"MMMMMHMMMRRRGHH!!!"

Looking down I can see that my arm seemed to mocking me as in was currently bent at an angle that placed my hand in the centre of my back.

Well I do kinda deserve a pat on the back for thinking this was a good idea.

Right I should explain. My name is Reven Alters. I’m 17 around 6ft average build black hair, blue eyes. If you saw me on the street you might think I’m attractive, at least I hope you would, but truth is I’m just average, the kind of person you who fade into the background if you’re not looking. The one difference is I have Powers. Not the super cool kinds like invulnerability or flight or super strength. I mean most of my abilities are above what a normal human would possess. But not to the extent that I’m making the nightly news for Sparta kicking an asteroid like it’s a small child. What makes me different to your average enhanced is my abilities, which are slightly geared towards making me an exceptional thief. Exceptional been a little relative at the moment, considering the fact I just got bitch slapped through a building before falling 6 stories to the nice soft concrete below. I’m actually doing pretty well given the circumstances, looking down at my arm, again pretty well is kinda relative.

Well I did try to steal from one agreeable the smartest guy on the planet but here me out, I had I good reason, lots of money. How was I supposed to know that the nanites I was contracted to steal were set to auto inject when you entered the chamber.

It takes me a moment to realise that there is someone standing over me. I try to strike out at this sudden threat, but apparently when your arm’s bent at a post 90 degree angle it seems to not respond too well to instructions. At least I know the nerves aren’t too damaged as I can still feel the ungodly pain as if someone dumped my entire arm in acid, so you know, silver lining.

“Excuse me sir?”

Looking up I see the person standing over me is not my impending doom but some 20 something goddess of a girl. The pain in my arm subsides some as I get lost starring at her chest.

“Damn now THAT is a super power” I think.

“Excuse me sir, are you okay?”

Hearing her question I look at her, than down at my arm which resembles what happens when you give new born baby a long piece of play dough.

“Na I'm fine, this feels aweso…” i trail off when I try to move my arm and the pain radiating up my arm intensifies tenfold.

“This is one of the times when sacasm isn’t worth it dumbass” My brain states mockinly

“Miss Move away from that criminal” Shouts someone from behind her

Startled the girl turns around to come face to face with Cyber, one of the core members of Guardian Force here in Phoenix City. With intellect that borders on omnipotence and covered in a suit that has more fire power than most countries entire militaries, he is not someone you want to casually piss off. The girl stared at him open mouthed while more bystanders started crowding around. It was a rare occasion to be able to see one of the Guardian force so close in person outside of the public events, especially when he appeared to be in the middle of apprehending a criminal.

“It’s him!”

“I can’t believe he’s here!”

“I wonder what the other guy did.”

That crowed started chatting excitedly as they waited to observe what someone had done to bring down the wrath of someone from the Guardian Force.

“Miss move away from the Criminal” Repeated Cyber.

The girl finally coming to here senses instantly moves away from me at a rapid pace, moving to stand behind cyber, looking past him to peek at me with large eyes.

Cyber turned to the girl to enclosing her in he’s arms to comfort her from been in my ‘Evil presence’. Seeing where hes hands have ended up, I’m wondering why nobody else seemed to think it was weird this guy was groping some chick in the middle of the street. I could understand if its 3am on a Saturday but at 0930 on a Tuesday it seemed a bit out of place. But hey that’s just the power of been one of the ‘Heroes’.

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Finally over feeling up the girl up, Cyber turns he’s attention back to me as he pushes the girl back towards the substantial crowed now surrounding us.

“Did you think you could get away with it?” cyber asks mockingly

“Well yeah” I say while getting to my feet trying to ignore the agony shooting through my arm.

“Humph” Snorts Cyber while slowly moving towards me before saying “you think you can steal from me without consequences?”.

“Okay, plan” I think to myself

“…”

“Well anytime now brain”

“…… I got nothing” my brain sends back after a few seconds.

“Shit” I mumble under my breath while trying to think how I can get out of this situation alive. I can see Cyber’s suit starting to light up which kind of makes it resemble I a popular Comic book hero.

“Man I still don’t know how marvel didn’t win that law suit” I mutter.

“I DID NOT COPY HIM!!” screams cyber.

Well guess I touched a nerve there. Well It’s good to get a few shots in for this exchange. Looking back at my arm it doesn’t quite seem like a fair trade.

Well time to see if that one afternoon of training when that internet when down actually paid off. Placing my good hand behind my back I start to condense the power of the void into a small ball in my palm. This is my power, the Void. Allowing me to step through space and teleport short distances, nullify other people’s powers, rapidly heal and condense its power and fire it in a pulse like wave to blast people away. Unfortunately for me, Cyber’s suit isn’t a power so my first ability is out, and it takes a large amount of concentration to step through the void and with the pain in my arm I don’t really want to risk getting trapped in there from a lapse in focus. The healing requires me to pull the void into myself which requires me to enter a meditative state, not the best thing to do mid fight. So number four it is. Pulling the energy of the void into my hand and condensing it till it is dense enough to do some damage. One good thing is that it’s almost invisible unless you have class 5 or above vision, but that’s bordering on demigod level.

Trying to appearing meek to draw cyber closer, which really wasn’t hard considering my arm, I wait till he is around 5 paces away before I fling my arm towards him. I can see the surprise on his face as he is flung backwards as if he was hit with a wrecking ball. He slams through the building on the other size with enough force to shake the ground. Not wasting anytime I turn and sprint full speed into the crowd. Ducking down side alleys and through shops to keep away from main streets.

Making it home without any further incidents I sit down on my bed and look at my arm, before I start healing, I have to pull my arm back into the relatively correct position. My ability is really quite amazing but even it can’t heal properly if the bone is facing the opposite direction. Gritting my teeth I snap my arm back to straight.

“Mother Fucking Ball licking Piece of Ass Testicle” I Scream, barely holding onto conciseness.

I know my swearing doesn’t make sense but fuck you it hurts.

Now it kinda looks straight I start pulling the void into myself. After about ten minutes I feel the pain start to lessen. Within half an hour my arm is almost completely healed. It is still fragile but after a few days it will be good as new. I move to the bathroom and have a shower before coming back out and sitting at my computer.

It’s time to relieve some stress. Sitting down and bringing up one of my favourite sites I start the process of relieving my tension.

“What are you doing?”

“WTF!?!?” I scream as I’m falling backwards, my head slamming into the bedpost.

Rubbing my head looking around with wide eyes I hear the feminie voice in my head again.

“Oh my goodness, are you alright?”