The Unique

1945

The bar was filled with people celebrating a day none of them would ever forget. It had only been a week since the president declared World War ll over and people were still celebrating through the streets. In the middle of the crowded bar sat a lonely pilot. He sat there mindlessly writing down on his journal.

Getting sidetracked by his writing was a common occurrence for the purple skinned pilot. When he gets like this no one is able to break him out of it. Then Chow appeared.

"Hey, Stellar!" Chow shouted into his right ear. The pilots concentration broke and jumped out of his seat in fright. He rubbed his ear In pain from the shouting at close range, his ear still ringing.

"Chow, what was that for!" Stellar said in anger.

"You were stuck in your journal for the fiftieth time again. The wars over, Stellar, you should be celebrating with all these people!" Chow suggested, motioning towards the crowd.

"I don't feel like it." He said. Chow grinned and shook his head, sitting down on the stool beside Stellar.

"Come on, Stellar, you and I both know you like to party." Chow said.

"So lets put away that journal and have a drink with your ole war buddy, Chow." He said, snapping his fingers. Then two glasses popped into existence getting a reaction from Stellar. Stellar looked around the bar with worry, hoping no one saw what Chow did.

"You're lucky no one saw that." Stellar said, relaxing back into his seat.

"Ah, stop worrying about me getting caught. You know what I can do." Chow said.

"What are you writing in there anyway?" Chow asked.

"Can't you read my mind?" Stellar replied.

"I can, but that would be considered rude. Come on, tell me." Chow pleaded.

"I've been thinking about everything that's happened to me. When you showed up, What you said, what you've done, what you are?"

"I want to know why me?"

"You already know how we met, I bumped into yo-"

"You don't exist anywhere, Chow. I checked your background using everything you told me in the past. There is no record of you in anything before joining the military. So tell me why you chose me?" Stellar demanded. Chow stared down at the table infront of him in silence. With heavy restraint Chow broke his silence and spoke to Stellar Skies.

"You're going to leave this bar and get approached by a man in a suit. He'll give you a card and tell you about a secret agency and walk away. You'll read the card and by the time you see it he'll have already been gone. the next day you would drive to the address written on the card and you will a agency built to prevent home or international disasters, at least thats what you thought it would be. But only the higher ups know that the real agencys mission is to prevent magical occurences and disasters all before the public find out. In that agency you'll meet somebody. she'll become your girlfriend and later, your wife." Chow said. Stellar just sat there in silence, wide eyed. He was completely dumbfounded by what he was hearing.

"I didn't want to tell you this because I thought it would mean you wouldn't join the agency, thereby preventing what I was trying to accomplish. I'm sorry for not telling you sooner. I just couldn't risk you not joining the agency." Chow said, guiltily. Stellar sat there in silence, trying to process it all. Chow looked down at the table in regret, not saying a word. It was Stellars turn to snap Chow out of it. He grabbed the glass, Chow had created and started drinking it.

"If the future me would've gone back in time to the moment I get the card outside like you said, would he have let it happen?" Stellar asked. Chow heard what he had said and looked at Stellar in confusion. His face was as serious as it could get. Chow smiled and answered his question.

"He would let it happen a thousand times over." Chow replied. Stellar looked at Chow and nodded, getting up out of his chair.

"Then it's good enough for me." Stellar said, getting his coat on.

"is this the last time I'll see you?" He asked, stopping.

"if you ever need my help. You know where to find me." Chow said, flicking a coin towards Stellar. Stellar caught the coin in his hand and looked at it. He raised an eyebrow when he saw a picture of himself in an Abraham Lincoln costume. He smiled and looked up, only to see an empty seat and a crowd of people still inside.

"The quarter doesn't have Lincoln on it, Chow."

And so Stellar Skies turned towards the door and stared at it. He thought back on everything thats happened to him and Chow and realized this was only the beginning. He walked towards the door and walked outside. Sure enough he saw a man in a suit begin to approach him. he took a breath and slowly nodded his head.

"I'm ready."

Present Day

Starlight stared at the screen very closely. She'd been watching the video over and over again for the past ten minutes. It was a bank robbery, or an attempt at a bank robbery. Two men pointed guns at the crowd while two other men drilled into the metal vault. They're features were covered up by black clothes and white masks. The robbers had just nearly finished drilling until the two men facing the crowd were abducted by a blue flash of light zooming past them. The leader heard screams and turned around.

"Where'd they go? Where are they!" He demanded, aiming at the crowd. The light zoomed by again, taking vault drill operator with it. The leader turned around again when the drill went silent. The leader looked around, completely confused.

"What the hell is going on!" He shouted. before being taken by the light. The video then ended. The report had said the four robbers were found covered in tape, strapped onto four chairs. This whole ordeal had gone on for eight minutes, and ended in one. This wasn't the only footage they had of the blur. A total of fifty six street and store cameras had caught the blue flash of light leaving the crime scene immediately after. Starlight had looked at every single camera and failed to discover what it was. Not even their attempts at slowing down the footage yield any results. Whatever it was not even the cameras could capture it fully.

She looked at the footage with a defeated look. There was nothing she could do to find out what it was. The more she thought of ways to find out the blur, the more her mind drifted to the small object in her desk. Each time she thought of that coin she'd tell herself no. She had hoped the warning Chow gave to Norman would've happened in atleast a year, but now? It was too soon. With a sigh, she opened the drawer and saw Chow's coin sitting on top of the picture of her father, Stellar Skies. It was a nice gift from Chow that made a smile come out of her everytime she saw it. But that didn't make things easier for Starlight.

"But what if it's a one time event and has nothing to do with the warning?" Starlight thought to herself.

She didn't want to deal with a stressful event like this while her pregnancy was just starting to be obvious. No one in the Agency even knows yet. She looked at her desk and saw her stress ball sitting next to her family photo and grabbed it. The ball was a gift from her son after noticing how stressed she felt after work. She didn't think she'd ever use it, but nowaday's she can't stop using it. After a minute, she felt better and rubbed her forehead with her hand.

Starlight looked at the coin in her desk with heavy restraint. She was unsure if what was happening in the world was the event that Chow warned. But after all the eyewitness reports of mysterious sightings she could deny it no longer. She grabbed the coin and flipped it in the air. She stared at the coin in what felt like slow motion. She watched the coin fall to the ground, only to be caught by a blue hand.