…Nothing. The news had nothing for him. Well, it’s not like he had any high hopes going into that venture at least. He shut off the TV for now and just laid back down on the couch to let his head cool down. [color=yellow][i]”What the heck did the ship do…”[/i][/color] Blake thought to himself as he raised one of his hands up. 

[color=yellow][i]”If it’s not, like, anal probing-”[/i][/color] a grimace wandered its way onto his face as he worriedly slid his hand under his ass to check, [color=yellow][i]”And god forbid I HOPE it’s not that,”[/i][/color] he clenched his raised hand and scowled, [color=yellow][i]”Then what the heck was it?!”[/i][/color] He tried to will something to happen… [i]Anything![/i] Thankfully for him it barely took five seconds for what he was looking for to happen.
 
Blake’s hand suddenly flashed! Well, more like there was a ball of light suddenly engulfing his hand. It involved an incredibly bright light bursting out to his dark-adjusted eyes so it blinded him all the same. [color=yellow]”ACK!”[/color] he cried out and covered his eyes. [color=yellow]”Wha- What was that?!”[/color] Blake sputtered out. [color=yellow][i]”Light?! I… Wait. Wait is [i]that[/i] my thing? Did that ship give me—“[/i][/color] He blinked his blinded eyes open and looked at both of his hands again.

[color=yellow]”That light came from me… Did I do the thing with the lights too?”[/color] He wondered out loud.

“What thing with the lights?”

Blake flinched and clammed up as he looked up to find his dad at the entrance to the living room, squinty-eyed and groggy. “Ahhh, I bet you still have a fever, hah!” he chided with a heavy Filipino accent, “Go back to bed now, I don’t want you getting sicker. Don’t go on that computer either!” The older man shook his head and started heading back to bed himself, “Bad for your eyes, bad for your head for too long, I keep telling you kids…”

Blake heaved a sigh of relief as he heard his dad’s voice trail off. Well, he’s busted. His dad’s word was pretty much law in the house, and he didn’t want to risk freaking his family out if they caught him messing with his newfound powers, so he decided to just retire to his room again. He may have slept for a whole day, apparently with a fever too, but he could go for a few more hours. The others would probably be up by then, so they could probably figure this all out together too!

…

The others. The… other people.

Who Blake isn’t well acquainted with.

…

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It was a little hard convincing his parents he was completely okay to be moving around, but Blake managed it after he finished up some homework he had to catch up on. It took him until noon to do it, so he had some hustling to do if he was going to meet up with anyone. He may not have known the others well enough to know their phone numbers or where he lived, but that wasn't going to stop him from trying!4

He took his bike out (much to his surprise, he thought it was left behind given the story his parents gave him about coming home) and started pedaling out towards school. From there, he just made a giant guess on where the others lived. Sometimes he’d see people like Richard leave a certain direction from school, and so he just assumed he lived in that vague, general area.

…With a clue like that, sleuthing was going to be harder than he thought. Well, he’s already here, may as well try and check it out for himself anyway. He biked out from the school and headed in the direction of Richard’s neighborhood, hoping that he’d be able to recognize anyone from school on the way there.