A New Heroine (Part 1)
by BLZBub
by BLZBub
Lora had been living in the orphanage for as long as she could remember. She had been left there when she was a baby, though she couldn’t think of why. She was a nice girl and she didn’t look ugly. Maybe it was because she wasn’t noticeable. While she thought she was pretty, for some reason, people had a tendency to completely overlook her. People tend to not notice she was in the room. She had been bumped into countless times and the apologies always said that they didn’t see her there.
Maybe Lora had the power of invisibility. It just might be that her parents had taken her out and her invisibility caused them to lose her and someone stumbled across her and brought her to the orphanage. That would explain how she kept getting overlooked by potential parents as well as everyone else. But no matter how she tried, Lora couldn’t make herself invisible to herself. She didn’t try because she wanted to use the power to do whatever she wanted, she wanted to see if she could use it at all and somehow make it work so people can see her better.
Then
there came the day that a pair of really odd-looking men appeared. The
pair of them were so featureless, more like a pair of living mannequins
wearing grey suits than actual people. They didn’t even have any visible
hair, not even eyebrows and they were surely bald underneath their grey
bowler hats. Despite their unusually bland appearance, their voices had
an odd musical undertone, as if they were humming and talking at the
same time.
The
oddest part about these men is the way people agreed with whatever they
said before they even finished their sentences. In face, those same
people finished their sentences for them and didn’t seem aware of it at
all. In no time at all, those men had convinced the people who ran the
orphanage that they had just adopted Lora. Lora was a little creeped out
by these men, but she was partially relieved that someone was taking
notice of her. They seemed to be the only ones who noticed her as they
headed for the front door and everyone else gave them a look of vague
wonder as if they never had saw them before, but their attention drifted
away quickly. Lora hope that these men would pay more attention to her
than anyone else ever did.
Lora wasn’t sure if the men made her fall asleep,
her memories were erased, or if they just teleported, but she could not
remember the trip at all. The next thing she knew, she was somehow in a
forest and yet also in a room. A telepathic message told her that she
was in a room with holographic projectors that simulated a forest to
make her feel more at ease.
Lora
was surprised by the message, but soon calmed down as more information
was sent to her. She was currently on a starship and men who had adopted
her were aliens from a distant planet in a far away solar system. To be
specific, they were from the northern hemisphere/continent which was
referred to as Aige Prio as opposed to the southern hemisphere/continent
which was Aige Regi and their solar system, which included other
planets, was formed around the star Theta Faunus.
Their
species, which inhabited the other planets in their system, had visited
Earth two generations ago. Their mission was to gradually advance their
society by expanding the genetic capacity of their species. They did so
by abducting countless individuals and altering their DNA imperceptibly
by Earthen standards so that eventually, children would be born with
new abilities.
The
Aige Prio division affected their subjects so that the grandchildren
would gain powers once they had been collected and progressed into
adults. (As opposed to the Aige Regi division in which the subject’s
children would show signs of powers in adulthood and would be regressed
back into children to fully unlock them.) The aliens had been keeping
tabs on all their subject and usually they were able to introduce
themselves to the families and explain their mission and the changes
that are to come.
However,
Lora’s powers made things go awry for her. All the enhanced subjects
would acquire the powers of flight and super strength, some more
strongly than others, a few cases in which they only had one of those
and were exceptionally skilled at it. They also usually develop other
powers that vary differently. Lora’s extra powers were perception
manipulation. She couldn’t become truly invisible, but she could make
others perceive that she is no there. This aspect of her power
manifested unusually early which was the cause of her accidental
abandonment.
But
now the aliens have located her and are ready to start unlocking her
powers. The one perceivable downside was that Lora would have to give up
her childhood, but since there wasn’t much of a childhood and Lora was
eager to be able to make herself noticeable, she didn’t hesitate to say
yes.
A reflective surface appeared in front of Lora,
showing a girl who was midway through her teen years. She wasn’t fully
developed yet, but she definitely showed signs of being sexy in the near
future. She covered her breasts with some embarrassment before a
telepathic message informed her that human sexuality is completely
unimportant from their alien perspective. The message also told her that
she had been progressed only halfway through to her prime because there
are social interactions that Lora will have to learn personally and
couldn’t be directly beamed into her mind. Lora was a bit unnerved by
the prospect, but she was curious about how teens lived their lives.
Thanks to the
aliens’ influence and Lora’s growing adeptness with her powers, it was
easy to place her in a high school without anyone noticing any
difference. Lora was going to spend some time learning about social
structure and what to expect in normal human society. The aliens could
teach her all about the math, science, even Earth history and
literature, but they could not simulate human interactions flawlessly.
That was Lora’s primary goal with being at this stage.
Seems like this could end up a great new series!
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