The Fall

It was a bad wednesday afternoon. It rained all day and it wouldn't stop until the night, they said on TV. Madd still had her judo class, in school with John as teacher. John was a gym teacher, the internship's supervisor and the judo teacher, obviously. Madd started warming up as soon as she was dressed and ready to start. She was alone with another boy. She recognized him, he was new, and he was in her class, with Jo and Caro. She actually found him gorgeous. It was the first time in her life she ever thought a guy was beautiful. He had blue eyes, and just a bit curled light brown hair.

"-Hi", the guy said, stretching is arm for a classic handshake

"-Hi", answered Madd, timidly, shaking his hand, "So you're new here?" she asked back

"-Yes, I just moved from England. I'm Mike."

"-I'm Maddison, but my friends call me Madd"

She couldn't think about their conversation no more, she was too concentrated on his accent, she found weird and his beautiful face. Then John came in to tell them there would be no practice today because he had to supervise an activity for the first graders. Before the teenagers left the gymnasium, Madd looked back at Mike and they both went to bed. Madd thought about what she said to him and how she looked at him and said:

"I must've looked like an idiot!"

Soon, she fell asleep, thinking of their new secret her friends and her got to hide.

* * *

Thursday morning, Madd, Jo and Carolina went to the factory and passed in the scanners, so that their virtual corpses would be analyzed. Jo asked tons of questions to Caro, but Madd didn't want to be late to class. After the scanner finished analyzing them, they went to class, got thousands of homework an assignements. Routine, as Jo would say. But Madd just ran out of class so fast, she had to meet Mike and the end of his class.Madd and Mike were walking in the school's small park, just talking about themselves. Madd realised that Mike hadn't seen all of the school's buildings so she brought him to the sciences building's rooftop so he could see everything. They sat on the little fence, placed around the roof. Mike tried to stop holding the fence with his hands, but as he did that he accidently fell

"No, Mike!" screamed Madd

But then, a weird thing happened. Mike was floating up in the air, and his movement followed Madd's eyes. She brought him back on the roof, and they went down the building

"-What happened up there? I was gonna fall off, but you... Catched me and brought me back on ground!" exclaimed Mike, surprised and confused

"-Hi Caro? I just saved Mike from a fatal fall. Without touching him! Is that because of the scanners?"

"-I know I have a superpower too. I can teleport people on short distances by touching them. It is because of the scanners. In fact, they defragment your molecular structures when you get virtualised and they reform you when you come back from Aria. The problem is that we didn't go on Aria. So we got half destructed, our genes mutated and we got those superpowers." explained Caro

"-So when you go on Aria, you get destructed and when you come back you get reformed?" asked Madd

"- You got it all! Get Mike here, we're going to give him a superpower too. Oh and by the way, Jo called me to tell me the same thing, but he can run in hypervelocity. Pretty cool, ha?" said Caro, jealous of Mike's power

Once arrived at the factory, Mike went on a scanner, they got he process inrushed and Mike was officially included to their gang. He received Caro's explaination on Aria an Luna and Jo proposed:

"-Can we go on Aria?" he asked, wanting a yes more than everything.

"-Ok, why not" accepted Caro go onto a scanner, I will transfer you."

She started to work on a program and tried to virtualize them.

"Ok. Let's see that... Transfer Jo, Madd and Mike, activated for all. Virtualization!"

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