Invincible

Chapter Six: /Time/

*August 4th, 2093, 9:51am*

The piercing blue light blinded everyone in the standing in the room. Ram and Alex landed in a purely white room.

"Oh, thank the angels," Ram sighed. He quickly took off his jacket and stretched out his wings. "It's so painful to keep these in."

Alex stepped back in shock. He had seen some weird things in his life, but wings. Wings? That's impossible. He tried to cover up in shock with confusion. "What?" Alex said. "Why do you have wings?"

"Just like you have your powers, I have mine."

"But I don't have any powers." Alex was even more confused now. He just killed his dreams of having any sort of power, but Ram was now saying he had them. He didn't want to get his hopes up so he couldn't be let down.

"That is what you want to believe," a tall man in a white lab coat said as he stepped out of a door behind the two boys. "But that doesn't mean that it is true."

The man had blonde hair and blue eyes, remarkably like Alex's. If one didn't know the circumstances they might think the two where brothers. But Alex knew the circumstances. He didn't trust this man any more than he trusted the situation he was currently in.

"Most powers manifested in children as soon as they were born, but we believe that some powers could be purely situational," the man in the lab coat told Alex. "As a matter of fact, we know it could happen. Ram here verifies that."

Alex was really confused now. What this man was telling him contradicted all that he believed. "What do you mean 'Ram verifies that?' Did you not originally have powers?"

"Well, it's more complicated than that. These wings... they were put on me. I wasn't born with them, and it isn't something I want to remember," Ram said, begrudgingly. "But my teleporting, however, just happened. One day I was almost killed in a car crash but I somehow ended up randomly on the side of the road unharmed."

Alex was sad for Ram. How could someone so optimistic have such a horrible past?, he thought. "That's terrible."

"Yeah, it's also something I don't really uh... want to remember."

"But do you see, Alex?" the man in the lab coat asked. "His powers came to him later in his life. You might have powers and you might not. Time will tell, but you have to have hope."

"But we don't have time!" Alex shouted. "More and more kids are getting unfairly imprisoned by the Order. We need to act now if we're going to do anything."

"Well you're a bit lucky this time, Alexander, because we've already started on that," said the man in the lab coat. "We are trying our hardest as a group to fight the Order and the ones who back it."

"We?" Alex asked. "Who is we?"

"The Resistance," Ram said. "We sabotage anything we can get a hold of that has to do with the Order and we stop Order guards from capturing children."

"And you haven't even seen the best of it yet." The man in the lab coat ushered them to a door on the other side of the room. "This is our main place of operation. We call it HQ."

The door he opened lead into a large white room with many marvelous things inside. In one area, there was a brown haired boy with goggles over his head working on some sort of metallic contraption. In another corner, a blonde girl sat reading a book.

"Okay, Ram, I'm leaving you to deal with Alexander," the man in the lab coat said. "Show him around, won't you?"

"Sure, sir," Ram said, nodding his head.

The man started to walk out of the room when Alex said, "Sorry, what was your name?"

He turned around towards Alex. He replied, "You can call me Sir," and then left the HQ through a door on the other side of the room.

As he left, Alex noticed another person in the room. A tall black haired boy was sitting in a corner working on a computer.

"Well since I'm 'in charge of showing you around,'" Ram said, making air quotes with his fingers,"this is the um... the people that um... stay here."

The boy with goggles looked up from his current project and said, "Oh yeah great sentence, Ram." He took off his goggles and walked towards them. "Hi. My name is Diesel." He shook Alex's hand. "Sorry about him. Sir can be a bit straightforward and harsh, but we're here for you. Everyone else here is pretty cool. That girl over there is Adela and that dude over there is Twitch."

"They'll be time for talking later but we have to do something first," Ram interrupted.

"Wait, how did it get to be morning?" Alex said, looking out a window.

"Oh... I um may have messed with time with this little gadget on my wrist so I wouldn't wake everyone with the-" He made a flashing motion with his hands. "But I try to not do it often because it's dangerous and unpredictable. See right now it's," he looked at his watch-thing, "August 4th, 10:01am. One day after we left."

"Oh... okay," Alex said, not very comfortable with that.

"I probably won't ever do it again, but there is really something we have to do," Ram said. "Come on."