Chapter 8 No Turning Back

A Chapter by Alex

Austin gains his new powers and gets behind enemy lines. A surprising twist happens at the end of the chapter.

Everything from my school years, everything anyone had ever said to me, the entire geography of the tore world I have traveled, it was all there. I can remember everything. i can even remember my own birth, my first, second, third, and so on birthdays clearly. I can remember past moments like, when Jack was given his birthday present containing his power only, i could remember what time of day i woke up, and what the weather was like outside. I didn't think that the power would work like this. I thought that it would let me remember everything clearly that happened after I attained the power, not everything that i had stored in my brain.

I open my eyes. i feel very light headed and the light hurts my eyes. i look at my hands and they are much bigger. I scare myself and start to try and lift my arms but realize they are restrained. I then realize that they the doctor must have changed my appearance.

"Ahhh Austin you're awake. Would you like to see your new body?" Doctor Smith says I nod my head. He walks over and cuts the restraints. I stand up and look at the doctor. Before i was about the same height as him and now, i was almost a foot taller. I turn to the left and look in the full body mirror. I was jacked. My muscles were the biggest muscles i had ever seen in my life. When one ended another started. I have a scare over my right eye but it seems like some one with high medical skills put it all back together because i have perfect vision in both eyes. I have blonde short hair that spiked a tiny bit in the front. I had a tattoo that came up from my left elbow to the top of the shoulder. the tail of the dragon started at my elbow and the head of it was right before my shoulder flattened out. It wasn't drawn in much detail but had fancy designs on its body. The black dragons mouth was open and it had a word that made me cringe in it. The dragon was biting down on the word "Rebels". The guy who i transformed into hated us, and must had dedicated his whole life to destroy us. "You look shocked." I see Doctor Smith behind me in the mirror. At first i couldn't see him at all but he poked his head to the left so i could see his face. His head is eye level with my tattoo.

"Yeah it's a little creepy, not seeing yourself in the mirror. Like a bad nightmare almost." I look at my new beaten self and realize that i have seen enough. i turn away from the mirror and look at the doctor.

"I remember who the first person i changed into was and i remember looking at myself in the mirror not believing what i just did. All i needed to do was touch the person and I could be them. Completely them. Now that was a long time ago and i understand why you can be scared. But, remember this is for the good of the rebellion. Austin if this goes well, i could see the end of the war. The next generation could grow up in a safe world. Now, Theodore Govtorno, are you ready to learn everything about yourself?"

"Yes sir." i say to the doctor. I didn't even know the mans name that i was being transformed into. Hopefully the rest of this mission was a little more planned out or else i would be in trouble.

"And one more thing." Doctor Smith says to me "Right after this training session you will be brought to the unforgiving lands and dropped off. We need to start this mission as soon as possible and make it as confidential as possible. The only people that know about this are Captain Ross, the council, myself and your friend Tori and we intend to keep it that way."

I nod "Now, lets get on with this training." i say

We go through a door that i didn't even notice before. I have to duck to get into the doorway. i look around and see weights and a chalk board and a deck. "Which would you like to do first? Learn everything about your new self? or learn your power of telekinesis?"

"What do you think?" i say with a smile on my face

"Ok. Now, contrary to popular belief telekinesis has as much to do with your mind as it does with your muscles which is why Theodore Govtorno is very well built. You use your mind to focus on the object but then, use the muscles in your arm to lift it or move it in certain directions. If you really want to tire out your mind, you can lift things just by imagining them moving. Now, this will work out your mind and not your arms. Learn how to balance using your mind and your muscles and you will be able to efficiently use the new power."

I do this for around an hour, lifting things up and putting them down. Eventually i can lift everything in the room about 3 feet off the ground but it tires my brain so i go back to using hand motions. After i understand how to use the power i start to learn about his life. I learn this his home town is New Madrid which was destroyed in one of the first rebel rebellions. I learn that he has been in the military since he was 18 and is 45 years old. He leads a unit and is one of three other military advisers. He is very high up in the ranks but there seem to be around 40 people who are higher up than him. I learn many other things like where his bunk is and a little bit of the lay out of the capitol. I remember everything that was said to me.

I finish learning everything and Captain Ross is brought in "Mr. Conway, this is going to be the hardest part of your mission. We are going to drop you in a location where we don't think any of our men are but we can't be certain. If they attack you i want you to engage and kill them."

"What?!" i yell out. My voice is loud with rage. I haven't yelled yet but my voice is very deep so it was obviously i would have a vicious yell "You actually want me to kill our own men?! I can't do that!"

"You will and you must." Captain Ross says calmly "I'm not saying to try and kill our own men but, if put into the situation you can let anyone find out your true identity. If you do find any one and know of their location when you return we will send rescue ships out for them later. For now, we stick to the mission."

I look down at the ground and realize there is nothing i can do. I have accepted the mission and can't back down now. "I understand."

We get to the secret hanger area which seems to be hidden from the rest of the Sector. We travel hundreds of miles which ends up taking only four hours because of the speed we are traveling.

"Were going to drop you here Mr. Conway." Captain Ross looks at me and gives me a solute. "Remember absolutely no fire and give us a call right when you figure out who the person behind the whole government is." The Doctor shoots me a smile. I look outside of the cruiser and it's about a 500 foot drop to the ground. I solute back and jump backwards out of the ship. I focus my mind on my feet and can use my telekinesis to push force up at my feet slowing my falling down until i lightly hit the ground.

There is a decent amount of trees around me. It seems like i am not dropped in a destroyed city or town but, an old forest, not completely destroyed by war. I hear a song bird chirping in the distance and another one that answers back to him which is closer to me. I open my ILife and bring up a GPS of my location. I need to turn to my right. Now i am headed East, the way to the capitol.

I walk for miles and i try and occupy myself by identifying all of the birds i hear and the trees around me. With my new super memory i can remember everything i had learned in school years ago. i can confirm that i could figure out much of the wild life. After about three hours i see smoke off in the distance of a run down town. I quickly think of the worst case scenario. What if they are rebel soldiers? I also think what if they are the governments dogs? This walk could be much quicker. I head towards the smoke. The smoke is coming out of the half tore off roof of a decently sized house. This town was very war torn. There are bricks from buildings chimneys and broken wooden planks everywhere. Every couple hundred feet i see a destroyed car, either from something falling on it or it just being blown up. I reach the house and sit between a pile of cinder blocks and a fallen over electrical pole. I can't really understand what the are saying and decide to get to the other side of the building. As I'm walking around i step on a plank of wood which snaps. This causes a giant roped prison to come up and capture me with a bunch of other sticks and rocks. I hang about 7 feet in the air completely tangled in ropes.

"We got one!" i hear someone yell. A skinny looking kid runs over and points at me. Another older looking man comes over.

"This isn't an animal!" The old man scolds the younger one "We can't eat this! But, he does look like a spec ops so let's kill him off quick."

I use my power to make the entire tree I'm hanging from fall down. i rip off the ropes and stand up brushing off the dirt from my shoulder. "I mean you no harm." i say as calmly as my deep scary new voice can

"Well you're of the government arn'tcha?" He says. I feel a wind hit my side then out of nowhere the old man is right behind me. i hear him whisper "Then ya do." I quickly make a rock fly through the air where i think the old man is. The next thing i know, the man is standing next to the young boy again.

"We can do this easy old man!" The young skinny boy starts to vibrate. I have no idea what is coming. Then slowly he splits in half. Now there are two skinny boys and an old man in front of me. After this these two boys split in half and do the same thing. Now there are 4, then 8, then 16, and then eventually too many to count.

The boys start to run at me and I quickly throw rocks, planks, cars, trees, and anything around me towards the mob. Many of them are knocked back but eventually a few reach me. They grab onto my body and I throw them off. Some I throw hundreds of feet in the air and others go flying to my left and right. When each of them are killed there is no blood, just a painful cringe and dust. They evaporate and there was a poof of dust where they just were. I think how easily it would be to use my fire powers but i can't blow my cover. The old man catches me off guard and hits me straight in the chest. I fall down on my back and get covered by the young skinny kid. There are so many of them I can barely breath.

"That's enough!" i hear a strong deep, non panicking yell from about thirty feet away. I feel all of the skinny kids get pushed off me. I stand up and see a mob of young boys between me and the new man who has appeared. Instantly they all turn to dust. The man must have found the original boy and killed him. i see five figures standing in the distance in a line. Then the old man appears next to the one in the middle. The mysterious man reacts quickly and grabs the old man around the neck. There is an invisible force that seems to cut through his neck, leaving the old man bloody and de-headed. The mysterious man drops the corpse of the speedy old man to the ground and walks towards me. My heart is racing. I hope that this is a Spec Ops team, and not a new enemy. "Seems like you were a little over your head huh Theo?" The voice is familiar and my quick beating heart skips a beat.

This man is my brother...

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Author's Note

Hopefully you'll all like that the dryness will be ending with a little bit of action at the end of the chapter. Hopefully the surprise at the end will also leave you waiting for the next chapter to come out. Please read the other chapters if you have no read this one and please leave individual comments on the chapters saying what you like or don't like about them. Hopefully you guys will find this entertaining and please leave a comment on this chapter. i always find them very inspiring.