A Stranger's Fear Edited

by Beth Hoyer

the asteroid was orbiting planet Terra and appeared to be gaining entry by glowing status.

  He mentally spoke "Weapon active."

  Jinks saw in his mind with the asteroid view seen a gun like weapon alone cocking readying for firing.

  He kept an eye on the asteroid mentally added mentally "Target asteroid and fire!"

  Jinks saw through the satellite view three giant like golden laser beams come from the planet shifting towards the asteroid and proceeded to slice the giant rock into pieces seeing it crumble apart.

  He kept up the fire order saying "Target the remains of the asteroid till there's nothing left!"

  Jinks saw his mental order obeyed by the lasers firing all over the asteroid's rocky pieces till there was nothing left and he mentally spoke "Weapon stand down now."

  He saw clearly in his mind a gun weapon's safety put on by invisible hands as the satellite view went away followed by seeing green water that disappeared along with the headache. He stood up and looked around him seeing himself surrounded by six figures appearing to be wearing padded clothing covering them from head to foot and padded helmet wear with faces completely covered came charging towards him while holding stick weapons in their hands. He felt annoyance take hold seeing the figures as they reached him swinging the sticks he saw were of metal and electric from the looks of it. Jinks proceeded to duck repeatedly from their swinging aimed at him while hearing metal clanging noises along with electricity zapping noises as sticks hit each other.

  He thought to himself "Perhaps I'll use my powers to put them down."

  Jinks heard in response "Don't be a coward and fight them!"

  He felt annoyance take hold hearing the voice sounding amplified and computer like figured it was from the three leaders glimpsed watching him and the six figures still swinging at him. He proceeded to use kicking and fisting onto the figures seeing them fly backwards in the air after they were hit but saw them twist their forms into acrobatic moves to land safety on the ground before resuming their attack on him.

  Jinks snarled mentally "The attackers are females not males. Besides whose idea was it to have me fighting them anyway? I ought to have a stern talk with that person. I despise fighting females."

  Jinks resumed his fisting and kicking at the females he assumed were the attackers as they all paused from their attack to lower the stick weapons pointing the ends at him. He stiffened of nervousness seeing that gesture which he fell into an acrobatic roll on the ground as he heard multiple clicking noises and loud grunts from the females. Jinks rolled himself out of the circle and got up swinging himself up with an acrobatic move to see the females had ropes on their sticks appearing to be from a female opposite from her coming from her stick end. He went to the nearest female on his right to see her drop the stick and charge at him with feet and hands fisted flying aimed at him. Jinks proceeded to use his feet and fists counterattacking the female's moves seeing her fly backwards after he hit her only to see her twist into an acrobatic move to land safety on the ground on her feet before resuming charging at him. He glimpsed the other females drop their sticks and charged at him with their feet and fists flying aimed at him.

  Jinks mentally spoke during the fighting "This is getting ridiculous! I don't give a care if it's cowardly or not to use my powers. I despise fighting with females."

  He sensed the Master in control as he heard nothing from Lance in response waved hands palms facing them towards the charging females while mentally speaking the sleep command. Jinks found his orders obeyed by the females each one becoming slow in their attack followed by them collapsing onto the ground with forms still with chests appearing to be heaving from the looks of it.

  He looked up to glare at the three leaders and eyed the spotlight to mentally speak while rising a hand towards it "Light out."

  Jinks found his order obeyed by the spotlight bulb he glimpsed shattering with sparks seen and light going out. He eyed the three leaders to feel annoyed with them instead of fearful to realize that they could still see him via the light illuminated the glass cage behind him.

  He turned around and waved a hand towards the spotlight mentally speaking "Light out."

  Jinks turned around after seeing his order hit home to again eye the men seeing them hold up flashlights by the lights' glare seen from them and that the lights weren't aimed at him.

  He saw them appeared to be in discussion talking to each other by flashlights moving in gestures as he heard "Jinks its unusual for a vessel of me to have unnatural Human abilities despite them never seen in me when I had the body so talk on those godlike abilities. I oath I will keep you out of the glass box for the rest of your deathless life despite outliving natural Human life spans anyway. So trust me please on this as your father and you my son."

  He exhaled a breath and kneeled down on the dirt ground while keeping an eye on the three men still talking with each other gesturing by shining flashlights with their hands. He mentally spoke "Fine Father I have godlike abilities activated by whenever I will forwards this state I dubbed Master as in willing down a wall in my mind which causes my eyes to change colors from Human like blue to unnatural all black looking including the whites of my eyes are that color too. I can manipulate people, animals and some objects to do various things by mental orders with hand gestures aimed at them. I have some limber ability along with an ability to throw my body into acrobatic moves only female Humans can do with training despite male Humans having no success of doing them even with training or practice attempted. I also figured out just recent on how to manipulate the earth ground to keep me from sinking into it. Along with recently figuring out how to keep Terra safe from asteroid attacks which I recently used those powers to destroy an asteroid arriving to the planet despite there no word of its arrival said to the public other than you telling me that. Besides keep me out of being in that glass box will you? I felt like I was kept like some zoo animal and it made me very nervous having that happened. I don't want to go through that again."

  Jinks heard in response to his talk "Actually get over your fear of the glass box while working on getting the Master Organization to stop fearing you."

  He frowned hearing that from Lance felt sleepiness hitting him from a stinging pain of a needle dart hitting his back slid his form onto the floor and curled into a ball shutting his eyes feeling himself needing to sleep which he passed out unconscious.

  Jinks came to feeling the familiar feeling of a metal grate along with electricity hitting him jerked his eyes open while sensing the Master in control sat up kneeling finding himself still in the glass box as he looked around him. He focused onto one wall with eyes narrowed sensing himself spied on by someone watching him along with sensing the familiar filming sense hitting him. He eyed the wall lengthy to see it shift aside showing Father Barry standing outside standing on metallic ground with brown Human eyes narrowed but the male's lip was visibly twitching indicating fear to him as he felt himself no longer afraid. He stood up and walked out of the boxed room to face Father Barry who kept the familiar expression on his face along with lip still twitching a bit. Jinks didn't say a word slowly reached out a hand and touched Father Barry on the shoulder gripping the area in a gentle grip while still eyeing the male in the eyes him a bit taller than the male.

  He kept on staring at Father Barry lengthy only to hear from Lance "Jinks admit what you said to me regarding your godlike abilities to Father Barry now."

  He obeyed to echo some of his words he spoken to Lance mentally talking about his powers and saving Terra from an asteroid attack, spoke them to Father Barry who's eyes appeared to have some serious expression in them and sensed the male had stopped being afraid and was accepting his words by face value from the feeling of the male's body underneath his hand hold on his shoulder.

  Jinks felt himself calm as Father Barry spoke "I accept you as who you are a person with feelings despite some status as a vessel of a deity and will work to see this view is seen among others in the M
aster Organization group."

  He sensed from Father Barry's voice tone that the words were genuine and firm spoke "I will honestly admit my feelings regarding members of the Master Organization's treatment towards me to people in the group I expect to listen and work with me on fixing the problem instead of running away into hiding."

  He eyed Father Barry as he removed his hand to see the male held up his left hand in some gesture of Human handshake which he gripped and shook the male's hand to hear from him "Keep up your bargain and I will keep up mine and neither of us should forget this period from now on."

  He felt himself agreeing with Father Barry's words bobbed his head in a Human yes gesture as he removed his hand from the male's hand grip and willed aside the Master sensing himself safe for now as the man stepped aside and gestured him to follow.

  He wordlessly followed Father Barry out of the warehouse to the electric powered vehicle driven by a machine seeing the sun was high in the sky indicating a noon hour to him and sat inside feeling himself much better to mentally spoke "I think I solved my problem."

  He heard from Lance abruptly "Staying and confronting your problem instead of running away solves things is a lesson I'm trying to teach you as my son Jinks. Don't ever