บท 39: Blink

In an abandoned factory, a woman wearing a leather coat with pink hair, green eyes, and a few purple tattoos near her eyes was sitting on a relatively clean space on the ground and eating burgers while humming a tune.

Her name was Clarice Ferguson, an orphan. One day she suddenly awakened the ability to generate light-pink teleportation warp portals allowing her to displace both people and objects.

Her character was also somewhat timid, this was because when she first awakened her mutant ability she fainted and when she woke up she was lying in a pool of blood which was not hers. This incident scared her quite a bit. Plus in her earlier days she couldn't properly control her ability and any person or object that she tried to teleport using her portals used to get shredded into pieces.

Some time later, she got used to her mutant identity and also could her ability. She wandered around different places and took action to helped many of her mutant compatriots in trouble. Just a while before, she had saved a newly awakened Mutant with the ability to control the growth, shape and durability of her bones and had two different hearts with an accelerated healing factor.

Suddenly her humming stopped and she turned to look out of the window next to her. She could clearly see that there was an object on fire flying in the sky outside and it was descending fast towards her location.

Crack...Crack....!

The windows shattered and the flame object had landed near her. As the flames disappeared, a human like figure became visible.

The person who had landed was none other than Arthur Wolf.

Arthur looked down at his clothes and nodded with satisfaction. When he activated his flame mode on his clothes would always turn to toast and since he was not an exhibitionist, it would damage his dignity to be seen by others in his birthday suit but he had no problems being seen by a beautiful woman.

But recently he got the idea of using his telekinesis powers to form an invisible layer on himself so that his clothes won't burn down. This method would not only preserve his dignity but also help him practice his telekinesis powers.

Pink crystal like structures started to appear on Blinks hands as if getting ready for combat. She vigilantly looked at Arthur and asked: "Who the hell are you?"

Arthur gave her friendly and disarming smile and said : "Don't be so nervous, I am here to help you. My name is Arthur Wolf and I am here to invite you to join my team."

"Sorry, I have never heard about you, and I don't want to join anyone's team!" Clarice said.

"Your name is Clarice Ferguson, a Mutant with the ability to open portals for teleportation of people or objects. When you are young, you are afraid of your own ability, but later on you accepted your Mutant identity. After that you have been wandering around and also saved a lot of mutant compatriots. Am I right?" Arthur looked at her and said.

Clarice's face changed after hearing all this, she didn't expect someone to investigate her and that to being so clear about her history.

"I know this should be very alarming for you to hear but you should relax and don't be nervous. I am going to be very frank you, I can be considered as half a Mutant, having a lot of different abilities. One of them is that I can see parts of the future. I saw that the world in future will be facing a Holocaust, a genocide against mutants, we can't run away and nor can we hide. And there will also be many world ending threats and disasters in the near future. If you want to save Mutants, you alone will not be enough, you will have rely on others!"

"So? If I can't do it myself, can I save them with your help? Not to mention, who knows whether what you are said is true or false!" Clarice did not fully believe him yet

"Because, I will not just let my mutant brothers and sisters and this world go into ruins, so no matter who it is, if they try to destroy this world, they will become my enemy. For this ideal, I am willing to pay any price, including my life! As for whether what I am saying is true or false, you yourself should witness and judge it with your own eyes. If you think I am lying to you, I promise you, you can leave whenever you want." Arthur looked at her sincerely and slowly extended his hand towards her: "Haven't you wandering enough? Don't you yearn for people who you can rely on as a family? Come join me and together we will make this world a better place for mutants."

These words deeply stabbed into young Clarice's heart and made her emotional. Although she had a lot of freedom, but whenever she was alone she felt a sense of loneliness in the deep recesses of her heart. Maybe I should join him?

"You promise that if Mutants really have a crisis, you would help us?" Clarice asked seriously.

"I promise!" Arthur said solemnly.

"Well, then I will follow you for the time being, but I am telling you this now only, if I find that what you are doing is different from my ideals Or harming mutants then I will leave." Clarice took Arthur's extended hand.

Seeing this Arthur was a bit elated. Although Clarice said that she might leave at any time, she has basically confirmed now that she is joining his team. Once a member, always a member.

But he didn't expect the process would be so smooth for his first recruitment. His half truth worked. And that is why people say having a handsome face is so important. He could only imagine how different and difficult this would have been if instead of him, a bald old guy in a wheelchair came to try and recruit her for a dream of coexistence between humans and mutants and blah blah....

"Actually, you should have a code name now" Arthur looked at her, and in her curious eyes, slowly said: "From now on, you will be called Blink. It won't take long but many Mutants, and even the world will know your name."

"Blink? Sounds cool, then I will be called Blink from today onwards." Clarice, no, she should be called Blink from now on, Blink nodded with satisfaction and asked, "So what are we going to do now?"

"Let me see your ability first…" Arthur said.

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So my first exam was not too good and not too bad I guess :(

A new year started but still feels not much different from 2020. Comment your ideas and donate your power stones. Thank you to all the consistent power stone donors.