John and the Demon go head to toe copying all types of abilities. Throwing punches, breaking arms and legs all while healing them back. After what felt like centuries the two land in a wasteland that was once New Bostin.
Demonic John: Well, how do you like it?
John: Like what?
Demonic John: My world, this is where I lived. Now I'm coming for yours! I'll create a new society were powers mean nothing. No one but me will rule. I'll be the most powerful being in existence.
John goes into a fighters pose and starts to power up again.
Demonic John: Oh no, this ends here, get lost boy I'm done talking with you.
John gets sucked into a portal that leads into a void. He then wakes up in a cold sweat as he comes to terms that it was just a nightmare not knowing right away if it was real or not. He looks over to see Sera sleeping. He looks at the clock.
John: huh, 3am. Devils hour.
John goes back to sleep.
The next day John and Sera are walking to school when they meet up with Elaine and Arlo. Sera and Elaine catch up on stuff while Arlo and John talk.
Arlo: Hey there crip.
John: Asslo.
They talk for the whole hour they have while walking around campus about life, sports, current trends, until class is about to start. Right before they part ways Arlo asks to speak to John at the end of the day, but John didn't listen and went off into the crowd. Arlo sets up turf war instead.
Remi to Serephina over text.
Remi: Hey Serephina!
Sera: Yeah?
Remi: I can't go to Turf wars today. I need you to take over.
Sera: Why what happened?
Remi: Listen I don't want to talk about it, please just go this one time, I have something to take care of. I'll tell you later.
Sera: Oh okay alright then, you always do Turf wars for me anyways, I'll take this one.
Remi: Thanks, I won't be at Wellston for a week.
Sera: No problem.
Remi stops texting and Cries. She looks at the news as it shows a headline of the Hero X statics death. She turns off the TV when suddenly her family walks in the room.
Remi's mom: Honey, were going to get through this, don't cry you brother wouldn't want that
Remi's mom says that as shes holding back tears.
Remi: Okay mom.
Meanwhile in class John is finishing a conversation with Blyke and Isen.
Isen: So that's why the PC is better than the PX1
Blyke: No way PX1 is more convenient to set up, on top of that PC doesn't have all the games PX1 has.
John: Well personally I'm just a controller boy, once PC games gets controller I might reconsider.
Blyke: Bruh seriously they always had that option.
John: No way seriously!
Blyke: Yes bro Oh my God are you living under a rock. (Isen is laughing the whole time).
Isen: Well having no powers will do that to yeah.
John: Haha, very funny, I'm the crippled guy.
Blyke: No offense John but I'm not sure how you got into Wellston, everyone here is either super powerful, or super smart and you haven't convinced us your either.
Isen laughs as John shrugs it off.
John: Yeah well I guess my superpower is surviving.
Blyke: Well that would explain how you don't die every time you go to the bathroom.
The bell rings and the three head their separate ways. Isen goes to the News room to work for the school news paper, while Blyke heads to his dorm to change for Turf wars.
John: Ight then see yeah Blyke, I'm gonna head home.
Blyke: Bruh you should really move into the dorms, I got a space, since your associated with the royals you would do fine.
John: Thanks but the house is all I have left from my parents.
Blyke: Yeah I get it, must get lonely though.
John: Well that's what you guys are for when you crash over. Its kinda like our little pent house.
The two dap each other up before parting ways.
Twenty minutes later John is at his house getting a new outfit on. He heads on a train. While on a train he remembers an interaction he had earlier that day.
4 hours earlier
Teacher: Quantum Mechanics or QM, describes how the Universe works at the level smaller than atoms. It is also called "quantum physics" or "quantum theory". ... A quantum of energy is a specific amount of energy, and Quantum Mechanicsdescribeshowthatenergymovesand interactsatthesub-atomiclevel.
John: Oh my God this class sucks (he thinks to himself).
John: Hey Remi are you getting this?
Remi's seat is empty
John(thinking to himself): Oh right I forgot, she left earlier this week, I wonder what that was about?
John raises his hand.
Teacher: Yes John would you like to answer
John: Actually can I use the bathroom?
Teacher sighs in annoyance: Yes John
A boy named Mardin decides to talk: Hey don't die on your way to the bathroom Johnny Boy.
Chalk gets thrown at the speed of sound, giving him a nose bleed.
Teacher: Mr. Mardin, Perhaps you'd like to volunteer?
As John walks to the bathroom when Blyke goes flying through the wall. Isen is right in front of him.
Blyke crashes through the wall
Blyke: Damnit Isen what the fuck is wrong with you?
He notices John right next to him.
Isen: YoU bRoKe mY pEn!
John: What the hell is going on?
Blyke: What are you doing here, shouldn't you be in Physics?
Isen: Yeah I'm not trying to crush cripples, just pEn bReAKerS!
John and Blyke look at each other in confusion. Like when you have a bruh moment with someone.
John: Well you two look busy soo, I'll be going this way.
He points behind him.
Blyke and Isen keep fighting in the hall over a pen.
John heads to the other hallway only to find two other people fighting.
John to himself: Hey wait a second, I know that kid, that's Terrance, he can turn invisible.
John sees him getting punched. He rushes over to try and intervene.
John: Keep your hands to yourself pig!
He rolls up his sleeves as the kid gets up and spits blood on the wall.
Kid: Hey, I know who you are. Your that crippled kid, John. Your pretty basely to start a fight with me.
The kid swings his fist at John.
Kid: But you should really know your place.
John had copied Seraphina's ability earlier when she wasn't looking while playing Flappypig. He activates his ability long enough so that stone kid doesn't notice but enough to get behind him, then he copies Terrence ability.
Kid: Huh? where did you go?
John: How do you lose track of a cripple. Man you suck at fighting.
John throws a punch right at the kids nose. The kids nose is bleeding, out of spite he turns on his ability and punches Johns arm hard enough to brake it.
Kid: What's wrong John CAN'T USE YOUR ABILITY?!
John freaks out, realizing he's hallucinating,he looks at the kid in front of him, his purple eyes and fang like teeth make him look demonic.
Stone kid: Hey aren't you listening. This world doesn't have time for weaklings like you. Your nothing in this world, a waste of cells, space, and oxygen. No ability no worth.
They both continue to fight, stone kid overwhelming John with his ability.
Blyke and Isen start to pull up when they see this. Isen tries to step in but Blyke prevents him.
Isen: Hey what the fuck he needs our help?!
Blyke: If we don't let him fight for himself, he can't get out of training wheels.
Blyke and Isen not realizing that stone kid and John can both hear them.
Stone kid: Wow the royals suck, you know what, I bet I could beat them all, I mean they let a cripple become associated with the royals. You must be their JOKER!
John flashbacks to the night of the dream, when he saw the demon version of himself destroying his world. He called himself Joker.
John gets mad at that moment and rushes stone boy, stone boy swings and miss as John gets low and pins stone boy to a locker. He says the following in anger and rage.
John: That's a little basely of you, calling the royals weak. Pretty sure Remi, could fry you like a crisp, Blyke and Isen who are blowing up the Wallik Hall, Arlo could crush basically anyone. Seraphina is basically god, and you, what the hell can you do? Move a little faster, Hit a little harder. Hell, I bet I could beat you without an ability.
Isen looks at John's broken arm and then at Blyke.
Isen: Blyke?!
Blyke: Just wait Isen. I wanna see if John has anything to hide.
Isen: Hey you owe me for that pEn you know.
Isen cuts back to when he, Blyke, and John first met, Arlo and Remi have just forced John into the friend group.
Blyke: Man this is gonna suck, we have to look after a cripple for the rest of the year.
Isen: I know man, but hey, it could be worse.
Blyke: How?
Isen: He coul...
Blyke puts his hand over Isen's mouth. John turns the corner. He heads toward the bathroom.
Isen: Hey, were do you think your going?!
Blyke gives Isen a funny look, signaling him to cut the crap, but Isen ignores it.
Isen in his head: He's just ignoring us?! WHAT A LOSER, I'M GONNA-!
Isen: Hey asshole, listen to someone when they are talking to you!
Isen activates his ability and charges towards John, right when he swings John takes his arm and slams him to the ground, pinning him. Blyke charges up a laser beam and fires, but misses. John throws Isen against the wall and jumps back to avoid the blast. Isen and Blyke look at John in shock. The cripple still standing after taking attacks from the head of the press and the school's Jack.
Isen: Woah, how did you?
John: Your Isen and Blyke, right? Remi told me about you guys. I'd appreciate it if you'd just fuck off.
Isen and Blyke look at each other, still confused if this is a dream or not.
John: Look you guys, you just suck at fighting, come on I'm a cripple with no powers and you guys are elite tiers with powers.
Isen and Blyke look at each other one more time and nod before they rush at John, both of their abilities are activated. John stands at the end of the hallway, his eyes glow slightly, barely noticeable to anyone watching. John blocks Isen's punch as Blyke who is keeping a distance blasts up the hallway. John gets hit twice on his left leg and once on his right arm. His ability is only five percent activated, only giving him slight super strength and speed from Isen's ability. He subdues Isen with his strength and coronation and charges straight at Blyke. Blyke shoots lasers straight at John, but they don't faze him. Blyke starts to shoot at direct weak points like John's ankles, John jumps up and tries to land a kick on Blyke, but a laser hits his ankle as he prepares to jump, causing him to over shoot his jump. Blyke walks towards John and picks his head up by his hair.
Blyke: Hey man, it's clear your not just some cripple, what the hell was that?
Blyke thinks to himself: Man, his body acted like it was on some kinda drug, like an ability of some sort, but his eyes, they didn't glow, at least not that I could see.
John: Hey, can we do this somewhere else? We get it you won.
Blyke lets go of John.
Blyke goes over to Isen and drags him to their next period.
Blyke: Lets hang out sometime, you could show us what ever the hell that was.
Present day
Stone boy: Oh yeah I'll make a joke out of you.
Stone boy swings and misses, John gets low and picks up stone boy.
John: Oh yeah I forgot, my power is the the ability to have STRENGTH AND HONOR AND TO NEVER GIVE UP!
As soon as John picks up Stone boy, Blyke and Isen run out hoping to save stone boy from getting seriously hurt.
Blyke to himself: Dammit John he was never gonna hurt you critically! Why you taking this so far?
John throws stone boy right out the window of the third story.
Blyke and Isen couldn't stop John from throwing stone boy out.
Blyke: Oh shit Gavin!
John: Blyke? Isen?
Isen: I wanted to help out, but pEn bReAkEr didn't want me to.
He looks at Blyke.
Blyke: How the hell is he going to learn how to survive in this world if we constantly act like his body guards?
John looking down at the window: Thanks guys, don't worry, I'll be fine.
Isen: You sure? Your arm looks broken
John: Yeah, I'll be fine.
Blyke and Isen go back to arguing about what they should have done as soon as John turns the corner. As soon John turns the corner he turns invisible mimicking Terrences ability and heals his arm. Puts a cast on and heads back to class.
Second to last period. Arlo, Blyke, and Elaine are talking about turf wars.
Elaine: Remi just texted me, its her brother something happened to him.
Arlo: Damn, we will have to find a replacement for Remi.
Blyke: Honestly do we even need anyone else, Me and Arlo is already enough.
Arlo: We have to take someone, or else we will be disqualified.
Elaine: Well we could always just snag John, he may be useless and stupid, but hey! bringing a cripple might make us look better, like we don't need anyone strong, besides, he's -kinda cute.
Blyke: Hahahahahahahaha Oh my God Elaine, you just want something to look at while me and Alro do all the work,
Elaine: Nonononono that's not it I just... ooooooh I didn't mean to say that out loud.
Arlo: ENOUGH! we are not bringing a cripple in a war zone.
Arlo to himself: (Especially if that cripple is flirty with Elaine, plus he might go berserk and kill everyone).
Blyke: Arlo your not jealous right?
Elaine slightly blushes, she tries to hide it.
Arlo: NO Blyke, I'm just looking out for my friend that's all.
Blyke and Elaine look at Arlo like hes crazy. Meanwhile John is still listening for a time and date.
John (thinking to himself) well so much for getting invited..... Elaine thinks I'm cute? nonono focus dammit, I need this info if I'm gonna use some new abilities tonight.
Arlo: Okay at 3:30 pm we will meet at the subway. We will get Seraphina and the three of us and do Turf wars since Remi right now is probably already at home. Everyone here in agreement?
The group nods.
Blyke: Well then see yeah all at 3:30.
Elaine: Yeah.
Present time John is now on the train, in a separate cart thinking about the powers he is gonna use when crime fighting. Now its four o'clock pm and John uses invisibility and is observing the fight.
John: wow, looks like Arlo convinced Seraphina to come.
Agwin leader: Well well, if it isn't Wellston.
Arlo: Ahh Agwin, Heard you got a new Queen and I wanted to see what she was made of.
Agwin: Ahh well you know, its not like we promote Cripples to the Royal team.
Blyke: Out of the way Arlo, Hey punk, that's my friend you just insulted
Seraphina: Yeah if he doesn't then I will.
Elaine nods in agreement. To nervous to say anything.
Agwins jack: Yeah and what are you going to do about it?
Blyke starts to power up.
Blyke: I'm gonna give you a beating you will never forget!
And the Round starts in 3.....2.....1...GOOOOO!
To be continued.