Powering Down

Chapter 1 -8 years ago-

"You can't run forever!!! I will find you and kill ya!!!!" I just kept running but i knew he would find me sooner or later, I was hoping later. My boss was a good guy or so I thought. Truth is he was a man wanting control over everyone and would kill anyone in his way. He was a wanted criminal and he killed millions. the worst part was that I was helping him do it but I didn't know what he was doing till one day. I ran till the lab was far behind me. I had run for hour, scared for my life but I would never live like a regular kid ever again. Everything I had, a home, someone I thought actually might care about me. But it was a lie, it was ALL a lie.

It was about 11:00 when I finally reached a little town called Canary. I walked around for a little while and sat down on a curb. I felt so alone. Then out of the corner of my eye, a man walked up to me. He was tall with dark brown hair and suit. He had two revolvers on his belt. So much had been revealed that day to me, I didn't care if he would kill me. "This is a restricted area. Do you have a place to stay?" I shook my head no. "Parents?" I shook my head no again. I felt like I was about to cry but I wanted to be strong, at least in front of him. He had called someone and then looked at me and smiled."Come with me. I have a place for you to stay." He held out his hand and asked me what my name was. I said, "Jake." Then I took his hand and we walked behind the building. He pushed on a brick and a screen appeared. I just stood there in awe. "Hey I'm bringing him down." Then the ground slowly started to drop. The spot we were standing on turned into an elevator. We went down then he got on another platform that took us down a long hallway. It was quiet most of the way there. When we got there we got off and it started back for the beginning I think. In front of me was a door he put a card in the slot next to the door. It opened for me to see a computers everywhere. People running around and working on all these machines. We walked through another big door. "This is our kids wing." I was amazed at all the kids. "Are they all orphans?" "Most of these kids are. Some ran away from abusive homes." "Oh that's like me, I found out my 'dad' had killed my real parents and lied to me my whole life."
"Well you are welcome to stay here. We even have jobs you can do here. Oh there's the training room. I want you to meet someone." "Ok." We went in and I saw a girl. then I saw her cut her wrist and the blood turned into a gun in her hand. She shot at a dummy. The guy called her over. She looked annoyed but put the gun away and came over. "Hey I'm Della." "Jake" I held out my hand and she shook it. "How did you do that?"
"What?" "Make the gun." "Oh that it a power I have." Her eyes changed and I guess I did something cause she jumped back. "Looks like you got powers too." "What?" I looked at my hand and it had a ball of light. "Hmm electricity. Cool." "I never knew." my eyes widened and I remembered what happened.