Chapter 3

So I goofed up. I didn't consider the fact that I gave out a superpower and ran off. What kind of stupidity was that? Anyway the next evening I went back to the warehouse and changed into my costume. I went off to find that homeless man.

After about half an hour of walking, I found him sleeping in some other abandoned shelter. So I started another experiment. I went towards a nearby hiding place. I gave him Protocol and waited about 15 minutes to see whether he got up. He didn't. So that was a bust.

After a bit of thought, I took the power back and gave him Infinite ammo. This Power allowed him to have as the name would suggest gave infinite ammo to ranged weapons. The projectiles are a bit translucent and homing towards the target. It was a good power to have when you have a ranged weapon.

Within minutes he woke up with a start. I took back the power immediately and gave him Macgyver and he passed out again. I immediately took back the power and waited. He didn't get back up for about 15 minutes again. Ok. This means that I can use this power as an offensive power to make people pass out. Good. MacGyver is a very powerful power. It gives a tinker ability to make simple machines. But the real power was it allowed reverse engineering of any tinker tech and made it back at 50 % efficiency. Which was a very vague description.

I then gave him Jump. After about 3 minutes he got and I immediately switched power from Jump to Protocols. Nothing happened. He didn't pass out and started to look around for the source of his powers. He seemed to know he was getting some kind of powers. I gave him Pocket Room and he passed out again. As soon as he passed out again I took back the power and severed the connection of my kingmaker power to him. His general position and my ranged power to give him powers cut off. He got up immediately and shouted," Who is there?"

I panicked and gave him protocols and he passed out again. I put a 100 USD I had in my pocket in his hands. I took back the power and ran back to my abandoned warehouse. I changed back to my clothes and went home. So I can use my Kingmaker power offensively. Given my focus was on checking my Kingmakers' power I didn't see what happened when I got these powers.

So what did I learn? That whenever I give new power to someone then immediately pass out. I can sever my connection and give them the old power back to keep repeating the process. It was good to know.

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I was not wasting away the days at work in the docks. I was trying to find peoples whose loved ones were in some serious life threats that could be healed due to my powers. My powers didn't have much in healing power except Surgery. It helped healed injuries. So people caught up in accidents or people who were injured in recent Slaughterhouse 9 were my targets. My investigation skills helped me a lot here.

I found about 12 such guys in the docks. I immediately took out 6 people from that list. I wanted no one who had gang connections already. Not that I had any noble intentions either but I wanted to be the first to introduce them to this world.

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POV- Matthew Green

Coming home nowadays was depressing. My wife Jenny was still in the hospital. We were counting days till she passed on. I sent my boys to stay at my mother's home when I went to work. I don't know how I'm going to break it to my children when the wife goes on that they will never see her again.

It was an evening that day. I had decided to let my kids be at my mother's home and get myself a bit drunk. Didn't want my kids to see their perfect father in broken pieces. I had opened the bottle when the bell rang. My mother might have been worried about why I didn't take my boys back home today and sent my brother to check on me. I went to open the door.

It was dark outside and I had trouble seeing who was outside for a minute. I then registered a man donned in dark clothes and a blue jacket. He was wearing a mask. My first reaction was to run in my home and find a weapon. I already had a lot of problems and wanted no part in whatever these freaks wanted from me.

"Hello friend", he said," I am arsenal."

I have heard this voice before. I looked back at him. A bit dark color scene. Normal dark colored eyes. Indian. I know only one Indian. Rahul Sharma. The new friendly hire in warehouse management. Nice guy. So why was he in this weird Super Villain costume in my front porch introducing himself as Arsenal. Ah! He is one of those Super guys. Like the bastards who hurt my wife.

"What do you want?", I sounded more hostile than I felt. I felt scared. But my boys can't have both their parents be dead.

"Do not worry friend. I am here to help you. I heard your wife is in the hospital. Untreatable and laying on her deathbed. I can help you there. Heal her", He said.

What? I was confused there. Was it possible? To heal her with help from a Super? Was it possible? I don't know. Could I trust him?

"How could you help?", My voice cracked. I wanted to know how I could save my wife. I knew that he could ask for my life and I will happily give it to save my wife.

"I have superpowers. I think you already guessed that from my clothing. I can give out temporary superpowers to people. One of the superpowers I can give out is a healing one. You would have to get a sacrificial animal though. I would recommend a goat. Two simple hand touches. By you even. And your wife will be completely healed.", He explained.

It was too good to be true. What I have learned that when something is too good to be true, it most probably is a lie. But wait. Didn't Steve's daughter also in the Hospital? Didn't Steve suddenly turned and sent his daughter to stay at his wife's mother's place. Was it to hide the fact that she was healed? To keep it a secret?

"You heard anything about Steve's daughter?", I tried to fish for information.

"Yes, Will it be better if we went into your house and talked? I don't want neighbors getting curious"

I let him in and that changed my life.

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POV Rahul Sharma

It has been a month and a half since I came to this world. I helped six guys to heal their family members. Now I had six people who owe me one and I could start forming a bit of my organization. Gang. Whatever.

I called them all to meet me at my home. They all had immediately guessed who I was from my Indian accent. So It was useless to hide my identity from them. I had made a point to them to never reveal my identity to anyone.

"Hello, Friends. How have you been?, I asked them casually.

"Great now. Thanks for healing my daughter. I don't know what would have happened to me if even my daughter had left me.", Steve Hollman started. Everyone else was nodding their heads.

"Your welcome. It was the least I could do to help you guys. You all might have heard that I work for Wilson. Helping him to smuggle gold. That got me thinking. One of the powers I have is to Teleport anywhere in the world where I have a photograph of. Maybe I could do a lot better job of smuggling then him.", I said.

Immediately the room became tense. No one had thought that I would want to dive headfirst into crime. They were right though. I didn't want to do this either. I was the guy who loved attention and appreciation. I would have done great being a hero. But that was not an option anymore. I had to enter the world of crime.

"Uh. Boss are you sure about it? I thought we would go hero?", Matthew said. He was the smartest from the six and I was sure he would be leading their team.

"It would have been preferable but it is not an option for us. If I go the hero route, Bad things will happen.", I explained.

"Bad Things?"He asked.

"Bad Things," I nodded.

"What would we be doing then?", He explained.

"I have bought a camera. I have found a photo of a convenience store in Delhi. I will be teleport there with Matthew and go to a place named Manali. I have heard the cannabis grown there is extremely good. I will try to work out a deal there.", I explained.

"And what would we be doing?"He asked.

"Get Ninja suits made first. Like me. We cannot have your identities leaked. Once I have the deal done in India. I will send you guys once in a while to pick up things for us. Till then I think you guys can just go on to your work.", I directed.

"So you want us to do nothing for you till that time?", Freddy asked. Another one of my minions asked.

"Yes. That's the gist of it.", I said.

I and Matthew got ready to go to India in a few days and off we went. I hope these ends well for us.