"Let me guess... Doran mimicked me." Isaac said.
"Yep. And you shoulda see Tay. He went ballistic!" Zac grinned. "He wasn't fooled by Doran for an instance."
Taylor smiled wryly.
"Isaac? How many powers do you have?" Rocky asked suddenly.
Isaac shrugged.
"Four that I know of. But I might have a fifth power."
"What powers do you know you have?"
"Shape shifting, Telekinesis, Telepathy and Force fields. Why?"
"What makes you think you have a fifth one?"
"Little things. Like the time that we were in LA and when we were in the mall an enhancer we later became friends with kept walking past. I was talking to Avie and when her powers got enhanced briefly, she shot some lasers out of her eyes and made a couple of holes in my cheeks. And I didn't feel a thing. And then there was the time that my arm got cut off and Jess was going to regenerate a new one for me. Our enhancer friend came over to help out because Jess wasn't strong enough on her own. James enhanced both our powers so that Jess could heal me, and so that I wouldn't feel anything."
"You call those things little? Blowing holes in your cheeks? Getting your arm ripped off?" Trinity asked.
Isaac poked his tongue out at her.
"Actually the whole arm thing is the strongest. See, later on Jess told me that when she was healing me it was almost like my body was helping her. And she also said that... ok when her Healing is enhanced she can sense injuries and, umm, the rate of aging, and she said... that I was aging years slower than everyone else... I think she said decades."
Trinity, Rocky and Oscar looked at each other.
"Be careful around... James? Your enhancer friend. You see, I don't remember if we told you, but The Goblin has a power called Semi-immortality. The theory is that, in addition to whatever effect the mutation had on her was, she was around an enhancer a lot, which would explain why her particular powers are stronger than most mutants."
"What's this got to do with me?" Isaac asked.
They looked at him.
"What? Oh man... you don't think... no way!"
"Well, Semi-immortality is the only one that fits." Oscar commented with a slight yawn. "But like Trinity said, be careful around enhancers. Unlike most other powers, enhancing Semi-immortality is not temporary."
"So... what are you saying? That I'm gonna look 30 when I'm 100?"
"You never know." Rocky said.
"I can hear the plastic surgery rumours now."
Taylor and Zac laughed.
"It's a long way away. Don't worry about it now. The point is, since it's obvious you've got five powers, then well, that means you have the Gift."
"I'm afraid to ask."
"It's nothing to worry about." Trinity assured him. "It just means that you have the ability to accumulate powers over time. They won't come quickly. It'll be some years before a sixth power starts emerging."
Isaac stared incredulously.
"And if that's not bad enough, guess what Ike?" Zac said. "Gobble-head wanted to have my baby because she thought I was so powerful. If, well, I guess, when she find out about your powers, she'll be after you."
"Gobble-head? Zac, I think you've been talking to those insect people too long." Trinity grinned.
"And don't I know it."
"This is... this is way, way too much for me to swallow right now." Isaac said at last. "I can't... you know what? I'm gonna have some breakfast. And don't tell me any more shocking news for at least a week."