Secret Diary - Keep Out! Game 7

23/01/2022 – Cont 3
 
Before too long Sharky made me get rid of the final illusions on him so he looked normal (pity, but the main fun had been already had so I guess it didn’t matter. Edd had really grown on me so I did say I liked him, though Stormrider didn’t seem to think much of that and suggested that it was up to the court. Then yet again the whole “secret identity” thing came up , saying it’s better to be open than not. I went back at them that it was easy for them as they don’t need to hide and can’t even hide, but more and more people seem to be saying the same thing, and it was definitely getting to me.
 
Anyways, we ditched Stormrider to get nullifying cuffs on Mirage and deal with the whole “getting them to the station” while Sharky and I headed out, but quickly realised that there was shit going on at the convention centre – we saw the twins fighting with a maid who had arms transformed into a gun, and not doing particularly great against her as Velocity took a nasty hit to the face. Sharky had a super fun idea of going full pelt and then me teleporting him directly at them and it worked a charm, completely smashing into her – definitely a move we need to keep practicing!
 
As we caught up with the others (I LOVE being able to teleport!) got a message from Doll who was apparently at the convention centre and there was a dude who was onstage at the auditorium causing a scene , and someone called P-chan dealing with the technology – she suggested one of us look for this P-chan so of course I volunteered (fight with the maid thing not so much my style) and so I headed in. Health food area was a bust, but not too long after I found a dude concentrating on a laptop during a video panel… I might have made crazy stuff erupt from his laptop and he panicked and ran out, with me chasing him as a unicorn! (He yelled “It’s happening again!” … wow, sounds like he’s messed up!)
 
By the time I chased him to the big auditorium, it was pretty crazy. Some dude was on stage putting cardboard around himself, Doll seemed to be surrounding herself in weird cushions with anime pictures on them and there was some announcer dude yelling about this battle. No IDEA what was going on, but we were clearly against the dude with the cardboard so I illusioned myself to look like that maid outside. The cosplayer at the entrance asked why I wasn’t at my post but I just walked past her and started seeing if I could needle him into doing something stupid, saying “Must destroy master, master is useless”
 
Didn’t work super well, nor did the illusion of the naked dude on the stage, so he ended up putting on the last bit of cardboard and growing much larger in size, shouting about a final form, then going straight at Doll who was now a giant snorlax. The dolls started aiming their guns at me but Doll grabbed him into a bear hug so I teleported up onto his shoulder and ripped his cardboard helmet off. Absolutely ridiculous but he started shouting about the reactor was unstable, and his fricking cardboard backpack started glowing! The doll grabbed up both Pchan and the dude from the stage (who to be fair had to be Dr Otaku based on what we found out previously) and launched them out the skylight … so that was that.
 
The maids started talking about activating their final protocol, but luckily Velocity managed to persuade them not to, and the Doll started questioning them – we got some confirmation of what we’d heard before from Edd, but also a bit of info on a few of Dr Otaku’s bases (including a warehouse in Star City) , and that Glomco was being run by a supervillain – either Professor Ecto or Dr No - “Austin” was just a normal minion . They were all just required to cause a stir, showing people how unprepared to react the police and general security , so it’s all about how safe people feel with the police.
 
At this point there was a super big cheer from everyone as they’d been standing around in shocked silence, made a bit of confetti and streamer illusion but slipped out pretty quickly, sneaking back home
Having had to deal with Mirage not once but twice, and THEN the attack on the convention centre, I was looking forward to just getting home and letting myself just digest what the hell had been going but apparently that was too much to ask! Was about to teleport into my house but realised that the light in my bedroom was on, and when I peered in I could see my pillow body in the duvet had been discovered and there was someone waiting for me in my room. Panicked a bit and went to the hideout, messaged Saph and Gabe to see if they had any emergencies I could use (Saph suggested a fight with her boyfriend if I needed to), but even as I was doing that I kept thinking about what I’d been talking to the Doll about and that I was sick of just having to hide everything, especially since everyone else didn’t seem to have much of a problem sharing their identities and being open about it.
 
Pissed off, I teleported to the front door and snuck upstairs, finding my mum pacing around and fiddling with her phone. She immediately started on me, asking what time did I call this and where the hell I was, but after fighting with myself over whether I try to lie and use the excuse Saph gave me or just come out and say it, I found myself asking her why the hell she was so paranoid about me keeping my powers secret
She gave me some crap about it being for my own good and to keep me safe, and not having people manipulating or trying to use me plus making sure I got a “proper education”. I got back at her about how it was definitely not making my life any better and that I was helping people. She then went off about worrying about me getting kidnapped (duh, I can teleport!), and that they make cages and handcuffs for people with powers so they cant use them (like the ones Sharkey’s dad used on Mirage) Like, there are loads of people who have powers so why the hell would I be at particular risk I have no idea, especially since some of the powers seem way more powerful than mine, but I guess she’s got into a super paranoid space with all the shit on the news and that fact that Alpha force keep getting into fights and even they get hurt. Yeah…. Can’t wait for her to find out the one being chased by the dragon was me, still amazed she hasn’t worked it out! Anyways, my powers aren’t going to just go away if I ignore them!
 
Mum gave up at that point, saying that we’ll talk about it with Dad tomorrow rather than in the middle of the night but that this was not over, and I was super grounded (like, just school and home) for a week … I guess I’m not surprised but there’s so much shit going on right now and I’m sorry, but someone needs to do something about this Glomco stuff cos that’s just messed up! I said as much to her and said I would abide by it but if something urgent came up then I was going to do what I needed to. Started ignoring her shortly after that, so she went off, but not long after I got a message from Velocity to say that he was at the hideout and we needed to enact “Avoid Mrs Bruiser”, so I totally snuck off again, teleporting directly over there to hand over the fake ID I’d made him and let him know what hotel I’d got set up and that I was grounded :( made it quick as feeling pretty guilty about it.
 
Seriously, what a day, and its fricking school tomorrow