Ok, Zhonza here.

I'm happy to tell you that Crimson is doing better but still shouldn't use her Hands for much [some Kind of scarring sadly] but she still wants to Keep the Story going and I respect that.

I'm pretty much her writer for now but rest assured that she's still behind everything ^^

This chapter is going to be a Little bit shorter than the last but we both hope you enjoy it.

ZhonzaRem

CrimsonRem

PS. I hope I didn't miss any mistakes this time.....

[I should've noticed the shit instead of Shirt -.-]

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"Why do we have to mooove? I don't wanna leave from hereeee!?"

My childish shouts ripped through the normal evening.

My mother was seated in front of me and trying to explain to me why we were moving out of the neighborhood, away from Zoe.

"Honey, we explained it to you. Too many things have happened it's just necessary for us to move away."

I didn't care, I simply didn't want to go for whatever reason.

"But I don't want to go away! I hate you!"

With that I run into my room and hide under my blanked.

"I dun wanna leave."

Lately a lot of weird things had happened in the neighborhood. Well most of all, a few houses further had been the fourth case of an esper manifesting himself.

The first official case had been somewhere in Spain. It was nothing dangerous, she had been able to control her hormones. On her first day everybody in the care center she lived in was in an euphoric state, not caring about the world and simply being happy.

Of course the incident was investigated because drug abuse could not be sorted out.

Shortly after the police officers noticed by accident, that they themselves felt ecstatic when walking into a certain part of the center.

Afterwards a huge camera team came to make a story about the "Woman of feelings" as she was called.

The story went around the world but she sadly disappeared. Nobody knows where she went, many suspected that she had been apprehended by the government but none voiced that thought.

That had been one month ago. Now the world knew of four official espers. But only after the second did everyone know about what espers where.

The second had been a young man. He manifested in the US, somewhere in Washington DC. Sadly for him his power was the control of radical molecules. [very very active molecules that react with almost anything]

Due to him not being able to control it his first manifestation showed itself by blowing his entire house up through the gas tank. He survived and the incident was again investigated.

During his time in the hospital various drugs around him became unusable and unstable.

He somehow learned to control it and like an idiot he showed it to the public. Sadly he had not been stable enough and he caused a huge detonation during the interview on tv.

That had been the point when people started asking what exactly was happening. The dream of superheroes started growing again and the different governments started arguing about the new dangers and possibilities these people could grant.

Lastly the third. He was simply put a thief. A thief with the ability to make inorganic things invisible. Though he wasn't very smart with his usage because he got caught pretty quickly and during his court case -where, for some reason, a journalist had been watching- he made the clothes of random persons vanish.

He got sentenced to prison and was never heard of again.

And now... little Henry. One of our neighbors' sons. Four years old and absolutely not aware of what he had been doing, the little boy turned an entire stock of fish, on a market, into steel. Not just one item, no, the entire stock. Sadly including the merchant.

One hour later him and his family had been apprehended. The police currently goes around the neighborhood questioning everyone about the "Steel child".

My parents were somehow afraid and wanted to move away.

I hear someone step in front of my door.

"Honey? May I come in?"

"NO! Go away!"

I was mad. They wanted me to leave the house because of something, for me, simple as that incident.

Behind my door my mother seems to sit down leaning against the wall.

"Alexis, we won't be leaving Jamestown you needn't worry about that. We are simply taking a step back from this and be going into a little more excluded neighborhood. Please sweetie, you still will be able to visit Zoe or let her visit us, nothing about that will change."

I wipe some tears out of my, get out of bed and open the door.

Behind it my mother is seated down against one of our bookshelves and looks at me with a sad expression.

"Come here honey, everything will be all right."

Extending her hands towards me she motions me to give her a hug. I comply and soon after my mind drifts off and I start sleeping in the hands of my mom.

Interestingly enough I wake up on our couch with my head on my mother's lap while she's watching the evening news.

They reported about even more espers manifesting and how many more they probably did not know of.

"-lso a new committee has been formed to investigate the different appearances of espers in the United States. From what we had been told the president is ensuring us that the new found espers will be helped and investigated in a humane way. Thou-"

"Moom, why are people afraid of the special people?" I ask my mother.

"Oh honey, sorry, did I wake you up?"

instantly my mother shuts down the tv and gently brushes through my hair.

Yawning I forget about my question and get up.

"Can we invite Zoe again?"

"hmm Alexis, her family still wants some of their daughter for themselves. We can ask tomorrow."

"But I wanna plaaay with heer!"

suddenly my mother seems to get a bit mad.

"Honey no, we will not invite Zoe." then she pinches my nose in between her fingers and asks jokingly.

"Did we raise a little brat? Hmm, I know we raised a insatiable monster but I was sure the little girl was not a brat was it not?"

"Nooo, I am not a braaat!"

"See? You're no brat now stop crying about it ok? We can play some games together once your dad comes back."

I frown a bit and look at my smiling mother.

"I don't hate you mom but I don't want to move away too. Can I still invite Zoe over tomorrow?"

"Alex, I know you two have so much fun together bu-...." sighting she gives in.

"Fine, I'll ask Helen if Zoe wants to come over tomorrow ok?"

"Yaaay!"

Suddenly our phone starts ringing.

"haaaa." Sighing my mother moves away from me and picks up the phone.

"Hello, Mercer here. Who's talking?"

"..."

"Wow, do you have any idea what I'm trying to teach my child here? haaaaaa."

"..."

"No, do not worry about it, we can take care of her again. Helen, you two should take better care of little Zoe. She spends more time at our house than at home."

"..."

"No problem, absolutely no problem. Tell Thomas I said hi and good luck with the job. I'll call Marcus to pick up the little one."

"..."

"Bye, good luck."

Afterwards she dials her husband's number and quickly tells him that he'll have to take a detour from work.

"Heeey, Aleeeeex honey. Remember what I told you about not letting Zoe come over for today?"

I smile at her since I already knew what was probably about to come. I knew Helen and Thomas where Zoe's parents.

"Yaaaaaaes!"

"Seems like she'll come over today already. The Hendersons are busy again." And then more silent. "Jeeesh, little Zoe is already almost part of our family."

"Now Alex, how about we make some food for four? I'm pretty sure insatiable you wants at least some kind of yummy stuff to fill your belly right?"

Laughing again she leads me into the kitchen to teach me some of the recipes that would follow me my entire life.

Outside of a certain dream world multiple people are waiting outside of the young woman's bedroom.

"She's been asleep for almost a full day now. You sure this is alright?"

"I'm not so sure anymore, luckily the different implants will let her sleep gently."

A third voice interrupts the two.

"Captain? We've gotten hold of some information considering the Raiders. They're on the move again."

The female captain answers the third.

"Hmmm, what's up? Did they actually come out of hiding already?"

"No, not really. We just where able to track down a few members. It seems, that after the loss in New Hampshire they've called back the team stationed in the UK. They've got some powerful members, including what seems to be new recruits."

"Hmmm, how so? I thought the UK team had seven members. All of whom have already been recorded power wise."

Seemingly uninterested the brown haired captain turns away.

"No, Karen you don't understand. It's two unknown espers. One of them at least higher tier lv 4. She's a huge psychic. Our men have seen this woman control huge amounts of rubble at the same time. And we've even seen her gotten shot without flinching.

The other has some kind distortion ability. We're not sure about it. But fact is simply that the first one is insanely dangerous. We can't even begin to imagine where found her."

He hand over a picture of the newcomers.

Both of them are wearing long clothing and white masks. Not a single strand of hair or face is shown.

"Jeesh so we literary only know their gender and hight?"

"Sadly yes. The woman is five feet something. The man almost six feet. We don't know anything else."

"What else is new? I know we're hunting the Raiders but half of us are still out on missions."

"Yes Captain. have shown some movement. At least concerning the management of resources. It seems they too started sending members over to the US.

Not only that and even have send people too. We are definitely missing something everyone is gathering forces and we do not know why."

"Puuh, this could get ugly really fast. Try to keep em under surveillance and put everything through to our superiors. We can't do anything else for now."

"As you say Captain. What about the new one? How's she doing?"

"Sleeping. Liam did something with her brain and now he's afraid to wake her up."

With a glare she makes the first low level esper flinch back.

"I'll take responsibility when she wakes up ok? I fucked up."

"Yes you fucked up you idiot! We need to train her with the gears and integrate her into the squad. Jeesh I'm mad ok? Just make sure that she'll be fine when she wakes up. I'm in my office sorting some shit. Call for me if the world is going to be destroyed or something."

With that she rushes off into the distance leaving two flabbergasted men behind.

"That kid is really important to her isn't she Liam?"

"... ever seen a picture of Karen's little sister?"

"No... why?"

"That girl is a splitting image of when she was young. I'm sure that that's also the reason for why she even tried to get the girl into her squad."

".... you messed up big time"

"I know. I'll repair the damage, don't worry about it. Now back to work we still need to send the reports to the other military squadrons."

"You're right. It'll work out."

Both turn around and move away from the room. Leaving a young woman behind dreaming of better times.