The guy seamed to be trying hard to run away from the dragon beneath our feet his pet monsters seamed more interested in destroying everything they passed by instead.

It made me wonder if they where really as big a help as he seamed to think of if he got them and now couldn't get rid of them.

I was tempted to jump in front of him and make him stop to talk to me but he seamed spooked and it would be easier to talk to him in a place he felt safe. So I ran after him trying to keep a slower pace to let him lead the way.

He seamed like a good guy he kept turning back to make sure that I was with him even though he seamed nervous of every corner and in a hurry to get to safety.

"not long now..." he called out looking both ways before jumping out into a street heading to a stairway down into the river.

I also looked both ways noticing a shoot out happening at one corner with a group of cops surrounding a building that seamed to be getting robbed and I noticed on the other side a car crash that made off green money fly out comically.

"he has fish magic" imp whispered to me "and yes it is like you think it is."

I raised an eyebrow at that wondering if the man knew what exactly his power could do and guessed he didn't if he was using the Gremlins instead of just his magic.

I saw the guy had run down the stairs so I jumped crossing the street and getting a glimpse down into the river at a boat waiting down there.

Not liking running down stairs I went ahead and just jumped down to the bottom while the guy's back was untying his boat from the gard rail.

I saw the Gremlins get set up in the boat starting the engin and setting up an odd tarp on top.

The man Jumped on board then turned to me. "hurry we need to get to the doc or the police boats and hele-copters show up."

"realy?" I asked with a frown hoping onto the boat as "mikey" gunned the engin to life and I nearly fell off as it started off heading to what I would call the ocean.

The guy in the elf hat pushed his way up and into the driver's seat steering his way along the edge of the coast looking up nervous every once in a while.

I let him drive the boat looking around at the stinking fishing gear and small hammock the man had set up. He was clearly living on this boat and from what I had seen of the land it was kinda hard to blame him.

I heard the sound of helicopter blades and looked up to see a little dot in the sky that was clearly some of the eyes in the sky that had spotted us.

"FUCK THERE FAST TO DAY." The elf yelled from the driver's seat. "WERE STILL 10 MINUTES AWAY."

"what would happen if I just nocked them out of the sky?" I asked imp in as soft a whisper as I could

"they would crash in a really cool way?" imp said with a shrug.

"well in most games that would be that, but in some games that just makes the place swarm with more cops and tanks." I said.

Imp laughed then shook her head. "you wish, no theres no tanks in this place If you take out the helicopters and the boats then you win and they just leave you alone for a while."

"cool." I said wondering if I should fly up there and take them out when one of the helicopters exploded then the other one did as well.

"Looks like Jerry is on the hunt." the guy shook his head "thank god... oh im Ray by the way."

Ray seamed much more relaxed now that the helicopters were gone.

"I m Zane." I said heading up to stand next to him. "And who the fuck is Jerry?"

Ray glanced back at me and seamed to really look at me for the first time and il admit this was the first time I tried to take in his own feachers. He was dark skinned but weather that was just sun or something from birth was hard to say, he was skinny in that iv ben outside my hole life and now my body seems to think im a tree kinda way and from the scraggly way his beard came in it seamed to me he was a saver before getting stranded in this world.

"Your not from around here are you?" he asked me with a frown.

"Couldn't we both say the same at this point?" I asked looking at the water around us seeing how fresh and blue it looked, and knew there was no way the real new york had clean waters like this.

Ray shook his head letting out a chuff "you got that right, but I meant Resno."

"thats the town the portal was in" imp said before I could ask him where the fuck was Resno?

"No im from north a bit in a little town im sure you never heard of." I said

"What brings you here?" he asked confused.

"The big apple? oh well if you can make it here you can make it anywhere." I said with a half smile.

He shot me a confused look. "yeah.. sure. How did you make it past Gerry anyway?"

I shrugged "threw a bench at him and jumped"

Ray shook his head "you got a weird sense of humor kid."

"I mean yeah but thats what happend..." I said "what power did you get Ray?"

He turned sharply to me as if I had just asked him 'do you know where your kids are right now?'

"You got one of those too?" Ray asked still socked.

"yeah... everyone gets one at least thats what iv ben told." I replied wondering what his problem is.

He gripped the wheel of the boat tightly and almost seamed ready to fight. "Now I helped you out, your on my boat and its keeping you safe from the things back on land you hear me?"

He was starting to piss me off but it seamed like maybe he was more afraid then wanting to fight. "ok, Ray its your boat and yeah you helped me out just calm down man It was just a question."

He glanced up to me and tryed to see if I was fucking with him or not, to bad for the both of us I was unconfertably smiling at him waiting for him to get to the point he seamed to just give up and muttered "fish magic."

I nodded slowly "fish magic."

"yeah... fish magic."

"cool." I said

"Cool?" He asked surprised.

"yeah. My only question is if you got fish magic why do you bother with these things?" I asked waving my hand at the Gremlins.

"Do what?" he asked frouning at me as if I was the one bing stupid.

"No a big fan of fantasy or sci fi stuff huh?" I asked a little condescending.

"no" he turned red and wasn't quite shouting "I am a country guy I go out and hunt and fish instead of staying inside couped up with 'books' or kids stuff"

I blinked at him then felt my grinn turn sharper. "ok then well 'I AM', and let me tell you there is a lot of things you can do with fish magic."

I waved my hand at the ocean around us pulling up a blob of water then finally using my crafting to make it look like a cat fish I made it swim in front of us before having it dropped back into the water.

Ray sat his mouth open watching as the fish floated by him it took him a little while to get his voice back.

"wha... what the hell are you anyway?" he asked.

I laughed and like usual it seamed to startle him and lasted just a little bit to long "you know thats the question iv ben asking for years."

He glanced at me clearly regretting brining me on the boat.

"anyway I think the right answer is Im just as human as you are Ray just your a little better then human these days yourself." I finally said grinning at him.

"I didn't ask for this shit... any of this shit." he said shaking his head "I just want to get home. My family must be worried sick about me."

"oh yeah I wouldn't be so worried about that." I said and quickly went on seeing the look on his face. "its only ben a day out in the real world. time moves differently in here as far as I can tell its a day inside for every hour outside."

He sat there looking out over the water and seamed to age before my eyes. "but its ben weeks."

"well... lets see for you yeah I guess it has ben considering 24 hours in a day so over 2 weeks in here but back home there probably just now starting to get worried." I said

"I am so god damned sick of this harry potter bullshit." he said in a quiet snarl glaring at seemingly nothing but really at the world its self for putting him in it.

"Well...i can help you get out." I said cheerfully "thats kinda why im here actually, I want this place and I plan on taking it with me when I leave."

"what... my boat?" he asked confused.

"No... I could probably help you get that out and into the ocean in the real world while im at it if you like." I said thinking. "no im going to be taking this fake and crazy new york with me I have a way to do that and in fact I was trying to move the portal when that other guy interrupted me."

"you mean if it wasn't for Tonnie trying to kill yah we could have ben out of here by now?" Ray said in a quiet voice.

"if thats the guy in the Taxi then yeah if he woulda just talked to me then you guys would be back home by now." I said

Ray started to throw a fit yelling and slamming a fist onto the steering wheel the metal bending under his fist with each hit he seemed to notice only after he started having trouble steering with it.

"AND NOW I GOTTA GET A NEW BOAT!" he shouted shaking his head as we started to pull into a dock filled with other boats ships and small yachts.

"well pick out your favorite one and il make sure you get back with it... if you help me out." I said

He glanced up at me "Help you with what?"

"I want to find all the easter egg locations that you have and I want to get all of you guys out of the city and back home." I said watching him struggle to steer the boat into an empty spot in the dock with his busted steering wheel.

"also I think I want to help you learn how to use ur magic properly." I said as an after thought.

"why would you want to do that?" he asked me shutting off the boat and yelling at Mikey to tye off the boat.

"well mostly its because I want to see if your power works the way I think it should so I can see if my powers work the way I think they should." I said.

He sighed grabbing up stuff he thought was important. "if you say so kid."

I noticed the things he grabbed just seamed to disappear in his hands. "you seam to like that power pretty well."

he stopped seaming to notice what he was doing for the first time. "yeah... il give you that."

"...Why did you get so tense when I asked what power you got?" I asked him as he seamed finished gathering up his things and had his shotgun back in his hands.

"after me and the guys first woke up Jerry got all exited saying how he was the chosen one and that these powers where great and as soon as he figured out how to use them he was goin ta save us all then he asked us what our powers where he got all exited when Tonnie had willa wips and they both gave me a lot of shit for having the power to talk to fish." He said. "and after 2 days of that shit I left them and headed out on my own thats where I found that Nijy tortus shit and just took the small daggers with me."

I lisined to him twitching a little when he would say something fucking stupid like 'willa wips' and tryed to rember that this guy was struggling and just wanted to get home to his family.

"yeah that'd piss me off too." I said "fucker said he couldn't even use his own power trying to give me shit for mine. sounds like you did the right thing leaving them behind."

He glaced back at me agin cheaking to see if I was fucking with him this time though I wasn't smiling I just looked at him and he looked away. "I v ben usin my power to eat I just wave my hands over the water and say some made up shit and here fishie fishie like im trying to call to a cat then they show up and let me grab them in a net."

"not a bad use for it. makes sure you got food to eat." I said looking into the empty waters noticing not a single fucking fish to be found and glanced at imp who nodded and dove into the waters.

"yeah... it helped me get by." he said with a half shrug.

"il bet." I said thinking "well in some stories fish magic could tern people into fish, or make people stink like rotting fish guts even if they never got near one."

He seamed to perk up at that. "wish I would have known that I would have stank those guys up before I ditched them"

I nodded and went on. "and other fish mages could make magic glowing fish swim in air like it was water and ride them or have a swarm of piranha attack and eat a guy picking him clean in seconds."

Ray just looked at me with his mouth slightly open again.

"Or they could get even more magical and have those fish with glowy lamps on there head that could light there way or use other magic coming from the lamp like it was light. Even healing people with a glowing green light." I said starting to get lost in the world of magic fish as imp came back up from the water and shook her head.

"there is no fish in that water not even little crabs." she stated

"what the hell kinda books you ben readin boy?" Ray asked me lifting up his elf hat to scratch the back of his head.

"lots and lots." I said with a shrug. "anyway your fish magic can do pretty much anything if you say fish first, or after."

He just stood there dumbfounded and I was very tempted to just leave him there go get the portal and then just throw him inside it.

"and you think that same fish magic is the cind like what I got?" he asked

"yeah... if your power works like I think it dose and my power so far works like I think it dose then sure why not?" I asked.

"don' know... just doesn't seam right I guess." he said thoughtfully.

"right? whats Right got to do with it?" I asked scornfully "I mean Gerry was it? he gets to tern into a dragon and Jerry is flying around blowing up helicopters so you think it was right that you could just make fish get into your net?"

"didn't think of it like that..."he said thoughtfully.

"yeah, exactly and thats why I wanna help you. I hate seeing good powers not used right." I said trying to calm down from my ranting. "watch any animal planet?"

"some.." he said a little surprised by the change in subject.

"what about shark week?" I asked.

He frowned at me then seamed to get it and grinned.

I nodded "oh yeah"

he shook his head grinning "alright we got to try that out but first "we're ganna need a bigger boat" He said looking happier and more relaxed now getting off the boat and looking around at the other boats on the dock taking his monsters with him.

"how many points to know if this guy is going to go on a rampage when he gets out of here?" I whispered to imp.

"depends on how you wanna do it but the cheapest way would be a sorta increased instinct for how much trubble people will cause with there powers and it would be 10 points." Imp said

I thought of Lu's power again thinking of all the cards that in a way let you see the future by looking at the cards in your deck.

"it can wait." I said dismissively stepping out of the boat and onto the dock looking around for Ray who was standing and grinning in a very expensive looking boat that I also noticed was the biggest on at the dock.

'just wish I already had that power to take some of the powers from others' I thought to myself and jumped up onto the boat. 'il need a way to find this guy after this... I wonder how many points it would be to find things?'

"15" imp answered my unspoken question.

I frowned and thought the question 'anything?' and she nodded. The thought of all the things I could do with that was just to good and I nodded to her.

I felt the cold water lift me up for a moment its icey tuch filling my brain then it slowly faded.

"iv got another question for you Ray. What dose it feel like when you level up or spend your points?" I asked Ray who looked a little uncomfortable.

"well its like breathing in a good smelling soup but with my hole body." he said with a frown. "dang it im no good at fancy talk."

"I ts ok I think I get it. Its warm and airy but a little bit of humid?" I asked.

"somthin like that." he said with a half shrug. "though every time I try to spend these damn points it keeps telling me I haven't got enuff."

I nodded. "yeah only one at a time makes them add up slow."

He nodded "and when most stuff costs 6 or 8 points feels like an eternity to get up to that."

That made me perk up a bit. '6 or 8 points? my shit costs 10-50. Must be what hes asking for.'

"well now we got that worked out how about you try and see if you cant get some sharks to eat a few of these nock off cops and get some levels in ya while I go get those other guys and the portal to get you outta here?" I asked standing on the roof of the boat looking back at the city proper and testing out my power to be able to find things asking where the others were in the city and feeling a light tugg in my body and also seeing 3 faint blue lines appear in the air above me leading out and 2 of them seamed to be moving slowly. 'now this is going to speed things up.'

"your just going to leave? just like that? you that sure you can handle it? Just what is your power anyway?" he asked me looking a little annoyed.

"MY POWER?" I said dramatically putting a hand to my chest. "I s movement."

I disco pointed up to one of the buildings and flew away as fast as I could leaving the dumb hick behind to try and sommen a shark as I tracked down the rest of these guys and kicked them out of my world.

I landed on top of the nearest skyscraper looking around at the city and changed the blue lines above my head to the location of the easter eggs. That made a lot more lines appear so many it seamed more like a fan of lines instead of anything useful.

I focused on the lines changing to a piller of light standing above where I needed to go it seamed at first like they didn't want to move but I remind myself and them that they where just an upgrade to the screens in my head power so they should damn well work how I think I want them to. The lines seamed to ignore this, and I started thinking of ways around it.

"I mp." I said looking around thinking "there is a power iv kinda always thought would be really really fucking usefull for me."

"yeah?" imp said waiting not confused or interested like she already knew what it was.

"yeah. Its like being able to cast perfect illusions that you cant tell if there real or not... but only on myself." I said "how much?"

"just 10 points." she said as if she had ben waiting to say that for a while now.

"damn thats nearly nothing... do it." I said feeling the watery chill wash over my whole body when I was just expecting it in my head. I noted how the power washed over me faster then before and pretty much as soon as I said nearly nothing.

"I don't think I want you to just start spending my points when you think theres something I want." I muttered frowning and thinking it over. 'maybe I do want that... I still don't know what or who Imp really is. Considering that she doesn't either or just isn't telling me then maybe I should let her pick powers for me. She mite know whats coming or be able to think of things before me while im distracted or just being a point horder. ...no the fact that I don't know what she is is the point of why I cant trust her at least not yet.'

I glanced at her and had a pile up of thoughts I get sometimes about something completely off topic and realised that with her power of story telling along with the new power I just baut would probably mean I just got myself a magic holodeck. Meaning I now had an unlimited source of every entertainment I wanted along with a way to enjoy it while not actually moving at all.

'I hope I don't end up just going into the water and turning on the holodeck and never wake up.' I thought as a shadow of a lot of ideas and combinations of powers flashed through my mind.

They had the shape of an idea that if I could modify powers and give powers then that means with this power I should be able to modify and give it to people to put them into a holodeck dream land for as long as I wanted. Along with my lack of bodily needs meant I could do it harmlessly at that.

A useful skill to have especially if I can find something that lets me bypass any immunities other people have to powers then I could be a jailer or a sorta bounty hunter keeping watch over and helping controle some of the people with powers and stoping them from getting out of hand. I looked around at the city suddenly seeing it as a prison or a way to store people who go to crazy with their powers.

'and if there just asleep and able to do whatever they wanted while in the dream... then isn't that better then a prison?' I thought.

I noticed the blue lines above my head criss crossing in a way that made it seam like a janky halo and then used my new power to shift them moving them out and then standing upright forming pillers to float like video game quest markers.

"ok... so do you know anything about how that storage space power works?" I asked Imp

"...the right answer is no. not until you get the power." she said thinking it over "with the way you ask questions at least."

"fair enough." I agreed with a nod looking at each beam of light. "what are the chances that these other guys will try and fight me instead of talking like the taxi guy did?"

"I m not sure but I do know there are other things here that will try to kill you on sight." she stated.

"good point... I think its time I got my first "weapon."" I said then changed the pillars of light so that it showed me where ropes were. It didn't exactly narrow it down so I changed it to the closest one and saw that there was some right below me. I changed the piller again into a compus above my head that pointed at the rope and floated down.

I had no idea why the person who made this world would put rope in this building and not say the one next door but I had a gess.

I was wrong I ended up going all the way to the bottom and saw a reflecting pool with a large gold statue of Mercury flying beside it. I never saw a good look of that statue in any movie and had never ben to this city in the real life like I said but the statue looked a little off.

I shrugged it off flying up to the building's entrance seeing 2 cops walking around the doors and noticing 4 more at a desk just inside the entrance.

"looks like this world maker didn't know the difference between cops and security guards... and if they only got it from movies I cant say I blame them." I said glancing between them and wondering if I would have to fight to them or if I could just lie to them. I wasn't even sure if they could talk.

I glanced at Imp "can they talk or think enough to be lied to?"

"yes and no. With words no but some items will make them think things aren't true... for a given value of think of corse." She said looking at the nearest cop looking him in the face and examining him.

"So what are they real?" for some reason I douted that they were completely human.

"looks like a kinda Half Orc in the pig man type." Imp said shaking her head "guess she thought thats why they called them pigs."

"cinda don't blame her. Iv got no idea why some people call them that other then its insulting." I said "so do these cops work on GTA rules?"

"I t wasn't in the magic email I got so your guess is as good as mine."

"Ok... any guess as what would happen if I took one of there uniforms?" I asked staying near the statue

"....Not sure. You should try it." she said

I nodded and flew up then pulled a cop up with me as soon as it was out of sight of the other cop I snaped its neck and started to fly to a shorter building nearby when the cop disappeared into a blue smoke. A small silver object dropping down.

I pulled the thing to me seeing that it was a snub nose revolver. I looked it over before actually holding it the right way. I had never held a hand gun before and only shot a .22 rifle when I was about 10 once or twice. At a friend's uncle's home when I stayed the night. So I didn't know how heavy it was supposed to be but to me it felt to light. Everyone talked about how Guns are heavier then you'd think and with all the things in it it could add up quick, but this gun seamed almost comfortably heavy.

Im not sure if that makes any sense but its wait wasn't heavy or light it was just a good wait. It had to be magic in more ways then one.

I aimed the gun at a window across from me and tried to use a combo of finding things with perception control to find out where the bullet would travel if I fired the gun.

A blue line moved out from the gun until it got a little way away then it seamed like the line started to glitch moving around and jumping.

'and that would be for the fact that a gun loses accuracy after only so far and then 1000 different things start messing with it including even my own breathing and the wind.' I thought to myself then had another fire work of thoughts and tried to use my vectors and my locking vectors to make something like a path using the line to keep it going and moving in the straight line.

It seamed to work the blue line stopped jumping around as one by one I changed the vectors for the bullet before it was even fired out of the gun, oddly I felt my aura moving into the gun instead of seeing or feeling it like with the long range arrows of my vector control.

I played around with this for a moment testing a few ideas. I made the bullet just change direction midway arking then twisting through the air. Then I tried to make it change at a sharp right angle. Then I tried to make it do a zig zag going through 2 right angles. Finally I tried to make it tern around and fire behind me while pointing it forward.

Then I grinned and started getting really dumb with it making the gun float over one sholder or above my head while trying to change where the bullet would go.

I thought of dumb things to do with this latter and put the gun back into my hand. I licked my lips and used my perception control to zoom in as much as I could to a spot as far away as I could trying to aim the line straight. That one took longer then the others but eventually got it.

I smiled nearly taking the shot before deciding to wait and save the bullet. "I mp fly around and mark for me every enemy in the area and make sure to mark different types as different things, also keep up the story."

"geez il pat my head rub my belly wiggle a wing and spin my tail while im at it." Imp snarked flying off.

I frowned at that watching her go. I wasn't sure why doing more then one thing at a time should bother her at all let alone seam like she could get overwhelmed.

I waited listening to the story as one by one blue ghost like shapes appeared of the cops then a brighter blue guy and then a few gray shapeless forms and finally a couple green men in suits and hats. I thought it was done then black shapes appeared.

Imp came flying up to me stoping the story so she could talk. "Ok you've got normal cop guys walking around or siting and watching movies at the desk, then you've got another guy who seems to be a detective who is just standing around inside the building smoking. Then I came across some weird stuff moving around on its own and realized they were low level ghosts."

"realy?" I asked surprised.

"yeah surprised me a little too." she went on. "then I noticed what had to be the mob walking around in there suits and they seam to be a sort of elf I think. They have pointed ears little horns but none of the other things I would think an elf should have."

"odd..." I said thinking about that as she added

"and then there were the ninjas just hanging around or hiding in odd places."

"what? Fucking really? ...thats cool I like that." I said with a smile.

"Yeah it is fucken cool." she said. "but they seamed pretty unreal like they where mostly shadows."

"hmm" I hummed thinking about that. "shadow clones?"

"for sure." she said.

"we'll need to find the first one in order to really stop them." I said floating over to a new spot to look at all the enemies in the building.

I held up the gun trying to see if I could line up a shot to take out all of them at once but every time I started to line up the shot it seamed to stop at the first target or wall.

I also realized something at the same time. "I didn't need you to fly out there at all... I should have just 'found' the enemies inside the building and around it. My bad."

"yep." she folded her arms. "but if you did im not sure you'd know what they were just where they are."

"true." I said thinking about how guns worked in the movies trying to figure out why I couldn't just make the bullet fly through things. Then I remembered that if a person hides behind anything even fucking glass then there safe. For the glass its only the first shots fired then the glass breaks but any thin table or car door or even a few cardboard boxes then your just safe, and if it hit anything even slightly harder then a table then there would be a flash of sparks like the bullet itself exploding.

Then if it hit a person then there was a splash of blood and either they dropped dead right away or bleed out for a while until they got help, and if you were the protaganest then most of the time the bullets just gave you a few scratches or a hole in your arm that you just tied up and ignored like it didn't exist.

"so guns didn't exist in the world that this maker came from huh?" I muttered as imp just shrugged.

"Ok lots of more questions before we go on but none im sure we could answer yet and im wanting that storage space before I make all the cops rush us. So show me a little vision of the place where the ropes actually are and il portal through and just avoid everybody." I told imp who nodded and I saw a small window onto a stage that looked a little familiar from the few times I tried to watch Friday-night live.

I focused and used my portal the bubbles forming just enough for me to fly through. I quickly used my find ability to look for any new threats. Finding none I just looked around slower seeing the empty seats and the stage surrounded with cameras.

"thats 2 out of 5 easter eggs." imp said.

I looked around this time trying to find a magic item and noticed that the mic on the stage had a ring on it picking it up imp snickers.

"your not going to like that one."

"whats it do?"

"it gives you back ground music and an audience who can do things like laugh at you or go awww when there supposed to."

"tempting to just chuck it out the window." I said thinking of all the better things I could do with it. "would it let everyone else hear them to?"

"its got a setting if you twist it one way it dose if you twist it another then no." imp said "but you have to put it on a finger for it to work."

"good." I said slipping it into a pocket thining about maybe using it as an emergency weapon. "So can I spend points for an item to get better?"

"...Yes usually it costs less but theres the fact the item can break or just get stolen." Imp said. "and theres the fact that it cant level up like you and training does not improve it. Unless you buy that power for the weapon outright."

"...How much so that power is just 'my' power so that everything I use gets better and better?" I asked holding back my excitement until I heard her reply.

"the way your thinking. Turning any trash into godlike items you cant just buy because of the quest to kill Lu. Its on the list of failure penalties, But you can still buy the shard version that just stops making the things you use from degrading at first, but you can eventually get it up to start making things better. That power is only 20 points." Imp said seaming to expect me to get angry.

I did feel a little twitch at that but she had said that a lot of powers where now locked to me. "how many points do I have left? and would that count for these magic guns?"

"42 and yes." Imp said with a little nod. "well in a way. They don't really degrade or need amo, but with the way the power works itl stop them from getting dirty scratched up, clogged, or not working for some other reason."

"hmmm.... Not sure I know it would be better to get it now, But itl be half of my points...." I muttered more to myself but also so that imp could add in either for or against.

"well the way these cops work im sure you could level up twice in no time meaning those points would come back fast." Imp shrugged as she said it as if resined to my point hording.

"alright... well do it I guess... sounds like it'll at least make it so I don't need to worry about washing my clothes or replacing them or them getting cut up while I cant pay attention to them." I said feeling a little bit of worry at getting so low in points.

Weirdly the cold water feeling came from inside of me then washed out and into my clothes, the gun I was holding, and even my cell phone and wallet.

Realizing that the power would mean I would never run out of battery life or have to worry about my phone breaking make me think that it was 20 points well spent.

I used my find power to find a coiled up bundle of rope, I noticed a few of them in the back and a couple hanging up in he "rafters?" and decided to be lazy and wanted to see something cool.

So I pulled the ropes down to me from where they where haning having them unwind and fly at me before they re-coiled up before me.

I then took some smaller ropes and tyed 4 of them to another small rope then rolled it up before coiling up each one of the off shoots and put it behind a shoulder and locked it into place. I made another one of these and put it on my other shoulder then put the last 2 large coils of rope on each hip.

So in total I had 2 "capture ropes" and 2 "arm" ropes, with a total of 4 ways I looked like an idiot.

I made it worse by locking the gun so it floated above a forearm. So I looked like a badly programed video game bad guy.

"ok... is there anything else useful in this place." I wondered out loud looking around at the stage and the seats. "where is a thing that would make a good shield ?"

I saw a lightly glowing thing in the back I headed deeper into the stage and found a solidly built desk made of thick wood.

I smiled and used my power to "cut" but more like tare in a very accurate way the top of the desk off then remove the drawers that were still on it. It was a lot bigger then I thought it was. I thought about putting it in my portal to the beach but was worried I couldn't get it back out fast enough or that I would let something fly in while I was trying to bring it out so I cut the wooden shield in half again. puting half of it at my back and the other half floating on my left side nearly touching the ground.

I started to walk away and after only a few steps felt over burdened and claustrophobic. So I put away the half of shield on my arm, then both capture ropes, and one of the 'arm' ropes.

I also moved the gun from my arm to my hip but angled so it was mostly pointed out. I also moved the 'arm' rope to my lower back with the end of it going up my back and along my arm stoping at my wrist. It felt oddly comfortable there.

I tried moving again and felt much better. "ok now its tempting to speed run this quest to get that fucking storge space." I said to imp using the my portal to bring me back out into the sky above the city.

"with your power set it should be as easy as going past the quest markers in a racing game. Hell you only need 3 more." She said with a shrug. "at this point it just seams like your stalling."

"dose it?" I thought for a minute and then shrugged. "I need to work on sticking to one fucking task at a time... Tern on the story."

I turned on all of the pillars for the easter eggs and started flying I could slow down and actually enjoy these after I woke up Eva and Lu. I flew past a vending machine not sure what was so special about it, then into a small house I thought I had seen somewhere before, and finally onto the steps of the new york library with the lion statues standing outside.

"quest complete." imp sait doing a loop in celebration as a ripple washed over me while imp started to think. "oh... thats not as good as you hoped."

"do tell."

"well it is a storage space and it can hold all of your items and let you take them out when you want. But they cant be to big and if you tried to do something like just filling it with water or sand then dumping it into a room to wash out people. then all the items you stored in there would get wet or sandy while there inside it. Also it wont take air or fire as items has to be soild."

"ok..."

"and to level it up you have to just keep putting things into it until its completely full then take all of the things out."

"fuck..."

"yeah... and no living things. Not just cus the'll die but cus they just don't count as items."

"well il have to work on that latter... for now though I can get started on getting those other 2 while grabbing any interesting things along the way." I said putting the shield and the rope away into the storage with a sort of going underwater feeling. I added the things I had just stashed in my beach portal into the storage space.

"...So how many books in that library are real?" I asked looking up at what was supposed to be a huge book storage.

"sadly none of them, the person who made this world didn't want to learn your language or bother making a million enchanted books." Imp floated up looking into a window.

"shame" I said but notice how good looking the books were. I had a thought that made me smile and pulled a medom black one with gold embossing out and fliped though the pages to be sure they were blank before putting it into my storage. "I f I can get more world gates then that would be a fun place to keep them. And im going to be back soon, because if I got all kinds of vector crafting than that means that I got caligraphy and printing with vectors as well. Il have to find ink or maybe paint for it though."

Imp nodded. "that sounds like a good use of it."

I floated up looking for the other 2 Fake New Yorkers. Seeing one line appear but the other one seamed to be glitching flashing on and off and pointing in random places.

"what the fuck is that imp?"

she pretended to be watching it as well then said "that means hes not exactly on this world but the fastest way to him is."

"ok..." 'then show me the fastest way to him' I thought and saw the line pointing steady.

Following it I found a phone booth attached to a wall in the corner of a back allie. I raised my eyebrows at it a little worried about stepping inside.

I did it anyway and when the phone started to ring picked it up and put it to my ear.

"Operator. Logging out." said a male voice then the sound of a dial up tone rang into my ear as everything went black.

I woke up sitting on a bench my clothes feeling weird and I noticed that my phone and wallet weren't in my pockets. I started to get pissed at that then I felt the tight and hot feeling on my arms along with a pinch on my nose. Snaping my eyes open I also noticed I was wearing sunglasses and in a black outfit.

Throwing my glasses off of me I checked my storage for my phone and wallet. They came to my hand and I let out a sigh of relief my anger washing away. I put them away and tried to get a better look at what I was wearing but it was difficult especially when I heard a saprized outcry and then was pushed into the wall.

"how the fuck did one of you get in here." the skinny pale guy was saying obviously not expecting a response as he held me pined to the wall.

I snarled at him using my aura to push his hands off of me as I grabbed him by the throat digging my nails into his neck.

Imp flew in front of my face. "don't kill him!"

If it wasn't for her I would have started squeezing for real. Instead I let the guy go still glaring at him. "dont fucking do that again."

he jumped back going all the way across the train platform looking socked. "you things can talk?"

"Look asshole." I snarled as he pulled out a very recognizable dragon hilted katana throwing away the sheath and tried to get into a battle stance that looked like shit to me. "I m not an NPC!"

he rushed at me but he seamed to be in slow motion as I moved at him reaching up with my left hand and pushed on the balde so that his downward swing hit the wall next to me kicking up sparks and brick dust with out slowing down.

I pulled the rope that I had put on my right hip and arm out of my storage and grabbed the guy's arm pushing the rope to wrap around his wrists and squeeze.

He tried to jump back and I let him while pulling on the rope so that it nocked the sword out of his hands.

He looked up at me surprised.

"Fucking talk to me!" I yelled at him he hesitated for just a moment before jumping back onto the train tracks and then flew into the tunnel.

The rope loosened and quickly started to get low as he flew, but then he appeared at the other end of the subway platform before flying across again tugging on the rope the whole time.

I glared at him pulling my capture rope out and throwing it at where he was about to be. The 4 ropes I tied to the larger one fanning out and as he hit it I made it grab him and tighten up.

He made a shocked angry face and just started speeding up and changing direction going from one side to the other and flying around like a fish on a hook.

I knotted the ropes to each other and around him as best I could then started to pull him in wondering how close to death he would be if I just grabbed his arms and legs with vectors and slammed him down into the ground.

Instead I held myself back and pulled on all of the ropes at once dragging him back to me and forcing him to the ground where I grabbed my half desk shield and slammed it on top of him much harder then I needed to for sure.

He gasped in pain and struggled to breath so I had it lighten up a little but still pining him in place.

"You motherfucker." I glared down at him. "you trying to use the god damned blade of the hilander to kill me? IF there can be only one bitch its not going to be your punk ass!"

He seamed to finally realize I was actually talking to him and he stopped struggling to just sit there and catch his breath taking a long time about it panting harder and harder.

"My inhaler." he wheezed.

"fuck off with that." I said disgusted. "that shit doesn't exist to people like us."

he didn't seam to belive me and kept panting for a minute.

I glared at him until he finally seamed to calm down and let out a long breath then took in a larger one. "forgot." he mumbled.

"yeah its a big change." I said.

Next to me imp whispered "this guy has the power of channeling."

I glanced at her in a clear 'what?' face.

"yeah he doesn't know how to use it at ALL" she said

I wasn't so sure what I could do with it either. "ok now if I let you up you going to stop fighting me?"

He gave me a look I hated to see on people I always felt it was a 'im lying to you and im such a good lier also you cant call my bluff so you'll just have to let me lie to your face.’ And every time I had to just let them go and wait to find out if it was a lie or not and wasn't quite sure if it was a lie or if they just changed there minds later.

He said "yeah. Il just talk to you"

"you know what fuck face. I just decided I hate that look on your face so im going to keep you tied up until i'm sure you wont be a bag of dicks." I said nearly growling and attaching the ropes to the wooden shield and lifting it all up together.

He started struggling "you fucking asshole let me the fuck out of here and I wont kill you only beat you till im satisfied."

"nope not ganna happen." I said being reminded of a few guys I hated in high school. "anyway im just here to get you fuckers out of my world."

"your world? your the one who built this place?" he asked in shock.

"No but im the guy whos going to walk away with it when this is all said and done." I said "I have a power that lets me control world gates so as soon as im done here im going to close this one and put it into my collection."

"FUCK you." he spat "what gives you the right to kick anybody out of here then? what gives you the right to take this world away from me?"

"well first of all the world builder asked me to come here and take you guys out of it cus she didn't like you." I lifted the guy up while I found the way out. "and because iv got more and better powers than you and I know how to use them. That being said I could help you learn how to use your own power of Channeling."

The way out was a bright red button on the wall that was small enough to miss. I wasn't sure how it would work with me holding onto him and the button pressing so I walked over with the rope tied to one arm and moved him closer to me and hit the button.

A train roared by then a single train car pulled up and stoped.

'ah so thats how we get out of this.' I thought

"dumb fat fucking pig." the guy said. "I thought you were one of those fat gangsters when you first got here."

I moved him into the train car glancing at him while his back was turned and she looked thoughtful then nodded slowly.

"The mobsters arnt fucking pigs dumbass." I said "and keep that shit up il start spinning you."

we rode the train to another subway stop and I flew out with him beside me out into the street then up into the air. I looked for Ray and started flying to him.

"I m not kidding when I say I could fucking help you." I said "I v ben a nerdy crazy fat guy my whole life iv ben studding magic and superpowers ever sence I was fucking 7. I can think of 100 uses for the power to make bubbles mother fucker, your channeling and any other powers you picked up would take me minutes."

As we flew through the sky he grew quiet at that as if actually thinking about it but then again I kept his face away from me so he could have just ben doing the face equivalent of fliping me off.

I actually noticed Rays boat before I saw him there was all kinds of crazy glowing fish floating around the dock. Sharks weren't even the half of it.

Some of them looked like they where made of fire, others lightning, or the water from the docks. Ray was standing on the boat looking around like he was on drugs and enjoying the trip the silly elf hat wasn't on his head anymore.

I waved to him as the tied up one let out a little "what the hell?"

I landed on the boat as Ray stood up I smiled at him feeling like I kinda ment it this time. "see you got that shark."

"You were right." Ray said shaking his head "I haven't seen a single one of those damned pop up red boxes telling me I cant do something in a long time now."

"thats fuckin greate I mean that." I said setting down the shield boy. "got one of them... witch one is this anyway?"

"oh thats Jerry." Ray said looking him over. "How ya ben Jerry?"

Jerry looked a little ashamed and still stared at the fish floating around us. "...not bad" he finally muttered

"So now your on the boat with Ray I just need to go get that last guy-" I started but Ray interrupted me.

"His name is Tomy"

"fine Tomy" I said "then I can get all 3 of you out of here and back home. Your powers and abilities will stay with you and you'll even still get quests, the only thing this place wont have is lots of things to kill for exp, or magic items.

So now im going to take my rope back and my shield . If you try to run I will just chase you back down and this time il keep you locked up until after I get you out of here."

Ray looked a little uncomfortable "theres no need for that now is there Jerry?"

Jerry glanced at me then back at the fish floating around then at Ray and nodded seamingly for real this time. "Yeah I can wait the few minutes until you find Tomy."

"Good." I said unbinding him but watching him for even the slightest twitch before putting the stuff away into the storage.

Jerry reached out and touched one of the water fish swimming before him "how the hell did you do this Ray?"

"well its like He said" Ray pointed his chin at me. "My power was a lot more then I thought it was, and he just told me I should start trying new things."

Jerry looked back at me disbelieving. "so your not just full of shit?"

"no" I said feeling smug but im sure I was a bit too angry to be smug the right way "I really am verry verry into superpowers and magic."

"I guess so if you can do this with fish man." Jerry said

"yep." I said then jumped off the boat and flew away to get the last guy and then finally make some cards for Lu and then wake him up giving him a little bit of a head start of Eva or Maybe il wake both of them up around the same time so I don't have to repeat myself.

But I mite get overwhelmed if I tried to train both of them and get them powered up at once.

So I guess I should wake Lu up first scene he was the one who actually wanted the powers and was the first to go to sleep. He'd get pissed (and hed be right to do so) if he woke up and saw that not only was I very powerful but also Eva who hadn't even started getting powers was awake and more powerful than him. And her power being slime symbiosis and the fact that slime is so veag and in my terms it means that it could do anything so she should grow in power very quickly.

'Geez why was I given the weakest power of the 3 of us.' I thought then glanced at imp. "so why was I given the power I was? why do any of us get the powers that we do?"

Imp glanced at me "You already know that.. Mana has a plan."

I glared at nothing thinking on that. "yeah but I fucking hate that cind of answer... at least when I cant see most of the parts and cant trust what or who is doing the planing."

Imp got a distent look at on her face as if thinking of her own things.

I landed on the same building as before thinking of Vector control and wondering about it and the things I could do with it that wasn't just killing things faster and ripping other things apart.

'iv got the power to have my vectors lock in so they do what I want but pretty much forever... that should mean I could make unlimited energy by having a turbine spin with my power instead of wind, gass, or water.

I could also set up a factory to make things with the power and with the fact most factory machines just move things around in the first place I wouldn't even need to have them. Id just need the raw materials and what I want to make. But what would be worth making especially in those amounts? Maybe food... or...' I lost the train of thought there and started to get lost in things I mite be able to make and how bad an idea it really seamed except for maybe the unlimited electric power. 'I could make it so that every one in the world didn't have to work, I could just automate so many jobs that the few left would be a joke.' I had a mental picture of things like hamburgers piling up from bing cooked but no1 wanting to eat them. 'Hell if I really work at it I could just make it so that the automation did not activate until some one wanted them to. Or if I got those other powers I mite as well put everyone into holodecks and let them live out there lives in blissful dreams. I mean... wouldn't that be better then real life? Wouldn't that be better then the life there living now? Then the lives they mite lead if magic really took over. People free to do what ever they wanted with no limits and with the ability to take it if they wanted it. Not the lies of freedom not the being forced to do what your told and then if you complan being told that it was your choice to do it when clearly there wasn't anything you could do'

I felt myself getting angry thinking about the way the world worked and how in so many stories the guy who tried to build a better world was always the bad guy. That no mater what I tried to do to help this world I would be shit on or told I was in the wrong by people who just want things to stay the same. Hell even most of the people who would benefit would just be so afraid of change that they couldn't trust some one just trying to help.

I felt a pressure in the back of my head at the base of my skull and at the top of my neck, on the left side. This was a sign I was going to go into a rage soon if I didn't stop this line of thoughts and maybe even if I did stop thinking about it.

I looked at the ledge of the building and thought about smashing it using my new powers to smash it to get a brief feeling of power and satisfaction from seeing something crumble under my fist. ...But no... that was the start of so many bad things especially now that I had such powers and was going to be getting more. I didn't smash things when I got mad before I had powers... even when I wanted to... at least not very often. There was times when I did smash things when I got pissed but that was normally after bing pissed for days, or what seamed like forever.

But with the powers I would be having that urge could get people killed and the fact that im saposted to be able to grow and evolve means that soon I wont have to put up with what ever the fuck this defect was that made me rage with a head ake.

I stood there taking a breath trying to focus on not being angry and not smashing anything.

"I mp distraction." I spat clenching my teeth.

She gave me a weird look then started up the story along with the feeling like I was underwater.

I took a breath listening to the book and just trying to think about what will happen next in it, along with what I would do in it or with some of the abilities the people in the books where getting.

The son of Thor took his chunk of lightning struck standing stone and threw it like a foot ball through a group of trolls and had it zig zag like lightning before smashing through a few more on its way back.

'i could easily do that...' I thought thinking how fun it might be to have something like that a thing that had a good wait that I could throw that would smash through things then come back to me.

"Hey Imp with that power I just got where it makes the things I use not degrade dose that include things that I use through my power? Like if I picked up a knife and pushed it through a wall using my power then would it still not degrade?"

Imp shook her head. "not yet. your power is just things you are actually using with your body like your aura instead of with your power. But latter of corse."

"of course." I said thinking about that. "I really wish I could get some more training boosts Im so Impatient when it comes to trying to do new things."

"A x40 boost on the beach is still much more then most people get. Some people never even get that far or even think of it." she said

"that dosent saprize me." I said "seams to much like cheating for most people."

I finally realized what I was wearing looking down at the black suit with oddly long tails? It oddly felt comfortable most clothes didn't especially with my chunky body shape.

"I mp what is with these clothes?" I asked feeling them on me to see if I could notice any uncomfortable parts of it.

"oh its what you call an easter egg, It gives you a level 4 out of 10 super body, lets you fly and gives you martial arts skills of all kinds, cant be destroyed, and when its damaged it heals itself like your body dose." Imp stated.

"useful." I muttered "and you said 4 outa 10? full body boost?"

"yep"

based on my own scaling a super body of 4 out of 10 could probably be king of this world and kill everything iv seen so far pretty easy except the ghosts and those would have such a hard time hurting them first.

"so anyone who uses that phone will get one right?" I asked imp. "and itl always fit comfortably?"

"yep."

"dose it actually do anything to make the person look good while in it?" I said knowing that I could look like rolled up black socks if I was wearing the suit made for a skinny guy but just sized to fit me.

"The one who made them didn't think that far ahead im afraid." Imp said with a shrug. "But its cool by its self and black is slimming..."

"So I look like a half a pile of potatoes in a million dollar bag." I stated shaking my head a little "if it didn't give me so many boosts I would take it off."

"you know you keep talking about how badly shaped your body is." imp said "its only one point for a one time body change."

I raised my eyebrows at that thinking it over and wondering if I should take it.

"I n fact most people who go through the change while in a mana heavy environment can get one for free if they want. It typically happens right after learning about magic and just before they start learning how to use there powers." Imp folded her arms drifting on a slight breeze.

I wasn't sure what to say to that at first. "...so Eva and Lu will be different when they wake up?"

"for sure." imp said. "I dout most people on your world wouldn't change 'something' about them if given a chance."

"Really hope Tutorial doesn't have to talk to all of them..." I said thinking that the number of men wanting bigger dicks or either gender wanting dumb things for there bodys.

"Not everyone but a lot she seams to enjoy it most of the time... Other wise she wouldn't have picked that life style" imp said with a far away look in her eyes.

"did she now?" I thought about that thinking it was almost like wanting to be a doctor teacher and complaint department all at once.

I took a breath and looked back over the city finding the last guy on my list. It took me a moment because the marker for the guy pointed behind me and down back on the dock I had just come from.

I turned frowning as a glowing blue shark flew at me jaws open for a bite.

I pulled myself back so the shark missed me its tail lashed out to try and hit me but I lept into the air and off of the building seeing sparks flying off the shark meaning it was most likely a lightning shark.

Jerry flying fast swung the large sword at me the shark having ben just a distraction. I barly had any time to re-act but I raised my hands and tryed to push on the blade with my aura so that it wouldn't cut me while at the same time thinking I need to take that fucking blade from him.

The blade slowed my aura stoping it enough for me to grab it and then put it into MY storage space.

We both hesitated both surprised that worked and I saw blue fire burning inside of his eyes before he flew at me fists flying. I used a combo of aura and kung fu skill the suit had given me to deflect every punch. Our arms seamed to speed up into blurs.

My body started to seize my muscles tight with an electric pain and my vision started to tern blue, the shark had clearly made another attack behind me when I wasn't looking.

It took me a few moments to even realize I was falling through the pain I could barely think but then I twisted my perception until I didn't notice the pain at least.

I stopped myself from falling but Jerry was on me again punching and kicking at me moving so fast I could barely see. I know I took at least 3 punches that I couldn't feel before I pushed everything away from me with my aura forming an armor blocking anymore hits but still didn't seam to work very well on the shark.

I could see things going blurry and could feel my heart beat in my chest moving at an odd speed. 'fucking lightning is going to kill me.' I thought and bolted flying away from the both of them as fast as I could knowing that the lightning shark was slower then it should be having to slow down for Ray's control over it.

I left the shark behind me with Jerry watching the city fly by as I flew back words planing on getting to the ship the long way around this small world.

"thanks for the fucking heads up Imp!" I spat at her taking a breath even though I didn't 'need' to.

she looked distressed. "I didn't have that much time and you were already fully booked with how many things you can think about at once. Im just a part of your mind after all, and with the suit speeding up your reactions and movements you were starting to burn out."

I narrowed my eyes at that noticing the edge of the city coming up and the water stretching out before me. "how bad did that fuck me up?"

"honestly you ripped up a lot of your muscles and did damage to your heart, if it wasn't for that suit giving you a resistance and healing factor you should have died." Imp said

I felt my mouth move to show as many teeth as possible. "great so im sure just one more of those and il die."

she shrugged "unless you take some time to heal up first."

"they were putting the pressure on me. They don't want to give me the chance." I said turning around to face the water, wanting to dive into it to keep out of Jerry's reach I didn't so that I wouldn't be giving Ray an edge.

"why are they suddenly attacking me?" I asked

"I don't know but there was something wrong with Jerry's eyes... It looked like fox fire."

"fucking ....3rd guy. With will of the wisp powers." I couldn't think of his name off the top of my head and we were in open waters getting closer to the edge that would put us back to the boat.

I found where Ray Jerry and 3rd guy were at seeing the markers go from pointing behind me then jumping in front of me and splitting into 3 lines that quickly flew ahead and marked there outlines.

Ray being the closest and 3rd guy right next to him as I saw that Jerry was flying after me as best he could. I tried to think of a way to stop Ray with out killing him quickly but wasn't so sure I wouldn't kill him.

I flew at him and stopped just before grabbing him and throwing him into the water it would only buy me a few moments at best but it would stop him from being able to use his power.

I turned to the 3rd guy and then everything started to slow a bright white blue fire filling my vision and I started to relax feeling a little sleepy and just so very tired after that fight...

Imp blocked my view of the blue fire and I blinked feeling the relaxation and the tiredness snap off. "he's a fucking will of the wisp, man get it together."

I saw the blue fire go flat and white like it was being edited out of my vision, before imp moved back my perception modifying so that I could ignore the mesmerizing lights.

"fuck you guy." I said to the fireball. "I m just trying to get you out."

I felt the fist to the side of my head and saw myself flying out of the boat my vision started to go blurry again but in a different way this time as I was flung out over the water.

I felt one half of my face going slack and saw imp flickering and distorting just before we hit the water and sank into it.