Somewhere Between Half A Dream 11 Memory Eight: Realization

As they moved from memory to memory Will felt himself come to understand Spike and his ideals more and more. They of course started in the early days where Spike had grown up in the slums of Cyan City rather far inland from ESFI. His early days were spent stealing food till he discovered his powers when most kids came of age at age 7. After that of course they skipped to when Spike moved to Matin Town at age 13 and met Eevi, Damian, Artemus and the rest. His days in Matin town were simple with his friends, and of course it didn't take long for ESFI recruiters to meet the kids and convince most of them to come to ESFI. After that they went through Spikes school days till the present. Will learned all about Spike, but his plans were still fuzzy as they didn't go through that in all the jumping through memories. "So. Now you know everything Will.. So join me." Spike said as they returned to the training room where they started from.

"Why? Why should I join you? For what!?" Will questioned angrily as he prepared to attack Spike. "Right, I forgot to show you.. You don't even understand your power do you Will?" Spike asked with a wave of his hand "O-Of course I do! I have telekinesis!" Will said as he started to question himself. "No you don't you idiot. Look at your hands." Spike motioned as Will looked down. For the first time Will actually looked at his hands when he activated his power. His hands glowed with a few different hues of blue energy and he thought of all the times he used his power, looking back this energy was always around the objects he stopped or attacks he did.

"W-What is this?" Will asked stuttering in confusion. "You don't have telekinesis Will. Your power is just raw energy. You can manipulate the raw energy of the world! That which fuels everyone's powers! That is why Felixi even brought you in after the incident! She wants that power for her plans." Spike began shouting to Will as they shifted to another place. This place was familiar to Will, it was his room. "Felixi plans to use you to multiply her powers, for what I don't know, but I can't let her get you." Spike told him as Will sat down on his own bed taking it in.

A few moments went by as Spike moved about the dorm room looking around, he stopped in front of a mirror hanging near the bathroom. "Will, move this mirror when you wake up. There's a camera here you should destroy. Seems they've been watching you closely." Spike told him as he walked back to sit in a chair at Wills table but sat facing the boy. "So then what's the best course of action? Because I'm not becoming someone else's p.a.w.n." Will asked Spike as his head hung low staring at the floor. "I'll say it again, Join me. That's the only way to keep you from being used.. Other than that you don't have any options." Spike told him simply. Will sat there contemplating what t do, but ultimately he knew what he needed to do. "So if I join with you, then what will you do?" Will asked finally as he still didn't know Spikes plan fully. "If you join with me not only will I become whole again with my powers, but i might be able to use yours too. In that case I'll escape with my team, and start by taking down Felixi when possible." Spike told him truthfully.

Will sighed as he fought with his choice of running with his own team or joining Spike. Truthfully he had no options at all so he came to accept his fate. Will looked to Spike one more time as he felt a stir in the energy keeping them there. "Alright, I'll join you. But on the condition you save my friends too." Will told him as he wanted to make sure his team was fine as well. "I can't promise anything for sure, But I will do what I can." Spike told him as he thought for a moment before giving him another piece of advice "Something tells me you will fight many people on the way to me, so just be careful when you leave. That's my last piece of advice to you Will." Spike told him in a cautionary manner before he looked to the ceiling then back to Will giving him a wave with a last "See you soon." as the dream came to an end.

Will woke up on his bed staring at the ceiling. He knew what he needed to do, he only hoped the others would understand why he needed to. Will slowly got ready for his last day, taking his time to eat his last meal properly and get dressed. All the while he thought of his friends and how they would react to him leaving them suddenly. Jacob, Leona, and possibly Nora would undoubtedly try to stop him and of course Lily would as well. His "heart" hurt as he thought of Lily, he never had a chance to tell her how he felt. Will loved her, but she would possibly never know that, though he didn't know when he began to love Lily and he didn't know if she felt the same. While thinking of this he changed into his normal summer clothes and mentally prepared himself to face whatever came. Before he would leave Will moved back to the mirror spiked talked about, sure enough when he moved it he noticed it was a one way mirror, and there was a camera behind it. Will gave the camera a wave as his hand charged with energy then smashed the lens and replaced the mirror. Finally when he was ready he left his dorm room and started moving towards the school.