Friday, September 15, 2006

Chapter Four: A Hero is Born

I was really getting sick of passing out and waking up in strange places, but at least this time I was pretty sure that nothing was around. I was still in the lab and it was still foggy when I found this giant black sphere coming out of the wall. I was feeling the wall because of the steam and accidentally hit the thing. Some walls came up and some came down, it looked like the lowering of a maze. To my left was a computer room, to my right was a room of mirrors, and in front of me was a seemingly endless hallway. I went to the computer room and the opening behind me closed. The computers and the lights came on and I sat at one of the machines. I put my fingers on the key pad, then they started to burn. A mechanical voice said, “DNA verification check, fingerprint match check, systems are go.” In the files, everything was encrypted. I couldn’t read anything, but I could see some pictures that went with the files. The pictures were of random normal people; that is the first few seemed normal. After a while I saw a pattern, the people were looping and with each loop the same person was changed in a different manor. It was some joke I thought to myself, these pictures couldn’t be real. As much as the subtle changes frightened me, as I went on the changes became more mutilating and unnatural. I heard a noise coming from behind the walls. I decided to find a exist ASAP just in case someone still worked at this damnation of a place. I went to the were the door was and found a black orb like before. I triggered it and went through the hallway. The hallway seemed endless before and now it still seemed endless as the noises got more distinct. The noises I heard were explosions, now each time I heard it, the floor shook.
Finally I saw a red door at the end of the hallway I ran through and there was nothing there. The red door was by itself in the middle of ashy gray nothing. The noise stopped and I started to look for….anything really. I found out that I was on an island that was not to far from a city’s shore.
There was a dead silence followed by a fiery red blast and insane laughter. I saw the madman’s face for the first time. His grey skin and dead eyes reminded me of myself but that smile seemed to symbolize all the evil and hate in one motion. He through his arms in front of him and yelled, “brother, you are looking well.” Then he clapped his hands together and on to his chest and he emitted an explosive aura. I was thrown into the water by the force of the blast. Some primal instinct of fear took over and I started to swim away from my so called brother as fast as I could. Half way across the body of water I heard another blast and moments later he was falling from above, directly over me. He pulled me under while furiously pummeling me. Every time he made contact with my body a small explosion came over his fists. He was had the advantage up to the lake bottom. I then started slamming him on the floor as hard as I could. It was a man made body of water as I soon found out when the bottom collapsed and created a whirlpool. I somehow held my ground with my opponent being crushed in a bear hug. As soon as the water was all washed away I fell on my knees and threw the madman to the side. He started coughing then laughing as he said, “I didn’t know you cared so much”. I responded, “What did you mean by brother?” He said that in project BAAL there were 40 specimens and that I was BAAL 37 and he was BAAL 40. Upon further conversation I found out that the first ten died of natural causes and eleven through twenty were killed by the military. About the time I asked about the remaining BAAL experiments, police helicopters arrived. # 40 then started running and I tried to follow as fast as I could. The helicopters started opening fire and # 40 attacked me with an explosive punch that threw me back far enough for the helicopters to surround me and forgot about #40. They landed and swat teams positioned around me. Some one in a formal suit was speaking to me on a megaphone, but the blast messed with my hearing a little. Then they raised the antenna of some strange machine and started looking surprised. Then a moron pulled out a bazooka and fired. I grabbed the missile in mid air very dramatically only to be hit from behind. I had enough of this over elaborate little performance and decided to walk away. The swat crew tried to stop me, but I had endurance and strength. The whole scene was pretty pathetic, with the guards hitting me, shooting me, and trying to dog pile me. I started to run and boy did I run. The same light energy that I used to fight the demons was now focused at my feet, which would explain how I held my ground in the whirl pool. Not trying to criticize the selected convenience of my powers I just went to enjoy super speed. I tried to find freedman city, but my new power gave out before I could figure where exactly where I was. But on the up side I was away from harm and got t my original plan of relaxing in the new city which the sign titled as, “Cailmervile.”
Of course I couldn’t be able to relax in spandex so I went into this small town. I saw a super market and broke in. I picked out some black clothes and went to change. I couldn’t get the spandex off, some tech complications. It was like it had a mind of its own, meaning I tried to cut it off and it moved. So I leave with a hooded jacket and some black jeans. The store security guy thinks he can take me on. I leave with him being a permanent part of the store. As I’m looking for somewhere to sleep some Goth punk salutes me. I literally break him in half, that’s when I notice that my adrenaline was pumping strong and it had affected my mood. Very fortunate for me I had an outlet coming around the corner. She, I am assuming was a witch and she was lifting cars with her mind and messing the town up.

((cut to the comic book series))
superhero name: Fatality
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