Update: Fixed some rushed parts, added some new ones, took out some unimportant stuff and fixed some grammatical errors. It is shorter sure but it is better
Chapter 4: Alive...but Changed
Three days had passed before Cole woke up from his coma. He had no idea what had happened, all he could remember was running across the Neon Bridge and then nothing.
Cole looked around the room in a daze, He saw his best friend Zeke asleep in a chair next to his bed. Cole gave a slight chuckle.
"Hah...Poor fat bastard." Cole said as he smiled at his friend.
He looked around for his girlfriend Trish Daily, but he couldn't find any sign of her, then he looked to his left. There were three more beds next to him.
The first one had a kid about maybe 5'9 in height, about 13 years old wearing a red striped shirt with a green jacket on him and he had a weird yellow color to his skin.
The second bed had a boy with a weird sock hat on his head; he wore an orange shirt with purple shorts. He looked about 5'6 and about 12 years old
The third bed had a kid with three hairs on his head, he wore a yellow shirt with purple sleeves and a red stripe, he was also the shortest of the three, with a height about 5'2, he looked about 12 years old as well.
Cole leaned back in his bed waiting for his friend, Zeke Dunbar, to get up, and sure enough he woke up about five minutes later with a gasp.
"Cole! You alright man?" Zeke asked with concern in his voice.
Cole smirked "Never better man." Cole said in a relaxed voice.
Zeke got up and headed to a room next to this one, probably to get Trish and tell her the good news. Sure enough, that's what he had done
Trish rushed in and gave Cole a hug.
"I thought I was going to lose you Cole." She said with tears going down her face.
Cole smiled at her. "I'm not going to die that easy Trish." Cole said and he hugged her back
Then Cole remembered the three boys
"Who are they?" Cole asked gesturing towards the Ed's
"We don't know their names, but they passed out about the same time you did, so we brought them in here with you since the other rooms were filled with the injured." Trish said as she sat on his bed.
Cole just nodded and began to go into a coughing fit; Trish gasped and told Zeke to get her a glass of water.
Zeke came back, not knowing that the glass was covered in water droplets from the faucet.
Trish gave the water to Cole, Cole reached for it and grabbed it, but then something happened, When Cole grabbed the glass his hand glowed a blue color and electric came out of his hands shocking him and Trish. Within seconds his whole arm was covered with Electricity.
"What the hell is happening?!" Cole yelled. Electricity flew all over the room, hitting walls and busting the lights in the room due to the overcharge of electricity.
The noise and bright lights disturbed The Ed's and they woke up within minutes.
"Could you turn the lights off man?" Eddy yelled, but when he opened his eyes he seen the electricity flying everywhere around the room nearly hitting him and his friends.
"Holy guacamole!" Ed yelled as he ducked under his bed.
Suddenly as quick as it began it ended, nothing but the sound of breathing could be heard. Cole looked at his hand and he was surprised his whole arm was intact.
Trish was breathing heavily while Zeke was wide eyed. Cole just looked at his hands and then everyone else.
"What in Heaven's name was that?" Double D asked
Stone cold silence met his question and nobody moved from the shock.
Three days later, Seven days since The Blast
After the incident Cole was kept inside the hospital under "life support" by Trish but Cole knew her, she was only calling it that to keep him from being kicked out of his room for someone else. The hospital was still intact after The Blast, albeit a bit roughed up a bit. It was also suffering from a lack of supplies due to the amount of patients needing treatment, most with either burns or lost limbs. The only hope left was for the government to send supplies which Cole didn't even believe would happen.
When he got the chance Cole would sneak outside to test out his "abilities". He could barely even power a light bulb the first day but he did eventually manage to power a circuit breaker for the Hospital a day ago and now he was more confident than ever to try out his new powers.
He crept outside and pulled himself up a small building across the street from the hospital. He felt a little bit of pain in his leg but nothing else. He noticed that after he woke up his body was in better shape than it ever was, his wounds healed up much quicker and he felt stronger.
On the roof were an emergency generator and an air unit. He looked at his hands and took a deep breath and walked towards the generator. It had a blue beacon light on it and hummed with power that Cole's body was itching to drain. He slowly moved his hands toward the generator and before they touched it the electricity in the generator jumped out of it and met his hands. He pulled back in shock but instead of pain he was met with the feeling of satisfaction and relaxation
Cole reached out to the generator and the electricity met his hands again. After a second he had drained the generator of its power. He smiled in satisfaction and before he could revel in it he heard complaints from the building below about the power going out. Cole placed his hands on the generator and gave it a little bit of its power back before bolting. "I could get used to this." He said and went back into the Hospital before Trish had a cow about him missing.
Meanwhile across town the Ed's had made a full recovery and were now roaming the city. The Neon was the only place they could wonder in since the bridges to the Historic and the Warren district were out and there was not an attempt for repair in sight.
"Hey Eddy, what do you think happened to the electric man?" Ed asked. Eddy blew a raspberry.
"Who cares and Ed no one could have super powers, it defies reality." Eddy said
Double D just gave a slight snicker
"Come on Eddy, when did you become grounded in reality, it is a possibility, some humans around the world possess extraordinary abilities that no one else can do" Double D said
"Yeah Eddy, it was so cool to!" Ed said while bouncing around.
"Yeah it was pretty cool." Eddy said with a smile.
After wondering around for a bit the Trio passed up an alleyway and heard what sounded like an argument coming from it. They stopped in their tracks and began to listen to the preceding argument.
"You have my money Danny?" Asked a man wearing a black knit cap and a muscle shirt. The person he asked looked younger, about seventeen. "Yeah, it's coming; it'll be here in a few minutes." Danny said with fear clear in his voice.
The man shook his head and got up in his face "I am going to ask again, where is my money." He asked again with growing irritation. Danny shrunk back and backed into the alley wall.
"I told you it's coming!" Danny said quivering. The muscle shirt man shook his head and reached into his back pocket, pulling out a handgun and holding it up to Danny's face. The Ed's froze when the gun was drawn.
"Ok fellas let's get outta here." Eddy whispered and began to run. He was quickly stopped by Ed's iron grip "Hold it mister!" Ed said in an authoritative tone and set Eddy down next to him and Double D
"We can't just leave him Eddy!" Double D whispered harshly. Eddy looked back in the alley and seen that Danny was now on his knees with tears flowing freely from his eyes.
"Please man, I've got a family!" Danny yelled in between sniffles and groans. The man rolled his eyes "Everyone has you asshole, hell why do you think I am doing this! I have got a little girl who hasn't eaten anything in two days, my wife is dead and you know what else? She was pregnant with my son!" The man was now tearing up and reached up to wipe his eyes with his arm. Danny used this moment of weakness to jump at the man at an attempt to wrestle the gun away from him.
Ed had enough. He pushed his friends out of the way and began to run down the alley way. "Ed you idiot get back here!" Eddy yelled at the top of his voice. This caused the two men to stop struggling and look up at the towering teen charging toward them. Danny, however, took this as an opportunity and yanked the gun away from the man. Danny got to his feet and wasted no time aiming it at the thugs head. He pulled the trigger, the hammer snapped and a loud sound echoed throughout the city. Screams were heard in the streets as people began to scatter at the gunshot.
The Ed's all stopped in their tracks. Waves upon waves of emotions coursed through their bodies and minds. This is the first time they saw death happen before their eyes and at such a young age made it the more scarring. Danny immediately looked up at the trio and aimed the handgun at them.
Eddy felt an emotion he had not felt in a few months since their popularity at the Cul-de-sac had begun. He felt anger. A feeling of hatred flowed freely through him and he clenched his fist in a rage he had not felt since their first Urban Ranger initiation. Eddy walked past Ed and Double D, who were frozen in fear at the sights currently on them
Danny aimed the gun at Eddy and clenched the trigger "Don't move you little fucker!" He used that word; he just had to use that word. Eddy's rage reached its peak and he felt all his anger gather into his fist.
"Don't call me little!" Eddy launched his fist forward and then…something interesting happened. A basketball sized fireball lurched out of his hand and headed for Danny. He tried to shoot the gun at it but they just merged with the fireball. The ball of flame finally met its target and Danny was set ablaze. The force of impact knocked him to the end of the alley where he began screaming in agony as his flesh melted from the bone at the intense heat. His screams died down after a few seconds of flailing.
Double D and Ed just stood still from the shock. Their best friend just shot a fireball out of his hand and killed a man. They looked towards the end of the alley and saw that Danny was nothing more than a charcoaled skeleton with smoke rising off it. Ed looked down at Eddy, who was beginning to realize what he just done and was looking at his hands.
Double D was the first to break the silence "What just happened?!"
AN: Hope you all enjoyed, this was kind of hard to type but looking it over I can tell it was worth the effort. Chapter five is next for updating and then the long awaited Chapter 6! Stay beautiful guys.