Hey guys back with another chapter, which was very hard to write, and I'll admit that it's not my best. Don't worry though the next couple of chapters will be better. As always sorry for my bad English.
Disclaimer I do not own any of the characters or story rights except for those of my original characters.
The doctor and I walk into the small shack in the middle of the desert that will serve as his new laboratory. On the inside it's not much different from the out side just a small simple shack with a bed, a dresser, and a framed picture of a landscape on the far wall. To the normal onlooker it was just a shack, but I knew better. Dr. Buchanan walks over to the framed picture, and moves it to the side revealing a small keypad. He quickly types in a password then puts the picture back in place. The bed that was in the corner starts to slide to the side revealing a hidden staircase. Dr. Buchanan walks to it and I follow, both of us going down to the lab. When we get to the bottom of the staircase all I see is black that is until Dr. Buchanan flips a light switch, and the entire lab lights up in bright white light. I take a look around a little amazed at the size. Never would I have thought that there would be such a huge lab under that little shack. I mean sure I knew there was a lab under the shack, but not of this size, this place makes the mountain look small. While I admired the lab Dr. Buchanan started working quickly pulling an examination table, and a couple other supplies in front of me. "Come on sit down," he says impatiently. I obey and take a seat on the table. "Ok we're going to start with a little blood work," he says while pulling out a needle. I cringe when I see it, if there is anything I hate in this world is needles. The doctor notices my reaction to the needle and a small smile spreads across his face. "What you afraid of a little needle?" he says mockingly. "I'm not afraid!" I almost yell at him "I just don't like them." I add sheepishly. "Well it will only hurt for a second you big baby," he says. I reluctantly stretch my arm out, and pull the sleeve of my suit further back. He plunges the needle in to my arm, and quickly fills it with blood. He pulls out the needle, and puts a small circular bandage over the injection site. "There was that so bad?" he asks mockingly. "Yes," I reply bitterly. "Well it's over now," he says as he walks over to a machine and squirts the blood into a little tube that sticks out of it. "Now while it's being analyzed lets take a little sample of the material on your skin, if you'd be so kind as to turn into what do you call it?" he asks. "Indestructible mode or Black Diamond mode," I reply. "Well it isn't diamond I can tell you that now, but never mind just turn into it so I can take a sample," he says while holding a scalpel. "Yeah doc I don't think that's going to happen. I don't know if you were listening but it's called indestructible mode for a reason, that little scalpel isn't going to do much," I say while tuning indestructible. "Well you may be right, but no trouble I am so brilliant I devised a solution for this problem many years ago," he says walking further into the lab then rolling out a big machine when he comes back. It sort of looks like the x-ray machines they have in air ports. "X-ray?" I ask while raising an eyebrow. "No, no, theta-rays. My own brilliant little invention," he says cockily "it scans, decomposes, and catalogs every material know to man. Now if you'd kindly step in." I nod then step into the machine. He flips a couple switches, and the machine starts to make odd noises. Green rays start to run from my head to my feet. It takes about ten minutes for the scan to finish, and when it finally does I walk out and see the doctor looking at the screen on the side of the machine with a shocked expression. "What?" I ask. "Your skin it's," he pauses and looks at me "made out of bedorite." He continues to look at me in amazement. "So?" I ask not understanding his shock. "Do you know what bedorite is?" he asks. "Nope," I say simply. "It's one of the rarest materials on earth, actually it isn't even from earth it was found in a meteor twenty eight years ago," he says, and I nod to let him know I'm following. "It was a tinny pebble in the center of a meteor, that was all we ever found, and we have never found anything like it again. Not even the Martians know what it is, and since it was completely indestructible we could never even cut of a sample of it. That's why this machine was invented," he says. "Wait so you worked with this stuff?" I ask confused. "Well briefly when we first found it but after about six months some government agency rolled in, and took the sample," he says. "Then how'd it get on my skin?" I ask. "Well that's the real question, and it's not just on your skin according to the blood sample it goes down to your DNA," he says. "Wait could it halve anything to do with me being a met-human?" I ask. "Meta-human? Who told you that?" he asks. "Well that's what they called me," I say. "Well they were wrong, meta-humans DNA structure is totally different, their powers come form a natural mutation your power on the other hand comes from an alien element that was introduced at some point," he says. "But how and when?" I ask. "I wish I knew, I haven't even heard of bedorite in twenty years how it got in your DNA is a mystery to me," he says. "Wait so I wasn't borne with my powers some one gave them to me? And who ever it was had access the rarest material on earth? This is heavy doc," I say leaning against the examination table. "Weight has nothing to do with it bedorite is surprisingly light," he says in a matter-of-factly way. "It's an expression doc," I say. Before we continue talking some one calls me on my communicator. "Nightwing to Black Diamond come in," Nightwing says over the communicator. "Yeah I'm here," I say while pressing my ear. "The team finished early with the mission we're on our way to pick you up. You ready?" he asks. "Yeah I'm ready I'll be out in five," I say. "Roger that, Nightwing out," he says then the radio goes silent. "I gotta go doc," I say addressing the doctor again. "Yes I understand," he says. "I wish you could tell me more," I say. "Well I'll keep running test on your blood if I find anything new I'll contact you," I nod and we exchange numbers before I leave. While I stand out side waiting for the bioship I think about all the information that the doctor gave me. Who gave me these powers? When did they give them to me? Was it my mother? Why me? All this questions float around my head until the bioship finally guest there. It quickly lets down a cable which I tie around my waist, and it pulls me up. Once inside I'm greeted by smiling faces. I return the smiles as best I can trying not to look troubled. Cassie quickly walks over to me with a broad smile. "Hey I heard you knocked out Mammoth, good work. Not that I haven't done it before," she says cockily. My smile now becomes genuine and I reply, "Well you ever do it in less than five minutes?" I ask cockily. She stands there quietly with her jaw almost on the floor. I walk past her, and go to my seat tinting in it with a satisfied smirk. The rest of the ride is quiet except for Kaldur debriefing me on the way back. I decide to leave out the part about the bedorite I'm not sure why but I feel like I shouldn't tell them yet.
When we finally get back to the HQ I quickly go get my clothes from the bath room, and put them on over my hero suit. I say goodbye to everyone and head back to the zeta tubes. Once in Chicago I run home quickly, and run through the front door, and start making my way up the stairs. Half way up the stairs I hear Stacy call out. "Jay, is that you," she says from the kitchen. "Yeah," I say, and start up the stairs again but I'm stopped by Stacy calling out again. "Come in the kitchen I need to talk to you," she says. I make a small complaint noise, but then I obey her, and head towards the kitchen. "What?" I say when I get there. "Look about last night" she pauses for a second as if to gather her thoughts "Things got out of hand I shouldn't have yelled at you, it was just a mistake," she says apologetically. For a moment I was about to rub it in her face but then she continued. "Look I know you don't want a new mother, you've made that quite clear, but you can't expect me to just sit back, and let you run around on your own doing god knows what in god knows where" her voice gets a little more distraught at the end but she quickly regains her composure and continues. "I know I'm not the most caring person, and that I don't convey my emotions very well to the point that sometimes I may seem," she pauses as she looks for the correct word. "Indifferent," I suggest. "Yes indifferent, but I'm not, you've been here for four years, and I doo care about you quite deeply," she pauses again when her voice becomes distraught, she then goes to continue but I stop her by putting my hand on her shoulder. "It's Ok I know," I say with a genuine smile. We look at each other in silence for a while longer before she speaks. "Want dinner?" she asks trying to change the subject. "No it's ok I think I'll just go up to my room and do some home work," I say and start to head towards my room, but she stops me. "Hey the carnival is in town you wanna check it out tomorrow?" she asks hopefully. A guilty feeling comes over me knowing that she's making a genuine effort to connect, and that I have to shoot it down. "Sorry I think I'm busy tomorrow after school till about nine," I say apologetically. "No it's Ok you hang out with your friends will do something else some other time," she says disappointed. "We will," I respond reassuringly then head up to my room. When I get there I quickly run over to my computer and turn it on. I look through every search engine imaginable but I can't find a single thing on bedorite. "Fuck!" I yell frustrated as I slam closed my laptop. It's like the dam stuff doesn't even exist. I sit there quietly thinking about what my options are when an idea suddenly hits me. "The doctor!" I yell excitedly. I pull out my phone, and begin looking through the contacts until I find him. I dial the number an impatiently wait while it rings. "Who gave you this number," the person that picks up the phone says. I recognize his voice and quickly reply with, "You did doc." For a moment every thing is silent before he replies. "Oh yes Black Diamond I almost forgot that I was expecting a call from you," he says mush more calmly now. "Yeah well I just wanted to know if you found anything in my blood, cuz I've been looking for anything about bedorite on the internet and I can't find anything," I say. "What?!" he yells in my ear "you looked it up on the internet, as in the internet that the government monitors non stop. Tell me are you stupid or something? Never mind I already know the answer to that. You should watch your back kid the people that took the experiment from me didn't seem to friendly, and now they probably know that you're looking into them. I'd say it wont be long before they come looking for you." I absorb all the info then quickly respond. "Good cuz I want some answers. The sooner they come the better," I say determinedly. "Your funeral kid, anyway I didn't find much just what I'd already told you, but I did manage to remember something about the day they took it from me. The doctor that took over the project his name was David Johnson," he says. My expression goes blank, and I drop the phone. My father? How did he fit into all of this? I never really knew much about him only his name and that he and my mother met in college. She never told me anything else or why he left. I always figured that he was just a bum who didn't want a kid, but now it turns out he has something to do with my powers? "Hello, Diamond?" I can hear Dr. Buchanan calling from the phone. I pick it up, and put it to y ear again. "Yeah sorry I'm here," I say. "Oh good I thought they'd taken you already," he says relived. "No need to worry doc I can handle my self," I say dismissively. "I know kid but these are dangerous people, they came into the lab with an armed squad," he says. "Who are they anyway?" I ask. "No idea. They flashed a badge and I got out of there as fast as possible, I don't like dealing with the government," he says. "Ok well thanks for all the help, take care doc," I say. "Yeah you too kid, I'll call in a couple of days just to make sure you haven't despaired of the face of the earth," he says. "Ok doc catch you later," I say then hang up. Well crap now a whole bunch of info jus got dropped in my lap. I stay up until about two am googleing my ass of to no result.
The next morning I wake up to the sound of the alarm blaring right in my ear, I slap my hand over the snooze button half asleep. Then after ten more minutes of sleeping I finally decide to get up. I walk down to the kitchen and browse through the fridge looking for something to eat. I decide on a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch with milk, and after finishing my breakfast I go up to my room and get ready for school. I leave the house at 7:10 dressed in jeans, a black Papa Roach t-shirt, and a hoodie with my hero costume under my regular clothes. I get to school and have another uneventful boring ass day during which all I do is think about the team and Cassie. Wait what! Alarms go of in my head as I realize that I've been thinking about Cassie all day. When the hell did I start to think about her and why? I keep thinking about why I'm so focused on her but I can't come up with anything. That doesn't stop me from thinking about her non-stop. All I can think about is how cute her laugh is, and how pretty her hair is, oh and that ass! I fiscally slap my self in the face then say out loud, "Get your head out of the gutter Johnson." But try as I might, I can't stop thinking about her and her curves. Now if it was just that I wouldn't be panicked after all I am a guy so it's to be expected of me to appreciate a woman's body but it's more, it's not just her body it's her personality that really interest me. That is what's freaking me out the most right now. Could I be falling in love with her? No come on you've known her for less then a week. I keep repeating to my self that I don't like her until I finally get to the phone booth. I get n and state my code and before I'm teleported I tell my self one more time that I don't like her.