the perfect powerless

chapter 2 - the start of a new venture

"It was about half an hour after the wedding. I returned to my room for another session of figuring out my life when a portal opened under my bed. In a flash of bright light, I was in a room that I didn't recognise. It was dark, cold and slightly dank. Suddenly a middle-aged man walked up to me. 'so, you must be from her dimension' he said with a deep, dark voice. He was grey and looked like he was able to shatter concrete with just a step. I asked him where I was and when he asked if I knew... you. I asked again where I was and when I was uncooperative, he threw me through another portal and I was in the city, looking around when I found you. I hate to be a burden, but what's going on?" Charlie asked in the dimly lit room of the questioning room.

"That man you met was Eather. He stole my powers, that's how he pulled you here and without my powers I can't get us home." Onyx explained rubbing the back of her left hand. She looked down at her multi tool and the remaining adhesive that she had. "Is everything ok onyx?" stream asked. "I'm leaving, now. I cannot let him make any more progress on, whatever plan he has. Without my cores the uni-guardians will be after me soon, I don't have much time and I'm not letting anybody else get hurt. Not this time." Onyx explained as she left the room and started packing. "Onyx, wait. You can't go alone." Stream tried to reason. Charlie told stream to stop and to let onyx get a hold of her emotions.

Onyx continued to furiously pack and soon she stopped and thought about what she was doing. She was willing to travel a world she didn't know, alone. At one point she would have wanted to be alone, but now... "hey how are you doing?" Charlie asked as onyx grabbed a sword and held it on her back with the sheath. "I just, don't want anybody else to get hurt. The gravity core has a mind of its own, but the speed core is dangerous. Assuming that the gravity core doesn't decide to kill anybody. The truth is, the cores can take their mental tool on the user, I was modified to handle them but they still take their toll at times." Charlie didn't respond but got ready to move away. "Wait, I'm just happy to see a familiar face, even if I hate the reason why she's here."

"Just look at us now, just 6 years ago was trying to kill you and before that I was just a jerk to you." Charlie said with a sad smile on her face. Onyx also had the same sad smile. "I'm going with you." Charlie responded. "Ok, just make sure you know what you're getting into. This is a dimension where everybody has super powers. Take this, it should help." Onyx passed the multitool to Charlie and Charlie gave it a look over. "Are you Shure. What about you?" "I'm going to be using this sword. I know how his dimension works; besides I've had the proper training on how to use a sword." "Are the two of us really enough?" "Probably not, however eve will be getting out of questioning any minute." Onyx explained looking through what of her tech remained. There wasn't much but her attention was drawn to the core of that android hat attacked the school last month. Sher looked at it and all of the powers that where on it had been wiped.

They walked to the quietening room and sat behind the glass while waiting for eve. "so, you don't have any memories about anything?" Ventus asked. "I've already told you my memories where wiped when in that pod, I have instincts but not much else over then being placed in that pod by ether. Is that what you wanted to hear?" eve asked and she was let go. "Where did you even go?" terra asked. "it's hard to explain but I think it was Eather's pocket dimension. You see everybody has a pocket dimension but only a few can get into it. Without my cores, I can't get into min and retrieve any of the tech inside." Onyx explained as she rummaged through her bag. "If you want, we can go with you." Ventus explained. "Thanks, but you need stay here and keep the city safe now that you're in a full lockdown." Onyx responded. The trio gather themselves and set of on their quest to find earther.