Chapter 1 - Aftermath

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Orange's POV
It's been three days since the incident with the rocket company. So much happened and I still can't process all of that. Seeing myself shooting a green laser.. how did I do that? Was I always able to do that? How come I had never known?

I don't remember anything from the fight with the grey guy but it's obvious that it happened again. I remember being injured, laying on the floor, passing out.. and suddenly the next thing I remember is waking up, all healed up and surrounded by my friends. Just like the last time.

It feels scary. Having powers and not remembering anything. I can just do these kinds of things and I don't even know about it. Meaning I'm not myself during those. What if I hurt someone close to me? What even happened with that red guy with the spiders. Now I know that it was me who defeated him. Is he alright?

"If you want to talk, come visit me anytime, you know where to find me." That black stick said this to me in private after the fight. It seems like he has something to say to me and I have a lot of questions but no answers. I didn't know how to reply to that. But that's ok, because suddenly, we were interrupted by the others.

Green: "Hey, you! We can finally talk. You realize that you dragged us into this danger without any explanation, right? Why would you do something like that? Who even are you?"

He didn't answer for a while and just looked at Green.. but then..

"My name is The Chosen One."

Those words.. how is that possible? I have never understood my file description but now.. what is the connection between me and him? I completely zoned out. I didn't know what to think about first. It was just too many things for me. I felt like I actually don't even know who am I.

Green's hand on my shoulder woke me up from my thoughts. He didn't say anything, but he was looking at me like he knows that something is going on. Green always knows when something's wrong and I hate that. Especially now. I don't want anyone to know about this. I need to figure it out by myself first.

I don't know what else Chosen said, I wasn't listening. After that, he just looked at me and flew away. Then we took care about those guys from the rocket company. Especially their leader. To think about that, we still don't really know anything about him other than that he was after Alan for some reason. He just left without saying anything. But that doesn't matter now.

I don't know when to visit Chosen. It's hard to leave the computer when the others can always notice that I'm gone. I also need to be more careful around Yellow and Green. I can see that they are watching me. I need to act like my normal self, because I'm getting more suspicious. I'll try visiting Chosen tonight, when everyone is asleep. That way, nobody will notice my absence.

Yellow's POV
I still remember. It's been three days. I remember what I saw. After I was able to free myself from that cell, I tried to find Orange and I passed by a room with a big screen. The workers were analysing a video. When I took a better look at it, I saw.. Orange.. shooting a laser, flying around and beating up that weirdo with those spiders.

I couldn't believe it, but when I finally found Orange with that black stick, that caused us all of this trouble, I noticed the weird energy coming from Orange. He was acting.. differently. We were able to find Green, Blue and Red as well, but then we separated before the fight. Orange stayed with that powerful stick and we had our flight in a different room. I don't know what happened, we could only hear some loud noises.

After the fight, we were able to get back to them and we saw unconscious Orange, lying on the floor, next to that black stick guy. He told us not to worry about him, that he's completely fine. The room was damaged but in a weird way. Others probably thought that it was that black stick who caused all of that but I have seen him fight, I have seen his powers and this damage looked.. different. I knew that it wasn't him.

When I looked more at Orange, I could see cuts on his shirt but he wasn't injured anywhere near those cuts. Just like the last time. Nobody noticed that, because nobody even thought about Orange having powers, but everything was just implying that it was true. Orange has powers. And we just didn't know. Did he always have them? If so, why didn't he tell us? Aren't we his best friends? He can trust us. So why hide something like this.

That guy told us his name. The Chosen One. That is interesting name.. like Orange's. The Chosen One, The Second Coming.. for some reason, it feels like they have something in common. Their names seems similar to me. Is there some connection between those two? I noticed that they talked in private before we interrupted them, but I don't think I'll get any information about that conversation.

Orange has been still acting weird. He doesn't seem that happy anymore, now he just always zones out, he doesn't talk that much and he's spending more time alone in his room. We don't know what's going on. Green also noticed that and he's been asking him what's wrong. Orange always replies that he's just really tired.

I also tried to ask him about what happened in that rocket company when he was left with The Chosen One in that room, but he told me that he was hit in the head and then he passed out, so he doesn't remember anything. I know he's lying. I'll be watching him from now on, I need to know what's really going on.

Green's POV
"My name is The Chosen One." I noticed the sudden change in Orange when he said those words. He looked confused and worried but most importantly, he completely zoned out after those words.

That Chosen idiot apologized to us, he said that he was being chased and couldn't think straight at that moment, so the first thing that came to his mind was just to get help from us because he was passing by. But that just sounds so weird. He didn't want OUR help, he came just for Orange. He also seemed pretty crazy at that moment, he was shooting fire and laser on our computer, forcing Orange to.. do the same thing? Was he drunk or something?

Orange still seemed disconnected from the real world so I tried waking him up by placing my hand on his shoulder. He reacted to that and I just know there is something going on with him. I have known him for a while now so I recognize when he's struggling with something. And I also know that he is stubborn enough to not tell us anything. But I'll figure this out.

Yellow then got us some help from Alan again, because we needed a way to get back to our computer. Three days have passed and Orange has been acting differently.. obviously. I know that he knows that I can sense when something is wrong so I tried not to be so obvious about that. I just asked him if he's ok a few times because like.. even a blind person would see that. But as I expected, he didn't say anything. Or like, he always replied with some bullshit like, just being tired. He's not very original.

But it's not only Orange who has been acting weird. Yellow is also pretty obvious that he's thinking about something. And he's also keeping an eye on Orange. It's true that he also wasn't very talkative about what happened when he got imprisoned. He just told us that the grey guy was trying to get some information about "that cursor" from him.

Which also got me thinking.. if he wanted Alan, why was he after that Chosen guy? Does that mean that he's connected to Alan? I mean, it was him who came to Alan's computer and saved us from that virus spider thingy. And what's his deal with Orange. What does he know. I need to get answers and I'll probably start with Yellow.

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