"HAHAHAH!!!!!" Axel and friends laughed as Reggie and Salvadore bickered back and forth.
"Enough befoolery," Obrian said. "Salvadore, these kids are going out to the badlands. I trust you can provide us with glove that can emulate starving children?"
"I had already prepared them as soon as you messaged me." Salvadore said.
Back flipping to one of his mannequins, he took off a white glove
"Glove?" Lars said. "How can a glove make you look like your starving?"
"Hmmm" Salvadore said. "Why don't you put it on and then ask there is a mirror right over there" He pointed out to Lars.
Lars looking at Reggie and the others was completely lost. As he looked to his friends he got the same confused looks in return as he made his way to the mirror.
Slipping the glove over his hand with ease he stared into his reflection without seeing a difference.
"Uhhh..." Lars said. "Nothing is happening?"
"Ok! Now for a little magic!" Salvadore said gleefully. "Raise the hand above your head and spin around like a Princess!"
"What!" Lars groaned.
"As your commanding Officer" Seymour gagged. "I order you to follow Salvadores instructions! THis is vital to our missoin!"
"Tsk!" Lars groaned.
Raising his hand in the air he began to spin.
"HAhahah!" His friends laughed.
"Wow Axel! Impressive you could do ballet if you wanted!" 6 chimed
"Ok now say "Activate! Program One!""
"Activate program one"
In a flash Lars was instantly covered in a bright white glow, his entire body became encase with light blinding evryone from seeing his skin.
"What the?"
Lars watched as the tiny white glowing light slowly turned into fabric crawling up his body as if it were alive.
"OW!" Lars groaned as he felt the fabric pull down on his hair, twisting and bring it down over his eyes.
After a few moments he felt the tugging stop and was able to move agian.
"YOOOO Ax you look like a completely different person man!" Reggie yelled.
"What do you mean? What happen to-"
As Lars came face to face with his reflection he was so taken aback he almost lost his footing! Staring back at him through the mirror was a Purple haired boy in tattered clothes.
"That's me?" He said touching his reflection.
"That's right! Gloves, or Glo-verters, are a human invention originally used to switch between outfits on the fly! They scan the body for measurements and then, using the required amount of fabric spread out across you body with a holigraphic image that is nearly impssible to spot! It creates the perfect outfit that you are able to map with a computer program. The S.P.A has modified these devices to change more than just your clothes but also your entire appearance!"
"That's awesome!" Reggie said. "Why aren't these things used all the time! We could be walking around in fancy clothing whenever we want!" Reggie said with excitement
"That is due to the limitation that they have." Obrian said.
Drawing a few bolts of electricty from his hands he ran it through Axel's hair.
"With just the smallest touch" Obrian touched Axel's hair causing it to stand up.
As the electricity ran through him, Axel's entire body reverted to its normal look.
"Your cover is blown, not the most effective for Combat oriented missoins."
"Well were not going to be doing any combat right? After all were just a bunch of Cadets" Reggie laughed nervously.
I wouldn't be so sure" Obrian said.
"O'brian..." Salvadore said "Just what are you planning!"
"For this missoin I will need you Salvadore to use the gloverters to create permanant outfits, ones that can withstand hours of abuse."
"You mean in the Mines right?" Reggie laughed. "Not real abuse!"
"I won't be able to change their hair color!" Salvadore said. "There are no permanent solutions to that!"
"Hmmm what do you mean?" Lars asked. "Can't you just dye our hair?"
"What?" Seymour said eyeing Lars.
All of a sudden everyon ein the room started eyein ghim down.
"What?" Lars said.
"A shifters hair and eye color are nearly impossible to change..." Lance said. "The oils and sweat of our bodies produce Ether, that ether will melt or destroy any product that tries to interfere with us biologically... its basic science every shifter knows this..."
"Well I meant special dye!" Lars said nervously. 'Like maybe the S.P.A has some?"
"No we don't..." Salvadore said. "O'brian..." Salvadore said. "What exactly is the point of all this? I know you like your experiments but putting children into a Mineshaft? That sn't like you."
"I need them to go undercover into the shaft... because they are children no one will expect them to be agents!"
"But why? Why do you need to investigate a mineshaft?" Salvadore asked.
"Because it is rumored..." O'Brian said. "That in one of the mineshafts... there's a Pandora"
There was a cold silence as O'brian spoke his words.
"I see," Salvadore said "Then we are in quite the delimma"
"Wait.." Lars said "What's a Pandora?"
"They are giant safes of information from the pre-shift era, datamines of information on the ancient past" Obrian said.
"Remember that gameboy? Or the microwave? Or the other hundreds of devices in this Lab? They are all recovered from Pandoras, they are the only trace of the past we have left." Obrian said.
"Well what about the books!" Lars said. "Certainly the last generation left books behind?"
"Almost everything was destroyed during the great shift, 90% of the world was wiped out along with almost every trace of mankind. As a last ditch effort, humans threw their things into these safes as a way to preserve what was left before the shift."
"But why are these historical artefacts so important? Why would a band of bandits be after them?" Lars asked.
"Because" Seymour said. "They are one of the most profitable businesses in the world. just a single item from a Pandora can be worth milloins of ether"
"WHAT!" Reggie exclamed
"That's nothing" Obrian said. "The N.H.O the group of humans who have the most of them will pay trilloins for them."
"TRILLOINS!!!" The group screamed
"So... what were just going to take these Pandora's from them and walk off? I don't think there gonna let that happen" B said.
"No" Obrian said. "You are going to do one thing and one thing only, confirm the existant of the Pandora, if you are able to do that, A battle of proportions you cannot imagine will take place between the S.P.A and these bandits, at no point are you to engage them is that clear?!"
As O'Brian spoke his voice began to fade out. All of a sudden, Lars's head began to ache.
"A battle of large proportions" Lars thought. "Why does this feel like deja vu?" Did I dream of this battle before in my previous life?"
As Axel's head began to spin he found himself standing on the top of a skyscraper somewhere in Atlantica.
"This is it" Lars said. "The dream.."
In moments everything around him was engulfed in flame. He stood in the middle of a burning city watching as the flames took over everything around him. In the backround, he hears the maniacle voice of a evil woman laughing at him through it all.
"HAHAHHA, Hahahhah!" The evil woman laughed
"The light of the father shines brightly within you..." A voice whispered in the distance
(Back to present)
"Axel!" 6 yelled shaking him.
"What... happend" Lars said finding himself on the ground.
"You passed out! O'Brian must have scared you with his talk of the big battle!"
"Yeh man you scared us are you alright?" Reggie asked.
"How do I tell them... dreams I had in another world... are going to happen in the future?" Lars thought
"Lars" O'Brian said growing suspicious. "Is there something on your mind? What is it you are contemplating?"
"Nothing" Lars said composing himsef. "I'm fine, I'm ready to go to Lagara when you are" He declared confidently
"Very well then" Obrian said "Operation Lagara is a go! We will leave for the mineshaft shortly! Salvadore! Please prepare them for the missoin!"
"Without a doubt!" Salvadore said gleefully! "I'll do the ugly man lady first!" He yelled grabbing Reggie by the arm.
"Hey let go of me!" Reggie cried. "I'm just a kid! This is child endangerment!"
"Your life is going to be in danger if you don't shut it!" Salvadore yell.
As Reggie and Salvadore made a scene in the backround Lance carefully eyed Lars.
"Axel..." Lance thought. "There something strange happening with you, and if no one else is going to figure it out.. Then I guess I will!"