The Coming Storm

8/2/13 Issue 5. Reiko goes to Jinkara to further test her abilities while her mother Sakura comes along to find out her new abilities.

The next day Reiko calls in sick at her job so her and her mother can go to Jinkara together and test their abilities. She also calls Sensei Kazuya to tell him the same thing. Hours later, Reiko drives her mother Sakura and her father Itachi to Jinkara. When they get there, Itachi leaves the car and tells them to wait there. He returns moments later and hands them visitors passes. After, they go to Itachi's lab. When they go inside he hands them both lab outfits. Reiko's lab outfit is a skintight catsuit that's white and red with pink accents complete with a neck belt. Sakura's outfit is silver with red accents complete with a neck belt. "Why the skintight outfits dad?" "The outfits are equipped with sensors that monitor your bodies internal and external condition." Ah, no wonder why there's pressure on my torso." "Yeah sorry about that sweetheart." "Its fine dad." Itachi then orders them to use the various things around the lab to test their abilities. So far Sakura discovers she can levitate but not fly like Reiko, lift 30 tons, age slower than normal, her mind processes things faster than normal, enhanced intelligence resulting in an IQ above 200, has deep readings of body language, has extremely tougher bones and can disrupt a person thinking process just by staring at them. "My my honey, the Epsilon in your system has unlocked some very interesting abilities in your genome." I know Itachi, it's wonderful! I feel like a brand new human being!" Reiko then asks her father "Hey dad can i keep the outfit?" Itachi responds "Sure, just try not to rip it. Its hell trying to find the sensors when they fall out." "Awesome thanks dad." Reiko hugs her father tightly. "Sweetheart remember, you can lift 60 tons now please be careful." Itachi says as Reiko is hugging him half to death. "Oh sorry dad." She lets go and kisser her dad or the forehead.

Later that day they leave Jinkara and head for home. Reiko is still fascinated about her new found powers and outfit while Sakura is simply sleep. Or so it seems. While Sakura is sleeping, she is experiencing unknown effects of the Epsilon in her dream. She is slowly developing a second personality. In her dream, she is fighting herself which is destroying her dream world. Her other self in the dream is killing massive amounts of innocents, laughing manically, joking about the massive killings and even cutting portions of her skin off and laughing at that. Sakura's evil dream self is saying  to her real self that shes not ready to have those powers and that since her evil self can basically brush everything off without a sweat or thought, she should take over Sakura's mind and body. Good Sakura, fights back against herself but to no avail since evil Sakura can read body language just like she can in real life. Good Sakura then starts to try and disrupt evil Sakura's thinking process but winds up disrupting her own along with evil Sakura's. They then both decide to fight it out physically until one gives up.

Both Sakura's fight valiantly but evil Sakura starts to gain the upper hand. Evil Sakura knocks Good Sakura into a nearby skyscraper and keeps her there. Evil Sakura then picks up a piece of re-bar and prepares to stab Good Sakura with it. As Evil Sakura is about to kill Good Sakura in the dream, Sakura wakes up. She notices Reiko standing at her bedside with a concerned look on her face. "Mother whats wrong? i heard loud mumbling sounds coming from here." "Oh nothing, just a bad dream." "Ok mother, just holler if you need anything." "Sure thing Reiko." Reiko then leaves the room and Sakura dwells upon the dream she just had and wonders if it means something or just a really bad side effect of the Epsilon being in her system.