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Another device?

A few yards behind them, a third young man calmly enters the room. Unlike the others, he is dressed smartly, entirely in white, and his hair is an odd shade of blue-green.

Obviously, he is unexpected, because your parents, Jake, and the false you freeze, and the brunette reappears, with look on her face somewhere between confusion and anger.

The stranger smiles and inclines his head. "Noa," he says by way of introduction. "I think this has gone on long enough."

The brunette glares and pulls out the device, but Noa stands unmoving. She presses several buttons on the device, but Noa is unaffected, not even flinching. Shock is clearly written on her face, and Noa simply smiles. "If I were anyone else, I'd probably be your slave by now. But I'm not, for you see...I have one, too." As he says this, Noa reaches into a pocket and pulls out another device, identical to the one the evil brunette stole from you.

"Come now," Noa says, seeing the confused females (well, one female and one guy in a girl's body) before him, "Did you really think that was the only one they had? Of course they had duplicates." He grins. "And of course there's a safeguard. Anyone who has a device is unaffected by any others."

Noa smiles and walks forward, pushing past the four frozen people in the room to stand before the brunette. "And now..." he says calmly, "I'll be taking back that device."


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