"I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE AFFECTED BY THE PARTICALEXELARATOR EXPLOSION, WAS I?!" I yell as I storm into STAR LABS.
"We… don't know for sure." D.r. Rockwell responds calmly.
"You SAID the city was safe! That there was NO residual danger… BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE SO WHAT REALLY HAPPENED THAT NIGHT!?" I holler.
"Well… the accelerator went active, we all felt, like heroes… but then… it all went wrong." he swipes sideways on a tablet he hase and a diagram comes on the t.v. screens. "A dimensional barrier ruptured, unleashing unknown energies into our world. Anti matter, dark energy, X-elements-" I cut him off
"Those are all theoretical."
"Well, how theoretical are you?" we pase. "We mapped the dispersion throughout and around the city, but we have no way of knowing what-... or who was exposed. We've been searching for other, meta mutants like yourself."
"Meta mutants? What if a human was exposed?!" then keri cuts in
"That's just what we're calling them and if a human was exposed then technically they would mutate."
"Well I saw one today! Hes human and a bank robber! And he can controll the weather!"
"This just keeps getting awesomer!" Mikey chimes in
"This is not cool Mikey! A man died!" Mikey's smile slowly disappears "Hun must have gotten his powers the same way I did, from the storm cloud. He's still out there! We HAVE to stop him before he hurts someone else."
"Donnie! That's a job for the police."
"The police can't handle him!"
"But you don't work for the police!"
"I don't need to!" I yell back at him
"So you're just a bounty hunter that's too proud for your own ego, is that it?" those words sting. To me, I had not long ago said them about K.C., but I'm nothing like him. Before I can think I responded with the intention to hurt him
"You're responsible for this, for him."
"What's important is you! Not me. I lost everything, I lost my company, lost my reputation, I lost my freedom. And then you broke your arm and it healed in three hours! Inside your body could be a map to a whole new world! Genetic therapy's, vaccines, medicines, treasures, buried deep within your cells and we can not risk losing everything because you want to go out and play hero!... you're not a hero. You're just a teenager who got struck by lightning."
I look around at my friends and Mikey mouths (oh snap) I turn and leave the room. And run. I'm running from my mind and my thoughts but it doesn't really work so I decide to go to someone for advice.
On my way I can't help but think of watching eleven year old April run to her house in the middle of the night with police cars parked outside, two cops brought out her dad wearing handcuffs. He told her not to go inside, but she went any ways. I went around to a window to watch and see what happened. She walked through a hallway and entered her living room. Lots of police men filled the room with a tarp on the ground. She knelt down next to it and lifted the tarp to see her mother's face. Dead. she yelled to her mom but she didn't respond and the police tried to pick her up but she ran away. Out the front door around to the back where she met me for the first time. I extend my hand and she excepts. And I take her away to the layer.
I snap out of my day dream and stop at the end of the rod. I look down at my feet to see the cloth that wrapped them is on fire. I franticly unwrap them and throw away the burning cloth. I turn the corner and keep running.