September 12, 2017.

Yup, that's the day! The day I got my first power. Although it was not as good as you think. It began with an ordinary day. I woke up at my usual time, had breakfast. Since it was the weekend, I had the whole day to myself. I invited my friend to my house to play on the game console.

Now, let me introduce myself.

My name is Daniel Smith, my friends call me Danny for short. I am a very attentive person. I'm always aware of my surroundings, sneaking up on me might be hard even for a cat. I am fairly handsome, not too good looking. I don't brag about my looks, nor do I like anyone who likes outer appearance rather than inner beauty. I am very selective about my relationship, up until now, I have declined numerous offers from girls. I hate faking love.

But that's enough about me. Let's get back to my story.

So yeah, as I said I invited my friend to my home. I was plugging up the cords to the television, just as the doorbell rang.

"Lou, can you open the door?" I called out,

"Okay!" I heard from the other room.

I just finished up connecting the last cord as my friend came into the living room.

"Hey Danny!"

"Hey! Sit down, I'll be back in a bit."

"Alright."

I went out in the kitchen to get some snacks. The passage from the living room to the kitchen wasn't too wide. Enough for two people to stand side by side. As I reached in the kitchen, I took a look around to find something.

The counter was mostly equipped with kitchen tools or appliances. I went to the first cupboard, it was nothing of my use. Moving to the next, I found a cookie box, potentially useless, but my Friend loves them. I picked them. I searched the refrigerator, and found some pizza slices left from yesterday. I took them and heated them in the microwave. Meanwhile I set the cookies on a dish and placed it on a tray. After taking g pizza slices, I took all of it back to the living room.

When I reached there I saw him looking at the game discs. He smiled when he saw the amount of cookies on the plate. I wonder if he has an obsession with them.

"Thanks a lot dude!"

"Don't mention it!"

This is Mathew, or Matt for me, he is the biggest stupid you'll ever find on earth, actually not, he's pretty intelligent but I like to call him idiot. He has a weird obsession with cookies, at least that's what I've noticed. He is a bit shy and timid. So he doesn't show off much. He is oblivious to almost everything that is happening around, I wonder how he survives. Also he sleeps with a teddy bear tugged in his arms. Don't tell anyone, he gets angry.

"What do you wanna play?" I asked as I sat beside him. Taking a slice for myself. He held a cookie in his right hand and looked through the discs.

"Well, there are so many I can't really choose.... How about Real Racing?"

"That's fine with me."

I said as I opened the case and put the disc in the game console. We played the game for the next few hours. We had a great time. After 2 or 3 more games, we were down to a co-op shooting game.

It was a critical situation, I was inside the enemy base and Mathew was just behind me. The room was surrounded by enemy soldiers. We were low on ammo and we had to kill all of them to move ahead.

"Danny? Can you please come here for a sec?"

I heard my mom call for me. This was the worst timing.

"Coming, wait for a minute!" I replied.

"Danny, I need you right now! Please!"

"Yeah, I'm coming just a minute."

We both were firing furiously at the enemies, we were about to succeed when suddenly the screen went all black.

"Wha-?!"

I realized, the television was turned off. Then we saw why.

"Mom's calling you so you should go instantly!"

It's my sister, she intentionally pulled out the main wire. I hate her sometimes.

I got up and walked up to the kitchen. Glaring her as I moved. She stuck her tongue out at me.

My sister is a very sinister girl. She may look sweet on the outside but is completely different on the inside. Her name is Louisa, we lovingly call her Lou. She is sometimes very loud, she is persistent, she is annoying, well all siblings are but she is intentionally annoying. She makes me help her in all her school work, and being the good brother I am, I help her without question. I occasionally ask her help but am mostly denied. I don't mind though. I am not the one to fight. Actually I don't want to fight, she can be scary at times.

I reached the kitchen and saw my mom cutting the vegetables, she noticed me and quickly left her work. She walked up to the refrigerator and pulled up a list from the door magnet. She came to me and handed me the list.

"Please bring me these before lunch! It's urgent!"

"Sure!"

I retreated back to the living room. Mathew was picking at the cookies mindlessly.

"C'mon, I need to go to the supermarket. We need to stop here."

"Coming."

He stood up and picked up a handful of cookies with him, I just shook my head at his childishness. We both came out of the house and made our way to the supermarket.

It was quite near our house so we walked there. After reaching there, we searched for the required items and then moved on to the cashier's counter.

The billing was done quickly, which gave us more time to reach early. We bought ourselves a can of juice to drink while walking. We talked about random stuff and were walking home.

We were nearly two blocks away from my house when we had an encounter. There was a transformer near the intersection. For the last few months it wasn't behaving normally. It would occasionally make weird sounds, and then suddenly go silent. Though, it didn't do much more. Nothing too serious.

However, today was different. I noticed a few sparks at the upper section of the transformer. This made me suspicious, we were still quite far from it and I observed it more seriously. The sparking was regular and this alarmed me.

There was a group of children coming from the other side and stopped right in front of it. They were waiting for the signal to turn green to cross the intersection. By this time we were almost there and my senses said that standing there was dangerous.

I increased my pace and soon changed to sprinting. "Hey, move away from it!" I yelled, the boys heard me and turned to me. They didn't clearly understand me, so I yelled again and pointed to the transformer, they got the message and started to get back. In the meantime, I got there just as the sparking increased violently. I managed to push the last boy out of the way just as the explosion occurred. It wasn't too big but it caused several metal pieces to get detached from its body and one of it headed straight for me.

The explosion had occurred because of an electrical short circuit. The metallic parts were charged and when the one hit me, the whole charge surged through me. I can't really explain how it felt, just imagine getting a CPR at full power. It threw me back. The metal had pierced through my hand and stuck.

"DANNY!!" - "Oh my God!!!" - "Whaaa!"

I heard everyone screaming, screeching of tyres as the cars stopped and people gathered near me. But, I couldn't make out what was happening, it was all a jumbled mess to me. My brain was spinning and I couldn't focus, I was losing consciousness. I lied there on the path, like a dead creature.

And then everything went black.

To be continued...

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