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This is a work of fiction.

'Italics means he is talking to himself /inner voice'

"inverted commas" means a normal conversation.

ZERO TO HERO II

I know they say everyone is beautiful in their own way. But by goodness some mutants are hard to look at! Call me a bastard about it, but you haven't seen half the shit I have. Wow, the most messed up case was the gender bent Benjamin Button happening to a 14 year old girl, making her look like a granny. And she had super strength. I've been here for just two days now and I'm still getting used to it.

Ok, maybe I was exaggerating it a little, some of them do look cool. Alot the others who looked barely humanoid had their own points I guess. But I see why humans would hate some of them, without proper education you would actually come to call them monsters and those 'monsters' were the real nice guys, you can see the effects of their names of them, most of them just hide out and refuse to show their faces. They lose any form of confidence they might have possessed prior to their mutant manifestations. It's sad that we judge by looks, but in the outside world that's how it goes. No one is going to see your inner beauty they're too superficial for that. We are creatures of sight.

"OK David, as long as you're ready" A bald headed man in a wheelchair appeared on the flat screens bolted to the silvery metal walls in one of the training room.

I gave the professor a thumbs up,tapped the earpiece in and got on the specialized treadmill. Yes, today we find out if I got the barely utilized -I can only go hypersonic- movie series speed force, or the normal -light-speed is my bitch- speed force that we all know and love from the cartoons and mainstream comics. You know the one that allowed the flash to clear out the whole population of a small city in North Korea in less than a microsecond as a nuke went off.

The one where he was calculated to have moved at thirteen trillion times the Speed of light.

The same one that allows him to witness events that occur in less than an attosecond. Twelve attoseconds are the shortest measurable period of time.

Take this for a comparison, In 1 second light can circle the Earth in about 7.5 times. If your perception of time reaches a point where you can perceive a single attosecond light would appear frozen, stuck in place to you. Because light would barely manage to move from one molecule to the next in that attosecond. It would be the great big pause of light.

Are you seeing the effects of the Speed Force on my intellect? I am. And it's insanely ridiculous.

I breathed out, and began running. Starting very very slow at first.

"600 mph!" It's shocking that you can go from 0 mph to 600 mph in less than a second and it barely even registers. I didn't feel any resistance or friction whatsoever. Speedforce, oh Speedforce. The sound barrier was only a step away.

I amped it up a bit. "1,200mph!" I was going as fast a jet.

Kaboom! "2,664 mph!" small flickers of red lightning started appearing on my body, I had broken through multiple sound barriers. That was the speed of Barry Allen in the movie series. I had easily broken past it. Now it's time for the real stuff.

Red Lightning crackled over my skin and formed a haze around me. "14,673 mph!" I was moving past hypersonic speeds.

"38,635 mph!" I was going faster than a space shuttle on re-entry. The whips of red lightning began to thicken, I still felt like when I started, everything was comfortable, I was under no physical exertion.

"97,887 mph!" It was akin to a simple slow jog.

"125,308 mph! 162,802 mph! 201,865mp!" The numbers were increasing exponentially. White smoke began to rise from the treadmill.

"299,087 mph! Stop! David you have to stop the machine is going to explode!" the voice of the professor said in my ear. I didn't want to stop running now, it was too good. I wanted to see what I could do, I was barely even tired as is. So I pushed.

"343,374 mph! Stop! Davi-" I ripped the earpiece out and focused on the Speed meter built into the treadmill. If I were a normal speedster without the protection of the Speed Force, the friction would begin to roast my skin off, my bones would shatter in shock and I would literally shit-out my guts and intestines.

My very footsteps began to sound like muffled thunder. Thick black smoke was coming off the mill. The lightning around me turning brighter, it all still felt comfortably fast. Like running at an easy going fairly fast pace.

[400,988mph. 463,972mph. 509,799mph. 599,999mph. 667,06-#$&% ] Everything was in super slo-mo as the treadmill became a frame-frozen sculpture with a budding mass of flames for a center and metallic projectiles stuck in air. My perception of time had increased to match my ridiculous speeds. And was different from when it first activated after escaping the grave. I leaped off the treadmill and placed both feet steadily on the wall, and I ran. This was to kill for, as much as it was to die for. The impossible made possible. My heart took much joy in this. A mere human, performing such godly feats of speed. It was more than extraordinary.

I grabbed the metal pieces stuck in place and they budged, flopping into my hands with zero kinetic force.

It worked. Taking an object's kinetic energy and momentum felt like squeezing a sponge filled with water into a bigger sponge or a an endless bucket. The endless bucket here being my Speed Force as it could take as much momentum I could sap. I ran around the room grabbing all the metallic pieces and setting them neatly on the ground.

I placed my hand over the mass of flames on the treadmill and vibrated my palms. The kinetic energy in the plasma being instantly sapped out of it, adding to mine, effectively extinguishing the fire. When everything was done to my satisfaction, I paused and let my perception slow back down to normal time.

"My God" I could feel the awe in the professor's voice, over the monitors.

The Speedforce is will bound, it will take a speedster as fast they want to go, as long as they had the drive and will for it. Well among other reasons, but it is an infinite source of power that has existed before time, it spans across all dimensions, universes and realities. It was whispering in my ears, telling me things I didn't know before; the closer I got to it, the more I interacted with it, the more I could grow, and the stronger our connection would become.

I was hungry again, very hungry. My metabolism had increased and with it my appetite. It was seriously off the charts.

I exited the room, to a sight of the blue furry form of the beast and professor X excitedly talking about my powers.

"Amazing! It's all I can say David." he smacked his knees in joy. "Dr McCoy here, will properly explain it."

Hank McCoy took over the explanation with a smile across his blue feline face. He pointed at the computer screens displaying charts of my vitals and videos of my run.

"Your body is tapping into this inter-dimensional force of unlimited space-time and kinetic energy. It's quite similar to the way Scott eyes acts as a portal to a dimension of concussive force. But yours are spectacularly different and vastly advanced. This endless cosmic energy source is simply unheard of. I'm sure with your level of stamina and durability you barely even feel any discomfort going at such speeds other than the hunger.

"Of course and your thought processes and neural transmissions are undoubtedly off the charts, I wonder how well you can multitask? But that's a question for another time.

Your mutation let's you become a conduit to this extra-dimensional energy, your body is being remoulded at molecular levels to effectively and efficiently utilize and connect to it. But it seems that these are just the early stages, hence the reason why your body is burning up so much glucose. And leading to your increased metabolism." he brought up another screen.

"So, we'd like to start you on a mega-glucose diet, and put you under observation. We don't know the limits of your powers and this extra dimension you tap into"

"Speed Force." "Excuse me" the beast said.

"The dimension of energy, I'm calling it the Speed force" I answered.

"Catchy, it's quite a fitting name as well" the professor nodded.

"Here, you must be starving" Dr McCoy handed me a protein bar.

"You have no idea" I ravenously chowed down on it.

"You should head on to the cafeteria before you miss launch"

"Yep, that was my destination. See you later professor, you too Dr McCoy" I said putting an extra push in my steps for added speed.

"He's amazing isn't he, Hank ? Such great power, and all he wants to do is help make the world better. This fills me with hope my friend."

"Indeed, Charles. He has his heart in the right place"

I steadily placed my tray packed full with food on the table. Ignoring the others who sat with friends and partners.

"What a masterpiece" 10 mouth watering meat burgers, with a side of fried sausages, complemented with boxes of fries, strips of beacon and a mountain of eggs and a gallon of orange juice to add that vitamin c. It amounted to over 9,000 calories(heh), my mouth was watering as is, just looking at it.

I had to consume this much food, for breakfast alone to sustain myself. It's not so bad, I gained an interest in cooking now, plus I don't get fat. Of course this will have to be remedied, maybe with compact nutrient bars or the Speed Force connection, but that's all in due time.

"Are you actually going to eat all that?" A girl with eyes as brown as her shoulder length hair. She had healthy sun tanned complexion, and she was well endowed, wow.

She placed her tray across mine and took a seat. I got a closer look at her and man she was a hottie.

"Hi, I'm Sophie from Venezuela" she said with a cute smile on her face, showing her dimples.

I raised a finger, telling her to wait. My perception sped up as my speed kicked in. I devoured the piles of food on my tray down to the very last piece. And then resumed normal speed.

"Hey, Sophie. I'm David from New York." I replied with a smile.

"Ohmigod!" her mouth hung open. She shook her head and stared at me. "How are you not fat? You know what, no, forget it, I'll probably stop being surprised soon enough"

I chuckled "You new here?"

"Yep, got admitted three days back. Haven't seen your face around, you're new too right?" she asked.

"Yes, I am. Your accent is really natural for a foreign student" I poured the juice into a cup and drank from it.

"Thanks I guess, my dad insisted that I get it down to perfection" she pushed her hair back and took a forkful of veggies from her plate.

"So, no friends?" I asked Leaning back into my seat.

"Right on the head. Everyone here seems to have formed a group of some kind. And they're not accepting new members"

"Yea, I noticed that too. I'm sure it'll be different once we get to know them. You might want to consider joining the cute girls."

She raised her brow and giggle" Yea right. So, David. What's your power? I can control winds and that includes hearing the sounds carried on air. Like those girls over there who think you're cute, but a glutton. Or those guys who think you're lame showoff"

"For real. Heh, well I do enchanting eyes." I winked at her, to which she snorted and shook her head. "I'm a super-speedster. Yes, it's different from the norm. My powers are somewhat electric based but very diverse. You have great power set tho, the applications are basically limitless"

"Thanks. Yours are cool too, although I haven't seen them ye- Oh no!" she screamed in terror, startling me.

I shot off my seat and looked around but couldn't find a threat. That's when I noticed that everyone's eyes were focused on a large screen I had sat turned away from.

"Holy f**cking sh!t." Planes, two of them appeared on split screens. One was about to crash in midtown new work and another was about to smash into a bridge. I listened to what the newscaster was saying.

"The ten rings terrorist organization has claimed to behind the sabotaging of the two Airbus carriers on a crash course towards Manhattan, New York. We advice people in the immediate areas to vacate the occupied buildings and take refuge in….."

Where the heck was Tony Stark, where were all the heavy hitters. I just got my powers, how could this happen now!

"My mom's in Manhattan!" "Can't we help?!" "Are you dumb! What the hell are you expecting us to do?!" the voices began turning hysterical. I had to do something.

I speed around the mansion, donning fitting black long sleeves, jeans and combat boots. I tried creating speed force armor constructs but all I could do was create an orange-red thunderbolt on my chest. I grabbed a surgical mask from the infirmary during my exit. I had to make do with what I got.

I pulled the Speed Force in me, causing red lightning to crazily crackle around me as I speed towards Manhattan from Salem.

/X/

I sped through the congested roads, racing past cars and running atop them. Leaving a blur and trails of lightning behind me.

I had created a speed mirage with simple orders to keep shooting tornadoes at the second falling plane while I head to the first. I saw the incoming plane in slow motion as it was posed to crash into one of the towering skyscrapers. My legs kicked harder, with one feet in front of the next I began running on glass, that made up the sides of the skyscraper. I ran straight up and lunged off the top of the building. Gliding in the air, kicking my legs and shooting for the plane, I vibrated and phased through the nose of the plane, past the dead pilots in the cabin into the passenger section. Where two armed men stood pointing their guns, I noticed the put together bomb vests on them. They were frame frozen, I disassembled the bomb vests and guns like pulling apart a Lego set and tightly constrained the men.

I placed my hands on both sides of the section, I didn't even have time to breathe the jet was too close to the skyscraper. I began vibrating, I began pushing so much energy into the jet that I felt painful tugs in my stomach. Time resumed and everyone was screaming. I pushed, the power wasn't enough. I pushed again, it stopped I wasn't concentrating enough. 'Focus! People are going to die if you don't'

"Arrggghhh!" I shouted in pain, I pushed with my might, a vibrational harmony was reached. The jet phased through the skyscrapers like the visage of a ghost. The passengers exclaimed as offices, cubicles and people passed through them without a single disturbance.

I wasn't don't yet. My feet went through the bottom of the jet and began rotating at Mach speeds, which created vortexes that propelled forward for an empty stadium which was going to be our destination. My speed clone had dissipated, I couldn't sustain it, I couldn't concentrate enough, through all this pain.

THUDNN! The metal groaned as we impacted the hard ground not so softly. The interior quaking along with the lessened screams of people who now noticed me. The wings of the plane had been torn off during the landing, but the winds had cushioned them from most of the brunt force. I could feel the warm trickle of blood down my nose and into my mouth. Staining the mask red and causing me to cough. I dashed out of the jet, leaving scorch marks with my steps.

I had reached the bridge in mere instants from leaving the stadium. White vortexes of powerful winds shot from both of my rotating hands, easing the jet from its nose dive into a horizontal position hovering above and over the bridge, landing on the river below. I was running calculations for everything I did, the vortexes had just the right amount of power.

Saying I was exhausted was an understatement, I just wanted to flop to my knees and breathe, which I did, resisting the urge to rip the bloodsoaked surgical mask off, and eat till fall asleep. The sounds of helicopter blades slicing through the air, and with it the news helicopters with cameras out and focused. I crawled back to my feet, and looked ahead to witness a bare bodied man with long white hair floating in air, colorful blasts of energy fired from his hands at an approaching humanoid streamlined red armor.

Tony would handle his fight, I was too exhausted to be helpful. I kicked the ground and dashed towards the mansion, back in Salem.

/X/

I burst through the doors and I didn't stop running, till I crashed into Dr McCoy's lab and rolled on the floor. For what it's worth, I was proud of what I had done. I was proud that I had averted such a crisis, and I was joyful to be feeling better, like I had broken past a limit I never knew was there. I felt the Speed Force move in me as I drifted off to sleep.

The giant blue paws wrapping around me and laying me on a softer bed, the sound of clothes being torn and the sting of a needle going into my arm.

/X/

"He was this blur, like a bolt of lightning bam! He's inside the plane the terrorists tied up and we were going through office buildings, like ghosts!"

"OH, it was totally rad! This dude in black with a thunderbolt on his chest, roared like a friggin lion through all the screams. And just like that, zoom! The skyscraper we were 'posed to crash into we went through like wind brah! We were ghosting through it all like some Patrick Swayze s#%$"

"sob I thought I was going to die sob I just had a fight with my mom earlier. And then the guys with guns and bomb vests just took over the plane and shot at the pilots and I thought that was it, I would never get to see my mom again. I looked through the window and saw the plane crashing down into New York when I suddenly heard sob the sound of lightning, and then a painful roar and the plane was going through all the buildings without even damaging them. And this guy was there kneeling with blood on his mask and he just upped and disappeared. I learned, to go save the others on another plane"

"And there you have it people, a new hero in New York. Who is this mystery hero who rescued both flights from such disasters. Whoever you are, we the people of New York are grateful. Cindy Jenkins for channel 5 news, signing out"

/X/

"So, he has the phasing abilities of kitty's?" The red headed Jean asked the blue feline beast, Hank McCoy.

"It's similar, but very different. Here" Hank resumed the video, in a clearer resolution and in slow motion. The video displayed the plane going through short vibrations and then a steady barely noticed one. "He created a large scale macroscopic quantum wave function, generating and sustaining a controlled tunneling through matter, all by using his speed and the speed force energy"

"I'll admit, he saved a large number of people, but he did so without orders or any form of alert. We can't have the kids running off to do what they want to when they want to. Imagine if all the others followed his example in inappropriate conditions" The visor wearing cyclops added.

"Lay off the kid, slim. He saved countless lives by doing what he did. Ain't no reason to beat him up for not getting permission from you. Kid's got a good heart, and balls" Wolverine said with a mirthful smile taking a puff of his cigar, earning him a hard gaze from cyclops.

"Professor?"

"He might be rough around the edges, but David, like Logan said has his heart in a good place. I believe we can be a little lenient in the applications of rules in such a case. We should be more flexible and adaptive in certain situations" The bald professor Xavier said. This could be another chance for people to see the good mutants could accomplish. That not all of them were evil, or destroyers, but forces of good.

"I think so too. What can I say, I'm a fan of such heroism, and the thoughtfully creative applications of abilities." Hank forwarded the video to parts displaying the vortexes, the Speed clone and the phasing.

"Indeed, did he ever decide on a code name?"

"No, he hasn't yet? But he will be waking up soon, his healing factor isn't as pronounced as wolverines, but it's up to the task. I believe we should introduce him to a specialized training regimens tailored to him, enabling him to further develop and utilize his abilities more effectively"

Some days, you feel so tired you feel like you're about to die of exhaustion. Today was not of those days, last week was, I've been running for kilometers, performing lifts and pulls without actively using the Speed Force, oh and did I mention the weights I had to have on me? Yea. Due to my heroics the X-men have taken a special kind of interest in me. When I say X-Men I mean Hank and Logan specifically. They butchered me on both fronts. Wolverine tempering my body and Beast, my mind. They called it the training regimen meant to make me maximize all my abilities.

"Come on you can do it, Dave. One more set" the bastard has a super healing factor, so of course he'd be energetic.

I have read so many books that it's no longer a chore, my mind goes on auto capture when ever I see a hardcover book. I found out that I had perfect permanent recall and that coupled with speed reading drove the meaning of 'Enhanced genius level intellect' and super photographic memory to the next level. And Hank made me abuse the hell out of it, so much so that I feel like I'm cheating whenever I look at something. And it's not just books I'm talking about.

I actually had doctorates in various scientific fields. Think about that. The youngest in X-Men history to have so many, right next to Hank of course(not for long beast). Third youngest in the world, Tony and Bruce beat me to it by courtesy of being born earlier.

If I had to choose a expertise I prefer then I'd be: mechatronics, biochemistry, programming and advanced mechanics. I never get bored when it comes to those subjects. The bad side is hank won't stop making references to extremely esoteric works by his favorite authors he knows only I will get. It's getting dank, like a dying meme.

"Huhf! Agh!" I pushed up against the metal weights and bar pushing me down. Completing the literal hundredth set. Wolverine made me build up more stamina atop of my speed force provided one. I began seeing the gains after the first two weeks. I began feeling the gains after the first month. And today I finally finished the 'demolition-man' set all in one single session. I felt immensely proud of myself. Immensely.

"Knew you had it in you." he smiled, tapping my shoulder.

"Yeah, you pretty much pulled it out of me. It was either that, or dying of motivation"

I realize that they're training me to be part of the main team. I can see that intention clearly, no matter how subtle it is, I'm not dumb. But I've come to actually like the X-men, they have grown on me I admit. I'll never say this to them, but it feels like being part of a family I never truly had, it felt warm and nice.

He snorted and tossed a towel at me. "Well you can always thank me with more of those Pleuntaguena cigars through speedy delivery."

"You know Logan, one of these days, those villagers will sue you, or me" I shook my head.

"Heh, yeah right." He laughed leaving the gym. I was using my superspeed to get to a small village in Nicaragua and procure aged, rare high quality cigars for him. And the villagers, well they think it's one of their nature gods taking the cigars and leaving money. They even turned the days I visit into holidays and festivals, I don't have the heart to tell them otherwise.

I cleaned up the place and set everything in order then turned the lights off. I walked down the halls thinking of a calculation that's been a pain in the butt to solve! I was trying to build a code cracker, one made to disable one of the dangers I knew lurked around. With so many anti mutant groups and extremists, it's only a matter of time before they come knocking. And we all know that the institute gets blown to bits in the aftermath. It's a miracle they haven't built this place out of Lego bricks yet.

"Hey Dave" I turned to the origin of the voice, it was Sophie. We had grown to become very good friends, tight knit buds really.

"Yo Sophie, Sup." I walked to her side.

"Just coming from the library, dude you're sweating up a river" she pointed at my soaked shirt.

"Yea amigo, I just left the gym. Look at this hawt body I've got, uh yeah look at these muscles" I took a pose displaying my built chiseled musculature. I was shredded, I was ripped but in a more compact, dense build, like Saitama. Healing factors can give you gains quicker than you'd believe as long as you know how hard to push them. And (un)lucky for me wolverine did.

"You should build a castle out of your towering ego. Show off" She playfully punched my abs and blew my face with her wind powers.

I wiped my face. "Prfff, jealous"

"Hah! Yeah, right" she snickered.

"So who's your friend" I asked gesturing to the girl with electric blue hair in a Japanese hairstyle. She had slightly slanted hazel eyes, a piercing on her pointed nose luscious pink lips. Overall she had prominent Asian facial features. Silver metallic gauntlets covering her arm from her elbow downwards.

"Right sorry, this is Noriko she's new and I was just showing her around. Noriko this is David, resident narcissist and genius"

"pffft"

"I almost thought you forgot about me" Noriko inputted.

"That's just how she is. Hi, Noriko. You have quite the sweet name" I smiled and stretched my hand forward. Which she took in hers for a handshake.

"Thanks, David. You do too"

The cold metal fingers of her gauntlet wrapping around my hands. I took a more indepth look at the gauntlets, they were made for containment.

She took her hand back and raised it up to face level.

"They help me control my powers. I can absorb static electricity and discharge whenever I want" Blue electricity flickered over the top of her fingers.

"Cool" Sophie nodded.

"Cool indeed, well I know it's not much but welcome to the family. Sophie here will take very good care of you. And if you need tech fixed or school work explained, I'm your guy" I winked, to which she raised an eyebrow and smiled.

"Thanks"

"Alright Riko, let's go to the cafeteria next. See you later, Dave." Sophie held Noriko's arm and dragged her along.

"Sure thing Sophie. It was nice meeting you Noriko" I waved.

"You too, David" she reciprocated and left with Sophie.

My gaze lingered on their leaving figures for a while, I resumed my walk, and soon enough got to my room.

"Dave yo." A green skinned boy exited the room next to mine raising his hand for a high five.

"Robin the man" Our palms clapped in a crisp five.

"Dude, could you help me out with this" He showed me a scribbled chemical equation. It was one from class.

"No, problem. Alright it goes like this.…."

I began to explain a method of solving the problem.

"And viola, once you factor in the heat exchange everything else falls into place"

"Dude, you're a lifesaver!" he thanked me and went on his way.

I opened my room door entered. The room was way more cozy and cleaner than the last one which had blown up…. Yea. I had posters of Einstein, captain America and Ironman on the walls. A wooden drawer was next to bed and on it a night lamp. A large mirror was bolted just below the hangers next to the closet.

A blue carpet was put spread close to the entrance and my desk was before the glass windows with drawn blue window curtains. I adored my body on the mirror and got undressed, wrapping a towel around my waist got into the showers and thoroughly cleaned myself. Letting that warm, calming water wash away the dirt, tiredness and fatigue from my skin.

I got dressed and flopped down into the bed breathing out. Literally sinking into it, till I went meters underground, I began running. In moments I had reached my lab/base.

During my training, I had been searching for a perfect location to call my base, because I couldn't make it in the X-Mansion without the staff finding out. This place was safer and better hidden than the X-Mansion. I had dug I to a cave system that was buried very deep underground. I had been refurbishing the place to serve as my base of operations, of course the only thing I could afford were the lights, everything else was fabricated and repurposed tech from dumpster diving.

The smoothened cement floors were warm, meaning the heating was working perfectly.

"Welcome sir" The computer announced. It wasn't an artificial intelligence, it was a virtual one instead like the ones back on my world.

I already have the codes to build my AI, I just don't have the cash to get the needed components for it.

The led lights mounted all over the cave displayed a white brilliance making everything visible. A large center space with shelves, tables and desks on the sides. Machines, parts of machines, and electronics were on one side of the cave. And another held, chemicals in test tubes, bubbling solutions and specimens in glass jars and juggs. A large projector took up space on the far side of the cave next to a cluster of computer screens and beneath it a behemoth of integrated cpu units and systems connected by wires and pipes, a homemade supercomputer. I used the natural internal cooling of the cave to solve the heating problem the computer would have had.

On the far back were generators and a treadmill connected to neat giant stack of car and truck batteries. The power supply, I'm also part of it, I learned that I could charge the batteries with speed force controlled lightning, I rigged a system that would feed them with the right current and voltage so the batteries wouldn't blow up in my face(never happening again).

Yeah I could throw lightning, it wasn't a bolt yet, like the ones in the movies. This one seemed more sith lightning style, coming from my hands and fingers.

My uniform was held in a stand. I stayed original to when I first went out, well it's the only thing I could do. I didn't have the resources to build a more advanced brighter one.

The footwear was different. I traded the normal combat boots for black Jikatabi style boots, the ninja kind one with slit toes. They allowed more grip to the ground and it doesn't restrict my feet as much compared to other types of shoes when running or performing taxing maneuvers.

The trousers were black slim fitting cargo trousers with added padding around the knees and straps holding the extra pockets.

For my upper body I had a military style combat long sleeve t-shirt with slim profile pockets on the shoulders and added protection beneath the chest. It won't stop bullets, but it would slow them down. Above the chest was a metallic well crafted lightning symbol with the edges budding beyond the circle boundary, and I made it glow a red-orange bright gleam. This was my official symbol, the x men symbol was on my utility belt buckle. And on the back of my gloves.

I know that the prof's probably aware that I've been going out at night to rescue people. He's probably also silently supportive. People want to know who I really was, and who I was associated with. I think I might actually be awarded a hero medal soon, they were making speculations of it on TV and the political landscape has been very active. So for those who could cared to look(shield, the government) they would know that I was somehow associated to the X-men.

I vibrated into my suit, clipping the mask into place.

The mask was inspired by the winter soldier's, so it was half face. The smart goggles I kept retracted behind the mask, they would slot around my eyes when I wanted them to and act as a smart display.

The mask had basic filtration systems, a voice modulator and inbuilt bone conduction 3d speakers. It sounded fancy but it was quite common like it was back on other earth.

And last but not least my trusty slim utility belt being the main storage for my gadgets.

"Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, Zoom. Voice modulator perfect" clap clap I clamped my hands together getting the gloves into a tight fitting grip.

Time to be a hero.

You know new York was actually a pretty safe place, with the number of heroes roaming here you'd think the criminals would lay back but no. They actually increased, and I guess that's the reason why so many heroes were based here. And then the fires or crashes that would just spontaneously occur.

I watched four masked guys surround a couple busy sucking in each other's faces.

"Hey pal" the apparent leader said to the couple. "Cash and valuables, we take cards too" he pulled out a switch blade and waved it before the scared, shaking couple. No, need to rush. You gotta be calm and know what's really happening. Like now, the expression on that girl's face are so fake that the guy would notice it if he stopped shaking.

She wiped her lips in disgust and tapped his shoulder, he turned around and ouch she punched the shit out of him. His eyes were still widened in terror but this time there was betrayal and hurt in them.

"Silence im' down we gotta leave soon" She told the larger masked man. Guess it's my time to act.

I sped into the alley, I drew the last guy back and tossed him. The second one I hold and slam into the third, the fourth I strike across the face. Remember that they are all frozen in slow motion relative to me. And when my perception runs down to normal it happens like magic. The last one is shot into the bin and stuck there, the second and third slam heads with each other and are knocked out. The first one rises of the ground and slams into wall.

"What the hell?!" the one in the bin shouts.

The female takes a fighting pose and glares at me.

"You wanna be a hero punk?" she spits at me.

"Look, don't think I won't drop your ass if you don't surrender, right now" I deadpan.

"Try me" she jumps, kicks off the wall and throws a perfect punch at me.

"You should've listened." I dodge her fist, grab her arm and pull. Using her momentum to smack her down on the hard floor "Ugh!" she groaned in pain. The police sirens were already getting louder, I had called them up.

I helped the victim to his feet and dusted his shoulders. "I know going through this makes you feel like humanity's no good. But trust me, it gets better, it always does. So don't give up, go out there and find what you're looking for, you'll succeed as long as you don't give up. Stay safe buddy" with the hero pep-talk done, I sped off.

Remember what I said about spontaneous fires, well here's one just for you. A three story apartment complex was on blazing angry fire. The flames had already begun engulfing the whole building, the firemen were doing all they could to put it out.

Bwzz! Wosh!

Spraying pillars of water at the building, but they were losing the fight. I raced into the burning building, my goggles sliding around my eyes giving me a thermal image of the smoke filled building. The image filters were functioning, the intense heat couldn't affect them. But it was affecting me not as much as it should(Speed Aura). I was absorbing the the kinetic motion of the areas I could -which were not much- and that proved to be useless.

I couldn't absorb all kinetic motion of the fires that would require me to do something that could compromise the already shaky structure of the burning building, people were still trapped in it.

I kicked down the first door dashing for the family huddled together in the bathtub, the running water was protecting them, but it also made the place slippery(I'll build a solution for running on frictionless surfaces) I hefted the children over my shoulders and dashed down the building dropping them off to the firemen, then back up the building again for both parents.

The second room had a gas cooker that just blew up I tapped around the airborne spreading flames and sucked in the energy, grabbing the frame frozen man and taking him outside.

The other rooms mostly consisted of couples or singles who I swiftly rescued, there was one room with a boy band group, it was six of them I did save some of their cds and instruments with them. The dude looked like they were struggling financially, they wouldn't have been able to afford other ones.

There was one room with an Otaku, I won't lie I kept some anime and let the rest burn. That woman was the largest of them all, do you know how hard it was to pull her out and carry her? Thank God for all my strength training. I wasn't going to let anyone else I could save die by house fires, like I had caused. That dream still crops up sometimes.

The last floor had a single mother and her newborn. The baby would've choked to death, had I been any slower. I drew him close to me shielding him from the flames and smoke and threw the mother out the window. I jumped out and caught her as I ran down the building for the last time, saving everyone that was trapped in it.

"Woah!" "Oh my God!" "Jane are you ok?!" "Mike dude, we're not dead!" the people began to come to it.

I handed the wide eyed baby who was staring at me(what?) to the now cognizant mother who hugged her baby and cried.

I had to stop the flames from spreading.

I moved close to the building and made large vacuum like vortexes with my hands that sucked up all the flames from the building, extinguishing them. Parts of apartment collapsed on itself but it was still repairable.

"Is everyone Ok?"

"Yeah dude!" "Thanks a lot!" "You saved my kids!" they gave me words of praise, thumbs up and claps. "Whoo!" they cheered.

I speed back around and brought a crying man with me, handing him over to the authorities. He had bad burns on his arms and feet but he'll live.

"That man started the fire. You'll find all the proof you need in his apartment and he'll confess if you ask him to" the man had doused his room with gasoline and set the place on fire, it looked like he wanted to commit suicide but decided against it and got burned trying to escape.

"Daniel?" a woman called out to him

"Selene, snivel I'm sorry. I-I'm sorry sob I was just so t-tired of it all" he cried.

I gave the officers and firemen a salute "Good job" they said giving me thumbs up as well. I dashed into the night.

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I groaned and collapsed into bed. I had stopped a lot of muggings, two store robberies, one rape attempt, and a fire. Overall I was thankful that I could help. It left this warm, proud feeling in me. I had stashed away my suit and other useful gadgets I found in the cave.

I popped a round, strawberry flavored ball into my mouth and sucked on it. This was the nutrient pill I had invented to deal with my hunger issues, a single pill contained around forty-five thousand calories, and the flavor was either strawberry or cardboard. Beast had made me the mega-glucose bars for my new diet, I hated them.

I lazily drew my blanket over my tired body, sunngling deeper into the bed, just a wisp away from drifting off to sleep. Brmmm! Brmmm! Brmmmm! My eyes shot open at the sound of the alarm.

*BOOOM! Back with another chapter to round things off with an ominous end. -cue the trumpets-

So David has le speed force. Hohoho, things are about to get really crazy. This are the X-men we know the shit that gets dealt to them, mutants at large don't get a lot of peace so you know it's only a matter of time before something happens.

So back to you guys! How'd you like the story? Leave a review. Hit that like and fave button to show. some. love.(motivate moi) An alternative universe is born every time you do.

Till next time.

HERO out

VICTORY!*