The Last of Them All (editing)

I entered the room to find what looked like a regular patient's room. My palms clenched up and started sweating, and I grabbed the sides my hoodie to calm myself.

"Please have a seat." Dr. Tusik asked.

I quickly plopped myself down on the stool that was next to the counter.

"Alright Ali," He pulled himself over in a swivel chair that he got from one of the counters in the room. "Here's what we're going to do." He placed the clipboard on his lap. "I want to make sure that any of what they injected you with has completely left your system. We don't want them to secretly have any ounce of control. Alright?"

I nodded my head in approval and he took me over to a full body x-ray, or what looked like it. After the x-ray Dr. Tusik, thankfully, concluded that I was free. None of that serum was still in my system. That was a relief.

"Ali."

I looked up from the clipboard with the results that I was examining.

"I don't, I don't think you realize how big of a deal this is." He stated.

"How big, how, what is?"

"You." He grabbed the clipboard from my hands and set it on the counter. "We haven't had a mind reader since the disappearance of Ariana with Dr. Adenosine, nearly 60 years ago. She is dead though, and you are the first. You see, I grew up believing I was different. My powers weren't recognized until I was about in my twenties and had graduated from my medical school. When I was in my thirties and forties, that was when Ariana was proclaimed dead, and around the time that Viribus was established. I was contacted, and became, I guess you could say an over glorified school nurse."

I met eye contact with him and nodded. He continued to speak.

"You see, Alanis,"

I groaned.

"You see, Ali, that the fact that you are even alive and breathing is a miracle. However, they want you on their side just as much as we do. They're going to come after you, and you should be ready." He spoke with such sincerity and desperation that I didn't know how to react. "Ali my dear, you are a gift to this world. You are the most powerful thing anyone in your generation will ever have the pleasure of encountering."

Okay, I was fired up now.

"Thing? I am not a thing! I am not something to be goggled at in a zoo or marveled at by scientists. I am not anything special and I don't care what you say!" I stood up from my seat and headed towards the door. I turned back around. "I am not something to be fought over. This isn't some sort of war and I won't have to pick sides because I don't want to be involved! I want to live a normal teenage life as a normal teenager and not have to worry about saving the world, or developing these, so called powers."

All of the fent up anger and frustration that I had built up over the past couple of weeks was finally coming out on Dr. Tusik, and I felt kind of bad, but not bad enough. I reached for the door handle, only to find that it was locked. I jiggled it again, still locked. I whipped around to Dr. Tusik.

"What is this, why?!?"

He hung his head and sighed. "Alanis,"

"NO! It's Ali. Not Alanis, or the last of them all, or the most powerful, it's Ali. That is who I am and that is who I will always be!" The emotions in me were rising like lava from a volcano. "I don't want things to change, I want it to stay the same! I just want to go home! Why can't I just go home!"

My legs shook and my back hit the door as I slumped down to the floor and held my head in my hands. I shook as I struggled to get the sobs out. While running around was fun with my friends, it was for all of the wrong reasons.