'Well I can't complain now,' Lydia thought, looking back at Melvin and his group. Walking to the group she would be shadowing the Senior investigator with she had some doubt's but wasn't gonna be judgemental. Each one looked relatively capable of protecting themselves but she couldn't be sure.
However she knew it was her own fault. 'I should have tried harder on the preliminary test,' she thought, berating her decision to not give it her all. However she didn't think the guy she was matched with during the practical portion of the preliminaries would have speed powers like her.
"Hi, I'm Lydia it's nice to meet you all," Lydia said, stopping in front of her group with a radiant smile. "What are your names?" Lydia asked, waiting patiently for someone to greet her back.
"It's nice to meet you as well, I'm Lawrence but you can call me Larry." Larry said, extending his hand in a business like manner. Larry is a fairly tall man about Melvins height, with short spikey blonde hair. Lydia shook his hand almost immediately after he extended his hand.
"So what's your power?" Lydia asked, curious about the person in front of her. "What's yours?" Larry asked, directing the question back to her. "Acceleration, I can accelerate the speed at which my mind can process information as well as my speed among other things." She stated, proud of her families power.
"Now I'll ask you again, what's your power?" Lydia responded, glaring at Larry waiting for him to answer. "It's not as fancy as yours but I have a displacement ability that allows me to pass through solid objects no matter the density, It's called slip." Larry said, letting his foot phase through the floor as to prove his point.
"What about them?" Lydia asked, peeking around Larry at the other two. "I actually don't know I got here just before you did." Larry said, turning around to look in their direction. Looking at the two Lydia didn't have high expectations for them.
The pair consisted of a short guy with dark flat hair and a shorter girl with beautiful brown waist length hair. "I'm Oscar and this is Jane." Oscar said, Jane peeking from behind him. "Our powers are unique to say the least, I can manipulate space and Jane here can manipulate time." Oscar said, while seemingly disappearing in front of their eyes.
"We can only manipulate them to a certain degree though, and we have to be connected." Oscar said, appearing directly behind Lydia and Larry with Jane still behind him. "So you guys can teleport?!" Larry asked, practically shouting at the reveal of his teammates power. Lydia was also impressed with the two.
"So what happens if you two are apart and tried to use your powers?" Lydia asked, moving closer to the pair. "Simple, it'd make a rift. We can't control the outcome without the other." Oscar said, moving away from Jane and showing the other two the space between them was slowly starting to break down.
"I think I get it. You can open holes in space and move through them and she can revert the time around those spaces to close them right?" Lydia asked, waiting for Oscar or Jane to answer. "Not exactly. I can only manipulate the time around Oscar's rifts," Jane answered, in a quiet voice shyly from behind Oscar.
At that moment their Senior investigator had arrived. "Alrighty then let's get to it." the investigator said, smiling away while motioning for the rest of the group to follow him.
The Investigator led them from the headquarters through the city to the outer edge of the wall talking nonstop about the cities history until they reached the wall. "I know I was the last Investigator to arrive and we probably won't have as much time to patrol as the other groups but I can at least show you the Northern patrol area of Solstitium." The investigator said. "What is our objective sir?" Lydia asked.
"We will just be surveying the land outside of the wall, making sure that there are no threatening monsters lurking close by," He replied. With that they had left Solstitium and were wandering around the surrounding land. After a short time the Senior investigator was answering a call on his earpiece, his face went white and he looked shocked. "What's wrong?" everyone asked him simultaneously.
"We've been recalled, a Junior investigator was attacked by a high-class in the land near the Southern gate.", he said to them very calmly. "Who was the one who got attacked?" Lydia asked, hoping fervently that it wasn't who she thought it was. "We don't have confirmation on their identity but we do know it was someone from group one." he replied. 'That's Melvin's group,' Lydia thought.
On the way back Lydia couldn't shake the feeling that something was happening to Melvin and it wasn't good, she didn't know how right her feeling really was. After the excruciatingly quiet walk back to headquarters Lydia finally asked the Senior investigator, "Where is the injured investigator?". "He's in recovery in the med bay on the second floor", His reply was short and to the point.
Not wasting anymore time Lydia activated her power and ran to the second floor going from room to room until she seen someone she recognized sitting on a chair in the hallway. 'She's the one from Melvin's group right?' Lydia thought, slowing down and deactivating her power. "Who was it, who got injured?" Lydia asked, directing her question to the girl in the chair.
"Who are you and why are you pestering me?" asked the girl in the chair. "I'm Lydia a friend of your teammate Melvin, I need to know if he's okay." Lydia replied. She was frantic she didn't know how she would feel if it was Melvin that had gotten hurt.
"I'm Scarlett and your worried about your boyfriend he's fine as far as I know." Scarlett replied very snob like. Lydia's face went red from embarrassment before quickly realizing Scarlett had said 'as far as I know'. "What do you mean as far as you know?" Lydia asked, moving closer to Scarlett to see if she had heard her right.
"I mean he stayed behind to fend off the high-class that had came back to finish off Kang there." Scarlett said, pointing to the room in front of them as if to prove a point. "Wait so you don't know what happened after you left?" Lydia asked, carefully disguising her anger with curiosity. "No I don't. As far as I know your friend Melvin is missing and I don't think your gonna find him. Drake couldn't even find him after questioning me about where I left him to fend for himself, but he had his Telum with him." Scarlett said, telling Lydia everything that had happened up to them meeting.
"So you don't know where Melvin is and he went missing afterwards?" Lydia asked, being very careful to be nice to get straight answers from Scarlett. "As I said yes, he went missing after his confrontation with the monster." Scarlett said, aggressively answering the repeated question from the annoying girl. 'He's really missing then' Lydia thought to herself.