"Where am I?" I ask whilst my eyes start to open.

I am in what looks like an office, I can smell books. I look around, it is so dark that I can barely see the walls of this place. A light bulb manages to light up the middle of the room.

I can hear the sounds of keyboard keys being pressed. Someone is working on a computer here.

"He is waking up," a voice says somewhere in the room, I cannot see where this voice came from. Somewhere in the shadows of this room.

"You're in one of the Controller's facilities," another voice says "don't worry, you're safe," he continues.

I cannot feel any restraints on me, I am just laying on a table in the middle of the room. This reminds me of the day I woke up on a table like this, it was when I was kidnapped by the Controller.

This isn't any different from that day, except that right now I'm not restrained. I do however feel weak and my body feels a little a different.

I know I should be back to full strength, I grab my chest and I can feel that all my wounds have been healed, but why is it that I am still so weak.

"What did you do to me?"

"I took some of your blood with your nanobots to run some tests on why they work so well with you, but have failed with everybody else. I hope you don't mind," he says whilst looking straight into his computer, not making any eye contact.

"Sure now you think of asking before you mess around with my body."

"I apologize, but these aren't my orders," the man says whilst he looks at me and looks back down.

"Whose orders are those."

"The Controller's orders," the gasman says whilst moving into the light from the shadows.

I get up on my feet from the table, slowly pushing myself up. My energy feels like it was sucked out of me, "You've answered why I feel strange, now tell me why I'm so weak."

"The controller advised that I drain the energy out of your nanobots in case you wake up."

"Sure he did," I say whilst walking towards the gasman, "where is the Controller anyway, I'd like to meet him. What did you do to Tigris?"

"Tigris is still fast asleep, you woke up very early. I'm guessing you heal a lot faster than the most of us."

"Yeah, what's it to you?" I ask whilst balancing on a nearby table.

"Just asking. If you want to meet the Controller, you're going to have to wear this," the gasman says whilst pulling out one of the collars the men used on the Controller's men.

"Why, is he afraid of his own creation?" I say with a smirk on my face. I walk over to the man on the computer, I follow the wiring to a socket on the wall.

Hoping that they don't know that I can absorb energy, I bend down to touch it. The two men just look at me with a blank look, probably wondering what I am about to do.

I touch the socket and start absorbing the energy, the lights flicker on and off, and they both look at each other when this happens. Finally the lights all turn off and the computer turns off as well.

Having drained all the energy and making the room dark. I create a ball of energy that lights up the room, "Now, what if I refuse to wear the collar?"

Shocked at the burst of energy I have, the two men both stop to look at each other and look back at me. "Uhm, uhm," the man sitting on the table struggles to speak.

"Why, is the Controller a coward like nerdy over here," I say whilst levitating the energy ball closer to the men on the computer.

The gasman pauses for another long while, then starts moving again. "The controller says, if you refuse to cooperate, we are going to have to use force."

I turn invisible then turn visible again, "Just like that, I can teleport out of here."

"Then what's keeping you here? You want answers, answers that the Controller has. You continue to resist, yet if we wanted to take you in, we would've done so during your slumber. We mean you no harm, now put this on and we will take you to meet the Controller," the gasman says whilst extending the hand with the collar.

I levitate the collar to myself and hold it, "Now how do you put this on?"

The gasman walks over to me and takes the collar out of my hands, he then puts the collar around my neck. The ball of energy that we were using as light turns off. "Good, it's safe to come," the man says.

"Now what?" I ask impatiently whilst tapping my foot on the ground.

"Now we wait," the gasman says.

"So the Controller isn't even in the building, this guy really is a coward," I say whilst rolling my eyes.

"I'll go lift the power switch," the gasman says.

"No, I'll do it, and you can stay here with him," the nerdy looking man says.

"He is afraid of being left alone with you, he knows the power you possess." The gasman says whilst taking out a cigar. He takes out a lighter and lights his cigar. He puffs out the smoke and hands the cigarette over to me, "Want some?"

I shake my head and move away from the man, "I don't smoke," I say.

"Your loss, sometimes I forget you're just a kid," the man says and the lights go back on.

I start hearing helicopter sounds from a distance, I'm sure that this is the controller, or atleast I want it to be him. The helicopter sounds don't pass our building but instead stop right on top of us. The helicopter then lands on the building top and I am both excited and scared to meet this guy.

"What are we waiting for? Let us go up there."

They lead me out to meet the so called Controller and when he reaches the top, we are on one of the tallest buildings I have ever seen.

I have a clear view of all the other buildings from here. This is one part of Mac I have never seen before, if this is even Mac, I am not quite sure.

"Are we still in Mac?"

"No," the gasman says.

"Where are we then?"

"That's not important right now," he says whilst walking closer to the helicopter that landed on the building top. The man soon after comes to a hault and then nods. The helicopter door opens, and a boy at about my age comes out of the car.

The face of the boy is not clear from here but how can the Controller be a mere boy. The controller was one of the government's scientist, no boy my age is supposed to have a job. This doesn't make any sense.

I get a glimpse of the boy as he walks closer to me and it is non other than my best friend Josh Brown. I burst with excitement but as he walks closer I notice the frown on Josh's face.

I stop in my tracks and look at the gasman, "Didn't you say Josh was taken by that organization?"

"Yes he was, that is not your friend, it's the Controller."

"W-what? H-how?" I struggle to come up with the right words, so many questions fill my head right now.

"The Controller is a shape-shifter, that's his ability."

The Controller then lifts up his hand and the helicopter's door close. "Isn't that Josh's ability?" I ask, shocked at the telekinetic powers the Controller just used.

"If he shape-shifts into you, he can use all the abilities he has seen you use. Like your nanobots, they are like a sponge, they learn, they mimic, they do."

"Are you trying to say I can mimick any ability I've seen being used."

"Yes with a lot of time and dedication, that's why you're so special. You are truly one of a kind."

The controller now reaches the two of us, interrupting our little conversation as I finally get the gasman to speak.

"Why would you choose Joshua, of all the people you could've turned into, why him?" I ask whilst looking deep into the Controller's eyes, all I can see however, is Josh's innocence and his glow.

A friendly face I haven't seen in quite a while. It feels like just yesterday, when Josh was dragging me up his stairs to play videogames. The excitement he had, how happy playing videogames actually made him. It was all so perfect, but then the Controller came along. Changing our lives forever, it can never be the same after what happened to us, never.

"Well that's because I'm here to meet you, you in particular, you look like you miss your dear friend."

"Well please change back to normal, or another form, I don't care. Just don't be Josh!" I shout.

"I apologize, it must hurt knowing that you're the reason he was kidnapped. You're the reason his family hasn't seen their son in 2 months, it's all because of you. That must truly hurt." He says whist giving out a menacing laugh.

"It's not my fault, I never wanted this, I didn't ask for this to happen to me, but it did. I'm still trying to handle everything that's happened ever since then." I say, whilst I remember the day I got a man a killed.

In fact, this is all your fault. I grab the controller by the collar. I feel a hand on my shoulder, the Controller then lifts his hands up and the gasman lets go of me.

It's all his fault, I am here now because of him. I am in this situation because of him, my friend is in danger because of him. Now I stand here with him, as if we're some sort of friends.

I quickly shake it off and focus on the Controller who has now changed his form again. This time however he has chosen to shift into me, he smiles whilst looking at me and says, "How about we finish this inside?"

"I nod," the collar on my neck keeps blinking, the Controller keeps a watchful eye on it. I can feel my nanobots happily course through my veins. As I walk with him, I can feel them rejoice, still filled with energy that I had absorbed.

A knowing look fills his faces, I look at him straight in the eye and smile. He just looks at me with a quizzical look as we enter.