Glossary:Spatiokinesis

"*You have to pass a test to Teleport?"
"Oh, yes. The Department of Transportation had to fine a couple of people the other day for Teleporting without a license.*"
―Red X’s and Master Intelligence’s discussion regarding Teleportation[src]
Spatiokinesis is the power to manipulate space. It is similar to chronokinesis in its nature. Ontokinesis and Teleportation are two known sub-powers. Teleportation, the ability for a mutant to focus on a desired location in their mind, then move instantaneously from their current location to another without physically occupying the space in between, is by far the fastest way to get to one’s desired destination, but is tricky to pull off correctly and disastrous if botched up. Teleportation is a popular method of travel among mutants, though it is stated that plenty of adult mutants don’t bother with it. They prefer skyfighters, cars, or Mutant transports. Lindsay Kellerman once noted that most people vomit the first time they successfully teleport, and according to Baby Intelligence teleportation feels like being “forced through a very tight rubber tube.” Teleportation is an optional fourteen-week course offered at Superhero School for learning how to teleport, with the intention of receiving a license from the age of eighteen. It was temporarily taught by Erma Bates on every Sunday morning.

## Description

### Overview

"*I know, teleporting means disappearing from one place and reappearing almost instantly in an another."
"Yeah, but I have never known any student to do it, and understand that it's very difficult to pull off.*"
―Sebiscuits Cardarphen and Baby Intelligence’s knowledge of teleportation[src]
The user can create, shape, move, control, interact and manipulate space, the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction, within an area of one's choosing, including an area and whatever is inside of that area. Teleportation can cause an audible noise ranging from a small faint pop to a loud *whoosh* that may sound to Fobbles like a car backfiring. Snakes may also teleport but without some of the restrictions that mutants have. For example, they can teleport inside of the MBH, where powerful defenses prevent mutants from doing the same. Also, when they teleport, the sound is mostly a loud *whoosh*.

The appearance of teleportation is also inconsistent between individuals and uses. It could also be explained that the style differs by distance. Short range and/or without needing to change locations immediately, the less intense, black smoke form of the NoHeads is used. Long range and/or needing to change locations immediately, the more intense twisting into and out of nothingness, the kind which was first used by Master Intelligence and Lindsay Kellerman in 2030, is then used.

Both NoHeads and Knights of Plague are shown physically collapsing into thick black plumes of smoke, shooting off into the sky, and being able to go wherever they wish, while doing this. Mr. Stupid NoHead, for example, can fly this way, and also really teleporting in the standard way. That shows that flying (black smoke) and teleporting are different things. They are also capable of partially turning to black gas, allowing them to emanate it perpetually. Dark mutants were able to grab, hold and otherwise physically interact with the world while in their gaseous form, especially while only partially transformed into smoke. In fact, they where shown to physically fight while in their cloud like form, being able to collide with each other hard enough to launch humans several yards or even break through wooden or stone walls. Also, while the NoHead Sign was in the sky, NoHeads are shown to be able to use it as a means of fast travel by teleporting inside of its center in smoke form and then shooting out of it. This allows them to appear wherever it appears and use it a portal.

Deteleportation is shown as the subject(s) being twisted and swirled into nothing within a swirling clear haze, accompanied with a loud rustling or rushing sound, while usually ending in a crack, as if the subject(s)t is being sucked into a vortex. Teleportation is portrayed in the same manner but in the reverse order, with the subject(s) twisting out of nothing with the same sound and crack. Inside the tube effect, the subjects are shown to be twisted, swirled and otherwise distorted. This version of Teleportation not only is loud, but also sometimes manifests with a gust of wind and thunderous force around the spot the user was.

While deteleporting through the Device of Teleportation, Makkalian the Tsurb teleports in Lily Clark’s throne room. There is a loud popping noise (actually Makkalian snapping, which also causes sparks), and Makkalian seems to fade away like a rush of slow, glistening wind. However, when he arrived on Earth, he did so the same way as humans have done. However, they are able to do so with much less restrictions on distance, focus and are notably able to teleport across the entire Solar System. This also may have been compliments of the Device of Teleportation.

Teleportation is called deteleportation from the point of view of someone at the place being left, and Teleportation from the point of view of someone at the destination, much like the words “disappear” and “appear”.

### Range

Teleportation may have a certain range, as implied when Charity Hirz was thinking to herself that she would soon be near enough to Teleport. This could explain Hirz’s need for a speeder, as she may have been out of her range to Teleport. However it is more likely that there are anti-Teleportation wards protecting those areas, such as Negagard, which would have these effects because it is a prison.

Teleportation becomes increasingly difficult with the distance to be traveled. Inter-continental Teleportation should only be attempted by the most highly skilled of mutants.

Some places that are blocked off from Teleportation are Beta Prison, the MBH, and Negagard.

### Partial Teleportation

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Partial Teleportation is the power to teleport parts of a target away, and a subpower of Teleportation. The subject is teleported away, causing various effects to them, in living subjects teleporting their own bodies, this usually meant separating the appendages or organs. The exact effect vary from simply making the limbs un-usable or even something as minor as hair loss, to the target to being able to use them on their new position, causing physiological shock that may cause pain, unconsciousness or serious injuries, or simply removing the vital organs such as flesh and muscle to cause death. "Cratching" is what occurs when a mutant Teleports or Deteleports unsuccessfully, leaving part of his or her clothes or body behind in their former location. The degree of cratching can range from minimal to life-threatening.

### Spatiokinesis in an Alternate Universe

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Kristen, the protagonist in *Across the Portal*, had Teleportation powers as part of being a Pearian. In the books, Side-Along Teleportation can be forced, as when Dark knight Kaccus grabbed onto Kristen’s arm when she escaped from Coruscant. He was transported with her when she Deteleported to Vjun and she was only able to escape by shaking his grip with a light blast and Deteleporting again. It is unknown if the sciences of Mutantry-1977 and Mutantry-2001 align, however.

## Variations

### Side-Along Teleportation

A variant of Teleportation used to transport two or more individuals at once is called Side-Along Teleportation. This method may be used by adults seeking to transport underage wizards, or in some cases a licensed individual may use this method to transport an injured party. To perform this version of Teleportation, the more able party Teleports with the other party holding onto their arm. This method is recommended by the government for parents with underage children to escape from danger quickly. For the party who is unable to Teleport, they must hold onto the other as tightly as possible. Snakes are capable of performing Side-Along Teleportation as well.

### Orbing

While often a subject of confusion, the term "Orbing" specifically refers to the power to project orbs that can teleport whatever they hit. The user can project orbs that are capable of teleporting their targets.[*citation needed*]

### Tactile/Remote Teleportation

Teleportation is sometimes classified into two sections. Tactile Teleportation is the ability to teleport objects and beings through physical contact, the user can transfer them to any location they desire as long their in physical contact with the object or being. Remote Teleportation is the ability to teleport energy and matter from one location to another without physical contact.[*citation needed*]

### Animal Teleportation

* **Snakes**: Snakes can also Teleport, and are able to even in places in which wizards are prevented from doing so, such as the MBH and the Jade Sanctum. Nagatha teleported to and from the MBH to murder Baby Intelligence. She also helped the Gladiator Teleport away from the MBH in 2051.
* **Phoenixes**: Phoenixes are capable of a form of Teleportation, disappearing and reappearing by a flash of flames. Like the variant demonstrated by snakes, phoenixes are not hampered by any restrictions that normally prevent mutants from doing so, and they can even carry other people with them.

## Limitations

The ideal counter to spatiokinesis is called *Spatiolock*, the power to exist outside space. A variation of Power Immunity, Teleportation Immunity is the theoretical ability to be immune to Teleportation. The user would, in theory, be invulnerable to all forms of teleportation and teleportation-based abilities. They cannot be teleported by any means by other users or even technology. Distance, mass, precision, and the like all depend upon of the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user, and their power's natural limits. Distorting space can also distort the fabric of time since they both are interconnected. Therefore, if the user doesn't use this power wisely, they can damage the space-time continuum. Spatiokinetics may be unable to create space, being limited to manipulating only the already existing one. And they may require to be honed or amplified by specific objects.

A sophisticated piece of technology innovated in the 2020s by Cara Mota, an Anti-Mutantry Device can be used to prevent a mutant from Deteleporting from a location. The MBH has an Anti-Deteleportation Device for most occasions, and when the Dark Flame Teleported to the entrance of the MBH, an Anti-Mutantry Device was placed on the building by the Dark Flame to keep the trio trapped there. There is a method of teleportation used by snakes which is not influenced by the device. However, it may be the case that all known Anti-Deteleportation Devices work only on humans, for it has been bypassed by creatures such as snakes and phoenixes. Mutant transports can also be used to access or depart from locations bound by an Anti-Mutantry Device.

There also exist legal limitations to spatiokinesis, most prominetly a License to Teleport, which is always required to practice Teleportation legally; this can be gained from the Department of Transportation. One must be at least eighteen years old to obtain such a license. Lessons in Teleportation are available, for an additional charge, to students who are or will be of legal age when the next test is administered. While it is physically possible to Teleport without a license, it is not advisable, because injury could result. Cratching can occur when one has insufficient determination to reach one’s goal, causing certain body parts to fail to arrive at the destination with the mutant. For example, Cassie Fiennes’ leg when she accidentally Cratched herself during an Teleportation lesson; although it was successfully reattached, she was left shaken by the incident. Thomas Meyer also failed his first Teleportation test because his examiner saw he had lost half of his eyebrow at the last minute.

In cases of unlicensed Teleportation when injury results, the Accidental Mutantry Reversal Squad can level heavy fines. In cases where cratching occurs, if the victim has not been treated properly, the injury can be much more serious, such as when Lindsay Kellerman suffered severe blood loss after Cratching away part of her upper arm while escaping from Spicy Mead’s minions in 2021. However, Baby Intelligence successfully Teleported multiple times without a license between 2022 during the American Purge proceeding the Second NoHead War.

At Superhero School, students in their tenth year can sign up for Government Teleportation lessons. Those who turn seventeen before the first Teleportation Test date have the opportunity to take additional practice sessions in Washington D.C. Those who’s birthday is not before the original date have the option of taking the test at a latter period. In order to acquire the license, one must prove they are able to teleport flawlessly, and even the slightest mistake (whether cratching even the slightest or missing the target location) will result in failure for the test.

## Appearances

* *The Super Babies: Pride of the Super Babies*
* *The Super Babies: The Blabberish Singer*
* *The Super Babies: Revenge of Hell Burnbottom*
* *The Super Babies: An Ended Generation*
* D.I.T. Literary Universe

## References

1. ↑ D.I.T. Literary Universe (VOA)
2. ↑ *Before The SMSB* franchise (WITD)
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7. ↑ D.I.T. Literary Universe (*Convergence*)
8. ↑ *The Super Babies: Final Clash of Brethren*