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Did you ever feel different? Did you feel hated or rejected by the rest of the world because of it? Say it had nothing to do with the kind of person you have become. What if it was because of something about you? Something that you did not choose to be. What if you do not want to change your unique abilities, even though they may help you stop an evil alien force from destroying humanity? Oops, sorry if I scared you. I tend to space out and introduce suspense too soon. I forgot to introduce myself… My name is Madelyn North, but everyone I know calls me Maddie. I was born in Seattle, Washington, the worst place for a teenage girl to fit in when she is different from everyone else. Everyone in my old school believed in stereotypes
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The Ominous: Some play it safe, heroes don't The terminal
I ’m not sure why I remembered the image of the star now, but the pin the man wore looked almost identical to the one I saw when I probed one of the guard’s minds. After I had finished my flashback, I pulled out my mom’s letter and the envelope from Zen Academy. On the back, I saw a thin button. I pressed it and a blue virtual map appeared before me. “Whoa,” I whispered. My jaw stayed open for about twenty seconds. Would I finally get some answers? I found Mom’s car and drove toward the railroad. The virtual envelope showed me the way. I figured it might be the only place I would be safe from this Vanity crap. Forty-five minutes later, I arrived at my destination, an old, a
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The Ominous: Some play it safe, heroes don't The Enforcers
As the debris from the two mysterious figures began to dissipate, I recognized the two men emerging from under the dust. One was a bald black fellow and the other was muscular, possibly Native American.“You can get inside, the show’s over,” the bald one said with a British accent.One walked around Natalie while the other one knelt to check her pulse. The bald fellow started talking to me.Then I recalled these two people were the ones I saw in my vision. The bald one sliced the robots in half with his bare hands. The other man lifted an armored tank by himself.“You blokes know how to make an entrance, Ms. North.“Who are you?” I asked. “How do you know my name?”“My name’s Daryl Wailer and Mr. Muscles there is Richard Ardmore. We’re enforcers for the academy.”“What does that have to do with me and my friends?&rdq
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