Chapter 3
John knew he was in for it when he was brought into the main lab where they conducted the experiments on their "guinea pigs".
"Now John, can I call you John? I'll do it anyway. Now John, remember you can back out right now, but only now. Beyond this point there is no going back, for if you do terrible things could happen. Terrible!" The man said who had greeted John in the room he was kept in earlier.
"Uh yeah ok…I'll try to keep that in mind." John wasn't as thrilled as he thought he would be when he discovered the secret to powers.
"Ok then John your stuck with us from here on out. Initiate the operation!" John was put inside of a sort of chamber. It was almost like a tube.
"Ready the mutation chamber!"
John had just found out how heroes got their powers or at least a great majority of them. He didn't like it at all and wanted out. He remembered what the man had said, but how could he be stuck if the operation hadn't started yet.
"Wait! I want to get out! Stop! Please!"
It was no use you couldn't hear him at all inside the chamber.
"Start!"
As soon as the man said it the chamber came to life and started humming loudly. Then two rings appeared around it on the outside and started spinning violently. The room started to shake but this was normal to the scientists inside. It happened every day. Meanwhile John was squirming inside trying to find a way to get out. There wasn't a point to it because there wasn't a way out.
"GUAHHH!!!!!" John gave out an injured yell. The machine had shaken and he smashed against the side which knocked him out. This was at least some good because of the pain John would have gone through if he was awake.
Three hours later John awoke. It had ended two hours earlier but he was left asleep and he wondered why. He lifted himself up from the ground and he wondered how he had gotten put there too. When he stood up, though, he understood why. Everything was demolished. The building he was in was now a pile or wreckage and fires dancing all around him. He thought the reason was because the capsule exploded. John heard sirens in the distance and decided to run for it knowing he'd be blamed as a villain if they reached the building while he was still there.
John reached his apartment an hour later. He wondered if what he went through before he passed out had even done anything. He certainly didn't feel any different. He walked into his apartment and took a long shower. After the shower he decided to eat something before his nightly television watching and then bed. While his food was cooking he heard a bird on his window. He went over to look at it when it suddenly flew away and he looked down then saw the fate of his building. The hellions he encountered the day before had followed the hero and John to his complex. While John's adventure today was happening they were devising a plan to get John back for what he did to them. Now, they were setting fire to his apartment building.
John was afraid, but then he remembered what had happened today at the lab. He was doubtful that it did anything but it was his only choice to save his home. He turned off the food he was cooking and went outside hoping that the powers he was promised actually were part of him now. He went out his door and started down the steps leading to the ground floor.
"Hey! You four! What do you think you're doing you little creeps?" John shouted at the hellions. He felt like an idiot but he had seen a show with a heroic theme to it. The main hero said it and he though it fit well in this situation.
"What the hell did you just say?!! We're hellions! You don't tell us what to do!"
"Oh really? Come here and see if you can prove that!" John shouted almost doubtfully. Luckily the hellions were so angry they didn't hear the fear in his voice, if you call that luck.
"You know what I think we will! All of us!"
John considered the decision he made to come out here and tell them off. It was bad, very bad. The only thing he had to lean on was the hope that he had powers from the experiment. The hellions were closing in on John from all sides and he was running out of time to think. So, John just moved into a threatening pose and hoped for the best. Suddenly fire shot out of John's hand in the form of a sword. He was afraid it was going to burn him but he soon found that it didn't hurt him at all. So the experiment worked after all. John gripped the sword and swung it hard into one of the hellions. He collapsed and fell to the ground. The other three hellions backed off.
"Oh no he really does have powers!" One said then ran off. The other two followed him scared out of their wits.
"I…I just….won. I won. I won! Yes! Yes! I finally have super powers!" John shouted with glee into the night.
John decided that he could test his powers in the morning. Right now he was tired and needed to rest. So with a sigh of relief he walked up the steps to his room and finished the meal he was cooking. Then he went off to sleep.
