Chapter 5: Spacing out.

The day was bright, That day was especially bright. 

 

A young boy was running through the street, running from others. 

Dodging anything in his way from garbage bins to stray dogs just to get away from his pursuers. 

His speed wasn't impressive but he was somehow gaining distance. 

When you see him run it's like he blinks in and out of existence and to his assailants it seemed he disappeared and reappeared out of nowhere. 

The boy quickly turned the corner without thinking which led him to a dead end. 

The people who were following him cornered him into this small alleyway.  

"We finally caught one of you runners, you are under arrest for drug smuggling"

They started to slowly walk toward the boy, knowing that he can't escape. 

They can only see him smiling as his white hair covered his bangs. 

Within a second he disappeared. 

The baffled police looked around in astonishment but the boy simply was on the roof a couple of buildings away from them. 

He giggled to himself as he walked away.

"Gotcha!"

He was tackled, from behind. 

Some other cop must have seen him and had a flying power to catch him he thought

Without thinking he placed his hand on the man's face which led to the ma-

"NO!"

He jolted from his sleep, still shaken from that incident. 

"C'mon Kazuya you really need to stop thinking about that it's not healthy" 

He got up from his bed, he checked his alarm clock which showed 7:38 am

Today was the fifth day of college and after that is when the weekend starts. 

He was tired from last night, he mostly did grocery shopping to fill up his fridge

He grabbed an energy drink from his hand which had the famous hero Radiance on it.

He took a few sips to give himself a burst of vigor to start the day. 

He grabbed a couple of eggs from the fridge. 

He put on the news on his phone before he cooked breakfast. 

"In eclipse city news we bring in the daily body count from yesterday was 37, which is below the average so that's nice"

"Crack!"

Cracking the egg on the oiled-up pan. 

"We have been given reports of sightings of the recent drugs trades that have shifted from the slums into the top streets"

"Crack!" 

"Some are blaming the mayor for taking down the wall that kept the so-called runners out which was over five years ago today"

"Crack!"

" The Eclipse city police department have increased their vigilance around the surrounding area of the slums, hell I even heard that they even brought out a judicator to show that they are now serious"

"crackle!" "Pop!"

He turns down the heat to make sure the eggs won't burn. 

"We now ask you does anyone remember the legendary villain Dr evil? Well, Kisen Toys has released Dr evil toy mo-"

He turns off the radio

He grabs a journal out of his school bag which he proceeds to write a couple of things in. 

He closes it and places it on the table next to him, luckily he doesn't have a roommate so he can make all the unnecessary noise he wants.

He grabbed some of the rice from his rice cooker and a bowl. He put the eggs on the rice and digged in. 

After cleaning up he checked the time.

8:09 am

He sniffed himself 

"Oof I should take a shower"

 

*Judicators are suits that are designed to take down superhumans*

 

After drying himself he decided to go with his ruffled school uniform look.

Leaving the room he walked down the hall, the students greet him as he passes by. During the past few days he was there he decided to make friends with the people on his floor. 

Kazuya checked and walked into class, his instructor was Mr. Solomon, a pretty strict guy who always seems to be dead inside.

Yesterday they were learning the consequences of damages and how to minimize its impact.

He kinda slept in the last class so he only had a limited amount of knowledge. 

"Morning class, we will continue with yesterday's lecture and then I will ask you to go off in groups to debate if heroes should be responsible for the damages they cause when trying to stop a villain"

Kazuya opened up his journal and wrote a few more things before closing it. 

During the duration of the lecture he started to nod off, the monotone voice of Mr. Solomon brought Kazuya into a driftless slumber.

 

His nap was interrupted when the top of his kept getting tapped on. 

He looked up when he saw a girl looking down at him

"Hello, I see you also don't have a group, do you want to be in my group?"

He looks around 

"Hmm, yeah sure it could be electrifyingly cool to work with you"

She sat down next to him with her laptop. 

"Alright I'll type down some of the answers we make"

"Before we get into it I must introduce myself, I'm Kazuya"

"I'm Akari, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

They both discussed for a while, Kazuya giving half-joke answers while Akari believe that heroes should not be held responsible as they stop villains from causing greater casualties.

"Hey, are you also a fan of Demon kid?" he points towards the keychain on her bag"

"Wait you also read Demon kid?!" 

"Hell yeah! I even bought one of the demon kid funko pops!'

Both of them spent the lecture talking about their favorite manga instead of studying

 

 

*" over 2 decades ago, science has pioneered in cybernetics, allowing metal and organics mix"

 

 

Both spent a while chatting throughout the day, casually talking in their lectures about manga and the favorite games they play. They stopped by the local café in their college, Akari got a strawberry frappe while Kazuya got water with whip crème.  

They took a seat at one of the booths. 

"Hey, Akari you wanna go to this party that the people on floor 5 are having tomorrow?"

"hm, sure what time?"

"I was told it was at 8 pm"

She clicks her tongue

"While damn, I have something to do by then

"Eh it's cool, you got things to do"

He takes a sip of his drink. 

" Can I ask, why do you want to be a hero?"

He coughs, not expecting that. 

" Sorry, didn't expect one of those cheesy questions, Well you see I just want to save people" 

"That is basic no offense"

He acts like he got punched "Ouch, what about yours?" 

"Well when I was young I wanted to be an inspiration, some sort of hope" she smiles softly 

"Ha, you sound like one of those politicians"

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She rolls her eyes " ok Mr basic whatever you say"

She checks the time "Damn, let's get going we have power application with Mr. Duln"

 

 

 

They took their seats together in the lecture hall, both looking to the front of the room where the lecturer was at.  

Mr. Duln wore his signature suit and tie, he rubbed his stubble, while looking at some of the notes in his hand. 

He looked up toward the class and spoke 

"Apologies for not canceling Wednesday's lecture, I had a sudden emergency to attend to". 

He pulls out a small remote which activated the screen behind him. 

"As you see this is the introduction to power application, any questions before we start?"

No one spoke up

" Hmm alright, Power application is learning to use your power in different ways or methods"

He scans through the class until stopping at someone

"Akari, I read up on your file, your power was electricity, and tell me what is electricity"

She fails to hide her surprise when being called out

"Uhm, it's an energy that uh results from charged particles?"

"Correct. What can you do with your powers?" he expects an answer from her

" I can shoot out bolts of lightning at bad guys!" she says with excitement

"Correct but you're also just limiting your creativity with your powers" he sighs. 

"What do you mean sir?"

"It means that I need everyone outside for a demonstration" 

 

The entire class was in the front yard of the college surrounding Mr. Duln

"Alright the college yard is the perfect space for demonstration, alright Akari could you stand next to me"

She stands next to him. 

" Show me your hand" She does as she's told " I'm going to try something if you don't mind"

 he pulls out a small taser and holds it

"You know what I'm going to do?" she shakes her head

" I'm going to turn on this small taser and you are going to absorb it alright" he explains

"How does that work?" she asks curiously 

"Think of yourself as a battery which has a low charge, now you need to charge yourself"

"ok I see" he turns on the taser which she then puts her hand to it which shocks her

"Ouch! what was that!?" She yells

"It's not that simple, you don't just stick your hands in it you need to have a feel for it, I have seen many electrical users before and they had mastered that technique before they could even whistle"

"but I don't know how to whistle either" she responds

"tch, well think of the electrical current like it's a drink and you as the straw sucking in the power"

She holds out her hand and for a minute it seemed like nothing was happening until the electricity from the taser was bending toward her palm

"Hey, it's working! it's working!" she says with excitement

"Wait, wait how do I turn this off!" she quickly panics as she tried to wave her hand around which didn't do anything as the electrical current followed her.

Mr. culn watched her doing nothing to help, she started to panic which the current started to move sporadically and a small discharge occurred which sent her back a couple of feet. 

The taser in Culn's hand exploded which didn't phase him at all but only shredded his sleeves. 

She got up slowly she groaned with pain " Hey what gives? I thought you were going to help me"

"Ha no that would be pointless, but the reason why it didn't stop was that you panicked you didn't calm yourself which led the electrical current to be unstable and it resulted in a discharge" he responds calmly

She gets up onto her feet, "yeah but how do I close it though?" 

"you will need to figure that out yourself" he turns to the rest of the class " which comes to your first assignment, you will need to discover something new with your power, like for example Akari's electricity she could possibly fly by using electromagnetic radiation or speeding up the healing with her cells"

He looks at his watch "I'm dismissing class early so take the time to study your powers and how they could work differently" He then walks towards the building. 

"So that was something was it" Kazuya speaks up, she looks at him with annoyance " I don't like that guy he's just too harsh"

"Yeah but I think he is trying to make us learn about the harshness in the real world" Kazuya had a sad look on his face for a moment.

She chuckles " I think everything is going to be alright, nothing to worry about when we become real heroes right!" she says with euthusiam\

He nods " yeah"

 

 

*The ranking system is based on chess, pawns, knights, bishops, queens, and kings*

 

 

A few hours later

Patrol entry 334 

During my patrols through the slums, I manage to find out some rumors about a potential drug trade in the north side which is pretty close to the main city. I need to make sure that I tail the suspects to find out the location of their factories, until then I need to be careful about the gangs that inhabit here.

 

Kazuya closes his journal and tucks it inside his inner jacket pocket, he adjusts his medical mask to make sure it covers his nose. He chuckles to himself, instead of going to the party he decided to hang out near a dead rat in the slums, he probably would've gone if Akari would've went. 

He gazes from the rooftops looking down at the streets " stray dog, random junkie, hoodlum, Akari, tents-Wait a minute!"

His eyes didn't deceive him he spotted Akari talking to someone but couldn't see who it was.  

He tried to get a better look but the foundation of the roof caved in.  

He groaned after laying in the cheap debris under him

"fuuuuck my ass hurts"

 

 

 

Mitsuki Bushida

Description

Long purple hair

Purple eyes

has small scars on her arms from the lashings she gets and smaller scars around her body from her power

Athletic body 

5'8

Power: Charge

Can charge up her body and build up power over time to unleash a powerful attack to decimate her opponents. She can use this ability over a duration letting her attack her opponents for a short amount of time. 

 If she charges too much or lets out an attack she's unable to control she is vulnerable to injuring herself by tearing muscles or breaking bones. When she charges she emits heat which burns calories and fat but after attacking she might leave a burn on an opponent if she charges long enough. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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