I never really put much thought into rebirth, Sure I thought about it as most teenagers think about going to another world for a better life. It was always a fun little way to pass the time, but the time I entered high school I didn't want to be known as the geek who still plays pretend, so I just stopped, I focused on getting good grades, making friends, and maybe get a girlfriend.
Two out of three was pretty good considering I was only a freshman.
When spring break came around a few of my friends wanted to go diving using there uncles boat, It took a while to get everything needed for the trip, when the day of the trip came we all got on and took our seats so we could enjoy the nice breeze from the boat moving towards deeper water.
When we arrived the water was calm, impossibly so, there were no waves, we got our gear on, and one by one we got in the water. we slowly started going deeper and deeper.
Ten feet
Twenty feet
Thirty feet
onward we all went until we could see the ocean floor, I caught something flashing on the floor so I decided to investigate, when I arrived it was a broken headlight?
Who the hell throws a headlight into the ocean? I turn to start swimming with my friends.
*VRRROOOMMMM*
I quickly turn around only to come face to steel with a white truck. The last thing I saw was the electronic display flashingTruck Sama: Isekai service.
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Earth bet: Brockton Bay, 1997
My eyes snap open as I only feel agonizing pain like my body was squeezed out a ketchup bottle, the glass ones were you have to stick a knife into it just to get something out of it.
My limbs wouldn't move too easily, it felt like they were asleep. I felt giant hands pick me up and put in in another pair of arms. I moved my head as much as I could to see what was holding me, and I could see blonde hair and green eyes.
She moved me closer and put something firm in my mouth. I was trying to spit it out, but instinct prevailed and I started sucking until a sweet substance spurted on my tongue and I swallowed.
That's when I heard a soft, gentle voice. "Welcome to the world, Eric."
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Sarah Pelham loves her family.
This is a universal truth, she loves her husband even if his cocky attitude could get him killed one day, she loves her sister even if Carol attitude and her treatment of Amy makes her want to strangle her, she loves her nieces, Vicky, and Amy.
But above all she loves her children more than anything, she loved her baby girl. She is a free spirit that I pray will never disappear, and last but not least is her baby boy.
From the moment Eric was born everyone could tell he was different, he was very smart, but never tried to make friends his age.
Neil and I were worried about him until he got to 5th grade that was when he started opening up to the other children, and even then he had trouble making friends for some reason, he was such a sweet boy but he made everyone nervous like you were standing next to a bomb that was about to go off.
I do love him, theirs no doubt in my heart, but outside the family, everyone gives him a wide birth, and no one could understand why they did it, we even took him to the PRT to see if he somehow triggered with a stranger/master power to cause this, but to our shock, and my relief not only did he not trigger, but he didn't even have a Corona Pollentia.
Neil Moved forward to comfort him, but he didn't seem upset if anything he looked relieved.
Neil and I assumed that he had no interest in getting powers, which makes sense considering getting powers involved going through the worst moment of your life and have it become a part of you.
Then Crystal was assaulted to the point of triggering New Wave was seconds away from hunting down the people responsible, that is until we got to the scene; Erick was holding his sister as she cried on his shoulder, but all around them were the limbless bodies of their attackers.
Their stumps looked like their limbs just vanished, when they were questioning all they told the PRT was that one second they were on her, the next they saw red energy and they were like that.
After the incident, we talked to them to see what happened but Crystal didn't seem to remember, so we just assumed she did it during her trigger.
We were wrong, and we didn't realize until May 15, 2011.
It was at four in the morning when the sirens went off, It felt like ice was being poured down my back, I look at Neil to see him looking at me with his face just as pail as the sheets.
We immediately got out of bed and changed into our costumes and see the kids were up both looked scared, but Crystal was much more scared than her brother.
Neil and I tried to persuade her to go to the shelter with Erik, or at least the hospital with Amy, she vehemently disagreed, telling us she can't sit out while her family fights to the death with monsters who have killed millions.
Erik brings us into a bear hug, I wanted to tell him it would be ok, that we would be ok, but I couldn't and with the look on Neil, and Crystal's face they felt the same.
We pulled away and flew over to the hospital so he could stay with Amy, and meet up with Carol, we told Erik and Amy everything would be ok, the both gave fake little smiles before we flew off to meet the rest of the capes.
We each received our bracelets from Dragon so we could wait to communicate with each other. Vicky went to be with Gallant and the Wards while the rest of New Wave stayed together.
That's when the Triumvirate arrived Alexandra and Legend went on to explain everything they knew about Leviathan and his capabilities, meanwhile, Eidolon went outside to help teleport more capes to the fight.
That's when we saw the monster sitting on the water getting ready to attack, and behind it is a tsunami reaching 50 feet according to the bracelet screaming out to everyone.
Every flying brute picked someone up while the rest were teleported to safety.
As I flew there I looked over to the endbringer but as I looked towards the shore blonde hair immediately drew my attention.
It was Erik. My heart stopped in my chest and all the reaming blood left my face, tears welled in my eyes, I felt numb.
There were screams around me, oh, it's Neil, Crystal was being held back by Legend. He tried talking to us but I couldn't understand what he was saying.
Then everyone froze, every Cape, even Alexandra froze like a statue. A feeling of dread filled everyone like they were going to die like they would cease to be if they stood there. then the wave hit and the monster right behind it.
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After my family left me in the hospital with Amy I told her I was going to see if I could help. Amy just gave me a nod and mouthed a be careful. As soon as I was out of sight I started hoofing it to the coast. The streets were mostly barren at this point so I didn't have to push through waves of people, I made it to the coast just in time to see the mother of all waves approaching the city, and waiting behind the wave was Leviathan waiting to pounce.
I heard my sister screaming out my name and the rest of my family then following suit. The looks I got from everyone else were that of pity, or are you stupid looks, the second was much more prominent, while Dragon looked like she wanted to fly to me but couldn't waste the suite to save one idiot.
I looked back towards the approaching wave
I took a deep breath. Breathe in. Hold it. Breathe out. I prepared myself both mentally and physically for what I was about to do, attempt a feat which I had never done before.
Attempt to convert myself into the Powers of Destruction, into annihilation incarnate
It was far harder than I imagined it to be. The Powers of Destruction was an uncontrollable disaster, annihilation in its purest form. Trying to condense those powers was like trying to stop a star from going supernova. Sweat broke out on my forehead as I struggled to control my powers. My body shook as the strain caused lightning to course through me. It hurt. However, I struggled on, pushing my mind and body past their limits to do what I had seen in my previous life.
I succeeded.
Human-Shaped Aura of Destruction.
My ultimate technique. My magnum opus. The ability to convert myself into the Powers of Destruction that destroyed everything regardless of the will. It felt… weird. It was like my body was there, but I had no mass, no weight. I supposed that was because my body was now composed entirely of energy.
I tried to breathe out, discovered that, for whatever reason, I couldn't draw breath, and then I decided to just go for broke.
It took less than a second for me to go into this form. That same second an aura of destruction exploded out from me, erasing the boat graveyard, Leviathans wave. I willed the aura to recede to a mile from me.
Leviathan didn't give me a second it immediately charged at me swinging its clawed arm at me, but just like everything else it was being erased, but it was taking to long it managed to tear through my form severing its hand from its body.
Leviathan rushed past me towards the other capes waiting in the distance, I moved in front of him, I started firing orbs of destruction at him, only two orbs hit the endbringer, erasing its head and made a hole in its abdomen.
I made whip-like tendrils to grab Leviathan but it stopped holding back. Leviathan started drowning the city and created five hurricanes a mile away from the bay.
Damn it! Eidolon can't get close without getting erased, and if I don't erase the core in one go the world will have several dimensions worth of water poured on it.
Allowing it to hop away, I turned towards the storms I sent an arc of destructive energy to erase massive portions of the storms.
I turned back towards the heroes, the looks on their faces were full of relief, awe, and blazing anger mostly from my family.
Maybe I should stay in this form until everyone calms down a bit?