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powers Simulator could create.
Flying, venomous, invisibility, super-strength, teleportation,
element controlling... The list went over thirty pages. I
couldn’t believe what I was doing.
    I selected one of the powers and then clicked and dragged it
to my player file… it worked!!
I felt a throbbing in my hands. Dropping the laptop, I
followed my instincts. I pointed towards a tree and with a
tiny upwards motion of my hand - ripped it straight out of the
ground.
I blew a windstorm through the forest that ripped up trees
of its own. I forced the ground to shake and split, creating a
fissure.
Finally, the water source nearby… Reaching out with my
mind, I mentally pulled the water towards me, heaving it
from the ground and twirling it through the trees.
A long thread of water was now circling me and with just a
glance, it turned to ice. One clench of my hand and the ice
just exploded outwards.
Focusing my mind on one of the glass trees… BOOM! The
whole thing just shattered.
I made my hands into fists and chorused in my head.
I was invincible. Nobody would be able to stop me now.
And so finally, just before I went off to dispatch the
opposition, I deleted one of the files that was essential to
allowing the other contestants to escape.
Knowing very well what I could be unleashing on them, I
didn’t even hesitate.
TimeKeeper.dat – delete.
A wall of static covered my vision and a warning message
plastered itself across my goggles. Then the goggles just
disappeared and suddenly I felt like I’d been plunged into a
bucket of iced water – we were now in the game for good –
and it was my doing!
I fell to the ground, feeling like I’d been tipped upside down
yet still euphoric about what I’d just done. There was no
more time cap in Simulator, no more rules or limits – we were
here forever. Now I’d never have to leave – I was the grand
master of this world.
B3ast.
 
     
5
     
XANDER
     
Dappled sunlight streamed through the glass trees above us
and we stood back to admire our handiwork.
    We’d all decided to try and forget the creepy, unison, in sync
speech from before and we had made a decision to leave the
clearing altogether, regardless of how logical it was to stay.
    We had walked for what felt like an hour or so before Victor,
who had been teleporting ahead, found a cave that would fit
us all as well as keep out the wind and rain – if there ever was
any.
    When Victor appeared and told us that he’d found a spot,
we were already tired and didn’t think we could actually make
it to the cave without a rest in-between. Not to worry though,
super Victor and his amazing powers saved the day, again,
and he figured out that he could teleport another person as
well as himself.
    And so he took us all, one by one, to the cave. My trip,
however, was a little more interesting than the others.
Victor had left me till last, and when he came back to get
me, he gave me a warning. “Stefanie has never liked you, does
not like you and will never like you. Stop crushing on my girl
in your own time, before I make you stop. In fact, she
wouldn’t even care if I told her you’d mysteriously run away
before I could teleport you back…”
Ouch. Did Stefanie really feel that way? Either way, I
wouldn’t let Victor see that. I just nodded my
acknowledgment, and extended my arm, waiting for him to
teleport me.
I could see him actually contemplating leaving me here, but
then he gave in and teleported me despite his threats.
Teleporting was a rush, no doubt about it. We landed
perfectly at the entrance of a massive stone cave and Stefanie
and Grace seemed to have already set to work.
The golden grass here was just as plentiful, if not more so,
than the grass in the clearing. Here it wasn’t as tall, but
definitely thicker – the grass only came up to our ankles but
seemed to trap in even more heat than the clearing did.
I looked down and saw I had no shoes on and realised that