Chapter 2: A Day To Remember

The two are at the science show. They find themselves bored until a certain incident turns it all around...

 

 

 

CHAPTER 2: A DAY TO REMEMBER

 

R.J and Adam sat down in the audience to watch the show. The first person to present was a man dressed in an army uniform. He took center stage and the audience clapped. "Welcome one and all to our first annual Badlands City science show" he began. "Today we make history as we introduce a new world to mankind. A new level has been reached as we pushed beyond the bar of natural human abilities."

 

"Mankind has passed so many limits before but never like this. Our power enhancing gas will open the gate for so many possibilities. Ultimate soldiers will defend our great country with the use of this gas. We will be the highest power in the world! Our army full of ultimate soldiers with endless strength, endurance, enhanced immune systems and healing factors. They will move with speed unknown to any creature on Earth. And their aging process will be slowed to half of what it is, they will fight longer and outlast any enemy."

 

"Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, i give you the future of America, no, the future of mankind!" Hands clapped as the audience cheered the man. The curtains behind him opened unveiling a glass pod containing a strange red liquid in which a middle-aged man floated. Two long tubes from the top reached down into his nostrils. The man inside was a retired archaeologist who signed up so that he could continue his work.

 

Two years back he'd been a part of the S.D.B.E.C. When they came across a meteor crash site and found a strange red gem they immediately began performing tests on it. They found that it was useful to create their "performance enhancer" so they kept all that they could. Month after month they tested their formulas out on animal test subjects and came inches away from success. But one experiment terribly wrong and the dog they were using escaped, even though it was a mere pup. The gem caused an increase in aggression, strength, stamina, speed and slowed they aging process.

 

But now they believed they were ready to test it on a human being. The only question was, what the human body react to it the same? They were willing to find out, no matter what the cost. So the archaeologist signed himself up and they began their testing.

And just as the experiments before, it went horribly wrong. He opened his eyes and looked into the crowd. With an angry stare his eyes found R.J and Adam. "You!" he said, breaking through the glass. The liquid turned to gas as soon as it left the glass. The audience screamed and ran in fear. "This time I will be victorious!" the man shouted. He walked towards Adam and R.J who were frozen in shock.

 

As he was about two yards away their senses kicked in. They backed away until they saw a door behind them. But this was the wrong way; everyone had left through the exit behind the man. However they didn't have that choice, he singled them out and they had only one way to go.

 

So they turned and ran through the doorway, which led to a long hall of closets. The man as well as the gas quickly followed them. Adam's asthma slowed him down and he fell to the ground, gasping for air. R.J urged him to get up and continue running and he started to stand up. But the man caught hold of Adam's leg and pulled him back. "Help!" Adam screamed in horror. R.J hesitated at first but quickly overcame his fears and rushed to aid his fallen friend.

 

He leapt up and gave Adam's capturer a smooth axe kick right in the neck. The man stumbled back and released Adam who quickly thanked R.J as they took off running again. "I hope this works," R.J said coming to a stop.

 

"What fighting him." Adam asked. "Or your shoes?" Adam said looking down at R.J's unstrapped shoes

 

"No, we're going to hide in one of these closets." R.J began explaining. "Mr. Creeps back there won't find us and hopefully" R.J said pausing as he coughed. "That gas won't get us either!"

 

They tried many closets until R.J found an unlocked door. They rapidly rushed in and slammed the door shut. And without a minute's time there was a thud down the hallway. They heard a beast outside the door, grunting and growling. But in a matter of seconds it let out a loud shriek and fell to the ground.

 

Adam began to choke on the gas. "Don't breathe it Adam!" R.J shouted as he held his breath. But it was too late; they'd both inhaled too much of the chemicals already. They soon passed out, falling back-to-back.

 

Four hours later they awakened in the same dark closet. A cloud of frost radiated from R.J's body. He sat up and rubbed his head. "My hand is b-b-blue!" he yelled. Adam sat up in response to R.J's screaming. He held his hands up to his face to rub his eyes.

"The monster, he's gone right?" Adam asked. But R.J was otherwise distracted. His entire focus was on his hand. He stretched it out to see if it was alive. But as he spread his fingers the blue turned to white and ice formed at the tip of his fingers. A thin layer of ice formed in the air and then fell to the ground.

 

"Whoa!" he shouted in excitement. "I froze it, the water in the air is frozen! I can freeze it! I'm like some kind of human fridge or something." In a way he was right; the gas had caused some kind of change in his DNA. It was now a part of his natural ability to freeze anything around him. All he had to do was learn to control it.

 

But his wasn't the only body changed. Adam's eyes glowed a bright yellow color. Electricity flowed through his veins. It buzzed as it jumped out from his body and back in at another part. His body just as R.J's was slowly forming into an ultimate human weapon. The scientists weren't aware of the fact that the gas would deliver certain unknown features to the host body. The bodies would develop unique abilities from the gas.

 

"R.J are you seeing this?" Adam asked as electricity zipped from his right hand to his left, temporarily lighting the closet.

 

R.J stood up and replied "Yeah and I think I know what's going on. That soldier guy said it was a biochemical experiment."

 

"So what's that mean?" Adam asked puzzled.

 

"It means that we're the bio and the gas is the chemical. In short we've developed some sort of super human abilities."

 

"Abilities?" Adam questioned.

 

"Abilities." R.J replied.

 

"Can't we just say powers?"

 

"Because they're not powers."

 

"Not powers?"

 

"Not powers."

 

"Why not?"

 

"Because they're natural abilities."

 

"Why not natural powers?"

 

"Because we...shut up and lets go!"

 

"Go where?"

 

"Home duh. It's probably late; everyone must be worried sick. But they are not to know of our powers, got it?"

 

"Powers?"

 

"Powers."

 

"Powers?"

 

"Yes"

 

"Got it, no one can no of our powers. Except Matt, Ray would tell our mom."

 

"No."

 

"Not Matt either?"

 

"No, I mean not powers!"

 

"But you just said powers!"

 

"Well I meant abilities, not powers."

 

"Yeah but you said powers."

 

R.J was by now frustrated. "Listen stupid, I brought you because I thought you wouldn't be like Matt who always tries to argue over ever little thing just to prove he's right. Or like Ray who's always trying to show off and get in your face. But you," he said poking Adam with his finger. The frost from his body raced to his hand and froze Adam chest. He pulled his hand back and looked at it. "I froze you!" he shouted. "I'm just way too cool!" He wasn't the only one excited, Adam was furious about being frozen. Electricity buzzed as he balled his fists tightly.

 

"Man what the heck?" he shouted. He tried to push R.J but as he reached out, all of the electricity channeled from his body to his hands. In a small spark the electricity shot from his hands and right at R.J, sending him crashing into the wall. Immediately Adam rushed over to R.J who was already sitting up.

 

Instead of being mad R.J was quite happy. He stood up and in unison he and Adam spoke. "Superheroes!" they shouted. "Now we can really help people!" Adam said alone.

 

R.J who had other plans in mind replied "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow your row Captain Boy Scout; I'm in this for the fun, nothing more than the fun. You can do your little happy sunshine hero kid thing on your own. I'll be a hero but I am not going to be an underwear costumed Boy Scout like you!"

 

Annoyed by that remark, Adam replied with " I just think helping others for the good of it is the best thing we can do."

 

"Whatever electro dork. I'm just doing it for the fun, even though I'm not even supposed to fight."

 

"Why not?"

 

"My religion, duh."

 

"Not even to defend others?"

 

"It doesn't matter I still fight anyways. But enough about that, lets start walking home."

So they headed out, retracing their steps. They soon found an exit and walked to it. They opened the door and were in for a big surprise. They were immediately stared down by a group of police and the news media. "Stop right there!" a policewoman yelled.

 

The boys stood frozen in shock. A reporter and his photographer jumped over the police line that surrounded the building. "Excuse me boys," he began. "May I have a question." before the boys could respond the police officer pushed the reporter and the photographer (who was trying to get a good picture of the boys) behind the lines. The photographer wound up getting a picture of their shoes only and she wasn't happy about that. She and the reporter began complaining to the officer about their rights and what not.

 

After finally making the reporter and his photographer shut up the policewoman turned to the boys. "You want to tell me what the hell you two were doing in there?" she asked. They looked at each other and looked around. Their vision was blurring from the flashing police lights. The cameras began to explode, one by one. ‘This is not good!’ R.J thought to himself. ‘But wait, this is perfect!’ He looked at Adam and without a word they took off running back into the building.

 

Down the halls they ran not looking back. They left the crowd surprised, and the police were heated! At first the policewoman stood still with the rest of the crowd, but soon she and her unit of three took off chasing the boys. With a head start and previous knowledge of the building R.J managed to evade the police and lead Adam to an upstairs exit.

 

When they reached the top and ran out the door R.J and Adam discovered that the stairs were never added. The door was the last thing to touch before you went three stories down. "Well there's only one way to go," R.J began as he looked down at the ground below.

 

"No way!" Adam said terrified. "I'm not jumping from a six story building!"

 

"Good because I don't mean down; we're going up!" R.J replied.

 

"Up?" Adam queried. "How do you suppose we'll do that?"

 

"I've been thinking: if I can freeze you, I can surely freeze water. And there just happens to be plenty of water in the air. If I can freeze enough of it in one spot, we can stand on it and that means I can make a bridge to run on!"

 

"Are you sure it'll be safe? What if we slip?"

 

"We'll have to risk it; those cops are pretty angry right now and will probably kill us" R.J replied hearing the heavy footsteps of the police running up the stairs. He focused all of his energy into his hands and channeled it out into a cloud of frost. The cloud froze the water and formed a small plank from the floor inside the building.

 

R.J cautiously stepped on the board and continued to extend it by creating more ice. Adam soon followed and they began carefully walking across the slippery pathway. The police came bursting through the door just as the boys were about twelve feet away from the door. Scared to step on the ice, the police pulled out their guns and began firing at it.

 

Sweat poured down R.J and Adam's faces as they began timidly running to avoid getting shot. But just as he feared, Adam fell and the ice behind him was crumbling. R.J turned back to help him up. They stood up together and almost got shot in the head. Luckily the gas also improved the reflexes and they dodged the bullet just in time.

 

Adam's fear began to get replaced by his anger. His eyes were glowing bright as electricity flashed in them. A large electric sphere encased him as electrons were pulled from the air. Everyone looked on in astonishment, but the police continued to fire at him. In a sudden flash, the energy field grew three times its size while Adam angrily shouted, "Stop iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"

 

The force of the field knocked the police back and crushed the walls of the building the were in. The ice broke and R.J began falling. But Adam remained floating in mid-air. It seemed as if he'd also developed the ability to fly.

 

R.J who wasn't so fortunate tried to recreate the bridge. But with nothing to support it was just a useless falling chunk of ice. R.J stood steadily on the ice until it neared a building. He jumped off and grabbed the edge of the building that was under the bridge. He safely managed to pull himself aboard and rolled over onto his back. His heart was rapidly beating while he was gasping for breath. R.J stopped panting long enough to say, "I never want to do that again!"

 

Adam soon descended as he calmed down. His eyes turned back to normal and he softly landed. "Look on the bright side," he said looking at R.J. "I've discovered yet another power of mine and you don't have to kill yourself trying to see if you can fly, we already know you can't."

 

Sitting up, R.J smiled and replied "We've got to tell Matt about this!"