I was with Glassmetal LED swordjuice and of course victor at the marble lab, the lab just outside the testing room, iti haf been fixed by glasmetal after my fight with swordjuice and had just been used by ledand victor to test victors newfound powers, and wihtout any furher destruction.

Vicotr was lethargic of drowsiness and so I decided to try and go on with the analisis of his matrix quick. Finding his matrix quickly and forming a tether to it.

Sometihng immeadiately struck me just by lookin at it, instead of the normal circle of fractals arouns a luminuos core, whati saw in every matrix. There was a swimming mass of discnneted matrix, undulating around a much smaller than normal matrix, I still could see the luminous core inside and evetything else looked the same

Only the matrix detached and slowly moving like a living leviathan gave me pause. The only other situation where I have seen discnected bit of matrix acting on their own is with leds buff, but even so they have a set purpose.

I approached trying to no tjust speculate and instead investigate what it was, but what else couuld it be if this was victors powers.

I got closer to the giant snake made of reality editing fractals, analysing what was written in its conceptual lines. And what I found was what was to be expected.

It was the metal that victor could control. Control and feel through he did say that it felt like an extension of himself.

The matrix described what a power was and how it modified our reality, the mechanism it used and everything, what I was seeing was a first to me it wasakin to an object with a matrix, it described its existence in our worl the composition of each piece of it in an atomic to moelecular to macor scale.

It was a substane unique to itself and it also had a power of its own, It could analyze other substances of weapons and then reproduce them, it categorized itself as a weapon and it had an active conncetion with victors mind, a concnetion equal to the one in powers but that was here instead of close to the core, peculiar.

This tihng would be interesting to analyse and try and copy what I could from it, I went past it thougu to see what was going on in victors matrix aroudn the core that expelled the energy all powers used one way or another.

It had no active part of imputing that energy, it had the material the metal was composed of, in the form of its matrix, this central part was basically the factory for the other part of his powe that was the metal with the matrix, it created it, creating the metal in the real worl and it’s matrix here at the same time.

Its all very interesting, could I combine this with leds power to create matrix that are projectd, creading then a piece of matrix that is connected with me, with leds power I can manifest it directly into the real world, but copying it here I can make it from any material and then manifest it at the same time in the real world, that could lead to some crazy things.

I have space so I decide to cpy this ability to test furher later, and go back to the actual metal. Analizins it deeper. I find that al the other active powers also happen here, probably because the concetion with victors minds is here

The mods that he can use the absorption of weapons and the material that the wepon had already ccopied. Hmm, lets see what I can implement in my powers from here.

The way his metal uses the properties it copies from their wapoen is interesting, it doesn’t directly tranform into the mateiral sadly but its rather that the metal has the power to assume those charachterists, it’s a sublte differentece, but is just means that it acts as a power, its written in its matrix.

Its sometihng I can easuily implement in my own power and so I do so, copying over how to analisyse other weapons to create latices of matrix that record how to then rereate that property from the metal, in my case im not a metal and completeyl copying it as its is wouldn’t work really well

It would probably try and modify every cell I have to the rigidity of the material, something that doesn’t really works for me to still move, instead I implement it as just one more way for my power to create new transformations, then when I transform, I can imbue the hardness and every other property of actual metal to my skin or scales or whatever it might be.

It acts like a buffing power, it’s in essence just another version of its other modification buff, which is the second part that I can try and implement in myself.

Once again though I need to put it so it can change my tranformation after they happened and not as actual tranformation possibilities, which is more intuitive with things like enhance and invert or even delay, I wouldn’t want to do those things with my body but maybe with the things I acquire during my tranformation like other powers I use.

It will be fun to test if I can invert for example araphels shadow electricity form. Absolutely crazy just thinking of the possibilities makes me exited.

But letting that go for now I go look at the way victors powers analizse and complement the characteristics of the weapons it encounters.

It had a way of transforming the properties of the material in the real worl into the same languesge it was made from here, using the metal exsitng only in the normal reality and trancrbing it here as a lattice of power, very interesting.

I can copy that certainly, adding it into the tentacles together with all the other intereaction and sensing powers that I had; I can then do the same that the metal does copying properties of weapons as viable enhancements to my forms.

Very great so far, giving a power to victor might have benefited me more than hum I thought smiling at the idea

“look at that” I heard victor say “there must be good tihngs in there, guys looking like a kdi in a candy shop.”

“more dialogue”

I kepg going, now for the last item on the shopping list, before during the fight glassmetal was going to explain to me all the buff but never got aroun to it.

Together with enhancing and the interpreting that I had converted already the interpreting being it taking on the properties of other types of physical matter, it had three others, invert, combine and lastly delay.

Invert would take a property and make it the complete inverse, so something hard becomes soft. It could choose any property in an object and invert it, so could be very powerful if it could also change things like conductivity, were inertia or weight properties? Tests needed to be done.

The other one was Combine, it made the user able to choose another property to go along with the first, so a chosen property of say iron with a chosen property of, I don’t know, lead? Something like that.

And lastly delaying, the weirdest one maybe of all of them, it was used together with the interpreting where the metal took the properties of a chosen material that had been saved up in the metal’s matrix. With this one you could choose to set a timer where the effect would then take place, maybe could be effective for a projectile that then did something? Weird.

But yea that’s it, I took off the tether conecting my Matrix with Victor’s bringing my attention back to the real world.

“Done then?” Victor asked tiretly

Yeah, your power is very interesting, but I think you want to sleep, so yeah we can discuss that another time.

Yeah man I woudnt be able to now

He said his good bye to everyone and left already

Well, we would be leaving now too right glassmetal said (gotinha)

Yeah, its awkward tho I said laughinh

We’ll wait until the elevator comes back swordjuice said resolutely

Today we’ll be going outside again?

Yeah, I forgot to ask victor to come with us before he left, but going by how sleepy he was I think he would have denied anyaway

Definitely. Galssmetal said

Lets go have lunch, after that we can go to the same place in the forest

Souds good to me, I said nodding, do you think old dan would be interestied in getting powers

Leds eyeborws raised, he might, yeah, its crazy that we have this possibility now.

Everyone got up to have lunch then and went their own ways, led told us all to gather back up in the acfeteria at 3 pm to go to the training.

Going out we passe by dans house again, this time he wasn’t in the powerch and so LED yelled out to him as he entered.

Dan came ou of the kitchen walking in that slow pace old people do, as if he was in no rush. Dan was called old dan for reason and I guessed he wa already approaching his eighties

Whats up you all, need something else

Actually we came to make an offer, matrix here has figured out sometihng quite revolutionary,

Old dan only nodded urging led to get on with it

We can give people powers, or at least we think we can. Old dan frowned at that goiing still

we triedwith vicotr alreay, I said, and he has a power now, a cool one even

God, boy. This is, jeez. He paused going to take a seat. Now little brian will really want you close by.

Whos that?

Doesn’t matter, you say you can give this old man a power.

Yeah, we think so. It worked with victor and hes pretty old

Dan laughed sahaking his head, if I aint got nothing to lose ill take it on, it might make my last years a little more interesting.

Me and led nodded.

Just dont go expecting me to fight anywhere

That’s fine, spotloght said from behind. Its mostly so matrix can satiate his endless hinger for new powers.

Hey that’s not it

You went and reaped a big rewrd from victors power

Its mutual gain, we’re all part of the same association

Right right.

So when you all going to do it, dan asked .

Led thought on it, it could be done now, but we wanted to go and train and it might get late if we fdont go soon.

Yeah, and its very energy intesive as well so id be spent before th etraining

Its better to do it at night then, after we rest after the training

Is that fine with you dan led aked

Of coure, wahts a couple more hours to wait.

Wait, we should first confirm that he can get powers, at lesst. I said, so taht we odont raise any false hopes.

That’s reasonable led said and I went forward led sent a simple buff towards old dan who perked up feeling its effects

Oh, feels like a cup of coffee

I extended my senses in the matrices side of tihngs feeling for dans matrix, it was hard ot find for msome reason but after a while i found it because of the beacon that leds power created.

I aprroached, finding only leds matrix construc form his buff but intead of it being latched onthe side of a grand orb of drakness, its was intead hugging it completeyl, the little orb encased completely in leds buffs.

I stared at it in shock, why was it so small,this raised so many question coule he still have a power would it just be much weaker becaseu of the lack of energy, did people have diferetne sizes of matrix from birth or di they grow for some reason or perhaps they grew smaller if unused after a certain age?

No way of nowinkg any of that but pretty interesting overall, there was still much about powers that I didnt know

Well, its weird, I think we can gie you a power still but it would be really weak.

Why is that,

He has like, very little energy generation cappacity

Is something like life force maybe? Swordjuice asked interested

Well, that could be it, I don’t know what it is execly only that thres some energy comoing from somwhere that powers the matrices, I cant go in there tohugh, not even inside my own.

Well, old dan interjected unconcerned. I wasn’t hoping for a big flashy power anyway

That’s fine led said we’ll be going then

Yeah yeah go play you all.