STEPH

[Okay! So it's my turn to tell you guys our story.]

When I woke up after a few minutes, I was still seated in one of the chairs and Helen was still unconscious.

"How are you feeling, Ms. Stevens?" I heard Helen's voice ask me. When I turned to see where the voice came from, I was dumbstruck. Because, there were two more Helens (note the plural, guys!) by the window with their hands folded across their chests.

"Am I dreaming?" I asked them.

One of the Helens told me that I was truly and wide awake.

"What IS happening here?" I asked, looking from one Helen to the other to the sleeping Helen and back to the first Helen.

"About that, you will understand in a few seconds. And only if you close your eyes." The other Helen told me winking at the other Helen.

"Don't kill me! I need to live!" I muttered. That statement earned a laugh from each of them.

"Hurry up and close your eyes before Helen wakes up." One of them whispered. I closed my eyes shut and felt two hands on my head. Next thing I heard was Helen screaming.

"What's happening here? Who's the real Steph?" she asked.

When I opened my eyes I saw a wide eyed Helen and two Stephs, grinning evilly. "I am the real Steph!" I said raising both my hands and shook them wildly in front of Helena.

"No! She's lying! I'm the real Steph." One of the other Stephs told.

"No!! Don't believe them. I am the real Steph!" the other Steph remarked.

"Am I still in my Disneyworld?" Helen asked us.

Then the most amazing thing in my life took place right in front of my eyes. Both the other Stephs changed. Literally and physically. One Steph was Lisa and the other was James. Wait! When did James start playing games?

James started explaining, "That's Lisa's power from now on. Shape Shifter. She has the ability to change into anyone if she has any of their physical parts like hair, nail, etc., which'd be easy if the person is at her custody; or," he said, emphasizing on the word 'or', "she has to have a memory of them. A strong one. That helps most of the time."

"Wow!" I said the same time Helen told, "That's cool!"

"What's my super–duper–power?" I asked James.

"You are the Teleporter!" he told me

"You mean, I can teleport? Like, I can go from one place to another? I don't need passports or visa to travel all over the world? I can teleport?" I asked, not trusting my own words.

James just nodded smiling and beckoned me over to him, and I went. "You have to picture the place you wanna go and then try to reach into the space in front of it, enlarge the space with your mind, put all your energy into the hole and just jump. You'll feel a tug from within you. And you are BAM! At that place. Like this." He stated. In a blink of an eye he vanished from the spot he was standing and emerged from thin air besides Helen. And I grinned seeing her jump a few millimetres from the floor.

"You try it once." Our mentor told looking at me.

"No! I won't! What if my body gets split into two?" I crossed my arms.

"It would be lovely!" Helen giggled.

"That won't happen! It's so simple! The hole will pull your whole body inside once it feels your energy. Just try it." He encouraged.

Hesitantly, I pictured the place in front of Lisa, imagined me opening a space infront of her, breathed my energy out, and jumped. I heard a soft whoosh around me and felt a tug from inside me.

"Oh my gosh!" Lisa squealed. 

I did it and certainly scared Lisa. I succeeded teleporting the first time. I jumped with joy, chanting, "I can teleport! I can teleport! I can teleport!" I saw my best friends and James smiling wide.

"Now, Ms. Walters! You can become invisible!" he whispered the last word and he disappeared. 

The chair Helen was seated started moving forward and she screamed, "What's happening to this chair? It's alive!"

James chuckled but he was nowhere to be seen. "Nothing! It's me. I am pushing your chair, Hely!" saying so he came into view. Meaning: he became visible. "That's becoming invisible!" he stated, with a satisfied grin on his face.

"Okay then. Let me try." Helen said standing up. She narrowed her eyes, clenched her fists and we could see that she was trying very hard. "I can't do it!" she said finally, giving up her efforts.

"Try again, babe!" I told her while Lisa said, "You can do it, Helena!"

James tied his hands in his chest and told Helen, "Just picture yourself turning into air. You'll feel light headed and weightless. Just... just picture yourself becoming invisible. Fading away. It's not that hard."

"Oh-kay!" she whispered. A few seconds, a few grunts, huffs, and puffs, she started fading. And became invisible. 

"Can you guys see me?" We heard her asking us and we replied, "NO!!" in unison.

"So, James? How do I become visible again?" she asked from the same spot, with nervousness and a slight fear in her voice.

"Um... I guess you have to imagine or picture or think or whatever, that you are visibly visible. Or reappearing or coming into view! It's all about picturing. And, you'll become un-invisible... or is that a proper word?"

Lisa and I ignored him. We looked nervously at the place where Helen was supposed to become visible. And she..

I let out a scream. Because Helena, that idiot, was standing in front of ME, with her hair all over her face, exactly like a ghost. Won't anyone get scared? I almost peed my pants. I smacked her head. 

Both Lisa and James laughed at me while Helen just flipped back her hair and grinned at me. That foolish idiot! I was so going to kill her for that.

"Okay, Power Girls! Then go home and practice. I'll call you through the White Call when I get a mission for you." He said shooing us off.

Helen told him, "Thanks, James." 

And I said, "Have a nice day, Sweet Mr. Taiburt!" 

Lisa waved "Take care, Commando! We'll be waiting for your Call."

We muttered our goodbyes and left for our homes. We spent most of the days practicing Shape Shifting, Teleporting and to be Invisible.

Then, the day came for us to assemble at my place for his White Call and that's when he disappeared with our mission without a clue as to where he had gone.

"So then, shall we talk about our mission at hand?" I asked my friends chewing a baked cashew. "About finding James and taking our mission into action, whatever it is?"