Electrify - Volume 1 Chapter 5

The city was quiet. As quiet as a city on New York’s size could be. The ESU was perplexed by the 2 students who had aces the term exam and Peter was finally a certified agent. There had been a mishap with a mission, he was on. An seriously mistake in the info and he proceeded as normal. At he had to face a room full of dead children. There was an experiment going on with the kidnapped children as test Subject . They were trying to replicate a particular mutants powers but the test could only done on humans. Peter, killed a guy that day in his rage. From then on he became a bit serious with how he handled cases. He finally, began got his badge after completing a bunch of missions.

“Hey, man. What’s up?” I asked.

We were at the base and were sparring with our powers full in use.

“Its that case, I was looking up all the data but there was no employer listed anywhere.” He sighed.

“Let it go, man. We are humans. Mistakes happen.” I said.

“No, it’s not the guilt. I personally interrogated the scientist. They didn’t know anything. They were entirely isolated from the actual tests. They would get a memo every other day describing the failures but nothing about the kids. The mission on the database marked it as a ransom ring.” He said and stopped.

“Peter, the Shield also has some mole in it. May be someone on the parole was the one who botched the info.” I said.

There was something that I kept on forgetting, It was on my tongue but I couldn’t really put my finger on it. In my other life, I was not really a fan of superheroes. I knew about those because of a friend who was definitely into them. My gut told me that the train of thought Peter was on would lead to something big.

“That would be the most logical conclusion. Damn it.” He said in frustration. “We shouldn’t be talking about it here.” Peter said and we got back to punching each other out.

The past few months, Peter really pushed himself. Everyday, he would train till he could no longer stand. Every subsequent mission, he was ever vigilant. Border line paranoid even. A few weeks ago Felicia finally got to him and set his mind straight. Or Peter told me that she did. He would even talk shit now a days. A few days later, fury called me asking about Xavier. I told him everything and he hung up.

“Kid, your mutant buddies kidnapped Senator Kelly and the President has order shield to retrieve him from the island of Genosha. I am assigning you a mission to approach them and observe. We will take action after either proving or disproving their innocence.” Fury hung up.

I read the file and immediately saw why Xavier was the prime suspect. He has the motive to capture and brainwash the senator, while Eric’s history would suggest that he would kill the sucker on the spot. The law Kelly was trying to implement was a bit unconstitutional and breached human rights. Each and every mutant was to be registered with a demonstration of their powers and would be tracked all the time via an implant. Yeah, the act was up the walls f.u.c.k.i.e.d up.

However, it was also understandable why he was trying to do here. Senator Kelly’s son was killed by a mutant by accident when the said mutants abilities manifested. The kids internal organ were more or less turned to paste when a blast of superpower infrasound hit him. The mutant was also killed by his own powers but he was a parent, he wanted someone to pin the blame on. He considered the mutants to be a liability to the human race and the word mutant took on a racial feature becoming and object of fear.

I sighed and looked up the address. The school was somewhere upstate, no exact coordinates because the property is too big to see the school from the out side and no one can see the school after going inside either. Xavier seems to be keeping the secret well but Shield has satellites and nothing can hide from that. Huh, I looked up the map and there was a nothing where the school should have been. Well, damn. I sighed and flew to the location. I took me 5 minutes to arrive at the huge mansion. Neither the movies or the comics had done justice to the sheer size of that thing. I rang the bell and a gruff voice answered.

“Who’s oh kid, you here to join?” Logan asked.

“Not really, I am here to talk to Xavier.” I said and Logan grunted.

The screen switched off and the gate opened. I went to the huge door and Ororo lead me inside.

“You could have flown here.” She said.

“Yes.” I replied and kept quiet.

I was lead to the professor’s office where he was already present. He smiled at me a gestured me to take a seat.

“Maxwell, what brings you here?” he said.

“Senator Kelly, where is he?” I dumped the question and sped myself up.

A part of shield training was to read the micro expressions. The better agents had this skill pat down while I was still a boob. I made up for the skill by speeding myself up.

“Maxwell, the senator passed away.” Professor said. “Before you draw conclusions look at this.” He said and turned the screen around.

It showed how the Senator wobbled his way onto the campus. He was walk was wobbly and his limbs would stretch out randomly. He stumbled onto a few kids and scarred them off. Soon, Scott and Jean came and took the man inside. The senator was unconscious while they ran test and tried to help the man. Senator, finally asked Ororo why did she hate humans? And after a brief moment, he dissolved into a blob of water and evaporated. I plugged the phone in the computer an uploaded all the footage to the Shield server. Highlighting the part that I had seen. I called Fury and waited for him to answer.

“Kid, the video. Do they have a way to do that to everyone?” He growled out.

“No, Xavier was trying to help him. However, it would be stupid to assume that they cannot replicate it. How is your search in Genosha?” I asked.

“We found the place but it’s empty. We are running our scan here. You stick with Xavier, and dig up more info and try not to be controlled.” Fury said and hung up.

“Xavier, what is the situation here. How worried should I be.” I said and removed my helmet.

“The situation is far worse. If Magneto’s plan succeeds, we will be hunted down or another world War.” Xavier sighed.

“Eric has built a machine which alters the DNA of anyone exposed to it’s radiation and mutates them. The mutation may be stable or like the Senator unstable. He is planning on transferring his powers to another mutant and set the machine to radiated everything in a few kilometer radius.” He pulled up another doc.u.ment listing the foreign and the local delegate who have come to Ellis Island for a conference. “We have yet to determine the location of the machine.” He sighed and continued with the search.

“Professor, the Cerebro is still damaged.” I heard another voice. I sped myself up and put on my helmet.

A red haired cuties and Scott entered the room. They looked stumped at my appearance, hehe, the suit really is badass. I ignored them and looked at professor.

“You seem to know a lot about Eric. What is he like?” I asked.

“Eric, I a troubled man. He was one of the boys at the Auschwitz and lived to see his parents tortured and killed. He as seen the worst of humanity and has not moved past it. He see himself as someone above humans. He is very cunning but often very arrogant.” Professor broke down the man known as Magneto in great detail. Nearing the end of his mini lecture, Xavier pulled up a picture of Lady Liberty and sighed. “If I were to guess, he would be right here.” He pointed at the torch and poured himself a drink.

“Fury, our best guess is at the statue of Liberty, it is close to Ellis Island and is fitting location for a person who wants to be seen as a God.” I said.

“I have my elites else where, they would take a day to return. I am sending in a research team to build a radiation resistant room in case of an evacuation. You are to neutralize the threat, Peter will be assisting with the room.” Fury said.

My phone was updated with all the parameters and the use of lethal force was allowed.

“Professor, I will be leaving ahead. If you want to come please update me.” I said and turned around.

“Electro, we are leaving right now. A team of Logan, Ororo, Jean, Scott. They leave in 10 Minutes.” Professor said and got back to his drink.

“sir, Electro. I was wonder if you were a mutant.” Jean asked.

She looked a bit intimidated and was fidgeting. She was young, almost 15 and hair was red and orange like it was on fire. Scott was confused, he didn’t speak.

“That’s classified information.” I replied, my voice was modulated so Scott’s confusion grew further.

The reason was that my complete powers were not really used to save the city at all. I always used my speed to do everything, even when using my electricity, I did it up close by touching the thugs and taxing them. The only time, my powers were completely on display was when I was fighting Doom and the drones but then there were no people to take notes or pictures.

Jean looked miffed at my answer but didn’t really complain. Scott simply lead un to the underground hangar. Soo, we were all, heading to the Statue.

“Storm, a bit of cover.” Jean said and Ororo’s eyes began to glow, soon the river was shrouded in fog.

They turned on the cloaking mechanism and we were at the Statue without any trouble. We entered to lobby and noticed the lack of guards and cleaning staff. Logan took a few whiffs and pulled out his claws. He took of in a hurry leaving us alone. I looked at Storm and she shook her head.

“He does that sometimes.” Jean supplied.

I shook my head and turned to the statue nearby. It was very much alive, I could feel the bio-electricity inside it. I sighed and sped myself up and tazed the statue at full power. The statue fell down and the armor and the skin began to dissolve into a young blue woman. I kicked her to a side and reduced my speed.

“That was unnecessarily brutal.” Scott said and we walked a bit further.

I felt another person on top of us but ignored him just to see how the A-team would react. Ten seconds later, the man jumped in between them and punched Scott and kicked the two other ladies simultaneously. I sighed and rushed him. He fought like a street brawler and solely depended on his instincts. Even without my powers he was out cold in under 30seconds. Just to be sure, I taxed him and kicked him aside as well. Ororo sighed and helped Jean and Scott up. We soon we to the elevator and took in to the to the head. We took a few steps and I felt the electromagnetic fields around me change. I sped up and dodged all the steel beams that came at me. The Xmen on the other hand were not so lucky. All of them were tied up.

I looked above us and saw magneto floating there, he had a smile when he looked at me.

“Electro, that is some speed. My son would find you interesting.” He said with a chuckle.

“Don’t do this Magneto. You will ruin what we have worked for.” Ororo yelled out.

I looked behind him on the torch, there was a contraption set up with Rogue inside it. She was struggling but it only hurt her. I tried to run as fats as possible but Magneto formed a large metal cage around me and made it smaller till I was unable to move. He floated up to Rogue and touched her face. I could feel the amount of power being transferred. I looked around and began to heat the metal. It was taking sometime but I managed to do it in 5 minutes. I ran up to the device but before I could reach magneto fell down and the device began to spin. It generated some kind of force field which kept me from absorbing the current or to overload it.

“It’s no use electro.” Magneto said with a chuckle.

Soon, a bubble of light began to form around the machine and slowly began to expand. I could sense the power in the bubble and a grin formed on my face. I began to absorb the energy in the bubble, keeping it the same size instead of expanding. There was a weird feeling that spread through my body and it soon became sore again. The feeling was reminiscent of the dimensional energy but it was far less powerful. My body felt bloated and it soon became painful. I felt as though I heard screaming, oh it was my screams. After what felt like hours, the energy was cutoff and I fell unconscious.

I woke up with a similar situation, my body was glowing again and the powers a bit more rampant. I reigned in the power after a hour of concentration and looked around. I was at a medical facility with my suit off. It was kept to the side, I picked it up but it was more or less destroyed, almost all the fabric was burnt off and the armor plates were melted. The helmet was melted into a ring. The badge was barely recognizable. I sighed and reached for the door.

“Maxwell are you feeling okay?” Ororo’s voice came through the speakers.

“I am fine.” I said and wore a medical gown. “Were you contacted by shield.”

“Contacted? They practically raided the school looking for you.” Scott yelled out.

I sighed and went to the elevator nearby. I went upstairs and was greeted by a cacophony of sounds. It sounded like a school, with more wings and claws you would on students. Scott came and received me. He lead me to a locker room to get dressed. I asked for a cell phone and called shield. After a bunch of questions and waiting, Fury was on the line.

“Kid, good to hear from you. We will talk about your suicidal stunt after wards. Get to the base, Peter made you a new uniform. Something about Reed helping. Seriously, I miss the days when he was all depressed.” Fury sighed and hung up.

I looked at the phone with a weird expression but at this point I was desensitized to Fury’s behavior.

“So, you are Electro.” Scott said with a bit of respect in his voice.

“Keep it to yourself. Secret identity and all that.” I chuckled.

“A lot of people look up to you here. Jean was very excited to meet you.” He said with a smile.

“Hmm, don’t really have time for that. I need to get to my base. Tell me what happened to Magneto.” I asked.

“He was taken to a shield prison.” Scott shrugged off.

I nodded at him and sped to the nearest window and flew away. I noticed that I was significantly faster but my attention was to avoid people and get to base. I reached the base in and hour and headed to the lockers. My new suit was hung there with the new phone and a better looking helmet. On the suit there was a post note saying “The f.u.c.k dude?” with a little spider emoji. I sighed and picked up the phone.

“Hey, Pete.” I said and waited for him to answer. “I don’t do this on purpose.”

“Oh yeah, first the Baxter building, the punching Doom, then this shit. Do you even care how I feel.” He yelled. “Do you know I had to dead with your mom? You can go ahead and die for all I care but I was on the phone with you mom for 3 hours. 3 F.U.C.K.I.N.G HOURS. IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY?”

Well, f.u.c.k. I got a lecture on responsibility from Peter which sounded more and more like a worried wife, quite disturbing. I then had to get slapped when I reached home and was grounded for a week. The f.u.c.k, she can do that? Then Fury had me write the entire report with a pencil as punishment. I sighed and did that. Peter and Felecia came over and the first thing she did was kick me in the nuts for worrying Peter then she punched me for freaking her out. Oh yes, I can see why being a villain would be nice. I grumbled and went to sleep soon after.

The next day, I was back at the base practicing my control. Peter came over and gave me the run down of the new suit. Apparently, all the components were made out of unstable molecules but the suits defenses were top notch. Reed went as far ahead as to say that I would be impervious to all the current guns. The helmet was an mini AI that sift through the data quickly and finally and combat knife that was made of unstable molecules and titanium alloy. It was it was very strong and super sharp.

I rest of the weak I was left struggling with the powers. Even at the least power, I was discharging enough to kill an human and that was a big problem. I had to reduce the skill set to mere martial arts not even tazers. One day Peter approached me with full gear on.

“Hey, did fury call you?” He asked.

“No, do you require some help?” I said as I let go of the weights and stood up.

“No, he said he is calling the Avengers initiative into effect.” He said and pulled up a video.

It was of Triskelion base and after an alarm sounds off, it explodes in a huge fireball. The fires were still raging in some parts but the casualties were significantly lower than expected. Around 80, there were many injured people but those injuries were far from lethal or crippling.

“So, any bets that this is the cause?” Peter said and took his helmet off.

Yeah, he ripped me off and got a helmet of his own.

“That’s a suckers bet.” I said and chuckled.

We sparred for a while and ate some food. After nearly, 3 hours Colson came and gave us a file. Apparently, a cube called tesseract got stolen and the cube housed an unlimited power source. There was a feeling in my gut that I knew this but it was fleeting. So, I pushed it aside and concentrated on the objective here. The man who took the cube I know as Loki, the God of mischief from the Norse mythology and he mind controlled a top agent and an astrophysicist to do it.

“Unlimited power?” Peter said out loud.

“Did you miss the part where the dude is a God?” I asked.

“Holy shit.” Peter said with a chuckle.

“We will be using the heli carrier from this point onwards. Follow me.” He said and we put on out suits and headed out.

We went to the helicopter and headed out to the sea base AKA the Raft prison facility and headed to the carrier. Peter was fully engrossed in the engineering marvel and nearly missed the sheer size of the thing. I punched him lightly to get his attention and he froze. I laughed at the shocked look and finally began to read through the files and data regarding the thermonuclear fusion and the application of opening wormholes. Which apparently Peter knew all about. I wormholes and interdimensional stuff was reeds specialty. I read through the doc.u.ments at super speed and memorized everything. We entered the carriers command center and there he was captain fricking America. Just standing there looking all handsome and cool. He was in his showbiz armor which was too tight and showed off his huge body. Wow, I am pretty sure I am straight but damn.

Peter froze for a good 2 minutes before he fangirled over to the man and shook his hand.

“Wow, I am still finding it hard to believe that some human are born with such powers. Steve Rogers.” He said and finally shook my hand as well.

Although, I was delighted, I didn’t let a single emotion in my voice.

“Pretty sure, you were dead.” I said and chuckled.

“The stories about my death were greatly exaggerated.” He laughed as well.

He turned his attention back to the bridge. We were then lead to the living quarters and given a room.

“He is alive. I shook his hand and spoke with him.” Peter looked dazed as ever although he didn’t really talk.

“Pretty cool. Although, it says here that he was frozen in ice for over 70 years. How did he survive that?” I asked.

“It was probably the serum.” He Peter sighed and laid on the bed.

I spent the time reading up on the science of the portals and the helicarrier.

“Get over to the bridge, the guests have arrived.” Fury’s voice sounded in our room.

I sighed and got up. It was finally Showtime.