Bench trio- a dsmp vigilante au

Mental enhancements

Niki pov~

I had felt someone in the back of my mind, not threatening but it still freaked me out as I jolted in my seat and slammed my mental barriers at whoever it was, pushing the, out of my head. All mental related enhancements could tell when other were in their heads, and like me could push them out if necessary. 

I heard a small bang coming from the bar and looked over to see the waiter hunched over the counter, head hung low as if in pain and that's when it hit me- Ranboo must have been the one in my head. 

I quickly jumped up with Fundy hot on my trail, the rest of the heroes sat in silent confusion. I ran over to the tall waiter and put a hand on his shoulder. Immediately feeling his memories.

Pain, death, darkness, manipulation, fam-

Ranboo pulled away quickly and turned to face me, looking at the floor while seeming quite unsteady on his feet.

"I'm so sorry! You caught me off guard, are you alright?" I quickly said, slightly worried as mental attacks hurt. I very much knew that. Ranboo hesitated for a second before a flash of realization went through his body,

"I completely forgot you have a mental enhancement too." he spoke quietly, almost fearing what I would say. A beat of silence washed over the both of as before he sighed quietly, "would you like me to come over a take your order?" Ranboo lifted his head and looked at me, I was about to speak but got cut off from the shock of what I saw. His eyes, which had been a grey/purple hybrid were now fully violet. Not wanting to sound rude, both Fundy and I nodded and we all walked back to our table.

I assumed that his vibrant eyes were due to his enhancement, and within a few seconds his eyes dimmed back to their grey/purple hybrid colour. He seemed slightly stressed about us seeing his enhancement, but he hid it well,

"I'm going to assume it was you Niki felt?" Dream stated, making Ranboo nod,

"Yeah, I have a mental base enhancement." he said, remaining quite vague,

"I'm so so sorry, I just felt someone there and so attacked without thinking." I apologized again, genuinely worried about them,

"Yeah I could definitely feel that, you also sent my enhancement haywire for a few seconds." he said, making me feel even more guilty, "so, what can I get for you to drink?" he asked, clearly keen to drop the topic. Just as he said this, his eyes flashed to purple again.

Suddenly the kid behind the bar, I think his name was Tubbo,  practically ran over to grab a pen from the opposite end on the bar and dash back to a white board that was mounted on the wall. All of us went silent, were the changing eye colour and Tubbos sudden actions related?

"I'll get a lemonade please!" Fundy spoke, breaking the slightly awkward silence,

"Diet or regular?"

"Urm... regular please." Ranboo nodded as we all slightly leaned around him to see Tubbo scribbling Fundys order on the whiteboard, he didn't seem to have enhanced hearing though so how did he-

Thats when it hit me, Ranboo must have some sort of telepathic abilities and he was telling Tubbo the orders.

"I'll have a lavender tea please, if you don't have those I'll just have an earl grey." I said, looking straight at our waiter, trying to show some understanding on my face to try and ease the nerve Ranboo clearly had at showing his enhancement to heroes. He nodded and looked over at the others,

"Your berry smoothie please!" George ordered next, the excitement clear in his voice,

"Black coffee" Dream said bluntly, before pausing and speaking again, "with some cream in a pot on the side please."

"I'll see what we can do, would milk be ok if creams not available?" Ranboo asked and Dream nodded before smiling as his mask was over his nose and eyes, a cafe shop was one of the few places where he actually pulled his mask up slightly so that his mouth was on show. I mean, how else was he going to eat and drink in public?

"Cappicino please mate, hold on the chocolate dusting though." Phil jokingly warned, he always hated that baristas would give him the chocolate dusting just because he looked older,

Wilbur however looked slightly conflicted at what to order, "Urm... oh screw it, I'll have a large hot chocolate with marshmallows please Ranboo." he asked, making both Phil and I laugh,

"Will that be all?" Our waiter asked. we all looked at each other before unanimously nodding and Ranboos eyes turned back to the grey/purple, meaning he had probably just broken the connection with Tubbo.

He took away our menus, "Your drinks will be out shortly." He turned to leave only for me to speak,

"Actually wait up Ranboo!" I had to know if I had been right about his enhancement.

The tall waiter turned back around, adjusting his grey mask as he did so, "can I get you something else?" he asked,

"Oh no, I was just wandering what your enhancement was, I think I might know but could you clarify?" I asked, hoping he wouldn't get to uncomfortable or defensive. Ranboo sighed,

"Normally I'd say no, but as I was using it on you all earlier, I feel like you kinda deserve an explanation." He clearly didn't want to tell us, but honestly if he hadn't agreed, I might have been tempted to use my influencing ability on him,

"My enhancement is called mind. It grants me multiple mental abilities, such as telepathic communication, I am also an empath and so can read peoples emotions and with that I can also put my own emotions "in" someone temporarily. And finally, I can predict the near future or actions, meaning if you were to try and punch me, I'd see it before you even moved. Earlier I was reading all of your emotions and yeah." he paused before continueing,

"My eyes turn fully purple whenever I'm actively using my enhancement, beside that its always on which is why my eyes are both purple and grey all the time. Basically I'm always reading everyones emotions whether I want to or not, I was just honing it on you guys earlier." Phil blinked in shock and folded his arms,

"Thats a powerful enhancement mate." He spoke softly, making Ranboo shrug,

"Its an annoying one sometimes." This made me intreged,

"In what sense?" he turned to look at me,

"You have a mental enhancement too, surely you know what happens if you overuse it or try to read too many people, or in your case memories, at once?" I nodded, but I still had one question left,

"Why were you reading our emotions earlier?" I asked, making Ranboo look to the side slightly and put his hands behind his back,

"I just, urm... I do it with everyone just so I know what I'm dealing with. Like for instance, my empath abilities are currently telling me every single emotion in the room, the only thing I don't know which emotion belongs to which person, honing that ability tells me who's feeling what." he said, but before anyone could ask any more questions, a voice rang out,

"Ranboo! Drinks for table two!" Tubbo called out, making the tall waiter jump before looking back at us for a second, 

"Excuse me." He said quietly and walked back to the bar. This guy was very interesting.