Chapter 29

Alan could only stare incredulous at Harman after his last statement. “So I take it that meant me also?”

“Well yeah, at first anyway, although now, I’d have to say you are becoming more and more like a brother to me. Albeit a brother I’d like to smack once in a while but a brother none the less.” Harman said a huge smile spreading across his face.

“Ha!” Grunted out Alan, “Don’t forget that goes both ways!”

An even broader smile spread across Harman’s face, “that might not be a good idea, though you’re welcome to try,” Harman said suddenly growing serious.

Alan just threw up his hands in defeat, and then Harman suddenly stiffened and turned to look at his sister. A look of anger on her face, Harman was shaking his head no as sweat started to break out on his forehead.

“Truda!” Alan shouted breaking her concentration. “I need all of you, especially your brother!” Truda’s head snapped around as she stared at Alan. Then just as suddenly her facial features softened.

“Sorry Alan, there are times I feel my brother is acting like an idiot! It’s starting to irritate the hell out of me.” With another look at Harman that could melt steel, Truda sat next to Angelika who’d been stifling her laughter the whole time.

Alan nodded thinking for a moment. “We need to start now, the sooner you can resist the four types, well the other three the better.” Alan thought a moment then his Uncle, cousin and her son appeared. “Thank you for coming as quick.”

Emory and Madde both nodded though Aldrich was still in shock. “What in the hell was that?”

Sighing Alan remembered that Aldrich had only thought shifted once. “Sorry Aldrich, I keep forgetting that not many are used to moving like that.”

“When you said you needed me as soon as possible I thought as soon as I got here. Again what was that?” Aldrich asked.

“There is several names, thought transfer, thought moving, though I like to call it thought shifting. You basically move with a thought. You are where you are, and then I want to be say, beside you. I think it and...” Aldrich’s mouth dropped open as Alan vanished then appeared next to him a moment later. “I’m there!”

Aldrich tried to speak but nothing was coming out. Finally after a few moments of trying Aldrich stated, “I want to learn to do that!”

Alan could only smirk this was the most enthusiastic response to this ability he’d ever seen. “We’ll see; I have to know that you won’t misuse it. As I told the others that I opened up, there is a responsibility that comes with these abilities. I can shut them down just as easily as I can open them.”

Aldrich’s eyes narrowed as he stared at Alan. “That’s not really fair!”

“Neither is using it to gain dominance over people. I found that out the hard way.” Leaning close Alan whispered, “She may not look it but your great Aunt Angelika is a tigress about these things!”

Pulling away Alan gulped when he saw Angelika staring at him. “I heard that! You might be stronger Alan but you are still my son!”

Sighing Alan nodded then stood in front of them all. “It appears that the Doctor is using three of the four types of energy. As I explained to my group these are psychic which we all are using now. These can be fueled by emotions, though the stronger the emotion the weaker you can become faster. There is a type of emotional energy this is extremely hard to control though easy to attain. It can drain you even faster leaving you completely vulnerable.”

“If it can boost your abilities, can’t it also help you to defeat the one you are against?” Madde asked.

“No, if they have a strong defense in at least three of the energies, then I feel that they can resist far longer. The third is what I call thought energy. What I just showed Aldrich as moment ago is classified as that. As you all have seen it takes a little shifting of areas of the brain for that. It seems that the brain naturally guards against using it far too much.” Alan relayed to them.

“So you’re saying that we can use it too much also?” Emory stated.

“Not all that sure, mother and I used it continually for over an hour without adverse effects. I...” suddenly a moment of clarity hit Alan as he turned to stare at Angelika. “It couldn’t be that simple! Mother I need to look at something a moment.”

Angelika nodded then Alan’s eyes closed for perhaps two minutes then they opened with a smile. Angelika’s eyes flew wide a moment later, “My god! What did you just do? I feel three times stronger than I was!”

“I thought so, it appears that you and I chasing around like we had weakened you quite a bit. Where you were the weakest in defense against the doctor, I’d say that you are as strong as Varick now! Though it increased your thought energy it also weakened you because it took more to produce it. I think I fixed that problem. Using it a few times a day will increase it but what we did over used it.”

“So you mean to say I strained it like a pulled muscle? You helped that to repair its self? Something like a strained muscle that I hadn’t stayed off that wouldn’t heal. Finally! I am not useless anymore!” Angelika shouted pure joy lighting up her face.

Alan smiled a true genuine smile seeing her this happy was seeming to lift the spirits of them all. “Now then that I have explained the first three, the last is what we need to work on. I call it physical energy, in that you can make normally gaseous or energy masses solid for a short time.” Looking at Varick’s group he said, “You remember the first time I went against the doctor? I had a damn good defense but he overcame it. He used a physical energy because he knew he couldn’t get through my psychic defense.”