This choice: The ability to turn invisible • Go Back...Chapter #3I would be the strongest man... if I was invisible by: rockstatic   You get off the train and head home, ready to try out this new gun once you get back to your room. You open the door and walk through the kitchen, passing by your bitchy roommate Megan's halfway open bedroom door as she calls you a loser and asks if you're here to get ready for your nerd parties later that night. She is really awful.
You go into your room, shut the door, and take out your precious new toy. You change the setting to "transform," and you figure your best bet is just to imagine yourself invisible. You shut your eyes, prepare to shoot, and pause. Wait: if you turned yourself invisible, you'd stay that way until you fired the gun at yourself again. What if you tried transforming yourself into yourself, but with the added power of being able to turn invisible and back again at will? This is getting complicated. You feel yourself getting nervous, so you just do it. Point, imagine, fire.
Nothing actually happens, a relief, since you were never really sure this thing wouldn't kill you somehow. You go to the mirror, look at your reflection, and then imagine turning invisible. Pow! Your reflection vanishes. You look down at your hands, and they're gone. Your clothes are still on, of course, which looks kind of neat, but would probably not help achieve the goal of going undetected in public. You're not unbelievably eager to walk around naked, either, but then you get the brilliant idea of transforming your clothes into invisible but otherwise identical pieces of clothing. That works like a charm too. Not a bad idea.
You start to wonder what you should do with your newfound power; turning yourself invisible and back again becomes really boring really quickly. You open the door and walk into the kitchen, where you remember that even though you can't be seen, you absolutely can be heard. You haven't done anything especially loud, but the incidental noise is probably enough in most quiet settings that you would be detected pretty easily. That's disappointing. You pause in the kitchen, wondering if you're really ready to try this out in the outside world.
As you're reflecting, you look into Megan's bedroom, where you can see her sitting at her computer through her halfway ajar doorway. She is really hot. Almost on cue, she turns her head and looks right at you. Can she see you? Maybe she just heard your walking around and she's confused. Either way, she gets up and walks towards you. If she's leaving her room, she's either going to the bathroom, the fridge or to the front door to leave. You figure you've got only a one-in-three chance of walking into you, so you stand by the front door and hope she doesn't leave. You try to stay as still as possible, breathing as inaudibly as you can.
Megan goes into the fridge, distracting you for a moment as she bends over and shows you some of the nicer parts of her figure. As she looks, you get a crazy idea. In your invisible state, you could shrink yourself and go spy on Megan. At such a small size and unable to be seen, she would almost certainly not notice you, and that means you could do whatever you want in there. That's an exciting prospect.
Megan takes an apple, runs it under the faucet for a second, and starts to walk back to her room as you let out a quiet sigh of relief. Unfortunately, she seems to have heard even that. She stops suddenly and turns, looking right at you. She's noticed you for sure now, and your only hope is that she'll refuse to believe what she's just heard and move on. She takes a couple steps in your direction, squinting, and you back up against the wall, being extra cautious not to make a sound. If she figures out you're there, things could get really awkward. You tense up. | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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