Allan said, “The most important thing is to learn what powers you have. Then we have to run a few quick personality tests. Then we’ll know what to call you.”
“Powers?” I asked.
“Remember, if you can, and it is OK if you cannot,” said Victoria, “that alter-egos have powers. We all have different powers. We need to find out what yours are.”
“Oh, right, right,” I said. “I do remember that now. How do we find out?”
“Follow me, please,” said Allan. He walked toward one of them computer-looking things. I got up and followed him. Victoria and Julie came with us, but Bradley stayed at the table. Fine with me, I thought. He was a wanker anyway.
We got to the computer thing. Allan pulled some weird looking stuff out of the top of it. “I have to hook you up to the computer,” he said. “Don’t worry, this won’t hurt.” He put some kind of helmet thing on me head. It had wires coming out of it that connected it to the computer. Then he wrapped other things with wires on them around both me arms and both me legs. Then he wrapped another one ‘round me tummy. “Try to stand as still as you can,” he said.
“Are you sure you don’t need to connect me somewheres else?” I asked. “I think there’s still a few bits of me uncovered.” I saw Allan blush, so I knew he got me joke. I didn’t bother to see how the two women reacted.
I stood still for a minute and didn’t feel a thing. Then Allan started to take the things off of me. “All done,” he said. “Now we wait for the results.” We stood around for another minute until some paper started coming out of the computer. Allan collected it and read it over pretty hard. “Victoria, Julie, come look at this,” he said.
“Oy, why not me?” I asked.
“In a moment,” he said. He didn’t even look at me. I wanted to throw a fit, but he’d been so nice to me so I didn’t. But I was still ticked off.
“Oh, wow,” said Julie when she looked at the paper in Allan’s hands.
Victoria looked stunned and said, “Um…well…that should be interesting to see.”
“Indeed,” said Allan. “Well, no time like the present to test.” He turned his back to me and put down the papers. I think he picked up something else, but I couldn’t see what. He turned his head, but not his body and said, “Try not to get too scared.”
With that he turned around with a gun in his hand. Before I had time to react, he fired the gun at me until it went empty. I was too scared to move. The only thing I did was try to put up me hands and close me eyes. It’s a good thing I hadn’t had anything to drink lately, otherwise I might have wet meself.
When I heard the gun click I realized that I didn’t feel anything. I opened me eyes and saw Allan grinning like an idiot. I glanced to the ground and over me titties I saw a bunch of bullets at me feet. They looked like someone had smashed them up. “What the ‘ell just happened?” I demanded.
“The printout told us, and our test just proved to us, that you are bulletproof,” said Victoria. “If someone tries to shoot you, the bullets will just bounce off you.”
“Well, bless me,” I said. “You scared the ‘ell out of me, you know!” I yelled at Allan.
“I know, and I’m sorry,” he said. “That was the easiest way to test it.”
I kicked one of the bullets away from me. “Blimey,” I said. “What about knives or something else?”
“Bulletproof,” Allan said. “Just bulletproof. Let’s do the next test.”