Megavolt - The knife and the electric socket.
First few chapters might be short as it is more to get down glimpses of what might have happened, but I hope to write longer chapters as I go.
Megavolt - The knife and the electric socket
Elmo sat on the kitchen floor and stared at the knife he held in his hand, and then to the electrical socket on the wall. Shifting his eyes back and forth between the two, unsure why this sudden urge had taken over him. It was a dangerous urge to stick a knife into the socket to electrocute himself.
His mind and all those years of being told no. The warnings sounded in his head as silent whispers to stop him from going through with his impulse action, but only whispers that didn't do much to persuade him to go against the impulse. Elmo's body craved the electric power hidden in that socket, and it craved it now. Telling him, ordering him to stick the knife into the socket to get electrocuted.
Ever since after that prom night, all thing electrical seemed to grow in interest to the rat. Only the electrical and those who were bound to electricity interested him now, just like the electrical socket in the wall.
His house was an old one, having been built many years ago. So this socket right there? Outdated, dangerous. Elmo knew how much wattage passed through the socket. 120 was the standard in the common household. Nothing exceptional, though still deadly depending on the current passing through a person.
And he loved that. He wanted that shock.
With a shaky hand, Elmo reached the knife towards the socket and light pressure against it. No shock yet. His hands kept shaking as he continued the experiment, now pushing the knife inside the socket - then he felt the first shock - the wattage had now gotten through the knife and made its way through his body.
Elmo's body tensed, his muscles seized up and cramped, no longer able to release the knife. Nothing else could be done now the deed was done. Kneeling over the socket, stuck to receive the electricity go through him. His breathing grew uneven and difficult while his voice went against him making noises he didn't mean to make while the shocks continued. The effects of the electricity had his heart speed up to such a degree he knew could take him into cardiac arrest.
But Elmo, he knew the difference and what happened. His electrical powers allowed that to happen. His body before the prom could never do similar. A normal person would never have recognized what was going on, only that their body stopped responding to their will through the spasms, following by potential death.
Almost by luck, he managed to let go of the knife and fall over to the floor, moaning at the pain and the pleasurable tingling that passed through him. Whatever his hands touched sent a ticklish crackling, tingling across the surface they touched.
His hair had grown more damaged, as had his fur. It was his fur that had gotten the brunt of his mutation, no longer brown as it had shed off his body giving him dry and rashy skin. But that was an afterthought, not caring about the side effect. Hair loss, he could handle if it meant his body got it's electrically charged fix.
He felt energized. Powerful.
Elmo chuckled. And the chuckle gradually changed into a great mirthful laugh as he thought through what happened. Elmo had stuck a knife into an electrical socket to electrocute himself. And he loved every second.
He loved it so much that as soon as his heart began to beat at a somewhat regular pace; he sat himself up again, drawing in a deep breath and looked at the knife that was still jammed in the socket. Reaching for it again with zero hesitation, still laughing from earlier Elmo looked forward to his next shocking experience.
Another jolt and spasms passed through him, but this time they weren't as intense. Though, still pleasurable. Fun.
Elmo felt the building need for more of it as the electricity in him built up. This should have killed him ten times over but here he was, still playing with the 120-watt voltage. And he wasn't going to stop any time soon.