• Dr. Doc's Journal Entry #14
    March 7, 2010



    tab "What kind of trick did you pull back there? Were you trying to make a fool of me?" Upon reaching home from the interview, that was the first thing I said to him. It was completely hypocritical, and he could've easily countered it by saying something like,
    tab "It was the same kind of trick you pulled, buddy." Instead, though, he kind of stared off into the distance in a dazed like look, and just said one simple word:
    tab "Sorry." He began to walk away, but I wasn't finished yet.
    tab "Yeah, 'sorry'? Well, 'sorry', but that doesn't really work. Not after what you've done.
    tab "You were trying to prove something back there, weren't you? You were trying to prove that you did have control of me. That's why you told me about the whole plan beforehand, and that's why you brought me with you. You were trying to show that you could outsmart me, but in the end, it didn't work out as you planned, did it?" When Mr. Powers didn't reply, I shot out another question,
    tab "So where'd you put Jenna, then, huh?"
    tab "Jenna..." he repeated in a soft whisper. He wasn't the same kind of sarcastic, smart-talking guy he was only a week or so ago. Now, there was almost a certain tone of guilt in his voice. Did he really feel sorry for what he did? Didn't matter, I was never feeling sorry for him.
    tab "You switched the two Jennas. You know where she is."
    tab "No, I don't." The answer shocked me more than I could say. How could he not know? Was he lying to me? Probably, I assumed, knowing him.
    tab "Don't try to bull crap your way out of this! You know where she is! You--"
    tab "She's gone. She escaped, Justin. Or maybe...she was taken away. I don't--I don't even know."

    tab Mr. Powers...
    tab A liar.
    tab A kidnapper.
    tab A murderer.
    tab He may not have had the evil laugh, or the large diabolical plans a super-villain would have, but he might as well have.
    tab A strange thing happened at that moment. Memories from the past began to clog my mind...I remembered the day we all first met. In the Discussion room. Mr. Powers was comparing us. The artificial me, with the two realities sitting side by side. But he had put all of us in the same group. Like I was on the same plane as Jenna.
    tab I remember talking with Tyler, who was already having his doubts about Mr. Powers, though I was quick to defend him. How quickly those things change.
    tab I remember all those times with Jenna...For most of the time, she had put on a mask. She had gone through the motions, pretending to be just like me. However, she knew that she really wasn't. All along, she knew, but she only told me on that dire moment, that moment where her own brother was in danger of death. And I couldn't save him.
    tab And I remember...At the very beginning, he had told me that I was his greatest creation. That I was made to do great things. I wonder what he meant by that, because so far, all I've done has not added up to a single "great thing".
    tab And there I stood. March 7, 2010. Tyler and Jenna were both gone, my two best--my two only friends. And so I was left with the only other person I knew.
    tab He just happened to be the person I hated the most.