Arc 1 - Origin - Part 5 - Finale

It is June now, and I have had these powers for about 6 months now. Two months ago, I discovered that if I thought about a power, I can have that. For example, after learning to fly, I went around the world and saved a few people from accidents. However, people were able to see me but I did not want them to see me. However, I was fast enough to not be captured by their cameras. As I did not want anyone else to find out about me. So, I thought about having a power called ‘technopathy’. This powers enables its user to communicate and manipulate technology around them. As soon as I thought about, I had access to that power.

I spent about a month trying to perfect the new power but I could not do it as easily as something like telekinesis. In May 2018, I discovered a new ability. This ability allows me to use any power I want perfectly. This means that I no longer had to train for weeks to be able to use a power I had. Since then, I added new powers and can use as I have trained with this power forever. Some of the new powers I have added to my arsenal are Molecular manipulation, energy manipulation (can become very handy if a power plant was to blow up), healing other, etc. Even though I can use these powers perfectly, some of them are not very effective. For example, using my healing powers, I can only heal one person at a time.

Now that powers have been put aside, before starting my superhero career, I wanted to finish with my previous life. I finished everything at my college and I no longer needed to go. It was my birthday last month, so I had to leave my foster home but before I did that, I wanted to apologize to them about being such pain in the backside and wanted to give them a present for all they did for me.

Using my molecular manipulation, I learnt the compositions of gold and created pure gold, which I sold for a huge amount of money in India, as it has one of the largest gold markets in the world. The total amount of money I received from the gold was about $1 million. I used that money to purchase a house for my foster parents, who cared for me since I was 5. Their names were John and Mary. I also set aside some money for the university fee of my foster sister, whose name is Emma. She finished high school this year, so it was not far away for her to go to university.

When I showed them the new house, they denied it and did not want it, but I insisted that they take it and told them everything that happened over the last few months. They seemed a little worried but Emma seemed super excited about it.

“So, this is why you were never at home?” Emma said in disappointment. “I thought you might have found yourself a girlfriend.”

“You know how I feel about other people,” I replied.

As I was sipping on some juice, Emma said, “I always thought you and Emily were dating.” Before she could finish her sentence, I threw all the juice in my mouth on the table.

“What on Earth gave you that idea?” I asked abruptly.

“I don't know. You guys are always together.” She said in a sarcastic tone.

“You know a boy and girl can be friends without being in a romantic relationship, right?” I told her.

“I know,” she said rolling her eyes.

We sat there for a few hours talking about my powers and what I have been doing. I was about to leave, Mary asked, “Where will you live from now on?”

With a smirk on my face, “In Antarctica!”

They laughed at my reply.

“No, seriously I have built myself a fortress in Antarctica,” I explained to them. “I have been away for a few months and this what I have been doing besides training to perfect my powers.”

“Why in Antarctica?” John asked.

“Well, if I am to be Superman of this world, I need my own Fortress of Solitude,” I told them in a sarcastic tone. “To be honest, Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is in the Arctic in most stories but I some stories...” Before I could finish I was interrupted by Emma, who shouted “Nerd Alert!”

Before I left, Emma asked, “So, how did you get these powers?”

“I don’t know but I have these fragments of memories appearing in which I am in a test tube and I am being experimented on.” As I said that, they looked shocked. “But that could easily be a story I read in a comic. Who knows?”

After a while, I left their home and went on to meet Emily. She lived not far away from here, so I went to her home and gave her a present. The present I made was a high-grade teleportation device that would allow her to travel anywhere without any limits. She did not have to charge it anyway and it could transport everything safely. I gave this to her as a present for being friends with me all this time. Another present in the box was a device that uses nanites to change her clothes into anything she wishes.

As I gave her the present, she said, “You know, you can’t repay friendship, right?”

“I know, but I just wanted you to have it” I told her. ”With this, you can go anywhere around the world for free. Also, there is a device that you can use to change your clothes into anything you want. I will explain the how of it later.”

“I will take this, but don’t think for a second we are no longer friends.” She said while smiling.

“Of course not,” I replied. “We are going to be friends until the end of the world.”

We talked for a while about college and exams and assignment. I was about to leave but I wanted to get her advice. She was always the smarter one and good at decision making.

“Hey, can I ask you a question?” I asked.

“Of course, what is it?” She replied.

I hesitated before asking, “Do you think I should become a superhero?”

“If that’s what you desire, then why not?” She replied abruptly.

“I do desire it, but if I do go out as a superhero, don’t you think that the type of evil will change? Things can become rough for ordinary people.”

“What do you mean by it?” She asked.

“Well, if I were to be a superhero, there would be someone who wants to defeat me, and they will go to any length to do that,” I explained to her.

“So, you will let you power be wasted?” She asked a rhetorical question. “You need to think about how much you can save instead of how much you will destroy. If you don’t do anything, how will you feel at the end of the day? How will you live with yourself knowing you could save them but didn’t?”

“Thanks,” I said to her while smiling as this helped me a lot. “Oh yeah, one more question.”

“What is it?” She asked.

“What should my superhero name be?” I asked in an excited tone.

“Oh, so you decided?” She said. “Well, look into your useless brain and choose a superhero name.”

“That hurts!” I continued, “but what if I get a lawsuit against me.”

We both laughed.

I asked her, “Do you want to see my secret base?”

“Oh yeah,” she replied abruptly. “I want to see how much you have copied Superman.”

Once we got to the base, it was cold, but one of the new powers I developed is temperature control. I made sure that the weather is as warm as possible. Not too hot and not too cold.

I showed her around the base.

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(From Emily’s point of view)

The base was massive. There were rooms in here, bathrooms, kitchen, and a library, which was full of comics and manga. There was also a theatre room, which was fitted in with state of the art sound system and screen.

“So, how much did it cost you?” I asked.

“Nothing,” he replied. “I made all of these using my powers. It was a good training exercise for my mind and my powers.”

“Damn, this place is awesome,” I told him in excitement. “So, besides these few rooms, library and theatre, what else is here?” I asked him.

“Well, there is a control room, which allows me to monitor different situations around the world.” He replied. “But I have not really used it as I was not sure if I wanted to be a superhero or not.”

“So, where does the electricity comes from?” I asked.

He replied with a long answer, “Well when I developed these machines, I made sure that they do not need electricity and other devices do not use any forms of energy either. I will need to fix some of these devices so it's not really cold in here anymore.”

We looked around for a while and everything I could see or touch were made out of nothing. He said that he used his molecular manipulation to turn the ice around into something useful. No idea how that works, but its awesome in here.

Before I knew it, it was already nearly night. So, I left back for home. Before I left, he told me that I can come here whenever I want to.

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Once she left, I went into the room and pulled out a piece of paper and started coming up with names. I created a checklist and wrote down superhero names which have been used multiple times in the media.

I came up with original names too beside overused superhero names. Some of the names I came up with were:

Omni-man (because I am nigh-omnipotent?) = used by an Image Comics character. Photon = used by a Genis-Vell, the third Captain Marvel from Marvel Comics. Sentry = used by multiple characters. The most notable character who used this name is Robert Reynolds. Ion = first used by Kyle Rayner the fourth human Green Lantern. Then was later used by Sodam Yat, the Daxamite Green Lantern. There is also a character in Valiant Comics who goes by the same name. Proton = lame Electron = Lame

There were other names too, but I can’t remember them. So, I decided that I will have no superhero name for now. So, if someone asked, I will give them my real name, Nazar.

During the last few months, I have also created a device that uses nanites to change my clothes into anything I want. So, I decided to check out some costumes. Anything it produced was very similar to a costume used by fictional characters. So, I decided that I will wear black jeans with a black shirt.

I wanted to make myself public in less than a week. So, I decided before I do that, I will take the next day off and visit my dream places and eat the most amazing food in the world. I was already getting hungry.