Better Undercover

Chapter 9: Teleporting Bananas

Chapter 9

We ran through a wall. I had done some pretty strange things in the past few days, but we ran through a wall. Not around, over, under, but through. It may seem easy to comprehend until you actually melt through the drywall and brick and insulation and whatever else is in a wall, and then you mesh back together on the other side.

And Kade seemed completely calm with it, but I guess it was normal for him.

"You ok?" he asked.

I nodded. "Is Molly?"

"Foley. And yeah, she's handled some pretty bad stuff before."

"But is she ok now?"

"She always is."

I turned back and looked at the wall. I put my hand up to it, and it didn't pass through. "Shouldn't we go back and check on her or something?"

He shook his head. "We have to get out of here now."

"What about the other girl and the guy she took with her?"

"Lillianne and Cameron will be fine."

"But Molly said-"

Kade threw his hands up. "Look, we don't have much time unless you want to stay around and get killed. Foley, and her name's Foley, not Molly, risked a lot for this long shot plan of hers, and I'm just going along with what she says until we figure something out. Now we need to leave now before something really bad happens."

"Does this not qualify as really bad?" I asked.

He shook his head. "You have no idea. Do whatever you need to do to get ahold of your powers and let's get going."

"Do whatever you have to do to get ahold of your powers," I mumbled. "And I guess you can just run through walls whenever you want?"

"Yeah, basically."

"Well ok then." I looked back and saw a whole ton of people. "I don't know if this will work," I said as I grabbed his arm and did the only thing that came to mind. I clicked my heels together three times and thought 'There's no place like home.'

I opened my eyes and looked around at my kitchen.

"What just happened?" Kade asked.

"I think I just teleported us to my house."

"You think?"

"Well I don't know how we got here otherwise. And are you always this pleasant?" I asked sarcastically.

"You don't seem to get it. You don't seem to get what we're dealing with."

"No, I don't. And I honestly, I don't really care. The only reason I was doing any of this was so Molly could change back whatever she did to change my memories that made me basically hate my life. I didn't care about whatever cause she was talking about, I just wanted to get my life back. Everything just blurs together and there's stuff that didn't really happen. Like how I returned my track uniform, which is a spring sport that just ended, and then I got the list that I didn't make the softball team when that's also a spring sport that already ended too."

"She went to all that trouble?" Kade seemed to be talking to himself.

"And you said she probably wasn't right."

"It seemed unlikely. But if she really went to all that trouble, then we might have to reconsider."

"We? I never doubted her."

"You just said that you don't care," Kade argued.

"I don't. But I don't think she's wrong either."

"So you agree with her, you just don't care about it?"

I nodded. "Exactly. I'm not like you guys. I don't have a purpose to fight and save people. If I had your powers, I would probably end up rolling through a wall in my sleep and falling out of my bedroom. I was never cut out for this."

Kade grabbed a banana from the fruit bowl on the table and peeled it. "You need to be. We don't have much time."

I rolled my eyes and grabbed a knife and an apple. I sliced the apple into slices, and between cuts, I waved it a bit through the air. "It's always about time, isn't it? If only one of you guys could control it."

"Cameron could, but you knocked him out."

I slammed the knife into the table and it stuck. "I apologized, quite a few times."

Kade's eyes widened a little, but he didn't look scared. "Aren't your parents going to be mad at you for that?" He jerked his head a little bit towards the knife stuck in the table.

I reached for the knife, and this time Kade actually looked scared. He took a step back and held his hands up as my hand closed around the handle.

Suddenly, the knife disappeared. One minute it was in my hand with the tip still in the table, and the next, it was gone.

"What?" I thought out loud.

"You didn't mean to do that?" Kade asked.

I shook my head. "I don't mean to do a lot of things lately."

"But where did it go?"

I shrugged. "You're the superhero here. I'm just the girl with superpowers."

Kade had left his half eaten banana on the counter. "Try to bring it back."

I rolled my eyes. "That's not going to work."

"Try."

I held out my hand and thought about the knife. "See? Nothing," I said as, indeed, nothing happened.

Suddenly, the knife was in my hand.

"You did it," Kade said. "You actually did something."

"Thanks," I said sarcastically. "Remember, I have the knife now. And besides, what good does this do? Now we know I have another power I can't control."

Kade waved his hands a little. "No. This one you can control. You did."

"But what good does it do?"

"Lillianne could teleport herself, but you can teleport anything."

"Anything that I am touching. I can bring it to my hand."

"Try not bringing it to your hand." He pointed to the banana on the counter and then walked to the other side of the kitchen and held his hand, palm up. "Send it to me."

I stared at the banana, but nothing happened. I felt like I needed something more dramatic to stir my power. I waved my hand in the general direction, and the banana disappeared. I flung my hands down, and Kade laughed as he took a bite of it.

"Now we can work on our plan," he said.

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Well, it's been a month and a half, but I finally got to writing this.  As you can tell by this chapter, we're actually getting somewhere now.  Wait and see :)