Chapter 7:how you and your friends can become ultra buddies
It's been 2 days since the orb of light exploded. The beams of energy hit many. Humans, animals, buildings and more. This incident caused many individuals to go missing. Many strange creatures have also been spotted across the city. This was a dark and mysterious time for Thunder City. many people were killed by the debris of falling buildings, including 20% of the Thunder City police force. As such, the rate of crimes had increased by 9%.
"It had been 2 days since the light hit me. After I awoke my hair was straight upwards and I later discovered that I had electrical abilities. From now on I will document my discoveries with these abilities."
Timothy Thunder
Timothy Thunder was a once regular boy but after being hit by a mysterious light he gained supernatural abilities. The increase in crime rates was troublesome. There weren't enough members of the police force to keep the number of crimes to a minimum. However, there was now someone who had the abilities and strength to do so. His name was Timothy Thunder.
Crash! A chair was lunged out of a jewellery store window, and 3 masked men ran out. The crowd murmured and moved out of the way, not wanting to engage with these masked criminals. Of course, some called the police but by the time they got there, the robber would've been long gone. "We're gonna make so much money with all this! This'll last us a year at least" one of the men cackled. "Seriously, we'll never have to work another day in our lives again!" another man replied. The 3 three masked men were almost completely gone from the scene until they were all struck by lightning from the sky. "W-what the hell was that! W-was the lightning!?" one of the men shouted. They were all stunned, the strike of lightning wasn't devastating to leave any lasting effects however the men were all in immense pain. A blond boy in a red hoodie started walking toward them. He silently grabbed the bag of jewellery from the men and walked towards the store, handing the jewellery back to the store owners. When he walked out of the store he was stopped by the police. "Freeze! You're under arrest for use of supernatural abilities!". obviously, this confused the boy as he just stopped a robbery, but maybe he was being arrested because they were scared. One day everyone is normal then the next there are people who could destroy the city with ease. Of course, they were going to arrest him. They needed to know whether he was a good person or not for the safety of the city.
When timothy was brought up at the station he saw other people there as well. There was a man with orange hair wearing green overalls. He also had an eyepatch on his left eye. There were many other strange 'characters' as well. They put timothy in a room and started asking questions. Like what his full name was and what his background is. He answered them as truthfully as he could.
"Now then, this is the final question. Your abilities, what are they?".
"My abilities? I have the power of electricity or something? I'm not exactly sure but I know I can summon electricity and thunder and stuff."
"Ok, that's all. You're free to leave now"
They unlocked the door and let Timothy out. Suddenly he heard glass break and around 45 or so people dressed in crimson clothing were surrounding a strange-looking creature.
" in the name of the OVERDRIVE, we will purge all those deemed corrupt and rule this city!".
The overdrive? What's that? Many thoughts and questions were going through timothy's head.
These people all had strange crimson clothing and were carrying weapons aimed at this mysterious creature. When Timothy managed to get a good look over the crowd he saw that the mysterious creature was some sort of crocodile though it had no tail so he wasn't sure. Apart from the missing tail, it looked like an anthropomorphic crocodile.
"Detain it! Don't let it escape!"
The crocodile had a worried look on his face. It wasn't sure what to do and as it was about to be successfully captured a bolt of lightning struck from the sky right in front of the crimson people just barely hitting any of them. They all stumbled back as timothy walked toward the crocodile.
"Are you okay? What's the issue here."
The crocodile stared at timothy. For a few seconds, it was quiet. Nobody moved or said anything. The crocodile was still staring but it seemed to have calmed down.
"I'll take that as a yes". Timothy turned toward the crimson people, his hands sparking
"Now then. Mind explaining what's going on?"
"W-we will never explain anything to an ENLIGHTENED like you!"
"A what? A lightning?"
Before the crimson people responded they all started running away. Timothy simply let them go.
Timothy turned towards the crocodile and invited it to come with him, it agreed.
"Do you have a name? Can you speak?"
"Yeah, I have a name. My name is Vadius"
"Vadius? Ok, Vadius, first I'll get you some clothes and then I'll figure out what to do with you. Do want a black vest with a giant red V on it?"
After this, for the next 2 days, Vadius and Timothy became good friends and would often stop robberies and thieves together when the time came. Of course, they weren't actually allowed to do this so they often ran off when the police came.
The 2 of them had fun. Timothy was a very rich person due to his dad's job as a scientist so he managed to create Vadius a special custom-made suit. He also built a small little base that was no bigger than your average house for him, Vadius, and others to live in.
As Vadius and Timothy were going out on their regular patrols they encountered a strange person. This kid was purple with no legs and was wearing a raggedy pink shirt with tears in it. The kid was fighting off a robber with his bare hands. Although that's what it looked like at first glance. If you looked even a bit closer you could see that the purple kid had blades poking out of his hands and was in a 'knife' fight with the robber. At the moment there was no clear winner so Timothy and Vadius decided to help. Vadius restrained the purple kid while Timothy knocked out the robber with a shock of electricity.
"Alright who are you and what are you?" Vadius asked
"N-none of your business! You'll never arrest me!" said the kid as he struggled to get out of Vadius's tight grip.
"Arrest you? We're not here for that. We were here to stop the robbery but it seems like you already have that covered."
"Hold on a minute. You guys are… just like me"
"I guess. Me and Thunder here were both hit by lights and became like this so I'm assuming you did too."
Vadius let him go and shook his hand.
"My name is Vadius, what's yours?"
"M-my name is Zo- I mean Ghosty. My name is Ghosty."
"Ghosty? Odd name but ok. Aren't you a little young to be out here fighting robbers and junk?"
"I guess, but I've got nothing else to do or anywhere else to be"
"Nowhere else to be? So you've been homeless this entire time?
"Yeah, I guess."
"Oh! You should stay with us! Me and Thunder have our own base where we hang out watch movies and stuff. Although Thunder doesn't live there I do! So that way you won't be lonely. What do you say?"
"That's a lot to take in. are you sure? We barely know each other and we just met less than a minute ago."
"Sure I'm sure! I don't think Thunder will mind either"
After the two of them had their exchange, Timothy allowed Ghosty to stay at the base with Vadius. he gave him a specialized shirt that was incredibly durable After this, the three of them would hang out, watch movies and take out robbers and thieves.
After a month of their work, they were eventually legalized and protected by the city government. This meant that the trio was now able to do work on the streets without getting arrested. The government called this the Ultra Program. And thus, The Ultra Buddies were born and for the next months or so they continued to lower the crime right and live a somewhat regular life.
Chapter 7 end
volume 2 end