Training Begins

Several minutes passed of me being forced to be a dress up doll before it became their turn. Darcy's first outfit was a very ruffly shirt and an equally ruffle covered skirt both were adorned with a cherry blossom design that complimented each other very well. On the other hand Penelope was in a pair of black torn shorts with a black and purple tank top that exposed her midriff over a fishnet shirt and stockings. I had started to notice a pattern with the two.

I spoke up after about three outfits had passed, "Well this has been fun girls but I have more things that I need to do." I still needed to pick up reading material and possibly some furniture. I made my way to the counter holding a bag of the clothes that had been picked out for me and that I had decided to keep. This included the first outfit I had tried on and one other. The bag also included a few articles of clothing that I had grabbed for myself.

After paying for the clothing I had picked out I found a map outside of the clothing store the girls following a distance behind me getting their own stuff. As I glanced over the map searching for the bookstore and the furniture I took a peak at what direction the girls were heading. It was a lingerie store next door. My face went hot and I briskly turned the other way and made a beeline for the bookstore hoping that neither of them had noticed.

I followed the maps directions and found the store I was looking for. Once I made it there I was greeted by Garrick waiting for me at the stores entrance with a knowing smirk on his face.

"You little rat. You left me alone with those girls and I'm not forgiving you anytime soon." He just kept on smiling at me as I vented at him. "Did all of the guys go through this."

"Yes, we did. Well except for Dean. His sister won't let that happen also the whole thing started because of Penelope. Once she got to the age that clothes really started mattering to her she roped us in."

"Oh I'm definitely going get you back for that." I glared daggers at him for a moment before I continued. "Moving on to why I'm here. I need to get some new reading material. Most of what I have is physics books on energy types and blueprint manuals for different weapons, gadgets and motorcycles."

"Why do you have such boring books ____," he questione with a very unimpressed expression on his face.

I turned toward him as I made my way inside. "Well for the most part my creation power works better when I have a working knowledge of the object I'm making. The ones I use the most I have memorized down to the smallest detail. Even if they never existed before."

"That's actually kind of cool. So does that method work for everyone? Like would you suggest that for me?" His question brimmed with eagerness.

"No, every power type has different methods that work better for them." I paused in my musings. "Well if you want to learn more then let's meet up at one of the training halls tomorrow."

"Sounds good to me. So would you like some recomendations for reading material. There's some incredible comics and novels available here. As the city is international they try to have as many entertainment options as possible from every culture. So in a way we have the most diverse options in the world."

"That's actually quite cool. It seems that there is a lot about Pantheon City that you can't learn from the media." I thought about his offer as my subconscious automatically took me to the technical manual sections.

"Hey, pal this is not the fun section. Let's go this way instead," he said as he gripped my shoulders and pointed me in another direction.

"You're completely right. I guess old habits die hard." I spent the rest of the afternoon hanging with the other members of the group until we made our seperate ways home.

__________________________

The next day marked the beginning of Garrick's power training under me. It would also serve as excellent practice for dealing other dimension shifters. A rare power type that from what my teacher told me is difficult to deal with. I waited in the prep area for the training room for Garrick.

After a few minutes of waiting he arrived in a grey tank top, that was a little tight on his portly figure, paired with eggplant purple performance shorts. The ever present jovial smile on his face. He looked like he was just hanging out at the gym.

"You're a little too excited for training. Are you taking this seriously? You did ask me to help figure out why you're told it's a beta level power but you can only use it at the equivalent of gamma level. In order to do that the training may end up being difficult."

"Oh come on man This is what I always wear when I go to P.E." He replied nonchalantly in a mock whine.

"Whatever you say." I paused for a moment as I looked at the notes in my tablet. "So I'm going to ask you somethings about how your power works then we'll consult what I've been reading up on."

"What like what do I see when I turn invisible, how does the world feel, can I interact or hear while i'm invisible? The teachers already tried that and I'll tell you what I told them. Everything feels the same, looks slightly blurry and yes I can interact and hear." he replied quickly sounding almost disapointed.

"Well, that tells me alot but no these questions are different. I assume the teachers have also asked what emotions you feel are and if I had to guess your response was something along the lines of wanting to disappear. Is that correct?"

"Yep."

"So what I want you to do is turn invisible and not move from that spot."