The Ghost

Number Nine

I looked down the hallway, "You found the room, right?" Delta patted my shoulder again. "Of course, what do I look like to you?"

"What's the room number?" I asked. Delta made a light whistle, "It's a pretty big number." He stood behind me and put his hands on each of my shoulders. Then, in a split second, I was facing a door. I knelt down and almost threw up all over the floor. Delta once again patted me on the back. "Don't worry buddy. You'll get used to it."

I got back up to face the door with a number 120817. "Jesus Christ dude, you went through all of those numbers?" Delta slowly nodded in disappointment. "That's why I took so long. There were a lot more than a couple hundred."

I opened the door to find a whole room covered in wires. The walls were computers on dozens of shelves. I looked down at my feet to see wires completely flooding the entire room. It seemed to be the size of a whole lawn. "What do we do now?" I asked.

"We fry it all, or more specifically, you fry it all." Said Delta. He pointed to the wires on the ground. "You grab a bunch, and overload them with your electricity."

"Wouldn't that be extremely risky?" I asked, picking up a handful of wires in each hand. Delta slowly nodded, "Yeah you're right, but what from I've seen so far, you can take it. If you go too far, and you cause a blackout throughout the entire base, then we're a go. If you don't generate enough power, then I'll have to help you out there. In the meantime," Delta said as he stepped out the door. "I'll stay over here, where I think I'm safe." He said as he closed the door.

I held the cables in my hands and tried to focus. I didn't know how to activate my power. I must have been there for a couple minutes, Delta opened the door and looked inside. "Hey uh, you wanna start firing up?" He said.

"I don't know how to activate my powers," I said. Delta's seemed confused. "You just lit up like, six guys back there with a single punch and you're telling me you can't fry some cables?" I nodded, "Yes that's exactly what I'm telling you."

"Light up the god damn cables man, come on." Rushed Delta.

"I don't know how to! The last times my powers were used, it wasn't on command, it just... bursted out of me!" I said. I started clenching the cables harder.

Delta grabbed some cables in his hand. "Focus on what you want to do. Focus on what ability you want to use. And then," His hands started to spark, creating small lightning bolts. The cables started to spark and fry. Somewhere in the room, a small explosion went off.

"That was the computer the cables were connected to." Said Delta.

"Why can't you just do it?" I asked. Delta gave me a pokerfaced look.

"I wanted to see what would've happened if you did it. You have lightning powers." He said.

"Um, no. I only have the power to move at Mach 7," said Delta. "Everything else I can do with my power is classified as something else."

"Classified as what?" I asked. Delta ignored my question and placed his hands in the center of the cable pool. I could hear a humming sound coming from his hands. I tried to see what was making the sound, but as soon as I looked at his hands, sparks filled the room. The cables on the floor started bouncing around and exploding. I could hear numerous computers exploding in the background. Delta looked at me as we watched the entire room fill up with light. "It's classified as something else." He said. We left the room and walked into the main hallway.

"Where do we have to go?" I asked. Delta pointed down the hallway, "We need to meet Overdrive at the exit, which is obviously where the room numbers end. And I'm pretty sure the last room is number 150,000 and some other numbers.

"Shit, how big is this place?" I asked. Delta scoffed, "You couldn't even imagine." He put his hands on my shoulders and immediately ended up at the end of the hallway. I slowly turned around, "wow" and found Overdrive in a fight with 3 other guards.

"Should we help her?" I asked Delta.

"Nah. She's got this handled." He responded. Overdrive still had her glowing knife with her. The three men she was fighting took a few steps back and surrounded her. She quickly threw the knife into one of their necks and proceeded with the rest. One of the guards tried to get her from the back, and the other from the front but she knew that already. She quickly did a backflip, using one of the guard's head and the ramp to get her up, and the second to land on, instantly putting both men down.

"How did you get past all the guards?" I asked. Overdrive walked over to the doors we were in front of. "I didn't have to go through a lot." She said.

"How many?" Asked Delta. Overdrive used her fingers to count. "Huh... not that many."

Delta put his hands on both of our shoulders, "Alright let's go," he said. But before he could run, someone behind us yelled "Hello!"

We all immediately turned around, Overdrive had her knife in her hand again, but it wasn't glowing. It was the doctor that I woke up to in the room. Where I was strapped down.

"What do you want from me?" I asked. The man was walking past the bodies without even glancing at them, but he was also walking slowly. Clearly, he knew what we could do.

"I hope you realize I could snap your neck before you blink, right?" Said Delta. The man stopped walking. "Oh yes, I am aware, but no worries Daniel, I have prepared in the event that you do."

Delta turned around, getting ready to run. But before he put his hands on, the doctor said something to me.

"What can you do, if your greatest enemy is yourself?" Said the doctor, and in a matter of seconds... I was on a rooftop.