Impulsive Legacy

Speed Demon

(A/N: This is a long one and a doozy. A lot of character development and plot development. Comment your thoughts, vote, and enjoy)

It's been weeks since Mark returned from Mars. And since then, Viktor has been busy with classes, putting in time at the lab, and doing a lot of hero work.

Despite all his hero work, Viktor sustained his A+ average in all his classes since he super sped through homework and memorized every book in every class.

This freed up much of his time to focus on his personal projects. His current project is a power dampener that could fit around his wrist. If placed on a super-powered individual, this device would dampen their powers to the point it would seem like they never had them. The individual would become an average person with no abilities.

So far, Viktor had been able to create the device to dampen superpowers, but the only problem was the size. The device itself was more like a gauntlet rather than a bracelet.

And now, Viktor was trying to make the device more compact without losing power.

Viktor sat back from his desk, leaning back in his office chair, and sighed as he looked at the device. So far, he'd only been able to get it to the size of a sweatband. Any smaller, and he risks losing power.

"I need to find a more reliable source of power for these power dampeners," he said to himself as he ran his hand through his hair.

As he stared at the device on the work table, his phone vibrated from its spot next to a few tools and a grease-stained rag. Viktor reached over and picked up his phone to see Mark was calling him, making him smirk as he answered and put the phone to his ear.

"Hey, Mark. What's up?" Viktor asked as he spun in his chair to face a large object covered by an even bigger tarp. The object took up a large portion of the room, sitting smack dab in the middle of everything, so you had to walk around it to do anything. It was good that the lab was huge, one of the biggest on campus; otherwise, the device wouldn't have been able to fit. Large pipes trailed from the sides of the room to the object, going under the tarp and disappearing.

"Hey, Viktor. Wanna go on patrol?" Mark asked as Viktor pushed off the ground, rolling to the side in his office chair. Coming to a slow stop, he leaned to the side while in his chair, looking around the side of the large covered object at a clock on the far wall, seeing he had two hours before his next class.

"Yeah, I've got time," Viktor said as he sped away from his chair. The chair spun around multiple times before coming to a slow stop.

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"Great, meet me at the Willis Tower," Mark said before hanging up as he stood on the roof of Willis Tower in his super suit.

"Hey, Mark," Viktor said, scaring him. Mark nearly jumped out of his skin as he looked behind him to see Viktor in his super suit.

"Don't... do that, Viktor," Mark said, breathing heavily, calming down, and making Viktor laugh.

"Sorry," Viktor said as he walked over to the edge and looked down at the city below. "So, how are things going with Amber?" he asked as Mark sighed disappointedly.

"Ok. I mean, things are good...," Mark trailed off.

"But?" Viktor questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"But it's getting hard to manage my hero and social lives. I'm always late for everything because I spend too much time as Invincible," Mark explained.

"Do you not set yourself timers or alarms that tell you when you need to get back or get to something?" Viktor asked confusedly as Mark's head shot up, and he looked at Viktor in shock.