I saw that it would probably work, his core that until now was a perfect black marmle started to have little lights coming from it, like someihng strugglng to get out it started puslsarting,

Witheach beat crascks ran all along the surface of the orb, light shing from beyond it, it didn’t take long for it to shatter. The energy erputed like asupernova, breking with it the buuffss and the thther bridge,

I could itiil sse his core- no his power now, from afar even not being directly connceted to it, and it was a budding tree, srpeading arms and infinitely many roots all around it cosntrctting a newborn matrix.

So that was how they were formed, I mused, the sight was beautifull, the fracteal formed by their own follwong some unseend rules as they created the means to bend reality, I nodded at the succes before comign back to the rel world.

Victor was just stadnign speechlees looking at his bare palms, everyone around him was confused looking expectalty at him.

SO, did it work, swordjuice asked anxious

It did, I can feel it, it fucking worked victor ´proclaimed shaking from the exitement

Everyone commemorated. LED and me pattign each others shoulder at the feat.

Come show us then

Victor concentrated, extending his arms around him and slowly from his skin started emerging a silvery liquid, it looked exactly like mercury, it flowed on his arms down to his hands, extending in the air flutuating

The researcher opened his eyes the mercury following his movements and turnin together with his hands emcompassing them completely.

Woo, you cottrol mercury then?

I don’t think its mercury victor said.

Is it a material that doesn’t exist, morst powers create those

Yhea, but theres som much to this power, you all have no idea.

Of course, tell us then

It has so much desire to learn, to understand and to test everything. This metal is a weapon, all of them.

All of them? It can tranform in any weapong

Yeah, in time. For now its only this quicksilver but it can learn

Interesting how you eneded up with a power that learns, remind us of our other grwing beast there.

Yeah, its not quite up there with you though matrix, it can only learn from weapons really. But I fee l a lot more safer with this, thank you

Its okay, groinw yout strenght is grouwnign our straeght

Theres so much I want to test with this too. Oh theres somethin else too.

What more capabilities

Sorta off, it comes with some, ways, of changing whatever it learns.

To make the weapons more powerfull?

Hhmum but not only that more versatile too, I think I can empower something, delay an effect from taking place. Hmm also scatter an effet over an area and invert an effect, that one seems the craziest.

So what do we call you? Mercury

That one a staple already though

Truth, what about quicksilver still misleading but it is what you create

I don’t think I should just take a nicknema like that.

What do you mean everyone has one, and don’t even come with everyone already knows your name, we alll know matrix’ name as well.

Okay oka sure, I wont even be ablr to enter the team any time soon though,

It’s the spirti of the thing that matter.

Ooh, I know a good one.

What?

Silver bullet.

Ooh, seems fitting, if it works as im thinking youll be able to create the perfect weapon for any situtation.

Its uncanny how that fits your personality and aspirations.

Yeah, what were you thinking about in there while you power formed.

Hmm, I did as you told me, I concentrated in why I wanted power, in what I wanted too, what power really meant to me. And I’ve been working in building weapons for most of my life, I think it just came naturally then.

i felt it like, taking pieces of me, building my power from my mind, and it really fits me.

I thinki we might have done sometihng really important here today, if this method of creating powers is repicablee, then we might have just created a gigantic advantage over the government

Why so they can create power too, it takes traning and luck to get powersfull ones

That’s the thing, he could focus in what really meant being powerfull, in a calm sistuation, and I suspect sometihng else too, victor can you feel your power and though your power.

He frowned I mena I guess, its just like an extension of myself.

If im not wrong that’s a direct result of the type of concnetion I put into your bedding matrix, it’s a two way conection that leads to a more connect link between the user and the power. It becomes natural to use the power and theres much more feedback as well.

Hmm, I see. You might be right there matrix and we can chose people with strong wills people who wnt to fight against the regime, they’ll be willing to train and fight to stand with us.

I nodded at that, it would be work intensive and require lots of focus, but we could better the way we did it too gradually.

After the exitement died down everyone stayed curiously talking about the event or victors powers as he showed it off and tested it a bit, I asked him if I could borrow him the other day to get a look at it and see fi I could take anything from my own creation

Ill need to be carefull to not get an even bigger head from this.

Eveyone went their ways to go to bed only victor going straight down to the lab to spend the whole night testing his new powers, I could undertand the excitiment.

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I encountered with spyglas at the breakfast table the other day, rubbing the sleepness out of my eyes I sat by her side

Going for another full day she asked me

I chcule yeah, its been crazy but Im all for it you know

I can imagine, I can see the happness in your face everyday now, I do woryy tohugh with you growing so much

Hm, I underatund, but its okay. I have come to term already, with the leves im going to get to, ill have even more things to figure out about my life after this whole revolution is taken care off, but thtas for the future

I took some bread from the table spreding butter on top of it spyglass eyed me nodding

That’s fine, with the speed youre grwing you really might overtrhow them.

Yeah, I wantes to ask you spyglass if I can have a look at yout matrix?

Oh, yeah focoursei thought you never asked because theres notihng to gain fom it

No, I only interacted with ti breiefly, now I can really see whats up with it

Okay sure, youre going to do it here and now

Yeah, a probel I asked stuffing more bread into my motuh

No, just go ahead

The process was so easy at this potint that I just kept having breakfast, filling a cup with coffee while I connceted with spyglass’ matrix

Spyglasses powers were a bit confusing to me, as I never really speficly asked her for the mechanics, I only saw her using it actively, knew that her eyes glowed when she used them and that she could get information from far away places and specific things from people close to her.

Instead of only speculating I can ask her to tell me, itll helpp identift what each part does in her matrix instaead of deciphering it from the ground up.

So spyglass, what does tou power do exactl

Arent you here to see just that?

Ueah but you telign me will help speed things along.

Hmm, okat sure. She gathered her thoughts for a second, well I choose that name for a reason, I can make inquires in my mind about things I’m seeing, or about things i have seen, it can be locations, people, anything that is an infroamtion.

I don’t really know the limits of it, information powers can vary a lot into that, my power work weirdly, the closer I am to something the more information I can get, if I have line of sight I get more information, if the question is more specific I get more information.

The more I know about something also ocntributes, as it seems to pile on the specificity implicitly, so ill get more information searching for anything in a city I know well against a city I just arrived in.

Ooh a very complex powers it seems, with various layers, I can rpobably discover for you what are the exact qualifications and the actual machanism.

Thatd be great, I can make even more accurate questions then, ,not that ill use it much more going forward

Hey you can still help if you wish, the dawnbreaker must have an intelligeznce gathering focused division, that doesn’t fight.

And if they don’t ill create one

Spyglas laughed, what now tryging to become the leader, your ambitions are never ending matrix.

we gotta aim for the stars I fsaid smiling at her and turning to focus more in her matrix finally.

Having everythin she told me to go on from I had a foundation to draw upon in undersanign her whole power

Her power treated information as an eye treats light, it can absorb it all around itself abosrobing and then interpreting it giving the processed and deciphered information back to spyglass. Its an intesive proccess as there infinite amunts of information on the world

There exists information about everything, in every level of eixistance size and specificity, spyglasss powers gve her only what she asked form and instead of just bobarding her with infinitely amount sof information it filters almost everything out of the non specific questions.

It makes the need for specifity to protecct her mind from being completely overrun with information, there is this pahse of absrotion as well, if it alllowed fo the inforamtio nto cntinue flowing until It gets all the information a broad question implies, spyglass would be rooted in place getting her brain borbamder by endless information about the position and velocity of every atom for the rest of eternity.

So, everything is information and her powers limits that existential law by being less controlling of the filters it puts on her powers the more she is specific about the information she asks for is.

I dived beteween the architeture of her power, slowly interpreting how everything worked in the minimal details, I had compred it to an eye and her power did have the capability of absorbing information from all aorund her, but it was not that straigh fowrad, even more so with the limitaiton inposed upon it.

It could bebetter explained maybe as a sonar, it could pick up on the information waves that existed, just like spotlghs power could see the attentions spyglass’ power could detect information being formed, experienced, and or shared, information itself was so vast that is was mind boggling it was very fortunate that her power regultted itself imposing a need for a filter to be put on what informatio it would trnalate to her.

It created a net to catch that specific information, that things being on eyesight or close helped seemed to do with the information her actual body could experience absorb and interpret, if her sense were also working on the information, it was much easier for her powers to pin down and focus on what was actually being asked of it.

it gave off an urge to know from her matrix, that driving force that invites people to look closer to uncover the truths of the world.

So the way my powers first started interactiong with other powers was thorugh apssive information gathergin that everything gaves off, including matrixes. It probably identified that she was getting the information from my matrix and adapted to block that and to gather the same wave type from other powers close to it.

That’s my guess at least, I concentrated searching though the various types of sense I had aquired along the way for the same type of information directed one thata matrix possesed, eventually finding a verion of it that was still very diferent, my powers could adapt things on its own so this happened, all the tranformation I had gotten before having david power together with the trackers were like this as well.

Now that I can implement the selected part of her power that will fit I can much better guide the development and if it needs to improve it ll do so on its own, if stressed of course. I can build upon this tough taking the more robust information ‘sonar’

It will be kept there inactive until my powers need it, fow now at least. As soon as I can get a more active tranformation method I’ll be able to use it at will. The problem is that I dindt add any type of filter, this ill make my matrix addapt over it like it happened with spotloghts power when it backfired.

A shame but that will fix itself on that, at the next base they must have someone who can tranform, right? What I want is an active controleed trnaformation but I wouldn’t pass other conditional ones as well.

“i could copy it in my matrix, it functions like a sonar that gathers all information passing trhough it”

But yeah, you odnt get everything tranmitted to you it’d fry tyout brain, so there’s the filter mechanism that make you able to adjust the sonar to only get what you want exaclty.”

“hmm I see, I mean that’s how I wasusing it already but intersting to know how it actually works, kinda of.”

“but then you cnat use it yet?”she asked me acomplicated expression on her face

“eyah, but don’t worry, it wont take long for me to find some power that let’s me control the tranformations more actively.”

She nodded

“and if I really need to scout somewhere I can always put as my central power for a moment and then change back, im planing on doing it so it can fix itself of the backlash”

“what backlash, I don’t get backlash.”

“yeah, thtas becaused o f the filter I told oyu about, I didn’t get any filter.”

“what the heck matrix, whys that, I know you’ll heal but that’s no reason to start doing it on purpose, where will end up”

“Oh, chill. Its just the quikcer way it’s just more practical this way, and I don’t even feel pain fomr these things most of the time.”

She shook her head, ehaling exaperadly but gave me a smile in the end, “ im glad my power will kepp helping the team though.”

I nod at that,

“even if thourhg a omcplete lunatic

I frown at her and she laughs. “ but I mena it matrix”

What, me being a lunatic I say cheekly

No, she chuckle, about the team, it was for a short while but Im glad I was part of it, these friendships helped me keep going.”

I know what you mean, o couldve ended up somewhere much worse.” I said

“yeah, im sad that I cant help anymore, I cant see more people dying, and really, she hesitated looking down , im too scared to die as well.

Its okay, everyone should be. And I tihnk you could stillhelp spyglass, I think theyonly put everyone on these fighting teams to make skirmishes and new recruits to weed out the lackluster and the spyes.

And an actual spy you are not, I think you could help from inside a base somwhere, with your powers.

She looked up at me, I mathced her gaze nodding at her.

“i’ll try to matriz, I really will.”

That’s all we can do, really.” I said patting her back.

“do you know if victor stills in the lab

She nodde, yeah, led sworjuice and glasssmetal are ther etoo already.

I shook my head, “he really is empolgado with his new powers.

Spyglass nodded along, “its really baffling too, how you just gave him powers like that”

I mean its not that new, is it. And besides I had leds help with it.

But yeah, it is pretty wild. What wouldn’t those people in the sleepwalkers forums do to get in contact with me now.

She chuckled, don’t go gving power to everyone you see on the street

“Relax, im not quite there yet,” I laughed as she looked at me amusedly.

You going to be on the level of the mysterious araphel in no time matrix. Spylgas comented looking me over, I nodded. “jsut don’t lose sight of what really matters.” she concluded

“dont worry spy, I’m well aware of what I should do.”

She nodded at that, “I’ll be going down there then, I’m curious to see what his powers ended up being and what I can steal from it” I said with a smile as I got up from my seat, waving at spyglass who laughed and waved me off as well.