The Deltas

Chapter 9

   He was so tiny that I could hardly see him. It was easy to make out the small shapes like his head, arms and legs. He was about the size of an ant on its hind legs. Anna suddenly got up and put a glass jar over him.

   "How will that help exactly?" I asked.

   She ignored me and gestured towards him. His image magnified. Taylor and Jamie turned away immediately because he um...lost his clothing. Anna turned around the latest for some reason.😏 

   "What do we do with him?" Antonio asked.

   "I don't know, he's to small for me to maintain psychic contact with and we can't exactly keep a teenage boy in a jar forever. Rohan said, running his hands through his graying hair.

   The glass jar shook. We all looked at it, Eli was bouncing around in it, and every time  he hit the wall, the jar slid. He kept doing so until the jar fell over. It fell in slow motion so I took that as my cue to do something. I unscrewed the top and reached in and grabbed what felt like nothing. I opened my hand above the desk and everything sped up. The jar dropped to the floor, sending an array of shards everywhere. 

   "No!" Antonio shouted.

   Suddenly, the speck on the desk grew larger and larger until it became our currently nude, friend Eli. 

   "Where are my clothes?" He said between breaths.

   They dropped onto his lap from above and we all looked up at Andy's arm that apparently dropped them. He put them on and Antonio started laughing.

   "Okay, so we have the human cannonball, the shrinking boy, the stretching kid, a teleporter, an anger fueled monster-" Antonio started.

   "You wanna go? Let's dance!" Anna said with her eyes becoming that scary pale shade of red.

   Antonio stumbled back and put his fist in the air. Then, his fingers became coated with a silvery toned metal. 

   "Cool." Antonio mouthed.

   The  metal extended, covering his arms and his legs. Antonio screamed, he began flailing around, knocking over desks and banging into walls. The metal armor made him a foot taller and way more muscular. The metal covered his neck and crept up to his face, it got to his eyes and as I looked in them I didn't see the cool, confident guy I once knew. I saw a scared monster. The metal completely covered his face. Then, the faint details of eyes, a nose, and a mouth became visible. Then they bulged outward creating his facial features. 

   He looked around at all of us and then at himself. If he could cry, I think we'd have a river. He stepped backwards. Until we heard a BOOM! Jamie now held two pistols and was stepping backwards.

   "Don't try anything you freaks! I've called the police and they're on their way!"

   "Uh-oh." Everyone except Antonio said.

   Antonio stepped closer to Jamie. 

   "No, Jamie. We won't hurt you. You just have to calm down." Antonio said in a deep, metallic voice.

   She lowered the guns for a second. And then held them up again and fired at all of us. I sped out of the way of bullets. Eli shrank and grew. Andy stretched his body into any form necessary. Taylor teleported faster than before and Anna just stood there letting the bullets hit her. Rohan leaned on a wall and every bullet that went his way, he used his telekinesis to deflect then the other way. Antonio stood in the middle of the room and each bullet that hit him he let it ricochet yards away. Me and Taylor looked at each other and had some form of silent communication. She teleported to the left of Jamie, grabbed a gun, and teleported away. I ran over to her and snatched the gun away from her.

   We both put them on a desk and Anna used her bare hands to crush them. Antonio stepped over to Jamie. He stuck his huge metal hands into the pockets of her skirt and pulled out her phone. And he slammed it to the ground.

   "I'm sorry but we can't let you do that." Antonio said to her.

Note: WHY HAVENT YOU GUYS ASKED ME TO UPDATE?! Seriously, it's been two weeks since I updated! I'm so sorry! I'll try to update more often from now on.