Once again they were back at the abandoned factory village in the forest. The black shifters seemed to have their base there. This time they were four individuals. It was the same male as last time, he was emptying a deer, hanging upside down from a tripod, from blood. Beside him stood the komodo dragon and the jackal and on the ground sat a new girl. The Jackal and the komodo seemed to be in a fierce discussion. The komodo seemed upset while Black hole was relaxed. Once again they hid themselves in the bush.

“Here we go” Delmar whispered and reached out for the jackals mind.

Black holes mind seemed just as weird as it had done the last time. It was skewed and constantly moving. Delmar got the seasick feeling again by being in there. Some of the things seemed completely normal while other things seemed messed up and chaotic. It was like his mind belonged to two completely different persons. Thoughts and memories flew crisscross around like they were trying to find a place to be.

“It’s like he’s trying to figure out who he is himself…” Delmar thought.

He started to look through the memories again and soon he started so see a connection between the chaotic ones and the well sorted ones. In the well sorted memories he was still working for the electrical faction. It seemed like a completely normal shifter life. The chaotic memories however seemed to be more recent memories. None of them contained any work for the electrical faction. Instead they were filled with the other black shifters and frustrated feelings.

“Something must have happened.” Delmar tried to find the oldest chaotic memory he could find. It wasn’t easy since everything was in such a mess. Finally he found a memory containing the electrical faction building.

Black hole had just returned home from his vacation but something was wrong, the electrical lock on the door into the electrical faction building refused to read his card. Access denied it kept saying. He kicked the door. “You worthless piece of shit, why won't you let me in?” someone came up to him.

“Can I help you sir?” the other shifter asked.

“Manfred, can you open the door? It won't let me in.”

“Do I know you?” the other shifter seemed surprised black hole knew his name.

“I'm not in the mood for jokes, I haven't been away that long. Open the goddamned door.”

“It looks to me like you don't have access to this place, I can't let in a stranger"

“What do you mean? I work here."

“I have never seen you before."

“It’s me: Wilfred, don't you recognize me? Open the door!”

“I don't know anyone by that name. Now will you please stop kicking our door and leave this area?”

The memory had been so full of frustration it was a relief when it faded away. Quickly Delmar tried to find something from the same day. He didn't want to lose this track.

“What do you mean you don't recognize me?! We have worked together for forty years!” Black hole yelled at the small female shifter that formerly been his agent partner.

“I don't know who you think I am.” the lady answered concerned. “I have never seen you before in my entire life"

“Why are you lying to me? Why do you do this? I thought you of all people could tell me what's happening.” He was filled with rage. It grew only stronger by the fact he thought she was lying to him. He was certain it was all a big conspiracy against him. Why would they do that?

“Who do you think I am?” she was starting to look afraid.

“My partner obviously! Your name is Karen and we've worked together in the electrical faction for forty years.”

“No we have not. My partner's name is Ludwig.”

“No, why are you lying to me Karen?” he said furiously and took a step forward. Karen immediately took up her silver gun and pointed it at him.

“Not a step closer!” she said nervous. Black hole took a firm grip around the gun pipe. “Let it go or I shoot! If you work at the electrical faction you know what this gun do!”

“The silver gun? That's not your style Karen. It's always been my thing.” His grip hardened around the gun. Suddenly it disappeared in his grip. Both of them took a surprised step backwards. Black hole was a bit puzzled, why was he surprised? He knew that would happen, didn't he? Karen on the other hand was speechless. She looked scared at him before she turned around and started to run. He reached his arm after her.

“You go nowhere before you explained this Karen!” He closed his fist. Karen and everything around her disappeared with a loud noise. The only thing left was a big hole in the ground. Black hole fell down on his knees. “Karen… no, what have I done?”

The memory faded again. It seemed odd. Had they forgotten about him? But then again Delmar had seen the electrical faction’s documents. Karen's partner's name had been Ludwig, not Wilfred. Was it really a conspiracy? Wilfred had according to his own memories obviously been working as Karen's partner, there was no question about it. But why would electrical lie to Gravity and radiation about Wilfred? And if she had kept him hidden in the electrical faction why would she and her whole faction suddenly act like he didn't exist? Either was electrical or Wilfred own memories lying to him.

“Memories can't lie, can they? It must be the electrical faction that's up to something.” Delmar wanted to continue where the last memory ended but he couldn't find the next part. Instead he started on a new thread.

Black hole and the komodo dragon walked through the endless farmlands as animals. Giant robots were harvesting the fields beside them.

“I can't understand why we should hide from these gods. Do they even exist? No one claim to have seen them for thousands of years. They had no impact in this world since they created us.” the komodo said.

“Face it, we are practically the creators of this world. The gods created us and we created the world. And now we hide in our own creation suppressed by this energy shifter council telling us to live in fear. Is there really something to fear? I have spent my whole life telling people to hide from the gods and punished them when they didn't. It was normal people, just trying live their life. Now I can't help but question; is the gods any threat or do the elders lie to us?” Black hole answered.

“That's a really good question… Frankly I doubt the god’s existence. We should be able to reconstruct this world to fit us better. We could make it into a utopia for our own species, are we not the true dominant species? Why should we hide?” the komodo preached.

“A revolution?” Black hole said surprised.

“Yes! We could rebuild cities, the systems. Imagine a society made for shifters by shifters. No one would have to be punished for accidentally shifting in public. No one would have to be discriminated for not being able look human enough. We wouldn't have to spend all or resources at blending in.”

“What if the energy shifters are right? What if the gods do exist? What would you do if they came back and saw your utopia? What if they decided to finish the job?”

“Do you really think they exist?”

“No, but what if? In the best of all worlds we should start anew in a new world. The gods could keep their lousy world. We could create a new one from scratch. We could be the gods. Wouldn't that be something?”

“Where are you supposed to get this new world from Wilfred?” the komodo said incredulously.

“You’re right, maybe a revolution isn't such a bad idea after all.”

Damn it, nothing until now had actually pointed towards them being hostile. He had actually started to feel compassion with the confused jackal. But a revolution? Delmar was not the one to defend the shifter society nor their rules but he did remember his history lessons. The lessons of the gods and the war. A revolution could start a new demon war. he knew what devastating powers he possessed himself in his demon forms, and he was, even though he hated to admit it, weak in comparison to most other shifters. What would happen if they all started fighting again? He saw two outcomes of a new demon war. Either the gods came back to erase their whole existence, they would probably not fall for the same hiding as animal trick again. Or, if the gods actually didn't exist, the demon war would rage on forever. They were after all just giant war machines with feelings tied to a biological form. If it weren't for the fact that the shifters got a common enemy in the gods and had started working together the old war would never have ended. Hopefully this talk of revolution was only speculations. He started to browse through the memories again. To his chagrin he found loads of similar memories like the last one. The komodo dragon and black hole seemed to talk a lot about revolutions and how they would form their new society. They were also discussing how they should deal with and get rid of the energy shifter council in the best way, convert other shifters to their cause and erase the factions and the human race. Suddenly he found a new thread again.

Black hole was talking to a girl, they were in the same deserted village as they currently was in.

“People don't seem to see the world in the same way as I do. They only see the way straight ahead, not the shorter way around.”

“I'm not completely sure I know what you mean.” black hole said confused.

“Look, how long time do you think it would take you to walk over to that house over there?” she asked.

“I don't know, 20-30 seconds?”

“Then look at this,” Suddenly, in an instant, she was at the house. “See, I take a shortcut!” she yelled back at him.

“How did you do that?” In an instant she was back beside him.

“I think the humans call it wormholes, or teleportation, but I like to see it a as a shortcut.”

This was interesting, he hadn't found anything about the other black shifters and their abilities until now. Teleportation, it was like something from a human fiction. Did all of them have such strange powers? Eager he started looking for similar memories.

Four individuals were sitting around an old table in one of the abandoned human dwelling houses. black hole, the wormhole girl, a female Delmar thought looked like the komodo dragon in human form and the other male shifter. They all had a glass of beer. Black hole started to speak.

“Are you guys loyal to me? Can I trust you?”

“you know you can" the komodo girl said and raised her glass. “We are all in the same boat. We’re all outcasts from our own society. The energy shifters are the enemy!” the others agreed.

“Good, there are obviously a conspiracy against us. They have tried to make us think we're one of them our whole lives. They made me fight with a silver gun, an anti-shifter device, instead of my powers to make me think I was normal. I think they didn't want me to explore my powers. But why didn't they want us to explore our powers? Maybe because we're as strong as the energy shifters themselves? Maybe they don't want any concurrence?”

“Do you think we are that strong?” the wormhole girl asked.

“Yes! Look at this, this is my theory" black hole opened a human science magazine and put it on the table. In the magazine there was an article featuring the dark forces of the universe. “Mine is the power of a black hole, I implode mass into nothing.” he pointed at an illustration of a black sphere in the magazine sucking a galaxy into the ultimate destruction. “Kaylin yours are the power of a wormhole, you bend the space time creating portals to other places.” black hole pointed at an illustration of a folded grid with a gateway from one side of the grid to another. “Cameron yours must be the power of antimatter. That would explain your devastating explosion powers with those weird objects you make.” he pointed at an illustration of a couple atoms. “And Edgar your power where a bit tricky to figure out what it can be, put I think it may be dark matter.” he pointed at an illustration of a star cluster.

“Dark matter?”

“Yes! It’s the non-visible part of the universe. The scientists explain it like this: the universe weight is so much heavier than the mass we can see with the bare eye. So it must be coexisting of visible matter and dark matter. The dark matter is the invisible matter! That explains why you see things we don't and why…”

Suddenly Delmar was thrown out of the memory. Something was wrong. The whole place started to twist and turn. It was like someone lifted the roof of black holes mind palace. A giant shadow looked down at him with two white dots as eyes. Delmar couldn't do nothing but staring up at the giant shadow in terror. At first he thought it was black holes grim reaper demon again but this creature looked different, it was bigger an even more ominous. A giant hand reached down slowly towards him. He could feel the jackals mind twisting and turning and a sudden illness came over him again. Black hole had noticed something was wrong and seemed terrified and sick as well. Whatever the black shadow was it didn’t seem to be invited.

“Aaaarrghhh!”

He got the feeling of tumbling back into his body again screaming at the top of his lungs. The jackal hundred meters away was screaming as well and fell to the ground in front of his surprised comrades. They turned around to see the party hiding when they realized Delmar’s screams as well. Black hole lifted his head and looked out in the bushes. They were far away but Delmar could still see the rage in his purple burning eyes.

“They were doing something with my head!” he yelled outrageous. “Get them!”

“Not good" Nuclear said quietly.

“Are they hostile?” Gravity asked Delmar quickly.

“Yes!” He was almost too dizzy to understand what was happening. Gravity shifted back into human form and rose. He reached out his hand towards the black shifters and all of them fell down to the ground unable move.

“What did you do?” Angi asked shocked.

“I quadrupled their weight.” Gravity answered concerned. Two of the black shifters disappeared into the thin air.

“Where did they go?”

“Teleportation powers…” Delmar whimpered lying on the ground dizzy trying to find his balance and trying to not to start vomiting again. He had never had any problems looking into other person’s minds before but something in the jackals mind made him sick. Especially when he returned to his own body again.

“You got to be kidding be” Neutron said.