Woah, that's actually really cool!
Though we might not be that close, I wish she could have told me sooner.
Ashley looks at Jay for a response, as Jay replied " Well, that's great and all, but how does this help me find the kidnapper? "
" You mentioned your brother has a surve, so I thought a sample meta ability that I've gathered to help you find it "
" Wait! Sample? "
" Yup, even though I can mimic other meta's ability, my limit is that I need to wear their clothes or have at least samples of their DNA in fabric. "
She said while she walks to a cabinet and brings a couple of cut out fabric. She placed them on the floor right in front of us. Showing each fabric as I wanted to ask, " Wait so how do you even get this much fabric containing DNA from other meta's ? "
" Well I sometimes went to my dad's office for some personal stuff. When I want to snoop around to get some samples from the police or even from the property room. There's this one meta ability that I got the DNA of, that sorta let me have enhanced vision. It was weird at first, but it helped me find things if I lost or forgot. This means I could use this fabric to help find your brother's secret room. "
She said as she present's a grey handkerchief with a few traces of hair. Jay stared at it before turning to Ashley and replied, " Thanks ash but. Are you sure this will work? I mean, I don't know if he has some sort of security in his secret for this sorta thing "
" Well, it wouldn't hurt to try, right? And besides, I'm helping you too. "
" Jas. Even if you help me, I'm still not letting you burrow my computer "
" I know, I know, but this is your brother we're talking about. THE SKYDIVE!! I promise I won't break anything if you let me help you "
" ..... Fine, as long as you don't tell anyone about this "
" Promise "
" Hey what about me? " Micheal shout's. Causing us to all look at him in silence, Ashley ask " What, you wanna join to? "
" Of course! I don't want to be left out of all of this craziness "
" Eh, I don't know. Can you even do anything useful? "
" Oh okay! How about you Jasper? What can you even do? Hmmm!? "
" Oh, I'll show you what I can do. " I didn't hesitate to crack my knuckles to beat the shit of piss his pants Micheal, but sadly Jay HAD to stop me.
" Guys enough, fine you can come. As long as you behave in my apartment "
" Hah, you heard that piss your pants Micheal? "
" That includes you "
" What! "
" HAHAHAHA DESERVE!!! "
His laugh made me cringe. As if a weirdo was making that laugh.
After Mr smarty pants invited piss himself Micheal, which is the biggest mistake he ever made. He turns to Ashley and ask " Hey, you said that you manage to take the DNA from the evidence in the police station right? So did you perhaps get one from the recent disappearance? "
" Well no, dad kinda ban me from snooping around the property room, so I only have a few samples of meta abilities from about two weeks. Why would you ask? "
" Well, if I want to catch this kidnapper, I need to know what kind of meta ability does the kidnapper has "
" You mean how many kinds does the kidnappers has. We don't know exactly if it's only one person. Who knows if ther'ye like multiple people participating in the kidnap "
" Even so. It's still better if we have a framework on who we are facing. "
Well he does have a point. We all slowly agree on Jay, as I don't want to end up like his brother.
We continue to discuss about this a bit further, planning on how do we find or follow the cause of the dissapearance.
Taking a couple of minutes until it's time to investigate the meta abilities of the recent samples.
Ashley picks up only eight samples. Setting the rest aside as she starts strapping one of them on her wrist.
Suddenly Ashley begin's to grow scythes coming from her arms.
* Ching! *
" Wow! "
" Haha sharp "
" Okay, So Ashley what do you think? "
" Uh, it feels.... weirdly light "
She said as she swing the scythe from side to side with no difficulty. After some testing on the first sample we move on to the next.
Taking us at least an hour to cover up a few meta abilities. While a couple of samples can do awesome shit like growing dragon wings and or to create electricity, the rest were kinda disappointing.
Until it leaves us with only two samples left.
She grabs the sample and wraps the cloth around her wrist, at first nothing happen for a couple of seconds until she suddenly collapses to the ground.
* Thud! *
" A-Ashley! "
Ashley twitch. Grunting even, as her whole body started to sore. I was about to leave and call Mrs Cornwell, but stop when I saw her body started to shift.
Her skin slowly peels off from her body as her bone constantly crack's. She kept cradling herself on the ground as her peeled skin slowly grow's hair underneath her flesh. Lots of it infact, as it still keeps growing on.
All the while, her face started to be jagged and disfigured. Forming to what looks like a dog's head.
" Agh! AAAGGH!! "
" Shit! What are we waiting for? Let's call for help! "
" Wait! We can just- "
* Snap! *
Hearing a neck snap. We turn to look at her. Seeing her weak on the ground. After a while she manages to get her strength back as she tries to stand up.
Her body covered in golden yellow fur, from her large tail to her flat ears. Oddly, looking like some sort of.... golden retriever?
" Ugh.... Why are you guys looking at me like that? "
" .... Inhale.... Ashley. I don't want to alarm you but- "
" WHAT THE FUCK! "
Yeah, she doesn't need me for her to know what's really happening. Ashley quickly notice the amount of fluffy golden fur on her arms and through her body.
Grabbing her clothes as she examines herself from her stomach to her face.
" This! Wait, I have a snout! "
" Pfft! "
" Don't laugh at me Micheal! "
" Oh, I'm not laughing. It's just. This looks like it kinda suits you "
" Ah, so you want me to punch you in the face? "
" No, no wait! "
" YES! DO IT DO IT! "
I chant for Ashley to hit him in the face but Micheal just tries to block it by hiding his face. After hitting his back several times. She finally calm down and observe her body.
Jay ask " So.... How are you feeling? "
" Shit and weirdly hungry.... But other than that nothing "
" No super smell, hearing, senses, strength, anything? "
" No, it's just that I'm hungry.... "
" Huh.... Hey does someone with a meta ability to be a dog hybrid apart from the missing victims "
" Beats me "
" I honestly don't really remember much about the past new's "
" Well, there are like 450 missing victims in the news, and I remember seeing two of them, so yeah. It could probably be one of them "
" Well then, let's move on to the next "
" Well sure "
Ashley didn't hesitate to just throw it aside and strapped the last sample. As it gave her multiple Len like eyes that seems to make a clicking sound whenever Ashley wanted.
Once we explored all the samples. We are a bit lost. Since Ashley only has eight samples over a dozen of missing victims. We don't know what to do.
To be honest, I wanted to really stay in Ashley's room much longer, but Mrs Cornwell suddenly open's the door, peak her head and ask " Kids, it's time to go to bed "
" Agh, already? "
" Yes, you all still need to go to school tomorrow. All of you should go to sleep. "
" Bummer "
" Wait! It's bedtime already! "
" Yeah. Yawn.... You know, I think I'm a little tired. Maybe we'll have to talk about this later and call it a night "
" I guess "
" Yeah, I'm down with that "
" Ugh... Eh hehe, well since you all agree then I guess I'll be leaving "
" What. "
" Okay listen," I move a little closer to Ash's ear and whispered " I'm actually being watched by my babysitter "
" What? "
" Yeah, so my dad hired his friend to look out for me when he was away, so I planned an escape plan to leave my apartment and to go to your sleepover "
" And you just leave your babysitter at night? What if he noticed? "
" Don't worry, I put on a decoy so he wouldn't notice. Look, I gotta go. Thanks for inviting me into your sleepover "
" Okay, fine leave. But don't blame me when your babysitter noticed that you're gone "
She said as I peace out and told her I was going home. She ask why while replied with it's an important emergency that's hard to explain.
Luckily, he lets me get away from it, since my apartment building is way closer to hers.
So I leave. Waving goodbye at Mrs Cornwell as she closes the door. With time on my hands, I run to my apartment building as fast as I can. Hoping that uncle Vincent hadn't checked on me.