The Center: Tester - Part 1

By Blackout

Editor: Geekydee

Give a shout out to Geekydee for the editing help!

Ryan thought he had all the happiness in the world. He had his beautiful girlfriend Mattie but life is a roller coaster as Ryan would find. Here is his story as he goes through what can only be considered the biggest change of his life.

Based on The Center universe. Hope you enjoy!
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Just when everything seems great in life, it’s taken away in a matter of moments. I was so happy this morning; I was taking my girlfriend of three months out on a date. Her parents were so strict that they wouldn't let her date until she was sixteen. She's my girlfriend, for crying out loud, and we haven't even been able to go on a date! We have known each other since we were little. We used to be best of friends when we were little, always playing games together. We either played ball, house, or something else. I was always acting as her knight in shining armor. I promised to protect her till the day I die. I would beat anyone who meant to harm her whether it was playground bullies or the neighborhood dog. That dog was way huge, with teeth that could kill a man. It ended up having to be put down after it bit the mail man so hard he was put in the hospital.

Yet my current girlfriend and I grew apart when we entered middle school. You know how it is; you just drift apart with the whole different gender thing at that age. Still, we entered high school and sparks just kind of clicked between us after wWe got paired up on a science project. I did not know what to think, as we had not really talked to one another for a few years now. When I went to her house at first, it was kind of awkward since we were then at the age where you start fantasizing about the opposite sex. We started talking about when we were younger; one thing lead to another and now we're dating. I could not be happier.

Turning my head to look at the clock, I noticed that the time read 7:30 AM. "Damn, if I don’t leave now, I am going to be late".

I got into my car to drive and pick up my date for school. Stopping by her house, I honked the horn. She ran out of the house smiling her bright and beautiful smile. I would like to say my eyes did not wander off her smile, but that would be lying. I am a guy after all; my eyes could not help wandering down to her breasts. She was a beautiful blonde with the curves of a goddess; she has bright blue eyes, a petite girlish face, nice legs that will drive a man crazy, a nice butt, and to top it all off, some C sized breasts. I was happy when she told me her breast size, not too big and not too small, as Goldilocks would say, they were just right. If that was not enough, she was wearing a mini jean skirt, flip-flops, and tank top. In all honesty, she could have been a model.

"Ryan Hershel, watch where your eyes are wandering," she said, giving me a smile while turning her head around to where her dad was standing at the door, frowning at me.

"Don’t worry, Mr. Rossford," I shouted. "I will take good care of Mattie on our date tonight!"

"You better, son; remember, don’t take advantage of her, and bring her home by 11:00 tonight or I will be having a long conversation with your father, Ryan".

I sighed, relieved he smiled. If it was anyone else they would not have gotten anywhere near his precious daughter. Our fathers were both friends since high school, yet tragedy hit both their families. When I was born, my mother died right after childbirth. My father was devastated and at the beginning, unable to overcome the sense of loss. Mr. Rossford was with my father all the time until my father was mentally stable again. Six months later Mr. Rossford’s wife died in labor; fortunately they were able to save Mattie’s life. To say the least, Mr. Rossford was even more devastated and this time it was my dad’s turn to comfort him. Mr. Rossford eventually remarried but my dad never had the heart to get married again. The death of Mr. Rossford’s wife did play heavy on him though, it was part of the reason he was so protective of Mattie. She was the child of his first wife, his first love. That’s why if it was anyone else, they would not be able to date his daughter.

The only reason he let me date her was because he knew me and my father was his best friend. If I did anything out of line with his daughter, I would be grounded for a century. Not that I would though. I honestly love and care for Mattie, still trying to uphold the promise of being her knight in shining armor that would protect the princess at any cost. We often joke about that now, but I still keep that promise as best I can.

"Hey my Knight!" Mattie teased. "Show up early next time, I can’t afford to be late to school."

"Sure thing princess" I teased back.

We soon arrived at Huntington High School, ready to have knowledge shoved down our throats, and crammed into our heads.

Mattie held my hand as we walked into school. I smiled. Being with her made my heart thump, my hand was getting sweaty but fortunately she either did not notice or did not care. She clearly just wanted to be near me, which made me about the happiest man in the world.

Half way through the school day I started to get a small headache. But I pushed it out of my mind,, determined to make this the best date of Mattie’s life. When school ended it was like the bells of an angel. I was so ready to just sprint out of there and prepare for tonight's date. Being a seventeen year old junior in high school is hard, I'd much rather spend my time playing videogames, soccer, or being with Mattie.

I drove Mattie home and then drove myself right back to school for soccer practice. I am currently playing varsity soccer, where I play midfield, which means I am a key player. In the middle of practice, my headache intensified. I was relieved when practice finally ended.

When I got back home I had thirty minutes left until my date with Mattie. I did a really quick shit, shower, and shave. After that, I got ready and put on a nice button down shirt and pair of dress pants. I then put on some cologne; I wanted to smell my best for tonight’s date. I looked in the mirror to review myself before the date. I looked pretty good shaved with my brown hair, tan skin, emerald green eyes, and the healthy lean and muscular body I got from soccer. On my way out the door my dad stopped me.

"Hey son," He said. "Make sure you are respectful to Mattie: open the car door for her and be the gentleman I raised you to be".

"You know how much I care for Mattie, Dad. I would never do anything to hurt her," I replied.

"I know that son, but Mr. Rossford is my oldest friend, and you know how protective of Mattie he is. I would hate if anything happened to harm our friendship. So just be extra careful with her tonight. You hear me?"

"Yeah dad, I will make sure Mattie is safe and has a good time tonight. I will be back later tonight. See you later." After that I practically ran out the door. There was no way I was going to be late to pick up Mattie and with how things were going, I was really pushing it; I had barely ten minutes to pick her up. Fortunately for me, she was only an eight minute drive away.

When I got to her house and rang the doorbell, I began sweating again. I was just so nervous about our date tonight. Thank the heavens for deodorant and cologne.
When she opened the door and her smile shined right through me, I was taken right there. If I died now, I would die a happy man. There she was, in this beautiful sparkling backless blue dress. It hugged her curves in all the right ways. My eyes drifted back again between breasts where her cleavage was showing in all their glory.

"Eyes on my daughters face, RYAN!" said Mattie’s father behind her, with a stern gaze on me.

I couldn't help but mumble, "Yes sir." With this, Mattie just giggled. I look at her and smiled.

"Now Ryan, just remember what I told you this morning. Take care of my daughter and make sure she is home on time."

With that, I assured him I would and then we left on our way. When we got to the car, I was sure to open the door for her so she could get in. She smiled. I think she liked it that I was all dressed up and being the perfect gentleman.

On our way to the restaurant some red sports car seemed to be following us, but then it turned and I relaxed. Clearing my mind of all things but the awesome date I was about to have with Mattie, we went to some inexpensive, nice Italian restaurant. There we talked about all sort of things like school, our lives, our favorite shows, and anything else we could think of. Mattie and I can talk for a century together. We decided to order a large pizza, my treat. We both dug, in filling our faces with the greasy delicacy.

During the meal my headache increased and my sides started to hurt. I thought I must be getting cramps from soccer practice. Note to self, drink more water and stretch more.

Mattie noticed I was hurting from the pained expression on my face.
"Ryan, are you sure you’re ok?" Mattie asked with genuine concern evident on her face.

I smiled at her. "I believe so, Mattie, but let’s get going though. I don’t know if this headache or these cramps I have can get any worse". With that, I paid the bill and we headed out the doors.

When we got out in the parking lot I saw it again. There it was, the red sports car that was following us. I motioned for Mattie to follow me quickly to my car. But the passengers in the red sports car had other ideas as they pulled up next to us.

Two teenagers jumped out of the car. One was a guy that looked our age with what can only be described as sapphire hair. He also had a Mediterranean look to him and emerald color eyes. The girl next to him had an even stranger appearance. She had pale white skin, so pale in fact, that if she was any paler she would be transparent. She also had albino white hair, it was as if she bleach it, even her eyes where pure white. If I could, I would color her; it was as if she was a blank page in a coloring book, the only color she had was the tie-dyed shirt and shorts she was wearing. Probably to add some color to herself.

I felt like what was a click at the back of my mind, but I just brushed it off. "Ugh!" I guess this headache is getting worse.

"DAMN, it seems he is resistant to my control. You’re going to have to take him, Frosty," said the pale girl.

"With pleasure," he sneered, "I'll get his little girly, that will make him easier to control."

"These guys are out to get us," I thought. I saw him lunge at Mattie. Putting my soccer skills into action, I sprinted forward and punched him in the face and he fell down, blood streaming from his nose. Oddly, though, when I punched him, I felt something cold absorb into the hand that I punched him with. I yelled at Mattie to run away and get help; she took the signal and ran back to the restaurant.

"These jerks are going to pay for this," I thought. I was Mattie’s knight in shining armor and I would protect my princess till the very end.

"You’re going to pay for that!" he screamed. Raising his hand, he pointed it at me and the very air around me began to freeze. Ice was forming around me. My brain lost it at that point. What was happening? Now I was all adrenalin and instinct. I jumped back, breaking free of the ice, then I moved in again and came right at him, this time throwing punches and kicks. He fell again and I jump back to survey my work; something seemed off. Looking now. I saw that everywhere I punched him was frozen, as if my punches were freezing him.

I was so shocked that I did not know what to say. The other party was not shocked in the least. Frosty, as his friend called him, came at me again. This time, though, he had a giant ice sword in his hand.

"I am going to cut you up, no one injures me and gets away with it!" he yelled.

On instinct alone, I went into the fetal position; what was I going to do against an ice sword? To my surprise, it never hit me. There was a giant wall of ice now between us, separating us.

At that moment an SUV pulled up, and another group of teenagers jumped out of the car. "Damn," I thought, "more of these freaks are after me."

"Shit!" the pale girl cursed. "The Center just got here and it seems Kristyn is leading them. Let’s pull out, Frosty." With that the two of them ran back into their red sports car and pulled away. So, apparently, they were not friendly with the people in the SUV who were racing toward me. I was in no condition to fight anymore; the headache and cramps were getting worse. I hoped with all my might that these people were friendly.

Coming over to me, the beautiful brunette in front of me stopped and looked at me. I spoke first. "Are you guys here to harm me and my girlfriend, also?"

"No, Ryan, we're friends, we're here to help you through this difficult struggle you're about to go through, but you will have to come with us. I will explain things to you later."

"I really am in no condition to resist anyway, but you seem friendlier then those other two," I told her. "I have no idea what’s happening though. Please tell me what is going on. What’s with those two? For that matter what's wrong with me?"

"It’s going to be ok, Ryan, my name is Kristyn. We are here to help you, and as I said before, I will explain what’s going on later. We need to move you out of here, more of those guys who tried to get you before are coming here right now".

They seemed like they genuinely cared and I definitely did not want to be caught by those other people. So, with that, I sighed and told her, "Ok." After that, the girl named Kristyn came to me and picked me up. When she touched me, I felt that cold feeling again where she touched me. She practically threw me into the SUV. Ssoon after, as the SUV started pulling away, I saw a bunch of vans pull into the restaurant parking lot. I closed my eyes and all went dark; I was tired and had no idea what the future held. I must have fallen asleep, but I still could hear a nit of what was going on around me.

I kept feeling like some sort of static electricity was around me. Someone touched me and pulled back in pain quickly, and then there was the distinct smell of ozone in the air. I tried to think about what just happened but was unable to, as sleep quickly fell upon me.

The Center: Tester - Part 2

By Blackout

Editor: Geekydee

Thanks to Geekydee for the help in editing.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
“What’s happening? What’s happening? What’s happening to me?!?!” The pain was unbearable; it was as if my body was twisting shrinking and taking a new form. I heard voices all around me.

“Doctor, he woke up!”

“Quickly, sedate him!”

After that I felt a needle being shoved into my arm and fell back asleep.

I woke up for mere seconds again, to see what appeared to be BOOBS growing on my chest. I disregarded it as just seeing things before succumbing to the pain I was in.

When I came to, I was in a grey room. More correctly, there was solid concrete all around me. They had me strapped to a bed. I tried moving, but the effort was unbearable.
“HELLO! HELLO! Is anybody there?!” I was screaming at the top of my lungs. Ouch, my throat. My VOICE!
Ok, now I was scared. My voice, what had they done to my voice? What issued from my mouth can only be described as the angelic voice of a soprano, of a GIRL!

Looking down now, I could see why; there, on my chest, were two mounds of flesh, prominently displaying on MY CHEST!
“I…I…..I’m a GIRL!” I almost lost it right there.

“Yeah, you’re a girl.”

I looked around; there, coming into the room, was that beautiful girl, Kristyn.
“You sleep well, Ryan?”

I gave her one of those looks. She had some nerve to make fun of me after all that just occurred.

“Relax, Ryan. I was only joking. Here, let me unstrap you.” With that, she unstrapped me from the table.
I rubbed my wrists where I was strapped. Damn, my whole body was petite now. The only parts not small were my breasts and hips.

“Kristyn, right?” I practically glared at her.

“That’s right, but most people just call me Kris, its easier.”

“Sure. Do you mind telling me what the HELL YOU PEOPLE HAVE DONE TO ME?!?”

“I was getting to that. Ultimately we have done nothing to you but ensure your safety and the safety of society. As for the reason why you have transformed, I have prepared a video to explain it to you. It saves me the hassle of having to explain it each time.”

A television was rolled into the room by some girl who quickly introduced herself as Liz.

Kris pressed play.

“WELCOME TO THE CENTER, NEW EMERGENT”.
“YOU ARE PROBABLY FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW. WONDERING WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU."

That was an understatement.

“YOU SEE, IT ALL STARTED SOME YEARS AGO WHEN SOME TERRORIST ATTACKED A GENETICS RESEARCH COMPAMY.
SOMEOF THE RESEARCH MATERIAL LEAKED INTO THE WATER SUPPLY. A BOTTLED WATER COMPANY NEARBY PACKAGED THIS WATER INTO BOTTLES THAT WERE EVENTUALY SHIPPED OUT ACROSS AMERICA.”.
“EFFECTS FROM THIS BOTTLED WATER WENT UNNOTICED TILL LATER. AS IT TURNED OUT, THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WERE AFFECTED WERE WOMEN WHO DRANK THE WATER WHILE PREGNANT”.
“THESE MOTHERS TO BE TRAGICALLY DIED DURING CHILDBIRTH, YET THE KIDS WENT ON TO BECOME SOMETHING INCREDIBLE, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM. THEY ARE WHAT ARE CALLED EMERGENTS”.
“WHEN AN EMERGENT REACHES FIRST EMERGENT STAGE, THEIR POWER SHOWS. THIS IS WHERE THINGS CAN GET DANGEROUS, AS AN EMERGENT MAY GO ROGUE.“
“AFTER THE FIRST EMERGENCE, IT’S NOT MUCH LONGER BEFORE THE SECOND EMERGENT STAGE HAPPENS”.
“DURING SECOND EMERGENCW, IT IS TYPICAL OF ALL EMERGENTS TO CHANGE GENDERS. THEY ARE ALSO KNOWN TO CHANGE GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS OR HAVE STRANGE FEATURES.”

"Like that almost transparent girl," I thought.

“THE REASON WHY THIS OCCURS IS UNKNOWN. WE CAN ONLY SPECULATE THAT ONE'S FORM IS TAKEN FROM THE GENES OF PAST ANCESTORS THAT LAY DORMANT.”
“THIS IS THE CENTER, A FACILITY AND SCHOOL RUN BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FOR THE EMERGED.”
“OUR GOAL IS TO TRAIN THESE AMAZING INDIVIDUALS TO HARNESS THEIR POWER AND HELP THEM OVERCOME ANY DIFFICULTIES THEY MAY HAVE, IN A SAFE AND HELPFUL ENVIROMENT.”
“WE ALSO PROTECT THE GENERAL PUBLIC FROM EMERGED THAT MAY ABUSE THEIR POWERS. REVEALING THE EXISTANCE OF THE EMERGED TO UNAUTHORIZED INDIVIDUALS IS FORBIDDEN, BUT DON’T WORRY, YOU WILL MEET PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU HERE. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.”
“WELCOME TO THE CENTER.”

Looking back at Kris, I did not know what to say, but my mouth did. “You used to be a guy?”

“Yes. But didn’t you also use to be a guy?” There was this smile on her face that irked me to no end.

“Ryan! Come on. Being a female won’t be so bad. You will get used to it eventually.”

I snorted back, “Yeah, right.” I still could not get used to the angelic, high-pitched voice echoing from my mouth.

“Here, let me help you up, Ryan. The first step is always the hardest. Let’s get you to a mirror so you can see yourself”. Kris wrapped her arms under me and helped to move me out of the concrete room. We moved into what looked like a mix between a doctor’s office and a lab. She then proceeded to help me to a door marked GIRLS RESTROOM. That’s just great more reminders that I was a girl.

I got a good look at myself in the full length mirror and just collapsed, crying. Taking a close look I was surprised to find I looked kind of like a young version of my grandma. I was a stunning beauty. What my reflection showed was a beautiful brunette with long luscious hair and big brown eyes. My lips were big and inviting; they just screamed girl. All my muscle and tone I had been so proud of was gone. In its place, I had the petite body of a girl. My skin was a light tan, and was silky smooth to the touch. I clearly lost a few inches and I looked to be about five feet two inches, where before I was five feet nine inches. My hips were wide like a girls should be and I had love handles that asked to be held. If a guy wanted to he could probably wrap me in his arms with ease. My breasts looked about the same size as Mattie’s, meaning I was probably a C cup.

I felt like such a girl. I just could not stop crying over my last manhood. How was I to be with Mattie now. Mattie likes guys and I clearly no longer fit in that category. She was more likely to braid my hair, do makeup, or go shopping with me now, as GIRLFREINDS talking about... guys. No, I was not ready to even think of that. I kept telling myself I had to still like girls over and over again.

Kris comforted me as best she could. She hugged me and told me how they all went through this but that it was not the end of the world. But, for me, it was the end of the world because Mattie was my world.

I finally stopped crying and was able to wipe the tears out of my face and I moved my hair out of the way also. This was going to be a major pain. I had to stop crying, it only made me more of a girl, and I would focus my energy on searching for a way to change back, even if it killed me. I was Mattie’s Knight, not her best girlfriend. I told myself the loss of my manhood was only temporary.

Kris was giving me a look. “Are you done crying and staring at yourself now? This is the real you there’s no way to change back. I suggest you think of a name to call yourself, a girl’s name.”

I gave her another glare. “I don’t want to. I like being Ryan.”

“Well, sorry, RYAN, you have no choice in the matter. You’re a new person and you need a new identity, I don’t know any girls with the name RYAN. You may have lost a lot but no more than anyone else here. You will see that being a girl isn’t all bad, plus you gain superpowers to boot. Didn’t you ever dream of having superpowers?”

“Well, yeah, I dreamed of having superpowers in my life, who doesn’t?” I had dreamed of having superpowers but I was still a guy in those dreams.

“What I am saying is try to look on the bright side. Also, the faster you chose a new name the faster you can eat. Pick a first and last name middle is optional.” She had a look of extreme annoyance on her face. She was the warrant officer of this place, after all, so she had to be a very busy girl. I still could not believe they gave it to someone of her age. Maybe it was because she was in the same position as us, she would know where we were coming from. I have always been a big supporter of lead by example.

I did notice I was hungry but, so very hungry. It was as if I was trapped in the desert for months with no food or water. So I thought for a moment what would be a good name, for a... girl, for me. I wanted to keep the first letter in my first and last name so I though it over and decided on Rachael. Thinking of last names with the letter H took some time. I finally settled on Hawkins. I even threw in a middle name of Ann in there, as it rhymed well.

“Rachael Ann Hawkins. So call me Rachael Hawkins, I guess”. I was not very happy at having to change my name, and to a girl name at that. But there was no way I could think on an empty stomach. Unfortunately for me, Kris decided to start actually calling me my new name. I guess I would have to get used to being a Rachael now.

“Rachael Ann Hawkins, that's a very lovely name for a very lovely girl.” I think she was enjoying messing with me. I just kept glaring at her.

We left and got into a jeep that would drive us to the main facility and school. Besides the soldier driving the jeep it was just Kris, that girl, Liz and me. They were talking about my powers; they believed I was a Cryokinetic, and Electrokinetic as I apparently showed these two powers. They told me it was strange to have more than one power but not unheard of. The reason I was in that isolated concrete cell was because my powers were thought to be dangerous.

I asked permission to try to test my power on a rock outside the vehicle. Thankful kris agreed. I really wanted to use my superpowers. I tried to get the feeling of freezing last night but nothing. Then I tried zapping the rock and even had Kris teach me how she uses her powers, still nothing.

“That’s strange. I was sure you exhibited Cryokinetic and Electrokinetic abilities last night. I wonder why you can’t use those powers anymore.”.

“It beats me.” I started to cry again. So I changed gender and I don’t even get a superpower. Life was just so unfair. One minute you have everything you could ever want the next it all disappears.”

Liz took my hand in hers, to comfort me. Then things got strange. I felt that cold feeling again absorb into me through my hand. But this time it was kind of hot also. Like this mix of cold and hot energy was flowing into me. It felt strange, yet, intoxicating.

I looked up into Liz’s eyes her face was becoming pale, like energy was draining out of her. I quickly released her hands. The next moment she fainted and with how my LUCK was going we hit a rock. The jeep practically jumped. If she was still conscious she could have positioned herself correctly but with how things were she slipped through her seatbelt and landed on a rock, head first.

She was bleeding all over, and it looked like she had broken a arm, as well as a few ribs. Suffice to say Kris was horrified she ordered the man driving the Jeep to stop and call for help. After that she was practically running out to Liz.

“Shit! Liz, Liz stay with me, help will be here soon”. Then she yelled at me. “What did you do to her? What did you do to Liz?

I started crying again, damn must be those female hormones. Honestly I had no idea what I had done to her. It was as if I sucked energy out of her, as I was now energetic and full of energy. But I felt so bad, I honestly did not know what I did, and I wanted to make everything better. I really liked Liz she was very kind to me in the car ride, and I would hate to think that I hurt someone as pure hearted as Liz.

I rushed forward prepared to do anything I could to help. First we need to stop the bleeding. Unfortunately, I was only wearing a hospital gown and men’s boxers. The boxers were big but they were the only cover I had right now for my new female part. I don’t know why but I get the impulse to try to stop the bleeding with my hands.
Kris tried to keep me back though sending lightning bolts at me. My luck was finally looking up though, because she was so unsettled that she could not get her aim right. Soccer had taught me how to dive and weave my way around obstacles, to think on my feet. With Kris in a frenzy, it was easy to avoid. Some of the lightening did graze me though. It was like she was trying to taser me. I finally got to Liz and quickly put my hands down on impulse to stop the bleeding.

In my mind of course I knew how unethical it was to put your hands near an open wound if they were not sterilized and gloved. But as I said, I acted on impulse, some force in my mind told me this was the right thing to do. To my shock I felt energy now flow out of me, and to my delight saw that it was healing her.
I was still acting on impulse here though, as I kept moving my hands to different places that seemed to be hurt. It’s like I knew how to use this power of healing to its maximum potential, and I had never used it before. To say the least, I was shocked; Kris was also stunned. I watched as I healed her, bit by bit, until she was at full health. I could feel the bones reform and fit back into place, the skin healing, it was so powerful and overwhelming. I saw Liz sigh in relief when I was done. She was still unconscious but at least her life was no longer in danger. I relaxed the sensation and pulled back my hands.

Kris was now was looking at me with another kind of shock.

“Rachael, how is it you are able to use Liz's power? She is a Reikikinetic, which means she can heal people.”

First I gave Kris a glare. I still hated that she insisted on calling me by my new female name.

"Calm down, Rachael, don’t do anything you are going to regret." Uhg. I can’t believe I just thought of myself as Rachael just then. I hit myself in the head for that one. I was still mad so I just ignored Kris; after all, she sent electricity at me. I really did not feel like being hit by a taser. Though I know if she used more of her powers she could have killed me.

After a team of troops came to take Liz to the main facility, Kris came up and stopped me again. “I am sorry I shot lighting at you, Rachael, it’s just that Liz is like my baby. I would kill to protect her. It’s no excuse though and I will need to work harder as warrant officer to keep my emotions in control. Rachael, as Warrant officer I need to know what you did just then, though.”

“I don’t know, it was the same as when I touched that guy named Frosty, or you. I felt this cold energy just flow into me, as if I was absorbing something. With Liz, I felt the cold energy but later it got hot”. It almost felt like... like I was pulling too much energy from her.

“Damn! I think the hot energy means I am taking too much energy, or power, whatever it is. Then, somehow, I knew I could help Liz and I knew I had to. The strangest part though, was I felt like I was able to use her power at what felt like its maximum potential.”

I started crying again. “I am really sorry, Kris, I did not mean to hurt Liz. It was all an accident”.

It really was; how was I supposed to know I would be able to copy others powers, and use them at their maximum potential temporarily? All it took was one of my hands touching an emergent and, voila, I could use their powers. Worst of all, if my hands touch them for an extended period of time, I really hurt them. I really did not want to hurt others. I started crying again. “It was an accident, I’m sorry!” I felt really bad and could not stop crying.

“Rachael, it’s going to be O.K. The center is here to help you thorough this. Thank you for saving Liz. Don’t feel so bad, you did save Liz by healing her and you had no idea this was going to happen, you had all the right intentions.”

Kris hugged me and it felt so comforting for some reason, and I just cried it all out. All the shit that happened to me, everything. Strangely enough my cry session made me feel a whole lot better when I was done.
Me and Kris got up and just looked at each other for a minute. After that Kris broke the silence saying what was ultimately on my mind.

“Rachael, you’re the first person I have seen with the ability to copy other emergent's powers. You’ve got a really cool power. Your power is MIMICRY! You’re a MIMIC!”

The Center: Tester - Part 3

By Blackout

Editor: Renee M
Thanks Renee M for editing!

After the incident of horror with Liz, Kris and I got a ride to the facility. I was ready to see this center place, already. The whole way my boobs kept bouncing up and down in the hospital gown. “I really needed a bra…..uhg to infinity”. When we finally arrived, I leaped out of the jeep as fast as possible, ready to get my grub on.

“So, Kris, where’s the cafeteria?”

She just looked at me and giggled.

“Kris! What’s so funny; why are you giggling at me?”

"Rachael, we need to get you changed into something more decent. You have only been a girl for five hours now, are you ready to show that body in full to the whole cafeteria?"

”¨I was all pink now blushing. “Still not enjoying this” I thought.

“Rachael, I'm busy now. I’ll text Heather to help you in wardrobe.”

I was lead to a room called girls wardrobe; inside was literally a girl's shopping mall. Anything a girl could ever want to wear could be found here. I sighed, remembering I was a girl now and somehow I knew I could not find manhood here.

Clack!!!

The door to the room swung open with such force. The perpetrator was like a whirlwind rushing in.

Kris introduced us. “Rachael, meet Heather.” “Heather, this is Rachael." “Gotta go; see ya!”

”¨I watched afraid as Kris left, leaving me with this fashion crazed girl. “Was she really a boy before this?”

Apparently all emergent were intersex, but those organs really did nothing for us until the emergence came around. I don’t know about all of us, but I enjoyed being a guy.

“O.K. Rachael, strip out of that hospital gown and those male boxers."

I gave her a look. I really was not looking forward to this, even though I knew it was inevitable.

“Don’t worry, Rachael, we'll burn those gross male boxers."

I really wanted to punch her. It’s like she was taking the last little manhood I had. “Sigh!” I did what I was told, removing the hospital gown and my last clothing of manhood I would wear in my life. I nearly burst to tears, though I told myself if I could not be a strong man, I would be a strong woman. So there I stood in full glory. Then Heather went around and took some measurements.

”¨“WOW! Rachael, that's impressive; you’re a C cup. All of your proportions are perfect; you could be a supermodel if you wanted to."

I blushed. I could not help it; she was talking about my body and said I could be a supermodel. After that, she went off to find something for me to wear. When she came back, I was not too happy to see what it was. In her hands were a bra and panties, but not just any bra and panties; they were a pink bra and panties that matched each other. Why did she have to get me undergarments that were so, well…girly?

When she passed them to me, I found out why. On the front of the panties, in bright red, was my new name, Rachael. Just great, I had panties with my name on them. I was in no mood to argue though, and I knew the faster I complied, the faster I could get my grub on. I stretched the thin pink garment out, stepping into each hole one leg after the other. Then I pulled them up, and felt them nestle around my new crotch. To be honest the feeling with the panties on felt nice and my name on the front of them was really cute! If I was still a guy, I would be hard right now; unfortunately, I was a girl now.

Next was the bra. Damn! Apparently, I would have to get use to them. The whole idea of putting on a bra was just too girly for me right now. I tried to protest, but in the end I had to pick up the bra and try to fit it on. It did not really work well; I had no idea how to put it on. As a boy, I never even got the chance to remove Mattie’s bra. I was deeply regretting that now. If only her dad hadn’t been so strict; now I would never have the chance…sigh.

In the end, Heather came to the rescue. She told me I had to lean forward and kind of bring my breasts into the cups, then adjust the straps and clip from behind. I thought wearing a bra would be awful, but it was quite the opposite; the added support I got for my boobs was worth wearing a bra. It was so much worse when I did not wear one; my breasts would jiggle around and they were beginning to get sore. How did women live with those things before the bra was invented? I also got way to much needed attention from the grunts coming to bring Liz back. It made me really self-conscious.

Heather led me to a mirror and honestly, what I saw in that mirror shocked me. There I was in just a bra and panties, but the reflection of the girl in that mirror was probably the prettiest girl I had ever seen in my life. To tell the truth, I was even prettier then Mattie. I touched my own face and thought: “This is me." I couldn’t help blush again; I just felt well…..pretty! There it is again, the hormones telling me I am a girl, but still it just felt so right. On the bright side, I guess, if I had to be a girl at least I was a pretty one. I would think more on all this later.

I was about to ask Heather what next, when the door burst open again and in walked this girl with snow white hair. She had a fair complexion, beautiful blue eyes with long lashes, the lips of goddess and she looked to be about five feet six inches. She had pale skin that was blemish free and asked to be touched.

“Hello, are you Rachael Hawkins?” the new girl asked.

”¨“I guess I am now; do you want anything from me? I am still trying to get over the fact I am a girl now." The worst part of it was I had only been a girl for a little while now and already I was slowly getting more and more use to girl feeling, not that I had a choice.

ӬShe giggled, then surprisingly enough, I giggled back. I think I like this girl, whoever she was.

“I am your new roommate, and yeah, I understand you; still trying to get over the fact I was a guy two days ago. By the way, my name is Claire Evergreen.”

“Nice to meet you, Claire. So, did you just stop by to say hi?” I responded.

ӬSo Claire was my new roomie, huh. She seemed like a really chill girl; I think I would have fun being roommates with her. It was her smile and way she carried herself; that and she also seemed more than a little uncomfortable to be a girl. To sum it all up, she was someone I could really connect with.

“No. I used it as an excuse to get out of power testing. Though I also wanted to meet my new roomie and get to know her."

She was wearing the uniform that I saw Heather wearing. It was a skirt and blouse, along with high heels. I had to say, wearing a skirt did nothing to relieve my stress. I had to stop stressing out; I would develop wrinkles in my beautiful new skin. Even though I was against the whole girl thing, being a girl with stress wrinkles did not appeal to me at all.

So I put on the clothing; the blouse was ok, the skirt was weird, but it did cover up those panties that were even more girly. Though I hated to admit it, I kind of liked the way the skirt made me feel. Before I put the heels on, Heather came up to me and gave me a pair of brown leather gloves.

“Rachael, Kris told me to give you these gloves, they will prevent you from knocking anyone else out with your powers”.

I really liked the gloves, even if they were girl gloves; they just oozed this cool factor. They looked bad ass on me; I liked feeling bad ass. Yeah, I was the bad ass type of girl. No, that’s not right; when I looked in the mirror again, it was more like I was the gorgeous girlfriend of a bad ass. Either way, they made feel cool. I liked them. A lot!

”¨“Heather, I really like these gloves.”

“I thought you would, Rachael; they match you and your personality well. That’s why I took liberty of having the matching vest and skirt sent over to your room along with the other essentials”.

I was quite excited about the vest, not so much the skirt, but I would wear it since if I had to be a girl, I was going to be a cool one. Maybe I should get shades, but something tells me that would only make me look like a poser. If the vest and skirt were anything like the gloves, I would be wearing them often. I was glad I was not too girly, but I just noticed I had a very girly thought just then, worrying about the “look” I would give off.

“Yeah, those gloves really work well for you,” Claire told me.

For the first time all day I smiled. After that we decided that Claire and I would head to the cafeteria together. I was having lots of trouble walking in heels and to be honest it was extremely uncomfortable. Why did someone even invent heels? And how did girls manage to walk in these? Everyone else was in class now and Heather had to get back to her class. I guess it was a good time for me and my new roomie to get to know one another alone.

ӬThe cafeteria amazed me; there were many tables around obviously, but what was most impressive was the variety and amount of food offered. I got myself a smoothie and thee slice of pizza. Gotta love the pizza.

Clair and I sat down to talk. I told her my power was Power Mimicry and that I could use other people's power as long as I touched them, but if I touched them too long, I could really hurt them.

“Hey Rachael, I bet you can’t use your power on me,” Claire chided.

“Wanna bet, Claire?”

“No, I don’t want my new roomie mad at me when she loses, but go ahead; just try to use your power on me.”

So I took off one glove and put my bare hand on her skin……….Nothing! There was actually no cold feeling or the flow of energy. Was I wrong? Was I not a power mimic after all? Claire began to see my growing concern.

“Don’t worry Rachael, you haven’t lost you power, it's just that I'm a damper. Meaning I can dampen or stop others from using their powers, if I want to. You would only be able to use your powers on me if I allowed you to do so. As soon as I began stopping your use of powers, you couldn't use your power on me."

“OH, that’s so cool, Claire. Just imagine what a team we'll make, a power copier and a power stopper."

We both started giggling to my dismay. But still it was fun just laughing and talking to Claire. I could tell that she and I were going to be the best of friends.

I was surprised when I became full after just two slice of pizza; when I was a guy I could eat a full box of pizza by myself.

“Well, Rachael, you’re certainly not a kinetic. They need to eat a lot to fuel their power. I guess since you steal power from them, you're essentially stealing some of their fuel and would not need to eat a ton to replace lost calories. Though it does mean you will have to watch what you eat, Rachael, so you don’t lose your girlish figure,” she winked at me.

ӬAt that remark the two of us cracked up. We were laughing so hard, I swear we must have disrupted all the classes going on at that time.

Apparently, my next appointment was my physical at the doctor's. I was not looking forward to that one bit. In fact, I was shivering all over, my first exam as…as….as….a…..girl. Unfortunately, Claire could not be with me during that ordeal. She had to get back over to power testing or the talent coach, Mr. Lions, would get her in trouble. She did promise to take me to the clinic though.

On the way there, this beautiful girl who looked Middle Eastern, with curly black hair and green eyes, was walking down the hall. With how I was new in heels and everything, I accidentally tripped a bit and bumped into her. Geez! Why did I have to wear high heels? I knew one thing for sure, I was not the type of girl who liked high heels. I did like how they gave me some of my height back, but the pain and lack of coordination were extremely annoying. I felt a lot of admiration for Mattie right then; she wore high heels almost all the time.

“Hey! Watch where you’re going, FREAK!” the girl I bumped screamed at me.

”¨“Sorry, I'm not use to high heels, but it’s not very nice to call others freaks”.

”¨“Whatever, UGLY!” she told me as she stormed off.

For some reason, I started crying and it was not because she was so mean; it was because she called me UGLY. I knew it was not true, but for some reason being called ugly hurt so much as a girl. I guess it was all those hormones. I was a lot more sensitive, but I wiped my eyes and calmed down. I promised myself I would at least be a strong woman.

”¨“Bad luck bumping into Jasmine,” Clair told me.

“She was just like one of those girls from the movie Mean Girls. Am I right?”

”¨“No, she is worse; while its true she is the leader of her elite clique here at the center, she is probably also one of the more violent problem teenagers here. If you cross her path too often, she won’t hesitate to burn you. She is a pyrokinetic that can make enormous flames; as pyrokinetics go, she is as powerful as they come."

We finally arrived at my destination, dooms day population, me. Claire wished me good luck and went on her merry way. I walked in to get my ph….ph…..phys…..physical!!!!!!!

They ran me through a series of tests, one after the other. I was glad that it was a female nurse who felt my breast for any lumps and not Dr. Lynchburg. I understood now why females wanted other females to do their exams; if it were a male doing them, it was as if you were being violated. That hope did not last long though, as it was time for the worst exam of them all: THE GYNECOLOGY EXAM!!!!!!!!!!!

I was asked to get on a table and spread my legs. I was wrong, this was the ultimate test proclaiming me to be a woman and forever stealing the last of my manhood. They were going to stick the swab up my Va…va…….Vagina! It apparently had to be done by Dr. Lynchburg as well. If I had absorbed any sort of violent power, I would have used it on him, completely wiping his presence from the face of existence. I told myself I had to be a strong woman and just get it over with, so I could move on with my life, whatever that now entailed. Thankfully, the nurse was nearby and she was a big help in keeping me calm.

Dr. Lynchburg then said, “OK now, Rachael, I am going to do this. I need you to be still, OK? I know you are unprepared for this, but it will all be over soon." He clearly did not like this part of the exam.

”¨I felt something go up my vagina and felt a little wave of pleasure, but it was too freaky. Why the heck was this happing to me? I felt it scrape around and then it came out. I still can’t believe this man was paid to do that. If it was anybody but a doctor, I would be mortified. I finally began understanding the trauma of being violated as a girl. Even though I could protest as much as I wanted in mind and speech, the fact remained that I had no control over my body.

I was relieved when the test was finally over. I started to miss my Mattie now more than ever before. She could have helped me through this. For that matter, she went through this. I started to wonder about her, worrying if she was O.K. I wondered how she was handling my disappearance. But most of all, I was wondering what she was doing right now and if she were safe and sound.

The Center: Tester - Part 4

By Blackout

Here is the Center: Tester - Part 4. Using as build up into the future.
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So I was on a great date with my boyfriend Ryan when suddenly during dinner he started feeling sick so we decided to leave. Then out of nowhere a sports car pulls in front of us and two strange teenagers jumped and it seemed like they were intent to hurt us. I was so scared here were these two freaks come out of nowhere and suddenly it seems they want to do us harm. The big guy named frosty lunged at me, I was scared for my life. He was big with bulging muscles and sapphire hair; the sapphire hair look was interesting, on a side note I should get my hair dyed sapphire at least once. Anyway here I was about to be attacked when my wonderful boyfriend and knight jumps in to rescue me. He was so cute when he was all protective of me. I was blushing bright red as he told me to run to the restaurant and get help. This is one of the many reasons why Ryan was the best boyfriend a girl could ever ask for he was just so reliable.

Anyway I ran to the restaurant and immediately tried calling the police on my cell phone.

Ok Mattie I told myself “quickly dial 911!”

….Beep….Beep…Beep. “Were sorry but your call can not go through”.

What was this I tried calling again and again but nothing, then I tried calling my dad but still. Nothing! I asked the lady at the register to borrow her phone. I tried calling for what seemed like hundred times, each time I was getting more and more worried. I decided that I should go see if Ryan had finished everything outside yet. He was athletic, strong, fast, and smart. I trusted my Ryan could handle those two by himself even if he was feeling sick. I looked out the window and to my shock In such a bunch of vans in the parking lot blocking people from entering or exiting. To my horror I saw the black men in suits everywhere, closing off the area. People were getting frantic it seemed like this was a terrorist attack. What I was most worried about though was Ryan. I could not see him anywhere. He would not have escaped without me so I assumed the worse.

It was time for me to find my way out of there. During all the confusion in the restaurant and people asking what was going on I took the liberty to slip in the back of the kitchen of the restaurant and out the back door. Luckily for me it looked like the cost was clear from the back entrance of the restaurant. I took off my heels and started to run as fast as I could to get out of this place.

“Hey you! Stop right there!”

Two of the men in the black suit where coming at me now. To say the least I was horrified. They had unfriendly faces and one of them was pointing this thing at me which looked like some sort of sensor gun.

“Hey Tony we have match, she is a pre-emergent” said one of the men.

“You’re sure Fred”.

“Yeah Tony the sensor never lies, will have to get her”.

I had no idea what they were talking about but they were after to me I ran as hard and as fast as I could no one was going to catch me, I ran cross country at school I would lose these guys because I knew the area like the back of my head.

They were still chasing me when I got to the road. Damn these guys were persistent. I did not know how much longer I could keep this up.

Luckily for me I did not have to. A good Samaritan seeing me being chased stopped opened the door quickly and told me to get inside. The guy was a friend of Ryan’s from school, he played soccer, and I was thankful to escape. He drove me home and I thanked him for saving me.

“It was just the right thing to do, plus Ryan is one of my best friends”.

After getting home I ran back inside and locked the doors I had no idea what was going on.

Dad noticed I got home early and asked what was going on so I gave him the details as best I could”.

He hugged me telling it was going to be ok and I just cried in his arms. It’s not everyday something like this happens to you.

After that my dad called Ryan’s dad. He talked on the phone with Ryan’s dad for about thirty minutes, every second I saw my dad frown more. Now I was extremely worried what the heck was going on. Why could I not use a phone at the restaurant? Who were the guys? And what happened to Ryan?

When my dad seemed to be done talking on the phone he walked over to me and put an arm around me to hug me.

“Honey the police say there was terrorist attack at the restaurant, I’m sorry honey but Ryan was killed. They were really cruel and violent apparently. We will have a proper funeral for Ryan later”?

“Tell me now DAD. How was Ryan killed? I need to know, he saved my life you know”.
Dad saw the determination in my eyes, he knew when I was like this I would not let it go. “I am sorry Ryan was shot and killed”.

I lost it right there. “They did what? How could anyone have done something that cruel to any human being? How could they have done that to my Ryan? I started sobbing uncontrollably.

Dad cuddled me in his arms and then carried me upstairs. He said he would stay with me until I fell asleep, and that he was proud of Ryan for protecting me, he even told me I would not be going to school tomorrow as I seemed to shook up, rightly so. She to relax the horror of the day washed over and I fell asleep.
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The next morning I woke up late in the afternoon, and refused to get out of bed until my dad forced me to get up, and shower, brush my teeth, and eat. I really did not want to do anything I lost Ryan, he was no longer alive how was I supposed to go on without Ryan, he always stood by me and acted like my knight, it was always kind of cute that he pretend to be my knight even if it was a bit childish now.

I went on in the day with dad and tried to take my mind off what happened. I was unable to it just hurt so much. My dad told me later he had to go to Ryan’s house to comfort Ryan’s dad apparently he was not taking this well at all either.

“But dad I don’t want to be alone” I complained.

“I know sweaty that’s why we arranged for Scott Pharm to come over and be with you”.
Scott Pharm was a kid the same grade as me and Ryan he was often sick and would not show up to school. He moved into the house across from Ryan’s about two weeks ago. He was kind of cool and the few times he did go to school all the girls seemed to fall for him, even me a little he just had this sort of atmosphere about him.

When my dad left and Scott Pharm came over and gave me a strange look. Maybe he was concerned for me because of what just happened.

“So how are you taking things Mattie”.

“Not well Scott, not well at all”.

“Yeah I thought as much”. That’s when things got strange he gave me this smile and I almost fell for him right there. I wanted to kiss him and give myself to him. I had just lost Ryan, why was I thinking those thought right now.

“Hey Mattie, I know what would make you feel better a kiss”.

No, I tried to resist with all my might but was unable it was that atmosphere about him he just attracted girls even if you did not want to be attracted to him. He came at me and the last second as I was about to kiss him, my mind was screaming no and something just connected my mind to my body again.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, Don’t come any closer Scoot, you know I just lost Ryan!”

“Oh, Impressive you resisted my pheromones, it takes allot of mental strength to do that. Oh well covers blown I guess”.

With that he lunged at me I was about to scream but he put a rag over my moth before I could. I still tried to struggle but was unable to the rag was filled with some sort of chemical that was making me woozy. I tried with any strength left to protest, but then the world went black!
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The Commander sat at his desk reading through a bunch of files. His organization had plans to reveal emergents to the world. He wanted to create the perfect super soldier. Ever since he found out about the emergents he sought to learn more about them.
“Commander Arnolds Roth, Professor Kitner is on the line for you” spoke his secretary.
“Great put him on”.

The Commander was the head of the Magnum a very powerful organization. He had first found out about emergents a seven years ago and put allot of time and money into researching them.

“Hello Professor Kitner how have you been?”

“Good Commander Arnolds, I assume you were behind that attack on the restaurant that was in the news yesterday”.

“Yes that was all me, capturing dangerous emergents is what we are all about”.

“….good to hear, keep up the good work”.

“I will Professor Kitner, I most certainly will”.

It had been his group Magnum that attacked the restaurant”. This particular attack on the restaurant was for their Emergent Research department just one of their many departments that sought ways to achieve the perfect human being. They were strong believers in Darwin’s theory. The Emergent Research department was part of their effort to gain the perfect human super soldier.

The children that were emergents would develop powers went through a change in their sex as well as other characteristics. It was unclear even to them why this occurred. It was hypothesized by one of their best scientist though, that is was a needed change for the body to support the power obtained through the emergent.

Magnum existed to create the perfect Super soldier. Their Emergent Research Department was just one of their many branches. Just as he was smiling to himself he heard a ring from his private phone.
“This is Commander Arnolds, who is this?”

“This is agent Pharm I have secured the package and am bringing it over for delivery”.

“Excellent work agent Pharm, the girl will make excellent bait”.

“Thank you sir I will see you at headquarters”.

“That will be all agent Scott Pharm”.

Scott Pharm was one of the emergent they created; he loved working for them and agreed with their goals so there was no need to control him like some of the other emergent. His ability with pheromones was impressive. While he could not take complete control like a dominator his ability had a success rate of nearly one hundred percent when used to control those of the female sex.

They had agent Scott move across the street from a Ryan Hershel, one of their precognition emergent showed he was going to be a power mimic. Which was extremely rare and lacking at their facility. Unfortunately they made a mistake in the choice of who they sent to pick up Ryan and chose to emergent who did not perform to well. He had to try to quickly resolve the situation and send in more people to take care of the issue. Even more unfortunate was the fact that the center got to Ryan before him but it was not the biggest issue in the world. He had already managed to wiggle one of his guys into the center and with the perfect bait they would get their power mimic.

The reason they need this mimic was for Project U. Project U stood for Project Unlimited. It was believed that an ability that can copy all other abilities held the secret to achieving an emergent who could use all abilities of any emergent not just temporarily but forever. They had all thought he was crazy when he said he wanted to create the perfect super soldier, but he would prove them wrong all of them wrong, and when he was done he would show his work to the world, and they would hail him for creating the perfect human being.
For this they needed the Mimic and they now had the perfect bait!

The Center: Tester - Part 5

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

Please thank Zip for the help in editing. I know I really appreciate it. Also I would like to thank everyone else for the messages helping me improve the stories.

Here is the Center: Tester - Part 5. I hope you enjoy. In this chapter Rachael has some self discoveries as well as tragedies.
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After I was done worrying about Mattie it was time to head to Dr. Tipps so the center could find out my “mental condition”, Yeah! To be honest I did not want the center knowing my mental condition at all. I was always a very cautious person. You would think changing gender and gaining superpowers would leave anyone on the brink of a mental break down, and the last thing I needed was to be analyzed. I am the type that when things literally suck, like now, I need time being alone to think and deal with my problems. Not be looked at with a microscope. I headed into Dr. Tipps’ office, prepared for the worst!
“Rachael please sit down. Relax I won’t bite you.”

“Dr.Tipps is there any way we cannot have this session I really don’t feel comfortable with the whole idea of me answering questions and being
analyzed.”

“Sorry sweetie, it has to be done.”

“Fine, let’s get this over with.”

I still felt uncomfortable but I rather get it done and be done with it then have it hanging over my head making me uncomfortable. She gave me some tests and the questions where interesting to say the least. I did not necessarily enjoy it. While I was taking it I began seeing what this test was really for, the questions did focus on personality, and mental stability, but there was more to it, they were gauging for our qualities, if we would make suitable leaders, or if we should be more isolated. I was always pretty good at measuring and testing values and actions, I understood the simplicity of people actions better than most. A person’s emotion of anger, hate, jealousy, and love, all of these effects how the person act and thinks to the world around them, even if they try to hide it. People could be easily manipulated if emotions got out of hand, that’s why keeping a cool head is a lot safer. I finally finished the test and was relieved to be finally done. It was annoying that they wanted all that information about me, but at the same time I knew it was kind of necessary.

“So Rachael, how are you dealing with the change?”

“Well I could be better I suppose, but at the same time I could be worse. This change is relatively new so I still need to get used to it, but I can tell you one thing, I will fight this thing till the end” I told her.

“I should advise you against that you’re stuck, and fighting it will only make it harder on yourself, acceptance is the key.”

“To be honest with you Dr.Tipps I do understand that, but I made a promise to my girlfriend Mattie when I was still Ryan and a boy. When we were children I promised I would be her knight in shining armor. I just can’t keep that promise like this.” “Don’t you dare say stuff like that Rachael. Just because you’re a woman now does not mean you can’t be a knight, a warrior. I served my country and I am a women. Even if your now a girl you can still keep fighting and still support and help protect her and others in this world. You can still be a knight in shiny armor, only difference is this model of the suit you will wear” she laughed.

Actually to be honest I laughed also. She had a point women could be soldiers and could help defend others. I needed to help defend from people like that Frosty who tried to kidnap and abuse emergents. If I could do that I could help protect Mattie indirectly, even though I couldn’t be with her ever again, at least as a man.

After my enlightening talk with Dr. Tipps it was time to go the next stop of fear. THE SALON! Honestly I was pulled in to directions; in one direction I was curious as to what was going to happen there, on the other the hand the guy side of me that was still somewhere there was terrified. I got there with my new phone given to me as a center student. I introduced myself, but forgot to listen to the names of the two women who would be the next of my tormentors. I was just too nervous and a little bit scared to really listen. In the end I just followed them and did what was asked.

“Ok sit down here.”

“Now turn your head that way.”

“This will only hurt for a second.”

“OH my, your hair and skin is so beautiful.”

Those were just a few of the comments I actually heard as the procedure went on. It’s not that it was painful; in fact it was because it was the exact opposite. They shampooed my hair, gave me something I never in a million years thought I would have done, a manicure and pedicure. It was all quite relaxing, except for the plucking. I was actually enjoying this pampering, and that is what was beginning to scare me the most. The fact of the matter was, it seemed I was slowly but surely beginning to enjoy being a girl and the benefits that came with it. I still was trying to hold onto Ryan though, I guess I could still not give up on Mattie, but that may be a problem on its own. Maybe holding on was not healthy, and the best thing I could do for both Mattie and me, might be to just let it go. I know if I really died I would want Mattie to eventually move on and find herself someone else. With whom I had become now I would just interfere with her life that is if I ever had the chance to enter it her life again.

After the surprisingly comfortable and a bit pleasurable salon trip I sulked my way back to my new room. I was really glad I had no more appointments today; I would use the time to think all of this craziness over by myself. Luckily I did not have to start class yet so for now I had the room to myself.

Once I got to my room I was surprised to see the door was already marked as mine and Clair’s room. I was kind of happy to see how proficient the center was, they were not slackers here that much was true. I got in and located the bed that was mine and flopped down on the bed. It was kind of shocking because I flopped onto the bed on my front side so my new boobs smashed into the bed. It was uncomfortable.

I wanted to rest a little, and just let things sink in. I had a personal dilemma again right when I wanted to sleep. I was always the type of guy like most guys who slept in just their boxers and as a girl I was not sure what I was supposed to sleep in. Maybe one of those nightgowns but I really did not want to wear one for just my nap, or ever for that
matter. In the end I decided I would just rest in my panties and bra. My body had betrayed my mind; it was a constant reminder of my new sex.

I lay in bed for about twenty minutes before curiosity struck. Yes, I was curious about my boobs. I had personal boobs now, but for some reason it just did not mean the same to me as when I was a guy. I touched them just a little and I got all sorts of reaction from my body, geez they were so…. Well as girls say “their sensitive.” I messed around for a little bit with my breasts. It was actually quite enjoyable, I guess being a girl had more advantages then I thought, but I was still not ready to give up on myself as Ryan and on Mattie just yet. I knew I would have to but I decided I would do it slowly it was just too big a change for me to do so all of a sudden. I would take it slow and work things through one day at a time.

As a lay there some more I started to rub my legs back and forth across each other. I reminded me of what I lost but for some reason it just was so damn comfortable I had a little sensation from panties crossing over my new region. I was not ready to explore there though, going to the bathroom as a girl would be more than enough already. And I would defiantly not let any guy in there. I tried thinking of hot girls like I did when I was a guy. “Come one, come on” I told myself. No matter whom the girl was I just got not reaction from thinking of girls anymore. I started crying…like a...a …girl. I did not want to face the music, but there was a high probability I liked….guys.

I tried to think of a hot guy holding me, cuddling me, saying he would protect me, hoping I would be grossed out. To my dismay as I already figured it did not. In fact my body enjoyed the idea of a guy, and for some reason I saw Mattie in my mind, she faded into the background and in her place came this guy I had never before seen in my life. He was rugged and handsome. His muscles bulged all over and yet when his eyes met mine I saw love in them. Like he would protect and love me, and it just felt so….right.

The guy came up to me and wrapped his arms around me, telling me how beautiful I was and I blushed bright red, telling him he was the best man a girl could ever have. I just melted into his arms and then….then we kissed. I felt fireworks explode in my mind. The very earth lifted us up above the grown to see the sunset, and then he leaned in. He took my lips, and it just felt so right, so pure and warm.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

I looked around me I was in my new room. I must have been sleeping cause I had woken up in a cold sweat shocked from my nightmare, and even more shocked at my new sexual orientation. I guess I could really never be with Mattie again.

“Rachael, are you ok?!”

It was Claire standing over me with a look of worry over her face.

“Yeah I guess I am fine now Claire.”

“Good because with your girly dream, I mean nightmare, and if your scream was any louder. I would have to get a new roommate on account of my roommate being too girly.”

I glared at her and then got a mischievous idea. I grabbed Claire tackling her to my bed and pinning her with my body.

“How girly am I now Claire? Hmmm”

“Well Rachael considering your big boobies are right on top of me and you’re wearing a matching pink bra and panties, I would say you’re pretty girly.”

With that comment I laughed grabbing my pillow I swung hitting her. She laughed to it did not take long before a pillow fight had broken out.

“Take this Rachael.”

“Eat my pillow Claire”

Claire and I just kept hitting each other until we were both tired hot and sweaty. It was allot of fun, and I never remembered having this much fun with a pillow fight before. I really liked my roommate Claire; I think I could not have asked for a better roommate.

“Hahahaha, Claire you’re all sweaty.”

“So are you Rachael, come on let’s take a shower.”

Claire started too unchanged here; I was kind of upset that it did not faze me at all. Here was a girl getting naked in front of me, I guess being a girl took some of the fun out of changing with other girls. So I just followed and started getting undressed myself. Claire gave me a look that seemed to be jealousy. I am very good at reading emotions.

“Claire! Why are you giving me that look?”

“Sorry Rach I have only been a girl for two days but I am becoming more and more like a girl every second. I actually looked at your boobs and became a little jealous at how big they are.”

I blushed, why was it that her being jealous about my boobs being large make me feel good and proud? Why was I also becoming more of a girl every second as well?

We wrapped towels around ourselves and headed for the bathroom. It was a new experience wearing the towel around my chest that was for sure. I was happy that the center provided me with the shower toiletries. We got to the showers and we both turned on a shower looking for the right temperature that would be warm and relaxing. When I had a good temperature going with the water I got in, and was not prepared for what happened then.

The water just felt so good on my body and it made sensations run up and down by body when it touched me. No wonder girls spend so much time in the shower. I got the shampoo and began working on my hair it took me a lot longer than when I was Ryan. But the sensations that came from showering as a girl made my body tingle all over. I guess this was just another advantage to being a girl. I was sad but I would not let that overcome my life and what was happening now and here.

When we were finally done showing we got out and Claire handed me a towel. I began trying to rub myself down with it but it was kind of uncomfortable.

“Hahaha, Rachael we’re girls now pat yourself dry, it’s a lot better for your skin and feels more comfortable.”

She was right it was a lot more comfortable to pat myself dry.

“Hey Claire, what do I do about this mop of soaking wet hair.”

“Rachael you ever see girl were towels around their heads after showing?”

“Ok I guess that was a little obvious but how do you do it?”

Claire showed me how to wrap the towel around my head and it was a lot better than a soggy mop of hair hanging from my head. We then headed back for our room. We both gasped when we entered the room. The place was messed up and not from our pillow fight. It seems someone took the opportunity to toss all our stuff on the ground and flip the furniture over. I noticed the door handle was hot. I walked over to me bed and saw a burn mark on it saying in big black charcoal letters “FREAK!”

Jasmine I thought.

“Rachael who do you think would have done something this horrible to us, I am new and you just came here, the center is very accepting I could not imagine anyone doing this.”

“Claire, come over here. Get a look at this.”

She did and gasped.

“Rachael it was Jasmine wasn’t it.”

“Yeah it was probably that Jasmine girl, getting back at me when I accidentally bumped into her in the hall.”

“We better call Ms. Fine.”

“Who is Ms. Fine?”

“She is kind of in charge of a lot of things here like intelligence, but she is also known for dealing with the discipline of the students here.”

Claire called Ms. Fine and told her what happened. Ten minutes later this women who could probably scare most guys and bulls walked into the room. She took a look around and frowned. When we showed her the burnt mark her face got very serious.

“Do you have any idea who did this, this is not acceptable, this is damaging center property… and on top of that to call such names to a fellow student is atrocious.”

I was beginning to like Ms. Fine, she may be a little scary but her heart was in the right place, and it seemed like she truly cared for us, and had our best at heart.

“I think it was Jasmine.” I told her. I went on explain how I accidentally bumped into her in the hall and how she treated me. She frowned.

“I truly am sorry this accident happened to you on your first day here and I wish I could punish Jasmine. Yes, I believe it was her also; she has been a problem child we have been trying to handle. The problem is that she is not the only pyrokinetic at the center and so we don’t have enough proof. But believe me when I say I will take this as a serious violation of school rules and there will be something done about all this.”

Just great I thought, now everyone would hate me. I was officially a tattletale and now they would probably be making some announcement to the whole school. I had hardly been at this school yet and already my reputation would be trashed.

Claire seeing the expression on my face must have read my mind. Geez I was beginning to love this roomie more and more.

“Don’t worry Rach the center is different, we are not like other schools we all understand how it’s like to be bullied or find yourself being someone different. It’s probably because we all went through this change in our lives. The center is generally very accepting. It’s more likely that people here will be mad because someone would even dare do that to
another emergent here.”

I smiled. “Thanks Claire.”

“Plus Rachael, I will always have your back. What are roomies and best friends for?”

“AHHH Claire! That was so sweet.”

I smiled and we both just hugged. I guess I was having my first girl moment with Claire. I could tell we were definitely going to be what girls referred to as BFFs…Best Friends Forever!

“That’s sweet girls. But could you have your moment out in the hall, we need to fix your room back up” Ms. Fine Interrupted.

Claire and I giggled leaving. I was still upset about being a girl but I was overjoyed to have Claire there next to me to help me get through all this. I guess that’s what BFFs are for.

The Center: Tester - Part 6

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

Thank Zip for the editing!

Here is The Center: Tester - Part 6. So not much happens this chapter except introduction to some new characters. I decided to test out a new photo. Please tell me if you like this new photo. Enjoy!
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Claire and I headed to dinner, we were not in the best mood but we still needed to eat. I entered the cafeteria and unlike before it was packed with people. We got some dinner; the Center food is the best. Then Claire led the way to the right corner where there was a table with a few people already sitting that I had no idea at all of whom they were. Needless to say I was a new here and it frightened me a little.

Claire sat down next to this bot with bright golden hair; yes his hair was actually golden color. He had emerald eyes and seemed strong but swim, it looked like he had the body of a runner. Unfortunately there was no room next to Claire since she sat at the end of the table. I wondered why she did that as there were many other seats so we could sit next to each other. So I had to go sit on the other side. I sat down next to this girl with dark gray hair which surprisingly enough made he look more beautiful. The hair helped to bring attention more to her eyes which were rich shade of violet. She was of medium height but her bright smile and red lips could make the whole room shine combined with her violet eyes that seemed to hypnotize you, I caught myself staring at her eyes for a whole minute before I was finally able to pull them away. On the other side of the golden haired pretty boy was another boy who looked like a marine. He was packed with muscles bulging all over his body. He had dark black hair and eyes. His eyes seemed to demand respect and he was wearing a very serious expression on his face.

“Hey you must be the new girl Rachael; I would like to officially welcome you to The Center. I’m Brooklyn Miller formerly Barry, you can just call me Brook though” said the violet eyed girl.
“That’s cool! I’m Rachael formerly Ryan. I am a power mimic, which means I can copy other people’s powers.”

“Really that’s so cool; I wish I had a power that was cool like that. All I have is this natural charisma power that seems to attract people’s attention and makes it easy for me to manipulate people if I really wanted to, it also makes me extremely likeable. Yet if people wanted to they could ignore it. My power was said to be a very light off shoot of a dominator power. I have no control over this power and it’s automatic and weak but it can manipulate people and force them to see things my way if I used it correctly. You can basically call my power a politicians dream. Apparently my power is weak though because my mom must have only taken a sip of the effected water. Either way here I am.”

This girl was a chatter box but she was certainly charismatic and I almost got caught again in a daze from her eyes. Although I was more resistant than most apparently as I noticed the marine like boy kept looking at he unable to take his eyes off. Apparently I was resistant to dominators like that white haired girl, but what was cool about her power was while it was not powerful it was subtle and overtime could win a lot of people to willingly help her. That in my opinion was a whole lot better than complete domination ethically and morally. I would trade an army full of controlled emergent any day for a small group of true and loyal friends.

“Well it’s nice to meet you Brook” I told her.

“Rachael let me introduce you to everyone else” Claire said. “Next to me is Leon Royal” she blushed. “Leon is a photokinetic, he can bend light back in forth though in such a way that light takes shape, it makes him quite special for a photokinetic, he can’t do it long though as it requires a ton of energy.”

“Nice to meet you Leon” I smiled.

“It’s nice to meet you too.”

“Next to Leon is Tony Hunt he’s an audiokinetic which means he can create and manipulate sound waves. “

“Hey Tony nice to meet you, do you mind if I ask how you got such big muscles? You must be around my age but your muscles are huge.”

“Hahaha! Thanks, it’s nice to me you also Rachael. As for my muscles, with my power I can manipulate sound waves so I manipulated sound within my muscles causing them to vibrate back and forth in such a way that I caused millions of microscopic tears allowing me to make my muscles stronger a lot faster than normal.”

“Hahaha! That’s so cool and creative. I am glad it’s not some sort of drug, your muscles really do look abnormally big.”

We all got a good laugh at that one. They all seemed like generally nice people and I was glad that I would have some friends here to help me through this. What was a little surprising was the way Claire reacted around Leon it was clear she liked him, though I saw her fighting it also she kept blushing when he spoke to her, but she kept trying to pull back. Geez you only just became a girl and yet your body forces you to start liking guys. Not me I thought. I would fight this till the very end.

All of a sudden I felt two slender and firm girls arms wrap around me and felt two large mounds of flesh that could only have been boobs poke into my back. I turned around and saw a beautiful blonde with big silvery eyes, big kissable lips, a tiny waist, and a big firm but. Her boobs were about the same size as mine and were pressed into my back, her blonde hair was long and luscious and went down to her waist, I would say she was about five feet six inches and she could definitely get any straight guy she wanted.

“Hey beautiful, I’m Laura Locks it’s so good to have another girl here.”

She then want and kissed my cheek. The worst part about it was that I should have felt something but I did not. I was not attracted to her at all. Shit! I thought. How could I no longer be affected by girls!

“Umm can you get off me, I’m Rachael by the way.”

“Ahh you must not be a lesbian” she sighed, letting go of me.

“I kind of wish I was its weird that I am no longer attracted to girls” I told her.

“Yeah it makes sense with the gender switch, yet a whole lot of emergent still do like their new sex and some like both, it can be really confusing here. That’s why at the Center we are so accepting here no matter who you are or what your sexual orientation is” Laura said.

“I am just going to guess that you still like girls? I asked.

“Yeah I do still like girls a whole lot. Back when I was a guy I was a major player I hit on so many girls and dated a different girl almost every week. When my emergent happened I was so afraid I was going to start liking boys, turns out I didn’t I still like girls, but even more so then when I was a guy. I went from being a major player to being still being a major player but also a major lesbian. Surprisingly I really enjoy who I am now. Being a lesbian is the experience of a lifetime and this school is crawling with guys turned girls who still like girls. It’s a paradise.”

To tell you the truth I was a little afraid of Laura but she seemed like a decent person even though I may have to watch out for more sneak attacks from behind by her.

“It’s nice to meet you Laura” I told her.

“Laura here takes being a Lesbian to the next level she hit on all the girls here, but she also one of the nicest and sweetest girls you will meet, she won’t ever hesitate to help a friend” said Brook.

“Ahh that’s so sweet of you Brooky.”

“Not interested Laura. Also be careful Laura’s power is empathy. She is able to feel and project emotions and feelings. Which she uses in order seduce other girls.”

“Hey! I only did that once” Laura giggled.

“I know I’m just messing with you” Brook smiled.

“So Rachael, what’s your power?” Laura asked.

“I am a power mimic; I can copy and use other people’s powers for a limited amount of time.”

“That’s so cool. Hey did you all here they are making a big announcement at dinner tonight, something to do about vandalism. Apparently someone vandalized a room writing hurtful things” Laura told us all. I looked over at Claire.

“Laura that was Rachael and my room that got vandalized we think it was Jasmine because Rachael accidently bumped into her in the hall and on Rachael’s bed was burned the word FREAK!” Claire Said.

“AWW I am so sorry that happened to you on your first day here. Uhg! That Jasmine even I don’t hit on her. But you can’t be too harsh on her, apparently Jasmine came from an abusive home where her step mom and dad beat and bruised her. It’s no excuse but she has had a very hard life” Laura informed.

Oh yeah that her group over there. She pointed to a table where Jasmine sat surround by a bunch of pretty girls and handsome guys that gave off the typical upper clique feeling of cockiness and superiority.

All of a sudden the room went silent and I saw Kris go up to the front of the cafeteria. She was dressed in her business woman outfit.

“Hello, just recently there was vandalism and bullying done to a member of our community. I want to remind you all that we all have gone through a difficult change and such acts of hatred will not be tolerated her at The Center. Let this be a warning to all if we find out who do this that person will be punished harshly and other such acts that occur will cause the Center to take extreme measures to stop this bullying and vandalism. I do not tolerate this and I hope you don’t either.”

The cafeteria burst into claps everyone seemed to agree and people were saying stuff like “who would do such a thing?” Or “we can’t allow this to happen at the Center.” But not everyone agreed there was one table that sat silently and a few of them snickered. It was Jasmine’s table!

I was really happy to be in a place where the majority of the community was accepting and supportive, besides being a girl the Center was not so bad. Still I did not like the idea of being a girl at all, but it was more for Mattie’s sake. I still missed her so badly.

After dinner Claire and I went back to our room. The Center did fast work the room was already fixed up. We messed around a lot, and talked about our old lives. Claire missed her family the most and I agreed with her on that although I told her I also missed Mattie. We it got pretty late we decided we better go to bed so we went to the bathroom brushed our teeth and did all the other night rituals before going to sleep. I fell asleep almost as soon as my head hit the pillow I must have been exhausted from a long day.
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I woke up in an unfamiliar room and I felt really strange thinking why am I hear and why is there a girl sleeping in that bed over there near me. It took me a second to realize and remember all that had happened yesterday.

Damn I thought. Why couldn’t it have been a dream? Though I was glad that Claire was not a dream, she was already my closest friend here. Claire was still sleeping. I looked at the clock in the room and realized we only had thirty minutes to prepare. I did not want to be late to my first day of classes.

“Hey Claire! WAKE UP! We are going to be late for class!”

“Hmm.” She said looking at the clock!”

“Oh shit we’ve over slept Rachael. How will we make up the time? It takes a lot longer for girls to get ready.”

“I doubt it will take that long” I told her.

“To get ready properly it would, we don’t even have time to do our hair, were going to be a mess.”

We raced into the showers that were filled with the few over sleepers like us. Geez if I had more time I would have stayed in the water much longer. It just felt so good on my body I did not want to stop, but I did. I need to wake up a whole lot earlier for now on.

We then raced over to class making it at the last second. They heaven Claire and I had the same advisory or I never would have made it on time. The homeroom teacher acted as our Advisor his name was Mr. Fillden. Lucky for me Mr. Fillden was one of the new teachers hired with the incoming students and he was really nice. He taught English and we had his class first. I never cared for English that much but he taught us a whole lot and was very passionate about English making it exciting.
After English I had to unfortunately part ways with Claire. I was only able to find the classroom on time do to the custom Center phone I got. My next class was physics with Mr. Hirkwood. I always found physics interesting like how it explains the world through mathematics and equations. But why did it have to be so hard by the end of Mr. Hirkwood’s class my head was pounding. Most physics teachers were smart but hard to learn from just because physics was hard. Mr. Hirkwood was no exception.

I was extremely happy it was lunch time now. I was famished as I had missed breakfast so as not to be late to my first day of class at the Center. I really hated the uniform also, it was a typical school girl uniform, but I felt so embarrassed wearing that short skirt. I had to modify my walking just so boys did not catch a glance of my blue panties. I now understood what it’s like to be a girl in society. All those stares from male eyes, it was liked being stripped visually. I could not believe that some of those guys used to be girls, there was just no way, but of course I knew it was fact.

Lunch was fun and I was happy to be able to spend time with my new friends. I got a new impression of Laura when she brought me a petition she started to make sure no acts of hatred would happen here at the Center again. The pages were practically filled with signatures, and people were so supportive of the cause. It was a huge difference from my old school. There you walked a fine line and if you messed up it meant social death. Laura was really sweet to take this up upon herself I told her it was ok but she just said it’s not just for you but for everyone. Laura may have been eccentric but she was a born activist and born leader.

I was glad Claire and I could see each other again. I missed my best friend, though I should probably not be around her to much she obviously wanted to speak to Leon more right then. So Brook and I got to know each other better we found out we both used to play soccer and still enjoyed it. We also decided that maybe if we could get enough people we could start a soccer tournament here. One of the few things the Center lacked was organized sport. We had all the facilities but they were used more for recreational fun. It would be cool if we could actually get sports teams going and play against each other. We obviously could not play against normal people.

After lunch I had power testing. Because of my ability they put me with the kinetics for today. Leon and Tony would take me there. The head of Abilities Training was Mr. Lions but with the increase in students they had to hire some more people. One of the new people hired was a guy named Jeff Trait worked with the Kinetics teaching them the basic around using a kinetic power. It was decided that because of my power I would get a little instruction on a wide variety of different powers here at the Center. The kinetics as I called them just happened to be first.

I got their psyched at the chance to finally use my power. The glove I wore had become a part of me, but finally I would have a chance to put my power to use. That was until I saw who else was there. It was Jasmine and she gave me a wicked smile. She was grinning at me. I had no idea why her plan had failed the whole school was supportive of me her attacks to hurt me were not. She may be a mean girl but I was immune to her petty tactics to hurt me. I just turned by head away ignoring her. But then she continued to approach me. Oh geez, I really did not want to get into anything.

“Hey FREAK guess what you got partnered with me, let’s make this enjoyable” Jasmine said with an evil grin on her face.

Only one word came to my mind. The word DOOM!!!

The Center: Tester - Part 7

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

Give Zip a thank you for all his help with editing!

I am proud to present chapter 7 of The Center: Tester. This is a special chapter.
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She was grinning looking at me with the eyes of a killer. I had absolutely no idea what I had done to her and yet she was angry at me and was out for my blood. Well maybe not to kill, but she definitely wanted to hurt me. The activity was a simple sparing match we were not to go too serious at each other, but we were supposed to watch each other’s moves and point out mistakes. What we could have done better. It was a time for us to get creative and actually blow of some steam using our powers. Jeff Trait had a stun gun in case things went bad which eased my worries about her killing me. But at the same time I did not want to be brutally burned.

Luckily Mr. Trait had to watch so we went in order, which means I did not have to fight right away. While I was waiting the trembling inside me started to grow. I was at a huge disadvantage. If I could not get my hand in physical contact with her I could not use any real powers. By now word of my powers had went around so she probably knew to keep her distance. My turn got close and closer until finally it was my turn.

Calm yourself, Rachael I told myself. A clear head leads to a clear body able to react to any situation.

“Ok Jasmine, Rachael, you girls are up” said Mr. Trait.

Still not used to being a girl, I thought. I mean it’s only been about two days.

“Ready for some fun you superficial freak?” asked Jasmine.

I need to quickly come up with a witty response. I needed to play Jasmine, to get her angry. I understood now why she did not like me. For some reason she had got it in her head that I was prettier than her, that’s why she called me superficial just now or freak so many times. I was pretty good about understanding human emotions, and this read off as jealousy and hate. Geez why was being a girl so complicated. Boys never were jealous of each other’s looks. I knew what to say, it was not the perfect line but it would piss her off. I was happy that we were allowed to insult and instigate each other. This was because in a real battle if you get angry and lose a clear head, the results can be fatal. So this would help us control our emotions.

“Well I’m prettier then you. So if I’m a freak what does that makes you?”

“Let’s see how long you can say that with a burnt face.”

Her hands created a fire ball which she threw at me; she kept throwing more and more. I had kept my distance for this so they were generally easy to dodge. Unfortunately I could not dodge them forever I needed to get her angrier.

“Are you sure you were ever a guy? It seems like you have always thrown like a girl.”

“SHUT UP FREAK! You are so ugly!”

“Oh that’s interesting. Someone who vandalized my room wrote FREAK on my bed. If they had that little self confidence in their image to take it out on others they must have been some real freak of nature.”

“Grrrrrrrrrr! I am going to freaking kill you.”

She really was. This was what I had been waiting for. Now Mr. Trait could stun her and I would not have to fight her. But the stun never came. Shit! It seems I would have to handle this myself. Why was he not stopping her, she actually wanted to hurt me.

Clearing my head of fear, I went through all the possible options and came to the best one. Her running in at me with a flaming fist was actually a good thing it occurred to me. Before, she stayed distant so I could not use my powers on her but her anger got the best of her and now she had thrown reason to the winds and was charging in at me.

“This is perfect” I muttered to myself.

As she got closer I removed my gloves keeping one hand behind my back. If she saw me remove my gloves she would remember I could copy her powers. She got closer and closer with a flaming fist ready to punch me.

“Take this you FREAK!” Jasmine Screamed.

Her fist was coming at me. I kept a clear head and put my hand right on her face. There came that cold feeling again I kept on as long as I could. I was hoping to knock her out. But no such luck. She realized her mistake and pulled back quickly. She looked a little drain but really pisses.

“You tricked me!” she snarled.

“I did no such thing. You ran at me like a wild bull, I never made you run at me.”

“Grrrr! Does not matter I know how to use my powers better and you don’t. Burn FREAK!”

She had aimed fire at my head and was using a long stream of fire she was forcing out quite inelegantly. The strain from her attack was obvious. Geez I felt her power, I knew how to use it but Jasmine was using her power all wrong.

“You're way too forceful with your power Jasmine, and you’re not using your power well which will just wear you out.”

“Shut up! You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

She was still shooting fire at me but now it was extremely easy to dodge she was so bad at using her powers. Her movements were stiff and she did not let the fire flow out of her and overwhelm her enemies and surround them. Instead she was focusing on finishing her opponent directly with one shot. I decided I would show her up.

“Watch this is how you use your power Jasmine.”

“I said SHUT UP YOU FREAK!”

I kept dodging and the fire was getting less and less. Then I threw some fire at her this time. I used small balls of fire not large ones like her. This was part of my plan the tennis ball sized fire balls were distraction so I could get in closer. It worked she raised a fire wall to block my mini assault. She was way too stationary and she had openings all over. Now was my big moment.

“Are you watching Jasmine? This is how you use your powers correctly.”

I went in at her. She tried to get me with fire but now I used the massive amount of fire I had saved. Her attack was swallowed in my fire. Running around her I created a giant fire wall all around her. She understood what I did now. She was trapped in with the heat. IT was down to a battle of who had more energy and power now to manipulate the flame circle around her. Even if she won she would only be more worn out. But this was my finisher idea and I had a whole lot more power than she did at this point. I was smart and used what power I had more effectively.

She tried manipulating the flames away from her but she could not. I held firm and even pushed the flame circle closer. It was exhausting but I had just begun to use what energy I had and she was fresh out. She was going to lose. I even saw the fear and frustration in her eyes. It was the look of a wild beast who would not give in, even if it meant death.

“I will never give up. Go on kill me.”

She was crying now she had obviously lost but her pride would not let her admit defeat. I decided it was enough and pulled back the fire. She was so surprised and she could not stop crying.

“I lost!” Jasmine cried.

It was sad to see her like this. I decided I needed to comfort her not even Jasmine could keep from crying. She was just as human as me even though she was being really mean.

“Hey stop crying Jasmine; this is not your loss. We will call this a tie. You could have easily beaten me if you had kept a clear head. If you get rattled by insults in battle it can be deadly. You need to think on your feet, which means keep a clear head and move around.”

“But” she spoke.

“But nothing. You were way too stationary during the battle except the one time you let your anger take over, and you made a fatal error. You also did not use your powers efficiently and sent as strong attacks as you could, trying to hit me. You were also way too forceful with your power, you need to let the fire flow easily and smoothly from yourself. There was also no plan to your attack at all. When attacking your opponent the one that thinks ahead and remains calm and cool is usually the winner. We'll do this again sometime and see who the winner is then. You did a great job out there and you certainly are really powerful.”

She was crying now more than ever but now she was smiling. She looked so much prettier when she smiled and a lot more likable then when she was glaring or yelling insults at people.

“Thanks.” She said.

“What are you thanking me for?”

“Not rubbing your victory in my face. But instead you called it a tie. You even told me what I did wrong which no one seemed to do. They all just ran away from me. You’re the first one to approach me in battle and not just throw the match.”

“I told you it was a tie, we’ll decide the winner later.”

She smiled at me. We then shook hands. She then leaned in and promised to confess to ransacking my room. She even said sorry. I smiled maybe she was not so bad after all.

I started to hear clapping! I looked around and all the observers were looking at us. They must have liked what they seen. Then this man came forward with Mr. Trait. I had no idea why though.

“Rachael this is Mr. Lions the head of ability training and testing.”

Oh shit I thought I was probably going to get in trouble for abusive use of powers. Did I push things too far with my circle of fire. Well either way I would find out.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you Mr. Lions.”

“It’s nice to meet you too Rachael. Please come with me to my office.”

We then went to his office it was a room filled with cabinets all locked with heavy duty locks. He saw me looking at them.

“These are the files and results we obtain through ability testing and training.”

“Should you be telling me that?”

“Honestly no. But I have a proposition for you. I was extremely impressed with your performance today. You keep a cool head in all situations and know how to manipulate emotions on the battlefield. You also plan ahead and effectively worked on your feet. All things you said yourself are important concepts to training and testing ones power. In addition your ability as a mimic makes you interesting because you can try all sorts of other powers temporarily, and you seem to be able to use those powers pretty well as well.”

“Where are you going with this?” I asked.

“Getting down to the point, I would like you to work with us in Ability Testing and Training. You would have access to test results and you would be our student in charge of helping me run the Testing and Training program here. You would work with me to help train yours and others power. The Ability Testing and Training department is a huge part of The Center. You would be my first mate here when it comes to training and testing the powers and ability of our unique and talented students. So what do you say?”

I was not sure what to say. It was only my second day here, but what he said did make sense. My powers made me an interesting candidate for the job and I was always someone who thought everything through. I was not sure why he decided to spring this on me now though. I realized something though, something he was not telling me.

“Wait a minute, you were watching our fight, and you purposely set me up with Jasmine so as to see if I was a good candidate.”

Mr. Lions smiled; it probably meant I had guessed it right on.

“You’re pretty smart. That was just the final test though, I chose you not just because of your powers or this little test with Jasmine. Which by the way, I was ready to step in at any time, to save either one of you. The other test was the one you took with Ms. Tipp’s. It was well thought out and your ability handle different situation is astounding, you could probably push the limit of people’s powers. “

“That’s flattering but are you sure I am the right choice.”

“Yeah I am sure after seeing your fight with Jasmine. The way you handled the situation with her was astounding. You are also good and passionate at athletics I see from your previous life which will make you a very good trainer.”

“Ok but why now, shouldn’t you have waited a bit longer.”

“To be honest yes, but we don’t have time to wait, especially when we were pretty sure on our choice anyway. See The Center needs a student to help lead ability training it’s a big part of the school, the reason student are here is because they have these amazing abilities. We are getting more and more students and we need an emergent who can train other emergent. Who can understand other emergent powers and help them to develop their own. With what your power is and what you showed me with Jasmine just now I am sure that you are the right choice.”

“Alright, fine… I will help in power testing; I will be your power tester. But I want to know what’s in this for me.”

“Most of it’s for you. You need to use and stretch the abilities of your powers like everyone else, so you need to work with all sorts of different emergents. That is how you will grow in your power and stretch your abilities. Also, since you would be working with us you would be officially recognized as a trainer by this school. And you could wear what you wanted to wear to power training since you will be in charge.”

“Wait! So you mean I can go without the uniform?” I really wanted to get out of the skirt and heels.

“No only the training uniform, you would still be required to wear the school uniform at school. You would only be a superior when it comes to training the emergents that come in.”

I was not too happy about still having to wear the school uniform, but I guess it was better than nothing to be able to get out of the training uniform. They still had the girls train in skirts just skirts less likely to fly up and allow people to see our panties, they also allowed for more movement. But a skirt was still a skirt. I was already getting annoyed with them. I had to watch the way I sat and the way I went upstairs even the way I walked so that no one would see my panties. I hated the fact that I even wore panties now. I was obviously getting angry now so I took a deep breath to calm down.

“Ok where do I sign?”

“Sign here, here, and here. This will give you permission to look at the testing files of the students and create your own. You will need the files to properly test and train students. Also, you are not allowed to reveal data to any unauthorized person. Doing so will result in a lifetime sentence, and I like you so don’t.”

I took the pen from his hands and signed my new name where I needed to. “Rachael Ann Hawkins”.

“Don’t worry I won’t reveal the data to unauthorized people. You can trust meet that I will take this job seriously. I honestly think I will enjoy working with the students on training. It will also give me something to take my mind off the people I lost, like my girlfriend Mattie. So I think this will be beneficial to both of us. I also believe from what I saw in the cafeteria that the students will be supportive of me.”

He smiled at me. “Rachael I know for a fact that I made the right choice in choosing you now. I will see you later have a good day.”

“Yeah you have a good day also.”

I left the room then. Not knowing what to say. This was exciting, amazing news; I was pumped to start being working with other emergents. It seemed like it would be a great experience. Tomorrow I would begin working as a Power Tester.

The Center: Tester - Part 8

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

I would like to extend my greatest thanks to Zip for putting up with me and how fast I hammered out these stories. :) This was partially written already as I meant it to be chapter 7 but end up finishing the next Rachael story because I wanted to do that. So it sat on my computer and because of that I ended up finishing it.

This is a Mattie story. Hope you like the picture! I think you all will enjoy this story. Though the whole chapter does happen in just a cell!
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I opened my eyes to find myself in a dimly lit cell. There were absolutely no windows I was frightened. I was scared. Who would kidnap a girl and do this sort of thing? What did this all have to do with Ryan? I remember that Scott Pharm was the one who kidnapped me; he had done something to me.

I sat in this cell for who knows how long. Hour after hour went by. There was only one door with some sort of hatch to slide food through underneath the door. I was perfectly trapped. I had tried for about an hour to open the door but it just seemed pointless. There was absolutely no way for me to escape. There was a camera in the far corner watching me but it was too high for me to get to it. I wanted to grab that camera and smash it. Damn the people who trapped me in here. Damn the people who killed Ryan. I wanted vengeance, you could not believe how pissed I was at this whole affair.

I continued waiting terrified. I was hoping that Ryan would show up at any moment to rescue me, to be my knight in shining armor. But the more I waited the more I lost hope and began to believe he really was dead. I had begun to get hungry and was wondering if they were ever going to feed me. I got my answer. Eventually the hatch of the bottom door opened and someone slid me a tray of food.

“Hey girl! Make sure you push the empty tray out or you will get no more food. You hear!”

Who did these people think they were? Kidnaping and killing and they only had the decency to give me such crappy food. The so called meal they had slipped under the door was a bottle of water, two slices of bread with a few slices of salami and a bowl with some sort of unidentifiable chowder. But I was so hungry, I ate it all. The chowder was awful but you would not believe how hungry I was. I then slid the tray under the door; I at least needed food to live. I was getting really bored and irritated just sitting in this dimly lit room. This was so cruel to put anyone through this. I was pissed. I had the urge to go to the bathroom but there was not even a toilet in this cell.

“Hey!” I shouted. “At least give me a bathroom also you JERKS!”

A few minutes later someone slipped a small bucket under the hatch.

“Here’s your toilet princess, Hahaha!”

“What the heck, at the very least give me a proper toilet. Let me out of here. When the police find you that will be the end of you guys.”

I just heard more laughing. These people were dicks, had they never heard of prisoner rights. I started to cry again the tears would just not stop, this all sucked if things kept going like this I would lose my mind. I started to cry and I eventually fell asleep on the cold hard cell that was my confinement. I was sad and I was hurt.
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I woke up the next morning sore all over. My whole body was sore, probably from sleeping on the uncomfortable bed that was my new room. I started to cry again, how I was not supposed to be upset when the situation seemed totally bleak? I decided I might as well kill myself. They were cruel and it looked like there was no chance of this situation ever getting better. I was definitely not going to be a prisoner for life. I did not even know why they kidnaped me.

I took off my shirt, I decided I would kill myself by strangling myself there was nothing but this cold dark and empty room and I was not sitting through another day of torture. I had no one for company and this was about it for me. I could not think of anything to live for here. I took the shirt and started to wrap it around my throat. I started hearing footsteps down the hall. A few seconds later the door flew open.

The girl who came in slammed the door shut a second later. She had pink hair, a white freckly face with turquoise eyes. She had slender hips and looked about 5 inches shorter than me. The girl was probably my age but she was petite and very cute. I just wanted to hug her. She was also carrying a tray of food for me. The food was a whole lot better than what I was given yesterday. It was a bowl of cereal with a carton of milk next to it, a juice box, and a bagel with cream cheese.

She ran up to me ripping my shirt from my grasp.

“Don’t kill yourself!” She screamed at me.

“Why should I not, you trapped me here against my will. I have no idea what going on? You also killed my boyfriend Ryan!”

“Calm down I can’t tell you what’s going on but you should not kill yourself. I’m Megan Brown by the way.

“I’m Mattie,” I sniffed.

She smiled at me and took my hand.

“Mattie can I show you something I think you will be shocked.”

“Ok sure go ahead,” I told her. What else did I have to do and she was the first friendly face I met from among my kidnapers, unlike that Scott Pharm who dragged me here in the first place.

She placed her hand on me and suddenly my neck began to feel better from the place I had tried to kill myself. In fact my whole body began to feel better. It was like this girl was healing every ache and pain inside my body.

“All better now?” she smiled.

“Yeah what was that?”

“Sorry I really can’t tell you anymore, but please don’t give up on life that easily. Things will get better. I promise you.”

“Fine, I will keep on living, but I won’t do anything for the people here, and I don’t know why you do.”

She frowned a little, but then she turned around opening the door and closing it behind her. I heard the lock of the door and knew I was trapped in here again. She probably was being forced to work for them and ran out because she honestly could not tell me anything. The strange part of this whole encounter was that somehow she had healed me. I don’t know what was going on but everything seemed strange now. I just wished someone would explain things to me soon before I went insane.

Time went on ticking again. I had kept myself occupied by thinking up stories in my head. I imagined Ryan with me again and my dad hugging me telling me he loved me. It was all so sad I began crying again. Life sucked and nothing was going right. Megan had not come back and I was missing her company again. Eventually lunch was slid under my door. I was still here just sitting and waiting and it just sucked more and more.

I started to scream and yell but nothing ever happened so there I was just sitting in the corner. Waiting and waiting, wondering when my next meal was going to come Time just kept ticking and it was driving me crazy. I tried to think up stories or memories in order to keep sane but I had already done that. All this sitting and waiting, along with being all alone was driving me crazy. Just when I thought I was going to lose my mind, the cell door opened.

A man in a black suit, like the ones chasing me before, was standing there. He was grinning evilly at me. The man was dragging with him the body of a small boy it seemed. He threw the unconscious body at me. I caught the small boy; I would not let them hurt another person.

“Take care of this,” he said laughing.

I was shocked. It was the same evil voice that kept mocking me and laughing at me when he gave me food. It was my prison guard. I just glared at him. He just continued laughing as he closed the door and locked it.

I looked at my fellow prisoner again. I was surprised the person they threw at me was not a small boy but a regular sized girl about my age. She had bright red hair, pale skin that seemed to glisten even in this light. Her face was really cute. She had pretty lips and eyes with long eye lashes. Her waist was small and her hips were large, she seemed to be about one cup size smaller than me. But she was still a gorgeous girl.

What surprised me was, that she was wearing boys clothing, that was obviously too big for her. Why on earth would she be wearing boys clothing. The girl still would not wake up so I just laid her down, and continued waiting. Every now and then she would toss and turn, and I would go over to her and tend to her making sure she was ok. Eventually dinner was slid under my door and I begrudgingly ate everything on my plate. Then I went to bed and decided I would sleep near this strange girl in boys’ clothes. It was cold in here and if we stayed close together for warmth it would make her stay her just a little better. With that I drifted to sleep curious as to whom my new companion was, and what tomorrow held.
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I woke up some time, unsure if it was morning or night when I woke up. But knowing my internal clock it was probably morning. My new cellmate was still sleeping, she looked really uncomfortable. She was still tossing and turning, In fact it looked like she was levitating a bit. I rubbed my eyes and she was on the ground again. I must be seeing things I told myself.

A few hours’ later two trays of food were put into the room. There was one bad tray of food for me, and one bad tray of food for my companion. I decided I would not eat until my new cell mate woke up. It took about an hour later before the girl started to wake up. She yawned stretching her limbs on the cold floor.

She looked around her confused and angry, much like me. Then she looked at herself even more confused and she started crying. I had no idea why she was crying from looking at herself. I decided I better go comfort her. So I went over and wrapped my arm around her. Telling her everything would be ok that the police would come and they would rescue us.

The girl finally looked at me still sad and angry.

“No it’s not ok,” she said. “I’m a guy.”

“Excuse me.” I asked. Apparently this girl had lost it.

“I’m not insane my name is Aaron Sheckler. I am positive I was a guy, but suddenly these guys in suit came after me and knocked me out. That’s the last thing I remember before waking up here in this dark room.”

“Are you sure?” I asked

“I’m positive!” She replied.

It seemed like she was telling the truth, from the way her eyes looked at me. I had no idea what to say to her. It did explain why she was wearing the boy clothing. Maybe this girl was telling the truth.

“Ok I believe you,” I said.

I then did all I could to comfort this girl. Hugging her and telling her it would all be alright. When she had calmed down enough, I wiped the tears from her eyes. She really was beautiful and her eyes were a bright blue that pierced through the soul. I could not even imagine that she was a boy before this.

“Thanks!” she said.

“Yeah, everything is going to be alright.”

She then asked me for my story and we began talking. I told her about the strange people who attacked me and how they all seemed to do some weird things but I was not sure.

“It was almost like these people had superpowers.” I told her.

“Really?” She asked her eyes were big with excitement.

This girl obviously was a superhero fan at least when she was a boy apparently. If she had changed gender though, I wondered why she did. And why they had not given her a spare pair of clothing? I then remembered I saw her floating just a bit almost like she was levitating.

“Hey before you woke up I think I saw you levitating I told her.”

“Really! I was floating. Do you think I can fly?”

“Maybe. Who knows?”

“Up, up and away,” she said, and jumped up with a look of strain on her face. She was trying to fly but gravity won and she came back down to the ground hard. We both had a laugh at that.

“I don’t think you can fly. Maybe you can pick things up though, with your mind. Like telekinesis.” I said.

“Let’s try that. Can I try to pick you up?” A very excited young girl said.

“Ok sure,” I said smiling.

She began to focus on picking me up. I did not feel anything, but the girl looked very excited. I had no idea why, until I looked down. My feet were no longer touching the ground, I was levitating, and she was levitating me. It was awesome to say the least. The girl then gently lowered me to the floor. She then stated jumping up and down with girlish glee. She had just changed sex and was crying a few minutes ago. But now she was jumping up and down like any little girl would. Probably the aspect of having a superpower outweighed the negative but it felt like there was something else. If I had changed sex and became a boy. Well such a change would leave me devastated even if I did gain superpowers. If only Ryan was here I thought.

“Oh yeah, we need to eat.” I told her.

We then went over and began to eat our bad food. I was happy to have someone to talk to. I had also found out something interesting, superpowers existed.

“Hey I’m Mattie.” I told my new companion.

“I already told you I’m Aaron.” She said. “Or at least I used to be.”

“Yeah I know. Shouldn’t you pick out a new name though, a girl’s name? Something I could call you.”

“Yeah you’re right, I should.” She sat there thinking and eating. I was wondering what she was going to decide on. She finally spoke.

“Amber Marshal. I will be called Amber Marshal.”

Why did you choose a new last name?” I asked.

“Well, I probably won’t be able to return home, and may need a totally new name. Just to be safe.”

“Makes sense.” I told her.

We finished eating and then another question popped into my head… This girl was way too comfortable being a girl it seemed. I was curious why she was not freaking out like before.

“Hey Amber did you want to be a girl?”

She looked at me a little confused and embarrassed, her cheeks blushed red.

“Well kind of, it was not anything serious and I never really acted on it. I liked being a boy, and was happy to live my life out as a man. But I have two younger step sisters and one older sister and I have always felt left out. They had all their girl moments and there I was the odd ball. I was the only boy except my dad. But he was busy at work all the time and I barely saw him. I don’t know somewhere inside I may have wanted to be a girl, but I also enjoyed being a boy. When I woke up and found myself as a girl I was upset and angry at all of this that happened. That I had become a girl, that I may not see my family again, and that I was kidnaped and no one is telling me what is happening. But I just feel so right in this new body. It’s like this was meant to be my body all along, and that this is the real me. Plus I have always been a superhero fan. When I found out I was a superhero I was overjoyed.”

She ran over and hugged me. It was nice and I was happy for her. It really seemed like she should have been a girl all along. She was so friendly and sweet. We talked for a long time later. Minute after minute passed by and I was beginning to get annoyed again. But it was not as bad as before since I had someone to talk to now.

Lunch was eventually put into our room and we ate the food… if only to survive for each other. Me and Amber had begun to bond it was this relationship between fellow prisoner and I really enjoyed and like spending time with the girl.

Time ticked on again. Maybe three hours later I began to feel really sick. My stomach was cramping and I had an awful headache. I t was like the world was coming apart everything seemed strange around me. I had no idea what was happening. Amber saw me in pain and looked at me weirdly.

“Mattie is your head hurting and do you have bad cramps?” she asked concerned.

“Yes I do,” I said. “But no need to worry I’m sure it nothing. Probably my stomach is most likely reacting to this bad food.”

“I don’t think so Mattie. Right before I changed I had similar symptoms that you have. Now that I mention the pain I was in before this happened, didn’t you say your boyfriend Ryan was exhibiting similar symptoms?”

“Yeah I did. But what are you implying?”

“Mattie I think you’re going through the same thing that I and possibly your boyfriend, Ryan, went through.”

The Center: Tester - Part 9

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

I must give a giant thanks to Zip for this chapter. #1 editor in my book right now. THANKS ZIP!

Also there is a new picture for the release of this chapter!

Ryan thought he had all the happiness in the world. He had his beautiful girlfriend Mattie but life is a roller coaster as Ryan would find. Here is his story as he goes through what can only be considered the biggest change of his life.
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I was so glad power training was over. I slumped to my room, exhausted. That whole day took a lot out of me. I opened the door and flopped on my bed, happy to be back in my room. Geez… this Center place was annoying sometimes, rules and more rules. I thought over the day. All in all it was a good day. Jasmine no longer seemed to be hostile toward me; I made some new friends, and even got an important job here at the Center.

I had no idea what that job entailed or what would be needed of me. All I knew was that this was going to be the start of something and I had no idea where the boat of life was taking me now. A distraction soon came to my rescue.

Slamming the door open, Claire rushed in. She was grinning all over like something big had just happened. Her face was all red. I pondered on what that could mean. I think I had an idea.

“Hey Claire did something good happen?” ’Smooch’ I made a kissy face.

Claire got even redder which meant I had hit the nail on the target.

“So how was it with Leon?”

“Shut up Rachael, stop making fun of me, just you wait till you like a boy.”

“Oh come on, Claire, I am just playing the part of the BFF wanting to hear the juicy details.”

We both got a good laugh at this. Then I had Claire come over and sit on my bed. I actually wanted to hear it; I knew it was going to happen to me eventually even if I wanted to deny it. So it was best, it seemed, to learn firsthand what it was like to be the girl in a relationship.

“Ok Claire don’t you dare hold back the details. Tell me everything.”

“Well… after I was done with my power testing, Leon came over and asked me to walk with him.” She was blushing bright red.

“After that we just walked around the Center until we came to a little bench in the garden, outside. We sat and talked. I was having a lot of fun just talking to Leon. He was making my heart pound for some reason. I just felt so happy to be around him and when he put his arm around me it just felt good. I did not even protest. If I was still a guy it would have freaked me out.”

“Yeah I know what you mean.”

“And then I just seemed to fall into his chest. It was like he was my world it was the most amazing feeling in the world, and he made me feel so special, like I was the only one in his world. Then he…he leaned in and kissed me! He kissed me Rachael, and you know what was shocking about it… I liked when he kissed me. I felt sparks go off in my head it was wonderful and at the same time terrifying as I knew I had truly become a girl then.”

“I’m so sorry Claire.”

“Don’t be Rachael, I am a girl now and I think I have come to terms with it. It’s not like I can change back and I really do like being with Leon. I may be a girl now but that does not mean I can’t learn to enjoy the experience.”

“I see what you mean Claire, but it’s not going to be that easy for me. I had a girlfriend named Mattie back home, who I still care for deeply, and getting with a guy seems like I will be betraying her and myself. Don’t get me wrong I think I do like boys now; I just can’t quite accept the fact that I do, yet.”

“It’s ok Rach you will eventually come around.”

“Yeah I guess so, let’s head to dinner Claire.”

“Sounds like a plan Rach!”

We headed to dinner. Like normal the place was packed with teachers and students alike. I was happy to be able to eat, I was starving now. We got in line and eventually were able to progress out of the long line of people that had formed. As we were headed to our tables for dinner, Jeff Trait: the new ability trainer, came up to me to talk. I told to Claire to continue on and that I would be with her shortly.

“Hey Claire, heard you are a part of our team now. Congratulations! I will be working with you to help you with your duty as an ability tester and trainer. Please come and ask me for anything if ever you should need it.”

“Ok thank you, Jeff.”

“No problem. Meet me at the training room tomorrow. There are a few things we should go over.”

With that I headed to my table. All in all Jeff was a nice guy, and he was also kind of handsome. I found myself blushing. Of course being in a relationship with faculty was off limits. But that did not mean, as a girl, I would not find older men attractive. I finally made my way to the table and sat between Brook and Laura.

“Hey Rachael! Did you hear?” Exclaimed Laura.

“Hear what?”

“Jasmine confessed to vandalizing your room, the school is shocked that she would actually admit to it. But I have to give her props for having the courage to come clean.

“How bad was the punishment?”

“She has to help maintenance with cleaning for a whole week. It’s to show her what maintenance has to deal with, so she will be less inclined to damage Center property in the future.”

The center was pretty big and there was a lot of cleaning that was required here, so it would certainly be a fitting punishment. I was just happy that we were no longer enemies I looked forward to getting along with Jasmine in the future.

This all reminded me about what happened this afternoon. I had forgotten to tell them that I had become an ability tester and trainer.

“Guess what happened to me today. I became a power tester, which means I will be working with the Ability Testing and Training department here”.

“OMG Rach that’s so cool!” Clair shouted.

They all congratulated me for getting a great job here at the Center. I felt proud. I think I will have fun with this new job. We ate and talked and Claire flirted with her boyfriend. I made a joke or two about public displays of personal affection. She glared at me and once stomped on my foot under the table. I stopped after that.

We finally headed back to our rooms. It had been a long day and I was ready to sleep, to be ready for school tomorrow again. Claire and I talked some more and then decided we better finish our homework. I was not too thrilled to be doing homework. If anything, homework at the Center was harder. I was glad when I finally finished. Claire finished about half an hour later.

Claire and I decided to get ready for bed. I wanted to shower before I went to bed tonight. So I went and got undressed, it was kind of relaxing to be free of all that girl clothing, but my boobs bouncing up and down was the most annoying thing in the world. Although I was not too shaken about the fact that these were my breasts. In fact I felt kind of proud of them, don’t ask me why. I think it has something to do with my mental change.

I got into the water and it felt so good like usual. Showering was definitely a whole new experience as a girl, and I was beginning to love it more and more. I ran the shampoo and conditioner through my hair letting the nutrients soak in. Then I used my body wash to message and clean my skin. Probably among the best showers I had experienced in my life. Though I was sure more were to come.

After that I got out and wrapped up both my body and hair, letting the towel wrap around my prominent breasts and hourglass figure. I looked at myself in the mirror and smiled. I was one foxy lady. I brushed my teeth along with a bunch of other girls, and then quickly went to the toilet.

Entering my room I found Claire waiting there for me with a big grin on her face.

“Hey Rach lets watch a movie online tonight.”

“Sure I could use a good movie. Have you anything particular in mind?”

“Yep!” She said with a big smile. “We are going to watch, ‘Enchanted’.”

“Are you kidding me?! A chick flick is the last thing I need.”

“I thought it would be better to embrace our feminine side. Who knows you may enjoy the movie.”

“Fine! Let’s just get this over with.”

Claire got on Netflix and brought up the Movie using the Center’s account. While she was doing that I slipped on baby blue night gown. I just wanted some sort of pajamas while we were watching the movie.

To my surprise I was actually enjoying the girly chick flick. I even cried during some of the movie. Geez… Was I becoming more and more of a girl?

When the movie was finally over Claire and I said good night and got into bed. It was so good to finally be going to bed after a long day. I decided to keep the nightgown on, I liked the way it felt against me. Hugging my blanket around me, I drifted off to sleep.
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“BEEP…..BEEP…..BEEP!”

I woke up to the annoying sound of my alarm clock. One of these days I was going to destroy those things I swear. It was even worse since we set the alarm two hours before we had to actually be at the Center school. It was because of being girls now, it took an annoyingly longer amount of time to get ready and be presentable.

We ran into the bathroom to find the showers packed. It seems we were not the only ones to wake up early. Fortunately the Center had large bathrooms for its many students so it did not take long for a shower to open. I got in and out, finishing the duty in record time. I was beginning to get a handle on being a girl. Then I wrapped my hair in the towel.

“Rachael! Come over here,” said a girl. A second later I realized it was Brook.

“What do you need?”

“Take that towel off you need to do your hair.”

I had no idea why it was so important but I guess I had some time.

“Ok Rachael, I am going to do your hair today but you need to do it in the future.”

Brook then proceeded to dry my hair. It was a new experience with her doing my hair. Brook was pretty skilled with hair. When she was done with mine; I swear my hair was shining. Then I brushed my teeth and headed to my room. I had about forty five minutes till classes, so I threw on my clothes and headed to the dining hall for breakfast.

It did not seem that many of my friends were here. I did notice Laura and Tony though… sitting together. I went over and sat with them.

“How are you doing?” I asked.

“Good Rachael, how about you?” said Tony.

“I am doing fine, but boobs are still a pain, tell them to do one thing and they do another. It’s like my breasts have a mind of their own.”

“Hahahaha! I know what you mean Rachael, they just keep bobbing up and down, and even with a bra there is some movement. I could not get used to that either at first when I changed.” Laura responded.

“Yeah but I can’t wait for power testing this afternoon, since I get to work with that department I should have some fun doing this job.”

“Yeah, good luck Rachael” Laura responded.

After eating my bagel and fresh yogurt, I headed to class. Class was a drag like usual, I kept counting down the seconds in each class. “If I had the power to fast forward time I would have classes done as soon as possible.”

It was a great sigh of relief when lunch came. Today I had some more classes after lunch, unfortunately. I ate lunch and headed to my next class. After what seemed like a decade, class ended and I was finally allowed to go to power training.

I went to meet Mr. Trait at his office. ‘Knock! Knock!’

“Hello who is it?” Mr. Trait’s voice rang through the door.

“It’s Rachael.”

“Oh good, please come in Rachael.”

“So what do you want to talk about Mr. Trait?”

“I would like to talk about your powers a little if that’s ok. Based on what you have told us Mr. Lions and I are a little confused as to how your copy power works. You said you felt like you were absorbing some sort of cold energy from the people you used your powers on right?”

“Yeah that’s correct.” This was definitely interesting, the more I knew about my powers the better.

“You see, we believe that the cold energy you were absorbing was energy, but more importantly it was another’s emergents power. The energy of an individual emergent is what you might be absorbing. It seems your power does not work on people if they are not an emergent though. This is probably something to do with the chemicals that caused emergents in the first place. Your body then reads whatever it is you absorb. Using the information from those absorbed, gives you the ability to copy another emergent’s power. When the energy or whatever it is you absorbed burns out, you will lose the power you absorbed.”

“Wait! But what about when the absorption becomes hot and it I hurt someone like Liz?”

“Whatever it is you absorb probably leaves some after effect on another’s body. If you absorb more than what the body can replace issues arise. Think of your brain as a high speed super computer able to read emergent power and use it.”

“Ah! So that’s how my power works.”

“No again we are not quite sure, as I told you before, we are not sure how your power works. It is all speculation right now.”

“Ok! So Mr. Trait, what do you have planned for today? Who will I be working with?”

“Well today we actually wanted you to be working with another Center student and just have a match with him.”

“Ok so who is this guy?”

“His name is Ray Lomax, he is sort of a mimic also but of a different variety.”

The Center: Tester - Part 10

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

Give a thanks to Zip for the great editing! Zip thanks for doing such a great job editing!
Also I am happy to say this story has finally reached double digits in chapters!

Ryan thought he had all the happiness in the world. He had his beautiful girlfriend Mattie but life is a roller coaster as Ryan would find. Here is his story as he goes through what can only be considered the biggest change of his life.
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“Wait… A fight with Ray Lomax! Are you kidding me?”

I may be new here, but everybody who came to the Center knew Ray Lomax. He was probably most known for being Kris’s boyfriend. But he was also known for being a skilled assassin. It was the assassin part that freaked me out the most.

“No! I am not kidding, Rachael. You will be fighting with him. Don’t be afraid. I doubt he will hurt you.”

“I know he won’t. But why do I need to spar with him in the first place?”

“The reason we want you to spar with him is because we believe it will bring interesting data. You will be fine. Are you afraid you will lose because you’re a girl now?”

“Of course not, I still am angry at the fact that I became a girl. I may be more of a girl than I was when I first changed, but that was out of the need to adapt to my environment and what I am now. If I did not begin to accept the fact that I am a girl now, I could not have survived here mentally. I know I am a girl now, but that does not mean I can’t be a girl who kicks ass. But from what I have heard Ray Lomax is something else. He is probably too hard an opponent for me, right now at least!” I yelled.

“Ok Rachael, just calm down. I do understand your point but nothing bad will happen. Do you trust me?”

I looked into Mr. Trait’s eyes they seemed very sincere like he truly cared for me.

“Ok I trust you,” I muttered.

After that we got up and headed out of the office. We were headed to one of the sparing rooms. The sparring rooms were made to take a beating. With reinforced steel and many shock absorbers, the room was near indestructible. Not that it had never taken a beating before. With some powers, it only made sense that even a room like that, would take damage. I had never been in a sparing room before. I heard there were many different ones, designed with different terrain or for different powers. It was going to be interesting to see one of these sparring rooms.

The inner boy in me that was still left, was excited. I kept comparing the sparring rooms to the X-men danger room. The geek in me was freaking out and I was happy that I still had some boy left in me. So I could be a girl… and still like a lot of the boy stuff I did before the change happened.

We finally arrived at the sparring room. It was there that I saw Ray Lomax. He was a pretty cool guy to be around, but right now I was wondering about my chances of beating him.

“Hey Ray! It’s nice to meet you. I’m Rachael.”

“Ok! So you’re the one I’ll be sparing. It’s nice to meet you… but don’t think I will be going easy on you Rachael.”

“Ok you two now that you are introduced let’s get you two inside the sparring room and get this duel underway. I believe you will be in sparring room 6,” said Mr. Trait.

“The urban terrain, well that should be interesting, it seems you are giving me the advantage” Ray said.

“We’ll see… You will probably need every advantage you can get,” I bragged.

After that we headed into Sparring room 6. It really was urban terrain, if the urban terrain had been hit by a bunch of disasters. The room itself was huge, probably about as big as a football stadium. There were big towers that were undamaged and then there were many damaged building as if they had been broken in half. In my opinion this was like being in urban ruins.

“Ok Ray. Before I leave you guys to monitor this battle would you allow Rachael to absorb some of your power; it’s to make this battle fair.”

“Sure thing. I want this to be a fair fight.”

I took off one of my gloves and took his hand allowing the cold energy to drain in me. The feeling was powerful but not as strong as when I had copied from kinetics. Removing my hand I gave Ray a light smile.

“I’m all done and ready when you are,” I told Ray.

“Ok guys I want you to go to the designated starting points on the opposite sides of this sparring room. You will have to search out and restrain the opposing side. Rachael. Make sure to keep in mind that you will have to take him quickly as you won't have use of his power indefinitely.”

With that Ray turned and ran toward his location. It was amazing the way he ran. Every detail that let him run as fast as he did, I was committing to my own body. I knew I could copy those movements of his perfectly, and they made him so fast. Ray’s power was really cool.

With that, I copied his run and headed to my starting point. I did have to modify the run a little though because as a girl it seemed my body moved differently, which I already knew. But still the movements I had just learned from Ray would prove valuable.
It turned out my starting position was in the top of one of the buildings that was intact. I just followed the arrows pointing where my starting position was, they were painted bright red for me and blue for Ray’s side. There were arrows all over the place; in addition there were arrows in yellow to point out where the exits were located, probably so you would not get lost. This meant I would have to run down a whole bunch of stairs again after running up. Why did they not put an elevator in this five story building? It was not that it was hard it just seemed like a pain. But it also meant there were whole bunches of hiding places in the urban terrain. I was just going to guess that this was to help train us, in case we had to take out an emergent gone rouge in a very populated city, but it did make an interesting sparring zone.

‘EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!’

That was the siren signaling the beginning of the match. I would have to go out and find my prey now… before he found me. Though I had a feeling this was more cat and mouse and I had become the mouse. It was clearly obvious they put Ray at an advantage here. I had no idea why they would do that though.

I started to run down the building. I knew, once I got outside of this building, I would have to keep my guard up. Ray could be anywhere, just waiting to ambush me. I got to the door and peeked outside. No sign of Ray. I sighed taking a deep breath. I decided my next move was to run to the cover of a destroyed building. The plan was to stick to the shadows and try to find Ray. My only chance was to take him out by a surprise attack

I walked around keeping to the shadows… There was still no sign of Ray. For now I was in the clear. I noticed one of the lower buildings and came up with an idea. I started to pick up a few stones and other object I could use as projectiles they would probably help me and I could set them up. I was pretty sure I stood no chance against Ray in a direct fight. I finally got to the top of the two story building. It was here I decided to maintain base and keep a lookout for Ray.

I sat watching and waiting there, ever so patiently, for Ray to come. It was beginning to get annoying and I was getting frustrated and tired of this waiting game. Just when I thought I had enough, I noticed Ray walking about calmly and relaxed. Why was he so relaxed he seemed as if he was not taking this seriously. I picked up one of my stones and waited for just the right time, and then I flung it at him with all my force. Damn why was he relaxed? Was he not taking me seriously at all?

Just when I thought it was going to hit him he dodged it at the last second taking a half step to move his body out of the way. He did not even dodge with his eyes. Having access to Ray’s power I realized he was using his ears to dodge. He had been waiting for me to make the first move; he was purposely putting himself out there so as to lure me out. He then did that speedy run move, coming closer to me as fast as he could. This guy was in good form; I had to get out of this building quickly before he caught up to me. This was part of the reason I chose one of the lower buildings. I got out as quickly as I could, but he was already hot on my trail and he was a whole lot faster, this would turn out to be a test of endurance versus speed. I would have to out maneuver him to win since I had less endurance and was slower than him in speed. But maybe my lighter body would allow me to maneuver through this urban terrain better.

I knew there was a low wall to the right corner that I could jump over followed by a smaller hole that I could wiggle into. It was one of the advantages of being smaller, I could fit through the hole in the wall and he probably couldn’t. I needed to buy time. Unfortunately I did not have time as I would lose access to Ray’s Power soon. I was obviously out matched. I went to take the right turn but stopped. Some of the ruins were pushed down where I wanted to make my turn and crawl through the hold I knew was nearby after walking around before I finally found Ray. Ray had probably blocked the path with the rubble beforehand knowing what I might do. Damn he was smart. There was no choice now but for me to keep on running, although it seemed he was only jogging now. It seemed like he was mocking me.

I kept going into the more unfamiliar territory that was closer to Ray’s starting position. I had not explored this part of the sparring room. I kept running but Ray was still close on my heels he was only a few feet behind me now. I began to pick up rocks and hurl whatever projectiles I could at him as I ran. I needed to regain any distance I could. He had to block a few but using his powers it was relatively easy to dodge most of them. Luckily for me I was looking behind so I learned a few dodge techniques.

I kept running and running until I unfortunately found myself at a dead end. Damn how had this happened? I had played right into Ray’s Hands and he had cornered me.

I saw him round the corner with a smile.

“Whew, looks like the trap worked.”

“What trap?” I asked.

“Did you notice I blocked off a few paths? It was in order to trap you here.”

“Wait! I only noticed one blocked path at the beginning?”

“Oh! So you did not survey the entire area? That’s another mistake.”

“Well… I decided to set up a trap to find you, but I could not find you anywhere. Where were you?”

“I stayed in the building to let you survey the area before I went out. That was another tactic I used. If the person is impatient to get the battle over with, you can show up late. It was tactic used by Japanese Samurai. If you showed up late, the opponent was usually tired and frustrated from waiting and would be easier to defeat.”

“Wait… So you planed all this?”

“Yep, now all that’s left is to decide who the winner will be, be prepared because here I come.”

He came at me with that speed from before. This was bad because I did not have much of his power left I figured I had preserved as much of it as I could. He was using all these fancy martial arts techniques. I took off one of my gloves knowing I had to get a hand on him. I tried dodging but took a hit. Damn it hurt like hell. He was using a hold technique. It was partially to my advantage as I was able to graze my hand on him. I felt the absorption of some power. I understood the hold now and was able to devious a way to escape.

Twisting my arms up, I managed to pull myself out of his grasp. I would be damned if I was going to get taken out this easily. It looked bad for me. I was tired and exhausted now; escaping had taken too much out of me. If I still had a man’s body fighting would be so much easier. I now had to make up for the lack of strength with skill and ingenuity. A lot about fighting physically as a girl had to do with thinking. If I could not get my thoughts set straight and think of good plans and ideas I would lose quickly.

I came at Ray this time trying to use some of the techniques I had learned watching Ray’s moves just recently. Ray was extraordinary he had all this skill and power that he could call up instantly. I had to finish this quickly or else I would be out of energy soon and would be easy to restrain. Trying to use one of Ray’s attack techniques I came at him but he simply used another dodge.

That was another problem… I may be able to copy and learn from Ray’s power, but he knew all the moves in advance which meant I learned them after they were used ON ME! I kept trying to doge but he kept getting holds on me using different forms of martial arts. I was learning so many different techniques and breathing forms from him. But the rate at which he used them and kept switching them was astounding. I knew that soon he would finish me. I made one desperate move. I kicked up some dirt. I made sure to kick the dirt just right so that it went in Ray’s eyes. Taking my chance, I ran at him, knowing it was either now or never.

All of a sudden his arms spun around and he caught me by the wrists. How was he fighting me without eyes? I then realized my crucial mistake. Before, when I threw a rock at him, he had dodged my attack from the building, using his ears, not his eyes. Ray was doing the same thing now. He had caught me. Ray quickly put me into another hold using my own weight against me to hold me down. I tried to escape for about a minute, but the more I struggled the more fatigued I became. It was obvious I was worn out and tired. I had lost this duel.

“Ray I give, you win.”

“Whew finally over, good spar Rachael.”

“Yeah that was a good spar Ray; we should do it again sometime, but let me use other powers. Your power is sweet but I don’t think I can win against most people using their own power, that is if they truly know how to use their power correctly.”

“Yeah I hear you, the odds were stacked in my favor from the beginning, but you put up a good fight, Rachael.”

“Yep” I smiled.

“Good Spar Rachael and Ray. Now that it is over, please head for the exit!” It was Mr. Trait’s voice over the speakers in the sparring room. It was obvious now that they had cameras watching us. I hoped I had no embarrassing videos taken. I laughed inside at that joke.

We headed toward the exit and stepped outside. I was tired and sweaty from the sparring and ready to shower and change. Ray was sweating even more than I was. Sweating less was another advantage of being a girl.

“Good fight you two!” Said Mr. Trait.

“Thanks,” we replied.

“Ok Ray, you’re excused. I would like to talk to Rachael alone, I will see you later.”

“Where would you like to go Mr. Trait?”

“Let’s just take a walk outside for a little.”

We both headed outside to just walk around. I was wondering what he wanted to talk about.

“Rachael your power is very unique and special, so special in fact that it may scare certain people here at the Center.”

“What do you mean by scare people here at the Center Mr. Trait?”

“I am afraid your power is too much of an asset here at the Center and your potential is going to waste here.”

“Wait a second… What are you saying?” Things were starting to get strange. Why was he saying these things. I was beginning to have a bad feeling.

I began to run away. I needed to get away from Mr. Trait. But he grabbed my hand. He then took out a needle and injected whatever was in the syringe into my body.

I started to feel weak. I could not move, I could not even scream. Whatever he had injected into me was paralyzing me.

“Do you know why I had you fight Ray? It was so I could tire you out. You had no chance at the beginning but I knew you would go all out. I am so cunning. Now let’s get you out of here to where you belong,” he laughed.

I tried to struggle, but it was no use. He had gotten me. He got into one of the Jeeps and drove me to the Center entrance. When we got there I noticed the guards were still there, on duty. Why would he go through the front entrance when there were guards clearly waiting?

As we got closer one of the guards spoke to Mr. Trait.

“So you got her, good job Agent Traitor.”

“It is so good to be called by my code name instead of that shortened Mr. Trait. Agent Worm I expect you got everything covered from here.”

“Yep… Agent Delta and I got guard duty today like planned; we took out the cameras and everything. They should have a team over here soon so we got to hurry.”

“Ok take her; I will go back so they don’t associate me with her being missing, until it is too late. I plan to retrieve some files before I make my escape.”

“Ok good to hear Agent Traitor. Finally I get to stop working for the American Government, been waiting to serve the General again.”

“Yep now get going.”

With that the fake guards blinded and gaged and bounded me. I tried to scream but nothing would come out. I found myself thrown into a car. I was terrified now. The care was obviously headed away from the Center. Who were these people and what did they want from me? On thought I had to that question was maybe they were the same people who tried to abduct me before at the restaurant. That left many more questions unanswered.

The last thing I heard before blacking out was “Nice going Delta. We've lost the Center vehicles”.

The Center: Tester - Part 11

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

This chapter is told through Claire's point of view (POV). Also again big thanks to Zip for the great editing!

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It was a really nice day today here at the Center. The birds were chirping and I had finally finished power testing for today. It was a good day to be alive. I was excited inside and my heart was beating. Today I had plans with Leon. I headed to his room in order to fetch him. It was kind of funny actually. Not too long ago I was a boy and never would have dreamed of going out with a boy. Now I was girl and the thought excited me. Though, if I was the girl now why was I fetching Leon? He should have come looking for me. Though in the end, I guess it did not really matter.

Getting to Leon’s room I came up to the door and knocked.

‘Knock! Knock!’ “It’s Claire,” I told the door.

“I’m coming, just give me a minute to throw on my shoes!”

A minute later he came out.

“Well that took you long enough, Leon!”

“Sorry, I was taking a nap!”

“Whatever! Come on Leon, you promised to go for a walk with me!”

“Yeah I know!” He gave me a big hug. “Let’s get going then.”

We started by first walking around the school. It was nice to just spend time with Leon. We were holding hands and for some reason my heart just kept pounding. He just looked so cute to me. It’s weird that I became attracted to boys because of my change. But it was part of my life now. It was not like I did not enjoy it to some degree. It was nice to be doted on and called pretty. I still missed being a guy but as a wise man once said, “When in Rome do as the Romans!”

We began to walk outside and the fresh air was marvelous. Leon’s hand was beginning to sweat now, I guess he was nervous being around me and holding my hand. We decided to go and sit on a bench inside the veranda nearby.

Leon and I started to talk about random things. We were both surprised that my best friend Rachael got a job working with the Testing and Training Department here. It was still very nice being in a school with a bunch of other emergents. Though it was also frustrating. Even though you had all these unique powers you still had to attend school. The teachers gave so much homework that I felt as if I was drowning in the work.

One assignment I had due soon was a Biology lab I was doing with my lab partner, named Emma Ford. I really enjoyed working with Emma. She was a really nice girl. The problem was that the assignments all the teachers gave stacked up. It’s like they did not understand that they were not the only teachers giving homework.

“So Leon, I was just wondering. How are you handling being a boy now?”

“Well probably about the same as you are handling being a girl now. It’s tough at first and a very terrifying experience but you live and adapt. I am not going to go into the details. But what probably helped me the most to adapt and accept who I am now, is you. Before you came into my life here, I could hardly stand being a guy. It was so strange having feelings for woman and being attracted to them. In fact the whole world seemed strange and foreign to me then. But when you came here and we started to get to know each other, you began to help give me a purpose here. I understood the pain you were going through from the change in sex. I also really enjoyed spending time with you. You helped me find the fun side of being a guy.”

“Wow Leon, I never knew you were such a romantic type!”

“Hahahaha! Yeah I loved romance back when I was a girl. One of the fun parts of being a guy though is that you get to implement the romance and sweep the girl off her feet.”

We both laughed at that.

“Yeah, you think you can sweep me off my feet, Leon?”

“Yep! In fact I know I can!”

Leon then scooped me up in his arms. Holding me he leaned in for the prey. I could try to resist, but my body told me otherwise. Catching his prey, our lips met and we began to kiss passionately. I felt the warmth from his mouth breathe into me. There were sparks flying in my head, my heart was pounding up and down and my breasts hardened a little. It was as if my entire body was just begging to become his, to melt into his arms and become one. We kissed for about a minute. Never in my life, when I was a boy, did I think I would be kissing a boy. But now as Claire it just seemed so right, so pure and beautiful. When we were done kissing we pulled away smiling slightly at one another.

“So Claire did I sweep you off your feet?”

“Yeah you did,” I smiled.

He just held me in his arms for about another ten minutes. We finally separated to go our separate ways for the day. We both had to finish homework still.

Leon headed back inside but I decided to wait out here a little bit longer, just to think things through. I had thought about the kiss and how I was so pulled to Leon. I was not thinking rationally. Really I had not changed that long ago. Yet my emotions and body were moving me, pushing me towards a direction I had not fully accepted yet, though I knew I would fully accept it soon. I would be living as Claire for the rest of my life. So I believe I should embrace my new self, and my new self it seems to enjoy being with Leon.

A few minutes later something shocking happened. Mr. Trait and my best friend and roommate Rachael walked out of the Center. I could not hear what they were saying to each other on the veranda, but they started talking. Rachael looked completely exhausted, as though she was just in a marathon. After a bit Rachael began to look really scared and seemed like she was about to make a run for it. But then the most shocking thing happened. Mr. Trait grabbed Rachael’s arm and stuck a needle into her. Rachael just went limp and fell over. It seems like whatever he injected into her had just paralyzed her. Then Mr. Trait picked her up and carried her away.

I took a deep breath and sighed when he went away. I could not believe this was happening. Why was Mr. Trait doing this? All I knew was that this looked bad and I was crying now. I really did not want to lose Rachael we had become so close. Rachael was my best friend. I decided that the first thing I would have to do was to alert Ms. Fine to what I had just seen. I immediately pulled out my Center phone and called her. She was listed as one of the numbers to call in case of an emergency.

“Hello Ms. Fine. Are you there?”

“Yeah I am Claire. Quickly! What’s the problem? I have a serious issue on our hands right now.”

“I just saw Mr. Trait inject something into Rachael and then carry her away!”

“Wait! What did you just say? I want you to repeat yourself tell me the whole story?”

So I rattled off to Ms. Fine all that I had just witnessed. It was so shocking to me; I could hardly believe that this was happening.

“I see Claire. This worries me deeply I am sending a team over to Mr. Trait’s office to see if we can find anything. For the time being I suggest you head to your room.”

So I did what I was told, and started heading to my room. But I did not have the heart to go back to my room without Rachael. I headed inside and starting walking around the building. I was crying so hard now. This was awful and I was losing my friend. Damn! Why was I so powerless? I decided I would head to Mr. Trait’s office myself. I would be miserable if I did not find answers.

As I got closer, I noticed Mr. Trait was at his office door. He was surrounded by Center military personal and a few of the Center’s telepaths were present. Ms. Fine was present as well. Mr. Trait was holding a big brief case and looked way to much at ease when surrounded by a bunch of armed soldiers pointing guns at him. I quickly hid to the side of the hall way, trying to conceal myself as much as possible behind a door of one of the classrooms. For some reason I knew I did not want to get involved in this. Mr. Trait then made a dash for it and the soldiers aimed at him. Though what happened next was baffling. Mr. Trait pulled out a grenade, unclipped the safety and sent it flying backwards in a matter of seconds. The soldiers and everyone else had to dive to safety, allowing Mr. Trait to continue running unobstructed. The grenade went off and I heard a few yelps of pain. I hope everyone was ok over there.

I was pissed that the bad guy was getting away. Even though he hurt my friend what was I supposed to do against someone like him. I was really upset and tears were streaming down like a current now. I was angry and now I wanted revenge. Clearly my next action proved I was not thinking rationally. For as he was approaching me I rushed out of my hiding spot, really pissed, and with a well-aimed kick I got Mr. Trait right in the balls. Mr. Trait collapsed like a pile of sticks. I was so shocked, but then Mr. Trait pulled out a gun. SHIT!

‘BANG!’

Oh shit! He shot and killed me didn’t he. I opened my eyes to see. There was no pain though. Mr. Trait’s gun was lying on the floor and he was clutching his leg. Ms. Fine was standing behind him, her gun pointed at Mr. Trait. Ms. Fine had shot Mr. Trait, she had saved my life. I quickly did the first thing I could think of; I kicked the gun away from Mr. Trait.

Mr. Trait just sat there in pain, glaring at us all. He was clearly pissed.

“Mr. Trait surrender now!” Ms. Fine demanded.

“Yeah right, I’d rather die!”

“You wouldn’t dare!”

“Watch me Ms. Fine! This is for MAGNUM!”

He reached into his pocket and pulled out some sort of pill that he quickly swallowed. A few seconds later his eyes got big and he collapsed, his head hitting the floor. He was dead.

“Damn! He took a cyanide pill, these guys are no joke. They’re professionals.”

The Ms. Fine turned around to face me. She gave me a glare of disapproval that was among the scariest looks I had ever seen in my life.

“Ms. Evergreen, I am pretty sure I had told you to go to your room. Yet you came here, putting your life and the lives of everyone else here in greater danger.”

“I’m sorry Ms. Fine. I did not want to go back to my room with Rachael not being there. I was so upset and angry. I could not help myself.” The tears were streaming down my face now harder than ever before in my life.

“That is not a suitable excuse, Ms. Evergreen. We will be talking about the consequences of your actions later young lady. I hope you are aware of that.”

“Yes, Ms. Fine.” I cried.

“Now I suggest you go back to your room before you get into any more trouble. I will stop by sometime to talk this situation over with you. Do you understand?”

“I under…stand, Ms. Fine.”

I went right to my room. I was crying all the way there. It was just so unfair. I knew I was lucky to be alive and I was thankful to Ms. Fine for saving me, but the whole situation just sucked. I finally got to my room. I opened the door and went to my bed. I just lay there crying into my pillow for ten minutes before I finally was able to stop. I got a tissue off my desk and wiped the tears away. I then lay on my bed for about another twenty minutes before I heard a knock on the door. ‘Knock!’

“Hello Claire. It’s me, Ms. Fine. I am coming inside. Ok?”

“Yeah, ok.” I sniffled back.

Ms. Fine entered my room. She looked at me and then came over and sat down.

“I hope you understand why I will be punishing you. Why your actions were wrong. Putting your own life in danger.”

“Yes I do, Ms. Fine. Is everyone ok back there?”

“Yes! Somehow everyone survived, although a few got hit by some of the shrapnel, it is nothing life threatening fortunately.”

“That’s good to hear, Ms. Fine!”

“Yes it is. As for your punishment, you will be serving detention in my office, after power testing and training, for the next three weeks. I have work that you will be helping me with around my office.”

“Ok Ms. Fine. I am really sorry. Thanks for saving me!”

“Yes you were lucky I was able get him right in time.”

“May I ask a question, Ms. Fine?”

“Yes, you may.”

“What about Rachael, did you find her?”

“No Claire. I’m sorry we could not. We believe she was taken away from the Center, but I will tell you that we are taking this case seriously and we will do all in our power to retrieve Rachael. With that said, I actually came to discuss something with you.”

“What, Ms. Fine?”

“Before Mr. Trait died, one of our telepaths was able to retrieve information on the location of a minor base they planned to move Rachael to, before moving her again to an unidentified location. As of now the only other information on this organization we were able to retrieve was that their name is Magnum, and there will be a significant threat of emergent resistance at this base. That’s where you come in, Claire. Your ability as a damper will prove beneficial to this mission… possibly lifesaving. We want you to go with the retrieval group in order to rescue Rachael.”

“Are you sure, Ms. Fine?”

“Unfortunately I am being very sure! I am against this but Kris believes you will prove beneficial to this mission. So I am trusting Kris’s judgment. You will be leaving soon, so I suggest you report to the briefing room. I will see you there shortly, Ms. Evergreen.”

With that Ms. Fine got up and left. I just sat there dumbfounded for a few minutes.

I could not believe this was all happening!

The Center: Tester - Part 12

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

As all ways a big thanks is to be awarded to Zip. Sorry its been a while. I finally got this out though. This is a chapter with both Rachael's and Claire's point of view. Chapter 13 is already written and should be coming out soon. Hope you enjoy this chapter!

Ryan thought he had all the happiness in the world. He had his beautiful girlfriend Mattie but life is a roller coaster as Ryan would find. Here is his story as he goes through what can only be considered the biggest change of his life.
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Chapter 12 A

Claire’s Point of View:

I was to report to the briefing room for my first mission. I was still pretty upset about Rachael’s kidnaping but I was also kind of excited and scared because this was my first mission with the Center. Walking into the briefing room I found a few familiar faces. Of course Ms. Fine was present, but Kris was also there. Included in the group were Ray and Liz. What was most shocking was that a few of my close friend were also here. There sitting with them was Leon and Tony, even more shocking though was that Jasmine of all people was here!

“Why is she here, especially after what she has done to Rachael?!” I pointed at Jasmine. My anger was rising this was the last thing I needed.

“Relax Claire I am here because I wanted to be here. I am truly sorry for what I did. I am also very thankful for Rachael and how she told it to me true. She has guts, I respect that. When I heard what had happened I insisted on going on this mission. You will be attacking an enemy base, you guys need me.”

“Yes that is quite right. We will be taking a helicopter to try to catch up with the vehicle holding Rachael. Right now we are tracking the targets via satellite. I have made sure to contact law enforcement and have got a many blocks set up to try to slow them down. We are to rescue Rachael and then head straight to the mini base. The reason we head to the enemy’s mini base right after is because they have probably got wind of us knowing we have located them since their inside agent Mr. Trait has not contacted them. I want to get as much info on this new organization as possible so we are attacking ASAP!” Kris said.

So is this the reason you brought destructive power emergent, because we are launching an attack. But wait! Leon and Tony’s powers are fairly destructive but why are we bringing them on this mission? There’re plenty of other powerful emergents here.”

Since we are doing an attack on a base, there is more risk for casualties. We are bringing some troops but we do need some emergents. Since there is risk for casualties we can only bring people if they volunteer. We have not forced any student here to participate in this. They are all here because they wanted to be here” Kris responded.

“Ok! Sounds good! Makes sense.”

“Now we need to move quickly, so I want everyone headed to the helicopter. Ms. Fine will be relaying info to us from back here at the Center. I am the leader for this rescue mission and expect you all to follow my orders. Now let’s move it!” Kris ordered.

We all went as quickly as possible out of the briefing room and headed to one of the Jeeps that then drove us to the helicopter pad. Many other troops were moving around here and there. It seems that they were deploying as many as possible into Jeeps to escort them to the discovered enemy’s mini base. Kris and the rest of us quickly boarded the helicopter. The blades spun around and around. We were lifted into the air and before you knew it we were off.

The copter was flying high above the ground and we were covering some major ground. The roads and cars below looked like the hot wheels play set that I used to play with when I was a boy.

“Hey Claire, how are you holding up?” Leon asked.

“I am doing fine. But I will feel a whole lot better after this is over and we have rescued Rachael.”

“That’s the right attitude. We need to stay positive, Rachael will be rescued.”

I smiled at Leon, and then was taken by an impulse. I leaned in and pecked him on the cheek. I was glowing bright red when I pulled away from him. “Thanks Leon.”

“Hey everyone we have spotted the target. They have moved off road it seems. They are driving into an empty field now. Keep your eyes on the vehicle; somehow they have jammed our satellite. Luckily we have them in view already. Get ready! We are moving in!” Kris informed us.

The helicopter began its dissent into the field the vehicle we were in pursuit of was driving through.

“Ray” Kris yelled. “Take out their wheels!”

“Hear you loud and clear Kris. I had a good fight with Rachael today, and they will not taking away my next match with her.” Ray lifted his gun took aim and fired a few rounds. He looked like a true expert marksman. In addition, the fact that we were in a moving vehicle made his shots even more spectacular.

‘Bang!’ ‘Bang!’

His aim was incredible. Ray hit the tires precisely. His skill indeed made him a perfect marksman. The vehicle skidded to a stop. They were still trying to move but it seemed they were unable to do so now, the wheels just dug deeper into the earth throwing dirt every which way. The helicopter landed nearby and we all jumped out of it and ran toward the target.

Some men suddenly got out of the car and were holding guns. They were firing many shots at us. ‘Bang’ Bang’ Bang’!

The bullets came flying at us.
“Ahhhhh!”

It was my Leon. I took a second to glance back. A bullet had hit him in his right leg. He was on the ground bleeding. He looked like he was in so much pain that it hurt me.

“That’s enough of this” shouted Tony.

A giant vibration was let loose from Tony Upon coming in contact with our attackers their guns were blasted back. The men who were attacking us were now groveling on the ground covering their ears. The rest of us quickly covered the ground and captured our attackers. As we were instructed we let the soldiers that accompanied us handle the inspection of the captive terrorists. They were patted down and all weapons were removed.

Let me tell you that these men had a whole bunch of weapons on them.

I ran to the vehicle. Looking inside I sighed in relief to see a terrified Rachael tied and gaged in the back.

I opened the door of the vehicle and went right to Rachael.

“It’s going to be ok Rachael. We are here for you. You’re safe now.”

She still looked really worried and frightened though. She was crying and was trying to say something but could not with the gag on. So I removed her gag.

“Mattie! They have Mattie!” She cried.

Chapter 12 B

Rachael’s Point of View:

I found myself still inside the vehicle surrounded by those men who had kidnapped me. Opening my eyes I looked around. There had to be some way to escape from them.

“Hey Worm! She looks uneasy.”

“Yeah we should warn her, like we were told. You can have the honor.”

“Little girl, you better behave and not even think of escaping. We’re to inform you that we’ve captured your friend Mattie. If you don’t cooperate it will not end well for her or you. So just sit tight and enjoy the ride.”

I could not say anything, bound and gagged like I was. But the very fact that they had captured Mattie was making my blood boil. But it also made me very scared. They had captured her to use against me. These people were just cruel. How could they kidnap someone who this whole situation did not even concern? I was crying now a whole lot. How could they do this? I truly felt like a little girl now. Here I was tied and helpless and unable to do anything. I had quickly become the maiden in peril. It seemed as though I really could do nothing to save Mattie, now that I had become a maiden. What could I do? I was no longer a big strong guy. Now I was the beautiful girl of dreams. I was more likely to be protected then do the protecting. This whole situation hurt and I could do nothing so I just cried and cried. At least as a girl I could have no shame in crying in this sort of situation. In fact crying helped make me feel a little better, but I was still terrified.

We continued on the road. I could barely see out of the window though, but I could tell we were on a road. The whole time as we drove all I could think of was Mattie and how she was doing. We kept driving but eventual took a turn into a more empty secluded area, and eventually it seemed we drove off the road all together. We were in a green field now and the car suddenly sped up.

‘Bang!’ ‘Bang!’

I heard some shots being fired. They sounded like they hit us. I suddenly heard some pop sounds. All of a sudden the car swerved to a stop, out of control. I was thrown around in the back.

“Dang, we’ve been hit!”

“Try to get moving. We don’t have much farther to go! Maybe we can get the rest of the way.”

I felt it as they hit the accelerator. But we went nowhere. It jolted a lot and then they stopped.

“It’s no use! We will just have to call for help and try to hold them off until support can get here. Don’t worry about killing them just fire.”

“Yep, let’s do it!”

I heard a radio start up. “Yep, yeah we were stopped. Send support!” The radio frequency went dead. Then the men loaded some weapons and headed outside. A few seconds later I heard a bunch of gun shots going every which way followed by a load scream of pain that I recognized as Leon’s voice. They had come to save me; I started to cry hysterically again. I was just so happy. I had such great friends. I then heard a large vibration hit. My ears were stinging from the vibration, it was probably Tony. It looked like he had come to save me as well.

A few minutes later I saw one of the greatest sights in the world. Looking in the window was Claire. She spotted me and smiled. I was still crying a lot though, and I was also still very worried about Mattie. Claire got inside the vehicle and came to me. She started to tell me everything was going to be all right and comfort me. Dang, I though, just remove this gag already. I need to save my Mattie. After what seemed like an eternity, but was actually less than a minute, Claire removed the gag.

The first words I uttered to her were “Mattie! They have Mattie!” All the while I was crying hysterically. Why had I become such a girl?

“Wait did you say they had Mattie? The girl you were dating when you were still a guy” Claire asked.

“Yeah, they kidnaped her to use against me, so I would be cooperative.”

“These guys are so cruel. How could anyone do this? Here let me get you untied.” Claire told me.

Claire then finally untied me. It took her a while and eventually we resorted to having one of the soldiers carrying a knife cutting me loose. I then rubbed my sore wrists; the ropes had really dug into my hands. Probably because I kept struggling more and more trying to escape after I heard they caught Mattie. It was then that Kris approached me.

“It’s good to see you are safe. You are to head back by the helicopter to the Center. The enemy seems to be after you so we want to get you back to safety as quickly as possible. You will go with Leon, he got injured and Liz is right no healing him but we don’t want to risk anyone dyeing.”

“I am sorry Kris but that is a no can do. My friend Mattie was kidnaped by these people in order to use against me. I am coming along to save her. Don’t stop me!”

“I hope you know the punishment for going against orders.”

“Kris, I understand your point, but Mattie is like a part of my family I can’t abandon her. Just let me come. You only have one helicopter anyway… how do you expect to get back then?”

“We have many troops coming this way as we speak. I will complete this job and can get a ride back.”

“Kris just let her stay.” I turned around and saw it was Ray speaking. “I have taught her and she can handle herself pretty well on the battlefield. Also, just think if it was someone you were close to, you would not let it go easily. Also, I promise I will make sure to keep her safe. Ok?.

‘Sigh!“ Ray, if you say you will protect her, then alright. But Rachael better stay with you, at the slightest inconvenience I promise you severe punishment when we get back. Do you understand, Rachael?”

“Yes Kris! I hear you loud and clear.” I smiled at Kris. She smiled also but just kept walking and went over to check on Leon. He was in a whole lot of pain, but Liz was healing him and he began to look better.

“Thanks for that, Ray!”

“No problem, I understand how you feel.”

Just then many vans pulled up to where we were, and a bunch of Center troops got out. They seemed to handle everything rather quickly. The prisoners were loaded into one of the vans and that van pulled out and headed back. Leon was then put on the helicopter. I thanked him for coming to save me, but he just smiled saying it was his duty as my friend.

I was very surprise to see that Jasmine was also among us. Apparently she had come to support me. I guess there is really good in everyone. Once everything was taken care of, we were to continue on our way. I got into one of the vans with Kris and Ray. Everyone else got into the other vans.

It was very nerve racking as we drove. I was informed that we were attacking an enemy base. This whole situation would make anyone tense. We continued driving and then all of a sudden the whole ground began to shake.

‘RUMBLE!’

The very ground distorted as fault formed and the ground fell in. It was an earthquake. It was quite fortunate though, that all the vans stayed up. Everything was fine it was just very scary.

“Why is an earthquake happening?” I asked.

“Who knows just be grateful there was no damage and everyone is fine. Let’s continue on the mission.” Kris said.

A few minutes later I noticed a weird one story building in the distance. It appeared to just be an average warehouse.

“Is that the base?”

“Yep That’s the base. We are at the right location. I am just unsure of what we will find here. The place was surrounded by trees. As we came closer, all hell broke loose. Out of the trees jumped men in black suits like the ones who kidnaped me. They were shooting at our vans. There appeared to be about two hundred enemy soldiers firing at us. They were taking out the vans by aiming for the wheels. The Center soldiers got out of their vans and immediately returned fire. The whole situation turned awful in a matter of minutes.

“Everyone get in your positions! Emergents follow me. We will begin our assault!”

The rest of the emergents and I organized outside to begin our attack. It was then that out of the side of my eyes I noticed a fire ball headed straight toward us. If it was not for Jasmine we would all have died. She used her fire to block and slow the other fire. We all got out of the way quickly. It appeared that there were emergents in the trees attacking us. Few seconds later I felt air actually pierce me. Whoever our enemies are, they were stealthy and lethal.

“Hey Claire, can you stop these attacks?” Kris asked.

“I am trying to, but I can’t do it if I am unable to located where the attacks are coming from!”

“Damn this isn’t good. Everyone pull back and use our vans for cover. We can’t attack an opponent we can’t see.

The whole battlefield had literally become a hell on earth. Soldiers were shooting at the opposition and the fight had quickly become a stand still. Both sides were holding their ground. We held the area with the vans and a few rocks. But they held the advantage with the trees and base. We were literally trapped.

‘RUMBLE!’

The quake happened again and this times just where we were located. Many soldiers fell down as the ground gave way. The ground did not give away and shake too much but the effect was still the same. Who was causing these quakes? They were not very natural at all. Who ever heard of an earthquake hitting the exact same location? I looked around for any source. That’s when I saw the most amazing sight I had ever seen in my life. There at the door of the base was Mattie! My Mattie was there… but she looked to be in serious pain and was coughing blood. What had they done to her?

“Mattie” I shouted her name a few times. I would save her and nobody was going to stop me. Kris and Ray were occupied, luckily, so it was easier for me to escape their sight. I ran forward, out from where I was hiding. I was still her knight in shining armor and this was my duty, and I was going to save her even if it killed me!

The Center: Tester - Part 13

By Blackout

Supreme Editor: Zip

Ok to show my thanks to Zip for editing I decided for this chapter to name Zip the supreme editor. Treat Zip like the supreme editor with thanks and applause! I have started writing part 14 and hope to have it up sooner or later. Like with other projects I need to get done. P.s. I am really hoping to get another Elemental Awakening up soon!

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Let’s rewind the clocks a little…..

Meanwhile, where is Mattie?
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As the headache continued, I felt the presence of the cell. The very cement began to creak and break.

“YAAAAAHHHHH!”

Through the great exertion, I noticed a crack in the wall. Then the whole room started to shake.

‘RUUUMMMBBBBLLLLEE!!!!’

With the intense shaking the crack got bigger and bigger and eventually the whole room came apart. The cement the cell was made of had been broken into smaller pieces. All at once the room was an utter mess. Somehow I had caused a quake. I could feel the earth. All the dirt and sediments were ringing around me. I could feel the strength and resistance of dirt. I even had some sense of the fundamental elements of stone within the metal. Although knowing what I did know, I could figure that metal would be hard if not next to impossible to reshape due to what little fundamental stone and other elements laid within it.

‘Pant!’ ‘Pant!’

Falling to my knees I began taking deep breaths. Although I felt a lot better now, the pain had subsided after I stopped, but it still took a ton out of me.

“Damn, is using your power always this exhausting!”

“No! It does use energy but my telekinesis did not make me fall down. Maybe your power is too strong that it takes a lot out of you.”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right. To be honest this is all way too much for me to handle right now. I think my brain has shut down.”

“Hahaha! Sure Mattie. Well since you opened an escape route let’s get out of here. We can talk about everything else later”

The cell had crumbled into pieces and light was filtering into the cell from the ceiling. It appeared as if this cell was inside some bigger building. Other cells were next to ours in a row. Some of them in ruins more than others now. The whole facility building we were in looked enormous. I had no idea where the heck I was.

We crawled out of the ruins and made our way out. I could already hear footsteps pounding behind us. I was feeling much better now. We decided to make a break for it. Amber and I started to run down the hall. Soon we came to a staircase and guess what we found waiting for us there. That’s right a bunch of armed soldiers.

“Men, fire! We need to knock them out!” One of the soldiers ordered.

‘Boom’ ‘Boom’ ‘Boom’

The projectiles came at us. Just when they were about to hit us it seemed as if time stopped. There, frozen in the air, were the capsule like darts intended to knock us out. It appeared as if they had just frozen in time while flying in midair.

“Whoa Mattie check it out! My telekinesis rules!”

“What? You froze them?”

“Yep! Now take this you villainous scum! I am the defender of truth and justice!”

Amber sent the injectors back at the soldiers, hitting each of them. As the darts hit, they all toppled over.

“Did you really have to add a superhero monologue? Don’t you know what type of situation we are in right now?”

“Yeah, I do. But can’t I lighten the mood of this situation. Getting too tense can’t be good.”

“Fine… sure.”

Looking around on the staircase I saw a sign reading; Basement Level 8: Prisoner Confinement.

“Well Amber, it appears as if we are eight floors underground.”

“Damn can’t you use your earth power to get us out of here?”

“No way. It put too much of a drain on me just using it to escape our cell. I doubt I could use it to escape up eight floors.”

“True I guess we have no choice but to continue forward.”

Climbing the stairs was tiring, but I guess we were lucky to not run into any more soldiers. Still, I could hear people from downstairs. We came to Level Seven. According to the sign it appeared as though Level Seven was the Research department. Strangely enough it appeared deserted as though everyone had fled or been evacuated. I was still unsure why we had not encountered more troops. For some reason it appeared only a few had been focused on us. Running through the Research Center I saw tables with straps and other scientific looking machinery in different rooms. It started to get hotter as we ran through that floor.

“Hey Mattie! What’s with that fire ahead of us?”

“Holy Shit! What on earth is going on here?”

Right in front of us, in a few of the rooms, was a fire of massive proportion. It looked like it was done on purpose. I started to feel really hot; it was making me sweat a lot which is really uncomfortable with boobs.

“Amber, there is nothing else to do, but just run through this hall. We will not be able to make it much further if this fire spreads into the hallways.”

“I agree. We will have to run though the hall as fast as possible. It’s just way too hot now.”

We sprinted as fast as we could through the hall. Once we got through we made it to the next staircase. Right now, everything that was going on here was really strange. Running up the staircase it seemed as though this whole place was falling apart. Cracks appeared all over the place in the concrete. It was all so weird.

On Level Six, a sign told me that we had reached the infirmary. Fortune was with me though as the staircase to the next level was right next to the staircase we just exited from.

“HELP ME! SOMEONE ANYONE PLEASE!”

“Huh Mattie did you hear that. There is a girl down here screaming for help.”

“I recognize that voice, she is Megan Brown. She healed my hand.”

“Yeah but she is with the enemy. Should we save her?”

“Yes we should. It’s the right thing to do.”

Amber and I ran toward Megan’s Voice. We eventually found her, trapped under an examination table. The table had somehow fallen over on her. The room she was in was on fire. The fire was practically on her, burning her. Her whole body was quickly becoming consumed. I saw her crying in pain screaming for help.

“Please help me!” She was crying hysterically.

Damn this was going to be a pain. I quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher outside in the hall. Charging in, I sprayed the extinguisher all over the fire. Putting out as much as I could as fast as I could.

“Amber lift the table with you telekinesis, to set her free!”

“Sure I hear you.”

I watched as the table lifted a little. Ambers face was strained. Apparently lifting this big exam table was putting a huge strain on her. I would have to do the rest. I got to Megan, grabbed her hands and pulled her out from under the table and into the hallway.

“Dang, you are practically burned to a crisp” said Amber.

“Thanks..” ‘gasp’ “for saving me! The earthquake was horrible!”

Megan put her hands on her body and started to heal herself. Some of her body began to heal but it looked like it was way too much. Megan collapsed to the floor, unconscious.

“When she said earthquake, you don’t think she was referring to me, do you?”

“Most likely I would say yes. I am guessing your power affected quite a large area.”

“Maybe! I felt like I was about to die after that quake I seemed to cause. Anyway it looks like we are going to have to carry her,” I said.

“Yep, I will get her. I should be able to support her a little more with my power.”

Making our way back, we headed up the staircase. Level Five was the security floor it seemed. There were camera monitors in some rooms on this floor. But this floor was empty as well. So we just made our way further up onto the next staircase. Getting to Level Four was actual a major relief. This floor was more normal as it was a residence floor. I am guessing that people stayed here. As we were walking through, I heard distinct laughter. It was as if someone was talking in my head.

“Well now… Look who escaped.”

I looked around but saw nobody. What was going on?

“And what’s this? You even helped that useless Megan. HAHAHAHA! You confused? Scared? You were doomed ever since you met me at the restaurant!”

Walking out in front of me was the pale skinned girl with white hair that Ryan and I had been confronted by at the restaurant, before all this shit went down.

“Damn you bitch! What have you done to Ryan?”

“Now, now! No need for such foul language. You should be able to meet with your Ryan shortly. Hahahaha!”

“Damn you! Who are you people anyway?”

“That’s none of business. Let’s just say you’re an important investment.”

I had enough of her. I wanted to beat this girl half to death. So I began to charge in with all my strength. But for some reason I could not move. It was like my body did not follow what my mind told it to do. This was getting really scary now.

“You are probably wondering why you can’t move twerp! It’s because I am a dominator, a superior being among the emergents. From the very beginning you stood no chance against me.”

“What the heck is a dominator?”

“It means I can control you, I am dominating your brain. You will serve as the perfect bait out there. I should probably tell you there is a big fight going outside right now, and you are about to serve as a soldier on our side.”

“Wait! Do you honestly think I would just stand here and let this happen” said Amber.

“Of course not, but my associate is more than enough to stop you. Isn’t that right Frosty?”

Out of one of the rooms walked the other thug that attacked me and Ryan. He was grinning evilly from ear to ear.

“This looks like so much fun. I think I will join in.”

“Don you honestly think you’re able to beat me?!” Amber declared.

“Hahaha! He does not have to. I already am dominating your mind, also. But I have no use for you two, so I am leaving Frosty here as guard.”

The Frosty guy walked up to Amber and Megan with a gleeful smile.

“First we freeze the hands. Then we freeze the feet.” As he said this he began to actually freeze Amber’s and Megan’s hands and feet. It was a horrible sight to see.

“AHHHHH! Stop that! Are you trying to freeze us to death?” Amber said. Megan shivered and began to look even paler now. This whole situation did not look good. We had to find a way out of this as quickly as possible.

“Now ladies, I suggest you don’t attempt anything or else I will freeze you both completely!” He gave a wicked grin.

“Now let’s get going, you little twerp!” The albino girl demanded.

I could not control my body I took step after step up the stairs. The whole experience was terrifying. Imagine being a puppet, but you have your brain and you know everything that is happening. No matter how hard you tried to fight it mentally you could not win. You’re a prisoner in your own body. In a way it could be worse than being paralyzed, because at the very least no one else could control your body and make you do what you did not want to. I had become a prisoner to myself and I seemed unable to escape this nightmare ride.

We finally got to the top after walking up the rest of the floors. This whole experience felt like a millennium had gone by. Damn why did all this crazy shit have to go down. I was probably not sane anymore. Yes that had to be it. Ryan’s death had affected me so much that I had gone mentally insane. This was all a figment of my imagination. A farce, any moment now I would wake up from this nightmare of hell. There would be no powers, no organizations after me, and who knows maybe Ryan would come back for me. He had always been there for me so why shouldn’t he come to my aid now when I needed him the most.

I hated this nightmare this torture from hell. Every step I took against my will, I told myself was hell. Every step I took, I told myself this was only a nightmare. But deep down inside I knew the truth. The truth was all this crazy shit was real. There really were powers. This witch behind me really was controlling me somehow. But worst of all, that veil of reality I wanted to rip away the most, kept ringing in my head. Ryan was dead and there was nothing that was going to bring him back.

“Are you ready bait? Hahaha!”

If I could control my own body I would have hit that witch and throw her to the ground.

“Hahaha! I will take your silence as a yes then!”

We walked up the final stairwell. At the top of this staircase was a door. I was made to open this door. The light flooded inside as soon as the door was open.

So their base was completely underground. That would make it impossible to find even with satellite. The bright sun hurt my eyes. Unfortunately because I had no control over my body I could not really close them. I guess being underground for the past few days had done a real number on me.

Outside I saw a striking scene. There was a fight going on between two different groups of troops. The troops in black who had kidnapped me and the soldiers in the typical army camouflage. They were firing at one another. Then, there were other teens with powers, fighting all around me. The place was in utter chaos.

“Ok twerp, its time you turn the tables in our favor now. Time we use that power of yours!” My tormentor said.

I felt the pain again from using my power. I made the earth begin to shake again but only in the area with a large concentration of what appeared to be my enemy’s enemies. I heard screams of pain and shouting as the very ground they were standing on gave way.

I was in so much pain now. Using my powers just seemed to be too much of a burden I was dying but I could not stop using my power. I was being forced to by that white witch and her dominator power. I coughed up a lot of blood, in an instant. I could not hold on much longer. If I kept using my power I was pretty sure I was going to die.

“Hahaha! Are you having fun, you twerp?!”

Great! So she even had to be nasty as she was killing me. Well isn’t that wonderful, I thought sarcastically.

Many eyes on the battlefield turned toward me, to see the source of the earthquakes probably. It would not be long now until they shot at me and ended my torture. In a way, death would be peaceful. I would be able to escape from this torture, and best of all I would be able to join Ryan.

Just when I was about to totally give up hope in life I heard a voice call out to me from somewhere. Someone was calling my name frantically.

“Mattie! Mattie!”

I looked around. It seemed as though a divine being had called out to me. There in front of me was this beautiful girl with long brown hair. She was dazzling and beautiful and she was calling my name for some reason.

That’s when reality hit again. Wait a minute… This girl was actually calling out my name. Yet I had no idea who she was. I had never seen this girl before in my life. Yet somehow she knew me, as she was smiling with the biggest and most beautiful smile I had ever seen in my life. She was crying with happiness as she shouted my name over and over again attempting to make her way over to me. I was really confused now.

Who the heck was this girl? Who was this beautiful angel?

The Center: Tester - Part 14

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

Thanks Zip for expert editing. I hope to get another chapter in soon to finish this story off. It's almost done but I am getting a new computer so I may not have computer access for a little while.

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Chapter 14

I continued running toward where I saw Mattie. I heard Kris yelling at me now from the distance. She was going to kill me later, but I was not going to give up this opportunity to save Mattie. I knew bullets would probably hit me soon but when you’re on adrenaline and have a clear goal nothing can stop you … sometimes. Now was one of those times but I was getting through and for some reason I was doing it without getting hit.

I just continued running to where Mattie was, until I would reach her. That is when the earth under me began to shake also. I held my balance as best I could; it was a little hard with my boobs shaking around though. Thank heaven for whoever invented the bra, without one of these babies, moving around would suck now. But whoever was causing these earthquakes has to be really powerful. I had no idea who it was but it needed to stop. Mattie looked as if she was in a whole bunch of pain. I could see her coughing up blood. I saw a familiar figure behind her. Now wonder Mattie was just standing there! It was the pale white girl with dominator power. She must have been controlling Mattie. But why was that necessary? Mattie was just a normal human.

Another mini earthquake happened. This time it knocked me down to the ground.

“Uhg!” I had landed hard on my boobs. These things kept getting in the way, it really hurt. I got up again and ran to where Mattie was just on pure will alone. I kept getting knocked down but that was not going to stop me from getting closer. By the time I finally reach them I was battered and bruised, not to mention worn out.

“Oh look who it is! It’s the target. Hey I got a question for you. How do you enjoy these?” The white girl cupped her boobs and was laughing at me mockingly.

“Give Mattie back you creep!” I yelled at her.

“What if I don’t want to? Meehhhhh!” She stuck her tongue out at me.

This girl was a serious Bitch with a capital B. It was if she enjoyed torturing others and wallowing in their misery. I hated people like that with all the problems already in the world. Why did there have to be people who get their kicks out of other people’s misery, and make it worse for them.

I was so pissed I ran forward. I was going to throw a punch right at her face…….

“I wouldn’t do anything if I were you.” She had taken out a knife and had it poised near Mattie’s neck.

There was no choice now. I stopped moving and just glared at her. Maybe if I was lucky my glare would cause her to drop the knife on her own foot. Of course I did not think that would happen, but I could still wish it.

“Good you can listen. Do you know why you were not killed running out in the open?”

“It’s because you’re a valuable resource, a thing. A toy like you should just come along nicely and do what it’s told. You’re such a bad girl I bet. I am sure you have found someone to replace this girl here.” She looked at Mattie.

“You know some big strong man. Don’t deny you’ve got female urges, and you can’t help it. It comes with the territory. You should just embrace it. Make it yours. As a girl you can get guys to do almost anything for you! Hahaha! That lame place you call home…The Center! They will never understand the true meaning of how to use our powers. The government is afraid. Why you think they have the Center? It’s to control you, to cover up their mistakes. Does it seem fair that they take you away from your family and control your whole life? Most likely you will have to do everything they say and will be living there the rest of your life. Never again will you be able to truly interact with the real world. Your hopes and dreams are over. That is why you should join our organization. Magnum will give you those opportunities the Center denies you. You can be who you want to be. Though there really is no other option. You will either come the easy way or the hard way!”

“You’re crazy. Sure the Center right now does not allow Emergents to interact with the rest of the world. But that’s only how it is now. Who knows? Things may change and the rest of the world will learn about emergents. But the reason we have to lay low now is because of people like you! It’s people that abuse their powers. People like you who torture others. I can tell what is right and wrong, and I am telling you that your actions are wrong. Just because I have powers does not mean I am better than everyone else, it’s that kind of thinking that is troubling. One day though, I hope things will be different and I hope I will be able to return to my family and see Mattie again.

“Hahaha! You haven’t realized yet have you? Mattie is an emergent! She is the one that was creating all those earthquakes while I was controlling her. You have absolutely no chance against me, in fact you have no chance against a common soldier if you don’t have anyone else’s power copied. You can go on giving heroic speeches and pretending to be a hero but in the end you will see things my way. Now behave as these nice men take you away or else she gets it!” She said holding the knife at Mattie’s neck.

It was then that I noticed two men in black suits step into the light behind the white girl who was standing in the doorway to the enemy base.

“I can’t believe you fell for our trap and came running toward the girl. You pretend hero types are all the same. LOSERS!”

This whole situation looked really bad now. My powers were only effective against other emergents, but against professional soldiers I was toast. The two man made for me and grabbed me. Shit! I was caught. I was only then that another quake occurred and we all fell down. What was happening? Mattie caused the quakes, right? Though, wasn’t she under their control?

“Damn I lost control for a few seconds there! What happened?!” That devil woman shrieked. I did not waste this good opportunity I lunged out and got my hand on her. Feeling the cold energy, I felt powerful and strong. I knew I could make things go my way by just thinking it.

First things first. I dominated the soldiers that tried to capture me. It was strange being in someone’s head, able to control them. I could feel their resistance but it was nothing. These men where strong physically, but mentally, to me now, they could have been babies. Geez who would guess that being a dominator was so powerful and yet scary. In a way it was too powerful, being able to control others. You felt them resist but you were stronger… a being beyond human. They would have to bow to you to survive, and why shouldn’t they, when you can make them do so if they refuse. I began to see how corrupting a dominators power could be. It’s not that most dominators are bad but the very use of a dominator’s power was scary, in what it could do. You dominate others and could get whatever you want.

What I wanted though was Mattie, and to have these soldiers to leave us alone. So I decided I would send them on a little journey. “I need you two to faint.”

With that one command both of the soldiers fell to the ground unconscious. Who knew a dominator could interact on the mind in such an extreme way. If ever we got a friendly enough dominator who would allow extensive testing, I would need to do the evaluation as a tester. There was more to a dominator’s powers then I thought.

“Now it’s your turn!” I told her.

You honestly think you can dominate me with my own power it’s not possible. I have way more practice with this then you.”

She was right I could not dominate her no matter how hard I tried. But then, there was this flash of energy all around us, a pulse of sound and it distracted her long enough that I could breach her barrier for a second. I mentally told her to faint as fast as I could. She looked at me eyes wide and open in disbelief for a second before she crumpled to the ground.

Just then Mattie began to totter from side to side. It seemed like she has been through an awful lot. I rushed forward and caught her right in my arms. Finally we were reunited again.

“Are you ok?! Can you hear me? Mattie! Mattie!”

“Please…whoever you are! …Help…my friends….they were….caught…. ‘cough’…downstairs!”

She then closed her eyes. Damn they had put her through so much. At least on the positive side she was still alive. I confirmed it again by feeling her pulse. It was among the greatest sounds in the world, just now. My breasts were pressed against her and that just made the whole situation so very awkward. Never before had I thought that I would have the same equipment as Mattie.

It was then that I noticed the two soldiers, that I had made faint just movements before, get up. They were pretty tough. It seems a little mental beating was not going to keep them down long. Faint I told them mentally again. To my chagrin it didn’t work. I had reached the power limit after going against a dominator with her power. I was so lucky that the vibration blast occurred or she would not have been distracted long enough for me to beat her. It just had to be Tony, looks like I would have to thank that big lug of a soldier later.

The men quickly assessed their situation.

“It seems she dominated us and took out White Witch, we need to get her and move before we are captured.” One of the men said. Then in a matter of moments they picked up the White Witch…..hahaha….and ran. One of them though had to ram me down as they escaped. I guess they were still scared I could dominate them luckily for me. I still was finding it funny that the white girl’s code name was White Witch. That was way too funny. That name fit her so well.

A few seconds later I heard music to my ears.

“OPERATION IS A FAILURE, RETREAT!”

All around the firing of guns ceased as they dissolved away. It was as if the world had gone completely still. Unfortunately it did not stay that way! I quickly saw Kris running at me with a look that said, ‘I am going to kill you.’

“Rachael! What were you thinking? Defying orders and running off on your own! If it was not for Tony covering you, and delaying bullets with sound, you probably would have died. I suggest you give him your sincere gratitude. We will be talking about your punishment later.” She yelled at me.

“Ok Kris, I understand. This was my girlfriend Mattie when I was a guy. Apparently she was the one who caused the earthquakes. I still can’t believe it though. But she needs to be taken to the Center right now, before her the second phase of emergence. Also I believe she said there were some others still down there being held hostage. A rescue party needs to be sent.”

“I understand! Captain Darner, take this young girl and get her to Center facilities, on the double, before she goes through second emergence.”

“Yes ma’am!” he said saluting her with much enthusiasm. The guy named Captain Darner was obviously a well-trained and respected soldier but it seemed as if he was the type that was too serious about the army.

“Tony, Jasmine, and Claire you three will come with me. We have some captives down there.”

I watched as the three of them went downstairs in the building. It seemed as though this would probably be one of my last missions in a long time. Kris was definitely not risking me coming down with them and I could tell that my actions would probably deserve severe punishment. I had messed with the bull and now she was pissed. Sure I knew that what I did was wrong… logically speaking, I should have stayed with them and approached the whole situation differently. By running out, I had risked my life and jeopardized the mission in general. Usually I was so clear headed and would think everything through. But when I saw Mattie, something came over me, my emotions were stronger now than ever before, it seemed. Oh Yeah! Duh I was a girl now.

Damn you estrogen! ‘giggle’ Oh please say I did not just giggle. That estrogen was getting the better of me. I started crying again without real notice. All this happened so fast and without notice. I was lucky to be alive and I was even happier that Mattie was saved. So what if Kris was figuratively going to kill me later. I had saved Mattie and she meant the world to me. She was safe and I was safe and in the end … despite all this gender confusion and other annoyances, that’s what truly mattered.

About an hour later I saw Kris come up carrying a young girl about my age on her back followed by Jasmine who held another girl. Both the girls were shivering as if they had been frozen. That’s when Tony and Claire walked out of the enemy base with the guy named Frosty being dragged behind. He was unconscious and Tony was not even bothering to lift him up. I guess he sort of deserved that. It was obvious he had done something to freeze them.

I saw a few of the soldiers come over and they put their jackets around the girls to keep their body heat in. Kris then walked over to me.

“Damn that guy was so sadistic. I can’t believe he was getting a thrill out of freezing those girls little by little. It’s a good thing I went down there personally. I am just letting you know they are safe though they are both in pretty serious condition right now.”

“Ok thanks,” I sniffed. I was still crying. Damn hormones.

“They are safe now so nothing too major to worry about. You are to go back with the injured as well as Claire and Tony. I am very disappointed in you Rachael.”

“I’m sorry I let my emotions get the better of me. Thank you anyway, for saving me and Mattie.”

“It’s good to see you understand your mistakes. That does not mean I am letting off any.”

“I know. I will see you at your office later.”

Any Center vehicles that were still operational after the earthquakes, caused by Mattie, were quickly filled with injured. Unfortunately about five soldiers were killed and about twenty three had serious injuries. These guys were definitely ruthless; they were aiming to kill from the very beginning. I was very sad about all that. It sucked that saving Mattie and I had to result in such tragedies.

Tony, Claire, and I got into the vehicle. It was battered with bullet holes from the attack.

“Oh yeah! Tony, thanks for protecting me. I thought it was funny that no bullets were hitting me.”

“It’s fine. After all what are friends for.”

‘Giggle’ “Thanks anyway!”

As we headed for the Center, thoughts of Mattie were spinning through my head. Hahaha the situation was definitely going to be strange when she wakes up. I was sort of looking forward to it though.

The Center: Tester - Part 15

By Blackout

Editor: Zip

Thanks Zip for editing. Now that I finally was able to finish this story to a good point I will work on elemental awakening and edit some more. Enjoy this chapter!

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Chapter 15

Arriving back at the Center, I ran straight toward where Mattie was being held. They had her out in a open field to try to keep the earthquakes from doing any serious damage. I had to get a ride just to get there and even then I was not allowed to get too close. I had to wait at least five miles away. Even with binoculars, the most I could see of Mattie was a dark speck in the distance. I had to get clearance to be here. I was very happy they agreed, after what happened today with me ignoring orders. I was almost positive they were going to say no.

‘RUMBLE!’

The earthquakes started up again, fissures occurred all over the ground and were only getting bigger. The whole ground was shaking even over here. It lasted for a while longer before it finally died down. After that we took a helicopter, as the field was no longer safe for the Jeep to drive through. The ground looked like a broken mirror. It was not hard to spot Mattie in the only undisturbed part of the ground in the center of the fissure field. A soldier climbed down a rope ladder so that he would be able to pick Mattie up. It was all pretty intense and cool. I was not ready at all though, for the new image of Mattie.

OH MY GOD was he cute! He had dark black hair, a well-muscled body, chiseled face of a movie star that would put the male supermodels to shame. He was rugged and mysterious and I could not believe I was freaking out over a guy… but I also felt some deep connection to him. It was as if he was a part of my soul and at that moment all I wanted to do was snuggle with him tohis tight chest as he held me. My breasts started to get hard just at the thought of it.

“Is he going to be ok?” I asked one of the doctors on the helicopter. The guy that was Mattie before was bleeding all over from coughing up blood but that only made him look like a tough soldier with battle wounds.

“He’s fine as long as we get him back to the Center immediately. It just seems that the overuses of his powers can literally kill him. Fortunately he only sustained some non-life threatening injuries. I believe his mother probably drank a ton of polluted water for a while through her pregnancy to bring about this effect. We are just lucky he did not go rogue or we would have a serious issue on our hands.”

“Ok thank you!”

The former Mattie was rushed into the infirmary. I was not even allowed to see him because it was that serious. The change was perfect, but by the sheer power of this earthquake he just caused, his insides were severely damaged even as he was changing into a guy. Apparently if he had still been a girl my Mattie would have died just from the sheer magnitude of damage to her body.

I paced back and forth in the infirmary for a while this whole experience was really getting on my nerves. Then I noticed Kris approaching me as she entered the infirmary. Her face said I was in deep shit.

“Rachael I hope you know how disappointed I am from your actions!”

“I am aware Kris. I’m sorry but I had to save Mattie.”

“Yes I know, but you went about it the wrong way and it could have ended a lot worse. Please don’t ever do something that stupid again. I know you’re a lot smarter than that; so act with your head not with your emotions.”

“So what’s my punishment?” I wish I did not ask because Kris smiled at me with a very scary smile.

“Your punishment is to be Ms. Fine’s personal assistant for the next three weeks. She will be facilitating your punishment and we deal with you as necessary. You will still be working with the ATT (Ability Testing and Training) department but in your free time you will be with Ms. Fine.”

“So you put me with the person who would punish me the most for what I did.”

“No! I put you with someone who cares about all of us emergents deeply here, and will do what’s fit to make sure incidents like this don’t happen again. Now that this discussion is done. I want you to go to room five of the infirmary. The two girls we rescued at the enemy base are there. T hey should be waking up soon so greet them, get them clothes, and give them the Center introduction. Also I have heard that Mattie’s condition is stable and she should be waking up in an hour or so.”

“Thanks that is the best news I’ve heard all day.”

I walked into the room to find both girls lying there on the beds. They were both awake but the room was quite as I walked in. They began to break out into questions when they noticed me enter.

“Where are we? Where’s Mattie? What happened?”

“Calm down. Let me explain.” They both went quiet, thankfully. Their many questions were driving me nuts.

“This is the Center. It’s the government run facility that is responsible for emergents and protecting the world from dangerous emergents. As you probably know by now, being an emergent means you have acquired supernatural abilities and have changed sex. This is will be explained further in the video presentation. As for Mattie she has become a guy and is currently getting treatment.”

After that I showed them the movie. They did not seem too surprised though. I guess after all that had happened, who could blame them.

“Now for introductions I’m Amber, I seem to be a telekinetic!” The very bubbly red headed girl shouted when the movie was over.

“Ummm…. I’m Megan.” The brown hair girl spoke. She was rather shy and seemed pretty nervous about being here.

“Well I’m Rachael. I have been charged with getting you situated here, so follow me and let’s get you some clothes.”

We started out of the room and down the hallway. Today was going to be a long day by any accounts.

“So Rachael have you seen Mattie’s new boy body. I bet he is hot!” Enthused Amber.

“He is, but you better keep your hands off him. He’s mine!”

“Really and why is that? You don’t even know him.

“Hmph! That’s where you’re wrong. Back when I was a boy named Ryan, I was Mattie’s boyfriend. So I know Mattie better.

“Really. You don’t say. You don’t really strike me as boyfriend material not with those boobs anyway. We’ll let the new Mattie decide. But believe me when I say, ‘I will be the one to get Mattie’!” Declared Amber.

We all had an awkward laugh at that. Never in my life would I have thought I would be competing over a boy.

Getting to the giant wardrobe, we entered and started looking around. I tried to spite Amber by choosing some really girly clothes for her but to my chagrin she seemed to love them. Megan on the other hand was exploring for clothes by herself but she looked really shy and a bit scared.

“Hey Megan are you ok? You seem really out of it. What’s wrong?”

“Well back at MAGNUM I never received kindness like this and I am unsure what the Center’s intentions are for me. I still am pretty freaked from back when I was still in Magnum. They never truly allowed me the time and care to adapt to being a girl so this is all new and awkward to me.”

“Don’t worry! The Center is here to help you. You’re safe here and will be allowed the time to experience life and grow. So don’t worry, and start making some new friends. You already have three great friends.”

“Who?”

“Amber, Mattie, and Me!” I said giving her a hug.

She started to break down crying right then and there. I held the hug with her. Megan had been through so much at Magnum. How was it that such a sweet girl had ended up at their place? When she was done crying she got up and smiled at me.

“Thanks, I needed that.”

“It’s ok just let it out. We’re girls now, so it’s ok to cry. It helps deal with the pain.”

After that I helped them pick out the rest of their clothes and got them their school uniforms. It was about that time that Liz walked into the room.

“Hey Rachael, Mom told me to take care of the rest here. Also, Mike seems to have woken up a while ago. While you guys were taking your time here he has already gotten set up with some clothes and is currently resting in his room on the boy’s side. He should be fairly stable, after all I gave him some healing.”

“Thanks, but who is Mike?”

“Hahaha! I thought for sure you would guess it. That’s Matties new name or to be precise it’s Mike Russell.”

“Really! That’s a cool name. Anyway thanks for covering for me. I’ll talk to you later.”

“Also I didn’t tell him you’re here. So it should be a complete surprise when you knock on his door.” ‘Giggle’

I ran out of the room and started to rush down the hall way to the boy’s side. Words could not describe the joy I had and the anticipation of getting to meet Mattie..err…Mike again. Getting to the boys side I went up and down the hall until I finally found the room with the name plate Mike Russell. Well here goes nothing I thought.

‘Knock’ ‘Knock’

“Who is it?” I heard a dark distinctly male voice utter from the room.

“It’s Rachael can I have a moment of your time?”

‘Sigh’ “Sure I guess. Come on in.”

“I opened the door to find the handsome dark haired boy lying on the bed; he seemed to be in a very bad mood and was just staring out his window when I entered. He decided to take a moment and spare me a glance at which point shock spread over his face.

“Hey you’re the dumb girl that ran out to rescue me.”

“Hey don’t call me dumb.” I punched him in the shoulder.

“Oww I just got healed and you punch an injured man.”

He started to cry at the word man.

“Geez I’ve even started to act and refer to myself as a man now. This day sucks, now it won’t even matter if Ryan and I meet again, I doubt Ryan would ever date a boy. Anyway how did you know my name back there?”

“Well Mike, I would not be so sure Ryan wouldn’t date a boy as handsome as you. As for how I know your name… let me tell you a story. So back when I was a guy I was taking this beautiful girl to a restaurant for dinner. I began to feel really sick and so we left the restaurant and we were attacked. Thankfully the Center got to me. I thought I would never see my beautiful girlfriend again. But I saw Mattie there and trying to be her knight in shining armor I rushed forward not caring about the consequences with only one goal in mind, to rescue my princess.”

“Wait…Wait…Wait! RYAN?!”

“Yeah but I go by Rachael now. It fits a lot better.”

Mike hit me back in the shoulder. “You idiot what were you thinking, running out there like that. You could have gotten yourself killed. So you’re no longer my knight in shining armor. Now you’re my damsel and I’m your knight. If I ever find you doing a stunt that stupid again I will beat you up.”

“Hey don’t punch girls, you brute!” I teased.

Mike then wrapped me in a hug and we both started crying together.

“Rachael you don’t know how much I’ve missed you!”

‘Giggle’ “Of course I do because I’ve missed you even more!”

“Hahaha! You just giggled!”

“Shut up Mike, and where do you think your looking!”

“Ummm…I’m sorry, new instincts.”

“Well eyes up here from now on!”

“Hahaha! Look who’s talking.”

After that we each told each other our stories over the few days we had been separated. My story was not nearly as traumatizing as what Mike had been put through. She or rather he had been through so much over the last few days, I felt the fear in his voice as he told his story.

“I can’t believe that Scott was a Magnum agent.”

“I know… right. Hey Rachael you may not be my strong and handsome Ryan anymore, but you are very beautiful.” I was blushing bright red.

Mike then all of a sudden leaned in on me. With one arm around my waist he scooped me up onto his chest and kissed me mouth to mouth. Fireworks exploded in my head. As a former girl Mike knew just what to do. He wrapped my small body into his big embrace. I felt his well-defined abs as my breasts pushed into his chest. He was well defined and muscular. I passionately returned his kiss. He was working wonders in my head and body. My nipples began to get very hard.

We were now both lying down and I was on …. TOP. My whole body was exploding from every little touch. I began to remove Mike’s shirt. I wanted to see his bare muscular chest.

“Hey if you remove my shirt I get to remove yours.”

“Fine, then it’s a deal!”

I worked his shirt off, while moving my chest over his. I felt something hard down there… something I no longer had… get really excited. When his shirt was off I looked down. He really was very muscular with a six pack and biceps any man would love to have. Oh my Mike had a killer body even better than my body as Ryan.

Mike then began to work on my shirt. He slowly pulled it off, kissing my chest as he worked his way up. It felt so good! Then he started to work on the skirt. Geez here I was having my boyfriend pull off my skirt. He pulled it down all the way.

“Rachael I really like the matching pink panties and bras, especially the panties that say Rachael. When did you go girly?”

“Hey! Don’t mock them. They look good on me. The underwear grew on me. Don’t you like them?” I asked.

“Yeah” he blushed. “They look really cute on you!” I could not help but blush back. He made me feel beautiful and I was getting this tingly feeling inside.

I then got my turn to work his pants off. He was very hard at this point in just his boxers. Mike then pulled me down on top of him again and started to work wonders on me. My hands wrapped around him. He on the other hand, had one hand on my butt and another on my breast and his massage was sending impulses all around my body with every touch. Mike was very good at this. We were passionately kissing and I could see fireworks with each passing moment. Never before in my life had I felt this good. I had heard sex as a girl was about ten times better than sex as a guy. But I never really believed it until now. Whenever we did decide to have sex for the first time it would probably be one of the greatest days of my life.

It was so much excitement and felt so good I wished it would last forever. We just continued to roll back and forth up and down in our love making until all of a sudden I felt Mike stiffen all of a sudden. I got off realizing what had happened. As I guessed he was wet down below. Although I was damp a little also.

“First time huh?”

“Yeah of course it is. But anyway sorry about that.”

“Don’t be. It’s natural. Actually be proud! With the amount of stimulation I was giving you most other boys would have already reached that point. You held out pretty long. You also made it very enjoyable to me.”

“Of course I was a girl before. You were really good yourself. Your new body is stunning Rachael.

“Thanks,” I blushed.

“Well you better get going, I need to change.”

“Hahaha. Yeah I will see you later.” I kissed him on the cheek. I missed Mattie so much. I was so happy we would be able to see each other again.

I waved bye as I left the room. That was one of the best moments I had ever had. If that was what sex life as a woman would be like then I was looking forward to it. I think I had finally accepted being a girl then only part of my life was still longing for was Mattie but now she or rather he was back in my life as Mike. I also had a great job here working as the Abilities Trainer and Tester, and had wonderful friends and a great roommate. What more could I ask for? You know what? Being a woman would not be that bad.

Actually I think I’m going to enjoy my life as a lady especially one with superpowers. Being a girl rocked!

THE END……for now……