Power Core Series 3: Open

Following a rather strangely received tip that there was Vinto activity in Torbay, Tom, Emma and Naomi ventured to the nearby town and arrived at the location quickly. The problem was that they could not find anyone at said location.

The old abandoned warehouse was startling empty, no old rotting boxes; no colourful graffiti of different talents; no homeless people or shady deals occurring; and most troubling of all: No Vinto activity.

            “What now?” Emma asked in a whisper while her father moved towards the right-hand side of the building.

            “We see what the Vintos were doing here,” Tom announced.

            “What? They aren’t here,” Emma noted, confused as to why they were looking into something that wasn’t there.

            “Perception,” Tom pointed to his eyes. “This place is too clean and too empty. They were defiantly here. And they defiantly wanted to hide that.”

Emma and Naomi watched Tom for a further five minutes as he moved around the walls, listening and feeling, before moving onto each of the pillars.

            “We should just go home,” Emma groaned of boredom. “There isn’t anything here.”

            “Found it,” Tom smiled as he pushed an invisible lever upwards which caused the entire warehouse to suddenly become swamped with blinding white light as the Vintos’ redecorating became clearly apparent. “‘There’s nothing here’?” Tom laughed.

            “Show off,” Emma snarled while Naomi tried to stop herself from laughing.

            “What is this place?” she asked in an attempt to move on from the previous topic.

            “This place is a l –” Tom started before he and Emma screamed out in pain as humongous headaches suddenly struck them both.

Aware of what to do, Naomi simply put up a barrier of air between the rest of the world and her family before calling Jack. “Jack, I don’t know what is going on, but you need to get here right now,” she barked into the phone before Jack could even say hello.

            “Okay,” Jack whimpered before hanging up the phone while Tom and Emma collapsed to their knees.

            “What? What do I need to do?” she cried as the two continued to wince in pain.

            “Ta…take of the roof,” Tom told her. “I need to see it.”

            “What?” Naomi asked, but complied with the request despite her confusion, forcing a powerful gust of wind upwards into the roof taking clean off and into the river. “What is that?”

Above the warehouse was a giant red glowing orb that appeared to resonate. All of a sudden a bolt of lightning burst out of the orb and struck the ground in front of Naomi. As her vision readjusted, she saw the outline of what appeared to be an elephant, only bigger and a lot furrier.

            “Rupture  in time,” Tom groaned from besides her as he and Emma fired a small red laser at the beast causing it to slowly begin fading away. “That is what the Vintos were doing here, and that is why they are no longer here. They were experimenting with time, and they did something dreadfully wrong.”

            “What can we do to stop it?” Naomi asked.

            “Jack and that are going to need to hold off the Vintos who are going to come to investigate the disappearance of their science team as well as hold off anything that the orb releases. Get Jack to make a line and then you handle the inside,” Tom ordered. “Emma and I will try and close it. But it could take time.”

            “Hurry,” Naomi nodded before running out of the warehouse.