Believe it or not, it wasn't right off that we found out how it was done, how the people of this city (and possible the world) had been turned to hate me like there was no tomorrow. Nope, after I showed Alexis the full house, including the hidden sub-levels that I had built right under the house, I actually started concentrating on finding the one person that I knew back in school hadn't been turned against me. However the only problem was finding this person and actually meeting up with her, considering that tensions were starting to go back up with me walking around now that I was back, I even had a few people do a double take on even seeing me back in the first place.
It was about two months after I had gotten back, and had created a double identity for myself without meaning to, namely with the Ninja suit that I constantly wore on my wrist in standby mode. No one realized that Ninja and I were one in the same; personally at that point I really didn't mind considering that they praised and loved Ninja, while they hated me personally. It was after all that that I had at long last discovered the one person that hadn't succumbed to whatever was changing the people back to the way that they were. I had sent her a message and we had agreed to meet back up our old high school right at the football field where it was right out in plain view of everyone and everything.
Arriving, I noticed that the gate was locked as per normal on a weekend, however for someone like me, which was no problem at all. I leaped over the fence and landed like I did it every day, which in truth I actually did with the training room that I had built under the house. Walking over to the stands, I noticed about half way up the bleachers towards the center which was the best picked out spot if you wanted to be noticed by all and wanted to make sure that everyone could come to you fast, but the person you wanted hurt couldn't get away that fast.
Walking up the bleachers, I went over and sat down next to her. "Well you certainly picked the right spot to make sure that nothing happened to you, that's for sure." I stated as I sat down near her but never looked at her. I was wearing a pair of Oakley shades like the ones worn in a certain mutant movie, however these ones not only didn't come from this world, they had a H.U.D. on them that let me know what was fully around me, and they were tied into the suit even though the suit was in standby mode at the current time.
Amy looked at me and smiled. "You disappeared for six years, and then right out of the blue two things happen, a house appears out of nowhere that not only can no one even get past the front gate without ending up about thirty miles away. So what happened to you, I mean it was like overnight this entire world hated you went away like it had never been there in the first place. I still have the news footage of you dressed in that God awful suit just disappearing in a blast of blue light." She told me.
I looked at her then and smiled. "Believe me Amy, it's going to be better if I showed you than it will be to tell you, however that would mean you helping me find out why everyone hated me back then and is now starting to hate me yet again." I told her.
Amy looked around; I couldn't see what her eyes were thinking since she wore shades over them, however not like mine that was for sure. She looked back at me then stood up. "Well if I'm going to find out, we're not going to be able to do anything here are we. I take it that I'll be allowed up to your home and not sent away?" She asked
I smiled at that. "Yeah Alexis has you set up on a temp for now. So yeah don't worry you won't be teleported away once you cross the gateway threshold." I told her.
She smiled. "That's good to know, so let's get going here."
About an hour later we were walking through the door to the house, we had walked the entire way back since I hadn't been able to retrieve A.M.Y. from the second world where I got all of my tech. However for me it was better since I liked just watching her and ducking my face away at the last second so that she would only think that something might be up. Stepping through the front door, she didn't look impressed at all. "So this is the big surprised?" She asked.
Walking in and past her, I walked over to a spot near the back of the living room right by wear the shaded sliding glass windows (designed to withstand literally anything that might get tossed at them). "No the big surprise is actually below us." I told her, and mind you that once you see this, your world will be changed forever." I explained to her.
She came over to me and stood by me, and that's when I pointed to a certain spot on the floor. "Stand there, and when you arrive please step off fast before it comes back for me." I told her.
She stood right on the spot that I had pointed to, and the next thing she had on her face was a look of surprised when the floor started going down on her. Once she was below the floor, the opening irised closed so I couldn't remind her to get off the lift. However a minute later the floor irised back open with the floor becoming level once again. So I stepped on and descended to the lower levels that no one outside could see at all, once I had arrived I saw that Amy had stepped off the lift but hadn't moved any further. "Ah I know that this is all very shocking to take in, but any chance that you could move further so that I can get off." I asked.
That startled her and she moved out of the way for me to get off but continued to look around the place. "How is this possible? None of this should be here at all."
I went over to a nearby table that was covered in everything a tech geek on this world would love and stood in front of it as she continued to look around. "Everything that you see here I brought here from another dimensional world, one that was actually the first one that I traveled to upon leaving this world. Believe me once I left here I never actually expected to arrive in the middle of a fire fight at all, but I did, hell the first thing I saw upon arriving in that other world was a missile heading right for me. However it was all determined on one person that had started the entire thing off and it was I who ended the fighting in that world. From there I traveled to other worlds to see what they all had and what he differences were from this one, along the way I made friends and ended conflicts that had taken place on those world, and on one of them I even spent over two thousand years and learned the martial arts so well that I can defeat anyone on this world hands down, even Alexis up top." I told her. "Even you Amy, yeah I know all about your martial arts training, but you still have a lot to learn and believe me it's going to be a long while before you ever get to the level that I happen to be at all. However if you agree to stay here with us, not only can you take the same training, but at the same time you can go to worlds that you never would've thought possible in the least." I finished as I thumbed the trigger out on the wrist device.
Amy took notice of what I had just done. "Wait what are you going to do?" She asked.
I was rather surprised that she had noticed in the first place since at every conflict since I came back, no one had noticed at all. "This is just the trigger for something that I designed before I left this world and modified to the point that I'm almost a God in what I'm about to show you." I told her as I hit the trigger in my right palm with my middle and ring fingers. To the untrained eye, it would seem like the suit instantly appears on me, but that's not true at all, from standby mode on my wrist looking like a wrist watch, the suit unfolds from there at breath taking speeds to cover me in just about a heartbeat. I stood before Amy in the armor that looked just it had when I first left six years ago, and I could see the look on her face was completely stunned.
Amy walked over to me and put her hand on the chest piece of the suit. "I never thought that I would ever see this up close and personal, I mean I still wondered how you did it." She stated.
I smiled under the helmet mask. "Great, at least you like it, A.M.Y. thought it was a bit gaudy and a bit out there." I told her.
The name jerked her head up. "Wait a minute, who's Amy?" She asked.
I smiled. "That the name of the car that I gave life to, and I actually created her to have your voice, but the name is an acronym, Automatic Manual Yearly or A.M.Y. for short. So believe me Amy Hughes, she wasn't originally designed to be you, but when I went for the voice she has, yours was the first that came to mind, and I recreated her voice as best I could and it actually worked out. She helped me out when I was stuck at certain points and was a constant companion that I needed here before I left. I just hated having to leave her, that was the one thing that I didn't like, but I knew that I had to find my own way in the other worlds, at least before she joined me. Though how she started crossing worlds I've never been able to figure out and I checked her from top to bottom, and nothing." I explained to Amy as I walked a little away.
I kept thinking about everything that I had been through after A.M.Y. had rejoined up with me, but I knew that if I was going to continue on this world, I was going to need her help as well. I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned around. I dropped the helmet mask by having it fold up into the collar of the suit and looked at her with my own eyes. "So what do you think?" I asked her.
Amy looked at me and smiled. "For one, I'm married, and for two, sure I'm in, I'll join you and the young lady above." She said. "And to let you know, I want one of those suits too, since I noticed that Alexis up above has one as well."
I smiled. "Great, and to let you know I looked everything up on you in this world, and you were married but got a divorce which means that you will be known as Amy Hughes here, at least till you get your maiden name back. As far as it goes when it comes to the suit, I think that we can work something out, but you're going to need another name when you're wearing the suit, after all the H.U.D. is going to be covering your face which means that people won't know that it's you at all." I told her.
Amy walked over to the table and started poking around but not really touching anything. "Well considering that I'm being reborn here and helping you and many others out, I think I have the perfect name for myself, and it can help you in the design as well. Call me Phoenix" She said as she turned to look at me and had the same fire in her eyes that sounded like it came with the name as well. A Phoenix had just been reborn from her own ashes.
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