I laughed even as my ribs hurt. They were sending 25 supers to kill one super. I felt sorry for that super, especially since it was me. I had no clue what I could do about the situation, it just wasn't fair. I needed this ship to vanish. I needed other supers who could help me. I wondered how much time I had to live. Not just me, my crew was in this as well.

My crew. I was a craftsman now, I could use the tools I was given to create supers. I wanted to use this talent in my homeworld, but I guess I needed it now. I first needed a healer who could fight. Healing and harm, she would be able to, in an instant, complete a full healing or a total dehabilitation. I was looking at one of the girls in my crew. She noticed me looking and stared back at me. I motioned for her to come to me.

"What is your name sailor," I asked. I should have known her name. Maybe she would forgive me for not knowing her name since I made her rich.

"Surita Congata," she answered with suspicion in her eyes.

"I need your help Surita," I said and she started blushing. She still looked at me though, a lightbulb went off and I started blushing also.

"I don't mean like that. Not that you aren't pretty ... I mean you are a member of my ..."

"What do you need my help with Fish Man?"

"I'm gonna be honest and succinct with you. There are 25 supers looking for us to kill us. Me first and you, my crew, as collateral damage. I need a super, a team of supers to help out. If we don't get super help we are all as good as dead. You don't want to die do you Surita Congata?" I asked.

"No Fish Man, but I cannot help you, I don't know any supers aside from you."

"I know that Surita. I need you to become a super, someone who can heal and harm from a distance. I need you to let me grant you superpowers like mine," I said.

She looked at me with an expression that said what she thought of my state of mind. Then her face changed expression again into something more akin to shock and hope. Last, there was fear. This girl had a head on her shoulders as they say.

"If you could make me a superhero, you are saying that 25 others with superpowers are coming for us right?" asked Surita.

"Yes Surita, there will be a bunch coming for us. Even with granting you superpowers is no guarantee that we will survive," I said, "but we won't go down sleeping. We will fight and we may win."

"Why would we win?"Surita asked.

"Because I can design better abilities than you can get from nature. You, for example, would have the ability to heal or harm in an instant. If you are hurt one second, you will be completely healed the next second. You can kill with a wave of your hand. You can also teleport to whoever is injured or whoever you have ever harmed physically. You would be very powerful," I said.

"Before I agree with you Fish Man, you must do something for me. My mother and brother live poorly in Somalia. I was going to surprise them with money so they could live like kings and queens or they could move away. If we die, they will continue living as they are and that is unacceptable. Make sure my family is taken care of and I will do as you ask," she asked.

Looking into her eyes I could see the sincerity there. I nodded and said, "I will make sure your parents are taken care of, do you have a laptop?" I asked.

"Yes I do," she said.

We went to her cabin and she pulled out a laptop and I pulled out my phone. I called EIS and it downloaded itself onto her laptop and promptly began explaining what it was and how it could help her. It would manage her money and expand upon her work. While she looked and listened, I researched the Power Creation ability. I could design an Ability and put it into myself or someone else. I designed the healing/harm power and prepared to use this ability. I could use it three times I knew before I had to level up the skill.

When she was done, I stood next to her with my hand on her shoulder. I reached inside to where my ability to manipulate chance was and fished around for my second ability, that of power creation. I relaxed and searched using fate to be certain that I would find my quarry. I searched with silent confidence until I found it, my second power. I pulled on the ability and it responded. I took my mental design and moved the design and the power into each other causing a ball of energy to form. The energy floated freely until I moved the energy from my core, up through my torso into my arms and finally down into her. She gasped.

Her breathing raced and she began to sweat a little. Her entire body began a slow transition into light, a green light that was concentrated on her hands.

"How are you feeling?" I asked.

"This is incredible, I feel so alive, Fish-Man you really are a miracle."

"Tell me I am a Miracle after we get out of this. Now I need your help. We need more supers and I need a plan to use for us all to survive," I said.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"I need to come up with a plan to defeat Thomas Kane and his army of supers. I need a plan where we win," I explained. I then left her to explore her powers, to get a feel for the inner representation of her new power. I went to my cabin to think.

I pulled up my character sheet:

Wilbur Trent

Human Level 12

Strength -2 | Level 2 Super Strength

Agility -2 | Level 2 Super Agility

Health 0 | Level 2 Super Health

Intelligence 7 | Level 3 Super Intelligence

Wisdom 5 | Level 3 Super Wisdom

Willpower 7 | Level 2 Super Willpower

Charisma 3 | Level 2 Super Charisma

Luck 8 | Level 2 Super Luck

Super Power: Probability Manipulation Level 5

Super Power: Power Creation Level 1

I took more energy from my experience pool and put it into my Super stats, 250 points gave:

Wilbur Trent

Human Level 12

Strength -2 | Level 3 Super Strength

Agility -2 | Level 3 Super Agility

Health 0 | Level 3 Super Health

Intelligence 7 | Level 4 Super Intelligence

Wisdom 5 | Level 3 Super Wisdom

Willpower 7 | Level 3 Super Willpower

Charisma 3 | Level 3 Super Charisma

Luck 8 | Level 3 Super Luck

Super Power: Probability Manipulation Level 9

Super Power: Power Creation Level 1

Why didn't I raise my strength while I was captured, I was under duress. I didn't think of it, only how bad my situation was, that was my only thought. My bad situation for me and my crew. I still am quite weak in respect to my basic statistics. I have two more supers I can create at this level. Or I could give myself more power and one other can become a super. What to do, what to do.