The Broken Observatory - Party Crashers AU

The "Party Crashers".

I woke up in my bed, feeling a bit dizzy. I got my head up and held it with my hand, looked around and noticed Brent, sitting on the chair while reading a book with a frown, seemingly quite distraught.

I just stared for a few seconds trying to remember what happened before I ended up here, but nothing really came to my mind.
  
   
"...Brent?" - I said quietly after a few seconds, feeling a weird and strong pain while speaking.

Brent turned around to look at me with a shocked face and quickly got up to hug me tightly.
"Dude, you scared the fuck out of us."

"What-?"

"One the people from the audience threw a sharp boomerang or some shit that literally cut through your chest." - Brent explained, before realizing something. - "How the fuck did you wake up so fast?"

"Uhh... How fast?"

"We had that fight with Bowser like six hours ago, the doctor expected you to wake up in two days in the best case scenario." - he said, visibly surprised. - "Not like it matters, though. I'm so glad you woke up. I'll go get the others."

I nodded as Brent left the room. Soon enough, I only saw Vernias running towards my bed and hugging me, while Brent and Eevee had a calm and relieved smile.

"Vernias, you're fucking choking me!" - I yelled despite the throat pain, but still happy to see all of them okay.

Vern let me go before speaking;
"I'm sorry, I'm just really happy you woke up. Wait, you probably need healing again, you seem like you're really weakened, let me-"

"Slow down." - I said, noticing how unorganised and quick his sentences were.

"O-Okay, sorry, sorry. Let me heal you, though." - he answered, calming down a bit, as he sat next to me and started healing me.

"No, but- I'm really curious, how did you wake up so fast? It makes no logical sense, especially when I think about that huge fucking scar." - Brent said, looking at me with sort of confusion on his face. - "Not to mention that it's already crazy enough that you survived in the first place."

"You haven't figured it out?" - Eevee said, joining the conversation.

"Figured what out?" - Vern asked, as confused as me and Brent.

"NEITHER of you figured it out?!" - Eevee shouted, more surprised when he noticed our confused faces. - "Oh my fucking god, who was I chosen to be on the team with..."

"Explaining instead of complaining, dickhead." - I said, crossing my arms.

"Incantation, idiots." - Eevee said, annoyed. - "After we all did that power thing with putting our hands together, we gained stronger version of our abilities and a few extra shit."

"Huh." - Vern hummed. - "How did you figure that out, then?" - he asked and stopped healing me for a second, probably feeling a bit weakened. - "Sorry, I'll heal you more in a second, Nick."

"Don't, it's fine. You're glowing already, don't overuse it, I feel better anyway." - I said, assuring him.

"Okay, basically after that stupid fight with Bowser we had, I went to the professor's lab. He was apparently diagnosing our incantation since we found out about it, even before the fight." - Eevee explained, surprising us all.

"Then why are you yelling at us for not being aware of that if we haven't talked to the professor yet?" - Vernias asked, raising one eyebrow.

"Because I can feel smarter than all of you, and I honestly expected y'all to know it already."

Brent laughed.
"Sure. What did the incantation do, though?"

"Well, about our powers being stronger now, according to E. Gadd's research and some weird testing, my teleportation isn't short-length anymore and I can teleport literally everywhere." - Eevee said with a grin, a bit showing off.

"Damn. What's mine?" - Brent asked, interested.

"You can pretty much do targetted attacks. Like, when it's sunny, you can make only one person get completely blinded by the sun, not affecting anyone else, as if it was a hallucination for that person or something like this." - Eevee explained. - "Or just simply make others feel any sort of weakness or sickness you can get from the weather. For example you can make someone get frostbite even if it's hot outside, or make someone feel weaker, as if they were out in the sun for a few hours. I don't know, complicated shit to explain."

"Damn, so basically I can use it to hate on people specifically." - Brent said and laughed.

"Mine?" - Vern asked.

"You can give someone a shield, sort of armor, that makes them completely immune to feel pain for up to a day."

"Ooh, I like that!" - Vernias said with an excited smile.

"I don't even need to ask, you know I'm curious about mine." - I said, interested.

"Yeah." - Sophist said, laughing a bit. - "Basically, the plants you control are much stronger and honestly impossible to cut through in any way. So, if someone gets stuck in it because you trapped them inside, there's no way of getting out unless you release them yourself."

"Nice, I can be even more toxic, I like it." - I said, grinning.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." - Vern said, playfully rolling his eyes. - "Anyway, you said something about extra powers?"

"Oh yeah, the four of us are almost immortal now. The only way we can die is from old age, or by something extremely painful, like, I don't know, losing head." - Eevee explained. - "That's the reason why Nick woke up after only six hours. We can feel pain like a normal human, but it doesn't affect us as much."

"Holy fuck, I love it." - I said while smiling and looking at the others. A second later though, I reminded myself about the fight in the arena. - "Wait, I have to ask. Why in the fuck didn't you listen about NOT intervening?!"

"Because we're best friends and we won't let a bitch kill you. Let's be real, you would die, anyone would." - Vern said while looking at me, as if he gave the most obvious answer.

"Yeah, we crashed into that party there." - Eevee said, making everyone laugh.

"Might as well become Party Crashers at this point." - I said jokingly, but everyone else seemed to agree with it happily.

It looked like everyone liked the name of our new friend group. A group of the "Party Crashers".