Beamer – Chapter 1
All I know is what I can do, the powers and curses that I have. I have no idea who I really am, but they call me Beamer. All I can remember is the accident.
It was about a year ago. I was a soldier. Me and another man, I can't remember his name either, were walking towards some kind of factory… a nuclear missile factory. We were supposed to destroy it without detonating the missiles. Something went horribly wrong. We planted the charges right where we were supposed to. They were supposed to just cave the building in and bury the missiles. We had no idea the missiles would actually be out. When the charges went off, they broke the missiles. Radiation leaked everywhere. My partner and I were exposed to it. Everything went black.
I woke up some time later, in the ruins of the factory. I couldn't remember who I was. There were men all around me, pointing guns at me, speaking in some foreign language I could somehow understand. "Should we kill the beast?" one man was asking. "Yes, destroy him painfully," replied another. The first man picked me up, dragged me over to a wall in the ruins, and walked back. He pointed his weapon, and RPG, at me, and fired.
The rocket flew at me, and I thought I was going to die. I instinctively raised my hand, and the RPG stopped in mid-air. The men all stared at me. I had no idea what I had just done. All the men raised their guns and got ready to fire. I sent the RPG back at them. It hit exactly where I had wanted it to, and exploded, taking out half of them. I closed my fist, and the explosion compacted. It flew over to my hand, and I sent it back at the rest of the men. I unclenched my fist and the explosion resumed, this time 5 times bigger.
With all the men dead, I got up and started walking…
A year later, I am in America, trying to live a normal life, occasionally testing out my powers. A few months ago, I figured out that I had manipulated energy back in the Middle East. I could change kinetic energy of moving objects to make them stop, or move in a different direction, or float in mid-air. I could also manipulate heat and friction to make fire and lightening and explosions.
I had become a super-human…