Chapter 2

I hadn't had to use them so far so maybe I could keep it a secret, for now. Thinking of my powers reminded me, I needed a recharge. I walked over to the nearest plug socket and stuck my finger out. A thin beam of electricity jumped its way over to my finger; as soon as it made contact I felt the power surge through me. The beam began to grow wider as I began to feel more alive. Now it was a blinding light of energy travelling from the socket to my hand, the lights above me began to flicker, the air conditioning unit powered down. I knew I had to stop. I sharply withdrew my hand from the plug socket and sat down on my bed energized.

My mum knocked on the door, "Are you alright in there?" she enquired. "I'm fine," I answered "you can come in if you like." The handle turned and my mother walked in, she sat down at the end of the bed with a worried look on her face. Before she could talk I cut in "I understand how strange this must all be, but I assure you we will all back to normal in no time at all. Since you're a part of this now I may as well explain why we are in this mess. As you know I work for shield, they caught me young and recruited me for my… intelligence." I decided to leave out the part about my powers. "Once they had me trained I was going on missions near enough every week, it was dangerous work but the money was great. That was until I came across the plans for a weapon. At this time there are only three people who have ever seen the plans; me, director Fury and the designer of the weapon."

"Do you understand this all so far?" I asked. My mum nodded her head as a sign for me to continue. "Director Fury ordered me to go home and lay low for a while, I knew my home might be compromised so I came back to visit my family. So far I believe we have been lucky, only Dr. Octopus knows about the weapon, but if this gets out we could be in even more trouble. That is why I have asked for the helicarrier, right now it is the safest place on earth. In 19 hours my family will be safe and I will be able to disappear until shield takes control of the situation."

The rest of the night went rather smoothly, we all got an early night's sleep due to the shock of the morning. When morning came we ordered room service for breakfast. Just one more hour till the helicarrier arrived, we had almost made it! Then I heard the all too familiar sound of wheel screeching and men piling out of a car. How had they found us? I looked outside of the window and saw Dr. Octopus climbing up the side of the building, heading straight for me.

I looked around the room searching for ideas, or at least an idea. I grabbed my m16 and began spraying bullets out the window. The men took cover and began to return fire; Doc Ock was halfway up the building now with his tendril like mechanical arms jabbing into the walls. I ran into my family's bedroom and told them all to get out of the building and to use the fire escape on the back of the building. I gave my older brother the M16 and told him to use it carefully. I then turned my attention to Doc Ock and his men. I sprinted back to my room and smashed straight through the window. I soared through the air, narrowly avoiding the barrage of bullets sailing straight past me.

In the air I twisted my body into a better landing position; we were on the 21st floor so I had quite a way to fall. I put my feet beneath me in order to land in a crouched position. My feet were about to touch the floor when I summoned a cushion of energy below me to soften the fall. I landed and immediately threw an energy shield in front of me to protect me from the bullets now raining down upon me. Doc Ock too jumped off the side of the building and landed with a crash a few feet away from me.

I crouched down summoning a large amount of energy, I could feel it flow through me and converge in the centre of my stomach. With one swift movement I stood up straight, letting the energy explode out from inside me. The blue energy made its way through the air until it met any one of the men, then it jumped inside of them, immobilising their bodies momentarily. All the men fell down at once, except Doc Ock. He had managed to take cover in the building. He burst out of the wall, sending fragments of concrete flying through the air. One of his metallic arms launched itself right at me. I dived out of the way at the last moment, the arm smashed straight into a flower pot shattering it. Another arm came at me but this time I went on the offensive.

A great shield of energy formed in front of me, blocking the attack from Doc Ock. Both his arms retreated back to behind him; he smirked and added "nice tricks." I ran full speed at him; about halfway I leapt up into the air, summoned a ball of energy and threw it right at him. I fell to the ground landing gracefully. The ball hit the Doctor square in the chest, sending him flying backwards through the wall. He smashed his way through three different sections of the building, ending with a loud thud against a concrete wall. He slumped down onto the floor surrounded by dust and debris.

I thought I was safe for a second or two, but then his body and robotic arms sprang into action, lifting him up. He began advancing on me; I got ready to throw another energy ball. All of a sudden he threw himself at me; one of his arms caught me in the stomach creating a deep gash. His other arms grabbed hold of my limbs, pinning me down against the floor. I tried to summon some energy but the pain was too intense, I could not concentrate. Then I heard the unmistakable sound of the hellicarrier. It was close, but would not arrive for another few minutes. At least my family would be ok.

Doc Ock drew back one of his large robotic arms and brought it hurtling back down into my face. The pain was unimaginable. Blood gushed from the various cuts across my head and out of my stomach. I could feel myself falling into black. One more strike to the head and I was out…