Somewhere Between Half A Dream 1 Memory One: The Boy, The Center, And Metal.

It was training day at the Extraordinary School For Intellectuals, otherwise known as ESFI for short. Spike Firon and his team were in the training room located in a training center on the farther side of the school. Spike, is a twelve year old caucasian boy, he has short black messy hair, a average body build, and stands at around five foot one. His other two blue and red haired teammates with him were a few years older and thus taller, but were of a fairly more muscular build since they had trained for a little longer than him. Spike, like the others, was wearing the standard black and blue bodysuit/school uniform that he and the other students were always required to wear during ESFI training sessions.

The training room they were in was a large (100 meters in diameter) round completely metal room in the shape of a circle, it was plain and open to start, but could be manipulated by a professor using the control panels in the control center up top to simulate any kind of terrain. Just like himself, each of Spike's three teammates had their own powers. Spike has the power to manipulate earth and can even manipulate metal to a degree. His teammates who were there with him could manipulate fire and air respectively at extreme levels, thus they were put on a special team with Spike along with one other person who was running late.

"You know D------, you think E--- would know not to run late on training days." Spike said in a half worried tone with his arms crossed and foot tapping furiously. "Well yah would think she would bu-" D---- mentioned putting a hand on his shoulder casually but was cut off swiftly by ----- "We may as well jump in without her before the professor ends this quick." ----- said in a hard but matter of fact tone towards Spike. Although, like them, another team had entered the training room around the same time and had already started the training that they were supposed to be doing as well.

Jacob "Jake" Nichols is a four foot eight, twelve year old boy with a more milk chocolate skin tone, who has black hair with blonde highlights that was styled so it stuck up in the front and a muscular body build, he had the power over fire. Leona Wright, a four foot seven, twelve year old girl who has long blue hair that goes down to the middle of her back, and a rather slender body build that complimented her rather pale skin tone. She had the power over water. Lastly came Lily Nyphadora. A four foot seven, twelve year old girl who has short shoulder length brown hair and a fairly average body build with a slightly tan skin tone. She had the power over air. The three of them were Team M (for Maverick). Their exercise for today, like Spike and his teams, was to last through endless waves of attacking robots.

Jacob moved ferociously through the robot attackers, burning them with quick punches and kicks that sent out flames from his limbs. Leona mostly stayed back since she could utilize a special property of her water powers to heal the others, though with the strain it put on her body it wasn't always the best to use thus she played a more supportive role with ranged water attacks. Lily was more like Jacob, although using wind instead of fire, but she stayed back to fight with Leona so that she had back up. As they fought through robot attackers the room changed drastically, pillars formed from the floor and the terrain shifted quite a bit. Though as Spike watched from his position, a metal pillar that had risen from the floor to make the terrain difficult suddenly broke and began to fall, and it was on a course that would squish the girls of the team.

"Hey! Lily! Leona!" Spike yelled out from where he was but Lily didn't register it and neither did Leona. Both of them kept fighting unaware of the danger that they were in. Spike sighed as he rushed forward ignoring his teammates who were standing there and quickly made a path through the robot attackers by bringing up metal walls to block them from attacking him as he ran. The walls seemingly flipped upward from the floor pushing and knocking training bots out of his way. "Spike wait!" D------ and ---- shouted in unison as they moved after Spike. Spike ran as fast as he could while seemingly ignoring his teammates shouts, and in one smooth diving motion, pushed both Lily and Leona out of the way of the falling pillar.

Both girls landed safely on the other side but Spike was nowhere to be seen. The training program was force stopped and professor Flynn who was overseeing the exercise came out to see what happened. "Spike!" his team shouted as they rushed towards the pillar concerned for their teammate and beloved friend. At that point E---- had entered the room and rushed in with her team even managing to pa.s.s them due to her worry as well as physical ability. As all the students neared the pillar it started to lift off the ground, and as it lifted they saw a small metal ball that seemed somehow transparent, inside of it was Spike seemingly untouched.

"Don't go near it just yet, let me check it out first." Professor Flynn told the students as he jumped down making his exit from the control room and braving to go near the sphere himself. Flynn happened to be the training instructor when it came to physical exercises, even though his outward appearance would say otherwise. He was rather scrawny in build, always had his green hair in a mess, and generally looked nerdy as well as unreliable since he always hid behind his dark framed gla.s.ses. Though he normally looked calm and collected, Flynn was visibly nervous as he approached the sphere. Flynn approached slowly but as soon as he went one foot closer to it, large metal spikes quickly spread out from the bottom of the sphere and quickly began to cover the room. "Everyone grab onto me quickly!" Professor Flynn shouted as all the students quickly obeyed, grabbing onto him as well as each other. Within a moment the Professor teleported them out of the room, leaving Spike in what would soon become the old training center.

That very training center was never opened again, no one was allowed in even though many tried over some years. As for the people who tried, their memory seemed to make them forget why they were going there. As time moved forward Spike slept there untouched, and there he lays till he is reunited with the one thing he is currently missing.