Chapter one

I was standing around the third aisle checking out the stores selection of chocolate when three people with masks walked into the store, one blocking off the exit, another rounding up all the shoppers, and a third walking up to the register.

The robbers looked  very young, around eighteen years old, my own age, but their voices were very commanding when they told us to sit down and take out our valuables. It took me about five seconds to realize something was wrong with the entire situation was developing, and how *easy* it was for them to make us listen, and that's the same moment i realized the robbers were superhuman, people with abilities they were born with or maybe even trained to use, who they now were using to steal with.

Suddenly, the small one in the back walked up to us,

"Hurry up" she said, from hearing her voice i realized it was a girl - "we don't have all day". Fighting the strange urge to follow what she said, i used my own power - a worthless, mundane power, but still something i took comfort in, maybe it'd have some secret , unknown part that made me unkillable, and suddenly my head was all cleared up.

The girl obviously noticed something was wrong, cause she recoiled and trained her eyes on me. Outwards, nothing about me had changed, and neither had anything inwards. My own power was shifting my body into, well, myself. I get to turn into a almost exact copy of myself, it's a little bit stronger, a little bit faster, and has a little bit more endurance, but it's still well within human levels.

So of course i did what any prideful human would do after being basically mindcontrolled - i punched the girl in her damn face. It was only after this point that i remembered that most superhumans have some kind of enhanced durability, and are generally harder to take down. So i ask, has anyone here ever punched a wall, cause that's what it felt like. But how it felt didn't matter, my form was good, and so, while it hurt, a lot of the force in the punch got put into the punch, when a guy punches a small girl, she will go flying, or , in this case, sligthly stumble backwards.

It still took them by surprise, going by the look in their eyes, and the guy that rounded up all the shoppers in the start swiftly, and very violently, charged me into the ground.

Now , the word charged can be used when you run at someone, and tackle them. But the word charge can also be used when talking about electricity, and what he did was a combination of them both. It put me on the ground, paralyzed, and i realized that whatever his power was, it basically made him into a glorified taser.

"Jesus fuck, are you fine, did he hurt you?" the guy turned towards the small girl, who, going by the look in her eyes, was pretty confused at the moment.

"No, no, i'm doing fine, i'm just surprised , that's all. He suddenly broke free of my control and just straight up charged me. It's like his mind went from regular to being almost strange, imagine if a normal persons head is supposed to be like a uncleaned room, his suddenly turned into the most organized storage ever!"

"Wow" i said - coughing violently while stumbling up on my legs "I almost feel complimented"

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Now it was the guys turn to be surprised, as he turned around and downed me again, this time with a even bigger charge. This time, i could barely breathe, and was wholly unable to move.

"I just used enough to lay down a rhino, and this guy looks like i used a normal charge on him, the fuck?" The guy said  - "And he's smiling aswell, we run into some known psycho here?!"

"Please, stay quiet and focus on the task at hand" Came from the last person of the trio. The voice sounded like it had been ran through a robotic filter and the gender was unrecognizable. "We are done, let us leave quickly before the police contacted by the silent alarm arrives"

Turning around, the trio stalked outside where they met up with their last member, and they disappeared into and alley on the other side of the road.

***

When i got home later, sneaking by my father and mother and into my room, i realized i was strangely happy with the days contents. Ever since i accepted the fact that i'll probably die soon because i stopped with my meds, i'd been in a constant downer, but today had strangely made me exited, almost happy, over what happened in the store.

Walking over to my closet, i took off my clothes and looked at myself in the mirror. A body from years of medication and operation, with a strange lack of scars, looked back. Most people would look scrawny, while i myself managed to look extremely scrawny, because of my large frame, the obvious lack of muscle was more obvious, and i looked like a small thin branch because of it. Looking up, i saw my face. What surprised me was not my blue eyes or blonde hair, no, they'd always been there, but my giant grin, like i'd seen something that would make me almost laugh to death from how funny it was.

Looking at the mirror, i began to laugh. It was not a panicked laugh, but something that i had felt been building up since the incident at the store earlier. I stood there for a good fifteen seconds before my father knocked, and entered without my response.

"What's up?" My father asked me. He's a big guy, and normally intimidating for someone that has never met him before. But for someone that has lived with him for almost nineteen years, he's a very nonthreatening guy.

"Nothing at all, just ran into something funny earlier and just now realized how funny it was exactly" i said, simple as that. It was the truth , or a modified version of it, at the very least.

"Just tone it down Liam, Vanessa is trying to sleep" He said, closing the door slowly, making sure it didn't make much sound.

Still, with a smile on my face, i went to sleep uncharacteristically early, simply because i felt really, really good.

***

Uh - yeah. This is my first time writing a story in English, and i've had this good idea building up for quite some time, so i decided to post it here.

Please give me some pointers if you find some kind of messed up parts in the writing. It's four in the morning (04:20 as i post this) and i'm just damn tired but i felt like i wanted to do something today. I'm unsure of the dialogue so give me some fuckin tips if you got em.

Nite people.