"Ok, it all started with the aliens."
"Aliens?" Nate repeated.
"Hear me out ok?" Zac said with a pained expression. "Ok so there's some omnipotent alien race that like, sends people in to pretend their human so they can study us right? Anyway, so there's one called Amarita who completely messed up the time line. She totally wrecked our lives. So there's this trial, and the boss guy - he told me to call him Dustin, well, he decides to turn back the clock and stop Amarita from interfering. He also wiped our memories."
"Then how can you remember?" Nate asked.
"I'm getting to that!"
"Nate, they listened to us without interruption. I think it's only polite to do the same." Doug said.
Nate crossed his arms over his chest and gave Zac a skeptical look.
"Ok, umm, where was I? Oh yeah. So Dustin turns back the clock and we go on with our lives as if nothing had happened. But then I start having these flashes of the previous time line. And they won't stop. So Dustin calls me up and tells me that hey, I have these powers and one of them is Restoration, and it's restoring the other time line. Anyway, he tells me that these powers are caused by this anomalous gene and there are three levels."
Zac went on to explain the three levels, then went on with his story.
"Ok, so Dustin triggers my powers and sends me back to earth. And as we finally come to the part of the time line where Amarita had the trial, I finally mange to stop the timeline from restoring back to the first time line. Except, not only do I manage to do that, but I've managed to turn time back myself, all the way back to the beginning of the loop again! Anyway, in the second time line, I did trigger Ike and Tay's powers - 'cause one of mine is Electricity - but they were only half triggered in the last one, so I had to retrigger them."
There was silence as the Connorys digested this.
"What did Amarita do?" Carla asked.
"I'm not telling." Zac replied. "I am the only one other than the aliens who knows what happened and I'm not telling."
"Well… it's ahh… yes… so… the rest of you have powers don't you?" Doug asked.
"Yeah, they do." Zac said. "See, Jess and Avie walked in on us messing around with our powers. And then me and Mackie and Zoe got kidnapped and Zoe touch some electrical wires and was getting electrocuted, so I used my power to try drain off the electricity. Of course, Mackie had seen all this, and well, he was the only one without powers, so we figured we may as well. And then Rach walked in on Mackie and Ike playing Hide and Seek -"
"Hide and Seek?" Nate replied in amusement.
"Hey, it's a good way to practice shape shifting." Isaac defended.
"So we triggered Rach too, because we knew she was telepathic, and therefore one of us." Zac continued as if he hadn't be interrupted. "Other than Electricity and Restoration, I also have an affinity with Water."
The others went on to tell them what powers they had, and they all told each other about the things they could do with them.