Chapter 15: Allison

 Chapter 15:
 Hyde (who was driving from the airport in the overcrowded car) was trying to break the ice in the silent vehicle.
 "So MegaBos- I mean Terri, I bet it's awkward for you and Perfect Zero whenever you're both in the chat room, because he kind of attacked you." Hyde kept his eyes on the road, but occasionally looked into the mirror to see everyone else in the back.
 "Oh that's nothing compared to Mikey, we're all still cool, but I never knew he was actually a mad genius." Terri grabbed his phone from his pocket and started looking through the Prototype's forums.
 "Wait, I have a question, why am I a Chosen One? The rest of you are active users, and are all on the very top of the leaderboard." Kayla appeared to regret asking the question.
 "Maybe every other well known user is either a non-human or evil. Even if that is the case, it isn't like you didn't earn it, Adrian said that we all were chosen for our talents, for example, we can infer that Alex's talent involves music, since he defeated Apollo with music." Terri said, trying to comfort Kayla.
 Hyde passed down a road set on a hill, driving past the many restaurants, stores, and other buildings. Eventually, Hyde stopped at a store, labelled "It's LeviOsah, not LevioSAH Bookstore" she had violet, likely dyed, hair, and blue eyes. She wore a turquoise jacket, black jeans, and a red beanie. She carried two boxes that appeared rather heavy. She walked up to the trunk of the car and set the boxes in the storage. She took the passenger's seat, and saw everyone sitting in the back seat.
 "So, I'm guessing that they're also going to the Con?" she took off her jacket, revealing a blue sweater with a red heart and the face of a Pug on it.
 "What is the Con, exactly?" Bethany started looking for a place to take a nap in the vehicle.
  "Well. it's kind of like ComiCon, but with no panels or merchandise, it's just a place for people to tal- oh no, I just realized how dull that sounds. I paid for my tickets, so I'm still going." the car got quiet, and Hyde felt as if the lack of conversation was killing him in the inside. "Wait I forgot! My friend was supposed to come with me, but he said he was too busy to come, what a shame, since I got twelve tickets so we could each have six days to ourselves. We haven't met in person yet, but I'm hoping we will meet up by next month. Anyway, all ten of you, I'm Allison." Allison wore a somber expression on her face, she tried to hide it with a smile, but it didn't work.
 "Well, for a quick introduction, I'm Alex, the driver is Hyde, and here are Athena, Bingo, Bethany, SSN, Julian, Terri, Kyle, and Kayla." Alex pointed to each person in the car accordingly, Allison gasped when she heard Kyle's name.
 "Oh Kyle? As in 'MetaKirbSter'?" Allison turned back and saw Kyle nod "Wow, this is an anticlimactic way for us to meet, I always wanted us to see each other on different sides of the beach and reunite in a hug, well, that may not be realistic, but still. Anyway, I guess since we're all here, maybe we can just go to the convention."
 "Wait, do we all have to be in costumes to enter? Because we really aren't prepared for this." Bingo was sweating nervously.
 "Wow, I didn't know that dogs can talk! I guess miracles do exist." Allison seemed to forget about Bingo's question and stared at the vocal dogs.
 "Yes, you may not know this, but dogs are quite magical creature-" Bethany's sentence was cut short by Hyde going over a  speed bump "Oh please stop this car now! We're going to die because of all of you humans!" Bethany started running around  and started yelling  certain offensive words at everyone in the vehicle.
 "Bethany please calm down, there are children in here." Hyde tried to calm the Pomeranian down, but his attempts were futile. After almost half an hour of chaos, the car reached a large, rectangular building, labelled "Costco Wholefoods Sale". Hyde parked by the building and unlocked the doors, allowing everyone to (finally) get out of the car. SSN seemed confused by where the crew currently was located.
 "Uh, Hyde, and Allison. This place is a store, not a convention. Even if there was an underground convention going on, we would need a membership card, which is something none of us had." SSN was right, it would seem quite odd to have a convention under another building, and presumably no one had membership cards, except for Alex and Julian, who pulled out their shiny, sleek membership cards, both labelled "Executive Membership" the cards were somehow bright enough to blind the others.
 "I understand Julian to have a membership card, since he's a father, and families tend to shop at places like these, but why do you have a card Alex?" Terri had to cover his eyes to prevent any more damage to his eyes.
 "Don't worry about how I got the card, since we should worry about getting into the store. That is what we're supposed to do, right?" hearing Alex's question, Allison grabbed a strange map from her pocket, and within the large, orange mass listed as "Costco" there was a smaller, grey mass labelled "convention".
 "Yes, we're in the right place, let me get the boxes from the trunk, please." Hyde grabbed his keys, and opened up the trunk. Allison grabbed the heavy boxes and set them on the pavement "Wait, this will be a problem, the convention only allows people in with costumes on, and I only took two with me." Allison unpacks the top box, revealing a large, red, fox head (the author would like to say that the head in general is simply a costume and not authentic. The author in question is against the decapitation of animals, humans, robots,etc.) and red hands and feet that seem to slip on like gloves.
 "Interesting disguise," Bethany put on the head "You could rob a store with this, in fact, that's what I'm doing." Bethany ran into the store, she didn't even have a membership card, but she didn't let that stop her.
 "It cost me three hundred dollars to make that..." Allison was in shock, and felt as if she couldn't even move.
 "Come on, all of you, I'm not losing Bethany again!" Hyde commanded the crew to follow Bethany (Alex flashed his card to the greeter by the entrance) however, the store's many items distracted some of the group. Bingo started eating free samples of mini tacos, Alex, SSN, and Kayla "got lost" in the stores bakery section, purchasing many cookies, cakes, and pies. Terri was having a conversation with the lady giving out free samples of mango juice, and Julian was looking at new couches, grills, and steaks for home. Only Athena, Hyde, Kyle, and Allison were still looking for the Pomeranian.
 Eventually, Athena found Bethany in the candy aisle, gawking at all of the food that she can't have.
  "I know, it's sad to look at all of the food you can't have." Athena picked up the Pomeranian with her ghostly hands and saw the dog shed a tear while staring at the chocolate "If it makes you feel better to know, I can't eat certain food either, I have a shellfish allergy." Athena saw that Bethany stopped crying, and grabbed the mask off of her head with one of her free hands. Athena decided to find Hyde, Kyle, and Allison to return their belongings to them. After a few minutes of searching, Athena finds Hyde, Kyle, and Allison all in a dimly lit section of the store.
 "Hey guys, look who I found!" Athena put the head into one of Allison's boxes and gave Bethany to Hyde.
 "Now that we have everything, let's find everyone else." everyone agrees with Hyde, they turn around and start walking, until they hit a large, shadowy form.
 "Hello, Kyle, Allison, it's nice to see you again."