Card

Card Training.

After he knocked me down he wouldn't let me leave until I had gotten a real victory. I was in that room for an hour until I got out. Try 27. I go into the next room ushered in by the major who gets a phone call and has "important business to attend to." I am checked in on by the professor. 

"Max?" I give him a thumbs up. "We need you to give a description of your power so we can set the room up a little better. I tell him "I have this ability I thought of from this Japanese manga I read. It's an ability to store things. I can store physical things or properties of things, as well as I can store myself in a small packet dimension. He was the protagonist so he was pretty strong.

"Oh you got struck by magical lightning and can now fight scary monsters?" That's the title. It's still ongoing as of right now." The professor obviously doesn't care for Japanese manga. "Well whatever, can you use your power right now?" I motion my hand to try for something and nothing happens. "Professor is there some way to do this better before I make a fool of myself?"

The professor nods. "Yes, for some reason a dog eating a taco seems to make people react most of the time." This has been reported since the early 1700's actually but we honestly have no idea why." I ponder and think of a basset hound. I see it take a bite into a delicious taco. My hand starts vibrating I see it starts turning into a purple shade. 

Well usually he then says what he's going to store. "Store air." It goes into the emulous void. I then say release air and a gust of air brushes my face. "Simple enough." The professor seems satisficed. I then start storing more air around me. After a few seconds I jump and release the air I stored to jump up a bit higher. "Nice." A guy comes in the room. He grabs a baseball bat and slowly walks towards me.

"Can you store this?" He swings the bat slowly I use my power and into the void it goes. I in my head aim the bat at a flat line then I let it release. it just falls to the floor. The professor chimes in "Hey why didn't it shoot at him?" I reply "I need air to do it, just letting the bat in and out does nothing." I stop stealing the air in the room because it probably needs a second. "How much can you store Max?

I ponder. "Theoretically infinite, In the last few novels I read he basically has his own pocket universe. He's really overpowered. I can even go in there if I wanted to. I don't think I should try just yet. I should do smaller things like get the amount of portals I can do up. "rephrase" Professor asks. " I can do this with up to 10 portals but the guy in the manga is a super genius and he has an iq of like 178 or something so I don't think I can keep up with something that good.

"well that satiates my questions for now." Your weakness is just you lost your original limbs yes?" I nod. "That's all I thought of. If I lived any time before this I probably would have died." I didn't even think these suits or tech even existed. "Well this stuff is recent." Your eye is the most complex of your body. You could live without your fingers. 

I shrug. "Well whatever. Can you tell me anything else? Do other people have powers like I do? The professor frowns. Not many left I'm afraid. This is a problem though, this could mean the great card reset is upon us. All it takes is a few more and all the cards will come once more like how they came in the past. 

*side note I don't remember if I wrote that before but I don't feel like checking.

I don't know how active the other Card users are at this moment but you should be more likely fighting people with our technology. I don't know how to tell you this but you are the youngest user we have left and in 20 years you might be the only one left. It's terrifying due to how little we know about these things, even the pentagon doesn't have any of these or know of any left in the entire world. Yours was a fluke and has doubled our efforts into finding more.

"So how will these things come out again if I'm the last user?" That makes no sense. 

"Well Max all I can tell you is what I have researched. around 0 ad there was an explosion of Card users and one of them wrote about that. How they were told about it we still don't know. Listen if you find one it's better to just bury the thing and not to tell anyone. The chaos that would ensue from millions having powers is world ending. 

I nod. I heed his warning as I head to my bed. I'm here for at least a month. I can't call my mom or dad until a week at least.