Before you start: This is not a typical superhero story, they will not become heroes for a few chapters. Also, I will start each chapter with a quote and at the end will be where that quote is from if I have that information. FF means it's from a fanfiction and will be placed before the title. YT means it's from a YouTube channel.
Remember darling, even a dull object can be turned into a knife if it goes fast enough.
There's something you must understand before hearing the stories of San Francisco's Heroes. The first of which is that they didn't start out as heroes. In fact, they were criminals. Criminals of science! They didn't actually commit any crimes though, they were framed.
You see, in 2002 the crack science duo was sent to prison for a crime they did not commit. However, it did not take long for them to start committing crimes once they were in there. Crimes against the prison rules, not against Newton.
"Bet 'cha a could make a weapon out of this." Adam said, fiddling with a newspaper he had gotten that morning.
Jamie looked up from his position on the toilet and folded his paper "What kind of weapon are we talking about?" he scoffed.
Adam blinked, once, twice, and then smiled. "I'm thinking a cross bow."
"Want to have a little competition then?"
"You're on good sir." Adam laughed, getting up and shaking Jamie's hand. "But we can use more than just a newspaper, right?"
"As long as you don't get caught."
How they got the needed material was anyone's guess, probably stealing it from different areas in the prison. How they didn't get caught, well, all the inmates are pretty sure it was magic. Though Jamie would say difference, but he didn't really have a good reason so no one really cared.
Even after the one rule was set, Jamie still accused Adam of cheating, and vice versa. The other prisoners just kind of shrugged it off and let them continue with their competition because they wanted to see who were win. These two were interesting characters, they claimed that they were innocent but then they decided to build weapons of death in their spare time because they wanted to see who was better. When asked, they said that they had been framed by an evil villain who didn't like their use in science. Well, if they liked prison so much, then let them stay. They were already there for life anyways, might as well make it intertaining.
Their life in prison wasn't like the other. Somehow, Jami had been allowed to wear his beret and Adam wouldn't wear an orange jump suit, instead an old fashion black and white stripped one. For the most part, the other people who lived and worked in the prison learned to just shrug off whatever the two did. They've kept things interesting.
It wasn't much longer until both of the cross bows were done and ready for testing. But neither of them knew how to test it, sure they could just shoot it out of their bars, but they didn't want to risk injuring a fellow inmate. So instead, they made a fake head and shot at that instead.
That… got them in trouble.
First of all, the prison guards wanted to know where they got the fake head. Adam, being Adam, truthfully told them how they made it. He said that they didn't want to hurt anyone, so they made a fake someone. When the guards asked them why they did it, Adam again told them the truth. It was for a competition.
That, got them separated.
And in trouble.
But Adam was mostly upset about being separated from Jamie. At least he was still in earshot, the prisoners around them would just have to deal. But they never did get to test their cross bows.
And that, was the unusual start to their heroic carrier. A heroic start, that started in prison.
At least they were framed! So it wasn't their fault!