A Zoom fanfiction:

The Summer That changed my life

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Prologue:

The Summer I Was Sent Away

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Summery: Summer is a part of the Zenith team, a group of people with 'super-powers' who use their unique talents to fight evil and save the earth on a regular basis. While she is kept locked up in the base to develop her power she also begins to develop a fascination for the last Zenith team. Most of them had been killed years before, all except for Zoom, or so they think. As she is taught how to use her powers, Summer finds herself becoming increasingly distracted. She is fascinated with a dead man, Connor, from the old team and she sets out to find out what really happened all those years ago and uncover the mystery that surrounds his death.

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Disclaimer: I do not own Zoom

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Summer had arrived at the military base the day before and was made part of the Zenith team almost right away. She was monitored and watched thoroughly by the scientific team of the base and by the end of her first day in this foreign place she was sure they must know everything about her by now. They had done many tedious tests to examine her abilities, had recorded many other observations and also taken so many notes; whatever was written in them she didn't understand and didn't even care to comprehend.

She had been shown to her new living quarters the night before so that she could sleep. It wasn't much, just a small bedroom, like the one she had had while staying at the foster care home. All the other facilities such as bathrooms and kitchens, etc were shared. This place reminded her more and more of her previous foster care home. However, there was one big difference; when it came to getting up for school she usually didn't have to wake up until eight in the morning. But here, as soon as dawn approached they were forced up and out of their beds at an unreasonable hour and Summer was given her first bitter taste of what this institution would be like and how her life would be from now on.

Getting up out of bed in her uniform issued shorts and tank top pyjama set she walked over to her draws, still bleary eyed, and rummaged through them for her new –also uniform issue – clothes. Pulling out the terrible looking mustard yellow jumpsuit with the Zenith logo on it that she would be made to wear she stared at it for a minute in wonder at who could have chosen such a colour for their outfits. Then deciding that she didn't really care anyway, Summer pulled out her underwear and a dark green tank top to wear underneath the suit. She also grabbed a towel, her shampoo, her toothbrush and a hair bobble and proceeded to head out of her room with these things in hand to find the showers in this place.

Finally she had found the female's facilities and had breakfast, which consisted of a bowl of weatabix and a glass of orange juice and had then found the female shower rooms and taken a nice long hot shower. She had taken her time washing her hair, not caring if she was supposed to be rushing to get ready since she had been so rudely awakened so early in the morning. This was her pay back. After she was dried off and changed she brushed her teeth thoroughly and washed her face and tied up her now clean and damp shiny long red hair in to a French plait to let it dry and naturally curl slightly. She stared at her reflection in the mirror with her beautiful chocolate brown eyes and happily examined her perfect naturally pale soft and smooth complexion to make sure there were no ugly spots appearing. Finally Summer was satisfied with how she looked and keeping her icy demeanour in check she stalked out of the bathroom and in to the lions den.

When Summer was ready she was ushered in to a conference style room with her new teammates who she had yet to be properly introduced to. A young woman walked in a moment later, well actually she more or less stumbled in clumsily and then straightened herself, trying to look dignified and as it that hadn't just happened. When the woman got to the front of the room she turned to face them, coughed a little as if clearing her throat to get their attention and introduced herself to them as Marsha. Not bothering with other introductions just yet she hurried on to the next topic, not taking questions at this moment at time as she stated when Summer tried to ask her what they were here for. Brushing off Summer's query she announced the news to them; they had all given an impressive display of their powers and now that the preliminary observations were over and done with they were now officially in her care. They would stay here to be trained in how to use their 'special' abilities in combat and for the greater good. The woman smiled, beaming happily at them, as if this was an exciting field trip of something and the children were enjoying themselves, when really this was a government facility they were locked up in and it didn't look like any of them were enjoying themselves so far. First impressions of Marsha weren't great and Summer silently defined her as a bit of a klutz and obviously naïve if she was always this cheery, considering that she was locked up in this dreary prison. However, she was amazing at evading questions and only gave them positive and obviously fake answers. Summer quickly learned that she had no choice in the matter of her life.

As she sat there silently, waiting for Marsha to stop prattling on about how 'special' they all were and start the introductions, Summer was so bored that she started to reminisce about her past. Summer's parents had left her when she was a child and she had been in foster homes ever since. That was how the government had found her; her powers had always been a problem for her and the families she had stayed with had sent her back when they found out what a 'freak' she was. As a ward of the state she had been sent here for being different. She had no home to go back to; just a foster care home for other abandoned children, which was filled with people who were all scared of her and her powers. Her life at the local high school hadn't been at all fun either, she was constantly victimised and taunted by bullies because she was 'strange' and didn't like to make attachments to people since they all left her eventually. So with no life to get back to she had reluctantly obeyed the American government and was now trapped once again in an unknown and terribly strict place; this was the story of her life really.

However in this strange place she wasn't alone, there were others like her here too; other people with 'abilities'. This was supposed to give her hope, but instead it gave her little comfort at all.

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So, that was the prologue for my first Zoom story so far.

Sorry if the structure of the paragraphs seemed a little weird or off in some way. For some reason that's how it seemed to me but I can't really see why when I look back over it. So if you have any idea what could be wrong with the way I have written this prologue then please let me know what I can do to fix it.

I remember when I was younger and this film came out and I watched it over and over. Then the other day I found it and watched it again and decided to start up some fan-fictions about it. ^^

I noticed that there aren't that many stories up for Zoom so hopefully I will be able to change that a bit by writing up all my story ideas. :"]

I have so many ideas but this is the one I liked the most so I developed it and this story is the result.

I hope that you enjoyed the prologue for my upcoming story and if you liked it then keep an eye out for the first chapter, which I will be posting up soon. ^__^

Thanks for reading and please review.

…Anie