Igniting a darkened flame. // SBI

The birth of Prometheus.

'Changes need to be made'

The words were graffitied on to the wall clear as day. Several muggers tied to wall just underneath it. 

Police arrived at the scene but there was no trace of who had done this, It didn't help that the security cameras seemed to have the same graffiti over the lenses. Burn marks littered the pavement around them.

There only lead was unreliable as it came from the criminals, but all of them had the same name on their tongues.

Prometheus. 

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Tommy had been in the hospital for a while. 

The doctors said he was lucky to be alive for someone that close to the explosion. 

His friends had theorized it was because of his powers and his natural heat resistance that came with it.

Tommy was just worried about Niki.

He had learned in his time here that the explosions was due to the hero Monarch after a misdirected attack at the Villain Muse. He didn't even catch him Tommy thought bitterly we're suffering for no reason. 

Tommy wasn't allowed to visit Niki yet but his friends had told him that she was in some sort of vegetative state.

Tommy had asked when she was going to wake up. 

He didn't get an answer.

Tommy's recovery took a month. A  month of staying on that god dam, humiliating hospital bed with people treating him like glass and pitying looks from doctors. A month of watching the same news story about the incident he was in. Details about how their were twenty- eight casualties and Tommy felt sick knowing he was one of them. 

When a bubbly nurse came to his door telling him it was his last day here he almost blacked out again with relief. Though he did request one more thing before leaving.

"Can I see someone their name is Niki, Niki Nihachu was taken here the same day as me?"

The nurse looked surprised for a moment before smiling at him and patting his shoulder.

"Wait here a moment I'll see what I can do,"

Tommy sat down on the bed he'd been trapped on for the past month and took in his room for the last time. He stared at the dull paint on the walls, missing the warehouse and how it was decorated with his artwork. The now turned of heart monitor above his bed had finally stopped its annoying non-stop beeping.

Though he hated this place, Tommy was glad to sleep on an actual bed for once.

The nurse popped her head through the door and gave him another sweet smile before telling him some actual good news.

"They said you can pay her a visit! follow me sir," 

Tommy scrambled off the bed and nervously followed her through the sterile corridors of the hospital. He glanced around anxiously now regretting the choice he made. What if Niki didn't want to see him? What if he's not ready to see her in the state she's in? What if-

"Its just this room sir, she's in there"

Tommy looked at the nurse with wide eyes before nodding his head politely and mumbling a quiet thanks. He looked at the door fearfully before taking a deep breath and opening the door.

Nothing could've prepared him for what he saw.

Niki, kind, sweet, caring Niki the woman who helped them find a home, Who snuck him cookies when no one was watching. Lay on a bed with tubes and wires all around her. He walked towards her slowly before collapsing in a seat next to her. A sob tore its way out of his throat as he grabbed her cold lifeless hands.