should be ok for know, turn them off and
I’ll land and we can try the machine guns.’ I land and change
density to solid rock and the machine guns start, the bullets
just bounce off me, I change to the density of smoke and the
bullets go through me. ‘Ok Pat one more test, I need a flesh
wound.’ ‘What the…?’ ‘To test my self healing powers. And Ed’s
here incase it doesn’t work.’ ‘Ok…stand still…I still don’t
like it, but I’ll do it.’ I stand still and a bullet goes through
my leg, I rip open my pants and watch as the wound heals it’s
self. ‘Well Ed, how’d I do? ‘At one point you were down to 95%,
but your back to normal now.’ ‘Ok one more test, portal to my
room. Thanks Pat see you later.’ I open a portal and walk in
to my office, ‘Ok Ed, now that I’ve passed all the tests, what
can I do?’ ‘I know you too well, so…anything…just take it easy
please.’ ‘You’ve got it…and thanks, I know N sync will be glad
to have me at their concerts, and it’ll be fun to see BSB behind
the scenes.’ ‘ Just remember if you get tired, sit down, or
if you can, lay down.’ ‘Will do Ed, and please call Roger so
he knows.’ ‘You read my mind.’ ‘Not this time.’ He chuckles
and heads to his office, ‘Pat…do the guys have practice this
morning?’ ‘Yes in two hours.’ ‘Thanks Pat, and please don’t
tell any one that I can use my powers.’ ‘Got ya.’ walk
over and get a cup of coffee, check on Howie, he’s still asleep,
go check who is in the guest room, I quietly open the door and
see, Kevin, A.J., Joey, and Chris. ‘ “C” when did they leave?’
‘They didn’t.’ ‘Huh.’ ‘The rest are in the Den.’ ‘OK how do
I wake them up today?’ go over, sit down and think about
what nastiness I can do, ‘I’ve got it. “C” intercom to all
my rooms please.’ ‘Now what?’ ‘Time to wake the boys.’ ‘Ok ready.’
I suck in a full lung full of air, and let out a wolf howl.
while I’m doing this I hear, bumps, bangs, thuds, and a lot
of cussing. The guys come out of where they slept and give me
dirty looks, ‘Nice to see your happy faces, but if you want
breakfast you’d better get changed, you only have two hours
till you need to be in the Danger room.’ <grin> when they
leave, ‘ “C” Julie please.’ ‘On line.’ ‘Julie, is breakfast
ready?’ ‘Yes it is.’ ‘Can I borrow someone to help me set up
the meal?’ ‘Yeah why?’ ‘I’ll be right over.’ ‘What…’ I get up
and ‘pop’ to the kitchen.
<Kitchen>
‘Bob…what are you doing ?’ ‘What I’m supposed
to, Ed gave me permission to use my powers, so I am.’ ‘Ok…lets
go.’ ‘Julie…I didn’t ask you to help me…’ ‘I know, I’m not that
busy now, so I thought I’d help you.’ ‘Ok, I just wanted to
make sure that you didn’t think you had to.’ ‘Whatever, lets
go.’ I open a portal to my ready room, and we go thru.
<My ready room>
Walk in, set the table, and get the food
ready. I open a portal for Julie to go back to the kitchen,
sit down on the recliner, call Gary and ask if he will come
over in about 45 min., call Ed and have some medics ready for
the 2:00 test if needed. In about ten min. the guys walk in,
I get up and head to the ready room, ‘Are you just going to
stand there while your food gets cold?’ ’What?’ ’I had someone
bring it over to make up for the wake up call.’ They follow
me in and sit down and eat, when we’re done the guys pick up
the stuff and put on the carts and I tell them to head over
to the Danger room and I’d have someone take it back and that
I’d meet them at the Danger room in a few. Less than five min.
later.
<Knock…knock>
‘Come… hey Gary, grab a set, I’ve got a couple
of questions for you.’ when he sits down, ‘First, how many people
do you have on the protection teams now?’ ‘Eight, why?’ ‘Don’t
let the guys know but I can use my powers now, so I will be
starting back to work, but I still have to take it easy, so
I will be joining you tomorrow.’ he looks at the floor and sighs,
’Gary…I said joining you not taking over.’ he looks up with
a strange expression on his face, ‘What I’m planning on doing
is splitting it with you, one week I’ll do it, the next week
it’s yours. Since I’m the best timer we have, I need to be ready
to go when needed.’ ‘Ok , that makes sense.’ ‘Second, what are
you doing at 2?’ ‘Nothing, why?’ ‘We are testing N sync.’ ‘Sure.’
‘And third, would you help me take the stuff back to the kitchen?
I need to get over to the Danger room to see how they’re doing.’
‘Lead the way. If you don’t mind I’ll join you.’ ‘Lets do it.’
I open a portal to the kitchen, push the carts through, then
open a portal to the out side of the Danger room.
<Danger room>
Gary and I walk into the Danger room and
head up to the control room, grab a seat, and watch the show.
The guys do a good job and I’m sure they’ll do fine on the test.
Pat, Gary, and I talk about how they are doing, and what we
think will go on this afternoon. When the work out is done we
all go over and eat. When we’re done I tell the guys I’ll see
them at 2:00, then head over to my room to rest for a while,
and have “C” wake me at 1:45 in case I take a nap.
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