216 Unusual friendship

At military base two, it seemed like things were starting to calm down. Not just for the soldiers in the base but also for Quinn and his group. It seemed the video had worked quite well, and it looked like they had nearly called off the search entirely.

The base was now just treating it as a secondary objective now rather than a full-on search. Because of this, each member of their group felt like a huge weight was lifted off their shoulders. However, Layla felt like a new one had been put on hers.

There was only one problem left to solve right now and that was Peter. The group had decided they would continue to hide Peter inside Logan's room. It wasn't the right time to reveal him, because the tension was still a little high, and Peter showing up in the portal room now might be cause for extra scrutiny, which they didn't want.

While he stayed in Logan's room it would also give him time to study the details of the student he was pretending to be.

Before leaving Logan's room Quinn made a cut on his hand and fed some of his blood to Peter. Before leaving he would give him the command to not attack Logan. This would become a ritual they would have to repeat every night from now on until Peter was able to use his disguise.

This meant that right now it was night time, the others had left, and the only ones in the room were Logan and Peter.

Despite their situation, Logan simply continued his normal routine, working on his gadgets into the night. He was at his workbench using strange tools as he messed around with his inventions. This continued on for a few hours.

"Where did I put that cogwheel?" Logan asked himself as he surveyed the room but couldn't find it. As he swivelled around in his chair, he noticed that Peter was still standing in the same spot as he was before, and wasn't moving at all.

"Don't you need to sleep?" Logan asked.

Peter replied by just shaking his head.

"Well, I don't sleep much either." He shrugged and then motioned to him, "Hey, do you mind passing me that cogwheel shape by your side?"

Peter looked around for it and proceeded to hand over the strange device that Logan had asked him to. Without saying anything else, Logan continued to work on his new invention.

"Pass me the green glowing circular orb." He asked.

"The one on your left, that spinning spikey thing…." Logan asked once more, "And that upside down looking U… now that beast crystal to your right." He continued to ask for different tools and Peter did as he asked and handed them to him.

"Finally finished!" Logan said and turned to Peter. "You were a great help, you didn't ask me any questions, and didn't keep me distracted from my work, Peter. Now it's my turn to help you."

Logan opened up some files on his computer, and had the information of the student named Pio Blank on display. While the file was open, Logan would ask a series of questions and Peter would answer. They would continue doing this until Peter could remember every detail about Pio Blank by heart.

The speed in which Peter was able to memorize everything impressed even Logan. It was like his memory was picture perfect.

"Do you mind doing me another favour?" Logan asked with a slight smile on his face.

Peter hopped into the VR machine, and while connected Logan would communicate to him through his computer. Right now Logan wanted to see what he was capable of, and measure just how strong Peter was.

Logan asked Peter to do a series of things, such as run as fast as he could, throw a punch as hard as he could, as well as dodge a bunch of incoming objects that were thrown at him inside the simulation.

Eventually with all the stats recorded Logan had something else he wanted to try.

"Peter, behind you a pair of weapons will appear. Use them however you wish against the NPC enemies."

Suddenly, a pair of short blades appeared on the ground behind him, and at the same time, 8 different men all in a solid black colour appeared. They didn't look like humans, but more like blobs of Ink instead.

These were the NPCs that Logan had created to practise his own fighting skills, and they weren't part of the game he created.

Using the two weapons combined with his speed, Peter was able to deal with most of the enemies with ease, and Logan was thoroughly impressed. Right now both of his strength and speed were nearly four times the level of an average human.

Another one of these tests showed some different yet still interesting results.

Logan had dropped a big war-hammer for Peter to use, Peter could easily swing it about, but it just looked awkward, after attacking a few of the NPC's he accidentally hit his own leg and it snapped in two.

To Logan's surprise Peter just straightened his leg and it healed almost instantly. Then as if nothing had happened he picked up the war-hammer again and continued to attack the NPC's. But no matter how much he tried, it still looked very awkward.

Logan continued these sets of tests and each time he would drop in a different weapon for Peter to use against the enemies.

What was also strange to see, was that right now, Logan had set the game to allow his body to react like it would do in real life without the game helping him and adding realistic fatigue, the most amazing part of it was that Peter never seemed to get tired at all.

He was able to fight just as well now after all those tests, as he did from the start of the game. While going through the entire process, Peter was actually having fun. On the outside, he hadn't really been able to test his strength, and for the first time he was able to use it freely.

Even if he was being used by Logan for his own purposes he didn't mind so much. The relationship between the two of them was give and take.

Finally, the simulation had ended and Peter came out of the pod. After gathering all of Peter's stats, Logan had come to the conclusion that Peter would make a great spy or assassin.

When using the weapons he performed best with the short duel blades. Also he never tired, and could run at great speeds. Furthermore, he also had a nearly perfect memory, and lastly he knew that he had the ability to transform. Using this he was able to disguise himself as anyone he wanted.

It was a shame that Peter was already on Quinn's team. If the case had been any different, than Logan would have loved to invite him and the other for his very own portal outing.

While Logan was deep in thought he heard a knock on the door and to his utter surprise, it was Quinn and Fex.

"What are two doing back here so soon?" Logan asked.

"What are you talking about?" Quinn replied.

Logan quickly rushed to his computer to check the time and it was already the next day in the afternoon. Classes for the school day had already ended, and Fex had come along with Quinn to check up on Peter, as well as for another reason.

Without realising it, Logan had been up the whole day with Peter.

"What can I do for you?" Logan muttered as he rubbed his bloodshot red eyes.

"You can sleep if you want?" Quinn asked.

"Yeah, you look nearly as dead as Peter." Fex added with a chuckle.

"Well, I can decide that once you two let me know what you need. If you are here for Peter, he and I are doing great."

"Actually," Quinn replied. "I was hoping we could use your VR capsule. I wanted you to add Fex's ability to the game for us."

Now that everything had calmed down, Fex was finally able to keep well on his promise. He was planning to show Quinn how to fight the vampire way.

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