I stayed home from work on my birthday. Team R54 had a gift for me-copper-category. I got fifteen power stones, and fifteen new afflictions. I asked why I was still one-star. They said you had to be eighteen to get two stars, and twenty-one to get three stars.

I had a party for my tenth birthday, but it couldn’t be too big. I was only friends with team R54, and Bob-the one who I had sparred with. It was a good party, though. I even got a lot of food-something I had never done since normal-category. It was the most fun thing I'd ever done on Glassfay. I also went to a higher category, but, because my soul was so powerful, I only went to soul strength silver 5. I did, however, become a body-soul combo. Okay, the official word is “gestalt,” but I didn’t know what that means, so I looked it up, and it’s a fancy word for combo.

Usually, how it works is that the soul goes inside the brain, in a cavity. If you become a gestalt, your soul expands, so that you have your soul everywhere, but it doesn’t interfere with anything that happens at your category.

While training to be a Worldsafer, when I was sparring with Bob, we had become friends. His mom didn’t let him do the contest, because, in their family, when you join a Worldsafer team, you become a copper-category. I could now throw around cars, jump five meters, and run at fifty kilometers per hour, for five hours. I could now knee over my head as easily as a Taekwondo Ee Dan Black Belt, whatever that meant. My translation ability allowed me to understand that Ee was Korean-Sino for one, and Dan was Korean for degree. So, apparently that meant “Taekwondo First Degree Black Belt.” My rainbow flask upgraded too, giving the constructs the ability to fly. Their size also increased, to double the iron-category size. I could now make it float or drive, too, and I could make it turn into a vehicle. I could still get template powers now. I also got the template power limit increased to nine. Joe gave another template power, The Sword of Death, which summoned a sword that categoried up with me. Doom gave me a template power that allowed me to learn any martial art up to the first black belt, so I said the following. “Taekwondo, jiu jitsu, judo, wrestling, muay thai, hapkido, krav maga, karate, kung fu, aikido, vidyut jamwal, and MMA.” I learned all of them.