This choice: He's from a Super Team with similar powers. • Go Back...Chapter #3Mr. Shadow. by: throku   "Pleased to meet you, I'm Shadow." He acknowledges with a firm, handshake. "Let me help you with those." You didn't even notice it happen, the guy is smooth, but forms you were holding are in his hands. He flips through them then step over to the doctor's computer. You hear a rattle of keys getting pressed at an impressive pace.
Curious as to what he's up to, you walk over to have a look. You're no computer guru, but even you can tell he's deleting the whole lot of the information that the centre has on you.
"Whah?! What are you doing Mr!?"
"Helping you, didn't the good doctor say that you weren't interesting for the government?" He doesn't let you answer. "Well, the thing is, if they can't use you like they want all you get it a big 'freak' label in all your records, preferably they'd like to tattoo it on your forehead. Remember this is the same government that prohibits gay marriages and what not. Even before you knew you had Tau powers you must have thought it odd that there were such focus from the government on the tau people."
He finishes up at the computer, only now do you notice that he wears thin gloves..."leave no fingerprints" you think and watch him fold your papers up and hide them away in his garb. "I'll dispose of these later at a safer location." He grabs his coat around the outer pocket and you see that it is
thick. "Got the rest of your damn forms right here. Now walk out like you were about to and I'll meet up with you back at your home."
As you turn off the ignition to your car you see a nice black Mercedes crawl to a halt just behind your car and a look over your shoulder confirms your suspicion, it is the mystic Mr. Shadow.
"Get in." he ushers through an open window and the front passenger door pops open.
You're not quite sure why you get inside, but he is interesting and he does have all those files of yours.
He gently puts the car back into motion and as the windows shut and he turns the air-condition on you turn to him. "What's all this about?"
"You, your abilities and to some degree how the government treats people with abilities, or should I say mistreats?" He gives you a mischievous smile that shows you a new side of him, he's actually quite handsome despite the raincoat.
"The good doctor didn't really say what your abilities are and what you can do with them did she? They never do. You can swallow large things and that space distortion in your torso means it wont show."
"Ohh, how large?" You wonder looking down on your belly.
"Hard to tell without testing, but people shouldn't be a problem and..."
"People?!" you interrupt him.
"Yeah, you can imagine what the government would do to you if they caught you trying. Not to mention that it could be quite dangerous to both you and the one getting swallowed if you tried it on your own. Anyway that's where our group comes in. I hope you don't mind if I'll keep any real information about us secret until you decide whether or not you want to join us?"
"Join your group? What's the deal?"
"That you have to give up your current life, you'll live under secret identity and we'll do our best to remove you from any and all records. You'll come to live and work with us, we'll be your new family. The alternative is that you forget this meeting ever happened and you go back to living your normal life. Oh and never explore your abilities, if you do that on your own, you'll most likely get locked up in a secret government lab somewhere as a guinea pig for the people there who tries to find a "cure" to our kind."
He pauses for a short moment. "You need time to think it over? I could contact you in a day or so."
"No..." You mumble thinking through your situation, working at a crappy burger bar, you doubt your dreams have any major chance of coming true anytime soon and now you find out that you have cool powers you can't use. It's not that tough a decision, it's not the type of superpower you've wished you had from time to time, but having a person inside you is strangely appealing, you know you can't live without ever trying now that you know you could swallow someone down whole.
"I want to join."
"Good, real good." He says and a pleasant smile adorns his face once more. “We'll fix everything right now if you don't mind."
"Everything? What do you mean?"
"Oh, I'll take you to our hideout and we'll arrange to have your belongings brought there, your house and car sold and erase your identity as well as we can. You never know what the tau clinic and the government are up too, I can only erase the physical evidence that you went there, not the information still in the heads of the people you met there. Perhaps the doctor went straight to an agent after leaving you, what do we know? I've seen it happen before. Either way you'll be safer with us and safer still as soon as any traces of your old life is gone."
It feels a bit creepy, especially when he turns the car onto a gloomy forest road. You're having your identity erased and putting all your trust to a complete stranger you know only as "Shadow".
Shadow pushes a button and a panel slides away revealing a display and more instruments, a few pressed buttons later the display flickers and then you see the face of a pretty redhead.
"What's up Shadow?" The beauty queries.
"Good news, I found a new recruit fresh out of the tau clinic. I'm coming over with her right now, could you see to that her material things are taken care of? I'm sending the info over right now."
"Sure." She looks though the information clearly coming up on a screen in front of her. "It'll be taken care of before the evening." The red headed lady ends the transmission with a smile and the words "Can't wait to meet her."  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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