Bumping Into A 'Superhero' (BIAS)

EPILOGUE : deja-vu

[ Present time ]

"So how does it feel being ZS ?", Tejas asked me as he pointed to the ZS sticker on my coffee mug.
"It feels so good honestly. Like when the people around you cheer you while you stop something bad from getting happening !!", I replied.

"You even used it to bring back REDZ's reputation. Brand ambassador : our own badass superheroine ZS", Tejas enacted my signature.
"Looks like someone is jealous", I remarked as I sipped my coffee.

"Who me ?..", but he stopped suddenly, went blank for a second or two and opened his eyes. "Owww."
"Tejas, are you okay ?", I asked as I checked his pulse. Normal.

"Sejal ?", he looked around. "Where are we-"
"We are at Mishra Uncle's cafe.. but that happened to you all of a sudden ?"
"All I remember was some ZAP ZOOM ZOOP something. And I'm here", he said as he continued to scan the environment.

"Try to remember what happened before that", I instructed as I guessed what could've happened. I just had to confirm it before I could blurt it out.
"Negative Satvar broke my neck and punched my back..", he said as he checked his back.

Though we were at the corner, Mishra Uncle spotted Tejas doing these.. weird things. He rushed to ask, "Beta, is there something wrong ?"
"No no Uncle, everything's fine", I said. He looked at Tejas. He smiled back.

"I think you just broke out of Akshit's time travel", I whispered as Mishra Uncle left.
"What ?!", he yelled again.
"Shhhh."
"Yeah well, I recall some memories.. but these aren't exactly familiar..", he said.

"I guess this time travel and time travel you do with the infinity work differently", I said.
"Yeah maybe. We should inform Vedant about it. How's Mayuri vahini now ?", he asked.

"She's fine now. Vedant somehow healed her with his power."
"What ? I don't think Infinity is capable of something like that. I know he can manipulate matter. But human body is too complex to build right ?"

"Exactly! That's what I thought too."
"Maybe it's not infinity then.. you know more that I recall some of my memories.. I can sense that there are some new memories too. Somethings that didn't happen in the original timeline.. but are the reality now."

"Like what ?", I was really growing impatient now.
"When I was fighting with The Hacker, I remember him saying that Vedant was actually just supposed to be the phoenix fighter only", he said.
"Well he is the phoenix fighter."
"Yeah but he isn't just the phoenix fighter. He is also the ruler of Lemniscate", Tejas said as he finished his coffee.

"Also there's something else I didn't tell anyone. Negative Satvar on multiple occasions has told me a thing - Vedant doesn't know who he really is", he confessed.
"And you are telling me this now ?", I asked sarcastically.
"Well I just came out of Akshit's time travel loop", Tejas defended.

"How did Vedant become the phoenix fighter ?", I asked.
"I don't know", he shrugged.
"Where did he get the infinity ?"
"I don't know."

"Tejas ! Are you thinking the same as what I'm thinking ?", I asked.
"We're going Alibag", Tejas smiled.

"Mishra Uncle, we're in a hurry right now. Add it to the account", I said as we ran to the exit.
"Aren't we taking the car ?", I asked as Tejas brought our suits.
"It'll take too much time."

***

"Why did we change into regular clothes again ?", I asked.
"Let's just say Vahini isn't very fond of surprises", Tejas said as he cautiously opened the door to the godown at Track-21.

"FREEZE !", Mayuri commanded.
"Woah woah woah. Cool down vahini !", Tejas said.

"Satvar ?", she gasped.
"And Sejal too", I waved at her. I hope she remembers our friendship.

"What ?! How's this..", she stuttered. "You changed the timeline Satvar ? Like seriously ?! Why didn't I get a notification ?", she continued to panic. Uh oh, she doesn't remember.
"Umm, I can explain..", Tejas intervened.

"Let's all sit down and figure it out together. Okay ?", I tried to calm down everyone as I noticed Mayuri freaking out just by looking at Tejas. He was right, she isn't very fond of surprises.
"Ok, so it happened when..", Tejas started.

"I don't get it. Vedant takes one week off from his responsibilities and BOOM. Something new shows up", she started complaining.
"Mayuri !", I snapped. "Hear him out first !"

"Ok so this happened pretty randomly. I was at REDZ. Ok ?", Tejas restarted his narrative again. "..I suck at this. I can't do storytelling", he complained.
"You guys are impossible !", I remarked as I decided to take the reigns in my hands. "Ok then, I'll tell. You both listen."

Mayuri nodded in agreement.

"Be prepared folks. This is going to be a looonnggg story", I smiled.