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Lily-Anne was sure to be dead, even though her body disappeared she is still dead. One of Mia's minions must have taken it. I left as soon as we'd sent 2 newbies on a mission. I went to Miami to find Damian to see if there was any word on John's where-abouts yet, i did see him breifly but i lost interest as soon as i saw the hottest guy on the planet!
After a brief make-out session i returned to my affairs as a hunter for answers. ok that isn't me at all but i like the sound of it! i was following a drug dealer who could stop time, i realised that i could get the same results by superspeed and summoning but i still liked the power none the less. I had him at the beach and was about to "kill and take" while i was invisible when Damian walks up to him, i realised then that Damian could use that power for taking out John (something he is steadfast on doing). I left him to it, i killed a butcher who had metal mimicry, not for the power. i just found him annoying. it was then that a mysterious man teleported me to a warehouse in New Orleans, well i think it was a warehouse. it was in bad shape, like it would fall down any minute. he identified himself as the power taking guy!!!!! His real name (or rather her real name) was Linda Tavara.
"Hey Cleo" she walked up to me and changed out of her illusion. i cant see past illusions because i think it bends light or something.
"Hi" i could see that she and i were related, not just the names but our faces look similar, and our power!
"i'm your grandmother" She said, i thought as much but she was so... young!!!
"i used age reversal on myself so i would live longer" as if she read my thoughts, it then dawned on me that she was probably in her 60's so if she had been as young as me when she manifested her powers then she would have had about 40 years worth of power stealing, which could mean hundreds of powers! it was interesting that i suddenly felt the urge to kill her and take all her powers. i restrained because she was family.
"i know what you're thinking. Cleo you can go through that list of powers that i have but you'll never take them from me"
"why are there so many people like us?" i blurted out, i had been dying to know why there were so many like us.
"The core power we both have is hereditary, almost all of the family has it"
"except Mia" i said, there was another question that i was dying to ask her, but i was waiting until the write moment.
"yes well that is my fault. i wanted to make our family the most powerful, i had a friend who had early signs of empathic mimicry, i took it from her. killing her in the process. (i hadn't learnt to use it like you have.) i tested it on Mia, she was only 1 year younger than you, though she seems 2 years younger, she isn't as tall as you" she was trying to get off the subject, i steered her back to what was going on.
"Get on with it" I had summoned a chair and other things such as a table, TV and another chair for Linda. (dont ask me about the TV, i just figured that if the story were to get boring...)
"Well while your mother and father were out i was watching you and your sister. While you sat there playing with a few super hero toys i was with Mia, i had been practising on people with powers. i could safely remove powers without killing the person" she paused and took a deep breath, her face showed worry. she was worried as to what i'd think, i didn't need telepathy to know that. "I took her power, it hadn't manifested yet but it was still there and it was the same as yours. i transfered EM over to her, i had the most powerful Tavara right there. You ran in and began tell me that your mum and dad were home. i left and i thought that Howard and Jane would never know"
"But?" i was interested in the story now, i wondered about how all this had something to do with me.
"The next day your father came into my house and accused me of medalling with Mia's powers. he had apparently gained a statistics power that he used on Mia, showing that she had EM. i stole it from him and i teleported away"
"And then?" i asked with interest.
"Then i kept a close watch, he was favouring you over Mia, he couldn't figure out how to remove a power with killing someone, so he just let her be. But Mia started to show her powers, she had burnt Jane's hand. Jane wanted to know why her daughter had powers, Howard had told her that they were not hereditary. Jane packed up and left. Howard had alot of powers too, he took you to a family and gave you fake memories and the family (the Trellis') fake memories of you, he gave everyone in town fake memories, he gave you a whole new life"
"but why? wouldn't it make more sense for him to give up Mia?"
"i think he saw it the way i saw it, that Mia could be powerful. He did make her use aura absorption in front of him, but her empathy made each one of her powers natural, not aquirred." She paused and started to think, she was blocking her thoughts so i couldn't read them. then she continued: "i had been watching you carefully, when i went into that store i was carrying out a plan"
"a plan?"
"yes, a plan. to give you more powers and for Howard's powers to be vulnerable. because when you transfer powers it makes your other powers so vulnerable that you dont even feel it when they're being taken. i stole a few and begun to set in motion my plans for bringing Sage, Omni, Shifter, Chan and soon you. together. To make Techpower Co."
"But they wanted to tell everyone about us!"
"Not when i was done with them, i put a thought into their heads to make them want to make a company like the one you have now"
"So this was all you!!!!!!!" i was surprised that she could be so damn calculating to do this, i was angry that she orchestrated most of my life, and yet happy that she had. While all this was running through my mind, she smiled, she was probably reading my mind.

I went back to HQ with Linda, i felt like a sheep compared to her tanned skin, but it didn't matter. She left when we got to the door, i thanked her then i remembered the burning question i wanted to ask her:
"Is Lily-Anne related to me?"
"She was Mia's follower, Mia had reality warping, Lily-Anne was probably not related to you" and with that she teleported away.
i walked in, i suddenly thought of all the things she had told me. i wondered if i would've been like Mia and Howard if things were different, i suddenly felt sad that i hadn't grown up with my family, i knew that my mother was still out there, but she seemed very scared of people like me, so i decided that finding her would be put on hold. I walked through the narrow hallway, suddenly sad, i was greeted by the newbies Geoff and Jay. I kept walking after saying 'hello' to them. I had alot to think about.