"Hey da-" I cant move. My legs are shaking, this is horrible, it's so horrible I must be asleep. Yeah that must be it, I bite my lip.
"Nope your awake."
There he is again, the voice in my head, god why is he here right now? I'm staring at a corpse and he decides this is the time for this?
"And yes, it's your father."
Exactly what I didn't want to hear.
THREE DAYS LATER
"How do you know that?"
"I can see him too."
"Right... who did this?"
"Probably that king guy."
"The thief? Why would he kill my dad?!"
"Cause your dad just got his shop robbed by king right?"
"Yes."
"Because your dad stopped him."
"Yeah but that's no reason to kill him!"
"We aren't talking about a reasonable man here."
"Right... right. So what are we gonna do about it?"
"What are we gonna do? Nothing."
"Nothing?! My dad died and you don't want to do anything about it?!"
"It's not that I don't want to, it's that we can't."
He was right, it's not like we had the power to stop a criminal mastermind, unless...
"Unless? What unless?"
"Unless we give ourselves the power, it's not like anyone else will give it to us, the police won't hand a 18 year old a gun and say "Find him, kid". We need to take this into our own hands."
I was a kind of mastermind myself 'no your not, I am' oh shut up. Okay fine, the technically nameless voice in my head I call conscience is the mastermind, but he tells me what to do and it makes me look smart. 'That's more like it' yeah yeah whatever.
"So what now?"
"We need some chemicals and a large supply of electricity."
"What chemicals?"
"Bleach and ammonia."
"You want me to electrocute myself and breathe mustard gas? That's not happening."
"No, you need to isolate the mustard gas in a tube so you don't breathe it in, then sent some electricity, about 9000 volts."
"So a mustard gas taser?"
Turns out he did want me to make exactly that. So I did, I won't go into specifics but I almost died a few times. 'But he did it, gotta give him props'.
"Okay, now tase yourself."
"Why in the world would I-"
"Do I seriously have to do it myself?"
"What?"
Sudddenly I lost control of my arm and it led the mustard taser right to my heart and tased me. As the electric light flew through the tube I knew I was dying, but didn't for some reason. 'It's cause I know what I'm doing'
"It's over..."
"I'm, I'm not hurt? There's no marks or anything? What was that?"
"It's what made me, I won't explain now but try touching you pet turantula over there."
I did as I was told.
"Okay now climb the wall."
"What?"
"You heard me, pull a Spider-Man and climb the wall."
"Your nuts."
I placed a hand on the wall. It stuck.