Chapter 4

Diamond in The Rough

The night was the thing I loved about Metro City. It made me feel alive. After Syndrome's killer car ride, we walked to an abandoned warehouse where he said, he would train me for his mission. I gave him a stare then looked at the ground. I stopped in front of the warehouse door.

"After you," he said to me with a grin.

I extended my hands and they started to glow orange, and I lifted up the door and threw it up then tossed it to the side. After that I was breathing very heavily. He stared at me for a second then walked inside, after a few seconds my breathing steadied he gave me a coin.

"What's this for," I asked with a sad look.

"Levitate it, "he responded.

I levitated it and as soon as I did he shot it out of my hand with a finger beam I looked at it for a second, then it almost touched the ground. He said with a smooth voice,

"You have to keep this coin levitated or the mission is over."

I struggled as I shot the beam from my hand and recovered the coin. He shot the coin from my hand again. I struggled to keep it up as I did he ran behind me and then shot the coin again and kept it close to ground. I shot it again and I couldn't keep it up, I began to feel the mental strain on me, also started sweating uncontrollably.

"I know the limits to your power and I can make you stronger, faster, and overall better than you feel right know, "he said while pulling off his sunglasses.

I saw his eyes and began to shiver uncontrollably. I don't understand I saw a pair of eyes then I saw a pair of burned out holes. I started to run back to the back of the room I heard him shout for me to wait but I continued running.

(Skipped to another city)

The night is very hard to like. I mean people are getting killed and people getting mugged by complete strangers or family members. That is where I come in, I am Frank Johnson a very hard to shock detective. I have seen it all, murder, burglary, arson, and sometimes all of them at once. I put the scare in kids around town and adults too. Truancy is the worst, it makes the children who go to school not want to go to school by looking at the other children who skip classes. It is my job to keep kids in class and out of my office.

I went to the airport and went up to purchase a ticket, I was approached by the airport security when they told me that I had to be searched for anything "special" I told them I was a cop they asked for I.D. I showed them my badge they let me pass but took my weapons.

"Gee I'm a cop what do you expect from me," I say with a loud and cracking voice.

Every one turns around and I feel very embarrassed. I hope that kid is having better luck than I am.

(Switches back to where we left off.)

I started to ask him what happened he told that he had a run in with an airplane. He also said that his micro machines he was working on would fix it,and that scars were all over his body.

"You don't seem to understand the power I can give you,"Syndrome says with an angered stare.

"If you don't what it I suggest you leave now, but you will never see her alive."

I wanted to say no very badly, but I thought about what he would do to her. I rolled my fist into a ball and then sighed, I said to him,

"I'll do anything you want."

"Good, we'll start early tomorrow morning,"he said with a sharp look.

He showed me to a small room that looked like a jail cell. I looked blankly at it then accepted it.

"Welcome home,"I said to myself then walked into the room.

"Night-Night," he said with a smile as he closed the door.

He laughed as he walked down the hallway, I thought about it for a few minutes then I said to myself,

"Man, she better be worth it."

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