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 द्वारा 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 द्वारा 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 द्वारा 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 समुद्र तट 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 आप 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 मिनटों longer than they wanted due to Annie not completely remembering where it was, they made it.
It was surrounded द्वारा trees that cleared off as आप 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 या an upside, and even a little sand at the bottom.
They put on the sunblock, which was no short process for those with thick फर such as Grace, and dived in. Sleak kept his कमीज, शर्ट 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 दिखाना 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 चोटी, शीर्ष of the waterfall. As he dove, he felt a large amount of weight on his back as he descended, which was immediately followed द्वारा the scream of a girl.
*sploosh*
Sleak quickly surfaced with a soaked figure gasping for air on his back. “Can आप 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 बिना सोचे समझे point, appearing. Only this time she was soaking wet without a bathing suit, but instead a कमीज, शर्ट 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 फर was actually dry and warm after just being soaked.
“That’s humidity for ya.” Grace joked. “What do आप plan to do if आप 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 आप 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 या angry या 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 कबूतर 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 और than thirty seconds, and with that movement, it was closer ten.
“I’ve got a towel if आप still need one, Rynk.” Annie suggested, just remembering that she owned one.
“Thanks.” Rynk smiled. “Do आप 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 आप 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 कहा they wanted me back, then they कहा 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 या 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 मिनटों 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 कहा 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…” कहा Annie.
They walked to the principal’s office and found themselves with some surprising news. “WHAT DO आप MEAN WE WEREN’T ALLOWED TO LEAVE!?” Speedy yelled.
The principal was scowling now. She cupped her hands and कहा “None of आप 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 आप are leaving. Even if we know where, we don’t know what आप could be doing, या what dangers आप could be facing. The security was about to go and get आप if not for a student informing me ahead of time. आप also did not receive your tracker-injections. Thankfully your friend forgot to take hers out from a पूर्व दिन 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 आप 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 आप 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. आप could have been a country-away from the area आप 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 बिना सोचे समझे students to teleport to बिना सोचे समझे 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 आप 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 आप were there, remember? Manifesting an ability that makes आप randomly appear at a location, या being teleported द्वारा 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 सुरक्षित ‘N all, so can we go back?”
“… No.”
“Bu-“
“I’m sorry, but आप 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 आप either forgot to read them, which suggests slacking, या that आप tried to ignore them, which is dishonest, how am I to know if आप were doing innocent-activities?”
“… आप use a lot of big-words, आप 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 या something?”
“No,” The Principal answered, “well Sheldon gets a demerit” Sheldon pouted, “but I think staying at the school the rest of the दिन 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 आप guys allowed back?”
Grace sighed. “No, but you’re getting special-lessons या 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 आप guys so easily.”
“Maybe. Wait, don’t आप 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-… आप 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 या not. Then when I was thirteen, I got Persian… या whatever आप 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 आप guys on that rainy दिन I was all English-like... I hope I got those right I’m not sure.”
“… That’s… strange. “Why were आप 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 आप going to turn Australian when you’re twenty?”
“Like Craaaaaaaaiger?” Rynk smirked.
“… Like I said. Are आप going to turn Jamaican when you’re twenty?”
Rynk rolled her eyes. “I dunno. Ma-“ *BOOMF!!!!*
The side of the दीवार blew open. A female cybernetic hedgehog, known as Thunder, was shot back through a wall, slamming against the following one द्वारा 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 संगीत class. There’s a lot of Sara’s here.” Rynk whispered back before walking towards the feline.
“Uh… evil villain lady. Could आप take the front door please? Seriously. Do आप have to be dramatic?” Rynk taunted. The cat ignored the सलाह 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 द्वारा 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 कहा 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 कहा something like “You have a scythe?” या “Where’s your dorm?”. Either way, she was too busy to pay attention.
“What do आप want? Who are you?!” Grace कहा to the hostile, trying to buy herself time.
“My name is Roxan.” The villain answered. “And I कहा was after Sara.” Roxan reached out to attack Grace.
“Why do आप 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 पंच 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 और martial-art related, like a fan-kick, या simply hay-maker Roxan’s chin with an uppercut, but this foe seemed a bit too dense to be harmed द्वारा 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 लोमड़ी, लोमडी 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 द्वारा a large scream of “FLAAAAAAAG THAT HURT!!!!” as Rynk braced her foot on the floor. Roxan seemed almost equally irritated द्वारा 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 आप think?”
“Your world has that two?!.”
“Fun stuff. Anyway?” The uncaring feline gave a full kick to Rynk’s chest. The metal बोन्स contacting with Roxan’s dense body caused both of them to ricochet backwards.
“Tell me आप 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 लोमड़ी, लोमडी 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 सुरक्षित distance द्वारा default, so she waited for the अगला 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 कहा “That was your big move? A small explosion? आप were planning to knock me out?”
“Uh, no, I was hoping someone would appear actually.” Rynk replied somewhat nervously, confused द्वारा 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 अगला 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 मिनट where is this?”
“Uh… Mobius Academy.” Rynk replied. “Are… आप 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 और destruction to that part of the school.
“Can आप 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 आप 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 कहा 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 सवाल 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 दीवार 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 हटाइए 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 बिना सोचे समझे 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 बिना सोचे समझे 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 आप just go home?”
“You don’t tell me what I should do! What do आप 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 आप द्वारा 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 आप 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 या *slice*” Roxan sliced Rin’s head in half, not knowing that it was Rin’s entire body that was Nanite-composed.
“There आप 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 सुरक्षित 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 द्वारा 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. आप okay?”
“Yeah.” Rynk sat up. “Did we get Roxan?”
“Yep.” Grace grinned. “Who was that girl with the हुड, डाकू 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 फ्रेंड्स Sara has… Oh yeah, the Principal wanted me to tell you, we found out why आप 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 आप and messed around with the databank.”
“… Wait, so I’m not going to the special-class thing?”
“Well… actually आप are. She कहा that there might have still been traces of energy in आप that would allow that, आप being the only one who teleported, so they still want to make sure.”
“That works I guess.” Rynk hopped out of her बिस्तर 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 कहा 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… आप okay? आप 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 द्वारा 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 द्वारा 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 द्वारा 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 समुद्र तट 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 आप 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 मिनटों longer than they wanted due to Annie not completely remembering where it was, they made it.
It was surrounded द्वारा trees that cleared off as आप 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 या an upside, and even a little sand at the bottom.
They put on the sunblock, which was no short process for those with thick फर such as Grace, and dived in. Sleak kept his कमीज, शर्ट 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 दिखाना 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 चोटी, शीर्ष of the waterfall. As he dove, he felt a large amount of weight on his back as he descended, which was immediately followed द्वारा the scream of a girl.
*sploosh*
Sleak quickly surfaced with a soaked figure gasping for air on his back. “Can आप 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 बिना सोचे समझे point, appearing. Only this time she was soaking wet without a bathing suit, but instead a कमीज, शर्ट 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 फर was actually dry and warm after just being soaked.
“That’s humidity for ya.” Grace joked. “What do आप plan to do if आप 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 आप 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 या angry या 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 कबूतर 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 और than thirty seconds, and with that movement, it was closer ten.
“I’ve got a towel if आप still need one, Rynk.” Annie suggested, just remembering that she owned one.
“Thanks.” Rynk smiled. “Do आप 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 आप 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 कहा they wanted me back, then they कहा 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 या 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 मिनटों 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 कहा 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…” कहा Annie.
They walked to the principal’s office and found themselves with some surprising news. “WHAT DO आप MEAN WE WEREN’T ALLOWED TO LEAVE!?” Speedy yelled.
The principal was scowling now. She cupped her hands and कहा “None of आप 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 आप are leaving. Even if we know where, we don’t know what आप could be doing, या what dangers आप could be facing. The security was about to go and get आप if not for a student informing me ahead of time. आप also did not receive your tracker-injections. Thankfully your friend forgot to take hers out from a पूर्व दिन 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 आप 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 आप 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. आप could have been a country-away from the area आप 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 बिना सोचे समझे students to teleport to बिना सोचे समझे 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 आप 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 आप were there, remember? Manifesting an ability that makes आप randomly appear at a location, या being teleported द्वारा 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 सुरक्षित ‘N all, so can we go back?”
“… No.”
“Bu-“
“I’m sorry, but आप 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 आप either forgot to read them, which suggests slacking, या that आप tried to ignore them, which is dishonest, how am I to know if आप were doing innocent-activities?”
“… आप use a lot of big-words, आप 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 या something?”
“No,” The Principal answered, “well Sheldon gets a demerit” Sheldon pouted, “but I think staying at the school the rest of the दिन 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 आप guys allowed back?”
Grace sighed. “No, but you’re getting special-lessons या 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 आप guys so easily.”
“Maybe. Wait, don’t आप 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-… आप 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 या not. Then when I was thirteen, I got Persian… या whatever आप 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 आप guys on that rainy दिन I was all English-like... I hope I got those right I’m not sure.”
“… That’s… strange. “Why were आप 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 आप going to turn Australian when you’re twenty?”
“Like Craaaaaaaaiger?” Rynk smirked.
“… Like I said. Are आप going to turn Jamaican when you’re twenty?”
Rynk rolled her eyes. “I dunno. Ma-“ *BOOMF!!!!*
The side of the दीवार blew open. A female cybernetic hedgehog, known as Thunder, was shot back through a wall, slamming against the following one द्वारा 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 संगीत class. There’s a lot of Sara’s here.” Rynk whispered back before walking towards the feline.
“Uh… evil villain lady. Could आप take the front door please? Seriously. Do आप have to be dramatic?” Rynk taunted. The cat ignored the सलाह 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 द्वारा 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 कहा 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 कहा something like “You have a scythe?” या “Where’s your dorm?”. Either way, she was too busy to pay attention.
“What do आप want? Who are you?!” Grace कहा to the hostile, trying to buy herself time.
“My name is Roxan.” The villain answered. “And I कहा was after Sara.” Roxan reached out to attack Grace.
“Why do आप 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 पंच 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 और martial-art related, like a fan-kick, या simply hay-maker Roxan’s chin with an uppercut, but this foe seemed a bit too dense to be harmed द्वारा 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 लोमड़ी, लोमडी 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 द्वारा a large scream of “FLAAAAAAAG THAT HURT!!!!” as Rynk braced her foot on the floor. Roxan seemed almost equally irritated द्वारा 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 आप think?”
“Your world has that two?!.”
“Fun stuff. Anyway?” The uncaring feline gave a full kick to Rynk’s chest. The metal बोन्स contacting with Roxan’s dense body caused both of them to ricochet backwards.
“Tell me आप 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 लोमड़ी, लोमडी 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 सुरक्षित distance द्वारा default, so she waited for the अगला 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 कहा “That was your big move? A small explosion? आप were planning to knock me out?”
“Uh, no, I was hoping someone would appear actually.” Rynk replied somewhat nervously, confused द्वारा 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 अगला 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 मिनट where is this?”
“Uh… Mobius Academy.” Rynk replied. “Are… आप 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 और destruction to that part of the school.
“Can आप 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 आप 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 कहा 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 सवाल 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 दीवार 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 हटाइए 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 बिना सोचे समझे 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 बिना सोचे समझे 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 आप just go home?”
“You don’t tell me what I should do! What do आप 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 आप द्वारा 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 आप 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 या *slice*” Roxan sliced Rin’s head in half, not knowing that it was Rin’s entire body that was Nanite-composed.
“There आप 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 सुरक्षित 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 द्वारा 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. आप okay?”
“Yeah.” Rynk sat up. “Did we get Roxan?”
“Yep.” Grace grinned. “Who was that girl with the हुड, डाकू 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 फ्रेंड्स Sara has… Oh yeah, the Principal wanted me to tell you, we found out why आप 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 आप and messed around with the databank.”
“… Wait, so I’m not going to the special-class thing?”
“Well… actually आप are. She कहा that there might have still been traces of energy in आप that would allow that, आप being the only one who teleported, so they still want to make sure.”
“That works I guess.” Rynk hopped out of her बिस्तर 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 कहा 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… आप okay? आप 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…”