To understand what I'm about to say, you need to believe in the impossible, can you do that? Good. My name is Zane Cotterall and I'm the fastest man alive, me and my friends Zac Milroy, Jack Malone, Cameron Campbell and Charlie Garner 2 years ago got superpowers upon our wildest dreams. Zac got the powers of a spider, Jack could put himself on fire, Cameron got the power to control lightning and thunder and Charlie could control vibrations and could open breeches, and me. I got super speed. And then for 2 years the five of us protected the city from metahumans just like us. But to understand the whole story, you need to go back to the beginning.
It was a beautiful spring at Ulladulla High School where a fifteen year old Zane was walking down a crowded corridor. People all around were chatting about the newest trends and food, Zane reached his locker and opened it. Zane put all his school books in the locker, "you excited for tonight?" asked a familiar voice, Zane closed his locker and saw one of his best friends, Jack Malone. Jack was the youngest of the group age 14 but one of the smartest, "the particle accelerator is going to be the biggest scientific advancement ever!" Zane said excitedly. "Yeah, and that's not the best, school ends early today," said Zac coming up to them being followed by Cameron and Charlie, "SERIOUSLY, is that all you can find good about it?" Zane asked. "You need to find something else good then skipping school," Cameron said with disapproval in his voice, "why?" Zac asked. Zane rolled his eyes, "look, i'm going home, have a shower get dressed, head to the lab, drop my stuff off, and i'll meet you at S.T.A.R. Labs" Zane said, grabbing his bag. The four nodded in agreement as the bell rang, "alright, see ya," Zane said waving as he ran out the door, the 4 waved Zane off as he went outside. Zane ran over to the bike rack and unlocked his bike, Zane kicked both legs over and started pedaling home. As Zane reached his home the streets of Ulladulla became lease building like and more like it was a small country town with very little houses, Zane pulled up outside a small blue 2 storey house. Zane put his bike out the front and opened the door and entered, the corridor was empty as he turned to see both his parents Peter and Catriona Cotterall. His parents were at the Kitchen table discussing something to do with Zane could only guess was a bill, "we need to tr.. Oh hi honey, did you have a good day?" asked Zane's mum cutting off her first conversation. "Umm, yeah good" Zane answered as he dropped his bag down, "you excited for tonight big fella?" Zane's dad asked, a wide smile grew on Zane's face. "Yeah, umm I'll be home for dinner, I'll just be late, I'm going to have a shower then head to the lab leave some stuff there and then go to S.T.A.R. Labs and I'll be back later" Zane said. "Alright see when you get back," Peter said, Zane nodded and ran up and for a shower.
Zane's lab was some little room at the top of his school with cupboards of scientific machines and books along with different fluorescent chemicals. Zane walked in with his bag holding an umbrella, Zane looked up at the sky light only to see wet pouring rain, Zane let out a great moan as he threw his bag on his desk. Zane sat down and started unpacking his books and unloaded them on his desk, "great just what I needed, a STORM" Zane muttered looking out the window and the beautiful night sky filled with great clouds pouring rain. Zane let out a loud sigh out and looked at the clock and it read 6:30pm, "oh great, I'm going to be late" Zane said as he picked up his jumper and put it on his special S.T.A.R. Labs shirt and picked up his umbrella and ran out of his lab.
S.T.A.R. Labs was one of the biggest buildings in Ulladulla. S.T.A.R. Labs was surrounded by people, some excited, some protesting in anger with signs saying "SHUT IT DOWN" or "STOP WELLS PLAN". Zane ignored these signs as he walked through the signs holding his umbrella blocking the rain, it was quite hard with the size of the signs. But finally Zane found Zac, Jack, Carmeron, and Charlie stood outside the building each with their own umbrellas, a smile appeared on each of their faces as they spotted him. "About time, we wonder if you were even coming" Charlie asked as he approached Zane, "I lost track of time," Zane said rather embarrassed. "Shall we enter," Cameron said gesturing to everyone entering S.T.A.R. Labs, the other 4 nodded as they entered. S.T.A.R. Labs was a beautiful white room with the logo on almost everything, the room was beautiful considering S.T.A.R. Labs had around 630 floors. And at the front of the room was a podium where a man stood, and that man was Harrison Wells, there was a microphone on the podium which Wells took a breath before speaking. "Hello, my name is Harrison Wells as many as you know, and welcome the S.T.A.R. Laboratories," there was a loud clapping from wall to wall, "thank you, but as we all know we are here tonight for the start of the Particle Accelerator!" There was even more clapping. But some booing from the protesters which they all ignored, "and the Particle Accelerator is going to be one of the biggest scientific advancements since the big bang," more clapping, "so now It's time for the future to begin" Wells finished. Zane smiled as a horrible thought popped in his head, the skylight could smash if there was heavy rain, Zane turned around and started to run to the door and at that moment a black, red,and blue spider climbed down on some webbing and landed on Zac's hand and bit him. "YOW" Zac yelled as he grabbed his hand squeezing it. "Zane, where are you going?" Jack asked meeting Zane at the exit, "I got to go," Zane said with alarm in his voice, "What about Zac?" Jack asked, "It was just a spider," Zane said as he turned around and broke into a run.
Zane entered his lab and saw that the skylight was fine, "great, came here for nothing" Zane said rolling his eyes as he walked up to his desk and dumped his jacket and umbrella down. Zane walked over to a chain that stopped the skylight from breaking if pulled on, and then Zane heard a noise that made him look up. Zane saw S.T.A.R. Labs through his window, it had exploded. A wave of orange matter swept across the city, Zane looked up and saw a lightning bolt smash the skylight and hit Zane and shot him back into a shelf and landed in the chemicals and laid their unconscious as lightning flickered around him.