A whoosh threw the sky like a shooting star but in day light, a man dressed like a classic superhero with a cape and everything, stands on top of the Empire State Building and shouts “Love me!”
“Alien, he is here to kill us all,” shouted a random pedestrian.
“Hide and safe the children,” Lady screamed.
In the panic, babies were crying. Looking from the top of the Empire State Building, everyone looks like ants if you kicked down their hill. The Man swooshed down, “No, not an alien. I am a hero. Ready to be in the publics service. Please give me a chance.”
“Freeze, hands in the air.” shouted an officer.
“Absolutely officer,” the man not only put hands in the air, but on top of head, and bent down on his knees. Never wanting to cause a scene, just wanted to show people he is there for them.
“I am going to cuff you for the theatrics of this scene and to not worry the people, but we are not booking you. We are going to the mayor.” whispers the officer as he bends down. When standing up start to go through the Miranda rights as he put him in the car, “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?”
“Yes, and yes” Car door shuts and they head to Mayor’s office.
During transit the officers would like to know more. “How can you fly?”
“I wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid, that led into adult hood. After the illness from the tornado in KY, I just had a dream I was flying and when I woke up. I was hovering above my bed. Practice to become better at it.”
“Are you like Superman?” asked the officer driving.
“Oh, no I don’t think so, I still get hurt like everyone else.”
“What you go by, superhero?” asked the driver.
“I haven’t really figured that out yet, probably something simple.”
“Wearing blue, and can fly... Why not Blue Jay?” The man in the passenger seat still has not said a word.
“I could definitely work with that. I work out but not super strong either. Other than flying, I got nothing.”
“Here is the mayor's office, we shall ask him the next steps. I am agent Reynalds, you will be working close with me the following weeks”. replied to the passenger. Looking at the officer driving, states “Another back door delivery, please.” The officer goes into a daze and drives them down into the parking garage under the government building.
The driver turned around and said, “good luck.”
“Thank you. What happened to him? Working with you why? Where am I going?” panicked a little, Blue Jay begins to ask questions.
“Just follow me, I will explain as we get in just not in front of officer Jennings here.” As they get out of the vehicle, agent Reynalds begins to talk with Blue Jay. “Everyone who gets an ability always goes to New York for their fame start, you are not the first and will not be the last. Just hear me out before freaking out, we want heroes and need help but not sure if the public is ready to be exposed. Officer Jennings is in this district and all officers that run into this are conditioned to block out the ability point until we make it public, that was the daze state, he went into. Working with me because I am helping to get the Supers ready for a depute. Where we are going to first talk with Doctor Unknown and run test before boot camp and your future stardom begins. Any questions?”
“Doctor Unknown? And boot camp?” Blue Jay was very interested in what was going on but didn’t know where to begin.
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Agent Reynalds leads Blue Jay to an elevator. Reynalds sticks a key into the elevator gives three twists, pulls key out, bites his thumb as a panel comes out, puts the thumb on it, screen cleans the blood by absorbing it, and the elevator dings. The elevator begins descending approximately nine stories before halting. Elevator ding “Welcome to ‘Supe Camp’.” Agent Reynalds says with a smile.
The Elevator opens up and what looks like a giant training gym. There were four other people training. You name it, this facility had it top of the line. Weightlifting benches, speed bags, punching bags, industrial treadmills, dummies, and even some robots. Blue Jay looked astonished “Do I start training now?”
“Oh no, you must see Doctor Unknown first. And then we get to show you the roots.” Agent Reynalds leads him past the training room and into another office area in the back. It reminded Blue Jay of walking through a hospital but just one room on the left at the end. As they walked to the room, there was a touch pad. Agent Reynalds puts his key card in the slot below the pad. “Press 0-0-0-5, this will analyze your thumb print and be the password created for you.”
Pressing 0-0-0-5, hearing a ding, and the door opens. Agent Reynalds shouts, “Newbie, Unknown, coming in.” Blue Jay walks into the room and standing there was Doctor Unknown with an OR setup. Come on in, and have a seat I will be with you, momentarily. He steps out of the lab and out into the waiting room to greet Blue Jay.
“Hello, and you are?” Unknown asked.
“I now go by Blue Jay, because I can fly. This all started...”
“Don’t tell me, after the massive Tornado in Kentucky. You wanted or needed the ability to fly and all of a sudden had it one day?” asked Unknown.
“Yeah, how did you know all that, do you have the power of psychic ability or something?” questioned Blue Jay.
“No... I was the Doctor creating ‘The Silent Weapon’ for the military and when we need more test subject sent it to Fort Knox and now, if the serum didn’t kill you people become ‘Awakened’ with superpowers like the comic books.”
“So, you are Military and work with people like me. Do you have abilities?”
“Unfortunately, no, and I am technically not in the military either. I am an elite human though, 197 IQ with photogenic memory. Mathematical skills beyond anyone's understanding and creating a weapon that turned out to also be a power infuser. This should be very impossible and yet, here we are.”
“What are our next steps from here?” asked Blue Jay.
“I run experimentation.” explained Doctor Unknown.
“Like probing and cameras, and surgery?” Asked Blue Jay freighted.
“Absolutely...”
“I don’t think I want that...”
“I am only kidding, don’t like my sense of humor, “smiled Doctor Unknown, “I just need a blood sample. Should have been here when Gem was here. His skin is like rock, couldn’t get a blood sample from him, ha-ha. After I sample blood, I just give a basic physical and then study the cells while you go into your training and visit me in a couple of weeks here and there. Once we let the world know about Supes you will be ready to save the world. Physical involves me touching the body all over as well, I always let my people know that because it seems invasive, but I am trying to study all attributes of the muscle, will this be an issue?”
“For understanding this and the science, I understand, so no... One last question though, why are you called Doctor Unknown?”
“For this experiment, I would like to let the past be the past. No one needs to know who created this serum and needs to pretend he is dead. For some people might come after me. What is your name?”
“Blue Jay”
“No, before all this? So, I can look up your medical records.”
“Oh, Michael Phisher, with a PH.”
“Thank you.” Searching on the computer in the waiting room, files of all visits come flashing extremely fast. Doctor Unknown does blink or flinch and stares at the records, scanning them as a copier. He has memorized everything. Look over at Michael. “You don’t have anything severe on your record and allergy to grass. We can get started. Do you have any questions? “
“Did you just memorize all my records?”
“Yes”
“Ok, I want to take a bit first. How much did I weigh at birth? What is my most common visit to the doctor? What is my blood type? How many surgeries have I had? Did I ever donate blood?” patronized Blue Jay.
“You were born from Mother Sharlene Phisher (maiden name Jenkins), Father Bartholomew Phisher weighing in at 7.8 lbs. Most common visit to the doctor was for severe allergies/sinus infection due to allergy to grass. Also, a good excuse to get out of schoolwork, just from grade second to twelve went 48 times. Probably after realizing you can do that. Blood type O+. You had only one surgery, facial reconstruction, after an accident in Lexington Ky. You were hit from the side. Doctors also thought this surgery could help clean your sinuses enough to where the infections would stop. This helped a little but the allergy to grass still causes infections. Donate Blood, no record of but you definitely should O+ is valuable. O+ very interesting, everyone here has the same blood type so far?”
“That is absolutely amazing, that is an ability on its own. Shall we start? “Asked Blue Jay
“Yes sir, and thank you “exclaimed Doctor Unknown.