Hi just so you all know this is just going to be a re-write of Lightning Strike, I'll go more into depth at the end of the chapter.

Jackson talon was sitting at the kitchen counter of his small apartment in Hell's kitchen, New York.

His parents were arguing again, and on his birthday no less.

He hated it when they argued, it was mainly daddy hitting mommy and calling her names like "whore" and "stupid bitch".

Usually their arguing was quiet, not this time was a bit different.

He heard every word of their argument "Scott please he's just a little boy" his mother cried.

"I DON'T CARE YOU STUPID WHORE. HE'S A QUIRKLESS PIECE OF SHIT HELEN" his dad yelled, then Jackson noticed that his dad had a revolver in his hand, and that it was pointed at his mother's face. "BOY GET IN HERE" his dad yelled.

"Yes dad" Jackson's sheepish voice called.

"Jackson honey run!" his mother said she as she used her quirk and his father's legs became encased in crystal like substance.

Jackson started to leave but he heard a very loud bang.

He turned around to see the gun was smoking and his mother had a hole in her head.

His initial emotions were heartbreaking sadness then seathing rage.

His father, no this man was no longer his father, this man was pure evil.

Scott picked him up by his throat and threw him into the kitchen he was trapped and had no where to go.

But then he remembered; the fridge's front legs were uneven with the back ones, so to keep it from falling over they used a plank of wood to keep it balanced.

Jackson ran up to it and yanked the wood out from under the fridge it started to tip over, Scott then entered the kitchen...and tripped on a loose tile falling face first on to the floor right under the fridge. And before he could get back up the fridge fell on his head crushing his skull.

Jackson's eyes widened as he realized what he just did sure he hated Scott but he never intended for this to happen.

The police arrived a few hours later he was told that he had an uncle in Japan and that he was moving there.

He was only allowed to bring one thing other than his clothes he chose the necklace that his mom gave him when he was just three years old.

XXXXXXJax was sitting in his room, it had been 3 years since the incident with his parents and living with his uncle wasnt any better.

He shared his father's view on quirkless people but he had some mercy in him and dropped Jax off at an orphanage for quirkless people.

He heard a knock on his door and saw Daniel another kid from the orphanage "Hey me and like 9 other kids are going hiking wanna join?" Dan asked "Yeah sure just let me get ready" Jax said.

Jax walked down the stairs to the lobby and saw who was going to be joining him.

If his memory served him right their was Calvin, Mordecai, Ravi, Daniel, Marcus, Mavis, Katherine, Natalie, Valerie, and Samantha.

"Hey there bud" Calvin cheerfully said "It's too early in the morning for that amount of energy dude" Kai groggily said "Oh cheer up big brother, he's just being friendly" Katherine said, she was 7 years old a year younger than everyone else and arguably the most bubbly out of everyone there, "Y'all lets just go" Sam said.

They made their way up the trail that was close by making small talk with one another until Mavis slipped and fell down a hill.

"MAVIS" Natalie yelled as they all ran down to help her "I'm fine guys really" Mavis said "I mean I scraped my knee but i can still walk" "Um guys you might want to see this" Ravi called from a few feet away "What is it?" Jax said.

Then he saw what Ravi was talking about.

In front of them was a very poorly lit cave, by this time the rest of the group had caught up with them "Cool, demon cave" Calvin said with sparkles in his eyes "Calvin please dont go in there" Mavis said "I don't know about you idiots, but I am going in there" Marcus said "anyone with me."

Jax pulled a headlamp out of his pocket "Couldn't hurt to go explore" he said. "Hell yeah I'm going in there!" Calvin and Katherine said in unison "Katie, what did i say about you swearing" Kai yelled at her.

"Well I supposed we should stick together" Valarie said "Alright then stay behind me and lets go" Jax said.

They entered the cave and walked in a single file line behind Jax because he was the one with the light.

"Hey guys look at this" Jax said. In front of them was 11 pedestals forming a circle they all had an indent in them that looked like a handprint specifically the left one.

"Oh hell yeah" Cal said he walked towards one of the indents until Jax grabbed his hand "The fuck do you think you're doing" Jax said "Come on dude this is how people get super powers in those movies before quirk times" Cal retorted "We could finally get on equal footing with everyone else, don't you want that. besides what's the worst that could happen"

"He does have a point" Dan said everyone else seemed on board with him.

Jax let out a frustrated sigh "Alright then everyone take a pedestals" Jax said. They placed their hands on the pedestals.

Pain engulfed each one of their hands as their hands started to burn, their initials became burned into the back of their hands before a multitude of bright, different colored light flashed and each one of them slumped to the ground, unconscious.

XXXXXXJax sat up in the dark cavern and grabbed the headlamp next to him and switched on the high-beams.

He saw that his companions were starting to get up as well although, he only saw 9 he just assumed that this person went to go get help.

He then turned his flashlight to the corner of the cave and saw a man wearing a classy suit but with the tie missing and he had a black skull mask and a weird neck brace thing.

Jax then noticed the man was not moving, at all, he didn't even seem to be breathing. That's when Jax realized...this man was dead.

Jax and everyone else panicked for a good 30-40 minutes give or take. When they had finally calmed down they left the cave and started hiking back 'home'. They didn't speak a word to each other during the walk back.

As they were approaching the orphanage they saw ash everywhere they rounded the corner they saw that the building was nothing but a burning pile of rubble.

And they saw Marcus, covered in blood with a demonic grin on his face.

"Well that was easy" he turned to Jax and his friends "Now, which one of you wants to die first" he snarled. Nobody answered him "ugh fine youngest to oldest" he said lunging for Katherine who made an x with her arms in order to defend herself.

"ARGH" they heard Marcus scream in pain, and he was right to do so considering a vine as sharp as a knife was sticking out of his chest. Daniel, Calvin, and Jax took the opportunity to run forward and punch him.

Calvin slammed his fist into his crotch setting it ablaze while yelling 'cock shot', Jax's fist connected with his jaw sending a jolt of electricity into his body, and when Daniel's fist hit his chest he and Marcus teleported into the air and Daniel continued to beat him senselessly until they slammed back down on the ground.

As soon as he was standing Samantha kicked his knee, with what looked to be a boot made of rock on her foot, making it bend the other way and from his waist down was covered in stone, then Mavis simply touched his back, and his torso and arms were covered in ice, immobilizing him.

Then the right side of his face was hit with a powerful blast of water from Valarie, while the left was hit with a powerful blast of acid from Natalie. Next, he was launched into the air and slammed back onto the ground by Ravi and then pinned down by metal beams by Kai.

Marcus chuckled while coughing up blood, his body kept spasming out of control. Meanwhile, Jax was digging through the rubble for something he considered this to be the final sentiment that he had left of his mother. After 10 minutes he finally found it, the necklace his mother had given him when he was three, it was a silver chain with a silver hourglass hanging off of it, on the back of it was the engraved initials JT.

He only ever took it off twice: he wasn't wearing it when his dad killed his mom and he wasn't wearing it today, so it was safe to assume that it was a good luck charm.

"Jax we gotta go, pro heroes are here, Marcus is dead" Samantha said in a somber voice.

Jax turned around to see the pro heroes; Eraserhead, Present mic, Midnight, All Might, Vlad King, and Endeavor.

"Stop there you delinquents" Vlad King shouted at them "Relax Vlad King I can just put them to sleep with my quirk" Midnight said nonchalantly clearly not even wanting to be there "Theymay be kids but don't underestimate them everyone" All Might's voice boomed.

"Well we're all fucking dead, Valerie when I tell you trap them all in a water bubble" Jax said walking towards the heroes "Follow this one's example and give up you brats" Endeavor hissed, Jax chuckled at this

"What exactly are you laughing about kid?" Eraserhead asked growing suspicious "Oh nothing, it's just, this overgrown bonfire thinks that I'm surrendering" Jax said before yelling "VALERIE DOUSE 'EM NOW" the heroes were then encased in a gigantic water bubble and Jax shot the biggest lightning bolt that he could muster at it.

Jax then felt a hand on his back as he was swallowed by a black and purple mist

Jax and his friends re-appeared three feet above the ground and landed flat on their faces.

"Couldn't you have let us land on out feet Daniel" Ravi complained.

"I just found out I can do this like 8 minutes ago" Daniel groaned "Oh boy, murder forest" Jax said sarcastically "WELL EXCUSE ME FOR WARPING US SOMEWHERE UNINTENTIONAL, WITH A POWER I JUST LEARNED ABOUT TODAY" Daniel yelled "Dude, chill" Valerie said "Um guys you might want to see this" Mavis said.

They turned in her direction and saw a giant, run down mansion "Why the hell is there a mansion in the middle of the woods?" Samantha questioned.

"This could work actually work pretty well" Kai said "What do you mean?" Natalie asked (sorry I've been neglecting her) "Think about it" Kai said "It's secluded, itys spacious, Valerie can give us clean water, and Jax could give us electricity" "slSure why the hell not" Calvin shrugged "Wait you guys are really going to go through with this?" Jax asked genuinely surprised that everyone was agreeing. Everyone nodded their heads, Jax threw his hands up in the air and said "Alright, fuck it" (I know that this ending was cheesy, leave me alone)

HEROES

Jackson Talon:Electrokinesis

Daniel James: Umbrakinesis

Calvin King: Pyrokinesis

Ravi Iyer: Areokinesis

MordecaiMoore:Metallokinesis and Cyberkinesis (I gave him two because he needs to be a bit more combat efficient, my original plan for him was for him to be just a technopath)

Mavis White:Cryokinesis

Valerie Young:Hydrokinesis

Katherine Moore:Ecokinesis

Samantha Smith:Geokinesis

Natalie Allen:Acidokinesis

VILLAINS

Marcus Ramirez: Hemokinesis

these are their quirksfor those of you whoareconfused.

So there it is, as you can see I have retconed how Jax got the brand and I also gave everyone else a brand. I rewrote the story because I just didn't feel satisfied with the other one. Also for the rewrite I'm not going to be putting Jax into hero school because I realized that if I do that then my other OC's will become nothing but background characters and I really didn't want that, so I'm going with the vigilante route this time. Another reason that I am rewriting Lightning strike is that it was very cringe inducing and that aint gonna fly with my infinitely better writing skills (thank god im taking a reading and writing workshop class) and because my skills are better I should be ables to make better stories for you guys.That's it for now, peace.