Thirteen years had passed and project Maverick was now in human terms, eighteen years old but was 14 based on how long he had stayed on Earth, he was currently in his final year of high school after passing through kindergarten all the way up. His mind developed at a normal pace and was an average student, the life he had known before was locked and he had no memory of it at all. He has been helping his parents any free time he got with the restaurant they owned, it was called Crystal view, it was safe to say he had two friends, Jessica and Ramon. Jessica is a light hearted ginger haired girl with black eyes, a slender physique and a heart warming smile being of average height while Ramon had black hair and the Italian look, the accent and was all about superheroes as he was the taller of the three. Project Maverick now went by the name Max Taker and developed into a fine young man with chiseled features and fit physique though he had never been to the gym one day.
Today was a Saturday and he was scheduled to meet his friends in a forest that led up to a killer view of the ocean from a cliff, it was their regular hang out spot during the weekend. Max wore a red T-shirt with black horizontal lines running across with brown shorts and some sneakers, he really didn't care about his dressing. He moved through the city on his skateboard heading towards the edge of town then went off road holding his skate board in his arms and began the walk up to meet up with Ramon and Jessica who were waiting along the path.
"Why does Max always have to keep us waiting, these burgers are getting cold" Ramon expressed his annoyance.
"Well unlike you Ramon, he actually has chores to do, he doesn't have a maid doing everything for him at home" Jessica reminded him.
"But how comes you don't run late like him?" He asked.
"Well unlike him I have a structured life" she said.
"Hey guys" Max said from behind them.
"And look who finally decided to show up" Ramon said.
"Sorry for the wait guys, I to help my dad pick some things up in town and get them home" he said.
"I told you he would have work to do" Jessica said rolling her eyes.
"You don't have to tell me twice" Ramon said.
"Now that I'm here, can we get going? I'm starving" Max said rubbing his belly.
"Sure" Jessica said.
"For a guy that eats anything he can lay his hands on, you do keep a fit look even though 'you don't go to the gym'" he quoted him.
"I'm serious, I don't go to the gym" he defended.
He didn't know that he was engineered to have a fit look no matter what he ate or did. His body would look like that always. The two argued for a couple of minutes as they walked up through the forest, even waving to some people they passed on their way out, the forest was quite popular to people.
"Hey guys, did you here of out break of demons in North Dakota?" Ramon asked.
"Sure, it's quite scary that those things do exist and actually live in hell" Max said.
"Well they should be thankful that they've got that demon slayer dude taking them out" Jessica said.
"Yeah, the man's got the lowest amount of damage done in his fights and for some reason no one can remember how he looks" Ramon analyzed.
"Not to mention that his face and voice is always scrambled when caught on camera or a pic is taken of him" Jessica said.
"Could be magic" Max added.
"But he holds a solid position as the highest ranked hero in his state and number three in the United States" Ramon said.
"The way you know almost every superhero, their power and ranking both nationally and internationally is scary, wish you gave that attention to your books sometimes, you'll be the too of your class with that brain" Jessica said.
"Can't force my brain to take what it doesn't want" Ramon answered.
As they walked up the rock side, something caught the ear of Max.
"Do you guys hear that?" He asked them.
"Here what?" The ginger head asked.
"I don't hear anything" Ramon spoke.
"It sounds like a man screaming" Max said.
"You must be hearing things" said Ramon.
As they shrugged of Max's notion, a man flee through some trees and landed on the rock face right in front of the three.
"Holy shit, it's Night!" Ramon exclaimed.
"Night? I thought he only works at night time?" Jessica said.
"Get out of here kids it's not safe" the man in a black armored suit and mask said.
He had two baton handles sticking out from his back, a utility belt, a jack knife, and two grenades.
As they turned around to run away a huge man with a brownish grey skin landed, he was about 12 feet tall, muscular, bare chested and bare footed with only black spandex pants as his only piece of clothing. His eyes were red and had long black silky hair.
"Shit, Warthog is here!" Ramon said with a loss of hope in his voice.
"I'm gonna kill you all!" He proclaimed lifting up his hands to smash them.
Night got up to his feet and sprinted towards him then jumped onto his head using his thighs to lock himself into place and got out the two batons from his back and began to hit Warthog's head repeatedly almost like he was playing a drum.
"Get out of here, I've got this" Night told the three.
At his words they sprinted away from there with Max and Ramon in front leaving Jessica behind. As they ran, Warthog hit the rock face multiple times making it crack and pieces began to fall right on their path and one fell right for Ramon and Max.
"Ramon, Max, LOOK OUT!!!" She warned and pointed up while stopping in her tracks.
Ramon's feet locked in place as he looked at the huge piece falling their way and went pale with all hope lost while Max looked up and his heart began to race like a sports car and adrenaline rushed through his blood, he had never felt like this before in his life and for some reason, he lifted up his hands. The rock piece slammed down hard on them raising some dust as Jessica stood in place with tears streaming down her cheeks, her two closest friends had just perished before her eyes, turned into nothing else but a red bony paste on the ground. With her eyes still fixed to the rock with her vision partly impaired she saw the rock begin to fidget which was weird, she thought she had begun seeing things but then it began to fidget even more. She used both arms to wipe away her tears and clean her eyes not believing her eyes until the rock piece rose before her and dust cleared to reveal Max holding it above Ramon who had somehow fallen on the ground. The two looked at their friend full of shock and disbelief that he could pull something off.
"Max, you have powers" she muttered to their hearing.
"Max looked up to see himself carrying something that weighed nothing less than a thousand pounds. He lifted the piece above his head and tossed it to the side like a pillow then helped the frightened Ramon up to us feet.
"B-B-Bro, what was that , how did you d-d-do that?" He stammered.
"I don't know" he answered shocked out of his mind just like they were.
Jessica walked over to them and placed both of her palms on their cheeks and said-
"Are you two okay?"
"Yeah, we're fine" Ramon asked.
"Max, what was that" she asked.
"I don't know, I'm just as confused as you guys are" he answered.
"Apart from the super strength what happened to your eyes man" Ramon said with Jessica dropping her arms from their cheeks.
"What happened to my eyes?" Max askes.
"They're red" he replied.
"Red, how are they red? They're supposed to be brown?"
"I guess something must have happened to them after you caught that massive rock" Jessica said.
Just then, they heard Night screaming on the top of his voice
"GET OUT OF THE WAYYYYY!!!!!!"
They turned to the origin of the voice to see a boulder heading for them, Jessica and Ramon jumped to the side dodging it while Max stood there with his feet planted and lifted up both hands to protect his face. To Jessica's surprise, the boulder crumbled upon impact with Max.
"Called it" Ramon said facing his friend from the floor alongside Jessica.
"Called what?" She asked with their friend slowly opening his eyes hearing their voice thinking they had died together.
"He would have invincibility with that super strength" Ramon said.
"How'd you figure that?" She asked.
"As a hero expert that I am, one type of ability often comes with another like super speed with fast healing and super strength with invincibility" he explained.
Max walked over and helped them up to their feet with little stress.
"It seems we have a hero on our hands" Jessica said.
"So Max, what's your hero name?" Ramon asked preparing to guess.
"I'm not a hero, I don't know what's going on. This has never happened to me before" he said.
"Bro, stop the lies, we know you're a hero" Ramon persisted.
"I'm not" he repeated.
"You are" Ramon said again.
Sensing an argument about to happen, Jessica stepped in.
"Enough Ramon, right now we need to get away from here" she said.
"The only way out of here is if Max over here goes to help Night out cuz he's having a really hard time" he said pointing to Night who just speared Warthog down the path and the two tumbled.
"How am I going to do that?" He asked.
"With your fists" Ramon said.
"If he's going to do that, he's going to need to cover his face" Jessica said handing him and bandana and a pink pair of sunglasses from her purse.
"You too?" He said.
"Yeah, you're our best shot at getting out of here" she added.
"Oh man" he whined.
He put on the pink sunglasses and tied the red bandana around his nose to conceal his identity and ran down the path to help Night with his fight.